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President Barack Obama is Ray ban sunglasses calling on Congress to increase taxes on millionaires, reviving a proposal he first pitched last September that aims to draw sharp election-year lines between the president and the Republican opposition. The plan, scheduled for a vote in the Democratic-controlled Senate on April 16, stands little chance of passing in Congress. But it is a prominent symbol of the efforts the president and congressional Democrats are making to portray themselves as champions of economic fairness. Republicans dismiss the idea Oakley sunglasses as a political stunt with little real effect on the budget. "We don't envy success in this country. We aspire to it," Obama said in his Saturday radio and Internet address. "But we also believe that anyone who does well for themselves should do their fair share in return, so that more people have the opportunity to get ahead — not just a few." Obama calls the plan the "Buffett Rule" for Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor who has complained that rich people like him pay a smaller share of their income in federal taxes than middle-class taxpayers. Many wealthy taxpayers earn investment income, which is taxed at 15 percent. Obama has proposed that people earning at least $1 million annually — whether in salary or investments — should pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes. The push for the Buffett Rule comes as millions of Americans focus on their taxes with the approach of this burberry handbags year's April filing deadline. It also draws renewed attention to the effective tax rate of Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, a millionaire who is paying 15.4 percent in federal taxes for 2011 on income mostly derived from investments. By contrast, the top nominal rate for taxpayers with high incomes derived from wages, not investments, is 35 percent. In his remarks Saturday, the president encouraged listeners to pressure their members of Congress "to stop giving tax breaks to burberry watches people who don't need them." While the plan would force millionaires and billionaires to part with more of their money, Congress' Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that if enacted, legislation reflecting Obama's proposal would collect $47 billion through 2022 — a trickle compared with the $7 trillion in federal budget deficits projected during that period. Obama also renewed his burberry ties call for ending tax cuts for taxpayers earning more than $250,000. Those breaks, enacted during President George W. Bush's first term, expire at the end of this year. "Today, the wealthiest Americans are paying taxes at one of the lowest rates in 50 years," Obama said. "Warren Buffett is paying a lower rate than his secretary. Meanwhile, over the last 30 years, the tax rates for middle-class burberry socks for women families have barely budged." The new effort comes just days after the Senate fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance Obama-initiated legislation that would have ended $4 billion in annual subsidies to oil and gas companies. Two Republicans voted with Obama and four Democrats voted against him. In the Republican address, House Speaker John Boehner challenged Obama to get behind energy proposals backed by House Republicans, sustaining a GOP drive to blame the administration for high gas prices in an election year. Boehner called for more oil and gas production in federal lands and for a freeze in new regulations over refineries.Tom Ford sunglasses, cheap tom ford glasses sale, 2012 promotion 50% off. He criticized Obama for pushing the anti-oil subsidy bill and for pressing Senate Democrats to vote down an effort to jump-start an oil pipeline project from Canada to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast. He said Obama, in a meeting with congressional leaders a month ago, had shown a willingness to embrace some House Republican energy ideas. "It was a new sign of hope, but unfortunately, only a brief one," Boehner said. "The pain at the pump is an urgent louis vuitton evidence sunglasses issue for hardworking taxpayers and it deserves the same urgency from leaders here in Washington," he added.

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There are times in life when a man burberry ties questions his very existence. That moment happened to Liam Neeson while filming “Wrath of the Titans,” the sequel to his 2010 hit film “Clash of the Titans.” Neeson, who turns 60 on June 7, recalls the moment he wondered what the hell he was doing with his almost six-decades-old self. “As Zeus, my brother Hades covers my body in chains and leaves me for dead in the underworld with what will soon be a sea of molten lava churning all around me to burn me alive,” Neeson muses. Just another day burberry outlet at the office? “I’m from the old school, which is how we did ‘Star Wars,’ ” Neeson says. “When we shot the first ‘Star Wars’ [prequel], we had colored tennis balls to show us later where the effects would be located. I like my tennis balls. I got used to them. On this film, we upgraded and had lots of bits of fancy colored tape. “You have to act to bits of tape, but that’s OK. I’d go around and put a smiley face on the tape and write, ‘This is where Ralph Fiennes will be tossing fire at me. Ralph and the fire can’t be here today.’ Later, I’d tell the crew, ‘Ralph was very good today.’ ” Adds co-star Sam Worthington, who plays Perseus, “It’s that thing that Marlon Brando once said. He said, ‘What a strange occupation for a grown man.’ ” “I just went for it,” Neeson says burberry shoes for men with a twinkle in his eyes before whispering, “They paid me millions.” “Wrath of the Titans” (now in theaters) revolves around Perseus trying to live a normal life for a guy who is half god, half man. He’s peacefully raising his young son when he gets the call that he must brave the treacherous underworld to rescue Zeus, whose brother Hades (Ralph Fiennes) is unleashing the ancient Titans to destroy the world. “I feel these ‘Titans’ movies deal with big themes like destiny, responsibility and family values,” Worthington says. “It’s just as relevant today.” Neeson wouldn’t have done this sequel without a solid script. “We knew there would be 257 explosions. But we always Ray ban sunglasses brought it down to where our emotional journey was in the moment. “I just wanted more interaction with my son and my brother in the film. That’s what the script provided. I wanted the dynamics of how Hades and Zeus became separated and the jealousies that drove them apart. We can all relate.” Worthington wasn’t thrilled with the first “Clash of the Titans.” “I’ve been pretty vocal about how I felt Oakley sunglasses about what I did in the first one,” he says. “I’m not putting the first one down. I didn’t want to be part of this ‘Clash’ ride where there are creatures and things blow up. “I think it’s my responsibility to create a character and not just be a conduit to the action. The characters in this film are basically a dysfunctional family. When it comes to the action scenes, I cheap designer shawls kept thinking, ‘How does this relate to the family?’ ” He also had his concerns over shooting the film in 3-D. “If used correctly, it can draw you into the world,” Worthington says. “If used incorrectly, it can give someone an aneurysm and takes you out of the story.” Ask Worthington if he got hurt running around trying to fight fire monsters and race through several labyrinths, and he smiles. “I got mates who play rugby,” says the Aussie actor. “If I say I got hurt, they will think I’m just some p---- actor. “The truth is you do come away with a lot of bruises from investing yourself in these weird action scenes. One day, a camera literally smashed into my face, but I didn’t worry about any blood. I was just worried that I had to pay for the camera.”Marc Jacobs sunglasses, cheap marc jacobs eyeglasses 2012, 50% sale. Neeson has become the go-to middle-aged action guy since the 2008 hit “Taken” and the recent hit “The Grey.” This summer, he stars in back-to-back big action films “Battleship” and “The Dark Knight Rises,” where he’s Ra’s al Ghul. He just shot “Taken 2,” due out in 2013. Any advice for the younger Worthington, who did incidentally star in the biggest box-office film of all time, “Avatar”? “You just need a huge amount of Lady Luck in life,” Neeson muses. “I do believe that you create your own luck. I got Men louis vuitton shoes 2012 new luxury cheap outlet gray friends in London who haven’t worked in five years. They’re fantastic actors. “Five years! And there I am. When it comes to this career, I’m just lucky.”

