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This story appears in the May 7 edition of Forbes magazine on page 150.

Zynga, Facebook and all use an independent auditor that is simultaneously inventing the rules for social media accounting.

Somewhere, Arthur Andersen is shuddering.

For 26 million digital farmers working their fields and crops on Zynga’s popular game FarmVille, obtaining a virtual tractor, seeder or harvester can be transformative. A make-believe tractor, for example, ?allows you to plow four plots at a time. It’s the kind of productivity that laptop-bound farmers dream of.

The problem is that earning enough FarmVille currency to afford heavy farm equipment takes time. But like other social gaming companies, Zynga allows users to speed up the process by converting real dollars from their credit card and PayPal accounts into the FarmVille currency used to buy virtual goods. A hot rod tractor, for example, costs 55 in Farm Cash, which translates into $10 in real U.S. money.

For Zynga, which also owns CityVille,http://www.airjordanretrocheapsale.com/, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars and Words With Friends,jordan 12 sale, virtual tractor sales are big business. The fledgling company likely sells millions of tractors each year (that compares with 190,000 real tractors sold in 2011 in the U.S. and Canada). Sales of virtual goods, from FarmVille hay to Mafia Wars assault rifles, accounted for nearly all of Zynga’s $1.1 billion in 2011 revenues—and 12% of revenue for Zynga’s distributor, Facebook.

Which makes it very helpful that both have the same friend in the ?accounting business: Ernst & Young, the public auditor for Zynga and Facebook.

Ernst & Young wrote ,cheap jordan 8, literally. The third-largest accounting firm ?behind PricewaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte, it leads its rivals in the technology and burgeoning social media space. Neither the Financial Accounting Standards Board nor the Securities & Exchange Commission has issued rules for the likes of livestock love potions and virtual harvesters, so an E&Y document (updated this past March) lays out three revenue-recognition models it deems consistent with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

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Such publications are well worth E&Y’ s effort,jordan retro 6, since its ” consulting unit helps companies develop their financial systems,cheap jordan 3, controls and accounting policies well before they are ready to come public. Which is potentially problematic. A firm that consults on byzantine accounting rules for unusual revenue streams and also offers “independent” auditing services for the same companies?

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1 Carlos Slim Helu & family

Carlos Slim Helu & family

$69 B 72 telecom Mexico
2 Bill Gates

Bill Gates

$61 B 56 Microsoft United States
3 Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett

$44 B 81 Berkshire Hathaway United States
4 Bernard Arnault

Bernard Arnault

$41 B 63 LVMH France
5 Amancio Ortega

Amancio Ortega

$37.5 B 75 Zara Spain
6 Larry Ellison

Larry Ellison

$36 B 67 Oracle United States
7 Eike Batista

Eike Batista

$30 B 55 mining, oil Brazil
8 Stefan Persson

Stefan Persson

$26 B 64 H&M Sweden
9 Li Ka-shing

Li Ka-shing

$25.5 B 83 diversified Hong Kong
10 Karl Albrecht

Karl Albrecht

$25.4 B 92 Aldi Germany
11 Christy Walton & family

Christy Walton & family

$25.3 B 57 Wal-Mart United States
12 Charles Koch

Charles Koch

$25 B 76 diversified United States
12 David Koch

David Koch

$25 B 71 diversified United States
14 Sheldon Adelson

Sheldon Adelson

$24.9 B 78 casinos United States
15 Liliane Bettencourt

Liliane Bettencourt

$24 B 89 L’Oreal France
16 Jim Walton

Jim Walton

$23.7 B 64 Wal-Mart United States
17 Alice Walton

Alice Walton

$23.3 B 62 Wal-Mart United States
18 S. Robson Walton

S. Robson Walton

$23.1 B 68 Wal-Mart United States
19 Mukesh Ambani

Mukesh Ambani

$22.3 B 54 petrochemicals, oil & gas India
20 Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg

$22 B 70 Bloomberg LP United States
21 Lakshmi Mittal

Lakshmi Mittal

$20.7 B 61 steel India
22 George Soros

George Soros

$20 B 81 hedge funds United States
23 Michele Ferrero & family

Michele Ferrero & family

$19 B 85 chocolates Italy
24 Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin

$18.7 B 38 Google United States
24 Larry Page

Larry Page

$18.7 B 39 Google United States
26 Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos

$18.4 B 48 Amazon.com United States
27 Thomas & Raymond Kwok & family

Thomas & Raymond Kwok & family

$18.3 B 0 real estate Hong Kong
28 Alisher Usmanov

Alisher Usmanov

$18.1 B 58 steel, telecom, investments Russia
29 Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud

$18 B 57 investments Saudi Arabia
29 Lee Shau Kee

Lee Shau Kee

$18 B 84 diversified Hong Kong
29 Georgina Rinehart

Georgina Rinehart

$18 B 58 Mining Australia
32 Berthold & Theo Jr. Albrecht

Berthold & Theo Jr. Albrecht

$17.8 B 0 Aldi,cheap jordan 2, Trader Joe’s Germany
32 Iris Fontbona & family

Iris Fontbona & family

$17.8 B 69 mining Chile
34 Michael Otto & family

Michael Otto & family

$17.6 B 68 retail, real estate Germany
35 David Thomson & family

David Thomson & family

$17.5 B 54 media Canada
35 Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg

$17.5 B 27 Facebook United States
37 Ricardo Salinas Pliego & family

Ricardo Salinas Pliego & family

$17.4 B 56 retail, media Mexico
38 Alberto Bailleres Gonzalez & family

Alberto Bailleres Gonzalez & family

$16.5 B 80 mining Mexico
39 Rinat Akhmetov

Rinat Akhmetov

$16 B 45 steel, coal Ukraine
39 Cheng Yu-tung

Cheng Yu-tung

$16 B 86 diversified Hong Kong
41 Michael Dell

Michael Dell

$15.9 B 47 Dell United States
41 Vladimir Lisin

Vladimir Lisin

$15.9 B 55 steel, transport Russia
41 Azim Premji

Azim Premji

$15.9 B 66 software India
44 Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer

$15.7 B 56 Microsoft United States
45 Alexei Mordashov

Alexei Mordashov

$15.3 B 46 steel, investments Russia
46 Vladimir Potanin

Vladimir Potanin

$14.5 B 51 metals Russia
47 Phil Knight

Phil Knight

$14.4 B 74 Nike United States
48 Paul Allen

Paul Allen

$14.2 B 59 Microsoft, investments United States
48 German Larrea Mota Velasco & family

German Larrea Mota Velasco & family

$14.2 B 58 mining Mexico
50 Carl Icahn

Carl Icahn

$14 B 76 leveraged buyouts United States
50 Birgit Rausing & family

Birgit Rausing & family

$14 B 88 packaging Sweden
52 Forrest Mars Jr

Forrest Mars Jr

$13.8 B 80 candy United States
52 Jacqueline Mars

Jacqueline Mars

$13.8 B 72 candy United States
52 John Mars

John Mars

$13.8 B 75 candy United States
52 Joseph Safra

Joseph Safra

$13.8 B 73 banking Brazil
56 Vagit Alekperov

Vagit Alekperov

$13.5 B 61 Lukoil Russia
57 Mikhail Fridman

Mikhail Fridman

$13.4 B 47 oil,cheap jordan 3, banking, telecom Russia
58 Mikhail Prokhorov

Mikhail Prokhorov

$13.2 B 46 investments Russia
59 Susanne Klatten

Susanne Klatten

$13 B 49 BMW, pharmaceuticals Germany
59 Francois Pinault & family

Francois Pinault & family

$13 B 75 retail France
61 Mohammed Al Amoudi

Mohammed Al Amoudi

$12.5 B 67 oil, diversified Saudi Arabia
61 Anne Cox Chambers

Anne Cox Chambers

$12.5 B 92 media United States
61 John Paulson

John Paulson

$12.5 B 56 hedge funds United States
64 Robert Kuok

Robert Kuok

$12.4 B 88 diversified Malaysia
64 Luis Carlos Sarmiento

Luis Carlos Sarmiento

$12.4 B 79 banking Colombia
64 Viktor Vekselberg

Viktor Vekselberg

$12.4 B 54 oil,retro 4 jordan, metals Russia
67 Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family

Antonio Ermirio de Moraes & family

$12.2 B 83 diversified Brazil
68 Roman Abramovich

Roman Abramovich

$12.1 B 45 steel, investments Russia
69 Donald Bren

Donald Bren

$12 B 79 real estate United States
69 Jorge Paulo Lemann

Jorge Paulo Lemann

$12 B 72 beer Brazil
69 Ronald Perelman

Ronald Perelman

$12 B 69 leveraged buyouts United States
72 Len Blavatnik

Len Blavatnik

$11.9 B 54 diversified United States
72 Leonid Mikhelson

Leonid Mikhelson

$11.9 B 56 gas, chemicals Russia
74 Leonardo Del Vecchio

Leonardo Del Vecchio

$11.5 B 76 eyewear Italy
75 John Fredriksen

John Fredriksen

$11.3 B 67 shipping Cyprus
76 Aliko Dangote

Aliko Dangote

$11.2 B 54 sugar, flour,air jordans for sale, cement Nigeria
76 Stefan Quandt

Stefan Quandt

$11.2 B 45 BMW Germany
78 Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family

Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor & family

$11 B 60 real estate United Kingdom
78 Harold Hamm

Harold Hamm

$11 B 66 oil & gas United States
80 Savitri Jindal & family

Savitri Jindal & family

$10.9 B 62 steel India
81 Andrey Melnichenko

Andrey Melnichenko

$10.8 B 40 coal, fertilizers Russia
82 James Simons

James Simons

$10.7 B 73 hedge funds United States
83 Ernesto Bertarelli & family

Ernesto Bertarelli & family

$10.6 B 46 biotech, investments Switzerland
84 Jack Taylor & family

Jack Taylor & family

$10.4 B 89 Enterprise Rent-A-Car United States
85 Abigail Johnson

Abigail Johnson

$10.3 B 50 Fidelity United States
86 Robin Li

Robin Li

$10.2 B 43 Technology China
86 Eliodoro, Bernardo & Patricia Matte

Eliodoro, Bernardo & Patricia Matte

$10.2 B 0 paper Chile
88 Ray Dalio

Ray Dalio

$10 B 62 hedge funds United States
88 George Kaiser

George Kaiser

$10 B 69 oil & gas, banking United States
88 Johanna Quandt

Johanna Quandt

$10 B 85 BMW Germany
88 Hans Rausing

Hans Rausing

$10 B 86 packaging Sweden
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Tadashi Yanai & family

$10 B 63 retail Japan
93 Serge Dassault & family

Serge Dassault & family

$9.9 B 86 aviation France
93 Ananda Krishnan

Ananda Krishnan

$9.9 B 73 telecoms Malaysia
95 Klaus-Michael Kuhne

Klaus-Michael Kuhne

$9.8 B 74 shipping Germany
96 Pallonji Mistry

Pallonji Mistry

$9.7 B 82 construction Ireland
97 Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila

Alejandro Santo Domingo Davila

$9.5 B 35 beer Colombia
98 Horst Paulmann & family

Horst Paulmann & family

$9.3 B 77 retail Chile
99 Gennady Timchenko

Gennady Timchenko

$9.1 B 59 oil & gas Russia
100 Laurene Powell Jobs & family

Laurene Powell Jobs & family

$9 B 48 Apple, Disney United States

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At the margins, the multi-layered glittering event will have political impact here and in the US. For President Obama, there is nothing to lose in an election year to be seen bonding with one of the more right-wing leaders in Europe. As far as any of the Republicans’ potential candidates have a strategy for the forthcoming election, it is to portray the President as a dangerous leftie. Yet here is the supposedly left-wing Obama enjoying effortless rapport with a prime minister implementing an economic experiment in the UK that The New York Times reminds its readers on a regular basis is more extreme in its austerity than anywhere else in Europe.

