Iranian Hackers Are Becoming a Real Pain

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Google Actually Considered Sending Felix Baumgartner To Space With Google Glass

According to a conversation on Twitter between Danny Sullivan and a member of YouTube staff, Google considered sending Felix Baumgartner to space for his jump with a pair of Google Glass. That would have been awesome.

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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel humbly congratulated himself Wednesday for submitting a balanced budget. He also gave city taxpayers an early Halloween gift by terrifying them with the threat of taxes doubling to cover $1.2 billion in new pension costs.

Avaya launches Video Portfolio at Gitex 2012 | Avaya | AMEinfo.com

Using the five-day technology event as a platform to focus on the top trends affecting regional organizations, Avaya will showcase its solutions for Cloud and Virtualization, 'bring your own device' 'BYOD', Social Media, contact centers and Mobility with a particular emphasis on Video Collaboration, connecting customers, partners, and staff together on their device of choice.

Avaya will also be demonstrating its latest solutions offered to SME's throughout the Middle East, Africa and Turkey.

Experts will be on hand throughout Gitex to demonstrate how Avaya can help companies of all sizes enhance their business through video collaboration to provide a simple and collective user experience on any device.

As cost pressures continue to increase, businesses throughout the Middle East are considering video solutions as a viable option to decrease cost of travel while harnessing the productivity benefits of video communication.

Avaya Video Conferencing removes the barriers of distance, helping companies become more effective whether their employees are working from their desktop, conference room, or mobile device.

Avaya offers high-definition video conferencing and collaboration that includes clients for desktops and mobile devices, as well as Telepresence room systems built on an interoperable and scalable infrastructure.

Avaya's innovative networking will also be a hot topic at Gitex this year, including application-ready networking that embraces video, mobility and BYOD. Avaya Networking provides advanced enterprise-class reliability, performance, and security that organizations throughout the Middle East depend on to run their businesses.

Customers throughout the region look to Avaya because of the company's commitment to provide a network that is always-on, resulting in an increase in an organization's resiliency, efficiency, and scalability, providing better performance than competitors.

During its eighth year at Gitex, Avaya is committed to bringing The Power of We to every customer, helping businesses drive faster collaboration, make smarter decisions and experience better business results.

Avaya will be at this year's Gitex in Zaabeel Hall Z-C20, showcasing a range of services for all sectors, and companies of all sizes.

"Almost every company visiting Gitex 2012 - regardless of size or industry -- needs a highly flexible strategy which reflects current trends while enhancing communication and collaboration - this is exactly what Avaya provides. Our innovative solutions allow organizations to enable collaboration to staff on the device of choice without sacrificing security, listen to their customers on social media and transform it into positive conversations, as well as bring the power of video conferencing with a lower total cost of ownership." said Nidal Abou-Ltaif, VP of Middle East, Africa & Turkey, Avaya.

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kudos laetitia: Posts from Womens-Interests:Beauty-Products ...

We offer Wholesale Beauty Products, Cosmetology Supplies, Professional Beauty Supplies, Food and Drink supplies, wholesale grocery online through our e-supermarket. Beauty products include-Aromatherapy supplies, skincare, haircare, hydrosols, Essential Oils, bath and shower products,Naturals etc. Gauri's Wholesale Boutique online offers the latest trends in Apparel, Fashion and Accessories sector. We have highly discounted offers for Wholesale Fashion clothing. We specialize in Ladies Fashion, Ladies Wear, Ladies Accessories and Ethnic clothing, embroidered suits, ethnic handicrafts, Stoles, scarves, bandanas, folklore jewelry and a range of cheap knives for self defense.

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Health News and Views - British Actress's Shocking Weight Loss ...

Antonia Campbell-Hughes attends a premiere on October 10, 2012 in London, England.

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The famous acting coach Constantin Stanislavski once said, ?There are no small parts, only small actors.?

Northern Irish actress Antonia Campbell-Hughes has become the literal embodiment of this quote by transforming her naturally slender body into a gaunt frame for an upcoming movie role as an Austrian kidnapping victim.

In doing so, she joins the list of incredibly shrinking actors and actresses, including Natalie Portman, Matthew McConaughey, and Christian Bale, who have shed sometimes shocking amounts of weight for roles.

This begs the question: Is extreme weight loss for the sake of a movie part good acting or just a plain bad idea? And what sort of message does it telegraph to an audience of impressionable young people, many of whom are already weight-obsessed?

Antonia Campbell-Hughes attends an afterparty on October 20, 2009 in London, England.

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Jennifer Thomas, Ph.D., the assistant director of the eating disorders clinical and research program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, worries that Campbell-Hughes? drastic downsizing may be viewed as desirable by some women, especially those who are predisposed to an eating disorder.

