Then the other would be a female fire knight in the military. I have plans for them. *Evil laugh that I do not know how to do*
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Barring a dramatic shift, more than 800 Chicago Public Schools employees, many of them dues-paying Chicago Teachers Union members, will be without jobs when schools open in the fall.
But CTU, having collected more than?$1,000 in dues per year?from these people before?pricing them out of their jobs, has made plans to help them out. The union is sponsoring an Emergency Resource Summit on July 1, where laid-off teachers will get help applying for unemployment insurance and state assistance with housing, retraining or medical services.
It?s sad to see CTU referring its members to the government for help when, with a bit less confrontation and more pragmatism, many of those teachers and staff could have continued working for the school system, paying their own rent and taking advantage of health insurance provided by the school district. If the union had been more realistic about economic conditions in Chicago, more buildings would have been kept open, and more teachers would have jobs. CTU?could have accepted an across-the-board pay cut of up to 13 percent, and its members would still be better paid than those in most big-city school districts. Instead, it demanded hefty pay raises from a district that was staring at a $1 billion deficit. The union eventually got raises exceeding 17 percent over four years, but that only made the school system?s financial situation worse.
This is the bitter fruit of politically radicalized and economically misinformed union leadership: teachers reduced to dependency on welfare, facilitated by the same union that recklessly forced them out of their jobs.
Paul Kersey is?Director of Labor Policy at the Illinois Policy Institute
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CAIRO (AP) ? Massive crowds thronged the streets of Cairo and cities around the country Sunday and marched on the presidential palace in a cheering tide of people that filled a broad avenue for blocks in an attempt to force out the Islamist president with some of the most gigantic protests Egypt has seen in 2 ? years of turmoil.
Waving flags, blowing whistles and chanting, the protesters aimed to show by sheer numbers that the country has irrevocably turned against Mohammed Morsi, a year to the day that he was inaugurated as Egypt's first freely elected president.
Morsi made clear through a spokesman that he will remain in place and his Islamist supporters vowed not to allow protesters to remove one of their own, brought to office in a legitimate vote. Thousands of Islamists massed not far from the presidential palace in support of Morsi, and fears are widespread that the two sides are heading to a violent collision.
At least four people were killed Sunday in shootings at anti-Morsi protesters in southern Egypt. After dark, youths attacked the headquarters of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo with rocks and firebombs, sparking clashes.
But the rampant violence many feared did not erupt so far. Instead, the giant anti-Morsi rallies by hundreds of thousands in Cairo's central Tahrir Square and outside the Ittihadiya palace were festive and celebratory, spilling into side streets and across boulevards.
Fireworks went off overhead. Men and women, some with small children on their shoulders beat drums, danced and sang, "By hook or by crook, we will bring Morsi down." Residents in nearby homes showered water on marchers below ? some carrying tents in preparation to camp outside the palace ? to cool them in the summer heat and blew whistles and waved flags in support.
"Mubarak took only 18 days although he had behind him the security, intelligence and a large sector of Egyptians," said Amr Tawfeeq, an oil company employee marching toward Ittihadiya with a Christian friend. Morsi "won't take long. We want him out and we are ready to pay the price."
The massive outpouring against Morsi, culminating a year of growing polarization, raises the question of what is next. Protesters vow to stay on the streets until he steps down. The president, in turn, may be hoping protests wane.
For weeks, Morsi's supporters have depicted the planned protest as a plot by Mubarak loyalists. But their claims were undermined by the extent of Sunday's rallies. In Cairo and a string of cities in the Nile Delta and on the Mediterranean coast, the protests were comparable in size ? if not larger ? than the biggest protests of the 2011's 18-day uprising, including the day Mubarak quit, Feb. 11, when giant crowds marched on Ittihadiya.
It is unclear now whether the opposition, which for months demanded Morsi form a national unity government, would now accept any concessions short of his removal. The anticipated deadlock raises the question of whether the army, already deployed on the outskirts of cities, will intervene. Protesters believe it would throw its significant weight behind them, tipping the balance against Morsi. The country's police, meanwhile, were hardly to be seen Sunday.
"If the Brothers think that we will give up and leave, they are mistaken," said lawyer Hossam Muhareb as he sat with a friend on a sidewalk near Ittihadiya. "They will give up and leave after seeing our numbers."
Violence could send the situation spinning into explosive directions.
In a potentially volatile confrontation after nightfall, several dozen youths attacked the Muslim Brotherhood's headquarters on a plateau overlooking the capital. They threw rocks and firebombs at the walled villa, and people inside fired at the attackers with birdshot, according to an Associated Press Television News cameraman at the scene.
Southern Egypt saw deadly attacks on anti-Morsi protests. A protester was shot to death in Beni Suef outside the offices of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party. Gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a protest, killing one person and wounding four others in the city of Assiut.
The enraged protesters then marched on the nearby local Freedom and Justice offices, where gunmen inside opened fire, killing two more, security officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to talk to the press. Clashes erupted with protesters and security forces fighting side by side against Morsi's supporters.
At least 400 people were injured nationwide, the Health Ministry said.
Morsi, who has three years left in his term, said street protests cannot be used to overturn the results of a free election.
"There is no room for any talk against this constitutional legitimacy," he told Britain's The Guardian newspaper in an interview published Sunday, rejecting early elections.
If an elected president is forced out, "there will (be) people or opponents opposing the new president too, and a week or a month later, they will ask him to step down," he said.
Morsi was not at Ittihadiya as Sunday's rally took place ? he has moved to another nearby palace.
As the crowds massed, Morsi's spokesman Ihab Fahmi repeated the president's longstanding offer of dialogue with the opposition to resolve the nation's political crisis, calling it "the only framework through which we can reach understandings."
The opposition has repeatedly turned down his offers for dialogue, arguing that they were for show.
Near Ittihadiya palace, thousands of Islamists gathered in a show of support for Morsi outside the Rabia al-Adawiya Mosque. Some Morsi backers wore homemade body armor and construction helmets and carried shields and clubs ? precautions, they said, against possible violence.
The demonstrations are the culmination of polarization and instability that have been building since Morsi's June 30, 2012 inauguration. The past year has seen multiple political crises, bouts of bloody clashes and a steadily worsening economy, with power outages, fuel shortages, rising prices and persistent lawlessness and crime.
