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Monday, October 29, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Judge OKs release of Romney divorce case testimony
Judge OKs release of Romney divorce case testimony
By DENISE LAVOIEBy DENISE LAVOIE, AP Legal Affairs Writer?
?Maureen Stemberg Sullivan, left, ex-wife of Staples founder Tom Stemberg, and her lawyer Gloria Allred, right, arrive at Norfolk County Probate Court Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, in Canton, Mass. Lawyers for The Boston Globe are to return to court Thursday to argue for the public release of testimony given by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney in the divorce of Stemberg. Stemberg's ex-wife. Stemberg's ex-wife appeared in court with lawyer Gloria Allred and told the judge they do not object to lifting the impoundment order on Romney's testimony. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Maureen Stemberg Sullivan, left, ex-wife of Staples founder Tom Stemberg, and her lawyer Gloria Allred, right, arrive at Norfolk County Probate Court Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, in Canton, Mass. Lawyers for The Boston Globe are to return to court Thursday to argue for the public release of testimony given by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney in the divorce of Stemberg. Stemberg's ex-wife. Stemberg's ex-wife appeared in court with lawyer Gloria Allred and told the judge they do not object to lifting the impoundment order on Romney's testimony. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at Landmark Aviation at The Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Maureen Stemberg Sullivan, left, ex-wife of Staples founder Tom Stemberg, and her lawyer Gloria Allred, right, face members of the media as they arrive at Norfolk County Probate Court Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, in Canton, Mass. Lawyers for The Boston Globe are to return to court Thursday to argue for the public release of testimony given by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney in the divorce of Stemberg. Stemberg's ex-wife appeared in court with Allred and told the judge they do not object to lifting the impoundment order on Romney's testimony. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Maureen Stemberg Sullivan, left, ex-wife of Staples founder Tom Stemberg, and her lawyer Gloria Allred, right, face members of the media as they arrive at Norfolk County Probate Court Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, in Canton, Mass. Lawyers for The Boston Globe are to return to court Thursday to argue for the public release of testimony given by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney in the divorce of Stemberg. Stemberg's ex-wife and Allred and told the judge in the case they do not object to lifting the impoundment order on Romney's testimony. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
CANTON, Mass. (AP) ? Celebrity attorney Gloria Allred says she'll ask a Massachusetts judge to lift a gag order on the ex-wife of Staples founder Tom Stemberg before the presidential election so she can discuss GOP candidate Mitt Romney's testimony in the couple's bitter divorce.
A probate and family court judge on Thursday said she will allow the release of Romney's testimony. But the judge refused to rule on whether to lift an order prohibiting Maureen Sullivan Stemberg and her ex-husband from commenting on Romney's testimony or his interactions with them during the divorce.
Allred said she'll file a motion as early as next week seeking to lift the order.
Staples was founded with backing from Romney's firm, Bain Capital. Tom Stemberg spoke in glowing terms about Romney at the GOP convention in August.
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Q: We have a 1200 sq. ft. brick ranch. It is 3 bedrooms 1 full bath (main level) and a toliet and sink in the basement with no walls. We would like to install a sprial staircase to the basement where the current master bedroom closet is.The spiral staircase would start at the main level and lead into the much larger walk-in master closet in the basement. Attached to the closet via a pocket door would be the master bathroom/basement bathroom with a double vanity, soaking tub and a separate stand-up shower. We would also provide access to the bathroom from in the basement. The purpose of this proposed upgrade is to accomplish 2 things. Number 1 to add much needed closet space and also Number 2 to add a bathroom for both the master bedroom to make it a master suite and also to have a complete bathroom for use in the basement as the current toilet/sink located in the basement are situated in a area that is impossible to make it a finished bathroom. My concern is two fold, are future buyers going to see it as an advantage or think it is odd to have a 2 story Master Bedroom with a walk-in closet and bathroom in the basement accessible in the basement? Is it worth investing in this project even though it will take up valuable space in the basement?
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A: I am an exclusive buyers agent, so I only show homes to prospective buyers and do not do listings.. My view on this would be that people generally do not like spiral staircases, but particularly not as a way to get to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Perhaps you could add on to the existing level of the home?
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Building Wealth for Building the Kingdom Book Tour
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Building Wealth for Building the Kingdom is a simple, practical guide to help LDS families organize their personal financial plans to meet their unique goals. The book provides simple answers to questions like:
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How much should I be saving each month for my son?s mission?
How much should I be saving each month for my children?s college education?
How can I save enough to be able to retire while I?m healthy enough to serve a mission?
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Avoiding tips on pinching pennies, the book focuses on opportunities to save thousands or tens of thousands of dollars by making smart moves with big decisions, like home and car purchases.
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Mormon families will appreciate the gospel-centered, scripture-based focus on putting tithing at the center of a financial plan. Building Wealth for Building the Kingdom will help prepare families to enjoy the benefits of their labor while simultaneously contributing to the growth of Church.
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Building Wealth for Building the Kingdom by Devin D. Thorpe is a wonderful financial book with a Latter-Day Saint perspective. The objective is clearly stated and then supported ? To prepare financially to render any service that you may be called to give.
Thorpe discusses many facets of financial life ? purchasing a home, car, insurance, retirement, investments with very specific tips and suggestions. My favorite part is that there is finally a financial book that takes into consideration tithing, large families, food storage, missions and more! There is specific emphasis on education which is also largely supported by the Church. Thorpe even warns about additional pursuits to increase income and purchase elaborate toys ? making sure that priorities are in line ? family and church service ? as opposed to getting rich just to get rich.
This book would be a perfect Wedding gift! How nice it would be to have such life altering information from the beginning of a marriage? It would really provide a beautiful foundation for the newlyweds to start with especially if they were not taught such information when they were younger.
A lot of the information in the book my husband and I have researched over the years and learned for ourselves, so the book does not present some miraculous plan that will make everyone rich. But it does put many important principles in one convenient location for easy reference. And for a remarkably low price!
