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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Orders for U.S. factory goods that signal business investment plans jumped last month by the most in more than a year, suggesting companies are confident about their business prospects.
The Commerce Department says orders for so-called core capital goods, which include machinery, equipment and software, rose 6.3 percent in January from December. A sharp drop in demand for commercial aircraft caused overall durable goods orders to drop 5.2 percent, the first decline since August.
Orders for commercial aircraft are volatile from month to month and can cause large swings in the overall figure. Boeing reported orders for only two planes in January, down from 183 in December. Orders for defense equipment also plummeted by the most in more than 12 years.
The increase in core capital goods suggests companies are willing to expand their production capacities despite worries that automatic government spending cuts will slow the economy in the coming months.
About $85 billion in spending cuts are scheduled to kick in Friday and there is little sign that the White House and Congress will reach a deal to avoid them. Defense Department officials may have slowed purchases in January in anticipation of the cutbacks.
Core capital goods orders dipped 0.3 percent in December after posting strong gains of 3.3 percent in November and 3 percent in October.
The report suggests manufacturing is picking up. The Institute for Supply Management said earlier this month that factory activity grew in January at the fastest pace in nine months. Measures of new orders and hiring both rose.
But industrial production fell in January after two months of increases, the Federal Reserve said. Much of the decline reflected a big drop in auto production that was likely temporary. The auto industry is coming off its best year for sales in five years. Sales continue to rise, so production will likely rebound in February.
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Take the 1962 Daimler SP250 I'm currently restoring. The original owner, a man named William Brzozowski, lived in Baltimore and never garaged the car. It sat outside in the snow and the rain for 40 years. Bob Brzozowski,? William's nephew, inherited the car when his uncle died. He ?wanted to restore it but didn't have the room at his place in upstate New York, or the ?money. He contacted me, we talked a lot, and I offered a very fair price, considering that the car hadn't run in 10 years and would need pretty much everything. Buying a vehicle sight unseen is a cardinal sin for car enthusiasts, so you can consider? me the president of the More Money Than Brains Car Club. But this SP250 intrigued me: It had wire wheels and a removable hardtop, both rare accessories.
When I was growing up in Massachusetts, everybody had a four-door Ford or Chevy. I remember going to the local bowling alley and seeing a red SP250 and thinking, what a weird-?looking car. It had tiny fins, bug-eye headlights, and an oval grille that earned it the nickname the Angry Catfish. But it had a peppy little 140-hp 2.5-liter Hemi V-8 engine that was designed by Edward Turner, the famous BSA motor?cycle engineer.
When the car first appeared in the U.S. in 1959, at the New York Auto Show, it was called the Daimler Dart. But Dodge was already using that name, so Daimler quickly swapped in the much snappier SP250. At a time when most English sports cars had drafty side curtains, the SP250 had roll-up windows. Even better, it weighed only about 2200 pounds, had four-wheel disc brakes, and could top out at almost 125 mph. But sales were never good: Just 2848 SP250s were made, in three series, before they were discontinued in 1964. About 500 of them ended up in the U.S., so they're rare.
After buying the car, I had it shipped from upstate New York to my Big Dog Garage in Southern California, where the first thing we did was check for bugs. Here's why: When I was in high school, I had a Hudson Hornet that I let sit outside all winter. That spring, when it wouldn't start, I got under the dashboard to try to find out why and was immediately stung by a bunch of bees. I got some bug spray and doused the entire vehicle. A week later, I slid under the car and a garden snake landed on my chest, which scared the hell out of me. Luckily, the SP250 was filled only with spiders and ants. So we covered it in plastic, fumigated it with cans of Raid, and let it sit for three weeks.
Like I said, the car didn't run, but that was fine with me. If you have to restore the engine and wiring anyway, why pay for the fact that it's working? A running car might cost $10,000 more than something that hasn't been ?started in 25 years.
The good news was that the car itself was in pretty good condition. There was one little issue with the frame, where it had been backed into something, but the fiberglass body was fine. And there wasn't any rust.
Whenever you take a car apart, it's essential to photograph every piece as you go along. If you don't meticulously document a car with pictures when you start a restoration, you'll never be able to put it back together. At my garage, we shoot pictures of everything and store them in the computer. In the old days, you had to run down to the photo mart and wait for your pictures to be developed. That was a pain in the neck. Now you can take thousands of images, and it doesn't cost anything. So there's no excuse not to catalog.
But you don't take everything apart all at once. You just want to disassemble whatever you're working on first. The nice thing about body-on-frame cars like the SP250 is that it's easier to handle each section separately. With the exception of the hood, the trunk, and the doors, the fiberglass body comes off as one piece, so somebody else can work on it while you're working on the frame.
