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At times, a breakup may send someone into a deep depression, but that?s not true for?Robert Pattinson. Instead of smoking his sorrows away, the Twilight stud is healing his broken heart with plenty of grueling workout sessions!
?Rob has finally quit smoking for good. And he feels and looks healthier than ever. Working out has helped him tremendously with regard to quitting smoking. The two just don?t go hand-in-hand. Rob is now addicted to exercising and feeling good,? an insider tells?HollywoodLife.com?EXCLUSIVELY.
They always say that the best revenge after a breakup is looking good, right?
?Rob has been training diligently with famed celebrity fitness instructor Harley Pasternak. He?s determined to get into the best shape of his life. Rob and Harley go way back from when Rob was a complete unknown. In fact, Rob spent this morning (July 30) working out at Harley?s private gym in Los Angeles,? the source says.
Rob even confides in his trainer for personal advice, as well.
?Rob always gets good advice from Harley, whether it has do with fitness, health or even his love life. However, right now Rob?s main priority is work and getting super fit.?
We can certainly imagine Rob discussing his former relationship with Kristen.
As HollywoodLife.com previously reported, despite going out with friends and being spotted with sexy women, Rob still has feelings for Kristen.
?Does he get sad about Kristen? Of course ? they went through a ton together,? revealed an insider.
What do YOU think,?HollywoodLifers??Does Rob seem happy or is he secretly sad and missing Kristen?
?Reporting by Sandra Clark
Source: http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/07/31/robert-pattinson-quits-smoking-cigarettes-working-out-gym/
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Paul McCartney says it brings him to tears. Tom Petty compares it to Beethoven. Bob Dylan, summing up the superhuman talents that allowed Brian Wilson to make Pet Sounds, probably said it best: ?Jesus, that ear. He should donate it to The Smithsonian.?
It?s true. In the mid-60?s, the Beach Boys? bandleader Brian Wilson had the best, most brilliant ear in pop music. Nowhere is that more evident than Pet Sounds, the Beach Boys? shimmering, heartbreaking, put-it-in-a-time-capsule-and-send-it-to-space masterpiece. No matter how many times you listen to it, there?s always something new to hear. But that?s the funny thing about Brian Wilson?s peerless ear: it?s peerless. As Mike Love, the group?s least enlightened member, groused during a characteristically nitpicky Pet Sounds recording session: ?Who?s gonna hear this shit? The ears of a dog?? Foolish, but you can see his point: Wilson was operating on a whole different sonic plane than the rest of us. Thankfully, Google designer Alexander Chen has given us a new way of appreciating Wilson?s genius. He?s visualized it.
The video shows you things you might not even realize you were hearing.
Chen, a Creative Director at Google Creative Lab in New York, says the idea came from church bells. Just like the size of a bell corresponds to the pitch of the note it produces, Chen figured he could use a series of circles to represent the notes of some other piece of music. He remembered reading that the Beach Boys? ?You Still Believe in Me? was inspired by a church choir, so it seemed like a perfect fit for the experiment. He found a recording that isolated the track?s vocals, meticulously transcribed the harmonies note for note, and then wrote some code in Processing to render it as it played.
The result is stunning?a different type of visualization than anything we?ve seen before. Instead of the trippy, move-with-the-beat type stuff you zoned to in your Winamp days, this is something far more rigorous. It shows you what you?re hearing, and just what you?re hearing, note for note. And in this case, especially towards the end of the song when the coda of soaring, multilayered harmonies kicks in, it shows you things you might not even realize you were hearing?all those discrete brotherly voices that melt together in a casual, ears-only listen.
For Chen, though, that connection was there from a young age. ?I grew up playing viola in my school orchestra,? he explains. ?I remember the amazing feeling of sitting among a sea of bows moving in sync with the music. I imagine that before people had the ability to physically recorded music, they had to go to performances to hear it, so it was a given that music was inherently visual.? Someone attending a symphony back in the day was still confronted with a wall of sound, but at least they?d be able to see the individual bricks.
Now, Chen says, we take that visual element for granted. Perhaps reintroducing it in some form could make us appreciate music all the more? ?I wonder if visualizing the layers of music helps teach our ears to be able to pick apart those individual pieces?to literally get a little better at listening,? Chen asks. Maybe. But still not as good as Brian Wilson.
Source: http://www.wired.com/design/2013/07/a-google-whiz-visualizes-the-beach-boys-heavenly-harmonies/
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Four years ago, Martin St. Louis was one disappointed guy. He wasn?t selected to the 2010 Team Canada roster and missed out on the chance to win gold and play for his country in his country.
