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Sunday, June 30, 2013
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It's a good weekend for wedding photographers in San Francisco
A lesbian couple -- Danielle Fernandez, 33, and Janeen Singer, 32 -- showed up at San Francisco City Hall on Saturday looking for business as wedding photographers. They had planned to celebrate pride weekend in Dolores Park with a bottle of champagne, but instead decided to work.
Up until Friday, their business had been "pretty hetero."
They would take photos at straight couples' weddings, knowing it was not an option for them, even after two years together.
Occasionally they would shoot ceremonies for gay couples, but those weren't legal marriages.
"There's something about the energy around today," Fernandez said. "It's validation."
She added, "People are glowing. It makes for good photographs."
They shot three weddings Friday and arrived at City Hall on Saturday with cameras and matching black shirts that said "lesbian and wedding photographer" in white lettering. Rates started at a discounted $40.
Two days after the Supreme Court rejected an attempt to restore Proposition 8, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Friday bypassed a normal 25-day waiting period in lifting a hold on a trial judge's ruling that had declared the measure unconstitutional.
"It couldn't come a moment too soon," said Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who sparked the legal effort for gay marriage in California when he was San Francisco mayor.
"What extraordinary timing, right before [gay] pride weekend," Newsom said. " All that time, all the struggle, and the moment has arrived."
The losing side in a Supreme Court case usually has 25 days to ask for reconsideration before the ruling is implemented. Supporters of Proposition 8, including the ballot measure's sponsor, ProtectMarriage, were furious that the 9th Circuit acted before the normal waiting period.
"It is part and parcel of the utter lawlessness in which this whole case has been prosecuted," said Chapman Law professor John Eastman, a supporter of Proposition 8."Normally, courts let the parties kind of pursue their legal remedies before they issue a mandate."
He said the 25-day period for asking the Supreme Court to reconsider still applied, and a rehearing, though extremely unlikely, remained a technical possibility.
"Tonight it is chaos and lawlessness, and anyone who is concerned about the rule of law ought to be deeply troubled by what happened here," the constitutional law professor said.
Andy Pugno, general counsel for ProtectMarriage, expressed astonishment and dismay.
"I am not sure what we do at this moment," he said. "It is 4:30 p.m. on a Friday. I am not sure what can be done at this point. This is beyond belief. I don't think anybody expected this. The Supreme Court decision is not even final, and yet the 9th Circuit is rushing forward."
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Celebrity Real Estate - Curbed National
Friday, June 28, 2013, by Sarah Firshein
Lady Gaga, one of those rare breeds of multimillionaire celebrities who has always preferred to rent, has just inked a deal on a $22K/month Manhattan duplex. The pop star must indeed, uh, "be on the right track, baby": the nearly 2,000-square-foot unit is an astronomical leap up from her city starter pad. [Life & Style via The Real Deal; previously]
Source: http://curbed.com/archives/2013/06/28/celebrity-real-estate-223.php
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Give Your Portfolio A Long-Term Boost With This 'Hated' Stock ...
By Joseph Hogue
Some stocks are good for a quick pop, but you have to time it just right. Case in point: Netflix (NFLX) investors have seen several double-digit surges over the last year. They've also seen the stock plummet by as much as a third on more than a few occasions.
High-risk and high-reward stocks are great for kick starting a portfolio, and they certainly make investing interesting, but many investors have been broken by high-flying has-beens. For instance, wireless giant BlackBerry (BBRY) made a lot of people wealthy as its stock price rocketed 17-fold between 2003 and 2007. Investors who bought in at BBRY's height, on the other hand, are looking at a 90% loss.
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A chance at overnight success is great, but investors want stocks they can buy and hold forever. These "Forever" stocks, as StreetAuthority co-founder Paul Tracy calls them, combine consistent growth and income and have stood the test of time. These companies enjoy a competitive advantage through industry forces like low bargaining power of buyers and suppliers, high barriers to entry, low threats from substitutes, and minimal rivalry among competitors.
These companies are here to stay -- in your portfolio.
One of these "Forever" stocks is a company in one of the most hated industries, yet the stock is in the portfolio of almost 1,400 institutional funds. The industry's product has been shown to kill its customers over the long term, and this company is the largest among them. If you haven't already guessed, the industry is tobacco, and the company is Philip Morris International (PM), the world's largest publicly traded manufacturer and marketer of tobacco products.
Why should investors love shares of a company that is so hated? Because it has consistently outperformed the market and provided stable growth and income. Since the worst of the financial meltdown, shares of Philip Morris have rebounded 143% versus 110% for the S&P 500. That price gain is above the 3.9% dividend yield, a payout that the company has increased 85% since 2008.
