Switched On: The camera phone

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

In that human-behavior lab known as the New York City subway, a vacationing family recently sought to get in a group self-portrait on their last day in the Big Apple. But the rocking train kept thwarting the capture of their jostled bodies. To frame the picture, they tried trading the quality of their smartphone's rear camera for the one above the phone's display so they could better preview the picture, but still had trouble composing the shot. Finally, a local passenger riding with them stepped in and offered to take their photo, which he did to their expressions of gratitude.

The incident served as an illustration of the often precarious situations in which we use our smartphone cameras. Had their phone been Nokia's Lumia 1020 and the stranger not intervened, the 41 megapixels of light-capturing prowess might have gone for naught as the family would've had to rely on the phone's middling front-facing camera.

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Boston mob boss 'Whitey' Bulger says he will not testify at trial

BOSTON (Reuters) - Former mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger said on Friday he will not take the witness stand in his defense at his trial on charges linked to 19 murders in the 1970s and '80s, and called the trial a sham.

"My thing is, as far as I'm concerned, this is a sham and do what you want with me," he told U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper after his lawyer announced he would not testify.

Bulger, 83, was once Boston's most-feared criminal, running the Winter Hill gang for decades before fleeing the city in 1994 on a tip from a corrupt FBI agent that arrest was imminent.

(Reporting by Daniel Lovering; Writing by Richard Valdmanis; Editing by David Gregorio)

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Serbian president supports PM, urges faster government reshuffle

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has urged the government, and particularly the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), to wrap up the government reshuffle quickly and continue working on reforms, dismissing the idea of early elections.

After Nikolic?s meeting with Prime Minister Ivica Daicic on Tuesday evening, the Office of the Serbian President issued a statement saying that the people of Serbia expect the state to create a better life for them and the government to create conditions the same as in all modern countries.

The coalition government, which was formed one year ago, set as its goal to resolve the accumulated economic and social problems, issues that have previously remained unsolved for years, the statement said.

Although the Serbian government showed excellent results in many areas in the first year of its term, the situation in the country remains quite complex, and it turned out that not all actors in the Serbian government took careful account of the promises given to the citizens, the statement said.

It is time for the adoption of very important decisions for the future of Serbia and its citizens, it is time to show that the government is accountable to the people, and that a minister and his party cannot be more important than the interests of the ordinary citizen, the president said.

It turns out that certain ministers, whose primary concern should have been economic and social recovery of the country, still consider themselves to be indispensable, although it is obvious that they have not showed the results that they promised to the citizens, the statement reads.

The Serbian president urged the government, particularly the biggest party in the government, the SNS, to bring the reshuffle to an end as soon as possible and to continue working on reforms.

The president sent a special message to the Serbian Progressive Party to rise above the party interests that are telling it to go to new elections because of the reputation it now enjoys among the people.

?Let all those who consider Serbia's well-being to be their most important goal, let us all together try to maintain the stability of the institutions of the government that should lead us further on our European way. There is always time for elections,? the statement says.

Nikolic met with Dacic on Tuesday evening after Dacic announced that the government "will continue without the United Regions of Serbia party (URS)" and that Finance and Economy Minister Mladjan Dinkic and another two minister from the URS will no longer be members of his cabinet.

Dacic, who is the leader of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), spoke about the results of the coalition negotiations on a government reshuffle, explaining that if Aleksandar Vucic's Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) fails to support this, early elections would be called, "or some coalition will be formed without the SNS."

Dinkic then held a news conference at which he accused Dacic of being afraid of the elections because he wanted to save this position as prime minister.

?He is afraid for his position, given the support Aleksandar Vucic enjoys. He actually sees Vucic as prime minister but he wants to keep that position formally at least for a while, Dinkic said.

Dinkic claims that Dacic allegedly told him that his position of the prime minister would be threatened should there be no changes at the helm of the ministry of Finance and the Economy. According to Dinkic, should Vucic?s SNS party be given both portfolios, there will be no excuse to call early election.

Serbian coalition government was formed on 27 July 2012 and it is comprised of parties gathered around Vucic?s SNS party, Dacic?s SPS party and the URs, led by Mladan Dinkic

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UN: Afghan civilian casualties on the rise amid new fighting

Reversing a downward trend, civilian casualties have risen 23 percent, in part because of fighting between government forces and insurgents.

