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"Gee!" Cami said wandering into Gerard's hotel room, through her connecting room. The band had flown in last night to Seattle and they were having a two day break before the next show. Cami wandered in and saw Gerard still in bed asleep. He looked so cute lying there, he had a serene smile on his face; he looked like he was at peace. At least until a moan escaped his mouth and he started to toss and turn gently in his sleep. Cami raised an eyebrow, she couldn't quite tell who he was mumbling about as he was muffled by the pillow his face was buried into. Cami got a quick little run up and jumped onto the bed making Gerard groan as he woke up. He smiled when he opened his eyes and saw who it was. "Hey Cami" He said sitting up yawning and ruffling his hair, then ruffling her own. Cami pouted at him as he laughed and kicked the comforter off him self, he got out of bed and stretched. He offered his hand to Cami which she took as he pulled her up off the bed. She stumbled slightly falling onto Gerard's chest. He felt warm and comfortable and he smelled like soap from the shower he'd had last nite. Gerard looked down at Cami, she lifted her head and smiled warmly at him. He lifted her chin gently and leaned in...
"HEY OPEN UP I HAVE STARBUCKS!" Frank yelled from the other side of the door. Gerard and Cami pulled apart Gerard sighed and walked over to the door, he opened it to reveal a wide awake Frank. Frank handed Gerard a coffee before handing Cami a Latte. "So what were you love birds up too?" He said raising an eyebrow suggestively at the two of them. "Nothing Frank" Gerard said rolling his eyes all the while thinking of how close he had been just moments ago from kissing Cami. Cami giggled slightly. "Anyways I gotta go I'm spending the day with dad, we're going shopping. Lunch, movie, more shopping then we're back here tonight for dinner with my mom who decided to fly in' Cami said with a groan. "Thats gotta suck" Gerard said sipping his coffee as Frank watched their conversation relay like a tennis match. "Whats it been since you seen her? 2 Months?" Frank said butting in with a cheeky grin. "2 Months, and 15 days" Cami said sipping her latte. "But who's counting?" she said with a laugh. "I'll see you boys later" she said before walking back into her room through the connecting door. The moment the door was closed, Frank was hit in the side of the head with a pillow. "Hey I got coffee here" Frank said with a pout. "What was that for?" he said pretending to be hurt. "You know what it's for now don't play dumb" he said before wandering into his ensuite and locking the door.
"Do we have to have dinner with her?" Cami groaned as she did her hair in front of the mirror in her ensuite. She ran the hair straightener once more over her fringe before switching it off. She wandered back into her room, looking at her dad sitting on her bed surfing thru TV channels. Cami pulled on a pair of red peep toe stilettos and checked herself once more in the mirror on the inside of her closet, she was wearing a gorgeous little black dress she knew her mother would hate. "Yes we have to have dinner with her, you know what your mom is like she'll keep bitching and bitching at me till she gets a dinner with you. I've tried to fend her off believe me" He said straightening his tie before opening the door to Cami's room for her. She grabbed her small purse holding her cell phone and wallet. She watched as her dad closed the door and they made their way over to the elevator. They pressed the down button waiting for the elevator to arrive at their floor. "Besides you never know she might have something nice to say to you" Kyan said with a playful smile. Cami burst out laughing at her dad. "I highly doubt that Dad, last time I saw her she basically told me I was a disgrace and as far as she was concerned I was no longer her problem" Kyan sighed and wrapped an arm around Cami pulling her close to him as the elevator door opened, to reveal a giggling Frank and a laughing Gerard. They stopped giggling and laughing when Gerard saw Cami. He breathed out slowly.
"Wow you look......" He said truly at a loss for words. Frank looked at Gerard and turned to Cami. "What I think he meant to say is you look Dazzling" Frank said with a warm smile. Cami blushed slightly, smiling shyly looking down at her shoes as Gerard looked down at his. Frank giggled some more, grabbing Gerard's hand dragging him out of the elevator. Kyan chuckled softly. "I swear if I didn't know better Gerard likes you" he said laughing softly at Cami who just blushed bright red. The elevator eventually reached the floor of the hotel where the restaurant was. They stepped out of the elevator and walked over to the entrance of the restaurant where they were shown straight to their table, where Julia Cami's mother was already sitting. "Cameron sweetheart' she said getting up and air kissing Cami. Cami grimaced at her mother's fake affection and took a seat. She folded her arms over her chest and glared disdainfully at her mother, "Kyan' she said holding out her hand. Kyan kissed it gently. "Always a pleasure Julia" he said with a fake smile and sat down beside Cami. Cami drank her water and began to noisily chew the ice cubes when she finished it. Her mother frowned at her while Kyan chuckled softly at his daughters antics. "Cameron that's not appropriate behaviour. God hasn't your father taught you any manners?" she snapped at her. Cami shrugged her shoulders at her mother not really giving a damn what she said to her. Her glass of coke arrived and she began to sip at it ignoring the conversation her parents were having. They ordered their meals. Cami tuned out and continued to do so until her mother snapped out of her trance.
"Aren't you listening to me Cameron?" she said disdainfully. "I just said your coming back home with me" she said. Cami's fork dropped with a noisy clatter onto her plate. Cami glared at her mother. "I'm not coming home with you, dad do something" she said with pleading eyes to her father. Kyan looked at her sadly. "I have no power here kiddo, you know what your mom's like" he said with tears in his eyes his voice cracking as he spoke. Cami looked at her mother, she looked like a cat who'd just swallowed a bowl of cream. Cami stood up pushing away from the table grabbing her purse and running over to the elevator. "CAMERON GET BACK HERE NOW YOUNG LADY! WE ARENT DONE!" She heard Julia scream at her. She sighed inwardly with relief as she pressed the down button for the elevator. The doors opened automatically, she could here the quick click clacking of high heels on marble , she ran in and pressed the button to shut the doors to stop her mother from trying to pull her from the elevator. In a matter or seconds the elevator reached the lobby and Cami ran out the front doors and got in a cab sitting outside the hotel.