Philip Morris has seven of the top cigarette brands, including Marlboro, the market leader. The company sells across a diverse market, with Asia accounting for 36% of international sales last year, followed by Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa at 27%, the European Union at 26%, and Latin America and Canada at 11%.
Excluding China and the United States, the company's share of total global volume increased from 24.9% in 2007 to 28.8% in 2012. On top of an increasing share of the market, after three consecutive years of declining volume to 2010, unit sales of cigarettes have been increasing by an average of 2.8% per year, to 93.7 billion units in 2012. Higher excise taxes in Europe have led to some unit declines, but these have been offset by dramatic increases in the Asian markets.
China is where the growth lies in the industry, with 44% of last year's estimated industry volume outside the United States. There are an estimated 301 million people smoking in China. This number is growing at an annual rate of 3.9%, and China had the lowest quit rates in a survey of 16 emerging and industrialized countries. The Chinese market is largely state-controlled through the China National Tobacco Corp., with which Philip Morris is establishing joint ventures.
The company has made a firm commitment of returning cash to shareholders and has managed the trade-off between growth and dividends superbly. Free cash flows have increased at a 13.3% compound annual rate since 2007 to $8.4 billion in 2012.
Philip Morris has consistently beaten its long-term annual target of 10% to 12% growth in earnings per share (or EPS) with a five-year average growth of 15%. In this year's second quarter, the company announced a three-year, $18 billion stock repurchase program. At the current price, this represents a reduction in share count of about 4% each year, which should help support EPS growth. Since 2008, Philip Morris has spent $24.4 billion to buy back about 450 million shares for a reduction of 21.3% in the number of shares outstanding.
As hazardous to your health as smoking is, Philip Morris offers clear benefits for your portfolio's health. EPS growth in excess of 12% per year, which includes a share count reduction of 4%, and a 3.9% dividend are returns you would be hard-pressed to find in the strongest growth stocks -- let alone a company in a mature and stable market with forever potential.
Risks to Consider: The risks to Philip Morris and the industry in general are short-term scares surrounding legislation and substitute products. The shares drop every time rumors of new regulations hit, but legislation has yet to dent the industry's long-term profitability or outlook.
Philip Morris International has true forever potential in an industry with stable growth and terrific cash flow. You don't have to like its products, but you can't deny a history of market-beating returns.
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Disclosure: I am long PM. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it. I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.
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Saturday, June 29, 2013
'Laverne & Shirley' to reunite on 'Sam & Cat'
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Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams are working together again on a guest appearance on "Sam & Cat."
Schlemiel! Schlimazel! "Laverne & Shirley" are back! Sort of.
Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams, who starred in the popular 1970s and early 1980s sitcom, are reuniting for an upcoming episode of Nickelodeon's "Sam & Cat," the network announced this week.
They'll be playing the feuding creators of the "Salmon Cat" show, who Sam (Jennette McCurdy) and Cat (Ariana Grande) must try to reunite. This will be the first time in more than three decades that Marshall and Williams have worked together on a scripted program.
Like "Laverne & Shirley," Nickelodeon's "Sam & Cat" is a spin-off show about two roommates who work together. But instead of working as bottlecappers at a brewery, Sam and Cat run their own babysitting business and have wacky adventures.
The episode guest-starring Marshall and Williams filmed in Los Angeles this week. Nickelodeon has not yet announced when the episode will air.
"Sam & Cat" airs Saturdays at 8 p.m.
Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/laverne-shirley-reunite-sam-cat-6C10486626
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Home sales jump up in May
Pending home sales climbed up, perhaps because sidelined buyers are jumping into the market before interest rates rise further, the chief economist of the National Association of Realtors said.
Seasonally adjusted national pending home sales rose significantly from April, jumping 6.7 percent up.
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Meanwhile, the NARs chief economist Lawrence Yun is suggests the spike in contract activity is likely the result of sidelined buyers now jumping to buy before interest rates, increasing for several weeks now, rise further:
"Even with limited choices, it appears some of the rise in contract signings could be from buyers wanting to take advantage of current affordability conditions before mortgage interest rates move higher, ... This implies a continuation of double-digit price increases from a year earlier, with a strong push from pent-up demand."
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YouWeb Founder Peter Relan Sunsets His Gaming Incubator, Will Open A New Company Building Studio Soon
Peter Relan is best known for his gaming and mobile incubator YouWeb, which spawned Crowdstar, Agawi, Spaceport, OpenFeint, Agawi and others. Today, the serial entrepreneur is announcing that YouWeb will no longer be incubating any additional companies, and Relan will be moving on to a new venture.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/CpHiE07TcBc/
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Friday, June 28, 2013
Detroit faces exodus of police, firefighters
By Bernie Woodall
DETROIT (Reuters) - After years of pay cuts and reduction in their ranks, Detroit police officers and firefighters in the next week face a tough decision: Retire now or put their careers in the hands of Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr, who has the power to unilaterally cut their pay and benefits.