By Jeremy Ravinsky,?Correspondent / July 31, 2013

A shoe of a civilian is seen at the site of a suicide car bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 11. In a new UN report, Afghan civilian casualties are rising, noting an increase of 23 percent in the first half of 2013.

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A new UN report on the protection of civilians in Afghanistan is painting a bleak picture of the country after the withdrawal of American forces. Issued by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), the report said that Afghan civilian casualties are rising, noting an increase of 23 percent in the first half of 2013.

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The upsurge has reversed a downward trend from 2012 and calls into question the ability of Afghan forces to take over security responsibilities when the US forces leave.

According to the report, between January and June of this year, 1,319 civilians were killed, while 2,533 more were injured. Women and children casualties are also on the rise, increasing by 61 and 30 percent, respectively. While the highest number of casualties came from improvised explosive devices (IEDs), a new trend in 2013 shows fallout from fighting between government forces and insurgents to be another major cause for civilian death and injury.

The spike in casualties comes as US troops begin to wrap up their operations in the country, closing down bases and handing over responsibility to their Afghan counterparts for providing security. As the report notes:

The stepped-up transition of security responsibilities from international military forces to Afghan forces and closure of international forces? military bases was met with increased attacks by Anti-Government Elements on Afghan National Security Forces mainly at checkpoints, on strategic highways, in some areas that had been transitioned and in districts bordering neighboring countries.

The Taliban has condemned the report as propaganda, saying that the use of the word ?civilian? is misleading, as many included are government workers.

Criticism for excessive violence against civilians has seen the Taliban make efforts to stem the number of civilian casualties over the past few years, reports The New York Times. Unfortunately, these efforts have not borne the desired results, as civilian casualty rates remain high.

And there are fears that the violence will only intensify as the imminent departure of US troops may see mounting challenges to territorial control from insurgents, challenges that many believe the Afghan National Army ? whose desertion rates are among the highest in the world ? is not prepared to face, according to Reuters. The continued battles between the Taliban and the government, as well as reported abuse against civilians on the part of Afghan police forces, has seriously undermined trust in the government?s ability to provide protection and order.

Many in both Afghanistan and the US have been hoping that an agreement will be struck to extend the presence of US forces past 2014, reports The Christian Science Monitor. But as recent events have cooled relations between US President Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the zero option is looking more and more possible.

While the more than decade-long US-led war with the Taliban is slated to come to a close, Afghanistan?s future is much more uncertain, with more public officials voicing concerns over the transition process, writes Voice of America.

Angheza Shinwari, a member of the provincial council of Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, says Afghan security forces are not prepared to defend the population.
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She says that she is not optimistic about the security transition process. She praised?Afghan men as being "very brave" and having God to help them. But she is not hopeful for what happens next.

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Summertime in Paris plays with light and intimacy - Montreal Gazette

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Ellipse CMCYCK, 2011-18, on display at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, was painted by Julie Trudel, winner of the $25,000 Plaskett award.

MONTREAL - Summertime in Paris is almost over, and an exhibition will soon close that features works by Julie Trudel, the artist who just won the $25,000 Plaskett award that will help her live in Berlin for a year.

But if you can catch the last day of Summertime at the Parisian Laundry, check out a couple other galleries in the area. Galerie Division and the Arsenal are not far away and the Global Art League is having its first show at the Montreal Art Centre.

All is light and bright at Summertime in Paris. Celia Perrin Sidarous arranges objects against a white background and photographs them as still lifes. They could be product shots for advertisers, except the objects are ambiguous.

Derrick Piens pieces together strips of painted wood veneer that resemble deformed and stitched-together Rubik?s cubes.

Down in the dark basement space is Olivia Boudreau?s film of a couple in a bathtub. Megan Bradley, the Parisian Laundry?s director of exhibitions, said Boudreau hired two actors unknown to each other to pose in the intimate space of a bathtub. It?s an uncomfortable intimacy; the man mechanically splashes water on the woman?s chest and even strokes her breast a few times. The woman smiles a bit uncertainly a couple times, but nothing breaks the uneasy silence.

Galerie Division is inside the Arsenal, which always has at least two exhibitions even with the departure of Galerie Ren? Blouin for Old Montreal. The long passageway to Division is a showcase for the Majudia collection.

The exhibition is a changing one, but the day I visited, works by Nicolas Baier, Fran?ois Lacasse, Daniel Richter, Marc S?guin, Dil Hildebrand and Evan Penny were on display. So was Maskull Lassere?s Four Foot Length, a maple bough carved in the middle to expose a skeletal spine.