"Just drive" she said resting her head against the cold window pane of the cab window sighing and closing her eyes as they drove off into the night.


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Chicopee and state police are continuing to search for multiple suspects who are still on the run following a violent robbery at a jewelry store in Chicopee Monday afternoon.
It happened at Furnari Jewelers on Memorial Drive around 4.
Investigators have remained on-scene throughout the night after two men allegedly came into this store and assaulted the owner in an attempt to rob him.
While police confirmed shots were fired, they would not say who fired them or whether anyone was hurt. But the incident left people rattled.
"It just hits a bit closer to home when it's right next to your work," said Kristina Hatcher, manager of the Planet Fitness right next door.
Employees working near the Furnari jewelers were shaken in the moments following shots fired and the sound of sirens, as police descended on the small plaza for an attempted armed robbery.
"Somebody came in and you couldn't even understand what she was saying and my assistant manager went outside and the cops just told us to make sure everyone was in and to lock the doors," Hatcher said.
The planet fitness gym remained on lockdown for around 20 minutes as state and local police scoured the area by foot and chopper, searching for any sign of three suspects they say were involved in the attempted robbery.
The owner of the store, Anthony Furnari's son, told CBS 3 off-camera that his dad had been punched in the face in the ordeal and was taken to Baystate with non-life-threatening injuries.
He said his dad shot one of the suspects.
Police would not confirm that.
Furnari is well-known by locals and employees that work in the plaza.
"Just by seeing him every day because we park next door and just buying jewelry off him, he's a really nice man," Hatcher said.
Life-long residents that saw the scene said it is something they never expected.
"Things like this don't happen around here very often," said Stephen Wilk, a Chicopee resident.
But they also said it won't change their perception of the town or the area.
"From what I know, nobody except the robbers was hurt in this ordeal so that's a very optimistic thing," Wilk said.
"No not really I mean this could happen anywhere, unfortunately," Hatcher said.
Police said the suspects dropped some of the jewelry as they fled the scene.
They described the three as one woman and two men with dark skin driving a silver Taurus.
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3 of 4 guild mates who had their accounts compromised had characters in Shadow Labyrinth. The last one would show up in SL most of the time when /who'd and then jump to Hellfire for a short while before turning to SL (many times that character was the only one in SL at the time). I couldn't say what exactly was going on with these characters but I would strongly suspect some exploit and chests were involved. And that would definitely explain this news item.
Most def this is the issue, gold farmers exploiting chests in Shadow Labs was so common it is not funny.
Guildie A : I think QQPEWPEW got hacked!!!!
Guildie B: Looks like they are in Shadow Labs . . . .. prob hacked . . . .
When BC first came out my lvl 57 was farming ore to lvl JewelCrafting. I was in Burning Steppes a few hours a day for a few weeks (when i realized how much $$ gems from thorium could bring at that time) I would often see lvl 2 toons running at hyper fast speeds around the zone. They were using a speed hack to zip through a mob of dragonkin, the dragonkin would make chase. At a point hte dragons would all 'evade' and run back to home base. While they were evading the speedies would be out of combat and run back to loot hte chest before the dragons even got close.
I reported and reported, I would send /w to the lvl 2s and try to talk to them (cause normally that made them log.) And I decided I would do Blizz and me both a favor. For a few hours a night I would farm the chests so the chinese farmers couldn't.
I made lots of money of the BOE blues I found in those chests. And yes they were chinese cause one gave e his email address so he could work on his english more. We became odd penpals for a while (he mostly used some translation program that his 'work' used for when they played WOW, so they could respond to people so they didn't look like bots.


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When local athletes and dancers need medical attention, whom do they turn to? Orthopedic physicians at Sutter Health's CPMC.
Allan Pont, M.D. has been the team physician for the Oakland A's since 1984. In 2011, Jon Dickinson, M.D. became the team orthopedist and is now in his second year. Previously, Dickinson spent eight years working with the Golden State Warriors basketball team. He attends half of the 82 A's home games seated mostly in the dugout or field seats. "I played baseball in college, so I'm a big fan!" he explains.
Not surprisingly, in addition to ankle sprains, muscle strains and pulls, shoulder and elbow injuries are baseball players' most common complaints. Dickinson says, "The need for professional athletes to perform at high levels is different from the need of the average 'weekend warrior.' But essentially we see the same injuries." Dickinson, who goes to spring training and accompanied the team on a recent trip to Japan, also treats players on visiting teams. After evaluation and diagnosis of a problem, Dickinson says his most important function is to propose a treatment regimen specific to the injury. It is similar to what he does for his post-surgical patients seen in his office. For both, physical rehabilitation is key to recovery, though because most athletes are already in superb physical shape, they rehabilitate faster. They also devote more time to their rehabilitation. "When a player is injured, they undergo several hours of rehab daily, so they can recover quicker than the average person," says Dickinson.