At least several dozen police officers and firefighters will retire early as they try to lock in benefits before Orr imposes new labor contracts, union officials told Reuters.
A large flight of veteran public safety workers could cause disruption in a city facing some of the nation's highest violent crime rates and a rash of arson fires. This in turn would raise the level of difficulty for Orr as he seeks to address Detroit's myriad urban problems.
Uncertainty over future pay and benefits for the city's 500 mid-level unionized police officers and 917 unionized firefighters is causing some to seek the exit, presidents of the two unions said.
Mark Young, president of the Detroit Police Lieutenants & Sergeants Association (LSA), said 200 of the 500 officers he represents are eligible to retire. He said many are "on the bubble" regarding a decision to retire before the union's contract expires next week.
By retiring now, members of the LSA and the Detroit Firefighters' Association could hope to lock in retirement benefits under their existing contract before Orr could impose cuts to pay and benefits -- a power granted him under Michigan's emergency manager law.
Contracts for the Detroit Firefighters Association, as well as for about 150 unionized emergency medical services workers, both expire June 30. The city's contract with the LSA expires July 6.
Any significant loss of lieutenants and sergeants could immediately damage the Detroit Police Department, said Eric Lambert, head of the criminal justice department at Wayne State University, located in the city.
"You lose the expertise and institutional knowledge if you have too many retire at once," said Lambert.
Orr has had little contact with leaders of public safety unions since his first few days after taking office on March 25, but he has said consistently that public safety is a top priority. He addressed union leaders along with creditors and pension trustees when he forecast large cost cuts and a possible bankruptcy filing in a large-group meeting two weeks ago.
Orr's spokesman, Bill Nowling, said the emergency manager knows a crowd of police officers and firefighters may soon leave. Orr's staff needs to and later this week intends to communicate "at least what our short-term intentions are," Nowling said.
"I know there are guys who are on the retirement bubble and they need all the facts," Nowling said. "We want everybody to make factual decisions and not emotional decisions. We want to provide them with the information to do that."
Orr is holding internal staff meetings and is "hopeful" he can clue the unions in on his plans in the next few days, Nowling added. After the internal sessions, Nowling said Orr can go say to union leaders, "This is what the future looks like, at least for the short-term, so everybody has a clear picture."
One possibility is that Orr may maintain terms of existing contracts for a period of time after expiration, Nowling added.
Police and firefighters are not eligible for Social Security checks because of their city-sponsored retirement funds, to which they contribute with every paycheck. But the city's police and firefighters pension systems are only 78 percent funded, according to estimates by Orr's office. The underfunding is below the 80 percent threshold at which the emergency law allows Orr to replace the board that manages the fund now.
Early retirement likely would not protect retirement benefits, regardless of whether Orr imposes changes or new terms are set under a possible bankruptcy filing. Orr earlier this month said there is a 50-50 chance that Detroit will enter bankruptcy.
"Whether you retire today or you retire two months from now, those two things are going to impact (retirement benefits)," said Nowling.
Dan McNamara, president of the Detroit Firefighters Association, said he is frustrated by the lack of communication from Orr's office.
So is Young, who said, "I have to know what to tell my membership. Right now, we're reduced to collective begging."
Even as Orr decides how to handle pay and benefits, Detroit's new police chief, James Craig, must begin restructuring the police department he will lead beginning July 1.
Craig will "drive the restructuring" of the police department, Nowling said.
Craig is expected to focus on "community policing," which calls for more personal contact between officers and residents. Lambert of Wayne State said that a delayed benefit of new officers may be more openness to new police tactics.
If large numbers of sergeants and lieutenants retire early, Nowling said, Craig will need to promote from within. Around 400 active police officers now working in administrative jobs could shift to patrol positions after some retraining, he added.
The 1,900-member Detroit Police Officers Association has a contract that extends through June 2014. Its members took a 10-percent pay cut last July.
Mark Diaz, president of the police officers union, said the union five years ago represented about 3,000 active officers.
There were more than 700 members in the LSA five years ago, said Young.
Five years ago, there were 1,300 firefighters in the city, and that number has dwindled to 917, said McNamara
Since the beginning of 2012, about 140 firefighters have retired and not been replaced. The department is strapped in trying to cover the city's 139 square miles, he said, and cannot afford even a handful of retirements.
"We're on our last legs everywhere we go," said McNamara.
(Reporting by Bernie Woodall; Editing by Chris Reese)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/detroit-faces-exodus-police-firefighters-152432884.html
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
Religious Right on Gay Marriage: 'We Will Never, Never, Never, Never Give In'
Christian conservatives compared the struggle over gay marriage to epic crises and tragedies: to communism, to the financial crisis, to the biblical story of Lazarus coming back from the dead.?But while many in the religious right are saying the fight over gay marriage isn't over, even though the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act as unconstitutional on Wednesday, lots of Republicans just want it to go away.
