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The Integrated Luminosity for the period from 8/29/11 to 9/5/11 was estimated at 58.92 pb-1 (inverse picobarns). NuMI reported receiving 8.08E18 protons on target during this same period. |
Friday September 2 The day shift began with Operations monitoring the Tevatron (TEV) store 9054 (71.69E30) and the Recycler stash (302.5E10), with the Antiproton Source (Pbar) stacking (8.6E10), with the Main Injector (MI), Linac, and Booster operating normally, with the NuMI and MiniBooNE experiments taking beam, and with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) and D-Zero (D0) using the colliding beams. During the day shift, at 8:56 AM, the I- Source vacuum valve closed, halting all beam; Linac personnel investigated and had beam back within 30 minutes. Operators reported that a TEV horizontal correction magnet power supply (T:HA22) was not following its reference; operators had its regulator changed out within 30 minutes. Operations terminated store 9054 at 12:29 PM. Operators put the TEV through a dry squeeze at 1:17 PM. Operations put the TEV into HEP shot setup at 1:41 PM and established store 9056 at 2:47 PM with an average initial luminosity (AIL) of 351.25E30. Operations established beam to the Meson FTBFT-1015 experiment at 2:55 PM. During the evening shift, Operators reported that the Computer Room temperatures had increased; FESS personnel investigated and found the air conditioning unit off and brought it back online, but the room temperatures did not recover. Operations disabled beam to T-1015 at 9 PM. Operators reported that the Booster RF system tripped off due to a CAMAC timer card problem; operators reset the card. Saturday September 3 The midnight shift began with Operations monitoring store 9056 (108.28E30) and the stash (223.8E10), with Pbar stacking (25.2E10), and with the NuMI and MiniBooNE taking beam. During the midnight shift, Operators reported that the Booster RF system tripped off again; operators replaced the CAMAC timer card. Operations terminated store 9056 at 7:45 AM and put the TEV into shot setup at 7:55 AM. During the day shift, Operations established store 9057 at 9:05 AM with an AIL of 361.0E30. FESS personnel discovered a faulty pump shaft had caused the Computer Room temperature problem; the temperatures recovered once they repaired the pump. Operations established beam to T-1015 at 10:45 AM. During the evening shift, Operations disabled beam to T-1015 at 7:10 PM. At 8:38 PM, operators reported that a MiniBooNE quadrupole magnet power supply (E:Q866D) had tripped off for the first of numerous times throughout the shift; it reset. Sunday September 4 The midnight shift began with Operations monitoring store 9057 and the stash, with Pbar stacking, and with NuMI and MiniBooNE taking beam. During the midnight shift, operators changed out the switching power supply for E:Q866D. Operations terminated store 9057 at 12:30 AM and put the TEV into shot setup. At 1:15 AM, a TEV low beta magnet (DAU1) quenched due to an injection kicker (E48K) misfire. An EE Support engineer came in and pulsed the kicker, but it did not misfire again. Operations put the TEV back into shot setup at 5:10 AM and established store 9060 at 6 AM with an AIL of 363.0E30. During the day shift, at 9:51 AM, operators reported a Pbar beam permit trip due to a low target airflow indication. Operators called in a Mechanical Support person who replaced the blower motor. Pbar resumed stacking at 1:09 PM. During the evening shift, Operations terminated store 9060 at 11:58 PM. Monday September 5 The midnight shift began with Operations monitoring the stash, with Pbar stacking, and with the NuMI and MiniBooNE taking beam. During the midnight shift, Operations put the TEV into shot setup at 12:15 AM and established store 9061 at 1:15 AM with an AIL of 369.0E30. Operators reported that a Booster RF station (BRF7) tripped off numerous times throughout the shift. The Plans for Monday The plans for today are to stack, stash, and store. |
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Afro Americans are upset with Obama
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Judged: 1 Do not listen to what Democrats say. Watch what they do. Democrats say they care about the poor blacks. But their policies keep the black community at the bottom, not just year after year, but decade after decade. When will the black community realize the Democrats do this on purpose? When will the black community realize they are the Democrats slaves? |
They use them for votes! The black community should be irate their unemployment rate is so high.
OMG, that's so 80's. Strive to get with the times! Obviously hispanics have since become stooges for the Democratic party. |
It might be because he is half white and talks bright, with elite white D.C. liberals he snuggles, never being authentic or down with the struggle.
