Friday, October 5, 2012

Reader recommendation: Time and Again

I recently finished Time and Again by Jack Finney ? a book published in 1970 about a man recruited to travel back in time to 1882 New York. The story was fascinating and exciting as the main character had to confront the moral dilemmas inherent in visiting the past. What a great ending it had!

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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Romney goes on offensive in first debate with Obama

DENVER (Reuters) - Mitt Romney battled back in his uphill drive to oust President Barack Obama on Wednesday with an aggressive debate performance that put his campaign on a more positive footing after weeks of stumbles and knocked Obama off-stride.

In the first of three presidential debates this month, Romney went beyond expectations as the two candidates stood side-by-side for the first time after months of campaigning against each other from long distance.

Looking to claw his way back into a race that has seen Obama hold an edge among voters, Romney was on the offensive throughout the 90-minute encounter with Obama. While the president landed some punches on Romney's tax plan, he did not appear as prepared as his rival and missed several opportunities to attack.

With under five weeks to go until the November 6 election, it was uncertain whether Romney had managed to change the trajectory of a race that has favored Obama. It is difficult to dislodge an incumbent from the White House. In recent weeks, Romney has lurched from stumble to stumble and been unable to project a consistent message.

"How does it translate into the horse race? That's unclear," said Steven Schier, a political science professor at Carleton College in Minnesota. "Romney should have some momentum. The question is whether he can maintain it."

But there was no question that Romney's campaign felt it was now in a better position. In the "spin room" afterward, Romney advisers hung around for 90 minutes talking to reporters, long after the Obama side had decamped.

A CNN/ORC snap poll said 67 percent of registered voters surveyed thought Romney won the debate at the University of Denver, compared with 25 percent for Obama.

Romney and Obama clashed repeatedly over taxes, healthcare and the role of government in ways that reflected the deep ideological divide in Washington and that has contributed to political gridlock.

Romney zeroed in on weak economic growth and 8.1 percent unemployment that have left Obama vulnerable in his effort to win a second four-year term. Government has taken on too big a role under Obama, dampening job creation, Romney argued.

"What we're seeing right now, in my view, (is) a trickle-down government approach, which has government thinking it can do a better job than free people pursuing their dreams. And it's not working. And the proof of that is 23 million people out of work," Romney said.

Fact checkers took issue with some of assertions by the former Massachusetts governor, like the number of people unemployed, but he appeared more poised and better prepared than his opponent.

Obama argued that under his leadership, the economy had been brought back from the brink, with 5 million jobs created in the private sector, a resurgent auto industry and housing beginning to rise.

"You know, four years ago, we were going through a major crisis. And yet my faith and confidence in the American future is undiminished," Obama said.

NO MENTION OF THE '47 PERCENT'

Mysteriously, Obama failed to mention issues his campaign has used in attack ads to damage Romney such as the Republican's now infamous "47 percent" video, job cuts he made while at Bain Capital private equity firm, his tax returns and previous hard line on immigration.

The debate saw no haymaker punches thrown and not much in the way of memorable one-line zingers. Instead, it was a war of attrition as each man used facts and figures to make his points and stress the differences between them.

Romney, however, did himself some favors with crisper answers than Obama, who sounded professorial and a bit long-winded despite his staff's best efforts to get him to give snappier comments.

Quite often Obama looked downward at his notes as Romney pounced on the president's record. At one point, the Democrat quibbled with debate moderator Jim Lehrer who tried to cut him off for going over his allotted time.

"I had five seconds before you interrupted me," Obama said to Lehrer with a smile.

Romney's chances of winning the White House were up by 8.4 percentage points after the debate, although he was still only 34.3 percent assured of victory in November, according to online betting site Intrade.

The incumbent did put Romney on the defensive about his proposals for overhauling the U.S. tax system with a 20 percent across-the-board tax cut. Obama said it would cost the government $5 trillion and that it would be impossible to make up this amount by eliminating tax loopholes as the Republican talks about.

"The fact is that if you are lowering the rates the way you described, Governor, then it is not possible to come up with enough deductions and loopholes that only affect high-income individuals to avoid either raising the deficit or burdening the middle class. It's - it's math. It's arithmetic," Obama said.

Romney insisted his tax plan would not cost $5 trillion, saying, "Virtually everything he said about my tax plan is inaccurate."