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Former Gov. Mike Huckabee tweeted, "My thoughts on the SCOTUS ruling that determined that same sex marriage is okay: 'Jesus wept.'"?Retiring Rep. Michele Bachmann said, "Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has instituted."?
RELATED: Federal Court: DOMA Violates Married Same-Sex Couples' Rights
The most dramatic immediate reaction was from the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer in a series of tweets: "Sodomy-based marriage is an egregious violation of the 'Laws of Nature and Nature's God.' May God have mercy on us. ? In our battle to defend marriage as God has defined it, we will never give in. We will never, never, never, never give in. ? Solzhenitsyn: 'One word of truth outweighs the whole world.' That includes the Supreme Court."?(Fischer excels at getting attention far beyond his influence, and pressured Mitt Romney's campaign to fire a newly hired foreign policy adviser because he's gay. The aide eventually?quit.)?
RELATED: California Is Past Prop. 8: Support for Marriage Equality Hits Record High
Before the decision was ever handed down, the?Christian Post's Eric Metaxas?wrote, "The False Narrative of Gay Marriage: It Is Not Inevitable." Metaxas explains that it looks like gay marriage is winning, but that's a mirage: "In his book,?The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb discussed what he calls the 'narrative fallacy.' This refers to our 'limited ability' to look at a sequence of facts "without weaving an explanation into them." A push to legalize gay marriage in Illinois recently failed, he said. "While we face an uphill battle, what else is new?"
RELATED: The Annotated Transcript of the Prop 8 Oral Arguments, with For and Against
The?National Organization for Marriage's Maggie Gallager?said the fight would go on for decades, just like the fight over abortion:
"[Justice Anthony] Kennedy's decision is the Roe v. Wade of this generation, not this generation's Brown v. Board of Education. Like Roe, Kennedy stepped in to disenfranchise millions of voters' concerns to tilt unfairly the scale of justice controversial moral issue trending in a liberal direction. But like Roe the deep questions involved in marriage will not simply go away: At the heart of the gay marriage argument is an untruth: unions of two men or women are not the same as unions of husband and wife. The law cannot make it so. It can only require us to paint pretty pictures to cover up deep truths embedded in human nature."
And yet there are many conservatives who indicated they do not want this battle to go on forever and ever. Conservative pundit Dana Loesch said this was a blow to Democrats, because DOMA was an example of big government. "DOMA doesn't surprise me. Even I thought it was unconstitutional," RedState editor Erick Erickson tweeted. House Speaker John Boehner issued a statement saying, "While I am obviously disappointed in the ruling, it is always critical that we protect our system of checks and balances. A robust national debate over marriage will continue in the public square, and it is my hope that states will define marriage as the union between one man and one woman." Likewise, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul advised, "I would tell people who are for traditional marriage: the battle is lost at the federal level; concentrate on your state." But the fight in the states will not be to stop gay marriage -- dozens banned it in their state constitutions between 2004 and 2006. The fight in the states is going the opposite direction, just as it is federally.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/religious-gay-marriage-never-never-never-never-161507613.html
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Dow back over 15,000 on upbeat data and Fed reassurance
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Stocks were sharply higher on Thursday, thanks to better-than-expected reports on unemployment, home sales and consumer spending, as well as reassuring comments from Federal Reserve policymakers, who said markets had overreacted to the Fed's recent policy statements.
(Read More: US Economy Could Grow 5% in Late 2014: Fund Manager)
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was 130 points higher in early afternoon trading, regaining its footing above the psychologically-significant 15,000-point level and looking to log its first three-day rally since late April. The blue-chip index has seen triple-digit moves in 15 of the 19 trading sessions in the month of June, the most in a month since October 2011.
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were also sharply higher. The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, slid below 17.
All key S&P sectors were in positive territory, led by telecoms and financials.
Upbeat economic data from China also helped bolster sentiment. Industrial profits unexpectedly rose 15 percent in May year-on-year, defying expectations of a slowdown. Japan's Nikkei rallied nearly 3 percent, logging its biggest percentage gain in 13 sessions, while the Shanghai Composite Index finished flat.
"Any China data carries significant weight these days as investors are desperate for signs that the world's second biggest economy is still ticking along," wrote Stan Shamu, market strategist at IG.
On the economic front, weekly jobless claims fell 9,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 346,000, according to the Labor Department, largely in line with expectations. The four-week moving average for new claims fell 2,750 to 345,750. And consumer spending rebounded 0.3 percent in May, matching estimates, after a revised 0.3 percent decline in the prior month, according to the Commerce Department.
Treasury prices extended their gains as yields tumbled to session lows following the data.
