Apple iPhone and iPad patent ban overturned in US

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• "Bob Mansfield to Focus on Chips in Apple's VP Shuffle"?I4U News?8/3

• "Apple iPhone 5S rumours: Release date, price and specs"?Telegraph?8/3

• "Could The Next-Gen iPad Feature A Mac-Like Translucent Apple Logo?"?AppAdvice?8/3

• "FileMaker Retires Bento, the Everyman's (and Woman's) Database"?Kirkville?8/3

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• "The Apple vs. Samsung Chronicles: The US Steps in For the Sake of Innovation"?The Marmot's Hole?8:40 AM

• "The History Of Apple's Lobby Spending"?Zero Hedge?8/3

• "Obama Administration Sides With Apple on Import Ban Ruling"?Wired?8/3

• "White House overrules ITC trade ban on Apple iPhones, iPads"?Los Angeles Times [Paid Membership Required]?8/3

• "US vetoes import ban on Apple over Samsung patent claim"?PCWorld?8/3

• "U.S. Import Ban on Older iPhones Overturned"?FOXBusiness?8/3

• "Obama Administration Overturns Ban on Apple Products"?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?8/3

• "Obama Administration Vetoes Partial Ban on Apple Products"?MacRumors?8/3

• "Obama Vetos ITC Ban on Older iPhones, iPads"?iClarified?8/3

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• "President Obama vetoes Samsung ban on Apple, Inc. iPhones, iPads"?AppleInsider?8/3

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• "Apple wins reprieve from Obama administration over US iPhone and iPad ban"?Telegraph?8/3

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Swaddle-maker swamped after UK prince's photo-op

LONDON (AP) ? It took 45 seconds, but it was enough.

Newborn Prince George, carried from the hospital to the royal car, appeared in a cotton swaddle with the tiny birds on it. Mums-to-be around the world wanted to know: Who are you wearing?

The answer shows what it is like when a small company gets swept into the maelstrom of attention that comes from touching the golden hem of the House of Windsor.

Once the photos of the swaddle hit the Internet, style bloggers and fashion writers identified the would-be king's new clothes as being from New York-based aden + anais. Within four hours of George's appearance, the website crashed. The next day, the site crashed again. In nine days, the company had 7,000 orders ? a 600 percent increase in sales on that item.

The company never even issued a press release. Anyone who wanted to know the manufacturer simply had to type "royal swaddle" into Google, and up it came.

Raegan Moya-Jones, the chief executive of aden + anais, was about to start a meeting when a colleague brought in the picture. She couldn't believe it.

"I thought it was photo-shopped," she said.

The company is still digging out from under a pile of orders for the swaddle, part of the Jungle Jam pack of four that costs 44.95 pounds ($68).

The average daily visits to its site were off the charts: In Britain, they were up 1,960 percent; in Australia, up 892 percent; in Japan 791 percent and in the U.S., up 458 percent.

So just be prepared to wait if you want to similarly swaddle your little prince or princess. Jungle Jam is sold out for now in Britain and the United States. Desperate swaddle searchers can find them on the company's Australian site if they hurry. Shipping fees are extra.

And there's a factory run from China of 10,000. So hold on.

People just want to be a part of things says Cele Otnes, a professor of marketing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and co-author of the upcoming book "Royal Fever: The British Monarchy in Consumer Culture." She said the rush to buy whatever the royals wear gives admirers a chance to participate in a big, happy event.

"This is history," she said. "If you can't be there, if you can't have a royal baby yourself, you can buy the swaddle."

The royals do grant warrants ? a mark of recognition of those who supply goods or services to the Royal Household. Fortnum & Mason has one for example, for being a "Grocer & Provision Merchant" to the monarch. But there are no royal adverts.

Nonetheless the royals remain marketing gold.

They have always been trendsetters. Even Queen Victoria once promoted a ball to help the Spitalfields silk industry, Otnes said. More recently, Princess Diana's every ruffled collar or bow-lined stocking could set off the cash registers.

But Prince George is the first heir to the throne born in the Internet age. New mums and dads can see what Kate and Wills and ? now baby George ? are wearing and buy it instantly.

This goes way beyond commemorative china, tea towels and other trinkets ? the traditional sort of souvenir that shoppers can pick up at the Buckingham Palace gift store.

There's even a name for it: the Kate Effect. It started with the sapphire blue wrap dress designed by Daniella Helayel that the then-Kate Middleton wore to announce her engagement ? and just kept going. Take the white dress Kate wore in the couple's engagement photo ? sold by UK retailer Reiss ? or Topshop's black dress with a Peter Pan collar that she wore for a video appeal.

Fashionistas follow Kate's every move. Every blouse, shoe, and bag the future queen of England wears is fodder for style bloggers and a money-spinner for retailers.

She's been democratic about it ? choosing stuff that is accessible to the average person and supporting British products in a big way.

And now there's George, who isn't even wearing clothes yet but has managed to get blankets out the door. And it isn't just the ones from aden + anais. Little George first appeared in a white crocheted blanket from G.H. Hurt & Son of Nottingham, England. They are swamped with orders, too, after photographers zeroed in on the firm's label, blew it up and posted it on the net.