?Girls and women could easily look at her picture and think, ?maybe I should look like that,?? says Thomas, who hasn?t met the actress.

Thomas says that many of her patients with anorexia and bulimia do a constant scan of the media in search of quick fix weight loss tips. If actors reveal the specifics of how they whittled down to such a dangerously low weight, vulnerable women are likely to try the same tactics even if they are obviously unrealistic or unsafe.

When Beyonc? went on a 2-week Master Cleanse to lose 20 pounds for her role in the move Dream Girls in 2006, juice fasting quickly became all the rage despite being condemned by medical experts. Portman?s gaunt Black Swan figure inspired a spate of magazine articles and blogs extolling the virtues of her punishing diet and exercise program?though she herself admitted the regimen made her feel like she was going to die at times.

Shedding too much body fat can increase the risk of numerous health issues, says Thomas, such as loss of periods, fatigue, anemia, hair loss, and a weakened immune system. Even if actors gain the weight back, it can cause long term problems such as bone loss and infertility.

And people who diet down for a role may have a tough time snapping out of anorexic-mode, says Thomas. (Tracey Gold, the Growing Pains actress who nearly died from anorexia, was on a medically supervised weight-loss plan before becoming dangerously thin.)

So it seems that actors who emaciate themselves for a role?whether on their own or due to pressure from a director, producer, or company making a movie?aren?t?doing themselves or anyone else any favors. I?m all for realism on the big screen, but there should be a point where the responsibility to set a healthy example, and an actor?s personal health, outweighs the need to portray a super skinny character.

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Source: http://news.health.com/2012/10/12/british-actresss-shocking-weight-loss-how-skinny-is-too-skinny-for-a-role/

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Locally Grown Fall Market Produce - FitFactor

Fall, in many parts of the US, is the last opportunity to get fresh, nutritious and locally grown produce until the spring rains roll around.? Farm to table fresh produce is a great way to get low cost, healthy fruits and vegetables onto your plate while supporting your local growers.? Farmers markets and produce stands make it easy to shop and you know where the food comes from.? Here is a look at what is available this time of year in your area:

Northwestern United States: apples, cabbage ,kiwi, pumpkins ,spinach, winter squash, parsnips, brussel sprouts, artichokes, beets, carrots, eggplant, a variety of leafy greens/lettuce, leeks, garlic, basil, celery.

Midwest United States:? apples, winter squash, pumpkins, beets, broccoli, turnips, spinach, carrots, cauliflower, garlic, onions, variety of leafy greens/lettuce, kohlrabi, mushrooms, potatoes, parsnips, cabbage, celery, brussel sprouts.

Southern United States:? Sweet potatoes, okra, pecans, apples, cabbage, Kale, variety of leafy greens/lettuce, winter squash, tomatillos.

Southwestern United States: all of the Southern produce plus: clementines, dates, figs, key limes, limes, tomatoes.

Northeastern United States: ?apples, beets, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, winter squash, turnips, cauliflower, celery, chard, pumpkins, rutabagas, peppers, potatoes, cranberries, cucumbers, eggplant, garlic, peas, mushrooms, leeks, grapes, kale.

A healthy diet includes the essential nutrients that help to reduce your risk of developing chronic diseases, such as heart disease, hypertension (high blood pressure), and diabetes. Yet a healthy diet does not provide too many calories, so you can control your weight and avoid obesity and its related health problems. The reason it is important to eat healthy if you have a bleeding disorder is because healthy nutrients can help you build strong muscle, keep your bones strong and healthy, help you feel better faster if you have a bleed or get sick.? By adding a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables to your meal, you are providing your body with the important vitamins and minerals it needs to stay well.? Visit a fall market in your area.? The harvest awaits you!

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It Could Soon Be Illegal To Resell Your iPhone, Car, or Family ...

Posted by Alcyone _Featured_, Economy Saturday, October 13th, 2012

By?Jennifer Waters?|?MarketWatch

Tucked into the U.S. Supreme Court?s agenda this fall is a little-known case that could upend your ability to resell everything from your grandmother?s antique furniture to your iPhone 4.

At issue in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons is the first-sale doctrine in copyright law, which allows you to buy and then sell things like electronics, books, artwork and furniture, as well as CDs and DVDs, without getting permission from the copyright holder of those products.

Under the doctrine, which the Supreme Court has recognized since 1908, you can resell your stuff without worry because the copyright holder only had control over the first sale.

Put simply, though Apple Inc.?AAPL?+0.26%?has the copyright on the iPhone and Mark Owen has it on the book ?No Easy Day,? you can still sell your copies to whomever you please whenever you want without retribution.

