Syrian jets hit Lebanese territory near border

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Syrian jets hit Lebanese territory near border
By BASSEM MROUEBy BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press??

A Syrian man who fled his home in Aleppo 32 days ago due to government shelling, carries his sleeping son, who's face is covered with mosquito bites, back to a classroom of a school where they take refuge, in Suran, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

A Syrian man who fled his home in Aleppo 32 days ago due to government shelling, carries his sleeping son, who's face is covered with mosquito bites, back to a classroom of a school where they take refuge, in Suran, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

A book is left on the ground at the yard of a school destroyed in government airstrike in Tel Rifaat, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. A new school year began in Syria on Sunday, but the country's agonizing civil war is keeping thousands of students out of classrooms across the country. Many schools have been destroyed or are home to refugees. Some parents are simply too afraid to send their children to school due over fears of violence. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Syrians clear the rubble of a house was destroyed in government airstrike on Saturday, in Kal Jubrin, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Syrians clear the rubble of a house which was destroyed in government airstrike on Saturday, in Kal Jubrin, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

BEIRUT (AP) ? Lebanese security officials say four missiles fired by two Syrian warplanes have landed on Lebanese territory.

The officials say the missiles hit a rugged and remote area on the edge of the Lebanese border town of Arsal on Monday. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

In recent months there have been clashes on the Syrian side of the frontier in the area between rebels and Syrian troops.

Lebanese forces have in the past detained people caught trying to smuggle weapons into Syria from Lebanon in the region.

Syrian shells have hit Lebanese territory in the past but the air raid appears to be the most serious violation since Syria's crisis began in March last year.

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30 inmates escape from Mexican prison near US border

US authorities have been alerted that 30 escaped inmates from a northern Mexican prison may be near the border.

By Reuters / September 17, 2012

Mexican nationals Javier Saladad (l.) and Hector Guevara (r.) look over the single fence separating Mexico from the United States in Smugglers Gulch near San Diego in 2005. On Monday 30 inmates escaped a Mexican prison near the border.

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More than 30 inmates have escaped from a prison in northern Mexico on the border with the United States, authorities in the state of Coahuila said on Monday.

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Jorge Luis Moran, chief of public security in Coahuila, said the convicts had escaped through a tunnel dug in the carpentry section of the prison in the city of Piedras Negras.

US authorities have been alerted to help capture the fugitives if they try to cross the border, Moran added.

Some media reports said more than 100 prisoners had broken out, though that figure has not been confirmed.

There have been numerous breakouts in the last few years from Mexico's struggling penal system, where guards are frequently accused of complicity with drug cartels.

At the end of 2010, more than 140 inmates escaped a prison in the border city of Nuevo Laredo.

Northern Mexico has been hit particularly hard by violence stemming from brutal turf wars between drug gangs.

President Felipe Calderon, who leaves office in November, has used the military to try and crack down on the gangs, and has captured or killed many of the country's top kingpins.

However, violence has surged on his watch, and fighting between cartels and their clashes with security forces have claimed more than 55,000 lives over the past six years.

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Curiosity stretches its arm

ScienceDaily (Aug. 20, 2012) ? NASA's Mars rover Curiosity flexed its robotic arm today for the first time since before launch in November 2011.

The 7-foot-long (2.1-meter-long) arm maneuvers a turret of tools including a camera, a drill, a spectrometer, a scoop and mechanisms for sieving and portioning samples of powdered rock and soil.

"We have had to sit tight for the first two weeks since landing, while other parts of the rover were checked out, so to see the arm extended in these images is a huge moment for us," said Matt Robinson of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, lead engineer for Curiosity's robotic arm testing and operations. "The arm is how we are going to get samples into the laboratory instruments and how we place other instruments onto surface targets."

Weeks of testing and calibrating arm movements are ahead before the arm delivers a first sample of Martian soil to instruments inside the rover. Monday's maneuver checked motors and joints by unstowing the arm for the first time, extending it forward using all five joints, then stowing it again in preparation for the rover's first drive.

"It worked just as we planned," said JPL's Louise Jandura, sample system chief engineer for Curiosity. "From telemetry and from the images received this morning, we can confirm that the arm went to the positions we commanded it to go to."

The image of Curiosity's arm is online at: http://1.usa.gov/OSyG3B.

The turret has a mass of about 66 pounds (30 kilograms). Its diameter, including the tools mounted on it, is nearly 2 feet (60 centimeters).

"We'll start using our sampling system in the weeks ahead, and we're getting ready to try our first drive later this week," said Mars Science Laboratory Deputy Project Manager Richard Cook of JPL.

Curiosity landed on Mars two weeks ago to begin a two-year mission using 10 instruments to assess whether a carefully chosen study area inside Gale Crater has ever offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life.

JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project, including Curiosity, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the rover. The Space Division of MDA Information Systems Inc. built the robotic arm in Pasadena.

More information about Curiosity is online at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl, http://www.nasa.gov/mslandhttp://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ . You can follow the mission on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity and on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity .

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Cornell University to install nets on bridges in bid to prevent suicides

Published August 19, 2012

Associated Press

ITHACA, N.Y. ? ?Cornell University in New York plans to begin installing nets on several bridges over gorges where three students jumped to their deaths in 2010.

The Ithaca Journal reports that the town of Ithaca and the Ivy League school have reached an agreement that calls for installing nets on five bridges.

The three students committed suicide by jumping from bridges within a month of each other. According to the newspaper, 27 people committed suicide between 1990 and 2010 by jumping from the bridges, including 15 students.

The school has long been haunted by a reputation for suicides. Cornell maintains its suicide rate over time is normal for colleges.

Fences were erected after the 2010 suicides.

Some nets will extend about 15 feet out from the bridges. Installation is to start Monday.

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A Call From Home - Genealogy For The Family Historian-Links to ...

If you are of Irish descent, you are being called home.

The Gathering: a year long calling from your ancestor's homeland asking you to return, even if you have never been, because Ireland knows if you are a part of the Irish Diaspora, then your heart surely belongs to them.

The Irish Government along with private partners, businesses and the tourism industry, have designated 2013 as The Gathering: a yearlong celebration of Irish music, heritage, festivals, sporting events that they hope will call home many of the Irish Diaspora around the world.

It begins in Dublin in January 2013 and festivals and events are sprinkled throughout the country until the end of the year. But The Gathering is not just carnivals and fairs. It is history lectures, genealogy sessions and clan reunions; a yearlong focus of discovering or rediscovering your Irish roots.

The Irish Diaspora are Irish immigrants and their descendents living in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada--even as far away as Argentina and South Africa. They are more than 80 million people, Irish born or of Irish descent, living outside Ireland: a little country of a mere 6.4 million today.

A country that over 160 years ago was tragically shattered by famine and poverty; bled dry of its people who were pulled away by a basic need for survival.

There will be many who cannot go but that does not mean if not there, The Gathering cannot be experienced. I expect the event will reach out through the Internet and we will hear more as the year approaches. I sense Ireland understands their Irish Diaspora have begun searching for their ancestors and in turn, the country is slowly opening its vaults.

PRONI and Irish Genealogy (a government sponsored website), are making more ancestral records available and free to the public. It is a constant appeal by the Irish Genealogical Society to the Irish Government, pleading their case that Irish descendents "own" their ancestor's records: a principle of public ownership and right of access.

Our desire to grasp hold of our family history and feel our ancestral heritage continues to expand and blossom. And it is refreshing that an entire country is calling us back.

To gather up its flock and perhaps open its vaults so we can experience a bit of our Irish ancestors at home and maybe...even abroad.

Keep searching for answers,

Cheryl

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Cre8 Contest with Ideas for Home and Family Fun | The New Home Ec

How fun is this contest? It?s all about making the time to create and craft with someone you love? Cre8 + 2 = me and you!

This contest comes from Family Ever After, a place to share all kinds of family friendly ideas. And for the next week, you can link up on her blog to be entered into this contest. You can enter in something from your blog or even a new project, anything that inspires you to cre8!

?This is a contest designed to inspire you to spend time creating with a loved one (i.e. a child, parent, sibling, friend, neighbor). The point is to encourage you to spend time creating, teaching, learning, playing, and making memories while sharing your creativity!?

To enter the contest and link up your own ideas by August 26th for a chance to win over at Family Ever After.

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Nesta making just $225,000 with Montreal Impact

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updated 2:42 p.m. ET Aug. 2, 2012

NEW YORK (AP) -Former AC Milan defender Alessandro Nesta is making $225,000 this year with Major League Soccer's Montreal Impact, including a base salary of $180,000.

The MLS Players Union released updated salaries Wednesday. The list showed Impact forward Marco Di Vaio, signed from Bologna in May, has total compensation of $1,937,508, including a base salary of $1 million.

Scotland captain Kenny Miller, signed by Vancouver from Cardiff last month, is earning $1,239,316, including a base of $1,221,816. Whitecaps midfielder Barry Robson, acquired from Middlesbrough, has total compensation of $596,500, including a base of $440,000.

The total figure includes prorated shares of signing bonuses and other guaranteed income.

Midfielder Tim Cahill, signed by New York from Everton last week, was not included in the updated list

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The?goal you have to see

Kyle Miller's wacky score against Stoke City on Wednesday was ... well, you just have to see it for yourself.

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Qmadix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth speakers review

The  Qmadix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth speakers let you stream your tunes to quality stereo speakers.

 

Sometimes, you need a Bluetooth headset that also handles music. Other times, you want to listen to your music via Bluetooth and occasionally need to field a phone call.

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How to Maximize Your Business Using Traffic Generation ...

Whatever type of business you can think of, you can be sure that you can find them online. Online businesses are the trend nowadays. All sorts of businesses are sprouting. Their number increases day after day. So what are you waiting for? You may find that bringing your business online will bring you more rewards than the traditional offline business venture.

