New stamps set for Christmas, holidays (AP)

WASHINGTON ? The post office is set for the holidays.

The agency unveiled two new Christmas stamps Thursday, and is following on Friday with new stamps to commemorate the Jewish holiday Hanukkah and the African-American celebration Kwanzaa.

This year's traditional "Madonna and Child" Christmas stamp features a painting by the 16th century artist Raphael which now hangs in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.

The modern holiday stamp features a set of four 1950s style Christmas tree ornaments.

The Kwanzaa stamp is illustrated with a family dressed in green, red and black. The Hanukkah stamp features the eight letters Hanukkah on colored fields, representing the eight candles, and the second letter "K" resembles the toy known as a dreidel.

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5 children, deputy die when van crashes into truck (AP)

KIT CARSON, Colo. ? A van driven by a sheriff's deputy who ran a group home for adopted and foster children collided with a livestock trailer on Thursday in a highway construction zone, killing five children and injuring seven others.

Howard Mitchell was taking 12 of the children from the home in Kit Carson to Eads at the time of the crash around 7:30 a.m. The school district in Eads, about 15 miles away, said on its website that the Mitchell family had close ties to the community.

The children who died ranged in age from 4 to 17 and lived in the home for adopted and foster children, said Kiowa County Sheriff's office spokesman Chris Sorensen. Seven other children in the van were hospitalized, as well as the driver of the truck.

A photo provided by the Colorado State Patrol showed the front of the van crumpled into the rear of a large livestock trailer. Short skid marks were visible on the patch of U.S. 287 leading to the collision.

The accident happened on a stretch of highway south of Kit Carson that has been under repair for the past month. One lane was closed, and the collision occurred at the back of a line of traffic about 1,000 feet long, said Stacey Stegman, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Transportation.

Sorensen said the normal speed limit on the highway is 65 miles per hour, but speeds were reduced because of the construction zone. Meteorologists said weather conditions in the area at the time were clear, no wind and temperatures in the low 30s.

In Kit Carson, where Mitchell worked as a Cheyenne County sheriff's deputy and also ran the Mitchell House Children's Home, neighbors said they were devastated.

The family are "good people with good hearts," said Annette Weber, manager of the Trading Post restaurant next door to the group home.

Mitchell was a quiet man who spoke little but was respected by the children in his care, Weber said. "He just had a way with kids," she said.

Some of the children from the home worked at the restaurant, she added. "They always came to work, and they always did a good job and they were always more than happy to help us," Weber said.

Kay Piskorski, mother of the Trading Post's owner, said some of the children would come to the restaurant to buy pie for Mitchell and his wife.

"Good kids, all of them," she said. "Things aren't going to be the same. We're going to miss them. It's unbelievable."

Sorensen identified the children who died as Austyn Ackinson, 11; Tony Mitchell, 4; Tayla Mitchell, 10; Andy Dawson, 13, and Jeremy Franks, 17. Weber said Mitchell had adopted Tony and Tayla.

The ages of the hospitalized children were 3, 13, 15, 16, 17 and 17, officials said. The age of one child who suffered minor injuries was not released.

Kit Carson is about 130 miles southeast of Denver. U.S. 287, a mostly two-lane highway, cuts across the sparsely populated eastern plains of Colorado and is popular with truckers on north-south trips through the state.

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Associated Press writers Steven K. Paulson and Dan Elliott contributed to this report.

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Goldman Sachs may post third-quarter loss: Citi (Reuters)

(Reuters) ? Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) will likely record a loss in the third quarter, only the second quarterly loss in the Wall Street titan's history, hurt by weakness across trading and investment banking, equity market declines and wider credit spreads during the period, Citigroup said.

Citigroup analysts Keith Horowitz and Craig Singer, in a note titled "Taking One Last Whack to 3Q Ests," said they now expect Goldman to post a loss of 65 cents a share, compared with their prior estimates of a profit of 10 cents per share.

The latest cut to Goldman's outlook by Citigroup analyst Horowitz -- a five-star rated analyst according to StarMine for the accuracy of his earnings estimates on Goldman -- adds to the already grim outlook that Wall Street analysts have for U.S. banks' third-quarter results.

Analysts are estimating that financial companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index (.SPX) will report earnings only 3.9 percent higher than a year earlier, instead of the 14.6 percent increase they forecast on August 1, according to Thomson Reuters Proprietary Research.

The first big bank to post results will be JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) on October 13. Goldman will report its third-quarter results on October 18.

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Bills drop Eagles to 1-4

Late INT helps Buffalo (4-1) wrap up 31-24 win; Philly off to worst start since '99

By JOHN WAWROW

updated 4:33 p.m. ET Oct. 9, 2011

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - Turns out the Buffalo Bills didn't need to actually contain quarterback Michael Vick and the Philadelphia Eagles.

All they had to do was watch and wait for this so-called "Dream Team" to start unraveling all on its own.

Running back Fred Jackson combined for 196 yards from scrimmage and a touchdown, and linebacker Nick Barnett had two of Buffalo's four interceptions to secure a 31-24 victory Sunday over a slow-starting, underachieving, far-from-elite opponent.

