May 20, 2012

Court told of fallen sportsman’s life of crime

A court has been told a former rugby league player was injured and fell into crime and drug-taking.

Jonathon Ray Hume, 31 Rolex Replica Watches, has admitted to various theft and driving charges.

His offending culminated in a high-speed police chase at Salisbury last June in which he crashed a stolen car with stolen number plates into another car on Main North Road, injuring the other driver.

The Adelaide District Court was told Hume had represented Australia at schoolboy level and had been given a scholarship to play with the now-defunct Adelaide Rams.

It heard he had suffered a career-ending shoulder injury and fallen into drug taking.

Hume said he was ashamed of his actions and sorry for the innocent victims of his crimes.

Prosecutors said he had shown a blatant disregard for the law and for other people's safety and deserved jail.

Hume will be sentenced next week.

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May 19, 2012

The First Athletes Ever And 7 Other Moments In Spo

“Why do we play ball?” That was the heady question my then 7-year-old son tossed out to me one day during an innocent game of backyard catch. As a father, anthropologist, and sports fan, I couldn’t resist the call of duty to set off in search of an answer. Who threw the first pitch, kicked the first goal, sunk the first buzzer beater? And how did the ball, a simple child’s toy, come to stake such an unrivaled claim on our time, our money, and our lives?

Against a pretty dismal modern backdrop of steroid use in baseball Tattoo Guns, NFL and NBA lockouts, and vote-selling and corruption in World Cup soccer, I wanted to peel back the layers of scandal and excess to expose the warm, beating heart of the game – uncovering the true reasons we play the games we play.

My globe-trotting investigations, captured in The Ball: Discovering the Object of the Game [HarperCollins, $14.99], took me far afield in both space and time: to a French palace, an Indian reservation, a remote Scottish isle, the Amazon rain forest, and to small-town playing fields and gyms from Ohio to Massachusetts.

Here are some of the things I learned along the way about the ancient roots of our modern sports:

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May 17, 2012

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RICHMOND, Va. — A Food and Drug Administration scientific advisory panel says dissolvable tobacco products could reduce health risks compared with smoking cigarettes but also have the potential to increase the overall number of tobacco users.

Dissolvable tobacco is finely milled tobacco pressed into shapes like tablets that slowly dissolve in a user’s mouth. It is gaining the attention of tobacco companies looking to make up for a decline in cigarette use as smokers face tax hikes, growing health concerns Windows 7 64 bit key, smoking bans and social stigma.

The agency’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee report studying the products was posted online ahead of the Friday deadline mandated under the law giving the FDA authority to regulate the industry. Despite its findings after months of public meetings and presentations, the panel noted that there’s a lack of research on the products that account for a small share of the market.

Tobacco companies are focusing on cigarette alternatives — such as cigars, snuff and chewing tobacco, as well as other forms of nicotine delivery — for future sales growth. The panel says the products are being marketed for use when tobacco consumers can’t smoke.

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., which is owned by Reynolds American Inc. in Winston-Salem, N.C., is test-marketing dissolvable tablets, strips and a toothpick shape under the names Camel Orbs, Camel Strips and Camel Sticks in mint and other flavors. The orbs last about 15 minutes, the strips dissolve in five minutes or less and the sticks, which are slightly bigger than toothpicks, last 15 to 20 minutes.

Richmond-based Altria Group Inc., owner of the nation’s largest tobacco company, Philip Morris USA, also is test marketing wooden sticks coated with finely milled tobacco under the Marlboro brand.

Additionally, Star Scientific Inc., based in Glen Allen, Va., markets tobacco lozenges in wintergreen, coffee and tobacco flavors. The Ariva and Stonewall-branded tablets first appeared on the market about 10 years ago Windows Vista Key, but sales have been minimal.

According to the report, exclusive use of dissolvable tobacco products by an individual would “greatly reduce risk” compared with regular use of cigarettes. It also could reduce population-level disease burden caused by tobacco use if the products decrease the number of people who smoke or don’t start smoking.

“Based on understanding of the delivery of toxins to cigarette smokers Windows 7 Key, exclusive use of (dissolvable tobacco products) should be less hazardous than regular smoking of cigarettes now marketed in the United States,” the report said.

The committee, however, concluded that the availability of dissolvable tobacco products might make people think tobacco in general is safer. Beyond anecdotal evidence, the committee said it found no information on whether dissolvable tobacco products would make cigarette smokers more likely to quit.

