Iran, Syria among top for G-8 and NATO
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron on arrival for the G8 Summit Friday, May 18, 2012 at Camp David, Md. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron on arrival for the G8 Summit Friday, May 18, 2012 at Camp David, Md. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
President Barack Obama meets with French President Francois Hollande, Friday, May 18, 2012, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
President Barack Obama kisses German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the cheek on arrival for the G8 Summit Friday, May 18, 2012 at Camp David, Md. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
President Barack Obama, right, greets Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on arrival for the G8 Summit Friday, May 18, 2012 at Camp David, Md. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Monti on arrival for the G8 Summit Friday, May 18, 2012 at Camp David, Md. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) ? President Barack Obama and leaders of other major industrial powers grappled Friday with options to solidify world resolve against development of an Iranian nuclear bomb and encourage a more forceful response to worsening violence in Syria.
Obama will have the ear of key players on both issues during back-to-back G-8 and NATO summits that will be dominated with discussions of European economic woes and Afghanistan. Talks about Syria and Iran will be aimed directly and indirectly at Russia, a sometime protector of both Iran and Syria and the chief blockade to such U.S. goals as an arms embargo on Syria.
The gatherings come in the shadow of the eurozone debt crisis and plummeting public support for the war in Afghanistan. Political and economic chaos in Greece and Spain underscored just how fragile Europe’s economy remains after an eviscerating austerity regime. Germany’s finance minister predicted Friday that the crisis could last up to another two years.
Most of the leaders are part of overlapping international coalitions formed to address the Iranian nuclear problem and the newer crisis in Syria, where an estimated 9,000 people have died in more than a year of violence that arose from the pro-democracy Arab uprisings.
Faced with implacable Russian opposition to significant new United Nations punishments on the Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad, U.S. officials are trying to get consensus among other allies about ways to promote Assad’s ouster.
A senior U.S. official said one goal of Friday’s closed-door discussion at the secluded presidential retreat in Camp David, Md., was to impress on Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev that other nations that share Russia’s usual role at the forefront of international diplomacy are seeking ways to address the Syria debacle without Russian help.
Obama greeted each leader by name, calling Medvedev “my friend,” before the group went inside for dinner.
The United States wants to avoid escalating a confrontation with Moscow over Syria, the official said, but wants Medvedev to hear the depth of international outrage. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal diplomacy.
A senior Obama administration official said Friday night that the Group of Eight leaders unified behind a dual track effort of sanctions and diplomacy toward Iran and agreed to focus on political transition in Syria.
The eight leaders gathered for a dinner of more than two hours in the secluded woods of Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains.
The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to share details of the private session.
Russia is a partner with the United States and European nations in containing Iran’s nuclear program, although with China it has blocked the most severe penalties the United Nations Security Council might impose. A U.N.-affiliated negotiating group including Russia will meet with Iranian officials next week in Baghdad, Iraq.
On Iran, the U.S. official said each of the leaders, including Medvedev, indicated that Iran has the burden of proving that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
As for Syria, the official said the leaders continued to back the peace plan brokered by special envoy Kofi Annan brokered in April, including its call for political transition. But they did not go beyond that.
U.S. officials say the economic pressure of sanctions is key to drawing Iran back to the bargaining table this spring after a long hiatus.
“Each member of the G-8 is a core member of this sanctions effort,” White House national security adviser Thomas Donilon said Thursday. “Each member has been absolutely essential to really putting in place what has been an extraordinarily effective and, I think most people would say, surprisingly effective sanctions effort.”
Iran says it is enriching only to create nuclear fuel. Its refusal to halt enrichment has provoked U.N. and other sanctions, including U.S. and European Union penalties meant to cripple its oil exports ? its main revenue source ? that are to fully take effect in a few weeks.
“The message will be that the Iranians should seize this opportunity” for talks, Donilon said. “And while this goes on, in parallel, the sanctions and pressure effort will continue, led by the United States and the others who will be at the table on Friday evening.”
Syria is a much harder case, in part because Russia and China oppose U.N. action that could set a precedent for outside interference in internal ethnic or human rights matters, and partly because there is no international appetite for a military confrontation with Assad.
