DOJ Wants to Slam Apple With Antitrust Restrictions After Trial Verdict

NEWS ANALYSIS: A remedy proposal submitted by the Justice Department would force Apple to end publisher agreements, puts new limits on book, music and video sales and appoint a court monitor.

The U.S. Department of Justice is proposing to come down hard on Apple after the company was found guilty of price fixing charges in July after a trial in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. U.S. Judge Denise Cote found that Apple had conspired with five book publishers to fix prices higher than those being charged by Amazon at the time while also forcing Amazon and other online book sellers to charge similar prices. The DOJ presented an overwhelming pile of evidence, including e-mails from then CEO Steve Jobs setting up the conspiracy. The Justice Department laid out its proposals for punishing Apple in a press release issued on Aug. 2. In that document, the government said that it was proposing that Apple be forced to terminate the agreements it had with the five major book publishers involved in the conspiracy and to cease making any other attempts to fix prices. The proposal would also prevent Apple from entering into any contracts that would prevent price competition for five years and it would prevent any retaliation against publishers that refused to sell books on Apple?s terms. But there are other provisions that could prove particularly galling to Apple. The company must allow links to other book sources, including Amazon?s Kindle software and store. ?To reset competition to the conditions that existed before the conspiracy,? the DOJ explained, ?Apple must also for two years allow other ebook retailers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble to provide links from their ebook apps to their ebookstores, allowing consumers who purchase and read ebooks on their iPads and iPhones easily to compare Apple?s prices with those of its competitors.? In addition to focusing on ebooks, the government is also proposing to keep an eye on Apple?s dealings in regards to other media. ?Apple will also be prohibited from entering into agreements with suppliers of ebooks, music, movies, television shows or other content that are likely to increase the prices at which Apple?s competitor retailers may sell that content.? In other words, Apple?s sale of music and video through iTunes and the Apple music store is also restricted. But just in case Apple doesn?t get the message, the DOJ is proposing that a court-appointed monitor be put into place within Apple ?to ensure that Apple?s internal antitrust compliance policies are sufficient to catch anti-competitive activities before they result in harm to consumers.?

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Mercedes-Benz India launches E 63 AMG for Rs. 1.29 crores

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Mercedes-Benz India has finally launched the much anticipated E63 AMG in India at Rs 1.29 crores (ex-showroom, Delhi). The event was held at the famous Buddh International Circuit (BIC), Noida. In June, the company launched the all new E-Class for Rs 41.5 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi), now the AMG will join the line-up as top-of-the line variant. Mercedes Benz E 63 AMG was launched by Mr. Eberhard Kern, Managing Director and CEO, Mercedes-Benz India. The all new E63 AMG derives its power from the 5.5-litre V8 engine, which is capable to churn whooping power output figures of 557bhp and 720Nm. The earlier generation E63 AMG's 6.2-litre engine was 30-37bhp lesser powerful than the new one. The engine is mated to the AMG Speedshift MCT 7G-Tronic transmission, which transmits power to all four-wheels. What makes the E63 AMG powertrain more special is the fact that it is a fully hand-built engine, which has also hiked the pricing of the car. The top-speed attained by the vehicle is 250kmph, and despite being so powerful it returns an impressive fuel economy of 9.5/100 km. With such high power output figures, it touches the 0-100kmph mark in mere 4.2 seconds. The new E63 AMG features a special AMG "A-wing", which makes the lower intakes and twin-blade grille positioned above it. Other features on offer are a black finished rear diffuser and an AMG exclusive dual exhaust setup at the rear. It gets some updates inside the cabin as well including AMG touches like silver seatbelts and Alcantara inserts to the Nappa leather steering wheel. The pricing for the car will be unveiled at the launch event only, which we would be covering live, so stay tuned to CarDekho for more updates on the same. Cheers! Mr. Eberhard Kern, Director & CEO, Mercedes-Benz India commented on the launch of the new E 63 AMG, "The E 63 AMG combines the attributes of a sports car with the practicality of a luxury sedan. The stunning new design idiom is in line with the new AMG design philosophy. The connoisseurs of Mercedes-Benz AMG vehicles will now experience the performance and driving dynamics of the E 63 AMG more with the broader scope of standard equipment and appointments. The new E 63 AMG continues to be the pinnacle of technical prowess with added power and enhanced performance making it a practical super car. With the launch of the new E 63 AMG Mercedes-Benz India reiterates the philosophy of Best or Nothing for its customers." Mr. Eberhard Kern further elaborated, "The year 2013 has been marked as the year of offensive for Mercedes-benz India. We already have received phenomenal response for the products which were launched this year. After pioneering a new segment with the A-Class and launching the most sought after luxury executive sedan E-Class, the launch of the new E63 AMG further reiterates our promise of brining fascinating cars and providing a memorable brand experience for the valued customers of the Three Pointed Star in India." ? Source : CarDekho - Mercedes-Benz cars - Mercedes-Benz India Finally Launches E 63 AMG for Rs. 1.29 Crores return story content Pages :|?1? ' + google_ads[0].line1 + ' : ' + google_ads[0].line2 + '?' + google_ads[0].line3 + ' ' + google_ads[0].visible_url + ' '; } else if (google_ads.length > 1) { s += 'Ads by Google ' /* * For text ads, append each ad to the string. */ for(i = 0; i ' + google_ads[i].line1 + ' :' + google_ads[i].line2 + '' + google_ads[i].line3 + ' ' + google_ads[i].visible_url + ' '; } } } if (google_ads[0].bidtype == "CPC") { /* insert this snippet for each ad call */ google_adnum = google_adnum + google_ads.length; } document.write(s); return; } /* custom_468x60_storypage, created 11/23/10 */ google_ad_client = 'pub-1723933259695999'; /* substitute your client_id (pub-#) */ google_ad_slot = '0331986580'; google_ad_output = 'js'; google_max_num_ads = '1'; google_ad_type = 'text_html'; google_image_size = '600x15'; google_feedback = 'on'; google_skip = google_adnum; /* to skip for multiple units, insert this snippet for each ad call */ // -->

