Pigskin and Black Belts: Can Martial Arts Provide Insight for ...

Competitive and aggressive sports provide recreational sport contexts for youth and adolescents across the globe. One of the most popular recreational sports worldwide is martial arts, a sport characterized as aggressive yet backed in the traditional form of the sport by a principled philosophy. The researchers engaged in naturalistic inquiry through full participant observation in a traditional martial arts club. The purpose of the research was to closely examine the teaching of traditional martial arts to determine whether lessons could be derived for competitive and aggressive sports like American football. Philosophical and psychological themes emerged from the research, including a counterbalanced ethic of nonviolence and restraint and achievement orientations reflective of the researchers? sport backgrounds, respectively.

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Business Innovation In Practice: Why A Fair Price Isn't Always The ...

on June 1, 2012 by Nikos Chatzis in Business, News, Comments (0)

By Seth Godin

• If you build your business around being the lowest-cost provider, that?s all you?ve got. Everything you do has to be a race in that direction, because if you veer toward anything else (service, workforce, impact, design, etc.) then a competitor with a more single-minded focus will sell your commodity cheaper than you.

• Cheapest price is the refuge for the marketer with no ideas left or no guts to implement the ideas she has.

Fair Price Vs. Lowest Price? / Business

• Everyone needs to sell at a fair price. But unless you?ve found a commodity that must remain a commodity, a fair price is not always the lowest price. Not when you understand that price is just one of the many tools available.
• A short version of this riff: The low-price leader really doesn?t need someone with your skills. / Business /

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Thinking About Bankruptcy | Free Finance Articles

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Once you?ve selected a firm which will help you with your?Virginia bankruptcy, the last steps are choosing your category as well as filing. You?ll meet the criteria to file a chapter 7 bankruptcy or a chapter 13 bankruptcy. Your attorney will perform a means examination to determine if you qualify for chapter 7 first. If the courts rule in support of a chapter 7 bankruptcy, you might not need to repay all of your debts. Chapter 7 is the most common chapter among borrowers due to financial independence.

Once the lawyer submits the petition for bankruptcy, all collectors should cease harassment and collections procedures. They must stop soliciting for payment before the bankruptcy case. Once everyone collects at the creditor conference, your lenders may have an opportunity to dispute the bankruptcy and negotiate with your attorney at law.

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Verdict to be announced in John Edwards trial

Chuck Burton / AP

John Edwards leaves the federal courthouse in Greensboro, N.C., on Thursday.

By NBC News' Michael Austin and Stacey Klein and msnbc.com's Mike Brunker

A jury on Thursday reached a verdict on one count in the campaign finance trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards, but was ordered by the judge to resume deliberations.??

In a confusing turn of events, the jury of eight men and four women told U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles?on Thursday afternoon that it had reached a verdict. But when?jurors indicated they had reached a unanimous verdict on only one of the?six felony counts against Edwards, Eagles sent them back to the jury room.

The count on which the jury?reached a?verdict involved contributions from?Edwards' contributor Rachel "Bunny" Mellon. The jurors did not indicate what the verdict was.

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After deliberations resumed, a court spokesman told members of the media outside the court that no announcement was imminent.?"It's going to be a while," he said. "Stand down. Just relax."?

The charges against Edwards, 58,?arose from about $1 million in donations while he was in the midst of the 2008 race for the Democratic presidential nomination from?two wealthy donors, Fred Baron and?Mellon, a billionnaire banking heiress. The money?was used to support and?hide Edwards' pregnant mistress, Rielle Hunter, from the media.

Prosecutors argued that the donations amounted to violations of federal campaign finance laws; the defense said?the money was a "gift" intended to allow Edwards to hide the affair from his ailing wife, Elizabeth, and the public. Elizabeth Edwards, who had previously been diagnosed with breast cancer, separated from John Edwards in early 2010 and died later that year.

