Palin accuses Obama of ?shuck and jive shtick?

Sarah Palin speaks to the American Conservative Union on February 11, 2012 (JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS)

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin released a statement on her Facebook page accusing President Obama of engaging in "shuck and jive shtick" regarding last month's attack in Benghazi, Libya.

"Why the lies? Why the cover up? Why the dissembling about the cause of the murder of our ambassador on the anniversary of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil? We deserve answers to this. President Obama's shuck and jive shtick with these Benghazi lies must end," Palin wrote.

For those who aren't familiar with the phrase, "shuck and jive" is a racially-tinged expression. According to the user-submitted Urban Dictionary, the term "originally referred to the intentionally misleading words and actions that African-Americans would employ in order to deceive racist Euro-Americans in power, both during the period of slavery and afterwards."

As Politico points out, this isn't the first time the phrase has come up and inspired controversy. Several years ago, Andrew Cuomo, then New York's Attorney General, used the expression while campaigning for Hillary Rodham Clinton. "You can't shuck and jive at a press conference. All those moves you can make with the press don't work when you're in someone's living room."

Cuomo was promptly blasted by CNN's Roland Martin, who wrote, "'Shucking and jiving' have long been words used as a negative assessment of African Americans, along the lines of a 'foot shufflin' Negro.' In fact, I don't recall ever hearing the phrase used in reference to anyone white."

Earlier this week, conservative pundit Ann Coulter inspired outrage when she called President Obama a "retard" following his Florida debate with GOP challenger Mitt Romney. An athlete with Down Syndrome wrote an open letter to Coulter in response. "Come on Ms. Coulter," he wrote. "You aren't dumb and you aren't shallow. So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult?"

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ARM has seen its revenues rise 20 percent in its Q3 results as customers continue to spend on mobile devices.

Competitors such as?Intel and AMD may be suffering from slow PC sales, but ARM has seen the popularity of its processor technology grow - with royalties for its chip designs up 27 percent year on year in the quarter.

The company saw 2.2 billion chips shipped using its designs. ARM architecture and processor licences, it boasted, have ended up in a broad range of applications from hearing aids and automotive braking systems to smartphones and tablets. Its Mali graphics processor range also performed well, the British firm said.

Revenues were ?144.6 million for the quarter, up 20 percent from ?120.2 million year on year.

Pre-tax profits were ?68.1 million, up 22 percent from ?55.7 million last year.

ARM CEO Warren East commented that mobility and cloud computing continue to helping push the company's revenues up.

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East continued: "This demand is helping to drive ARM?s licensing revenues and this quarter we saw market leaders license ARM?s advanced processor technology for next generation super smartphones, tablets, and mobile and embedded computing applications."

The company promises that it is entering the final quarter with a 'record' order backlog, and its outlook for licensing is positive. ?Data derived from its own customers points towards a "moderate sequential increase" in royalty revenues in the next quarter as well, it said.

ARM's results contrast with the tough situation Intel and AMD have found themselves in, as macroeconomic conditions and?slowing PC sales impact margins. ?Aside from the dwindling returns in many western markets, according to some analysts, 2012 will see the first worldwide declines in PC sales for a decade.?

It has been said for some time now that the dominance of the traditional semiconductor firms would be threatened by mobility, and ARM's many contract wins for its low powered designs - more suited to mobile computing - are clearly leaning on the rest of the market. ?

In contrast to its competitors ARM has seen its position improve due to the boom in mobile computing. ?

Meanwhile, analyst house IHS iSuppli forecasts that the release of Apple's rumoured iPad Mini will help grow the market for seven inch tablets - an area where ARM is dominant - by two fold this year, reaching 34 million units, before a similar rise to 64 million next year.

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'This album is interesting because each song stands on its own,' Swift tells MTV News of Red's variety.
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Slain official's funeral ends in Beirut violence

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The state funeral in Beirut of an assassinated Lebanese intelligence chief ended in violence on Sunday as angry mourners broke away and tried to storm the offices of Prime Minister Najib Mikati, prompting security forces to shoot in the air and fire tear gas to repulse them.

The clashes fed into a growing political crisis in Lebanon linked to the civil war in neighboring Syria.

Opposition leaders and their supporters accuse Syria of being behind the car bombing that killed Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan on Friday and say Mikati is too close to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Lebanese ally Hezbollah, which is part of Mikati's government.

Thousands turned out in downtown Beirut's Martyrs' Square for Hassan's funeral, which also served as a political rally. The violence erupted after an opposition leader demanded that Mikati step down to pave the way for talks on the crisis.

A group marched to the prime minister's office, then overturned barriers, pulled apart barbed wire coils and threw stones, steel rods and bottle at soldiers and police.

Security forces responded by shooting into air and firing teargas, forcing the protesters to scatter. There were no immediate reports of casualties but the violence was nonetheless shocking to Lebanese who fear the Syrian conflict will spread to their country.

Opposition leader Saad al-Hariri urged supporters to refrain from any more violence.

"We want peace, the government should fall but we want that in a peaceful way. I call on all those who are in the streets to pull back," Hariri told supporters after the attack, speaking on the Future Television channel.

However as night fell groups of youths blocked the road to the international airport with piles of burning tires. The highway south to Sidon was also cut.

The killing of Hassan and the subsequent events have highlighted how the 19-month-old uprising against Assad in Syria has exacerbated deep-seated sectarian tensions in Lebanon, which is still scarred from its 1975-90 civil war.

