Another picture from the event shows U.S. dollars changing hands in the purchase of the tablet. So let's see if we get this straight. In North Korea, capitalism is taboo but they accept the fruits of it (U.S. currency) for a product with its technological roots in the states (Android). It's a crazy, crazy world we live in.
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By LARRY LAGE
AP Sports Writer
Associated Press Sports
updated 5:49 p.m. ET Sept. 30, 2012
DETROIT (AP) - The Minnesota Vikings must have been salivating when they watched how the Detroit Lions covered kicks.
Or, more accurately, didn't cover them.
Percy Harvin returned the opening kickoff 105 yards, and Marcus Sherels ran back the first punt of the second half 77 yards for a score, boosting the Vikings to a 20-13 win Sunday - and sending the underachieving Lions into a dubious category all their own.
"It was slow-motion, especially today," Harvin said. "That hole opened up, and you probably could have walked through there. The blockers did a great job. They told me all week they were going to do everything they could to get me in the end zone. Special teams was huge today."
Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said he and his staff pointed out Detroit's deficiencies and predicted Harvin would score if everyone held their blocks.
"It was obvious," Frazier said.
When Sherels scored, Detroit became the first team since at least 1940 to give up a kickoff and a punt return for touchdowns in consecutive games, according to STATS LLC. The Lions allowed scores on a kickoff and punt in last week's 44-41 loss in overtime at Tennessee.
"We're good, but we're garbage right now and we're killing our team," kicker Jason Hanson said.
Lions coach Jim Schwartz, though, shot down any chance of him firing special teams coordinator Danny Crossman.
"No, that's not a consideration," Schwartz said. "There's physical plays we have to make."
The surprising NFC North-leading Vikings (3-1) have already matched the number of wins of 2011, when they got off to an 0-4 start.
Second-year quarterback Christian Ponder said that is huge.
"That's a good mark of improvement," Ponder said.
The Lions, meanwhile, seem to be regressing quickly.
Detroit (1-3) goes into its bye wondering what has gone wrong with a team that began 5-0 last season and ended with 10 victories to snap the franchise's 11-game postseason drought. The Lions have lost three straight - surpassing their longest skid last year - to turn cheers into jeers at Ford Field.
"We didn't start off the way we wanted to," Schwartz said. "That's not to say we can't get it back. That's s our challenge right now to dig our way out of this."
Beginning with special teams.
Harvin fielded the first kick toward the back left of the end zone, cut across the field, sprinted up the sideline and into the other end zone 12 seconds into the game.
"We always talk about starting fast, and that's the fastest start you can get," Ponder said.
As soon as the Vikings got the ball in the second half, they went to work quickly as well.
Sherels took the punt in the middle of the field and made Kassim Osgood miss right away before wiggling through traffic and pulling away to put the Vikings ahead 20-6.
Ponder was 16 of 26 for 111 yards for Minnesota. Jerome Simpson had four receptions for a team-high 50 yards and drew a pair of penalties to help set up scores. Simpson missed the first three games serving a suspension for violating the league's substance abuse policy.
Adrian Peterson had 102 yards rushing on 21 carries - running for more than 100 yards for the first time since Oct. 23, 2011 - and added more proof his surgically repaired left knee is just fine.
"It just seems like that was the Adrian that we were hoping to see," Frazier said.
Minnesota's defense wouldn't let the Lions look good on the ground for the second straight week. Mikel Leshoure ran for just 26 yards on 13 carries after having 100 yards rushing and a TD in his debut last week.
Matthew Stafford was 30 of 51 for 319 yards without much help from Lions teammates - the ones that dropped passes and those that allowed him to get sacked five times after giving up just four sacks combined in the first three games.
"We got our butts kicked up front with sacks and we couldn't run the ball," Schwartz said. "Physically we have to be better."
Mentally, too.
Pettigrew dropped a potential TD pass one play after Calvin Johnson had the football jarred loose in the end zone, forcing Detroit to settle for a field goal and a 13-6 halftime deficit.
Just when the Lions looked as if they were going to break through offensively, safety Jamarca Sanford forced Leshoure to fumble and recovered at the Vikings 29 late in the third quarter.
Detroit drove to the Vikings 7 early in the fourth, but unblocked defensive end Everson Griffen sacked Stafford to end the threat.
The Lions got right back down in scoring territory and Stafford scored on a 1-yard lunge with 2:56 left.
Vikings punter Chris Kluwe pinned Detroit on its 2 with 1:42 remaining. Stafford was sacked on the last snap at his 33, a fitting end to a game dominated by Minnesota's defense and special teams, ending an 11-game losing streak to division opponents.
If Chicago can't beat Dallas on the road Monday night, the Vikings will be alone atop the NFC North going into Week 5.
"We want to embrace it," Frazier said. "It was one of our goals when the season began, to win the NFC North."
NOTES: Detroit DE Cliff Avril left the game in the fourth quarter with a back injury. ... Vikings WR Michael Jenkins had a rib injury during the game. ... Minnesota avoided its first four-game losing streak against the Lions since losing five in row 1961-63.
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More news??PFT: Eli Manning's mistakes sink the Giants (2-2), while LeSean McCoy's brilliance continues to boost Philadelphia (3-1). If the Eagles really kick this thing into gear, they could be the one ruling the NFC East.
