A spooky supper: Calabaza soup with spider web cream

Roast calabaza, or another pumpkin or squash, for this simple autumn soup. Use sour cream cut with milk to make the spooky spider-web effect, and add a raisin for the spider.

By Caroline Lubbers,?Whipped, The Blog / October 30, 2012

To make the spider web topping, combine a few tablespoons of milk with sour cream. Spoon a circle in the center of the soup, and use a knife to gently drag it outward to the edges.

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I first learned about calabaza when researching the Mexican holiday,?Day of the Dead?or Dia de los Muertos. On Nov. 1 and 2, people gather to celebrate and honor the deceased. They prepare altars that are filled with candles, colorful offerings, photos of the deceased, bright decorated skeletons and food. The food offerings are meant to nourish the traveling souls. Calabaza, or candied pumpkin, is a common dish placed on the alter.

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Caroline Lubbers is a mother, wife, business owner and food blogger. Through her consulting company, Goldfish Marketing Communications, she has the pleasure of working with a number of chefs and specialty food companies. In 2007, Caroline launched her blog Whipped to learn more about blogging, to explore new recipes and as an excuse to buy a fancy camera.

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Last week, I was meandering through the produce section of a local market that carries a lot of Mexican food and ingredients, and a pumpkin-like squash near the common acorn variety caught my eye. The small sign nearly buried under a large specimen revealed that they were calabaza. Excited to try it, I brought one home.?

Because my life is too busy, I didn?t have the time to for anything fancy. Just cutting and cleaning the squash was a challenge with four little hands in the kitchen getting into everything. I found a simple recipe and altered it slightly to make this soup. If you can?t find calabaza, you can substitute acorn or butternut squash.

As for the spider web, I have seen it on cupcakes and has been wanting to try it on top of soup. I used sour cream but cr?me fra?che would also be yummy. The key is to make the dairy a little runnier with milk to that it can sit atop the thick soup. My little arachnid is simply a raisin that I squished with my thumb and then snipped with some kitchen shears.

This soup is a bit sweet and is accented with nutmeg. If you prefer more savory, this?curried calabaza soup?looks good.

Simple calabaza soup with spider web
Makes 4-6 servings
Adapted from VeryBestBaking.com

3 tablespoons olive oil
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3 lbs. calabaza (can substitute pumpkin, butternut or acorn squash)

2 medium tomatos, peeled and chopped

1/2 cup finely chopped red onion

1 can (12 fluid ounces) evaporated milk

2 cups vegetable broth

1/2 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon ground white or black pepper

Sour cream for garnish

Raisins for spiders

1. Seed and peel the calabaza. Cut it into 1-inch chunks. Put the chunks in a sauce pan and cover with water. Boil until tender, about 25 minutes. Drain and set aside.

2. Heat olive oil in large skillet on medium heat. Add tomato and onion, cook until soft. Add mixture to calabaza. Add broth and put the mixture in a blender or food processor in batches and puree until smooth. Add more or less broth for desired consistency.

3. Return pur?ed soup to saucepan. Stir in evaporated milk, nutmeg, salt, and pepper; mix well. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until just boiling.

4. To make the spider webs, add about 2 tablespoons of milk to 1/3 cup of sour cream. Stir until smooth. If it isn?t runny enough to drizzle over soup, add more milk. Ladle soup into bowls. Spoon circles of cream on top of the soup. Using a knife, drag gently from the center of the soup out to the edge (like spokes of a wheel). Continue around the bowl dragging the knife to create the web. To make spiders, use your thumb to press a raisin flat. Using kitchen shears, cut small triangles out of the sides to give the effect of legs. Place spiders on the webs and serve.

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Officials keep close eye on nuclear power plants as Sandy's winds whip

Though no nuclear power plants have been taken offline so far, officials along the east coast are overseeing plants carefully as hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey.?

By Josh Lederman,?Associated Press / October 29, 2012

A utility worker from Asplundh cuts away at a tree that fell on power lines on Gilbert Lane in Idetown, Pa., Monday. Hurricane Sandy continued on its path Monday, while officials kept a close eye on nuclear power plants.

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Federal regulators and safety officials at nuclear power plants along the Eastern Seaboard were keeping a watchful eye on wind and water levels, preparing to shut plants down should super-storm Sandy send levels surging.

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Still, by Monday evening, before the storm made landfall along the coast of New Jersey, no plants had been taken offline.

The US agency that oversees nuclear safety, its own headquarters and Northeast regional office shuttered by Sandy, dispatched extra inspectors or placed them on standby in five states, equipped with satellite phones to ensure uninterrupted contact.

Nuclear power plants are built to withstand hurricanes, airplane collisions and other major disasters, but safety procedures call for plants to be shut down when hurricane-force winds are present at the site, or if water levels nearby exceed certain flood limits.

At the Salem and Hope Creek plants in Hancocks Bridge, N.J., which together produce enough power for about 3 million homes per day, officials were watching for sustained winds of 74 mph or greater that would trigger taking the plants offline. The nearby Delaware River posed another hazard if water levels exceed 99.5 feet, compared with a normal level of 89 feet.

