Like 9/11 concert, musicians turn out for Sandy

NEW YORK (AP) ? Call the "12-12-12" benefit show "The Concert for New York City" 2.0. Eleven years after the benefit concert in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was held at Madison Square Garden, many of the same top musicians came together to raise money for those suffering from Superstorm Sandy, including Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Billy Joel, The Who, Eric Clapton and Bon Jovi.

Those singers set a serious tone Wednesday night, wearing mostly black and gray onstage as they encouraged people to call and donate money to those affected by the devastating storm that took place in late October, killing about 140 people and damaging millions of homes and properties in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and other areas.

Alicia Keys, who grew up in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, closed the night with her New York anthem "Empire State of Mind," as doctors, nurses, firefighters, police officers and others joined the piano-playing singer onstage. They ended the night chanting "U.S.A."

Keys was one of two women who performed at "The Concert for Sandy Relief." Diana Krall backed McCartney, who sang his solo songs, Beatles songs and played the role of Kurt Cobain with Nirvana members Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear during the nearly six-hour show.

Springsteen and the E Street Band kicked off the night, performing songs like "My City of Ruins," ''Born to Run" with Bon Jovi and some of Tom Waits' "Jersey Girl."

"I pray that that characteristic remains along the Jersey shore because that's what makes it special," the New Jersey-born rocker said.

E Street band guitarist Steven Van Zandt said backstage that musicians and entertainers always show up when tragedy hits.

"It's more personal because literally the Jersey Shore is where we grew up ... but we'd be here anyway," he said. "You don't see oil companies here, you don't see insurance companies here, the Wall Street guys, with all due respect, they're not waiting in line to help anybody, so we're here."

The sold-out show was televised live, streamed online, played on the radio and shown in theaters all over the world. Producers said up to 2 billion people were able to experience it live.

But the night wasn't all serious: Comedy helped break up the weightiness of Sandy's devastation, including jokes from Jon Stewart, Chris Rock, Stephen Colbert and Adam Sandler, who performed a hilarious parody of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." Even Coldplay's Chris Martin brought on the jokes.

"I know you really wanted One Direction," Martin said of the popular British boy band. "But it's way past their bedtime."

Martin was joined onstage by Michael Stipe, as they sang R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion." And there was another collaboration with Roger Waters and Eddie Vedder on "Comfortably Numb."

The participants, many natives of the area and others who know it well, struck a defiant tone in asking for help to rebuild sections of the New York metropolitan area devastated by the storm. About half of the performers were British.

"This has got to be the largest collection of old English musicians ever assembled in Madison Square Garden," said Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones, who performed two songs. "If it rains in London, you've got to come and help us."

Waters, who has lived in New York for 11 years, said "there's a great feeling of camaraderie" backstage and that he's excited he could help those who are suffering.

Richie Sambora said he "had to hold back tears" when he visited New Jersey and saw the devastation. "My mom's house (in Point Pleasant, N.J.) got trashed. They had to evacuate her. She's living with me until we fix it up."

Most of the acts performed about four tunes. McCartney performed for 40 minutes and The Who were onstage for 30. They weaved Sandy into their set, showing pictures of storm devastation on video screens during "Pinball Wizard." Pete Townshend made a quick revision to the lyrics of "Baba O'Riley," changing "teenage wasteland" to "Sandy wasteland."

Joel performed one of the last century's favorites, "New York State of Mind." Joel's "Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)" sounded prescient, with new Sandy-fueled lyrics smoothly fitting in. He was also the only artist to mark the season, working in a little of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."

Kanye West's performance gave the crowd a different sound, as the music lineup was heavily weighted toward classic rock, which has the type of fans able to afford a show for which ticket prices ranged from $150 to $2,500. Even with those prices, people with tickets have been offering them for more on broker sites such as StubHub, an attempt at profiteering that producers fumed was "despicable."

Proceeds will go to the Robin Hood Foundation, which said it raised $30 million from ticket sales and sponsors ahead of the concert. The organization also stressed that the earnings will get to those who need assistance.

"We will make sure that that money goes out right away to the most affected (places) in New York City, New Jersey, Long Island, Connecticut," David Saltzman, the organization's executive director, said backstage. "The money that we raised from this concert will be distributed in the days, weeks and months, not years."

