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    Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
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    louis vuitton outlet Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid named three Democratic senators who are considered neither ideological purists nor eager compromisers to a "super committee" charged with finding at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade. Lobbying inside Congress is intensifying over what lawmakers should be named to the new, bipartisan deficit-reduction committee. Laura Meckler has details from Washington.The move on Tuesday came as lobbying has intensified about who will be chosen for the remaining spots on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit

    louis vuitton outlet Reduction—appointments that will play a large role in the eventual shape of any deal. Defense advocates are pushing for a defense hawk. Conservatives want someone from the tea party. Leaders also face pressure to name fresh faces.Mr. Reid (D., Nev.) named Sens. Patty Murray of Washington, Max Baucus of Montana and John Kerry of Massachusetts. Ms. Murray will be co-chairman of the committee. House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) will name the other co-chairman.Ms. Murray is chairwoman of the committee to elect Democratic senators in the

    louis vuitton outlet 2012 election. She is also a member of the Senate Democratic leadership team.View Full ImageBloomberg News Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.Mr. Baucus is chairman of the Finance Committee, which handles entitlement programs and tax policy, both of which will be under the committee's microscope. He served on last year's White House deficit-reduction commission and ultimately voted against that panel's recommendations, arguing that rural areas would be hurt by its proposals to cut to farm subsidies, increase the gas tax and reduce retirement benefits.Mr. Kerry has worked with Republicans on such foreign policy matters as Libya policy and nuclear arms policy. Over the weekend, Mr. Kerry showed a sharper edge, blaming House Republicans for blocking a broad deficit-reduction deal that would have included tax increases and using the term "tea party downgrade'' to describe a credit firm's decision to strip U.S. long-term debt of its triple-A rating.Mr. Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have until Tuesday to name three members each to the panel. It will have until Thanksgiving to come up with a deficit-reduction plan. View Full ImageBloomberg News Sen. Max Baucus of Montana.Congress just agreed to more than $900 billion in cuts over 10 years from discretionary spending, the annual programs that lawmakers fund each year. So the committee is expected to focus on other spending, such as Medicare and Medicaid, and taxes.
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    burberry outletan earlier military offensive against border towns and villages. The tales of horror the refugees brought with them did much to galvanise public opinion in Turkey against Mr Assad, leading to pressure on the government to take a firmer stance. Brazil, India and South Africa, which all helped to scotch Western attempts to secure a United Nations Security Council resolution against Syria, are also to send envoys to Damascus tomorrow to plead for restraint. Russia, traditionally Syria's most powerful

    burberry outletinternational champion, added its weight to the escalating pressure. Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, telephoned his Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem yesterday with a plea for the bloodshed to end. Instead, however, the death toll mounted. Nearly 400 people have been killed since Mr Assad launched a fresh military offensive against opposition strongholds on the eve of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at the beginning of last week. More than 2,000 have died since the uprising began in mid-March. Deir al-Zor, a tribal city in Syria's sparsely populated east, came under fresh artillery and automatic gunfire as tanks and troops cleared the city of opposition suburb by suburb. At least 17 people were killed yesterday, the third day of operations in the city, opposition groups said. Syrian state television denied that any tanks were in the city, the country's fifth largest, a claim challenged by amateur video footage showing tanks advancing down empty streets amid heavy bursts of gunfire and the crump of exploding shells. "The situation is desperate," one Syrian activist who has been in touch with people in the city said. "People are burying their dead in gardens and in small parks because it is too dangerous to go to cemeteries. Snipers are everywhere." To the west, a new assault was launched on villages close to the Hama, the city that bore the brunt of the Ramadan offensive last week.
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    five finger shoes the recession ended in June 2009. It now expects slower growth over the next two years.Economists now believe there is a greater chance of a U.S. recession because the economy grew much more slowly in the first half of 2011 than previously thought. The manufacturing and services industries barely grew in July. The unemployment rate remains above 9 percent, despite the 154,000 jobs added in the private sector in July.Economies across the globe are also struggling.Worries are growing that Spain or Italy could become the next European country to be unable to repay its debt. High inflation in less-developed countries, which have been the world's main economic engine through the recovery, is another concern. China's inflation rose to a 37-month high in July.Those economic concerns have pulled attention from stronger corporate earnings this spring.Dish Network Corp. reported Tuesday that its second-quarter net income rose 30 percent to $334.8 million on stronger revenue. Among the 441 companies in the S&P 500 index that have already reported their second-quarter earnings, profits are up 12 percent from a year ago.The housing market, though, remains weak. Homebuilder Beazer Homes USA Inc. said its loss widened last quarter after it closed on fewer homes.Consolidated trading volume was heavy Tuesday, at 9.2 billion shares. Nearly 12 stocks rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange.____AP Business Writers Matthew Craft, Sarah DiLorenzo and David K. Randall contributed to this
    Friday, August 5th, 2011
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    louis vuitton outlet SALT LAKE CITY—A coalition of Utah and Arizona polygamous groups is denouncing the acts of sexual assault alleged during the Texas trial of Warren Jeffs. The Principle Rights Coalition issued a statement Thursday saying its members are devastated that child sexual abuse may have been perpetrated under the cloak of their religion. "Those who commit such crimes must be held accountable," the statement reads. The coalition represents five polygamous groups—the Apostolic United Brethren,

