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Police mum on motive in SF jewelry store killing
In this frame grab from video, emergency personnel tend to an injured man after a shooting outside a shopping center in San Francisco, Friday July 12, 2013. Two women were killed and a man was wounded on Friday before a suspect covered in blood was arrested at a shopping center in a crowded neighborhood that is home to police headquarters and several tech companies, authorities said. Investigators were trying to determine if the shooting was connected to a botched robbery. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)
In this frame grab from video, emergency personnel tend to an injured man after a shooting outside a shopping center in San Francisco, Friday July 12, 2013. Two women were killed and a man was wounded on Friday before a suspect covered in blood was arrested at a shopping center in a crowded neighborhood that is home to police headquarters and several tech companies, authorities said. Investigators were trying to determine if the shooting was connected to a botched robbery. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)
A police officer carries weapons down Eighth Street toward the scene of a shooting in San Francisco on Friday, July 12, 2013. Two women were killed and a man was wounded on Friday before a suspect covered in blood was arrested at a shopping center in a crowded San Francisco neighborhood that is home to police headquarters and several tech companies, authorities said. (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Katie Meek) NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MANDATORY CREDIT PHOTOG & CHRONICLE; MAGS OUT; NO SALES;
A crowd gathers near Eighth Street and Brannan Street after a shooting in San Francisco on Friday, July 12, 2013. Two women were killed and a man was wounded on Friday before a suspect covered in blood was arrested at a shopping center in a crowded San Francisco neighborhood that is home to police headquarters and several tech companies, authorities said. (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Katie Meek) NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MANDATORY CREDIT PHOTOG & CHRONICLE; MAGS OUT; NO SALES;
San Francisco Police Sgt. David Almaguer patrols the scene of a shooting in San Francisco on Friday, July 12, 2013. Two women were killed and a man was wounded on Friday before a suspect covered in blood was arrested at a shopping center in a crowded San Francisco neighborhood that is home to police headquarters and several tech companies, authorities said. (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Katie Meek) NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MANDATORY CREDIT PHOTOG & CHRONICLE; MAGS OUT; NO SALES;
San Francisco Police officers and FBI officials work the scene near at Eighth Street and Brannan Street after a shooting in San Francisco on Friday, July 12, 2013. Two women were killed and a man was wounded on Friday before a suspect covered in blood was arrested at a shopping center in a crowded San Francisco neighborhood that is home to police headquarters and several tech companies, authorities said. (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Katie Meek) NORTHERN CALIFORNIA MANDATORY CREDIT PHOTOG & CHRONICLE; MAGS OUT; NO SALES;
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Police have yet to release a motive behind the fatal killings of two women and the serious wounding of a man at a shopping center in a trendy San Francisco neighborhood.
A bloodied gunman suspected in the killings was arrested after opening fire on officers Friday afternoon.
Officers encountered the suspect outside the San Francisco GiftCenter and JewelryMart who began shooting at officers while running toward a restaurant. He surrendered after apparently running out of ammunition.
Inside, officers found the women inside the Victoga jewelry shop dead and the man wounded. Witnesses say the women were employees and the man is the owner.
Police Chief Greg Suhr said police didn't know the relationship between the suspect and the victims even though he had previously been seen in the building.
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Islamist protests in Cairo grow, U.S. seeks Mursi release
By Maggie Fick and Tom Finn
CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamist supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohamed Mursi protested in Cairo on Friday after a week of violence in a bitterly divided nation, and the United States called for the first time for the deposed leader to be freed.
Nine days after the army toppled Egypt's first elected leader following a wave of demonstrations against him, Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood is trying to mobilize popular support for his reinstatement, which for now looks like a lost cause.
Officials say Mursi is still being held at the Republican Guard compound in Cairo, where troops killed 53 Islamist protesters on Monday in violence that intensified anger his allies already felt at the military's decision to oust him.
Four members of the security forces were also killed in that confrontation, which the military blames on "terrorists". Mursi's supporters call it a massacre and say those who died were praying peacefully when troops opened fire.
Asked whether Washington agreed with the German Foreign Ministry's call for Mursi to be released, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: "We do agree."
She declined to say if the United States had officially conveyed its wish to Egyptian officials and the military.
At a Cairo mosque where Mursi supporters have held a vigil for more than two weeks, crowds swelled as people were bussed in from the provinces, where the Brotherhood has strongholds.
"We're here and we're not leaving," said Amer Ali, who drove the five-hour journey from the Nile city of Assiut with his wife and two young children to join tens of thousands of protesters.
"We came with our kids to support legitimacy, democracy, and our civilian president, the first freely elected president in the Arab world."
Some 2,000 people had gathered close to Cairo University on the weekly Muslim day of prayer, in the holy month of Ramadan.
The youth-led Tamarud group, which brought millions to the streets to demand Mursi resign, called for a Ramadan celebration in Tahrir Square, the cradle of the uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Only a few thousand came.
Tensions in Egypt could ease if the biggest Islamist protests since the clash on Monday pass off peacefully.
SHOCK AND ANGER
Many of Egypt's 84 million people have been shocked by the shootings, graphic images of which have appeared on state and private news channels and social media. The incident occurred just three days after 35 people were killed in clashes between pro- and anti-Mursi demonstrators across the country.
The Brotherhood contends it is the victim of a military crackdown, evoking memories of its suppression under Mubarak.
But many of its opponents blame Islamists for the violence, and some have little sympathy for the demonstrators who died, underlining how deep the fissures in Egyptian society are.
Islam Ibrahim, a Brotherhood member, was shot in the knee in Monday's violence, and still does not know if his brother Nasim, a soldier in the Republican Guard, was among those firing.
"I don't like to think about it. If he was (there), I know he wouldn't fire on unarmed demonstrators," he said.
The unrest has raised fear over security in the lawless Sinai peninsula bordering Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
Militant groups in North Sinai have promised more attacks and urged Islamists to take up arms, while the army has vowed to step up operations in the region, which is near the Suez Canal, the busy waterway linking Asia and Europe.
An Egyptian military helicopter briefly crossed into Israeli-controlled airspace over the Gaza Strip, in a possible sign of increased security jitters.
Security sources in Egypt and Israel both described the flyover as a navigational error, but it came shortly after militants killed an Egyptian policeman and wounded a second in an attack on a checkpoint in Sinai across the border from Gaza.
Egyptian military helicopters were also seen dropping flyers on a pro-Mursi rally in the town of Al Arish around 50 km (30 miles) from Israel's border, urging them to denounce violence.