This time around, he says he?ll do whatever it takes to make the 2014 roster. Mike Brophy at NHL.com hears it from the man himself.
?I?ll be a natural whatever they want me to be if it means making the team,? St. Louis said with a grin. ?If I have a chance to play for my country at this stage of my career, I?ll do whatever they want.?
St. Louis, of course, is a natural right wing and with Lightning GM Steve Yzerman also being Team Canada?s GM, you?d think he?d have an easy in, right? Not so much. Yzerman was also Team Canada?s GM back in 2010 as well.
As we?ve seen from Team Canada?s invite list, the competition to make the team will be very tough. Considering how consistent of a point producer St. Louis has been through his career, his chances have to be pretty good.
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On CNN?s State of the Union Sunday morning, Congressman Peter King strongly urged certain members of the Republican Party to back away from their recent rhetoric threatening to shut down the government over either the funding of Obamacare or the extension of the debt ceiling.
?There?s no reason to be threatening to bring down the government,? King said. ?Let?s make this work, let?s get the spending cuts we need. But American people get turned off with the threat of terror politics.?
?We should not be closing down the government under any circumstances. That doesn?t work, it?s wrong. Obamacare passed. We have to try to defund it, we have to try to find ways to repeal it. The fact is, we shouldn?t be using it as a threat to shut down the government.?
RELATED: Rep. Peter King Blasts Rand Paul For ?Apologizing For America?: ?Fringes? Will ?Destroy? GOP
King also sounded cautiously optimistic on the prospects of immigration reform in the House.
?I think we have to show good faith in trying to find legislation that works, and I think we are going in that direction,? King said. ?The President had four years on immigration, and did absolutely nothing. I would say you?ve seen a lot of movement in the past six months. The Senate, with strong Republican help, a bill did pass. I don?t fully agree with that bill, but I think we can find ways to make that bill work. You do find people in the House willing to make it work.?
Watch the exchange here, via CNN:
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A police assault and a? volley of gunfire capped off a daring hostage rescue that freed two people Saturday near Miami, but not before their captor shot and killed six other people. NBC's Mark Potter reports
By Marian Smith and Matthew DeLuca, NBC News
SWAT officers shot and killed a gunman early Saturday after he killed six people, ending an hours-long standoff near Miami, Fla., police said.
Two people were rescued alive and unharmed from an apartment building where they were being held hostage, Hialeah police spokesman Sgt. Eddie Rodriguez told NBC News.
Police identified the shooter as Pedro Vargas, 42, at a press conference on Saturday, according to NBC Miami.
The victims were identified as Italo Pisciotti, 79; Camira Pisciotti, 69; Carlos Javier Gavilanes, 33; Patricio Simono, 64; Merly S. Niebles, 51, and an unnamed 17-year-old woman.
The SWAT team found the gunman barricaded on the fourth floor of the building, where they killed him and saved the two hostages.
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The building manager and her husband were found dead in a hallway and three others, two females and one male, were found in one of the apartments, Rodriguez said. Another man was found dead in the lobby of a building across the street.
"This is one of the worst shootings we've probably had ever in Hialeah," police spokesman Carl Zogby?told NBC Miami.
Police first responded to a 911 call at 6:30 p.m. ET Friday. They evacuated the apartment complex and shut down several surrounding streets.
Negotiators were talking to the gunman before the shootout and police sent a robot onto the scene.
?The end result: seven people have lost their lives in this incident, six innocent victims and the one shooter,? Zogby told the station. ?Now starts the investigation, how and why this happened.?
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A young woman told NBC Miami that two of the victims of the shooting were her parents.
?I guess there was an altercation and the person opened fire on both of them. My mom was dead the moment that she was shot and my dad still had a pulse when I got to him,? the woman said.
One of the victims appeared to have been shot at across the street from the main scene, police said, when the gunman opened fire from a balcony.
?From up there, he was able to shoot at people across the street, catching this one man who was just walking into his apartment,? Rodriguez told the Miami Herald.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
NBC Miami
This story was originally published on Sat Jul 27, 2013 6:02 AM EDT
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By William Mallard
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's most significant fiscal reform in years - a planned increase in the country's sales tax - could be delayed or watered down in a move that might rattle financial markets and amount to an own goal for the prime minister.
Despite holding the strongest political mandate of any prime minister in years, there are signs Shinzo Abe is seriously rethinking the plan out of concern it could derail a nascent economic recovery he has crafted with an aggressive policy mix, dubbed Abenomics.
