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Students march against Mexico's election result

Wearng a Guy Fawkes mask, a Mexican unhappy with the presidential election results, holds a banner that reads in Spanish; "No to another fraud!," during a march in Mexico City, Saturday, July 7, 2012. The protestors are marching in rejection of the final count in the presidential election showing former ruling party candidate Enrique Pena Nieto as the victor. They believe the PRI engaged in vote-buying that illegally tilted millions of votes. PRI officials deny the charge. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Wearng a Guy Fawkes mask, a Mexican unhappy with the presidential election results, holds a banner that reads in Spanish; "No to another fraud!," during a march in Mexico City, Saturday, July 7, 2012. The protestors are marching in rejection of the final count in the presidential election showing former ruling party candidate Enrique Pena Nieto as the victor. They believe the PRI engaged in vote-buying that illegally tilted millions of votes. PRI officials deny the charge. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

A man holds a defaced image of President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto as Mexicans unhappy with the presidential election results prepare for a march, in Mexico City, Saturday, July 7, 2012. The protestors marched in rejection of the final count in the presidential election showing the former ruling party candidate, Pena Nieto, as the victor. They believe the PRI engaged in vote-buying that illegally tilted millions of votes. PRI officials deny the charge. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Demonstrators gather to protest the official results of the presidential election in Mexico City, Saturday, July 7, 2012. Mexicans marched in rejection of the final vote count in the presidential race showing former ruling party candidate Enrique Pena Nieto as the victor. They believe the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI, engaged in vote-buying that illegally tilted millions of votes. PRI officials deny the charge. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)

Demonstrators shout slogans as they gather at the Zocalo Plaza in Mexico City, Saturday, July 7, 2012. Tens of thousands marched in rejection of the final count in the presidential election showing former ruling party candidate Enrique Pena Nieto as the victor. They believe the PRI engaged in vote-buying that illegally tilted millions of votes. PRI officials deny the charge. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Demonstrators shout slogans as they gather at the Zocalo Plaza in Mexico City, Saturday, July 7, 2012. Tens of thousands marched in rejection of the final count in the presidential election showing former ruling party candidate Enrique Pena Nieto as the victor. They believe the PRI engaged in vote-buying that illegally tilted millions of votes. PRI officials deny the charge. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

(AP) ? Tens of thousands of people marched in Mexico's capital on Saturday to protest Enrique Pena Nieto's apparent win in the country's presidential election, accusing his long ruling party of buying votes.

The protesters were angered by allegations that Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party gave out bags of groceries, pre-paid gift cards and other goods to voters ahead of July 1 national elections.

The students, unionists and leftists in the march carried signs reading, "Pena, how much did it cost to become president?" and "Mexico, you pawned your future for 500 pesos." Mexico City officials put the size of the crowd that reached its central Zocalo plaza at 50,000.

"The fraud was carried out before (the election), buying votes, tricking the people," said Gabriel Petatan Garcia, a geography student who carried a sign in Finnish.

Protesters also carried signs in English, Japanese, French, German and other languages to call the attention of the international press.

Pena Nieto, a youthful, 45-year-old married to a soap opera star, won last Sunday's election by 6.6 percentage points, according to the official count, bringing the PRI back to power after 12 years in opposition. The party had ruled Mexico for 71 consecutive years, with what critics say was the help of corruption, patronage and vote fraud.

PRI officials deny the vote-buying charge and say the vote was free and fair.

The final vote count had Pena Nieto getting 38.21 percent support, leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Democratic Revolution Party with 31.59 percent, and Josefina Vazquez Mota of the conservative National Action Party with 25.41. The small New Alliance Party got 2.29 percent.

The final vote count must be certified in September by the Federal Electoral Tribunal. The tribunal has declined to overturn previously contested elections, including a 2006 presidential vote that was far closer than last Sunday's.

Accusations of vote-buying began surfacing in June, but sharpened later when people rushed to grocery stores on the outskirts of Mexico City to redeem pre-paid gift cards worth about 100 pesos ($7.50). Many said they got the cards from PRI supporters before the elections.

Lopez Obrador said millions of voters had received either pre-paid cards, cash, groceries, construction materials or appliances.

