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Friday, August 24, 2012

Man accused of NYC attack was designer, cat lover

Two people were killed and nine injured in a shooting Friday near the Empire State Building by a disgruntled ex-employee of a nearby business, officials said.

By Miranda Leitsinger, NBC News

NEW YORK -- The man who police say?shot and killed a former colleague Friday morning near the landmark Empire State Building, triggering panic in Midtown Manhattan, was described by neighbors as quiet and a bit of a loner.

Jeffrey Johnson, 58, of Manhattan, was?dismissed from his job last year as an accessories designer at a women?s apparel firm, Hazan Imports, when the company underwent downsizing, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said at a press conference.

Kelly said Johnson opened fire at 9:03 a.m. EST on West 33rd Street in front the company where he formerly worked, shooting his former co-worker, age 41, three times, Kelly said. Johnson was later shot and killed by police, and nine others were injured.

Two killed, several hurt in shooting near Empire State Building

Johnson did not have a criminal record and authorities don?t know much about him, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.

Johnson served in the Coast Guard from 1973 to 1977 and rose to petty officer second class, a Coast Guard spokesman said. He was honorably discharged.

One of Johnson's?neighbors on the city's Upper East Side, Gisella Casella, 72, told The Wall Street Journal that he was quiet and loved his two cats. She saw him "dressed up" every morning and thought he was going to work.

?He was the nicest guy. I think he snapped or something,? she said.

The building superintendent, Guillermo Suarez, 72, told The New York Times that Johnson would go out to a local McDonald's every morning and come back with a bag from the fast food chain. He often would stay home for the rest of the day.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt Lists and Leases | Zillow Blog

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Jennifer Love Hewitt has one thing on her mind these days: real estate. Not only is Love Hewitt selling one of her homes, but she?s renting another one that is located right across the street, reported The Huffington Post.

Both homes are located in Toluca Lake, a high-end neighborhood 12 miles of downtown Los Angeles and they are both located on Toluca Lake Avenue ? almost exactly across the street from each other.? Love Hewitt?s home for sale ? listed at 10015 Toluca Lake Ave ? was purchased in 1998 for $1,695,000. Her other home that is listed as a rental is located at 10024 Toluca Lake Ave and was purchased for $5.5 million in 2004.

Love Hewitt?s For-Sale Property

It doesn?t appear that Love Hewitt has made many updates since she bought the home in 1998. Listed for $2,895,000, the 6-bed, 6-bath home has brass fixtures, carpeting and loads of wallpaper borders. Sitting on a quarter acre, the broker listing describes it as a ?traditional home? with ?wonderful flow for living and entertaining.?

Love Hewitt?s Rental Property

Across the street at 10024 Toluca Lake, the rental home is a bit more modern. Sitting on the shores of Toluca Lake, the home is listed at $12,500 a month. The 3,216-square-foot-home is a Spanish-style home with 4 bedrooms, 4 baths as well as private pool, spa and lakefront dock. Hewitt is even throwing in use of her ?power boat? and kayaks to the lessee.

Currently starring in the TV show ?Client List,? Hewitt got her start in the mid-90s on the popular sitcom ?Party of Five.? She?s had several roles in TV shows and movies since then, and even had a brief foray into singing.

Both properties are listed with Kathy Fisher of Gibson International.

Jennifer Love Hewitt is selling this home at 10024 Toluca Lake

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Jennifer Love Hewitt is leasing the home at 10024 Toluca Lake

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Thursday, August 23, 2012

Misdeal on Internet poker gambling

A federal court ruling that poker is mainly a game of skill and thus not gambling could steer Congress down the wrong path of approving Internet gaming.

By the Monitor's Editorial Board / August 22, 2012

Photo illustration of an online gambler visiting a Internet power website.

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Many lawmakers in Washington and a few states are eager to approve Internet gambling. But to make it politically palatable, they are first pushing only for online poker. Why that card game and not, say, blackjack? Because, they claim, poker is mainly a game of skill.

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Their argument received a boost Tuesday in a ruling by Brooklyn federal Judge Jack Weinstein. In overturning a conviction of a man who ran a poker den in a Staten Island warehouse, he found that poker is not a game of chance under the 1970 Illegal Gambling Businesses Act.

The decision needs to be appealed to higher courts as it is could easily be overturned. It argues against poker as a game of chance but then finds that states can still outlaw it as a form of gambling, as many do. It approves of sports betting ? which often relies on skilled knowledge of players or teams ? even though that is outlawed under federal law.

The ruling is also weak in presuming that a game must always be predominantly chance in nature to be called gambling. Even the most successful poker players often lose ? and not for lack of skill. Placing a bet will always be just that ? a bet.

Most of all, the ruling ignores the effects of opening the legislative floodgates for Internet gaming.