Robin Hood is working through existing organizations that "know what to do and know their communities," he said. Saltzman added that Fuse TV, which is owned by Madison Square Garden, was giving its YouTube revenues earned from airing the concert to the victims, and that StubHub has donated $860,000 from fees from those selling tickets.

The sold-out "12-12-12" concert was being shown on 37 television stations in the United States and more than 200 others worldwide. It was to be streamed on 30 websites, including YouTube and Yahoo. The theaters showing it included 27 in the New York region.

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AP Writer John Carucci contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/9-11-concert-musicians-turn-sandy-083208565.html

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"Fiscal Cliff" Threatens to Impede Biomedical Discoveries

Scientists fear that automatic cuts in funding for the National Institutes of Health, set to kick in at the start of 2013, will harm research and patients

By Nsikan Akpan

Image: Wikimedia Commons/Kevin McCoy

Brianna Commerford felt a lump. After a few months of feeling mildly ill, she was diagnosed with stage IV Hodgkin?s lymphoma. She was devastated, she was scared, and she was only 9 years old.

Five years later, Brianna is still alive thanks to an experimental treatment she received from the Children?s Oncology Group. Devoted to curing childhood and adolescent cancer, the COG is a clinical trials group that is primarily supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest sponsor of biomedical research in the world.

This month scientists nationwide are petitioning to protect lifesaving research programs like this one before January, when the federal government will automatically slash?or ?sequester??8.2 percent ($2.5 billion) of the NIH budget for 2013 unless Congress stops the move. The money will be withheld because of provisions in the Budget Control Act of 2011 that aimed to cut spending. Combined with the scheduled finale of the Bush-era tax cuts, the provisions are expected to push the country over the now proverbial fiscal cliff.

Separate from the scheduled downsizing of Medicare (2 percent or $14 billion), the NIH cuts threaten to corrode the foundations of biomedical education and research in the U.S. Agencies including the National Science Foundation, NASA and the Department of Defense would also be saddled with lighter coffers. The prospect of deep cuts is particularly alarming to biomedical researchers because the cutbacks would come at a time of already strained budgets.

From 1999 to 2003 the federal allocation for the NIH doubled, which triggered a tremendous boom in the biomedical workforce, according to a 2008 report from an NIH advisory committee. In the years following, though, federal support has failed to keep pace with this expansion in labor; rising inflation and three cuts to the NIH budget in the last seven years have meant that budgeted funds largely go to maintaining the status quo rather than to fresh initiatives.

With fewer awards available, this shortfall has incited fierce competition for federal grants, and consequently the success rate for winning an NIH grant is now at its lowest level in American history. The global financial meltdown of 2008 strained matters further when several private foundations were forced to shut down.

?The sequester could affect both existing and future grants,? says Christy Gullion, an advocate for the University of Washington, which would potentially lose $83 million next year. She has been lobbying in Washington, D.C., since the summer of 2011, when lawmakers resolved the debt-ceiling crisis by passing the Budget Control Act. ?We are in uncharted territory if the sequester takes effect.?

Far from the nation?s capital in the birch forests of Maine, many aspiring biologists opt to spend their free hours in the laboratory of Richmond Thompson, a neuroscientist at Bowdoin College. His studies on how different chemicals in the brain?such as vasopressin, vasotocin and testosterone?affect social behavior offer the perfect research opportunity for intrepid minds.

Thompson?s mentorship program receives part of its support from the NSF through its Broader Impacts initiative, which emphasizes undergraduate education and provides monies for students to perform research during the summer.

?At small schools like Bowdoin, we use undergraduates to do a lot of our research,? says Thompson. ?If the money starts to disappear, not only does our research start to slow down, but it also means far fewer experiences for undergraduates.?

Another scientist fearing the aftermath of the sequestration is Puneet Opal, a neurologist at Northwestern University who has published an editorial opposing the cuts in The Atlantic. He studies spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1), a genetic brain disorder that strikes in adulthood, causing the progressive loss of balance and of muscle control in the face.