    louis vuitton outlet Centennial Park, the Davis County Cooperative Society, the Neilson-Naylor community—and a network of so-called "independents" who practice polygamy but do not affiliate with any specific church. The statement was issued hours before a Texas jury convicted Jeffs on sexual assault charges stemming from allegations of wrongdoings with two underage girls from his Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Prosecutors said the 55-year-old Jeffs married and had

    louis vuitton outlet sexual relations with girls as young as 12. Jeffs represented himself at trial. He now faces a life prison sentence. "This is not common practice, marrying underage girls of 12 and 15," coalition co-founder Anne Wilde said. "I really hope people can make this distinction. This is not our lifestyle. This is about one person, not about our religious belief system. He does not represent us. An estimated 38,000 self-described Mormon fundamentalists live across Utah and the Intermountain West. The practice is a legacy of early Mormon church teachings, which held that plural marriage brings exaltation in heaven. The mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints abandoned the practice in 1890 as a condition of Utah's statehood. Wilde said none of the coalition members support underage or forced marriages, tax evasion, welfare fraud or other stereotypical crimes commonly associated with polygamy. The coalition is part of the advocacy group Principle Voices, which has worked for 10 years to educate the public and state agencies in Utah and Arizona about the culture. Most polygamists keep their way of life secret out of fear of prosecution on bigamy charges. The coalition notes in its statement that such secrecy may have cultivated an environment that concealed abuse. The coalition suggests that the current abuse allegations provide a basis for the "necessity of decriminalizing plural, consenting-adult relationships" so individuals in need of help will feel safe contacting authorities.
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    burberry outlet RemakeBox office watchers outside the studio are calling for an opening of as much as $38 million, but Fox's more conservative estimates hover around $30 million.Rotten Tomatoes is aggregating the movie's warm critical reception at 83 percent.Also opening widely this weekend in 2,913 North American locations, Universal R-rated comedy "The Change-Up" seeks to take the old "Freaky Friday" concept to middle-aged dudes.Directed by David Dobkin, and starring Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman -- two guys who could tell you a thing or two about commercial failure over a beer sometime -- "The Change-Up" will likely produce no box-office fastballs.Pre-release estimates for the $52 million comedy, co-produced by Relativity Media, are hovering in the mid-teens.Also