Joe Delmar, a spokesman for Public Service Enterprise Group Inc., said that only essential employees had been asked to report to work but that current projections were that the plants would not have to close.

One of the units at Salem had already been offline due to regular refueling and maintenance. That was also the case at Oyster Creek, a 636-megawatt plant in Lacey Township, N.J., roughly 60 miles east of Philadelphia.

In Lusby, Md., the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant was operating at full power ? enough to power more than 1 million homes. Additional staff, both onsite and off, were called in to prepare for the storm. Safety officials there will take the plant offline if sustained winds exceed 75 mph or water levels rise more than 10 feet above normal sea level.

Seventy-five was also the number at Indian Point in Buchanan, N.Y., where officials said they were fully prepared to withstand surging water levels from the Hudson River. At Pennsylvania's Susquehanna plant in Salem Township, officials were ready to activate their emergency plan, a precursor to taking the plant offline, if sustained winds hit 80 mph.

"Our top concern is ensuring that the plants are in a safe condition, that they are following their severe weather procedures" said Diane Screnci of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. She said that even though the agency's headquarters and regional office had been closed, its incident response center was staffed, with other regions ready to lend a hand if necessary.

At the Millstone nuclear power complex on Connecticut's shoreline, officials said they were powering down one of the two reactors to 75 percent of maximum output to maintain stability of the electric grid. Millstone spokesman Ken Holt said the grid's stability could be affected if the unit was operating at 100 percent and suddenly went offline, which isn't expected to happen.

Some 60 million people in 13 states plus the District of Columbia get their power from PJM, the largest regional power grid in the US Contingency plans call for power to be brought in from other areas to replace power lost if a nuclear plant reduces output or goes offline.

"It's done instantaneously," said Paula DuPont-Kidd, a spokeswoman for the grid. "Even if multiple plants go offline at the same time, we'd have to see how adjustments would be made, but for the most part we plan for that scenario."

In August 2011, multiple nuclear plants shut down due to Hurricane Irene, with others reducing power.

Although nuclear plants are built for resilience, their operations get more complicated when only emergency personnel are on duty or if external electricity gets knocked out, as often happens during hurricanes.

"When external power is not available, you have to use standby generators," said Sudarshan Loyalka, who teaches nuclear engineering at University of Missouri. "You just don't want to rely on backup power."

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Europe advances towards single banking supervisor

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders took a big stride towards establishing a single banking supervisor for the euro zone, striking a deal under which the bloc's rescue fund could start recapitalising ailing banks next year, a French government source said.

The source told reporters at an EU summit that all 6,000 banks in the single currency area would come under European Central Bank supervision by 2014, but most day-to-day oversight would be delegated to national bodies.

Creating an effective banking union, for which this deal is just a first step, is regarded by the International Monetary Fund and market economists as a key step to overcome the euro zone's three-year-old debt crisis.

The French source said the agreement meant the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) could start injecting capital into troubled banks as early as the first quarter of 2013, but a German source said it was "very unlikely" to happen so soon.

The German government source said the ECB would be responsible for supervising systemically important banks and could oversee others if necessary, emphasizing that direct recapitalization of banks by the ESM could only happen once cross-border banking supervision was firmly in place.

The point when the ECB will effectively become the bloc's banking supervisor is important because it would open the way for the euro zone's bailout fund to inject capital directly into troubled banks, without adding to their host governments' debts.

EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said this was vital "to break the vicious circle between sovereigns and banks".

The legal framework would be completed by the end of this year so the ECB could begin working to implement supervision arrangements from January 1, 2013, starting with banks receiving state aid, the French source told a midnight briefing.

"The entire banking supervision mechanism -- that means the effective supervision of 6,000 banks -- will become reality on January 1, 2014," he said.

The agreement, still to be officially confirmed, appeared to be a defeat for German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble's efforts to limit the scope of European banking supervision.

The deal came after the leaders of France and Germany, Europe's central powers, held a private meeting after clashing in public over greater EU control of national budgets.

Germany has been reluctant to see its politically sensitive savings and cooperative banks come under outside supervision. It rejects any joint deposit guarantee under which richer countries might have to underwrite banks in poorer states.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier demanded stronger authority for the executive European Commission to veto national budgets that breach EU rules, but French President Francois Hollande said the issue was not on the summit agenda and the priority was to get moving on a European banking union.

For once, the summit was not under intense pressure from financial markets, which have calmed since the ECB pledged last month to intervene decisively if needed to buy bonds of troubled euro zone states to preserve the euro.

"FISCAL CAPACITY"

Addressing parliament in Berlin earlier in the day, Merkel skirted the issue of a possible credit line for Spain, which EU officials expect Madrid to request within weeks, but reiterated her desire to keep Greece in the currency area despite chronic debt problems.

In Athens, police clashed with protesters hurling stones and petrol bombs during a general strike that brought much of the near-bankrupt country to a standstill.