And yet, this is just the start. Otnes said that the trend will just continue as George gets older. Get ready for the booties, the scooter, the sun hat. Firms can get overwhelmed by the attention, which comes fast, hot and for a limited time only.

"You had better hold on," Otnes advised companies in the limelight. "And put on another shift."

Moya-Jones, a native of Australia who started in the swaddle business because she couldn't find what she wanted in stores, didn't anticipate the royal wave. Even though aden + anais have wrapped the babies of celebs like Beyonce, the spotlight that turned on her company with Prince George was altogether different.

After all, her privately held company isn't huge ? founded seven years ago, it has 65 full-time employees and about as many part-time staff. In addition to swaddles, aden + anais makes sleeping bags, bibs, blankets and sheets, and Moya-Jones doesn't want to put so much emphasis on Jungle Jam swaddles that customers who want other products feel they are being ignored.

And then there's the shock factor ? even if it was a happy shock. The company didn't send the royals their product and expect them to use it. That's just not done.

Moya-Jones only learned after she saw pictures that Kate reportedly picked out the muslin swaddle personally at a London store.

"That's the nicest thing," she said. "At the end of the day, the duchess is a first-time mum, like all of us once were."

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From Layers To Stewing Hens, Starting A Home Food Business ...

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Chickens are the stars of today's program. After following birds from the farm to local hunger organizations, we make a chicken stock.

From Layers To Stewing Hens, Starting A Home Food Business [ 29:00 ] Download

We just want their lives to be as productive as possible, and they have been as hens, and so in turn we still see them as a food source and want that to be used, so.

Mandy Napier of Schacht Farms donated her three-year-old laying hens to a local hunger organization. We follow the chickens? journey from the farm to the shelves of Mother Hubbard?s Cupboard. Then we have a recipe for chicken stock that would be perfect to use with a stewing hen.

Improving soil quality should be a top priority according to some experts. Harvest Public Media looks at a technique that helps the soil and doesn?t hurt a farm?s bottom line.

Author Mimi Shortland-Fix gives advice for bakers looking to start a home-based business.

And in the kitchen, we make a colorful salad using Christmas-colored produce.

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GOP?s Ortman Joins US Senate Race

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ??Julianne Ortman, a veteran state senator from the Twin Cities suburbs, on Saturday joined the growing group of Republicans who want to challenge incumbent Democratic Sen. Al Franken next year.

Ortman launched her campaign at a downtown park in Waconia, a town west of Minneapolis in the Carver County state Senate district that Ortman has represented for the last decade. In a short speech, Ortman criticized Washington as dysfunctional, and stressed her own middle class background and reputation at Minnesota?s Capitol for tenacious advocacy of Republican principles.

?This is our time as voters in Minnesota to say that we expect more from Washington and our U.S. Senate,? Ortman said. ?We need more Minnesota in Washington, and less Washington in Minnesota.?

Franken, elected to the Senate by a razor-thin margin in 2008, is running for a second term in 2014. Two other Republicans are also running to be party?s candidate against him: Mike McFadden, a businessman from the St. Paul suburb of Sunfish Lake; and Jim Abeler, a state representative from Anoka.

In her speech, Ortman had many harsh words for Franken but also offered veiled criticism of McFadden, a wealthy businessman with no previous political experience.

?We don?t need any more disinterested millionaires in the U.S. Senate,? Ortman said. In a seeming reference to Franken?s background as a ?Saturday Night Live? writer and performer, she said: ?We don?t need more celebrity politicians who sit back and watch and provide comedic commentary. We need a strong, independent-minded woman.?

Ortman, 50, lives in Chanhassen. She and husband Ray Ortman have four children. Ortman was elected to the state Senate in 2002. She has served as deputy leader of the Senate GOP and chaired the powerful Taxes Committee in 2011-12. She has a reputation as an aggressive debater and questioner, and has been a tough critic of Gov. Mark Dayton and of Democratic policies on a wide range of issues, from tax and spending priorities to gun control.

?If necessary, and regardless of party, I will stand up to the president of the United States,? Ortman said.

Away from the Senate, Ortman since 2007 has worked as senior administrative manager in the office of Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek. She said Saturday she had taken an unpaid leave of absence from that job.

State Democratic Party Chairman Ken Martin criticized Ortman for her time in the Legislature, saying she instigated policies that favored large corporations over middle-class families.

In her Waconia speech, Ortman ripped Franken on a number of fronts, including his support for President Obama?s health care overhaul, which she said should be repealed. She said the incumbent hasn?t done enough to address spiraling national debt, or to rein in surveillance of U.S. citizens by the federal government.

In his bid, McFadden has already lined up support from prominent GOP figures including former U.S. senators Norm Coleman and Rod Grams. He raised more than $750,000 for his campaign in the month of June, an early sign that he hoped to compete with Franken?s proven strength as a political fundraiser.

