Meet the world's fastest-growing fitness chain - Fortune Management

By Brandon Southward

FORTUNE -- Step inside an Anytime Fitness gym and you'll likely notice more of what it lacks than what is there. No massive machinery, mobs of people, or grunting bodybuilders trying to outdo one another.

You'll also take note of the club's particularly small size -- only 4,000-6,000 square feet, nearly eight times smaller than full-service gyms like Equinox. It's clean and tidy, and there are no employees shoving papers in your face convincing you to sign up for the gym's new weight loss plan, "how to lose 50 pounds in five days."

There is none of that in this decidedly unintimidating environment, and that's exactly how Anytime Fitness CEO Chuck Runyon wants it. "We are Cheers?without the beers."

Cheers, of course, the place where everybody knows your name. But this spot doesn't have any Sam-and-Diane-relationship-tensions, and Norm or Cliff won't be dropping by anytime soon.

It's that vibe that has helped make Anytime Fitness the fastest growing fitness club in the world, according to a report released this year by The International Health Racquet and Sportsclub Association, a title the company has held for the last six years. In 11 years, the Minneapolis-based chain has expanded to more than 2,200 clubs worldwide, in all 50 U.S. states and 14 countries. By comparison, it took Subway 23 years to reach 2,000 restaurants and McDonald's (MCD) 32 years to reach 2,000 restaurants.

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Anytime lacks some of the traditional trappings of a gym, but it does have plenty of classes. Walk in, and you will find a kiosk holding more than 100 different video classes that are accessible at all times. Want muscle conditioning? Got it. Want to take a turbo kicking class? They have that too. You pick your class, head into a multi-purpose room, and you're off and running. If the classes don't intrigue you, Anytime Fitness has cardio equipment like treadmills and ellipticals along with resistance workout equipment and free weights.

The relationship between the gym and its members is special, as evidenced by the Anytime Fitness tattoos sported by its passionate members and employees. "It started with a St. Paul franchise owner at a conference in 2005. Since then, over 1,000 people have gotten the Anytime Fitness purple running man tattoo," Runyon said.

He should know. Anytime Fitness foots the bill for the body art; all the tattoo recipients have to do is share why they're getting it. The reasons vary, including some crediting the chain with dramatic weight loss or boosting their self-esteem.

To be sure, Anytime Fitness' ascendance coincides with a boom in the fitness club industry as a whole, with membership expected to reach an all-time high of 52 million in 2013, according to research from IBISWorld. Revenues for gym, health, and fitness clubs in 2013 are estimated to reach a record high of $25.9 billion. Anytime Fitness has seen revenues grow by 80% in the last five years to more than $484 million at the end of 2012, and Runyon anticipates system-wide revenue exceeding $600 million at the end of this year.

So what has fueled Anytime's impressive growth? Pete Moore, founder and managing director of consulting firm and market research firm Integrity Square, thinks it's not just the relaxed atmosphere, pointing instead to its monthly membership costs and 24/7 operating hours model. "Anytime came in charging an inexpensive $35-$55 a month and stripped down labor costs by having the gyms staffed for a certain number of hours, but allowing members to come and go when they like."

Future issues for Anytime Fitness are the same that have plagued the fitness industry as a whole: stagnation and diversification. The industry's memberships and revenue have flat-lined since 2011, and while growth is expected within the next few years, it will be at a slower rate than before. This, along with the growth of competition from yoga studios, Zumba classes, and the convenience of home workouts threatens the future of bigger gyms.

Yet Runyon doesn't feel threatened; he seems to relish the challenge.

"Blockbuster got beat by a better business model in Redbox and Netflix, so we must be prepared to see what's around the corner ... Our focus going forward will be on outside club activities than inside activities," he said.

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To extend their reach, Anytime Fitness has created an online health guide, anytimehealth.com, focusing on meal planning, tracking workouts, and sharing members' fitness successes with others. The website also calculates how many calories and pounds members have lost using its nutritional programs.

To be sure, Anytime Fitness isn't abandoning its brick-and-mortar foundation; the company recently acquired Waxing the City, a Denver-based hair removal salon franchise that Runyon says is the kind of "personal improvement brand" he wants to promote with his company.

There are plans for 250 to 300 new clubs over the next four years, and 25-35% of those clubs will be outside the U.S.

If Anytime Fitness continues to grow at that rate, it won't be long before the entire world knows its name.

Source: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/07/31/anytime-fitness/

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India's Congress Party agrees to create new state in south

By Sanjeev Miglani

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's ruling Congress party approved on Tuesday the creation of a new southern state, a move that has revived deep political divisions and raised fears of violence in the area, home to global firms including Google.

The decision to break up Andhra Pradesh state and establish Telangana comes ahead of elections next year and critics say the ruling party is seeking to shore up its political fortunes after dragging its feet over the explosive issue for four decades.

Supporters, however, say Telangana's economic development has been neglected in favor of the richer and more powerful Andhra region, and that a new state is the only solution.

"It was not an easy decision, we appeal to people to cooperate," said Ajay Maken, a spokesman of the Congress after the party's highest decision-making body adopted a resolution calling for the establishment of a new state, igniting celebrations in parts of Andhra.

Additional federal troops were deployed ahead of the decision in the coastal parts of Andhra Pradesh where people are bitterly opposed to the breakup of the state.

The booming state capital Hyderabad, where Google, Microsoft and Dell have major sites, will remain the common capital for two states for a period of 10 years, Maken said.

Hyderabad, India's sixth largest city, was a bone of contention because it fell in the proposed new state carved out of the western part of Andhra Pradesh.

A government official said there was still a long way to go before the new state, which will have an estimated population of 40 million, became a reality. The measure has to be approved by the Andhra assembly and then the federal parliament where the Congress does not have a clear majority.

"We're swallowing the poison for our party. The decision is very unfortunate but since our leader has taken the decision we'll abide by it. We know the consequences, the problems that will follow," said Rudraraju Padma Raju, the chief whip of the Congress in the state, who has long opposed the split.

"DANGEROUS TREND"

One immediate consequence is likely to be renewed demands from other parts of India for separate states, including in the Darjeeling hills and a further breakup of the most populous Uttar Pradesh state.

Since independence in 1947, successive governments have dealt carefully with demands for new states - creating three in 2000 - while ensuring demands did not spiral enough to threaten the integrity of a nation that now has 1.2 billion people with hundreds of languages, ethnicities and castes.

India currently has 28 states while the United States with a population of 300 million has 50.

The chief minister of revolt-torn Jammu and Kashmir state said he feared the establishment of Telangana would set off more unrest.

"Telangana is a state that will be created on the basis of agitation. It's not created on the basis of any recommendation of a state reorganizing commission or something like that," said Omar Abdullah.

"I believe this is a dangerous trend because all we are doing is sending across a message that if you agitate enough, and if you agitate long enough, you will create a state."

Another fear is that leftist guerrillas who operate in parts of the proposed Telangana state will become further emboldened and take advantage as the new state comes into being.

(Additional reporting by Nigam Prusty; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)

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AP Exclusive: GOP donor's school grade changed

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? Former Indiana school Superintendent Tony Bennett built his national star by promising to hold "failing" schools accountable. But when it appeared an Indianapolis charter school run by a prominent Republican donor might receive a poor grade, Bennett's education team frantically overhauled his signature "A-F" school grading system to improve the school's marks.

Emails obtained by The Associated Press show Bennett and his staff scrambled last fall to ensure influential donor Christel DeHaan's school received an "A," despite poor test scores in algebra that initially earned it a "C."

"They need to understand that anything less than an A for Christel House compromises all of our accountability work," Bennett wrote in a Sept. 12 email to then-chief of staff Heather Neal, who is now Gov. Mike Pence's chief lobbyist.

The emails, which also show Bennett discussed with staff the legality of changing just DeHaan's grade, raise unsettling questions about the validity of a grading system that has broad implications. Indiana uses the A-F grades to determine which schools get taken over by the state and whether students seeking state-funded vouchers to attend private school need to first spend a year in public school. They also help determine how much state funding schools receive.

A low grade also can detract from a neighborhood and drive homebuyers elsewhere.

Bennett, who now is reworking Florida's grading system as that state's education commissioner, reviewed the emails Monday morning and denied that DeHaan's school received special treatment. He said discovering that the charter would receive a low grade raised broader concerns with grades for other "combined" schools ? those that included multiple grade levels ? across the state.

"There was not a secret about this," he said. "This wasn't just to give Christel House an A. It was to make sure the system was right to make sure the system was face valid."

However, the emails clearly show Bennett's staff was intensely focused on Christel House, whose founder has given more than $2.8 million to Republicans since 1998, including $130,000 to Bennett and thousands more to state legislative leaders.

Other schools saw their grades change, but the emails show DeHaan's charter was the catalyst for any changes.

Bennett rocketed to prominence with the help of former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and a national network of Republican leaders and donors, such as DeHaan. Bennett is a co-founder of Bush's Chiefs for Change, a group consisting mostly of Republican state school superintendents pushing school vouchers, teacher merit pay and many other policies enacted by Bennett in Indiana.

Though Indiana had had a school ranking system since 1999, Bennett switched to the A-F system and made it a signature item of his education agenda, raising the stakes for schools statewide.

Bennett consistently cited Christel House as a top-performing school as he secured support for the measure from business groups and lawmakers, including House Speaker Brian Bosma and Senate President Pro Tem David Long.

But trouble loomed when Indiana's then-grading director, Jon Gubera, alerted Bennett on Sept 13 that the Christel House Academy had scored a 2.9, or a "C."

"This will be a HUGE problem for us," Bennett wrote in a Sept. 12, 2012 email to Neal.

Neal fired back a few minutes later, "Oh, crap. We cannot release until this is resolved."

A weeklong behind-the-scenes scramble ensued among Bennett, assistant superintendent Dale Chu, Gubera, Neal and other top staff at the Indiana Department of Education. They examined ways to lift Christel House from a "C'' to an "A," including adjusting the presentation of color charts to make a high "B'' look like an "A'' and changing the grade just for Christel House.

It's not clear from the emails exactly how Gubera changed the grading formula, but they do show DeHaan's grade jumping twice.

"That's like parting the Red Sea to get numbers to move that significantly," said Jeff Butts, superintendent of Wayne Township schools in Indianapolis.

DeHaan, who opened the Christel House Academy charter school in Indianapolis in 2002 and has since opened schools in India, Mexico and South Africa, said in a statement Monday that no one from the school ever made any requests that would affect Christel House's grades.

Current Indiana schools chief Glenda Ritz's office declined comment on the emails.

