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Boynton Beach, FL -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/29/2012 -- When it comes to finding a new home in Boynton Beach, Florida, the search often promises to be fun, but nonetheless a daunting experience. More often than not, individuals, couples or families looking for a new property to own can be overwhelmed by the numerous properties available and the research involved. In this regard, it is important to find a real estate agent with in-depth knowledge of the community to help locating an ideal property easier.

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Researcher mauled by chimpanzees in South Africa identified as Texas student

JOHANNESBURG ? ?In the six years he's managed a sanctuary for abused and orphaned chimpanzees, South African conservationist Eugene Cussons is from time to time called on to comment when an ape elsewhere in the world attacks a human. Cussons says he could always pinpoint a moment of taunting or perceived aggression that could have set off the quick and powerful animals.

This time, though, the attack was at his own Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden in eastern South Africa. And Cussons, host of the Animal Planet show "Escape to Chimp Eden," is without an explanation.

In telephone interview Saturday, Cussons said he would have to wait until the severely injured victim, a University of Texas at San Antonio anthropology graduate student who was inspired by famed primatologist Jane Goodall to study chimps, was well enough to provide details on what sparked Thursday's attack.

It was the first such attack since Cussons, working with Goodall's renowned international institute, converted part of his family's game farm into the sanctuary in 2006.

"You can train for it, you can do your best to prepare," Cussons said. "But when it actually happens, it's shocking and traumatic for everyone."

Cussons's team quickly evacuated the dozen tourists to whom Andrew F. Oberle had been giving a lecture and tried to separate the chimps from Oberle. In the end, Cussons, who was himself attacked by a chimp as he tried to pull it off Oberle, took the extreme step of firing into the air, scaring the animals away.

Oberle was bitten repeatedly and dragged for nearly a kilometer (half mile). Cussons said one of the chimps was injured in the scuffle, and he was awaiting a veterinarian's report to determine the nature and extent of the injury. No one else was hurt.

Cussons said it was the first time he had asked Oberle to speak to visitors. The student had arrived last month for a follow-up study visit after an extended stay to observe the chimps a year or so ago, Cussons said. As a researcher, Cussons said Oberle had been trained to ensure he understood how the animals might behave and knew to keep a safe distance. Cussons said Oberle was given additional training before addressing the tour group.

Cussons said Oberle broke the rules by going through the first of two fences that separate humans from the chimps. The chimps then grabbed him and pulled him under the second fence, which is electrified. Cussons said it was unclear why Oberle had moved so dangerously close.

Only after Oberle is well enough to talk will investigators "be able to find out why he crossed the safety fence to go on to the main fence," Cussons said.

Mediclinic Nelspruit hospital said Saturday that the 26-year-old Oberle remained in critical condition in intensive care. Oberle underwent surgery at the hospital Thursday.

Cussons said Saturday that Oberle's mother was on her way to South Africa. Oberle's mother, Mary Flint of St. Louis, said Friday that chimpanzees have been her son's passion since seventh grade, when he watched a film about Goodall.

Goodall, a Cambridge University-trained ethnologist, began studying chimpanzees in Tanzania's Gombe National Park in 1960. Since 1994, her institute has been involved in conservation programs across Africa. The institute says its Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Center in Congo is the largest chimpanzee sanctuary in Africa.

Flint said Oberle knew the risks of working with chimps and would not want them blamed for the attack.

"He adored them," she said. "Since he was a little boy he just loved them, and I just have faith that ... when all is said and done, he's going to go right back into it."

The sanctuary has been closed to tourists since the attack, while government and police officials investigate. The Jane Goodall Institute South Africa is conducting its own investigation.

"Everyone at Chimp Eden is hurting," Cussons said, saying the thoughts of staff members were with Oberle and his family.

Cussons said the two chimps that attacked Oberle, Amadeus and Nikki, had been isolated in their night pens since the attack. He said they were calm and exhibiting remorse, which he said chimps show by behaving submissively.

Human-animal contact is kept to a minimum at the sanctuary, designed as a haven for chimpanzees, which are not native to South Africa, that have been rescued from elsewhere in Africa. Some lost their parents to poachers in countries where they are hunted for their meat or to be sold as pets, and others were held in captivity in cruel conditions.

"They come here and we rehabilitate them by giving them space ... and contact with their own kind," Cussons said. According to the sanctuary's website, one of the chimps involved in the attack, Amadeus, was orphaned in Angola and brought to South Africa in 1996, where he was kept at the Johannesburg Zoo until the sanctuary opened. The other, Nikki, came from Liberia in 1996 and also was held at the zoo until becoming among the first chimps at the sanctuary.

Before arriving in South Africa, Nikki, whose parents were killed for their meat, had been treated like a son by his owners, who dressed him in clothes, shaved his body and taught him to eat at a table using cutlery, the website said.

In the United States, a Connecticut woman, Charla Nash, was attacked in 2009 by a friend's chimpanzee that ripped off her nose, lips, eyelids and hands before being killed by police. The woman was blinded and has had a face transplant. Lawyers for Nash filed papers this week accusing state officials of failing to seize the animal before the mauling despite a warning that it was dangerous.

