China Russia halt some New Zealand dairy imports

Intellasia - Monday 5th August, 2013

Inflation in Indonesia rose steeply in July to 8.6% year-on-year (y-o-y) from 5.9% in June. The full effects of the recent fuel price hike were felt in July, which coincided with the celebration of Ramadan to send prices higher. Consumer price inflation also accelerated in the Republic of Korea in July, as the inflation rate rose to 1.4% y-o-y from 1.0% in June. In Thailand, consumer price ...

Dollar under pressure in Asia

IOL - Monday 5th August, 2013

The dollar skidded Friday after the US Labour Department released monthly employment data, which investors watched closely to gather clues about the future direction of the Federal Reserve's monetary-easing programme. The Fed has said it planned to wind down the stimulus once the economy had cemented a ...

Nikkei leads Asian shares lower

IOL - Monday 5th August, 2013

Tokyo - Asian shares were soft and the United States dollar was on the defensive on Monday after data showed US employers slowed their pace of hiring in July, while the New Zealand dollar tumbled after a food-safety scare affected dairy exports of the country's largest ...

Six pilgrims drown in swollen river in Nepal police

Channel News Asia - Monday 5th August, 2013

Six pilgrims drowned in northeastern Nepal Monday while trying to cross a rain-swollen river, becoming the latest casualties of heavy monsoon downpours, a local police official ...

Fonterra apologises over milk scare denies cover-up

Channel News Asia - Monday 5th August, 2013

New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra apologised Monday for a botulism scare that saw product recalls in China but denied accusations by Prime Minister John Key that it had delayed releasing ...

Iran dominates India in second round of FIBA Asia

Inquirer Sports - Monday 5th August, 2013

NIKKAH BAHRAMI Samad vs AMJYOT Singh and BHRIGUVANSHI Vishesh PBA IMAGES/NUKI SABIO MANILA, Philippines ? Hamed Hadadi set the tone and Samad Nikkhah Bahrami followed suit. Iran, with its two stars pressing the attack early, made quick work of India 102-58 in the second phase of the 27th FIBA Asia men?s Championship Monday at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City. The ...

Weak U.S. Jobs Data Sees Asian Markets Retreating

FXstreet - Monday 5th August, 2013

Asian equity markets retreated from last week's highs, today, following a poorer-then-expected U.S. Non-Farm Payroll Report (NFP). On Friday, the closely watched NFP figure came in much lower than expected. The world's largest economy in the U.S. created only 162K jobs in July. The number in June was also revised lower to 188K. Economists had expected the U.S. Economy to add 184K jobs. ...

Death toll from heavy rains flooding up to 53 in Pakistan

Fox News - Monday 5th August, 2013

A senior Pakistani disaster management official says the death toll from heavy rains that caused flash floods and collapsed houses has risen to 53 over the past three days. The deaths reported by Brig. Kamran Zia on Monday spanned the entire country. He says 12 were in the northwest's semiautonomous tribal region, eight in neighboring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and three in the ...

Three civilians killed seven wounded in Afghanistan bombing

Times of India - Monday 5th August, 2013

KABUL: Three civilians were killed and seven wounded when a powerful blast rocked a market on Monday in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, a spokesman said. "An explosion rocked the livestock market in Bagh-e-Pul area at around 9 am. The initial report indicated that three adults have been killed and seven wounded," reported Xinhua quoting Jawid Faisal. No group has claimed ...

Ban on rebel flag stirs ire in Indonesia

New Zealand Herald - Monday 5th August, 2013

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) The governor of Indonesia's semiautonomous Aceh region is protesting that national security forces have seized hundreds of flags of the former separatist movement. Authorities confiscated the Free Aceh Movement's red crescent-star flags from streets in North Aceh, Lhokseumawe and Nagan Raya districts. The move came following a statement from the local army that no flag ...

SE Asia Stocks-Flat to weaker Singapore down on ex-dividend

Reuters - Monday 5th August, 2013

BANGKOK, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Southeast Asian stocks were flat to weaker on Monday amid selective buying in battered large caps including Malaysian banks and Philippine SM Investments Corp but activity dropped across exchanges in holiday-thinned demand. Malaysian key index edged up 0.11 percent, with shares in AMMB Holdings rising 2.6 percent, the top percentage gainer. Large caps led the Malaysian ...

US train carrying hazardous materials derails in US about 100 homes evacuated 1 hurt

New Europe - Monday 5th August, 2013

US train derails in US, about 100 homes evacuated Associated Press - 5 August 2013 01:50-04:00 LAWTELL, Louisiana (AP) -- A train carrying hazardous materials derailed in Louisiana and two railcars were leaking chemicals, forcing the evacuation of about 100 homes, officials said. One man went to the hospital complaining of eye irritation. More than 20 cars of the Union Pacific train went ...

Global Online Fair Links Prospective Students With More Than 78 Business Schools September 10-11

Intellasia - Monday 5th August, 2013

Registration is now open for the Official GMATCH online fair, a global recruiting event sponsored by the Graduate Management Admission Council to be held September 10 and 11, 2013. The GMATCH fair allows prospective students to meet school representatives from more than 78 of the world?s leading business and management programs from the comfort of their computer and at no cost. ';Our ...

China steps up warning over NZ milk scare

Inquirer - Monday 5th August, 2013

AFP PHOTO BEIJING ? China stepped up warnings to consumers Monday over a botulism scare involving products from a New Zealand dairy company, and has demanded affected importers check their sales records. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) said it was ';warning consumers'; following an alert over a bacteria that could lead to the ...

China Russia halt some New Zealand dairy imports

Times Of India - Monday 5th August, 2013

botulism scare has prompted China and Russia to stop importing some New Zealand dairy products, denting the country's reputation as a supplier of safe, high quality food. New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra announced on Saturday that up to 1,000 tons of infant ...

Qatar remains unbeaten beats Jordan in FIBA Asia

Inquirer Sports - Monday 5th August, 2013

ELHADARY Mansour Atif of Qatar (light) vs HADRAB Mohammad FIBA Asia Photo by Nuki Sabio MANILA, Philippines ? Qatar broke away from a tight game in the third quarter and never looked back to beat slumping Jordan, 75-61, to start the second round of the 27th FIBA Asia men?s championship Monday at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City. Qatar, which hiked its record to 3-0, gained ...

Thailand Bangkok braces for political street protests

General Sources - Monday 5th August, 2013

BANGKOK (AP) -- Thailand?s capital braced Sunday for possible unrest in the week ahead, with street protests expected over moves in parliament that could eventually lead to a pardon for ousted Prime Minister Thaksin ...

Most AsiaPacific stock indexes are declining

FXstreet - Monday 5th August, 2013

The foreign currencies consolidated in the Far East after the tepid NFP report on Friday vaulted the European currencies and the yen, and hurt the commodity currencies. The Aussie sank to a new three-year low following additional weak economic reports. Most Asia/Pacific stock indexes are declining. The short-term outlook for most foreign currencies is sideways. The medium-term outlook for most ...

Small bomb explodes at Buddhist temple in Indonesia

Times of India - Monday 5th August, 2013

JAKARTA: Police and government officials on Monday condemned an attack on a Buddhist temple in Indonesia's capital after a small bomb detonated as devotees inside prayed, injuring one person. Two other devices failed to go off. The explosion happened on Sunday night at ...

