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PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has discussed progress in Afghanistan with US President Barack Obama ahead of a major NATO summit he will host in his hometown Chicago next week. Windows 7 Key

The leaders spoke on the phone for about 10 minutes this morning.

They discussed Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s announcement this week that international forces will soon begin transferring responsibility for a third tranche of provinces and districts to Afghan forces.

Oruzgan Province – where most Australian troops are based – is included.

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The pair discussed their "shared objectives" for the NATO-ISAF summit Windows 7 Serial, including a review of the progress of the transition.

Albany, NY – New York will become the first state to require lawyers to do 50 hours of pro bono work as a condition for getting a license starting next year, Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman said Tuesday.

With about 10,000 people passing the New York Bar Exam annually Where Can i Buy Tattoo Ink, Lippman said that means about a half-million hours of free legal work yearly, mostly from law students. That should help fill “the justice gap” for the poor, working poor “and what has recently been described as the near poor” whose needs have risen sharply in a tough economy, he said.

“The courts are the emergency rooms of our society,” Lippman said. Addressing lawyers Tattoo Ink, judges and other officials gathered for Law Day, he noted that only about 20 percent of the need is being met for civil legal services for the poor, though state support is up to $40 million this year and many lawyers already do pro bono work, now an estimated two million hours yearly in New York.

Currently no states require doing pro bono work as a condition of admission to the bar, according to the American Bar Association.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the pro bono requirement, as well as other measures Lippman has instituted for the state’s courts, should help more families stave off mortgage foreclosures under better circumstances than the rest of the country. Since 2008, following the crash of the housing bubble, American families have lost $7.4 trillion in home equity, and foreclosures rose sharply, along with abuses like improper documentation and deceptive refinancing offers, he said.

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“In fact about half of New Yorkers facing foreclosure do so without a lawyer,” Schneiderman said. As part of a 49-state settlement with five major lenders, those banks agreed to establish new mortgage servicing standards and commit more than $25 billion. That includes $15 million that will be used this year in New York to fund legal services to prevent foreclosures, he said.

New York requires 90-day notices to borrowers at risk of foreclosure, settlement conferences and that lenders’ attorneys sign affirmations that their documents are in fact accurate, a requirement in November 2010 that “drastically reduced” the number of foreclosure filings, Schneiderman said. Starting this summer, lender representatives at foreclosure proceedings will have to come with authority to negotiate Tattoo Starter Kits, he said.

Lippman said he hopes that the pro bono requirement will generate ongoing interest in that work by lawyers who otherwise wouldn’t do it, although 21 law schools nationally require it and most others have clinics where students can get experience doing free work under faculty supervision on issues like evictions, foreclosures, divorces and contracts, also possible at outside legal aid groups. “Pro bono service has been part of the professional lives of lawyers for centuries,” he said.

“We’re turning away eight clients for every nine that come in for help,” Steven Banks, attorney-in-chief for the Legal Aid Society of New York City, said afterward. He said they take about 44,000 civil cases a year. “This initiative will certainly help,” he said.

GENEVA (Reuters) – Syria has not made the full military withdrawal it agreed to under a peace plan, mediator Kofi Annan will tell the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, according to his spokesman.

Speaking on U.N. Television, spokesman Ahmad Fawzi also cited “credible reports” that people who speak to U.N. truce mediators in the country were afterwards being intimidated, arrested and in some cases may have been killed.

Satellite imagery showed Syrian forces had not withdrawn all heavy weapons from urban centers and returned to their barracks Tattoo Gun For Sale, as they are required to do under Annan’s six-point peace plan, he said.

“They (Syrian authorities) are claiming that this has happened. Satellite imagery, however, and credible reports show that this has not fully happened, so this is unacceptable, and Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan will be saying this to the Security Council today when he addresses them in closed session Machines Tattoo,” Fawzi said.

“We are calling on the Syrian government to fully implement its commitments under the ceasefire,” he said.

Annan, who delivered a speech at Lund University in Sweden on Tuesday, was due to brief the U.N. Security Council later by video link.

“He will be laying out the challenges on the ground, the challenges of monitoring with very few observers, the challenges of launching a political process while there is no cessation of hostilities, because you need a cessation of hostilities to begin a credible process,” Fawzi said.

Eleven U.N. observers are deployed in Syria as part of an advance team monitoring compliance with a truce that went into effect on April 12 but remains “extremely fragile” Good Tattoo Ink, he said.

“They are entering areas where there has been conflict like Homs and Hama and when they go (there) the guns are silent,” Fawzi said.

