Falcons pick off Brees 5 times, beat Saints 23-13

ATLANTA (AP) ? Boy, did Drew Brees lay an egg against the Atlanta Falcons.

Five interceptions for the first time in his career.

The end of his NFL-record touchdown streak.

And a timing mistake that cost the Saints dearly.

The Falcons raced to a 17-0 lead, then turned to their defense to make it stand up. The result was a 23-13 victory Thursday night that pushed Atlanta to the brink of a division championship and may have finished off the Saints' fading hopes.

"Five interceptions against one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play the game," said Falcons cornerback Dunta Robinson. "That's an amazing feeling."

Brees had thrown a touchdown pass in 54 consecutive games, eclipsing Johnny Unitas' longstanding record earlier in the season.

"I can't lie," said safety William Moore, who had two of Atlanta's interceptions. "We didn't even know about it."

All the Falcons (11-1) cared about was beating their biggest rival and a nemesis in recent years. New Orleans (5-7) had won four in a row and 11 of 13, the bitter feelings in the series epitomized by the reception the Saints got at the Atlanta airport.

Their bus was pelted by eggs.

Brees looked like he was playing on egg shells at the Georgia Dome.

"That's the first time that's ever happened to me, so that's extremely disappointing," he said. "I pride myself on being a good decision-maker and not someone who will be a detriment to the game."

Michael Turner scored on Atlanta's opening possession, Tony Gonzalez hauled in a touchdown pass from Matt Ryan, and Matt Bryant booted three field goals, including a 55-yarder.

The defense did the rest. Thomas DeCoud, Sean Weatherspoon and Jonathan Babineaux also had interceptions, and another pick by Corey Peters didn't count because of a penalty. The performance was even more impressive considering the Falcons' best cover cornerback, Asante Samuel, left the game in the first quarter after aggravating a right shoulder injury.

"We got the monkey off our back," DeCoud said.

The Falcons will clinch the NFC South with a month to go if Tampa Bay loses at Denver on Sunday.

Brees threw an apparent scoring pass to Darren Sproles late in the first half, but it was nullified by a penalty. Then, with 12 seconds remaining in the half, Brees dumped a pass over the middle to Sproles with no timeouts. He was wrapped up at the Atlanta 3 and the clock ran out before the Saints could spike the ball to try a field goal.

A rookie-like mistake.

"Honestly, I thought we had more time than we did," Brees said. "The last time I remember, we had 17 seconds. ... But it was down to 7 when I looked up after the completion. That wasn't enough time to get the spike. That's on me."

Another possible TD pass went through the hands of Lance Moore early in the third, forcing the Saints to settle for a field goal that made it 17-10.

Four days earlier, Brees had two passes picked off and returned for touchdowns in a loss to San Francisco.

This one was even worse. He finished 28 of 50 for 341 yards but had a rating of just 37.6, the third-lowest off his career.

After winning so many close games, the Falcons started this one as if they were intent on routing the only team to beat them this season. New Orleans knocked off Atlanta 31-27 at the Superdome on Nov. 11, the bright spot in a tumultuous year that was marred by a bounty scandal and a season-long suspension for coach Sean Payton.

Ryan completed a pass on the first play from scrimmage before turning it over to a running game that has struggled most of the season. Turner burst around right end for a 35-yard gain. Jacquizz Rodgers broke off two straight 14-yard gains. Finally, it was Turner going in standing from 3 yards out, giving Atlanta a quick 7-0 lead.

That was Turner's 58th touchdown in five seasons with the Falcons, breaking the team record he had shared with Terance Mathis.

Atlanta struck again in the opening minute of the second period. Ryan threw a 17-yard touchdown pass to Gonzalez in the back of the end zone, taking advantage of the matchup with their former teammate, linebacker Curtis Lofton.

Brees' second interception, this one a sloppy pass behind running Chris Ivory that deflected into the arms of Weatherspoon, set up Bryant's 45-yard field goal for a 17-0 lead.

Then, suddenly, the game completely changed.

For the rest of the second quarter and most of the third, the Saints totally dominated. Mark Ingram scored on a 1-yard run, capping an 11-play, 80-yard drive.

