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8:45 PM: Mike Tyson tweeted on Friday: "16 yrs ago today I had the notorious Bite Fight with (Evander Holyfield). I'm so glad we are friends now."
8:30 PM: A former Tennessee Titans cheerleader accused of groping a 12-year-old boy refused a plea deal in court on Friday. Elizabeth "Leigh" Garner has a trial date set for November 12 on charges of aggravated sexual battery & solicitation of a minor for child rape.
8:15 PM: The Tennessean reports that four Vanderbilt football players have been suspended amid a sex crimes investigation by Nashville police.
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7:15 PM: Doc Rivers explained Friday why he called Bill Simmons an "idiot" after the ESPN analyst said Rivers quit on the Celtics: "I thought it kind of ruined the broadcast last night, 'cause he kept bringing it up. It was almost like he had an agenda. I was just getting tired of it."
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Bomb attacks kill 21 people in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ? Two bombings killed 21 people in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, just as Britain's prime minister was in the capital pledging to help to fight extremism.
In the deadlier of the two attacks, a car bomb exploded as a convoy of paramilitary troops passed through the outskirts of the northwest city of Peshawar, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens of others, police said.
Most of the dead and wounded were civilians, although nine paramilitary Frontier Corps troops were hurt, said police official Shafiullah Khan. The blast struck one Frontier Corps vehicle, but the other passed by safely.
The explosion damaged many other vehicles and shops in the area, according to local TV video. Frontier Corps vehicles rushed to the scene, and a police officer collected evidence from the crater caused by the bomb.
Later in the day, a roadside bomb struck an army convoy and killed four soldiers in the North Waziristan tribal area, the main sanctuary for Taliban and al-Qaida militants in the country, said intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters. The blast also wounded 20 soldiers, the officials said.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but suspicion will likely fall on the Pakistani Taliban. The group has been waging a bloody insurgency against the government for years that has killed thousands of security personnel and civilians. The militants have proven resilient despite a series of army offensives against them in the tribal region.
British Prime Minister David Cameron told his Pakistani counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, that Britain would do all it can to help fight extremism, a battle that he said requires both a tough security response and measures to fight poverty and promote education.
Britain pledged to provide Pakistan more equipment to battle the kind of improvised explosives that killed the soldiers in North Waziristan and to share expertise in protecting sporting events. Britain hosted the Olympic Games last summer.
"The enemies of Pakistan are enemies of Britain, and we will stand together and conduct this fight against extremism and terrorism together," Cameron said at a joint news conference with Sharif in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
Cameron arrived in Pakistan following a visit to neighboring Afghanistan. He welcomed Pakistan's stated commitment to help promote a peace deal with the Afghan Taliban.
Pakistan is seen as key to any deal because of its historical links with the insurgents. Pakistan pushed the Taliban to carry through with its recent step to set up a political office in the Gulf country of Qatar, although acrimony between the insurgents and the Afghan government has hampered the negotiation process.
"I assure Prime Minister Cameron of our firm resolve to promote the shared objective of a peaceful and stable Afghanistan to which the 3 million Afghan refugees currently living in Pakistan can return with honor and dignity," Sharif said at the news conference.
Sharif has also pushed for peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban, although a series of attacks by the group since he took office in early June have led many to question that approach.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for shooting to death 10 foreign mountain climbers and a Pakistani guide in northern Pakistan a week ago, an attack the group said was retaliation for a U.S. drone strike that killed the Taliban's deputy leader.
The Taliban withdrew their offer of peace talks with the Pakistani government following the drone strike. The government continues to stick by its stance that negotiating with the group is the only way to bring peace.
Critics of talks point out that past peace deals eventually collapsed, offering the militants a chance to regroup. They also note that the Taliban reject Pakistan's democratic government and believe Islamic law should be applied throughout the country.
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Associated Press writers Sebastian Abbot and Zarar Khan in Islamabad and Rasool Dawar contributed to this report.
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Muslims In Myanmar: Trapped In Ghetto After Clashes
SITTWE, Myanmar -- From inside the neighborhood that has become their prison, they can look over the walls and fences and into a living city.
Stores are open out there. Sidewalk restaurants are serving bottles of Mandalay beer. There are no barbed-wire roadblocks marking neighborhood boundaries, no armed policemen guarding checkpoints. In the rest of Sittwe, this city of 200,000 people along Myanmar's coast, no one pays a bribe to take a sick baby to the doctor.
But here it's different.
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EDITOR'S NOTE ? This story is part of "Portraits of Change," a yearlong series by The Associated Press examining how the opening of Myanmar after decades of military rule is ? and is not ? changing life in the long-isolated Southeast Asian country.
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Aung Mingalar is just a few square blocks. You can walk it in 10 minutes, stopping only when you come to the end of the road and a policeman with an assault rifle waves you back inside, back into a maze of shuttered storefronts, unemployment and boredom.
In the evenings, when bats fly through the twilight, the men gather for prayers at Aung Mingalar's main mosque, the one that wasn't destroyed in last year's violence.
Zahad Tuson is among them. He had spent his life pedaling fares around this state capital, a fraying town, built by British colonials, full of bureaucrats and monsoon-battered concrete buildings. Now his bicycle rickshaw sits at home unused. He hasn't left Aung Mingalar in nearly a year.
"We could go out whenever we wanted!" he says. His voice is a mixture of anger and wonder.
What has caused this place to become a ghetto that no one can leave and few can enter? A basic fact: Aung Mingalar is a Muslim neighborhood.
A year after sectarian violence tore through Myanmar, the fury of religious pogroms has hardened into an officially sanctioned sectarian divide, a foray into apartheid-style policies that has turned Aung Mingalar into a prison for Sittwe's Muslims and that threatens this country's fragile transition to democracy.
