Yang beats Seo in playoff to win KEB HanaBank

INCHEON, South Korea (AP) — Amy Yang birdied the first playoff hole on Sunday to beat South Korean compatriot Hee Kyung Seo and win the KEB HanaBank Championship.

Yang's birdie putt on the par-5 18th hole at the Ocean Course in Incheon gave the 24-year-old Yang her first victory of the 2013 season.

Yang eagled the par-4 15th in regulation and added two birdies against a lone bogey for a 69. Seo eagled the par-4 11th and had four birdies against two bogeys for a 68 as both players ended regulation at 9-under 207.

Michelle Wie, who started the final round tied for 22nd, surged up the leaderboard with six birdies for the day's lowest score of 66 to finish tied for third at 8-under 208 with defending champion Suzann Pettersen of Norway (70) and South Korea's Sei Young Kim (69).

Overnight co-leader Anna Nordqvist of Sweden shot a 74 that left her tied for eighth. Katherine Hull-Kirk of Australia, who also held a share of the lead heading into the final round, had seven bogeys en route to a 79.

South Korean star Inbee Park, who leads the money list and the player of the year rankings, shot a second-straight round of 73 that left her tied for 28th.

Since the tournament's first year in 2002, a South Korean player was won the title eight

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Wall St Week Ahead - Market priced for perfection as earnings, data flow

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. data clog will begin to clear next week and payrolls figures will land just as more than one-quarter of S&P 500 companies report earnings. But equities, at record highs, have already surpassed expectations for the year and could begin to drift sideways.

The S&P 500 closed Friday at 1,744.50, an all-time high, making it safe to say the bulls are in control on Wall Street. Neither the four-month rise in benchmark Treasuries yields that topped in September nor the government shutdown and near-technical default on U.S. debt earlier this week could derail the rally.

"Investors may be feeling a bit invincible, having survived the rise in rates and the shenanigans in D.C.," said Brian Jacobsen, chief portfolio strategist at Wells Fargo Funds Management in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin.

He said, however, the consequences of the rise in interest rates and the evidence of an economic slowdown could take a toll, and investors could begin to cash in on a good year as fourth-quarter outlooks dim.

Expectations for earnings growth in the year's last quarter are now at a lofty 10.3 percent, though they are expected to fall.

"I'm not so concerned about the third-quarter earnings numbers as those are likely to come in without much fanfare. I'm more concerned about what analysts do with fourth-quarter earnings numbers," Jacobsen said. "I think we could have a topping market here."

Positive third-quarter earnings from Google and Morgan Stanley helped the S&P close at a record on Friday. For the week, the Dow rose 1.1 percent, the S&P was up 2.4 percent and the Nasdaq advanced 3.2 percent.

HERE COMES THE DATA

September payrolls numbers, expected two weeks ago, will be released on Tuesday to start a flow of economic data delayed because of the 16-day government shutdown that ended on Thursday.

The September data won't be corrupted because of the delay, but October data may be. The Federal Reserve has repeated that its decision regarding when and by how much to reduce its $85 billion a month stimulus is data dependent, and the trend may not be reliable next month.

"Professional investors are pretty well aware of the new schedule, but that may not be the case for retail," said Tim Ghriskey, chief investment officer at Solaris Group in Bedford Hills, New York.

"When we get the non-farm payrolls next Tuesday, the focus may shift to 'what is the Fed going to do with its stimulus program' since we've moved away from the whole Washington drama for now."

Adding to the data question mark, the economic headwinds stemming from the recent disarray in Washington have all but ensured the Fed's quantitative easing will not be reduced until next year.

EARNINGS GALORE

About 28 percent of S&P 500 components will report earnings next week. The list includes Dow components Caterpillar , McDonald's , Boeing , Microsoft , UPS , AT&T and DuPont , among others, alongside crowd favorites Netflix and Amazon.com .

Overall earnings growth on the S&P 500 is expected to be 2.1 percent for the third quarter, down from an estimate of 4.5 percent at the beginning of October and 8.5 percent in July.

In terms of revenue, 53 percent of the nearly 100 companies that have reported have beaten expectations and 46.9 percent have missed. In a typical quarter going back to 2002, 61 percent of companies beat revenue estimates and 39 percent missed.

"It's going to pull us back to earth a little bit. Earnings are important but what I am looking at is revenue," said Brad McMillan, chief investment officer at Commonwealth Financial in Waltham, Massachusetts.

"There are a couple of companies that are doing well, and God bless them, but is that the rule or the exception?"

