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No. 1 UNC beats UNC-Pembroke 100-58 in exhibition (AP)

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. ? Tyler Zeller scored 18 points to help No. 1 North Carolina beat North Carolina-Pembroke 100-58 in an exhibition Friday night.

Freshman P.J. Hairston added 17 points for the Tar Heels, who struggled early before going on a 41-6 run against the Division II Braves. Preseason Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year Harrison Barnes had 13 points, though he didn't manage a field goal until the 14:35 mark of the second half and made just 2 of 8 shots.

Shahmel Brackett scored 16 points to lead the Braves, who jumped to a 10-2 lead and led most of the first half before UNC ran off 21 straight points. Hairston started the run with a 3-pointer to tie it, then added another just before halftime to help the Tar Heels take a 43-32 lead. They scored the first seven points after the break and pushed that lead to 47 points late.

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AP: Insider charges for ex-Goldman board member

FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2009 file photo, Rajat Kumar Gupta, former Chairman of Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, listens to a statement, during a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Gupta, former Goldman Sachs board member, surrendered to federal authorities Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 in New York to face criminal charges stemming from a massive hedge fund insider trading case. (AP Photo/Keystone/Alessandro Della Bella, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2009 file photo, Rajat Kumar Gupta, former Chairman of Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, listens to a statement, during a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Gupta, former Goldman Sachs board member, surrendered to federal authorities Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 in New York to face criminal charges stemming from a massive hedge fund insider trading case. (AP Photo/Keystone/Alessandro Della Bella, File)

(AP) ? A person with knowledge of the case says a former Goldman Sachs board member who has surrendered in New York City has been indicted on insider trading charges.

The FBI says Rajat Gupta surrendered Wednesday but gave no further details.

The person cited the charges for The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the indictment has not yet been made public.

Gupta's name played prominently at the trial of former hedge fund titan Raj Rajaratnam (rahj rah-juh-RUHT'-nuhm), convicted this year of insider trading. Jurors heard wiretaps of the men discussing what prosecutors portrayed as inside information about Goldman Sachs.

Rajaratnam got 11 years in prison.

Gupta's lawyer says the allegations are "totally baseless."

Associated Press

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Nintendo H1 recurring loss seen at $1.32 billion: report (Reuters)

TOKYO (Reuters) ? Nintendo Co is expected to post a recurring loss of about 100 billion yen ($1.32 billion) in the first half ending on September 30, much worse than the 55 billion loss the company has forecast, the Nikkei business daily reported in its online edition on Wednesday.

Shares of the Japanese games maker plunged more than 7.5 percent at one point after the news, to 10,800 yen.

($1 = 75.770 Japanese Yen)

(Reporting by Chang-Ran Kim; Editing by Joseph Radford)

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PFT: Falcons' White fires back at Suh

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Before the season started, we noted that the teams in the AFC North appeared to have an easy schedule.

They face the NFC West and AFC South out of division, which looked soft on paper. ?Usually ?on paper? doesn?t translate to reality, but it did this time around.

The NFC West and AFC South are the two worst divisions in football, despite the presence of the 49ers and Texans. ?ESPN?s John Clayton notes that?if the Jaguars lose tonight, the AFC South will have the worst out of division record in football at 5-16. ?The NFC West is next worse at 6-15.

It shouldn?t be a surprise, then, that every team in the AFC North is .500 or better. The division is home to one of the league?s biggest surprises (Cincy) and the worst 3-3 team we can remember. (Cleveland)

On top of that, the AFC North has the top four defenses in the league according to yards allowed. This is what happens when every team in the division gets to play the Seahawks, Jaguars, Colts, Cardinals, and Rams.

What does it all mean?

The AFC North division champion is almost a lock to get a playoff bye and could get the No. 1 seed. ?Second place in the division is very likely to go to the playoffs, and perhaps the Bengals could hang around the wild card race longer than expected.

So much of the NFL comes down to schedule, but it?s rarely talked about. We?ve heard a number of times this year how the Patriots won 11 games with Matt Cassel, but no one mentions how they faced one of the softest schedules in football that year.

It?s not like it?s the fault of the Ravens, Steelers, Browns, and Bengals. These things even out. It?s up to them to take advantage while they can.

Which reminds me: Are you ready for some football tonight? A Monday night blowout!

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/10/24/roddy-white-responds-to-suh/related/

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Kimberly-Clark net income falls, though sales rise (AP)

NEW YORK ? Rising costs led Kimberly-Clark Corp., maker of Kleenex, Huggies and other household brands, to report an 8 percent decline in third-quarter net income Monday. It also cut its revenue outlook and the high end of its earnings outlook.

Like many companies, Kimberly-Clark is struggling with higher costs for oil, wood, pulp and other materials it needs to make and transport its products. Some of those costs have leveled off recently, but they're still far higher than they were a year ago.

To make up for those higher costs, Kimberly-Clark has raised prices on some products, a delicate dance because it risks driving away budget-conscious customers. Analysts raised concerns about whether customers would rebel against the higher prices, many of which will take effect in the last months of this year.

Softening demand in parts of Europe and North America were also a disappointment, though Kimberly-Clark pointed to its expansion in fast-growing foreign markets including China, South Korea and Latin America.

Net income fell to $432 million, or $1.09 per share. That was down from $469 million, or $1.14 per share, last year. Adjusted earnings of $1.26 per share were in line with expectations of analysts polled by FactSet.

Revenue was a bright spot, rising 8 percent to $5.38 billion, beating analysts' expectations for $5.29 billion. It was helped by a combination of higher prices on some products and higher sales in some areas, though analysts noted that overall sales volume was flat.

The revenue increase couldn't overcome a 13 percent increase in the cost of making products. And some of the revenue rise was a result of currency translation: When the dollar is weak, goods sold overseas translate into more dollars. However, Kimberly-Clark also said it expects that benefit to soften because some foreign currencies have weakened in the past four weeks.

The company's shares fell $3.35 Monday, or 4.6 percent, to close at $69.65.

CEO Tom Falk said the company will continue to look for ways to cut costs. The company also hopes new products, such as slip-on diapers and Kleenex boxes meant to fit in car doors, will help sales.

The company said that some softening sales volumes will probably prevent it from trimming costs as much as it had hoped this year. But it also said it is reacting more quickly to trim production when volumes fall.

In North America, sales of baby wipes and feminine-care products increased. Sales of safety products, such as helmets and goggles, and medical products, such as exam gloves, did well.