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A Guide to the 'Zero Dark Thirty' Torture Debate

Kathryn Bigelow's movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden isn't even out yet, and already people are sparring over?Zero Dark Thirty. Many critics (including our own Richard Lawson) have praised the film for its realism, but certain columnists are now insisting that it glorifies torture, and the critics are fighting back. The voices in this debate can be roughly divided into two camps: 1) the cinephiles who say that portraying torture cinematically isn't the same thing as endorsing it, and 2) the civil libertarians who say that Hollywood shouldn't be portraying the "good guys" engaged in acts of torture. Here's how everyone got so angry so fast, and how to talk about what everyone's talking about:

Phase 1: Critics got all effusive.

NY Film Critics Circle names Zero Dark Thirty as Best Film

? Marc Malkin (@marcmalkin) December 3, 2012

Boston Society of Film Critics vote "Zero Dark Thirty" best film of 2012. #BSFC

? Ty Burr (@tyburr) December 9, 2012

'Zero Dark Thirty' Named Best Film By National Board of Review bit.ly/VE7N37

? Hollywood Reporter (@THR) December 5, 2012

Apparently everyone who gets paid to size up movies loved this movie. Film critic organizations from the New York Film Critics Circle to the Boston Society of Film Critics to the National Board of Review have all placed?Zero Dark Thirty at the top of their 2012 lists. Early reviews admit that the torture scenes are brutal, but they argue that the film remains politically neutral on the subject.?"Zero Dark Thirty?is so pared to essentials that even politics are eliminated," writes The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy.?"There's essentially no?Bush?or?Cheney, no Iraq War, no?Obama?announcing the success of the May 2, 2011, raid on bin Laden's in-plain-sight Pakistani compound." And Bigelow and her screenwriting partner Mark Boal have been praised for their meticulous researched into the story behind the bin Laden raid. In a New York article out today, Mark Harris called the duo "probably our most prominent and least sentimental cultural custodians of the post-9/11 war era."

Phase 2: Columnists got all righteous.

If your film "doesn't have an agenda" and is "journalistic," it shouldn't manufacture a torture narrative: motherjones.com/mixed-media/20?

? Tim Murphy (@timothypmurphy) December 10, 2012

WTF is Kathryn Bigelow doing inserting torture into her film, Zero Dark Thirty, if it wasn't used to get Bin Laden? nyr.kr/VLqoho

? Jay Rosen(@jayrosen_nyu) December 10, 2012

Zero Dark Thirty: Can a movie that relies on fabrications to generate support for war crimes still be considered great? is.gd/ny4RLL

? Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 10, 2012

What's that we hear? Amidst all the thundering applause comes the sound of booing. Frank Bruni launched the backlash, writing that Dick Cheney would feel vindicated by?Zero Dark Thirty's take on torture.?Taking issue with Bigelow's claim in a?New Yorker?profile that she's bringing "almost a journalistic approach to film,"?Mother Jones'?Adam Serwer writes:?

The critical acclaim?Zero Dark Thirty?is already receiving suggests that it may do what Karl Rove could not have done with all the money in the world: embed in the popular imagination the efficacy, even the necessity, of torture, despite available evidence to the contrary.

Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee have found that the bin Laden mission did not hinge on any information obtained from C.I.A. detainees, meaning that torture may not have played any role in the lead-up to his?assassination?after all. So why is it such a central part of Bigelow's film, asks the?irascible?Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald:

What this film does, then, is uncritically presents as fact the highly self-serving, and factually false, claims by the CIA that its torture techniques were crucial in finding bin Laden. Put another way, it propagandizes the public to favorably view clear war crimes by the US government, based on pure falsehoods.

Phase 3: Critics fired back .

ZERO DARK THIRTY does not include scenes of torture to glorify torture. It includes scenes of torture because the U.S. tortured people.

? Matt Singer (@mattsinger) December 10, 2012

ZERO DARK THIRTY: Torture is a thing. Columnists: This movie's pro-torture!

? Scott Tobias (@scott_tobias) December 10, 2012

I'm sorry, Glenn Greenwald, but I don't think this is a piece it's responsible to write until you've seen the film: guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/?

