Greeks vote in critical election

A gust of wind lifts the kilt-like uniform of a Greek presidential guard during the changing of the guard ceremony outside the Greek parliament, central Athens, Saturday, June 16, 2012. Greeks cast their ballots this Sunday for the second time in six weeks, after the May 6 elections left no party with enough seats in Parliament to form a government and coalition talks collapsed. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

A gust of wind lifts the kilt-like uniform of a Greek presidential guard during the changing of the guard ceremony outside the Greek parliament, central Athens, Saturday, June 16, 2012. Greeks cast their ballots this Sunday for the second time in six weeks, after the May 6 elections left no party with enough seats in Parliament to form a government and coalition talks collapsed. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greek presidential guards perform during the changing of the guards ceremony outside the Greek parliament in central Athens, on Saturday, June 16, 2012. Greeks cast their ballots this Sunday for the second time in six weeks, after May 6 elections left no party with enough seats in Parliament to form a government and coalition talks collapsed. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

A boy plays with pigeons in front of the Parliament in central Athens, Saturday, June 16, 2012. Greeks cast their ballots this Sunday for the second time in six weeks, after May 6 elections left no party with enough seats in Parliament to form a government and coalition talks collapsed. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

A man begging for alms lays by a sticker with Greece' national football team players one day before general elections in Athens, on Saturday, June 16 2012. Greeks vote for the second time in six weeks Sunday amid fears that the country could be forced out of the euro if they reject the strict austerity measures taken in return for billions of euros in rescue loans from other European countries and the International Monetary Fund. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)

Women walk in front of a huge graffiti on the day before general elections in Thessaloniki, Greece, Saturday, June 16 2012. Greeks vote for the second time in six weeks Sunday amid fears that the country could be forced out of the euro if they reject the strict austerity measures taken in return for billions of euros in rescue loans from other European countries and the International Monetary Fund. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)

(AP) ? Greeks voted Sunday for the second time in six weeks in what was arguably their country's most critical election in 40 years, with the country's treasured place within the European Union's joint currency in the balance.

The political turmoil sparked by a two-year financial crisis has roiled markets across the world, with fears that victory by parties that have vowed to cancel the country's international bailout agreements and accompanying austerity measures could see Greece forced out of the euro.

That in turn would likely drag down other financially troubled countries and rip apart the euro itself.

The last opinion polls published before a two-week pre-election ban showed the radical left Syriza party of Alexis Tsipras running neck-and-neck with the conservative New Democracy party of Antonis Samaras. But no party is likely to win enough votes to form a government on its own, meaning a coalition will have to be formed to avoid yet another election.

The results of exit surveys were expected at the close of polling stations at 7 p.m. (1600 GMT) Sunday, and the first official projections were expected at around 9:30 p.m. (1830 GMT). Strong winds in the Greek archipelago forced the cancellation of some ferry routes, raising doubts about whether some voters would be able to get to islands with polling stations in time.

Inconclusive elections on May 6 resulted in no party winning enough votes to form a government, and coalition talks collapsed after 10 days. The vote, which also sent the formerly governing socialist PASOK party plunging to historic lows, sent a very clear message that Greeks have lost patience with the deep austerity imposed in return for the country receiving billions of euros (dollars) in rescue loans from other eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund.

"I'd like to see something change for the country in general, including regarding the bailout," said Vassilis Stergiou, an early-morning voter at an Athens polling station. "But at least for us to get organized and at the very least do something."

Tsipras, a 37-year-old former student activist, has vowed to rip up Greece's bailout agreements and repeal the austerity measures, which have included deep spending cuts on everything from health care to education and infrastructure, as well as tax hikes and reductions of salaries and pensions.

But his pledges, which include canceling planned privatizations, nationalizing banks and rolling back cuts to minimum wages and pensions, have horrified European leaders, as well as many Greeks. Tsipras' opponents argue that the inexperienced young politician is out of touch with reality, and that his policies will force the country out of the euro and lead to poverty for years to come.

Virtually unknown outside of Greece four months ago, Tsipras' pledges and his party's strong showing in the May 6 elections, where he came a surprise second place and quadrupled his support since the 2009 election, has put him in the international spotlight.

Scores of journalists and television news crews from across the world jostled for space to cover Tsipras casting his ballot in an Athens polling center.