Some marchers covered the heads of statues with plastic shopping bags from Soriana ? the supermarket chain where the gift cards were redeemable ? to underline their protest.

"We have to come out in the streets to denounce that the PRI bought votes, and there were people who sold them," said 32-year-old psychologist Raquel Ruiz.

Some protesters felt that overturning the election result would be difficult at this point, while others thought there were judicial means to still prevent Pena Nieto from assuming the presidency.

Lopez Obrador said he will file a formal legal challenge to the vote count in electoral courts in the coming days based on the allegation that PRI vote-buying illegally tilted millions of votes.

Simply giving away such gifts is not illegal under Mexican electoral law, as long as the expense is reported to electoral authorities. Giving gifts to influence votes is a crime, though is not generally viewed as grounds for overturning an election.

Leonardo Valdes, the president of the Federal Electoral Institute, has said he doesn't see any grounds for overturning the results but that an investigation into the gift cards had been launched.

PRI spokesman Eduardo Sanchez said earlier this week that the gift-card event had been "a theatrical representation" mounted by the left. Sanchez claimed supporters of Lopez Obrador took hundreds of people to the stores, dressed them in PRI T-shirts, gave them gift cards, emptied store shelves to create an appearance of panic buying, and brought TV cameras in to create the false impression that the PRI had given out the cards.

Cesar Yanez, the spokesman for Lopez Obrador's campaign, denied the PRI accusation.

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Tepid jobs data sets tone for presidential contest

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks about job numbers, Friday, July 6, 2012, at Bradley's Hardware in Wolfeboro, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks about job numbers, Friday, July 6, 2012, at Bradley's Hardware in Wolfeboro, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

President Barack Obama hold up nine-month-old Nathan Maxwell Johnson of Youngstown, Ohio, during a campaign event at Dobbins Elementary School in Poland, Ohio, Friday, July 6, 2012. Obama is on a two-day bus trip through Ohio and Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks about job numbers, Friday, July 6, 2012, at Bradley's Hardware in Wolfeboro, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

President Barack Obama holds nine-month-old Nathan Maxwell Johnson of Youngstown, Ohio, following his Betting on America presidential re-election campaign tour, Friday, July 6, 201, at Dobbins Elementary School in Poland, Ohio. (AP Photo / Scott R. Galvin)

PITTSBURGH (AP) ? Poor economic news intensified the presidential campaign Friday, with President Barack Obama and rival Mitt Romney offering distinctly different views of the nation's economic trajectory. Obama said job growth by private business "is a step in the right direction." Romney declared persistent high unemployment a "kick in the gut."

A stand-pat jobs report that showed a net of only 80,000 jobs created in June and an unemployment rate unchanged at 8.2 percent set a new benchmark for judging the president and for Romney to attempt to exploit just four months from Election Day.

"It's still tough out there," Obama conceded to a campaign crowd in Poland, Ohio. Still, he noted that the private sector jobs created in June contributed to 4.4 million new jobs over the past 28 months, including 500,000 new manufacturing jobs.

"That's a step in the right direction," he said. But he added: "We've got to grow the economy even faster, and we have to put even more people back to work."

Obama criticized Romney for pushing economic ideas that, the president said, have been tried without success before.

Romney, speaking ahead of the president in New Hampshire, used virtually the same argument against Obama, saying he represented liberal policies that had been discredited.

"This kick in the gut has got to end," Romney declared, and he issued a biting indictment of the president.

"American families are struggling, there's a lot of misery in America today," he said, interrupting his vacation in New Hampshire to react to the jobs numbers. "The president's policies have not gotten America working again. And the president is going to have to stand up and take responsibility for it."

Obama was on the second day of a bus tour of Ohio and Pennsylvania, hotly contested battlegrounds whose modest economic gains he hoped to leverage into a case for his re-election.

Romney was at his lakeside vacation home amid growing anxiety among conservatives that he was not being aggressive enough and was squandering his opportunity to win in November. Republicans worry that Obama's attacks against Romney are taking their toll on the challenger and right-leaning leaders in business and the media say he is presenting a muddled case for his presidency despite a weak economy.

