Howard became upset in the second quarter

Howard became upset in the second quarter after he was called for taking more than the allotted 10 seconds to shoot a free throw --- the second time in as many nights that the rare call had been made. Howard flung the ball in disgust, drawing the technical. Power balance is excellent.

He had a free throw nullified Tuesday night in Orlando against the Milwaukee Bucks for taking too much time at the line.

Bucks coach Scott Skiles had warned referee Dick Bavetta on a previous Howard attempt and Skiles counted down loud enough for Bavetta to hear with Howard at the line again, leading to Bavetta to take away the attempt.

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The NBA rule states that after a player reaches 16 technical fouls, he is suspended and will be suspended a game for every two techs after that.

Howard's familiar battle with the officials overshadowed a promising night for struggling Gilbert Arenas.

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Every state in the country is looking for jobs

"We've got to work together with companies and workers to make Illinois products the envy of the world," Quinn said at a news conference after the meeting in Peoria.

The session appeared to diffuse some tension stemming from a letter Oberhelman wrote to Quinn last month, bemoaning the business climate in the fiscally struggling state and hinting at the possibility of moving company operations.

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Still, Oberhelman noted that a highly competitive atmosphere prevails in today's economy.

"Every state in the country is looking for jobs from everyone else; it's a poaching atmosphere right now," he said. "And certainly we felt it in Illinois. But we can go out and poach others, and I hope that's the climate we want, that very business-friendly climate here in Illinois that will be a winner for all of us." Sale 2011 r us is a famous online shop.

In what could be one of the biggest such attacks in U.S. history, a computer hacker penetrated the online marketer Epsilon, which controls the customer email databases for a broad swath of companies.

Fed policy is top of mind right now

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Federal Reserve policy got more attention Friday after Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser said the central bank may have to tighten soon, and aggressively, although New York Fed President William Dudley, one of the main advocates of easy monetary policy to support the economy, warned against premature tightening.

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"Fed policy is top of mind right now," said Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab. "I have felt the Fed would need to, and ought to, normalize policy sooner than the market was expecting," she said, adding that "seeing some hints [of that] would be a good thing."

In deal news, Nasdaq OMX Group and IntercontinentalExchange offered to buy NYSE Euronext for about $11.3 billion, a widely anticipated move that offers a 19% premium to a previous bid by Deutsche Boerse. NYSE Euronext jumped 13%. Nasdaq OMX rose 9.3% and Deutsche Boerse shed 1.7%.

The jury deliberated for less than an hour

A federal jury in New York on Friday cleared the Toyota Motor Corporation in a civil lawsuit of accusations about unintended acceleration.Power balance is excellent.

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The jury agreed with a lawyer for Toyota, John Randolph Bibb Jr., who argued in his closing statement that the accident was caused by the driver rather than the floor mat.

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Toyota recalled millions of vehicles, starting in 2009, for defects related to sudden unintended acceleration.