Each chapter has the same basic structure. It begins with a scripture or a quote from a church leader, teaches the principle with many suggestions and ends with a call to action. So for the book to truly make a difference in one?s life there must be action taken.
*Disclaimer: I was given a complimentary book, Building Wealth For Building the Kingdom, for the purpose of facilitating my review. No monetary compensation was given. All opinions expressed herein are unbiased and not influenced by the developing company or its affiliates in any way.*
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Devin D. Thorpe brings a broad perspective to financial planning, having owned and operated an investment-banking firm?which included an investment advisory business?and a mortgage brokerage and having served in a variety of corporate finance positions.
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Presently, Devin serves as a business professor at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, China on behalf of Brigham Young University?s Kennedy Center China Teachers program. Previously, he served as the Chief Financial Officer for the multinational company MonaVie, listed in Inc. Magazine?s 2009 Inc. 500 as the 18th fastest growing company in America and, at $834 million in revenue, the third largest company on the list.
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Prior experience includes two years working on the staff of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee during Utah Senator Jake Garn?s tenure. He also served briefly in Utah State Government, working at USTAR under Governor Jon Huntsman. ?He earned an MBA with focus in Finance and Accounting from Cornell University?s Johnson Graduate School of Management. He completed his undergraduate degree in finance at the University of Utah, where he later worked as an adjunct professor of finance. In 2006,
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Devin was recognized by the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah as a Distinguished Alum. In the Church, Devin presently serves as a seminary teacher along with his wife, Gail. Previously, he served as a counselor in a stake presidency, a counselor in a bishopric, ward executive secretary, young men?s president, assistant scout master, three times as an assistant ward clerk, and in more elders quorum presidencies than he can count. Devin ran his first marathon in 2011, finishing in 4:35.
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Major league baseball playoff schedule
Major league baseball playoffs
(All times EDT)
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American League Championship Series
(Best of seven)
(Detroit wins series 4-0)
Oct. 13: Detroit 6, New York Yankees 4 (12 innings)
Oct. 14: Detroit 3, New York Yankees 0
Oct. 16: Detroit 2, New York Yankees 1
Oct. 17: Postponed
Oct. 18: Detroit 8, New York Yankees 1
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National League Championship Series
(Best of seven)
(San Francisco wins series 4-3)
Oct. 14: St. Louis 6, San Francisco 4
Oct. 15: San Francisco 7, St. Louis 1
Oct. 17: St. Louis 3, San Francisco 1
Oct. 18: St. Louis 8, San Francisco 3
Oct. 19: San Francisco 5, St. Louis 0
Oct. 21: San Francisco 6, St. Louis 1
Oct. 22: San Francisco 9, St. Louis 0.
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World Series
(Best of seven)
Oct. 24: Detroit at St. Louis/San Francisco winner, 8 p.m.
Oct. 25: Detroit at St. Louis/San Francisco winner, 8 p.m.
Oct. 27: St. Louis/San Francisco winner at Detroit, 8 p.m.
Oct. 28: St. Louis/San Francisco winner at Detroit, 8 p.m.
Oct. 29: St. Louis/San Francisco winner at Detroit, 8 p.m. (if necessary)
Oct. 31: Detroit at St. Louis/San Francisco winner, 8 p.m. (if necessary)
Nov. 1: Detroit at St. Louis/San Francisco winner, 8 p.m. (if necessary)
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Wild-card games
(Winner advances)
Oct. 5
American League
Baltimore 5, Texas 1
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National League
St. Louis 6, Atlanta 3
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American League Division Series
(Best of five)
(Detroit wins series 3-2)
Oct. 6: Detroit 3, Oakland 1
Oct. 7: Detroit 5, Oakland 4
Oct. 9: Oakland 2, Detroit 0
Oct. 10: Oakland 4, Detroit 3
Oct. 11: Detroit 6, Oakland 0
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American League Division Series
(Best of five)
(New York Yankees win series 3-2)
Oct. 7: New York Yankees 7, Baltimore 2
Oct. 8: Baltimore 3, New York Yankees 2
Oct. 10: New York Yankees 3, Baltimore 2 (12 innings)
Oct. 11: Baltimore 2, New York Yankees 1 (13 innings)
Oct. 12: New York Yankees 3, Baltimore 1
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National League Division Series
(Best of five)
(San Francisco wins series 3-2)
Oct. 6: Cincinnati 5, San Francisco 2
Oct. 7: Cincinnati 9, San Francisco 0
Oct. 9: San Francisco 2, Cincinnati 1 (10 innings)
Oct. 10: San Francisco 8, Cincinnati 3
Oct. 11: San Francisco 6, Cincinnati 4
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National League Division Series
(Best of five)
(St. Louis wins series 3-2)
Oct. 7: Washington 3, St. Louis 2
Oct. 8: St. Louis 12, Washington 4
Oct. 10: St. Louis 8, Washington 0
Oct. 11: Washington 2, St. Louis 1
Oct. 12: St. Louis 9, Washington 7
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Climate Scientist Sues for Defamation
Climatologist Michael Mann has sued two organizations that have accused him of improperly manipulating data
Michael Mann, an influential climatologist who has spent years in the center of the debate over climate science, has sued two organizations that have accused him of academic fraud and of improperly manipulating data.
Mann, director of Pennsylvania State University's Earth System Science Center, on Monday sued the National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, along with two of their authors, Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn.?
The lawsuit, Mann's lawyer said in a statement, was based upon their "false and defamatory statements" accusing him of academic fraud and comparing him to a convicted child molester, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
Neither Mann nor his lawyer, John B. Williams of the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Cozen O'Connor, were available for comment Tuesday afternoon. But on Facebook, where news of the lawsuit was initially posted Tuesday, Mann said the lawsuit was part of "a battle" to assist climate scientists in the fight against those who attack their work.
"There is a larger context for this latest development," he wrote, "namely the onslaught of dishonest and libelous attacks that climate scientists have endured for years by dishonest front groups seeking to discredit the case for concern over climate change."
