Sunday, September 30, 2012

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Boxing legends, new types of wrestlers in the beginner or professional world, coaches, or simply easy boxing fanatic, they all have one thing in common, that is love and devotion to boxing as a sport. As anybody can see, the wide acceptance of the sport is certain. People rap about it everywhere. Women and men alike, young and old know about the sport. With that, it is not surprising why many enterprisers have created concepts on the best way to market needed things in the boxing sport. Whether little or big shops, there are gears, wears and apparels for fighters that are being offered.

For people engaged in boxing it's important that they?re going to be capable of finding a perfect place to buy whatever desires they have. Before they commence with their training programme they must ensure that they are all set with training clobber, gears, accessories and other equipment. They must check out for a boxing store that could offer the best selection of boxing rings, ropes, gloves, headgears, bag mitts, bag gloves, boxing boots, shorts, hook and jab pads, and plenty more. They ought to know if the products being sold are of best quality and are proven not to wear out easily. By finding one place to shop for boxing clobber one is more assured to go through coaching and get ready for the big fight.

In training it's essential to have the right gloves that fit wonderfully in order to give enough comfort during sparring. They also must have the ideal punch bag to get goal sets in their practices. If he would like to boost his broad punching technique they must select heavy bags but if they'd like to focus on endurance, punch speed and reaction time, the rate and reflex bag is the absolute best. In addition, choosing the best foot wear shouldn't be forgotten. In visiting stores, one must define which shoes from among the Adidas boxing shoes and other brands will perfectly fit him.

Together with training, is correct nutrition that a fighter should get in order to supply him for a certain competition. His body must be strong enough. He must put up and increase body muscle and ensure that his entire body is well conditioned. He could ask help from professionals to prepare his diet as well as the required supplements he must take.

Whatever an individual desires when referring to preparing himself for a boxing sparring or real match, he could find everything in a boxing shop . All he have to do is to check out if the shop he is getting ready to visit is definitely the best place where he could find products that are authorized, not just good but the very best.

Boxing legends, new strains of wrestlers in the beginner or professional world, coaches, or merely easy boxing fanatic, they all have one thing in particular in common, that is love and commitment to boxing as a sport. They must check out a boxing store that could offer the best selection of boxing rings, ropes, gloves, headgears, bag mitts, bag gloves, boxing boots, shorts, hook and jab pads, and lots more. Whatever a person desires when referring to preparing himself for a boxing sparring or actual match, he could find everything in a boxing shop.


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Gorgeous female Pyr. pup - just turned one year old. She is spayed, UTD on shots (will need rabies booster soon), housebroken, and an excellent dog. She is very big and weighs somewhere around 90lbs. Incredible with kids and loves to play with other dogs. Sorry, no idea how she does with cats. Completely healthy, has had regular grooming by our groomer, and is a very happy dog. She is an excellent guard dog but is not aggressive in any way. She will keep coyotes, foxes, and critters off your land and keep the bunnies out of your garden. Our dog can come inside or stay outside but she prefers the outdoors.

We are rehoming her due to the fact that we can't teach her not to chase horses and she's been kicked at too many times. She is a livestock protection dog and is NOT a herding dog so this behavior is not typical and something that is unsafe for her. If you don't have horses or goats (she chases them too) then you won't have any problems.

We considered rehoming her once before and posted the ad but then decided to try more training to stop her from chasing the horses. Nothing we've tried has worked so this time we have no choice. We are sad about that but it is in her best interest. My apologies if you had contacted me previously.

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Beaverton receives $1.6 million grant to provide health care programs

The city of Beaverton announced Friday that it received a $1.6 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control to fight health problems such as obesity and develop a health and wellness center.

The money will support the Beaverton Community Health Partnership, a group of about 10 health care providers. They include Community Action, Lifeworks Northwest and the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center. The partnership has been named an Oregon Solutions Project for building strong relationships between a public agency and nonprofits.

Part of the money will support the development of a Beaverton health and wellness center, a go-to spot for a variety of health resources. Officials have explored the vacant Westgate property near the Round at Beaverton Central as one potential location.

The partnership also hopes to reduce the frequency of diabetes and lower the rate of heart attacks and strokes.

The grant is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Community Transformation Grants. The money supports public programs that reduce chronic diseases, promote healthier lifestyles and manage health care spending.

Overall, the department has awarded roughly $70 million in grants to improve the health of communities that have fewer than 500,000 people. Beaverton has a population of about 90,000 people.