At 14.6, the S&P's forward price-to-earnings ratio is near its highest in four years and slightly under the long-term mean of 14.9. The P/E multiple has risen throughout the year as earnings growth has remained stagnant, and forecasts are likely to fall in coming months. Without improved growth, that P/E will start to look expensive.

(Reporting by Rodrigo Campos; additional reporting by Angela Moon and Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by Kenneth Barry)

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Officials: Cyanide killed potential Bulger witness

BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts medical examiner's office determined that cyanide poisoning killed an alleged extortion victim of Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger who had hoped to testify at Bulger's trial, prosecutors said Sunday.

The medical examiner's office concluded that Stephen Rakes, 59, of Quincy, died of acute cyanide toxicity in July and ruled his death a homicide, according to MaryBeth Long, a spokeswoman for the Middlesex district attorney's office.

Authorities said Rakes' death wasn't related to the Bulger case.

Rakes' business associate, William Camuti, 69, of Sudbury, is charged with attempted murder and other crimes for allegedly poisoning Rakes' iced coffee. Camuti has pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors said Camuti owed Rakes money and lured him to a meeting where he poisoned his drink then drove Rakes around for hours before dumping his body.

Long said the district attorney's office intends to file additional charges against Camuti based on the new findings by the medical examiner.

A phone message for Camuti's attorney, Stanley Norkunas, was not immediately returned Sunday.

Rakes' body was found in a wooded area of the Boston suburb of Lincoln on July 17, just a day after he learned he wouldn't be called as a witness against Bulger. Rakes openly despised Bulger and blamed him for seizing control of his South Boston liquor store to use as headquarters for Boston's Irish mob in 1984.

Bulger was convicted in August of 11 killings and dozens of other gangland crimes. He is set to be sentenced next month.

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Don’t Call It a Shutdown: How the Crisis Could Still Come Back to Bite Democrats (Atlantic Politics Channel)

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Fitch Places U.S. Under Review For A Credit Downgrade

Fitch Ratings, one of the big three credit ratings agencies, issued a warning shot today, saying that while it affirmed the United States' AAA credit rating, it was placing it on "rating watch negative."

In other words, it was placing the country's long-term credit rating under review for a potential downgrade.

The main reason? The debacle in Washington. Remember, the last time a debt ceiling debate got this hot and heavy, S&P downgraded the U.S.'s long-term credit rating to AA-plus.

"The prolonged negotiations over raising the debt ceiling (following the episode in August 2011) risks undermining confidence in the role of the U.S. dollar as the preeminent global reserve currency, by casting doubt over the full faith and credit of the U.S.," Fitch said in a statement. "This 'faith' is a key reason why the U.S. 'AAA' rating can tolerate a substantially higher level of public debt than other 'AAA' sovereigns."

Reuters reports the U.S. Treasury said the threat from Fitch is a reminder of just how close the country is from defaulting for the first time in history.

"The announcement reflects the urgency with which Congress should act to remove the threat of default hanging over the economy," a Treasury spokesperson told Reuters.

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Is Selena Gomez Dating Union J's George Shelley?

Despite rumors that she is romantically involved with Union J singer, George Shelley, jealous boys around the nation can breathe easy: Selena Gomez is still single.

Asked if she’s “starting to become friends” with the Union J singer on the U.K.’s “Daybreak,” Gomez replied, “I wish! He has not hit me up… he’s kinda slacking.”

The rumors of the reported romance most likely stems from a video message the 21-year-old songstress left for Shelley, saying "Hey, George, it's Selena," she said in August. "I was in London for a bit and I'm actually bummed I missed you, so next time maybe give me a call."

However, 20-year-old George did tell "The Mirror" that he is more than a bit interested. "Selena's one of those massive celebrities who doesn't even know you exist, so I was gob-smacked," he said. "I thought it was a lookalike at first. I could feel my cheeks going red and the lads laughed at me."

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UMass Bets Big On Football Program Despite Poor Attendance

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Dana White says UFC offered Fedor Emelianenko so much money to fight Brock Lesnar ‘It made no sense’

HOUSTON -- In 2009, UFC president Dana White and CEO Lorenzo Fertitta flew to an island off Venezuela to meet all-time great heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko and his representatives with the intention to sign him to a contract.

The goal was to put Emelianenko into a bout with then-UFC champion Brock Lesnar that would have been held at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. It likely would have been the highest-selling pay-per-view in UFC history, had it happened.

Emelianenko is regarded by many as the greatest heavyweight in mixed martial arts history and by some as the greatest fighter in the sport's history.