After squandering that long drive at the end of the half, Brees got the ball to start the third quarter and went back to work. He made a couple of nifty moves to avoid sacks, completing six passes on an 83-yard drive consuming 15 plays and more than 6? minutes. But the Falcons held again, forcing Garrett Hartley to boot a 21-yard field goal that cut it to 17-10.

Hartley connected from 52 yards on the Saints' next possession to make it even closer.

The Falcons failed to pick up a first down on five straight possessions, a stretch in which the Saints had a 289-30 lead in total yards and a staggering 18 first downs.

But the Atlanta defense kept coming through when it counted.

Late in the third, Brees rolled to his right and threw over the middle. Moore stepped in front of the receiver and returned it to the New Orleans 41. Ryan connected on first-down throws to Gonzalez and Roddy White to set up Bryant for a 29-yarder that extended the lead back to a touchdown.

Moore made another pick in the closing minutes to seal the victory.

NOTES: Brees had two previous games with four interceptions. ... Turner ran 12 times for 83 yards. ... Lance Moore of the Saints hauled in 11 passes for 123 yards.

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The Big East Is a Failed Experiment

Rick Pitino and Louisville are moving from the Big East to the ACC.

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In the last few days in conference realignment, Maryland and Rutgers left the ACC and Big East respectively to join the Big Ten; Louisville switched from the Big East to the ACC; Tulane and East Carolina moved from Conference USA to the Big East (the latter in football only); Florida Atlantic and Middle Tennessee went from the Sun Belt to Conference USA; Denver traded the Western Athletic Conference for the Summit League; and the for-profit Grand Canyon University joined the WAC, becoming the first school of its kind to catch on with a Division 1 conference. The inevitable result of all this horse-trading: In 2022, the Pac-28?s University of Phoenix will play for college football?s national title in University of Phoenix Stadium. (They will lose to Alabama, the champion of the Confederate Football States of America.)

It?s surprising it took a for-profit school this long to get in on the action. For all of these institutions of higher learning, switching from one conference to another is all about profit maximization. This is more a truism than a criticism: Major athletic departments do everything they can to wring every dollar from their football and basketball programs. For the University of Maryland, moving to the Big Ten means an instant bump of $12 million in annual television revenues with the promise of more to come when the conference renegotiates its TV deal in 2017. But if this is a blatant cash grab, then Maryland isn?t grabbing as much as it could. That?s because joining up with the same group of schools for all sports doesn?t make sense.

Even if a school is successful at both football and basketball, fans and big-money donors usually care about one far more than the other. Florida, Texas, Michigan, and Ohio State typically excel at both sports, but they?re really football schools. Duke, North Carolina, and Kentucky are basketball schools. (What colleges are equally passionate about both? It?s hard to think of many?BYU, Illinois, and maybe Georgia Tech come to mind.)

Given that reality, college athletics would be more lucrative and?just as important?more stable if football schools and basketball schools stuck together. Imagine a basketball-only conference featuring Maryland, Georgetown, and Syracuse along with the likes of Duke, UNC, Kentucky, Indiana, and Kansas. Likewise, the SEC?s top football powers could enrich themselves still further by dumping Vanderbilt and Kentucky?s gridiron Wildcats in favor of football-only members Texas and Florida State.

This is not a radical idea. For years, Notre Dame has sold its sports a la carte: It?s an independent in football, plays hockey in the CCHA (it will join Hockey East in 2013), fences in the Midwest Fencing Conference, and plays every other sport as part of the Big East. Notre Dame will soon jump from the Big East to the ACC in most sports. It makes sense for the Irish basketball team, which has been good lately, to align itself with powers like North Carolina and Duke. It makes less sense for its lucrative football team to go all-in, which is why the Irish are staying independent and playing five games a season against ACC opponents.

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Mathematics used to identify contamination in water distribution networks

ScienceDaily (Nov. 28, 2012) ? None of us want to experience events like the Camelford water pollution incident in Cornwall, England, in the late eighties, or more recently, the Crestwood, Illinois, water contamination episode in 2009 where accidental pollution of drinking water led to heart-wrenching consequences to consumers, including brain damage, high cancer risk, and even death. In the case of such catastrophes, it is important to have a method to identify and curtail contaminations immediately to minimize impact on the public. A paper published earlier this month in the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics considers the identification of contaminants in a water distribution network as an optimal control problem within a networked system.