But he faces a high bar: Mann has played a key role in climate science for decades, and the law generally requires a much higher burden of proof from public figures, said CEI general counsel Sam Kazman.
"I don't think he's got a shot at reaching it," Kazman said in an interview. "Our stuff may have been debatable, but it was solidly based and we had a perfect right to say what we did."
"We plan to defend the suit vigorously but we think it is a totally unfounded lawsuit."
In 1999 Mann published a timeline of global temperatures stretching back almost 1,000 years. The graph showed a fairly stable trend until 1900, when temperatures spiked sharply upward. That so-called "hockey stick" diagram became a lightning rod in the debate on whether humans were influencing the climate.
In 2007 he shared the Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore and ?authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report for work connecting human activities to global warming.
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Two years later a cache of emails illegally obtained from University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom purported to show climate scientists manipulating data. Many of the emails were to or from Michael Mann.
Upwards of seven organizations, from the National Science Foundation to Penn State, conducted investigations into Mann's work. All declared baseless allegations of academic fraud.
Yet the attacks persisted: Virginia Attorney General spent $500,000 and two years unsuccessfully suing to obtain email correspondence from the University of Virginia, where Mann worked from 1999 to 2005.
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Jordan foils plot to bomb Western targets, arrests 11
Petra via Reuters
Jordan detained 11 men suspected of planning attacks against shopping centers and other diplomatic targets. The men have been 'going in and out' of Syria, and are also believed involved in the rebel effort to overthrow Assad.
By NBC News staff and wire reports
Jordan has foiled a plot by an al-Qaida-linked cell to bomb its shopping?centers?and assassinate Western diplomats, state television said on Sunday, thwarting an attempt to destabilize the key U.S. ally.
Security forces had detained 11 suspects, all Jordanians, in connection with the plot, which envisaged carrying out attacks in the capital Amman using smuggled weapons and explosives from Syria, according to security officials cited by television.
The plot had been active since June.
Minister of Information Samih al Maaytah said the arrests underscored the serious threat posed by radical "terror groups" seeking to undermine the kingdom's long tradition of stability.
A key U.S. ally in the Middle East and Israel's peace partner, Jordan enjoys close ties with Western intelligence agencies and has often been targeted by al-Qaida and other Islamist militants.
The cell had targeted two major shopping malls in the capital and was planning a bombing campaign in the capital's affluent Abdoun neighborhood, where many foreign embassies are located.
The U.S. and British embassies were among the targets, reported the Jordan Times, quoting a security source.
A security source said the suspects had manufactured explosives "aimed at inflicting the heaviest losses possible".
"The group was able to devise new types of explosives to be used for the first time and planned to add TNT to increase their destructive impact," said the source.
Links to Syria
The same security source said there was a crucial link with Syria where President Bashar al-Assad is battling to put down an uprising against his family's rule.
"Their plans included getting explosives and mortars from Syria," the security source told Reuters, saying the militants had sought to strike at a time of regional upheaval when the country's security establishment is over stretched.
The authorities said they had seized large quantities of ammunition, machine guns and other items such as computers. The militants were training to use "suicide bombers using explosive belts and booby-trapped cars", said another security source.
The case was referred to the state security court's prosecutor?who began questioning "11 Jordanian nationals from Salafist movements," a judicial source told the AFP.
Maaytah told reporters that members of the militant group had spent some time in Syria, without saying when they had returned to Jordan.
"This group arrived from Syria. They have been going in and out," said Maaytah, explaining that the case had been transferred to the state security prosecutor.
Another security source said the cell had been fighting for "some period" alongside Islamist rebel groups in Syria.
Jordan has in recent months arrested scores of hard-line Islamist fundamentalists along its northern border with Syria as they were about to cross into the country to join jihadist groups fighting to overthrow Assad.
Hundreds gathered in Bali, Indonesia, in remembrance of those lost 10 years ago when suicide bombers linked to al-Qaida orchestrated Asia's deadliest terror strike by bombing two nightclubs. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
If Jordan allows Assad's opponents to aid the armed uprising, Amman's security forces fear the Syrian government could retaliate by sending agents to carry out bomb attacks inside the country.
Intercepted electronic mail showed that the cell had received advice from explosives experts affiliated with al-Qaida in Iraq.
Jordan regularly arrests Islamist suspects and puts them on trial in military courts that human rights groups say are illegal and lack proper legal safeguards. Many civic groups also say many of the Islamist cases are politically motivated.
In 2005, al Qaida claimed responsibility for three suicide bombings that ripped through luxury hotels in Jordan's capital killing dozens of people.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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23 Percent of Seniors Self Employed
The truth is half of all new small businesses survive 5 years or more.
These facts came straight from the SBA Frequently Asked Questions PDF (available here).
A higher percentage of small businesses were still in business after 5 years than the percentage of people who held a job for 5 years or more.
But that?s not all I discovered?
Try this one on for size!
We always think of entrepreneurs as young go-getters, but the SBA reports that self-employment for those 25 and under decreased by 19% from 2005 to 2010.
Don?t look for entrepreneurs in the Universities.
Only 2% of those 25 and under were self-employed in 2010.
But 23% of those 65 and over were self-employed!
That certainly doesn?t match the perception we get from movies and TV about entrepreneurs.
It also doesn?t match up to the common thought of people slowly slinking away into retirement.
They?re getting fired up instead of retired.
With the growth of the Internet and home based businesses, many are likely working part-time.
Some likely need to supplement their income and keep working.
Others may simply love what they do.
Why would you ever want to retire when you can choose your own hours and do what you love?
That?s how I feel about the Internet.
I?ve sold a business before, and I?m sure I will again at some time.
Remember that 50% of small businesses are still in business in 5 years?
Did you consider that many entrepreneurs may close one business and start another?
I may change my focus or market.? I may increase or decrease my daily activities.
But why would I ever quit being an entrepreneur?
That?s likely another reason the percentages get so high at 65 and over.