Once we start the restoration, the first thing we like to do is to get the vehicle back on four wheels. Before we start working on the engine or the transmission, we restore the chassis. Then we can roll it around the garage if we need to move it. As of this writing, we've straightened and powder-coated the frame. It's always helpful to have the original factory manuals, if you can find them, but this car is pretty straightforward. A lot of the worn-out parts are universal British components, stuff that you'd find in a Triumph TR3 or an Austin-Healey. The only thing that really makes the SP250 unique is that little V-8. And I can't wait to get my hands dirty taking that apart.
We've also carefully sanded, primed, and repainted the body. It was red, but we did it over in blue. Most SP250s that I've seen are either green or red, so I wanted something that really stood out. Stitch Corp., my upholsterer, has already measured the interior for new seats and carpeting. Whenever they finish installing their work, we'll mount the body on the frame and complete the wiring and plumbing.
We also plan to make a few improvements: bigger front disc brakes, rack-and-pinion steering, a T5 transmission, and radial tires. We can always change it back to standard, but it will drive and stop a lot better with these upgrades. We'll breathe on the engine a little, too, with higher compression, lightweight pistons, a hot cam if we can find one, electronic ignition, and maybe bigger carburetors.
People ask me if there's a timetable for completion. Look, a car restoration is not like some Stalin-era five-year wheat plan. When it's done, it's done. A lot depends on how long it takes us to find all the missing stuff. But in the meantime, it's a lot of fun to see a dusty, bug-ridden hulk coming back to life. And when the job is complete, Bob Brzozowski is going to come out to California to go for a ride with me. I think he'll be pleased.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose on Tuesday, indicating equities would partially rebound from a steep drop over Italian election results as investors saw opportunities to buy beaten-down shares.
Market participants speculated a coalition government would eventually emerge in Italy and ease worries about a new euro zone debt crisis.
Groups in Italy opposed to economic reforms posted a strong showing, resulting in a political deadlock with a comedian's protest party leading the poll and no group securing a clear majority in parliament.
"We've gone to an environment of political stability to instability, and until we get some type of clarity over who is in charge, which could take days, the market will have renewed concerns," said Art Hogan, managing director of Lazard Capital Markets in New York.
"Investors are taking advantage of the drop, and once some kind of coalition government is formed most of our concerns will be put to rest," Hogan said.
S&P 500 futures rose 3.9 points and were above fair value, a formula that evaluates pricing by taking into account interest rates, dividends and time to expiration on the contract. Dow Jones industrial average futures added 38 points and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 5.75 points.
Major indexes fell more than 1 percent on Monday, with the S&P 500 having its biggest daily drop since November as investors fretted that if Italy does not undertake reforms, that could once again destabilize the euro zone. European equities <.fteu3>, which closed before the results on Monday, fell 1.1 percent.
Investors will pay close attention to the first of two days of congressional testimony by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for insight into the central bank's view of the economy, as well as the outlook for its bond buying program. Last week, equities fell on concerns the program might end sooner than had been anticipated.
Bernanke appears before the Senate Banking Committee at 10 a.m. (1500 GMT).
Economic data will include the CaseShiller report on December home prices at 9 a.m. (1400 GMT). Analysts expect a 0.5 percent rise. January consumer confidence is scheduled for 10 a.m. and is seen rising to 61.0 from 58.6 in the previous month. New-home sales for January also are due at 10 a.m.
The rise in U.S. futures suggests that a recent trend of investors buying on dips will continue. Last week, concerns the Fed might roll back its stimulus policy earlier than expected prompted a sharp two-day decline, though equities recovered most of the lost ground by the end of the week.
Financial shares may be among the most volatile, as the group is closely tied to the pace of global economic growth. Morgan Stanley
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For the benchmark S&P 500 index, 1,500 will be watched as a key level after the index closed below it on Monday for the first time since February 4, with selling accelerating after falling below it. An inability to break back above it could portend further losses.
The S&P remains 4.3 percent higher on the year. With 83 percent of the S&P 500 having reported so far, 69 percent beat profit expectations, compared with a 62 percent average since 1994 and 65 percent over the past four quarters, according to Thomson Reuters data. Fourth-quarter S&P earnings are seen having risen 6 percent, above a 1.9 percent forecast at the start of the earnings season.
(Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Kenneth Barry)
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On Feb. 15, asteroid 2012 DA14, discovered a year ago, cleared Earth by a scant 17,200 miles. The same day, a smaller, unrelated asteroid that no one saw coming exploded 12 to 15 miles above Russia?s Chelyabinsk region. The shock wave shattered windows, injuring more than 1,000 people. Events that day highlight the risk that near-Earth objects (NEOs) can pose ? although to some extent, humans can counter them.