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Google announces Android Device Manager to help users find lost devices

Mumbai: Google has now announced the Android Device Manager, a new website that will help users find their lost phone or tablet. Accompanying the website will be an installable app that is set to roll out later this month. The company has made this service available for all devices running Android 2.2 (Froyo) and above.

While details about the Device Manager are still minimal, Google has said that some of the features expected include the ability to make your phone ring at maximum volume so you can find it, even if it may have been silenced.

Another detail that has emerged is that users will need to be signed into their Google Account to use the service. The Manager also ensures that on that off-chance that your device is out of earshot, it can still be located on a map in real time. Google gave a glimpse of how that particular feature will work:

If the phone or tablet cannot be recovered, or has been stolen, there is an option to securely delete all their data from the device.

And if all else fails, Google's Android Device Manager will ensure that the user's data does not end up in the wrong hands. If the phone or tablet cannot be recovered, or has been stolen, there is an option to securely delete all their data from the device.

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A Tag-Team Look At The New Nexus 7

Google recently updated its Nexus 7 tablet, with a new design and brand new specs including a more powerful processor and much better screen. The device also has the distinction of being among the first in line for new Android updates, so it?s an early-adopter?s delight. But despite all the new, the Nexus 7 doesn?t really dramatically change the tablet space; it slots in more or less where the original version did, as a tablet that?s good for the price but unlikely to provoke any passion

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Delta athletes head to Canada Games

The Canada Summer Games begin next week in Sherbrooke, Que. with eight Delta athletes representing B.C. and our community. The Delta Sports Council gave a send off to the athletes Tuesday in Ladner at Delta Gymnastics.

Pictured from left: rowing brothers Maxwell and Aaron Lattimer, beach volleyball sisters Megan and Nicole McNamara, basketball star Ryan Cowley, soccer players Jasmine Mander (right), Sessen Stevens (centre) and Alessia Azermadhi (cutting the cake) with softball coach Gord Collings.

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Directi launches CodeChef for India school kids

Directi has launched an online programming platform, CodeChef for Schools, which is aimed at fostering developers at grass root level to create a self-sustaining community of technology developers.

The initiative hopes to enable Indian students to excel at the International Olympiad of Informatics (IOI), one of the five academic Olympiads for high-school students worldwide. The competition requires contestants to show basic IT skills such as as problem analysis, design of algorithms and data structures, programming, and testing.

The non-commercial educational initiative will kickstart by tapping school children from Class 8 onward. CodeChef for Schools has pledged a yearly support of US$20,000 to etch India's programming prowess on the global map. These funds would be utilized for various purposes including sponsorship for students to help them participate in coding competitions, spends for enhancing their school's IT infrastructure, and a cash prize of 500,000 rupees (US$8,000) for the gold medal winner at the IOI.

Elaborating on the development, Bhavin Turakhia, founder and CEO, Directi said: "In India, there is a clear dearth of platforms that encourage school students to take computer programming seriously. Combine this with the lack of awareness among Indian students, and the existing curriculum in most schools and colleges, it does not truly recreate real-world scenarios that allow budding software developers to collaborate with professionals.

"The CodeChef platform aims to reach out to school students while young, and create a culture of programming in the country," said Turakhia. Directi is an?Indian company offering various Internet services including Web hosting, domain registration, and online collaboration tools. ?

While the nation has been making rapid strides with the US$10 billion IT services industry, it has yet to leave its mark on the global programming industry. Countries like China, Germany, and Russia still hold down the fort by churning out winners year after year at global events. Also, factors such as low awareness about the value of programming, lack of infrastructure, as well as lack of qualified teachers further act as an impediment.

As a part of the program, Directi will host monthly online coding contests, have online programming tutorials, build Campus Chapters in various schools to help students learn programming from scratch, and assist schools to organize meet-ups where students will be encouraged to learn coding concepts, share experiences, and be mentored to drive India to become one of the programming hotspots of the world.

