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Sunday, September 30, 2012
Utah State football: Kerwynn Williams has career night against hometown team UNLV
Utah State Aggies running back Kerwynn Williams (25) suits up prior to the UNLV game in Logan Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012.
Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News
LOGAN ? Utah State running back Kerwynn Williams said it didn't matter to him that the opponent the Aggies beat up on Saturday night was from his hometown.
The only thing that did matter, said the senior running back, was that UNLV stood in the way of Utah State's first 4-1 start since 1978.
"I don't think that put any more spice on it," said the Las Vegas native, who had a career-best performance in Utah State's 35-13 win over UNLV. "I feel like if it were any other team, I came out with the same intensity and played as hard as I do, any other game. It doesn't add anything to it. But I was excited for the way it turned out tonight."
And his teammates, coaches and the 24,226 fans were excited about his performance against the Rebels. Williams earned 113 yards rushing, 147 yards receiving and a touchdown in the win. His receiving yards were the most by a non-receiver since 1959. He's also the first running back since Robert Turbin did it in 2009 to earn 100 yards receiving and 100 yards rushing.
He was humble about his accomplishments Saturday night, which earned him the game ball.
"I'm definitely excited about that," he said. "But once again, I can't take full credit for it."
He praised sophomore quarterback Chuckie Keeton for making "some great reads tonight, which allowed me to get the ball like I did."
He also praised his offensive line and the team's offensive coordinator for doing a "great job of mixing it up."
Williams was coming off a career performance and WAC Offensive Player of the Week honors in USU's victory over Colorado State last weekend. His 200-yard performance in that game earned him the game ball, which he didn't keep.
"He turned, sat right here and gave it to the offensive line," said USU head coach Gary Andersen. "Hopefully he'll see fit to keep this one."
Keeton said he wasn't surprised with Williams' performance.
"He was a wideout two years ago," said Keeton. "He always talks about having the stickies (meaning he can catch). ? He definitely showed how well he can catch the ball, and his ability to get open and make yards after the catch."
For Williams, what made Saturday's win special wasn't that it came against a program that didn't even offer the highly regarded honor student a scholarship, but that it came the week before the team meets BYU. He, his coaches and teammates, hope they can utilize the momentum that's been building in Logan to find success in Provo next Friday.
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Forex Trading: Euro Extends Bearish Trend
Euro Extends Bearish Trend
Concerns regarding Spain and Greece?s ability to tackle their debt issues caused the euro to extend its recent bearish trend throughout the day yesterday. Crude oil saw fairly significant gains during the first half of the day due to an increase in Middle East tensions, but its upward movement was halted following the release of disappointing news out of the US. As markets get ready to close for the weekend, traders should note that a lack of significant news out of the US and euro-zone may lead to erratic price shifts in the marketplace. In addition, any announcements concerning the debt situation in Spain or Greece could lead to heavy volatility.
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USD ? Disappointing US Data Leads to Temporary Dollar Losses
A batch of disappointing US data yesterday caused the US dollar to temporarily reverse its recent bullish trend against several of its main currency rivals. That being said, euro-zone concerns resulted in investors shifting their funds to safe-haven assets, giving the greenback a boost during afternoon trading. The USD/CHF fell more than 30 pips during the first half of the day to trade as low as 0.9371 before bouncing back to 0.9415 toward the end of the European session. The GBP/USD gained approximately 45 pips to trade as high as 1.6234, before a reversal brought the pair to 1.6190 later in the day.
As markets get ready to close for the weekend, a lack of significant US news means that any dollar movement is likely to come as a result of announcements out of the euro-zone. Traders will want to continue monitoring developments in the region to see if risk aversion will continue to dominate market sentiment. Next week, traders should not forget that the all-important US Non-Farm Employment Change is scheduled to be released, and is likely to generate heavy market volatility as a result.
EUR ? Spain, Greece Keep EUR near Recent Lows
The euro spent most of the European session yesterday near a two-week low against the US dollar and Japanese yen, as questions regarding the debt situations in Spain and Greece resulted in investors shifting their funds away from higher-yielding assets. The EUR/USD fell close to 60 pips over the course of the day, eventually dropping below the 1.2827 level. Against the JPY, the euro sunk more than 40 pips eventually trading just above the 99.60 level.
Today, euro traders will want to continue monitoring developments out of both Spain and Greece, as the two countries remain the biggest obstacles to the euro-zone economic recovery at this time. Any positive developments could help the common-currency recover from some of its recent losses. Next week, traders will want to remember to pay attention to the EU Minimum Bid Rate and ECB Press Conference, as they are likely to offer important clues as to the current state of the economic recovery in the region.
Gold ? Gold Rebounds from 2-Week Low
After hitting a two-week low earlier in the week, gold was able to stage an upward correction yesterday after mixed US news temporarily weakened the USD. Overall, the precious metal gained more than $15 an ounce during mid-day trading, eventually reaching as high as $1768, where it largely remained for the rest of European trading.
As we begin to close out the week, a lack of significant news out of the US means that any change in the price of gold is likely to come from announcements out of the euro-zone. With the debt situations in Spain and Greece still fragile to say the least, gold may have a hard time maintaining yesterday?s gains if there are any signs that the debt crisis in the region is worsening.