- Pete Spotts,?Staff writer
This image shows a simulation of asteroid 2012 DA14 approaching from the south as it passes through the Earth-moon system, last Friday. (JPL-Caltech/NASA/AP)
NEOs are asteroids and comets whose orbits bring them close to Earth. They range in size from about three feet to several miles across. The asteroid or comet that punched a 110-mile-wide crater in the Yucat?n Peninsula 65 million years ago, doing in the dinosaurs, has been estimated at six miles across.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Afterschool programs seem to be most effective when their organization and implementation is supported by both organizational and community resources, according to Penn State human development researchers.
Using a tool to help bridge the gap between research and real life, the researchers evaluated an afterschool program called the Good Behavior Game.
"The Interactive System Framework for Dissemination and Implementation is the tool that helps us to bridge research and practice by synthesizing the available research and figuring out what it will take to help real people and communities use that research," said Emilie Phillips Smith, professor of human development and family studies.
There are three aspects to the Interactive Systems Framework that evaluate the effectiveness of translating research into practice when it comes to preventing substance abuse and problem behavior in school-age children. Smith and colleagues focused specifically on the delivery of the Good Behavior Game, and used the Interactive Systems Framework as their guide. They reported their findings in a recent special issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology.
The Good Behavior Game (GBG) was developed to help improve behavior in elementary school classrooms, and has been proven effective in reducing substance abuse in childhood, adolescence and adulthood. In this study, the researchers introduced GBG in 12 school-based afterschool programs in both urban and rural areas in Pennsylvania and monitored the ability of each program to successfully implement the game.
Eight of the programs were randomly assigned to implement GBG, while the remaining four programs served as the control and continued without any changes.
The researchers assessed each organization's resources, such as staffing ratios, space, materials and regular internal communication, as well as its connectedness to community resources. To help determine afterschool organization resources, program directors completed surveys that asked questions about resource availability, organizational structure and management style. The same survey measured community collaboration using questions addressing the afterschool program's level of collaboration with community agencies, schools and parents; number of volunteers for programs; materials and supplies; funding; and the number of community collaborators that provided resources for children.
Implementation of GBG on the eight sites using the intervention was measured by those coaching the afterschool program staff on best practices. The coaches measured both quantity and quality of implementation.
The researchers found that afterschool programs that rated high for organizational ability, but low for community involvement were less likely to implement GBG effectively. Programs that had a lot of community involvement, but little organizational ability were less likely to implement GBG effectively. If a program had community involvement as well as organizational resources, it fared well.
"This study highlights the importance of considering interactions among multiple levels of general capacity in efforts to promote evidence-based practices in afterschool settings," the researchers wrote.
Good internal organization and the capacity to connect to the community in meaningful ways are trademarks of programs that implement best practices well.
Smith noted that these findings are based on phase one of their pilot study. She and her team have already expanded the implementation of GBG to 72 afterschool program sites, and are further exploring its influence and effect.
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Other members of the research team were Linda C. Halgunseth, then a research associate at Penn State, now assistant professor of human development and family studies at the University of Connecticut; Chakema Carmack, then a prevention and methodology postdoctoral scholar; Sharon S. Childs, lecturer in applied linguistics at Penn State; Linda Caldwell, Distinguished Professor of Recreation, Park and Tourism Management at Penn State; and Amanda Craig, a former Penn State undergraduate who now works for as a policy aide for a New Jersey congresswoman.
The William T. Grant Foundation, the Wallace Foundation and the National Institute for Drug Abuse supported this research.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Afterschool programs seem to be most effective when their organization and implementation is supported by both organizational and community resources, according to Penn State human development researchers.
Using a tool to help bridge the gap between research and real life, the researchers evaluated an afterschool program called the Good Behavior Game.
"The Interactive System Framework for Dissemination and Implementation is the tool that helps us to bridge research and practice by synthesizing the available research and figuring out what it will take to help real people and communities use that research," said Emilie Phillips Smith, professor of human development and family studies.
There are three aspects to the Interactive Systems Framework that evaluate the effectiveness of translating research into practice when it comes to preventing substance abuse and problem behavior in school-age children. Smith and colleagues focused specifically on the delivery of the Good Behavior Game, and used the Interactive Systems Framework as their guide. They reported their findings in a recent special issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology.
The Good Behavior Game (GBG) was developed to help improve behavior in elementary school classrooms, and has been proven effective in reducing substance abuse in childhood, adolescence and adulthood. In this study, the researchers introduced GBG in 12 school-based afterschool programs in both urban and rural areas in Pennsylvania and monitored the ability of each program to successfully implement the game.