For Cameron, there is some gold in the dust, too. On the economy, public services and Europe, he implements policies measurably to the right of Margaret Thatcher,Jordan 9 for Sale, and yet he brilliantly projects himself as a one-nation centrist. A glowing relationship with the international superstar of the centre left reinforces the contortion.

Cameron knows, too, that the British journalists accompanying him will be dazzled at this affirmation of prime ministerial authority. As Leader of the Opposition, Neil Kinnock never fully recovered from being rebuffed by President Reagan on a visit to Washington, while Margaret Thatcher acquired additional sheen from her love-in with the leader of a superpower. Blair remained convinced that, even after Iraq, his close relationship with Bush impressed Middle England, the only electoral constituency that worried him. Perhaps he was right. He went on to win a general election after Iraq.

But in the cases of Obama and Cameron, the electoral impact of this particular visit will be minimal. In the US, most voters in their famous insularity will not notice Cameron. In the UK, the next election is a long way off and other factors will determine whether Cameron succeeds in his highly ambitious project, a claim for the centre ground while implementing radical right-wing policies.

Similarly, the substance of their talks is of little significance even if the topics are monumental in scope. The military mission in Afghanistan was doomed long ago, when George Bush turned his impatient attention to Iraq. In the build-up to the war in Iraq, several informed voices, including that of Clare Short after a lengthy ministerial visit to Afghanistan in September 2002, warned that the Taliban was starting to regroup on the outskirts of Kabul because military resources were being switched. The voices were ignored and, ever since, troops have been engaged in an impossible, deadly mission to plaster over the growing cracks. Both Obama and Cameron agree on the need for withdrawal, and it is in their interests to pretend that the long war has achieved its aims.

Leading in the post-Iraq era, there is also quite a lot of consensus between the two of them on the very different but daunting challenges of Syria and Iran, even if there are differences over the attitude of Israel in the case of Iran. Nothing dramatic of substance will surface from the talks.

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The change that will arise from this visit relates to Cameron’s outlook when he returns to the UK. For three days, Cameron has been a prime minister unencumbered. He has been hailed and revered by a president, rock stars and on the US news networks. Briefly, he will forget that he is the first British premier since Harold Wilson in February 1974 to fail to win an overall majority. For a time, he will feel fleetingly presidential and, being human, will enjoy the sensation.

In his joint press conferences with Bush,jordan concord 11, Tony Blair seemed to forget altogether that he was not a president and was, in humdrum reality, a mere prime minister dependent on the support of parliament, a fuming Chancellor breathing down his neck and his party. Similarly, in a different international context, Cameron could almost forget briefly about Nick Clegg and the constraints of coalition as he was treated like a prime ministerial superstar.

Cameron’s personal relations with Clegg are still good. So they should be. From sweeping spending cuts to overhauling the NHS, education reform and welfare changes the Conservatives are implementing their planned revolution with the support of the Liberal Democrats. Nonetheless, the smaller party and its leader raise a lot of concerns, are getting more assertive in their public distinctiveness and take up a lot of time within government.

After being treated like a mighty leader in the US, Cameron will find it a little more irritating when he returns to negotiate one more time with Clegg as to what should be in the Budget. The thought will cross his mind: "One minute, I am discussing world affairs at the White House. The next I am dealing with someone who wants a Tycoon Tax. What am I doing here?"

Deep down, he knows he is there because he did not win the last election outright,cheap jordan shoes, but that thought will go a little deeper down now. More specifically,jordan shoes 11, Cameron’s Euro-scepticism will deepen a little, too. Cameron is not as ardent an Atlanticist as Blair felt he had to be. But he will note how much easier and glamorous it is negotiating with a president between rock gigs and basketball matches compared with late nights in Brussels trying to get Sarkozy on side and exerting a veto that vetoes nothing at one in the morning.

Cameron will also be aware that it is in foreign policy, the issues he discussed with Obama as if he were a mighty PM,jordan retro 3, where he has no free hand. In some ways, the Liberal Democrats are more assertive over their internationalist credentials than they are over domestic policy.

This is the change from David Cameron’s trip to Washington. Instead of nearly always being grateful to Nick Clegg, he will become a little more resentful that he is not as mighty as he was in the US. If relations between the two Coalition partners are relatively smooth, this will be a minor development. If there are further tensions over policy, a little irritation could grow into something big.

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Though he may not know where Germany is,jordan 11 retro, the cherubic crooner has attained international superstardom: his new album My Life 2.0 quickly attained platinum status,jordan retro sale, his concert movie Never Say Never grossed $100 million globally and Bieber’s live shows around the world bring in $600,jordan 6 sale,000 in gross ticket sales per night. The music video for Bieber’s hit song “Baby” has been viewed a YouTube record 500 million times.