VIGIL ENTERS THIRD WEEK
Outside the Rabaa Adawiya mosque in northeastern Cairo, tens of thousands of Brotherhood supporters prayed and listened to speeches. Some of them have camped out in searing heat, fasting in the daytime since Ramadan began on Wednesday.
In a wooden shack erected on a side street and emblazoned with portraits of Mursi, men prepared vats of rice and lamb. Others put the food in plastic bags to distribute after sundown, when Muslims break their fast.
People squirted water from bottles to cool each other down. Others rested in the shade, dozing or reading the Koran.
The vigil began on June 28, as plans for the June 30 protests that drew millions of anti-government demonstrators to the streets gathered pace.
Since then, the camp has become the de facto base of the Brotherhood, whose leaders live under the threat of detention after prosecutors ordered their arrests earlier in the week.
Judicial sources say Mursi is likely to be charged, possibly for corruption or links to violence. Prosecutors are also looking again at an old case from 2011 when Mursi and other Brotherhood leaders escaped from prison after being detained during anti-Mubarak protests.
His son Osama told CNN that he was proud of Mursi.
"We back any decision you take. Even if you decided to leave the office. Your family, we are all proud of you, God bless you," he said in English.
The detentions and threats of arrest have drawn concern from the United States, which has walked a semantic tightrope to avoid calling Mursi's ousting a military coup.
U.S. law bars aid to countries where a democratic government is removed in a coup. Washington, which gives Egypt's military $1.3 billion in aid each year, has said it is too early to say whether Mursi's removal by the army meets that description.
The army has said it was enforcing the nation's will - meaning the huge crowds of people fed up with economic stagnation and suspicious of a Brotherhood power grab who took to the streets to demand Mursi's departure.
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER NAMED
Crucial to longer-term stability will be holding parliamentary and presidential elections, which the transitional authorities are hoping to achieve in a matter of months.
Adli Mansour, the interim president named by the general who removed Mursi, has announced a temporary constitution, plans to amend it to satisfy parties' demands and a faster-than-expected schedule for parliamentary elections in about six months.
He has named liberal economist Hazem el-Beblawi as interim prime minister, and Beblawi said he had named center-left lawyer Ziad Bahaa el-Din as his deputy. Beblawi also said he expected to swear in a cabinet next week.
Negotiations are difficult, with the authorities trying to attract support from groups that range from secularists to ultra-orthodox Muslims, nearly all of whom expressed deep dissatisfaction with elements of the interim constitution.
Rich Gulf states have thrown Egypt a $12 billion lifeline in financial aid, which should help it stave off economic collapse.
More than two years of turmoil have scared away tourists and investors, shriveled hard currency reserves and threatened Cairo's ability to import food and fuel.
(Additional reporting by Noah Browning, Mike Collett-White, Peter Graff, Ali Saed, Seham el-Oraby and Yasmine Saleh in Cairo, Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza, Ari Rabinovitch in Jerusalem and Arshad Mohammed in Washington; Writing by Mike Collett-White; Editing by Alison Williams)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-braces-more-protests-prays-calm-001543810.html
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Jerry Arispi, aspiring lawyer, running for San Bernardino mayor
SAN BERNARDINO -- Another resident joined the crowded race for mayor on Thursday, saying his vision for the city centered on improving its image.
"We have to home in our major problem, and our problem is our negative reputation," said Jerry Arispi, 33, a recent graduate of Florida State University College of Law returning to his longtime home of San Bernardino. "People know us for our low (median) income, high crime, our bankruptcy, but we have great assets. We won't start attracting commerce and improving our revenue base unless we change how people look at us."
Ways to do that, Arispi said, include encouraging the arts and use of buildings like the Inland Center
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Mall and California Theater."Professors are being told, first, don't live in San Bernardino," said Arispi, whose husband teaches at Cal State San Bernardino. "No. 1, we've got to get people to feel safe -- there are certain nuisance crimes we can't tolerate... and we've got to give them pride in this city, which does have great assets."
Arispi also wants to give more loans to people improving their houses and adding solar panels to their roofs.
"What I would like is to see San Bernardino known as being a green city," Arispi said in an interview befre announcing his candidacy to a group of 30 supporters.
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said he had volunteered with several political campaigns before, and enthusiastically joined on when Arispi, a longtime friend, asked."The biggest thing is his excitement and that he's something new" said Garcia, of Cal State San Bernardino. "He has a fresh vision."
Garcia said Arispi's idea of living locally, shopping locally and eating locally particularly attracted him.
As a career, Arispi is working toward getting licensed to practice law in California, but he's focused on a mayoral race that he expects to win, he said.
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U.S. envoy confident on deal with Afghans on troops
WASHINGTON ? Facing sharp criticism from a Senate panel, a senior Obama administration official expressed optimism Thursday that the U.S. will reach an agreement with the Afghan government allowing American troops to remain in the country beyond 2014.
James Dobbins, the special U.S. representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said President Obama is still mulling a range of options for the actual size of the U.S. military presence at the end of next year, but told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that as the Afghans build up their country, they will not stand alone.
?We?ve made significant progress on the text of a new bilateral security agreement,? Dobbins said. ?Of course, without an agreement on our presence in Afghanistan, we would not remain. But we do not believe that that?s the likely outcome of these negotiations.?
But Democrats and Republicans on the committee voiced frustration over the shortage of detail on troop levels. With Afghans slated to elect a new president in the spring of 2014, it is key to let them know they will not t be abandoned by the United States as the Taliban claims, said Sen. Robert Menendez, a Democrat and the committee chairman.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has to decide if he is willing to accept a longer-term U.S. troop presence by negotiating an agreement with acceptable terms, he said.
?For our part, I believe that President Obama should signal to the Afghans and our allies what the post-2014 U.S. troop presence will look like governed by a security agreement,? Menendez said. ?The lack of clarity on this point has led to too much hedging in the region.?
Sen. Bob Corker, the panel?s top Republican, said the uncertainty over future U.S. troop levels is ?almost embarrassing? and is undermining the U.S. effort in Afghanistan.
?This administration . . . has tremendous difficulty making decisions,? Corker said. ?I think the administration has got to quit looking at its navel and make a decision on what the force structure is going to be in Afghanistan.?
The U.S. and its allies in Afghanistan last month formally handed over control of the country?s security to the Afghan army and police. The handover paved the way for the departure of coalition forces ? currently numbering about 100,000 troops from 48 countries, including 66,000 Americans. By the end of the year, the NATO force will be halved. At the end of 2014, all combat troops will have left and will be replaced, if approved by the Afghan government, by a much smaller force that will only train and advise the Afghans.