Crude Oil ? Disappointing US News Causes Oil to Reverse Gains
Supply side fears due to escalating tensions in the Middle East led to a sharp increase in the price of oil during the first half of the day yesterday. That being said, gains were limited after a set of disappointing news out of the US led to speculation that American demand for oil may drop. Oil peaked at $91.71, up around $1.60 a barrel, before staging a slight downward reversal and stabilizing at the $91.30 level.
Turning to today, traders will want to pay attention to announcements out of the euro-zone which could impact risk taking among investors. Any positive developments out of either Greece or Spain with regards to their respective debt issues could cause investors to shift their funds to higher-yielding assets, which may boost the price of oil.
Technical News
EUR/USD
The Bollinger Bands on the weekly chart are beginning to narrow, indicating that a major price shift could occur in the coming days. A bearish cross on the same chart?s Slow Stochastic signals that the price shift could be downward. Opening short positions may be the wise choice for this pair.
GBP/USD
The weekly chart?s Slow Stochastic has formed a bearish cross, indicating that this pair could see downward movement in the coming days. Furthermore, the Williams Percent Range on the same chart has crossed into overbought territory. Traders may want to open short positions for this pair.
USD/JPY
Both the Relative Strength Index and Williams Percent Range on the weekly chart are approaching oversold territory. Traders will want to keep an eye on both of these indicators. If they cross below the oversold line, it may be a sign of impending upward movement.
USD/CHF
While a bullish cross has formed on the weekly chart?s Slow Stochastic, most other long-term technical indicators place this pair in neutral territory. Traders may want to take a wait and see approach for this pair, as a clearer picture is likely to present itself in the near future.
The Wild Card
USD/DKK
In a sign that this pair could see a price shift in the near future, the Bollinger Bands on the daily chart are narrowing. Furthermore, the Williams Percent Range on the same chart has crossed over into overbought territory, indicating that the price shift could be downward. This may be a good time for forex traders to open short positions ahead of a bearish correction.
Source: http://www.dailymarkets.com/forex/2012/09/28/forex-trading-euro-extends-bearish-trend/
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Maya prophecies: What were they thinking?
MEXICO CITY?? As the clock winds down to Dec. 21, experts on the Maya calendar have been racing to convince people that the Maya didn't predict an apocalypse for the end of this year.
Some experts are now saying the Maya may indeed have made prophecies, just not about the end of the world.
Archaeologists, anthropologists and other experts met Friday in the southern Mexico city of Merida to discuss the implications of the Maya Long Count calendar, which is made up of 394-year periods called baktuns.
Experts estimate the system starts counting at 3114 B.C., and will have run through 13 baktuns, or 5,125 years, around Dec. 21. Experts say 13 was a significant number for the Maya, and the end of that cycle would be a milestone ? but not an end.
Fears that the calendar does point to the end have circulated in recent years. People in that camp believe the Maya may have been privy to impending astronomical disasters that would coincide with 2012, ranging from explosive storms on the surface of the sun that could knock out power grids to a galactic alignment that could trigger a reversal in Earth's magnetic field.
Mexican government archaeologist Alfredo Barrera said Friday that the Maya tried to make predictions, but perhaps about more humdrum events like droughts or disease outbreaks.
"The Mayas did make prophecies, but not in a fatalistic sense, but rather about events that, in their cyclical conception of history, could be repeated in the future," said Barrera, of the National Institute of Anthropology and History.
Experts stressed that the ancient Maya, whose "classic" culture of writing, astronomy and temple complexes flourished from the year 300 to 900, were extremely interested in future events, far beyond Dec. 21.
"There are many ancient Maya monuments that discuss events far into the future from now," wrote Geoffrey Braswell, an anthropologist at the University of California at San Diego. "The ancient Maya clearly believed things would happen far into the future from now."
"The king of Palenque, K'inich Hanaab Pakal, believed he would return to the Earth a couple of thousand years from now in the future," Braswell wrote in an email to The Associated Press. "Moreover, other monuments discuss events even before the creation in 3114 B.C."
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Only a couple of references to the 2012 date equivalency have been found carved in stone at Maya sites, and neither refers to an apocalypse, experts say.
Such apocalyptic visions have been common for more than 1,000 years in Western, Christian thinking, and are not native to Maya thought.
"This is thinking that, in truth, has nothing to do with Mayan culture," said Alexander Voss, an anthropologist at the University Of Quintana Roo, a state on Mexico's Caribbean coast. "This thing about looking for end-times is not something that comes from Mayan culture."
Braswell compared the Maya calendar, with its system of cycles within cycles, to the series of synchronized wheels contained in old, analogue car odometers.
"The Maya long count system is like a car odometer," Braswell wrote. "My first car (odometer) only had six wheels so it went up to 99,999.9 miles. That didn't mean the car would explode after reaching 100,000 miles."
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Friday, September 28, 2012
The Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe with Almond Flour and ...
By Abra Pappa for NutritiousAmerica.com
What is more delicious than warm chocolate chip cookies fresh out of the oven? Not much I tell ya, not much. We all should have a reliable, delicious chocolate chip cookie recipe in our back pocket to wow impromptu guests and convince our kids that we are, indeed, super mom.
