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Twitter hands down new rules to beat abusive talk

LONDON (AP) ? Twitter is handing down new rules to control abusive language, the company said Saturday, a move which follows a barrage of nasty, harassing, and threatening messages directed at high-profile female users of the microblogging site.

In a message posted to its website, Twitter says it is introducing a one-click button to report abuse and updating its rules to clarify that it will not tolerate abusive behavior.

The one-click button means that users will not have to navigate to Twitter's help center in order to fill out an abuse form ? a process some said was too cumbersome to deal with a mass of angry messages ? while the new rules includes a stricture against "targeted abuse," something which could include slamming a single user with messages from multiple accounts, creating an account purely to harass someone, or making threats.

The company also promised to devote more staff to weed out offending messages.

In a series of statements posted to Twitter, General Manager Tony Wang issued his own apology "to the women who have experienced abuse on Twitter and for what they have gone through."

"The abuse they've received is simply not acceptable," he said. "It's not acceptable in the real world, and it's not acceptable on Twitter. There is more we can and will be doing to protect our users against abuse. That is our commitment."

The relative anonymity of the Internet means it has long been hard to police abusive or threatening speech, but the issue recently received attention in Britain after several women went public about the sexually explicit and often luridly violent abuse they receive from online bullies, often called trolls.

Many argue that trolls are an annoyance which should just be ignored, but the catalogue of graphic threats made public by the women involved have ignited a national debate over the impunity of those spewing the hatred online.

Wang said in a tweet that the new anti-abuse policy will apply worldwide.

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Twitter's announcement:

http://blog.uk.twitter.com/2013/08/our-commitment.html

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Top US officials meet to discuss embassy threat

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? Top U.S. officials met Saturday to review the threat of a terrorist attack that led to the weekend closure of 21 U.S. embassies and consulates in the Muslim world and a global travel warning to Americans. President Barack Obama was briefed following the session, the White House said.

Obama's national security adviser, Susan Rice, led the meeting and then joined Lisa Monaco, Obama's assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism, in briefing the president, the White House said in a statement.

"The president has received frequent briefings over the last week on all aspects of the potential threat and our preparedness measures," according to the statement.

Among those at the meeting Saturday afternoon were the secretaries of state, defense and homeland security and the directors of the FBI, CIA and the National Security Agency, according to the White House. Also attending was Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

In an interview Friday with ABC News, Dempsey said officials had determined there was "a significant threat stream" and that the threat was more specific than previous ones. The "intent is to attack Western, not just U.S. interests," he said.

The global travel warning was the first such alert since an announcement before the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The warning comes less than a year since the deadly September attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, and with the Obama administration and Congress determined to prevent any similar breach of an American embassy or consulate.

The State Department's warning urged U.S. travelers to take extra precautions overseas. It cited potential dangers involved with public transportation systems and other prime sites for tourists, and noted that previous attacks have centered on subway and rail networks as well as airplanes and boats.

Travelers were advised to sign up for State Department alerts and register with U.S. consulates in the countries they visit.

The statement said that al-Qaida or its allies might target either U.S. government or private American interests. The alert expires on Aug. 31.

The State Department said the potential for terrorism was particularly acute in the Middle East and North Africa, with a possible attack occurring on or coming from the Arabian Peninsula. The diplomatic facilities affected stretch from Mauritania in northwest Africa to Afghanistan.

U.S. officials pointed specifically to Yemen, the home of al-Qaida's most dangerous affiliate and the network blamed for several notable plots against the United States, from the foiled Christmas Day 2009 effort to bomb an airliner over Detroit to the explosives-laden parcels intercepted the following year aboard cargo flights.

"Current information suggests that al-Qaida and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks both in the region and beyond, and that they may focus efforts to conduct attacks in the period between now and the end of August," a department statement said.

Yemen's president, Abdo Rabby Mansour Hadi, met with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday, where both leaders cited strong counterterrorism cooperation. This past week, Yemen's military reported a U.S. drone strike killed six alleged al-Qaida militants in the group's southern strongholds.

Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., the House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, said the embassy threat was linked to al-Qaida and concerned the Middle East and Central Asia.

"In this instance, we can take a step to better protect our personnel and, out of an abundance of caution, we should," Royce said. He declined to say if the National Security Agency's much-debated surveillance program helped reveal the threat.

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Online:

State Department alerts: www.travel.state.gov

Smart Traveler Enrollment Program: www.step.state.gov

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MSNBC's Alter Sneers: GOP the 'Suicide Caucus'

MSNBC contributors Jonathan Alter and Joy Reid sound much like a good metronome: their commentary never changes, marching on at an endless, fixed pace. Alter and Reid have made a career at the Lean Forward network out of comparing Republicans to slave owners, terrorists, and drunks.

Their latest assault on the GOP came on Friday?s Now, with Reid serving as guest host in place of Alex Wagner. Discussing the latest attempt by Senate Republicans to defund ObamaCare, Alter blasted the ?suicide caucus? GOP, claiming ?smarter conservatives understand? that shutting down the government over ObamaCare ?is suicidal.?

Throughout the segment, Alter could barely utter a word without demonizing Republicans for their latest efforts. The Bloomberg View columnist berated the ?basic hollowness? of the GOP, calling their ?foundation of...fiscal responsibility? a ?charade?:

They don?t care about the deficit. It?s like Dick Cheney said: deficits don?t matter. So what had been at the foundation of the Republican Party for 100 years, fiscal responsibility, is now revealed as a charade.

Alter went even further, arguing that Republicans can only agree on one issue:

The only thing they believe in is tax cuts for the wealthy. They are unified by literally nothing else. Not even foreign policy any more.

Reid turned the discussion back to the GOP later in the segment, suggesting that the Republican philosophy is based on ?cruelty?:

I think you [Matthew Yglesias] have gotten to, sort of, where my mind is on where the Republican Party is, Jonathan. That a lot of it is about what liberals would define as cruelty. It is about punishing poor people.

Alter enthusiastically agreed. In fact, the only dispute between Alter and Reid was over who would characterize the GOP in a more extreme, insulting way:

ALTER: But the big thing now that?s going on that fascinates me is the tactical difference between the extremely conservative pragmatists and the extremely conservative suicide caucus ?