Our start to the third quarter was strong and then they answered back

No fourth-quarter collapse this Ray ban sunglasses time against Dallas. These days, everything seems to be going right at home for the Miami Heat. LeBron James and Chris Bosh each finished with 19 points and nine rebounds, Dwyane Wade and Udonis Haslem scored 16 apiece and the Heat extended the league's longest home winning streak this season to 15 games with a 106-85 win over the Mavericks in an NBA finals rematch on Thursday night. Mario Chalmers scored 12 points and Norris Cole added 10 for Miami, which swept its two games with Dallas this season and snapped a two-game losing streak. "We just worked our habits," James said. "The best thing about tonight, we didn't take another step backwards like we did the last two games. And Oakley sunglasses it was good to see." Dirk Nowitzki scored 25 for Dallas, but was held to 1-for-9 shooting in the second half. Lamar Odom had 12 for the Mavericks, who were outrebounded 44-29 and were held to only two fast-break points. Miami outscored Dallas 26-13 in the fourth quarter to cap the win. "You have to give them credit," Nowitzki said. "They stepped up their pressure on both ends of the floor. In the first half everything came a little too easy for us. We got some good looks, got some rolls, had everything going. Then they really picked up their pressure and we didn't have many good looks." It was Dallas' first time playing at Miami since winning Game 6 of the NBA finals last June, a series that turned after an epic late Game 2 comeback by the Mavs in Miami and eventually became the ultimate payback — hoisting a championship trophy in Miami, five years after Wade and the Heat celebrated winning their title in Dallas. Still, Dallas insisted burberry handbags this trip wasn't about revisiting memories. "Just another day at the office," Mavs owner Mark Cuban said. Well, not an altogether friendly day at the office — particularly late. In the fourth quarter alone, Nowitzki had the bridge of his nose bloodied, James got hit in the mouth and Wade spent a few minutes grabbing at his right index finger in obvious discomfort. Adding to Miami's discomfort: Dallas being within 90-83 with 4:37 left after Nowitzki made four free throws in a 27-second span. Any angst existing at that point dissipated quickly. "I felt like we were in control," Wade said. "They burberry watches got a couple things to go their way. It was just about settling down and running offense." Simple as that. A 9-0 run sealed it for Miami, with Wade quarterbacking the charge. His two-handed dunk pushed the Heat lead back to double figures, then he found Bosh to set up a three-point play and set up James for a slam that pushed the lead to 99-83 with 3:03 left. The Mavs called time out, took Nowitzki and three others off the floor for the night, and the Heat slide was soon over. Vince Carter and Brandan Wright each scored 11 for Dallas. "It's tough," Carter said burberry ties of facing the Heat. "When they're rolling, they're rolling." Miami's offense has sputtered for nearly a month, but the Heat scored 60 points by halftime for the first time in 11 games. James, Bosh and Wade shot 12 for 21 by halftime, and Miami's bench — Haslem and Cole, mostly — connected on 10 of 13 shots before intermission. Haslem made all four of his shots in the half and Cole was 4 for 6 after making four shots in his last seven games. Even with all that, the lead was burberry outlet mens belts only 60-53 at the break, in large part because Nowitzki was 8 for 10 from the field. Miami's offense cooled big-time in the third, the Heat shooting an abysmal 5 for 23. And the lead actually grew by a point in the period, thanks to what went on at the other end. An 11-2 run gave the Heat their first double-digit lead, after holding Dallas without a field goal for more than 6 minutes. Miami led by as many as 13 in the third, before Odom scored Dallas' final seven points of the period to get the Mavs within 80-72 going into the final quarter. "It was disappointing," Mavs coach Rick Carlisle said. "Our start to the third quarter was strong and then they answered back." And now, Miami hits the road for games in Toronto on Friday and Boston on Sunday. The Heat have lost six of their last eight away from home.Cheap Bvlgari sunglasses, wholesale Bvlgari designer sunglasses 2012. "It's time for a response on the road," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "We will take this win. This is a great team win against a very good team. But we have to move on and now let's take care of business on the road." NOTES: Bosh returns to Toronto on Friday, the city where he played his first seven seasons. ... Dan Marino was among those in attendance. ... Miami held a 36-24 scoring edge in the second quarter, the first time the Heat outscored an opponent in their last 12 quarters. ... Mavs point guard Jason Kidd played in his 1,308th regular-season game, passing Buck Williams for 10th place on the NBA career list. ... Mavs guard Delonte West (broken right ring finger) played for the first time in 22 games. Center Brendan Haywood (sprained right knee) was active, but indicated he was more louis vuitton bagup likely to return at Orlando on Friday. ... It marked the third time in Heat history that the team swept a season series with a reigning NBA champion.

