Sports City to come up near Bangalore

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The Karnataka Olympic Association (KOA) today said it has initiated talks with the state government for the setting up of an international standard Sports City here.

?I met Youth Affairs and Sports K Abhayachandra Jain and initiated the talks of constructing an international standard Sports City nearly 80 kilometrs away from the city,? KOA President K Govindraj told reporters here after Annual General Body Meeting.

Three land sites have been identified on Chikaballapur and Mysore roads and also near Kolar for setting up the proposed sports city. The city, which is planned to be built on a plot of forty to fifty acres land, would be built on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model.

?We do not want the Government to spend any money on the project, expect providing us with land,? he said.

Govindraj said the proposed City would have state-of-the-art facilities and was planned to create a niche in world sports for the country.

?The sports city would also house world-class sports academies where young sportspersons will get best of the training from experts. In next three years athletes will have a big scope for getting wildcats training facilities near the city,? Govindraj said.

He also announced that the State Government?s plans to improve facilities at the Kanteerava Stadium in the city.

Govindraj said that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has assured separate allocations of funds for improving sports facilities in his supplementary budget presentation.

The KOA also requested Siddaramaiah to make provisions for holding State Olympic Games once in every two years mandatorily.

Housing Minister M H Ambareesh has assured housing plots to sportspersons who had represented the state or the country at higher levels of the games, he said.

(This article was published on July 28, 2013)

Source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/sports/sports-city-to-come-up-near-bangalore/article4963338.ece

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Biometric Fingerprint Sensor For iPhone ?Leaked? In Latest iOS 7 Build

Somewhere in the bowels of iOS 7 Beta 4 is a folder labeled "BiometricKitUI," which lends a bit of credence towards the rumors that the next iPhone might have a biometric sensor embedded in the Home button.

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Portitle Finds and Aggregates All the Movie Info You Could Ever Need

Windows/Chrome: When you're trying to find a movie to watch, you might want to look it up on IMDB, then read about it on Wikipedia, then try to find a place to watch it. Portitle puts all of this info in one place, and is accessible from your right click menu.

Portitle works on Chrome and Windows, and both flavors do pretty much the same thing. Just right click on a movie file, or highlight its name in Chrome and right click, and send it to Portitle. The service will attempt to detect the movie, then give you links to a ton of different services to augment your experience. You'll get direct access to the obvious places like Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB, but also to various services to download and watch the movie, both legitimate and nefarious. If you already have the film on your computer, Portitle even offers direct download links for subtitles from various sources.

Obviously, Portitle isn't finding anything you couldn't find yourself, but it's nice to have it all collected in one place.

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Don't blame Santa: Xbox and PlayStation supply probably won't meet demand ... again

Video games

Yannick LeJacq NBC News

2 hours ago

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When it comes to shipping video game consoles to gamers on time, "I don't think the management of the supply chain is their core competency," R.W. Baird analyst Colin Sebastian told NBC News.

We've all heard the story: the long lines of Apple fans lining up outside the store, breathlessly awaiting that first chance to get their hands on the new iPhone. But when it comes to video game consoles, the throngs of die-hard gamers are all the more feverish simply because the wait has been longer, the anticipation higher.

Despite the fact that the video game industry is now on its eighth generation of console hardware, it still seems like every new release of an Xbox or PlayStation is, on some level, a disaster. Pre-order quotas are quickly maxed out, and impatient gamers turn to eBay or (God forbid) Craigslist to pay an extra premium just to get their gadget of choice in time for the holiday season.

Even the Wii U, which Nintendo itself has admitted isn't selling all that well, faced supply setbacks when it launched last year. And it doesn't look like things are shaping up to be any different for the $499 Xbox One or the $399 PlayStation 4 ? both consoles received record-breaking pre-orders, and the gaming press has already started warning of possible shortages after Robert W. Baird analyst Colin Sebastian predicted as much in an interview with GameSpot.

Judging by the excitement for the consoles, the demand is clearly there. So why is meeting it with a proper supply so tricky? Sebastian told NBC News that with all the moving parts that Sony and Microsoft have to coordinate in time for a tight holiday release window, things get, well, "complex."

"There's a lot of gyration in the supply chain," Sebastian said. "It's hard to get everything together at the same time."

What, exactly, is "gyration in the supply chain"?
Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, explained. "The manufacturers have to plan production for two or three years out, so they tend to plan to make 10 (million) to 12 million consoles annually at the outset, and adjust upward or downward based on demand," Pachter told NBC News in an email. "They probably haven?t commenced manufacture yet, and will probably do so in mid-August ? notice we haven?t seen leaked pictures from the assembly line yet. That means around 1 million per month, and it takes time to ship to retail. We?ll probably get 2 ? 3 million of each globally at retail by year-end."

"If you think demand will exceed that figure, there will be a shortage," Pachter added. With major retailers like Best Buy, Amazon and GameStop vying for more launch units, "allocations are especially tough, because everyone wants as many as they can get."

Piers Harding-Rolls, head of games at economic research firm IHS Global Insight, agreed, adding that the international dimension of global launch only makes organizing the supply chain all the more difficult.

"All console companies aim to have a smooth launch with as few 'lumps' in the distribution chain as possible," Harding-Rolls wrote in an email to NBC News. "Distribution smoothness depends on a number of factors: amount of total inventory (how quickly factories can build products that don't fall apart), regional allocations (how many sales are expected across major sales territories) and sales channel negotiations (agreements with retail stores)."

When a product launches across multiple regions at the same time, he said, consumer electronics companies "are more likely to get 'lumpy' distribution which will lead to shortages within specific channels because it is a more complex go-to-market process." When a shortage occurs in one region or another, "the speed at which manufacturers can respond to squeezed supply depends on willingness to spend on quicker shipments and availability of additional product."

Jordan Selburn of IHS told NBC News that this kind of bottleneck dramatically hampered Sony's initial launch of the PlayStation 3 in 2006 because the console's Blu-ray was built with blue laser diodes, a "brand-new piece of tech that just ran into a shortage." This time around, however, Selburn says that the technology inside both of the next-gen systems isn't groundbreaking enough to make production as difficult or time-consuming.