(Read More: Why All the Bond Selling Hysteria May Be Overdone)
"I think it makes the Fed even more confident that they're doing the right thing," said Drew Matus, senior U.S. economist and managing director at UBS. "And if you look at these numbers, they suggest that the second quarter's going to be better than the first quarter."
Also, pending home sales for May soared 6 percent to hit a six-year high, according to the National Association of Realtors.
New York Fed president William Dudley said the central bank's asset purchases would be more aggressive than the timeline Chairman Ben Bernanke outlined last week if economic growth and the labor market turn out weaker than expected.
Dudley added that the recent market forecasts for an earlier rate gain are "quite out of sync" with the statements and expectations of the policy-making Federal Open Market Committee. Dudley is a voting member of the FOMC.
Fed Board Governor Jerome Powell agreed that markets over-reacted to the central bank's statements on tapering off its stimulus package.
"Market adjustments since May have been larger than would be justified by any reasonable reassessment of the path of policy," Powell said in a speech. "To the extent the market is pricing-in an increase in the federal funds rate in 2014, that implies a stronger economic performance than is forecast either by most FOMC participants or by private forecasters."
Markets have been fixated on Fed commentary this week, after Bernanke said last week that the central bank could begin to wind down its $85 billion monthly bond purchases before the end of the year. That sent already rising yields higher and sent stocks on a roller-coaster ride.
Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart was also expected to speak later on Thursday.
In addition, the Treasury will auction $29 billion in 7-year notes later. The auction follows a $35 billion 5-year auction Wednesday and a $35 billion 2-year auction Tuesday, both with anemic results.
"The results for the 2- and 5-year do not bode well for the 7-year tomorrow," said Ian Lyngen, senior Treasury strategist at CRT Capital, speaking on Wednesday. "There's limited risk appetite ahead of the end of the quarter."
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Obama says carbon limits needed for power plants
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama says carbon pollution limits need to be set on U.S. power plants in order to curb global warming.
Obama says rules are already in place to limit pollution from arsenic, mercury, lead and other substances, but no federal limits exist on how much carbon pollution that power plants ? including many that are fired by coal ? can dump into the air.
Obama says "that's not right, it's not fair, and it needs to stop."
Obama made his remarks Tuesday in a speech at Georgetown University, where he announced measures he intends to take to limit pollution that is trapping gases in the atmosphere.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-says-carbon-limits-needed-power-plants-181724776.html
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IRS official refuses to testify before Congress
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Internal Revenue Service official on Wednesday invoked his right not to answer questions at a congressional hearing, a day after a Republican report accused the official of inappropriately awarding federal contracts worth millions of dollars.
At a U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, Gregory Roseman, an IRS official involved in awarding IRS contracts, repeated four times that he would not answer questions. He was then excused from the hearing.
"I respectfully decline to answer any questions and invoke my Fifth Amendment privilege to remain silent," Roseman said, referring the Constitution's protection against self-incrimination.
Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, a California Republican, released the report on Tuesday that detailed personal ties between Roseman and the president of a Virginia-based government contracting business Strong Castle Inc.
The report also said the company made false statements to beat rivals for the work. Strong Castle, formerly known as Signet Computers, has denied any wrongdoing.
Roseman has been reassigned within the IRS because of his role in awarding the contracts.
IRS deputy commissioner Beth Tucker told the House panel the new information revealed by the committee is "deeply troubling," and that the IRS is taking steps to end its ties to Strong Castle.
The alleged misconduct by Strong Castle and Roseman shows "shockingly inappropriate" behavior and highlights how the company was able to "successfully manipulate the system to acquire contracts," Issa said on Wednesday.
The controversy is the latest in a series suffered by the IRS in recent weeks, most notably an inspector general report that last month said the agency inappropriately gave added scrutiny to conservative Tea Party-linked groups seeking tax-exempt status.
It was the second time in two months that an IRS official refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing.
Last month, Lois Lerner, the former head of the IRS tax-exempt division at the center of the Tea Party groups controversy, angered lawmakers by reading a statement before refusing to testify.
Issa's panel will vote on Friday on whether Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment right by giving a brief opening statement.
(Reporting By Patrick Temple-West; Editing by Kim Dixon and Vicki Allen)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/irs-official-refuses-testify-congress-140619025.html
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Ed Oxenbould to star in 'Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day'
By Jeff Sneider
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Disney has cast young actor Ed Oxenbould to play the title character in "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day."
Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner star in the film, which is based on the award-winning children's book by Judith Viorst.
Miguel Arteta is directing, while The Jim Henson Company is producing with 21 Laps.
Story follows young Alexander through the mishaps of a terrible day for his family after he wishes they all would experience the same troubles he does.
Disney is hoping that October 10, 2014 will be a very good day for "Alexander" to hit theaters.