    burberry outlet read: 'The Change-Up': A Sex Comedy That Hates SexThe strong holdover this weekend will likely be Sony's "Smurfs," which has taken in $15.5 million since Monday, easily winning the weekday box office with kids still out of school for summer break.But the big gorilla at the weekend box office will be "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," which is directed by lightly-credited director Rupert Wyatt and stars James Franco as a medical researcher whose attempt to cure Alzheimer's Disease ends up transforming apes into uber-intelligent man killers.Andy Serkis, a specialist in portraying CG-modified characters -- playing "The Lord of the Rings'" Gollum, as well as "King Kong's" lead role -- takes on the top monkey in this latest Apes film and is the focus of much of the critical praise.For its part, Fox, Wyatt and the rest of the movie's principals seem to have accomplished the job of getting everyone over 2001's Tim Burton-directed "Planet of the Apes" reboot, which grossed more than $362 million worldwide but garnered plenty of criticism along the way.As for "The Change-Up," it arrives late in a summer box office season that's been mostly kind to R-rated comedy.Breakout hits "The Hangover Part II" and "Bridesmaids" have received plenty of attention, but Warner's "Horrible Bosses" ($113.5 in worldwide box office) and Sony's "Bad Teacher" ($178.8 million) have done quite well for themselves, too.Bateman also stars in "Horrible Bosses," which has to qualify as a winning streak for an actor whose, er, hit parade has included such floundering feature comedies as "Extract," "The Switch" and "Paul."As for Ryan Reynolds, his transition into big Hollywood tentpole action hero hasn't gone without a hitch, with "Green Lantern" even meriting a shout-out at Time Warner's earnings call earlier this week.And it wasn't the good kind.
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    five finger shoesmorning as they slept, neighbors and relatives said, when their house on the outskirts of this coastal city was hit by a NATO airstrike. Family members said a third child, 8-year old Naji, was in intensive care after suffering serious injuries.Officials from Moammar Gadhafi's embattled government brought journalists to the ruins of al-Mrabet family's 2-story villa in a residential neighborhood on Thursday."In all my 36 years I've never seen a day like this," said a neighbor named Salah Buharto. He said the 6:30 a.m. blast was so powerful, he initially thought his own house had been hit.When asked about the suspected air strike, a NATO spokesman told CNN: "NATO made a strike

    five finger shoesin Zlitan at 6:30 a.m. (Thursday) local time. The target was a command and control facility held by government forces."We have had no reason to believe that there were any civilian casualties," said another NATO spokesman to CNN, also speaking on condition of anonymity. "But we take these reports very seriously and we are looking into the matter. We have a process that we go through."For weeks, Zlitan has been the target of an intense NATO bombing campaign. The number of buildings and compounds devastated by air strikes have visibly increased since foreign journalists were taken on a government-controlled tour of the small city last month.The Gadhafi regime accuses NATO of hitting food warehouses, health clinics and schools. But a tour of one bomb site on Thursday revealed evidence suggesting the target was not entirely civilian.At the compound of a bombed-out law school where classroom walls were scorched and broken glass littered the floor, CNN found several military uniforms lying on the ground next to wooden ammunition crates. When asked about the military paraphernalia, a government escort said the ammo boxes and uniforms "belonged to school security guards."Meanwhile, every few seconds, rocket and cannon fire rumbled in the distance, as rebels and regime loyalists fought a deadly artillery duel across the front lines a few miles to the east of the city. Zlitan is located less than 50 miles west of the rebel-held port city of Misrata, which survived a long, bloody siege by Gadhafi forces.Over the last week, rebel commanders claimed to
    Thursday, August 4th, 2011
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    louis vuitton outlet crater.Erik Asphaug, a planetary scientist at UC Santa Cruz, had a different idea. Researchers knew that space debris could theoretically get stuck around one of the moon's Lagrangian points, places in space where the gravity of the moon and Earth cancel each other out. In those areas, the debris could coalesce to form another moon, but it would remain stable only for a short time before the sun's gravity threw it off course.So Asphaug and colleague Martin Jutzi of the University of Bern in Switzerland designed a model in which a moonlet about one third as wide as the moon maintained a stable orbit around the Earth for tens of millions of years, until it floated from its Lagrangian point into the moon's path.The moonlet would have crashed head-on with the larger lunar body, but the collision would have happened over roughly three hours at relatively slow speeds of about 4,500 to 6,700 miles per hour, the scientists calculated. At that rate, the material in the moonlet would splat onto the moon rather like a ball of mud hitting a surface. The rocky peaks on the far side of the moon are remnants of that impact, Asphaug said.The force of the collision would have pushed the moon's internal magma sea over to the near side, which could explain why the visible half is rich in potassium, uranium and other elements, Asphaug and Jutzi wrote in Nature."It's a really new idea that puts a completely different take on the origin of the lunar dichotomy," said Robin Canup, a planetary scientist with the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., who was not involved in the study.
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    burberry outletdecision after midnight Tuesday following more than four hours of closed-door talks led by President Jalal Talabani between political leaders – some of them bitter rivals.Long after most reporters had rushed home to beat the 1 a.m. curfew still in force, Deputy Prime Minister Rosh Nuri Shawis emerged to read a statement to state-run television saying the attendees recognized the need for further training of Iraqi military forces.IN PICTURES: Iraq combat mission over“All those present agreed to authorize the government of Iraq to start negotiations with the American side," he said, noting the talks would be for training under a

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