AP PHOTOS: Investigators seek cause of SF crash

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AP PHOTOS: Investigators seek cause of SF crash
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In this photo provided by the National Transportation Security Board (NTSB), NTSB investigators conduct a first site assessment overnight of the Asiana Airlines flight 214 that crashed at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, Saturday, July 6, 2013. The Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashed while landing after a likely 10-hour-plus flight from Seoul, South Korea. The flight originated in Shanghai and stopped in Seoul before the long trek to San Francisco. (AP Photo/NTSB)

In this photo provided by the National Transportation Security Board (NTSB), NTSB investigators conduct a first site assessment overnight of the Asiana Airlines flight 214 that crashed at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, Saturday, July 6, 2013. The Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashed while landing after a likely 10-hour-plus flight from Seoul, South Korea. The flight originated in Shanghai and stopped in Seoul before the long trek to San Francisco. (AP Photo/NTSB)

Parents of Wang Linjia, center, are comforted by parents of some other students who were on the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 when it crashed at San Francisco International Airport, while they gather and wait for news of their children at Jiangshan Middle School in Jiangshan city, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Sunday July 7, 2013. Chinese state media have identified the two people who died in the plane crash at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday as Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, 16-year-old students at Jiangshan Middle School in China's eastern Zhejiang province. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

This photo provided by the National Transportation Security Board (NTSB), shows the flight data recorder, left, and cockpit voice recorder, right of the Asiana Airlines flight 214 that crashed at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, Saturday, July 6, 2013, in Washington on Sunday, July 7, 2013. The Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashed while landing after a likely 10-hour-plus flight from Seoul, South Korea. The flight originated in Shanghai and stopped in Seoul before the long trek to San Francisco. (AP Photo/NTSB)

Members of a crash investigation team from the South Korean Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs arrive at the Incheon International Airport in Incheon, South Korea, to fly to San Francisco International Airport, Sunday, July 7, 2013. An Asiana Airlines flight packed with more than 300 people slammed into the runway while landing at San Francisco airport Saturday and caught fire, forcing many to escape by sliding down the emergency inflatable slides as flames tore through the plane. At least two people died in the crash, while another 181 people were taken to hospitals, most with minor injuries, authorities said. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

This combination of photos provided by Dawn Siadatan shows Asiana Airlines flight 214 just moments after crashing at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, Saturday, July 6, 2013. The Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 crashed while landing after a likely 10-hour-plus flight from Seoul, South Korea. The flight originated in Shanghai and stopped in Seoul before the long trek to San Francisco. (AP Photo/Dawn Siadatan)

As the shock fades from the crash of Asiana Airlines flight 214, investigators are probing what led the Boeing 777 to crash land at San Francisco International Airport. Chinese state media revealed that two 16-year-old Chinese citizens, Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, were killed. The other 305 people on board survived.

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GOP Governor Struggles To Meet Recusal Pledge

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has struggled almost from the start of his administration to fulfill a campaign pledge to avoid handling matters relating to Pilot Flying J, the family-owned truck stop chain run by his brother, Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam.

Now, an FBI investigation of alleged fraud by the sales staff at the nation's largest diesel retailer has brought increased scrutiny of the company and raised more questions about links between the governor and Pilot. They include:

_ A top political adviser to the governor who also is orchestrating Pilot's public response to the Justice Department investigation.

_ A current board member and part-owner of Pilot being appointed by the governor as the interim president of University of Memphis.

_ Another board member running the parent company of a mining firm that wants to extract coal from public land in Tennessee.

Haslam's connections to Pilot were a central theme in the 2010 Republican primary and general election. Opponents attacked Haslam for refusing to disclose his personal ownership stake in the company, hammered the company for price gouging settlements after gas shortages caused by a hurricane, and derided the candidate as a billionaire oil man who would do the bidding of his father, Pilot founder Jim Haslam, and brother, Jimmy, the company's CEO, if elected.

The Haslam campaign rebutted those attacks largely by citing Pilot's "history of operating with integrity" and by criticizing "smears about a home-grown successful company." Those blanket dismissals will be harder to make in the future as the company grapples with fallout from the raid by federal agents and subsequent guilty pleas of five Pilot employees.

Haslam's chief campaign strategist was Tom Ingram, who has remained a paid adviser since the election while orchestrating Pilot's public response to the FBI raid.