What does their hair style have to do with this? |
He was a community organizer, attended a college in cal but records are sealed. He lies too!
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obamas-29-new... |
Have you noticed that po''hos [like spoiled white suburbanite bitches who want your riches] always want mo'?
They want mo and many are hos laying on their dead arse making babies for more welfare money. Who knows who the father is?
I don't know of any blacks that are upset with obummer!!He is their hero!!
There are a few who are upset and speaking out. Lloyd Marcus, singer and Tea Party Rally favorite. http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/02/dont_f... Alfonzo Rachel: http://www.pjtv.com/... He's hilarious. Dr. Ben Carson, Dir. of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, main speaker at the National Prayer breakfast this past week: http://www.pjtv.com/... Watch Obama's face. Clarence Thomas avoided the SOTU speech. Then there are the men who have been around longer, Herman Cain, Armstrong Williams, Alan Keyes, Ken Blackwell, Larry Elder etc. |
What does their hair style have to do with this?
Why do you keep asking this irrelevant question? Who said anything about hairstyles, much less "their" hairstyles? |
Chief did, the original poster. Damn your eyes are bad! It's in the subject line! Afro is a hairstyle. I guess retard meant "African", but the pills are typing instead of him. Jesus H Christ! |
AH but you see, I think of Afro American and African American as the same thing. Only a racist would think hairstyle and try to make an issue out of it. You aren't being cute. |
They make the race card out of everything. Good comments social unlike those far left trds.
Herman Cain and Tom Sowell too, blacks I admire. They got off the plantation.
There are some that are very intelligent and can see through this jerk,obummer..I consider the ones that you named,Social Worker,not african americans but humans--it's the wild and criminal ones that I consider blacks,and bad to the bone..
The sad thing is,that we are now at the mercy of these people that get entitlements(not wanting to work,not the truly helpless people)..They have finally out voted us,the workers, and it's payback time..Obummer's parents and grandparents hated this country and he has set about ruining it!! And the ignorants are allowing him to do it.
Yes and the Dems keep giving the moochers more and more things like now pre school. Why not warehouse the kids and keep them on gov dole from birth until death? The best times for America are behind us.
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During his recent trip overseas with the USO to visit troops stationed abroad, quarterback Peyton Manning kept a journal.
After returning to the United States, he shared parts of his entries with ESPN.
In his posts, Manning talks about the gratitude he has toward the military.
"It was awesome to see and understand just how skilled our military personnel are in this country and how much pride they take in their profession," he wrote. "My body's way off with jet lag for sure but I don't get tired because these people fire me up and inspire me."
Manning shared some his sense of humor that he got to display on the trip.
"About 12 of us, helmets and goggles on for takeoff and landing," he wrote about flying on a C-2 aircraft from the United Arab Emirates to an aircraft carrier outside of the Arabian Gulf. "I got to sit up in the cockpit for half the flight. They let me make a few announcements on the PA system. I announced that in order for us to land we needed Curt Schilling and coach Clyde Christensen to please sit on opposite sides of the plane for weight-balance issues. Pilots got a good laugh out of that one."
At each stop, Manning threw passes to military members in attendance. The most memorable pass of the trip for him didn't come at one of the stops — it came en route.
"I experienced a true first in my life," he wrote. "I have thrown footballs in lots and lots of places. Boats, prisons, schools, military bases, hospitals, golf course fairways, malls, birthday parties, bar mitzvahs, Mardi Gras floats, French Quarter, etc., but I ain't never thrown a football in an airplane. And I am not talking about little 3-yard lob passes. I was throwing 35-yard bullets to a guy who had the best hands on the entire USO tour, Senior Airman Stephen Gasperic. He was catching passes while trying to avoid falling over luggage, probably a couple of missiles back there as well for all I knew. He fell over a couple of times on some high throws, but he never dropped one. I told him Coach Fox may want to use him on third down next year in the slot opposite Brandon Stokley."
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ORCHARD PARK (AP) - The Buffalo Bills have released veteran punter Brian Moorman and signed free agent Shawn Powell to replace him.
Moorman has been with the Bills since 2001 and twice was selected to the Pro Bowl. But he had struggled this season with a net average of 32.7 yards per punt.
Powell was with the Bills in the preseason before being released. The 6-foot-4, 243-pounder from Florida State signed with the Bills as an undrafted free agent after April's draft.
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An independent group supporting Texas Gov. Rick Perry is running a new television ad in Illinois aimed at luring new business to the Lone Star State.