Although Obama remains undecided on how many troops will remain in Afghanistan along with NATO forces, it is thought that it would be about 9,000 U.S. troops and about 6,000 from its allies.
The two primary goals for the U.S. in Afghanistan are to train, assist, and advise Afghan forces so that they can maintain their own security, and making sure that American forces can continue ?to go after remnants of al-Qaida or other affiliates that might threaten our homeland,? Dobbins said.
?That is a very limited mission, and it is not one that would require the same kind of footprint, obviously, that we?ve had over the last 10 years in Afghanistan,? he said.
But with respect to actual troop numbers, Obama ?is still reviewing a range of options from his national security team and has not made a decision about the size of a U.S. military presence after 2014,? Dobbins said.
Peter Lavoy, the acting assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs, told the committee the U.S. ?is transitioning in Afghanistan, not leaving.?
The White House said Tuesday the decision on troops in Afghanistan won?t be imminent. But White House spokesman Jay Carney said the so-called ?zero option? - no forces at all - is still on the table. The U.S. will have clear objectives for its mission in Afghanistan after the long-planned drawdown, Carney said, adding that those objectives could be met with a residual force or through other means.
Stephen Hadley, national security adviser to President George W. Bush, told the committee that the discussion of the zero option, even if ultimately disavowed, could prove damaging.
?The U.S. and its allies need to be actively countering the narrative of abandonment that is frequently heard in Afghanistan,? Hadley said.
The best way to do this would be for the U.S. to state its intention as soon as possible to have a robust troop presence in Afghanistan and to announce the size of that force before work on the bilateral security agreement is completed, Hadley said.
Source: http://www.navytimes.com/article/20130711/NEWS05/307110012
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Friday, July 12, 2013
Military Spokesman - Sinai Attacks Within Scheme of Create Chaos
Military Spokesman Colonel Ahmed Mohamed Ali said that Chief of Second Field Army escaped an attempt on his life in the border town of Rafah after gunmen opened fire on his car. Militants attacked the senior military commander convoy while he was checking Shaykh Zuwayed area near the border with the Gaza Strip.
One girl was hurt during the exchange of fire and died later in hospital, he said. Militants who were in a truck were chased down and stopped. "There have been several attacks in Sinai on army and police officers to create chaos in the area and harming the stability and national security of Egypt," Ali said on his Facebook account.
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201307111523.html
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Bush?s call for GOP to embrace immigration reform seems to have little effect
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Miami-Dade mayor reverses course on proposed tax-rate hike, downsizes animal-shelter plan
A day after proposing a property-tax rate hike in his 2013-14 budget, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez said he would scale back the eyebrow-raising increase.
The mayor will drop his request to raise a portion of the tax rate to fully fund a $19 million plan to stop killing dogs and cats at the county?s shelter, Gimenez told the Miami Herald late Wednesday.
Instead, he said the animal services department would receive $4 million from within the budget to implement a bare-bones version of the no-kill shelter plan. That would limit the mayor?s proposed tax-rate hike to funding library and fire-rescue services.
?I?m hearing the voice of the people, and so I don?t think it?s good right now to raise the countywide millage,? Gimenez said.
Gimenez?s initial proposal was met with some resistance and disbelief Wednesday from politicians who noted the mayor was elected two years ago on a platform to shrink government following the ouster of Mayor Carlos Alvarez. Gimenez?s predecessor was recalled after pushing through an unpopular tax-rate hike and doling out employee pay raises in an economic recession.
The overall tax rate would still go up under Gimenez?s amended proposal. The increase would amount to 4.34 percent, rather than the 5.37 percent listed in the budget released Tuesday.
Compared to last year, that would amount to an $80.94 increase rather than a $102.52 increase for a homeowner with a taxable property value of $200,000 in an unincorporated neighborhood such as Kendall.
The higher fire and library rates would not affect residents of cities with their own departments for those services. The total increase includes a separate portion of taxes that pays for construction projects voters approved in a major bond issue a decade ago. County taxes make up only a portion of a total tax bill.
The animal-welfare plan was given a thumbs up by nearly 65 percent of Miami-Dade voters last November. ?We must respect the will of the voters,? Gimenez had said Tuesday.
But it was a straw-ballot question, and Gimenez said a day later that he heard from several people Wednesday that they would not have favored the measure if it had been binding.
Not so, said Michael Rosenberg, a Kendall businessman and co-founder of Pets Trust Miami, the grassroots group that promoted the ballot question.
?I know the community knew exactly what they were voting for,? he said after learning of Gimenez?s decision from a reporter.
?What is the point of voting anymore?? he added. ?The people spoke with a voice that resonated all over the country. We are in shock that the mayor killed the program, and with that, the killing of animals will continue.?
But some county commissioners have sounded skittish from the dais for weeks on the animal-welfare plan. The board agreed to a policy goal of not killing adoptable pets, but how to pay for it has been a thornier political question in a year when Gimenez?s administration faced a $50.7 million budget hole.
?When you?re dealing with a budget deficit, items like the pets trust issue kind of morph into a luxury that we may not be able to afford right now,? Commissioner Esteban ?Steve? Bovo, a leading skeptic of the animal-welfare tax hike, said Wednesday night.
He called Gimenez?s change in course encouraging but said he is still worried about any tax-rate increase.
?The climate of raising taxes is very toxic right now,? he said.
Commissioners will meet next Tuesday to set the maximum tax rate. They must approve a budget after two public hearings in September.
Gimenez said the alternative to raising the library and fire rates would be eliminating six fire units ? the equivalent of laying off about 120 firefighters ? and closing 17 branch libraries, 10 storefront libraries and the county?s bookmobiles.
Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/10/3494625/miami-dade-mayor-reverses-course.html
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
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THe WIndows Phone app is beying frustrating in ridiculously bugged. It does not catelogue musci properly, find album art correctly, it does not sync playlists at all, it adds the music twice to the phone, the UI is TERRIBLE.
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World's largest superyacht is now the fastest too
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Azzam, the largest superyacht in the world.
Building the largest superyacht in the world apparently wasn't enough for the owner of Azzam. They also wanted the fastest.
Yachting executives say that Azzam, the largest yacht in the world at 590 feet, recently went through its first set of sea trials in the North Sea. The boat hit a staggering 31.5 knots?or about 37 miles per hour. At that speed it's believed to be the fastest yacht longer than 300 feet.
