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Sunday, September 30, 2012
Australians Surge in Quest to Build Quantum Computer
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Teams based at the University of New South Wales have made advances toward building a quantum computer, which could help tackle a new class of problems.
Verisk Analytics has the Highest Debt to Equity Ratio in the Research and Consulting Services Industry (VRSK, SCHS, VSEC, CBZ, FCN)
Written on Sat, 09/29/2012 - 9:21am
By David Diaz
Below are the three companies in the Research and Consulting Services industry with the highest debt to equity ratios. The Debt/Equity ratio measures a company's leverage and a high level often implies that a company has financed much of its growth with debt.
Verisk Analytics ranks highest with a a debt to equity ratio of 26.9. Following is School Specialty with a a debt to equity ratio of 4.3. VSE ranks third highest with a a debt to equity ratio of 1.2.
CBIZ follows with a a debt to equity ratio of 1.0, and FTI Consulting rounds out the top five with a a debt to equity ratio of 0.7.
SmarTrend recommended that its subscribers protect gains by selling shares of School Specialty on August 24th, 2012 by issuing a Downtrend alert when the shares were trading at $2.74. Since that call, shares of School Specialty have fallen 15.9%. We are now looking for when a new Uptrend will commence and will alert SmarTrend subscribers in real time.
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Trial of Pope?s Former Butler Caps Turbulent Year for Church
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Source: www.nytimes.com --- Saturday, September 29, 2012
The trial of Paolo Gabriele comes as the Roman Catholic Church is racked by a pedophilia scandal, internal disputes and challenges to preserve its moral authoritativeness within rapidly changing societies. ...
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Cyber Attacks Hit Online Banking Sites ? CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
DALLAS (CBS 11 NEWS) - David Childs, a Dallas composer, is never far from his laptop. He uses it for banking, correspondence, even composing. But, he and millions of customers across North Texas and the nation this week have been faced with slowed response times on many banking sites.
?I did notice it has been a little bit slow,? says Childs. ?I just put it down to regular slow traffic.?
But, internet security experts say online traffic to some of the nation?s largest banks has been slowed because of a massive cyber attack intended to jam access to those sites. It?s called a D-D-O-S: distributed denial of service.
?And that?s where they don?t really break into or hack into the bank systems, so information is not compromised. However, it?s like someone blocking the door to the bank,? says Professor Amit Basu. Professor Basu holds the Carr Collins Chair in Management Information Systems at SMU?s Cox School of Business.
He says although no individual accounts were compromised, these attacks are still taken seriously in the business community because customer confidence in the online arena is critical. ?It?s a serious concern, because these are the kinds of attacks that are very difficult to prevent? it?s scary.?
The source of the attack is believed to be outside the country. But, efforts to link the attack to unrest in the Middle East have been called premature.
Bottom line: customers like David Childs say the occasional disruption won?t scare them away. The convenience of online banking is hard to resist.
?I don?t know what we?d do without banking online. I don?t think we?d survive quite as well, so. ?
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Vatican: 'Jesus' Wife' papyrus is a fake
An ancient papyrus fragment which a Harvard scholar says contains the first recorded mention that Jesus may have had a wife is a fake, the Vatican said Friday.
"Substantial reasons would lead one to conclude that the papyrus is indeed a clumsy forgery," the Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, said in an editorial by its editor, Gian Maria Vian. "In any case, it's a fake."
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Vatican brands 'Jesus' Wife' papyrus?as a fake
An ancient papyrus fragment which a Harvard scholar says contains the first recorded mention that Jesus may have had a wife is a fake, the Vatican said Friday.
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Vatican brands 'Jesus' Wife' papyrus?as a fake
Joining a highly charged academic debate over the authenticity of the text, written in ancient Egyptian Coptic, the newspaper published a lengthy analysis by expert Alberto Camplani of Rome's La Sapienza university, outlining doubts about the manuscript and urging extreme caution.
The fragment, which reads "Jesus said to them, 'My wife...'" was unveiled by Harvard Professor Karen King as a text from the 4th century at a congress of Coptic Studies in Rome last week.
Her study divided the academic community, with some hailing it as a landmark discovery while others rapidly expressed their doubts
"It's really pretty unlikely that it's authentic," University of Durham Professor Francis Watson told Reuters after he published a paper arguing the words on the fragment were a rearrangement of phrases from a well known Coptic text.
Watson, who has previously worked on identifying forged gospels, said it was likely to be an ancient blank fragment that was written over in the 20th or 21st century by a forger seeking to make money.
Watson argues that the words on the fragment do not fit grammatically into a larger text.
"It's possible to get hold of an old bit of unwritten-on papyrus and write some new stuff on it," Watson said. "There is a market for fake antiquities throughout the Middle East ... I would guess that in this case the motivation might have been a financial one."
Academic debate
Manuscript experts who heard King's presentation quickly took to their blogs to express doubts, noting that the letters were clumsy, perhaps the script of someone unused to writing Coptic.
Writing from the conference, early Christian scholar Christian Askeland said specialists there were divided between two-thirds who were extremely skeptical, and one-third convinced the fragment was false.
"I have not met anyone who supports its authenticity," Askeland wrote from a session of the Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies, where King gave her paper.
In an email to Reuters after the conference ended and before the Vatican editorial, King said: "Whether, in the end, the fragment will be shown to be authentic is still to be finally determined, but the serious conversation among scholars has begun."
During the conference King stressed that the fragment did not give "any evidence that Jesus was married, or not married" but that early Christians were talking about the possibility.
AnneMarie Luijendijk, associate professor of religion at Princeton University, said she concluded that the fragment was indeed an authentic, ancient text, written by a scribe in antiquity.
"We can see that by the way the ink is preserved on the papyrus and also the way the papyrus has faded and also the way the papyrus has become very fragmentary, which is actually in line with a lot of other papyri we have also from the New Testament," Luijendijk told Reuters during the conference.
The idea that Jesus was married resurfaces regularly in popular culture, notably with the 2003 publication of Dan Brown's best-seller "The Da Vinci Code," which angered the Vatican because, among other things, it was based on the idea that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and had children.
Christian tradition has long held that Jesus was not married and the Catholic Church, by far the largest in Christendom, says women cannot become priests because Christ chose only men as his apostles.
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Immunologists find a molecule that puts the brakes on inflammation
ScienceDaily (Sep. 28, 2012) ? We couldn't live without our immune systems, always tuned to detect and eradicate invading pathogens and particles. But sometimes the immune response goes overboard, triggering autoimmune diseases like lupus, asthma or inflammatory bowel disease.