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Eastern US storm hobbles Netflix and Instagram

The lights at an intersections on Richmond Road are out on Saturday, June 30, 2012 in Staunton, Va. Violent storms swept across the eastern U.S., killing at least nine people and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands on a day that temperatures across the region are expected to reach triple-digits. (AP Photo/The News Leader, Pat Jarrett)

The lights at an intersections on Richmond Road are out on Saturday, June 30, 2012 in Staunton, Va. Violent storms swept across the eastern U.S., killing at least nine people and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands on a day that temperatures across the region are expected to reach triple-digits. (AP Photo/The News Leader, Pat Jarrett)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Netflix, Instagram and Pinterest are using Twitter and Facebook to update subscribers after violent storms across the eastern U.S. caused server outages for hours.

Netflix and Pinterest restored service by Saturday afternoon.

Instagram used its Facebook fan page to communicate with users of its photo-sharing service. It posted a message on Saturday morning that blamed the electrical storm for the outage and explained that its engineers were working to restore service.

Still, many Instagram's users were searching for answers. "Instagram" was the top search term on Google on Saturday, according to Google Trends.

Netflix, Pinterest and Instagram are customers of Amazon Inc.'s web services division. The unit provides web services and data storage facilities that are commonly used for "cloud computing".

Amazon spokeswoman Kay Kinton told The Associated Press in an email that the storm cut power to some of company's operations. Service has been restored for most customers, Kinton said.

Netflix, a video streaming service, said on Twitter that subscribers should reconnect if they still experienced problems.

The online scrapbook service Pinterest says employees are working to fix remaining issues that may affect performance.

The Friday evening storms knocked out power for millions of people.

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Kingdom, politics, revolution, fantasy?

I have been craving a RP set in a kingdom on the verge of collapse as of late.

Basically, there's this kingdom that used to be awesome a long time ago, but as time passed, things got worse as the royal family grew in size and plotting for the throne ensued; each next king was a little more paranoid and generally worse than the last. After some five centuries past the kingdom's prime, the king is a bit of a tyrant who is mostly busy with keeping the throne from countless other heirs instead of running the country, the nobility gets away with pretty much anything within their lands and rebel movements are rapidly expanding.

That's the basis of the setting. There is an overarching plot to all this, but it is largely a character-driven game. What I'm hoping for is that people would make characters of varied social standing and take the flow of things into their own hands (I'm considering going with a GM-only role), whatever that could mean. A noble trying to seize the throne, whether for personal gain or to set things right, a simple knight trying to make a name for himself, an assassin doing their job, a rebellion member fighting for the people etc., and those are just some options. The means they use to achieve their goals could also vary a lot.

This would be set in a fantasy world, although the specifics are still not set in stone (would there be different races, monsters, magic etc.)

So, is there any demand for this? A small group of people is necessary for things to work out as I imagine.

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Video: Becoming a citizen: ?It?s still very emotional?

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Wayne Anderson: Is God Still in the Mix, Mr. President?

In August 2008 Barack Obama gave a speech at the Saddleback Presidential Candidates Forum that aired live on CNN. In that speech he made what I believe is the most damaging statement any political leader can make with regard to gay people and our marriages. When asked by Pastor Rick Warren to define marriage, Barack Obama answered, "I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian, it's also a sacred union. God is in the mix."

The idea that God Almighty finds heterosexual marriages to be "sacred" while discriminating against the unions of gay people is not a new one by any means. Far too many young LGBT kids grow up believing that God hates them. Anti-gay pastors and politicians have long used religious dogma as a weapon in the fight against LGBT equality. But to hear that Barack Obama essentially held the same religious view of gay marriage as that of Rick Santorum was nothing short of stunning. Sadly, it's also the same viewpoint the president adamantly stood behind throughout much of his presidency. Even after his recent "evolution" on the issue of gay marriage, President Obama has never actually renounced or even bothered to clarify his religious viewpoint.

Speaking at a fundraising reception in Atlanta this week, President Obama stated, "I'll always tell you what I thought. I'll always tell you what I believe." If that is truly the case, then it's past time for the president to tell America if his religious views on gay marriage have also evolved. During a time when far too many young gay kids are killing themselves, there is simply no longer time for equivocation. Does the president still believe that God only sees heterosexual marriages as "sacred," or does he feel that God's grace now shines on gay people, as well?

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President to sell Obamacare, will point to Romneycare

Updated: June 30, 2012 7:54AM

WASHINGTON ? Fueled by the Supreme Court decision upholding Obama?Care ? on the basis that the penalty for not buying health insurance is a legal tax ? Mitt Romney?s allies are launching a tax attack against the president.

They quickly found that proverbial silver lining in the cloud after the Thursday Supreme Court ruling handed President Barack Obama a big victory for his signature Affordable Care Act.

?President Obama breaks another promise,? is the tag line of an ad to start running Saturday on national cable television from the pro-Romney American Crossroads SuperPAC. The spot uses video from a 2008 campaign event where Barack Obama pledges not to raise taxes on people making less than $250,000.

In a conference call with reporters Friday organized by the Republican National Committee. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal slammed Obama for breaking his tax pledge.

?I was very disappointed in the ruling, but I do congratulate the Supreme Court on one thing: They were a lot more honest about ObamaCare than President Obama has been. They have rightly called it what it is ? a tax,? Jindal said.

Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said in rebuttal, ?Already, Mitt Romney and Republicans are out with outright falsehoods about ObamaCare ? their favorite distortion being that this is somehow a broad tax on the middle class.