Setting up a business online is one thing. Making it successful is another. With the infinite possibilities of the World Wide Web, we can make an intelligent guess that other businesses have made their way online, as well as limitless upcoming new businesses. With an online competition like that, making your business one of the best online is seemingly impossible to do. Have faith, and think of this as a huge challenge ? achievable and not impossible.

Your business starts off with setting up a website. This would be another topic, seeing that we are tackling article marketing. After you make a website for your business, you have to let other Internet users to know about your business website and visit your business website. You should advertise your business website. This can be done in various ways. One preferred strategy is by article marketing.

Article marketing is a useful tool and a powerful source of generating traffic and providing links to your business website. Article marketing in its greatest sense, generates traffic to your business website. In order to be successful in article marketing, your articles must be able to generate traffic. What does this mean? A person online that reads your article and consequently goes to the link to your business website generates a hit. Website traffic refers to the amount of hits that a website generates. In your case, it is highly recommended for your business website to have lots of traffic.

The likelihood of somebody in the Internet buying your product increases as the traffic to your business website increases. This is sort of like having a lot of customers coming in your store. The bigger the number of people inside your store, the better the chances you have of selling your product.

Probably the best strategy to increase traffic to your business website is article marketing. Aside from creating articles that appeal to consumers, it is also of prime importance to advertise your articles to the online community where they can be reached. You can?t just post your articles anywhere in the Internet. It would be harder than finding a needle in a haystack. They don?t call the Internet as the infinite web for nothing. It would be like placing an ad poster to a very isolated alley or desert. There won?t be too many people finding your ad. In order to advertise effectively on the net, it would be for your best interest to submit your articles to well known article directories and ad sites.

Search engines run through article directories. This would be of big help to exposing your article to the online community. A lot of potential customers can be reached especially those that prefer to use search engines. But you can?t post your articles in search engines. There are places to post your articles and these are called article directories. Some require payment but the huge majority of article directories are free. These article directories categorize your articles to their appropriate field or genre. Most of these article directories have a search field to help speed up the search for specific articles that online users want. This is where article keyword comes in. Your article should have the appropriate keyword or keywords to make it easier to spot. These are the same keywords that online users use to search for what they want in the search fields of article directories or search engines.

Why is article marketing effective at directing quality traffic to your business website? One of the reasons that article marketing is effective at directing quality traffic to your website is that when an online user reads your article, it already informs them of what your business is all about as well as your available products and services. They visit your website because they are there to already do business with you, or seek for additional information regarding your business. Hence, they are referred to as quality traffic since they are most likely to buy than regular traffic, who happens to be online users who just browse without intending to buy.

In order for your online business to survive, you must have a steady flow of traffic in your business website to sustain you. If you want it to thrive, attract even more traffic to your business website by creating more articles. Do not underestimate the power of articles. They inform all potential online consumers. Don?t settle for just a few articles. The more articles, the more traffic your business website generates.

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Constitution Check: Does a president have the power to repeal a federal law?

Constitution Check Lyle Denniston looks at how Mitt Romney could try to overturn the Affordable Care Act if he were president ? a task that could be very difficult.

The statement at issue:

?If our goal is jobs, we have to stop spending over a trillion dollars more than we take in every year. ?So to do that, I?m going to eliminate every non-essential, expensive program I can find. That includes Obamacare??

? Republican president candidate Mitt Romney, in a speech July 11 to the convention of the NAACP in Houston, as reported in various news accounts.

We checked the Constitution, and?

The President of the United States has awesome power, but the Constitution does not give the occupant of that office the authority to ?eliminate? a law that has been passed by Congress, whatever the voters may think of that law.? It is a fairly common rhetorical flourish for presidential candidates to say something like ?when elected, I will repeal? a law.? But they can?t.

The process for repealing a law has to begin in Congress.? Last week, the House of Representatives made a start on eliminating the new Affordable Care Act, from end to end. By a roll-call vote of 244 to 185, the House passed H.R. 6079, to wipe out the law as of March 23, 2010, the day it was signed by President Obama.? In the words of the bill, the law would be eliminated ?as if such Act had not been enacted.?

Not only would that measure erase some 2,700 pages from the federal statute books, it would also erase more than 13,000 pages of federal regulations written by government agencies to carry it out.

Will that happen?? The chances are, at best, remote.? Here is what probably has to happen for H.R. 6079, or a similar measure in the future, to become a law:

First, the Republicans must retain control of the House in the November election, with at least? 218 seats (a majority of the 435 if a vote on repeal is cast along strict political party lines).

Second, the Republicans must take control of the Senate away from the Democrats in November.? They must wind up with control of close to 60 seats in the new Senate and, to be really confident of succeeding, they must win 60 or more.

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• In a continuing series of posts, Lyle Denniston provides responses based on the Constitution and its history to public statements about its meaning and what duties it imposes or rights it protects.