Ingram, who also lobbies state government on behalf of other private clients such as the mining company seeking to extract coal from public lands, has said he doesn't lobby the governor directly. He shrugged off a reporter's question about whether he will stop his outside activities on behalf of Pilot once he's brought on to Haslam's re-election campaign payroll this summer.

"Of course not," he said. "Why would I?"

The governor also declared himself unconcerned about Ingram's other roles, including his position with Pilot.

"That's just how life works a lot of time," Haslam said recently. "Look, there's a whole lot of lobbyists who represent a whole lot of different people."

Dick Williams, who chairs Common Cause Tennessee, said the governor's deep connections to the business world ? and his refusal to make full disclosures ? raise questions about his impartiality.

"He just has so many relationships, business agreements and investments that it causes a serious potential for a conflict of interest," Williams said. "It's just hard to untangle that."

As he persevered in a tough GOP primary and trounced his Democratic opponent in the 2010 general election, Haslam promised that he wouldn't participate directly in government matters relating to Pilot. That pledge faced an early test in the governor's first year in office over a decision to request a federal waiver on gasoline standards after explosion at the Valero refinery in Memphis, which was Pilot's largest fuel supplier in the area.

Haslam acknowledged that he had spoken to his brother about earlier problems at the refinery but said he had delegated that decision to his deputy, Claude Ramsey.

"Obviously as governor I can't just totally abdicate my responsibilities," he said at the time. "But because I knew that somebody like you someday would ask a question, I said find out the right answer, talk to the local folks as well as our (Department of Environment and Conservation) people and come up with the right answer."

The state ultimately requested and was later granted permission by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to relax fuel standards.

A month later, Haslam endorsed his brother's right to speak out in a letter to the governor and other state officials against privatizing state-run rest stops along interstate highways.

"He's the CEO of a major Tennessee business that has their interests to defend," Haslam said. "And that's nothing new: Pilot's been talking about that, as has everybody else that has an interstate business ? from McDonald's to everybody ? else for years."

Jimmy Haslam has been doing furious damage control since the April 15 raid on company headquarters and the subsequent release of an FBI affidavit with transcripts of secretly recorded conversations among the sales staff. Federal agents say the conversations outline a scheme to defraud trucking companies of fuel rebates. Five members of the sales staff have pleaded guilty to mail fraud and are cooperating with prosecutors, as are two further current and former Pilot staffers.

The governor has maintained that he has had no active role in Pilot since leaving the company to run for Knoxville mayor in 2003. But his family continues to own a majority share in the privately-held company with annual revenues of $31 billion, and Haslam has kept his personal share outside of a blind trust established for his other investments.

Haslam earlier this year named businessman Brad Martin ? who once hired him as an executive at Saks Inc. in New York ? as interim president of the University of Memphis. While Pilot has refused to publicly disclose the makeup of its board, it identified Martin as a director when it announced he would supervise the internal investigation into the FBI allegations. Incorporation papers field in Kentucky also indicate that Martin is a co-owner in the company.

The Kentucky filings also show that Mike Loya, president and CEO of the Vitol Group's North and South American operations, is another board member. Vitol owns the company seeking coal mining permits in the Catoosa Wildlife Management Area near Crossville. Haslam adviser Ingram is also a lobbyist for the coal company.

Haslam has said he doesn't know Loya personally, and that he has had no part in the negotiations.

State Democratic Party spokesman Brandon Puttbrese said the multiple Pilot connections should cause Haslam to reconsider his refusal to disclose his income.

"The governor should quit hiding his income and come clean with taxpayers about how much money he's personally making from his endless inside dealing and show how much money he's been paid by his company Pilot Oil, which padded its corporate profits by stealing from small business owners," he said.

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Egypt hits first snag over PM, Islamists call more protests

By Yasmine Saleh and Asma Alsharif

CAIRO (Reuters) - The appointment of liberal Egyptian politician Mohamed ElBaradei as interim prime minister hit a snag on Saturday, as the army-backed transitional authorities were under pressure to restore order after deadly Islamist protests.

State media and officials had said earlier that the 71-year-old Nobel Peace prizewinner and former U.N. nuclear agency chief would be named interim prime minister on Saturday evening.

But a presidential spokesman, speaking shortly before midnight, said there were several options for the job and the presidency had to take account of opposition to ElBaradei.