Sunni-led rebels are fighting to overthrow Assad, who is from the Alawite minority, which has its roots in Shi'ite Islam. Lebanon's religious communities are divided between those that support Assad and those that back the rebels.

A HERO'S FUNERAL

Hassan, 47, was a Sunni Muslim and senior intelligence official who had helped uncover a bomb plot that led to the arrest and indictment in August of a pro-Assad former Lebanese minister.

He also led an investigation that implicated Syria and the Shi'ite Hezbollah in the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri in 2005.

Mourners at Martyrs' Square accused Syria of involvement in the killing and called for Mikati to quit. One banner read "Go, go Najib" echoing the slogans of the Arab Spring.

The violence broke out after Fouad al-Siniora, a former prime minister, said the opposition rejected any dialogue to overcome the political crisis caused by Hassan's killing unless the government first resigned.

"No talks before the government leaves, no dialogue over the blood of our martyrs," Siniora said to roars of approval from the crowd.

At the start of the funeral, senior politicians and the military and security top brass turned out at the Internal Security Force headquarters for a ceremony held with full military honours and broadcast live on national television.

Hassan's wife and two sons, the youngest weeping, listened as he was eulogized by the head of police, Ashraf Rifi, and President Michel Suleiman.

Suleiman said the government and people must work "shoulder to shoulder" to overcome the challenges posed by the killing.

"I tell the judiciary do not hesitate, the people are with you, and I tell the security be firm, the people are with you, with you. And I tell the politicians and the government do not provide cover to the perpetrator."

In keeping with custom for state funerals, church bells pealed as police officers carried the flag-draped coffins of Hassan and his bodyguard to the mosque on Martyrs' Square through chanting crowds. Moslem prayers were broadcast by loudspeaker from the mosque.

"We blame Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria," said Assmaa Diab, 14, from the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, Hassan's home town. She was in the square with her sister and father.

"He is responsible for everything - in the past, now, and if we don't stand up to him, the future," she said.

The prime minister was also a focus of their anger.

"We are here to tell Mikati we don't need him any more and to tell Hezbollah we don't want any more of their games," said Hamza Akhrass, a 22-year-old student who from south Lebanon.

"Mikati takes too much pressure for Syria."

Mikati said on Saturday he had offered to resign to make way for a government of national unity but he had accepted a request by President Michel Suleiman to stay in office to allow time for talks on a way out of the political crisis.

Mikati sought in vain to insulate the country from turmoil in its larger neighbor, which has long played a role in Lebanese politics. He himself said he suspected Hassan's assassination was linked to his role in uncovering Syrian involvement in the August bomb plot.

(Additional reporting by Dominic Evans, Leila Bassam and Samia Nakhoul,; Editing by Giles Elgood)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-gather-beirut-funeral-slain-official-100632280.html

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Why Does My Business Need a Blog ? | Eco SEO

Do you currently have a small business website which you update occasionally or make minor changes to a couple of pages, but essentially remains the same from one year to the next? If so you need a blog.

What is a Blog?

Firstly let?s define exactly what a blog is and isn?t. There?s a common misconception that blogging is just for kids who want to complain about their school dinners, disgruntled employees to have a whinge about their boss or for big companies who have big news stories, ?but not me, I don?t have anything to write about?. Wrong!

Of course all the above examples do exist, but that?s just the tip of the iceburg. All a blog really is, is an easy way for people and companies to write something and publish it to the web, that?s it, how you use it is what defines your blog. It also offers an easy way to update any social profiles with your latest news, product launches, testimonials, new hires, the list goes on (but I?ll come to that later).

Three of the most common ones are WordPress, Blogger and Typepad, most hosting services offer an easy way to install at least one of these, although you will need some additional security and features once it?s installed, so if you don?t know how to do this, ask your web designer or seo company to do it for you.

The SEO Benefits

Also, on it?s most basic level, it?s a DIY SEO tool. Imagine someone does a search for something very specific, let?s say ?black dog collar with red dots?, if you are the only site which uses this exact term on your site, guess who is likely to appear in top position? (I?ll give you a clue, it?s not the site which sells pink collars with orange dots!).

As soon as you publish a new post, your website pings the search engines too, I won?t bore you with the technical description but basically it tells them you have added a new post, so they know to come and index the new page. If you update fairly regularly, they get to know this, so for example, when I add a new post it?s usually indexed by Google in about 10-15 minutes!

From a user perspective, they can also see that your website is up to date. Even if you only post once a month this is better than your next competitor who doesn?t have a blog at all. And once they are there, they can click on one of the links you included which leads through to your sales pages on the main website.

Oh, and Google likes blogs, well, to be more specific they like regularly updated sites, blogging just happens to be a really easy way to do it.

But I Don?t Have Anything to Write About !

Whenever I have the blog conversation with a client, or prospective client, I seem to come up against this, so here are a few ideas to help you get started. Once you get started, you?ll have more ideas related to your specific industry. I often think ?I can?t elaborate on that point too much or the post will be too long?, if that?s the case, jot the idea down and there is the next idea for a post, then you can link to it from the previous post as a point of reference too.

Just remember that a blog shouldn?t be a series of sales pitches, it?s information to attract and engage prospective clients which also offers them the opportunity to follow links to your main website (the pages which are selling).

Lists- Like this one??.

Testimonials ? The various blogging software offers a way to put all your testimonials into their own category, which groups them all together in one place.