Muslims, Tuson says, are not welcome in today's Myanmar.
It's simple, he says: "They want us gone."
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For generations, Aung Mingalar existed as just another tangle of streets and alleys in the heart of Sittwe. It was a Muslim quarter; everybody knew that. But the distinction seldom meant much.
Until suddenly it meant everything.
Last year, violence twice erupted between two ethnic groups in this part of Myanmar: the Rakhine, who are Buddhist, and a Muslim minority known as the Rohingya. While carnage was widespread on both sides of the religious divide, it was Muslims who suffered most, and who continue to suffer badly more than a year later.
Across Rakhine state, more than 200 people were killed, 70 percent of them Muslim. In Sittwe, where Muslims were once almost half the population, five of the six Muslim neighborhoods were destroyed. Over 135,000 people remain homeless in Rakhine state, the vast majority of them Muslims forced into bamboo refugee camps that smell of dust and wood smoke and too many people living too close together.
The troubles here were, at least initially, driven by ethnicity as much as religion. To the Rakhine, who dominate this state, as well as to Myanmar's central government, the Rohingya are here illegally, "Bengalis" whose families slipped across the nearby border from what is now Bangladesh. Historians say Rohingya have been here for centuries, though many did come more recently. Their modern history has been a litany of oppression: the riots of 1942, the mass expulsions of 1978, the citizenship laws of 1982.
What started with the Rohingya has evolved into a broader anti-Muslim movement, helping ignite a series of attacks across Myanmar ? from Meikhtila in the country's center, where Buddhist mobs beat dozens of Muslim students to death in March, to Lashio near the Chinese border, where Buddhist men swarmed through the city burning scores of Muslim-owned stores in May.
The violence is about religion and ethnicity, but also about what happens when decades of military rule begin giving way in the nation once known as Burma, and old political equations are clouded by the complexities of democracy.
In 2010, political change finally came to Myanmar, a profoundly isolated nation long ruled by a series of mysterious generals. Opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was freed from house imprisonment. National elections were held. Former political prisoners became politicians.
Amid the tumult ? and with the military still wielding immense power behind the scenes ? old animosities and new politicians flourished. Ethnic groups formed powerful regional parties. Buddhist nationalists, with a deep-seated suspicion of Muslims, moved from the fringes into the mainstream.
Political frustration fed on economic frustration, with millions of poor rural residents flocking to Myanmar's cities only to find continued poverty in ever-growing slums. In a country that is about 90 percent Buddhist, Myanmar's Muslims, who number as little as 4 percent of the population, became political bogeymen.
U Shwe Maung, a top official with the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party, the state's most powerful party, will tell you about the problems with the Rohingya: They have too many children, they are angling for political clout, they claim to be citizens.
"We are not willing to live with them," the onetime high-school English teacher says in his quiet voice. He's an avuncular man, friendly and unfailingly polite. "They want to Muslimize this land. They want power."
Anti-Muslim sentiment has been magnified by an increasingly virulent strain of Buddhist nationalism, as a once-obscure group of monks nurtures populist fears of a growing Muslim threat. Muslims are criminals, they say, a "poison" driving up land prices and pushing aside the Buddhist working class. Crowds pack monasteries and prayer halls to hear the monks' speeches. Recordings are sold in sidewalk stalls along Myanmar's streets.
"They will destroy our country, our religion, our people. They will destroy the next-generation Buddhist women, since their aim is to mix their blood with ours," a popular monk, Ashin Tayzaw Thar Ra, said in a speech earlier this year. "Soon, Buddhists will have to worship in silence and fear."
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In Aung Mingalar, they know all about fear.
The neighborhood is where Maung Than Win once served hundreds of meals a day at the little restaurant his father had opened, and where residents gathered at the Chat Cafe to gossip in the cool of twilight. It is where dozens of boys showed up every day for classes at Hafeez Skee's Islamic school, but most children attended secular schools.
It was widely seen as the wealthiest of Sittwe's Muslim neighborhoods, but it was hardly an island of economic isolation. It was a place where day laborers built thatch huts for themselves, and rich businessmen, their fortunes often made on small fleets of wooden fishing boats that troll the Bay of Bengal, built sprawling houses covered in shiny green tiles. A few families farmed gardens of watercress in a swampy area between some of the alleys. The main streets, once brick or cobblestone, had turned to dirt over the years.
"My grandfather was from Aung Mingalar. My father was from Aung Mingalar. I'm from Aung Mingalar," says Win, his teeth stained red from years of chewing betel nuts. At 32 he has spent nearly his entire life working at his restaurant, the Love Tea Shop. It filled with people every day, particularly after prayers at the mosque. "I just want to stay as long as I can."
Not that everything was perfect. Buddhist and Muslim residents of Sittwe agree at least on that.
There were fights, though they tended to be just one person against another. In the last sectarian violence, in 2001, only one person died in Sittwe. The last widespread bloodshed was during World War II, when the Rohingya backed the British colonial forces and the Rakhine supported the Japanese. Hundreds of people were killed.
"I had heard about the troubles then," says Ferus Ahmad, a pharmacist. "We thought something like this could never happen again."
But it did. It began last year on May 28, with the rape and murder of a Buddhist woman by a group of Rohingya men in a village a few hours from here. Days later, a bus carrying Muslim travelers was surrounded by a Buddhist mob and ten Muslims were killed. Five days after that, Rohingya mobs attacked Rakhine near the Bangladesh border. It's unclear how many people died.
With fear spiraling on both sides, trouble came to Sittwe. Over five days, Rakhine and Rohingya mobs battled one another. By the end, hundreds of Rakhine homes had been destroyed, as had nearly every Rohingya neighborhood. Today, other than Aung Mingalar, Muslim Sittwe is little more than destroyed mosques and once-crowded communities grown over with grass and weeds, completely empty of residents.
