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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) ? Matt Prater kicked a 28-yard field goal as time expired and Peyton Manning and Denver overcame the first 500-yard passing game in Dallas history to keep the Broncos unbeaten with a 51-48 victory over the Cowboys on Sunday.
Manning maintained his record pace of touchdown passes to start the season and finished with 414 yards and four scores for Denver (5-0).
Tony Romo threw for 506 yards and five touchdowns for Dallas (2-3), but he was intercepted by Danny Trevanthan inside the Dallas 30 to set up Prater's winning kick.
The teams combined for 1,039 yards of total offense in the second-highest scoring game in regulation since the NFL-AFL merger in 1970, according to STATS.
Cincinnati and Cleveland combined for 106 points in the Browns' 58-48 win in 2004.
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Elaine Davidson is the ?Most Pierced Woman? according to the Guinness World Records.
When examined by a Guinness World Record official in May 2000, Davidson had 462 piercings, with 192 in her face alone. By August 9, 2001 when she was re-examined she was found to have 720 piercings. Performing at the Edinburgh Festival in 2005, the Guardian reported that she now had 3,950 body piercings. She has more piercings in her private partia than in any other part of the body ? 500 in all, externally and internally as seen above.The total weight of her internal piercings is estimated to be about 3 kilograms.
Now 42, Elaine was born in Brazil and is a former nurse. She does not drink or use drugs. She now resides in Edinburgh, Scotland with her husband Douglas Watson- a man with no piercings, whom she got married to on June 8, 2011. The couple continues to reside in Edinburgh where she runs an aromatherapy shop.
Today, Elaine, has over 7,000 piercings in total all over her? body.
Crazy, weird or both? How does she manage to bathe or even sleep? To further accentuate her already weird looking piercings, Elaine adorns her self with outlandish wigs and outfits, and paints her face in brazen colors.
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I must start this review with a disclaimer: I was never really in favor of the idea behind Foursquare: You check in to a location to boast to the world about what restaurant you're eating at, and if you eat there enough, you get to be the faux "mayor" of that place. The app and service will also present coupons, a la Groupon, based on your movements. In a shot at the wonderful Yelp, Foursquare's promo text reads, "Don't waste time reading long reviews from strangers. Wherever you are in the world, open up Foursquare to see where your friends like to go." Not much help when none of your friends have been to Dubrovnik (which, by the way, is awesome!).
Another issue I have with Foursquare is that I don't necessarily want strangers to know my location, and why do I need another app when Facebook lets me check in for my friends to see?not the whole world. I also find it annoying when scanning my Facebook news feed and there's a Foursquare entry that requires opening another app just to see the details. Yelp now, too, lets you check in, and I find its food and local business features more helpful. Putting aside all my reservations, though, Foursquare has managed to put together a good-looking, full-functioning Windows Phone app.
I found Foursquare for Windows Phone on the Windows Store and installed the free app on a spiffy Nokia Lumia 928. Setting up such a place-oriented app of course requires allowing it access to your location at installation. The easiest way to sign up for or sign in to Foursquare is with Facebook, but I had trouble doing this in the Windows Phone app. I saw a white screen that said Success, but with a security warning. I reset my password from the Foursquare website, and was up and Foursquaring in no time.
Interface
The app shows a sliver of a local map across the top, then options for Explore, Activity, and Profile. Below this are tile buttons for Specials, Best Nearby, Saved, and More? The last expands to a dizzying number of categories, like Trending, Arts, What's next? and Top Picks. For a joke, I chose Outdoors, here in midtown concrete jungle. It told me that two people were at the Empire State Building, and that that is popular with out-of-towners. First, on a beautiful day like this, I can swear that there are more than two humans up there, and second, is there anyone in the country who doesn't know that the Empire State Building is popular with out-of-towners? Digging into the "Tips" revealed that the spot has a "great view." Really? This is some real inside info, let me tell you.
A list of nearby bars, restaurants, and cafes occupied the center of the app's interface. There were three entries for the Gansevoort hotel. Everything was listed in yards away from me, but the order of entries wasn't by distance, with some closer places coming later. Perhaps they were the most frequently checked-into places around me, but simple proximity would have been best.
"Specials" are one of Foursquare's main draws. I found things like 10 percent off a meal if you check in with three friends, a free drink at a sandwich place for first-time check-iners, and a free drink if you buy 15 dollars' worth of food. I've never been too big on these coupon deals, since often they make you spend more money than you intended to in the first place or make you go somewhere you wouldn't have otherwise. But there are plenty of folks who get off on this sort of thing.
One cool feature on the Foursquare Windows Phone app was Tap + Send. When I first saw this, I wasn't really sure what I was sending; it turned out to be for contacts or establishments, and it also turns out to be a Windows Phone exclusive feature! So not only is Foursquare one of the minority of Windows Phone apps that doesn't suffer in comparison with its iOS and Android counterpoints, but actually offers something over them.
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Microsoft has already announced it plans to release a new Xbox SmartGlass app for people who get the upcoming Xbox One console. This week, Microsoft revealed some more information on how specific games will be able to access the app to add more features to their titles.
In a post on the Xbox Wire blog, Microsoft showed how Capcom's open world zombie action game Dead Rising 3 will use the Xbox SmartGlass app to act as a smartphone in the game itself. The player will receive calls and text messages from characters in the game that will take them on special missions that will be exclusive to SmartGlass users. It also offers a mission tracker, a news ticker, a real time map, and ways for the device to call in drone gun support or even air strikes against the zombie horde.