Success Stories ? If you have achieved something which makes you stand out from the crow, shout about it.

Discuss and Comment on Someone Else?s Posts ? If a popular blog in your industry is discussing something and it?s getting a lot of attention, write your own perspective on the story and link to them.

News Stories ? If something is happening which will have an impact on your industry, writ about it and explain why.

Answer Common Questions ? If you are customer facing in your job, you will know the questions which come up time and time again (if not ask someone who is), then answer these questions in a post, you can bet if you are asked them in person, even more people are asking the questions online.

Industry Trends ? How are things looking overall in your industry? The global recession has had an impact on a lot of businesses, you can appear as an industry guru if you write about the bigger picture (although never claim to be one).

Looking Forward ? Are you planning to expand, move offices, take on a new product line in the coming year? If so and it doesn?t need to be kept quiet from the competition, write about it.

Book Reviews ? Read a good book recently? Why not review it?

Make a Video ? If you have products which you demonstrate in any way at all, why not make an informative video and post it up on your blog? Guided tours of your factory or packaging plant can also work well.

Conferences and Seminars ? If you have seen a public speaker from within your industry you can write about them, it doesn?t matter if you think they have great ideas or spoke a load of old tosh, it?s your opinion on the topic which matters here.

Staff Profiles ? Write about your staff, what experiences they have, success stories in their career, charity events they support and add a picture too, a nice one though, not that one from last years office party!

Support A Charity? ? OK, so tell everyone about it.

Series Posts ? If you want to write about something particularly technical, break it down into several posts and make sure you link to the previous and next ones.

Predictions ? Know something that other people don?t? Something which is going to have an effect on your industry or the people within it? So tell them! Remember when it happens, you can write about it again, linking back to your original post to gain further credibility.

Dispel Common Misconceptions ? There are usually myths around most industries and the way they work (believe me I know, SEO is rife with them) explain why they are not true and what the situation really is.

Milestones ? Had some major successes in the past? Old news can be just as relevant and helps readers understand how your business got to where it is today.

What?s the Competition up to ? ? Reading your competitors blogs can give you an insight to their company and ideas for new posts. Just remember they could be reading yours too.

How To?s ? You would be amazed at how many web searches start off with ?how to?, so write some articles which explain how to do something.

Tips ? Do most people only use a fraction of the features available with your software or product, or not know about additional benefits of your service? Write about them.

Events- If you are holding a seminar or speaking at someone elses, this provides an opportunity to both announce it in advance and to review it afterwards, 2 posts for the price of one!

This should have given you a few ideas, if not perhaps you?re just not cut out to be the company blogger and should consider passing the baton over to somebody else within the company, remember the more you write, the better your chances of attracting that next big customer. So bookmark this page and every time you can?t think of a suitable topic, come back and it should give you some inspiration.

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One dead, six seriously injured in Arizona bus crash

WILLOW BEACH, Ariz. (AP) ? A charter bus carrying tourists back to Las Vegas from the Grand Canyon crashed on an Arizona highway, killing the driver and injuring more than 20 passengers, six of them seriously, authorities said.

The bus was northbound on Highway 93 on Friday night, nearing the Nevada state line, when the driver suffered a physical problem and lost control, the Arizona highway patrol said. The company that offered the tour said the driver may have suffered a heart attack.

The vehicle hit a ravine, tore up a small hill, and then bounced and lurched over rough terrain for more than 700 feet before stopping, damaging the front end but remaining upright, patrol spokesman Carrick R. Cook said.

"We believe the driver experienced some sort of the medical condition and he just went off the road," the patrol said in a statement. No other vehicles were involved.

All 48 passengers were injured, but 27 of them were walking wounded with mainly bumps and bruises, Cook said.

"The passengers were pretty much bouncing around," he said.

The six most seriously hurt were flown by helicopter to University Medical Center in Las Vegas, while 15 others with less severe injuries were rushed to area hospitals by road.

UMC spokeswoman Danita Cohen said the six were being treated for nonlife-threatening injuries, such as broken bones and lacerations. She described them as being mostly over 50 years old.

Cook said most of the passengers appeared to be from Asia or Europe, but he didn't have details.

The passengers were returning to Las Vegas following a trip to the Grand Canyon when the crash occurred.

Tony Fiorini, president of Silver State Trailways, the California-based company bus company that operates tours from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon, said the company believes its driver had a heart attack while on the road. "Fortunately, no one else was seriously injured," Fiorini said.

Fiorini declined to release the name or age of the driver and didn't say how long the driver had been with the company. "I'm mainly concern about my driver's family right now," he said.

It was the third time in recent years that a tour bus crash in the area claimed lives.

Two years ago, two people were killed and several others injured in a crash on an area highway. In January 2009, seven people died and 10 were injured when a charter bus carrying a group of Chinese tourists on a return trip from the Grand Canyon crashed on U.S. 93, the main highway leading to Hoover Dam.

Four hours after the crash, the bus was sitting upright about 30 feet off the shoulder of the road.

The highway near the crash site was reduced to one lane of traffic for several hours.

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AP writers Bob Seavey in Phoenix and Russell Contreras in Albuquerque, N.M. contributed to this story.