Both McFadden and Abeler have said they would pursue the official GOP endorsement for the Senate race, but both said they might still run in next August?s primary without it.

Ortman was less definitive: ?I intend to win the endorsement. I?m not going to run against the Republican Party of Minnesota,? she said. But she declined to clarify whether that meant she?d end her campaign if she doesn?t win the endorsement, which will be conferred at a party convention next summer.

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Washington and Wahlberg misfire in bloody '2 Guns'

This image released by Universal Pictures shows Denzel Washington, left, and Mark Wahlberg in a scene from "2 Guns." (AP Photo/Universal Pictures, Patti Perret)

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"2 GUNS" ? ?? ? Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton, Edward James Olmos, Bill Paxton, James Marsden; R (violence throughout, language and brief nudity); in general release

Denzel Washington teams up with that King of Chemistry, Mark Wahlberg, in "2 Guns," a jokey-bloody action comedy that could use more jokes and less blood.

Wahlberg's Icelandic accomplice, "Contraband" director Baltasar Korm?kur, manages little flash in this utterly generic double-and-triple-crossing tale of agents for competing agencies mixed up with drug lords, DEA stings, the CIA and "Naval Intelligence."

It's based on graphic novels (aka comic books), so don't overthink it.

Washington is Bobby, a border country smuggler/drug dealer trying to do business with Papi Greco (Edward James Olmos), a Mexican drug kingpin.

Stig (Wahlberg) is Bobby's mouthy, trigger-happy sidekick, the one who cracks that Papi looks "like a Mexican Albert Einstein," who stuffs his face with Mexican fried chicken as he yells at the cruelty of Mexican henchmen who shoot at the heads of chickens buried up to their necks for target practice.

For some reason, Bobby and Stig have been in business together for months. For some other reason, neither has figured out that the other is a federal agent of some sort. And for some silly third reason, they ignore their own advice ? "Never rob a bank across from a diner that has the best doughnuts in three counties."

It's a movie of unsurprising revelations, betrayals, agencies that double-cross their own agents and Paula Patton naked. She plays Denzel's DEA control agent.

Bill Paxton's a sadist who doesn't have to explain which government agency he works for as he drawls through assorted brutal interrogations, trying to track down the bank robbery cash.

James Marsden plays the Navy guy in inappropriate uniforms every time he debriefs his agent, Stig. He was cast because he's the same height as Wahlberg. Olmos took his part just for the scene where he gets to sermonize about CIA efforts to keep Mexico "corrupt and poor."

Bobby and Stig fight, draw blood and crash trucks into one another. Until they learn trust. Until the "p-word," partner, comes up.

"Like ebony and ivory!"

The amusing stuff works so much better than the mayhem, which also has the occasional amusing moment. Stig gets the drop on a henchman by sliding between his legs.

A lot of plot is worked through, a lot of stuff blows up and a lot of cars are stolen, raced, crashed and shot up. And people die. Lots of them.

And 100 minutes later, we're all done, and left craving a much better movie than "2 Guns" managed to be. That, and doughnuts.

"2 Guns" is rated R for violence throughout, language and brief nudity; running time: 107 minutes.

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Reservation Of Hotels In Shimla With Different Rates

Weekends and excursions are the times when individuals love to like important minutes with loved ones. Famous rise stations are best choices to experience the wonderfulness of nature and going through relaxed minutes with dear ones. The peaceful and quiet nature guarantees a reviving remain

Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh is one of the most beloved traveler places spotted in the laps of nature. Rich in common fortunes it has lavish green valleys with snow clad mountain crests at the scenery. Regarded as the queen of Hill Stations, Shimla has a substantial number of planned lodgings that are best in facilities. Inns in shimla with distinctive rates are worth going by for appreciating a lavish and agreeable remain. These inns are found in the nearby vicinity of major attractions of the spot. Accessible with all standard housing, for example running hot and icy water, focal warming, and so on these inns likewise offer meeting offices. The classy insides and roomy lives with joined gallery offer lofty perspective of the Himalayan reach. The multi-cooking inns offer lavishing china that incorporates Himachali to mainland plates. The luxurious formulas tickle the taste buds and are favored by guests.

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Each year these spots experience substantial flood of guests owing to the pleasant wonderfulness and salubrious atmosphere. Naldehra is celebrated around the world for its most senior nine gap Golf course in India. This place is known for arranging Golf rivalries each year. Perfect for steed riding encounters, nature strolls and trekking, it is filled surrounding delightfulness of nature. Named after Nag sanctuary placed in this district, Naldehra valley is loaded with rich greenery. Arranged 2044 meters above ocean level, a portion of the major attractions in this place incorporate Mahunag sanctuary, Chabba, Shaily Peak, Kogi Mata sanctuary, Mahakali sanctuary, and so forth. Naldehra inns give warm welcome to its guests all the year round. Advantageous for rationed voyagers, such inns are decently furnished with advanced luxuries. Best in friendliness, hotel and settlement, the lodgings are accessible with exceptional bundles and tax plans.

