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Democratic Libya: Weak state marred by chaotic infighting

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Krekshi, secretary general of the National Forces Alliance, told Submitted at 7/8/2012 7:21:17 PM AFP on Sunday. Libyan election workers start the The chief of the Libyan Election counting process at a polling Commission said that 62 per cent station in the western city of of the country's eligible voters Misrata during Libya's General cast their ballots for the 200-seat National Congress election on parliament that is to elect a new July 7, 2012. (AFP Photo/ prime minister. Giovanni Diffidenti)(35.6Mb) Many in Libya's east boycotted embed video the election, protesting the After a national election marred allocation of seats in the new by violence and boycotts, vote General National Conference, the counting is now underway in interim parliament. Libya. The election marks the But Libya is likely to be caught beginning of a new, weak Libya, in a swamp of chaotic infighting political analyst Richard Spencer regardless of the result, Richard told RT. Spencer, a founder and co-editor -Official results for the historic o f t h e o n l i n e m a g a z i n e parliamentary election are not alternativeright.com, told RT. expected to be released for about RT: When this revolution began, a week, but the country's liberal this election could only be Islamic coalition has already dreamed of. Is this the beginning c l a i m e d a n o v e r a l l l e a d , of a new Libya? contradicting predictions that Richard Spencer: Well, Im hardline Islamist parties would afraid it is a beginning of a new sweep the poll. Libya. And that is a Libya that is "Early reports show that the weak, that is marred by chaotic coalition is leading the polls in the infighting, and sometimes with majority of constituencies," Faisal t r i b a l l o y a l t i e s e x p r e s s i n g
themselves in the democratic process. And it is a Libya that no longer has a strong man who in his own small way was actually willing to challenge the Washington consensus. So there is going to be a new Libya, its going to be a weak Libya. And that is what the United States wanted. Its a kind of divide and rule strategy. You know, a decade ago we had Saddam Hussein as a strong secular national leader. He was taken out. The people who were actually empowered by that were Shiite religious leaders. We look at Libya, we were working with Islamist rebels to attack Gaddafi. So, the United States is kind of willing to work with these thugs so long as some basic terms are maintained. And that is, A, that the oil must flow. And B, that it must be denominated in dollars. And, I guess, C, that you dont have anyone that is really going to challenge Washington. RT: Regardless of who wins,
what next? Armed gangs, loyal to local warlords, continue to do as they please. What could this new government achieve that the NTC could not? RS: I think we are going to have a democracy much like we have a democracy in Iraq or in Afghanistan. There are going to be very ineffective leaders. There are a lot of things that we Westerners do not understand about these countries, that we try to reengineer. These tribal loyalties, religious divisions, etc. are going to affect the political process. And it is going to be an ineffective, powerless regime. But again, that seem to be the main point of the invasion. I dont think that we should fool ourselves that Washington attacked Libya and installed the democracy in order to do the Libyan people and the world a favor. They wanted to weaken Libya and the wanted to take out a man who was challenging the Washington consensus. RT: Many of those who were
against these elections are coming from the Eastern part of Libya. If they are supported and actually turn against a supposedly unified government, do you think that perhaps they could pursue independence? RS: Theres a possibility that we would have created a civil war by taking out a strongman. But again, I think a more likely scenario is that Libya is going to be caught in this swamp of chaotic infighting democracy, and it is just going to simply be a weak country where there is no really effective leadership. Maybe even a little bit like Lebanon, where you just have these ethnic religious disputes that are never resolved. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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Ernest Borgnine dies at 95; won Oscar for 'Marty,' showed comic side in sitcom - Los Angeles Times
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Ernest Borgnine seemed born to play the heavy when he burst onto the Hollywood scene as "Fatso" Judson, a sadistic stockade sergeant who viciously beats a private to death in the 1953 movie "From Here to Eternity." But two years later came the title role in "Marty," where the stocky, gap-toothed Borgnine defied typecasting and earned recognition as a versatile actor by inhabiting the part of a lonely Bronx butcher looking for love. He went on to a prolific sevendecade career in film and television, moving easily from scoundrels and serious portrayals to a comedic role on the 1960s TV sitcom "McHale's Navy" and a spate of grandfatherly parts. Borgnine, who won an Academy Award for his performance in "Marty," died Sunday of apparent kidney failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said his longtime publicist, Harry Flynn. He was 95. The role opposite Frank Sinatra in "From Here to Eternity," based on James Jones' acclaimed novel depicting Army life in Hawaii before the attack on Pearl Harbor,
moved Borgnine into the top echelon of movie villains in films such as "Vera Cruz" and "Bad Day at Black Rock." He left expectations behind in"Marty," the 1955 film version of Paddy Chayefsky's original TV play about a sensitive Italian American bachelor butcher who longs for more than simply hanging out with his pals on Saturday night. "Well, waddaya feel like doing tonight?" Marty's best friend, Angie, played by Joe Mantell, asks in the movie's often-quoted exchange. "I don't know, Ang', wadda you feel like doing?" Marty replies. Borgnine's sensitive portrayal of the self-described "fat ugly man" not only earned him an Oscar for best actor, but the movie also won Academy Awards for Chayefsky and director Delbert Mann, as well as the best picture Oscar. In a film career that began in 1951, Borgnine appeared in more than 115 movies, including "Johnny Guitar," "Demetrius and the Gladiators," "The Flight of the Phoenix," "The Oscar," "The Dirty Dozen," "The Wild Bunch," "Willard," "The Poseidon Adventure" and "Emperor of the North."
From 1962 to 1966, he played the title role in the ABC sitcom "McHale's Navy." As the regulation-breaking commander of a PT boat in the South Pacific during World War II, Borgnine was pitted against the constantly frustrated Capt. Binghamton (played by Joe Flynn). Tim Conway played McHale's bumbling sidekick, Ensign Charles Parker. Born Ermes Effron Borgnino in Hamden, Conn., on Jan. 24, 1917, Borgnine was the son of Italian immigrants. His parents separated when he was 2, and his mother took him to live in Italy, returning after a few years. Borgnine graduated from New Haven High School in 1935, then worked a few weeks as a vegetable truck driver before enlisting in the Navy as an apprentice seaman. He was discharged two months before the attack on Pearl Harbor and promptly reenlisted. He spent the war as a gunner's mate on a destroyer. After his discharge, Borgnine returned home, unsure of what he was going to do. Finally, his mother suggested he give acting a shot. After all, she told him, "You're always making
a fool of yourself in front of people." After six months of study at the Randall School of Dramatic Art in Hartford, Conn., on the GI Bill, Borgnine got a job at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Va., working behind the scenes before finally landing a $30-a-week acting spot in the theater's road company. "We kept 14 shows in our heads all the time," he told Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper in 1956. "We'd go from 'John Loves Mary' to 'Much Ado About Nothing' what training! Dramatic school is OK, but the road is where you learn." He continued his acting apprenticeship over the next four years, including making his Broadway debut playing the hospital attendant in "Harvey." More stage work followed, supplemented by television appearances, including playing a villain on the science fiction series "Captain Video and His Video Rangers." Borgnine made his motion picture debut in 1951, appearing in three films: "China Corsair," "The Whistle at Eaton Falls" and "The Mob." But he was unemployed in New York when
the call came to play his next film role: Fatso Judson in "From Here to Eternity." Borgnine made a convincingly menacing Fatso so much so that when young Frank Sinatra Jr. saw the movie for the first time, Borgnine later told The Times, "He looked at it and said, 'Dad, when I meet that man, I am going to kill him.' And his father said, 'No. When you meet that man, you put your arms around him and kiss him. He helped me win an Academy Award!' " Borgnine was on location in Lone Pine, Calif., playing another menacing heavy, this time in "Bad Day at Black Rock," when director Mann and writer Chayefsky flew up to have him read for the lead in "Marty." As Borgnine recalled during a panel discussion at the Lone Pine Film Festival in 1999, he met with Mann and Chayefsky in his hotel room. "The very first thing when we started reading, Paddy Chayefsky said, 'Hold it! Hold it!' I said, 'What's the matter?' He said, 'You're doing it with a western twang.' 'OK,' I said, 'wait a minute.' I threw off my hat, ERNEST page 8
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Election Results in Libya Break an Islamist Wave - New York Times

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Tomas Munita for The New York Times Election workers organized ballot boxes in a warehouse at the army headquarters in Benghazi, Libya, on Sunday. TRIPOLI, Libya A coalition led by a Western-educated political scientist appeared on Sunday to be beating its Islamist rivals in Libyas first election after Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, breaking an Islamist wave that swept across neighboring Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco in the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings. Volunteer election workers counted ballots late Saturday night at a polling station in Benghazi. The preliminary results, characterized by independent monitors and party representatives who witnessed the vote count for a new national assembly, reflect in part the well-known name and tribal connections of the coalitions founder, Mahmoud Jibril. He is the former interim prime minister who helped lead the de facto rebel government in Benghazi, and he is also a member of Libyas most populous tribe, the Warfalla.
The apparent success of Mr. Jibrils party over the Muslim Brotherhoods bloc makes him perhaps the most important voice in the next stage of Libyas transition, though he is barred for now from elected office. In a campaign that took place
over just two weeks, after a 40year stretch in which Colonel Qaddafi crushed any dissent or even political organizaing, the ideological lines for Libyan voters remained fuzzy, at best. Many voters acknowledged plans to let tribal, family or community ties
guide their vote. The Islamists, in contrast, sought to portray Mr. Jibrils coalition as liberal or secular and some who stood with him acknowledged privately that for them those terms were apt. Still, unlike opponents of
Islamists in other Arab countries, Mr. Jibril never hurled accusations of extremism against those who called for the application of Islamic law. Like the other major factions here, ELECTION page 5
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Obama Poised for New Fight With GOP Over Tax Cuts - New York Times
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Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press President Obama returning from Camp David, Md., on Sunday. A Rose Garden ceremony for his tax plan was set for Monday. WASHINGTON With a torpid job market and a fragile economy threatening his reelection chances, President Obama is changing the subject to tax fairness, calling for a one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for people making less than $250,000. Mr. Obama plans to make his announcement in the Rose Garden on Monday, senior administration officials said. The ceremony comes as Congress returns from its Independence Day recess, and as both parties and their presidential candidates head into the rest of the summer trying to seize the upper hand in a campaign that has been closely matched and stubbornly static. House Republicans plan to vote this month to extend permanently all of the Bush tax cuts, for middle- and upper-income people. The presidents proposal could also put him at odds with Democratic leaders like Representative Nancy Pelosi of
California and Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, who have advocated extending the cuts for everyone who earns up to $1 million. And it will most likely do little to break the deadlock in Washington over how to deal with fiscal deficits, an impasse that has only hardened as Republicans
sense a chance to make gains in Congress this fall. But by calling for an extension for just a year, Mr. Obama hopes to make Republicans look obstructionist and unreasonable. Trying to bounce back from another weak jobs report on Friday, he also hopes to deepen
the contrast with his challenger, Mitt Romney. On Friday, the president said Mr. Romney would give $5 trillion of new tax cuts on top of the Bush tax cuts, most of them going to the wealthiest Americans. From their stronghold in the House, Republicans plan to vote
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including the Islamist parties, Mr. Jibril pledged to make Islamic law a main source of legislation, though not the only one. He and his allies publicly echoed a frequent refrain of Libyan voters who were unsure what to make of re-emergent groups like the Muslim Brotherhood: Do they think they are more Muslim than we are? A political scientist who earned his doctoral degree at the University of Pittsburgh and taught there as well, Mr. Jibril said in a recent interview on Libyan television that friends and neighbors anywhere he has lived would describe him as someone who goes to the mosque for Friday prayers, and we see that he prays. The Libyan people dont need either liberalism or secularism, or pretenses in the name of Islam, because Islam, this great religion, cannot be used for political purposes, he said. Islam is much bigger than that. Jibril is praying five times a day and fasting, so what is the difference? asked Suleiman Zoubi, a former judge and political independent in the eastern city of Benghazi who appeared set to win a seat in the congress. Ali Tarhouni, the leader of a fledgling party in Mr. Jibrils coalition and another former minister in the transitional government, called the results evidence of Libyans moderate character. But he also attributed their success to familiarity. People trust us, he said.
Coming out of a war, with a political vacuum and a security vacuum, people were looking for those they knew were tested in the tough times. Official results will not be released for several days. The votes were counted Saturday night in each polling center in the presence of party and candidate representatives, as well as independent observers. Both Islamists and their opponents said Sunday that Mr. Jibrils coalition was headed for at least a plurality of the planned congress. It is expected to govern Libya for 18 months and possibly oversee the writing of a constitution. Some leading Islamists had predicted as recently as a few days ago that their parties would win as much as 60 percent of the seats. But on Sunday, Hisham Kreskshi, a leader of the party founded by Libyas Muslim Brotherhood, said it now expected to win less than a quarter of the 200 seats. He said the Brotherhoods party was not disappointed by its own results, but it was unhappy with the dominance of Mr. Jibrils coalition. We were disappointed that there was nobody else but him and us, disappointed with the other parties we might have had a coalition with. A loosely Islamic party, one founded by Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a former leader of an armed insurgency here who became the head of Tripolis military council, also fell short in the voting, attracting even less support than
the Brotherhoods bloc. Although Mr. Jibrils previous interim role barred him from running for the planned national congress, his name appeared larger than that of his party or its candidates on campaign posters. In interviews in several parts of the country in recent days, a plurality of voters volunteered that they planned to vote for Mr. Jibril, even though his name was not on any ballot. Mr. Jibrils tribe, the Warfalla, includes perhaps a million of Libyas roughly 6 million citizens. The tribes homeland is in the western city of Bani Walid, but there are large numbers of its members in the major cities of Tripoli and Benghazi as well. His victory would complete a comeback for a leader who was pushed from office under pressure from rebels after the capture and killing of Colonel Qaddafi. They said Mr. Jibril spent too much time in Western capitals and neglected domestic needs in rebelcontrolled territory. But Mr. Jibril pivoted out at a propitious time. Celebrated during the fighting as the embryo of a new Libya, the self-appointed Transitional National Council lost much of its popularity after the fall of Colonel Qaddafi. The council failed to control the squabbling militias that took over the country, and at times bowed to their demands for top posts or other patronage. Among Mr. Jibrils most vocal opponents were the militia leaders from Misurata who emerged as a
powerful force in the interim government because of their aggression in the fight against Colonel Qaddafi. The Misurata tribe has a rivalry going back generations with Mr. Jibrils Warfalla tribe, who killed a hero from Misurata during the preWorld War II fighting against the Italian occupation of Libya. No one expects the vote to end such resentments. Reports from Misurata on Sunday indicated that it was one of the few major cities to reject Mr. Jibrils party. Instead, early results indicated that the city had favored a party founded by Abdurrahman Sewehli, a descendant of that slain hero. Of 200 seats in the planned national assembly, about 80 will be allocated to a competition between the party lists, mainly in the major cities. The other 120 seats will be decided by races between individual candidates. But the Islamists conceded Sunday that they did not expect to dominate those seats, either. Repressed with exceptional cruelty by Colonel Qaddafi, Libyas Islamists never developed the preaching and charitable networks that gave them a leg up over liberals in Tunisia or Egypt, to say nothing of the political expertise. As recently as a few weeks ago, Muslim Brotherhood fliers introduced the organization on the streets of Darnah with the slogan, You have heard of us now hear from us! But at the same time that he
demonized Islamists, Colonel Qaddafi muddied their identity as an opposition force by incorporating Islamic ideas and imagery into his own mythmaking. He banned alcohol and legalized polygamy, declaring Libya to be already in some senses an Islamic state. Tellingly, Islamists lost out even in Darnah, an eastern city that is considered their stronghold, said Abdel Hakim el-Hasadi, a former Islamist fighter who is now a leading politician there. But he said Mr. Jibril had called him two days before the vote to seek his support, and they now planned to meet in the capital. If we take Jibril at his word, this is 100 percent good, Mr. Hasadi said. Suliman Ali Zway contributed reporting. A version of this article appeared in print on July 9, 2012, on page A 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Libya Results Seen to Break Islamist Wave. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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Senate. Republicans also renewed their call for an overhaul of the tax code. You know, what we ought to be doing is extend the current tax rates for another year with a hard requirement to get through comprehensive tax reform one more time, the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said on Sunday on the CNN program State of the Union. The struggle to frame the tax debate comes as the campaign moves into a period, only four months before the election, when the perceptions of voters begin to harden. Polls show a persistently tight race, with Mr. Romney closing in on Mr. Obama in certain swing states but with neither candidate able to break out decisively. Control of Congress is also up for grabs, with Mr. McConnell saying on Sunday that he believed the Republicans had a 50-50 chance to regain control of the Senate. To find a compromise with Republicans on which Bush tax cuts to extend, Ms. Pelosi, the House minority leader, and Mr. Schumer, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, favor making $1 million the cutoff. Above that level, Mr. Schumer has said, people are not likely to spend the savings from lower taxes and help the economy. Administration officials said they did not believe that the difference [unable to retrieve full-text
between the White House and these Democratic leaders was a big obstacle. They said that whether to use $250,000 or $1 million as a cutoff was more a matter of strategy than a religious debate, in the words of one official, who added that many other Democrats favored $250,000. The White House hopes to squeeze maximum political mileage out of the Rose Garden event, surrounding Mr. Obama with families and workers who would benefit from the extension. On Tuesday, he will take his message to Iowa, the battleground state that turned him into a serious presidential contender in 2008. In Cedar Rapids, Mr. Obama plans to visit the home of Jason and Ali McLaughlin, a high school principal and an account manager at a document-scanning company, a campaign official said. The McLaughlin family, with a combined income of $82,000, would face an extra $2,000 burden next year if the tax cuts on the middle class expired as scheduled, the campaign said. White House officials insisted that Mondays move was more than politics. They said it would ease anxiety over the fiscal cliff the combination of tax increases and automatic spending cuts that are scheduled to kick in at the end of this year. That onetwo punch, economists say, could deal a heavy blow to an already content]
tender economy unless the White House and Congress work out some kind of compromise. Proposing a one-year extension, a senior official said, recognizes that Mr. Obama and the Republicans are not likely to resolve the larger debate over whether to permanently extend the Bush tax cuts for everyone or, as Mr. Obama has long advocated, just for the middle class. That debate is likely to be decided at the ballot box, where a victory by Mr. Romney would almost certainly enshrine all the tax cuts. To the degree that there is concern about the economy, were saying, Lets extend the middle class tax cuts for a year, said Gene B. Sperling, director of the White Houses National Economic Council. Economically, extending tax cuts to those workers will have the most effect on them and the strongest impact on the economy. A one-year extension for people making under $250,000 would cost the government $150 billion in revenue, the administration estimates, an amount that would be added to the deficit. In a point of comparison, economists estimate that letting the cuts expire for people above that threshold would generate $850 billion over 10 years. While Mr. Obama returns to the tax issue this week, House [unable to retrieve full-text
Republican leaders will press forward Wednesday with a vote to fully repeal his health care law, testing their faith that they can make the law part of their attack on Democratic economic policies against evidence that swing voters want to move past the fight. Just as Mr. Obama needs to worry about divisions on the tax bill, some Republicans are in disagreement over the wisdom of relitigating the health care law. Some Republicans, facing reelection in swing districts, are openly suggesting that some measures should remain. Representative David B. McKinley, a Republican freshman from West Virginia, said prohibitions on lifetime coverage caps and on discrimination against people with pre-existing medical conditions should absolutely stay in force, even if health care costs would have to rise. If it means increasing my premiums, so be it, he said. Thats what insurance is about. Mr. Romneys supporters on the Sunday talk shows hammered away at the idea that Mr. Obama is at fault for the poor economy. Representative Tom Price, Republican of Georgia, said Mr. Romney supported preserving all of the Bush-era cuts for another year because he believes that will stimulate the economy and provide certainty out there in the job market. For Mr. Obama, the biggest content]
advantage of the tax proposal may be simply to move the political discussion off the job market. On his bus tour through Ohio and Pennsylvania last week, the president took pains to present himself as a guardian of the middle class, whose most cherished childhood memories included raiding the ice machine at a Howard Johnson while on a Greyhound tour of the United States. On Friday, however, when the latest poor jobs number was reported, Mr. Obama was back to talking about the long road to recovery. Jonathan Weisman contributed reporting. A version of this article appeared in print on July 9, 2012, on page A 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Obama Poised For New Fight Over Tax Cuts. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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Obama team targets Romney over taxes, Republicans cry foul