During the street battles, the women and children of Aung Mingalar were put into a mosque for safety, while the men protected the neighborhood's edges. Then something unusual happened: The security forces arrived to help.
Across Myanmar, the army and the police have done little to protect Muslims through a year of violence, and rights groups say they have often joined in the attacks. It's still unclear why it was different in Aung Mingalar.
But while they arrived as protectors, those soldiers soon became jailers. Today, the security forces enforce the official ghetto. And the dominant story line remains: Not only did Muslims never need protection from Buddhists, but they destroyed their own neighborhoods.
"The Bengalis lit their own houses on fire, because they knew they would get another house" in the refugee camps, says U Win Myaing, the Rakhine state assistant director for communications. "Plus, they thought the fires would spread to Rakhine areas and burn those houses down."
Increasingly, such stories about Muslims are believed across Myanmar.
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Today, Aung Mingalar is consuming itself.
House after wooden house has been torn down for firewood. The dead, who can no longer be taken out to the Muslim cemetery, are buried behind the mosque. Food, which comes from occasional government handouts and the twice-weekly markets some residents can attend, is scarce and expensive.
There are no stores left open, just a few food stalls and a makeshift pharmacy that sells laxatives and herbal headache medicine.
There are also few heroes. Residents say wealthy Rohingya have bought land from poorer or more desperate neighbors. While the authorities occasionally allow some Rohingya into the neighborhood to sell supplies, they charge double what customers pay on the outside.
"People aren't competing with each other," says Win, the tea shop owner, "but they are not working together either."
Officials refuse to say when ? or if ? Aung Mingalar will be allowed to rejoin the rest of Sittwe.
There is one way to get out. The bribe to pass the checkpoints is 10,000 kyats (about $10) each way, according to current and former residents. That's a lot of money here, but plenty of people are paying it. While no one is sure of the neighborhood's size ? aid workers say it was probably about 4,000 before the violence ? it's now dropping fast.
"When everything they have is gone, people just want to leave," Win says.
Thousands have left Myanmar, paying smugglers to slip them into Malaysia or Thailand. But most head to the refugee camps outside towns, endless rows of bamboo shelters filled with Rohingya. Many of the camps are restricted areas ? residents are not allowed to come and go as they wish ? but most are also large enough to have their own economies.
Across Myanmar, many Muslims are now more closed-off than they once were, barricading their neighborhoods at night against possible attackers. But so far, at least, Aung Mingalar is the only sealed ghetto.
Ahmad, the pharmacist, lived in Aung Mingalar for 38 years. Until the violence of 2012, he owned a pharmacy in Sittwe's main market, a warren of shops near the port. But soon after the trouble started, Aung Mingalar was sealed and Ahmad couldn't get to his shop. The medicines expired. His customers went elsewhere. The shop has been closed for months.
Ahmad wonders at what has happened to his country. The 2010 transition was supposed to bring change, but he's seen nothing to encourage him.
"We now have a president, a government," says Ahmad, his button-down shirt faded from so many washings. "But it's like there is no ruler."
For many like him, the main sustenance now is memories. That is what keeps Ahmad going.
A couple of times a week, back when things were good, Ahmad would close his pharmacy, pick up his wife and two children at home and head to the Sittwe beach, barely a mile away. Now, only Rakhine are allowed at the beach and Ahmad has left the neighborhood where he grew up. His family is still there, but he has moved to the refugee camps, where he seeks work and tries to remember what normal felt like.
"We'd just walk along the beach," he says of those family outings. "I dream about that sometimes."
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Analyst: Google Gaming Console Would Knock Ouya Out
If you?re under the impression that Android is just for smartphones and tablets, think again. According to?The Wall Street Journal, Google is working on its own video game console powered by Android, which would go head-to-head with the next Apple TV. The device could also spell serious trouble for the Kickstarter-funded Ouya.
The newly launched Ouya, now available at Best Buy, GameStop, Target and Amazon, is a $99 set-top box powered by a Nvidia quad-core processor running Android. The most alluring aspect for gamers is the idea that players can try out games for free before purchasing them. However,??one analyst says Ouya likely won?t survive against Google in the gaming space.
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?The problem is, if Google decides it wants to big and bring the full weight of its capabilities to bear, the Ouya is going to be facing a very large uphill battle,? said Scott Steinberg, CEO and lead analyst at technology and video game industry consulting firm TechSavvy. ?Even if it takes Google a year or two to bring the console to market, the Ouya needs to hit hard and hit fast, and it needs to score a resounding blow.?
Being the source behind Android, Google already has a solid foundation of developer relationships and can promote its gaming console alongside its established Google Play store and services. It has the ability to reach a mass audience, not just gamers, as Steinberg notes.
?Google will do everything in its power to leverage its weight,? Steinberg said. ?Maybe it won?t be a first round knockout [against Ouya or competitors], but it?ll see the battle through and make sure there?s a TKO in the end.?
There?s no doubt that the Ouya has garnered some attention in the gaming community, potentially representing a new wave of mainstream gaming that brings mobile titles to bigger screens. ?The Ouya raised ?more than $8 million on Kickstarter without a hitch, and sold out in GameStop and Amazon following its launch.
Despite this popularity, the console may have to work outs its kinks?before becoming a big hit. Early reviews of the system have been lukewarm thus far, with critics lambasting its sluggish game performance with certain titles and mediocre controller.
When it comes to competing with Google, it also remains unclear?if the upstart can compete with the company?s extensive resources and funding.
?For a big and sprawling company, a console is just a drop in the bucket,? Steinberg said. ?Whereas for Ouya, as a startup, it?s a race against time.?