REID [laughing]: The meanness caucus, right.

ALTER: No, no, no. The suicide caucus. Because there?s a group that wants to shut down the government over ObamaCare, over the funding of ObamaCare, and the smarter conservatives understand that this is suicidal, that they will be blamed.

The pundits were quick to spell political doom for the GOP if the government shuts down on October 1. But many of these left-wing voices ? particularly Reid, Alter, and MSNBC host Karen Finney, who were all alive and politically aware during the Clinton presidency ? forget the government shutdown of 1995.

Although liberal media outlets were quick to blame Newt Gingrich?s Republican caucus when the shutdown occurred, few pundits ? much less average Americans ? remember the shutdown today, or hold a grudge against the GOP. What?s more, the Republicans were not punished by the voters in the 1996 congressional election, actually gaining seats in the Senate and limiting damage in the House, with Clinton?s re-election failing to recapture the majority for Democrats.

No one can know for sure how the impending government shutdown will play out, for either political party. But you can be assured that on MSNBC, it?s a foregone conclusion.

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Now with Alex Wagner
August 2, 2013
12:05 p.m. Eastern

JOY REID: And, I mean, and Karen [Finney] ? I think traditionally what House members were were appropriators. This is what they did. But just to build on what Matthew said, this is what was in the [Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development (THUD)] bill cuts: it was cut of community development block grants in half, cut a lead hazard control program to get lead out of homes, eliminate a program funding infrastructure, cuts to homelessness assistance, FAA spending. But even the fact that, just with this level of specificity, there were House Republicans who said I can?t go home for this recess having done that.

KAREN FINNEY: And don?t you love that Eric Cantor gave a speech a couple months ago where he said: I don?t understand why people think we just want to take things away from people. Really? Cause there?s a good list right there to start with. Yeah, but I think what?s happening is this is where their rhetoric is meeting accountability, right?

I mean, despite the lovely packet that they?re all going to go home with about how to have these town halls stacked with supporters, at some point they?re going to be held accountable for these votes and they know that. One thing I want to say on the health care piece ? part of that is they also believe that the more they vote against it, the more they continue ? the harder it is for people to believe that it is law. Cause remember, 40 percent of people don?t think it?s law at this point. That?s a part of the symbolism. It?s part of the symbolism when they talk about cuts. They don?t want to get into specifics, but the point being ? then they want to be able to run on the rhetoric of what it was that they said they were going to do, not the actual specifics.

REID: And just to your point, 36 percent of people want to repeal it. Just looking at the most recent polls. National Journal did a poll. Thirty percent want to wait and see. Twenty-six percent want to provide more money. So there?s not an actual, real base for it [repeal]. Jonathan, you wrote a whole book about this whole ? ?The Center Holds? is the name of the book, we should give it a bit of a plug. But the whole idea of it was that Republicans? ? kind of ? ideology is fixated on Obama.

I want to read you a set of statistics about the base of the Republican Party and why they may be doing these ObamaCare repeal votes. A Pew poll recently showed GOP voters, their dissatisfaction is that this party isn?t conservative enough. Fifty-four percent want the leaders to move further to the right. Forty percent want the party to become more moderate. What does that say about this caucus? responsibilities to the people who actually vote for them? Aren?t they actually doing what their real base wants?

JONATHAN ALTER: Well, they?re trapped between what their base says it wants and what their constituents want ? and they?re not necessarily the same thing. What we are seeing over the last couple of years, to take a kind of larger view, is the basic hollowness of the Republican message is coming to the fore. You remember that debate ? it was a Fox debate and they were asked, if you had a ratio of 10 to one ? 10 spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases ? they all rejected it. And this, again, is another example this week.

They don?t care about the deficit. It?s like Dick Cheney said: deficits don?t matter. So what had been at the foundation of the Republican Party for 100 years, fiscal responsibility, is now revealed as a charade. The only thing they believe in is tax cuts for the wealthy. They are unified by literally nothing else. Not even foreign policy any more.

(...)

REID: And that ? I think you [Matthew Yglesias] have gotten to, sort of, where my mind is on where the Republican Party is, Jonathan. That a lot of it is about what liberals would define as cruelty. It is about punishing poor people.

ALTER: It is the meanness caucus. If you actually look at what they want to cut first, what are at the top of their list? Food stamps. This is not a program that is going to people who are doing okay. It?s a program going to people who are hurting or meeting a requirement. It?s not like this is a bunch of bums who are getting ? these are people who need it.

And the connective tissue which the Republican Party ? Bob Dole, by the way was one of the architects of the food stamp program.

REID: Right.? The food stamp, he ??? ?

ALTER: Jesse Helms supported food stamps. The connection between the modern day Republican Party and the Republican Party of 25 years ago, that understood there was a role for government in ameliorating poverty ? in lessening suffering ? that tissue has been severed. But the big thing now that?s going on that fascinates me is the tactical difference between the extremely conservative pragmatists and the extremely conservative suicide caucus ?

REID [laughing]: The meanness caucus, right.

ALTER: No, no, no. The suicide caucus. Because there?s a group that wants to shut down the government over ObamaCare, over the funding of ObamaCare, and the smarter conservatives understand that this is suicidal, that they will be blamed.

REID: It?s insane. That it?s insane.

