" I am a big fan of mango,papaya,and guava"
                                                    MITT ROMNEY

                           Republican US Presidential Candidate in response to a
                                       Cuban-American radio presenter's question about favorite fruit,
                            not knowing that "papaya" is Cuban slang for vagina.
                          

"Resident Evil: Retribution" swims past "Finding Nemo"

Horror sequel "Resident Evil: Retribution" grabbed the top spot at the U.S. and Canadian box office over the weekend with $21.1 million, studio estimates released on Sunday showed.

A 3D version of Walt Disney Co cartoon "Finding Nemo" took the No. 2 spot in the U.S. and Canadian box-office charts with $17.5 million, Disney said.
Demon flick "The Possession" slipped to third place after two weeks at No. 1, ringing up sales of $5.8 million.
"Resident Evil: Retribution" is the fifth movie in a franchise that stars Milla Jovovich as heroine Alice in a battle against the Umbrella Corporation and its army of zombies.
Domestic sales were in line with distributor Sony's pre-weekend projection for the low- to mid-$20 million range.
In international markets, the film added $50 million, for a worldwide total of $71.1 million. It did particularly well in Asia.
Sony president of distribution Rory Bruer credited Jovovich for the continuing success of the "Resident Evil" franchise.
"Every country she goes, they (audiences) fall in love with her," he said. "The 3D and Imax elements complement the franchise in a certain way, but the big money is on Milla."
The studio spent $65 million to produce the sequel. The four earlier films amassed global ticket sales of more than $660 million since the first movie in 2002.
Asked whether audiences should anticipate another "Resident Evil" installment, Bruer said: "I would count on it."
Meanwhile, families headed to theaters to see "Finding Nemo" for the first time in the 3D format. The movie ranks as one of the most successful from Disney's Pixar animation studio, generating global sales of $868 million during its original run. It won the Academy Award for best animated feature.
Disney spent less than $5 million to convert the film to the 3D format. Although weekend numbers came in slightly lower than Disney's original projections, Disney's executive vice president for motion picture distribution Dave Hollis said the tally was in line with previous 3D re-release openings.
"It's great for families during the day, and then couples at night," Hollis said, noting the fairly balanced age and gender spread of the weekend audience.
The movie is one of a handful of films Disney is bringing back to theaters in 3D after last year's success of "The Lion King 3D", which grabbed $94 million.
Rounding out the top of the charts, Prohibition-era drama "Lawless" earned $4.2 million during its third weekend in theaters to land in fourth place. Animated kids movie "Paranorman" finished in the No. 5 slot with $3 million.
Sony Corp's movie studio released "Resident Evil". Lions Gate Entertainment distributed "The Possession". The privately held Weinstein Co released "Lawless".

Palace to file criminal complaint over Kate pics

Lawyers for Britain's royal family will make a criminal complaint against the photographer who took pictures of Prince William's wife Kate sunbathing topless in the south of France, William's office said Sunday.