The Journal?s sources also mentioned that Google plans to re-launch its ill-fated Nexus Q, which was unveiled at Google I/O 2012. The orb-shaped device allows users to stream media from mobile devices to nearby speakers and TVs, but was quickly yanked from the market.
Although rumors suggest the Nexus Q could make a comeback, Google isn?t likely to re-brand it as a gaming device, according to Steinberg. ?I think they would go big with branding on the console,? Steinberg said, ?giving the product its own identity.?
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Funeral held for man in ex-Patriot's murder case
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This booking photo released via the website of the Broward County Sheriff's Office shows Ernest Wallace, arrested June 28, 2013 when he surrendered at a police station in Miramar, Fla. Authorities had been seeking Wallace on a charge of acting as an accessory after the murder of Ovid Lloyd on June 17 in North Attleborough, Mass. Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has been charged with Lloyd's murder. (AP Photo/Broward County Sheriff's Office)
This booking photo released via the website of the Broward County Sheriff's Office shows Ernest Wallace, arrested June 28, 2013 when he surrendered at a police station in Miramar, Fla. Authorities had been seeking Wallace on a charge of acting as an accessory after the murder of Ovid Lloyd on June 17 in North Attleborough, Mass. Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has been charged with Lloyd's murder. (AP Photo/Broward County Sheriff's Office)
Carlos Ortiz, left, stands in Attleboro District Court for his arraignment on weapons charges, Friday, June 28, 2013 in Attleboro, Mass. Ortiz was arrested Wednesday in Bristol, Conn., in connection with the murder case against former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez , now charged in the murder of Odin Lloyd. (AP Photo/The Boston Globe, George Rizer, Pool)
Carlos Ortiz is led into Attleboro District Court for his arraignment on weapons charges, Friday, June 28, 2013 in Attleboro, Mass. Ortiz was arrested Wednesday in Bristol, Conn., in connection with the murder case against former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez , now charged in the murder of Odin Lloyd. (AP Photo/The Sun Chronicle, Mark Stockwell) MAGS OUT. MANDATORY CREDIT.
Bristol County District Attorney Sam Sutter, left, stands as Assistant District Attorney Bomberg speaks during the arraignment of Carlos Ortiz, Friday, June 28, 2013 in Attleboro, Mass. Ortiz was arrested Wednesday in Bristol, Conn., in connection with the murder case against former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez , now charged in the murder of Odin Lloyd. (AP Photo/The Sun Chronicle, Mark Stockwell, Pool)
BOSTON (AP) ? Dozens of relatives, friends and well-wishers have gathered at a church in Boston for the funeral of a semi-pro football player whose killing led to murder and weapons charges against former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez.
Odin Lloyd was found shot to death near Hernandez's home. Police arrested Hernandez on Wednesday at his home and charged him with orchestrating the execution-style shooting.
Mourners gathered at Church of the Holy Spirit in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood Saturday morning for Lloyd's funeral.
Prosecutors allege Hernandez arranged the killing because Lloyd talked to the wrong people at a nightclub.
Hernandez has pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail. Two other men are also in custody. Prosecutors allege the three suspects were in a car with Lloyd shortly before his death.
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Amazon Studios now accepting short video bids for feature films
Amazon Studios is hell-bent on developing movies and TV series, and on top of script submissions, it's now asking filmmakers to send in 2-15 minute long shorts to pitch their feature-length film ideas. Those would serve as a foundation for your project and "express an idea that's begging to be seen on the big-screen, in full-length, full-budget form," according to the division's Hollywonk blog. Amazon Studios will spend 45 days evaluating each submission, and those added to the development slate will receive $10,000. After that, you'll get put into the development pipeline, which could get you paid writing and directing opportunities, guidance and feedback from partners like Warner Bros., and up to $400,000 if your baby hits theaters. Private submissions are welcome, but if you're feeling brave, you can also post it for the world to see -- hit the source or More Coverage link for more info.
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RV Insurance Covers Your Home On The Road | Bankrate.com
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If the open road is calling you and a recreational vehicle, or RV, is the way you want to go, it may be smart to hitch on some RV insurance. While some owners opt to cover their RV with an endorsement on their auto insurance policy, insurance companies including Progressive, Nationwide, Geico and GMAC offer specialized RV insurance that resembles a combination of car insurance, home or renters insurance, and travel insurance rolled into one policy. "While some of the coverage an RV policy offers is similar to regular car insurance to cover accidents, you also need specific coverage that's like property insurance because you essentially live in the vehicle when you're using it," says Gregory J. Blanchard, an associate vice president with Nationwide insurance in Des Moines, Iowa. "You also need liability insurance to protect you if someone trips and falls on your campsite or slips inside your RV." Leslie Kay Drury, president of Leslie Kay's Inc., a specialty insurance firm in Boynton Beach, Fla., says she would never recommend putting your RV on an auto insurance policy because of liability issues and the potential for loss.Why consider RV insurance?
"Some people think their belongings (in the RV) are covered by their home insurance, but if you carry expensive things like a digital camera, binoculars, jewelry and electronics, you can easily exceed your coverage," says Drury.
"I had one customer who didn't buy personal property coverage on their RV, and they had $19,000 worth of stuff stolen when it was parked behind their house," she adds.
Charles Mozingo, a product manager for Progressive insurance in Mayfield Village, Ohio, says RVs often carry special equipment such as a generator, a water pump and a refrigerator that also needs to be covered.
What does RV insurance cost?
Like most insurance policies, RV insurance premiums vary widely. Mozingo says coverage can cost as little as $65 annually or up to $25,000 a year, in part because RVs themselves vary from $5,000 for a nonmotorized trailer to several million for a top-of-the-line luxury RV with a hot tub and crystal chandeliers.
