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In Los Angeles, heat-related power failures snarled traffic, and in Death Valley, where temperatures hit triple digits, the forecast is could bring a record 129 degrees. NBC's Gabe Gutierrez reports.
By M. Alex Johnson, staff writer, NBC News
More than thirty people were taken to hospitals for heat-related injuries and illnesses Friday at a music festival in Las Vegas, authorities said, as a wave of life-threatening blistering temperatures blazed across the West.
Clark County fire personnel treated close to 200 people for heat-related nausea, vomiting and fatigue Friday afternoon and evening at the Vans Warped Tour, an eclectic outdoor music festival at the Silverton Casino off the famous Strip.
Most were given water and taken to shaded areas, but 34 had to be taken to hospitals for further treatment, the fire department said.
"It's pretty intense," said Clark County spokesman Eric Pappa. "We're used to summer temperatures of 100, 105. But we're beyond 100. It's a scorcher."
The high temperature officially hit 117 degrees at Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport ? equaling the airport's record ? Friday as thousands of people streamed to the casino site for the festival. The thermostat fell slightly Saturday, leveling at a still-steamy 105 degrees, according to The Weather Channel.
Records are similarly expected to be broken across the West and the Southwest through the weekend and into next week, the National Weather Service said, thanks to a high pressure "dome" parked over the sprawling region.
Death Valley, Calif., could even top 130 degrees Saturday through Monday, just below the world record high of 134 recorded there on July 10, 1913, The Weather Channel said.
Temperatures in Phoenix are expected to soar between 115 and 120 degrees. In western parts of Arizona, temperatures could reach 125.
Officials in Arizona warned residents to take precautions.
"If you get dizzy or lightheaded, those are some signs of dehydration. If you become confused, that's a real warning sign," Dr. Kevin Reilly of the University of Arizona Department of Emergency Medicine told NBC station KVOA of Tucson.
In Las Vegas, meanwhile, the National Weather Service warned of the potential for a "life-threatening heat event." Temperatures were expected to match those of a July 2005 heat wave when 17 people died in the Las Vegas Valley.
The extreme weather is expected to reach Reno, Nev., reach across Utah and stretch into Wyoming and Idaho, where forecasters are predicting potentially lethal hot spells. Triple-digit temperatures were forecast during Idaho's Special Olympics in Boise.
Matt York / AP
Runners take advantage of lower temperatures at sunrise Thursday in Mesa, Ariz. Excessive heat warnings will continue for much of the Desert Southwest as building high pressure triggers major warming in eastern California, Nevada and Arizona.
Organizers urged coaches to prepare their athletes.
"The basic stuff, wearing breathable, appropriate clothes, staying in the shade as much as possible, staying hydrated is obviously a big thing," Matt Caropino, director of sports and training for Special Olympics Idaho, told NBC station KTVB. "We've put in place some misters that we're going to have at our outdoor venues."
The National Weather Service advised people to keep tabs on signs of potentially lethal heat stroke.
"Heat stroke symptoms include an increase in body temperature, which leads to deliriousness, unconsciousness and red, dry skin," it said in a report. "Death can occur when body temperatures reach or exceed 106-107 degrees."
Los Angeles was forecast to peak between the upper 80s and the lower 90s Saturday as inland communities like Burbank edge toward the low 100s. Palm Springs, Calif., no stranger to steamy summers, may peak at 120 degrees, NBC station KMIR reported. Sweltering heat also is expected for the state's Central Valley, according to The Weather Channel.
While the west remains hot and dry, the east is getting lots of rain that has resulted in flash flooding. Some of the worst flooding was in upstate New York where whole neighborhoods remain under water. ?The Weather Channel's Mike Seidel reports.
Commercial airlines were also monitoring conditions because excessive heat can throw flights off course. The atmosphere becomes less dense in extremely high heat humidity, meaning there's less lift for airplanes ? calculations that have to be made individually for every type of aircraft.
Triple-digit heat forced several airlines to bring operations to a halt after Phoenix climbed to 122 degrees in June 1990.
Daniel Arkin of NBC News contributed to this report.
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This story was originally published on Fri Jun 28, 2013 8:50 AM EDT
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Apple?s latest major iteration of the iOS operating system will allow users to control their iDevices using their head movements alone, a newly unearthed accessibility setting reveals.
Discovered by an anonymous tipster and the demonstrated by the hard-working types at 9to5Mac (see below), the feature, called ?Switch Source? allows users to simply tilt their heads left or right to return to the home screen, activate Siri, open the Notifications Centre, increase and decrease volume and even open apps.
When enabled, Switch Control cycles a rectangular box over items displayed on the screen, such as app icons, which can be accessed by moving your head to the direction you?ve picked.
The feature is somewhat similar in nature to the Smart Scroll feature of the Samsung Galaxy S4, which lets users to scroll web pages and emails by tilting the handset or your head vertically. However, Apple?s take is clearly geared towards those who may be unable to use two hands, especially for a larger device like an iPad.
In addition to Switch Control, iOS 7 is also set to add smile and blink detection when taking photos, which were recently uncovered in new APIs for the platform.
It also brings a completely revamped user interface rocking a cleaner, flatter look, along with enhancements to Siri and a new feature called Control Centre that gives quick access to useful settings toggles from any screen you?re on.
iOS 7 is expected to make its official debut with the new iPhone ? unofficially dubbed the iPhone 5S - this autumn and will also be available to download for the iPhone 4/4S, iPad (3rd generation and up), iPad mini and the 5th generation iPod touch.
Stay tuned for more iPhone and iOS 7 news and announcements in the coming weeks.
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RICHMOMD, Va. ? Vice President Joe Biden continued a busy political pace Saturday, appearing with Virginia?s Democratic gubernatorial candidate at the swing state?s premier party fundraiser and ridiculing this fall?s conservative Republican statewide ticket as extreme captives of tea party ideology.
Biden brought about 1,000 Democrats to their feet repeatedly at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner barely four months ahead of the nation?s only competitive governor?s race. His appearances at state fundraisers haved evoked speculation that he is laying his footing for a 2016 presidential bid.
?Ladies and gentlemen, we stand for equal rights and women?s rights,? Biden said. ?With virtually zero support from the Republicans, the president and I have moved the country from the worst recession since the Great Depression to 38 months of private-sector growth.?
With Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe at his side, Biden took aim at McAuliffe?s opponent, state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who won the GOP nomination with strong tea party support and his socially conservative ticket mates.
?There is so much they stand for that is so at odds with the value set of Virginians,? Biden said.
The vice president warned that a GOP victory in Virginia would only galvanize the tea party?s grip on the GOP in Congress, where he said even longtime moderate Republicans are fearful of a primary challenge if they don?t do the tea party?s bidding.
?They are so afraid of a challenge by the tea party that they vote against what is the right vote. Imagine what they will do to Barack and me if Terry McAuliffe loses,? he said.
A McAuliffe victory, he said, would ?send a strong signal to Republicans across America that there?s no reason to be afraid of these extreme guys.?
Before speaking to activists who paid $175 or more per ticket, Biden joined McAuliffe, a longtime confidante of Bill and Hillary Clinton, in surprising patrons at a Richmond restaurant, shaking hands before wolfing down two plates of fried whiting.
Among other campaign events this season, Biden aided Democratic Rep. Ed Markey in a Massachusetts special election ? Markey won, thus keeping Secretary of State John Kerry?s old seat in Democratic hands ? and held a series of closed-door ?donor-maintenance? events in Washington.
Sen. Tim Kaine, elected on the same Virginia ballot as President Barack Obama last fall, said it?s too early for Democrats to take sides in a potential nomination contest between Biden and Hillary Clinton, but he counseled both to try pragmatism over progressive partisanship.
?I think the Virginia Democratic success model is, we?ll let the other guys be the ideology people and we will be the work-together, compromise, make-things-happen party. That?s been the model that has allowed Dems to win,? said Kaine, like McAuliffe, a former Democratic National Committee chairman.
In speeches warming up the crowd, Kaine and Sen. Mark Warner congratulated gay-rights activists for the ruling that cleared the way for same-sex marriages in 13 states but not in Virginia, where a 7-year-old amendment to the state Constitution prohibits it. And both hailed the immigration reform bill that they supported ? it now faces an uncertain future in a conservative Republican-led House.
The Cuccinelli campaign joined the Virginia GOP in using Biden?s visit as an occasion to attack the ticket for Obama?s clean-energy initiative, warning that it will devastate Virginia?s struggling coal industry and drive up utility bills.
?With no economic plan or message to tout, Vice President Biden and Terry McAuliffe doubled down on an empty strategy of division and false attacks tonight,? the campaign said in a statement that referred to the ?Obama/Biden/McAuliffe War On Coal? and government-run healthcare as ?harmful to job growth and economic opportunity in Virginia.?
State GOP Chairman Pat Mullins called it ?the most anti-coal slate of candidates ever fielded in the history of Virginia,? a distinction intended to lock up the rural, rugged but independent southwestern tip of the state for the GOP in a neck-and-neck governor?s race.
Republicans weren?t alone in protesting Biden?s trip. About three dozen environmental activists opposed to construction of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline stood on a street corner as Biden?s motorcade passed, waving placards that read ?Say No to Big Oil? and chanting ?Hey, Joe, you ought to know, Keystone pipeline?s got to go.?
Source: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/jun/30/vice-president-joe-biden-rouses-virginia-democrats/
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In Los Angeles, heat-related power failures snarled traffic, and in Death Valley, where temperatures hit triple digits, the forecast is could bring a record 129 degrees. NBC's Gabe Gutierrez reports.
By M. Alex Johnson, staff writer, NBC News
More than thirty people were taken to hospitals for heat-related injuries and illnesses Friday at a music festival in Las Vegas, authorities said, as a wave of life-threatening blistering temperatures blazed across the West.
Clark County fire personnel treated close to 200 people for heat-related nausea, vomiting and fatigue Friday afternoon and evening at the Vans Warped Tour, an eclectic outdoor music festival at the Silverton Casino off the famous Strip.
Most were given water and taken to shaded areas, but 34 had to be taken to hospitals for further treatment, the fire department said.
"It's pretty intense," said Clark County spokesman Eric Pappa. "We're used to summer temperatures of 100, 105. But we're beyond 100. It's a scorcher."
The high temperature officially hit 117 degrees at Las Vegas-McCarran International Airport ? equaling the airport's record ? Friday as thousands of people streamed to the casino site for the festival. The thermostat fell slightly Saturday, leveling at a still-steamy 105 degrees, according to The Weather Channel.
Records are similarly expected to be broken across the West and the Southwest through the weekend and into next week, the National Weather Service said, thanks to a high pressure "dome" parked over the sprawling region.
Death Valley, Calif., could even top 130 degrees Saturday through Monday, just below the world record high of 134 recorded there on July 10, 1913, The Weather Channel said.
Temperatures in Phoenix are expected to soar between 115 and 120 degrees. In western parts of Arizona, temperatures could reach 125.
Officials in Arizona warned residents to take precautions.
"If you get dizzy or lightheaded, those are some signs of dehydration. If you become confused, that's a real warning sign," Dr. Kevin Reilly of the University of Arizona Department of Emergency Medicine told NBC station KVOA of Tucson.
In Las Vegas, meanwhile, the National Weather Service warned of the potential for a "life-threatening heat event." Temperatures were expected to match those of a July 2005 heat wave when 17 people died in the Las Vegas Valley.
The extreme weather is expected to reach Reno, Nev., reach across Utah and stretch into Wyoming and Idaho, where forecasters are predicting potentially lethal hot spells. Triple-digit temperatures were forecast during Idaho's Special Olympics in Boise.
Matt York / AP
Runners take advantage of lower temperatures at sunrise Thursday in Mesa, Ariz. Excessive heat warnings will continue for much of the Desert Southwest as building high pressure triggers major warming in eastern California, Nevada and Arizona.
Organizers urged coaches to prepare their athletes.
"The basic stuff, wearing breathable, appropriate clothes, staying in the shade as much as possible, staying hydrated is obviously a big thing," Matt Caropino, director of sports and training for Special Olympics Idaho, told NBC station KTVB. "We've put in place some misters that we're going to have at our outdoor venues."
The National Weather Service advised people to keep tabs on signs of potentially lethal heat stroke.
"Heat stroke symptoms include an increase in body temperature, which leads to deliriousness, unconsciousness and red, dry skin," it said in a report. "Death can occur when body temperatures reach or exceed 106-107 degrees."