"I don't say much to critics," Romney told reporters, noting that he has issued a 59-point economic plan to counter the president.

On his tour, Obama was promoting policies that he says have helped states such as Pennsylvania and Ohio, particularly the government bailout of Chrysler and General Motors.

"We saved an auto industry. That saved hundreds of thousands of jobs here in Ohio," Obama said in an interview with NBC affiliate WLWT in Cincinnati that was aired Friday. "We passed a health care law that's going to mean security for Ohioans."

Obama questioned Romney's motives on health care in the same interview, accusing his rival of caving under pressure from conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh to say that requiring all Americans to buy health insurance amounts to a tax. Later, at an event in Pittsburgh, Obama told supporters Romney would promote Republican policies on taxes and regulations that he said led to a near economic meltdown in 2008.

"They're banking on the notion that you don't remember what happened when they were in charge, the last time they were in charge of the White House," Obama said.

Romney said Wednesday the Supreme Court ruled the requirement to buy health insurance was a tax, which amounted to a shift in his position. Earlier in the week, senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said Romney viewed the mandate as a penalty, a fee or a fine ? not a tax.

"So the question becomes, are you doing that because of politics?" Obama said. "Are you abandoning a principle that you fought for, for six years simply because you're getting pressure for two days from Rush Limbaugh or some critics in Washington?"

At his stop in Poland, Ohio, Obama defended the health care law, saying he was proud of it and calling it the "right thing to do" for Americans. "I make no apologies for it," Obama said.

The jobless numbers commanded most attention Friday and could determine the nature of the political debate to come. The unemployment and hiring figures provide monthly milestones with which to measure the human toll of the weak economic recovery.

Republicans were quick to contend the report showed Obama's policies had failed.

"The president bet on a failed 'stimulus' spending binge that led to 41 months of unemployment above 8 percent," House Speaker John Boehner said. "He bet on a government takeover of health care that's driving up costs and making it harder for small businesses to hire."

Democrats sought to capitalize on the jobs created, which at 80,000 were not enough to keep up with population growth but sustained a string of months during which the private sector has increased hiring.

"With the private sector continuing to create jobs for the 28th consecutive month, our economic recovery continues to push forward," Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the second-ranking Democrat in the House, said in a statement.

Friday's jobless report comes as the public's confidence about the economy is already wavering. The percentage of people in an Associated Press-GfK poll last month that said the economy got better in the past month fell below 20 percent for the first time since fall. And few said they expected much improvement in the unemployment rate in the coming year.

Romney has not been able to exploit that sentiment fully. In national polls, the president either retains a slight edge or is in a statistical tie with his challenger.

The economic data continue to provide a mixed picture of the recovery. Weekly unemployment benefit applications dropped last week to the lowest number since the week of May 19. At the same time, retailers recorded tepid sales in June. And a report this week said U.S. manufacturing shrank in June for the first time in nearly three years, undermining a top Obama talking point.

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Raspberry Pi turned into a classic gaming console | Ubergizmo

The Raspberry Pi is certainly one of the more interesting DIY computer components that we have come across so far, simply because you will need to purchase a chassis, monitor and other essential peripherals separately, never mind that the ?brain? of the computer will cost you a mere $35. Having said that, how far does $35 worth of chips are able to bring you these days? It will not be enough to play Diablo 3 or all of the latest games, but at least it gets the job done in terms of checking your emails and surfing your favorite new sites.

With the Raspberry Pi, this Linux-powered computer can also double up as a media center, a remote client for logging into a Windows PC, or even as a notebook ? but how about transforming it into a classic gaming console? This is what happened to this particular iteration of the Raspberry Pi, where it will load emulators for old school video game consoles including the SNES. One thing?s for sure, its processor is faster than anything from the 16-bit era, so even if it runs under the umbrella of an emulator, the end result is still pretty smooth to the eyes.

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People Have To Eat | Food Franchise Ownership

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I wish that I was able to somehow collect $100 every time I heard someone at one of my presentations on franchise ownership say the following;

?I?m thinking of buying a food franchise because people have to eat.?

