All eyes are now on two competing proposals in the Senate

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) has been passed by the US House of Representatives, despite the threat of a possible veto by louis vuitton shoes the president. The bill would allow the government to pass on information about hacking threats to commercial companies, and allow them to share their user's information with the government while shielding them from prosecution for doing so. Privacy campaigners and most recently the White House have come out against the bill but in the end it passed by 248 votes to 168, with a solid Republican turnout and 42 Democrats crossing the floor. “We can’t stand by and do nothing as US companies are hemorrhaging from the cyber looting coming from nation states like China and Russia,” said the bill's sponsor Congressman Mike Rogers, who Opensecrets.org claims received over $100,000 from companies supporting the legislation. “America will be a little safer and our economy better protected from foreign cyber predators with this legislation. I commend the bipartisan effort on this bill. Some amendments to the original bill were passed to moderate its effects. Corporate information on users can now only be shared with the government for investigations into cybersecurity, cybercrime, protecting people from "harm", stopping child exploitation, and the old favorite louis vuitton wallets national security. However, this wasn't enough to satisfy privacy advocates. "CISPA goes too far for little reason. Cybersecurity does not have to mean abdication of Americans’ online privacy. As we’ve seen repeatedly, once the government gets expansive national security authorities, there’s no going back. We encourage the Senate to let this horrible bill fade into obscurity," said ACLU legislative counsel Michelle Richardson in a statement. All eyes are now on two competing proposals in the Senate, one sponsored by Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) and the other by Republican senator for Arizona and former presidential hopeful John McCain. If CISPA is tied to one of these bills and passes, then it's gut check time for the Obama White House. On Wednesday the White House said the president's advisers would recommend vetoing the bill. Then again, the White House has promised a veto before on the National Defense Louis vuitton shoes discount for women sale outlet Authorization Act and then chickened out at the last minute. Internet rights organizations have pledged to keep the pressure up, both on the White House and on the Senate, to kill the bill. "We're optimistic about bringing the fight to the Senate. Once the public debate has matured we'll see a lot more resistance to this," Dan Auerbach, staff technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) told The Register.

Teams stood pat for several picks

For a draft with the top two picks decided weeks louis vuitton shoes sale in advance, the early part of Thursday's first round has been unpredictable. Roughly 30 minutes before the Colts took Andrew Luck first overall, the Cleveland Browns moved up from the No. 4 spot to No. 3 and selected former Alabama running back Trent Richardson. Cleveland also gave Minnesota fourth-, fifth- and seventh-round choices in this year's draft. The Vikings chose to stay at No. 4 and draft left tackle Matt Kalil out of USC, but the Jacksonville Jaguars then moved up to No. 5 in a trade with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and selected former Oklahoma State receiver Justin Blackmon. The Bucs, who took safety Mark Barron at No. 7, also got Jackonville's fourth-round pick in the trade. The St. Louis Rams, possibly hoping to land Blackmon at No. 6, traded that pick to Dallas and the Cowboys selected cornerback Morris Claiborne from LSU. The Cowboys gave up the No. 14 overall pick and their second-rounder (No. 45) to move up eight spots. It was the second first-round trade for the Rams, who weeks ago moved back from No. 2 to No. 6 in a trade with Washington. St. Louis eventually took louis vuitton necklace defensive tackle Michael Brockers at No. 14. Teams stood pat for several picks, but the movement resumed at No. 12 when the Philadelphia Eagles traded Nos. 15, 114 and 172 to the Seattle Seahawks and selected Mississippi State defensive tackle Fletcher Cox. Cleveland and Jacksonville had two of the worst offenses in football last year. Richardson and Blackmon were both regarded as the top prospects at their respective positions. Richardson set Alabama single-season records for rushing yards (1,679) and touchdowns (21) last season, while the 6-foot-1, 207-pound Blackmon caught 122 passes for 1,522 yards and 18 touchdowns last season. Blackmon also had 111 receptions for 1,782 yards and 20 touchdowns in 2010. The 6-foot-7, 306-pound Kalil left college after his junior year, giving the Vikings an obvious upgrade for their offensive line to better protect young quarterback Christian Ponder's blind side. Claiborne, an All-American at LSU, led the Tigers Fashion lv women shoes 2012 outlet discount white with six interceptions last season and won the Jim Thorpe Award as the nation's top defensive back. He was also LSU's top kickoff returner, averaging 25 yards per return with a 99-yard touchdown at West Virginia.

The Yankees revealed the extent of Pineda’s injury

New York Yankees starter Michael Pineda will miss www.louisvuitononline.com the entire season because of a tear in the labrum of his right shoulder. The Yankees said the right-hander will have arthroscopic surgery Tuesday in New York and be out for about a year. “It’s a loss,” manager Joe Girardi said Wednesday. “He was a guy that we were counting on this year. We traded for him, and unfortunately he’s hurt.” New York acquired Pineda from Seattle in January, giving up top catching prospect Jesus Montero to get the 23-year-old All-Star pitcher. Pineda felt weakness in his shoulder during an extended spring training game Saturday, which came three weeks after he had problems in a spring training start. The tear was discovered in a medical exam after that. When Pineda experienced discomfort in the back of louis vuitton scarves the shoulder during spring training March 30, the initial diagnosis was tendon inflammation in his right shoulder. Girardi said Pineda wasn’t quite himself during spring training, but that the 6-foot-7, 260-pound pitcher was making his starts and doing his bullpens without any complaints of pain. “He just felt like his arm was weak, so it explains why it was weak now,” Girardi said. “When and where and how and what we did doesn’t matter now. What we have to do is more forward and try to get this kid healthy.” Pineda was 9-10 with a 3.74 ERA in 171 innings last year as a rookie for the light-hitting Mariners. He’s now going to miss an entire season, and possibly more. “It’s hard because you get a chance and you Bestseller louis vuitton shoes for men discount on sale 2012 blue realize your dream and you have a good first year and you’re looking forward to taking the things that you’ve learned from your first year and applying them to the second year, and you get hurt. It’s a frustrating time,” Girardi said. “Our job is to make sure that we keep him focused on his rehab and we get him back for next year.” The manager expressed optimism that Pineda would return healthy because he’s young and strong. “He does have youth on his side,” Girardi said. “And he doesn’t have a ton of mileage in his arm as a younger player. That bodes well for him.” The Yankees revealed the extent of Pineda’s injury on the same day that 39-year-old left-hander Andy Pettitte made his third minor league start in his comeback from a one-year hiatus. Pettitte allowed three earned runs and seven singles in 5-plus innings for Double-A Trenton. He struck out three and walked one, throwing 59 of his 81 pitches for strikes. Pettitte is still expected to make one or two minor league starts before possibly rejoining the Yankees. Girardi said he felt the Yankees would be OK with the rotation for now because he believes “our guys can pitch. That’s the bottom line, guys just have to get it done.” As for Pettitte’s eventual return, Girardi feels like so many others who assume that “Andy’s going to be the Andy when he left.” Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights burberry ties reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

As for patent litigation battles with rivals

Shares in Apple, the world's most valuable technology company, shot up 8 percent in after-hours trade, after falling as much as 13 percent from a record high of $644 in the past two weeks. The results prompted a slew of analysts to louisvuitononline raise their target price for Apple. Apple sold 35.1 million iPhones - which account for about half its revenue - in the quarter, outpacing around 30 million expected by Wall Street analysts. Pent-up demand for the iPhone 4S helped lift revenue for China, Taiwan and Hong Kong five-fold. "The room to grow in China is still very large, especially because Apple hasn't started working with China Mobile. Once they start cooperation, it'll keep the growth momentum going even in Q2 when global iPhone 4S sales are expected to drop," said Mike Fang, a fund manager at Paradigm Asset Management based in Taipei. China Mobile, the world's largest mobile operator by subscribers, is the only Chinese carrier that does not have a contract with Apple to sell iPhones. "Right now, Apple stores are only open in first-tier cities in China, so there's still a lot of room to expand." Net income rose to $11.6 billion, or $12.30 a share, from $6 billion, or $6.40 per share, a year earlier, outpacing a Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S consensus estimate of $10.04 a share. Analysts noted that margins had also increased beyond expectations, despite some concerns they could suffer if Apple sold more older models to ward off competition from lower priced Google Inc Android phones - made by the likes of Motorola Mobility and Samsung Electronics. "That shows they are able to maintain their pricing without compromising on growth," said Morningstar analyst Michael Holt. Fiscal second-quarter revenue jumped to $39.2 billion, 59 percent more than a year earlier and 6.5 percent higher than analysts' average forecasts. Helped by lower-than-expected commodity costs, www.louisvuitononline.com gross margins climbed to 47.4 percent from 41.4 percent a year earlier, above Wall Street's average forecast of 42.8 percent. "International iPhone sales were on fire," Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer told Reuters in an interview, noting the five-fold increase in Greater China sales to $7.9 billion. But sales of the iPad, the latest version of which hit store shelves in mid-March, came in at 11.8 million iPads, below an average forecast of up to 13 million. "There's no doubt looking in the last quarter and the Christmas season, Apple has executed very well. But you are starting to see the iPad ... reach some sort of saturation with the current product," said Patrick Becker, a principal at Becker Capital Management, which does not own Apple shares. The results came after its shares - long considered a must-have in most U.S. equity portfolios - declined over the past couple of weeks in unusually volatile trading, as investors fretted over potential competitive and pricing pressures. Responding to concerns that wireless carriers may reduce subsidies for the iPhone, thereby lowering Apple's profit margin, Chief Executive Tim Cook said the subsidies aren't large when compared with what carriers can recoup from consumers over a 24-month contract period. So-called churn, or the rate that customers switch from the iPhone to other models, is the lowest of any phone they sell, which has a "significant, direct financial benefit to the carrier," Cook added. As for patent litigation battles with rivals, Cook said he preferred to settle if Apple could get a fair settlement. The company is fighting court battles with several Android phone makers, including Samsung, HTC Corp and Motorola in the United States and other countries. The company, which has said it will finally begin sharing its record cash hoard with investors via a quarterly dividend, added that $74 billion of its $110 billion in cash and securities was now parked outside the United States as of March 31. Apple's stock gained to $603.81 from a close of louis vuitton online $560.28 on the Nasdaq but is still far below an intraday high of $644 marked this month. Brokerages raising their target prices on the stock included Citigroup, which lifted its target to $720 from $700. "When you have a strong rally in a stock it often sells off for no better reason than uncertainty. I think you're going to see the naysayers go away," said Michael Yoshikami, chief executive of Destination Wealth Management.