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"I'd really like to see Mitt Romney release more than one year of tax records, because U.S. President Barack Obama there's been disturbing reports speaks at a campaign event at recently that he's got a Bermuda Carnegie Mellon University in corporation, a secretive Bermuda Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania July 6, corporation that no one knows 2012. Obama is on a two-day anything about, investments in the campaign bus tour of Ohio and Caymans, kind of Swiss bank Pennsylvania. account." Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque "Americans need to ask By Tabassum Zakaria themselves why does an WASHINGTON| Sun Jul 8, 2012 American businessman need a 6:46pm EDT Swiss bank account and secretive (Reuters) - President Barack investments like that?" Schultz Obama's campaign and top said. Democrats on Sunday called on Obama campaign adviser Robert Mitt Romney to release more Gibbs, on CNN's "State of the personal tax records and raised Union," called on Romney to questions about his offshore assets release years of back tax records that the Republican challenger's to allow scrutiny of his adherence campaign condemned as an to tax law. Asked whether " u n s e e m l y a n d d i s g u s t i n g " Romney had broken the law, character assault. Gibbs said, "Well, we don't Democrats and Republicans know." tussled over the economy, but it "The one thing he could do ... to was Romney's offshore assets that clear up whether or not he's done Democrats seized on during the anything illegal - whether he's Sunday talk shows in their quest shielding his income from taxes in to portray him as a wealthy man Bermuda or Switzerland - is to do out of touch with ordinary what every other presidential Americans. Romney faces Obama candidate's done, and that's to in the November 6 election and release a series of years of their polls indicate a close race. own tax returns," Gibbs said. Democratic National Committee "This is a guy whose slogan is: Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman 'Believe in America' - and it Schultz raised the issue on "Fox should be 'Business in Bermuda.' News Sunday" as her interview That's what Mitt Romney's all time ran out. about," Gibbs said.
Romney's campaign fought back. "The Obama campaign's latest unfounded character assault on Mitt Romney is unseemly and disgusting," said Andrea Saul, a Romney campaign spokeswoman. The Associated Press has reported that an offshore company based in Bermuda has helped bolster Romney's wealth even though it did not appear on his state or federal financial reports for 15 years. The Obama campaign released an online video on Sunday raising questions about Romney's offshore accounts. "Mitt Romney could be the first president in history to stash millions offshore so the American people deserve an explanation as to why he chose to invest in other countries known as tax havens rather than the United States," the campaign said in a statement. 'DISHONEST ATTACKS' Saul defended the Republican presidential challenger, saying, "Mitt Romney had a successful career in the private sector, pays every dime of taxes he owes, has given generously to charitable organizations, and served numerous causes greater than himself." "Barack Obama has become what he once ran against - a typical politician willing to use false and dishonest attacks to save his job
after failing to do his job," Saul said. Romney, a multi-millionaire former private equity executive, is one of the richest men ever to run for U.S. president. He has an estimated net worth of up to $250 million. Romney has released his 2010 returns and estimates for 2011 but has been reluctant to release more. In April, he requested an extension to file his 2011 tax forms while estimating his tax liability at $3.2 million for last year. Four months before the presidential election, Democrats are seeking to portray Romney as out of touch with the plight of Americans in a struggling economy, while Republicans point to Obama's policies as inadequate for strong economic growth. The latest data point in the political battle over which candidate is better for the U.S. economy was the June U.S. employment report on Friday that showed non-farm payrolls grew by 80,000 jobs and the unemployment rate stayed at 8.2 percent. Republicans said it showed Obama's policies were not invigorating the economy, while Democrats said it pointed to movement in the right direction.
"Clearly what they're doing is not working," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell told CNN's "State of the Union" program. He called Obama's job creation record "terrible." "People are unhappy with the economy. They know that Mitt Romney is a job creator," McConnell said. Gibbs said the employment report showed that the economy was growing. "We've made progress, but we've got a long way to go." Asked about the Obama campaign trying to define Romney as an outsourcer of jobs in a new ad, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus responded: "The only job that we need to make sure we outsource in this country is Barack Obama's job." He said on "Fox News Sunday" that "Barack Obama hasn't done anything in regard to what he promised he would do and making sure that we have a level playing field with China. He's in the sand box with China every day. He hasn't stood up to China." (Additional reporting by Paul Simao; Editing by Will Dunham) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it OBAMA page 8
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kicked off my boots and I went at it. "Paddy was reading all the other parts and Delbert was stretched across my bed, listening, and we came to the part where my mother says, 'Put on your blue suit or your gray suit and go down to the dance hall; there are a lot of tomatoes there.' And I said, 'Mom, you don't understand. I'm just an ugly, ugly man,' and I turned away and tears were coming out. "And I looked back and Paddy Chayefsky had tears in his eyes and Delbert was wiping tears from his face, and inwardly I said, 'I got it!'" "Marty" proved to be both an artistic and commercial success. Life magazine called Borgnine's characterization of the lonely butcher who falls in love with an equally plain and lonely schoolteacher (played by Betsy Blair) "one of the most successful pieces of movie casting so far this year." New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther wrote that Borgnine's Oscar-winning performance was "a beautiful blend of the crude and the strangely gentle and sensitive in a monosyllabic man." In the wake of "Marty," Borgnine played an Amish farmer in "Violent Saturday," a prizefight promoter in "The Square Jungle," a rancher in "Jubal" and a Bronx taxi driver (opposite Bette Davis) in "The Catered Affair." [unable to retrieve full-text
But he was soon back in front of the cameras playing another heavy, this time the villainous Norse chief in "The Vikings," a 1958 film co-starring Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis. "After 'From Here to Eternity,' I decided to steer away from heavies, but here I'm playing one again," he told The Times at the time. "I made the original decision after some young Bronx characters almost took me apart. 'You're the guy that killed Sinatra,' a group yelled at me one day in New York, and it looked bad until I spoke soothingly to them in Italian a language they understood. 'Fellows, it was just a picture,' I said. They were so intrigued that I spoke Italian, they let me go." Borgnine closed out the '60s with a memorable role in Sam Peckinpah's bloody 1969 western "The Wild Bunch" and later made numerous television guest shots as well as appearances in TV movies and miniseries. In the short-lived 1970 series "Future Cop," he starred with John Amos as veteran policemen whose new partner is a biosynthetic computerized android. And he played Jan-Michael Vincent's older war buddy, Dominic Santini, on "Airwolf," a mid-1980s CBS adventure series about a high-tech attack helicopter. content]
In 1995, Borgnine was back in series television playing a friendly, pasta-loving doorman on "The Single Guy," which ran for two seasons on NBC. He also was the longtime voice of Mermaid Man on the animated TV series "SpongeBob SquarePants." Off-screen, Borgnine has been described as soft-spoken and affable a simple, unassuming, average man. Beginning in the late 1980s, when he wasn't working, he traveled the country in a custommade bus dubbed the Sunbum. In 2001, at age 84, he had just completed his latest trip to Alaska. "I find it terribly relaxing," he told The Times in 1996. "It's like driving a big car. You see everything. The minute you get out of the cities, it's wonderful. You become part of America." When Borgnine received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2011, his career in front of the camera had spanned six decades. And at age 94, the venerable actor was still going strong. As he said in 2008 when he received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance as a retired song-and-dance man in the TV-movie "A Grandpa for Christmas": "You die on the vine if you just sit down in a chair and get old. The idea is to get up out of the chair and go out there and hustle."
Borgnine's final role came earlier this year in "The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez," as a retired radio DJ with an unfulfilled dream of stardom who winds up in a nursing home staffed by Latin American immigrants. Borgnine was married five times, including to actress Katy Jurado from 1959 to 1964, and briefly to Broadway musical star Ethel Merman in 1964. In 1973 he married his Norwegian-born fifth wife, Tova, who became head of her own cosmetics company. Besides his wife, he is survived by his children Nancee, Cristofer and Sharon Borgnine and David Johnson; six grandchildren; and a sister, Evelyn Velardi. Services will be private. Times staff writer Kate Mather contributed to this report. dennis.mclellan@latimes.com This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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By Mark John and Hadeel Al Shalchi TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI| Sun Jul 8, 2012 10:24pm EDT (Reuters) - Libya's wartime rebel prime minister Mahmoud Jibril called for the some 150 political parties in the North African nation to back the creation of a grand coalition government, as election results were due to come in on Monday. The call came as Libyans celebrated Saturday's largely peaceful national assembly election, the first free national poll in Libya after 42 years of Muammar Gaddafi which went ahead despite widespread fears of violence. First official results were due on Monday and Jibril declined comment on speculation his own National Forces Alliance (NFA) of around 60 parties was leading Islamic groups including the political wing of Libya's Muslim Brotherhood. "We extend an honest call for a national dialogue to come altogether in one coalition, under one banner ... This is an honest and sincere call for all political parties operating today in Libya,"
Jibril said. "In yesterday's election there was no loser or winner ... Whoever wins, Libya is the real winner," he told a late-night news conference on Sunday. Jibril is a fluent English-speaker who was the main point man of the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) with Western backers including France, Britain and the United States. He rejected descriptions of the NFA as secular and liberal, saying a commitment to tenets of Islamic law was among its core principles - a comment which could facilitate efforts to form ties with more overtly Islamist parties. No comment was immediately available from leading groups such as the Justice and Construction Party, the political branch of the Libyan counterpart of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. Al-Watan, an Islamist group led by former rebel militia leader Abdel Hakim Belhadj, said it would study the call on Monday. If such a grand coalition were formed it would inevitably dominate the new 200-head assembly for which Libyans voted on Saturday and whose tasks include naming a prime minister and cabinet to serve before full parliamentary polls due in 2013.
Nearly 1.8 million of 2.8 million registered voters cast their ballots, a turnout of around 65 percent. Two deaths were reported as protesters in eastern Libya sought to disrupt the vote they see as a power grab by Tripoli and the west region. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Kimoon nonetheless hailed the "peaceful, democratic spirit" of the vote and U.S. President Barack Obama said he looked forward to working with the new Libyan leadership. However the storming of four voting centers by protesters in Benghazi, cradle of last year's uprising, underlined that eastern demands ranging from greater political representation for the region to all-out federalism will not go away. Local gunmen demonstrated their grip on the eastern oil terminals from which the bulk of Libya's oil exports flow by blocking three main ports a day before the vote. The National Oil Corporation confirmed on Sunday that activities were back to normal after a 48-hour stoppage. Many easterners are furious that their region, one of three in Libya, was only allotted 60 seats in the new assembly compared to 102 for the western region.
"There should be a serious dialogue (with the east). As there is a sincere wish on their part and on our part I think we can reach a compromise," said Jibril, who declined to specify what role he saw for himself in Libyan politics. Analysts say one of Libya's priorities is to address the eastern grievances in the drafting of a new constitution, even if a move to all-out federalism is unlikely. "The government recognizes there is an overall unhappiness in the east and they are willing to address that issue. It will probably be termed more as decentralization," said Claudia Gazzini of the International Crisis Group. (Additional reporting by MarieLouise Gumuchian and Ali Shuaib in Tripoli and Taha Zargoun in Sirte; Writing by Mark John; Editing by Anna Willard, Philippa Fletcher and Robin Pomeroy) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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Annan arrives in Damascus, Syria tests missiles

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capital, where U.N. observers have been staying since suspending their patrols because By Oliver Holmes of an increase in the level of BEIRUT| Sun Jul 8, 2012 8:33pm violence. EDT U.S. Secretary of State Hillary (Reuters) - Kofi Annan is due to Clinton said on Sunday that hold talks on Monday with Syrian Syrian opposition forces were President Bashar al-Assad, who growing more effective and the said U.S. political support for sooner the violence ended, the "terrorists" was hindering the better were the chances of sparing peace envoy's plan to end 16 S y r i a ' s g o v e r n m e n t a months of bloodshed. "catastrophic assault" by rebel Assad also accused Saudi Arabia, fighters. Qatar and Turkey of supplying the While Assad has faced sanctions rebels trying to overthrow him and international condemnation with arms and other support. over his crackdown on dissent, "We know that (Annan) is coming major Western and Arab powers up against countless obstacles but have shied away from direct his plan should not be allowed to military action. fail, it is a very good plan," Assad Turkey has reinforced its border told German television channel and scrambled fighter aircraft Das Erste. several times since Syria shot "The biggest obstacle is that many down a Turkish reconnaissance jet countries do not even want this on June 22 over what Damascus plan to succeed so they offer said were Syrian territorial waters political support and continue to in the Mediterranean. Ankara said provide the terrorists in Syria with t h e i n c i d e n t o c c u r r e d i n arms and money," Assad said, i n t e r n a t i o n a l a i r s p a c e . according to a transcript in "SAND IS RUNNING OUT" G e r m a n o f t h e i n t e r v i e w "The sooner there can be an end conducted in English on July 5. to the violence and a beginning of Annan arrived on Sunday at the a political transition process, not Dama Rose hotel in the Syrian only will fewer people die, but
there is a chance to save the Syrian state from a catastrophic assault that would be very dangerous not only to Syria but to the region," Clinton told a Tokyo news conference. She appeared to be referring to the possibility of Syrian rebels launching such an assault on state institutions rather than to any outside intervention. "There is no doubt that the opposition is getting more effective in their defense of themselves and in going on the offence against the Syrian military and the Syrian government's militias. So, the future ... should be abundantly clear to those who support the Assad regime," Clinton added. "The sand is running out of the hour glass." Syria's navy fired live missiles from ships and helicopters over the weekend, in an exercise aiming at demonstrating its ability to "defend Syria's shores against any possible aggression", state media said. More than 30 people were killed on Sunday during a government bombardment and clashes between Syrian forces and Free
Syrian Army rebels fighting to oust Assad, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Rami Abdelrahman, head of the Observatory, said residents of alSharifa in the wider Deir al-Zor province were reporting that rebels had for the first time taken over a tank and were using it to attack army positions. The rebels have gained confidence in recent weeks, staging bolder attacks, holding pockets of territory across the country and clashing with troops only a few miles from the presidential palace in Damascus. (Additional reporting by Marwan Makdessi in Damascus and Arshad Mohammed in Tokyo, editing by Diana Abdallah) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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Heated dispute: ConEd lockout continues as the Big Apple bakes

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Gridlock has dogged talks between New York City electricity provider Consolidated Edison and its 8,500 locked out workers. It puts New Yorkers at risk of power outages as intense heat fries the Big Apple. -Consolidated Edison (known locally as Con Ed) bosses failed to come to a final agreement with workers at a mediation session held on Saturday. Representatives of the company met with the Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA) Local 1-2 at a hotel in Queens, and were only able to agree to hold another session Tuesday to seek a solution to the ongoing labor dispute. We've been open every day, union spokesman John Melia was quoted by the Daily Voice as saying. Nine million people are being held hostage by their unionbusting tactics. They could have employed a few chimpanzees to
do what they have done. They just sit there and nod their head. Con Ed locked out around 8,500 workers after negotiations over contract renewal failed on July 1. The electricity giant wants to scrap pension plans and replace them with less costly 401(k)-type savings plans. Benefits and wages are also at stake in the dispute. A series of talks then took place last week, with Con Ed saying it would rehire the workers as long as they guaranteed they would not strike. With such important issues at stake, however, the UWUA refused to provide such a promise. The workers have been temporarily replaced by some 5,000 managers and retirees. However, with a heat wave baking the New York area, the companys ability to deal with its regular projects and emergency situations appears to have been undermined. The company reduced voltage by over 5 per cent in a number of neighborhoods in Brooklyn and
the Bronx. The reasons for the reductions, termed a brownout, were to protect the overall system and maintain service as crews fixed the power lines feeding the neighborhoods. However, the UWUA says the reductions were a sign that Con Ed was facing increasing difficulty in dealing with the heat wave without its regular workers. If something goes wrong, Con Edison will not be able to respond in a timely manner, endangering all New Yorkers, Melia stated, as quoted by Reuters. Another issue is the capability of the temporary workers hired to replace the locked out employees. At least four such workers have been injured, with two suffering burns to their faces and hands. One worker, in Yonkers, was arrested for reporting a phony gas leak. Union workers have been pointing to the sheer lack of skills and proper education amongst the replacement workers. As the conflict drags into the
second week, New Yorkers are left guessing whether to expect blackouts, or whether the company could continue serving its clients under the strain of the heat. It remains unclear why the company, which in the words of company president Kevin Burke boasted an impressive $1.1 billion profit last year, decided to undergo the cuts to employee benefits that sparked the dispute. In any case, Con Ed increased executive pay by 82 per cent in 2010 to over $17 million for its top five executives. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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multiple domains and dozens of servers inside Syria, an Submitted at 7/8/2012 8:58:00 PM Anonymous press release states. A man holds a "Free Assange - T h e o p e r a t i o n w a s p a r t o f No Extradition" sign alongside a Anonymous anti-Assad Op Syria. protester wearing a Guy Fawkes Many hacktivists taking part in mask and holding a sign reading the operation were working inside "I'm Julian" as they demonstrate Syria. outside the Ecuadorian embassy The amount of data turned out to in London, on June 23, 2012, be so massive that downloading it where Wikileaks founder Julian required several weeks. While Assange is seeking political Anonymous published some easylum. (AFP Photo/Carl Court) mails from the personal accounts Anonymous and other hacktivists of President Bashar Assad and his say they were the group that wife Asma back in March, most provided WikiLeaks with the of the data were passed onto more than two million e-mails WikiLeaks, an organization that released as part of the Syria files. was supremely well equipped to This is not the first time that handle a disclosure of this Anonymous and WikiLeaks have magnitude. cooperated. In the meantime, WikiLeaks has -The statement comes days after continued to publicize more WikiLeaks began releasing c o m p r o m i s i n g e - m a i l sensitive e-mails on a drop-by- c o r r e s p o n d e n c e s . O n e s u c h d r o p b a s i s , w i t h n e w d a t a correspondence reveals that Lord published almost daily. Kenilworth, a noted British However, it has so far refrained landscape architect, worked on a from speaking about the sources new garden at the Assad family of the information. residence near the coastal Syrian It turns out that back in February, town of Lattakia. The e-mails Hacktivists from Anonymous appear to indicate that Assad still Syria, AntiSec and the Peoples owed Kenilworth money back in Liberation Army worked day and September, though the project had night to create a breach of already been completed.
Another batch of e-mails shows that Assad provided money to a female aide, a doctorate student at the University of Durham. E-mails released earlier also revealed that the PR firm Brown Lloyd James tried to help the regime polish up its image in order to win the media war, though it is unclear whether the Assad government had paid for the service. The publication of the Syria Files is not the first time that Anonymous and WikiLeaks have collaborated. Last December, Anonymous hacked five million e -mails from private security firm Stratfor. It apparently relayed those e-mails to WikiLeaks, which published them in February. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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shell corporation to dodge U.S. taxes and hide the extent of his Submitted at 7/8/2012 8:47:00 PM personal fortune. The Obama campaign doubled While the attacks are so far down on its attacks against Mitt unsubstantiated, the video does Romney's personal wealth today, raise three interesting questions releasing a new online video that that Romney has yet to answer slams the Republican presidential about his offshore holdings: candidate over his offshore Does the Romney family still financial holdings in known tax o w n t h e B e r m u d a n s h e l l havens. corporation in question, and if so The video, which features why won't Romney's campaign Obama's campaign press secretary admit it? Ben LaBolt, makes some pretty Why did Romney transfer bold claims, basically accusing ownership of this corporation to a Romney of using a Bermudan blind trust in his wife's name the
day before he was sworn in as governor? What taxes would Romney have paid if his money was invested in the U.S.?
charitable organizations, and served numerous causes greater than himself. Barack Obama has become what he once ran against a typical politician willing to use false and dishonest attacks to Watch the video below: save his job after failing to do his Romney campaign spokesperson j o b . T h e A m e r i c a n p e o p l e Andrea Saul emails this response: e x p e c t e d m o r e f r o m t h i s The Obama campaign's latest president, and he continues to let unfounded character assault on them down. Mitt Romney is unseemly and Please follow Politics on Twitter disgusting. Mitt Romney had a and Facebook. successful career in the private Join the conversation about this sector, pays every dime of taxes story he owes, has given generously to
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Goldman's Jan Hatzius Explains The 'Real Issue' With More Fed Easing
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From the latest note from Goldman's Jan Hatzius... The real issue, in our view, is that neither Twist 2 nor QE3 is likely to be very potent unless it is coupled with unconventional unconventional policies. Using our GS Financial Conditions Index, we showed recently that a program of a size similar to Twist 1 or QE2 should only be expected to boost real GDP growth by about pointhelpful but hardly equal to the task given the starting point. In contrast, our analysis last yearwhile highly simplifiedshowed that adoption of a nominal GDP level target could be much more effective because it would commit the Fed to open-ended accommodation, via both short-term interest rates and the balance sheet, until nominal spending had recovered a
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much bigger share of the lost ground. If firms and consumers built this commitment into their own expectations for future activity, prices, and interest rates, this expectations channel could provide a powerful boost to growth over and above the direct impact of the Feds interest rate or balance sheet policies themselves. However, we believe that unconventional unconventional easing remains unlikely for now. Such is the state of the Fed. The only thing that might work is an action far beyond what the existing Fed is willing to do right now. Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story
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Oscar-Winning Film Star Ernest Borgnine Dies at 95

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Oct. 11, 2010: Cast member Ernest Borgnine, right, and his wife, Tova, arrive at a special screening of the film "Red" in Los Angeles. AP LOS ANGELES Ernest Borgnine, the beefy screen star known for blustery, often villainous roles, but who won the best-actor Oscar for playing against type as a lovesick butcher in "Marty" in 1955, died Sunday. He was 95. His longtime spokesman, Harry Flynn, told The Associated Press that Borgnine died of renal failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with his wife and children at his side. Borgnine, who endeared himself to a generation of Baby Boomers with the 1960s TV comedy "McHale's Navy," first attracted notice in the early 1950s in villain roles, notably as the vicious Fatso Judson, who beat Frank Sinatra to death in "From Here to Eternity." Then came "Marty," a lowbudget film based on a Paddy Chayefsky television play that starred Rod Steiger. Borgnine played a 34-year-old who fears he is so unattractive he will never find romance. Then, at a dance, he
meets a girl with the same fear. "Sooner or later, there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts," Marty movingly tells his mother at one point in the film. "And one fact I gotta face is that, whatever it is that women like, I ain't got it. I chased after enough girls in my life. I-I went to enough dances. I
got hurt enough. I don't wanna get hurt no more." The realism of Chayefsky's prose and Delbert Mann's sensitive direction astonished audiences accustomed to happy Hollywood formulas. Borgnine won the Oscar and awards from the Cannes Film Festival, New York Critics and National Board of Review.
Mann and Chayefsky also won Oscars, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hailed the $360,000 "Marty" as best picture over big-budget contenders "The Rose Tattoo," "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing," "Picnic" and "Mister Roberts." "The Oscar made me a star, and
I'm grateful," Borgnine told an interviewer in 1966. "But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life." Those messes included four failed marriages, including one in 1964 to singer Ethel Merman that OSCAR-WINNING page 17
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States Fight 'Drug Tourists' Trafficking Painkillers