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Asphalt 7: Heat (for Android)

Who said phones can't deliver console-quality gaming? Asphalt 7: Heat ($4.99 direct, though it's on sale for 99 cents) gives you exactly the kind of arcade racing experience you've been hoping for. It's also the nicest-looking game in the series. Asphalt 7: Heat isn't a simulator, but it's definitely a great buy for old-school Ridge Racer and Outrun fans, or anyone who wants a real arcade-style racing game?without excuses.

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Asphalt 7: Heat is a 1.37GB download from Google Play, and there's also an iOS version available. I tested Asphalt 7: Heat on a stock, freshly-formatted Samsung Galaxy S III running Android 4.0. There are 60 different cars you can drive on 15 tracks, set in various cities such as London, Paris, and Rio. You start off with a Fiat 500 Abarth. Gradually, you move up the line to a BMW Z4 M Coupe, a Nissan 370Z, and later, Aston Martins and Lamborghinis, unlocking more cars and upgrading them as you go along. The latest update includes the 2013 Hyundai Veloster Turbo and the refreshed 2013 Hyundai Genesis.

Cars are separated into six different tiers based on their performance characteristics; each event you race in is limited to a single tier. You can also customize the paint, decals, and window tint of each car, as well as upgrade its performance with virtual money you win as you play. But upgrades aren't always worth it; increasing top speed by just 2 km/h cost $18,000, which is ridiculous. Sometimes you get a free car just for one event; I was thrilled to take the wheel of an Audi TT after driving the Fiat, and moving to the second tier starts you off with a fast BMW 1 Series M Coupe.

Knock 'Em Down and Take 'Em Out
You steer your car by tilting the handset right or left, and the car accelerates automatically. Tap toward the left side of the screen, and it will light up a brake pedal icon and slow the car. The right side of the screen is the nitro boost area; tap it for a seven-second overboost. Do it with a full boost gauge, and the screen turns blue with neon blue accents, and you hear a prominent whoosh sound as you charge forward. You can also drift by braking and tilting the handset at the same time, which is fun, although it slows you down considerably.

There are 15 leagues and 150 races to complete. You also get a series of goals ahead of each event, such as completing three career events, earning three stars in any one event, and collecting 10 dollar pick-ups. As you complete goals, new ones appear, such as drifting a certain total distance during an event, wrecking less often, or "knocking down" a certain number of opponents by causing them to crash. Meanwhile, power ups are strewn throughout the course. Some of them add to your nitro boost, while others give you prize money. ?Push it too hard?say, crash into an oncoming car head-on, or hit a building?and you'll wreck, although aside from wasting a few seconds, it doesn't have much effect on the game itself.

The computer-controlled AI offers a moderate level of difficulty, and a new multiplayer mode lets you race with up to five friends, either online or locally. Overall, there's a nice sense of accomplishment as you move through the various events. And between the races, time-trials, and position elimination modes, there's enough variety to keep you engaged.

Stellar Visuals?With One Problem
Asphalt 7: Heat is one of the most impressive-looking racers I've seen on a phone. The 30-second-ish intros at the beginning of each event deliver a nice feel for the city you're about to race in; you can also abort these sequences and skip right to the countdown. On the road, there's plenty of detail in the dense urban environments, including nicely textured pavement, building structures, and sun glare, and the car models are all easily recognizable.

Draw-in distances are sometimes a little short. But worse is the uneven frame rate, which becomes more common during races with computer-controlled opponents. Usually, the game delivered 30 frames per second and above. But I caught many short periods of less than that, and even split-second hang-ups that were just long enough to be noticeable and irritating. I also saw a few bugs; on one course, some drone cars disappeared as I approached them, although most events worked perfectly.

The soundtrack is somewhat characterless electronic techno, with a steady, pulsing beat and no vocals. It's well-produced, at times sounding Daft Punk-esque. Sound design is pretty thorough as well. Each car has a distinct engine note; the BMW 1 Series M Coupe had a smooth, throaty, high-RPM bark appropriate for a twin-turbo straight six, while the Fiat 500 Abarth belched and rasped at high RPMs, and the Audi TT surged with its quiet, refined turbo four. All the standard skid-out, collision crunches, and power-up sounds are present and accounted for.

55 MPH Is No Fun?Unless You're Still In First Gear
There's very little here that's new. But even so, Asphalt 7: Heat delivers plenty of racing excitement. If you can ignore occasional interruptions in the frame rate, the game delivers an awesome sense of speed; it's tough not to feel the adrenaline rush as you play. It feels closer to that of a triple-A console title than it does a throwaway game?and a good one, too. That's an easy marker for an Editors' Choice award if you ask us.

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Schneier on Security: Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Insurance

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This was once a real insurance product. Squid Insurance Marketing was the low-end offering at Astonish, complete with the tagline "Nothing Kills a Squid!"

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.

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Not sure what I think of it yet, but have you been tracking the new Apple connector?

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Supposedly, the /cable/ has a security chip. Very odd system, where Apple (so we're told) has control of all of them, then as a peripheral maker, you buy the chips from Apple.

Or, apparently, a "security" chip. Supposedly already cracked, which makes me wonder what the point was. Not that they are necessarily bad at security, but maybe that it's true purpose is to increase cost, or... something else I can't decipher.

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OK, didn't see this story covered, so I thought it was worth a discussion. Adi Shamir did a study of Bitcoin and the transaction history. He and his co-author concluded that around 75% of the coins have never been in circulation and are being hoarded by a very small number of people.

Ars technica story here: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/...

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"Supposedly already cracked, which makes me wonder what the point was..."

