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With the prospect of higher tax rates on dividends ahead, a few companies appear likely to dole out payments before year end, the CNBC " Fast Money " pros said Tuesday.
The lack of a budget deal in Washington could mean higher taxes on dividends next year, leading investors to look at stocks paying a special dividend by Dec. 31.
OptionMonster.com's Jon Najarian expressed optimism that politicians would avoid the worst of the potential pitfalls.
"I believe they will be fixed, but nonetheless, if you're somebody who will be impacted by hundreds of millions of dollars, you push that special dividend out there," he said. "Dillard's and LVS are two of those big names."
For potential special-dividend plays, he added, "I'd look at Microsoft and Apple, quite frankly."
Najarian noted that late Apple CEO Steve Jobs's widow, along with several board members, held large amounts of stock.
Microsoft insiders Steve Ballmer, its CEO, and founder Bill Gates could also potentially choose to avoid a big tax bill.
"They can take the money off the table at 15 percent," he said. "Why wouldn't you?"
Joe Terranova of Virtus Investment Partners liked Murphy Oil for its potential $2.50 per share special dividend, as well as its debt offerings.

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FBI Wins Skirmish in War on Dotcom
Mar 5, 2013 9:32 AM PT
Kim Dotcom experienced a legal setback late last week when the New Zealand Court of Appeal overturned a lower court ruling that had required the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to disclose all of its evidence against him.
However, his fight to avoid extradition is nowhere near closure. Nor has the legal battle curbed his entrepreneurial activities -- Dotcom is searching for a CFO to take Mega, his new online endeavor, public.
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Dotcom is the notorious founder of Megaupload, which was shut down by U.S. authorities last year, following indictments for piracy against Dotcom and other Megaupload execs. Financial assets were seized, and a spectacular raid was carried out at his New Zealand mansion.
Since then, U.S. officials have been trying to have the New Zealand resident extradited to stand trial in the states. The case has been winding its way through the country's legal system, with issues such as the legality of the raid and Dotcom's right to view evidence against him under debate. Essentially, the Court of Appeal said the extradition hearing is not the equivalent of a criminal trial, and Dotcom does not have the same rights that he would if it were.
This is hardly the end of the legal trail, though. Dotcom is expected to appeal his case all of the way to New Zealand's highest court. Legal opinions differ on whether he will ultimately be brought to the U.S. to face charges. Dotcom's next extradition hearing is scheduled for August 2013.
In most countries, including New Zealand, copyright violations are not a criminal matter, Jeff Ifrah, founder of Ifrah Law, told the E-Commerce Times.
"The concept of online piracy being a criminal issue -- that is a reflection of Hollywood and the entertainment industry's ability to lobby Congress to pass strict laws," he said.
Still, the Court of Appeal decision will likely stand, said Ifrah.
"Unfortunately, what the trial judge said about New Zealand's approach to copyright law is very inconsistent" with the country's extradition treaty, he added.
In Search of a CFO
Dotcom, for his part, is showing little sign of angst. Instead, he appears to be focusing on his new endeavor, Mega, a site that surely must strike U.S. prosecutors as interesting and relevant to their original case.
Dotcom launched Mega at the start of the year with much fanfare. Among its chief claims is that it uses "state of the art browser-based encryption technology where you, not us, control the keys."
Reading between the lines, one could infer that Mega is trying to woo users who would like to fly under the radar of prosecuting organizations. Dotcom is seeking a CFO to help take the site public some time in 2013.
How Mega Works
Based on its specs, Mega would indeed appeal to Internet users who would prefer to control outside access to their files, Tim 'TK' Keanini, chief research officer for nCircle, told the E-Commerce Times.
"The Mega service uses 2048-bit encryption by RSA, and according to this blog post by DigiCert; it would take 1.5 million years to crack with a standard desktop computer." he pointed out.
"Mega provides a public/private key system. Users can encrypt files their own files with a private key, but anyone they give the public key to can decrypt them," Keanini continued. "If users are careless with their keys by emailing them in plain text, their data will be far less secure on this site. If they control access to their keys, then this site is pretty secure."
It's unclear whether Mega stores the keys anywhere on its servers, he said, "but if they don't, it will make seizing the servers or intercepting traffic largely useless."


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WASHINGTON (AP) The winless Washington Wizards waived Jannero Pargo and signed free-agent guard Shaun Livingston on Thursday, bringing back a player they hope can help fill the void until John Wall returns from injury.
The Wizards will try to avoid falling to 0-8 for the second consecutive season when they host the Utah Jazz on Saturday night.
A post Thursday on Wizards owner Ted Leonsis' blog said: "We are certainly playing shorthanded, but we still should be a better team with better results than where we sit today."
Washington is the only club in the 30-franchise NBA without a victory this season.
Pargo appeared in all seven of Washington's games so far, averaging 3.0 points and 2.0 rebounds in 14.6 minutes.
He was signed shortly after the Wizards announced that Wall would miss the first month or so of the regular season with a left knee injury.
Wall, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2010 draft, led the Wizards by averaging 16.3 points and eight assists last season. Neither he nor center Nene has played in a game this season.
The 6-foot-7 Livingston was waived by the Houston Rockets in late October after spending the preseason with them. He played for the Milwaukee Bucks last season, averaging 5.5 points, 2.1 assists and 2.1 rebounds and making 27 starts.
Since being the No. 4 overall pick in the 2004 NBA draft out of high school, Livingston has played for six clubs across seven seasons, averaging 6.8 points, 3.5 assists and 2.6 rebounds.
He was with the Wizards in 2009-10, when he appeared in 26 games, with 18 starts, and averaged 9.2 points and 4.5 assists.


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Maybe Hank can pick up a new helmet at the Equipment Sale.
I bet the "Daniel" would fit him just fine.