-- Dominique Fong

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Caesar's Messiah: Rome Invented Jesus, a New Doc Claims

Those were trying times for Rome. Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian Caesars and a big spender with a reputedly homicidal temper, was on the throne. Stories abound of how he attempted to poison his mother, kicked one of his wives to death, and personally ordered the upside-down crucifixion of St. Peter. Lies and half-truths, most of those tales, but stuff like that sticks. More important, Nero's Roman Empire was going broke.

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While Rome simmered, Palestine cooked. The Jews loathed the Romans. They didn't want statues of Roman emperors in their temples, didn't want to pay taxes to prop up the empire, and, most of all, didn't want Caesar's emissaries making claims on their promised land. And they were recklessly brave in battle. Hot rebellion was in the air.

Through all that, a loose cannon of a prophet reportedly was roaming through the Judean war zone, preaching pacifism and spouting profundities like, "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's."

That's the situation, more or less, that Joseph Atwill describes at the beginning of Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus, the new documentary movie based on Atwill's book of the same name. (The film is available for sale at Atwill's website, caesarsmessiah.com.)

The wandering prophet was, of course, Jesus Christ. Atwill, a self-taught biblical scholar, contends that not only was there no historical figure of that name, but also the legends that accumulated around him were actually created by the Romans as a way of pacifying the Jews. The evidence is overwhelming, he says.

The Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient Jewish texts discovered in caves in Israel in 1947, give a different picture than the idyllic first-century Holy Land of the Gospels. From year one, there were battles and confrontations between the Romans and the Jews, the Scrolls note, and there was no turning of the other cheek by the likes of rebel leader Judah of Galilee. And there was nary a mention in the Scrolls of the peaceable prophet Jesus Christ.

"This is where I came into Christian scholarship," says Atwill, 63, an investor who lives by the proceeds of a dot-com sell-off in the 1990s. "There was supposedly this character, Jesus, wandering around in Galilee. Nobody knew anything about him. Galilee is only 30 miles long. Jesus and other historical figures of the time would have known each other."

Atwill, an admittedly bookish man, dived in headfirst, digging out whatever historical records he could find, studying the Scrolls, and reading Roman accounts, notably that of a family member of the Flavian dynasty of Caesars named Josephus. He found no historical Jesus in any of those writings. But there were some uncanny connections between the story of Jesus as told in the Gospels and the family of Roman emperors who took power after Nero was forced to commit suicide following a coup d'?tat.

The movie spells out an intriguing scenario of creative deception by the Romans: Sometime in the mid-70s AD, Atwill suggests, Greco-Roman intellectuals wrote the now-well-known stories ? in Greek, not the popular Aramaic of the Judaic populace ? about the Jewish messiah who defied the Judaic traditions of militancy to preach a sweet, accommodationist message. The legends began to take hold in the decades that followed. The illiterate peasants of the time couldn't read them, of course. But preachers preached it ? preachers who were given the red-carpet treatment by Roman authorities.

What about all those Christians being fed to the lions in the colosseum? True enough, Atwill says. Only the victims weren't followers of Jesus but militant Jews who, as believers in a messiah (or christos in Greek), qualified as "Christians" and earned the ire of the Caesars.

Atwill and other scholars maintain that the Romans were ingenious in pulling off the pacifist hoax, so useful to the ruthless men who administered the Roman empire. They were able to "create a type of Judaism that was benign," says one commentator.

The Romans even got in a plug for the godlike qualities of the bloody Roman general and soon-to-be Caesar Flavius Titus. It was Titus who led the Romans against the Jews in the war of 66 to 73, crushing the towns of Galilee, laying siege to Jerusalem, and ultimately razing the Jewish temple there. Encoded in the Gospels, Atwill contends, are multiple references to Titus, establishing a direct connection between the emperor and Jesus. Reading the Gospels along with Josephus's Wars of the Jews, the parallels are striking. There are dual encounters, addresses to followers, random incidents, "all these little weird parallels," Atwill says. They all took place in the same locations, often using the same words, but 40 years apart. Thus, Jesus recruits two fishermen on the shore of the Sea of Galilee and says, "I will make you fishers of men." At the same spot 40 years later, Josephus describes the Romans in a sea battle, catching rebels from a capsized boat with their spears, like fishermen hooking fish.