A deal was never reached -- White said Thursday that Emelianenko's representatives laughed at the offer -- and Emelianenko retired without ever competing in the UFC.

Emelianenko was in the news this week because he told a Russian TV station he felt White hated him and pointed to that as a reason a deal was never completed. White chuckled at that thought.

White said the UFC made three runs at Emelianenko, twice with Fertitta alone doing the negotiating on the UFC's behalf and once with himself and Fertitta on the island in Venezuela.

He said that Emelianenko's representatives wanted the UFC to build an arena in Russia as a condition for Emelianenko fighting in the UFC.

"When I tell you we did everything, someday I'll tell the story of how much we offered that [expletive], too," White said. "People will [expletive] [expletive]. It made no sense [how much we offered]. It was one of those type of deals like, you know that these networks, the NFL does $9 billion in television revenue. It makes no sense for the networks. The network doesn't make a dime off that. But you have to have the NFL, right? The NFL pulls ratings like anything.

"This is one of those deals [we offered Emelianenko] where it's like, 'This makes no [expletive] sense whatsoever.' Literally, when we got onto the plane when we were flying back, we were like, 'Thank [expletive] God they turned that offer down.' We were like, 'Thank God they turned that down.' "

Junior dos Santos hoping to bring special Nike shoe to market next year

Nearly 30 years ago, Nike released the first Air Jordan sneakers, and the athletic shoe industry has never been the same. Since Michael Jordan and Nike hit gold with those high-priced shoes, dozens of athletes have come out with their own brand of shoes.

Heavyweight Junior dos Santos, who on Saturday meets champion Cain Velasquez in a rubber match that is the main event of UFC 166 at the Toyota Center, wore a pair of custom-designed Nike sneakers to an interview session with the media on Thursday.

He said he hopes the shoes can be brought to retail sometime by the middle part of next year.

"The colors and the style of the shoe, I worked with them on that," dos Santos said. The shoes are a rich blue with his initials in lime green on the front.

UFC president Dana White noted the fact that mainstream companies like Nike are working with mixed martial arts fighters on such products is a sign of the company's growth and move toward the mainstream.

There was a time not so long ago, one White remembers well, when the UFC had no sponsors and the ring mat was simply a blank canvas.

John Dodson plans to follow up when he lands

Flyweight John Dodson lost a title bid against Demetrius Johnson in January in a bout that many expected him to win. Dodson, who fights Darrell Montague Saturday, said he failed to take advantage of opportunities he had against Johnson.

It's the one thing he said he plans to change when he faces Montague, the talented UFC newcomer.

"It's simple: I have to make sure I go out there and not watch my handiwork," Dodson said. "I remember going on out there. I watched me hit him and I watched him fall. Then, I watched me winning my title shot slipping through my fingers. I can no longer allow that to happen. If I see something, I'm going to take the opportunity to jump on whatever's given me. If I knock him down, I'm going to take it. If I get an arm bar, I'm going to apply it."

White not buying Palhares' apology

Rousimar Palhares, who was cut by the UFC for holding a heel hook too long on Mike Pierce earlier this month in Brazil, has profusely apologized, but he's making no headway with White.

White said Thursday he had no plan to allow Palhares to return to the UFC.

"Anybody who knows anything about jiu-jitsu knows, that's the nastiest thing you can do to somebody," White said. "We don't even let guys trying out for 'The Ultimate Fighter' do leg locks. A lot of people don't allow leg locks in jiu-jitsu and when they're training and stuff. Anyone who is in jiu-jitsu and has done it knows what it feels like and knows what it means. Knee injuries, you need surgery. Look at [bantamweight champion] Dominick Cruz, he's been out two years [after surgery]. It can destroy a career. It can end a career.

"I didn't really physically actually write it in stone, but yeah, I'm pretty serious about it and I'm not interested in a guy like that."

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Review: Salt keeps server automation simple

October 17, 2013

Like Puppet, Chef, and Ansible, Salt is an open source server management and automation solution with commercial, officially supported options. Based on command-line-driven server and client services and utilities, Salt is primarily focused on Linux and Unix server management, though it offers significant Windows management capabilities as well. While Salt may look simple on its face, it's surprisingly powerful and extensible, and it has been designed to handle extremely large numbers of clients.

Salt uses a push method of communication with clients by default, though there's also a means to use SSH rather than locally installed clients. Using the default push method, the clients don't actively check in with a master server; rather, the master server reaches out to control or modify each client based on commands issued manually or through scheduling. But again, Salt can also operate in the other direction, with clients querying the master for updates. Salt functions asynchronously, and as such, it's very fast. It also incorporates an asynchronous file server for file deployments.