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Richard Gibbs, M.D., was the perfect choice 20 years ago when the San Francisco Ballet selected him to be its supervising physician: Before going to medical school in his 30s, he was a professional dancer. "The first thing I did was call Dr. John Callander, who was a highly respected orthopedist. He helped me establish a medical facility on-site at the ballet. We probably have the most complete program in the country for professional dancers."
Dr. Callander, since retired from his own medical practice at CPMC, continues to treat the dancers – as does his son, CPMC orthopedic surgeon Peter Callander, M.D., and members of Peter's orthopedic medical practice: Keith Donatto, M.D., and Rowan Paul, M.D.
Says Gibbs: "The expertise these physicians bring is invaluable. As you can imagine, foot and ankle injuries are most common among the female dancers because they are 'on point' all the time. Keith Donatto has treated every tendonitis you can imagine that might occur in the foot and ankle."
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Many nonprofessional dancers – those who do it for activity or artistic expression – are among the mostly 20- to 40-year-old patients Donatto treats in his practice. He says, "Dancing is a passionate activity. For professionals, it is their life – so they face their treatment and rehab with that level of determination. It is extremely important for them to get back to dancing as soon as possible. We carry that same mentality back to patients we see in our everyday practice."
Callander explains, "My job is to deal with tears, swelling and acute injuries of the hips or knees that can be repaired, usually with arthroscopic ACL reconstruction or with partial meniscal repair. Because the dancers are younger, they don't need joint replacements, although I perform many replacement surgeries on retired dancers."
Recently, CPMC sports medicine specialist Rowan Paul, M.D., joined this prestigious team. Gibbs says, "Dr. Paul is very up to date on aspects of injuries in sports medicine, especially overuse, which is often the case here at the ballet. He brings a portable ultrasound the size of a briefcase, which is especially helpful in detecting and determining good sites for steroid injection treatment."
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As with treating the Oakland A's, perhaps the most important part of these physicians' jobs is making the proper diagnosis, which is where their expertise is especially helpful. Gibbs says, "Without a proper diagnosis, it's difficult to get a dancer back to dancing because we need to guide the specific rehab needed to be done in physical therapy."
All these physicians volunteer their time to help local athletes and dancers – no one is paid. "This is a wonderful opportunity for me to help out the arts and something I enjoy because I get to spend my time treating these dancers. We have an amazing troupe – one of the best in the country, if not the world," proclaims Callander.
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Business Looks to Republicans to Block Rules, Taxes – BusinessWeek
Last Updated on Tuesday, 2 November 2010 10:04 Written by admin Tuesday, 2 November 2010 10:04
November 03, 2010, 12:33 AM EDT
By Mark Drajem
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Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) — The Republican gains in Congress mean U.S. companies from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to Wellpoint Inc. may be able to weaken or block what they consider President Barack Obama's anti-business policies on health care, the environment, taxes and financial reform.
Republicans will use their perch as the new majority in the House of Representatives to try to eliminate funding for parts of Obama's health care bill opposed by business as well as curb regulations and government spending, Jay Timmons, senior vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers, a Washington-based lobbying group, said in an interview before the election.
"Americans voted for jobs and economic growth" and "resoundingly rejected" Obama policies, Thomas Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the biggest business lobbying group, said in a statement last night.
The results will bolster Republican efforts to extend Bush- era tax cuts for those earning more than $ 250,000 and to defeat Obama's proposals to increase taxes on companies' overseas profits.
On health care, they are "really going to be pushing back on the regulations," said Kim Monk, managing director at the investment advisory firm Capital Alpha Partners LLC in Washington. "There could be some serious blowback from a Republican Congress."
Backfire Risk
Republicans also are likely to use their new leadership of House committees to tie up administration officials in hearings to explain and delay proposed rules on pesticides, ozone standards and mining, said Kenneth Green, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, a group critical of Environmental Protection Agency regulations.
The efforts may backfire, especially if Republicans carry out threats to subpoena members of the Obama administration and if their push to cut spending results in a government shutdown, said Jack Pitney, a political science professor at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California.
"There will be a large number of new members who will press for a harder line," Pitney said. "But the new members are like gasoline: they provide the fuel for the party but they are also very combustible and can provoke explosions."
More-ambitious goals sought by some lawmakers and businesses, such as completely overturning Obama's health-care overhaul, probably will remain out of reach for Republicans. Obama still wields veto power, and Democrats retained control of the Senate, though Republicans cut into their lead.
Bipartisan Potential
High-profile objectives, like repealing the health-care measure, won't progress past "symbolic, messaging votes," said Bruce Josten, the top lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber.
The Washington-based Chamber, which led the fight against Obama on health care and financial regulation and budgeted a record $ 75 million promoting pro-business candidates, says it hopes the acrimony of the election campaign can be put aside and Republicans can work with Obama to cut the deficit, promote nuclear power and energy efficiency, and pass long-stalled free trade agreements.
Other items may gain support from both the administration and Congress, such as scaling back business taxes imposed by the health-care bill, providing highway funding, creating renewable- energy standards and boosting nuclear power, he said.
"There is a potential here for some bipartisan movement," Josten said.
Following are assessments of what the new Congress means for selected industries and issues.
The election will put Republicans in charge of the House Financial Services Committee that Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank has headed since 2007. A Wall Street critic, Frank and Senator Christopher Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat who is retiring, wrote the law aimed at reining in abuses that they say contributed to the financial crisis. The legislation represents the biggest overhaul of financial regulations in more than seven decades.
Republicans' new power gives them the ability to shape more than 240 rules that may be needed to implement the Dodd-Frank law, including regulations establishing the direction and independence of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Rulemaking by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and other agencies on bank capital standards, derivatives and proprietary trading also will draw increased scrutiny.