Division is showing work by Michel de Broin, Sarah Anne Johnson and John Brown, a Toronto painter who makes black and white paintings with spots of colour tints.

Brown builds up layers of paint on wood panels and scrapes off most of it before applying more paint, Galerie director Dominique Toutant said. Scraping is so soothing to the artist that Brown paints to its recorded sound, Toutant said. The process of painting and scraping is repeated until an image develops.

Sarah Anne Johnson is an artist in the realm of relational esthetics. For the body of work shown in Arctic Wonderland, Johnson went on a polar expedition in a sailing vessel.

She added splashes of photo-retouching colour to her photographs, creating scenes of apparent fireworks in the sunlit midsummer polar nights, an artificial aurora borealis and unnecessary addition to a scene of stark beauty.

A couple blocks away, the Montreal Art Centre is exhibiting entries in its Global Art League competition. About 80 artists from around the world, including members who rent space in the art centre, are competing for $2,000 in prizes.

The art league is the brainchild of Allan Diamond, who founded the art centre and rents studio space to about 50 local artists. Their individual spaces are small but open, and half the building is common area, including a lounge and gallery.

Diamond said he painted as a youth, but stopped during his career in real estate and marketing. But in 1997, his wife gave him a box of paints, and he started taking art classes, where he realized the importance for artists to feel a sense of community.

Diamond decided to build his own art community in a building at the corner of William and des Seigneurs Sts. Some members are hobbyists, others are emerging professional artists, he said.

And there is Barry MacPherson, a long-time artist who does psychological portraits in an exacting, precise style.

MacPherson was almost alone in the building on a hot summer day, working on an oil painting with the words ?Push Back? inscribed. It?s time for people to stand up and push back, he said.

Standing up for oneself resonates throughout the artistic realm.

?To be a painter, you have to fight for it and be strident in your convictions,? said Landon Mackenzie, an artist who is represented by Art 45 and who co-ordinates the Plaskett award for the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

That description certainly fits Trudel, the abstract painter who won the $25,000 national award for her painstaking experiments in pouring inks, drop by drop, to discover how colours combine with the physical qualities of paint to create an effect she likes.

Trudel understands that painting is a language, Mackenzie said in an interview. ?Julie is using digital and screen-based processes to build her own language that references and updates Quebec abstraction,? she said. ?She has a good sense of art history ? it both supports and challenges her.?

Hugues Charbonneau, whose gallery is currently showing the work of Trudel and three other artists, said Trudel addresses the mechanical and digital roots of contemporary images, up to how billboards are printed. Her abstract painting also refers to Claude Tousignant?s targets and Guido Molinari?s investigations into colour shifts, he said.

She exercises quality control over every aspect of her work, from the height and angles of how her work is hung, right down to the press release, Charbonneau said.

?She never turns off the idea machine.?

Point, line, plane, point, line, plane, point, line, plane, with work by Julie Trudel and others, continues until Aug. 8 at Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, 372 Ste-Catherine St. W, Suite 308. Information: huguescharbonneau.com, julietrudel.ca and joeplaskett.com.

Summertime in Paris continues until Saturday, Aug. 3 at Parisian Laundry, 3550 St-Antoine St. W. Information: parisianlaundry.com.

An exhibition of works by Michel de Broin, John Brown and Sarah Anne Johnson continues until Aug. 31 at Galerie Division, 2020 William St. Information: galeriedivision.com.

The Global Art League exhibition of emerging and professional artists continues until Aug. 17 at the Montreal Art Centre, 1844 William St. Information: montrealartcentre.com.

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Bennett resigns as Florida education commissioner

By GARY FINEOUT August 1, 2013 8:56AM

Former Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett | (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, file)

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) ? Florida?s education commissioner resigned Thursday amid allegations that he changed the grade of a charter school run by a major Republican donor during his previous job as Indiana?s school chief.

Tony Bennett announced his immediate resignation at a news conference, saying that he while he did nothing wrong he didn?t want to be a distraction to Gov. Rick Scott?s efforts to overhaul Florida?s education system. Emails published by The Associated Press this week show that Bennett and his Indiana staff scrambled last fall to ensure Christel DeHaan?s school received an A, despite poor 10th-grade algebra scores that initially earned it a C.