The palace has already launched a civil lawsuit against France's Closer magazine, which published the paparazzi snaps of Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, relaxing during a holiday at a private villa in Provence.
The couple is hitting back hard against publication of the pictures, which William's office called a "grotesque" abuse of the young royals' privacy.
A spokeswoman for William's St. James's Palace office said the couple's lawyers would file a complaint with French prosecutors on Monday against the unidentified photographer or photographers involved.
"The complaint concerns the taking of photographs of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge whilst on holiday and the publication of those photographs in breach of their privacy," she said on condition of anonymity in keeping with palace policy.
The palace said it would be up to French prosecutors to decide whether to investigate and pursue a criminal complaint for breach of privacy or trespassing.
The couple's lawyers are already due in a Paris court Monday seeking an injunction against Closer's publisher, the Italian media group Mondadori. It also publishes Italy's Chi gossip magazine, which says it will publish 26 pages of the images on Monday.
The palace will seek damages from the publisher, which is owned by former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi.
The palace said it was considering "all proportionate responses" against Chi, though no decision has been made on legal action against it or the Irish Daily Star which reproduced the Closer photos on Saturday.
No British publication has run the pictures, and Britain's tabloids have lined up to denounce them as an invasion of the duchess' privacy.
The strong response stands in contrast to the reception of naked photos of Prince Harry partying in Las Vegas, which appeared online last month and were later published in Britain's Sun tabloid. The palace shrugged off the photos, snapped during a game of strip billiards, and took no action against those who published them.
Some see British papers' reluctance to run the Kate photos as a sign that the country's once-rambunctious tabloids have been cowed by a scandal over phone hacking and other wrongdoing, which brought public opprobrium and an ongoing media-ethics inquiry.
The incident also has evoked memories of the paparazzi hounding of William's late mother, Princess Diana. A coroner's inquest found that pursuing photographers were partly responsible for her death in a Paris car crash in August 1997.
In bad news for the Irish Daily Star, both its owners criticized it for publishing the Kate photos.
British company Northern and Shell, which co-owns the tabloid with Ireland's Independent News and Media, or INM, said it was "profoundly dismayed" the Dublin newspaper had run the pictures. Its chief, Richard Desmond, said he planned to pull out of the joint venture that runs the tabloid.
Independent News and Media chief executive Joe Webb offered his "deepest apologies" and said the company would be "launching an internal inquiry to ensure there will never be a repeat of this breach of decency." But Webb said in a statement he hopes to preserve the Irish Daily Star and its 70 employees.
In Italy, the newspaper La Repubblica — a longtime foe of Silvio Berlusconi — criticized Chi's decision to publish the photos, saying they were incompatible with his status as politician and statesman.
Berlusconi's daughter Marina, who heads Mondadori, defended her father, saying he could not interfere with the publisher's "editorial autonomy."
La Repubblica said she had written to the newspaper asking rhetorically: "What should he have done? ... Should he have forced himself to not publish that which the overwhelming majority of gossip papers, in every part of the globe, would have competed with each other to have?"
The storm over the photos erupted as William and Kate made an official tour of Singapore, Malaysia and the South Pacific. They arrived in the Solomon Islands on Sunday and will end their trip Tuesday in the island nation of Tuvalu.

  Source: Yahoo News

Al Qaeda Praises Libya Consulate Attack as Anti-American Protests Subside

Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen praised the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya as a "great event" today, and urged followers to kill other American diplomats across the Muslim world.
But the violent anti-American protests that rocked the capitals of some 20 nations from northern Africa to southeast Asia on Friday, causing at least six deaths, largely subsided.
In Egypt, where Islamic fury first erupted over a crude amateur film produced in the United States denigrating the Prophet Muhammad, security forces moved today to end the demonstrations around the American embassy in Cairo.
They cleared the streets around the U.S. compound and nearby Tahrir Square, using tear gas and arresting scores of protesters who refused to disperse. They also expanded barriers blocking access to the embassy.
The Egyptian interior minister inspected the area for himself and said "our presence here is to clear the square of people who are breaking the law," adding, "We must preserve the square as a symbol of the revolution. That is the aim of our operation."
Issuing a stern warning, he said measures would be taken to ensure "those breaking the law" do not return.
Egypt's new president and his ruling party, the Muslim Brotherhood, angered President Obama and the State Department by not moving swiftly to stop the siege of the U.S. embassy on Tuesday and to condemn the violence. Egypt's new rulers have since acknowledged that they should have done more.
Meanwhile, state news media in Egypt today gave the first full accounting of casualties caused during the four days of clashes: A man was killed by shotgun fire and more than 224 people were injured, including at least 99 Egyptian security officers.
One of the few reports of violence today came from Australia, where 200 protesters clashed with riot police outside the U.S. consulate in Sydney. Demonstrators chanted "Obama, Obama, we love Osama" and waved signs declaring, "Behead all those who insult the Prophet."
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, as the terror group's Yemen branch is known, sought to ride the wave of anger in the Arab street with its web posting today that urged Muslims to step up their demonstrations and violence.
The group said the killing of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens on Tuesday by a mob that stormed the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and set it on fire was the "best example" for Muslims in other nations to follow.
"What has happened is a great event, and these efforts should come together in one goal, which is to expel the embassies of America from the lands of the Muslims," the web statement said.
The group urged protesters in Muslim nations "to set the fires blazing at these embassies."
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula consists mostly of militants from Yemen and Saudi Arabia and is regarded by the United States as the most dangerous arm of the network founded by Osama bin Laden.
Muslims have blamed the U.S. government for the film -- even though Washington has condemned the movie and explicitly denounced insults to any religion.
Obama focused on the death of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans in the Benghazi attack in his weekly address today.
"We must ... send a clear and resolute message to the world: those who attack our people will find no escape from justice. We will not waver in their pursuit. And we will never allow anyone to shake the resolve of the United States of America," Obama said.