“We have credible reports that when they leave, the exchanges start again, that these people who approach the observers may be approached by the Syrian security forces or the Syrian army and harassed or arrested, or even worse, perhaps killed and this is totally unacceptable,” Fawzi added.

Activists said that the Syrian army killed more than 20 people in Hama on Monday, shattering a week of relative quiet in the central city visited a day earlier by U.N. monitors laying the ground for a wider mission to oversee the shaky truce.

The unarmed monitors returned to Hama on Tuesday and two stayed behind, to be stationed there, Fawzi told Reuters. Another two are stationed in the flashpoint city of Homs, leaving the others to cover the rest of the country. Some were in Damascus, Zabadani and Douma on Tuesday, he added.

Three military officers were shot dead in Damascus on Tuesday and at least three people were wounded by a car bomb as violence continued to challenge the truce.

“We feel and Mr. Annan feels that we need a stronger presence for mobility, flexibility, the ability to be present in most places at the same time. With 11 or 12 monitors, you can’t be everywhere, and there are many cities that have seen destruction and have seen fighting and we have to be present,” Fawzi said.

Referring to a decision by the Security Council last Saturday to authorize the deployment of a further 300 observers, he said: “With up to 300, we will be able to monitor more cities than two or three at a time.”

(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

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BANGOR, Maine — Cumulus radio stations in the Bangor, Augusta and Presque Isle markets are included in the sale of 55 radio stations to Townsquare Media in exchange for $116 million plus 10 radio stations in Illinois.

Cumulus said the deal is part of its plan to focus on radio stations in large markets.

WLBZ-TV says Connecticut-based Townsquare will acquire five stations in Bangor, three in Presque Isle and four in Augusta. Cumulus, which is keeping its Portland stations, also picks up 10 stations in Illinois under the deal.

Townsquare CEO Steven Price said the transaction represents the company’s continued investment in small and mid-sized markets across the country.

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File this one under sketchy. Temple of VTEC has been tipped off to what is purported to be a patent filing for an Acura NSX Convertible. And as you can see from the photo above, that’s about all we have to go on.

Is this in fact a droptop version of Honda’s supercar? Or is it nothing more than Honda’s due diligence to protect its intellectual property rights? Either way, it’s got the NSX fans in a tizzy trying to figure out what exactly it means, when they can (dream about) buying one Tattoo Supplies, how much they’ll (never be able to) pay and why the original NSX is better/worse than the new one.

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When prosecutors in Manhattan filed to drop charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Monday, they revealed more than the flimsiness of their evidence. As the New York Times’ City Room blog pointed out, the 25-page motion also detailed how DSK’s $3,000-per-night suite was stained with the semen of at least three additional men. A forensics expert in the article explained that semen stains are smeared “all over the place” in many other hotels, the traces visible from their telltale glow under UV lamps. Wait Herve Leger sale, does semen really glow in the dark?

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Criminal investigators use black lights to detect semen because they’re portable and easy to use. Semen stains can also be detected by sight Buy DKNY Dresses, by touch (feeling for crusty residue or crunchiness in fabrics), and chemical testing, but UV is rapid and hands-off. Still, fluorescence from ultraviolet light does not prove the presence of semen—the splotch on the wall or bed cover might come from a fluorescent detergent or thick saliva—so it’s usually followed by more conclusive testing. For example, forensic investigators often test for prostatic acid phosphatase, a type of enzyme that is much more common in semen than in other bodily fluids.

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Roomers may find dried semen stains disgusting (and they might expect more from a $3,000-per-night hotel), but they present no serious health risks. Sperm cannot survive for long outside the body and will have stopped swimming long before occupants are likely to come into contact with dried stains. HIV virions also perish at a rapid pace, most of them dying in a matter of hours as the fluid dries. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report there have been no confirmed cases of HIV infections from environmental surfaces. You should be safe from sperm in any hotel room—just leave your black light at home.

Got a question about today’s news? Ask the Explainer.

Explainer thanks David Foran of Michigan State University and Lawrence Kobilinsky of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York.

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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert recently referred grumpily to a “tsunami” that “we need to take every measure in order to stop.” He was speaking not about Palestinian terrorists but about a wave of more than 7,000 African asylum seekers who have crossed the Egyptian border into Israel over the last year, at least 2,000 of them since January. The Africans crossing into Israel are Muslims and Christians. They come mostly from Sudan and Eritrea but also from Nigeria Cheap Emilio Pucci Dresses, Côte d’Ivoire, and Congo. They are refugees looking for a safe haven and legal asylum. And Israel has absolutely no idea what to do with them.