Most public health experts say there is no safe way to use tobacco and push for people to quit above all else. Others embrace the idea that lower-risk alternatives can improve public health, if they mean fewer people smoke.

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. said in a statement the report underscores the importance and relevance of informing tobacco consumers about the comparative health risks of tobacco and other products that contain nicotine, as well as the benefits of quitting.

“This information should be based on sound science,” the company said.

The FDA said it plans to review the findings to decide any future actions, but there’s no timeline for it to act. The agency has previously raised concerns that dissolvable tobacco products contain a lot of nicotine and could be particularly appealing to kids and young adults.

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May 17, 2012

Quote-Saving App Banters to Shut Down; Founders Ju

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May 17, 2012

U.S. prosecutors say ready for long haul in 9 11 c

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, May 6, 2012 (Reuters) — U.S. prosecutors and defense attorneys for five defendants in the September 11 attacks dug in on Sunday for a long legal battle that one lawyer said may never be resolved.

The military tribunal is not expected to start for almost another year and if Saturday’s 13-hour arraignment was an accurate preview, the trial will be chaotic and drawn out with continuing disputes about torture and whether a military trial is appropriate.

The defendants on Saturday refused to enter pleas and demanded a full reading of the charges against them. The proceeding was interrupted by outbursts from the defendants, one of whom stripped off his shirt to show scars.

The judge, Army Colonel James Pohl, set the next hearing for June 12 and said the trial will not start until at least mid-2013. Chief Prosecutor Army Brigadier General Mark Martins said at a Sunday news conference he was not discouraged by the slow pace.

“However long the journey … the United States is committed to accountability under law for those who have plotted to attack our nation and to kill innocent people,” he said.

Almost 3,000 people died in 2001 when operatives from Osama bin Laden’s militant Islamic group al Qaeda flew hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center towers in New York, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.

Turning aside defense arguments the tribunals are illegitimate, Martins said that admitted September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants are being tried in a system endorsed by the U.S. Congress and two U.S. presidents.

Defense lawyer James Connell said the tribunals would be lengthy and may never come to a resolution.

“I just want to leave you with the idea that the arraignment yesterday demonstrates that this will be a long, hard-fought but peaceful struggle against secrecy Tattoo Gun Set, torture and the misguided institution of the military commissions,” Connell said at the news conference.

The decision to move to trial in a military court is the latest chapter in a decade-long political and legal battle over handling detainees. One of the most contentious issues has been whether terrorism suspects should be tried in civilian courts as criminals or before military courts as enemy combatants.

Defense lawyers repeatedly have said the tribunals are a second-class system of justice that deprives the defendants of the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

The defendants refused to answer the judge’s questions during Saturday’s hearing because they did not acknowledge the legitimacy of the tribunals, said Connell, a civilian lawyer for Mohammed’s nephew, defendant Ali Abdul Aziz Ali.

All five defendants have said they were tortured while held in secret CIA custody and their lawyers said the abuse continued at Guantanamo, where they have been held since 2006.

“The treatment has had serious long-term effects and will ultimately infect every aspect of the military commission tribunal,” Connell said.

The CIA has acknowledged water boarding Mohammed 183 times. Martins said the torture issue would be aired in court and that torture-tainted evidence would not be used. That does not mean the defendants, who could face the death penalty if convicted, should go free, he said.

“The remedy is not to just dismiss all charges,” Martins said. “It’s harder than that. You’ve got to look and see if there is independent evidence.”

The five defendants originally were charged in the Guantanamo tribunals in 2008. The Obama administration halted the proceedings and tried to move the case into a federal court in New York but, under political pressure Tattoo Gun, filed new charges in Guantanamo. The defendants were arraigned Saturday on the refiled charges.

The Islamic militant defendants are accused of conspiring with bin Laden and the plane hijackers Tattoo Kits On Sale, murder in violation of the laws of war, hijacking, terrorism and other charges stemming from the 2001 attacks that propelled the United States into a global war against al Qaeda and its supporters.

(Editing by Michael Connor and Bill Trott)

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May 17, 2012

This World Is Not Ours

I have always believed that each one of us has the responsibility to stand up for environmental protection for our world’s future, because this world, as much as we take it for granted, is not ours. I believe we do not inherit this Earth from previous generations, but we borrow it from the future ones, and we must keep our nation’s commitment to a healthy and secure environment. Today is Earth Day, a landmark for the environmental movement. Since the first Earth Day in 1970, Americans have worked to improve the air we breathe and the water we drink. Each April 22 we come together in a day of reflection to evaluate our progress in the fight to protect our environment.