?In reality, this is all about personal responsibility ? and the ?tax? they are trying to scare everyone about is actually a penalty for the 1 percent of people who can afford insurance but still choose not to buy it, leaving the rest of us to pay for their health care when they head to the emergency room,? she said.

? What?s new: Jindal is one of many GOP voices jumping on the Supreme Court ruling, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, that said the individual mandate to buy health insurance ? or pay a tax (a k a penalty to Obama, et al) is legal. Though Republicans were disappointed with the decision, they realized they had two new fronts from which to attack Obama: He broke his basic tax pledge and he misled the public in selling his health-care plan by denying the penalty was a tax.

? Obama?s new chore: Yes, the penalty for not buying health insurance starting in 2014 is a tax. Yes, the Obama team has explaining to do about how Obama, who taught constitutional law, could have been so certain in stating the penalty was not a tax ? only to have his law saved because his government lawyer sold the tax defense to Roberts.

? But is it a tax increase? The answer depends on what part of a person?s tax picture you are considering. Under Obama, for example, everyone who gets a paycheck has been paying less Social Security payroll taxes in 2011 and 2012. If you make $106,800 a year, you are keeping $2,136 more of your own money. And if you have health insurance ? or will be able to obtain it or afford it because of ObamaCare ? you won?t be paying any penalty (a k a tax).

? Freeloaders resurface as an issue: Obama and his allies have been noting for years ? and were repeating at week?s end ? that people who don?t have health insurance ? and can afford it ? are freeloaders and cost shifters. People pay more taxes and higher insurance premiums to health providers to cover the costs for treating people who choose not to be personally responsible and by choice do not get health insurance. Is pressuring people to buy health insurance really a tax increase? Or is it a move toward tax equality?

? Mitt?s Massachusetts plan: Watch for even more praise from the Obama team for Romney?s individual mandate in the Massachusetts health-care plan, which he signed as governor. ?ObamaCare, modeled on Romneycare,? was a headline on an Obama campaign memo sent out on Friday. You will hear more of this: The Romney health plan includes a penalty for people who declined to purchase health insurance.

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Egyptians pack Tahrir on eve of Mursi inauguration

CAIRO (Reuters) - Muslim Brotherhood supporters flocked to Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday to hear Mohamed Mursi speak on the eve of his inauguration as Egypt's first Islamist, civilian president.

The rally's slogan, "Powers of the president", heralds what may prove a prolonged struggle between the Islamists and army generals who have imposed stark curbs on presidential prerogatives before they formally hand over executive authority.

Crowds in Tahrir, the hub of last year's revolt against ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, chanted "Mursi is president of the republic" and waved Egyptian flags with his picture inset.

"A full revolution or nothing. Down, down with military rule," they shouted. "We, the people, are the red line."

The military council that pushed Mubarak aside on February 11, 2011 has supervised a chaotic stop-go transition since then, holding parliamentary and presidential elections, but then effectively negating their outcome to preserve its own power.

Mursi, who attended weekly Muslim prayers at al-Azhar mosque, was expected to address the nation from Tahrir at about 6 p.m. (1600 GMT). He will swear his oath of office at 11 a.m. on Saturday before the Supreme Constitutional Court in Cairo.

The usual venue is parliament, but the same court dissolved the Islamist-led lower house this month in a ruling backed, if not orchestrated, by the army, apparently unwilling to let Islamists control the legislature as well as the presidency.

"Do we accept that parliament is dissolved?" cheerleaders from the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) asked the throng in Tahrir. "No," the party faithful thundered back.

Mursi was declared president last Sunday, a nerve-racking week after a run-off vote in which he narrowly beat ex-air force chief Ahmed Shafik, who was Mubarak's last prime minister.

After being sworn in as the first freely elected civilian president of the most populous Arab state, Mursi will give a speech at Cairo University, a presidency statement said.

MILITARY CONTROL

Hundreds of protesters have been camped out in Tahrir for weeks to press the army to transfer power to civilians.

"I'm here to tell the military council that we, the people, elected parliament so it is only us, the people, who can dissolve it," said Intissar al-Sakka, a teacher and FJP member.

She, like many of the women in Tahrir, was wearing a waist-length "khemar" veil of the kind favored by Mursi's wife.

The military council has long promised to hand over power to the next president by July 1, but army sources said the ceremony had been postponed, without giving a reason or a new date.

The generals have seized new powers this month, giving themselves veto rights over the drafting of a new constitution, naming a National Defence Council to run defence and foreign policies and decreeing their control of all military affairs.

The army may have won the skirmish over where Mursi takes his oath, but the Brotherhood is likely to wage a protracted campaign to loosen the military's grip on the new Egypt.

Yet it will be vital to keep such tensions in check if Egypt is to overcome economic woes that have seen foreign reserves drop by more than half in the turmoil since Mubarak's fall.

The International Monetary Fund has made a possible $3.2 billion loan conditional on broad political support for the fiscal discipline it would demand.

The Muslim Brotherhood knows it must focus on the economy to stay popular with voters, who gave it much less support in the presidential poll than in the earlier parliamentary election.

Scenes at the presidential palace occupied by Mubarak for three decades encapsulated the rise of an 84-year-old Islamist movement he had banned, constrained and often persecuted.