Trouble is most cookie recipes begin with ingredients that need..well.. pimping! I encourage you to push beyond your baking comfort zone to try this nutrient dense, crazy delicious treat. The ingredients here should easily be added to your arsenal of real food, health promoting pantry staples.
So let?s pimp that recipe!
As we move toward a whole food diet, white flour and white sugar have to be replaced. White flour is a heavily processed ingredient that will promote blood sugar spikes and dips and increase your body?s propensity toward processed food cravings. In this recipe it is replaced with almond flour. Almond flour is a staple ingredient in my kitchen. It may sound fancy but it is nothing more then ground almonds (you can make your own by grinding almonds in a food processor, just don?t over process or you will end up with almond butter.)
Almonds, as you may already know, are potent nuggets of nutrients, protein, and healthy fat. Studies have shown that eating almonds actually helps your body decrease cravings and eat LESS at the next meal. Almond flour also happens to be gluten free (convenient for those of you living a gluten free lifestyle). From a culinary perspective almond flour has a very different mouth feel than white flour, so I like to mix it with another flour. My pick for this recipe is oat flour, which is nothing more than ground oats. I love the nutty flavor. I make my own at home by throwing rolled oats (which should be a staple in your pantry) into a blender, spice grinder or coffee grinder and whirling away until they are pulsed into a flour.
The next cookie culprit: white sugar, the ultimate empty food. As a matter of fact, white sugar could be called a depletion food. When you eat white sugar, which is stripped of all nutrients and minerals, your body has to pull from its own reserve to process it. Depletion indeed.
Sugar ?substitutes? are a much debated topic in the nutrition world. There seems to be a new miracle sweetener on the market each year and after its 15 minutes of fame comes a flood of reports on all that is wrong and evil about said sweetener (agave nectar is the perfect example).
In an effort to condense a very complicated topic my thoughts are as follows: reduce white sugar, NEVER use chemically derived sweeteners (you know, those little colored packets), and opt for minimally processed sweeteners that potentially have added health benefits. This brings me to my current favorite ? Coconut Palm Sugar, which is high in nutrients like potassium, low on the glycemic index (hello! no blood sugar spike here!) AND super, duper high in flavor. Coconut palm sugar lends a rich molasses-ey note, exactly what these cookies need.
As for fat, this part is of great interest to me and I hope you, dear reader, will digest this above all. Fat is typically seen as the big culprit in recipes and the first thing that is removed or replaced, BUT fat is essential if for no other reason than this: If there is healthy fat in a baked good you will feel more satiated and EAT LESS. Reducing fat is fine; eliminating it in a baked good, in my opinion, is not. That?s why I used coconut oil in this recipe. I think it?s the perfect luscious compliment and a wonderfully healthy option.
So here it is, a chocolate chip cookie to add to your arsenal of recipes. Be prepared if you bring these to a party, you will forever be asked to bring them to EVERY party. They are that good.
Happy Baking!
Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies
INGREDIENTS
- 2 cups almond flour
- 1/2 cup oat flour
- 1/4 cup applesauce
- 1/2 cup coconut palm sugar
- 1/4 cup coconut oil
- 3/4 cup dark chocolate chips
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. In a large bowl combine coconut oil, palm sugar, applesauce, and vanilla. Using a wooden spoon to ?cream? together until well combined.
3. In a medium bowl combine flours, baking soda, and salt.
4. Combine dry ingredients into wet ingredients. Stir well.
5. Add chocolate chips; stir well to combine. The batter will seem a bit dry, this is OK.
6. Using a tablespoon or small cookie scoop drop batter onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Alternatively, form the dough into 1/2 inch balls.
7. Press the dough down to achieve flat cookies. This dough will not spread out like a traditional cookie dough. The thickness of the cookie placed in the oven will be nearly identical to the finished product.
8. Bake for 12 minutes.
9. Allow to cool for 5 minutes before eating.
NUTRITION
For you number crunchers? this serving size is 2 cookies, the protein is a bit higher, and the calories are a snip less then a standard cookie. But the real ?pimping? benefit is the added micro-nutrients that will leave you satisfied and satiated. This, above all other elements, is the fundamental difference between this pimped recipe and your run-of-the-mill processed baked good.
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Obama blocks Chinese purchase of US wind farms
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Citing national security risks, President Barack Obama on Friday blocked a Chinese company from owning four wind farm projects in northern Oregon near a Navy base where the U.S. military flies unmanned drones and electronic-warfare planes on training missions.
It was the first time in 22 years that a U.S. president has blocked such a foreign business deal.
Obama's decision was likely to be another irritant in the increasingly tense economic relationship between the U.S. and China. It also comes against an election-year backdrop of intense criticism from Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney, who accuses Obama of not being tough enough with China.
In his decision, Obama ordered Ralls Corp., a company owned by Chinese nationals, to divest its interest in the wind farms it purchased earlier this year near the Naval Weapons Systems Training Facility in Boardman, Ore.
The case reached the president's desk after the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States, known as CFIUS, determined there was no way to address the national security risks posed by the Chinese company's purchases. Only the president has final authority to prohibit a transaction.
