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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
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Why is there no gold medal in tetherball?
You may not have spent hours in a gym being yelled at by a crabby coach, but even the non-Olympians among us have fond memories of childhood sports that will never be shown on TV. From playing cards to kickball, we share our nostalgic memories.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48419860/ns/technology_and_science-science/
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Syria fighting continues as rebels deny regime gains- Top Syrian diplomat in London defects
Syrian government forces mounted new ground attacks against rebel-controlled neighborhoods in Syria's commercial hub of Aleppo, the state media said Monday, but failed to dislodge the opposition from their strongholds, according to activists.
The Syrian army has massed its forces around Aleppo, where rebels hold several neighborhoods after a 10-day offensive, and has been pounding it with tanks and helicopter gunships. There have also been periodic incursions of government tanks but the rebels have held on to their gains.
This use of heavy weapons, particularly helicopters, is just another nail in President Bashar Assad's coffin, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said late Sunday during a stopover in Tunisia as he kicked off a Mideast tour expected to focus heavily on the unfolding crisis in Syria.
Already an estimated 200,000 civilians -- almost 10 percent of the population -- have fled the fighting in Aleppo, according to the U.N. official for humanitarian affairs, Valerie Amos, citing the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Syrian Red Crescent. Aleppo is Syria's largest city with around 3 million inhabitants.
Syrian state media reported late Sunday that the army had "purged" Aleppo's southwestern neighborhood of Salaheddine and inflicted "great losses" upon the rebels in one of the first districts they took control of in their bid to seize the city.
There was also a successful operation in Sukhour neighborhood, in the northeast of the city and another rebel stronghold, the state media said.
Activists, however, disputed these claims and just described another day of fierce shelling of certain areas, backed up by the occasional foray on the ground.
"They have tanks in nearby Hamdaniya and there is fighting, and there have been random bombardments of Salaheddine," said Mohammed Saeed, who is based in the embattled city.
While giving no indication that the Obama administration is contemplating military intervention, Panetta said it is increasingly clear that the Syrian crisis is deepening and that Assad is hastening his own demise.
"If they continue this kind of tragic attack on their own people ... I think it ultimately will be a nail in Assad's coffin," Panetta told reporters traveling with him from Washington. "His regime is coming to an end."
Assad's regime has been plagued by a string of defections, including three high ranking diplomats and several military commanders. On Monday, a Turkish official announced that a Syrian brigadier general who was deputy chief of police in Syria's Latakia region, had defected.
The general was among a group of 12 Syrian officers who crossed into Turkey late Sunday, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of Turkish government rules. His defection raises the number of generals to have left for Turkey since the start of the 17-month-old uprising to 28.
But Syria's army remains mostly intact and still vastly outguns the rag-tag rebel army, which is armed for the most part with assault rifles, machine guns and doesn't have the heavy weapons necessary to effectively oppose tanks and helicopter gunships.
The government boosted its forces outside Aleppo and began an assault over the weekend to retake the commercial hub, bombarding rebel neighborhoods and leaving streets littered with rubble and empty apartment blocks with gaping smashed windows, according to videos of the city posted online in recent days.
Fleeing residents described to The Associated Press incessant shelling, shortages of food and gasoline and soaring black market prices for everyday staples.
"I am extremely concerned by the impact of shelling and use of tanks and other heavy weapons on people in Aleppo," Amos said in a statement from New York late Sunday. "Many people have sought temporary shelter in schools and other public buildings in safer areas. They urgently need food, mattresses and blankets, hygiene supplies and drinking water."
She added that while the fighting made getting to the needy very difficult, the U.N. agencies and the Red Crescent were continuing their efforts to deliver food, blankets and hygiene kits.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/07/30/syrian-regime-claims-gains-in-aleppo-rebels-deny/
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Sunday, July 29, 2012
Romney skips West Bank in Israel-centric visit
Associated Press
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 11:01 AM
Updated today at 11:02 AM
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) ? The Palestinian president watched from the sidelines Sunday as presidential hopeful Mitt Romney bonded with Israel's leaders in a visit seen by many in the West Bank as an attempt to boost his domestic Jewish support at their expense.
Romney did not request a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, even though his West Bank compound is just 30 minutes by car from the candidate's Jerusalem hotel.
"This is his choice," Abbas aide Nimr Hamad said of Romney's decision to skip the West Bank during an Israel visit that began late Saturday and ends Monday.
Instead, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad traveled to Romney's hotel on Sunday for a meeting.
Palestinian officials declined to be drawn out about the West Bank no-show, suggesting that despite Romney's strong pro-Israel stand, they don't want to stir up tensions with a man who could one day have great influence over their statehood aspirations.
West Bank officials said the main point of Romney's visit is to win the support of Jewish voters in the U.S. "He (Romney) did not come here because he believes that would harm his chances," Hamad said.
Romney's staff said the candidate had time for only one meeting with a Palestinian official.
By contrast, the atmosphere was friendly when Romney met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday. The body language was relaxed, Netanyahu addressed his visitor as "Mitt" ? a casual reference even for informal Israel ? and he did not adopt the lecturing tone he has used with Romney's rival, President Barack Obama.
The two political conservatives share a worldview, and for Netanyahu, Romney's embrace of the Israeli government has been a welcome change from Obama's criticism.
A campaign stop in Israel appears to have become the norm for U.S. presidential candidates. Both Obama and then-rival John McCain made the trip four years ago. Obama found time to meet with Abbas, while Republican McCain also snubbed the Palestinian leader.
Fayyad, a U.S.-educated economist, said before Sunday's meeting that he planned to lay out the Palestinian positions on Mideast peace efforts. As prime minister, Fayyad is responsible for the day-to-day lives of Palestinians but does not play a role in Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. The talks broke off in 2008.
Abbas and Netanyahu disagree sharply over the conditions for renewing the talks. Abbas says he will return to the table only if Israel freezes settlement construction on occupied lands and accepts the pre-1967 war cease-fire line as a baseline for border talks, arguing that after two decades of fruitless negotiations, there's no point in talking without a clear framework.
Netanyahu refuses to halt settlement building or recognize the 1967 line as a reference, insisting that talks should proceed without preconditions.
Abbas' refusal to resume talks on Netanyahu's terms has strained his relations with the Obama administration.
There was no immediate word on the content of the Fayyad-Romney meeting.
The Republican candidate used a photo opportunity with the Palestinian prime minister to try to smooth over a gaffe he committed in London, the first stop of his foreign tour, where he criticized London's preparations for the Olympics.
Fayyad just returned from London, and Romney seized that as an opening to gush about the Olympics.
"An entertaining and delightful opening ceremony. Wasn't it spectacular?" the candidate said. "It really was. And the march of nations. There were many participants. And they sent women from every country."
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Associated Press writers Karin Laub in Ramallah and Amy Teibel in Jerusalem contributed reporting.
Source: http://www.nwcn.com/news/politics/164190896.html
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London 2012 Summer Olympics: Opening ... - Tv Food and Drink
I forgot to get dessert for the #OpeningCeremonies. Luckily I have peanut butter and baker?s chocolate. Let the games begin, fuckers!