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This is a weekly feature that will highlight The Good, The Bad and The *fill in the blank* exciting things that are currently happening in the NHL. The Canucks are not playing hockey and John Tortorella has apparently taken a media vow of silence. These are officially the most uninteresting playoffs.
The Good: Equipment Sales!
Hey look – the Canucks are having an end of season equipment and apparel sale on June 9th! Yes, this is our reality and it really sucks. It seems like a not too distant memory that just one year ago the Canucks were kicking ass in the Western Conference Final. Life was good then. I was creating a Canucks Kickass Playlist on my iPod. The sun was shining, the beer was flowing and Canucks fans proudly wore their Canucks jerseys despite how hot it was outside. Now, the city of Vancouver is so eerily empty of Canucks garb – I don't like it.
I have really had to dig to find something good to write about. The New Jersey Devils won a game in the enemy territory of Madison Square Gardens, yay Devils. The New York Rangers are playing intense playoff hockey while NOT making it seem like they just sauntered onto the ice and decided to pick up some sticks and score some goals like it was the easiest thing in the world. Thanks for your dedication to keeping it an entertaining sport, Rangers. Also, Henrik Lundqvist has eyes that are so blue and startling that he could hypnotize everyone trying to score on him if they weren't hidden behind a mask. Like I said, digging for good news. Unlike the bad, of which there is plenty.
The Bad: The Kings Playoff Voodoo
What kind of mental warfare have the LA Kings been dishing out on every opponent that they have faced thus far in the playoffs and, is it legal? I'm still trying to understand just how they went from barely making it into the last playoff spot in the west to annihilating the President's Trophy winners, the number two seed and now are halfway to beating the third seeded Coyotes in an attempt to advance to the Stanley Cup Final. I am perplexed, truly.
The Kings have lost ONE playoff game so far. ONE. And that one loss happened because of the Canucks, ages ago it seems. This is not what playoff hockey is supposed to be like! Where is the challenge? The difficulty? The nail-biting, heart pounding excitement? The Kings terrifying tear through these teams needs to stop because they are making an already boring series even more so. Dear Kings: YOU ARE RUINING HOCKEY. Stop being so damn good already. It really wouldn't hurt you to lose a game or two and at least give the Coyotes, and the rest of us who torture ourselves by watching, the impression that they can compete against you.
And The More Bad
Off season is supposed to be fun for hockey players, providing that they don't require any serious surgical repairs. Some drink beers with college pals while others go hunting for bears. Those seem like reasonably normal things. However, when your name is Patrick Kane and you are the darling of the image conscious Chicago Blackhawks, your inebriated escapades will not go unnoticed. And if you are David Booth and love to hunt and kill wildlife, people will scrutinize your decisions therefore posting photos and videos of your adventures will probably generate a strong response.
I wonder if the appearance on HBO's 24/7 had any effect on John Tortorella and his decision to suddenly become mute during the press conferences. He is much more entertaining when he is screaming insults at reporters, especially after his team loses a game. He always has such insightful things to say. I hope this is just a phase and will not continue when the Rangers advance to the Final. Yes, I am pretty certain that they will. Also, I am undecided if it's cruel to be amused at the Coyotes scrambling, panicking and become increasingly frustrated while 'playing' against the Kings (let's face it, they are just puppets that are going to die a slow painful playoff death) or if I just feel sorry and commiserate with their suddenly huge fan base. The Finals train is rolling into the west and I am not sure that the desert dogs will get their ticket in time. Hollywood vs Broadway, East vs. West, what a showdown that would be. Two Vezina nominated goalies facing off … one can only dream.


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Leave it to the Bruins to make a couple trades to supplement their corps of bottom-nine forwards and then transform from a club that benefits from balanced scoring to a one-line team.
But that's exactly what has happened since Rich Peverley and Chris Kelly joined the club and both got in the lineup at the same time Feb. 22 in Calgary.
I'm not going to claim to have the answer to this problem. I'm just going throw the puke-inducing stats at you and say that if the rest of the Bruins' forwards don't join the first line of Milan Lucic, David Krejci and Nathan Horton by producing and working at a playoff-caliber level, this team's in trouble.
First, the good news: Krejci, Lucic and Horton have combined for 30 points in those nine games starting with the win over the Flames. Krejci has recorded one goal and 10 assists; Horton five goals, two assists; and Lucic a whopping five goals and seven assists. For weeks it looked like the Bruins didn't have one line that could strike fear in the hearts of opponents, now that's all they have up front.
Most distressing among the other Bruins' forwards is the lack of production from the supposed second line. Patrice Bergeron once looked on pace to surpass 70 points. But in the last nine games he has just one goal and one assist. He hasn't scored a goal in six games and has dropped from the top of the Bruins' scoring chart – supplanted by Krejci – to third with just 50 points. Brad Marchand, who has been goal-less in eight games, has just one goal and one assist since the new additions arrived. Mark Recchi, who was recently moved off Bergeron's line, scored a goal against Buffalo on a makeshift post-power-play line for his lone score in the nine games. Recchi also has one assist.
Once seemingly off and running in black-and-gold sweaters as linemates to Michael Ryder, Peverley and Kelly have been ice-cold as well. Kelly still doesn't have a goal, while Peverley has scored once. Peverley was averaging better than a half point per game before pulling on a Bruins sweater this season. Ryder has recorded one goal and two assists, but hasn't found the back of the net in six games.
The lack of balance, of course, is more glaring now that the Bruins aren't winning. In running their winning streak to seven games earlier this month, Boston rode the hot hands of Horton and Lucic to victories over Ottawa and Tampa Bay. Now the team's losing and the need for some support to the top line sticks out like Johnny Boychuk's black eye.
