Jobs report shows snail?s pace recovery

A lukewarm July jobs report, with employers reporting that they added the fewest new positions since March, is another sign of a sluggish recovery, economists said.

Employers added 162,000 jobs last month while the unemployment rate fell to 7.4 percent, largely because of a shrinking labor force.

?It?s not striking you as something horrible, but it?s not the direction you want to see,? said Elliot Winer, chief economist at Northeast Economic Analysis Group.

Many of the jobs that were added were low-paying, low-productivity jobs in the retail and food-services industries, according to Nigel Gault, co-chief economist of The Parthenon Group.

?We didn?t create a lot of jobs, and we weren?t creating good ones,? Gault said, who added the trend is not new. ?It?s certainly been something evident over the past year.?

More than half of the new jobs added in July were in those sectors. The average workweek and hourly earnings both dropped, as well.

The results leave uncertainty about the short-term decisions of the Federal Reserve Bank. Chairman Ben Bernanke had indicated tapering of the central bank?s $85 billion bond buying program could end in September if the economy continued to improve. The bond buying program has kept interest rates low, and has been a key factor in a resurgent housing market.

?It leaves fed policy up in the air,? Gault said.

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NM exhibit shines light on rare Beatles photos

This Feb. 11, 1964 image provided by the David Anthony Fine Art gallery in Taos, N.M., shows a photograph of the Beatles taken by photographer Mike Mitchell during a news conference before the band's first live U.S. concert at the Washington Coliseum. Mitchell?s portraits of the Beatles are the centerpiece of a monthlong photography exhibition at the gallery. This marks the first time the images have been shown since their unveiling in 2011 at a Christie?s auction in New York City. (AP Photo/David Anthony Fine Art, Mike Mitchell)

This Feb. 11, 1964 image provided by the David Anthony Fine Art gallery in Taos, N.M., shows a photograph of the Beatles taken by photographer Mike Mitchell during a news conference before the band's first live U.S. concert at the Washington Coliseum. Mitchell?s portraits of the Beatles are the centerpiece of a monthlong photography exhibition at the gallery. This marks the first time the images have been shown since their unveiling in 2011 at a Christie?s auction in New York City. (AP Photo/David Anthony Fine Art, Mike Mitchell)

This Feb. 11, 1964 image provided by the David Anthony Fine Art gallery in Taos, N.M., shows a photograph of John Lennon taken by photographer Mike Mitchell during the Beatles first live U.S. concert at the Washington Coliseum. Mitchell?s portraits of the Beatles are the centerpiece of a monthlong photography exhibition at the gallery. This marks the first time the images have been shown since their unveiling in 2011 at a Christie?s auction in New York City. (AP Photo/David Anthony Fine Art, Mike Mitchell)

This Feb. 11, 1964 image provided by the David Anthony Fine Art gallery in Taos, N.M., shows a photograph of George Harrison taken by photographer Mike Mitchell during the Beatles first live U.S. concert at the Washington Coliseum. Mitchell?s portraits of the Beatles are the centerpiece of a monthlong photography exhibition at the gallery. This marks the first time the images have been shown since their unveiling in 2011 at a Christie?s auction in New York City. (AP Photo/David Anthony Fine Art, Mike Mitchell)

This Feb. 11, 1964 image provided by the David Anthony Fine Art gallery in Taos, N.M., shows a photograph of Ringo Starr taken by photographer Mike Mitchell during the Beatles first live U.S. concert at the Washington Coliseum. Mitchell?s portraits of the Beatles are the centerpiece of a monthlong photography exhibition at the gallery. This marks the first time the images have been shown since their unveiling in 2011 at a Christie?s auction in New York City. (AP Photo/David Anthony Fine Art, Mike Mitchell)

This Feb. 11, 1964 image provided by the David Anthony Fine Art gallery in Taos, N.M., shows a photograph of Ringo Starr taken by photographer Mike Mitchell at a news conference before the Beatles first live U.S. concert at the Washington Coliseum. Mitchell?s portraits of the Beatles are the centerpiece of a monthlong photography exhibition at the gallery. This marks the first time the images have been shown since their unveiling in 2011 at a Christie?s auction in New York City. (AP Photo/David Anthony Fine Art, Mike Mitchell)

TAOS, N.M. (AP) ? Snow and frigid temperatures didn't stop thousands of screaming teenagers from crowding into the Washington Coliseum in the nation's capital for the Beatles first live concert on American soil.

And not having a flash didn't stop photographer Mike Mitchell, then just 18 years old, from using his unrestricted access to document that historic February night in 1964 using only the dim light in the arena.

Ghostly shadows and streams of light filled some negatives. With the help of modern technology and close to 1,000 hours in front of the computer screen, Mitchell was able to peel back decades of grunge and transform those old negatives into a rare, artful look at one of pop culture's defining moments.