That?s being challenged now for products that are made abroad, and if the Supreme Court upholds an appellate court ruling, it would mean that the copyright holders of anything you own that has been made in China, Japan or Europe, for example, would have to give you permission to sell it.

?It means that it?s harder for consumers to buy used products and harder for them to sell them,? said Jonathan Band, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, who filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries and the Association for Research Libraries. ?This has huge consumer impact on all consumer groups.?

Another likely result is that it would hit you financially because the copyright holder would now want a piece of that sale.

It could be your personal electronic devices or the family jewels that have been passed down from your great-grandparents who immigrated from Spain. It could be a book that was written by an American writer but printed and bound overseas, or an Italian painter?s artwork.

There are implications for a variety of wide-ranging U.S. entities, including libraries, musicians, museums and even resale juggernauts eBay Inc.?EBAY?+0.76%??and Craigslist. U.S. libraries, for example, carry some 200 million books from foreign publishers.

?It would be absurd to say anything manufactured abroad can?t be bought or sold here,? said Marvin Ammori, a First Amendment lawyer and Schwartz Fellow at the New American Foundation who specializes in technology issues.

The case stems from Supap Kirtsaeng?s college experience. A native of Thailand, Kirtsaeng came to America in 1997 to study at Cornell University. When he discovered that his textbooks, produced by Wiley, were substantially cheaper to buy in Thailand than they were in Ithaca, N.Y., he rallied his Thai relatives to buy the books and ship them to him in the United States.

He then sold them on eBay, making upward of $1.2 million, according to court documents.

Wiley, which admitted that it charged less for books sold abroad than it did in the United States, sued him for copyright infringement. Kirtsaeng countered with the first-sale doctrine.

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Strong economic forecast for Houma-Thibodaux | NOLA.com

THIBODAUX -- An economic expert foresees strong growth in the Lafayette and Houma-Thibodaux areas over the next two years.

Loren Scott, a retired LSU economics professor, outlined his projections Thursday during a presentation in Thibodaux.

The Daily Comet reports that the forecasts are part of the "Louisiana Economic Outlook: 2013 and 2014," prepared by Scott and his colleagues.

Scott's forecast estimates Louisiana will reach 1.9 million jobs by the end of 2012 with 27,500 additional jobs in 2014.

Lafayette is projected to lead the state with a 6.9 percent increase in jobs over the two-year period. Houma is projected to receive a 6.2 percent gain; Lake Charles, 5.7 percent; Alexandria, 2.7 percent; Baton Rouge, 2.4 percent; Monroe and Shreveport, each 0.8 percent; and New Orleans, 0.6 percent.

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Favorites Emerge in the New Moon Race

Twenty-five teams are officially in the running for the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP), the $30 million prize for soft-landing a privately funded unmanned spacecraft on the moon. As the 2015 deadline approaches, however, it has become clear which teams are the early leaders in the chase to pull off a feat achieved only by two world superpowers, and not since the 1970s.

"This is really a predictable watershed year for the competition," says Bob Richards, co-founder and CEO of Moon Express, one of the top contenders in the competition. Richards spoke to PM by phone as he drove to his team's headquarters at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Bay Area. A rocket launch must be booked two years in advance, according to Richards, "so if you don't have a launch contract 24 months before the expiry of the prize, you're just not credible."

Richards is coy about the contract status of Moon Express. "We have launch arrangements, but we can't disclose or discuss them at this time," he says. But just as important as sealing the deal on a launch contract to be consummated years from now is the development of the lander hardware and software?that's what this competition is all about. "You can buy everything you need to get 249,999 miles" of the quarter-million-mile distance from the Earth to the surface of the moon, Richards says. It's that last mile that counts. "What you can't buy is the lander system itself that does the final braking and does the landing. That doesn't exist."

Moon Express is building a lander that will fire up its descent and landing rockets to "hop" (rather than roll) the required 500 meters across the lunar surface to qualify for the GLXP win. Richards further envisions numerous "microhoppers" attached like barnacles to the outside of the main vehicle that would depart on their own individual missions after landing on the moon.

Another top competitor for the X Prize is Astrobotic Technology, based at Carnegie Mellon University. That team says it has a launch contract with SpaceX for a ride on the Falcon 9 rocket. And this week, Astrobotic announced that it had completed a fully working prototype for its Polaris moon rover. The team is also working on its Griffin spacecraft from which the rover will descend on a ramp to the lunar surface.

The solar-powered Polaris rover is designed to operate in the indirect sunlight near the moon's north pole, where it will prospect for water ice. "It is the first rover developed specifically for drilling lunar ice," William "Red" Whittaker, Astrobotic's CEO and CMU robotics professor, said in a statement.