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[Full disclosure: My brother, John Kosner, is Executive Vice President, Digital and Print Media at ESPN]

In a in last week’s Newsweek, Nick Summers asks, “is the sports behemoth too big for its own good?” He’s talking about how the per subscriber fees that cable companies (and consumers) have to pay for the network’s suite of channels to remain in the basic cable tier. As broadcast fees for sporting events have soared, so has the cost of ESPN to the cable companies, and in turn, to their customers. The point may be moot, though, as internet distribution models are likely to render all cable tiers as “premium” by offering truly customized delivery.

There’s also, perhaps, some sour grapes at play. is, by the writers admission, “must have” media for 100 million households. And Newsbeast, eh, not so much.

But all of this focus on bigness, to me, misses a truly interesting point: ESPN’s excellent execution for the small screen.

ESPN’s “mobile web experience” is highlighted in s book Mobile First” is the concept, formulated by Wroblewski, that the best way to think about the design of websites is to consider things first from the mobile point of view��even if you’re designing a site that will primarily used on the desktop. The reason for this is simple��less pixels=less screen real estate=more focused user experience. Wroblewski thinks the hard choices required to prune all but the most important features make for stronger sites. And, indeed, after they go through the mobile development process, companies often find that their desktop site looks busy, clunky and old by comparison.

Reading about ESPN in Mobile First gave me the idea to talk to Luke Wroblewski and also to Jay Lee, Senior Director of Product Development at ESPN Mobile, about why ESPN is a winner at the small game.

First, it must be said, as much as they have arrived at and practice the principles of mobile first, ESPN didn’t start with mobile. They started out in?1979 with live TV of events, but really took off with the advent of SportsCenter, which added a whole new layer of editorial content to the world of sports and made?Keith Olbermann and Chris Berman household names. From there they have branched out into multiple cable channels in the U.S. and internationally,jordans for cheap, a print magazine and, of course, the web.

The ESPN audience is, in many ways, plasma screen first��where the bigness resides. But sports fans, right up there with day traders, are our biggest consumers of constantly updated information. So?ESPN got into mobile early, when the iPhone was just a glimmer in Steve Jobs’ mind. As Jay Lee says, “Across the board in all our properties we know what our fans come to us first for on digital devices��it’s scores.” In the old days, the daily newspaper could satisfy fans with yesterday’s scores. Now they want the scores of their teams, in their games, constantly updated in real time.

To understand how ESPN does this for so many games in so many sports for so many people it’s helpful to survey the media landscape of the sports fan. Jay Lee explains, “We have this mantra at ESPN, best available screen. So we know if you’re at home with a 50 inch flat screen you’re gonna watch the game there.” But beyond the secure certainty of the living room or man cave the device terrain becomes much more uncertain. To hear Luke describe how people use digital devices is to confront how promiscuous our relationship with technology has become,http://www.jordansretroshoescheap.com/, “There are scenarios where the laptop is two feet from you but you have your smartphone in your hand. And it’s not that the smartphone is any better or easier for getting things done, it’s just that it’s there,jordan retro 12, it’s on, so you’re going to do it on that device.” [Imagine a leering Stephen Stills singing, "And if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with..."] Device usage also has to do with time of day. Wroblewski sites studies that show, “smartphone use jump in the morning hours and the desktop dominates during the day and in the evening, people that have tablets,retro jordan shoes, that’s when they’re online.”

Just as we no longer believe that economics is the result of “logical actors” following a narrow set of interests, we can no longer assume we know how people will use their mobile devices. Take video content. Wroblewski points out that now, “YouTube’s fastest growing channel is mobile. They’re doing 400 million daily video views on mobile devices. It’s already 15% of their traffic. �� So if you look at the things that people generally assume nobody will do on mobile, ‘nobody’s going to watch video, the screen’s too small, the experience is going to be totally crappy.’? And here you have the world’s largest video site saying within a year, the dominant use case will be mobile.”

From TV to desktop to laptop to tablet to smartphone there’s a continuum of devices that fans use to get their fix. But the common denominator,air jordan sale, the quantum of content devices, is the smartphone. And in many ways, the smartphone is a unique execution, because people are using it first for their most mission critical task (like getting their scores) and for getting quick hits of headlines or short bursts of video. But in a pinch, they’ll use it for anything. Wroblewski? about something Mike Krieger of said, “Mobile experiences fill the gaps while we wait. Nobody wants to wait while they wait. Mobile needs to be fast. To make things on mobile feel really fast you need to invest in back-end and front-end design�Cin design and engineering. Design can be a speed feature.” I wondered how much speed is part of the quality of mobile web experiences in general and for a site like ESPN in particular?