At the risk of stating the obvious, if there's one answer to this problem it's harder work. The other two lines need to do a better job of forechecking if they're going to dump the puck in, or just take better care of the puck when breaking in with control. While no one tracks attack-zone time, the pressure the second and third lines have put on the opposition of late has been negligible. At the same time, the giveaways have been plentiful.
It's time for the rest of the middle six forwards, especially the once All-Star worthy Bergeron and once Calder Trophy-worthy Marchand, to get their games in gear. Depth can only be a strength if the players supplementing the club's top players actually contribute instead of serving as names on a roster with the potential to produce.


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Syrian troops sweep through north; unrest kills 32
Date: 6/10/2011
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ZEINA KARAMZEINA KARAM, Associated Press
YAYLADAGI, Turkey (AP) – Elite Syrian forces moved swiftly through the country's restive north on Friday, raining tank shells on rebellious towns, torching farmland and shooting protesters who tried to tear down a poster of President Bashar Assad, activists and refugees said.
At least 32 people were killed, activists said, and undaunted protests extended to every major city.
The leader of neighboring Turkey, angered by violence that has sent more than 4,000 Syrians streaming across the border, accused the Assad regime of "savagery."
Backed by helicopters and tanks, the troops responsible for most of Friday's violence were believed to be from an elite division commanded by Assad's younger brother, Maher. The decision to mobilize his unit against the most serious threats to the 40–year Assad regime could be a sign of concern about the loyalty of regular conscripts.
Syrians who escaped from the town of Jisr al–Shughour into Turkey said the army came after police turned their guns on each other and soldiers refused orders to fire on protesters last week. Syrian state television has said 120 officers and security personnel were killed by gunmen. A man who remained behind said the few residents left were hoping barricades of burning tires could hold off the reinforcements surrounding them.
(See: Syria activists: Troops enter village near border)
Twenty–five miles (40 kilometers) to the southeast in the town of Maaret al–Numan, thousands of protesters overwhelmed security officers and torched the courthouse and police station, and the army responded with tank shells, a Syrian opposition figure told The Associated Press by telephone, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Syria's state–run television appeared to confirm at least part of the report, saying gunmen opened fire on police stations, causing casualties among security officials.
Syria's government has a history of violent retaliation against dissent, including a three–week bombing campaign against the city of Hama that crushed an uprising there in 1982. Jisr al–Shughour itself came under government shelling in 1980, with a reported 70 people killed.
Confirming information out of Syria is difficult. Communications are cut in areas where the uprising is strongest. Syrians who speak openly face retribution from the regime, and foreign journalists have been expelled.
Refugees trying to escape into Turkey, who now number more than 4,000, gave a more detailed picture of the events in the north.
(See: Syrian army attacks village near Turkish border)
A group of young men who arrived at the Turkish village of Guvecci on Friday said relatives who stayed behind told them Syrian forces were burning homes and fields in the village of Sirmaniyeh, near Jisr al–Shughour. One of the men said a helicopters had fired on a mosque there, the refused to say anything more.
"They are burning down everything there," said a young man who gave his name as Adil. "They said they even killed animals. The people have no weapons, they can't defend themselves. The only thing they can do is escape."
As he spoke another Syrian got a call telling him his cousin had died in Latakia, where activists said security forces fired on protesters who tried to tear down a giant poster of Assad, killing seven. The young man whose phone rang slumped and wept.
The Local Coordination Committees, a group that documents anti–government protests in Syria, said 32 people were killed on Friday, half of them in Idlib, the province home to Maaret al–Numan and Jisr al–Shughour. Late Friday, Syrian television said troops reached the entrances of Jisr al–Shughour and detained members of "armed groups."
Citing contacts inside Syria, Rami Abdul–Rahman, the London–based head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said more than 10,000 soldiers were involved.
(See: Syrian army enters village near Turkish border)
Witnesses contacted by telephone said most residents had abandoned the town of up to 45,000.
Syria's government invited an AP reporter to accompany troops to Jisr al–Shughour, apparently reflecting a new effort to counter criticism and prove the existence of armed gangs.
In Sirmaniyeh, where the refugee reported the torching of homes and fields, journalists accompanying Syrian troops in the morning saw a parked army bus, its front windshield smashed by gunfire. The army said the bus was ambushed early Friday, and that driver escaped unhurt after a bullet struck his protective vest.
Journalists were also shown eight grenades on a roadside in Ziara, another village in the area.
"Now we feel safe," said Walida Sheikho, a 50–year–old woman who welcomed the troops in the village of Foro, near Jisr al–Shughour.
She and other residents offered food, water and juice to the Syrian troops and said they had appealed for help from the army.
Jisr al–Shughour is a predominantly Sunni town with some Alawite and Christian villages nearby. Most Syrians are Sunni Muslim, but Assad and the ruling elite belong to the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
State television said armed groups torched crops and wheat fields around Jisr al–Shughour as the army approached.
A man in the town blamed security forces for the crop–burning. He said the few remaining residents were collecting tires to burn in an attempt to try to block the army advance. Speaking by phone, he told an AP reporter in Beirut that about 40 tanks rolled into a village five miles (12 kilometers) from Jisr al–Shughour. He and other activists reported hearing bursts of machine gun fire.
Other protests in Syria occurred in neighborhoods in the capital, Damascus, and the major city of Aleppo, which are vital to Assad's authoritarian regime. But the demonstrations in those cities have been relatively limited in scope compared to other restive areas.
Activists said security forces opened fire on protesters near the Sheikh Jaber mosque in the Damascus suburb of Qaboun, killing three people and wounding several others. One activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, said there were snipers on rooftops and security checkpoints outside local mosques.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he will keep the frontier open to Syrians fleeing violence, and the Turkish military was increasing border security to better manage the refugee influx. He singled out Assad's brother for criticism.