Eight of the programs were randomly assigned to implement GBG, while the remaining four programs served as the control and continued without any changes.
The researchers assessed each organization's resources, such as staffing ratios, space, materials and regular internal communication, as well as its connectedness to community resources. To help determine afterschool organization resources, program directors completed surveys that asked questions about resource availability, organizational structure and management style. The same survey measured community collaboration using questions addressing the afterschool program's level of collaboration with community agencies, schools and parents; number of volunteers for programs; materials and supplies; funding; and the number of community collaborators that provided resources for children.
Implementation of GBG on the eight sites using the intervention was measured by those coaching the afterschool program staff on best practices. The coaches measured both quantity and quality of implementation.
The researchers found that afterschool programs that rated high for organizational ability, but low for community involvement were less likely to implement GBG effectively. Programs that had a lot of community involvement, but little organizational ability were less likely to implement GBG effectively. If a program had community involvement as well as organizational resources, it fared well.
"This study highlights the importance of considering interactions among multiple levels of general capacity in efforts to promote evidence-based practices in afterschool settings," the researchers wrote.
Good internal organization and the capacity to connect to the community in meaningful ways are trademarks of programs that implement best practices well.
Smith noted that these findings are based on phase one of their pilot study. She and her team have already expanded the implementation of GBG to 72 afterschool program sites, and are further exploring its influence and effect.
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Other members of the research team were Linda C. Halgunseth, then a research associate at Penn State, now assistant professor of human development and family studies at the University of Connecticut; Chakema Carmack, then a prevention and methodology postdoctoral scholar; Sharon S. Childs, lecturer in applied linguistics at Penn State; Linda Caldwell, Distinguished Professor of Recreation, Park and Tourism Management at Penn State; and Amanda Craig, a former Penn State undergraduate who now works for as a policy aide for a New Jersey congresswoman.
The William T. Grant Foundation, the Wallace Foundation and the National Institute for Drug Abuse supported this research.
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Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes today announced the conviction of Anel Kolenovic, 25, on charges of Manslaughter in the Second Degree, Operating a Motor Vehicle While Impaired, and Assault in the Second Degree. He was charged with killing the driver of a car he struck while speeding down Ocean Avenue drunk in November 2010. He faces a maximum of five to 15 years in prison when he is sentenced on March 18 before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice John Ingram.
On November 29, 2010, Kolenovic was speeding down Ocean Avenue and ran a red light at Avenue N, in Midwood, where he hit Moshe Berkowitz?s car, killing Berkowitz. Two passengers in Kolenovic?s car were injured. Kolenovic was intoxicated at the time of the incident.
The case was prosecuted by Gayle Dampf, Chief of the Vehicular Crimes Bureau and Assistant District Attorney Seth Zuckerman from the Trial Bureau Orange Zone.
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By Allison Linn, TODAY
The economy is slowly hobbling back to health, but for many Americans the rainy day fund is still looking a little dry and the credit card bill is still looking a little scary.
About 24 percent of Americans have more credit card debt than emergency savings, according to an annual survey released Monday by the personal finance website Bankrate.com.
The survey found that only about 55 percent of Americans have more emergency savings than credit card debt. About 16 percent had none of each, and the rest either didn?t know or wouldn?t answer.
The results are little changed from the same survey Bankrate.com did in 2011 and 2012. The results suggests that, in general, people?s ability to save up for a rainy day and keep a handle on credit card debt hasn?t gotten much worse in recent years - but it hasn?t improved, either.
Greg McBride, senior financial analyst with Bankrate.com, said a big problem is that people?s wages have been pretty stagnant in recent years, even as expenses for things like food and health care have edged up.
?It just leaves less money that can be put toward debt repayment or emergency savings,? McBride said.
Americans appeared to have been sobered by the Great Recession, and some people were able to get a better handle on their credit card debt in the years that followed.
The total amount of revolving debt, which is made up mostly of credit card debt, fell between 2008 and 2010, according to the Federal Reserve. Since then, it has held relatively steady at around $850 billion, the Federal Reserve data shows.
But those aggregate numbers don?t? tell the whole story, said Lucia Dunn, economics professor at The Ohio State University.
Her research has shown that some people were able to pay off their credit card debt around the time of the Great Recession. But those who weren?t able to get control of their debt during that period are likely still struggling with it, she said.
?For those who were not able to pay off (their credit cards) and were still carrying a balance, that balance is still growing,? said Dunn, who was not involved in the Bankrate.com survey.
Dunn said her data also has shown that people continue to have elevated levels of stress about their debt, even though the recession has officially been over since June of 2009.