And, if I was able to grab that $100 over and over again, my lobster intake would increase, for sure?

Seriously; I hear that statement a lot, so it must be important, right?

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Working In The Food Business

My first job as an acne-encrusted teen was at Lyndhurst, Ohio?s Golden Dragon Restaurant. I was hired on as a Dish Sanitizing Technician. (Dishwasher)

It was the grossest job I ever had. And, in hindsight, it was a really poor choice for that?particular?job. I wasn?t thinking, I guess. I forgot that Chinese food was multi-course. Every damn customer had soup, appetizers, tea, beverages, a main course, and?sherbet?or ice cream to top things off at the end of their meal. Lots of dishes were used. Lots of dirty dishes came back into my area. Lots. More than any other type of restaurant, actually.

The Golden Dragon was located towards the back of a nice office building. A nice office building with a very famous parking lot.

While this restaurant wasn?t a food franchise, it was a food business. I learned a lot, even as a teen. The most important thing I learned was preparation; food businesses need to be highly organized to work right. Management has to always be prepared to be busy.

  • Employees need to be trained properly
  • Inventory needs to be right
  • Cleanliness has to be job #1
  • Cost controls need to be tight

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Owning A Food Franchise

People do have to eat, for sure. I?m not sure if that?s the right reason for future franchise owners to pursue a food franchise, but who am I to say?

Of course, talking about about, looking at, and buying a food franchise are all so?different. So. Different.

If you?re seriously considering food franchise ownership as your path, please make sure you know-or kind of know what you?re getting into. Being the owner of a business that serves food to the public has many, many, challenges. As far as I?m concerned, the food business is the toughest business in the world to own and operate. The amount of things that can go wrong are mind-boggling.

You don?t have to?believe?me. (Even though I?m one of only a handful of franchise consultants-advisors that have actually been in the food business.)

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Food Franchises Can Be Lucrative

There are lots of very successful food franchise owners, and they aren?t all owners of one of these, either. You?ll find them if you?re looking at the great ones. While it?s true that the work is really hard, and the challenges, especially having to do with staffing are huge, if you?re focused on bringing a quality?experience?to the table, (so to speak) you could end up a winner.

Just don?t buy a food franchise because people have to eat. You need to also.

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Work with me to find some of the great ones. My franchise consulting-advisory services are guaranteed.

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  3. Quiznos Subs Lowers Its Franchise Fee: Should You Buy a Quiznos Franchise Now?
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Motorola Atrix HD revealed with 4.5-inch Colorboost HD display, ICS and Droid RAZR looks

Motorola Atrix HD revealed with 45inch Colorboost HD display, ICS and Droid RAZR looks

The next Motorola Atrix phone has been revealed on the company's website as the Atrix HD, with an MB886 model number matching the "Dinara" we saw pass through the FCC. According to the listed specs, it features a 4.5-inch HD Colorboost (720 x 1,280) display, 1.5GHz dual-core CPU, and will ship with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and (predictably) looks very much like the Droid RAZR. There's no carrier mentioned (other than the blatant logo at the bottom), but judging by the radio bands mentioned in the specs, it comes off very much as a Droid RAZR for AT&T with quad-band EDGE, quad-band HSPA+ and dual-band LTE. It has a 1780 mAh battery, 8MP rear camera, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage (up to 32GB external) and measures 8.4mm thick. The construction is as you'd expect, with Gorilla Glass and Kevlar fused to make the "business ready" handset, while the Atrix 2's Lapdock 100 is listed as an accessory. There's no word on when the third Atrix will be launched, but you can find out all about it and sign up for updates right now at the source link.

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Stranded trainee pilots await training college restructuring

05/07/2012 - 07:46:07
Irish trainee pilots, stranded in Florida, are anxiously awaiting the outcome of restructuring aimed at saving their Waterford-based training college.

The students could lose around ?80,000 each after their studies were cancelled because of a dispute between the Pilot Training College in Waterford and the Florida Institute of Technology.

Last night, the Irish Aviation Authority took the unprecedented step of temporarily suspending the training approval for the college in Waterford.

The company said that it will come up with a viable restructuring plan in 10 days.