If found guilty of all six counts, Edwards could face up to 30 years in prison and a $1.5 million fine.? Each individual count carries a maximum sentence of 5 years and up to $250,000.

Attorneys for Edwards, a former U.S. senator from North Carolina and the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee,?and prosecutors alike painted Edwards as a liar and a bad husband. Where they differed was?whether the scheme to hide his affair amounted to a crime.

The jurors ? eight men and four women, six of them white, five African-American and one Hispanic ? must?decide whether Edwards "knowingly and willfully" violated a 1971 campaign finance law by orchestrating the scheme to support and hide Hunter.

Prosecutors alleged in their closing arguments that Edwards manipulated the campaign finance system to conceal the affair with Hunter, a videographer on his 2008 presidential campaign staff.

He "clearly knew the law and decided to violate it in order to salvage his campaign," Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Higdon said, accusing Edwards of cynically seeking to "keep her quiet" until the election was over "and his wife (had) passed away."

Lead defense attorney Abbe Lowell admitted in his closing arguments that Edwards had committed many "moral wrongs," but he insisted that none of the misdeeds was "a legal one."

"John's conduct is shameful, but it's human," Lowell told the jury.

Letters and other notes from?Mellon appeared to be crucial to the jurors' deliberations ? from their first day of discussions, they requested a stream of exhibits related to the nearly $750,000 she contributed.

Mellon, who is 101 years old, didn't testify during the trial, but her attorney and financial adviser, Alex Forger, offered extensive testimony that Mellon knew that her donations were intended to fund the "Hunter problem" and weren't given as campaign contributions.

A possible turning point came in mid-May, when Judge Eagles barred most of the defense's planned testimony from current and former members of the Federal Election Commission about a federal audit that concluded that the money didn't amount to campaign contributions subject to federal regulation.

Eagles ruled that evidence about the FEC audit was inadmissible because it couldn't be determined exactly what the commission knew or was told at the time.

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House votes to outspend White House on spy bill

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The House voted to give the intelligence community a few billion dollars more Thursday than the White House wanted for next year's budget ? a price tag that covers the range of intelligence needs from the CIA to the high-tech satellites that spied on Osama bin Laden's compound.

The White House registered its objection before the vote, but did not threaten to veto the bill, which the House passed 386-28.

The bill now heads to the Senate, which will vote on its own version of the 2013 intelligence budget.

The White House had asked for $72 billion to fund spying activities in 2013, but the House voted for a "modest" increase to pay for satellite and other spying technology, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said.

The House request is classified. But the amount is 4 percent less than last year's budget, added Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md. The Associated Press has reported last year's total budget as just under $80 billion. A decrease of 4 percent would put this year's House request at about $77 billion.

Last year, Congress said no to White House requests that would have expanded an intelligence community that's been growing exponentially since Sept. 11, 2001.

This year, under the threat of automatic spending cuts, it was the White House's turn to try to make reductions.

The main sticking point is the cost of commercial satellite imagery, according to Steve Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists. "The industry and its congressional supporters want this area fully funded," he said.

"The biggest sources of continuing differences involve some of our technical capabilities," Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said, but he would not provide details since the programs are classified. "There is less disagreement over human intelligence."

The bill also would add a small number of high priority positions, such as FBI surveillance officers to keep watch on terrorists, and increased counterintelligence staff to detect foreign spies, Rogers said.

Counterintelligence teams will also be on the lookout for corporate espionage responsible for ripping off U.S. companies' designs and producing them more cheaply in places like China, according to Ruppersberger.

It also "restores funding" for threatened programs like the FBI's National Gang Intelligence Center, added Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif.

Rogers warned against the perils of automatic spending cuts, saying the legal procedure which would trigger the cuts in the defense budget would mean that "thousands of intelligence officers and specialized technicians would be laid off."

He said that would leave the National Security Agency without enough staff to translate key counterterrorist intercepts, among other fallout.

Associated Press

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