The 30-second commercial stars Perry, standing before the state capitol building in Austin, looking straight to the camera and highlighting Texas' business-friendly tax and regulatory climate.
"In Texas, we have conservative leadership," Perry says. "In Illinois, it's liberal. And there's a big difference."
It's the first state-targeted ad funded by Americans for Economic Freedom, an independent 501(c)4 group created last year by political operatives close to Perry that seeks to promote "states with conservative fiscal leadership and policies."
It's not the first time Perry has sought to promote his home state on the Illinois airwaves.
TexasOne, a non-profit group managed by the governor's office, ran similar business-themed television and radio ads in Illinois last year. That group also purchased ad time in New York, Maryland, California and Missouri -- like Illinois, all states with Democratic governors.
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Digital Insights: No Digital Marketing Guidance? We Dont Care.
Big pharma digital marketing campaigns are plowing full steam ahead, helping both consumers and patients, even without any clear guidance from FDA.
Yes, the pharmaceutical industry received some sort of social media guidance from FDA in December of 2011. No, it did not actually provide clear-cut guidelines for social media participation or digital marketing for that matter. Regardless, it appears Big Pharma is plowing full steam ahead, anyways, testing the waters with innovative social media tools and new technologies to educate consumers and market their brands.
Pfizer, for example, is linking Google search ads, not directly to their site, but to their brand specific YouTube channels which provide more streamlined results for users. A Google search ad that reads, "Counterfeit Pills Can Be Dangerous," now links to a Viagra YouTube channel where visitors can watch a series of investigative reports on how counterfeit drugs are manufactured, trafficked, and sold to consumers by illegal online pharmacies.
Pfizer hopes to use standard search ads not just to drive traffic to their Viagra brand, but also alert customers to the dangers of counterfeit drugs and educate them to legitimate online pharmacies. The initiative also hopes to push down illegal pharmacies that appear organically on Google searches.
Boehringer-Ingelheim is also using social media tools in its digital marketing campaigns through the creation of an interactive game called Syrum. Still in Beta testing, Syrum will allow players to attack deadly diseases from virtual laboratories and work with friends to discover and market new drugs. The game will also allow players to learn more about drug patents and participate in clinical trials.
A recent ClickZ.com article cited Alison Woo, director of social media for Bristol-Myers Squibb, saying that the game initiative "shows a willingness to be in the space and test things out," and suggested it may also help the industry at large to "overcome reputation challenges," referring to the typically cautious approach taken by pharma brands using social media.
Even if FDA's recently published draft guidance for pharma marketers only somewhat satisfied requests for clearer social media rules, Big Pharma seems to be proving that social media can be used effectively. If FDA does have this guidance on a lower priority, pharmaceutical companies are finding ways to help and educate patients and consumers anyways.
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There are a couple of things you need to check before ordering to make sure you get all the proper components. First if you own a 1987 year model, Ford changed the front shock mounts in February, most built prior to 02/87 have a top stem mount on the front shock, after 03/87 they used a top loop mount on the front shock. Second if your truck is a 1997 model then you need to check the driver's front I-beam mounting bracket, Ford used a 4 bolt bracket on the early 1997 models and a 5 bolt bracket on the late 1997 models. Both styles have two bolts that run down thru the top of the bracket, but the early bracket only has two bolts that run thru the face of the bracket, where the late model has three bolts thru the face. Let us know if the truck has factory contact overloads on the rear to get you the proper length of U-bolts.
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Year Spans | 1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998 |
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For purposes of section 203(l) of the Act (15 U.S.C. 80b-3(l)), a venture capital fund is any private fund that:
Immediately after the acquisition of any asset, other than qualifying investments or short-term holdings, holds no more than 20 percent of the amount of the fund's aggregate capital contributions and uncalled committed capital in assets (other than short-term holdings) that are not qualifying investments, valued at cost or fair value, consistently applied by the fund;
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Has represented to investors and potential investors at the time of the offering of the private fund's securities that it pursues a venture capital strategy;
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Any equity security issued by a qualifying portfolio company in exchange for an equity security issued by the qualifying portfolio company described in paragraph (c)(3)(i) of this section; or
Any equity security issued by a company of which a qualifying portfolio company is a majority-owned subsidiary, as defined in section 2(a)(24) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a-2(a)(24)), or a predecessor, and is acquired by the private fund in exchange for an equity security described in paragraph (c)(3)(i) or (c)(3)(ii) of this section.