Bearded men, some in white robes, others in suits, milled around the palace while Mursi held talks on Thursday with the Muslim Brotherhood's supreme guide Mohamed Badie and consulted clerics from the al-Azhar seat of Islamic learning, hardline Salafis and independent evangelical Muslim preachers.

Many seemed dazzled by the grandeur of their surroundings or intrigued to be walking once-forbidden halls of power.

Security guards, still there from the Mubarak era, shook their heads in frank amazement at the bearded conclave.

After the Brotherhood's Badie entered the gates, one remarked: "Good God, these men were in prison before and wouldn't have dared walk past the compound. Look at them now."

Many Egyptians swarmed around outside, hoping to meet the homespun president-elect with grievances and petitions. Security men complained it was hard to impose order because Mursi had given instructions that people should not be turned away.

After the talks, Mursi's Islamist visitors at the palace in Cairo's Heliopolis district broke a daylong fast with hundreds of takeout meals in cardboard boxes hauled in by palace guards from an army-owned local restaurant - one of the many commercial interests developed by the military over the decades.

The military, the source of every previous president in the Arab republic's 60-year history, runs business enterprises accounting for an estimated one third of the economy.

It does not intend to jeopardize the $1.3 billion a year it receives in military aid from the United States to back Egypt's 1979 peace treaty with Israel, widely criticized by Islamists.

Mursi has said he will respect Egypt's international obligations and does not want to take the country back to war.

(Additional reporting by Marwa Awad; Writing by Alistair Lyon, editing by Tim Pearce)

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Hometalk Aims To Be The One-Stop Site For Home Improvement Info

As someone who doesn't know a two-by-four from a 4X4, I usually depend on the Internet for home improvement tips. For example, did you know you're not supposed to flush dental floss? I didn't discover that until I found my basement full of raw sewage and someone online told me what was up. Before Hometalk, however, the online home improvement space was, at best, oddly disparate and at worst useless. Hometalk launched in March 2011 and just relaunched as a sort of Pinterest/Quora/Tool Time for the home-owning set. Aimed at making asking questions about drain traps a bit easier to answer, the site currently has 100,000 users asking hundreds of questions daily which isn't bad for a niche site.

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Foreign Policy: Three Routes For Mexico

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A member of the Mexican Navy stands guard in an electoral rally of Mexican presidential candidate for the National Action Party (PAN), Josefina Vazquez Mota, in Veracruz, Veracruz State, on June 24. Mexicans will go on Sunday to vote, in some areas under a virtual state of war and escorted by masked military men in full daylight.

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A member of the Mexican Navy stands guard in an electoral rally of Mexican presidential candidate for the National Action Party (PAN), Josefina Vazquez Mota, in Veracruz, Veracruz State, on June 24. Mexicans will go on Sunday to vote, in some areas under a virtual state of war and escorted by masked military men in full daylight.

Malcolm Beith is a freelance journalist and the author of two books on the Mexican drug war, The Last Narco and Hasta El ?ltimo D?a.

You can learn a lot about the state of Mexico today by looking at three roads. Paseo de la Reforma is a major urban thoroughfare in Mexico City, lined with banks, hotels, and shopping malls. Highway 101 in Tamaulipas is a modern four-lane highway, once a major artery for Mexicans returning home and tourists heading to Mexico City; now, it is littered with bodies. A series of seemingly arbitrary massacres has turned it into a no-go zone. The third road is a highway under construction in the mountains of the northwestern state of Sinaloa, which will spur trade and provide opportunities for the people of the sierra. But it will also offer the region's powerful drug traffickers ? among them Joaqu?n "El Chapo" Guzm?n Loera, Mexico's most wanted man ? direct access to the U.S.-Mexico border. Which road Mexico takes is the big question.

More than 50,000 people have died in Mexico's drug war since December 2006 ? roughly 12,000 in the last year alone, according to media tallies. Last year, more people were killed in the cartel-ridden border town of Ciudad Ju?rez than civilians in Afghanistan. And there's no reason to believe the July 1 presidential election will turn the tide, as all three leading candidates have pledged to continue the fight against organized crime in spite of the bloodshed. Yet talk of Mexico as a failed state, which reached a peak in 2009, has been replaced by buzz about the country's impressive economic growth. Mexico is on track to grow more than 4.5 percent in 2012, its fastest growth rate in a decade. How can both of these things be true?

Although the headlines have been dominated by the drug-war dead, the beheadings and massacres, the innocent children caught in the crossfire, President Felipe Calder?n ? whose approval rating remains above 50 percent ? has quietly been pushing much-needed reforms: State workers' pension systems have been overhauled; efforts have even been made to open the oil industry to private investment; and the country's growing middle class continues to make strides upward, with GDP per capita up 40 percent since 1988. Calder?n can't run for reelection due to term limits, but the good economic news should give his struggling National Action Party, or PAN, a boost. According to a survey released by the Pew Hispanic Center in April, the net immigration flow from Mexico to the United States has stopped, and may have reversed, due in part to Mexico's improved economic performance relative to its northern neighbor. In some ways, the country appears to be on the right track.