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    By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ
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    MIAMI (AP) — A Republican group that includes former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will use a conference Thursday to kick off its efforts to improve the party’s outreach to Hispanic voters, many of whom have been critical of some GOP candidates’ harsh rhetoric on illegal immigration.
    The new Hispanic Action Network is part of a growing number of Republican organizations reaching out to Hispanics in advance of next year’s presidential election — and it has powerful support.
    The group is backed by former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, whose American Action Network funneled more than $30 million in campaign funds to Republicans in about 30 congressional races last year.
    Republicans don’t need to win a majority of Hispanic votes. But with the Latino population growing in swing states such as Nevada, Colorado and Florida, Republicans need to chip away at Hispanics’ overall 2-1 preference for Democrats.
    Democrats say their party’s support comes from their stances on issues such as health care, education and the economy, as well as its response to GOP campaign attacks on illegal immigrants that some say have had a racist undertone.
    But Bush and other Republicans have long maintained their party is a natural fit for Hispanics, particularly recent immigrants. They cite the party’s social conservatism, anti-abortion stance and positions in support of private school vouchers and other school choice measures as well as lower taxes.
    The two-day conference that starts Thursday evening will cover topics such as trade, immigration, media outreach and education. Among potential Republican candidates for president in 2012, former Minnesota Gov. is a scheduled to speak.
    Bush, who met his Mexican-born wife Columba when he taught English in her homeland, said the party needs to be more engaged in the Hispanic community and not just during election campaigns.
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    House Speaker , a possible 2010 presidential candidate, announced a similar effort in Washington, D.C.,retro jordan 11, last month with his Americanos group. The conservative think tank, , also now has a Spanish Web site, Libertad.org. Meanwhile, Alfonso Aguilar, former President George W. Bush’s first citizenship and immigration czar, now runs the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles.
    « We have to move away from Pinata politics, the politics that are focused on popular culture. Here’s the candidate and here’s the mariachis, » Aguilar said.
    « We now have a very different Latino community than we had even 20 years ago. Fory percent are foreign-born, and many others are the children of immigrants, » he said. « Because there are more who were born abroad, they tend to be in tune with the conservative cultures of their home countries. »
    The former president, who is Jeb Bush’s brother, had a stronger and more successful Hispanic outreach program than almost any other national Republican. He unsuccessfully pushed sweeping immigration reform during his presidency.
    Jeb Bush told The Associated Press Tuesday « the more the merrier » as far as outreach programs go. Unlike Gingrich, he says he has ruled out running for president in 2012.
    Given his close ties to the Cuban-American community, his work on Latin American trade and his own Mexican-American children, Jeb Bush is widely viewed as one of the few Republicans who could capture a sizable Latino vote in a national race.
    The Republican groups need to overcome several obstacles. The immigration rhetoric of some GOP candidates frequently overshadowed other issues during the 2010 election, such as when tea party-backed Republican Senate candidate Sharon Angle of Nevada ran ads portraying illegal immigrants as thuggish gang members. In Colorado, Democrat Michael Bennet narrowly won the Senate race last year after Latinos overwhelming backed him over Republican Ken Buck. Buck,jordan retro 11, a former county prosecutor, had tried to deport more illegal immigrants by seizing income-tax returns from accountants that catered to Spanish speakers. The plan was later thrown out by a court.
    The House Republican leadership took a symbolic step toward bridging the gap with Latino voters last week in bypassing controversial Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa as the next chairman of the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on immigration. King once suggested on the House floor that an electrified border fence would stop illegal immigrants, likening it to the practice used to corral livestock.
    Yet so far, the only new Republican proposal on immigration has come from a group of state lawmakers who are looking to trigger a review of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. As currently applied,jordan 6 for sale, it grants automatic citizenship to anyone born in the country, including the children of illegal immigrants. If the court upholds that application, they want Congress and the states to amend the amendment.
    Simon Rosenberg, head of the liberal-leaning NDN organization, applauded Republican efforts to reach Latinos.
    « It would be bad for the Latino community to only have one political party working with them, » he said. « I think it is very important that Jeb Bush move the party forward. »
    But Rosenberg questioned the notion that Hispanics have more in common with conservatives than Democrats. With many Hispanics lacking health insurance, they are more likely to benefit from the Democrats’ recent health care overhaul, which will greatly expand insurance coverage.
    He said the GOP needs more than improved outreach.
    « There is a reactionary strain in the that is angry about how the country is changing, » he added, referring to the effects of immigration. « We are moving toward a majority nonwhite country. That is very difficult for some people to accept. And those people tend to be more Republican.
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    I’ve been virtually every chance I get, and I’ll keep saying until—I don’t know, but there’s no stopping me now!

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    Even after seeing what happened to —who stayed in a game that seemed to be already decided—Paul, a guy who’s only two years removed from his owndebilitatingknee injury, implored his coach to remain in the game and have one final crack at making it a contest.

    And did he ever. Paul orchestrated one of the greatest comebacks in NBA postseason history, leading the Clippers on a 28-3 run to finish the game en route to a reality-defying one-point win in Memphis.

    Along the way, CP3 proved once more why there’s no one better to lead a club in the clutch.

    Normally this season, Paul’s crunch-time MO has been to take over games himself, ranking in the top five in the league in clutch scoring. In Game 1, though, he realized that his teammates were ready to share the load.

    Paul, who was also in the top 10 in the NBA in clutch assists, assisted on six of LA’s nine non-Paul baskets. He scored or assisted on 20 of the Clippers’ last 28 points.

    During those unbelievable eight minutes, the Clippers scored those 28 points on just 18 possessions. And in the 13 possessions they had in which Paul created the action, they scored 22 points. That’s an absurd rate of 169 points per 100 possessions.

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    It wasn’t just the bottom-line numbers that stood out—80 percent shooting from the field and three for the Clippers over the final eight minutes—it was the little things Paul did that no one else in the league could do.

    For one, he turned Reggie-Freaking-Evans into a viable threat off the pick-and-roll, assisting on two Evans layups—one of them an and-one which resulted in an extra two points for the Clips after Blake Griffin put back the missed free-throw and the other giving LA their first lead of the entire game in the final minute.

    With the Clippers down 12 and just over three minutes to play, the Clippers had a brief run-out following a Memphis miss. Eric Bledsoe panicked in transition and tried to get Paul the basketball near mid-court. A Grizzlies defender had a beat on the pass and was ready to pick it off and take it the other way.

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    Prison officials in South Carolina are standing firm against calls from the ACLU to allow inmates access to publications with sexual images, saying such magazines would encourage “deviant behavior. »

    The American Civil Liberties Union said it filed a lawsuit in October 2010,cheap jordan 13, claiming that the Berkeley County Detention Center in Moncks Corner, S.C.,cheap replica designer handbags, only allowed its inmates to read the Bible.

