Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Affiliate Marketing; Choosing The Right Programs

In previous articles, we have covered some major reasons why affiliates looking to succeed greatly in affiliate marketing should ONLY join affiliate programs that pay residual commissions;

In this article, we are going to look at examples of programs that pay residual commissions and why they are among the best. These programs include;

1 Subscription programs; promoting products or services that require a monthly subscription is one of the most rewarding types of affiliate marketing. This way; when you refer someone to the product's site and the person buys, you get paid immediately upon initial purchase and each month the person renews his/her subscription, you earn a commission on that too and you continue to earn a commission each and every time the person renews his/her subscription without further efforts on your part. A perfect example of this kind could be an auto-responder affiliate program.

2 Membership Sites; this is another profitable kind of affiliate program that one can venture into for residual commissions. Like subscription programs, for every member you refer to such a program, you earn residual income for as long as that member remains with that program. You work once and you get paid over and over again. A very example of this is the workout program 7 minute workout. This is a workout membership program aimed at helping people keep fit. For every member you refer, they become committed to being fit while you earn residual income on them month after month.

3 Online Businesses; these are another great way to earn residual income. Every day, more and more people are coming online looking for stress free ways to make a living. This is what has made online businesses such a profitable venture. As an affiliate, your job will just be to locate where these businesses are and present yourself in the form of your links, honest recommendations and sites. Because this is what they need, you do not need to do any pre-selling or convincing; they will join anyways. All you have to make certain is that they join through your links so as to enable you earn residual income on them. The Host then Profit business is a perfect example of such online businesses where members get enabled to build and grow their own online businesses in the shortest possible time.

Now, why are these kind of affiliate programs among the best? At this point, there is something else worth knowing; some affiliate programs are okay and pay huge commissions, but; they simply do not sell well. No matter the efforts you put into promoting such programs, you may not have the kind of results to keep you motivated and this still boils down to the KEY which is joining the RIGHT affiliate programs.

In the above examples, the various programs are quite profitable because they are best sellers and good at converting referred prospects into customers and that's important to your success as their affiliate. There is simply no point in referring prospects to a company that doesn't convert well.

In our next article, we are going to look at the setbacks of joining the wrong affiliate programs.

Until next time.

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Supreme Court strikes down Montana law, reaffirming Citizens United

Voting 5 to 4, the justices found, in a two-paragraph opinion, that the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling applied to a 100-year-old Montana anticorruption law barring corporate money in elections.

By Warren Richey,?Staff writer / June 25, 2012

In a reaffirmation of its controversial Citizens United decision on campaign finances, the US Supreme Court on Monday struck down as unconstitutional a 100-year old Montana law that banned corporations from spending money to influence state elections.

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The high court voted 5 to 4 to summarily reverse a December 2011 decision by the Montana Supreme Court upholding the state?s Corrupt Practices Act of 1912.

The 1912 ban on corporate money in elections was passed to prevent a return of the widespread corruption of the ?Copper Kings,? when wealthy and powerful mining interests in Montana routinely bought judges, controlled newspapers, and bribed lawmakers.

The majority justices dismissed the Montana high court?s decision in a two-paragraph opinion.

?The question presented in this case is whether the holding of Citizens United applies to the Montana state law,? the unsigned opinion said. ?There can be no serious doubt that it does.?

In its 2010 decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the high court ruled that a federal ban on independent expenditures prior to an election violated the First Amendment rights of corporations and labor unions to engage in political speech free of government censorship.

?Political speech does not lose its First Amendment protection simply because its source is a corporation,? the court held.

The Montana high court ruled that the Citizens United decision did not apply in their state because Montana had a long history of election-related corruption that justified restrictions on corporate spending even a century later.

Justice Stephen Breyer said in a dissent that he would have voted to hear the Montana case and use the case as a vehicle to reconsider the underlying decision in Citizens United, but it was clear there were not enough votes to do that. Three other justices joined Breyer?s dissent; Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan.

?This court?s legal conclusions should not bar the Montana Supreme Court?s finding, made on the record before it, that independent expenditures by corporations did in fact lead to corruption or the appearance of corruption in Montana,? Breyer said.