Third, even if both of those things occur, a repeal bill would have to overcome a certain veto by President Obama ? if he has been reelected in November.

Fourth, even if the president loses to the Republicans? Mitt Romney, a repeal bill almost certainly would face a Democratic filibuster in the Senate, and that is why the GOP would need close to, if not actually, 60 seats in that chamber.

Assume, then, that the Affordable Care Act survives a repeal effort in Congress.? So far, the House of Representatives has voted 33 times to overturn all or part of that law, and none of those measures has become law, so it has a good chance of surviving.

Would a President Romney be able to do anything to keep the law from going into full effect at the beginning of 2014, as it is presently scheduled to do??? He would have a number of options, and each would presumably be constitutional.

He could order the Internal Revenue Service to stop enforcing the penalty that the ACA will impose on those who fail to obtain health insurance policies by 2014.? That insurance-purchase mandate is the heart of the ACA, and the entire law might be in some jeopardy if that provision were to become a virtual dead letter.? The Supreme Court last Monday ruled that the penalty is, in legal terms, a tax, and the President would be in a position to direct IRS not to use the few tools of enforcement that are available in the ACA.

Because the penalty is now designated as a tax, Congress could simply repeal it using a somewhat complex procedure known as ?reconciliation.?? Under that procedure, a bill cannot be filibustered in the Senate, so it would require only a majority vote to pass that chamber.? As a matter of fact, Congress used this procedure ? after the initial passage of the ACA ? to make some changes in it without encountering a filibuster.

Moreover, the White House could order the federal Health & Human Services Department to slow down, or perhaps abandon, the massive project of writing new regulations to implement the health care law.

In addition, a President Romney could work together with opponents of the ACA in Congress to deny federal funding for some or all parts of the ACA.? Such efforts, though, might face a Senate filibuster.

Perhaps most importantly, a new President would be able to use the ?bully pulpit? that is the White House to build up public support for overturning the ACA, or at least to cut back on its major provisions.?? Already, a number of Republican governors who are opposed to the ACA have announced that their states will ?opt out? of the new law?s broad expansion of the Medicaid program of health care coverage for the poor.

In a real sense, then, the fate of the health care law may be said to ride on the outcome of the November elections, for the White House and for Congress.

Lyle Denniston is the National Constitution Center?s Adviser on Constitutional Literacy. He has reported on the Supreme Court for 54 years, currently covering it for SCOTUSblog, an online clearinghouse of information about the Supreme Court?s work.

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Islamists continue destroying Timbuktu heritage

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) ? Despite international condemnation, the radical Islamic faction controlling the northern Malian outpost of Timbuktu continued destroying the city's ancient tombs on Monday, laying waste to the city's five-hundred-year-old heritage.

The destruction began on Saturday, after the al-Qaida-linked faction Ansar Dine secured its hold on the three main towns in northern Mali, including Timbuktu. They descended on the tombs of the city's Sufi saints with axes and shovels, as well as automatic weapons, saying that they were idolatrous. Their destruction spree continued through Monday.

"This morning, the Islamists continued breaking the mausoleums. This is our patrimony, recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO," said Aboubacrine Cisse, a resident of the town who slipped outside on Monday to witness the destruction. "They are continuing to destroy all the tombs of all the saints of Timbuktu, and our city counts 333 saints," he said.

The U.N. cultural agency has called for an immediate halt to the destruction of the sacred tombs. Irina Bokova, who heads the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, cited in a statement Saturday reports that the centuries-old mausoleums of Sidi Mahmoud, Sidi, Moctar and Alpha Moya had been destroyed. Meeting in St. Petersburg in Russia, UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, last week placed the mausoleums on its list of sites in danger at the request of Mali's government.

And in Dakar, Senegal, on Sunday, Fatou Bensouda, prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, said that the destruction of the city's patrimony constitutes a "possible war crime," according to private radio station RFM.

Reached by telephone in an undisclosed location in northern Mali, a spokesman for the Islamic faction said that they do not recognize either the United Nations or the world court.

"The only tribunal we recognize is the divine court of Shariah," said one of Ansar Dine's spokesmen, Oumar Ould Hamaha.

"The destruction is a divine order," he said. "It's our Prophet who said that each time that someone builds something on top of a grave, it needs to be pulled back to the ground. We need to do this so that future generations don't get confused, and start venerating the saints as if they are God."

For years before the north of Mali became a base for an offshoot of al-Qaida, Timbuktu was a must-see for backpackers and package tour groups. Much of the city thrived on tourism, from young men who memorized the history of the tombs to act as tour guides to the numerous hotels and restaurants, nearly all of which are now shuttered.

Hamaha said he didn't care about the impact that their actions will have on tourism.

"We are against tourism. They foster debauchery," he said.

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Associated Press writers Rukmini Callimachi and Sadibou Marone contributed to this report from Dakar, Senegal.

Associated Press

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Lady Gaga "Princess Die" Live Debut: First Listen!

