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Getty ImagesAs the NFL prepares to launch its annual spending spree (which may not turn out to be much of a spree, after all), one of the men making the most money of all NFL players admits that athletes likely make too much of it.
?Yes, we probably do,? Brees recently told WWL radio in New Orleans, via the team?s official website.? ?Unless you?re finding a cure for cancer or creating world peace, I don?t know if anybody deserves to get that much money.? That?s the industry that we?re in.? You could probably say the same for actors, actresses and entertainers.? We?re in the entertainment industry and business is business and there is a market.? The market establishes what you get paid.?
Of course, under the current NFL market only a small handful of athletes are getting grossly overpaid like Brees, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, and (now) Joe Flacco.
?It doesn?t surprise me that Joe Flacco jumped me,? Brees said.? ?I?m sure that, maybe it?s Aaron Rodgers, maybe it?s somebody else, is going leap-frog Joe Flacco and the trend is going to continue in that direction as our game continues to grow and the popularity continues to grow.? That doesn?t surprise me.?
But the problem is that, with each cap-busting deal for a franchise quarterback, the role players and scrubs end up being pushed to take less and less.? While it?s a reality of a salary-capped system, it becomes more pronounced when the cap is increasing by less than two percent per year and the expectations at the top of the market continue to soar.
For Brees, his 2012 contract eventually will force him and the Saints to make a hard decision.? Come 2015, they can carry $26.4 million under his name on a cap that could still be south of $130 million.? (Even at $130 million, that?s still more than 20 percent of the entire spending limit for one player.)? Or they can ask him to take less money.? Or they can decide that the time has come to move on.
That?s likely the real reason Tom Brady opted to take only $27 million over the final three years of his current contract.? Though he likely will be underpaid, the team will never deem him to be so overpaid that the Patriots have to cut him.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The Syrian government is reportedly using local militias known as Popular Committees to commit mass killings which are at times sectarian in nature, U.N. human rights investigators said on Monday.
The uprising in Syria erupted two years ago with largely peaceful protests but escalated into a civil war pitting mainly Sunni Muslim rebels against President Bashar al-Assad, whose Alawite faith is an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam.
"In a disturbing and dangerous trend, mass killings allegedly perpetrated by Popular Committees have at times taken on sectarian overtones," the U.N. commission of inquiry on Syria, led by Brazilian Paulo Pinheiro, said in its latest report to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.
"Some appear to have been trained and armed by the government," they said.
The independent investigators, who cited accounts from witnesses and victims, said people were being harassed or arrested by government-allied militia because they came from regions perceived as being supportive of the revolt.
Popular Committees have been documented as operating across Syria, "where at times they are alleged to be participating in house-to-house searches, identity checks, mass arrests, looting and acting as informants," they said in a 10-page report.
The conflict is mired in a "destructive stalemate" amid heavy shelling and air raids by government forces, they said.
Both sides have committed violations against civilians, the U.N. investigators said. They were pursuing probes into about 20 cases of massacres, including three in Homs at the start of the year, despite their lack of access to the country.
The bodies of some of those killed in massacres have been burned or dumped in rivers, they said.
"TIDAL WAVE" OF DISPLACEMENT
"Indiscriminate and widespread shelling, the regular bombardment of cities, mass killing and the deliberate firing on civilian targets have come to characterize the daily lives of civilians in Syria," Pinheiro said.
Hospitals have been targeted and medical staff arrested, he said, denouncing the use of medical care "as a tactic of war".
Pinheiro called for a political solution to the crisis which he said had set off a "tidal wave" of displacement.
More than 1 million Syrian refugees have fled abroad and 2.5 million are uprooted within the country, while more than 70,000 people have been killed, according to the United Nations.
Rebel forces often execute captured Syrian soldiers and militiamen, and have established detention centers in Homs and Aleppo, the report said.
Rebels have also taken up positions in or near densely populated areas, in violation of international law, it said.
Syrian warplanes bombed the shattered Baba Amr district in the central city of Homs on Monday, a day after rebels made a surprise push into their former bastion, which had been in army hands for a year.
Syria's ambassador Faysal Khabbaz dismissed the U.N. report as based on "partial information from untrustworthy sources" and accused Qatar and Turkey of "supporting terrorism" in Syria.