Bennett called that interpretation ?malicious and unfounded? and said he would call for Indiana?s inspector general to look into the allegations because he is certain he will be cleared of wrongdoing.

He said it would be unfair to Scott ?to have to spend my time and the State Board (of Education?s) time, as things continue to trickle out, defending myself.? He called the allegations ?politically motivated.?

Bennett lost his re-election bid last November in Indiana. He was hired by Florida as its education commissioner, a nonelected post, in December.

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.

After Bennett learned about a likely low grade for Christel House, he fired off a Sept. 12 email to his chief of staff.

?This will be a HUGE problem for us,? Bennett wrote. ?They need to understand that anything less than an A for Christel House compromises all of our accountability work.?

Bennett, who now is reworking Florida?s grading system as the state?s education commissioner, denied that DeHaan?s Christel House Academy 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.

Bennett downplayed the emails on Tuesday, repeating his assertion that he took action because he was concerned there was a flaw in the formula.

?It is absurd that anyone would believe that I would change the grade of a school based on a political donor or trying to hide schools from accountability,? Bennett said. ?That?s fictitious at best, and it?s totally unfounded.?

He acknowledged that the problem was identified and fixed prior to the release of school grades but maintained the change affected as many as 13 schools.

?We did nothing wrong. We did nothing covert. We did nothing secretive,? Bennett said.

The revelations that Bennett and Indiana officials scrambled to change the grade of one school come amid a strong debate over Florida?s grading system.

Bennett earlier this month pushed the Florida board that oversees education policy to adopt a ?safety net? provision that prevented the grades of more than 500 schools from dropping more than one grade this year.

That provision was adopted by a 4-3 vote amid much debate and criticism that the move would ?mask? the true performance of schools. Bennett?s plan was even opposed by the education foundation set up by Bush. The grades released last week still showed a sharp drop in the number of A-rated schools and a jump in the number of F-rated ones.

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Exclusive: Valerie Harper, Lauren Holly cast in 'The Town That Came A-Courtin'

By Tim Kenneally

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Former "Rhoda" star Valerie Harper has joined the cast of "The Town That Came A-Courtin'," which began production in Vancouver on Wednesday.

Lauren Holly, Cameron Bancroft and Lucie Guest have also been cast in the film, which is based on author and columnist Ronda Rich's bestselling novel of the same name.

In the film, Holly stars as successful author and fiercely independent Southern woman Abby Houston, who finds herself being held captive in a remote cabin by an obsessed fan.

Harper - who shocked fans earlier this year when she announced that she has terminal brain cancer - will play Charlotte, the owner of a bed-and-breakfast in the fictional town of Bliss. The townspeople of Bliss plot to set Houston up with their widowed mayor, Spencer Alexander (Bancroft), a single father of two.

The movie, which is being produced by Odyssey Media, will premiere on cable network UP, which specializes in uplifting family entertainment, in January.

"UP is thrilled to have the always inspirational Valerie Harper as part of our talented 'The Town That Came A-Courtin"'cast," UP's svp, original programming Barbara Fisher said "Joined by Lauren Holly, Cameron Bancroft, and Lucie Guest, this uplifting, sometimes bumpy romance showcases how a community's spirit and good will can help people connect and find each other."

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Arkansas Republican congressman to run against Senator Pryor

Little Rock, Arkansas (Reuters) - Arkansas Republican Congressman Tom Cotton will formally announce next week that he will run against Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Pryor in what is likely to be one of the most hotly contested 2014 U.S. Senate races, a Republican source said on Wednesday.

The source, with direct knowledge of the decision, said Cotton has scheduled an event in his hometown of Dardenelle, Arkansas, for August 6 to announce his challenge to the moderate Pryor, one of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents in the Senate.

(Reporting Suzi Parker in Little Rock; Writing by Greg McCune; Editing by Dan Grebler)

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Explosions rock Central Florida gas plant | Video

A large series of explosions rocked a gas plant in Lake County late Monday, causing multiple casualties and forcing the evacuations of residents at least a mile away, authorities said.

About two dozen people were working the night shift at Blue Rhino, a propane-tank business. By 2 a.m. Tuesday, all employees were accounted for, said Lt. John Herrell, a Sheriff's Office spokesman.

There were no reports of fatalities, Herrell said. At least seven people were taken to hospitals, he said.

"As tragic as it started out to be, it's looking like a better situation," Tavares Mayor Robert Wolfe said.

Three men were flown to Orlando Regional Medical Center in critical condition with burns, a hospital spokeswoman said.