Syrian forces on Friday fired on protesters holding the largest opposition marches yet in Aleppo, a sign of rising anti-regime sentiment in the country’s biggest city, which has largely remained supportive of President Bashar Assad throughout the 15-month uprising.
The head of the U.N. observer mission in Syria warned that neither his team nor armed action could solve the country’s crisis, and called on all sides to discuss a solution. But the regime kept up its assaults on opposition areas and protests, while the head of Syria’s largest exile opposition group dismissed the U.N.’s plan as unrealistic.
The White House abruptly moved the G-8 session to Camp David earlier this spring, after months of planning for a Chicago venue. A desire for seclusion and intimacy was one reason and a gesture to Russia was another.
Russia is opposed to a NATO plan for a missile defense shield in Europe that will be detailed at the NATO summit Sunday in Chicago, causing Russian President Vladimir Putin to let NATO know he did not want to be invited to the alliance meeting.
Separating the two sessions was supposed to make it easier for Putin to attend one and not the other. But Putin made his own abrupt change, telling Obama last week that he would skip the gathering and send Medvedev in his place.
The administration denied speculation that the sessions were moved for security reasons. Past G-8 meetings have seen large and sometimes violent protests by activists opposed to the increasing globalization of world economies. Street violence overshadowed the 2001 summit in Genoa, Italy. Critics have accused the G-8 of representing the interests of an elite group of industrialized nations to the detriment of the needs of the wider world. Since Genoa, the meetings have been held in increasingly isolated locations to shield leaders from protests, playing into criticism of the G-8′s closed-door image.
Obama, an infrequent visitor to Camp David, is putting the presidential hideaway on full display for the G-8, the largest gathering of foreign leaders ever to assemble there. The leaders will stroll leafy paths to rustic meetings halls and bed down in the 11 residential cabins. Four African leaders will join them for lunch Saturday.
The G-8 is made up of the leaders of the United States, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Russia. The meetings began in 1975 at a forum instigated by France, where leaders of the six largest economic powers agreed to annual meetings. Canada joined a year later, making it the G-7. Russia was brought into the organization in 1997, six years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The European Union is represented but is not granted the power to act as host of the annual sessions or to serve as the rotating leader.
Obama holds the chairmanship this year.
Associated Press
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Chicago: Cops, Obama office were terror targets
??Three anti-NATO protesters planned to attack four Chicago police stations, the local campaign headquarters for President Barack Obama and the home of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, prosecutors alleged.
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Filed under relaxing | Tags: chicago cops, johnson, rahm emmanuel | Comment (0)Raven-Symone: ‘My Sexual Orientation Is Mine’
‘I’m living my PERSONAL life the way I’m happiest,’ actress tweets in response to a tabloid report she is gay.
By Jocelyn Vena
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Raven-Symoné has taken to Twitter to address a National Enquirer report that she is gay. The tabloid published a story this week that the “Sister Act” star is currently dating “America’s Next Top Model” contestant, AzMarie Livingston, and that they are living together in New York City.
According to sources, “Raven has lost almost 30 pounds, has done a whole image makeover, and now she is the star of ‘Sister Act’ on Broadway. She’s at a point now where she doesn’t care what her family thinks, and she’s in love with AzMarie. She’s a lesbian and wants to live that way.”
The tabloid further reports that the 26-year-old’s family does not approve of her lifestyle, however, “she told her parents she loves them, but her home — especially her bedroom — is nobody’s business, and she was not going to back down, so they needed to accept it, period.”
While Raven-Symoné neither confirmed nor denied the speculation on Friday, when she took to Twitter to open up about the rumor, she did make it clear that whatever she does in her personal life is her business.
“I’m living my PERSONAL life the way I’m happiest,” she tweeted. “I’m not one, in my 25 year career to disclose who I’m dating. and I shall not start now. My sexual orientation is mine, and the person I’m datings to know. I’m not one for a public display of my life.”
She continued that “however that is my right as a HUMAN BEing whether straight or gay. To tell or not to tell. As long as I’m not harming anyone. I am a light being made from love. And my career is the only thing I would like to put on display, not my personal life. Kisses!”
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What does it take to call yourself an artist? For painter and Beach Guild of Fine Art (BGFA) member Marlene Pape it took the encouragement of others to convince her that her work was indeed art, and that she was indeed an artist.