Obama also reminded Americans that Romney was proposing more of the same kind of tax cuts that Obama's Republican predecessor, former President George W. Bush, pushed through Congress in 2001 and 2003. Most Americans are willing to concede that Obama inherited an economic mess, but also believe it is his responsibility to bring back the economy.

"We ended up moving from surpluses to deficits and it all culminated with the worst recession since the Great Depression," said Obama.

In the face of attacks from Romney that the Obama healthcare overhaul of 2010 will hurt small-business hiring, Obama basically said his healthcare plan was modeled after the program Romney put in place as governor of Massachusetts, and it "hasn't destroyed jobs" there.

After arguing for months that the Wall Street regulation legislation known as "Dodd-Frank" should be repealed, Romney was forced to concede under pressure from Obama that he would keep some financial regulations established under the law.

ROMNEY NEEDED VICTORY MORE

Romney was in need of a victory in the debate to help him put his campaign back on a positive footing after a rocky few weeks.

He was damaged by a hidden-camera videotape in which he said 47 percent of voters were dependent on government and unlikely to support him. That was among several stumbles that have knocked Romney's campaign off message.

Obama, holding a slight lead in national polls and leading Romney in some swing states where the election will be decided, was looking in the debate to avoid harming his position as the apparent front-runner.

But he may have spent too much time trying to avoid making mistakes and let Romney get the better of him.

The debate was the best opportunity to date to reach large numbers of voters in an unfiltered way, with an estimated television audience of 60 million possible.

Advisers to both Romney and Obama predictably said their man emerged victorious. Obama adviser David Plouffe told reporters in the spin room that Romney appeared "testy" at times.

As for Obama's lengthy comments, his campaign manager Jim Messina said, "That's never going to be our strong suit."

Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said if the debate had been a prize fight, the referee would have called it for Romney an hour in.

The debate was the first of three such face-offs scheduled in the next four weeks. Biden and Romney's running mate, U.S. Representative Paul Ryan, will debate once, on October 11.

(Additional reporting by Sam Youngman and Jeff Mason in Denver and Alina Selyukh in Washington; Editing by Alistair Bell and Peter Cooney)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-romney-battle-over-economy-debate-012240690.html

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  • Leslie Eastman joins Silvio Canto for a conversation with Professor William Jacobson, editor of Legal Insurrection. We will discuss the Romney-Obama debates and the overall political situation in the country.

  • Alveda is the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She?ll be sharing her experiences in the Civil Rights Movement, marching by her Uncle's side at age 16. She will also share her story of being arrested at the time for marching for what she believed in.

  • The Halli Casser-Jayne Show covers the topic of Burlesque, an art form on the comeback trail with neo-burlesque performer Angie Pontani, 86 year-old Queen of Burlesque Dixie Evans, Sam Goldwyn's granddaughter, Liz Goldwyn, author of Pretty Things and so much more.

  • Host Marie Stroughter interviews the man behind the hit movie, Obama's America: 2016, Dinesh D'Souza; then fresh from her visit to The View, guest Ann Coulter discusses her new book, Mugged.

  • America's Most Haunted Radio welcomes Aaron Sagers, author, journalist, raconteur, hat-wearer, NYU professor, proprietor of ParanormalPopCulture.com, and most recently host and co-exec producer of Paranormal Paparazzi on Travel Channel.

  • Emmy Award winning actor Eric Braeden, best known for his role as Victor Newman on the CBS Daytime soap The Young and the Restless, joins World Footprints to share his travel experiences, early childhood memories and his adventures after immigrating to the US.

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    More certainty on uncertainty's quantum mechanical role

    ScienceDaily (Oct. 4, 2012) ? Researchers are presenting findings at the Frontiers in Optics 2012 meeting that observation need not disturb systems as much as once thought, severing the act of measurement from the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

    Scientists who study the ultra-small world of atoms know it is impossible to make certain simultaneous measurements -- for example, finding out both the location and momentum of an electron -- with an arbitrarily high level of precision. Because measurements disturb the system, increased certainty in the first measurement leads to increased uncertainty in the second. The mathematics of this unintuitive concept -- a hallmark of quantum mechanics -- were first formulated by the famous physicist Werner Heisenberg at the beginning of the 20th century and became known as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

    Heisenberg and other scientists later generalized the equations to capture an intrinsic uncertainty in the properties of quantum systems, regardless of measurements, but the uncertainty principle is sometimes still loosely applied to Heisenberg's original measurement-disturbance relationship. Now researchers from the University of Toronto have gathered the most direct experimental evidence that Heisenberg's original formulation is wrong.