Given a second chance, Lawrence Tynes couldn't make the Philadelphia Eagles pay for a tactical gamble that nearly backfired. Tynes missed two field-goal tries from 54 yards with 15 seconds left and Philadelphia held on for a 19-17 victory over the New York Giants on Sunday night.
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UPDATE: Good news for the Rangers. According to Richard Durrett of ESPNDallas.com, an MRI ruled out any significant issues with his shoulder. He was diagnosed with a cervical (neck) sprain, but it?s not known when he?ll be able to resume throwing.
5:42 PM: Texas? bullpen may have just lost its top setup man right before the playoffs, as Mike Adams told Jeff Wilson of the Fort Worth Star Telegram that he?s out indefinitely with a shoulder injury and underwent an MRI exam today.
Adams missed time earlier this month with the same injury and had an ugly outing yesterday in which he served up three homers in two-thirds of an inning after previously allowing a grand total of one homer in his first 52.2 innings this season.
Adams has been extremely good for the Rangers since coming over in a trade from the Padres last July, logging 78 innings with a 2.88 ERA and 70/22 K/BB ratio. For now he?s hoping to be ready for the playoffs, but that?s obviously far from a sure thing.
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By Bob Sullivan
When Stephanie Lambert packed peanut butter and jelly to keep her two small children happy on a cross-country flight in June, she didn't mean to pick a fight with the Transportation Security Administration. But after a long security line argument, and the confiscation of the peanut butter (but not the jelly), she felt she had no choice.??
Courtesy Stephanie Lambert
Stephanie Lambert got $3.99 from the U.S. Treasury after TSA agents seized her child's peanut butter at an airport checkpoint.
Then, after churning through the four-page ?SF-95 Tort Claim Package forms,? she got something else she never expected: a $3.99 refund from the U.S. Treasury Department.
Lambert was traveling with her husband, a 6-month-old and a 2-year-old on an ungodly early flight in June, and arrived at the airport about 5 a.m. She was flying from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh, and she needed the usual bag of distractions and food to keep her kids -- and other passengers -- sane during the trip. But, she says, her efforts to ensure a smooth flight were foiled when a TSA agent with a bad attitude singled out her family for additional screening. After the usual pat-downs and questions, discussion centered on the jar of peanut butter.?
"He just really fixated on the peanut butter and a jar of apple sauce I had," she said.? "I keep saying, 'It's not a liquid; it's pureed apples,' but we go went around and around.? He also screened my husband multiple times. I asked to speak to the terminal manager, but he never arrived. ... We were there 30 minutes."
Eventually, the screener let the apple sauce (and the jelly) go, but he drew the line on the peanut butter.
"I said, ?Fine.? I left the peanut butter, but I took down names," she said. "The screener was asking for my all my details, so I figured I'd ask for his."
When the family arrived in Pittsburgh, Lambert asked a TSA screener on her way out about peanut butter -- Was it considered a liquid or not? -- and got a vague answer. So when she got home, she turned to the Internet and the found the SF-95 Tort Claim Package forms. Generally, they're filled out by fliers who think the TSA lost something valuable while screening bags, such as laptop computers. But Lambert was after satisfaction, and she didn't see why she couldn't make a claim for the cost of her seized peanut butter.
"At the airport, my husband kept saying, 'Would you just let go of the peanut butter? We're going to miss the plane.' But these things really fire me up," Lambert said. "So when I said, 'Honey, I'm going to file a claim,' he wasn't surprised."
Lambert is a rare consumer who was in a perfect position to file such a claim. For starters, she had the original receipt from Whole Foods showing the price she paid for the spread.?
Who keeps receipts for peanut butter?? Lambert explained that she started her family during the recession, and from the start has carefully watched her money. She saves receipts from every purchase, enters everything into a spreadsheet and tracks every expense. She also has a binder, where she records refunds, returns, rebates and any other correspondence that involves money.
"I fill out forms and keep track of them all the time, so this was easy for me," she said. "I'm responsible for the family finances. If it takes me months, it takes me months. I'm very firm when companies owe me money."
She had another motivation behind her ferocity regarding the confiscated peanut butter, however.
"When they first put in the liquid (security) rules on flights, a screening agent took a $7 lip gloss I had just purchased. Then, the very next day, they changed the rules and lip gloss was allowed. I was furious," she said. "I remember the TSA agent actually took a basketball shot with my lip gloss into the trash bins as I went through security. I'm still mad about that, and I was thinking, 'This is not happening again.'"
On her complaint form, Lambert said TSA agents unnecessarily screened her husband twice, and removed everything from her carry-on bags during the 30-minute ordeal.
"At the time I was carrying my 6-month-old and trying to keep my 2-year-old calm," she wrote. "(The agent's) behavior was completely unwarranted."
She submitted the claim on June 19.? To her surprise, she received a letter dated Aug. 24 from TSA that read: "Your claim against the United States in the amount of $3.99 has been granted in full." On Sept. 14, the "refund" was electronically deposited into her bank account.
Naturally, Lambert wasn't really after the money. She says she was trying to make a point.
"I think people really do need to fight for themselves," she said. "In this case, the peanut butter was important to me. I was thinking, 'Hey, I need that. If I have a crisis with a child on a five-hour flight this peanut butter may help me.? I wasn?t hopping to Phoenix, I was flying across country and there?s no food on the flight for children."