"We have beaten fear. Today we open a road to hope," he said after voting, adding that he was confident of victory.

"Today we open a road to a better tomorrow, with our people united, dignified and proud. In a Greece of social justice and prosperity, an equal member of a Europe that is changing. A Europe of the peoples and of solidarity."

The young left-wing leader has accused his rivals of attempting to terrorize the population by casting him as the man who will ruin the country, and insists he will keep Greece within the euro ? something that repeated opinion polls have shown about 80 percent of Greeks want.

Greece has been dependent on the rescue loans since May 2010, after sky-high borrowing rates left it locked out of the international markets following years of profligate spending and falsifying financial data.

The spending cuts made in return have left the country mired in a fifth year of recession, with unemployment spiraling to above 22 percent and tens of thousands of businesses shutting down.

For his part, Samaras has cast Sunday's choice as one between the euro and returning to the country's old currency, the drachma. Although he voted against Greece's first bailout in 2010, when his party was in opposition, he backed the second bailout agreed on late last year. He has vowed to renegotiate some of the terms of the accompanying austerity, but insists the top priority is for the country to remain in Europe's joint currency.

"The main thing we will decide on is the dilemma, euro or drachma," he said during his final pre-election rally in central Athens on Friday.

European leaders have cautioned that Greece could be left outside the 17-nation eurozone if it pulls out of its bailout commitments.

Newly elected French President Francois Hollande warned in a Greek television interview earlier this week that "if the impression is given that the Greeks want to move away from the commitments that were taken and abandon all prospects of revival, then there will be countries in the Eurozone that will want to end the presence of Greece in the eurozone."

Nearly 10 million people are eligible to vote in the country of about 11 million people. Polls close at 7pm (1600 GMT), with official results expected a few hours later.

"Today the Greek people speak. Tomorrow a new era for Greece begins," Samaras said after casting his ballot in a small town in southern Greece, the first of the main politicians to do so.

As Greeks went to the polls, more than 250 firefighters and soldiers battled a fire raging south of the Greek capital since Saturday afternoon. Local authorities said several houses were burned. Gale-force winds were hampering the efforts to extinguish the blaze, and Greece asked for help in water-dropping planes from Italy, France and Croatia.

Three firefighters suffered burns on Saturday, while four people were arrested for allegedly starting the fire by accident during welding work at a construction site.

Associated Press

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Play at the plate seals Royals' win over Cards

By R.B. FALLSTROM

AP Sports Writer

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updated 11:30 p.m. ET June 15, 2012

ST. LOUIS (AP) - The Kansas City Royals used a lucky carom off a post near the visitors' dugout to stop Tyler Greene's scamper around the bases, and extend their winning streak to four games.

Third baseman Mike Moustakas picked up the deflected ball and cut down Greene at the plate to end the game, capping a wild ninth inning and preserving Kansas City's 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday night.

"On that play, it doesn't really matter where you make that throw," Moustakas said. "You've just got to get it and get rid of it and give your catcher a chance to tag him out."

Humberto Quintero, who had entered as a pinch hitter an inning earlier, appeared on replays to have blocked Greene's foot long enough for his chest-high tag to count on a bang-bang call by plate umpire Alan Porter.

"It's a tough call, the call's been made," Greene said. "Just from my perspective, I knew it was close but I thought I'd kind of gotten a foot in there."

Royals manager Ned Yost joked his team had been "practicing that play."

"That's a play we work on all spring," Yost said. "We executed it flawlessly."

Greene slid into every base on his ill-fated tour. He reached on a two-out infield hit for his third single of the game, stole second while banging shortstop Alcides Escobar's glove and scooted for third when the ball got away. He popped up after an off-line throw by Getz, noticed Moustakas moving away from the bag before getting to third and heard third base coach Jose Oquendo yelling "Go, Go, Go!"

"That's a long run there," Greene said. "I was going with everything I had into home and what happened, happened. I thought it was the right gamble."

Carlos Beltran, who became the first switch hitter in major league history with 300 home runs and 300 steals, and St. Louis starter Kyle Lohse both thought Greene was safe. Both also felt it was a good case for baseball to expand its use of instant replay.