Messi hasn't scored in his last three games

Lionel Messi walked off the Camp Nou pitch Beats by dr dre, cheap monster beats headphones outlet in tears, as one of the most dominant eras in European club football came to a crashing halt. He wasn't the only one shaking his head in disbelief. Despite going a man and two goals down in the first half, Chelsea pulled off one of the unlikeliest comebacks in Champions League history on Tuesday, earning a 2-2 draw Monster Beats Studio NFL Chicago Bears against Barcelona that sent the London club into the final 3-2 on aggregate and eliminated the defending champion. For the second time in two weeks, Chelsea withstood a continuous onslaught from the Spanish giants and displayed ruthless efficiency when their rare opportunities finally presented themselves. "It's a historical night for the club (and) I believe we deserve to be in the final,'' said Chelsea's interim manager Roberto Di Matteo, whose team will face either Bayern Munich or Real Madrid in the May 19 final at Munich's Allianz Arena. "We had a difficult season but we seem to always get something special out when we need to. That's part of the DNA of these players.'' For Barcelona, the result could mark the end of one of the most successful spells in European club football. The team was bidding for a third Champions League title in four years, and this loss came right on the heels of a 2-1 defeat to Real Madrid that all but ended its hopes of a fourth straight domestic league crown. With coach Pep Guardiola yet to decide whether to stay at the club, it means his reign could end without a major this year - although the Copa del Rey is still up for grabs as a consolation. "It hurts to lose this way because we were better and we gave it our all,'' said Barcelona midfielder Cesc Fabregas. "We needed the perfect game but we louis vuitton sunglasses weren't' perfect because we lacked goals.'' Despite coming into the second leg with a 1-0 lead, Chelsea's hopes had looked all but over after going down 2-0 and having captain John Terry sent off for a needless foul in the first half. But Ramires' audacious lob right before halftime gave the advantage back to the Blues on aggregate, and the Spanish giants never found away to recover after the break. After Messi blasted a penalty against the crossbar and hit the post with another shot, substitute Fernando Torres netted in injury time to make it 3-2 on aggregate and ensure that Chelsea reached the May 19 final at Allianz Arena in Munich. While Chelsea's players celebrated, Messi trudged off gucci sunglasses the field with his head buried in his shirt. "We're here because of this kid,'' Guardiola said. "I have no doubt he's going through a bad moment. That's the sad thing about this sport is that these things exist.'' For Chelsea, this was the crowning achievement in a remarkable and improbable turnaround led by di Matteo, who has also guided the team into the FA Cup final after manager Andre Villas-Boas was fired in March. Chelsea won the first leg 1-0 at Stamford Bridge last week after Didier Drogba scored with the hosts' only shot on target amid a series of wasted chances by Barcelona. It is Chelsea's first Champions League final since losing to Manchester United on penalties four years ago, and gives owner Roman Abramovich another burberry handbags chance to finally capture the elusive title in Europe's premier club competition. Sergio Busquets and Andres Iniesta had put Barcelona up 2-0 by the 44th as the Spanish club again dominated possession from the start - owning 73 percent for the game. In between those goals, Terry was given a straight red card for putting his knee into the back of Alexis Sanchez, making a Chelsea fightback look even more unlikely. "I feel as I let them down, I've apologized to them,'' said Terry, who will be absent from the final alongside another three Chelsea players to suspension. "Looking at the burberry ties replay, it does look like a red card.'' But just like at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea proved very opportunistic once it created a rare counterattack. Ramires ran onto a long through ball from Frank Lampard to send an impressive lob over Victor Valdes to calm Chelsea's nerves and boost the visitors morale as they headed back into the dressing room. "With 2-0 at halftime we would louis vuitton handbags have believed we could get it but this 2-1 was a little bit psychologically bad for us,'' said Guardiola, whose team also lost Gerard Pique in the first half to a concussion. "The penalty we didn't score and they got stronger.'' Barcelona's inability to convert its possession advantage into goals was symbolized by Messi's rare miss from the spot in the 49th, as the Argentina winger has now been held scoreless in seven meetings against Chelsea. Barcelona hasn't been able to beat Chelsea in the last seven meetings, either. Messi hasn't scored in his last three games, after netting 63 times previously this season. Torres, who has struggled all season, was then sent clear in acres of space and rounded Valdes to slot the ball into an empty net in injury time - his eighth goal in 11 games against oakley sunglasses Barcelona. "We knew this is how we had to play against Barcelona, even if sometimes it's not so attractive,'' said Torres, who replaced Drogba with 10 minutes left. "We used our strengths well and it worked for us in both games. They had their chances but they didn't finish and Ramires' goal gave us life.'' Cech was solid in Chelsea's goal as he stuck his foot out in the 19th to deny Messi following a slick exchange with Fabregas and also denied Javier Mascherano late in the second half. Sanchez saw his 54th-minute header fall wide of the near post before Cech stepped out to block Cuenca's shot after Drogba had tested Valdes with a long ball from inside the Chelsea half. Chelsea, which was eliminated by Barcelona Rayban fashion sunglasses online cheap sale DJYKIU60 in the 2009 semifinals after a contentious second leg, will be missing four players for the Munich final after Ramires, Branislav Ivanovic and Raul Meireles were all booked.