    The results were published online in the journal Physical Review Letters last month and the researchers will present their findings for the first time at the Optical Society's (OSA) Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics (FiO), taking place in Rochester, N.Y. Oct. 14 -18.

    The Toronto team set up an apparatus to measure the polarization of a pair of entangled photons. The different polarization states of a photon, like the location and momentum of an electron, are what are called complementary physical properties, meaning they are subject to the generalized Heisenberg uncertainty relationship. The researchers' main goal was to quantify how much the act of measuring the polarization disturbed the photons, which they did by observing the light particles both before and after the measurement. However, if the "before shot" disturbed the system, the "after shot" would be tainted.

    The researchers found a way around this quantum mechanical Catch-22 by using techniques from quantum measurement theory to sneak non-disruptive peeks of the photons before their polarization was measured. "If you interact very weakly with your quantum particle, you won't disturb it very much," explained Lee Rozema, a Ph.D. candidate in quantum optics research at the University of Toronto, and lead author of the study. Weak interactions, however, can be like grainy photographs: they yield very little information about the particle. "If you take just a single measurement, there will be a lot of noise in that measurement," said Rozema. "But if you repeat the measurement many, many times, you can build up statistics and can look at the average."

    By comparing thousands of "before" and "after" views of the photons, the researchers revealed that their precise measurements disturbed the system much less than predicted by the original Heisenberg formula. The team's results provide the first direct experimental evidence that a new measurement-disturbance relationship, mathematically computed by physicist Masanao Ozawa, at Nagoya University in Japan, in 2003, is more accurate.

    "Precision quantum measurement is becoming a very important topic, especially in fields like quantum cryptography where we rely on the fact that measurement disturbs the system in order to transmit information securely," said Rozema. "In essence, our experiment shows that we are able to make more precise measurements and give less disturbance than we had previously thought."

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    1. Lee Rozema, Ardavan Darabi, Dylan Mahler, Alex Hayat, Yasaman Soudagar, Aephraim Steinberg. Violation of Heisenberg?s Measurement-Disturbance Relationship by Weak Measurements. Physical Review Letters, 2012; 109 (10) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.100404

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    Workouts For the Time Crunched (And Paint Covered) [Research ...

    I?m actually pretty pleased with how this is turning out! I love how the blue-green contrasts with our gold tree outside ? now if only I can make it so the seasons never change?

    ?Minty gel with tartar control? wasn?t exactly the look I was going for ? the color on the paint can I randomly picked up off the discard shelf for 5$ said ?Bahama Blue? and who doesn?t love the Bahamas?! ? but when I get the urge to repaint our front room (every couple of years) it?s like an itch I have to scratch, practicality and paint chips be darned. In the five years we?ve lived here it?s been kindergarten yellow (which with our red bookcases made it look like we were living in the house Ronald McDonald built), stone gray (stones are only pretty when they?re stone and water is running over them), antique white (blah),?Colosseum?(a bizarre army green) and almond toast (a brown that felt really earthy and warm until one morning last week when I woke up and realized it just looked like acid reflux). And of course, me being me, I can?t just repaint but I have to recover our (meager) furniture, redo wall hangings, sew new window treatments and reorganize all the storage. Oooh and I stole an idea from my friend Jess and bought these awesome sparkly ?gem? lights that I?m going to make a permanent light fixture to make our room all Winter Wonderland instead of Winter Woe-land which is how I feel about Minnesota winters.

    At least that is what it?s supposed to end up as. Right now I?m just in the middle of a huge mess. And because, again, I?m me, I?m hyperfocused on getting it done. I?m painting every spare moment that I?m not wiping up smudgy minty gel footprints off the floor because they kids wanted to ?help.? (My kindergartner helped by painting? all the door knobs. Oy.) Plus, I stepped on a nail and now have a really owie puncture wound. (True story: I stepped on it so hard that when I lifted my foot up the board came with it and I had to pull it out of my foot. And no I didn?t get a tetanus shot ? what?s the window on those things? It?s been two days and I don?t have lockjaw yet.)

    All of which means that my workouts are, er, suffering. (Also, for all of you who have e-mailed me and wondered if I?d died under a avalanche of Legos because it?s been a week and I still haven?t answered you, well now you know why. Sorry!)