In one camp are the president and his Islamist allies, including the Muslim Brotherhood and more hard-line groups. Morsi supporters accuse Mubarak loyalists of being behind the protests, aiming to overturn last year's election results, just as they argue that remnants of the old regime have sabotaged Morsi's attempts to deal with the nation's woes and bring reforms.
Hard-liners among them have also given the confrontation a sharply religious tone, denouncing Morsi's opponents as "enemies of God" and infidels.
On the other side is an array of secular and liberal Egyptians, moderate Muslims, Christians ? and what the opposition says is a broad sector of the general public that has turned against the Islamists. They say the Islamists have negated their election mandate by trying to monopolize power, infusing government with their supporters, forcing through a constitution they largely wrote and giving religious extremists a free hand, all while failing to manage the country.
"The country is only going backward. He's embarrassing us and making people hate Islam," said Donia Rashad, a 24-year-old unemployed woman who wears the conservative Islamic headscarf. "We need someone who can feel the people and is agreeable to the majority," she added.
On the way to Ittihadiya, some chanted, "You lied to us in the name of religion," and others raised a banner proclaiming, "Morsi=Mubarak. Early presidential elections." The crowds, including women, children and elderly people, hoisted long banners in the colors of the Egyptian flag and raised red cards ? a sign of expulsion in soccer.
In Tahrir, chants of "erhal!", or "leave!", thundered around the square. The crowd, which appeared to number some 300,000, waved Egyptian flags and posters of Morsi with a red X over his face. They whistled and waved happily when military helicopters swooped close overhead, reflecting their belief that the army favors them over Morsi.
A week ago, with the public sense of worry growing over the upcoming confrontation, Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi demanded the president and his opponents reach a compromise. He warned that the military would intervene to prevent the nation from entering a "dark tunnel."
Army troops backed by armored vehicles were deployed Sunday in some of Cairo's suburbs, with soldiers at traffic lights and major intersections. IN the evening, they deployed near the international airport, state TV said.
Similarly sized crowds turned out in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria and the Nile Delta cities of Mansoura, Tanta and Damanhour, with sizeable rallies in cities nationwide.
"Today is the Brotherhood's last day in power," Suliman Mohammed, a manager of a seafood company, said in Tahrir.
The opposition protests emerge from a petition campaign by a youth activist group known as Tamarod, Arabic for "Rebel." For several months, the group has been collecting signatures on a call for Morsi to step down.
On Saturday the group announced it had more than 22 million signatures ? proof, it claims, that a broad sector of the public no longer wants Morsi in office.
It was not possible to verify the claim. If true, it would be nearly twice the around 13 million people who voted for Morsi in last year's presidential run-off election, which he won with around 52 percent of the vote. Tamarod organizers said they discarded about 100,000 signed forms because they were duplicates.
Morsi's supporters have questioned the authenticity and validity of the signatures, but have produced no evidence of fraud.
At the pro-Morsi rally at the Rabia al-Adawiya Mosque, the crowd chanted, "God is great," and some held up copies of Islam's holy book, the Quran.
"The people hold the legitimacy and we support Dr. Mohamed Morsi," Ahmed Ramadan, one of those at the rally said. "We would like to tell him not to be affected by the opponents' protests and not to give up his rights we are here to support and protect him."
One of the world's most prominent Muslim clerics, Sheik Yousef El-Qaradawi, who is close to the Brotherhood, appealed to Egyptians to give Morsi a chance, saying if Morsi goes, "someone who's worse than Morsi" would replace him.
"It's not easy to change a president with another one but it's better to correct him," el-Qaradawi, an Egyptian who has lived in Qatar for many years, said on Al-Jazeera Mubasher Misr TV.
Ibrahim Ahmed, a 59-year-old retired civil servant who was at Tahrir with Yassin, his five-year-old grandson, snorted at the idea.
"He wants us to be patient with Morsi? No, thank you. Look at what happened in one year. The Egyptian pound is going down and the country is being Brotherhood-ized," he said.
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AP reporters Tony G. Gabriel and Mariam Rizk contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-erupts-protests-demanding-morsi-ouster-215829657.html
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By BARBARA HOBEROCK World Capitol Bureau on Jun 30, 2013, at 2:32 AM??Updated on 6/30/13 at 7:06 AM
Sen. Clark Jolley (left) and Sen. Brian Crain: Jolley was the author of a bill passed two years ago that banned abortion after 20 weeks. Crain carried a bill that would have declared "personhood" at conception.
OKLAHOMA CITY - Abortion continues to be an emotional issue in Oklahoma as the GOP-controlled Legislature puts it at the forefront of its agenda.Last week, Texas made national headlines after a hotly debated bill clamping down on abortion failed to secure approval by deadline following a filibuster by Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth.
The measure would have banned abortion after 20 weeks, required abortion clinics to become ambulatory surgical centers and required doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles. The measure would have closed most abortion facilities in Texas.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has called the GOP-controlled Texas Legislature back into session to reconsider the measure, which is expected to pass.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court announced last week it would review an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision that found unconstitutional a law putting restrictions on medical abortions induced by drugs as opposed to surgery.
Since Republicans took control of both chambers of the Oklahoma Legislature, measures clamping down on abortion have become common. Prior to GOP control, the Senate killed or refused to hear many abortion bills.
Some recent measures have been tossed out by courts.
With the GOP expected to retain control for some time, abortion will continue to be an issue in Oklahoma.
Two years ago, the Legislature passed and Gov. Mary Fallin signed a bill banning abortion after 20 weeks, based on the assertion that a fetus can feel pain.
Sen. Clark Jolley, R-Edmond, was the Senate author of that bill.
"If the brain is developed enough it can sense pain and feel the sensation of limbs being ripped off before they have been killed. That is something that should not be done because that is a life, something we hold dear," Jolley said.
Jolley said he doesn't think the measure will have a huge impact because most abortions are performed before 20 weeks.
He said if a candidate is not solidly pro-life in Oklahoma, he or she will not win many elections, with a few exceptions in solidly Democratic districts. But even in many Democratic districts, a candidate still must be pro-life to secure approval, Jolley said.
Keith Gaddie, a University of Oklahoma political science professor, doesn't believe the issue is of paramount importance to the general public. Most voters have already made up their mind on abortion, he said.
Sen. Brian Crain, R-Tulsa, two years ago carried a measure that would have declared "personhood" at conception. The measure failed to get a hearing in the House.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court stopped an effort to put the measure before state voters.
