Saturday, June 30, 2012

Johnny Knoxville's 'SpongeBob' Cameo: Exclusive First Look!

Knoxville voices Johnny Krill on a brand-new episode of 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' which premieres July 21 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Nickelodeon.
By James Montgomery


Johnny Knoxville as the voice of Johnny Krill in "SpongeBob SquarePants"
Photo: Nickelodeon

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1688814/johnny-knoxville-spongebob-squarepants-cameo.jhtml

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Wall Street powers higher after euro-zone agreement

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President Obama Praises Supreme Court Health Care Ruling; Celebrities Tweet Reactions


After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Obamacare on Thursday, the President who fought and sacrificed for the controversial law praised the 5-4 ruling.

While the court placed limitations on Congress' power to regulate commerce and the U.S. government's ability to restrict state funds, the law stood.

The survival of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) - pejoratively or affectionately called Obamacare - signaled a major victory for Barack Obama.

"Today's decision was a victory for people all over this country whose lives are more secure because of this law," Obama said in a televised statement.

"I know the debate over this law has been divisive," he added. "It should be pretty clear that I didn't do this because it was good politics."

"I did it because I believe it is good for the country."

Obama encouraged on his Twitter account for Americans to share what the Supreme Court ruling means to them and some celebrities did just that.

Here's a sampling of some stars' reactions ...

Jason Alexander: "I applaud the Supreme Court and congratulate the President today. The bill isn't perfect, we can fix it, but it's the right direction."

Piers Morgan: "Must be a lot of people watching Obama's SCOTUS speech just now, thinking: 'That's why we voted for him.'"

Bette Midler: "Obama Health Care passes! The wing nuts must be boiling!"

Deepak Chopra: "I will be honored to be taxed for compassionate health care."

Sophia Bush: "I am so grateful for the Supreme Court, and I heart Barack Obama so much right now. He cares about us, the average citizens of this country, more than he cares about pleasing all the scared-to-change people in power. That's heroic, admirable, and exactly what we need. F--k yes Mr. President, you are a unicorn." - on a photo of Obama on a unicorn Bush posted.

Holly Robinson Peete: "I run a non profit and talk to real people every day all day. Families cannot afford healthcare."

Seth MacFarlane: "We gotta stop that tycoon from turning our park into a shopping mall."

John Legend: "Supreme Court has me in a good mood right now. America getting closer to universal access to affordable health care. It's about time."

Christina Applegate: "Um, for those who want to move to Canada because of ObamaCare, you may want to look up Canada healthcare on Wikipedia. Just saying'."

Jessica Stroup: "Hey Barack Obama this song's for you now playing My Hero by Foo Fighters."

Star Jones: "I'm waiting for read the actual SCOTUS healthcare ruling…and try to make it 'user friendly' for most of us."

MC Hammer: "Strategy: Positioning this as a threat to lower income majority won't gain any new voters, that card has already been played."

Waka Flocka: "ObamaCare!… just when they started to doubt my man."

Michael Moore: "It's not 'Obamacare' - it's Obama Cares."

Wanda Sykes: "Drama at CNN. I would love to be a fly on Wolf Blizter's beard."

Source: http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/2012/06/president-obama-praises-supreme-court-health-care-ruling-celebri/

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Friday, June 29, 2012

Both innate and adaptive immune responses are critical to the control of influenza

ScienceDaily (June 29, 2012) ? Both innate and adaptive immune responses play an important role in controlling influenza virus infection, according to a study, published in the Open Access journal PLoS Computational Biology, by researchers from Oakland University, Michigan, and Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA.

Influenza, as a contagious respiratory illness remains a major public health problem worldwide. Seasonal and pandemic influenza results in approximately 3 to 569 million cases of severe illness and approximately 250,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide. Although most infected subjects with intact immune systems are able to clear the virus without developing serious flu complications, the biological factors responsible for viral control remain unclear.