"They're not encountering fundamental questions about: can it be built?" Selburn said of Sony and Microsoft. As a result, he thinks any real difference in initial sales will come down to how gamers react to software policies like Microsoft's controversial online requirements ? an issue that Selburn estimates gives Sony twice the demand for the PlayStation 4 than what Microsoft now has for the Xbox One.

The 'Apple effect'?
But that doesn't mean there won't still be impatient gamers this holiday season, Melissa Otto, an analyst at TIAA-CREF, told NBC News. While all the sound and fury about having to wait a few extra weeks for a console might frustrate the individual consumer, Otto said that, from a broader perspective, it's actually great marketing.

"I'm not sure it's something they struggle with," Otto said of console manufacturers supplying enough units. "I would argue that it's actually something they create. Whenever a new console cycle begins, these companies have a tendency to limit the supply to gauge the demand and create buzz. And then once the buzz starts and the momentum kicks up, the supply continues to be limited which magnifies the value of the actual product."

It's easy to see what Otto means. Neither Sony nor Microsoft would comment specifically about their current launch plans, but both companies told NBC News that demand for their respective consoles has been strong.

"Consumer reaction to PS4 has been phenomenal," a representative from Sony told NBC News in a statement. "We will try our best to meet all demand needs, but it?s very possible that demand will outstrip supply at launch." A spokesperson for Microsoft, meanwhile, wrote in an e-mailed statement that "we are pleased with the enthusiasm consumers have shown as Xbox One preorders are trending ahead of Xbox 360 during the same time period and have sold out at most major U.S. retailers."

Other analysts agreed with Otto's assessment that Sony and Microsoft might be aiming for what she called "the Apple effect" in their statements about demand outstripping supply. But Sebastian, who still estimates that Microsoft is better equipped to turn out as many as two times more Xbox One units than Sony is prepared to release of the PlayStation 4, said that the long life-cycle of these products has always made their launches a bit more bumbling.

"I don't think the management of the supply chain is their core competency," Sebastian said.

Yannick LeJacq is a contributing writer for NBC News who has also covered technology and games for Kill Screen, The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic. You can follow him on Twitter at @YannickLeJacq and reach him by email at: Yannick.LeJacq@nbcuni.com.

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Alabama and Mississippi governors call for oil sands assessment

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) ? The governors of Mississippi and Alabama said Saturday their two states will partner to study oil sands resources.

Oil sands are a sandy mixture found below the surface containing bitumen. After extracting the sand, the bitumen can be transformed into crude oil that can be refined.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley announced the partnership Saturday while speaking to the Southern States Energy Board during a meeting in Mobile, Ala.

Republican governors signed a memorandum of understanding that commissions the assessment of oil sands in both states, according to a news release. The Southern States Energy Board will team up with various agencies from Mississippi and Alabama to conduct the study.

"As I have said before, for our nation to become more energy independent, we must recognize the importance of a forward-thinking approach to energy and continue to develop a comprehensive energy policy that works," Bryant said in a statement.

The resource is known as the Hartselle Sandstone, an underground layer that stretches from north-central and northwest Alabama into northeastern Mississippi. A recent study found an estimated 7.5 billion barrels of oil located in the reserves, the governors say.

"By taking this action, we're exploring the potential for safe and reliable development of energy right here at home," Bentley said in a statement.

Bryant said Mississippi and Alabama can learn from Canada, where the extraction of oil sands has been successful.

"Canada has proven to be a leader in oil sand recovery, and we hope through this evaluation process we can collaborate and share knowledge on best practices," Bryant said.

Source: http://blog.al.com/live/2013/07/alabama_and_mississippi_govern.html

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Blair Underwood back on TV starring in 'Ironside'

This image released by NBC shows,front tow from left, Brent Sexton, Kenneth Choi, Pablo Schreiber, Blair Underwood, Spencer Grammar and Neal Bledsoe at the "Ironside" session during the NBCUniversal Press Tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Saturday, July 27, 2013. (AP Photo/NBC, Chris Haston)

This image released by NBC shows,front tow from left, Brent Sexton, Kenneth Choi, Pablo Schreiber, Blair Underwood, Spencer Grammar and Neal Bledsoe at the "Ironside" session during the NBCUniversal Press Tour in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Saturday, July 27, 2013. (AP Photo/NBC, Chris Haston)

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? Blair Underwood is returning to series television in a remake of "Ironside," which shares few similarities with the original series that starred Raymond Burr.

The character's name and job as a detective is the same, and he uses a wheelchair after being paralyzed from the waist down.

The original series, set in San Francisco, ran on NBC from 1967-75. The reboot is based in New York City and filmed in Los Angeles. NBC has ordered 13 episodes of the show that debuts Oct. 2.

Underwood said he got used to the wheelchair by using one at home while learning his lines. The role is especially meaningful to him because his mother, Marilyn, is in a wheelchair as the result of multiple sclerosis.

Associated Press

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Dying 'Simpsons' co-creator donating fortune

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Randee Dawn TODAY contributor

11 hours ago

Pretty much everyone who's ever watched "The Simpsons" knows that they sprung mostly formed out of Matt Groening's head over 20 years ago ? but what they may be less familiar with is the name Sam Simon, who co-created the series. Simon left in 1993 (though he still gets an executive producer credit) to pursue other TV options and philanthropic endeavors, but as he told The Hollywood Reporter (photo from the article Tweeted by Simon below), he's about to step up giving away as much money as he can. Why? He's been diagnosed with terminal colon cancer.

The 58-year-old nine-time Emmy winner, who currently consults on "Anger Management," announced his diagnosis on Marc Maron's "WTF" podcast back in May, saying he had been told he had between three and six months to live. He also added that he would donate nearly all of his "Simpsons" royalties to charity. (He is unmarried and has no children.)