Diaper sales in North America suffered, which the company pinned to several changes in customer behavior. North American customers are having fewer babies, are more willing to trade down to cheaper brands, and are buying on a "just-in-time" basis instead of overstocking.

More moms are moving their children directly from diapers to potty training, which crimps sales of more-expensive and higher-margin training pants, the company said. Kimberly-Clark is also under pressure to offer discounts to keep up with rivals.

As U.S. customers get tapped out, Kimberly-Clark and other companies are relying on growth in emerging markets, trying to transform long-held behaviors of potential customers there whose incomes are rising. For example, Falk said, the company could sell training pants instead of just diapers in developing countries.

"It's taking a mom from using one diaper per day to using five diapers a day as they would in developed markets," he added.

Significantly, Kimberly-Clark said it expects higher prices for raw materials to cost it $575 million to $625 million for the year, down from previous assumptions of $650 to $750 million. That's because prices for some materials have fallen in recent months. However, those costs are still higher than they were a year ago, the company said, and it still expects to push through price increases through the fourth quarter.

In some cases, the company isn't raising the price outright but is offering smaller packages for the same price, such as rolls of toilet paper with fewer sheets.

Kimberly-Clark also said it expects an overall revenue increase of 4 to 6 percent for the year, down from previous predictions of 5 to 7 percent. It expects per-share earnings of $4.80 to $4.90 after adjusting for one-time expenses. Previously, it had said that earnings were expected to be in the lower half of a range from $4.80 to $5.05.

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HP Pavilion g7-1260us


A well-equipped budget laptop, like the HP Pavilion g7-2160us ($629.99 list at Staples), can be a good fit for the dorm room or family home. It's great for completing day-to-day tasks, as well as casual gaming and light photo editing. It may not have all of the latest features, but it offers a large hard drive, an Intel Core i3 processor, and big, bright 17-inch screen, for a decent price.

Design
The g7-1260us has a sleek, simple look, the two-toned color scheme nicely contrasts its silver-grey lid and palm rest against a dark charcoal grey plastic chassis. The plastic construction flexes a bit, but still feels fairly rigid when you pick it up. The size of the g7-1260us (1.44 by 16.22 by 10.55 inches, HWD), making it more of a stationary desktop replacement. It weighs 6 pounds, which is lighter than the 17-inch Gateway NV77H05u ($629.99 list, 3 stars) (6.5 pounds), but still nowhere near as commuter-friendly as the lighter 15-inch Asus U56E-BBL5 ($649.99 list, 4 stars) (5.5 pounds).

The g7-1260us has a large 17.6-inch widescreen that displays in 1,600-by-900 resolution, the same resolution offered on the Gateway NV77H05u. The screen has a bright LED backlight that offers better visibility in brightly lit environments, and is large enough to tile two windows side by side for multitasking. The g7-1260us has SRS Premium Sound software enhancement, but while it may offer clean sound at decent volumes, it can't make up for the lack of bass, or for its sound distortion at high volume.

The full-size keyboard and numeric pad have a traditional layout, as opposed to the spaced-out keys on chiclet-style keyboards. The keys type quietly, but they provide very little resistance. Some people may prefer a mushy keyboard, but I do not. The trackpad is molded seamlessly into the palm rest, but the textured surface is easy to distinguish by feel. It supports multitouch gestures, like two-finger scrolling and zoom, and the separate right and left mouse buttons click quietly.

Features
The g7-1260us has a basic feature set from top to bottom, from it's integrated webcam to it's three USB 2.0 ports. You won't find any of the faster USB 3.0 or eSATA ports seen in competitors, like the Gateway NV77H05u. But all of the basic ports and connectors are there, like headphone and microphone jacks, a case lock slot, VGA video output, HDMI output for connecting to an HDTV, and an integrated card reader (SD, MMC). A DVD burner lets you watch movies and burn data to discs. Gigabit Ethernet and 802.11n Wi-Fi gives you wired and wireless networking options. What you won't find are amenities like WiDi 2.0, a wireless alternative to HDMI found on many mainstream and budget laptops, including the Asus U56E-BBL5.

The g7-1260us comes equipped with a 640GB 5,400rpm hard drive, similar to the 640GB drives found in the Gateway NV77H05u and Asus U56E-BBL5, and a step up in capacity from the 500GB drive found in the HP Pavilion g7-1033cl ($649.99 list, 4 stars). It comes with Windows 7 Home Premium installed, along with Microsoft Office Starter 2010, a 60-day trial of Norton Internet Security, and HP QuickWeb. Some bloatware you may want to remove includes Blio book reader, a collection of game samples from WildTangent, Evernote, and desktop links to eBay, and a now defunct webpage touting HP's webOS and the HP TouchPad.

Hewlett-Packard covers the g7-1260us with a 1-year warranty. Customers who buy this system from Staples can avail themselves of several services the retailer offers. This includes setting the new system up, data transfer from your old PC to your new one, software installation, and tech support and protection plans that range in price from $14.99 to $169.99.

Performance
HP Pavlion g7-1260us While many value-priced desktop replacements utilize low-powered, inexpensive processors that are either out of date or better suited to netbooks, the g7-1260us comes with an Intel Core i3-2330M processor, a 2.2GHz dual-core CPU. Pairing this processor with 4GB of RAM, the g7-1260us provides plenty of muscle for day-to-day tasks, as well as basic gaming capability and moderate multimedia work. The g7-1260us scored 1,933 points in PCMark 7, and 2.5 points in Cinebench R11.5, scores right in line with the similarly equipped Gateway (2,004 in PCMark7, 2.04 in Cinebench) and the Core i5-equipped Asus U56E-BBL5 (1,920 in PCMark7, 2.60 in Cinebench).

The g7-2160us completed Handbrake in 2 minutes 21 seconds, and Photoshop CS5 in 5:23. By comparison the Gateway NV77H05u completed these same tests in 2:23 (Handbrake) and 5:44 (CS5), but the Asus U56E-BBL5 beat them both (1:55 in Handbrake, 4:13 in CS5). It may not be the right tool for a budding media artist, but for building the family scrap book, it'll do just fine.