Since I was a boy, I have been in awe of Earth. I love the Great Outdoors and have been a conservationist since before it was popular. I have always cherished and fought to protect our glorious natural resources, and I am very proud of the role I played in many of our cornerstone environmental laws. When I first arrived in Congress, the United States had virtually no environmental protection statutes on the books. Businesses, governments, and individuals could spew unregulated pollution into the air and water or dump onto the ground virtually anything — with impunity.

In the 1970s, we recognized that we owe it to future generations to protect the world, which is our only home. The laws we passed were not revolutionary, they were common sense, and were passed on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis. One could even say that these environmental laws were so important that they were, in fact, nonpartisan. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) passed the House with only 15 votes against it, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) with only four Where Can i Buy Tattoo Ink, and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 with only 25.

Since passage of the original Clean Air Act, America’s GDP has grown by more than 200 percent and even though four decades later these policies are still intact, we face challenges. Sadly, partisan bickering and partisan agendas threaten to return us to the sad times, when we were destroying our great natural treasures. We must not allow the weakening of some of our most fundamental environmental protections, including the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, NEPA, the ESA, and the Clean Water Act. We must fight against these challenges, and know these challenges hold the very real threat of rolling back years of progress. It is time to expand the public understanding that the health and future of our children and future generations depend on a clean, safe and secure environment.

Last Congress, we invested nearly $11 billion in Recovery Act funding for projects in restoring marine life, training for green jobs, and improving water quality. These investments launched a clean energy economy that will create millions of jobs that can’t be outsourced, set up long-term ways to lower energy costs for American families and businesses, put us on a solid track to reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil, and improve standards to reduce the carbon emissions causing climate change.

We must strongly support advances in science and health that will protect our human environment and we must provide incentives for engineers and innovators of tomorrow to foster their ideas so America is making the commodities of the future. We in America must “out-innovate Kuro Sumi Tattoo Ink, out-educate, and out build” our global competitors.

We are at a vital point in history. We lead, but if we fail in our leadership, we will fall into the dustbins of history. America has always led the way on sound, balanced environmental laws that help the economy and encourage business to flourish that at the same time protect the air we breathe and water we drink. We cannot excuse failure to continue strong environmental policies that have and will continue to provide such great long-term economic benefits for Americans.

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May 16, 2012

Obama Calls Romney’s Stance on Immigration ‘Very

CARTAGENA, Colombia — President Obama Buy Christian Audigier Clothes, on a three-day trip to South America, attacked GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney’s stance on immigration reform today, saying his support for Arizona’s tough immigration law is “very troublesome.”

“We now have a Republican nominee who said that the Arizona laws are a model for the country … and these are laws that potentially would allow someone to be stopped and picked up and asked where their citizenship papers are based on an assumption,” Obama told Univision during an interview in Cartagena, where the president is attending the Summit of the Americas.

The three-day trip gives the president an opportunity to showcase his interest in the region and court Latino voters back home, whose support will be crucial in the upcoming election. Obama won a majority of the Latino vote in 2008 and his campaign is hoping for similar results come November.

If reelected, Obama vowed to tackle immigration reform.

“I can promise that I will try to do it in the first year of my second term. I want to try this year,” Obama told Univision.

During his 2008 campaign, then-candidate Obama promised to produce an immigration reform bill within a year of taking office. The problem now, the president told Univision Buy Chloe Dresses, is resistance from Republicans.

“The challenge we’ve got on immigration reform is very simple. I’ve got a majority of Democrats who are prepared to vote for it, and I’ve got no Republicans who are prepared to vote for it,” he said.

“What we need is a change either of Congress or we need Republicans to change their mind, and I think this has to be an important debate during — throughout the country,” he said.

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May 15, 2012

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If you were looking forward to Aston Martin’s revival of the long-dormant Lagonda marque and were disappointed by the controversially-styled crossover concept unveiled earlier this month at the Geneva Motor Show Tattoo Supplies, take heart: a second Lagonda concept is on the way. The news reportedly comes directly from the mouth of David Richards, chairman of Aston Martin-Lagonda’s board, who admitted that the crossover concept was just one attempt, but that the company would be coming back with another in May. If you’re wondering what major auto show is taking place in May, you can stop scratching your head: New York is in early April with Shanghai and Moscow to follow later the same month. That’s it until the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. So unless Richards got his dates mixed up, the second Lagonda concept will be unveiled at its own dedicated event.