"All week, we talked about getting after Vick," Barnett said. "Containing Vick is a hard job for anybody. We were trying to make him uneasy, make him think too fast."

Barnett returned an interception 31 yards for a touchdown in the second quarter. And he then sealed the victory by picking off Vick a fourth and final time with 1:49 left.

Facing third-and-3 at the Bills 29, Vick attempted a swing pass to Jason Avant at the left sideline. Cornerback Drayton Florence got his hands on the ball, which tipped off Avant as he was falling backward. Barnett then scooped it up before the ball hit the ground.

"The ball just popped right into my hands," Barnett said. "I tried to get me another touchdown, but I don't have that Deion Sanders speed."

Barnett and the Bills can laugh because they are showing no signs of playing the familiar role as the NFL's pushover.

Bouncing back from a 23-20 loss at Cincinnati, Buffalo (4-1) has already matched last year's win total, is off to its best start since 2008, and looking nothing like the team that opened last season losing eight straight en route to a 4-12 finish.

"I think what we went through last year, nobody wanted to go through again," coach Chan Gailey said. "I think we learned we could play in the big ballgames."

Ryan Fitzpatrick went 21 of 27 for 193 yards passing and a touchdown pass to David Nelson. Brad Smith scored on a 5-yard run that spotted the Bills a 28-7 lead early in the third quarter.

The Eagles are proving dysfunctional, and not even Vick's suggestion of dropping their "Dream Team" label this week has put a stop to what's been an ongoing nightmare.

"Sitting at 1-4, there's really not too much you can say whether you're a good team or a bad team," Vick said. "I know I have a lot of confidence in these guys. We just have to keep fighting."

Vick went 26 of 40 for 315 yards passing and two touchdowns, but was undone by a career-worst four interceptions, three of them coming on the Eagles' first four possessions. He added 90 yards rushing to give him 4,948 for his career, passing Randall Cunningham for most yards by an NFL quarterback.

Philadelphia has lost four in a row ? its longest skid since 2005 ? and is off to its worst start since 1999, coach Andy Reid's first season.

Reid was defiant in the loss, blaming himself for the team's struggles.

"No. 1, there's nobody to blame but me," Reid said. "That's how I look at it. I take full responsibility for it. It's my team."

Turnovers aside, the Eagles offense couldn't get out of its own way to complete a comeback.

Vick squandered a scoring chance at the end of the second quarter when, with no timeouts and facing third-and-10 at the Buffalo 26, he held on to the ball too long before throwing it through the back of the end zone just as time ran out.

Then there was how the Eagles second-to-last possession ended with Alex Henery settling for a 35-yard field goal. Vick had marched Philadelphia to Buffalo's 6-yard-line before penalties on consecutive plays pushed the Eagles back 20 yards.

The Eagles then capped their comedy of errors by failing to get the ball back for what would've been one last drive.

Facing fourth-and-inches at midfield with 1:23 left, Fitzpatrick was successful in getting Eagles defensive end Juqua Parker to jump offside. That gave Buffalo a new set of downs and a chance to run out the clock after Philadelphia had used up its timeouts.

Jackson couldn't believe the ploy worked.

"Coming into the huddle, we did a good acting job, like we were going to go out here and run the ball down their throat," Jackson said.

Jackson celebrated just before entering the tunnel with his son Braeden at his side. With the crowd chanting "Freddy! Freddy! Freddy!" Jackson ripped off his gloves and threw them into the stands and took a moment to soak it all in before heading to the locker room.

"We're putting ourselves in a tremendous opportunity," Jackson said. "We're happy where we're putting ourselves. But we still have a lot of work to do and a lot of teams left to play."

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In the selection of art reviews on The Arts Desk this week, several big names feature highly, although this doesn?t necessarily mean that satisfaction is guaranteed.

We start away from the London galleries in Bath, for something a little different from Thomas Gainsborough. The painter was famed as the leading portraitist in the 18th century, but he also had a passion for painting imagined landscapes. The exhibition ?Gainsborough?s Landscapes: Themes and Variations? at the Holburne Museum give a marvellously rich overview of the artist?s work.

Although the career of Barry Flanagan began thrillingly enough, it gradually went off the boil and Sarah Kent was left feeling disappointed in her art review of ?Barry Flanagan: Early Works 1965-1982? at Tate Britain. Flanagan began working as a true exploratory sensualist, as he made fun, inventive works using a variety of different materials and processes. He began to rely on mass-produced works though, which had none of the probing and investigative energy that once made him so radical and interesting.

With a feel-good factor about it, Pipilotti Rist?s exhibition ?Eyeball Massage? brings us back to the London galleries at the Hayward Gallery. Various video projections can be seen in the exhibition including graphic close-ups of the female body and a woman behaving like an animal ? as well as a chandelier made of white knickers. It lacked the desired impact however in this permissive setting, which didn?t have the presence of any particular strict constraints to kick against.