And that's not even top speed. Engineers say Azzam?with 94,000 horsepower driving giant water jets instead of propellers? can go even faster in deeper water. The 31.5 knot speed was recorded in water that was only about 60 feet deep.
"It can easily do more than 32 knots in deeper water," said one executive close to the project.
Azzam was officially launched in April, but won't be delivered to its owner until sometime this fall since it still needs to undergo further tests and finish work. The yacht, which cost more than $600 million to build, is believed to be owned by the royal family of the United Arab Emirates.
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Representatives for Lurssen, the company that built Azzam, declined any comment about the boat.
Azzam is nearly 30 percent faster than similarly sized yachts. Eclipse, the second largest yacht at 536 feet, hits a top speed of around 22 knots. Rising Sun, the 453 foot megayacht built for Larry Ellison and now owned by David Geffen, hits top speeds of around 28 knots.
(Read More:The Booming Business of Shipping Yachts)
There are smaller yachts that are faster, of course. A yacht called The World is Not Enough, a 140-footer built by the serial yacht builder John Staluppi, hit a top speed of 70 knots. But it's one-fourth the size of Azzam.
Fortuna, the yacht built for King Juan Carlos of Spain, hit 68 knots.
There are no immediate descriptions or images available of Azzam's interior, though we know it's in the hands of French interior designer Christophe Leoni, who's using a "turn of the century Empire style."
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Spitzer, Weiner and the New York City road to redemption
NEW YORK ? Why have this city?s once-sleepy municipal elections suddenly become the nation?s most high-profile halfway house for sexually addled politicians?
It would have been enough that Anthony Weiner (resigned from Congress in 2011 in a sexting scandal) has emerged as a surprising top contender in the polls for the Democratic mayoral nomination. Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire Republican-turned-independent, is finishing his third term as mayor this year and will not seek re-election.
But then without warning on Sunday night, Eliot Spitzer (resigned as governor in 2008 in a prostitution scandal) suddenly announced he was running for comptroller, the city?s top financial job that few voters understand or can spell.
New York politics, once dominated by the political bosses of Tammany Hall, have never been for the faint-hearted. Two 20th century mayors (Jimmy Walker and William O?Dwyer) resigned and fled the country in the face of corruption charges. In 2000, Mayor Rudy Giuliani announced at a press conference that his marriage was over without first telling his wife, Donna Hanover, who then refused to move out of the mayoral residence at Gracie Mansion.
[Photo gallery: The return of Eliot Spitzer]
But nothing compares to the way that the 2013 elections have turned into a reality show called ?The Road to Redemption.?
Maybe New York voters are more forgiving than Job. That is basically Weiner?s theory. Referring to the giant front-page headlines (usually with puns dripping sexual innuendo) in the New York Post and Daily News, Weiner told me in an interview, ?There?s a disconnect between [the voters] and the people who write the wood for the tabloids.?
Hand-shaking Saturday afternoon in front of a Trader Joe?s in the middle-class Queens neighborhood of Rego Park, an area he once represented in Congress, Weiner drew apparent comfort from the warmth of his reception. He earnestly discussed stop-and-frisk police searches (?I believe it?s a legitimate tactic?) with a grey-haired woman criminal defense attorney. He tried to find common ground on guns with a burly man wearing a NASCAR cap (?You?re a second amendment supporter, what?s the argument for a big ammunition clip??). And he beguiled an 8-year-old girl and her younger brother with the story of his ill-fated campaign for third-grade class president (he neglected to provide lollipops).
Despite Weiner?s eager-to-please manner, these conversations do not necessarily translate into support. The woman attorney, who did not want her name used, was impressed by Weiner?s answer on stop-and-frisk. But she confided that she would not be voting for him. Why not? ?Two words,? she said, ?crotch shots.?
Spitzer, who radiates the coiled intensity of a former prosecutor, is the kind of in-your-face politician more apt to frighten children than charm them. But Monday afternoon, surrounded by a jostling scrum of reporters in Manhattan?s Union Square, Spitzer seemed in his element as the man in the arena. As he put it, ?I love the maelstrom. I love the screaming. I love the shouting.?
There is nothing rueful or apologetic about Spitzer, who both patronized call girls and prosecuted prostitution rings. Sure, he offered a few mechanical words like, ?I hope that anyone who has gone through what I?ve gone through ? and would have five years to reflect ? would change.? But when I asked him Monday whether he had learned anything from the 2007 Troopergate scandal (as governor he had misused the state police to tarnish a Republican rival), Spitzer huffed, ?That was not a scandal. That was Alice in Wonderland.?
More than Lewis Carroll, Tom Wolfe?s 1987 "The Bonfire of the Vanities" seems an apt guide to the upcoming Sept. 10 Democratic primary (with Weiner and presumably Spitzer on the ballot). In an election cycle certain to be dominated by the scapegrace sexual histories of these two high-octane politicians, the efforts of City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to become New York?s first lesbian mayor seem almost quaintly Victorian in contrast.
So what is the significance of the ego-propelled return of Weiner and Spitzer? Is it just coincidence or the symbol of something larger about New York?s and the nation?s political culture?
Here are a few theories about why these days no errant politician, especially in New York, can bear to wear a scarlet letter for long.
It?s easier to win tabloid headlines than elections: Both Weiner and Spitzer could still be embarrassed in their respective primaries. The polls showing Weiner bouncing along with about 20 percent support against the four other leading Democratic mayoral candidates may partly be a function of name recognition at a time when few voters are taking the race to succeed Bloomberg seriously. As for Spitzer, a Marist Poll last fall found that nearly two third of New York City voters did not want him to run for mayor.
If I can make it here: New York City?s brutal media environment makes the White House press corps all like graduates of Emily Post etiquette classes. Dating back to mayors like Fiorello LaGuardia and Ed Koch, the kind of politicians who thrive here don?t take no for an answer. Ever. Even before their sexual kinks became tabloid fare, Spitzer and Weiner stood out as political narcissists. Is it any surprise that they did not devote years to anonymous charitable works before plotting their comebacks?
The Clinton factor: Weiner?s wife, Huma Abedin, is Hillary Clinton?s closest aide. But talking to voters in Rego Park, Weiner invoked Bill Clinton as the patron saint of political second chances. Clinton?s redemption as both a president who survived impeachment and as an ex-president known for his international good works may have put all sex scandals in a larger context.