Twelve years ago, the country celebrated its birth as a fully democratic country when the first free and fair elections resulted in the ouster of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which had ruled for 71 years. Multinationals flocked to the country: The Bank of New York Mellon, Credit Suisse, and Banque Toronto-Dominion all now have branches on Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City. Today, Carlos Slim, a Mexican of Lebanese origin, is the owner of the communications giant Telmex and is the world's richest man. And the country's growing prosperity has continued even as the drug violence has worsened. Foreign direct investment, for instance, grew to $19.4 billion last year. More than 700,000 new jobs were created in 2010, the fastest growth in Mexico in 14 years; the number fell just short of that in 2011. The middle class continues to grow and the Mexican financial system weathered the economic crisis well, according to a March IMF report. (The IMF also praised Mexico's banks for being "profitable and well capitalized.")

Yet, in many respects, much in Mexico appears to have remained unchanged. Corruption is still rampant: A government drug czar was arrested in late 2008 on charges of taking money from traffickers. A dark cloud hangs over Wal-Mart de M?xico, which allegedly paid millions of dollars in bribes to advance its expansion. Distrust in officialdom is as high as ever ? a recent survey by the respected pollster Consulta Mitofsky revealed that just 12.8 percent of the public has confidence in the presidency, and even fewer (6.1 percent) trust the police. Members of the media are under increasing threat and pressure of censorship from the cartels and even local officials, with dozens of journalists killed in recent years and even crime bloggers coming under fire. Officials quietly lament that they have failed to communicate their message to the people. When many officials speak ? "We're winning against the cartels"; "The drug war is not a war" ? many Mexicans are left shaking their heads in bemusement over what that message could possibly be.

If Mexicans often seem unsure as to whether they live in a flourishing democracy or on the brink of state failure, it may be because there aren't institutions or public figures with enough credibility left to define a narrative for the country. With the Catholic Church losing its grip on the masses and increasingly out of touch (one church official declared that Mexico City's liberal mayor was doing more damage to the country with his progressive policies than the drug traffickers), in recent years many Mexicans have looked elsewhere for a charismatic messiah figure or inspirational crusader. But though they have found an initial spark in Isabel Miranda de Wallace (a mother who tracked down her son's kidnappers) and poet Javier Sicilia (who led a march through the country after his son was murdered), these characters have largely failed to live up to expectations, in part because they are intent on remaining ordinary citizens.

It's unlikely that any of the three presidential candidates will capture the country's imagination, either. Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador, commonly known as AMLO, lost the 2006 election amid allegations of fraud. Since then, he has campaigned nationwide incessantly, traveling to every single one of Mexico's 2,456 counties and decrying the "mafias" that run the country ? a category that includes the presidency and the mainstream media, in his eyes. His most recent rhetoric, however, has been toned down ? he has pledged to withdraw the Mexican Army from the streets, for instance ? earning him the derisive nickname AMLOVE. He has been gaining ground in polls, but still trails Enrique Pe?a Nieto, the PRI's candidate.

Pe?a Nieto has failed to provoke any real heartfelt response from the public besides ridicule. A handsome face with a dubious track record as governor of the famously corrupt Estado de M?xico, a state that surrounds Mexico City, Pe?a Nieto has made blunder after blunder on the campaign trail. His best gaffe: failing to name three books that had influenced his life at the Guadalajara International Book Fair last year. No need for serious concern, however: Pe?a Nieto appears to be backed by the Televisa conglomerate; his wife is a soap opera star; and the average Mexican only reads one book a year. Barring an AMLO surprise finish (which after 2006, cannot be completely discounted), and in spite of allegations that Televisa sold news and entertainment content to promote Pe?a Nieto (he denies this and has claimed the documents are fraudulent), he looks likely to take the presidency, even if some critics fear he'll simply be a puppet for the infamous PRI dinosaurs who have run the party for decades.

Josefina V?zquez Mota, meanwhile, is a woman, which could put her in good stead in a country eager for change. A former education secretary, she has good ideas and good credentials. But she's not seen as a political heavyweight, and her statements about the war on organized crime have failed to dazzle. "My conviction is that to confront organized crime, there can be no room for negotiation," she told me in an interview. And so far, V?zquez Mota has delivered her own gaffes to match those of Pe?a Nieto. On March 30, for instance, she claimed that if elected, she would "strengthen money laundering," a mistake for which she was widely mocked.

While Pe?a Nieto and V?zquez Mota would likely continue down the same road vis-?-vis U.S. cooperation on the drug war (though they have pledged to scale back the use of the military), there is always the possibility that the leftist AMLO would follow the lead of Bolivia's Evo Morales and expel the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) from the country. But that's unlikely, given that the United States is doing its utmost right now to help Mexico instill peace and governability. The DEA and other U.S. agencies have expanded their presence in Mexico to support both law enforcement and institution-building, moves that have not been met by the traditional jingoistic cries from the Mexican intellectual elite or the left.

This cooperation is starting to show signs of success. The use of U.S. drones in Mexico to gather intelligence on alleged drug kingpins has not caused great outcry. Intelligence sharing continues to result in the capture or killing of major drug lords. There are now two compounds in Mexico City where U.S. military advisors work with their Mexican counterparts; according to diplomats from both sides of the border, relations at 35,000 feet are smooth sailing, in contrast to fiery border rhetoric in Texas and Arizona. The bungled Fast and Furious operation (in which U.S. agents lost track of guns they had bought and allowed into Mexico in a bid to entrap high-level weapons buyers) and the recent case of mistaken identity in the arrest of a used-car salesman thought to be El Chapo's son have been highly embarrassing for authorities on both sides of the border, but are unlikely to unhinge future cooperation.