You can start a business at any age.
You?ll never want to go back to a JOB again.
Those who start businesses at 25 keep going.? Those who start at 35 keep going.? The number keep growing as people reach 65?and they?re still out there, doing, growing, and building.
By 65, 23% of the US has discovered our ?little secret.?
Building something you own is better.
There are a lot of options out there.? Choose something that fits you.
My choice is the Internet.
I?d recommend checking out www.thetruthprints.com where you can discover step-by-step how to get your own high profit information business started online.
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Report: Iran ready to talk about its nuclear program
This is convenient timing. The New York Times' Helene Cooper and Michael Landry report Iran has finally agreed to sit down for the first time for one-on-one negotiations with the U.S. over their controversial nuclear program.
The catch: they won't sit down until after the election is over. They don't want to start negotiating with a President who may or may not be there in two weeks. But the agreement is a big get for Obama, the culmination of four years of "secret, intense" negotiations between the two sides.?
There are a bunch of other logistics to work out, including getting final, official say from Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Top officials have agreed to the talks but?Ali Khamenei hasn't signed off. Israel was pretty skeptical Iran would be productive when they spoke to the Times. Israel's spent much of the last year drawing red lines for Iran's controversial nuclear program. They don't want Iran to go over a certain enrichment level without incurring the wrath of an attack. Skeptics are already saying the agreement is an effort from Iran to ease international tension on them. Others are saying they're bending to the sanctions that are tanking their economy.?
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Sunday, October 21, 2012
Cameron on ropes after "catastrophic" week
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron is under pressure to reassert his authority over a Conservative Party reeling after a week which saw the resignation of a senior minister and claims of incompetence and elitism at the heart of his government.
After one of the most bruising weeks for the centre-right party since it took power in a coalition in 2010, the Conservatives have slipped further behind their Labour rivals, polls showed on Sunday. The next election is due in 2015.
Cameron will try to regain the initiative on Monday with a speech setting out a tougher stance on crime after a series of policy missteps, U-turns and embarrassments since an unpopular budget in March.
Veteran Conservative member of the Lords Norman Tebbit, one of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher's closest allies, attacked what he called "this dog of a government".
"The abiding sin of the government is not that some ministers are rich, but that it seems unable to manage its affairs competently," he told the Observer newspaper.
Education Secretary Michael Gove dismissed headlines talking of "Meltdown" and a "Catastrophic Week" as the passing "froth of political life" that affects all leaders, including ex-Labour prime minister Tony Blair, who won three elections.
"I remember reading about Tony Blair's worst week ever. No matter how many of these worst weeks he had, no matter how many apparently tough headlines there were, he came surging through with landslide majorities because the fundamental policy decisions...mattered more than the reporting of personality issues," he told Sky News.
Voters are more interested in the improving economy and falling hospital waiting lists, he added. Figures on Thursday are likely to show Britain has emerged from recession.
MINISTER RESIGNS
Cameron's judgement was questioned after he backed Andrew Mitchell, the minister accused a month ago of swearing at police and calling them "plebs", a class-laden word for working people.
Opponents seized on the affair as evidence senior Conservatives form an arrogant elite, adrift from ordinary Britons hit by the recession.
Mitchell finally resigned on Friday, still denying he had used the word "pleb", but apologising for swearing at police who refused to open the main security gates at Cameron's Downing Street office to allow him through on his bicycle. That did not end the debate about Conservatives and class.
On Friday, Chancellor George Osborne sat in a first class train carriage with a second class ticket. Aides said he paid for an upgrade, but the story still dominated headlines and fuelled a perception the Conservatives are out of touch.
Opponents accused Cameron of incompetence over a botched rail franchise process on October 3 and an unclear announcement on energy bills on Wednesday.
A Sunday Mirror poll put the Conservatives down two points from last month on 33 percent, behind Labour, up three on 41 percent. A second poll had Cameron's party on 30 percent, down five percent in 10 days, with Labour on 43 percent.
Labour said Cameron's crime pledges were designed to help him win back support from disgruntled members of parliament.
"This is empty rhetoric from a weak prime minister who is pandering to the backbenchers that forced out Andrew Mitchell," said Labour justice spokesman Sadiq Khan.
(Editing by Ron Askew)
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Hands-on breaksclusive video with a 32-gigabyte Nexus 7
Folks seem to have lost their minds a little bit over the 32-gigabyte Nexus 7 -- which remains unannounced, though Staples (always them, right?) apparently has no qualms about selling them early. So in the spirit of utter ridiculousness, here's some breakslclusive hands-on in-the-wild first-look oh-my-god-it's-full-of-stars video of the 32-gigabyte Nexus 7, courtesy of John1029 in our forums.
As should surprise no one, it's a Nexus 7. With 32 gigabytes of storage. (Actually, more like 27.5.) And that's it. It's running Android 4.1.1 out of the box, which also should surprise no one, since Android 4.1.2 just pushed over air, and these would devices would have been flashed before then. No big deal. At all. In fact, it's not even a deal. It's a non-deal.
Still, this is a decent enough walkthrough, and all snark aside, it's great to see our readers get the. Hit the break for the full video.
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Separated by law: Families torn apart by 1996 immigration measure
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Posted Oct 19, 2012, 6:30 am
In a nation built by immigrants, they thought they could pursue their American Dream ? with loved ones at their side. Instead, they're living an American nightmare that's tearing families apart and forcing Americans into exile.?
Chris Xitco, a native of Los Angeles, never imagined that after marrying his wife Delia in 2002 and trying to legalize her, she'd end up barred by U.S. officials for life, with no pardon even possible for 10 years. She now lives south of Tijuana, Mexico, alone with the couple?s two small children.
T.J. Barbour, a native of San Diego, has been struggling every day to care for a 10-year-old son, since his wife Maythe was deported and then barred from the United States in 2011 for what could be 20 years.
In central North Carolina, Anita Mann Perez has been financially ruined trying to raise three small children since her husband Jorge was exiled for 10 years in 2007. Now she's moved to Mexico to join him.?