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Florida cared about was the money, he said. A diagnosis for severe pain was easy to obtain. LEBANON, Ohio As he sat in "It's all about cash, cash, cash," the doctor's office, ex-boxer and Dixon said during a prison w e i g h t l i f t e r G e r a l d D i x o n interview in April with The explained that years of sports had Associated Press. "You go, you left him in pain, especially his pay the money, and they're going hands, and he was looking for to come back and say, 'Yeah, relief. you're right, you was hurt.'" After a cursory examination at Prescription tourists thwart local the clinic in West Palm Beach, efforts to combat the illegal sale F l a . , D i x o n l e f t w i t h a of painkillers and to treat addicts prescription for 180 doses of by bringing huge volumes of OxyContin and a plan to return drugs in from outside. Cracking to his Ohio home and sell them on down on the trade also requires the street. complicated prosecutions crossing The trips made by Dixon and multiple state lines. others like him authorities dub These tourists are based in a them "prescription" or "drug" variety of states, but investigators tourists have complicated the in Kentucky, Ohio and West challenges investigators face Virginia where authorities trying to stem the flow of have already cracked down on painkillers, whose prevalence local pill mills are among the have made drug overdoses the busiest trying to track trips to leading cause of accidental death Florida, Georgia and elsewhere. in dozens of states including The lucrative business involves Ohio, Florida, Kentucky and d r u g d e a l e r s d i s p a t c h i n g Utah, surpassing car crashes. underlings like Dixon to states Dixon, 52, a drug dealer for most with numerous pill mills where of his adult life, had recently they load up on painkillers, then discovered a new angle on an old return to sell the drugs to addicts profession. By driving to Florida willing to pay as much as $100 a just once a month and acquiring a pill, or as much as 10 times the bagful of pain pills legally and drugstore price. illegally he could earn tens of Florida for years was a popular thousands of dollars. destination because of its virtually The only thing the medical unregulated pain clinic industry, clinics that Dixon visited in which provided easy access to
thousands of painkillers marketed under names like OxyContin, Vicodin and Percocet. As Florida cracks down on its pill mills, the clinics have migrated to states like Georgia, which had practically none three years ago and now has as many as 150, said Richard Allen, director of the Georgia Drugs and Narcotics Agency. Runners another term for people like Dixon or addicts sent to buy pills and take them home are coming from as close as Kentucky and Tennessee and as far away as Arizona and Nebraska, Allen said. "They're like a swarm of locusts," he said. "Once they have a scrip, they'll hit every pharmacy in the state trying to get them filled." In eastern Kentucky, several residents arrested in 2009 in a massive drug sweep had visited the Lauderhill Medical Clinic in Oakland Park, Fla. U.S. Attorney Kerry Harvey estimates that nine of every 10 patients at the clinic are from Kentucky. He prosecutes about five dozen cases a year involving prescription drugs. At West Virginia's Huntington Tri-State Airport, authorities have dubbed low-cost flights to Florida aboard Allegiant Air the OxyExpress. The airline isn't accused of wrongdoing, and spokeswoman Jessica Wheeler
says it hasn't been approached by authorities. In Tennessee, strict laws governing pain clinics force drug dealers out of state for supplies, using Interstate 75 to bring pills back from Florida or move them farther north, said Kristin Helm, spokeswoman for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Ohio has prosecuted several prescription tourists in recent months, with a federal judge in December sentencing Christopher Thompson of suburban Columbus to 15 years in prison for leading a scheme involving more than a dozen other people who traveled from Ohio to Florida, obtained and filled prescriptions for oxycodone and other drugs, and mailed the pills back to central Ohio for illegal distribution. "The effect is the same effect as if they were coming out of our own pain clinics," said Aaron Haslam, who directs Ohio's anti-painkiller abuse efforts in the state's attorney general's office. "We have overdoses all over the state of Ohio because of it." Defendants in one southern Ohio case brought back drugs worth $50,000 on the street in one trip, Haslam said. Authorities have fought back with extensive crackdowns in Florida against pill mills and with prosecutions in states like
Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia of both drug tourists and the Florida doctors who wrote prescriptions. State medical boards also regularly discipline or revoke the licenses of doctors who overprescribe painkillers. Florida is finally seeing a drop in pill mills and doctors prescribing painkillers after enacting a 2011 law toughening penalties against doctors and clinics engaged in prescription drug trafficking. Still, such a stance has consequences. A group sued the state in 2010 over the pill mill crackdown. One of the doctors, Paul Sloan, owner of Florida pain management clinics in Fort Myers and Sarasota, says that there's no question that some doctors and clinic owners were doing bad things, but that the state has overreacted. "We're dealing with a war on legitimate medications that's being dealt with like we're all cartels and drug lords," he said. Doctors in that lawsuit defended disbursing prescriptions to patients who paid cash, saying uninsured patients with chronic pain relied on pain pills for relief because they often couldn't afford more expensive procedures or services. Posing as such a patient can serve STATES page 22
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lasted less than six weeks. But Borgnine's fifth marriage, in 1973 to Norwegian-born Tova Traesnaes, endured and brought with it an interesting business partnership. She manufactured and sold her own beauty products under the name of Tova and used her husband's rejuvenated face in her ads. During a 2007 interview with The Associated Press, Borgnine expressed delight that their union had reached 34 years. "That's longer than the total of my four other marriages," he commented, laughing heartily. Although still not a marquee star until after "Marty," the roles of heavies started coming regularly after "From Here to Eternity." Among the films: "Bad Day at Black Rock," "Johnny Guitar," "Demetrius and the Gladiators," "Vera Cruz." Director Nick Ray advised the actor: "Get out of Hollywood in two years or you'll be typed forever." Then came the Oscar, and Borgnine's career was assured. He played a sensitive role opposite Bette Davis in another film based on a Chayefsky TV drama, "The Catered Affair," a film that was a personal favorite. It concerned a New York taxi driver and his wife who argued over the expense of their daughter's wedding. But producers also continued casting Borgnine in action films
such as "Three Bad Men," "The Vikings," "Torpedo Run," "Barabbas," "The Dirty Dozen" and "The Wild Bunch." Then he successfully made the transition to TV comedy. From 1962 to 1966, Borgnine -- a Navy vet himself -- starred in "McHale's Navy" as the commander of a World War II PT boat with a crew of misfits and malcontents. Obviously patterned after Phil Silvers' popular Sgt. Bilko, McHale was a con artist forever tricking his superior, Capt. Binghamton, played by the late Joe Flynn. The cast took the show to the big screen in 1964 with a "McHale's Navy" movie. Borgnine's later films included "Ice Station Zebra," "The Adventurers," "Willard," "The Poseidon Adventure," "The Greatest" (as Muhammad Ali's manager), "Convoy," "Ravagers," "Escape from New York," "Moving Target" and "Mistress." More recently, Borgnine had a recurring role as the apartment house doorman-cum-chef in the NBC sitcom "The Single Guy." He had a small role in the unsuccessful 1997 movie version of "McHale's Navy." And he was the voice of Mermaid Man on "SpongeBob SquarePants" and Carface on "All Dogs Go to Heaven 2." "I don't care whether a role is 10 minutes long or two hours," he remarked in 1973. "And I don't
care whether my name is up there on top, either. Matter of fact, I'd rather have someone else get top billing; then if the picture bombs, he gets the blame, not me." Ermes Efron Borgnino was born in Hamden, Conn., on Jan. 24, 1917, the son of Italian immigrant parents. The family lived in Milan when the boy was 2 to 7, then returned to Connecticut, where he attended school in New Haven. Borgnine joined the Navy in 1935 and served on a destroyer during World War II. He weighed 135 pounds when he enlisted. He left the Navy 10 years later, weighing exactly 100 pounds more. "I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything," he said in 1956. "The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends." For a time he contemplated taking a job with an air conditioning company. But his mother persuaded him to enroll at the Randall School of Dramatic Arts in Hartford. He stayed four months, the only formal training he received. He appeared in repertory at the Barter Theater in Virginia, toured as a hospital attendant in "Harvey" and played a villain on TV's "Captain Video." After earning $2,300 in 1951, Borgnine almost accepted a position with an electrical company. But the job fell through,
and he returned to acting, moving into a modest house in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. His first marriage was to Rhoda Kenins, whom he met when she was a Navy pharmacist's mate and he was a patient. They had a daughter, but the marriage ended in divorce after his "Marty" stardom. Borgnine married Mexican actress Katy Jurado in 1959, and their marriage resulted in headlined squabbles from Hollywood to Rome before it ended in 1964. In 1963, he and Merman startled the show business world by announcing, after a month's acquaintance, that they would marry when his divorce from Jurado became final. The Broadway singing star and the movie tough guy seemed to have nothing in common, and their marriage ended in 38 days after a fierce battle. "If you blinked, you missed it," Merman once cracked. Next came one-time child actress Donna Rancourt, with whom Borgnine had a daughter, and finally his happy union with Tova. On Jan. 24, 2007, Borgnine celebrated his 90th birthday with a party for friends and family at a West Hollywood bistro. He seemed little changed from his years as a lusty villain or sympathetic hero on the screen. His only concession to age had come at 88 when he gave up
driving the bus he would take around the country, stopping to talk with local folks along the way. During an interview at the time, Borgnine complained that he wanted to continue acting but most studio executives kept asking, "Is he still alive?" "I just want to do more work," he said. "Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going." Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Share This Article Newsletter Signup Sign up for free e-mail news alerts from FoxNews.com and FoxBusiness.com. Newsletter Signup This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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"I'd really like to see Mitt Romney release more than one year of tax records, because U.S. President Barack Obama there's been disturbing reports speaks at a campaign event at recently that he's got a Bermuda Carnegie Mellon University in corporation, a secretive Bermuda Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania July 6, corporation that no one knows 2012. Obama is on a two-day anything about, investments in the campaign bus tour of Ohio and Caymans, kind of Swiss bank Pennsylvania. account." Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque "Americans need to ask By Tabassum Zakaria themselves why does an WASHINGTON| Sun Jul 8, 2012 American businessman need a 6:46pm EDT Swiss bank account and secretive (Reuters) - President Barack investments like that?" Schultz Obama's campaign and top said. Democrats on Sunday called on Obama campaign adviser Robert Mitt Romney to release more Gibbs, on CNN's "State of the personal tax records and raised Union," called on Romney to questions about his offshore assets release years of back tax records that the Republican challenger's to allow scrutiny of his adherence campaign condemned as an to tax law. Asked whether " u n s e e m l y a n d d i s g u s t i n g " Romney had broken the law, character assault. Gibbs said, "Well, we don't Democrats and Republicans know." tussled over the economy, but it "The one thing he could do ... to was Romney's offshore assets that clear up whether or not he's done Democrats seized on during the anything illegal - whether he's Sunday talk shows in their quest shielding his income from taxes in to portray him as a wealthy man Bermuda or Switzerland - is to do out of touch with ordinary what every other presidential Americans. Romney faces Obama candidate's done, and that's to in the November 6 election and release a series of years of their polls indicate a close race. own tax returns," Gibbs said. Democratic National Committee "This is a guy whose slogan is: Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman 'Believe in America' - and it Schultz raised the issue on "Fox should be 'Business in Bermuda.' News Sunday" as her interview That's what Mitt Romney's all time ran out. about," Gibbs said.
Romney's campaign fought back. "The Obama campaign's latest unfounded character assault on Mitt Romney is unseemly and disgusting," said Andrea Saul, a Romney campaign spokeswoman. The Associated Press has reported that an offshore company based in Bermuda has helped bolster Romney's wealth even though it did not appear on his state or federal financial reports for 15 years. The Obama campaign released an online video on Sunday raising questions about Romney's offshore accounts. "Mitt Romney could be the first president in history to stash millions offshore so the American people deserve an explanation as to why he chose to invest in other countries known as tax havens rather than the United States," the campaign said in a statement. 'DISHONEST ATTACKS' Saul defended the Republican presidential challenger, saying, "Mitt Romney had a successful career in the private sector, pays every dime of taxes he owes, has given generously to charitable organizations, and served numerous causes greater than himself." "Barack Obama has become what he once ran against - a typical politician willing to use false and dishonest attacks to save his job
after failing to do his job," Saul said. Romney, a multi-millionaire former private equity executive, is one of the richest men ever to run for U.S. president. He has an estimated net worth of up to $250 million. Romney has released his 2010 returns and estimates for 2011 but has been reluctant to release more. In April, he requested an extension to file his 2011 tax forms while estimating his tax liability at $3.2 million for last year. Four months before the presidential election, Democrats are seeking to portray Romney as out of touch with the plight of Americans in a struggling economy, while Republicans point to Obama's policies as inadequate for strong economic growth. The latest data point in the political battle over which candidate is better for the U.S. economy was the June U.S. employment report on Friday that showed non-farm payrolls grew by 80,000 jobs and the unemployment rate stayed at 8.2 percent. Republicans said it showed Obama's policies were not invigorating the economy, while Democrats said it pointed to movement in the right direction.
"Clearly what they're doing is not working," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell told CNN's "State of the Union" program. He called Obama's job creation record "terrible." "People are unhappy with the economy. They know that Mitt Romney is a job creator," McConnell said. Gibbs said the employment report showed that the economy was growing. "We've made progress, but we've got a long way to go." Asked about the Obama campaign trying to define Romney as an outsourcer of jobs in a new ad, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus responded: "The only job that we need to make sure we outsource in this country is Barack Obama's job." He said on "Fox News Sunday" that "Barack Obama hasn't done anything in regard to what he promised he would do and making sure that we have a level playing field with China. He's in the sand box with China every day. He hasn't stood up to China." (Additional reporting by Paul Simao; Editing by Will Dunham) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it OBAMA page 20
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Libya's Jibril calls for grand coalition

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By Mark John and Hadeel Al Shalchi TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI| Sun Jul 8, 2012 10:24pm EDT (Reuters) - Libya's wartime rebel prime minister Mahmoud Jibril called for the some 150 political parties in the North African nation to back the creation of a grand coalition government, as election results were due to come in on Monday. The call came as Libyans celebrated Saturday's largely peaceful national assembly election, the first free national poll in Libya after 42 years of Muammar Gaddafi which went ahead despite widespread fears of violence. First official results were due on Monday and Jibril declined comment on speculation his own National Forces Alliance (NFA) of around 60 parties was leading Islamic groups including the political wing of Libya's Muslim Brotherhood. "We extend an honest call for a national dialogue to come altogether in one coalition, under one banner ... This is an honest and sincere call for all political parties operating today in Libya,"
Jibril said. "In yesterday's election there was no loser or winner ... Whoever wins, Libya is the real winner," he told a late-night news conference on Sunday. Jibril is a fluent English-speaker who was the main point man of the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) with Western backers including France, Britain and the United States. He rejected descriptions of the NFA as secular and liberal, saying a commitment to tenets of Islamic law was among its core principles - a comment which could facilitate efforts to form ties with more overtly Islamist parties. No comment was immediately available from leading groups such as the Justice and Construction Party, the political branch of the Libyan counterpart of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. Al-Watan, an Islamist group led by former rebel militia leader Abdel Hakim Belhadj, said it would study the call on Monday. If such a grand coalition were formed it would inevitably dominate the new 200-head assembly for which Libyans voted on Saturday and whose tasks include naming a prime minister and cabinet to serve before full parliamentary polls due in 2013.
Nearly 1.8 million of 2.8 million registered voters cast their ballots, a turnout of around 65 percent. Two deaths were reported as protesters in eastern Libya sought to disrupt the vote they see as a power grab by Tripoli and the west region. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Kimoon nonetheless hailed the "peaceful, democratic spirit" of the vote and U.S. President Barack Obama said he looked forward to working with the new Libyan leadership. However the storming of four voting centers by protesters in Benghazi, cradle of last year's uprising, underlined that eastern demands ranging from greater political representation for the region to all-out federalism will not go away. Local gunmen demonstrated their grip on the eastern oil terminals from which the bulk of Libya's oil exports flow by blocking three main ports a day before the vote. The National Oil Corporation confirmed on Sunday that activities were back to normal after a 48-hour stoppage. Many easterners are furious that their region, one of three in Libya, was only allotted 60 seats in the new assembly compared to 102 for the western region.
"There should be a serious dialogue (with the east). As there is a sincere wish on their part and on our part I think we can reach a compromise," said Jibril, who declined to specify what role he saw for himself in Libyan politics. Analysts say one of Libya's priorities is to address the eastern grievances in the drafting of a new constitution, even if a move to all-out federalism is unlikely. "The government recognizes there is an overall unhappiness in the east and they are willing to address that issue. It will probably be termed more as decentralization," said Claudia Gazzini of the International Crisis Group. (Additional reporting by MarieLouise Gumuchian and Ali Shuaib in Tripoli and Taha Zargoun in Sirte; Writing by Mark John; Editing by Anna Willard, Philippa Fletcher and Robin Pomeroy) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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Top Stories Newly appointed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi ordered Sunday that the countrys lower parliament be reinstated, weeks after it was dissolved by the ruling military council. United Europe lacks a common vision under one leader. Military graves belonging to more than 40 German soldiers from World War I were desecrated at a cemetery in northern France. A government panel in Japan endorsed a proposal to allow for collective self-defense in the nation's constitution, submitting it to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda Friday Ballot papers were being counted on Saturday night as Libyans across the country celebrated the first free elections in 42 years. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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capital, where U.N. observers have been staying since suspending their patrols because By Oliver Holmes of an increase in the level of BEIRUT| Sun Jul 8, 2012 8:33pm violence. EDT U.S. Secretary of State Hillary (Reuters) - Kofi Annan is due to Clinton said on Sunday that hold talks on Monday with Syrian Syrian opposition forces were President Bashar al-Assad, who growing more effective and the said U.S. political support for sooner the violence ended, the "terrorists" was hindering the better were the chances of sparing peace envoy's plan to end 16 S y r i a ' s g o v e r n m e n t a months of bloodshed. "catastrophic assault" by rebel Assad also accused Saudi Arabia, fighters. Qatar and Turkey of supplying the While Assad has faced sanctions rebels trying to overthrow him and international condemnation with arms and other support. over his crackdown on dissent, "We know that (Annan) is coming major Western and Arab powers up against countless obstacles but have shied away from direct his plan should not be allowed to military action. fail, it is a very good plan," Assad Turkey has reinforced its border told German television channel and scrambled fighter aircraft Das Erste. several times since Syria shot "The biggest obstacle is that many down a Turkish reconnaissance jet countries do not even want this on June 22 over what Damascus plan to succeed so they offer said were Syrian territorial waters political support and continue to in the Mediterranean. Ankara said provide the terrorists in Syria with t h e i n c i d e n t o c c u r r e d i n arms and money," Assad said, i n t e r n a t i o n a l a i r s p a c e . according to a transcript in "SAND IS RUNNING OUT" G e r m a n o f t h e i n t e r v i e w "The sooner there can be an end conducted in English on July 5. to the violence and a beginning of Annan arrived on Sunday at the a political transition process, not Dama Rose hotel in the Syrian only will fewer people die, but
there is a chance to save the Syrian state from a catastrophic assault that would be very dangerous not only to Syria but to the region," Clinton told a Tokyo news conference. She appeared to be referring to the possibility of Syrian rebels launching such an assault on state institutions rather than to any outside intervention. "There is no doubt that the opposition is getting more effective in their defense of themselves and in going on the offence against the Syrian military and the Syrian government's militias. So, the future ... should be abundantly clear to those who support the Assad regime," Clinton added. "The sand is running out of the hour glass." Syria's navy fired live missiles from ships and helicopters over the weekend, in an exercise aiming at demonstrating its ability to "defend Syria's shores against any possible aggression", state media said. More than 30 people were killed on Sunday during a government bombardment and clashes between Syrian forces and Free
Syrian Army rebels fighting to oust Assad, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Rami Abdelrahman, head of the Observatory, said residents of alSharifa in the wider Deir al-Zor province were reporting that rebels had for the first time taken over a tank and were using it to attack army positions. The rebels have gained confidence in recent weeks, staging bolder attacks, holding pockets of territory across the country and clashing with troops only a few miles from the presidential palace in Damascus. (Additional reporting by Marwan Makdessi in Damascus and Arshad Mohammed in Tokyo, editing by Diana Abdallah) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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Scots youth dies after knife attack - Herald Scotland

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family friend. Morley said the boy went behind a tombstone and was playfully poking his head out from behind it In a picture provided to media when it fell on him. outlets, i n c l u d i n g "Carson passed away while trying Fox13Now.com, Carson Dean to make others smile," Morley Cheney is seen moments before a said. t r a g i c a c c i d e n t a t a U t a h Carson was just about to enter cemetery. Photo courtesy of his kindergarten, loved to ride his family bike and was "full of life," said his grandmother, Geri Gibbs. A 6-foot-tall tombstone that "There's still so much disbelief weighed hundreds of pounds fell and sorrow and anguish," she on and killed a 4-year-old boy said. who was posing for photos with "We just keep waiting for the door family and friends at a historic to open up and Carson to come cemetery in a Utah ski resort through, a happy little boy." town, authorities said. Gibbs said the boy and his family C a r s o n D e a n C h e n e y w a s were visiting from Lehi, about an holding onto the headstone hour away. She said it took three Thursday when some metal men to pull the slab off the boy, connecting it to the pedestal and rescuers "did everything they broke, said Park City police Capt. could possibly do." Phil Kirk. Some of the children The child suffered injuries to his being photographed were not head, chest and abdomen and was being responsive, so Carson tried taken to the nearby Park City to help the photographer -- his Medical Center, where he died. father -- by pretending to be Authorities were still leprechaun and making them i n v e s t i g a t i n g F r i d a y . laugh, said Curtis Morley, a Morley works with the boy's
father, Zac Cheney, at a professional services firm in Salt Lake City. He said Zac Cheney does photography in his spare time and was shooting portraits at the cemetery because of its extensive landscaping. Park City Police Chief Wade Carpenter said the coarse stone at the Glenwood Cemetery in Park City, about 4 inches thick, marked the grave of someone who died in the 1800s. Bruce Erickson, president of the Glenwood Cemetery Association, said the private, five-acre cemetery around the corner from Park City Mountain Resort was founded by a society of silver miners in 1885, and many of the tombstones are at least 100 years old. The cemetery is open to the public and still accepts burials of people connected to the mining society. Erickson said no funerals were held there Thursday. New burials happen about once a year, he said, and families are responsible for maintaining the headstones. Erickson said the
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a prescription tourist well. Dixon said he traveled to West Palm Beach for about seven months in 2008, visiting clinics and picking up prescriptions and pills over a two or three-day period. Dixon never visited more than one doctor, but soon was also buying pills from people he met on the streets in deals arranged in motels. "Once you get to motels down there, it's just like a Wal-Mart or Kmart or Kroger store for drugs, pills, whatever," Dixon said. "Once you get in that clique, they will find you." He said it was not uncommon to see pills offered from bulging 50pound dog food bags filled with the prescriptions. Dixon was arrested in 2008 returning from what would turn out to be his last trip, set up, he
says, by a fellow drug dealer. He had 6,000 pills hidden in a false exhaust system he'd installed beneath the car. He is serving a four-year sentence for drug trafficking charges. Although painkillers are a legal drug, it's against the law for anyone but a doctor or pharmacist to dispense them. Crackdowns like Florida's may be driving prescription tourists to states like Georgia, Haslam said. "We're squeezing a balloon," he said. "And as you squeeze the balloon, the air in the balloon goes someplace else." ___ Andrew Welsh-Huggins can be reached at http://twitter.com/ awhcolumbus Print Email Share
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those numbers pale in comparison with Apple's App Store, which Submitted at 7/8/2012 4:09:58 PM announced in March that it had Research In Motion finally has served up 25 billion downloads some good numbers to offset its from its 650,000 apps, and recent wave of bad ones. Google's Play store, which The handset maker announced announced last month it had Friday its BlackBerry App World delivered 20 billion downloads h a d r e a c h e d t h e 3 b i l l i o n from 600,000 apps. download mark -- a billion of The BlackBerry maker reported a those in just the last six months. first-quarter loss last month of To reach that number, customers $518 million, or 99 cents a share, were downloading app at the rate on revenue of $2.8 billion, down of about 2.5 million per day from 33 percent from $4.2 billion in the the collection of 90,000 apps. same quarter a year ago. Adjusted As impressive as that sounds, loss, which excludes goodwill
charges, was $192 million, or 37 cents a share. Wall Street had been expecting a loss of 4 cents a share on revenue of $3.07 billion. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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How Pebble And Other Product Phenomenons Killed It On Kickstarter