Perhaps more crucially, from a political point of view, is the reality that the violence has not deterred investors, foreign or domestic, who realize (unfortunately) that a high body count does not necessarily translate to financial losses. Although the violence appears to be everywhere due to massive media attention, it has largely been confined to hot spots that have historically been insecure. (The notable exceptions are Acapulco, where the tourism industry has suffered immensely from drug-related killings, and Monterrey, where business has been adversely affected.) And for all the criticism of his handling of the drug war, few can dispute that Calder?n and his economic team averted disaster during the economic crisis. With the violence still feeling remote for many, none of the candidates is likely to deviate significantly from Calder?n's tactics.

But Highway 101 is still very much on voters' minds. The site of beheadings and indiscriminate killing in the state of Tamaulipas is now known as the Highway of Death and understandably draws more headlines than the Paseo de la Reforma. But neither of these roads defines the country today. Instead, it's the third road ? the one leading through the hills of Sinaloa to the major smuggling plaza of Ciudad Ju?rez, a road that will facilitate both international trade and drug trafficking ? that may well be the road to Mexico's future.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2012/06/29/155976770/foreign-policy-three-routes-for-mexico?ft=1&f=1060

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Colin Liotta: What LeBron James and the Incredible Hulk Have in Common

The 2012 NBA season came to a dramatic close, with LeBron James finally winning his first championship as a member of the Miami Heat. Hate him or love him, there's no denying that James' performance this postseason was anything less than heroic. He brought his team back from the brink of elimination in the Eastern Conference Finals against the Boston Celtics and stormed past the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Finals. This not only helped James secure his first ring, but it also helped him overcome years of criticism from his critics and shed his title as "villain".

But James' journey to redemption wasn't the only one we witnessed this summer. In fact, his path to triumph was eerily similar to that of another character: the Incredible Hulk from The Avengers. As crazy as it may seem, James and the Hulk have more in common than you may think.

THE DECISION

Before he even set foot on an NBA court as a rookie in 2003, James was already being hailed as the "Chosen One," destined to carry the NBA into the future and transcend the game the way Michael Jordan had during his Hall of Fame career with the Chicago Bulls. Couple James' physical skill set with his stellar basketball I.Q. and there was no reason to believe he couldn't live up to the hype.

Then there's James' Marvel counterpart, Bruce Banner from The Avengers. He, too, was the best in his field. His work in gamma radiation was unparalleled and, like James, he appeared to have no equal . Both men were overly confident in their abilities, and this confidence is what ultimately led to fateful decisions by each, decisions which would have lasting ramifications.

For Banner, his decision led him to test a gamma radiation experiment on himself in his lab, putting himself in a high-tech lab chair of his own design. The experiment was a massive failure, and Banner was exposed to lethal amounts of radiation that ultimately led to his transformation into the Incredible Hulk.

For James, his fateful decision was The Decision, a live ESPN special he used to publicize where he would go as a free agent. Sitting in that chair in the Boys & Girls Club was for James the equivalent of Banner sitting in his lab chair. And, whereas Banner got hit with a high-dose of radiation from his machine, James' radiation came in the form of Jim Gray asking, "LeBron, what's your decision?"

The moment James responded with the now infamous, "I'm going to take my talents to South Beach," his transformation into the Hulk was complete. Like with Banner, the world now viewed him as a monster. He was hated. And, while James likely anticipated some hostility from Cleveland Cavaliers fans, it was clear when Jim Gray showed James footage of the streets of Cleveland after his announcement that he hadn't anticipated just how bad it would actually be.

People were screaming in bars and burning LeBron jerseys in the streets. Throw in a couple of pitchforks and some toothless gypsies with warts, and you had yourself a good old-fashioned Kill-Frankenstein-type riot on your hands. In a matter of seconds, all the praise and accolades James had accumulated in Cleveland over the years -- which included a scoring title, two league MVPs, and six All-Star appearances -- meant nothing now.

James and Banner had entered unfamiliar territory. Never before had they faced such scrutiny and disdain. They were used to being the peak performers of their profession, placed on a pedestal by peers as an example of excellence and professionalism in their respective fields. Banner did all he could to hide himself from the public eye as he traveled the world and wandered through remote locations. It wasn't as easy for James, a sports icon and celebrity. He was blasted left and right by fans and critics alike who chastised him for his decision to leave Cleveland and form a "Super Team" in Miami alongside Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade.

Despite the outpouring of anger directed at him, James did the best he could to try and embrace his new role as a villain in Miami, even doing a Nike commercial to promote the image. However, it was clear he was never entirely comfortable with his negative image. The problem seemed to be that he cared about what fans and critics thought of him, and he realized they no longer saw anything heroic about him.

ROAD TO REDEMPTION

Things only got worse for James after last season's embarrassing performance in the Finals against the Dallas Mavericks. James averaged just 17.8 points per game in the series -- down 8.9 points from his season average of 26.7 PPG. That point differential was the largest drop off from a regular season to an NBA Finals in league history. James also averaged just three points in the fourth quarter during the series, and endured the majority of the blame for Miami's loss.

So when James and the Heat entered the 2012 postseason, fans and critics alike were chomping at the bit waiting to see another postseason failure from the self-proclaimed King. However, after the Heat fell behind 3-2 to the Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals, it seemed as though the LeBron-haters would have more to cheer about.