In 2013, we?re beyond embarrassment: There were weird elements to the Spitzer (black socks) and Weiner (all pictures and no action) sagas. But in an era when everyone under 40 has posted something on Facebook that they regret, we may be moving towards a Gallic-shrug tolerance of the sexual transgressions of political figures. This is difficult to quantify and runs counter to the moralistic tone of tabloid headlines (?Lust for Power? was how the Daily News welcomed Spitzer to the race). But we may be reaching the point where the only politically unforgivable sin is cheating on a dying cancer-stricken wife (see Edwards, John).
Perhaps the best explanation is the simplest: After a decade marked by deep recession, war and partisan breakdown in Washington, we have become collectively bored with the issues and substance of governing. What we crave is the mindless entertainment of a summer blockbuster. And, boy, is New York City politics providing it.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/-spitzer--weiner-and-the-new-york-city-road-to-redemption-200456854.html
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Park service to light monument during restoration
WASHINGTON (AP) ? While the Washington Monument is closed for earthquake damage repairs over the next year, 488 lamps will restore the marble tower's glow each night on the National Mall.
Beginning Monday, the National Park Service will light the monument each night at dusk. A ceremony is planned for the first lighting with National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis and philanthropist David Rubenstein, who donated $7.5 million to fund half the cost of repairs.
A blue, semi-transparent fabric has been wrapped around the scaffolding that surrounds the monument as it undergoes extensive repairs of its 2011 earthquake damage. It will be lit from behind.
Architect Michael Graves was commissioned to design a scrim to decorate the monument between 1998 and 2000, when it was last restored. His same design was used this time to exaggerate the scale of the monument's stone pattern and the mortar that is being repaired.
National Mall Superintendent Bob Vogel told The Associated Press the lighting marks a milestone in the yearslong effort to restore and reopen the monument to President George Washington.
"We know that our visitors are disappointed that they can't actually go up in the monument," he said. "So, we hope that this will make up for it just a little."
The monument will be lit gradually from bottom to top. It takes several minutes for all 488 lights to come to full power, Vogel said. After the first lighting, sensors will light the monument automatically each night at dusk.
Many stones near the top of the monument were chipped or cracked, and mortar was shaken loose during a 5.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Aug. 23, 2011, along the East Coast.
Experts have completed a detailed analysis of each stone's damage. Now, they are working to ensure all the repair plans are just right, from the color of mortar to a process for injecting a sealant into cracked stones, Vogel said. Within days, they will begin making final repairs, working stone by stone across the surface and inside the obelisk.
The monument is expected to reopen once the repairs are completed in spring 2014, the park service has estimated.
In the meantime, the National Park Service is launching a live online EarthCam view of the monument and of the National Mall.
The monument lighting also marks Rubenstein's role in a larger campaign to restore neglected sites on the National Mall, officials said. The co-founder of the Carlyle Group investment firm has joined the nonprofit Trust for the National Mall as a co-chairman to help raise $350 million to preserve and restore sites in the nation's most-visited national park.
"He's taking his leadership role as a co-chair of the campaign for the National Mall very seriously," said Caroline Cunningham, the fundraising group's president. "We're really grateful for not only his passion about the restoration of the Washington Monument but his passion for the campaign to restore the National Mall."
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THL's W11 'Monkey King' phone packs a 13MP camera on both sides
THL is a name that makes us cringe whenever we come across it, not only because its logo is clearly "inspired" by HTC's older counterpart, but more so because it's been shamelessly cloning designs from the likes of HTC, LG and Samsung. Alas, these KIRF phones sell well in China, thus letting THL rapidly expand its retail business in recent years -- there are now a handful of THL stores in Shenzhen alone. But today, the company finally has something worth writing about: the Android 4.2.2-powered W11 aka "Monkey King" (a main character from the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West).
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New tissue engineering breakthrough encourages nerve repair
[unable to retrieve full-text content]A new combination of tissue engineering techniques could reduce the need for nerve grafts, according to new research. Regeneration of nerves is challenging when the damaged area is extensive, and surgeons currently have to take a nerve graft from elsewhere in the body, leaving a second site of damage. Nerve grafts contain aligned tissue structures and Schwann cells that support and guide neuron growth through the damaged area, encouraging function to be restored. Now medical researchers have developed a way to manufacture artificial nerve tissue with the potential to be used as an alternative to nerve grafts.
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Ben Humphries on Architype's new super low carbon centre at the University of East Anglia ? Written by Ben Humphries
With so many interesting stories emerging from the commission for the new Enterprise centre at the University of East Anglia, this will no doubt be the first of many pieces about this exciting Passivhaus and BREEAM Outstanding building.
I thought a great starting point would be to talk about the most radical requirement of the brief - the University's aim for the building to be ultra low in embodied carbon and as near to a carbon sink as possible, with a lifespan of 100 as opposed to the standard 60 years.
We are delighted that a client has finally incorporated this into a brief ? for many years Architype has been very vocal on the subject and the criticality of tackling embodied energy. As we design more operationally efficient buildings, and the embodied component heads over the 50% lifecycle mark ? it is surely negligent to not consider the rest of the cycle.
At competition stage, our aim was to use as much locally sourced material as possible, and materials that sequester carbon to bring down the embodied carbon per square metre figure. We designed the building to be made from a hybrid glulam, Brettstapel and Larsen truss structure, using Thetford forest timber; with timber floors, including a raised floor and minimal pad foundations; a rammed chalk lecture theatre; and East Anglian grown hemp insulation throughout. We also incorporated a rainscreen thatch cladding made from Norfolk grown Yeoman wheat and reed, and landscape features made from flint.
These features bring the added benefit of reinforcing and reinvigorating local supply chains, and increasing the amount of renewable material in the building ? again the university were keen for this figure to be as near to 100% as possible.
Benchmark figures are rare ? and we worked hard to find some comparable data.
M4i targets from 2002 suggest that 500kgCO2/sqm is the holy grail - although given that these targets were issued a decade ago, they do not assume the increased embodied energy of Passivhaus construction (triple glazing, increased insulation, MVHR kit, and increased attention to air-tightness) and need to be treated with caution as were likely produced for the standard 60 years lifespan.
On a previous Architype project ? Masdar City in Abu Dhabi in 2010, we were working with 550kgCO2/sqm and 100 years, although this excluded services, and also foundations. It was hard to achieve this figure, although we managed it on a number of plots by prioritising the use of local materials where possible, and rationalising excessive use of concrete and crazy structural antics.
Most recently, Atkins' Masterplanning tool (2010) had a review of embodied energy across a number of sectors. Again it's likely that this was for 60 years as opposed to 100 years, and suggests that achieving 845kgCO2/sqm for university building was likely best practice.
