Activists say the Syrian military stormed the city of Hama before dawn Sunday, killing at least 23 people. AP cannot independently verify the content, date, location or authenticity of this amateur material. (July 31)
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At least 45 people were killed on Sunday when the army launched an attack on the flashpoint protest city of Hama in central Syria, a human rights activist said. ‘The army and security forces entered Hama this morning and opened fire on civilians, killing 45 and wounding several more,’ Rami Abdel Rahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said by telephone. Elsewhere, ‘six people were killed and 50 wounded by security forces in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor and three were killed and dozens wounded at Harak in the southern Deraa region,’ Abdel Rahman said. The oil hub of Deir Ezzor and Hama have been rallying points for…
Continue reading …Iceland’s crowdsourced constitution submitted for approval, Nyan Cat takes flight over Reykjavik
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A committee of 25 Icelanders submitted the first draft of a rewritten constitution to the country’s parliamentary speaker Friday, and despite our recommendations, Rebecca Black was conspicuously absent from the proceedings. The democratic experiment bravely asked citizens to log on to Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and Twitter to engage with the committee in a discussion about the nation’s future. While the project’s Facebook page played host to pleads for free ice cream and more volcanoes, the constitution’s creators managed to stay on task, focusing on issues of decentralization and transparency in government. The draft is slated for review beginning October 1st. Iceland’s crowdsourced constitution submitted for approval, Nyan Cat takes flight over Reykjavik originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 Jul 2011 07:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Continue reading …‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Set Photos Reveal New Tumbler and Bane’s Full Costume
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The Dark Knight Rises hit Pittsburgh this week with an incredible amount of fanfare. The city put up a huge bat symbol [1], held a press conference [2] and now set photos from the shoot have revealed some pretty spoiler-heavy images. The first is a full-body reveal of Tom Hardy as Bane and we also see the Tumbler, but with a new twist. We’ll keep everything after the jump for those of you who want… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : /Film Discovery Date : 31/07/2011 01:48 Number of articles : 2
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• Email rob.smyth@guardian.co.uk with your thoughts • Press refresh or hit the auto-update for the latest • Follow Rob Smyth on Twitter , if that’s your thing 16th over: England 48-1 (trailed by 67 on first innings; Strauss 16, Bell 23) Another delightful boundary from Bell, this one pushed straight back down the ground off the bowling of Sreesanth. The ball is swinging a little, but the pitch isn’t doing too much at the moment. We’re not going to have a Test like this , are we? “Wasn’t too long ago that the OBO was filled with please for rain, rain and more rain,” says Aram Gumusyan. “Now there’s heady talk of symbolic maces? Watch out for when The Man comes round, and his name is Hugh G. Bris.” Nah, I’m not having that. None of us are saying that it will happen or that it deserves to happen, but it’s close enough to make discussion of it entirely legitimate. It’s not like we’re rushing to the machine in the toilet just because a girl said hello to us. 15th over: England 42-1 (trailed by 67 on first innings; Strauss 15, Bell 18) Strauss drives Kumar pleasantly thorugh mid off for four. If I wasn’t terrified of being savaged by twos of readers for tempting fate, I’d say England have started the day very promisingly. ” Scyld Berry?” says Ali Kinnaird. “A name with no vowels? This is a first for me! Are there any other names with no vowels in them? Thank you.” I can’t think of any surnames without a vowel in them. 14th over: England 38-1 (trailed by 67 on first innings; Strauss 11, Bell 18) Bell lashes Sreesanth through the covers for four, prompting a cry of ‘Shot!’ from Strauss at the other end. He didn’t quite do the full ‘Ian Ronald Bell’, like Agent Cooper in Twin Peaks, but it was still a nice moment. “Here on Star Cricket, Sunny and Ravi Shastri had a right go at Vaughan, Sunny wanted VVS to take Michael to court,” says Vivek Radhakrishnan. “Entertaining rants by both of them. Where do stand on this issue, Rob?” I am saying absolutely nothing on this subject. Hell does hath fury like a woman scorned, and I suspect we’ll witness it at some stage before the end of August. 13th over: England 31-1 (trailed by 67 on first innings; Strauss 9, Bell 13) Some early swing from Praveen Kumar. Mind you, he could swing the ball in an airless bunker. Strauss tucks him through midwicket for three, and then Bell deliberately fiddles one to third man for four. England trail by 36, and will probably want at least another 285 runs in this innings. “What a glorious series this has been, like waking up after a huge bender on the first night of a holiday and realising you have no hangover, the sky is blue and you still have 5 nights to play with,” says Guy Hornsby. “It’s hard to recall it’s only 7 days old. With Trott seemingly out, today is all about our Eoin. I desperately hope he gets a big score. Having an on-song Morgan in your Test side for the next six or seven years. Imagine that!” He should come out swinging today. Forget the technical concerns and the poor form and do what he does best: just hit the ball. 12th over: England 24-1 (trailed by 67 on first innings; Strauss 6, Bell 9) Sreesanth bowls the first over of the day, trying to draw Bell into a drive outside off stump. He declines, so it’s a maiden. “First! (Sorry)” says Ryan Dunne. “Do teams still get the giant mace if they become No1 team in the world? Would it be put on display on Lord’s or the like, or would Swann be allowed to play about with it for cool Twitter photos? I remember when Duncan Fletcher said (well, he would) that his achievements with England in the 00s far dwarfed anything the country managed in the 80s; could a case be made that England deserve serious plaudits (including more gongs from the Queen) if they reach No1, or has Test cricket overall declined too much from the heady days of 2005?” I think it’ll be a huge achievement if England manage it. Fletcher was right; England were often hopeless in the 1980s. Scyld Berry wrote a fine piece on that subject in the very first edition of The Wisden