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Friendly competition reigns in war canoe race

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ASUS N56VB BIOS Flash Utility 2.41.1 for Windows 8 64-bit

N56VB Specifications:

- Processor
Intel Core i7 3630QM Processor
Intel Core i5 3230M Processor
Intel Core i3 3120M Processor

- Operating System
Windows 8 Pro
Windows 8
DOS

- Chipset
Intel HM76 Express Chipset

- Memory
DDR3 1600 MHz SDRAM, 2 x SO-DIMM socket for expansion up to 16 GB SDRAM

- Display
15.6" 16:9 HD with EWV (1366 x 768) /FHD EWV LED Backlight Asus Splendid Video Intelligent Technology, Zero Bright Dot , anti-glare

- Graphic
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 2GB/4GB DDR3 VRAM

- Storage
2.5" 9.5mm SATA3
500GB 5400 RPM
500GB HDD 7200 RPM
750GB HDD 5400 RPM
750GB HDD 7200 RPM
1TB HDD 5400 RPM
750GB HDD 7200 RPM With 8 G SSD SSH

- Optical Drive
Blu-Ray DVD Combo
Super-Multi DVD
Blue-ray Writer

- Card Reader
3 -in-1 card reader ( SD/ MS/ MS Pro/ MMC)

- Camera
HD Web Camera

- Networking
Integrated 802.11 b/g/n
10/100/1000/Gigabits Base T
BT 4.0 support (on WLAN+ BT 4.0 combo card)

- Interface
1 x Microphone-in jack
1 x Headphone-out jack (SPDIF)
1 x VGA port/Mini D-sub 15-pin for external monitor
4 x USB 3.0 port(s)
1 x RJ45 LAN Jack for LAN insert
1 x HDMI

- Audio
Built-in 2 Speakers And Microphone
Bang & Olufsen ICEpower
SonicMaster Premium
Asus N series external sub-woofer support
MaxxAudio support

- Battery
6Cells 5200 mAh 56 Whrs

- Power Adapter
Output : 19 V DC, 4.74 A, 90 W (i3/i5 processor) / 6.3 A , 120 W (i7 processor)
Input : 100 -240 V AC, 50/60 Hz universal

- Dimensions
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380 x 255 x 27.2 ~34.0 mm (WxDxH) (i7 processor SKU)

- Weight
2.7 kg (with 6 cell battery)

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Beauty, Health and Fitness: New Evidence Shows Benefits of ...

We all know that breastfeeding is good for the mother as it improves the healing process by contracting the uterus faster, reduces the postnatal depression risks as well as helps a woman get in shape faster by reducing the calories.

Breastfeeding is also good for the baby for it increases the bonding between mother and her new baby, it is easily digested reducing the occurence of colic in babies and also equips the baby with the much needed immunity.

Studies have also come up with new evidence that shows that breastfeeding increases the child's intelligence.

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San Diego Council denies funds to embattled Mayor Bob Filner

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The San Diego City Council has denied a request from embattled Mayor Bob Filner to cover his legal costs in the wake of his sex harassment suit.

San Diego?s City Council made it clear it wants the city to have no part in the legal dealings of Mayor Bob Filner, who is the subject of a sexual harassment lawsuit, allegations of unwanted advances and a chorus of calls to resign.

Dealing a double rebuke to its mayor with a pair of unanimous votes, the council opted Tuesday to sue Filner in a pre-emptive attempt to have the mayor alone responsible for any costs incurred due to the lawsuit, which also names the city as a defendant. Later, the council voted to deny Filner funds for his legal defense.

RELATED: SAN DIEGO CITY COUNCIL ASKED TO PAY LEGAL FEES FOR BELEAGUERED MAYOR BOB FILNER

?His employers, San Diego taxpayers, did not have to bail him out for the mess he created,? City Councilman Kevin Faulconer said.

Seven of nine City Council members have joined former supporters and scores of others in urging Filner, the city?s first Democratic leader in 20 years, to resign.

RELATED: DIANNE FEINSTEIN CALLS ON SAN DIEGO MAYOR TO STEP DOWN

Irene McCormack Jackson, Filner?s former communications director, sued the mayor and the city July 22. The lawsuit alleges Filner asked Jackson to work without panties, demanded kisses, told her he wanted to see her naked and dragged her in a headlock while whispering in her ear.

Since then, seven other women have offered detailed accounts of Filner?s alleged advances, including touching and forcible kisses.

RELATED: SAN DIEGO MAYOR ACCUSED OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT PROMISES TO UNDERGO THERAPY

The mayor?s office and his attorney, Harvey Berger, didn?t immediately respond to requests seeking comment.

Ann Ravel, chairwoman of the California Fair Political Practices Commission, said an official cannot accept more than $440 a year in donated services. Campaign money can be used only to defend against alleged violations of the state?s campaign finance law.

RELATED: NANCY PELOSI TELLS ANTHONY WEINER TO WISE UP AND GET THERAPY

An official can, however, create a legal defense fund under state law, Ravel said.

Also Tuesday, an eighth woman came forward with stories of improprieties. Lisa Curtin, director of government and military education at San Diego City College, said on KPBS-TV Tuesday that the then-congressman Filner asked her in 2011 to remove her wedding band after questioning whether it was real, asked her on a date and moved to kiss her. She said she felt his tongue on her cheek after she turned her head.

RELATED: SAN DIEGO MAYOR BOB FILNER FACES MORE HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS

Filner, who is 70 and divorced, said Friday he would enter two weeks of ?intensive? therapy Aug. 5, defying calls from his own party leaders to resign. The former 10-term congressman is less than eight months into a four-year term as mayor.

Land-use surveyor Michael Pallamary published a newspaper notice Tuesday to begin a recall bid, two days after gay rights activist and newspaper publisher Stampp Corbin did the same. Pallamary accused Corbin of being a stealth supporter of the mayor and threatened to file a complaint with the San Diego County district attorney?s office alleging election law violations.

Pallamary said Corbin would make little effort to collect the more than 100,000 signatures needed to get a recall measure on the ballot, setting it up to fail and preventing another recall drive for six months.

Corbin denied the accusation Tuesday, saying Pallamary or anyone else was welcome to join the recall drive.

Corbin, who was appointed chairman of a city commission under Filner, declined to say if he voted for Filner or how he would cast his ballot in a recall. He said his motive was to bring swift resolution to the controversy.

?There?s nothing going on in the city, in City Hall. Everyone is focused on this scandal,? Corbin said. ?That is not good for this city.?

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Data Focused Underwriting And Credit Analysis Platform ZestFinance Raises $20M From Peter Thiel And Others

ZestFinance, a company founded by former Google CIO and VP of engineering Douglas Merrill?to legitimize the payday loan industry using machine learning and large-scale big data analysis has raised $20 million in Series C financing led by Peter Thiel with Northgate Capital, Matrix Partners, Kensington Capital Holdings, Eastward Capital Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners also participating in the round. This brings the company's total funding to nearly $100 million.

