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Friday, February 15, 2013
Create Your Own Nicholas Sparks Story With Mad Libs!
FROM NEXT MOVIE Every movie from the mind of Nicholas Sparks follows the same tried and true pattern, yet audiences keep eating up the tales of romance and eventual tragic death. At some point, you've just got to give the guy credit for patenting his own style of romance hit-making. But the folks over Next [...]
Maggie Smith: I haven't seen 'Downton'
NEW YORK (AP) ? Millions of people have watched Maggie Smith on "Downton Abbey." But she's not one of them.
The 78-year-old actress, who portrays Lady Grantham in the popular PBS series, told "60 Minutes" that she hasn't watched the drama because doing so would only make her agonize over her performance. She said she may watch it someday.
Smith told Steve Kroft, in an interview to be televised Sunday, that what she takes from the role is "the delight of acting."
She has three Oscars, two Emmys and a Tony Award, but said the "Downton Abbey" role has given her more public recognition than anything in her career.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/maggie-smith-havent-seen-downton-172810944.html
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Judge throws out some Facebook IPO lawsuits
In the Wednesday ruling, Judge Robert Sweet of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York also agreed with Facebook's claims that the plaintiffs could not prove that they owned Facebook stock at the time of the alleged wrongdoing.
The lawsuits and other still remaining alleged that analysts at large underwriting investment banks cut their financial forecasts for Facebook just before the IPO and told only a handful of clients. Facebook and the banks say nothing about its process was illegal.
Facebook says it is pleased with the ruling.
Source: http://www.katu.com/news/tech/Judge-throws-out-some-Facebook-IPO-lawsuits-191221661.html
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Do tax increases kill jobs? Minn. soon to find out
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ? Dik Bolger is a lifelong Minnesota Democrat, a gray-bearded baby boomer with a braid down his back whose Minneapolis printing company's plant displays work by local artists and sculptors. He backed Mark Dayton for governor, but his take on the Democratic chief executive's plan for new business taxes could be the voice-over for a Republican campaign commercial.
"We're screwed," Bolger said, if the tax goes through.? His 79-year-old company competes nationwide and overseas for work with major brands like Chanel. "If you're bidding for a $100,000 job on a national basis and tax expenses push you a couple of percent higher, then I'm not competitive."
For generations, Minnesotans lived out the progressive argument that high taxes and high services were what gave the state its fabled quality of life. But the patience of business owners is being tried more than ever, as Dayton and the Democrats who now control the Capitol mull a menu of tax increases that would primarily hit company ledgers ? just as most states are going the opposite way.
Dayton has proposed tax changes he says would make the system fairer and also bring in $2 billion in new revenue. Much of the gain would come from a state sales tax on "business-to-business" purchases like legal, accounting, banking and printing costs. Few states tax such services.? He would also boost Minnesota's personal income tax rates from eighth to fourth highest in the nation, behind only Hawaii, California and Oregon.
Meanwhile, many other governors_Republicans and even some Democrats? are trying to cut their income taxes and make other changes to attract businesses.? That includes many of Minnesota's neighbors in the Midwest, such as Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska.
Whether taxes kill jobs is one of the longest-running arguments in politics, and it's about to get tested in a big way in this region.
"I'm the kind of person willing to pay more in taxes because of all the attributes and benefits Minnesota offers," said John Taft, CEO of Minneapolis-based RBC Wealth Management. "But you do reach a tipping point where the cost of government gets too high and this would push us past that tipping point."
Dayton wants the new money to eliminate a $1.1 billion state budget deficit.? He also wants more for public schools and colleges, job-creation programs and low-income medical assistance.? He's arguing that such amenities are what perennially put the state near the top of livability lists.
?"I've heard this for 30 years and I'm not insensitive to it," Dayton said of the argument that high taxes make businesses look elsewhere.? However, "I say we're not the lowest-taxed state, we're the best value for people's taxes." ?????????????????Minnesotans try not to scoff as they contrast the state's attributes with the likes of its more down-market neighbors.? Minneapolis' bustling downtown Nicollet Mall, the Twin Cities' array of theaters and first-class museums, and the state's expansive parkland and its 19 Fortune 500 company headquarters ? the second-most per capita in the country_are what make talented people want to be here, they said.? It's no coincidence that ?Minnesota's unemployment rate is lower than Wisconsin's (5.5 percent vs. 6.6 percent in December) and its per capita income higher ?($44,560 vs. $39,575).
"What's real is that quality of life is a decision-maker for the big players," says Democratic Rep. Alice Hausman.
To the east, Wisconsin is like a photo negative of Minnesota politically.? On the day Dayton unveiled his tax proposal, Republican Gov. Scott Walker said he might "put a little bit more of a push" into luring Minnesota companies.? He had already put Wisconsin "Open for Business" billboards along Minnesota borders; he's now pushing for a $340 million income tax cut.
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard's administration has sponsored print and radio ads and direct mail directed at unhappy executives.
"Tired of Taxes? Call Me," read the postcards.
"I can tell you that we are actively working a number of lead prospects from Minnesota," said Pat Costello, Daugaard's commissioner of economic development, though he wouldn't reveal any.