Inns in Naldehra have recreational offices for guests and have choice, lavishness and rationed rooms. Such lodgings and resorts with open suites convey a tasteful advance. Throughout summers temperature stays in the middle of 150 C to 280 C and are exceptionally charming, while temperature drops down to-40 C in winters. Snowfalls are normal throughout winters. Then again, vacationers and explorers visit Naldehra, Manali and Shimla in all flavors to get a charge out of the sa

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All work and no play makes my smartphone something something - Talk Mobile

There was a time when the smartphone was a tool of the businessman. The BlackBerrys and Treos and Windows Mobile smartphones were connected corporate networks - and often issued by those corporations. Over the last several years that has changed dramatically, with smartphones becoming the province of the consumer.

So prevalent has smartphone usage become among the general public that corporations are beginning to perform a 180 on smartphone policy. They're increasingly comfortable with you hooking up your personal device to their secured corporate network.

Does that mean we need a new breed of device, something that can balance the needs of the personal user and the business user? Or do we already have the smartphones and tablets that can do that? And how do you manage the distraction of the personal at work and the work at home? Would we be better off just shoving the phone into a drawer throughout the day, or is there benefit to being able to pick it up and get in a quick Facebook check?

Navigating the world of smartphones and business, work and personal, isn't the easiest thing, but there's got to be a solution, right?

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Abandoned US College Student Drank Own Urine, Hallucinated, 'Screamed' Over Four Days In Windowless DEA Cell

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Interior of a solitary confinement cell at a new detention centre is pictured at the U.S. Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul November 15, 2009.

A 25-year-old college student who has reached a $4.1 million settlement with the US government after he was abandoned in a windowless cell for more than four days without food or water, has described his ordeal.

Daniel Chong said he drank his own urine to stay alive, hallucinated that agents were trying to poison him with gases through the vents, and tried to carve a farewell message to his mother in his arm.

Chong was taken into custody during a drug raid and placed in the cell in April 2012 by a police officer authorised to perform Drug Enforcement Administration work. The officer told Chong he would not be charged and said, "'Hang tight, we'll come get you in a minute,'" Mr Iredale said.

The door to the five-by-ten-foot cell did not reopen for four-and-a-half days.

Justice Department spokeswoman Allison Price confirmed the settlement was reached for $4.1 million but declined to answer other questions. The DEA didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

"I didn't just sit there quietly. I was kicking the door yelling. I even put some shoestrings, shoelaces through the crack of the door for visual signs. I didn't stay still, no, I was screaming," said Mr Chong.

It remained unclear how the situation occurred, and no one has been disciplined, said Eugene Iredale, an attorney for Chong, The Justice Department's inspector general is investigating.

"We hope that at some point there can be at least the individual attribution of responsibility for what happened and some kind of appropriate administrative sanction if nothing more than to rebuke the suggestion that when you put someone in a holding cell without food or water, you should let them out before five days at best," said Mr Iredale.

Mr Chong, now an economics student at the University of California, San Diego, said he planned to buy his parents a house.

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Times Union Center bidding on three NCAA Division I tournaments

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The Times Union Center has hosted NCAA men?s basketball and wrestling championship tournaments in various years since the arena opened in 1990, but never women?s basketball or women?s volleyball.

The Times Union Center could host up to three NCAA Division I championship tournaments starting in 2015 -- games that would not require expanding the sports arena at an estimated cost of $6 million to $11 million.

The arena?s general manager, Bob Belber, said bids will be submitted to the NCAA to host regional championship tournaments for women?s basketball, women?s volleyball, and men?s ice hockey from 2015 to 2018.

Belber is working with the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and Siena College on the women?s basketball and volleyball bids. The Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College are teaming up with the arena on the hockey bid.

The bids are due Sept. 16. The NCAA will announce the winning sites in December.

The games, if awarded, are expected to draw thousands of fans to the county-owned arena for two-day tournaments in March and December of those years, and help fill local bars, restaurants and hotels.

?The reality is if you bring in, for example, the regional women?s basketball tournament my guess is we?ll probably have close to 65 to 70 percent of the people who attend the event come from outside this market, and fill every hotel in a 50-mile radius,? Belber said.

The Times Union Center last hosted an NCAA Division I tournament in 2010, when the men?s ice hockey East Regional was played there.

The arena has also hosted NCAA men?s basketball and wrestling championship tournaments in various years since the arena opened in 1990, but never women?s basketball or women?s volleyball.

?These championships that we?re bidding on we feel can bring in huge crowds,? Belber said. ?We can generate not just enough to cover expenses but to provide the NCAA with the net revenues they?re looking for.?

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Stewart fine after sprint car accident in Canada

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ? Tony Stewart was not injured in a scary accident in Canada in which his sprint car rolled five times.

A day after Monday's wreck, Stewart was still scheduled for the World of Outlaws race Tuesday night at Ohsweken Speedway in Ontario. He's the defending race winner.

But the three-time NASCAR champion will sit out a pair of races this weekend as his team takes its cars to Indiana for repairs.

Stewart finished fourth Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and said he'd be in a race car every day this week. Although he declined to reveal his entire schedule, he said he was testing Wednesday, racing Thursday and would be at Pocono Raceway this weekend.

