Companies Also Have A Spending Mood This Holiday Season

Consumers are not the only ones to open their wallets this holiday season. Companies are expected to accelerate capital spending in the coming weeks to enjoy a tax break right through December 31.

Business investment could boost next year when the benefit is reduced by half, but surveys show companies plan to continue to devote part of their large cash reserves in new equipment to increase productivity and to replace the gear to use.

With consumer spending gains mean low income insecurity, companies could remain a reliable pillar of growth.

"Business investment was a light that shines in the economic recovery," said economist Paul Dales at Capital Economics.

Costs for building structures and equipment, and software sales increased 15% in the third quarter. Non-defense capital goods shipments excluding aircraft - a good indicator of business investment - are up about 10% this year.

Katherine Heigl Land A Plum Role In "for The Money"

LOS ANGELES - For years he was one of the mystery writer Janet Evanovich does not crack - Hollywood actor to find the proper expression of Stephanie Plum, crime solving heroine, her best-seller.

The big breakthrough came when he saw Evanovich 2008, 27 Dresses, in particular the scene in which Katherine Heigl's character Puritan rushes to the bar cursing at the top of his lungs.

Discuss the moment with Katherine Heigl for the first time during a joint interview at the Hotel Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, Evanovich says that right, everything clicked.

"I knew," says Heigl Evanovich. "From the moment you were Stephanie Plum for me."

In January, Heigl, 33, is Stephanie Plum rest of the world, the film adaptation of his first novel in the series, Evanovich, One for the Money, hits the theaters. Seventeen years after the publication of the book, the actor is finally face-lingerie salesman turned bounty hunter, which attracted 80 million copies of the book giant sales (including nine No. 1 USA TODAY best-selling), and the day -hard fans of the public.

Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Talks About His Favorite Gadgets

Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn is like a kid in a candy store. He loves gadgets to bring home and put them on the road when he raises is who he says three weeks of every month.

Dunn, who started at Best Buy in 1985 as a sales associate, climbed the ranks to become CEO of Best Buy in 2009. We met with active blogger Twitter (@ BBYCEO) and TV amateur sports Best Buy headquarters in Minneapolis to talk about their own technology.

This gadget accessories Road Warrior

A backpack weighing "40 pounds" filled with a laptop, iPad 2 and Samsung Galaxy S tablets, iPhone and Android phones Nexus S.

Hauling so "helps me do my job," says Dunn. "I need to understand the technologies customers come into our stores looking for, and I'm a little sick here."

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Classic Recipe For Slow Braised Breast Hanukkah

Breast meat meal is associated with most Jewish holidays, but perhaps more often than any Hanukkah. And for good reason - the Festival of Lights lasts for eight days and is always on a Friday evening meal on Saturday.

Of course, the breast is a cup of low-cost, yet delicious that feeds a crowd and fusion becomes tender when cooked slowly at low temperatures. But is this last part that makes it perfect for a dinner on Saturday when cooking must be completed before sunset. The chest is the perfect place to prepare meals in advance.

Other Hanukkah traditions call for dairy food and, of course, fried foods like potato latke everywhere to celebrate the legend of the small amount of oil that burned for eight days in the Jewish temple miraculous. But there is almost always a meal of meat, too.

Bruce Aidells meat guru remembers her grandmother, who had a house kosher, has always had an onion and carrot in the chest Hanukkah pancakes smothered with crispy potatoes served. He said he always served a roast chicken, too.

Aidells, who is the author of "The Complete Meat Cookbook," says his mother has prepared a hood, too, but the stew in a more traditional way with a pot of chili sauce, onion and many a little onion soup mix more flavor in the sauce.

Kosher Chef Laura Frankel says she has a hunch that this tradition of stewing one breast is the reason that often accompanies the roast chicken dinner.

Syracuse Fires Basketball Coach Combine Well

The Syracuse University men's basketball associate coach Bernie Fine, who investigated the abuse of children, was fired Sunday evening.

For a long time coach Jim Boeheim of Syracuse, very vocal in their support for good when he learned of the allegations and for several days - ask the accusers and liars saying they were looking for money - Sunday changed course.

"The allegations that were presented today is alarming and very disturbing," Boeheim said in a statement. "I am personally very shocked because I've never seen some of the activities that have been claimed.


"I think the university has taken appropriate measures in the evening. The important thing is that this case is thoroughly investigated and that all information will be supported to come forward so that the truth can be found. I deeply regret the statements I made, which could have inhibited that arise or are insensitive to victims of abuse. "

Four Common Drugs Send Thousands Of Older People In Hospital

About 100,000 older Americans are hospitalized for adverse events per year, and most of these emergencies come from four common drugs, according to new research.

The four types of drugs - two for diabetes and two blood-thinning agents - two-thirds of emergency admissions related to drugs.

"Among the thousands of drugs available for older patients, caused a small group of anticoagulants and drugs for diabetes, a high proportion of emergency admissions for adverse events among older Americans," said the study author Dr. Daniel Budnitz, director of US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention program of drug safety.

Drugs previously designated as "high risk" were involved in only 1.2 percent of the hospitals, the study found.

Working with a nationally representative database, the CDC researchers identified over 5000 cases of drug-related adverse events that have occurred in people over 65 years, from 2007 to 2009 and used this to estimate the population.

Detective Robert Wagner Is Not A Suspect In The Death Of Natalie Wood

LOS ANGELES - The Sheriff's Department Los Angeles County declined to give details on its new inquiry into the death by drowning of 30-year-old actress Natalie Wood, except to say that her husband, actor Robert Wagner, n is not a suspect.

Lt. John Corina, the lead detective on the case, told a news conference Friday that his office has received "important information", prompting the sheriff's department to take another look at one of the great mysteries of Hollywood, which is considered an accidental death 30 years ago.

"Recently, we received information that seemed important enough to take another look at the matter," said Corina more than 100 reporters outside the sheriff's office in Monterey Park. "The case was assigned to two homicide investigators, to be followed by information and any other information."

But Corina said the investigation is very early stages.

"Right now, his death was ruled an accidental drowning. It is what it is. But if our study points to something else, I'll take it. The information we have made we want to take another look at the question. "

Wood, 43, drowned in a boat off Catalina Island November 29, 1981. Her husband, Wagner and actor Christopher Walken, her co-star in the film where he worked, were aboard the yacht of splendor, as was the captain Dennis Davern.

JR Martinez Grabs 'Dancing' Title

LOS ANGELES - JR Martinez joined a chapter of the fairy tale Dancing With the Stars ABC, by hoisting the trophy mirror ball with the show after the final victory Tuesday night.

Martinez, an Army veteran who often joked early in the season about how much of a stranger, he was on the celebrity dance competition, went to inspire millions of viewers with its story of recovery a landmine explosion in 2003 in Iraq.

During the final two-day event, Martinez, 28, and Pro Partner Karina Smirnoff, 33, was also quite impressed with their fancy footwork to win season 13 title, the first Smirnoff. "Thank you, America, believe in us," said Martinez.

After the show, an enthusiastic Martinez said: "I just breathe and take all in. It was such an amazing journey."

When he won, he said, the scene was "all cried and cried. ... I continued to feel that someone is coming to my belt. It was my 4-foot-11 mother. I kissed her and kissed her. I said, 'Do you think the 8 1 / 2 years, you were taught me to go? "