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COMMENTARY | Imagine "them" wearing open-collared blue button-down shirts and staring into outdated computer screens while sitting in cubicles in an energy compliantin Washington's .

For those who have followed the sport long enough, certain words and phrases have become part of the boxing culture. While some are fitting and appropriate, others get tossed around so freely that they have become pure cliche.

At a White House briefing for online personal finance writers last week, President Barack Obama was asked what money advice he himself had found most valuable. The President riffed on his Kansas born grandmother, who worked her way up from bank secretary to vice-president and taught him about the importance of saving and the magic of compounding interest". Then he segued to the value of investment ---both by the federal government and individuals.

When Michelle and I graduated from law school our combined debt was $120,000 and it took us 10 years to pay off. We were lucky because wed gone to a law school where we knew we could earn it, said the Harvard Law alum. It remains smart to spend on things that are going to increase your productivity and your income over the long term. In the same way that law school paid off for Michelle and I, he added.

An "immensely proud" Mark Cavendish paid tribute to his HTC-Highroad team Friday a day after it was announced it would fold at the end of 2011 having failed to find a new backer.

Cavendish, who took his stage win tally on the Tour de France to a remarkable 20 last month, was already heading for fresh pastures with speculation suggesting he will sign for British outfit Team Sky or nascent Australian team GreenEdge.

The Afghanistan-Pakistan portion ofU.S. war efforts of the last decade is now, after a detour into "nation-building," set to wind down as per President Obama's latest direction.

This foreign entanglement has not been a business-centered policy, even if the territories at stake have rich resources that not only Americans but also those from non-combatant countries are trying to exploit. Commercial considerations probably would not have led anyone to places like Kandahar. Instead, the primary motivations have been put in terms of security and regional stability.

Non-Profit Organization to Advocate Standards-based Open Cloud ComputingPortland, OR (PRWEB) July 29, 2011

This week the Open Cloud Initiative (OCI), a non-profit organization established to advocate open standards in cloud computing, announced its official launch at the OSCON 2011 Open Source Convention. Its purpose is to provide a legal framework within which the greater cloud computing community of users and providers can reach consensus on a set of requirements for Open Cloud, as described in the Open Cloud Principles (OCP) document, and then apply those requirements to cloud computing products and services, again by way of community consensus.

Volunteers who responded most to a cocktail of antiretroviral drugs in an HIV prevention trial among gay men had a reduced risk of 92 percent of being infected by the AIDS virus, researchers said on Wednesday.

They presented the work as a last-minute, or "late-breaker", contribution to the world forum on AIDS science in Rome.

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) The mother of three Florida siblings being sought by the FBI is urging them to surrender after authorities say they fired shots at a Florida police car and then robbed a bank in south Georgia.

Barbara Bell told The Associated Press on Friday that she loves her daughter and two sons and hopes they give up before someone gets hurt.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) NHL enforcer Derek Boogaard had been out of drug rehab for just one day before his younger brother gave him an unprescribed narcotic pain pill at the start of an evening of night-clubbing, drug-taking and heavy drinking that resulted in his death, prosecutors alleged Friday.

A complaint filed in Hennepin County District Court said Aaron Boogaard, 24, told police he gave his brother a single oxycodone the night before he found Derek Boogaard dead in their Minneapolis apartment May 13. Derek Boogaard, 28, died of what authorities ruled was a toxic mix of alcohol and drugs.

Rogue trader Nick Leeson for the first time told his old boss "sorry" for single-handedly bringing down Barings Bank, in a face-to-face meeting to be broadcast Sunday.

Peter Norris told Leeson he wanted to punch his "lights out" as the scale of his deeds emerged.