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Twitter updates search with account discovery and media display

Despite being one of the most popular social networks in the world, Twitter?s search functionality hasn?t really been ?up there? as one of the best. Twitter seems committed to changing this, with an update having been announced on their official account entailing new account and content discovery methods.

As part of this evolutionary process, the search has been streamlined in a number of ways. This means accounts can be found and followed more easily as well; observe the result when ?Neowin? is searched.

While it might not be as obviously apparent, images now also appear in-line with tweets, provided there are images to use. Obviously, this excludes photo hosts Twitter doesn?t really support: the image needs to be on Twitter?s own website for this to work.

At the time of writing the ?search history? is not shared across different devices, so searching on a phone does not add it to the web client?s history. While it likely won't affect most people, the two histories are independent.

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Arctic sea-ice loss has widespread effects on wildlife

[unable to retrieve full-text content]How the Arctic wildlife and humans will be affected by the continued melting of Arctic sea ice is explored in a review article in the journal Science, by an international team of scientists. The article examines relationships among algae, plankton, whales, and terrestrial animals such as caribou, arctic foxes, and walrus; as well as the effects of human exploration of previously inaccessible parts of the region.

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Moore woman severely injured in May 20 tornado dies at 90

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LUMP SUM STRUCTURED SETTLEMENT ? THE SIMPLE WAY

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A structured settlement is a financial arrangement defined in revenue code where the borrower accepts to resolve the personal injury and want to get out of the periodic repayments. Structured settlement was first utilised in Canada and then accepted by all. It is widely used in product liability and in injury cases. Benefits of structured settlement can be to reduce legal and other costs by avoiding trial. Structured settlement become more popular in the United States during the 1970?s as an alternative to the lump sum settlement. People stated going with structured settlements due to increasing interest rates. The no credit check loans are available as more people after the recession get in to the debt trap and were unable to get out of it.

So the best way was to make a structured settlement and get out of it. Also as the people had bad credit due to one or the other reason and so the lenders will not be able to give loans at lower interest rate in order to cover their risk in lending to the borrowers having bad credit. There is special tax treatment for the structured settlement but you have to qualify for getting its advantages. A structured settlement must be established by a suit or an agreement for periodic payments of damages excludible from gross total income.

The structured settlement arises and is made up as per given details: An injured party settles the tort suit with the defendant pursuant to a settlement agreement that provides that the claimant will withdraw the legal charges and the defendant will agree to make periodic settlements. The payment should be made on time and the agreement will be made in writing and also if required the guarantor can be put between them. If the agreement is taken by fraud or without proper agreement the rule will make the agreement automatically void and the case will get reopen. Hence the intention of the defaulter decides the merit of the case.

In some case purchasing company will take the life insurance cover in order to hedge in case of death in a settlement transfer. In case the purchasing company don?t want to keep the long term periodic payment obligation on its books he may approach to the third party known as Assignment Company. The defendant company has to pay to third party some amount because of which he can be ready to take the loan. An assignment is said to be qualified if it satisfies the criteria set forth in revenue code. Qualification of the assignment is important to assignment companies because without it the periodic payment companies will not get the income tax benefits for the payment they make. If the assignment companies qualify the amount received is excluded from the income of the assignment companies.

The bad credit loans are very difficult to repay and so it is better to make structured settlement as early as possible. The lenders will not take risk by giving loan to the injured borrowers as it will reduce their profit and increase the risk.

One should not think about settlement at the first go while applying for the loan because only those who are not sure about repayment think about the settlement. Instead of that the person should think how he can repay the prospective loans and reduce the chances of falling on defaults side. Remember any kind of settlement no credit check loans can reduce the credit score further and reduce the future chances of finance. If not, at least the future finance will be very?costly.

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Hide, ambush, kill, eat: The giant water bug Lethocerus patruelis kills a fish

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Germany's Praktiker may lose 4,000 jobs after insolvency-report

BERLIN | Sat Jul 27, 2013 11:25am BST

BERLIN (Reuters) - As many as 4,000 jobs could be lost at German home improvement retailer Praktiker (PRAG.DE) and its Max Bahr chain following insolvency filings, Bild reported on Saturday, citing the group's deputy board chairman.

"That's a shocking number," the newspaper quoted deputy supervisory board chairman Ulrich Kruse as saying.

About a dozen Praktiker stores could shortly be closed, mainly shops that were about to be converted to the Max Bahr brand which traditionally had better profit margins, Wirtschaftswoche reported, without citing the source of the information.

Praktiker said on July 25 that its Max Bahr unit would file for insolvency after a trade credit insurer, named by unions as Coface (CNAT.PA), stopped providing coverage to suppliers.

Praktiker, whose blue and yellow-branded stores selling paints, tools and gardening products are a familiar sight in Germany's out-of-town shopping centres, has been grappling with a decline in sales and profitability since it ended a "20 percent off everything" discount strategy.

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Korean divide lives on 60 years after end of war

PANMUNJOM, North Korea (AP) ? Some Americans call it the "Forgotten War," a 1950s conflict fought in a far-off country and so painful that even survivors have tried to erase their memories of it.

