Canon announces Q3 2012 results: operating profit down 42 percent to $908 million

Canon just released its Q3 2012 earnings reported, and things aren't looking peachy right now for the camera maker: revenue is down 13 percent to $10.3 billion from last Q3 last year, while profit tumbled by 42 percent. The Japanese company directed the blame toward the "negative impact of economic deterioration" in Europe and emerging markets like China, as well as the strong yen (again). DSLR sales fell over last year, with Canon mentioning that its launch of new models like the EOS 5D Mark III didn't help to shore its camera figures up. Other units within the company didn't fare much better, with printer sales falling and business-to-business numbers flatlining. The company doesn't see a bright fourth quarter either, and is projecting that sales will stay in lockstep with the sluggish economy, resulting in a 6 percent decline in operating profit for the year. It may not want to count so much on the new mirrorless offering pulling it out of the mud, though -- it got fairly mixed reviews.

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NASA sees warming cloud tops indicating Tropical Storm Tony weakening

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In a tropical cyclone, strong uplift of air pushes the tops of thunderstorms high into the troposphere. When that strength wanes, the cloud tops drop and become less cold. That's because the higher you go in the troposphere, the colder it gets. NASA satellite infrared data has revealed that Tropical Storm Tony's cloud top temperatures are warming and the storm is weakening.

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured infrared imagery of Tropical Storm Tony on Oct. 24 at 12:17 p.m. EDT that showed the strongest thunderstorms east of the center of circulation, but cloud top temperatures are warming. Those thunderstorms are reaching high into the troposphere where cloud top temperatures are as cold as -63 Fahrenheit (-52 Celsius). The cloud pattern in Tony is also becoming less organized.

On Oct. 25, 2012 at 5 a.m. EDT Tropical Storm Tony had maximum sustained winds near 45 mph (75 kph). Tony was moving to the east-northeast near 23 mph (37 kph) and this general motion is expected to continue during the next couple of days. Tony's center is far from land, about 835 miles (1,345 km) southwest of the Azores Islands near 30.4 North latitude and 38.4 West longitude. Tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 105 miles (165 km) from the center.

According to the National Hurricane Center discussion of Tony, "the southwesterly winds have not substantially separated the surface circulation from the convective canopy, although a combination of the shear and cooler waters has weakened the deep convection."

The National Hurricane Center expects Tony to start losing tropical characteristics today and dissipate over the weekend of Oct. 27 and 28.

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In a tropical cyclone, strong uplift of air pushes the tops of thunderstorms high into the troposphere. When that strength wanes, the cloud tops drop and become less cold. That's because the higher you go in the troposphere, the colder it gets. NASA satellite infrared data has revealed that Tropical Storm Tony's cloud top temperatures are warming and the storm is weakening.

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured infrared imagery of Tropical Storm Tony on Oct. 24 at 12:17 p.m. EDT that showed the strongest thunderstorms east of the center of circulation, but cloud top temperatures are warming. Those thunderstorms are reaching high into the troposphere where cloud top temperatures are as cold as -63 Fahrenheit (-52 Celsius). The cloud pattern in Tony is also becoming less organized.

On Oct. 25, 2012 at 5 a.m. EDT Tropical Storm Tony had maximum sustained winds near 45 mph (75 kph). Tony was moving to the east-northeast near 23 mph (37 kph) and this general motion is expected to continue during the next couple of days. Tony's center is far from land, about 835 miles (1,345 km) southwest of the Azores Islands near 30.4 North latitude and 38.4 West longitude. Tropical storm force winds extend outward up to 105 miles (165 km) from the center.

According to the National Hurricane Center discussion of Tony, "the southwesterly winds have not substantially separated the surface circulation from the convective canopy, although a combination of the shear and cooler waters has weakened the deep convection."

The National Hurricane Center expects Tony to start losing tropical characteristics today and dissipate over the weekend of Oct. 27 and 28.

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Cheesecake Factory's earnings rise 32 percent

CALABASAS HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? The Cheesecake Factory reported a 32 percent rise in quarterly earnings Wednesday as more customers showed up to eat at its restaurants.

Net income for the third quarter was $27.2 million, or 49 cents per share. That's up from $20.6 million, or 36 cents a share, in the same period of 2011.

In a statement, Chairman and CEO David Overton credited the sales growth to a strong increase in customers and an effort to keep a lid on costs.

Quarterly revenue climbed to $453.8 million, up 5 percent from $430.4 million the year before.

Analysts had projected the company would report earnings of 49 cents per share on revenue of $458.1 million, according to FactSet.

The company said revenue at restaurants open for at least a year climbed 2.5 percent. That's considered a key measure of a chain's performance because it strips out results from locations recently opened or closed.

