Incoming Lockheed Martin CEO ousted

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Christopher Kubasik, the incoming chief executive of Lockheed Martin, resigned on Friday after he admitted to an improper relationship with a subordinate, the company said. ?

Kubasik, 51,?who was the defense contractor's chief operating officer, had been slated to become CEO in January, replacing Bob Stevens.?

Lockheed named Marillyn Newson, 58, as CEO effective January 1, 2013. Stevens was named as executive chairman and will work with Hewson on the leadership transition.?

Lockheed's board asked for, and received, Kubasik's resignation after the discovery of "a close personal relationship with a subordinate employee" that violated the company's code of ethics and business conduct.?

Kubasik's actions "did not affect the company's operational or financial performance," the company added.?

Hewson has been with Lockheed Martin since 1983. She was named president and chief operating officer-elect in April.?

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/lockheed-martin-ousts-incoming-ceo-over-alleged-improper-relationship-1C6983138

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Calif. mayoral candidate arrested on Election Day

PASO ROBLES, Calif. (AP) ? A Central Coast candidate for mayor lost big this week.

Paso Robles write-in candidate Jeff Rougeot was arrested on Election Day for investigation of crimes that include felonies for making criminal threats and brandishing a firearm.

The 45-year-old car audio business owner remained in the San Luis Obispo County jail Thursday with bail at $1.1 million.

Besides the felonies, The Tribune of San Luis Obispo (http://bit.ly/WFUWlx) says Rougeot was booked for investigation of four misdemeanors for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol and four violations of a court order involving domestic violence.

Rougeot doesn't have an attorney of record, and a telephone call Thursday to his car stereo business rang unanswered.

Mayor Duane Picanco got 86 percent of the vote to easily defeat Rougeot and another candidate.

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Information from: The Tribune, http://www.sanluisobispo.com

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/calif-mayoral-candidate-arrested-election-day-195220407.html

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HBT:?Padre catcher?suspended 50 games for PEDs

And with this, the Padres are in the market for a catcher:

The Office of the Commissioner of Baseball announced today that San Diego Padres catcher Yasmani Grandal has received a 50-game suspension without pay after testing positive for Testosterone, a performance-enhancing substance in violation of Major League Baseball?s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

Grandal was a rookie in 2012 and, after making a nice big splash with a home run streak after his callup, he missed a lot of time due to an oblique injury.

One wonders if he was so eager, now that he finally had a shot at a regular big league job, that he went a bridge too far in trying to come back from the injury. Or to compensate for lost power as a result of it.

UPDATE: Grandal has released a statement:

?I am responsible for what I put into my body. I must accept responsibility for my actions and serve my suspension.?

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/11/07/padres-yasmani-grandal-gets-a-50-game-suspension-for-testosterone/related/

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The Ultimate Guide to Election Food and Drink Deals

In addition to all the restaurants and bars?illegally giving away free food to voters, there are plenty of other election-themed deals to be had today. We've got the complete round-up of happy hours, menu specials, parties, prizes, and more. Send updates to jsidman@washingtoncitypaper.com.

Where to Party While?Washington City Paper Staffers Work

Black Squirrel is Washington City Paper's official election headquarters. Stop by tonight to chat with our editors and enjoy some beer specials.

Where To Predict Election Outcomes and Win Prizes

Sonoma is giving guests a chance to win dinner for two and other prizes if they hand in state-by-state predictions by 8 p.m. The Capitol Hill spot is also hosting an all-day happy hour with $5 wine and $5 election cocktails, including "The 47% and "The Birth Certificate." Wear an "I voted" sticker, and get a complimentary election day treat from the kitchen. Free Wi-Fi, too.

Mellow Mushroom guests have the chance to win $50 off their tables' tabs by correctly predicting whether swing states go red or blue. The Adams Morgan spot is also giving away free pitchers of swing state beer from Ohio, Virginia, or Colorado for people who check in on Facebook with three friends.

Where To Score Free Food and Drinks

Art & Soul is offering people who wear an "I voted" sticker and order a swing state cocktail? a free cocktail for a friend. The restaurant will also offer happy hour from 7 p.m. until the election is called.? After the results are announced for each swing state, that state's cocktail (normally all $13) will be half off for 15 minutes.