Spokesman Mike Arning says races Friday and Saturday night have been scrapped only for car repairs.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/stewart-fine-sprint-car-accident-canada-175049003.html

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The new and improved Zagat for Android (pictures)

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United States Presses Israel to Release Murderers But Won?t Release Pollard

Jonathan Pollard.

The Israeli cabinet took a courageous and politically unpopular step by approving the release of 104 Palestinian prisoners, including many terrorists who had murdered Israeli babies, women, the elderly and other civilians.? According to Israeli intelligence some of these released murderers are likely to rejoin terrorist organizations and may kill again. ?Relatives and friends of the victims have protested the decision to release these killers.? Yet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet withstood these pressures and ordered their release.

The United States government had pressured the Israeli government to release these prisoners because the Palestinian Authority had made their release a condition to resuming peace talks.? The Israeli government, which had agreed to peace talks with no preconditions, submitted to the Palestinian precondition, and talks are now likely to go forward.

Prime Minister Netanyahu had reportedly asked the Obama Administration to make it easier for him to release Palestinian murderers by releasing Jonathan Pollard, who has already served 28 years for spying for Israel.? No American in history has ever come close to serving that long?indeed none has ever served a double digit sentence?for spying for an American ally.? Moreover, there were grave doubts about the lawfulness of Pollard?s sentence, as evidenced by the strong words of the dissenting judge who characterized the government?s breach of the plea agreement as a ?fundamental miscarriage of justice requiring relief??

But the Obama Administration slammed the door in Netanyahu?s face by categorically rejecting the request to commute Pollard?s sentence to the excessive term he has already served.? Despite this rebuff from the Obama Administration, Netanyahu agreed to release the prisoners.? Now the Palestinian Authority is asking for more prisoners to be released including some of the most dangerous terrorists on the face of the earth.? The United States will probably continue to put pressure on Israel to risk the lives of its own civilians by releasing more Palestinian terrorists in order to get the Palestinians to continue to negotiate.

The time has come?indeed it is well passed?for the United States to do the right thing with regard to Jonathan Pollard.? Pollard poses no continuing danger to America, since he has not had access to our secrets for nearly 30 years.? Unlike the Palestinian prisoners who are to be released, he has expressed regret over his actions and has sought forgiveness.? Moreover, his life sentence is excessive by any standard of justice and it violated the government?s plea bargain which promised, in exchange for Pollard?s guilty plea, not to seek life imprisonment.

Peace between Israel and the Palestinians requires the active involvement of the United States, as evidenced by Secretary John Kerry?s intensive efforts to bring the parties together.? But if peace is in our national interest, as the Obama Administration insists it is, and if peace requires sacrifice by both Israel and the Palestinians, then we too must be willing to give a little.? Releasing Jonathan Pollard after requiring him to serve 27 years, some in solitary confinement, is not much of a sacrifice to ask of the United States.? It is the least we can do to make it easier for Israel to make far greater sacrifices and take far more dangerous risks in order to secure peace.

The request to release Pollard now has bipartisan support in the United States and multi-partisan support in Israel.? Knesset members on all sides of the Israeli political spectrum have called for Pollard?s release as a way of encouraging the peace process.? ?It?s a window of opportunity of good will to Israeli, who are not going through an easy time,? said Labor MK Nachman Shai.? ?It would build up public support for negotiations and show that the US also understands the gravity of this historic moment.?

American political leaders from both sides of the aisle, as well as from all religious backgrounds, have called for Pollard?s release on compassionate grounds, based on the length of his sentence and his deteriorating physical condition.

Israel will go forward with negotiations regardless of whether Pollard is released, because the Israeli government wants a peaceful resolution that assures security.? But in the end the Israeli public will have to vote for any deal struck between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, with the help of American negotiators.? The outcome of any such referendum will depend on whether Israeli voters believe that their security has been assured and that the United States continues to stand behind them.? Releasing Jonathan Pollard?as a gesture of good will, as a show of American support, and in the interests of justice and compassion?will go a long way toward encouraging the Israeli public to vote in favor of a peace agreement that requires great sacrifices on their part.

Source: http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/07/29/united-states-presses-israel-to-release-murderers-but-won%E2%80%99t-release-pollard/

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San Jose Giants Clayton Blackburn Named California League Pitcher of the Week

July 29, 2013 - California League (CalL) San Jose Giants

SAN JOSE, CA- San Jose Giants right-handed pitcher Clayton Blackburn was named California League Pitcher of the Week for the week ending on July 28. In Lancaster on Thursday night, Blackburn threw eight innings and allowed just one run on three hits in the Giants' 4-3 victory over the Jethawks. The right-hander carried a perfect game into the seventh inning, retired 20 straight hitters to begin his start, walked none and struck out six while throwing just 83 pitches.

Selected by the San Francisco Giants in the 16th round of the 2011 draft, Blackburn was 8-4 with a 2.54 ERA last season for the Single-A Augusta GreenJackets. This season, he holds a 4.02 ERA and opponents are batting just .223 against him.

