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Apr 30, 2012

SPORTS, Athletics News, Apr 30, 2012

Madrid eyes 32nd Spanish title at Athletic
Washington Examiner
(AP Photo/Andres Kudacki) The Associated Press AP Top Sports News At 9:27 am EDT MADRID (AP) — Real Madrid can end a four-year wait for a Spanish league trophy by clinching the domestic title with a victory at AthleticBilbao on Wednesday regardless ...
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Utah State Athletics unveils new brand and identity program
Cache Valley Daily
During the unveiling, student-athletes representing the sports of football, men's and women's basketball, volleyball, women's soccer, cross country, softball and track and field modeled new uniforms that will debut during the 2012-2013 season.
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PENNY Stock News, Apr 30, 2012

Penny Stocks: Always Alluring, Often Worthless
Investorplace.com
As a result, it is easier for stock promoters to pull off frauds. Another problem is that the liquidity in the OTC market is usually minimal — that is, if you have to sell your shares in a pinch, you could end up taking a big discount on the price.
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Shares of Penny Stock MusclePharm Corp. (MSLP) ends Friday's Session Soaring ...
Tech24
Shares of MusclePharm Corp. (OTC: MSLP), a developer, manufacturer and marketer of nutritional supplements for athletes, surged in Friday's trading session. The penny stock of MSLP ended the day 13.37% higher at $0.0195. MusclePharm last week announced ...
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NY TIMES News, Apr 30, 2012

NY Times Gets Apple's Effective Tax Rate Wrong
Fox Business
By Elizabeth MacDonald The New York Times reported on Saturday that Apple (AAPL) lowers its tax bill with various tax moves that involve using offices in lower tax regimes. Using analysis from a former Treasury economist, theNew York Times reported ...
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Apple legally sidesteps billions in taxes, NY Times reports
Charleston Gazette
The New York Times on Sunday outlined legal methods used by Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple to avoid paying billions of dollars in federal and state taxes. One approach highlighted in the report: Even though the company is based in California, ...
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NEW TRENDS, Apr 30, 2012

New Trends
Report: World progress too slow on climate control
Washington Post
The 2012 report is out and the grades are dismal: Aside from a recent boom in wind and solar power, the world isn't making much progress. The IEA doesn't just look at recent trends in greenhouse-gas emissions — those can rise and fall with the economy.
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Five New Summer Sports Trends for 2012
Yahoo! Sports
Recently, news agencies like CNBC.com are reporting that one of the upcoming trends in sports is lacrosse. In addition, 2012 may be a hot year fornew sports considering how kids and adults are often influenced by the Olympics.
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IDEAS, Apr 30, 2012


IDEAS

North American Palladium Completes C$35 Million Flow-Through Financing
SYS-CON Media (press release)
By Rob Rusher ckendrick99 wrote: Speaking as someone who knows what's going on in more than one company :) .. some of the world's largest organizations have made strong, company-wide policy changes that they need to move off of Flex.
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Richard Petty Motorsports hires former
AutoWeek
Great gift ideas for the car lovers and auto enthusiasts in your life. See bonus content. Share your opinions, photos, story ideas and tips. We want to hear from you! Get to know the personalities behind the bylines. Give them feedback, ask questions ...
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HEALTH News, Fitness, Wellness, Diets, Apr 30, 2012

9 Health Myths Debunked
Huffington Post (blog)
Our world is saturated with advice about health and fitness. It is hurled at us from every direction - from sources that are clearly suspect (infomercials, fashion magazines and my "stylist") to those that are meant to have more heft, legitimacy and ...
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What is body intelligence?
Inquirer.net
Knowledge of safe and effective health and lifestyle practices from credible sources and professionals will protect us from the dangers of quick-fix diets and supplements. The correct lifestyle knowledge and skills will lead to health and fitness.
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EUROZONE Crisis News, Apr 30, 2012

Emerging markets hold breath as EU banks shrink
Reuters
* Euro zone crisis ripples far and wide * Asia fears reprise of post-Lehman banking drought * Eastern Europe in firing line due to close EU links * ECB's cheap loans buy time for banks, emerging markets By Alan Wheatley, Global Economics Correspondent ...
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EARTHQUAKE News, Apr 30, 2012

New hotels arise amid ruins in Haitian capital
Atlanta Journal Constitution
In this April 26, 2012 photo, a man rearranges power lines in a camp for people displaced by the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This city is undergoing the largest hotel building boom in its history, raising expectations that investors will ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
New hotels constructed amid ruins in Haitian capital
Statesman Journal
Residents of a camp for those displaced by the 2010 earthquake are photographed Thursday in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. / By Ramon Espinosa, AP PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Glimmers of hope are coming to this devastated capital and its surrounding cities, ...
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DIED, Apr 30, 2012

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Prime Minister Netanyahu's Father Dies at 102
Wall Street Journal
AP JERUSALEM—Ben-Zion Netanyahu, the historian and Zionist activist whose skepticism about peacemaking with the Arabs helped to shape the world outlook of his son, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, died on Monday. He was 102.
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Ben-Zion Netanyahu, father of Israeli prime minister, dies at 102
Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM -- The man said to have had the most profound influence on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his father, historian Ben-Zion Netanyahu, died early Monday in his Jerusalem home at age 102. Born Ben-Zion Milikovsky in Warsaw in 1910, ...
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CNN World News, Apr 30, 2012

England's game of year draws attention from across pond
CNN
By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Wayne Rooney, left, and Vincent Kompany did battle in October's Manchester derby, which City won handily 6-1. (CNN) -- It's no Super Bowl. Heck, it's no Monday Night Football, but for an American audience, ...
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England's game of year draws attention from across pond
CNN
By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN Wayne Rooney, left, and Vincent Kompany did battle in October's Manchester derby, which City won handily 6-1. (CNN) -- It's no Super Bowl. Heck, it's no Monday Night Football, but for an American audience, ...
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ACTIONAID News, Apr 30, 2012

