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Monday, June 24, 2013

PFT: NFL names award after Deacon Jones

Bills WR Marquise Goodman draws inspiration from his younger brother.

Part of the reason that LB Alonzo Highsmith Jr. signed with the Dolphins was to be close to his brother, a University of Miami senior also named Alonzo Highsmith Jr.

Mike Reiss of ESPNBoston.com points out the problems Patriots players drafted out of Florida in 2011 have experienced and wonders if Bill Belichick put too much stock in his friendship with Urban Meyer.

Jets assistant coaches Dennis Thurman and Tim McDonald have enjoyed a long friendship.

A look at the fight for roster spots and playing time in the Ravens backfield.

Will Bengals LB James Harrison outplay Jarvis Jones, his replacement on the Steelers roster, during the 2013 season?

What can the Browns do to cut down on QB Brandon Weeden getting passes knocked down at the line?

Age won?t be a problem for the Steelers defensive backs, according to the Steelers defensive backs.

Texans DE J.J. Watt got to know about helicopters during his visit to Afghanistan.

Previewing Year Two for Colts QB Andrew Luck.

Jaguars K Josh Scobee taught Paul Kuharsky of ESPN.com about the technique needed to be a placekicker.

A video look at the progress made by Titans QB Jake Locker.

The Broncos are trying to keep expectations from going to anyone?s head.

An offseason with coach Andy Reid has left Chiefs QB Chase Daniel confident about the year to come.

Said Raiders RB Darren McFadden, ?Things are going very well with the offensive line. As far as the blitz pick up, the calls the offensive line is making. I feel like we?re meshing very well.?

CB Steve Williams could make an immediate impact in the Chargers secondary.

Ten things to know about Cowboys DB Will Allen.

Giants DT Marvin Austin has been playing the drums with children as part of a program called School of Rock.

A newly released biography tries to paint a picture of Eagles coach Chip Kelly.

Taking stock of the left defensive end spot for the Redskins.

Bears QB Jay Cutler is turning the clock back to the 80s for a fundraiser.

QB Thaddeus Lewis is confident about his chances of making the Lions.

Packers TE D.J. Williams likes to both work hard and play hard.

How much does it matter where on the depth chart the Vikings place DT Sharrif Floyd?

Osi Umenyiora thinks the younger Falcons defensive ends are developing quickly.

Undrafted rookie S Robert Lester hopes to make a mark with the Panthers.

Contrary to an internet report, Saints QB Drew Brees didn?t break his legs in a car accident.

Buccaneers rookies have spent time with local members of the military recently.

The Cardinals say they are reloading rather than rebuilding.

The Rams opened the NFL?s first Youth Training Academy.

Achilles injuries are piling up for the 49ers.

Looking back at general managers through the years for the Seahawks.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/06/22/nfl-will-present-deacon-jones-award-to-sacks-leader/related/

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Saturday, June 22, 2013

FOR KIDS: Headers and memory loss

Soccer players who frequently use their heads score worse on memory tests

By Stephen Ornes

Web edition: June 21, 2013

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Losing your head?

Soccer players who frequently head the ball scored worse on a memory test than players who perform headers less often.

Credit: iStockphoto

Soccer players who head the ball may use their noggin to score. But frequently heading the ball may lead to worse scores off the field.

In a recent study, players who did lots of headers performed worse on a memory test than did players who didn?t head the ball as often. The same study also found that players who frequently headed the ball had more changes to their brain?s white matter. This tissue includes nerve fibers and their protective, white coatings. The fibers carry signals throughout the brain.

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/351172/title/FOR_KIDS_Headers_and_memory_loss

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Immigration reform: new security plan could sway dozen Republicans

Many Republicans have balked at the immigration reform bill, saying it didn't do enough to improve border security. A new compromise amendment in the Senate addresses those concerns and could pave the way for overwhelming approval next week.

By David Grant,?Staff writer / June 20, 2013

Republican Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee (l.) and John Hoeven of North Dakota talk to reporters at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday about their amendment to immigration legislation.

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Immigration reform got a substantial boost in the Senate Thursday, as Republican Sens. Bob Corker of Tennessee and John Hoeven of North Dakota helped craft a compromise proposal on border security that could pave the way for an overwhelming approval of the bill when it comes to a final vote next week.

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The amendment, together with a handful of others still under negotiation but whose prospects appear favorable, could push the vote total toward 70 senators. That is something of a magic number for proponents of immigration reform, who think a huge, bipartisan vote in the Senate could compel the House to act. Many Republicans in the House have so far shown little enthusiasm for comprehensive immigration reform.?