As he told THR, he had no idea money from "The Simpsons" would still be coming in 25 years later. "(It) got bigger and bigger," he said.

Simon was solidly behind many charities even before his diagnosis; he founded the Sam Simon Foundation to assist needy humans and stray dogs; he has a PETA center in Norfolk, Va. named after him; global marine conservation group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society named one of its four vessels after him ? and that's just a start.

But now, he says, "We are going to expand all this stuff (in the Sam Simon Foundation). (It) is going to be very well endowed, and there's a lot of stuff I want them to do."

As for his health, it's a day-by-day situation. He said he's still undergoing chemotherapy treatment, though he gets "every possible side effect ? fatigue, nausea ... so today and tomorrow are like, my two good days for the month. So I'm feeling pretty good today, and, you know, we shall see."

Read the full interview here.

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/terminally-ill-simpsons-co-creator-sam-simon-giving-fortune-charity-6C10761155

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Save the (terrible) White House briefing

Should the White House do away with the regular televised briefing with reporters? In a word, no.

Sure, press secretary Jay Carney?s daily sparring sessions with the press can be infuriating. He and other White House spokespeople famously don?t offer answers so much as replies. Reporters too often ask slight variations on the same question, as though arbitrarily adding an adverb will be the thing that breaks down the wall of focus-group-tested talking points. (The TV folks ask the same questions because they won?t want to use footage of a competitor asking the Question Of The Day.)

We sometimes ask question after question about trivial things, often in the ringing tones of community theater actors imitating B-movie journalists. And then we share laughs with the White House spokesman in a way that sends the message that we?re all just having a good time together.

For one former press aide to President Barack Obama, the answer to the question is a resounding yes.

?The daily briefing has become a worthless chore for reporters, an embarrassing nuisance to administration staff, and a source of added friction between the two camps,? Reid Cherlin writes in The New Republic. ?It?s time to do the humane, obvious thing and get rid of it altogether.?

But that would be a terrible idea.

Before we really get into the Q-and-A everyone loves to hate, a couple of disclosures. 1) I?m a member of the White House Correspondents' Association board, the group of media folks in charge of representing their colleagues in negotiations with the White House. 2) I'm speaking for only myself in this column.

Cherlin notes that scrapping the briefing ?would be seen as Nixonian, even Stalinist, depending on one?s bogeyman of choice.?

Well, yes. Particularly since Cherlin writes approvingly about the ?actual business? of White House communications aides ?figuring out which of the administration?s three favored outlets ? The New York Times, AP, and Mike Allen?s 'Playbook' ? will get advance word? of big decisions that could just be announced to everyone at the same time.

He adds that he prefers that, um, more, ahhh, managed approach: ?Generally, this is a better way to do things: The article that results tends to be more thorough and nuanced, which is good for both the White House and the writer. And while it annoys less fortunate outlets, eventually everyone does get a turn.?

None of that is true. Well, I suppose it?s possible that the most cynical White House operatives truly see that as preferable to honoring the spirit of pledges to be ?the most transparent administration in history,? which sometimes feels roughly as meaningful as ?most powerful cricket team in Alaska."

Does America really need a semiofficial press? The Obama White House already likes to restrict coverage of newsworthy events to its official photographer, excluding news photographers who might be less concerned with getting the president's good side and more worried about, um, news. (Instead, these talented journalists worry more about their future. It's as though the White House saw the media's self-inflicted wounds and reached for the anti-coagulant.)

At its best, the briefing can have a leveling effect: A reporter from an outlet that isn?t among The Chosen but might be called upon at the briefing benefits from asking his question in a public, televised setting. That means everyone will see the press secretary answering, replying, dodging, etc. For some reporters, who can?t even get their emails returned, this is a priceless opportunity. There?s also a chance that one of the Big Outlet Reporters who dominate the briefings will pick up the question, increasing the leverage necessary to pry an answer out of the White House (any White House).

It also gives reporters a rare chance to set the agenda. Yes, of course the White House would prefer to talk about the president?s great and entirely genuine affection for middle-class Americans in Ohio. But what?s he doing about the mounting death toll in Syria?

A current senior White House aide (who didn?t want to be identified) and a communications adviser in George W. Bush?s White House told Yahoo News that the briefing also serves the symbolic but crucial function of showing Americans that no one is above being questioned. The two sources independently said canceling the briefing would ?send a terrible message.?

"It?s dangerous for society to cut back more on having access to government to hold them accountable," Dana Perino, Bush's last press secretary, told Yahoo News.

As for how to fix things, Cherlin notes that many reporters miss the ?gaggle,? a bygone off-camera give-and-take with the press secretary. Holding it off-camera kept the peacocking to a minimum (in my experience, many print reporters were tougher in the gaggle than in the briefing). And holding it early in the day meant the White House got a sense of what reporters would ask later at the on-camera briefing.

Perino collapsed the gaggle and the briefing in September 2008 into one midmorning Q-and-A affectionately dubbed "the griefing." She now favors adding a modified gaggle ? fewer reporters, off-camera, at a set time.

The gaggle has made guest appearances in the Obama White House.

Bringing back the gaggle would probably not be a perfect antidote, but it?s a good idea. More opportunities for questions, less inducement to preen for the cameras, etc. And ?I?ll get back to you? is easier to say off-camera.

Cherlin also notes that some reporters suggested the president himself take more questions from the press. He calls that ?at once simple and highly improbable? because it?s high-stakes, high-reward ? and high-risk. No self-respecting reporter would ever argue against this, of course.

White House reporters also could rely on information from outside the gated campus on Pennsylvania Avenue. The White House has less of a monopoly on information than many think. Congress, government agencies, foreign partners are all in the know to a degree.

Here?s another idea. If you?re a reporter and you ask a question in the briefing and you don?t get an answer, report that. ?The White House refused to endorse/denounce something today? can be a powerful motivator. Just ask the National Security Council spokesman who archly informed me he would not be commenting on a devastating suicide bombing in the Middle East, then tearfully threatened me with bodily harm when I told him that was totally cool because ?White House refuses to condemn bombing? was a better story anyway. (I got my statement.)