It seems to me that they have compromised their status as independent

The day after the Supreme Court suggested Ray ban sunglasses that President Obama’s health care law might be in danger of being held unconstitutional, the justices on Wednesday turned their attention to the practical consequences and political realities of such a ruling. The justices seemed divided on both questions before them: What should happen to the rest of the law if the court strikes down its core provision? And was the law’s expansion of the Medicaid program constitutional? The two arguments, over almost three hours, were by turns grave and giddy. They were also relentlessly pragmatic. The justices considered what sort of tasks it makes sense to assign to Congress, what kinds of interaction between federal and state officials are permissible and even the political character of the lawsuits challenging the law. One justice dipped into Senate vote counting. The court had in other words, on the third and final day of a historic set of arguments, moved from the high theory of constitutional interpretation to the real-world consequences of what various rulings would entail. The arguments concluded the most closely watched Supreme Court proceedings since Bush v. Gore in 2000, and it left both Oakley sunglasses supporters and opponents of the health care law mapping strategies for the months until the court decides the case, probably in late June, and for the aftermath of that ruling. In a 90-minute morning session, the justices considered the consequences of striking down the law’s requirement that most Americans obtain health insurance or pay a penalty. Lawyers and judges are used to arguing about hypothetical propositions, and the entire morning argument proceeded on the assumption that the provision, often called the individual mandate, was going to be struck down. Still, a long argument built on that proposition seemed to give the notion a further patina of plausibility after the skeptical questioning about the mandate on Tuesday. Some justices suggested the entire law should fall, on the theory that members of Congress would not have voted for it without the mandate. Others indicated that the court should take a minimalist approach, leaving the balance of the law intact. The decision under review, from the federal appeals court in Atlanta, had taken that second approach. But neither the Obama administration nor the challengers agreed, and the Supreme Court appointed H. Bartow Farr III, a Washington lawyer in private practice, to argue the point. Justice Antonin Scalia said an analysis of how to proceed could not be divorced from the realities of the political process in Washington, which he said was beset by “legislative inertia.” “My approach would say if you take the heart out of the statute,” he said, “the statute’s gone.” He explained his reasoning: “You’re not going to get 60 votes in the Senate to repeal the rest. It’s not a matter of enacting a new act. You’ve got to get 60 votes to repeal it. So the rest of the act is going to be the law.” Justice Stephen G. Breyer at one point seemed to agree that the Supreme Court is not well suited to editing the balance of the law should burberry handbags the mandate fall. “I would stay out of politics,” he said. “That’s for Congress, not us.” The practical question, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, was deciding between “a wrecking operation” and “a salvage job.” “The more conservative approach,” she said, “would be salvage rather than throwing out everything.” Striking down the whole law, Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested, would be too broad an assertion of judicial power. But Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said it could be judicial overreaching to leave parts of the law intact in light of the obligations it would continue to impose on insurance companies. “We would be exercising the judicial power if one provision was stricken and the others remained to impose a risk on insurance companies that Congress had never intended,” he said. As the argument progressed, some justices wondered about their own competence to undertake a salvage job. “You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages?” Justice Scalia asked a lawyer for the Obama administration, adding: “Is this not totally unrealistic? That we’re going to go through this enormous bill burberry watches item by item and decide each one?” The lawyer, Edwin S. Kneedler, said the court should not strike down the mandate. If it does and decides to engage in judicial editing, he said, only two other provisions — one forbidding insurers from turning away applicants and the other barring them from taking account of pre-existing conditions — would also have to fall. Justice Breyer proposed an idea: why not have the opposing lawyers sit down with the text of the law, note points of agreement, and report back to the court? He said it might be a “pipe dream,” and the reaction from the other justices suggested it was. The court reconvened for a rare afternoon argument, to consider a challenge from 26 states to the health care law’s expansion of Medicaid, the joint federal-state program that provides health care to poor and disabled people. The court’s more liberal justices all expressed puzzlement about why there should be a problem with the expansion in light of the fact burberry ties that it is almost entirely to be paid for by the federal government. The states say they are being coerced into participating because a decision not to may cause them to lose not only the new money but also existing funds. Justice Elena Kagan described a hypothetical program only slightly different from the real one. “It’s just a boatload of federal money for you to take and spend on poor people’s health care,” she said to a lawyer for the states, Paul D. Clement. “It doesn’t sound coercive to me, I have to tell you.” Much of the argument concerned whether the secretary of health and human services could or would threaten states burberry socks for women with a loss of all federal money. Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. would not take a firm position, and that seemed to trouble several of the more conservative justices. The discussion devolved into whether choosing between “your money or your life” was coercive. Justice Scalia asked the same question of “your life or your wife’s,” prompting Justice Sotomayor to say of her colleague that “he’s not going home tonight.” After a run of this, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. declared, “That’s enough frivolity for a while.” He said the court’s decision on the Medicaid expansion should be informed by the reality that the states have “since the New Deal” cheerfully accepted federal money. “It seems to me that they have compromised their status as independent sovereigns because they are so dependent on what the federal government has done,” the chief justice said. Justice Scalia addressed the political realities of the litigation itself, asking Mr. Clement whether there was “any chance that all 26 states opposing it have Republican governors, and all of the states supporting it have Democratic governors?”Juicy Couture sunglasses, cheap Juicy Couture glasses sale. Mr. Clement responded, “There’s a correlation, Justice Scalia.” The cases heard Wednesday were National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, No. 11-393, and Florida v. Department of Health and Human Services, No. 11-400. Mr. Clement argued first in the afternoon, and Chief Justice Roberts, in an unusual move, allowed him extra time after his allotted half-hour had expired. When a red light signaled that Mr. Verrilli had hit his own half-hour deadline, the chief justice said, “You have another 15 minutes.” “Lucky me,” said Mr. Verrilli, who louis vuitton evidence sunglasses had struggled in the face of vigorous questioning on Tuesday. “Lucky me.”