"Up until the (former Gov. Brad) Henry administration, no pro-life bills were heard in the state Senate," Crain said. "While other states were addressing the issue of pro-life and how to regulate abortion procedures, nothing like that was being done in Oklahoma. A lot of what was going on with the state in the years I have been in the Legislature has been enacting legislation that has been in other states for years."
Former Sen. Cal Hobson, D-Lexington, served in the House and Senate and became leader of the Senate before leaving because of term limits.
He said Democrats were not of the mind to purposely pass bills they knew were unconstitutional. Hobson, a real estate developer, believes some lawmakers pursue abortion bills knowing full well they will run afoul of a legal challenge, but that they don't care.
Sen. Constance Johnson, D-Forest Park, is one of the more vocal critics of measures putting restrictions on abortion.
She said it is an effort by supporters to disregard a woman's right to make a medical decision and keep women oppressed.
Rep. Jeanie McDaniel, D-Tulsa, said abortion is not something her constituents express a lot of concern about. They are more interested in jobs, the economy and health care, she said.
Supporters of laws putting more regulations on abortion are getting more aggressive, she said.
"To me, it impedes a woman's right to take care of her own health," she said.
The issue is so controversial that some who perform abortions in Oklahoma refuse to talk about it.
Reproductive Services in Tulsa did not respond to two phone calls from the Tulsa World. The organization in the past has filed lawsuits successfully challenging some abortion measures.
Meanwhile, the number of abortions in Oklahoma is on the decline.
In 2002, there were 6,215 abortions in Oklahoma, according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health. That figure dropped to 4,840 in 2011.
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By Moses Nosike
President Goodluck Jonathan?s gigantic steps to improving agriculture in the country are getting a boost with the recent establishment of an Agricultural International Market in Enugu State.? The market which is a sole venture from a reputable industrial outfit based in Lagos, Eugene-Rose, will surely break the much needed barrier in the growth of commerce and industry in the south eastern part of Nigeria.
Coming at a time when clarion calls for such ventures by the enterprising and business-inclined men and women from that part of the country have fallen on deaf ears, the new International market will surely fill the much needed yawning gap created by negligence or abandonment. Chief Executive Officer of Eugene-Rose, the company pioneering the gigantic stride, Chief Eugene Ngozichukwuka Ibeaham spoke exhaustively on the project. Excerpts:
Background: I started manufacturing in 1994 after a stint in buying and selling in Lagos. During that time, I ventured into producing nylon, before I started processing water and toilet roll.? That was the two major things I was producing then, but because of the competitive nature of toilet roll, we had to leave it and faced water both in sachet and in bottle. After that, we went into? estate development. That is what we have been doing till date.
Secret of success in business
I have tried as much as possible not to engage in any shoddy deal while doing my business.? I always ensure that what we do is legal, no manoeuvreings and no faking.? We go for the best in quality.? People should avoid using other people?s wealth or ingenuity to make money.? We all know that God comes first if you want to achieve success but we must endeavour to avoid the temptation to get involved in criminal deals.
New stride
We have started investing at home, trying to encourage people especially Igbos to look inwards.? If you look around now, I can say our society, mostly in the Eastern region, we have been witnessing cases of kidnapping, armed robbery and other criminal acts which is inimical to the development of any society.
The once applauded economic prowess of the people from the East has gone down while criminality has taken over.? We all know that kidnapping is a curse and it is anathema for any society to be known for that.? It is just like dealing in slave trade in those days and we are all witnesses to the curse it brought to the perpetrators.
So, after thinking about all these ugly development, I decided to engage in meaningful ventures that will, to a large extent, checkmate the rising spate of these crimes in our area.? God has given us that commercial ability to progress in this country.
In the North, God gave them very fertile land; they cultivate any type of crop all year round.? In the east, what we have is commerce, we know how to trade.? Even when an Igbo man packs sand, he will sell it. So, we have to start on that line of market.? In realization of this fact, we decided to build a very big international market in the east.? The name is Agric. International Market.
It is situated along Enugu- Onitsha express way, Ugwu- Oba -Aniocha-Oji River in Enugu state.?? The land mark is very big. The plot we are using now is more than a hundred and fifty.? It is located in a very large expanse of land and we anticipate that in future, it may even extend to Ninth-Mile.
The good thing is that we have enough land for any kind of expansion and development. We are calling all Igbo sons and daughters at home and abroad to come, because as the saying goes, ?one man doesn?t stay in the bush?. So, we are calling on every one, both male and female investors to join us.
For now, the market has kicked off with my personal financial commitment but I expect all that have the good interest of the people of the South east at heart to come and invest there.? From what we are seeing now, it will turn out to be the widest and prosperous investment in the East of the Niger in future.
The first block was laid in 2012, around February.?? We are about one year plus now and if you go to the market, you will see a lot of structures on ground; blocks of shop, hotels, security posts and other things. People are even coming in, trading in a small capacity as they can, and I believe that more people will be coming.
How it all started?
Before we entered into the business, we advertized, shared and distributed fliers calling on interested people to come; we sold our forms for N10,000.00 and all that.? The initial problem we had was skepticism on the part? of would-be investors.
You know in the east, we have had such markets but they failed to flourish or develop well.?? However, we convinced investors by telling them the difference in our own which is that normal business will kick-start without delay and that we will not wait for the completion of the entire structures before swinging into action.
Our style is that if it is one shop we build, we start from there. If it?s two, we progress. We are not going to wait until every where and every bank comes over before we can start it.? Big markets like Alaba in Lagos started that way.
Initially, people thought it was a fraudulent venture but when they saw structures rising up in the market and activities started booming, they now realized that we are serious.? We equally assured investors that they can pay gradually until they are able to own the structures after completing their payments.
Sponsors
To be frank with you, up till this moment I am talking, no government has? asked us how we are doing or what we are? doing there?? only the Local Government Chairman came to see what we are doing and he commended us. We are planning to meet them because we have just completed the security post? inside the market which will be opened soon.
We want to hand it over to the army for now.? This will show you the type of efforts we have made towards securing the market.?? So far, I have been sponsoring the project single-handedly. It is very difficult to say the exact amount of money we have put into the project so far but I can tell you? it is quite enormous.
Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/opening-the-frontiers-of-international-business-in-the-east/
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STARTUPS:?Raising capital is dead easy ? you just convince some wealthy folk to believe in your idea and persuade them to part with some of their cash. Right? Obviously it?s nowhere near that simple, as many a travel company will testify. So what should you do? Read the full story on Forbes.
The simple fact of the market is that there are many, many more entrepreneurs seeking capital than there are investors seeking to fund them.