Rip Empson (TechCrunch)
Its a good time to be Kickstarter. The crowdfunding platform has had a blockbuster year, breaking into mainstream consciousness with campaigns that raised millions of dollars, like the Pebble e-paper watch above. The platform has seen almost $275 million pledged to some 63,000 projects to date, with $231 million going towards successful fundings. As Devin wrote at the time, before February, no Kickstarter project had ever raised over $1 million, but since then, seven projects have surpassed $1 million, including the current #1, Pebble, which raised an astonishing $10 million. And this growth applies to multiple categories, not just sexy wrist watches. Prior to February only one gaming project had reached $100K in funding. Since then? 37. Even something as niche as webcomics saw its number of pledges double in February. A lot of people came to Kickstarter for the first time as part of the buzz around those seven projects that surpassed $1 million, and to the startups delight, a lot of them have gone on to fund other projects, resulting in a positive net effect both for the
platform itself and for project founders. The long-term question/caveat to this, of course, is whether new users coming to Kickstarter tend to just end up amplifying the projects that are already blowing up, or whether theyre actually spreading the love and helping other projects reach their goals that might not have otherwise. After all, when you launch a Kickstarter project, the odds are against you; 56 percent of Kickstarter projects fail to find funding with some 32K projects in total having failed, compared to the 25K projects that succeeded. The company hides the failures as a gesture to creators, and to help users focus on the projects with traction. To further boost its transparency, Kickstarter also launched a stats page in June, which provides daily updates on metrics like dollars pledged, success rates, etc., broken down by category. Check it out here. A 44 percent success rate aint bad. Considering there have been seven $1 million-plus projects since February and that today 82 percent of projects that raise more than 20 percent of their goal go on to become successfully funded, the overall trend is positive. However, keep in mind that 62,711 projects have launched in
three years, and only seven have hit $1M. That means your chances of reaching $1M are a fraction of one percent. Whats more, few of the Kickstarter projects that are successfully funded go on to become real, revenue-generating businesses. Many of those projects naturally go on to create eCommerce stores to sell their wares. As a number of those projects have used Shopify to open their storefronts (including the $10M baby, Pebble) the startup has taken an interest in this growing trend. Shopifys marketing and PR guru, Mark Hayes, even decided to profile the creators of some of Kickstarters most successful projects to ask what theyd learned and to get them to share some of the secrets of their success. ( You can check the post out here.) As Kickstarter grows, and more and more companies opt to use it as a launchpad and a means to validate their product and measure market demand, learning from those whove found success provides an awesome guide future founders. So, piggy-backing on Hayes work, herein wed like to offer a glimpse into what the most successful projects have done right and what they did wrong. For starters, its good to know
what areas (or categories) you should be focused on based on past Kickstarter data. It turns out that Theater and Dance projects have the highest success rates at 64 and 69 percent, respectively good to know for all you theater and dance geeks out there. Yes, there are people who will fund your avant garde, dance-heavy rendition of A Confederacy of Dunces. (Best to do it now in the event Zach Galifianakis beats you to it.) Of course, only 3,256 Theaterrelated projects have been launched, which is on the lower end, when you compare it to the 18,263 Film & Video projects and the 14,906 Music-related projects that have launched on Kickstarter. These two categories are by far the most popular, having raised over $100 million successful dollars between them. While there is far more competition for dollars among these categories (and in Publishing), of the more popular categories, Music projects have the highest success rate at just over 54 percent. Meanwhile, Im sorry to say, readers, but Technology ranks near the bottom with only 1,236 projects launched and the second lowest success rate at 29.25 percent. Now that youre aware of what categories are most popular on Kickstarter, lets dive into some
examples. Ministry of Supply Ministry of Supply is a good place to start. ( You can read our recent coverage here.) Borrowing technology from NASA (with a dollop of Under Armour), the startup has designed a next-gen line of dress shirts, called Apollo, that adapt to your body to control perspiration, reduce odor, stay wrinkle free and looking a badass. Plus, everything from the fabric to the packaging is made right here in the U.S. of A. Ministry of Supply set out to raise $30K and has raised $288K to date, sneaking up on the $291K raised by Flint & Tinder for their mens underwear currently the most-funded fashion project on Kickstarter. So, why has Ministry of Supply been so successful? Well, theres less competition in Fashion and it also happens that the top three most-funded projects in the category tackle menswear and offer either a next-gen, wrinklefree, durable product or focus on bringing manufacturing jobs to the U.S. For Ministry of Supply, it also helps that working stiffs like you and me who need dress shirts, and futuristic dress shirts that solve all the problems of whats currently out there (wrinkles, pit stains, HOW page 25
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etc.) are certainly appealing. Especially when they advertise the fact that theyve borrowed from the same technology that NASA uses in its space suits. All that makes for a sexy product that solves a real problem, plus theres a movement to help get the U.S. back on track by keeping manufacturing jobs here. We used to make things, you mightve heard an American lament. Theres also the fact that the founders used to work at companies with recognizable names, like SpaceX, Lululemon, IDEO, and Apple. The founders also attribute their success to focusing on an iterative process, developing a product, releasing it to a small group of testers, taking the feedback to make it better. They made dozens of test runs on Apollo before launching their Kickstarter project. And, for those who are lucky to exceed their goals, the founders tell us that its important to keep people engaged with the project page by offering updates. Ministry of Supply has posted videos and updated the text of their Kickstarter page numerous times since reaching their initial goal, as a way to thank their supporters and talk about their plans going forward. They also said its important to add further goals. For example, if they become the most-funded fashion Kickstarter project, theyre going to launch their backers names into space on a ridiculous weather balloon. This keeps people coming back, checking in
on their progress, and sharing the concept with friends. Coffee Joulies Dave Jackson and Dave Petrillo, two mechanical engineers from New Jersey, were tired of the foibles inherent to coffee drinking. Baristas seemingly love to use lava to heat coffee, which makes for burned tongues and hands. Plus, theres the fact that coffee tends to stay at a pleasant, warm, drinkable temperature for less than 30 seconds. So, the engineers developed a stainless steel coffee bean that you can put in your cup. The bean absorbs excess heat, bringing your coffee down to a drinkable temperature and not only that, but when it starts to get cold, the bean releases heat to keep your coffee warm. Sweet. ( Read our coverage here.) The team set out to raise $9,500 but brought in over $300K and is one of the top 15 Design projects on Kickstarter to date. As to their tips for success? The engineers told Mark Hayes of Shopify that the smartest thing they did was to allow potential customers to optin to their email list as their project came to a close. Kickstarter brought a ton of referrals to their site, but because they were busy filling orders, they werent able to pre-sell their Joulies for several months. For successful Kickstarter campaigns this can be a huge problem. Teams are small and they inevitably have to go into overdrive and rush to fill orders. If theyre not prepared, they can
lose a ton of customers as a result. Instead, we had a compelling opt -in email box that would notify customers when Joulies were ready to order, so that when the time came to sell again, sending emails to the list was easy and of enormous value, they said. In describing what went wrong with their project, we find a good lesson both for project creators and for Kickstarter itself. Founders need to be ready for traffic, and Kickstarter needs to get better at providing its companies with more guidance and transparency into traffic and metrics. Heres Petrillos explanation: We didnt know what our real traffic numbers were like on Kickstarter, and we also didnt really have a clue what levels of hosting were required to host and protect against traffic spikes since it was all behind the scenes during Kickstarter. When we did get spikes, like when a story about us got syndicated on Yahoo! homepage for 12 hours, our unlimited shared hosting crashed within minutes and we lost hundreds of thousands of unique viewers. Bummer. Ramos Alarm Clock The Ramos Alarm Clock was developed by a team of engineers in NYC. Its an old-school, neatlooking clock that displays time in a funky way and includes a wireless alarm deactivation panel that forces you to get out of bed to turn off the alarm. The team set out to raise $75K, but made double that and was even teased
on Saturday Night Live. The Keys to success? The founders said that its all about creating a product that solves a real problem, finding an idea that people can relate to and want to use every day. That should sound familiar to entrepreneurs. They also found Kickstarter to me a much better launch platform than just going it alone or trying to reach out to press themselves. Kickstarter served us well in being a reputable, visible platform to start from I dont know if we could have generated that much buzz launching ourselves, or elsewhere, said co-founder Paul Sammut. He also recommended that companies be ready with their own storefront as soon as their projects expire on Kickstarter. What didnt work? Easier said than done when the future of your idea is uncertain, but Sammut said that founders should be realistic about what they can achieve in a short period of time. In other words, be careful of overpromising and under-delivering. We offered things to customers at the onset of the project that seemed easy to do, but ended up adding a great deal of complexity to the manufacturing process, the co-founder told Hayes. I would recommend a serious analysis on how to simplify your product and keep variations to a minimum when starting out, especially if youre attempting to launch something that will need to be mass-produced. If youre a small team, even handling
communication and customer support for a couple hundred people can be a bear. ZPM Espresso Kickstarter also apparently loves coffee. ZPM Espresso, the makers of a high-tech espresso machine called the Nocturn, set out to raise $20K, but made nearly $370K on Kickstarter. The machine offers PID controls, programmable presets, adjustable temperature and pressure settings, and opensource software to boot to the delight of coffee geeks everywhere. What worked? ZPM Espresso cofounder Janet Tambasco said that the key to their campaign was focusing on being extremely responsible to questions and feedback. Whats more, when asking for money on a crowdfunding platform (i.e. youre hitting up strangers for money), she said that the key is being both passionate and transparent. Be honest about your product and what you expect to accomplish. Tambasco said that the team made sure to respond to the thousands of emails they received during their campaign, talked to people who work in the coffee industry about planning next steps, and posted frequent updates on their blog and on their Kickstarter page. As to what didnt go right? Even if youre worried about being able to meet your manufacturing (or production goals) at scale, dont HOW page 27
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Track Record In China Sets Ciscos TOS Scandal In A More Sinister Light
Alex Williams (TechCrunch)
administrative Web interface. After signing up for Cisco Connect Cloud he had Cisco did some apologizing this limited ability to manually past week. The networking giant administer the device. apologized for all the confusion Brodkin: about Cisco Connect Cloud and In exchange for the convenience the suspect terms of service that of Connect Cloud, you have to many people viewed as a way for agree to some pretty onerous the company to monitor behavior terms. In short, Cisco would and potentially cut off their router really hate it if you use the Web to if they infringed. view porn or download Cisco Connect Cloud is a service copyrighted files without paying that updates a router automatically f o r t h e m . T h e s t o r y s o o n for customers. Its part of Ciscos spread. Cisco has since backed off effort to connect all the things, and has changed the terms of in your home, be it your PC, service. I did a search for tablet, appliances and anything pornography, and did not find else you can think of. It limits the any references. owners capability to control the This may not seem like a big deal router itself. The advantage, to many people. It ties into the Cisco claims, is it gives you the belief that companies can be ability to manage your router no trusted with our data or that matter where you are. nothing will ever happen to them Issues surfaced last week when even if they do have it. Also, customers upgraded the firmware companies generally have pretty on their routers and were directed restrictive terms of service. Legal to a page that asked them to departments demand it. update to the Cisco Connect But Cisco is a bit different. Cloud service. Heres why. Ars Technicas Jon Brodkin Cisco is in the business of experienced the issue himself surveillance. It provides Internet after buying a Cisco Linksys and video surveillance technology EA3500 dual-band wireless to law enforcement organizations, router. Soon after installing it, he national governments and any was notified of a firmware update. number of government agencies. A sign up page appeared for Cisco ISPs and service providers Connect Cloud when he tried to throughout the world use Ciscos access the browsers internal Lawful Intercept, technology to
conduct electronic surveillance. Ciscos surveillance technology is used throughout the world. But its the work Cisco does in China that raises the most questions about its ethical practices. The Human Rights Law Foundation filed suit last year in federal court, arguing Cisco helped customize its networking equipment to monitor members of the Falun Gong group. They argue that with the help of the Cisco t e c h n o l o g y , t h e Chinese kidnapped, detained, imprisoned, tortured and subjected group members to forced labor. There are reports that the Chinese harvested organs from Falun Gong members they took into custody. From the Weekly Standard: The financial excitement of a wired China quickly led to a proliferation of eight major Internet service providers (ISPs) and four pipelines to the outside world. To force compliance with government objectives to ensure that all pipes lead back to Rome they needed the networking superpower, Cisco, to standardize the Chinese Internet and equip it with firewalls on a national scale. According to the Chinese engineer [that the publication spoke with], Cisco came through, developing a router device, integrator, and firewall
box specially designed for the governments telecom monopoly. At approximately $20,000 a box, China Telecom bought many thousands and IBM arranged for the high-end financing. Michael confirms: Cisco made a killing. They are everywhere. Cisco vehemently denies the charges. I am sure many of you will say that the people complaining are overwrought with conspiracy theories. I have no special knowledge of Ciscos intentions, but I do believe Ciscos policies about monitoring an individuals use of their home routers is relevant to its focus on surveillance and interests in China. There may not be a connection at all between this and the iffy TOS, but the TOS is certainly is a reminder of how Cisco helped China use its technology as a tool for repression. In similar fashion, is Cisco now using a questionable firmware update to lock users into terms that could be used to restrict customer freedoms? Heres a closer to look at the terms of service I mentioned earlier. Until last week, Ciscos terms of service for Cisco Connect Cloud meant access to your apps, browser history and more. Heres an excerpt that has been quoted
widely by Brodkin and others: When you use the Service, we may keep track of certain information related to your use of the Service, including but not limited to the status and health of your network and networked products; which apps relating to the Service you are using; which features you are using within the Service infrastructure; network traffic (e.g., megabytes per hour); internet history; how frequently you encounter errors on the Service system and other related information (Other Information). What would Cisco do with that information? Thats the big question. Cisco being willing to help the Chinese government snoop calls into question its own practices with its own customers. Now, lets take it a step further. What if you are active in the conservation movement or involved in a political campaign ? I dont care if you are as left-wing as Marx or out in the parking lot with John Wayne. Its this excerpt from the terms of service that makes you pause: You agree not to use or permit the use of the Service: (i) to invade anothers privacy; (ii) for obscene, pornographic, or offensive purposes; (iii) to TRACK page 31
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try to slow things down. Roll with it, and dont be afraid to try to amplify the publicity for your product yourselves through press and otherwise. Plan for scale in advance in the event youre lucky to find it. In retrospect, more funds always helps, she says, so we shouldve tried to gather as much momentum as possible, rather than trying to slow things down while we tried to figure out logistics. Pebble Pebble is the most-funded Kickstarter project to date. The project set a goal of $100K and raised over $10 million. Whoah. ( Read our coverage here.) Pebble is an infinitelycustomizable smartwatch that is water and scratch resistant and comes with a neat ePaper display (i.e. Kindle-like). Its battery lasts for seven days and can be charged by USB. Users can connect the watch to their smartphones to sync calendars, alerts, emails, and even calls. Essentially, its the watch of the future. It makes my Casio calculator watch of yore look like an abacus attached to a sundial that can be worn around the wrist. What worked? Pebble Founder Eric Migicovsky says that (besides all the kickass
technology my words, not his) the key to its Kickstarter campaign was finding effective, demonstrative ways to describe its use cases, which they laid out on their page. We knew that no one really wakes up in the morning with a desperate urge to buy a smartwatch, he told Hayes, so it was our job to figure out exactly how to explain to future users how they will be able to use Pebble. To do this, he recommends testing out your pitch on people who arent going to be your core user base or audience. In fact, he turned to, among others, his mom. Find the best way to pitch every day people and then expand on that to describe your product advice that has broad/general application, too. And to that point, his other piece of advice echoed that from many others: Above all, one should listen to their users, take care to hear their problems and react accordingly. Be responsive, quick to react, and transparent, and do whatever you can to resolve those pain points as you iterate and go through your product cycle. Amanda Palmer Amanda Palmer has the mostfunded Music project on
Kickstarter to date. She set a $100K goal and made over $1.1 million. Amandas goal was pretty simple: It was to raise money to release her new album. Kickstarter wrote a lengthy description of Amandas milestone(becoming the first musician to reach $1M), so we wont re-hash the whole thing here. But, in case you missed it, theres plenty that applies to this discussion and echoes whats been said by other project founders. Amanda wasnt famous or particularly well-known before her Kickstarter campaign blew up, which should be encouraging to other fledgling musicians out there. But what we can take from her success is that, for starters is that, when strangers offer up their cash to help you meet your goals, they love being rewarded with experiences just as much if not more than items or things. This may not apply to every category, but a significant portion of the money pledged to Palmers campaign was for experiential rewards. She offered backer-only performances, or for $5K, she offered to play a show at her funders houses, or the chance to have dinner with her in which she
would paint you your very own portrait. Backers ate these rewards up, something thats reminiscent of Ministry of Supplys offer to send their backers names into space on a weather balloon if they become the most-funded Fashion project. As a result, theyre almost there. As Kickstarter says in its post, traditional marketplaces restrict fans to being customers, but Amandas project invited people to participate. With the evolution of the web to a discovery and entertainment-driven medium, this kind of interactivity is huge. Transparency also came up again in the discussion of the musicians success, and, for what its worth, Kickstarter likes to think that backers reward artists and campaigns that step out from behind their industries protective walls. If we can agree that the creative economy is in shambles, then it is likely true that fans are eager to support people who are willing to challenge the status quo and take risks. Even if that means you have to paint your investors portraits.
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Impermanent Data Apps, The Newest Weapons In The War For Messaging
Billy Gallagher (TechCrunch)
none should try. But while the big three will likely engage in a Submitted at 7/8/2012 6:37:34 PM winner take all battle, one or Earlier this week, Josh Constine multiple apps can win side battles. wrote an epic piece on Facebook, Take a look below at three Google and Apples impending popular iOS apps and the different messaging war. As Constine w a y s t h e y a r e f i l l i n g t h e explains, we have most likely i m p e r m a n e n t d a t a s p a c e : reached peak SMS, that is, text Wickr messaging is on the decline and Dear sources, Lets Wickr on another form of messaging will sensitive intel going forward. take its place. Please download: An App That But as the major empires wage Encrypts, Shreds, Hashes total war for glorious messaging nyti.ms/LCs08G spoils, there are far smaller, Nicole Perlroth distant tribes that will make their (@nicoleperlroth) June 29, 2012 own windfall of riches from the An app that sends text, picture battle. Man, I miss playing Age of and video messages with militaryEmpires. grade encryption and allows users As these tech giants extend their to set a time limit for when the reach even further, it is quite message erases itself, Wickr is possible that users will seek to probably the most secure app out r e g a i n c o n t r o l o v e r t h e i r there. i n f o r m a t i o n a n d e m b r a c e Email is for traceable and Wickr applications that quickly erase or is for untraceable, co-founder encrypt their messages and Nico Sell tells Venturebeat. We p i c t u r e s . E s p e c i a l l y i f t h e have won the big fight once all companies battle reduces their o n l i n e c o m m u n i c a t i o n s a r e respect for users privacylike u n t r a c e a b l e b y d e f a u l t . Facebooks aggressive email Burst change last month. A mobile video and pictureThe real gold mine for these sharing app designed for families, impermanent apps is that they Burst recently raised $3.45 arent in the war. None of them million in angel funds. The app can come close to these giants and lets users un-send pictures and
videos at any time, revoking access to the recipient. Snapchat Snapchat, an app that allows users to send photos with a time limit (1-10 seconds) for the recipient to view the photo before it erases, announced in early June that users had sent over 110 million photos on the site. It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet everyone decided everything should stick around forever, Snapchat cofounder Evan Spiegel, my former classmate, tells me in May. I think our application makes communication a lot more human and natural. Of course, its strange to think now: Why would I want to have text messages or pictures that erase themselves when my iPhone keeps all of my texts with my best friend, pictures from my cousin, and more? But think about if this was how other communication worked. What if your cellphone recorded all of your phone calls? How would that change the way you use it? Text messaging is inherently different from email and even online chats like gchat and
Facebook chat. It makes sense to store emails and go back and look them up. But as people talk on the phone, and even in person, less, the importance of quick messaging has risen. Text messages are the closest thing to real-life conversations and, in many cases, it doesnt make sense for them to be stored permanently. Whether its Wickr, Burst, Snapchat or other companies, the spectrum of impermanent data apps will grow and become more competitive in the coming years. But theres one giant uncertainty that I havent mentioned yet. Astute readers are probably wondering: What happens if one of the giants integrates impermanent options into their messaging services? Facebook messaging, Gchat or iMessage with an option for encryption, or an expiration date, or the ability to revoke access to pictures or messages. That would be a game changer for the battle between the big three and for the impermanent data app landscape. (Age of Empires photo via Fickr/ CLF)
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Stagecoach at ready as rival sheds bus assets

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Stagecoach is lining up a bid for a cluster of UK bus assets put up for sale by rival FirstGroup in an attempt to raise 100m.
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Why Google Glass is the next frontier for developers

Ben Parr (CNET News)
CNET's Rafe Needleman makes a fashion statement with Google Glass(Credit: Stephen Shankland/ CNET) When Google co-founder Sergey Brin demoed Google Glass, the search giant's attempt to build a next-generation wearable computer, with skydivers live streaming their descent, it became very clear that Glass wasn't some side project -- it was Google's future. Glass won't be available to consumers until 2014, but a select group of developers will have the chance to purchase the "Explorer" edition of Glass in early 2013. Why is Google giving Glass to developers more than a year before its consumer debut? Simple: Google wants to turn Glass into the next major developer platform. Many developer platforms have launched in the last five years, but two stand out for the impact they've created on the developer community and the world
economy. The first was the launch of the Facebook Platform back in 2007, and the second was the release of the iPhone App Store in 2008. The Facebook platform was the first of the major social app platforms. It made it possible for thousands of developers to reach millions of people with their apps, tools and games. It established social as a platform (it didn't take long for Bebo, MySpace and Friendster to launch their own platforms) and helped transform Facebook into the center of the social universe. Steve Jobs initially opposed the idea of an iPhone App Store, but luckily he was convinced to open up the iPhone to third-party developers. It launched with just about 500 apps but has grown to 30 billion downloads, 650,000 apps and more than $5 billion doled out to developers. Without the iPhone app store, there would be no Path, Flipboard, Instagram, Socialcam or Foursquare. Google was late to the app store game, and the tech giant has been playing catch-up ever since. But
possible on iPhones or Nexuses. Glass also runs on Android, so the app store is already built in. Consumer demand for Glass (or lack thereof) will eventually determine if Google's newest pet project will turn into the next great developer race. However, I haven't seen anything with this much interest from consumers and thanks to Glass, it has a new developers since the iPhone App chance to create the developer Store. The upside is enormous, platform of the future. and its potential for market Developers are clearly excited by disruption is just as big. the potential of Glass, which My suspicion is that a lot of big received the biggest cheers at businesses will be built on top of G o o g l e ' s I / O d e v e l o p e r Glass, and that's a very good thing conference. But more than that, for Google future, as well as its i t ' s a n e w o p p o r t u n i t y f o r bottom line. developers to push the frontiers of This entry passed through the personal computing and make lots Full-Text RSS service if this is of money in the process. your content and you're reading it One of the first things people do on someone else's site, please read when they get a new smartphone the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentis download apps, and I suspect it only/faq.php#publishers. Five will be the same with Glass. Who Filters recommends: Incinerating wouldn't want to install Instagram Assange - The Liberal Media Go on Glass or try out a new To Work. augmented reality app for identifying great restaurants? New breeds of businesses can be built on top of Glass that simply aren't
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Bauer earns first win as Arizona beat Dodgers

(Reuters) - Rookie pitcher Trevor Bauer redeemed a rocky start to his career and recorded his first win in Arizona's 7-1 victory over
the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday. The 21-year-old Bauer struck out six batters and allowed just two hits in six
shutout innings, in his third start in the major leagues. He had previously given up nine runs in just over seven innings and lost
his last start, being replaced in the fourth inning after giving up seven runs, six of them earned. ...
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Third-Party Developers Will Make or Break the Wii U

Don Reisinger (SlashGear)
In the gaming world created and crafted by Nintendo, games make or break the company. When solid titles like Super Mario or the Legend of Zelda make their way to the market, consumers care. And in the process, they buy an awful lot of consoles. When the Wii U launches later this year, Nintendo will need to rely on games in order to sell more consoles. However, in the past, the company has relied nearly entirely on first-party titles. In fact, the Wiis third-party lineup was so sub-par that many folks (including myself) made it a last-resort gaming opportunity in the living room. Soon after the allure of motion gaming wore off and the first-party titles dried up, there was little else to enjoy. For that reason, Nintendo must rely heavily on third-party publishers with its Wii U. The days of simply carrying a console over the finish line on the back of first-party games are over. Nowadays, in order for console makers to be successful, theyre going to have to deliver not only solid first-party games, but allow
other companies to offer up outstanding titles themselves. For Nintendo, playing nicely with third-parties has always seemed difficult. For years, third-party developers have criticized the company on everything from its hardware design to its seeming unwillingness to allow other games to shine. In Nintendo land, first-party titles still reign supreme."With the Xbox 720 and PS4 incoming, longevity is the name of the game"
But with the Wii U likely launching this year, to be followed by the Xbox 720 and PlayStation 4 either next year or in 2014, longevity will be the name of the game. And in order to stick it out until the bitter end, Nintendo must be able to foster strong relationships with thirdparty developers and urge them to bring their best and brightest games to the console. At E3, Nintendo seemed willing to do so. Rather than spend too
much time on hardware, the company focused on games and brought up several third-party developers to show off their latest and greatest titles for its new console. It was a good start. But lets not forget that Nintendo had some backing at the Wiis start, as well. And now, Wii owners are left wishing more solid titles would have been launched. Of course, Nintendo fans would disagree with that argument. They would say that Nintendos first-
party titles are really all customers need, but even in those cases where third-party games are on the ready, they hold up quite well. In fact, some Nintendo fans might go as far as saying that the Wiis game library is just as deep (if not more so) than the Xbox 360s or PlayStation 3s. But are we really supposed to believe that? If that was the case, the Wii wouldnt see its sales slumping and Nintendo wouldnt be having so much trouble keeping pace with its past successes. If the Wii had a deeper library, trust me: the gaming space would look much different. Remember third-party developers, Nintendo. Believe it or not, youre going to need them with the Wii U. Third-Party Developers Will Make or Break the Wii U is written by Don Reisinger& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
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PSA: Evict DNSChanger now or lose the web Monday

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
users online. That network will cease operating on Monday. The botnet operated by Rove Todays malware has a deadline: Digital altered user DNS settings, get rid of DNSChanger now, or pointing victims to malicious come Monday, July 9, you may DNS in data centers in Estonia, find yourself without access to the New York, and Chicago. The internet altogether. Hundreds of malicious DNS servers would thousands of computers around give fake, malicious answers, the world have been infected by altering user searches, and the trojan, which changes DNS promoting fake and dangerous settings among other things so products. Because every web as to route web traffic through search starts with DNS, the compromised servers. Now, the malware showed users an altered FBI is preparing to pull the plug v e r s i o n o f t h e on those servers and many Internet DNSChanger Working peoples internet connection with Group them. The best news is, checking for a Since the FBI and other law DNSChanger infection on your enforcement agencies seized system and, if found, getting rid control of the botnet behind of it is straightforward. First step DNSChanger, a temporary DNS is heading to dns-ok.us in your server network has been running browser: that will tell you whether in its stead so as to keep infected or not theres a sign that your
Norton. Theres a full list of them here, and usually its just a case of downloading and running an app to get your computer back on an even keel. Story Timeline FBI to kill servers supporting DNSChanger virus victims DNSChanger: How to find it and how to fix it DNSChanger malware for dummies: Sophos video explains it all PSA: Evict DNSChanger now or lose the web Monday is written by Chris Davies& originally posted on SlashGear. their own machines). If its red, however, you have a 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All D N S C h a n g e r p r o b l e m . right reserved. Thankfully there are multiple options to get rid of it: Microsoft has a tool, as do key anti-virus vendors such as McAfee and
computer has been infected. If its green, youre in the clear (though its probably still worth forwarding this article on to friends and family particularly net-confused parents who might need some assistance checking
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infringe anothers rights, including but not limited to any intellectual property rights; (iv) to upload, email or otherwise transmit or make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, spam, junk mail or any other form of solicitation; (v) to transmit or otherwise make available any code or virus, or perform any activity, that could
harm or interfere with any device, software, network or service (including this Service); or (vi) to violate, or encourage any conduct that would violate any applicable law or regulation or give rise to civil or criminal liability. Thats a pretty broad terms of service. Its curious for a few reasons. Its a questionable restriction on free speech. It puts Cisco in control of your own
hardware. It gives Cisco the ability to share your data with third parties. And it sets the stage for more hooks and potential packet sniffing. Now compare it to what we know about the Golden Shield Project, Chinas master database and firewall that it uses to censor Chinese society. Like Golden Shield, Ciscos terms of service made it clear that they were
monitoring what you do. They did not say they were censoring you. They just made it abundantly aware that they could take action if need be. Brett Wingo, vice president and general manager for Cisco Home Networking said in a blog post that the service has never monitored customers Internet usage, nor was it designed to do so.
How we ultimately judge Cisco depends on how it wields its power. Cisco has issued an apology. It says it will not use your data against you. It maintains it will not arbitrarily disconnect customers from the Internet. But can it be trusted?
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DNSchanger standby servers will go dark Monday 7/9