Israel loves to be the first on the scene when there’s a humanitarian crisis: In 1977, Menachem Begin welcomed 66 Vietnamese boat people spotted by an Israeli cargo ship near Japan; more recently, Israel sent medical teams to India after the 2001 earthquake and arrived in Asia with emergency aid after the tsunami in 2004. But if Israel embraces thousands of African refugees, millions in Egypt alone could try to follow. All developed countries worry about the effects of an influx of poor refugees. But the problem is especially delicate for Israel, which worries about someday losing its Jewish majority to the growing Palestinian population (especially if it does not relinquish control of the West Bank). And then there’s the country’s location: It’s not as if there are other prosperous democracies in the region for refugees to choose among. Maybe it was only a matter of time before Africans decided to opt for this shorter trek over the long voyages to Europe and North America.

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And so for now, the Israeli government stands on shifting and uneasy middle ground. The country has given one-year temporary residency (which comes with medical benefits) to up to 600 Darfurians fleeing genocide and six-month working visas to about 2,000 Eritreans. Meanwhile, it has held thousands of others in desert detention centers while still others live in makeshift, slumlike quarters around the Tel Aviv bus station. Mark Hetfield of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society says that conditions in Tel Aviv are worse than any he has seen in visits to dozens of refugee camps in Africa and East Asia. “There are 150 people using one bathroom. There is rotting food. There is no discipline or taking of ownership, because everything is so temporary,” he said. (For photographs Herve Leger gown sale, click on the accompanying slideshow. More images here.)

Olmert is talking both about erecting a border fence and establishing clear asylum procedures for assessing cases individually, which Israel currently doesn’t really have. The systems of the United States and Canada are good models that civil rights lawyers in Israel say they’d love to follow. But it won’t be easy to do so. And if Israel’s asylum procedures get fairer, will that just encourage more refugees to come?

Like more than 140 other countries, Israel is a party to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees Discount Emilio Pucci Dresses, which forbids expelling or returning a refugee to a country where his or her life or freedom would be threatened. The convention also says that refugees should not be punished for entering another country illegally. It’s up to individual countries to put these principles into law. In Israel, those seeking asylum used to turn to the office of the U.N. High Commissioner on Refugees, which heard their stories and made a recommendation about whether Israel should grant temporary residence. The governmental committee that reviewed UNHCR recommendations almost always followed them and granted residency in about 11 percent of cases.

In the last two years, because of the overwhelming numbers, these minimal procedures have broken down. Instead, UNHCR and Israel have made group designations based on refugee nationality: Roughly speaking, Darfurians have gotten residency, blocks of Eritreans have gotten work permits, and other refugees have been out of luck. They generally haven’t been deported, but they’re not in the country legally, either. Often, the country’s approach seems entirely “ad hoc and arbitrary Replica Hale Bob Dresses,” says Anat Ben-Dor, a clinical law professor at Tel Aviv University who represents the immigrants. If there is room at a detention center when the police pick up refugees at the border Buy Hale Bob Dresses, they can be jailed for many months. If not, they can end up, right away, on a bus bound for Tel Aviv.

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Tomorrow, former Sen. George Mitchell will testify before a House committee about his investigation into performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. When they’re done listening Cheap DKNY Clothes, members of Congress should ask some hard questions about the relationship between Mitchell’s report and the Justice Department criminal investigation that gave him most of his information.

Make no mistake. As a former prosecutor, I am delighted that the DoJ unleashed the bloodhounds of the criminal justice system on drug cheats in baseball. Taken without a prescription, anabolic steroids and human growth hormone are every bit as illegal as cocaine, heroin, or marijuana. Simple equity suggests that the federal government should be just as ready to pursue jillionaire bat-wielding juicers and their suppliers as penniless crackheads and their dealers. More importantly, allowing obviously chemically enhanced cheaters to stand rich, idolized, and unchallenged at the pinnacle of professional athletics increases the likelihood that the legions of young people who long to be sports heroes will emulate their idols and wreck their bodies in the process.

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That said, the Justice Department has mishandled the baseball steroid investigation in two important ways. First, the DoJ is prosecuting, or at least focusing on, the wrong people. The primary targets should be players, not suppliers. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Justice had no business feeding Mitchell, and through him the public, damaging information about players it lacks the evidence or the will to prosecute.