Los Angeles was forecast to peak between the upper 80s and the lower 90s Saturday as inland communities like Burbank edge toward the low 100s. Palm Springs, Calif., no stranger to steamy summers, may peak at 120 degrees, NBC station KMIR reported. Sweltering heat also is expected for the state's Central Valley, according to The Weather Channel.
While the west remains hot and dry, the east is getting lots of rain that has resulted in flash flooding. Some of the worst flooding was in upstate New York where whole neighborhoods remain under water. ?The Weather Channel's Mike Seidel reports.
Commercial airlines were also monitoring conditions because excessive heat can throw flights off course. The atmosphere becomes less dense in extremely high heat humidity, meaning there's less lift for airplanes ? calculations that have to be made individually for every type of aircraft.
Triple-digit heat forced several airlines to bring operations to a halt after Phoenix climbed to 122 degrees in June 1990.
Daniel Arkin of NBC News contributed to this report.
Related:
'It's brutal out there': Weekend heat wave to bake western US
Alaska sweating through brutal blast of heat
Oppressive heat hits West as storms soak East
This story was originally published on Fri Jun 28, 2013 8:50 AM EDT
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Google is also continuing development on the Nexus Q, a media console that it announced last year but did not release. The Nexus Q was designed to stream music, video, and YouTube content to home entertainment systems, similar to the Apple TV.
With the watch and game console, Google is hoping to combat similar devices that Apple Inc. may release in the future, the people said.This is not the first time it has been suggested that Apple could use the Apple TV to make a serious foray into the console gaming market. Tech sites have speculated for years that gaming on the Apple TV might be in Apple's future, and earlier this year, Xbox founding engineer Nat Brown said that Apple could "destroy" console gaming with third party apps on the Apple TV.The people briefed on the matter said Google is reacting in part to expectations that rival Apple will launch a videogame console as part of its next Apple TV product release.
In February, TechCrunch's MG Siegler confirmed that Apple has something television related in the pipeline, which might be a television set or a revised box. Siegler suggested that gaming could be the major focal point of the new television product.
While Apple has referred to its Apple TV as a hobby project, the company has seen sales continue to rise over the years. With the second generation Apple TV and the introduction of AirPlay Mirroring for iOS devices with iOS 5, gaming on the set-top box became possible for the first time.
Clever developers have already begun using that technology to turn the Apple TV into a gaming console, with several implementing second screen capabilities that turn the iPhone or iPad into a controller. A game released earlier today goes even further, morphing the iPhone into a motion controller that serves as a tennis racket.
Now Apple has revealed that it has established partnerships with Logitech and MOGA to develop third party MFi certified gaming controllers, which would better facilitate television-based gaming, suggesting that the company may indeed be turning its focus to serious gameplay. It should also be noted that 21 of the top 25 all time best selling App Store apps are games.
Wearable computers and fitness tracking devices such as the Pebble Smart Watch, the Jawbone UP, and the Nike FuelBand have soared in popularity in recent months and in addition to Apple and Google, other companies like Samsung and Microsoft are said to be developing wearable computing devices. Google already has experience in the market with Google Glass, which it plans to release to the public next year.
According to the WSJ, Google hopes to design and market its devices in house, releasing at least one product this fall. There are no hints on when Apple could potentially launch a revamped Apple TV or a smart watch, but its gaming controllers are expected in the fall alongside the iPhone 5S and iOS 7.
Tim Cook has also suggested that the company has "amazing new hardware, software, and services" coming later in the year and throughout 2014.
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - IFC Midnight has acquired U.S. rights to Dennis Iliadis' supernatural thriller "+1," which stars Rhys Wakefield ("The Purge") Ashley Hinshaw ("Chronicle"), Logan Miller and Natalie Hall.
Written by Bill Gullo and based on a story by "Last House on the Left" director Iliadis, "+1" premiered at the 2013 South by Southwest Festival.
Story follows three college friends who go to the biggest party of the year, each looking for something different: love, sex and a simple human connection. When a mysterious phenomenon disrupts the party, it quickly descends into chaos that challenges their friendships and survival skills.
Tim Perell ("World's Greatest Dad") produced the film, which was executive produced by Brothers Strause, Edson Williams, Thomas Nittmann and Guy Botham. The movie was shot by cinematographer Mihai Malmaire, who did gorgeous work on Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master."
"+1" is a Process Production in partnership with leading VFX company Lola/Hydraulx ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"), which provided visual effects for the film.
"Dennis Iliadis has created a sexy, thrilling mind-bender that delivers on many levels. We look forward to bringing it to the widest audience possible," said Jonathan Sehring, president of Sundance Selects/IFC Films.
Deal was negotiated by Jeff Deutchman for Sundance Selects/IFC Films with CAA on behalf of the filmmakers.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ifc-midnight-takes-u-rights-supernatural-thriller-1-001434240.html
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BOSTON (AP) ? What Dzhokhar Tsarnaev needed to learn to make explosives with a pressure cooker was at his fingertips in jihadist files on the Internet, according to a federal indictment accusing him of carrying out the bombings at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured dozens more.
Investigators have been trying to determine whether Tsarnaev's older brother, Tamerlan, who was killed while the two were on the run after the bombings, was influenced or trained by Islamic militants during a trip overseas. But the indictment released Thursday against 19-year-old Dzhokhar makes no mention of any overseas influence.
Before the attack, according to the indictment, he downloaded the summer 2010 issue of Inspire, an online English-language magazine published by al-Qaida. The issue detailed how to make bombs from pressure cookers, explosive powder extracted from fireworks and lethal shrapnel.
He also downloaded extremist Muslim literature, including "Defense of the Muslim Lands, the First Obligation After Imam," which advocates "violence designed to terrorize the perceived enemies of Islam," the indictment said. The article was written by the late Abdullah Azzam, whose legacy has inspired terrorist attacks in the Middle East.
Another tract downloaded ? titled "The Slicing Sword, Against the One Who Forms Allegiances With the Disbelievers and Takes Them as Supporters Instead of Allah, His Messenger and the Believers" ? included a foreword by Anwar al-Awlaki, an American propagandist for al-Qaida who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2011.
The 30-count indictment provides one of the most detailed public explanations to date of the brothers' alleged motive ? Islamic extremism ? and the role the Internet may have played in influencing them.