Comparable sales at Cheesecake Factory restaurants rose 2.9 percent from a year earlier. But for the Grand Lux Cafe chain they fell 2 percent.

In after-hours trading, shares in the company sank 21 cents to $32.97 following the release of the earnings report. During regular trading hours, they dropped 86 cents to $32.76.

The company, based in Calabasas Hills, Calif., operates 173 restaurants across the country under its various brands: The Cheesecake Factory, Grand Lux Cafe and one RockSugar Pan Asian Kitchen. In August, it opened a Cheesecake Factory in Dubai and plans to open more restaurants in the Middle East this year.

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Newer Pill has low blood clot risk: ob-gyn group

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A newer version of the Pill may carry a slightly higher blood clot risk than older formulations - but it's still a small risk, says the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

In new recommendations, the group says that women should be aware of the "possible minimally increased risk" of blood clots with birth control pills containing the hormone drospirenone.

Those include big-selling brands like Yaz, Yasmin, Beyaz and Safyral, along with their generic equivalents.

It has long been known that women on the Pill have a small, but higher-than-average risk of blood clots. And some recent studies have suggested that the risk is relatively higher with pills containing drospirenone.

But because of "study weaknesses," it's not certain whether that is the case, said Dr. Kavita Nanda, who helped draft the new ACOG recommendations.

And the absolute risk of blood clots with any birth control pill is small, ACOG says in a report in its journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.

For every 10,000 women using birth control pills over a year, there would be anywhere from three to nine cases of blood clots called venous thromboemboli. That compares with one to five cases for every 10,000 women who are not pregnant and not on the Pill.

With drospirenone-containing pills, some studies suggest there would be 10 cases per 10,000 women each year.

Venous thromboemboli usually form in the leg veins, but can travel to the lungs, where they cause a sometimes life-threatening condition called pulmonary embolism.

Drospirenone is a synthetic form of progesterone that's different from the versions used in older "generations" of the Pill. Yasmin, which arrived on the market about a decade ago, and its sister "Yaz" products have been promoted as causing less weight gain and swelling than older-generation pills.

"Drospirenone oral contraceptives may also have advantages for some women with acne or premenstrual dysphoric disorder," Nanda said in an email, referring to a severe form of PMS that causes physical symptoms and severe mood swings.

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Earlier, industry-funded studies of Yasmin, Yaz and related pills had found no elevated blood clot risk versus other Pill formulations. But several studies since 2009 have linked the newer contraceptives to relatively higher risks.

In a review of records from more than 800,000 U.S. women, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concluded that for every 10,000 women on drospirenone pills, there would be about 10 cases of blood clots over a year. That compared with six per 10,000 among women on older versions of the Pill.

Earlier this year, the FDA said it would add information on the possible risk to the products' labels.

According to ACOG, women should be aware of that information. But the choice of whether to use drospirenone pills, or any other form of birth control, should be up to women and their doctors, the group says.

Nanda said it's also important to remember that pregnancy carries a greater risk of blood clots than any birth control pill does.

For every 10,000 pregnant women, between five and 20 will develop a blood clot.

And the risk goes up in the few weeks after delivery - to between 40 and 65 cases per 10,000 women.

Nanda advised discussing all your birth control options with your provider.

"Oral contraceptives are but one method in a mix that includes several, including long-acting IUDs and implants," Nanda said.

In fact, IUDs (or intrauterine devices) and contraceptive implants are considered the most effective forms of reversible birth control. That's because the devices are put in place by your doctor and last for several years; they don't rely on a couple's ability to use them "perfectly," like birth control pills and condoms do.

As for blood clot risks, some women are at greater risk than others and may need to avoid any type of birth control pill. Smokers who are age 35 or older are among them.

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Vice President Biden said his boss "clearly" made up for his performance in the first presidential debate and the overnight polls seemed to agree, giving President Obama a win in last night's foreign policy debate agains t Mitt Romney.

"He clearly [has] made up for that but what Governor Romney showed today, and I felt a little badly because it's clear he is not, he is not ready to be the commander-in-chief of the United States military," the Vice President told me. "He demonstrated a lack of sophistication about what's going on in the world, his rapid change in his positions. Look being president requires a clear vision and a steady hand. That's exactly what president Obama demonstrated tonight."

Vice presidential contender Paul Ryan accused Obama of spending too much time "attacking Mitt Romney" and not enough time laying out his vision for the next four years.

"We really didn't actually get an agenda for how we should move our country forward on foreign policy," Ryan said. "We got sort of a defensive, you know, he tried to defend his record. It is a bad record. Turn on your TV and you can see that the Obama foreign policy is unraveling before us."