"I say this clearly and openly, from a humanitarian point of view, his brother is not behaving in a humane manner. And he is chasing after savagery," Erdogan said late Thursday.
Human rights groups say the crackdown has killed more than 1,400 people, most of them unarmed civilians. The government says a total of 500 security forces have also been killed.
"Unfortunately, it is clear that things are not going in the right direction," Turkish President Abdullah Gul said, according to the Anatolia news agency. "We are following things with sadness."
Karam reported from Beirut. Associated Press writer Albert Aji in the Jisr al–Shughour area contributed to this report.
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The Newspaper Publishing industry faces escalating competition from other forms of media, particularly digital outlets. Consumers favor the real-time reporting capabilities of online news, including social networking platforms like Twitter. As a result, advertisers are spending less money on print and more on building their online presence, where they can create customizable campaigns and reach a wider audience. Although the recession worsened the diminishing readership and advertiser appeal of newspapers, declines in advertising revenue began after 2004. Even as the economy recovers, many advertisers and readers have not returned to print media; instead they have funneled their attention toward web-based outlets. Over the five years to 2012, total industry revenue is expected to decline at an annualized rate of 8.1% to total $33.8 billion, including a 2.6% decline in 2012 as publishers continue to lose downstream markets to other media platforms.
The top players in the Newspaper Publishing industry are Gannett Co. Inc., Tribune Company and The New York Times Company. Over the past five years, industry concentration has declined, in part due to pressures imposed by the postrecessionary drop in advertising. Individual firms tend to be small, and large firms have become less prominent on the national level over the five years to 2012. While very large firms comprised about 2.2% of companies in 2007, only 1.4% of establishments are expected to have more than 500 employees in 2012. Big companies sold unprofitable ventures during the recession to keep positive profit margins. Nonetheless, concentration is very high in some geographic markets and in specific product market niches, such as financial newspapers.
Steep revenue declines and increasingly easy methods of data-sharing have caused many publishers to syndicate more of their content, where by national news is written by large publications and pasted into smaller newspapers. As a result, a number of companies have restructured, resulting in furloughs and significant layoffs. Staff numbers are expected to decrease at an average annual rate of 8.8% during the five years to 2012 to total 227,469 employees. Even with these cost-cutting measures, profit margins have been squeezed. To slow the exodus of advertisers, newspaper publishers plan to incorporate online subscriptions and bundles into the readership statistics that advertisers use to judge a newspaper's demographic. In addition, advertisers will be reluctant to leave the industry all together because of the affluent market that newspapers now attract. Also, publishers must work to establish themselves on mobile platforms to increase accessibility in addition to creating effective paywall systems. For more information, visit IBISWorld's Newspaper Publishing in the US industry report page.
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This is an excerpt from Game Changer by PE4life & Ken Reed.
Chapter 9
Revving Up the Revolution
Ten Key Factors
Given the growing mound of compelling research regarding exercise's positive impact on the brain, it seems inevitable that these findings will transform not only physical education but education as a whole. How quickly that happens is contingent on the rate at which key stakeholders become aware of—and fully understand—this information.
"Fitness-based physical education can make students healthier, smarter, and better behaved," said Lawler. "That's proven. It's not a theory. Now the challenge is to help every educator, school board member, and parent become aware of that fact and fully understand what it can mean for our children. Most educators still aren't aware of this powerful stuff."
We're living in a time when physical education programs are being cut or deemphasized, and new elementary schools are being built without gyms. Ironically, the exercise-based brain research that's coming out at the same time will ultimately not only save PE but also make it one of the most important subjects in schools. Quality PE and movement-based learning initiatives can be effectively and efficiently integrated into the entire school curriculum. Madison Junior High School, Naperville Central High School, and many other schools are proof of that.
"Physical education has gone from the 'Rodney Dangerfield of education' to the hub of the wheel of education," said Lawler. "The research on exercise's positive impact not only on health—which is big enough in this era of childhood obesity—but on learning readiness, as well as behavior and mood, means PE needs to be the foundation of the whole education process."
The challenge is that the majority of educators, school board members, and parents are still unaware of the research regarding exercise's positive impact on the brain. Additionally, many of those who are aware of the research are ignoring the findings, or they don't know what to do with the new information. Others are simply reluctant to change "the way we've always done things around here."
"It's a shame this movement isn't advancing faster," said Lawler. "Given the overwhelming evidence for the value of exercise in the education process, we could file a malpractice lawsuit against educators—school board members, administrators, and teachers—for not offering fitness-based PE on a more regular basis, as well as more movement initiatives in the classrooms. The problem is, too few educators are aware of the research. Awareness and understanding levels must increase dramatically."
Awareness and understanding. That brings us to 10 key factors in revving up this PE revolution. This isn't a chronological, step-by-step process. Many of these actions need to be undertaken simultaneously. As a whole, they represent Phil Lawler's approach for actualizing his vision of transforming education through fitness-based PE and movement-based learning.
1 Create Awareness
in Your Community and Beyond
"It's simply a shame that more people—educators, parents, the media—don't know about the powerful research supporting exercise as a learning readiness tool," said Lawler. "What's needed is a large-scale education and communications campaign."
"The ultimate irony is that PE has been dying as a profession just as all these positive developments have been happening," says Wikgren. "Nobody changes anything without data, but now PE has the data. We need to publicize the hell out of it. Ultimately, we have to get the parents."
Lawler saw the challenge as being related to both communications and culture change. He believed that lasting culture change requires an integrated communications plan to move people along the culture change continuum: from awareness to understanding to acceptance to attitude change to behavior change.
"We need a group of key stakeholders to collectively devise a plan to help schools change their cultures as quickly as possible," said Lawler.