? Alison Willmore (@alisonwillmore) December 10, 2012

Then came the inevitable backlash-to-the-backlash phase. In his retort to Greenwald's rage, Mark Harris made a good point: you haven't even seen this film yet.?Zero Dark Thirty?is still over a week away from limited release, and last time we checked political pundits aren't usually invited to press screenings. Saying a film glorifies violence is always a subjective judgement, and it's even more subjective when you're going off second-hand reports. Here's?New York's film critic David Edelstein responding to Greenwald's criticism of his review:?

I've always admired Greenwald, but his characterization of my review as "gush" is ridiculous. And one should never pronounce on a movie--let alone liken it to Nazi propaganda--without seeing it ... the filmmakers are very careful. They hedge a lot. They don't come close to 24 in their depiction of ticking time bombs and ACLU lawyers ready to sweep down and liberate mass murderers.

Phase 4: So what happens next??

Everyone will still go see?Zero Dark Thirty, it will most likely still win a few Oscars, and debates about the political implications of violence in film will continue to flare up from time to time. You know, like they always do.

RELATED: 'Zero Dark Thirty' for Best Picture Hype Is Real: The Atlantic Wire Golden Tally

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/guide-zero-dark-thirty-torture-debate-202212045.html

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PFT: Packers won't have Nelson in Week 14

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Last Friday night, the reward for completing the injury report roundup was putting up the Florio family Christmas tree.? This week, it?s a night of Christmas shopping.

The chances of getting injured were significantly lower last week.

So as we go out looking for that G.I. Joe with the kung-fu grip, here?s the summary of the guys who will have issues gripping or running or jumping or anything else football players do.

Cardinals at Seahawks

Quarterback Kevin Kolb (ribs) officially is questionable, but it?s not believed he?s ready to play.? Running back Beanie Wells (knee) also is questionable.? For the Seahawks, no major injuries are reported.

Falcons at Panthers

Cornerback Asante Samuel (shoulder) is questionable, as is running back Michael Turner (elbow).? If Turner doesn?t play or is limited, Jacquizz Rodgers could get plenty of touches.? Panthers running back Jonathan Stewart (ankle) is once again doubtful.? Receiver Brandon LaFell is questionable with a toe injury.

Ravens at Redskins

Baltimore cornerback Jimmy Smith (abdomen) likely will miss another game; he?s listed as doubtful.? Linebacker Terrell Suggs (biceps) is a game-time decision, but we?re told the decision most likely will be that he?s playing.? Redskins linebacker London Fletcher once again is questionable with an ankle injury, but he has been playing.? Cornerback DeAngelo Hall, on crutches earlier in the week, is questionable with ankle and knee injuries.

Bears at Vikings

Receiver Earl Bennett (concussions), cornerback Tim Jennings (shoulder), and linebacker Brian Urlacher (hamstring) are out.? Running back Michael Bush (ribs) is questionable.? The good news for the Bears is that receivers Alshon Jeffery (knee) and Devin Hester (concussion) are probable.? With Vikings receiver Percy Harvin (ankle) on IR, the home team has no other significant injuries.

Cowboys at Bengals

Dallas defensive lineman Jay Ratliff will miss another game with a groin injury.? Bengals cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick is out with a head injury, and kicker Mike Nugent (calf) is doubtful.? Receiver A.J. Green (illness) and tight end Jermaine Gresham (hamstring) are both probable.

Chiefs at Browns

Several Chiefs are questionable, including tackle Branden Albert (back), safety Eric Berry (hand, illness), cornerback Brandon Flowers (hamstring), and safety Kendrick Lewis (shoulder).? The Browns have no players listed as less than probable.

Dolphins at 49ers

The Dolphins have no significant injuries.? 49ers receiver Mario Manningham (shoulder) is doubtful, which could mean more reps, targets, and touches for Randy Moss and/or rookie A.J. Jenkins.

Saints at Giants

Tackle Charles Brown (knee) and cornerback Corey White (knee) are out for the Saints.? Giants safety Kenny Phillips (knee) is doubtful, and receiver Hakeem Nicks (knee) is questionable.

Jets at Jaguars

New York receiver Clyde Gates (concussion) remains out.? Tight end Dustin Keller (ankle) is doubtful.? Receiver Stephen Hills (knee) is questionable.? Several Jaguars are out, including running back Rashad Jennings (concussion), running back Maurice Jones-Drew (foot), and receiver Cecil Shorts (concussion).