Ritz, a Democrat, defeated Bennett in November with a grass-roots campaign driven by teachers angered by Bennett's education agenda.

Bennett said Monday he felt no special pressure to deliver an "A'' for DeHaan. Instead, he argued, if he had paid more attention to politics he would have won re-election in Indiana.

Yet Bennett wrote to staff twice in four days, directly inquiring about DeHaan's status. Gubera broke the news after the second note that "terrible" 10th grade algebra results had "dragged down their entire school."

Bennett called the situation "very frustrating and disappointing" in an email that day.

"I am more than a little miffed about this," Bennett wrote. "I hope we come to the meeting today with solutions and not excuses and/or explanations for me to wiggle myself out of the repeated lies I have told over the past six months."

Bennett said Monday that email expressed his frustration at having assured top-performing schools like DeHaan's would be recognized in the grading system, but coming away with a flawed formula that would undo his promises.

When requested a status update Sept. 14, his staff alerted him that the new school grade, a 3.50, was painfully close to an "A." Then-deputy chief of staff Marcie Brown wrote that the state might not be able to "legally" change the cutoff for an "A."

"We can revise the rule," Bennett responded.

Over the next week, his top staff worked arduously to get Christel House its "A." By Sept. 21, Christel House had jumped to a 3.75. Gubera resigned shortly afterward.

He declined comment Monday.

The emails don't detail what Gubera changed in the school formula or how many schools were affected. Indiana education experts consulted for this article said they weren't aware the formula had been changed.

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Obama challenges GOP to accept corporate tax deal

Workers at an Amazon distribution center photograph President Barack Obama after he spoke to the group, Tuesday, July 30, 2013, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Obama spoke on his proposals for private sector job growth and ways to strengthen the manufacturing sector. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Workers at an Amazon distribution center photograph President Barack Obama after he spoke to the group, Tuesday, July 30, 2013, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Obama spoke on his proposals for private sector job growth and ways to strengthen the manufacturing sector. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

President Barack Obama speaks at the Amazon fulfillment center in Chattanooga, Tenn., Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Obama came to Chattanooga to give the first in a series of policy speeches on his proposals for private sector job growth and to strengthen the manufacturing sector. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Barack Obama shakes hands as he arrives to speak at the Amazon fulfillment center in Chattanooga, Tenn., Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Obama came to Chattanooga to give the first in a series of policy speeches on his proposals for private sector job growth and to strengthen the manufacturing sector. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Adrienne Thompson, tours the Amazon fulfillment center in Chattanooga, Tenn., Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Obama came to Chattanooga to give the first in a series of policy speeches on his proposals for private sector job growth and to strengthen the manufacturing sector. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Air Force personnel salute as Air Force One, carrying President Barack Obama, prepares to leave Andrews Air Force Base, Md, Tuesday, July 30, 2013, en route to Chattanooga, Tenn. where the president will give a policy speech on his proposals for private sector job growth and ways to strengthen the manufacturing sector. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) ? President Barack Obama on Tuesday offered congressional Republicans a new corporate tax cut and jobs spending package he said might "help break through some of the political logjam in Washington," only to have GOP lawmakers immediately throw cold water on the idea.

The announcement and quick rejection underscored how elusive common ground is between the Democratic White House and Republicans in Congress on fiscal issues. The divide was particularly stark on the corporate tax proposal given that both parties generally have supported overhauling the code for businesses, though the White House and Republicans have differed on specifics.

Obama outlined his proposal in a speech at a massive Amazon.com plant in Chattanooga, his latest stop on a summertime campaign to refocus his agenda on the economy. He said "serious people" in both parties should accept his offer.

"I'm willing to work with Republicans on reforming our corporate tax code, as long as we use the money from transitioning to a simpler tax system for a significant investment in creating middle-class jobs," Obama said. "That's the deal."

But the office of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, complained that Obama's plan was simply a repackaging of proposals the White House has always supported.

"It's the opposite of a concession," said spokesman Brendan Buck, noting that Republicans want to link a corporate tax overhaul with changes in the individual tax code.

In another sign of their sour relationship, Boehner and the White House also dueled over the proposal's rollout, with the speaker's office saying officials there first learned about the plan from media reports. An Obama spokesman said the White House tried to tell Boehner's staff about the plan a day in advance but the call was not returned.

Like Republicans, the president previously has called for corporate tax reform to be coupled with an individual tax overhaul. But his new offer drops that demand and calls only for lowering the corporate rate from 35 percent to 28 percent, with an even lower effective tax rate of 25 percent for manufacturers.

The White House also said the president will continue to seek changes to the individual tax rate as part of a larger "grand bargain" he wants with the GOP. But with the prospects of such a deal growing increasingly slim, Obama advisers say they've opted to isolate an area on taxes where they believe they have more agreement with Republicans.

Obama also wants lawmakers to pour one-time revenue generated from the tax overhaul into jobs programs, including infrastructure, manufacturing and community colleges.

"If we're going to give businesses a better deal, we're going to give workers a better deal too," the president said.

Republicans have opposed using tax revenue to support more spending. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Tuesday that "everything should be negotiated, but certainly I'm not in support of it."

Administration officials said the jobs programs would be paid for with a one-time revenue boost from measures such as changing depreciation rules or having a one-time fee on earnings held overseas. But they wouldn't put a price tag on the revenue total or the corporate tax overhaul at large.

When Obama first unveiled his corporate tax plan last year, congressional Republicans called for even deeper cuts for the business world. His campaign rival, Mitt Romney, wanted a 25 percent corporate tax rate.

The U.S. has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world, but many businesses avoid the full cost by taking advantage of deductions, credits and exemptions that Obama wants to eliminate.

Obama wants to do away with corporate tax benefits like oil and natural gas industry subsidies, special breaks for the purchase of private jets and certain corporate tax shelters. He also wants to impose a minimum tax on foreign earnings, a move opposed by multinational corporations and perhaps the most contentious provision in the president's plan.

John Engler, president of the Business Roundtable, welcomed Obama's call for lowering the corporate tax rate. But like many Republican lawmakers, he called for addressing individual tax rates at the same time and said he opposed using corporate tax overhaul revenue for "unrelated spending."

"Corporate tax reform should be part of a comprehensive fix for the individual and business tax codes, and corporate reform should be achieved in a revenue-neutral manner," said Engler, who heads the association of business leaders.

The backdrop for Obama's remarks Tuesday was an Amazon fulfillment center, a massive, 1 million-square-foot warehouse. During a tour of the facility, Obama was shown how the company gets packages ready for delivery, from the employees who pull orders from three stories of floor-to-ceiling shelves, to loading into boxes sealed with water-activated tape and quality control

Amazon announced Monday that it would add 7,000 new jobs, including 5,000 more at U.S. distribution centers that currently employ about 20,000 workers who pack and ship customer orders.

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Associated Press writers Julie Pace and Josh Lederman in Washington contributed to this report.

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Officials Monitoring Washington, Baxter County Caves For Bat Disease

LITTLE ROCK ? Two caves in northern Arkansas are being monitored following the discovery of a low level of fungus that causes a disease fatal to bats, wildlife officials said Monday.

The fungus that causes white-nose syndrome was discovered in a cave at Devil?s Den State Park in Washington County and a private cave in southern Baxter County, in swab samples taken from hibernating bats in February 2012 and January 2013.

White-nose syndrome is thought to be transmitted primarily from bat to bat or substrate to bat, but fungal spores may be inadvertently carried to caves by humans on clothing and caving gear. The syndrome is not known to pose a threat to humans, pets or livestock.

Bats with WNS may exhibit unusual behavior during cold winter months, including flying outside during the day and clustering near the entrances of caves and mines where they hibernate.

The disease is associated with massive bat mortality in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic United States. Although exact numbers are difficult to determine, biologists estimate that losses may exceed 5 million bats since 2007.

No bat deaths due to white-nose syndrome are known to have occurred in Arkansas, officials said.

The characteristic white nose seen on bats with the fungus on them was not present on surveys from the two Arkansas caves and the fungus was only present in microscopic amounts, officials said.

In April 2010, the state parks department closed Devil?s Den Cave and Ice Box Cave at Devil?s Den State Park, and War Eagle Cave at Withrow Springs State Park, to the public as precautions to protect the caves from the possibility of contamination from white-nose syndrome. Earlier, in May 2009, Farmer?s Cave and Big Ear Cave at Devil?s Den closed as precautionary measures.

While Blanchard Springs Caverns near Mountain View remains open, all other caves on the Ozark National Forest were closed in 2009. Decontamination procedures were set in place at Blanchard Springs Caverns at that time as recommended by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The procedures include a pre-screening questionnaire for cave visitors, decontamination measures for visitors having visited a cave in a state positive for white-nose syndrome, and limits on items that can be carried into the cave.

?Safeguarding natural resources is an integral part of Arkansas State Parks? mission,? State Parks Director Greg Butts stated in a news release Monday. ?We know the public understands why we?re working with other state and federal agencies to do all we can to protect Arkansas?s caves and the bat species that inhabit them.?

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Sony Xperia i1 'Honami' shows up in FCC filing, imminent launch expected

Pocket-lint writes, The Sony Xperia i1, the device otherwise known as the Honami, has popped up in an FFC filing, with some suggesting that this means it is close to launch. Submitted on 23 July, the filing includes a confidentiality request through to 30 September, which...

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Manning verdict could test notion of aiding enemy

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, left, is escorted to a security vehicle outside of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Monday, July 29, 2013, after the third day of deliberations in his court martial. Manning faces charges including aiding the enemy, espionage, computer fraud and theft for admittedly sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents and some battlefield video to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, left, is escorted to a security vehicle outside of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Monday, July 29, 2013, after the third day of deliberations in his court martial. Manning faces charges including aiding the enemy, espionage, computer fraud and theft for admittedly sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents and some battlefield video to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted to a security vehicle outside of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Monday, July 29, 2013, after the third day of deliberations in his court martial. Manning faces charges including aiding the enemy, espionage, computer fraud and theft for admittedly sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents and some battlefield video to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) ? It's judgment day for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, the soldier charged with aiding the enemy for giving troves of U.S. government secrets to WikiLeaks.

The military judge hearing the court-martial for the former intelligence analyst was expected to announce her decision Tuesday afternoon. Manning faces 21 counts including espionage, computer fraud and theft charges, but the most serious is aiding the enemy, which carries a possible life sentence.

Prosecutors have tried to prove Manning had "a general evil intent" and knew the classified material would be seen by the terrorist group al-Qaida. Legal experts said an aiding-the- enemy conviction could set a precedent because Manning did not directly give the classified material to al-Qaida.