"There is a conspiracy against Syria. Qatar has financed and armed tens of thousands of mercenaries from 30 countries. Turkey has provided the military bases and sent them into Syria on their jihad," Khabbaz Hamoui said.
Russia called the report "unbalanced" and said there was much evidence to show that the armed opposition was using sexual violence as a weapon and training child soldiers in camps.
The European Union and United States denounced continuing crimes and said that those responsible must be held accountable.
"If concerns about war crimes and crimes against humanity are not adequately addressed on a national level, the International Criminal Court should deal with the situation," said EU ambassador Maria Angela Zappia.
U.S. ambassador Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe condemned the "regime's brutality" and said: "We are also deeply concerned by reports of abuses by opposition-affiliated forces and the presence of foreign forces and violent extremists who are attempting to hijack the legitimate struggle of the Syrian people."
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; additional reporting by Robert Evans; Editing by Pravin Char)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-government-uses-militias-mass-killings-u-n-122744276.html
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BOSTON (Reuters) - States that have more laws restricting gun ownership have lower rates of death from shootings, both suicides and homicides, a study by researchers at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard University found.
States with the most laws on gun ownership, including Massachusetts and New Jersey, have 42 percent lower rates of death from guns than those with the least restrictions, including Utah and Oklahoma, according to the study, published on Wednesday in the online edition of JAMA Internal Medicine.
The study was released as a Senate committee approved new gun-control measures backed by President Barack Obama to crack down on illegal trafficking in firearms in the wake of the December massacre at a Connecticut elementary school.
Based on data from 2007 through 2010, the study looked at the relationship between the number of restrictions states placed on gun ownership -- from background checks on gun buyers to bans on military-style assault weapons -- and the number of gun-related homicides and suicides reported.
The most likely link between the strictness of a state's gun regulations and the number of shootings was that in states with more restrictive gun control laws, fewer households own guns, the study's lead author, Dr. Eric Fleegler, said on Thursday.
"One of the questions that is always raised in this debate is, 'Do laws make a difference?' There are many people who will try to argue that laws don't make a difference, don't bother passing them, let people do what they want," Fleegler said.
"Our study really suggests the opposite. The states that have taken the time and thought to pass this legislation, we see lower rates of firearms fatalities."
The study determined the strictness of a state's gun regulations by assigning a point value to different rules -- from one point for rules against guns in the workplace to six points for rules regulating how gun dealers may operate. The points for each state were totaled to determine which had the most restrictive gun-control regimes.
The data was compared with federal figures on the number of deaths caused by guns, both homicides and suicides, in each state.
Noting that little academic research is done on the link between firearms and public health in the United States, largely due to restrictions on federal funding for such research, Fleegler said he hoped the findings would influence debate on gun-control laws.
The authors cautioned that their methods did not prove any cause and effect connection between firearms laws and deaths, and that factors including how effectively the laws were enforced could undermine their conclusions.
Proponents of gun control argue that restricting access to weapons and ammunition could lower the number of shootings the United States experiences each year, while gun-rights advocates note that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects the right to possess weaponry and contend that laws restricting gun ownership do little to deter the criminal use of guns.
(This story is corrected in the 5th, 6th and 10th paragraphs, corrected last name of study lead author to Fleegler, not Fleeger)
(Reporting By Scott Malone; Editing by Cynthia Johnston, Bob Burgdorfer and Leslie Adler)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/states-strict-gun-laws-found-fewer-shooting-deaths-000005413.html
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Dan Kehl, CEO of Riverside Casino (at podium), announced a $4 million bid to build a water park with bowling alley and event space on the property that was recently announced as the desired location for a casino during a press conference on Friday, March 1, 2013, in Cedar Rapids. (Liz Martin/The Gazette-KCRG)
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CEDAR RAPIDS ? Dan Kehl concedes this: Steve Gray and his Cedar Rapids casino investor group got their foot in the door, but that?s all.
Kehl, CEO of the Riverside Casino and Golf Resort south of Iowa City, said Wednesday he is confident that the Iowa Racing & Gaming Commission will do the right thing, conclude that a Cedar Rapids casino will damage the Riverside Casino and deny the Cedar Rapids casino a state gaming license.