Yet, something changed in James prior to Game 6 in Boston. With the Heat facing elimination, James came out and had one of the best games of his career, and arguably one of the most memorable performances in NBA postseason history. All the anger James had held inside since The Decision finally surfaced. You could see it in his face after each made field goal. He'd finally accepted who he was.

Seeing this acceptance reminded me of the scene in The Avengers when Captain America says to Bruce Banner, "Now might be a really good time for you to get angry," (i.e. turn into the Hulk). Banner's response? "That's my secret, Cap: I'm always angry."

When Banner finally came to this realization in The Avengers, he unleashed his fury on the Chitauri and Loki -- the film's villains -- and in doing so, earned the admiration of his teammates and the people of New York. He became a hero by learning how to channel his anger for good and how to use it to his advantage.

James coming to this realization before Game 6 helped him unleash his fury on the Celtics as he went 19-26 from the field and finished with 45 points in a 19-point win. More importantly, throughout the game, James exuded a demeanor and attitude that he seemed to lack in past postseasons. He was now playing for himself.

James helped the Heat finish off the Celtics in Game 7, and then continued his rampage into the Finals, defeating the young, run-and-gun Thunder in five games and capping off his historic postseason run with a 26 point, 11 rebound and 13 assist performance in a blowout-win that sealed his first title and first Finals MVP.

James' steamroll through this year's playoffs was nothing less than heroic. He lifted his game and played with an edge we haven't seen from him before, and despite how people feel about James, it's hard no to appreciate his valiant effort and how he responded time and time again in the face of adversity in the playoffs. He relished the pressure and used it to fuel him and elevate his game. James "Hulked Out" and led his team to victory and, like Banner, helped silence his critics and put him back on the path of redemption.

And, that in itself, is pretty incredible.

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Planning Out Your First Internet Business ? Keep It As Easy As ...

Most new online business operators are given a cliche as advice. It is usually something akin to Fire, Aim, Ready By now you have probably heard of this but it is exactly what so many web entrepreneurs do. People naturally get excited and want to simply jump in to get things to happen. But that is the perfect recipe for getting yourself into trouble. If you want to, you?ll learn and you?ll be able to give it another try. So many people give up immediately and it means the end of their dreams. Creating the quality and then sticking to it and actually committing to things can take you quite a long way. Nikola Tesla Secret

One of the best things to do when you?re just getting started is making a business plan. There is a plethora of information about them on the Internet but every business plan has the same basic elements. First, you should approach this seriously because that will push you to the right attitude. The business plan can be simple and can include what you are hoping to accomplish over a basic time frame. This is how you will outline the steps that you need to take to go in the right direction and to stay focused. The truth is that learning how to keep your focus on your goals is about the most important thing that you can do.

A lot of people have some form of dream?if not a collection of dreams they can choose from. Let your dreams be your guide as you figure out what you want to accomplish with the business you have started. But if you are working all by yourself at home in your Internet Marketing business, it?s easy to get super lost in the dream. This is only a problem when you don?t take enough action because you?re spending too much time on dreaming. Also, remember your dreams are incorporated into your business and marketing plans. You can find this talked about elsewhere, so don?t forget to make these two very important plans. Recondition Battery reviews

One familiar mistake with online marketers in general is they tend to look for a cool product to promote, and then they try to figure out who to sell it to. Most of the time all this causes is frustration and failure for all sorts of reasons. Along with finding the right product or service to promote, you must be able to sell it. Your main thought here is that you need to market to a niche (or large audience) that doesn?t just have money but is willing to spend that money. Not each market or niche you want to try is going to meet these criteria. Some are happier to buy stuff than others but don?t have the disposable income that will make this possible. The college age market, for example, has this dilemma?it can still be done but it is going to be a tough road.

When you start to put active thought into planning your first online business you?ll be amazed at how much of it is just common sense stuff. Just look for what you think you still lack and what you don?t already have. Then you just have to figure out what you really need to get from A to B. more info

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Sierra Club Hires EPA Official Felled by 'Crucify' Comments

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The physics of going viral

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have been able, for the first time, to watch viruses infecting individual bacteria by transferring their DNA, and to measure the rate at which that transfer occurs. Shedding light on the early stages of infection by this type of virus?a bacteriophage?the scientists have determined that it is the cells targeted for infection, rather than the amount of genetic material within the viruses themselves, that dictate how quickly the bacteriophage's DNA is transferred.

"The beauty of our experiment is we were able to watch individual viruses infecting individual bacteria,"says Rob Phillips, the Fred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics and Biology at Caltech and the principal investigator on the new study. "Other studies of the rate of infection have involved bulk measurements. With our methods, you can actually watch as a virus shoots out its DNA."

The new methods and results are described in a paper titled "A Single-Molecule Hershey?Chase Experiment," which will appear in the July 24 issue of the journal Current Biology and currently appears online. The lead authors of that paper, David Van Valen and David Wu, completed the work while graduate students in Phillips's group.

In the well-known 1952 Hershey-Chase experiment, Alfred Hershey and Martha Chase of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Cold Spring Harbor convincingly confirmed earlier claims that DNA?and not protein?was the genetic material in cells. To prove this, the researchers used bacteriophages, which are able to infect bacteria using heads of tightly bundled DNA coated in a protein shell. Hershey and Chase radiolabeled sulfur, contained in the protein shell but not in the DNA, and phosphorous, found in the DNA but not in the protein shell. Then they let the bacteriophages infect the bacterial cells. When they isolated the cells and analyzed their contents, they found that only the radioactive phosphorous had made its way into the bacteria, proving that DNA is indeed the genetic material. The results also showed that, unlike the viruses that infect humans, bacteriophages transmit only their genetic information into their bacterial targets, leaving their "bodies" behind.

