Today is Sunday, July 22, the 204th day of 2012. There are 162 days left in the year.Highlights in history on this date:1298 - William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance against English rule, uses extra-long spears against mounted soldiers at the Battle of Falkirk. The new fighting tactic is depicted in the 1995 movie "Braveheart."1587 - A second English colony, which later vanishes under mysterious circumstances, is established on Roanoke Island off Virginia.1620 - Exiled British Pilgrims set out from Holland for the New World on their ship Speedwell, which leaks so badly they return to England and transfer to the Mayflower.1739 - Turks defeat Austrian troops at Crocyka, and threaten Belgrade. The Austrians are later forced to cede northern Serbia and part of Romania.1793 - Scottish fur trader and explorer Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Canadian Pacific coast, becoming the first to cross the North American continent north of Mexico.1933 - U.S. aviator Wiley Post completes first solo airplane flight around the world in seven days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.1943 - Allied forces led by Gen. George S. Patton capture Palermo, Sicily, in World War II.1950 - King Leopold III returns to Belgium after six years of exile, but abdicates in August. His actions during World War II as commander in chief of the Belgian Army during the German conquest aroused opposition.1962 - Algeria declares independence following protracted war of secession from France.1968 - Israeli airliner bound for Israel from Rome with 48 people aboard is hijacked and diverted to Algeria.1971 - Last U.S. infantry units pull out of South Vietnam's northern border area.1973 - Soviet space probe begins six-month journey toward Mars.1976 - Japan completes its World War II reparations payments with a final payment to the Philippines,www.pascherschaussure.com.1977 - Egypt bombs and strikes major air base in Libya in second day of conflict between the two countries.1981 - Turkish extremist Mehmet Ali Agca is sentenced in Rome to life in prison for shooting Pope John Paul II.1988 - Car loaded with bombs blows up near Syrian military intelligence base in west Beirut, killing seven people and wounding 48.1990 - Liberian President Samuel K. Doe becomes virtual prisoner in presidential mansion as rebels besiege Monrovia and Doe's 500-man security force refuses to let him leave without them.1992 - Medellin drug cartel leader Pablo Escobar slips past scores of guards at his luxury, custom-built prison and walks to freedom. He dies in a shootout with police the following year.1994 - Citing an economic Venezuelan President Rafael Caldera suspends constitutional rights.1996 - A U.N. agency begins dropping tons of food from a cargo plane to help an estimated 700,000 people facing serious food shortages in southern Sudan.1997 - Nearly 400 rebels, believed to be the last of the former Contra rebels, surrender their weapons to President Arnoldo Aleman in northern Nicaragua.1998 - The five-day battle for Orahovac, the scene of the fiercest fighting yet in Kosovo, ends before dawn when the last of the ethnic Albanian rebel fighters withdraw.1999 - Japan's first deadly hijacking occurs when a man stabs the pilot to death and seizes the controls. The flight lands 49 minutes later in Tokyo, 516 others on board are uninjured. The hijacker says he wanted to fly a real plane.2001 - Divers begin preparations for raising the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Kursk,Femmes Air Max Tailwind, which sank in August 2000 during a training exercise in the Barents Sea off northern Russia, killing all 118 crew members.2003 - U.S. forces attack a home in Mosul, Iraq,Converse Running, killing former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's two sons, Uday and Qusay.2004 - Thirty-nine prisoners have died in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since the fall of 2001 and there have been 94 cases of proven or suspected abuse, the Army says in a broad new report giving a more precise and higher estimate of the scale of the abuse,UGG Jimmy Choo Sora 3045.2005 - Multiple pre-dawn bombings targeting several hotels kill at least 88 in the Egyptian tourist resort of Sharm e