"What Mitt Romney said, 'here is how we can do a better job in Iran policy, here is what we should have done in all these other areas,'?and more importantly, I think [Romney] did a great job of articulating a vision for America's role in the world. Having a strong economy, a strong America at home, a strong military and being very resolute and certain in defense of our values overseas," Ryan told me.

It was an argument over the strength of the military that created the most buzz. Governor Romney said the Navy was the smallest since 1917 and Obama responded that "we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military's changed."

Top Romney adviser Stuart Stevens said Obama's statement was demeaning to our military and was not one of the president's best moments.

"Demeaning to the military for the president to say the truth that one aircraft carrier is probably more powerful than the entire United States Navy was back then?" Biden asked. "This is a different Navy, my Lord, George, the capacity, the firepower, our Navy is superior to every other Navy in the world combined"

One of the surprises last night was the foreign policy issues, including drones and Syria, where the two candidates seemed to agree.

"I didn't see anything that the governor disagreed on and he seemed to be desperately trying to demonstrate he agreed with the president's policies. It was sort of amazing," Biden said on "GMA."

"Well sure, on somethings we do agree," Ryan told me. "We agree on the decision to get Osama bin Laden. We agree on the 2014 transition with Afghanistan. We agree on the president's decision to carry forward the Bush administration drone strike policy?But where we do disagree is on the president's handling of Iran. We do disagree with his Russia policy. We do disagree with these devastating military cuts which make us look weaker."

That's what we saw from Mitt Romney in this debate. The kind of demeanor and the kind of temperament and the kind of leader we need," Ryan added.

-George Stephanopoulos

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Former Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain stopped by Fox & Friends? curvy couch on Wednesday morning, where he spoke about his disdain for what he sees as the liberal media?s propensity for ?playing the race card.?

In particular, Cain called out MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews, saying that he has claimed that criticizing Obama shows ?outright hatred? for the President.

?If we were a racist nation, Barack Obama would not have been elected,? said host Steve Doocy, with Cain agreeing.

Matthews has said that he believes the right ?hate[s] Obama? and that they ?want him out of the White House more than they want to destroy al Qaeda. Their No. 1 enemy in the world right now, on the right, is their hatred, hatred for Obama. And we can go into that about the white working class in the South and looking at these numbers we?re getting the last couple days about racial hatred in many cases ? this isn?t about being a better president, they want to get rid of this president.?

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Growth in Health Care Spending Will Force America to Become a Second-Rate Military Power

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Last night, at the final Presidential debate, President Obama and Mitt Romney discussed many topics of relevance to America?s place in the world. But there?s one I want to highlight: how our government?s determination to increase its spending on health care will necessarily require draconian cuts to our defense budget. Whether you think that military spending is a good or a bad thing, you should be aware of the math.

(DISCLOSURE: I am an outside adviser to the Romney campaign on health care issues. The opinions contained herein are mine alone, and do not necessarily correspond to those of the campaign.)

Moderator Bob Schieffer?who did an excellent job?asked a very important question, when he said: ?Governor, you say you want a bigger military. You want a bigger navy. You don?t want to cut defense spending. What I want to ask you?we were talking about financial problems in this country. Where are you going to get the money??

More health spending equals less defense spending

Here?s what you need to know about our rapidly deteriorating fiscal situation. It?s entirely driven by health care spending. In 1972, the federal government spent 6.7 percent of gross domestic product on defense, 1.1 percent on health care, and 1.3 percent on net interest payments.

In 2012, the federal government will spend 4.2 percent of GDP on defense, 5.4 percent on health care, and 1.4 percent on interest. By 2042 according to the Congressional Budget Office?s alternative scenario, we will spend 11.2 percent of GDP on health care and 11.8 percent on interest: 3.4 times what we spend on those two categories today.

There is simply no way that we can maintain our military presence around the world under such circumstances. I?ve posted a chart above that illustrates what the CBO projects for health care and interest spending under its alternative scenario.

CBO doesn?t publish its projections for defense spending past 2022, so I assumed that defense spending remains constant at 3.6 percent of GDP until 2042, when the CBO stops forecasting interest payments. After 2042, I assume that we default on our debt, and that defense spending decreases to compensate for increased health care spending, until it can go no lower.

These are generous assumptions on my part. What?s more likely is that defense spending will continue to decrease in the near term, in order to pay for more and more health care.