Indeed, the odds are 40:1 against getting money from angels and 400:1 against a company receiving an investment from a venture capital fund.
This means that it is a ?buyer?s market?, and it is infinitely more common for an investor to decline to make an investment offer than it is for a company to decline to accept an investment offer.
Read the full story on Forbes
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The Vine for Android app is now available on the Amazon app store, and is compatible with the Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD. That means you can now take all the six-second selfies your heart desires, and share them all with the rest if the civilized world.
Or you can freak out over ... Gummy Worms.
Anyhoo, it's nice to see the folks behind Vine haven't forgotten about everyone with a Kindle Fire. Grab your copy (it's free) from the app store on your device, or click the link below.
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Skin Cancer Vaccine Closer To Reality
Updated June 29, 2013 7:41 AM?|?Filed under: Health
(UNDATED) - Doctors tell you to use sunscreen every day to avoid skin cancer, but there could be a new weapon against the most dangerous form of the disease.
A vaccine for melanoma passed its initial human trial without causing any adverse side effects, according to a study published online this week in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Researchers at Duke University and Merck Laboratories are injecting dendritic cells into patients, the cells that are part of our immune system that normally protects us from disease. "You take a protein from the melanoma that was always there but the immune system couldn't see, and you enhance the ability of the immune system to see it," said Dr. Ruemu Birhiray, an oncologist at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis.
Normally, cancer cells block protein fragments that are essential to the immune system, allowing cancers such as melanoma to worsen. If further clinical trials show promising results, Birhiray says the study could lead to personalized cancer treatment. "This is the holy grail of cancer research. Could you imagine if we could teach our bodies to get rid of all our cancers, and there would never be chemotherapy anymore?"
Birhiray stresses that at least two more trials are needed before the Food and Drug Administration would approve a cancer vaccine. "The first phase, you want to prove that the drug is safe for humans. Once you have established that, you go to phase two, which is when you begin testing the treatment on people with a particular disease," said Birhiray, adding the second phase involves a small group of patients. A third, larger study will compare those taking a drug with other patients who are not.
Clinical trials take an average of eight years to complete, meaning it would be at least six years before a melanoma vaccine would be available, provided it passed all its trials. But oncologists are excited that the vaccine, which could be used to treat other cancers if it's effective, has made it this far. "Melanoma is one of the most difficult cancers to treat. So, when you see, especially in an early phase study, that it appears to not just be safe but also appears to be able to treat that disease, there's a lot more excitement than there probably would have been if you just showed that it was safe," Birhiray said.
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By Isla Binnie
PILTON, England (Reuters) - Tomato fights, anarchic gymnasts and astrophysics drew festival-goers of all ages away from the mainstream music acts at Britain's Glastonbury festival this weekend.
The 1,500 hippies who paid one pound ($1.52) to attend the first Glastonbury festival in 1970 would barely recognize the massive three-day event, where around 150,000 fans were watching 2,000 acts on 58 stages, alongside thousands of workshops and stalls.
The Rolling Stones, who were headlining the festival on Saturday for the first time in their 50-year career, were guaranteed to draw a huge audience, but many preferred to seek out the smaller venues and avoid the heaving crowds.
"I'm usually not so into the huge stages. I like the ones that are more intimate," said Sean-Tastic, one half of the Irish dance and comedy duo Lords of Struts.
With their farcical gymnastics routine, the neon lycra-clad pair drew an enthusiastic crowd to an outdoor stage in the festival's Cabaret area.
Dancing in silence was the theme of one of the festival's late-night events. After dark, a sprawling 900-acre site transformed into a pulsating strobe-lit playground where revelers dance to music played on flashing headphones.
Another nocturnal venue, the Shangri-La area, adopted a heaven and hell theme, offering golden wristbands and entry to a mud-free haven to those approved by the Desk of Judgment.
The Latin-themed Common area, where staff stalked around dressed as the dead, was due to host a tomato fight on Sunday, imitating the annual Tomatina festival in eastern Spain.
Less messy activities included getting a novelty hairstyle.
"I get a bit bored by some of the things on the main stages," said Flo Lipin, 35, as she queued outside a caravan called "Total Eclipse of the Head" for a haircut themed on music styles of the music of the 1970s, '80s or '90s.
"The smaller things are more interesting - and sillier."
For those who agreed with Stones front man Mick Jagger that rock'n'roll can be "intellectually undemanding", celebrity astrophysicist Brian Cox was due to talk about the mysteries of the universe and veteran protest singer Billy Bragg was debating politics and feminism in the Left Field tent.
With the average age of Glastonbury revelers now hitting 36 and more families attending, there were also family-friendly attractions such as a circus and clay modeling.
Craft-minded festival-goers could choose between workshops on making Mongolian-style tents, magic wands, or jewellery out of drink-can ring-pulls.
"The wonderful thing about Glastonbury is that I feel so safe here and it is great for families," said Nancy Laws, 35, at the festival with her 3-year-old son Joshua and 10-month-old daughter Amelie. "There is a really relaxed vibe."
($1 = 0.6593 British pounds)
(Additional reporting by Belinda Goldsmith; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/glastonbury-hosts-heaven-hell-haircuts-alongside-music-154159127.html
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By Jeff Sneider
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Zero Dark Thirty" star Jennifer Ehle is set to play Kevin Costner's late wife in writer-director Mike Binder's drama "Black and White," TheWrap has learned.
Costner's Treehouse Productions and Binder's Sunlight Productions are co-producing the project, which IM Global was selling to foreign buyers at Cannes. Executive producer Cassian Elwes is handling domestic rights.
Story follows a widowed attorney (Costner) and his bi-racial granddaughter (Jillian Estell) whose mother (the daughter of Costner's character) died while giving birth.
Octavia Spencer co-stars as the young girl's grandmother who wants her son (Andre Holland) to care for the child. When he's unable to due to a drug addiction, she and Costner's character spar over custody.
Ehle will play Costner's late wife who regularly appears in his booze-soaked dreams and hallucinations.
Binder, who previously worked with Costner on "The Upside of Anger," will begin shooting "Black and White" this summer in New Orleans.
In addition to a stirring turn in Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," Ehle's recent credits include "The King's Speech," "The Ides of March" and "Contagion." She'll soon be seen in Jose Padilha's remake of "RoboCop," which hits theaters February 7, 2014.