To investigate the factors for viral control, the researchers developed mathematical models that included both innate and adaptive immune responses to the virus. These models were used to study the viral dynamics of the influenza virus infection in horses. After infection, viral levels rise rapidly, reach a peak and fall, then they attain a low plateau that can be followed in some animals by a second peak. Ultimately, viral levels decline and the infection is cleared. By comparing modeling predictions with experimental data, researchers examined the relative roles of availability of cells susceptible to infection, so-called target cells, and innate and adaptive immune responses in controlling the virus.

The research showed that the two-part innate immune response, generated by natural killer cells, and the antiviral effect caused by interferon, a naturally produced protective molecule, can explain the first rapid viral decline and subsequent second viral peak. The second peak comes about because as the viral level falls, the immune response also falls allowing the virus the opportunity to grow back before the adaptive ultimately clears it.

However, for eventual viral clearance it is the body's adaptive immune response that is needed.

The data analyzed were from equine influenza virus infection in horses. However, similar viral kinetic profiles have been observed in humans infected with the influenza virus. The authors conclude that the study can be used to explain the viral and interferon kinetics observed during a typical influenza virus infection.

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  1. Kasia A. Pawelek, Giao T. Huynh, Michelle Quinlivan, Ann Cullinane, Libin Rong, Alan S. Perelson. Modeling Within-Host Dynamics of Influenza Virus Infection Including Immune Responses. PLoS Computational Biology, 2012; 8 (6): e1002588 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002588

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Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120629005452.htm

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After Aung San Suu Kyi, girl band symbolizes a changing Myanmar

Since Myanmar ended military rule, getting an interview with Aung San Suu Kyi has been a of rite-of-passage for foreign journalists.?But with reforms come new items on journalist's checklist.

By Simon Roughneen,?Correspondent / June 29, 2012

In this Feb. 26 file photo, Myanmar's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi ascends the stairs towards the stage to deliver her speech during an election campaign rally in Thongwa village some 31 miles from Yangon, Myanmar.

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Since Myanmar (Burma) formally ended military rule in March 2011, getting an interview with long-detained opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi has been a sort of rite-of-passage for foreign journalists visiting here.

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The Nobel Laureate?s recent winning of a seat in Myanmar's Army-dominated parliament and current high-profile European tour are being taken as further signs that the government is maintaining its reform drive.

But there are other signals that the country is changing for the better. And with those changes come new items on the visiting journalist's to-do checklist.

Over the past year, the Me N Ma Girls (hoping there's no need to explain the obvious pun on the country's name), a pop/dance act made up of five young Myanmar singers and dancers, have appeared frequently in the international media.

?We appreciate all the media who interview us,? says Ah Moon, a 21-year-old singer and dancer from war-torn Kachin state in the country's north. She recently finished a Russian language degree and speaks fluent English with an Americanized twang.

Successive stories have branded the ladies as emblems of cultural change and taboo-lifting in what was one of the world's most oppressive political regimes. The girls, perhaps wise beyond their years, seem wary of being typecast as some sort of cultural fable or clich?, rather than aspiring pop superstars in their own right.

?Yeah, we've been in a lot of articles, it's been great,? says Kimi, 24, an ethnic Chin from the northwest of Myanmar. ?But, sometimes it's like 'can we practice now?'" the girls say, feigning good-humored weariness, while gathered around a laptop in Ah Moon's family apartment in Yangon.?

In between pouting and posing for photos, and gossiping in Myanmar language, the girls peer over the shoulder of band member Htike Htike, a graphic designer in her spare time, while she works on a new album cover design. "I did the cover for our first album," she says.

The pay-off from all the coverage is a chance to go to Los Angeles later this year to record some tracks for the new album and take a shot at making that apparent quantum leap that has so far been too much for most Asian pop acts trying to break into Western markets.

?It has been very hard for Asian acts to score in the West, but they have a chance because the story is compelling, they look great, and have the right disposition for success,? says Daniel Hubbert, Chairman/CEO of Powermusic, in an e-mail.

When the girls head stateside, they'll record at Mr. Hubbert's studio. Musically, he says, ?I would categorize the girls as a pop/dance act, musically akin to a Pussy Cat Dolls.?

If that's the case, then the Me N Ma Girls have as good a shot as anyone at making the East-West leap.