The new rules could raise the price of coal

Taking aim at the gases Ray ban sunglasses that the vast majority of scientists say are the main contributor to climate change, the Obama administration proposed rules limiting carbon dioxide emissions from new power plants, a move that could essentially bar new coal-fired electric generation facilities. Tuesday's announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency signaled the administration's willingness to weigh in on politically sensitive environmental issues, even if its decisions court controversy in an election year. That cheered environmentalists, who had become increasingly concerned in recent months by delays of key EPA rules and President Obama's trumpeting of oil drilling in response to criticism about high gasoline prices. They Oakley sunglasses worried that the carbon rule would be shelved. By proposing the power plant rules and pressing forward with fuel economy standards for new cars and trucks, the administration has moved to cut pollution from the two largest domestic sources of greenhouse gases. Power plants, which are responsible for 40% of the nation's output of carbon dioxide, are the single greatest stationary source of such emissions. "I think the administration releasing a proposed regulation for greenhouse gases for new plants is as strong a signal that anyone can ask for about how seriously they are addressing the threat of climate change," said Megan Ceronsky, an attorney for the Environmental Defense Fund. The proposed emissions standards are for all new plants, including ones powered by abundant and cheap natural gas, but would hit hardest coal-fired facilities, which would face substantial — perhaps insurmountable — technological and financial obstacles in complying with the limits. "What this essentially says is we will never be building dirty old coal plants ever again," said Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, one of the litigants in the lawsuit that led to development of the new rules. "The dominant power source of the 19th and 20th centuries won't be the same again." The rules aren't final, burberry handbags and could be changed by a future Republican administration. Still, major business groups, especially those that benefit from cheap coal-fired power, were harshly critical. "Requiring coal-based power plants to meet an emissions standard based on natural gas technology is a policy overtly calculated to destroy a significant portion of America's electricity supply," said Hal Quinn, chief executive of the National Mining Assn., whose members include coal companies. "This proposal is the latest convoy in EPA's regulatory train wreck that is rolling across America, crushing jobs and arresting our economic recovery at every stop." The regulations would apply only to new power plants, not modifications of existing facilities, the standards for which are expected burberry watches later. The proposed rules would require new plants to emit a maximum of 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour. The newest natural-gas-fired power plants emit about 800 pounds of carbon per megawatt hour. New coal plants emit between 1,600 and 1,900 pounds per megawatt hour. "The agency's action establishes a logical and modest standard for new electric power plants and provides the industry with much-needed regulatory certainty," said Ralph Izzo, chief executive of the utility-holding company Public Service Energy Group, headquartered in New Jersey. "The EPA provides a framework for the industry to confront this problem in a cost-effective manner." The proposed regulations burberry ties bolster a years-long trend in which the industry built new, cheaper natural gas plants to replace aging coal-fired generation. Today, there are few new coal plants on the drawing boards. Moreover, several states, including California, have adopted their own rules to limit carbon emissions associated with their electricity consumption, including power they import from out of state. "We're not going to build certain plants, but we probably weren't going to build them anyway," said Howard Herzog, senior research engineer for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative. Coal accounts for about 50% of the country's power generation. Its popularity has traditionally stemmed from its abundance and low cost. The new rules could raise the price of coal, burberry watches for women pink making it less attractive to utilities and ratepayers. To slash their carbon dioxide emissions, new coal plants would have to install technology that captures greenhouse gases and stores them in wells or abandoned mines. Currently, there is no large-scale use of carbon capture and storage technology at U.S. power plants, according to MIT. Cost is the stumbling block, Herzog said. As long as natural gas remains inexpensive, there will be little incentive in the near term to build new, pricier coal plants under the proposed carbon rules. Yet the move to natural gas also may make prices more volatile. "We've historically had cheaper electricity," Herzog said, "and there's a stability there that in the long term we may not have." It is unclear how many proposed plants might be affected by the pending rule. About 24 plants have gotten permits or are under construction, according to the Energy Department — and they probably would not be affected by the rule. Another 24 are in early stages of development.Tom Ford sunglasses, cheap tom ford glasses sale, 2012 promotion 50% off. The rules will be open for comment for the next 60 days, but the EPA has not set a date to issue the final rules.