Abe says he will decide in the autumn whether to proceed with the first part of the two-stage plan after gauging the state of the economic recovery, especially GDP data that is due on Sept 9. The tax, similar to general sales tax and value added tax in other countries, is due to rise to 8 percent in April 2014 and then 10 percent in 2015.
Abe does not want to raise the tax, given the likely economic and political repercussions, but he understands the risks of upsetting the markets by giving the appearance of backtracking on promised reform, said a person involved in crafting economic policies. At 5 percent, Japan and Canada have the lowest equivalent consumption taxes in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD data shows.
The stakes in Japan are high. The tax hike was passed into law last year with the support of Abe's current coalition parties and the previous government and is meant to be the first step toward repairing Japan's tattered finances. However, the law also requires the government to judge the economic conditions before giving the final go ahead.
Reneging on fiscal reform could hit investor confidence, which has allowed Tokyo to borrow money cheaply even though its $5 trillion public debt, well over twice the nation's annual economic output, is the heaviest burden in the industrial world.
At the same time, Abe has stressed that his top priority is to rouse Japan from 15 years of deflation and tepid growth through his Abenomics program of heavy government spending, massive monetary easing and promises of a longer-term growth strategy.
Abe himself admitted the thorny dilemma just hours after scoring a landslide win in upper house elections on July 21 that gave his ruling bloc a clear parliamentary majority.
"It will be a difficult decision," he said of the looming tax choice.
"The economy is just starting to recover and now is the best chance for Japan to emerge from deflation," Abe said. "I don't want to lose this chance. At the same time, markets are watching (our progress) on Japan's fiscal reform."
SPLIT
Despite his electoral triumph, Abe's team is split.
A small number of vocal reflationists, such as cabinet office adviser Koichi Hamada, say Abe should prioritize recovery and go-slow on raising the tax. Pitted against them, the Finance Ministry says it is vital for Japan to show markets and trading partners that it is serious about putting its fiscal house in order.
Japanese media reported on Saturday that Abe had instructed his government to study the impact on the economy and prices of four tax-hike options, including sticking with the existing plan, raising the rate 1 percentage point a year for five years and delaying the hike entirely.
Abe, speaking at a news conference on a visit to Manila, said: "I haven't yet issued any instructions to come up with several proposals."
Government officials also say they haven't received any formal orders to draw up fresh scenarios, although an advisory panel to the premier had already been mandated to study the impact of the current plan on the economy and prices.
Public opinion may play to the advantage of the reflationists.
A survey of 902 people in the Nikkei business daily, conducted just after the election, found only 11 percent supporting the existing plan, compared with 58 percent who favor "flexibility" in the timing or scale of the increase and 27 percent who oppose raising the tax at all.
History too provides a cautionary tale for Abe, who got a rare second chance at running the government in December.
Noboru Takeshita, the premier who forced the first sales tax through parliament in 1988, and Ryutaro Hashimoto, who raised it to 5 percent from 3 percent in 1997, were driven from office as their public support collapsed - although other problems also plagued both men. The decision to double the tax contributed to the defeat of Abe's predecessor, Yoshihiko Noda.
Adviser Hamada, a 77-year-old emeritus professor at Yale University and a key member of Abe's brain trust, told Reuters on July 23 that Japan needed much more evidence of a sturdy recovery before raising the tax.
The economy, which grew at an annualized rate of 4.1 percent in the first quarter - the fastest among Group of Seven industrial powers - needs to maintain similar growth for two more quarters before enduring a tax hike, Hamada said.
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He set the bar higher still, saying he is pushing Abe to wait not only until growth picks up but until employment improves, ensuring a firmer footing for the recovery.
The government should wait until unemployment falls to 3 percent from around 4 percent now and job seekers outnumber job offers "in all regions" of the country, Hamada said.
Although the latest data shows there were 90 seekers for each 100 job offers in May nationally, only four of Japan's 10 regions have more labor demand than supply.
It is unclear how much influence Hamada has on fiscal policy, but the views of the reflationists might "have significant influence on Abe's thinking on this subject," said former Bank of Japan deputy governor Kazumasa Iwata, head of the prominent think tank, the Japan Centre for Economic Research.
Some government officials are keen to start fiscal reform, privately worried that changing the tax plan would endanger Japan's promise to halve its budget deficit - excluding debt-financing - from fiscal 2010 levels by fiscal 2015 and balance the budget five years later.
They say raising the tax in incremental steps each year could be too easily derailed, since the politically sensitive hikes would have to be approved for five years in a row - with national elections scheduled in three years.
