Independence Day brings to mind fireworks, barbecue, and, if you live in Ocean City, crowds. More than 300,000 sun-seekers flood this small Maryland town each July 4th, packing restaurants, boardwalk attractions, and, of course, the beach.
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Enrique Pena Nieto, candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and apparent winner of Mexico's presidential election, gestures while speaking with foreign correspondents in Mexico City, Monday, July 2, 2012. The party that ruled Mexico with a tight grip for most of the last century has sailed back into power, promising a government that will be modern, responsible and open to criticism. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Enrique Pena Nieto, candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and apparent winner of Mexico's presidential election, gestures while speaking with foreign correspondents in Mexico City, Monday, July 2, 2012. The party that ruled Mexico with a tight grip for most of the last century has sailed back into power, promising a government that will be modern, responsible and open to criticism. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), leaves a hotel after a press conference in Mexico City, Monday, July 2, 2012. After official results showed Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) winning 38 per cent of the vote with more than 92 per cent of the votes counted, Lopez Obrador has not conceded Sunday?s elections, telling his supporters Monday evening that, ?We can?t accept a fraudulent result,? a reference to his allegations that Pena Nieto exceeded campaign spending limits, bought votes in some states and benefited from favorable coverage in Mexico?s semi-monopolized television industry.(AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
Supporters of Enrique Pena Nieto, presidential candidate for the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) celebrate at party headquarters as exit polls begin to come in for general elections in Mexico City, Mexico, Sunday, July 1, 2012. Pena Nieto is leading Mexico's elections with about 40 percent of the vote, exit polls showed Sunday, signaling a return of his long-ruling party to power after a 12-year hiatus. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
Supporters of Enrique Pena Nieto, presidential candidate for the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) gather at party headquarters as exit polls begin to come in for general elections in Mexico City, Mexico, Sunday, July 1, 2012. Pena Nieto is leading Mexico's elections with about 40 percent of the vote, exit polls showed Sunday, signaling a return of his long-ruling party to power after a 12-year hiatus. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
Surrounded by unidentified members of his coalition, Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), second from left, speaks during a press conference at a hotel in Mexico City, Monday, July 2, 2012. After official results showed Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) winning 38 per cent of the vote with more than 92 per cent of the votes counted, Lopez Obrador has not conceded Sunday?s elections, telling his supporters Monday evening that, ?We can?t accept a fraudulent result,? a reference to his allegations that Pena Nieto exceeded campaign spending limits, bought votes in some states and benefited from favorable coverage in Mexico?s semi-monopolized television industry.(AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
MEXICO CITY (AP) ? The apparent victor of Mexico's presidential race, Enrique Pena Nieto, struggled Monday with the sticky bonds of his party's notorious past, the limitation of his election mandate and an opponent who refused to concede defeat.
His long-ruling and now-returned Institutional Revolutionary Party, the PRI, won only about 38 percent of the vote and is unlikely to get a majority in Congress. In fact, it may lose seats.
He faces an old guard in the PRI that still exercises considerable power, a war with fierce drug cartels and a still sluggish economy. His closest rival, leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who polled a higher-than-expected vote of about 32 percent, refused to accept the loss, and many of his militant followers were suspicious of the results.
President Barack Obama called Pena Nieto on Monday to congratulate him. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said Obama told him the United States "looks forward to advancing common goals, including promoting democracy, economic prosperity, and security in the region and around the globe, in the coming years."
Pena Nieto's account of the talk suggested his party has left behind the touchy nationalism of the past. He expressed interest in cooperation in security, commerce and infrastructure, but didn't bring up the traditional Mexican issue of U.S. immigration reform to help the 12 million Mexicans who live in the United States.
Pena Nieto said he wanted "a relationship that will allow the productive integration of North America."
In Sunday's elections, Mexicans voted above all for a known quantity, the camera-friendly candidate of the party that ruled Mexico without interruption from 1929 to 2000.
But the PRI returns to power in unknown political terrain, where Mexico is more divided, more violent and less tightly controlled, raising the potential for political disputes on top of the drug war. The battle against drug cartels has already cost more than 47,500 lives and may have contributed to the decline of President Felipe Calderon's conservative National Action Party, whose candidate dropped to third place with about 25 percent of the preliminary vote count.