Blackburn is the fifth San Jose Giant to receive Player of the Week honors in 2013:

April 15 - April 21 - RHP Austin Fleet

April 22 - April 28 - OF Devin Harris

May 20 - May 26 - LHP Ty Blach

July 1 - July 7 - LHP Edwin Escobar

The San Jose Giants begin a three-game series against the Visalia Rawhide at Municipal Stadium on Tuesday, July 30. On Tuesday, the team will host its first-ever Mustache Night and all fans who have a mustache or are sporting mustache apparel will receive two free future game tickets. On Wednesday, fans will want to make arrangements to come to the stadium because the Royal Couple will be in attendance along with their newborn, the Prince of Cambridge. All fans with the name George, Alexander or Louis can show their ID at the box office and receive FREE admission to the game. In addition, fans will be able to find tickets to Wednesday and Thursday's contests at local Orchard Supply Hardware Stores. Visit sjgiants.com for a list of participating locations.

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Ark. district arming more than 20 teachers, staff

In this photo taken July 11, 2013, Cheyne Dougan, assistant principal at Clarksville High School, is interviewed at the school in Clarksville, Ark. Dougan is one of 20 Clarksville School District staff members are training to be armed security guards on campus. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

In this photo taken July 11, 2013, Cheyne Dougan, assistant principal at Clarksville High School, is interviewed at the school in Clarksville, Ark. Dougan is one of 20 Clarksville School District staff members are training to be armed security guards on campus. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

In this photo taken July 11, 2013, a Clarksville public schools faculty member, wearing a protective mask, participates in active-shooter training at the city's high school in Clarksville, Ark. Twenty Clarksville School District staff members are training to be armed security guards on campus. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

In this photo taken July 11, 2013, a Clarksville schools faculty member, wearing a protective mask, rear center, carries a practice handgun toward a classroom in the city's high school in Clarksville, Ark., as students portray victims in a mock school shooting scenario. Twenty Clarksville School District staff members are training to be armed security guards on campus. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

In this photo taken July 11, 2013, a sign indicates "police training in progress" as police and weapons instructors walk in the hallways of Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Ark. Twenty Clarksville School District staff members are training to be armed security guards on campus. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

In this photo taken July 11, 2013, practice air-powered handguns sit on a teacher's desk in a classroom at Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Ark. Twenty Clarksville School District staff members are training during the summer to be armed security guards on campus. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

CLARKSVILLE, Ark. (AP) ? As Cheyne Dougan rounded the corner at Clarksville High School, he saw three students on the floor moaning and crying. In a split-second, two more ran out of a nearby classroom.

"He's got a gun," one of them shouted as Dougan approached with his pistol drawn. Inside, he found one student holding another at gunpoint. Dougan aimed and fired three rounds at the gunman.

Preparing for such scenarios has become common for police after a school shooting in Connecticut last December left 20 children and six teachers dead. But Dougan is no policeman. He's the assistant principal of this school in Arkansas, and when classes resume in August, he will walk the halls with a 9 mm handgun.

Dougan is among more than 20 teachers, administrators and other school employees in this town who will carry concealed weapons throughout the school day, making use of a little-known Arkansas law that allows licensed, armed security guards on campus. After undergoing 53 hours of training, Dougan and other teachers at the school will be considered guards.

"The plan we've been given in the past is 'Well, lock your doors, turn off your lights and hope for the best,'" Superintendent David Hopkins said. But as deadly incidents continued to happen in schools, he explained, the district decided, "That's not a plan."

After the Connecticut attack, the idea of arming schoolhouses against gunmen was hotly debated across the country. The National Rifle Association declared it the best response to serious threats. But even in the most conservative states, most proposals faltered in the face of resistance from educators or warnings from insurance companies that schools would face higher premiums.

In strongly conservative Arkansas, where gun ownership is common and gun laws are permissive, no school district had ever used the law to arm teachers on the job, according to the state Department of Education. The closest was the Lake Hamilton School District in Garland County, which for years has kept several guns locked up in case of emergency. Only a handful of trained administrators ? not teachers ? have access to the weapons.

Clarksville, a community of 9,200 people about 100 miles northwest of Little Rock, is going further.

Home to an annual peach festival, the town isn't known for having dangerous schools. But Hopkins said he faced a flood of calls from parents worried about safety after the attack last year at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.

Hopkins said he and other school leaders didn't see why the district couldn't rely on its own staff and teachers to protect students rather than hire someone.

"We're not tying our money up in a guard 24/7 that we won't have to have unless something happens. We've got these people who are already hired and using them in other areas," Hopkins said. "Hopefully we'll never have to use them as a security guard."

State officials are not blocking Clarksville's plan, but Arkansas Education Commissioner Tom Kimbrell is opposed to the idea of arming teachers and staff. He prefers to hire law enforcement officers as school resource officers.

There are other dissenters, too. Donna Morey, former president of the Arkansas Education Association, called the idea of arming teachers "awful." The risk of a student accidentally getting shot or obtaining a gun outweighs any benefits, she said.

