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Monday, October 31, 2011
CELEBS ATTENDED PRIVATE 3D HALLOWEEN EVENT AT A CEMETERY IN LOS ANGELES
In the spirit of celebrating Halloween, VEVO presented a private ?Six Feet Deep? 3D experience at Hollywood Forever Cemetery powered by Dubset. Guests were handed 3D glasses when they arrived to enjoy the world?s first-ever private 3D experience with a celebrity DJ performance and were treated to snacks by popchips and an open bar with [...]
Stocks fall on worries about US broker, Europe (AP)
NEW YORK ? Despite being known as a jinx month for the stock market, this October is shaping up to be one of the best months on record. The main reason is progress in Europe toward containing that region's debt crisis.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index has gained 12 percent for the month, which puts the broadest stock-market measure on track for its best month since January 1987. Even after a decline in midday trading Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average is still up 10.7 percent in October, its best month since August 1982.
The big breakthrough on Europe came early Thursday of last week, when European leaders reached a far-ranging agreement aimed at shoring up the region's banks and preventing a debt crunch in Greece from bringing down Europe's financial system.
But a lack of many key details in the plan has made markets jittery again, and on Monday fresh reminders of how the Europe crisis can affect U.S. financial institutions helped bring the market lower.
Bank stocks fell broadly Monday after the securities firm MF Global filed for bankruptcy protection. Last week the company's debt was downgraded to junk status by ratings agencies concerned about its large holdings of European government debt. The company is headed by former New Jersey Governor and Goldman Sachs chairman Jon Corzine.
Bank of America fell 4.5 percent. Both Citigroup and Morgan Stanley fell 5.5 percent.
The Dow was down 150 points, or 1.2 percent, to 12,082 at 12:11 p.m. ET. The drop comes after the Dow closed out its fifth straight week of gains, its best winning streak since January.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index was down 16, or 1.3 percent, to 1,268. Energy and materials companies led the decline. The Nasdaq composite is down 30, or 1.1 percent, to 2,707.
October has earned a reputation as a famously bad month for stocks. The October 1929 crash divided the roaring 1920s from the Great Depression of the 1930s. It's the month that has given the market two black eyes: Black Tuesday in 1929 and Black Monday in 1987.
This October started off on a sour note when the Dow and S&P 500 hit their lowest point for the year Oct. 3, but the market has soared since then. The Dow is up 13.3 percent since then, the S&P 15.2 percent.
Investors were relieved when European leaders made progress in tackling the region's debt crisis in recent weeks. Worries that the U.S. might slip into a recession have faded, and many big U.S. companies like McDonald's Corp. have reported stronger profits for the third quarter. More than three-quarters of U.S. companies in the S&P 500 that have reported results so far had earnings that beat analysts' expectations, according to the financial data provider FactSet.
"It's a rally off what was a very pessimistic view of the global economy," said Todd Henry, an emerging-market equity specialist at T. Rowe Price. "Does it have legs? I think that's yet to be seen."
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned Monday that European economies will see a "marked slowdown" next year. The organization called on the European Union to provide more information on how it plans to stem the debt crisis.
Major stock indexes dropped in Europe. Germany's DAX fell 2.5 percent. France's CAC-40 dropped 2.3 percent. Both are still up sharply for October. The German index is up 12.4 percent, the French one 10 percent.
The European debt crisis is still far from fixed. One troubling sign is that borrowing costs for Italy and Spain have increased, a signal that traders remain worried about their ability to pay their debts.
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
Attack on NATO convoy kills 17 in Afghanistan (AP)
KABUL, Afghanistan ? A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into an armored NATO bus Saturday on a busy thoroughfare in Kabul, killing 17 people, including a dozen Americans, in the deadliest strike against the U.S.-led coalition in the Afghan capital since the war began.
The blast occurred on the same day that a man wearing an Afghan army uniform killed three Australian soldiers and an Afghan interpreter in the south ? attacks that show the resiliency of the insurgency and are likely to raise new doubts about the unpopular 10-year-old war and the Western strategy of trying to talk peace with the Taliban.
A spokesman for the fundamentalist Islamic movement, which was ousted in the 2001 invasion for its affiliation with al-Qaida, claimed responsibility for the Kabul attack, saying the bomber had used 1,540 pounds (700 kilograms) of explosives.
The Taliban and related groups have staged more than a dozen major attacks in Kabul this year, including seven since June, in an apparent campaign to weaken confidence in the Afghan government as it prepares to take over its own security ahead of a 2014 deadline for the U.S. and other NATO countries to withdraw their troops or move them into support roles.
Underscoring the difficulties ahead, the brazen assault occurred just hours after top Afghan and Western officials met in the heart of Kabul to discuss the second phase of shifting security responsibilities to Afghan forces in all or part of 17 of the country's 34 provinces. Afghans already have the lead in the Afghan capital.
Heavy black smoke poured from the burning wreckage of an armored personnel carrier, known as a Rhino, in Kabul after the bomber struck. The bus had been sandwiched in the middle of a convoy of mine-resistant military vehicles when it was hit along a four-lane highway often used by foreign military trainers in the southwestern part of Kabul.
The landmark Darulaman Palace, the bombed-out seat of former Afghan kings, was the backdrop to the chaotic scene: Shrapnel, twisted pieces of metal and charred human remains littered the street.
U.S. soldiers wept as they pulled bodies from the debris, said Noor Ahmad, a witness at the scene. One coalition soldier was choking inside the burned bus, he said.
"The bottom half of his body was burned," Ahmad said.
NATO said five of its service members and eight civilian contractors working for the coalition died in the attack.
A U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity to release the information before a formal announcement, said all 13 were Americans. However, Lt. Col. Christian Lemay, a Canadian defense spokesman, told The Associated Press that one Canadian soldier was among the troops killed. The discrepancy could not immediately be reconciled.
It was the deadliest single attack against the U.S.-led coalition across the country since the Taliban shot down a NATO helicopter on Aug. 6 in an eastern Afghan province, killing 30 U.S. troops, most elite Navy SEALs, and eight Afghans.