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Parker scores record 23 to lead West over East

UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) ? Candace Parker put on a show in her All-Star debut.

Parker scored a record 23 points to lead the West to a 102-98 victory over the East on Saturday.

"I didn't know what to expect," Parker said. "I hadn't been to one, and this was really special. Being with all these great players and share stories, that's why I'll remember from this All-Star game more than what happened on the court."

The Los Angeles Sparks star was voted a starter for the 2011 game, but couldn't play because of a knee injury. She also missed the 2009 game because she was still recovering from the birth of her daughter.

"Things happen," Parker said. "I learned not to question them and go on my path and take whatever comes. It happened to work out this way."

The wait was worth it as Parker, who earned the game's MVP honors.

While the award was special, Parker and her West teammates were more excited that got the victory for retiring star Tina Thompson.

"We didn't want her to go out with a loss," said Parker, who was quickly heading back to Los Angeles after the game to get to a family reunion that she was hosting.

Thompson, who made her record ninth All-Star appearance, announced her retirement at the end of the season. She had a rough game missing all five of her attempts from the field, but still enjoyed the moment.

West coach Cheryl Reeve put her back in the lineup with a few seconds left to get one final ovation from the fans.

Parker's stellar game helped the league overcome the loss of Brittney Griner and top vote-getter Elena Delle Donne, who sat out because of injuries. The pair have been an attendance and ratings boon for the league.

Griner has missed Phoenix's last five games with a sprained left knee and Delle Donne suffered a concussion in Chicago's game Wednesday. They were poised to make history as the first pair of rookies from the same class to start the WNBA All-Star game.

But Griner sat on the bench, while Delle Donne recovered at home in Delaware.

"It hurts not being able to play, but I'm having a lot of fun just cheering," Griner said.

Even though the rookies couldn't play, the WNBA had seven other first-time All-Stars in the game. That didn't even include Parker.

Despite joking before the game that she was "too old" to dunk, Parker threw down a few in warmups.

After a quiet first half, she helped rally the West after the break. With her team trailing by 11 early in the third quarter, Parker scored seven straight points. After the foul by Tamika Catchings, Parker flexed her muscles and used a nifty stutter-step from the wing for an easy layup. Parker finished off her run with another lay-in.

After Sparks teammate Kristi Toliver hit back-to-back 3-pointers to the tie game, Ivory Latta hit her own 3-pointers to give the East an 81-74 advantage heading into the final period.

Parker, who finished with 11 rebounds, and Toliver wouldn't let the West lose for the fourth time in the past five All-Star games. Parker broke Swin Cash's All-Star game record of 22 points with a layup midway through the fourth quarter.

East coach Lin Dunn, who it was announced will be inducted into the women's basketball Hall of Fame next year, joked that there was a simple reason her team came up short.

"They had Candace and we didn't," she said laughing.

Trailing 100-98 with 30 seconds left, the East had a chance to take the lead, but Cappie Pondexter missed a 3-pointer. Parker got the rebound and Toliver sealed the win by hitting two free throws.

"I see it every day," Parker said of her Sparks teammate. "She's one of the best shooters ever. I was proud of the way she came out and played within herself."

Toliver, who was playing in her first All-Star game, scored 19 of her 21 points in the second half to help the West rally.

"Being here this weekend was a lot of joy," she said. It was humbling to be here but I feel like I belong."

The game also featured the return of referee cam, with Lamont Simpson wearing a device that looks like a pair of glasses. The veteran official caught a pre-game dance off between the East and West. Maya Moore floored the sell-out crowd by breaking out the old-school dance move the worm. She repeated the move when she was introduced as a starter.

Simpson admitted that after he first wore the ref cam in June, he received a lot of emails and texts from friends.

In the fourth quarter, Simpson approached Latta on the court and joked that "there's never been a technical foul in the history of the All-Star game."

In another first, the game was coached by two women for the only time in its 11-year history. Lin Dunn of Indiana coached the East and Reeve of Minnesota was in charge of the West.

Reeve had four Minnesota Lynx players on her West squad. Moore and Seimone Augustus were voted as starters. Reeve chose Lynx center Rebekkah Brunson to replace Griner in the starting lineup.

Minnesota point guard Lindsay Whalen was the first sub in for the West, replacing Taurasi. That produced four Lynx players, who also were on the 2011 All-Star team, on the court at the same time.

The four Lynx stars combined for 24 of the West's 29 points in the first quarter.

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Indianapolis church mourns 3 who died in bus crash

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? An Indianapolis congregation on Sunday mourned the deaths of their youth pastor, his pregnant wife and another member who were killed when a church bus overturned with just a mile to go in a return trip from a Michigan summer camp.

Saturday's accident devastated members of Colonial Hills Baptist Church, who had been anticipating a joyful homecoming with the 37 people who were aboard the bus. Youth pastor Chad Phelps, his pregnant piano-teacher wife, Courtney Phelps, and chaperone Tonya Weindorf were killed, said deacon Jeff Leffew.

Dozens of people were injured in the crash, which happened near Interstate 465. On Sunday, six teenagers remained hospitalized, including one who was in critical condition.

Dennis Maurer, a 68-year-old congregation member who was driving the church-owned bus, told authorities that its brakes failed before it struck a raised concrete median and flipped on its side, Indianapolis police said.

The Phelpses, who were in their mid-20s, were expecting their second child, Leffew said. Chad Phelps was the son of the church's senior pastor and became its youth pastor late last year, he said.

"We're going to have a long road, but God is good," Leffew said at a Sunday news conference.

The couple's nearly 2-year-old child, Chase, was injured in the crash. He was treated and released from a hospital Saturday, IU Health spokeswoman Sally Winter said.

The bus had nearly completed its 365-mile journey from Camp CoBeAc, near Prudenville, Mich., when it overturned about a mile from the church, where parents were waiting to pick up their children who had just spent a week praying, zip-lining and playing basketball.

Weindorf, the 51-year-old chaperone who was killed, had five children, Leffew said.