After all, Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, possibly the most famous Myanmar citizen, has been described as an ideal link between East and West, an Asian Buddhist speaking the Queen's English and the language of democracy and rule of law and who raised a family in Britain.

?She is like another mother for us,? says Cha Cha, 22, also an actress with 14 movies already released, speaking of Aung San Suu Kyi.

The country's reformist President Thein Sein comes in for hearty praise too. Wai Hnin, the quietest of the five girls, chimes in. ?Thein Sein is amazing,? she says, ?everything is changing now here after the end of the military government.?

The girls aren't getting too big for their boots or forgetting their roots, however, despite their success to date and hopes for the future. "We don't try to be too sexy, or go too far from our culture," says Ah Moon, adding that "we all still love our traditional dress."

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/KpdDzl12bKM/After-Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-girl-band-symbolizes-a-changing-Myanmar

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Assad declares war after gunmen storm TV station

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Maya archaeologists unearth new 2012 monument

Maya archaeologists unearth new 2012 monument [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 28-Jun-2012
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Tulane University

Archaeologists working at the site of La Corona in Guatemala have discovered a 1,300-year-old-year Maya text that provides only the second known reference to the so-called "end date" of the Maya calendar, December 21, 2012. The discovery, one of the most significant hieroglyphic finds in decades, was announced today at the National Palace in Guatemala.

"This text talks about ancient political history rather than prophecy," says Marcello A. Canuto, director of Tulane's Middle American Research Institute and co-director of the excavations at La Corona.

Since 2008, Canuto and Toms Barrientos of the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala have directed excavations at La Corona, a site previously ravaged by looters.

"Last year, we realized that looters of a particular building had discarded some carved stones because they were too eroded to sell on the antiquities black market," said Barrientos, "so we knew they found something important, but we also thought they might have missed something."

What Canuto and Barrientos found was the longest text ever discovered in Guatemala. Carved on staircase steps, it records 200 years of La Corona history, states David Stuart, director of the Mesoamerica Center at The University of Texas at Austin, who was part of a 1997 expedition that first explored the site.

While deciphering these new finds in May, Stuart recognized the 2012 reference on a stairway block bearing 56 delicately carved hieroglyphs. It commemorated a royal visit to La Corona in AD 696 by the most powerful Maya ruler of that time, Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' of Calakmul, only a few months after his defeat by long-standing rival Tikal in AD 695. Thought by scholars to have been killed in this battle, this ruler was visiting allies and allaying their fears after his defeat.

"This was a time of great political turmoil in the Maya region and this king felt compelled to allude to a larger cycle of time that happens to end in 2012," says Stuart.

So, rather than prophesy, the 2012 reference places this king's troubled reign and accomplishments into a larger cosmological framework.

"In times of crisis, the ancient Maya used their calendar to promote continuity and stability rather than predict apocalypse," says Canuto.

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Members of the media who are interested in additional high-resolution photography and video of this find should contact pr@tulane.edu. For information on Tulane's Middle American Research Institute visit http://mari.tulane.edu/PRALC


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Maya archaeologists unearth new 2012 monument [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 28-Jun-2012
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Contact: Kathryn Hobgood Ray
khobgood@tulane.edu
504-865-5229
Tulane University

Archaeologists working at the site of La Corona in Guatemala have discovered a 1,300-year-old-year Maya text that provides only the second known reference to the so-called "end date" of the Maya calendar, December 21, 2012. The discovery, one of the most significant hieroglyphic finds in decades, was announced today at the National Palace in Guatemala.

"This text talks about ancient political history rather than prophecy," says Marcello A. Canuto, director of Tulane's Middle American Research Institute and co-director of the excavations at La Corona.

Since 2008, Canuto and Toms Barrientos of the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala have directed excavations at La Corona, a site previously ravaged by looters.

"Last year, we realized that looters of a particular building had discarded some carved stones because they were too eroded to sell on the antiquities black market," said Barrientos, "so we knew they found something important, but we also thought they might have missed something."