A new study led by University of Pennsylvania researchers has now identified a crucial signaling molecule involved in counterbalancing the immune system attack.
"The immune response is like driving a car," said Christopher Hunter, professor and chair in the Department of Pathobiology in Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine. "You hit the accelerator and develop this response that's required to protect you from a pathogen, but, unless you have a brake to guide the response, then you'll just careen off the road and die because you can't control the speed of the response."
The research to characterize this immune system "brake" was led by Hunter and Aisling O'Hara Hall, a doctoral candidate in the Immunology Graduate Group. Additional Penn collaborators included scientists from the Penn Genome Frontiers Institute's Department of Biology and the Perelman School of Medicine's Department of Medicine. Researchers from Merck Research Laboratories, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Harvard Medical School and Janssen Research and Development also contributed to the work, which was published in the journal Immunity.
"Healthy people have these cells -- you have them, I have them -- that are called Tregs," or regulatory T cells, Hunter said. "If you don't have them you develop spontaneous inflammation and disease."
Different forms of regulatory T cells operate as the brakes on various kinds of inflammation, but, until now, scientists hadn't been certain of how these Tregs became specialized to do their particular jobs.
Hall, Hunter and colleagues decided to follow up on a molecule called IL-27. Scientists used to think IL-27 played a role in causing inflammation, but, in 2005, a team of Penn researchers, including Hunter, found the opposite; it was actually involved in suppressing inflammation. Thus, when mice that lack IL-27 are challenged with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, they develop overwhelming inflammation.
"We never worked out how it did that, but it was a paradigm change at the time," Hunter said.
In the new study, the researchers delved deeper into IL-27's role. They found that exposing regulatory T cells to IL-27 promoted their ability to suppress a particular type of inflammation. The Penn-led team also demonstrated that they could rescue infected IL-27-deficient mice by giving them a transfusion of regulatory T cells. This finding suggests that IL-27 is required to produce the Treg cells that normally keep inflammatory responses in check during infection.
"Very surprisingly, we were able to show that the Tregs could ameliorate the pathology in this system," Hall said. "We don't think this is the only mechanism by which IL-27 limits immune pathology, but it sheds light on one mechanism by which it could be functioning."
Further experiments showed that Tregs express a different suite of genes in the presence of IL-27 as compared to another molecule that has been implicated in this process, interferon gamma, or IFN-?. The researchers' findings indicate that the two molecules have division of labor when it comes to suppressing inflammation: IL-27 seems to be important in helping control inflammation at the site of inflammation, whereas IFN-? appears more significant in the peripheral tissues.
"At the site of inflammation, where you're getting your pathology, that's where IL- 27 is important," Hall said.
With a new understanding of how IL-27 may cause a class of Tregs to become specialized inflammation fighters, researchers have a new target for ameliorating the unwanted inflammation associated with all kinds of autoimmune conditions.
"Now we have a molecular signature that may be relevant in inflammatory bowel disease, in multiple sclerosis, in colitis and Crohn's disease, in rheumatoid arthritis, in lupus," Hunter said.
Next on tap, the team plans to study IL-27 in the context of asthma, lupus and arthritis.
In addition to Hall and Hunter, the authors included Beena John, Claudia Gonz?lez Lombana, Gretchen Harms Pritchard, Jonathan S. Silver, Jason S. Stumhofer, Tajie H. Harris, Elia D. Tait Wojno, Sagie Wagage and Philip Scott of Penn Vet's Department of Pathobiology; Daniel P. Beiting, David S. Roos and Sara Cheery of the Penn Genome Frontiers Institute Department of Biology; Steven Reiner, formerly of the Penn Department of Medicine; Cristina M. Tato and Daniel Cua of Merck Research Laboratories; Yasmine Belkaid, Guillaume Oldenhove, Nicolas Bouladoux and John Grainger of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease; Laurence A. Turka of Harvard Medical School; and M. Merle Elloso of Janssen Research and Development.
The study was supported by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Institutes of Health.
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Friday, September 28, 2012
How I Recommited to Taking Care of My Body | A Weight Lifted
Join Green Mountain at Fox Run as we blog about Weight Stigma Awareness Week, sponsored by the Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA). Today, BEDA encourages us to recommit to taking care of ourselves, challenging weight bias, standing up for healthy body image and ending fat talk.
Today I can say that I love to be in my body. This has been a long road inward, to reconnect to the joy of moving my body, and has taken every minute up until now.
In my late teens, I started working in the health and fitness industry, teaching aerobics. Like most young women, I was unhappy with my body. And I was not very athletic. I felt a lot of shame about what I believed my body looked like, or couldn?t do well, things like throwing a ball or doing a cartwheel. Growing up, I arranged my life so as to avoid group sports and games that I may have enjoyed but feared might reveal my lack of skill.
But I always loved to dance. Teaching aerobics reconnected me to that love. To be honest, though, what really appealed to me about working in fitness was to have a job where I could spend hours a day dedicated to fixing my body.
My approach to fitness came from a place of discontent that I used to motivate myself and to drive my students. Teaching 20 ? 25 classes a week, I pushed myself hard. And I pushed my students hard. My classes were filled with students along side me on this body-hating path. It was not uncommon for me to have a line of students, each gripping a handful of flesh, all waiting to ask the same question, ?How can I get rid of this?? And to them I would give my best ?eat less and exercise more? advice. The same advice I gave myself, to push more, try harder, no matter how much time or energy. Extreme measures were applauded.
I was never satisfied. No matter how much I exercised, I couldn?t seem to have a good enough, thin enough, ?right? enough body. So I was always looking for the next diet plan, the right combination of exercises. It was consuming.
Until something shifted in me and I was able to see things differently? an epiphany of sorts. I started questioning my deeply held belief that there was something so wrong with my body.
Even though my body didn?t look the way I wanted it to, I could see that I was strong and healthy. I recognized that my obsession with exercise was not really about health at all.
In fact, how could hating my body be compatible with health? On top of this, I was spending an inordinate amount of precious time on this very superficial pursuit.
The transition from exercising out of body hatred? ? to moving as a way of reconnecting to my body and expressing myself ? turned my world, and my work, upside down. Now, instead of an enemy, my body is my ally, my teacher. And from this place I can support others in a way that can produce real health. I can?t say that I live in a place of body love. But at this point in my life I can say that there are parts that I like.? Sometimes. More often I can feel a sense of gratitude, appreciation for what I can do.