Finance Minister Taro Aso has strongly insisted on sticking with the tax-hike plan, saying it is an international promise. Still, Aso signaled last week he is willing to soften the economic blow by offering another dollop of fiscal stimulus.
The Japanese government-bond market, which lets Abe's government borrow 10-year money for less than 0.8 percent, would be hit hard if Abe changes the sales-tax plan, said Tadashi Matsukawa, head of Japan fixed income at PineBridge Investments.
"The whole of Abenomics would basically crash under that scenario," he said, adding he thinks it unlikely Abe will change the plan.
Iwata, the former BOJ deputy governor, told Reuters that if Abe postponed the agreed tax hike, that would endanger the rest of the fiscal-reform schedule.
"If Japan can't raise the tax rate even when the economy is in good shape, that may lead to market distrust over Abe's governance," Iwata said.
(Reporting by Sumio Ito, Yuko Yoshikawa, Hitoshi Ishida, Kaori Kaneko, Leika Kihara and Lisa Twaronite; Writing by William Mallard; Editing by Neil Fullick)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/japans-pm-may-rethink-tax-hike-could-shake-081644490.html
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Windows: Markdown is an awesome formatting language that lets you create rich documents using plain text syntax, and MarkdownPad puts it to great use Windows.
The app is a dual pane affair, with a preview panel on the right to show you exactly how your Markdown is formatting. You don't even need to click over to the panel to update it, since it updates live with every keystroke - a very nice touch. Once you're done writing, you can export your document as plain text, as a markdown file, or as HTML if you're building web pages. If you aren't happy with how some elements render within the app, you can even add custom CSS to the app to change how they display.
The free version of MarkdownPad is incredibly powerful, but a $14.95 upgrade to the pro version gets you a ton of extra options, including a horizontal panel arrangement, PDF exporting, and the ability to use a few different forks of Markdown if vanilla doesn't cut it for you. If you have any interest in Markdown, and you're a Windows user, this is definitely worth a download.
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A tipster has told us that the latest Nexus 7 from Asus and Google will hit Best Buy stores today, and a pre-order we placed earlier for the device seems to confirm that. We put our money down for one when the order page first went up, and while the confirmation originally said it would arrive on the original July 30th launch date, it's now telling us that we can expect our tablet later today. That jibes with info we were given by a source claiming to be the manager of a Best Buy store. He said that while pre-orders started yesterday, "there were few (of them) in my region," meaning that "if you are present at a (Best Buy) location today at opening, you have a good chance of buying the tablet." He added that some stores don't have stock yet due to agreements with Google, but pre-orders are still possible at those locations. Until we receive confirmation, however, you may not want to make a long journey to one of the outlets. Meanwhile, we've reached out to both Google and Best Buy.
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British pay-TV provider Sky has released their own Apple TV competing streaming box under their Now TV brand. The box ? which is essentially a Roku box re-branded ? costs a ridiculously low ?9.99 including shipping, and will stream services from Now TV, Spotify and the BBC among others. From the Now TV announcement:
Despite the explosion in devices such as games consoles and connected TVs, there are still up to tens of millions of TVs in the UK that can?t currently connect to the internet. If you own one of these TVs, the NOW TV Box is the perfect way to watch your favourite content back on the big screen.
The Apple TV already sets the bar as far as TV-connected streaming boxes goes, with a decent selection of content available in an already reasonably priced package. Google now has Chromecast, a $35 dongle that brings connected content to your TV via your Android or iOS device, but Sky has managed to price theirs so low that it becomes a true impulse buy.
But, in being only ?9.99, the Now TV box is effectively subsidized. In buying one, to get to the premium content you'll require a paid subscription either to Now TV or the Sky Movie pass. A 30-day free trial of the latter is available to get you up and running, but it's not terribly clear whether or not you'll need to keep paying a subscription in order to access the non-Sky content after that 30-days such as Spotify, Flickr, BBC iPlayer and Demand 5. If that's the case, it's a disappointment, but you can't fault Sky for their business model in trying to get people to adopt their online platform.
It also poses a good question in relation to the Apple TV, especially with rumors being rife about a hook-up with Time Warner Cable. Now TV offers ? albeit at a pretty steep price ? a la carte subscriptions to Sky Sports, a premium pay-channel package, in daily installments. It's about 10x more expensive than a monthly subscription if you bought it every day, but you're not going to buy it every day. You only pay when you want to watch. Pricing aside, is this the kind of model you'd be happy to see for more services to hit the Apple TV?