Congress outlawed Internet gambling in 2006, based on evidence in other countries that it allows easier, more anonymous accessibility to wagering than do casinos or lotteries. With the click of the mouse, a teenager at home could become a gambling addict, despite any promised safeguards.

Last year, the Obama administration gave a green light for states to allow Internet gambling for state residents only (a dubious technical feat). And now with this federal ruling, lawmakers on Capitol Hill might feel safer in approving Internet poker, especially as governments are eager for new revenue. (Online poker would be nearly a $10 billion business in the United States, by one estimate.)

Instead, Congress needs to tighten up the 1970 law and reaffirm the 2006 ban rather than buckle under to the million-member-strong Poker Players Alliance.

Why further feed the notion that ?luck? determines one?s future and that random forces guide events? Government should be affirming the value of ideas and hard work, not a belief in the roll of the dice or the shuffle of a card deck.

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Ryan Seemingly Harming Romney's Chances in Virginia, Colorado

It has been nearly two weeks since presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney announced that Paul Ryan would join his ticket as his running mate. While some reports have indicated that Ryan's selection has had little effect on voters, other reports indicate that Ryan has given Romney a boost in certain key swing states (such as Ryan's home state of Wisconsin). In two key battleground states, Virginia and Colorado, Ryan's addition to the ticket seems to have provided a bump for President Obama. Here is a closer look:

* Virginia - Most of the polls conducted in Virginia in July gave a slight advantage to Obama. For example, a Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey released on July 10 indicated that Obama held an eight-point lead over Romney, 50 to 42 percent. A Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS Poll released on Aug. 8, right before Romney's announcement of Ryan as his running mate, suggested that Obama held a four-point edge over Romney, 49 to 45 percent. But according to a Purple Strategies poll conducted after Ryan's addition to the ticket on Aug. 10 clearly indicated that Romney had surged ahead of Obama in Virginia, leading him by three points, 48 to 45 percent.

The most recent poll in the state, released by PPP on Tuesday, however, clearly indicates that Romney's brief surge in Virginia was just that: ever so brief. The PPP survey gives Obama a full five-point advantage over Romney in the state, 50 to 45 percent.

* Colorado - Obama won Colorado by 9 percent in the 2008 general election, the first time the state had gone for the Democratic candidate since 1992. But this Rocky Mountain paradise remains a tough battleground for the two candidates in 2012. While Obama has generally polled better than Romney in Colorado this summer, his advantage has mostly been either slim or none. A PPP poll released on June 19, for example, showed Obama with a seven-point advantage over Romney, 49 to 42 percent. But a Purple Strategies poll conducted a month later gave Obama just a single-point lead, 45 to 44 percent. And right before Romney's announcement of Ryan as his running mate, a Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS Poll indicated that Romney had pulled ahead of Obama in Colorado by a full five points, 50 to 45 percent.

But Ryan's selection, if it had any effect at all, seemed to harm Romney in Colorado. The August Purple Strategies poll in the state showed Obama surge back ahead of Romney, gaining a three-point, 49 to 46 percent, lead.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ryan-seemingly-harming-romneys-chances-virginia-colorado-170500863.html

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Saints: Kromer will be interim coach first 6 games

FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2012, file photo, New Orleans Saints offensive coordinator Pete Carmichael, left, offensive line and running game coach Aaron Kromer, center, and assistant offensive line coach Frank Smith, right, run drills during NFL training camp in Metairie, La.. The Saints have designated Kromer as their interim head coach for the first six regular-season games, when assistant head coach Joe Vitt will have to serve his suspension in connection with the NFL's bounty investigation. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

METAIRIE, La. (AP) ? The New Orleans Saints designated offensive line coach Aaron Kromer as the interim head coach for the first six regular-season games, when assistant head coach Joe Vitt will have to serve his suspension in connection with the NFL's bounty investigation.

Vitt has been overseeing head coaching duties since Sean Payton's full season suspension began in mid-April, but the Saints held off until Wednesday on a decision concerning who would become the figurehead of the coaching staff when Vitt had to step aside in Week 1.

The 45-year-old Kromer is in his fifth season with the Saints and also serves as running game coordinator.

"This was a difficult decision because we have several coaches on our staff that would do a great job in this role," general manager Mickey Loomis said. "Ultimately, I wanted to have the least amount of change with both the offensive and defensive staffs, and maintain the most continuity with the program that has been in place for the last six years."

The move allows offensive coordinator Pete Carmichael Jr. to maintain his focus exclusively on designing and calling plays for Drew Brees and the Saints' record-setting offense.

Defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, who was a head coach the past three seasons in St. Louis, was another option, but he is in his first season in New Orleans and trying to help the Saints adjust to his scheme.

"Aaron has been with us since 2008, he has coached with Sean both in college (at Miami, Ohio) and here at the Saints," Loomis said. "He is very familiar with our team and with the methods we have been successful with. He will do a great job."