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Jailing of wheelchair-bound Beijing airport bomber sparks anger

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BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man in a wheelchair who detonated a home-made bomb in Beijing's airport after trying to draw attention to a nearly decade-long legal battle was sentenced to six years in jail, his lawyer said on Tuesday, sparking widespread sympathy and anger.

A Beijing court found Ji Zhongxing, 34, guilty of intentionally causing an explosion, Ji's lawyer, Liu Xiaoyuan, told Reuters by telephone. State media confirmed the sentence.

Ji detonated the bomb at Beijing airport in July after being prevented from handing out leaflets that drew attention to his complaints. His case struck a chord with many Chinese seeking justice in an inflexible political system.

Ji, from eastern Shandong province, had been seeking redress for a claimed beating by police in southern Guangdong province dating back to 2005 that left him wheelchair-bound. He had been petitioning for justice ever since.

Detonating the bomb at Beijing's main airport ensured widespread exposure for Ji, even though he and a policeman who received slight wounds were the only people hurt.

He faced a maximum sentence of 10 years.

"We believe that this verdict is questionable," Liu said, adding that Ji did not intend to blow up the airport or commit suicide.

"During the trial, (authorities) did not seek to find out the facts," Liu said. "Although it was mentioned in the verdict statement, they never fully considered or discovered the cause of the bombing at the airport."

Liu said Ji, who was wheeled into court on a stretcher, would consider appealing against the decision. He has 10 days to file an appeal.

Ji's weeping father, Ji Darong, slumped on the ground near the court and suggested to reporters there would likely be an appeal against what he described as "this injustice".

"We refuse to accept this," said Ji Zhongji, Ji Zhongxing's brother. "In Guangdong he was beaten and nobody did anything for eight years. Shouldn't they investigate that?"

Ji's sentence comes weeks after the execution of a Chinese kebab vendor, who was convicted of killing two city officials, sparked public criticism of a justice system said to punish the poor harshly while letting the rich and powerful off more lightly.

Dozens of police officers stood guard outside the courthouse and cordoned off a large area, preventing his supporters from massing outside as they had done during Ji's trial in September.

Zhao Min, a petitioner from northern Hebei province, said she supports Ji "because he's a disabled person who tried to push forward fairness in the legal system".

"He only did it because he had no alternative," Zhao told reporters outside the courthouse. "Because he couldn't get any resolution through legally petitioning many times."

Authorities in Guangdong have at least promised to look again into Ji's original complaint, according to state media, a rare concession.

"What we want to know more is: How will those assailants who injured him in the first place be punished?" Chen Haodong, vice dean of an art school in southern Guangdong province, wrote on his microblog.

Chinese unable to win redress for grievances have in the past resorted to extreme measures, including bombings, but such incidents are rare because of tight state security.

(Additional reporting by Li Hui and the Beijing Newsroom; Editing by Paul Tait)

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Rights groups urge Justice probe of 1985 bombing

WASHINGTON (AP) — Civil rights groups and members of Congress are pressing the Justice Department to renew its investigation of a 1985 office bombing that killed Palestinian-American civil rights leader Alex Odeh and injured seven people.

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Jewish Voice for Peace and others have launched a petition campaign asking Justice to further investigate the explosion, which demolished the committee's office in Santa Ana, Calif. The online petition has about 10,000 signatures.

California Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez sent a letter to the department in June and is seeking other lawmakers to sign a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder. The FBI identified suspects after the attack, but none were ever named or indicted.

"Whenever a leader for a civil rights organization is killed, it is the responsibility of our country as a whole— and a civil rights community as a whole— to stand up and demand that their killers be brought to justice and to insure that the U.S. Department of Justice does everything in its power to close the case," NAACP President Ben Jealous told reporters in a conference call Monday.

The DOJ, which has furloughed workers due to the government shutdown, did not respond immediately to a request for comment on Monday, which also was the federal Columbus Day holiday. In 2010, the FBI described Odeh's killing in an agency news blog as "an active, ongoing priority investigation" and noted a $1 million reward.

Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., said Monday that he wants the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations to convene a hearing on the bombing.

"We're going to pursue it vigorously and we're not going to let any more time lapse," Conyers said. "We're going to continue to help all of the organizations that are involved build up more and more support for us getting to where we ought to be in terms of a horrific, violent crime that has, I think, been put on the back burner for far too long."

At the time of the attack, the FBI said they believed the bombing was the responsibility of the militant Jewish Defense League. An attorney for the group denied the allegations and asked for a retraction from the agency. The FBI also linked Odeh's killing to two other acts of domestic terrorism in Brentwood, N.Y. and Paterson, N.J. that same year.