What Canuto and Barrientos found was the longest text ever discovered in Guatemala. Carved on staircase steps, it records 200 years of La Corona history, states David Stuart, director of the Mesoamerica Center at The University of Texas at Austin, who was part of a 1997 expedition that first explored the site.

While deciphering these new finds in May, Stuart recognized the 2012 reference on a stairway block bearing 56 delicately carved hieroglyphs. It commemorated a royal visit to La Corona in AD 696 by the most powerful Maya ruler of that time, Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' of Calakmul, only a few months after his defeat by long-standing rival Tikal in AD 695. Thought by scholars to have been killed in this battle, this ruler was visiting allies and allaying their fears after his defeat.

"This was a time of great political turmoil in the Maya region and this king felt compelled to allude to a larger cycle of time that happens to end in 2012," says Stuart.

So, rather than prophesy, the 2012 reference places this king's troubled reign and accomplishments into a larger cosmological framework.

"In times of crisis, the ancient Maya used their calendar to promote continuity and stability rather than predict apocalypse," says Canuto.

###

Members of the media who are interested in additional high-resolution photography and video of this find should contact pr@tulane.edu. For information on Tulane's Middle American Research Institute visit http://mari.tulane.edu/PRALC


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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Before They Were Stars! Baby Photos of the Kardashians

As Khloe Kardashian turns 28 on June 27, check out these adorable Twitpics of her and her equally photogenic family!

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Annan to convene Syria talks in Geneva on Saturday

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Grand Valley Performing Arts Festival: July 12-15 - NOWMontrose

Grand Valley Performing Arts Festival: ?July 12-15

Colorado Mesa University, Moss Performing Arts Center, Grand Junction, CO

Celebrating the rich cultural heritage and vibrant performing arts and artists throughout Grand Junction and the Grand Valley.

The event includes an exciting array of?dance, theater, music, and poetry performances?and workshops, with a host of activities, entertainment, and classes for adults and children of all ages.???All daytime festival events are free to attend.??The highlight of the festival will be the?Main Stage Showcase?on Friday and Saturday nights in Robinson Theater,?with wide-ranging performances?including?awesome multi-media dance theater pieces set to the music and?message of John Lennon and?The Beatles,? popular Broadway musicals,?beautiful classical and folk music, and amazing silk dancing.

The festival will?include 20 different groups and acts and promotes the performing arts in our community through high quality performances and engaging educational activities for the entire family.??There will be plenty of parking available around the university and in the College Center parking garage which is free after 6pm and on weekends.

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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Syrian civilians hit hard by spreading violence

In this Saturday, June 16, 2012 photo, Umm Moussa holds a photo of her husband Mohammed Tilawi, who showed up dead in a morgue in October, in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria. As Syria's 15-month uprising has morphed from a popular call for reform into an armed insurgency, the country's civilians have paid a heavy price, watching their neighborhoods turn into battlegrounds and their friends and relatives die or disappear. (AP Photo/Ben Hubbard)

In this Saturday, June 16, 2012 photo, Umm Moussa holds a photo of her husband Mohammed Tilawi, who showed up dead in a morgue in October, in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria. As Syria's 15-month uprising has morphed from a popular call for reform into an armed insurgency, the country's civilians have paid a heavy price, watching their neighborhoods turn into battlegrounds and their friends and relatives die or disappear. (AP Photo/Ben Hubbard)

In this Saturday, June 16, 2012 photo, Layal Tilawi, center, and her brother Moussa look at photos of their father Mohammed Tilawi, who showed up dead in a morgue in October, in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria. As Syria's 15-month uprising has morphed from a popular call for reform into an armed insurgency, the country's civilians have paid a heavy price, watching their neighborhoods turn into battlegrounds and their friends and relatives die or disappear. (AP Photo/Ben Hubbard)

In this Saturday, June 16, 2012 photo, Ahmed Tilawi, center, and, and his sister Layal Tilawi stand in a doorway near a photo of their dead father Mohammed Tilawi in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria. As Syria's 15-month uprising has morphed from a popular call for reform into an armed insurgency, the country's civilians have paid a heavy price, watching their neighborhoods turn to battlegrounds and their friends and relatives die or disappear. (AP Photo/Ben Hubbard)