"The research on what exercise does for the brain is certainly going to help," said Phylis Pickett, a long-time physical education instructor in Illinois and a colleague of Lawler's in the fight for fitness-based PE. "It will speak to every administrator. Still, it's going to take a huge education and communications effort. No matter how compelling the evidence, it's still going to take a comprehensive sales effort."
Lawler and Harvard's Dr. John Ratey agreed that getting President Obama and his wife, Michelle, involved in a national campaign would help the cause immensely.
"We need to get President Obama out front talking about the importance of exercise and fitness," said Ratey.
"One thing that would really help is to get the President and First Lady actively pushing fitness and wellness lifestyles," said Lawler. "Michelle Obama's 'Let's Move' campaign looks like a good start."
Barack Obama may be the most fitness-oriented president the country has ever had. He regularly gets in a daily hour-long workout, six days a week. He alternates between weight training and cardiovascular exercise. His favorite activity is basketball, but he does a variety of cardiovascular workouts. Obama believes that turning to a fitness regimen when he was a 22-year-old student at Columbia University transformed him physically and mentally.
2 Target School Boards, Administrators, and Parents
Lawler believed that teachers—both in physical education and other subjects—are important but secondary targets in this revolution.
"Building principals are the key," said Lawler. "All the success stories we have are tied to a passionate principal who believes in the exercise for learning message. We also need to get superintendents, school board members, and parents bought in. They need to fully understand and accept that kids that are more fit not only are healthier but also more ready to learn. They also behave better in the classroom.
"Talk to any administrator in the United States today and their issues are (1) academics and standardized test scores; and (2) behavior issues—discipline problems, attendance, etc.," said Lawler. "They'd like their kids to be as healthy as possible, but what drives them are academics and behavior, because that's what they're evaluated on by school board members and parents. So, we need to talk to them speaking their language.
"Obviously, we need to keep talking to PE teachers, but we aren't going to change the PE culture through PE teachers. They weren't trained in the New PE, and they were brought up in a sports-based PE culture," said Lawler. "School boards, administrators, and parents are going to have to change the PE culture. School board members, principals, and parents are going to need to be educated, and once they're educated, they'll demand fitness-based physical education for health, learning, and behavior reasons."
Parents intuitively believe that physical activity, fitness, and academic performance are linked. In one study, 95 percent of parents said they agree that "regular, daily physical activity helps children do better academically." Lawler believed that we need to do a better job arming parents with the ammunition they need to demand more physical education and physical activity in the school setting.
Lawler also believed that parents will embrace the New PE once they fully understand it and the science behind it.
"The purpose of education is to improve the quality of life," said Lawler. "That's the universal purpose around the world. Every parent, in every country, wants to improve the quality of life for his or her kids. There's no doubt the New PE improves the quality of life.
"The cost issue will come up. What does a high-quality PE program cost? The better question is, what will it cost if we don't do it? Putting computers in every school was expensive, but it was clear that the costs would be higher if we didn't do it. The same holds true for quality wellness-based physical education."
One message that school board members and parents need to hear is that the New PE is education based and treats every student fairly and with respect. It's nothing like the military-style PE that they might remember from their own school days. Many of today's adults have bad memories of being embarrassed—or worse—in their PE classes, and those memories taint their view of physical education to this day.
Grundy Center's Beth Kirkpatrick says that humiliating activities such as dodgeball, along with humiliating and intimidating teaching tactics, need to be put to rest with the Old PE.
"The New PE has to be No Humiliation PE," says Kirkpatrick. "If students fear humiliation in the gymnasium or locker room, we'll get nowhere. We also can't intimidate and abuse kids to get them to move the way we want them to. Too many PE teachers and coaches are guilty of exercise abuse. Also, physical education should have nothing to do with competition between students. For example, in the mile run, we don't need to start the whole class at the same time. That can be humiliating to the slower students, who may be working as hard or harder than the faster students based on heart rate monitor data. Stagger start them. Physical education isn't about a race."
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Whatever Happened To "NBA Inside Stuff"?
I miss NBA Inside Stuff.
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Top 5 Alley Oop Combos of All-Time
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The All-Star team is always tainted by big markets who can vote in players that aren't as worthy as their peers.
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: If LeBron James was on THIS team, there would be much more reason for his "not one, not two, not three…"
Top 5 Winning Streaks To Start NBA Season
The NFL season may start tomorrow, but I'm excited about the impending start of the 2013-2014 NBA season and I don't care WHO knows about it!
HoopsVibe Very Quick Call: How frequently does a hot start to the NBA season culminate in a championship?
KD VI Set to be Bamboo-tastic.
Bamboo themes running wild with Durant's new kicks.
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: The creative team over at Nike really went into overdrive on their love of bamboo on this one. Did we mention the KD logo on the outsole is derived from the Chinese character for bamboo?
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Hoopsvibe's quick call: At the end of the day, this record has much more to do with luck than skill.
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March 29, 2011
by John Perrotto
LeBron James' second "homecoming to Cleveland as a member of the Miami Heat carries considerably less fanfare, in no small part because the Cavaliers have struggled so badly without him.
March 22, 2011
If the season ended today, Miami would have the third seed in the Eastern Conference. While that is below sky-high expectations for the Super Heat, it doesn't concern Miami's players.
March 8, 2011
Like Boston's other veterans, Kevin Garnett was disappointed when the team traded Kendrick Perkins at the deadline. However, newcomers Jeff Green and Nenad Krstic are beginning to show why they were coveted by the Celtics' front office.
February 22, 2011
After missing more than two months following surgery to repair a torn thumb ligament, Joakim Noah will return to the Chicago Bulls' lineup. That means adjustments for a surging team.
February 9, 2011
In Cleveland Daniel Gibson is negotiating the transition from how the Cavaliers used to be to the way they are now.