Biden barely stopped to answer the criticism from the GOP's Priebus

With a politically threatened Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., at his side, Vice President Joe Biden mugged before the television cameras Monday to tout the Democrats' successes cheap monster beats headphones outlet in helping to restore the endangered Everglades. Biden and Nelson's speeches were short on any new initiatives and focused more on the efforts of President Barack Obama's administration in accelerating and spending more for Everglades restoration projects. Republicans were invited, but none accepted to share the stage with Nelson, Biden or Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings. From the stagecraft to the recurring Obama administration references to the made-for-TV images of the three politicians air-boating through the Everglades, the event had a strong campaign quality to it as the general-election season starts in the nation's largest battleground state. "If you're a political official, of which of course the vice president would be a prime example, everything you do is by definition political, said former Monster Beats Studio MLB New York Yankees Democratic Sen. Bob Graham, who attended the event. "And now that we're in an election year, it becomes more focused." Right now, the most recent state poll shows that Nelson and the Obama-Biden ticket are leading their Republican rivals in Florida - a must-win for Republicans. But the race will likely tighten and neither Obama nor Nelson has more than 50 percent of the theoretical vote. Republicans Connie Mack, George LeMieux and Mike McCalister are vying to unseat Nelson - the only statewide elected Democrat in Florida. Reinforcing the event's campaign-style flavor was Nelson's introduction by Hastings, who received applause for saying the Democrat was about to win his "third term as our United States senator." Nelson said he was happy to give Biden "a little louis vuitton shoes glimpse into this extraordinary God's creation." "The vice president got to see the River of Grass," Nelson said. "And he got to see those alligators. He didn't get to see the Burmese pythons, which we are desperately trying to get rid of and, finally, thanks to this administration, they have stopped the importation of this invasive species. Amen to that." Biden also touted the administration's successes. He suggested that no Everglades restoration project happened before he and Obama were elected. Biden, though, was burberry sunglasses referring only to the Everglades restoration projects approved under a federal law passed in 2000. Biden made no mention of the fact that many were in the permitting and design phase under the previous administration of President George W. Bush. Biden also failed to credit former Republican Gov. Jeb Bush in highlighting a restoration project in Collier County called Picayune Strand. Still, environmentalists point out that the Obama administration has called for more spending and more restoration projects more quickly. Dawn Shirreffs, Everglades program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association, an environmental group that advocates for restoration, said the visit was important to maintaining support for the project in Washington. "If we're going to keep plugging away, we have to be able to show there has been success and progress," she said. In addition to highlighting the Picayune Strand restoration project, Biden drew attention to other cleanup projects, such as the $400 million plan to replace sections of the Tamiami Trail with a bridge that would allow more water to flow through the historic River of Grass. For the administration, Everglades restoration burberry bags is a good way to showcase its environmental bonafides as well as its argument that government spending creates jobs. Biden noted that the administration has kick-started a $1.5 billion investment into re-plumbing the Everglades, which he says has helped fund 6,600 "good-paying jobs" through the Army Corps of Engineers and "and thousands of indirect jobs." Biden said about 4.3 million tourists visit "the federal portions of the Everglades" and that the current restoration projects that are under way will produce $46.5 billion in economic activity in Florida. "What we're talking about here is an economic engine that generates millions of tourists to Florida who are renting hotel rooms, buying food, renting autos, taking out airboats and everything else you can imagine that goes along with it," Biden said. Also, Biden pointed out, Everglades restoration helps burberry outlet guarantee freshwater for a third of the state's population and a large part of its agricultural industry. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus issued a written statement bashing Biden's "taxpayer funded trip to the swing state of Florida (that) demonstrates how worried the Obama campaign is about its chances in November." When asked about the criticism, Nelson said that "about 99.5 percent of Floridians know that restoration in the Everglades is important. It has been this administration that has helped us get things moving. And right here this bridge that's being built that'll let the water louis vuitton handbags flow from the north into the Everglades national park. Proof's in the pudding." But when asked if this was more a political than policy event, Nelson said: "When you see the Everglades, you see the necessity of policy being in action real time." Pressed again, Nelson replied: "Of course it is. It's policy." Biden barely stopped to answer the criticism from the GOP's Priebus. "Tell him to come down and take a oakley sunglasses look at the good work we're doing," he said. Vice-President Joe Biden's visit was only the latest show of support for Everglades restoration, a popular project in a key swing state. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has made numerous stops, the latest in January to announce a federal ban on imported Burmese python that have invaded the Everglades, and has also proposed establishing a new Everglades headwaters national wildlife refuge north of Lake Okeechobee. The Agriculture Department is also bankrolling Everglades conservation easements, spending $100 million last year to acquire development rights to some 24,000 acres in four counties around Lake Okeechobee. The previous year, USDA paid $89 million to acquire development rights for another 26,000 acres. Earlier this year, the White House proposed nearly $232 million for Everglades restoration in its 2012-13 budget, including money to finish a one-mile, $81 million Tamiami Rayban fashion sunglasses online cheap sale DJYKIU60 Trail bridge now under construction, and funding that should complete a C-111 Canal overhaul in South Miami-Dade County aimed at restoring water flow to Florida Bay.

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Happy Galaxy Nexus Day, Sprint fans! Or louis vuitton sunglasses soon-to-be fans. While the good news is that you can finally get your hands on one of the more highly rated Android phones around, you won't be able to tap into the full capabilities of Samsung's smartphone just yet. Why's that? Sprint is still in the process of rolling out a 4G LTE network to match the Galaxy Nexus' connection capabilities. Which means that you're going to be stuck with a simpler 3G connection for the time being until Sprint begins its 4G LTE launch. Six cities are expected to go live with Sprint 4G LTE gucci sunglasses by the middle of the year, likely around June: Atlanta, Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, Kansas City, and Baltimore. And Sprint's party line is that it'll be able to cover 123 million users with 4G service by the end of the year, increasing to 250 million by the end of 2013. So what's the point of buying a 4G LTE smartphone before the network rolls out? Ignoring all of the device's accoutrements for a moment, which includes support for NFC payments through Google Wallet (an app sadly missing from the Verizon-based Galaxy Nexus) and a tighter integration of Google Voice, the Galaxy Nexus is actually quite a bit cheaper to order on Sprint than it is on burberry handbags competing Verizon. If you're going through Sprint directly, the new Galaxy Nexus costs a mere $200 with a new two-year service agreement. That's all of $100 cheaper than a similar arrangement through Verizon, but it's still not the best deal around. The third-party shop Wirefly is listing Sprint's Galaxy Nexus for $150 (same two-year service deal applies for new customers or upgrades). That's great news for Sprint customers (or to-be customers) looking to save a bit of cash when switching over to the Galaxy Nexus, but not something you might want to brag about to your Verizon-leaning friends. A Galaxy Nexus and a new two-year agreement on Verizon costs a mere $50 on Wirefly; only existing Verizon customers upgrading to a Galaxy Nexus have to pay the full $150. Also joining Sprint's family today is the four-inch LG Viper ($99, direct from Sprint; $20-$50 from Wirefly) and the LG Optimus Elite, a 3.5-inch Android smartphone available burberry ties exclusively on Sprint for $30 (following a $50 mail-in rebate). Richard Grenell, a former Bush official, removed hundreds of Tweets and comments from his online profile this weekend after reporters zeroed in on his penchant for snarky comments about women in politics. “Hillary is starting to look liek (sic) Madeline Albright,” Grenell wrote on his Twitter page, comparing current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the the first female secretary of state, who served under Bill Clinton. Grenell was tapped Thursday as a foreign policy spokesman for presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney. His knowledge of foreign affairs became irrelevant as reporters immediately began going through his Twitter comments and flagged some of his less chivalrous jibes. In a swipe at First Lady Michelle Obama, louis vuitton handbags an exercise buff who has led a national campaign against childhood obesity, he claimed she was “sweating on the East Room carpet” after working out. Grenell also zeroed in on GOP nominee Newt Gingrich’s wife Callista, wondering whether her “hair snaps on.” In a another tweet directed at Callista, Gingrich’s third wife, he said she “stands there like she is wife #1.” Grenell apologized for oakley sunglasses the comments Friday afternoon, and said he would remove the offensive notations. “My tweets were written to be tongue-in-cheek and humorous but I can now see how they can also be hurtful,” Grenell wrote Politico Friday after he was called on the carpet. “I didn’t mean them that way and will remove them from twitter. I apologize for any hurt they caused,” Grenell wrote. Some 800 tweets were then scrubbed from Grenell’s accounts 2012 marc jacobs fashion sunglasses bestseller on sale DUPO5787 between Friday and Sunday, noted Huffington Post media reporter monster beats solo Michael Calderone. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who Grenell said was a “dead ringer” for teenage heartthrob Justin Bieber, was not amused by the comments, nor appeased by his apology. On Friday’s show, she asked if Team Romney showed “any sign that they understand that a long string of really nasty, sexist tweets about Callista Gingrich’s appearance might be alienating to people who might otherwise consider voting for Mr. Romney,” the Huffington Post reported. The flap over the tweets followed some conservative Monster beats studio spider man red bue over the ear backlash on his selection since Grenell is openly gay.