"Most of the aiding-the-enemy charges historically have had to do with POWs who gave information to the Japanese during World War II, or to Chinese communists during Korea, or during the Vietnam War," Duke law school professor and former Air Force judge advocate Scott Silliman said.

Manning's supporters also worry a conviction on the most serious charge will have a chilling effect on other leakers.

The verdict by judge Col. Denise Lind follows about two months of conflicting testimony and evidence. Manning, a 25-year-old native of Crescent, Okla., has admitted to sending more than 470,000 Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports, 250,000 State Department diplomatic cables and other material, including several battlefield video clips, to WikiLeaks while in Iraq in early 2010. WikiLeaks published most of the material online.

The video included footage of a 2007 U.S. Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed at least nine men, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver.

Manning said he sent the material to expose war crimes and deceitful diplomacy. In closing arguments last week, defense attorney David Coombs portrayed Manning as a naive whistleblower who never intended for the material to be seen by the enemy. Manning claims he selected material that wouldn't harm troops or national security.

Prosecutors called him an anarchist hacker and traitor who indiscriminately leaked classified information he had sworn to protect. They said al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden obtained copies of some of the documents WikiLeaks published before he was killed by U.S. Navy Seals in 2011.

A conviction on the most serious charge, if upheld on appeal, "would essentially create a new way of aiding the enemy in a very indirect fashion, even an unintended fashion," said Air Force Reserve Lt. Col. David J.R. Frakt, a visiting professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh.

In bringing the charge against Manning, prosecutors cited the Civil War-era court-martial of Pvt. Henry Vanderwater, a Union soldier convicted in 1863 of aiding the enemy by giving an Alexandria, Va., newspaper a command roster that was then published.

Coombs countered that the Civil War-era cases involved coded messages disguised as advertisements. He said all modern cases involve military members who gave the enemy information directly.

Manning also is charged with eight federal Espionage Act violations, five federal theft counts, and two federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act violations, each punishable by up to 10 years; and five military counts of violating a lawful general regulation, punishable by up to two years each.

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iOS 7 beta alludes to biometric sensor for next iPhone

The most recent version of the iOS 7 beta has leaked, prompting plenty of developers to go digging and see what Apple has in store for the latest iteration of its mobile operating system.

While there are plenty of fixes and tweaks coming, the biggest surprise came in the discovery of a new folder dubbed "BiometricKitUI."

Either undetected or not present in earlier versions of the beta, the new folder includes code strings detailing how the iPhone will be able to recognize a user through a sensor in the home button.

Though the code doesn't offer any clues as to whether this feature will be implemented in the iPhone 5S or the iPhone 6, it certainly appears as if all those patents and leaks may pan out sooner rather than later.

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The files were uncovered by Hamza Sood, whose screengrabs showed in greater detail just how this new biometric scanner would work.

Though there were rumors the fingerprint scanning tech would be used in conjunction with a virtual wallet, the details present in the iOS 7 beta seem to hint at less grand schemes.

According to 9to5Mac's sources, the scanner will be merely used for unlocking the iPhone, and the coding gave no indication there would be more depth to the functionality.

As this is just a beta though, it's still entirely possible Apple will implement payment functions tied to biometrics at some point, however the Cupertino company may be waiting until all the kinks are worked out to introduce such a security-intensive feature.

Tweak leaks

Fortunately, even if you're not upgrading to a new iPhone, iOS 7's latest beta also included a host of improvements to the existing interface.

As 9to5Mac reported, the phone call and answer buttons have been retooled a bit, with clearer instructions on how to answer or avoid an incoming call.

A search bar can now be found in Reminders, AirPlay will have new icons, and the HDR function for the camera is now on the main screen instead of hidden away in options.

Siri, too, joins the update parade with a new Q&A feature, but it's not really clear how it works just based on the screenshots.

There will be a new button to change the resolution for iPhone-only apps on the iPad, and there will be new notifications you can choose for completed uploads as well.

iOS 7's camera UI gets simplified (Credit: 9to5Mac)

iTunes Radio readying broadcast

The latest iteration of the mobile OS wasn't the only beta pushed out this week by Apple, as developers also got their hands on iTunes 11.1 according to 9to5Mac.

Though we already believed iTunes Radio's launch would be synonymous with iOS 7's, the latest iTunes beta features a fully-integrated version of the streaming service, meaning it shouldn't be long until everyone can enjoy Apple's answer to Spotify and other competitors.

All-in-all, it's sounding quite like iOS 7 could be a major step forward for Apple, and could help the company close the gap on Android even further, or at the least, give it a bit more distance from the rest of the pack.

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'Wolverine' cuts loose with $53.1M at box office

Hugh Jackman en el papel de Logan/Wolverine en una escena de la pel?cula "The Wolverine" en una imagen publicitaria proporcionada por Twentieth Century Fox. (Foto AP/Twentieth Century Fox, Ben Rothstein)

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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? "The Wolverine" clawed his way to the top of the weekend box office.

The Fox film starring Hugh Jackman as the clawed mutant superhero debuted in first place with $53.1 million in ticket sales at North American theaters.

Last week's top movie, the Warner Bros. horror "The Conjuring," dropped to second place with $22.2 million, followed by two animated pictures.

Universal's "Despicable Me 2" hung onto third place, adding $16.4 million to its domestic take, which is now at $306.8 million. Fox's animated snail-racing adventure "Turbo" was in fourth with $13.7 million.

Adam Sandler's "Grown Ups 2" claimed the fifth spot, earning $11.6 million over the weekend.

The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Hollywood.com, are:

1. "The Wolverine," Fox, $53,113,752, 3,924 locations, $13,536 average, $53,113,752, one week.

2. "The Conjuring," Warner Bros., $22,208,389, 3,022 locations, $7,349 average, $83,945,017, two weeks.

3. "Despicable Me 2," Universal, $16,424,135, 3,476 locations, $4,725 average, $306,812,720, four weeks.

4. "Turbo," Fox, $13,740,247, 3,809 locations, $3,607 average, $56,183,245, two weeks.

5. "Grown Ups 2," Sony/Columbia, $11,600,811, 3,258 locations, $3,561 average, $101,764,582, three weeks.

6. "Red 2," Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment, $9,337,197, 3,016 locations, $3,096 average, $35,011,553, two weeks.

7. "Pacific Rim," Warner Bros., $7,703,461, 2,602 locations, $2,961 average, $84,189,565, three weeks.

8. "The Heat," Fox, $6,914,664, 2,384 locations, $2,900 average, $141,309,408, five weeks.

9. "R.I.P.D.," Universal, $6,070,525, 2,850 locations, $2,130 average, $24,565,505, two weeks.

10. "Fruitvale Station," Weinstein Co., $4,590,219, 1,064 locations, $4,314 average, $6,272,535, three weeks.

11. "The Way, Way Back," Fox Searchlight, $3,445,814, 886 locations, $3,889 average, $9,077,255, four weeks.

12. "Monsters University," Disney, $2,854,838, 1,470 locations, $1,942 average, $255,467,026, six weeks.

13. "World War Z," Paramount, $2,800,685, 1,440 locations, $1,945 average, $192,660,231, six weeks.

14. "The Lone Ranger," Disney, $1,684,417, 1,267 locations, $1,329 average, $85,321,430, four weeks.

15. "The To-Do List," CBS Films, $1,579,402, 591 locations, $2,672 average, $1,579,402, one week.

16. "White House Down," Sony/Columbia, $913,848, 676 locations, $1,352 average, $70,638,617, five weeks.

17. "Man of Steel," Warner Bros., $749,233, 501 locations, $1,495 average, $286,807,505, seven weeks.

18. "Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain," Summit Entertainment/Codeblack Entertainment, $728,502, 498 locations, $1,463 average, $31,481,432, four weeks.

19. "Blue Jasmine," Sony Pictures Classics, $612,064, 6 locations, $102,011 average, $612,064, one week.

20. "This Is the End," Sony/Columbia, $503,525, 270 locations, $1,865 average, $95,617,810, seven weeks.

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Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.

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People pack Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 28, 2013. Hundreds of thousands of young people slept under chilly skies in the white sand awaiting Pope Francis? final Mass for World Youth Day. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

People pack Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 28, 2013. Hundreds of thousands of young people slept under chilly skies in the white sand awaiting Pope Francis? final Mass for World Youth Day. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Pilgrims carry a large puppet representing Jesus as the sun raises over Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 28, 2013. Hundreds of thousands of young people slept under chilly skies in the white sand awaiting Pope Francis? final Mass for World (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Pilgrims carry a large puppet representing Jesus as they wait for Pope Francis' arrival on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 28, 2013. Hundreds of thousands of young people slept under chilly skies in the white sand awaiting Pope Francis? final Mass for World Youth Day.(AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

A pilgrim prays early morning after a vigil in Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 28, 2013.Hundreds of thousands of young people slept under chilly skies in the white sand awaiting Pope Francis? final Mass for World Youth Day.(AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Pilgrims pack Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, July 28, 2013. Hundreds of thousands of young people slept under chilly skies in the white sand awaiting Pope Francis? final Mass for World Youth Day.(AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ? Pope Francis wrapped up a historic trip to his home continent Sunday with a Mass on Copacabana beach that drew a reported 3 million people, who cheered the first Latin American pope in a remarkable response to his message that the Catholic Church must shake itself up and get out into the streets to find the faithful.

Nearly the entire 4 kilometer (2.5 mile) crescent of Copacabana's broad beach overflowed with people, some of them taking an early morning dip in the Atlantic and others tossing t-shirts, flags and soccer jerseys into the pontiff's open-sided car as he drove by. Francis worked the crowd, kissing babies, taking a sip of mate tea handed up to him and catching gifts on the fly. Even the normally stern-faced Vatican bodyguards let smiles slip as they jogged alongside his car, caught up in the enthusiasm of the crowd.

Many of the crowd had spent the night on the beach, an all-night slumber party to end World Youth Day that had a festive Latin air, with pilgrims wrapped in flags and sleeping bags to ward off the cold. They danced, prayed and sang ? and stood in long lines in front of the armadas of portable bathrooms along the beachfront.

"We were dying of cold but it was worth it," said Lucrecia Grillera, an 18-year-old from Cordoba, Argentina, where Francis lived for a time before becoming pope. "It was a tiring day, but it was a great experience."

The Vatican said more than 3 million people were on hand for the Mass, based on information from World Youth Day organizers and local authorities.