Michael Rose (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Samsung reportedly developing Windows RT tablet

Steven Musil (CNET News)
check your machine using McAfee's free online DNSchanger check, or use Macfixit's rundown Submitted at 7/8/2012 4:45:00 PM to confirm that you're not pointed It's pretty unlikely that your at the bogus DNS servers. Either computer is among the 277,000 the malware, but not all of it. way, you can use this opportunity worldwide still affected by the The good news is that these to verify that you're using the DNSchanger malware (63,000 of particular bad dudes are now in optimal DNS settings for your them in the US, per the FBI and jail. The bad news is that for the network -- most likely your ISP's CIO Daily), but just in case you infected computers that were r e c o m m e n d e d s e t t i n g s , o r f i n d y o u r s e l f m y s t e r i o u s l y pointing at the rogue DNS nationwide DNS providers such knocked offline Monday morning, servers, simply taking the servers a s G o o g l e ( 8 . 8 . 8 . 8 ) o r here's why. offline would have in turn caused O p e n D N S ( 2 0 8 . 6 7 . 2 2 2 . 2 2 2 ) . From 2007 until the law knocked the client computers to freak out. DNSchanger standby servers will on their door in early 2011, an To prevent this, the FBI and other go dark Monday 7/9 originally Estonian hacker ring maintained a law enforcement took over the IP a p p e a r e d o n T U A W - T h e scam system where infected addresses for the rogue servers Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, computers had their DNS settings and have been running legitimate, 08 Jul 2012 16:45:00 EST. Please changed to point to compromised, well-behaved DNS servers there see our terms for use of feeds. rogue servers controlled by the ever since. Source| Source| Permalink| Email criminals. Over the course of their All good things must end, this| Comments activity, about four million however, and the FBI isn't going c o m p u t e r s w e r e a f f e c t e d to bear the costs of running those worldwide; AV software and boxes any longer; they're getting system updates cleared most of turned off tomorrow. You can
Obama Congratulates Libya for Elections

Daniel Halper (The Weekly Standard)
congratulating Libya for holding elections yesterday: President Obama issued the following statement,
match with Apple has picked up speed in the past week. On June 29, a judge in a lower court As Samsung's Android legal granted Apple's request for a woes mount, the hardware giant pretrial injunction against U.S. appears to be showing more sales of the Samsung Galaxy interest Windows. Nexus smartphone while the court The Korean hardware giant plans determines whether the Androidto release a tablet running powered device infringes the W i n d o w s R T w h e n t h e patents Apple claims it does. forthcoming mobile operating Samsung appealed, and the system arrives later this year, appeals court temporarily lifted sources tell Bloomberg. The news the ban on Friday, while it comes on the heels of Samsung's deliberates on whether to dump announcement that it would the ban altogether. support Windows 8 with an all-in- On Monday, a U.S. federal judge one PC and a hybrid laptop-tablet. rejected Samsung's appeal of a Details regarding the new device preliminary injunction against were slim, but Bloomberg said the U.S. sales of its Galaxy Tab 10.1, new tablet would feature the which Apple says illegally copies Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. "the look and feel" of its iPad The tablet is expected to be tablet and iPhone smartphone. released in October. This entry passed through the W i n d o w s R T i s t h e f i r s t Full-Text RSS service if this is m a i n s t r e a m , d e s k t o p - c l a s s your content and you're reading it Windows operating system to run on someone else's site, please read on ARM chips. ARM processors, the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentwhich power iOS, Android, and only/faq.php#publishers. Five other mobile devices on the Filters recommends: Incinerating market, have gained great traction Assange - The Liberal Media Go of late in large part because of its To Work. better battery management. Samsung's legal patent ping-pong
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Talkcast tonight, 7pm PT/10pm ET: Heat wave edition!

Kelly Guimont (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
free weekend minutes!): dial (724) 444-7444 and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 -- during the Submitted at 7/8/2012 7:40:00 PM call, you can request to talk by It's Sunday, no matter how warm keying in *8. it is, so we'll be trying to keep If you've got a headset or cool this week while we record microphone handy on your Mac, the Talkcast at 10pm ET, 7pm PT. you can connect via the free XThere will be discussion of Lite or other SIP clients (aside Samsung and their legal issues, as Now it's really all about you, the from Google Voice), or Skype well as your DNS servers. Since community, so join me won't you? with SkypeOut credit, basic it's summer, we'll discuss summer To participate, you can use the instructions are here. Talk to you travel and while we're traveling, a browser-only Talkshoe client, the tonight! trip to my House Of Crackpot embedded Facebook app, or Talkcast tonight, 7pm PT/10pm Theories! Specifically we're download the classic TalkShoe ET: Heat wave edition! originally headed to the Crackpot Theory Pro Java client; however, for +5 a p p e a r e d o n T U A W - T h e Stables, where we'll be trotting Interactivity, you should call in. Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sun, out the dead horse of a 7-inch For the web UI, just click the 08 Jul 2012 19:40:00 EST. Please iPad rumor and beating that for Talkshoe Web button on our see our terms for use of feeds. awhile. profile page at 4 HI/7 PDT/10 pm Permalink| Email this| Comments Who knows what we'll get in the EDT Sunday. To call in on Aftershow, but you can bet it will regular phone or VoIP lines (Viva be interesting.
Glorious Golden Hive Cakes These Chocolate Beehive Cupcakes are Creating a Turn a Plastic Buzz You Can't Jug Into a Scoop Refuse (TrendHunter.com) [Repurpose]
David Galloway (Lifehacker)

( TrendHunter.com) Outfit your next party with a buzz-worthy dessert by whipping up these Chocolate Beehive Cupcakes. These bug-bearing treats were featured on the sugary blog Sweetopia,' but come from...
This tip offers a simple way to cut a scoop out of your standard half-gallon milk or juice jug. The image above is a compilation that credits a Spanish-language Facebook account, but a Google image search shows that the individual images may have originally come from a Korean weblog. More
The Weekend Is Over, And Markets Are Going Down

Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Remember, it's going to be a very quiet week.
As we start, markets are resuming the downtrend that we saw on Friday. US futures are just modestly lower.
Japan is down about 0.9%, in part
due to catch-up to last Friday (reacting to the US jobs report) but also due to a weak machine orders report. Please follow Money Game on
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Nokia ex-employees to revive Meego

Mark Raby (SlashGear)
Play PopSugar's Bikini Bracket and Enter to Win $500 at Neiman Marcus
Molly Goodson (PopSugar)
Submitted at 7/8/2012 10:22:32 AM
So, what happens when a brand new smartphone operating system is fully built and ready for largescale deployment but ends up being left for dead? If you ask a certain group of former Nokia employees, the answer is that you take it upon yourself to bring the OS back to life. Thats exactly what Finnish startup Jolla is looking to do. The company, which is made up of ex-Nokia personnel, is planning to develop a bunch of new phones built in the Meego platform. Meego, you may recall, was supposed to be Nokias answer to the explosion of Android and iPhone popularity. It was to be Nokias last shot to stay relevant in the changing mobile phone market. But just as it finished putting all the bells and whistles together, it ended up partnering with Microsoft and
Windows Phone instead. At the head of the new company is one Marc Dillon, who as you might expect was an integral part of the Meego team. Dillon was Nokias chief operating officer and was the principal engineer for the now-defunct mobile OS. Nokia created something wonderful the worlds best smartphone product. It deserves to be continued, and we will do that
together with all the bright and gifted people contributing to the MeeGo success story, Jolla said in a statement. [ via Cnet] Nokia ex-employees to revive Meego is written by Mark Raby& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
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An anthem on the power of ideas

(Holy Kaw!)
achieving the future we never thought possible and its all the Submitted at 7/8/2012 8:38:00 PM result of ideas. Its the heart-stopping moment Jason Silva captures this spirit of when the light suddenly flips on, breathtaking excitement in a video its the melding of minds that for TEDGlobal 2012, an anthem b i r t h s s o m e t h i n g n e w , i t s on the power of IDEAS called
to head into a new week than this. Full story at Vimeo. Inspired by TED. Permalink| Leave a comment Radical Openness, and we can assure you, there is no better way
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Excellent Anti-Union News From Multiple Places Including US Supreme Court

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Mish Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis)
At long last unions are on the run and losing battles in multiple places at once. Let's take a look at some dates and headlines. June 7, 2012 LA Times: 2 big cities OK cuts to worker pension costs Landslide victories on ballot measures to cut pension costs in two major California cities emboldened reform advocates, who said they expect a flurry of copycat initiatives and increased support for Gov. Jerry Brown's long-stalled push to curb the state's obligations to its employees. In San Jose, nearly 70% of voters Tuesday approved a plan that gives workers the choice between increasing their pension contribution to 13% of their pay, currently 5% to 11%, or switching to a lower-cost plan with reduced benefits. It also steeply cuts benefits for new hires and tightens rules for disability retirements. In San Diego, where pension cuts already have been implemented, voters opted to eliminate pensions for new workers. By a 66% to 34% margin, voters Tuesday endorsed Proposition B, which provides newly hired city employees with a 401(k) program,
but preserves traditional pensions for new police officers. The San Diego measure also calls for a five-year freeze on "pensionable" pay levels and removes elected leaders' ability to improve retirement packages without a popular vote. Leaders in both cities say voters were echoing a point that reform advocates have made for years. June 7, 2012 Washington Times: Labor unions feel pain of pension reform votes in San Diego, San Jose San Diegos victory isnt just a win for San Diego taxpayers. It marks the beginning of the pension reform movement for our country, declared Lani Lutar, president and CEO of the San Diego County Taxpayers Association. Tuesday the voters sent a very clear message to elected officials: Put the taxpayers first. Use our money prudently, and stop giving away benefits we cant afford. Pension reform advocates call it a crushing defeat, a rising trend, and just the beginning. According to the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility, with the victories on Tuesday 18 of 20 pension reform measures have now passed in California since 2010. They have won with an average of two-thirds of the vote, even in more liberal cities like
San Francisco. July 6, 2012 Mercury News: S tate will not override local pension votes, Senate leader Darrell Steinberg says "I would not favor doing anything that would affect the voterapproved initiatives," the Senate president pro tem told reporters Thursday, a day before the Legislature breaks for its summer recess. A spokesman for the Sacramento Democrat had said earlier that his boss "respects the will of the voters. ... It is presumed that any local initiative passed this year will be grandfathered-in to the eventual pension-reform legislation." July 5, 2012 Union Watch - Steve Greenhut: US Supreme Court Slaps Down California SEIU Union Dues Collection Scheme In Knox v. Service Employees International Union Local 1000, by a 7-2 vote, the high court slapped down the local Californias largest stateemployee union for deducting money from employees paychecks and using it to fight against California campaign initiatives without giving its covered nonmembers a chance to opt out of these political campaign contributions. July 3, 2012 Town Hall - Gina Loudon: Labor Unions Suffer Defeat on Taxpayer Revolt
While the unions treat lawmakers in Sacramento, and most of the large cities like LA, San Francisco and Oakland like their concubines, having their way with them anytime they want, voters in the hinterlands, led by San Diego are not so compliant. In fact, voters in little El Cajon (pop. barely 100,000) showed big time el cajones by also becoming a charter city. A charter city differs from a general law city in that many of the day to day law making gets pulled from Sacramento to the local city council. Those laws include labor union laws. To date, voters in fully 122 California cities have voted to give Sacramento the bird. The City of Vista passed their charter in 2007 on the prediction that taxpayers could save million of dollars on planned construction of two fire houses and other projects as charter cities could avoid being forced to pay Sacramento governmentmandated wages or so-called prevailing wages on these projects. The measure passed by an overwhelming margin, but what did the unions do? Right. They sued. Today they lost. In the matter of the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California (Big Labor) v. The City of Vista (Little Taxpayers), the
California Supreme Court ruled today in favor of the taxpayers. Taxpayers in every charter city in California now have the ability to squeeze out from under the oppressive Sacramento mandated prevailing wages under which a plumber in San Francisco makes over $100 per hour in total compensation. The taxpayers in Vista will be able to have their fire houses and have millions left over to build more parks or other amenities. The alternative would have been millions of dollars to prop up insolvent union pensions. That is the real issue here. With their losing streak running from Wisconsin to San Jose to San Diego, big labor should realize that the peasants are revolting. The animals on Orwells Animal Farm have seen that the pigs are their now masters, and they have met the new boss, who looks the same as the old boss. Their fate runs through Vista. So as the ink dries on the Vista decision, and more cities undoubtedly are contemplating enacting charters of their own, Sacramento lawmakers would be well-advised to make themselves scarce when big labor comes demanding more favors. Before Sacramento lawmakers try to do the unions EXCELLENT page 41
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Key Events In The Coming Week

Tyler Durden
A preview of the key events in the coming week (which will see more Central Banks jumping on the loose bandwagon and ease, because well, that is the only ammo the academic econ Ph.D's who run the world have left) courtesy of Goldman Sachs whose Jan Hatzius is once again calling for GDP targetting, as he did back in 2011, just so Bill Dudley can at least let him have his $750 million MBS LSAP. But more on that tomorrow. What Matters in FX This Week : China Growth and Inflation Data, Ecofin Meeting, FOMC The past week undid a large part of the constructive price action posted the week before and a significant part of the progress made following the Euro-area summit. First off, it was a data heavy week, during which, key releases such as the ISM and Payrolls disappointed, but not to an extent that would justify further and imminent easing of monetary policy by the Fed. Overall, the deterioration in activity and the higher threshold for Fed easing continue to push the dollar higher and continue to challenge our FX views, which are predicated on dollar weakness. On the European front, the ECB cut both the refi and the deposit rate by 25bps, pushing the EUR lower against most trading partners. Despite broader risk-off
sentiment, EUR under-performed even currencies highly sensitive to global growth like NJA FX and AUD. The latter were broadly supported by the announcement that China eased policy rates following softer growth and inflation prints. The recovery in metals and oil prices backed the market view that policy driven demand strength in Asia may prove to be a bright spot amid this generalized deceleration in DM growth. More broadly, although our GLI indicator has shown signs of deeply negative momentum in global industrial output, it is also true that PMI data hints at underperformance of DM growth vs EM. Net-net, this has resulted in further demand for short DM vs long EM trades but in a riskneutral way. The most obvious candidate over the last few weeks has been the EUR; short EUR vs long commodity or EM FX positions have attracted considerable market interest. However, the key question remains how resilient will EMs prove to be should DM growth continue to deteriorate and risk aversion continues to pick up. Back to Euro-area issues, following the summit results, markets likely expected to hear either from the ECB or from governments some provisions to protect against high and rising funding costs for Spain and Italy, even if that was a short term assurance until longer term policy
goals are specified more clearly. However, the lack of clarity weighed heavily on peripheral bonds pushing Italian and Spanish yields to erase more than 2/3rds of the post summit gains. The net result was obviously also negative for risky assets more broadly. Looking ahead, China data will be closely watched. The CPI is expected to dip significantly to 2.1% in our forecasts vs expectations of 2.3%. A lower CPI print would leave further room for easing by local authorities, particularly if growth data justified it. In that sense, 2Q GDP will be followed by markets we expect growth to have decelerated by 0.2% from 8.1% yoy in Q1 to 7.9%. IP probably stayed flat relative to last month. In addition to China, a large number of countries are scheduled to release IP numbers in this coming week. The Eurogroup/Ecofin meeting will discuss some of the details missing from the latest summit results and will also discuss developments in the Greek adjustment program. FOMC minutes will provide further insight into the Feds assessment of slowing economic conditions in the US and the probability for balance sheet expansion ahead. Monday July 9 China CPI (June): China CPI was 3.0%yoy in May. Consensus expects 2.3%, while we expect a print of 2.1%. Draghi Speech at the European
Parliament in Brussels BOE Tucker Testimony to Commons Eurogroup/Ecofin Meeting Also Interesting: Japan Current Account Balance, Turkey IP, US Consumer Credit, Mexico INPC Headline Inflation
Thursday July 12 South Korea Central Bank Meeting: Consensus expects the base rate to remain unchanged at 3.25%. Indonesia Central Bank Meeting: The policy rate was at 5.75% in June. Consensus expects no change in the July Meeting. Tuesday July 10 Chile Central Bank Meeting: UK Industrial Production(May): We and consensus expect the base We expect -1.7%yoy, slightly rate to remain unchanged at above consensus at -2.1%yoy for 5.00% May, down from -1.0%yoy for Euro-area IP (May): Consensus April. expects 0.0%mom up from Weidmann Speech in German 1.1%mom in April. Constitutional Court ECB Monthly Bulletin Also Interesting: France IP, Also Interesting: India IP, Italy IP, Sweden IP, Norway CPI Sweden CPI, French CPI, US Initial Jobless Claims, Mexico IP, Wednesday July 11 Peru Central Bank Meeting. Japan Monetary Policy Meeting: We and consensus Friday July 13 expect no further easing steps China Real GDP (2Q): We from the MPC at this meeting. expect real GDP to grow at 7.9% G e r m a n y C P I ( J u n e ) : yoy (consensus 7.7%yoy) down Consensus expects 1.7%yoy in from 8.1%yoy in the first quarter. June, unchanged from the print in China IP (June): Consensus May. expects IP to be 9.8%yoy in June B r a z i l M o n e t a r y P o l i c y up from 9.6%yoy in May. We Meeting: We (and consensus) expect a flat reading. expect the SELIC to be cut by Russia Central Bank Meeting: 50bps from 8.50% to 8.00% We and consensus expect no United States Trade Balance change in the overnight auction (May): Consensus expects - based repo rate at 5.25%. $48.4bn in May, down from - US PPI (June): We expect a $50.1%bn in April. We expect a 0.4% print in June against print of -$50.5bn. consensus estimates of United States FOMC Minutes 0.6%mom, up from -1.0%mom in Also Interesting: Czech CPI, May. Hungary CPI, Turkey Current U n i v e r s i t y o f M i c h i g a n Account Balance KEY page 39
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Things That Make You Go Hmmm - Such As The Transition From Conspiracy Theory To Conspiracy Fact
Tyler Durden
From Grant Williams, author of Things That Make You Go Hmmm, Attempts to manipulate free markets invariably end badly after all, they are, supposedly, by their very nature, free. ... Over the past few weeks, the exposure of the Libor-rigging scandal has monopolized the headlines of the financial press and inveigled its way onto the front pages of every major news publication in the world through the sheer size and scale of the story. Something as big as this just CANT be hidden from the public. Only... it can. It has been. It no doubt still is to a certain extent. Im not going to go through all of the events of the past few weeks as you are no doubt familiar with them, but [simply understanding how LIBOR works makes for a simple conclusion]. Im afraid its rather obvious. Given that almost half the immediately, Barclays simply reported inputs that help establish CANNOT have manipulated the the Libor rate are discarded
Libor rate alone. Period. Whats more, to effectively
ensure the rate is set at the price required, youd need to not only
establish the highest and lowest 25% of prices, but then ensure the remaining 50% average out to the required rate and, based on the fact that there are 16 banks that submit rates, that would mean about 13 of the 16 involved would need to be complicit. As a very good friend of mine put it earlier this week; at best this is a cartel, at worst its outright fraud on a scale that is completely unprecedented. So for five years there have been attempts to fix the Libor rate and, take it from me, during that time, many inside the financial industry were familiar with the rumors of such manipulation but it was another huge scandal with such highpowered connected interests that it would no doubt be brushed squarely under the carpet. Forget too big to fail. This was too deep to prove. Libor is so important to so many people in the financial industry that the question of why it was manipulated really ought to be framed differently: Assuming you COULD manipulate something as important and potentially beneficial as the Libor rate with THINGS page 39
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The Black Hole of Jobless in America

EconMatters
By EconMatters June employment report from the BLS said the economy added 80,000 jobs (+84,000 in private sectors, -4,000 in government jobs) in June. The unemployment rate is unchanged at 8.2% from May, while th e U-6 underemployment rate rose 0.1% from May to 14.9% (in 2007, the rate was 8%). The jobless rate has stuck above 8% for over three years since February 2009, the longest such stretch on record since 1948. Even though the total employed jumped by 128,000, the jobless rate remained the same, primarily because the labor force increased by a larger 189,000. That is not a good sign when the labor force is growing faster than job growth, as it suggests the unemployment rate could hit higher if the trend continues. Out of the total unemployed, 41.9% or 5.4 million is trapped in the long-term unemployed category (jobless for 27 weeks and over), while growth in private payrolls was the weakest in 10 months. New Jobs in the USA (Sept. 2008 to June 2012) Chart Source: Flaglerlive.com The better news is that the jobless picture, while still gloomy, at least seems holding steady and not deteriorating. The bad new is that don't expect we can dig out of this unemployment hole any time
soon either. At an April 25 press conference, Fed Chairman Bernanke said about 100,000 a month job growth is needed just to stabilize the jobless rate, while 150,000 to 200,000 a month of new jobs are needed to reduce it. The latest estimation from the CBO(Congressional Budget Office) implies that roughly
90,000 jobs a month is needed to keep up with the projected population growth--the underlying rate of labor force growth is now just 0.7% annually. According to economist Carmen Reinhart, the post-crisis weak period usually lasts as long as the boom that preceded it. The U.S. housing boom lasted 7 years (prices doubled from 2000-2007),
which means the job market will also remain unhealthy until 2016, 7 years after the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009. The more sobering view comes from the Brookings Institution. A s of June, the U.S. faces a jobs gap of 11.3 million jobs since the start of the Great Recession in December 2007. Under the assumption of 208,000 new jobs
per month, it will take until June 2020 or eight years to close the jobs gap. At 321,000 jobs per month, the economy will reach pre-recession employment levels by August 2016. (See Chart Below). The reality is that regardless which estimate you go by, the BLACK page 41
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such ease for years, why wouldnt you? The answer to this question would ordinarily be: "Because its illegal and government regulators would throw the book at us" ... So, working from the ground up; we have a set of traders looking to produce the best profits they can for personal gain, the major bank they work for and who should be supervising them with a need to disguise the level of its own funding costs and above them all, a government seeking to keep borrowing costs down in the middle of a gigantic financial storm. From such alignments of interest are the greatest of conspiracies born. In my humble opinion, the Libor scandal (which has a LONG way to go before it has played out and which will claim a LOT more scalps) will mark a fundamental change in the treatment of financial conspiracy theories in the media. The sheer amount of coverage it will undoubtedly
receive will signal a shift in attitude towards the exposing of such scandals rather than the blind -eyes that have been regularly turned in recent years. ... But perhaps, most-of-all, watching how quickly those in high places begin to throw each other under the bus, it will hasten the end of many other possible government conspiracies as exposing such events becomes an exercise in self-preservation. Prime amongst conspiracy theories that may soon be finally proven to be either valid or the figments of overactive imaginations, are those alleged in the gold and silver markets. The allegations concerning precious metal price manipulation predate those surrounding Libor by decades but until now day they have remained similarly acknowledged within financial circles and ignored without. That may well be about to change. Unencumbered by liability, the rising price of gold has always been a barometer of governmental
failure to protect the purchasing power of fiat currency and the best indication of the damage that inflation does. Forget inexorably rising gold prices. Forget the corrections that shake loose hands from the wheel at every turn. In the broader context they carry far less relevance than the intrinsic values that gold provides a consistent yardstick to. A look at the value of assets measured in ounces of gold remains the most consistent way to get a sense of their real value and the charts below demonstrate all too clearly the true performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and average US house prices over the long term when measured in gold ounces. If the long-stated claims about government-sanctioned, bank-led manipulation of precious metals markets put forward so eloquently by the likes of Ted Butler, Bill Murphy & Chris Powell at GATA as well as Messrs. Sprott, Sinclair, Davies et al are eventually proven
to have any validity whatsoever, the fallout from the Libor scandal will prove to be (to use the words of Jamie Dimon) just another tempest in a tea pot as the precious metals are the very underpinnings of the entire global financial system. Conspiracy or no, it would be a blessed relief to get closure no matter what the truth turns out to be. As for the full note by Grant Williams, which has much more in it, it can be found below ( pdf): Hmmm Jul 08 2012 Average: Your rating: None Average: 5( 7 votes) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
Katie Holmes and Suri Stick Together to Shop Whole Foods