Microsoft's own game creation tool Project Spark will use Xbox SmartGlass as a direct mirror to the Xbox One version. The blog states:
It delivers the full power and visual fidelity of Xbox One with the additional benefit of the Windows 8 touch interface and a virtual keyboard on the device connected via SmartGlass. This means that you can play, create, and share on SmartGlass devices.The Xbox One version of Ubisoft's dancing game Just Dance 2014 will use the Xbox SmartGlass app to set up playlists for the game, along with the new PartyMaster mode. This will give one player a way to choose the next dance move in the game or even to switch the songs that are being played.
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- Matt Hardy and Reby Sky got married yesterday in North Carolina with a number of wrestling stars in attendance. Here are a few photos from the ceremony:
- It's worth noting that Chris Benoit appears in two different matches on the RAW 20th Anniversary box set - a six-man tag match from the October 3rd, 2005 RAW Homecoming special and another six-man match from the March 26th, 2001 RAW and Nitro simulcast.
- Former WCW star La Parka was traveling with Cibernetico, El Texano Jr. and Pimpinela Escarlata in a charter bus to Ciudad Juarez on September 29th when they were the victims of armed robbery. Men stopped the bus, came on board with guns and threatened to kill the wrestlers unless they gave up their wallets and mobile devices. They got what they wanted, left and the four wrestlers worked a show later that afternoon.
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TALLAHASSEEE ? Would you give your boss access to your Facebook account? What about Twitter? Or Instagram?
With more and more people using social media, it's increasingly common practice for employers to check out employees' and job applicants' public pages. But now, some are going beyond that to seek user names and passwords, so they can see everything a person has posted to a site.
And for many people, that's a problem.
"Once you have a password, there's no limit to what you can look for, whether it's private messages, posts, photos, any of those kinds of things," said Sen. Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth.
Clemens is sponsoring legislation that would ban any employer in Florida, including the government, from asking a current or prospective employee for that information. The measure would also ban retaliation if the employee refuses, and the company could not decide not to hire someone for that reason.
If passed, employers could be sued for damages for violating the ban.
Clemens said employers have no reason to ask for that information. They can run a background check without having control over a personal account, he said.
It also puts job applicants in an odd spot.
"It places that perspective employee in making a decision right then and there if they want the job," he said. "And if they want the job, how far are they willing to go in giving up their own freedom to get it?"
Florida isn't the only state looking at the issue.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 16 states in the last two years have enacted similar legislation. Another eight have passed laws banning the practice at academic institutions.
The issue got some national attention in 2010, when the Maryland chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union pursued a complaint by a Maryland man who was asked for his social media passwords by the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. After ACLU went public, Maryland became the first state to pass a law prohibiting employers for asking for social media passwords.
But employee staffing firms say that asking someone for that information is not the norm.
"It doesn't seem like it's something that's happening as a widespread sort of trend," said Sabrina Balmick, a spokeswoman for ACA Talent, a Fort Lauderdale executive search firm that works across North America.
Balmick said most companies are very conscious of what information they can and cannot ask from job applicants. Personal information like age, medical history or a pregnancy are all off the table, by federal law. But that information might be easily found if an employer had access to a person's individual account and could go through private messages.
Generally, she said, many companies do check public accounts. "So if it's something you would be embarrassed by or wouldn't want your grandma to see, you shouldn't put it on there," Balmick said.
Clemens said he had not heard of any Florida cases but that his office has gotten a few phone calls in the past few weeks concerning the issue.
"I think it's a chance to stamp out something before it becomes a bigger problem," he said.
According to the NCSL, the business community has pushed back against the changes in other states, arguing that monitoring personal accounts is necessary to ensure employees haven't ? intentionally or not ? made public proprietary information or trade secrets.
Many companies keep an eye on their employees' public accounts to make sure they aren't bashing their bosses or posting anything ? often pictures -- that would be embarrassing to the employee and by extension the company.
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By Caren Bohan and Andy Sullivan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican House Speaker John Boehner vowed on Sunday not to raise the U.S. debt ceiling without a "serious conversation" about what is driving the debt, while Democrats said it was irresponsible and reckless to raise the possibility of a U.S. default.
"The nation's credit is at risk because of the administration's refusal to sit down and have a conversation," Boehner told ABC's "This Week," adding that there were not enough votes in the House of Representatives to pass a "clean" debt limit bill, without any conditions attached.
Asked if that meant the United States was headed towards a default if President Barack Obama does not negotiate, Boehner said: "That's the path we're on."
The comments appeared to mark a hardening since late last week when Boehner was reported to have told Republicans privately that he would work to avoid default, even if it meant relying on the votes of Democrats, as he did in August 2011.
Republicans and Democrats also traded blame for a shutdown that has brought much of the government to a standstill for nearly a week. With no end in sight, the battle over funding the government looks like it will merge with the one over the debt ceiling, which must be raised by October 17 to avoid default.
Republicans are seeking concessions in exchange for raising the nation's $16.7 trillion debt limit. If the borrowing cap is not increased, the United States could go into default, with what officials and economists say would be seriously damaging consequences for the U.S. and global economies.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warned of serious consequences "if we were to have the unthinkable happen, to have the United States default."
"It is irresponsible and it is reckless to take that chance, which is why Congress needs to act," he told Fox News.
Pressed on Obama's vow not to negotiate over the debt limit, Lew said: "The president has always been looking for a way to negotiate, to find that reasonable middle ground, with a bipartisan group of members and senators to do the right thing for the American people ... He put out a budget that actually took an enormous step to do that. So the president is open to negotiation. The question about the debt limit is different."
Senator Ted Cruz, who has been the standard-bearer for Republican opposition to funding the government without measures to undercut Obama's landmark 2010 healthcare reform, also known as Obamacare, told CNN that Congress frequently in the past had attached curbs on spending to votes to raise the debt ceiling.