January 25, 2011
The Philadelphia 76ers have made tremendous strides since the beginning of the season, but a series of narrow losses has held down their record.
January 18, 2011
After months of trade rumors, Carmelo Anthony is now saying openly that he thinks being traded by the Denver Nuggets would be best for his future.
January 11, 2011
Paul Silas has brought Charlotte a very different style from his predecessor Larry Brown, and players have responded.
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Fans attending the recent Gamescom 2014 in Cologne, Germany, got a hands-on opportunity to play Skylanders Trap Team with cute, pocket-sized characters called Skylanders Minis. The new line of 16 characters, from Activision Publishing Inc., is playable with upgrades and abilities just like any other Skylanders, including the ability to trap villains.
The figures are roughly one-third the size of regular Skylanders playable with Skylanders Trap Team. The Skylanders Minis available for play at the Gamescom booth were Spry, Mini Jini, Drobit, Trigger Snappy, and Hijinx.
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I'm Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. They say it takes a village to raise a child, but maybe you just need a few moms in your corner. Every week, we check in with a diverse group of parents for their common sense and savvy advice. Today, though, we are talking about how far some people are willing to go just to become a parent. Now you've probably heard of celebrities like Sarah Jessica Parker or Elton John who've hired surrogates to carry their babies. Sometimes they've also used donor eggs to make a pregnancy happen.
But the expense and legal complications put surrogacy out of reach in the U.S. for many couples. So more Americans are going global to make this happen, to places as far as way as India. That journey is detailed in a new book. It's called "The Baby Chase: How Surrogacy Is Transforming the American Family." It's by Leslie Morgan Steiner, one of our regular parenting contributors. She's also a mom of three, and she's back with us. Leslie, thanks so much for joining us.
LESLIE MORGAN STEINER: A pleasure to be here.
MARTIN: Also with us is Rhonda Wile. She's a mom who's profiled in the book. She's a nurse from Arizona and her three children - with her husband - were born via a surrogate in India - two surrogates, in fact. Am I right about that?
RHONDA WILE: That's correct.
MARTIN: And she's with us here also. Thank you so much for joining us.
WILE: Thanks for having me.
MARTIN: "The Baby Chase" is out today. So, Leslie, you were saying that surrogacy is transforming the American family. How so?
STEINER: Well, you know, for centuries, infertility meant you couldn't have your own biological children. But today, because of advances in surrogacy and IVF, anyone can have a baby. So two openly gay men who want to raise their own biological children together or a woman who had cancer in her 20s and had her uterus removed or a 50-year-old law firm partner who was decided after menopause that she wants to have her own child - because of surrogacy, all of those people can have their own babies today.
MARTIN: Well, you actually make the point in the book that actually surrogacy has always existed, we just haven't called it that. You know, when celebrities have, like, sham marriages, for example, or when people had mistresses. And so other cultures...
STEINER: Or in the Bible, surrogacy is mentioned over 20 times. So surrogacy is ancient, but what is different now is that advances in IVF and acceptance of surrogacy mean that there's a new kind of surrogacy called gestational surrogacy where the sperm, the egg and the uterus are all supplied by three different people. So the surrogate doesn't have any biological or genetic connection to the baby. And this makes it easier for her psychologically, and also it's more clear, legally, that it's never her child.
MARTIN: How did you get interested in this?
STEINER: Oh, my goodness, because it's such a fascinating subject. And my first two books, "Crazy Love" and "Mommy Wars," deal with issues that are paramount to women today - you know, marriage, motherhood, work. And to me, the idea of not being able to have a child when you've wanted your whole life to have a baby is fascinating. And it's a really important part of womanhood. And this subject is so complex morally, medically, financially, and there's so many wonderful, personal stories behind infertility and surrogacy. So it appealed to me as a writer.
MARTIN: So, Rhonda, how about - does that describe you? You had always wanted to be a mother. It was just what you envisioned for your life.
WILE: Yes, absolutely. Since I was a little girl, I always dreamed of becoming a mother. I never imagined not having children.
MARTIN: And that became more difficult than you had envisioned that it would ever be, for all kinds of reasons, including kind of some unique, you know, medical issues that you had that made it difficult for you to carry a baby to term. So how did you start considering surrogacy? Do you remember how the idea presented itself to you?
WILE: Yeah. Once we - for us - it came down to cost for us. We decided adoption was not an option for us at the time, and we ended up - once I found out that I had the didelphys uterus, which is ultimately two uteruses, we went to a multitude of different doctors. And each of the doctors - of the average of the doctors - basically said we recommend surrogacy. So at that point...
MARTIN: Did you even know what that was at that point?
WILE: I knew about surrogacy, but I didn't know all the details and complexities of it and the cost and all that was involved. I was a little crushed at first because what woman doesn't want to carry their own child and feel them move inside of them and those amazing feelings? So it took us a while to get to that point, and I actually have a friend that I worked with at the time who was a surrogate in the United States.
MARTIN: She was a surrogate.
WILE: Correct. So I asked if she wouldn't mind sitting and talking to my husband and I because my husband was very much against it in the beginning. He really knew less than I did, in fact, and thought it was, you know...
MARTIN: What? He thought it was what?
WILE: In simple terms, he thought it was gross. Those were his words, in simple terms. And he didn't quite understand the whole situation. So we sat down and we talked with her for about an hour, and as we talked, you could just see it in him. He got more and more excited. He got more understanding. And the fact that he actually sat - I said to him, you know, this is our dream. We want to have a family, and everything that we've come into we've hit a roadblock. So let's just be open-minded and talk to her, and that's all that I wanted. And that's what we did. And...
MARTIN: Why India?
WILE: Well, when we finished the conversation with her, she basically told us the cost, and at that point we felt deflated again. Another roadblock, in a sense, is how we felt.
MARTIN: What is the cost in the United States?