The administration would not say what risks the wind farm purchases presented. The Treasury Department said CFIUS made its recommendation to Obama after receiving an analysis of the potential threats from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
The military has acknowledged that it used the Oregon Naval facility to test unmanned drones and the EA-18G "Growler." The electronic warfare aircraft accompanies U.S. fighter bombers on missions and protectively jams enemy radar, destroying them with missiles along the way.
At the Oregon site, the planes fly as low as 200 feet and nearly 300 miles per hour.
The last time a president used the law to block a transaction was 1990, when President George H.W. Bush voided the sale of Mamco Manufacturing to a Chinese agency.
In 2006, President George W. Bush approved a CFIUS case involving the merger of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies.
The Treasury Department said in a statement that Obama's decision is specific to this transaction and does not set a precedent for other foreign direct investment in the U.S. by China or any other country.
China's trade advantage over the U.S. has emerged as a key issue in the final weeks of the presidential campaign. Romney accuses Obama of failing to stand up to Beijing, while the president criticizes the GOP nominee for investing part of his personal fortune in China and outsourcing jobs there while he ran the private equity firm Bain Capital.
Both campaigns are running ads on China in battleground states, especially Ohio, where workers in the manufacturing industry have been hard-hit by outsourcing.
Obama, in an interview Wednesday with The Plain Dealer of Cleveland, said the U.S. must push hard against Beijing but "not go out of our way to embarrass" China.
"We're not interested in triggering an all-out trade war that would damage both economies," Obama said.
The president has the power to void foreign transactions under the Defense Production Act. It authorizes the president to suspend or prohibit certain acquisitions of U.S. businesses if there is credible evidence that the foreign purchaser might take action that threatens to impair national security.
CFIUS is chaired by the treasury secretary. The secretaries of state, defense, commerce, energy and homeland security are also on the committee. The director of national intelligence is a non-voting member.
Earlier this month, Ralls sued the national security panel, alleging CFIUS exceeded its authority when it ordered the company to cease operations and withdraw from the wind-farm developments it bought. Ralls asked for a restraining order and a preliminary injunction to allow construction at the wind farms to continue. The firm said it would lose the chance for a $25 million investment tax if the farms were not operable by Dec. 31.
But Ralls dropped the lawsuit this week after CFIUS allowed the firm to resume some pre-construction work.
Ralls' legal team includes Paul Clement and Viet Dinh, two top law veterans of President George W. Bush's administration. Both men were key players in Bush's aggressive national security operation.
Clement, who was solicitor-general and argued administration positions before the Supreme Court, has since opposed the Obama administration's health care plan and defended the Defense of Marriage Act before the top court.
Dinh, a former assistant attorney general who was the main architect of the Bush administration's anti-terror USA Patriot Act, has lately served as a director and legal adviser to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
A second Chinese firm stymied by CFIUS urged U.S. authorizes this week to investigate their firm to quell fears of ties to China's military. Huawei Technologies Ltd. announced in early September that it would unwind its purchase of U.S.-based computer firm 3Leaf Systems after the deal was rejected by CFIUS.
Huawei, one of the world's largest producers of computer network switching gear, has repeatedly struggled to convince U.S. authorities that they can be trusted to oversee sensitive technology sometimes used in national security work.
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Associated Press writers Stephen Braun and Ted Bridis contributed to this report.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Children's tablet maker suing Toys R Us over Tabeo design
Currently lawsuits are all the rage in the tech industry, however it's somewhat of a sad day when the ill-effects of corporate hardball trickle down to children's toys. Nabi tablet maker Fuhu filed a lawsuit at a San Diego, California federal court claiming that mega retailer Toys R Us stole its product's trade secrets for the development of its forthcoming Tabeo tablet for children. Fuhu alleges that last year Toys R Us agreed to exclusively carry the Nabi tablet in order to gain access to confidential information before launching a tablet of its own. The partnership between the two companies ended in January and Toys R Us has since announced its plans to release its Tabeo tablet this fall. Fuhu is suing for an undisclosed sum and requesting that Toys R Us relinquish its stock of Tabeo tablets. It's too early to tell if this lawsuit will have an impact on the Tabeo's launch plans, but if Fuhu has its way, Toys R Us will receive a lump of coal and a court order this holiday season. Bah, humbug!
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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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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Amputee shot by police had battled mental illness
An HPD officer peeks out of a door at City Hall as activists call for answers from city officials on why a police officer on Saturday fatally shot Brian Claunch, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, outside City Hall in Houston. Claunch, a wheelchair-bound double amputee living in a group home for the mentally ill, was shot and killed by Houston Police in the early morning hours Saturday. Police say HPD officer Matthew Martin shot and killed Claunch, who was waving an object in his hand that turned out to be a pen. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Johnny Hanson)
An HPD officer peeks out of a door at City Hall as activists call for answers from city officials on why a police officer on Saturday fatally shot Brian Claunch, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, outside City Hall in Houston. Claunch, a wheelchair-bound double amputee living in a group home for the mentally ill, was shot and killed by Houston Police in the early morning hours Saturday. Police say HPD officer Matthew Martin shot and killed Claunch, who was waving an object in his hand that turned out to be a pen. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Johnny Hanson)
The Rev. Ronald Smith, second from left, leads a prayer during a vigil for shooting victim Brian Claunch Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, in Houston. Claunch, a wheelchair-bound double amputee living in a group home for the mentally ill, was shot and killed by Houston Police in the early morning hours Saturday. Police say HPD officer Matthew Martin shot and killed Claunch, who was waving an object in his hand that turned out to be a pen. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Brett Coomer)
Activist Ali Muhammad with the National Black United Front leads a protest of about 15 people calling for answers from city officials about why a police officer on Saturday fatally shot Brian Claunch, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, outside City Hall in Houston. Claunch, a wheelchair-bound double amputee living in a group home for the mentally ill, was shot and killed by Houston Police in the early morning hours Saturday. Police say HPD officer Matthew Martin shot and killed Claunch, who was waving an object in his hand that turned out to be a pen. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Johnny Hanson)
HOUSTON (AP) ? Despite being constrained by mental illness and the loss of his left leg and arm, Brian Claunch had spent much of the past decade finding opportunities to run away from residential care facilities where he had been placed, preferring to live on the streets.