"It's a tough call for the umpire right there and that's why I'm a believer replay has to be more involved with plays like that," Beltran said. "The big thing about this game is being able to make the right call and as players we're just asking for that."

The crazy finish came after Yadier Molina eased up on what he believed was an infield hit to start the St. Louis ninth. The catcher belatedly sped up after Escobar's diving stop, and the shortstop made a strong throw to first as Molina banged his helmet with his hands.

Vin Mazzaro worked six scoreless innings and Jeff Francoeur had two RBIs for Kansas City, which matched its longest winning streak of the season. Jarrod Dyson added two hits, a walk and an RBI.

Jonathan Broxton worked the ninth for his 16th save in 18 chances and No. 100 for his career.

The Royals also won four straight from May 12-15 at the Chicago White Sox and Texas.

Beltran had two hits and is batting .467 (14 for 30) during an eight-game hitting streak. He reached the 300-300 milestone against his first major league team, but was caught stealing by Mazzaro's pickoff throw during the next at-bat.

The Royals trail the Interstate 70 rivalry 38-29, but are 14-14 in St. Louis.

Lohse (6-2) scattered 10 hits in seven innings, giving up three runs. He has worked at least five innings in all but two of his 20 career starts against the Royals.

Mazzaro (3-1) blanked the opposition through six innings for the second time in three starts, needing just 80 pitches while keeping the Cardinals off balance. Matt Holliday was an easy out all three times after entering the game 4 for 5 with a homer and three RBIs against the 25-year-old right-hander.

Mazzaro was briefly visited by a trainer in his last inning and was pulled with right calf tightness. But he did enough to earn his first interleague victory in seven decisions. He gave up four runs, three earned, in three-plus innings in a loss at Pittsburgh in his previous start.

"Vinny pitched great," Yost said. "We wanted to send him back out because our pen, three or four guys were unavailable tonight, but when it started to tighten up we couldn't take any chances."

Escobar doubled with two outs in the second and scored on Dyson's infield hit, and Alex Gordon doubled leading off the third and scored on Francoeur's single.

Francoeur added a sacrifice fly in the seventh as the Royals built a 3-0 lead.

Matt Adams had an RBI double and pinch-hitter Shane Robinson delivered a run-scoring single as the Cardinals jumped on Roman Colon in the bottom half to pull within one.

Colon, recalled from Triple-A Omaha on Thursday to bolster an overworked bullpen, made his first major league appearance since 2010 when he made the opening-day roster and appeared in just five games.

NOTES: Yost said he would platoon Eric Hosmer and Billy Butler, the regular DH, at 1B in interleague games at NL parks. ... Cardinals SS and leadoff man Rafael Furcal, mired in a 1-for-24 slump, did not start but was at the plate as a pinch hitter when the game ended. "I don't think it's necessarily anything mechanical, it's just physically he's beat," manager Mike Matheny said. ... Cardinals second-round pick Carson Kelly, a high school 3B from Beaverton, Ore., signed and betrayed no sense of awe in an impressive round of batting practice, with Matheny and batting coach Mark McGwire watching from beyond the cage. Matheny joked that the usual over-under on draftees is no balls hit out of the cage the first time around. "Most kids want to come up here and just start launching," Matheny said, "and they walk out with their head hanging low." ... Gordon has scored in eight straight games after entering the game the only player in the majors with a pair of seven-game streaks with a run scored, according to STATS LLC.

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Utah students take fourth in national auto repair competition | The ...

(Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune) Riverton High School students Jordan Kearns and Chandler Adkins stand next to a Ford Fusion as their work is judged during the Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills Competition at the Salt Lake Community College MIller Campus in Sandy on April 26, 2012. After winning the state competition, they competed and placed fourth at the recent national competition.

Riverton High School students Jordan Kearns and Chandler Adkins captured fourth place in the National Ford/AAA Auto Skills Competition in Dearborn, Mich., this week.

The competition pitted two-person teams from all 50 states against one another as they rushed to solve "real world" automotive repair challenges.

Kearns and Adkins and their instructor Jay Hales won the Utah competition earlier this year and earned the right to compete in the national contest held at the Ford world headquarters.

At the start of the competition, the student teams raced to their vehicles to review a work order that challenged them to diagnose and repair a number of purposefully placed "bugs," ranging from digital to mechanical and electrical.