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Katie Holmes carried Suri to Whole Foods in NYC this afternoon. Suri brought a few stuffed animals along for the shopping trip, while Katie had her reusable bags in hand. It's been a busy weekend for Katie, who spent much of yesterday meeting with lawyers. She wore a yellow dress and denim jacket for the important appointment, which was apparently to discuss her divorce from Tom Cruise. Tom and Katie's lawyers are reportedly working on an agreement behind closed doors to avoid public drama. While the legal proceedings have been underway, Katie's been sticking around Manhattan with Suri, and the duo has shared multiple outings including an ice cream date, a museum visit, and an afternoon tea with friends. View Slideshow
Consumer Sentiment Provisional (July): We expect a print of 74, very close to consensus at 73 and marginally up from 73.2 in June Also Interesting: Japan IP, India WPI, Spain CPI, Poland CPI, Hungary IP
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Trends in Duration of U.S. Unemployment

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Start a Fire with Jumper Cables and a Pencil [Video]

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If you're in an emergency situation and need to start a fire but lack matches, a lighter, or one of the many other ways we've shown you how to start fires you can get the job done by using a set of jumper cables hooked up to your car and a standard wooden and graphite pencil. More
Google Launches Worldwide Gay Marriage Campaign

Daniel Halper (The Weekly Standard)
Google yesterday reportedly launched a worldwide gay marriage campaign, officially
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current job creation trend still falls short--from April through June, the economy produced an average of just 75,000 jobs a month. Furthermore, in addition to high national debt, t he U.S. would have more than $600 billion in higher taxes and reductions in defense and other government programs starting in 2013 if the Congress fails to resolve the "financial cliff". Europe is facing its own "financial cliff" with sovereign debt crisis raging in several Euro countries, while China is also experiencing a significant slowdown, if not an outright recession. With this high degree of global uncertainty, companies most likely will put off adding permanent positions, and maintain status-quo by either asking existing employees to work longer hours, or hire temporary workers to keep the business going.
The Great Recession and the poor job market in the past five years has stressed the middle class to the limit. The weakening economic outlook has partly prompted the Federal Reserve to expand its Operation Twist by $267 billion till the end of 2012. Based on the recent language from the Fed, QE3 could be coming as well. However, t he seeds have long been sown from t he poor fiscal and monetary policy implementation by the government. The president's 2009 stimulus program, and Fed's two rounds of QE have gone to either big banks or non-essential special purpose projects, with very little to where it'd matter in terms of jobs. Right now, it looks like President Obama likely will get re-elected unless things start deteriorating fast and significantly (That's more a poor reflection of the current viable presidential candidates,
instead of an endorsement of the current Administration.) So that means we probably should not expect much difference even with a QE3 or an Obama stimulus 2.0 after five years into the black hole of jobless. Further Reading- Forget QE3, America Needs a Real Job and Road Stimulus EconMatters All Rights Reserved | Facebook| Twitter| Post Alert| Kindle Average: Your rating: None This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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bidding and pass special laws to harm charter cities, they may take a vista at the cajones of the voters that are in full rebellion. July 6, 2012 Town Hall - John Ransom: Teachers Union Expelled from School District The Douglas County School District, a suburban community south of Denver, Colorado, has decided to part ways with their teachers union in the absence of progress on a new contract which expired June 30th, 2012. The Board of Education finds and declares that the Collective Bargaining Agreements between the District and the Unions, said the district on July 3rd in its formal resolution dissolving the bonds between the union and the district, which had been effective from July 1, 2011 through and including June 30, 2012, are now expired and of no legal effect whatsoever. The dissolution between the district and the union is unprecedented and sources close to the union tell me that unions are pensively watching, worried that other districts around Colorado and the country could take the same action as Douglas County has. We can only hope. Progress!! This my friends is what's called
progress. As Ransom suggests, we hope to see a lot more of it. I have every expectation we will. Indeed, I would like someone to take the entire issue of collective bargaining of public unions as well as prevailing wage laws to the US Supreme Court. It is time to end the insane grip public unions have on US taxpayers. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// www.sitkapacific.com/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
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Here Are The Key Market Moving Events For Monday, July 9 (AA)
Eric Platt (Money Game)
Monday is a relatively slow day for economic announcements in the U.S., with consumer credit expected towards the end of the day. Internationally, the focus will be on reports out of Germany and France. Here's what you need to know. The U.K. starts things off at 7:00 p.m. on Sunday evening with the Lloyds Employment Confidence index. There is no consensus for the report. Japanese machine orders follow at 7:50 p.m., with expectations for a 2.6 percent sequential fall in May. At 9:30 p.m. Chinese inflation for June will be released. Economists forecast CPI showed a 2.3 percent jump on a year-overyear basis. Announcements go quiet until 1:45 a.m. on Monday morning
with Swiss unemployment. Consensus is for a 10 basis point decline in the jobless rate, to 2.9 percent in June. Germany's trade balance follows at 2:00 a.m., with expectations for the surplus to decline slightly to14.0 billion in May, as imports increase 0.8
percent. The Bank of France Business Sentiment report is expected at 2:45 a.m. Consensus is for a one point drop to 92 in June. Czech industrial output hits at 3:00 a.m. Economists predict output declined 2.3 percent yearon-year in May.
Attention shifts to North America at 10:30 a.m., with the Bank of Canada's Business Outlook Survey. Closing out the day at 3 p.m. is consumer credit in the U.S. (news photos - Google News) Economists forecast credit expanded by $8.0 billion in May, Submitted at 7/8/2012 8:21:09 PM above April's $6.51 billion Photos: Jason Derulo, with Jordin advance. Sparks, at Rao's, Celine Dion, Venus, Pure B e l o w , t h e k e y e a r n i n g s Las Vegas Weekly (blog) announcements scheduled for the Sunday, July 8, 2012 | 6:15 p.m. day. The couple also were connected at Alcoa(AA): $0.06 the hip at Celine Dion's show in Consensus estimates provided by the Colosseum at Caesars Palace Bloomberg. All times are in on Friday night. At this year's Eastern Standard Time. Billboard Music ... SEE ALSO: Here's What The and more World's Biggest Companies Are Telling Us About The Economy > Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story
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Refresh Roundup: week of July 2nd, 2012

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custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are Submitted at 7/8/2012 9:00:00 PM floating around that it's easy for a Your smartphone and / or tablet sizable chunk to get lost in the is just begging for an update. mix. To make sure they don't From time to time, these mobile escape without notice, we've d e v i c e s a r e b l e s s e d w i t h gathered every possible update, tomfoolery we could find during maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, hack, and other miscellaneous
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Goldman's Jan Hatzius Explains The 'Real Issue' With More Fed Easing
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Kate and Pippa Watch the Wimbledon Finals With David and Victoria
Lauren Turner (PopSugar)
From the latest note from Goldman's Jan Hatzius... The real issue, in our view, is that neither Twist 2 nor QE3 is likely to be very potent unless it is coupled with unconventional unconventional policies. Using our GS Financial Conditions Index, we showed recently that a program of a size similar to Twist 1 or QE2 should only be expected to boost real GDP growth by about pointhelpful but hardly equal to the task given the starting point. In contrast, our analysis last yearwhile highly simplifiedshowed that adoption of a nominal GDP level target could be much more effective because it would commit the Fed to open-ended accommodation, via both short-term interest rates and the balance sheet, until nominal spending had recovered a much bigger share of the lost
ground. If firms and consumers built this commitment into their own expectations for future activity, prices, and interest rates, this expectations channel could provide a powerful boost to growth over and above the direct impact of the Feds interest rate or balance sheet policies themselves. However, we believe that unconventional unconventional
easing remains unlikely for now. Such is the state of the Fed. The only thing that might work is an action far beyond what the existing Fed is willing to do right now. Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story
The royal box at Wimbledon's finals in England today was full of famous faces. Kate Middleton, in a white look by Joseph, and her sister Pippa sat together in the stands as they watched Roger Federer take on Andy Murray. Both sisters attended matches earlier in the tournament, with Prince William joining Kate on Wednesday and James Middleton appearing at Pippa's side last week. Also on hand were David and Victoria Beckham, who stuck close together during the event. They shared a special moment with Kate when she stopped to
greet them before taking her own seat. David and Victoria are in London with their four children just ahead of daughter Harper's first birthday on Tuesday. View Slideshow
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Nolan Vision: Making the Masterful Dark Knight Rises

Hugh Hart (Wired Top Stories)
Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway) dances toe-to-toe with Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) in a scene that sets up The Dark Knight Rises concluding chapter. Photos courtesy Warner Bros. BEVERLY HILLS, California To inject The Dark Knight Rises with a thoroughly contemporary feel, Christopher Nolan and his team looked to the past. After the second film came out, it was before the recession and Occupy Wall Street, said the directors screenwriting brother Jonathan Nolan, explaining the themes of economic disruption that run through their final Batman movie. Rather than being influenced by that, we looked at old books and movies, and at some point I found A Tale of Two cities to be captivating. The Nolans and members of The Dark Knight Rises cast gathered here Sunday to discuss the making of the final film in their Batman trilogy. With Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan and his team set a new gold standard for superhero movies. Their latest picture cranks up the stakes with hellacious action sequences and deep character arcs that unify the entire Bruce Wayne/Batman saga with a richly satisfying payoff. The other movies keep
threatening to turn Gotham City but they never really achieved inside out so it collapses on itself, that.
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Christians Upset Over LifeWay's Removal of 'The Blind Side'

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inspirational movie from its shelves last month after a Florida pastor within the denomination complained over the language used in the film. The film tells the (Photo: The Christian Post) A true story of NFL player Michael woman shops at LifeWay during Ohr, an impoverished young the Southern Baptist Convention's black man, who is saved from Annual Meeting in New Orleans, inner city gang activity and Tuesday, June 19, 2012. homelessness when a white Christian family adopts him. July 7, 2012| 9:16 am The pastor had proposed a Metaxas, a rising evangelical resolution for the SBC's annual voice who is best known for his meeting June 18-20 that called on b i o g r a p h i e s o n W i l l i a m LifeWay to pull the PG-13 movie W i l b e r f o r c e a n d D i e t r i c h and any other products that B o n h o e f f e r , e x p r e s s e d h i s contain "explicit profanity, God's disapproval of LifeWay's move to name in vain, and a racial slur." pull "The Blind Side" in a Wanting to avoid controversy at commentary for BreakPoint radio the annual meeting, officials at this week. LifeWay announced that the "I'm kind of upset. A great movie movie would no longer be sold. was pulled from the shelves of a Metaxas pointed out that the Christian bookstore chain," he objectionable language helped to said on the July 5 program. realistically depict the "unpleasant "Look, I'm as concerned about world" from which Ohr was cultural messages as anyone. I'm a rescued from. He disagreed with father. But there's a right way and the Florida pastor's reasoning that a wrong way to do this and the the presence of this movie in wrong way definitely includes the Christian bookstores would make permanent state of umbrage that children more likely to "embrace" many Christians seem to exhibit. this kind of behavior. They seem to have confused Follow us being salt and light with being "I think it's insane. I saw the curmudgeons." movie myself. I even let my 12LifeWay Christian Stores, which year-old daughter see it. That's is affiliated with the Southern because it is a great film and I Baptist Convention, made the call recommend it highly," he said. t o r e m o v e c o p i e s o f t h e Added Metaxas, "Concerns about
the language in the film also miss the larger point: what made the Tuohys the family depicted in the film such great Christian exemplars wasn't their non-use of profanity; it was their willingness to reach out and embrace someone in need." "If we Christians can't get this, then maybe we really should refrain from commenting on culture in the first place." Metaxas thought that LifeWay's decision to pull the movie only reinforced the negative stereotype of Christians: there's no "pleasing" them and they're always "mad" about something. "We complain about the calumnies and caricatures of Christians on the big screen; and then, when an Academy-Award winning film shows us at our very best, we complain that scenes depicting harsh, inner-city reality are too true to life!" observed Metaxas. "We are, in effect, making our participation contingent on all our possible objections being met beforehand. Since there are many people who would be happy if we stayed within our cultural and religious ghettos, it's difficult to imagine how we Christians can hope to be taken seriously in cultural discussions and debates with this kind of an approach." John Stonestreet, a commentator
for BreakPoint's sister radio program The Point Radio, argued that the reactions by the pastor and LifeWay to "The Blind Side" were a disservice to the portrayal of redemption and to Christian art. "Look, real Christianity including Christian art doesn't hide from the real world. Our addiction to keeping everything 'safe,' hides the fall and trivializes redemption. How evil is portrayed in a movie is far more important than whether it is portrayed," wrote Stonestreet in a July 5 blog post. In a follow-up radio commentary, Stonestreet contended that Christians have created a "Christian art ghetto," where the quality of art and its message are watered down. "As Christians, we too often dismiss good art and accept mediocre substitutes just because they're labeled Christian. We've created for ourselves a kind of 'artistic ghetto,' and are willing to preserve it even at the cost of quality," said Stonestreet. "In many ways, 'Christian art' has become a synonym for anything that's charming, quaint, or makes us feel good. It often portrays a one-sided world where evil doesn't exist and only 'positive' and 'uplifting' messages are allowed." Stonestreet suggested that
Christians look to award-winning writer and director of Pixar, Peter Docter, for an example of how Christianity can reclaim its place in the art world. Docter, who is a devout Presbyterian, has brought audiences the movies "Toy Story," "Wall-E," "Monsters, Inc" and "Up." "Docter's art is shaping an entire generation. The values and lessons of his animated stories have been praised by both Christian and non-Christian critics alike," said Stonestreet. "These movies are about family, courage, friendship, loving your neighbor, and they're the gold standard of the industry. And most importantly, they're not stuck in the Christian ghetto, but bringing wholesome entertainment to eager audiences." LifeWay has stood by its decision to remove "The Blind Side" from its stores and online site. "I am confident our staff have carefully and prayerfully reviewed all the products we sell and applied standards approved by our trustees," said Marty King, communications director for LifeWay, in an earlier interview with CP. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it CHRISTIANS page 46
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The two-hour, 41-minute finale serves as apt closure for the dark myth crafted for this 21st-century vision of the DC Comics hero. The other movies keep threatening to turn Gotham City inside out so it collapses on itself, but they never really achieved that, Jonathan Nolan said. A Tale of Two Cities was the most harrowing portrait of a relatable, recognizable civilization falling to pieces. In Charles Dickens novel, Paris is a city overrun with bloody chaos during the French Revolution. That literary vision helped inspire the atmosphere surrounding Batmans confrontation with evil Bane in Gotham City, which has gone eight years without its Caped Crusader when The Dark Knight Rises begins. Paris, during that period its hard to imagine things going that terribly wrong, Jonathan Nolan said. That became a great inspiration for The Dark Knight Rises. Generating a story with genuine substance proved to be a tall challenge after the massive success of 2008s The Dark Knight, director Nolan said. Most of the pressure you get from a sequel is to give audiences a reason to come back, he said. At the early script stage, we felt
a lot of pressure: OK, why would we do this? Do we have a story to tell? Once we knew we had a story where we really wanted to know what happened to Bruce Wayne next and where his story was going to go, then you get on track. Anne Hathaway energetically breaks type as Selina Kyle, a glamorous, very acrobatic cat burglar with a Occupy-size chip on her shoulder. Though her character is never referred to in the film as Catwoman, the actress convinces as a leather-clad asskicker, thanks to an intense regimen that effected a complete physical transformation. When I got the part, she said, Chris called me into his office and said, OK, so youre going to do a lot fighting. When we made Inception, Joe got into really good shape. He went to the gym for months so that when we did his fight scenes, he did all his own fighting. I really liked that. Reading between the lines, I went, Gotcha. I went into the gym and came out after we wrapped. Ive never done anything like that before. Bane and Batman, played by Tom Hardy and Christian Bale, go head to head in The Dark Knight Rises. Images courtesy Warner Bros.
Tom Hardy, who plays the muchbuzzed-about mercenary Bane with unsettling ferocity, did not appear at the press conference due to work conflicts, but Christian Bale described their fight scenes as more than just knockdown sequences. Tom was obviously a formidable character and a great acting partner, Bale said. You learn about what Batman has had to go through from the beginning of the movie to the end, you learn about Bane, and the changes that come over him. Thats the thing I love about Batman: you learn something about each character throughout each fight. Thats really what youre looking for. You see so many people punching each other who cares? Youre looking for, What are the weaknesses, strengths of each character? Nolan on Imax vs. 3D Imax creates a much larger-thanlife image, and the clarity of the image draws me into the movie, said Christopher Nolan, who noted that 3-D actually shrinks the image. I like to see Batman larger than life on an enormous screen, he said. Director Nolan, who first worked with Hardy in his cerebral action hit Inception, challenged the actor
to transcend Banes clamplike mask. When I called Tom I basically said, Ive good news and bad news. The good news: Ive got a terrific character for you. The bad news: Your face is going to be covered the entire film, so youll have to get everything across with just your eyes and voice. Hardy shocked Nolan with his interpretation of the character. The first time I saw Tom perform a scene with Christian, Id never seen anything like it before, Christopher Nolan said. Theres an incredible discrepancy between his eyes, which have this very still quality, and his voice. It was a total characterization. Michael Caine plays Bruce Waynes butler, Alfred, a recurring character that functions as the moral conscience of Nolans Batman trilogy, and in the finale, he assumes pivotal importance in his advisory role. The veteran actors account of his first Batman encounter helps explain why Nolans superhero franchise has consistently attracted serious acting talent that might not normally deign to appear in comic book movies. On a Sunday morning nine years ago I hear a knock on the door and theres Chris was standing
there, Caine says. I knew him from Memento and Insomnia and thought, Oh, hes got a lovely little thriller. So he came in and I said, Whats the name of the movie? Batman Begins. I thought, Im too old to play Batman, I wonder who he wants me to be? I knew it wasnt Catwoman. He said, The butler. I didnt know if I wanted to be saying, Dinner is served. Would you like another bowl of soup? He gave me the script and said, I want you to read it now. He had a cup of tea and I read the script. I was stunned by the writing. It wasnt just a cipher character that you get in these big special effect movies. These were real characters. The Dark Knight Rises opens July 20. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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PCUSA Passes Resolution Against Spanking Children

encourage "all states to enact licensing laws prohibiting corporal punishment in schools July 6, 2012| 1:02 pm and day and residential childcare "Most people know the difference facilities." between discipline and abuse. I In January, St. Augustine High would like us to trust parents that School in New Orleans, La., most of them can responsibly agreed to finally end its long[use] corporal punishment," said standing policy of punishing the Rev. James Emig of the students through the use of Denver Presbytery, according to a p a d d l i n g f o l l o w i n g a l e g a l PC(USA) blog. struggle. At that time the school Many Christians believe corporal was believed to be the last punishment is a biblical practice. "refuge" of corporal punishment Proverbs 13:24 says, "Whoever among U.S. Catholic schools. spares the rod hates their children, Follow us but the one who loves their A study published online by the children is careful to discipline journal "Pediatrics" on Monday them." Still, other Christians suggests that there is a link believe children can be effectively between the "harsh physical disciplined in a non-physical way. punishment" of a child and the "I speak in favor in the land of mental disorders they could be Mr. Rogers. If we can't stand f a c e d w i t h a s a n a d u l t . against hitting and abusing Researchers examined data from children, what can we stand for? the National Epidemiologic Let us love them and not hit Survey on Alcohol and Related them," said Commissioner Susan Conditions (NESARC), which Maara of New Hope Presbytery, s u r v e y e d n e a r l y 3 5 , 0 0 0 according to the blog. Americans, age 20 and older, The General Assembly, which is between 2004 and 2005. meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa. through "Harsh physical punishment in the Saturday, voted 334 to 306 in absence of child maltreatment is favor of the resolution, which was associated with mood disorders, sponsored by the Presbytery of anxiety disorders, substance abuse G r a c e , w i t h n i n e v o t e r s /dependence, and personality abstaining. The resolution also disorders in a general population states that the church will now sample," the study's authors
concluded. "These findings inform the ongoing debate around the use of physical punishment and provide evidence that harsh physical punishment independent of child maltreatment is related to mental disorders." Only six percent of those surveyed said they experienced harsh physical punishment as a child, which was defined by being at least "sometimes" physically punished through pushing, grabbing, shoving, slapping or hitting. These punishments are generally considered more extreme than the "conventional" use of paddling. Reports of severe physical abuse being hit so hard it left marks or caused an injury were not considered for this particular study because researchers wanted to examine more moderate punishments. In the frequently asked questions section of the website for Focus on the Family, a Christian organization based in Colorado Springs, Colo., the ministry says it still supports the use of spanking as a form of discipline, but it must be done correctly. "Generally speaking, we take the view that corporal punishment should be applied only in cases of willful disobedience or defiance of authority never for mere
childish irresponsibility," says FOTF. "In no instance should it be administered harshly or capriciously. We also believe that spankings are not appropriate for children 15 to 18 months old or younger. Spanking an adolescent is almost always a serious mistake." In addition to passing the resolution on corporal punishment, the General Assembly also passed a number of other social justice items, including: support for the work of the Environmental Protection Agency, plans to update the denomination's Safe Child Policy, the appointment of two "seasons of prayer" about the upcoming elections and a set of actions and principles called "World of Hurt, Word of Life: Renewing God's Communion in the Work of Economic Reconstruction." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
Borderlands hipsters get skins, heads with 'Vault Veterans' rewards

Jessica Conditt (Joystiq)
Gearbox Software is rewarding its OBs (Original Borderlands players) in Borderlands 2 with exclusive customization elements, including the pictured character heads and skins, as part of its "Vault Veterans" rewards program. The Vault Veterans goodies automatically install when Borderlands 2 detects save data from the first Borderlands, applied across PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 versions. All Borderlands hipsters can check out the full poster of exclusive digs right here. Continue reading Borderlands hipsters get skins, heads with 'Vault Veterans' rewards Borderlands hipsters get skins, heads with 'Vault Veterans' rewards originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 08 Jul 2012 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Brad Pitt's Mom Urges Christians to Pray; Blasts Obama on Abortion, Gay Marriage
While also expressing her disagreement with the tenets of the Mormon religion, Pitt July 6, 2012| 3:47 pm cautioned against his choice. She ( P h o t o : R E U T E R S / C a r l o stated, "But I think any Christian Allegri) Angelina Jolie (C) poses should spend much time in prayer for photos with her partner Brad before refusing to vote for a Pitt's parents Bill and Jane as they family man with high morals, arrive at the screening of her business experience, who is directorial debut "In the Land of against abortion, and shares Blood and Honey" in New York Christian conviction concerning December 5, 2011. homosexuality just because he is a Mormon." "I hope all Christians give their "Any Christian who does not vote vote prayerful consideration or writes in a name is casting a because voting is a sacred vote for Romney's opponent, p r i v i l e g e a n d a s e r i o u s Barack Hussein Obama a man responsibility," Jane Pitt wrote. who sat in Jeremiah Wright's Ms. Pitt penned her response to church for years, did not hold a an op-ed writer who said many public ceremony to mark the Christians could not vote for a National Day of Prayer, and is a Mormon. But with the other liberal who supports the killing of c h o i c e b e i n g O b a m a , w h o unborn babies and same-sex s u p p o r t s a b o r t i o n a n d marriage." homosexuality, Richard Stoecker Brad Pitt, who is engaged to said in the piece that some, actress Angelina Jolie, has voiced including him, will vote for h i s s u p p o r t f o r s a m e - s e x neither. marriage, even going as far as to
say he would not marry unless everyone in the county including homosexual couples had the same rights. Follow us Speaking of his mom's personality, Pitt once said, "She's very, very loving very open, genuine, and it's hilarious because she always gets painted in the tabloids as a she-devil. There's not an ounce of malice in her. She wants everyone to be happy." Pitt and Jolie announced their engagement after several years together. The couple also has six adopted children. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
Quantum Conundrum show enters heavy dimension, is still awkward