The g7-2160us experienced its biggest bump in performance thanks to the new Core i3 processor, which includes enhanced graphics processing as being part of the Sandy Bridge line. This improvement was significant compared to the previous line, which had far more limited graphics capability. In 3DMark 06, the g7-2160us scored 3,816 points at medium resolution and detail settings, and 1,928 points when cranked up to its native 1600-by-900 resolution. By comparison, the older HP g7-1033cl scored only 1,995 points at medium resolution, and 1,533 with the eye candy turned up. It also presents a huge improvement in gaming capability. The g7-1260us pumped out 19.3 frames per second in Crysis (DirectX 10), and 14.3 fps in Lost Planet 2 (DirectX 9), where the older system was unable to run either one. You should have no problem playing basic games like Portal or Team Fortress 2, but high-end games will be out of reach.

The HP Pavilion g7-2160us has a 6-cell 55Wh battery, which lasted 4 hours 43 minutes in our MobileMark 2007 battery tests. It was slightly ahead of other 17-inch budget laptops, like the Gateway NV77H05u (4:36 with a 6-cell, 48Wh battery) and HP g7-1033cl (4:05 with a 6-cell 47Wh battery). The smaller Asus U56E-BBL5, however, lasted 7:43 with a larger 8-cell 74Wh battery.

With it's 17-inch screen, 640GB hard drive, and Intel Core i3 processor, you may find that the HP Pavilion g7-2160us offers exactly what you need, even if it's missing a few forward-thinking features. Between the two-toned styling, nearly five hours of battery life, and decent all around performance, the g7-2160us will pique your interest. If you want more portability and a fuller feature set while still staying within your budget, try the Editors' Choice for budget laptops, the Asus U56E-BBL5.

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Panthers beat Redskins 33-20

Carolina Panthers' Cam Newton (1) runs for a touchdown against the Washington Redskins during the third quarter of an NFL football game in Charlotte, N.C., Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone)

Carolina Panthers' Cam Newton (1) runs for a touchdown against the Washington Redskins during the third quarter of an NFL football game in Charlotte, N.C., Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone)

(AP) ? For once, Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers got to play with a lead instead of trying to erase another late-game deficit. That left the rookie to celebrate with fans instead of suffering through another frustrating loss.

Newton ran for a touchdown and threw for another in the second half to help the Carolina Panthers beat the Washington Redskins 33-20 on Sunday.

Jonathan Stewart also ran for a third-quarter touchdown for the Panthers (2-5), who for the first time all year found themselves playing with the lead almost the entire way.

Newton threw for 256 yards and ran for 59 more. He ran for his seventh touchdown on a 16-yard keeper in the third quarter, tying a record for most TDs rushing by a rookie quarterback since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger.

In the fourth, he had an easy touchdown toss to Brandon LaFell that blew the game open.

Washington's John Beck threw for 279 yards and scored on a short keeper in his first start in four years. But he didn't get the Redskins (3-3) back to the end zone again until they were down 30-13.

The past month had followed a familiar pattern for Newton and the Panthers: trail late in close games only and repeatedly fall short. Probably the worst moment came here two weeks ago, when the Panthers gave up the go-ahead touchdown to Drew Brees and the Saints with 50 seconds left in a loss that left Newton growing more frustrated by the day.

But this time, Newton got the chance to keep the pressure on the Redskins instead of trying to pull off his own desperate comeback. The No. 1 overall draft pick responded to that challenge, coolly leading Carolina to three straight touchdown drives after entering the second half with a 9-6 lead.

He completed 18 of 23 passes in an efficient performance, with Steve Smith hauling in seven for 143 yards. More importantly, Newton didn't commit a turnover after throwing three interceptions in last week's loss at Atlanta.

It was clear how much Newton enjoyed finally getting his second win. When it was over, he ran to the front row of fans and gave high-fives on his way to the locker-room tunnel.

After Beck answered Newton's TD run with one of his own, Newton twice found Smith downfield on a 10-play, 80-yard drive that ended with Stewart's 2-yard touchdown that pushed the lead to 23-13.

Then, after the Panthers forced a three-and-out, Newton found Smith downfield again with a perfectly thrown deep ball that Smith hauled in at the 1 for a 36-yard gain. Three plays later, Newton connected with LaFell to make it 30-13 with 8:13 left.

As for Beck, he earned the starting job after Rex Grossman threw four interceptions in last week's ugly home loss to Philadelphia. It was his first start since December 2007 with the Miami Dolphins ? and he remains winless in all five career starts.

He completed 22 of 37 passes and threw a late touchdown to Fred Davis after the game was out of reach.

It didn't help that Beck lost top receiver Santana Moss and tailback Tim Hightower to injuries, either.

Moss hurt his left hand in the first half and spent the rest of the half watching from the sideline while wearing a bulky wrap on the hand.

Hightower ? who got the start and had run for 88 yards on 17 carries ? hurt his left knee on a 4-yard carry in the third quarter. He was helped off the field and eventually carted to the locker room from the sideline. Neither player returned.

Associated Press

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Obama keeps campaign promise with Iraq

By msnbc.com's Michael O'Brien

President Barack Obama's announcement Friday that all U.S. troops would leave Iraq by the end of 2011 marks the fulfillment of a major political promise Obama had made on the 2008 campaign trail.

The president announced his decision at an early afternoon press conference at the White House. It's in keeping with the timeline Obama first established in early 2009, when he first laid out a timetable for withdrawal.

The announcement comes Friday with a great amount of political import, though. Obama is keeping a major campaign promise -- he noted as much in his very first sentence at his press conference -- and he is building on a string of recent foreign policy successes -- the death yesterday of Libya's Moammar Khaddafy, most recently -- going into a re-election battle in which a top issue, jobs and the economy, may end up being a vulnerability for the president.

"As a candidate for president, I planned to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end," Obama said Friday at the White House. "After taking office, I announced a new strategy that would end our combat mission in Iraq and remove all troops by the end of 2011.

"So today, I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year," the president continued. "After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over."

Those lines were promoted by Obama's campaign Twitter account, underscoring the cross-secting political and military undercurrents guiding today's announcement.

Obama's initial opposition to the war was one of the key parts of his record that propelled him past Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primary; in the?general election, Obama had been pitted against Arizona Sen. John McCain, a top proponent of the war, and the subsequent "surge" of U.S. troops to help secure Iraq despite its destabilizing insurgency.

"The differences on Iraq in this campaign are deep. Unlike Senator John McCain, I opposed the war in Iraq before it began, and would end it as president," Obama wrote in a 2008 op-ed in the New York Times.

And for as much friendly fire that the president has taken from the left for unfinished campaign trail promises, Obama's move to withdraw troops marks a moment of deep satisfaction for his base, whom he's courting again heading into next fall's election.