California Tortilla is giving away a free taco to people who wear their "I voted" stickers or just say the word "vote."

Del Frisco's Grille is offering a complimentary Partisan shot (tequila, pomegranate, blood orange, passion fruit) with the purchase of food or drink to those with "I voted" stickers.

Jackie's Restaurant in Silver Spring is handing out free "USA" cupcakes to people with "I voted" stickers?or stickers of any kind. There's also happy hour prices all night long.

Taqueria Pablano's Arlington locations are doing two-for-one tacos all day when you show your "I voted" sticker.

Z-Burger is giving away a free single hamburger or cheeseburger to anyone who says the secret code "Z-VOTE."? Offer is valid at Tenleytown, Southwest, and Columbia Heights locations.

UPDATE:

The Dunes in Columbia Heights is doing two-for-one beers tonight when you show your "I voted" sticker.

Where To Get a Deal

A Bar at Avenue Suites will offer happy hour pricing all night to people with "I voted" stickers. The bar will also donate $1 to the Red Cross's Hurricane Sandy relief fund for every Electoral Cycle cocktail sold.

Boqueria is having an election party with unlimited drinks and tapas. Entry is $40 per person. Reservations required.

Boundary Stone is people with "I voted" stickers half off their checks.

Capitol City Brewing Company's Capitol Hill and Shirlington locations will host happy hour from 11 a.m. to midnight with $5 appetizers and beer specials. The Shirlington location will also have 50 cent wings all day.

Commissary will have drink specials, Champagne specials, and "left" and "right" wings.

The Coupe, The Diner, Open City, and Tryst will all offer $5 political punch to go with live TV coverage. The Diner is also offering half-off pie to those with "I loved" stickers, and Open City will have happy hour food specials all day and night. Tryst and The Coupe will also serve up "The 47%" and "Red State of Mind" cocktails.

Policy Restaurant and Lounge is trying to transform its dining room into the "policy media room." The lounge will broadcast CNN all night and is encouraging people to bring laptops and tablets. Happy hour will be offered all night, including a $5 food menu and $5 Basil "Barack" Berry and Pomegra"Mitt" mojitos.

Oyamel is having an election night party in its private dining room with red and blue cocktails for $10 each.

Vinoteca is celebrating with all-day happy hour, including $5 wine and food specials.

Where to Eat Candidate-Themed Food

Cashion's Eat Place has created menus inspired by both candidates. The Obama menu includes a Chicago dog, Chicago steak frites, and tuna poke dish. The Romney menu includes a lobster roll, oysters with caviar, and "Romney fries" with truffle oil and parmesan.

Lincoln Restaurant has a variety of candidate-themed dishes, including Mitt's duck corn dog with cranberry mustard and Obama's Kahlua pork belly cured with brown sugar and sliced pineapple mostrada. The restaurant has also brought in extra 50-inch flat screens for the occasion and will sell its Elephant and Donkey cocktails for $8.

Jackson 20 is more concerned with the seventh president than this one. The Alexandria restaurant is offering a three-course Andrew Jackson-inspired menu for $20 to anyone wearing an "I voted" sticker.

Where To Celebrate The End of Campaign Commercials Tomorrow

Dino is closed today, but it will celebrate the end of campaign commercials tomorrow with complimentary SP69 cocktails made with prosecco, Narini Cedro, and lemon infused grappa.

Know of another deal? Email jsidman@washingtoncitypaper.com,?and we'll update the list.

Photo via Shutterstock

Source: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2012/11/06/the-ultimate-guide-to-election-food-and-drink-deals/

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Fiscal Cliff: Looming Tax Hikes Stoke Uncertainty

The election is behind us, but a new uncertainty looms: Taxes.

If Congress and the newly reelected president don't take action, most Americans will see their taxes go up next year. And some are getting twitchy.

"We are getting calls from clients daily," said Scott Cramer, president of Cramer & Rauchegger, an estate planning firm based in central Florida with more than 200 clients. "They are very scared and nervous."