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The FTC put the online advertising burberry handbags and user tracking industry on notice Monday that it’s time to clean up its act and start treating users’ data with respect, laying out broad guidelines for companies to follow. But the agency stopped short of calling for federal regulation of online data collectors, amid protests from online companies that regulation would kill a vibrant industry. The report adds more weight to the Commerce Department’s own recent report and the White House’s call for an online bill of rights. The FTC’s report (.pdf) outlines broad principles that the FTC wants browser makers, ISPs, online ad companies, search engines and social networks — as well as offline data collecting entities — to pledge to obey. Companies that do pledge to obey the code, but then fail to uphold them, could then be investigated by the FTC for “unfair business burberry shirts for women cheap practices,” much as the FTC has fined and penalized companies for violating their own privacy policies (even though there’s no national requirement to publish a privacy policy). That’s how the FTC imposed 20-year privacy audits on both Facebook and Google — using their own privacy policies against them. “With this Report, the Commission calls on companies to act now to implement best practices to protect consumers’ private information. These best practices include making privacy the “default setting” for commercial data practices and giving consumers greater control over the collection and use of their personal data through simplified choices and increased transparency,” the FTC said, adding that doing so should increase user’s trust in services and increase business for all.Ray ban sunglasses, cheap gucci sunglasses, burberry sunglasses sale. While there’s no stick involved yet for online companies, the report did call for federal legislation that would force transparency on giant data collection companies like Choicepoint and Lexis Nexis. Few Americans know about those companies’ databases but they are used by law enforcement, employers and landlords. The FTC is asking Congress to make it easier for Americans to view and correct their data, as legislation requires with credit bureaus. The FTC report emphasizes what it calls “privacy by design,” alluding to the idea that privacy and data security should be built into any service, not an afterthought. The four principles called for in the report are data security, reasonable collection limits, sound retention practices, and data accuracy. While the report is new, the principles are based on 40 year princples known as Fair Information Practices. The FTC did not, however, lay down any hard burberry ties or fast rules. For instance, data rentention periods are left to companies to decide – so that a mortgage broker can keep payment history information for the life of a mortgage, whereas a mobile app that collects a user’s current location would be encouraged to delete that data much faster. Instead of prescriptions, the FTC wants a set of self-regulatory groups to build on these principles and issue best practices for various industries, and then have individual companies agree to abide by such rules. That’s despite the report’s own admission that this model, which has been tried by the FTC since 2000 in regards to online privacy, has been a failure. Commission agrees that, to date, self-regulation has not gone far enough. In most areas, with the notable exception of efforts surrounding Do Not Track, there has been little self-regulation of the data broker industry. For example, the FTC’s recent survey of mobile apps marketed to children revealed that many of these apps fail to provide any disclosure about the extent to which they collect and share consumers’ personal data. Similarly, efforts to establish self-regulatory rules concerning consumer privacy have fallen short. These examples illustrate that Oakley sunglasses even in some well-established markets, basic privacy concepts like transparency about the nature of companies’ data practices and meaningful consumer control are absent. This absence erodes consumer trust. As if to give the rules some more weight, the FTC does say that it is joining the White House and Commerce department’s call for cheap burberry ties a “baseline” consumer privacy law – though it’s not clear whether there’s any real political will to do so, since setting privacy rules in writing is hard. You may also interested in: burberry underwear for men www.egalass.com

Romney won 42% of registered Republican voters

Republican voters in California have swung behind Mitt Romney, with the national presidential front-runner crushing his rivals by burberry handbags double digits and substantially expanding his support in the state, a new poll has found. Romney won 42% of registered Republican voters, with his closest rival, Rick Santorum, trailing by 19 points, according to the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll. Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul were a distant third and fourth. Romney's support has risen by 15 points since a November USC/Times poll, when Herman Cain was his closest competitor. (The former businessman has since dropped out.) Yet there remains a palpable lack of enthusiasm for the Republican field. Half of GOP voters said they wished other candidates were running for president. Barbara Foley, a 73-year-old Republican, burberry shirts for women cheap said she would prefer former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio or Rep.Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin. She decided to vote for Romney by process of elimination — she says Santorum is too socially conservative, Gingrich is smart but a "loose cannon," and Paul — "well, I just think he's nuttier than a fruitcake." "I vote the lesser of two evils, unfortunately," said the Alpine retiree, who deeply disapproves of President Obama, notably his healthcare law, and fears the nation has grown increasingly socialist under his watch. "Mitt Romney is the lesser of the evils." The poll, conducted for The Times and the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, comes less than three months before California holds its primary, a late contest that has loomed as potentially important as the GOP nomination battle continues. Although Romney appears headed to a romp on June 5, when the pool of voters will be limited to registered Republicans, his prospects against Obama in the fall remain dim, the poll found. Obama led Romney by 21 points and the other candidates by even more — Paul by 28 points, Santorum by 29 and Gingrich by 32. Nearly 6 in 10 voters surveyed said they approved of the president's job performance, a increase of 7 points since the last USC/Times poll in November. And 62% said they had a favorable impression, a figure that soared to 73% among Latinos, one of the state's key electoral groups. Voters had a negative impression of all of the Republican candidates, in contrast. Romney ranked highest, with 37% saying they had a favorable view of him. For Paul it was 30%, Santorum 28% and Gingrich 25%. California voters, who had cooled somewhat toward Obama, now give him improved marks on such issues as his handling of the economy, jobs and taxes. While they remain concerned about the state's economy, voters indicated growing faith in the national recovery. That was particularly true among independents, a key constituency for Obama.Ray ban sunglasses, cheap gucci sunglasses, burberry sunglasses sale. "They see a strong national economy and they appear to be giving the president credit for that," said pollster Stanley B. Greenberg of the Democratic polling firm of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, which conducted the survey with the Republican firm American Viewpoint. A warning sign was evident in Obama's handling of escalating gas prices. Nearly two-thirds of voters disapproved of his response, making it the area in which he fared the poorest. While the issue has yet to dramatically affect his standing in California, Obama's campaign has indicated its concern