That was far higher than the 1 million at the last World Youth Day vigil in Madrid in 2011 or the 650,000 at Toronto's 2002 vigil.

Many of those at the vigil had tears in their eyes as they listened to Francis' call for them to not be "part-time Christians" and to build up their church like his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, was called to do.

"Jesus offers us something bigger than the World Cup!" Francis said, drawing cheers from the crowd in this soccer-mad nation.

After Sunday's Mass, Francis was meeting with the bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as holding a thank-you audience with some of the 60,000 volunteers who organized the youth festival. He was leaving for Rome Sunday night.

"It was such an excellent week, everybody was in such good spirit, you could just feel a sense of peace," said Denise da Silva, a Rio de Janeiro Catholic who was sitting alone on the beach Sunday morning, a Brazilian flag painted on her face. "I have never seen something here in Rio so marvelous as what we have just lived."

Saturday night's vigil capped a busy day for the pope in which he drove home a message he has emphasized throughout the week in speeches, homilies and off-the-cuff remarks: the need for Catholics, lay and religious, to shake up the status quo, get out of their stuffy sacristies and reach the faithful on the margins of society or risk losing them to rival churches.

In the longest and most important speech of his four-month pontificate, Francis took a direct swipe at the "intellectual" message of the church that so characterized the pontificate of his predecessor, Benedict XVI. Speaking to Brazil's bishops, he said ordinary Catholics simply don't understand such lofty ideas and need to hear the simpler message of love, forgiveness and mercy that is at the core of the Catholic faith.

"At times we lose people because they don't understand what we are saying, because we have forgotten the language of simplicity and import an intellectualism foreign to our people," he said. "Without the grammar of simplicity, the church loses the very conditions which make it possible to fish for God in the deep waters of his mystery."

In a speech outlining the kind of church he wants, Francis asked bishops to reflect on why hundreds of thousands of Catholics have left the church for Protestant and Pentecostal congregations that have grown exponentially in recent decades in Brazil, particularly in its slums or favelas, where their charismatic message and nuts-and-bolts advice is welcome by the poor.

According to census data, the number of Catholics in Brazil dipped from 125 million in 2000 to 123 million in 2010, with the church's share of the total population dropping from 74 percent to 65 percent. During the same time period, the number of evangelical Protestants and Pentecostals skyrocketed from 26 million to 42 million, increasing from 15 percent to 22 percent of the population in 2010.

Francis offered a breathtakingly blunt list of explanations for the "exodus."

"Perhaps the church appeared too weak, perhaps too distant from their needs, perhaps too poor to respond to their concerns, perhaps too cold, perhaps too caught up with itself, perhaps a prisoner of its own rigid formulas," he said. "Perhaps the world seems to have made the church a relic of the past, unfit for new questions. Perhaps the church could speak to people in their infancy but not to those come of age."

Francis asked if the church today can still "warm the hearts" of its faithful with priests who take time to listen to their problems and remain close to them.

"We need a church capable of rediscovering the maternal womb of mercy," he said. "Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness and love."

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Associated Press writer Marco Sibaja and Bradley Brooks contributed to this report.

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If musicians were measured not by the number of records they sold but by the number of peers they influenced, JJ Cale would have been a towering figure in 1970s rock 'n' roll.

His best songs like "After Midnight," ''Cocaine" and "Call Me the Breeze" were towering hits ? for other artists. Eric Clapton took "After Midnight" and "Cocaine" and turned them into the kind of hard-party anthems that defined rock for a long period of time. And Lynyrd Skynyrd took the easy-shuffling "Breeze" and supercharged it with a three-guitar attack that made it a hit.

Cale, the singer-songwriter and producer known as the main architect of the Tulsa Sound, passed away Friday night at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla, Calif. His manager, Mike Kappus, said Cale died of a heart attack. He was 74.

While his best known songs remain in heavy rotation on the radio nearly 40 years later, most folks wouldn't be able to name Cale as their author. That was a role he had no problem with.

"No, it doesn't bother me," Cale said with a laugh in an interview posted on his website. "What's really nice is when you get a check in the mail."

And the checks rolled in for decades. The list of artists who covered his music or cite him as a direct influence reads like a who's who of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ? Clapton, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, Mark Knopfler, The Allman Brothers, Carlos Santana, Captain Beefheart and Bryan Ferry among many others.

Young said in Jimmy McDonough's biography "Shakey" that Cale and Jimi Hendrix were the best guitar players he had ever heard. And in his recent memoir "Waging Heavy Peace," Young said Cale's "Crazy Mama" ? his biggest hit, rising to No. 22 on the Billboard singles chart ? was one of the five songs that most influenced him as a songwriter: "The song is true, simple, and direct, and the delivery is very natural. JJ's guitar playing is a huge influence on me. His touch is unspeakable."

It was Clapton who forged the closest relationship with Cale. They were in sync musically and personally. Clapton also recorded Cale songs "Travelin' Light" and "I'll Make Love To You Anytime" and included the Cale composition "Angel" on his most recent album, "Old Sock." Other songs like "Layla" didn't involve Cale, but clearly owe him a debt. The two also collaborated together on "The Road to Escondido," which won the Grammy Award for best contemporary blues album in 2008.

Clapton once told Vanity Fair that Cale was the living person he most admired, and Cale weighed the impact Clapton had on his life in a 2006 interview with The Associated Press: "I'd probably be selling shoes today if it wasn't for Eric."

That quote was typical of the always humble Cale. But while Clapton was already a star when he began mining Cale's catalog, there's no doubt the music they shared cemented his "Clapton is God" status and defined the second half of his career.

"As hard as I've tried I've never really succeeded in getting a record to sound like him and that's what I want," Clapton said in a "Fast Focus" video interview to promote "Escondido." ''Before I go under the ground, I want to make a JJ Cale album with him at the helm."

Clapton described Cale's music as "a strange hybrid. It's not really blues, it's not really folk or country or rock 'n' roll. It's somewhere in the middle."

Cale arrived at that intersection by birth. Born John Weldon Cale in Oklahoma City, he was raised in Tulsa. Buffeted by country and western on one side and the blues on the other, Oklahoma offered a melting pot of styles. Cale leaned on those styles as he spent his formative years in Los Angeles and Nashville, but he also used drum machines and often acted as his own producer, engineer and session player. He'd bury his own whispery vocals in the mix, causing the listener to lean in and focus.

"I think it goes back to me being a recording mixer and engineer," Cale said in a 2009 biography on his website. "Because of all the technology now you can make music yourself and a lot of people are doing that now. I started out doing that a long time ago and I found when I did that I came up with a unique sound."

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Talbott reported from Nashville, Tenn. AP writer Shaya Tayefe Mohajer in Los Angeles and AP Music Writer Mesfin Fekadu in New York contributed to this report.

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To ParkView Care Center owned or run by Diversicare management services home office located in Tennessee.
Neglect and abuse was present at the time i had my elderly father admitted as a resident in the Park view care center nursing home located in Paris Texas.
"Just imagine", if you where sick with some thing and you continued to get worse as the days went by how long would you stick it out before you went to see the doctor 2 days , 3days, 4days, 5 days , . The first month my elderly father was a resident in ParkView Care Center owned or run by [Diversicare management Services home office located in Tennessee] he went 23 days before one of the day nurse's decide he needed to be taken to the hospital.
I had been harping to nurse's about my elderly fathers condition every day before he was sent to hospital by ambulance[ I WAS IGNORED] .
To make a true and factual statement about 3 of the nursing homes i had my elderly father in ,i noticed one thing in common with all of the three nursing homes . The staff are friendly to family members when they are on the sight of the nursing home. If a family member makes a special effort like being at the nursing home every day 7 days a week for extended periods of time. The staff and the employees become paranoid about your presents, reason they get paranoid is they become lax and complacent in their duties and tend to set around and do nothing when ever they get the chance.

The following statement happened to me at ParkView Care Center located in Paris Texas. I had a female nurse make special effort to confront me for about three days in a row when i walked into to check on my elderly father, this nurse would walk up to me as i entered the ParkView Care Center nursing home and she ask me --(DONT YOU HAVE A JOB YOU NEED TO GO TOO ) this nurse was i assume trying to intimidate me i guess .
I was offended by this statement but said nothing at the time . The red headed female nurse did this the following 2 days as i went to visit my elderly father.
This kinda of behavior leads me to think that they [ OF COURSE I'M SURE THEY WOULDN'T ADMIT TO THIS THOUGH ] ' where trying to get me to stop my regular visits. [ GOD FOR BID I WOULDN'T WON'T TO INTERFERE WITH THE FOLKS CHAIR AND RELAXATION TIME, IF YOU CATCH MY DRIFT. ]
I myself have seen bed alarms at PARK VIEW CARE CENTER NURSING HOME go off beeping for 2 to 3 hours at a time from the elderly residence rooms ,which needed a nurse to check on them .The third shift was the worse! On regular occasion's the residence bed alarms would be ignored by the nurse's at the nurse's station for periods from 1hour up to 3 hours at a time. [ Good God where is the compassion , these people should be ashamed of their selves.] ,One night i was up late with my elderly father watching television in the front of the building .
I heard the night nurse scream at the top of her voice at one of the elderly female residence's. The night nurse jumped up from her chair [ setting down imagine that ] and trotted from behind the nurse's station the whole time screaming at the top of her voice at the elderly woman , as the nurse got close enough to the chair which the elderly woman set in , the nurse grabbed both arms of the elderly residents chair and the nurse placed her face about 2 inches from the elderly resident face screaming as loud as she could at the elderly resident, for spitting on the floor. The poor old lady had Parkinson's .
The elderly woman didn't realize where she was, the elderly lady was handicapped. The night nurse must have lost her mind . [scared the holy hell out of the old lady]. The nurse did not know i was up front with my elderly father watching television late in the evening when this event happened. Once the night nurse noticed me watching what she was doing , she quickly walked back to her chair behind her official nurse's station. The night nurse scared the old lady so bad the elderly woman did not say anything verbally out loud to anyone the whole time that i noticed while i was visiting at this nursing home and i was there 7 days a week 5 to 8 hours a day.