NGO Cautions Country On GMOs
AllAfrica.com
Speaking exclusively to East African Business Week in Dar es Salaam last week, Mr. Elias Mtinda, the Agriculture and Food Security Advisor of theActionAid Tanzania, said there is a need for the government to make its own decision without being ...
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Ban tax incentives, agencies tell government
Daily Monitor
By Nicholas Kalungi (email the author) Tax incentives offered by government to attract investments should be banned because they are not economically viable, Tax Justice Network and ActionAid International have said. In a report titled 'Tax competition ...
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NEW ZEALAND HERALD News, Apr 30, 2012

Kim Dotcom in New Zealand political donation row
AFP
The German Internet tycoon, who faces extradition to the United States for allegedly masterminding massive online piracy, told theNew Zealand Herald he donated NZ$50000 ($41000) to ACT Party leader John Banks in 2010. Dotcom, 38, said Banks asked him ...
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AFP
Kim Dotcom: NZ lawmaker tried to hide his donation
Boston.com
AUCKLAND, New Zealand—New Zealand police are investigating an embattled Internet mogul's claim that he gave a lawmaker money that the politician tried to disguise. Kim Dotcom told The New Zealand Herald newspaper he gave conservative lawmaker John ...
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ADRIANA SKLENARIKOVA News, Apr 30, 2012



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NAOMI CAMPBELL News, Apr 30, 2012



JD McPherson
American Songwriter
Here, the lo-fi leaning, former art teacher from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma discusses songwriting, his new album Signs and Signifiers, and his early ode to Naomi Campbell. Don & Phil Everly, Cindy Walker, Nick Lowe, Fats Waller, Joe Strummer, ...
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LINDSAY LOHAN News, Apr 30, 2012


Lindsay Lohan makes waves at the 98th Annual White House Correspondents' weekend
TheCelebrityCafe.com
Lindsay Lohan is one celebrity who is never out of the tabloids for too long, and for better or worse, this weekend in Washington, DC was the perfect end to her long week of breakout news stories. Earlier this week, Lohan was the source of various news ...
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John Oliver on Lindsay Lohan's Correspondents' Dinner Invite: "We've All Let ...
Hollywood.com
By Kelsea Stahler , Hollywood.com Staff | Sunday, April 29, 2012 No one who has heard about Lindsay Lohan's invitation to The White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 28 has received the announcement without letting their jaws drop to the floor.
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Apr 29, 2012

LATEST World News, Apr 29, 2012

Today in History: April 29th
Washington Post
Apr. 29, 2012 - On this day in history:Rioting hits Los Angeles after four white officers are acquitted of most charges in beating of Rodney King; Dachau concentration camp liberated; Jerry Seinfeld born. (/Associated Press) Correction: Clarification: ...
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Apartment Blocks May Host Missiles for Olympics
Washington Post
Apr. 29, 2012 - Surface-to-air missiles could be stationed on the rooftops of an apartment block in east London as part of Britain's air defenses for the Olympics, the country's military confirmed Sunday. (/Associated Press) Correction: Clarification: ...
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UNITED KINGDOM News, Apr 29, 2012

AP source: UK Olympic doping ban declared illegal
San Francisco Chronicle
(04-29) 11:21 PDT LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) -- Britain's last attempt to keep former doping offenders off its Olympic teams has failed, with sports' top court declaring the country's lifetime bans for drug cheats unlawful. A person familiar with the ...
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In UK survey, doctors support denying treatment to smokers, the obese
msnbc.com
By msnbc.com staff A majority of doctors in a United Kingdom survey supported measures to deny non-emergency medical services to smokers and the obese, The Observer newspaper reported Sunday. Although the survey by the networking website doctors.net.uk ...
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TECHNOLOGY News, Apr 29, 2012

United Technologies is latest business to scale back space presence with end ...
Washington Post
United Technologies Corp. is the most recent company to announce it will sharply scale back its role in space exploration. It's selling Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, a manufacturer of rocket engines and liquid-propulsion systems that it's owned for seven ...
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Innovative Technology Products for Aspiring Artists and Children
Houston Chronicle
Technology expert Scott Steinberg recently spoke with NewsWatch about some of the most innovative technology products of 2012. One product that really caught his eye came from a company that's been in the professional world for quite some time now.
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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Apr 29, 2012

Wind farms may have warming effect: research
Reuters
MORE RESEARCH NEEDED But the researchers said more studies were needed, at different locations and for longer periods, before any firm conclusions could be drawn. Scientists say the world's average temperature has warmed by about 0.8 degrees Celsius ...
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Scientists Find Night-Warming Effect Over Large Wind Farms in Texas
National Science Foundation (press release)
"This study indicates that land surface temperatures have warmed in the vicinity of large wind farms in west-central Texas, especially at night," says Anjuli Bamzai, program director in the NationalScience Foundation's (NSF) Division of Atmospheric ...
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RUSSIA News, Apr 29, 2012

Russia's willful ignorance
New York Daily News
Most surprising of all, the middle classes in large, cosmopolitan cities like St. Petersburg and Moscow, which were praised for the recent democratic protests, actually share many of the Kremlin's prejudices about America. The 2010 scandal overRussian ...
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New York Daily News
Ten-man Zenit beat Dynamo to win Russian title
Malaysia Star
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ten-man Zenit St Petersburg beat Dynamo Moscow 2-1 on Saturday to claim a second consecutiveRussian Premier League title with three games to spare. Luciano Spalletti's team, backed by Russian energy giant Gazprom, only needed a draw ...
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