"Water supply networks are an essential part of our infrastructure. Sometimes the water in such a network can be contaminated, often by human error, causing the use of polluted water for drinking water production. In the case of such a situation, it is important to have a method to identify the location of the pollution source," says the paper's author, Martin Gugat, explaining the significance of his work. The paper considers a water distribution network with a finite number of nodes where contamination can occur in the pipes.

"The contamination spreads dynamically through the network with time. So, in order to model the system, a model of the evolution in time is necessary," explains Gugat. "In our approach, we use a partial differential equation (PDE) to model how pollution spreads in the network."

By using a PDE model for transport of contaminants, the problem of identifying the source becomes an optimal control problem. The solution is calculated using equidistant time grids, which allows one to determine the values of contamination at all potential sources on the time grid. Available data on pollution and network flow is incorporated into the model.

Employing certain assumptions for travel times through the pipes, the author uses a least-squares method to solve the problem. The least squares method provides approximate solutions to optimization problems that are relatively e?cient to compute using the tools of numerical linear algebra.

This provides a fast method to identify possible contamination sources, explains Gugat. "For a really accurate model, however, a full system of three-dimensional PDEs is necessary. But with three-dimensional PDEs, simulation is only possible for small networks," he says. "This illustrates that to solve real life problems on real networks, there is a trade-off between the accuracy of the model and its utility."

While the method is tested numerically in the paper, additional work would involve testing the system with an existing water network to demonstrate its workability in practice.

Another future direction is toward elimination of the contaminant. "The second step after the identification of the contamination source is a strategy to flush the polluted water out of the network as fast as possible with acceptable operational cost. The development of an optimal strategy for such a rehabilitation of the water supply is an interesting question for future research," says Gugat.

"For a more detailed model of the process, more complex nonlinear PDEs could be used," he continues. "The cost of the numerical treatment of complex PDEs for large networks is prohibitive. Applied mathematics has to offer models that can be used according to the problem requirements to solve problems with network graphs of a realistic size."

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From analog to digital: Two-way radios continue to enhance public ...

Two-way radios, first used in police patrol cars in 1933, have undergone immense transformation in the past few years, driven by the evolution of technology. Today, it remains a mainstay for mission-critical and business-critical communications, especially for public safety.

Daren Ng, Business Development Director, Two-way radio channels, APAC, said Digital two-way radios have kept pace with the changing needs of governments and enterprises and their market is continuing to grow.

"In government it is even more valuable because radio design enables intuitive usage during critical moments. Features such as GPS technology, man down function, and ambient listening are proven life savers, especially during public safety operations, or working in remote locations such as forests or in mines," he said.

In an email interview, he explained further the advantage of the system in the era of smartphones and mobile devices:

eGov Innovation: Please give an overview of two-way digital radios, the digitization of information and how they benefit high-risk environments.

Darren Ng (DN): The transformation of two-way radios was driven by the evolution of technology and the emergence of standards based on technologies such as TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio) and APCO (Association of Public Safety Communications Officials International) for public safety users, and DMR (Digital Mobile Radio) standard for professional commercial radio users in the enterprise space.

This evolution from analog to digital has exponentially increased capabilities such as integrated voice & data, advanced signaling, improved voice quality, stronger security, voice privacy and spectrum efficiency. TETRA and APCO mission-critical digital
trunked radio networks are built to be scalable, resilient and available, support intensive data applications and offer features unique to mission-critical use. A similar capability set is also offered by DMR standards-based two-way radios for business critical use.

Radios are built to stringent ruggedness standards to ensure they withstand multiple drops to concrete, water and dust ingress, and withstand extreme temperatures. The radio design enables intuitive usage during critical moments. Radios that are ATEX or ATmosphere EXplosive certified ensure safe communication in combustible environments such as mines, refineries and oil platforms.