One person was in critical condition at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, and one man was in stable condition at Ocala Regional Medical Center. Two patients went to Florida Hospital Waterman, Herrell said.

The first explosions began a little before 11 p.m. at Blue Rhino, 300 County Road 448, and lasted for more than half an hour. The blasts began again about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday in tractor-trailers loaded with pallets of propane tanks, Tavares Fire Chief Richard Keith said.

The plant had about 53,000 20-pound propane cylinders on site, and nearly all were thought to have exploded, said Joyce Ross, a Tavares city spokeswoman.

The cause is being investigated.

"I heard loud boom sounds," said Lisa Garner, 43, who lives in Lakeside, a Tavares subdivision. "I thought somebody ran into my house."

The first blasts happened inside the plant, Lake County Sheriff Gary Borders said. After the second round, Tavares Fire Chief Richard Keith pulled his firefighters out for fear that they would be injured.

The giant flames had subsided a bit by 1 a.m., when Herrell met with reporters about a mile from the plant. By 2:30 a.m., the fire was contained and residents were allowed to return to their homes.

Herrell said at least 200 fire rescue, EMS and law enforcement officers from various law enforcement agencies responded.

"It's a very dangerous scene," Herrell said, adding that there were no reports of injuries among the first responders. "All I know in speaking with the fire chief is they have to proceed very cautiously."

Relatives of workers were encouraged to go to the Lake Technical Center's Institute of Public Safety on Lane Park Cutoff in Tavares.

Residents described sounds similar to a shotgun or fireworks and saw bursts of light and a bright orange glow above the treetops, they said. Some reported a "giant fireball" in the sky.

The sight of flames was reported more than five miles away. The vibrations could be felt as far away as Mount Dora.

Scores of people lined on Lakeshore Drive near Lake Dora and gathered in a park in downtown Tavares to watch.

C.R. 448 was closed for several miles east of the plant.

Blue Rhino relocated to Tavares about seven years ago, according to an April 2006 article in the Orlando Sentinel. Its headquarters is in North Carolina.

Heather McPherson and John Cutter of the Sentinel staff contributed to this report. sjacobson@tribune.com or 407-540-5981

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Child prostitution: Raids rescue 105 young people

Ron Hosko, assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division, speaks during a news conference at FBI headquarters in Washington, Monday, July 29, 2013, about "Operation Cross Country." The FBI says the operation rescued 105 children who were forced into prostitution in the US and arrested 150 people it described as pimps and others in a series of raids in 76 American cities. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Ron Hosko, assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division, speaks during a news conference at FBI headquarters in Washington, Monday, July 29, 2013, about "Operation Cross Country." The FBI says the operation rescued 105 children who were forced into prostitution in the US and arrested 150 people it described as pimps and others in a series of raids in 76 American cities. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Ron Hosko, assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division, speaks during a news conference at FBI headquarters in Washington, Monday, July 29, 2013, about "Operation Cross Country." The FBI says the operation rescued 105 children who were forced into prostitution in the US and arrested 150 people it described as pimps and others in a series of raids in 76 American cities. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Ron Hosko, assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division, right, speaks during a news conference at FBI headquarters in Washingotn, Monday, July 29, 2013, about "Operation Cross Country." The FBI says the operation rescued 105 children who were forced into prostitution in the United States and arrested 150 people it described as pimps and others in a series of raids in 76 American cities. From left are, John Ryan, CEO of National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Drew Oosterbaan, chief of the DOJ Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, and Hosko. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

John Ryan, CEO of National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, left, and Drew Oosterbaan, chief of the DOJ Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section look on during a news conference at FBI headquarters in Washington, Monday, July 29, 2013, to discuss "Operation Cross Country." The FBI says the operation rescued 105 children who were forced into prostitution in the United States and arrested 150 people it described as pimps and others in a series of raids in 76 American cities. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

FBI Supervisory Agent Gary Johnson answers a question at a news conference in Oklahoma City, Monday, July 29, 2013. Law enforcement agents arrested 60 people, including 13 pimps and three underage prostitutes, in Oklahoma City and Tulsa as part of a three-day sweep targeting child prostitution and human trafficking, the FBI announced Monday. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Declaring child prostitution a "persistent threat" in America, the FBI said Monday that authorities had rescued 105 young people and arrested 150 alleged pimps in a three-day sweep in 76 cities.