?Given the history and political landscape in Montana, that court concluded that the state had a compelling interest in limiting independent expenditures by corporations,? he wrote.

?Montana?s experience, like considerable experience elsewhere since the court?s decision in Citizens United, casts grave doubt on the court?s supposition that independent expenditures do not corrupt or appear to do so.?

The high court reversal brought praise from free speech advocates and disappointment from supporters of campaign finance reform efforts.

?The Supreme Court is broken,? said Russ Feingold, a former US senator from Wisconsin Senator and a champion of campaign finance reform. ?The Supreme Court had a perfect chance today to clean up the corrupt mess created by their lawless Citizens United decision. Instead, they just shrugged.?

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell called the Supreme Court?s summary reversal ?another important victory for freedom of speech.?

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Saturday, June 23, 2012

London Olympics 2012 ? Scheduling the Olympics - recreation ...

This year in 2012, the most renowned, popular & biggest games ever in the history of mankind civilization, Olympic Games 2012, will take place in the capital city of England , The Beautiful & magnificent London. These games are scheduled to be held from July 27th 2012 to August 12th, 2012.

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London Olympics 2012

London had been bestowed with the honor & distinction of hosting these games three times in their history, the other two were held in 1908 & 1948. London successfully competed against Moscow, NYC, Madrid and Paris after four rounds of voting prior to being given this honor on 6 July 2005 at the 117th IOC Session in Singapore of being the Olympics host city.

Because of Olympic Games 2012, London, the city has witnessed an massive display of developmental activities in the past 2 or 3 years, with utmost planning & responsibility.

Venues of sports

Wembley Stadium, Wembley Arena, Wimbledon All England Club, Lord?s Cricket Ground, The O2 Arena, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy, and also the Excel Centre are the previous venues that might be used again, along with the newer ones, where work is going on.

Scheduling the Olympics

The schedule & time table for Olympic Games 2012 is still on the cards after immense efforts and discussions. Some of the Muslim representatives from different countries have protested the dates overlapping with the fasting month of Ramadan, which in 2012 is actually from 20 July to 19 August and asked for rescheduling of these games.

Sports to be played during the Games

The Olympic Games 2012 working committee in London would be organizing several sporting events in the Olympics For example aquatics, athletics, swimming, archery, lawn tennis, ping pong etc.

The Olympic Games 2012 Events would as a whole have 26 sports and a total of 38 disciplines. London?s bid had featured 28 sports, just like another recent Summer Olympics, however the IOC voted to drop baseball and softball in the 2012 Games two days after selecting London as the host city.

Grand Olympic Games Tickets

The Organizers based in London Olympics 2012 have estimated that 8 million tickets could be arranged for the Games, and that 1.5 million tickets could be there for the Paralympics Games. The Ticket sign-up programme in the UK was launched on 22 March 2010 and also the application website was inaugurated on 15 March 2011 until 26 April 2011. Online Olympic game tickets and value details are mentioned on the Games website. Price of tickets range from ?20 for many events to ?2,012, which would function as the highest prices going for the outlet ceremony seats.

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Logo for the Games

Logo of Olympic Games 2012 continues to be one of the things in which many people are interested. Initially two London 2012 logos were considered: one was for the bidding process developed by Kino Design and a second was to serve as the company for the Games themselves.

The former the first is a ribbon with blue, yellow, black, green, and red stripes winding with the text ?LONDON 2012,? denoting the River Thames in East London.

The second was designed by Wolff Olins and it got unveiled on 4 June 2007 and price ?400,000.This new logo represents graphically the amount 2012, with the Olympic Rings fixed inside the zero.

World Wide attention

Olympic 2012 will be the most watched sport ceremony to be viewed by the spectators all around the world through their television sets and hence a big chunk of revenue of the Olympics is going to come from the sale of television right to the big media houses and advertising sales

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Friday, June 22, 2012

Assange ready for arrest if denied asylum - colleague

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Kim Kardashian to Oprah: Krushing on Kanye!