"We have made good progress on strengthening fiscal discipline with the fiscal pact but we are of the opinion, and I speak for the whole German government on this, that we could go a step further by giving Europe real rights of intervention in national budgets," Merkel told the Bundestag lower house.

A proposal by Schaeuble to create a super-empowered European currency commissioner was a possible way forward, she said, and more European control called for a stronger European Parliament.

Merkel also advocated the creation of a European fund to invest in specific projects in member states which she said could be fuelled by a financial transaction tax which 11 euro zone countries have said they will adopt.

Her call echoed a proposal for the 17-member euro zone to have its own budget -- known in EU jargon as a "fiscal capacity" -- on top of the 27-nation union's common budget, which mostly funds agriculture and aid to poorer regions.

Several states, including the Netherlands, Finland and Austria, were uneasy at the idea but none rejected it outright.

Decisions on institutional reforms are not expected until a December summit.

Since the ECB said last month it was ready to buy the bonds of struggling euro zone states in unlimited amounts, state borrowing costs have fallen sharply, easing the immediate pressure for Spain to seek a bailout.

Spain's 10-year bond yields sank to their lowest since February at an auction on Thursday, helped by Moody's decision this week to leave its credit rating at investment grade.

But rather than signaling that Madrid does not need help, Moody's verdict was predicated on Spain soon applying for a euro zone assistance program to trigger ECB intervention.

Italy raised a bumper 18 billion euros from a four-year inflation-linked retail bond -- the most ever raised in a single debt offering in European markets -- reducing its need to issue debt before the end of this year.

The leaders agreed at their last summit in June to create a single banking supervisor under the ECB, but tricky legal issues remain and Germany and its north European allies had appeared to be backtracking on elements of the June decision.

The deeper the discussion on banking union goes, the more complex and problematic it will get.

Countries outside the euro zone -- particularly Britain, which has Europe's biggest banking sector -- are concerned their banks could be disadvantaged if a balance is not maintained between the ECB and its oversight of euro zone banks and the powers of other authorities to oversee non-euro zone banks.

And if non-euro zone countries such as Poland join the banking union, as policymakers are hoping, it is unclear what representation they would have within the ECB, since the central bank is currently answerable only to euro zone member states.

(Additional reporting by Stephen Brown and Madeline Chambers in Berlin, Jan Strupczewski and Luke Baker in Brussels, Harry Papachristou and Lefteris Papadimas in Athens and Gilbert Krijger in Amsterdam. Writing by Paul Taylor, editing by Mike Peacock)

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TaxVox ? Blog Archive ? How Much Revenue Would a Cap on ...

In last night?s debate, Mitt Romney repeated the idea that he could pay for much or all of the 20 percent rate reduction and other tax cuts in his tax plan by capping itemized deductions at $25,000. He had previously suggested a $17,000 cap in an interview and, in the first debate, $25,000 or $50,000 caps?and possibly phasing deductions out entirely for high-income taxpayers. Capping deductions would raise revenue in a highly progressive way but how much revenue and how progressive depend on the cap.

Itemized deductions disproportionately benefit high-income taxpayers for three reasons:

1. High-income taxpayers are more likely to itemize deductions. Less than 10 percent of those in the bottom two income quintiles (fifths) itemized in 2011, compared with about 80 percent of those in the top quintile and more than 95 percent of those in the top 1 percent.
2. High-income taxpayers claim more itemized deductions. Itemizers in the bottom two quintiles averaged less than $14,000 in 2011, compared with nearly $38,000 for those in the top quintile and more than $170,000 for the top 1 percent. A higher cap on deductions would therefore affect fewer taxpayers and a larger share of affected taxpayers would have very high incomes.
3. A dollar?s worth of deductions reduces taxes more for high-income taxpayers. That dollar saves 35 cents for someone in the top 35 percent tax bracket but only 15 cents for a person in the 15 percent bracket.

As a result, more than 80 percent of the tax savings from itemized deductions in 2011 went to those in the top quintile and more than a quarter to the top 1 percent. Paring back those deductions would hit high-income taxpayers hardest.

To get a sense of how much money we could raise by capping tax deductions, my TPC colleagues have analyzed the resulting revenue gains and distributional impacts of four ways to limit itemized deductions?eliminating them entirely and capping them at $17,000, $25,000, or $50,000?calculated against three benchmarks (current law, current policy, and current policy with 20 percent lower rates and elimination of the AMT). As usual, the current law baseline has all expiring tax cuts actually expiring, while the current policy baseline has almost all of them ?permanently?extended.

Eliminating all itemized deductions would yield about $2 trillion of additional revenue over ten years if we cut all rates by 20 percent and eliminate the AMT. Capping deductions would generate less additional revenue, and the higher the cap, the smaller the gain. Limiting deductions to $17,000 would increase revenues by nearly $1.7 trillion over ten years. A $25,000 cap would yield roughly $1.3 trillion and a $50,000 cap would raise only about $760 billion.