While falling short of the imagery evoked by Lindsay Lohan gun photos, Lady Gaga's new song "Princess Die" is generating controversy in its own right.

She performed it last night in Melbourne, Australia, saying that the track and its suicide-centric themes “may or may not be on [my] next album.”

Lyrically, it's sure to get people talking. Take a look/listen:

Lady Gaga - Princess Die

What do you think of Lady Gaga's new song "Princess Die"?

Follow the jump for (what we think are) the full lyrics:

Leave the coffin open when I go
Leave my prose and lipstick on so everybody knows
Pretty will be the photograph I leave
Laying down on famous knives so everybody sees

Bleach out all all the dark
I’ll swallow each peroxide shot
Someone I’ll know could love and save me from myself
Maybe I’ll just clean the s— of these fancy shoes
I’ll be a princess di and die with you

[chorus]

I wish that I was strong
I wish that I was wrong
I wish that I could cope
But i took pills and left a note

I’m hungry from an anorexic heart
I’ve been trying to tell you how i feel
But was never very smart
I’m wrapped in silks made for Egyptian queens
I’ll do it in the swimming pool
So everybody sees

Bleach out all the dark
I’ll swallow each peroxide shot
Volumes I know will love and save me from myself
Maybe I’ll just keep clean the s— off of these fancy shoes
I’ll be a princess di and die with you

Princess die
I want to see her cry
Princess die
Princess die
We want to watch her cry
Princess die

[chorus]

I wish that I was strong
I wish that I was wrong
I wish that I could cope
But I took pills and left a note

[bridge]

But I took pills and left a note
I wish that I could go in my rich boyfriend’s limo
Right after he proposed with a 16-carat stone wrapped in rose gold
With the paparazzi all swarming around
In my Louis Vuitton white buttoned down
Oh it’s not that deep
So bob your head for another dead blonde
Who’s real prince is in heaven
She just wants to sleep

The final act of life will be my own hands to do,
I’ll be a princess die and die with you
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Start Your Summer Out Write... Two upcoming Conferences in ly

Why take a book in your beach bag, when you can write a book yourself?

Cheryl's Writing and Publishing Conference - Part I (summer evening hours)
Figure out and polish your idea? ?

?Monday through Wednesday, July 16-18
5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Panera Restaurant on Rand Road in Arlington Heights, IL? 60004
5 W Rand Road? (In the same plaza as Barnes and Nobles and Trader Joes.)
Arlington Heights, IL 60004

Why is information about Writing, Publishing, ereader Publishing, Blogging, and Speaking treated as secrets that not everyone can know? This conference will educate, motivate, and inspire.

Topics include:??

- Your Writing Story
- Dreaming Big Versus Realism
- The Pitch, The Platform, and the Proposal
- What are Agents Looking for

Cheryl, a literary agent for ten years, now turned author and conference speaker.? She is the author or co-author of 12 books. Some of her books were published by national publishers such as Moody Press, Multnomah and Harvest House Publishers.? Other books are self-published and some are e-published, showing the variety of options open to 2012 writers.?? ? ?

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HOLMES BEACH - HOLMES BEACH ? A 75-year-old man shot, beat and killed a white bird believed to be either a heron or a crane, Holmes Beach Police say.

Police arrested Laurie Miles Pardee at his home in the 600 block of Key Royale Drive on Saturday on charges of animal cruelty and discharging a firearm in public.

Witnesses told officers Pardee shot the bird with a handgun while standing on his porch, beat it with a net and discarded the dead animal in the bay.

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Microsoft brings Kinectimals to Android, is both warm and fuzzy

Catching up with its fellow iOS and Windows Phone platforms, Kinectimals has arrived on Android. It'll set you back three bucks, but for that you'll get the chance to play with five different balls of exotic fluff -- if you tie it into your Xbox 360 version. Like the other versions, you can to pet them, play with them and generally gaze enraptured at their squishy paws. The integration to Xbox 360 isn't the deepest we've seen, but we're never going to say no to a bit of inter-platform love. The download's waiting below.

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Summit lets Obama, Putin size up the competition

FILE - In this July 7, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama shakes hands with then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow. With global anxiety rising, President Barack Obama is searching for bolder, swifter signals from Europe that it will contain its fiscal mess and keep it from torpedoing the U.S. economy and his re-election chances along with it. Yet as he prepares to plunge into summit talks with the other world leaders, Obama is down to the power of persuasion and little else. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