??We may be out of the recession, but debt?s still a looming problem for people,? she said.
The Bankrate.com data also showed that saving up enough money for an unexpected emergency remains a thorny problem.
Nearly 4 in 10 people said they were feeling less comfortable about their savings levels than a year ago, while nearly half were feeling about the same. Only 14 percent said they were feeling better about their savings levels.
They Bankrate.com survey was of a representative sample of about 1,000 adults, and it was conducted in early February.
McBride, from Bankrate.com, said many Americans may have the goal of increasing their savings but find that they have little left over after the bills are paid.
?I think that people care about it. I think most of it is just sort of the inability to make substantive progress,? he said.
Still, McBride said he wasn?t sure that Americans will improve their financial habits once the economy improves For many Americans, he noted, thriftiness has been forced on them because their credit lines have been cut, they?ve suffered a job loss or they?ve hit another financial brick wall.
As the economy starts to strengthen further, he expects Americans will be more likely to spend their extra cash rather than save it.
?At the point where incomes do start to grow, I don?t think it means that the savings rate?s going to go up,? he said. ?I think it means that consumer spending is going to go up.?
Are you comfortable with the amount of money you have saved for an emergency?
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Aereo today announced that the cloud DVR/live TV streaming service will be expanding past New York City to more than 19 million people living in the surrounding NYC metropolitan area. The expansion will cover 29 new counties across New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Before today, only residents in New York's five boroughs had access to the service. Alongside the announcement of expansion, Aereo has also said that its new advertising blitz will launch this week in New York. The multimillion dollar ad campaign was first revealed earlier this month, after Aereo hired former Apple exec, Alex Moulle-Berteaux, as the company's new CCO.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/muRyH2mjjVg/
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Feb. 23, 2013
Box Score
RICHMOND, Va. - Sophomore Brian O'Keefe was 3-for-4 but the Saint Joseph's baseball team fell at VCU on Saturday afternoon by a 3-2 score. Senior Greg Kumpel also had a pair of hits for the Hawks.
For the second straight day, VCU (4-0) scored a run in the first inning, as an error allowed Bill Cullen to score the game's first run.
Saint Joseph's (2-3) answered in the top half of the second as a two-out single by Anthony Cirillo scored Stefan Kancylarz with the tying run.
The Rams nosed in front once again in the fourth on an RBI groundout by Trevor Marino. VCU then loaded the bases with two outs, but Hawk starter Jordan Carter induced a pop fly to escape the jam.
The Hawks leveled the game a second time in the fifth as Chris Hueth hit a sacrifice fly to score Kumpel and knot the affair at two apiece.
It remained a 2-2 game until the seventh, when Landon Prentiss ripped a two-out double that plated Vimael Machin with what proved to be the winning run.
Carter allowed eight hits but just the two runs in five innings, striking out two and walking one. Kevin Burum took the loss, allowing a run and notching four strikeouts in two innings to fall to 1-1. Steven Schuler worked a scoreless eighth for SJU.
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The series concludes on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. at The Diamond.
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8:00 PM: MC Hammer was arrested at a Dublin, California mall Thursday on charges of obstructing an officer. Hammer tweeted about the incident that a "chubby elvis looking dude was tapping on my car window, I rolled down the window and he said, 'Are you on parole or probation?'"
7:45 PM: Phoenix Suns player Michael Beasley got a staredown from coach Lindsey Hunter after taking a bad shot during Friday's 113-88 loss to the Boston Celtics.
7:30 PM: Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Mike McCoy suffered a quad contusion after colliding with teammate Ryan Langerhans during Saturday's spring training game against the Detroit Tigers. Langerhans still managed to make the catch.
7:15 PM: Georgia tight end Ty Flournoy-Smith was arrested Friday on charges of reporting a false crime. Flournoy-Smith claimed that someone stole his textbooks but he had already sold them back to a bookstore.
7:00 PM: Video from the stands of Kyle Larson wreck during the last lap of Saturday's NASCAR Nationwide race at Daytona, including a tire that landed in the seats. NASCAR said that 28 people were treated for injuries from the crash.
6:45 PM: San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker will miss Sunday's game against the Phoenix Suns due to a right triceps contusion.
6:30 PM: Pro Football Talk has the full transcript of Manti Te'o's press conference at the NFL Combine on Saturday.
6:15 PM: Florida State & Pittsburgh will reportedly face each other in football on Labor Day night, with an official announcement from the ACC expected on Monday. As a result, the Seminoles have canceled their game against FCS school Wofford.
6:00 PM: Cleveland Cavaliers player Omri Casspi was taken to the hospital Saturday with acute stomach pain. Casspi is not expected to play tonight against the Orlando Magic.