The Lunar X Prize rules provide for a $1 million bonus for finding an ice deposit on the moon. Ice is thought to exist in quantity in permanently shadowed craters at lunar poles. Its discovery would prove invaluable for any long-term operations on the moon, as water can be used for life support and also broken down into its constituent elements of hydrogen and oxygen for use as rocket fuel.

Of the 23 other teams in the competition, only one other group claims to have made launch arrangements. The Barcelona Moon Team said in August that it had secured a launch aboard a Chinese Long March 2C rocket. "Through this launch service contract, Barcelona Moon Team consolidates itself at the head of the teams participating in the competition, since securing the launcher is half the importance of the mission," team leader Xavier Claramunt said in a statement. Barcelona team members could not be reached for comment in time for this article. Like Astrobotic, the Barcelona Moon Team plans to send a wheeled rover to the lunar surface aboard a separate landing craft.

The three teams?Moon Express, Astrobotic, and Barcelona Moon Team?have a long view in mind. All plan to sell commercial moon landing services to scientific researchers and anyone else who wants to put a payload on the moon. Richards calls it a condominium approach. In Moon Express's case, he says, 50 kilograms of the total 150-kg weight of the craft will be parceled out for discrete payloads. Astrobotic offers a similar service, charging up to $2 million per kilogram of payload aboard its lander or rover.

Richards refers to Google, which is fronting the prize money, as just the anchor customer for his company, claiming that he already has scientific researchers and other customers lined up for lunar landing services. With backing from co-founder Naveen Jain and other wealthy individuals, the company aims to develop the technology for landing commercial payloads on the moon and continuing on with or without Google's help.

Less flush but no less technically adroit, Astrobotic seems to have set its sights more firmly on winning not just the $20 million first prize but also as many of the five $1 million bonus prizes as possible. Those prizes are for, in addition to finding water, landing near a historic artifact such as an Apollo moon lander; surviving the 14-day lunar night; traveling more than 5 kilometers over the surface; and promoting ethnic and other kinds of diversity in the field of space exploration. (A second-place team stand to win $5 million, making the total prize purse $30 million).

With business plans in place to keep the winning team flying even after a GLXP win, the competition may serve its purpose even if the prize isn't claimed by the deadline: jump-starting a new capability for researchers and other potential buyers of lunar landing services.

Michael Belfiore is the author of Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space and is a frequent PM contributor.

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When galaxies eat galaxies: Gravity lenses suggest big collisions make galaxies denser

ScienceDaily (Oct. 12, 2012) ? Using gravitational "lenses" in space, University of Utah astronomers discovered that the centers of the biggest galaxies are growing denser -- evidence of repeated collisions and mergers by massive galaxies with 100 billion stars.

"We found that during the last 6 billion years, the matter that makes up massive elliptical galaxies is getting more concentrated toward the centers of those galaxies. This is evidence that big galaxies are crashing into other big galaxies to make even bigger galaxies," says astronomer Adam Bolton, principal author of the new study.

"Most recent studies have indicated that these massive galaxies primarily grow by eating lots of smaller galaxies," he adds. "We're suggesting that major collisions between massive galaxies are just as important as those many small snacks."

The new study -- published recently in The Astrophysical Journal -- was conducted by Bolton's team from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III using the survey's 2.5-meter optical telescope at Apache Point, N.M., and the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.

The telescopes were used to observe and analyze 79 "gravitational lenses," which are galaxies between Earth and more distant galaxies. A lens galaxy's gravity bends light from a more distant galaxy, creating a ring or partial ring of light around the lens galaxy.

The size of the ring was used to determine the mass of each lens galaxy, and the speed of stars was used to calculate the concentration of mass in each lens galaxy.

Bolton conducted the study with three other University of Utah astronomers -- postdoctoral researcher Joel Brownstein, graduate student Yiping Shu and undergraduate Ryan Arneson -- and with these members of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Christopher Kochanek, Ohio State University; David Schlegel, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Daniel Eisenstein, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; David Wake, Yale University; Natalia Connolly, Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y.; Claudia Maraston, University of Portsmouth, U.K.; and Benjamin Weaver, New York University.

Big Meals and Snacks for Massive Elliptical Galaxies

The new study deals with the biggest, most massive kind of galaxies, known as massive elliptical galaxies, which each contain about 100 billion stars. Counting unseen "dark matter," they contain the mass of 1 trillion stars like our sun.

"They are the end products of all the collisions and mergers of previous generations of galaxies," perhaps hundreds of collisions," Bolton says.

Despite recent evidence from other studies that massive elliptical galaxies grow by eating much smaller galaxies, Bolton's previous computer simulations showed that collisions between large galaxies are the only galaxy mergers that lead, over time, to increased mass density on the center of massive elliptical galaxies.