He mentioned no other candidates and added that there was no set date for the appointment of interim prime minister.

The Nour Party, Egypt's second biggest Islamist force, said it opposed ElBaradei and threatened to withdraw its support for the military-backed overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi on Wednesday, which was the trigger for the bloody unrest.

A youth activist who met interim head of state Adli Mansour said the two issues were linked.

Losing Nour's backing would significantly weaken the position of the military, removing any Islamist support from the transition process, fiercely opposed by Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood.

Generals said they had intervened in response to huge popular demonstrations calling for Mursi to resign.

Raising the risk of further clashes, Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, the dominant Islamist force in the Arab world's most populous nation, called for more protests on Sunday.

At least 35 people died in violence on Friday and Saturday, as pro- and anti-Mursi demonstrators fought running street battles in Cairo, Alexandria and beyond in violence that Egypt's powerful army was barely able to contain.

Tens of thousands of Brotherhood supporters took to the streets to protest against what they called a military coup, and clashes between them, security forces and anti-Mursi protesters left more than 30 people dead.

Within minutes of the news that ElBaradei would be named, a senior Brotherhood official said that the Islamist movement would reject his candidacy and any other measures implemented by the army-backed administration.

He described ElBaradei as "Washington's choice", a reference to suspicions among Brotherhood members of U.S. complicity in Mursi's overthrow.

The Nour Party, which had endorsed the military's roadmap for a transitional phase leading to fresh elections, followed.

MAJOR CHALLENGES

While the ouster of Egypt's first freely elected president was greeted with jubilation on streets crammed with millions of people, his many supporters feared a return to the suppression that the Islamists endured for decades under autocratic rulers.

The army has given few details and no timeframe for elections, adding to political uncertainty at a time when many Egyptians fear that bloodshed could polarize society still further.

Mursi's dramatic removal and subsequent violence is the latest twist in a tumultuous two years since the fall of Hosni Mubarak in the Arab uprisings that swept the region.

At least 35 people died and more than 1,000 were wounded in the latest violence, with the army struggling to maintain order in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities and towns, where rival demonstrators fought street battles.

The most deadly clashes were in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, where 14 people died and 200 were wounded.

In central Cairo, protesters clashed late into Friday night with stones, knives, petrol bombs and clubs as armored personnel carriers rumbled among them.

It took hours to restore order on the Nile River bridges around the landmark Egyptian Museum. Anti-Mursi activists remained encamped in a suburb of the capital, but Cairo and others cities were relatively calm as darkness fell on Saturday.

While the Brotherhood has insisted it will not resort to violence, some radical Islamists have no such inhibitions.

On Saturday, a Coptic Christian priest was shot dead in Egypt's lawless North Sinai province in what could be the first sectarian attack since Mursi's overthrow, raising concerns about the potential for further religious violence.

There were more attacks on army checkpoints in Sinai overnight and gunmen fired on a central security building in El Arish, security sources said.

A new Islamist group announced its formation in the Sinai peninsula adjoining Israel and the Gaza Strip, calling the army's removal of Mursi a declaration of war on their faith and threatening violence to impose Islamic law.

The events of the last week have raised alarm among Egypt's allies in the West, including main aid donors the United States and the European Union, and in Israel, with which Egypt has had a U.S.-backed peace treaty since 1979.

President Barack Obama condemned the violence in Egypt on Saturday and said the United States was not working with any particular Egyptian political party or group.

Newspapers quoted ElBaradei as saying that he expected Gulf Arab monarchies that were hostile to the Muslim Brotherhood's rule to offer financial support to the new authorities.

Only gas-rich Qatar provided substantial funds to Mursi's government, totaling $7 billion in loans and grants. Turkey and Libya also provided smaller loans and deposits.

RISING TENSIONS

In one of the first outbreaks of violence on Friday, three protesters were shot dead outside the Republican Guard compound where Mursi is being held, security sources said. The army denied responsibility for the shootings. It was not clear whether other security forces were involved.

On Saturday, about 2,000 people gathered outside the barracks. A man with a loudspeaker told soldiers separated from protesters by razor wire not to open fire.

Thousands more Islamists braved the fierce midday sun at a sit-in outside a nearby mosque. Shawled women shook their heads and wept as an imam led prayers for "martyrs" of the violence.