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    Sandy Senn, an attorney representing the detention center, told FoxNews.com that Prison Legal News contained « repugnant » advertisements, including a « nude female with stars on her breasts » soliciting inmates to buy porn.

    The ACLU says that not only did the jail prevent Prison Legal News, it only allowed « paperback Bibles » in their facility and  filed a motion filed May 3, 2011, stating that the jail “cannot constitutionally ban all publications that sometimes show men and women wearing underwear or dressed for the beach. » 

    The ACLU claims  it is not suggesting that jails must permit pornography, only that their policies regarding which material is acceptable and which is not should be reexamined. The accusation that the ACLU is “trying to allow pornography into the jail is patently false and an outright fabrication,” Will Matthews, a spokesman for the ACLU told FoxNews.com.

    When asked if  the ACLU was pushing to allow, for example, the Victoria’s Secret catalog or more provocative men’s magazines like Maxim or Playboy,jordan retro 3,  Matthews said that they are only referring to Prison Legal News.  

    However, the wording of the ACLU’s proposed injunction order against the jail is broad and does not state Prison Legal News anywhere in the document.

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    Senn says that the ACLU’s injunction was « inappropriate » and claimed it would “subject officers to a hostile environment,” by provoking assaults and other criminal behavior in a prison that has many female correction officers.

    Senn denied that the prison only allowed Bibles, saying it allowed in all religious text and a variety of reading material so long as they do not contain staples or questionable subjects such as « bomb-making or anarchy. » 

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    When it comes to figures, Jennifer Aniston’s is pretty flawless. But for those looking for some help from the scalpel, long, lean and supermodel-y beat out the petite “girl-next-door” look in 2010.

    Aniston came in second for the “Most Desired Female Body” on the 14th Annual “Famed Hottest Looks” survey,cheap jordan 6, compiled by Beverly Hills Plastic Surgeons Dr. Richard Fleming and Dr. Toby Mayer. 

    Even after giving birth in December 2009, Brazilian-born supermodel was the most requested body by the doctors’ patients.

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    Food photography (or food porn as it’s deemed in this age of Food Network plate-ogling) can make you hungry with a mere glance.  But it’s not easy to get things looking so appetizing and alluring. It takes a ton of skill, timing, artistry, and even some house hold items you should never put in your mouth. 

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    "If you knew what’s really going on with malaria and you didn’t do anything about it… you would be bloody culpable," Hands said, explaining the dogged persistence he’s brought to his cause. And it was about here that you wondered whether Up in Smoke had told you everything you needed to know about alley cropping. "It’ll grow like a virus," Hands said of his technique. But if that was true why hadn’t it done so already and why did he need to monitor his guinea pigs so carefully? Viruses don’t usually wait on government funding before they start to spread, and that should be true of viral ideas too. A line in the script about how Aladino had needed a good crop "to fund the changeover" hinted at one possible answer to the puzzle. If you’re a subsistence farmer any method that takes a year or two to bed in before it delivers results may be as unreachable as the moon.

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    Cinema Verite, HBO’s drama about the making of pioneering reality documentary An American Family was a good idea poorly executed. James Gandolfini played Craig Gilbert, who came up with the idea of putting a camera crew in the Santa Barbara home of the Loud family in 1971,jordan 6 for sale, after making a documentary about the anthropologist Margaret Mead. The studio bosses were sceptical but Gilbert knew there was drama behind the suburban ordinariness and,jordan shoes sale, according to this reading, wasn’t over-scrupulous about how to bring it into the open. They’d found good matches for the original participants, and there was a certain fascination in watching the segues between documentary artifice and artificial documentary. But the script was so clunky it virtually came with visible bullet points. The Louds reportedly received a cash settlement to keep their disgruntlement about the drama to themselves – and Gilbert disputed its account of events – which seemed more telling about television’s corrosive power than anything in the drama itself.

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    Major General Robert Mood, who will oversee the 300 observers the UN has authorised for deployment, admitted the team faced a daunting task ahead because the ceasefire lay in tatters in parts of the country.

    The veteran Norwegian peacekeeper called for both sides to lay down their weapons. "Thirty unarmed observers, 300 unarmed observers,air jordans for sale, even 1,000 unarmed observers cannot solve all the problems," he said. "I call on everyone to help us and co-operate with us in this very challenging task ahead."

    Maj-Gen Mood, 53, arrives amid growing doubts about the viability of the UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan’s six-point peace plan while the Syrian army continues its relentless campaign of violence and rebels step up attacks on President Bashar al-Assad’s security forces.

    Frustrations with the UN are increasingly voiced in daily protests across Syria, with a sign at a recent rally in Hama reading: "Special offer: collect 1,200 martyrs and get 30 monitors in return."

    At least 18 people were killed across the country yesterday, according to the Local Co-ordination Committees. Half of those were reported to have been killed in Hama province, where a local activist, Mousab Alhamadee, told The Independent that heavy shelling had begun in the early hours of the morning.

    The Syrian regime is becoming openly hostile towards the UN mission, adding to doubts about the future of Mr Annan’s plan. On Saturday, state media accused the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, of making "outrageous" comments about the conflict and derided him as being biased. The UN has criticised both sides for breaking the ceasefire, but has said the Syrian government’s violations outweigh those of the rebels. Teams of two or three observers have been placed in the trouble spots of Homs, Hama, Idlib and Deraa. While the violence appears to have tapered off slightly,jordan 4 sale, there are still regular street battles and bombardments.