When a small galaxy merges with a larger one, the pattern is different. The smaller galaxy is ripped apart by gravity from the larger galaxy. Stars from the smaller galaxy remain near the outskirts -- not the center -- of the larger galaxy.

"But if you have two roughly comparable galaxies and they are on a collision course, each one penetrates more toward the center of the other, so more mass ends up in the center," Bolton says.

Other recent studies indicate stars are spread more widely within galaxies over time, supporting the idea that massive galaxies snack on much smaller ones.

"We're finding galaxies are getting more concentrated in their mass over time even though they are getting less concentrated in the light they emit," Bolton says.

He believes large galaxy collisions explain the growing mass concentration, while galaxies gobbling smaller galaxies explain more starlight away from galactic centers.

"Both processes are important to explain the overall picture," Bolton says. "The way the starlight evolves cannot be explained by the big collisions, so we really need both kinds of collisions, major and minor -- a few big ones and a lot of small ones."

The new study also suggests the collisions between large galaxies are "dry collisions" -- meaning the colliding galaxies lack large amounts of gas because most of the gas already has congealed to form stars -- and that the colliding galaxies hit each other "off axis" or with what Bolton calls "glancing blows" rather than head-on.

Sloan Meets Hubble: How the Study Was Conducted

The University of Utah joined the third phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, known as SDSS-III, in 2008. It involves about 20 research institutions around the world. The project, which continues until 2014, is a major international effort to map the heavens as a way to search for giant planets in other solar systems, study the origin of galaxies and expansion of the universe, and probe the mysterious dark matter and dark energy that make up most of the universe.

Bolton says his new study was "almost gravy" that accompanied an SDSS-III project named BOSS, for Baryon Oscillation Spectrographic Survey. BOSS is measuring the history of the universe's expansion with unprecedented precision. That allows scientists to study the dark energy that accelerates expansion of the universe. The universe is believed to be made of only 4 percent regular matter, 24 percent unseen "dark matter" and 72 percent yet-unexplained dark energy.

During BOSS' study of galaxies, computer analysis of light spectra emitted by galaxies revealed dozens of gravitational lenses, which were discovered because the signatures of two different galaxies are lined up.

Bolton's new study involved 79 gravitational lenses observed by two surveys:

- The Sloan Survey and the Hubble Space Telescope collected images and emitted-light color spectra from relatively nearby, older galaxies -- including 57 gravitational lenses -- 1 billion to 3 billion years back into the cosmic past.

- Another survey identified 22 lenses among more distant, younger galaxies from 4 billion to 6 billion years in the past.

The rings of light around gravitational-lens galaxies are named "Einstein rings" because Albert Einstein predicted the effect, although he wasn't the first to do so.

"The more distant galaxy sends out diverging light rays, but those that pass near the closer galaxy get bent into converging light rays that appear to us as of a ring of light around the closer galaxy," says Bolton.

The greater the amount of matter in a lens galaxy, the bigger the ring. That seems counterintuitive, but the larger mass pulls with enough gravity to make the distant star's light bend so much that lines of light cross as seen by the observer, creating a bigger ring.

If there is more matter concentrated near the center of a galaxy, the faster stars will be seen moving toward or being slung away from the galactic center, Bolton says.

Alternative Theories

Bolton and colleagues acknowledge their observations might be explained by theories other than the idea that galaxies are getting denser in their centers over time:

- Gas that is collapsing to form stars can increase the concentration of mass in a galaxy. Bolton argues the stars in these galaxies are too old for that explanation to work.

- Gravity from the largest massive galaxies strips neighboring "satellite" galaxies of their outskirts, leaving more mass concentrated in the centers of the satellite galaxies. Bolton contends that process is not likely to produce the concentration of mass observed in the new study and explain how the extent of that central mass increases over time.

- The researchers merely detected the boundary in each galaxy between the star-dominated inner regions and the outer regions, which are dominated by unseen dark matter. Under this hypothesis, the appearance of growing galaxy mass concentration over time is due to a coincidence in researchers' measurement method, namely that they are measuring younger galaxies farther from their centers and measuring older galaxies closer to their centers, giving an illusion of growing mass concentration in galactic centers over time. Bolton says this measurement difference is too minor to explain the observed pattern of matter density within the lens galaxies.

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U.K.-based Bentley and the Italian supercar maker rolled out extravagant concept sport utility vehicles (SUV) at the auto shows in Geneva and Beijing this year, with production awaiting approval by VW's management board.

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Who will say what: The facts in the Biden - Ryan debate

Last week's presidential debate impacted the race more than most voters expected. After his lackluster performance, President Barack Obama's lead has shrunk and Mitt Romney's campaign has been reinvigorated.