At least 15 tanks were positioned on streets leading to the square outside the mosque, but they were farther away than on Friday, suggesting that the military was keen to ease tensions.

(Additional reporting by Mike Collett-White, Alexander Dziadosz, Maggie Fick, Alastair Macdonald, Sarah McFarlane, Shadia Nasralla, Tom Perry, Paul Taylor, Patrick Werr in Cairo, Abdelrahman Youssef in Alexandria and Yursi Mohamed in Ismailia; Writing by Mike Collett-White; Editing by David Goodman)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-counts-dead-islamist-protest-violence-085851964.html

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Comcast, Time Warner Waiting on This NBA Star?s Decision

Star center Dwight Howard could have a huge impact on the next team he joins, adding unparalleled size and skill to the frontcourt and potentially making a championship contender of the sweepstakes winner. He will also have a huge impact?on local and national cable business, with?Comcast Corp.?(NASDAQ:CMCSA)?and?Time Warner Inc.?(NYSE:TWC) both hoping Howard will join a team associated with their companies.

Howard, who is currently a free agent, has his two biggest suitors in the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers, his last team. Accepting Houston?s offer would give Comcast a huge boost in its Houston-area network coverage. The upstart Rockets had an exciting team in the 2012-2013 season but would become substantially more marketable and successful in the league with an All-Star center. Time Warner has the rights to broadcast Lakers games and would continue to benefit from the presence of the big man in town.

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According to?Bloomberg, Time Warner?s L.A. sports network has pitched a TV show to Howard in hopes of keeping him around, while the Lakers have billboards all over L.A. to try and retaining Howard?s services. These companies would win big in local markets, but Comcast would see an ever larger rise in revenue from a Howard deal with Houston from potential contracts with satellite TV operators.

Both?Dish Network Corp.?(NASDAQ:DISH) and?DirecTV Group Inc.?(NASDAQ:DTV) are expected to add Comcast?s Houston station to its sports offerings should Howard go to the Rockets.?Bloomberg?estimates Comcast could get between $3 and $3.50 per subscriber for a deal with Dish and DirecTV over Houston Rockets coverage.

The mercurial Howard, who is often the subject of controversy and trade speculation, has yet to hint at his favored destination.?NBA.com?reported Friday that the Golden State Warriors are another team seeking a deal with Howard. The Warriors, whose sports network is also owned by Comcast, were reportedly increasing financial flexibility in order to sweeten their offer to the big man.

The Warriors? Comcast channel already has a deal in place with pay-TV companies, making the company?s benefits available chiefly in the northern California market, where the Warriors are based.

Don?t Miss: Pandora Continues Push for Lower Royalties.

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'I'm not frightened of it' Sir Michael Parkinson reveals he has prostate cancer

The former talk show host, who won legions of fans interviewing such greats as Muhammad Ali, Richard Burton and Emu, was diagnosed in May.

But the 78-year-old said he is confident of beating the disease and returning to full health.

He said: "It was a great shock, but I have been told to expect to make a full recovery.

"I had to start calling a few of my social engagements to tell them I couldn't do it - what do you say to them?

"When you are told you have something like cancer, it is a shock.

"But the cancer specialist said: 'I will assure you, you will not die of this.'

"I am concerned about it, of course, but I am not frightened of it."

Sir Michael is currently undergoing radiotherapy five times a week, and said he found the process free from pain and discomfort.

"If anything, it's boring.

"You have to lie there completely still, for six minutes.

"But I have had no side effects at all."

Sir Michael said the cancer is contained to his prostate, and that he should be "completely free" of the disease by August.

And he urged men to pay greater attention to their health in order to catch potential diseases early - with a simple test to check for prostate cancer.

"The test is if you can pee against a wall from 2ft, you haven't got it," he said.

"I don't want to trivialise it, but men know when there's a problem.

"I have been lucky, but men are silly about their health.

"Get it checked out - it might be something else."

Sir Michael's said he had no intention of letting cancer get in the way of his life.

"I'm 78 and I have had a good life," he said.

"When you get involved in this, you begin to understand the extraordinary work of those involved in treating cancer.

"You just sit and look at them in wonder. They do the most extraordinary things, and I am very grateful.

"I shall be around for a while yet, to the delight of my friends and the dismay of my enemies."