Oil rises above $107 on Fed stimulus hopes

New Zealand Herald - Monday 5th August, 2013

BANGKOK (AP) Oil rose above $107 a barrel Monday after a disappointing US jobs report made it more likely the Federal Reserve will continue its stimulus program beyond September. Benchmark crude for September delivery was up 18 cents to $107.12 at midday Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 95 cents to close at $106.94 a barrel on Friday. US ...

High-yield Asia debt boom spurs ex-RBS exec to start hedge fund

Reuters - Monday 5th August, 2013

By Nishant Kumar HONG KONG | Mon Aug 5, 2013 1:34am EDT HONG KONG Aug 5 (Reuters) - A trio of French ex-bankers led by former Royal Bank of Scotland Group managing director Geoffroy Wallier are planning a $40 million Asia fund, seeking to cash in on a red-hot Asian credit market that offers the potential for much greater returns than Western counterparts. The launch, part of a global ...

Family dog kills two-year-old boy in Australia

West Australian - Monday 5th August, 2013

SYDNEY (AFP) - A two-year-old boy has been mauled to death at his grandmother's house in a savage attack by a mastiff cross dog, Australian police said on Monday.The tragedy unfolded on Sunday afternoon at Deniliquin in southwestern New South Wales state, with reports that the boy went outside to get an ice-cream from a back fridge and the dog, a family pet, followed.It was not clear what ...

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Multiple offers put South Florida home sellers in control

The spiffy five-bedroom house on a quiet cul-de-sac in Miramar hit the market for $379,900 on a Monday. By the close of business, there were two offers, but listing agent Carlos Martin was preaching patience.

Tempting as it may have been to pick one right then, seller Robert Kull waited a week for more offers to materialize.

It was a wise choice. The home ultimately drew five bids. Kull rejected two cash deals in favor of a full-price offer from a buyer willing to pay above appraised value.

"We knew it was a real strong market," Kull said. "Carlos said if we just hold out, we'll get a full-price offer, and sure enough we did."

Multiple offers are the Holy Grail of the housing recovery, but it takes skill and a dash of diplomacy to sort through all the possibilities.

Homes in good condition and priced fairly almost certainly will attract more than one offer, real estate agents say. Demand far exceeds supply in South Florida and across most of the nation, so investors and young families are all circling the same properties hoping to hit paydirt.

"Multiple offers is the last thing buyers want to hear and the first thing sellers want to be able to say," said Michael Corbett, a blogger for the Trulia.com real estate website.

Still, that doesn't mean all sellers are necessarily rejoicing, said Judy Trudel, an agent with Balistreri Realty in Palm Beach and Broward counties.

"When you have multiple offers, it sounds like you're in the driver's seat,'' Trudel said. "But it's a very stressful situation."

Not every multiple-offer situation turns out well. Broward real estate agent Carrie Hazen had a client who received three offers on her Coral Springs home.

That's the good news. The bad? When the seller made counteroffers late last month, all three buyers bailed.

One of the buyers told Hazen she was backing out because another seller had accepted her contract ? even though it's unethical for a buyer to submit more than one offer at a time.

"Back to the drawing board," Hazen said. "There are no slam dunks."

Florida law doesn't require agents to disclose when their listings get two or more written offers. But a National Association of Realtors code of ethics states that agents must make the disclosure if the buyer asks.

In most cases, the listing agent will collect the offers, announce there are competing bids and have everyone come back with their "highest and best offers" so the seller can pick one.

But some agents and sellers take a different approach.

They'll negotiate individually with the buyers, making different counteroffers to each, even though they ultimately can sign only one contract.

Playing one offer against the other usually pushes the price higher and allows sellers to assess the motivation and financial strength of all the buyers, Corbett said.

That strategy paid off for Mike Killi, who's selling his four-bedroom home in Coral Springs. The half-dozen bids gave him and his agent, Dean Ehrlich, the leverage to go back to each buyer and seek more money and the most favorable terms.

They had an offer for $5,000 above the $325,000 list price. But the buyer needed a mortgage, and there was no guarantee the home would appraise. No appraisal is needed in a cash sale.

Killi ultimately took a cash deal for $2,000 more than the asking price. The closing is expected in mid-August.

"We're really happy with the way it turned out," said Killi, 33, a social marketing manager for an advertising firm. "When you put your house on the market, you're really nervous. When you get multiple offers, it very quickly puts you at ease."

As Killi showed, the highest price isn't necessarily the best offer. Some of the other considerations: the amount of down payment, how soon the buyers want to close and whether they'll agree to pay the difference if the home doesn't appraise.

"Price is important, but it's just one factor," Broward agent Tim Singer said.

Sellers shouldn't drag out multiple offers longer than a week, said Samantha DeBianchi, an agent in Fort Lauderdale. "It's just good manners."

But for some buyers, no amount of etiquette will cushion the blow of not getting the home.

"Somebody is going to get hurt or feel like they were treated unfairly," said Randy Bianchi, broker-owner of Paradise Properties of Florida in West Palm Beach. "Multiple offers can turn off a lot of people because there's always a winner and a loser."

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Berlusconi tells thousands he is innocent

ROME (AP) ? A defiant Silvio Berlusconi has told a cheering crowd of thousands that he is innocent of tax fraud despite a ruling by Italy's high court confirming his guilt and four-year jail term.

Berlusconi told supporters Sunday that he would not resist criticizing the judges who made the ruling last week, and declared: "I will say to my so-called judges: I am innocent."

Berlusconi says he continues to support the coalition government of Enrico Letta. He says "we have said loud and clear that the government needs to continue" in order to approve economic measures to help Italy out of recession.

Thousands of supporters bussed in from throughout Italy waved printed signs and cheered Berlusconi.

Berlusconi says the last few days were "the most anguished and painful of my life."

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Nvidia wants its Shield to combine PC, mobile gaming

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One of the biggest surprises from this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas came when Nvidia, a tech company primarily known for its powerhouse graphics processing units and chipsets, revealed?it was making a full-fledged mobile gaming device of its own to stand alongside the many devices that Nvidia's technology already powers.

After a slight name change, a month's delay and drop in price from $349 to $299, the Nvidia Shield hit store shelves this week. But what is Shield, exactly?

"We don?t consider Shield a console," Bryan Del Rizzo, Nvidia senior PR manager of consumer products, explained when I first emailed him inquiring about what I thought was a new mobile gaming console through-and-through. "It?s a mobile Android gaming platform that also is able to stream PC games."

The idea behind Shield was to create something that sits on the border between high-end PC gaming and its mobile counterpart on Android, so the Nvidia Shield is a mish-mash of different elements.

On one hand, it's a fancy Android platform with a gaming controller attached to it. On the other, it's a device that can interact with a PC in a manner similar to how Sony is promising the PlayStation Vita will once the PlayStation 4 comes out ? Shield users, when equipped with the right hardware and in wireless range, can stream games straight from their PC gaming setup to the mobile device.

It's a great idea for anyone who wants to play "Skyrim in bed," as one early reviewer put it. And like Sony's similar promise for cross-play between the PlayStation 4 and PS Vita shows, it's an ambitious idea to bring high-end video game experiences to not-so-high-end devices.