?Yo London, Imma let you finish, but Beijing had the best #openingceremonies of all time.?
Would anyone notice if they added a fake country to the parade? #OpeningCeremonies like Newfartandstand?
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There has been an underwhelming number of Spice Girls appearances thus far. #London2012 #OpeningCeremonies #WhatIReallyReallyWant
7 Billion pieces of paper released into the air for #OpeningCeremonies? It?s cool, I hated trees anyways.
Giant penises rising into the London sky. #OpeningCeremonies
Father-in-law saw the Vietnam team enter the stadium and now he won?t stop yelling ?Charlie!? at the TV screen. #openingceremonies #PTSD
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And by ?there?s the queen, cheering wildly,? they mean ?and there?s the queen, standing quietly and calmly.? #openingceremonies #London2012
?Here?s the Queen, cheering wildly for Great Britain.? Sure, let?s go with that. #OpeningCeremonies
The Queen looked utterly bored! Haha! My bf says she?s thinking ?It?s past my bedtime & I missed Golden Girls! Dammit!? #openingceremonies
Now they?re apparently doing an affectionate ?Tribute to Pollution & Black Lung?. #Olympics #OpeningCeremonies
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I like how they consider the sulfer smell in the Olympic stadium to be a bonus.#openingceremonies
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I?m disappointed not one of those bed-ridden kids spewed pea soup or spun their head around #tubularbells #openingceremonies
All the countries were done in record time? Holy shit how long did other Olympics take? #OpeningCeremonies
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That awkward moment when it took Harry Potter 7 long books to beat Voldemort? and Mary Poppins did it in 2 minutes. #OpeningCeremonies
Mary Poppins is practically perfect in every way ? but that inflatable baby is way sick #oopeningceremonies
Quit bragging about all your musical geniuses, Britain. We invented Hanson. #TEAMUSA #OpeningCeremonies #London2012
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?Albania has never won an Olympic medal.? ?Is that a set-up or a punch line? ?#openingceremonies
Here comes American Samoa! Oh wait, no. it?s just 80s pop band The Jets #openingceremonies
There?s a place called Andora? ?#OpeningCeremonies
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Doesn?t #Bhuntan mean something bad in Italian??#OpeningCeremonies
When I saw Bhutan at the #OpeningCeremonies, I remembered when Andy Bernard said ?it?s on like wearing Sean Jean in Bhutan!?. #TheOffice
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Every 4 years we get to shake-shake-shake out #Djibouti jokes. #Olympics2012 #OpeningCeremonies
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There?s too many countries ? we need to go to war more ?#OpeningCeremonies
Christ and I thought It?s a Small World was long. ? #OpeningCeremonies
Wait we have Independent Olympic Athletes? ?Are they freelance? ?Do they train from home?
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Here?s Japan?. and no giant robots. Buckets of fail. #OpeningCeremonies
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#OpeningCeremonies ends w/ the Queen locks everyone up in the stadium and says: Happy Hunger Games!
Due to overwhelming request, NBC will replay the Beijing #OpeningCeremonies immediately following whatever this is.
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
Syrian troops kill 6-year-old fleeing into Jordan
RAMTHA, Jordan (AP) ? The family crept across farmland under night's cover, heading for the border, when Syrian troops opened fire. Bullets whizzed around them as they broke into a mad dash, survivors say. The 6-year-old boy, holding his mother's hand, broke away and ran ahead. He nearly made it into Jordan when he fell dead, a bullet in his neck.
The boy, killed in the early hours Friday, was the first Syrian shot to death by border guards while trying to escape into neighboring Jordan from the bloodshed of their homeland's 17-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad. The slaying underlined not only the dangers of the passage, but the fine line Syria's neighbors have to tread in trying to help Syrians while avoiding being dragged into the conflict.
Bilal el-Lababidi and his parents were in a group of around a dozen Syrians trying to sneak into Jordan just after midnight, the latest of more than 140,000 Syrians who have taken refuge in the kingdom.
"He is a martyr who is now in a better place. I'm sure he is in heaven," said el-Lababidi's mother before the boy's burial later Friday at a cemetery in the northern Jordanian city of Ramtha. She made it across with her two younger sons ? but her husband fled back amid the shooting.
"The criminal Bashar is the reason," she said, slapping her face with her fists as she wept. She wore a veil over her face and a traditional Muslim head-to-toe robe. "Bashar is killing his people and the whole world is watching and doing nothing." She would only identify herself as Umm Bilal, or "mother of Bilal," as conservative women often do in public rather than using their real names.
The family ? Bilal's father, mother and their three sons? were fleeing from their southern Syrian hometown of Daraa, which was where their country's uprising began 17 months ago and which has continued to be a major battleground between rebels and regime forces. Bilal's father is a corporal in the regime military but had decided to defect, the mother said.
They and the others in the group were slipping across farmland and olive groves between the Syrian town of Tal Shihab, near Daraa, and the Jordanian border village of Turrah. The two towns are only about a mile (1.6 kilometers) apart at their closest point. The border running between them is marked only by a ditch with an old rusty string of barbed wire running down it ? unmaintained and full of gaps, more of a marker than a barrier.
Their group made their way to about 50 yards (meters) from the ditch, their path dimly illuminated by a half-moon and the lights of nearby Turrah. That's when Syrian troops opened fire, and the refugees broke into a run, Umm Bilal said.
The Syrian troops emerged from behind nearby trees and began shooting, said two members of the Syrian rebel group, the Free Syrian Army, who helped organize the group's escape and later spoke with those who made it across.
The soldiers sprayed the area with bullets, according to a Jordanian border officer and a relative of Bilal who made it into Jordan with his mother. Jordanian guards on their side of the border fired in the air to try to scare off the Syrian troops, the Jordanian officer said.
"Bullets were coming from all directions. It was scary," said the relative, a frail man who sported a long beard and who spoke on condition he not be identified for fear of retaliation against the family in Syria. "I didn't know if one hit me and I couldn't look back to see if the others were wounded."
Bilal was running with his mother, the relative said. But then Bilal "slipped from his mother's hand" and went ahead and was shot just yards (meters) from the border ditch, he said.
Umm Bilal said the Jordanians took her son in and tried to save him, "but he was already dead."
Bilal's father and most of the others in the group ran back into Syria amid the gunfire, Umm Bilal said.
The Jordanian border official said he believed that amid the firing, the boy was specifically targeted because he was closest the fence. "It looks like a sniper targeted him to scare the others," the official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.
The whole shooting appeared to be an ambush by the Syrian troops, who were likely tipped off to the escape plan by an informer in Daraa, said the two FSA members who helped organize the dash for the border. They noted that the troops were waiting behind the trees for the group. The two FSA members, one of whom was now hosting Umm Bilal and her two surviving sons at a house in northern Jordan, spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity over their group's presence in the kingdom.