Jim Treacher of the Daily Caller wrote

My knowledge of Dutch is limited to the bedrock stuff monster beats solo that a tourist needs, like, “What time does the Heineken tour start?” and, “I think I need a carpenter to remove my wooden shoes.” (“Hoe laat is de Heinekein tour te starten?” and “Ik denk dat ik moet een timmerman om mijn klompen te verwijderen.”) So when Erik Mouthaan, the U.S. bureau chief and senior correspondent for RTL Dutch TV, came to my office the other day to interview me (in English, thank goodness) and did his intro in Dutch for his viewers in the Netherlands, I caught only one word: “absurditeit.” Which is Dutch for “absurdity.” It was a good starting point, Mouthaan decided, Monster beats studio spider man red bue over the ear to begin explaining part of America’s 2012 presidential election campaign to non-Americans. I found it hard to disagree. After all, while non-Americans can certainly understand American interest with the economy, the war in Afghanistan, jobs and the environment, they might have a bit more of a struggle placing Seamus the dog in perspective. Seamus the dog is a story, to use an old newspaper term, that “has feet.” And not just four of them. David Letterman has not only done innumerable jokes louis vuitton sunglasses about Seamus, but very seriously said on the air on Feb. 16: “As a president, you want a guy who makes good decisions. Putting your dog on the roof of your car . . . is not a good idea. That’s it. End of story. I don’t care about anything else.” In case you have been on extended submarine duty beneath the polar ice cap and have missed the story, in 1983 Mitt Romney put the family Irish setter, Seamus, atop the family car in a dog carrier for a 12-hour trip to Canada. Seamus did his “business” down the side of the car, streaking gucci sunglasses the windows, at which point Romney calmly pulled into a gas station, hosed Seamus down and then resumed the trip. New York Times columnist Gail Collins has written about Seamus numerous times, and Romney critics believe the episode demonstrates Romney’s robotic lack of human emotion. Fox News’ Chris Wallace said to Romney: “I have a yellow Lab named Winston. I would no sooner put him in a kennel on the roof of my car than I would one of my children. Question: ‘What were you thinking?’ ” Romney claimed that Seamus “climbed up there regularly, enjoyed himself. . . . It was where he was comfortable.” Which led one unidentified top burberry handbags Democrat to tell Jake Tapper of ABC News, “When Seamus crapped all over the car, I’m fairly certain he wasn’t expressing pleasure.” According to the Humane Society of the United States, 39 percent of U.S. households own a dog and 28 percent own two dogs. Some 62 percent of all households in America have a pet of some kind and are expected to spend nearly $53 billion on them this year. The treatment of Seamus remains so worrisome to the Romney campaign that Ann Romney was compelled to say just the other day that Seamus “loved” being up in that carrier burberry ties during that trip. But when Fred Malek, a big-time Republican powerbroker, who once tracked down Jews for Richard Nixon, recently held a fund-raising birthday party for Ann Romney, websites revived a 2006 story from The Washington Post that revealed that Malek, at age 22, was one of five men arrested in Peoria, Ill., for beating a dog to death and barbecuing it. Malek said he was drunk, took no active part in the killing or barbecuing and was in no shape to stop the events from happening. Charges against him were louis vuitton handbags dropped when one of the accused men said he acted alone. Brad Bannon, spokesman for the SuperPAC “Mitt is Mean,” said, “I am surprised Gov. Romney is going to go to this fund-raiser and get money from a guy who barbecued a dog, especially with Mitt Romney’s history with dogs.” And that’s where things stood until Tuesday night, when the Daily Caller website reprinted the following excerpt from Barack Obama’s book Dreams From My Father: “With Lolo [Obama’s Indonesian stepfather], I learned how to eat small green chili peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher) and roasted grasshopper (crunchy).” “Say what you want about Romney,” Jim Treacher of the Daily Caller wrote, “but at least he only put a dog on the roof of his car, not the roof of his mouth.” On Jan. 30, David Axelrod, the Obama campaign’s top oakley sunglasses political strategist, had tweeted a picture of President Obama lovingly transporting the family dog, Bo, in back of the presidential limousine, with the comment, “How loving owners transport their dogs.” Last night, in view of Obama’s book, Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior adviser to Mitt Romney, struck back with the tweet: “In hindsight, a chilling photo.” Translation: Obama is just fattening up Bo for a midnight snack. Twitter lit up with funny, semi-funny and not-so-funny rejoinders, the best of which probably was: “Q. So, Mr. President, where shall we go to eat? A. I know a great Spot.” So what would you tell a foreign visitor? That all this is 2012 marc jacobs fashion sunglasses bestseller on sale DUPO5787 part of the glorious absurdity, boisterousness and vitality of the American democratic process? Or would you just say, “The Budweiser tour starts in five minutes”?

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Microsoft developer evangelist Nuno Silva apparently confused applications with devices when he claimed that users of Windows Phone 7 (aka Mango) would be able to upgrade louis vuitton shoes to Windows Phone 8 (aka Apollo).

Offering a mea culpa on his blog today, Silva said he was trying to echo Microsoft's own statements that existing Windows Phone apps would run under Apollo. But for some reason he gave the impression that current devices themselves would also be able to run the next version of Windows Phone.

"I mistakenly confused app compatibility with phone updateability, which caused the rumors we saw yesterday," Silva wrote. "I did not intend to give the impression I was offering new guidance on any products under development or their upgradeability."

The developer aroused hopes among the Windows Phone faithful by leading them to believe that Mango devices would be eligible to receive the Apollo upgrade. But various sources have been insisting for a while that there is no upgrade path.

Windows Phone 7 currently supports only single-core processors and WVGA screens. But reports claim that Microsoft will move to dual-core chips and higher-resolution screens in the next version, leaving current devices unable to handle Apollo's higher-end requirements.

Microsoft itself has refused to confirm or deny whether Mango devices can move to Apollo. Reflecting Silva's corrected comments, the company's recent statement also focused solely on app compatibility: "We have stated publicly that all apps in our marketplace today will run on the next burberry sunglasses version of Windows Phone. Beyond that, we have nothing to share about future releases."

So it seems buyers of the popular Nokia Lumia 900 and other current Windows Phone 7 handsets won't be able to lift off to Apollo. That factor that may prove disappointing to hardcore users but isn't likely to have much impact on Windows Phone sales at this point.

Twenty-six percent of American adults were uninsured for a period of time in 2011, a new study by The Commonwealth Fund shows — and for the most part, people went without burberry outlet health insurance because they lost or switched jobs.

It’s one of the problems the health care reform law was intended to solve, and one of the study’s authors said the problem could become less serious in 2014 — if the law survives.

Almost seven out of 10 of these adults who had gaps in coverage went without it for a year or more, the study said. Americans who had gaps in insurance were more likely to miss regular preventive care screenings and not have a designated physician.

“The longer people are without health insurance, the more estranged they become from the health system,” Commonwealth Fund researchers wrote.

For those without coverage, the individual insurance burberry bags market doesn’t provide much help because “the individual market for most Americans is neither affordable nor easy to navigate,” the study’s authors wrote.

Commonwealth found that most adults who sought out plans in the individual market found it costly and difficult to compare benefits. Forty-five percent of them ended up without a health plan.

The study concludes that provisions in the Affordable Care Act — such as allowing adults under age 26 to remain on their parents’ insurance, expanding Medicaid, louis vuitton handbags creating insurance exchanges and reforming the insurance market — can increase continuous insurance coverage among Americans.

Implementation of the Affordable Care Act will “mean that people who lose their health benefits will be able to turn to a range of affordable insurance options that will enable them to gain insurance immediately rather than enduring months or years without coverage,” the oakley sunglasses researchers wrote.

In a call with reporters, representatives from The Commonwealth Fund said the report highlighted important provisions of the ACA.

“Clearly, the law is targeted on problems that people Rayban fashion sunglasses online cheap sale DJYKIU60 experience when they lose employer-based coverage,” said Sara Collins, Commonwealth’s vice president for affordable health insurance and the lead author of the report. “Obviously, things will change dramatically in 2014 if the law stays in place.”

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Qualcomm Inc. QCOM -0.36% provided more evidence louis vuitton sunglasses of strong demand for its smartphone chips, but said filling customer orders is presenting a new challenge.

The San Diego-based company, while reporting record financial results for its fiscal second quarter, said Wednesday that growth in the current quarter could be limited by a shortfall in gucci sunglasses supplies of chips based on a new manufacturing process.

"Chasing supply is our biggest issue," said Paul Jacobs, Qualcomm's chief executive, in an interview. "Customers don't like not getting what they asked for, that's for sure."

Qualcomm, like many other burberry handbags companies that design chips for cellphones, relies heavily on the manufacturing services of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. TSM +0.46% That company has started making chips using a production recipe that creates chips measured at 28 nanometers. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.

Mr. Jacobs said "there are just not enough machines" in TSMC's factories to build chips Qualcomm has designed for the 28-nanometer production process. As a result, Qualcomm will burberry ties boost its spending to help other manufacturing companies begin to help meet its needs for the new chips, he said.

The issue didn't pose any problems in the second quarter ended March 25. Qualcomm's net income for the quarter more than doubled to $2.23 billion, or $1.28 a share, from $999 million, or 59 cents, a year earlier.

Qualcomm's results for the latest period include louis vuitton handbags a $1.9 billion gain on the sale of wireless spectrum to AT&T Inc. T -0.45% Excluding the gain and other results of its investment initiatives, Qualcomm said its earnings per share rose 17% to $1.01. Revenues swelled 28% to $4.94 billion from $3.87 billion, while unit chip sales rose 29% to 152 million.

For the current quarter, Qualcomm projected revenue of $4.45 billion to $4.85 billion, and earnings per share excluding investment gains or losses of 83 cents to 89 cents. Analysts on average had been expecting revenue of $4.8 billion and earnings of 90 cents a share on that basis, according to Thomson Reuters.

The company's third-quarter forecast for shipments of 144 million to 152 million chips, which Mr. Jacobs attributed to the 28-nanometer production oakley sunglasses issues, also was weaker than some analysts expected.

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Mr. Jacobs told analysts on a conference call that he expects "significant" improvement in chip supplies by the quarter ending in December. But he said supply constraints would limit revenue growth through the fiscal year, which ends in September.

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Peyton in prime time?