As it turns out, the TSA website does list peanut butter as a banned liquid/gel, if carried onto a plane in containers exceeding 3.4 ounces. Jellies, jams and "creamy dips and spreads" are also banned in bigger portions. There are some exceptions for mothers traveling with infants, however, involving breast milk, juice, baby food and other liquids and gels, which muddies the discussion considerably.
Part of the problem, Lambert says, is that the rules seem to vary from airport to airport, and even from agent to agent.
"I think it depends on how well the information goes down the chain," she said.?
Lambert said she spoke via telephone with a TSA representative as she was filling out her tort claim and thought the agent was very pleasant and competent. The agent even promised to review security tape to see if the incident required follow up. That conversation, and her refund, actually leaves her with more good than bad feelings about the TSA. The problem, she said, is that most of the trouble for passengers occurs on the front lines, in the chaos of someone rushing to make a flight with agents who sometimes are too eager to exert their power.
TSA spokesman David A. Castelveter told NBC News that peanut butter jars in excess of 3.4 ounces are generally not permissable as carry-on items, but that screeners can exercise "common-sense discretion." Exceptions generally involve medical needs, he said.?
He also pointed to a press release about TSA agents in Los Angeles who stopped suspects allegedly trying to sneak marijuana onto an airplane?in a modified jar of peanut butter last year.
The agency has no readily available statistics on tort claims, Castelveter said, but added that Lambert's peanut butter refund claim was "the first time I'd ever heard of something like that."
The Los Angeles Times investigated tort claims against TSA last year, and found that 1,702 claims were made against the agency by passengers traveling through Los Angeles International Airport from 2007 through 2010.? Most claims involved items that were damaged or disappeared from checked baggage. The average damage claim was $1,437, but most were denied.? Roughly 13 percent of those who claimed the loss of a laptop computer were granted relief, but less than 1 percent of those saying they lost or damaged digital camera were reimbursed.
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One key to having successful dialogs with TSA agents at checkpoints is time; passengers rushing to make a flight have no time to make their case. In Lambert's situation, she had time to put up a fight because, ironically, her husband is a frequent traveler and the family qualified for express screening.??
If you feel like the TSA has wrongly confiscated an item from you at a checkpoint, you can obtain the necessary forms at this page.
Note that if the TSA denies a claim, it can only be appealed by filing a lawsuit in federal court. By law, small claims courts have no jurisdiction over TSA cases.
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Homer Bailey of the Cincinnati Reds threw the season's seventh no-hitter, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 1-0 on Friday night. The seven no-hitters matches the modern record for most in a season, tying 1990 and 1991. There were eight no-hitters in 1884.
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Finally, it seems like the feud between president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship Dana White and light heavyweight champion Jon Jones has been settled. After watching Jones put up everything at stake against Vitor Belfort at UFC 152, White believes Jones should be credited for his accomplishments.
?There's no doubt that this was Jones' best performance. He looked phenomenal tonight,? said White during the post-fight press conference.
Jones faced the toughest fight of his life against Belfort. He was locked in an armbar submission right in the first round by the Brazilian fighter yet Jones did not give up. During the press conference, Jones admitted that he felt his arm was about to break but he was not ready to give up. He claimed that he would have carried on even if he had to fight with one arm.
When asked about the injury, Jones said that after the submission hold, he felt like his arm was not in the right condition yet he used it to hit Belfort because he is trained to do so.
White and Jones had their bitter moments following UFC 151?s declination recently. However, White believes everyone makes mistakes in their young age and so did Jones. White is ready to forgive the champion for his wrongdoings.
?At the end of the day, has he made a few mistakes? Of course he has. He's not a bad guy. He's not a bad kid at all. He and I sat down yesterday, we had a great conversation...Everything is awesome.?
?There can be no more naysaying about Jon Jones. Listen, you love him or you hate him. If you don't like him, whatever, if you like him, good, but you can't deny that the kid is extremely talented and one of the best in the world...I disagree, and I think that Jon Jones did look unbeatable tonight.?
As of now, White is once again impressed by the American champion, believing that it is about time for naysayers to start respecting Jones. White also highlighted the fact that Jones was highly criticised for not being able to take punches, but now he did and he has proved himself as a top-notch fighter.
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PARIS, Sep. 28, 2012 (Reuters) ? President Francois Hollande's Socialist government unveiled sharp tax hikes on business and the rich on Friday in a 2013 budget aimed at showing France has the fiscal rigor to remain at the core of the euro zone.
French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault walks to deliver a speech after the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, September 28, 2012. Ayrault announced a budget bill for 2013 that commits France to 30 billion euros ($39 billion) of tax hikes and spending cuts with the goal of reducing the public deficit to 3 percent of GDP next year to honour the country's European commitments. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
The package will recoup 30 billion euros ($39 billion) for the public purse with a goal of narrowing the deficit to 3.0 percent of national output next year from 4.5 percent this year - France's toughest single belt-tightening in 30 years.
But with record unemployment and a barrage of data pointing to economic stagnation, there are fears the deficit target will slip as France falls short of the modest 0.8 percent economic growth rate on which it is banking for next year.
The budget disappointed pro-reform lobbyists by merely freezing France's high public spending rather than daring to attack ministerial budgets as Spain did this week as it battles to avoid the conditions of an international bailout.