BERLIN (AP) — A massive and unprecedented outbreak of bacterial infections linked to contaminated vegetables claimed two more lives in Europe on Tuesday, driving the death toll to 16. The number of sick rose to more than 1,150 people in at least eight nations.Nearly 400 people in Germany were battling a severe and potentially fatal version of the infection that attacks the kidneys Converse Force 5 OX. A U.S. expert said doctors had never seen so many cases of the condition www.manoloblahnikcheapest.com, hemolytic uremic syndrome, tied to a foodborne illness outbreak before.Investigators across Europe were frantically trying to determine how many vegetables were contaminated with enterohaemorrhagic E.coli — an unusual, toxic strain of the common E. coli bacterium — and where in the long journey from farm to grocery store the contamination occurred.The highly politicized mystery over the source of the E. coli contamination deepened in the light of new evidence that two strains of the bacterium may be involved. German officials said they were still looking at Spanish produce but Spain said the discovery was proof its farms were not the source.E. coli is found in large quantities in the digestive systems of humans, cows and other mammals. It has been responsible for a large number of food contamination outbreaks in a wide variety of countries. In most cases, it causes non-lethal stomach ailments.But enterohaemorrhagic E.coli, or EHEC, causes more severe symptoms, ranging from bloody diarrhea to the rare hemolytic uremic syndrome. In Germany, at least 373 people have come down with the syndrome, or HUS, in which E. coli infection attacks the kidneys, sometimes causing seizures, strokes and comas."The idea of an outbreak of over 300 hemolytic uremic syndrome cases is absolutely extraordinary," said Dr. Robert Tauxe, deputy director of foodborne, waterborne and environmental diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control."There has not been such an outbreak before that we know of in the history of public health," Tauxe said, adding that the German strain of E. coli has not been seen in the United States.German officials say that investigations including interviews with patients have shown people were likely infected by eating raw cucumbers, tomatoes or lettuce, and they are warning consumers to avoid those vegetables.European Union officials say Germany has identified cucumbers from the Spanish regions of Almeria and Malaga as possible sources of contamination. They say a third suspect batch, originating either in the Netherlands or in Denmark and sold in Germany, was also under investigation.They noted that imported cucumbers could have been contaminated at any point on the long route to retail customers. Denmark said that no traces of EHEC bacteria were found in tests of vegetables conducted there over the weekend. Exports of Dutch cucumber to Germany were halted but authorities said tests of a cucumber grower and a warehouse found no EHEC. bacteria there either.Authorities in Hamburg said last week that they had detected EHEC on four cucumbers, three of them imported from Spain and the fourth of unclear origin, which were on sale in a market in the city.On Tuesday, however, officials said they had found a slightly different type of EHEC on the cucumbers than the type detected in the feces of sick people in Germany, though reiterated that even though that meant those vegetables did not cause the outbreak, they still posed a health risk.Spain's agriculture minister, Rosa Aguilar, seized on it as evidence that "our cucumbers are not responsible for the situation." manolo blahnik shop;Spain exports most of its produce to other countries in Europe.The vast majority of EHEC infections have affected either Germans or people who recently traveled to Germany. Germany's top health said 796 people in the country have been hit by less serious infection with the EHEC bacteria. The northern city of Hamburg and surrounding areas have been worst affected.Other cases have been reported in Denmark, France, the Czech Republic, the U.K., the Netherlands and Switzerland but the World Health Organization said it only had confirmation of the German cases and another six cases in France.There is frequently a lag between reports of disease outbreaks by national authorities and confirmation by the WHO.German regional officials have said they are seeing a sharp drop in the number of new cases.Officials in the northwestern city of Paderborn said, however, that an 87-year-old who suffered from a variety of ailments including recent EHEC infection had died early Tuesday.In Sweden, hospital medical chief Jerker Isacson said that the Swedish woman who died had been ill for

WASHINGTON (AP) — LightSquared, a Virginia-based company that plans to build a nationwide wireless broadband network, is proposing to adapt its network so as not to interfere with GPS systems.The company plans to move some of its operations to a different slice of airwaves and to transmit signals at lower power levels to ensure that its network would not interfere with GPS systems that rely on nearby wireless spectrum.The company outlined its plans Monday amid concern that its network would cripple GPS systems used for everything from aviation to public safety to military operations. The announcement follows the recent release of government test results showing that LightSquared's proposed network would cause serious interference problems for GPS systems Jimmy Choo shoes. Those tests showed that wireless signals from LightSquared's planned network interfered with GPS