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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Lochte: I'd like to go 'Dancing With the Stars'
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By Anna Chan, TODAY
Is Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte ready to trade in his swim trunks and goggles for a sequined getup? It sounds like it. On Sunday, the swimmer told reporters that he'd very much like to participate in "Dancing With the Stars."
And why not? Besides the extra publicity during their off-seasons, athletes in general have done surprisingly well on the ballroom bash, with three Olympians winning in past seasons. That coveted mirror ball trophy could look quite snazzy next to all of his Olympic medals.
Even better would be a ballroom win over his teammate and pal Michael Phelps, whom Lochte said he'd like to dance against. "I mean since I am so used to competing against Michael Phelps, yeah, I'd have him on the show," he told reporters, according to iVillage. And he'd be fine paired with any of the female pros, as Sports Illustrated reported, because all of them are quite lovely. (Might we suggest the uber-fun Lacey Schwimmer as his perfect match?)
Though Lochte has expressed interested in participating in "Dancing," it sounds like producers haven't made a move to invite him to join in an upcoming season yet. But that doesn't mean "DWTS" won't be extending an invite eventually.
"Nothing is in the works yet," a show source told TODAY.com, "but rest assured, either (Lochte or Phelps) -- or even better, both of them -- would be welcome in the ballroom."
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Work Schedules: Gym, Independent, and Corporate Personal Training
The life of a personal trainer is typically bound within the hours that most working professionals aren?t in the office. This means that many personal trainers have shorter vacations and work the before and after hours of the workday. While these hours can at-first seem restricting, many personal trainers find a way to make it work, while others move over to other areas of the personal training to find hours that better suit their needs. The biggest upside might be the need for personal trainers, meaning that if you have the drive, there is always a need for a few extra trainers and instructors.
Becoming a personal trainer can take on different forms, and each has a different lifestyle and work environment. Below are the three main sub groups? of trainers.
Gym:? If you?ve ever been to a Bally?s or XSport Fitness and had someone ask you what your fitness goals were, chances are you were talking to a gym-specific personal trainer. These jobs tend to be a little more difficult to find because the gyms themselves require extra certifications and some even allow you to take on benefits like health care and dental. The pay here is more limited because you work on an hourly wage. However many of the trainers in a gym like Bally?s do private training sessions. These allow the personal trainer to make a more significant hourly income than they would just spotting individuals, or cleaning off gym equipment. While some of the money does get kicked back upstairs, the most successful in-gym trainers can have as many as 40 clients at a time. Scheduled well, that can mean big bucks.
Independent: Maybe the thought of being under the watchful eye of the corporate bosses is too much to take. Then it cold be that going independent is your calling. There are no name tags, or mandated shirts, just you, the client, and some equipment. Many of the country?s largest cities have several personal training gyms to choose from, place where you can train your clients for a usage fee. The rates charged by the personal trainers here are higher, but so are the demands of the clients. Unlike the corporate workouts, these tend to be intensity focused, with the personal trainer taking a n active role in all aspects of their client?s health and fitness. The freedom to operate as your own boss is very attractive to many personal trainers. But beware, it can be a tough transition to get clients. Most trainers earn their new clients through word of mouth, which can take a while to get generated.
Corporate: The cushy gig for many personal trainers is to be brought in-house by a large corporation to help their employees stay healthy. Many of the country?s largest firms (GOOGLE, Apple, IBM) have seen that preventative care is less expensive than high health care costs. Trainers have been brought in to fill that gap. Many of the top positions come after years f hard work and plenty of certifications, but once that?s achieved personal trainers find that they are working more normative hours and collecting a nice paycheck at the end of each month.
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Monday, August 6, 2012
Animal
Um animal por mais que seja feroz, n?o tem
a maldade de um homem, desejaria ele ter a inoc?ncia de um le?o.
Desejaria ele ter a do?ura de um coelho,
a lealdadede um c?o, a paz de um p?ssaro
ou pelo menos a capacidade de todos
os animais de usufruir da natureza sem destru?-la!!!