    But! As I have learned, lo these few years, my life should not revolve around exercise but rather my fitness routine should fit my life. So I?ve been doing short but intense workouts to get my sweat fix but still work on my insane home improvement projects. (My husband left the house the other morning and all was as usual. By the time he got home all the furniture was in the garage and half of our oak trim was painted white. He loves it when I do this.) From MMA to ballet, for a few years now I?ve been collecting these ?mini? workouts that can be done in 15 minutes or less but still give a fab burn.

    And because I?m the sharing sort (and also because I still need to, you know, do my job) I made a list of my 15 favorite workouts that can be done in under 15 minutes?forShape. And the best part is that most of them require little to no equipment so you can fit them in wherever!

    Here?s my current fave, cribbed from Mark?s Daily Apple:

    Paleo diets?are all the rage these days but exercising like our distant?ancestors?also has great benefits. Whether you?re lifting heavy things to build your hut or build your biceps, research supports the perks of lifting as heavy as you can handle for short sets. You?ll increase your strength and your contribution to the gene pool!

    Try?this primal workout?from Mark?s Daily Apple: Grab a weighted object (two?dumbbells, sandbag, barbell, kettlebell or recalcitrant toddler) and do not put it down until you have completed 3 full cycles of the workout below. Do 1 set of 6 reps for every exercise, and then repeat the entire circuit two more times.

    6?Cleans
    6?Overhead presses
    6 Squats
    6?Bent-over rows

    You can take a break in between each cycle, but you may find that you just want to power through since you can?t put down the weight.

    And if you need more quickie motivation, Glamour magazine featured me on their site talking about what I do to keep myself motivated to workout. which, if you know me, don?t take a lot of pushing? but still! Fun!

    The research also supports this quickie mentality. A New York Times article reports about one of the largest exercise studies ever done and the results may (or may not) surprise you: There is a sweet spot for exercise and it?s only about 30 minutes!

    ?Researchers at the University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health and other institutions combed through the health records of 52,656 American adults who?d undergone physicals between 1971 and 2002 as part of the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study at the Cooper Institute in Dallas.?The researchers found that about 27 percent of the participants reported regularly running, although in wildly varying amounts and paces.

    The scientists then checked death reports.?Over the course of the study, 2,984 of the participants died. But the incidence was much lower among the group that ran. Those participants had, on average, a 19 percent lower risk of dying from any cause than non-runners.

    Notably, in closely parsing the participants? self-reported activities, the researchers found that running in moderation provided the most benefits. Those who ran 1 to 20 miles per week at an average pace of about 10 or 11 minutes per mile ? in other words, jogging ? reduced their risk of dying during the study more effectively than those who didn?t run, those (admittedly few) who ran more than 20 miles a week, and those who typically ran at a pace swifter than seven miles an hour.

    ?These data certainly support the idea that more running is not needed to produce extra health and mortality benefits,? said Dr. Carl J. Lavie, medical director of cardiac rehabilitation and prevention at the Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans and an author of the study. ?If anything,? he continued, ?it appears that less running is associated with the best protection from mortality risk. More is not better, and actually, more could be worse.?

    His analysis echoes the results of another new examination of activity and mortality, in which Danish scientists used 27 years? worth of data collected for the continuing Copenhagen City Heart Study. They reported that those Danes who spent one to two and a half hours per week jogging at a ?slow or average pace? during the study period had longer life spans than their more sedentary peers and than those who ran at a faster pace.

    This decidedly modest amount of exercise led to an increase of, on average, 6.2 years in the life span of male joggers and 5.6 years in women.

    ?We can say with certainty that regular jogging increases longevity,? Dr. Peter Schnorr, a cardiologist and an author of the study, said in presenting the findings at a clinical meeting organized last month by the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation. ?The good news is that you don?t actually need to do that much to reap the benefits.?

    Sorry for the long quote but I felt it was important to show that it wasn?t just one small study showing these results but several large studies.

    Do you have a go-to workout that you do when you only have a short time? Do the study findings surprise you? What?s the craziest ?color you?ve ever painted a room?!

    Source: http://www.thegreatfitnessexperiment.com/2012/10/workouts-for-the-time-crunched-and-paint-covered-research-finds-the-sweet-spot-for-exercise-duration.html

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    MLB completes 8-year deal with Fox, Turner Sports

    NEW YORK (AP) ? Major League Baseball agreed with Fox and Turner Sports on eight-year contracts that will run through 2021 and keep the World Series on Fox.

    The amount baseball receives from the two networks will double to an average of about $800 million annually, with Fox's share averaging about $500 million.