Oxenbould is repped by Industry Entertainment and Sophie Jermyn Management in Australia.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ed-oxenbould-star-alexander-terrible-horrible-no-good-201818922.html
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10 Favorite Family Recipes - Easy & {Mostly!} Healthy
1. ?Rice & Beans?- super easy, and a kid favorite
2. Quinoa & Berry Salad?- this is perfect for summer parties and potlucks, my husband and I love this salad
3. ?Muffins - I've never met a muffin I didn't love. ?They are {usually} so simple to make, easy to eat, easy to customize and my kids love them too. ?Quinana Muffins are healthy and good, and Pumpkin Cranberry Muffins are heavenly!
4. ?Leftover Soup?- easy and frugal, one of my very favorites. ?Can be served with a muffin, of course!
5. ?Granola - I love granola. I don't make it that often because when I make it I don't stop eating it until its all gone! ?I have two recipes that I like, one is just a plain version, the other is Cranberry Orange. ?Try them both and see which you prefer, I think they are both sublime.
6. ?Mexican Rice?- makes plenty for leftovers - great recipe!?
7. ?Creamy Blueberry Pie?- I've got to figure out a way to veganize and lower the sugar - it's a great pie!! ?Blueberries are one of our very favorite fruits.
8. ?Swiss Oats?- This really is a fast, easy, and healthy breakfast. ?A great make ahead breakfast for busy mornings.
9. ?Shakeology - Okay so this isn't a recipe per se, but this is my breakfast staple and it has been for over a year. ?I love it! {My husband and kids do too!}
10. ?Macaroni & Cheese - I can't remember the last time I made this recipe, but my kids really do love it! {Even we we ate meat I never added the bacon}
What is your favorite family recipe?
I have many more recipes on my Pinterest boards! Dinner, Lunch, Breakfast, Salads, and Snacks?- recently I've started making comments on some of the items I have tried.
Linking up with iHN and Many Little Blessings this week.
Source: http://www.foreverforalwaysnomatterwhat.com/2013/06/10-favorite-family-recipes-easy-mostly.html
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STOCKS NEWS MIDEAST-Qatar leadership transition seen as positive
0530 GMT - News of Qatar's leadership transition is seen as modestly positive for its stock market, signalling political stability and a continuation of current economic policies.
Late on Sunday the Qatari-owed al Jazeera television channel said the emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, 61, would meet ruling family members and decision makers on Monday "amid reports that he intends to hand over power to his crown prince, Sheikh Tamim".
The news was not unexpected; the government has prepared the public and diplomatic allies for the transition, which diplomats said could include the departure of the powerful prime minister and foreign minister, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, 53.
"The handover is positive in the sense that it will be well managed," says Sebastien Henin, portfolio manager at The National Investor in Abu Dhabi. "For the crown prince, there is a clear path to manage the country with no competition."
It is possible that the government could announce positive economic news or more benefits for local citizens to mark the transition. In any case, significant change in Qatar's economic direction does not appear to be on the cards.
"Tamim has controlled key policies in Qatar for some time, and shares his father's views on political development in Qatar and economic diversification," Eman Ebed Alkadi of Eurasia Group consultants Alkadi wrote.
National budgets have been agreed up until 2016-2017, Alkadi wrote, and with preparations for the World Cup in 2022 in full swing, much change in domestic momentum is unlikely.
Qatar's bourse, up 10.4 percent so far this year, benefited from news early this month that MSCI was upgrading it to emerging market status. In the last week it has been hit by the uncertain global environment, but it ended Sunday well off its lows, suggesting bargain-hunting support.
In the United Arab Emirates, Dubai builder Arabtec , part-owned by Abu Dhabi state fund Aabar, has extended the subscription period for its $650 million rights share issue to July 4 from June 23.
Arabtec said it wanted to give investors outside the UAE a chance to participate; a source familiar with the matter told Reuters that the entire amount had not been taken up by shareholders at the original deadline. However, many traders expect Arabtec to succeed eventually in selling the issue, given its strong backers, so the stock may have little downside.
In Saudi Arabia, the government announced it is switching its official weekend to Fridays and Saturdays, bringing the kingdom's working week closer in line with other countries.
Although there may be little immediate economic benefit, the stock market may be boosted by the decision as it had been requested by the business community and indicates the government's willingness to reform the economy.
The global backdrop for markets is negative, however; Asian shares fell to a fresh 9-1/2-month low on Monday as investors worried about China's economic and financial stability.
Local investors may continue to sell in Egypt, where the army stepped into a deepening political crisis on Sunday, demanding that the Islamist government and its opponents settle their differences and warning that it would act to stop violence spinning out of control.