"We just think educators should be in the business of educating students, not carrying a weapon," Morey said.

Participants in the program are given a one-time $1,100 stipend to purchase a handgun and holster. Hopkins said the district is paying about $50,000 for ammunition and for training by Nighthawk Custom Training Academy, a private training facility in northwest Arkansas.

The Nighthawk training includes drills like the one Dougan participated in, with various role-playing scenarios involving shooters on campus. Dougan and other teachers in the program practiced using "airsoft" pellet guns, with students wearing protective facemasks and jackets.

"There's pressure on you, because you're shooting real bullets if this actually happened," said Dougan, who has three children attending Clarksville schools. "I was nervous to start, but once it started and I was going through what they had taught us, it just took over."

The training is narrowly tailored for teachers to respond to shooters on campus.

"That teacher is going to respond to one thing and one thing alone, and that's someone is in the building either actively or attempting to kill people," Jon Hodoway, director of training for Nighthawk. "That's it. They're not going to enforce the law. They're not going to make traffic stops. If somebody is outside acting the fool, they're going to call the police."

Using students as actors helps trainers re-create the environment that teachers and staff would face in a typical school shooting, Hodoway explained. The students who participated in the exercise were children of the teachers and staff who were being trained.

Sydney Whitkanack, who will enter seventh grade this fall, said she's grown up around firearms and doesn't mind if teachers or staff are armed at school.

"If they're concealed, then it's no big deal," said Whitkanack, who was an actor in the training scenario. "It's not like someone's going to know 'Oh, they have a firearm.'"

The district will post signs at each school about the armed guards, but the identities of faculty and staff carrying weapons will be kept secret, Hopkins said.

Those who participate in the program will continue to receive regular training, he said.

Sherry Wommack said the program is one reason she's taking her son, an incoming eighth-grader, out of Clarksville's schools before the school year begins. Wommack said she doesn't believe teachers should make life-or-death choices involving students.

"I think police officers are trained to make those decisions, not teachers," Wommack said.

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Second Body Found After Hudson River Wedding Party Boat Crash

Officials said they discovered a body thought to be Mark Lennon, pictured in this family photo. (Rockland County Sheriff?s Office)

PIERMONT, N.Y. (KTLA) ? A second body was pulled from the Hudson River on Sunday after two people, including a bride-to-be, went missing when a speedboat carrying a wedding party crashed into a barge on the Hudson River.

The body of a man was located about a mile from where a woman?s body was found a day earlier, according to Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco.

Neither body was positively identified but they were believed to be best man Mark Lennon and bride-to-be Lindsey Stewart.

Stewart, 30, and her wedding party were boating near the Tappan Zee Bridge 25 miles north of New York City when their water craft struck a construction barge on Friday at 10:30 p.m.

All six people on the 21-foot Stingray motor boat were thrown into the water, police said.

The driver of the boat was arrested and charged Saturday.

Jojo K. John, 35, was arraigned on one count of first-degree vehicular manslaughter and three counts of second-degree vehicular assault, according to Robert Van Cura, undersheriff of the Rockland County Sheriff?s Office.

Source: http://ktla.com/2013/07/28/second-body-found-after-hudson-river-wedding-party-boat-crash/

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Sun leads, Ye 2nd in prelims as swimming starts

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) ? Olympic champion Sun Yang comfortably led the 400-meter freestyle heats on the opening day of the traditional pool events at the swimming world championships Sunday.

For Chinese teammate Ye Shiwen, it was a different story.

Ye, the surprise winner of both women's individual medleys at last year's London Olympics as a 16-year-old, had to settle for second in the 200 IM prelims behind Katinka Hosszu of Hungary.

Hosszu clocked 2 minutes, 8.45 seconds ? a nearly unheard of time for heats and one that would have earned her a bronze medal in London. Ye, swimming in the next lane, touched in 2:10.20.

Sun led the 400 in 3:44.67 and Ryan Cochrane of Canada was second with 3:45.74. Olympic silver medalist Park Tae-hwan skipped the meet.

Also, American teenager Katie Ledecky led the women's 400 free heats by a large margin, touching in 4:03.05.

And the United States led both the men's and women's 4x100 free relay heats.

Four finals were scheduled for later on Day 1, in the men's and women's 400 free and the men's and women's 4x100 free relays.

The women's 200 IM final isn't until Monday.

Hosszu has been hailed as a top medal contender since winning the 400 IM and taking two bronzes at the 2009 worlds in Rome. But she failed to bring home any hardware from both the 2011 championships in Shanghai and the London Games.

If her prelim swim was any indication, that should change here.

"I was very surprised," Hosszu said. "That's a really good sign for me because I can usually feel about where I rank. I thought it was like 2:10 or 2:11."

Ye's Olympic-winning time of 2:07.57 appears in reach for Hosszu, or even the world record of 2:06.15 set by American Ariana Kukors in 2009 at the height of rubberized suit era.

"I definitely feel like I can go faster," Hosszu said. "In the final there will be eight swimmers and we all want to win. We will see who is the fastest."

