The NFL's appeal was denied to them by the appeals court. The lockout remains lifted and the players are allowed to go to their team's training facilities. The owners and the NFL tried getting the lockout back, but they were unsuccessful. They are still trying to negotiate terms and now they are being made to hold meetings involving the lockout.

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The NFL needs to figure things our and they need to do it fast. It is a good thing that the lockout got lifted. It is not right for players that are still under contract to be locked out of their team's facilities. The team should want their players in there still training. They need to be ready to get going when everything gets resumed once again. They might start to lose fan support if the back and forth stuff continues much longer.

The FAA fires two more air traffic controllers after yet another mistake. This time the mistake put the lives of the first lady and the vice president in harms way. There was an emergency landing for the first lady because an air traffic controller told the pilot the wrong rnu way. No one was hurt and both the vice president and the first lady are safe.

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I think the FAA just to clean house. They need to get rid of the controllers that are causing the problems. It is not worth giving people a chance if lives are on the line. They need to also give them more breaks and shorter shirtd. They need to find a way to fix this so the next time it is not the president that they put in harms way.

The FAA is giving air traffic controllers an extra hour of sleep between shirts. They are hoping that this will cut down on the amount of controllers that doze off. There has been multiple cases just recently of planes emergency landing or coming in on the wrong run way because of contollers dozing off.

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I personally do not think this one extra hour will make a difference. If they really want to make a difference, they should take shifts and hire more traffic controllers. Shorter shifts will help on the dozing off and also cut back on the accidents and emergency landings.

Government Spending

http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=indystar&sParam=36220707.storyThe government is at a standoff and neither party is will come to an agreement. Obama is trying to pull them together. The are trying to reach an agreement by Sunday.

I think Congress are acting like a bunch kids. Neither side wants to let the other win. They both are trying to show their power and it is only hurting everyine else. They need to come to an agreement because it is not fair for all the goverment paid workers. They deserve a pay check and they work hard for one. Congress owes them that.