Ehle is represented by ICM Partners and Independent Talent Group.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/zero-dark-thirty-star-jennifer-ehle-joins-kevin-193934722.html
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) ? Several members of Congress representing coastal states are voicing concern about a proposed federal regulation that could pre-empt state bans on buying or selling shark fins.
Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman of California is being joined by representatives of New York, Florida and Guam in seeking changes to a proposal they say would take away a state tool to protect shark populations.
California, Hawaii, New York and several other states have passed regulations on the sale and trade of shark fins, which are used in a soup considered an Asian delicacy. California's ban on the sale, trade and possession of shark fins will go into effect Monday after a compromise allowed time for restaurants and businesses to use up their existing supplies.
A letter from the members of Congress and the representative of Guam states that a proposed rule by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's fisheries management division, the National Marine Fisheries Services, would undermine those laws. California state lawmakers were also circulating an opposition letter.
"If we are to address the problem of shark-finning head on, we must allow state and territorial statutes to complement the federal regulations and further the U.S. leadership in global shark conservation," states the letter, which has not yet been sent to the fisheries service but was given in advance to The Associated Press.
In addition to Huffman, it is to be signed by Democratic Reps. Sam Farr of California and Grace Meng of New York, Florida Republican Rep. Vern Buchanan and Democratic Delegate Madeleine Bordallo of Guam. Their letter is dated July 8, which is when the public comment period on the proposed rule is scheduled to end.
A request for comment was left with a press officer for the National Marine Fisheries Services.
The proposal under consideration says state and territory shark fin laws are pre-empted if they are found to be inconsistent with federal fishery management plans or regulations.
Conservation groups have begun circulating petitions against the proposal, but representatives of the fishing industry have argued that federal pre-emption is necessary to maintain fishing of commercially viable shark species.
Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed the Shark Conservation Act of 2010 in an effort to strengthen federal laws against shark finning in U.S. waters and require that sharks be landed with their fins still attached. Since then, the fisheries service has been working to craft regulations to implement the act.
Conservation and animal advocacy groups said fishermen have been able to sidestep the rules by taking only the fins of sharks and dumping the carcasses back into the sea.
Jill Hepp, director of shark conservation at The Pew Charitable Trusts, said states should have the right to go beyond federal rules in protecting shark populations.
"If this goes forward as they are proposing, this has the potential to undermine the states' shark fin trade ban and it would be a considerable setback for global shark conservation," Hepp said.
But John Whiteside, an attorney for Sustainable Fisheries Association, a Massachusetts nonprofit founded by four seafood processors, said the federal government should have the final say over regulations, especially fish caught in federal waters.
Not doing so would violate trade laws and run afoul of treaties the federal government has with governments around the world, he said. Commercial fishing groups were successful at getting exemptions in some states for certain species of sharks, such as the dogfish, a small shark also used for fish and chips that is sustainably harvested.
However, California provides no such exemption.
"You're building a wall around the state of California from which the free flow of legal goods is forbidden," he said. "If you have these states around the country that build these little islands, you can't have the free flow of commerce and that's what this country needs."
Jennifer Fearing, California state director for the Humane Society, said California drafted its bill specifically to ban the sale of shark fins, no matter where the shark was caught.
"It's not California sharks being finned," she said. "It's dried processed shark fins arriving here already processed and dried. We have no idea where those sharks come from and the only way California can protect sharks globally is if they were not selling."
California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Oregon and Washington have passed laws banning the buying and selling of shark fins, according to The Humane Society of the United States. Similar bans are in effect in three U.S. Pacific territories ? Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/federal-rule-could-upend-states-shark-fin-bans-203717163.html
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Climate change seems like this complicated problem with a million pieces. But Henry Jacoby, an economist at MIT's business school, says there's really just one thing you need to do to solve the problem: Tax carbon emissions.
"If you let the economists write the legislation," Jacoby says, "it could be quite simple." He says he could fit the whole bill on one page.
Basically, Jacoby would tax fossil fuels in proportion to the amount of carbon they release. That would make coal, oil and natural gas more expensive. That's it; that's the whole plan.
Jacoby's colleague John Reilly told me the price of gasoline might rise by 25 cents a gallon in the first year. Over time, that would increase. By 2050, Reilly figures the carbon tax would add about $1 to the price of every gallon. Across the economy, prices of energy-intensive goods and services would rise. This would encourage people and businesses to be more efficient.
This is why economists love a carbon tax: One change to the tax code and the entire economy shifts to reduce carbon emissions. No complicated regulations. No rules for what kind of gas mileage cars have to get or what specific fraction of electricity has to come from wind or solar or renewables. That's by and large the way we do it now.
Reilly says the current web of rules is a more complicated and more expensive way of getting the same outcome as a carbon tax. The current system "pretty much is one of the worst ways we could do it," he says.
As with any fix for climate change, a carbon tax would hit some people harder than others. People with long commutes would pay more. People who work in coal mines could lose their jobs.
But here is where Reilly brings up what is perhaps the most surprising thing about a carbon tax: If you do it right, he says, carbon tax can be nearly painless for the economy as a whole.
Besides reducing carbon emissions, a carbon tax brings in a bunch of money ? it's a tax after all. So, Reilly says, you can reduce, say, income tax to balance out the new taxes people are paying for carbon emissions. People pay more for gas, but they get to keep more of their income.
I called around and talked to a bunch of economists about this, and they said the basic idea was sound: If you give the carbon-tax money back by cutting income taxes, you can probably offset a lot of the pain.
President Obama has indicated he would support a market-based solution to climate change. But a carbon tax would of course require an act of Congress. And right now, that seems unlikely.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- A former Trumbull church leader has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for a scheme that authorities say defrauded investors of nearly $500,000.
Federal prosecutors said Julius C. Blackwelder of North Dakota, formerly of Stratford, was sentenced Thursday in New Haven to 46 months in prison for wire fraud and money laundering offenses.
Blackwelder was bishop of the Bridgeport ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Authorities say the 59-year-old Blackwelder misled investors including church members by saying he would invest their money in safe, long-term commodities futures contracts and, in some cases, guaranteeing a specific return on investment. Prosecutors say he used the money to pay back earlier investors, build himself a waterfront house in Stratford and repay personal bank loans.