On this occasion, he said, Republicans were looking for three things before raising the debt ceiling: a significant structural plan to reduce government spending, no new taxes, and measures to "mitigate the harm from Obamacare."
Democrats vow not to negotiate on the funding bill or the debt ceiling, arguing that it is the job of Congress to pay its bills.
MARKETS WARY
Concerns that the shutdown could trim economic growth coupled with nervousness over a potential debt ceiling crisis later this month have weighed on stocks and pushed the U.S. dollar close to an eight-month low.
While selling has been orderly so far, investors expect volatility to rise as the shutdown continues and the debt ceiling deadline nears.
Democratic Senator Charles Schumer told ABC's "This Week" he did not believe Boehner would let the nation go into default, as it would lead to chaos on financial markets, freeze lines of credit and cause a jump in interest rates.
"I believe Speaker Boehner will not do that when push comes to shove," Schumer said, adding that Boehner and Republicans would be forced "sooner or later" to stand up to the "hard right" in their party and give in. "They will have to back off."
Obama and the Democrats say bills to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling could be resolved quickly if Boehner permitted votes on simple, no-strings-attached measures in the Republican-controlled House.
Asked about reports that around 20 House Republicans have said they would join some 200 Democrats in voting for such a bill - enough to pass it - Boehner told ABC that there were not enough votes in the chamber to pass such a bill.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said via Twitter that Boehner should prove he does not have the votes for a clean bill, known as a "continuing resolution," or CR, by putting a bill on the House floor. "The Speaker says there are 'not enough votes' to pass a clean CR? If he's right, why not prove it?" Carney said in a tweet.
Republicans have demanded that Democrats agree to delay implementation of Obamacare as part of any spending bill.
The law aims to provide health insurance to millions of Americans without coverage. Republicans argue it is a massive government intrusion into private medicine that will cause insurance premiums to skyrocket, put people out of work and eventually lead to socialized medicine.
The shutdown started on Tuesday and initially idled as many as 800,000 federal workers, shuttering all but essential government operations.
The Pentagon said on Saturday it would recall the vast majority of some 350,000 civilian Defense Department employees sent home during the shutdown. The announcement came as Democrats and Republicans in the House agreed to pay all furloughed employees retroactively once the government reopens.
NO MAGIC SOLUTION
In an interview with CNN, Lew repeatedly declined to say what would happen if Congress failed to raise the debt ceiling.
Some Republicans have argued that the U.S. government would be able to continue to service its debt even if it did not have enough money to pay all of its bills. Lew declined to say whether that would be the case, but he argued that it would be just as bad if it missed other obligations like Social Security pension payments or Medicare payments to hospitals and doctors.
"There is no option that prevents us from being in default if we don't pay our bills," he told CNN's "State of the Union."
Lew said the Obama administration has determined that legally it does not have the authority to raise the debt ceiling on its own, as some Democratic lawmakers have suggested.
"There's a desire here for there to be some kind of a magic solution. There's an easy solution: a majority in Congress would do the right thing if given a chance to open the government. A majority in Congress would do the right thing if given a chance to let us pay our bills."
While most House Republicans have remained firmly opposed to reopening the government without some changes to Obamacare, Republicans in Democratic-leaning states, particularly in the Northeast, have been trying to build support for a revolt against that stance.
In an opinion piece on Sunday on local news website Philly.com, seven Republican House members from northeastern districts called for a measure to reopen the government without conditions.
"The fight to stop Obamacare cannot continue with the government shut down. That's why we support a short-term, clean funding bill to turn those lights back on," wrote the group, which included Representatives Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania and Frank LoBiondo of New Jersey.
The lawmakers also said they were talking with some Democrats on a possible compromise plan that would involve reopening the government for six months while repealing the medical device tax, a provision of Obamacare that is unpopular with Republicans and some Democrats.
(Reporting by Tabassum Zakaria, Bill Trott, Paul Simao, Jeff Mason, Tom Ferraro, Richard Cowan, Phil Stewart; Writing by Claudia Parsons; Editing by Paul Simao)
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It is quite easy to get frustrated as you try to consider all of your options for auto insurance. You can start learning about insurance by reading the following article.
Make sure you keep your license is clean. If you cannot avoid an accident or a driving citation, try lowering your rates and cleaning your record through traffic school.
Think about what type of insurance coverage is needed. There are many options available, and they may be confusing. If you are prone to accidents, it may be worthwhile to pay for collision coverage.
Think twice about buying after-market add-ons for your vehicle that you might not need them.
Insurance rates vary from place to place based on the chances of an accident or theft, and suburbs and rural areas are generally cheaper than cities.
Having sufficient insurance can save a person quite a bit of cash if they get into some kind of accident.
Consider removing some coverage from your insurance policy that you no longer need. For example, if your car is an old model or simply not worth much, you do not really need to pay extra for this item. You can save a considerable amount of money by eliminating unnecessary coverage. Comprehensive and liability are some other things you can look into removing or raising deductibles for.
You do not want to be stuck without auto insurance, since accidents can and do happen at any time.
These are just a few of the many ways that you can understand more about choosing auto insurance. The more time you invest in learning about car insurance, the less confused you will be when it comes time to purchase a policy. You are going to be in a much better position to make good decisions when you have a good background knowledge.
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India's Leander Paes and Canada's Daniel Nestor have lost to Andreas Seppi and Fabio Fognini of Italy 3-6, 7-5, 10-8 in their semi-final of the ATP China Open tournament in Beijing.
The Italian pair eventually beat the Indo-Canadian pair in the match tiebreak and even saved a few match points in the second set.