"We don't want them to regulate capriciously, arbitrarily, without engaging in a cost-benefit analysis," Representative Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican on the financial services panel, said in an interview.
The regulatory oversight and ability to weaken rules may benefit banks including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Bank of America Corp., all of which lobbied against elements of the Dodd-Frank law, saying they would hurt profits.
On housing, Republicans including Hensarling say they want a free-market approach that would phase out federal support for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage companies taken over by the government after their losses soared.
A legislative stalemate may be fine with financial companies as well as investors, said Alison Williams, a Bloomberg Research analyst. "In general, investors just want gridlock so the government will be less of a threat," she said.
House and Senate Republicans have written at least 30 bills that would roll back provisions of the health-care overhaul Obama signed into law in March.
Such efforts may help Wellpoint and rival health insurers escape regulations on how much they spend on patient care and let Boston Scientific Corp. and other medical-device makers dodge $ 20 billion in tax increases over the next decade.
"You can literally open the bill and point your finger to a page and say, 'Here's something we should go after,'" said Representative Michael C. Burgess of Texas, a Republican who serves on the House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee. "It's all bad."
The Republicans' push will force Democrats to vote on whether to defend the most controversial parts of the law, such as requiring insurance for all Americans, said Tom Scully, the former chief of the Medicare program under President George W. Bush.
Republicans also want to go after a requirement that businesses of all sizes report to the Internal Revenue Service any expenditures of more than $ 600, and they probably will target the budgets of agencies that are implementing the law.
The split Congress ensures there won't be an outright repeal of the law that Republicans such as Representative John Boehner, who is in position to become the new speaker of the House, have called for, Scully said.
"Very little will happen in the next two years, but it will be a big political battle," said Scully, senior counsel at the Washington office of Alston & Bird LLP.
House Republicans have pledged to cut $ 100 billion in domestic discretionary spending, the outlays set by Congress on a yearly basis that aren't mandated by law.
Don't look for them to take the ax to defense spending very soon, though.
Wary of the growing military might of China, Republicans are likely to be more aggressive in spending in ways that respond to that country's capabilities in naval warfare, ballistic missiles and air power, even if the overall U.S. defense budget doesn't increase.
"We have to look at the totality" of China's efforts, said Representative Randy Forbes, a Virginia Republican who may become head of the House Armed Services Committee's readiness subcommittee. Once lawmakers focus on the emerging challenges, they will agree on the need for "readiness capability," he said.
That would entail devoting more money to weapons programs benefiting contractors making sea-based, anti-missile systems, such as Lockheed Martin Corp. and Raytheon Co., said Loren Thompson, defense analyst with the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Virginia.
Also standing to gain are ship- and submarine-makers Northrop Grumman Corp. and General Dynamics Corp., said James McAleese, a consultant to defense companies.
New Republican House defense leaders will also try to protect military contractors in lawmakers' districts, Thompson said.
Representative Howard McKeon, a California Republican, is likely to become chairman of the Armed Services Committee. Bill Young, a Florida Republican, may head the panel of the Appropriations committee that approves defense spending.
Northrop Grumman was the top defense contractor in McKeon's California district with contracts worth $ 1.01 billion in 2009, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Lockheed was second with $ 253.2 million.
General Dynamics was the largest defense contractor in Young's Florida district, receiving $ 286.2 million, followed by Raytheon's $ 221.8 million.
On energy policy, the first order of business for Republicans will be to block the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to limit carbon emissions.
Congressional Democrats from coal-producing states have joined Republicans in seeking to stop or postpone EPA regulation of carbon emitted by power plants and factories. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has said Obama "would veto any attempt to take away authority here."
The failure to pass his cap-and-trade measure, which would reduce carbon emissions and create a market in pollution allowances, may force Obama to take smaller steps to reshape U.S. energy policy. "We may end up having to do it in chunks, as opposed to some sort of comprehensive omnibus legislation," the president said in an interview published in the Oct. 15 issue of Rolling Stone magazine.
Efforts to reach a compromise on energy legislation may focus on enacting national requirements for the use of non- polluting renewable energy.
Electricity producers such as NRG Energy Inc. may benefit as Republicans push to include nuclear power in such a standard along with the wind turbines and solar panels favored by environmentalists, said David Crane, chief executive officer of Princeton, New Jersey-based NRG.
Airlines such as United Continental Holdings Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc. may gain from the shift in congressional power because Republicans oppose proposals to limit the outsourcing of maintenance work abroad and to subject global airline alliances to antitrust regulation.
House-approved legislation to finance the Federal Aviation Administration, still pending, would require drug testing and additional inspections at overseas maintenance centers used by U.S. carriers, potentially raising costs and making outsourcing less attractive to the airlines.
The legislation also would restrict global airline alliances by ending their exemption from antitrust prosecution after three years. Carriers such as AMR Corp.'s American Airlines and British Airways Plc, and Delta and Air France-KLM, use alliances to act as single entities in setting prices and schedules on international routes.
"The current Congress has been anti-airline," William Swelbar, a research engineer specializing in air transport at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said in an interview. "There will be a new set of ears to listen to the industry."
The shift in House lawmakers shaping transportation policy may benefit FedEx Corp., operator of the world's largest cargo airline, by ending Democratic efforts to ease union organizing at the company's Express unit.
Rival United Parcel Service Inc. and the Teamsters Union backed the provision sponsored by Democratic Representative James Oberstar of Minnesota, who will lose the chairmanship of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee when Republicans take control in January.