The bigger question is what form the next Lagonda concept will take. Reception towards the sport-ute concept at the Geneva show was rather puzzled, so our money is on some sort of sedan or wagon. AML won’t want it to encroach on the upcoming Rapide Tattoo Supplies, so don’t expect some sort of four-door coupe, but with segments being busted all across the industry, anything is possible. We’ll just have to wait a couple of months to find out.

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May 14, 2012

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Remember that yellow F430 Stradale caught at the Nurburgring in November? It’s been sighted again Replica Emilio Pucci Dresses, this time out on German public streets still wearing those mismatched shoes and about six-months’ worth of splattered bugs. You’d think someone would take pity on the poor Ferrari and give it a bath. Look for a production version of the 520 hp steed to go on sale sometime before summer.

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May 14, 2012

It’s a Job That Requires 24-Hour Attention

This conversation appears in Newsweek’s “Interview” issue. To read more of the magazine’s interviews with the year’s biggest newsmakers, go to Newsweek.com.

Hillary Clinton

Two of the most prominent secretaries of state in recent history sat down with Newsweek’s Jon Meacham to discuss their relationships with their respective presidents and the difficulties of managing diplomacy during wartime. Excerpts:

Meacham: What has surprised you most since becoming secretary of state?

Clinton: Well, probably the intensity of the work. It’s just a 24/7 job. It sounds almost banal to say, [but] it’s a really big world out there, and the United States has responsibilities practically everywhere. And the nature of the challenges we’re facing are not only bilateral and multilateral Buy Herve Leger v neck, but they are transnational. One of the biggest challenges for me personally is to keep trying to present an affirmative agenda, not a reactive one, because you could end up being kind of an inbox secretary of state. You are never off duty. Because you land, you begin to work, and you go the next place and you land and begin to work. When you come back, your inbox is a foot high.

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Kissinger: That is very comparable to my experience. I had been national-security adviser before I became secretary of state. So I saw the issues that reach the White House and the issues that reach the secretary. The issues that reach the White House are most frequently strategic, while as secretary of state, as Hillary has pointed out, there are as many constituencies as there are countries with which we have relationships. So at the end of every day you almost have to make a decision—whom are you going to insult by not dealing with his or her problems? [Clinton laughs.] Because there’s no possible way you could get through. It’s a job that requires 24-hour attention.

One of the problems of government is to separate the urgent from the important and make sure you’re dealing with the important and don’t let the urgent drive out the important. Another challenge one has as secretary is that I think it’s the best staff in town, but it’s also the most individualistic staff …

Clinton: Mm-hmm.

Kissinger: … in town. With so many constituencies, to get them to work toward a coherent goal is a huge assignment for the secretary.

Clinton: It is.

Kissinger: Even though I had been in the White House for four years before, I didn’t realize the magnitude of it until I actually got to the seventh floor [of the State Department].

Clinton: I would add to what Henry said that in addition to the urgent and the important, you try to keep your eye on the long-term trend lines because what is neither urgent nor important today might become one or the other by next year or the year after. And that’s a whole different set of skills that is required. I’m always reaching down into the building and saying, “What are we doing on energy security and independence? What are we doing to work with Europe so that they will come up with a common policy through the EU on their own energy needs? What are we doing on food security?” There were riots last year. You look at changing climate patterns Cheap Bandage dresses, migration patterns. Food is going to become more and more of an issue. What are we doing on pandemic disease with the H1N1 danger, with the problems that global health presents? An area that we’re beginning to pay attention to Cheap DKNY Clothing, which is not in the headlines, is the Arctic. With the melting of the ice, with sea lanes opening that were never there before, or only-seasonal lanes becoming more all-weather Discount White Herve leger, with five countries ringing the Arctic Replica Marc Jacobs Dresses, which is an ocean Cheap Karen Millen Dresses, not a land mass like Antarctica. With Russia saying that they are going to have an expedition next year to plant their flag on the North Pole. With Canada saying, “No, you’d better not.” This is an area that we have to pay real attention to, but it’s not an area that I get called about by reporters or have to answer questions about at the White House yet.

So there’s a matrix of issues. It is exactly how I think about it: the urgent, the important, and then the long term.

Meacham:How important is the relationship between the secretary and the president?

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