    The UN has stressed that it is imperative that monitors are deployed as rapidly as possible, before the ceasefire collapses altogether, but just 16 of the advance team of 30 were on the ground yesterday. The UN has given no explanation for the excruciatingly slow progress of the deployment,cheap designer bags, but the Syrian government has rejected some appointments, saying it will not accept monitors from any countries in the "Friends of Syria" group. Ahmad Fawzi, a spokesman for Mr Annan, said he expected the full advance team to be in place by the end of today.

    Analysts have long written off Mr Annan’s plan as doomed to fail but, with few diplomatic options on the table,jordan retro 13, the international community has been pushing on with it, regardless of the flagrant violations on both sides.

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    Despite this warning about the inevitable deterioration of my sight,http://www.jordanretroshoescheap.com, I didn’t think much of getting my first pair of glasses at 20 years old. Perhaps this is because the prescription was so weak,christian louboutin cheap, I still got to retain some of my smugness when friends would try them on and ask if they were "for show". Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I’m always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to take off ones glasses during the day and as I have grown older, what I don’t see has become increasingly pronounced.

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    Recently, I visited the eye doctor in the hope of being told I need stronger spectacles. "Your prescription is correct," the doctor let me down, "your sight hasn’t gotten worse since your last visit."

    I wondered if eyesight works the same way a cough does. You’re hacking up a lung and then the second you step into a physician’s office, you can barely muster an exaggerated throat-clear. Because I swear my vision is getting worse. The other day I was sure I saw something crawl across the floor in my peripheral vision. Because I couldn’t see what it was,jordan 7 sale, I went out and bought roach traps as well as mouse traps. This is depressing,jordan retro 4, I thought, not to be able to tell the difference between a potential mouse and a potential large roach. I still don’t know if what I saw was vermin or insect or fuzz. I didn’t have my glasses on.

    Sloane Crosley is the author of ‘How Did You Get This Number’ (Portobello)

    Food deserts an additional hurdle for Type 2 diabe

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    Rhonda Moore has her health back.

    Diagnosed with Type 2 in 2009, Moore, 58, has reduced her blood glucose levels significantly through and daily exercise. But a lack of supermarkets in her North neighborhood makes it difficult to maintain a nutritious diet — a crucial ingredient in controlling the disease.

    « In North Chicago, there are no grocery stores, » said Moore, 58. « Buses don’t run on weekends. Cabs are expensive. I try to stock up on frozen things. I’d prefer to eat more salads and such, but you can’t buy in bulk. It lasts only so long. »

    Others with Type 2 diabetes face similar hurdles in a number of Chicago neighborhoods and suburban pockets, so-called food deserts where supermarkets are a rarity. In Chicago, the problem persists largely in predominantly African-American neighborhoods on the South and West sides, where access to grocery stores, farmers markets or other vendors selling fresh, high-quality, affordable food is either limited or nonexistent.

    « Think what it takes to get back and forth to a grocery store: public transportation, relying on a bus with all those bags, » said Monica E. Peek, an assistant professor of medicine at the Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research at the . « If you have kids? Trying to coordinate all that can be something else. »

    Like Moore, Cedric Chambers, 61,ralph lauren polo sale, of North Chicago,cheap jordan for sale, has Type 2 diabetes and struggles to find quality food.

    « We have a bunch of little stores but nothing bigger than a corner store, » Chambers said. « For me, it’s a problem. I don’t have a car. I try to get rides to Waukegan. »

    Chambers and Moore participate in Be Well-Lake County, one of a few new initiatives that have sprouted in the suburbs and the city to increase access to healthy food for Type 2 diabetics and others in food deserts. A community health initiative started by NorthShore University HealthSystem, in collaboration with the Lake County Health Department and its Community Health Center, Be Well-Lake County provides diabetes care and education for medically underserved patients in .

    « (Type 2) diabetes may not require medicine but it does require lifestyle management with regards to diet and exercise, » said Madeleine Shalowitz, a pediatrician at NorthShore. « In a food desert, things like healthy fruit and vegetables,christian louboutin cheap, a balance of whole grains and protein are difficult to get. »

    The Be Well program provides dietitians, nutrition education and healthy cooking methods as well as manage a community vegetable garden where program participants can grow and harvest fresh food.

    « We offer education on how to pick healthy food even if a convenience store is your only option, » said Christina Arnold, Be Well-Lake County diabetes program coordinator. « We look at what a patient can afford and what is available to them. We’ve gone out to convenience stores to find healthy choices: apples, bananas, oatmeal. »

    Also targeting access to healthy food for Type 2 diabetics is the Greenlight Select program, launched in 2010 by Northwestern Medicine, and Near North Health Service Corp. for Near North diabetic patients. Its recipients receive « prescriptions » for healthy foods that are redeemable for discounts at certain Walgreens food desert locations.

    Because convenience stores are often the only markets in food deserts, the Healthy HotSpot Corner Stores pilot program was launched in November in more than 20 small, local stores in eight suburban neighborhoods.

    In Mount Prospect, for instance, convenience store Mi is participating in the program, administered by Communities Putting Prevention to Work, a partnership between the Cook County Department of Public Health and the Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago.

    With its help, Mi Mexico owner Francisco Perez was able to find potential distributors that could deliver fresh, healthy food items.

    « Every day, we increase our healthy foods … wheat bread, fruit, » Perez said. « Customers have been more interested in healthy items and have been demanding them. »

    Daily food choices can be influenced by factors other than the proximity of a supermarket. Healthy foods are generally more expensive on a calorie-by-calorie basis compared with processed junk foods, deterring many shoppers from making healthy choices.