However, foreign investors have been net buyers in the last several days, according to exchange data, which suggests they believe the market may be near a bottom and are looking for a rally if protest rallies planned for June 30 pass without major violence. (Reporting by Nadia Saleem; Editing by Andrew Torchia)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/stocks-news-mideast-qatar-leadership-transition-seen-positive-055834551.html
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Oregon chemists moving forward with tool to detect hydrogen sulfide
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Public release date: 24-Jun-2013[ | E-mail |
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University of Oregon
Newly developed approach could benefit basic medical research and find H2S in the environment
EUGENE, Ore. -- (June 24, 2013) -- University of Oregon chemists have developed a selective probe that detects hydrogen sulfide (H2S) levels as low as 190 nanomolar (10 parts per billion) in biological samples. They say the technique could serve as a new tool for basic biological research and as an enhanced detection system for H2S in suspected bacterially contaminated water sources.
Hydrogen sulfide, a colorless gas, has long been known for its dangerous toxicity -- and its telltale smell of rotten eggs -- in the environment, but in the last decade the gas has been found to be produced in mammals, including humans, with seemingly important roles in molecular signaling and cardiac health. Detection methods for biological systems are emerging from many laboratories as scientists seek to understand the roles of H2S in general health and different diseases.
Reporting in the Journal of Organic Chemistry -- online in advance of regular print publication -- researchers in the UO lab of Michael D. Pluth, professor of chemistry, describe the development of a colorimetric probe that relies on nucleophilic aromatic substitution to react selectively with H2S to produce a characteristic purple product, allowing for precise H2S measurement.
"This paper describes a new way to selectively detect H2S," said Pluth, who has been pursuing detection methods for the gas under a National Institutes of Health "Pathway to Independence" grant. That early career award began while he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "This technique allows you to use instruments to quantify how much H2S has been produced in a sample, and the distinctive color change allows for naked-eye detection."
In biological samples, he said, the approach allows for a precise measurement. In the environment, he added, the technique could be used to determine if potentially harmful H2S-producing bacteria are a contaminant in water sources through the creation of testing kits to detect the gas when levels are above a defined threshold.
The key to the technique, said the paper's lead author, doctoral student Leticia A. Montoya, is the reaction process in which the probe reacts with H2S to produce a distinctly identifiable purple compound. "This method allows you look selectively at hydrogen sulfide versus any other nucleophiles or biological thiols in a system," Montoya said. "It allows you to more easily visualize where H2S is present."
The chemical reaction produced in the experiments, Pluth said, also holds the potential to be applied in a variety of materials, on surfaces and films, with appropriate modifications. The UO has applied for a provisional patent to cover the technology.
The study is the second in which Pluth's lab has reported potential detection probes for H2S. Last year, in the journal Chemical Communications, Montoya and Pluth described their development of two bright fluorescent probes that sort out H2S from among cysteine, glutathione and other reactive sulfur, nitrogen and oxygen species in living cells.
"We're really interested in making sharper tools," Pluth said. "We have the basic science worked out, and now we want to move forward to fine-tune our tools so that we can better use them to answer important scientific questions."
"University of Oregon researchers are helping to foster a more sustainable future by developing powerful new tools and entrepreneurial technologies," said Kimberly Andrews Espy, vice president for research and innovation and dean of the UO graduate school. "This important research from Dr. Pluth's lab may someday alert us to environmental contaminants and could also impact basic science and human health."
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Co-authors with Montoya and Pluth on the newly published paper were UO undergraduate students Taylor F. Pearce and Ryan J. Hansen, and Lev N. Zakharov of the UO-based Center for Advanced Materials Characterization in Oregon (CAMCOR). The NIH grant to Pluth (R00 GM092970) came from the National Institute for General Medical Sciences. The research also utilized UO-based nuclear magnetic resonance facilities that are supported by the National Science Foundation (ARRA CHE-0923589).
About the University of Oregon
The University of Oregon is among the 108 institutions chosen from 4,633 U.S. universities for top-tier designation of "Very High Research Activity" in the 2010 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The UO also is one of two Pacific Northwest members of the Association of American Universities.
Sources:
Michael D. Pluth
assistant professor of chemistry
541-346-7477
pluth@uoregon.edu
Leticia A. Montoya
doctoral student, chemistry
lmontoya@uoregon.edu
Links:
Pluth faculty page: http://chemistry.uoregon.edu/fac.html?pluth
Pluth lab: http://pages.uoregon.edu/pluth/
Department of Chemistry: http://chemistry.uoregon.edu
Follow UO Science on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/UniversityOfOregonScience
UO Science on Twitter: http://twitter.com/UO_Research
More UO Science/Research News: http://uoresearch.uoregon.edu
Note: The University of Oregon is equipped with an on-campus television studio with a point-of-origin Vyvx connection, which provides broadcast-quality video to networks worldwide via fiber optic network. In addition, there is video access to satellite uplink, and audio access to an ISDN codec for broadcast-quality radio interviews.