    "Both networks are passionate about baseball and are committed to covering, promoting and growing the sport, and I want to thank them for their continued support," Commissioner Bud Selig said Tuesday.

    Fox also will retain rights to the All-Star game and a league championship series every year, and adds coverage of two division series starting in 2014. Fox broadcast the World Series in 1996 and 1998, and has had exclusive rights in 2000.

    TBS will retain the rights to air one league championship series, two division series and one wild-card game.

    MLB Network will continue to have the right to two games from one division series in the new eight-year deal.

    Fox and TBS will alternate between showing the American League and National League playoffs from year to year. MLB Network's two division series game will come from Fox's games.

    ESPN and MLB in August announced a new deal covering 2014-21 that will increase ESPN's average yearly payment from about $360 million to approximately $700 million.

    Fox, which broadcasts a Saturday regular-season game each week under its current deal, will double regular-season game rights from 26 to 52 under the new contract. Twelve of those will be exclusively shown on Fox, but the deal gives the network the right to air as many as 40 games on another nationally distributed Fox channel.

    "We are continuing to evaluate the possibility of a national sports channel," Randy Freer, co-president of Fox Sports Media Group, said during a conference call. He added that no announcement on such a network was imminent.

    Speculation has been that Fox will rebrand its Speed Network into a ESPN-style, all-sports network, and having major league baseball games to show on it would help greatly with distribution to cable and satellite providers.

    Under the new deals, TBS will also have the rights to air 13 regular-season Sunday games. However, it will gain more telecasts that will be broadcast simultaneously with the local club TV feed within a market and increased digital rights.

    Turner had carried all four division series from 2007 through last year but gave up two division series games to the MLB Network under a deal running through 2013. That was part of a financial agreement that gave it rights to the two wild-card round games this year.

    ESPN gains a wild-card game starting in 2014. It also had televised 26 Sunday games each season.

    ESPN gained additional rights to highlights and digital content in its deal plus more flexibility to show games involving popular teams.

    Associated Press

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    Six crew arrested after Hong Kong ferry collision kills 37

    HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police arrested six crew on Tuesday after a ferry and a company boat carrying more than 120 staff and family celebrating the mid-autumn festival collided, killing 37 people as the boat sank.

    The boat, belonging to Hongkong Electric Co, controlled by billionaire Li Ka-shing, was taking passengers to watch fireworks in the city's Victoria Harbor on Monday when the two vessels collided near the picturesque outlying island of Lamma.

    Five children were among the dead. More than 100 people were taken to hospital, with nine suffering serious injuries or in critical condition, the government said in a statement.

    "We suspect that somebody did not fulfill their responsibility, that's why we made the arrests," Police Commissioner Andy Tsang said. "We do not rule out the possibility that further arrests will be made."

    The arrests involved crew of both vessels.

    The collision sparked a major rescue involving dive teams, helicopters and boats that saw scores plucked from the sea. A large crane on a barge was connected to the stricken boat.

    "Within 10 minutes, the ship had sunk. We had to wait at least 20 minutes before we were rescued," said one male survivor, wrapped in a blanket.

    Survivors said people had to break windows to swim to the surface. "We thought we were going to die. Everyone was trapped inside," said a middle-aged woman.

    The fireworks marked the mid-autumn festival, when the moon is full, and China's National Day. Hong Kong returned to Chinese from British rule in 1997.

    Hongkong Electric, a unit of Power Assets Holdings which is controlled by Asia's richest man Li, said the boat had capacity to hold up to 200 people.

    The tragedy was the worst to hit Hong Kong since 1996 when more than 40 people died in a fire in a commercial building.

    "OUR CAPTAIN IS NOT WELL"

    The ferry, owned by Hong Kong and Kowloon Ferry Holdings, suffered a badly damaged bow in the collision but made it safely to the pier on Lamma, an island popular with tourists and expatriates about a half-hour away from downtown Hong Kong.

    Several of its roughly 100 passengers and crew were injured.

    "After the accident, it was all chaos and people were crying. Then water began seeping in and the vessel began to tilt to one side and people were all told to stand on the other side and everyone started putting on life jackets," a passenger said.

    Hong Kong is home to one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, but serious accidents are rare. The city is known for its high-quality public services and advanced infrastructure.

    A spokeswoman for Hong Kong and Kowloon Ferry said the company was trying to assess what happened.

    "Our captain is not well and we have not been able to talk to him so far," the spokeswoman told local television.

    A Hong Kong Fire Services official said the search was hampered by the vessel being partly sunken, poor visibility and too much clutter. The search for survivors was continuing on Tuesday.