Reform of health-care entitlements is vital to national security

At last night?s debate, Romney made exactly the right point: that we need to rein in health-care spending in order to maintain some semblance of a functioning military. ?You look at how we get to a balanced budget within eight to 10 years,? said Romney. ?We do it by reducing spending in a whole series of programs. By the way, number one I get rid of is Obamacare. There are a number of things that sound good, but frankly, we just can?t afford them. And that one doesn?t sound good and it?s not affordable. So I?d get rid of that one from day one.?

Now, it?s important to point out that the CBO projects that Obamacare is deficit neutral, because its 1.9 trillion in new spending over the next ten years is balanced out by 1.2 trillion in new taxes and $716 billion in Medicare cuts. But CBO?s projections for the law have worsened over time. The principal reason for this is that health care spending grows at a faster rate than the economy. Tax revenue, on the other hand, is utterly dependent on economic growth. Hence, so long as health spending grows at a faster rate than the economy, tax revenue will never keep up.

This is why Romney has laid out a thoughtful approach to Medicare and Medicaid reform. ?Number two,? he said last night, ?we take some programs that we are doing to keep, like Medicaid, which is a program for the poor; we?ll take that healthcare program for the poor and we give it to the states to run because states run these programs more efficiently. As a governor, I thought please, give me this program. I can run this more efficiently than the federal government and states, by the way, are proving it.?

Obama explicitly favors more entitlement and less defense spending

The choice between our military and our health-care entitlements is not hypothetical. As Bob Woodward documents in his new book, The Price of Politics, the Obama administration explicitly decided to spare health-care entitlements, and gash defense spending, as a political strategy.

?[White House budget chief Jack] Lew, [Legislative Affairs director Rob] Nabors, [National Economic Council director Gene] Sperling and Bruce Reed, Biden?s chief of staff, had finally decided to propose [requiring] a sequester with half the cuts from Defense, and the other half from [non-entitlement] domestic programs,? writes Woodward. ?There would be no chance the Republicans would want to pull the trigger and allow the sequester to force massive cuts to defense.?

The debt-limit agreement that came out of these negotiations reflected Democratic spending priorities, because Republicans focused on holding the line on tax increases. The Budget Control Act?s sequestration process bars any changes to Medicaid spending, and narrowly channels Medicare spending reductions into the Democrats? favorite gimmick?more reimbursement cuts?instead of allowing for the kinds of structural changes that would make Medicare more efficient without harming seniors? benefits.

Defense hawks of both parties need to support entitlement reform

Not all Democrats favor less military spending. Last week, President Obama?s Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, was in Virginia warning that the Budget Control Act?s automatic defense cuts would devastate the U.S. military. He testified last year that, under these cuts, ?we would have to formulate a new security strategy that accepted substantial risk of not meeting our needs.?

It?s worth pointing out, too, that not all Republicans favor giving the military a blank check. There is significant waste in the defense budget, and it will be important for Republicans to be fastidious about trimming the fat so that important military priorities can be preserved.

But Republicans have at least proposed a solution to our fiscal conundrum. Democratic hawks, by contrast, have aided and abetted an irresponsible expansion of our government?s health care commitments. As John F. Kennedy, a great Democrat, once put it, ?to govern is to choose.?

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Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2012/10/23/growth-in-health-care-spending-will-force-america-to-become-a-second-rate-military-power/

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Resolution No. 11-2012 | Cherokee County Clerk

COUNTY RESOLUTION

RESOLUTION NO. 11-2012

A resolution expressing the property taxation policy of the Board of Cherokee County Commissioners with respect to financing the 2013 annual budget for;

Whereas, K.S.A 79-2925b provides that a resolution be adopted if property taxes levied to finance the 2013 Cherokee County budget exceed the amount levied to finance the 2012 Cherokee County budget, except with regard to revenue produced and attributable to the taxation of 1) new improvements to real property;
2) increased personal property valuation, other than increased valuation of oil and gal leaseholds and mobile homes; and 3) property which has changed in use during the past year, or with regard to revenue produced for the purpose of repaying the principal of and interest upon bonded indebtedness, temporary notes, or no-fund warrants; and

Whereas, budgeting, taxing and service level decisions for all county services are the responsibility of the board of county commissioners; and

Whereas, Cherokee County provides the essential services to protect the health, safety, and well being of the citizens of the county; and

Whereas, the cost of provision of these services continues to increase; and

Whereas, the 2012 Kansas State Legislature failed to fulfill its obligations in regard to the statutory funding of demand transfers and, by significantly limiting state revenue sharing payments to counties, has contributed to higher county property tax levies to finance the 2013 Cherokee County Budget.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Cherokee County Commissioners that is our desire to notify the public of the possibility of increased property taxes to finance the 2013 Cherokee County budget due to the above mentioned constraints, and that all persons are invited and encouraged to attend budget meeting conducted by the Board of Cherokee County Commissioners. ?The date and time of budget hearings with the Board of Cherokee County Commissioners will be published in the News Report (newspaper). ?Interested persons can also address questions concerning the budget to County Clerks (office) by calling 620-429-2042 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Fridays, excluding holidays.