Automakers such as Toyota Motor Corp. of Toyota City, Japan, which recalled 8 million vehicles in the past year, may face less scrutiny with the House Energy and Commerce Committee likely to be led by Fred Upton, a Michigan Republican, said Michael Stanton, president of the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, a trade group based in Arlington, Virginia. The current committee chairman is Democratic Representative Henry Waxman of California, who led hearings into Toyota's handling of the recalls.
Republican control of the House may provide the best chance to pass free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama since they were approved by President Bush in 2007. Obama has shied away from pushing the deals in Congress as drafted amid high unemployment and opposition from some fellow Democrats and labor unions.
"This is one area where Republicans and Democrats can work together," said William Lane, government relations director for Caterpillar Inc., the world's biggest construction-equipment maker, which favors free trade.
For companies such as Caterpillar, UPS, Boeing Co. and Citigroup Inc., getting the agreements passed would broaden access to markets abroad, with the South Korean deal alone boosting U.S. exports by $ 10.9 billion a year, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission.
Republican leaders such as Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell and Michigan Republican Dave Camp, positioned to be the incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, say they want to help Obama get the pending trade deals approved.
"Under a Republican House leadership, if the president is serious about moving forward on trade, he will have a serious partner on Capitol Hill," Texas Republican Kevin Brady, the likely chairman of the trade subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee, said at a meeting in Washington Oct. 25. "We believe the three agreements are critical."
The South Korean accord, the most important of the three pending pacts in volume of goods affected, may draw especially strong bipartisan support. "Korea has broader implications," said Laura Lane, senior vice president of international government affairs at New York-based Citigroup, said in an interview.
With almost $ 68 billion in two-way trade, the deal would be the U.S.'s largest free-trade pact since the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994 and may be critical to helping Obama meet his goal of doubling American exports in five years.
International Business Machines Corp., Microsoft Corp., Blackstone Group LP and Occidental Petroleum Corp. all have lobbied against the Obama proposals to increase taxes on overseas profits. The election gives them some important allies.
"Republicans have pretty much staked their claim that they're not going to raise taxes," said John Feehery, who was an adviser to former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, the last Republican to hold that top post. "Republicans are much more cognizant and care more about the financial impact of these taxes on jobs."
Republican control of the House may make it impossible for Obama to succeed in his bid to boost taxes on profits companies make overseas. And the gridlock that may result from a divided legislature would also stave off separate changes proposed by the administration that would cost oil companies, including Occidental, tens of billions more a year by raising taxes on their non-U.S. operations.
"The punitive-type tax changes against the energy industry will be much more difficult to pass with Republicans in charge of the House," said Gerald McPhee, senior vice president of federal relations at Los Angeles-based Occidental, the fourth- largest U.S. oil company by market value.
The Republican victory also may allow private-equity firms, such as New York-based Blackstone, to kill a four-year effort by congressional Democrats to raise taxes on the incentive pay earned by their executives known as carried interest.
Besides blocking prospective increases, businesses may find a ripe political environment for getting some long-sought tax benefits through Congress. Companies such as San Jose, California-based Cisco Systems Inc. may find new support for a temporary tax holiday on their foreign earnings that was rejected by the Senate in 2009.
Businesses "are not going to be seen as a pool of funds to be pillaged by Congress anymore," said Curtis Dubay, a senior tax policy analyst at the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, a research institution that often sides with Republicans on tax issues.
Immigration is one area where the Republican ascendency may prove disappointing to some companies, including Intel Corp. and Hilton Worldwide Inc. They want to increase the flow of legal foreign workers through changes to immigration law.
Republican lawmakers, who will lead the debate on the issue in the House, plan to focus on border security and cracking down on illegal immigration first. They say they will consider the measures sought by business only after fewer illegal immigrants are coming across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Representative Steve King, an Iowa Republican slated to head the House Judiciary subcommittee on immigration policy, says he opposes lifting visa caps for lower-skilled foreign workers because that would depress U.S. worker wages. He would support increasing visas for higher-skilled workers only if they meet criteria to boost the U.S. economy.
That means they should be young, well-educated and able to speak English, King said. "That's the indicator of whether they can assimilate into the broader society."
Intel and other technology companies such as EBay Inc. and Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. want Congress to lift the cap on H-1B visas for skilled workers. The annual limit has been 65,000 since 2004, after expiration of a temporary increase from 2001 to 2003 that raised the cap to 195,000. In fiscal 2010, the cap was reached in nine months.
Companies also want to lift the 140,000 limit on employment-based green cards that prove permanent residency.
At Intel, about 6.5 percent of 40,000 workers in the U.S. are in the country on temporary visas. The company helps those workers apply immediately for green cards, said Peter Muller, director of government relations. "We want to keep them, ideally for their entire career," he said.
The restaurant and hotel industries need more seasonal, lower-skilled workers. Jonas Neihardt, a Hilton lobbyist, is pushing for a simpler system to verify the legal status of workers and a boost in H-2B visas for non-farm seasonal employees, now capped at 66,000.
"We're anticipating when things get better we'll need more of those types of workers," Neihardt said.
Corporations say they hope the importance of the Latino vote in the 2012 presidential elections will cause congressional Republican leaders to support a broad bill.
"It will be an uphill battle, but it could be that the Republicans would see that it's to their advantage to get this issue behind them," said Randy Johnson, vice president for labor policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Organized labor faces tougher times on Capitol Hill.
"The election profoundly reshapes labor's agenda," said Harley Shaiken, a professor of labor relations at University of California at Berkeley.