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Sunday Sound: Heard on 'This Week'
Below are some of the notable comments made Sunday on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." Guests included Democratic National Committee chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus ABC News' George Will, ABC News senior political correspondent Jonathan Karl, conservative commentator Ann Coulter, former Obama White House environmental adviser Van Jones, and former Counselor to the Treasury Secretary and Lead Auto Adviser Steven Rattner.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz
SCHULTZ: We're moving in the right direction, and the president has proposed the American Jobs Act. It would be great if my colleagues on the Republican side in Congress would actually care more about getting the economy turned around and working with this president to pass that plan and create the million jobs that would be created. Well, we shouldn't have gone home before passing the American Jobs Act. They care more about defeating this president than they do about working with him to pass a balanced plan and continue to get the economy turned around. The ball is in their court.
SCHULTZ: George, I don't know who Harry Reid's source is, but I do know that Mitt Romney could clear this up in 10 seconds by releasing the 23 years of tax returns that he gave to John McCain when he was being vetted for vice president. Or even 12 years of tax returns that his own father said were what was appropriate. Because one year of tax returns, like he's released, could just be for show. And let's not forget that a week ago, Mitt Romney said in response to a reporter's question when asked if he had ever paid a rate below 13.9 percent, that he would check and get back to us. And you know, I'm glad I wasn't holding my breath waiting for Mitt Romney to get back to us on answering that question, because he still hasn't responded whether he's paid a lower tax rate.
Reince Priebus
PRIEBUS: Do we want to continue down the direction of unemployment above 8 percent for countless months, a president that hasn't lived the mission, hasn't fulfilled the promises. People aren't better off today than they were three or four years ago. Do we want to continue in that direction? Heck no. And as far as Harry Reid is concerned, listen, I know you might want to go down that road, I'm not going to respond to a dirty liar who hasn't filed a single page of tax returns himself. Complains about people with money but lives in the Ritz Carlton here down the street. So if that's on the agenda, I'm not going to go there. This is just a made-up issue. And the fact that we're going to spend any time talking about it is ridiculous.
PRIEBUS: This president has a job to do. And Harry Reid has a job to do. We have an opportunity in this country to save the very idea of America. To bring back the days of liberty, freedom, the American dream. And the fact is, we're just - we're not doing well right now, as an economy. And this president, is the head of this country. And he has not fulfilled the mission and he hasn't lived up to the promises that he made to the people of this country. And it's hard to believe that the president of 2008, when he campaigned and said he was going to bring America together, that he would trot out Harry Reid and try to divide this country and spread this division and hatred. It's ridiculous, it's wrong, it's untrue. And it's just going to hurt the president.
Roundtable
Thoughts on Harry Reid
KARL: Well, first of all, it's one of the most outrageous charges that I've ever seen actually made on the Senate floor. Sometimes you see this stuff out, you know, first there was an interview with Huffington Post, that's one thing, but when Harry Reid comes to the floor of the Senate and makes this outrageous charge that has absolutely no evidence - I mean, Mitt Romney paid $3.1 million to the IRS in the one tax return that we've seen so far. He paid taxes. It's a completely false charge. But Reid loves it. The Democrats love this. Because no matter how much he digs in, no matter how much he gets attacked, you know, here or by Jon Stewart, or anywhere else, it gets the story out there again and again. And I'll tell you, Romney played into it by telling Harry Reid to put up or shut up, and then it becomes this back and forth. Instead, he should have laughed it off, he should have made a joke about Harry Reid's imaginary friend and moved on.
WILL: Harry Reid's source, if we are to assume he actually has one, is identified by Harry Reid as an investor in Bain. That's as though I own some Microsoft stock, which I do, and I said, well, as an investor in Microsoft, I know have opinions on Bill Gates' tax returns. Look, in 1950, Joe McCarthy went to West Virginia, didn't know what to tell to the Women's Republican Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, so he said I have in my hand a list of 205, we think that are - 205 communists in the State Department. Didn't have a list. Harry Reid doesn't have any evidence either. This is McCarthyism from the desert (ph).
RATTNER: Look, I don't disagree with either of you guys about Harry Reid. I don't think it was appropriate. But you still come back to the question, why won't he release his tax returns? If he's paid all the taxes he says he's paid, he says he's paid a lot of taxes every year, why not just release them and move on? And end this discussion.