One thing i will not forget is the bed alarms which go off at night from the elderly residents rooms . The nurse's on the night shift set at the nurse's station and ignore the loud beeping alarms and the flashing lights. [good god this is pitiful] this was a regular thing on the late shift for the most part .
The most upsetting thing i happen to witness once was an elderly resident go code blue [ stop breathing ] one night . The young nurse on duty ran from the room to the phone to call the doctor on the phone [she said the doctor would not answer the page] then she gave up on trying to reach the doctor she then called her head nurse at home [this all happened about 9:45pm at night] .
Mean while the elderly resident has gone with out breathing for about 9 or 10 minutes at this point, the head nurse told the young nurse on duty to call 911 and get the EMS guys to try to revive him . She then called 911 the EMS guys took about 6 minutes to arrive . Point of this story is the elderly man coded blue and went about 14 too 15 minutes with out any attempt to revive him ,while i stood watching all this [I thought to myself good god is this the way you do things] 14 too 15 minutes is way too dam long to let an elderly person go before you attempt to revive him.
[ This code blue happened at LEGENDS NURSING HOME in Paris Texas ]. The things which go on in nursing homes is ungodly i could write a small book but i will keep the rest of this to my self for now.

I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THIS TO ANYONE READING THIS, IF YOU HAVE FAMILY THAT YOU TRULY LOVE AND ARE CONCERNED ABOUT ,"DO NOT" FULLY TRUST STRANGERS TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR LOVED ONES . One last note PARK VIEW CARE CENTER IN Paris Texas should be closed down . One more thing if your loved one dies while in the care of the Park view care center be prepared for a complete change in the way the staff at this facility talk with you and treat you if you return to discuss pro rated billing [ which means they try to stiff you with back dated charges] or to visit other residents at this nursing home .
The staff becomes real real paranoid and unfriendly . I even had the janitor walk up to me and with a condescending smile get in my face and he said [ don't make me have to throw you out of here] ""WHAT A DUM ASS THIS GUY WAS"".
I was always polite with all employees at this nursing home in fear that my elderly father might be treated badly in retaliation if i had made someone mad. I will post more about the Paris Texas Nursing homes in my area in coming articles . I WRITE THESE ARTICLES FROM MY EYE WITNESS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ELDERLY AND THE HANDICAPPED PEOPLE, WHO NEED ALL THE HELP THEY CAN GET BECAUSE THE ELDERLY FOR THE MOST PART ARE HELPLESS AND NEED THE YOUNGER PEOPLE TO GET THERE ASS IN GEAR AND HELP OUT NOT LOOK FOR A EASY WAY OUT .

"FOR PROFIT " HEALTH CARE IS DEEPLY FLAWED AND NEEDS A SEVERE CHANGE FOR THE BETTER. AFTER GOING THROUGH THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM WITH MY ELDERLY FATHER I HAVE LEARNED A LESSON I WILL REMEMBER THE REST OF MY LIVING DAYS . ""ITS A DAM SHAME "" to be continued ------------ call this PART #1

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Raymond L. Tyler, Jr.Senior Vice President of Nursing Home Operations

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The Company cannot predict the likelihood, scope or outcome of any such investigations on its facilities. On August 5, 2002, the Company was served in a lawsuit filed by the State of Arkansas styled Arkansas v. Diversicare Leasing Corp. d/b/a Eureka Springs Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, et. al., case number 02-6822 in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County, Arkansas. The allegations against the Company include violations of the Arkansas Abuse of Adults Act and violation of the Arkansas Medicaid False Claims Act with respect to a resident of the Eureka Springs facility. This action is scheduled for trial on September 13, 2004. On February 18, 2004, the Company was served in six additional lawsuits filed by the State of Arkansas in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County, Arkansas. The six lawsuits involve fifteen patients at five nursing homes operated by the Company in Arkansas and also allege violations of the Arkansas Abuse of Adults Act and the Arkansas Medicaid False Claims Act. The six complaints, in the aggregate, seek actual damages totaling approximately $250,000 and fines and penalties in excess of $45 million. No trial date has been set in these six actions. However, the Company cannot currently predict with certainty the ultimate impact of the above cases on the Company?s financial condition, cash flows or results of operations. The Company intends to vigorously defend itself against the allegations in all of these lawsuits.

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DON'T BE SURPRISED IF THE STAFF AT PARKVIEW CARE CENTER WILL NOT GIVE YOU THE PHONE NUMBERS OF DIVERSICARE, OR ADVOCAT INC. CORPORATE OFFICE , THEY REFUSED TO GIVE THEM TO ME AFTER MY FATHER DIED . CONTACT ME AT WALTIP@GMAIL.COM with information as how your loved ones were treated while in the care of nursing homes in the Paris ,Texas, area, I will gladly post your comments on this site.

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Mr. Raymond L. Tyler Jr., 58Sr. VP of Nursing Home Operations --- Mr. Richard M. Brame , 55Director, Chairman of Compensation Committee, Member of Audit Committee and Chief Financial Officer of Covington Sr. Living LLC ---