How can you recommit to taking care of your body and standing up for a healthy body image?
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Cheers as NFL refs return: 'It's good to be back'
BALTIMORE (AP) ? The final pass of the game sailed out of the end zone, saving the regular refs from the same type of call that brought the replacements to the height of unpopularity just three days earlier.
Referee Gene Steratore and his crew didn't have to decide which player came down with the ball, and fans and players aren't going to spend Friday going ballistic that their team was robbed. From the pregame cheers to the final whistle, it was overall a good return for the NFL's veteran men in stripes, who ran a mostly smooth and efficient game Thursday night as the Baltimore Ravens beat the Cleveland Browns 23-16.
"It was great to have those guys back," Ravens running back Ray Rice said. "It looked like they knew what they were doing."
Yes, the real refs are back. Official harmony is restored to the NFL.
The league's experiment with replacement officials ended on "Monday Night Football" when a 24-yard desperation pass on the last play was ruled a touchdown ? even though replays appeared to show it should been an interception ? giving the Seattle Seahawks a disputed 14-12 win over the Green Bay Packers.
The stage was set for something similar Thursday. An fourth-down unnecessary roughness penalty on Baltimore's Paul Kruger ? a good call, given the way he shoved Cleveland's Joe Thomas after the whistle ? gave the Browns one final chance from the 18-yard line.
But Brandon Weeden's 18-yard pass sailed high as time expired. "Too much juice," he said. No controversial ending this time.
"I thought they handled (the game) great," Cleveland coach Pat Shurmur said. "I had all the confidence in the world that this was going to officiated in the right way."
The love for the officials was evident all evening. About an hour before kickoff, they walked on the field and heard cheers from the early arrivals. A few minutes later, Steratore was shaking hands with Shurmur near midfield and getting a hug from Ravens face-of-the-franchise Ray Lewis at the 30-yard line.
Later, when the crew returned, they received a standing ovation and doffed their caps to the crowd. One fan held up a sign that read: "Finally! We get to yell at real refs! Welcome back!"
"The other refs just made dumb calls," said Jessie Riley, a 15-year-old fan wearing an Ed Reed jersey. "I couldn't stand them. Now we won't get robbed; everything will be fair ? hopefully."
When Steratore then turned on his microphone to greet the captains for the pre-game coin toss, the crowd heard him say: "Good evening, men. It's good to be back."
The stadium erupted in a roar.
Steratore and his seven-man crew donned their familiar stripes for the first game of Week 4 after three weeks of replacement officials created moments of chaos throughout the league. They were inevitably serenaded with a hearty round of boos for one call that went against the home team, but there were no headline-making gaffes.
"You know we always pride ourselves in being a face without a name," Steratore, a 10-year league veteran, told The Associated Press about an hour before kickoff. "This will be a little different, but I don't expect it to last too long. And that's the goal ? is that we can let them get through that portion of this. It's happy to be back, it's happy to be appreciated. But then as soon as the game starts, it's happy to disappear again and let the entertainers entertain."
A lockout of the league's regular officials ended when an agreement was reached late Wednesday, two days after the Monday night finish brought debate over the use of the replacements to a fevered pitch nationwide. Commissioner Roger Goodell acknowledged the Seahawks-Packers game "may have pushed the parties further along" in the talks.
"Obviously when you go through something like this it is painful for everybody," Goodell said. "Most importantly, it is painful for our fans. We are sorry to have to put our fans through that, but it is something that in the short term you sometimes have to do to make sure you get the right kind of deal for the long term and make sure you continue to grow the game."
The deal is only tentative ? it must be ratified by 51 percent of the union's 121 members in a vote scheduled for Friday and Saturday in Dallas ? but both sides nevertheless went forward with the plan to have the regulars back for Thursday's game.
So Steratore hustled to Baltimore, making the 3?-hour drive Thursday morning from his home in the Pittsburgh area. He's usually in place the day before a game, but none of his regular pregame meetings had to be changed because the Browns-Ravens game was at night.
"Very elated to be back," he said. "It feels like being back home."
Steratore, who is a basketball official in the Big East Conference among others, also was fully aware he would be jeered the first time he makes a questionable call ? just like always.
"Without a question," he said. "I've been yelled at by my own children many times, so this won't be any different."
Sure enough, the same fans that cheered the coin toss let out a full chorus of boos when line judge Jeff Seeman toss his yellow flag some 20 yards to whistle Baltimore safety Bernard Pollard for a personal foul in the third quarter. Replays showed it was a good call: Pollard led with his helmet to make contact with a defenseless receiver, costing the Ravens 15 yards in a drive that led to a field goal for the Browns.
Less clear was Seeman's fourth-quarter holding call on Ravens left tackle Michael Oher, who was restrained by a teammate while vociferously protesting his innocence. Replays appeared to show Oher had a valid case for himself.
Steratore's crew nearly made a misstep in the first quarter, incorrectly spotting the ball by 2 yards after a misapplication of the rules following a holding call on the Browns. But two members of the crew caught the mistake and notified the referee before the next snap. A brief huddle ensued, and the ball was moved to its correct spot.
The crew made it clear it wouldn't tolerate the extra shoving and yelling after the whistle that had been frequently permitted by the replacements. Offsetting personal fouls were called on Cleveland's Johnson Bademosi and Baltimore's James Ihedigbo for extracurricular roughness on a punt return in the first quarter, and Shurmur was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct after an intentional grounding call against Weeden in the fourth quarter.
Again, replays appeared to validate the grounding call, and Shurmur took responsibility for his loss of temper.
"I can't do that," the coach said. "It's an emotional game, and I got to make sure I keep my emotions in check."
Steratore had to make a trip to the replay monitor for the same play to review a turnover in the first half. The replays clearly showed that Cleveland's Joshua Cribbs had fumbled, so Steratore confirmed the ruling on the field. Cribbs had his helmet knocked off and was injured on the play, creating the game's only lengthy delay.
There were 18 penalties called in the game, mostly the familiar calls for holding and false start. There were two rare ? and indisputable ? whistles for fair catch interference on punt returns, and a hands-to-the-face call on Baltimore's Kelechi Osemele was so obvious that it drew three flags.