Pena Nieto pledged to continue that anti-drug offensive, but "with a new strategy to reduce violence and protect, above all, the lives of Mexicans."
He promised there would be "no pact or truce" with drug cartels, but clearly some supporters expected the PRI to establish some sort of modus vivendi with the gangs, something party leaders were accused of doing in the past.
"He'll stabilize the cartels. He'll negotiate so they don't hurt innocents," Martha Trejo, 37, a PRI supporter from the Gulf coast city of Tampico, said at Sunday's victory rally.
Pena Nieto said Monday he will favor "well-aimed, precision strikes" on the cartels, and more cooperation with U.S. authorities, something that Calderon has already developed far beyond his predecessors.
The biggest immediate task facing Pena Nieto is to convince the 62 percent of voters who didn't vote for him that he is not planning a return to the corrupt, authoritarian and free-spending ways of the PRI of the past. Even some of Pena Nieto's supporters, such as school teacher Maria Santillan, 51, expressed hope he would surround himself "with new faces, people who aren't so corrupted."
All the potential conflicts were apparent at the victory rally just after midnight at the PRI's cavernous compound in Mexico City, where Pena Nieto was surrounded by graying holdovers from the PRI's glory days and a raucous crowd of supporters expecting jobs, hand-out programs and a quick reduction in drug violence.
"There is no return to the past," Pena Nieto said.
"I am going to be a democratic president, who understands the changes the country has undergone in recent decades," he said in an apparent reference to reforms that created a more-level political playing field with energized civic organizations putting pressure on governments.
Pena Nieto promised a government "of national unity," but hasn't yet named any Cabinet choices.
He also suggested he would seek further internal reforms of his party, which for most of its history followed presidential dictates unquestioningly and rigged votes if it could not win elections that were already tilted sharply in its favor. The party liberalized in its final two decades, but it remained steadfast in protecting its leaders and stonewalling on probes of corruption.
Calderon was quick to recognize the PRI victory, and his party may serve as an ally in Congress in voting through some measures, such as Pena Nieto's call to open the state-owned oil sector to private investment. Pena Nieto told reporters Monday he would start working immediately on tax, energy and labor reforms, and would "sit down with the president (Calderon) ... to talk about what can be put forward before I take office" on Dec. 1.
But those very proposals, especially on the oil industry, have drawn the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, the PRD, into the streets for angry protests in the past.
Lopez Obrador, the PRD's candidate, refused to concede the election.
"We can't accept a fraudulent result," he told supporters Monday evening, a reference to his allegations that Pena Nieto exceeded campaign spending limits, bought votes in some states and benefited from favorable coverage in Mexico's semi-monopolized television industry.
Lopez Obrador said he will likely challenge Sunday's vote results, but didn't say if he would try to repeat nearly two months of street blockades in Mexico City that he led in 2006 to protest a narrow loss to Calderon that he attributed to fraud.
Lopez Obrador's party actually did better in this election than polls had projected, winning apparent victories in three of the seven state elections Sunday. The PRD was on track to win an overwhelming victory in Mexico City, the nation's capital and largest city, as well as taking the governorships of Morelos state to the south and the Gulf coast state of Tabasco, both of which were held by other parties. The PRI appeared to have taken the governorship of the western state of Jalisco from the National Action Party.
Despite winning the presidency, the PRI may actually lose seats in Congress. The PRI-led coalition with the Green Party had about 38 percent of the congressional vote, with 95 percent of ballots counted Monday. The coalition won about 46 percent in the last legislative vote three years ago.
Many Mexicans questioned why most pre-election polls underestimated support for Lopez Obrador by five or six percentage points, well outside those polls' margin of error. Lopez Obrador had claimed the polls were being manipulated, an accusation that accompanied frequent complaints that Pena Nieto was running a far more expensive campaign than his rivals.
Jorge Buendia of the polling firm Buendia and Laredo said some people who said they would vote for Pena Nieto appeared to have changed their minds. There was also a surge in support for Lopez Obrador in the final days that couldn't be fully measured because Mexico's electoral law effectively prohibits polling in the last week before elections.
The PRI's victory appeared to be, above all, a triumph of pragmatism and power-broker politics. Few of those at Pena Nieto's victory rally Sunday expressed the high-flown rhetoric about democratic transition and reform that were popular when National Action won the 2000 and 2006 elections. For its decades in power, the PRI excelled at handing out patronage jobs as well as work and business permits in exchange for votes.