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Sixteen trillion dollars is owed by America. To the uninitiated it sounds like Joe Manchin editorial suggests the Simpson-Bowles Commission's recommendation would correct most of our spending problems. But the trick used by politicians is to use deficit reduction figures based on cuts over 10 years instead of a single year. Those suggestions can be set aside by any future Congress. Each Congress must be held to account.
What a $4 trillion, 10-year, deficit reduction plan actually does is cut the deficit less than half (meaning we only spend $500 Billion more than we have each year) resulting in the debt continuing to rise but at a reduced rate-from one trillion to a half trillion per year. It is worthless in resolving the long-term debt since it only reduces the deficit but does not cut total debt.
The only answer available to save America from a debt default should include beginning the long painful process of making actual reductions in the size of government to the tune of about $1.5 trillion per year or more. That translates in politi-speak to $15 trillion over 10 years.
How? Eliminate entire departments, programs, waste, fraud, abuse, and dead wood in the federal government. What has the Department of Education done to improve our schools? What has the Department of Energy done to reduce our dependence on foreign oil? With just those two lines on the budget, you have cut $100 billion plus from the budget. The much-maligned EPA is a duplication of efforts already existing at the state level-more billions.
There is no constitutional mandate for federal involvement in the environment or the Departments of Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Resources (look what a mess they are making of our Health Care).
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Joe has done little to lead on spending cuts, fighting Obamacare (another $1 trillion waste), or standing up to the EPA. He left West Virginia saddled with its own version of cap and trade that has yet to explode in our faces, but will.
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Mass. dealers lose fight to block Tesla stores
Winning a court appeal or intervention by the attorney general may be the last hopes for Massachusetts dealers trying to block Tesla Motors Inc.'s retail stores. Read More »
BEST PRACTICES:DCH Auto blends tradition with new twists
Dah Chong Hong Ltd., a Chinese food and textile distributorship, survived World War II by relocating to avoid military occupation. Read More »
ZEV 'straitjacket'?
They rarely say so in public, but automakers are worried about California's law requiring that zero-emission vehicles account for 15 percent of sales in the state by the 2025 model year. Read More »
GE backs off plan to buy 25,000 EVs, plug-in hybrids
General Electric's commitment to buy 25,000 electric autos, promoted as the largest ever when it was announced more than two years ago, is taking a detour. The obstacle: Customers of GE's corporate fleet-services unit wanted more options. Read More »
AutoNews Now: Early look at Detroit show
A hint from Acura, a cloaked Corvette, and an eye on Infiniti; GE adds non-EV options to green plan; unplugged at LAX. Read More »
Toyota's carbon-fiber foray
The soaring Japanese yen has killed any hope of launching a variant of the money-losing, carbon-fiber Lexus LFA sports car, at least for now. When the last $375,000 LFA was built Dec. 14, Toyota was left with a very costly and sophisticated -- yet nearly idle -- carbon-fiber factory. Read More »
How Honda hustled to redo Civic
Jay Guzowski was getting more nervous by the day. As senior product planner for the redesign of the 2012 Honda Civic, Guzowski was shepherding the compact car from design freeze to market. Read More »
2013 DETROIT AUTO SHOW:Nissan whips up fragrance, new display to lure Detroit show visitors
After keeping a low profile at several recent North American auto shows, Nissan is mounting a full-blown return to the spotlight at next week's Detroit auto show -- complete with the release of a new show fragrance the brand hopes will become its trademark smell. Read More »
Volvo sees challenging year ahead after 2012 sales drop
Volvo said its global sales fell 6 percent last year, including double-digit drops in China and Sweden and a small rise in the United States, and warned of a tough 2013. Read More »
First Shift: Japan's China woes easing
Nissan, Toyota, Honda and Mazda still down, but spiffs are slowing the bleeding; Volvo: Rough 2013; best sales forecasters. Read More »
DOUGLAS A. BOLDUC:Win on Sunday, maybe, maybe not sell on Monday
Is the theory of Win on Sunday, sell on Monday a myth? Alain Visser says yes. Volvo's sales chief is a diehard race fan, but he's also a realist when it comes to the true return on investment provided by a motor sports sponsorship. Read More »
UK races to revive supplier industry