Steratore and his crew set up shop in the designated "Officials Locker Room" in the bowels of the stadium. He emerged about 2? hours before kickoff to talk briefly to a stadium official about the wireless on-field microphone the referee wears. He later held a regular pregame meeting with stadium crew, telling them to "make sure we run this thing as smoothly" as they had in his previous visits to Baltimore.
The lockout ended after marathon negotiations produced an eight-year agreement to end the lockout that began in June. However, for the Packers, Redskins, Lions and other teams who voiced their displeasure with calls that might have swayed games, the agreement doesn't change their records.
The commissioner said he watched Monday night's frenetic Packers-Seahawks finish at home.
"You never want to see a game end like that," he said.
The new agreement will improve officiating in the future, Goodell asserted, reducing mistakes like those made Monday and making the strains of the last three weeks worthwhile.
Goodell acknowledged "you're always worried" about the perception of the league.
"Obviously, this has gotten a lot of attention," he said. "It hasn't been positive, and it's something that you have to fight through and get to the long term. ... We always are going to have to work harder to make sure we get people's trust and confidence in us."
The dispute even made its way to the campaign trail, with President Barack Obama's spokesman, Jay Carney, calling Thursday "a great day for America."
"The president's very pleased that the two sides have come together," Carney said.
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AP Sports Writer Rachel Cohen and AP Pro Football Writer Barry Wilner in New York, AP Pro Football Writer Howard Fendrich in Washington, and AP Sports Writers David Ginsburg in Baltimore, Larry Lage in Allen Park, Mich., Joe Kay in Cincinnati and Tim Reynolds in Miami contributed to this report.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cheers-nfl-refs-return-good-back-005550961--nfl.html
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Dell OptiPlex 9010 Small Form Factor
- Pros Tools not required to open chassis and swap components. Solid multimedia performance.
- Cons Cramped interior. USB 3.0 ports aren't color-coded.
- Bottom Line With an easily accessible, IT-friendly chassis that can pop open without any tools, the Dell OptiPlex 9010 Small Form-Factor is a solid choice for businesses looking to save space without necessarily compromising performance, though more nimble systems in the same price range are readily available.
Design and Features
The 9010 SFF is housed in a compact chassis that measures 11.4 by 3.7 by 12.3 inches (HWD). Overall, it's not nearly as small as either the Polywell Poly i1000A-3770T or the Alienware X51 , but those systems are arguably too small, as neither can accommodate any internal expansion whatsoever. The 9010 SFF can be positioned vertically or horizontally, as demonstrated by the four rubber feet on its right side. The left side of the chassis, meanwhile, can easily be removed by pulling on the built-in handle?a convenient feature that lets your IT staff open the system up and swap out components without any tools.
As mentioned earlier, the real draw of the 9010 SFF is its ability to be upgraded and maintained without the use of any tools. Simply pull the handle on the left side of the chassis and you'll be greeted with an easily accessible?though densely packed?arrangement of hardware accented by easy-to-see light blue handles and grip points. Sliding out the optical drive allows for access to the 3.5-inch 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD that's encased in a metallic bay, which one removes by pulling on a circular blue lever. Removing the HDD reveals four DIMM slots on the 9010 SFF's motherboard, two of which are occupied by 4GB DDR3 SDRAM. Beneath the discrete 1GB AMD Radeon HD 7470 card is an empty half-height PCIe x16 slot, which can be outfitted with something along the lines of a low-powered graphics card or a WLAN 802.11n card after you swing out a plastic hinge that, in turn, allows you to pop out the metallic grille locked into the chassis. Overall, the 9010 SFF is remarkably easy to service and maintain despite its somewhat cramped interior.
Performance
The 9010 SFF performed admirably against other small form-factor desktops, though it was handily outclassed by the larger enterprise-class HP Z220 CMT Workstation nearly across the board. Its PCMark 7 score of 2,980 landed at the bottom of the pack, coming within striking distance of the Alienware X51 (3,055 points) but trailed the rest of its peers, including the Shuttle X6100 (4,514 points). On the other hand, the 9010 SFF led the pack in our multimedia benchmark tests. It completed our Handbrake video encoding test in a brief 1 minute 4 seconds, edging past both the HP Z220 (1:05) and the Poly i1000A-3770T (1:11) by a thin margin. Likewise, it completed our Photoshop CS5 in 2 minutes 48 seconds, breezing past the Shuttle X6100 (3:00) and the Alienware X51 (3:36) without breaking a sweat. And while the 9010 SFF's Cinebench R11.5 score of 7.48 points fell a little short of the HP Z220 (7.55), it nonetheless muscled past the rest of the group, especially the Shuttle X6100 (5.68) as well as the Alienware X51 (4.91).
Despite its discrete 1GB AMD Radeon HP 7470 GPU, the 9010 SFF had difficulty breaching the 30 frames per second (fps) playability barrier in our gaming tests. To nobody's surprise, the X51 dominated the group in this arena, leaving the rest of the group gasping for air. In our Crysis benchmark tests, the 9010 SFF's performance (40 frames per second or fps in medium quality at 1,280-by-720 resolution; 4fps in high quality at 1,920-by-1,080 resolution) fell way below that of other systems, especially the HP Z220 (84fps and 11fps, respectively) and, to a more pronounced extent, the class-leading X51 (88fps and 22fps, respectively). Similarly, the 9010 SFF struggled in our Lost Planet 2 benchmark tests (16fps in middle quality at 1,280-by-720 resolution; 4fps in high quality at 1,920-by-1,080 resolution), missing the Poly i1000A-3770T by a narrow margin (18fps and 5fps, respectively) while, once again, being thoroughly outgunned by the X51 (86fps and 35fps, respectively). As far as 3D rendering goes, the 9010 SFF's 3DMark 11 scores (1,094 in Entry mode, 185 in Extreme mode) came close to that of the Poly i1000A-3770T (1,200 and 201, respectively), but, unsurprisingly, fell below both the HP Z220 (3,097 and 570, respectively) and the Alienware X51 (5,184 and 1,059, respectively).
Overall, the Dell OptiPlex 9010 Small Form-Factor is a good system whose shortcomings are tempered by its remarkable accessibility and expandability despite its compact profile. It doesn't perform with unbridled power like some of its peers, but its IT-friendly design makes it an appealing choice for businesses. Still, its high price tag is difficult to justify in the face of more nimble competitors, and, moreover, businesses that are purely interested in sheer computing power would be better off with our current Editors' Choice for single-processor workstations, the HP Z220 CMT Workstation.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
BBC 'sorry' for daring to report queen's comments
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Queen Elizabeth II meets BBC journalist Frank Gardner at an event in October 2011. The BBC apologized on Tuesday after Gardner reported a conversation with the queen.