Jessica Conditt (Joystiq)
Submitted at 7/8/2012 10:30:00 PM
It's Sunday, and you know what that means: We watched the Quantum Conundrum YouTube show and we now want to share our confusion with you. The Super Dimensional Quantum Learning's Problems and Solutions Gametime Spectacular!!
features the heavy dimension this week. And a Kevin Pereira in a wig. Quantum Conundrum show enters heavy dimension, is still awkward originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 08 Jul 2012 22:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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"Any ideas for internet-based part time work that isn't a scam?" [Ask The Commenters Roundup]
(Lifehacker)
I'm looking for the best way to download videos from YouTube Submitted at 7/8/2012 2:00:00 PM without having to download a program to my Mac. I'm looking into the possibility Over the next three weeks I'll be of getting some part time work to out of town but must sign a lot of help bring in a little extra income. real estate paperwork. I don't want Any ideas that aren't scams? to scan sensitive documents in I'm helping my parents look for hotel business centers or copy a new TV. I'm thinking LED stores. Any suggestions? LCD. Don't care about 3D, I think my Win7 installation bazillion Hz, or online features. might be corrupted. How can I tell Looking for a 60" class with a for sure and if it is corrupted what max budget of $2,000. Any do I do? suggestions? Going to my first professional
conference next week. It's on educational technology, and I'm presenting. Any advice? My Parallels dual-boot Win7/
Snow Leopard Macbook Pro seems slower each type I boot the computer. What can I do to clean it up and speed it up?
How do I get Plex to share our XBMC library? I'm looking for a good way to watch media while away from home. I want to buy a new lens for my Nikon D3000 but I don't know what I should pick. I have a 18-55 and I'm looking at something with more zoom. Any ideas? Any way to get Netflix (which isn't compatible with iOS 3.1) to run on my 1st-gen iPod Touch that can't update past iOS 3.1? More
The Evolution of the Job Application [INFOGRAPHIC]

Lauren Drell (Mashable!)
Just as it's revolutionized everything from grocery shopping to travel, social and digital media have had an enormous effect on the job hunt. With technology moving forward every day, the job discovery and application process is constantly evolving and in flux. To embrace the future,
however, we must look to the past. The infographic below, compiled by Spark Hire, examines the evolution of applying for a job,
chronicling innovations as seemingly mundane as the invention of the post office (remember snail mail?) to the development of a little thing
called the Internet. How have you applied for the jobs you've held? Let us know in the comments below. Infographic courtesy
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Egypt's president orders return of parliament

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President Mohamed Morsi has defied Egypt's top court and its powerful military council by ordering the country's dissolved parliament back to work. Morsi issued a decree on Sunday withdrawing the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces decision last month to dissolve parliament, which came after the Supreme Constitutional Court found that the legislature had been elected using an unconstitutional method. The decree states that Morsi decided to restore the elected People's Assembly, which was voted into office over three months beginning in November, and reconvene it in session to begin issuing legislation again. The Muslim Brotherhood's political party won nearly half of the assembly and Morsi, though he stepped down from a leadership position in the Brotherhood, is still a member. The decree appears to be an attempt by Morsi to bring parliament back without directly contradicting the supreme court. Rather than address the court's decision, which stated that parliament should be dissolved, Morsi cancelled the subesquent move by the SCAF - at the time the acting executive power - to implement the court's decision.
The military versus the Brotherhood For the past month, the Brotherhood has argued that the the court's decision was wrong and the SCAF had no legal right to dissolve parliament. It was unclear on Sunday night whether Morsi had consulted with the military or other political powers before issuing his decree. High-ranking Brotherhood members said they had not been personally consulted, the SCAF convened an "emergency meeting" to discuss it, and the court said it too would meet on Monday to evaluate the decree. In a possible nod to the court, Morsi's decree also called for new parliamentary elections to be held within 60 days of the adoption of a new constitution for the country, which is tentatively expected late this year. A constitutional assembly selected by the erstwhile parliament has been formed and has begun the work of drafting the constitution. The Brotherhood's parliamentary victory alarmed many secularists, liberals and members of the Christian minority, who seemed to be generally pleased when the parliament was dissolved. Some prominent secular politicians, including Mohamed ElBaradei, criticised Morsi's decision on Sunday. Egypt's top court handed down
decision that was taken after consultation, and in co-ordination with, these generals," she said. "It is very difficult to tell at this moment how this decision came about given all the legal complexities involved." The Brotherhood has argued that the SCAF had no right to dissolve the parliament "and therefore this seems to be an administrative correction of what they believe was a previous erroneous administrative decision," Rageh said. The Brotherhood said parliament's dissolution should be the controversial decision to limiting presidential powers and put to a popular referendum. Under Egypt's interim dissolve parliament a day before giving itself the role of the constitution, approved by t h e s e c o n d r o u n d o f t h e dissolved parliament. presidential election, which pitted Morsi's decree did not state r e f e r e n d u m a f t e r t h e 2 0 1 1 Morsi against former regime whether SCAF would lose those uprising against Hosni Mubarak, official Ahmed Shafiq. self-prescribed legislative abilities no institution is given authority to The court ruled that it was once the dissolved parliament dissolve parliament, and no rules are stated governing such a unconstitutional for political returns to work. situation. parties to have contested the one- Unanswered questions third of parliamentary seats Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh, The president is given the power reserved for candidates running as reporting from Cairo, said it to call parliament into normal individuals. remained unclear whether Morsi session. The ruling promped allegations was challenging the generals or 697 that the court was acting as an had worked out an agreement This entry passed through the arm of the military council, which with them beforehand. Egyptians Full-Text RSS service if this is has sought to constrain the powers select first new president of post- your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read of the rising Muslim Brotherhood. Mubarak era Those allegations grew when, "It is a very interesting move the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contenttwo days after the ruling and because there are questions as to only/faq.php#publishers. Five minutes after polls closed in the what exactly the decree means ... Filters recommends: Incinerating presidential voting, the SCAF is this a true act of defiance on Assange - The Liberal Media Go issued a unilateral package of part of the new president against To Work. c o n s t i t u t i o n a l a m e n d m e n t s the generals, or was this a
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Rebels seize towns in eastern DR Congo

(MONUSCO) fled Rutshuru for a UN base five kilometres away in Kiwanja, close to which Rebels from the Democratic numerous local inhabitants have Republic of Congo (DRC) have set up refugee camps. taken control of three towns in the 'Come here and negotiate' country's eastern North Kivu The move in to Rutshuru comes a province, a spokesperson for the day after the M23 movement told group has said. the Reuters news agency that they The rebels, known as the M23 h a d n o i n t e n t i o n o f t a k i n g movement, had taken Rutshuru Rutshuru or the provincial capital and the towns of Ntamugenga and Goma. Rubare, less than 10km away, on "Our aim is not to go to even the road to the provincial capital Rutshuru, not even Goma ... Goma, by midday (local time) on We want to remain here and call Sunday. the government to come here and The rebels said they did not face we negotiate," Colonel Vianney any opposition from the Kazarama, M23's political FARDC, the DRC's national c o m m i s s a r , s a i d . army. "When we defected from the "Our men have just taken the n a t i o n a l a r m y , w e t o l d town of Rutshuru. On Saturday the government, 'Let's keep evening the FARDC came down negotiating and we keep the peace to our position at Mbuzi," M23 that is existing'. spokesman Lieutenant Colonel "But the government instead said Vianney Kazarama told the AFP it is very powerful ... they said news agency. they will defeat us." "We decided to pursue them and Kazarama did not set out the they lost Ntamugenag, then we group's demands on Saturday but came down Rubare." said their faction's integration into Sporadic gunfire was later heard the national army had failed in Rutshuru, but may have been b e c a u s e t h e y w e r e t r e a t e d celebratory shots fired into the air. u n f a i r l y . The rebels' seizure of Rutshuru He also said the government had h a s p r o m u l g a t e d f e a r s o f failed to repatriate refugees living e s c a l a t i n g v i o l e n c e i n t h e in Uganda and Rwanda. country's eastern region. 'Arrest Ntaganda' Eight peacekeepers from the On Saturday, the DRC UN's mission in DR Congo government ordered the army to
seek out and arrest Bosco Ntaganda, the ex-general turned leader of the M23 movement. The M23 called for negotiations with the government on Saturday to end violence in the east of the country, a day after seizing a minerals transit town near the border with Uganda. The M23 seized the border town of Bunagana on Friday in fighting that has forced thousands to flee their homes. A statement, signed by defence minister Alexander Tambo, said Ntaganda and 13 of his deputies had been dismissed from the army and went on to say that "the defence and security services are ordered to urgently relaunch an operation to find and arrest
[Ntaganda and five other officers]". The new fighting in mineral-rich North Kivu province has dampened hopes of a revival for the region after a short lull in two decades of instability. It risks dragging the vast, loosely governed central African state back into war and damaging fragile relations with Rwanda, which has repeatedly denied allegations that the rebels are receiving cross-border support. Condemnations The UN Security Council on Friday condemned attacks by the rebels on peacekeepers in the area after an Indian soldier was killed in Bunagana, a town
near the Ugandan border, about 20km south of Rutshuru. Bunagana fell into rebel hands after the clash, according to the M23 spokesman and local civilians, causing around 600 Congolese soldiers to flee into Uganda. Despite outnumbering the rebels 10 to one, the FARDC has been unable to dislodge them from hilltop hideouts. Rwanda has denied allegations in a report by UN experts that provided the strongest evidence yet that officials of President Paul Kagame's government were providing military and logistical support to armed rebel groups in the DRC. Two months of fighting in the resource-rich region has pitted government troops against former Congolese Tutsi rebels, who were integrated into the army but defected this year and formed the M23 rebel movement. 730 This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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Annan in Syria after admitting 'failure'

Submitted at 7/8/2012 12:14:40 PM
rebels seeking to topple Assad, but the truce dissolved within days and in some places never International envoy Kofi Annan took hold. has arrived in Damascus for a A statement issued on Sunday by third round of talks with President A h m a d F a w z i , A n n a n ' s Bashar al-Assad amid increasing spokesman, did not give details indications that his peace plan is a o f t h e e n v o y ' s s c h e d u l e i n lost cause. Damascus. The Sunday visit comes a day His visit comes after US after Annan, appointed by the S e c r e t a r y o f S t a t e H i l l a r y Arab League and United Nations, Clinton warned on Sunday that acknowledged in an interview time was running out to save with a French newspaper that S y r i a f r o m a " c a t a s t r o p h i c efforts to find a political solution assault" and as dozens more to the escalating violence in Syria people were reportedly killed have failed. across the country. A n n a n a r r i v e d w i t h 'Russia wields influence' F a i s a l M e k d a d , S y r i a ' s In his interview with Le Monde, deputy foreign minister, at the Annan stressed that those opposed Dama Rose hotel in the capital, to Western plans for resolving the where UN observers have been crisis should not be sidelined. s t a y i n g s i n c e s u s p e n d i n g "Russia wields influence, but I am their patrols because of a steep not sure that the events will be increase in violence, a witness determined by Russia alone ... told the Reuters news agency. Iran is an actor. It has to be part of Annan is the architect of a six- the solution. It has influence and point plan to end the 16-month we cannot ignore it," Annan crisis, which activists say has left told the French newspaper. more than 16,000 people dead. He also expressed irritation that In an interview with Le Monde while Russia and Iran were on Saturday, Annan, a former UN mentioned by some as stumbling secretary-general, said that "the blocks to peace, "little is said evidence shows that we have not about other countries which send succeeded." arms, money, and have a presence The plan was to begin with a on the ground". c e a s e f i r e i n m i d - A p r i l More than 30 people were killed between government forces and on Sunday during a government
bombardment and clashes between Syrian forces and Free Syrian Army rebels fighting to oust Assad, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a small activist group in London. Activists reported heavy shelling in residential areas of Deir Az Zor and in Deraa province, the birthplace of the revolt near the Jordanian border. Rami Abdelrahman, who runs the observatory, said residents of alSharifa in the wider Deir Az Zor province were reporting that rebels had taken a tank and were using it to attack army positions. The rebels have gained confidence in recent weeks, staging bolder attacks, holding pockets of territory across the country and clashing with troops only a few miles from the presidential palace in Damascus. 443 This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
Are Public School Teachers Underpaid? (VIDEO)

Teresa Shumay (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Last year, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan stated that Americas public school teachers are desperately underpaid and called for a doubling of teachers wages. A similar theme is touted frequently by politicians, media, and education unions. But teacher compensation is much more than salary. The plush benefits given to public school employees are a large part of teacher compensation, especially pension benefits that are several times more valuable than typical private-sector retirement plans. Teachers also benefit from retiree health coveragerare in the private sectorand strong job security. Taking benefits into account, public school teachers often end up with a more desirable compensation package than those with similar skill levels in the private sector. Teaching should offer competitive compensation and reward effective teachers, but rigid union contracts and benefit structures are impediments to
rational reform. Rather than rewarding quality teaching, salary determinations and raises are often made across the board, regardless of performance in the classroom. In the following video, Heritages Jason Richwine discusses the problems with teacher compensation with Choice Media TVs Bob Bowdon. To read more about teacher compensation, see Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers and A Better Way to Pay: Five Rules for Reforming Teacher Compensation. Teresa Shumay is currently a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. For more information on interning at Heritage, please visit http://www.heritage.org/ about/departments/ylp.cfm. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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Ted Potter Jr. wins Greenbrier Classic in playoff - Boston Globe

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for 13th in his first event of the year but had missed five straight cuts entering the week. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, His fortunes changed Sunday. W.Va. Ted Potter Jr.'s first "It was just a big relief," Potter PGA Tour victory means a lot said. "All the struggles the last more than a big paycheck. The 28 few weeks, knowing that now I've -year-old rookie can take a trip to got a couple years to try to Augusta National off his wish list. improve on my game and win By making a 4-foot birdie putt on some more tournaments." the third hole of a playoff Sunday The left-hander became the sixth t o b e a t T r o y K e l l y i n t h e first-time winner on the tour this Greenbrier Classic, Potter earned season. He earned $1,098,000 and a spot in the Masters, something jumped from 173rd to 51st in the he listed as career goal. FedEx Cup standings. Simply winning, though, had He also gets a two-year been the top priority for a player exemption on the PGA Tour. And who first joined the former Potter, Kelly and Marc Leishman Nationwide Tour in 2004 and -- who won two weeks ago at the didn't have much success until last Travelers Championship -- can year. pack their bags for the British "When you're missing cuts every Open, which starts July 19 at week, you get down on yourself," Royal Lytham and St. Annes. Potter said. "I mean, it's hard to Ranked 218th in the world, Potter pick yourself back up. But the overcame a four-stroke deficit plus side for me is I was still with four holes to play, finishing young. I just knew I had plenty of with his second straight 6-under time and just be patient and it will 64 to match Kelly at 16 under. come back around again." Kelly closed with a 66. Potter finished second on the It marked the third straight year Nationwide money list last year to of close finishes on the Old White advance to the PGA Tour. He tied TPC course. Scott Stallings beat
Bob Estes and Bill Haas on the first hole of a playoff last year, and Stuart Appleby shot a 59 to beat Jeff Overton by a stroke in 2010. Webb Simpson lost a one-stroke lead on the back nine at the tournament for the second straight year. The U.S. Open champion made three straight bogeys, shot 73 and tied for seventh at 11 under. During the fourth round, Potter made long putts for a birdie at No. 15 and an eagle at No. 17, and his 5-footer for birdie at No. 18 tied Kelly, who could have avoided the playoff but missed birdie putts on the final two holes. Both made par on the first two playoff holes, with Potter missing a 5-footer at No. 17 that would have won it on the second extra hole. Moments before, Kelly made a 22-footer for par after finding trouble from the greenside bunker. Playing the par-3 18th for the third time on the day, Kelly's tee shot was short of a steep ridge in the middle of the green, while Potter sent his 9-iron onto the top
of the ridge and it trickled close to the pin. Kelly missed his 45-foot birdie putt, then watched Potter close out the win as thunderstorms moved in. Despite the disappointment, Kelly earned his best career finish. He previous one was a tie for 37th. "I had a lot of fun," Kelly said. "And looking forward to kind of getting in that position some more." Kelly underwent hip-replacement surgery in September 2010 after being diagnosed with arthritis. He resumed playing golf five months later and was 11th in Nationwide winnings last year. Charlie Wi and rookie Charlie Beljan tied for third at 14 under. Wi shot a 65, and Beljan had a 67. Daniel Summerhays finished fifth at 13 under after a 64. Martin Flores (67) was another stroke back. Simpson, the third-round leader, had gone 50 consecutive holes without a bogey but made three of them in a row starting at the par-5 12th.
"I felt really confident and then just got on a bad run there," Simpson said. "I'm probably going to learn something from it. Have to learn the hard way." Joining him at 11 under were Robert Castro (63), Kevin Na (65), Sean O'Hair (66) and Ken Duke (70). Duke was within a shot of the lead on the 14th hole before fading with a pair of double bogeys. Simpson can now focus on family -- his wife, Dowd, is due to give birth to the couple's second child within three weeks. That means skipping the British Open. Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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Marquis, Padres drop 3rd in row, fall to Reds 4-2 - Seattle Times
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SAN DIEGO After coming off an encouraging road trip, the San Diego Padres went into the All-Star break looking much the way they did for most of the first half. All-Star Jay Bruce and Ryan Ludwick hit consecutive home runs, leading Johnny Cueto and the Cincinnati Reds past the Padres 4-2 Sunday. The Reds won the final three in the four-game series. "We've shuffled the deck for a number of reasons," San Diego manager Bud Black said. "We didn't get off to a good start. The last month, we've been better. It's not ideal, but that's where we stand." The loss left San Diego at 19 games under .500. "It's been an up-and-down first half," center fielder Cameron Maybin said. "We just got to continue to compete, continue to grind." Bruce and Ludwick connected two pitches apart in the fourth inning to give Cincinnati a 3-0
lead. Ludwick played for San Diego for about one full season from the time he was traded by St. Louis during the 2010 season until the Padres dealt him to Pittsburgh at the trading deadline last year. He had little success hitting at pitcher-friendly Petco Park. "This is a new year," Ludwick said. "I feel like I'm hitting the ball a little bit differently. I think everyone knows that I kind of got pulled down a bit when I was here. I'm hitting the ball better now." Cueto (10-5), who felt snubbed when he was not picked for the NL All-Star team, looked solid until he ran into trouble in the sixth inning. Cueto gave up two runs on seven hits in 5 2-3 innings and was pulled after issuing a bases-loaded walk. The right-hander struck out five, walked two, and hit two batters. All-Star closer Aroldis Chapman pitched a perfect ninth for his 11th save in 15 chances. Brandon Phillips led off the Reds fourth with a single and Bruce connected against Jason Marquis
(1-5) for his 18th home run. Ludwick followed with his 12th home run, a shot into the second deck in left field. "I felt like I was executing like I wanted to, getting quick outs," Marquis said. "I fell behind to Bruce and he capitalized on my mistake." The Reds came close to another home in the fifth run when Joey Votto, the NL All-Star starting first baseman, hit a deep drive into left-center field. Center fielder Cameron Maybin took a running leap and snared the ball right at the top of the wall just as he crashed into the padding. "I was just positioned in the right spot," Maybin said. "I got a good jump and saw where the wall was." Trailing 3-1, San Diego loaded the bases in the sixth with two outs on three singles. Pinch hitter Mark Kotsay fouled off three straight pitches with a full count before he drew a walk from Cueto. Reliever Sam LeCure came in and retired Chris Denorfia on a fly ball. Zack Cozart doubled and scored
on Phillips' single in the seventh. It was Cozart's 21st double, the most by a rookie shortstop prior to the All-Star break, breaking the mark set by Boston's Nomar Garciaparra in 1997. Marquis allowed three runs on seven hits in five innings. The righty struck out five and did not walk a batter while making consecutive starts on three days' rest for the fifth time in his career. Marquis is 1-9 in his last 11 starts. NOTES: After scoring one run in each of three consecutive defeats, the Reds scored 16 runs in the last three games at San Diego. ... The Padres have lost only one of their last five series. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
Social Media Fuels Low SelfEsteem, Anxiety [STUDY]

Lauren Indvik (Mashable!)
Social media may do more harm than good when it comes to personal well-being, a small study from the University of Salford in the UK indicates. About half of the survey's 298 participants, all of whom identified themselves as social media users, say that their use of social networks like Facebook and Twitter makes their lives worse. In particular, participants noted that their self-esteem suffers when they compare their own accomplishments to those of their online friends. In addition to confidence issues, two-thirds claim they find it difficult to fully relax or sleep after spending time on social networks. A quarter cited work or relationship d Continue reading... More About: anxiety, Facebook, Social Media, stress, uk
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Andy Murray's emotional post-match speech - USA Today

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Kindle Fire 2 to Feature Camera, High-Res Display [REPORT]

Lauren Indvik (Mashable!)
the top five players in the world, but his prime has unfortunately Submitted at 7/8/2012 8:56:05 PM coincided with those of Federer, Andy Murray admitted it was Rafael Nadal and Novak "not going to be easy" addressing Djokovic, who have combined to the home crowd after the win 33 of the last 37 Grand Slam Wimbledon men's final. men's singles titles, including the Murray, a native of Dunblane, last 10 at Wimbledon. Scotland, fell short in his bid to "Everybody always talks about become the first British man to the pressure of playing at win the Wimbledon singles title in Wimbledon, how tough it is, but 76 years, losing in four sets to the people watching make it so Roger Federer on Sunday. much easier to play," Murray said. Moments after taking the "The support has been incredible, "He's not bad for a 30-year-old." microphone and attempting to In reference to his family and so thank you," he added before compose himself, Murray, voice friends congregated in a corner of heading off to one final standing shaking, said, "I'm going to try the stadium, Murray said, "I'm ovation. this and it's not going to be easy." going to try and not look at them This entry passed through the As Murray fought back the first Full-Text RSS service if this is because I'll start crying again." tears, the ESPN camera panned Great Britain's drought in the your content and you're reading it the Centre Court crowd, and many Wimbledon men's singles event on someone else's site, please read fans had trouble holding back goes all the way back to 1936, the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contenttears of their own. only/faq.php#publishers. Five when Fred Perry won. After congratulating Federer on The 25-year-old Murray has Filters recommends: Incinerating his record-tying seventh consistently been ranked among Assange - The Liberal Media Go Wimbledon title, Murray joked, To Work.
Come November, Amazon's Kindle Fire Android tablet will be a year old, which means that its successor is shortly on the way. Sources "familiar with Amazon's plans" have told AllThingsD that the next-generation Kindle Fire will be thinner and lighter, and feature a built-in camera. It will also have a display resolution of 1,280 x 800 pixels -- about the same as the iPad 2, and a substantial upgrade from the current Kindle Fire's 1,024 x 600pixel screen. (The iPad 3's"retina" display is 2,048 x 1,536 pixels, for comparison.)
The Kindle Fire 2's screen won't only be sharper, it will also be slightly more square, AllThingsD's sources said. The screen of the next Kindle Fire will have an Continue reading... More About: amazon, android, android tablet, ipad mini, kindle fire, kindle fire 2, Nexus 7
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PSA: War of the Roses beta now open for registration