FILE - In this Sunday, June 10, 2012 file photo, a Syrian family walks in front of a destroyed military tank at the northern town of Ariha, on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria. As Syria's 15-month uprising has morphed from a popular call for reform into an armed insurgency, the country's civilians have paid a heavy price, watching their neighborhoods turn into battlegrounds and their friends and relatives die or disappear. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

FILE - In this Sunday, June 10, 2012 file photo, Syrians look at a destroyed military tank at the northern town of Ariha, on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria. As Syria's 15-month uprising has morphed from a popular call for reform into an armed insurgency, the country's civilians have paid a heavy price, watching their neighborhoods turn into battlegrounds and their friends and relatives die or disappear. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

KHAN SHEIKHOUN, Syria (AP) ? Her daughter, 8, often hides in a closet, terrified of flying bullets. Her son, 6, still asks for his father months after he turned up in a morgue. And the family has little income because her brother-in-law was killed too.

Umm Moussa's extended family is smaller now. They live day to day in a house of simply furnished concrete rooms around an empty courtyard in this dusty city in northern Syria.

"I'm always worried that after all I've lost, I'll lose something else," said the thin, shy 27-year-old, leafing through photos of her dead husband.

As Syria's 15-month-old uprising has morphed from a popular call for reform into an armed insurgency, the country's civilians have paid the highest price.

Most of the more than 14,000 people activists say have been killed are civilians. Countless others have watched their livelihoods collapse, their neighborhoods turn to battlegrounds and their friends and relatives die or disappear.

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EDITOR'S NOTE ? Journalist Ben Hubbard was part of a three-member Associated Press team that spent two weeks with rebels in northern Syria, collecting on-the-ground information on the revolt against President Bashar Assad ? the longest and deadliest uprising of the Arab Spring.

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During two weeks in northern Syria, three Associated Press journalists met scores of civilians whose lives have been altered by the conflict: students who cannot cross army checkpoints to reach schools and universities; merchants whose suppliers have stopped delivering; and farmers who left land fallow because they can no longer afford diesel for irrigation pumps.

The international community has harshly condemned President Bashar Assad's regime for its role in the violence, endorsing a plan by U.N. envoy Kofi Annan to try to end it.

But that plan has fallen far short ? as is obvious here in Khan Sheikhoun, a city of 80,000 people surrounded by wheat fields and orchards on the country's main north-south highway.

Six military checkpoints ring the city, housing snipers who fire on civilians and rebels alike. Troops block roads to the fields and sometimes set them ablaze, meaning farmers can smell the smoke of their crops burning but cannot fight the flames.

Regime forces have also seized the state hospital and other downtown buildings, parking armored vehicles out front and piling sandbags on the roofs. Residents call the shuttered central boulevard the "street of death" because so many people have been shot there.

Rebels run the rest of the city and have mined its entries. They blast army vehicles passing on the highway with rocket-propelled grenades, and patrol in two armored SUVs that they captured.

They also run a clinic and hang out in a former security building. A bust of the former president, Assad's late father Hafez, is positioned near the entrance, defaced with devilish horns sprouting from the head.

The regime shells occasionally, and the rebels clash with those manning the checkpoints daily.

One sweltering afternoon, rebels blasted machine guns around the corners of buildings while sniper fire chipped at the streets and walls around them.

Standing at the door to his house, Mohammed al-Safa, 24, listed neighbors struck by those snipers: the family across the street who'd abandoned their home; the 10-year-old girl paralyzed by a bullet in the back; the elderly man shot dead on his roof while adjusting his satellite dish.

"May God protect you!" al-Safa's mother yelled as rebels rushed down their alley.

"The Free Army is all we have to protect us," al-Safa said. "No one else can."

The media team for the city's rebels, now based in a former office of Assad's ruling Baath party, says the numbers show the regime's disregard for civilians: Of the more than 130 people killed in the uprising, only 31 were fighters, said activist Hisham Nijim.