The first set was completed in 30 minutes, while the second took 39 minutes to complete and the match tiebreak was negotiated in 13 minutes.
The China Open is an ATP 500 event and will be followed by the Shanghai Rolex Masters.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The world is watching Washington's showdown over the federal budget and debt ceiling with the same feelings of horror, disbelief and ghoulish fascination that a slow-motion car crash produces.
The Republican-led House of Representatives is on a collision course with the Democratic White House. Both sides know the damage that would be inflicted on the country if the Treasury runs out of money later this month, risking an unprecedented debt default.
So one of them is sure to blink and swerve away. Aren't they?
Well, they haven't yet. Hard-line Republicans opposed to Obama's healthcare reform have already forced a shutdown of non-essential government functions since October 1 by blocking new spending authority.
"They're doing that, I would say, at the great expense of the average American, the U.S. economy and, to some degree, the global economy," said Jason Ware, chief analyst at Albion Financial Group in Salt Lake City.
After media reports that House Speaker John Boehner would work to avoid default, even if it meant relying on the votes of Democrats, as he did in August 2011, Boehner stressed that his party would continue to insist on budget cuts as a condition of raising the borrowing authority.
For the issuer of the world's reserve currency, whose interest rates form a global benchmark, to default would be nothing short of catastrophic, according to the U.S. Treasury.
That is why investors, though they have been selling stocks as a precaution, still believe a deal will be struck.
"You can come back from a government shutdown. You cannot come back from a default on the debt," said Ware.
ROSTER OF SHAME
The standoff is already damaging America's standing - a point that U.S. policy makers can expect to hear this week from finance ministers attending meetings in Washington of the Group of 20 leading economies and the International Monetary Fund.
"In view of the latest political failure, a replay of the 2011 summer drama seems likely, which is certainly a concern for U.S. foreign creditors," China's state-owned Xinhua news agency said in an editorial last week.
The United States would join non-exalted company if the unthinkable were to happen.
Angola, Argentina, Cote d'Ivoire, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Gabon, Greece, Grenada, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Paraguay, the Solomon Islands, Venezuela and Zimbabwe have all defaulted or restructured their debt in the past decade, according to the GlobalWorks Foundation, a pro-trade non-profit group in Washington.
If there is a silver lining to the fiscal fiasco, it is that the Federal Reserve could see fit to wait even longer before reducing its bond buying from $85 billion a month.
"They may delay this farther if the impact of the shutdown on the economy is greater than expected," said Petr Zemcik, director of European economics at Moody's Analytics in London.
FED MINUTES, EARNINGS SEASON
The Fed cited fiscal uncertainty among the reasons for its surprise decision last month not to start withdrawing its extraordinary monetary stimulus.
The minutes of the central bank's September 17/18 meeting will be released on Wednesday and will cast new light on the central bank's thinking.
"Even if we resolve this, there'll be a dent to economic activity and confidence that will give them ample latitude to say we won't taper in December," Albion Financial Group's Ware said.
Bricklin Dwyer at BNP Paribas in New York reckons a two-week shutdown could reduce annualized GDP growth by as much as 0.3 or 0.5 percentage points. Markets so far have been complacent about the impact, he said in a note.
The global economy is at least in better shape to withstand U.S. turbulence than it was earlier this year.
In a quiet week for data, Germany, France and Italy are all likely to report a rebound in August industrial production. That would reinforce expectations that the euro zone logged a second consecutive quarter of growth in the July through September period.
One of the ironies of the shutdown is that the Fed has no government data for now to help it judge the economy's path.
This puts a premium on other sources. Chief among them this week will be the University of Michigan consumer sentiment index for October, which economists expect to show a dip.
The third-quarter U.S. corporate earnings season also gets under way. Forecasts have come down sharply in recent weeks with profit growth now expected at just 4.5 percent, according to Thomson Reuters data.
(Editing by David Holmes)
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Social Media Marketing Advice For Businesses
Encourage customers to visit your company profile by hosting sweepstakes or interesting contests. For a prize, you can choose some of your company?s products that you?d like to push. Not only will you be rewarding customer loyalty, but it?s also a good chance to further market yourself.
YouTube is a great way to target a large audience through social media marketing. YouTube is effective in drawing in newer visitors, since watching your video content should familiarize them with your products and services. If your visitors already know something about your product line before browsing your website, they?re more likely to buy something.
Take advantage of a free account with Yahoo Answers to promote your product or services. This online community provides users with a forum to ask questions on any topic that can be answered by other users. Find questions in the shopping section that could relate to your products or services and make mention of your business. However, Yahoo does not allow this kind of advertising outside of specific categories, so familiarize yourself with their guidelines. By consistently providing informative answers that help users, you will quickly earn the reputation of an expert.
Enjoy seeing your traffic while plotting your moves. The results you get in on one day should not determine the success of your campaign. It is, however, important that you?re able to see a trend in traffic and realize when it?s time to move to your next option.
Do not attempt to use a stand-in for your presence on social media sites. This is particularly important for a small business or home business owner. Auto-responders are very obvious and often will give you a bad reputation online. Most auto-responders reply with generic, vapid messages that most followers perceive as unwanted spam.
Come up with something free to offer in an Internet contest or competition, and then get the word out about it through all your social media. People love getting something for free and will quickly sign-up, follow or friend you to get a shot at winning. When you have a winner, post this information so people will see that your contest was legitimate, to further build your credibility and brand name.
You should make it easy for your readers to subscribe so that they could receive information via email. You might think that something like email marketing is outdated, but it?s actually still in play. It can be a vital part of your overall social media marketing campaign.