"Tamerlan Tsarnaev's justice will be in the next world, but for his brother, accountability will begin right here in the district of Massachusetts," Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley, whose jurisdiction includes Boston, said at a news conference with federal prosecutors on Thursday.
The indictment contains the bombing charges, punishable by the death penalty, that were brought in April against Tsarnaev, including use of a weapon of mass destruction to kill. It also contains many new charges covering the slaying of an MIT police officer and the carjacking of a motorist during the getaway attempt that left Tamerlan Tsarnaev dead.
U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz of Massachusetts said Attorney General Eric Holder will decide whether to pursue the death penalty against Tsarnaev, who will be arraigned on July 10.
Three people were killed and more than 260 wounded by the two pressure-cooker bombs that went off near the finish line of the marathon on April 15.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured four days later, hiding in a boat parked in a backyard in Watertown, Mass.
According to the indictment, he scrawled messages on the inside of the vessel that said, among other things, "The U.S. Government is killing our innocent civilians," ''I can't stand to see such evil go unpunished," and "We Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all."
The Tsarnaev brothers had roots in the turbulent Russian regions of Dagestan and Chechnya, which have become recruiting grounds for Muslim extremists. They had been living in the U.S. about a decade.
There was no mention in the indictment of any larger conspiracy beyond the brothers, and no reference to any direct overseas contacts with extremists. Instead, the indictment suggests the Internet played an important role in the suspects' radicalization.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev spent six months in Dagestan last year, and investigators traveled to the Russian province to talk to the men's parents and try to determine whether he was influenced or trained by local Islamic militants.
Christina DiIorio-Sterling, a spokeswoman for Ortiz, declined to comment on why the indictment did not mention whether authorities believe the elder Tsarnaev received any training during his stay in Russia.
The indictment assembled and confirmed details of the case that have been widely reported over the past two months, and added new pieces of information.
For example, it corroborated reports that Tamerlan Tsarnaev bought 48 mortar shells from a Seabrook, N.H., fireworks store. It also disclosed that he used the Internet to order electronic components that could be used in making bombs.
The papers detail how the brothers then allegedly placed knapsacks containing shrapnel-packed bombs near the finish line of the 26.2-mile race.
The court papers also corroborated reports by authorities that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev contributed to his brother's death by accidentally running him over with a stolen vehicle during a shootout and police chase.
The charges cover the slaying of Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier, who authorities said was shot in the head at close range in his cruiser by the Tsarnaevs, who tried to take his gun.
In addition, prosecutors said that during the carjacking, the Tsarnaevs forced the motorist to turn over his ATM card and his password, and Dzhokhar withdrew $800 from the man's account.
At the same time the federal indictment was announced, Massachusetts authorities brought a 15-count state indictment against Dzhokhar over the MIT officer's slaying and the police shootout.
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Hays reported from New York.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/feds-internet-influenced-boston-bombing-suspect-063522205.html
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Four people who were on the ground the night of the Benghazi attacks last year are writing a book about their experience, and they're getting a $3 million advance from Twelve Books to do it. The authors are unnamed, according to New York Post's Keith J. Kelly, who describes them as "members of the elite security team from the annex of the US Embassy." That annex, we now know, was the CIA annex, which makes this book deal really fascinating. ...
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Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald says he has another big scoop about the National Security Agency's surveillance practices up his sleeve.
Speaking over Skype to the Socialism Conference in Chicago, Greenwald claimed that the NSA has the ability to store one billion phone calls each day.
Greenwald's reporting earlier this month sparked the scandal over NSA surveillance practices that is currently plaguing the Obama administration. The stories were based on classified documents leaked to him by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and Greenwald indicated Friday night that he's sitting on several more -- one of which he decided to talk about even though his story on it hasn't been published yet.
"It talks about a brand new technology that enables the national security agency to redirect into its own repositories one billion cell phone calls every single day. One billion cell phone calls every single day," he said.
"But what we're really talking about here is a localized system that prevents any form of electronic communication from taking place without its being stored and monitored by the National Security Agency," Greenwald continued. "It doesn't mean that they're listening to every call, it means they're storing every call and have the capability to listen to them at any time, and it does mean that they're collecting millions upon millions upon millions of our phone and email records."
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By Suzanne Barlyn
(Reuters) - Wall Street's industry-funded watchdog has scrapped a controversial plan that would have required brokerages to supervise business lines that are not related to the securities industry, according to a recent regulatory filing.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, in a long-awaited proposal that would streamline rules for how brokerages should supervise themselves, dropped the idea it had initially proposed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2011.
FINRA, as part of a sweeping supervision proposal it submitted to the SEC on June 21, said it was the "best course" to eliminate the plan. However, other FINRA rules would still apply to business activities by firms and their brokers that are unrelated to the brokerage industry, the group said.
The regulator oversees 4,250 brokerages and about 630,000 brokers.
Brokerages, in numerous letters, had balked at the original plan.
It would have forced them to become deeply involved in monitoring other types of investment businesses that their brokers may have engaged in outside of their firms.
For example, many brokers who are licensed through independent broker dealers, such as LPL Financial Holdings Inc,
The plan could have also tied brokerages to moonlighting activities by brokers, such as selling insurance or being landlord, critics said.
Existing FINRA rules, nonetheless, still mean that brokerages have to keep an eye out for business activities that brokers engage in outside of the securities industry, said Gerald Baker, a compliance consultant in Kewadin, Michigan.
FINRA already requires brokers to get advance permission from their brokerages before engaging in business outside of the firm. Many brokerages, however, simply ban the practice.
FINRA's 317 pages of proposed supervision rules aim to consolidate two sets of rules from its predecessor organization, the National Association of Securities Dealers, and the regulatory arm of the New York Stock Exchange. The two entities formed FINRA in a 2007 merger. In 2011, the regulator withdrew a previous version of the plan that it had submitted to the SEC.
Other parts of FINRA's revised proposal, submitted to the SEC on June 21, address supervising brokers of independent firms who work far away from their home offices, reporting findings of internal investigations and keeping track of customer complaints, among other things.
(Reporting by Suzanne Barlyn)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wall-street-watchdog-scraps-controversial-supervision-plan-000450646.html
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PRAGUE (AP) ? An international film festival in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary is bestowing its Crystal Globe awards on actor John Travolta and director Oliver Stone for outstanding contributions to world cinema.