"Tonya was at camp because she has a special-needs child who wanted to go, and she wanted to go and make it a good week, and according to her husband, it was a great week, and that's who Tonya was," said Leffew, who sent four of his own daughter to the camp.

Leffew, of Fishers, said only one of his daughters was on a second bus that pulled into the parking lot, and that he raced to the northern Indianapolis crash site. What he found was surreal ? clothing and other items strewn about and windows missing from the bus.

"You're just praying that it's not as bad as it looks," he said Saturday. His daughters escaped with bumps and bruises.

Troy Riggs, Indianapolis' public safety director, called the crash a "great tragedy."

"They were not that far from home. ... That only adds to the tragedy," Riggs said Saturday.

Duane Lloyd, who witnessed the crash, told WTHR that he saw the crash happen at about 4:15 p.m., which was about the time Chad Phelps tweeted that the group would arrive at the church.

"I heard a skid. I looked back. I see this bus in the air and people falling out of the bus," Lloyd said. "I could have gone my whole life without seeing that."

He said people approached and tried to help.

"People were literally trying to lift the bus," Lloyd said. "You just try to do what you can do."

Three of the six hospitalized teens, including the one in critical condition, were at IU Health Methodist Hospital, Winter said Sunday. The other three were at the Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health. Many of the patients had head, arm and leg injuries, fire officials said.

Leffew thanked rescue workers and good Samaritans who tried to help after the crash, as well as local churches and businesses that have offered their support.

"We are so grateful for that outpouring of love and care," he said Sunday.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/indianapolis-church-mourns-3-died-bus-crash-195306293.html

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Miller's late blitz lifts South Africa to 223

25 overs Sri Lanka 72 for 4 (Chandimal 27*, Mathews 1* ) need 152 runs to beat South Africa 223 for 7 (Miller 85*, Mendis 3-35)
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South Africa dictated proceedings for the first time in the series as they pegged Sri Lanka back in what is a must-win game for the tourists. A fit-again Lonwabo Tsotsobe did the bulk of the damage, with three wickets in a six-over spell in which he extracted bounce and produced seam movement to have Sri Lanka's top order in trouble in more challenging conditions that what they are used to.

Morne Morkel worked well with Tsotsobe, creating pressure from his end with pace and steep lift to give South Africa the good start they had been lacking in previous matches. The pair produced eight dot balls before a run was scored and claimed a first wicket in the fourth over.

Tillakaratne Dilshan offered a simple catch to AB de Villiers at cover as he tried to drive a back of a length ball. De Villiers was in the field and not behind the stumps because Quinton de Kock was the designated wicketkeeper, even though de Villiers confirmed he would "definitely" keep in the ODIs before the tour, "unless I pick up a niggle".

While de Villiers' fitness will come under scrutiny, Tsotsobe seems to have recovered from the ankle impingement which kept him out of the first two matches. He struck again in the same over, in a big way, when he got one to move away from Kumar Sangakkara to have Sri Lanka's talisman caught by JP Duminy for a duck.

Morkel continued to get the ball to jab into the batsmen's ribs, especially Upul Tharanga's, and Tsotsobe removed him. He got one to bounce sharply and take the edge and Alviro Petersen at slip to collected. At 16 for 3, Sri Lanka were under pressure and de Villiers kept Tsotsobe on to ensure they stayed under the pump.

He probably bowled one over too many - his sixth went for nine runs - but Ryan McLaren also assisted with the strangulation. A spinner was only introduced in the 14th over when Robin Peterson came on. He reviewed an lbw shout against Mahela Jayawardene, which Peterson was convinced was out, but replays showed it was missing leg.

Sri Lanka's batsmen were more comfortable against the slower bowlers and de Villiers brought Morkel back to try and unsettle them. But it was Peterson who almost broke through. He drew Jayawardene forward with a flighted ball which spun past the outside edge and thought he had him stumped.

A lengthy delay showed the foot and the line too close to call and with doubt surrounding the dismissal, Jayawardene survived. His stand with Dinesh Chandimal grew to fifty but Peterson had the last laugh. As the halfway stage approached, he produced a delivery which skidded on and bowled Jayawardene through the gate.

With the required run-rate touching six an over and a debutant to come, Sri Lanka will have to work hard to seal the series today.

South Africa 223 for 7 (Miller 85*, Mendis 3-35 ) v Sri Lanka
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After three innings in Sri Lanka, South Africa recorded their first fifty courtesy David Miller. The No. 7 batsman was the only one to show the temperament to survive, at first, and thrive later on against a Sri Lanka attack that gave very few scoring opportunities with good lengths and tight lines.

Still, the hosts will need to register the highest successful chase in Pallekele - the previous best was 198 - to seal the series. They leaked runs in the last two overs, which cost them 38, and that could prove decisive on a pitch that may become more difficult to bat on as the game goes on.

Even if South Africa have Miller and his final burst to thank for keeping them alive, they have to assess their batting performance with a critical eye after their top order failed again. In the absence of the injured Hashim Amla, South Africa fielded a new opening pair - their third in three matches - with Lions' team-mates Alviro Petersen and Quinton de Kock fronting up first.

Petersen was watchful, apart from taking advantage of a stray Angela Mathews ball that veered too far down the leg side, but de Kock battled to curb his attacking instincts. He was loose outside the offstump, though, did not move his feet enough and offered a chance in the fourth over. Tillakaratne Dilshan at slip let de Kock off on just 5 but Sri Lanka struck again two balls later. Lasith Malinga bowled his first bouncer and Petersen was too early on the hook. He gloved it to Kumar Sangakkara.

De Kock retreated even further into his shell with Petersen's departure and continued to look vulnerable outside the offstump. That eventually led to his demise when he was caught in two minds playing at a wide Thisara Perera ball and edged behind.

JP Duminy looked in good touch, as he has throughout the series, but his promise amounted to very little. He drove, cut and swept with authority but when he tried to run Perera down to third man, he inside-edged onto his stumps to depart for another score in the 20s.

Faf du Plessis' stay at the crease was similar. He was involved in risky running with his captain, AB de Villiers and could have been found short of his ground on a few occasions before he eventually was. De Villiers called him through for a quick single and du Plessis could not make his ground.