?I’m still shocked when people say how amazed they are about my work,? she says. She names artists such as Anna Clarey, Shirley Jones and Liz Russ as inspirations, as well as mentors.
?Patrice Carmichael and I met years ago when our children were in Montessori,? Pape recalls. ?Years later we met again at a Guild meeting and found out that we both were wanting to become artists.?
Pape, Carmichael and the other members of the BGFA are holding the annual spring Small Paintings for Small Spaces show, May 25 to 27, in the historic Kew (Gardener’s) Cottage in Kew Gardens.
Beach painter Marlene Pape with one of her abstract works. PHOTO: Phil Lameira / Beach Metro News
Pape had been many things before deciding to add artist to the list. For 10 years she was an elementary school teacher who found that teaching art to her young pupils was one of the more enjoyable aspects of that career. After the birth of her first child, she ran a children’s clothing store. After her second child came along, Pape decided to stay at home and concentrate on her children.
When the kids got old enough to be less dependent, Pape went to George Brown College to study Interior Decorating. It was there that she learned about perspective drawing and colour theory. While working as a decorator, she found herself spending more time in her personal studio working on paintings. In 2005 she made the decision to commit herself to painting full-time.
Pape’s first show was at Cobalt Gallery on Kingston Road, and with support from gallery owner Annette Hansen and friends, she was encouraged to stay on her artist track.
?Every single new painting is, for me, like re-inventing the wheel,? Pape says. ?My art is not pre-planned. I like to start, and just see where it’s going.?
That kind of approach is often fraught with potential problems, and Pape is quick to acknowledge them.
?Sometimes I have a hard time knowing when to stop,? she says. ?I have had to go to a lot of work to ‘correct’ mistakes… and sometimes just start over again.?
Marlene Pape has narrowed ? if that’s a word that can be applied to art ? her paintings into three styles. With one style she calls her ‘scrapings’ she creates large, colourful abstracts in oils and acrylics in which she uses a palette knife to apply and direct the paint. These are the works that people find amazing, and she admits to them being her signature style. Then there are her ‘skies’; again, large, colourful, impressionistic and fanciful paintings that feature a landscape ? or seascape ? dwarfed by an immense and powerful sky. Their size, combined with a surreal, captivating light, often leaves viewers convinced that there is a religious aspect to these works.
?I’m not in the least bit religious,? Pape states. ?But I’ve been told that many of my paintings have a spiritual? aspect to them. I suppose that could be true.
?My ‘staircases’ are becoming very popular,? Pape says of her latest subject. ?I’m going to concentrate on more of them.?
These, too, are large (Pape admits to having had a tough time creating work for the Small Paintings show) impressionistic renderings of staircases. Pape says she often works from photographs, but that the finished work bears no resemblance to the original photo.
In the living room of her beautiful Beach home, books on the great Italian artist Caravaggio (1571-1610) were seen on her coffee table. Was he an influence?
?My husband and son are huge fans of his,? Pape says. ?I appreciate his work but I could never even attempt to do that style.
?How I judge what is successful art is when I look at the piece and can’t imagine how it was accomplished,? she says. ?I look carefully and can’t even distinguish the brushstrokes.?
Pape enjoys the solitude required to be an artist. ?It’s so nice to be able to work from home,? she says. ?The kids still come home for lunch… I can work all night if I’m inspired.?
With the success she is finding as a member of the BGFA, the development of definite styles of paintings, and the joy that comes from the solitary act of creating, Marlene Pape definitely has all it takes to call herself an artist.
For more information on Marlene, drop by the Small Paintings for Small Spaces show in Kew (the Gardener’s) Cottage, May 25-27, or visit her website at marlenepapefineart.com.
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By Reuters
Hewlett-Packard Co is considering cutting its workforce by 8 to 10 percent, or a minimum of 25,000 jobs, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as newly installed CEO Meg Whitman strives to return the storied Silicon Valley institution to growth.
The job cuts, which could include retirements, are under discussion but have not yet been finalized, several people familiar with the situation told Reuters. Th e sources did not elaborate on a time frame or other details.
HP, which employs more than 300,000 people across the globe, could announce the layoffs as soon as next week when it unveils quarterly results, said the sources, who asked to remain anonymous because the plan has not been made public.