The Afghan Ministry of Interior said four Afghans, including two children, also died in Saturday's attack. Eight other Afghans, including two children, were wounded, said Kabir Amiri, head of Kabul hospitals.
In all, there were three attacks Saturday against NATO and Afghan forces across the country.
A teenage girl also blew herself up as she tried to attack an Afghan intelligence office in the capital of Kunar province, a hotbed of militancy in northeast Afghanistan along the Pakistan border, the coalition said. Abdul Sabor Allayar, deputy provincial police chief, said the guards outside the government's intelligence office in Asad Abad became suspicious and started shooting, at which point the bomber detonated her explosives, killing herself and wounding several intelligence employees.
Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammad Zahir Azimi said officials were investigating whether the man who opened fire on a joint NATO-Afghan base in the restive southern Uruzgan province was an actual soldier or a militant in disguise.
The Australian Broadcasting Corp. said the attack occurred during a morning parade at a forward patrol base in southern Kandahar province, and the gunman wearing an Afghan army uniform was later killed. The discrepancy in the location of the attack could not immediately be clarified.
In Canberra, the Defense Department said three Australlian soldiers and their Afghan interpreter were killed in the attack, and seven Australian soldiers were wounded.
"It's a huge loss," said U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker. "Our deepest sympathies go out to their comrades and families, but it will not deter us from our mission. It's a shock, but we will not let these guys win."
Just a day earlier, the Pentagon issued a progress report saying that the number of enemy-initiated attacks in Afghanistan was trending downward. Since May of this year, the monthly number of these attacks has been lower than the same month in 2010, something not seen since 2007, it said.
However, the Pentagon also noted that the insurgency's safe havens in Pakistan and the limited capacity of the Afghan government could jeopardize efforts to turn security gains on the battlefield, primarily in the south, into long-term stability in Afghanistan.
Saturday's attack broke a relative lull in the Afghan capital, which has experienced a number of attacks in recent years that are often blamed on the Haqqani network, an al-Qaida and Taliban-linked movement that operates out of Pakistan.
The most recent attack in Kabul was the Sept. 20 assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani by an insurgent who detonated a bomb hidden in his turban. The attacker was posing as a peace emissary coming to meet Rabbani, who was leading a government effort to broker peace with the Taliban.
That occurred about a week after teams of insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons struck at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of Afghanistan's capital, leaving seven Afghans dead.
On Saturday, NATO and Afghan forces sealed off the blast area as fire trucks and ambulances, sirens blaring, rushed in. Coalition troops carried a badly burned body on a stretcher and several black body bags to two NATO helicopters that landed nearby to airlift casualties from the scene.
The Taliban identified the bomber as Abdul Rahman and said he was driving a Toyota Land Cruiser SUV containing 1,540 pounds (700 kilograms) of explosives and targeting foreigners providing training for Afghan police. The Taliban, who frequently exaggerate casualty claims, said that 25 people were killed by the blast.
A similar attack occurred on the same road in May 2010 when a suicide bomber struck a NATO convoy, killing 18 people. Among the dead were five U.S. soldiers and a Canadian colonel.
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Associated Press writers Tarek El-Tablawy in Kabul and Lolita Baldor in Washington contributed.
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Karl Frisch: GOP Blinded by Anti-Tax Madness this Halloween
Every year at about this time, I break out my DVD of the 1936 anti-drug propaganda flick Reefer Madness. No it's not exactly the scariest movie one might choose when getting into the Halloween spirit, but few things are funnier than watching a film made more than 70 years ago as it attempts to frighten the bejesus out of anyone who might be tempted to try marijuana.
I bet you didn't know, for example, that manslaughter, attempted rape, and suicide are among the likely outcomes should you break down and smoke a joint -- at least that's what happens in this picture.
The knee jerk fear of pot the film attempts to plant with its audience isn't that much different than the fear and trepidation Republicans attempt to sew among the American people when it comes to taxes.
Both rely heavily on gimmicks, propaganda, and misinformation to brainwash their intended targets -- you.
Much has been said of flavor-of-the-month Republican presidential front-runner Herman Cain's "999 plan" which would create a 9 percent federal sales tax (that's in addition to your local and state sales tax) and raise federal income taxes on the poor to 9 percent while lowering the same taxes on millionaires and billionaires to the same percentage.
Questioned about the impact his new federal sales tax would have on such basic needs as food and clothing, Cain said the poor and working families could eat "used" food to save dough -- basically telling the 99 percent, "Let them eat poop!" Talk about all "trick" and no "treat."
Perhaps sensing that his presidential aspirations were slipping through his fingers because of Cain's tax-plan-inspired rise in Republican polls, Governor Rick Perry announced his own gimmicky, unworkable "flat tax" proposal this week.
If the Perry plan looks familiar to those who follow such things, it is with good reason. It was drafted with the help of Steve Forbes who recently endorsed the Texas Governor and previously spent nearly $70 million -- money left to him by his deceased and closeted gay father -- pushing an anti-gay, anti-choice platform for president in 2000, which was capped off with a proposed flat tax.
If Forbes went trick-or-treating at the infamous Perry hunting lodge, he could by $1.9 billion of his favorite candy with the money he'd save under the very same plan he helped the Texas Governor write.
The Republican anti-tax fervor is stoked by a ginger-haired, taxphobic demon by the name of Grover Norquist. His Americans for Tax Reform pledge -- a promise to never raise taxes under any circumstances, ever (even during times of war) -- has been signed by nearly every GOP presidential candidate, scores of Republican local elected officials, and more than 300 members of the House and Senate.
The Norquist pledge has crippled the ability of Congressional Republicans to honestly come to the negotiating table and work with Democrats to create jobs and solve our national debt time bomb. They respect their pledge to Norquist's special interest group more than their oath to our Constitution, which is precisely the reason he's been nicknamed "Gridlock Grover" by the Constitutional Accountability Center.
When Republicans do come to the negotiating table, their proposals are equally maddening.