Jaime Bernal, 48, who works as an aide to a PRI congressman, said at the rally that the secret to the party's comeback was recognizing "the important thing for people is that they have something to eat, a job to support themselves."
But he also praised Pena Nieto's ease at working crowds, shaking hands and hugging people, a talent the party had lost during two decades of PRI presidents known as market-oriented "technocrats."
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Associated Press writer Olga R. Rodriguez contributed to this report.
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The opposition and state media on Sunday both branded an international plan for a transition in strife-torn Syria a failure, as the death toll for a weekend of violence topped 140.
World powers meeting in Geneva on Saturday agreed that the transition plan could include current regime members, but the West did not see any role for President Bashar al-Assad in a new unity government.
Russia and China insisted that Syrians themselves must decide how the transition takes place, rather than allow others to dictate their fate.
Moscow and Beijing, which have twice blocked UN Security Council resolutions on Syria, signed up to the final agreement that did not make any explicit call for Assad to cede power.
Official Syrian media and the opposition Local Coordination Committees (LCC) group demonstrated rare agreement in slamming the outcome.
The meeting "failed," trumpeted Al-Baath, newspaper of the ruling party of the same name.
Syria "The agreement of the task force on Syria in Geneva on Saturday resembles an enlarged meeting of the UN Security Council where the positions of participants remained the same," it said.
The LCC, which organises protests on the ground in Syria, said the outcome showed once again a failure to adopt a common position.
It called the transition accord "just one version, different in form only, of the demands of Russian leaders allied to the Assad regime and who cover it militarily and politically in the face of international pressure."
Burhan Ghalioun, a senior member and former head of the opposition Syrian National Council, told pan-Arab television Al-Arabiya that "this is the worst international statement yet to emerge from talks on Syria."
According to the SNC's official Facebook page, he described the plan as a "farce."
Ghalioun called a "mockery" the notion that Syrians should negotiate with "their executioner, who has not stopped killing, torturing... and raping women for 16 months."
SNC spokeswoman Basma Qadmani, however, told AFP in Ankara there were some "positive elements" in the deal, although "important elements remain too ambiguous... and the plan is too vague to foresee real and immediate action."
"The first one is that the final declaration says that the participants agree to say that the Assad family cannot rule the country any more, and therefore the Assad family cannot lead the transition period."
"The second positive element is the agreement that the transition should comply with the legitimate aspirations of Syrian people.
"For us this means that Assad should go because Syrian people have already said that they want Assad to go."
Iran, a strong ally of Assad, said the Geneva meeting was "unsuccessful" because Damascus and Tehran were not invited.
The United States and European nations reportedly opposed the presence of Iran, although UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan and UN chief Ban Ki-moon had wanted Tehran to attend.
Opposition groups are to hold a two-day meeting in Cairo from Monday and are also expected to hold talks on Tuesday with Arab ministers in a bid to agree on a shared platform, Egyptian media and the Arab League said.
The Geneva deal came despite initial pessimism over the talks amid deep divisions between the West and China and Russia on how to end the violence that the Observatory says has killed more than 15,800 since March 2011.
Syria's neighbour Turkey, which attended the Geneva talks, scrambled fighter jets after Syrian helicopters flew close to its border, the army said on Sunday, hiking tensions following last month's downing of a Turkish plane.
Six F-16 warplanes took off from airbases in south Turkey on Saturday after Syrian helicopters flew closer to the border than is normal, the army said, specifying there had been three incidents but no violation of Turkish airspace.
In weekend violence, more than 140 people were killed across Syria, including 120 on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. On Sunday, at least 21 people were killed, including five in the central province of Hama, according to the Britain-based watchdog.
Annan said on Saturday it was up to the Syrians to decide who they wanted in a unity government. But he added: "I would doubt that Syrians... would select people with blood on their hands to lead them."
The United States and France both said it was clear there was no future role for Assad.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague admitted the deal was a "compromise agreement" as Russia played up the fact that it had convinced other world powers that it would be "unacceptable" to exclude any party from the transition.
Moscow is loath to cast aside its ally Assad, even as relations between them have cooled.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said: "How exactly the work on a transition to a new stage is conducted will be decided by the Syrians themselves.