The North Koreans, however, have not forgotten. Sixty years after the end of the Korean War, the country is marking the milestone anniversary with a massive celebration Saturday for a holiday it calls "Victory Day" ? even though the two sides only signed a truce, and have yet to negotiate a peace treaty.

Signs and banners reading "Victory" line the streets of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. The events are expected to culminate with a huge military parade and fireworks, one of the biggest extravaganzas in this impoverished country since leader Kim Jong Un took power in late 2011.

Here at the border in Panmunjom, the war never ended. Both sides of the Demilitarized Zone are heavily guarded, making it the world's most fortified border, and dividing countless families with sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, on the other side. The North Koreans consider the presence of 28,500 U.S. troops in South Korea a continued occupation.

In some ways, war today is being waged outside the confines of the now-outdated armistice signed 60 years ago.

The disputed maritime border off the west coast of the Koreas is a hot spot for clashes. In 2010, a South Korean warship exploded, killing 46 sailors; Seoul blamed a North Korean torpedo. Later that year, a North Korean artillery attack on a front-line South Korean island killed four people, two of them civilians.

Earlier this year, Kim Jong Un enshrined the pursuit of nuclear weapons as a national goal, calling it a defensive measure against the U.S. military threat. In recent months, the warfare has extended into cyberspace, with both Koreas accusing the other of mounting crippling hacking attacks that have taken down government websites in the North and paralyzed online commerce in the South.

Sixty years on, as both Koreas and the United States mark the anniversary Saturday, there is still no peace on the Korean Peninsula.

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The two sides don't even agree on who started the war.

Outside the North, historians say it was North Korean troops who charged across the border at the 38th parallel and launched an assault at 4 a.m. on June 25, 1950.

North Korea agrees that war broke out at 4 a.m. ? but says U.S. troops attacked first. A photo offered as proof at a Pyongyang war museum shows U.S. soldiers advancing, rifles cocked, as they run past the 38th parallel.

"The real history is that the U.S. started the war on June 25, 1950," Ri Su Jong, a 21-year-old guide at a flower show in Pyongyang, said Tuesday. "They first attacked our country, and we quickly counterattacked."

Ri, whose grandfathers both fought in the war, said she was taught that the North Koreans marched into Seoul three days later, "liberating" South Korea from U.S. forces. A panoramic diorama at the war museum shows soldiers hoisting the North Korean flag in a sea of fire and destruction.

As North Korean troops advanced further south, the U.S. retaliated with bombing campaigns that left both Seoul and Pyongyang in rubble.

"The U.S enemy engineered the war, boasting of the advantage of their air power, flying normally 500 or 700 flights, sometimes up to 1,000 flights a day, both on the front and in the rear," said North Korean Maj. Gen. Kim Sung Un, a war veteran who is now 84. "All the factories and workplaces ... were reduced to ashes."

Then came the counterattack.

Dick Bonelli was a 19-year-old from the Bronx, a self-professed troublemaker, who was shipped off with the U.S. Marines to fight in a country he never knew existed. He arrived in September 1950 with the amphibious assault known in as the "Inchon Landing," the surprise attack that helped the U.S.-led U.N. forces push the North Koreans back.

Bonelli later took part in one of the most costly fights of the Korean War: the 17-day winter campaign in the mountainous region of the North then known by its Japanese name, the Chosin Reservoir. Several thousand were killed in combat, and thousands more died of frostbite.

"I tried for 30 to 40 years to forget it all," Bonelli said in Pyongyang on Thursday, an American flag pinned to his blazer. "Who wants to remember that? It's war. It was terrible."

In all, the fighting took more than 1.2 million lives. More than 500,000 North Korean troops died, along with 183,000 Chinese who fought alongside them. On the other side, 138,000 South Koreans were killed, and 40,670 more from the U.N.-led force, including 36,900 Americans. Civilian deaths totaled almost 374,000 in South Korea and are unknown in the North.

Bonelli is back in North Korea for the first time since 1950. His hope is to revisit Fox Hill, the remote spot that he guarded that first cold winter of the war. Tears in his eyes, he called it an emotional journey to a place that he tried for decades to forget.

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How the main players in the war will mark Saturday's anniversary is a telling indication of how each country considers the conflict.

North Korea is treating it as a celebration, an occasion to rally support for the country's leader and draw attention to the division of the Korean Peninsula.

In South Korea, it's a day of remembrance. For the government, it's a day of thanks to the 16 U.N. nations that came to South Korea's defense during the 1950-53 war. For many, it's also a day of sorrow as they remember family members left behind in the North, forever divided from their loved ones.

Park Jong-seon doesn't know what happened to his older brother and sister, lost in the tumult of war. "To this day, I still have not heard from them," he said, eyes glistening. "I wonder where they are, and whether they're still alive."

In Washington, President Barack Obama on Thursday declared July 27 National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day. He paid tribute in his proclamation to the veterans who fought to "defend a country they never knew and a people they never met." He is to speak Saturday at the Korean War Veterans Memorial.