"This led, right from the get-go, to people wondering about the mechanism?about how the DNA gets out of the virus and into the infected cell," Phillips says. Several hypotheses have focused on the fact that the DNA in the virus is under a tremendous amount of pressure. Indeed, previous work has shown that the genetic material is under more pressure within its protein shell than champagne experiences in a corked bottle. After all, as Phillips says, "There are 16 microns [16,000 nanometers] of DNA in a tiny 50-nanometer-sized shell. It's like taking 500 meters of cable from the Golden Gate Bridge and putting it in the back of a FedEx truck."

Phillips's group wanted to find out whether that pressure plays a dominant role in transferring the DNA. Instead, he says, "What we discovered is that the thing that mattered most was not the pressure in the bacteriophage, but how much DNA was in the bacterial cell."

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have been able, for the first time, to watch viruses infecting individual bacteria by transferring their DNA, and to measure the rate at which that transfer occurs. Shedding light on the early stages of infection by this type of virus?a bacteriophage?the scientists have determined that it is the cells targeted for infection, rather than the amount of genetic material within the viruses themselves, that dictate how quickly the bacteriophage's DNA is transferred. This video begins with a lambda bacteriophage attached to an E. coli cell with the phage's DNA labeled with a fluorescent dye. The phage injects its viral DNA into the cell, and as the ejection proceeds, the dye molecules are transferred. Once inside the cell, the dye redistributes to the bacterium's genome, causing the whole cell to light up. Credit: Caltech

The researchers used a fluorescent dye to stain the DNA of two mutants of a bacteriophage known as lambda bacteriophage?one with a short genome and one with a longer genome?while that DNA was still inside the phage. Using a fluorescence microscope, they traced the glowing dye to see when and over what time period the viral DNA transferred from each phage into an E. coli bacterium. The mean ejection time was about five minutes, though that time varied considerably.

This was markedly different from what the group had seen previously when they ran a similar experiment in a test tube. In that earlier setup, they had essentially tricked the bacteriophages into ejecting their DNA into solution?a task that the phages completed in less than 10 seconds. In that case, once the phage with the longer genome had released enough DNA to make what remained inside the phage equal in length to the shorter genome, the two phages ejected DNA at the same rate. Therefore, Phillips's team reasoned, it was the amount of DNA in the phage that determined how quickly the DNA was transferred.

But Phillips says, "What was true in the test tube is not true in the cell." E. coli cells contain roughly 3 million proteins within a box that is roughly one micron (1,000 nanometers) on each side. Less than 10 nanometers separate each protein from its neighbors. "There's no room for anything else," Phillips says. "These cells are really crowded."

And so, when the bacteriophages try to inject their DNA into the cells, the factor that limits the rate of transfer is how jam-packed those cells are. "In this case," Phillips says, "it had more to do with the recipient, and less to do with the pressure that had built up inside the phage."

Looking toward the future, Phillips is interested in using the methods he and his team have developed to study different types of bacteriophages. He also wants to investigate various molecules that could be helping to actively pull the viral DNA into the cells. In the case of a bacteriophage called T7, for instance, previous work has shown that the host cell actually grabs onto the DNA and begins making copies of its genes before the virus has even delivered all the DNA into the cell. "We're curious whether that kind of mechanism is in play with the lambda bacteriophage," Phillips says.

The current findings have implications for the larger question of how biomolecules like DNA and proteins cross membranes in general, and not just into bacteria. Cells are full of membranes that divide them into separate compartments and that separate entire cells from the rest of the world. Much of the business of cellular life involves getting molecules across those barriers. "This process that we've been studying is one of the most elementary examples of what you could call polymer translocation or getting macromolecules across membranes," Phillips says. "We are starting to figure out the physics behind that process."

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Free Wi-Fi Hits Another 32 London Tube Stations

Virgin and London underground are continuing their roll out of speedy free Wi-Fi, flicking the switch on 32 additional stations across the capital. Considering it?s faster than your average home broadband connection, and free, maybe it?s time to take your downloads underground.

Transport for London has released a handy tube Wi-Fi map for you to work out where the best spot is for your underground wardriving efforts. There are currently 38 stations online, with another 46 waiting to get switched on later this summer.

Now if they could figure out how to get Wi-Fi in every tube train as well as station, and roll out that air conditioning TfL?s been promising for years, we?ll finally have a modern underground worth shouting about, maybe. [TfL via Zdnet]

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Northwest sees record returns of sockeye salmon (Providence Journal)

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Spotify releases artist-branded apps, Quincy Jones and Rancid pick your music for you

Finding new music can be difficult. And sure, internet radio services like Pandora are all well and good, but can you really trust their algorithms to chose your music for you? What you need is an experienced tastemaker, like Quincy Jones or Tiësto or those dudes in Disturbed, whatever their names are. Thankfully, all of the above and Operation Ivy expats Rancid have signed up to create the first round of Artist Apps for Spotify, which can be downloaded now via the desktop verison's left nav bar.

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