Ye did not appear concerned.

"That was pretty good for the morning," she said through a translator. "I just followed what my coach told me to do. He said if I finished in the top two, that was good enough.

"The most important thing is the first 100," Ye added. "The breaststroke is most important. I cannot get too far behind in the breaststroke. I'm very confident in my freestyle."

In his event, Sun was more than four seconds off the time he won with in London.

"I tried to get a good place in the final," he said. "I saw that the field was very good and I had to go hard to get a place in the final."

In the women's 400 free, Ledecky was under world-record pace early on.

"Oh really?" she said. "I wanted to take the prelims really seriously so I would make it back to finals in a good spot. I'm excited to race the world's best tonight."

Ledecky burst onto the scene a year ago as a 15-year-old when she won the 800 free in London with the second fastest time in history. Then at the U.S. trials last month, she became the first American woman to qualify for the worlds in the 200, 400, 800 and 1,500 free.

Is she worried about taking on too much?

"No. Not at all," she said. "I've put in the preparation this year so I think I'm up for it."

Melanie Costa of Spain qualified second behind Ledecky, a distant 1.15 seconds behind, while Olympic champion Camille Muffat of France got through in sixth.

In other prelims, Olympic and defending world champion Dana Vollmer of the United States led the women's 100 fly in 57.22.

Olympic silver medalist Christian Sprenger of Australia topped the men's 100 breast in 59.53 while London champion and world-record holder Cameron van der Burgh of South Africa advanced in seventh. Alex Dale Oen, the Norwegian who won this event at the last worlds, died of a heart attack last year.

And in a non-Olympic event, 33-year-old Roland Schoeman of South Africa led the 50 fly in 23.02. Local favorite Rafael Munoz of Spain qualified second in 23.17. Defending champion Cesar Cielo of Brazil made the semifinals in eighth.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sun-leads-ye-2nd-prelims-swimming-starts-111315743.html

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Did Poland house secret CIA jail?

By Christian Lowe

WARSAW (Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has agreed to consider a second case against Poland over allegations it allowed the CIA to run a secret jail on its soil, intensifying pressure on Warsaw to reveal how closely it was involved in the U.S. "war on terror".

The Strasbourg-based court will consider an application from Saudi-born Abu Zubaydah, who alleges that he was held illegally about a decade ago in a CIA-run facility on the grounds of an intelligence training academy in a Polish forest.

His case will be considered alongside one brought earlier by Saudi national Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who says he was held in the same place as part of a CIA program of "extraordinary rendition" to detain and interrogate suspected al Qaeda operatives.

According to applications submitted to court by lawyers for the two men, they were flown by private jet to a remote Polish airfield and then driven to the facility near a village called Stare Kiejkuty. While there, they say they were subjected to interrogation techniques - including water-boarding - that human rights activists say amount to torture.

Polish officials deny hosting a CIA jail. Poland's foreign ministry said it had received details of the case from the ECHR.

"Poland is obliged to reply to the complaint by the deadline of September 16 this year. The case is currently being analyzed by the legal services of the ministry," it said in a statement.

The twin court cases are awkward for Poland's government: it is caught between a desire to be seen as a model of human rights and respect for the law on the one hand, and its close security relationship with the United States on the other.

GUANTANAMO INMATES

The United States has acknowledged that, as part of its "war on terror" it had facilities around the world where it held al Qaeda suspects. Putting them on foreign soil meant the detainees were not entitled to the protections afforded under U.S. law.

Washington has never disclosed the location of any of the prisons, and President Barack Obama signed an order ending their use after taking office in 2009. Both Abu Zubaydah and al-Nashiri are now being held in the U.S. military jail at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Warsaw has so far declined to answer questions from the court about the allegations made by al-Nashiri, citing national security concerns and worries about interfering with a separate criminal investigation inside Poland.

"As a member of the Council of Europe, Poland is obliged to cooperate with the Court," said Helen Duffy, senior counsel for Abu Zubaydah on behalf of Interights, a human rights group.

"It needs to begin to engage with the detailed allegations against it and to account for its central role in the rendition program," she said.

Abu Zubaydah's application against Poland was on Monday listed by the ECHR as having been "communicated", which means that on a preliminary examination the court believed there was a case to answer.

The court usually takes several years between receiving an application and communicating it, but it acted more swiftly in the two cases against Poland: 14 months for al-Nashiri and six months for Abu Zubaydah's application.

Some people with expertise in the court's workings say this could mean a ruling will be made as early as this year.

The U.S. government says Abu Zubaydah ran a camp in Afghanistan that trained some of those who carried out the September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. cities. It accuses al-Nashiri of directing an attack on the U.S. warship Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden in 2000 that killed 17 sailors.

Prosecutors in Poland have been conducting a criminal investigation into allegations that Polish officials knew there was a CIA jail. It has been running now for five years, with no sign any prosecutions are imminent.

(Additional reporting by Dagmara Leszkowicz; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/european-court-hear-cia-jail-case-against-poland-150155823.html

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