Atwill says the writers of the Gospels used a literary device called "typology" ? "a genre of literature that the ancient Hebrews used" ? employing parallels to elicit hidden messages and to suggest the circularity of history and the value of prophecy. But the Romans did it as a joke on the Jews, Atwill says. Introducing themes from Titus' life into the Gospels, leaving an indelible imprint, like watermarks on paper, was the Romans' way of leaving their signature, he says.

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Day 3 of 25-cent Google Play sale features Mass Effect Infiltrator, Temple Run: Brave, TuneIn Radio Pro and more

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Check out our list of Android apps from the first two days below! Many of them have had their prices knocked back up to normal, but maybe you'll luck out. Oh, and be sure to leave a comment if you find any others that are on sale. 

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Nokia inks deals to be maps force behind BMW 7-series, bring guidance to new Garmin apps

Nokia inks deals to be maps force behind BMW 7series, bring guidance to new Garmin apps

While all the talk of late is about Cupertino's newfangled Maps application, Nokia's currently keeping busy by doing some behind-the-scenes legwork, including signing new deals with car and navigation system manufacturers. Most recently, the Finnish company announced it's partnering with BMW to power the "next-generation" navigation system in the upcoming 7-series, which will bring features like Enhanced 3D City Models and an Eco Pro Route that chooses the most fuel-efficient way to get you to your destination. In addition to the BMW alliance, though, Nokia has also teamed up with Garmin to bring Transit and Pedestrian maps in the form of an Urban Guidance feature that will be available on iOS and Android devices. For those interested in learning more, the pressers below will fill you in on all the nitty-gritty.

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Friday, September 28, 2012

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Hybrid Car Comparison: Which Hybrid Vehicle Really should You ...

Hybrid vehicles are acquiring much more and a lot more popular nowadays. In reality, much more and more individuals are now buying hybrid cars because of a quantity of factors. A single is that they will get pleasure from tax incentives as a buyer of a hybrid vehicle, two is that they will be capable to conserve a lot of money from the rising price of precious, high-priced and restricted provide of fuel and 3, it will allow them to generate much less pollution to the environment due to the fact of the incredibly low toxic emissions generated by hybrid automobiles.

Due to the fact of the expanding reputation of hybrid vehicles, more and more automobile producers are now competing to make the best type of hybrid vehicles. They are now making hybrid cars integrated with state-of-the-art engineering that will allow consumers to conserve much more on fuel, and also a automobile that will be able to generate low toxic emissions.

However, since of the increasing industry for hybrid vehicles, and also simply because of a lot more and a lot more vehicle manufacturers that are now integrating hybrid technologies in their automobiles, a lot of men and women tend to get confused on which hybrid automobile to purchase. Besides, all car producers promises to offer the best sort of hybrid vehicles in the market today.

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Nevertheless, just before you go on and compare hybrid automobiles, you first have to know a little a thing about how hybrid cars operate and how you can benefit from it. Very first of all, hybrid vehicles use the cleanest and the most efficient source of power, which is electrical energy and also gasoline. Hybrid cars are what you can describe as a cross between a standard gasoline-powered automobile and an electric-powered automobile.
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Initial of all, you require to establish how you will use the car. If you have a family, it is recommended that you get an SUV hybrid vehicle. This will enable you to carry more passengers. Nevertheless, you also have to take into account that SUV hybrid cars can price a tiny much more than hybrid cars.

The principal advantage of a hybrid auto is that it is fuel effective. You have to decide on a hybrid car that is the most fuel efficient in order for you to maximize its rewards. You can ask your dealer about the fuel efficiency of the car. They will be capable to inform you how a lot miles a gallon it can conserve compared to traditional cars and other hybrid cars.

These are the ways on how you can evaluate hybrid vehicles in order for you to decide on which a single to get. Remember all these items and you can be sure that you will be in a position to get the right type of hybrid vehicle available in the industry these days. To begin your search, Honda and Toyota are two of the leading companies today that create reasonably priced and efficient hybrid vehicles.

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

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Caterpillar, Apple drag Wall Street lower

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 suffered its worst day since June on Tuesday, pulled lower by Caterpillar Inc after it cut its profit outlook, the latest high-profile company to expect growth will fall short of expectations.

Technology shares came under pressure after a second day of weakness for Apple Inc , the world's most valuable public company. Shares fell 2.5 percent to $673.54 as the company sold out of its initial supply of the new iPhone, raising concerns about keeping up with demand.

Caterpillar, the heavy equipment maker, said on Monday sluggish global growth was responsible for reduced estimates. Other companies to recently cut expectations include FedEx Corp and Norfolk Southern .