WILE: It can range anywhere from $80,000 to upwards to $120,000 - $150,000. And that doesn't necessarily include all of the IVF procedures, the surrogate - hiring of the surrogate, the surrogacy pregnancy. There's so many details involved in it. And then, depending on who you have, you usually go through an agency, and then that increases the cost as well. At that point, our first question to her was, well, are you still willing to do it? And she said, no, I'm retired. But in the event, we started looking back and I said this has to be - this has to be our way of having a family. This has to be the answer. It seemed so possible, so let's look into it further. And...
MARTIN: And all roads eventually led to India
WILE: Yeah.
MARTIN: Because - it was still not free. Let's just be clear about that.
WILE: Correct.
MARTIN: Your out-of-pocket costs were what? About $50,000?
WILE: About that with our first son, yeah. And that was only because it took a couple of attempts for us to get pregnant. But the whole process can start anywhere from about $26,000 to $32,000, from everything. From - the only thing that's not included in that would be your travel costs and your food and your accommodations. So you're talking from A to B, starting out and bringing your baby home.
MARTIN: If you're just joining us, we're talking about the new book "The Baby Chase: How Surrogacy Is Transforming the American Family." My guests are author Leslie Morgan Steiner. That's certainly a name that you know. She's one of our regular contributors to our parenting roundtable. Also with us is Rhonda Wile. That's who was speaking just now. She's a mom of three. And she has her children, her three children, through surrogacy in India.
You heard - Leslie, back to you. You heard Rhonda say that her husband thought it was gross. And, I mean, that can be a catchall for a lot of feelings and opinions. And one of the feelings and opinions that some people have is this is really exploitation. This is exploitation, you know, of the strong - of the most vulnerable by the most privileged.
STEINER: Right, and, you know, surrogacy is a shocking idea for almost everybody the first time they consider it because it shakes our centuries-old definition of pregnancy and parenthood. And as a result, most religions oppose surrogacy, several states and many countries have banned it. And even though doctors consider infertility a disease, most health insurance doesn't cover surrogacy as a treatment. We are really in the infancy of gestational surrogacy - commercial surrogacy - being accepted in this country and around the world. But I tell you, the thing it doesn't - I didn't come across any exploitation of women.
I think that hypothetically it is possible, but clinics and clients screen very carefully for surrogates who are mentally healthy, physically healthy and have already had children and completely understand the complexity of what they are getting in for. So I think there are a lot of checks and balances in the process because obviously you're not going to hire somebody to carry a baby for you if she is vulnerable to exploitation. You want somebody who's grounded and stable. So I think - I understand exploitation is the first thing that people are worried about, but in writing this book, and I researched it around the world for three years, I didn't come across that as a realistic concern.
MARTIN: Rhonda, can I ask you, did you think of that? Was that one of your concerns or your husband's concerns that, you know - I'm sure you don't see yourself as very privileged. I mean, your husband's a firefighter, does some very dangerous work. You're a nurse. You do very demanding and important work. You both do very important and demanding work. You don't see yourself as privileged, but in contrast to the women who are carrying your children, you are. Did that occur to you?
WILE: I think initially it did. Being that India is a Third World country, it's certainly not what we're accustomed to here in the Western society. But for me, going with an open mind and looking at the whole situation, we had decided that we would look at it first and see. Each step progressed more. And the more we got involved and the more - when we actually got to meet our surrogate and hold her and meet her family and the smile on her face, meet the doctors, everybody that was involved in it, the idea of exploitation just totally went out the window for us.
MARTIN: What was the biggest surprise for you when you went to India and you eventually pursued this process? What was the biggest surprise? What was the biggest thing that struck you that was not what you had expected?
WILE: I think Mumbai in itself is like a whole new world. For me, I'd never been outside the United States, essentially. And going to a Third World country, the noise, the dirt, the poverty - just those types of things that I wasn't - was very much in your face - that I wasn't used to.
MARTIN: Did you have a concern then about the health of your potential surrogates? That being in conditions that were not the ones you were used to, that they would have the proper nutrition, the proper healthcare, the proper circumstances to deliver a healthy child.
WILE: I think, initially, when we went into the process, those were some of the questions we had for the doctors. They quickly eased our minds. And when we were actually there, we got to do a lot of things, and we researched ourselves. Being that we were the first couple - international couple - for the doctors, there were a lot of questions we had. We didn't have anybody else to refer to. So we got to go. We asked to go see where the surrogates stay. We got to go to our surrogates' home. And they told us what the criteria were for them - that they have to be such - a certain distance from the clinic so that in case they do need care, they're there. They - the doctors themselves go in and look at the houses to make sure that they are getting the proper nutrition they provide for them.
MARTIN: And you ended the process being very happy, you know, about it. Your kids are beautiful by the way. I've seen pictures of them.
WILE: Thank you.
MARTIN: They are beautiful. You wound up also using a donor...
WILE: Correct.
MARTIN: ...From India - an egg donor from India. And you are a huge fan, and you feel really strongly. And you also feel that the money that you paid the surrogates helped them improve their own lives.
WILE: Absolutely.
MARTIN: Have you heard anything that has changed your - or given you any pause about this? Because since the book has come out, and since there have been some more reporting on this, there are a lot of people who have deep ambivalence about it, and they say that they find it - more information doesn't make them more amenable to this. They feel that it is exploitative.
WILE: Correct. And we knew going into this from day one that it would be a very controversial topic. When we went to India initially, we literally fell in love with the country. We consider it our second home now. And so, we know that it's controversial and, honestly, to be quite open about it, we have not received any negative feedback to us, personally. When we're out on the streets, if we bring up the topic, meeting people face-to-face. Behind the scenes, on media and responses to articles that we've done in the past has been somewhat nasty.