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Back in 1953, the architects of the armistice that took two years to negotiate were so sure the truce would be temporary that they cobbled together corrugated sheds to serve as conference halls in just a handful of days.

Sixty years later, those once-temporary buildings are still standing. On the North Korean side, the drafty building that served as the venue for armistice talks is now the "peace pagoda," a popular stop on a fledgling tourist trail from Pyongyang. A tattered version of the armistice agreement and the U.N. flag are displayed.

The sheds straddling the border where the two sides sometimes meet are still called T1, T2 and T3: the "T'' stands for "temporary."

Peace is up to Washington, North Korean Lt. Col. Nam Dong Ho told The Associated Press recently.

"The division of the Korean Peninsula is less an issue between the North and South and more of an issue between North Korea and the U.S," he said. "Last time, we negotiated an armistice agreement. But next time, we will bring the U.S. to its knees to sign a letter of surrender."

Ri, the flower show guide, also blames the U.S.: "Of course we want peace. ... But the American imperialists keep provoking us with their hostile policy."

The visiting U.S. veteran, Bonelli, says simply that a peace treaty is long overdue.

"It's ridiculous to have an armistice this long and not to sit down, break bread and make peace," he said. "The future is about the children. Let's stop it."

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Associated Press writer Elizabeth Shim contributed to this report from Seoul, South Korea. Follow AP's Korea bureau chief at www.twitter.com/newsjean.

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Cayuga Community College's budget approved

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CAYUGA COUNTY, N.Y. ? On Tuesday, the budget for Cayuga Community College was up for approval.

Legislators signed off on the plan, which will raise tuition by $140 a year, while cutting spending by more than six percent.

The college board of trustees faced a difficult task, having to deal with a $1.5 million deficit due to low enrollment. Even with furloughs, salary cuts and other reductions, there is still a gap of approximately $400,000.

The board did recently pass a resolution that will allow them to make even deeper cuts moving forward, however, they say they will honor the agreements reached during the budget negotiation process.

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Democratic Governors Steering the Party Leftward

As a procession of Republican governors cracked down on abortion in recent months, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York tried to lift the state's longstanding restrictions after 24 weeks of pregnancy. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, granted a temporary reprieve to a murderer on death row and signed laws limiting rounds in gun magazines and allowing illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses. So did Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley in Maryland, who also banned capital punishment and legalized medical marijuana.

While Republican governors elected during the party's historic wave in 2010 have drawn criticism for their unabashedly conservative agendas to restrict abortion, rein in labor unions and slash state spending, a number of Democratic governors are just as aggressively pushing liberal policies like gay marriage and gun control. Emboldened by President Obama's re-election, a younger and more diverse electorate, and an increasing number of state governments under one-party control, these Democratic governors are crusading on issues the party steered clear of until recently. It's happening not just in solidly-Democratic states like New York, Maryland, Delaware and Connecticut but also in more competitive battlegrounds like Colorado, where new gun laws are fueling two recall elections and threats of secession from some rural counties.

As potential presidential candidates and rivals to Hillary Clinton, governors like Cuomo and O'Malley are leading the Democratic Party down its most socially liberal path in decades.

"Especially on social issues, the center of gravity in the Democratic Party has moved in the more liberal direction," said Bill Galston, a former Clinton administration official and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "There's a new generation of Democrats who see lots of gain and very little pain in stronger gun safety legislation and gay marriage."

Polling suggests the Democratic governors are on solid ground on some of these issues. Gay marriage ? or in the case of Colorado, same-sex civil unions -- is widely accepted in Democratic-led states and by a narrow majority in national polls. So is allowing illegal immigrants to earn citizenship. Expanding background checks on gun buyers received support from 91 percent in a nationwide Quinnipiac University poll in April frequently cited by Democrats.

The growing support for gun control ? an issue Democrats had studiously avoided for more than a decade -- followed a shocking string of mass murders, most notably the shooting deaths of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. in December. On other social issues, the trends are more demographic. The fast-growing Hispanic and Asian-American communities favor immigration reform, while young people overwhelmingly back gay marriage. President Obama built a winning coalition in part by turning out this younger and more diverse electorate.

"After two Obama electoral victories, liberal interest groups are emboldened and demanding party leaders get in line," said Tim Miller of America Rising, a Republican super PAC leading an anti-Clinton effort. "As a result you are seeing Democrats with national ambitions tack far left and losing touch with mainstream voters."

Colorado, a perennial presidential battleground, is home to a fierce backlash over the state's adoption of liberal policies. The state is facing its first recall elections for a pair of Democratic lawmakers who backed stricter gun control laws spurred by the Newtown murders and the slayings of 12 people in an Aurora movie theater one year ago. In northern Colorado, several rural counties are threatening to secede over the new gun restrictions, driving privileges for illegal immigrants and a renewable energy mandate.