FILE - In this July 7, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama shakes hands with then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow. With global anxiety rising, President Barack Obama is searching for bolder, swifter signals from Europe that it will contain its fiscal mess and keep it from torpedoing the U.S. economy and his re-election chances along with it. Yet as he prepares to plunge into summit talks with the other world leaders, Obama is down to the power of persuasion and little else. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with the military top brass while visiting a military airbase in the city of Korenovsk, about 1200 kilometers (750 miles) south of Moscow, Thursday, June 14, 2012. President Vladimir Putin says Russia needs a new strategic bomber and will develop it despite high costs. Speaking Thursday at a meeting with the military top brass after visiting a base in southern Russia, Putin said the project would be expensive and technologically challenging. He added that the job needs to be done despite high costs, according to Russian news agencies. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Russian President Vladimir Putin attaches a Russian military medal to an air regiment banner during an award ceremony at a military airbase in the city of Korenovsk, about 1200 kilometers (750 miles) south of Moscow, Thursday, June 14, 2012. President Vladimir Putin says Russia needs a new strategic bomber and will develop it despite high costs. Speaking Thursday at a meeting with the military top brass after visiting a base in southern Russia, Putin said the project would be expensive and technologically challenging. He added that the job needs to be done despite high costs, according to Russian news agencies. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a signing ceremony of an agreement between state-controlled Russian oil company Rosneft and Exxon Mobil corporation at the Black Sea port of Tuapse, southern Russia, Friday, June 15, 2012. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

SAN JOSE DEL CABO, Mexico (AP) ? President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin need one another, an uncomfortable truth for the superpower leader facing a tough re-election and the newly elected Russian leader who is deeply suspicious of the United States.

The two men will use their meeting Monday, the first since Putin returned to Russia's top job, to claim leverage. Much of the rest of the Group of 20 economic meeting will be devoted to the European fiscal crisis and the fate of Greece as a part of the euro zone.

"I expect that it will be a candid discussion, it will get down to business," White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said ahead of the lengthy morning meeting between Obama and Putin.

"We'll be able to sustain cooperation in some areas, we'll have differences in other areas, and we'll work to try to bridge those differences."

The G-20 gathering is a natural forum for sideline discussions of the urgent crisis in Syria as well as diplomatic efforts to head off a confrontation with Iran. Russia is a linchpin in world efforts to resolve both crises, and to U.S. goals for the smooth shutdown of the war in Afghanistan. In the longer term, Obama wants Russia's continued cooperation in nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation.

Obama made a special project of Russia in his first term and arguably needs Moscow's help even more if he wins a second one. He is trying to avoid a distracting public spat with Russia during this election year, as suggested by an overheard remark to outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in March. Obama told Medvedev he would have more flexibility to answer Russian complaints about a U.S.-built missile defense shield in Europe after the November election.

Things got off to a rocky start with Putin, when Obama pointedly withheld a customary congratulatory phone call to Putin until days after his May election. Putin appeared to snub Obama by skipping the smaller and weightier Group of Eight meeting that Obama hosted later that month at Camp David, and a planned Oval Office welcome for the new Russian leader.

The rescheduled Obama-Putin meeting comes the same day as Moscow hosts an international negotiating session with Iran. Russia has gone along with U.N. Security Council efforts to tighten some penalties against Iran because of questions about its nuclear weapons ambitions, but has blocked the harshest punishments. Still, the United States needs Russia's participation to lend legitimacy to the argument that Iran faces broad international condemnation. Iran usually paints the dispute over its nuclear program as a confrontation with the U.S. and its ally Israel.

Brutal attacks on anti-government protesters in Syria and the threat of civil war in the Mideast nation pose the most immediate crisis.

Diplomatic hopes have rested on Washington and Moscow agreeing on a transition plan that would end the four-decade Assad family rule. Russia, as Syria's longtime ally and trading partner, is seen as the best broker for a deal that could give Assad political refuge. So far, Moscow has said no.

Pressure increased on Russia over the weekend, when the United Nations suspended its unarmed monitoring mission in Syria out of concern for the monitors' safety. The move was widely interpreted as a challenge to Russia to intervene with Syrian President Bashar Assad to preserve a U.N. role Moscow sees as a brake on any armed foreign intervention.

The United States has refused to arm anti-Assad rebels in part to avoid a proxy fight in which Iran and Russia and others arm one side and the U.S. and Sunni Arab states arm the other. Opposition groups estimate 14,000 people have died in violence that the U.S. fears is sliding into civil war.

Putin's campaign included some of the strongest anti-American rhetoric from Moscow in a decade and he openly accused Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton of inciting protests against him. The Obama administration mostly tried to shrug it off, but Putin's return to the presidency makes it more likely that any help Russia provides in Syria, Iran or other matters will come at a cost.

U.S. strategy has favored flattery that may overstate Russia's influence, especially on Syria, and efforts to highlight areas where U.S. and Russian goals align.

Russia's membership in numerous world bodies and its veto power at the U.N. Security Council give it leverage beyond its economic or military power. Obama holds far greater power and both leaders know it, but Putin can be a spoiler and irritant.

"President Putin clearly is somebody who can articulate where he has differences with the United States, but we can also articulate where we have differences with Russia," Rhodes said. "And I think our assessment is that being candid with one another and clear with one another is in the best interest of the relationship. So because the relationship between the United States and Russia is in our interest, it's in Russia's interest, but also it's in the interest of the world community, because when we can work together on issues, again, it opens up the door to much better progress, whether you're talking about nonproliferation and nuclear security, whether you're talking about resolving regional tensions as in Syrian, or whether you're talking about the global economy."