When asked about the Annan plan and the nearly 300 observers sent to monitor it, residents recall "the massacre."

On May 15, U.N. observers left a security building, walked past a number of sand berms and through a rowdy anti-regime protest about 100 meters (yards) away. Apparently feeling protected by the observers, the crowd inched toward the soldiers guarding the building, chanting, "The people want to execute Bashar!" and "Traitors! The Syrian army are traitors!" according to a video of the event.

Minutes later, the soldiers opened fire in a deafening roar, and protesters dropped in the street as the crowd scrambled for cover.

Nijim said 44 people were killed. Photos of 32 of them, including young children and old men, hang in the media office.

"Annan's plan is worthless," Nijim said. "It is impossible that this regime will give up power peacefully. It will only go under force of arms."

The Syrian government rarely comments on its military's actions. It has never acknowledged popular calls for reform and blames the uprising on foreign-backed gangs and terrorists seeking to weaken the country.

The troubles for Umm Moussa's family began in February 2011, when her husband's youngest brother was arrested in a cafe for chatting online about the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. When those uprisings inspired Syrians to protest a month later, his arrest pushed the two older brothers to join.

Umm Moussa's husband, Mohammed Tilawi, became a leader, drawing banners and outfitting a pickup truck with huge speakers to blast anti-regime chants, she said.

Security forces attacked the protests and raided activist homes, killing four people on one day in June. More people joined, and some sought arms.

"Anyone who had a weapon ? a hunting rifle, a Kalashnikov, even a club ? came out to defend the city," activist Osama Abu Homam said.

That month, Mohammed's other brother, Mukhlis, was shot and killed while manning a rebel checkpoint. The family never found out who shot him.

Mohammed sold his brother's car to buy a rifle. Umm Moussa and their four children saw him less and less as the clashes grew more frequent.

"We often fled the house because we were afraid they'd arrest us to get him to turn himself in," Umm Moussa said. She last saw him alive in September: Gunfire broke out near a protest, and he took his gun and left.

They found his body days later in a morgue in Hama, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) away. The handwritten hospital report she keeps in her pocket said he'd been shot through the gut and that state security had delivered the body.

It didn't explain his broken jaw, nor the large bruises on his face and around his groin. The family suspects he was tortured.

The younger brother was finally released without trial in February 2012. He was shocked when he got home.

"I was surprised to learn how many people had been killed, and I had to get used to life without my brothers," said Abdel-Razaq, 32.

Since then, he has become a cameraman, filming protests and violence to post on the Internet. In April, shrapnel from a shell attack sliced through his stomach. He has a pink, four-inch scar over his navel from the operation to remove the shrapnel.

The family struggles without his brothers' incomes. Before the uprising, Mohammed had a fiberglass workshop that made sinks. Muklis was a blacksmith. Now both shops are closed, and Abdel-Razaq cannot go back to Dubai, where he worked as a cook before the uprising. His mother, 65, wears black daily and cries when she mentions her sons.

Umm Moussa struggles to comfort her children when gunfire breaks out. She worries when her 12-year-old boy, Moussa, sneaks out to attend protests. She chose to give only her nickname, Arabic for "Mother of Moussa," fearing retribution by Assad's regime.

But she also hopes the uprising will give them better lives.

"There is no way this regime can stay after all the people it has killed," she said. "That would be the biggest crime."

Associated Press

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NJ woman sues after being hit in face with baseball overthrown by Little League kid

NJ woman sues after being hit in face with baseball overthrown by Little League kid

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NJ woman sues after being hit in face with baseball overthrown by Little League kid
New York Post ^ | 06/23/12 | PEDRO OLIVEIRA JR.

Posted on 06/23/2012 3:51:35 AM PDT by AtlasStalled

Ain?t that America!

A greedy New Jersey woman is trying to cash in on a clutzy Little League catcher ? claiming he intentionally beaned her in the face with a baseball during a warm-up session with his pitcher.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lawsuitindustry; tortreform; triallawyers

To: AtlasStalled

What if he actually tried to bean her? *weg*


2 posted on 06/23/2012 3:55:31 AM PDT by SMGFan

To: AtlasStalled

This type of situation has long been settled in civil law.