Do what makes you feel comfortable when it comes to social media. Gain an advantage over the competition by presenting yourself in a unique and individual manner. If you stick to the information included in the above article, and have something that people want, soon you will see your social marketing efforts pay off. You can gain a hold for your company that is truly world wide when you use the power of social media.
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FOX Sports International is vanaf 8 oktober bij CanalDigitaal alleen met een door deze tv-aanbieder gecertificeerde HD-satellietontvanger of gecertificeerde CI+ module te bekijken. De CI+ module is hardware en werkt in normale CI-ontvangers. Dat heeft eigenaar M7 Group S.A aan Totaal TV bevestigd.
Dit is het gevolg van aangescherpte beveiligingseisen die betaalzender FOX Sports en de Premier League aan de doorgifte van de FOX Sports International-kanalen stelt. Ook andere tv-aanbieders in Nederland dienen de beveiligingseisen van de codering aan de voorwaarden van FOX Sports op te schalen. De eis van een verplichte gecertificeerde HD-satellietontvanger moet voorkomen dan het premium-abonnement van FOX Sports International doormiddel van het delen van de smartcard via internet ? ook wel cardsharing genoemd ? gaat plaatsvinden.
De Premier League stelt sinds het begin van dit voetbalseizoen hogere beveiligingseisen om de miljarden euro?s die met de uitzendrechten worden verdiend ook voor de toekomst veilig te stellen. Het onbetaald bekijken via het delen van abonnementen is meer contentaanbieders al langere tijd een doorn in het oog. Twee maanden geleden moest Ziggo de doorgifte van een Turkse voetbalzender ? die ook Premier League-voetbalwedstrijden live uitzendt ? staken omdat men niet aan de aangescherpte beveiligingseisen van de betaalzender kon voldoen.
Omdat FOX Sports International ook deel uitmaakt van het FOX Sports Combi-pakket is vanaf 8 oktober ook dit gecombineerde abonnement van de betaalzenders FOX Sports Eredivisie en FOX Sports International bij CanalDigitaal alleen met een gecertificeerde ontvanger te gebruiken. Dat houdt niet in dat de twee FOX Sports Eredivisie-kanalen ook alleen met een gecertificeerde ontvanger of een zelf gekozen satellietontvanger met verplicht gebruik van de nieuwe CI+ module van CanalDigitaal te bekijken zijn. Bestaande en nieuwe abonnees van het premium-abonnement FOX Sports Eredivisie hebben kunnen met de nu gebruikte ontvangstapparatuur blijven kijken. Het is voor het eerst dat CanalDigitaal ? verplicht door een contentaanbieder ? een directe koppeling tussen smartcard en HD-satellietontvanger of CI-module.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major stock markets edged higher on Friday but were headed for a second week of losses while the dollar hovered near an eight-month low on fears the budget standoff in Washington will drag on until politicians reach a deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling.
On Wall Street, the three major indexes were on track to end the week with steep losses, despite modest gains on Friday, as the partial U.S. government shutdown entered its fourth day and appeared likely to drag on for another week or more.
While selling has been orderly so far, investors see volatility rising if the shutdown becomes prolonged, which would hurt the economic recovery. Many do not expect lawmakers to reach an agreement on the budget until they come up against the deadline to raise the U.S. government's $16.7 trillion debt ceiling to prevent a U.S. default on its debt.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has said the government will hit the limit no later than October 17.
Fears of a U.S. default lifted interest rates on ultra-short-term U.S. Treasury bills to their highest levels in over 10 months on Friday, while the cost of insuring one-year U.S. government bonds against default hit the highest level since August 2011.
Investor confidence was boosted Thursday afternoon when reports surfaced that House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner told his Republican party colleagues that he would not let the stalemate over the budget interfere with raising the debt ceiling.
On Friday, however, Boehner said the Republican-controlled House will not vote on a "clean" spending bill without conditions to end the government shutdown and demanded spending cuts in exchange for raising the government's borrowing limit. The S&P 500 showed little movement after his brief news conference.
"If there's no agreement by the end of next week, the concern will really become greater and the impact will be more pronounced," said Kate Warne, investment strategist at Edward Jones in St. Louis. Warne helps oversee $670 billion in assets.
MSCI's world equity index, which tracks shares in 45 countries, edged up 0.1 percent, but was on track for a weekly loss of 0.5 percent.
Top international policymakers have warned that a failure to raise the U.S. debt ceiling would be a serious blow to the world economy. On Thursday, Dennis Lockhart, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said the shutdown will hurt growth in the last quarter of this year, while the Bank of Japan said an extended U.S. budget standoff would have a severe global impact.
Still, many long-term investors believe Congress will eventually resolve the budget and debt issues, which would ensure that any stock pullback would be followed by a rebound.
"Day by day, people are getting more tense," said Francois Savary, chief investment officer at Swiss firm Reyl. "But we are betting on the fact that a deal will be found, and this should provide us with the opportunity to increase our equity exposure."
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 59.66 points, or 0.40 percent, to 15,056.14. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 9.56 points, or 0.57 percent, to 1,688.22. The Nasdaq Composite Index added 31.18 points, or 0.83 percent, to 3,805.52.
The S&P 500 index has fallen for nine of the past 12 sessions, but several sectors rose on Friday, including materials and healthcare stocks.
European shares rose 0.1 percent to end at 1,243.74 points.
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The U.S. shutdown delayed the government's release of non-farm payrolls data for September, which had been scheduled for Friday. The Labor Department's monthly jobs market report has been playing a key role in the Federal Reserve's assessment of the economy in its deliberations on when to scale back its stimulus. The postponement had no noticeable market impact.