It also helps burnish Obama's foreign policy credentials on top of a string of accomplishments this year. Khaddafy's death Thursday in Libya provided some measure of validation of the president's measured strategy toward the rebellion there. U.S. predator drones also managed to assassinate a major al-Qaeda figure, Anwar al-Awlaki, last month. And Obama's scored perhaps no greater achievement than the successful killing of Osama bin Laden earlier this year in Pakistan -- something to which Obama made reference Friday.

"I would note that the end of war in Iraq reflects a larger transition: the tide of war is receding," Obama said. "The drawdown in Iraq allowed us to focus our fight against al-Qaeda and achieve major victories against its leadership, including Osama bin Laden."

He noted the additional transition in Afghanistan in a move toward bringing troops home from that part of the world, too.

"When I took office, roughly 180,000 troops were deployed in both these wars. By the end of this year, that number will be cut in half," he said. "And make no mistake, it will continue to go down."

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Tancredo: Perry is finished (Daily Caller)

Former Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo blasted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday, saying ?he is finished,? in a sign the GOP?s immigration hawks may soon flock to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

Tancredo, who ran for president in 2008 before dropping out and endorsing Romney, defended the Republican frontrunner against Perry?s charge that he employed illegal immigrants to perform landscaping work. ?Perry is just as guilty of ?hiring illegals? because I am sure he has been served by an illegal alien or has had his food cooked by one in a Texas restaurant,? Tancredo said in an email to the Colorado Peak Politics blog.

Known as one of the conservative movement?s most vocal and prominent anti-immigration activists, Tancredo is a longtime critic of Perry?s relaxed stance on the issue. On Wednesday, he appeared on the Caplis and Silverman radio show and said Perry?s attack on Romney was a desperate move to ?get some juices flowing.?

Tancredo, who is currently supporting former Godfather Pizza CEO Herman Cain for the nomination, also predicted Perry would not win the nomination. ?I think he has imploded,? Tancredo said. ?I think he is finished and I hope I helped kick some holes in his boat.?

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Jobs questioned authority all his life, book says (AP)

SAN FRANCISCO ? A new biography portrays Steve Jobs as a skeptic all his life ? giving up religion because he was troubled by starving children, calling executives who took over Apple "corrupt" and delaying cancer surgery in favor of cleansings and herbal medicine.

"Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson, to be published Monday, also says Jobs came up with the company's name while he was on a diet of fruits and vegetables, and as a teenager perfected staring at people without blinking.

The Associated Press purchased a copy of the book Thursday.

The book delves into Jobs' decision to delay surgery for nine months after learning in October 2003 that he had a neuroendocrine tumor ? a relatively rare type of pancreatic cancer that normally grows more slowly and is therefore more treatable.

Instead, he tried a vegan diet, acupuncture, herbal remedies and other treatments he found online, and even consulted a psychic. He also was influenced by a doctor who ran a clinic that advised juice fasts, bowel cleansings and other unproven approaches, the book says, before finally having surgery in July 2004.

Isaacson, quoting Jobs, writes in the book: "`I really didn't want them to open up my body, so I tried to see if a few other things would work,' he told me years later with a hint of regret."

Jobs died Oct. 5, at age 56, after a battle with cancer.

The book also provides insight into the unraveling of Jobs' relationship with Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and an Apple board member from 2006 to 2009. Schmidt had quit Apple's board as Google and Apple went head-to-head in smartphones, Apple with its iPhone and Google with its Android software.

Isaacson wrote that Jobs was livid in January 2010 when HTC introduced an Android phone that boasted many of the popular features of the iPhone. Apple sued, and Jobs told Isaacson in an expletive-laced rant that Google's actions amounted to "grand theft."

"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs said. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."

Jobs used an expletive to describe Android and Google Docs, Google's Internet-based word processing program. In a subsequent meeting with Schmidt at a Palo Alto, Calif., cafe, Jobs told Schmidt that he wasn't interested in settling the lawsuit, the book says.

"I don't want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won't want it. I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want." The meeting, Isaacson wrote, resolved nothing.

The book is clearly designed to evoke the Apple style. Its cover features the title and author's name starkly printed in black and gray type against a white background, along with a black-and-white photo of Jobs, thumb and forefinger to his chin.

The biography, for which Jobs granted more than three dozen interviews, is also a look into the thoughts of a man who was famously secret, guarding details of his life as he did Apple's products, and generating plenty of psychoanalysis from a distance.

Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO on Aug. 24, six weeks before he died.

Doctors said Thursday that it was not clear whether the delayed treatment made a difference in Jobs' chances for survival.

"People live with these cancers for far longer than nine months before they're even diagnosed," so it's not known how quickly one can prove fatal, said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.

Dr. Michael Pishvaian, a pancreatic cancer expert at Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, said people often are in denial after a cancer diagnosis, and some take a long time to accept recommended treatments.

"We've had many patients who have had bad outcomes when they have delayed treatment. Nine months is certainly a significant period of time to delay," he said.

Fortune magazine reported in 2008 that Jobs tried alternative treatments because he was suspicious of mainstream medicine.

The book says Jobs gave up Christianity at age 13 when he saw starving children on the cover of Life magazine. He asked his Sunday school pastor whether God knew what would happen to them.

Jobs never went back to church, though he did study Zen Buddhism later.

Jobs calls the crop of executives brought in to run Apple after his ouster in 1985 "corrupt people" with "corrupt values" who cared only about making money. Jobs himself is described as caring far more about product than profit.

He told Isaacson they cared only about making money "for themselves mainly, and also for Apple ? rather than making great products."

Jobs returned to the company in 1997. After that, he introduced the candy-colored iMac computer, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad, and turned Apple into the most valuable company in America by market value for a time.

The book says that, while some Apple board members were happy that Hewlett-Packard gave up trying to compete with Apple's iPad, Jobs did not think it was cause for celebration.

"Hewlett and Packard built a great company, and they thought they had left it in good hands," Jobs told Isaacson. "But now it's being dismembered and destroyed."

"I hope I've left a stronger legacy so that will never happen at Apple," he added.

Advance sales of the book have topped best-seller lists. Much of the biography adds to what was already known, or speculated, about Jobs. While Isaacson is not the first to tell Jobs' story, he had unprecedented access. Their last interview was weeks before Jobs died.

Jobs reveals in the book that he didn't want to go to college, and the only school he applied to was Reed, a costly private college in Portland, Ore. Once accepted, his parents tried to talk him out of attending Reed, but he told them he wouldn't go to college if they didn't let him go there. Jobs wound up attending but dropped out after less than a year and never went back.