If you go to a contest such as a baseball game,or a hockey game you assume the risk of being struck with a ball or a puck.

This will be thrown out of court.

3 posted on 06/23/2012 4:00:44 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)

To: AtlasStalled

Kids will be kids.

Actually the catcher was returning the ball to the pitcher and, as often happens, the ball went errant.

This woman needs to stay home more often and let the kids play.


4 posted on 06/23/2012 4:16:04 AM PDT by chainsaw (Sarah Palin is still my first choice to save the USA. . .)

To: AtlasStalled


To: AtlasStalled

They didn?t have to say ?NJ? in the headline. It was obvious.



To: AtlasStalled

I wonder how many rocks she had to look under before the lawyer that accepted this case slithered out?


7 posted on 06/23/2012 5:59:54 AM PDT by Yogafist

To: AtlasStalled

Maybe she has a face that looks like a pitcher?s glove.


8 posted on 06/23/2012 6:16:07 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")

To: blueunicorn6

She was sitting at a picnic table near the dugout...and then wonders why...duh, she got hit by the ball...


9 posted on 06/23/2012 6:17:51 AM PDT by Engedi

To: AtlasStalled

This obnoxious witch probably figured this was an easy payout but she is not thinking of the trauma she is putting this boy through. Putting an 11 year old through this over a risk she voluntarily took is lower than low.


10 posted on 06/23/2012 7:07:25 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")

To: AtlasStalled

Before we burn her at the stake. Some insurance policies require you to sue the other party before they will pay you under your own coverage.

Could that be the case here?


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Tyra Banks Pouts And Quotes Marilyn Monroe On Twitter

Flaunting that flawsomeness, are we?

Tyra Banks has been posting pictures of herself online in a variety of pouty poses.

Tyra BanksTyra revels in her imperfections... and madnessEver the advocate of a healthy body image, the America's Next Top Model host quoted voluptuous Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe alongside her photo-booth shots.

Sharing the images on Twitter, she wrote: "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, & it's better to be ridiculous than boring. - Marilyn Monroe." (sic)

We concur.

It must have struck a chord with her followers, too, as the post had 1,863 retweets at last count.

Her love-yourself evangelising came after asking her followers which part of their body they don't like, but are learning to love.

The supermodel retweeted a number of responses, nearly all of which contained the hashtag 'flawsome'.

In case you missed it, we revealed last month that Tyra's new dictionary entry means you + your flaws + awesome = flawsome.

This could be as big as smize.

By Karli Drinkwater


What do you think of Tyra's flawsome tweets? Join the discussion on the?Sky Living Facebook page, tweet us @SkyLivingOnline?or sign up to our?daily newsletter.

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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Analysis: What takes so long? Behind the scenes at top U.S. court

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - During a break from the crush of last-minute opinion-writing, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told an audience of 1,000 people last week at a Washington legal convention: "It is flood season at the court."

For the rest of the country it has been more like a drought, a stretch of weeks without any word in the most closely watched cases - the blockbuster challenges to President Barack Obama's healthcare plan and Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigration.

The immigration case was heard on April 25, the last day of oral arguments, the healthcare case over the course of three days a month before that. It seems the justices are going for maximum drama as they push these cliffhangers to the end of June. What's more likely, as seasoned court-watchers know, is that justices are still ironing out the final details of resolutions to the most complex questions they have faced in decades.

Of the 60 signed rulings that have been handed down in the cases heard during arguments in the October-to-April term, many were reached by a unanimous or nearly unanimous vote. In the final days, Ginsburg told the group, "the sharp disagreement rate will go up." She was speaking about what generally happens at the court - although it might have seemed she was letting slip a clue about the current deliberations.

Including the immigration and healthcare disputes, a total of nine individual cases await resolution. Also pending are challenges to a U.S. law that makes it a crime to lie about military honors and to life imprisonment for juvenile offenders.