Yet border security has been among the primary stumbling blocks for Republicans, both in the House and Senate, and Senator Corker is confident that his amendment should allay any concerns.

?If anybody on either side of the aisle had any concerns whatsoever about the border being secure ? certainly securing the border should not be an issue if this amendment passes,? he said Thursday.

The "Gang of Eight" senators that crafted the immigration bill also also hailed the importance of the compromise amendment.?

?If this amendment doesn?t convince people we are securing the border, nothing will,? says Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) of New York, one of the bill?s authors.

The amendment, which will likely come up for a vote early next week, would double the number of border security agents along the US-Mexico divide to 40,000 and require the completion of 700 miles of border fencing, up from 350 in the initial border plan. The measure explicitly spells out the types of technology (including unmanned aerial vehicles and special radar) and infrastructure to be deployed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which will have to provide a border security strategy six months after the bill is enacted.

The Corker-Hoeven compromise addressed concerns on both sides of the aisle.

Republicans pointed out that the DHS has failed to enforce immigration laws in the past. They also were concerned that, under the original bill, DHS was tasked with devising its own border security plan. What if that plan wasn't up to snuff? Republicans said.?

Democrats, on the other hand, feared that an alternative ? putting specific border-security goals in place and then making the pathway to citizenship contingent on their fulfillment ? would allow a future Congress to short-circuit the route to citizenship for the nation?s 11 million undocumented immigrants.

Corker-Hoeven?s answer was to establish five "triggers" that will increase border security significantly, but which can be definitively implemented in a relatively short period. These are:

The addition of 20,000 border patrol agents.
The construction of 700 miles of fencing.
The implementation of more and advanced border-security technology
The nationwide implementation of the E-Verify employment verification system.
The implementation of electronic scanning systems for foreigners entering and exiting the US at all air and seaports.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/bJV7EpV_qew/Immigration-reform-new-security-plan-could-sway-dozen-Republicans

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U.S. cities, counties lose out without online sales tax: mayors

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. cities and counties lost out on $1.7 billion of new revenue this year because Congress has not passed a bill allowing states to tax Internet sales, a report released by the U.S. Conference of Mayors on Friday showed.

From 2011 through 2013, the additional revenue would have totaled $4.5 billion, according to economic research group IHS Global Insight, which was commissioned to produce the report.

Under a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, states can only tax Internet sales made by companies with a physical presence within their borders. That means online retailers charge sales tax in some states and not in others.

The U.S. Senate in spring passed legislation that would allow states to tax sales made beyond their borders. It faces an uncertain future in the House of Representatives, where Republicans have raised concerns that the tax could burden small online businesses.

The bill would exempt sellers with less than $1 million in nationwide sales from collecting sales taxes.

The Republican sponsor of the bill in the House, Steve Womack of Arkansas, told reporters earlier this week Congress has recently focused on other, larger pieces of legislation and he was not optimistic the bill would pass soon.

States, which collect most sales taxes, have said their budgets are hurting. Fitch Ratings estimated that states are losing $11 billion annually without the online tax.

Some local governments add their own taxes, ranging from 0.1 to 6 percent, IHS said.

State and local governments combined lost out on almost $14 billion this year by not being able to tax online sales, IHS estimated.

In 2012 New York City had the greatest loss, of $200 million. Phoenix and Chicago followed with $18 million each.

Mesa, Arizona, with an annual budget of $325 million, has lost out on $14 million over the last three years, the study found.

The number may not be large, Mesa Mayor Scott Smith said, but Internet commerce will continue to grow and Congress must pass the legislation to "stop the bleeding." Mesa does not charge property taxes.

The bill would boost the city's revenue in two ways, because it relies heavily on state funds as well as sales taxes, said Smith.

"We're really bare bones and we're operating on the fringes in terms of additional revenue or additional cuts," he said, adding that any new revenue would go toward the police, parks, libraries and other services.

(Reporting by Lisa Lambert; Editing by Richard Chang)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-cities-counties-lose-without-online-sales-tax-221757300.html

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Friday, June 21, 2013

Ask a New York City Movie Location Scout Anything You Want

Did you know there's an abandoned swimming pool in the basement of the Woolworth Building? Did you know there's an abandoned Cold War-era missile silo buried under a log cabin in the Adirondacks? Do you have any idea what happened with the filming location of Ghostbusters or Annie Hall? Nope! But Nick Carr, the location sleuth behind Scouting NY does.