MARTIN: I'm curious how you're going to explain the - explain your children's birth story to them. Have you thought about that?
WILE: We've already started the process. We knew from day one when we started our blog, and then when we originally met with Leslie and knew that it would be published in a book, we couldn't very well keep it from them. But we never had those intentions in the beginning.
We have pictures of both of our surrogates up on the wall, holding the kids with their family. When we went back to have our twins, my oldest son, Blaze, was with us and we actually were able to go back and she was able to meet him. He played with her sons and we went to her house, which she said was very important for her because she said if it wasn't for Gerry and I, she wouldn't have the house she has right now.
MARTIN: So for you, it's all good. But Leslie, I have to ask you about this because the criticism of your book - which, as I said, is just out - is that people who reviewed it say its entirety too cheerleader-y about this issue which is - remains fraught. In fact, one of the points that it makes is that one of the first known surrogates in the United States, Elizabeth Kane - I don't know if that's her real name, but is known as Elizabeth Kane - turned against the whole process and later became an advocate against the whole process. What do you have to say about that?
STEINER: Well, it's also true of Mary Beth Whitehead, one of the most famous traditional surrogates from New Jersey, but those women were - they were working as traditional surrogates. It was their egg. It really was very much them giving up their own baby for money. And it was - they had no support at the time. Surrogacy is very different now because of the psychological separation - because it really isn't your baby. It's your body, but it's the intended parents' baby from the very beginning. So I...
MARTIN: Did you start the process as pro-surrogacy as you seem to have ended up in the book?
STEINER: No, no. Not - I didn't. I didn't. And I...
MARTIN: So what was the determining factor that made you feel like this is all good?
STEINER: Because I really - as a mother myself, and as somebody who's never suffered from infertility, I really believe that everybody who wants a baby should have a baby. I think that it's the most beautiful thing, wanting a child. And I think everybody should be able to have a baby. And...
MARTIN: But what about those who say that that's not true? That that's hokum or that that's socialized into women. That's not a biological imperative, it's - that is socialized into you.
STEINER: That's fine for them to think that, but they - I have talked to so many people desperate for babies, and I - there's no arguing with that. You know, the people who are desperate for babies, they - they understand that this is a deep and passionate human right. And I think that, you know, this is a very new idea. It gives a lot of people the creeps. It's hard for them to get their heads around it. But surrogacy - having a baby via surrogate when the woman who is the surrogate is doing it voluntarily, she is well compensated, she's taken care of - I think that it can be like adoption. That it's - it can be awkward, and there's a lot of gravitas involved that you can't disrespect, but it ultimately is a very beautiful thing.
MARTIN: Do you see that, in the future, you think that surrogacy will be viewed in the same way as adoption?
STEINER: Yes.
MARTIN: Because there are a lot of people who feel that - I mean, there are some people who feel that adoption is not quite right, but there are other people who feel that adoption should always be your first - just on a moral and ethical level - should be the first choice and should be - that society should steer in that direction as a matter of policy because there are many children who are not well cared for.
STEINER: Well, I think one of the first things you learn as a parent is that you really shouldn't be judging other people. Their desire for children, their lack of desire for children, or the way they raise their families. And I think it's the same thing about conception. And some people want a biological connection to their babies. That's natural, too. And, you know, I just - I think that parenthood is - the reason I'm a cheerleader for surrogacy is because infertility is a cruel and crippling illness that strikes at random. And it's very common, 10 to 12 percent of the population has it. And I think that we need a lot of solutions to infertility - adoption, surrogacy, IVF treatments. And I just - I was really won over by Rhonda and Gerry. I think that they are wonderful people who should have had 10 children, and getting to know them...
MARTIN: Rhonda's like, whoa, hold on here.
STEINER: And seeing what they went through, I couldn't help but have sympathy for it and become an advocate for this.
MARTIN: Well, all right. Well, we'll see. Clearly, there are other points of view here, and I'm sure we'll be hearing from of those points of view.
STEINER: As we should.
MARTIN: As we should. Rhonda - that's Leslie Morgan Steiner. She's one of our regular parenting contributors, a mom of three. Her latest book is "The Baby Chase: How Surrogacy is Transforming the American Family." It's out today. Also with us, Rhonda Wile. She's a nurse and mom of three who is profiled in the new book. And they were both kind enough to join us in our Washington, D.C. studios. Thank you both so much for joining us.
WILE: Thank you.
STEINER: Thank you so much, Michel.
MARTIN: And that's our program for today. I'm Michel Martin and you've been listening to TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Let's talk more tomorrow.
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SEDAMSVILLE, OH (FOX19) - A Sedamsville father has pleaded not guilty to reckless homicide in the fatal shooting of his 11-year-old daughter. His family claims the girl's death was an accident.
Police said Achauntiara "Shanti" Lanza was hit by a bullet fired from her father, 34-year-old Deandre Kelley, on Sunday.
Kelley entered the plea Monday at a hearing in Cincinnati's Hamilton County court. His attorney declined to comment.
According to family members, the incident began after an argument between Kelley and the victim's mother, Kristina Lanza, resulted in Kelley leaving the home. When he returned, Lanza refused to allow him back in to the home because he was intoxicated.
Kelley then allegedly walked to the street and fired his gun in to the air. One of the shots went through the second story window where Shanti was located in the home.
"I went upstairs and the neighbors were trying to revive the little girl and all I could do was just pray for them and comfort them," said a neighbor who wished to remain anonymous.
Shanti was taken to the hospital but was pronounced dead shortly after arriving. According to her grandmother, Shanti was a fifth grader who aspired to be a singer and a dancer.
Kelley fled the scene and police searched for him for seven hours before he turned himself in. Friends said he initially refused to believe that his daughter was dead.
Judge Melissa Powers ordered Kelley held on a $500,000 bond.
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