Odeh, the West Coast regional director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, was killed as he opened the door to his office on Oct. 11, 1985. The bombing occurred the morning after Odeh said on a Los Angeles television news broadcast that Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yassir Arafat was a "man of peace" because of his role in securing the release of passengers from the hijacked Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in Egypt.

Odeh, who came to the U.S. from Palestine, was described by both Jews and Arabs as a nonviolent man who advocated compromise. According to the American-Arab committee, Odeh immigrated to the United States in 1972 and became a U.S. citizen in 1977. He was a poet and lecturer.

The Justice Department had no immediate comment.

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SoftBank buys Clash of Clans developer Supercell, pushes into mobile gaming

Cellular carriers benefit from mobile gaming -- it drives some customers to buy high-end phones, after all -- but it's rare that networks have a big stake in the category. That changes today, as SoftBank (with help from game developer GungHo) has bought Supercell, best known for producing Clash of ...

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VMware campaign to kill off desktop PCs picks up steam

October 16, 2013

News has been trickling out steadily from VMware's Barcelona conference about its new acquisitions and network virtualization offerings. But it's the desktop that VMware is attacking -- sorry, "virtualizing" -- aggressively, giving enterprises less incentives than ever to replace existing desktop hardware. Which, in enterprises that are fast becoming populated with tablets and smartphones, might not be such a bad idea after all.

Some of the pieces for this assault have been in place for a while now, courtesy of VMware's Horizon View product. Back in March the company introduced a new feature called HTML Access, which allowed people using any HTML5-compliant browser to access a Horizon View desktop. No plug-ins, nothing to download. The protocol VMware created for this -- named Blast -- now also supports streaming audio and works on Google Chromebooks as well. It still doesn't support attached USB devices, but that's a hurdle I doubt can be overcome without the use of a native client or, at the very least, plug-ins.

The 5.3 revision of VMware Horizon is said to bring a slew of user-experience improvements that are designed to make working on a virtualized desktop as close as possible to the real thing  -- e.g., using VMware's vDGA technology for high-performance graphics, where GPUs on the vSphere host can be assigned to specific virtual desktops and perform direct pass-through to the host. (vDGA even supports CUDA and OpenGL.) Apparently, among the folks who gave VMware the most feedback about this were people doing CAD and other high-end graphics work on their systems, and they wanted as close to a native desktop experience as possible.

Most of the complaints about virtual desktops have revolved around end-user performance. Obviously, the best performance for vDGA comes when you use a platform-native VMware access client, but given the way HTML5 continues to advance by leaps and bounds, I wouldn't be surprised if in time the performance available through a browser comes close enough to the VMware client to make picking one over the other trivial. What will not happen any time soon -- barring some kind of major revolution in the way browsers can talk to their hosts -- is, again, support for the kind of advanced hardware connectivity only possible with a native client or browser add-ons.

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Shutdown: 4 lessons learned (CNN)

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The Wisdom of "Mr. Republican"

Are the Republicans in civil war or in the middle of an evolution? Sen. Robert A Taft (1889-1953) says it need not be the former and can be the latter. Taft, known in his day (the 1930s through '50s) as "Mr. Republican," possessed a personal background strikingly pertinent to the current moment. He was establishment with a capital E—not just Yale and Harvard Law but a father who'd been president. And yet he became the star legislator and leader of the party's conservative coalition, which had a certain Main Street populist tinge. Taft contained peacefully within himself two cultural strains that now are seemingly at war.

In his personal style he was cerebral, courtly, and spoke easily, if with limited eloquence. The secret of his greatness was that everyone knew his project was not "Robert Taft" but something larger, the actual well-being and continuance of America. His peers chose him as one of the five best U.S. senators in history, up there with Daniel Webster and Henry Clay.

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Talks Begin In Geneva On Iran's Nuclear Program

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Negotiators from six world powers meet with Iranian envoys in Geneva amid some optimism about the prospects of a deal over Tehran's suspect nuclear program.

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Google Shares Top $1,000 For First Time

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Apple retains multitouch patent thanks to Patent Office ruling, forces competition to seek alternatives

Sorry, anonymous Apple multitouch patent challenger -- your victory isn't only temporary, it's also short-lived. The US Patent Office has decided to uphold patent No. 7,479,949 after tentatively invalidating it in December of 2012, which could mean bad news for many of Cupertino's competitors. If ...

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A Bird Song That Recalls Bach and Haydn

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