Blackwelder sought 18 months, promising to make amends.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ex-conn-church-leader-sentenced-143055930.html
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What happens when you take 200 Lumia 820s and pin them to a wall? You get a 12,000 x 6,400-pixel display, natch. This week at Build 2013 in San Francisco, Nokia and Microsoft teamed up to show this tiled monitor made of identical phones each running the same custom-built app. A master handset is used to control what's on the wall by communicating with each phone over WiFi (IP multicast). One demo was showing a massive animated grid of live tiles representing a selection of apps from the Windows Phone store. In another demo, the wall was displaying Bing Maps (using Here data) and being controlled interactively by the master handset. Take a look at our gallery below.
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By Jeff Sneider
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Angelina Jolie's "Unbroken" isn't the only movie that "300: Rise of an Empire" star Jack O'Connell is testing for, as he's also in contention for the young lead in Matthew Vaughn's "The Secret Service," TheWrap has learned.
While John Boyega ("Attack the Block") and Christian Cooke (Cemetery Junction") are also in the mix, O'Connell is considered the frontrunner for the coveted role, though "Unbroken" would take priority should Jolie offer him the part.
Vaughn is mounting an adaptation of Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons' popular Marvel comic, which will star Oscar winner Colin Firth as a veteran secret agent who leads a young prot?g? into the shadowy spy business. Millar has described "Secret Service" as "James Bond meets My Fair Lady."
O'Connell has already tested for the role of Firth's nephew and insiders close to the process tell TheWrap that it went well, though they caution that Vaughn hasn't made a final decision yet.
The director had been eyeing his "Kick-Ass" star Aaron Taylor-Johnson for the role but his casting is considered a long-shot.
Vaughn's Marv Films banner is financing "Secret Service" and handling development in England, where O'Connell has earned a strong fan base thanks to his turn on "Skins." He also starred in such British hits as "This Is England," "Eden Lake," "Harry Brown" and "Tower Block."
Jolie's "Unbroken" is based on the bestselling book by "Seabiscuit" author Laura Hillenbrand. O'Connell is one of three actors testing to play American track star Louis Zamperini, who lived an incredible life that included surviving a plane crash only to become a POW in a Japanese prison camp during WWII.
O'Connell's competition for "Unbroken" includes Dane DeHaan and Alexander Dreymon, though it's possible Jolie could go in another direction and widen her search. Universal is distributing "Unbroken," which was recently rewritten by the Coen brothers.
What's interesting about these two projects is that Jolie's partner, Brad Pitt, produced Vaughn's "Kick-Ass" and starred in the Vaughn-produced thriller "Snatch." It's still early in the casting process, but it's possible both Jolie and Vaughn could pursue O'Connell's fall slot.
20th Century Fox plans to release "The Secret Service" on November 14, 2014. Vaughn, who last directed "X-Men: First Class" for Fox, is producing and directing from a script he co-wrote with frequent collaborator Jane Goldman. Vaughn's "Kick-Ass 2" producers David Reid and Adam Bohling are expected to be involved in a producing capacity. Shooting is scheduled to start this August overseas.
O'Connell was originally set to star in WB/Alcon's "Beautiful Creatures," but a visa issue stemming from legal trouble prevented him from shooting the film in America. He was eventually replaced by Alden Ehrenreich.
Warner Bros. will release "300: Rise of an Empire" on March 7, 2014.
O'Connell is repped by Conway van Gelder Grant and CAA, which had no comment several weeks ago when TheWrap first inquired regarding his screen test.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/angelina-jolie-matthew-vaughn-eyeing-300-sequel-star-004221791.html
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June 27, 2013 ? When faced with the choice of sacrificing time and energy for a loved one or taking the self-centered route, people's first impulse is to think of others, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
"For decades psychologists have assumed that the first impulse is selfish and that it takes self-control to behave in a pro-social manner," says lead researcher Francesca Righetti of VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands. "We did not believe that this was true in every context, and especially not in close relationships."
Righetti and colleagues sought to examine whether impulsivity, in close relationships, might actually benefit others.
They found that participants whose self-control was taxed (and were thus more impulsive) were more willing to sacrifice time and energy for their romantic partner or best friend than participants whose self-control wasn't taxed.
In one study, to find out whether they would sacrifice in actual practice, the researchers told couples they would have to talk to 12 strangers and ask them embarrassing questions. The participants didn't know that they wouldn't actually have to follow through with the task.
Participants with high self-control opted to split the burden right down the middle -- assigning six strangers to themselves and six strangers to their partner. But participants with low self-control opted to take on more of the burden, sacrificing their own comfort to spare their partners.
A final experiment revealed that married individuals low in trait self-control sacrificed more for their partners, yet were also less forgiving of their transgressions -- presumably because self-control is required to override the focus on the wrongdoing and think instead about the relationship as a whole.
While sacrificing for a partner may help to build the relationship on a day-to-day basis, Righetti and colleagues note that it could backfire over the long-term, compromising individuals' ability to maintain a balance between personal and relationship-related concerns.
This balance is a perennial issue for anyone in a close relationship:
"Whether it's about which activities to engage in during free time, whose friends to go out with, or which city to live in, relationship partners often face a divergence of interests -- what is most preferred by one partner is not preferred by the other," notes Righetti.
The field of research is relatively new, so the jury is still out on what effects sacrifice has on relationship well-being, but Righetti is hopeful that research over the next few years will shed more light on the link.
Co-authors on this research include Catrin Finkenauer, also of VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and Eli Finkel of Northwestern University.
This research was supported by grants from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/living_well/~3/vEB9BGp7PWA/130627142553.htm
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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Jon Corzine once saw a boutique brokerage called MF Global as his best hope to rescale the heights of Wall Street he'd once occupied as head of Goldman Sachs.
Now, MF Global is bankrupt. And Corzine faces a lifetime ban from the futures industry.
On Thursday, federal regulators sued Corzine, a onetime U.S. senator and governor of New Jersey. They allege that he was responsible for the misuse of customer money while CEO of MF Global, which collapsed in 2011.
A civil lawsuit filed in Manhattan by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission seeks to restrict Corzine's ability to trade investments and demands he pay unspecified penalties.
The suit charges that MF Global violated U.S. laws in the weeks before it collapsed by using customer funds to support its own trading operations. About $1.2 billion in customer money vanished when the firm collapsed.
Corzine bore responsibility for the unlawful acts by MF Global because he controlled the firm and its holdings and "either did not act in good faith or knowingly induced these violations," the lawsuit says.
In a conference call with reporters, CFTC Enforcement Director David Meister said Corzine failed to do enough to "prevent the firm from dipping into customers' funds to stay afloat."