For the foreseeable future, the briefing is here to stay. There?s no serious discussion of dumping it. So it?s incumbent on reporters to make it count.

Now, if you want something really radical, how about my friend Ana?s suggestion that the entire White House press corps be abolished ?

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/save-the--terrible--white-house-briefing-202954748.html

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Sierra Club sues feds over oil shale development

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The federal government is being sued for opening up parts of the Rocky Mountains to oil shale development.

The Sierra Club and six other conservation groups filed the lawsuit Thursday in federal court in Denver.
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The groups say the U.S. Bureau of Land Management failed to consider how widespread development of public lands would harm rare desert plants and threatened species of wildlife.
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The lawsuit says the government program violates the Endangered Species Act.
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The federal government decided in November to open up parts of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming for oil shale development for legitimate efforts to squeeze oil out of hard rock.
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Other groups joining the lawsuit are Grand Canyon Trust, Living Rivers, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Rocky Mountain Wild, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance.

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Florida sales tax holiday begins next week

Florida?s back-to-school sales tax holiday runs Aug. 2-4.

Florida?s back-to-school sales tax holiday will kick off next weekend.

The big change for the holiday, which runs Aug. 2-4, is residents will be able to purchase computers and computer equipment tax-free for the first time ever.

Laptops, e-book readers and tablets are included in the tax-free items list, WFTV reports.

Florida legislators on April 22 hammered out a tax package that includes a three-day sales tax holiday for this coming August.

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GOP FUEDS OVER OBAMACARE TACTIC ? Groundswell -- HOLDER PUSHES TEXAS ON VOTING ? Lamar Alexander under fire

GOP FUEDS OVER OBAMACARE TACTIC ? Manu Raju and Jake Sherman report for the hometown paper: ?A brewing Republican versus Republican fight over whether to use a government funding measure to choke off Obamacare is splitting the party ahead of this fall?s budget battles.

?A growing number of Republicans are rejecting calls from leading conservatives, including Sens. Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, to defund the president?s health care law in the resolution to keep the government running past Sept. 30. The rift exposes an emerging divide over how the GOP can best achieve its No. 1 goal ? to repeal Obamacare ? while highlighting the spreading fears that Republicans would lose a public relations war if the dispute leads to a government shutdown in the fall.

?The debate is happening behind closed doors and over Senate lunches, as well as during a frank meeting Wednesday with House leaders in Speaker John Boehner?s suite where fresh concerns were aired about the party?s strategy. On Thursday, the dispute began to spill into public view, most notably when three Senate Republicans ? including Minority Whip John Cornyn ? withdrew their signatures from a conservative letter demanding defunding Obamacare as a condition for supporting the government funding measure.? http://politi.co/15kcFA4

GROUNDSWELL ? Mother Jones? David Corn details a behind-the-scenes conservative messaging push: ?Believing they are losing the messaging war with progressives, a group of prominent conservatives in Washington?including the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and journalists from Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner?has been meeting privately since early this year to concoct talking points, coordinate messaging, and hatch plans for "a 30 front war seeking to fundamentally transform the nation," according to documents obtained by Mother Jones.

Dubbed Groundswell, this coalition convenes weekly in the offices of Judicial Watch, the conservative legal watchdog group. During these hush-hush sessions and through a Google group, the members of Groundswell?including aides to congressional Republicans?cook up battle plans for their ongoing fights against the Obama administration, congressional Democrats, progressive outfits, and the Republican establishment and "clueless" GOP congressional leaders. They devise strategies for killing immigration reform, hyping the Benghazi controversy, and countering the impression that the GOP exploits racism. And the Groundswell gang is mounting a behind-the-scenes organized effort to eradicate the outsize influence of GOP ?ber-strategist/pundit Karl Rove within Republican and conservative ranks.? http://bit.ly/13IvRYq

WENDY DAVIS COMES TO DC ? POLITICO?s Elizabeth Titus reports, ?One month after Wendy Davis?s abortion bill filibuster, congressional Democrats feted the Texas state senator as she swung through Washington to raise cash.

?They said Davis did not indicate what she is planning to do in 2014, when she could defend her seat in the state legislature or launch an underdog bid for statewide office ? perhaps even for governor.? http://politi.co/146clbe

HOLDER PUSHES TEXAS ON VOTING ? Signs that Congress could quickly sign off on another formula to restore the Voting Rights Act after it was struck down last month are pretty dim. Attorney General Eric Holder is continuing to push for oversight of voting laws in Texas. The New York Times? Charlie Savage and Adam Liptak report: ?Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced on Thursday that the Justice Department would ask a court to require Texas to get permission from the federal government before making voting changes in that state. The move opens a new chapter in the political struggle over election rules after the Supreme Court struck down a portion of the Voting Rights Act last month.

?In a speech before the National Urban League in Philadelphia, Mr. Holder also indicated that the filing, expected later on Thursday, was most likely just an opening salvo in a new Obama administration strategy to try to reimpose ?preclearance? requirements in parts of the country that have a history of discriminating against minority voters.? http://nyti.ms/19m2Eqt??????????

-- The Associated Press has a handy breakdown of the history of the voting rights lawsuits in Texas: http://bit.ly/15kbFvY

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ROGERS REPORT ? POLITICO?s David Rogers has the latest on the farm bill: ?The chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Marcia Fudge, signaled Thursday that she is prepared to make new concessions on food stamps to advance Farm Bill talks with the Senate.

?But having met face to face with Majority Leader Eric Cantor this week, Fudge, a Democrat from Ohio, said she came away more skeptical that the Virginia Republican is willing to move from his own positions to get a deal.? http://politi.co/13i271k

STEVE KING: DAY 3 ? Rep. Steve King isn?t backing away from his remarks about immigrant children being used as drug mules that have prompted outrage ? and only a few defenders ? on both sides of the aisle. Speaker Boehner bashed the remarks, King defended them again and undocumented students brought cantaloupes to his office: http://politi.co/13IuXv6

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GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, July 26, 2013, and welcome to The Huddle, your play-by-play preview of the day?s congressional news. I?ve hijacked Huddle for the week while Scott is away. Send tips, suggestions, comments, complaints and corrections to ggibson@politico.com. Or follow me on Twitter @GingerGibson to register compliments/complaints there.