COULTER: He absolutely should not release any more tax returns. He has released two years. Bill Clinton wouldn't release his medical records. You know, people kind of wondered about that. We know after the JFK presidency, you could have an issue with a drug addict president, but he just dug in his heels. We have two years on Romney. You know perfectly well, the media, this is Obama's modus operandi, and unfortunately Romney isn't divorced. Hopefully, his vice presidential candidate won't be divorced. It's always dirty politics. You remember when Romney was - or Obama was running against McCain and Sarah Palin. What did we get? False rumors of a McCain affair. We had investigations into the Palin marriage, claims they were getting divorced. They have nothing on this Mormon, and they want his tax records. If they releases 10 years, they'll demand 20 years.
JONES: And as James Carville famously said, the only person who has seen his tax returns, which is John McCain, saw 23 years of tax returns, and then picked Sarah Palin. So there is something that is being hidden here.
VP OUTLOOK
KARL: I absolutely think that's the case. Right now, the big decision facing Mitt Romney, is does he go with solid and safe? Does he pick Tim Pawlenty or Rob Portman? Or does he go big and bold, and the two names that you see there are Paul Ryan or Marco Rubio. And I can tell you that right now, they're looking at the big and bold. And I think that by the day, the chances of big and bold are more plausible when you see Romney behind in virtually all the battleground states. He's being urged by some very prominent voices within the Republican Party to go big and bold, and the message that has come back to particularly Marco Rubio supporters is, reassurance that the Romney campaign he's under serious consideration. That said, George, if you talk to Republicans close to Romney, still the overwhelming expectation is that he goes to the one of the safe picks. There is increasing pressure, and I think an increasing chance.
RATTNER: I'd say two things. First, when you look at the polls, it suggests that the public doesn't feel quite as bad about the economy as maybe some of the people sitting next to me do. Including the president's handling of the economy. He gets decent marks. The public still blames most of this problem on the previous administration and the mess they inherited. I personally would love to see him pick Paul Ryan, because then we could actually have a decision about Romney's economic plan, which he is not discussing, because I think when people actually understand his plan, they'll understand all the tax things that we talked about. They'll understand the spending implications of the Ryan budget plan in terms of what it does to Medicare, privatizing it, what it does to Medicaid, turning it into a block grant program, and then 33 percent cuts that are going to occur in a whole series of programs, including things like food stamps. Just to make his numbers work. So I would welcome Ryan and the discussion we have about it.
Tax Plans
JONES: We're talking about two different things here. We have a problem with Mitt Romney, because it seems that Mitt Romney doesn't understand what ordinary people are going through. He's talking - he's had these magical mystery numbers about, oh, we're going to close loopholes. When you dig down into it, the levels, what he's calling loopholes as you are saying, are what ordinary people rely on to keep moving forward in the economy. So I think what you got here is do you want to elect somebody who won't tell you how much money he's making and won't give you his tax returns, but with all he's put on paper, will cut his taxes and raise yours. That's the real question.
COULTER: I think the point isn't whether Barack Obama's personal taxes get raised. We have to run this behemoth neverland ranch of Washington, D.C., and the main point is cutting the size of government. I mean, even when Obama famously freeze federal government salaries, remember that? When he first came into office. That's his big fiscal austerity. That didn't freeze their salaries. They still get their automatic pay increases that go into effect every year. You have the government running around having these huge conferences in Las Vegas and Mexico. That's what Romney is selling. He is the Bain guy, he's going to cut down this ridiculously sized government. Did you see the story today with the Amtrak food cart, with $10 two-week old turkey, they're losing $80 million a year, they are only open an hour a week. That's how the government runs things. And that's why you need a Bain guy to come in and cut the size of government, not just keep figuring out how can we get more money to fund this.
Chick-Fil-A Controvery
JONES: This became not an issue about marriage equality, it became an issue about free speech, and appropriately so. Once the mayor stepped in, I think it was a huge mistake, because once the mayor stepped in and said we're going to use the power of the government to punish people because they have a different opinion, then the entire country had to stand against that kind of abuse of authority. However, I think, citizen boycotts of Chick-fil-a or any other company that you do not agree with, that's appropriate. Citizen boycotts are appropriate. Government stepping in, not appropriate.