Travolta is receiving his award on Friday, the opening day of the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Stone has to wait for the final day, July 6.
Fourteen movies are competing for top honors, including "A Field in England" directed by Ben Wheatley, and U.S.-Swedish production "Bluebird" by director Lance Edmands.
The grand jury is led by Polish director Agnieszka Holland.
The festival, known for its relaxed atmosphere, features some 200 movies.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/48th-edition-film-fest-opens-czech-spa-town-181736378.html
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June 27, 2013 ? Two university researchers say environmental restrictions have become unnecessarily restrictive and expensive -- on Mars.
Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, astrobiologists Alberto Fair?n of Cornell University and Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Washington State University say the NASA Office of Planetary Protection's "detailed and expensive" efforts to keep Earth microorganisms off Mars are making missions to search for life on the red planet "unviable."
The researchers claim "the protocols and policies of planetary protection are unnecessarily restricting Mars exploration and need to be revised."
The Office of Planetary Protection is like an interplanetary Environmental Protection Agency, with a mission "to minimize the biological contamination that may result from exploring the solar system."
As far as Mars is concerned, say Fair?n and Schulze-Makuch, such efforts are probably in vain since "Earth life has most likely already been transferred to Mars." Meteorite impacts have had 3.8 billion years to spread Earth life forms to Mars. Several Earth spacecraft have visited Mars without undergoing the sterilization procedures now in place.
If organisms transferred to Mars over the eons failed to survive, modern organisms would likely face the same fate. If they did survive, say Fair?n and Schulze-Makuch, "it is too late to protect Mars from terrestrial life, and we can safely relax the planetary protection policies."
The researchers say spacecraft looking for life on Mars should still be cleaned to some extent to avoid confusing possible Martian organisms with organisms brought from Earth. But sterilization for other missions, like orbiters and geology-oriented explorers, could be scaled back.
"As planetary exploration faces drastic budget cuts globally," they say, "it is critical to avoid unnecessary expenses and reroute the limited taxpayers' money to missions that can have the greatest impact on planetary exploration."
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Impertinent. Mumbling. Offended. Teary-eyed. Rachel Jeantel, star witness for the prosecution in George Zimmerman's murder trial, was all of those, and more, as her testimony Wednesday provided new details into Trayvon Martin?s last moments and infused racially loaded commentary into an already-sensitive trial.
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Editor?s note: This story contains racially charged language that may be offensive to some readers.
A friend who was on the phone with Trayvon Martin moments before he was killed gave the unarmed teen?s mother a letter outlining the events leading up to his death. In the letter she didn?t count race among the reasons why Martin may have been killed, despite later testifying that circumstances around the death were racially charged.
Rachel Jeantel, 19, took the witness stand for a second day in George Zimmerman?s second-degree murder trial and answered questions about the Feb. 26, 2012, shooting of Martin, which Zimmerman is charged with. She also answered questions about a letter she says she wrote with a friend and gave to Martin?s mom several weeks after Martin?s death.
Martin, 17, was shot and killed while walking back to his dad?s girlfriend?s gated Sanford, Fla., community from a convenience store on a rainy evening. Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder charges, claiming he was acting in self-defense.
Jeantel, of Miami, was the last person on the phone with Martin the night he was killed and says she heard the start of her friend?s deadly confrontation with Zimmerman. She?s considered a key witness for the prosecution.
On Thursday, a defense attorney questioned Jeantel about the letter she had given to Martin?s mom, Sybrina Fulton, and asked why the letter didn?t have any references to racially charged reasons for the killing ? a motive the defense is trying to quash for why Zimmerman, who is of white and Hispanic descent, shot Martin, who is black.
A copy of the letter was read in court to jurors:
?I was on the phone when Trayvon decided to go to the corner store. It started to rain so he decided to walk through another complex because it was raining too hard. He started walking, then noticed someone was following him. Then he decided to find a shortcut ?cause the man wouldn?t follow him. Then he said the man didn?t follow him again. Then he looked back and saw the man again. The man started getting closer, then Trayvon turned around and said, ?Why are you following me?? Then I heard him fall, then the phone hung up. I called back and text. No response. In my mind I thought it was just a fight. Then I found out this tragic story.?
See the letter that was presented in court (.pdf)
The letter was dated March 19, 2012, and was signed ?Diamond Eugene? ? which Jeantel told the court was her nickname.
Defense attorneys asked Jeantel to read the letter in court, but Jeantel said she was unable to read it because she can?t read cursive. When they probed her as to how she could have written the letter if she can?t read cursive, she told them she dictated the words to a friend, who wrote it for her. So defense attorneys read it aloud to the courtroom instead.
While the letter was read, Trayvon Martin?s parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, showed little emotion, staring straight ahead in the courtroom.
But defense attorney Don West was more curious about what the letter left out rather than what was in it. He asked Jeantel about an interview with the Martin family attorney in which race relations had come up.
?It was in the interview with Mr. [Benjamin] Crump that you said you thought this was a racial thing?? West asked.
?He had asked me if it was a racial thing,? Jeantel responded.
Jeantel said her opinion on motives around Martin?s killing was untainted by outside sources because she didn?t watch the news, and decided that based on ?how the situation happened? she had come to the conclusion that the killing was racially motivated. West asked if the fact that Martin had told her on the phone that a ?creepy ass cracker? was following him influenced her suspicions about it being racially motivated; Jeantel told him it did not, that the fact that Martin was ?being followed? was more what made her think it was a racially charged event.
West also asked why Jeantel left out other details of the night from the letter. On Wednesday, Jeantel testified in the Sanford, Fla., courtroom that the last words she heard Martin say before the phone cut out were ?Get off, get off.? West wanted to know why she didn?t mention those final words that she heard to his grieving mother as she explained what happened that night when she went to hand-deliver her letter.
?Ms. Fulton did not ask me,? Jeantel said.
Jeantel also admitted giving a different play-by-play of the phone call to Crump vs. what she testified Wednesday. She told Crump during an interview last year that while she was talking to Martin she heard a man on the phone ask, ?What are you talking about?? But Wednesday, Jeantel had testified that on that night she heard a man who sounded to be out of breath say to Martin, "What are you doing around here?"