receivers used by the Coast Guard, NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration and caused GPS receivers used by state police, fire and ambulance crews to lose reception."LightSquared believes that its next-generation... network can live harmoniously, side-by-side, with GPS users," the company said in a release.In January the Federal Communications Commission gave LightSquared approval to build a nationwide wireless network that would compete with super-fast systems being rolled out by AT&T and Verizon. Lightsquared plans to sell wholesale access to its network to other companies that will rebrand the service under their own names. The FCC sees the LightSquared network as part of a broad government push to bring high-speed Internet connections to all Americans.LightSquared Chairman and Chief Executive, Sanjiv Ahuja, said Monday that the company remains committed to reaching 260 million Americans by 2015 and is aiming to accelerate that time table by at least a year.But the company's plans have alarmed GPS equipment makers, and the many government agencies and companies that rely on GPS systems, because LightSquared's network would use airwaves right next to those already set aside for GPS. They warn that sensitive satellite receivers — designed to pick up relatively weak signals coming from space — could be overwhelmed when LightSquared starts sending high-powered signals from as many as 40,000 transmitters on the ground.The FCC has said it will not allow LightSquared to launch its network until the interference problems are resolved. And it has required the company to participate in a technical working group with GPS manufacturers and users to study the matter. That group conducted GPS interference tests using LightSquared equipment in Las Vegas last month.The results of those tests were due to the FCC last week, but LightSquared filed for a two-week filing extension even as GPS equipment makers say the results showed significant interference problems.Other tests point to the same conclusion. A working group of the National Executive Committee for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing — a federal organization that advises and coordinates among federal agencies that rely on GPS technology — recently released results from a series of tests conducted by various government agencies in New Mexico in April. Researchers found potential for widespread GPS interference.And tests conducted by RTCA, a nonprofit group that advises the Federal Aviation Administration, uncovered that LightSquared's use of airwaves closest to the GPS spectrum would cause a "complete loss of GPS receiver function" over large metropolitan areas.Against that backdrop Christian Louboutin shoes, LightSquared acknowledged Monday that a 10-megehertz block of spectrum that it had planned to use for the initial launch of its network would pose interference problems for many GPS receivers. The company said it will therefore use a different block of spectrum currently held by mobile satellite provider Inmarsat. The new block is located father away from GPS frequencies and would not disturb the vast majority of GPS receivers.LightSquared already has a spectrum-sharing agreement with Inmarsat, which has disclosed a $­40 million payment from LightSquared.LightSquared added that it is committed to addressing remaining interference concerns for a limited number of high-precision GPS receivers used primarily in farming, construction and surveying equipment.LightSquared also said Monday that it will reduce the maximum allowed power for its base-station transmitters by more than 50 percent to provide additional GPS protection.In addition, the company said it will work with the FCC Manolo Blahnik, other government agencies and commercial GPS users to explore additional ways to protect GPS systems as it grow

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian football federation president Ricardo Teixeira has called the English media corrupt and refused to talk to British journalists on Friday.When approached by members of the British media on the eve of the World Cup qualifying draw in Rio de Janeiro Converse Chuck Taylor, Teixeira said he would not talk to the "English press" because they are "corrupt."Some reporters started to complain and a spokesman for the Brazilian federation had to intervene to keep the incident from escalating.Brazilian federation spokesman Rodrigo Paiva said the journalists had been advised that Teixeira would not speak at that moment but a British reporter broke through security and tried to talk to Teixeira Adidas Basketball Shoes. Paiva said a news conference with Teixeira had been planned for later Friday but it was uncertain whether it would happen after the problem with the English journalists.Teixeira has been at odds with the English media since the BBC alleged that the Brazilian official was one of the FIFA members who took kickbacks