Shares of Caterpilar were the biggest weight on the Dow for a second day and ended down 4.2 percent at $87.01. That was the stock's biggest daily percentage drop since May.

The declines Tuesday reversed earlier gains attributed to portfolio "window dressing" as the quarter ends. Stronger-than-expected figures on U.S. consumer confidence also contributed to temporary gains.

This is "a market that has rallied and climbed a wall of worry. Right now the market is getting skittish and looking for reasons for buyers to be less aggressive," said Jim Fehrenbach, head of equity distribution at Piper Jaffray in Minneapolis.

The Dow Jones industrial average was down 101.37 points, or 0.75 percent, at 13,457.55. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 15.30 points, or 1.05 percent, at 1,441.59, its fourth day of losses. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 43.06 points, or 1.36 percent, at 3,117.73.

It was the S&P 500's biggest percentage daily loss since June 25 and the biggest for the Nasdaq since July 20.

The S&P 500 is up 2.5 percent so far in September, historically a difficult month for the market, and recently hit the highest level in nearly five-years.

For the quarter the S&P is up 5.8 percent so far, with gains largely tied to the latest moves by the European Central Bank and the U.S. Federal Reserve to stimulate their economies.

San Francisco Fed President John Williams said on Monday he expected the central bank to expand its bond-buying program next year to more aggressively combat the unemployment rate, but Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser countered on Tuesday the latest monetary stimulus will not do much to boost economic growth or lower unemployment.

Economic data from the Conference Board showed U.S. consumer confidence jumped to its highest in seven months in September.

Two separate reports showed home prices rose for another month in July, though the gains were not as strong as the previous month.

Red Hat dropped 4.3 percent to $55.08 after the world's largest distributor of Linux operating software reported a lower-than-expected adjusted profit and lowered the top end of its full-year revenue outlook.

(Additonal reporting by Atossa Abrahamian; Editing by Kenneth Barry)

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Curiosity touches first Martian rock

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity reached out and touched a Martian rock with its huge robotic arm for the first time, then took off on its longest Red Planet drive to date.

Curiosity spent the past several days investigating a strange pyramid-shaped stone named "Jake Matijevic," testing out some of the gear at the end of its 7-foot-long (2.1 meters) arm. These tools include the Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS), which measures elemental composition, and the Mars Hand Lens Imager close-up camera, or MAHLI.

The rover performed these initial "contact science" operations on Saturday and Sunday (Sept. 22 and 23), researchers said. Photos snapped on those days show Curiosity's arm sidled up against "Jake Matijevic," with the arm's turret obscuring most of the 16-inch-tall (25 centimeters) rock.

"I did a science! 1st contact science on rock target Jake," the Curiosity team announced Saturday (Sept. 22) via the rover's Twitter feed @MarsCuriosity, which has more than 1.1 million followers. "Here's an action shot." [Curiosity Mars Rover: 11 Amazing Facts]

Curiosity also zapped "Jake Matijevic" with the laser on its ChemCam instrument, which reads rock composition from the vaporized bits. Comparing the results should help cross-calibrate the two instruments, researchers said.

The ChemCam work wrapped up Monday (Sept. 24), at which point Curiosity embarked on a 138-foot (42 m) drive ? the longest one-day jaunt for the rover since it landed inside Mars' Gale Crater on the night of Aug. 5.

Curiosity is making its way toward a site called Glenelg, which lies 1,300 feet (400 m) from the rover's touchdown site. Before Monday's drive, the mission team had said Curiosity was about halfway to Glenelg.

Scientists will likely soon begin looking for sandy areas to try out Curiosity's scooping system for the first time. The arm will deposit bits of Martian soil into the analytical instruments on the rover's body, which are known as SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) and CheMin (short for Chemistry & Mineralogy).?

[Related: Stunning photo shows rover tracks from space]

The first use of Curiosity's rock-boring drill, which also sits at the end of the rover's arm, will come sometime after that, researchers have said.

While team members are keen to see what Curiosity discovers at Glenelg, the $2.5 billion rover's main destination is the base of Mount Sharp. This odd mountain rises 3.4 miles (5.5 km) into the Red Planet sky from Gale Crater's center, and its foothills show signs of long-ago exposure to liquid water.

Those foothills lie about 6 miles (10 km) away from Curiosity's landing site. The rover ? whose main task is to determine if the Gale area could ever have supported microbial life ? may be ready to turn its wheels toward the interesting deposits near the end of the year, scientists have said.