Finally, private radio networks are built with high redundancies to ensure they are available during emergencies. TDMA technology makes the radios spectrally efficient and gives up to 40 percent extra talk time, very critical for those working in remote areas where public cellular networks are not accessible and radio is the only lifeline available.

eGov Innovation: With the surge in the use of tablets and smartphones, what is the advantage in using digital radios for organizations, especially in the government (for use in ensuring public safety)?

DN: Very often, the safety of communities depends on calls getting through to the public safety agency, command and control center and field officers. Therefore, certainty of communication is essential.

Cellular networks, which personal devices such as smartphones and tablets have access to, are not designed and built for mission-critical communication. When disaster strikes or large accidents occur, it is usually the cellular networks that are the first to suffer disruption due to high call traffic.

Private radio networks stand-alone and function within a dedicated spectrum and on a private infrastructure that is purpose-built with high redundancies to ensure robust functioning. This makes them an essential backbone for government and public safety agencies that require instantaneous, one-to-many communication. The other advantage vital for government users would be security of information relay, which is enforced through encryption.

The cost-to-benefit ratio for users is significant. The ruggedness of the devices and the long device lifecycle deliver investment assurance. Once the network is set up, unlimited calls between users and groups of users can be made, which translates to significant savings in cost of operations and utilization. The benefits in terms of immediacy of communication and reliability may also make a
critical difference in life-saving situations.

eGov Innovation: How important are two-way radios as a tool for lone workers operating in high-risk environments??

DN: High-risk environments include oil pipelines, mines, chemical plants, forests, man-made disasters or even crime scenes. Many of these places would typically have low or insufficient cellular network coverage, be combustible, remote or have other forms of risks. This is where a two-way radio, running on a dedicated private network and with a rich set of features, comes in as essential to the lone-worker.

Digital two-way radios can be programmed to send a heartbeat signal, which ensures that a lone worker responds to a regular, recurring alarm, which then sends a signal back to the control station, confirming he is safe. In a mine, combustible gases are often present, thus, endangering the lives of miners who may not be using communication equipment that are ATEX certified (Safe Communication in Explosive Atmosphere).

Similarly, for a public safety officer attending to a distress call, the man-down function or the emergency button and GPS location tracking in the radio can be a lifesaver. Lone worker capabilities on two-way radios have also enabled companies to reduce their costs and manpower requirements.

eGov Innovation: What kind of infrastructure is needed for an enterprise or government agency to be able to deploy digital radios? How much is the investment? What are the different kinds of devices that currently in use??

DN: In many countries, two-way radios are a controlled and restricted item. Only the police, military or other public safety agencies are allowed to use it, as spectrum is precious. In order to deploy digital two-way radio communication, an enterprise must obtain frequency license from the local regulator for a fee that the regulator may impose. For example, in Singapore, the local regulator is the Infocomm Development Authority (iDA).

Depending on the geographical size of operations to be covered, a network may require a repeater or several repeaters to ensure sufficient radio coverage. Other considerations would include terrain, altitude or other topographical peculiarities, number of users on the network, type of network ? a mix of voice and data, and applications to be run.

The different types of devices currently in use include portables and mobiles. Portables would consist of hand-held devices with/without display, with full/limited keypad and built-in GPS for resource and asset tracking.

Mobiles would consist of devices built into a vehicle and would have almost similar options, including GPS and full/limited display. There are a number of options and models enterprises can choose from, including Motorola?s latest MOTOTRBO SL Series, the slimmest two-way radio ever.

Scalability is achieved using a link via standard Internet protocol (IP) to another site. The highest MOTOTRBO scalable system can connect up to 35 sites via IP and support thousands of subscribers. Likewise, TETRA and APCO digital systems can be scaled up to nationwide networks, for the use of single or multiple agencies with hundreds of thousands of users and for interoperability and backward compatibility with earlier generation analog systems.

eGov Innovation: What can Motorola offer in this space?

DN: Motorola Solutions has been working with the industry to drive digital migration of the predominantly analog base, as digital offers immense benefits to the users and is spectrum efficient.

Motorola Solutions has, in fact, achieved an industry milestone of over a million MOTOTRBO digital radios shipped in 2011. The move to digital has opened up new areas of applications for two way radios as essential productivity tools in enterprises, supported by a growing world of two way radio application developments.