The same bugs were placed on each team?s vehicle.

Once the repairs were completed, it was a race to shut the hood, start the engine and steer the vehicle across the finish line to where judges waited to scrutinize their efforts. The time and thoroughness of the repairs combined with the results of a written examination determined the winners.

Nearly $12 million in scholarships were awarded in the state and national competitions this year.

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Los Angeles County court employees get pink slips

(AP) ? The Los Angeles County court system began handing out layoff notices Friday as plunging budgets set in motion major reductions.

Officials said the cutbacks in the court system will affect 431 employees and 56 courtrooms in a county that's home to nearly 10 million people.

Targeted employees were given layoff notices and packages of information on how to get health insurance and other benefits. The workers were initially placed on two weeks' administrative leave to get their affairs in order.

Union representatives stood outside a downtown courthouse wearing stickers that said, "Justice has left the building."

Court administrators, meanwhile, said a job fair will be organized to help them find work.

Presiding Judge Lee Smalley Edmon earlier bemoaned the loss of longtime employees as well as the impact on public services.

"We are laying off people who are committed to serving the public," she said. "It is a terrible loss both to these dedicated employees and to the public."

The union representing state and municipal employees ? the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME ? called Friday's action a "freeze on justice in Los Angeles" and warned that the county would experience "an end to timely justice" with cases being delayed for years, particularly in civil courts.

A spokeswoman for the California Judicial Council said other courts in the state will also be impacted by the budget cuts, but Los Angeles' court system, as the largest, will be the most heavily affected.

Edmon said the drastic actions are the result of a state mandate to reduce annual spending by $30 million. She noted that earlier reductions already saved $70 million, but more cuts in state support for trial courts are scheduled for the next fiscal year.

Friday's action calls for laying off 157 of the court's 4,700 employees, while hundreds more will be given lower-level positions, reduced to part-time work or transferred to new jobs because their old ones have been eliminated.

Edmon and Assistant Presiding Judge David Wesley warned this is not the end of the crisis, noting that the state budget is not yet complete.

"There will be more cuts next year and their impacts will be severe," Wesley said.

The current plan eliminates the county's innovative juvenile traffic courts, which will result in the closure of 11 courtrooms. Court reporters will no longer be available for civil trials and 110 management, clerical and administrative positions outside courtrooms are being cut. These are likely to mean longer lines at windows where people go to pay traffic tickets or file civil lawsuits and seek restraining orders.

Although there are 56 courtrooms affected countywide, the biggest brunt of the impact will be felt in Los Angeles with its huge population.

"People make the courts run," said AFSCME President Karen Norwood. "Without enough people to do the work, justice stops."

The executive officer and clerk of the court, John A. Clarke, suggested the court is being swept up in "catastrophic changes" at the state level.

"The commitment of our judicial officers and staff to preserve access to justice is unwavering," he said. "But our ability to follow through on that commitment may soon be exhausted."

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Consumer sentiment drops to 6-month low

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U.S. consumer sentiment fell in early June to a six-month low on worries about deterioration in the jobs market and Europe's festering debt crisis, a survey released on Friday showed.

Americans downgraded their economic outlook after their confidence improved in May to its highest level since October 2007.

"It's more convincing evidence that the economy is stuck in low gear. We've had a steady stream of negative data that increases pressure on the Fed to do more," said Joe Manimbo, Travelex market analyst.

The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's preliminary reading on the overall index on consumer sentiment fell to 74.1 in June from to 79.3 in May, falling short of the 77.5 reading predicted by economists recently polled by Reuters.

This was the weakest reading since 69.9 in December.

"Income losses were reported by nearly one-third of all households in early June and the news reaching consumers about job prospects turned negative for the first time since late 2011," survey director Richard Curtin said in a statement.

"In addition, a small but rising number of consumers reported their concerns about the fallout from Europe, the most that mentioned the potential domestic impact from an international crisis since the Asian flu in 1998," he said.

Consumer sentiment is seen as a predictor of consumer spending, which accounts for roughly two-thirds of the U.S. economy.

There has been data pointing to a pullback in spending. On Wednesday, the government reported retail sales fell for a second straight month after steady growth in the first quarter.

Renewed concerns about jobs and problems in Europe undermined consumers' current and future outlook on the economy.