The dollar <.dxy> rose for the first time in six days. It gained 0.5 percent to 80.136 against a basket of major currencies. The euro slipped 0.5 percent to $1.3552. The dollar hit an eight-month low on Thursday on views that the government shutdown will further delay the Fed's plans to reduce its bond-buying program.
On October 17, when the government is projected to reach its debt ceiling, $85 billion of Treasury bills will mature. The interest rate on that T-bill issue last traded at 0.13 percent, up 2 basis points from late on Thursday and up 9 basis points on the week.
Interest rates on T-bills that mature in the first half of November last traded at 0.11 percent, 5 basis points higher than late Thursday and up 9 basis points from a week earlier.
"We are seeing some real volatility in the bill sector," said Jason Rogan, managing director of Treasuries trading at Guggenheim Partners in New York. "Bills are showing the first signs of distress."
The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note was down 12/32, its yield at 2.646 percent.
Oil prices were steady as a tropical storm approached the oil-producing regions around the Gulf of Mexico, offsetting worries that a prolonged U.S. government shutdown will dent demand.
Brent crude rose 6 cents to $109.06. U.S. oil rose 13 cents to $103.44.
Gold slipped to $1,308 an ounce from $1,316.69.
(Additional reporting by Ryan Vlastelica and Richard Leong in New York and Sudip Kar-Gupta and Marc Jones in London; Editing by Leslie Adler and Kenneth Barry)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/global-stocks-head-weekly-loss-dollar-hovers-8-184126669--finance.html
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While we usually spot Freida Pinto sporting her signature radiant smile, the actress bares a frown for Vogue India's sixth anniversary issue. The Indian stunner's second time covering the high-fashion glossy proves far darker than her first take... and we like it.
In the behind-the-scenes video above, Freida tells Vogue her favorite designers (Burberry and Chanel), her number one red carpet faux pas (eating!) and her influences on-screen. Watch for more scoop and compare Pinto's covers below. Whichever look you prefer, one thing's for certain: Freida's come a long way since her "Slumdog Millionaire" days.
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O2 Germany is working on? a mein O2 app for their Windows Phone subscribers.
The app will give users an accurate count of their usage, allow them to adjust their plans, view their last few account statements and various other account-related features.
Windows Phone is currently having a resurgence is Germany, and prior to the iPhone 5s launch was just 1% away from Apple?s iPhone market share.
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Be it BBQ judging, investing, picking out an outfit, or even choosing whether or not you?re going to show up for work tomorrow ? ConvergEx's Nick Colas notes that there?s a decision making process occurring.? Quite simply, decision making is the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a final choice among several alternative scenarios.? Final choices can be opinions (as in ?This brisket is an 8?) or actions (such as ?I will invest in tech stocks?), and decisions are both conscious and unconscious.? For investors, financial decisions and how we tend to arrive at them are of particular importance.? The following is a cautionary tale of the 'Top 10' common biases that creep into the decision making process.? Recognizing and eliminating these biases from your financial choices will make you a sharper and smarter investor... or BBQ judge... or whatever it is that you do.
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Decisions in the financial arena are especially complex and are complicated by a host of outside forces.? As an investor, in particular, you should be aware that you?re subject to biases which occur during the decision making process.? Recognizing and minimizing their importance in your financial choices will make you that much better off and (hopefully) quite a bit richer.
Read on below for our list of the 10 most common biases affecting the psychology of investing.
1) Anchoring & Adjustment:? This combination occurs when initial information unduly influences decisions by shaping the view of subsequent information.? Once the ?anchor? or initial information is set, there exists a bias for interpreting other information around the anchor.? Car salesmen frequently use this tactic when presenting an initial sales price, making the subsequent negotiated prices seem lower than the initial price even though they are still higher than what the vehicle is actually worth.
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2) Attribution Asymmetry:? The concept here involves people?s tendency to attribute success to internal characteristics (such as talent and innate abilities) and to attribute failures to external factors (like simple bad luck).? Research has shown the reverse to be true when evaluating the successes and failures of others.? The lesson here is most valuable when you hit a ?hot streak.?? When you experience speed bumps, don?t be quick to write them off as poor luck ? there could be a fundamental problem with your strategy.
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3) Choice-Supportive Bias:? By distorting recollections of chosen courses of action versus the rejected courses of action, people tend to make the chosen outcomes seem more attractive that the foregone ones.? Just as people more frequently remember ?good? memories than they do ?neutral? or ?bad? memories, the belief that ?I chose this option therefore it must have be superior? can lead to a false recollection of the ultimate outcome.? Learn from your mistakes ? don?t forget them.
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4) Cognitive Inertia:? This is just psychological speak for the unwillingness to change thought patterns in light of new circumstances.? Quite simply, do your homework and keep up on your investments.? If a company slashes guidance, for example, perhaps you should consider altering your investment accordingly.
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5) Incremental Decision Making & Escalating Commitment:? These biases occur when people view a decision as a small step within a larger process, rather than as a singular choice.? As a result, this viewpoint perpetuates a series of similar decisions, when perhaps many of those decisions should be evaluated with a fresh mind.
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6) Group Think:? Grown-up lingo for peer pressure, group think occurs when one feels compelled to adhere to opinions held by a larger group.? This one?s easy ? don?t let others sway your opinion.? Groups tend to form a singular opinion based on the opinion of the loudest or most influential person in the group.? Doesn?t mean he?s right.
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7) Prospect Theory: This theory explains that people are more likely to take on risk when evaluating potential losses; though in looking at potential gains, humans have the tendency to be risk-averse.? In other words, losses feel worse than gains feel good.