Mitchell's portraits of the Beatles are the centerpiece of a monthlong exhibition at the David Anthony Fine Art gallery in Taos ? the first time the prints have been exhibited since being unveiled in 2011 at a Christie's auction in New York City. The gallery started hanging the first of the framed prints a week ago in preparation for Friday's opening.

"Just amazing," gallery owner David Mapes said as he looked around the room at the large black and white prints and wondered aloud what it must have been like to be in Mitchell's shoes that night.

Mapes pointed to a photograph of the four band members, their backs to the camera with a thin ribbon of light outlining their silhouettes. When he first saw it, he said he teared up. He knew he had to find a way to share it with others.

"It brought back memories of that time. I was a teenager and it was so much about love and everything was optimistic feeling," he said.

It didn't take long from the time the Beatles released their debut album in 1963 to go from a little British bar band to an international sensation. The Beatles' reach eventually stretched beyond music and haircuts to religion and politics.

"The Beatles came to represent some of the yearnings for peace and hope and equality and a larger social justice. In the United States and throughout the world, their personalities became as important as the music," said Norman Markowitz, a history professor at Rutgers University.

For Paul Vance, who teaches a class on the Beatles at Winona State University in Minnesota, the band was the reason he pursued music. He was 11 years old when the Beatles first came to the U.S.

The Beatles had good timing, he said, having arrived at a time when America was still heartbroken over the assassination of then-President John F. Kennedy and young people were looking for meaning in their lives.

"Much has been said and written about it," Vance said of the Beatles' influence. "It's a very significant point that the world after the Beatles was a radically different place than the world before the Beatles, and they did influence and change so many aspects of not just American life, but life everywhere."

Mitchell can't predict what role his photographs will play as historians and music fans continue to examine the evolution of American pop culture. Still, those moments captured by his camera that February night tell a grainy story of four young men who seemed to be having the time of their lives.

Mitchell remembers how hot it was inside the coliseum. The crowd was deafening but the resonating bass beats were unmistakable. He said the Beatles were "on fire" that night.

"They were really juiced. It was obvious at the time that they were really, really, really into it and I think the pictures really benefit from that," he said.

Mitchell said his goal was simple. He wanted to make great portraits of the Beatles while discovering a little more about who they really were.

With no flash, he was forced to wait for the perfect time to snap that shutter. His photographs immortalized the important details of the moment in a bath of light while the rest faded into darkness. It was the concert that marked the beginning of his fascination with light.

"I think that was the first time in my life that I had to really look more deeply at light and take my queues from what the light was doing," he said. "I learned to sort of feel from the light."

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Controversial Golf Project in Croatia's Dubrovnik Cleared by Authorities

Critics have raised environmental concerns over the development on a site, and also said that the modern project is incompatible with the architecture of the city, a UNESCO world heritage site.

The project, backed by Australian former world number one golfer Greg Norman, aims to build two golf courses, two hotels, 240 villas and 400 apartments on 310 hectares (766 acres) of the land.

"A total of 16 city councillors of the 24 present during Tuesday's vote backed the project," city council spokeswoman Kristina Civalo told AFP of the vote on Tuesday evening.

Construction on the project -- the brainchild of Israeli businessman Aaron Frenkel -- could begin later this year.

Those supporting the scheme say it will result in the creation of local jobs and provide a boost to the tourism industry.

Norman, who won two Majors, is to open a golf academy at the project site, local media reported.

Some 100 protestors had gathered outside Dubrovnik's city hall to voice their opposition and carried banners which read "Srdj is ours" in reference to the name of the land where the complex will be built.

The newest member of the European Union, Croatia hosts more than 11 million tourists yearly, almost triple of its population of 4.2 million.

Dubrovnik is visited by some 700,000 tourists every year.

Source-AFP

Source: http://www.medindia.net/news/controversial-golf-project-in-croatias-dubrovnik-cleared-by-authorities-122983-1.htm

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IRA parade: A whiff of smart aleck game-playing from Sinn Fein

By Liam Clarke ? 02 August 2013

It is hard to see Sinn Fein's decision to back an IRA parade through Castlederg as anything other than an attempt to create a bargaining chip for the forthcoming Haass talks on parading.

For unionists it will never be seen as anything but a coat trailing exercise.

One of the problems for republican negotiators is that the vast majority of parades are loyal order events. A glimpse at the Parades Commission's website shows that, and republicans may feel they need something to trade at the talks.

That could be why it has suddenly created this parade route and has borrowed heavily on the language of the loyal orders, the very arguments which in Ardoyne and Portadown were described as irrelevant.

The orders call the road from Woodvale past Ardoyne shops and Twaddell Avenue in north Belfast a shared space which all can use. Republicans disagree and say it must be negotiated with local residents. The Orange Order called a park in Portadown a shared space and sought to search the boundaries of what this meant by holding a prayer service there.

"Shared space does not mean abused space," said John McGibbon, a Sinn Fein spokesman arguing that the Orange Order could not use the park as it did not have a good relationship with nationalist residents.