The court does not reveal when decisions will be announced and has said only that it will be in session on Monday. Decisions are typically released the last Thursday in June, too, although there are whispers that a third decision day, possibly Wednesday, could be added to next week's schedule. It would be a surprise - and only mean intractable differences behind the scenes - if the nine justices were still working into July.

That, of course, would make packing up for summer a little more rushed, as the justices are headed for their usual round of speaking engagements in enviable locales. Chief Justice John Roberts, for example, is scheduled to teach a series of classes starting July 2 in Malta. Justice Antonin Scalia will be a "distinguished visiting jurist" at a program in Innsbruck, Austria, that also starts in early July. Ginsburg is scheduled to teach in Venice, Italy, and Vienna later in the month.

THE RITES OF JUNE

Within the marble walls, the juridical rites of June are full of tension, but also toasts. The justices hold their annual service award ceremony for staff. They attend lunches hosted by sets of law clerks from other chambers. If tradition holds, the justices will raise a glass of wine for their colleagues with June birthdays: Justice Clarence Thomas turns 64 on Saturday, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor will be celebrating her 58th when the court convenes on Monday.

The term is capped off by a party - attended only by the justices and their full-time employees - at which law clerks parody the justices in musical skits.

"It is a simultaneously exciting and exhausting time," said Kannon Shanmugam, a former law clerk to Scalia and now a partner at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. "There's a good chance that with healthcare all the chambers are engaged in some way ... and at full capacity."

There are other routines. Votes on the judgment in a particular case are taken the week of its oral arguments. Chief Roberts or, if he is not in the majority, the senior justice on the winning side, assigns the majority opinion. The senior justice in dissent assigns for that side. Any justice may write a concurring statement to explain a vote.

For the healthcare cases, preliminary votes and assignments occurred in the justices' private conference on March 30, the Friday after the oral arguments. Since then, the justices have been drafting opinions in that controversy and others. All nine are kept in a conversation of sorts as messengers hand-deliver drafts to individual chambers. (These days, law clerks also distribute copies by email.)

By the time decision-making began stretching into June, the late Justice William Rehnquist, who served as chief justice from 1986-2005, tended to want simply to get it all over with. "If this were November rather than June," he once wrote to a colleague, "I would prepare a masterfully crafted dissenting opinion ... Since it is June, however, I join" the majority opinion.

One year, when the justices were tangling over a handgun-control law until the final days of the month, Rehnquist kept his travel plans. When that ruling, Printz v. United States, was announced on Friday, June 27, 1997, Rehnquist was already on his way to Rome.

VELVET DRAPES, BLACK ROBES

The justices always begin releasing their opinions at 10 a.m. sharp. To the "Oyez, oyez" chant of Marshal Pamela Talkin, the justices emerge in their black robes from behind crimson velvet drapes and ascend the bench. As decisions are ceremoniously announced from the bench, they are posted to the Supreme Court's website (supremecourt.gov) and distributed to reporters waiting in the pressroom on the ground floor of the columned court building.

Justices' spouses often take special guest seats near the bench to watch the drama. Some lawyers associated with the healthcare case have been regulars this month in the section reserved for lawyers. From the center black leather chair, Roberts introduces each case by number and name, and then declares who authored it for the majority. That justice then begins to read excerpts of the opinion.

A dissenting justice will sometimes take the unusual step of reading portions of his or her contrary statement from the tall mahogany bench, too. In January 2010, Justice John Paul Stevens voiced an impassioned dissent in the campaign finance case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Stevens, then about to turn 90, retired at the end of that term.

Often retired justices show up in the courtroom for big June days. Last Monday, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was there in a prime guest seat. Two weeks ago, she said she did not know if she would be in Washington on the day the healthcare ruling was released.

If O'Connor, who stepped down in January 2006, knows what her erstwhile colleagues are deciding on that case, she isn't talking.

When asked recently by a reporter about the dispute over the law signed by Obama in March 2010, she quickly protested, "I haven't even read the statute."

Does she have a suspicion on how the court might rule?

"I haven't a clue."

(Reporting By Joan Biskupic; Editing by Amy Stevens, Howard Goller and Bill Trott)

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