Syrian army troops frequently fire at those trying to cross the border to stop them, but not always ? it depends on whether they are busy with quelling protests or rebels in nearby towns, the Jordanian border official said. Around 700 Syrians crossed on Thursday with no shots fired at them.
Last November, one woman was shot in the leg. In April, troops fired at a large group of around 900 refugees, wounding dozens, many of whom ? including women ? were then arrested and taken back into Syria.
But el-Lababidi is the first person to be killed, the border official and other Jordanian officials said. An FSA commander based in Turkey who monitors the border movements into Jordan, Ahmed Kassem, also said the boy was the first killed.
Jordan has been trying not to be dragged into what is now a civil war in Syria. In Amman, Information Minister Sameeh Maaytah insisted that Friday's shooting "will not draw Jordan into Syria's crisis."
"This unfortunate incident is an internal Syrian matter," he told The Associated Press.
Jordan had been even reluctant to set up the tents camps near the border that house most of the Syrian refugees, possibly to avoid angering Assad's autocratic regime by showing images at his doorstep of civilians fleeing his military onslaught. While Syria's rebels are present among the refugees and buy weapons in Jordan's black market, they must lie low and the government says it gives them no support.
Syria has been one of Jordan's largest Arab trade partners, with bilateral trade estimated at $470 million last year ? and Syria is a vital route for Jordanian exports to markets in Turkey and Europe.
Last Sunday, Jordan's king announced that security along his northern frontier has been tightened, but Syrian refugees fleeing violence will still be allowed to enter.
"It is our duty to protect citizens, but at the same time, we have to open our doors to our Syrian brothers, and I'm very optimistic that the situation is moving in the right direction," King Abdullah II said at a Cabinet session.
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Associated Press writer Dale Gavlak in Amman, Jordan, contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-troops-kill-6-old-fleeing-jordan-182650975.html
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The Challenge of Healthy Eating ? The What's for Lunch Project
You can lose up to 6 pounds in two weeks?without exercising.
That?s the claim made by Kellogg?s Special K Challenge, anyway, which asserts
that replacing two meals per day with Special K products helps consumers can result
shedding up to six pounds in the short span of two weeks. Special K?s meal replacement
options are vast?and their touted benefits are enticing. There are ten varieties of
breakfast cereals, snack bars, granola bars, and meal bars, protein shakes, protein water,
and even crackers and chips, all the designed to be low in calories and high in diet-
payoff.
And with product flavors like ?Chocolatey Delight,? ?Raspberry Cheesecake,?
and ?Brown Sugar Cinnamon,? the Special K Challenge seems like a pretty sweet deal.
But before you dig into that first spoonful of cereal, take a moment to consider the costs
of a low-calorie diet based on highly-processed foods. Consider that there?s more to lose
on the Special K diet than just six pounds.
For evidence, start with the most important meal of the day?and compare Special K?s
Fruit and Yogurt cereal to Post?s ubiquitous morning staple, Shredded Wheat.
With a half cup of skim milk added, a serving of Special K Fruit and Yogurt weighs in
at 160 calories, with 10 grams of sugar, 3 grams of fiber, and 2 grams of protein. It also
boasts an ingredients list that?s over 30 items long. Additionally, that ingredients list
includes seven types of sweeteners: sugar, corn syrup, brown sugar syrup, brown sugar,
confectioner?s glaze, honey, and molasses.
A one-cup serving of Shredded Wheat with the same amount of milk has a higher caloric
price tag, at 210. But for those extra calories, breakfasters get 6 grams of both protein and
fiber?and no sugar at all. What?s more? Shredded Wheat has a single ingredient: whole
grain wheat.
Special K?s cereal has less calories?but it?s also nutritionally poorer, with more of the
excess sugar that can contribute to diabetes and less of the satisfying protein and fiber to
fill a hungry stomach. Most Special K products are similarly guilty. The French Vanilla
protein shake packs 18 grams of sugar (nearly as much at a pack of Reese?s peanut butter
cups) and the Chocolate Caramel meal bar has 15.
Still, the promise of losing 6 pounds in two weeks coerces many consumers to purchase
and eat the empty, sugary calories provided by the Challenge-approved products.
And if two of your meals each day are bowls of cereal at only 160 calories each, losing
weight is almost an inevitability. But the Special K Challenge comes at a cost. In order
to achieve the average participant?s weight loss of 4.8 pounds, those who partake in the
Challenge sacrifice adequate nutrition from whole foods.
But it seems many Americans?especially those concerned with weight?believe that the
number of calories is the only nutrition statistic that matters.
This is the attitude behind the Speical K Challenge. It?s the attitude behind brands like
Lean Cuisine, and diet programs made entirely of frozen, processed food, like Jenny
Craig. And this attitude will not cure or counter the epidemics of obesity and diabetes in
this country.
Even worse, this attitude has already trickled into the regulation of products sold in
public school lunches. Many states have prohibited the sale of soda in cafeterias. But if
they?re only replaced by diet drinks with unnatural, artificial sweeteners, has the selection
really improved? Replacing soda with diet drinks is not a solution. Simply lowering
calories cannot be a solution.
Americans? relationship with food, with obesity, and with diabetes will change?only
if both consumers and manufacturers start to value caloric quality over caloric quantity.
Our nation will become healthier only if we Challenge ourselves eat better, instead of just
eating less.
Source: http://wflproject.com/2012/07/the-challenge-of-healthy-eating/
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Obama gets ahead of Romney on Israel
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton listens at left as President Barack Obama speaks to members of the media during a Cabinet Meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July, 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton listens at left as President Barack Obama speaks to members of the media during a Cabinet Meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July, 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks to reporters in front of 10 Downing Street after meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron in London, Thursday, July 26, 2012. (AP PhotoCharles Dharapak)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama is reaffirming U.S. ties with Israel, upstaging Mitt Romney one day before the Republican challenger visits Jerusalem.
The White House says Obama will sign legislation Friday that expands military and civilian cooperation with Israel. The bill passed by voice vote in the House last week. The bill reiterates U.S. support for a negotiated two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Romney is a critic of Obama's policy toward Israel. He arrives in Jerusalem on Saturday on an overseas trip that includes Britain and Poland.
The White House subtly injected itself into Romney's trip on Thursday after Romney caused a stir by calling London's problems with Olympics preparation "disconcerting."
White House spokesman Jay Carney says Obama "has the utmost confidence" in Britain's ability to host the games.
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Friday, July 27, 2012
US jobless claims drop by 35,000 to 353,000
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits dropped by 35,000 last week, a figure that may have been distorted by seasonal factors.
The Labor Department said Thursday that applications fell to a seasonally adjusted 353,000. That's down from a revised 388,000 the previous week and the biggest drop since February 2010.
The four-week average, a less volatile measure, declined 8,750 to 367,250. That's the lowest level since the end of March.
Applications surged two weeks ago, reversing a big drop the previous week. But economists caution that the government struggles every July to account for temporary summer shutdowns in the auto industry. The adjustments have been unusually difficult this year because some automakers skipped their shutdowns in the face of stronger sales, resulting in fewer temporary layoffs.