5:45 PM: Former Notre Dame RB Cierre Wood said he didn't get the ball as much as he wanted during his junior season before he left early for the NFL Draft.
5:30 PM: Video of Concord (Indiana) High School basketball player Franko House hitting a full-court shot & hardly reacting to it. The basket was made at the end of the third quarter of the Minutemen's 52-38 win over Westview on Friday.
5:15 PM: Yahoo's From The Marbles reports at least six fans were injured at Saturday's NASCAR Nationwide race in Daytona when they were hit by parts from Kyle Larson's car crashed in a wreck near the end of the race.
5:00 PM: Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin, fiance of tennis player Maria Kirilenko, scored his first hat rick in over two years in Saturday's 5-1 win over the New Jersey Devils.
4:45 PM: A former Lake Worth, Florida resident was arrested on government fraud charges for burying her mother in their backyard, moving to Ohio and continuting to collect her mother's Social Security checks for the next 14 years.
4:30 PM: Miami Marlins catcher Jeff Mathis is expected to be out six weeks after suffering a broken collarbone when he was hit by a foul tip during Saturday's spring training game against the St. Louis Cardinals.
Source: http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/sbblive?eid=48523
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Las Vegas police are searching for Ammar Harris, a 26-year-old man they suspect in last week's shooting and car crash on the Las Vegas Strip, in which three people were killed. On Saturday, police found a black SUV they believe Harris used as a getaway car.
By Ken Ritter,?Associated Press / February 24, 2013
Police are seeking a 26-year-old man as the prime suspect in last week's pre-dawn shooting and crash on the?Las?Vegas?Strip that killed three people and injured several others
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The black SUV used as a getaway car was found Saturday as police named Ammar Harris in connection with the shooting and six-vehicle chain-reaction carnage Thursday on the neon-lit boulevard near the Bellagio, Caesars Palace, Bally's and Flamingo resorts,
An aspiring rapper who was driving a Maserati was shot to death, while two people in a taxi died in the crash.
"His location is unknown," police Capt. Chris Jones said of Harris, who sometimes goes by the name Ammar Asim Faruq Harris. Police say he has been arrested for working as a pimp.
Police released a photo that was taken when Harris was arrested last year on pandering, kidnapping, sexual assault and coercion charges. The disposition of that case was not immediately known.
The photo shows Harris with tattoos on his right cheek and words on his neck above an image that appeared to depict an owl with blackened eyes. Jones warned that Harris should be considered armed and dangerous.
Police had been searching for the black Range Rover, with blackout windows and distinctive black rims, since it was last seen speeding from the shooting. It was located at an apartment complex just a couple of blocks east of the neon-lit boulevard, and was impounded as evidence, Jones said.
The shooting killed Kenneth Wayne Cherry Jr., who was driving the dark gray Maserati that was peppered by gunfire from the SUV. Taxi driver Michael Boldon and passenger Sandra Sutton-Wasmund, of Maple Valley, Wash., died when the Maserati hit their taxi, which exploded in flames.
Boldon, 62, was a family man who moved from Michigan to?Las?Vegas. Sutton-Wasmund, 48, was a businesswoman and mother of three.
A passenger in the Maserati was wounded in the arm and four people from four other vehicles were treated for non-life-threatening injuries. The Maserati passenger was cooperating with investigators. His name hasn't been made public.
The shocking chain of events had family members and friends in?Las?Vegas, California, Michigan and Washington trying to grasp the blink-of-an-eye finality of it all.
"My son was a good boy," Kenneth Cherry Sr. told reporters Saturday in a news conference convened by?Las?Vegas?lawyers Vicki Greco and Robert Beckett.
Beckett said they wanted to respond to rumors that the 27-year-old son ? who produced a rap video using the name Kenny Clutch ? was a gangster and a troublemaker. The attorneys had represented his son, and now represent his estate and the family.
"My son was a victim just like the two people in that taxi," Kenneth Cherry Sr. said. "Trouble found him. The people in the taxicab, trouble found them."
Court records show Cherry had no criminal cases or convictions in?Las?Vegas, and police said there was no record of arrests.
The Clark County coroner determined that Kenny Cherry died of at least one gunshot to the chest. Boldon and Sutton-Wasmund died of injuries in the crash. All three deaths were ruled homicides.
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Feb. 22, 2013 ? Running cockroaches start to recover from being shoved sideways before their dawdling nervous system kicks in to tell their legs what to do, researchers have found. These new insights on how biological systems stabilize could one day help engineers design steadier robots and improve doctors' understanding of human gait abnormalities.