TODAY IN CONGRESS ?The House has gone home for the week. The Senate headed back to their states as well. All is quiet on Capitol Hill.

AROUND THE HILL ? At noon, The Law & Economics Center at George Mason University School of Law hosts a panel on ?Patent Trolls: Greasing the Wheels or Grinding the Gears?? in Rayburn 2237 (and they?re serving Hill Country BBQ).

YESTERDAY ON THE FLOOR ? The House passed the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act of 2013 265-155. The Senate confirmed Derek West to be Associate Attorney General in a 98-1 vote. The Senate also worked through a series of THUD amendments.

#FOLLOW FRIDAY ? House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy isn?t letting staff run his Instagram account. The result is an often amusing and entertaining series of pictures from the congressman. http://bit.ly/1bmTNGH

NO BAILOUT ? Lawmakers are telling Detroit they don?t plan to help. Reuters? Lisa Lambert reports: ?Republicans in the Senate want to make sure the federal government does not become involved in the financial maelstrom hitting Detroit, which filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history last week.

?They have proposed at least three "No Bailout" amendments to spending bills that the Senate is currently considering, all of which would limit the U.S. government's ability to help cities in fiscal crisis.Even though the amendments will likely fail in the Democrat-dominated chamber, cities and counties are alarmed by legislation they say could jeopardize funding for hundreds of local governments and are pushing back.? http://reut.rs/1aMApz9

LAMAR ALEXANDER UNDER FIRE? -- POLITICO?s Tarini Parti and Burgess Everett reports: ?When Lamar Alexander joined 13 other Senate Republicans to vote for the Gang of Eight?s immigration bill last month, he was waving a red flag in front of the tea party.

?Attending a rally in Smyrna, Tenn., last weekend, Alexander was greeted by a crowd of about 300 conservative activists ? organizers said ? wearing bright red T-shirts that read ?Beat Lamar? in big bold letters. They held signs that blared: ?You betrayed us? and ?No more RINOs. Conservatives only.?

?And to drive their point home, the activists lugged around a rhino mascot dubbed ?Lamar.?

?I didn?t hear anything they said; they were a mile away,? Alexander told POLITICO. ?They were enjoying their First Amendment rights, and I was enjoying playing ?Johnny B. Goode? with Mike Huckabee.?? http://politi.co/1aMzHlb

Reid wants to talk to McConnell more ? Roll Call?s Niels Lesniewski reports, ?Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he?s going to have to get back to meeting regularly with his Republican counterpart from Kentucky. The relationship between the Nevada Democrat and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has undoubtedly soured, particularly with the level of discord over the Senate?s rules and the treatment of filibusters.

?We?re going to have to start meeting on a regular basis. We haven?t been doing that. Bill Frist, who was his Republican predecessor, led the Senate for a number of years for the Republicans, he and I disagreed on a number of things,? Reid said. ?We met together virtually every week. And we have to get back doing that with Sen. McConnell.? http://bit.ly/1dYcbkY

Pelosi calls Weiner?s online behavior ?disrespectful of women:? http://politi.co/13egJhg

OBAMA: REPORTERS LIKE MY IDEAS -- The Hill?s Daniel Strauss reports: ?President Obama said reporters praise his economic proposals as ?great? and tell him they are ?all good ideas.? Obama made the remarks in a speech Wednesday in Galesburg, Ill., focused on the economy.? http://bit.ly/19kJReV

THE ONION ? An end of the week chuckle from The Onion: ?Congress Fiercely Divided Over Completely Blank Bill That Says And Does Nothing? http://onion.com/174fun7

CONGRESS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL -- DEMOCRATS BRISTLE AT TRACKERS IN CAPITOL ? Buzzfeed?s Evan McMorris-Santoro and Kate Nocera report: ?Democrats are accusing Republicans of breaking down congressional comity even further by dispatching a ?campaign tracker? ? a young staffer sent to record a foe?s every word, in hopes of catching a damaging gaffe ? to stalk Democratic senators facing reelection while they?re at work on Capitol Hill.

?In the unwritten rules of Washington, it?s perfectly fine to have a tracker follow a member of Congress around when he or she is outside or at an event away from the Capitol complex. But Hill veterans on both sides of the aisle say a tracker in congressional office buildings and members? offices is unprecedented, and Democrats suggest the presence of a tracker in the Capitol complex is an intimidation tactic.

?A tracker from the new Republican opposition research firm America Rising was an unwelcome guest at Sen. Kay Hagan?s weekly Carolina Coffee open office hours session Wednesday morning. The tracker, a young woman accompanied by a North Carolina native who signed into the event, was on hand with a video camera and asked a question about the Democratic senator?s opinion on the budget proposal by North Carolina?s Republican Gov. Pat McCrory.? http://bit.ly/16hRo96

-- Republicans strategist are warning lawmakers: Don?t go to war -- http://politi.co/18D4gZP

-- Fact checking Kentucky: The Washington Post fact checks two ads in the Kentucky Senate race and finds fault with both. Two Pinocchios for the Bevin ad: http://wapo.st/18D3Dj5 And three Pinocchios for the McConnell ad: http://wapo.st/19m3OC9

THURSDAY?S TRIVIA WINNER ? Ron Lattin in Minneapolis was the first to write in that Ken Dahlberg was the name on the cashier?s check that tied the Watergate burglar?s to Nixon?s campaign. Dahlberg was never accused of wrong doing.

TODAY?S TRIVIA ? Sunday marks the 145^th anniversary of the ratification of the 14^th Amendment when, after disputes about ratifications being rescinded, Georgia ratified the amendment a week earlier. Like most amendments, states continued through history to vote on its ratification. Which state held the last successful vote to ratify the 14^th Amendment? The first person to correctly answer gets a mention in the next day?s Huddle. Email me at ggibson@politico.com.