Jobs told Isaacson that he tried various diets, including one of fruits and vegetables. On the naming of Apple, he said he was "on one of my fruitarian diets." He said he had just come back from an apple farm, and thought the name sounded "fun, spirited and not intimidating."

Jobs' eye for simple, clean design was evident early. The case of the Apple II computer had originally included a Plexiglas cover, metal straps and a roll-top door. Jobs, though, wanted something elegant that would make Apple stand out.

He told Isaacson he was struck by Cuisinart food processors while browsing at a department store and decided he wanted a case made of molded plastic.

He called Jonathan Ive, Apple's design chief, his "spiritual partner" at Apple. He told Isaacson that Ive had "more operation power" at Apple than anyone besides Jobs himself ? that there's no one at the company who can tell Ive what to do. That, says Jobs, is "the way I set it up."

Jobs was never a typical CEO. Apple's first president, Mike Scott, was hired mainly to manage Jobs, then 22. One of his first projects, according to the book, was getting Jobs to bathe more often. It didn't work.

Jobs' dabbling in LSD and other aspects of 1960s counterculture has been well documented. In the book, Jobs says LSD "reinforced my sense of what was important ? creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could."

He also revealed that the Beatles were one of his favorite bands, and one of his wishes was to get the band on iTunes, Apple's revolutionary online music store, before he died. The Beatles' music went on sale on iTunes in late 2010.

The book was originally called "iSteve" and scheduled to come out in March. The release date was moved up to November, then, after Jobs' death, to Monday. It is published by Simon & Schuster and will sell for $35.

Isaacson will appear Sunday on "60 Minutes." CBS News, which airs the program, released excerpts of the book Thursday.

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Ortutay reported from New York. AP Technology Writer Peter Svensson in New York and AP Chief Medical Writer Marilynn Marchione in Milwaukee also contributed to this report.

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry calls for a flat tax

Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry delivers a keynote address during the Western Republican Leadership Conference, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)

Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry delivers a keynote address during the Western Republican Leadership Conference, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)

Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, runs prior to delivering a keynote address during the Western Republican Leadership Conference, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)

(AP) ? Working to distinguish himself from rival Mitt Romney, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday that he wants to scrap America's current tax laws and impose a flat tax.

Perry told the Western Republican Leadership Conference he plans to explain the tax proposal when he unveils his broad economic plan in a speech next week.

He called the plan "an economic growth package that will create jobs, create growth and create investor confidence in America again."

"It starts with scrapping the three million words of the current tax code, and starting over with something much simpler: a flat tax," Perry said.

"I want to make the tax code so simple that even Timothy Geithner can file his taxes on time," he joked, referring to the Treasury Secretary and his late payment of $34,000 in payroll taxes last decade.

Perry's proposal is dramatically different from Romney's tax plan. Romney would lower the corporate tax rate and lower taxes on savings and investment income. He says his long term goal is to "pursue a flatter, fairer, simpler structure."

A flat tax applies the same tax rate to income at every level. The current tax code is progressive, taxing higher incomes at higher rates and lower incomes at lower rates.

Critics across the political spectrum complain that the current tax code is too complex and riddled with loopholes that allow specific groups to pay less. Many conservatives argue a flat tax would be simpler and fairer because everyone would be taxed at the same rate. Liberals and many moderates say a flat tax would make the tax system more regressive, giving big tax breaks to the wealthy while making low- and middle-income families pay more.

Perry didn't provide any more details for his flat tax proposal. In his book, "Fed Up!" he suggests the flat tax as a possible policy prescription but doesn't elaborate.

"One option would be to totally scrap the current tax code in favor of a flat tax, and thereby make taxation much simpler, easier to follow and harder to manipulate," Perry writes in his book. "Another option would be to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution (which authorizes the taxation of income) altogether, and then pursue an alternative model of taxation such as a national sales tax or the Fair Tax."

Associated Press

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Wray Herbert: Scientific Freedom, False Positives and the Fountain of Youth

"Chronological rejuvenation" is psychological jargon for the Fountain of Youth, that elusive tonic that, when we find it, will reverse the aging process. Though many of us would welcome such a discovery, most of us also know it's a fantasy, a scientific impossibility.

So imagine my surprise when I came across this report on chronological rejuvenation while browsing in the highly regarded journal Psychological Science. I am including it verbatim, because (as you'll see) the technical details are important:

Using the same method as in Study 1, we asked 20 University of Pennsylvania undergraduates to listen to either "When I'm Sixty-Four" by The Beatles or "Kalimba." Then, in an ostensibly unrelated task, they indicated their birth date (mm/dd/yyyy) and their father's age. We used father's age to control for variation in baseline age across participants. An ANCOVA revealed the predicted effect: According to their birth dates, people were nearly a year-and-a-half younger after listening to "When I'm Sixty-Four" (adjusted M = 20.1 years) rather than to "Kalimba" (adjusted M = 21.5 years), F(1, 17) = 4.92, p = .040.

If you're like me, you had to read this passage twice: It doesn't say that subjects felt a year and a half younger; it says that they actually were a year and a half younger. That is, the data support the scientists' unbelievable hypothesis that listening to music about old age can make us significantly younger.

Unbelievable indeed. The authors of the report -- Joseph Simmons and Uri Simonsohn of Penn and Leif Nelson of Berkeley -- certainly don't believe this finding, although they did really run the experiment as described, and they used accepted practices for reporting and analyzing their data. They ran the experiment to demonstrate a serious flaw in the usual way that behavioral science data are collected and reported -- a flaw that (they claim) allows scientists to prove that "anything" is a significant finding. The scientists are not charging malfeasance or malicious intent, but they do argue that current methods lead inevitably to self-serving intellectual dishonesty, producing a lot of "false positives" -- results that appear statistically valid but in fact are not. Discovering the Fountain of Youth is a deliberately absurd example, but the authors believe that false positives in behavioral science are "vastly more likely" than the 5 percent that's generally acknowledged.