So, Thursday night's debate between vice president Joe Biden and Republican vp nominee Paul Ryan matters more than many debates between potential veeps past: While Biden has a chance to do damage control and stall the Romney-Ryan surge, Ryan will press for further gains.

At Centre College in Danville, Ken., at 9 p.m. EST, Biden and Ryan will tangle on issues including health care, the national debt and taxes. Need help keeping the facts straight as the contenders pontificate from their podiums? Here's a guide to some of what you may hear, with the bits of spin fact-checked in advance.

Taxes

Ryan: Ryan is likely to pounce on a recent Biden sound bite featuring the vp saying the Romney-Ryan tax plan would crush the middle class, which has been "buried for the past four years."

Out of context, it sounds like Biden is arguing that the Obama administration has actively hampered the middle class with taxes rather than helped to revive it. The Romney campaign has been running ads suggesting as much, and Ryan is probably aching to use the "buried" line against his opponent as he pitches a very different tax plan.

But a viewing of the whole clip delivers a different message: Biden was complaining that Bush-era taxes sparked the Great Recession by favoring the wealthy and burdening middle-income Americans.

In short: Biden was arguing that negative effects of the Bush tax-cuts have lingered the past four years, and further warning that the Romney-Ryan plan is more of a losing formula.

Biden: But is Biden himself being truthful in his original remark? Will Romney and Ryan favor the rich and pressure the middle class?

Before either candidate muddies this up, here are the key planks of the Romney-Ryan tax plan:

- Bush-era income tax cuts and capital gains tax cuts become permanent

- All income tax rates are cut by an additional 20 percent

- The Alternative Minimum Tax and the estate tax are repealed.

In order to balance these cuts and make a plan that's "revenue neutral," Ryan will stress that his ticket plans to strip the tax code of myriad loopholes and deductions.

On this issue, the vp nominees will be cleaning up some unfinished business from the presidential debate last week when Obama frequently dropped the "$5 trillion" figure in reference to Romney's tax cuts for high-income citizens.

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The President is getting that number from a study by the Tax Policy Center, which wrote that until Romney specifies which loopholes and deductions are on the chopping block, the plan doesn't add up to be revenue-neutral. The suggestion is that Romney will have to raise taxes on the middle class in order to fund his initial slash across the board.

Watch Ryan try and talk around this on Fox News recently.

As the Washington Post notes, Romney and Ryan like to say that "six other studies" debunk the TPC study and back their math. But that's not true, not yet.

Social Security

Biden: All this tax-talk will bleed into Social Security. Biden is likely to repeat his charge from the campaign trail that under the Republicans' tax plan, seniors will have to pay "$460 a year more in taxes for their Social Security."

Biden's getting ahead of himself here, taking advantage of his opponent's vague plan by offering a especially dreary prediction of its effects.

Politfact.com observes that the "$460 a year" line is one of many ways to complete the math of the Romney-Ryan tax plan, though, "it's at odds with what Romney has said he'll do, which is to protect deductions for the middle class and not raise taxes."

The Debt

Ryan: The national debt is Ryan's pearl, and you can expect him to hammer Biden on the administration's contribution to America's ballooning deficits.

Pro-Republican ads allege Obama added $5 trillion to the debt in his first term alone. Ryan is likely to follow their lead on characterizing the scope and depth of the administration's contributions, whether he cites that specific figure or not.

But the breakdown of Treasury data from the Congressional Budget Office (courtesy of Politifact) informs a very different picture.

If you combine spending increases linked to Obama policies with increases in discretionary spending on his watch, it only adds up to about 43 percent of the three years' worth of deficit, Politifact finds.

Of course, there are some other ways to support the GOP line of attack: include Obama's tax cuts and his share of the contribution rises to 56 percent?but would Ryan really want to criticize the administration for lowering taxes?

Medicare

Ryan: Ryan was one of the first to jumpstart the GOP's "Medicare raid" meme, which alleges that Obama is about to rob Medicare to the tune of $700 billion, in order to pay for the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

In fact, the oft-cited $700 billion figure represents the savings the ACA yields over 10 years by reducing Medicare spending, and it's chiefly the providers rather than beneficiaries who pony up to finance the long-term spending cut.

Ryan tried this out recently at an AARP conference and was met with a storm of jeers.?However, the audience in Danville is barred from cheering or booing, so he might have the chance to slip this in his remarks tonight without worrying about vocal backlash.

Biden: Many of Obama's and Biden's attacks on their opponents' plans for Medicare are centered on Ryan's famous 2010 budget, which has undergone considerable revision since its author was absorbed into the Republican ticket. So it's important to separate the critique of the old plan from that of the new plan.