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Every once in a while, life surpasses art in its ability to generate disbelieving laughter.? When former Congressman Anthony Weiner resigned from his post two years ago over a ?sexting? incident, late night comedians went wild with glee, generating one unfortunate pun on his last name after another.? Nonetheless, Weiner apologized to his constituents, left the public stage promising to seek treatment and change his behavior, and might reasonably have been expected never to be heard from again.

Not so fast, folks.

Anthony Weiner recently announced his candidacy for Mayor of New York, apparently convinced that he?d stayed on the sidelines long enough for people to forget what drove him from office in the first place (not likely in this Internet age, but one has to admire his optimism).? It seemed that New Yorkers might be open-minded enough to give him another chance, at least until yesterday.? Word leaked out that the former Congressman had continued to send sexual images and texts to women for more than a year after his resignation from Congress.? His long-suffering and astonishingly tolerant wife claims to have forgiven him.? The question remains, though, whether New York voters will do the same.

Personally, I doubt it.? For an apology to??succeed it has to be sincere, and nothing undercuts the sincerity of an apology like blatant disingenuousness paired with the failure to do better thereafter.? When he resigned in disgrace the first time, Anthony Weiner led voters to believe that he was done with ?sexting? and would get professional help, but then continued his nasty ways.? He subsequently presented himself back to the public as if he?d immediately cleaned up his act when, apparently, that wasn?t true.? Even as he tries to apologize yet again, New Yorkers will have every reason to doubt his sincerity, question his integrity, and pick a more credible candidate for Mayor.? You should have told the whole truth the first time, Mr. Weiner ? it would have made you a whole lot more trustworthy now.

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'Stand your ground' laws faulted by Sens. Warren and Markey

'Stand your ground' laws:?Massachusetts Democrat Warren said the goal should be to create a country 'not just where some of us are safe, but where all of our children are safe.'

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Asked if Zimmerman should face federal civil rights charges in the death of Martin, who was black, Warren said the Justice Department is considering the question, but the jury has spoken.

The Massachusetts Democrat said the goal should be to create a country "not just where some of us are safe, but where all of our children are safe."

Fellow Democratic Sen. Edward Markey questioned whether the?laws?might embolden someone who is armed to pursue an unarmed individual and then fire if that person turns to confront them.

He said it's time to start "paring back" the?laws.

Massachusetts doesn't have a?stand?your?ground?law.

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Graduates reject lure of City jobs to be teachers in deprived schools

Laura Pollock, a graduate who is now teaching at St Edmund Arrowsmith school in Whiston, near Liverpool, thanks to Teach First. Photograph: Gary Calton for the Observer

It began as a small enterprise launched by a few educational idealists to get top graduates to teach in deprived areas. But just a few years later and figures show that Teach First is now Britain's single biggest recruiter of university leavers, ahead of banking, a civil service fast-track scheme, the army and leading graduate employers including PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM and KPMG.

The initiative took on 1,261 handpicked graduates this year, 80% from leading Russell Group universities. All will have six weeks of intensive training before being sent to schools in underprivileged areas where they will work for two years. The idea is that highly motivated and ambitious young teachers will raise the aspirations of pupils who need it.

"It's a remarkable achievement that Teach First has hired so many top graduates this year, overtaking recruitment at long-established graduate employers," said Martin Birchall, managing director of High Fliers Research, which tracks the graduate labour market.

The results come as Teach First plans to expand, with new schools being added in Wales and England this year, and the aim of taking 2,000 graduates a year by 2015. Its first intake, just over 10 years ago, was 183.

"It's great news and great for the problem that we are trying to solve, educational disadvantage," said James Darley, director of graduate recruitment at Teach First, which was started by American-British entrepreneur Brett Wigdortz in 2002.

So what's the explanation of the organisation's success?

"A third of our intake are themselves the first generation in their family to have gone to university; 20% were on free school meals and perhaps benefitted from a special teacher and so a lot of them are motivated to come back to school and do it themselves.

"We never hire anyone who is going to go into schools and say 'I'm coming to change the world and I'm here to fix everything'. Its about humility, respect and empathy.

"I'm sure that a lot of teachers are wary ? it's something new after all ? but we have had graduates from investment banks to clergy who are bringing not just idealism but also life experience with them."

Last year a study from the Institute of Education in London suggested that bright 15-year-olds from poorer homes lagged more than two years behind their richer peers. The socio-economic dimension to educational achievement was starker in England and Scotland than many other countries, researcher Dr John Jerrim found.

The government's own figures show a big gap in performance between pupils from disadvantaged and better-off backgrounds, with only a third from poorer families achieving the benchmark of five GCSEs at grades A to C. The national average is 58%. University attendance remains a huge marker of the divide in our society, with only 19% of young people from deprived areas of England going to university while 57% of those living in more affluent areas do, according to figures from 2010 from the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

"A lot of people who might not have come from more deprived areas are unaware of the inequalities in our society, and that's why we are out there in universities trying to show young people where the problems are in their society," said Darley.

"Once they see the problem, they are responding with hard work and enthusiasm. It says a lot more about this generation of graduates than they are sometimes given credit for," Darley added.

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Black boxes in cars: A question of privacy

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Michael Merolli, center, an accident reconstructionist, removed the air bag control module from a car at a training session for New York State Police investigators.

When Timothy P. Murray crashed his government-issued Ford Crown Victoria in 2011, he was fortunate, as car accidents go. Mr. Murray, then the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, was not seriously hurt, and he told the police he was wearing a seat belt and was not speeding.

But a different story soon emerged. Mr. Murray was driving over 100 miles an hour and was not wearing a seat belt, according to the computer in his car that tracks certain actions. He was given a $555 ticket; he later said he had fallen asleep.

The case put Mr. Murray at the center of a growing debate over a little-known but increasingly important piece of equipment buried deep inside a car: the event data recorder, more commonly known as the black box.