about the long-term impact of gas prices; last week the president touted his energy policies at events in four states. Michelle Fischer, an accountant from South San Francisco, said her family had to cut out movies, dining out and luxury purchases because of their $500 weekly bill for gas. (Her husband commutes 80 miles a day.) But though she is disappointed in Obama's handling of gas prices, she strongly approves of his overall job performance and plans to vote for him in November. "I think he's doing the best he can. I really do. I think his hands are tied with what he inherited," said the 50-year-old registered Democrat. "I don't think he's the only one who caused it; it's not just one person. Everybody is part of it, and I think maybe the oil companies are more at fault than the government." The fact that the issue has spurred dissatisfaction in California, where support for Obama is strong, suggests it could have a more substantial impact in more-competitive states, according to poll director Dan Schnur. "Gasoline prices would burberry ties probably have to hit $20 a gallon to put Obama in serious trouble here in California," said Schnur, who heads USC's Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics. "But if voters in a deep-blue state like this one are that unhappy with the way he's handling this issue, it should be a big warning as to what his campaign is going to have to deal with in Ohio or Florida." The first Republican candidate to seize on gas prices was Gingrich, but the former House speaker has not reaped a benefit. In the November poll he was among Romney's chief rivals for the nomination, but he is now attracting the support of 12% of the state's GOP voters. Paul, the Texas congressman, finished last with 10%. The poll surveyed 1,500 registered voters by phone between March 14 and 19. The survey has an overall margin of error of 2.9 percentage points in either direction. Romney's gains in recent months came burberry check hats for men across the board. The former Massachusetts governor leads in nearly every demographic group, with his greatest support coming from Los Angeles County and the Bay Area. He wins nearly every age group and educational level, except voters ages 18 to 29, who favor Paul with 30% of their vote to Santorum's 21% and Romney's 20%, and voters who did not attend college, among whom Romney ties Santorum at 30%. Because California will award most of its delegates by congressional district, there are opportunities for Romney's rivals to focus their efforts geographically. In the Central Valley, for example, Santorum beats Romney by 5 points. Marten Verhoeven, a consultant from Hanford, said he was drawn to Santorum because of the former Pennsylvania senator's socially conservative values and his opposition to overly burdensome regulations. Verhoeven said he experienced layers of bureaucracy every day while helping farmers and dairymen comply with regulations. Santorum "is about the most logical one. I think his environmental views are about what's best for our country right now in these times," the 51-year-old Republican said. "This president really scares me." 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Probably because NASCAR still insists a rule was broken

An angry uncle imagines what he would do to the cold-blooded killer of his two young nephews. A woman whose husband and two burberry ties children have been gunned down spends the night listening to her surviving 1-year-old daughter cry “Papa! Papa! Papa!” The emotions ran the gamut Tuesday for the family of Rabbi Jonathan Sandler and his sons Gabriel and Arieh, three of the four victims killed a day earlier by a helmeted gunman at Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in Toulouse. French authorities have deployed hundreds more police to the region for a manhunt for the suspected serial killer whom investigators say also was behind the shooting deaths of three soldiers in the area over the last 10 days. The fourth victim of the school shooting was the 8-year-old daughter of its principal, Myriam Monsenego. She was grabbed by the hair by the gunman and shot in the temple, according to Nicole Yardeni, who heads the regional chapter of the leading Jewish organization, CRIF. A 17-year-old boy was recovering at a Toulouse hospital after lung surgery for his wounds, she said. “I have hatred,” said Marc Alloul, a restaurateur in an eastern Paris suburb and great-uncle of the two slain boys. “It’s too bad I don’t have him in my hands because I would deal with him another way. Some others think differently. They leave it in the hands of God.” Indeed, his niece, Eva Sandler, turned to her faith and sought refuge in the Torah at a wake at the school for her slain husband and 3- and 5-year-old boys, several witnesses said. “It was beyond what you could imagine. She spoke — it was incredible — with dignity,” said Yardeni. “You don’t burberry handbags outlet understand how they find the strength.” “She lost...,” Yardeni added, her voice trailing off and her eyes welling up. “She still has her little girl,” the child who survived. That 1-year-old girl, suddenly without her two older brothers, was dressed in a bright pink jacket as hearses moved slowly out of the school grounds to carry the bodies off for flights via Paris to Israel for burial. It was a marked contrast from the black-clad, crying adults in mourning. Overnight, Alloul said, “I slept with the family, and what gets me the most is that the little girl ... cried all night, saying ‘Papa, Papa, Papa!’ — all night.” “It tears your heart,” he said. “In the end you just run out of tears for crying so much.” Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. NASCAR has a ruling overturned in the Sprint Cup Series about as often as it snows on Christmas Eve in Hawaii. The last one completely overturned came in 2005 when there was insufficient evidence against Michael Waltrip, who'd allegedly made an inappropriate gesture during a television broadcast. This one wasn't completely overturned, but it was enough so that most of us standing in the hot sun for more than five hours waiting on a decision were shocked. It was a major victory for Hendrick. The six-week suspensions for Knaus and car chief Ron Malec were lifted by Chief Appellate Officer John Middlebrook, who had the lone and final say. So was the 25-point penalty against Johnson, moving him up seven spots in the standings to 11th. It was a bigger victory for the sport, even though NASCAR officials probably are licking their wounds. Still, NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp said the governing body accepts the ruling and believes in the inspection system. As I've been saying from the beginning, NASCAR needs to give teams room to maneuver within the rules. Knaus did that, finding a way to give his car an aerodynamic advantage while still fitting the templates. This also showed that having both parties burberry sneakers women sit down and argue the case face-to-face, something that didn't happen in the initial appeal, is the fairest way to proceed. Hendrick and his crew got to ask series director John Darby questions and Darby got to ask them questions, the way it's supposed to be when two sides are arguing a case. "Today was open and easygoing," Hendrick said outside the R&D Center. "I sat in the same place as John Darby. We all presented our information, probably some of the things I didn't know and probably some of the things he didn't know. "I think we'll all learn and go forward." What they learned is that just because somebody cheated in the past -- and Knaus clearly has by his list of nine previous violations -- doesn't mean there should be a rush to judgment to say he cheated again. In October, Knaus embarrassed NASCAR when he leaned into a car window before the Talladega race and told his driver to damage the back end if he won. Knaus was embarrassed, too, having been caught on camera. But the governing body was embarrassed more, because it gave the appearance that something might be illegal with the same car that won at Talladega in the spring. NASCAR reacted by taking Johnson's car back to