But as with any new emerging technology, there are hiccups along the way. In addition to needing a stable Wi-Fi connection, the streaming part of the Shield's functionality relies on an H.264 encoder that's built into Nvidia's GeForce GTX 650 or higher graphics-card models ? a requirement that could set you back at least another $100 if you don't have one of the company's PC graphics cards, let alone a functioning PC gaming tower in its own right. And the limitations of Wi-Fi range seems to either render this "mobile gaming device's" most promising features inert, or not allow it to be truly "mobile."

Nick Stam, Nvidia's technical marketing director, told NBC News that ideally the device could eventually be set up to stream games from?GRID, its cloud gaming-esque system also unveiled at this year's CES. But for the time being, they're still focused on working out the kinks in the current streaming system.

"Not every game works perfectly," Stam said. "That's why we still have it in beta."

It might seem like a peculiar choice for an established chipmaker to wade into the chaotic and competitive arena of console development. But Nvidia could actually be in a better position than some of its leaner rivals because it doesn't really need to make much money off this device yet.

Piers Harding-Rolls, director of games at market research firm IHS Global Insight, told NBC News that the Shield could basically function as a souped-up business card for Nvidia, helping court fellow gaming companies and mobile gadget makers alike (not to mention average consumers) to its line of graphics cards.

"We expect the platform to be a niche seller at this point," Harding-Rolls wrote in an email to NBC News. "We don't expect it to sell at the level of other handheld consoles, but we don't believe that is necessarily a major issue for Nvidia, as this strategy is as much about provoking interest in Nvidia technology, engaging gamers outside of the PC sector especially in the mobile space and driving brand awareness, as it is generating direct revenue from a handheld console."

But Michael Pachter, a prominent game industry analyst at Wedbush Securities, is less optimistic about the Shield's chances of success.

"I really don?t care about Shield," Pachter wrote when I emailed him asking about the device this week.

"It is not going to sell well at all, reminds me of N-Gage," he added, referring to Nokia's famously hideous flop of an attempt to make a mobile console in 2003.

Yannick LeJacq is a contributing writer for NBC News who has also covered technology and games for Kill Screen, The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic. You can follow him on Twitter at @YannickLeJacq and reach him by email at: Yannick.LeJacq@nbcuni.com.

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Lawyer: Snowden has a place to live in Russia

MOSCOW (AP) ? National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has a place to live in Russia after being granted temporary asylum, but he still hasn't decided what he wants to do next, his lawyer said Friday. The big question may be how much choice he actually has.

Russia granted a year of asylum to Snowden on Thursday, allowing him to quietly slip out of the Moscow airport where he had been holed up for almost six weeks as he evades charges of espionage in the United States. Authorities have suggested he will have wide freedom to work, but Kremlin watchers believe his moves are likely being closely controlled by Russian intelligence.

Snowden "is in a safe place," but the location will remain secret out of concern for his security, his lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told Russian news agencies. The systems analyst who revealed himself as the source of reports in the Guardian newspaper of a vast U.S. Internet surveillance program needs time after his ordeal in airport limbo to figure out his next steps.

He was seen only once in his weeks in the transit zone of the Sheremetyevo airport. Despite troops of photographers and reporters camped out inside and outside the airport, no one apparently saw him leaving, except for someone who snapped a photo of Kucherena talking to blurry figures who the attorney later said were Snowden and Sarah Harrison, a WikiLeaks staffer who has been advising him.

Kucherena said he expects Snowden to speak to journalists soon. "As soon as he decides what he will do, I hope he will announce it himself," the ITAR-Tass news agency quoted the lawyer as saying.

The move to grant Snowden asylum infuriated the Obama administration, which said it was "extremely disappointed" and warned that the decision could derail an upcoming summit between President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The decision gives Russia cover to depict itself as a defender of human rights, pointing a finger to deflect criticism of its own poor record on rights including free speech. But the secrecy that surrounded Snowden's time at the Moscow airport and his unwillingness so far to talk to the press indicates he is being controlled by Russian intelligence, Andrei Soldatov, a Russian journalist who co-authored a book on the Russian intelligence services said.

"Does he have independent sources of information and communication? My impression is that he has none, which means he's not his own master," Soldatov said.

He said Kucherena's statements about concerns for Snowden's safety do not hold water.

"We are all perfectly aware that Snowden, who has just received asylum, does not face any danger in Russia," Soldatov said. "American intelligence does not kidnap or assassinate people in Russia, that's a fact. This is a just a pretext."

One of the reasons for keeping Snowden isolated may be to prevent him from speaking about the people he met and what really happened to him during the 39 days he spent in the airport's transit zone, Soldatov said. For the same reason, Soldatov said he expected Russian authorities to find a job for Snowden that will prevent him from having contacts with journalists.

Putin has denied that Russia's security services have worked with Snowden, either before or after he arrived in Moscow on a flight from Hong Kong. But security experts have said that Russia's intelligence agencies would not have passed up a chance to at least question a man who is believed to hold reams of classified U.S. documents and could shed light on how the U.S. intelligence agencies collect information.

Snowden's temporary asylum allows him to work in Russia, with some restrictions, said immigration lawyer Bakhrom Ismailov.

"Snowden has the same rights for employment as a Russian citizen except that he is not allowed to work as a public servant or take a job in law enforcement agencies," said Ismailov, a managing partner at Yurinvestholding. The founder of Russia's Facebook-like social network site VKontakte, has already made what sounded like a job offer on Twitter.

The law on temporary asylum says a person with this status is entitled "to receive assistance" in traveling out of Russia. Ismailov said that this assistance could mean issuing a travel document, but this is not normally done for people with temporary asylum.

Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia had offered Snowden asylum and he told human rights figures during a meeting in mid-July that he wanted to visit all those countries. But Kucherena said Thursday that Snowden no longer has such plans.

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Associated Press writer Lynn Berry in Moscow contributed to this report.

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Andrew Silverman to Simon Cowell: You Home-Wrecker!

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NWSL: Boston Breakers part ways with Head Coach Lisa Cole

SOMERVILLE, MA ? The Boston Breakers and coach Lisa Cole have parted ways, the club announced Friday afternoon. Defender and Olympic gold medalist Cat Whitehill will take over coaching duties for Boston as a player/coach on an interim basis while the team searches for a new permanent manager.

?Lisa was a critical participant in the launch of the National Women?s Soccer League and making sure there was a professional women?s league in the U.S.,? Boson Breakers managing partner Michael Stoller said. ?I cannot thank her enough for her years of service to the Breakers and women?s professional soccer.?

Assistant coach Maren Rojas also left the club ahead of their home game Saturday against the Western New York Flash.

?I have great respect for both Lisa and for Maren,? Stoller said. ?Lisa is highly regarded in the women?s game and her dedication to the sport throughout the years is unmatched, from club, college, amateur, and up to the professional level.?

The Breakers currently sit fifth in the National Women?s Soccer League standings, having taken 23 points from 18 games with a 6-7-5 record. They trail the Flash by seven points for the fourth and final NWSL playoff spot with four games to play in the regular season.