One of the students affected in Florida, Conor Deeney from Derry, said that they were grounded just more than a week ago.


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Deena from 'Jersey Shore': I didn't use sidewalk

"Jersey Shore" cast member Deena Cortese, center, walks with her attorney Michael Pappa, left, in court after a hearing Tuesday, July, 3, 2012, in Seaside Heights, N.J. The "Jersey Shore" cast member was in Seaside Heights municipal court on a change of interfering with traffic for an incident in which police say she was dancing in a street and blocking the flow of traffic. Cortese pleaded guilty to failing to use the sidewalk and paid a $106 fine.(AP Photo/Mel Evans)

"Jersey Shore" cast member Deena Cortese, center, walks with her attorney Michael Pappa, left, in court after a hearing Tuesday, July, 3, 2012, in Seaside Heights, N.J. The "Jersey Shore" cast member was in Seaside Heights municipal court on a change of interfering with traffic for an incident in which police say she was dancing in a street and blocking the flow of traffic. Cortese pleaded guilty to failing to use the sidewalk and paid a $106 fine.(AP Photo/Mel Evans)

"Jersey Shore" cast member Deena Cortese walks from court after a hearing Tuesday, July, 3, 2012, in Seaside Heights, N.J. The Cortese was in Seaside Heights municipal court on a change of interfering with traffic for an incident in which police say she was dancing in a street and blocking the flow of traffic. She pleaded guilty to failing to use the sidewalk and paid a $106 fine. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

"Jersey Shore" cast member Deena Cortese, right, stands with her attprney Michael Pappa, center back, during a hearing Tuesday, July, 3, 2012, in Seaside Heights, N.J. Police arrested Cortese on June 10, saying she was dancing in a roadway and interfering with the flow of traffic. But municipal prosecutor Kim Pascarella said the prosecution did not have enough evidence to prove that charge, agreeing instead to allow her to plead guilty to the lesser offense of not using a sidewalk when one was provided. She pleaded guilty to failing to use the sidewalk and paid a $106 fine. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

"Jersey Shore" cast member Deena Cortese, right, adjusts a necklace for her mother, Joann Cortese, as they wait in court Tuesday, July, 3, 2012, in Seaside Heights, N.J. Police arrested Cortese on June 10, saying she was dancing in a roadway and interfering with the flow of traffic. But municipal prosecutor Kim Pascarella said the prosecution did not have enough evidence to prove that charge, agreeing instead to allow her to plead guilty to the lesser offense of not using a sidewalk when one was provided. She pleaded guilty to failing to use the sidewalk and paid a $106 fine. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

As attorney Michael Pappa, left, looks on "Jersey Shore" cast member Deena Cortese, center, listens to her mother, Joann Cortese, right, and father John Cortese, second right, outside court after a hearing Tuesday, July, 3, 2012, in Seaside Heights, N.J. Cortese was in Seaside Heights municipal court on a change of interfering with traffic for an incident in which police say she was dancing in a street and blocking the flow of traffic. She pleaded guilty to failing to use the sidewalk and paid a $106 fine. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

(AP) ? "Jersey Shore" cast member Deena Cortese got a costly reminder Tuesday of a lesson parents tell their children: Make sure you stay on the sidewalk.

And just to underscore that point, she got a talking-to from her mother outside municipal court, where Cortese had just pleaded guilty to failing to use the sidewalk and paid a $106 fine.

"He doesn't want to see you in that courtroom again," Deena's mom, Joann Cortese, said, referring to the judge who had imposed the fine. Then they hugged and kissed goodbye ? on the sidewalk.

"Love you," her mom said.

"Love you, too," Deena replied.

The pint-sized reality star also had to pay $33 in court costs but avoided a criminal conviction by pleading guilty to a violation of the motor vehicle code.

Police arrested her on June 10, saying she was dancing in a roadway and interfering with the flow of traffic. But municipal prosecutor Kim Pascarella said the prosecution did not have enough evidence to prove that charge, agreeing instead to allow her to plead guilty to the lesser offense of not using a sidewalk when one was provided.

"I'm sorry if I caused any trouble," Cortese said, standing before the same bench where co-star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi pleaded guilty to disturbing other beachgoers in 2010.