How does this happen? The scientists ran a computer simulation of 15,000 actual data samples, and identify the culprit as "researcher degrees of freedom." This simply means that, in the course of running and reporting an experiment, scientists make a number of decisions that can skew results. These decisions -- and the rules governing them -- make it "unacceptably easy" to publish bogus evidence for literally any hypothesis. One example is the decision about the sample size. Typically, a researcher will recruit a sample -- say 20 subjects -- and run the experiment. At that point, the research tests the data for significance. If the result is significant, terrific: The researcher stops collecting data and reports the result. So far so good, but what if the result does not reach significance after 20 subjects? In that case, the researcher has the option of adding another group of subjects -- say 10 more -- and testing the data again. And again, and again. According to the authors' computer simulation, this seemingly small degree of freedom increases the false-positive rate by 50 percent. A recent survey found that about seven in 10 psychological scientists admit to making such interim decisions in their research.

Manipulating sample size is just one of the decision-making "freedoms" that the authors highlight in their Psychological Science paper. Another is flexibility in including (and reporting) dependent variables. If a researcher designs an experiment with two dependent variables, he or she can decide to test just one, or the other, or both, increasing the likelihood of producing at least one significant result. Similarly, flexibility in controlling for gender can dramatically boost false positives, as can dropping (or not dropping) one of three experimental conditions. What's more, the authors note, scientists often use all these freedoms in the same experiment, a practice that would lead to a stunning 61 percent false positive rate. In other words, a researcher with all the best intentions is more likely than not to falsely detect a positive result just by using the accepted practices in the field.

So what's to be done? The authors offer a simple solution to the problem of false-positive publication, including requirements for researchers and guidelines for journal reviewers. The requirements all aim for more transparency in reporting data and methods of analysis--listing all variables, for example, and deciding on sample size before data collection begins. Here, for illustration, is the way the authors would revise their own report on the Fountain of Youth study:

Using the same method as in Study 1, we asked 34 University of Pennsylvania undergraduates to listen only to either "When I'm Sixty-Four" by The Beatles or "Kalimba" or "Hot Potato" by the Wiggles. We conducted our analyses after every session of approximately 10 participants; we did not decide in advance when to terminate data collection. Then, in an ostensibly unrelated task, they indicated only their birth date (mm/dd/yyyy) and how old they felt, how much they would enjoy eating at a diner, the square root of 100, their agreement with "computers are complicated machines," their father's age, their mother's age, whether they would take advantage of an early-bird special, their political orientation, which of four Canadian quarterbacks they believed won an award, how often they refer to the past as "the good old days," and their gender. We used father's age to control for variation in baseline age across participants. An ANCOVA revealed the predicted effect: According to their birth dates, people were nearly a year-and-a-half younger after listening to "When I'm Sixty-Four" (adjusted M = 20.1 years) rather than to "Kalimba" (adjusted M = 21.5 years), F(1, 17) = 4.92, p = .040. Without controlling for father's age, the age difference was smaller and did not reach significance (Ms = 20.3 and 21.2, respectively), F(1, 18) = 1.01, p = .33.

This detailed report is about twice as long as the one above, and will no doubt seem burdensome to many scientists. It also will not stop blatant cheaters, the authors concede, but that is not the point. The goal, they conclude is to reduce the "self-serving interpretation of ambiguity, which enables us to convince ourselves that whichever decisions produced the most publishable outcome must have also been the most appropriate."

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Exotic animals escape Ohio farm; owner found dead

ZANESVILLE, Ohio ? Dozens of exotic animals escaped Tuesday from a wild animal preserve that houses bears, big cats and other beasts, and the owner was found dead there, said police, who shot several of the creatures and urged residents to stay indoors.

The fences had been left unsecured at the Muskingum County Animal Farm in Zanesville, and the animals' cages were open, police said. They wouldn't say what animals escaped but said the preserve had lions, wolves, tigers, giraffes, camels and bears. Bears and wolves were among 25 animals that were shot and killed, police said, and there were multiple sightings of exotic animals along a nearby highway.

"These are wild animals that you would see on TV in Africa," Sheriff Matt Lutz warned at a news conference.

He called the escaped animals "mature, very big, aggressive," but said a caretaker told authorities the preserve's 48 animals had been fed on Monday. Police were patrolling the 40-acre farm and the surrounding areas in cars, not on foot, he said, and were concerned that big cats and bears could be hiding.

"This is a bad situation," Lutz said. "It's been a situation for a long time."

Lutz said his office started getting phone calls about 5:30 p.m. that wild animals were loose just west of town on a road that runs under Interstate 70.

He said four deputies with assault rifles in a pickup truck went to the animal farm, where they found the farm's owner, Terry Thompson, dead and all the animal cage doors open. He wouldn't say how Thompson died but said several aggressive animals were near his body and had to be shot.

Thompson, who lived on the property, had orangutans and chimps in cages in his home, but they were still in their cages, Lutz said.

The deputies, who saw many animals standing outside their cages and others that had escaped past the fencing surrounding the property, began shooting them. There had been no reports of injuries among the public.

Staffers from the Columbus Zoo went to the scene, hoping to tranquilize and capture the animals. The sheriff said caretakers might put food in the animals' cages to try to lure them back.

Lutz said people should stay indoors and he might ask schools to close Wednesday. At least four area school districts canceled classes.

Lutz said his main concern was protecting the public.

"Any kind of cat species or bear species is what we are concerned about," he said. "We don't know how much of a head start these animals have on us."

A spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, which usually handles native wildlife, such as deer, said state Division of Wildlife officers were helping the sheriff's office deal with the situation in Zanesville, a city of about 25,000 in the east-central part of the state.

"This is, I would say, unique," spokeswoman Laura Jones said.

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NBA players, owners meeting with mediator

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, right, arrives for labor talks between the NBA and players' association, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011 in New York. NBA commissioner David Stern said last week during an interview with WFAN radio in New York that without a deal Tuesday, when the sides meet with federal mediator George Cohen, his "gut" was that there wouldn't be NBA basketball on Christmas. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, right, arrives for labor talks between the NBA and players' association, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011 in New York. NBA commissioner David Stern said last week during an interview with WFAN radio in New York that without a deal Tuesday, when the sides meet with federal mediator George Cohen, his "gut" was that there wouldn't be NBA basketball on Christmas. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Federal mediator George Cohen, right, arrives for labor talks between the NBA and players' association, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011 in New York. NBA commissioner David Stern said last week during an interview with WFAN radio in New York that without a deal Tuesday, when the sides meet with federal mediator George Cohen, his "gut" was that there wouldn't be NBA basketball on Christmas. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

(AP) ? NBA players and owners are meeting with a federal mediator, and Commissioner David Stern believes more games could be canceled if there isn't movement toward a new labor deal.