"This is a fighting budget to get the country back on the rails," Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said, adding that the 0.8 percent growth target was "realistic and ambitious".
"It is a budget which aims to bring back confidence and to break this spiral of debt that gets bigger and bigger."
With public debt at a post-war record of 91 percent of the economy, the budget is vital to France's credibility not only among euro zone partners but also in markets which for now are allowing it to borrow at record-low yields around two percent.
France's benchmark 3.0 percent 10-year bond was steady, yielding 2.18 percent after the announcement.
The government said the budget was the first in a series of steps to bring its deficit down to 0.3 percent of GDP by 2017 - slightly missing an earlier target of a zero deficit by then.
But early reactions were skeptical.
"The ambitions that were flagged are very audacious," said Philippe Waechter at Natixis Asset Management. "I struggle to see how we'll find the growth needed in 2013 and afterwards."
Of the total 30 billion euros of savings, around 20 billion will come from tax increases on households and companies, with tax rises already approved this year to contribute some 4 billion euros to revenues in 2013. The freeze on spending will contribute around 10 billion euros.
"SICK" MODEL?
To the dismay of business leaders who fear an exodus of top talent, the government confirmed a temporary 75 percent super-tax rate for earnings over one million euros and a new 45 percent band for revenues over 150,000 euros.
Together, those two measures are predicted to bring in around half a billion euros. Higher tax rates on dividends and other investments, plus cuts to existing tax breaks are seen bringing in several billion more.
Business will be hit with measures including a cut in the amount of loan interest which is tax-deductible and the cutting of an existing tax break on capital gains from certain share sales - moves worth around four billion and two billion euros each.
"The government is impeding investment and so will block innovation," Entrepreneurs Club head Guillaume Cairou said of the preference for raising taxes rather than cutting spending.
"France is sick because of the model it has ... but is choosing to preserve it."
Four months after he defeated Nicolas Sarkozy, Hollande's approval ratings are in free-fall as many French feel he has been slow to get to grips with the economic slow-down and unemployment at a 10-year high and rising.
Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici defended next year's growth target on French radio. But, highlighting the bet on growth underpinning the entire budget, he added that it was achievable "if Europe steadies".
Data on Friday confirmed France posted zero growth in the second quarter, marking nine months of stagnation, as a pickup in business investment and government spending was offset by a worsening trade balance and sluggish consumer expenditure.
Despite a rise in wages, consumers - traditionally the motor of France's growth - increased their savings to 16.4 percent of income from 16.0 percent a year earlier. In another setback, other data showed consumer spending dropped 0.8 percent in August.
(Additional reporting by Catherine Bremer and Brian Love; writing by Mark John; editing by Philippa Fletcher)
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LONDON (AP) ? British bookshops opened their doors early Thursday and some grown-up Harry Potter fans lined up overnight as J.K. Rowling launched her long-anticipated first book for adults, "The Casual Vacancy."
The lines were shorter and the wizard costumes missing, but the book was published to some of the same fanfare that greeted each Potter tome, with stores wheeling out crates of the books precisely at 8 a.m. as part of a finely honed marketing strategy.
Published five years after the release of the last book in the boy wizard saga, "The Casual Vacancy" is already at No. 1 on Amazon's U.S. chart, and bookmaker William Hill put 2/1 odds on it outselling "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," which shifted 2.6 million copies in Britain on its first day.
Many of the early buyers were Harry Potter fans who, like the author, have moved on to more adult fare.
"I just like how much excitement there is about a book," said 23-year-old Grace Proctor, a "massive" Potter fan who was first to buy the book at one London store.
"I think there are going to be people who will hate it just because they can hate it," she said. "But she's such an amazing writer, I don't think she can go wrong."
A story of ambition, envy and rivalry set in the fictional English village of Pagford, the novel recounts the civic warfare sparked when the unexpected death of a town official leaves a vacancy on the governing body. Characters set on a collision course range from the affluent lawyer Miles Mollison to the Weedons, a ramshackle clan living in The Fields, the run-down housing project on the edge of town.
Rowling has said she was aiming for Dickensian sweep in the multi-character saga, whose doses of sex, satire and swearing mark a distinct departure from wholesome Harry.
Reviews have been mixed. The Associated Press judged it a challenging but rewarding read full of emotion and heart. AP's Deepti Hajela said that while its troubled characters mean "this isn't a book that's easy to fall in love with ... But what could have been an unreadable story becomes something else in Rowling's hands, thanks to her gift of being able to make her characters complex and really, just human."
The Guardian newspaper's reviewer, Theo Tait, said it was "no masterpiece, but it's not bad at all: intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny."
The Independent's Boyd Tonkin found the sometimes "long-winded and laborious" writing soared when Rowling focused on her teenage characters.
Others, though, felt the lack of likable characters might alienate readers, and Daily Mail reviewer Jan Moir slammed Rowling's stark focus on Pagford's haves and have-nots as the work of a "left-leaning demagogue" painting "a bleak and rather one-sided vision of life in modern England."
It's likely nothing Rowling publishes will ever match the success of the Potter books, which have sold more than 450 million copies around the world.
But booksellers are confident "The Casual Vacancy" will be one of the year's best-sellers, whatever reviewers say.