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Today is Friday, July 26, the 207th day of 2013. There are 158 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On July 26, 1953, Fidel Castro began his revolt against Fulgencio Batista (fool-HEN'-see-oh bah-TEES'-tah) with an unsuccessful attack on an army barracks in eastern Cuba. Castro ousted Batista in 1959.
On this date:
In 1775, Benjamin Franklin became America's first postmaster-general.
In 1788, New York became the 11th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
In 1863, Sam Houston, former president of the Republic of Texas, died in Huntsville at age 70.
In 1882, the Richard Wagner opera "Parsifal" premiered in Bayreuth (BY'-royt), Germany.
In 1908, Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte ordered creation of a force of special agents that was a forerunner of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
In 1912, the Edison Studios production "What Happened to Mary," one of the first, if not very first, movie serials, was released with Mary Fuller in the title role.
In 1947, President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act, establishing the National Military Establishment, which later was renamed the Department of Defense.
In 1952, Argentina's first lady, Eva Peron, died in Buenos Aires at age 33. King Farouk I of Egypt abdicated in the wake of a coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser.
In 1956, the Italian liner Andrea Doria sank off New England, some 11 hours after colliding with the Swedish liner Stockholm; at least 51 people died. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal.
In 1971, Apollo 15 was launched from Cape Kennedy on America's fourth manned mission to the moon. Photographer Diane Arbus died in New York at age 48.
In 1986, kidnappers in Lebanon released the Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco, an American hostage held for nearly 19 months. American statesman W. Averell Harriman died in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., at age 94.
In 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Ten years ago: Backers of a drive to oust California Governor Gray Davis held a boisterous celebration at the state Capitol in Sacramento, more than two months before the October 7 recall election. Cuba celebrated the 50th anniversary of the start of Fidel Castro's revolution against Fulgencio Batista. New York Times music critic Harold C. Schonberg died in New York at age 87.
Five years ago: At least 22 small bombs exploded in Ahmadabad (AH'-muh-duh-bahd) in the Indian state of Gujarat (goo-JRAHT'), killing 58 people.
One year ago: The White House said President Barack Obama would not push for stricter gun laws, one day after his impassioned remarks about the need to keep assault weapons off the streets. With the Olympics Games as a backdrop, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney held a day of meetings with Britain's most powerful people; however, Romney rankled his hosts by calling London's problems with Olympic Games preparation "disconcerting."
Today's Birthdays: Actress Marjorie Lord is 95. Actor James Best is 87. Actress-singer Darlene Love is 72. Singer Brenton Wood is 72. Rock star Mick Jagger is 70. Movie director Peter Hyams is 70. Actress Helen Mirren is 68. Rock musician Roger Taylor (Queen) is 64. Actress Susan George is 63. Olympic gold medal figure skater Dorothy Hamill is 57. Actor Kevin Spacey is 54. Rock singer Gary Cherone (sher-OWN') is 52. Actress Sandra Bullock is 49. Rock singer Jim Lindberg (Pennywise) is 48. Actor Jeremy Piven is 48. Rapper-reggae singer Wayne Wonder is 47. Actor Jason Statham (STAY'-thum) is 46. Actor Cress Williams is 43. TV host Chris Harrison ("The Bachelor"; "The Bachelorette") is 42. Actress Kate Beckinsale is 40. Rock musician Dan Konopka (OK Go) is 39. Gospel/Contemporary Christian singer Rebecca St. James is 36. Actress Francia Raisa is 25. Christian rock musician Jamie Sharpe (Rush of Fools) is 24.
Thought for Today: "Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians." ? Chester Bowles, American diplomat, businessman, author ? and politician (1901-1986).
(Above Advance for Use Friday, July 26)
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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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DALLAS ? In a story July 24 about a Dallas home for sale that appeared in episodes of "Walker, Texas Ranger," The Associated Press reported erroneously that actor Chuck Norris was an owner of the home. While he co-owned the home at one point with his brother, he was no longer an owner when the home was placed on the market.
A corrected version of the story is below:
'Walker, Texas Ranger' home hits market for $1.2M
Chuck Norris' former Dallas home, with space for roundhouse kicks, hits market for $1.2M
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DALLAS (AP) ? Need space to practice roundhouse kicks and fist-enforced Texas justice? You're in luck: The spacious Dallas home once owned by Chuck Norris, complete with a gym featuring memorabilia from his "Walker, Texas Ranger" television series, is on the market.
The Mediterranean ranch-style home in the tony Dallas neighborhood of Northwood Hills also was the on-screen residence of Cordell Walker, the roundhouse-kicking Texas Ranger who battled villainy at every turn.