The agency said it had been monitoring Backpage.com and other websites as a prominent online marketplace for sex for sale. Backpage.com said that it was "very, very pleased" by the raids and that if the website were shut down to the advertisements, the ads would be pushed to sites that wouldn't cooperate with law enforcement.

The young people in the roundup, almost all of them girls, ranged in age from 13 to 17.

The largest numbers of children rescued in the weekend initiative, Operation Cross Country, were in the San Francisco Bay and Detroit areas, along with Milwaukee, Denver and New Orleans. The operation was conducted under the FBI's decade-long Innocence Lost National Initiative. The latest rescues and arrests were the largest such enforcement action to date.

"Child prostitution remains a persistent threat to children across the country," Ron Hosko, assistant director of the bureau's criminal investigative division, told a news conference. "We're trying to put this spotlight on pimps and those who would exploit."

In Operation Cross Country, federal, state and local authorities cooperated in an intelligence effort aimed at identifying pimps and their young victims.

The FBI said the campaign has resulted in rescuing 2,700 children since 2003. The investigations and convictions of 1,350 individuals have led to life imprisonment for 10 pimps and the seizure of more than $3.1 million in assets.

In their efforts to identify child victims, investigators seek help wherever they can find it ? in some cases from adult prostitutes, Hosko said. He said almost all the victims in sweeps like the one over the weekend are girls and that the profiles of the victims cut across racial lines and boundaries of wealth.

Social media are a common denominator in many of the rescues.

"We are seeing it more and more, kids being put out on the street and being trafficked because of the Internet," said Detective Angela Irizarry of the Hayward Police Department, not far from San Francisco. "Many of these kids come from runaway or group homes and they feel like this is the only way for them to survive on the street."

She said her department identified three girls, ages 15, 16 and 17 and a woman seen dropping off two of the girls was arrested as a pimp. One of the girls was a runaway, another had been missing from a group home for several months and a third ran away off and on from her family's home, Irizarry said. The detective said she had not had a chance to speak with the girls and does not know how long they had been involved in prostitution, but that one of them "is denying any involvement of the individuals we had arrested for pimping. That is typical. Usually these girls don't immediately give up their pimps."

Irizarry said a multi-agency, cross-country effort was necessary because local police departments do not always have the resources to investigate tips about child sex trafficking.

Last year, five members of the Underground Gangster Crips contacted teens at school or through Facebook, DateHookUp.com or other online social networking sites, enticing the girls to use their looks to earn money through prostitution.

As for websites, Liz McDougall, the general counsel for Backpage.com, said that if that site were shut down to the advertisements in question, the information that can lead to the rescues would be lost to law enforcement because the ads would be pushed to "offshore uncooperative websites."

"We feel very strongly that we're doing the right thing, and we're going to continue to do the right thing and we congratulate the FBI and everybody with the task forces involved in the program," said McDougall.

In earlier sweeps, child prostitution victims have been recovered at major sporting events ? including the NCAA Final Four and Super Bowl, Hosko said.

In the 1990s, gangs took control of street prostitution across America; that forced pimps to move girls into sporting events where security existed, said Dr. Lois Lee, founder and president of Children of the Night, a nonprofit group that has rescued 10,000 children from prostitution since 1979.

Hosko said the plight of the young people often goes unreported to authorities because the children in many instances are alienated from their families and are no longer in touch.

In Oakland, Calif., police Lt. Kevin Wiley said authorities are "always afraid" for the girls.

"They usually get into this because they are running away from something else," said Wiley. "You're trying to find out what brought them into this lifestyle in the first place. It goes way beyond law enforcement to solve this epidemic."

Pimps operate wherever vulnerable potential victims can be found. Some are being recruited right out of foster care facilities, Hosko said.

For the past decade, the FBI has been attacking the problem in partnership with a private group, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

John Ryan, the head of the center, called the problem "an escalating threat against America's children."

The Justice Department has estimated that nearly 450,000 children run away from home each year and that one-third of teens living on the street will be lured toward prostitution within 48 hours of leaving home.

Congress has introduced legislation that would require state law enforcement, foster care and child welfare programs to identify children lured into sex trafficking as victims of abuse and neglect eligible for protections and services.

"In much of the country today, if a girl is found in the custody of a so-called pimp she is not considered to be a victim of abuse, and that's just wrong and defies common sense," Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said during a Senate Finance Committee hearing last month. Wyden co-sponsored the legislation with Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.