"A lot of children have grown up with Harry Potter. They're now adults who love books," said Susan Sinclair, divisional manager for the Foyles bookstore chain.
"I think it's going to be a really big seller at Christmas. It'll be an easy gift ? but also a good one."
Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless
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With severe weather warnings of heavy rain, and flood alerts in place across parts of England, local insurance broker Towergate Insurance in Poole today provides some basic advice to help businesses and individuals which are or may be affected by flooding.
Stuart Grieb Managing Director for Towergate Insurance in Poole said, ?Flooding can have a major impact on people?s lives so it is vital that every precaution and evasive action is taken to mitigate the risk. Bearing that in mind, we have provided a few essential tasks to help both individuals and businesses protect against flooding:
Here is Towergate?s basic flood advice checklist of essential tasks:
? Identify a safe place where you, your family and/or your employees can keep away from the floodwater
? Gather essential items together that include warm clothes, blankets, regular medication, a torch, food supplies, a mobile phone and a battery-operated or wind-up radio
? Turn off gas, electricity and water supplies at the mains
? Move electrical items and valuables to a first floor or higher position
? Floods can kill. NEVER attempt to walk or drive through any depth of floodwater
? WAIT for the emergency services. Follow their instructions. If an evacuation order is issued you MUST comply
? Call Floodline on 0845 988 1188 for the latest information and stay tuned to local radio
? Flood water can rise quickly; stay calm and reassure those around you. Call 999 if you are in danger
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This product image released by Stuart Weitzman shows an oxford shoe co-designed by actress Chloe Grace Moretz for a special Stuart Weitzman collection to help raise money for ovarian cancer research. (AP Photo/Stuart Weitzman)
This product image released by Stuart Weitzman shows an oxford shoe co-designed by actress Chloe Grace Moretz for a special Stuart Weitzman collection to help raise money for ovarian cancer research. (AP Photo/Stuart Weitzman)
This product image released by Stuart Weitzman shows a goose-bump calfskin pump co-designed by actress Nikki Reed for a special Stuart Weitzman collection to help raise money for ovarian cancer research. (AP Photo/Stuart Weitzman)
This product image released by Stuart Weitzman shows a gold metallic cap-toe black multi-strap ankle boot co-designed by actress-model Brooklyn Decker for a special Stuart Weitzman collection to help raise money for ovarian cancer research. (AP Photo/Stuart Weitzman)
This product image released by Stuart Weitzman shows a black pony-hair stiletto pump with burgundy satin piping co-designed by actress AnnaSofia Robb for a special Stuart Weitzman collection to help raise money for ovarian cancer research. (AP Photo/Stuart Weitzman)
NEW YORK (AP) ? When you are a hot young starlet in Hollywood, you often get what you want. For Nikki Reed, that meant goose-bump calfskin, and for Chloe Grace Moretz, it was a menswear-inspired design. They are two of the celebrities to work with footwear designer Stuart Weitzman to craft shoes to their specs to help raise money for ovarian cancer research.
Weitzman has a long history of working with stars, and he finds many of them to be "frustrated fashion designers."
"It doesn't surprise me when they make requests or have ideas. They have a desire to create what they wear and what they look like," said Weitzman. "It would be surprising to me if they didn't want to have more input and try design."
The Young Hollywood Cares collection was co-designed this year by Moretz, Reed, Brooklyn Decker, Julianne Hough and AnnaSophia Robb.
Weitzman recalled Moretz's inspiration: "She told me as a kid, she would wear her father's wingtips and oxfords. ... And she wanted to make a shoe like her dad's that was sexy, high and wearable."
Other styles include Decker's gold metallic cap-toe black multistrap ankle boots, and Robb's black pony-hair stiletto pumps with burgundy satin piping.
This is the second round of collaborations, following last year's successful fundraising effort of $80,000, which was done without much promotion or publicity, Weitzman said.
"I want to be more visible," he said. "I have learned it's hard to ask people for money and it's harder to get them to give it, but if you have fun and make some noise, you can rattle it. You'll buy something, even if it costs a little more, but why not for a good cause?"
Proceeds from the collection benefit research at the Folkman Institute/Vascular Biology Program at Boston's Children's Hospital.
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Campaign politics shadowing every word, President Barack Obama will step before the world and declare that anti-American rage and riots among Muslims abroad will never force the United States to backtrack on diplomacy.
In his final international address before the November election, Obama on Tuesday has a United Nations stage afforded to presidents, not presidential challengers. He will use it to try to boost his political standing without mentioning his opponent.
Obama's comments to the General Assembly will be scrutinized around the globe and by the gathering of presidents and prime ministers in the famed United Nations hall, given the tumult, terrorism, nuclear threats and poverty that bind so many nations. He will respond to unrest in the Muslim world and seek to underscore U.S. resolve in keeping Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
Yet, were there any doubt that the U.S. presidential campaign hung heavy over Obama's speech to the General Assembly, Republican rival Mitt Romney shredded it by assailing Obama's foreign affairs leadership on the eve of the president's speech.
"This is time for a president who will shape events in the Middle East, not just be merciful or be at the mercy of the events," Romney said Monday. Focusing on the killing of the U.S. ambassador in Libya and mass bloodshed in Syria, Romney repeatedly ridiculed Obama's comment that nations moving toward democracy after the Arab Spring face "bumps in the road."