Consider first who is being prosecuted. So far, the government has charged or made plea deals for testimony with those who supplied drugs to players Buy Herve Leger gown, leaving the players themselves untouched unless, as with Barry Bonds, the player committed apparent perjury. Defenders of this approach, including Mitchell, justify it by claiming it is analogous to customary federal practice in cases involving recreational drugs of going after suppliers, not users. But the analogy is flawed.

Federal prosecutors customarily prosecute dealers rather than users primarily because dealers are considered more culpable. Dealers are the rich Buy Missoni Dresses, bad-guy beneficiaries of others’ weaknesses Discount DKNY Clothes, while users are destitute victims or inconsequential saps. Dealers affect many people. Users affect only themselves.

The hierarchy of the performance-enhancing drug market for professional athletes is exactly the reverse. The balance of power, money, and culpability lies with the players in their relationships with guys like Roger Clemens’ trainer Brian McNamee or former Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski. McNamee’s and Radomski’s continued employment in and around the major leagues depended on the favor of players, particularly stars. The nobody suppliers made a few thousand in pin money for supplying the juice. But the real financial gainers were the players: Drugs allowed them to cheat their way into the majors or to enhance and prolong careers worth millions of dollars. If relative culpability is to determine who is prosecuted and who is allowed to go free, it’s the players who should be indicted.

The other reason federal prosecutors ordinarily go after dealers Replica Chanel Dresses, not users, is to have a greater effect on drug markets. But if one really wanted to stop the use of steroids in baseball, which is likely to be more effective—cooperation deals with a few locker room enablers Cheap DKNY Dresses, or the spectacle of big leaguers in prison stripes rather than pinstripes?

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One of the great looming disasters of the war in Iraq Where find Replica Cartier Watches, a moral abdication of immense proportion, is the Bush administration’s failure to help those Iraqis who have risked their lives to help us.

The Iraqi translators, drivers, and assistants of all sorts face near-certain death, at the hands of one militia or another Replica Fendi Watches, once U.S. forces begin to pull out (and, rhetoric aside Fake Dior Watches, the pullout has begun). Scores have been kidnapped or killed already. Whatever one’s feelings about the war, it is beyond dispute that these people have earned our commitment to their safety. If they want to leave, we have an obligation to get them out.

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George Packer Fake Fendi Watches, the New Yorker writer who first drew attention to this crisis and who continues to shame officials for not doing more to resolve it, proposed a solution in his blog last week. The idea is eminently practical and logically unassailable—so much so that if Bush and his top aides don’t take him up on it, there can be only one explanation: They simply don’t want to.

The answer lies in America’s own experience. In 1996, the U.S. military evacuated over 6,000 Iraqis, mainly Kurds, who had helped Americans during the 1991 war and its aftermath and who faced deadly reprisals from Saddam Hussein. They were flown to the huge American base in Guam, where they were screened for asylum and, if approved, matched up with sponsors. Nearly all of them ended up in the United States within seven months. Packer quotes Maj. Gen. John Dallager, who was the Joint Task Force Commander of Operation Pacific Haven, as saying, “Our success will undoubtedly be a role model for future humanitarian efforts.”

A mere decade years later, the great triumph—which involved more than 1,000 American soldiers, diplomats, and aid workers in a coordinated effort—has apparently been forgotten.

Today’s State Department has promised to resettle 7,000 Iraqis; they have so far processed a mere 1,600. A former USAID official named Kirk Johnson has presented a list of 800 Iraqis who helped American officers and diplomats and who urgently need to leave the country; only 10 of them have received visas.

The State Department went so far as to lobby against a Senate resolution that would have increased by tenfold the number of special immigration visas for Iraqis and would have allowed applications for these visas to be reviewed inside Iraq. (The bill passed anyway, and is pending in the House.) *

The current application process is a bureaucratic nightmare beyond belief. The final papers cannot be processed inside the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad’s green zone (supposedly for security reasons). Instead, applicants have to go to the embassy in Amman, Jordan. They have to make their own way there—and they have to lie about why they’re visiting. (If they say their purpose is to seek a U.S. visa, the Jordanian border guards—many of them Sunnis who still revere Saddam Hussein and despise the U.S. occupation—turn them back.)

A few officials and officers are doing what they can to help the Iraqis working under their supervision. In a March 2007 New Yorker article titled “Betrayed Anonimo Replica Watches,” Packer quoted Lt. Col. Steven Miska, deputy commander of a U.S. brigade in Iraq, as saying that he had set up (in Miska’s words) “a bit of an underground railroad” to get his unit’s Iraqi helpers across the border into Jordan.

But these efforts, heroic as they are Buy Cheap Replica Jacob & Co Watches, amount to a trickle.

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