Neither he, nor de Villiers, has managed a half-century in their last five innings but de Villiers looked set to change that. He showed patience amid the lack of boundaries and cashed in on the few run-scoring chances Sri Lanka offered, such as Malinga's low full toss, but eventually fell to Ajantha Mendis for 47.

Sri Lanka's mystery spinner caused problems for South Africa's middle order. Farhaan Behardien - who bowled by the first ball he faced from Mendis - nor Robin Peterson could pick him but Miller showed more prowess.

He struggled in the early part of his innings but had de Villiers to usher him through and grew in confidence as the innings went on. He hit the only sixes in the South African innings, all off Thisara Perera. Two of them went down the ground, showing Miller's ability to hit into the V, and timed his burst well.

Miller scored 35 runs off the last two overs, including 18 off Malinga, to take South Africa to a total history says they can defend. Their bowlers will need to operate with the same miserliness Sri Lanka's did to keep them in the contest.

Source: http://www.espncricinfo.com/sri-lanka-v-south-africa-2013/content/story/655329.html?CMP=OTC-RSS

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Frenship's Smith leads are contingent on 4A all-state baseball team

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Texas Tech signee Stephen Smith was named to the first team for the Collin Street Bakery/Texas Sports Writers Association Class 4A All-State Baseball team released Thursday. Smith, who played right field, led the Tigers to the District 4-4A championship and a deep playoff run by hitting .424 with two home runs and 12 doubles with 44 runs scored. Teammate Cade Davis, a senior outfielder, and Plainview senior second baseman Will Bass were named to the third team. Bass hit. 488 with two home runs and 32 RBIs for the Bulldogs, while Davis hit .445 with 33 RBIs. read more ...

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Chuck Palahniuk Announces Fight Club 2 Graphic Novel Sequel ...

If the Star Wars prequels taught us anything, it?s that people love it when their favorite film universes get rebooted with annoying tiny kids in them, right? Of course they do! That?s probably why Chuck Palahniuk recently revealed that he?ll be returning to his 1996 novel?Fight Club to tell the story of Jack and Marla?s son ? but from the point of view of Tyler Durden. Yay?

Palahniuk?? and I refuse to spell his name correctly past this point on the grounds that I had way too much fun making up fake ones ? announced at Comic-Con this weekend that the story will take place ten years after the events of the original book. Jack and Marla are married?and bored, because of course they are, when suddenly?Jack?s son is kidnapped by Tyler Durden, who still lurks within Jack?s subconscious.

In the official statement on his website,?Palhallayuk?promised a ?dark?and messy? serialized graphic novel, but admitted that it probably won?t see the light of day until 2015 due to contractual obligations. He doesn?t yet have a specific publisher in mind, but says that fellow author?Chelsea Cain ?has been introducing [him] to artists and creators from Marvel, DC and Dark Horse, and they?re walking [him] through the process.?

Honestly, I?m surprised that?Palfalfaduck?didn?t make the switch to graphic novels earlier than this. As the film version of?Fight Club?proved to all of us, his dialogue-heavy, clippy prose style translates much more smoothly to a visual medium. A revisited?Fight Club comic book full of graphic fights and gorgeous David Aja-style art would have been a real no-brainer. Alas, instead we get a weird Taken-crossover of a sequel. You know, eventually.

In the meantime, Cumberchuck Palahnibach is hard at work on his upcoming novel, Beautful You, as well a short story collection featuring Cain and other authors.

(via Collider)

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Sony patent proposes camera button to send vital-signs info

Sony has filed a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a way for smartphone users to tag the photos they take with their vital signs. The patent proposes a "camera button with integrated sensors," where the user can tag photos with vital sign information such as blood pressure and body temperature. It's all about integrated sensors.

The patent application filed last November and made known earlier this week is from Sony Mobile Communications in Lund, Sweden. The patent application describes a mobile device camera sensor that records the stats of the photo taker, information including skin conductance, body temperature, blood pressure, respiratory rate, pulse rate, and blood oxygen level.

That information would be recorded into memory and tagged to a specific photo, a new twist in metadata for digital photos. But who would use this and why? You won't get many answers from the patent application, which descries the sensors but does not specify which application areas could result.

Here's at least a possible clue, though. "At Sony, we are targeting the medical business for mid- to long-term growth," the Sony President and CEO, Kazuo Hirai, has said. As a major exporter of consumer electronics, they have not lost sight of the opportunity their technology presents for health products. "We can leverage our technology base in image-capturing sensors, lenses, 3-D technology, image processing, to mention just a few areas," Hirai said in an interview in Tokyo last year.

The technology in the patent application possibly, as a guess, may be used as part of a patient's dealings with doctor's offices and hospitals. The patient could possibly take a photo and attach vital signs without having to be hooked up to medical equipment. The patent application makes the following point.

"Usually when measuring vital signs, sensors, connected by wires to bulky measuring equipment, have to be placed or used on the person's body. However, in this case the measuring of vital signs has to be done in another way since using cumbersome sensors and measuring equipment is not a viable option."

According to the application, the "first aspect of the present invention relates to a method for tagging a recorded image in a mobile communication device, wherein said recorded image is recorded by a camera unit in said mobile communication device, the method comprising the steps monitoring, using at least one sensor in said mobile communication device, a user's vital signs, recording sensor information relating to said user's vital signs when said user operates said camera unit in said mobile communication device and is in contact with at least one of said at least one sensors in said mobile communication device, recording an image from said camera unit when said user operates said camera unit in said mobile communication device, determining a tag based on said recorded sensor information, assigning said tag to said recorded image and storing and organizing said recorded image in a memory in said mobile communication device based on said tag."

The sensor information, it added, may comprise information regarding any of the following user's vital signs: body temperature, pulse rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, blood oxygen level and skin conductance. The application mentioned a sensor integrated in a camera button in the mobile communication device, "wherein said sensor and camera button may be operated when said user operates said camera unit for recording an image." The inventor named in the patent application is Gunnar Klinghult.