"RV insurance is usually a lot less expensive than car insurance because the RV isn't driven as often and because RV drivers tend to be more experienced," says Blanchard. "Our annual car insurance premium averages $1,500 a year, while RV insurance averages $550 annually for a motor home and $250 for a nonmotorized trailer."
Variables that go into determining RV insurance rates include:
- Your driving record.
- Your age.
- Your gender.
- Your marital status.
- Your credit score.
- The model, type and age of your RV.
- Its storage location.
- Usage for vacation or as a primary residence.
- Average number of days per year you intend to use the RV, typically grouped as more or less than 150 days.
RV insurance can cover the actual cash value (depreciated value) or the total replacement cost in the event that your RV is totaled or stolen, says Drury. Companies tend to limit total replacement cost coverage to newer RVs.
What about extra coverage?
Note that RVs have very specific features that should be included in the policy.
"Motor homes have awnings that people often forget to roll up when they start driving, so we offer special insurance coverage to repair the awnings," says Blanchard.
RV owners also can choose optional coverage for:
- Pet injuries. "Many RV owners travel with their pets, so this will cover up to $1,000 in vet bills in the event of a loss that's covered under comprehensive or collision coverage," says Drury.
- Vacation liability. "One of the most important types of optional RV coverage is vacation liability insurance, which will pay for bodily injury and property damage if someone or something gets hurt in or around your RV," says Mozingo.
- Personal effects. "The biggest mistake people make is not covering their stuff," says Drury. You can get basic personal property coverage up to a specific limit or schedule individual items, says Mozingo.
- Trip insurance. A traffic accident in an RV "can be even more of an emergency because you're normally far from home when it happens," says Mozingo. "You can purchase coverage for living expenses and transportation in case your trip gets interrupted."
- Trailer and golf cart coverage. "A lot of RV owners also tow a golf cart, a kayak or a trailer with extra belongings," says Blanchard. "You can get extra coverage for physical damage caused if one of these comes loose."
- Roadside assistance. "Towing an RV can cost a lot more than a regular car, so you should buy a higher level of roadside assistance coverage," says Drury.
Some companies offer special insurance for RV "full-timers" with extended liability coverage and coverage for excess belongings kept in storage. Blanchard says many people who live full time in their RVs use storage facilities for possessions that don't fit inside the vehicle.
Are there any discounts?
In addition to discounts similar to those available on car insurance, (such as for a good driving record) RV drivers can get a discount for membership in an RV association or for taking an RV safety course, says Blanchard.
You also can cut your RV insurance premiums based on the time your vehicle spends off the road.
"Most companies also offer layover or storage insurance to reduce the cost of insuring the RV when it's in storage, typically up to 50 percent off the normal premium," says Mozingo.
Before you get behind the wheel of your RV, make sure you've got enough protection to keep the fun going even if you hit a bump in the road.
Source: http://www.bankrate.com/finance/insurance/rv-insurance.aspx
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Conn. man arraigned in ex-Patriot's murder case
ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP) ? An arrested man from former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's hometown was transferred to Massachusetts on Friday to face a gun charge connected to the murder case against Hernandez while a third suspect surrendered to authorities in Florida.
Carlos Ortiz, who lives in Bristol, Conn., and Ernest Wallace, who walked into a South Florida police station, were the men identified earlier as being with Hernandez and the victim the night of his shooting death, a prosecutor said.
Ortiz was charged with carrying an unlicensed firearm in North Attleborough, where Hernandez lives, on June 17, the day Boston semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd was found shot to death near Hernandez's home. Details of the charge weren't released.
Wallace, whose wanted poster was released Thursday night, surrendered in Miramar, Fla., police said. Authorities had been seeking Wallace on a charge of acting as an accessory after Lloyd's murder. Details of that allegation also weren't released.
Police arrested Hernandez on Wednesday at his home and charged him with orchestrating Lloyd's execution-style shooting. Prosecutors said Hernandez orchestrated the killing because Lloyd talked to the wrong people at a nightclub.
Hernandez, Ortiz and Wallace were in a car with Lloyd shortly before his death, Bristol County, Mass., District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter said.
"We now have in custody the three individuals who were in the silver Nissan Altima," Sutter said Friday when Ortiz was arraigned on the gun charge in Attleboro District Court.
All three men have ties to Bristol, Conn.: Hernandez grew up there, Ortiz had been living there, and authorities had conflicting addresses for Wallace there and in Miramar.
Hernandez pleaded not guilty to murder and was denied bail Thursday. Ortiz also was being held without bail pending a court hearing on July 9. Wallace was taken to a jail in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., pending extradition proceedings, police said.
Hernandez's lawyer argued in court that the case is circumstantial. He said Hernandez, who was cut by the Patriots the day he was arrested, wanted to clear his name.
Ortiz's attorney, John Connors, said he will seek bail for his client at the July 9 hearing. He described Ortiz as a "gentle person" and said he will advise Ortiz to plead not guilty.
"I can say that his charge has nothing to do with homicide," Connors said.
It was unclear if Wallace had a lawyer, and he couldn't be reached for comment in jail. His surrender surprised Miramar police.
Wallace walked into the police station and told officers there was a warrant for his arrest, which officers confirmed by checking a computer database.
"He stated he knew he had a warrant because he saw himself on TV," Miramar police Officer Gil Bueno said. "He was very cooperative. It was uneventful."
Earlier Friday, Ortiz appeared in Bristol Superior Court in Connecticut, where a judge authorized turning him over to a Massachusetts state trooper and a North Attleborough officer.
A friend and a relative of Ortiz said outside the courthouse that they were stunned by his arrest. They said Ortiz is the devoted father of two girls and a boy, all under the age of 9. Ortiz was unemployed recently but previously worked a long time at a Savers clothing store, they said.