    Teams of men in white coats, green rubber gloves and yellow helmets carried corpses off a police launch in body bags.

    At one of the city's public mortuaries, around 50 grieving relatives gathered, some crying, while others were called in to identify the dead.

    Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying visited survivors and pledged a thorough investigation. He declared three days of mourning starting on Thursday.

    Thousands of Hong Kong residents live on outlying islands such as Lamma, which lies about three km (two miles) southwest of Hong Kong Island.

    (Additional reporting by Stefanie McIntyre, Donny Kwok, Farah Master, Venus Wu and Tyrone Siu; Writing by Anne Marie Roantree; Editing by Nick Macfie)

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/least-36-dead-hong-kong-ferry-sinks-following-023616524.html

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    Macy Gray Admits She Doesn't Know Her Own Net Worth

    By Lou Carlozo
    CHICAGO, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Ask Macy Gray about her net worth, and the Grammy-winning R&B singer and songwriter is not sure - though she is perfectly willing to help out with a little online research. She stops the interview to trawl celebritynetworth.com, where she plugs her name into a search engine and pulls up a number. A very large number.
    "Wow!" exclaims Gray, 45, an Ohio native who calls Los Angeles home. "It says here I'm worth $38 million. But I don't know where they got that figure from, because I don't even know how to figure that out. But if it's right, I'd go cash that in right now and go shopping."
    Gray debuted with the multiplatinum album "Oh How Life Is" in 1999, and musical stardom also translated into movie appearances in "Spider-Man" and "For Colored Girls." But her life as a star has not been perfect. Gray has weathered heartbreak (her husband, Tracy Hinds, left while she was pregnant with their third child, and substance abuse problems came to a head around the time she released 2003's "The Trouble With Being Myself.")
    Gray says the partying years are behind her, though she loves gambling and played on the Bravo cable network's "Celebrity Poker Showdown" in 2006, capturing third place in her tournament.
    While Gray takes to games of chance for fun, she is frank about her lack of prowess at picking stocks. Gray has learned what works for her financially, and sticks with it. She is a saver, and likes to put money aside so that it is not accessible to her.
    With her new album, a reinterpretation of Stevie Wonder's "Talking Book," due Oct. 30, Gray took time out to discuss the fine points of her financial life.

    Q: How do you invest your funds?
    A: I was never good at the whole stock thing so I quit a long time ago - before the crash. The thing that I did, and worked out well for me, is that my money goes straight to an account that I can't get to, unless emergency situations come up.

    Q: How about investments in other areas of your life, like real estate?
    A: I own three properties in Canton, Ohio, because that's where I'm from: one commercial property and two homes. I also have some money in jewelry; I have a lot of jewelry.

    Q: You have three kids. How do you set aside money for them?
    A: Since the beginning, I've given a percentage into my kids' accounts - just like I pay my manager or my agent. It's not so much a trust fund as a money market account. They've been accumulating money for a long time, and it's set up so I can't get at it. They actually have a lot more money than I do! My daughter just went to college in the fall, and all that was paid for through that account. My kids get so much when they are 18, and so much when they are 21. My accountant set it up very nicely. My kids get more money if they stay in school, so that's good too.

    Q: Where do you like to give back?
    A: My biggest thing is that I like to help the troops. I'm very passionate about that, about helping wounded soldiers and their families. There's a huge military charity called Operation Homefront. I also do visits to hospitals and I donate money to families, who, if their sons are in the hospital, the parents have to leave work to care for them, and that just kills them financially. I do a lot of benefits, and say yes as much as I can.

    Q: Which expenses pose the biggest challenge for you?
    A: Hmmm. Everything. I have a personal assistant and housekeepers; I have a band, a manager, agents and a PR person. And my kids have tutors. It's crazy. My expenses are pretty big: We travel a lot, my daughter's in college, and I'm not that great with money. But I have a business manager and I've been working with him since 2008. He takes care of all the bills. He also takes care of the taxes.

    Q: Being an entertainer has put a lot of money at your disposal. What are the most important lessons you've learned?
    A: I know a lot of people are able to make really good investments, but I'm not the kind of "money person" who knows how to do that. I've had people help me out, but that really didn't work, either. Investing is definitely an art, like anything else. It's an art to make money, and an art to make it grow bigger and bigger. So I save. I've let my money build up, and it's accumulated into a lot over a period of time. And that's really cool.

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