George Cohen tried to resolve the NFL's labor dispute. Now he's overseeing basketball's negotiations for the first time. Stern wants immediate results, saying during interviews last week that proposals could get worse and more games could be lost without a deal Tuesday.

"If there's a breakthrough, it's going to come on Tuesday," he told NBA TV. "And if not, I think that the season is really going to potentially escape from us because we aren't making any progress."

Tuesday was the 110th day of the lockout. In another interview, Stern told WFAN radio in New York that his "gut" was that there wouldn't be NBA games on Christmas if it ended without a deal.

But large gaps remain between the sides, with both seeking 53 percent of basketball revenues and players opposing owners' attempts to significantly change the salary cap system.

Cohen met with the sides individually at their offices Monday before both brought their full bargaining committees to a hotel Tuesday. The union said it wanted to have the whole week set aside for negotiations, but owners have two days of board meetings beginning Wednesday.

Stern wants to be able to bring them a deal. If not, they may have to discuss further cancellations after the first two weeks of the season were already wiped out.

Cohen was appointed director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service by President Barack Obama in 2009. He was present for talks between NFL owners and players for 16 days in February and March before that mediation broke off.

He previously helped broker a deal between Major League Soccer and its players and was lead lawyer for the baseball players' union when it won an injunction against its owners in 1995, ending the 7?-month strike.

Associated Press

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Julian Barnes wins prestigious Booker Prize

British author Julian Barnes with his book 'The Sense of an Ending' , winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for fiction poses at a photocall in London, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. The Man Booker Prize is an annual literary prize awarded for the best novel written in the English language. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

British author Julian Barnes with his book 'The Sense of an Ending' , winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for fiction poses at a photocall in London, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. The Man Booker Prize is an annual literary prize awarded for the best novel written in the English language. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

British author Julian Barnes with his book 'The Sense of an Ending' , winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for fiction poses at a photocall in London, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. The Man Booker Prize is an annual literary prize awarded for the best novel written in the English language. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

British author Julian Barnes with his book 'The Sense of an Ending' , winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for fiction poses at a photocall in London, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. The Man Booker Prize is an annual literary prize awarded for the best novel written in the English language. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

British author Julian Barnes with his book 'The Sense of an Ending' , winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for fiction poses at a photocall in London, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. The Man Booker Prize is an annual literary prize awarded for the best novel written in the English language. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

British author Julian Barnes with his book 'The Sense of an Ending', winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for fiction poses at a photocall in London, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. The Man Booker Prize is an annual literary prize awarded for the best novel written in the English language. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

(AP) ? It was fourth time lucky for British writer Julian Barnes, who won literature's Booker Prize on Tuesday after a contest that had as many insults, rivalries and bitter accusations as a paperback potboiler.

Barnes, a finalist on three previous occasions who once described the contest as "posh bingo," finally took the 50,000 pound ($82,000) prize with "The Sense of an Ending," a memory-haunted novel about a 60-something man forced to confront buried truths about his past after the unexpected arrival of a letter.

Former British spy chief-turned-thriller writer Stella Rimington, who chaired the judging panel, said the 150-page novel "spoke to humankind in the 21st century."

She said it was "almost an archetypal book of our time" that examined the unreliability of memory and how little we know ourselves.

"It is exquisitely written, subtly plotted and reveals new depths with each reading," she said.

Barnes, one of Britain's most critically acclaimed novelists, was previously nominated for "Flaubert's Parrot" in 1984, "England, England" in 1998 and "Arthur and George" in 2005. The 65-year-old writer conceded that "in occasional moments of mild paranoia" he had wondered if forces were working against him ever winning.

"I'm as much relieved as I am delighted to receive the 2011 Booker Prize," he said, thanking his publishers "for their wisdom and the sponsors for their check."

Barnes had been the strong favorite to win the award, attracting half of all bets laid through bookmaker William Hill.

He beat five other finalists. Three were British ? Stephen Kelman for "Pigeon English," A.D. Miller for "Snowdrops" and Carol Birch for "Jamrach's Menagerie." Two Canadian novels rounded out the shortlist: "The Sisters Brothers" by Patrick deWitt and "Half Blood Blues" by Esi Edugyan.

One of the English-speaking world's most high-profile literary prizes, the Booker is open to writers from Britain, Ireland and the 54-nation Commonwealth of former British colonies. Founded in 1969, it is officially called the Man Booker Prize after its sponsor, financial services conglomerate Man Group PLC.

It always attracts colorful commentary and controversy, but this year's contest has been particularly combative, with critics accusing the five judges of dumbing-down after Rimington said the finalists had been chosen for readability.

The shortlist drew criticism for excluding some of the year's most critically lauded books, including "On Canaan's Side" by Ireland's Sebastian Barry and "The Stranger's Child" by Britain's Alan Hollinghurst.

And a group of writers, publishers and agents announced it was setting up a rival award that hopes to supplant the Booker as English literature's premier prize.

Literary agent Andrew Kidd, spokesman for the new Literature Prize, said the goal was to create an award "where the single criterion is excellence rather than other factors."

The new prize will be open to any English-language writer whose work has been published in Britain ? unlike the Booker, which does not allow American entrants.

On Tuesday, Rimington accused the Booker's critics of patronizing and insulting both authors and judges.

"What's a novel for it it's not to be read?" she said.

She said the judges were pleased that the batch of six finalists was the best-selling in Booker history.

Though only Barnes was an A-list literary name, readers have embraced the novels' pacy plots and varied settings, which range from inner-city London in "Pigeon English" to Gold Rush-era America in "The Sisters Brothers." ''Jamrach's Menagerie" moves from 19th-century London to a whaling ship, while "Snowdrops" is set in modern-day Moscow and "Half Blood Blues" in prewar Paris and Berlin.

"I thought that the intelligence world was the place for intrigue," said Rimington, former director of the MI5 spy agency. "But that was before I met the publishing world."

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Online: http://www.themanbookerprize.com/

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Cassandra Vinograd contributed to this report. Jill Lawless can be reached at: http://twitter.com/JillLawless

Associated Press

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Instapaper, our favorite read-it-later app for the iPhone and iPad, has just gotten a huge update to version 4.0. This is the first major update since the developer, Marco Arment, started using his own app on the iPad. And man does it show. Instead of being little more than a scaled up iPhone app, the [...]

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Cain says his rise in polls is for real

Republican presidential candidate, businessman Herman Cain, speaks with the media after an interview on NBC's Meet the Press at their studio in Washington on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Republican presidential candidate, businessman Herman Cain, speaks with the media after an interview on NBC's Meet the Press at their studio in Washington on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

(AP) ? Presidential hopeful and pizza executive Herman Cain says he "won't be a flavor of the week" and his sudden climb to the top of GOP presidential polls will last.