That prompted White House spokesman Jay Carney to fire back at Romney: "There is a certain rather desperate attempt to grasp at words and phrases here to find political advantage, and in this case that's profoundly offensive."
Obama's activities at the United Nations said plenty, too: There are not many of them. Campaigning is his imperative.
He is skipping the private meetings with key allies that a U.S. president typically schedules when the whole international community comes to New York. The president will spend only 24 hours in New York in total this time, and he spent some of it Monday to appear on "The View," giving a talk show interview intended to sell his election pitch to a big TV audience.
The dominant theme of Obama's U.N. speech, according to his aides and Obama's own recent words, will be to underscore his response to the protests raging in places across the Middle East and North Africa. As he has for days, Obama will condemn the violence, defend democratic principles of free speech and promise no U.S. withdrawal of outreach.
Much of the growing ire is aimed at the United States because of an anti-Islam film produced in this country, but the White House has now deemed the attack on its consulate in Libya a "terrorist attack" and has not ruled that it was premeditated. Four Americans, including ambassador Chris Stevens, died in what Obama now says "wasn't just a mob action."
Obama noted in the TV interview Monday that many Libyans have protested the extremist strains in their nation.
"Part of the message for us is that the overwhelming majority of Muslims, they want the same things that families here want," Obama said. "They want opportunity. They want jobs. They want peace. ... We're going to stay engaged. Because ultimately, over the long term, our security is going to be tied up with the success of these countries."
In a preview of Obama's speech, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton appealed for Muslims to show "dignity" as they protest the film denigrating the Prophet Muhammad.
"Dignity does not come from avenging insults," she said in a speech to her husband's Clinton Global Initiative. Romney and Obama were to speak there as well on Tuesday.
The secretary of state was also standing in for Obama. She saw the presidents of Afghanistan, Egypt, Libya and Pakistan. She was due later in the week to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
For U.S. presidents, the yearly United Nations address is always laced with domestic politics even though the speeches are scripted without campaign references. Wars and the failed attempts at Mideast peace have dominated in recent years.
Romney's campaign made the campaign linkage directly Monday.
"On the eve of his United Nations address, President Obama's foreign policy is in disarray," spokesman Ryan Williams said. "As president, Mitt Romney will repair our relationships abroad and create a safer, more secure nation."
Polling shows Obama has a clear edge over Romney when voters are asked who they think is a stronger leader and would better protect the country.
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British skipper determined for a good result in Marseille ?
Ian Williams and his GAC Pindar sailing team are focused and ready for the Match Race France that begins next week in Marseille from 24 ? 29 September.??
Hosted at the Yachting Club de la Pointe Rouge, the sixth leg of the Alpari World Match Racing Tour will be held in the bay of Marseille where some of the world?s top-class sailors will compete in identically matched J80 boats.
Williams, the reigning ISAF Match Racing World Champion, and his team have had to regroup after a very disappointing result in St Moritz where Williams and Hansen, the team leaders of the series, were right at the bottom of the qualifying table. Ultimately, it all came down to the very last match of the qualifying session. Both skippers knew the importance of the race, that victory would mean that their closest rival would be knocked out of the regatta, but it just wasn?t meant to be for Williams as Hansen took the win costing the British skipper dearly.
The British skipper comments: ?The GAC Pindar match racing team is looking forward to Match Race France and looking to improve on our performance in St Moritz last month. From the Alpari Match Racing Tour, we count our best four events prior to the Monsoon Cup, and having made the podium three times so far this season, we are looking for a top three in France which would give us a chance at the World Title going into the final in Malaysia in December.??
Despite the bad result in St Moritz, Ian Williams remains in second place on the overall Tour standings with 87 points, just six points behind Bjorn Hansen. With three podium results already secured and with two more events to go before the spectacular Monsoon Cup ? Williams is still on target to claiming the World Match Racing title for an incredible fourth time.
For more information on GAC Pindar and the World Match Racing Tour, viewers?can visit: ? www.gacpindar.com ? www.facebook.com/teamgacpindar ? www.twitter.com/gacpindar ? www.wmrt.com
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Launched in 2011, GAC Pindar is headquartered at the heart of the yachting community ? in the UK sailing hub of Southampton.
In addition to providing services to the worldwide yachting community, GAC Pindar is a familiar name on the international race circuit, frequently featuring in the winning line-up at premier sailing events.
GAC Pindar is the official logistics provider for the Extreme Sailing Series.
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GAC is a global provider of shipping, logistics and marine services. These services are constantly being refined and integrated to serve our customers? increasing need for competitive solutions. Emphasising trust, reliability and a strong human touch, GAC has been building its reputation in its chosen markets since 1956.
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Texas Adds the Most Construction Jobs and D.C. Adds the Highest Percentage Year-over-Year While Illinois Experiences Largest Annual Decline and Alaska Has Largest Percentage Drop in Construction Jobs
Construction employment declined in 30 states from August 2011 to August 2012 and in 26 states in the past month, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of Labor Department data. Association officials noted that construction employment declined in most states even as long term infrastructure programs and tax measures languish.
?Construction employment continues to decline in many states as key tax and infrastructure decisions languish in Washington,? said Ken Simonson, the association?s chief economist. ?Thousands more construction workers could be employed today in states across the country if we had long-term federal tax and infrastructure programs in place.?