Norris portrayed Walker in the CBS series that ran for eight seasons. It ended in 2001, but lives on in syndication. Portions of the series were shot in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
The 7,362-square-foot home is listed for $1.2 million. Along with the weight room, it's listed as having four bedrooms, seven full bathrooms and a theater. There's also a separate building that served as a studio for the filming of "Walker, Texas Ranger," as well as other Norris productions, according to listing agent Rogers Healy.
Norris co-owned the property at one time with his brother, Aaron Norris, who now is the owner along with his wife.
Healy said a handful of "qualified buyers" have toured the home since it was listed.
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Paris Hilton will attempt to take the music world by storm once again.
The socialite and budding singer is hoping that people will take her second musical endeavor a bit more seriously than they did the first time around. Hilton is set to release her next collection of songs at some point later this year.
The singer dropped hints about her new album on Twitter earlier this week. Paris Hilton tweeted that she was currently shooting a video for the new tune Good Time on Tuesday (July 24).
In order to keep the buzz going, she posted on Friday (July 26) that she was preparing to shoot a cover for the new album. She even posted a photo from the session on Instagram. However, the image doesn?t give fans any insight into what her new tunes will sound like.
Much to the surprise of just about everyone on the planet, Hilton recently signed with the folks at Cash Money. Although it?s clear that she?s about to drop something on the masses in the coming months, a release date has not been set as of this writing.
Hilton?s first album, the aptly-titled Paris, was released by Warner Bros. back in 2006. The disc garnered a fair amount of attention, though not for the reasons she probably intended. The album has only sold approximately 198,000 copies to-date. Cash Money is no doubt hoping for stronger sales from her sophomore effort.
Despite the constant jokes at her expense, the reviews for her debut weren?t entirely bad. Slant Magazine?s review of Paris probably sums it up best.
?What?s most surprising about Paris?s album is that it?s really not all that bad; released by any other, ahem, artist, it would likely earn better notices than recent albums by the likes of Lindsay Lohan, Hilary Duff, or Ashlee Simpson?not that that?s really saying much,? the publication explained.
Here?s a few of the 32-year-old heiress? tweets regarding her new effort.
Are you looking forward to the new album from Paris Hilton?
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Source: http://www.inquisitr.com/870854/paris-hilton-drops-hints-about-new-album-on-twitter/
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Rocky Ford cantaloupes on sale at King Soopers at the intersection of Leetsdale Drive and South Cherry Street in Glendale, Colo., in this 2012 file photo. (Stephen Mitchell, The Denver Post file)
ROCKY FORD, Colo.?Farmers are starting their harvest of Rocky Ford cantaloupes.The Rocky Ford Growers Association says that when pickers headed to the fields Friday, they were getting a late start on the harvest. The association says growers thought they could start harvesting a week ago, but the fruit hadn't quite ripened due in part to the drought.
Rocky Ford growers were hurt by a listeria outbreak in 2011, even though the outbreak was traced to cantaloupes grown 90 miles away. The region's farmers collectively planted a small crop the following year.
The growers association says the 550 acres of Rocky Ford cantaloupes that farmers planted this year is more than double the acreage planted last year, but it's still not at capacity due to a continuing drought.
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Regardless of what happens with MLB's investigation into Alex Rodriguez's connection to the Biogenesis lab in Florida, A-Rod will be laughing all the way to the bank for years to come. (Associated Press)
Another day, another Alex Rodriguez story.
And it's going to be that way until Major League Baseaball cracks down on the Yankee star for being connected to Biogenesis, a Florida lab that produced performance-enhancing drugs.
Word on A-Rod's suspension could come at any time, and when it does it's not going to affect his wealth status as many think he's still entitled to the remaining tens of millions on his contract.
The Yankees, of course, will battle that, but the feeling here is that they have no ground to stand on, unless, of course, something about using PEDs was built into his contract.
In the meantime, while Yankee and baseball fans in general stew, A-Rod is still collecting paychecks.
That has one SILive.com user, Mike May, quite upset and his remarks are Thursday's "Sports Comment of the Day."
Mike May said:
"Does anybody think he cares ? He's still getting paid tens of millions of dollars, and he's not even working ! What a great job ! PedA-Rod is laughing all the way to his banks."
Do you agree with Mike May, and if MLB suspends A-Rod do you feel the Yankees still have to pay the man? Sound off by leaving a comment below!
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By Pascal Fletcher
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - He wears a red beret, talks the language of Revolution and calls himself "Commander in Chief".