In recent months, Claunch had seemed to settle into some stability, staying put, taking his medications. But all of that abruptly ended this past weekend in a confrontation with police in which the 45-year-old man in a wheelchair was fatally shot by an officer.
While his criminal and medical history did not seem to indicate violent tendencies toward others, Claunch had his ups and downs, according to John Garcia, the owner of Healing Hands Assisted Home Care, where Claunch had been living. The worst aspects of his mental illness burst forth when he wouldn't calm down after demanding cigarettes and soda around 2 a.m. Saturday, Garcia said.
A caretaker called police. Authorities say Claunch cornered a responding officer with his wheelchair and waived a shiny object in his hand. The other responding officer, fearing for his partner's life and his own safety, shot Claunch in the head, police said. The shiny object turned out to be a ballpoint pen.
Since the shooting, community and civil rights groups have called for changes in how officers are trained and disciplined. Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland has called the shooting tragic but asked people to reserve judgment until the department's investigation is completed. The FBI is monitoring the case.
Garcia, who was not at the home when the shooting happened, tearfully recalled a loving but also at times quarrelsome man. Claunch had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, a chronic condition in which people see and hear things that aren't there.
"He was aggressive. As far as violent, I don't know," Garcia said. "Every time (Claunch) got into a situation with me, I would just say, 'Brian, calm down, calm down,' and I would walk away from him and in an hour or two he would be OK."
According to court records, Claunch lost his left arm and leg because "he firmly believed that the devil was in the left side of his body so he (decided) to lay down on the railroad tracks and waited for a train to come and (dismember) him."
A mental status examination in 2002 found Claunch was "pleasant and cooperative" but had a history of psychiatric hospitalizations over the prior decade. He was unable to work and would not take his medications, leading to him "hearing voices."
In 2003, a probate court judge declared Claunch a ward of the Harris County Guardianship Program.
Court records show Claunch's mother initially petitioned to be her son's guardian but changed her mind. Records show Claunch also had a brother and sister. Efforts this week to reach his family were unsuccessful.
During the first two years of his guardianship, Claunch did well, living in a personal care home in Houston, according to annual reports submitted to the probate court.
But by 2006, Claunch started running away, panhandling on local streets. Over the next few years, he went missing, was hospitalized and was in and out of jail on drug and trespassing charges. He also stopped taking his medications.
In 2010, he was placed at a state mental hospital in East Texas for several months.
He started living at Healing Hands in May 2011 but ran away after four months. He was found and brought back in March. At Healing Hands, located in a three-bedroom home, Claunch lived with two other men.
Estella Olguin, a spokeswoman for the Harris County Guardianship Program, said in the time Claunch was a ward of the county, he lived in at least 12 facilities. After coming back to Healing Hands, "he seemed to do really well," she said.
Garcia, 62, said he had twice before called police about Claunch ? both times because he left the home and refused to return.
Claunch had seemed fine Friday night, said Garcia, who had given him a pack of cigarettes, two sodas and his medication before leaving around 8 p.m.
But Claunch, a chain smoker, went through his cigarettes and soda and around 2 a.m. began aggressively demanding more of both from the overnight caretaker.
The caretaker called 911, initially telling the operator he was having problems with a mentally ill person. Because of static on the line, it's unclear if the operator knew about Claunch's mental condition, Garcia said.
Citing the ongoing investigation, Houston police spokesman John Cannon said he could not comment on whether the responding officers knew of Claunch's mental state. Healing Hands does not have any signs outside saying it is a facility for mentally ill or physically challenged individuals.
According to police, Claunch threatened to kill the two officers and tried to stab one with the shiny object in his hand.
The officer who shot him, Matthew Marin, had fatally shot another suspect in 2009, firing on a man who was stabbing his neighbor to death and refused to drop the knife. A five-year veteran, Marin was placed on three-day administrative leave after Claunch's death.
Garcia said he is still in shock and is reserving judgment on whether the shooting was justified.
"I love Brian. He was one of God's children and that's the way I look at him," he said.
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COMMENTARY 794.4: Doing Sports Right
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When I was a kid playing sports, there were no clubs, travel teams, or private coaches. Except for summer baseball leagues, the primary place to play was high school. When I was in the 10th grade, I wanted to play basketball in the worst way.