Not all of Dayton's proposed changes are increases. He wants to lower the overall sales tax rate to help middle-class families, reduce the corporate income tax and freeze business property taxes. But he's also wiping out a sacrosanct clothing exemption the Mall of America uses to attract out-of-state shoppers.
Minneapolis is the fourth-largest printing center in the U.S., according to Printing Industry Midwest, a trade association. Bolger said he's fine with paying higher personal income taxes.
But he said his Bolger Printing company had to shed more than 100 of his 320 jobs because of the recession, and "I never want to go through that again" if he starts losing jobs to lower cost competitors.
?"I'm a 58-year-old Minnesota boy. Wisconsin is probably not in my future," Bolger said. "But I would have to shrink employees, decent middle class jobs. I thought that's what this is about."
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AP reporters Brian Bakst in St. Paul, Scott Bauer and Todd Richmond in Madison, Wis., John Hanna in Topeka, Kan., Catherine Lucey in Des Moines, David Mercer in Springfield, Ill., and Sean Murphy in Oklahoma City contributed to this report.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tax-increases-kill-jobs-minn-soon-195324097--politics.html
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Wisconsin scientists help search for alien life
In this Jan. 22, 2013 photo University of Wisconsin-Madison Geoscientist Clark Johnson holds what he says is a 3.5 billion year old rock in Madison, Wis. Johnson is leading a team of scientists and others studying Earth rocks that are billions of years old looking for crucial information to understand how life might have arisen elsewhere in the universe and guide the search for life on Mars one day. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)
In this Jan. 22, 2013 photo University of Wisconsin-Madison Geoscientist Clark Johnson holds what he says is a 3.5 billion year old rock in Madison, Wis. Johnson is leading a team of scientists and others studying Earth rocks that are billions of years old looking for crucial information to understand how life might have arisen elsewhere in the universe and guide the search for life on Mars one day. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) ? Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are helping search for evidence of alien life not by looking into outer space, but by studying some rocks right here on Earth.
Some of the rocks are up to 3.5 billion years old. The scientists are looking for crucial information to understand how life might have arisen elsewhere in the universe and guide the search for life on Mars one day.
"There's a story always hidden in rocks," said geoscientist Clark Johnson, the lead investigator for the Wisconsin Astrobiology Research Consortium. "... It's up to (geologists) to be clever enough to find the tools that we need to interrogate those rocks to find what story they preserve."
The project is funded through NASA, which provided a $7 million, five-year grant that started in January. It was the group's second five-year, $7 million grant.
The consortium includes about 50 staff, students and post-doctoral fellows from 24 institutions in five countries. About 25 of the participants are at UW-Madison.
The consortium's goal is finding footprints of biological activity, or biosignatures, which are substances such as elements or isotopes that show evidence of ancient life. The scientists are looking for microscopic signs of life, including microbes, which are bacteria, and other tiny, one-celled organisms that are much more adaptable than more complex organisms.
The team is also sending microbes into Earth's orbit on the International Space Station to see how they react to radiation and a space environment.
In the process, they are learning more about Earth's history. They've found new details of microbial life that dates back 2 billion to 3 billion years, before the planet's atmosphere contained oxygen. They've found that microbes then relied more on iron than sunlight for energy.
Eventually their work will be used to interpret data beamed back from Mars by the six-wheel spacecraft Curiosity, which landed in August on a two-year mission to determine whether the environment was ever favorable for microbial life. Their work will also be used to prepare for future Mars missions.
"It may be that planets spent a long time in a microbial life condition and then only rarely evolved to advanced multicellular complex life," Johnson said. "That's one of the hypothesis we would test."
Edward Goolish, acting director at the NASA Astrobiology Institute, said the project supports one of NASA's major goals to find life or the potential for life elsewhere.
The project's results will provide a quantitative understanding of how life is preserved, he said.
"At the same time (Johnson's team is) contributing an immense amount to the understanding of life on Earth, which is equally important to astrobiology and science in general," he said.
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Crest Nicholson sets IPO price at 220 pence per share
LONDON (Reuters) - UK housebuilder Crest Nicholson
Crest said on Wednesday it would raise 224.9 million pounds from the offer, comprising of a primary component of 56 million pounds and 168.9 million pounds from the secondary share sales of certain existing shareholders including Varde Investment Partners and Deutsche Bank AG
Conditional dealings will begin on the London Stock Exchange at 0800 GMT on Wednesday.
The 50-year-old firm said it would return to the stock market on January 21, five years after it was taken over as a result of the market crash.
Crest, which was taken private by Scottish entrepreneur Tom Hunter and mortgage lender HBOS in May 2007, is now majority-owned by U.S. distressed investment fund Varde Partners after a series of deals last year.
The company narrowed its price range to between 210-220 pence per share on Tuesday from an original price range of 195-230 pence per share.
It also said that Barclays Capital Securities, as stabilising manager on behalf of the syndicate, had been granted an over-allotment option of just over 10 million ordinary shares, representing 10 percent of the ordinary shares in the offer.
(Reporting by Brenda Goh; editing by Kate Holton)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/crest-nicholson-sets-ipo-price-220-pence-per-074258022--sector.html
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