Cricketer. And yeah, they do get the mace. “Good morning,” says John Starbuck. “It’s been announced that Trott will bat though no-one knows what position yet.” Crikey, that is a surprise. No10 or 11? Thought for the day This series is going to kick off very soon, isn’t it? Trottwatch He faced only two balls in practice this morning before going off for an injection. It seems very unlikely he will bat. Preamble Morning. These days everyone wants to be FIRST! We’re a culture obsessed with the first: first impression, first match of the season, first meal (Paulie Walnuts says breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and wise men don’t argue with Paulie), first date, first injunction, first pint after eight hours kissing the feet of The Man. In some contexts, however, the second is far more important. For example, a monstrous slab of lunchtime meat at The Hawksmoor trumps Frosties anyday, although you can tell Paulie that. Similarly, the second set of a tennis match is surely the most significant, when the contest is almost completed at 2-0 or comes alive at 1-1. That’s the scenario we have at Trent Bridge today, where an excellent Test match will probably be decided, if not actually completed. Either England go 2-0 up or India level it at 1-1 with power, Sehwag and Zaheer to add. The English cricket lover in me is desperate for England to win; the Test cricket lover in me is equally desperate for India to win. Think about how empty 2005 would have been had Australia gone 2-0 up at Edgbaston, and not just because England were losing. Six years ago we had the best of both worlds – an epic series and an England win. So this time we want India to win here, England to win by one wicket at Edgbaston and then by one run at The Oval, thus clinching the series 3-1 and going top of the Test Championship. Is that so much to ask? All that said, I suppose we could live with England winning by 114 runs here after a staggering 121-ball 132 from Eoin Morgan. India in England 2011 England cricket team India cricket team Cricket Over by over reports Rob Smyth Rob Bagchi guardian.co.uk
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Republicans say they are confident a deal to raise the US debt ceiling can be reached as last-minute talks continue The White House and Republican leaders in Congress have made significant progress toward a deal to raise the US debt ceiling and avert a potentially catastrophic default, according to officials familiar with the talks. Under a plan negotiated late on Saturday night, the ceiling would be raised in two steps by about $2.4tn (£1.5tn) and spending would be cut by a slightly larger amount, the officials said. The first stage – to raise the ceiling by about $1tn – would take place immediately and the second later in the year. Congress would be required to vote on a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, but none of the debt limit increase would be contingent on its approval. President Barack Obama is seeking legislation to raise the government’s $14.3tn debt limit by enough to tide the US treasury over until after the 2012 elections. He has threatened to veto any proposals that might lead to a recurrence of the current crisis next year but has agreed to Republican demands that deficits be cut – without tax increases – in exchange for authorising additional US borrowing. Without a compromise in place by Tuesday, administration officials say the treasury will run out of funds to pay the nation’s bills. The subsequent default, which would be the first in US history, could prove catastrophic for the US economy by causing interest rates to rise and financial markets to sink, and sending shockwaves around the world. With financial markets closed for the weekend, the parties to the negotiations had a little breathing space, but not much. Asian markets open for the new working week late Sunday afternoon Washington time. “There is very little time,” Obama said in his weekly radio and internet address on Saturday. He called for an end to political gamesmanship, saying: “The time for compromise on behalf of the American people is now.” One official commenting on the late night negotiations said the two sides had settled on general concepts, but that there were numerous details to be worked out – and no assurance of a final agreement. “There are many elements to be finalised,” Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader in the Senate said. “There is still a distance to go.” Still, word of significant progress after weeks of stalemate offered the strongest indication yet that a default might be averted. Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said at a joint news conference with the House speaker John Boehner that he was confident a deal could be reached “in the very near future”. After a meeting at the White House with Obama and the House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, Reid initially disagreed with that optimistic assessment. Past increases in the US debt ceiling have been routine, but Republicans, citing the giant US deficit, have demanded huge spending cuts as a condition for approving the increase this time. After weeks of intense partisanship, there was renewed talk of compromise as both the House and Senate convened for extraordinary Saturday sessions. McConnell and Boehner held their news conference shortly after the House of Representatives had rejected a Senate Democratic bill drafted by Reid to raise the government’s debt limit by $2.4tn and cut spending by $2.2tn. The House vote was 246-173, mostly along party lines and after a bitter debate. The vote was unusual in that Republicans lined up to kill Reid’s legislation before it had even cleared the Senate. It was orchestrated as political payback because late on Friday Reid had engineered the demise of Republican proposals hours after it they were passed in the House. Before the House vote, Republicans said Reid’s proposals were full of gimmicks and would make unacceptable reductions in defence spending. Pelosi said Boehner had chosen “to go to the dark side” when he changed his own legislation to satisfy the Tea Party movement and other critics, who insist taxes must not be raised to cut into federal deficits, even for the wealthiest US companies and individuals. US politics United States US economy Economics Republicans Democrats Tea Party movement guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …ABC Sees Conservatives ‘Mounting an Unprecedented Assault on Environmental Regulations’
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JC2 ghost car damions ghost car ride reaction Just-cause-2 Ghost Car WTF AgentNadia says: Have you seen a “ Ghost Car “? http://t.co/qYf2ZBO via @ YahooNews
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