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As the NFL revealed Tuesday with its schedule release, the Denver Broncos Peyton Manning’s new team will host the first “Sunday Night Football” game of the 2012 season, against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

It’s one of five prime-time games for the Broncos, the maximum allowed in a league that, for the first time, will give each of its 32 teams at least one night game on national TV.

Eight days later, the Broncos will be on “Monday burberry handbags Night Football,” marking the first time the Broncos will have opened the season with consecutive prime-time games.

The Broncos beat the Steelers in Denver in a first-round playoff game last season, an overtime thriller that ended with an 80-yard touchdown a Tim Tebow-to-DeMaryius Thomas pass on the opening play of the extra period.

Other observations on the 2012 schedule:

It won’t be easy to be a Manning this season. Eli’s New York Giants have the toughest schedule (based on last season’s records of their opponents), and Peyton’s Broncos have the second-toughest schedule.

Dallas is on the road for six gucci sunglasses of its first nine games, including the kickoff opener against the Giants.

San Francisco, which came within one victory of the Super Bowl last season, opens at Green Bay. That could be a very early glimpse at the NFC title game.

Two teams have three consecutive road games: the Packers and Houston Texans.

The challenge of holding off Tebow will be especially hard for New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez, seeing as his team faces the Steelers and 49ers in the first month. The Jets open against Buffalo, which might have the league’s best defensive line.

Assuming he’s the No. 1 pick by Indianapolis, Andrew Luck burberry ties will open his NFL career at Chicago. Gulp.

Assuming Washington takes Robert Griffin III second, the Heisman Trophy winner will open at New Orleans against a defense that could be depleted by player suspensions.

The Saints have four prime-time games, including a Sunday nighter against San Diego in Week 5, before Coach Joe Vitt will be cleared to return from his six-game suspension. Vitt, who will take over for the suspended Sean Payton, will make his coaching debut in another Sunday night game, in Week 8 at Denver.

Week 4 features a rematch of Saints at Packers, last season’s kickoff opener.

The traditional Peyton Manning-Tom Brady game with a twist will resume Oct. 4 when Denver plays at New England.

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Ever since the “High School Musical” series concluded, Zac Efron has been trying to distance himself from his days as a teen pinup.

But his first major drama, 2010’s tear-jerker “Charlie St. Cloud,” didn’t do much to cement his reputation as a serious actor: The movie earned tepid reviews and didn’t make a significant dent at the box office.

The 24-year-old is hoping things will finally change with “The Lucky One,” the Nicholas Sparks adaptation coming out Friday in which he stars as Logan, a soldier trying to track down the subject of a photograph he believes kept him out of harm’s way during wartime.

“This was a role that was a big stretch,” the actor acknowledged Monday night at the film's premiere in Hollywood, where the carpet was decorated with faux grass, tumbleweeds and hay bales.

“I don't think you could find two different people oakley sunglasses on this planet than me personally and Logan.

"I really admired his integrity. But he's a Marine. I'm just a musical theater geek.”

Director Scott Hicks said Efron was clear early on about his intention to show a different side of himself in “The Lucky One.”

“We definitely talked about that and his desire to move into a new phase of his career,” Hicks said. "Clearly, this is a very transformational role for Zac Efron. ... The demands of the character were someone who has suffered from a certain amount of stress from the war, so he's very uncommunicative. He's so different to Zac's own personal nature, which is so charming and outgoing and easygoing.”

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“He brings such tremendous ability as a performer,” Sparks said. “I think this will lead the ground for him to be a leading man in a lot of different films.”

In the wake of the strongly worded statement

Hard on the heels of being fined $25,000 louis vuitton shoes for allegedly blocking a federal privacy investigation, Google (GOOG) is enmeshed in a second federal probe into its privacy practices that could soon bring an even more painful hit to the search giant's pocketbook, this newspaper has learned.

The Federal Trade Commission is deep into an investigation of Google's actions in bypassing the default privacy settings of Apple's (AAPL) Safari browser for Google users, according to sources familiar with ongoing negotiations between the company and the government.

Within the next 30 days, the FTC could order the Mountain View search giant to pay an even larger fine in the Safari case than the penalty the Federal burberry sunglasses Communications Commission hit Google with Friday, say the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The FCC fined Google $25,000 after finding that the search giant "deliberately impeded and delayed" its investigation into a 2010 privacy breach involving its Street View cars.

The FTC investigation focuses on whether Google violated the terms of an existing settlement involving privacy problems with its ill-fated "Buzz" social network in 2010,
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FTC spokeswoman Claudia Bourne Farrell declined to comment on the Safari case Monday, but the main threat for Google is that the FTC is investigating the Safari matter as the violation of an existing consent decree that resulted from alleged previous privacy violations, which gives the agency the resources to unleash a division of lawyers who enforce existing orders.

That is allowing the FTC to move much more quickly in the Safari case than it could in a stand-alone complaint about deceptive burberry outlet trade practices. As part of its agreement signed last year with the FTC following the Buzz incident, Google agreed to undergo 20 years of outside reviews of its privacy policies and promised not to misrepresent its privacy practices to consumers. Google did not acknowledge breaking the law by agreeing to the Buzz consent decree and did not pay a fine.

While Google would have the ability to contest any FTC fine in federal court, the financial sanctions in the Safari case could be sizeable, particularly if the FTC were to define "a violation" as each person affected. The government is trying to determine just how many people were affected by the Safari breach, and people familiar with the case say it could easily run into the millions of iPhone, iPad and Mac users.

As with the earlier Buzz and Street View privacy cases in 2010, Google has said the Safari breach was inadvertent. In a statement released Monday to burberry bags this newspaper, Google said: "We will of course cooperate with any officials who have questions."

Google has acknowledged it changed the default settings in Safari browsers to allow the "+1" button connected to its Google+ social network to work with Apple's browser. It said those changes inadvertently resulted in Google's advertising tracking software becoming attached to the browsers of many iPhone and iPad users -- even though Google's own website had told Safari users that if they took no action, they would be protected from having their travels across the Web monitored and shared with advertisers.

"We used known Safari functionality to provide features that signed-in Google users had enabled," Google said. "We created a temporary communication link between Safari browsers and Google's servers, so that we could ascertain whether Safari users louis vuitton handbags were also signed into Google, and had opted for personalized ads and other content. However, the Safari browser contained functionality that then enabled other Google advertising cookies to be set on the browser."

Unlike the FCC, the FTC elected to not sanction Google over the Street View privacy breach. A key reason the FTC passed on a penalty, the agency said in an October 2010 letter to Google, was that the company promised it had not used any of the personal data it collected in any of its products.

The sharing of private user data with third parties is a "litmus test" for the FTC in determining whether a violation has occurred, according sources familiar with the agency's thinking. It may be difficult for Google to prove that no personal data was shared, if the software "cookies" implanted in Safari users' browsers allowed Google to sell advertising that was better targeted and therefore more valuable.

After giving Google a pass oakley sunglasses on the Street View case in 2010 -- despite the fact that Google's cars pulled in the contents of entire email messages, website addresses and account passwords from private Wi-fi networks -- the FTC is not inclined to avoid action again on Safari, according to sources familiar with the agency's thinking.

The fact that the FCC sanctioned Google in the Street View case may up the ante even more for the FTC to act on the Safari breach, observers said Monday.

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In the wake of the strongly worded statement that accompanied the FCC fine Monday, Pociask was among a number of consumer advocates who called for more investigation.

Google clearly tried to delay louis vuitton sunglasses for men the investigation in the Street View case, he said, and the public has a right to know what was found.

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Carole King inducted late rock promoter Don Kirchner

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are planning louis vuitton shoes to move to England for two years.

The couple - who lived in the London suburb of Richmond last year while Brad shot 'World War Z' - want to return to the pretty town while Angelina shoots three England-based movies back-to-back.

Filming starts on drama 'Maleficent' next month, then the mother-of-six will join Brad in Ridley Scott's 'The Counselor' before working on a Danny Boyle movie.

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''Angelina starts work on her next film, 'Maleficent', in about three weeks so Brad will look after their brood over summer as he won't start work on the Ridley Scott film until September.''

But with such a hectic work schedule line up, the loved-up pair - who announced their engagement on Friday (13.04.12) - still haven't decided when to tie the knot.

Talking to The Sun newspaper, the insider added: ''No date has been set yet but they'll probably go back to their home in France to get married.''

On their way into the Rock and Roll Hall burberry outlet of Fame, Guns N' Roses got together for one more gig.

Axl Rose missed it.

The hedonistic hard rockers, who became the world's top music act amid endless dysfunction, members of Guns N' Roses reunited for three songs on Saturday night before 6,000 fans, many of whom were thrilled to see at least most of the band's original lineup jam on classic hits like "Sweet Child O' Mine" and "Paradise City."

Rose, the band's frontman and ringmaster of the G N' R traveling sex, drugs, and rock and roll circus, declined to attend the induction, saying he burberry bags didn't want to be part of the ceremony because it "doesn't appear to be somewhere I'm actually wanted or respected."