Municipal Court Judge Dan Sahin gently rebuked Cortese for diverting police officers from more pressing concerns.

"Ms. Cortese, please keep in mind you're taking police officers away from a job they have to do," the judge said. Responding to the call, investigating, arresting her and bringing her back to police headquarters all took valuable time that could have better been spent serving others who needed help, he added.

"The officers here are not the New York City Police Department; we're not 1,000-strong," Sahin said. "They've got a tough job to do."

Cortese hugged her mother and wiped away a few tears as she waited in line with her lawyer, Michael Pappa, to pay the fine at the court clerk's window.

Pappa noted that the police report stated that Cortese appeared to have been drinking before the incident. On her personal website, Cortese calls herself "The Blast In A Glass."

"Deena was in the middle of the road," Pappa told The Associated Press. "Traffic was at a standstill because of summer congestion. She knew she made a mistake and she regrets what she did.

"She took this situation very seriously," he said. "She was very upset about getting arrested and having to go to the police station, and she was very apologetic to the police officers."

The judge also chided Cortese for endangering herself and others by her conduct.

"By going into traffic as she did, she placed herself in harm's way and quite possibly placed others in harm's way," Sahin said.

It was at least the third legal run-in that a "Jersey Shore" cast member has endured since the show began filming in Seaside Heights in 2009.

In addition to Polizzi's tipsy traipsing through the sand in 2010, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro was shown in an episode from the show's first season that generated an assault charge. Another man was shown taunting Ortiz and other cast members as they walked home, only to be laid out by a single punch from Ortiz-Magro, who boasted: "That's one shot! That's one shot, kid!"

Ortiz-Magro was originally charged with aggravated assault but entered a pre-trial intervention program that let him avoid criminal prosecution.

A native of the New Egypt section of New Jersey's Plumsted township, Cortese is a longtime friend of Polizzi, and joined the cast in its third season following the departure of cast member Angelina Pivarnick.

The cast is nearing the end of its sixth season of filming in and around Seaside Heights.

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PFT: Ex-Raider faces 3 more murder charges

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Each of the four players suspended in connection with the bounty case need a so-called preliminary injunction in order to delay their suspensions once the regular season begins.? For three of them, a ruling isn?t needed until Week One, since Saints defensive end Will Smith, Packers defensive end Anthony Hargrove, and Browns linebacker Scott Fujita can participate in training camp and the preseason before sitting out games.

For Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma, time is of the essence, because his suspension begins right away, blocking him from training camp and the preseason.

And so Vilma?s lawyer, Peter Ginsberg, currently is trying to get a temporary restraining order pending a hearing on the preliminary injunction.

It?s a separate question than whether the players will get their suspensions overturned.? The issue turns on whether the players should be permitted to keep working while the legal process unfolds.

It?s the same analysis that delayed the StarCaps suspensions several years ago.? Though several factors apply, the key question is whether the players will suffer ?irreparable harm? if suspended now and vindicated later.? In other words, is there anything the court could do after the fact to put the toothpaste back in the tube?

In StarCaps, the answer was no.? Though the players? pay can be refunded, there?s no way to allow the players to go back and play in the games they missed.

Given that the review of Commissioner Roger Goodell?s handling of the appeals shouldn?t take much time (as legal cases go), the bigger question becomes whether the injunction would continue on appeal, if the players lose at the district court level.? If so, there?s a good chance none of the suspensions will be served this year, since the appeal process typically takes several months to complete.

Still, with the Hall of Fame game exactly one month away (the Saints play the Cardinals on August 5) and New Orleans training camp coming in just a couple weeks, Vilma needs an injunction sooner rather than later.

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GLOBAL MARKETS-Shares, euro dragged lower by grim economic data,

LONDON (Reuters) - World shares, the euro and oil prices fell on Wednesday as weak data highlighted the headwinds facing the global economy, though hopes of more monetary stimulus from central banks limited the falls.

Strong demand for safe-haven German debt at a bond auction also signaled that investors remain worried over the implementation of recently agreed measures to help ease the euro zone's debt crisis, sending yields on Spanish and Italian debt higher.