Unfortunately, given my size and talent, that?s how I played. But in those days, sports was part of the educational program. To accommodate every kid who wanted to play, there were four skill levels: varsity, junior varsity, B, and C teams.
I was a third-stringer on the C team, with the ambition to play in 12 quarters during the season, the minimum requirement for a letterman?s jacket.
Fortunately, the coach liked my spunk and put me in at the end of games when I could do no harm. In the last quarter of the last game, he made sure I got my letter by giving me an eight-second stint. Although I think I played less than two minutes of game time during that season, I was part of the team and played in every practice.
Three years later, I was the only senior still on the C team, but I was a starter! Of all my high school achievements, none was more important than my three basketball letters.
But it wasn?t just recreation. It was education. My sports experience strengthened my character and helped me develop important life skills, including goal-setting, preparation, and perseverance. It also taught me a lot about honor and sportsmanship.
So when you read chilling stories about cheating coaches, out-of-control fans, or spoiled athletes, don?t blame sports. Blame the people who aren?t doing it right.
This is Michael Josephson reminding you that character counts.
Source: http://whatwillmatter.com/2012/09/commentary-794-4-doing-sports-right/
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Should you out-source your tweets? - We Help Businesses {grow}
Should you out-source?your tweets? ?No.
But having said that, I recognize there is enormous pressure to do just that. It?s a reality of busy life isn?t it? We just want somebody to ?do it for us.?
Let?s look at the risk of this strategy that I recounted in?The Tao of Twitter: ?I have a friend who had been building a Twitter relationship with a business executive she admired. They had tweeted back and forth a few times and he had provided some helpful career advice to her. When they had a chance to finally meet at a networking event, she introduced herself and was met with a puzzled stare. He had never heard of her before, and sheepishly explained that his PR agency was tweeting for him. Obviously his reputation was ruined for this young woman ? and also to all those she talked to about the incident!
In a well-publicized snafu, a PR agency rep tweeting on behalf of Chrysler Corporation sent out this tweet: ??I find it ironic that Detroit is known as the #motorcity when no one here knows how to f**cking drive.?
He thought he was tweeting from his personal account but in fact, it came from Chrysler?s Twitter account by mistake. He lost his job and the agency lost the account.
Faking it on Twitter is dangerous business.
But you may be in a situation where you have no other practical choice than to ?team-tweet? behind a brand name, then you could outsource or share the tweeting between a few trusted individuals. If you do outsource:
- Be clear and realistic on your objectives.
- Have clear lines of who owns what.
- Have a clear plan for content, tone and frequency.
- Be prepared to take advice and listen to it. Most experts know what they are doing and it?s in their best interests to make it work for you.
Make sure that you have a disaster recovery plan in case of a PR upset. If you?re using an agency, ask them to show you how they are managing your account distinctly from personal/other client accounts, so that tweets aren?t mistakenly sent via the wrong account ? easy to do when you?re using a sharing platform. Ask to meet everyone that will be tweeting via your account and create some rules or guidelines for tweeting. Outsourcing doesn?t mean abdicating responsibility ? make sure you are involved and holding everyone to account.
Before you outsource, carefully weigh the risks and benefits. One of the biggest opportunities of social media is ?humanizing? the brand and even the biggest brands are finding ways to do that successfully.? In the long-term, businesses should aim at involving their own employees to be ?brand beacons? on Twitter instead of relying on an outside agency.
Agree?
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Source: http://www.businessesgrow.com/2012/09/25/should-you-out-source-your-tweets/
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
ZAGG Introduces Three New ZAGGsparq External Batteries
If you’re looking for an external battery to keep your smartphone or your tablet charged while you’re away from an outlet, take a look at the new line of ZAGGsparq chargers from ZAGG. ?All three new models contain Lithium-ion batteries that can keep your smartphones charged, and a couple of them can even power up [...]
Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2012/09/25/zagg-introduces-three-new-zaggsparq-external-batteries/
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Language use is simpler than previously thought, study suggests
ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2012) ? For more than 50 years, language scientists have assumed that sentence structure is fundamentally hierarchical, made up of small parts in turn made of smaller parts, like Russian nesting dolls.
A new Cornell study suggests language use is simpler than they had thought.
Co-author Morten Christiansen, Cornell professor of psychology and co-director of the Cornell Cognitive Science Program, and his colleagues say that language is actually based on simpler sequential structures, like clusters of beads on a string.
"What we're suggesting is that the language system deals with words by grouping them into little clumps that are then associated with meaning," he said.
Sentences are made up of such word clumps, or "constructions," that are understood when arranged in a particular order. For example, the word sequence "bread and butter" might be represented as a construction, whereas the reverse sequence of words ("butter and bread") would likely not.
The sequence concept has simplicity on its side; language is naturally sequential, given the temporal cues that help us understand and be understood as we use language. Moreover, the hierarchy concept doesn't take into account the many other cues that help convey meaning, such as the setting and knowing what was said before and the speaker's intention.
The researchers drew on evidence in language-related fields from psycholinguistics to cognitive neuroscience. For example, research in evolutionary biology indicates that humans acquired language (and animals did not) because we have evolved abilities in a number of areas, such as being able to correctly guess others' intentions and learn a large number of sounds that we then relate to meaning to create words. In contrast, the hierarchy concept suggests humans have language thanks only to highly specialized "hardware" in the brain, which neuroscientists have yet to find.