They also said they couldn't believe Ortiz could be part of a murder.
"He's not that type of person. He has a good heart," said friend Milton Montesdeoca, who added he didn't know Hernandez and never heard Ortiz talk about the football star.
Also Friday, authorities said law enforcement officers recovered in Bristol a car Wallace was seen driving before he surrendered.
Meanwhile, Lloyd's relatives were preparing for his funeral in Boston on Saturday. A relative said the service will be at Church of the Holy Spirit in the city's Mattapan section.
Lloyd played for the Boston Bandits and was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancee.
Authorities have said trouble that led to Lloyd's killing happened June 14, when Lloyd went with Hernandez to a Boston nightclub. Hernandez became upset when Lloyd began talking with people Hernandez apparently didn't like, prosecutors said.
On June 16, the night before the slaying, a prosecutor said, Hernandez texted two unidentified friends and asked them to hurry to Massachusetts from Connecticut.
A few minutes later, he texted Lloyd to tell him he wanted to get together, prosecutors said. Authorities say the three men picked up Lloyd at around 2:30 a.m. June 17, drove him to an industrial park near Hernandez's home and shot him five times. They have not said who fired the shots.
Prosecutors said an ammunition clip was found in Hernandez's Hummer and matched the caliber of casings found at the scene of Lloyd's killing.
Hernandez was drafted by the Patriots in 2010 and signed a five-year contract worth $40 million last summer. He could face life in prison if convicted.
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Collins reported from Bristol, Conn. Associated Press writers Bridget Murphy in Boston and Michael Melia in Hartford, Conn., contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/conn-man-arraigned-ex-patriots-murder-case-224745898.html
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Maybe Bowling Alone Isn?t So Bad
Parade of the SS Guard, the Nazi elite, at a party rally in Nuremberg, Germany, in the late 1930s. Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images
When Alexis de Tocqueville made his storied visit to America in the 1830s, he observed with admiration the abundance of civic associations, which he believed contributed to the vibrancy of American democracy. In 1995, political scientist Robert Putnam pointed to Tocqueville in ?Bowling Alone,? his account of the decline of community life in America. Putnam sounded the alarm about a drop in membership in civic associations?everything from the bowling leagues that gave the essay its title, to parent associations and the Lions Club?which in turn led to growing disengagement from politics and public life. Putnam?s work heightened concern about America?s declining ?social capital??the connections that bind a society together through communal activities?and inspired much hand-wringing about the further damage the Internet and other technologies might bring.
Social capital is typically taken to be a good thing. But even Putnam, in the book-length version of his essay, noted that social capital can have its dark side: To the extent that groups encourage their members to focus their energies inward (as is the case with some religious, ethnic, or political groups where membership excludes those without particular beliefs or connections), they can breed intolerance and suspicion of outsiders. Putnam largely dismisses such concerns, but a fascinating study of civic associations during the Weimar Republic, by economists Nico Voigtl?nder and Hans-Joachim Voth and political scientist Shanker Satyanath, demonstrates the terrifying power of social capital gone awry. The researchers document that membership in the Nazi Party spread most rapidly in areas of Germany where civic associations were strongest, indicating that the social capital played a hand in building the most destructive political movement in modern history.
The term social capital is generally used to describe the trust and cooperation in a community that is the result of formal social institutions?associations, clubs, and the like?as well as personal networks and relationships. On some level, economists think of it as another source of productivity in an economy, just like tractors or new technologies (physical capital) or a better-skilled workforce (human capital). Trust makes it easier to do business on a handshake (or indeed to do business at all). A trustworthy labor force will work diligently without supervisors peering over their shoulders or burdensome regulations, and a trustworthy boss will return the favor, ensuring employees are paid on time and in full, and generally treated fairly.
The same civic associations that build trust, cooperation, and community also serve as ready networks for the spread of new movements and ideas. It is in this sense that Voigtl?nder and his colleagues argue (following an idea put forth by Barnard political scientist Sheri Berman) that the richness of interwar Germany?s social capital was critical to the success of Hitler?s National Socialist party. They quote one member?s recollection of his conversion to Nazism to highlight the role of social networks in making party dogma palatable to a wide audience. The young recruit describes how he ?became acquainted with a colleague of my own age with whom I had frequent conversations ? whom I esteemed very highly. When I found out that he was one of the local leaders of the National Socialist party, my opinion of it as a group of criminals changed completely.?
If the prevalence of civic associations is a measure of societal well-being, the Weimar Republic was in excellent health as Hitler began his march to power in the 1920s. Many of these organizations were built on an already rich history of associations from the 19th century, and while a few of these were explicitly nationalistic and even anti-Semitic in nature, the vast majority of membership groups were comprised of those united by rabbit breeding, stamp collecting, singing, gymnastics, and other decidedly apolitical interests.
To examine whether associations might have served as recruitment grounds for the Nazis, the researchers examined the relationship between the density of civic associations in a little more than a hundred German towns and cities and the growth in National Socialist Party membership during 1925?1933. Municipalities with dense networks of animal breeders, choir singers, and yes, bowling leagues saw Nazi membership increase as much as two-thirds faster than those where such groups were less plentiful. The authors allow that some other factor might have been driving the proliferation of both clubs and the National Socialist Party. Economic distress, for example, might have created a sympathetic audience for the Nazis? message, and also given citizens little to do with their time other than watch birds and sing in choirs. However, they find similar patterns even when looking at gymnastics and singing clubs that were formed in the 19th century. This indicates that a community?s historical predisposition to organize in associations, rather than some other concurrent change, was likely the cause of the rapid Nazi Party growth in such places.