In experiments, the roaches were able to maintain their footing mechanically -- using their momentum and the spring-like architecture of their legs, rather than neurologically, relying on impulses sent from their central nervous system to their muscles.
"The response time we observed is more than three times longer than you'd expect," said Shai Revzen, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, as well as ecology and evolutionary biology, at the University of Michigan. Revzen is the lead author of a paper on the findings published online in Biological Cybernetics. It will appear in a forthcoming print edition.
"What we see is that the animals' nervous system is working at a substantial delay," he said. "It could potentially act a lot sooner, within about a thirtieth of a second, but instead, it kicks in after about a step and a half or two steps -- about a tenth of a second. For some reason, the nervous system is waiting and seeing how it shapes out."
To arrive at their findings, the researchers sent 15 cockroaches (one-by-one, in 41 trials) running across a small bridge onto a placemat-sized cart on wheels. The cart was attached to an elastic cord that was pulled tight like a loaded slingshot and held in place with a strong magnet on the other side. Once a roach was about a body length onto the cart, the researchers released the magnet, sending the cart hurling sideways. The force was equivalent to a sumo wrestler hitting a jogger with a flying tackle, said Revzen, adding that cockroaches are much more stable than humans.
To gather detailed information about the roaches' gait, the researchers utilized a technique Revzen developed several years ago called kinematic phase analysis. It involves using a high-speed camera to constantly measure the position of each of the insects' six feet as well as the ends of its body. A computer program then merges the continuous data from all these points into an accurate estimate of where the roach is in its gait cycle at all times. The approach gives scientists a more detailed picture than just measuring the timing of footfalls -- a common metric used today to study gait.
In kinematic phase analysis, the signals are converted into a wave graph that illustrates the insect's movement pattern. The pattern only changes when the nervous system kicks in. How do the researchers know this? In a separate but similar experiment, they implanted electrodes into the legs of seven cockroaches to measure nerve signals.
The nervous-system delay the researchers observed is substantially longer than scientists expected, Revzen said. And it runs contrary to assumptions in the robotics community, where computers stand in for brains and the machines' movements are often guided by continuous feedback to that computer from sensors on the robots' feet.
Revzen said the new findings might imply that the biological brain, at least in cockroaches, adjusts the gait only at whole-step intervals rather than at any point in a step. Periodic, rather than continuous, feedback systems might lead to more stable (not to mention energy-efficient) walking robots -- whether they travel on two feet or six.
Robot makers often look to nature for inspiration. As animals move through the world, they have to respond to unexpected disturbances like rocky, uneven ground or damaged limbs. Revzen and his team believe that patterns in how they move as they adjust could give away how their machinery and neurology work together.
"The fundamental question is, 'What can you do with a mechanical suspension versus one that requires electronic feedback?" Revzen said. "The animals obviously have much better mechanical designs than anything we know how to build. But if we could learn how they do it, we might be able to reproduce it."
More than 70 percent of Earth's land surface isn't navigable by wheeled or tracked vehicles, so legged robots could potentially bridge the gap for ground-based operations like search and rescue and defense.
For human gait analysis, Revzen and colleagues said their noninvasive, high-resolution kinematic phase approach could be valuable in the biomedical community.
"Falls are a primary cause for deterioration in the elderly," Revzen said. "Anything we can do to understand gait pathology and stabilization of gait is very valuable."
These experiments were conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, before Revzen came to U-M. The work was funded by the National Science Foundation.
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In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, Rep. Matt Shea, R-Spokane Valley, smiles as he sits at his desk on the House floor in Olympia, Wash. It has been just shy of 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Washington state law barring members of the Communist Party from working for the state is unconstitutional. Evidently, that is not enough time to remove it from the books. Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon, D-Burien, first introduced a measure to repeal the anachronistic law last year, saying that it would be a quiet end to a moot statute originating from a dark period in our nation?s history. Shea opposes the measure. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, Rep. Matt Shea, R-Spokane Valley, smiles as he sits at his desk on the House floor in Olympia, Wash. It has been just shy of 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Washington state law barring members of the Communist Party from working for the state is unconstitutional. Evidently, that is not enough time to remove it from the books. Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon, D-Burien, first introduced a measure to repeal the anachronistic law last year, saying that it would be a quiet end to a moot statute originating from a dark period in our nation?s history. Shea opposes the measure. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon, D-Burien, speaks on the House floor in Olympia, Wash. It has been just shy of 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Washington state law barring members of the Communist Party from working for the state is unconstitutional. Evidently, that is not enough time to remove it from the books. Fitzgibbon first introduced a measure to repeal the anachronistic law last year, saying that it would be a quiet end to a moot statute originating from a dark period in our nation?s history. Though his bill passed out of the House Judiciary Committee, it did do so on a party-line vote, with four Republicans opposed. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) ? It has been just shy of 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Washington state law barring members of the Communist Party from voting or holding public-sector jobs is unconstitutional.