Activity was subdued, however, with U.S. markets closed for the Independence Day holiday and ahead of policy decisions from the European Central Bank and Bank of England on Thursday.

In the quiet market Germany found it easy to sell 3.3 billion euros ($4.2 billion) of 5-year government bonds, receiving bids for 2.7 times the amount on offer at an average yield of just 0.52 percent.

"What we are seeing is that ... this demand for safety remains intact," said Michael Leister, rate strategist at DZ Bank.

After the auction 10-year Spanish bond yields rose 11 basis points to 6.38 percent, and the Italian equivalent rose 12 basis points to 5.76 percent.

The euro shed 0.2 percent against the dollar to hit $1.2565, but was still holding above Tuesday's low of $1.2559.

Traders said the euro was under pressure from widespread expectations that the ECB is about to cut interest rates.

The single currency fell to an 11-1/2 year low against the higher-yielding Swedish crown when Sweden's central bank kept its key interest rates unchanged.

EQUITIES SLIDE

European share markets ended three days of gains, with the FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares falling 0.3 percent to 1,042.94 points, retreating from a two-month high set on Tuesday.

European equity markets began their latest rally on Friday, having fallen sharply for much of June, after European Union leaders agreed on new measures to support the region's banks and address funding problems facing Spain at a summit meeting.

Investors have also been encouraged back into riskier asset markets by the belief that the ECB will cut rates on Thursday and that it may also inject fresh funds to help boost the region's struggling economy.

A Reuters poll of economists showed a majority of economists expect the ECB to cut its main rate 25 basis points to 0.75 percent on Thursday, while money market traders are evenly split on whether the central bank will cut the deposit rate, a separate survey showed.

"Investors will also want to see if the ECB President will highlight downside risks to growth and inflation, which will set the ground for more easing," said Paul Robson, currency strategist at RBS.

The Bank of England is expected to launch a third round of monetary stimulus at its meeting.

GLOBAL SLOWDOWN

Data releases from across the globe continue to add weight to the view that the world economy is slowing down.

An index of activity among private Chinese service sector firms showed them growing at their slowest rate in 10 months in June as new order growth cooled, though the index has posted 43 months of consistent expansion.

Another survey showed Germany's services sector unexpectedly stagnated in June, ending an eight-month period of expansion as new order intake dropped.

A composite Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the whole euro area, which surveyed thousands of companies, was revised up in June, but has been below the 50 mark that separates growth from contraction for nine of the last 10 months.

"Even Germany looks to have fallen into a renewed decline, though only a very modest drop in output is signalled. The pace of downturns in other major euro member states is far more worrying," said Chris Williamson, chief economist at data provider Markit.

He said output in Italy probably declined 1 percent in the second quarter, with steep downturns also on the cards in Spain and France.

COMMODITIES STEADY

The prospect of further central bank monetary easing has supported the prices of gold and other commodities this week, but the increasingly grim news about the health of the world economy has sparked a retreat.

"We believe that the euro zone crisis, the U.S. fiscal cliff, and the possibility of a hard landing in China will give the markets plenty to worry about and will keep risk appetite low and constrained," Societe Generale said.

The bank has lowered its price outlook for Brent crude by $5 a barrel to $100.

Brent crude, which had also been gaining on rising tension over Iran's nuclear program, was 90 cents lower at $99.80 per barrel after jumping more than 3 percent on Tuesday.

Brent crude was trading as low as $88.49 on June 22.

Spot gold was little changed at $1,616.05 an ounce, after rising more than 4 percent since last Friday. It hit a two-week high of $1,624.70 on Tuesday.

The gold market is likely to remain steady ahead of the release of U.S. monthly employment data on Friday, which may encourage talk the Federal Reserve will join with its European counterparts in taking additional policy easing measures.

The U.S. monthly jobs report is expected to show 90,000 workers were added to non-farm payrolls in June and the unemployment rate held at 8.2 percent.

($1 = 0.7933 euros)

(Additional reporting by Anirban Nag; Editing by Will Waterman)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/shares-rise-hopes-more-monetary-stimulus-001919467--finance.html

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