Unions face little chance of achieving legislative goals envisioned from a Democratic-majority Congress, such as easier organizing rules, mandatory paid sick leave, and bigger fines for workplace safety violations, he said.
Labor leaders are now likely to scale back their legislative ambitions and increase efforts to make gains through regulatory agencies. Unions may still have enough supporters to make it difficult for business to achieve anti-union legislation, particularly in the Senate.
"On labor issues, it's going to be very difficult to move the ball in either direction," said Glenn Spencer, who handles labor matters at the Chamber of Commerce.
The biggest short-term impact may be for unions representing construction-trades and public-sector workers. Republicans have generally opposed union-backed federal stimulus spending, such as measures that created construction jobs and saved jobs of teachers, police officers and other public-sector workers.
Organized labor is counting on Obama to use his veto power should anti-union legislation emerge from Congress.
"As hard as the Republicans might try, it's doubtful legislation attacking workers' rights would make it to the White House," said Bill Samuel, the top lobbyist for the AFL-CIO labor federation. "And if it did, I can't foresee a situation where President Obama would sign it."
–With assistance from Drew Armstrong, Frank Bass, Clea Benson, Tony Capaccio, Ryan Donmoyer, Jim Efstathiou Jr., Angela Greiling Keane, John Hughes, Ian Katz, Laura Litvan, Phil Mattingly, Gopal Ratnam, Holly Rosenkrantz, Jim Snyder, Kim Chipman and Lily Yu in Washington. Editors: Joe Winski, Terry Atlas
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Sink Fires Adviser Who Sent Message in Violation of Debate Rules – Fox News
Last Updated on Tuesday, 26 October 2010 08:05 Written by admin Tuesday, 26 October 2010 08:05
Florida gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink has fired an adviser who sent the Democratic candidate a message in the middle of a debate with opponent Rick Scott in violation of the rules.
A make-up artist delivered the brief message on a cell phone during a commercial break in the middle of the CNN/St. Petersburg Times-hosted debate held Monday evening.
Republican Scott noticed the infraction and called it to the attention of somebody on stage. When the debate resumed, Scott publicly criticized Sink for taking the message.
"First, Alex, you say you always follow the rules. The rule was no one is supposed to give us messages during the break, and your campaign did with an iPad, all right, an iPod," he said.
Click here to watch the video.
The message was apparently in response to claims Scott made about Sink's work a decade ago with call-center company Sykes — Scott accused her of "falsifying" records. CNN reported that the cell phone message said: "The attorney who (w)on the Sykes suit said alex sink did nothing wrong. Tell not to let him keep talking about her."
Sink said in a written statement that she "removed" the adviser after the debate, acknowledging it violated the ground rules.
"After the debate tonight, one of my campaign advisers admitted he tried to communicate with me during one of the breaks. While he told me it was out of anger with Rick Scott's repeated distortion of facts, it was a foolish thing to do," she said.
An Article That Talks About The Importance And Positive Effects Of Driving Knowledge
Last Updated on Sunday, 18 July 2010 05:17 Written by Lance Baker Sunday, 18 July 2010 05:17
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Part two
He stayed leaning against the wall, and didn't bat an eyelid. "Go on," he said, his voice stony. A tear started to wind it's way down her cheek but she fiercely brushed it away.
"In 1976 I was born in New York, U.S.A to Mark and Jane Smith. In 1990 my parents split up. Started arguing over who would have custody of me. I started to fool around with guys, cos it took my mind off what was happening. And I know I was only 14," she almost snapped. "And then...and then..." She stopped. "Then I found out I was pregnant."
He regarded her impassively. So many lies. So much heartache.
"I...I...I didn't want a kid. I was going to be 15, who would have? I booked an abortion...but I couldn't go through with it. My parents found out and immediately neither of them wanted anything to do with me. Suddenly they were arguing who wouldn't have custody over me." She laughed resentfully. "It was such a shame when they died in a car crash, leaving me and my unborn kid no where to go. My aunt and uncle agreed to take me in. Snag was they lived in England. They flew over and we talked. I didn't want people to know Jenny was mine, so they agreed that we could call her my sister. I always looked younger than I was so it sort of worked. They stayed in America while I had Jenny." She smiled bitterly. "God, I never want to do that again." She glanced up at him. "10 hour labour." She sighed and continued with the story. "We stayed in America till I'd done my O levels. Failed all of them apart from biology. When we finally moved to England, she was about a year old. We gave out that she was my sister. Most people didn't pick up on the age gap. I left school at 16 so after that my age didn't really matter. I could have been any age. I moved out and away so people couldn't make anything out of how old I was. When Jenny was older, about ten, they moved down here and I followed them. That was when I changed my age on everything. I changed my name to Matthews because Mom and Dad adopted me legally. I became Willow Matthews, the twenty year old. Not twenty-five. Nobody knew me down here, nobody was looking for anything and it was unlikely they'd have found anything. Sometimes I found my self actually believing it. That I was Willow Matthews twenty years old. That Jenny was my sister. That I was English. That Kerry and John Matthews were my parents. That I hadn't been so unbelievably stupid. Ask anyone," she began almost defiantly, "I'm Willow Mathews, twenty six years old who used to work in a Chanel shop. Not Willow Smith, 31 who was a fucking retard when she was a kid," She finished, her voice slowly fading away, as more glistening tears rolled down her cheeks. "You can't tell anyone," she begged, "Please."