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Associated Press writer Lisa Leff in San Francisco contributed to this report.

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Sanford man thrown from golf cart, driver arrested for OUI

Cumberland County Sheriff's deputies said a Sanford man was taken to Maine Medical Center with life-threatening head injuries after he was thrown from a golf cart at the Point Sebago Resort late Saturday night.

Deputies said John MacKay, 52, was taken to Maine Medical Center by helicopter, while the driver, Gary Belinsky, 59, of Westford, Mass., was arrested and charged with operating under the influence.

Belinsky is being held on $300 bail at the Cumberland County Jail.

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Summer Baseball Report (July 28)

As the summer winds down, some pitchers and position players are wrapping up their stints with their respective teams. Nearly half of the ECU players that started the offseason playing summer ball have gone home to maximize some much-needed rest, and a few more Pirates joined them this week.

Jeff Hoffman threw seven shutout innings in his final start with the Hyannis Harbor Hawks this week.

In his last start with the Hyannis Harbor Hawks (Cape Cod League), Jeff Hoffman threw another gem to conclude his summer. The tall right-hander tossed seven shutout innings, allowing four hits, striking out 10 and walking just one. Hoffman took a no-decision in the eventual 1-0 win on Wednesday.

The rising junior and potential 2014 MLB first-round pick finished the summer with a 2-0 mark and a 3.69 ERA in four starts. Hoffman struck out 33 and walked just five in 24 1/3 total innings.

Tyler Bolton (Wilmington Sharks ? CPL) allowed just three hits and two runs in seven innings of work on Tuesday to keep his streak of quality starts going. Bolton overcame five walks by punching out eight and took a no-decision to keep his spotless record intact at 5-0.

Nick Durazo of the Asheboro Copperheads (CPL) picked up his second win of the summer on Saturday in a 17-5 victory over Petersburg. Durazo pitched a scoreless inning in relief, striking out two, to improve to 2-1 on the season with a 1.82 ERA.

Durazo?s teammate, Dylan Dickens, continues to have one of the best relief seasons in the CPL. Dickens closed out a 2-1 win for the Copperheads over Martinsville on Friday to earn his seventh save of the season. The right-hander now holds a 0.75 ERA in 10 appearances.

Justin Taylor took his sixth loss of the season for the Morehead City Marlins (CPL) in a 4-3 loss to Edenton on Friday. Taylor gave up four runs in four innings to fall to 1-6 with an ERA of 4.62.

Outfielder Dylan Brown has put together a four-game hitting streak for the Marlins to up his average to .236 in 24 starts. Brown is slugging .404 and has five hits in his last four contests. Fellow Marlins outfielder Andrew LaMura is hitting .200 through 30 games.

Peninsula Pilots (CPL) outfielder Garrett Brooks is batting .242 with 10 RBIs, 19 stolen bases, and a .390 on-base percentage in 41 games (25 starts).

Pilots? reliever Grayson Bailey had his first bad outing in a while on Saturday evening. Bailey gave up three runs in one inning, but still carries solid numbers overall with a 3.98 ERA in 17 appearances.

Catcher Luke Lowery cranked his fourth home run for the Wilson Tobs (CPL) in a 4-3 loss to Fayetteville on Saturday. After a slow start, the power-hitting backstop has his average up to .263 and he?s slugging a solid .495.

Hayden White has wrapped up his stint in the New England League with a 1-2 mark and a 4.65 ERA over 9 2/3 innings with the Laconia Muskrats.

ECU players in summer ball

LHP Grayson Bailey - Peninsula Pilots (Coastal Plain League)
RHP Tyler Bolton - Wilmington Sharks (Coastal Plain League)
OF Garrett Brooks - Peninsula Pilots (Coastal Plain League)
OF Dylan Brown - Morehead City Marlins (Coastal Plain League)
RHP Dylan Dickens - Asheboro Copperheads (Coastal Plain League)
LHP Nick Durazo - Asheboro Copperheads (Coastal Plain League)
RHP Jeff Hoffman - Hyannis Harbor Hawks (Cape Cod League)
OF Andrew LaMura - Morehead City (Coastal Plain League)
C Luke Lowery - Wilson Tobs (Coastal Plain League)
RHP Justin Taylor - Morehead City (Coastal Plain League)
RHP Hayden White - Laconia Muskrats (New England League)

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Avon culling: Company plans to slash more than 400 jobs

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Avon Products Inc said on Monday it will slash more than 400 jobs and exit the Irish market, the latest moves in the new chief executive's plan to return the beauty products company to profitability in the next two years.