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8) Repetition Bias:? The bias results from the willingness to believe what one has been told most often and by the greatest number of different sources.? Remember all the hoopla over Facebook?s IPO?? And then its year one performance?? Yeah, everybody though it was a hot stock and only now has it drifted above its IPO price.
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9) Sunk-Cost Fallacy: If someone makes a decision about a current situation, based all or in part on what they have previously invested (money, time or otherwise) in the situation, they are suffering from sunk-cost fallacy.? Not matter how much you?re down on an investment, if it?s likely to never be recovered, then cut your losses and let it go.
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10) Wishful Thinking: This ?problem? happens when people are too optimistic; wanting to see things in a positive light can distort perception and objective thinking.? Just because you really really really want your investment to appreciate, doesn?t mean it will.? Investing should not be treated as gambling.
Decision making may seem an elementary topic ? after all most decisions are made unconsciously given that we just don?t have time to sit down and weigh the pros and cons of each choice we make ? but when decisions are of the financial nature, it can?t hurt to overanalyze.? Things like ?think for yourself? and ?see the facts objectively? may seem obvious, but it?s quite amazing how often such basic concepts are forgotten amidst the abundance of investment decision-making literature out there.? Behavioral psychologists have long debated biases in judgment and decision making, and we?ve weeded out the 10 most common.? Simply knowing they exist and being aware they have many victims will give you an edge and a fresh perspective.? Happy investing.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least 14 people died on Friday when a bus hurtled down a hillside on the outskirts of Mexico City, ejecting six victims through the windows and leaving 25 injured, police said.
Before it careened off the highway, the bus was en route to the city of Toluca in the hills of the State of Mexico, which surrounds much of the capital.
"There wasn't a collision with another vehicle, but instead the bus veered off the asphalt and plunged down the mountainside about 100 or 120 meters," Miguel Angel Contreras, the attorney general of the State of Mexico, told reporters.
The cause of the accident remained unclear, he said.
Local television footage of the accident's aftermath accident showed the bus upside down, wreckage strewn amid broken tree branches as emergency workers stretchered off survivors.
(Reporting by Lizbeth Diaz; Writing by David Alire Garcia; Editing by Leslie GEvirtz)
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The usage and pricing of gasoline (or petrol) results from factors such as crude oil prices, processing and distribution costs, local demand, the strength of local currencies, local taxation, and the availability of local sources of gasoline (supply). Since fuels are traded worldwide, the trade prices are similar. The price paid by consumers largely reflects national pricing policy. Some regions, such as Europe and Japan, impose high taxes on gasoline (petrol); others, such as Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, subsidize the cost. Western countries have among the highest usage rates per person. The largest consumer is the United States, which used an average of 368 million US gallons (1.46 gigalitres) each day in 2011.
US petroleum consumption reached an estimated 18.87 million barrels per day (3,000,000 m3/d) in 2011, and is expected to increase to 18.96 million barrels per day (3,014,000 m3/d) per day in 2012. Drivers in the United States traveled 500,000 miles (800,000 km) per day in 2011, and were expected to travel 8.158 billion miles (1.3129?1010 km) per day in 2012. This equates to an average of 33 miles (53 km) per vehicle per day. On average, US drivers consume 1.49 US gallons (5.6 L) of gasoline per day, or about 10.44 US gallons (39.5 L) per week.[2] As of March 2013, the average price for 87 octane gasoline was $3.22 a US gallon (85?/L). This price represented a 28 percent increase over a period of just 2 months and a 52 percent increase since the end of January.
Small businesses are starting to have to pay more for gasoline. Just a couple of weeks ago, oil reached an all-time high of $111 per barrel ($700/m3). According to AAA, the national average for a gallon of gasoline is now a record $3.33 (88?/L). Small businesses are being impacted by these changes of rising gasoline prices.
In 2008 a report by Cambridge Energy Research Associates stated that 2007 had been the year of peak gasoline usage in the United States, and that record energy prices would cause an "enduring shift" in energy consumption practices. According to the report, in April fuel consumption had been lower than a year before for the sixth straight month, suggesting 2008 would be the first year US usage declined in 17 years. The total annual distance driven in the US began declining in 2006.
The average price per US gallon in 2012 (as of 31 December 2012) was $3.618 (96?/L), the highest ever for a year. As of 31 December 2012, the average price of gasoline was $3.298/gal (87?/L), with New York at $3.70/gal (98?/L) for the highest in the US, and Colorado at $2.987/gal (79?/L) for the lowest.
Finished motor gasoline amounts to 44% of the total US consumption of petroleum products. This corresponds to 18.5 exajoules per year. As of 2012 the cost of crude oil accounted for 62% of the cost of a gallon of gasoline in the United State while refining accounted for just 12%. Taxes and distribution/marketing accounted for 12% and 14% respectively.
After Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita, gas prices started rising. They became record high levels. In terms of the aggregate economy, increases in crude oil prices significantly predict the growth of real gross domestic product (GDP), but increases in natural gas prices do not.
All the damages from the hurricanes ran up gas prices. By 30 August, a day after Katrina?s landfall, prices in the spot market, which typically include a premium above the wellhead price, had surged pass $11 per gigajoule ($12 per million British thermal units), and by 22 September 2005, the day before Rita?s landfall, the spot price had risen to $14/GJ ($15 per million BTU).
Crude oil is the greatest contributing factor when it comes to the price of gasoline. This includes the resources it takes for exploration, to remove it from the ground, and transport it. Between 2004 and 2008, there was an increase in fuel costs due in large part to a worldwide increase in demand for crude oil. Prices leapt from $35 to $140 per barrel (220 to 880 /m3), causing a corresponding increase in gas prices. On the supply side, OPEC (or the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) has a great deal to do with the price of gasoline, both in the United States and around the world. The speculation of oil commodities can also affect the gasoline market.