Martin then said, ?Get off, get off,? before the phone cut off, Jeantel said Wednesday.
She said that Martin had said a man was following him in the minutes before his death, and that she had advised her friend to run away. After the phone line went dead, she called and texted Martin, but got no response.
Woman who placed 911 call testifies
On Wednesday afternoon, following Jeantel?s testimony, a representative from T-Mobile ? the carrier of the phone Martin had the night he was killed ? took the stand to answer questions about Martin?s phone records, focusing on calls prior to his death.
Jenna Lauer, a resident of Twin Lakes who was home with her husband watching TV when Martin was killed, was next.
Lauer is the woman who placed the call that captured screams in the moments before Martin's death.
That call was the subject of hearings over the last several weeks about whether to admit testimony of experts hired by the state who concluded the screaming voice was not Zimmerman's.
Last weekend, Judge Debra Nelson sided with the defense and ruled the expert testimony would not be heard.? But Nelson said the recording itself could be played, which it was in court on Thursday.
Lauer testified that she and her husband muted the TV on Feb. 26 after they heard sounds coming from the direction of the backyard ? something that at first ?just sounded like loud talking,? she said, but she said she couldn?t make out any words.
Lauer told the court she didn?t hear anyone say ?You?re going to die tonight, mother***er? ? a phrase Zimmerman told police that Martin uttered in the moments before Zimmerman drew his gun.
Later under cross-examination, she also said she didn?t hear anyone say ?Why are you following me for?? a question Martin, according to Jeantel, had asked in his last moments.
Lauer later described the sounds as being people ?scuffling around.?
?I keep saying scuffling because it sounded like sneakers on pavement and grass,? Lauer said.
As the noises continued and turned into ?yelping,? Lauer called 911.
The yelps, plus screams for help, could be heard while she was on the phone with 911, but Lauer, who was a member of the Retreat at Twin Lakes? homeowners? association and had seen Zimmerman several times, couldn?t see who the screams were coming from. She said a gunshot went off while she was still on the phone with 911, and the screams stopped afterwards.
As for who was yelling for help, ?it was one person,? Lauer said, and it was a man, although she couldn?t identify who it was. She said neither she nor her husband looked out the window during the incident, fearing they may get hurt.
Zimmerman, 29, was a neighborhood watch volunteer in the Retreat at Twin Lakes community at the time of the killing. He could face life in prison if he is convicted.
Editor's note: George Zimmerman has sued NBC Universal for defamation. The company strongly denies the allegation.
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After twin losses at the Supreme Court, the battleground shifts to the states, where social conservative leaders aim to 'fight like crazy,' with little help from the national GOP establishment.
Enzo Catalano, 9, holds up a sign amongst thousands of revelers at Castro St. in San Francisco, Calif., after the United States Supreme Court delivered rulings on California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act June 26, 2013. Opponents of the ruling now face a long battle in the states, as support for gay marriage nationally grows.
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EnlargeSome are angry, others are philosophical, but opponents of same-sex marriage agree on one thing: The battle against gay marriage just got tougher, after twin losses in the Supreme Court that have given pro-gay-marriage forces a burst of momentum.?
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But social conservatives are ready to press on in the states, in defense of a religiously based definition of marriage that has endured for millennia, even if they don?t expect much help from the Republican establishment.?
?The mix of decisions magnifies the fact that people who believe in normal marriage need to fight like crazy at the state level to ensure that they keep the right to define what they want marriage to be in their state,? says Gary Bauer, leader of the group American Values and one-time Republican presidential candidate.
For now, Christian conservative activists have a cushion. Gay marriage is banned in the constitutions of 30 states, and even though nationally, a growing majority of Americans supports a right to same-sex marriage, many individual states still tilt against it. Social conservative leaders also have a ready army of supporters, easily reached through churches and representing a significant portion of the Republican Party?s base.
Keeping the traditional-marriage-only wing of the GOP from becoming demoralized will be part of the battle. But after Wednesday?s rulings ? which struck down a key part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act and opened the door to a resumption of gay marriages in California ? conservative leaders expressed hope that their supporters would be all the more motivated to keep fighting.
Some leaders took a glass-half-full approach to the decisions, applauding the justices for, at least, not establishing a national right to same-sex marriage as the high court did for abortion in the 1973 ruling Roe v. Wade. ?That, they say, gives them time to get organized and rally their troops, even if, by outward appearances, time is not on their side.
Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council (FRC) in Washington, asserts that, in fact, time is not on the side of those seeking to create a right to same-sex marriage. ?
?As the American people are given time to experience the actual consequences of redefining marriage, the public debate and opposition to the redefinition of natural marriage will undoubtedly intensify,? Mr. Perkins says.
His ally Ralph Reed, head of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, calls for pressure on Congress to pass legislation that will limit the impact of the DOMA ruling. And he goes back to a core focus of religious conservatives -- the selection of judges.
The Supreme Court?s decisions ?underscore why people of faith must remain engaged and energetic in seeing genuine conservatives nominated and confirmed to the federal courts,? says Mr. Reed. That requires electing conservative senators who will make judicial confirmation battles a priority.
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We've made it to the big three-five-oh! Watch out, HD Podcast, we're closing in your 355 episode mark. Although the week in tech news wasn't terribly exciting, Brian was so pumped he ran nine blocks in the blistering heat straight to our studio. As such, this episode is relatively short -- might we suggest you check out Distro on your favorite tablet with all that extra time?
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Pedestrians pass Macy's department store Friday Jan. 14, 2005 in New York.
Macy's Inc has agreed to pay a $175,000 civil fine and improve its practices to resolve a U.S. government probe that found the retailer had discriminated against immigrant employees when verifying their eligibility to continue to work.
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday said Macy's had engaged in "unfair documentary practices" against some immigrant employees who had previously been authorized to work.
It said this resulted in some affected workers being suspended, terminated, or losing seniority. Macy's agreed to set up a $100,000 fund to compensate these workers.
The settlement covers Macy's Retail Holdings Inc, as well as divisions that contain department store locations in western and southwestern U.S. states, Florida and Puerto Rico.
It also requires Macy's to improve training and employment reverification policies, including the use of the government's "E-Verify" platform that lets employers check workers' legal status, and subjects the retailer to two years of monitoring by the Justice Department.