But higher caps would impose proportionally more of the tax increase on higher-income households, as new TPC estimates show. With tax rates 20 percent below today?s rates, about 83 percent of the revenue gain?in 2015 from a $17,000 cap would fall on the top quintile?and about 40 percent on the top 1 percent. Raising the cap to $25,000 would boost those shares to nearly 90 percent on the top quintile and fully half on the top 1 percent. A $50,000 cap would virtually exempt the bottom four quintiles from higher taxes: less than 4 percent of the tax increase would fall on them, while nearly 80 percent would hit the top 1 percent. (Phasing down the caps at high-income levels would, of course, concentrate the revenue gains even more at the high end, but how much would depend on the details.)

Suggesting limits on deductions was Governor Romney?s first public statement about how he might offset the revenue lost by cutting tax rates. Without more specifics, we can?t say how much revenue such limits would actually raise. But these new estimates suggest that Romney will need to do much more than capping itemized deductions to pay for the roughly $5 trillion in rate cuts and other tax benefits he has proposed.

Source: http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2012/10/17/how-much-revenue-would-a-cap-on-itemized-deductions-raise/

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Hacked Pacemakers Could Send Deadly Shocks

The next frontier of computer hacking could be lifesaving medical devices: at a recent developer conference, a pacemaker was wirelessly hacked to send deadly 830 volt shocks.

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Tunica Humane Society Damaged By Storm | WREG.com - WREG-TV

(Tunica, MS) The Tunica Humane Society is in a crunch and needs help after some of their dog kennels were destroyed by the storms.

This is the latest blow for the Humane Society after their county funding was cut in half earlier the month.

Wednesday?s storm blew the roof of the shelter?s kennel away, causing the kennel to actually lifted up and the walls to collapse.

This allowed the dogs to get out, and with hazardous debris lying around it is amazing no dogs were hurt.

?I immediately started going out there to get to my dogs and get them out of here,? said kennel worker John Allen.

When the storm started getting really bad Allen went out to check on the dogs, and the wind threw him up against the wall.

?It?s a miracle none of our dogs were injured,? said Allen.

Sandy Williams runs the shelter and spent hours of the stormy night putting the kennel back together so the dogs had a place to go.?

Parts of the kennel were spread across a field along with the roof.

?It scares the heck out of the dogs and it?s pretty upsetting to us too,? said Williams.

But for the Tunica Humane Society it?s not as easy as writing a check to replace the roof.

?Tunica County recently cut our funding by 50% so we are struggling to stay alive as it is. And we?re just not prepared for a catastrophe like this,? said Williams.?

This isn?t the first set back for the no kill shelter.

The same kennel collapsed a few years ago because they are poorly built.

Williams hopes the reconstruction, which expected to cost thousands of dollars, will be safer for the dogs and prevent this from happening again.

The shelter has put out a call to the public for carpenters who will volunteer their time to help rebuild the kennels.

The Tunica Humane Society hopes to get the roof replaced by the weekend because it keeps the weather out and keeps the dogs safe.

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2face, Psquare, Davido, Wizkid, to join Onyeka, KWAM 1, Mike Okri, for biggest Headies Awards ever this weekend!

Lagos|Nigeria October 16 2012 Nigeria?s biggest music stars are getting ready to shine this weekend as the country?s biggest music honours event The Headies, is set to roll with full pomp and electricity. With the big nominees including international superstars D?Banj, Psquare, Sarkodie, Wizkid, 2face as well as hit-makers Davido, Ice Prince, Naeto C, Iyanya and many others getting ready for the big day, organisers say Lagosians should brace up for a world class event, befitting of our home made super stars. The Headies Awards, which has become a reference point in the Nigerian music industry, will hold on Saturday October 20 2012 at Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. The pre event activities, comprising Veterans Night and a special CSR project, HELP THE CHILDREN, are all part of an exciting line up of events leading to the much-anticipated ??2012 edition of The Headies. Ayo Animashaun,?Chief Executive Officer of Hip Hop World and executive producer of The Headies Awards noted that, "The Headies is not only about rewarding deserving artistes, it has been responsive to our society in many ways. One new way it intends to do so this year is its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) project tagged?Help The Children?which aims to bring succour to less privileged Nigerian children who are suffering from a prevalence of unclean water,?low food supplies and diseases such as malaria, pneumonia, measles, whooping cough, tetanus and tuberculosis ?For over seven years, The Headies has been widely recognized as an awards platform renowned for breaking uncharted grounds since its emergence in the Nigerian entertainment scene. The Headies recognizes, appreciates and celebrates outstanding talents of the Nigerian music industry who, through their exceptional talents, efforts and struggles, have brought the music industry to a place of honour and esteem acknowledged even far beyond the shores of Nigeria,? he concluded. Veterans to be honoured during the Veterans Night include: Ken Caleb Olumese, Tony Okoroji, Daniel Wilson, Oritz Wiliki and Chris Okotie. Other veterans to be honoured include Daddy Fresh, Stella Monye, Baba Fryo, Edi?Lawani, Easy K, Pretty (Junior & Pretty), Fellyx, (Fellyx & Mozzyx), Alex Zitto, Edmund Spice, and Ras Kimono. Majek Fishhook, Mandators, Edna Ogoli, Bongos Ikwe, Onyeka?? Onwenu, KWAM 1, Mike Okri and Blackky are also amongst the proud veterans. Meanwhile, A-List crowd pleasers scheduled to perform on Saturday at The Headies include Grammy nominee Femi Kuti , Bez, Timi Dakolo and Styl Plus. Others are Praiz, Chuddy K, Davido, Eva Alordiah and Brymo. Dammy Krane and Burnaboy, winners of The Headies Rookies Competition 2012, will also be performing at the glamorous ceremony.