He just stood there, watching her. Then it was like something inside of him clicked. "Fuck off Will. Stop messing around with my brother's head. He doesn't need someone like you hanging around, poisoning his mind." He reached for the door and just as he was about to step out he turned back. "Congratulations," he said bitterly," You've kept your webs of lies together. Well fucking done." And with that last parting comment Gerard Way walked out of the room, slamming the door.


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Eli Mohar
From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium
Eli Mohar (Hebrew: עֵלִי מוהר) (December 30, 1948 - November 30, 2006) was an Israeli songwriter and columnist. Mohar's reputation as a songwriter was based mainly on his longtime collaboration with the Israeli composer Yoni Rechter, some other members of the pop group Kaveret and singer Arik Einstein. Mohar held a weekly column in the weekly Ha'ir (THE City) called Me'anasa Beirenu (Of what transpired in our city) from 1984, in which he opined in his staple mix of humour and sentimentality balanced by a tinge of sarcasm about his great loves: The city of Tel Aviv, city life, the Hebrew language, Paris. In a separate mini-column with Ha'ir he unabashedly hailed his other great loves, the Manchester United and "Hapo'el Tel Aviv" football clubs.


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I am really excited about the advent of smartphones like the iPhone and Android. The blurring of the phone and the desktop is going to make mobile shopping really work. High gas prices will make people want to do more research before they get in the car. (Today they announced a local search app for [...]
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I was working at Overture as a Product Manager and built one of the first mobile search platforms in Japan. My biggest surprise here is that the size of the mobile marketing market in the U.S. is much smaller than it is in Japan. M-commerce in Japan is about $1B and it encompasses a broad [...]
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February 18th, 2008 · 27 Comments
A while ago David Mihm asked if I could provide guidance on how to optimize a business with multiple locations in the same geographic area. Well Dave, here at Local SEO Guide we aim to please, eventually:
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Google Phone & Local Search
November 5th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I am in the Minneapolis airport in between connecting flights and couldn't resist adding my $0.02 to the Google Phone announcement and how it relates to local search. Here's the (extremely uninformed) deal:
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PLAYERS: RA Dickey, David Wright, Johan Santana
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TEAMS: New York Mets
At seasons end Dickey called he and Wright a "package deal." Now that the Mets have locked up David Wright to an extension, they will probably shift their attention to the 2012 Cy Young award winner, RA Dickey. Could it be the reason why David Wright agreed to sign on the dotted line was because he and Dickey are truly a package deal, and now the Mets are going to lock up Dickey next? It could be the case-who knows at this point? There has been tons of speculation regarding what the Mets are going to do with regards to Dickey. There have been numerous trade rumors this off-season. Rightly so, as it seems this would be the optimal time to restock the team with young prospects in exchange for Dickey. That's called selling high. Then, in the midst of the rumors, they were somewhat discredited when other MLB team executives said they thought the Mets were using the trade talks to gain an edge when negotiating with Dickey. That last part doesn't really make much sense. Dickey wants to be...
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In this day and age there are numerous styles of sunglasses to fit any personality type, and mood and any fashion phase. The possibilities are endless, making the prospect of settling on a pair a little bit daunting. I myself have always been discouraged about purchasing sunglasses because I don't think that I have a face that's made to rock them. No matter how many I try on they are always too small, too bug eyed, or just insolubly wrong for me. But in the vast world of sun-protecting spectacles there, somewhere, lays the ideal pair.
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For those of you who have been wondering what exactly the NBA has been proposing to the players that has been so poorly-received, the league has a video that should help. That is, of course, if you believe that the NBA would tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth in a public YouTube video. For anyone who has DirecTV, this is probably a familiar act. Believe me, I watched all the videos about Fox trying to rip off DirecTV and DirecTV trying to rip off Fox. Someone must be lying. With that in mind, it's probably best to take this NBA Lockout video that I Am a GM passed along with a grain of salt:
NBA Publishes YouTube Video Supposedly Explaining Their CBA Proposal
Kevin Durant Growing Tired of Lockout, Getting Ready to Play Overseas
When the NBA's best players start talking about playing overseas, it may be time to officially start worrying about the lockout. As far as the public is concerned, there has been little to no progress made with the labor negotiations between the NBA and NBA Players Association. Players have found a variety of activities to keep themselves occupied while David Stern continues to insult everyone. Kevin Durant, who has been a big advocate of the players not getting cheated with the new deal, says he is almost ready to take his game overseas.
"I know it's not a good one," Durant said of the NBA's proposal according to Yahoo! Sports. "It's not the one that we want. …If it's not a good deal, I don't see why we should take it, especially this late.
"I'm right on the fence with playing overseas and I'm about to jump over."
To this point Durant has only turned to flag football to keep himself busy during the lockout. Obviously he could be completely bluffing and doing his best to nudge the talks in the right direction, but it would not be good for the NBA to have its best players signing contracts in Europe. As Durant has already stated, the pickup games are getting old. If a deal is not going to be reached and the season cannot be saved, players want to be able to join a legitimate league and play competitively to stay sharp. With each day that passes, a shortened NBA season starts to look more and more like no NBA season.
Chest bump to Pro Basketball Talk for passing the story along.
Brian Cardinal Takes Job as Purdue Athletic Department Intern During Lockout
Another day without NBA basketball. You know what that means? More players finding ways to keep themselves busy. Brian Cardinal, who was a role player on last season's NBA champion Dallas Mavericks, has taken a position within his alma mater's athletic department. According to the Sporting News, Cardinal will be joining the Purdue athletic department as in intern until the lockout ends.