Adopted this 22nd day of October, 2012 by the Board of Cherokee County Commissioners.

Signatures can be viewed in the PDF link below.

Source: http://cherokeecountyks.com/2012/10/22/resolution-no-11-2012/

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Q. We?re interested in taking advantage of the new incentive for Illinois employers to hire veterans. What are the details?

A. On July 9, 2012, Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation (S.B. 3241) that provides a tax credit to employers that hire veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The new law is an enhancement to the Hiring Veterans Tax Credit and amends the state income tax code. The law became effective immediately.

The new law permits a credit equal to 20% of the gross wages paid to a qualified veteran. The credit is capped at $5,000 per veteran hired. The earlier credit was limited to 10% of gross wages and had an annual cap of $1,200.

The credit applies to hires of Illinois residents who were honorably discharged, active-duty members of the armed forces, the Illinois National Guard or any reserve unit who served on active duty on or after Sept. 11, 2001.

The veteran?s employment must be sustained for at least 185 days. However, the law provides a shortened employment period of more than 30 days for veterans who were unemployed for six months or more in the year before being hired.

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Confusion in Libya over fate of former Gaddafi spokesman

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan militias captured Muammar Gaddafi's chief spokesman on Saturday, the government said, but an audio clip posted on Facebook purporting to be the voice of Moussa Ibrahim denied his capture.

There was no independent verification of the authenticity or timing of the Facebook post, dated October 20, a year to the day after the dictator's death.

A statement from the prime minister's office said Ibrahim, who was the mouthpiece of the Gaddafi regime during last year's war, was caught in the town of Tarhouna, 70 km (40 miles) south of Tripoli.

"He is being transferred to Tripoli to begin interrogation," the statement said.

The government has previously made false claims regarding the capture of Gaddafi loyalists, and produced no photographs on Saturday showing Ibrahim in detention.

His whereabouts have been unknown since the fall of the capital in August 2011. The government claimed to have caught him last October but he called Reuters to deny the report.

Libya's new rulers have led the nation to elections but have struggled to impose their authority on a country awash with weapons. Leader Mohammed Magarief said some areas of the country still needed to be fully "liberated".

In the Facebook clip, a voice sounding like Ibrahim's said: "I am addressing you a year after the martyrdom of the great leader and his free companions and the fall of the legitimate free nation of Libya under NATO's bombings and their criminal allies.

"About the news of my arrest ... and the spreading of this news in the media, this is just to divert attention from the crimes that are being committed by NATO allies."

The voice on the recording said Ibrahim, who held regular press conferences in the luxury Tripoli hotel were journalists stayed during last year's war, was no longer in Libya.

Former rebel fighters have maintained Gaddafi loyalists have used the town of Bani Walid, some 160 km (100 miles) south of Tripoli, as a safe haven, protected by the large Warfala tribe which has historically been loyal to Gaddafi's tribe.

LIBERATION

Speaking on television late on Friday about the insecurity still plaguing parts of Libya, national congress leader Magarief singled out Bani Walid which has seen deadly clashes in the last few days as the army struggles to impose order.

"The campaign to liberate the country has not been fully completed," Magarief said.

He cited "delays" in the formation of the army and police and the failure to disarm and integrate former rebels.

"This lack of care has led to the spread of chaos that has lured the old regime to infiltrate the country's institutions inside and to conspire with the regime loyalists on the outside," Magarief said.

"And the chaos has lured others to kidnappings, stealing, and to create non-legitimate prisons. What has happened in Bani Walid in the last few days falls under this...it has become a safe haven for a large number of those who are outside of the law."

Militias, aligned with the Defence Ministry, have shelled the hilltop town of 70,000 for several days. A spokesman for the Bani Walid militia Colonel Salem al-Wa'er said fighting continued again on Saturday.

The Libyan state news agency LANA said the number of deaths in the clashes reached 14, with 200 people injured.

GRIEVANCES

Many of the militia members are from the rival town of Misrata, which was enraged by the death of rebel fighter Omran Shaban after two months in detention in Bani Walid.

Shaban, from Misrata, was the man who found Gaddafi hiding in a drain pipe in Sirte on October 20, 2011.

Libya's congress ordered the Defence and Interior Ministries to find those responsible for abducting Shaban and suspected of torturing him to death. It gave Bani Walid a deadline to hand them over. The army chief of staff said on Thursday the army was heading to the town to try and restore order.