the R&D Center the remaining four races of the Chase for further inspection. Nothing was found. So when Knaus and the 48 car arrived in Daytona, NASCAR was waiting. It confiscated the C-posts before the car went through initial inspection, and later handed down the penalties that were overturned Tuesday. The problem, according to Hendrick, was the car never went through inspection. The problem was at least three other cars, including one Hendrick sponsored, had issues with the C-posts after going through inspection and were allowed to be fixed with no penalties. The problem was more than Ray ban sunglasses 20 other cars also had aerodynamic issues that were allowed to be sanded and made legal without penalties. When Hendrick presented this, along with photos and a signed affidavit from a NASCAR inspector from an earlier race that the same C-posts were legal, Middlebrook had little choice but to overturn. "The difference today [and the first appeal] was Mr. Middlebrook took an awful lot of time to look at everything that NASCAR had and everything we presented from photos of the car at every race, on the line, the dates, the records from the tech center and our records," Hendrick said. "And they all matched up real nice. "There's ways to eliminate all these things, and NASCAR is working hard to get there because nobody enjoys this. Today, by taking time and going piece by piece, date by date, you can see there was no intent on our part. We were clearly [within] the rulebook. We were clearly, our car was approved." There's still a target on Knaus' back. He knows that. Hendrick accepts that. There should be when you have a record like he does. "It's definitely looked at more than any car out there," Hendrick said of the 48. "If you go by the rulebook, it says everybody's car will be looked at the same. The rulebook doesn't say just because you win you're going to get burberry kids sale scrutinized more than anybody else." Good point. The 48 wins a lot. Johnson and Knaus have five titles and 55 wins since 2002. They have been so dominant that some claim they've ruined the sport, although it's hard to understand how success can do that when it doesn't in other sports. "I have good relationships with everybody in the garage," Hendrick said. "NASCAR has come light-years. All we ask for is we get treated the same way. "Today proved they have a system that if there is a mistake made or if they didn't look at something or the evidence wasn't there at the time of the infraction, there is a way to remedy the deal." Remember, this sport was born on bootleggers and crew chiefs trying to beat the system. While outright cheating can't be condoned, there needs to be room for brilliant people like Knaus to be innovative. He clearly under the eyes of Middlebrook found a way to tweak the C-posts enough to give Johnson an edge without crossing the line. That Middlebrook didn't lift the $100,000 fine, considering everything else, is the biggest surprise. If Knaus isn't guilty, then why must he pay anything? Probably because NASCAR still insists a rule was broken and Middlebrook didn't want to make the governing body look totally incompetent. But if NASCAR had a burberry scarves outlet process more like Tuesday's in place for the first appeal, perhaps the past 30 days wouldn't have been like "hell." Perhaps Knaus and Hendrick could've spent the countless hours needed to prepare a defense on preparing their race team instead. "It is what it is," Knaus said. "I'm not worried about my reputation. I'm worried about winning races for Hendrick Motorsports." And he will win more. 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Republicans said four retirements in GOP strongholds in Arkansas, North Carolina and Oklahoma have left Democrats without strong replacement candidates, all but “abandoning” those seats to the Republicans. Redistricting nets the GOP at least one other seat, the Republicans said. That said, Republicans face their own problems defending incumbents in GOP-held seats that could tilt the math in the Democrats’ favor. Democrats are gearing up to strike vulnerable Republicans over the GOP-led House’s budget, due out Tuesday, that is expected to slash federal spending and dramatically change Medicare for seniors. Democrats point to polling that shows burberry shirts for women cheap the GOP’s popularity with voters dropped after last year’s budget debate over similar issues. Republicans are also struggling to retain the women’s vote after the GOP’s efforts to change the nation’s new healthcare law, which will require insurance companies to provide contraceptive coverage as part of its free preventive care services. As the GOP presidential primary race drags on, congressional Republicans have also had to go without a single party leader to amplify their message. Republicans believe those challenges pose little match as their candidates run against Obama’s agenda, which Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), the chairman of the NRCC, said would be key to the election. “He is the issue,” Sessions said. Karen Santorum is not as well known as her husband, the fast-charging presidential candidate who is giving Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney fits. She shies away from the media and is not often seen with Rick Santorum, including during his criss-crossing of Illinois in the run-up to Tuesday’s primary. But like many political wives, Karen Santorum is described by friends as one of her husband’s most trusted and pragmatic advisers and one who keeps him grounded while keeping their large family a focus. “She’s very politically savvy,” said former state Rep. Al Salvi (R-Mundelein), a former high school classmate of Rick Santorum’s and an honorary co-chairman of his Illinois campaign. “I know that she’s the first one to tell Rick he has made a mistake. She’s very politically astute. She shares Rick’s values and positions on issues,” Salvi said. “She and Rick are very deeply in love. It’s a wonderful relationship. It’s an inspiring relationship.”Ray ban sunglasses, cheap gucci sunglasses, burberry sunglasses sale. After her husband called President Obama a “snob” for encouraging people to go to college, she called to admonish him, she admitted in a CNN interview Monday night. A lawyer and nurse, Karen Santorum met her husband 24 years ago after being offered a job at his Pittsburgh law firm. They wed in 1990 and went on to have eight children together. Before meeting her husband, she was in a relationship with a much older doctor who performed abortions – a procedure that she and her husband, the former Pennsylvania senator, now ardently oppose. “I went through a phase, it was a phase, when I was young and — and made some stupid decisions. And I did some stupid things. And I did go through a phase of life where I wasn’t living the way I should have been,” she said in an interview earlier this month on CBS This Morning. “And for anyone out there who’s listening, who’s in the same phase, you know, it’s — there is healing. There is change,” she said. Her views against abortion have solidified since their daughter, Bella, was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder. “I just felt very strongly about faith and family and I … feel very strongly about life, the life issue,” she told CBS. “Now that we have a special-needs little girl, I … feel especially stronger about, burberry ties you know, the dignity and value of every person from the moment of conception until death.” She and her husband also have endured tragedy in their lives, including the death 16 years ago of their infant son, Gabriel, who was born prematurely and died soon thereafter. In her interview with CBS, she expressed resentment about how her grieving was portrayed in press accounts. “We brought Gabriel home from the hospital to have a funeral mass and to bury him, and so they twist it and they make it sound like it was some crazy thing. 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Two things save this inspirational tale from becoming precious