Research in cognitive neuroscience shows that the same set of brain regions seem to be involved in both sequential learning and language, suggesting that language is processed sequentially. And several recent psycholinguistic studies have shown that how well adults and children perform on a sequence learning task strongly predicts how well they can process the deluge of words that come at us in rapid succession when we're listening to someone speak. "The better you are at dealing with sequences, the easier it is for you to comprehend language," Christiansen said.
The study by Christiansen and his colleagues has important implications for several language-related fields. From an evolutionary perspective, it could help close what has been seen as a large gap between the communications systems of humans and other nonhuman primates. "This research allows us a better understanding of our place in nature, in that we can tie our language ability, our communication abilities, more closely to what we can see in other species. It could have a big impact in terms of allowing us to think in more humble terms about the origin of language in humans," Christiansen said.
The research could also affect natural language processing, the area of computer science that deals with human language, by encouraging scholars to focus on sequential structure when trying to create humanlike speech and other types of language processing, Christiansen said. He pointed out that machines already successfully perform such tasks as translation and speech recognition thanks to algorithms based on sequential structures.
The study, "How hierarchical is language use?" was published Sept. 12 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. The research was funded by the European Union, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and the Binational Science Foundation.
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Week 3 NFL Late Games Open Thread
The Bears game is over, which might signal the end of Week 3 for some of you, but for the rest, there's some crazy overtime stuff going on as well as the late game slate. So, here's your open thread for all the other NFL action going on. As always, Open Thread Responsibly (TM).
Source: http://www.windycitygridiron.com/2012/9/23/3378694/week-3-nfl-late-games-open-thread
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Oil boom brings hope, anxiety to Alaska town
WAINWRIGHT, Alaska - It was the down slope of August, and in the icy winds and freezing rain that masquerade as summer on the Arctic coast, Shell Alaska had to move its community barbecue indoors to the school gym.
Billed as the oil company's thank-you to the I?upiat Eskimo village that is about to become a base for offshore drilling operations, the event featured free hamburgers, beans and something rarely seen up in the Far North - plates heaped with fresh watermelon, oranges and bananas. Shell Alaska Vice President Peter E. Slaiby was in the middle of the room, raffling off jackets emblazoned with the Shell logo.
"Lord Jesus, thank you for this food," said a woman who stood up to bless the gathering. "We thank you for Shell and its employees. We thank you for their safe journey here."
Wainwright, a town of 550 people on barren bluffs of tundra 700 miles northwest of Anchorage, seems an unlikely venue for an oil boom. But the discovery of a massive undersea pool of oil just offshore in the Chukchi Sea has, for many, turned caribou dreams into lucrative oil services contracts that will create thousands of jobs across the North Slope.
These days in Wainwright - a collection of makeshift wooden houses, dry-docked whaling boats, churlish dogs on short chains, and snowmobiles in varying stages of repair - people are building new homes and reporting for new jobs as oil spill response workers. Hardly anyone looks twice at a new Hummer parked in front of the village market.
Yet some see the coming bonanza as a threat to a culture that has coexisted precariously with the ice for thousands of years.
"We just need to stop them, but we can't," said Sandra Peetook, who manages the small and now bustling hotel in town. "They're not worried about our land or how we get our food or how we feed our people. They are just worried about what they are going to drill out of the oceans."
Shell has spent $4.5 billion amassing an armada of drill ships and response vessels, and this month it began preliminary drilling in the Chukchi. A two-story workers camp on one of Wainwright's muddy streets houses the oil company crews; a communications center with VHF radios and satellite phones coordinates boats and helicopters plying the coast; dump trucks rumble constantly toward the edge of town, where ConocoPhillips is helping put in sites for a helipad and another workers camp.
Just southeast of town, the villager-owned Olgoonik Corp. plans to convert an abandoned U.S. military radar station into an onshore base for future oil operations.
"It's creating opportunities. It's put some people to work here already. Imagine what happens when they start pulling up all that oil they're talking about discovering," said John Hopson Jr., a whaling captain who also runs Wainwright's public works department. "They're going to go get it. But we have to work to make sure the benefits flow through here, too."
Over the last three decades, the onshore fields of Prudhoe Bay have put millions of dollars of dividends in villagers' pockets and built schools, clinics and offices. Yet unless new revenue-sharing legislation is passed, production offshore will bring natives far fewer rewards - most money from the outer continental shelf goes to the federal government - even though operations there are seen as riskier to the ocean and the wildlife that is essential to human survival on this forlorn coast.
The Eskimos fear that a disaster like the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico could wipe out what remains of a fragile civilization that has lived with its face to the Chukchi Sea for generations. Spring and sometimes fall bring the hunt for the bowhead whale, beluga and walrus. Summer is for caribou and bearded seals. In early winter villagers plumb holes through the ice for rainbow smelt.
Although federal officials have promised that the chance of a big oil spill is remote, many here are skeptical. Villagers also worry that the flood of strangers into Wainwright could prove more toxic than the hydrocarbons under the sea.