?At this point, as the team makes a push to the playoffs, this was a change that needed to be made,? Breakers General Manager Lee Billiard said. ?Lisa has done so much for our organization and the women?s professional game in general. It is with great regret this change had to be made.?

Cole took over as head coach for the Breakers in 2012 after arriving at the club in 2009 and spending three years as an assistant under Tony DiCicco. She posted a 17-10-5 record during her two years in charge of the Breakers in both the NWSL and Women?s Premier Soccer League.

?Lisa is a highly respected coach and had many great seasons in Boston,? Billiard said. ?Maren came to the team with a great coaching resume, and we have respect for both coaches.?

Rojas joined Boston ahead of the 2013 NWSL season. She previously served as an assistant coach at Boston College for the women?s soccer team.

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Sun Opens Explosive Plasma 'Arms' in Solar Eruption (Video)

A sun-watching spacecraft spotted our closest star opening its arms to the cosmos. Two strands of plasma from an eruption in the sun's atmosphere were captured in observations with NASA's STEREO A satellite.

The plasma arms broke out from a sunspot in a 12-hour-long event that occurred from July 21 and 22, according to NASA. The solar phenomenon was observed in a wavelength of extreme UV light and condensed into a?time-lapse video of the sun storm.

STEREO A and its sister spacecraft STEREO B launched in 2006 as part of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory. They are just two of the space agency's satellites tasked with monitoring the sun's activity.

NASA and the European Space Agency also oversee the long-lived Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, which launched in 1996 and recently spotted a?gigantic hole in the sun's atmosphere?covering nearly a quarter of the solar surface over the sun's north pole. NASA's powerful Solar Dynamics Observatory and other probes also keep constant watch on the sun and its space weather impacts.

The sun is currently reaching its 11-year peak in activity, known as the solar maximum. During this period, there are more sunspots causing a boost in solar flares and ejections, though this cycle's peak is shaping up to be the weakest in a century, scientists have said.

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Child Beat Up At Church Camp; Blames Employee

MCALMONT, AR- A child beaten up at a church summer camp Wednesday, now a grandmother is seeking answers after learning an employee instigated the fight. Her 12-year-old grandson told FOX 16 he's been bullied for several years now at the McAlmont Church of Christ Summer Camp. However, three teens took it to a whole new level on Wednesday. The boy suffered a severe concussion and was taken to the hospital.

"My Leg was hurting and I had really bad pain and I was just so dizzy, and my head was hurting, I just kept holding my head," said the 12-year-old victim.

The boy said he was playing a game of basketball with one of the church employees, when he admitted to making fun of woman's basketball shot.

"All I remember is her grabbing the other 2 boys and telling them ya'll go over there and hit and beat him up for me," said the victim.

Next thing the boy knew, the teens were throwing punches at him, picked him up and slammed him on the ground. At one point, the teens started stomping on him. He didn't remember much after the fight other than he was in a lot of pain and no adults were around.

"That could've killed him," said Carolyn Jordan, victim's Grandmother.

Carolyn Jordan's been sending her grandson to the summer camp for six years. Now she's hesitant on trusting a place she once considered safe.

"That right there just made me mad. I said for you to stand there and let 3 of them jump him?" explained Jordan.

Jordan is even more upset at how the 19-year-old employee handled the situation, especially the moment her grandson lost a tooth in the fight.

"She turned around and brought me my tooth and she laughed in my face," said the victim.

Church minister Loyd Harris said he's concerned about the issue and says they're looking into the matter.

"There are some preliminary actions that have been taken to remove kids from the program while we do the investigation," said Loyd Harris, Minister.

The child and his family ultimately want to see a change.

"I just want things to be right," said the victim.

"They either need to get some better staff, staff the place right and find somebody to run the place the way it used to be ran. They just need to point blank close it down because its not going to do anybody any good to go down there and find their kids somewhere dead," said Jordan.

In a Pulaski County Sheriff's report, it says two church employees said the children were "horse playing" when one got injured. The mother of the child said she plans on pressing charges.

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New drugs to find the right target to fight Alzheimer's disease

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The future is looking good for drugs designed to combat Alzheimer's disease. Scientists have unveiled how two classes of drug compounds currently in clinical trials work to fight the disease. Their research suggests that these compounds target the disease-causing peptides with high precision and with minimal side-effects.

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Employers aren't cutting, or adding, many staffers

In this Monday, June 24, 2013, photo, a recruiter waits to meet with job seekers at a career fair, in King of Prussia, Pa. The Labor Department reports on the number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits in the last week of July on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. In the previous week, applications rose to 343,000. Weekly applications can be volatile in July because of summer shutdowns at auto plants that can cause temporary spikes in layoffs. Still, the broader trend has been favorable and consistent with steady job growth. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

In this Monday, June 24, 2013, photo, a recruiter waits to meet with job seekers at a career fair, in King of Prussia, Pa. The Labor Department reports on the number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits in the last week of July on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2013. In the previous week, applications rose to 343,000. Weekly applications can be volatile in July because of summer shutdowns at auto plants that can cause temporary spikes in layoffs. Still, the broader trend has been favorable and consistent with steady job growth. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Companies have all but stopped laying off workers. They just aren't hiring many.

When the government issues the July employment report Friday, it will likely show another solid month of job growth. But the job gain can be misleading because it's a net figure: The number of people hired minus the number who lose or quit jobs.

When employers are cutting few workers, as they are now, it doesn't take many hires to create a high net gain.

Last week, the number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell 19,000 to 326,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. That was the fewest since January 2008.

Those applications reflect layoffs. And layoffs have averaged 1.65 million a month this year through May, even fewer than the 1.77 million average in the pre-recession year of 2006.

So few people are losing their jobs that it's easy to forget that the job market isn't yet healthy. The unemployment rate remains a still-high 7.6 percent ? far more than the 5 percent to 6 percent associated with a normal economy.

According to a survey of economists by FactSet, the economy likely added 183,000 jobs in July. Yet the picture isn't as bright as that net gain might suggest. Consider why a net gain can be deceiving:

Suppose a company cut 40 workers and hired 50. Net gain: 10 jobs. But say it instead cut only 10 and added 30. It would have hired fewer workers. Yet it would have created twice the net job gain ? 20.

Similarly, the Labor Department's monthly net job gain can look healthy despite only modest hiring. As layoffs have steadily declined, the economy has been generating a 202,000 net jobs a month this year, up from an average 183,000 in 2012.

"The layoff side of the employment equation remains stable," Jill Brown, an economist at Credit Suisse, wrote in a note to clients Thursday.

The hiring side, by contrast, has yet to accelerate.

Employers have hired an average of 4.36 million people a month through May this year, the government says. That's 18 percent below the 2006 average of 5.32 million hires a month.

Facing tax increases, federal spending cuts and weak demand overseas, companies have been reluctant to hire aggressively. And many have discovered since the Great Recession that they can manage with fewer staffers than before, thanks in part to machines and software that can do clerical and administrative tasks better and more cheaply than humans can.

Start-up companies, which produce a majority of new jobs, have become stingier about hiring. The average new business employed just 4.7 workers when it opened shop in 2011, down from 7.6 in the 1990s, according to a Labor Department study last year that attributed the drop to technology.