Killing the second-source market. The spread on a MacBook replacement battery from an OEM and from Apple for my 2009-vintage unit is rapidly approaching $100.

Think of getting that for a cable.

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U.S. bankruptcy law overhaul needs to be overhauled

Congress and lobbyists seem to think that creating massive law changes in complex and expansive legislation will fix any and all existing problems.

In some ways, I wish Congress would take a page out of the software developer handbook and pass ?beta? legislation and legislative upgrades, rather than simply try to create a new operating system out of a bunch of old statutory parts.

Seven years ago, Congress passed a comprehensive overhaul of the bankruptcy law. The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act became effective in October 2005. The law was an effort to resolve perceived abuses in the bankruptcy system instigated primarily through credit card company lobbyists. When a law passes and begins to be enforced, the real-world applications will not be clear for some time.

Despite not knowing how the new law would actually be implemented, many people filed right before the law changed. To give you an idea of the numbers, more people filed in September and half of October 2005 than in all of 2006 or 2007.

One of the changes was that a discharge in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy was limited, so cases had to be filed eight years apart. This means that the vast majority of people who rushed to file before the law changed exempted themselves from access to provisions of the new law for eight years. They still have another year to go.

As the law was implemented, unintended consequences abounded. A lot of discussion prior to the implementation of the law was about the importance of debtor education and the requirement that debtors would need to take two courses in financial literacy.

The real impact of the law was to create an entire new business of companies doing online financial literacy courses. Literally hundreds of companies were created to provide this service nationwide. Credit counseling and instruction classes became a growth industry.

The 2005 law was intended to impose significant restrictions on filing bankruptcy based on household income and ability to pay. The cut-off for requiring an analysis of the debtor?s income was the median income for the local county. The median income for a family of four in Weber County is $66,825 per year.

Most people in serious financial trouble fall well below this line and are not impacted by the law. For those above the median, the law had the strange consequence of rewarding people with lots of secured debt, versus those who had managed to avoid debt.

For example, a couple making $90,000 a year with a $2,500 house payment and two car payments under the new law would be allowed an extra deduction from their monthly income of $2,276 for the car and house payments. A couple with the same income, a $1,200 house payment and no car payments could be required to pay up to $136,560 more to their unsecured creditors than the couple with the more expensive house and nicer cars. Not exactly fair or just.

The reason for the discrepancy is that, despite the law being initiated by the credit card companies, the big winners under the new bankruptcy law were secured creditors ? home and car lenders. The law was changed so that no changes were made to most car loans and most house loans. The unintended consequence was the credit card companies, who lobbied so hard for the new legislation, got less money than they would have received otherwise.

So a note to our legislators, Congress folk, corporations and citizens who think things will be different with new legislation ? things will be different, but not maybe the way you thought they would be.

E. Kent Winward is an Ogden attorney. He can be reached at creditcorrection@gmail.com or 801-392-8200.

Source: http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/10/19/us-bankruptcy-law-overhaul-needs-be-overhauled

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Defense chief calls cyberspace future battlefront

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Cyberspace?is the battlefield of the future, with attackers already going after banks and other financial institutions and developing the ability to strike U.S. power grids and government systems, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Friday.

"We confront a whole new threat of warfare in (cyberspace) ... This is an area we've got to pay close attention to. This is the battlefront of the future," he told a business group in Norfolk, Virginia, a city at the center of one of the largest concentrations of military power in the United States.

Panetta's remarks came a week after he delivered a major policy speech on cyber security to a New York business group, saying the U.S. military could act pre-emptively if it detects an imminent threat of cyber attack.

U.S. banks and financial institutions have been under sustained attack in recent weeks by suspected Iranian hackers thought to be responding to economic sanctions aimed at forcing Tehran to negotiate over its nuclear program.

A group calling itself the Cyber Fighters of Izz ad-din Al Qassam has claimed credit for the disruptions, calling them a protest against an anti-Islam video posted on YouTube that has provoked violent protests across the Muslim world.

"As I speak, there are attacks going on in this country, cyber attacks, on financial institutions, on banks," Panetta told the business group on Friday, adding that Washington faces hundreds of thousands of attacks per day. He did not specify the country from which the attacks were originating.

"Now they are developing the capability to be able to go after our grid, our power grid, our financial systems, our government systems, and virtually paralyze this country," he said.

William Robertson, an assistant professor at Northeastern University in Boston who testified on cyber security legislation in Congress earlier this year, said in an interview the government is "quite understandably worried" about the threat.

"I don't think it's hyperbole," he added. "These kinds of attacks that he's talking about have actually been going on for quite some time. And they've been increasing in intensity lately."

Panetta said last week the United States has made significant investments in cyber forensics to deal with the problem of identifying the source of a cyber attack. He warned potential attackers that the United States has "the capacity to locate them and hold them accountable."

Robertson said identifying the source of a cyber attack remains difficult.

"Identity and attribution on the Internet are not very robust. If you look at kind of the underlying protocols that kind of power the Internet ... there's no real strong mechanism for identifying where something is coming from," he said.

Panetta also said that more pressure on Congress is needed to push it to act to avoid a round of automatic budget cuts due to go into effect in January.

The cuts would take another $500 billion from defense spending over the next decade, following a $487 billion cut in projected defense spending approved last year.

Panetta called the automatic cuts a "goofy mechanism" put into place by Congress to force lawmakers "to do what they are supposed to do" and deal with the U.S. budget deficits.