By Keir Simmons, NBC News
Analysis
LONDON - Imagine this: President Barack Obama makes an indiscreet remark to a reporter. ?The White House complains after the journalist reports the newsworthy encounter. The reporter and his network apologize.
Hard to visualize, isn?t it?
But something very similar did happen with the U.K.'s head of state this week. ?
Highly respected BBC journalist Frank Gardner reported a controversial conversation with Queen Elizabeth II about radical Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Mazri,?who on Monday lost his appeal against extradition to the United States to face terrorism charges.?
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Buckingham Palace was reportedly outraged. Gardner and the BBC --?seen by many as a standard-bearer for quality journalism around the world --?issued a groveling apology.?
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II arrives in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on June 26.
So does the British media have different rules for covering the royals?
Three-quarters-of-a-century ago newspapers in this country remained silent as U.S. journalists excitedly reported on a relationship between the future?King Edward VIII?and American divorcee Wallis Simpson. ?The relationship eventually led to Edward abdicating the throne.
And in the last month, most British news outlets refused to publish those naked Prince Harry pictures, while the U.K. media said "non" in unison to the French paparazzi snaps of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge - the former Kate Middleton - topless.
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The intimate pictures were viewed by many British editors as an invasion of privacy. ?
But while stories about royal love affairs, and pictures of cavorting young royals are arguably an invasion of privacy, this latest spat between Buckingham Palace and the media is of another order entirely.? That is because while the queen signs off on Britain's laws, guides the prime minister and entertains visiting leaders from around the world, by tradition and according to convention she cannot and must not be seen to take sides.
Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating 60 years on the throne. Watch archival footage from her childhood and ascension to the throne to the present day.
In fact, a constitutional crisis could ensue if she is seen to be meddling.?
That said, the queen is involved in affairs of state.?
'Vivid combination'
The prime minister meets with the monarch every week.? She has held these sessions since Prime Minister Winston Churchill?s days.? Yet what is said is never shared.? If the queen does give advice no one is ever told what it is.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair went further than most when in his diary he described the visits to the palace as, ?A vivid combination of the intriguing, the surreal, and the utterly freaky.??
More coverage of Britain's royal family on TODAY.com
But even he did not recount a word of what was actually said.
Many speculate on what the queen's political views might be, but very few people know for sure what they are.
So given the long-standing conventions governing interactions with the monarch, any opinion the queen did share with Gardner would have been off-the-record and not for reporting.? Otherwise she would not have expressed a view.?
And journalists, of course, have a duty not to reveal their sources where confidentiality has been promised.
In that sense Gardner broke a simple rule of journalism. If you're told something off the record, you can't source it without permission.
If the queen did share vigorous views on al-Masri's deportation to the United States?-- she was apparently so upset about the U.K.'s inability to arrest him that she spoke to top government officials about it -- then it was meant for Gardner's ears only.
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But not everybody sees it that way.
?We have to ask: if the BBC had revealed another source, under any circumstances at all, would the apology have been so rapid? Or is it, again, different for the royals?? columnist Archie Bland pondered in the left-leaning Independent newspaper.
So is it different for the royals, or at least the queen, in one important sense. Being unelected she is not supposed to have an opinion. That's the deal. She gets to be queen because she rises above politics.
She might be a highly experienced ?sponge,? as described by royal biographer Hugo Vickers, who brings the wisdom built from decades on the throne, but according to British tradition she is definitively not a politician or an opinion-leader.
Queen leads giant Diamond Jubilee flotilla on London's rainy Thames
Many argue that the reason she makes such a good head of state is precisely because she?s never heard mouthing off about one issue or another.? If she were, if she ventured into the world of the political, it would shake the balance of power in Britain.
Which explains why Buckingham Palace was so upset, and why the story is causing such a stir. It is also why Britain's future king, Prince Charles, ruffles feathers when he expresses views about the environment or architecture.
In pictures:?Britain honors Queen Elizabeth II with Diamond Jubilee
Probably many British people will be pleased to hear that the queen is prepared to express strong opinions when necessary, albeit in private.
But the queen will not want it to happen again. She knows how much damage it can do to her, her family and her country.
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Another 400 West Nile cases reported in U.S. in past week: CDC
(Reuters) - More than 400 new U.S. cases of West Nile virus emerged in the last week, in an outbreak that remains the second worst on record but has begun to show signs of slowing.
So far this year, 3,545 cases have been reported to federal health officials as of September 25, up from 3,142 reported the week before, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in its weekly update of outbreak data.
That marked a rise of nearly 13 percent, down considerably from a 30 percent weekly jump witnessed earlier this month.
About 38 percent of all cases have been reported in Texas. Other states with large number of cases include Mississippi, Michigan, South Dakota, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and California.
A total of 147 people have died from the disease, compared with 134 reported one week ago. Just over half of the cases reported to the CDC this year have been of the severe neuroinvasive form of the disease, which can lead to meningitis and encephalitis.
The milder form of the disease causes flu-like symptoms and is rarely lethal.
Experts believe the disease originated in Africa and was first detected in New York City in 1999. Outbreaks tend to be unpredictable. Hot temperatures, rainfall amounts and ecological factors such as bird and mosquito populations have to align just right to trigger an outbreak such as the one this year.
The CDC said the number of cases this year is the highest reported to federal health officials through the last week in September since 2003, the year with the most cases.
(Reporting by Paul Thomasch; Editing by Sandra Maler and Vicki Allen)
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Minnesota Business Bankruptcy Lawyer
If you own a business with a partner, then you will need to consider how this bankruptcy will affect the partnership. Under a general business partnership, all partners will be liable for the debts. However, in a limited partnership, the partners have limited liability in regards to the debt. There are a number of complications surrounding business partnership and bankruptcies which is why it is important to sit down with a Minneapolis bankruptcy attorney to discuss your options and what this will mean for not only your business, but also your partnership.
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Filing Bankruptcy Without a Lawyer is Risky Business
In addition to this small financial benefit, some people are private and protective of their personal information. Not having to meet with an attorney and disclose personal and private information to a third party could be seen as a benefit, if you are this type of individual. Finding the right attorney who makes you feel comfortable is an easy remedy for this situation.
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David Blackmore Bankruptcy Reprieve for Creditor?