Ford this year shut down for one week instead of its usual two. And Chrysler kept most plants running, says economist Robert Kavcic at BMO Capital Markets.
Unemployment benefit applications are a measure of the pace of layoffs. When applications consistently fall below 375,000, it typically suggests hiring is strong enough to pull the unemployment rate down.
Weekly claims are averaging 374,000 this year, down from 409,000 last year, notes Steven Wood, chief economist at Insight Economics. But he adds that the job market "is definitely not robust." Just over 6 million Americans are receiving some type of unemployment aid, down from 7.6 million a year ago.
The job market has slumped over the past three months. Employers added an average of just 75,000 jobs a month from April through June, down from a healthy 226,000 the first three months of the year.
The unemployment rate stayed at 8.2 percent in June.
The broader economy has also weakened from the start of the year.
Retail sales fell in June for the third straight month, bad news for a country that gets two-thirds of its economic output from consumer spending. Manufacturing activity shrank in June for the first time in three years, according to a closely watched survey from the Institute of Supply Management.
And the housing market, which has started to recovery this year, lost some momentum in June. The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that new-home sales fell 8 percent last month from May, the biggest drop since February 2011.
Economists are predicting growth slowed in the April-June quarter to an annual pace of just 1.5 percent, down from the tepid 1.9 percent annual pace in the first three months of the year. Growth of 1.5 percent is consistent with less than 50,000 new jobs a month.
The government issues its first estimate for second-quarter growth on Friday.
Europe's debt crisis could weaken growth further. Europe buys roughly one-fifth of U.S. exports, which have been one of the economy's few bright spots.
The British government reported Wednesday that Britain's economy shrank 0.7 percent in the April-June quarter, far worse than economists had expected. In Germany, business confidence dropped more than expected in July over increasing worries about the impact of Europe's debt crisis on the region's biggest economy. And Spain this week said the economy contracted 0.4 percent in the second quarter.
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Saudi Olympic athlete hit by judo head scarf ban: Safety or discrimination?
One day after a female Saudi Arabian judo player arrived in London ? under strict instructions from national Olympic officials to compete "wearing suitable clothing" that complies with Islamic custom ? the International Judo Federation banned the wearing of head scarves Thursday.
The move was made for safety reasons, said Nicolas Messner, a federation spokesman. Judo involves grabbing opponents' clothing and using choke holds, making the head scarf ? or hijab ? "dangerous," he added.
Messner told the Associated Press that negotiations are ongoing with the Saudi Arabian delegation to find a compromise. But neither the Saudis nor the athlete, Wojdan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani, has yet made a statement about whether she will compete. She and Sarah Attar ? a middle-distance runner who grew up in California but has dual citizenship ? are the first two women ever to represent Saudi Arabia at the Olympics, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had to lobby hard to persuade Saudi Arabia to send them.
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For the first time in Olympic history, all 205 nations have sent both men and women to the Summer Games.
The decision is sure to stoke controversy. The IOC is determined to promote women's sport in Islamic countries, where most sporting authorities refuse to let women participate without a hijab. Moreover, other sporting federations, including those overseeing international soccer, taekwondo, and even rugby, allow for hijabs. Advocates say new, tear-away sport hijabs fastened by Velcro eliminate the threat of injuries.
But some in the judo community say their sport is a unique case. The judo robe, or judogi, is central to the sport, both as tradition and as an element of the competition. Many moves involve clutching an opponent's judogi in order to throw her. Women are allowed to wear a T-shirt under their judogi, but adding a head scarf is different, say some.
"It was always going to be a no-no here," said Stewart Brain, head coach of the Australian judo team, to the Sydney Morning-Herald. Because it's up around the neck," he said, "you could get your finger in there and tear it off."
"At the end of the day it doesn't fit for safety reasons," Mr. Brain added.
In making the stand, however, the International Judo Federation is moving against the tide in international sports.
The International Weightlifting Federation lifted a ban on clothing restrictions last year, allowing a team from the United Arab Emirates to compete in hijabs. This month, the international soccer federation, FIFA, approved the wearing of head scarves. It had banned them in 2007, also for safety reasons. The ban resulted in Iran having to forfeit one qualifier for the London Olympics after several women refused to remove their head scarves.
In other countries, it discouraged some Muslim women from dreams of playing for the national team.
"I strongly believe that the ban is just outright discrimination," Assmaah Helal, who plays in a women's league in Australia, told AFP. "At an international and an elite level, sports like taekwondo and rugby allow the head scarf to be worn during competitive matches, and for the world game, for the universal language that is football, to ban the head scarf ... it doesn't make sense."
Even within judo, the wearing of hijabs is not unprecedented. The Asian judo federation has allowed women to compete with hijabs.
With Shahrkhani seen as a means of accelerating broader cultural acceptance of women in sport in Saudi Arabia, the decision to ban hijabs could have broader consequences. In a country where women cannot go to men's sporting events and are forced to form underground leagues to play soccer, what "this participation does is break a taboo and break a barrier," Christoph Wilcke, a Saudi researcher at Human Rights Watch, told US News and World Report.
"I don't think that will lead to concrete changes led by the Saudi government," he said. "What I think it will do, it will increasingly encourage women in Saudi Arabia to take matters into their own hands, which they're doing already."
Shahrkhani is scheduled to compete on Aug. 2 in the heavyweight (over 78 kilogram) event.
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Choosing The Best Auto Detailing Provider | Car Detailing ...
July 26th, 2012
Your car is probably one of the most priceless possessions you have now. No wonder why you will gamble anything but not your car. You, of course, wanted to ensure that your much-beloved car gets to enjoy the best car detailing services. So, knowing how many auto detailers are competing in the market today, how will you recognize the cream of the crop?
Tip 1
Try to compare the services one provider offers against its top competitors. A good auto detailer will offer clients a lot to choose from. This is one way to ensure that a client finds the service that fits his needs best.
Tip 2
Choose a provider who offers affordable services. They all say that you shouldn?t base everything on prices alone. However, if you found two auto detailers that offer the same services, at the same quality, why go for the more expensive one? Unless you are a millionaire, you must ensure that you spend every dollar you have the right way.
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If you can find a provider that offers mobile auto detailing then go for it. This will save you a lot of time since they will be the ones who will come to your place to answer your automobile?s detailing needs. This will also save you a lot of hassles.
Tip 4
Look for a provider who offers clients a lot of benefits. The auto detailers will try to lure clients with different benefits. Try to compare these benefits against each other and see what?s truly advantageous on your part.
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If you can find a provider that offers customized solutions then go for it. There are instances wherein you cannot find the perfect package to deal with your troubles. Customized auto detailing services are far better since this will ensure you that your car gets the services that it truly needed. This will also ensure you that you only pay for the services you need. Getting the services that your car doesn?t really need is, of course, a waste of money.