Nick started Scouting NY in 2008 to document the places he discovered in his job as a location scout for movies and TV shows. He know the secrets of every old building of alleyway of New York City. His first scouting gig was on Steven Speilberg's Munich, and he's been scouting professionally ever since. Just how good is his eye? He's scouted for movies like Spiderman 3, Doubt, Enchanted, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Taking of Pelham 1-2-3, and the upcoming Scorsese joint The Wolf of Wall Street. Sounds like just about the coolest job ever.

Want to know what Nick's job is like? We'll have him here in the comments taking your questions starting at 10:30 EST. So fire away!

Nick Carr is currently working on his first film, set not in NYC, but on New Hampshire's very mysterious Mount Madahodo. You can read more about it here. To donate money to help Nick make the movie, go here.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/ask-a-new-york-city-movie-location-scout-anything-you-w-516374447

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First four-quark particle may have been spotted

Finding might shed light on how nucleus is held together

By Andrew Grant

Web edition: June 21, 2013

An exotic subatomic particle could be the first amalgamation of more than three quarks???the fundamental building blocks of atoms ? to be produced experimentally. If it is what physicists think it is, the particle could provide clues about the force that holds nuclei together and perhaps about the earliest moments of the universe.

?We have very solid evidence of an unconventional particle,? says Ronald Poling, a physicist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. ?But it?s the interpretation???the possibility that it has four quarks ? that makes it very exciting.? The details of the particle, inelegantly named Z_c(3900), appear June 17 in Physical Review Letters.

Physicists have known since the 1960s that protons and neutrons are made up of quarks, as are hundreds of other particles. All of these particles can be divided into two categories: mesons, which contain two quarks, and baryons (including protons and neutrons), which contain three.

Over the last decade many physicists, including those at the Belle experiment in Japan and the BESIII experiment in China have fruitlessly searched for particles with more than three quarks. Probing a particle?s insides is tough because physicists can?t see quarks directly. Instead they have to measure all the properties they can for a given particle, such as its mass, charge and decay products, looking for unusual characteristics that can be explained only by a peculiar combination of quarks.

The Belle and BESIII teams were both studying an odd particle called Y(4260) when they realized that it decayed to make another interesting particle, Z_c(3900). Its mass, says Poling, who is part of the BESIII team, suggests that it is an electrically neutral meson made up of two quarks with opposite charges, called charm and anticharm. But surprisingly, both teams found that Z_c(3900) has an electrical charge.

In fact, Poling says no two-quark or three-quark combinations can explain Z_c(3900)?s charge and mass. That is leading physicists to the more exotic and exciting conclusion that the particle consists of four quarks: a charm and an anticharm along with an up and an antidown, which are extremely light and create a net positive charge. ?The particle?s charge makes it a smoking gun for a four-quark state,? says Tomasz Skwarnicki, a physicist at Syracuse University in New York.

Assuming the evidence for a four-quark arrangement holds up, the big question will be how those quarks are arranged. Z_c(3900) could be a single entity of four quarks, Skwarnicki says, but it could also be a coupling of two mesons, analogous to two atoms linking up to form a molecule.

Poling says that understanding the particle?s internal structure could improve physicists? understanding of the nuclear strong force, which dictates how quarks bond together to create atoms and other composite forms of matter.

In addition, physicists believe that just after the Big Bang, matter existed in the form of a hot soup of individual quarks and gluons, particles that carry the strong force. Perhaps, as the universe cooled, that soup solidified into exotic multiquark combinations such as Z_c(3900) before breaking up into the particles observed today. ?The more complete our picture of all the elementary particles and their interactions,? Poling says, ?the better we?ll understand where we started out and how we got to where we are.?

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/351164/title/First_four-quark_particle_may_have_been_spotted

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Samsung announces ATIV Book 9 Plus Ultrabook and the ATIV Book 9 Lite

We haven't heard much about Samsung's Series 9 Ultrabooks for a while, barring a resolution bump late last year. Today, though, the company announced the follow-on to that product. Two, follow-on products, actually. The company just introduced the ATIV Book 9 Plus, a flagship laptop that appears to be the direct replacement to the old Series 9. In addition, the company announced the ATIV Book 9 Lite, another ultraportable that apparently doesn't quite rise to the level of flagship status. As it happens, Samsung merely teased these products at the beginning of its presentation over in London, but we'll update this post once it circles back to laptops and provides more details.

Gallery: Samsung Premiere 2013