The rock "Jake Matijevic" takes its name from Curiosity's surface operations systems chief engineer, who died Aug. 20 at the age of 64. Matijevic, who was based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., also worked on all three previous Mars rovers ? Sojourner, Spirit and Opportunity ? NASA officials said.

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Facebook starts tracking users' offline buys

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In?Facebook's latest attempt to prove the efficacy of advertiser dollars, the 950 million-member site will begin tracking what its American users buy in offline stores even as it phases out its controversial facial-recognition feature in Europe.

Although they are separate pieces of technology, the two programs raise concerns about privacy and about just how much of themselves, their tastes and their behavior social?network users are willing to put into the hands of engineers and marketing executives.

Criticism from data-protection regulators in Ireland and users all across Europe prompted an order from the European Union that Facebook drop its recently acquired facial-recognition technology in all EU member states. Facebook Europe is an Irish company.

Facebook's facial-recognition feature uses data from photos in which individuals have already been tagged to make suggestions for tagging similar-looking individuals in new ones. In a sense, Facebook "knows" what you look like and can identify you and your friends with remarkable accuracy.?

The EU said the social network needs to ratchet up its privacy-protection efforts before the "Tag Suggest" feature will be allowed back on the pages of European residents.

The campaign for Tag Suggest's ouster in Europe began when Max Schrems, an Austrian student, received a 1,200-page document about himself from Facebook after he had requested a copy of all the data the company kept on him.

[11 Facebook Privacy Steps to Take Now]

In the document, Schrems found he had been automatically tagged by the facial-recognition software without his assent. The document has also been pointed to as evidence that photos and comments aren't actually deleted from Facebook, even when users think they are.

Photos and activities stay on Facebook's servers for at least 30 days after they've been "deleted" by users, if they're ever totally purged at all.

Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), which was charged with reviewing Facebook's privacy policies by the EU, suggested a total of 45 changes and has asked the company to get rid of facial profiles created by the facial-recognition software by the middle of October.

The social network acquired the face-recognition technology in June when it bought Face.com, an Israeli company that had already worked with the Menlo Park., Calif., site for two years.

Facebook constantly walks the tightrope between satisfying its users and its customers, whose desires and goals are often opposed. Users want privacy and a clean interface, while advertisers seek prime placement, personal information and behavioral data to better target their marketing campaigns.

Facebook users have accused the social behemoth of behaving in a cavalier fashion when it comes to protecting user data. The site has also come under fire for offering controversial marketing tools to advertisers, such as "sponsored" newsfeed items that places a person's name and face next to an advertiser that that person "likes" without his or her knowledge or permission.

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Months after an initial public offering that CEO Mark Zuckerberg said has "obviously been disappointing," Facebook is trying another tactic as it continues to make the case that ads on its widely used platform, as well as the ads it sells on other sites, are a worthwhile investment.

The company is partnering with the marketing-research company Datalogix in an attempt to prove a direct correlation between the ads a user sees and the products they buy.

Datalogix buys information gleaned from gift cards and loyalty programs that paint a picture of consumption for some 70 million American households shopping at over 1,000 retailers. According to the Financial Times, which broke the story of the Facebook partnership, Datalogix also "creates incredibly detailed profiles of nearly every US household," including the sort of financial information most people wouldn't tell their neighbors.

By comparing this data about individual shoppers with Facebook's information about the same people, Datalogix can determine whether or not a user purchased a particular product in a brick-and-mortar store after seeing an ad for it on Facebook.

According to Facebook, the program is working. The company said that out of the 45 ad campaigns that have been analyzed using Datalogix, 70 percent made $3 in sales for every dollar they spent on Facebook's marketing products.

While that's strong proof that Facebook ads are effective, not everyone is pleased about all the data matching.

The correlated data Facebook receives from Datalogix, and then hands off to advertisers, is anonymized. User data is reported statistically, not individually.

In reports to Facebook and its advertisers, Datalogix splits users who bought a particular product into groups of those who did and didn't see an ad. They do not provide Facebook with consumer information about particular individuals or households.

But at some point in the information-sharing chain, the data is not anonymous at all. In order for Datalogix's service to work, it and Facebook must match real information each holds about real individuals, such as their email addresses, to properly cross-reference their data sets.

Between Facebook and Datalogix, the companies know who you are, where you live, what you're worth, how much you owe and what you drive. If you've got a Facebook app on your smartphone, they could also find out where you are at any given moment.