Digital two-way radios play a significant role as productivity enablers, and provide a compelling case for cost efficiency. They are not irreplaceable in situations requiring command and control communications, task oriented communication, harsh environments and areas where immediacy of communication is critical. Consumer technologies from the BYOD world are simply not built for these inherent advantages.
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Logitech T650 Wireless Rechargeable Touchpad

While plenty of new laptops and desktops are incorporating touch screens to accommodate the touch-centric aspects of Windows 8, not everyone who upgraded to the new operating system chose to upgrade to more expensive touch-enabled hardware. For those folks, as well as anyone who questions the ergonomics of a touch-screen desktop, there is the new Logitech T650 Wireless Rechargeable Touchpad. Where most Windows 8 peripherals are adding broader touch functionality to traditional mice?like the Microsoft Wedge Touch Mouse and the Microsoft Sculpt Touch Mouse ?the Logitech T650 Touchpad puts the best features of the new OS into a desktop touchpad, bringing new features and functionality with comfort and style. This makes it our Editors' Choice for Windows 8 computer mice.

Design and Features
The glass surface of the T650 is delightfully smooth, providing as perfect a touch surface as you can hope for. The bronze-grey color should blend nicely with the silvers, greys, and blacks of the average desktop PC, while still having a bit of style. Measuring 0.4 by 5.25 by 5.1 inches (HWD), the T650 is roughly the same size as the Apple Magic Trackpad . It's large enough for comfortable use, but small enough to be slipped into a laptop bag pocket and taken to and from work. And since it only weighs 7.2 ounces, the extra bulk won't weigh you down either.

The entire touchpad is clickable, so a firm press almost anywhere on the surface registers easily. The lower right corner of the touchpad, however, is reserved for right clicking. Two-finger scrolling is smooth and simple, and offers both vertical and horizontal scroll, which is essential when navigating the long horizontally-laid out start screen.

Windows 8 shortcuts are also built in. Swiping from the right edge of the touchpad pulls up the Charms Bar, just as it does when swiping the right edge of a touch screen. Swiping the left edge of the touchpad cycles through open apps. Swiping from the top pulls up the Applications Bar (which is counter-intuitively located at the bottom of the screen). Swiping up or down with three fingers pulls up first the home screen and then the desktop, while swiping right and left are Forward and Back, respectively, within the web browser.

The T650 connects to the PC via USB receiver, Logitech's Unifying Receiver, which can also support several other Logitech wireless products. This is a bit of a departure from the many Windows 8 devices we've seen utilizing Bluetooth in order to free up USB ports. The reasoning behind it is that on a desktop PC, the lack of USB ports isn't an issue, and Logitech's wireless protocols offer better battery efficiency than Bluetooth can, thus extending the life of the rechargeable battery. Logitech also covers the T650 Touchpad with a three-year warranty.

Performance
The only problems I encountered during use were with the more complex gestures, such as Zoom?the pinching motion rarely registered properly. And one feature that was shown to us just before the product was announced?the right "flick" for pulling up the side bar of open apps?seems to have disappeared, with the functionality missing and no mention of it in any current product documentation.

One head-scratcher that occurred to us during testing is the fact that the wireless touchpad is charged via USB, raising the obvious question, why use a wireless device for a stationary desktop? Obviously, the wireless aspect does provide a certain flexibility, and the included three-foot cable might be a bit short for some desktop arrangements, but I could easily see a slightly cheaper wired version of this product selling just as well as the wireless model.

For any Windows 8 user who wants to embrace the intuitive touch controls built in to Windows 8 but doesn't want to upgrade to a touch-screen system, the Logitech T650 Wireless Rechargeable Touchpad gives you all of the intuitive control of a touch screen in a comfortable, unobtrusive peripheral. Windows users who have envied the Apple Magic Trackpad now have a viable Windows alternative. Though it's not perfect, it has a broader feature set than the Windows 8 mice we've reviewed?like the Microsoft Wedge Mobile Mouse and the Microsoft Sculpt Mobile Mouse?and earns our Editors' Choice nod for Windows 8 computer mice.