from the former marketing partner of the governing body in the 1990s.Teixeira also had a feud with England's Football Association after David Triesman, the former head of England's failed bid for the 2018 World Cup, accused the Brazilian of improper ethical behavior.Teixeira was cleared by FIFA of any wrongdoing but has continued to attack English media and the FA. He said the allegations were made because the English were upset for losing the World Cup bid.In a recent interview to Brazilian magazine Piaui, Teixeira lashed out at Triesman, the FA and the BBC, accusing them of trying to destabilize the World Cup that Brazil is preparing to host for the first time in 64 years.Teixeira www.supplyconverseshoes.com, the president of the World Cup's local organizing committee, also is constantly attacked by Brazilian media for alleged irregularities running Brazilian football. A march in protest against Teixeira is planned for Saturday before the qualifying draw. There is also a campaign on Twitter against the Brazilian official who has been head of the Brazilian football federation since 1989. The top ForaRicardoTeixeira (OutRicardoTeixeira, in Portuguese), has been a trending topic in Brazil in recent days.___Tales Azzoni can be reached at twittertazzoni

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joe Pesci claims the makers of a biopic on the Gotti family have made him an offer he can refuse — a lesser part in the movie and a $­2 million salary cut.The actor sued Fiore Films on Wednesday, seeking the $­3 million he said he was promised to play the role of a childhood friend and enforcer of crime boss John Gotti Sr.Pesci claims the company used his name and likeness to promote the movie and attract investors, but now doesn't want to honor its original offer to him www.keenshoesretail.com. He has been offered a lesser role for a $­1 million payday, the lawsuit stated.Fiore CEO Marc Fiore rejected the claims, saying he received correspondence months ago from the actor's representatives telling him Pesci was pulling out of the project until the original director, who left the project, was replaced. "Before we had a deal, Mr. Pesci walked away," Fiore said.Pesci's attorney Brandon Tesser called Fiore's statement false, saying no one informed Pesci of a reduced role until recently. The actor's lawsuit stated Pesci gained 30 pounds to play the role of a trusted Gotti Sr. adviser www.topjamesshoes.com, Angelo Ruggiero.Pesci cited his roles in mobster films such as "Casino" and his Oscar-winning role in "Goodfellas," and his lawsuit said he was fully committed to playing Ruggiero in "Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father."The movie focuses on the experiences of John Gotti Jr., who has rejected his mob ties.Pesci had been named as a prominent cast member in the film alongside John Travolta, who is scheduled to play Gotti Sr., Al Pacino and Kelly Preston. The actor's role was announced at an April press conference. His lawsuit said that helped lend the film credibility, garnered it publicity and helped attract investors and other actors.Shortly after the announcement, director Nick Cassavetes withdrew from the film.Fiore said Pesci's representatives then told him that the actor didn't want to discuss anything with filmmakers until a new director was chosen. He said that he had tried to work out a deal with Pesci's New York attorney and that he and new director Barry Levinson had reached out to the actor recently, but the efforts were rebuffed.Tesser said Fiore was welcome to contact him to try to resolve the matter, but it was clear that there was an agreement for Pesci to star in the Gotti film.Pesci's lawsuit claimed that a written contract was never signed, but that Fiore's actions in announcing his name at the press conference and in other promotional materials made it clear that an agreement had been reached. The agreement called for Pesci to be paid $­3 million provided he was willing and able to act in the film."Defendant has no intention of paying (Pesci) $­3 million or having him portray Ruggiero in the film," the lawsuit claims. "Rather, plaintiff secretly planned to use (Pesci's) name and likeness to promote the film and then to later concoct some pretext for terminating the contract so as to avoid paying plaintiff anything for the substantial publicity and 'buzz' that was generated."Fiore said agreements had been reached with most of the other high-profile actors, including Travolta, Pacino and Preston. Shooting on the film was scheduled to begin on Jan. 3.He predicted a tough fight for the Pesci case, saying he may countersue the actor. "He's wasting his time and everybody else's time," Fiore said www.nikeairmaxshoxshoes.com."I might be a newbie in town," he said. "This newbie is not going to get bulled around."___Anthony McCartney can be reached at twittercelebritydocket

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