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South Sudan and Sudan Finally Settle Oil Dispute
Published: August 05, 2012
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Sudan and South Sudan have finally struck a deal on how to share their oil wealth.
Reports say the parties have agreed on all of the financial arrangements regarding oil.
The two countries were given August 2 deadline by the United Nations to solve disputes from border security to oil payments.
The two countries are set to meet next month to find a compromise on the disputed region of Abyei as well.
At DC today, US Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton today says the US government welcomes the agreement on oil reached between the Republic of South Sudan and the Republic of Sudan.
"This agreement reflects leadership and a new spirit of compromise on both sides." -Ms. Clinton
The United States commends the courage of the Republic of South Sudan's leadership in taking the decision.
"As I said in Juba yesterday, the interests of their people were at stake." -Ms. Clinton
The oil impasse has lasted more than six months. Now was the time to bring this impasse to a close, for the good of the people of South Sudan and their aspirations for a better future in the face of ongoing challenges, Ms. Clinton stated.
South Sudan's leaders have risen to the occasion, she added.
Ms. Clinton says the leaders tabled a bold comprehensive proposal at this latest round of talks, and an agreement was hammered out with the strong assistance of the African Union High Level Implementation Panel for Sudan (AUHIP).
"The future of South Sudan is now brighter." -Ms. Clinton
Ms. Clinton says that for Sudan, the agreement offers a way out of the extreme economic stress it is now experiencing.
She stresses that the Government of Sudan deserves credit for taking this step.
If Sudan would now also take the steps to peace in Southern Kordofan, Blue Nile, and Darfur, and if it will respect the rights of all citizens, it can likewise give its people a brighter future, Ms. Clinton cited.
"Finally, we are encouraged by the potential announcement of an agreement shortly on humanitarian access to Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile." -Ms. Clnton
The US also urge immediate implementation of this urgently needed assistance, Ms. Clinton also underlined.
Earlier this June, Sudan and South Sudan have made significant progress to end hostilities.
The forces of South Sudan have completely pulled out of Abyei, that the forces of Khartoum, the SAF forces are also now out of Abyei.
In addition, South Sudan has recently completed withdrawal processes of its police forces from the disputed Abyei to comply with the United Nations Security Council resolution endorsing roadmap of the Africa Union Peace and Security Commission.
South Sudan reportedly complied with all aspects of resolution 2046, which calls on both sides to resume negotiations on post-partition issues and signed pact with three months.
The United States of America also welcomed the redeployment of all Republic of South Sudan Police Services out of the Abyei Area.
The US said the withdrawal of police forces in Abyei is an important step toward ending the border dispute with Sudan.
The United States has commended the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei for its strong support to this process.
The United States renewed call upon the Government of Sudan to honor its acceptance of UNSCR 2046 and the AUPSC communique, including by redeploying all of its armed forces from Abyei and by immediately ending aerial bombardments in South Sudan, which are a clear violation of Resolution 2046.
Amid the continous call from the United Nations and the United States to cease the hostilities between Sudan and South Sudan, violence and tensions continue to escalate in the region earlier this year.
South Sudan's military was involved in the attack on and seizure of Heglig, home to Sudan's largest remaining source of oil following the South's secession.
Late of March this year, military clashes have erupted in the border region of Sudan and South Sudan.
Media reports say South Sudan accused Sudan of sending warplanes to bomb two border areas.
Meanwhile, Sudan accused the southern army of attacking the oil-producing Heglig region wherein parts of which are claimed by both warring nations.
The military clashes prompted Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir to suspend plans to attend a meeting with his South Sudanese counterpart Salva Kiir on 3 April.
In July 2011, South Sudan, Africa's 54th nation was born. Millions of people celebrated a new national identity and new national promise. For more than two decades, Sudan has been riven by intense fighting over land and resources.
However, the security situation in the disputed area of Abyei remains fragile, with both South Sudan and Sudan failing to withdraw their armed forces as agreed under a demilitarization pact reached in June 2011.
South Sudan became independent from Sudan on 9 July. A referendum on the status of the Abyei area on the border was to have been held in January this year, but never took place amid disagreement on voter eligibility.
Dozens of people have been killed this year as a result of clashes in Abyei and surrounding areas and tens of thousands of have been forced to flee their homes.
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