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BlackBerry Patagonia 9620 leaks, says hola Nextel

BlackBerry 10 may be just around the bend, but it seems that's not going to stop RIM from launching a new handset. A leaked document posted by Crackberry has revealed the specs of the QWERTY-toting BlackBerry Patagonia 9620 -- there's BB OS 7.1 running the show with a 1.2GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 processor under the hood, mated with 768MB RAM. Par for the course, the display is a 2.44-inch, 480 x 360 affair, and you can also find 2GB of storage augmentable via microSD, a 5-megapixel rear snapper, GPS, WiFi and PTT support along for the ride -- if the source is to be believed. Info on pricing and the exact release date of the apparently budget smartphone is MIA as yet, but Nextel Mexico has it pegged for a December outing. You can sign up for a release notification if you're covered and can't curb your buying itch before BB10's entry-level offerings land.

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Model sheds light on chemistry that sparked origin of life

ScienceDaily (Nov. 26, 2012) ? The question of how life began on a molecular level has been a longstanding problem in science. However, recent mathematical research sheds light on a possible mechanism by which life may have gotten a foothold in the chemical soup that existed on the early Earth.

Researchers have proposed several competing theories for how life on Earth could have gotten its start, even before the first genes or living cells came to be. Despite differences between various proposed scenarios, one theme they all have in common is a network of molecules that have the ability to work together to jumpstart and speed up their own replication -- two necessary ingredients for life. However, many researchers find it hard to imagine how such a molecular network could have formed spontaneously -- with no precursors -- from the chemical environment of early Earth.

"Some say it's equivalent to a tornado blowing through a junkyard and assembling the random pieces of metal and plastic into a Boeing 747," said co-author Wim Hordijk, a visiting scientist at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham, North Carolina, and a participant in an astrobiology meeting held there last year.

In a previous study published in 2004, Hordijk and colleague Mike Steel of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand used a mathematical model of simple chemical reactions to show that such networks might form more easily than many researchers thought. Indeed, biochemists have recently created such networks in the lab.

In a new study published this year, Hordijk, Steel, and colleague Stuart Kauffman of the University of Vermont analyzed the structure of the networks in their mathematical models and found a plausible mechanism by which they could have evolved to produce the building blocks of life we know today, such as cell membranes or nucleic acids.

"It turns out that if you look at the structure of the networks of molecules [in our models], very often they're composed of smaller subsets of molecules with the same self-perpetuating capabilities," Hordijk explained.

By combining, splitting, and recombining to form new types of networks from their own subunits, the models indicate that these subsets of molecules could give rise to increasingly large and complex networks of chemical reactions, and, presumably, life.

"These results could have major consequences for how we think life may have originated from pure chemistry," Hordijk writes.

The study will appear in the December 2012 print issue of the journal Acta Biotheoretica.

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Saudi-backed religious center opens in Austria

VIENNA (AP) ? U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday urged Israel and Hamas to respect their cease-fire but said only mutual recognition of Israel's right to exist and an independent Palestine could ensure permanent peace in the region.

Ban commented during ceremonies launching a Saudi-sponsored and funded center in Vienna meant to promote dialogue between the world's main religions. Ban's pointed remarks were in contrast with other speakers who spoke in general terms about the need for religious understanding.

"I am determined to ensure that the cease-fire is sustained," he said about last week's agreement between Israel and Hamas committing both sides to stop hostilities and easing concerns of an Israeli invasion of Gaza.

Ban said that while both sides must adhere to the cease-fire, the ultimate goal in the region had to be a "two-state solution ending the (Israeli) occupation and the conflict," adding: "This is critical to regional stability."

The U.N. chief also said he is concerned about the destruction of religious artifacts by extremists in Mali, citing it as an example of the need to "promote long-term mutual understanding that transcends religious, national, cultural and ethnic boundaries."

Other dignitaries at the ceremonial launch at Vienna's ornate Hofburg palace included Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and his Austrian and Spanish counterparts, Michael Spindelegger and Jose Manual Garcia-Margallo y Marfil.

Their presence reflected their countries' backing for the center, even though the Saudis are playing the most prominent role in organizing it and meeting its expenses for the first three years.