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Nike, RadioShack, and others consider business and marketing ...

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Nike and Oakley stuck with Lance Armstrong through his battle with cancer in 1996, when much of the sporting world considered him damaged goods. But for companies like Nike and Trek Bicycles, the mountain evidence the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency amassed against the former world champion was too much, and according to one sports marketing expert, Armstrong?s fall from grace will be the sharpest decline in modern sports history.

On Wednesday, Nike terminated its contract and its 16-year relationship with Armstrong. The move comes as an abrupt about-face from Nike?s stance just six days prior, when the athletic apparel manufacturer issued a statement saying that, ?Nike plans to support Lance and the Lance Armstrong Foundation.? In dropping the former world champion, Nike led RadioShack, Giro, Trek, Honey Stinger and Anheuser-Busch in what is already a growing exodus of corporate partners away from the Armstrong name.

And a name, according to Evan Morgenstein, president and CEO of PMG Sports, is ?the only thing [an athlete] can market in this world.?

Now, Morgenstein said, Nike ?absolutely didn?t believe the story that they had heard previously. Then again, it could have been business factors also.?

Morgenstein, whose sports management group focuses on the brand management of Olympic athletes, told VeloNews on Wednesday that, ?What you?re going to see is the greatest collapse by an American icon, sports or otherwise, in history.?

Brand managers at Nike, who produced the Livestrong apparel and whose logo had adorned Armstrong?s one-off cycling shoes, would have had ?an absolute nightmare? dealing with the collapse of the Armstrong brand, Morgenstein said: ?Just take it from a business perspective first, how much inventory are they going to have to liquidate now, or how much of it?s coming back to their warehouses from their retailers??

These retailers, Morgenstein said, ?with tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars of merchandise, saying ?we?re sending it back,? because [the merchandise is] not moving,? must, like Nike, face the business consequences of the fact that ?the public doesn?t believe [Armstrong] anymore.?

In addition to the business concerns, Morgenstein said, Nike ? like Armstrong throughout his Tour-winning years, when he assured the sporting public that his victories were achieved drug-free ? ?probably had, at some level, reassured over and over again their retail partners that there?s smoke but no fire. And so now, these retailers? they have to deal with the public rebuke of someone, for all intents and purposes, that?s no different than (Olympic medalist and drug cheat) Marion Jones.?

Armstrong, however, ?is so much bigger of a global icon, with so much more to risk,? he added. ?All these companies (that) have spent money associated with him, probably add up to be about a billion dollars.?

Companies like Nike and Trek Bicycles continued to back Armstrong, despite serious personal red flags, according to Morgenstein, pointing to ?the fact that [Armstrong] had multiple wives, they?ve overlooked a lot of things that maybe some other people would have been held to? This is a company that stuck with Kobe Bryant after what happened in Colorado (Bryant was accused of rape in 2003), Michael Vick going to jail (for illegally organizing and gambling on dog fighting), Tiger Woods in a global scandal (Woods admitted to being a serial cheater on his wife), and they stuck with those three. Lance Armstrong, they dumped.?

David Carter, a sports business professor at the University of Southern California and executive director of USC?s Sports Business Institute said Nike could no longer afford to stand by Armstrong as it had other disgraced icons.

?I think because his indiscretion cut to the very heart of competition in sport, if he lacks that kind of integrity there?s no way a company like Nike can tolerate that,? Carter said. ?The other guys? problems were off the field of play.?

As both an athlete and as a marketable brand, Morgenstein said, ?How you remember Lance Armstrong was like Paul Bunion. And now, how you think of Lance Armstrong, is like Al Capone.?

Carter noted that a surprising number of disgraced athletes manage to rehabilitate themselves in the eyes of fans and sponsors. Armstrong might be different, not only because he was already retired from top-flight cycling when he was banned, but also because he has never admitted any wrongdoing.

?The only way they come back is when they take personal responsibility and accountability for what they?ve done,? Carter said. ?He has not taken responsibility.?

With the fallout from USADA?s case against Armstrong mounting day-by-day, the extent of the business and marketing consequences is sure to grow.

Rebecca Bryan and Agence France Presse contributed to this report.

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Here come the Windows 8 PCs

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Windows 8 is just around the corner, but if you want to get the most out of it, you'll probably want a touch-capable PC. Sure, you could go with?Microsoft's own?Surface tablets, but Sony, Dell and other makers of traditional PCs might have something to say about that. Their latest crop of PCs were built with the new Windows in mind, and they're all about giving you the convenience of a tablet without losing the power of a laptop.