Any echo of Venezuela's late firebrand socialist leader Hugo Chavez is not accidental.
Julius Malema, expelled "bad boy" of South Africa's ruling African National Congress and now facing racketeering charges he denies, this month launched the nation's newest political movement, calling for a revolutionary jolt to Africa's biggest economy through nationalization of mines and expropriation of white-owned land.
Citing among his heroes Chavez and retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro, the 32-year-old Malema says his Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) movement plans to contest elections next year against President Jacob Zuma and the ANC, which has ruled since the end of apartheid in 1994.
"We want them out of power. They have failed our people," Malema, wearing his trademark red beret, said in an interview this week in Johannesburg's Sandton financial district.
The EFF, which has yet to register formally as a party, is the latest in a scattering of new political groupings that have emerged recently to try to challenge the ANC.
The ruling party remains dominant and still likely to win next year, but internal splits and enduring inequality and poverty in post-apartheid South Africa have eroded its support, especially among restive young people born after 1994.
Political analysts say that for Malema, arguably South Africa's most high-profile and divisive politician in recent years, grabbing headlines is easy.
But as a political orphan now shut out of the mighty ANC machine that nurtured his early career, he faces a tough reality check to show he has the backing, funding and organizational skills to form a viable party and run a credible campaign.
"I don't give him much chance," said veteran South African journalist and political commentator Allister Sparks, adding that money-laundering charges brought last year against the former ANC Youth League leader could also derail any election bid.
Nevertheless, surveys last month by consumer insights company Pondering Panda found more than one in four young South Africans aged between 18 and 34 said they would vote for a party led by Malema in an election. In the poll, conducted by mobile phone, respondents who supported Malema said they did so because he would do more to help poor people than other parties.
"These figures show that even under ANC rule, many young people feel their lives have not improved as they expected," Pondering Panda's Shirley Wakefield said in a statement.
Thrown out by the ANC as a troublemaker in 2012, Malema seems unfazed by the formal accusations of racketeering that could still send him to jail over murky state tender deals. He says the charges and a $1.6 million tax bill slapped on him after he left the ANC are a "nice coincidence".
"You can't wage a war against capital and not expect a reaction," said Malema, who at the height of his controversial Youth League leadership displayed a penchant for expensive Swiss watches and flashy cars. Since his fall from grace, he has been forced to auction off vehicles and properties.
"REVOLUTION IS PAINFUL"
Malema burnished his anti-capitalist credentials last year by intervening on the side of striking miners during an outbreak of violent labor unrest that killed at least 50 people, rattled investors and triggered ratings downgrades for South Africa.
Wildcat mining strikes have persisted this year, and it is no surprise that state takeover of "mines, banks and other strategic sectors" and expropriation of land for "equal redistribution" - all without compensation - are at the top of "non-negotiable" policy proposals presented by Malema's EFF.
Such radical tenets, which have been rejected by the current ANC leadership, are guaranteed to make existing and future investors in South Africa see red. But Malema is unapologetic.
"Revolution is painful," he said.
His EFF movement justifies its launch on the argument that when South Africa under Nelson Mandela - now 95 and critically ill in hospital - shed the shackles of apartheid two decades ago, it gained political freedom for the black majority.
But it left unfinished the quest for economic equality and a fairer redistribution of land and mineral wealth, pillars of an economy still largely in the hands of whites, the ANC says.
Malema denies his intention is to generate violence and create the kind of racially tinged social turmoil that Zimbabwe experienced after 2000 when war veterans backed by President Robert Mugabe seized land from white farmers, plunging the region's former breadbasket into economic meltdown.
"EFF is not calling for blood on the floor. It is calling for a constructive redistribution of resources of this country in a radical way," Malema said.
The question is whether his inflammatory brand of left-wing populism - he admits admiration for Chavez and his oil nationalizations in Venezuela - can gain traction among an increasingly youthful electorate that pays more attention to jobs and living standards than liberation credentials.
South Africa's youth unemployment is estimated at around 50 percent, and Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has called this a "ticking time bomb", suggesting even the ruling ANC is wary of the threat of an Arab Spring in the "Rainbow Nation".
INVESTORS "NEED US"
Malema says he is confident backing for him and the EFF will come from the workers, the poor and unemployed, and even the middle class to challenge an ANC elite he calls "a kleptocracy, a government of thieves".
"Our funding will come from our people," he said.
Skeptics note wryly that the EFF policy aims include a goal of "abolishment of tenders", the very business activity that has landed him in court for alleged money-laundering.