"So they put a gun to their heads and said if we don't do what's right we'll blow our heads off," Panetta said. "And they didn't do what is right and now the damn gun is cocked to go off in January."

(Editing by Will Dunham)?

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Boeing worker accuses State Street of overcharging on forex trades

BOSTON (Reuters) - A Boeing Co worker has filed a lawsuit seeking class-action status against State Street Corp over currency trades in the airplane maker's $34 billion retirement plan.

State Street is accused of overcharging on forex trades made by a global index fund in the plan which is run by State Street's own asset management arm.

The civil lawsuit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Boston, opens a new front in the forex litigation against the Boston-based custody bank. Previous forex lawsuits against State Street have focused on trades executed for funds run by outside money managers not by State Street Global Advisors, or SSGA, the bank's own asset management arm.

State Street's pricing on foreign exchange trading is already the subject of U.S. government investigations, including by the Justice Department, the Department of Labor and the Securities and Exchange Commission. And pension funds in several states have sued over trades State Street performed on their behalf.

In the latest lawsuit, The Andover Companies and James Pehoushek-Stangeland, a Boeing worker in Seattle, accuse State Street of self-dealing by allowing "its currency traders to pilfer plan assets by improperly marking up and marking down foreign currency trades."

Pehoushek-Stangeland participates in a Boeing retirement plan whose investment options include an international index fund managed by SSGA, according to the lawsuit. At the end of last year, Boeing's retirement plan had $1.86 billion invested in the fund, or 5.5 percent of the plan's assets.

State Street on Friday reiterated it has done nothing wrong. "As we have previously stated, State Street continues to vigorously defend the litigation that has been commenced against us regarding our indirect FX services," the bank said.

The international index fund also appears as part of several other investment options in the Boeing investment plan. Boeing did not return messages seeking comment.

For U.S.-based workers, investments in international funds and companies are done in foreign currencies after their cash is converted to euros from dollars, for example. And when they earn dividends from an investment in a European stock, the income is converted to dollars from the foreign currency, a process called repatriation.

(Reporting By Tim McLaughlin; Editing by Richard Chang)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/boeing-worker-accuses-state-street-overcharging-forex-trades-194124228--sector.html

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Dating apps for iPhone and Android - News - Know Your Cell

Step 1. Find a date

It's only as difficult as you make it. And now thanks to an ever-growing list of match-making apps, finding a date doesn't have to be tough at all. Weeding through the scumbags and the airheads ... well that's the tricky part. But hey, you've gotta get started somewhere, right? Popular dating sites like OkCupid, Plenty of Fish, Grindr and Skout all have mobile apps to help you out.?

Step 2: Tell her lies, tell her sweet little lies

Burner app for iPhone is, well, it's pretty much exactly what it sounds like. It lets you dish out fake numbers when you want to keep the real thing on reserve. With Burner you can slip out of any awkward situation by destroying (or ?burning?) those faux digits after 20 minutes; 60 texts; or seven days. The app is $2 up front and comes with enough credits to snag your first temporary number at no extra cost. Get here.?

Step 3: Set the scene

OK, this is where bros tend to break a sweat. But planning the perfect date is no longer the dreaded event it once was, thanks to the internet.?We suggest Yelp's?mobile apps for reviews on everything from restaurants and dive bars to drive-ins and mini-golf. When you're ready to make a reservation, scoot over to?OpenTable's app. And while you're out and about with your date, stay plugged in to Foursquare's explore section?for your next recommendation.

Step 4: Woo until you can't woo anymore (or just buy some damn flowers and call it good)

Showing up with flowers may be old school, but when your date is extra sweet and saucy, it could work to your advantage. Admittedly, I get a little weird when bros bring floral-scented things to my doorstep (I prefer my men to smell like the woods ... but we'll just leave that alone for now). I suggest sending something simple earlier in the day, just ahead of the date, with a snappy little message. Or wait and see how well the date plays out before you splurge.?1800flowers Mobile App for Android will help you with this one.

Step 5: Doll (or suit) the f*ck up

First impressions really do last forever, and making a bad one is a surefire guarantee you won't be seeing that second date. Bros, when dressing yourself is just too hard, try Valet for iPhone. And for the love of all things holy, learn how to tie a proper knot (lucky for you, apps like How to Tie a Tie?actually exist). As for you ladies, need I say more than Pinterest? Here's a saucy shoe board to get you started.?

Step 6: Avoid awkward conversation

When you run out of things to say, keep Flipboard or Pulse handy. Load up your feeds with global news, politics and pop culture -- you'll have plenty to run on. Likewise, subtly reference Wikipedia's app for iPhone or Android when you have no eff'n clue what your date is talking about (it's OK, we've all been there).?

Step 7: Close the deal

Make a sultry, downtempo?playlist on Spotify. You really can't go wrong with this track from?Cat Power and Handsome Boy Modeling School, or?Hayling. And while we're at it, maybe a little Al Green, for good measure?(you're welcome).?

Things to avoid?

• Don't talk about how popular you are on the internet. Nobody cares in irl.?
• Showing your date entire Facebook albums while you're sitting at the bar is a big no-no. If she wants to cyberstalk you later, she'll do that on her own.?
• Speaking of?Facebook no-no's, don't reference her recent status updates, or tell her how hot her vacation pics are. It's stalker-y, and you need to calm down.
• Seriously, stop flirting with the waitress (and ladies, stop shooting suggestive eyes at the beefy bartender).?
• Bros, if you're hoping for booty, don't even think about asking her to go dutch. If she insists on paying her half, you must resist at least once -- if she gets scary about it and starts talking about how she's a "modern" woman, you have permission to just leave.?
• Ladies, just let him open the damn door if he goes for it. It's nice, and it doesn't mean he's trying to take your hard-earned rights away.?