Employers' reluctance to step up hiring has hampered the jobs recovery. Even at this year's average monthly pace of 202,000 net job gains, it would take 11 more months to restore U.S. payrolls to their January 2008 peak ? before the Great Recession started wiping out jobs.

Still, compared with the lackluster growth of the U.S. economy, the pace of hiring doesn't look so bad. The economy grew at a subpar 1.7 percent annual rate from April through June, the government said this week. That was better than the revised 1.1 percent growth rate for January through March but still far below a normal annual rate of roughly 2.5 percent to 3 percent.

On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve slightly downgraded its assessment of the U.S. economy, though it expects growth to pick up in the second half of the year.

The cautious message from the Fed might signal that it isn't ready to slow its bond purchases, which have helped shrink long-term interest rates and encouraged borrowing and spending.

Steady job growth had fueled speculation that the Fed might start scaling back its $85 billion a month in bond purchases as soon as September. Many economists now say the Fed might delay the start of any pullback in purchases until after economic growth has accelerated, perhaps by December.

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Why Patents Won't Kill 3D-Printing Innovation (Op-Ed)

Melba Kurman, author, and Hod Lipson, Cornell University associate professor in mechanical and aerospace engineering, are co-authors of "Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing" (John Wiley & Sons, 2013) and leading voices in the field of 3D printing. They contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights as part of their new LiveScience series highlighting issues and developments in 3D-printing technology.

If you want to start a fight at a party full of people passionate about 3D printing, just mention technology patents. Immediately, people will stake out their positions and the room will erupt into chaos. Blogger Paul Banwatt sums up the debate nicely as a standoff between those "who believe that patents have held back 3D-printing technology and those who believe that patents have really incentivized innovation."

Patents are like people. Some do good things and try to help others. Other patents behave like greedy bureaucrats by hiding behind rules and regulations and getting in the way of forward progress. Just to be clear here, in this article we're not talking about the unresolved, looming battle over pirating or the 3D printing of unauthorized copies of IP (intellectual property)-protected designs. We mean patents on actual 3D-printing processes, tools and materials that are filed by companies that make and sell 3D printers and related technologies.

Constraints drive innovation

Patents drive technological advancement, but not in the way most people think. Conventional wisdom suggests that the temporary monopoly a patent gives a company enables that business to re-coup its earlier investment in the research and development (R&D) and attorney fees that generated the patent. When it comes to 3D-printing technology, conventional wisdom tells only a small part of the story. [The 10 Weirdest Things Created by 3D Printing]

Patents have helped 3D-printing technology advance, but not by giving a patent holder temporary control over a particular printing technology. Patents, particularly key patents on critical platform technologies, have pushed 3D-printing technology forward by introducing constraints. Patent-induced constraints force technological ingenuity ? which, in turn, drives innovation. The reason several different 3D-printing techniques exist today is, in part, the constraints imposed by patents that blocked key technologies and hence required the creation of workarounds.

Vast, open expanses of technological green fields are nice. But as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos put it, "Frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out." Bezos was referring to Amazon's early cash-poor days when, lacking a fat advertising budget, the company innovated around its constraints and eventually created its game-changing associates program.

Several innovative 3D-printing technologies are the fruit of patent-induced constraints. Over the past few decades, to play on the commercial battlefield, 3D-printing companies were forced to come up with technological workarounds to develop their own commercial 3D printers and related products. To avoid patent lawsuits, 3D-printing companies innovated their way out of a "tight box" by inventing around other companies' technology patents. As rival companies navigated their way around patent-induced constraints, they invented yet more innovative technologies.

Innovation in the face of constraints

In this environment, nearly two-dozen novel and important 3D-printing technologies were invented as a direct or indirect response to somebody else's patents. [The Top 10 Inventions That Changed the World]

Here are a few examples:

? Objet invented a new way to 3D print using photo-curable materials without relying on a liquid vat and a laser (a leading technique at the time). Objet's innovative techniques made it possible to print with multiple materials.

? Arcam invented EBeam selective sintering to avoid using lasers to fuse powder into layers. The result is a faster printing process and objects with improved material properties.

? Optomec developed a printing process that sprays metal powder into the path of a laser beam. This novel technique avoids the use of a powder-bed, which opened the door to one of the most promising applications for 3D printing, the fabrication of precisely graded metal alloys

Today, these rival printing technologies benefit users and provide a rich foundation for future inventors, from both commercial and open-source worlds, to build upon. Patents can advance technological innovation because they force inventors to devise new workarounds.

So, returning to the hypothetical 3D-printing party, what problems do people have with 3D printing and patents? If key patents introduce constraints that force technological innovation, why does the controversy over 3D-printing patents continue?

It continues because the debate over the impact of patents seems to be scrambling together two different forms of advancement: technological advancement and a company's ability to launch new commercial printing products.

Commercial advancement, expiring patents and consumer printers

Let's back up here for a minute and explain one of the hottest patent debates going on in the 3D-printing industry today: the impact of expired patents. The year 2009 marked the expiration date of technology patents for a key printing technology called FDM (invented by Scott Crump in 1989 and formerly owned by Stratasys). FDM is the technology behind the classic layer-by-layer extrusion of a thin plastic stream of material into a 3D pattern, a simple, low-cost technique ideal for consumer machines.

People who view patents as innovation-killers attribute 3D printing's recent growth surge to the expiration of FDM patents. Just a few years after the constraints imposed by FDM patents were lifted, today there are an estimated 100-plus different, low-cost 3D-printer models for sale (most notably MakerBot) that utilize FDM technology. A corresponding number of young companies sell these new consumer 3D printers or are raising funds on Kickstarter to develop their business plans.

One of our favorite intellectual property bloggers, Mike Masnick, put it this way: "Development and innovation [have] been held up for the last couple decades ? not because the technology wasn't available, but because of key patents that are apparently needed to build 3D printers." [10 Amazing 3D-Printing Startups]

It's a compelling argument. But there's a subtle point that's being missed in all the heat and noise: The impact of patents on the advancement of 3D-printing technologies is not monolithic. Patents trigger innovation by imposing constraints that force workarounds. These same patents stifle, or at least complicate, the introduction of new commercial products, as evidenced by the expiration of FDM patents and the ensuing landslide of new printers that followed.

In fact, when patents expire, the ensuing products that appear on the market are not necessarily innovative, at least from a technological perspective. Despite the launch of more than 100 commercial 3D printers in the last two years, most of these printers' core technology is FDM, which dates back to the 1980s. If core patents truly blocked technological innovation, these new consumer-scale 3D-printer models on the market should represent a rich bazaar of ingenious new variations and additions that springboard off of old FDM technology.

Open-source hardware

To add another data point to the debate, there's the case of two early open-source 3D printers launched in 2006: RepRap (created by Adrian Bowyer and his team) and Fab@Home (created by Evan Malone and this article's co-author Hod Lipson). Both systems were simple, do-it-yourself affairs. And, both Fab@home and RepRap were open source, meaning that their machine blueprints were freely available on the Web where anyone could download them.

Thousands of users downloaded these design blueprints and built their own 3D printers at home. Both projects encouraged technological innovation beyond the original blueprints. Several years later, MakerBot's early, commercial 3D printer would borrow many design elements from RepRap and Fab@Home.