The ANC has largely ignored the launch of the EFF.
But one provincial leader of the party youth wing Malema once headed, Gauteng ANC Youth League chairman Lebogang Maile, wrote a newspaper opinion piece at the weekend dismissing the new movement as "reckless, bitter, arrogant populists" and accusing them of "lies and misinformation about the ANC".
Asked why he thought his radical revolutionary message will prosper on a fast-growing continent where most governments have embraced free-market capitalism, Malema retorts quickly:
"Show me a country that practiced market-related economy which has prospered in Africa, or created an equal society, free of poverty, where the wealth is shared among people."
He said South Africa and Zimbabwe, which hold nearly all the world's platinum, would still draw investors even if the state controlled all the mines and other strategic sectors. "They need us more than we need them," he said.
On the other hand, the cost of failing to redistribute South Africa's land and wealth would be high, Malema warned.
"If you don't do anything, the people are going to rise ... Where will the investors be then?" he said.
(Editing by Will Waterman)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/south-africas-ex-anc-bad-boy-plans-election-162251962.html
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By Lisa Twaronite
TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian stock markets wobbled on Wednesday, while the dollar took back some ground after the latest reading on China's manufacturing activity showed activity slowed to an 11-month low in July as new orders faltered and the job market darkened.
The flash HSBC/Markit Purchasing Managers' Index for China fell to 47.7 this month from June's final reading of 48.2, marking a third straight month below the 50 threshold between expansion and contraction.
"The lower reading of the July HSBC Flash China Manufacturing PMI suggests a continuous slowdown in manufacturing sectors thanks to weaker new orders and faster destocking," said Hongbin Qu, chief China economist of HSBC.
"This adds more pressure on the labor market," he said.
Worries of a rapid slowdown in the world's second-biggest economy as well as expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will begin to trim its massive bond-buying stimulus later this year have rattled global markets in recent weeks.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan <.miapj0000pus> pared earlier gains and wavered in and out of negative territory.
Japan's Nikkei share average <.n225> fell 0.6 percent, giving back some of its two-day rally, after government data showed the country's export growth unexpectedly slowed in June from a year earlier. The figures were a worrying sign that China's slowing economy hurt overseas demand and could potentially threaten Japan's economic recovery.
In U.S. trading on Tuesday, the S&P 500 snapped a four-session winning streak and retreated from Monday's record closing high, while upbeat results from United Technologies bolstered the Dow, which also touched a record intraday high.
The Australian dollar also erased its early gains against its U.S. counterpart and skidded 0.4 percent to $0.9260, after tame inflation data left the door open for the Reserve Bank of Australia to cut interest rates next month if it chooses.
"If the RBA thinks the economy needs a stimulus hit, these data are completely consistent with that. Our view is that growth is slowing in the economy. So we would expect the RBA to cut rates in August," said Brian Redican, a senior economist at Macquarie.
Yields on U.S. benchmark 10-year Treasury notes rose to 2.519 percent from their U.S. close of 2.507 percent, though still well below a two-year high of 2.76 percent touched on July 8.
The euro slipped slightly after the China data to $1.3207, after rising as high as $1.3238 on Tuesday, its highest level since June 21.
Against the yen, the dollar took back some lost ground, rising 0.3 percent to 99.74 yen, moving away from a one-week low of 99.13 yen touched in the previous session.
The dollar index <.dxy> extended gains, adding 0.2 percent to 82.126, after it skidded to a one-month low of 81.926 on Tuesday. The index set a three-year high of 84.753 last week.
Commodity markets had pushed higher ahead of the China data, but those gains unraveled in its wake.
Copper dropped 0.8 percent to $6,982 a tonne , after earlier touching a session high of $7,060, its loftiest since June 18. U.S. crude fell 0.3 percent to $106.96 a barrel.
Spot gold remained above the $1,300 an ounce after rallying to a one-month high on Tuesday.
(Additional reporting by Langi Chiang and Jonathan Standing in Beijing and Wayne Cole in Sydney; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/asian-stocks-waver-china-pmi-disappoints-041750473.html
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Apple has posted a warning on its Chinese website, urging people in the country to avoid using unofficial power chargers with its products. The page also instructs people on how to identify official chargers, using photos of AC adapters for the iPhone, iPad, and iPad mini. First-party chargers have particular labeling.
The reason for the message is unexplained, but is likely related to a pair of electrocutions involving third-party iPhone chargers, one of which was fatal. Although third-party models aren't necessarily dangerous, some are counterfeit and designed to resemble Apple gear without necessarily passing the same safety standards.
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