Josh Spero was left feeling unmoved by the exhibition ?Frank Stella: Connections? at Haunch of Venison, which showcased Stella?s acclaimed works of Abstract Expressionism. The artist is undeniably asking all the right questions about what art can do and what it can represent in his ground-breaking experiments with planes, depth, colour fields, angles and three-dimensional painting. The gradual development and creation of just two major works is focused on, but the questions being asked were purely academic and the human element was entirely missing.

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Measuring elusive neutrinos flowing through the Earth, physicists learn more about the sun

Measuring elusive neutrinos flowing through the Earth, physicists learn more about the sun

Friday, October 7, 2011

Using one of the most sensitive neutrino detectors on the planet, an international team including physicists Laura Cadonati and Andrea Pocar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are now measuring the flow of solar neutrinos reaching earth more precisely than ever before. The detector probes matter at the most fundamental level and provides a powerful tool for directly observing the sun's composition.

Pocar, Cadonati and colleagues report in the current issue of Physical Review Letters that the Borexino instrument has now measured with high precision the flux of the beryllium seven (7Be) solar neutrino, abundant, low-energy particles once below the observable threshold. With this advance, they can now precisely study the behavior of solar neutrinos with kinetic energy below 1 megaelectron volt (MeV). Borexino scientists also recently reported the first observation of neutrinos produced in a little-studied solar nuclear process known as proton-electron-proton, or pep, and set of stringent limit on reactions involving carbon, nitrogen and oxygen (the CNO cycle) in the sun.

Cadonati says, "Borexino is the only detector capable of observing the entire spectrum of solar neutrinos at once. Our results, the culmination of 20 years of research, greatly narrow the observation precision. The data confirm the neutrino oscillations, flavor changes and flow predicted by models of the sun and particle physics."

Of particular interest, Pocar and Cadonati note, is the Borexino instrument's ability to more thoroughly test neutrino oscillation parameters, allowing an exploration of their characteristic non-zero mass, which does not fit the Standard Model of particle physics. "Our data can tell us about fundamental micro physics at the particle level," says Cadonati. "Borexino is using neutrinos to explore the interior of the sun, looking for new, exciting clues to the mysteries of the universe we cannot see." Pocar adds, "Our detector provides stringent tests of the three-neutrino oscillations model."

Solar neutrinos are produced in nuclear processes and radioactive decays of several elements during fusion reactions at the sun's core. As many as 65 billion of them stream out of the sun and hit every square centimeter of the earth's surface [or 420 billion every square inch] every second. But because they only interact through the nuclear weak force they pass through matter unaffected, making them very difficult to detect and to distinguish from the trace nuclear decays of ordinary materials. The weak force is one of the four fundamental forces of nature, with gravity, electromagnetism and the strong force. It is responsible for the radioactive decay of unstable subatomic particles, with a short range of influence, about 1 percent of the diameter of a typical atomic nucleus.

The Borexino instrument, housed far beneath Italy's Apennine Mountains, detects neutrinos as they interact with an ultra-pure organic liquid scintillator at the center of a large sphere surrounded by 2,000 tons of water. Its great depth and many onion-like protective layers maintain the core as the most radiation-free medium on the planet.

There are three neutrino types, or "flavors": electron, muon and tau. Those produced in the sun are the electron type. As they travel away from their birthplace, they oscillate, or change from one flavor to another. A detector like Borexino can observe all three types in real time and measures each one's energy, but it cannot distinguish between them. It's more sensitive to the electron type so they are more likely to be seen.

The 7Be neutrino flux now being detected by Borexino is predicted by the standard solar model to make up about 10 percent of solar flow, Cadonati says. Earlier instruments in Canada and Japan designed to detect higher-energy neutrinos had already observed evidence of their flavor oscillations, probing 1/10,000 of the solar neutrino flux and their oscillations as they travel through solar matter. However, without data in the low-energy range as scanned by Borexino, physicists were not able to confirm the specific energy-dependent effect of solar neutrino oscillations. Borexino has now filled this gap and for the first time observed evidence of neutrino oscillation in vacuum, as they travel between the sun and Earth.

Pocar says that from the astrophysics angle, Borexino's ability to conduct "precision physics" experiments and collect a large number of observations, with concomitant higher statistical power, is yielding data that show how our sun works. As for the possibility of discovering a new kind of neutrino coming from the sun, which is allowed by some theoretical extensions to the Standard Model of particle physics, he adds, "You always have the hope of seeing surprises, some small deviation from the expectations. And this you can only have if your accuracy and precision are good enough to see very small variations."

In a companion paper, the Borexino team says their 7Be solar neutrino flux measurements show no flow differences between day and night. Some had hypothesized that one might exist because neutrinos pass through the earth's bulk at night. But Pocar says, "The traverse through the earth seems not to change neutrinos' flavor."

In the future, the researchers hope to identify the origin of every neutrino type coming from the sun, particularly to assess the relative levels of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen there, to deepen understanding of how the sun evolved and how its workings are related to that of larger stars.

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