The survey's barometer of current economic conditions fell to 82.1 in early June, the lowest level in six months and below the 85.3 figure predicted by analysts. It stood at 87.2 at the end of May, which was the highest since January 2008.

The survey's gauge of consumer expectations declined to 68.9 in early June, the lowest since December and falling short of a median forecast of 71.8. It was 74.3 at the end of May, which was the highest since July 2007.

This less optimistic outlook in early June coupled with a drop in the likelihood that families will buy cars, refrigerators and other big-ticket items, the survey showed.

Its index on buying conditions for durables fell to 125, matching the level seen in March, from 132 in May.

The survey's one-year inflation expectation among consumers was unchanged at 3.0 percent, but its five-to-10-year inflation outlook rebounded to 2.9 percent in early June after falling to 2.7 percent in May.

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UK top court rejects Assange bid to reopen case

Britain's Supreme Court rejected WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange's bid to reopen his extradition case on Thursday, meaning the controversial transparency campaigner could be sent to Sweden by the end of the month.

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Assange is wanted for questioning in Sweden after two women accused him of sexual misconduct during a visit to the country in mid-2010. His legal struggle to stay in Britain has dragged on for the better part of two years, clouding his website's work exposing the world's secrets.

In a brief, five-point judgment, the court rejected arguments that Assange's legal team hadn't been given the chance to properly cross-examine the evidence that justices relied on to deny the Australian's appeal against extradition.

Claes Borgstrom, the lawyer for Assange's accusers, told The Associated Press that Thursday's ruling is "an obvious and expected decision that has been delayed for too long."

The development effectively exhausts Assange's legal options in Britain. He could still apply to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, but legal experts say the 40-year-old stands little chance there.

Attorney Jennifer Robinson, who has represented Assange, said it wasn't clear whether he would try to get the European Court involved.

"(That's) still being considered," she said in a tweet.

Assange denies any wrongdoing in the Swedish case, saying that while he had sex with the women involved, it was consensual. He and WikiLeaks' supporters have suggested the case was being manipulated to political ends by foes angered over the group's spectacular revelations. The website has been responsible for the largest leaks of classified documents in U.S. history, among them some 250,000 State Department cables.

Britain's Supreme Court has given Assange a 2-week-long grace period before extradition proceedings can start. Once that period is up, officials have 10 days to fly Assange to Sweden.

If the European Court does not intervene, he could be sent out of Britain between June 28 and July 7.

Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny declined to comment on the decision, saying she would hold a news conference once Assange arrived in Sweden. Under Swedish rules, a detention hearing would have to be held within four days of Assange's arrival.

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Online Pharmacy Pioneer Arrested In Florida

Team Intellectual Property has done their level best to lump all classes of 'products that they don't like' into a homogenous category of wickedness.

One would think that a meaningful distinction could be drawn between the following categories:

1. Fakes: Capsules full of god-knows-what fraudulently labelled as being something else and sold as such.
2. Counterfeits: Generic drugs (or non-OEM compatible FRUs, in situations like ink cartridges) fraudulently sold as being the name-brand good.
3. Unauthorized resale: Authentic goods being sold in some manner that makes the manufacturer a sad, sad, panda.
4. Authorized distribution: Authentic goods being sold as the manufacturer wanted.

Unfortunately for everyone, except for the blatantly self-interested parties, there has been a concerted effort to muddle the genuinely pernicious and dangerous class 1, and the possibly safe but definitely fraudulent, as in class 2, with the merely-cuts-into-profits-from-price-discrimination-between-countries of class 3.

Thus, while ICE will attempt to hunt you down if you are shipping in boxes of sugar pills labelled as some drug, or generic printer cartridges stamped "HP", they will also bust you for importing authentic Rolexes, legally purchased outside the US, if the trademark holder doesn't want you selling them in the US, despite them being 100% genuine product, with no theft or fraud in the distribution chain...

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Japan's government, opposition reach deal: Nikkei

SYDNEY (MarketWatch) -- Japan's government and the country's main opposition party have reached a broad agreement on changes to tax and social security reform bills, the Nikkei reported on Friday. That paves the way for an official deal to be struck later in the day, according to the report. Seven bills are under revision by the parties with opposition parties demanding a vote on the bills in the lower house by next Thursday.

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