MF Global has agreed to pay a $100 million penalty as part of a settlement announced Thursday. The money will come from bankruptcy proceedings.
Corzine has disputed the allegations by the CFTC, which regulated New York-based MF Global. He did so again Thursday through his lawyers.
"Mr. Corzine did nothing wrong, and we look forward to vindicating him in court," attorney Andy Levander said in a statement.
James Giddens, the court-appointed trustee overseeing MF Global's bankruptcy, called the settlement with the CFTC "appropriate." He said the $100 million penalty will be paid only after the firm's customers and creditors have received all their claims.
The CFTC also filed civil charges against Edith O'Brien, the firm's former assistant treasurer. Last year, O'Brien was summoned to a congressional hearing into what happened in MF Global's final days. She declined to answer questions, invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Attorneys for O'Brien didn't immediately return a call seeking comment Thursday.
The lawsuit seeks to bar Corzine and O'Brien from working for any firms that trade commodities or other investments regulated by the CFTC. Corzine and O'Brien would also be barred from trading any such investments on their own. They could still trade stocks and bonds.
Thursday's lawsuit is striking in that regulators have seldom charged individuals with financial crisis-era misdeeds. They have instead imposed fines and penalties against companies, often with no one having to admit blame.
Nearly 90 percent of the money belonging to the firm's U.S. customers has been recovered. Many farmers, ranchers and business owners used futures contracts through MF Global to hedge their risks against fluctuating crop prices. A futures contract allows someone to agree with someone else to buy or sell something ? corn, say, or gold ? at a set price at some point in the future.
The CFTC need not show in court that Corzine personally authorized the use of customer money, said Anthony Sabino of the New York law firm Sabino & Sabino, which specializes in white-collar crime. Top executives can be liable for "failure to maintain internal controls" or "failure to supervise," Sabino said.
Under a 2002 anti-corporate fraud law ? which Corzine co-wrote as a U.S. senator ? CEOs of public companies must personally certify the accuracy of their company's financial statements.
"When the Titanic went down, you didn't blame the cook; you didn't blame the guy in the engine room," Sabino said. "You blamed the captain. And Corzine is the captain of the ship called MF Global."
The CFTC has "a very substantial case" against Corzine and MF Global, Sabino said.
Robert Mintz, a former federal prosecutor, predicted that Corzine and the CFTC would eventually settle but not before a drawn-out battle.
That the CFTC filed suit against such a major defendant signals confidence that they have a strong case, he suggested.
"A defeat in a case like this, in such a high-profile setting, would come at some cost to the reputation of the agency," said Mintz, now at McCarter & English in New Jersey.
It isn't clear how much money Corzine is worth. He spent roughly $100 million of his fortune to win a U.S. Senate seat and the New Jersey governorship. In 2005, the last full year that he was a U.S. senator, he was estimated to be worth between $125 million and $175 million.
MF Global sought bankruptcy protection in 2011 after a disastrous bet on European countries' debt. Under Corzine's leadership, the firm bet $6.3 billion on bonds issued by Italy, Spain and other nations with deeply troubled financial systems. Those bonds plummeted in value in the weeks before MF Global's failure as fears intensified that some European countries might default.
The firm's $41 billion bankruptcy was the eighth-largest in U.S. history. It was also the first collapse of a Wall Street firm since the 2008 financial crisis ended. Critics have long complained that regulators have failed to aggressively pursue much bigger financial firms, whose high-risk bets nearly toppled the financial system.
Corzine, 66, had been a CEO of Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs before entering politics in 2000. He served as a Democratic U.S. senator from New Jersey and later governor of the state. He took the top job at MF Global in March 2010 after losing his 2009 bid for re-election as governor to Chris Christie.
MF Global was a small commodities broker when Corzine arrived. His vision was to transform the firm into a full-scale investment bank, similar to Goldman. The CFTC's lawsuit says he sought to do so by generating revenue from aggressive trading strategies.
The plan worked for a while even as the firm's investments grew increasingly risky, the lawsuit said. In the second half of 2011, its investments put heavy strains on its cash flow and capital. By October 2011, the lawsuit says, sources of cash were drying up.
Corzine and other employees communicated with one another, by email and sometimes on recorded phone lines, about the firm's "dire situation," the lawsuit says.
It says a treasurer of the firm's parent company, MF Global Holdings Ltd., told a chief financial officer and another employee in a recorded conversation on Oct. 6, 2011, that "we have to tell Jon that enough is enough. We need to take the keys away from him."
Corzine "disparagingly nicknamed the Global treasurer 'the Gravedigger,'" the lawsuit says
Corzine stepped down as MF Global chief in November 2011, a few days after the firm filed for bankruptcy protection.
Three reports on MF Global's collapse, by a House panel and two court-appointed trustees, placed most of the blame on Corzine. It said his risky strategies caused the failure.
Shareholders of MF Global have sued Corzine and other top managers. The investors say they lost about $585 million in just a week as the firm foundered. They accuse MF Global and the executives of making false and misleading statements about the firm's financial strength.
Giddens, the trustee, also joined a lawsuit filed by MF Global customers against Corzine and the other top executives.
Corzine testified at three hearings of House and Senate committees in December 2011 after lawmakers subpoenaed him. It was a rare sight in Washington: A former member of Congress being called by former colleagues to testify publicly about potential violations of law.
Corzine's testimony offered little to satisfy lawmakers or MF Global customers who lost money. Yet his explanations would be hard to disprove, legal experts said.
He said he never intended to "misuse" client money or to order anyone else to do so. Corzine also rebuffed an assertion that he knew about customer money that might have been transferred to a European affiliate just before MF Global collapsed.
O'Brien, the former assistant treasurer, was subpoenaed to testify at a hearing last year about an email she sent that appeared to contradict testimony from Corzine. The email said Corzine ordered a transfer of customer money to cover an overdraft in the firm's bank account in London.
"On the advice of counsel," she told Congress, "I respectfully decline to answer based on my constitutional right."
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Neumeister and Rexrode contributed from New York.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/us-agency-sues-corzine-over-failure-mf-global-185641107.html
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Idaho's Mike Peck coached Anthony Bennett at Findlay Prep outside Las Vegas.
Mike Peck coached a number of Findlay players who landed in the NBA. But Anthony Bennett is the first former pupil to become a No. 1 pick, as he did Thursday night, and a surprised Peck said the Cleveland Cavaliers have the potential for a new marquee player.