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Friday, June 28, 2013
Stocks gain on encouraging news about the economy
Trader William McInerney works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, May 28, 2013. A jump in home prices is helping send the stock market sharply higher in early trading. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Trader William McInerney works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, May 28, 2013. A jump in home prices is helping send the stock market sharply higher in early trading. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Better news on jobs and consumer spending pushed stocks higher Thursday.
The Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500 index jumped, putting the stock market on track for its third advance in as many days. Bond yields fell for a second day, easing worries that a sudden spike in interest rates could hurt the economy.
Consumer spending rose 0.3 percent last month as incomes increased at the fastest pace in three months, the government reported. The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell 9,000 to 346,000 last week. The report added to evidence that the job market is improving modestly.
The stock market has rallied since Tuesday as investors took advantage of lower prices after a sell-off last week. The plunge came after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the central bank could cut back on its stimulus later this year and possibly end it next year, if the economy continued to improve.
The central bank is buying $85 billion of bonds every month to hold down long-term interest rates and encourage borrowing and spending. Fed's stimulus has underpinned a stock market rally that started in March 2009 by encouraging investors to put money into risky assets.
"What's driving that market up is that people are realizing that they are in a 'win-win' situation," said Rick Robinson, a regional Chief Investment Officer at Wells Fargo Private Bank. "If you have good economic data that should be good for stocks, if you have poor economic data ... that means the Fed will probably have its (stimulus) longer."
The Dow Jones was up 108 points, or 0.7 percent, to 15,017 as of 12:45 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
The S&P 500 index climbed 11 points, or 0.7 percent, to 1,614.
Nine of 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 rose, led by financial stocks.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.50 percent from 2.54 percent late Wednesday. The yield climbed as high 2.66 percent on Monday, the highest since August 2011. The rate has surged since May 3, when it touched its low for the year of 1.63 percent. Concern that the Fed is poised to start pulling back on its stimulus prompted investors to sell bonds, pushing the yield higher.
Investors who have added bonds to their portfolios at the expense of stocks should consider reducing their fixed income holdings because yields are likely to rise further, said Doug Cote, chief market strategist at ING Investment Management. Bonds rallied from 2007 to 2012, years that encompassed the financial crisis and the Great Recession. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to a record low of 1.39 percent in July last year.
"For the first time in five years, equities are the safest asset class," Cote said.
Higher yields on Treasury bonds translate into higher borrowing costs on many kinds of loans including home mortgages. Average U.S. rates on fixed mortgages surged this week to their highest levels in two years. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on the 30-year loan jumped to 4.46 percent. That's up from 3.93 percent last week and the highest since July 2011.
Higher rates have yet to slow the housing market. Homebuilders got a lift from a report Thursday suggesting that the housing recovery remains intact. The number of people who signed contracts to buy U.S. homes jumped in May to the highest level in more than six years.
D.R. Horton rose 48 cents, or 2.3 percent, to $21.29. Lennar rose $1.14 cents, or 3.2 percent, to $37.16.
Investors were also encouraged by comments from a key Fed official. Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley said the central bank would likely keep buying bonds if the economy failed to grow at the pace the Fed was expecting.
"If labor market conditions and the economy's growth momentum were to be less favorable than in the (Fed's) outlook_and this is what has happened in recent years_I would expect that the asset purchases would continue at a higher pace for longer," Dudley said at a news conference in New York.
The S&P 500 index is on track to log its best first half of a year in 15 years. The index has gained 13.2 percent so far this year. If it ends the week at its current level, it would mark the best first-half performance since 1998. That year the index rose 17.7 percent in the first six months of the year.
The market will likely become more volatile in the second half of the year as investors assess when the Fed will end its stimulus, said Kate Warne, investment strategist at retail brokerage firm Edward Jones.
"The general outlook for the economy is solid," said Warne. "The trend in stock prices is likely to continue to be higher, even though we'll see a lot more zig-zagging as everyone debates the timing of the Fed's next move."
In commodities trading, the price of oil rose $1.41, or 1.5 percent, to $96.90 a barrel. Gold fell $3.40 cents to $1,225.50 an ounce.
In other trading, the Nasdaq composite rose 27 points, or 0.8 percent, to 3,403.
The dollar fell against the euro and the Japanese yen.
Among stocks making big moves:
? ConAgra Foods rose $1.78, or 5.3 percent, to $35.13 after the company posted a quarterly profit that came in a penny above the expectations of Wall Street analysts. The maker of Chef Boyardee, Hebrew National and other packaged foods benefited from acquisitions and price cuts that helped increase sales. ?Payroll processor Paychex fell $2.03, or 5.3 percent, to $35.96 after posting earnings that fell short of analysts' expectations. The company said profit for the three months through May 31 came in roughly flat at 34 cents per share. Analysts had expected earnings of 37 cents a share. ? KB Home rose 56 cents, or 2.8 percent, to $20.46, after the homebuilder's second-quarter loss narrowed. The company continued to deliver more homes at higher prices as the real estate market strengthens.
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Ohio abortion-rights group protests restrictions
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- About 70 abortion-rights supporters gathered Thursday outside the Ohio Statehouse to protest restrictions on abortion providers that Republican lawmakers slipped into the proposed state budget at the last minute.
Republicans amended the state's spending bill earlier this week to require abortion providers to inform pregnant women seeking the procedure if a fetal heartbeat is present. They also added a provision that prohibits doctors from performing an abortion without determining the presence of a fetal heartbeat "unless there is a medical emergency" and redefines what constitutes a medical emergency.
"Not only is the content of this reprehensible and controlling measures offensive, the way they tried to slip these provisions into the budget bill (was) like thieves in the night," Democratic Sen. Nina Turner told the crowd. "They need to stand up and have some courage and stop showing cowardice."
The Ohio Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice scheduled Thursday's rally ahead of votes planned in the House and Senate on Ohio's $62 billion, two-year budget plan.