When Biden attacks the "Romney/Ryan plan" on Medicare, claiming it costs seniors an extra $6,400 a year, he's attacking Ryan's old plan. Factcheck.org notes that seniors on private plans under that budget would pay more than they would under traditional Medicare, somewhere around another $6,000.

However, unlike that plan?in which the growing spending on subsidies skidded to the rate of inflation? the new plan stipulates that premium support would always be enough to cover the two cheapest plans in the market.

At the moment, according to the CBO, it remains unclear about whether or not the new plan would incur greater costs to beneficiaries, and to what degree.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/truth-behind-numbers-factchecking-vp-debate-111852185--election.html

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Dow falls 128, with Chevron and Alcoa leading way

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, file photo, a Chevron station posts gasoline prices starting at $5.50 per gallon in downtown Los Angeles. Shares of Chevron Corp. plunged Wednesday after the oil giant said its third-quarter earnings are expected to be "substantially lower" than in the second quarter. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, file photo, a Chevron station posts gasoline prices starting at $5.50 per gallon in downtown Los Angeles. Shares of Chevron Corp. plunged Wednesday after the oil giant said its third-quarter earnings are expected to be "substantially lower" than in the second quarter. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Downbeat reports from Alcoa and Chevron at the start of corporate earnings season pulled stock indexes lower for a third straight day Wednesday. The Dow Jones industrial average slumped 128 points, its steepest loss since late June.

Alcoa, the aluminum producer, beat Wall Street's earnings estimates on Tuesday night but said it expects a slowdown in China to weaken demand for aluminum. Its stock fell 42 cents Wednesday to $8.71.

The company is often used as a weather vane for the global economy. "And judging by Alcoa's massive inventory of aluminum, it seems pretty anemic," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank.

Chevron, the country's second-largest oil company, warned late Tuesday that slumping oil prices and production would cause earnings to be "substantially lower." It blamed Hurricane Isaac for disrupting production at a Mississippi refinery.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court also refused to block a $19 billion judgment levied against Chevron by an Ecuadorian court for polluting the Amazon. Chevron's stock sank $4.91 to $112.45.

The Dow fell 128.56 points to close at 13,344.97, just shy of 1 percent, its fourth straight drop and the largest point decline since June 25. Chevron alone pulled the Dow down 38 points.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 8.92 points to 1,432.56.

Alcoa and Chevron's results were an unpromising start to the third-quarter earnings parade, said JJ Kinahan, chief derivatives strategist at Ameritrade. "It's beginning to look like we might have a lot of gloom-and-doom earnings calls this quarter," he said.

Of the 10 industry groups within the S&P 500, all but financials fell. Energy and materials stocks, whose fortunes hinge on economic growth, slumped the most. Bank stocks ended the day flat.

In other trading, the Nasdaq lost 13.24 points to 3,051.78. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury slipped to 1.68 percent, down from 1.71 percent late Tuesday.

In one of the few economic reports out Wednesday, the Federal Reserve said the U.S. economy "expanded modestly" from mid-August through September. The survey, known as the Beige Book, pointed to improvements in housing car sales, manufacturing and the housing market. Employment and consumer spending, however, remained mostly flat.

Wal-Mart Stores surged $1.28 to $75.42, and earlier touched an all-time high of $76.81. The president of its U.S. division told Wall Street analysts that the retail giant plans to open more small-scale stores, including its Express chain, to compete with discount retailers and drugstore chains.

Alcoa's earnings report marks the unofficial start to the quarterly earnings season, expected to be the worst in three years. Analysts project that companies in the S&P 500 will say third-quarter earnings shrank 1 percent compared with the same quarter of last year.

Ablin said investors need solid reasons to buy stocks now, given the stock market's strong run this year. "My sense is that, with these downbeat earnings announcements, there's not much around right now," he said.

Concerns over the global economy helped knock the Dow down 110 points on Tuesday. The International Monetary Fund trimmed its forecast for worldwide growth, saying that trouble in Europe and other developed regions has spread to faster-growing developing countries. The day before, the World Bank cut its estimate for growth in China, the world's second-largest economy behind the U.S., and countries across Asia.

For the week, the Dow and S&P 500 have each lost 1.9 percent, and the Nasdaq has lost 2.7 percent.

Among other companies making big moves Wednesday:

? Yum Brands jumped 8 percent, the top stock in the S&P 500 index. The parent of Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and other fast-food chains said results from China stores should remain strong, even as the Chinese economy slows. Yum gained $5.28 to $70.99.

? FedEx gained 5 percent, or $4.41 to $89.99. The world's second-biggest package delivery company unveiled a restructuring plan Monday aimed at raising profits by $1.7 billion within three years. FedEx promised to shed jobs and underused aircraft.