After their launch in the mid-2000s, RepRap and Fab@home thrived for years, long before FDM patents expired in 2009. The presence of blocking patents did not discourage do-it-yourselfers from creating innovative new technologies on top of the core, open-sourced machine blueprints. However, and this is the heart of a fine and critical distinction, the presence of blocking patents had a different effect: In the case of open-sourced printers, patents acted as a commercial, not technological, constraint. Users could not necessarily turn their innovations into commercial products without first understanding and skillfully navigating the patent landscape. The Formlabs case is a good example of just how legally complicated the intertwined tangle of patents around a particular printing platform can get.

When patents go bad: blocking the bad ones

?Patents force companies and innovators down different paths. Some companies create ways to invent around the barrier. Others tinker with open-sourced versions of the patented technology. Commercially minded users and companies must wait until a key patent expires before they can take advantage of the now-freely available technology; however, they don't necessarily continue to innovate on top of it.

Patents aren't necessarily bad for innovation, even patents on a core technology. However, bad patents do exist. Some companies try to patent a technology or method that's painfully obvious, that is already in broad use or that someone else has already invented. These are patents worth fighting.

Thanks to recent changes in patent law under the American Invents Act, there's a way to prevent the issuance of such patents. With help from 3D-printing experts and researchers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard's Cyberlaw Clinic have devised an admirable approach to block bad patents ? they collect evidence of prior art and submit it to the U.S. Patent Office. The groups have already blocked six patent applications this way. ?

Going forward, the issue of patents will continue to sow dissent in the 3D-printing community. Intellectual property issues tap into people's core ideologies about appropriate degrees of private ownership and the placement of the boundary between intellectual commons and private commercial interests. In addition, intellectual property laws unfortunately can (and will) be misused and abused by unethical companies and individuals. We hope that as 3D printing continues to develop commercially, the black-and-white debate over the value of patents will embrace gradations of grey and aim its energy at legally preventing the issuance of bad patents on technologies that already exist.

Kuman and Lipson's most recent Op-Ed was"Is Eco-Friendly 3D Printing a Myth?" Follow Kurman @melbakurman. The views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. This article was originally published on LiveScience.com.

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Death Threats to Rick Perry, George W. Bush via Twitter Being Investigated as Protests Against Texas 20 Week Abortion Law Go Out of Control

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  Texas Governor Rick Perry speaking at Faith & Freedom Coalition's "Road to Majority 2013" conference, June 15, 2013, Washington, D.C.

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The state's Department of Public Safety [DPS] has subpoenaed two Twitter accounts, @prisonforbush and @deniseromano for statements they made regarding the abortion legislation from July 17-19. The threatening tweets mention Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, and former President George W. Bush.

Twitter reportedly received the subpoena submitted by DPS Agent Jason McMurray of Tyler on July 25, which requests the names, emails, addresses, method of payment, activation date, and IP addresses of @prisonforbush, an anonymous account, and @deniseromano, belonging to Denise Romano. The social media engine has said it will respond to the subpoena by Aug. 2 unless the users appeal.

Twitter's privacy policy states that a user's information cannot be accessed without legal process, and users will be notified that their information is being accessed.

On July 18, the day Gov. Rick Perry signed the abortion bill into law, Denise Romano tweeted: "Should we execute Perry by lethal injection or stoning for all he's killed."

According to Romano's Twitter profile,?she has been a resident of Austin, Texas since 2012 and often times writes satirical tweets.

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While Romano is a regular user of Twitter, the other suspect, @prisonforbush, had not used the social media platform for one year before sending a barrage of 40 tweets on July 18 calling for the "crucifixion" of Gov. Perry, as well as the torture and hanging of former Vice President Dick Cheney and former President George W. Bush.

Paul Watler, current First amendment lawyer and former president of the Texas Freedom of Information Foundation, told the San Antonio Express?that in order for the state police's charges of "terroristic threats" to stick, a reasonable person must fear that they were truly in danger of being harmed.

"I would question whether a reasonable person would seriously take this as intent to invoke physical harm," he said of @prisonforbush's posts, according to the San Antonio Press. "Just the fact that it would offend a reasonable person isn't enough to limit it - the user may say that it was merely hyperbolic and wasn't meant literally, and therefore it would fall to the side of free speech."

The debate regarding the new abortion bill became tense and unruly as the legislation was addressed earlier in July, with pro-abortion advocates gathering at the Capitol building to protest the passing of the bill. National coverage of the bill caused even more protesters to join the rallies.?

The bill was initially supposed to be voted on by June 25, but an outburst of protesters in the Senate Gallery proved so disturbing that the legislation could not be addressed by the deadline. Democratic Senator Wendy Davis then successfully blocked the bill after an 11 hour filibuster.

Gov. Rick Perry then called a special session of the state legislature to address the bill, during which the bill was passed by a House Committee and Senate, and ultimately signed by Gov. Perry on July 18. During this three week period of debate, tensions grew high among pro-life and pro-abortion protesters.

Some protesters held signs, while others shouted obscenities at lawmakers. The Associated Press described the Texas Capitol as having a "circus-like atmosphere," and the Texas Tribune?reported that the Department of Public Safety issued a statement advising police to search the bags of protesters before entering the Capitol building.

"During these inspections, DPS officers have thus far discovered one jar suspected to contain urine, 18 jars suspected to contain feces, and three bottles suspected to contain paint. All of these items ? as well as significant quantities of feminine hygiene products, glitter and confetti possessed by individuals ? were required to be discarded; otherwise those individuals were denied entry into the gallery," the DPS statement said.

Despite the protests, Gov. Perry signed the legislation, which bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and requires abortion facilities to meet the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers. The bill also requires abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinic.

"This is an important day for those who support life and for those who support the health of Texas women," Perry said in a statement after signing the bill. "In signing House Bill 2 today, we celebrate and further cement the foundation on which the culture of life in Texas is built."

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Good Reads: From women senators, to Appalachia?s woes, to a shadow war

This week's round-up of Good Reads includes a look at the women Senators who reach across the bipartisan divide, lessons to be learned from Nelson Mandela's human failings and personal greatness, Appalachia's drug problem, Journalist's waning public favor, and America's war against Al Qaeda in the Philippines.

By Cricket Fuller,?Staff Writer / July 26, 2013

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Do women make better US senators than men? Jill Lawrence looks at that question, and the women of the Senate, in The National Journal. The 20 women of the Senate ? 16 Democrats and four Republicans ? may not always agree, but in an era of polarization, they demonstrate a remarkable commitment to collegiality. Nearly all say they bring collaborative problem-solving skills to the Senate.?

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As Ms. Lawrence chronicles, ?there is plenty of evidence, in the form of deals made and bills passed, that women know how to get things done? in the Senate ? by leveraging their caucus and through bipartisan, bicameral consensus-building. Now, after decades of hard-fought gains by pioneering women senators, traditional ?women?s issues? (such as health and education) are mainstream, making up roughly a third of the Senate docket. And women senators lead on key committees ? budget, intelligence, and defense.?

Lawrence writes that ?there are too few [women in the Senate], and their arrival on the scene has been too recent, to draw any conclusions? as to whether they are more effective than their male colleagues. But their personal connections and the bills they champion point to a needed cooperation missing in Congress.