Guns N' Roses were one of the headliners of this year's eclectic group of inductees, which included the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Beastie Boys, folk icon Donovan, late singer-songwriter Laura Nyro and British bands the Small Faces and Faces.

As he inducted Guns N' Roses, Green Day's louis vuitton handbags Billie Joe Armstrong recalled the first time he saw the band on MTV.

"I thought, one of these guys could end up dead or in jail," he said.

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Only two of the three Beasties attended the ceremony. Michael "Mike D" Diamond, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz read a speech by Adam "MCA" Yauch, who oakley sunglasses has been fighting cancer.

Stevie Van Zandt, one of Bruce Springsteen's sidemen in the E Street Band, inducted the Small Faces and Faces, bands that included Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, two rock superstars.

During a speech that was at times comical but heartfelt throughout, John Mellencamp inducted Donovan, a balladeer from the flower-power 1960s once labeled "the new Dylan." Donovan Leitch had a string of hits in the '60s with "Sunshine Superman," ''Hurdy Gurdy Man" and "Mellow Yellow."

The influential Nyro, who died in 1997, never reached commercial success but wrote hits for other artists. She was inducted by singer Bette Midler.

Carole King inducted late rock promoter Don Kirchner, who helped launch the careers of Prince and the Eagles.

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Prabhu said Carpathia made $35 million from Megaupload over

Apple Inc. says the accusation that it conspired burberry handbags with major book publishers to raise the price of e-books is untrue.

Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr (NEW-myer) says that, contrary to allegations in lawsuits by the Justice Department and 15 states, Apple fostered innovation and competition by introducing its iBookstore in 2010. He says customers have benefited from e-books that are more interactive and engaging.

The company says its entry into e-books has broken a monopolistic grip on the publishing industry by Internet retailer Amazon.com.

The lawsuits say Apple and the publishers cost consumers more than $100 million in the past two years by adding $2 or $3, sometimes as much as $5, to the price of each e-book.

It's a cache of data roughly equivalent to half of the Library of Congress and nobody quite knows what to do with it.

Tens of millions of digital files kept on Megaupload.com went dark earlier this year. Megaupload was a cyberlocker of sorts, a service that burberry sunglasses offered individuals and businesses storage space for digital files. But in January, the federal government seized most of the company's assets and charged its founders with running a criminal enterprise designed to facilitate the illegal sharing of copyright-protected movies, music and TV shows.

A hearing Friday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va. on what should be done with the data suggests just how intractable the problem is. Five different parties -- including the federal government and the Motion Picture Association of America -- weighed in with disparate views on what should happen. U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady ordered the parties to negotiate over the next two weeks and come up with a solution acceptable to all sides.

Currently the data -- 25 million gigabytes' worth -- sits on 1,100 powered-down servers stored in a climate-controlled warehouse in Harrisonburg, Va. The company that leased the servers to Megaupload, Dulles, Va.-based Carpathia Hosting, asked the court for oakley sunglasses guidance on what it should do. Megaupload had its assets seized and is no longer paying for the servers' upkeep, so Carpathia is paying thousands of dollars a day just to store the machines. They are also losing revenue that would be available if it erased the data and repurposed the servers for other uses. But Carpathia said it's reluctant to erase data that may serve as evidence in a criminal case.

The federal government and the MPAA contend the vast majority of the data on those servers is illegally pirated content, and that the people who stored those files with Megaupload should not get access to them.

But some of the people and small businesses that used Megaupload had perfectly legitimate files and did nothing wrong. Internet advocates, including the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, say a mechanism should be put in place so those users can get their data back.

Julie Samuels, an attorney with the foundation, suggested the burden should be on the government to create and pay for such a mechanism because it was the government's tactics in prosecuting Megaupload and shutting down the entire site that caused the problem.

"A lot of this chaos was of the government's making," Samuels said.

Megaupload's lawyer, Ira Rothken, said Megaupload needs the data preserved so the company and its officers -- including eccentric founder and majority owner Kim Dotcom -- can prove their innocence. Dotcom is currently in New Zealand fighting extradition to the U.S.

Megaupload cut a deal with Carpathia in late February to pay roughly $1 million to gain access to the servers and the files, but the government objected to the deal, fearful that Megaupload would move the servers to a foreign country and resume its criminal activity.

"It's like trusting the thief with the money," prosecutor Jay Prabhu told the judge.

Prabhu said the government, and therefore taxpayers, would have to spend millions of dollars to pick and sort through the files Classic burberry bracelet cheap discount 2012 brown beige and return legitimate ones to their rightful owners. He said if anyone should bear that burden it's Carpathia. He suggested that the company was not the innocent third party it purports to be.

Prabhu said Carpathia made $35 million from Megaupload over the years and received thousands of notices that it was harboring pirated content. Therefore, Prabhu said, it can't claim to be shocked and caught off guard that the files and servers are now enmeshed in a criminal investigation.

The government said it has copied selected samples of what's on the servers and no longer needs the files as evidence. It also says it is prepared to share the data as required under federal trial rules with Megaupload.

Prabhu made clear at Friday's hearing that the government is not seeking the files' erasure. But he said it's not the government's duty to maintain the files and that ultimately the issue is a contractual matter between Carpathia and Megaupload that is not 2012 chanel fashion sunglasses discount for sale CREWR248 a matter of government interest. In court papers the government said while it's unfortunate that some lawful users of the site could lose access to their data, Megaupload's own terms of service warned users that they should store backup files elsewhere.

Judge O'Grady ordered the parties to meet under the supervision of a federal magistrate with a goal of reaching resolution. If that proves impossible, he said he would then wade in, but his preference was for a negotiated burberry ties settlement, he said.

"Let's get together and see if you can't work it out," O'Grady said.

Muto joins other US workers who have made high-profile job exits

As of Tuesday Joe Muto was newly enshrined as Ray ban sunglasses the "Fox Mole," an employee inside the right-leaning news network who was tattling in public about the alleged failings of his employer.

The next day he had lost his job while winning some fame, being threatened with a lawsuit by Fox, and dangling the burberry handbags prospect that he has "much, much more" to say.

Mr. Muto, who until Wednesday was an associate producer at Fox News, adopted the "Fox Mole" persona on the news website Gawker. In blog posts that sometimes included video footage of anchors like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, he echoed views that have long been voiced Oakley sunglasses by critics from the outside: That it is biased against President Obama (and Democrats) and that its coverage is anything but "fair and balanced."

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The answer may be in the eye of the beholder, but he's certainly a cautionary tale of the 21st century workplace, where digital technology intersects burberry ties with a tweet-your-life culture of public expression. Corporations, for their part, want to guard their reputations and their secrets as much as ever, even as they often embrace the idea of workers who also blog on the side.

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The gesture by Mr. Smith of Goldman Sachs prompted some workplace experts to warn American workers: You may not want to do that yourself, even in an louis vuitton earring era when people are used to posting their blunt reviews of restaurants and books online.

Joshua Ledet may have been the big mover of the night

On a night where the “American Idol” judges burberry handbags were again inclined to be kind, the trio of Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler sent a message to the audience at home: “Do we really need to bring Hollie Cavanagh back next week?”

First of all, kudos to “Idol” for making it easy for the contestants to succeed this week. The theme was songs from the current decade, so everyone sang something that had been released in the past three years. It sure Ray ban sunglasses beats hearing them take on songs from a generation or two ago and try to make them relevant.

Hollie was looking to send a message by choosing to perform Pink's "Perfect," and while she may never feel like she’s less than perfect, the reaction from the judges was tepid at best. J.Lo told her she sang beautifully but “we'll see how it all pans out,” which is hardly a ringing endorsement. And she was the most positive of the three.
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It was revealing when host Ryan Seacrest asked Hollie Oakley sunglasses what she was thinking just before taking the stage, and she replied, “Don’t mess up.” Like many a teenager before her, the criticism she’s gotten has totally messed with her head, and she looks like she’s overthinking every note. On a night when most of the performances were top notch, hers stood out as the one that didn’t belong.

The rest of burberry watches the bottom three is tougher to predict. Skylar Laine may be in trouble because she opened the show, but “Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You” by Kellie Pickler was a good illustration of the type of song she could take to the top of the charts right now, which the judges all noted. Particularly in the short term, Skylar would be one of the easiest of the finalists to get onto the radio and sell records, which has to help her chances.

Elise Testone may be in the bottom three again because she usually is. She likewise won raves closing the show with Lady Gaga’s “You and I,” but the idea was burberry ties better than the execution, and it'll be interesting to see what everyone has to say about it on Thursday. However, Elise's endorsement from Jason Segel won’t hurt, and we're sure he appreciated the plug for his film “Jeff, Who Lives at Home.” If anyone wondered what the "Idol" hopefuls do on their rare days off, apparently "seeing comedies" is a popular choice.