"People don't realize he's only been playing basketball seriously since he was 14," Peck said. "And it's not like he eased into it. He got thrown into the highest level (at Findlay and then UNLV). ? It's not like he started out with a beginner course and he was able to slowly transition and progress. Uh-uh, with him, it was more like, 'Jump in, it's 20 feet deep. Now swim.' "
Bennett proved to be a quick study and a rare talent. In his one season at UNLV, he was named the Mountain West Freshman of the Year and earned a spot on the Sporting News' All-Freshman Team.
Portland, the Stampede's NBA affiliate, acquired four players Thursday:
? Shooting guard C.J. McCollum (Lehigh) was selected with the 10th overall pick.
? Jeff Withey, a 7-foot-1 center out of Kansas, was picked in the second round.
? Spain product Marko Todorovic, a 6-11 center, was taken in the second round.
? Allen Crabbe, a shooting guard out of Cal, was acquired in a trade with the Cavaliers.
Peck said Crabbe is the player most likely to see some time in Idaho next season.
The Blazers and Jazz will play a preseason game Oct. 11 at CenturyLink Arena, a game that should include the NCAA Player of the Year.
Trey Burke was selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves with the ninth overall pick and dealt to the Jazz. The 6-1 point guard led Michigan to the national championship game.
Utah acquired two other players via trade Thursday night: Rudy Gobert, a power forward/center from France, and Raul Neto, a guard out of Spain.
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Getty ImagesGeraldo Rivera and Rush Limbaugh are using the Aaron Hernandez case to tell their audiences that the NFL is contributing to a decaying American culture.
Rivera appeared on FOX News and said that the NFL and player agents should do more to keep players like Hernandez out of trouble.
?I don?t know why the league who recruits these kids from the inner city, how they don?t have minders, how the agents who are collecting 10 percent of $40 million, where are they in all of this?? Rivera said. ?Why aren?t they mentoring these young men who are fatherless, many of them ? Ray Lewis and all of the rest. Michael Vick. Uh, you can count them. There?s a ton of them. They sign them because they?re superb athletes and do nothing to preserve their character and put them on the right road toward manhood. It?s really pathetic.?
Rivera gets a few things wrong here: Hernandez isn?t from the inner city, he?s from a middle-class subdivision in Bristol, Connecticut. Hernandez?s father died when he was 16, but it?s wrong to call him ?fatherless,? as Hernandez often spoke about the close relationship he had with his father. Also, Hernandez?s agent didn?t get ?10 percent of $40 million,? as NFL agents can get a maximum of 3 percent of a player?s income, and $40 million represents the total value of the contract Hernandez signed last year ? most of which he will never see.
And, of course, the NFL does do plenty to try to encourage players to conduct themselves like professionals not only on the field but off, starting with the rookie symposium and continuing with player development programs that are available to every player during and after their careers. The NFL?s track record isn?t perfect, but how could any employer be 100 percent sure that none of its employees get into trouble away from work?
Those problems aside, Limbaugh piggybacked on Rivera?s comments. Limbaugh has long criticized what he sees as ties between the NFL and gangs, saying in 2007, ?The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips.? Limbaugh indicated that he thinks it?s unfair that he was criticized for those comments while Rivera will probably get a free pass, but Limbaugh added that he thinks the Hernandez case demonstrates the problem with a gang culture in the NFL.
?This guy is a star player in the National Football League, a star player for the New England Patriots. This has the potential to blow the lid open on the NFL and gangs and the whole concept,? Limbaugh said.
Rivera also decided that he wanted to bring Tim Tebow into the story and compare the two former teammates.
?Ironically a college classmate at the University of Florida of Tim Tebow ? ironic, why? Because Tim Tebow, probably the most religious, straight-shooting ballplayer in the league,? Rivera said. ?And Aaron Hernandez, a kid, an ex-hoodlum. You can take the kid out of the hood you can?t take the hood out of the kid. He was a Bristol Blood, he was a gang banger.?
Unfortunately for Rivera, The Onion beat him to trying to turn the Hernandez story into a Tebow story.
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Long-awaited rules that regulate the fat, salt, sugar, and calories in snacks and vending machine foods sold in schools were finally released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture today.
The rules take effect during the 2014-15 school year. Nutrition advocates have been pressing the USDA to issue the rules this month. Any later, and they wouldn't have taken effect until the 2015-16 school year.
The new rules are the first update to school snack regulations since the 1970s. The existing rules only limited "foods of minimal nutritional value," which didn't keep candy bars, snack cakes, and sugary, vitamin-fortified sports drinks, from being regulated, said Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Despite some high hopes for the rules, which come on the heels of strict rules for school lunches, they won't completely wipe out sodas, chips, or sweets from schools. But they will make a dent.
"Millions of students currently have widespread access to snacks and beverages that are high in sugar, fat, and salt, but limited access to nutritious options such as fruits and vegetables in school stores, snack bars, and vending machines," said Jessica Donze Black, director of the Kids' Safe and Healthful Foods Project. "With many students consuming up to half of their daily calories at school, these new standards represent the kind of positive change we need to help reduce obesity rates among children and teens."
Many of the rules are adapted from those that were originally proposed by the agency, which received about 250,000 comments.
What happens if schools don't comply? Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said he hopes schools do, though there aren't explicit penalties if they don't, unlike rules for the school lunch and breakfast programs.
"It's not about carrots and sticks," Vilsack said, then paused. "Well I guess it is about carrots."
Vilsack said he hopes and believes the rules will be embraced because, combined with lunch and breakfast regulation, send a consistent message to students and address the same problems, hunger and obesity.
The changes will make "the healthy choice the easy choice for all students, no matter where they live in America," said Mary Story, a professor of epidemiology and community health at the University of Minnesota.
Some specifics:
The School Nutrition Association, which represents school cafeteria managers, said these rules come at a tricky time.
"School meal programs are already in the midst of a sea of change as cafeterias work to meet new school breakfast and lunch standards and encourage students to try the healthier choices offered," SNA President Sandra Ford said. Her organization plans to work with the USDA and Congress so that the snack rules "do not present undue burdens on school menu planners and students."
This USDA creation shows what snacks now look like and compares them to what snacks could look like in many schools.
Follow Rules for Engagement on Twitter @Rulz4Engagement and Education Week Staff Writer Nirvi Shah on Twitter @NirviShah.
Photo: Bitia Francis, an 8th grader at the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati, gets at the last of her baked Cheetos, which she bought from a vending machine in the spring.?Bruce Crippen for Education Week-File
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