Across the country, as illegal immigrants have settled into communities, they have met Americans, fallen in love, married and had children. But when Americans have voluntarily stepped up to sponsor their spouses for legal residency, believing this was the right thing to do, they?ve been shocked to discover their citizenship does not trump mandatory penalties the spouses must face. Far from it.
These penalties, which ?bar? the spouses from the U.S. for years at a time, were instituted by Congress in 1996 specifically to punish immigration-related offenses.
Since then, the law governing such situations ? and the way it?s applied ?has taken a number of twists and turns. Over that time period, waivers have helped many people. And in January, President Obama announced a plan to tweak the procedure by which citizens? spouses apply for residency, a change that could eventually spare many more families from long, painful separations. But the change isn?t likely to go into effect this year, and it isn?t retroactive. And while thousands stand to benefit, thousands of others simply won?t qualify for easier access to ?hardship waivers? that the president proposes ? and will be trapped by the small print of the 1996 law. (SEE SIDEBAR)
Under that law, if applicants for legal residency crossed the border once, and were ?unlawfully present? for more than one year, they must be issued a 10-year bar from living in the United States. They can then apply for a hardship waiver to try to return sooner and take up legal residency. If applicants have a history of entering the United States multiple times illegally, they can be barred for life ? and can only pursue pardons if they remain outside the United States for five, usually 10, sometimes 20 years. Being married to an American citizen may not help at all.
To complete their application process, people ?who entered the United States illegally must go to their final interview at a U.S. consulate back in their home countries. Often U.S. consular officials must simply deliver the bad news immediately. And that?s that. The bar has begun, and the applicant cannot return.
Oklahoma lawyer Douglas Stump, president-elect of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said for every 100 people who approach him to try to legalize a family member, more than half involve undocumented people whose immigration violations would qualify them for the hefty penalties mandated by the 1996 law.
The penalties emerged from Republican leaders in a get-tough Congress. They argued the country had become too easy on illegal immigrants by allowing some with family ties to pay fees, show they had no disqualifying police record and adjust their status without having to leave the country. Congress increased from $650 to $1,000 the fine such immigrants would have to pay. But that wasn?t enough, some members said. Such immigrants should also leave to receive the new bars on re-entering for a certain period.
By getting tougher on these undocumented people, supporters of bars reasoned, others would see that it would never be easy for them to transition from illegal to legal status, even by marriage.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican of Orange County, California, defended the tougher rules during a 2001 congressional debate over their merits ? and whether to extend a pre-1996 statute that was allowing some immigrants to still adjust their status inside the U.S.?
?Yes, there are some heart-tearing cases here,? Rohrabacher said. ?Yes, some people who are in this country end up marrying American citizens, and the American citizens find that their loved one is going to have to go back to their home country [for the duration of a bar] in order to be here legally, because they have married an illegal alien.?
?I am sorry,? he said. ?If someone is here illegally ? then they should go back to their home country to regularize their status.?
Thousands?
Hard numbers are impossible to come by, but the Department of State?s records of immigrant visa rejections suggest that thousands of bars have been handed down over the last decade.
Records don?t single out which of these applicants are spouses of U.S. citizens. Some could be other sorts of relatives. Typically, though, department officials say that spouses are one of the largest groups applying for residency visas globally.
Between 2000 and 2011, visa applicants were able to overcome their disqualification due to illegal presence for more than one year ? which carries a 10-year bar ? about 89,000 times.?However, immigrant visas were denied more than 68,000 times because applicants were unable to get their disqualification for illegal presence waived. The numbers could reflect some volume of repeat attempts by the same people.
During the same period, there were almost 19,000 disqualifications of visa applications for the offense of being ?unlawfully present after previous immigration violations.? Only five such cases were reversed. The penalty is a lifetime bar, with the possibility of being able to seek a pardon, but, ordinarily, only after 10 years.
There have been thousands of visa rejections for other immigration-related offenses, including ?misrepresentation? of facts during the application process.?
It?s also hard to know how many spouses of Americans and parents of American children could feel threatened by potential bars, and have thus decided to continue to remain undocumented. That means families are living with the risk of spouses being discovered and deported rather than trying to apply for residency.
The Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research center in Washington, D.C., estimated last year that more than 16 million people in the United States are in families with at least one undocumented member.
About 9 million of these people are in families that also include at least one U.S. citizen child. Other adults in the families could be citizens, or they could be legal immigrants.?Most illegal immigrants, Pew also estimates, have been in the United States for 10 years or more ? long enough to start a family.
?We are talking mostly about younger families with small children,? said Randall Emery, one of the founders of American Families United, a national network of citizens whose loved ones have been barred ? or would be.
Emery?s group applauded Obama?s easing of the hardship waiver rules (see "A dizzying series of legal twists and turns"), which could benefit some of its members. Eventually. But the proposed change is not bringing any relief to Americans who are already separated from husbands, wives and children.
The Xitco family
Chris Xitco, 49, says that with everything he and his wife have gone through, life feels like it?s ?her and me, against the world.?
They have two kids, Elisa, 6, and Itzamal, a 1-year-old son.
Chris met Delia, now in her mid-thirties, more than a dozen years ago on the job at a produce-packing company in the Los Angeles area. Chris is not Hispanic, but he spoke some Spanish because he grew up with Mexican workers on a family farm, and he used to surf south of Tijuana as a youth.
The two began to date, Delia taking him to see Latin music concerts. He took her to see him surf.
Delia originally hailed from Nayarit, a state in western Mexico. Chris knew that she had crossed the border illegally, that she?d been caught once in the Arizona desert, detained overnight and then tried again to enter and was successful.
But he knew so many other people who had done the same thing, who were desperate to work. The border, he said, ?was a joke for so long.? And he didn?t think Delia?s offense was unforgivable. He knew it was rare to impossible for Mexicans to get work visas, and she came from a poor part of Mexico where jobs were scarce and many had already blazed the familiar trail north.