The revival of car production in the UK has prompted the government to take action to rebuild the country's supplier industry. Read More »
LARRY P. VELLEQUETTE:Hanger-on Avenger mars the Dart's start
It's not yet quite fair to compare monthly Dodge Dart sales with sales of such segment stalwarts as the Ford Focus, Chevy Cruze and Honda Civic. Read More »
2013 CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW:Toyota pursues 'co-pilot' car over self-driving vehicle system
Toyota said autonomous safety technologies it's developing are intended to create a virtual "co-pilot" in vehicles to help drivers avoid accidents rather than self-driving cars and trucks. Read More »
2013 CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW:More connected car innovations take stage at CES
At the world's largest technology conference that kicked off today, the most intriguing innovations showcased may be gadgets and technology that turn vehicles into connected, smarter machines. Read More »
2013 DETROIT AUTO SHOW:Hyundai hints at fastback-style roofline for next Genesis
Hyundai seems poised to adopt a fastback-style roofline similar to those of the Audi A7 and other sedans with coupelike styling for its next-generation rear-wheel-drive premium sedans. Read More »
NHTSA proposes rules for automakers to add sound to hybrids, EVs
Automakers would need to make hybrids and electric vehicles emit sound under rules that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed today. Read More »
JAMES B. TREECE:Remember, trucks make the bucks
Car sales rose 18 percent in 2012, twice the gain of light trucks. But trucks are where the money is. Read More »
U.S. Fleet Sales, Dec. & YTD
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Daimler stake eyed by China investment fund
China's sovereign wealth fund may buy a stake in Daimler, a China media outlet reported Monday. Read More »
2012 tally: The big stars and stumblers
Lots of vehicles overachieved like crazy in what was a big, booming sales year for the industry, but many failed to live up to expectations in 2012. Winners benefited from fresh designs with fuel efficiency and appealing technology. Read More »
2013 CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW:Ford to offer Rhapsody online music service in 1 million vehicles
Ford will offer Rhapsody International's Internet music service in more than 1 million Ford and Lincoln vehicles, the online company's first tie-in with an automaker. Read More »
Daimler stake may be acquired by China investment fund
China's sovereign wealth fund may buy a stake in Daimler AG, a China media outlet reported today. Read More »
NUTS & BOLTS:Ex-Audi designer Schreyer is a Kia president without the pressure
It has yet to be shown that star designers can be transformed into heads of big car company divisions. So when designer Peter Schreyer was named president of Kia Motors over the holidays, we wondered about the wisdom of the move. Read More »
Audi plans 2016 start in Mexico
Audi is firming up plans for its plant in San Jose Chiapa, Mexico. In the employee newspaper Audimobil, Mattias Rust, project manager for staff in Mexico, said construction will begin in 2014 and production will start in May 2016 with about 3,800 employees. Read More »
PSA may sell Faurecia stake to reduce debt, analyst says
PSA may be forced to dispose of its stake in partsmaker Faurecia to further reduce its debt, a Paris-based analyst said on Monday. Read More »
Rising Star nominations sought
Automotive News Europe needs your help to find the Rising Stars in the European automotive industry. We define a Rising Star as an automotive executive with a pan-European profile who has driven change, fostered innovation and made courageous decisions. The deadline for nominations is Feb. 1. Read More »
DETROIT AUTO SHOW PREVIEW:Destination Detroit
Next week's Detroit auto show will demonstrate that automakers are gunning for good looks and speed, even as cars and light trucks are shrinking to save fuel. Audi is showing the RS7, a high-performance version of the A7. And Chevrolet will unveil a redesigned Corvette. Read More »
Mercedes' December sales rise on U.S. demand
Daimler said global sales at its Mercedes-Benz Cars unit rose 0.4 percent to 132,589 in December as strong U.S. demand offset weaker deliveries in China and western Europe. Through December, sales rose 4.5 percent to a record 1.42 million. Read More »
UK car sales rise to 4-year high in 2012
British new-car registrations rose 5.3 percent to 2.04 million cars in 2012, the highest level since 2008, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said today. The rise was in stark contrast to other major European markets, which all suffered major declines last year. Read More »
Volvo sees challenging year ahead after 2012 sales drop
Volvo said its global sales fell 6.1 percent last year, including double digit drops in China and Sweden and a small rise in the United States, and warned of a tough 2013. Read More »
JLR's UK sales rise 19.7% in 2012