You might also like:?

Romancing the phone: modern dating for mobile geeks?

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Getting Real Estate Property? Make The Most For Yo | Information

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When you have a bad credit score you might not be able to have a home loan. But if you do find someone to provide you with a loan as well as the interest levels and fees is going to be substantial from your bad credit, think of not purchasing a home now. You may be better off through taking a chance to improve your credit ranking, to help you get a better package on your own later.

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Beirut car bomb kills top official, 7 others

BEIRUT (AP) ? A car bomb ripped through Beirut on Friday, killing a top security official and seven others, shearing the balconies off apartment buildings and sending bloodied residents staggering into the streets in the most serious blast the Lebanese capital has seen in four years.

Dozens of people were wounded in the attack, which the state-run news agency said targeted the convoy of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, the head of the intelligence division of Lebanon's domestic security forces.

Many Lebanese quickly raised the possibility the violence was connected to the civil war in neighboring Syria, which has sent destabilizing ripples through Lebanon for the past 19 months. Al-Hassan led an investigation over the summer that implicated a pro-Syrian Lebanese politician and one of the highest aides to Syrian President Bashar Assad in plots to carry out bombings in Lebanon.

Friday's blast was also a reminder of Lebanon's grim history, when the 1975-1990 civil war made the country notorious for kidnappings, car bombs and political assassinations. Even since the war's end, Lebanon has been a proxy battleground for regional conflict, and the Mediterranean seaside capital has been prey to sudden, surprising and often unexplained violence shattering periods of calm.

"Whenever there is a problem in Syria they want to bring it to us," said Karin Sabaha Gemayel, a secratary at a law firm a block from the bombing site, where the street was transformed into a swath of rubble, twisted metal and charred vehicles.

"But you always hope it will not happen to us. Not again," she said.

The blast ripped through a narrow street at mid-afternoon in Beirut's mainly Christian Achrafieh neighborhood, an area packed with cafes and shops. Doors and windows were shattered for blocks, and several blackened cars appeared to have been catapulted through the air.

Bloodied residents fled their homes while others tried to help the seriously wounded. One little girl, apparently unconscious and bleeding from her head, was carried to an ambulance in the arms of rescue workers, her white sneakers stained with blood.

"I was standing nearby in Sassine Square and I heard a big explosion and I ran straight to it," resident Elie Khalil said. He said he saw at least 15 bloodied people in a nearby parking lot before medics arrived and took them to a hospital.

Al-Hassan's body was so disfigured in the blast that his bodyguards only realized it was him when they recognized his sneakers, a paramedic at the scene told The Associated Press. The paramedic, who saw the body, spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

A Lebanese security official said al-Hassan had just returned earlier Friday morning from Paris, where he was visiting family. He was either on his way from or to work in a non-armored car with his driver, who also was among the dead, the official said. He also spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to give information to the media.

Eight people were killed, including al-Hassan, and 78 wounded, the state-run National News Agency said..

Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zouebi denounced the bombing, calling it a "terrorist and cowardly" attack.

Syria's top ally in Lebanon, the Shiite Hezbollah movement, also condemned the attack, expressing its "state of great shock over this terrible terrorist crime."

It called on the authorities to catch the perpetrators and on all political forces in Lebanon to work against "every conspirator against the security, the life, the safety and security of the nation."

In Washington, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland condemned the blast "in strongest terms." She said the U.S. had no information about the perpetrators.

Al-Hassan had headed an investigation into bombing plots that led to the Aug. 9 arrest of former Information Minister Michel Samaha, one of Syria's most loyal allies in Lebanon, who has long acted as an unofficial media adviser to Assad. According to a senior Lebanese police official, Samaha confessed to having personally transported explosives in his car from Syria to Lebanon with the purpose of killing Lebanese personalities at the behest of Syria.

A military court has since indicted Samaha and Syrian Brig. Gen. Ali Mamlouk of plotting to carry out terrorist attacks. Mamlouk, who was appointed recently by Assad to head Syria's National Security Bureau, was indicted in absentia.

Tensions have been soaring in Lebanon over the conflict next door, and clashes have erupted between Assad supporters and backers of the rebellion against his regime.

Syria and Lebanon share a complex web of political and sectarian ties and rivalries, often causing events on one side of the border to echo on the other. Many of Lebanon's Sunnis have backed Syria's mainly Sunni rebels, while Shiites have tended to back Assad.

Lebanon was hit by a wave of bombings and other attacks that began in 2005 with a massive suicide blast that killed former prime minister Rafik Hariri and more than 20 other people in downtown Beirut. In the following years, a string of anti-Syrian figures were assassinated, several in car bombings. Many Lebanese blamed Damascus for the killings, though Syria denied responsibility.

The last serious bombing was in 2008, when a car bomb killed a senior Lebanese anti-terror police official who was investigating dozens of other bombings. Four others were killed and 38 wounded in the blast in the Christian Hazmieh neighborhood.

Since then, Lebanese saw a relative calm in violence. After the uprising against Assad began in March 2011, there have been sporadic gunbattles between pro- and anti-Assad factions, particularly in northern Lebanon.