We've seen them holding hands and we've seen them embracing on the red carpet, but in Part 2 of her interview with Oprah Winfrey - airing this Sunday - Kim Kardashian admits verbally for the first time:

She's dating Kanye West.

"I don't know why it took so long for us to kind of get together," Kardashian tells the ratings-challenged host, adding that she has no regrets over pretending to love marrying Kris Humphries. "I think I needed to go through all my experiences and some that he's gone through."

Kim also says the two have shared misery in common, with West's mother passing away in 2007 and Kim's dad dying of cancer in 2003.

"We've been friends for like six or seven years. So it's very comforting to have someone that knows everything about you, that respects you, understands [and] has gone through the similar things."

During the first part of Kim's interview with Oprah, she touched on the depression she experienced in the months following her divorce.

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The Stoner Channel: Uruguay Legalizes It, a DEA Admins Loses It, and Cypress Hill Does Schee?el [Video]

Uruguay Sells Weed to Combat Drug Trafficking

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Thursday, June 21, 2012

How to Hire Affordable Ajax Developer for Dynamic and Unique ...

Asynchronous JavaScript & XML, known as, Ajax, being an open source web development application has become the top priority for developers. This has boosted the trend to hire Ajax developers for effective Ajax application development. In asynchronous web applications, we can maintain legitimate view onto the system for the user that is it can be clearly said that Ajax updates web page parts, without having to reload the entire page by allowing web pages to be updated asynchronously by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes.

Ajax is not a new programming language, but is a brand new way to use existing standards. It is a technique for creating dynamic and fast web pages. Ajax web applications provide sending data to, and retrieving data from, a server asynchronously (in the background) without having to interfere with the behaviour and display of the existing page.

The most prominent reason behind its popularity is its ?asynchronous? nature, which allows you to update portions of a page based upon user events and provides one of the cornerstones of Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Ajax is a group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications. This reason contributes to the need and popularity to hire Ajax programmers or hire Ajax developers.

What makes Ajax different

Ajax is different in a way that an Ajax applications omit the continuous start and stop nature of Web interface by presenting an intermediary?an Ajax engine between the user and the server.

The browser loads an Ajax engine, which is, written in JavaScript instead of loading a web-page, at the beginning of the session. This engine takes the charge for both, rendering the interface displayed to the user and communicating with the server on the behalf of the user. Thus, Ajax engine provides an asynchronous interaction between the user and the application to take place?independent of communication with the server. So the user does not have to wait staring at a blank browser window for the server to display result. Besides Ajax applications are platform and browser-independent! All these interrelated techniques and features in Ajax makes the job to hire Ajax programmer difficult.

All of the major products introduced by Google?Gmail, Orkut, Google Maps, Google Suggest, the latest beta version of Google Groups ?all belong to the category of Ajax applications. Out of this, Google Suggest is the most common. Google Suggest uses Ajax for creating a very dynamic web interface: As you start typing in Google's search box, a JavaScript sends the letters onto a server and receives a list of suggestions in return from the server.

As the technology improves, development and programming becomes relatively and comparatively more cumbersome. This raises the need to hire Ajax programmers and developers. With the provision of outstanding features and involvement of numerous technologies, to hire Ajax developers becomes a challenging job.
Thus, to hire dedicated Ajax programmers or to hire Ajax developer becomes the most problematic part of Ajax development. Hiring a wrong programmer, not capable of developing your application that meets your expectations results in waste of both, your money and time, for sure.

An Ajax developer has to have expert knowledge and be specialized and talented in Ajax development since the technology itself carries number of integrated technologies along with it. To hire Ajax programmers one must make sure that the developer is having detailed, legitimate and accurate knowledge of Ajax concepts. To hire Ajax developer having prior practice in developing application similar to yours may benefit you considerably.
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Health Insurance Coverage Gaps Kill 26000 Each Year, Advocacy ...

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Health insurance is a nearly entirely American issue, being a stand-alone country in the first world in not providing single payer health care to our citizens.