Jaguar Land Rover said UK vehicle sales rose 19.7 percent to 68,586 in 2012. Deliveries of Land Rover SUVs rose almost 25 percent to 54,480, boosted by demand for the Range Rover Evoque, while registrations of the Jaguar brand increased 2.4 percent to 14,105 vehicles, the company added. Read More »
Slower growth, but still on the right track
U.S. auto sales may not surpass 16 million units for at least two years, but with most automakers already posting healthy profits and struggling to find production capacity to meet demand, few are in a hurry to get there. And as sales grow more slowly, competition will intensify. Read More »
Avis Budget, Zipcar to share cars
Avis Budget Group Inc.'s proposed purchase of Zipcar Inc., a car-sharing company, will enable the combined company to meet swings in customer demand with fewer vehicles, the top executive at Avis Budget said. The result could be annual savings of $50 million to $70 million. Read More »
Former Automotive News staffer honored
Veteran journalist and former Automotive News staff member Kathy Jackson, 62, will receive the 2013 Urban Wheel Lifetime Achievement Award. Peter Brown, publisher of Automotive News, will present the award to Jackson at the 17th Annual Urban Wheel Awards on Sunday, Jan. 13, in Detroit. Read More »
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NEWS ANALYSIS:After a weak '12, Ford looks ahead
Ford Motor Co. finished 2012 with a 5 percent sales increase. But industrywide sales grew 13 percent, so Ford lagged behind many major rivals and lost market share for the second year in a row. Read More »
2012 SALES:Reuss: Judge us in mid-2014
If you want a true read on the strength of General Motors in the U.S. market, wait until mid-2014. That was the message last week from GM North America President Mark Reuss as he fended off questions about GM's 17.9 percent U.S. market share for 2012. Read More »
2012 SALES:New 3 helps BMW keep luxury crown
A redesigned 3 series that debuted in February made the difference as BMW won its second straight U.S. luxury sales crown in 2012 by 7,376 units over Mercedes-Benz. Read More »
NEWS ANALYSIS:Remember, trucks make the bucks
Car sales rose 18 percent in 2012, twice the gain of light trucks. But trucks are where the money is. Read More »
KEITH CRAIN:Let's not kill the golden goose
Last year was a very good year. Nearly everybody ended the year smiling. Dealers saw the best profits in quite a while, and suppliers also did well. Manufacturers had financials that showed healthy profits after a long period of drought. Read More »
EDITORIAL:Settlement offers proof of the need for tort reform
Toyota Motor Corp. has bungled many aspects of the unintended-acceleration mess. But the proposed settlement of lawsuits involving a presumed loss of value in some used Toyota and Lexus models is outrageous and amounts to legalized extortion, which could total as much as $1.4 billion. Read More »
LETTER TO THE EDITOR:Marketing destroys buyers' trust
The majority of customers shop more than one dealer, which leads to the dickering. And why do most shoppers not trust the first price they get? Because the manufacturers are constantly changing the marketing programs and consequently the prices of vehicles. Read More »
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Nets' middling-if-not-colorful history
Fans will come to Prudential Center in Newark on Monday to say goodbye to the New Jersey Nets - but they just as easily could have been saying farewell to the New Jersey "Swamp Dragons" instead.
In 1994, after nearly two decades of indifferent basketball in New Jersey, team president Jon Spoelstra thought a name change would help remake the franchise's identity.
"We were, in a sense, putting the Nets in the witness-protection program," Spoelstra said last week. "In the NBA, the Nets had never achieved anything of worth, and the Nets - I still believe is sort of a crummy name. It would be like the Yankees being named the New York 'Second Bases.'x"
Not everyone was thrilled with the idea - including Gov. Christie Whitman.
"She called me personally and said, 'We've been trying to convince people for 20 years that that swamp is a meadow by calling it Meadowlands, and now you're naming your team Swamp Dragons?" Spoelstra said.
Still, the change was approved by each member of the 'Secaucus Seven,' the Nets' ownership group at the time - a minor miracle, considering they seldom agreed on anything. Then it was approved by the executive committee of the NBA's board of governors, after which the league spent more than $500,000 to trademark the name in hundreds of countries.
All it needed now was the approval of the NBA's 27 owners.
"Of the 27 votes, 26 of them came back with a 'yes,'x" Spoelstra said. "And one came back with a 'no.' The problem was, that one vote was the New Jersey Nets."
Huh? The seven owners used to rotate who would vote on such matters, and this was David Gerstein's turn to vote.