Taxes are the next biggest contributor to gasoline prices at around 12%. In the United States, both state and federal taxes apply to gasoline. In addition other taxes may be placed on gas including applicable state sales taxes, gross receipts taxes, oil inspection fees, underground storage tank fees and other miscellaneous environmental fees.
Distribution and marketing makes up the remaining 5%. The price of transporting crude oil to a refinery then gasoline to a point of distribution is passed on to the consumer. In addition the price to market the fuel brand is passed on.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Prospects for a swift end to the 4-day-old partial government shutdown all but vanished Friday as lawmakers squabbled into the weekend and increasingly shifted their focus to a midmonth deadline for averting a threatened first-ever default.
"This isn't some damn game," said House Speaker John Boehner, as the White House and Democrats held to their position of agreeing to negotiate only after the government is reopened and the $16.7 trillion debt limit raised.
House Republicans appeared to be shifting their demands, de-emphasizing their previous insistence on defunding the health care overhaul in exchange for re-opening the government. Instead, they ramped up calls for cuts in federal benefit programs and future deficits, items that Boehner has said repeatedly will be part of any talks on debt limit legislation.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., also said the two issues were linked. "We not only have a shutdown, but we have the full faith and credit of our nation before us in a week or ten days," he said.
Reid and other Democrats blocked numerous attempts by Sen. Ted Cruz to approve House-passed bills reopening portions of the government. The Texas Republican is a chief architect of the "Defund Obamacare" strategy and met earlier this week with allies in the House and an aide to Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., to confer on strategy.
In a lengthy back-and-forth with Reid and other Democrats, Cruz blamed them and the White House for the impasse and accused them of a "my way or the highway" attitude.
But Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., likened the Republican strategy to "smashing a piece of crockery with a hammer, gluing two or three bits back together today, a couple more tomorrow, and two or three more the day after that."
For all the rhetoric, there was no evident urgency about ending the partial shutdown before the weekend.
The Republican-controlled House approved legislation restoring funds for federal disaster relief on a vote of 247-164. Another allowing the resumption of the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program was approved 244-164.
Saturday's agenda called for passing a bill to assure post-shutdown pay for an estimated 800,000 furloughed federal employees off the job since mid-day Tuesday, then turning off the lights on the House floor until Monday night to allow lawmakers to fly home for two days.
After issuing a string of veto threats against GOP spending bills, the White House did not object to the one to assure pay for furloughed employees.
There was no doubt about the political underpinnings of the struggle. Democrats and most Republicans have assumed the GOP would be hurt by a shutdown, citing the impact of the last episode, in 1996.
But Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said of Democrats, "I don't think they've poll tested 'we won't negotiate. I think it's awful for them to say that over and over again." His words recorded on videotape, he said, "I think if we keep saying we wanted to defund it (the new health care law), we fought for that and now we're willing to compromise on this we're going to win this, I think."
The shutdown caused the White House to scrub a presidential trip to Asia, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics delayed its customary monthly report on joblessness as impacts of the partial shutdown spread.
According to warnings by the administration and Wall Street, failure to raise the debt limit, by contrast, had the potential to destablize financial markets and inflict harm on the economy quickly.
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has said that unless Congress acts, the government will be unable to pay all its debts and will run the risk of default. He has urged lawmakers to act by Oct. 17.
Debt limit bills typically pass first in the House, then move to the Senate. So far, neither Boehner nor the rest of the leadership has said when they expect to draft and have a vote on one. More than a week ago, they circulated a list of items that might be included? calls for higher Medicare costs for better-off seniors, a wholesale easing of environmental regulations and approval of the Keystone Pipeline among them.
Republican officials said that in a closed-door session with the rank and file during the day, the speaker renewed his long-standing commitment to seeking reforms and savings from benefit programs to help reduce federal deficits. They spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to discuss a private meeting.
At the White House, Obama has said repeatedly he will not negotiate over the terms of debt limit legislation but is willing to discuss a range of issues once the government is reopened and the Treasury able to borrow freely again.
The shutdown began Monday at midnight after Republicans demanded the defunding of the nation's new health insurance system in exchange for providing essential federal funding, and the White House and Democrats refused. Boehner and the House followed up with several other measures to reopen the government, all of them with other health-care-related conditions attached, and each subsequently rejected by Democrats.
In a counter move, Democrats took steps to force a vote by midmonth through a discharge petition, a procedural maneuver that only needs the signatures of a majority of House members and no action by the GOP leadership.
Emerging from their closed-door meeting during the day, several Republicans conceded they are unlikely to achieve that goal as long as Obama is in the White House.
"It's time to move to fixing the financial problems of this country," said Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y.
Ironically, Boehner and the leadership more than two weeks ago outlined a strategy that envisioned avoiding a shutdown and instead using the debt limit bill as the arena for a showdown with Obama. Their hope was to win concessions from the White House in exchange for raising the debt limit and agreeing to changes in two rounds of across the board cuts, one that took place in the budget year that ended on Sept. 30 and the other in the 12 months that began the following day.
The strategy was foiled by a "Defund Obamacare" movement that Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and tea party groups generated over the summer.
Despite the discord, there was unity on one front. One day after a car chase ended in gunfire outside the Capitol, lawmakers in both parties wore lapel buttons that read: "Thank You Capitol Police."
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Associated Press reporters Alan Fram, Henry C. Jackson, Stephen Ohlemacher, Charles Babington, Donna Cassata and Alicia A. Caldwell contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/prospect-quick-end-shutdown-remote-202216711--politics.html
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