The Financial Times said privacy advocates are concerned about whether the new practice violates a $9.5 million settlement between Facebook and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission after Facebook was caught deceiving users about privacy practices.

It's not clear when the partnership between Datalogix and Facebook began, but the move was not announced to users, nor were users given a chance to opt out of the program.

In order to be excluded from this data-culling practice, users have to visit the Datalogix site, where they are offered a link that presumably clears their Datalogix browser cookies in a single click. The link leads to a page that tells you that you have "successfully opted out of Datalogix cookie-enabled online advertising."

However, the first result in a Google search for "Datalogix opt out" brings the user to the same completion page. There is no prompt to enter an email address or any other personal information.

Facebook has a history of rolling out new metrics or features that change user privacy without notifying users or giving them the option of opting out.

According to Facebook, an independent monitor is auditing its data-use practices.

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PFT: Falcons unplug Chargers, improve to 3-0

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Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco?s been begging for it for years.

Sunday night, he earned the respect he?s been looking for.

The Ravens quarterback stood toe-to-toe with Patriots counterpart Tom Brady, and came out the winner in a classic 31-30 decision.

Flacco was 28-of-40 for 382 yards and three touchdowns, the kind of signature win people keep expecting him to not get. At this point, he?s gotten those kind of wins often enough we really shouldn?t be surprised any longer.

Granted, he needed Justin Tucker?s just-in 27-yard field goal to win it (exorcising the demons of Billy Cundiff), but did everything he needed to do to move to 2-1.

Here are five more things we learned on Sunday Night Football:

1. God bless Torrey Smith, for the strength he showed coming to the stadium hours after his brother died in a motorcycle accident.

That he excelled on the field, catching six passes for 127 yards and two touchdowns made his story more touching, that he faced adversity and pushed through it.

But playing this game might be the easiest thing he does this week. Hopefully he has the same strength in the days to come, as well as the time and space to grieve.

2. The Ravens defense lacks a certain sizzle.

They?re still solid, but without outside linebacker Terrell Suggs, there?s a clear difference in what they?re putting on the field. The other parts can?t be as effective without the pressure he provides.

No group with Haloti Ngata, Ray Lewis and Ed Reed is going to be ordinary (although Ray Lewis isn?t RAY LEWIS anymore), but the lack of a consistent pass rush is going to keep them from becoming a truly elite group.

In other words, meeting their own established standard.

3. The Patriots are obviously smart.

Sometimes they seem to fall in love with their own cleverness, however, and make it more difficult on themselves than it has to be.

Plays such as the oddball-reverse to Julian Edelman (which Ravens linebacker Courtney Upshaw destroyed for a big loss, giving the Ravens a spark at a time they looked lifeless) are cuter than they need to be.

Couple it with their menagerie of backs of all shapes and sizes (mostly small), and it smacks of Josh McDaniels and Bill Belichick congratulating themselves for doing things others can?t.

Psst, fellas, here?s the secret to the Patriots offense: You have Tom Brady.

It doesn?t have to be that hard.

4. That being said, the amount of freaking out about Wes Welker the first two weeks was clearly over the top.

Because they tinker, and because they spread it around, it?s senseless to think he wasn?t going to get his chances, contract issues notwithstanding.

With a 59-yard reception early, and eight catches for 142 yards, it?s clear they?re going to give him plenty of chances.

5. Ravens cornerback Cary Williams isn?t as bad as he looked at times Sunday night.

But he has the misfortune of playing opposite Lardarius Webb, which means he?s? going to be targeted more often than he would playing anywhere else.

He turned down an extension offer from the Ravens in August, but needs to play better on national television if he?s going to do better on the open market.

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

All the world gets a stage at U.N. General Assembly

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Here is what the U.N. General Assembly next week will not achieve: ending Syria's civil war, easing Muslim protests over insults to Islam and grinding Iran's nuclear program to a halt.

But the world's most pressing, and intractable, problems will be on display as leaders and their entourages from the 193-nation assembly descend on U.N. headquarters in New York for the world body's annual "general debate" from September 25-October 1.

More than 100 heads of state and government are expected to gather at the United Nations for what is traditionally the busiest week of the year for international diplomacy.

Last year, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon held 119 bilateral meetings with presidents, prime ministers and government ministers from all parts of the globe.

Ban said on Wednesday he expects to have more than 120 such meetings this year. While there is no single theme of this year's general debate, he said "the deteriorating situation in Syria will be foremost in our minds."