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I saw a lady taking pictures of the Sky, and upon looking up - that sky was pretty busy, and she explains.http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2002 pr/21/uk.medicalscienceMillions subjected to germ warfare tests in the UK - see the guardian link aboveMillions were in germ war testsMuch of Britain was exposed to bacteria sprayed in secret trialsShare 9785inShare7EmailAntony Barnett, public affairs editorThe Observer, Sunday 21 April 2002 10.23 BSTThe Ministry of Defence turned large parts of the country into a giant laboratory to conduct a series of secret germ warfare tests on the public.A government report just released provides for the first time a comprehensive official history of Britain's biological weapons trials between 1940 and 1979.Many of these tests involved releasing potentially dangerous chemicals and micro-organisms over vast swaths of the population without the public being told.While details of some secret trials have emerged in recent years, the 60-page report reveals new information about more than 100 covert experiments.

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Bordens win Baywood golf cart parade

Baywood in Long Neck has an annual July 4 golf cart parade. Entries are crazy - including tiki bars, Egyptian pyramids, and more. But this year, Baywood residents Jack and Lisa Borden, who married in June, decided to further celebrate their wedding in the Baywood Golf Car Parade. They won first place out of many entries.

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Defecation Nation: Pig Waste Likely to Rise in U.S. from Business Deal

A proposed acquisition of Smithfield Foods would send pork to China and leave more pig feces in the U.S., potentially increasing the risk of superbug infections and other diseases

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We put up with a lot of crap?literally.

Last year, at least 4.7 billion gallons of hog manure in the U.S. came from one company, Smithfield foods, the nation's leading pork producer. The feces load will rise if U.S. regulators green-light a proposed merger that would bring the firm under the auspices of a China-based company. That increase could also promote the growth of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and increase health risks for hog farm workers and the communities living around them.

Under a proposed multibillion-dollar deal, Hong Kong?based Shuanghui International Holdings would buy Virginia-based Smithfield Foods. The stated purpose of the merger, the companies say, is to efficiently increase pork production. If the deal goes as planned, Smithfield will ultimately export more meat to China, where the appetite for pork continues to climb upward even as Americans buy less of it. But with that expected production boost comes an uptick in hog feces left in the U.S.?and subsequent health and environmental risks.

The impacts of industrial-scale hog production like Smithfield?s have played out in the courts and medical journals for decades?largely from the way the firms handle the waste. The majority of hog feces from Smithfield sits in earthen lagoons where it naturally ages for six to 12 months before the slurry is then sprayed on agricultural fields as fertilizer.

Studies on communities living around such farms have indicated individuals exposed to the odors and emissions from around the lagoons have more respiratory complaints and increased asthma symptoms. Moreover, when hogs are raised in crowded environments in industrial-scale farms they require greater quantities of antibiotics (pdf) to promote growth and compensate for unsanitary conditions. That antibiotic use is linked with increased antibiotic resistance in humans.

Indeed, researchers in particular worry that antibiotic-laden hog manure can seep into the water and air as well as bodies of people surrounding such farms, with subtle implications both for health and for the spread of antibiotic resistance. In one study high concentrations of antibiotic and multidrug-resistant bacteria were detected inside and downwind of an industrial-size swine production facility, but not upwind. Other work linked antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in groundwater and private drinking wells to swine facilities located upstream. This month more than 580 residents of eastern North Carolina?the state with the most Smithfield hogs?filed complaints against the company, charging that the pollution from that hog production deprives them of the use and enjoyment of their property.

Smithfield, which operates across 12 states, brought 15.8 million hogs to market in fiscal 2012?and each hog, according to the company, produced an average of 1,100 to 1,300 liters of manure during its lifetime (including the water used to push the pig feces into pits below their pens). Smithfield says there will be no changes to the company?s production practices or its sustainability plan. ?It will be the same old Smithfield?only better,? Larry Pope, company president and chief executive officer, told the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry on July 10. ?Without this opportunity to grow outside of the United States there is no opportunity for U.S. pork producers to expand.?

With the deal, Shuanghui is getting something more important than more meat, charges Usha Haley, professor of management and expert on emerging markets at West Virginia University. The company would also be acquiring the clout of Smithfield?s name and knowledge of U.S. production practices and technology, she says. The merger would then help fuel China?s shift toward even more hog farms that adopt Smithfield?s vertically integrated processes?namely, industrial-size farms that raise pigs in close quarters and dispose of their waste through the lagoon-and-spray method, thereby threatening to reproduce the same health and antibiotic-resistance issues in China.

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The result is a sometimes gritty, occasionally charming Highland hybrid, but the final balance feels slightly off-kilter.

Loach takes us through the mysteries of whisky making, exploring the subtle tastes and scents in ways that will have audiences wishing they had a dram at hand. But a glass also serves more symbolic purposes ...

If you want to look for it, you'll find a layer of metaphor (the distilling process as a symbol of the characters' evolution) and social-realist commentary amid the gentle, life-affirming laughs.

[Ken Loach] and his longtime screenwriter, Paul Laverty, find a good balance between drama and wacky character moments.

A fairy tale with its feet firmly on the ground.

A lark, but it's a serious-minded lark, addressing issues of class and culture, the haves and have-nots.

They're a fun bunch of tart-tongued Scots, and if their adventures don't amount to anything of thematic significance, watching them is a pleasure.

A surprisingly warm and heartfelt film about a flawed criminal struggling to start a new life after the birth of his first child.

Ken Loach walks on the lighter side

The title, by the way, refers to the distillation process: the 2% of whisky that evaporates in the barrel is known as "the angel's share." I'm afraid there's more than 2% evaporation going on in Loach's latest.

Much like a stiff drink at the end of a long day, "The Angels' Share" gets the job done, but you're probably not going to remember it in the morning.

Loach's realism lends an easygoing, ramshackle quality to the film that smoothes over any lack of tightness.

Director Ken Loach's latest glimpse of the U.K. underclass is really two rather different movies, either of which I would've enjoyed on their own. But they don't really fit together in any satisfying or even logical way.

Whether Robbie pulls off his caper should be left for the audience to discover. But Loach's great cinematic switcheroo goes off almost without a hitch.

As heartwarming and uplifting as any tale could be that features vicious beatings and grand larceny.