The three spoke in over-all terms about the need to overcome religious differences and expressed hope that the center would achieve that goal.

But Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, in charge of interfaith dialogue for the Vatican departed from the script, indirectly criticizing Saudi Arabia for not allowing any religion other than Islam.

"Everyone is expecting ... honesty, vision and credibility" from the center, he said, adding it must work for "religious freedom in all its aspects for everybody," including "in countries where such freedoms are not guaranteed."

The center's board consists of three Christians, three Muslims, a Jew, a Buddhist and a Hindu. Backers hope it will promote increased tolerance not only in Europe but also in Saudi Arabia, where the ruling royal family must move cautiously in implementing reforms because of resistance from the powerful clergy.

But detractors, including Austria's Green party and moderate Muslim groups, say Saudi Arabia ? home to the conservative brand of Wahhabi Islam ? is the last country that should be hosting initiatives on religious coexistence. They say the center could be used to spread Islamic fundamentalism in Europe.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-backed-religious-center-opens-austria-223249927.html

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The National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC) is the nation?s largest non-profit financial counseling organization. The NFCC provides financial counseling and education on all things money like smart spending during the holidays, how to create a monthly budget, and calculators to help you buy a home or pay off debt.

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Egyptians attend the funeral of Gaber Salah, who was who was killed in clashes with security forces in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. Thousands of Egyptians on Monday gathered into Cairo's Tahrir Square to attend the funeral of Salah, who was severely injured during clashes with security forces last week and died Sunday night. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

Egyptians attend the funeral of Gaber Salah, who was who was killed in clashes with security forces in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. Thousands of Egyptians on Monday gathered into Cairo's Tahrir Square to attend the funeral of Salah, who was severely injured during clashes with security forces last week and died Sunday night. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

FILE -- In this Feb. 11, 2012 fie photo, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington. For decades, Norquist vowed to drive Republicans out of office if they didn?t pledge to oppose tax increases. Many signed on, but now, several senior Republican lawmakers are breaking ranks, willing to consider raising more money through taxes as part of a deal with Democrats and the White House to avoid a catastrophic budget meltdown. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

FILE - In this March 12, 2012 file photo, actor Angus T. Jones arrives at the Paleyfest panel discussion of the television series "Two and a Half Men" in Beverly Hills, Calif. Jones, the teenage actor who plays the half in the hit CBS comedy "Two and a Half Men" says it's "filth" and through a video posted by a Christian church has urged viewers not to watch it. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File)

1. EGYPT'S PRESIDENT DEFENDS HIS SEIZURE OF NEW POWERS

Morsi tells the nation's top judges that he won't compromise as anger over his moves mounts.

2. WAL-MART DISTANCES ITSELF FROM BANGLADESH FIRE

The garment factory where a blaze killed 112 people had been making clothes for the retail giant without its knowledge, the company says.

3. ANTI-TAX BARRIER CRUMBLING AMID BUDGET CRISIS

Many Republican lawmakers have vowed never to vote for a tax increase. Now, facing the "fiscal cliff," they're rethinking those pledges.

4. WHERE SHOPPERS SOUGHT HOLIDAY DEALS

Americans clicked away on their computers and smartphones for bargains on Cyber Monday, shaping up as the biggest online shopping day ever.

5. WHAT ENVIRONMENTALISTS FIND TROUBLING ABOUT THE U.N. CLIMATE TALKS

The two-week conference is being held in Qatar ? the world's biggest per capita emitter of greenhouse carbons.

6. POWERBALL JACKPOT SWELLS TO RECORD $425 MILLION

But consider: The odds of your being struck by lightning are 1 in 5,000. The odds of winning Wednesday's jackpot? One in 175 million.

7. WHOSE STAR IS RISING FOR SECRETARY OF STATE

As congressional opposition softens, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice is the clear front-runner to succeed Hillary Clinton.

8. CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY MOURNS FAMILY SWEPT TO SEA

The nightmarish chain of events started after a teen, now presumed dead, tried to save the family dog; his parents also drowned in the churning surf.