Several senior Western envoys said another theme will be the recent violent unrest in some Muslim countries caused by anger at an anti-Islam film made in the United States and French cartoons denigrating Prophet Mohammad.

"The backdrop of Syria, the Arab Spring, the recent unrest, the clash between freedom of expression and defamation of religions - all that will undoubtedly be a theme across all bilaterals and all these side events," one diplomat said.

The gathering will shine a spotlight on Syria and other pressing problems facing the planet: insurgencies in Mali and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, climate change or global financial woes.

Solutions, however, will likely have to wait.

The assembly, unlike the 15-nation Security Council which can impose sanctions or authorize military interventions, has virtually no real power. It focuses on public debates and issuing non-binding resolutions that are often ignored.

But the gathering of leaders and ministers offers countries a forum to publicly air their grievances on the issues of the day and opportunities for a wide range of bilateral and larger meetings. This year there will be side meetings on violence against women, health, development, Yemen and Myanmar.

There will also be meetings on Syria and Iran's nuclear program. But envoys say little of note will happen at those, largely due to a widening chasm between Western powers on the one hand, and Russia and China on the other, a chasm that is preventing the Security Council from taking meaningful action.

Moscow and Beijing have used their Security Council veto powers to block three resolutions that would have condemned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for his 18-month assault on an increasingly militarized opposition determined to oust him. They have also voiced opposition to new sanctions against Tehran.

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U.S. President Barack Obama, who is in the final months of a re-election campaign, will be stepping up to the podium for the fourth time. He is the second speaker after the General Assembly debate opens on Tuesday, following Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in Brazil's traditional spot as the first speaker.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speak almost back-to-back on Thursday.

A year after Abbas announced with great fanfare plans to join the United Nations as a full member state - an idea that never had a chance of success because of the U.S. power to veto it - he is expected to reiterate more modest Palestinian plans to push for upgraded membership status at the world body.

Obama has no plans to meet Netanyahu, who has been urging the American leader to get tougher on Iran over its nuclear program, though diplomats say Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet the Israeli leader and numerous other senior officials from around the world on the sidelines of the General Assembly.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a regular at the assembly since he took office in 2005, will give his address on Wednesday, which happens to be the Jewish holy day Yom Kippur. He will also address a meeting on the "rule of law" on Monday.

In previous years, Ahmadinejad has used his U.N. speeches to defend a nuclear program he insists is peaceful but the West fears is for weapons, and to attack Israel, the United States and Europe. He has questioned the Holocaust and cast doubt on whether 19 hijackers were really responsible for September 11.

Western envoys predictably walk out of Ahmadinejad's speeches in protest.

The General Assembly has had many memorable moments since it first convened in London in 1946 as the Cold War was emerging from the rubble of World War Two.

In 1960, Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev banged his shoe on a table during an assembly meeting. In the same year, Cuba's Fidel Castro blasted U.S. imperialism for about four hours.

Libya's late leader, Muammar Gaddafi, addressed the assembly for the first time in 2009. He spoke for an hour and 35 minutes and managed to touch on subjects ranging from the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, the U.S. invasion of Grenada and free medicine for the world's children.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez irked Washington in 2006 when he referred to George W. Bush as "the devil", saying he smelled sulfur around the U.N. podium a day after the U.S. president spoke. Chavez, battling cancer and campaigning for re-election, is not expected to attend this year.

(Additional reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

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Friday, September 21, 2012

In Line For The iPhone 5: All Of This For A Phone?

Waiting in line for the iPhone 5 again and againWithout sounding too much like a reality TV show, I can't sleep. Observing the wasteland in front of the Apple Store Fifth Avenue helps a bit. Yet, the Apple line heroes have no problem sleeping at all. It's probably because they have been sleeping outside for the past few days.

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Iran seen behind cyber attacks on US banks

By Robert Windrem and Jim?Miklaszewski
NBC News

National security officials told NBC News that the continuing cyber attacks this week that slowed the websites of JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America are being carried out by the government of Iran. One of those sources said the claim by hackers that the attacks were prompted by the online video mocking the Prophet Muhammad is just a cover story.

A group of purported hackers in the Middle East has claimed credit for problems at the websites of both banks, citing the online video mocking the founder of Islam. One security source called that statement "a cover" for the Iranian government's operations.

The attack is described by one source, a former U.S. official familiar with the attacks, as being "significant and ongoing" and looking to cause "functional and significant damage." Also, one source suggested the attacks were in response to U.S. sanctions on Iranian banks.