? Costco posted stronger sales and earnings than forecast as more people signed up to buy the company's diapers and groceries in bulk. Costco's stock gained $1.92 to $101.56.

? Toyota Motor Corp. dropped $1.56 to $74.50 after the carmaker recalled a total of 7.4 million vehicles worldwide for a for a faulty power-window switch, the latest in a series of recalls for Toyota. The recall announced Wednesday affects more than a dozen models produced from 2005 through 2010.

Associated Press

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About Me: I am a freelance graphic/web designer and copywriter (www.aprilzubko.com). The majority of my work is for long term clients in the health and wellness fields who need a constant flow of blog content on their websites. Up until recently, I have been doing most of the writing. I have worked with freelance writers in the past, but it has been sporadic. My business is expanding now, and I would like to bring in a passionate writer for the long term.

About the Job:

This is a long term paid writing job. I am looking for 2 blog posts (minimum 300 words) a week to start. All posts will be run through Copyscape to check for plagiarism. We will communicate primarily through email and collaborate on your posts via my online project management software. Calls should be rare. I will provide a headline or topic and a list of keywords and/or subheadlines for each post. From there it's all yours. Topics will include:

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Rights & Authorship: The individual client retains all copyrights to your work once it is published and may repurpose it for use in other media (for example, a newsletter or brochure). You nor I can republish the post elsewhere. Rights of killed pieces revert back to you, the writer. Depending on the client, you may receive a byline and/or bio, but this is not guaranteed as some clients hire me to ghost-write their blog posts.

About You:

• Access to internet and a computer
• Prefer someone passionate and knowledgeable about health and fitness
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How to Apply: No calls or resum?s, please. Please forward a writing sample (URL, .txt or .pdf document) and include a little bit about yourself. If you have a blog or website, please forward that as well. If I like what I see, I'll send you an assignment and we'll go from there.

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Goldman CEO: I'll pay 5 percent more tax for budget deal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein on Thursday became the latest big-name business leader to pledge to pay a steeper tax rate - 5 percent more, he said - in exchange for a long-term bipartisan deal in Congress to keep the country from falling off the "fiscal cliff."

Blankfein is part of a group of corporate executives who have raised nearly $30 million to support a deal to avoid the nearly $600 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts set to take effect at the end of the year.

Asked if he would pay 5 percent more in taxes if it became necessary for Congress to reach a deal, he said "Of course ... I don't know anybody who wouldn't."

Blankfein, who characterized his political views as "center left," was interviewed Thursday along with Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson on CNBC.

Blankfein also said there would be a "huge" positive impact on the economy if a bipartisan compromise were reached.

"I'd be a buyer of the market," he said.

Simpson and Bowles were co-chairs of a bipartisan commission established by President Barack Obama that in December, 2010 came up with a comprehensive proposal to reduce the budget deficit, which has been topping $1 trillion for several years.

The commission's report has some support among Democrats and Republicans as a deficit-reduction model, though when it was initially proposed, Obama did not act on it and most House Republicans opposed it.

Both Simpson and Bowles have been traveling the country with the corporate group to push for a similar proposal.

They are also trying to sway a group of Senators known as the "Gang of Eight," - four Democrats and Republicans each, who are working on a bipartisan deal and have embraced the model.

Despite the push for a broad deficit-cutting deal to avoid the fiscal cliff, Congress has put off any decisions until after the November 6 presidential and congressional elections.

That will leave lawmakers only a few weeks to act before the automatic cuts and tax increases are triggered under a budget law passed by Congress in 2011.

Budget and tax issues are expected to be among the big issues addressed during Thursday night's vice presidential debate.

DIVERSE BUSINESS GROUPS

The business community, while eager for lower taxes, splinters over the specifics of which tax breaks to eliminate.

More than half of all businesses are not corporations like Goldman Sachs, but are organized so they pay taxes at individuals' rates. These include small businesses, as well as bigger firms like law firms and hedge funds.

"Everyone is more comfortable giving away someone else's money," said Dirk Von Dongen, president of the National Association of Wholesalers and Distributors, whose make-up includes 60 percent of pass-through businesses.

Another skeptic is Brian Reardon, a former economic adviser to Republicans and now head of a trade group lobbying for such businesses.

"The challenge with that assumption is it assumes you raise rates and get more revenues that is going to go to deficit reduction," Reardon said.

The corporate tax rate is not changing at the end of the year, though most individual income taxes could increase. Both Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney support lowering the top 35 percent statutory rate.

(Reporting By Kim Dixon, with additional reporting by Lauren LaCapra. Editing by Fred Barbash, Gunna Dickson and Dan Grebler)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/goldman-ceo-ill-pay-5-percent-more-tax-205230019--sector.html

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