This week, in an act of faux-compromise, Speaker John Boehner decided to press a vote on President Obama's jobs legislation. Not the entire bill mind you, just one piece that was included to engender support from Republicans. In other words, the Speaker offered to compromise with House Democrats by allowing a vote only on a provision Republicans already support.
What measure did they want to push through in an effort to solve our jobs problem? I'm glad you asked because the answer is as disturbing as it is mind boggling, especially when it comes to job creation.
To make sure government contractors pay all of their taxes, we currently withhold three percent of the money paid on contractor projects. It is a practice started during the Bush Administration that was designed to deter tax cheats and it has saved us billions of dollars.
That is what Republicans want to end. I'm not exactly sure what jobs would be created by making life easier on tax cheats. It's hardly likely that the GOP was looking to bolster the hiring of tax attorneys at the IRS.
What could make Republicans -- from local elected officials to candidates for Presidents and every level of government in between -- propose such tax madness?
I'm guessing it's something they're smoking.
Karl Frisch is a syndicated columnist and Democratic strategist at Bullfight Strategies in Washington, D.C. He can be reached at KarlFrisch.com. You can also follow him on Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus and YouTube, or sign up to receive his columns and updates by email.
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Avon under investigation by Feds and Wall Street (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? Regulators are formally investigating whether Avon broke bribery laws overseas, and the cosmetics company said it was again reassessing its strategy after quarterly profit fell far short of expectations.
Shares of Avon fell as much as 19.6 percent on Thursday, as analysts questioned whether the company can come up with a turnaround plan as quickly as it expects to.
Analysts, as they have in past quarters, again took Chairman and Chief Executive Andrea Jung to task during the company's quarterly conference call.
"Why should investors believe management and the board have any control over the business at this point?" asked Stifel Nicolaus' Mark Astrachan, who downgraded Avon to "hold."
"Look, the buck stops with me," replied Jung, who has been CEO since 1999 and chairman since 2001.
U.S. regulators also subpoenaed Avon Products Inc over its contact with analysts and others as part of an investigation related to fair disclosure under Regulation FD.
Under Jung, Avon has turned in poor performances in key markets such as Brazil and Russia, poured tens of millions of dollars into its international bribery investigation and struggled to stem declines in a sluggish U.S. market.
The world's largest direct seller of cosmetics, which has been celebrating its 125th anniversary with celebrity-studded events this year, now plans to assess long-range business plans and give an update during the first quarter of 2012.
"It strikes me that you guys are so totally screwed up, in so many ways, the change has to be radical," said Citigroup analyst Wendy Nicholson, who noted that a first-quarter meeting may not give Avon enough time for a comprehensive review.
She also questioned whether Avon would consider other steps, including hiring consultants, exiting another market as it exited Japan or possibly taking the company private.
Consumer industry bankers said that Avon could be a target for a private equity firm in the future, but that for now, the investigation is too risky for any buyer to take a look at it.
"Everything is part of the overall business review," said Charles Cramb, vice chairman of the developed market group and interim chief finance officer.
Another potential red flag is that Avon cannot fully fund its dividend with free cash flow. The payout was raised to a quarterly rate of 23 cents per share earlier this year.
Avon has had "disappointing" cash management as well as one-time cash outlays, said Cramb, who will end his six years as Avon's CFO at the end of November.
Avon's incoming CFO, Kimberly Ross of Royal Ahold, will be involved in the review, Jung said.
Avon changed its corporate structure and shook up management in February. It overhauled operations and cut thousands of jobs under a restructuring laid out in November 2005 and updated in February 2009, and eliminated the dual role of president and chief operating officer in 2006, leaving business units to report directly to Jung.
SEC PROBE
Avon said on Thursday that it received the subpoena from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. The SEC is investigating the company's contact during 2010 and 2011 with certain analysts and other representatives of the financial community, Avon said in its quarterly filing.
The SEC adopted Regulation FD, short for "fair disclosure," in 2000 to prevent companies from tipping off analysts and investors about material information.
The SEC issued a formal order of investigation of both Regulation FD matters and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act matter that Avon itself has been looking at since June 2008.
Meanwhile, Avon blamed disappointing results in Brazil on poor implementation of an "unforgiving" new computer system and said tough economic conditions in several areas crimped sales.
The company -- which does not issue quarterly earnings forecasts -- no longer expects to meet its 2011 goals of mid-single digit revenue growth or a 0.5 percentage point to 0.7 percentage point improvement in operating margin.
"The CEO is responsible for the overall outcome of a company, and she has to be under pressure with these results," said Bernstein analyst Ali Dibadj. "It would be unfair to shareholders if there weren't pressure on management at this point."
Jung, a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, is one of the leading female executives in the world. She ranked sixth on Fortune magazine's list of powerful women in U.S. business in September.
She co-leads the seven-member board at Apple Inc and chairs its compensation committee. When announcing her nomination to Apple's board in 2008, Steve Jobs referred to Jung as a "strong CEO and marketer."
She has also served on General Electric Co's board since 1998 and serves on two of its committees: nominating and corporate governance and management development and compensation. A GE spokesman said the company is not reviewing her position as a director, while an Apple spokesman did not immediately return a call for comment.
Avon's third-quarter profit fell to $164.2 million, or 38 cents per share, from $166.7 million, or 38 cents a share, a year earlier. Revenue rose 5.7 percent to $2.76 billion.
The results missed Wall Street estimates of earnings of 46 cents per share and revenue of $2.83 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Avon also sold 5 percent fewer products in the quarter. In North America, sales continued to slide as more sales representatives left, and operating profit fell 85 percent.
Avon shares were down 17.9 percent at $18.89 on Thursday afternoon, off an earlier low at $18.51.
(Reporting by Jessica Wohl in Chicago; Additional reporting by Brad Dorfman in Chicago, Phil Wahba and Jonathan Stempel in New York, Jessica Hall in Philadelphia, Scott Malone in Boston and Poornima Gupta in San Francisco; editing by Dave Zimmerman, Lisa Von Ahn and Matthew Lewis)
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Saturday, October 29, 2011
Sony PRS-T1 Reader Wi-Fi Cover with Light Review
I just posted a review of the new PRS-T1 Reader Wi-Fi ebook reader from Sony, and I mentioned that you have to have a light to read in dim or dark rooms. ?That’s the nature of eInk screens – they have no backlighting, so you’ll need an external light of some sort. ?I’ve had lighted [...]