"There are no demands to exclude from this process any one group. This aspect had been present in many of our partners' proposals. We have convinced them that this is unacceptable."
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LED technology shone brighter than the summer sun this week as artist Bruce Munro unveiled plans for his largest lighting installation ever -- a field of thousands of LED flowers that will spring up next year at Australia's Ayers Rock. Best of all, the entire installation will be powered by solar energy! We also saw Rice University flip the switch on its new Epiphany Skyspace -- a green-roofed pavilion that's topped with a brilliant blue canopy of light. If you're still not convinced that LEDs are the future, we recently produced two videos that are sure to show you the light -- check out our interview with five professional lighting designers on today's state of the art LED bulbs and watch as we give Inhabitots editor Julie Seguss a light bulb overhaul that shaves over $400 off her utility bills. And if you're ready to make the switch, check out our guide to 24 gorgeous green lamps that look great with LED bulbs.
This week saw some exciting new developments in the realm of renewable energy. First, a group of scientists in the UK developed a new energy-harvesting device that attaches to the joint between the thigh and shin. The device could be used to power monitors and mobile devices, to name a few possible applications. Meanwhile, scientists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have invented a new toilet that turns human waste into electricity while reducing the amount of water needed for flushing by up to 90 percent. That's what we call, win-win!
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NEW YORK (AP) ? AT&T says it has reached an agreement with AMC Networks Inc., the home of hit shows including "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad," and will keep showing its AMC, IFC Sundance and WE channels.
AT&T, the eighth-largest provider of pay-TV signals, said Sunday the channels will remain available on its U-verse TV service.
Details of the agreement were not disclosed.
Fee disputes between pay-TV companies and TV channels often result in channels being temporarily dropped. They usually end with the parties reaching agreement on fees.
In a separate fee dispute, satellite broadcaster Dish Network Corp. replaced AMC's channels with HDNet channels at midnight Saturday.
Dish, the third-largest pay-TV provider in the U.S., had earlier said it would drop AMC's channels because they're too expensive.
On Sunday, AMC reiterated its position that Dish is actually playing hardball because it wants to retaliate for a lawsuit Voom HD, an indirect subsidiary of AMC, filed against Dish for dropping it. The trial itself has not started, but a judge has ruled that Dish destroyed evidence in the case.
Dish did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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HP's free Biztree Forms App for HP Web-connected printers is something of a mixed blessing for micro and small offices. The main purpose of the app seems to be to whet your appetite for the full version of Biztree Business in a Box, at $249.95 (direct) minus the $70 savings you get from the coupon you can print as part of the app. In addition to the sales pitch, however, you'll also find a selection of more than 40 useable-as-is business related forms, worksheets, and checklists. The good news is that any given office is bound to find at least a few useful forms in batch, which is enough to make the app worth looking at.
In some ways, the Biztree Forms App is similar to the LegalZoom apps for Lexmark Web-connected printers. Both it and the various LegalZoom apps, including LegalZoom Employment Forms ($29.95 direct, 3 stars) and LegalZoom Business Agreements ($34.95 direct, 2.5 stars), let you print forms from your printer's front panel without needing a computer. There's even some overlap in the forms they offer, with Employment Application forms in both, for example.
There are also three big differences between the Biztree forms app and the LegalZoom apps, however. The first two are fairly obvious: All of the Biztree forms are available through one app, and the app is free. Just as important, where the LegalZoom apps focus on legal forms, the Bizapp forms cover a much wider range, from time sheets, to wire transfers, to customer complaint forms, to a checklist of documents to keep in your employees' personnel files. With the Biztree Forms App, in short, it's much more likely that you'll find forms you can use.
The Basics
According to HP, the Biztree Forms app will work with all current Web-connected laser MFPS as well as Officejet and Officejet Pro ink jet printers, and it should work with all future printers in these categories as well. I tested the App on an HP LaserJet Pro CM1415fnw color MFP ($449 direct, 4 stars). Installation is a non-issue. HP says that if you have a printer that supports the app, you'll find the Biztree Forms icon on your printer's front panel as soon as you set up an account at the HP ePrintCenter.
Using the app is typical of the breed, in general description at least: Pick Biztree Forms from the front panel, find the form you want to print, and print it. The more detailed description includes two extra steps, however. Every time you pick Biztree Forms, you get a short reminder that you can buy the full program. Choose OK, and you move to the main screen, with three choices: Simple Forms, Advanced Forms, and Biztree Coupon.