The White House tried to soften the blow of Clinton's accusation days before the G-20 meeting that Russia was equipping the Syrian government with attack helicopters that could bused against civilians. She later acknowledged they were only helicopters already owned by Syria that had been sent back to Russia for repairs, but Russia was already annoyed.

Russia insists that any arms it supplies to Syria are not being used to quell anti-government dissent that began more than a year ago, and has rebuffed efforts to impose an international arms embargo. Russia and Syria have a longstanding military relationship and Syria hosts Russia's only naval base on the Mediterranean Sea.

White House press secretary Jay Carney brushed aside questions last week about whether the U.S. might yank support for Russia's membership in World Trade Organization if Russia refuses to help on Syria. He underscored that the U.S. supports that core Russian goal, which will be a centerpiece of the talks.

"Putin is in a petulant sort of mood," said Russia scholar Mark N. Katz of George Mason University. "He's got all these grievances about American foreign policy and he's looking for us to satisfy him, and I don't think we're going to do that. No amount of bonhomie or talking nicely is going to fix that."

The Pew Research Center's newly released global public opinion survey gives Putin job approval ratings Obama can only dream of. About 72 percent of Russians have a favorable opinion of Putin, and a majority put more faith in a strong leader than in a democratic form of government. Nearly three-quarters of those polled said Russia deserves greater respect from other countries.

Despite that footing, tens of thousands of protesters thronged Moscow streets this past week in the first mass protest against Putin since he returned to the presidency in May. His tactics in cracking down on political opponents will make it difficult for Obama to play down longstanding U.S. complaints about human rights abuses that infuriate Russian leaders. The Kremlin ordered the detention and interrogation of at least one activist and searches of others' homes last week.

Putin's own return to the presidency was far more certain than Obama's re-election chances. Despite their differences, Putin probably would prefer a second Obama term to a Mitt Romney presidency, Katz said, not least because the Republican challenger has called Russia the chief strategic enemy of the United States.

Associated Press

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Escrow Theft: Today's Challenge in Title Insurance

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Demotech, Inc. has published its study, Escrow Theft:? Today's Challenge in Title Insurance.? This study observes the relationship between title insurance loss and loss adjustment expense ratios and the relative strength of state regulations for title insurance agents.

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Demotech has monitored the problem of escrow theft within the industry and, in 2003, published its initial study on escrow theft, Defalcations:? Today's Challenge in Title Insurance and Our Thoughts on Addressing This Challenge, in which it analyzed the impact of title insurance agent licensing requirements on escrow theft.? Over the past decade, Demotech has continued to observe the impact of escrow theft on the title insurance industry and has now updated its 2003 study.? This revised and expanded study sets forth Demotech's current findings, analysis, and observations.

Using the NAIC Title Insurance Agent Model Act as the baseline, Demotech analyzed the relative strength of each state's regulations for the licensing and oversight of title agents, and assigned each state a rating based on its interpretation of the state's regulatory strength.? Demotech also compiled title insurance loss ratio data for each state over the past eight years.? Demotech found that states that had adopted the NAIC Model Act, its substantial equivalent, or a stronger set of regulations generally reported lower loss and loss adjustment expense ratios.? In Demotech's opinion, the variations in loss ratios are related to less or more escrow theft, as well as the beneficial impact of strong licensing standards and increased professionalism.? Demotech concluded that the enactment of the NAIC Model Act, or a regulation of equivalent strength, can have a significant impact on title insurance losses -- especially losses resulting from escrow theft.

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Elizabeth's jubilee contrasts with Victoria's empire fest

Britain is celebrating its second-ever royal diamond jubilee, in marked contrast to that of Queen Victoria more than a century ago, which doubled up as a triumphant festival of the empire.

In 1897, Joseph Chamberlain, the secretary of state for the colonies, convinced Victoria to kill two birds with one stone: mark the 60th year of her reign but also celebrate the British empire "at its zenith", said the historian Walter Arnstein.

At the time, Victoria reigned over a quarter of the world's population, recalled royal expert Kate Williams.

For her diamond jubilee -- celebrated on a single day rather than the four-day public holiday weekend this time -- the empire came to London.

Chamberlain "invited 11 colonial ministers of the self-governing colonies to be present, along with some Indian princes, and representative colonial military detachments to be part of the jubilee procession", Arnstein told AFP.

Indian lancers wearing turbans, mounted troops from New Zealand, Jamaican gunners, and even camels paraded in front of Buckingham Palace on June 22, 1897, which was declared a public holiday.

An impressive display was captured in grainy footage on short black-and-white films.

More than a century later for Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee, there is no equivalent participation from the Commonwealth or its 15 other realms where she is the head of state.

"The empire has changed in her lifetime. It disintegrated," said Williams, the author of "Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen".

This diamond jubilee "is much more a celebration of British history. It's much more a celebration of her reign and the British royal family".