About 96 percent of all new vehicles sold in the United States have the boxes, and in September 2014, if the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has its way, all will have them.

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Within the programming of the air bag control module is the capability to store crash data on an event data recorder.

The boxes have long been used by car companies to assess the performance of their vehicles. But data stored in the devices is increasingly being used to identify safety problems in cars and as evidence in traffic accidents and criminal cases. And the trove of data inside the boxes has raised privacy concerns, including questions about who owns the information, and what it can be used for, even as critics have raised questions about its reliability.

To federal regulators, law enforcement authorities and insurance companies, the data is an indispensable tool to investigate crashes.

The black boxes ?provide critical safety information that might not otherwise be available to N.H.T.S.A. to evaluate what happened during a crash ? and what future steps could be taken to save lives and prevent injuries,? David L. Strickland, the safety agency?s administrator, said in a statement.

But to consumer advocates, the data is only the latest example of governments and companies having too much access to private information. Once gathered, they say, the data can be used against car owners, to find fault in accidents or in criminal investigations.

?These cars are equipped with computers that collect massive amounts of data,? said Khaliah Barnes of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington-based consumer group. ?Without protections, it can lead to all kinds of abuse.?

What?s more, consumer advocates say, government officials have yet to provide consistent guidelines over how the data should be used.

?There are no clear standards that say, this is a permissible use of the data and this is not,? Ms. Barnes said.

Fourteen states, including New York, have passed laws that say that, even though the data belongs to the vehicle?s owner, law enforcement officials and those involved in civil litigation can gain access to the black boxes with a court order.

In these states, lawyers may subpoena the data for criminal investigations and civil lawsuits, making the information accessible to third parties, including law enforcement or insurance companies that could cancel a driver?s policy or raise a driver?s premium based on the recorder?s data.

In Mr. Murray?s case, a court order was not required to release the data to investigators. Massachusetts is not among the states to pass a law governing access to the data. Asked about the case, Mr. Murray, who did not contest the ticket and who resigned as lieutenant governor in June to become head of the Chamber of Commerce in Worcester, Mass., declined to comment.

Current regulations require that the presence of the black box be disclosed in the owner?s manual. But the vast majority of drivers who do not read the manual thoroughly may not know that their vehicle can capture and record their speed, brake position, seat belt use and other data each time they get behind the wheel.

Unlike the black boxes on airplanes, which continually record data including audio and video, the cars? recorders capture only the few seconds surrounding a crash or air bag deployment. A separate device extracts the data, which is then analyzed through computer software.

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, a Washington-based trade association that represents 12 automakers including General Motors and Chrysler, said it supported the mandate because the recorders helped to monitor passenger safety.

?Event data recorders help our engineers and researchers understand how cars perform in the real world, and one of our priorities for E.D.R.?s continues to be preserving consumer privacy,? said Wade Newton, a spokesman for the trade association. ?Automakers don?t access E.D.R. data without consumer permission, and we believe that any government requirements to install E.D.R.?s on all vehicles must include steps to protect consumer privacy.?

Beyond the privacy concerns, though, critics have questioned the data?s reliability.

In 2009, Anthony Niemeyer died after crashing a rented Ford Focus in Las Vegas. His widow, Kathryn, sued both Ford Motor and Hertz, contending that the air bag system failed to deploy.

The black box, however, derailed Ms. Niemeyer?s assertion that her husband had been traveling fast enough for the air bag to deploy.

Though Ms. Niemeyer lost the suit last year, her lawyer, Daniel T. Ryan of St. Louis, was successful in excluding the black box data as evidence on the grounds that the device is not fully reliable. The judge in the case ruled that because an engineer working on behalf of Ford retrieved the data, the plaintiffs, who maintained there were errors, had no way to independently verify it.

?It?s data that has not been shown to be absolutely reliable,? Mr. Ryan said. ?It?s not black and white.?

The origins of black boxes, which are the size of about two decks of cards and are situated under the center console, date to the 1990 model year, when General Motors introduced them to conduct quality studies. Since then, their use and the scope of the data they collect has expanded.

The lack of standardization among manufacturers has made it difficult to extract the data, most notably during the investigations into the crashes caused by sudden, unintended acceleration in some Toyota vehicles.

Until recently, crash investigators needed an automaker?s proprietary reader as well as the expertise to analyze the data. The safety administration?s regulations will help enable universal access to the data by using a commercially available tool. At the same time, police departments are receiving training on the new regulations. In Romulus, N.Y., last week, the Collision Safety Institute, a consultancy in San Diego, helped teach New York State Police investigators how to read the devices.

But privacy advocates have expressed concern that the data collected will only grow to include a wider time frame and other elements like GPS and location-based services.

?The rabbit hole goes very deep when talking about this stuff,? said Thomas Kowalick, an expert in event data recorders and a former co-chairman of the federal committee that set the standard for black boxes.

Today, the boxes have spawned a cottage industry for YouTube videos on how to expunge the data. And Mr. Kowalick, seeing an opportunity, invented a device that safeguards access to in-vehicle electronics networks. It is controlled by the vehicle?s owner with a key and is useful in the event of theft, he said.

?For most of the 100-year history of the car, it used to be ?he said, she said,? ? Mr. Kowalick said. ?That?s no longer going to be the way.?

Bill Vlasic contributed reporting.

This story originally appeared in The New York Times under the headline, "Black boxes in cars: A question of privacy."

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University of California: The Bubble of Bureaucracy

For at least a half-century, the University of California (UC) has been considered the premier system in U.S. public higher education. The Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses always rank among the top 10 state schools, with several other UC campuses close behind, says Richard Vedder, distinguished professor of economics emeritus at Ohio University.

While the nomination of Janet Napolitano, the secretary of the Homeland Security Department, as the next chancellor of the University of California may have been a surprise, it isn't a comedown. The system has almost 240,000 students and an operating budget that exceeds $24 billion, almost triple the state budget of Arizona, for example, where Napolitano served as governor and attorney general.