At the main screen, you need to choose Simple Forms, which translates to Forms you can actually use. The Coupon option prints what amounts to an ad for Business in a Box along with the coupon code for the $70 savings I've already mentioned. The Advanced Forms choice takes you to a hierarchical menu structure with lots of forms. However, they are all either partial or sample forms with an ink-wasting ad, in color, telling you that you can get the full version in editable format as part of Business in a Box.
How Useful is it?
The usable forms are all listed under Simple Forms and are divided into three categories with about 15 choices each. To see a list, you pick Simple Forms and then one of the categories: Forms (Business Credit Application, Credit Card Billing, Purchase Order, and 12 more), Worksheets (Delegation Worksheet, Competitor Analysis Worksheet, and 12 more), and Checklists (21 Things to Do For a Safe Workplace, 19 Strategies for Hiring the Best, and 13 more).
Some of the forms are potentially useful as is. For example, the Electronic Funds Transfer Authorization asks for all the information you need for direct deposit of pay into an employee's account. Others are better understood as templates that you can recreate on your computer. The Time Sheet choice, for example, prints a Weekly Time Record with the hourly pay rate already filled in, and the Depreciation Worksheet has two columns filled with *DIV/0! error messages.
Note too that no matter what kind of business you're in, some percentage of the forms will be largely irrelevant to your needs. In a one person, owner-operated business, for example, there's not much point in filling out a time sheet.
Unfortunately, for many of the forms, the only way to find out whether they're truly useful for your needs is to print them. One feature the app should offer, but doesn't, is an option to print a list of all the forms, preferably with a sentence or two explaining what each is for. Lacking that feature, arguably the smartest thing to do is to print all of the forms yourself. With about 45 forms, this can be a chore, but you only have to do it once, so you can pick the ones you can use, and then keep them all for later reference.
Ultimately, the Biztree Forms Apps usefulness is a little hit and miss, depending entirely on how many of the forms you need. With about 45 to choose from, however, I strongly suspect that most small businesses will find at least a few they can use, even if only as templates for creating their own. Odds are high that if you take the time to look through the choices, you'll find enough here to make it well worth keeping the App available through your printer's front panel.
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According to a High Court judgment passed on June 25, 2012 by Nigel Mutuna, the interim order of preservation of property granted to Bwalya had been quashed.
Facts before the court were that sometime in October, 2008 Bwalya approached Chamunora Nyalungwe Haruperi (second defendant) as a representative of Chardore Properties for purposes of borrowing money.
The first defendant agreed to lend the plaintiff (Bwalya) the sum of US$ 26, 250-00 on condition that the plaintiff deposited the title deeds to his property stand number 921, Woodlands Lusaka with it (the property).
Upon the second defendant?s request, the plaintiff executed a contract of the sale and deed of assignment in respect of the property.
Subsequently, the first defendant transferred title to the property into its name alleging that the same was sold to it by the plaintiff.
However, Bwalya in his statement of claim said the defendant misrepresented to him that it was merely lending to him the sum of US$ 26, 250-00 saying it fraudulently transferred title to the property into its name.
In pleading the case Bwalya relied on Section 3 (1) of the misrepresentation act, CAP 70 of the Laws of Zambia.
The defendants contended that the parties freely contracted and understood the terms of the agreement entered into.
The defendants also contended that there was no false representation or omission or concealment of intention on their part.
Bwalya, the once celebrated Chipolopolo dribbler, had the option of buying back the property upon payment of US$ 32, 800-00 (about 160 million).
In his testimony Bwalya confirmed signing the contract of sale and deed of assignment but however denied signing the acknowledgement for the funds which indicated that he was selling the property.
In his testimony Haruperi said Bwalya approached him (second defendant) and offered to sell his property.
He testified that it was a term of contract that should the first defendant decide to resell the property, the plaintiff would be given the first right of refusal at US $ 32, 800-00 to purchase the property.
When the defendant decided to sell the property in February 2009 they invited Bwalya to exercise his right whether he wished to purchase the property the plaintiff responded by putting an encumbrance on the property.
Judge Mutuna dismissed Bwalya?s claim with cost saying it lacked merit.
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