Tip 6
Choose the most reliable auto detailer. But the question is, how will you know if a certain provider can be trusted or not? Know what customers had to say about them. Read customers reviews from their clients. Know how they handled previous clients. If they are able to satisfy a lot of previous clients then there?s a bigger chance that you will experience customer satisfaction with them as well.
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"Enough blood": Milosevic allies take power in Serbia
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's new leader, a wartime aide of late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, told the Balkans on Thursday to forget the past and not fear the return to power of a political alliance that once led the country in war with NATO.
Confining the reformers who ousted Milosevic to the opposition benches for the first time in 12 years, Ivica Dacic said he would speed up Serbia's bid to join the European Union but would not deal anymore with his country's dark past.
"If they say the word Balkan means 'blood and honey', there's been enough blood, it's time to feel the taste of honey too," the 46-year-old prime minister-designate told parliament shortly before lawmakers were due to vote on his cabinet.
"Serbia is offering the hand of reconciliation, to all. Let's not deal anymore with the past, let's deal with the future."
The West is closely scrutinizing Dacic's assent to the post of prime minister, in alliance with the nationalists of Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, for any sign Serbia might veer from the pro-EU path set by reformers since Milosevic's fall in 2000.
They last shared power at the close of Milosevic's disastrous 13-year rule, when his forces expelled hundreds of thousands of majority ethnic Albanians from Kosovo and NATO bombed for 11 weeks in 1999 to wrest the province from him.
Dacic was Milosevic's spokesman, railing against the West. He now says Serbia's future is in the EU, but Western diplomats admit to deep unease over whether he is really committed to the political and economic reforms it will take.
"A key goal of this government will be the acceleration of European integration and maximum effort to secure a date for the start of accession talks," Dacic said.
Kosovo was Milosevic's last throw of the dice, after fomenting wars in Croatia and Bosnia that killed some 125,000 people as federal Yugoslavia fell apart. He died in 2006 in a cell in The Hague, where he was standing trial for genocide and other war crimes.
The West says Serbia's progress towards EU membership rests on it coming to terms with the loss of Kosovo, an impoverished ethnic Albanian-dominated territory steeped in history and myth for many Serbs but recognized by almost half the world as independent.
"A BALKAN QUAGMIRE"
Dacic said he was ready to continue EU-mediated talks with Kosovo aimed at "normalizing life for all citizens". But Serbia would never recognize it as independent, he said.
The EU says it won't have to, at least explicitly, but it will have loosen its grip on a Serb-populated slice of Kosovo's north, and stop obstructing the country's development.
Dacic has previously advocated splitting Kosovo between its Albanians and Serbs, a non-starter for its European and American backers. His cooperation on Kosovo will determine how quickly the EU opens accession talks with Serbia, which became an official candidate for membership in March.
Ex-Yugoslav republic Slovenia joined the EU in 2004. Croatia is next in 2013 and Montenegro began talks last month.
Dacic was interior minister in the last government with the reformist Democratic Party from 2008, until voters punished the Democrats for a creeping culture of elitism and an economic downturn.
After nationalist leader Nikolic won the presidency in May, Dacic switched allegiances to his Serbian Progressives, a party that emerged from the ultranationalist Radical Party allied with Milosevic in the late 1990s.
With the technocrat United Regions bloc and a handful of smaller parties, the coalition holds around 140 of the Belgrade parliament's 250 seats.
United Regions leader Mladjan Dinkic, who played rock guitar at rallies against Milosevic, becomes finance minister in an unlikely alliance with the parties he protested against.
He inherits an economy sliding into recession, an unemployment rate of 25.5 percent and a shrinking, ageing population that scrapes by on an average net monthly wage of 340 euros ($420).
The new foreign minister is Ivan Mrkic, a career diplomat who was ambassador in Cyprus under Milosevic at a time when, according to reformers, millions of dollars were siphoned out of Serbia via Nicosia.
(Editing by Mark Heinrich)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/taking-power-ex-aide-milosevic-backs-serbias-eu-192425283.html
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EYES ON LONDON: Brits don't like A/C, Russia gaffe
LONDON (AP) ? Around the 2012 Olympics and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of the games to you:
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COOL IT
Do Brits simply not believe in air conditioning? Or is it just never needed?
"Man, it's hot in here," said U.S. boxer Claressa "T-Rex" Shields at training near the Olympic village. It was a seasonable 80 F (26.5 Celsius) on the street, but far, far hotter inside the sweltering gymnasium.
Will it be this hot for boxing's main event? Shields, a 17-year-old from Flint, Michigan, was asked.
"I sure hope not," she smiled.
?Paul Haven ? Twitter http:/twitter.com/paulhaven
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JUST DESSERTS
"The cherry on top of a pile of cherries." ? U.S. fencer and gold medalist Mariel Zagunis, on being the flag bearer for opening ceremony.
She says she's bursting with pride that a. she got the job and b. women have outnumbered men on the team for the first time.
?Mark Colson, Tim Reynolds ? Twitter http://twitter.com/ByTimReynolds.
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DON'T MESS WITH HER
Talking of doping, AP's Jenna Fryer just had a close encounter with an ad that's arguably a little wide of the mark. It's from Transport for London. Check out the arms. http://img.ly/lfJ6
?Jenna Fryer ? Twitter http://twitter.com/jennafryer
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TORCH RELAY CONCERT
To celebrate the torch's arrival in London a concert is being held in Hyde Park on Thursday ? the same place where the plug was pulled on Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen a few weeks ago after they violated a curfew.
Rees Ianson, 32, was a torch bearer in the north of England and so was given the opportunity to get tickets.
"I jumped at the chance, I'm looking forward to it," says the sales manager from Lincolnshire who was nominated as a torch runner for his charity work.
He's not just down for the concert. Rees also has tickets for basketball and hockey. "I can't wait," he said on his way to the gig featuring the likes of Mark Ronson and Dizzie Rascal.
?Fergus Bell ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fergb
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WHERE YOU FROM AGAIN?
Kazakhstan is trying to replace two of its male Olympic weightlifters at the 11th hour, possibly because of citizenship issues.
The two are Arli Chontei, in the 56-kilogram category, and Farkhad Kharki, in the 62-kilogram category.
International Weightlifting Federation spokeswoman Aniko Nemeth-Mora says Kazakhstan is citing medical reasons. However, Kazakh weightlifting official Mendikhan Tapsiruly tells AP that "this is most likely to do with the fact they were granted citizenship recently."
Both lifters are originally from China. Two other lifters in Kazakhstan's team were recruited from China, while one switched nationalities from Russia.
?Karl Ritter ? Twitter http://twitter.com/Karl-Ritter
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HANDS OFF!
Russia's Olympic committee is laying claim to over a dozen athletes born in once-Soviet Ukraine. And it's sparked an outcry in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital.
Some athletes are listed as born in the "Ukraine region" of Russia, while others are listed as coming from the Ukrainian cities of Lutsk and Lviv, which were described as Russian.
Similar mistakes were made for Georgia-born athletes.