"This is not targeting a region, a tribe, or unarmed civilians but outlawed men," Magarief said.

Tensions between Misrata and Bani Walid underscore the challenge Libya's new rulers face in reconciling groups with long-running grievances.

While Misrata spent weeks under siege by Gaddafi forces in last year's war, Bani Walid was one of the towns that remained loyal to Gaddafi longest.

It remains isolated from the rest of Libya and former rebels say it still harbours pockets of support for the old government.

(Additional Reporting By Hadeel Al-Shalchi and Ghaith Shennib in Benghazi; Editing by Rosalind Russell)

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Congressman Jackson says he's 'starting to heal'

CHICAGO (AP) ? Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. spoke out about his treatment for depression for the first time since the start of his secretive, four-month leave of absence, releasing a robocall Saturday to his south Chicago constituents in which he asks for patience while he recovers.

The 47-year-old Illinois Democrat and son of civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson quietly went on leave in early June and hasn't appeared publicly since, despite seeking re-election for a ninth term in office. Jackson's office didn't publicly disclose he had gone on leave until two weeks into it, and it initially refused to specify the nature of his illness or even say where he was. It was later revealed he had been hospitalized for treatment of bipolar disorder and gastrointestinal problems, first at a facility in Arizona and later at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

He was released in September and returned to the family's home in Washington, but has yet to return to the campaign trail with barely two and a half weeks to go before Election Day.

"Like many human beings, a series of events came together in my life at the same time and they have been difficult to sort through," Jackson said in the automated phone call. "I am human. I am doing my best. I am trying to sort through them all."

Jackson thanked his supporters and said he is "starting to heal" but that his doctors tell him the road to recovery is a long one.

"I am anxious to return to work on your behalf, but at this time it is against medical advice, and while I will always give my all to my constituents, I ask for your continued patience as I work to get my health back," he said.

The timing of the leave also has raised questions, since it comes as Jackson is under a House Ethics Committee investigation for ties to Illinois' imprisoned former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

The committee is looking into allegations that Jackson was involved in discussions about raising money for Blagojevich's campaign in exchange for the then-governor appointing him to President Barack Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat. Blagojevich has been imprisoned since March on corruption charges, including having tried to sell the seat.

Jackson has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.

Jackson, who first won office in 1995, is on the November ballot with two little-known candidates. He's widely expected to win re-election.

Associated Press

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Google had a big day yesterday, for better and for worse. However, one of the most exciting stories to come out of yesterday was Google's unveiling of a brand new, $249 Samsung Chromebook. Samsung's new portable has a 11.6-inch screen, weighs only 2.5 pounds, and comes with 100GB of free Google Drive storage for 2 whole years. So, as we usually do, we wanted to give all of our readers a chance to win one!

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Meeting Christ in the Liturgy: Sunday 29B: "let us hold fast to our ...

Many families endure the phenomenon of the child or family member who seems to come around only at mealtime, or for laundry or other physical necessities. Some see their children come home unexpectedly after
college while facing unavailability of work.

This certainly satisfies need for physical sustenance and, although a limited opportunity for interrelationships, is ultimately not enough to satisfy the need for human flourishing.

Why? Because relationships are about love and love is about growth and growth is about not being satisfied with the minimum. Love is about more, not less. In other words, love is generous.

So sooner or later something has to give: eventually persons drift out of relationships because the minimalistic approach is tolerated until it becomes merely an inconvenience to be avoided or the truth is faced and steps are taken to address the dysfunction and matters begin to improve as persons become more generous with their time.

It is true that the Church is a family, the family of God, and the Sacrifice of the Mass is a "meal", though a sacrificial one, and the Mass is the one essential thing: Christ present in Word proclaimed and really, truly and substantially in the Sacrament of the Eucharist.

But it is not the only thing.

In the Gospel the Apostles make demands upon Jesus: "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you." Their relationship is tending toward the physical, the utilitarian, much like the family member, perhaps a son or daughter, whose actions tend to reduce the relationship with family members to the satisfaction of physical needs only.

Faith is about what God does for us. Faith begins with God's initiative take on our behalf in Jesus Christ who suffered, died and rose again. But it is also about what we do for God: "grace builds on nature". So God redirects our attention to the choices we make, to the way in which our lives are lived in preparation, in readiness for the grace we desire: ?Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all.?

Thus, if we desire to have Him moving in our lives we must take the first step so that grace can build on nature: we attend Mass weekly in obedience to the Commandments but more so that we may grow in our relationship.

Holy Mass, although the greatest and necessary gift, remains a kind of "minimum" if considered only in isolation, as the "one thing we have to do every week for our Faith".? Yes, it is in conformity with His command but always while at the same time seeking to grow in our capacity to please God in other ways.