The other woman remaining, Jessica Sanchez, is in no danger. On the off chance that the audience didn’t get what she was trying to do with Jazmine Sullivan’s “Stuttering,” the judges will surely save her.

Kudos also go to Jimmy burberry shirts for women cheap Iovine for his attempts to create a rivalry among the guys, telling both Colton Dixon and Phillip Phillips that they were competing against each other and the other was winning. Were this seventh-grade gym class, that would probably have had a better shot at success, but it was worth the attempt.

Also kudos to both Jimmy and the judges for trying to browbeat Phillip into taking some chances, or at least give an indication that he cares about winning. When Phillip is actually singing, he looks like a professional, but when he’s not, he’s so laid back he makes Jason Castro look intense. (Shout-out to those who watched season seven!)

Colton, meanwhile, did fine but lost the chance for a true show-stopping moment. He covered the Skylar Grey version of “Love the Way You Lie,” but who wouldn’t have jumped out of their seats had he broken character and started rapping the Eminem lyrics from his duet with Rihanna? It would have been completely over the top and ridiculous ... and probably would have won him votes. Hugo boss eyeglasses for men, cheap hugo boss glasses for women 2012 sale. But certainly it would've been better than the “We’re not dating, and nobody really cares anyway” thing he has going with Skylar.

But Joshua Ledet may have been the big mover of the night, in part by being unpredictable. Who would have though he’d sing something by Bruno Mars? Nobody. He was very good with “Runaway Baby,” perhaps inspired by the pre-performance birthday greetings from season three winner Fantasia Barrino.

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I imagine Petrino will at least say he is sorry

Ozzie Guillen foolishly praised Fidel Castro,burberry handbags which shocks me. I figured he would foolishly praise Charles Manson. Or maybe Mussolini. Stalin? Hey, the season is young.

Guillen said he loves Castro and respects him for staying in power so long. At a press conference in Miami on Tuesday, Guillen said he is genuinely sorry, and let me say up front: I am sure he is sorry, and I am even more sure that he is genuine. Saying nice things about Castro is monumentally stupid. It is, literally, like telling somebody "I love the man who tortured your parents, and I respect him for hiding from the cops all Ray ban sunglasses these years." It is like saying that to thousands of people in your city.

"I love Fidel Castro" is such an awful thing to say that Guillen could not possibly have meant it. And I'm sure he didn't mean it the way it sounds. His next sentence was "A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that (expletive) is still here." In other words: He does not love Castro's policies or tactics. He is amazed at his resilience.

Now that we realize that, I think we can agree ... it was still a monumentally stupid thing to say.

The Marlins suspended Ozzie for five games, which means he has a week to think about stuff besides baseball. I'm just not sure that will solve his problems.

But my question is not for Guillen. It is Oakley sunglasses for the Marlins:

Who did you think you were hiring?

Ozzie Guillen could create a controversy if he were alone in a forest. I mean, Ozzie Guillen was voted Most Likely To Say Something Inappropriate About Fidel Castro in high school. The Marlins did not just get what they deserved. They got what they hired. They did not hire Guillen because he is a great manager. (In some ways, he is; in some ways, not so much.) They hired him for his mouth. They hired him to sell tickets, to create interest, to fill their new modern-art ballpark.

I know the Marlins burberry watches were cheap the past few years, but I assumed they paid for a decent Internet connection. This is who Ozzie Guillen is. He says crazy things ALL THE TIME. If you sit in the man's office for 15 minutes, you are guaranteed to hear at least one inappropriate comment and laugh at least three times.

Guillen is the guy who called columnist Jay Mariotti a homophobic slur and called fellow Venezuelan Magglio Ordonez, his former White Sox star, "a piece of (expletive)." When he tried to take the high road in a dispute with former closer Bobby Jenks, he said "I wish I was mad about it because I will rip his throat [out]." Even his no-comments are controversial.

When you hire Ozzie Guillen, you get wacky and offensive statements. This is a fact of life. Some more facts of life: When you hire Larry Brown, you accept that he will leave in a squirmy way. When you sign Terrell Owens, you get his insecurities along with his burberry ties athleticism. When you marry Larry King, you get divorced.

And when you hire Bobby Petrino, you get something other than the truth. This is why the nation is laughing at the University of Arkansas right now. The state's flagship university is shocked to discover that its lying-weasel football coach is a lying weasel.

Petrino's history of lying is well-documented, but for those who have not been paying attention, which may include Arkansas administrators, here is a summary: When Petrino coached Louisville, he lied repeatedly about his interest in other jobs (some of which he interviewed for). He left for the Atlanta Falcons, then left that job before a season women burberry sunglasses 2012 ended, one of the few absolute no-nos in a sometimes ruthless profession.

I'm no genius. I have made that very clear over the years, usually by accident. And I had no idea that Bobby Petrino may have been sleeping with a young Arkansas fundraiser named Jessica Dorrell. Nor do I really care.

But if we were playing a game, and you asked me to guess which major-college coach hired his mistress to work with his football program, got in a motorcycle accident with her on board, then lied to his bosses about the relationship, I could have guessed "Bobby Petrino" faster than it takes him to print out his resume, and I probably could have gone for the bonus points and guessed the woman was a blonde. Coach sunglasses sale, cheap coach eyeglasses for women.

Petrino has acknowledged a previous "inappropriate" relationship with that woman, Miss Dorrell. I don't know if Petrino is a serial cheater, but he is a perpetual liar, which qualifies him to be a serial cheater.

Arkansas should not be surprised that Petrino lied to his bosses, because he has lied to pretty much all of his previous bosses. Why would he stop when he got to Fayetteville? Lying had always been a good career move for him, but this time it cost Petrino louis vuitton women shoes his job as the school fired him Tuesday night.

I am sure Guillen is truly sorry. I imagine Petrino will at least say he is sorry. But as an old football coach once said: They are who we thought they are. If their bosses are surprised, they must not be paying attention.

I needed to pitch it about five

Champion Bubba Watson will always have the burberry ties prestigious green jacket but, once the dust settles, the most stirring memory of the 76th Masters will be the wonder shot for the ages conjured up by Louis Oosthuizen.

Oosthuizen, who romped to a seven-stroke victory at the 2010 British Open, triggered one of the loudest roars ever heard at Augusta National with his astonishing albatross two at the par-five second.

The gap-toothed South burberry outlet African with the silky swing holed out from 253 yards with a four-iron to record the first albatross, or double-eagle, on that hole and only the fourth ever achieved at the Masters.

Playing with eventual winner Watson in Sunday's final round, Oosthuizen watched as his ball landed on the front of the green in between the two bunkers and bounced along before rolling up the hill.

The fans crammed around the green applauded politely burberry shoes for men but the ball kept on rolling, tracking sharply from left to right before dropping into the cup with what appeared to be its dying breath.

The cheering reached an ear-splitting crescendo and the sound reverberated around the Georgian pines as players on every part of the course were alerted to something very special.

Oosthuizen thrust both arms skywards before high-fiving his caddie. Watson considered joining the celebrations but thought better of it.

"It was amazing to Ray ban sunglasses see the crowd. The crowd roared forever. As a fan of golf, that's what you love watching and I got to see it front row. We got to hear some roars out there."

Oosthuizen's remarkable feat gave him a two-shot lead but the leaderboard was the last thing on Watson's mind having witnessed such a special moment.

"I wasn't thinking about he was leading at that time," said the American left-hander, who is known for being a shot-making genius himself. "I wasn't paying attention at the time.

"I was just thinking how amazing that shot was. It was Oakley sunglasses his first double eagle, so special for him, too."

Oosthuizen had perfectly executed his pre-shot strategy, but was dumbfounded when he saw his ball disappear into the cup.

"It was about 210 yards to burberry underwear for men the front and that was a good four-iron for me," he said of the task facing him with his second shot from the fairway.

"I needed to pitch it about five, six paces on the green, and I knew if I get it right, it's going to feed towards the hole. But I never thought it would go in," he grinned.

While Oosthuizen ultimately fell short of a perfect afternoon when he was edged out by Watson in the playoff, his name will forever be etched into Masters folklore as one of the four 'albatross' men.

Gene Sarazen was the first, holing out with a four-wood at the par-five 15th in the fourth round of the 1935 edition, his storied "shot heard round the world" helping set up a playoff victory over Craig Wood. Chanel sunglasses - cheap chanel designer sunglasses sale 2012.

That miracle shot, probably the most famous single stroke of all time in golf, pulled him level with fellow American Wood and Sarazen went on to win his only green jacket by five strokes in a 36-hole playoff the following day.

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Mickelson tried gamely to recover

“Oh no,” Mickelson said as watched Ray ban sunglasses his ball crash against the railing along the edge of the bleachers beside the green. He strained to see where the ball landed, and it was not until he walked up and reached the trees and shrubbery behind the grandstand that he realized what had happened.