Eagles at Buccaneers

Running back LeSean McCoy and quarterback Mike Vick remain out with concussions.? Defensive tackle Mike Patterson is hospitalized with viral pneumonia.? Bucs cornerback LeQuan Lewis is out with a knee injury.? Receiver Vincent Jackson (calf) is probable.

Chargers at Steelers

For San Diego, linebacker Donald Butler (groin), tackle Jeromey Clary (knee) and receiver Eddie Royal (hamstring) are out.? Steelers tackle Mike Adams, cornerback Ike Taylor, and linebacker LaMarr Woodley are all out, with ankle injuries.

Rams at Bills

Receiver Danny Amendola (foot) is questionable, as are Bills receiver Stevie Johnson (hamstring) and cornerback Leodis McKelvin (back).

Titans at Colts

Tennessee linebacker Colin McCarthy (concussion) and receiver Damian Williams (hamstring) are out.? Colts tackle Winston Justice (concussion) is questionable.

Lions at Packers

Receiver Calvin Johnson is off the injury report, for the first time in a while.? Tackle Jeff Backus (hamstring) is questionable, along with five defensive players:? safety Louis Delmas (knee), defensive tackle Nick Fairley (quad), cornerback Chris Houston (ankle), cornerback Jacob Lacey (foot, Achilles), and defensive tackle Corey Williams (knee).? Five packers are out ? linebacker Clay Matthews (hamstring), receiver Jordy Nelson (hamstring), running back James Starks (knee), defensive end C.J. Wilson (knee), and safety Charles Woodson (collardone).? Guard T.J. Lang is questionable with an ankle injury.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/07/jordy-nelson-ruled-out/related/

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There are two things to know about the Phoenix real estate market of today.?? First, it can appear to move quickly.? Second, it varies?depending on region, price range and community.? So while an article on the overall market in our city or county might be very interesting, it?s not all that useful when you?re trying to get a read on the specific activity in your community.? Today?s blog post is focused on the Desert Ridge 85050 zip code.??Desert Ridge?is a popular area for many reasons.? It?s close to shopping, gorgeous resorts, and night life.?Its proximity to the 101 and 51 freeways?means that residents are about 30 minutes from wherever they want to be in the Phoenix metro area.

To view our latest market report on the Desert Ridge market, click on the Market Update box in the upper-right hand corner of this post.

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Showing properties 1 - 20 of 98. See more Desert Ridge Homes for Sale.
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Goldman Sachs fined $1.5 million for trading glitch

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc was fined $1.5 million to settle charges it failed to supervise its traders and allowing one futures dealer to hide billions in dollars from sight and causing a $118 million loss.

Ex-Goldman trader Matthew Marshall Taylor in 2007 camouflaged an $8.3 billion position, manually entering fake trades, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Friday.

"Goldman failed to have policies or procedures reasonably designed to detect and prevent the manual entry of fabricated futures trades into its front office systems," the top U.S. derivatives regulator said.

"As a result, on seven trading days in November and December 2007, Taylor circumvented Goldman's risk management, compliance, and supervision systems," the CFTC said.

In a lawsuit in New York in November, the CFTC sought a $130,000 civil penalty against Taylor, who at the time was a vice president at the bank's Capital Structure Franchise Trading desk, and later went to work for Morgan Stanley.

Goldman Sachs took a $118 million loss in unwinding the position in e-mini S&P 500 futures contracts.

"Taylor's activity was flagged by our controls on December 14, with no impact to customer funds," Goldman Sachs said in an emailed statement. "Since these events, we have enhanced our controls. We're pleased to have settled this matter."

Taylor had established the position on December 13, 2007.

Bart Chilton, a Democrat and one the CFTC's commissioners, thought the penalty was too low.

"I believe that the monetary penalty should be significantly higher in order to represent a sufficient punishment, as well as to denote a meaningful deterrent to future illegal activity," Chilton said in a statement.

(Reporting by Douwe Miedema, Additional reporting by Lauren Tara LaCapra; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Andre Grenon)

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