In recent years, the health insurance issue has risen to?cacophony levels ? before the economy tanked, the number of Americans shut out of health insurance plans due either to employment or pre-existing conditions was far lower. But as an increasing number of American jobs ? along with the health insurance coverage most Americans rely on their employment to provide ? disappeared, the rising cost and diminishing availability of health insurance for a growing number of Americans could no longer be ignored.

But while most Americans are able to find some form of health insurance, those who do not face far less favorable outcomes when seeking treatment. And as the Supreme Court looks at the very, very watered down (almost enough to be homeopathic) health insurance coverage act known alternately as the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, one advocacy group has cited a rather grim number of deaths due to the fact that America can?t get it together when it comes to health insurance and just provide single payer like?literally every single other developed country in the world.

According to Families USA, a health care consumer advocacy group, 26,000 Americans die each year due to the fact they are not covered by health insurance or not covered?enough by health insurance, compared to other countries. CNN quotes Ron Pollack of Families USA, who says:

?The Affordable Care Act was passed by Congress to address an American tragedy and an American shame? The fact remains that for the millions of Americans without health coverage, only the Affordable Care offers the promise of access to affordable coverage and to a longer and healthier life.?

Health Insurance deaths 2012

Pollack addressed the ongoing lack of care experienced by those who do not have health insurance, and emphasized:

?For almost 50 million Americans, not having health insurance isn?t trivial, or just an inconvenience or a minor budget challenge? Because of the way we currently provide and charge for health care, many millions of Americans without health coverage are denied regular access to quality care, and many of these people face an unjust sentence of a less healthy life and an earlier death.?

To put the health insurance death toll in perspective, we?ve launched two wars and spent untold amounts of money avenging the 3,000 deaths on September 11th. Had we instead spent the money we had on those wars on health insurance for American citizens, we could be avoiding a death toll that?each year is basically like?nine September 11ths.

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Install Tiled Flooring At Your Home - IdeaMarketers.com

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When you decide to go through the flooring installation of your home, one of the types of flooring that most people prefer to get along with is the tiled flooring types. The main reasons for most of the people opt for this flooring is because of the easy maintenance and also an attractive look it gives to the room. Because of this reason, most of the people prefer to have the tiled flooring from bathrooms to living rooms to get with the best environmental effect. Materials If you think about installing the tiled flooring for your home, then you will most likely end up with the result as it is not even a difficult task. But, it is necessary to have some preparation and also have the knowledge about some installation tips in order to make the installation as the best one. You should also have to be prepared with the materials and tools that are available for installation. The tools and materials can easily be got from the stores nearer to you. It is essential to have hammer, goggles, pencils, glass cutters, carpenter's square, tape measure and also the notched towel as tools. You should also have to have the materials such as tiles, tile spacers, and grout sealer, silicon caulk to make the installation in an efficient way without any interruptions and also to avoid the damages in the future. Tiling and preparation After getting with the tools that you need for the installation of tiled flooring, it is necessary to go through the preparation of tiles and the things that you need to follow are as follows: * It is required to prepare the tiles as sufficient for the installation process and also have to select them with the best sizes as suitable for your room * Another thing that you need to consider is about the floors and it is good to make the floor as cleaned one without the old flooring. This will probably make the installation as easy one and also you have to make the floor as flat, then only the tile flooring will become a better one otherwise there may be chances for the damaging of tiles * It is also efficient to make the floor tiles as centered one in the room, so that the room can get with the great appearance * When you install the tiles for your room, it is better to measure out the sizes of walls too. It is better to install the tiled flooring depending on the appearance of walls If you think about all of these things, afterward you can make the installation correctly and effectively as per your requirement. Purchasing the tiles In recent days, several people have a preference to install the tiled flooring for their home; there are numerous options available for people to go through the tiles in a better way. Because of this reason, it is better to go through the shops from where you can get with the highest quality tiles according to your needs and also with different designs and colors as suitable for your home.