    « Calorie-dense food may seem less expensive if you don’t take into account food volume and weight, » said Rasa Kazlauskaite, an assistant professor in the preventive medicine and departments at . « If you approach it by volume, a bag of vegetables is cheaper than a candy bar. You get more for your money,discount designer handbags, can eat a lot and it’s not bad for you. »

    Still, trying to eat healthfully on a budget is a challenge. « For me,cheap replica designer handbags, the problem is cost, » said diabetic patient Rhina Linares, 56, of Park City. She has a car and only has to drive 10 minutes to the Jewel-Osco between Gurnee and Waukegan.

    « I want to buy fish, but it can be as much as $5 a pound. »

    Brandon Johnson, executive director for the South Side community corporation Washington Park Consortium, said that bringing in more stores won’t necessarily mean more affordable, quality foods.

    « We work with residents to figure out sustainable solutions to healthy food access, » he said. « We’re concerned with the quality of food and its affordability. Opening stores without thought of what’s being sold does not solve the problem. »

    Meanwhile, Moore of North Chicago has taken matters into her own hands. She grows tomatoes, cucumbers and other produce at home and freezes them to save herself a trip to a distant supermarket.

    « I’ve learned to plan meals, » Moore said. « I try to be smarter about it but accept my diet won’t be perfect. I can’t worry about it. Worry won’t bring a supermarket to town. »

    Young marriage suffers from bickering, lack of sex

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    Q: I have no idea why my husband of only two years won’t touch me. He doesn’t even want to kiss me good night. I’m thinking that maybe he’s not attracted to me anymore.

    We fight all the time — or I should say that I am angry with him most of the time and I pick a fight over any little thing because I’m not getting any.

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    I told him that it’s unfair that the women of his past received long-lasting pleasure, and now that he’s content with his family lifestyle, I get the short end of the stick. What should I do?

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    Why is that, and what can we do? We need help, as he is leaving again tomorrow.

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    Well, there are a handful of billionaires who are on board with the Buffett Rule, and have come out publicly to say so. One of the most outspoken advocates of raising taxes on the rich: Buffett’s friend and the only American with more money in the bank, Bill Gates.

    In fact, Gates’ father was the , which would have slapped a 5% tax on income over $400,000 per couple and a 9% levy on income over $1 million. It ultimately failed, but Gates remains a proponent of higher taxes for the rich, that it’s “just justice” for him and his fellow billionaires to pay a greater percentage to the state.

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    WWE bad guy ,polo ralph lauren cheapDavid Otunga feels left out when publications cover sightings of his fiancee, Oscar winner and fellow Chicago native Jennifer Hudson, but don’t mention that he was at the restaurant or store as well – at least that’s what he told me when .

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    “I work out at X Sport Fitness every day,” said Otunga, who was surprised nobody has reported any sightings of him at the gym.

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    “I thought about it,” Punk told me last month when I interviewed him at The Bongo Room in Wicker Park. “I wasn’t sure I could get it done. (A.F.I.) has a rough relationship with their record label. But you never know. Before my career is done, you’ll probably see it.”

    No shirt: I was on a mission last week to buy my first WWE t-shirt in over a decade. It didn’t need to be a t-shirt I would wear to the bars or anything, just something I could wear at Wrestlemania Sunday and maybe in my next Chicago Tribune column photo.

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    GREG GUTFELD, CO-HOST:So, a new study from Ohio State suggests that listening to rock ‘n’ roll like Bruce Springsteen or the White Stripes causes white people to favor their race over others. The theory is that rock is link to white, so listening to it makes you like whites more I guess — whatever, I don’t know.

    It appears these researchers forgot rock ‘n’ roll was the first sport to America to break the color barrier. But, hey, it’s fun to watch a knee- jerk leftie like Springsteen get nailed with a crud he smears the right with all the time.

    But this is why I love the modern cottage industry known as big race. When they ask what’s racist, it can be anything. Do you like vanilla over chocolate pudding? You’re racist. Do you like White Russians instead of Black Label? Bigot. Do you favor Cracker Jack over Mike and Ike’s? Well, clearly, the relationship between Mike and Ike disturbs you, making you a homophobe.

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    The fact is, rock ‘n’ roll may not make you racist but one thing I can guarantee, Ohio State can make you look like an idiot.

    DANA PERINO, CO-HOST:And you’re back.

    GUTFELD:Yes. Is that the dumbest thing you heard,cheap air jordans, Andrea? I mean, Dana? Wow! Too much water, vodka.

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    PERINO:Yes, it goes back, we could have a segment every day about stupid academic studies that are basically a waste of time and money.

    GUTFELD:Yes. This is one of them. Definitely. What do you think?

    ERIC BOLLING,jordan shoes 11, CO-HOST:Well, I’m trying to figure out. Is it — what does the study say? Does it say that rock causes people to become more racist or do people who are inherently racist gravitate towards rock music?

    GUTFELD:The way I read it is because what you are listening to is played by whites,jordan xi, it makes you happier about being white.

    TAMARA HOLDER, GUEST CO-HOST:It makes you whiter.

    BOLLING:You gravitate to –

    GUTFELD:Yes. Just like whitening toothpaste for your skin I guess. I have no idea.

    PERINO:Why you’re just a bad dancer?

    GUTFELD:Why?

    PERINO:Because you’re listening to white music.

    GUTFELD:That could be true. I have no idea. That is study for Ohio State.

    What do you think?

    HOLDER:There’s actually a better, stupider poll, and it’s the one that a couple of weeks ago that marijuana made you more lazy in the workplace. And it’s like, really? Are you serious that smoking pot makes you lazy? I feel like that –

    GUTFELD:Yes.

    HOLDER:I would love to have a study that paid me to make something up.

    GUTFELD:I tried to read that but I gave up on it.

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    GUTFELD:OK. Andrea, here’s the thing — would they have done it with rap music? Whatever thing they find, it would be uncomfortable with.

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