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3-D, Hold the Glasses
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Three-dimensional television got a major marketing push nearly two years ago from the consumer electronics and entertainment industries, yet the technology has one major limitation: viewers need special eyeglasses to experience the 3-D effect. Now the marketing experts say that the technology will never catch on in a big way unless viewers can toss the glasses entirely.
Although 3-D technology sans specs is available for small screens on smartphones and portable gaming devices, these devices use backlit LCDs, which can be a big battery drain and limits how small the gadgets can be made. More recently, researchers have begun to use light-emitting diodes, which show more promise. They are developing autostereoscopic 3-D using tiny prisms that would render 3-D images without glasses. Because these LEDs get their lighting from organic compounds that glow in response to electric current, they can be thinner, lighter and more flexible than LCDs. The innovation is detailed in the August issue of the journal Nature Communications.
The researchers?from Seoul National University, Act Company and Minuta Technology?used an array of microscale prisms placed on a screen to create a filter that guides the light in one direction or another. Using such a prism array?which the researchers refer to as a Lucius prism after the Latin name meaning ?shining and bright??they were able to display an object on the screen that could be seen only when viewed from a particular angle. By manipulating the intensity of light, the scientists could show from the same screen two distinctly different images?one to a viewer?s left eye and a second to the right eye. Seeing the two images together creates a sense of depth that the brain perceives as 3-D?all without the help of special lenses.
Some researchers have reported success with other approaches to glasses-free 3-D. The HTC EVO 3D and LG Optimus 3D smartphones, for example, feature parallax barrier screens made with precision slits that allow each eye to see a different set of pixels. Unfortunately, this approach requires the viewer to look at the screen at a very specific angle to experience the 3-D effect, a drawback that this new technique may be able to overcome.
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Nokia N8 clicks its heels three times, finds a Symbian Anna service pack update
What's a megabyte and is heading to the Nokia N8? Surprisingly, it's a service pack update for Symbian Anna. It's not too often wonderful things come in small packages, but we appreciate the fast download so we can move on with our daily grind pretty fast. Among the entries in the update's change log are performance and usability enhancements, faster email and messaging, better GPS locks and plenty more. It only appears to be finding its way to the N8 for now, though we imagine it won't be too long before it makes cameo appearances on the other Anna devices. If you want to get cracking on the service pack, it's available over the air and through the Nokia Suite. Now, if only Belle would come knocking on the door...
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Mint Finally Brings Personal Finance Platform To The iPad ...
Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney?s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... ? Learn More
Mint.com has been available on a variety of mobile platforms, including iPhone and Android, but has not developed an iPad app. Considering the popularity of other finance apps on the iPad and the tablet for factor, the device is ideal for Mint?s service. Today, Intuit-owned Mint.com is finally launching an iPad app. You can download the app here.
The iPad app lets you organize all accounts in one place within the app, and includes a streaming delivery of account alerts, bill reminders and personalized advice. The app takes advantage of the touch interface to allow users to pinch, tap and flick through graphs to drill into spending by category, merchant or budget. Similar to the iPhone app, you can add transactions from the app and it uses Google places to identify local merchants to input.
The app uses geo-location capabilities help people categorize cash spending, and allows you to see a snapshot of your financies without Wi-Fi access. Users can also sync multiple devices so changes to an account on one platform will sync on all devices.
Mint, which currently has 7 million users, says the iPad app is one of its fastest mobile apps because it supports features of the newly released iOS 5, including Automatic Reference Counting technology. In addition, customers will receive instant updates on bill reminders, alerts and other account activity through the app?s Notification Center.
For background, Mint won our first TechCrunch40 conference in 2007 and was acquired two years later by Intuit for an impressive $170 million. So why did it take so long for an iPad app to be released? Well, the company seems to be facing some growing pains from within Intuit, and launch times have slowed. Of course, the company could have also been waiting for iOS 5 to be broadly released as well.
That being said, better late than never.
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Microsoft Office team shares vision of the future
The Microsoft Office team has put out a video showing a vision of the future where edge-to-edge, interactive, multitouch and gesture-based panels are everywhere. We’ve seen things like this before in movies like Minority Report and Iron Man, and even ye old Bill Gates CES Keynotes of yore. Apple...
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Calif. rep may face ethics inquiry (Politico)
The House Ethics Committee is moving toward a full-scale investigation of Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Calif.), who has been under scrutiny for months over allegations that her staff engaged in banned political activities while on government time, according to several sources close to the matter.
Ethics Committee staffers have been digging into the claims against Richardson since last year as part of a ?preliminary inquiry? by the panel, and they have been interviewing current and former Richardson aides. The investigators are looking into allegations that Richardson and some of her most senior staffers pressured other aides to work on her reelection campaign or be fired, according to these sources and news reports. Staffers on the congressional payroll are banned from working on political campaigns during official time, and no House resources can be used for campaign-related activities, according to House rules and federal statute.
Continue ReadingIf the Ethics Committee were to create an special investigative subcommittee to oversee the Richardson case, it would dramatically raise the legal and political stakes for the three-term California Democrat.
Richardson?s campaign committee is already hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, including more than $125,000 owed to three law firms, and she faces a potential three-way Democratic primary fight against Rep. Janice Hahn and California Assemblyman Isadore Hall in a newly redrawn congressional district.
Such a move would also mean that another African-American Democrat is under investigation by the secretive Ethics Committee, a sore spot for many black lawmakers. Reps. Maxine Waters of California; Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois; and Gregory Meeks of New York are all currently under investigation, according to the panel?s press statements.
Richardson?s office did not return calls seeking comment. The Ethics Committee also declined to comment.
The 49-year-old Richardson has been under ethics scrutiny almost continually since winning an August 2007 special election to replace her onetime boss, the late Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald.