In north Belfast, the Orange Order talked of its "template" for parading and presented it as a concession. Not good enough, countered Sinn Fein, you can't impose your template, you have to agree it with people.

In Castlederg the roles are reversed. Sinn Fein and the Tyrone Volunteers committee make the arguments the loyal orders make elsewhere. They have a template, the town centre is a shared area and people should show tolerance to them. The arguments have a smart aleck, game-playing "see how you like it" air to them. This sort of inconsistency, and the decision to pull this issue out of a hat, is unlikely to wash with Haass, and it put the Parades Commission in an impossible position.

Having stopped the Orangemen at Woodvale, it had to reroute the republicans in Castlederg.

Sinn Fein knew that ? but it is not aping the reaction of unionists in north Belfast.

"This determination makes a mockery of the concept of shared space within Castlederg centre and the fact that locally there has been dialogue for over five years surrounding parades in the town," said councillor Ruarai McHugh, lamenting the re-routing's potential to "undermine attempts by local republicans towards addressing contention in Castelderg".

There is also an attempt to claim anyone who is Catholic as a republican, for example Castlederg is regarded as a republican town because 62.7% of people voted for nationalist parties in Derg Ward.

Indeed, as Ross Hussey of the UUP was quick to point out, only 35.1% of townspeople consider themselves Irish. Many of those would not be supporters of the IRA. Although many may regard the two IRA men whose death in a premature bomb detonation three miles outside the town as tragically wasted young lives, far fewer will wish that Seamus Harvey and Gerard McGlynn had succeeded in bombing the town.

Support for such events must be tested, it cannot just be claimed. In the Haass process we need an all-round look at parades and decide if, or when, we do want single community events in our shared spaces.

This sort of jockeying only makes an agreed solution more difficult.

Source: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/debateni/blogs/liam-clarke/ira-parade-a-whiff-of-smart-aleck-gameplaying-from-sinn-fein-29466534.html

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Cheryl Boone Isaacs + Kerry Washington = the Obama Effect hits Hollywood

By Sharon Waxman

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Something is in the air in Hollywood. Call it the Obama Effect.

Can it be coincidence that Cheryl Boone Isaacs, an African-American woman, has been voted president of an organization that is 94 percent white and 77 percent male?

Doesn't it feel unusual - or more accurately, of the moment - that Kerry Washington scored the first best actress Emmy nomination for an African-American in 18 years, catapulting her to the cover of magazines like Vanity Fair?

"It's major," acknowledged Boone Isaacs in an interview with TheWrap's Steve Pond on Wednesday. "I know that, and you know that. To be given this trust is quite a big deal. It's an honor, it's a privilege, and I hope it's inspirational for people the way others have been an inspiration for me.

Something seems to have budged in the uber-liberal conscience of the industry, and it's hard to believe that five years of an African-American family in the White House hasn't helped. Seeing a black First Lady and a dark-skinned POTUS seems to have spread a quiet, normalizing effect on Hollywood culture.

It was high time. A 2012 L.A. Times study found that nearly 94% of Academy voters are white and 77% are male. Blacks make up about 2% of the Academy and Latinos less than 2%.

This year, not only has Cheryl Boone Isaacs been elected president, but in the Actors branch, fully half of the 22 new members are minorities, including Lucy Liu, Jennifer Lopez, Sandra Oh, Michael Pena, Danny Trejo and Chris Tucker.

Coincidence? Certainly not.

Yesterday I was sitting in a meeting where celebrity names were being tossed about for hotness and relevance, and who was tossed out first? Washington, who plays the savvy, kind and drop-dead beautiful political fixer Olivia Pope on "Scandal," and Rashida Jones, the Harvard-educated, writer-producer-actress with the piercing blue eyes and mixed race parentage.

Washington talked to TheWrap's Jethro Nededog in recent days about her Emmy nomination, and is well aware of the connection her fictional character has to real-life figures in Washington and the shift in public perception.

"I'm really proud to live in world where a show that has a woman of color as its lead character can be a success," she said. "I'm proud to be in a show that really champions inclusivity, because our show values diversity not just in terms of race but in terms of ethnicity, in terms of sexual orientation, in terms of age in terms of gender."

The funny thing about Hollywood is despite being at its heart is a liberal place, its power structure has remained overwhelmingly white and male (and Jewish and/or gay - but who's looking?). Everyone professes to be color-blind and racism-free, yet when you walk around the entertainment industry you almost never see any other color but white. In fact you'd never know - except by watching television and movies - how diverse the country has become.

But it looks like that may be starting to change, along with people's consciousness about the imbalance.

No, this is not any coincidence. Kerry Washington, who had a central, gruelling role in Quentin Tarantino's slave epic, "Django Unchained," is certainly one of the boldest actors going. It makes sense to celebrate her work. It makes sense to place Boone Isaacs at the head of the Academy.

And if it isn't the New Normal yet, perhaps it will be sooner than we think.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cheryl-boone-isaacs-kerry-washington-obama-effect-hits-222930156.html

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