It was, Mickelson would say, the worst kind of luck. In his mind, he had done everything right. He had no choice but to hit a 4-iron on the 240-yard hole; he stayed left because the dips of the green make that the safest place. He would have been happy to end up on the side of the green, or even in the grandstand itself because then he would have been allowed a free drop.

“The worst I would have Oakley sunglasses made was 4,” Mickelson said. “But unfortunately, it hit the metal railing.”

And so he made a triple-bogey 6, taking two thrashes at the ball with the club head turned upside down. It was a critical blow to Mickelson, who began the day just one shot off the Masters lead and seemed like the favorite to win a fourth green jacket. Needing to first regain the ground lost, Mickelson could not overcome his disaster on the fourth and he finished with an par 72. His total of eight-under 280 left him tied for third, two shots out of the playoff between Bubba Watson and Louis burberry handbags Oosthuizen.

Afterward, Mickelson seemed unruffled. He walked off the 18th green with a small smile as the fans cheered long and loud for him. When he emerged from the scoring room, his children, Amanda, Sophia and Evan, wrapped him in a group hug and he kissed his wife, Amy. Even she was curious about what happened at No. 4, though. As Mickelson began to walk toward the area where he would meet reporters, he looked at Amy and said, “It wasn’t a bad shot.”

Moments later, he told burberry watches reporters, “I put the ball where I had to every single shot and I walked away with even par, which is disappointing.”

In many ways, it was remarkable that Mickelson ended up as close to the top of the leader board as he did. After all, his triple bogey on Sunday was his second of the tournament. On Thursday, he lost a ball on the 10th hole and made a triple bogey there, pushing his score to four over par and making it seem as if he would not be a factor on the weekend.

After a 68 on Friday and a dazzling burberry ties 66 on Saturday, however, Mickelson went off in the last pairing Sunday with Peter Hanson. He made par on the first three holes and knew exactly what he wanted to do on the fourth, a brutally long par 3 known as Flowering Crab Apple.

Mickelson made a point of practicing chips from the left side of the green early in the week, knowing that would be his bailout location. It was an “easy chip” up from there, he said, and that was where he expected he would be.

When he found his ball Burberry keychain nestled in a bush behind the grandstand, however, he had few attractive options. He could declare the ball unplayable but then would have to drop it in an equally difficult position in the brush. He could take the ball back to the tee and hit from there lying 3, but discarded that choice because the challenging tee shot was so difficult it was the reason he was aiming left in the first place.

So Mickelson, a left-hander, turned his club over, swung right-handed and popped the ball a few feet out of the brush. Then he made the same swing again, shanking the ball into the bunker next to the green. After a sharp up-and-down, he had a 6 — a number he had never imagined from a place on the course he never thought he would see.

“I look at the triple on 10, that was obviously a bad swing,” he said, referring to his Thursday debacle. “That was a terrible swing. It went way off in the junk. But I wouldn’t have done anything different on 4. That’s strategically where you have to play it to that pin on that hole. It’s the hardest par on that hole.”Hugo boss eyeglasses for men, cheap hugo boss glasses for women 2012 sale.

Mickelson tried gamely to recover, but the deficit was too much. He birdied the par 5s on the back nine, Nos. 13 and 15, but really needed at least one eagle to keep up. After missing a birdie putt on 17, he knew he essentially had no chance.

It was not the finish he envisioned and, cheap louis vuitton mens shoes when he was asked what he would take away from the day, Mickelson could only shrug.

“What will I take from this day? Third place,” he said. “It’s not what I was hoping for.”

Pamphilon called Williams arrogant

By the time New Orleans Saints Coach Sean Payton slipped out a back exit at the N.F.L.’s office in Manhattan and silently got cheap louis vuitton shoes for women into a waiting van, his long-shot appeal of a yearlong suspension already heard, the stain of the Saints’ bounty scandal had grown worse.

On Thursday morning, hours before Payton; his assistant head coach, Joe Vitt; General Manager Mickey Loomis; and other representatives of the Saints met separately with Commissioner Roger Goodell to plead for reductions in the sanctions levied against them, Yahoo Sports reported on the existence of an expletive-laced recording in which Gregg Williams, the Saints’ former defensive coordinator, exhorted his team to inflict physical damage on specific players in a playoff game against the San Francisco 49ers in January.

Williams, who has been barred from the league indefinitely, repeatedly spoke of hitting the opponents’ heads.

Williams pointed to his chin while telling his players to hit 49ers quarterback Alex Smith “right there,” saying: “Remember me. I got the first one. I got the first one. Go get it,” while rubbing his fingers together to indicate there would be cash paid for the hit.

He also said: “Every single one of you, before you get off the pile, affect the head. Early, affect the head. Continue, touch and hit the head.”

About 49ers running back Frank Gore, Williams said: “We’ve got to do everything in the world to make sure we kill Frank Gore’s head. We want him running sideways. We want his head sideways.”

Later, Williams talked about hits he wanted put on Kyle Williams, mentioning his history of concussions, and receiver Michael Crabtree, urging them to “take out” his knee ligament.

The snapshot the tape gave of the Saints’ bounty system echoed what an N.F.L. investigation revealed that Gregg Williams had done at various times in the last three years. But the timing of the speech was damning, because it came two weeks after the N.F.L. had told the Saints that the bounties were being investigated.

It also came after the team’s louis vuitton men t-shirts owner, Tom Benson, instructed Loomis to ensure that the bounties would stop immediately.

According to the N.F.L.’s investigation, Loomis and Payton made only cursory inquiries about the bounty program, and neither took any action to stop it. The tape makes clear that the bounties continued until the Saints’ season ended with a 36-32 loss to the 49ers.

Williams did not appeal his suspension, although the revelation of the tape — which the N.F.L. may not have known about until a documentary filmmaker, Sean Pamphilon, released it — does not help his chances of reinstatement after the 2012 season. The St. Louis Rams hired Williams after he left the Saints.

Pamphilon was working on a project about Steve Gleason, a former Saints player who has A.L.S., commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

On Thursday, it became clear what the others implicated in the Saints’ scandal would use as their defense. David Cornwell, Vitt’s lawyer, said Loomis and Payton went to Williams after they were advised that the league was investigating the bounties and told him there was no place in the league for that kind of activity.

“Sean will tell you, in his view, what you saw was a rogue coach who knew he was about to get fired,” Cornwell said.

Vitt said he wanted to make the point to Goodell that “we don’t teach this, but at the same time we have to watch our wording, watch what we say and what we do.”

Cornwell added: “This wasn’t the only issue with Gregg Williams in this organization. There were issues with the staff and other things. And he was fired two days later. He was on the way out and he got fired.”

It seems unlikely that argument will carry much weight with Goodell, who has repeatedly indicated he was upset that the Saints’ top executives did not stop the bounties and lied repeatedly about them until a few weeks ago. Goodell could rule on the appeals by Friday.

Payton’s suspension was supposed to begin April 1, but he was allowed to keep working until the appeal was decided. The suspensions for Vitt and Loomis do not begin until the regular season. The franchise was also fined $500,000 and lost second-round picks in the 2012 and 2013 drafts.

The Saints have had discussions with Bill Parcells about taking Payton’s spot for the season. But the team would first have to interview a coaching candidate from a minority group to be in compliance with the league’s Rooney Rule, and a person briefed on the Saints’ decision-making said Thursday that no such interview had taken place and that the team was waiting for the outcome of the appeal before proceeding.

Reaction to the recording of Williams was as mixed as it was to the investigation into the bounties. Several former N.F.L. players, Classic louis vuitton sunglasses outlet 2012 new sale online discount including Tim Hasselbeck and Ross Tucker, indicated on their Twitter feeds that they thought Williams’s language was normal in the league.

The recording also called to mind comments by two Giants players after the N.F.C. championship game, in which they noted that they knew Kyle Williams had sustained earlier concussions and they wanted to hit him because of it. That suggested that Giants players were at least briefed before the game on the injury history of their opponents.

But other players were surprised by the explicit direction from Gregg Williams.

“I’ve never had a coach say anything, never once say to hurt or offer anything,” Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison said. “I’ve been around for 10 years; I’ve never heard anything like that.”

On Twitter, Saints safety Malcolm Jenkins criticized Pamphilon for releasing the tape.

“Sean Pamphilon is a coward and should be ashamed for taking advantage of Steve Gleason! How much did u get paid for that audio?” Jenkins wrote.

On Thursday afternoon, around the time Payton was meeting with Goodell, Pamphilon released a statement in which he sought to explain why he released the tape. Pamphilon called Williams arrogant, saying, “It’s a coward’s play to send someone off to do your malicious bidding.” He also defended Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma, among others, who the N.F.L. said offered his own money if a teammate knocked Brett Favre out of the 2010 N.F.C. championship game.

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