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Mubarak's ex-PM claims to win Egypt president vote

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An Egyptian woman chats anti-Supreme Council for the Armed Forces (SCAF) slogans outside the Egyptian Parliament in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, June 19, 2012.
The campaign of an Islamist who claimed victory in Egypt's presidential runoff says the Muslim Brotherhood and other political groups plan a mass demonstration later Tuesday to protest a military declaration seeking to curtail the powers of the next president.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Egypt's military softens tone, vows to transfer power to new president

An Egyptian supporter of Islamist candidate Mohammed Morsi celebrates his apparent victory Monday in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Egypt's ruling military council pledged Monday to honor its promise to hand over power to the newly elected president. (Manu Brabo, The Associated Press)

CAIRO???Faced with the election of the first Islamist head of state in the Arab world, Egypt's ruling generals sought Monday to soften the appearance of their supreme authority as they entered a period of negotiations with the prospective president over the balance of power.

In a two-hour news conference, members of the ruling military council made no reference to the election results, which by early morning showed that Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood had defeated Ahmed Shafiq, a former air force general and Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, in the runoff to choose Egypt's first democratically elected president.

The ballots were counted in front of television cameras and party observers across the country to prevent fraud. Independent observers concluded that Morsi had won by a margin of about 4 percentage points, or about 1 million votes.

The election officials will not formally confirm the results until later this week, however, and Ahmed Sarhan, a spokesman for Shafiq, insisted Monday that the general was the true winner and the Brotherhood had "terrorized" voters. He offered no evidence.

The ruling generals had stunned Egyptians on the eve of the vote by dissolving the Brotherhood-dominated Parliament and claiming all legislative power for themselves in an apparent attempt to foreclose the possibility that Islamists could control both the presidency and the legislature.

The power grab erased their promise to turn over all power to elected civilians by the end of this month, and liberals and Islamists denounced the move as a military coup. The court ruling dispirited Brotherhood supporters, energized Shafiq's backers and led many Egyptians to expect that either the psychological effect of the takeover or more direct intervention would push Shafiq to the presidency.

In the aftermath of Morsi's victory ? considered an upset by many, despite the Brotherhood's proven popularity and political clout ? the generals sought Monday to reassure the public that they had no intention of re-establishing a military-backed autocracy, although they did not back away from their effective seizure of legislative power.

"Trust the armed forces," two representatives of the military council, Gen. Mandouh Shahin and Gen. Mohamed el Assar, repeated many times during the news conference.

"We don't want power," both also said repeatedly, citing the presidential election as proof of their good intentions.

Despite their seizure of Parliament, they promised a grand celebration at the end of the month to mark their formal handover to the new president.

On the question of a permanent constitution, state media reported Sunday night that the generals had picked their own 100-member panel to draft a permanent charter, casting aside the similar panel picked by Parliament. The generals said Monday that those reports were premature.

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Dad won't face charges in alleged attacker's death

25th Judicial District Attorney Heather McMinn, left, and Lavaca County Sheriff Mica Harmon appear at a news conference in Halletsville, Texas on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 to announce that a grand jury declined to return an indictment against a young father who beat to death Jesus Mora Flores for molesting the man's five-year-old daughter. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Kin Man Hui) RUMBO DE SAN ANTONIO OUT; NO SALES, MAGS OUT

25th Judicial District Attorney Heather McMinn, left, and Lavaca County Sheriff Mica Harmon appear at a news conference in Halletsville, Texas on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 to announce that a grand jury declined to return an indictment against a young father who beat to death Jesus Mora Flores for molesting the man's five-year-old daughter. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Kin Man Hui) RUMBO DE SAN ANTONIO OUT; NO SALES, MAGS OUT

This June 16, 2012, photo shows a building near Shiner, Texas, where authorities say a Texas father beat to death with his fists a man molesting his 5-year-old daughter on June 9. A Lavaca County grand jury on Tuesday, June 19 declined to indict the father in the death of 47-year-old Jesus Mora Flores. Emergency crews found Flores? pants and underwear pulled down on his lifeless body when they responded to the 911 call. (AP Photo/Victoria Advocate, Carolina Astrain)

Heather McMinn, district attorney for Guadalupe, Gonzales and Lavaca Counties, speaks at a news conference with Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon, second from right, and V'anne Huger, right, attorney for the father, at a news conference on a Texas father who beat to death a man who tried molesting his 5-year-old daughter Tuesday, June 19, 2012, in Halletttesville, Texas. Officials said the Lavaca County grand jury met Tuesday and declined to return an indictment against the father in the death of 47-year-old Jesus Mora Flores. (AP Photo/Ramit Masti)