More is needed.

Saint Francis de Sales counsels us: ""Every one of us needs half an hour of prayer each day, except when we are busy; then we need an hour."

1.Daily prayer.
2.Scripture reading / study of teachings (CCC)
3. Service of others in order to see and love Christ in them (family, co-workers, the other in distressing disguise)
4. Seeking more than the minimum: personal prayer through visits to the Blessed Sacrament, daily Mass, stations during Lent, special liturgies such as Corpus Christi procession and May devotions.
5.Regular confession, especially in case of mortal sin before receiving the Eucharist.

?? let us hold fast to our confession ? ? with Sunday Mass as the source of our spiritual life throughout the week and the summit toward which all our activities tend (Vatican II, Sacrosanctum Concilium)

?So let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and to find grace for timely help.?

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Don't believe hype with Steelers' 'D'

LeBeau's famed defense puts up great stats ? except when it matters most

ANALYSIS

By Scott Kacsmar

NBCSports.com contributor

updated 4:21 a.m. ET Oct. 19, 2012

Facing an important game in Cincinnati on Sunday night, the Pittsburgh Steelers (2-3) have lost a fourth-quarter lead in four of their five games this season. It?s one thing to be victimized by a Peyton Manning comeback, but they have lost on last-second field goals in Oakland and Tennessee; two teams who are a combined 1-8.

Many will point to legendary defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau not having all of his starters healthy due to a rash of injuries. In a given week that could have meant Troy Polamalu, James Harrison, LaMarr Woodley, or Ryan Clark.

Cornerback Ike Taylor, healthy but struggling mightily, lashed out at local media for criticizing this year?s defense. Taylor says to look at the facts, and ?if you want to go by numbers, we're not doing as bad as what they say we're doing."

Well as a compiler of football statistics and a Pittsburgh native who has experienced every single high and low, here's the truth:

The Steelers' defense is vastly overrated, just like much of LeBeau?s coaching career has been.

Known as the father of the zone blitz, which creates illusions of pressure, LeBeau has also created an illusion that his long career is full of defensive coaching success. That's not the case.

Defense does not excel when it matters most
Blasphemy, you say? Well, LeBeau would have quickly been ?Juan Castillo?d? out of a job in today?s game. In his first attempt as a defensive coordinator with the Cincinnati Bengals (1984-1991), the Bengals? average rank in defensive points allowed was 20.3 (there were only 28 teams then). Just once did they rank higher than 17 (No. 9 in 1989), and they were dead last in points and yards in his final season.

Lebeau?s second stint in Cincinnati (1997-2002) was even more disastrous, and after being promoted to head coach, he was just 12-33 (.267) before being fired. He did spend one quality year as an assistant head coach in Buffalo (2003), and had a good initial run on a Pittsburgh defense loaded with talent (1992-1996).

The most sustained coaching success LeBeau has had started when he returned to the Steelers in 2004. Since then Pittsburgh has gone 101-46 (.687) with two Super Bowl wins.

But two more important events happened in Pittsburgh in 2004: the drafting of franchise quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and Troy Polamalu moving into the starting lineup. Each player has been the team MVP on their side of the ball.

Since 2007, no defense has allowed fewer points or yards than the Steelers, ranking No. 1 in the league in fewest points allowed three times (No. 2 in 2007).

That sounds nice, but you have to ask yourself what you want from a defense.

Should it shut down the Cleveland Browns and their annually different quarterback twice a year, or do you want a defense that will show up against the best competition too? Do you want a defense that can finish the job, or a defense that?s going to fall apart in the clutch?

You can have all the top-ranked statistical defenses you want. If you cannot make a play to win a game or perform anywhere close to your usual level against the best of the best, then the only reality is your defense is overrated.

Stating the facts
Since 2007, Pittsburgh?s defense has allowed 20 game-winning drives in the fourth quarter or overtime, which is tied with Green Bay for the league's second most.

Most game-winning drives allowed (2007-2012) Rank Team Game-winning drives 1 Washington Redskins 24 2T Pittsburgh Steelers 20 2T Green Bay Packers 20 4 Kansas City Chiefs 19 5T Baltimore Ravens 18 5T Miami Dolphins 18 32 New York Giants 9 (Note: fewest in NFL)

Twenty is too high for a defense that allows the league's fewest points and yards, but none of that has mattered when it comes to crunch time.

Since 2007, the Steelers? defense has faced a total of 125 drives in the fourth quarter and overtime when tied or leading by 1-8 points. They have allowed 22 touchdowns and 25 field goals (231 points). It works out to 1.85 points per drive, which would have ranked 21st in the league in 2011, a below-average defense. Fifteen of the touchdown drives have been at least 70 yards in length, and nine were more than 80 yards.