"The most recent legislative session in Colorado was the most liberal I've seen in decades," said Democrat-turned-independent pollster Floyd Ciruli of Denver. "Colorado is not New York, so of course there is going to be a reaction. I don't know if the governor is endangered, but he's dealing with a narrative of a Democratic Party that went too far."

While Hickenlooper has public opinion on his side on most of these social issues, taken together, they could fuel Republican attacks that the Democratic Party has become too radical and push away moderate voters. Amid declining approval ratings, Hickenlooper has also endorsed a controversial $1 billion tax hike for public schools. The latest Quinnipiac poll shows 67 percent of voters disagree with his decision to postpone the execution of Nathan Dunlap, convicted of killing four people in a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant in 1993.

"Democrats have been talking a lot about Republicans being [pushed] into the extremes, and some Democrats here are anxious about a parallel situation," Ciruli said.

Colorado is among 38 states where the governor's mansion and both chambers of the legislature are controlled by one party, allowing Democrat-led and Republican-led states to enact equally ambitious agendas. In other words, the same unified political climate that allowed Democrats in Colorado and Maryland to pass a slew of progressive laws this year also allowed Republican-controlled states like Texas, Wisconsin, Ohio and North Carolina to ratify tough abortion restrictions.

In this increasingly polarized political landscape, Republican and Democratic states are moving in opposite directions in reaction to developments in Washington -- the failure of Congress to pass gun control, the ongoing talks over immigration reform, and the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the federal ban on same-sex marriage.

"The parties are essentially doubling down, retrenching and going back to their corners and saying, 'This is who we are, and this what we are going to do," said Democratic strategist Maria Cardona, who worked on Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. "The problem for Republicans and what this past election made very clear is that on the issues the president was pushing like abortion rights, the majority of Americans are with him. In the states where Democrats are pushing the envelope, growth is on their side."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/democratic-governors-steering-party-leftward-065201677.html

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In pictures: The Motorola Droid Maxx

The Droid MAXX promises two-days of battery life in a slim design

Verizon's latest battery champ, the Droid MAXX offers an improvement from last years RAZR MAXX's 32-hours of battery life, cranking things up to a full 48-hours. It also brings along a new style and checks in thinner than previous models.

You've still get the Kevlar construction, but things like wireless charging and Motorola's new 10MP camera have been added, and to go with the new look there are some new accessories.

You can see what we're talking about after the break, where we've got a slew of photos to look through.

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WBO President is Critical of Plan For Pros in Olympics

By Ronnie Nathanielsz
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The president of the World Boxing Organization has joined a growing number of the world professional boxing organizations and outstanding promoters and criticized the plan of the International Amateur Boxing Association or AIBA headed by its president Dr. Ching-Kuo Wu to include select pro boxers in the Olympic Games beginning in Brazil in 2016.
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Francisco ?Paco? Valcarcel, in answer to a query from this columnist on the AIBA plan noted that many of the? greatest WBO Champions were Olympic Boxers and they benefited greatly from their Olympic experiences.

Valcarcel said ?Professional Boxing has had a great resurgence of popularity over the last 25 years, with countless new venues worldwide where Professional Boxing Championships are contested and numerous new media outlets competing for Boxing?s ever increasing television audience.?? During this same period AIBA has presided over a decline in popularity and fairness of amateur boxing.?
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The WBO president said ?We have all recognized for many years how unfair it is that Communist Countries have permanent professional teams competing against true amateurs.?? 30 year old Cuban professionals have competed against 16 to 18 year old free world amateurs.? One Gold Medal is a glorious accomplishment for any athlete.? 3 Gold Medals for a Boxer only happens through gross exploitation of the Boxer by the National Association.?
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Valcarcel indicated that every Olympic Medalist ?should be able to profit from his success and glory and attain his or her fair share of the value that the Boxer?s skills and talents generate.? Professional Boxing, whether it is conducted by AIBA or through the traditional structure, is not physical education.?? It is a professional sport conducted for the entertainment of the fans, by athletes motivated by the revenue they can earn.?? They make great sacrifices to reach the pinnacle of the sport.?? They deserve to receive the fair reward for the sacrifices they make and the risks they take.?