All the major brands are embracing Windows 8's touch-focused interface with designs that range from straight-up tablets to convertible Ultrabooks (for our purposes, thin and light PCs that don't compromise on specs) to all-in-one PCs with touchscreens. Here are a few you'll be able to choose from:

Dell?has its head-turning XPS 12 Convertible (shown up top), which lets the screen spin on a frame to make it into either a laptop or tablet, depending on the situation. The 12.5-in. screen is 1080p and it's got a decent Core i5 processor and plenty of RAM. At $1,200 and up it's something of a luxury item, though.

Dell's main ultrabook offering, the XPS 13, was recently updated with a new?Intel Ivy Bridge processor. The design might not be as striking as the XPS 12, but it's aluminum and carbon fiber, so it'll be light and strong. It's still not a budget option, though, at $1,000 to start.

Sony?takes a different approach to the convertible, with a sliding design that, according to various hands-on previews, is more solid than it looks (and the 11.6-in. 1080p screens should be very?sharp). The Vaio Duo 11 also recently had an update to the latest line of Intel processors, though you may want to upgrade from the default Core i3. And the fact is that this experimental?form factor isn't for everyone, so be sure to try it before you buy it. Sony's convertible starts just below Dell's, at $1,100.

In addition to sleek notebooks, Sony also has an interesting in-betweener called the Tap20. Its 20-in. screen, propped up on its kickstand, could be a serviceable desktop but also small enough to carry elsewhere or?use as a portable device, for watching a movie in bed or the like (though at 11 pounds you may not want it on your lap). Unfortunately,?it's a bit lacking inside: A slow 5400RPM hard drive and low-voltage mobile CPU mean it probably won't be your main?PC ? but it may excel as a living room or kitchen accessory.

Acer has upgraded much of its laptop line with touchscreens, and its flagship S7 series also has a Gorilla Glass top ? which is good if it stays intact, but as the iPhone has shown, even Gorilla Glass can be broken. The 13-in. and 15-in. versions (both 1080p) have hot specs, but they aren't cheap, at $1,200 and $1,400. If you don't mind an extra millimeter or two of thickness, the S5 series might present a better value.

Then there are the W700 and W510 (above), a pair of tablets that are intended to live a double life with docks that make them more like full-fledged computers. The W700 slots into a cradle that will charge it and add USB ports, and the W510 clicks into the top of a keyboard dock. They've both got mid-range specs, and mid-range prices: The W700 will be $800, and the W510 $700.

Lenovo takes a more laptop-centric approach; its IdeaPad Yoga looks like a normal thin laptop but?exhibits its flexibility by allowing the screen to tilt so far back that it becomes the front. There are 11-in. and 13-in. versions, at $800 and $1,100 respectively.

Lenovo's ThinkPad Twist is also a touchscreen?permanently attached to a keyboard, but as the name suggests, the screen swivels around and lays down flat on the keyboard, as other ThinkPads have done before. This 12.5-in. version starts at $850, which gives you a little room to upgrade before you hit that critical thousand dollar mark.

Asus and Samsung are both bringing 4G LTE-connected tablets to AT&T, both of which can be combined with a keyboard for that laptop-esque experience. The VivoTab RT from Asus is similar to?Microsoft's?first Surface tablet in that it?runs Windows RT, the version of the?OS made for mobile?ARM processors. At $600, it's a more budget option, with a lower-resolution (1366x768) 10.1-inch screen, a powerful but aging processor, and only 2GB of RAM.

The Samsung ATIV line starts with the Tab, then as you add more features, the SmartPC and SmartPC Pro. The Tab is similar to the Asus device above: It runs Windows 8 RT and has a 10.1-inch screen and modest ARM processor. The SmartPC, true to its name, runs the full PC version of Windows 8, and gains a bigger screen, 1.5GHz Intel processor and a few other features. The Pro version ups the resolution to 1080p and makes more storage and faster processors available.

Where is perennial PC market leader?HP?in this roundup? As it turns out, they're mostly avoiding this first phase of exotic Windows 8 PCs. Their only real contribution is the business-oriented ElitePad 600, which doesn't really compare favorably with anything listed here.

Lastly, you could do a lot worse than Microsoft's sleek, internally?designed Surface?devices. The great looks, unobtrusive kickstand and sweet Touch Cover?keyboard are extremely tempting, although at the moment we only know the pricing and availability for the lower-end ARM-based Surface?RT model.?It starts at $500 for the 32GB version, but you have to pay $100?extra to get it bundled with that very?necessary keyboard. The Pro version of the Surface, due in three months, will be more expensive but very capable, likely comparable to most machines above.?Pricing for that?should be announced in the next week or so.

Most of these devices aren't set for release until Oct. 26, so look for reviews around then. Prices may change as well, and of course Black Friday is just around the corner, so it may be worth waiting a month?to see if your favorite electronics retailer puts a few of these on sale.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC?News Digital. His personal website is?coldewey.cc.

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Why natural gas isn't likely to solve our energy woes

People who are counting on natural gas to solve the world?s energy problems are 'counting their chickens before they are hatched,' Tverberg writes.?Natural gas requires a lot of infrastructure and up-front costs to obtain satisfactory results.