In addition to mentoring student-athletes with the John Purdue Club and John R. Wooden Leadership Institute, Cardinal will assist with event coordination on projects like the 2012 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament and Big Ten Wrestling Championships.
"It feels great to be coming home to Purdue," Cardinal said. "I've always been proud to be a Boilermaker, and I'm excited to get in there and get to work."
If there are any positives that can be taken from NBA games being cancelled, this is one of them. It's nice to see players like Kyrie Irving and Nolan Smith return to their schools and give a little back to fans that gave them so much. It's also good to see players returning to school to continue their education while people like Cardinal work to improve the athletic departments that helped get them to where they are. Not to mention, a 40-game NBA season would be awesome.
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Things started when Dwight, who is an active tweeter/social media guy, took a picture of himself Tebowing:
He accompanied the picture by saying "This [is] for Tebow lol. Good game boy."
Tebow, who tweets infrequently, responded "lol appreciate the love Superman!"
Dwight upped the ante after that, telling Tebow "Keep up the good work. Despite all the haters you work hard you got heart and you got Jesus. You can't lose."
Tebow responded "thank you brother, will do! Jesus is above all else!"
It was after that when Tebow invited Dwight and LeBron to play for the Broncos.
Ricky Rubio Hasn't Practiced with Teammates Because He Doesn't Have Their Numbers
For someone like Ricky Rubio who is looking to adjust to life in the NBA, the lockout is probably particularly annoying. Every player in the league has to find ways to keep themselves occupied and some even have to figure out how to manage their funds, but for a rookie who is new to America business as usual would be a plus. According to the Star Tribune, Rubio has not had the chance to spend much time with his teammates over the offseason.
If he had a way to get a hold of them, it might be a different story.
"I would love to talk with all the guys, but I don't have their number," he said. "I will soon."
Rubio was given quite the warm welcome from T-Wolves fans when arrived in Minnesota, but apparently he hasn't done much bonding with the guys he'll be playing with. He did say that he played with a handful of teammates the week of the draft and spent some time working with other players to try to learn as much about NBA basketball that he can. He should probably start sending a couple texts while he's at it.
Nick Young Boycotting Michael Jordan Gear Because of Labor Talks
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"I'm not wearing Jordans no more can't believe what I just seen and heard from MJ," he wrote.
Young is upset because Michael Jordan reportedly is leading a group of owners who refuse to give the players any more than 47% of basketball related income. Not only is Jordan making it extremely difficult for the sides to agree on a deal, he's also proven to be a hypocrite now that he's an owner rather than player.
Jordan said during the 1998-1999 lockout that NBA owners who couldn't afford their teams should sell. When he was a player, he also fought against an offer from the owners he didn't think was fair. "[David Stern] wouldn't recommend that; he wouldn't accept that deal from a business standpoint so why would he ask the players to do that?" he said at the time.
But now that he's on the opposite side as an owner of a team losing money (the Charlotte Bobcats), Jordan doesn't care about principles; he just wants the best deal for himself. A few players have called him a hypocrite as a result.
Kyrie Irving and Nolan Smith Join the Duke Cameron Crazies (Video)
Normally when people talk about the NBA lockout it's to complain or talk about certain players' sob stories from their days of unemployment and boredom. In other instances, we have seen players making good use of their time. Guys like Anthony Randolph decided to go back to school while Gordon Hayward had some fun joining a video game league. Two Duke alumni, Kyrie Irving and Nolan Smith, visited their alma mater on Tuesday night and brought some added excitement to a group that rarely needs it — the Cameron Crazies. Check out this video from DukeBluePlanet that The Dagger shared with us:


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How many apples could Apple buy?
Apple revealed this week that it is sitting on a pile of cash — $145 billion US, to be precise — and the company is planning to flush out some of it to shareholders in a manner carefully structured...
Apple revealed this week that it is sitting on a pile of cash — $145 billion US, to be precise — and the company is planning to flush out some of it to shareholders in a manner carefully structured to minimize its tax burden.
The staggering wealth Apple accumulated leads to speculation about wildly hypothetical scenarios regarding how Apple could spend its money. For example, how many apples could Apple buy? Approximately 45 apples for every person on Earth. Red delicious apples cost an average of $1.39 per pound in the United States, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There are about three apples in a pound. So assuming an infinite supply of red delicious apples, Apple could distribute 45 apples to each member of the world's population of seven billion. Those apples would fill up about one-three-thousandth of the Earth's volume.
There are only 31 companies in the world Apple couldn't (theoretically) buy with its stockpile of cash, although companies aren't usually sold at their market price.
Other armchair CEOs advised Apple to try to acquire Netflix or Visa or the nation of Hungary, but it's doubtful either of those companies would settle for a measly $145 billion, and countries aren't technically for sale.
The cash could buy 38.8 billion gallons of regular unleaded gasoline, or enough to fill up 2.9 billion Honda Civic gas tanks or 1.49 billion Ford F-150 tanks. Apple could alternatively buy 132 million VIP passes to Beyoncé's show at the Verizon Center, for more than one in three Americans.
The company could give $2.3 million to each of the 62,619 estimated homeless veterans living in the United States. It could administer polio vaccines to 290 million people — the combined population of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Chad and the Democratic Republic of Congo, countries where polio rages on. The company could buy all the art in the Louvre 1.5 times over. It could acquire 290 Airbus A380 double-decker private jets, which seat 525 passengers, such as the one bought by Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal. Or the company could send 95,000 employees, one-sixth of its total in the United States, on a two-year, globe-trotting luxury vacation.
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