While it has some likable characters, particularly its charismatic lead, it's impossible to shake the feeling that we've seen this movie before.

Lead actor Paul Brannigan, the product of Glasgow's working-class East End, is a natural.

The usual Loachian elements are all in place, but there is a gentle spirit at work here as well, and not just the alcoholic spirits around which the plot revolves.

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Analysis: Contentious oil spill claims set up BP for long legal battle

File photo of fire boat response crews battling the blazing remnants of the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon off Louisiana

By Mica Rosenberg

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Faced with hundreds of damage claims it says are fictitious and inflated, BP must decide whether to dive into a protracted legal battle it had sought to avoid when it settled a class action over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The British oil giant asked the Fifth U.S. Circuit of Appeals in New Orleans this week to halt the claims. Should its challenge before the three-judge panel fail, BP will face a choice: ask for a hearing by all the court's judges, appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, or try picking off individual cases one by one, legal experts say.

BP declined to comment on what its strategy would be.

At issue is how to interpret a 1,000-page settlement document BP negotiated with a committee of lawyers working on behalf of thousands of individuals and businesses affected by the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion. The blast killed 11 men and dumped millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf in one of the country's worst environmental disasters.

BP estimated the settlement, approved by a U.S. District Court in Louisiana in 2012, would cost $7.8 billion, but the payouts may end up ballooning to billions more.

The company has already paid more than $2 billion toward the 198,021 claims filed under the agreement. Overall it says it handed out over $10 billion to those affected by the spill and around $14 billion in cleanup and response costs.

Several lawyers not involved in the case said BP should have known it might be on the hook for more money and erred by agreeing to a deal that had no payout cap.

BP said it stands by the settlement but insists the problem is the person appointed by the court to dole out the money, former Louisiana plaintiffs lawyer Patrick Juneau. The tussle is over how the administrator is calculating the amount of business losses due to the spill a claimant can be compensated for. BP takes issue with the time frame and the accounting methods Juneau is using.

Geoff Morrell, a BP spokesman, said Juneau's "misinterpretation" of the agreement "has ignited a feeding frenzy among trial lawyers attempting to secure money for themselves and their clients that neither deserves."

In a statement, Juneau said, "the proper place to address issues concerning the settlement agreement is in the courts."

U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier of New Orleans, who is overseeing the explosion of spill-related litigation, has repeatedly backed Juneau's interpretation.

So BP appealed to the higher court.

LEGAL OPTIONS

At times during the oral arguments on Monday, the Fifth Circuit judges threw tough comments at BP's lawyer Ted Olson, who served as U.S. solicitor general under President George W. Bush.

"The parties can't come in and change the agreement after it's been made," Judge James Dennis said.

There is no time limit for the Fifth Circuit to decide BP's appeal. If the three judges rule against BP, the company can ask for what is called an "en banc" hearing at the same court but in front of all the Fifth Circuit judges.

Fewer than 3 percent of en banc hearing requests are granted, according to the Fifth Circuit's website.

Also built into the settlement agreement itself is an internal appeal process that BP can use to challenge individual payments it believes were excessive and victims can use if they feel they were wrongly denied.

Internal appeal panels are chosen by Barbier from a list of nominees put forward by both sides. Thousands of appeals have already been filed this way. The process can be costly: There is a filing fee, and if the ruling goes against BP, the company is required to pay 5 percent over and above the original damage award.

If either side is not satisfied with the decision of the internal panel, they can ask Barbier to take up a discretionary review on a case-by-case basis.

Joseph Rice, a lawyer who spent a year and a half debating the settlement terms with BP on behalf of the plaintiffs, said BP has taken a handful of cases to this stage, but Barbier has not chosen to hear them yet.

If all else fails, of course, there is always the highest court in the land. That would be a long shot for BP.

Arthur Miller, an expert on civil litigation at New York University, doubts it will go that far, saying the Supreme Court prefers to hear cases that set legal precedent and are not focused on narrow contract questions. "This is a one-off situation."

Settling in the first place was meant to help BP avoid drawn-out litigation, like the 20-year legal brawl over the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill off Alaska. Claimants who opted in to BP's deal gave up their right to sue the company later.

The contested settlement replaced a process overseen by Kenneth Feinberg, an attorney who managed compensation for the victims of the September 11 attacks. Some plaintiffs were upset that damage awards under Feinberg were not flowing fast enough, and both sides agreed it would be better to settle.

Barbier is also overseeing a separate, multi-billion-dollar case to determine BP's federal pollution fines under the Clean Water Act, with potentially much higher liabilities. The second phase of that trial begins in September.

(Reporting by Mica Rosenberg; Additional reporting by Kathy Finn; Editing by Howard Goller, Amy Stevens and Prudence Crowther)

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Police investigating threat to Montreal Impact player on Twitter

Montreal Impact forward Davy Arnaud is tackled by Colorado Rapids midfielder Brian Mullan during a game at Saputo Stadium on June 29. (QMI Agency)

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The Montreal Impact announced Wednesday an ongoing investigation into a profanity-laden tweet that threatened one of its first-team players.

?The Impact is taking this incident very seriously and will not accept threats of any kind made by individuals in regards to its players, coaches or administrative staff, in order to ensure their safety,? a press release read.

?I hope your family dies in a fire,? Twitter user @SBarbosa17 sent to Impact attacker Davy Arnaud.

Arnaud responded to the tweet: ?I know we lost and I made a mistake, but I deserve this? I forgive you.?

Arnaud?s mistake against the Colorado Rapids on June 29 was the deciding factor in a shocking 4-3 loss at Saputo Stadium in Montreal.

The Service ? la communaut? R?gion Sud, du Service de police de la Ville de Montr?al (SPVM) has opened an investigation and the individual in question will be interviewed by police.

It?s unclear if the above tweet is related to the matter ? as it?s not profanity-laden ? but it seems to indicate the nature of the abuse the 33-year-old sustained following the MLS fixture.

Was the tweet at Arnaud over the line?

Source: http://www.torontosun.com/2013/07/10/police-investigating-threat-to-montreal-impact-player-on-twitter

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