To evaluate the embodied energy over a 100-year lifespan of our competition stage proposal, we used our evolving Rapier software
in addition to Franklin Andrews' Lifecycle.What is amazing is that even without the inclusion of sequestration in the calculation, we are still well within the Atkins figures for best practice for university buildings at 744kgCO2/sqm. However, with carbon sequestration included, we are at a staggering 168kgCO2/sqm!
But what does this really mean?
We comparatively modelled our low embodied energy construction against a conventionally built Passivhaus building. With our construction, the embodied energy emissions equal cumulative operational emissions after just 9 years. With the conventionally built construction, embodied energy emissions equal the operational energy emissions after a whopping 38 years.
Given the importance of tackling carbon emissions now, an approach that prioritises locally sourced and renewable materials makes a huge - and planet saving - difference.
Architype are speaking about the UEA Norwich Research Park Enterprise Centre as part of the Centre for the Built Environment business support seminar series: "
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Monday, July 8, 2013
Western Michigan (SID): Farmer Officially Hired as Assistant MBB Coach
KALAMAZOO, Mich. - The Western Michigan men's basketball team announced today that Larry Farmer has been officially hired to fill the vacancy on the Broncos' coaching staff.? A long-time assistant and head coach with ties to the National Basketball Association as well as international teams, this will be Farmer's second stint on the bench at WMU; he previously served as an assistant under head coach Steve Hawkins from 2010-12.
"I'm excited to welcome Larry back to the Western Michigan basketball program," said Hawkins.? "His value to the program during his first two years was invaluable, and I have great respect for him as a coach and a person.? His ability to mentor and mold our young men will be a tremendous thing to have in our program.? I've known him for 30 years, and I know he'll be a great fit on our staff."
Farmer spent the 2012-13 season as the Director of Player Development for the Wolfpack, where he assisted the coaching staff with evaluation of video, development of practice and game schedules, and game planning.? He also acted as the program's academic and community liaison.
Farmer previously spent two seasons with the Broncos from 2010-12, when he helped the Broncos to a Mid-American Conference West Division title in 2010-11 and a trip to the CollegeInsider.com Tournament.? Working primarily with the post players, he was key in the development of Flenard Whitfield, who finished his career ranked 11th in all-time scoring at Western Michigan.? The Broncos finished in the top-two in rebounding margin in each of Farmer's two years on the bench.
"I'm thankful to Coach Hawkins and the Bronco coaching staff for welcoming me back to Western Michigan," said Farmer.? "I'm very excited to return to a place where I've enjoyed great success, and I'm looking forward to getting right to work on helping the staff and the players this summer.? I'm thrilled to be in Kalamazoo again."
Farmer won 166 games in 12 seasons as a Division I head coach, holding the reins at his alma mater UCLA (1981-84), Weber State (1985-88), and Loyola-Chicago (1998-2004).? Farmer previously spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Hawai'i from 2007-10 before his first stint with the Broncos, and was an assistant with Rhode Island during the 1997-98 season in which the Rams reached the Elite Eight.? Farmer also carries an NBA coaching pedigree, having served as an assistant for the Golden State Warriors during the 1990-91 season.
At UCLA, Farmer guided his alma mater to a three-year record of 61-23, including a pair of 20-win seasons and a trip to the NCAA Tournament. During the 1982-83 season, he coached the Bruins to a 23-6 mark, Pac-10 championship and No. 7 final national ranking.
After several coaching stints, including a six-year term with the Kuwaiti National Team from 1992-97, Farmer was hired as head coach of Loyola-Chicago in 1998. In 2001-02, he led the Ramblers to a 17-13 season, which ended 15 years of losing records for the school. College Insider named him Horizon League Coach of the Year following that campaign.
Farmer?s players earned four all-conference nods and Paul McMillan was the 2003 Horizon League Newcomer of the Year. Farmer also recruited and coached guard David Bailey, the third all-time leading scorer in Loyola?s storied history.
At Weber State, Farmer coached the league leader in rebounding in both 1986-87 and 1987-88, while also coaching the conference?s leading shot blocker in 1985-86 and 1986-87. Farmer also brought 1986 Big Sky Newcomer of the Year and 1986 Reserve of the Year Walt Tyler to Ogden, Utah, when WSU went 18-11. Overall, Farmer produced four all-conference honors in his three seasons with the Wildcats.
As a player for the Bruins from 1970-73, Farmer played alongside Bill Walton and was a member of three NCAA championship teams during a stretch in which UCLA captured seven straight under legendary head coach John Wooden. In addition, Farmer has the distinguished honor of being the winningest player in NCAA history, losing only once in 90 career games.
Farmer earned multiple honors as he averaged 9.4 points and 4.8 rebounds per game during his career, including 10.7 points and 5.5 rebounds per game as a junior (1971-72) and 12.2 points per game as a senior (1972-73). He was presented the Seymour Armond Memorial Award in 1969-70 as the most valuable freshman player and then earned the Irv Pohlmeyer Memorial Trophy as the most outstanding first-year player in 1970-71. As a first-year starter, Farmer earned the Bruin Bench Award in 1971-72 as the most improved player. He was drafted by Cleveland in the NBA and Denver of the ABA in 1973, but became an assistant at UCLA from 1973-81, including a one-year stint playing in Germany (1975), before taking over as head coach in 1981-82.
Source: http://www.bbstate.com/news/703585
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Sunday, July 7, 2013
Golf: Wagner seizes lead at US PGA Greenbrier Classic
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, West Virginia: American Johnson Wagner fired a six-under par 64 on Saturday to seize a two-stroke lead after the third round of the $6.3 million US PGA Greenbrier Classic.
Wagner made seven birdies, the last of them on a 12-foot putt at the par-3 18th, against a lone bogey to complete 54 holes on 14-under 196, two strokes ahead of countryman Jimmy Walker, who fired a bogey-free 64 at The Old White.
Sweden's Jonas Blixt was third on 200, one stroke ahead of Australians Matt Jones and Stephen Bowditch and US teen Jordan Spieth, who at 19 is trying to become the youngest US PGA Tour champion since 1931.
Wagner, who opened with a 62 on Thursday, missed the cut in six of his past seven starts and withdrew from the other after the first round.
But thanks to some extra work with his coach last month, he was poised to capture his fourth career US PGA title after triumphs at the 2008 Houston Open, the 2011 Mayakoba Classic in Mexico and last year's Sony Open in Hawaii.