Russia's Olympic Committee is now working to correct the data. But it's done little to appease widespread resentment as a result of centuries of Russian dominance which ended when Ukraine gained its independence in 1991.
?Vladimir Isachenkov ? Twitter http://twitter.com/visachenkov
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POSITIVE DRUG TEST
A Greek athlete has failed a doping test and is out of the Olympics. High jump champion Dimitris Chondrokoukis has tested positive for the steroid stanozolol.
His father ? and coach ? says the news is "surreal" and is asking for a follow-up test.
?Graham Dunbar ? Twitter http://twitter.com/gdunbarap
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NO HIJAB
The ruling has come down: Saudi Arabia's female judo competitor will not be allowed to wear a hijab during her matches.
Asian judo federations allow them, but in London the veil has been deemed dangerous. Judo includes strangleholds and chokeholds ? and organizers think that could prove even more painful if there's something to tug.
They also think judo should be free of religion and politics.
Wojdan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani is one of two female Saudi athletes here. The kingdom is allowing them to compete after the International Olympic Committee and human rights groups exerted intense pressure for an end to its practice of sending all-male teams to the games.
?Maria Cheng ? Twitter http://twitter.com/mylcheng
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MORE ON THAT ALERT
People are being let back into the mall. No word yet on what triggered the alarm or what led authorities to declare the area safe again.
?Diana Ingram
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SECURITY ALERT
AP staff at Westfield Mall, just outside Olympic Park and its security perimeter, say everyone has been told to vacate the mall. An alarm is sounding.
People are gathering outside and being forbidden to go back in.
?Diana Ingram
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TICKETS, ANYONE?
The line to pick up event tickets at the City of Westminster College will-call is snaking through the campus Thursday with fans anxious to get their hands on the prized item. Among them: Michael Perkowski, a contractor for the U.S. military who drove directly to get his tickets after his plane touched down from Afghanistan.
Perkowski says his ticket-buying odyssey began 18 months ago when he was working for the Army in Iraq. He went through the early bidding process and finally scored tickets to three of his 24 choices within the last few months.
Now in Afghanistan working with the U.S. Marine Corps, he says he was coming to the Games regardless of what tickets he landed.
"I don't take too many vacations, so I was doing this no matter what," he says. "We took that long flight, drove forever to come straight here but I don't care. It's all worth it."
Get a glimpse here. http://img.ly/lfxS
?Jenna Fryer ? Twitter http://twitter.com/jennafryer
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BRANDED LONDON
London looks different.
You can't walk for more than five minutes through central London without seeing some sign of the Olympics. The words "Camden" or "Kensington and Chelsea" on Olympic banners hang from lampposts at regular intervals in those London boroughs. Take a turn down a side street and you can find a park railing with a new poster depicting cycling imagery running the length of it.
The main action might be in the Olympic Park, but the Olympics is evident everywhere.
?Fergus Bell ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fergb
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ON ACCESS
AP's Tom Withers reports in from the basketball venue:
Act as if you own the place. That mantra has always served me well, and with those words in mind, I strolled inside the Olympic basketball venue, which wasn't fully open on Wednesday.
As technicians busily dragged cables around the outside of the temporary 12,000-seat structure, where the preliminary rounds are being played, I coolly walked in and watched a few minutes of the Angola women's team practice.
The unique building, erected in just three months, is covered in a white stretch material that will be used for light projections during the games. Its architectural style is similar to the Water Cube swimming complex in Beijing.
Feeling a bit guilty after my self-guided mini tour, I confessed to one of the media leaders that I had already been inside. He didn't seem to mind. "Cheers," he said.
?Tom Withers ? Twitter http://twitter.com/twithersAP
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OLYMPIC LOVE
Captain Mark Phillips, Princess Anne's former husband, has spoken of his new relationship with a woman almost 30 years his junior.
The 63-year-old, a top coach for the U.S. equestrian team, separated from his second wife, Sandy, and began divorce proceedings earlier this year after falling for fellow equestrian Lauren Hough, 35.
Phillips, whose daughter Zara is competing in Team GB's equestrian events, has faced criticism and calls for his resignation over his affair with Hough, who is also a member of the American team's coaching staff.
After the Olympics, he will leave his job. But he says it's not because of criticism in the United States.
He told Country Life magazine: "I don't read chatrooms and all that rubbish as it's mostly uninformed and unidentified opinion, which won't change my life.
He's clear about one thing: "I'm not out to win a popularity contest."
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CAMERON ON THE FLAG FLAP
"This was an honest mistake, honestly made, an apology has been made and I'm sure every step will be taken to make sure these things don't happen again. We shouldn't overinflate this episode. It was unfortunate, it shouldn't have happened and I think we can leave it at that." ? British Prime Minister David Cameron, on the mistake made Wednesday night when a South Korean flag was displayed alongside a North Korean player's picture on a scoreboard before a soccer game.
?Rob Harris ? Twitter http://twitter.com/robharris
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COOL CUSTOMER
"We have no air conditioning, but it's OK, because in France we are used to having no air conditioning. So we are not lost." ? French swimmer Hughes Dubosc, at an appearance with his sponsor.
?Andrew Dampf ? Twitter http://twitter.com/andrewdampfap
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GRIDLOCK ? LESSON LEARNED
AP's Fergus Bell, a Londoner, reports in from the crowded streets of his city:
I took a taxi journey into central London. I usually take the train or Tube because I think they are faster when there are no known problems on the line. Today, with a couple of bags in tow, I had no choice.
It should have taken me 32 minutes, according to a quick online route search.
It didn't.
OK, I knew that figure was a bit optimistic. But I wasn't expecting the driver ? who knows the roads very well ? to get confused by all the new Olympic lanes, end up going a very different route from the one he was expecting. I ended up in the back seat acting as navigator with maps pulled up on my tablet checking which roads were clear.
The result: after 1 1/2 hours in the car and still the wrong side of central London I abandoned the driver to his fate. Bags and all, I jumped out at an underground station and took a delightfully smooth 12-minute journey to my destination and learned a lesson: Stick to what you know and trust your instincts.
?Fergus Bell ? Twitter http://twitter.com/fergb
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PICTURE PERFECT
With one day to go before the opening ceremony, no detail is being left untouched. Or unpainted.
A board was put up Wednesday to hide some unsightly gray scaffolding in front of the press seats at the gymnastics venue. On Thursday, a worker was painting the board purple so it would blend in with the rest of the signage.
?Nancy Armour ? Twitter http://twitter.com/nrarmour
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CAMERON ON THE OPENING CEREMONY
"I'd have thought the difficulty is, how do you cram in all that's great about our country?"
He says viewers will find moments of it "spine-tingling" and said he's been moved by the parts he's seen.
The ceremony, directed by Danny Boyle, is expected to take a global audience on an intensely visual, occasionally whimsical tour through Britain's history.
?Rob Harris ? Twitter http://twitter.com/robharris
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ONE FOR THE BOOKS
?"This is the biggest security operation in a peacetime history, bar none." ? British Prime Minister David Cameron, speaking at Olympic Park.