A Cedar Rapids casino, he said, would mean job losses at the Riverside Casino, the closing of some of its restaurants and, perhaps, the shutdown of the casino?s golf course.
?We?ve built a beautiful destination resort, and it will go from that probably to a ?grind operation,? ? said Kehl, which he defined as a place that focuses on slot-machine revenue and closes down the casino?s amenities.
Kehl and Gray have become household names in recent weeks in Cedar Rapids and Linn County after a $2-million-plus ad blitz aimed at persuading Linn County voters to either reject or support a casino.
Gray?s Cedar Rapids investor group, which has reported spending about $1.5 million to date on its campaign, won an overwhelming victory Tuesday ? 61 percent to 39 percent ? to allow casino gaming in Linn County. The Kehl-funded Just Say No Casino campaign spent $728,000 to date.
Kehl said he and Gray are just as far apart on another crucial number.
Gray has said his market studies show that a Cedar Rapids casino will bring in about $80 million in adjusted gross revenue a year. He said only $18 million of that will come from existing casinos, half of which will come from the non-state-licensed Meskwaki casino outside of Tama.
Kehl said Gray?s numbers are inaccurate. Kehl?s own market study shows that $66.5 million of a Cedar Rapids casino?s $80 million in annual revenue will be taken from existing casinos in Eastern Iowa. Worse for Kehl, a Cedar Rapids casino will take more than 30 percent of the Riverside Casino?s business, he said.
The prospect of such a revenue loss prompted Kehl to jump into the Linn County casino campaign.
?Yes, I?ve been portrayed as a bad guy and a lightning rod behind this thing, and folks are upset that we funded this (Just Say No Casino) campaign,? Kehl said, ?but we thought it was necessary to protect our interest. It doesn?t mean that we are anti-Linn County by any means.?
In the waning days of the Linn County casino campaign, Kehl surprised everyone with a proposal to build a $30 million water park across the Cedar River from downtown where the Gray group wants to build its casino. Kehl?s offer, though, came with a caveat. He would build only if Linn County voters rejected their casino proposal. He couldn?t afford the water park, he added, if a Cedar Rapids casino took revenue from Riverside Casino.
On Wednesday, Kehl said the water park idea is on hold. He said he needs to see if the state commission denies a gaming license for a Cedar Rapids casino. Even then, he said, it would be difficult to invest in a water park if the commission leaves the door open for the Gray group to get a casino license later.
Kehl dismissed the idea of competing against the Gray group?s proposal to build a casino in Cedar Rapids, saying the Gray group?s support from the Cedar Rapids City Council and the Linn County Board of Supervisors would make a competing proposal a waste of time.
?I?m a lifelong Iowan, and my family has done quality entertainment projects in the state our whole life,? he said. ?That?s all my family has done.
?The success of Linn County is paramount to the success of Riverside. However, we don?t believe that there is enough room for another casino in this market. We think it?s detrimental to everything that we?re trying to do.?
Source: http://thegazette.com/2013/03/06/kehl-predicts-gaming-commission-will-deny-casino-license/
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Earlier this year, an interesting story surfaced alleging that Interscope-Geffen-A&M?chairman and Beats CEO Jimmy Iovine spent years trying to convince Steve Jobs to do a?subscription-based?music service. Obviously, Jobs never succumbed.
But the conversation wasn?t over. Fast forward to today, a new report says that Iovine met with Tim Cook and Apple?s internet software and service guru Eddy Cue last month to discuss?surprise!?his new subscription-based music service?
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) ? New York All-Star Carmelo Anthony is sitting out Wednesday night's game at Detroit after injuring his right knee earlier in the week.
The Pistons, meanwhile, are without coach Lawrence Frank, who is missing the game because of a personal matter.
Anthony stumbled near midcourt Monday night against Cleveland after catching a pass and fell awkwardly to the floor. He got up, and appearing more embarrassed than hurt, immediately headed to the locker room with a slight limp. He did not return.
The Knicks are playing the first of back-to-back games. They host Oklahoma City on Thursday.
Detroit's Greg Monroe is also out because of a sore left ankle. Assistant coach Brian Hill is taking over for Frank.
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