Kromer, who interviewed for a head coaching job in St. Louis last offseason, said he appreciated the confidence the Saints are showing in him, but also noted he sees his role as having much more to do with ensuring continuity than putting his personal stamp on the way the team is run.

"Coach Payton has laid a successful foundation here and our jobs are to make sure we keep moving in that direction," Kromer said.

Kromer had been mentioned as an interim head coaching candidate ever since the suspensions both Payton and Vitt were announced in late March, a few weeks after the NFL announced it had uncovered a bounty system in which New Orleans defenders had been paid improper cash bonuses for injuring targeted opponents.

Neither Vitt nor current and former Saints players have admitted to participating in a bounty system as the NFL described it. They have said they ran only a pay-for-performance pool that offered a few hundred dollars ? minimal sums relative to NFL contracts ? for big plays such as interceptions, sacks, forced fumbles and big clean hits.

Payton, the first NFL head coach ever suspended, and Saints linebacker Jon Vilma, also suspended a full season, received the harshest punishments among those still with New Orleans. Loomis was suspended for the first half of the regular season and defensive end Will Smith was suspended four games.

Former Saints defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, now with St. Louis, has been suspended indefinitely.

The NFL Players Association has sued in federal court to have four punished players' suspensions overturned, and Vilma also has sued individually. None of the punished coaches, however, have challenged their sanctions beyond routine appeals to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, which were denied.

In the meantime, the Saints have sought to maintain the winning culture they have established in the Payton era and make the playoffs for a fourth-straight season.

The Saints have said throughout training camp that they believed they could weather their unprecedented bounty sanctions because most top assistant coaches and veteran leaders on the roster, such as Brees, have been in New Orleans for most of Payton's first six seasons, including the championship season of 2009-10.

"The thing we have here is a lot of quality assistant coaches," Kromer said earlier in training camp. "We'll still work as a family and as a group and get this thing done in a collective fashion the way Sean Payton trained us to do.

"We all have our own job to do as well. This is unprecedented. There is no right or wrong," Kromer said. "But really it's a fill-in job to run the program the way Sean would run it. ... Everyone on the staff agrees that that's the way it's going to happen."

Kromer played offensive line at Miami, Ohio, and also began his coaching career there in 1990. He has spent his last 11 seasons in the NFL as an assistant with Oakland (2001-04) under John Gurden and Bill Callahan, Tampa Bay (2005-07 under Gruden), and New Orleans (2008-present).

"We have great talent and depth on our coaching staff," Vitt said. "But most importantly we have guys on this coaching staff that clearly understand the foundation of success that Sean has built, and I feel great that Aaron and the rest of the staff will continue to build on that foundation."

Associated Press

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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Online Business Ideas and Home Business Tips: Internet Marketing ...

Internet marketing is a fairly new way of marketing and yet, it has grown to practically overtake the other methods of advertising. There is no match for internet marketing, when it comes to reaching customers and attracting traffic to your business. This article can direct you to the ways that will help your business join the success stories of internet marketing.

When advertising a product, don't be shy about mentioning its flaws. If you try and make your product seem perfect and people buy it and find major flaws, they won't be too happy with you. But if you admit things your product isn't great for up front, they're more likely to appreciate your honesty.

Make it as easy as possible for your customers to find the price of the product or service you offer them. Online shoppers never appreciate a hidden price; many of them will assume such hidden prices indicate something shady about the product or its seller. Being coy about your prices only hurts the trust and loyalty you want to encourage in your customers.

In your internet marketing ads and slogans, use the word fast. People are in a crunch for time, and right from the start you are working at a disadvantage because when shopping online people do not have the instant gratifications they receive from shopping in the department stores. So use the word fast, for instance, "Super-fast shipping" or "Fast and easy ordering".

Most search engines show brief descriptions of your business, product or service on the search results page. If your description stands out from the rest, you optimize your chances of driving traffic to your website. Instead of using the manufacturer's bland description, write your own unique content using keywords that potential buyers are likely use in their search engine description. Don't wildly embellish the usefulness of the product or service, but be creative and resourceful in your word choice.

During the holidays of the year such as Christmas, make sure that you offer as many deals as possible on your site. This is the time where most companies are going to offer bargains, so you do not want to be behind the curve with high prices that are not attractive to customers.

Create a series of freebies for your visitors. Include your ad within the freebie. For instance, you could create some Java-script games around your products or simply feature some good games with your advertisement at the bottom of the screen for instance. Try to come up with freebies that will interest your visitors.

When you are trying to build your internet marketing empire, remember to put unique content on your site. The more specialized and creative your content, the more attractive it is to your customers. People are drawn to conversational websites. Have a place on your site where people can comment for best results.

Follow these tips and set your business up for the kind of success you want to see. By using internet marketing to propel your business, you will not only get noticed, but you can attract prospective buyers who want what you have to offer. Have a strong internet marketing plan, and your business will succeed.

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