A recent spate of polls showed Cain joining Mitt Romney and Rick Perry in the top GOP tier.

Cain said Sunday that his signature 9-9-9 tax plan would lower taxes for most Americans, but conceded some middle-class-Americans might pay more. The plan would scrap the current federal tax code and replace it with 9% rates for personal income and corporate taxes and add a 9% national sales tax.

Many independent analysts say Cain's plan would lower taxes on the rich and raise them for many middle class Americans, but the Georgia businessman disputed those doubts on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Associated Press

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'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' co-writer killed (AP)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. ? Country star Charlie Daniels says his longtime keyboardist and co-writer of "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" had his own musical personality

Joel "Taz" DiGregorio, 67, was killed Wednesday night in a single-car accident on Interstate 40 west of Nashville while en route to Georgia for a Charlie Daniels Band concert that has since been canceled. He was alone when his car flipped going around a curve, Daniels said.

"He was an intricate part of our sound for 40 years," Daniels said Thursday in a telephone interview. "If you listened to our records, you could hear Taz all over them. He had a riff in `The Devil Went Down to Georgia' which was his idea."

Wearing an ever present cowboy hat and always to Daniels' right on stage, DiGregorio was a fixture of the band's rocking persona.

"He just fit in with our music for 40 years. It won't be easy without him," Daniels said.

The Charlie Daniels Band has canceled the concert Thursday in Cumming, Ga., and a show in Waterbury, Conn., on Saturday.

Daniels said he will resume performing next Friday and Saturday in Oklahoma with just five members.

"I won't replace him now," Daniels said. "I can't come to grips with replacing him right now, but I will."

DiGregorio is survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.

"He just had a unique way," Daniels said. "We'll live with this and deal with it."

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Neil Patrick Harris' Twins Turn One!


How time flies. Neil Patrick Harris and longtime partner David Burtka commemorated the one-year birthday of their adopted twin boy and girl this week.

Tweeted NPH yesterday: "Things I dig: our twins Gideon and Harper, who are one year old today! They are glorious. So proud to be their Papa."

Aww. The How I Met Your Mother star is such a sap.

Neil Patrick Harris, David Burtka, Twins

The 38-year-old star added: "And I'm in awe of, and so grateful for, David Burtka. He is, in my humble opinion, the greatest dad in the history of ever."

Aww again.

Gideon and Harper are certainly lucky to have two adoring fathers in Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, who announce their engagement this summer upon the passage of New York State's gay marriage equality law. Happy birthday, kids!

[Photo: Fame Pictures]

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/10/neil-patrick-harris-twins-turn-one/

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Greece public transport strike hits capital again (AP)

ATHENS, Greece ? Public transport ground to a halt in Athens Thursday as workers began a 48-hour strike against austerity measures, while protesters tried to prevent the collection of a new property tax by occupying the power company's billing offices.

Many Greeks have said they cannot pay the new property tax, which is to be paid through electricity bills to circumvent the country's dysfunctional tax system and make it easier for the state to collect. Those who do not pay risk having their power cut off.

But the power employees' union has reacted with outrage, saying the power company should not be used as a tax collection system. Workers have said they will refuse to switch consumers' electricity off.

"Electricity ... cannot be used as a means of blackmail against the unemployed, the poor, the wage-earner," the power company's union GENOP-DEH said. "(We) will not allow our poor fellow citizens to be left without power."

The unionists took over the company's billing facility in central Athens, blockading the entrance from Wednesday night. They ended their occupation Thursday afternoon but vowed to continue their protests, staging a sit-in of the company director's office to protest a decision to have private contractors print the electricity bills.

"We will not let this pass. This will be a hand-to-hand fight ? we mean it," power workers' union leader Nikos Fototopoulos said.

The government has imposed a series of austerity measures, including higher taxes, cuts to public sector salaries and pensions, and a plan to suspend 30,000 civil servants, in an effort to meet the reform targets of its euro110 billion ($150 billion) international bailout agreement.

The government announced the new property tax last month after international debt inspectors from the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European Commission suspended their review of Greek reforms because of concerns over missed targets and delayed implementation.

The inspectors, collectively known as the troika, said this week that while Greece has missed targets for this year, the additional measures announced should put it back on track for 2012 and that it will likely receive the next euro8 billion batch of bailout loans by early next month.

The government has said it only has enough funds to pay salaries and pensions until mid-November without the loan.

The strikes and the takeover are the latest in a series of walkouts, sit-ins at government buildings and protests as unions lash out against the austerity measures the government is demanding.

State television and radio journalists, lawyers, hospital doctors, teachers, customs and tax officers, seamen and municipal workers have also either walked off the job or are planning strikes in the coming days. Taxi drivers are expected to stay off the streets Friday during the second day of the public transport strike, leaving private cars as the only transport in Athens. Mounds of garbage have piled up on Athens' streets this week as municipal workers blockade landfill sites.

A nationwide general strike is planned for Oct. 19.

Greece is becoming trapped in a vicious cycle. The government insists it has no choice but to impose the harsh austerity measures so it can to get bailout loans to pay its bills. But Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos says the repeated strikes are leading Greece's international creditors to doubt the government's ability to achieve its fiscal targets, which in turn raise the issue that more austerity measures must be imposed.

Matthias Mors, the European Commission troika member, said in a newspaper interview published Thursday that they were aware of the difficulties the government faced in imposing so many reforms in such a short space of time.

"But I would say that we are at a critical moment, where Greece has to convince the international community and the other euro area members that it is willing and able to reach the objectives it has committed itself to," the daily Kathimerini quoted him as saying.

Mors said Greece needed to overhaul its bloated public sector, but that it had agreed with the government that this should be done over the course of five years.

"We are not saying that there should be large-scale dismissals," he said.

European leaders are also to discuss Greece's situation during a summit Oct. 23. Prime Minister George Papandreou was in Brussels Thursday for meetings with Jean-Claude Juncker, who chairs the regular meetings of eurozone finance ministers, and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy.

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Associated Press writer Derek Gatopoulos in Athens contributed to this report.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111013/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_greece_financial_crisis

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Clickbank Wealth Formula | Mario Finkbiner Blog

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Source: http://mariofinkbiner.com/2011/10/12/clickbank-wealth-formula/

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