Evidently, that is not enough time to remove it from the books.
Washington is one of a handful of states with similar laws still in existence despite their having been declared unconstitutional decades ago.
With few exceptions ? most notably Georgia, where an anti-communist oath was administered to incoming Dunwoody City Councilmembers as recently as last year ? the laws are treated as part of a bygone era, not unlike state statutes prohibiting interracial marriage, the last of which was removed from Alabama's books in 2001 even though the Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional in 1967.
Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon, D-Burien, first introduced a measure to repeal Washington state's anachronistic anti-subversives law last year, figuring, he says, that it would be an unceremonious end to a dead-letter statute originating from a dark period in our nation's history.
He was wrong. Though his bill passed out of the House Judiciary Committee, it did so on a party-line vote, with four Republicans opposed.
With only so much political capital to expend on contentious legislation, House Democratic leaders declined to move it forward, and it never made it to the floor for a vote.
This year, Fitzgibbon lowered his sights, introducing House Bill 1062 with the understanding that it likely would not even get out of committee.
By the end of Friday, as a key deadline for policy-related bills passed without the bill coming up for a committee vote, that understanding was confirmed.
"There are some (Democratic lawmakers) that think this is a bad political issue for us, but I really don't," he said. "I don't think there is a lot of fear in our state these days about the prospects of a communist takeover."
That may be, but several decades removed from the Red Scare, any suggestion of kowtowing to communists can still inflame passions.
After Fitzgibbon spoke in favor of the bill in the House Judiciary Committee earlier this month, Rep. Matt Shea, a conservative Republican from Spokane Valley, was ready with a sharp rejoinder.
"For the large Ukrainian, Russian, North Korean and Chinese populations in the state who fled communism ? including my wife, whose father was arrested by the KGB, who suffered horrible persecution, whose friends were sent to the gulag in Russia ? do you see this as a little bit of a slap in the face to them that communism is not subversive?"
Responded Fitzgibbon: "I don't believe we persecute people based on their political beliefs in Washington state, and I would say that applies to communists as well as anybody else."
In addition to Washington state and Georgia, Pennsylvania and California have laws requiring state workers to take an oath swearing they are not subversives or members of a group dedicated to overthrowing the government. At least five other states ? Connecticut and Virginia among them ? have laws prohibiting subversives from working in emergency management. Illinois has a statute barring communists from seeking elected office.
Thanks to a series of 1960s U.S. Supreme Court rulings that found them to be unconstitutional, those laws have long been all-but unenforceable.
The ruling that struck down Washington state's statute on subversive activities, handed down in 1964, found that the definition of a subversive group was too vague.
Three years later, the Supreme Court ruled that Eugene Frank Robel, a worker at the Todd Shipyard in Seattle, had been wrongly fired from his job building warships over his membership in the Communist Party.
"Robel put the nail in the coffin" for laws limiting communists from public-sector jobs, says University of Washington Law Professor Stewart Jay. "If you can't fire (a communist) working in national defense, what can you do?"
But while the Supreme Court struck down loyalty oaths that predicate public-sector employment on a lack of affiliation with a subversive group, it has upheld less-expansive pledges to defend the United States from its enemies and uphold the Constitution.
Including those that also have anti-subversives oaths, at least 13 states have such laws on their books, including Florida, Tennessee and Arizona.
In California, Marianne Kearney-Brown, a math instructor at California State University East Bay who refused to take such an oath as a Quaker and a pacifist was fired from her post in 2008 before swiftly being reinstated and assured that she would not be forced to take up arms.
Periodically, a lawmaker seeking to stem the perceived tide of cultural decline will propose a new loyalty oath. Last month, a Republican state lawmaker in Arizona, Rep. Bob Thorpe, proposed legislation requiring high school students to swear an oath defending the Constitution before being allowed to graduate. That measure, House Bill 2467, is pending.
In general, though, such efforts are on the wane ? a state of affairs not lost on communists themselves.
"It's a good thing to get rid of these laws," says Libero Della Piana, vice chair of the Communist Party USA. "But the reality is that people are more worried about foreclosures on their houses than subversives in student government."
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Taylor Swift makes her way out of a pub with her good friend Tom Odell on Thursday night (February 21) in London, England.
The 23-year-old ?I Knew You We?re Trouble? singer and her 22-year-old British singer pal then headed to the Groucho Club together.
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President Barack Obama called House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell Thursday about the looming spending cuts set to kick in on March 1. (Feb. 21)
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