A Sacramento home that Richardson bought that year went into foreclosure in 2008, the third home on which Richardson has missed mortgage payments. The bank that held the Sacramento mortgage, Washington Mutual, then sold the home to a real estate investor.
But Washington Mutual later took the home back and returned it to Richardson and modified her mortgage. Following a lawsuit, Washington Mutual reached a settlement with the investor who had purchased the home.
The Office of Congressional Ethics and the House Ethics Committee both investigated the incident. The Ethics Committee ruled in July 2010 that Richardson ?did not knowingly violate? any ethics rules in the case.
In November 2010, just four months after the mortgage controversy was resolved, the Los Angeles Wave, a community newspaper, reported that Ethics Committee staffers were looking into allegations that Richardson had forced her official staff to work for her reelection campaign while on official time or lose their jobs, a potential ethical and statutory violation.
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Penelope Cruz: being a mom makes you grow (AP)
ROME ? A new mother herself, Penelope Cruz says her current film role as a single mom is one of the most beautiful characters she has ever played.
Cruz made a cameo appearance in Rome on Wednesday night on the eve of the Rome Film Festival. She had been in Bosnia recently filming Sergio Castellitto's "Venuto al Mondo" about a single woman who brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where the boy's father died during the 1990s Bosnian conflict.
She told reporters being a mother is the strongest experience a woman can have. Cruz and husband actor Javier Bardem became parents of a baby boy in January. Cruz, stunning in a somber black suit, says every experience in life makes you change and grow.
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Police detain 12 in protest rally in Moscow (AP)
MOSCOW ? Police have dispersed an unauthorized opposition rally against the Kremlin's control over elections in Russia and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's decision to run for a third presidential term in the next election. At least 12 activists were detained in central Moscow on Monday.
Associated Press reporters saw the protesters rounded up and dragged off in police vans.
The activists were holding the unauthorized rally outside the building of the Russian Election Commission, chanting: "Down with illegal elections!" The protesters were referring to the upcoming parliamentary and presidential election in December and March, respectively.
President Dmitry Medvedev announced last month that he would not run for a second term but would support the candidacy of Prime Minister Putin, who was the country's president in 2000-2008. The swap has caused an outrage among liberal and leftist groups who accuse Putin and Medvedev of highjacking the vote.
Most Russian television stations are state-controlled, which means they do not cover opposition groups. Many prominent opposition leaders and civic activists have never been interviewed on major television channels.
Police started rounding up the demonstrators once the small rally's organizer, Sergei Udaltsov, told the group that each of them could hold a one-man picket which requires no official permission.
Udaltsov, the leader of the Left Front, was detained along with his supporters. He is a regular at opposition rallies in Moscow, most of which are unauthorized. He has been detained at least 11 times this year and has served more than 30 days in jail. Udaltsov got out of jail Saturday after serving 10 days for disobeying police orders at another rally.
Opposition rallies are regularly banned in Moscow, while authorities routinely deny registration to those groups and bar them from running for seats in regional and federal legislatures.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
US-North Korea nuclear talks start in Geneva (AP)
GENEVA ? U.S. and North Korean diplomats began talks Monday on Pyongyang's nuclear program, the second direct encounter between the two sides in less than three months.
Mobbed by reporters as they left their lakeside hotel for a first meeting at the United States' U.N. mission in Geneva, American diplomats declined to reveal their goals for the two-day talks.
Stephen Bosworth, the U.S. top envoy on Pyongyang, said the two sides hadn't met Sunday despite staying ? by design or coincidence ? in the same hotel. He was accompanied by Glyn Davies, the U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, who is taking over the negotiating brief in future talks.
Their opposite on the North Korea's delegation is First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan.
U.S. diplomats have previously said they want North Korea to adhere to a 2005 agreement it reneged on requiring verifiable denuclearization in exchange for better relations with its Asian neighbors.
The talks could also touch upon long-standing issues such as food aid to the chronically impoverished North, reuniting separated families on the Korean peninsula and recovering the remains of troops missing in action.
North Korea's closest ally China urged Pyongyang to improve its strained ties with longtime foes the United States and South Korea, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported Monday.
Beijing wants to revive the stalled six-nation disarmament negotiations, which also include South Korea, Japan and Russia. North Korea walked out on the talks in 2009 ? and exploded a second nuclear-test device ? but now wants to re-engage.
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Matt Barnes and Gloria Govan: It's Over!
Matt Barnes and Gloria Govan of the NBA's LA Lakers and VH1's Basketball Wives fame, respectively, have announced their split. They had a nice run together, mostly.
After calling off their engagement last year, but convincing the public they're still a couple, the two confirmed the breakup we ALL knew was coming this week.
Matt emailed out a statement today about the split from Gloria Govan (sister of Gilbert Arenas baby mana/Shaq mistress Laura Govan), saying the following:
“I’d like to address rumors surrounding mine and Gloria’s relationship. We've reached the difficult decision of ending our relationship and will be going our separate ways. We will work together to raise our sons and wish each other only the best.”
Gloria just tweeted her statement saying:
"I'm sure you guys are hearing a ton of buzz about Matt and Me breaking up, sorry to say... its true!!!!!! But the most important thing is focusing on my kids and continuing to have a good relationship with their father, thanks for your support!!!"
A heated Twitter exchange this month between Matt and a fan - who suggested Barnes should Govan or else someone else will - was a bad sign.
Responded Barnes: "He can have her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Classy. Meanwhile, she Tweeted Saturday: "If someone is dumb enough to walk away, be smart enough to let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you."
Well spoken, Gloria Govan. Well spoken.
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Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2011/10/matt-barnes-and-gloria-govan-its-over/
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Cowboys QB Romo, wife expecting child (AP)
DALLAS ? Tony Romo casually dropped some big news on a student assembly at a suburban Dallas school: His wife is pregnant.
During an appearance at Cedar Hill High School on Tuesday, a student asked the Dallas Cowboys quarterback if he had any children. Romo replied that he didn't, but added, "I've actually got one on the way. My wife's pregnant."