9. WHY AN ACTOR IS TURNING AGAINST HIS OWN HIT TV SHOW

Citing the Bible, Angus T. Jones, youthful star on the comedy "Two and a Half Men," says the show is "filth" and no one should watch it.

10. FEDERAL MEDIATORS TO JOIN NHL LOCKOUT TALKS

Hockey players and management have not negotiated since last Wednesday, and more than a third of the regular season has already been canceled.

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Budget battle weighs on shopping season

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The impasse in Congress over the ?fiscal cliff? could be the Grinch that steals Christmas if it isn?t resolved soon.

A record 247 million shoppers visited stores and websites over the four-day Black Friday weekend, up 9 percent from last year, according to the National Retail Federation. They spent an average $423 this year, up 6 percent from last year, for a total of $59 billion.

?I think there's a long way to go,? said retail industry analyst Dana Telsey. ?This season is going to be a battle almost every single day as you keep getting through to those ten days before (December) 25th. I think we go into a lull period now before you get the big sales coming again.?

Even without the uncertainty over a $500 million wave of tax hikes and spending cuts set to hit paychecks Jan. 1, retailers face some major challenges this holiday season.

With unemployment stuck at nearly at 8 percent, millions of households are without paychecks. Still reeling from last month?s Superstorm Sandy, millions of hard-hit households have had to dip into savings to clean up and rebuild. (Based on insurance data from previous storms, as much as half of the estimated $50 billion in property losses may have been uninsured.) Spending on lost household furnishings and damaged homes will divert funds that would otherwise have gone to holiday shopping.

Spending may also fade this holiday season because, continuing a decade-long trend, retailers kicked it off ?even earlier this year. Some consumers have already spent all or part of the money they budgeted for the holidays.

With so much economic uncertainty this year ?retailers started extending their promotional period,? said American Express vice chairman Ed Gilligan. ?Our research says that some people have been holiday shopping since Halloween or even earlier.?

Consumers who haven?t finished ? or even started ? their holiday shopping face continued uncertainty until Congress and the White House reach a budget deal. One of the biggest single hits to spending would come from the expiration of jobless benefits which, unless renewed, would remove $26 billion from consumer spending next year, according to the non-partisan?Congressional Budget Office.

Since the recession hit in 2007, Congress has battled multiple times over the extension of four separate? tiers? of extended benefits. As a result, most beneficiaries are keenly aware of just how vulnerable they are to a last-minute cutoff of those extended tiers.?

All those people facing expiration are going to keep their wallets closed, even if a last-minute deal is reached before year-end.

On Monday, a White House report estimated that letting taxes rise on middle-class families would take a? $200 billion bite out of consumer spending in 2013. That 1.7 percentage point cut in spending would knock 1.4 percentage points off GDP growth, according to the White House's National Economic Council and Council of Economic Advisers.

The retail industry, which has accounted for nine percent of employment growth since the U.S. recession ended in June 2009, would be among the hardest hit, the report said.

The CBO has estimated that, unless modified or postponed, the budget law set to take effect in January will push the U.S. economy back into recession and send the unemployment rate to 9.1 percent ? up from the current 7.9 percent. The budget package would send the nation?s gross domestic product, which grew at a 2 percent annual rate in the third quarter, into reverse, shrinking at a 0.5 percent rate, according to the CBO analysis.

Much of the contraction would come from a sharp slowdown in consumer spending, according to Monday?s analysis by the White House of the impact on middle class consumers.

The report was the latest volley by President Barack Obama in his ongoing political battle to strike a deal with Republicans that would extend tax cuts for families making less than $250,000 a year and raise taxes on people making more.

Shortly after his re-election, Obama called on Congress to extend tax cuts for 98 percent of American families even before wider deal is reached. The White House also wants lawmakers to fix the alternative minimum tax, set up decades ago to remove tax breaks for high-income households. Because it was not indexed for inflation, is has to be fixed every year to avoid snaring in millions of less affluent taxpayers.

Middle class households ? along with all wage earners - will also lose about $68 a week in spending money if the two percent payroll tax holiday is allowed to expire.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economywatch/budget-standoff-weighs-holiday-shopping-season-1C7206758

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