Mike Suszek (Joystiq)
Photos of the Day: July 8 Wall Street Journal (blog)

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War of the Roses is now open for beta registration, Paradox Interactive recently announced. The medieval combat game for PC went through a private alpha stage before hitting its beta test period, with the full game set to launch in Q3 2012. Those interested in signing up for the beta program can do so here. The entry form notes that by referring five friends to the program, you are guaranteed access to the beta version of the game. Show full PR text Paradox Lowers The Drawbridge For Beta Testing War of the Roses
Medieval Multiplayer Accepting Applications for Early Access NEW YORK - July 6, 2012 Paradox Interactive and Fatshark announced that, after recently completing a successful closed alpha, sign-ups for a chance to
participate in beta testing for upcoming medieval multiplayer combat title War of the Roses has now opened to the public. Starting today, players can enroll to be a Knight in the King's army and help restore order to England by
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We've got a big, no, massive softspot for the GX1 around these parts. It was being reviewed during this year's CES and our
man behind the lens rapidly became the object of our envy. In fact the only thing that really made us wince when testing it was the $950 price for the kit model -- otherwise we could feel our wallets opening obligingly. But how about those of you who
did opt for one of these beauties? Does your experience match our own, or were there some unexpected bumps along the way? Now's your chance to share them with us. How would you change the
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David Frum
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Andrew Sullivan complained yesterday that I had engaged in a McCarthyite attack on Ron Paul by writing the following: A politician isnt answerable for the antics of every one of his supporters. But theres surely a reason, isnt there, that racists, anti-Semites, 9/11 Truthers, and Holocaust deniers are so strongly attracted to the Paul campaign. They hear something. They continue to hear it too, no matter how firmly Ron Pauls more mainstream supporters clamp their hands over their own ears. Andrews riposte: Notice how pure the smear is, enabled and not diminished by the first sentence. Notice the key concept of Beltway ideological policemen: there is a mainstream and a non-mainstream. Dabble with the latter at your peril. Since David has perished by the cult of the mainstream, its odd he should deploy it against others. But to throw in Holocaust denial and 9/11 Truthers for good measure! Really. And notice how particularly cheap and easy it is to use such tactics against a libertarian. The traditional left is often based on collective associations, building a movement out of oppressed groups and their grievances, whether it be class or race or even
sexual orientation. Libertarianism is the opposite. Its about dis associating. When you listen to Paul saying he will not turn anyone away from supporting his platform regardless of their motives or beliefs, you are hearing a reflection of his libertarianism, not his bigotry. He will accept support from any quarter and compared with the corporate money flowing into the other candidates coffers, he is about as independent as a presidential candidate can be. Because he is a radical individualist, he doesnt even understand why he should somehow explain the belief of others, or justify their support. You should ask them, not him. This kind of gotcha-association game is particularly easy because libertarians favor liberty above all, and that will necessarily mean liberty for bigots as well as others. A principled belief in states rights will doubtless lead to more racist and homophobic policies in many states but also, of course, more enlightened and successful inclusive states like Oregon or New York or Massachusetts or California. A rejection of statism might lead to more discrimination in the private sector. But it doesnt mandate it. And it need not encourage it. A noninterventionist foreign policy will allow evil to triumph elsewhere in
the world, because it believes its none of our business or too riddled with unintended consequences to try extirpating. That may be right or wrong, but it is not an approval of the evil of Assad or Ahmedinejad or the North Korean junta. And again, it is actually much deeper an American tradition than permanent warfare. But if you can trot out David Duke or Ayatollah Khamenei as potential Paul supporters, you have a very easy, cheap and essentially McCarthyite target. It saddens me that this kind of tactic works. I still believe that the newsletters, because they were in Pauls name, require a clearer explanation from Paul than the muddled ones he has given. He should not be left off the hook. And his proposals deserve a thorough vetting and discussion. But there is something awry when a candidate is assessed not on his arguments and proposals but on the shadiness and ugliness of some of his fringe supporters. Ron Pauls supporters ask that their candidate not be judged by his associates. Or by the people he chose to employ. Or by the newsletters he published. Or by the book he wrote. Or by the way he earned the largest part of his living when out of office in the 1990s. Or by his purchase of the mailing list of the Holocaust-
denying Liberty Lobby. Or by the radio shows he chooses to appear on. Or by his strategic decision to reach out to racist voters. Or by the conspiracy theories to which he lends credence, from government creation of AIDS to Israeli culpability for the 1993 bombing to a putative 9/11 coverup. And here I thought that libertarianism was a doctrine of personal responsibility? May Ron Paul at least be judged by the words he has spoken with his own mouth within the current campaign? The supporters say no again. When Ron Paul tells an interviewer that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made race relations worse, were not supposed to consider what he might mean by better. When Ron Paul warns that a border fence would be used to prevent fleeing American citizens from exiting the country, were not supposed to conclude that hes a paranoid crank. Andrew deploys what might be called the ontological defense of Ron Paul, as follows: 1) Ron Paul is a libertarian. 2) Libertarians espouse individualism. 3) Racism is a form of antiindividualism. 4) Therefore Ron Paul cannot be a racist. That is a demonstration of what
might be called the deductive method of reasoning. But theres another way to study reality: induction. Like this: 1) Ron Paul has again and again exploited bigotry, paranoia, and hate as fundraising devices. 2) Ron Paul is a libertarian. 3) So yes, I guess it is possible for a libertarian to do that. Heres my question for Ron Paul supporters: why the denial of the undeniable? Perhaps you like Pauls message of legalized marijuana? Why not just say so? You dont think its important to stop Iran from gaining nuclear weapons? Argue it forthrightly. If you regard Social Security and Medicare as literally the moral equivalents of slavery, go ahead, make your case. But all this excuse-making, special pleading and jiggering of the rules of evidence so as to exculpate Ron Paul from the record of his whole political life? For what? This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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piracy, both through increased military and intelligence coordination and through increased economic development in the area, which could provide Submitted at 7/8/2012 11:00:36 AM Amid the lawless bloodbath that would-be pirates with legitimate is Somalia, the northern state of employment. Somaliland remains a rare Somaliland can provide a model example of functioning for a stable working democracy in democracy in the Muslim world. the region and a sign that the Unlike the rest of Somalia, future in the larger area of the Somaliland has maintained Horn of Africa is not without relative stability and peace despite hope. occasional border conflicts with Alexander Macdonald is an the semi-autonomous Somali intern in the Davis Policy Center province of Puntland. Since its at The Heritage Foundation. unilateral referendum on This entry passed through the independence in 2001, Somaliland Full-Text RSS service if this is has remained dedicated to free your content and you're reading it d e m o c r a t i c e l e c t i o n s , a s regional partners lacking the follows the position of the African thus voiding its independence. on someone else's site, please read demonstrated by the presidential capacity and/or will to incarcerate Union by refusing to acknowledge T h i s i s a n o n - s t a r t e r f o r the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentSomalilands independence, S o m a l i l a n d , a s a c o e r c e d elections in 2003 and 2010 as well pirates. only/faq.php#publishers. Five D e s p i t e i t s d e d i c a t i o n t o reluctant to encourage further reunification would likely bring as parliamentary and local Filters recommends: Incinerating democracy and the rule of law, portioning of African nations. chaos rather than opportunities for elections. Assange - The Liberal Media Go Furthermore, Somaliland has Somalilands independence is not The presidents of Somalia and growth and stability. To Work. Recognizing Somalilands been a major partner in combating i n t e r n a t i o n a l l y r e c o g n i z e d . Somaliland have met in Dubai r e g i o n a l p i r a c y . I n 2 0 1 0 , Though the U.S. has recognized a n d L o n d o n t o d i s c u s s i n d e p e n d e n c e , o r a t l e a s t Somaliland built a maximum the need for a stable area to serve Somalilands future relations with establishing some form of official security prison(with the help of as a bulwark against terrorism and Somalia. According to Somalias representation there, would allow the U.N. Office of Drugs and an ally in fighting piracy, the new constitution, Somaliland is the U.S. to expand cooperation Crime) to relieve the burden of Obama Administration currently recognized as part of Somalia, with Somaliland in fighting
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MPs to grill Bank deputy 50m defence governor deal to be signed

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delivers a speech on his vision for the sector. He will point to the Libor rate-fixing scandal as B a n k o f E n g l a n d d e p u t y vindication of his much-criticised governor Paul Tucker is to attack last year on "predatory" a t t e m p t t o c l e a r u p h i s capitalism and promise wideinvolvement in the rate-rigging ranging action. affair after being dragged into the Barclays has been the focal point scandal by former Barclays boss for a row over banking culture Bob Diamond. after the bank was fined 290 Mr Tucker, a forerunner for the million by UK and US regulators position of Bank governor when for manipulating the Libor, which Sir Mervyn King steps down, affects mortgages and loans. faces a series of questions from Mr Diamond, who resigned with MPs on the Treasury Select immediate effect last Tuesday, Committee over discussions he told MPs he was left "confused" had with Barclays on the key by the contentious phonecall with interbank lending rate known as Mr Tucker. But despite being the Libor. unclear about his motives, Mr The deputy governor found Diamond said his reaction to the himself in the spotlight after Mr conversation was "appreciation of Diamond disclosed a note of a Paul Tucker for doing his job". phonecall between the two men, Mr Diamond told MPs Mr in which Mr Tucker appeared to Tucker relayed concerns from encourage the bank to submit senior Whitehall figures - which lower Libor submissions in light he took to mean officials within of concerns from senior Whitehall Government - that Barclays' Libor figures. rate was too high - which could be Meanwhile, the fierce debate a sign of financial weakness at the over banking ethics will rage on bank. as Labour leader Ed Miliband Mr Diamond said there were 14
or 15 other banks, including nationalised lenders such as Royal Bank of Scotland, who he knew had a weaker financial position than Barclays and were still submitting lower Libor rates. Outlining his interpretation of Mr Tucker's comments, he said: "He felt that our Libor rates, relevant to the other 15 posters, could be lower." But he insisted he did not feel any action had been requested. "I didn't feel it was an instruction," he said. However, Mr Diamond's account of the conversation ultimately led to the then president of investment banking arm Barclays Capital, Jerry del Missier, telling staff to submit lower Libor. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.

Germany and Italy. Steps include the integration of the Meteor missile, an E-Scan A 50 million defence contract radar, enhancements of the which will boost the RAF and UK defensive aids system, further manufacturing is due to be signed development of the air-to-air and as the Farnborough Air Show air-to-ground capabilities and opens in Hampshire. integration of new weapons. Hailed by Prime Minister David The announcements follow last Cameron, the contract is being week's Government decision to placed by the Ministry of Defence axe 17 major army units, reducing (MoD) for a full flight simulator the number of regular soldiers by for the Airbus A400M. 20,000 by 2020. The simulator will be located at Mr Cameron said: "In a hugely RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. difficult time in the global It is designed and built by Thales economy UK aerospace is, quite Training and Simulation in simply, flying - employing more Crawley, West Sussex, with the than 100,000 people, turning over contract helping sustain 50 high- more than 20 billion a year, tech UK jobs and skills. holding a 17% share of the global The MoD has ordered 22 of the market. A400Ms to replace the fleet of C- "But there can be absolutely no 130 Hercules, with the first c o m p l a c e n c y . I n t e r n a t i o n a l delivery expected in 2014. competition gets more fierce by Mr Cameron also announced 3 the year. The UK has got to fight million of Government funding for every contract and every for 500 degree-level places in opportunity." aerospace engineering over the This entry passed through the next three years. The students will Full-Text RSS service if this is either be company employees or your content and you're reading it new graduates. on someone else's site, please read It was also announced that the the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentnext steps for exploiting potential only/faq.php#publishers. Five f u t u r e c a p a b i l i t i e s o f t h e Filters recommends: Incinerating Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft had Assange - The Liberal Media Go been agreed by the fighter To Work. aircraft's partners - the UK, Spain,
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Andy Murray broke down in tears in a rare show of emotion after losing out on his historic Wimbledon title bid. The Scot - the first Briton to make it to the men's singles final in 74 years - was hoping to become the first male champion since Fred Perry in 1936. But he was beaten in an electric final by Roger Federer, who won the match 4-6 7-5 6-3 6-4 equalling Pete Sampras's record of seven Wimbledon titles. The Swiss player now has a total of 17 grand slams, and has restored his world number one ranking. Murray, 25, wiped away tears as he thanked his family and the crowd, who roared to deafening applause throughout the match. Girlfriend Kim Sears and mother
Judy Murray were also reduced to tears by his unusual show of public emotion. "I'm going to try this and it's not going to be easy," he said, to roars from the 15,000strong crowd." He congratulated 30-year-old Federer, then went on to thank "Team Murray" - which includes his mother, girlfriend, father Will and coach Ivan Lendl. He said: "I'm going to try and not look at them because I'll probably start crying again but everyone who is in that corner over there, who has supported me...we did a great job, so thank you. "And last of all to you guys. Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon, how difficult it is. It's not the people watching, they make it so much easier to play. The support has been incredible." Murray was watched by a galaxy
of stars in the Royal Box, including the Duchess of Cambridge and sister Pippa Middleton, David and Victoria Beckham, and Prime Minister David Cameron. Olympian Sir Steve Redgrave, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, London Mayor Boris Johnson, and a host of former tennis stars also cheered on the Scot. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his wife Wendi Deng were also among the crowd. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
Verizon website pushes Galaxy S III availability back two days, still shipping pre-orders
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Verizon's original schedule. Stuck waiting? Look on the bright side, you have two extra days to read Looking forward to picking up a up on circumventing that VerizonGalaxy S III from Verizon this exclusive locked bootloader, Tuesday? You'd better reschedule. right? According to the carrier's website, [Thanks, John] S a m s u n g ' s l a t e s t G a l a x y Verizon website pushes Galaxy S smartphone won't be available III availability back two days, still until July 12th, contradicting the shipping pre-orders originally previously stated July 10th shelf appeared on Engadget on Sun, 08 date. Don't get frustrated just yet Jul 2012 21:26:00 EDT. Please though, we're hearing reports see our terms for use of feeds. from readers that their phone has Permalink| | Email this| already shipped, or in some cases Comments already arrived, suggesting that pre-orders are sticking to
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Quotes of the day

Allahpundit (Hot Air Top Picks)
campaign, the former Illinois state legislator and U.S. senator said when he and his wife circulated Submitted at 7/8/2012 7:01:11 PM fliers printed at Kinkos. posted at 8:01 pm on July 8, 2012 It sure isnt by Allahpundit Off the 68,443 ads that Obama President Obamas bus tour has run on TV (local broadcast, through Ohio and Pennsylvania national network & national late last week offered a striking cable) in the 30-day period ended l o o k a t t h e e v o l u t i o n o f a July 2, 52,016 had an antipresident. In 2008, Obama used Romney message 76 percent soaring rhetoric and personal of the total, according to New biography to talk about binding York-based Kantar Medias together a red-blue nation. His C M A G , w h i c h m o n i t o r s message today is about the urgent c a m p a i g n a d v e r t i s i n g . need to defeat a stubborn Obamas negative ads have opposition party in order to move overtaken his positive ads. Since the country forward April 10, when Republican Rick That is a change from the way he Santorums exit essentially made talked as a candidate in 2008. His Romney his partys presumptive message then was not so much nominee, Obama has run 112,202 about either-or choices. That was ads, of which 58,151 were antinot the message he delivered Romney and 54,051 positive. when he first appeared on the *** n a t i o n a l s t a g e a t t h e 2 0 0 4 Of the 17 TV advertisements Democratic convention, nor was it Obama has aired here [in Iowa], the message he offered the night eight have pummeled Romneys he scored his breakthrough r e s u m e a s a g o v e r n o r o f victory in the 2008 Iowa caucuses Massachusetts and founder of a that launched him toward the l a r g e p r i v a t e e q u i t y f i r m . White House. He did not talk Increasingly, the ads have pressed about elections as tiebreakers the outsourcing hot button, between two sides but of a a l t h o u g h i n d e p e n d e n t f a c t country hungering for a new checkers have dressed down that model for its politics attack as using false or thinly Many Democrats say its about supported claims. time that the president got tough, Republicans call it a smear that he spent too much time trying campaign, arguing Romney was to negotiate with Republicans n o t r e s p o n s i b l e f o r w h a t w h o w e r e n t i n t e r e s t e d i n companies did after he left Bain negotiating with him. Capital. Indeed, they point to *** Obama as an outsourcer, citing Its nothing like the first him as responsible for jobs sent
overseas by companies who received federal stimulus money. *** Top Democrats repeatedly slammed Mitt Romney on Sunday for his foreign wheelings and dealings, as President Obamas campaign continues to make the case that the presumptive GOP nominee doesnt understand the concerns of the middle class He is the first and only candidate for President of the United States with a Swiss bank account, with tax shelters, with tax avoidance schemes that involve so many foreign countries, Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, said on CBSs Face the Nation. When it comes down to his Swiss bank account, there is just no way to explain it, Durbin added. You either get a Swiss bank account to conceal what you are doing or you believe the Swiss franc is stronger than the American dollar. *** Democratic Gov. Martin OMalley (Md.) hammered Mitt Romney on Sunday over a report detailing his use of offshore accounts, saying the presumptive GOP nominee had bet against America. He bet against America when he put his money in Swiss bank accounts and tax havens and shelters and also set up a secret company, the shell company in Bermuda, which, by the way, in order to avoid disclosure, he put in his wifes name right before he
became governor of Massachusetts, OMalley charged. His comments come after a Vanity Fair report released last week said Romneys financial advisers formed a corporation in Bermuda and the GOP candidate maintained holdings in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands. *** Being rich is not a problem, said Bob Shrum, a Democratic consultant who helped Senator Edward M. Kennedy defeat Mr. Romney in their 1994 Senate race in Massachusetts. Being rich and out of touch is a problem. Mr. Romneys campaign has pushed back hard against some of the wealth-themed attacks, which have included assertions that at Bain he enriched himself by promoting the outsourcing of American jobs. Increasingly the Romney campaign is turning Mr. Obamas attacks back on him by suggesting that the president is in denial about his record and is out of touch with the economic strains felt by most Americans. They just cant come to grips with the reality of whats happening out there and the presidents responsibility for it, said [Stuart] Stevens, [a Romney] campaign strategist. *** *** Obama campaign senior adviser Robert Gibbs said Sunday that Americans simply dont know
enough about Mitt Romneys finances to determine if hes doing anything illegal. We dont know. Nobody knows, the former White House press secretary said on CNNs State of the Union when asked if the presumptive Republican presidential nominee was skirting tax law. The one thing he can do, Candy, to clear up whether or not hes done anything illegally, whether hes shielding his income from taxes in Bermuda or Switzerland, is to do what ever other presidential candidate is done and thats to release a series of years of their own tax returns, Gibbs told host Candy Crowley. *** This president has already shown that hes not who he said he was. He claimed he was going to bring everyone together, he was going to be this uniter. Hes been the most divisive, nasty, negative campaigner this countrys ever seen without running any positive ads. Skip to 4:45. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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LePage: The IRS is like the new Gestapo

Erika Johnsen (Hot Air Top Picks)
insurance. Under the law, the IRS will provide tax breaks and incentives Submitted at 7/8/2012 4:01:17 PM to help pay for health insurance posted at 5:01 pm on July 8, 2012 and impose penalties on some by Erika Johnsen people who dont buy coverage Even though President Obamas and on some businesses that dont recently Supreme Court-upheld offer it to employees. health care law imposes a whole The changes will require new host of penalties that most r e g u l a t i o n s , f o r m s a n d definitively are not taxes, or publications, new computer something, its just easiest for programs and a big new outreach t h e I R S t o t a k e o v e r t h e program to explain it all to administration of said penalties. taxpayers and tax professionals. So of course, the IRS is rolling Businesses that dont claim an forward with plans to begin exemption will have to prove they implementing the health care law, o f f e r h e a l t h i n s u r a n c e t o which in turn requires that they e m p l o y e e s . hire thousands of new employees The health care law includes the and rewrite a bunch of rules and largest set of tax law changes in regulations. Oh, joy (emphasis more than 20 years, according to mine): the Treasury inspector general The Supreme Courts decision to who oversees the IRS. The agency uphold most of President Barack will have to hire thousands of Obamas health care law will workers to manage it come home to roost for most But its not a tax. Yeah, okay, got taxpayers in about 2 1/2 years, it. w h e n t h e y l l h a v e t o s t a r t The IRS might be getting a head providing proof on their tax s t a r t w i t h i m p l e m e n t i n g returns that they have health ObamaCare, but during his
weekly radio address, Maine Governor Paul LePage jumped on the Republican-governor bandwagon of states refusing to even start preparing for the Medicaid expansion, etcetera, before they absolutely must. LePage said the court decision has made America less free. We the people have been told there is no choice, he said. You must buy health insurance or pay the new Gestapo the IRS. The governor added that Maine will not move forward the ACAs insurance exchanges the marketplaces where individuals can shop for health plans from private companies until the proposed $800 million tab to pay for them passes Congress. With these looming uncertainties circling around this issue, Maine cannot move forward right now with Obamacare, LePage said. Even more disheartening is that reviving the American dream just became nearly impossible to do, he said. We are now a nation
which supports dependency rather than independence. Instead of encouraging self-reliance, we are encouraging people to rely on the government. I cant support the Nazi imagery its perhaps just a wee bit hyperbolic for my tastes (and thats saying something!) but I understand the outrage. This is shaping up to be the biggest encroachment on personal freedom in Americas history, and if the federal government can take their authority this far, wed be fools not to question just how far the American people are going to allow the government to go before insisting that enough is enough. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.
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Assange ducking extradition with Ecuadorians

Jazz Shaw (Hot Air Top Picks)
posted at 6:31 pm on July 8, 2012 by Jazz Shaw The last time we checked in with Julian Assange he was having yet another bad day in court. The wheels of Justice in London were turning slowly, but they finally rejected his last appeal to prevent his extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges. Given a couple of weeks to put his affairs in order, he was scheduled to leave by July 7. That was yesterday. And yet he remains, courtesy of the Ecuadorian embassy. A deadline for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be extradited to Sweden for questioning in sexual assault allegations came and went Saturday with no apparent movement. Assange is believed to still be inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been holed up since applying for political asylum on June 19. The South American country has said it is considering his application Assange sought refuge at the
embassy five days after the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom dismissed a bid to reopen his appeal of the decision to send him to Sweden his last option in British courts. It is unclear when Ecuador will make a decision on Assanges asylum request. A lot of what happens next will ride heavily on the twisted web of western hemisphere politics and seemingly unrelated events nearly half a world away. If we were in a nice, cozy relationship with Ecuador, odds are good that President Obama could pick up the phone, toss a few sweeteners into the deal and Assange would be booted out of the embassy tout de suite. Sadly, thats hardly the case. Our relations with Ecuador have been going downhill for a while, even more so since President Rafael Correa fell increasingly under the sway of Hugo Chavez. (You may recall that Chavez wasnt exactly a fan of the last president either.) But things havent improved under Obama at all. Sending Hillary Clinton down there in 2010 produced pretty much zero, zilch and nada. (How did that possibly go wrong?) And just last year our
Ambassador to Ecuador was declared persona non grata in the country. Speaking of the tangled web I referenced above, its somewhat ironic that the primary reason she was shown the door was the fact that Wikileaks had published a memo of hers where she criticized the administrations decision to appoint a corrupt police commander. It all seems to come full circle, doesnt it? If Ecuador either liked us or feared us enough, we could probably jump in and help the Brits with this Assange extradition situation, but they seem to be neither. Thats not to say that the UK may not still pry Assange out, particularly if helping him doesnt seem to provide any real benefit to Ecuador, but it looks like the US will be sitting this one out on the sidelines. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Incinerating Assange - The Liberal Media Go To Work.

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