The Romos expect the arrival in March.
Romo and former TV sports reporter Candice Crawford married on May 28.
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Pakistan forces Indian helicopter to land
ISLAMABAD (AP) ? A spokesman for Pakistan's army says authorities have forced an Indian military helicopter to land and have taken its four-member crew into custody for violating Pakistani airspace.
Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas says the incident occurred Sunday near Skardu, a city in northeastern Pakistan fairly close to the border with India-held Kashmir.
Abbas says the three pilots and crew chief taken into custody are safe. He did not say what Pakistan planned to do with them.
Pakistan and India are archenemies and have fought three major wars since they gained independence from Britain in 1947.
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North Korea's Kim calls for nuclear talks, doubts on uranium (Reuters)
BEIJING (Reuters) ? North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il told Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang that a moribund 2005 deal should be the basis for fresh talks about Pyongyang's nuclear program, Chinese state media reported, leaving unanswered a key question on uranium enrichment.
The United States and South Korea insist that the North must immediately halt its uranium enrichment program, which it unveiled last year, as a precursor to restart regional talks that offer economic aid in return for denuclearization.
Kim's latest offer of fresh nuclear negotiations came as Washington said it had narrowed differences with North Korea on issues standing in the way of a new round of multilateral nuclear talks.
In his meeting with Li, Kim repeated that North Korea is willing to return to six-party talks -- also involving Russia and Japan -- that it walked out of more than two years ago.
But his published comments did not address Pyongyang's uranium enrichment activities, a key obstacle to talks.
"Kim said the DPRK hopes the six-party talks should be restarted as soon as possible," said the Xinhua news agency report on Tuesday of the meeting between Kim and Li in North Korea on Monday night.
The DPRK is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea -- the North's official name.
"All the six parties should fully implement the September 19 joint statement, signed by them in 2005 in Beijing, on the principle of simultaneous action," Kim said, according to the report.
The North's uranium enrichment program, which opens a second route to make an atomic bomb along with its plutonium program, is not specifically referred to in the 2005 agreement.
However, Seoul and Washington argue uranium enrichment falls under the broader term "existing nuclear programs," which the 2005 deal says must be stopped.
Pyongyang states it is willing to discuss the issue once six-party talks resume, but Seoul and Washington say there will be no talks until uranium enrichment is stopped. They say any halt must be verified by international nuclear inspectors.
The United States, South Korea and their allies have been skeptical of North Korea's recent assertions that it stands ready to return to the six-party talks, saying Pyongyang has reneged on past disarmament pledges.
The talks and the embryonic agreement were a diplomatic trophy for Beijing. But North Korea walked out of the negotiations more than two years ago after the United Nations imposed fresh sanctions for a long-range missile test. The following month Pyongyang conducted a second nuclear test.
The North says its uranium enrichment program is designed to produce power, and argues that the 2005 agreement respects its right to peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
In Geneva, Stephen Bosworth, the U.S. special representative for North Korea, said the two sides "narrowed some differences but we still have differences that we have to resolve."
Throughout the regional turbulence, Beijing has stood by its ally, North Korea, which it sees as a buffer against the influence of the United States and its allies. But China has also tried to preserve ties with South Korea, and to revive the stalled talks on North Korean nuclear disarmament.
Li, 56, is the favorite to become premier from early 2013, when Wen Jiabao will step down. He will visit South Korea after his trip to the North.
(Reporting by Chris Buckley in BEIJING and Jeremy Laurence in SEOUL; Editing by Paul Tait)
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Republicans plot early strategy to win back Ind.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? Indiana Republicans took their first presidential loss in 40 years when Barack Obama carried the rock-ribbed GOP state. They're not about to let it happen again.
To return the state to the GOP column and nail it there, national Republicans say they plan to treat Indiana as if it were a long-standing battleground state. State Republicans hope to recreate the excitement that fired up underdog Indiana Democrats in 2008, when Hillary Clinton and Obama campaigned extensively throughout the state in a lengthy primary battle that dragged through May, creating a buzz that lasted until the general election.
By contrast, GOP nominee John McCain largely took Indiana for granted, focusing his energy on actual battleground states. Obama won the state in November by a little more than 30,000 votes.
Now the state is fairly crawling with GOP candidates.
The state party has sponsored four presidential forums since August. Those events brought Republican candidates like pizza magnate Herman Cain, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former U.S. Ambassador to China John Huntsman to Indiana and helped add 1,000 names to the party's e-mail list, party spokesman Pete Seat said.
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, whose YouTube videos about the budget crisis have given him a high profile, headlined the state party's fall fundraiser with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Preibus last Friday. Cain visited the exclusive Columbia Club in downtown Indianapolis at the same time.
"It's nice that we're getting this kind of attention, it's creating interest in the election," Garry Petersen said last week, before listening to Perry speak to roughly 300 Republicans at the Columbia Club. Petersen and his wife, Terri, have long been active in Indiana Republican politics and said this is the most attention the state has gotten from Republican presidential candidates since the early 1980s.
"Our responsibility is to take care of our backyard here and to make sure that Indiana is fired up. We have a network of folks that are willing to sacrifice their time and just make sure that Barack Obama is one and done," Indiana Republican Party Chairman Eric Holcomb said.
Obama was the first Democrat to win Indiana since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. And even though they voted three separate Democratic governors into office in the intervening years, Hoosiers voters so reliably went for whomever the Republicans offered nationally for 44 years.
That near-certainty that any Republican presidential nominee would carry the state made both sides complacent until Obama's win in 2008. It has sent some of the most conservative representatives to Congress, including Dan Burton, Dan Coats and Dan Quayle, who was vice president under President George H.W. Bush.
To keep Indiana's reputation for producing conservative wins, the RNC plans to begin sending staffers and money to Indiana in the spring, said Rick Wiley, RNC political director. Republicans learned a hard lesson in Indiana in 2008 when they waited until after McCain's nomination had been locked up to begin organizing their campaign, he said.