"I had a little 'Boot Camp' with my coach two weeks ago and got my game back to where it was heading into Hawaii two years ago," Wagner said. "I'm feeling really good right now. I'm able to shape the ball. It's really clicking."
When the last pairing teed off, there were 19 players within two strokes of the lead and 36-hole leader Matt Every stumbled with three bogeys in the first four holes, setting the stage for Wagner to seize command.
Wagner opened with a 14-foot birdie putt, sank an eight-foot birdie putt at the par-3 third and tapped in for a birdie at the fifth to reach 11-under and grab a two-stroke lead.
Blixt, who opened with back-to-back birdies, added an eight-foot birdie putt at the seventh to reach 10-under, which put him in a share of the lead after Wagner took a bogey at the seventh.
At the ninth hole, Wagner found a fairway divot but blasted onto the green and sank an 18-foot birdie putt to reclaim the lead alone and then began the back nine with a birdie as well.
Wagner added a 20-foot birdie putt at the par-5 12th to move three strokes in front and, after Walker reached the clubhouse only one stroke off the pace, closed with a 12-foot birdie at the par-3 18th to move two ahead of Walker.
"It has been over a year (that) I have struggled," Wagner said. "Luckily, I'm having a great week this week."
Walker, seeking his first PGA title, shared third this year at Pebble Beach to match his best career PGA showing from the 2010 Texas Open.
Blixt won his only PGA title at last year's Frys.com Open. While he has not cracked the top 10 in a US PGA event this year, he finished second last month at the European Tour's Swedish Masters.
Bowditch has only one top-10 finish in four seasons on the US PGA Tour.
Spieth, a former world amateur number one who turned professional last December, would become the fourth-youngest winner on the all-time US PGA list and the youngest since Ralph Guldahl won the Santa Monica Open 82 years ago.
Spieth, who has won enough money to secure a US PGA Tour spot in 2014, needs a victory to gain membership this year and be eligible for the season-ending playoffs that open next month.
Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/sport/golf-wagner-seizes-lead/736410.html
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Editorial: A New Education Mayor
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Michael Bloomberg?s successor faces a herculean reform challenge: the New York City school system. ? ? ? ? ...
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Detroit sues bond insurer over potential creditor deal: WSJ
By Steve Neavling
(Reuters) - The city of Detroit has filed a lawsuit against bond insurer Syncora Guarantee Inc, claiming the company is blocking an agreement the city hopes to conclude with major creditors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
The suit filed on Friday by Detroit's state-appointed emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, focuses on the city's estimated $170 million a year casino tax revenue, the paper said. The city maintains Syncora told a bank that controls the funds not to give the money to Detroit.
Representatives of Syncora could not be reached for comment.
Orr declined to confirm to Reuters whether the city had filed suit, but he did say: "Syncora was interfering with the city's ability to restructure."
Orr's spokesman, Bill Nowling, confirmed the lawsuit had been filed, but would not provide any details.
Detroit has some $18.5 billion in long-term debt and Orr was appointed by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder to fix the city's financial crisis. Orr has sweeping powers and is trying to conclude deals with creditors to avoid bankruptcy.
The WSJ reported that Detroit sees Syncora as standing in the way of a proposed deal to pay UBS AG and Bank of America Merrill Lynch more than 70 cents on the dollar on nearly $340 million in secured debt, citing sources familiar with the matter. In return, Detroit would receive $11 million a month in tax revenue from its three casinos, funds that were used as collateral to back the debt.
The WSJ cited the emergency manager's office as saying Wayne County Circuit Judge Jeanne Stempien had issued a temporary restraining order saying the casino funds could be released to the city and set a hearing on the issue for July 26.
The Wayne County clerk could not be reached for comment.
(Additional reporting by Nick Carey. Editing by Andre Grenon)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/detroit-sues-bond-insurer-over-potential-creditor-deal-233249222.html
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Saturday, July 6, 2013
Murray, Djokovic to meet in Wimbledon final
LONDON (AP) ? It looked as though nothing could stop Andy Murray after he reeled off five straight games to take control of a Wimbledon semifinal that hadn't been going his way.
Then chair umpire Jake Garner made an announcement: They were going to stop play to close the roof on Centre Court.
Murray pointed skyward, where the late-evening light was still shining brightly enough to play.
"This is an outdoor tournament," he complained. "I don't understand these rules."
Players rarely win these sort of arguments and Murray was no exception. But instead of letting it ruin his evening, he came back after a half-hour break and closed the deal against No. 24 Jerzy Janowicz to make the Wimbledon final for the second straight year. Murray is one win from becoming the first British man since 1936 to win the home country tournament.
"Winning Wimbledon would be a huge achievement for any tennis player," Murray said. "Winning Wimbledon is pretty much the pinnacle of the sport."
Murray won 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 on Friday and figures to be the fresher player when he meets No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the final Sunday ? the third time they've met in a Grand Slam final over the past 10 months. They've split the last two, with Murray winning a five-setter at the U.S. Open last year and Djokovic winning in four sets in Australia to open the 2013 major season.
The reason for the lateness of Murray's match was the way Djokovic's win over No. 8 Juan Martin del Potro went down. It was a 4 hour, 43 minute affair, a record for a Wimbledon semifinal. It was a back-and-forth, bone-wearying 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-7 (6), 6-3 victory that was supposed to be the undercard on the day's schedule but turned out to be something much better.
"One of the most epic matches I've played in my life," Djokovic said.
It was filled with huge groundstrokes, long rallies and plenty of touches of good humor from a couple of players who have long had ample respect for each other.
In the end, though, it was these words from del Potro that summed things up: "I hit many winners in one point, and always, the ball comes back."
Mixing offense with his best-in-the-world counterpunching, Djokovic slid on the dried-out grass behind the baseline, did the splits a few times and repeatedly returned del Potro's serves that reached up to 130 mph. He finished with 80 winners over a match that encompassed 368 points.
Djokovic has won 10 of his last 12 five-setters; del Potro lost his fifth consecutive match that's gone the distance.
The key moment in the deciding set Friday came down to conditioning.
Leading 4-3 and receiving at 15-all, Djokovic hit a drop shot-lob combo to close out a breathtaking 22-shot rally. Del Potro dropped his hands onto his knees and clearly hadn't regained his wind on the next point, when he sliced an easy backhand into the net. Two points later, Djokovic had the break, and the 5-3 lead.
He saved a break point in the final game by hitting an off-balance drop shot winner off a del Potro service return that clipped the net cord. Two points after that one, Djokovic had his 53rd career win on grass.