The consumer banking website of Bank of America was unavailable to some customers on Tuesday, and JPMorgan Chase on Wednesday had the same problems, which multiple sources linked to a denial-of-service attack, in which a website is bogged down by a large number of requests. A Chase spokesman said Wednesday that the consumer site was intermittently unavailable to some customers, but did not acknowledge then that there was an attack. On Thursday, Chase said slowness continued but was resolved by late afternoon Eastern Time.?Bank of America acknowledged on Tuesday that its site had experienced slowness, but would not say what caused it.

Senior U.S. officials acknowledge that Iranian attacks have been the subject of intense interest by U.S. intelligence for several weeks. Last week, the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Intelligence Directorate, known as J-2, confirmed continuing Iranian cyber attacks against U.S. financial institutions in a report described as "highly classified." The report was posted on internal classified U.S. government sites last Friday, September 14.


Because of the level of classification, the officials refused to provide or confirm any?specifics on these attacks. However, one official noted that Iran's uranium enrichment program had been the target of the STUXNET worm in 2010. The worm was reportedly developed by the U.S. and Israel. "The Iranians are very familiar with the environment,? quipped the official.

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A conservative website, FreeBeacon.com, initially reported on the Pentagon analysis, quoting it as saying, ??Iran?s cyber aggression should be viewed as a component, alongside efforts like support for terrorism, to the larger covert war Tehran is waging against the west.??U.S officials did not deny the FreeBeacon report when queried by NBC News.

A financial services industry group, ?the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, warned U.S. banks, brokerages and insurers late Wednesday to be on heightened alert for cyber attacks. FS-ISAC also raised its raised the cyber threat level to "high" from "elevated" in an advisory to members, citing "recent credible intelligence regarding the potential" for cyber attacks as its reason for the move.

The former head of cyber-security for the White House testified Thursday that ?we were waiting for something like this from Iran.? ?Frank Cilluffo, who served as Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security under President George W. Bush, is currently an associate vice president at George Washington University and heads the Homeland Security Policy Institute.?Cilluffo testified in a previously scheduled appearance before the U.S. House of Representatives? Committee on Homeland Security, saying ?the government of Iran and its terrorist proxies are serious concerns in the cyber context. What Iran may lack in capability, it makes up for in intent. ?They do not need highly sophisticated capabilities?just intent and cash?as there exists an arms bazaar of cyber weapons, allowing Iran to buy or rent the tools they need or seek.?

The statement by the purported Muslim hackers, posted on Tuesday on Pastebin, an online bulletin board, reads in full: "In the name of Allah the companionate the merciful. My soul is devoted to you Dear Prophet of Allah. Dear Muslim youths, Muslims Nations and are noblemen. When Arab nations rose against their corrupt regimes (those who support Zionist regime) at the other hand when, Crucify infidels are terrified and they are no more supporting human rights. United States of America with the help of Zionist Regime made a Sacrilegious movie insulting all the religions not only Islam. All the Muslims worldwide must unify and Stand against the action, Muslims must do whatever is necessary to stop spreading this movie. We will attack them for this insult with all we have. All the Muslim youths who are active in the Cyber world will attack to American and Zionist Web bases as much as needed such that they say that they are sorry about that insult. We, Cyber fighters of Izz ad-din Al qassam will attack the Bank of America and New York Stock Exchange for the first step. These Targets are properties of American-Zionist Capitalists. This attack will be started today at 2 pm. GMT. This attack will continue till the Erasing of that nasty movie. Beware this attack can vary in type. Down with modern infidels. Allah is the Greatest. Allah is the Greatest."

There was no report of an attack on the New York Stock Exchange.

Also on Thursday, the U.S. disclosed that it has ?bought $70,000 worth of air time on seven Pakistani television channels to air an ad which shows President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denouncing the anti-Islamic video.?In the ad, President Obama says, "Since our founding the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths. We reject all efforts to denigrate religious beliefs of others." Clinton appears after Obama and says, "Let me state very clearly that the United States has absolutely nothing to do with this video. We absolutely reject?its contents. America's commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation."

Pakistan was added Wednesday?to the State Department's list of countries to which Americans should avoid travel, joining Lebanon and Tunisia, following protests across the Middle East and North Africa and the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in which American Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed.?

Robert Windrem is a senior investigative correspondent for NBC News. Jim ?Miklaszewski is the chief Pentagon correspondent for NBC News. Patti Domm, executive news editor at CNBC and CNBC.com, contributed to this report.

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