?Rob Harris ? Twitter http://twitter.com/robharris
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FROM THE PRIME MINISTER
?"Our absolute top priority must be to keep people safe." ? British Prime Minister David Cameron, who has just spoken at Olympic Park about the upcoming games. Here are a few more quick bites of what he had to say:
?"We are delivering a world-class games, a well-connected games."
?"Our intelligence services are working around the clock."
?"We want these to be the games that lift up the city, lift up the country."
?Rob Harris ? Twitter http://twitter.com/robharris
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GELDOF'S GRUMBLINGS
Not everyone in London is looking forward to the Olympics.
Bob Geldof, the former Boomtown Rats frontman and "Live Aid" charity fund-raiser, confirmed his contrarian reputation when asked at a reception for boxing legend Muhammad Ali if he was excited about the games.
"Nope."
No sport he was excited about?
"The egg and spoon race."
But, Geldof conceded, the games have at least brought much-needed regeneration to a post-industrial swath of east London ? transformed from gritty to green by the 500-acre (200-hectare) Olympic Park.
"That was a pretty crap part of town, no matter what anyone says," Geldof said. "Now it's nice."
?Jill Lawless ? Twitter http://twitter.com/JillLawless
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A SPANISH OLYMPICS?
As the debt-ridden Spanish government hovers on the brink of needing a sovereign bailout, the country is continuing to pursue a bid for the 2020 Olympics. Spanish sports secretary Miguel Cardenal maintains that Madrid winning the Olympics after two failed bids would help the country's economic recovery.
"The Spanish state is calling for its citizens to tighten its belts to accept the need for a degree of sacrifice and the measures are certainly painful," Cardenal said in London. "But we would nevertheless pursue this project," he said, saying that "this is something that will boost our aspirations to have a sustainable economy."
Bidding again, Cardenal insists Madrid will only spend where "absolutely necessary," but pointed out that much of the infrastructure is already in place.
"All of us will have to be very careful indeed in the way we use public funds," Madrid mayor Ana Botella added.
Missing out on the London Games, which start on Friday, appears to have been good fortune for a Spanish government struggling to keep a handle on its debts. Now there's time for a recovery in the Spanish economy long before 2020.
Madrid is competing against Istanbul and Tokyo. The host of the 2020 Olympics and Paralympic Games will be announced on Sept. 7, 2013 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
?Rob Harris ? Twitter http://twitter.com/robharris
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Dead cattle, devastation in wake of Western fires
VOLBORG, Mont. (AP) ? Cecil and Delores Kolka thought they escaped the worst of the Ash Creek Fire when the 390-square-mile blaze spared their home and several pastures as it ripped through the couple's Montana cattle ranch.
But when the family went to round up their livestock they encountered carnage ? the charred and bloated bodies of an estimated 400 cows and calves killed as the fire torched a series of narrow, thickly forested draws on the nearby Custer National Forest.
Some surviving animals were burned so badly that their hides were peeling. The worst off were shot in mercy killings. Others now limp by on burnt hooves, and less than half the family's herd remains.
"Before we found our cattle we said at least we've got our homes and are all safe," Delores Kolka said. "In truth, we would have rather lost everything here except our cattle."
Across the West, major wildfires are wreaking havoc this summer on the region's economically fragile livestock industry. In areas such as remote Powder River County, Mont., ranchers said they could be grappling with the devastation for years to come.
Hay is in short supply. Hundreds of miles of fence and numerous corrals and water tanks must be rebuilt. Thousands of head of displaced livestock are being shipped to temporary pastures.
Similar scenes are playing out in Oregon, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Idaho. Including Montana, the value of the six states' cattle industries approaches $9 billion annually.
Hundreds of thousands of acres of grazing land have burned so far ? with months to go in the annual fire season.
The number of fires and total acreage burned in the West this summer is roughly within range of the past decade's average. What's different is where those fires are burning, as major blazes erupt on grasslands and brush where livestock can be more prevalent, said Jennifer Smith with the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.
And that's all set against a backdrop of a crushing drought that has set in for much of the region. If the dry conditions persist, the recovery of burned areas could stall, forcing cattle owners to sell their animals or seek more lasting alternatives to the private pastures and public lands they've run livestock on for generations.
Perhaps 200 cattle have been killed in Wyoming and about 225 in Oregon, ranchers and officials in those states said. The numbers are growing as cattle die from injuries, illness and stress.
In remote southeastern Oregon, ranchers Rich and Jeanette Yturriondobeitia lost a third of their 300-head cow-calf operation. Rich Yturriondobeitia had to shoot six cows at one watering trough.
"I can talk about it now and not cry," said Jeanette. "My husband still can't talk about it. The cattle, oh crud we even had some of them named."
She said her husband "found a bunch of them that tried to outrun the fire and couldn't. He won't let me go see it. It was pretty bad."
In Montana, as the Ash Creek fire approached earlier this month, Cecil Kolka and others cut barbed-wire fences and opened gates to give livestock a chance to escape over rock-strewn ridgelines that dominate the landscape.
How so many cattle were killed remains uncertain. Several dead deer and a dead coyote found among the burned cattle suggest the fire simply outran them.
Like others, the Kolkas said they likely won't know the full extent of their losses for months.
"We're still finding dead ones, and we haven't been able to account for quite a few of them," Cecil Kolka said as he drove through the sprawling ranch he runs with his son and daughter-in-law, Dean and Jill Kolka.
Near a water tank where surviving animals were taken to recover, calves with burnt hooves limped painfully through the mud. Numerous cows had blackened teats on their udders. One mother cow stood vigil over a dying calf that could barely lift its head. Kolka said the animal likely would have to be put down.
The overall fatalities are tiny compared to 30 million beef cattle nationwide. That means the fires will have minimal effect on beef prices, which already were high due to a drought-related spike in feed costs and demand from export markets, said Dave Bohnert with the Oregon State University Extension Service.
But within rural economies, the impacts are magnified.
Oregon's Harney County, for example, is wide open country where some ranchers drive 120 miles for groceries. Its 71,000 cattle outnumber the people nearly 10 to one.
Though not one house there was lost to the 870-square-mile Long Draw Fire, it destroyed the food for tens of thousands of cattle, and left half a dozen ranching families wondering if they will be able to send their kids to college or even stay on the land they love.
Some ranchers say the federal government didn't do enough to stop the spread of fires that have burned more than 3,000 square miles of range and forest in the West so far this summer. They contend that restrictions on logging and grazing allowed too much fuel to accumulate in forests and on the prairies, and that limits on road construction hindered access to fire areas.
Environmentalists cite warming temperatures due to climate change as a major culprit. They also argue grazing spreads non-native plants that are quick to burn.
Regardless, the most immediate problem for ranchers who saved their cattle is how to feed them.
The drought already has driven up hay and corn prices. Pasture is at a premium. And emergency grazing lands released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture can be hundreds of miles away, leaving ranchers wondering how they could ever pay shipping costs.