When the two decided to marry in 2002, Chris was 38, and he and Delia were eager to get settled and have children. Chris said he knew he had to take care of business by legalizing Delia, but he ?thought it was a lock because I was a citizen.?
He was so na?ve, he said, that he took Delia right into the immigration office of a Los Angeles federal building. He approached a security guard and told him the couple was there because he wanted to ?fix? his wife?s papers.
?He put his arm around my shoulder, did a U-turn,? Chris remembered, and ushered Chris and Delia toward the door. The guard did him a big favor, Chris said he realized later. Technically, his wife could have been taken into custody right then and there. The guard gave Chris the address of a website to consult as they were walking out.
In 2003, Chris contacted an attorney, who explained how the law had changed, and suggested that Chris and Delia save their money and hope that Congress would change the laws again.
But Chris returned to the lawyer in 2004. The lawyer did a Justice Department background check on Delia and found no record of deportation. Perhaps when she was quickly turned back at the border once, the lawyer reasoned, it didn?t count.
So they started the application process.
Delia was pregnant when they got word she had an interview appointment, in Juarez, Mexico. The couple didn?t want to risk any chance that the baby would be born in Mexico, fearing that it might jeopardize Delia?s application. They asked for a delay.
Delia and Chris finally went to Mexico for her interview in October 2007, when Elisa was 16 months old. Chris? parents were thrilled with the new grandchild; Delia?s English was improving and bonds with Chris?s family were growing tighter.
Chris, as spouse, wasn?t allowed into the interview, which is standard procedure.
When Delia emerged and told him she?d been barred, Chris said it really hit him: there would be no special treatment simply because Chris was an American citizen. And his daughter?s birth didn?t change the situation.
?They don?t seem to think, well, what about the daughter? She doesn?t count?? he says. ?The system doesn?t have a heart. And it doesn?t have a brain.?
Delia took Elisa and flew to Nayarit. Chris went to Los Angeles. In December 2007 they met in Juarez for a new interview, a hardship waiver interview with the consular office there. Chris argued that he'd be crushed to lose baby Elisa for 10 years, but couldn't fathom separating her from Delia. But that argument didn?t work. Chris failed to prove that he, as the American citizen spouse, was suffering extraordinary hardship beyond the pain expected by separation.
From there, things went downhill. Delia returned to Nayarit with Elisa. Chris found himself trying to explain over and over to family and friends what the rules were. He flew to Nayarit every few months, but over time, his daughter failed to recognize him, which broke his heart. He called local congressional representatives, whose staff expressed sympathy but urged him to get a different lawyer.
The Xitcos started the whole residency application process again. This time Chris wanted to be better prepared for what he thought would be a subsequent waiver interview. He amassed letters of support from family, a psychiatrist?s evaluation, copies of anti-depressant prescriptions, his Army discharge records. He paid thousands of dollars more in fees, for Delia?s medical exams, vaccinations and other requisites and travel.
At 10:15 a.m. on April 7, 2010, Delia went to her appointment in Juarez. Chris waited with the baby outside. Delia emerged from the consulate and told Chris she was not eligible for a waiver and would have to ask for a pardon in November 2017.
A records check, she learned, had turned up a report that she had entered the United States after being caught once. It was the first time U.S. consular officials had said anything about her being disqualified because she had crossed more than once.
Devastated, Chris moved Delia up to Rosarito, a beach town 30 miles south of Tijuana that?s developing a community of deportees and barred family members of U.S. citizens.
He has settled into a grueling routine of commuting, but seethes when he discusses what happened.
He is now ?couch surfing,? sleeping at work or friends? places. For more than a year, he hasn?t been able to afford his own home in the Los Angeles area. He?s still working in the produce-distribution business. He manages to beg off work a bit early every Friday and drive down to Rosarito, which can mean brutal, three- or four-hour slogs through bumper-to-bumper traffic.
Returning to the United States at weekend?s end is even worse. Chris is perpetually exhausted because on Mondays he has to sit in three hours of traffic just to get a few miles over the border, and then drive on to Los Angeles, another three hours.
Every penny he makes and nearly all his energy goes into managing this separation, Chris said. He can?t get a job in Tijuana, he said, because the earnings are too low, and he feels he?s too old.
Chris is paying for a private school in Rosarito for Elisa, but the instruction is in Spanish, not English. Chris tries to engage her in English, but she answers in Spanish. She can sing a version of the ABC song with a heavy Spanish accent. She can say ?see you later,? and ?bye? and she understands what the Fourth of July is about.
Chris is worried how she?ll fare later if and when she enters school in the United States. She?ll be ready for junior high by then.
He said his greatest fear, being three to four hours away, is that he won?t be able to protect his family. The house Delia and the children are in has high walls, but thieves broke in once already and looted it. It?s in an area with a lot of transients, people who don?t know one another, and Delia feels she can no longer go out for very long periods of time.
?I don?t trust the neighbors,? she said. She has no friends nearby, nor relatives, and restricts her socializing to other mothers at school.
Still, having the family in Rosarito is better than in Nayarit, Chris said. Delia and Elisa had to hit the floor in a shopping center during a gang shootout there.
Chris said he doesn?t think illegal immigrants shouldn?t be penalty-free if they marry and their spouses want to legalize them. But he thinks a decade-long bar is cruel not just to Delia, but to him and his children.
?She didn?t sell any drugs. She doesn?t know anything about gang signs,? he says. ?Crossing the border to look for a job isn?t that much of a crime to me.?
The Barbour family
T.J. Barbour, a software engineer in his early thirties, knows what he is doing every Wednesday night and every weekend.
The San Diego resident leaves his Rancho Bernardo neighborhood, packs his car with household supplies he can buy for less in the United States, like toilet paper, and drives over the San Diego-Tijuana border on those Wednesdays through heavy traffic to see his wife. Their son Lucas, 10, goes with him. They come back before dawn Thursday morning. And then they return on the weekends, so the boy can spend time with his mother, who lives in a small apartment just south of Tijuana.