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http://news.yahoo.com/ The latest news and headlines from Yahoo! News. Get breaking news stories and in-depth coverage with videos and photos.en-USCopyright (c) 2013 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reservedFri, 26 Jul 2013 22:16:09 -04005http://news.yahoo.com/ http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/millions-rally-egypt-responding-army-call-224759545.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Zu07WjSK8pnmL1bnAZIH_A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/74ae0d2a0071b419380f6a70670088c1.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Demonstrators against Egypt&#039;s ousted President Mohammed Morsi shoot fireworks during a protest at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 26, 2013. Prosecutors opened an investigation of ousted President Mohammed Morsi on charges including murder and conspiracy with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, fueling tensions amid a showdown in the streets between tens of thousands of backers of the military and supporters calling for the Islamist leader&#039;s reinstatement. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)" align="left" title="Demonstrators against Egypt&#039;s ousted President Mohammed Morsi shoot fireworks during a protest at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 26, 2013. Prosecutors opened an investigation of ousted President Mohammed Morsi on charges including murder and conspiracy with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, fueling tensions amid a showdown in the streets between tens of thousands of backers of the military and supporters calling for the Islamist leader&#039;s reinstatement. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)" border="0" /></a>The largest crowds in 2 1/2 years of upheaval filled Egypt&#039;s streets.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/millions-rally-egypt-responding-army-call-224759545.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 22:16:09 -0400Associated Pressmillions-rally-egypt-responding-army-call-224759545<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/millions-rally-egypt-responding-army-call-224759545.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Zu07WjSK8pnmL1bnAZIH_A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/74ae0d2a0071b419380f6a70670088c1.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Demonstrators against Egypt&#039;s ousted President Mohammed Morsi shoot fireworks during a protest at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 26, 2013. Prosecutors opened an investigation of ousted President Mohammed Morsi on charges including murder and conspiracy with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, fueling tensions amid a showdown in the streets between tens of thousands of backers of the military and supporters calling for the Islamist leader&#039;s reinstatement. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)" align="left" title="Demonstrators against Egypt&#039;s ousted President Mohammed Morsi shoot fireworks during a protest at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 26, 2013. Prosecutors opened an investigation of ousted President Mohammed Morsi on charges including murder and conspiracy with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, fueling tensions amid a showdown in the streets between tens of thousands of backers of the military and supporters calling for the Islamist leader&#039;s reinstatement. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)" border="0" /></a>The largest crowds in 2 1/2 years of upheaval filled Egypt&#039;s streets.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/san-diego-area-democrats-meeting-over-mayors-sex-004259438.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/5NgrsdL43dNXNt2cxoI0Fg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/a5600e79e1259a18380f6a706700c20c.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="San Diego Mayor Bob Filner apologizes for his behavior in this frame from a video produced by the city of San Diego Thursday, July 11, 2013. Filner shows no signs of quitting, despite three women coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment and calls for his resignation, including from people within his own party. Filner is San Diego&#039;s first Democratic mayor in 20 years. (AP Photo/City of San Diego)" align="left" title="San Diego Mayor Bob Filner apologizes for his behavior in this frame from a video produced by the city of San Diego Thursday, July 11, 2013. Filner shows no signs of quitting, despite three women coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment and calls for his resignation, including from people within his own party. Filner is San Diego&#039;s first Democratic mayor in 20 years. (AP Photo/City of San Diego)" border="0" /></a>Bob Filner defies calls to resign amid a hail of sexual harassment allegations.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/san-diego-area-democrats-meeting-over-mayors-sex-004259438.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 19:56:05 -0400Reuterssan-diego-area-democrats-meeting-over-mayors-sex-004259438<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/san-diego-area-democrats-meeting-over-mayors-sex-004259438.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/5NgrsdL43dNXNt2cxoI0Fg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/a5600e79e1259a18380f6a706700c20c.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="San Diego Mayor Bob Filner apologizes for his behavior in this frame from a video produced by the city of San Diego Thursday, July 11, 2013. Filner shows no signs of quitting, despite three women coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment and calls for his resignation, including from people within his own party. Filner is San Diego&#039;s first Democratic mayor in 20 years. (AP Photo/City of San Diego)" align="left" title="San Diego Mayor Bob Filner apologizes for his behavior in this frame from a video produced by the city of San Diego Thursday, July 11, 2013. Filner shows no signs of quitting, despite three women coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment and calls for his resignation, including from people within his own party. Filner is San Diego&#039;s first Democratic mayor in 20 years. (AP Photo/City of San Diego)" border="0" /></a>Bob Filner defies calls to resign amid a hail of sexual harassment allegations.</p><br clear="all"/><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/lightbox/the-amazon-express-andes-to-atlantic-adventure-slideshow/"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ETuBR_psRTRi1e5ZFAGf0w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2013-07-26/4ca7cd67-200e-41c5-81c9-a34d46915a47_20130705_482_sc5_017-copy-copy.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="The Amazon Express: Andes to Atlantic Adventure" align="left" title="The Amazon Express: Andes to Atlantic Adventure" border="0" /></a>August 24, 2012. - Rio Mantaro, Peru - Amazon Express white water team members TINO SPECHT, of the U.S., right, and JUAN ANTONIO DE UGARTE, of Peru, drive their raft through rapids in the Rio Mantaro.(Credit Image: ? Erich Schlegel/zReportage via ZUMA)<br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/lightbox/the-amazon-express-andes-to-atlantic-adventure-slideshow/Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:11:58 -0400lightbox/the-amazon-express-andes-to-atlantic-adventure-slideshow/<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/lightbox/the-amazon-express-andes-to-atlantic-adventure-slideshow/"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/ETuBR_psRTRi1e5ZFAGf0w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2013-07-26/4ca7cd67-200e-41c5-81c9-a34d46915a47_20130705_482_sc5_017-copy-copy.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="The Amazon Express: Andes to Atlantic Adventure" align="left" title="The Amazon Express: Andes to Atlantic Adventure" border="0" /></a>August 24, 2012. - Rio Mantaro, Peru - Amazon Express white water team members TINO SPECHT, of the U.S., right, and JUAN ANTONIO DE UGARTE, of Peru, drive their raft through rapids in the Rio Mantaro.(Credit Image: ? Erich Schlegel/zReportage via ZUMA)<br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/whitey-bulger-prosecution-rests-does-case-add-222547607.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/YoX8f0Efmz55p_s0tCPW9Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-21T113644Z_1013954253_GM1E97L1ICY01_RTRMADP_3_USA-CRIME-BULGER.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Former mob boss and fugitive James &quot;Whitey&quot; Bulger is seen in a booking mug combination photo" align="left" title="Former mob boss and fugitive James &quot;Whitey&quot; Bulger is seen in a booking mug combination photo" border="0" /></a>Federal attorneys tied a ribbon around their case against alleged killer and organized crime boss James ?Whitey? Bulger Friday, presenting physical evidence found at the California apartment where he was arrested: guns, fake IDs, and stacks of cash totaling $822,000.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/whitey-bulger-prosecution-rests-does-case-add-222547607.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 18:25:47 -0400Christian Science Monitorwhitey-bulger-prosecution-rests-does-case-add-222547607<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/whitey-bulger-prosecution-rests-does-case-add-222547607.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/YoX8f0Efmz55p_s0tCPW9Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-21T113644Z_1013954253_GM1E97L1ICY01_RTRMADP_3_USA-CRIME-BULGER.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Former mob boss and fugitive James &quot;Whitey&quot; Bulger is seen in a booking mug combination photo" align="left" title="Former mob boss and fugitive James &quot;Whitey&quot; Bulger is seen in a booking mug combination photo" border="0" /></a>Federal attorneys tied a ribbon around their case against alleged killer and organized crime boss James ?Whitey? Bulger Friday, presenting physical evidence found at the California apartment where he was arrested: guns, fake IDs, and stacks of cash totaling $822,000.</p><br clear="all"/><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/lightbox/hunting-for-baby-parrots-in-india-1374871032-slideshow/"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/pIUWdmzGE2JMWHguIc7JKQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2013-07-26/f699e549-7c23-497a-a705-aff035d3ec16_sipausa_11942452.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Hunting for baby parrots in India" align="left" title="Hunting for baby parrots in India" border="0" /></a>A Man feed a baby Parrot which were caught and preserve by local hunter for sale at a private resident in Dimapur, India north eastern state of Nagaland on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. Wildlife were hunted down for consumption or for sale in the India eastern state of Nagaland, which make a living for the hunter. Photo: Caisii Mao/NurPhoto/Sipa USA<br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/lightbox/hunting-for-baby-parrots-in-india-1374871032-slideshow/Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:37:57 -0400lightbox/hunting-for-baby-parrots-in-india-1374871032-slideshow/<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/lightbox/hunting-for-baby-parrots-in-india-1374871032-slideshow/"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/pIUWdmzGE2JMWHguIc7JKQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2013-07-26/f699e549-7c23-497a-a705-aff035d3ec16_sipausa_11942452.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Hunting for baby parrots in India" align="left" title="Hunting for baby parrots in India" border="0" /></a>A Man feed a baby Parrot which were caught and preserve by local hunter for sale at a private resident in Dimapur, India north eastern state of Nagaland on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. Wildlife were hunted down for consumption or for sale in the India eastern state of Nagaland, which make a living for the hunter. Photo: Caisii Mao/NurPhoto/Sipa USA<br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/texas-oilman-fracking-pioneer-mitchell-dies-94-203928495.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/uY3Fv6G0t0RkDj7KCzJx1w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/3aa3ed450098b419380f6a7067007467.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="George Mitchell, Chairman and CEO of The Mitchell Family Corporation, is seen in a Nov. 11, 2009 photo, in his downtown Houston office. Mitchell, Texas oil man, real estate developer, and one of Houston&#039;s wealthiest businessmen, died Friday, July 26, 2013 at his home in Galveston, a spokeswoman said. He was 94. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Nick de la Torre)" align="left" title="George Mitchell, Chairman and CEO of The Mitchell Family Corporation, is seen in a Nov. 11, 2009 photo, in his downtown Houston office. Mitchell, Texas oil man, real estate developer, and one of Houston&#039;s wealthiest businessmen, died Friday, July 26, 2013 at his home in Galveston, a spokeswoman said. He was 94. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Nick de la Torre)" border="0" /></a>HOUSTON (AP) ? George P. Mitchell leveraged a penchant for hard work, an appetite for risk and dogged persistence in the face of futility into a technological breakthrough that reshaped the global energy industry and made the wildcat oilman a billionaire.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/texas-oilman-fracking-pioneer-mitchell-dies-94-203928495.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 22:23:14 -0400Associated Presstexas-oilman-fracking-pioneer-mitchell-dies-94-203928495<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/texas-oilman-fracking-pioneer-mitchell-dies-94-203928495.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/uY3Fv6G0t0RkDj7KCzJx1w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/3aa3ed450098b419380f6a7067007467.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="George Mitchell, Chairman and CEO of The Mitchell Family Corporation, is seen in a Nov. 11, 2009 photo, in his downtown Houston office. Mitchell, Texas oil man, real estate developer, and one of Houston&#039;s wealthiest businessmen, died Friday, July 26, 2013 at his home in Galveston, a spokeswoman said. He was 94. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Nick de la Torre)" align="left" title="George Mitchell, Chairman and CEO of The Mitchell Family Corporation, is seen in a Nov. 11, 2009 photo, in his downtown Houston office. Mitchell, Texas oil man, real estate developer, and one of Houston&#039;s wealthiest businessmen, died Friday, July 26, 2013 at his home in Galveston, a spokeswoman said. He was 94. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Nick de la Torre)" border="0" /></a>HOUSTON (AP) ? George P. Mitchell leveraged a penchant for hard work, an appetite for risk and dogged persistence in the face of futility into a technological breakthrough that reshaped the global energy industry and made the wildcat oilman a billionaire.</p><br clear="all"/>NEW YORK (AP) ? The technological breakthrough pioneered by George P. Mitchell, the billionaire Texas oilman and philanthropist who died Friday at age 94, reversed the fortunes of the U.S. energy industry and reshaped the global energy landscape.http://news.yahoo.com/mitchells-tenacity-led-us-energy-boom-234922177.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 21:04:08 -0400Associated Pressmitchells-tenacity-led-us-energy-boom-234922177<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/korean-divide-lives-60-years-end-war-092932888.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/RT6ERyTR5vKu.lNPxcKsSw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/0427e512fe08a818380f6a706700057d.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="In this photo taken Monday, July 22, 2013, North Korean soldiers stand guarding the truce village of Panmunjom at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) which separates the two Koreas in Panmunjom, North Korea. Some Americans call it the ?Forgotten War,? a 1950s conflict fought in a far-off country and so painful that even survivors have tried to erase their memories of it. The North Koreans, however, have not forgotten. Sixty years after the end of the Korean War, the country is marking the milestone anniversary with a massive celebration Saturday for a holiday they call ?Victory Day? - even though the two sides only signed a truce, and have yet to negotiate a peace treaty. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)" align="left" title="In this photo taken Monday, July 22, 2013, North Korean soldiers stand guarding the truce village of Panmunjom at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) which separates the two Koreas in Panmunjom, North Korea. Some Americans call it the ?Forgotten War,? a 1950s conflict fought in a far-off country and so painful that even survivors have tried to erase their memories of it. The North Koreans, however, have not forgotten. Sixty years after the end of the Korean War, the country is marking the milestone anniversary with a massive celebration Saturday for a holiday they call ?Victory Day? - even though the two sides only signed a truce, and have yet to negotiate a peace treaty. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)" border="0" /></a>PANMUNJOM, North Korea (AP) ? Some Americans call it the &quot;Forgotten War,&quot; a 1950s conflict fought in a far-off country and so painful that even survivors have tried to erase their memories of it.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/korean-divide-lives-60-years-end-war-092932888.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 19:54:35 -0400Associated Presskorean-divide-lives-60-years-end-war-092932888<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/korean-divide-lives-60-years-end-war-092932888.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/RT6ERyTR5vKu.lNPxcKsSw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/0427e512fe08a818380f6a706700057d.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="In this photo taken Monday, July 22, 2013, North Korean soldiers stand guarding the truce village of Panmunjom at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) which separates the two Koreas in Panmunjom, North Korea. Some Americans call it the ?Forgotten War,? a 1950s conflict fought in a far-off country and so painful that even survivors have tried to erase their memories of it. The North Koreans, however, have not forgotten. Sixty years after the end of the Korean War, the country is marking the milestone anniversary with a massive celebration Saturday for a holiday they call ?Victory Day? - even though the two sides only signed a truce, and have yet to negotiate a peace treaty. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)" align="left" title="In this photo taken Monday, July 22, 2013, North Korean soldiers stand guarding the truce village of Panmunjom at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) which separates the two Koreas in Panmunjom, North Korea. Some Americans call it the ?Forgotten War,? a 1950s conflict fought in a far-off country and so painful that even survivors have tried to erase their memories of it. The North Koreans, however, have not forgotten. Sixty years after the end of the Korean War, the country is marking the milestone anniversary with a massive celebration Saturday for a holiday they call ?Victory Day? - even though the two sides only signed a truce, and have yet to negotiate a peace treaty. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)" border="0" /></a>PANMUNJOM, North Korea (AP) ? Some Americans call it the &quot;Forgotten War,&quot; a 1950s conflict fought in a far-off country and so painful that even survivors have tried to erase their memories of it.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/spain-train-crash-investigation-turns-driver-213324857.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/qADObEYYkxCoCWWVOLqixg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/8d746181ff72af18380f6a706700f7e3.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Wrecked carriages sit at a train depot in Padron, near Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Friday July 26, 2013 after they were taken there from the scene of a train accident. Investigators have taken possession of the ?black boxes? of the Spanish train that hurtled at high-speed along a curve and derailed, killing 80 people, a court official said Friday. Analysis will be performed to determine why the train was traveling far above the speed limit when it crashed near a station in Santiago de Compostela, in the northwestern Galicia region, said court spokeswoman Maria Pardo Rios. The train?s operator remained hospitalised Friday and will be questioned by police but she said the interview will not happen Friday. (AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar)" align="left" title="Wrecked carriages sit at a train depot in Padron, near Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Friday July 26, 2013 after they were taken there from the scene of a train accident. Investigators have taken possession of the ?black boxes? of the Spanish train that hurtled at high-speed along a curve and derailed, killing 80 people, a court official said Friday. Analysis will be performed to determine why the train was traveling far above the speed limit when it crashed near a station in Santiago de Compostela, in the northwestern Galicia region, said court spokeswoman Maria Pardo Rios. The train?s operator remained hospitalised Friday and will be questioned by police but she said the interview will not happen Friday. (AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar)" border="0" /></a>SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (AP) ? Investigations into Spain&#039;s deadliest train crash in decades have only begun, but already a key question has been answered: Experts said Friday that the driver, not a computer, was responsible for applying the brakes because no &quot;fail-safe&quot; system has been installed on the dangerous stretch of bending track.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/spain-train-crash-investigation-turns-driver-213324857.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 17:33:24 -0400Associated Pressspain-train-crash-investigation-turns-driver-213324857<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/spain-train-crash-investigation-turns-driver-213324857.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/qADObEYYkxCoCWWVOLqixg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/8d746181ff72af18380f6a706700f7e3.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Wrecked carriages sit at a train depot in Padron, near Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Friday July 26, 2013 after they were taken there from the scene of a train accident. Investigators have taken possession of the ?black boxes? of the Spanish train that hurtled at high-speed along a curve and derailed, killing 80 people, a court official said Friday. Analysis will be performed to determine why the train was traveling far above the speed limit when it crashed near a station in Santiago de Compostela, in the northwestern Galicia region, said court spokeswoman Maria Pardo Rios. The train?s operator remained hospitalised Friday and will be questioned by police but she said the interview will not happen Friday. (AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar)" align="left" title="Wrecked carriages sit at a train depot in Padron, near Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Friday July 26, 2013 after they were taken there from the scene of a train accident. Investigators have taken possession of the ?black boxes? of the Spanish train that hurtled at high-speed along a curve and derailed, killing 80 people, a court official said Friday. Analysis will be performed to determine why the train was traveling far above the speed limit when it crashed near a station in Santiago de Compostela, in the northwestern Galicia region, said court spokeswoman Maria Pardo Rios. The train?s operator remained hospitalised Friday and will be questioned by police but she said the interview will not happen Friday. (AP Photo/Lalo R. Villar)" border="0" /></a>SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (AP) ? Investigations into Spain&#039;s deadliest train crash in decades have only begun, but already a key question has been answered: Experts said Friday that the driver, not a computer, was responsible for applying the brakes because no &quot;fail-safe&quot; system has been installed on the dangerous stretch of bending track.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/green-paint-splattered-dcs-lincoln-memorial-001051192.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/h6a1u047TwhUSlb0IfujXw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/66f704c2ff02ad18380f6a706700fe35.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="A U.S. Park Police officer stands guard next to the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the memorial in Washington, Friday, July 26, 2013, after the memorial was closed to visitors after someone splattered green paint on the statue and the floor area. Police say the apparent vandalism was discovered early Friday morning. No words, letters or symbols were visible in the paint. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)" align="left" title="A U.S. Park Police officer stands guard next to the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the memorial in Washington, Friday, July 26, 2013, after the memorial was closed to visitors after someone splattered green paint on the statue and the floor area. Police say the apparent vandalism was discovered early Friday morning. No words, letters or symbols were visible in the paint. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (AP) ? Someone splattered green paint on the Lincoln Memorial early Friday, but the statue of the 16th president was reopened by nightfall after the paint was washed away.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/green-paint-splattered-dcs-lincoln-memorial-001051192.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 20:29:51 -0400Associated Pressgreen-paint-splattered-dcs-lincoln-memorial-001051192<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/green-paint-splattered-dcs-lincoln-memorial-001051192.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/h6a1u047TwhUSlb0IfujXw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/66f704c2ff02ad18380f6a706700fe35.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="A U.S. Park Police officer stands guard next to the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the memorial in Washington, Friday, July 26, 2013, after the memorial was closed to visitors after someone splattered green paint on the statue and the floor area. Police say the apparent vandalism was discovered early Friday morning. No words, letters or symbols were visible in the paint. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)" align="left" title="A U.S. Park Police officer stands guard next to the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the memorial in Washington, Friday, July 26, 2013, after the memorial was closed to visitors after someone splattered green paint on the statue and the floor area. Police say the apparent vandalism was discovered early Friday morning. No words, letters or symbols were visible in the paint. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (AP) ? Someone splattered green paint on the Lincoln Memorial early Friday, but the statue of the 16th president was reopened by nightfall after the paint was washed away.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/no-death-penalty-snowden-convicted-us-says-213552147.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/P_o_DpCzs84isUtivGIW2w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/af1db6b0ff3cae18380f6a7067004e8b.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this July 25, 2013 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder speaks in Philadelphia. Holder tells Russia US won&#039;t seek death penalty for Edward Snowden. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this July 25, 2013 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder speaks in Philadelphia. Holder tells Russia US won&#039;t seek death penalty for Edward Snowden. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (AP) ? Striving to get Edward Snowden back to America, U.S., Attorney General Eric Holder has assured the Russian government the U.S. has no plans to seek the death penalty for the former National Security Agency systems analyst.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/no-death-penalty-snowden-convicted-us-says-213552147.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 17:36:28 -0400Associated Pressno-death-penalty-snowden-convicted-us-says-213552147<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/no-death-penalty-snowden-convicted-us-says-213552147.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/P_o_DpCzs84isUtivGIW2w--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/af1db6b0ff3cae18380f6a7067004e8b.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this July 25, 2013 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder speaks in Philadelphia. Holder tells Russia US won&#039;t seek death penalty for Edward Snowden. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this July 25, 2013 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder speaks in Philadelphia. Holder tells Russia US won&#039;t seek death penalty for Edward Snowden. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (AP) ? Striving to get Edward Snowden back to America, U.S., Attorney General Eric Holder has assured the Russian government the U.S. has no plans to seek the death penalty for the former National Security Agency systems analyst.</p><br clear="all"/>MIAMI (AP) ? For the first time in history, federal health officials said Friday they will ban certain types of Medicare and Medicaid providers in three high-fraud cities from enrolling in the taxpayer-funded programs for the poor as part of an effort to prevent scams.http://news.yahoo.com/feds-ban-medicare-providers-crackdown-202424093.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 18:57:49 -0400Associated Pressfeds-ban-medicare-providers-crackdown-202424093<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/popes-slum-visit-impressive-little-impact-225358105.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/hyTNTmyXO4jHAXPFfMNPcA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/ae44f33b00f3b619380f6a706700da70.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Children play in the Varginha area of the Manguinhos slum complex where Pope Francis visited the day before, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 26, 2013. Observers said that Varginha, which has four evangelical churches to the two Catholic ones, was strategically chosen as the site of Thursday?s papal visit in a bid to help staunch tide of conversions in this key Catholic country. But while local residents Catholic and evangelical alike said that Francis? visit was a big success, bringing out an enthusiastic crowd of thousands despite a cold rain, they also said it would take more than his quick trip to slow the growth of the Pentecostal congregations. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)" align="left" title="Children play in the Varginha area of the Manguinhos slum complex where Pope Francis visited the day before, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 26, 2013. Observers said that Varginha, which has four evangelical churches to the two Catholic ones, was strategically chosen as the site of Thursday?s papal visit in a bid to help staunch tide of conversions in this key Catholic country. But while local residents Catholic and evangelical alike said that Francis? visit was a big success, bringing out an enthusiastic crowd of thousands despite a cold rain, they also said it would take more than his quick trip to slow the growth of the Pentecostal congregations. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)" border="0" /></a>RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ? The day before Pope Francis visited Marizete Marques&#039; slum, the 62-year-old retired maid cleaned her humble home until her hands hurt.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/popes-slum-visit-impressive-little-impact-225358105.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 18:53:58 -0400Associated Presspopes-slum-visit-impressive-little-impact-225358105<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/popes-slum-visit-impressive-little-impact-225358105.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/hyTNTmyXO4jHAXPFfMNPcA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/ae44f33b00f3b619380f6a706700da70.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Children play in the Varginha area of the Manguinhos slum complex where Pope Francis visited the day before, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 26, 2013. Observers said that Varginha, which has four evangelical churches to the two Catholic ones, was strategically chosen as the site of Thursday?s papal visit in a bid to help staunch tide of conversions in this key Catholic country. But while local residents Catholic and evangelical alike said that Francis? visit was a big success, bringing out an enthusiastic crowd of thousands despite a cold rain, they also said it would take more than his quick trip to slow the growth of the Pentecostal congregations. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)" align="left" title="Children play in the Varginha area of the Manguinhos slum complex where Pope Francis visited the day before, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, July 26, 2013. Observers said that Varginha, which has four evangelical churches to the two Catholic ones, was strategically chosen as the site of Thursday?s papal visit in a bid to help staunch tide of conversions in this key Catholic country. But while local residents Catholic and evangelical alike said that Francis? visit was a big success, bringing out an enthusiastic crowd of thousands despite a cold rain, they also said it would take more than his quick trip to slow the growth of the Pentecostal congregations. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)" border="0" /></a>RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ? The day before Pope Francis visited Marizete Marques&#039; slum, the 62-year-old retired maid cleaned her humble home until her hands hurt.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/us-seeks-transfer-2-gitmo-detainees-algeria-204017443.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/722sMjI4diDXPELkqHP4FA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/4c73cfe40098b419380f6a7067005035.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this June 27, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. The Obama administration said Friday it planned to transfer two detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Algeria, the first movement of prisoners out since the president announced a renewed push to close the military-run detention center in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this June 27, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. The Obama administration said Friday it planned to transfer two detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Algeria, the first movement of prisoners out since the president announced a renewed push to close the military-run detention center in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Obama administration is planning to transfer two Guantanamo Bay detainees to Algeria, the first movement of terrorist suspects from the prison since the president announced a renewed push to close the contentious military-run facility in Cuba.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/us-seeks-transfer-2-gitmo-detainees-algeria-204017443.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 18:11:21 -0400Associated Pressus-seeks-transfer-2-gitmo-detainees-algeria-204017443<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/us-seeks-transfer-2-gitmo-detainees-algeria-204017443.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/722sMjI4diDXPELkqHP4FA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/4c73cfe40098b419380f6a7067005035.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - In this June 27, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. The Obama administration said Friday it planned to transfer two detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Algeria, the first movement of prisoners out since the president announced a renewed push to close the military-run detention center in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)" align="left" title="FILE - In this June 27, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. The Obama administration said Friday it planned to transfer two detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Algeria, the first movement of prisoners out since the president announced a renewed push to close the military-run detention center in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Obama administration is planning to transfer two Guantanamo Bay detainees to Algeria, the first movement of terrorist suspects from the prison since the president announced a renewed push to close the contentious military-run facility in Cuba.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-egypt-military-builds-case-morsi-213007144.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/tDxUkb9V0X6GQUCa1mCOdA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/c2b0659dff73af18380f6a706700dc2a.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Supporters of Egypt&#039;s ousted President Mohammed Morsi attend the Friday prayer during a protest at Nasr City, where protesters have installed their camp and hold their daily rally, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 26, 2013. Political allies of Egypt&#039;s military lined up behind its call for huge rallies Friday to show support for the country&#039;s top general, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, pushing toward a collision with Islamist opponents demanding the return of Mohammed Morsi, the nation&#039;s ousted president. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)" align="left" title="Supporters of Egypt&#039;s ousted President Mohammed Morsi attend the Friday prayer during a protest at Nasr City, where protesters have installed their camp and hold their daily rally, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 26, 2013. Political allies of Egypt&#039;s military lined up behind its call for huge rallies Friday to show support for the country&#039;s top general, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, pushing toward a collision with Islamist opponents demanding the return of Mohammed Morsi, the nation&#039;s ousted president. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)" border="0" /></a>CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt&#039;s criminal investigation against the ousted president, announced Friday, is likely just the start of wider legal moves against Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood ? ominous prospects for a country seething with violent divisions.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-egypt-military-builds-case-morsi-213007144.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 17:30:07 -0400Associated Pressap-exclusive-egypt-military-builds-case-morsi-213007144<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-egypt-military-builds-case-morsi-213007144.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/tDxUkb9V0X6GQUCa1mCOdA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/c2b0659dff73af18380f6a706700dc2a.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Supporters of Egypt&#039;s ousted President Mohammed Morsi attend the Friday prayer during a protest at Nasr City, where protesters have installed their camp and hold their daily rally, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 26, 2013. Political allies of Egypt&#039;s military lined up behind its call for huge rallies Friday to show support for the country&#039;s top general, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, pushing toward a collision with Islamist opponents demanding the return of Mohammed Morsi, the nation&#039;s ousted president. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)" align="left" title="Supporters of Egypt&#039;s ousted President Mohammed Morsi attend the Friday prayer during a protest at Nasr City, where protesters have installed their camp and hold their daily rally, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, July 26, 2013. Political allies of Egypt&#039;s military lined up behind its call for huge rallies Friday to show support for the country&#039;s top general, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, pushing toward a collision with Islamist opponents demanding the return of Mohammed Morsi, the nation&#039;s ousted president. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)" border="0" /></a>CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt&#039;s criminal investigation against the ousted president, announced Friday, is likely just the start of wider legal moves against Mohammed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood ? ominous prospects for a country seething with violent divisions.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/snowdens-remaining-docs-unlikely-tie-us-hands-070641562.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/okjdkE5lhhHuWonePltlcA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/297da5a4c0f97c18380f6a706700af45.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - This handout file photo taken on Friday, July 12, 2013, and made available by Human Rights Watch shows NSA leaker Edward Snowden during his meeting with Russian activists and officials at Sheremetyevo airport, Moscow, Russia . Russian state news agency says Snowden has been granted a document that allows him to leave the transit zone of a Moscow airport and enter Russia. Snowden has applied for temporary asylum in Rusia last week after his attempts to leave the airport were thwarted. The United States wants him sent home to face prosecution for espionage.(AP Photo/Tatyana Lokshina, Human Rights Watch , file)" align="left" title="FILE - This handout file photo taken on Friday, July 12, 2013, and made available by Human Rights Watch shows NSA leaker Edward Snowden during his meeting with Russian activists and officials at Sheremetyevo airport, Moscow, Russia . Russian state news agency says Snowden has been granted a document that allows him to leave the transit zone of a Moscow airport and enter Russia. Snowden has applied for temporary asylum in Rusia last week after his attempts to leave the airport were thwarted. The United States wants him sent home to face prosecution for espionage.(AP Photo/Tatyana Lokshina, Human Rights Watch , file)" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (AP) ? It&#039;s the stuff of spy novels: The hunted-down protagonist wins in the end because he&#039;s got damaging documents squirreled away, a bargaining chip against the bureaucrats who want to silence him.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/snowdens-remaining-docs-unlikely-tie-us-hands-070641562.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 15:41:14 -0400Associated Presssnowdens-remaining-docs-unlikely-tie-us-hands-070641562<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/snowdens-remaining-docs-unlikely-tie-us-hands-070641562.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/okjdkE5lhhHuWonePltlcA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/297da5a4c0f97c18380f6a706700af45.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="FILE - This handout file photo taken on Friday, July 12, 2013, and made available by Human Rights Watch shows NSA leaker Edward Snowden during his meeting with Russian activists and officials at Sheremetyevo airport, Moscow, Russia . Russian state news agency says Snowden has been granted a document that allows him to leave the transit zone of a Moscow airport and enter Russia. Snowden has applied for temporary asylum in Rusia last week after his attempts to leave the airport were thwarted. The United States wants him sent home to face prosecution for espionage.(AP Photo/Tatyana Lokshina, Human Rights Watch , file)" align="left" title="FILE - This handout file photo taken on Friday, July 12, 2013, and made available by Human Rights Watch shows NSA leaker Edward Snowden during his meeting with Russian activists and officials at Sheremetyevo airport, Moscow, Russia . Russian state news agency says Snowden has been granted a document that allows him to leave the transit zone of a Moscow airport and enter Russia. Snowden has applied for temporary asylum in Rusia last week after his attempts to leave the airport were thwarted. The United States wants him sent home to face prosecution for espionage.(AP Photo/Tatyana Lokshina, Human Rights Watch , file)" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (AP) ? It&#039;s the stuff of spy novels: The hunted-down protagonist wins in the end because he&#039;s got damaging documents squirreled away, a bargaining chip against the bureaucrats who want to silence him.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/manning-arguments-wrap-judge-deliberate-210200961.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Adwyf2nR.GnkmxCSebV.1Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/ebc5bf3cff35ae18380f6a706700e4c2.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is helped out of a security vehicle as he arrives at a courthouse at Fort Meade, Md., Friday, July 26, 2013. Manning is charged with indirectly aiding the enemy by sending troves of classified material to WikiLeaks. He faces up to life in prison. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)" align="left" title="Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is helped out of a security vehicle as he arrives at a courthouse at Fort Meade, Md., Friday, July 26, 2013. Manning is charged with indirectly aiding the enemy by sending troves of classified material to WikiLeaks. He faces up to life in prison. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)" border="0" /></a>FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) ? Army Pfc. Bradley Manning&#039;s fate was in the hands of a military judge Friday after nearly two months of conflicting portrayals of the soldier: a traitor who gave WikiLeaks classified secrets for worldwide attention and a young, naive intelligence analyst who wanted people to know about the atrocities of war.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/manning-arguments-wrap-judge-deliberate-210200961.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 18:39:46 -0400Associated Pressmanning-arguments-wrap-judge-deliberate-210200961<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/manning-arguments-wrap-judge-deliberate-210200961.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Adwyf2nR.GnkmxCSebV.1Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/ebc5bf3cff35ae18380f6a706700e4c2.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is helped out of a security vehicle as he arrives at a courthouse at Fort Meade, Md., Friday, July 26, 2013. Manning is charged with indirectly aiding the enemy by sending troves of classified material to WikiLeaks. He faces up to life in prison. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)" align="left" title="Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is helped out of a security vehicle as he arrives at a courthouse at Fort Meade, Md., Friday, July 26, 2013. Manning is charged with indirectly aiding the enemy by sending troves of classified material to WikiLeaks. He faces up to life in prison. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)" border="0" /></a>FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) ? Army Pfc. Bradley Manning&#039;s fate was in the hands of a military judge Friday after nearly two months of conflicting portrayals of the soldier: a traitor who gave WikiLeaks classified secrets for worldwide attention and a young, naive intelligence analyst who wanted people to know about the atrocities of war.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/san-diego-mayor-therapy-amid-scandal-191114873.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/VIY6H5DjvpheqhjfTiyLNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/49f8d2da0084b419380f6a7067002e3f.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="San Diego Mayor Bob Filner pauses as he speaks during a news conference at city hall Friday, July 26, 2013, in San Diego. Filner said Friday he will undergo therapy after less than a year in office amid allegations that he sexually harassed women. Filner announced his plan for a two-week stay beginning Aug. 5, in a behavioral clinic after a series of women claimed he kissed, groped and placed them in headlocks. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)" align="left" title="San Diego Mayor Bob Filner pauses as he speaks during a news conference at city hall Friday, July 26, 2013, in San Diego. Filner said Friday he will undergo therapy after less than a year in office amid allegations that he sexually harassed women. Filner announced his plan for a two-week stay beginning Aug. 5, in a behavioral clinic after a series of women claimed he kissed, groped and placed them in headlocks. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)" border="0" /></a>SAN DIEGO (AP) ? Declaring he &quot;must become a better person,&quot; San Diego Mayor Bob Filner said Friday he will undergo two weeks of counseling after a series of women claimed he made unwanted sexual advances that included groping, kissing and offensive comments.</p><br clear="all"/>http://news.yahoo.com/san-diego-mayor-therapy-amid-scandal-191114873.htmlFri, 26 Jul 2013 20:12:08 -0400Associated Presssan-diego-mayor-therapy-amid-scandal-191114873<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/san-diego-mayor-therapy-amid-scandal-191114873.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/VIY6H5DjvpheqhjfTiyLNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/49f8d2da0084b419380f6a7067002e3f.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="San Diego Mayor Bob Filner pauses as he speaks during a news conference at city hall Friday, July 26, 2013, in San Diego. Filner said Friday he will undergo therapy after less than a year in office amid allegations that he sexually harassed women. Filner announced his plan for a two-week stay beginning Aug. 5, in a behavioral clinic after a series of women claimed he kissed, groped and placed them in headlocks. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)" align="left" title="San Diego Mayor Bob Filner pauses as he speaks during a news conference at city hall Friday, July 26, 2013, in San Diego. Filner said Friday he will undergo therapy after less than a year in office amid allegations that he sexually harassed women. Filner announced his plan for a two-week stay beginning Aug. 5, in a behavioral clinic after a series of women claimed he kissed, groped and placed them in headlocks. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)" border="0" /></a>SAN DIEGO (AP) ? Declaring he &quot;must become a better person,&quot; San Diego Mayor Bob Filner said Friday he will undergo two weeks of counseling after a series of women claimed he made unwanted sexual advances that included groping, kissing and offensive comments.</p><br clear="all"/>

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