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The Never-Ending Saga Of Home Improvement-Here Is Some Help ...

If homeowners are armed with relevant information that is updated and factual, they can complete many home improvement projects on their own. This article will give you some great ideas for successfully completing nearly any home improvement project.

Always keep your air filter clean. Whenever the filter is dirty, your air conditioner will be forced to work harder in order to keep a cool home. As a result, more energy will be used, which means more money will be coming out of your pocket. You may also be using way more electricity than necessary. A monthly replacement of the filter is recommended.

Be prepared well in advance of home improvement. Do your creative thinking as well as your pragmatic figuring far ahead of the actual improvements. This allows you to put your focus and effort on the actual project rather than stressing over the details. Figure out what you want to do by visiting neighbors? homes and checking out media that deals with home improvement.

Arrange garage items in plastic boxes to keep organized. Label your plastic boxes, and make sure they?re stack-able. This is a cheap way to clean your garage and keep pests away from your items.

Hiring an expert? Get their list of references first! It?s just like hiring an employee. Check into their background to find out whether others have enjoyed their work.

It can cost a lot of money to replace a roof. Carefully check the references of your potential roofing company, and always get estimates from three different companies before committing to one. There are a lot of choices available for roofing, from metal to lightweight tile, although there are still the traditional choices like composite shingles and wood shake. A good contractor that does roofing will assist you in deciding what to get.

When it is time for major home improvement renovations, look into ?age-in-place? measures you can apply to your home. This term takes into account the obvious aging of the homeowner and the use of any improvement that will occur. Age-in-place renovations can increase the value and the comfort of your home.

To give your house more curb appeal, you can try to paint the doors for your garage. Because they face weather constantly, garage doors tend to look worn and dirty. A house with a brand new paint coat looks even more valuable and pristine. Choose a new color that blends in better with the palette of your house instead of sticking with the original, standard shade.

Now that you are equipped with some handy tips, you are ready to take on one of your many future home improvement projects. Take your pride of ownership into your own hands by initiating a new home improvement project.

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Plane crashes while landing at California airport

SAN FRANCISCO ? An Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul, South Korea, crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, forcing passengers to jump down the emergency inflatable slides to safety. It was not immediately known whether there were any injuries.

Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown said Flight 214 crashed while landing on runway 28 left at 11:26 PDT.

A video clip posted to YouTube showed smoke coming from a jet on the tarmac. Passengers could be seen jumping down the emergency slides.

Television footage showed the top of the fuselage was burned away and the entire tail was gone. One engine appeared to have broken away. Pieces of the tail were strewn about the runway. Emergency responders could be seen walking inside the burned-out wreckage.

Stephanie Turner saw the plane going down and the rescue slides deploy, but returned to her hotel room before seeing any passengers get off the jet, she told ABC News. Turner said when she first saw the flight she noticed right away that the angle of its approach seemed strange.

?It didn't manage to straighten out before hitting the runway,? she said. ?So the tail of the plane hit the runway, and it cartwheeled and spun and the tail broke off ... I mean we were sure that we had just seen a lot of people die. It was awful.

?And it looked like the plane had completely broken apart,? she said. ?There were flames and smoke just billowing.?

A call to the airline seeking comment wasn't immediately returned.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending a team of investigators to San Francisco to probe the crash. NTSB spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said Saturday that NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman would head the team.

Asiana is a South Korean airline, second in size to national carrier Korean Air. It has recently tried to expand its presence in the United States, and joined the oneWorld alliance, anchored by American Airlines and British Airways.

The 777-200 is a long-range plane from Boeing. The twin-engine aircraft is one of the world's most popular long-distance planes, often used for flights of 12 hours or more, from one continent to another. The airline's website says its 777s can carry between 246 to 300 passengers.

The flight was 10 hours and 23 minutes, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking service. The aircraft is configured to seat 295 passengers, it said.

The last time a large U.S. airline lost a plane in a fatal crash was an American Airlines Airbus A300 taking off from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York in 2001.

Smaller airlines have had crashes since then. The last fatal U.S. crash was a Continental Express flight operated by Colgan Air, which crashed into a house near Buffalo, N.Y. on Feb. 12, 2009. The crash killed all 49 people on board and one man in a house.

Source: http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130706/NEWS11/130709785/-1/rss04

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