Defense attorney L'Anne Huser speaks to the media during a news conference held by 25th Judicial District Attorney Heather McMinn and Lavaca County Sheriff Mica Harmon in Halletsville, Texas on Tuesday, June 19, 2012. A grand jury declined to return an indictment against a young father who beat to death Jesus Mora Flores for molesting the man's five-year-old daughter. Huser firmly requested that the media leave the family alone and that they "were moving on" from the incident. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Kin Man Hui) RUMBO DE SAN ANTONIO OUT; NO SALES, MAGS OUT

(AP) ? Hearing his 5-year-old daughter crying from behind a barn, a father ran and discovered the unthinkable: A man molesting her. The father pulled the man off his daughter, authorities say, and started pummeling him to death with his fists.

With his daughter finally safe, the father frantically called 911, begging a dispatcher to find his rural ranch and send an ambulance.

"Come on! This guy is going to die on me!" the man is heard screaming on the 911 call. "I don't know what to do!"

A recording of the tape was played during a news conference Tuesday where the Lavaca County district attorney and sheriff announced that the father will not face charges.

In declining to indict the 23-year-old father in the June 9 killing of Jesus Mora Flores, a Lavaca County grand jury reached the same conclusion as investigators and many of the father's neighbors: He was authorized to use deadly force to protect his daughter.

"It's sad a man had to die," said Michael James Veit, 48, who lives across the street from where the attack happened in this small community run on ranching and the Shiner beer brewery. "But I think anybody would have done that."

The family ranch is so remote that on the 911 tape, the father is heard profanely screaming at a dispatcher who couldn't locate the property. At one point, he tells the dispatcher he's going to put the man in his truck and drive him to a hospital.

"He's going to die!" the father screams, swearing at the dispatcher. "He's going to f------ die!"

The tense, nearly five-minute call begins with the father saying he "beat up" a man found raping his daughter. The father grows increasingly frazzled, shouting into the phone so loudly at times that the call often becomes inaudible.

The Associated Press is not identifying the father in order to protect the daughter's identity. The AP generally does not identify victims of sexual assault.

"He's a peaceable soul," V'Anne Huser, the father's attorney, told reporters at the Lavaca County Courthouse. "He had no intention to kill anybody that day."

The attack happened on the family's ranch off a quiet, two-lane county road between the farming towns of Shiner and Yoakum. A statement released by the district attorney said a witness who saw Flores "forcibly carrying" the girl into a secluded area scrambled to find the father. Running toward his daughter's screams, the father pulled Flores off his child and "inflicted several blows to the man's head and neck area," investigators said.

Emergency crews responding to the father's 911 call found Flores' pants and underwear pulled down on his lifeless body. The girl was examined at a hospital, and Lavaca County District Attorney Heather McMinn said forensic evidence and witness accounts corroborated the father's story that his daughter was being sexually molested.

The father was never arrested, but the killing was investigated as a homicide.

Philip Hilder, a Houston criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, said he would have been surprised if the grand jury had decided to indict the father. Hilder said Texas law provides several justifications for the use of deadly force, including if someone commits a sexual assault.

"The grand jury was not about to indict this father for protecting his daughter," he said.

Authorities said the family had hired Flores before to help with horses on the ranch. He was not born in the U.S. but was here legally with a green card. Attempts to locate Flores' relatives through public records were unsuccessful.

On Tuesday, a new "No Trespassing" sign was freshly tacked onto a gate barring entrance down a gravelly, shrub-canopied path leading to the barn and chicken coop on the ranch, which belonged to the father's dad.

At the father's house, the front yard could pass for a children's playground: blue pinwheels sunk into patchy grass, an above-ground swimming pool, a swing set, a trampoline and a couple of ropes dangling from a tree for swinging. A partial privacy fence is painted powder blue.