In 1897, the jubilee was also celebrated with splendour across the empire, where sumptuous events were organised.

Town clocks honouring the queen were erected in Malaya and New Zealand, and fountains inaugurated in Seychelles.

Though Queen Elizabeth is the head of the Commonwealth, there is little of note taking place over the jubilee weekend in the other 53 member states, with the exception of Canada, visited by Prince William and his wife Catherine, and his father Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, in the last 12 months.

Sunday's diamond jubilee pageant on the River Thames, the biggest spectacle of the weekend's events, was not transmitted live by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on its main free-to-air channel. It scheduled the 1975 film "Shampoo" instead.

At the end of the 19th century, the idea of organising public festivities was still a relatively new concept in Britain, said Arnstein.

On June 22, 1897, the queen went through London in a carriage procession, as her great-great-grand-daughter will do on Tuesday.

From Saint Paul's Cathedral to Buckingham Palace, hundreds of thousands of people, including the US writer Mark Twain, thronged the streets to cheer Victoria.

She recorded the occasion in her journal.

"No-one ever, I believe, has met with such an ovation as was given to me, passing through those six miles of streets... The crowds were quite indescribable and their enthusiasm truly marvelous and deeply touching," the empress wrote.

At the time, Victoria, aged 78 and suffering from arthritis and rheumatism, took part in the service at St Paul's from her carriage.

It was held outside as she could not walk up the cathedral steps.

The scene elicited sarcasm abroad.

"The Europeans were like: look at that queen. They've got to have the celebration in the street in Britain!" said Williams.

Similar jubilant scenes met Elizabeth as she led Sunday's spectacular 1,000-boat flotilla with around 1.2 million braving the rain to show their support.

The eyes of the fashion world were on the queen's silver and white outfit, a far cry from Victoria's day.

Despite the celebrations, Victoria refused to change her black mourning clothes, worn since the death of her beloved husband prince Albert in 1861.

In vain, "ministers begged her to wear a kind of golden robe to go to the ceremonies", Williams said.

Instead, she wore a black silk outfit, topped off with a headdress decorated with ostrich feathers.

In 1897, organised by Victoria's daughter-in-law princess Alexandra, street feasts were laid on for 400,000 of London's poorest residents.

But the palace's generosity had its limits: it only saw the light of day thanks to the funds of tea magnate Thomas Lipton.

On Monday, Queen Elizabeth will welcome 10,000 subjects drawn from a lottery for a picnic at Buckingham Palace, paid for from the royal coffers.

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You may be wondering why Lincoln Maciass name showed up once this post should certainly look into the amazing whole world of video games. Since this post advances, you will note the bond between video games with the exceptional web page. Computer games came a considerable ways. Starting up along with basic pixels and bytes, video games of today have got evolved into a creative art form web site engross and astound gamers coming from all above the planet.

Exactly what is the benefit of computer games? To the majority video gamers, computer games are a getaway from reality. This is a place exactly where they might possess a diverse way of life, a new personality as well as diverse personal and actual qualities. It can be one kind of catharsis in which people is capable of doing something they can not or usually are not able to do in the real world.

On-line computer games nowadays, also allow for lots of social networking. The appearance of MMORPG?s or Massively Multiplayer Role Playing video games paved how for accommodating game play in between people who have diverse backgrounds, individuality and figures. Thus, transformed the game playing expertise right into a digital neighborhood, where individuals need to go to other characters regarding tactics and their responsibilities as people in the team. This specific discussions often produce talks about much more personalized and realistic matters such as ?Exactly how was your mood in the workplace?? or ?My dad talked about to mow the garden yesterday for this reason I wasn?t online!?

Gamers nowadays have a quite a few options in relation to playing their videogames. There is a choice involving games consoles and Personal Computers to deal with their gambling needs. Units are getting to be the videogame machine usually chosen for many. Next technology consoles for example the Ps3 slim, Xbox 360 elite and Wii, consider the highlight from Personal Computer Gaming with the considerable catalogue of video games these kinds of units tend to be dishing out every day. Console games consist of hardcore games, to educational and in some cases party enjoyment game titles.

Many people although, have decided to remain with Computer games because according to all of them ?Hey, this is where games were developed in the first place!? In some degree, this is. Console games had been first created utilizing potent computer systems. Aside from that, the videogames developing for your computer system are graphically at par, if not superior, fot it of their system alternatives. The initial game play for sale by the computer mouse along with a computer keyboard is another big draw for devoted Pc players. But now, a different form of Pc gaming over the internet has had the attention time for laptop which is where Chris Stoddard?s website is available
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People these days signing in to social networking websites as well as in these sites, people can engage in mini games whoever benefits they are able to post via the internet to share with their pals. One such sport is Ravenwood Fair, present in Lincoln Maciass web page. This game, in addition to numerous others, have elected social networking internet sites more fulfilling and engaging than ever before. This kind of social networking enjoyment shows that computer games are evolving and are maturing all the time.

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