"We're going to treat it as a battleground state. We're going to treat as though we're running behind in the state," Wiley said Tuesday. He would not say how much the national party plans to spend in the state or how many full-time staff they will pay for here.
For its part, the Obama campaign is touting a continued staff presence in Indiana that has been maintained since Obama took office. The re-election effort has maintained between two and four fulltime staffers in Indiana since 2008, according to an Indiana Democratic source who spoke on condition of anonymity because the Obama campaign does not want to release campaign staff numbers.
Those staffers have been running phone banks and helping the state's Democratic mayoral candidates, the source said. The Obama campaign is running weekly phone banks from the state Democratic party headquarters every Tuesday, according to the campaign website.
Obama's Indiana supporters say even if the president loses Indiana next year they are optimistic the network they built in 2008 has scared Republicans enough to at least draw away resources from other battleground states.
"I think they better" campaign hard in Indiana, said Kip Tew, a former Indiana Democratic Party chairman who led Obama's Indiana efforts in 2008. "They didn't the last time and they lost, so they probably learned a lesson."
In the meantime, both parties are using Indiana's statewide municipal elections as training ahead of next year's battle. Indiana Republicans have held four training sessions with mayoral candidates and volunteers, sending out executive director Justin Garrett to lead the events throughout the state.
"It's a long road ahead of us," GOP state chairman Holcomb said. "We need to take nothing for granted and make sure that Indiana turns red."
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Monday, October 24, 2011
AP Exclusive: Note shows big power split over Iran (AP)
VIENNA ? Russia and China are urging the chief U.N nuclear inspector to scrap or delay U.S.-backed plans to reveal intelligence on Iran's alleged nuclear arms experiments, in a bluntly worded confidential document obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
The diplomatic note to International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano points to an East-West rift among the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council over how to deal with concerns about Iran's nuclear activities.
The United States, Britain and France want Amano to share what his agency knows or suspects about Iran's alleged weapons experiments with the IAEA's 35-nation board at its meeting next month. But Russia's and China's opposition likely will delay Western hopes of having the board report Tehran to the Security Council for the second time for its nuclear defiance, a referral that could open Iran to more sanctions.
In the note, Moscow and Beijing warn Amano against "groundless haste" and urge him to "act cautiously," adding that "such kind of report will only drive the Iranians into a corner making them less cooperative."
An international official familiar with the matter said Amano plans to go ahead nonetheless, arguing that it is his duty to inform the decision-making board of evidence pointing to such experiments.
Russia, China, the United States, Britain, France and Germany are formally unified in trying to persuade Iran to meet concerns over its nuclear program. But a diplomat briefed on the matter said he was told that the Russians and Chinese went to Amano without consulting the other nations.
The diplomat suggested that the fractures within the group may hinder any new attempt to engage Iran in talks over its nuclear program. He, like others who consented to talk about privileged issues, asked for anonymity.
A cell phone message left with Iran's chief IAEA representative was not immediately returned. Asked about the Chinese-Russian note, chief U.S. delegate Glyn Davies said Washington supports "IAEA's efforts to address questions about the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear program."
"The burden remains on Iran to answer the IAEA's questions, which it has thus far refused to do," he said in an e-mail.
Iran is under four sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions for not mothballing a program that can make both nuclear fuel or fissile warhead material. It has rapidly expanded such activities since they were discovered in 2002, and concerns have grown as the country has refused to let the IAEA probe growing intelligence-based allegations that it is working on a nuclear warhead and other aspects of a weapons program.
Tehran insists, however, it is only interested in nuclear power, not weapons. It says the intelligence is fabricated by the United States and its allies.
In its efforts to blunt pressure, Iran has found economic and strategic allies in both China and Russia. Since the IAEA asked for Security Council involvement five years ago, these two nations have supported U.N. and other sanctions only reluctantly and on condition they be watered down.
In contrast, Washington, London and Paris continue to seek tougher U.N. sanctions, and their determination to ramp up pressure on Tehran has only increased in the wake of an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington revealed earlier this month.
Both Moscow and Beijing have reacted with caution to those allegations and continue to oppose toughening pressure on Iran over its nuclear activities. That is a stance that contrasts with the Western view ? and which was clearly enunciated in their diplomatic note to Amano.
In an allusion to Washington, London and Paris, they warned that "certain members of the IAEA Board of Governors will most probably use (such) a separate report ... as a pretext" to again report Iran to the Security Council.
"This is a straight way forward to a new UNSC resolution on sanctions against Iran," said the note. The two nations, it said, "are definitely seriously concerned about such a development."
For months, the U.S. and its allies had been contemplating pushing for renewed IAEA referral of Iran to the Security Council using a strongly worded Amano report as a springboard ? a strategy that a second diplomat said now seemed unlikely considering strong Russian and Chinese disapproval.
The diplomat, who is from an IAEA member nation, said that the West now may try to garner support for an IAEA resolution that gives Iran until March to cooperate with U.N. agency attempts to probe the arms allegations.
Missing that deadline on the part of Tehran could trigger renewed referral to the Security Council, he said.
The diplomat said the evidence making a case for fears about secret nuclear weapons experiments will be backed up by documentation reflecting "cross-checks" of intelligence provided by various nations. He and the other diplomat both said that Iran will be given a copy of the summary and asked to respond before it is presented to the IAEA board.
In his previous report to the board in September, Amano said his agency is "increasingly concerned" about a stream of intelligence suggesting that Iran continues to work secretly on developing a nuclear payload for a missile and other components of a nuclear weapons program.
The restricted report obtained by the AP said "many member states" are providing evidence for that assessment, describing the information it is receiving as credible, "extensive and comprehensive."
Tehran denies secretly experimenting with a nuclear weapons program and has blocked a four-year attempt by the IAEA to follow up on intelligence that it secretly designed blueprints linked to a nuclear payload on a missile, experimented with exploding a nuclear charge, and conducted work on other components of a weapons program.
In a 2007 estimate, the U.S. intelligence community said that while Iran had worked on a weapons program such activities appeared to have ceased in 2003. But diplomats say a later intelligence summary avoided such specifics, and recent IAEA reports on the topic have expressed growing unease that such activities may be continuing ? although in a less concerted fashion.