After getting a late start one recent Saturday, T.J. pulls up to mom?s place at night, with Lucas asleep in the back. Maythe reaches in and embraces him, and helps him stagger into the house while she asks him, in English, how his American grandparents are doing.
On Monday morning, before dawn, Maythe helps Lucas into the car so he can sleep a bit more ? he has to go to school ? and T.J. checks underneath the vehicle to make sure drug smugglers haven?t attached a box to the bottom of the car, a popular way to get goods across that can later be retrieved.
Maythe drives the car close to the border crossing so son and husband can get some sleep and then she takes two buses home. It is a grueling routine. She cries bitterly in relating how ? despite being married to T.J. ? she was deported from the United States and told she would remain in Mexico for 20 years before being able to join her family again.
?I recognize that one commits an error by crossing [the border],? Maythe said in Spanish. ?But sometimes necessity makes you do things.?
T.J. was just out of high school in San Diego when he met Maythe, at Burger King, about a dozen years ago. He tried out some rudimentary Spanish on his pretty co-worker, and it clicked. ?I definitely saw something special about her,? he says.
Maythe was reluctant to get involved because she already had a young daughter to support, and was struggling to pay off medical bills in Mexico. She was also trying to get away from a threatening experience back in her home in Mexico?s southern Guerrero state, a history T.J. says was so traumatic he won?t discuss it.
Little by little, the two fell in love. ?I have no doubt we were meant to be together,? T.J. said. He admired her hard work, and her devotion to her daughter, whom he adopted and is now also sponsoring for legal status ? a process he hopes will be more forgiving since she grew up in San Diego.
T.J. knew that Maythe had tried to get over the border twice, and was caught the first time. A smuggler told her to sit in a car and not say anything if a guard asked for her papers. She and others were caught. The smuggler then put her into the trunk of a car with tiny holes in it to let in air. She made it that time, and subsequently found jobs at an Olive Garden restaurant and Burger King, among others.
?Like most people,? T.J. said, ?I was under the impression that, well, if she gets married to me, we?re set.?
They consulted with a lawyer before they married in 2002, and T.J. was shocked to learn that it wasn?t that easy. The lawyer explained the complexities of the law, and what they were in for, but thought Maythe might get a waiver. The couple decided to go slow, out of fear.
Eventually, a paralegal reviewing their case told them that Maythe?s previous deportation would disqualify her from a hardship waiver and they?d be better off hoping Congress made changes.
?It was basically back to living in the shadows,? T.J. said.
Maythe gave birth to Lucas, and T.J. graduated from college and started his career as a software engineer. He began a graduate program. They owned a home and Maythe ?did all those mom things,? taking Lucas to school, participating in his class activities and cooking tasty meals.
It all fell apart when Maythe was stopped in 2010 by a police officer in the San Diego community of Escondido who wondered why she was driving slowly. She had been looking for a friend?s address. The officer called immigration agents.
T.J. said he had contacted the office of his congressman, Rep. Brian Bilbray, a Republican known for tough talk on illegal immigration. T.J says an office staffer assured him that Maythe would probably not be deported.
T.J. said an immigration agent suggested to him, informally, that the couple accept Maythe being deported, and that maybe she could come back soon with a waiver. T.J. kept thinking he had additional rights as a citizen, and refused. He decided to fight to keep Maythe, and filed a petition in a last-ditch bid to get her asylum based on trauma she?d been through in the past.
While waiting for a hearing, Maythe was confined to a detention center in San Diego County for five months. She didn?t see her children once because she and T.J. agreed it would be horrible for them to see her there.
When Maythe had her asylum hearing, T.J. packed the immigration court with co-workers, family and friends. Lucas sat with him in the front.
?I always thought, ?Look, they?ve got to be going after criminals, after the narco-traffickers and everything,? ? T.J. said. ?What are they going to do with a little housewife??
The judge denied Maythe?s bid for asylum, which would have let her remain in the United States. The judge, T.J. said, rushed from the court with no explanation. He said lawyers told him that judges fear that if they give too many Mexicans asylum, too many more will ask for it.
Maythe was deported in early 2011. Agents left her in Tijuana, she said, with nothing but the clothes she was wearing when detained and a cell phone with a dead battery. She had to beg for people to let her call T.J.
Because of her two deportations, T.J. said he?s been advised, she will be barred from trying to obtain legal residency and re-entering the United States for 20 years.
Maythe spent her first nights alone in Tijuana standing on a border bridge, she said, crying so hard a guard told her he was concerned she would kill herself.
Her health deteriorated, and the whole family began to put on pounds. Maythe got a job that paid about $10 a day to hand out fliers for business. She began to turn to her parents? Jehovah?s Witness faith. She found a congregation in Tijuana, and T.J. joined as well. Now when he visits they spend part of that time dressed nicely and making rounds to spread the faith.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
T.J. is concerned about the long-term impact of the separation from his mother. Both parents worry about the draining physical and psychological impact of Lucas being packed into the car and spending hours inching through traffic as they cross the border every weekend.
Lucas can?t really participate in sports or weekend activities now, T.J. says, and he?s so busy balancing job and home that all he can do is throw together a quick dinner for his son and keep the house from being a mess.
Maythe says it wouldn?t be right to pull Lucas, who doesn?t speak Spanish, out of school and move him to Mexico to be with her. He doesn?t like the food in Mexico, she said. He doesn?t feel comfortable. ?His life is there, everything he knows,? she says. ?I still feel he loves me. He makes an effort to come, and he says he misses me. But I am not a part of his total life now.?
Mandatory bars, T.J. says, don?t fit the crime, and they?ve stripped immigration judges and other officials of the discretion to consider the entirety of a person?s life and family situation.
?I want people to know that, hey, we U.S. citizens are really hurting here, and our children are,? T.J. says. ?The family ramifications of this have to be taken into account. We need to deal with the fact that people have become a part of the fabric of our society.?