By Gail Tverberg,?Guest blogger / October 17, 2012

In this November 2011 file photo, a large drilling rig sits outside the Covelli Center in Youngstown, Ohio during a natural gas conference at the center. It is hard to imagine a society powered only by natural gas, Tverberg writes, because of the difficulties in using it, and the major changes required to use natural gas exclusively.

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But I think that people who are counting on natural gas to solve the world?s energy problems are ?counting their chickens before they are hatched?. Natural gas is a fuel that requires a lot of infrastructure in order for anything to ?happen?. As a result, it needs a lot of up-front investment, and several years time delay. It also needs changes on the consumption side (requiring further investment) that will allow this natural gas to be used. If the cost is higher than competing fuels, this becomes a problem as well.?

Nissan to offer steer-by-wire systems in some Infiniti cars

We're all at least somewhat familiar with fly-by-wire, the electronic piloting system found in most modern planes. Nissan wants to bring the same tech to cars, leaving behind the purely mechanical solutions currently used to take turns in your four-wheeler. The first automobiles to come equipped with steer-by-wire would be luxury sedans from Infiniti. Other companies have incorporated the tech into concept vehicles, but Nissan would be the first to stick it in a production model. The company plans to have the first drive-by-wire cars in consumer garages by the end of next year, with an eye towards a future in which you drive from the back seat using a joystick. Of course, the lack of direct feedback as your tires turn over the road may lead some to cling tight to their mechanical steering apparatus, though, moving to a digital steering system should lead to better handling vehicles.

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When leaving your wealth to your sister's sons makes sense

ScienceDaily (Oct. 16, 2012) ? To whom a man's possessions go when he dies is both a matter of cultural norm and evolutionary advantage.

In most human societies, men pass on their worldly goods to their wife's children. But in about 10 percent of societies, men inexplicably transfer their wealth to their sister's sons -- what's called "mother's brother-sister's son" inheritance. A new study on this unusual form of matrilineal inheritance by Santa Fe Institute reseacher Laura Fortunato has produced insights into this practice.

Her findings appear October 17 in the online edition of Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

"Matrilineal inheritance is puzzling for anthropologists because it causes tension for a man caught between his sisters and wife," explains Fortunato, who has used game theory to study mother's brother-sister's son inheritance. "From an evolutionary perspective it's also puzzling because you expect an individual to invest in his closest relatives -- usually the individual's own children."

For decades research on the practice of matrilineal inheritance focused on the probabilities of a man being the biological father of his wife's children -- probabilities that lie on a sliding scale depending on the rate of promiscuity or whether polyandrous marriage (when a woman takes two or more husbands) is practiced.

Of special interest has been the probability value below which man is more closely related to his sister's children than to his wife's children. Below this "paternity threshold" a man is better off investing in his sister's offspring, who are sure to be blood relatives, than his own wife's children.

In her work modeling the evolutionary payoffs of marriage and inheritance strategies, Fortunato looked beyond the paternity threshold to see, among other things, what payoffs there were for men and women in different marital situations -- including polygamy.

"What emerges is quite interesting," says Fortunato. "Where inheritance is matrilineal, a man with multiple wives 'wins' over a man with a single wife." That's because wives have brothers, and those brothers will pass on their wealth to the husband's sons. So more wives means more brothers-in-laws to invest in your sons.

The model also shows an effect for women with multiple husbands. The husband of a woman with multiple husbands is unsure of his paternity, so he may be better off investing in his sister's offspring.

"A woman does not benefit from multiple husbands where inheritance is matrilineal, however," Fortunato explains, "because her husbands will invest in their sisters' kids." Family structure determines how societies handle relatedness and reproduction issues, Fortunato says. Understanding these practices and their evolutionary implications is a prerequisite for a theory of human behavior.

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Bigfoot research gets lift from stealth airship

Past expeditions to find conclusive evidence for the existence of Bigfoot have at least two things in common: They were unsuccessful, and they were ground-based.

That's why the Falcon Project will make history regardless of whether it achieves its goal of capturing "clear, steady film evidence of a Hominoid in its natural habitat."

Using a 45-foot-long, camera-mounted, remote-controlled airship, project founder William Barnes plans to work with a team that includes one scientist to conduct nighttime flyovers of reported Bigfoot hotspots around the United States.

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Barnes, a gold dredger whose current endeavor was inspired by an alleged encounter with a Bigfoot-like creature he claims to have had in 1997, thinks the helium-filled craft will allow his team to succeed where others have failed due to its unprecedented advantages in two key areas: stealth and maneuverability.

The camera aboard the craft can film in infrared, thermal imaging and high definition. And as the ship scans densely wooded regions from a penetrating vantage, it will never spook a potential subject with a broken twig or run out of breath in a one-sided foot race, Barnes believes. [ Want to Shoot Bigfoot? It's Legal in Texas ]

Thanks to its gyroscopically stabilized housing, the ship's camera is protected against a common shortcoming of purported video footage of quasi-mythical creatures: a suspiciously shaky image.