"When you feel good physically, when you know you're fit and you don't feel a huge fatigue, that gives you mental confidence, obviously," Djokovic said.
Though Murray dropped the first set, then an early break in the third, his match against Janowicz, the first Polish man to make a Grand Slam semifinal, was a bit anticlimactic, both from a quantity and quality standpoint.
Not that anybody in Britain cares.
Murray carries the hopes of his country with him every time he steps foot on the grass at Wimbledon.
He's put a lot behind him since he appeared in last year's final and lost to Roger Federer. He won the Olympic gold medal on Centre Court, then followed that with his U.S. Open victory to end Britain's 76-year drought for a male Grand Slam trophy winner.
"I think I'll be probably in a better place mentally," Murray said. "I would hope so just because I've been there before. I won a Grand Slam. I would hope I would be a little bit calmer going into Sunday. But you don't know. You don't decide that. I might wake up on Sunday and be unbelievably nervous, more nervous than I ever have been before."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/murray-djokovic-meet-wimbledon-final-072133330.html
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Donovan: Aaron Gordon's Effort, Energy Comparable To Joakim Noah
Aaron Gordon leads Team USA with averages of 13.5 points and 6.8 rebounds through six games of the FIBA U19 World Championship.
Team USA coach Billy Donovan sees similarities between Gordon and Joakim Noah, who led Donovan?s Florida Gators to back-to-back national titles in 2006 and 2007.
"I don't mean to say he's the same kind of player, but in terms of coaching him, he reminds me in a lot of ways of Joakim Noah," Donovan said. "He's got that energy and that kind of passion."
Gordon averages 20.8 minutes per game, second most on Team USA.
"A lot of guys are really talented and athletic," Donovan said. "What makes him so different is his effort, his energy. ? There are things he's got to get better on ? he doesn't necessarily have this great scoring skill, in terms of a low-post game yet or he's not this great 3-point shooter.
"I think he's got such an incredible ceiling because the things I'm talking about, he can get better at those things. What you can't teach, and I think is so important, is an incredible motor. He really has an incredible motor."
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Bankruptcy Attorneys- Helps You in Hard Times | ArticlesMagic Plus!
Bankruptcy refers to a person?s inability to clear all his debts due to financial problems. Many people across the world are often trapped in debt issues. If a person is facing hard credit management problems, he may opt to file for bankruptcy. This is where a bankruptcy attorney plays an important role. There are numerous factors that may lead to bankruptcy including unemployment, medical expenses, divorce, poor financial planning and many more. Bankruptcy Attorney Riverside, CA will always assist handling all such issues related to bankruptcy.
There are many Bankruptcy Attorneys in the city nonetheless it can be very difficult in choosing one that match up to your requirements. Mostly, people are unfamiliar about how a professional lawyer might help them. The initial things one has to realize will be many benefits hiring a Riverside professional. An expert will always be there to help in case of an emergency and will determine whether or not a person seeks for bankruptcy relief. Bankruptcy Attorneys can easily advise a person it their own economic choices. A good lawyer will recommend various ways to create all the credit back. They will suggest a monetary want to assist you in getting back again on the feet.
Another thing about bankruptcy is that there are many different types. There is a chapter 7 bankruptcy and a chapter 13 form of bankruptcy. Chapter 7 is the classic bankruptcy. It wipes out all types of consumer and business debts, like credit card and medical debts, remaining balances from repossessions and foreclosures, commercial lease and debt from all financial accountability. This means one never has to pay back. Whereas, chapter 13 is generally used when someone has fallen behind with their mortgage payments and are trying to catch up the gap. It allows a person to control their mortgage payment and get them back on the way to recovery. However, a person will want to hire a bankruptcy lawyer in riverside so that he isn?t going through the whole process by himself. If you hire a great lawyer, you will not only have someone by your side, but will also get their experience.
Usually most of the time people are unfamiliar about how a legal professional might help them.
So it is very important to find a lawyer that is very knowledgeable and has tons of experience. The biggest mistake that one can make is to get a lawyer that has no experience and no education, which can make his life even worse with bankruptcy. So it is advisable to search for Bankruptcy Lawyer Riverside, CA that has experience, education, as well as the credentials to back it up. This is a very important step that a person must not skip if he is planning on declaring bankruptcy. That person shouldn?t declare bankruptcy by himself, unless he is a lawyer or is highly educated in this field. Declaring bankruptcy shouldn?t be the end of your life, in fact it should be a new start of your life.
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Feedback: Holy breadsticks
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more
IDLY studying a packet of Sainsbury's grissini breadsticks, Chris McManus noted with approval that they were "Torinesi grissini", so presumably from Turin. But the small print on the back says "Produced in Italy (incl. Vatican City)".
"Doesn't that suddenly transform both the Vatican and these humble breadsticks?" Chris observes. "Who would have thought that bakers toil at the back of St Peter's, hand-rolling grissini?" Then: "Are these, perhaps, Holy Grissini?"
Sainsbury's uses the slogan "Taste the Difference". Surely, Chris, we should be able to tell whether the grissini are holy.
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Friday, July 5, 2013
Pushing buttons vs. Tapping pixels: The great keyboard debate - Talk Mobile
If you're reading this on a desktop or laptop computer, more likely than not there's a hardware keyboard sitting between you and the screen. If you're reading this on a smartphone or tablet, chances are there's not a hardware keyboard within the reach of your fingers. There was a time when hardware keyboards dominated the smartphone landscape, but in recent years they?ve been all but pushed out of contention.
What happened? Can we lay the blame entirely at the iPhone's feet? The first Android devices had physical and virtual keyboards, and Windows Phone launched with hardware keyboards in the mix. But browse the shelves at your local smartphone retailer and you'll find but a handful of hardware keyboards in the see of glass-fronted slabs.
So why is the hardware keyboard still around at all? What does it take to make a good one, and why won't people leave it behind? Are virtual keyboards not yet good enough, or are they just some level of refinement away from capturing the last hold-outs?
The keyboard is our primary data entry system on smartphones - it has to be good. And it can always be better - but how?
Let's get the conversation started!
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Thursday, July 4, 2013
New Moto X Details Point To Customizable Cosmetics, Not Components
An ABC News report is dashing the hopes and dreams of Android fans everywhere. According to Joanna Stern, a version of the Motorola X will be available with custom casings and wallpapers, not customizable internal hardware like was widely speculated.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/q4Fi-IoTOBo/
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