Mandela, the patriarch

In a commentary in South Africa?s Mail & Guardian newspaper, Colleen Lowe Morna, founding chief executive of the country?s Commission on Gender Equality under Nelson Mandela, writes, ?If we are to learn from Mandela, we need to acknowledge that his gender legacy is chequered.??

Mr. Mandela?s journey from ?old-school patriarch to a modern husband in his third marriage? ? teaches about the evolution of gender equality as well as his humble commitment to personal growth. The same holds lessons for societal progress now ? and for Mandela?s feuding family, struggling with what Ms. Morna sees as the consequences of patriarchy.

Among them: Mandela named his eldest grandson heir to his tribal legacy, bypassing his oldest daughter. Morna questions ?whether this legacy would not have been safer in the hands of an older daughter than in those of an ill-prepared, younger grandson? who has fueled family controversy. But Morna is certain that as a good leader, Mandela ?would ask us to learn from his greatness and from his human failings.?

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Michigan College President Really Tired Of Government Always Counting Those ?Dark Ones?

Probably today everyone at Hillsdale College, located near Michigan?s not-terribly-Irish ?Irish Hills,? is longing for that simpler time when their president was only a creepy weirdo who (allegedly) sexed his daughter-in-law until she committed suicide. This being an actual thing that happened at the pastoral private college considered ?a citadel of American conservatism,? to quote the National Review. Whereas previous Hillsdale presidents were content being (allegedly) incest-ish perverts in the privacy of their own homes, today?s Hillsdale presidents like to say remarkably ignorant and racially offensive things in public! During public meetings at the state capitol!

Larry Arnn, the president of the private college, made the comments during a subcommittee hearing on Michigan?s adoption of the Common Core State Standards. Arnn, who spoke in opposition of the standards, prefaced his comments by describing an experience when he began as president in the early 2000s in which state officials criticized his college for, as he said, not having enough ?dark? students.

Before you all get outraged over Arnn?s unfortunate phrasing, let?s give this dedicated educator an opportunity to rephrase his remarks. People often say things awkwardly when speaking off-the-cuff. Arnn is entitled to a do-over, don?t you think?

Later, subcommittee chair Rep. Tim Kelly, R-Saginaw Township, asked Arnn whether he wanted to clarify the comments.

?The State of Michigan sent a group of people down to my campus, with clipboards ? to look at the colors of people?s faces and write down what they saw. We don?t keep records of that information. What were they looking for besides dark ones?,? Arnn said.

Huh. Well, never mind about that whole let?s not rush to judgement thing. This guy is just an asshole.

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In college towns, poverty dips without students

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Talk about your struggling college students.

A new report released Monday by the U.S. Census shows that two Florida cities with large concentrations of college students experience big declines in poverty rates when college students aren't counted.

The poverty rate in Gainesville, home of the University of Florida, declines 15.5 percentage points when college students not living with relatives are excluded. In Leon County, home of Florida State University, the dip is 11.5 percentage points.

Both cities have poverty rates significantly higher than the national average of 15.2 percent.

Including college students, more than a third of all residents in Gainesville live below the poverty line. In Tallahassee, it's under a third of all residents.

The report suggests students artificially inflate poverty counts.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/29/3529110/in-college-towns-poverty-dips.html

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This Is Why The House GOP Ignores Pressure From Latinos

Marco Rubio

The Cuban-American conservative with Tea Party backing rose to prominence during the presidential campaign as the GOP's point man to build bridges with the Latino community. Many wonder whether Rubio has presidential ambitions for 2016.

Michele Tel?

Nossa! Nossa! Assim voc? me mata Ai, se eu te pego, Ai, ai, se eu te pego The Brazilian sensation had the entire world on its feet doing hump movements to lyrics not many understood. Anyone who thought they couldn?t speak Portuguese was proved wrong as they sang the catchy summer anthem that took the entire World by storm.? So what was all the fuss about in Tel??s song? In a nutshell: He was dancing when the hottest girl in the club past by and well....in his own words ?Ah when I get my hands on you.? ? Michel Telo poses backstage at the 13th Annual Latin Grammy Awards at Mandalay Bay on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Brenton Ho/Powers Imagery/Invision/AP)

Eva Longoria

More than just a pretty face, <a href="http://videos.huffingtonpost.com/entertainment/eva-longoria-cries-as-she-celebrates-obama-victory-517531343">Eva Longoria emerged</a> as one of the most influential Latino political power brokers, acting as a high-profile ally of the Obama campaign.

Marlen Esparza

The Mexican-American had been throwing punches for years back home in Texas before she rose to fame as the face of Hispanic-American athletes during the London Summer Olympics. As a Cover Girl and a spokeswoman for Coca-Cola, Esparza will forever be remembered for becoming the first woman (and Hispanic) to qualify for the Olympics in Women?s Boxing, the 2012 London Olympics being the first time women?s boxing became an event. Another first came weeks later when Esparza became the first woman boxer to win an Olympic match, securing with that win a bronze medal and a place in history. Bronze medalist Marlen Esparza of the United States, participate in the medals ceremony for women's final flyweight 51-kg gold medal boxing match at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, in London.(AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Shakira's Baby (Bump)

Shakira may have been successfully shaking her non-lying hips for years now, but nothing brought the Colombian star more joy than news she was expecting her first child with boyfriend and FC Barcelona footballer Gerard Piqu?. The radiant mother has tweeted adorable pictures of her baby bump and is constantly shown with a glowing smile as she awaits her baby boy, expected to arrive in mid-January.While Shak?s son will surely be a hit in 2013, the singer?s baby bump truly took the Internet by storm as fans eagerly shared in her excitement to welcome motherhood.

Julian Castro

The Mexican-American Mayor of San Antonio catapulted to political stardom when he was tapped to give the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Danell Leyva

Whether underneath his lucky towel or demonstrating great skill on the high bar, Cuban-American Danell Leyva became a star both at the London Olympics and in his native Miami this year. The chubby asthmatic boy with the gymnast mother and stepfather wasn?t always expected to be the Olympic champion he is today. Despite having some trouble on the pommel horse during competition, Leyva wowed the judges with an astonishing high bar routine that won him the Bronze in the Men?s All-Around competition. MIAMI, FL - NOVEMBER 10: Olympic gold medalist Danell Leyva attends Destination Fashion 2012 To Benefit The Buoniconti Fund To Cure Paralysis, the fundraising arm of The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, on November 10, 2012 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by John Parra/Getty Images for The Buoniconti Fund)

Juan Manuel Santos

Colombia's president gained international prominence when he opened preliminary <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/04/farc-peace-talks-colombia_n_1854995.html?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices&ir=Latino%20Voices">peace talks with the FARC</a>, the country's half-century-old insurgency. It remains to be seen whether Santos can succeed where his predecessors have failed.