Pittsburgh has allowed 20 game-winning drives, 12 game-tying drives, and 10 go-ahead drives which came during games where the offense would regain the lead for a win. They also allowed five field goals when leading by 5-7 points. That means 78 ?stops?, though some of those drives were in the final seconds when the opponent had no realistic opportunity.

The scariest parts are the context for how some of these drives happened, and to think how big that number would be if the offense did not bail out the defense. Even Curtis Painter led an 80-yard game-tying touchdown drive last season in Indianapolis against LeBeau?s defense before a Roethlisberger game-winning drive.

If the Redskins had better quarterback play, they would have been able to turn more of those 24 losses into wins. Since 2007, Washington quarterbacks have 12 game-winning drives. The Steelers have 17, with Ben Roethlisberger engineering 16 of them.

But even Roethlisberger cannot answer if he does not have enough time left.

The average game-winning drive (in regulation) allowed by the Steelers has come with 3:04 left in the fourth quarter, which is the fifth-smallest amount of time for any team. The less time, the harder it is to answer. The Patriots have the worst average time to answer (just 1:25 left). The Jets have had 7:01 left (the most time), so shame on their offense.

This table looks at how much time was left in the game when the Steelers allowed the points on their late game-winning drives. In parenthesis is the league rank for that category, and the Steelers rank as the worst in everything except for overtime drives, where they are only one behind Green Bay and Miami.

Steelers' game-winning drives allowed (2007-2012) Last 2:00 Last 1:00 Last 0:40 Last 0:15 OT Drives Last 0:40 + OT 10 (1st) 9 (1st) 9 (1st) 7 (1st) 4 (T-3rd) 13 (1st)

Not only is allowing 10 game-winning drives in the final two minutes the worst in the league, but the Steelers have somehow surrendered the game-losing points a league-worst nine times in the last 40 seconds of the game (no other team has more than six). Maybe the only thing worse than that are the seven times in which they have allowed the winning points in the final 0:15.

You just leave your offense no real time to answer in that situation, and nearly half the losses have happened that way.

The context behind some of the losses is both jarring and alarming, and things only seem to be getting worse.

• 12/6/2009: Oakland?s Bruce Gradkowski became the first QB in NFL history to throw three go-ahead touchdown passes in the fourth quarter, upsetting Pittsburgh 27-24. The third completed an 88-yard drive with 0:09 left.
• 2011 AFC Wild Card: In the first game under new overtime rules, Tim Tebow threw an 80-yard game-winning touchdown pass to Demaryius Thomas on the first play. It is the longest game-winning touchdown pass in NFL postseason history.
• The second largest blown fourth-quarter lead in a Super Bowl belongs to Dick LeBeau?s 2008 Steelers (13 points vs. Arizona). Kurt Warner passed for 224 yards in the fourth quarter alone.
• Since 2009, the Steelers have allowed four game-winning touchdowns in the last 0:32 of the fourth quarter. From 1990-2008, the Steelers had allowed only two game-winning touchdowns in the last 60 seconds of the fourth quarter (both vs. Cincinnati).
• Since October 2011, the Steelers have allowed four game-winning touchdown drives of 80 or more yards. That matches the total they allowed from 1990-2010 (21 seasons).
• 9/23/2012: Oakland had lost 48 consecutive games when trailing by at least 10 points to start the fourth quarter. They overcame a 31-21 deficit for a 34-31 win in Week 3.
• In Roethlisberger?s 21 fourth-quarter comeback wins, the Steelers have led after three quarters just as often as they trailed (10 times each plus one tie).

What has caused so many of these losses? Sure, there has been some bad luck. Keenan Lewis dropped an interception in Tennessee last week that may have turned the game. Joe Burnettt dropped a game-ending interception in that 2009 Oakland game. The league admitted to missing a holding call on Jacksonville?s big 4th-and-2 run by David Garrard in the 2007 AFC Wild Card game.

But it works both ways, and for other teams too. In 2010, Buffalo?s Stevie Johnson dropped the game-winning touchdown in overtime. He was wide open, so LeBeau barely escaped that loss. He was not so lucky last season when Torrey Smith caught the game-winning touchdown with 0:08 left after dropping one, capping off Joe Flacco?s 92-yard drive to take control of the AFC North.

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Don't believe hype with Steelers' 'D'

Kacsmar: Known as the father of the zone blitz, which creates illusions of pressure, Dick LeBeau has also created an illusion that his long career is full of defensive coaching success. That's not the case.

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