This morning Blackmore was back in court where his lawyers told Associate Judge John Matthews that a formal proposal to repay creditors was nearing completion and would be filed with the court by Wednesday, ahead of a meeting of creditors.
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Do You Really Want To File For Bankruptcy?
In a recent report, bankruptcy filings dropped to 12% in 2011. According to Ronald Mann of Columbia Law School, there were 1.35 million Americans who filed for Chapter 13 or Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The figure is less than the 2010 filings of 1.5 million Americans. According to the same report, Chapter 7 filings went down by 17% while Chapter 13 filings went down by 25%. However, Mann said that there was an increase during the latter part of 2011 which can be reflected in this year?s data. In California, especially in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, the rate there was pegged at one in every 120 California residents but Nevada had the worst rate at 1 in every 88 Nevada residents which is double than the national average. Texas had the lowest rate at 1 in 379 Texas residents.
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Bankruptcy & Business solutions
Nevertheless, it should be kept in mind that when you are already insolvent, no bank will pay you more loans until and unless you do not clear the previous amount of money. If you tend to stop paying your debt then there are ample of chances that you will get notice from the court and many of your possessions may get seized. Therefore, the best option left in such a circumstance is either contacting a bankruptcy law firm or dropping a line directly to a bankruptcy lawyer. Attorneys who are specialized to this specific segment of law know how to tackle even the most complicated bankruptcy case.
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The Business Bankruptcy Attorney
The most fundamental rule in hiring business bankruptcy attorneys is to know their services and capabilities, and whether these would meet the company?s requirements. Bankruptcy procedures are extremely complicated. The object of bankruptcy laws is to assist both debtors and creditors in coming to a mutually beneficial agreement. Creditors want to retain debtors as their clients. A bad debt means uncollected receivables and a lost customer. No creditor would like to have uncollectable receivables and to lose a good customer. The company has to hire numerous experts before it can devise an adequate debt management scheme because of the intricate nature of debt settlement. Usually lawyers who specialize in contracts, taxation, corporate finance, or real estate will work with the business bankruptcy lawyer to optimize the debt management scheme. The company should know what assets can be protected before a bankruptcy claim is initiated in court. Should the business fail in this respect, it will be open to lawsuits from creditors without the protection of the court. The purpose of a bankruptcy procedure is to enable a firm to continue operating while paying its debts to its creditors according to a plan that was set up with the approval of the courts. This means that the firm has a plan to pay the debts while continuing to operate. The debt payment plan gives a business adequate room to function while still addressing its debt problem. It is essential that the debt repayment schedule does not affect its ability to meet its business objectives. This will enable the business in distress to devise a schedule of debt repayment that it can pursue while still operating as a business. While this seems to favor debtors, it is in fact beneficial to both debtors and creditors. The law gives the debtor a free hand to set up a debt schedule plan that can be maintained. The responsibility of managing resources efficiently still revolves around the firm that has filed for bankruptcy. The business bankruptcy attorney is just one of the experts a firm needs to become solvent again. The firm also needs other experts in different business fields in order to identify the best options available. When creditors are harassing a firm, filing for bankruptcy may be the only option. The bankruptcy proceedings would give the firm legal protection against any unreasonable claims from the creditors. Business bankruptcy attorneys should be very knowledgeable about state laws on this matter. Therefore, they should be practicing lawyers in the state they reside. Before the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act was passed in 2005, the debtor had an unlimited time to set up a debt repayment schedule. However, once the law was passed, it imposed a limit of 120 days for a debtor to devise a debt payment plan which had to be submitted in court for approval. Therefore, it is imperative that the firm submits a good plan during that time period otherwise its creditors will devise their own plans for debt repayment, which may not be to the liking of the firm. The law gives debtors a chance to formulate their own plans because the debt should not be an insurmountable obstacle that prevents the business from functioning. The new law curbed the loopholes in the old bankruptcy law that enabled a firm to postpone indefinitely the making of a debt payment schedule because the debtor had indefinite time limit to devise such scheme. It also increased the necessity of hiring a bankruptcy lawyer so that he could devise a schedule within the imposed deadline. It imposed greater discipline in debt collection. The Bankruptcy Attorney will definitely help those people if they have filed for bankruptcy so that, the common people do not get over burdened with the debt which will be impossible for them to pay back.Click here for Bankruptcy Attorney If you are looking for the best person to advise you on business liquidity issues and insolvency, the best person to do so is a business bankruptcy attorney.Visit http://www.voklaw.com/ for more details.
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Dewey Docket: Free Legal Advice From Former Bankruptcy Head
A common source of recovery in law firm bankruptcies, such claims stem from a California court ruling that essentially said profits from a dissolved law firm?s unfinished legal matters belong to the original firm. Mr. Bienenstock pointed out that Dewey did not dissolve until it sought Chapter 11 protection?at which point it had no legal business of any consequence left for partners to take to their new firms. ?Based on the state of the law in New York, these unfinished business claims are simply not credible.?
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In $29 million tax case, Washington Mutual Inc. claims it didn?t do business in Oregon
The bank, with accounting firm KPMG?s help, had set up three real estate investment trusts in 1999. It stuffed the REITs ? known as Marion Street Inc., University Street Inc. and Seneca Street Inc. ? with $17.5 billion in commercial, consumer and multi-family loans and non-residential mortgages, Oregon officials say.
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The Pros And Cons Of Filing For Personal Bankruptcy
When you are going through bankruptcy proceedings, it is sure to cause a great deal of stress. Look for a good attorney who can help you through the process. Try not to pick a lawyer based on cost alone. Quality is far more important than expense when it comes to a good bankruptcy attorney. Get referrals from those who have used a bankruptcy lawyer, talk to the bureau for better business, and take advantage of free consultations offered by most lawyers. Try attending a hearing to find out how bankruptcy attorneys handle the situation.
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Personal Bankruptcy and Small Business Bankruptcy in Indiana Marked by the Same Common Mistakes
Taking on more debt right before a bankruptcy: ?Taking trips, taking cash advances, or maxing out credit lines before an anticipated bankruptcy can actually be seen as a form of fraud?.?be honest, keep additional debt to a minimum and ensure that any money spent is absolutely necessary,? cautions Eldridge. ? Lawmakers were obviously concerned that debtors might abuse the system, which would not be fair to creditors.? Each situation is different, however, and if buying a car to get to work or paying for medical treatment is the form of new debt, that?s not abuse. The point of bankruptcy in Indiana or anywhere else is to treat all parties as fairly as possible while still providing a safety net.? That?s one of the reasons I always advise not waiting, but talking with an attorney at the first signs of financial trouble. It?s why I offer no-cost and no-obligation consultations.