Cramer's clients are primarily concerned with taxes on capital gains, set to increase on Dec. 31, along with other tax hikes as part of the so-called fiscal cliff. The year-end game-changer is happening because tax cuts put into place under President George W. Bush are set to expire and Congress has failed to make a deal for an extension.

President Barack Obama has said he wants to let Bush-era tax cuts expire for the highest-income Americans. That means individuals earning $200,000 a year and families making more than $250,000 will revert back to 1990s income tax rates of 36 percent and 39.6 percent, respectively.

For middle-class earners, the president said he supports keeping current tax rates. But the middle-class doesn't escape the cliff. New taxes created under the Affordable Care Act go into effect for 2013 tax bills, including a 3.8 percent tax increase on investment income.

More immediately, the alternative minimum tax could also slam as many as 30 million American families on their 2012 tax bills unless it?s patched by Congress. This is an additional flat tax for those making a certain income. Without a patch, it may add thousands to the tax bill for some middle-class families, tax experts said.

Even if the Bush-era tax cuts are extended for millions of Main Street Americans, they will feel tax bill sticker shock on Jan. 1. The end of the payroll tax break will nibble away at income for as many as 160 million Americans. That means an American earning $50,000 annually will pay at least $80 more per month in taxes.

Add to that, there may be higher tax-withholding by employers unless the IRS updates its withholding tables, tax experts said.

So what's the bottom line for taxpayers who don't know what their bills holds next year?

?Don?t spend every penny in your paycheck this side of New Years,? said Robertson Williams, tax policy expert and senior fellow at the Tax Policy Institute. "There is a lot of political hardball to be played over the next eight weeks."

• Residential Energy-Efficiency Credits

  No tax breaks for being green in 2012. Homeowner investments in energy-efficient double-pane windows or high-efficiency refrigerators, <a href="http://www.energytaxincentives.org/">don't get any tax benefit, and that could add to tax bills</a>. More than 43.5 million Americans have filed and received this benefit, with an average reduction in tax liability of $765.84, according to H&R Block.

• Mortgage Insurance Premiums

  Bad news for homeowners: They cannot write off mortgage insurance premiums on 2012 tax returns. Congress can act to reauthorize these deductions retroactively to Jan. 1, 2012, and extend them through the end of 2013, but that would cost the government $1.3 billion over the next decade, the <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/07/business/la-fi-harney-20121007">Los Angeles Times reports</a>.

• Adoption Credit

  Taxpayers who have out-of-pocket adoption expenses or who adopted a child with special needs can only claim the adoption credit to the extent of their tax liability. While the portion of the credit not taken into account in 2012, up to $12,650 per child, is carried forward to future years, the benefit is no longer fully refundable, according to tax experts.

• Alternative Minimum Tax

  If the alternative minimum tax legislation is not retroactively patched for 2012, current law could result in an increased tax liability for up to 34 million Americans. According to a study by the Tax Institute at H&R Block, an average family making $85,000 with children in college could see their tax liability soar from a $1,056 refund to owing $1,400.

• American Opportunity Tax Credit

  Tuition bills will be higher starting on Jan. 1 because families will lose the $2,500 American Opportunity Tax Credit, which ends in 2012 unless Congress takes action. More than 2.4 million Americans claimed this deduction in 2009, resulting in a combined decrease in taxable income of $5.4 billion, according to tax experts.

• Payroll Tax Credit

  Paychecks will be smaller starting Jan. 1, 2013. An American making $50,000, for example, will lose $80 in monthly pay after the credit ends. The temporary credit also has lowered the amount workers contributed to Social Security by 2 percent.

• Educator Expense Deduction

  Teachers lose their $250 maximum deduction on expenses related to buying school supplies. This credit expired at the end of 2011, and teachers won't be able to claim this benefit on their 2012 taxes unless Congress takes action. In 2009, more than 3.8 million teachers claimed this benefit for a combined deduction of $9.7 billion, according to H&R Block.