"I'm very worried about the country after this explosion," Beirut resident Charbel Khadra said Friday. "I'm worried the explosions will return ? and this is just the first one."

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AP writers Elizabeth A. Kennedy, Ben Hubbard and Barbara Surk contributed to this report from Beirut.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/beirut-car-bomb-kills-top-official-7-others-170403776.html

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Lawsuits against ICANN and new TLDs start to ... - Domain Name Wire

Two prior TLD applicants sue over specific top level domains.

As plans for a 2013 rollout of new top level domains marches forward, two companies have sued ICANN to stop it from issuing certain top level domain names.

Both lawsuits come courtesy of companies that applied in the ?proof of concept? round back in 2000.

Earlier this week DomainIncite reported about a suit filed by Name.Space against ICANN. Name.space runs an alternative root with 482 top level domains.

Today I received a copy of a complaint (pdf) brought by Image Online Design. It specifically targets the .web domain name, which it applied for in 2000 in the ?proof of concept? round. It wasn?t approved. It makes a .web top level domain available in alternative DNS root systems.

I think the argument that these companies have rights to the names because they run them in alternative root systems is a bit of a long shot. That they applied for domains in the proof of concept round might have more legs.

Image Online Design is represented by David Steele, the attorney who frequently files cybersquatting lawsuits on behalf of Verizon.

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Isis makes October 22nd mobile payment launch official, vows 20 capable phones by year's end

While we could easily see this coming, it's still good to hear the news more directly: Isis has confirmed that its delayed mobile wallet system will arrive on October 22nd. The company's marketing lead Jaymee Johnson tells us that the NFC-based commerce should start in the previously mentioned Austin and Salt Lake City areas. We haven't been given a formal device list, but "as many as" 20 smartphones should be compatible by the end of the year. We can think of at least four. More details will follow on the day in question, although we already know that the cash-averse will need an Isis app, a special SIM card and compatible SmartTap terminals at stores. That's a lot of conditions that have to be satisfied just to lighten the strain on our pockets -- all the same, we'll take it when the alternatives are moving slowly.

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Cole Taylor Equipment Finance selects LeaseWave? from Odessa ...

Cole Taylor Equipment Finance selects LeaseWave? from Odessa Technologies

Cole Taylor Equipment Finance has selected LeaseWave lease and loan management software by Odessa Technologies, Inc. (?Odessa?) to automate and administer their front office and back office processes.? Cole Taylor Equipment Finance is part of the Taylor Capital Group (TAYC-NASDAQ), the $4.8 billion bank holding company of Cole Taylor Bank, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

?We chose LeaseWave because it offers all the benefits of state of the art technology as well as very comprehensive functionality,? says Ed Dahlka, President of Cole Taylor Equipment Finance. ?LeaseWave?s automation and integration capabilities will enable us to maximize productivity, provide quality customer service and compete effectively against the largest players in the leasing market.?

?Although Cole Taylor Equipment Finance is a new division, the management team is very experienced and is executing on a complex business plan. They require the same sophistication and flexibility that our larger customers look for? says Jeff Lezinski, Vice President of Equipment Leasing at Odessa. ?The LeaseWave suite is built using an entity-driven model with a 100% Services Oriented Architecture, offering the best-in-class platform for configuration, automation and integration with Cole Taylor?s other systems.?

About Cole Taylor Equipment Finance and Cole Taylor Bank

Cole Taylor Equipment Finance is based in Towson, MD and led by Edward A. Dahlka, Jr., a nationally recognized industry leader and former President of LaSalle National Leasing with more than 40 years of leasing and equipment finance experience.? Initially joining Dahlka at Cole Taylor Equipment Finance are industry veterans Steven Williams, Peter J. Steger, Joseph A. Maddox and John A. Hurt, who worked with Dahlka at LaSalle National Leasing. The business offers a full range of equipment finance options and specializes in originating and syndicating commercial equipment leases and loans for U.S. companies. Learn more about Cole Taylor Equipment Finance and its services by visiting http://www.coletaylor.com/equipment-finance .

Cole Taylor Bank is a $4.8 billion commercial bank headquartered in Chicago. Cole Taylor Bank specializes in serving the needs of closely held businesses and the people who own and manage them. Through its divisions, Cole Taylor Business Capital, Cole Taylor Equipment Finance and Cole Taylor Mortgage, the Bank also provides asset based lending services, commercial equipment leases and loans, residential mortgage loan products, and depository services through a growing network of offices throughout the United States. Cole Taylor Bank is a member of the FDIC and is an Equal Housing Lender. Learn more about Cole Taylor Bank and its services by visiting http://www.coletaylor.com .

About Odessa Technologies, Inc.

Odessa Technologies is a software company exclusively focused on the leasing industry. The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and employs a staff of 275 people. Odessa is the developer of the LeaseWave suite of products, a fully integrated browser-based lease and loan management solution, providing an end-to-end origination and portfolio management system for equipment leasing and finance, vehicle leasing and fleet management companies. The LeaseWave suite is specifically engineered to be configurable to accommodate even the most complex business model, as evidenced by Odessa?s diverse customer base. ??Learn more about Odessa Technologies, Inc. and its services by visiting http://www.odessatech.com .

Source: http://www.worldleasingnews.com/news/cole-taylor-equipment-finance-selects-leasewave-from-odessa-technologies/

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