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Las Vegas Bankruptcy Attorneys ? Health, Home and Living
Las Vegas Bankruptcy Attorneys handle every one of the company paperwork and lead the negotiation with all the company creditors to find an amicable solution. You need to find an attorney who will help you through this, supplying you with solutions to your situation while making certain you are able to emerge as a result as fast so when easily as possible. But what many of us forget, if we have hired legal counsel, is the fact that we have to pay bankruptcy lawyer fees as well. It is really an added expense we incur throughout the bankruptcy crisis, and we must be prepared to repay this expense as well. The price incurred are minimal when compared to new lease on life which they help you in attaining.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Playful gender-bending at the Paris fashion shows
A model wears a creation by British fashion designer Gareth Pugh for his fashion house's Spring Summer 2013 ready to wear collection, for Fashion Week, in Paris, Wednesday, Sept.26, 2012.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
A model wears a creation by British fashion designer Gareth Pugh for his fashion house's Spring Summer 2013 ready to wear collection, for Fashion Week, in Paris, Wednesday, Sept.26, 2012.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
A model wears a creation by British fashion designer Gareth Pugh for his fashion house's Spring Summer 2013 ready to wear collection, for Fashion Week, in Paris, Wednesday, Sept.26, 2012.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
Models wear creations by British fashion designer Gareth Pugh for fashion house's Spring Summer 2013 ready to wear collection, for Fashion Week, in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
A model wears a creation as part of fashion designer Marco Zanini for Rochas' spring-summer 2013 ready to wear collection in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
A model wears a creation by British fashion designer Gareth Pugh for fashion house's Spring Summer 2013 ready to wear collection, for Fashion Week, in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012.(AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
PARIS (AP) ? Blurring the lines between the masculine and feminine is as old as Shakespeare.
Wednesday's fashion week previews in Paris ? the second of eight days on the spring-summer 2013 calendar ? showed that, over the centuries, playful gender-bending has lost none of its creative allure.
Dries Van Noten, who cut his teeth as a men's designer in Antwerp, produced the day's strongest show, mixing traditional menswear cuts with his own floral signature in a harmonious play on color.
Damir Doma, meanwhile, who also trained in Antwerp, fused masculine-tinged Cossack gear, martial arts dress and buckles alongside more feminine touches.
Black, an unusual color for spring, also featured highly on the rotation list ? with London's Gareth Pugh channeling a dark hard, masculine femininity that seemed to indicate the 31-year-old designer was coming of age.
Thursday's shows include Manish Arora, Balmain and Nina Ricci.
DRIES VAN NOTEN
Dries Van Noten once said: "The more clashing it is, the more that I like it!"
This statement should have been proven true by the Antwerp designer's patterned and flowery ode to spring ? a commanding show that mixed up wildly divergent textures, styles, cuts and shapes.
He presented ruffled 3-D flower appliques and floral prints mixed with blown-up Prince of Wales check, plaid, tartan and beaded denim. Those were pursued eccentrically down the catwalk by sheer organza shirts, metallic menswear jackets and oversized peplums.
Yet the preview, incredibly, was of the most harmonious Van Noten shows in some time, owing to its fine tonal color palette. Traditional tartans blended softly into a haze of faded orange, peach, rose, nude, russet, silver and duck egg blue.
It felt like spring was in the air.
DAMIR DOMA
Croatian-born designer Damir Doma went East in an ambitious show that included Russian Cossack garb, Oriental kimono-sleeve jackets and even white belted karate tops.
Tight, high-waisted looks and a peppering of leather Obi-belts were followed by baggier silhouettes with dropped centers of gravity. Colors ranged from black, brown and navy to turquoise blue and cobalt.
If there was one theme that brought cohesion to the motley ensemble it was this: deconstruction. Almost a signature style for any graduate of Belgium's avant-garde fashion capital Antwerp ? like Dries Van Noten ? Doma exposed paneling, buckles, zips and fastenings on his clothes.
"Of course I am avant-garde, I'm from Antwerp," Doma said backstage. "I just cut things up, break and put them together: A collage."
GARETH PUGH
"Hard femininity," was how Gareth Pugh described his show, inspired, he says, by the rawness of Latin American cockfighting.
Sure enough, black nappa kimono looks opened the collection swirling stiffly and authoritatively ? with one model in a two-foot mourning veil.
However, the raw shock-factor ? Pugh's signature ? was short-lived for once. It soon gave way to a series of softer, elegant and more mature looks in sweeping vermilion, black fringing and pale dove gray.
The Latin feel was captured in a series of textured 3-D ruffles reflecting a coiffed, full-breasted cock, ready for the fight.
The designer's introspection was tangible, from the simplicity of the decor to Rebekah del Rio's haunting a capella singing to the clean, highly wearable silhouettes. Could Wednesday's show have been a coming of age for London's enfant terrible?
"Some things happened to me recently," Pugh said. "Sometimes you just can't help changing, some things are out of control."
GUY LAROCHE
"I love Frank Gehry," Guy Laroche designer Marcel Morongiu said after his uber-refined collection, which channeled the famed U.S. architect's buildings.
What the collection pulled off was no small feat: Downsizing with panache the spirit of Gehry's sculptural lines and volumes to fit the svelte female form. Long silhouettes slinked by with panels that flapped stiffly and with on-trend angular cutouts ? replacing the house DNA's vibrant colors with streamlined elegance.
Another lofty reference was to Brazil's master architect Oscar Niemeyer ? whose landmark contemporary art museum in Rio that features bold central paneling was evoked by outfits with strapped or sexily exposed midriffs.
Sex appeal is from the waist and above and long is back ? the show seemed to declare.
In addition to the architecture master class, the Guy Laroche team also hit the science lab.
A fantastic new material was made especially for the show: A double crepe, silk and viscose Nutty Professor concoction that gave a curious stiffness to the clothes, including a show-stopping, knee-length, laser-cut navy coat.
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Lawn and Tree Care Franchise Targets Green Industry Businesses with Diversification Strategy
Plainfield, IL (PRWEB) September 25, 2012 -?Spring-Green Lawn Care has developed new franchise ownership options to attract green industry business owners and professionals to the Spring-Green franchise opportunity. Green industry professionals can take advantage of the two new Spring-Green Lawn Care franchise programs starting this fall.