He said AIBA ?now wants to structure permanent National Team that competes as professionals until they miraculously reemerge as amateurs every four years at the Olympics.? They have recognized the unpopularity of the sports style they have advocated and their answer is to copy the professional style, but compete as national teams of indentured, underpaid house fighters.? ?
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Valcarcel insisted ?No one seriously believes any of the AIBA boxers would be competitive against WBO Champions.? This is because WBO Champions are formed through free and open competition to determine the best boxers in the world.? It is tragic that AIBA is advocating that countries with many millions of people and many thousands of athletes should restrict the opportunity for its citizens to compete professionally to its National Team in AIBA structure where they are paid not like Professional Boxing Champions based on the amount of revenue that a free market will determine, but based on a set structure determined by the National Team. ?
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The WBO president expressed the hope that ?colonialism and exploitation should be diminishing as the World progresses? even as he criticized? AIBA's concept as? ?an exploitive and foolish step backward from democracy and free markets to collective determination of opportunities and economic colonialism. ?
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Valcarcel referred to the April 13 WBO super bantamweight championship between Nonito ?The Filipino Flash? Donaire and former Cuban two-time Olympic gold medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux as ? A great example of the gross distortion of market dynamics that AIBA is perpetrating on its participants.? He pointed out that Rigondeaux ?earned more in that one evening than the entire Cuban AIBA team will be paid by Cuba in their lifetimes.?
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He accused AIBA under of wanting to ?create a monopoly in the name of the International Olympic movement through government fiats, and there doing diminish the popularity of the sport of Boxing and the opportunities of athletes to compete and benefit from professional boxing.? Boxing is too hard a sport to ask its competitors to endure closed shops, suppressed earning and diminished opportunities.? AIBA should be reformed to return Olympic Boxing to its prior excellence and popularity.? It has no business in Professional Boxing and approaches it with the same imperious and feckless manner that it has abused amateur boxing.?

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Source: http://www.boxingscene.com/wbo-president-critical-plan-pros-olympics--67885

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Depleted uranium used by US forces blamed for birth defects and ...

Published time: July 22, 2013 13:21
Edited time: July 22, 2013 20:13

25mm rounds of depleted uranium ammunition (AFP Photo / Stan Honda)

The US military?s use of depleted uranium in Iraq has led to a sharp increase in Leukemia and birth defects in the city of Najaf ? and panicked residents are fearing for their health. Cancer is now more common than the flu, a local doctor told RT.

The city of Najaf saw one of the most severe military actions during the 2003 invasion. RT traveled to the area, quickly learning that every residential street in several neighborhoods has seen multiple cases of families whose children are ill, as well as families who have lost children, and families who have many relatives suffering from cancer.

Speaking on the rooftop of her house instead of her laboratory, Dr. Sundus Nsaif says the city has seen a ?dramatic rise? in cancer and birth defects since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. Nsaif said the alternative location was chosen because there is an active push by the government not to talk about the issue, perhaps in an effort not to embarrass coalition forces.

?After the start of the Iraq war, rates of cancer, leukemia and birth defects rose dramatically in Najaf. The areas affected by American attacks saw the biggest increases. We believe it?s because of the' illegal' weapons like depleted uranium that were used by the Americans. When you visit the hospital here you see that cancer is more common than the flu," Nsaif told RT's Lucy Kafanov.

?The war isn?t over. Yes, the Americans are gone, but we are still suffering from the Consequences," said Leila Jabar, whose three children died because they were born with congenital deformities. She blames radioactive ammunition used by American forces during the war for ?the health problems of her children. Her only surviving 8-months-old son Ahmed has a nervous system disorder and doctors don't expect him to survive his first birthday.

Dr. Chris Busby has researched the effects of depleted uranium (DU) in detail. He says the only source of uranium in Iraq was used by American-led forces.

?We went to Fallujah and we found the levels of cancer. We looked at the parents of children with congenital malformation and we did analysis of their hair to see what was inside their hair that might be genotoxic, that might be the sort of thing that can cause congenital malformation. The only thing that we found was uranium. We found uranium in the mothers of the children with congenital malformations,? he told RT.

From 2009 onwards, credible media reports from the city of Fallujah, the scene of intense urban warfare in 2004, brought reports of high rates of congenital birth defects to the world?s attention. At least two platforms that utilize DU munitions were employed in ?Phantom Fury,' the most intense operation since the official end of major combat operations in 2003.

At least 440,000kg of DU were used in Iraq, some ending up as DU dust, and some as corroding penetrators - leaving a still unknown number of sites with contaminated vehicles, buildings and soils, according to a Dutch report.

?The exposure risks to civilians from the use of DU in populated areas have been compounded by the US?s persistent refusal to release the data that could have helped facilitate the effective assessment and clearance work, providing that the Iraqi government had the capacity and finances to undertake it. Taken as a whole, these issues cast serious doubts over the legitimacy of the use of DU,? the Dutch report says.

Aside from DU?s potential impact on physical health, it is highly likely that its use and presence in Iraq has led to heightened fear and anxiety, which in turn may have created a measurable psycho-social impact, the authors of the report note.

Another report, funded by the Norwegian government, recently found that depleted uranium was used against civilian targets in populated areas in Iraq in 2003. It emphasizes a lack of transparency by coalition forces over the use of depleted uranium, but also describes one incident in Najaf where a Bradley armored fighting vehicle fired 305 depleted uranium rounds in a single engagement.

?We know that uranium is genotoxic, that it causes these levels of genetic damage, and because of that it also causes cancer. The only source of uranium was the use by the American-led forces of uranium weapons. Not only depleted uranium weapons, but as we later found out slightly enriched uranium weapons, which we believe they were using in order to cover their tracks. So, I think we have more or less proved that these effects are a result of the use during the two wars of uranium, and the particles that the uranium weapons produced,? Dr. Busby explained.