No one answered at the father's home. A few miles away, at a home listed as belonging to the father's sister, a woman shouted through the front door that the family had nothing to say. Huser, the father's attorney, told reporters that neither the father nor anyone else in the family would ever give interviews and asked that they be left alone.

Veit, who lives across the street from the ranch, described the father as easygoing and polite ? down to always first asking permission to search Veit's property for animals that had wandered off the ranch, even though the families have long known each other.

Veit's son was a classmate of the father's at Shiner High School in a graduating class of about two dozen. Veit, 48, said the young father was never known to be in trouble.

"Just like a regular kid, went to dances, drank beer like the rest of the kids around here," Veit said.

Shiner, a town of about 2,000 people about 80 miles east of San Antonio, revolves around the Spoetzl Brewery that makes Shiner, one of the nation's best-selling independent beers. Even gas stations here sell it on tap.

Flores' death is only the sixth homicide the Lavaca County Sheriff's Office has investigated in the last eight years. Shiner residents boast their squeaky-clean image on a highway welcome sign: "The Cleanest Little City in Texas."

At Werner's Restaurant, customer Gail Allen said she didn't want to speak for the whole town, though her comments echoed what others said.

"The father has gone through enough," said Allen, 59, who has nine grandchildren. "The little girl is going to be traumatized for life, and the father, too, for what happened. He was protecting his family. Any parent would do that."

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Associated Press writer Juan A. Lozano in Houston contributed to this report.

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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

600 RBS jobs go in 'brutal' cuts

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Union leaders have attacked the Royal Bank of Scotland for announcing "brutal" cuts of 600 jobs from its financial planning service.

Unite said the cuts represent a 50% reduction in the department across the country.

National officer David Fleming said: "These latest Royal Bank of Scotland job losses are brutal. Six hundred staff, who for some time have faced job uncertainty as the bank reviewed their jobs, have today heard the worst possible news.

"Unite, for some time, has had major concerns about the appalling manner in which these workers at the bank have been treated. The union has continually raised with the bank the increasingly unachievable targets imposed on the workforce and is calling on it to review this redundancy procedure.

"Those losing their jobs today are a highly skilled workforce, and the bank has refused to take into account economic factors which have impacted performance and achievability of targets.

"Unite will oppose all compulsory job losses and challenge the ongoing management of this area of RBS."

RBS, which is 82% taxpayer-owned, said in a statement: "The Retail Distribution Review legislation takes effect from December 31 2012 and will have a fundamental effect on how financial institutions deliver advice to customers across the whole industry, and for the workforce involved.

"From December 31 2012, customers will be charged a fee for the advice they receive from a qualified professional. If our customers choose financial advice for investment products, the costs will be made transparent at the outset.

"As a response to this, we will be reducing the number of roles by 618 across UK and creating 351 new roles. Having to cut jobs is the most difficult part of our work to rebuild RBS and repay taxpayers for their support. We continue to make efficiencies across our business to deliver greater value to our customers and shareholders.

"We will do all we can to support our staff, offer redeployment opportunities wherever possible, keeping compulsory redundancies to an absolute minimum."


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Google Transparency Report: U.S. Content Removal Requests Increased 103%

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India to contribute $10 billion to the IMF?s Euro Zone fund

India to contribute $10 billion to the IMF?s Euro Zone fundIndia's Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh has announced that the country will contribute $10 billion to the IMF's additional economic security fund of 430 billion meant for the Euro Zone.

"The International Monetary Fund has a critical supportive role to play in stabilizing the Euro Zone. All members must help the Fund to play this role," said Dr Singh. The PM is on a visit to the Latin American country to attend the G20 summit.

He said that the European banks must be provided liquidity without neglecting issues of solvency. He said that a crisis in the European banking sector could disrupt the global economic growth. He also said that the Group of 20 nations need to send a strong message to the markets that the European nations will take all steps to support their banking system and the world community will back a credible European action.

He also pointed out that the liquidity must be provided with efforts to return quickly to debt sustainability n the European region. He agreed with the point of view that austerity along will not solve the European debt problem.

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Hong Kong, China: Military Vehicles Entered the City (Global Voices Online)

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