The Green Associate Assistance Program applies up to $10,000 of the initial franchise fee toward start-up expenses designated or approved by Spring-Green, which may include the initial marketing campaign fee. The program is for qualified candidates who currently own or are employed by green industry businesses such as landscape management professionals, landscape maintenance companies, landscape designers, irrigation/water management professionals and others.
The Green Associate Roll-In Program is designed for qualified candidates who own independent green industry businesses that already provide professional lawn and tree care services and want to convert that portion of their business to a Spring-Green franchise while keeping their existing company. These franchise owners will pay a reduced royalty rate for the first 12 months of operation. They are also eligible for the Green Associate Assistance Program.
In addition, for all new franchise owners that join in 2012 Spring-Green is offering a Marketing Reinvestment Program which applies $10,000 of the initial franchise fee to marketing and advertising expenditures in the second full year of operation.
?Spring-Green has spent the last several years developing its proprietary and industry leading marketing and technology backbone. We feel that our strengths will complement many of the green industry businesses who are seeking to diversify and improve their profitability.? said James Young, president of Spring-Green Lawn Care. ?We are in a very good position to bring value to green industry professionals and we are putting our money where our mouth is through our reinvestment and green industry offerings. We are excited about partnering with good operators who see the value in aligning with the Spring-Green brand and support structure.?
About Spring-Green Lawn Care
Founded in 1977, Plainfield, Illinois-based Spring-Green Lawn Care has been delivering lawn and tree care services nationwide for over 35 years. Its service is centered on the beautification of residential and commercial customers in middle-class and affluent neighborhoods and communities. Spring-Green is an attractive opportunity for green industry professionals who want to align themselves with a franchise opportunity that has proven economic resilience, healthy profit margins, industry leading business and marketing intelligence, recurring revenue and retirement & family planning through business ownership. Spring-Green currently has 117 franchises operating in 26 states. Spring-Green Lawn Care franchise owners gave the franchise opportunity a 94 percent overall quality rating, according to the Franchise Research Institute 2011 survey. For more information, visit http://www.springgreenfranchise.com, http://www.spring-greenfranchiseblog.com or follow Spring-Green Franchise on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+.
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Iran's president dismisses threats on nuke program
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures as he attends the high level meeting on rule of law in the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures as he attends the high level meeting on rule of law in the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the high level meeting on rule of law in the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad concludes his address to the high level meeting on rule of law in the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at the high level meeting on rule of law in the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at a high level meeting in the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters Monday, Sept. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday dismissed threats of military action against Iran's nuclear program, arguing that his country's project to enrich uranium is only for peaceful purposes and saying that Iran has no worries about a possible Israeli attack.
Ahmadinejad spoke before a group of editors and news executives after his arrival in New York for the annual U.N. General Assembly. He told the group that it was not too late for dialogue with the United States to resolve differences.
But in his remarks, Ahmadinejad sought to delegitimize U.S. ally Israel's historic ties to the Middle East and its political and military power in the region and the world, saying that Israelis "do not even enter the equation for Iran."
"Fundamentally, we do not take seriously threats of the Zionists," said Ahmadinejad. "We believe the Zionists see themselves at a dead end and they want to find an adventure to get out of this dead end. While we are fully ready to defend ourselves, we do not take these threats seriously."
Ahmadinejad declared Israel has no place in the Middle East, saying that Iran has been around for thousands of years while the modern state of Israel has existed only for the last 60 or so years. "They have no roots there in history," he said.
White House press secretary Jay Carney responded to Ahmadinejad's remarks, telling a midday news briefing, "Well, President Ahmadinejad says foolish, offensive and sometimes unintelligible things with great regularity. What he should focus on is the failure of his government of Iran to abide by its international obligations, to abide by United Nations Security Council resolutions."
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had met with Ahmadinejad on Sunday and "urged Iran to take the measures necessary to build international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of its nuclear program," U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said. The U.N. chief also raised the potentially harmful consequences of inflammatory rhetoric "from various countries in the Middle East," Nesirky said.
On other topics in his meeting with editors, Ahmadinejad said that Iran favors a negotiated settlement to the civil war in Syria, and denied that Tehran is providing weapons or training to the government of President Bashar Assad, as Assad's opponents and others have alleged.
"We like and love both sides, and we see both sides as brothers," he said. He referred to the conflict in Syria as "tribal" fighting and said that international "meddling from the outside has made the situation even harder." He refused to say whether Iran would accept a government not led by the Assad regime, which for years has been Iran's closest ally in the Middle East.
Ahmadinejad met journalists in the mid-town hotel where he was saying. It was Ahmadinejad's eighth visit to the U.N. gathering held each September, which he cited as proof that he is open to understanding other countries' views.
In spite of his assertions on the importance of dialogue and respect for others, Ahmadinejad presented a hard line in many areas. He refused to speak of the state of Israel by name and instead referred only to the "Zionists," and when asked about author Salman Rushdie he made no attempt to distance himself from recent renewed threats on the author's life emanating from an Iranian semi-official religious foundation. "If he is in the U.S., you should not broadcast it for his own safety," Ahmadinejad said.
He said this would be his last trip to New York as president of Iran, because his term is ending and he is barred from seeking a third consecutive term. But he did not rule out staying active in Iranian politics and said he might return as part of future Iranian delegations to New York.
Ahmadinejad said the argument over Iran's nuclear program was a political rather than a legal matter and needs to be resolved politically.
"We are not expecting that a 33-year-old problem between America and Iran to be resolved in speedy discussions, but we do believe in dialogue."
Later in the day, Ahmadinejad took aim at both the United States and Israel while addressing a high-level U.N. meeting promoting the rule of law, accusing Washington of shielding what he called a nuclear-armed "fake regime." His remarks prompted a walkout by Israel's U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor.
"Ahmadinejad showed again that he not only threatens the future of the Jewish people, he seeks to erase our past," Prosor said in a statement. "Three thousand years of Jewish history illustrate the clear danger of ignoring fanatics like Iran's president, especially as he inches closer to acquiring nuclear weapons."
Ahmadinejad also alluded to the amateur anti-Islam video made in the U.S. that has caused protests across the Muslim world, accusing the United States and others of misusing freedom of speech and failing to speak out against the defamation of people's beliefs and "divine prophets."
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Associated Press writers Matthew Daly in Washington and Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.
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