"Employers must ensure that they follow correct procedures during the reverification of employment authorization of non-U.S. citizens," Gregory Friel, deputy assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's civil rights division, said in a statement.
The department said its probe began in April 2012, based on several calls to a worker hotline regarding Macy's practices. It did not immediately provide details about the specific violations.
Macy's spokesman Jim Sluzewski declined to comment.
According to the settlement agreement, Macy's denied committing immigration-related discrimination or engaging in unfair documentary practices in violation of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act.
That law bars employers from demanding more or different documents, or changing documentation rules, based on people's immigration status or national origin.
Macy's had about 175,700 full- and part-time employees as of Feb. 2, according to its annual report, and operated roughly 840 stores under the Macy's and Bloomingdale's names. The company has offices in Cincinnati and New York.
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By Euan Rocha and Alastair Sharp
TORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry offered few signs of a long-promised turnaround on Friday, with an unexpected quarterly operating loss, a dearth of details on sales of its make-or-break new line of devices and no return to profit expected in the current quarter.
BlackBerry shares tumbled about 28 percent in both U.S. and Toronto trading.
The Canadian smartphone maker, which has struggled to compete against Apple Inc's iPhone, Samsung's Galaxy phones and other devices powered by Google's Android operating system, said smartphone sales were up 13 percent from the previous quarter, a period when buyers waited for the BB10 phones to hit the market.
But deliveries are down from a year ago as sales of its older line of BlackBerry devices taper off.
"We haven't received the BlackBerry 10 unit numbers yet, but certainly it doesn't bode well for the initial BlackBerry 10 launch, particularly the Z10. But even the outlook for a Q2 loss doesn't bode well for the Q10 either," said Brian Colello, an analyst with Morningstar.
BlackBerry launched two all-new smartphones this year, the touch screen Z10 device, followed by the Q10, which includes the mini keyboard many BlackBerry users still covet.
It has also launched the Q5, a lower-end keyboard device targeted at emerging markets, and plans to unveil one more cheaper phone running on its old BlackBerry 7 platform later this year, hoping to stave off market share losses in price- sensitive emerging markets flooded with cheap Android devices.
BlackBerry invented the concept of on-the-go email with clunky little devices with a mini keyboard. It offered levels of security that made the devices attractive to the business, government and legal clients, but they are now moving to other devices and leaving BlackBerry chasing both a high-end and a low-end market.
"They're not the high-end provider anymore, they're not Apple, they're not the low-end provider, they're not Nokia, so they are in the middle and they do relatively low volumes," said Daniel Ernst, of Hudson Square Research in New York.
"It's difficult to make great margins on that kind of volume, so I would say the outlook is quite negative then."
Excluding one-time items such as the cost of job cuts, BlackBerry reported a loss from continuing operations of $67 million, or 13 cents a share, on revenue of $3.1 billion.
Analysts, on average, expected a profit of 6 cents a share, on revenue of $3.36 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S Estimates.
Earnings were also reduced about 10 cents a share due to Venezuelan currency restrictions.
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The company forecast an operating loss in the current quarter. Chief Executive Thorsten Heins cited the need for increased investment in a competitive environment.
The company has been consumed over the last year with developing the new phones and making sure they work, and the devices were not ready for the all-important holiday season at the end of last year.
The Z10 only hit store shelves in the crucial U.S. market in late March, while the Q10 device only reached the United States after the end of BlackBerry's fiscal first quarter.
The Waterloo, Ontario-based company said it shipped 6.8 million smartphones in the quarter. On a conference call it said 40 percent of them, or 2.72 million devices, were BlackBerry 10 devices. Analysts looked for shipments of about 3 million of the new phones.
It reported a net loss of $84 million, or 16 cents a share, in the fiscal first quarter ended June 1. That compared with a year-earlier loss of $518 million, or 99 cents a share.
BlackBerry did not provide a detailed outlook for the rest of the year, saying the smartphone market remained highly competitive, making it difficult to estimate units, revenue and levels of profitability. It also said it would not supply subscriber numbers due to changes in its revenue model.
(Writing by Janet Guttsman; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blackberry-reports-quarterly-loss-shares-plunge-111328915.html
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) ? The pilots flying an F-16 fighter jet that went down near Luke Air Force Base in suburban Phoenix reported hitting a bird shortly after takeoff, the Air Force general who commands their base said Thursday.
The two pilots, who were practicing landings and takeoffs at the base Wednesday evening, ejected safely and the fighter crashed in a farm field near the base.
"Shortly before the accident the pilot reported a bird strike," Brig. Gen. Mike Rothstein told reporters at the base 15 miles west of Phoenix.
The plane had just taken off when the pilots reported hitting a bird and the engine in the plane malfunctioned, 56th Operations Group commander Col. John Hanna said. They had little time to react.
"It sounds like they did a good job, the airplane didn't hit anybody or anything and they both survived with what I know is no injuries," Hanna told The Associated Press. "It's about as good as it gets when you have any kind of accident where you destroy an airplane."
Base spokeswoman Lt. Candice Dillitte said there's nothing to indicate a fleet-wide problem with the jets, but the Air Force will investigate the cause. The Air Force has more than 1,000 of the single-engine fighters.
The base, 15 miles west of Phoenix in Glendale, is the world's largest F-16 pilot training base and had 138 F-16s before Wednesday's crash. An instructor and a student were flying the jet that crashed.
The base is getting ready to transition to the military's new F-35 fighter. The Air Force announced Thursday it would receive three additional squadrons, bringing the total to 144 within about 10 years. The first plane is set to arrive next spring.
Witnesses said they heard the jet's engine sputtering and popping just before the plane went down. Photos posted on Twitter showed civilians helping two male pilots alongside a freshly plowed field.
Rothstein said the fact that the jet came down in farmland wasn't an accident. Glendale and other nearly cities have worked with the state to maintain open space around the base despite the rapid urbanization of the area.
Any engine problem shortly after takeoff is extremely dangerous and the pilots needed to react quickly, Hanna said.
"Certainly low altitude ejections are some of the more harrowing things that can happen, because you're close to the ground and a lot of things have to happen in a hurry in order for all of the ejection process to occur successfully," Hanna said. "You end up on the ground, able to stand, gather your gear and walk to the nearest pickup truck that's got some water sitting in it. So this worked out pretty well."