• Sales Tax As An Itemized Deduction

  Taxpayers will no longer have the option of claiming an itemized deduction for state sales tax in lieu of state income tax. This expiration will have a greater impact on taxpayers who reside in a state with sales tax, but no income tax, including Alaska, Florida, Texas, Nevada, Washington, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

• IRA Retirement Funds

  Taxpayers over age 70? no longer have the option of directing their income from an IRA distribution to a charitable organization. Starting this year, older taxpayers must include the distribution in income and claim a charitable deduction, resulting in a potentially higher tax bracket and a need to itemize instead of claiming the standard deduction, according to H&R Block.

• Later refunds

  As if losing all those tax credits was not bad enough, the earliest date to file a 2012 tax return electronically has moved back to Jan. 22, 2013. As the IRS has indicated that refunds could take as long as 21 days to process this year, a refund in January to cover Christmas credit card payments, winter heating bills, or rent is unlikely.

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You already know that drinking sugary beverages is bad for your waistline. Now there?s evidence than it can lead to serious trouble in your head, too. Turns out drinking soda regularly can seriously increase your risk of stroke, according to a study from Japan.

Researchers tracked the soft drink consumption of 39,786 Japanese men and women over 18 years, and found that women who reported drinking about one sugary soda per day were 83 percent more likely to suffer an ischemic stroke than women who consumed soda infrequently or not at all. More troubling: Among women who reduced their soda intake during the first three to nine years of the study, their risk of stroke didn?t diminish. Meaning: Your soda habit can be deadly for years in the future, even if you quit cold turkey today.

Ischemic stroke occurs when clogged arteries prevent blood from getting to the brain. In high consumption, sugar can contribute to blood vessel damage and plaque build-up that narrows or completely blocks arteries. However, soda could pack a one-two punch: First with the sugar, and second with the caffeine, which can potentially lead to an increased risk of high blood pressure?another risk factor for stroke, says James Conners, M.D, stroke neurologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicaco.

More research is needed to determine the culprit of the study?s findings?particularly because researchers found that the association between sugary drink intake and stroke risk was insignificant among men. ?We?d also need to look at the other habits of people drinking high-sugar soft drinks on a daily basis. People who don?t drink soft drinks might have better diets and exercise more frequently,? Connors says. ?

According to the National Stroke Association, as many as 80 percent of strokes can be prevented by lifestyle changes. And if you already stay away from soda, you?re not off the hook. Moderate your intake of all sugary drinks to reduce your risk of stroke. Want to know what sugary drinks to avoid (or totally cut out of your life)? Check our chart, below:

Beverage (typical serving size)	Grams of sugar
Regular Coco-cola (12 oz)	39 g
Regular Sprite (12 oz)	39 g
Tropicana Orange juice (8 oz)	22.5 g
Mott?s Apple juice (8 oz)	28 g
Ocean Spray Cranberry juice (8 oz)	36 g
Chocolate milk (8 oz)	24 g
Minute Maid Lemonade (8 oz)	27 g
Monster Energy Drink (16 oz)	54 g
Vitamin Water Revive Fruit Punch	13 g
Red Bull (8.3 oz can)	27 g
Regular Snapple Peach Iced Tea (8 oz)	24 g

photo: iStockphoto/Thinkstock

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Jack McBrayer prepares for life post-'30 Rock'

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Jack McBrayer can see the end of "30 Rock" just up ahead.

The Emmy-nominated actor best known as Kenneth the Page from the Emmy-winning show says the mood is getting sad on set as the final days of filming near.

"Toward the end it's going to start getting emotional," he said, "and I'm going to start stealing stuff right and left."

Among the items he hopes to acquire? His blue NBC page uniform: "It's pretty much just formed to my own skin like body paint at this point."

A star of the weekend's top film "Wreck-It Ralph," McBrayer said he's eager to see what roles the future might hold.

"I know how good I got it right now, so on the one hand, I'm like if it ain't broke, don't fix it," he said. "But then you do always wonder, like, what if I would be the best serial killer in the world or something? So I'm open for anything. Like I said, old boy just wants to work."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/jack-mcbrayer-prepares-life-post-30-rock-124637011.html

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