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George Jahn may be reached at http://twitter.com/georgejahn
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Netflix to launch streaming service in UK, Ireland (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? Netflix Inc said it will launch a subscription service in the United Kingdom and Ireland in early 2012, offering unlimited TV shows and movie streaming over the Internet.
The service will be available to customers on a monthly subscription basis, Netflix said.
The company said further details about the service, including pricing, content and supported devices, will be announced closer to launch.
Coming from nowhere nearly 15 years ago to shake up the media and cable industries with its simple, but effective, DVD-by-mail service, Netflix now is trying to regain its footing by emphasizing online streaming of movies and TV shows.
(Reporting by Sakthi Prasad in Bangalore; Editing by Erica Billingham)
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Saints set points record, beat Colts 62-7 (AP)
NEW ORLEANS ? Fans sitting in the upper deck of the Superdome turned their backs to the field, where the New Orleans Saints were setting franchise records, and saluted head coach Sean Payton, who was sitting high above in a booth with his broken leg propped up.
He might as well have had both feet up by the middle of the third quarter.
Drew Brees completed 31 of 35 passes for 325 yards and five touchdowns, and the Saints set a franchise record for points and victory margin in a 62-7 demolition of the hapless Indianapolis Colts on Sunday night.
"I was real proud of how we played tonight, how we handled the week of practice," said Payton, standing on crutches after the game. "We spent a lot of time during the week just talking about us beginning to play our best football, because we really felt while we were 4-2, we hadn't done that."
Payton had called offensive plays from the sidelines since he took his first head coaching job with New Orleans in 2006, but that changed after he was caught up in a tackle along the sideline during a loss at Tampa Bay last week and was injured. Payton had surgery on Monday and didn't attend a practice until Thursday.
Sitting high up in the Superdome for the game against the Colts, he had to like what he saw down below, where offensive coordinator Pete Carmichael Jr. called plays for the first time.
Brees had two touchdown passes to Marques Colston and one to Darren Sproles in the first quarter. His fourth and fifth touchdown tosses went to second-year tight end Jimmy Graham in the third quarter.
It seemed the Saints (5-2) could do whatever they wanted, also rushing for 236 yards.
"We had a great game plan. We played with a lot of confidence. Pete did a phenomenal job," Brees said. "It was just our night, one of those games that doesn't come along too often. ... We needed a win like this, especially after the past week and everything we've gone through."
The Saints' point total tied the most in a game by any team since the AFL merged with the NFL in 1970.
The Saints previous franchise high for points in a game was 51 on three occasions and their largest previous victory margin was 42 over Denver in 1988.
When the large video board in the Superdome showed Payton peering out from the booth, the crowd erupted. By the time the third quarter ended, there wasn't much of a crowd left.
Colston had seven catches for 98 yards.
Brees wasn't intercepted before he was replaced by Chase Daniel late in the third quarter, a move that prevented New Orleans' starting quarterback from extending his NFL record of four straight games with at least 350 yards passing.
Mark Ingram rushed for 91 yards on 18 carries but limped to the locker room early in the fourth quarter with what Payton said was a heel injury, adding that X-rays were negative. Sproles carried 12 times for 88 yards, including a 16-yard touchdown.
The Saints had 557 yards and a team-record 36 first downs.
The winless Colts (0-7) are guaranteed to have fewer than 10 victories in a season for the first time in nine years, and at this rate they might not win many games at all.
"That team played better than we did in every area and we just got whooped across the board," Colts coach Jim Caldwell said. "It's one of those things that once you don't do the little things right, there is a lot of bad things that happen to you. Obviously, I have to take responsibility for our team and the way that they played."
Colts quarterback Curtis Painter was only 9 of 17 for 67 yards and had an interception returned 42 yards for a touchdown by Leigh Torrence.
"We just didn't play near well enough," Painter said. "We made a few too many mistakes in the beginning, and any time you're playing a team as good as them, they're going to make you pay. We just kind of got off to a rough start and you've got to credit them. They played well."
For the seventh game this season, Colts star quarterback Peyton Manning was forced to watch because of a neck injury that has sidelined him all season.
As hard as it had to be for Manning to be a spectator in his return to his native New Orleans, it had to be even harder to see his team's mistake-prone performance. These Colts looked more like the bumbling Saints of old that his father, Archie, starred for three decades ago.
Indianapolis fumbled twice in the opening quarter, giving the Saints a relatively short field both times.
The first came on the opening drive on a botched snap that linebacker Jonathan Vilma recovered on the Colts 41-yard line.
Brees then completed his first three passes, the last a 14-yard scoring strike to Colston, who made a leaping catch in front of defensive back Jerraud Powers to make it 7-0.
The Saints then went 81 yards in six plays, including Pierre Thomas's 57-yard gain on a screen pass, and took a 14-0 lead when Brees hit Colston again with a quick 4-yard throw over the middle.
The Saints then took over on their 48 when defensive tackle Tom Johnson stripped rookie running back Delone Carter, and Cam Jordan recovered.
Sproles started the drive with a 16-yard run and finished it with a 6-yard touchdown catch.
Brees' 26-yard completion to Lance Moore ignited yet another touchdown drive, this one covering 69 yards in seven plays and ending with fullback Jed Collins' 1-yard score on a second-effort plunge through a pile of players.
John Kasay added field goals of 23 and 47 yards. The second came as time expired in the half and was set up by Colston's 39-yard reception.
Indianapolis trailed 31-0 before scoring on Carter's 2-yard run, capping a seven-play, 80-yard drive that was highlighted by Carter's 42-yard scamper on the opening play.
NOTES: Pierre Thomas' 57-yard reception in the first quarter was his longest gain from scrimmage in his career. ... RB Joseph Addai left the game after two offensive series because of a nagging right hamstring injury. ... The Colts said reserve TE Jacob Tamme was being evaluated for a possible concussion. ... Saints S Roman Harper left the game in the second half after taking a hit to the head. Harper said he would be fine.
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