Bird strikes can severely damage jet engines. US Airways Flight 1549 lost both engines shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport after hitting birds in January 2009 but landed safely on the Hudson River.
An inspector general's audit last year criticized the Federal Aviation Administration for not doing enough to stop bird strikes. The report cited a five-fold increase in bird strikes over the last two decades, from 1,770 reported in 1990 to 9,840 reported in 2011, due in part to growing bird populations. The strikes have led to at least 24 deaths and 235 injuries in the United States since 1988.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bird-may-brought-down-f-16-arizona-192912803.html
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a $46 billion plan to increase federal law enforcement efforts at the U.S. border with Mexico, a move aimed at winning bipartisan passage this week of a comprehensive immigration bill.
The amendment approved by the Senate aims to double, to around 40,000, the number of U.S. agents patrolling the southwestern border, complete the construction of 700 miles of border fence and enable the purchase of high-tech surveillance and other equipment to detect illegal border crossings.
The Senate backed the border security amendment by a vote of 69-29, with 15 of 46 Republicans joining all 52 Democrats and two independents.
None of the top four Senate Republican leaders voted for the amendment, however, in a sign of continuing divisions within the party over immigration legislation that provides a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented residents.
"I don't know how any Republican could look a TV camera or a constituent in the eye and not say that this amendment strengthens ... the border and makes our border more secure," said Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, who helped write the amendment.
Corker added that if a majority of Republicans voted against the bill, which it did, "Democrats are going to own the border security issue," which has long been argued by Republicans.
Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa countered that he was skeptical that the 20,000 additional border security agents actually would be hired over the next 10 years.
He also said the amendment "makes bold promises that may throw more money at the border, but there's no accountability to get the job done."
Republican opposition to a comprehensive immigration bill like the Senate's runs deep in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, where no guarantees have been given that legislation will be advanced to legalize and ultimately allow citizenship for the 11 million undocumented residents.
(Reporting by Richard Cowan and Thomas Ferraro; Editing by Vicki Allen and Cynthia Osterman)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-senate-backs-border-amendment-immigration-bill-163622408.html
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Online gambling isn?t just bad, it?s dangerous and immoral. So argues Sheldon Adelson, CEO of the biggest gaming company in the world.
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?Click your mouse and lose your house,? warns Adelson, chairman and CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corp.
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His views, expressed in an op-ed for Forbes, have not endeared him to fans of online poker, thousands of whom now are trying to organize a boycott of the sumptuous poker room (59 tables, 14,000-sq. ft.) of Adelson?s The Venetian casino and resort.
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?As an industry leader, and more importantly as a father, grandfather, citizen and patriot of this great country,? writes Adelson in his op-ed, ?I am adamantly opposed to the legalization and proliferation of online gaming.?
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He wags a warning finger at legislation now pending in California and Pennsylvania that would make online gambling legal in those populous states. Gambling online is already legal in Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware.
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?You would think,? he writes, ?[that] the chairman of the world?s largest gaming company would pursue any aspect of gaming which could increase profits, right? Ordinarily that is true?but online gambling is ?fool?s gold.??
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It?s fool?s gold, he claims, because its profits have come only at the expense of brick-and-mortar casinos, with a corresponding loss of jobs. Alluding to ?recent research from a number of European countries,? without identifying that research further, he says that countries in Europe that have legalized online gambling have seen a 20-percent decrease in visitation to land-based casinos.
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In the U.S., he predicts, the spread of online gaming will cost ?400,000 lost jobs in casino-hosting cities across America??200,000 jobs directly related to the gaming industry plus another 200,000 indirectly related.
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His own business, he says, would not suffer, since the Sands gets ?almost all? its casino profits from Asia. Rather, the blow would fall on domestic casinos, including those run by Native Americans.
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Online gaming?s potential pernicious effects on children, teenagers and adults with gambling problems constitute, in his view, ?a societal train wreck waiting to happen.?
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For example, ?The possibility of underage children finding ways to place online wagers and the possibility of people betting under the influence of drugs or being coerced are all scenarios that can happen when the person is only monitored by their own computer screen. On the other hand, when a person makes an effort to get dressed, join some friends and head to the local casino for a night of entertainment, they must show themselves as adults, and their behavior can be observed and ultimately managed by security and other staff if needed.?
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Martin D. Owens, a California attorney specializing in the law of Internet and interactive gaming (and co-author of Internet Gaming Law with Professor Nelson Rose of Whittier Law School) calls Adelson?s worries and objections preposterous.
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?Mr. Adelson,? he says, ?is staging a very belated and unimaginative rear-guard action.?
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Internet gambling is already here, says Owens: 32 states already sanction it for horse betting. Online gambling worldwide is a $30 billion phenomenon; online poker alone accounts for $15 billion worldwide. Of that total, the U.S. accounts for a little less than half?or about $6 billion.
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As for why the Internet gaming boom has been accompanied in Europe by a decrease in casino attendance, Owens sees nothing more pernicious at work than a change in gamblers? demographics: Young people now do everything online, including gamble. If the young aren?t streaming into brick and mortar casinos, Owens is not surprised: ?Nobody drives an Oldsmobile anymore, either.?
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Ever since 2005, he says, the Harvard Medical School has been conducting an ongoing study of problem gamblers and the Internet. Unusual for its size and scope, the exercise collected data on some 40,000 individuals. Its conclusion: ?The overwhelming majority of online gamers play in a very moderate manner, spending minimal amounts on gaming.?
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Owens says the study found that people at risk of becoming addicted to gambling make up less than 2 percent of the population?a figure confirmed, he says, by a separate State of California study. Says Owens of online gambling: ?It?s not the looming menace it?s made out to be.?
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John Pappas, president of the 1-million-member-plus Poker Players Alliance, calls Adelson?s worries baseless.
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?I think he?s missed the mark by a wide margin,? says Pappas. ?The reality is that licensed and regulated Internet poker is taking place worldwide and right here in America and right here in his [Adelson's] back yard of Nevada. All of the perceived evils have been addressed through appropriate oversight?greater oversight and regulation than what?s available in a brick-and-mortar setting. Age-verification? Protecting problem gamblers? Those can be addressed on the Internet even better than in one of Mr. Adelson?s casinos.?
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Copyright 2013 ABC News Radio
Source: http://news92fm.com/362323/casino-boycott-looms-in-online-gambling-spat/
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