A Wyoming fire that burned through 153 square miles of remote pine forest and meadows in Medicine Bow National Forest displaced as many as 10,000 cattle.
Meanwhile, disaster programs ranchers normally look to are not available until Congress enacts a new Farm Bill.
"What it does for so many is turn an already slim profit margin into a negative margin," said Wyatt Prescott, executive director of the Idaho Cattle Association.
Ranchers depend heavily on federal grazing allotments, which sell for $1.35 for the right to graze a cow and her calf for a month. But after the ranchers foot the bill for fences and water improvements, the cost is more like $30, said Stacy Davies, manager of the Roaring Springs Ranch outside Frenchglen, Ore.
That is a fraction of the cost of feeding a cow on hay, which runs around $90 to $100 a month since the drought has driven up hay prices, he added.
Ranchers won't be able to graze burned allotments for two years after they burn, unless federal policy changes.
Next door to the Kolka ranch, Marian Hanson says the fire destroyed up to 85 percent of the grazing land on ranches she runs with her daughter and grandson. She has transferred several hundred cattle to locations scattered across Montana.
Her grown grandsons, Blaine and Bob, have been spending their days pulling up burned fence posts, coiling ruined barbed wire and sawing down burned trees.
"There's not enough here for cows to eat," Bob Hanson said as he worked in a stand of blackened pine trees. "We lost a bunch of buildings, too, but it ain't nothing like Cecil and Dean (Kolka). That's heartbreaking."
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Contributions from Todd Dvorak in Boise, Idaho; Nigel Dura in Portland, Ore.; Mead Gruver in Cheyenne, Wyo. and Susan Montoya Bryan in Albuquerque, N.M. Barnard reported from Grants Pass, Ore.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/dead-cattle-devastation-wake-western-fires-091953850--finance.html
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Information on Counseling on Debt Settlement ? Debt Relief Mag
Consumer Credit Counseling has come to men and women who are finding it difficult in making sure that their lives is free of debts. Sometimes, these people would have planned how they would make use of their finance and at the end, everything goes wrong and they see themselves with bad loans or bad credit rating. Credit counseling is very important for consumers because this would help them get the best information in the type of loan they should make use of their consumer credit. There are lots if things one can do with consumer credit which is the reason we see home owners and individuals making use of these consumer credit in making transaction.
Source: freearticleforyou.com
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Consumer Advocates Urge Congress to Make the Private Student
The California Association of Private Postsecondary Schools (CAPPS) is dedicated to spreading the word about the role of private post-secondary education and represents the many diverse kinds of schools in California. For more than 25 years, CAPPS has been actively engaged at all levels of government to ensure our members? voices are heard and our issues are addressed. With more than 300 institutions, CAPPS member schools are helping students of all ages, backgrounds and skill-levels achieve their dreams and secure stable employment. All CAPPS member schools and colleges are nationally or regionally accredited or approved-only.
Source: cappsonline.org
Debt negotiation tips ? how to locate legitimate debt settlement companies
Debt negotiation is a result of debt settlement companies. It has become a significant strategy that has impressed consumers when it comes to relief over massive liabilities. This is turning out to be tighter when it comes to the present day economic downgrade. Credit cards are very popular among consumers today. This means that there may be unsettled credit card balances that can be drastic at times. When consumers are unable to pay back their unsecured bills mainly in terms of credit cards, they are more likely to collapse before bankruptcy. It is because creditors will hunt them own through courts forcing them to take on options like bankruptcy which can certainly be devastating when it comes to their future economic stability. Debt settlement has become the method which holds the potential of eliminating most of consumer debts in a significant manner. Through its strategy of negotiation, a legitimate debt relief service will intervene between the consumer and creditor in order to eliminate their debts in a great deal. This elimination of debt can account to more than half of the total that consumers owe. But, you need to have a total debt that exceeds $ 10k before you think of contacting a legitimate relief service. Though this requirement might be a bit too much for consumers when they think of the benefits which are due, it becomes a fair policy. Furthermore, debt settlement can be stated as a superior relief method because consumers will be able to reduce not only their debts but also the rest of them in completely payable installments. This is a fascinating fact when it comes to this method and also makes it one of a kind! Getting out of debt is not impossible but it will not happen over night. Consumers who are serious about debt relief need to be determined. If you have over $ 10 k in unsecured debt you should really consider debt settlement. Consumers can expect to realistically eliminate 60% of their unsecured debt with a settlement. To find the best performing debt settlement companies in your state use the following link:
Source: blogspot.com
Get out of debt help and the fine print
Any substantive and informative discussion around disclosures to debt help seeking customers that allows them to truly weigh and measure how the facts disclosed apply to them at the moment and on a forward looking basis, typically never happens. If meaningful discussion about key disclosures does occur, it would most likely be down the line when a disclosure item is triggered and after irreversible action steps in debt relief have been taken. This is where most of the headaches for debt help customers and companies offering debt help occur. Unhappy customers who were not fully aware of the implications of the decisions they were making at the time they enrolled in a debt help plan. Customers of debt management & debt settlement plans may want to place blame on a service provider when things don?t go as planned. The service provider will want to point to a disclosure and say, ?we told you this at the beginning?.
Source: consumerrecoverynetwork.com
Governor Quinn Signs New Consumer Protection Laws
Also today, Governor Quinn signed House Bill 5434, sponsored by Rep. Ann Williams (D-Chicago) and Sen. William Haine (D-Alton), which codifies and clarifies best practices for the post-judgment collection of debts. The law will ensure that debt collectors and lenders provide evidence that there might be unprotected assets available to repay the debt before sending the debtor to jail. This law is designed to ensure that no Illinois residents are incarcerated as a result of being subject to a payment order they cannot afford, or for missing a hearing for which they did not receive notice.
Source: enewspf.com
Consumer Debt & How To Deal With It ? Rumanek & Company
The agencies receive information about you directly from your credit grantor, which is based solely on that grantor?s experience with you. This information is then compiled by the Agency in a Credit Report that is made available to the ?members? of the credit granting agency, or to you, the debtor. A copy of your Credit Report is free of charge if it is mailed to you via Canada Post, however, there is a charge of approximately $15 if your credit report is requested over the Internet.
Source: rumanek.com
Consumer finance agency says college students hurt by ?subprime
The Obama administration has highlighted student lending issues as college-bound Americans grapple with the rising cost of a higher education. Earlier this year, the CFPB and the Education Department created a model form for outlining the costs to attend college, explaining the difference between loans that have to be repaid and grants that don?t.
Source: creditranker.com
Settlement reached with Chicago
This company was fronting as a law firm claiming to help consumers reduce their debt, but in reality, their scheme had nothing to do with the practice of law,? Madigan said. ?The company?s primary purpose was to squeeze thousands of dollars in illegal upfront fees from struggling families for supposed debt relief that never materialized. I encourage anyone who might have contracted with this firm to call my office?s Consumer Fraud Hotline for more information about how we can help, whether through this settlement or by connecting consumers with legitimate credit counseling agencies.?
Source: rockrivertimes.com
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