While there has never been any definitive evidence suggesting that giant bipedal apes roam the wilds of North America largely undetected, the Falcon Project does have a bona fide scientist as its principal investigator.

Jeff Meldrum, a professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University, is the rare academic who entertains and actively investigates the possibility that Bigfoot, or something like it, exists.

"Even if definitive DNA sequence data point to the existence of a novel species, it will not suddenly become easy to study such a rare and elusive primate in the field. That's where the Falcon Project comes in," said Meldrum.

In 2011, Meldrum was invited to take part in a high-profile Russian expedition to find that country's brand of unverified wildman, the yeti. The expedition garnered international attention when researchers claimed to have found "indisputable proof" of the yeti, but Meldrum concluded the entire expedition seemed to be an orchestrated publicity stunt, with all of the supposed evidence planted in advance, according to AOL.com.

The Falcon Project's custom-built airship, called the Aurora Mk II, is being constructed by Canada-based Remote Aerial Tripods Inc., and is expected to be completed in the spring, according to tech website Gizmag.

Meldrum gives more credibility to Bigfoot's existence than most scientists, but a 2012 public opinion poll found that about a third of Americans believe the creature is probably real.

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Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49424363/ns/technology_and_science-science/

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Teen to stand trial in theft of chef's Lamborghini

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) ? A California teen accused of stealing a celebrity chef's Lamborghini and later shooting at a couple will have to stand trial on a number of charges, including attempted murder.

A judge ruled Monday that there is enough evidence against 18-year-old Max Wade to try him on charges including attempted murder and auto theft.

Wade is accused of stealing chef Guy Fieri's $220,000 Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder from a San Francisco dealership, where it had been brought for repairs, in March 2011.

Authorities say Wade later opened fire on an 18-year-old woman and her boyfriend in Mill Valley because the woman had rejected him.

Prosecutors are expected to file additional charges over allegations that Wade pulled out a gun when deputies tried to arrest him in April.

Wade has pleaded not guilty.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/teen-stand-trial-theft-chefs-lamborghini-051637273.html

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Is Tammy Baldwin Anti-Israel?

"Thompson called Baldwin's explanation (about Iran sanction votes) ? 'the lamest excuse I've ever heard' and then went on to call her 'anti-Jewish.'.....'she's anti-Israel' ?he clarified."(1)

Calling Baldwin, who was raised by her Jewish ?maternal ?grandfather ?UW Prof. David Green, ? "anti-Jewish" is bizarre, especially since Thompson himself was ?lambasted in 2007 ?for saying that "earning money was ?a Jewish tradition." ?But ?is he right in calling his Democratic opponent "anti-Israel?"

The Milwaukee Jewish Community Relations Council ?tried to arrange a debate between the senate candidates, but ?their schedules conflicted, so each candidate was questioned separately at the Jewish Community Center (JCC). ?Thompson appeared October 7 and Baldwin October 14. ?I wish that they had appeared together if only so that Tommy could have made that nasty charge right to her face, if he would have dared to.

Tammy Baldwin, who represents the Madison area in Congress, told ?the ?JCC audience that she ?is a strong supporter of ?Israel's security. ?She voted against some sanctions on Iran when he she hoped that ?the Ahmadinejad government would fall, but now ?supports crippling trade and financial sanctions. ?Baldwin favors the? "Two State Solution", which entails the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank. ?She wants the Arab state to be "de-militarized", which could be a hard sell ? for Palestinian leaders. ?The Congresswoman estimated that she voted for about ?$35 billion in both economic and military aid to Israel ?in her 14 years in the House.

So why do Thompson (and some Jews) says she is "anti-Israel?" ?Every ?year or so ?resolutions are introduced in the House that express the "sense of Congress" ?about various foreign policy issues, including the Middle ?East. ?Besides voting against ?the Iran sanctions some ?years ago, she ?voted against some ?pro-Israel ?resolutions and abstained on some others. ?In my view, she cast some ultra-liberal votes as the representative of an ultra-liberal ?constituency in Madison. ?Now that she is running statewide, she has modified her views to appeal to a broader constituency. ( Mitt Romney did likewise ?when he switched from running in Massachusetts to running ?nationwide for President.) ?In other words, she is a politician.

If your criterion is that casting even one vote against a pro-Israel resolution ?makes ?a member of Congress "anti-Israel", no matter how the congressperson voted on ? aid to Israel ?or other bills, then Baldwin is ?in that category. ?But I would reserve that term for members of Congress ?like ex-Rep. Cynthia ?McKinney or Rep. Ron Paul, who consistently speak and vote against Israel's ?interests.??

If it were fair to label Tammy Baldwin "anti-Israel," ?I doubt that Senator Herb Kohl, a former leader of ?the Wisconsin Israel Bond Committee and of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation, would have ?asked her to ?run for his seat. ?

Gerald S Glazer

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(1) Dan Bice in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, ?October 15, 2012, page 2A ?(No Quarter Column)?

Source: http://onmilwaukee.com/myOMC/blog/show/6219

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