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Jacobs Theatre, which has converted its stage into an old-fashioned Irish pub to make everyone feel, if not quite as cozy as they did at New York Theatre Workshop, where the work debuted burberry handbags late last year, at least just as relaxed and welcome. Even before the show officially begins, company members are onstage playing and stomping to music that would have “Riverdance” revelers clicking their heels in Celtic ecstasy. There’s no way for the production, directed by John Tiffany and choreographed by Steven Hoggett (both of whom lent their hypnotic talents to the National Theatre of Scotland’s internationally acclaimed “Black Watch”), to approximate the same sense of discovery that the low-budget movie engendered. But the staging’s sprightly theatricality and casual grace are delightful compensations. The only major problem with the show, which stars Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti as the characters known simply as Guy and Girl, is that it overstretches its material. 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When she finds out he fixes Hoovers for a living with his father (an appealing David Patrick Kelly), she magically pulls out a vacuum of her own that needs repairing. If this sounds annoyingly fey, it is handled by Kazee, who’s more straightforwardly handsome than his scruffy movie counterpart, and Milioti, who is just as waifish as hers, with a jaunty touch that manages to maintain the work’s amber glow. “His life’s stopped,” Girl tells her mother (Anne L. Nathan), who is as earthy as her daughter is ethereal. “But he has a good heart.” The truth is that Girl is stuck too. Her man has left her, and, though she is as devoted to music as Guy is, she hasn’t enough money for her own piano. She wants to repay Guy for fixing her vacuum by playing for him, but this requires a visit to the music shop owned by Billy (Paul Whitty), a kooky loner with a jealous streak who looks upon Girl as “an angel of divinity.” (Such an overripe description can make Girl seem like a visitor from another planet, but Milioti finds opportunities to become flesh and blood every time she takes flight in song.) The characters are all heightened burberry scarves to fit the urban fairy tale milieu. The only realistic element of the production is the depth of feeling that passes between Guy and Girl, both of whom are encumbered by previous relationships but in desperate need of a collaborative hand. As practical as she is quixotic, Girl arranges a recording studio session so they can produce a demo of Guy’s music, which she knows will be embraced by the world if only it can be heard. 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Sheriff's Deputy Ray Yee was the first officer on the scene in one of the hard-hit subdivisions. He approached one destroyed home and saw a hand sticking out of the rubble. He pulled out an elderly man, who was shaken but walked away. "That's the best part," Yee said. "Every place I went to, I would have thought I would have found somebody laying there — deceased or whatever. But, knock on wood, everybody was OK." Still, destruction was a common sight in the village's business district. Armani sunglasses for women, cheap armani glasses for men sale. A sign that declares Dexter a "Tree City USA" community was bent and affixed to a telephone pole. Nearby, trees lay on the ground, rendering surrounding roads closed or impassable. There also were unconfirmed reports of tornados touching down in Monroe County's Ida Township and northwest Lapeer County, near Columbiaville, where trees and power lines had been downed, National Weather Service meteorologist Amos Dodson said. 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Statehood is the issue of chief concern to voters in Puerto Rico

When Mitt Romney heads to Puerto Rico on Friday on the hunt for delegates before Sunday's primary, his campaign hopes to telegraph burberry ties his message not just to American voters of Puerto Rican descent but to the broader universe of Latinos, who will play an outsized role in November. The images of Romney campaigning with one of his most prominent Latino surrogates, Puerto Rico's Gov. Luis Fortuño, however, will mask the worrisome reality facing Republicans in the fall contest with President Obama. In a GOP race that has catered to the party's most conservative elements, the sometimes harsh tone adopted by Romney and his rivals on illegal immigration appears to be driving many Latino voters away. A recent poll by Fox News Latino illustrated the problem for the GOP: 70% of Latino voters backed Obama, compared with 14% supporting Romney (a few points above his GOP competitors). Four in five Latino voters who backed Obama in 2008 said they would back him in 2012. And voters who supported 2008 Republican nominee John McCain — who appealed to some Latino voters because of his advocacy for comprehensive immigration reform — split between the two parties. The numbers suggest that this year's Republican nominee will struggle to match the 31% of the Latino vote captured by McCain in 2008, much less the 40% garnered by George W. Bush in 2004. "Republican candidates have a major image problem with Latino voters," said Matt Barreto, a University of Washington political science professor. Polling by the firm he co-founded, Latino Decisions, showed that more than a quarter of Latino voters viewed the GOP as hostile and nearly half believed the party had burberry handbags outlet ignored their concerns. Widening the divide, Barreto said, is the fact that a majority of Latinos support Obama's healthcare law (which Republicans want to repeal), favor greater government spending to revive the economy, and support tax increases on the wealthy to address the deficit. "On a variety of policy issues, Republicans are positioning themselves on the opposite side of Latinos," Barreto said. Romney's strategists argue that his business savvy will resonate with Latinos, who rank the economy and jobs as their top concern. Speaking before Latino audiences, the former Massachusetts governor has touted his plans to launch an initiative to bring American and Latin American business owners together and create greater opportunity for Latino businesses through tax cuts. On Thursday, Romney's campaign released a new Spanish-language radio ad, "Oportunidad." 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Obama's deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, ridiculed Brewer's endorsement on Twitter: "Say goodbye to the Hispanic vote." Romney's GOP rival Rick Santorum was mired in his own controversy this week after the Spanish-language newspaper El Vocero quoted him as saying that if Puerto Rico were to become a state, it would have to recognize English as its official language. (Both English and Spanish are recognized as official languages.) During a brief chat with reporters Thursday at a San Juan hotel, Santorum said the newspaper's characterization of his comments was "completely inaccurate." He said while he believed that English should be the preferred language of Puerto Rico, if the territory were to become a state, he would support recognition of both languages. 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Democrats believe that the Republican rhetoric in recent months will create greater opportunities for Obama in states like Colorado, Florida and possibly even Arizona. To guard against erosion in the GOP's standing in those states and "be competitive" this fall, Republican pollster Whit Ayres said, the GOP candidates must do a better job of reaching out to Latino voters. The visits to Puerto Rico this week by Romney and Santorum are a start, he said. "It's very important when you're talking about volatile emotional issues like immigration that you use the right tone," Ayres said. Romney, he added, would be best served burberry bags outlet in the months ahead by focusing "like a laser beam" on economic issues rather than getting mired in the immigration debate. "If Gov. Romney can persuade Latinos that he has a better understanding of how to get this economy going and how to create jobs, he will do well." 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