"The people who've attended the meetings have asked, 'What's going to be the benefit to us? What about our schools, what about housing?' There is no answer. They just come here and they give us food and think that's going to suffice," said fourth-grade teacher Edna Ahmaogak, who was sitting in a class full of students on the afternoon of the barbecue as hubbub from the Shell festivities filtered down the hall.
"Are we going to have helicopters overhead, scaring away our herds? If there's an oil spill, what about our whales, what about our bearded seals? Are they going to give us those?" Ahmaogak asked. "Or are they going to give us cold sandwiches?"
Shell, keenly aware of the need to share the bounty, is awarding many of its construction and oil services contracts to native corporations such as Olgoonik, signing agreements so far with 26 indigenous-owned companies. At Shell's camp in Wainwright, many of the oil spill response workers who go out daily on practice runs are from Wainwright and nearby Barrow.
"We do it because we will not be successful in Alaska if the communities we work in are not," Slaiby said. A veteran of drilling operations in Brazil, Syria, the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea, Slaiby has become a ubiquitous presence at community meetings across the North Slope, with his jeans, khaki shirts and willingness to partake of the cold melange of raw whale skin and blubber known as muktuk.
Slaiby has deployed his considerable resources - patience, teams of skilled corporate lawyers and a willingness to spend millions of dollars on new technology and environmental mitigation - against conservationists bent on protecting one of the last untouched seas on Earth and Eskimo villagers fearful of losing their seagoing livelihood. For Slaiby, it's been worth it because of what Shell executives often refer to as "the prize": an undersea oil formation 70 miles off the Chukchi coast known as the Burger prospect - potentially so rich it could rank as one of the top 10 oil fields ever discovered in America.
"We are really appreciative of all the goodwill and progress we've made this year in Wainwright," Slaiby said as he rose to speak at the barbecue. He pointed out that most of the Shell workers stationed in town so far were not drillers but biologists, commissioned under a $5-million-a-year Shell-funded research program to document the fish, mammals and birds whose life cycles are now as interesting to Shell as to those who live here.
"We're taking the time to understand what's happening around here," Slaiby said, "and I think we'll have something here that's sustainable."
Also working the crowd was Doris Hugo-Shavings, an I?upiat Eskimo who is Shell's "social performance advisor," responsible for making sure that Alaska natives' concerns are heeded.
"When we first came out to these meetings, I had the exact same feeling I saw in the communities: fear. Sometimes, that fear turned to anger. And just sadness. You felt like you were going to lose something. After community meetings, I would go into a room and cry," she said.
But Hugo-Shavings said she also realized that the North Slope she'd grown up in was withering as the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay declined. With the Trans-Alaska Pipeline running at a third of its capacity, the oil and gas revenue that paid for her college education was diminishing.
Jobs have become scarce - unemployment in Wainwright is at 60%. What would happen to these isolated towns when the onshore oil ran out?
"I had conversations with my husband, and I decided it was better to be proactive and involved, to be a voice inside, than to put up a wall filing lawsuits," she said.
She said she was convinced that the program Shell adopted would assure villagers' worst fears are never realized.
Shell agreed not to operate in the nearby Beaufort Sea during whaling season; it pledged not to dump its drilling muds into the sea; it promised to call off its helicopters whenever hunters are in an area; it painted its boats blue, a color the Eskimos said would not scare the animals of the sea.
Each morning, the company convenes village representatives from across the North Slope on a conference call to find out where they're going to be hunting and fishing that day; science teams and helicopters are ordered out of those areas.
Hopson, the whaler and city official, has told his children he expects them to know how to navigate both worlds that now spin around Wainwright.
He has taken his high-school-age son hunting caribou on the remote tundra and taught him to ambush seals and whales from the ice. He pulled the boy out of school for a 40-hour training course in hazardous-materials cleanup. He helped him train for an emergency trauma technician certificate. He flew him to Denver for a tour of the University of Colorado.
"We're teaching him both sides of the world," Hopson said. "What it takes to hunt, what it takes to make a living so you can hunt."
Walter Niyakik, who heads the local organization of whaling captains, has always made his living hunting whales, but worries that whaling crews already are having to venture much farther out to sea than in the past to find their prey. Will oil development drive the wary creatures even farther offshore?
More immediately, though, he is alarmed about the $6.90 a gallon he pays for gas to fuel his whaling boat. A caribou hunt on his all-terrain vehicle can cost $200.
How much longer will he be able to afford to be a traditional Eskimo hunter? Niyakik elected to hedge his bets. He took a job driving trucks and small equipment for the local company servicing offshore oil. Asked why, he shrugs. As if it's obvious.
kim.murphy@latimes.com
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49142142/ns/local_news-anchorage_ak/
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Paper Presentation on Notion Ink Adam | 1000 Projects
September 24, 2012 by Projects Helper
Earlier were the days were we used to do task manually in paper, slowly moved to PC, then to laptop and then to tablet computer. Most of the advance user now what a tablet computer is ,but not most of them even now about .But I guarantee when I tell about what it is ,then surely though you have not used , but must have seen it in your surroundings where you live or study or work.?
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All the application of Notion Ink Adam is based on open source technology. One of the best thing is it is environment friendly device because it work under sunlight .So how is this possible? It is possible because of transflective liquid crystal display so that it can store sunlight and make device work.
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