Ryan Lochte

Talk about making a splash. The Cuban-American swimmer dove into stardom after taking home 5 medals (two gold, two silver, one bronze) at the 2012 London Olympics, bringing him to a grand total of 11 Olympic medals. This feat is only second best to fellow competitor Michael Phelps and indicates Lochte?s rise within the sport. If his skill in the water isn?t enough, the 28 year-old swim star also made headlines when he decided to do a cameo on Gossip Girl. PASADENA, CA - SEPTEMBER 16: Olympian Ryan Lochte onstage at the 2012 NCLR ALMA Awards at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on September 16, 2012 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for NCLR)

Gina Rodriguez

From Salsa to the Silver Screen, this Puerto Rican actress made a name for herself by taking on the role of Maria Jose 'Majo' Tonorio, a street poet turned rapper in the movie ?Filly Brown.? The film, now an official 2012 Sundance Film Festival Selection, has been critically acclaimed and Rodriguez?s performance may be up for an Academy Award. PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 21: Actress Gina Rodriguez poses for a portrait during the 2012 Sundance Film Festival at the Getty Images Portrait Studio at T-Mobile Village at the Lift on January 21, 2012 in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

Enrique Pe?a Nieto

Mexico's new president <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/11/mexico-drug-war-pena-nieto_n_2276605.html?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices&ir=Latino%20Voices">inherits perhaps the greatest human rights crisis in the hemisphere</a>. Some 60,000 Mexicans have died since outgoing President Felipe Calder?n launched a frontal assault on the country's drug cartels.

Jessica Sanchez

The 17 year-old star with the killer pipes first wowed audiences across the nation with her performances on season 11 of American Idol. In the finale Sanchez was chosen as the runner-up, but that didn?t stop her from not only getting invited to sing at the 2012 Democratic Convention in Charlotte but also land a recurring role in Fox?s hit musical dramedy ?Glee.? CHARLOTTE, NC - SEPTEMBER 05: Singer Jessica Sanchez performs during day two of the Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena on September 5, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The DNC that will run through September 7, will nominate U.S. President Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential candidate. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Lionel Messi

As the year comes to a close, Lionel Messi has plenty to celebrate. Not only is he up for his fourth consecutive Ballon d?Or but earlier this month he managed to break the 40 year-old record for most goals in a year, previously held by German Gerd Muller. Closing out the year with 91 goals (Gerd?s goal was 85) the Argentine forward for the club team FC Barcelona is quickly becoming one of the greatest soccer player?s to have ever graced a field. This combo of two file photographs shows at top; FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi, from Argentina, scoring his second goal against Zaragoza during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, in a Nov. 17, 2012 file photo, and at bottom; a June 18, 1972 file photo of Gerd Mueller, left, of West Germany, scoring a goal against the Soviet Union in the Heysel Stadium, in Brussels. Messi scored his 85th goal during the Spanish league game with Betis on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, matching the current record of most goals scored within one calendar year, previously held by former German striker Gerd Mueller. (AP Photos, Files)

Miguel

With his hit single ?Adorn? from the critically acclaimed album, Kaleidoscope Dream, the half Mexican singer-songwriter garnered five Grammy nominations, including ?Song of the Year? and has made his mark in the industry. In this Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012 file photo, Miguel arrives at the Soul Train Awards at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Miguel is up for five Grammy Awards, including song of the year for his crossover hit, ?Adorn.? (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Invision/AP, File)

Jesse & Joy

This Mexican duo proved to be the big winners at the Latin GRAMMYs, taking 4 golden statuettes including one for their hit Corre!. The brother and sister musical sensation won over audiences with their pop album Con Quien Se Queda El Perro, for which they also won Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Album, and made sure to inspire those Latino stars that came before them. LAS VEGAS, NV - NOVEMBER 15: (L-R) Musicians Jesse Huerta and Joy Huerta of Jesse y Joy pose with the awards for Record of the Year, Best Contemporary Pop Vocal Album and Best Short Form Music Video in the press room during the 13th annual Latin GRAMMY Awards held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on November 15, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images for Latin Recording Academy)

DREAMers

The DREAMers won their biggest victory this year when President Obama directed Homeland Security in June to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/15/obama-immigration-order-deportation-dream-act_n_1599658.html?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices&ir=Latino%20Voices">defer deportation for most people brought here illegally as children</a>.

Antonio Villaraigosa

The Los Angeles Mayor was catapulted to the national stage when he <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/06/antonio-villaraigosa-speech_n_1853081.html">presided over the Democratic National Convention</a>.

Latino Voter

Growing from 6 percent of the electorate in 2000 to 10 percent in 2012, the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/us/politics/with-record-turnout-latinos-solidly-back-obama-and-wield-influence.html">Latino vote crossed a historic threshold this year</a>. The rise of importance of the Hispanic vote promises to raise the political cost of obstructing progress toward immigration reform for both parties.

Carlos Gutierrez

After working with Mitt Romney on Hispanic outreach, businessman Carlos Gutierrez criticized the GOP candidate for saying he lost the election because <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/18/carlos-gutierrez-romney-hispanic-gifts_n_2154943.html?utm_hp_ref=latino-voices&ir=Latino%20Voices">President Obama offered Latinos "gifts."</a> <a href="http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-11-16/politics/35504558_1_immigration-reform-illegal-immigration-immigration-overhaul">Gutierrez is forming a conservative Super PAC</a> to push for immigration reform.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/29/house-gop-shrugs-off-pres_n_3670408.html?utm_hp_ref=politics&ir=Politics

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Kyrie Irving Is The NBA Live 14 Cover Athlete

EA Sports confirmed today that Kyrie Irving ? the young, star point guard of the Cleveland Cavaliers ? will be gracing the cover of NBA Live 14. After a three year hiatus from the pro-basketball simulation scene, EA is attempting to bounce back with their answer to NBA 2k?s LeBron Jamesian basketball dominance.

NBA Live 14, the first basketball simulation from EA since NBA Live 2010, has an uphill battle ahead of it. After the briefly renamed NBA Elite 11?s abrupt cancellation, the folks at EA took an extra year off to create a quality game to rival that of their competitor?s. NBA Live 13 was supposed to be released last fall but was, once again, cancelled.

Now, Live is looking forward. This year?s instalment will be released exclusively on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Developmental diaries boast of new snappy-named technology like the Ignite Engine, which is apparently being included in all of the next generation EA Sports releases, and ?Bouncetek? a ?physics based dribbling mechanic? promising heightened ?authenticity? and ?responsiveness? to set it apart from the other guys.

Whether these fancy new buzzwords deliver with substance, let alone enough substance to seriously compete with 2k?s dominance, remains to be seen. But the deliberate choice of Kyrie Irving is particularly poignant given who 2k chose as their cover athlete and former saviour of Cleveland ? LeBron James.

James?s controversial exit from Cleveland in pursuit ? and attainment ? of championship rings left a rust-belt city known more in recent years for its sports short-comings than achievements angry and desperate. In steps Kyrie Irving, the 2011 first overall draft pick who?s gone on to become a league-wide superstar and the face of a franchise once thought dead. The Cavs are now on the upswing. Their rebuilding process, while not quite complete, has given their fans a substantial reason for hope.

As EA?s Live moves back into the competitive fold, choosing a young star player on the rise as their cover athlete is appropriate. Choosing this particular one, the guy who?s meant to replace LeBron, is bold. Only time will tell if they can succeed. One thing?s for sure, the renewed rivalry for virtual basketball supremacy is centered around Cleveland, Ohio ? and that is very, very strange.

NBA Live 14 is out later this year.

Source: http://wegotthiscovered.com/gaming/kyrie-irving-nba-live-14-cover-athlete/

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