Depleted uranium weapons are known for the ability to penetrate through walls and tanks. One of its most dangerous ?side effects? is that when the substance vaporizes, it generates dust inhaled by individuals.

The Pentagon and the UN estimate that US and British forces used 1,100 to 2,200 tons of armor-piercing shells made of depleted uranium during attacks in Iraq in March and April, far more than the [officially] estimated 375 tons used in the 1991 Gulf War, according to a report published in Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 2003.

In cities like Basra and Fallujah, where American and British forces used heavy munitions at the start of the war, it is estimated that over half of all babies conceived after the start of the war were born with heart defects. According to a study published in the Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology between October 1994 and October 1995, the number of birth defects per 1,000 live births in Al Basrah Maternity Hospital was 1.37. In 2003, the number of birth defects in the same hospital was 23 per 1,000 live births. Within less than a decade, the occurrence of congenital birth defects increased 17-fold.

The international community has voiced concerns over the actual effects of the use of such weapons. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Iraq are expected to publish a report on this in the near future, but so far it has been delayed. According to the WHO, the report will not examine the link between the prevalence of birth defects and use of depleted uranium munitions used during the war and occupation in Iraq.

?Since the issue of associating congenital birth defects with exposure to depleted uranium has not been included in the scope of this particular study, establishing a link between the congenital birth defects prevalence and exposure to depleted uranium would require further research,? the WHO said in a statement.

Meanwhile, people in Najaf struggle to provide the necessary medical support for their children suffering from a wide range of disorders. Some couples are scared to have more children after having several born with birth defects.?

For more on this, watch Lucy Kafanov?s exclusive report.

Source: http://rt.com/news/iraq-depleted-uranium-health-394/

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MLS: Chivas USA vs LA Galaxy: Watch CONCACAF Gold Cup 2013: Cuba vs Panama Live Stream

Cuba vs. Panama Live Stream, Score, Preview, Prediction: CONCACAF Gold Cup 2013 quarterfinals. Cuba qualified for the CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinals after defeating Belize 4-0 on Tuesday.

Cuba will look to improve its run in the CONCACAF Gold Cup when it takes on Panama on Saturday in the quarterfinals. The Cubans are coming off a tremendous 4-0 victory over Belize that earned them a last second playoff berth.

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Cubans know they have more work to do. The team was taken down 3-0 against Costa Rica before falling 4-1 against the United States. Remarkably, the team's play improved throughout the group stage. Prior to imploding for four goals against the Americans, Cuba held a 1-0 lead. They will take on a Panamanian side that won Group A with two victories and one draw; the first victory came against a supposedly superior Mexican side. Panama also took down Martinique 1-0 before drawing 0-0 against Canada.

Martinez would add a second as he rushed into the box at the 62nd minute and roofed a shot into the left-hand corner. Martinez would complete the hat trick at the 84th minute off a shot from the left side of the box. Jeniel Molina would add a fourth goal in extra time as he one-timed a volley pass in the middle of the box. That goal gave Cuba a -2 goal differential and made them the second highest third-place squad in the tournament. The team will now get a chance to take on Panama in the quarterfinals.

Football Match will be played on 20.07.2013 at Georgia Dome (Atlanta, Georgia) for a CONCACAF Gold Cup Qualifier Match. Panama Football Team are currently fifty first in the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking. In their last 5 matches, they have two losses, two wins and one draw. Their most recent win was from Martinique for a 1-0 score at hone. They played a bad game against Costa Rica recently, and the result was a 2-0 loss away. Their most recent match was against Canada which was a 0-0 stalemate.

Cuba Football Team are currently eighty second in the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking. In their last 5 matches, they have three wins and one loss. Their most recent win was against Belize for a 4-0 score. They played a bad game against Costa Rica, and the result was a 3-0 loss away in the first match of the Gold Cup Group Stages. Cuba finished third in Group C with three points, where as Panama finished first with seven points. Head 2 Head: Panama has six wins, two draws and three losses in a total of eleven games against Cuba.

The quarterfinal showdown between Panama and Cuba will be played on Saturday, July 20th at 3:30pm, EST. The first of 2 quarterfinal matches held at Atlanta's Georgia Dome, television coverage will be provided by both the FOX Soccer Channel and Univision TV, with pregame coverage on each network starting at 3:00pm, EST.

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2012 Ford C-MAX Titanium from UK and Ireland

Comfortable, well equipped, decent MPG (48 overall).

The dealers try, bless them, but in execution it's very poor. I am told at the dealers the fuel filter issues are endemic with the Ford 1.6 diesel engine across all its applications - just poor design. A car should be able to go 12500 miles between services without the filter clogging with water surely?

As for the tyre - Ford aren't alone in this dodge, and AA and RAC men are now all too familiar with having to piggy back cars home that have suffered nothing more drastic than a flat tyre. And I remember when a puncture was just an inconvenience.

Oh and by the way - order a space saver on a new Ford at the point of sale - cost ?80. Decide the inflation kit is a bad idea so you go get a spare - cost ?350!!?? Go figure dudes!

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