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Public release date: 24-Jun-2013[ | E-mail |
Share ] Contact: Jim Barlow
jebarlow@uoregon.edu
541-346-3481
University of Oregon
Newly developed approach could benefit basic medical research and find H2S in the environment
EUGENE, Ore. -- (June 24, 2013) -- University of Oregon chemists have developed a selective probe that detects hydrogen sulfide (H2S) levels as low as 190 nanomolar (10 parts per billion) in biological samples. They say the technique could serve as a new tool for basic biological research and as an enhanced detection system for H2S in suspected bacterially contaminated water sources.
Hydrogen sulfide, a colorless gas, has long been known for its dangerous toxicity -- and its telltale smell of rotten eggs -- in the environment, but in the last decade the gas has been found to be produced in mammals, including humans, with seemingly important roles in molecular signaling and cardiac health. Detection methods for biological systems are emerging from many laboratories as scientists seek to understand the roles of H2S in general health and different diseases.
Reporting in the Journal of Organic Chemistry -- online in advance of regular print publication -- researchers in the UO lab of Michael D. Pluth, professor of chemistry, describe the development of a colorimetric probe that relies on nucleophilic aromatic substitution to react selectively with H2S to produce a characteristic purple product, allowing for precise H2S measurement.
"This paper describes a new way to selectively detect H2S," said Pluth, who has been pursuing detection methods for the gas under a National Institutes of Health "Pathway to Independence" grant. That early career award began while he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "This technique allows you to use instruments to quantify how much H2S has been produced in a sample, and the distinctive color change allows for naked-eye detection."
In biological samples, he said, the approach allows for a precise measurement. In the environment, he added, the technique could be used to determine if potentially harmful H2S-producing bacteria are a contaminant in water sources through the creation of testing kits to detect the gas when levels are above a defined threshold.
The key to the technique, said the paper's lead author, doctoral student Leticia A. Montoya, is the reaction process in which the probe reacts with H2S to produce a distinctly identifiable purple compound. "This method allows you look selectively at hydrogen sulfide versus any other nucleophiles or biological thiols in a system," Montoya said. "It allows you to more easily visualize where H2S is present."
The chemical reaction produced in the experiments, Pluth said, also holds the potential to be applied in a variety of materials, on surfaces and films, with appropriate modifications. The UO has applied for a provisional patent to cover the technology.
The study is the second in which Pluth's lab has reported potential detection probes for H2S. Last year, in the journal Chemical Communications, Montoya and Pluth described their development of two bright fluorescent probes that sort out H2S from among cysteine, glutathione and other reactive sulfur, nitrogen and oxygen species in living cells.
"We're really interested in making sharper tools," Pluth said. "We have the basic science worked out, and now we want to move forward to fine-tune our tools so that we can better use them to answer important scientific questions."
"University of Oregon researchers are helping to foster a more sustainable future by developing powerful new tools and entrepreneurial technologies," said Kimberly Andrews Espy, vice president for research and innovation and dean of the UO graduate school. "This important research from Dr. Pluth's lab may someday alert us to environmental contaminants and could also impact basic science and human health."
###
Co-authors with Montoya and Pluth on the newly published paper were UO undergraduate students Taylor F. Pearce and Ryan J. Hansen, and Lev N. Zakharov of the UO-based Center for Advanced Materials Characterization in Oregon (CAMCOR). The NIH grant to Pluth (R00 GM092970) came from the National Institute for General Medical Sciences. The research also utilized UO-based nuclear magnetic resonance facilities that are supported by the National Science Foundation (ARRA CHE-0923589).
About the University of Oregon
The University of Oregon is among the 108 institutions chosen from 4,633 U.S. universities for top-tier designation of "Very High Research Activity" in the 2010 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The UO also is one of two Pacific Northwest members of the Association of American Universities.
Sources:
Michael D. Pluth
assistant professor of chemistry
541-346-7477
pluth@uoregon.edu
Leticia A. Montoya
doctoral student, chemistry
lmontoya@uoregon.edu
Links:
Pluth faculty page: http://chemistry.uoregon.edu/fac.html?pluth
Pluth lab: http://pages.uoregon.edu/pluth/
Department of Chemistry: http://chemistry.uoregon.edu
Follow UO Science on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/UniversityOfOregonScience
UO Science on Twitter: http://twitter.com/UO_Research
More UO Science/Research News: http://uoresearch.uoregon.edu
Note: The University of Oregon is equipped with an on-campus television studio with a point-of-origin Vyvx connection, which provides broadcast-quality video to networks worldwide via fiber optic network. In addition, there is video access to satellite uplink, and audio access to an ISDN codec for broadcast-quality radio interviews.
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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/uoo-ocm062413.php
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