The economist said that among states losing construction jobs during the past year, Alaska lost the highest percentage (-14.2 percent, -2,000 jobs), followed by Nevada (-10.0 percent, -5,200 jobs) and Mississippi (-8.4 percent, -4,100 jobs). Illinois lost the most jobs (-11,500, -5.9 percent), followed by Georgia (-9,900, -6.7 percent) and Florida (-8,500 jobs, -2.6 percent).
Simonson noted that 20 states and the District of Columbia added construction jobs between August 2011 and August 2012. The District of Columbia added the highest percentage of new construction jobs (14.9 percent, 1,800 jobs), followed by North Dakota (11.8 percent, 2,900 jobs) and Nebraska (10.8 percent, 4,400 jobs). Texas added the most new construction jobs over the past 12 months (37,900, 6.8 percent), followed by California (33,000, 6.0 percent) and Indiana (10,400, 8.7 percent).
New Mexico had the steepest percentage decline among states that lost construction jobs for the month (-6.8 percent, -2,900 jobs), followed by Alaska (-3.2 percent, -400 jobs) and Connecticut (-2.7 percent, -1,300 jobs). The largest number of construction job losses in July occurred in North Carolina (-3,400 jobs, -2.0 percent), followed by Pennsylvania (-3,300 jobs, -1.5 percent) and New Mexico.
Twenty-four states plus D.C. added construction jobs between July and August. The highest percentage gains for the month occurred in Arkansas (4.8 percent, 2,000 jobs), followed by Hawaii (2.8 percent, 800 jobs) and Mississippi (2.8 percent, 1,200 jobs). Texas added the most jobs during the month (13,600 jobs, 2.3 percent), followed by Florida (5,300 jobs, 1.7 percent) and California (5,100, 0.9 percent).
Association officials said that construction employment was suffering from Washington's failure to act on a number of long-term infrastructure and tax measures. They noted that Congress has yet to enact long-term water infrastructure measures, address transportation funding challenges, or set tax levels for future years.
"Not only are Washington officials failing to make tough choices on infrastructure funding, they aren't even taking care of essential measures like setting tax rates and keeping our clean water systems up to date,? said Stephen E. Sandherr, the association's chief executive officer. ?Construction employment suffers when firms can't anticipate future demand or know how much they will have to pay in taxes.?
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Maintaining Alignment
To demonstrate this misalignment, consider our acquisition matter from Part 1. A client, perhaps overly concerned about risk on a deal, makes continued and on-going due diligence requests. With a fee cap in place, the client has little concern over the cost of expanded diligence, so why not be safe and make the expanded requests? These types of requests can unnecessarily drive up the cost of the service and even complicate the negotiation phase, as the acquiring party is now more suspect of the purchaser and will push harder on certain issues. The client, inadvertently, is creating an unhealthy relationship with its outside counsel. The goals and incentives for each side are misaligned. So although the client may come out reasonable well in this specific example, the long-term relationship will suffer.
I submit that clients will benefit from healthy long-term relationships with outside counsel. When outside counsel is truly a trusted?adviser, clients receive better results. And by making cost savings a combine goal, meeting budgets will be an integral part of these successful results.
Does this means Procurement should be locked out of the process? Definitely not. However, I think they will bring the highest value to the process by serving in an advice and counsel role to GCs. GCs are experts in the law and hiring law firms. Procurement brings expertise for qualifying and quantifying savings. So it is best to keep the GC in their role, allowing them to select the right outside counsel for a given engagement. If a company allows cost to become the driving factor in selecting law firms, then companies will succeed at lowering cost, but likely at the cost of trusted relationships and getting the right level of service.
To highlight this possibility, consider again our acquisition example. First, Procurement will not be involved in the management of the matter and will have no knowledge of the?problems?that?occurred. And likely, at the end-of-matter review, Procurement will conclude the outcome a success since the acquisition was completed and the budget was met.
Procurement, by design, works to neutralize relationship in the selection process. In a formal RFP process driven by Procurement, all informal communications are cut off. In order to neutralize relationships and level the bidding field, all communications go through pre-defined, formal channels and are shared with the entire group of bidders. Although this process is fair and drives prices down, per its intent, it also neutralizes what should be a trusting relationship between lawyer and client. In my experience, the most successful fee deals, both in terms of legal outcomes and meeting cost savings goals, come about due to a trusting relationship.
Address the Challenge
The moral of this story for GCs is essentially the same that is being told to law firm partners: The world has changed and now so must you. Partners and GCs are both far better served when they face the challenges of change. Sitting back and waiting to see how things will play out means you are letting others take over what should be your role and your business. Recently I heard a consultant suggest that in the future if things continue down this procurement path, GCs will no longer be part of the executive suite in a company. Instead, they may answer to the CFO or another executive.
In an ideal world, Procurement would act ? ideally. But from what I am seeing in the market, this ideal world is some ways off. Instead, GCs may be bending to the will and drive of Procurement out of frustration and necessity. Are there some legal services that can be purchased on the basis of price? Yes. However, I would argue that legal services are at their highest value when they serve the strategic goals of a company. Savvy GCs will work hard and take on new challenges in order to maintain this level of value for their clients. Otherwise, as my old friend and mentor used to say, ?we will be left with law firms standing in line with the toilet paper sales people, waiting to bid on the next RFP.?