• The University of California embodies both the best and worst in American higher education.
• Some of its research is cutting-edge, and many UC graduates have achieved positions of power, wealth and eminence.
• And they obtained their degrees for a fraction of the cost charged at most equivalent private universities.

Yet UC's annual spending exceeds that of most state governments -- amounting to roughly $100,000 for each of its students. Much of this is unrelated to instructional function. The university's bureaucracy is famously monumental, centralized and costly:

• Aside from a full cohort of administrators and support staff at each of the 10 campuses, the central office in Oakland employs more than 2,000 workers, a staggering number (2,358 full-time employees, according to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System).
• There are 10 "divisions" in the Office of the President, for example.
• Its "external relations" division lists more than 55 managerial-type employees on organizational charts, and that number doesn't include support personnel.

For all its moaning about tight finances, the University of California has largely been financially protected from and blind to the economic reality in the outside world: In the United States -- and especially California -- economic growth has been falling, college costs have been rising faster than incomes, student-loan debt has been piling up, and the labor market has stagnated.

Rather than bring in a leader with a proven record of recognizing the need to re-examine the public university and innovate to face these realities, the university's Board of Regents has brought in a veteran at managing and perpetuating bureaucracies, one well-connected enough to keep the federal flow of support coming and to shake more money from the state's already overburdened taxpayers.

Source: Richard Vedder, "What Do 2,358 College Administrators Do?," Bloomberg News, July 15, 2013.

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Fall Out Boy burn up TODAY plaza in record temps

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True fans never had to wonder what hole Fall Out Boy fell into in 2009 ? they've been eagerly awaiting the band's reunion over the past four years, and turned up in sweaty force on the TODAY plaza Friday for a very hot performance.

Literally: It was already so hot on the plaza when the band ? Pete Wentz, Patrick Stump, Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley ? began playing that guitars were going out of tune, as TODAY's Matt Lauer observed.

"They go from cold to hot really quick, the wood expands ? a lot of science involved!" said Trohman.

Still, the band sounded terrific, blasting through three tunes amid ever-climbing New York City temperatures: "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light 'Em Up)," "Alone Together" and "Sugar, We're Goin' Down."

They're glad to be back, with their first album since 2008, "Save Rock and Roll," and as Wentz told Lauer and Savannah Guthrie, the extended absence was something they really needed to do.

"I think we knew we needed a break," he said. "Doing something (touring, recording) that long, straight, you need a break of some kind to, I don't know, like re-set yourself in life ? start doing your own laundry at your own house."

At least they've got plenty of clean clothes for when they hit the road in September. Check out all the great videos for more as well as our favorite tweets and Instagrams.

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Panama holds ex-CIA officer in rendition

PANAMA CITY (AP) ? A former CIA base chief convicted in the 2003 abduction of a terror suspect from an Italian street has been detained in Panama after Italy requested his arrest in one of the most notorious episodes of the U.S. program known as extraordinary rendition, Italian and Panamanian officials said Thursday.

Robert Seldon Lady, the former CIA chief in Milan, entered Panama, crossed the border into Costa Rica and was sent back to Panama where he was detained, according to an Italian official familiar with Italy's investigation of the rendition of Cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the case.

A Panamanian National Police official said Lady, 59, had been detained Wednesday on the Costa Rica-Panama border. The official also spoke on condition of anonymity due to lack of authorization to discuss the matter.

The government of Panama, which maintains one of the region's closest relationships with the U.S., was officially silent on the case. Security Minister Jose Raul Mulino told The Associated Press that he was unaware of Lady's detention and the press office of the National Police ? which works with Interpol, the international police agency ? said it had no information. The CIA also declined to comment.

Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, was hustled into a car in February 2003 on a street in Milan, where he preached, and transferred to U.S. military bases in Italy and Germany before being flown to Egypt. He alleged he was tortured in Egypt before being released.

Italy conducted an aggressive investigation and charged 26 CIA and other U.S. government employees despite objections from Washington. All left Italy before charges were filed in the first trial in the world involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, under which terror suspects were abducted and transferred to third countries where many were subjected to torture.

All the U.S. suspects were eventually convicted but only Lady received a sentence ? nine years in prison ? that merited an extradition request under Italian legal guidelines. Two former Italian spy chiefs were also convicted this year for their role in the cleric's kidnapping.

The case caused tensions between Rome and Washington, two traditionally stalwart allies. In April, Italy's president, Giorgio Napolitano, pardoned a U.S. Air Force colonel convicted in the rendition case, a move Napolitano hoped would keep American-Italian relations strong, especially on security matters.

Napolitano said he granted the pardon in hopes of resolving an affair that the United States considered unprecedented because a U.S. military officer for NATO had been convicted for deeds committed on Italian territory.

The colonel, Joseph Romano, was security chief of the Aviano air base in northern Italy, where Nasr was taken on his way to Egypt.

In issuing the pardon, Napolitano's office said the president had taken into consideration the fact that Obama, immediately after his election, had put an end to George W. Bush administration anti-terror practices that both Italy and the European Union considered to be "not compatible with fundamental principles of rule of law."

Lady, who was born in Honduras, left Italy early into the Italian investigation of the abduction. He also retired from the CIA. Interpol had issued a request for Lady's arrest, reflecting Italy's determination to get him back.

"U.S. officials who have thus far evaded any accountability for their role in a global torture program should take today's development as a warning sign," the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, which has fought U.S. counter-terror programs such as extraordinary renditions and detention at Guantanamo Bay, said in an emailed statement.

Italy and Panama have no extradition treaty, Italian diplomats said, but Panama would be free to send Lady to Italy if it wanted.

Italy only allows extradition to be requested for people who have been sentenced to more than four years in prison.

A 2006 amnesty in Italy shaves three years off all sentences meted out by Italian courts, meaning if Lady is brought back to Italy, he would face six years in prison.

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D'Emilio reported from Rome. Adam Goldman in Washington and Michael Weissenstein in Mexico City contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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