The Mann Perez Family
It took 10 minutes for the consular officer in Juarez, Mexico, to look through Jorge Perez?s application packet for residency and tell him he was barred for 10 years from re-entering the United States, starting that very day in 2007.
?He said, ?Ok, that?s it. You can go now,? ? Perez, reached by phone in Mexico, remembered.
When Jorge, now 42, told wife Anita what had happened, her world collapsed.
?When I tell people what I?ve gone through, they?re shocked. They think it?s crazy that an American citizen would have to live in another country for 10 years to be with their spouse,? Anita said. She grew up in Graham, North Carolina, not far from Durham, and most of her close-knit family still lives there.
Since Jorge?s barring, she?s lost the home they were buying, spent all her retirement savings and had to move in with her parents.
This month, Anita, 34, quit a job she enjoyed at a local hospital as an aide in a clinic and packed up some belongings. She moved with the couple?s 7-year-old twins and nearly 2-year-old daughter to join Jorge again. This will be Anita?s third attempt to live in Jorge?s remote town near the Guatemalan border. But she knows it will not be easy.
?At least [in Graham] I know my girls get three square meals and a snack,? she said. Jorge has been trying to get by growing tomatoes. He built a house there with money he saved working in the States, but what he and Anita really wanted to do was build a life for themselves in Graham.
Anita met Jorge at a restaurant in Graham, where he had arrived in 2000 after getting across the border on foot, with a smuggler. Anita had studied Spanish in high school, and he was learning English. She kept going back to the restaurant and he kept talking to her.
They dated, and in 2002 they were married. It was the kind of cross-cultural union that was becoming more common in Graham, where Mexican workers have been drawn to work in roofing and in poultry-packing factories.
Jorge, who learned English quite well, blended in with the family and built a roof for her parents? house. Anita?s mother still talks about what a good son-in-law he was. ?Some people can walk off and leave their children. They don?t care,? said Nancy Mann, Anita?s mother. ?But their daddy does care.?
Shortly after they married, Anita hastened to file in 2003 to make Jorge legal. ?He didn?t even want me to do it,? she said. ?He didn?t want anybody to think he got married to me just to get papers.?
In 2004, the couple received confirmation from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that Jorge did qualify to continue to pursue legal status based on his marriage to her. They took that acknowledgement as a good sign and thought they were on their way to Jorge getting a green card. The next step was to file paperwork with the State Department, which is tasked with issuing the visas following an interview in Mexico.
The couple?s twins, Fabiola and Fatima, were born in 2005, and all seemed well. But shortly thereafter a deadly hurricane struck Central America and southern Mexico, and Jorge lost all contact with his parents. He told Anita he had to go south to check on them. So he left, for a total of three weeks, and then re-entered illegally.
Nancy Mann, Anita?s mother, believes Jorge?s actions were noble. ?They have to go check on their families,? she said. Nancy was under the impression that if U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services sent a document acknowledging Jorge?s eligibility, he was all but approved.
When Jorge was finally summoned to his 2007 interview in Mexico, however, he acknowledged that he had crossed the border twice. Lawyers warn applicants that if they are not honest about their history, they risk a lifetime bar. But that revelation of a second illegal crossing made him ineligible for a hardship waiver that could have reduced his penalty for living illegally in the United States for more than one year. Instead, Jorge was told he?d have to pursue a pardon in 2017.
?I believe that he was punished for being honest,? Anita said.
From April through August of 2007, Anita took the toddler twins to Mexico to try to live there with Jorge, but returned after one of them developed a fever so bad she had a seizure. The staff at a small clinic in the Mexican town was very attentive, she said, and put her sick child on an IV and administered medicine. But the experience frightened Anita.
She wrote to congressional representatives, asking for help. They all basically said the law was the law, although some were more sympathetic and said they?d keep her case in mind, Anita said.
She visited Jorge on occasion, and in 2010 Anita tried to live in Mexico again with the twins. She and Jorge ultimately agreed she should return to North Carolina because she had a high-risk second pregnancy. She used up all her retirement savings so she could comply with doctor?s orders to stay off her feet and not work.
When her third baby was born, she traveled down to the Texas-Mexico border once and crossed over just so Jorge could see the baby. Then she returned to Graham, and put the twins in church school and thought long and hard about what to do.
She scattered photos of Jorge around the room she and the girls slept in, and they talked every day with him. Last Easter Sunday, she hit a painful moment when one of the twins leaned over and whispered to her. ?All the daddies are here. Why can?t my daddy be with me??
As Anita was preparing to go to Mexico this month, the twins talked about being excited to see their father. ?He?s going to paint my wall with horses,? Fabiola said. ?He?s going to make me a toy box.? But the girls said they were anxious about having to speak Spanish and adjust to school there.
Anita is worried about how they?ll survive. She hopes she can earn some money teaching English. But she knows tough times are ahead, and she understands that she might not be able to stay in Mexico.
?When they give out these bars, they?re not just giving them to one person. They?re giving them to a family,? Anita said. ?It?s actually worse than a prison sentence. People in prison can do a lot less time, and do a whole lot worse things.?
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New Program Spurs Solar Development on Public Land
The government recently announced a new plan to facilitate the development of solar energy projects on public land in six Western states. Lawrence Susskind, a professor of urban and environmental planning at MIT, explains what it means for the future of renewable energy.
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JailbreakMe hacker Comex let go at Apple after failing to respond to offer letter
After developing JailBreakMe, cracking such devices as the iPad 2 or iPhone 4 and finally scoring a paying intern gig with his nemesis, hacker Comex tweeted that he's no longer working at Apple. Also known as Nicholas Allegra, the talented coder's Cupertino situation apparently came asunder when he failed to respond to an email offer to re-up with the company, though he also told Forbes that the situation was more complicated than that. He added that "it wasn't a bad ending," and that he has fond memories of his Apple experience, but if you're hoping the Brown University student will have an iOS 6 jailbreak soon, don't hold your breath -- he's concentrating strictly on his studies, for now.
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