Lawmakers approved the state's spending bill hours after the rally.
Senate President Keith Faber defended members of his party from accusations that they slipped the abortion restrictions into the bill at the last minute. Following the measure's approval in the Senate, Faber said, changes shouldn't come as a surprise because amendments are part of the budget negotiating process.
"This was no different than what's happened in conference committees from the beginning of time," Faber said.
Three gynecologists who practice in Columbus clinics condemned the proposed changes during the rally. They particularly criticized the redefinition of a medical emergency. They said it would limit the time they have to save the life of a woman who needs an abortion to survive.
"Do I tell the patient and family I cannot intervene unless she has a stroke or worse?" said Dr. Anita Somani. "Or do I risk going to jail because I'm doing what's best for my patient by saving her life and the cost of her pre-viable fetus?"
The protesters also opposed a budget provision that effectively defunds Planned Parenthood, whose health care offerings to low-income patients can include abortions. At the end of the rally, they chanted "line-item veto" in calling upon Republican Gov. John Kasich to eliminate the restrictions.
Kasich opposes abortion, but has not said whether he would remove the restrictions.
After the state's spending bill was approved in the Senate on a partisan-split vote, women in the audience, most of them sporting pink T-shirts proclaiming support for Planned Parenthood, were escorted out of the chamber after they yelled: "Shame on you, shame on you!"
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ohio-abortion-rights-group-protests-145811081.html
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NEC NP-M311W
As a brighter, higher-resolution cousin to the NEC NP-M271X that I recently reviewed, the NEC NP-M311W ($899 direct) shares a similar design and some of the same features. In particular, it's LCD based, it's just as easy to carry, and it offers the same impressive 1.7x zoom for more-than-usual setup flexibility. The differences are significant too, however, including higher resolution and higher brightness. The combination is impressive enough to make the NP-M311W an Editors' Choice.
Built around a 3-chip WXGA (1280 by 800) engine, the NP-M311W offers the same resolution as the Optoma TW610ST and ViewSonic PJD6683ws, two Editors Choices that each offer a short-throw lens and are built around DLP chips. Either of those differences?the lens or the type of engine?can be enough to prefer the NP-M311W on the one hand or one of the DLP projectors on the other.
A short-throw lens makes it easier to avoid shadows, which can be an advantage if you don't have much room between the audience and the screen. On the other hand, the 1.7x zoom for the NP-311W is a notable convenience. It gives you lots of flexibility for how far you can put the projector from the screen for a given size image, and it helps make setup fast and easy. That can be particularly useful if you plan to move the projector around a lot and need to set it up repeatedly.
The type of engine makes an even more critical difference. Unlike most current DLP projectors, including the Optoma and ViewSonic models, the NP-311W doesn't support 3D at all. However, as a three-chip LCD projector, it offers two important advantages.
First, it can't show rainbow artifacts, which is always a potential concern for single-chip DLP projectors. And second, unlike most DLP projectors, it offers the same color brightness as white brightness, an issue that can affect both brightness of color images and color quality when the two aren't equal. (For more on color brightness, see Color Brightness: What It Is, and Why You Should Care.) If you don't need 3D, this gives the LCD-based NP-311W the clear edge.
More Basics
The NP-M311W essentially matches the Optoma and ViewSonic models on portability. At 6 pounds 10 ounces, and measuring 3.9 by 13.4 by 10.1 inches (HWD), it's a size and weight that often winds up permanently installed or on a cart, but is also easy to take with you if you want to. NEC even ships it with a soft carrying case.
Setup is standard. Plug in the appropriate cables, adjust the 1.7x zoom, and focus the image. The back panel includes all the most common connectors for image sources, with VGA, HDMI, S-Video, and composite video, plus a USB A port for reading files directly from a USB key. In addition, you can use the LAN port to send images as well as control the projector over a network. NEC says it's in the process of upgrading its network software to support audio as well, with the software downloadable from the NEC Web site. Options for the projector include Wi-Fi ($80 street) and a dongle ($45 street) for controlling your computer's mouse pointer from the projector's remote.
Image Quality and Other Issues
Data image quality for the NP-M311W is a little short of excellent, but not by much, with the projector scoring well on most of our standard suite of DisplayMate tests. It delivered both eye-catching, vibrant colors in all modes, and also good color balance in all modes, which is unusual. Most projectors have problems with color balance in their brightest mode.
One minor issue was streaking in some images, with a ghost image of horizontal bars extending well past the actual bars. The streaking was faint enough so it shouldn't be an issue for most purposes, and it showed only on screens that are designed to bring out the problem. However, it's worth mention because few projectors today show this problem at all. Much more important for data images, the NP-M311 did an excellent job with fine detail. Both black text on white and white text on black, for example, were crisp and easily readable at sizes as small as 6.8 points.
Video quality is limited by the projector's native 1,280 by 800 resolution. However the image is good enough for watching a full- length movie, which makes the NP-M311W's video better than most data projectors can manage.
Also demanding mention is both the long lamp life?at a longer than typical 4,000 hours in Standard lamp mode and 8,000 hours in Eco mode?and the built-in audio system, with a 10-watt mono speaker. The audio suffers from some bottom of the barrel echo effect, but it is unusual for data projectors in this weight class in offering acceptable quality and enough volume for a mid-size conference room or classroom.
If you need a short-throw lens, 3D, or both, you'll need to look elsewhere, with the Optoma TW610ST and ViewSonic PJD6683ws serving as good starting points. If you don't need either, however, the NEC NP-311W offers a long list of attractive features, from its brightness, to its data and video image quality, to its 1.7x zoom lens, to its long lamp life. Taken together, they add up to a compelling argument for making the NEC NP-311W a good fit if you need a WXGA projector, and making it an Editors' Choice as well.
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