Analysts have been expecting job cuts in the wake of Whitman’s plan to merge the company’s personal computer and printer divisions.?
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After yesterday's news of Verizon killing off unlimited data plans for grandfathered users, we were left with a lot of questions. That will happen when you don't get official word about changes, and analysts and pundits alike are forced to hypothesize. Luckily, Verizon has released some more official news about what to expect with their new shared data plans, and how this will affect current customers with unlimited data plans. Here's the full statement –
As we have stated publicly, Verizon Wireless has been evaluating its pricing structure for some time. Customers have told us that they want to share data, similar to how they share minutes today. We are working on plans to provide customers with that option and will introduce new plans later this year.
When the new options are introduced, Unlimited Data will no longer be available to our customers purchasing handsets and signing a new contract. Customers who choose to purchase phones at full retail price and are currently on an unlimited smartphone data plan will be able to keep that plan. The same pricing and policies will apply to all 3G and 4GLTE smartphones.
We will share specific details of the plans well in advance of their introduction so customers will have time to evaluate the plans and make the best decisions for their wireless service. It is our goal and commitment to continue to provide customers with the same high value service they have come to expect from Verizon Wireless.
It seems as if yesterdays speculation was on the mark, and Verizon will be pushing folks with a grandfathered unlimited data plan to the new shared data plans whenever a new contract is signed. Thankfully, there is a way out — pay full price for your phone or tablet, and don't sign a new contract. Of course that's not a good solution for many folks, and with no subsidy a lot of the value of sticking with a carrier is lost. It's not the news many were hoping for, but at least we're all aware of the situation now. We're all interested to see more specific details about fees and data cap sizes as they are announced.
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TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) – The FBI has opened a probe into trading losses at JPMorgan Chase & Co, stepping up the pressure on the bank after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Reserve said they were also looking into the wrong-way bets that led to the losses.
Yet at the same time, shareholders backed embattled Chief Executive Jamie Dimon at the bank’s annual shareholders meeting in Tampa, Florida on Tuesday, voting against a proposal to split the jobs of CEO and chairman.
Though shareholders mostly gave Dimon a pass, pressure mounted on the bank to reclaim some of the millions of dollars it paid to the executives who oversaw the trades. Dimon said JPMorgan would pursue more disciplinary action against those who were responsible.
“We will do the right thing. That may well include clawbacks,” he told reporters after the annual meeting.
The timing on any such move was not clear, though, and the various regulatory probes could add complications. A source familiar with the FBI investigation, opened by the agency’s New York office, described it as being at a preliminary stage.
The probe was seen in some quarters as necessary, given the ongoing debate in Washington about bank regulation and reform, and one expert said it raised the level of concern around what happened.
“The FBI looks for evidence of crimes and goes after people who it alleges are criminals. They want to send people to jail. The SEC pursues all sorts of wrongdoing, imposes fines and is half as scary as the FBI,” said Erik Gordon, a professor in the law and business schools at the University of Michigan.
After two trading days of heavy losses, JPMorgan shares were up 3.4 percent to $36.99 in afternoon trade. The stock is down more than 9 percent since the trading losses were disclosed, wiping out $14.3 billion of market capitalization.
“It affects my opinion of the entire financial industry,” said Dennis Hong, principal with Altimeter Capital, a hedge fund that manages about $250 million.
“It’s really shocking because JPMorgan has been known as the most conservative in terms of managing their business risk. They may be losing their way,” Hong said at an event in Boston.
AFFIRMS ‘CASE FOR … REFORM’
In Washington, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said JPMorgan‘s losses strengthened the case for reform.
“I think this failure of risk management is just a very powerful case for … financial reform,” Geithner told an event sponsored by the Peterson Foundation.
“The test of reform is not whether you can prevent banks from making mistakes … the test of reform should be: ‘Do those mistakes put at risk the broader economy, the financial system or the taxpayer?’”
Protests outside the annual meeting were relatively limited. Half a dozen Occupy Tampa protesters did media interviews and occasionally chanted, “hey hey ho ho, big banks have got to go.”
Nonetheless, retail shareholders expressed incredulity at the size of the losses.