"He got cold feet," Spoelstra said. "I told David Stern, 'We still have a majority.' He said, 'Yeah, but the one [expletive] guy that didn't vote for it is your owner.'x"


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Bishops Urge Congress to Fix, Not Repeal Health Law
Nancy Frazier O'Brien
Catholic News Service
Thursday, June 28, 2012
People for and against the health care reform law demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building
WASHINGTON (CNS)—The U.S. Supreme Court's June 28 decision upholding the health reform law makes it even more urgent for Congress to act to fix the law's "fundamental flaws" on abortion funding, conscience protection and immigrants' access to health care, the U.S. bishops said.
The court found that although the individual mandate in the 2010 health reform law does not pass constitutional muster under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, it can be upheld as an acceptable exercise of Congress' taxing powers.
In a 65-page opinion announced by Chief Justice John Roberts, five members of the court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in full but limited the federal government's right to withhold its share of Medicaid funding from states that do not expand the health program for the low-income and disabled as mandated by the law.
"The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has not joined in efforts to repeal the law in its entirety, and we do not do so today," said a USCCB news release issued shortly after the decision. "The decision of the Supreme Court neither diminishes the moral imperative to ensure decent health care for all, nor eliminates the need to correct (the law's) fundamental flaws."
Sister Carol Keehan, president and CEO of the Catholic Health Association, said she was pleased that the health care law "has been found constitutional and will remain in effect." The Daughter of Charity noted that CHA had submitted friend-of-the-court briefs urging the court to find in favor of the individual mandate and the Medicaid expansion.
"In the coming weeks and months, we will continue working closely with our members, Congress and the administration to implement the ACA as fairly and effectively as possible," she added.
However, CHA has agreed with the bishops in urging the government to expand its definition of religious employers who are exempt from the requirement to provide contraceptives and sterilization free of charge to their employees.
Joining Roberts in the majority opinion were Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, although Ginsburg differed from the other four on whether the mandate was constitutional under the Commerce Clause.
"The federal government does not have the power to order people to buy health insurance ... (but) does have the power to impose a tax on those without health insurance," the Roberts opinion says. The mandate "is therefore constitutional, because it can reasonably be read as a tax."
Dissenting were Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, who would have overturned the entire law as an unconstitutional violation of the Commerce Clause.
By forcing those who are young and healthy to purchase health insurance, the law compels those who do not wish to participate in a particular marketplace to do so, the dissenters said.
"If Congress can reach out and command even those furthest removed from an interstate market to participate in the market, then the Commerce Clause becomes a font of unlimited power, or in (Alexander) Hamilton's words, 'the hideous monster whose devouring jaws ... spare neither sex nor age, nor high nor low, nor sacred nor profane,'" said the dissenting opinion, written by Scalia.
The decisions do not affect other lawsuits against the health reform law's requirement that most religious employers must provide contraceptives, including some abortion-causing drugs, and sterilization to their employees at no cost. Those cases are still in lower courts and have not yet reached the Supreme Court.
But Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of Americans United for Life, said the Affordable Care Act "forces an abortion agenda on the American people unlike anything seen since Roe v. Wade," the 1973 Supreme Court decision that lifted most state restrictions on abortion.
Criticizing the law's "numerous anti-life provisions and mandates," Yoest said, "Congress must repeal these provisions and ensure that any health care law respects life."
The opinions issued by the court June 28 actually involved four separate challenges to the constitutionality of the health reform law. The court first had to decide whether the Anti-Injunction Act, which says no tax can be challenged in court before it is due, precluded a challenge to the Affordable Care Act until after the individual mandate takes effect in 2014. The majority decided that it did not.
The next question was whether the individual mandate -- also called a "shared responsibility payment" -- exceeded Congress' authority to "regulate commerce" or to impose taxes. Roberts played the key role in deciding that, siding with the dissenters on the commerce question but with the majority on the tax question.
If the mandate had been overturned, the court would have had to decide whether the entire health law must fall if one section does -- the so-called "severability" issue. But the affirmation of the mandate made that question moot.
Finally, the court faced the question of whether Congress could penalize states that opt out of the law's requirement to expand their Medicaid programs. In its early years the expansion is mostly funded by the federal government, but states are expected to take over funding the coverage in later years.
The court ruled that the federal government cannot threaten states with the loss of their existing Medicaid funding if they do not participate in the expanded Medicaid program.
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