Partnership, Partnership, Partnership
In my opinion, the keys to successful fee deals are trust and communication. These two things come about when lawyer and client sit down and define goals in a partnering approach. In my experience, most lawyers and firms really want to help clients succeed. Unfortunately as the market has evolved, clients and their lawyers have not been adapting well. Conversations about rates and fees have always been something to avoid. Now they need to be central to the conversation and to the success of the partnership between client and lawyer. Procurement can be an asset; however, I suggest GCs will be better served by driving this process. In turn the GC?s client?s best interest will be served.
Source: http://www.geeklawblog.com/2012/09/another-view-of-procurements-role-part-3.html
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LOS ANGELES?? The space shuttle Endeavour returned to its California roots Thursday after a wistful cross-country journey that paid homage to NASA workers and former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her astronaut husband.
"That's my spaceship," said Endeavour's last commander, Mark Kelly, as the couple watched the shuttle loop over Tucson, Ariz.
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Afterward, a 747 jet carrying Endeavour swooped out of the desert sky and glided down a concrete runway at Edwards Air Force Base, 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Los Angeles, not far from where the now-retired shuttle fleet was assembled.
The shuttle and jumbo jet take off again at sunrise Friday to make low, sweeping passes over Sacramento, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Los Angeles.
Next stop: Los Angeles International Airport, where Endeavour will be prepped for a slow ride on a special flatbed trailer through city streets next month to its final destination as a museum showpiece.
Giffords 'elated'
Endeavour's highly anticipated homecoming was twice delayed by stormy weather along the Gulf of Mexico. On Wednesday, it departed from its old home base at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, soared over other NASA centers in Mississippi and Louisiana, and made a layover in Houston, home of Mission Control. Crowds craned their necks skyward as the shuttle flew low over Florida's Space Coast and Houston.
After refueling in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday morning, it flew over the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, an emergency shuttle landing site that was used just once.
Kelly requested that Endeavour sail over Tucson to honor Giffords, who is recovering after suffering a head wound in a shooting rampage last year. Giffords was a member of the House committee on science, space and technology. The couple watched from the roof of a University of Arizona parking garage.
Former aide C.J. Karamargin said Giffords was "elated" and started "hooting and hollering" as soon as she spotted Endeavour.
Kelly said the flyover reminded him of how challenging it was to land the shuttle, because it doesn't use its engines as it returns to Earth. "It doesn't glide very well," Kelly said.
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Endeavour's maiden voyage into space two decades ago ended with a planned touchdown at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, based at Edwards. Unlike a return from orbit, no ear-splitting twin sonic booms accompanied the latest return.
Known as the baby shuttle, Endeavour was the last one built, replacing Challenger, which exploded during liftoff in 1986. NASA lost a second shuttle, Columbia, which broke apart during re-entry in 2003. A replacement was not built. Fourteen astronauts died in the accidents.
Six years after the Challenger tragedy, during Endeavour's first flight, three spacewalking astronauts made a daring rescue of a stranded communications satellite. A year later, it was launched on a service repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
Endeavour flew 25 times, mostly to supply the International Space Station. It spent 299 days in space and circled Earth nearly 4,700 times, logging 123 million miles.
The space shuttle has deep roots in California: The main engines were manufactured in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. The heat shield tiles that protected the shuttle during re-entry were invented in Silicon Valley. The shuttle's "fly-by-wire" technology was developed in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey.
Shuttle parts from California and other plants around the country were shipped to Rockwell International's assembly factory in Palmdale near Edwards. For the early part of the shuttle program, landings occurred in the desert before switching to Florida. Edwards remained the backup landing site.
Where the shuttles are ending up
Endeavour is the second of three surviving shuttles to travel to its retirement home. In April, Discovery landed at the Smithsonian Institution's annex in Virginia after victory laps around the White House, the Capitol and the Washington Monument.
Atlantis will remain in Florida and will be towed in November to Kennedy Space Center's visitor center.
Enterprise, a prototype that flew in approach and landing tests but never went into space, was flown to New York on a carrier jet and then towed up the Hudson River by barge in June. It's now on display at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in Manhattan.
After three decades of service, NASA permanently grounded the shuttles last year under a White House mandate to focus on destinations beyond low-Earth orbit, with goals to land astronauts on an asteroid and eventually on Mars.
The shuttle's main job was hauling spare parts and cargo to the space station, which is near completion. Until private companies can provide regular taxi service to the giant orbiting lab, NASA is relying on Russian rockets.
NASA deeded Endeavour to the California Science Center last year. The estimated coast-to-coast shipping and handling costs is $28 million, to be paid for by the science center. A final cost has not been calculated. NASA officials have said it didn't cost extra to add the Tucson overflight to the itinerary because it was on the way.
After landing at LAX Friday, Endeavour will undergo several weeks of preparations for its last mission: inching through the streets of Los Angeles in early October to its museum home, a 12-mile crawl that required chopping down hundreds of trees and rerouting power lines.
For shuttle workers, it's a "bittersweet moment. The shuttle is finally retired and done. But for us, it's a great beginning of its next mission," said museum president Jeffrey Rudolph.
Davenport reported from Phoenix. Associated Press writer Ramit Plushnick-Masti in Houston contributed to this report.
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Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49100521/ns/technology_and_science-space/
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