Avon, the world's largest direct seller of cosmetics, is already showing signs of stabilizing its business under new CEO Sheri McCoy, who was brought in a year ago, following years of inconsistent sales in Brazil and Russia and dwindling business in China and the United States.

The company, known for products such as Skin So Soft, in December set an annual cost savings target of $400 million by the end of 2015 and said it would exit South Korea and Vietnam. The moves announced Monday are part of those initiatives.

In February, Avon reported surprisingly strong fourth-quarter earnings after reversing sales declines in top markets like Brazil and Russia and selling more products globally.

McCoy said at an investor conference later that month in her most expansive comments about the restructuring plan that she had no qualms about exiting unprofitable markets to focus on emerging markets. She said a key priority is to reverse a long sales slide in the United State.

The CEO also wants operating profit margin to hit the low teens in percentage terms by 2016. In 2012, it had fallen to 2.9 percent of sales from 9.9 percent two years earlier.

"While considerable work remains to be done to improve operating margin, we believe Avon can return to a low double-digit margin," Stifel analyst Mark Astrachan said.

Staff will be cut across all regions and functions and will include the restructuring or closing of smaller, underperforming markets, primarily in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Avon said on Monday.

The cuts, which will be completed by the end of the year, are expected to generate $45 million to $50 million in annual savings.

Total charges are expected to range from $35 million to $40 million, with about $20 million coming in the first quarter of 2013, the company said.

Avon had 39,100 employees as of December 31, 2012, and more than six million active sales representatives.

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Milestones in the life of Margaret Thatcher

LONDON (AP) ? Milestones in the life and career of Britain's former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher:

Oct. 13, 1925: Born in Grantham, central England.

June 1947: Graduates from Oxford with chemistry degree.

Dec. 13, 1951: Marries wealthy oil executive Denis Thatcher.

Aug. 15, 1953: Gives birth to twins, Mark and Carol.

June 1, 1954: Qualifies as lawyer.

Oct. 8, 1959: Elected to Parliament.

June 20, 1970: Becomes education secretary.

Feb. 11, 1975: Elected leader of Conservative Party.

May 3, 1979: Wins national elections, becomes Europe's first female prime minister.

March 1, 1981: Refuses to concede demands of Irish Republican Army convicts for prisoner-of-war status in Northern Ireland, inspiring a hunger strike. Ten inmates starve to death over following seven months.

Sept. 14, 1981: Dumps or reassigns most of her moderate ministers in Cabinet reshuffle.

April 2, 1982: Argentina invades Falkland Islands, a British territory in the South Atlantic. Thatcher sends a naval task force that recovers the islands after a 74-day war.

June 9, 1983: Wins second term.

Oct. 12, 1984: Survives IRA assassination bid after time bomb explodes near her room in hotel hosting Conservative Party conference. Five others killed, 32 wounded.

Dec. 15, 1984: Becomes first Western leader to meet Mikhail Gorbachev as he visits London prior to becoming Soviet Union's leader.

Dec. 19, 1984: Signs accord with Chinese Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang to cede the British colony of Hong Kong to China in 1997.

Nov. 15, 1985: Signs Anglo Irish Agreement that gives the Republic of Ireland a role in Northern Ireland for the first time. Move infuriates province's Protestant majority.

Jan. 9, 1986: Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns in dispute over moves to rescue the failing Westland helicopter company. Triggers a Cabinet crisis that pushes Thatcher close to resignation.

April 15, 1986: Allows U.S. to bomb Libya with aircraft based in Britain.

Aug. 1, 1986: Cabinet unanimously supports her resistance to sanctions against South Africa.

March 28, 1987: Travels to Moscow for talks with Gorbachev, strengthens role as key player in arms control negotiations.

June 11, 1987: Wins third term.

Jan. 3, 1988: Becomes Britain's longest continuously serving prime minister of 20th century.

Nov. 22, 1990: Announces resignation after party revolt.

Nov. 28, 1990: Succeeded by John Major as prime minister.

June 26, 1992: Becomes Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, a member of the unelected House of Lords with a lifetime title.

March 22, 2002: Ends public speaking after a series of strokes.

June 26, 2003: Her husband dies.

April 8, 2013: Dies of stroke.

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