“I am amazed that they think $2 billion is a bump in the road,” said A. Reihl, an 85-year-old shareholder who said she has owned the stock for more than a decade. “This is not the time to be taking risk.”
Father Seamus Finn of the Washington-based Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility described the outcome of the meeting as “pretty poor.”
“I don’t think we got any more clarity out of Mr. Dimon about what he got out of these recent experiences and what they’re going to do,” he said.
CLAWBACKS
New York City Comptroller John Liu, who oversees the city’s $400 million stake in JPMorgan, on Tuesday joined those calling for a “clawback” of compensation from executives responsible for the trading losses, including Ina Drew, chief of the hedging unit that racked up the losses.
She announced her retirement on Monday. Reuters was unable to reach Drew at her New Jersey home on Monday evening.
In its 2011 annual report, JPMorgan said its stock-based compensation awards were subject to clawback provisions. It said in its proxy filing that it could conduct a clawback review “as a result of a material restatement of earnings or by acts or omissions of employees.”
JPMorgan can cancel unvested awards or require that the value of distributed shares be repaid when “the employee engages in conduct that causes material financial or reputational harm to the firm or its business activities,” according to the proxy.
“We don’t know the facts and culpability, but it appears she (Drew) did have a responsibility here along with a number of others,” Sheila Bair, former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, said in an interview with Reuters Insider. “Clearly, the whole purpose of clawbacks is if you make a bad bet that results in losses, compensation should be clawed back.”
SPLIT PROPOSAL REJECTED
While regulators probe the losses, most shareholders at the brief annual meeting seemed more concerned with the bank’s mortgage servicing practices and with the proposal to split the roles of chairman and CEO.
That proposal, which was nonbinding, received 40.1 percent of the votes cast in favor. By way of comparison, 44 percent of AT&T Inc shareholders and 46 percent of Honeywell International Inc shareholders voted to separate the roles at their companies in meetings held last month.
“Obviously, all the media attention, all the political yammering of the past week, undoubtedly had some influence on people who had not voted up to that point,” said Marshall Front, chairman of investment manager Front Barnett Associates in Chicago, whose firm voted against the proposal.
(Reporting by David Henry and Barbara Liston in Tampa, Ross Kerber, Jim Finkle and Ben Berkowitz in Boston, Jed Horowitz, David Randall, Dan Wilchins, Basil Katz, Emily Flitter and Rhonda Schaffler in New York and Sinead Cruise in London; Writing by Ben Berkowitz; Editing by Alwyn Scott and David Holmes)
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In the past, a MySpace profile alone was a sufficient internet portal for most bands
However, the declining popularity of the service has effectively decentralized the ways in which in which fans notice bands. It can be troublesome for musicians to figure out which services are best for promoting their music.
Generally speaking, the wisest move for bands is to form profiles on all social media services and link them to a politician website or blog. However, your blog or official site in all probability does not come with any built-in way to stream music. Let?s investigate how bands incorporate streaming music into their websites and blogs.
Embedded Players, Apps, and Widgets
One of the best ways to implement streaming music on your band?s blog or web site is to simply incorporate an embedded player from one among the prevailing social media sites for musicians. several of those services accompany players that also allow users to buy digital downloads if they enjoy the song.
The same functionality could also be offered in a widget or app format, and it also could embrace the way for fans to implement identical player on their blogs and websites. this could be a robust tool for viral promoting. Be forewarned that some of these players have default settings that cause them to play automatically. If this is often incompatible with the user experience you are trying to allow to your fans, you will wish to disable this sort of feature.
Hosting the File on Your Own site
It is additionally possible to host an audio file on your own web site and use HTML to let the user?s browser understand that it?s an audio file. this can be not the simplest thanks to do business because it takes bandwidth from your site while conjointly providing an additional limited user expertise when compared to the standalone players offered by third-party social media services.
The ?type? command in HTML can be used to point what kind of sound file is being linked. this can be instrumental in getting ready the user?s browser to recognize a song for streaming play. The link in question ought to be the exact location of the MP3 file on the web site.
Fans Love Free Streaming Music
In the trendy music trade, fans expect lots of free music. Streaming media is a good way to introduce fans to new songs. However, they may still want to shop for downloads for when they are unable to access the web. during this method, offering songs in a free streaming format might increase your band?s overall profitability.
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