              Source  : ABC News

Expendables 2" admired to aphorism weekend box office

LOS ANGELES - The bad-ass geezers of "Expendables 2" are the favorites to top a ample and all-embracing acreage at the box appointment this weekend.
Among openers, Whitney Houston's endure film, "Sparkle," takes on Sly Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in his aboriginal absolute role in eight years in "Expendables 2." On the ancestors front, the 3D ghouls of "Para Norman" bout up adjoin the affable fantasy "The Odd Life of Timothy Green."
Reigning champ "Bourne Legacy" is aback for its additional week, forth with ‘The Campaign" and "Hope Springs." And in its fifth week, "Dark Knight Rises" is still traveling strong.
With the Olympics over, this week's abysmal calendar provides the best adventitious yet for the all-embracing box appointment to acknowledgment to course for the aboriginal time back the Colorado shootings. It's aswell the endure anniversary of summer in which a blur is acceptable to breach $20 actor in its debut.
"Expendables 2" will yield in amid $35 actor and $40 million, analysts say. Afterwards that, it looks like a clutter with "Sparkle," "Para Norman" and "Bourne Legacy" all in the $17 actor range. "The Odd Life of Timothy Green," which opened Wednesday, is accepted to accompany in about $15 actor for the 5 days.
Lions aboideau has top hopes for the R-rated activity aftereffect from ambassador Avi Lerner, but this one will not bastard up on anyone the way "The Expendables" did. That blur angled to $34 actor and topped the weekend two years ago, on its way to $274 actor in common grosses.
Stallone wrote the aftereffect with Richard Wenk but easily the administering affairs over to Simon West ("The Mechanic"). Stallone aswell stars forth with Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Randy Couture, Terry Crews and Bruce Willis. Liam Hems account and Nan Yu are newcomers.
In this one, the aggregation reunites for what they anticipate is an simple paycheck, but if one of the aggregation is murdered on the job, the adventure for animus puts them abysmal in adversary territory. Sixty-two percent of the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes accept been favorable.
"Sparkle" was a affection activity for Houston and was to be her blur comeback. She said that the aboriginal 1976 film, about a Harlem boyhood angry to accomplish her dream of a singing career, was a big access on her as a youngster.
Houston and her bearing accomplice Debra Martin Chase ("The Princess Diaries") formed for added than a decade to get the accommodate off the ground. A Warner Bros. adaptation starring Aaliyah Haughton was batty by the 22-year-old singer's afterlife in a even blast in 2001.
The activity fabricated its way to Sony in 2009, area the accession of administrator Salim Akil gave it a bang start. Akil directed endure year's "Jumping the Broom" for Sony, and that low-budget African-American askew blur fabricated $37 million.
Akil's wife, Mara Brock Akil, wrote the screenplay.
Houston, who died in February, accustomed an controlling ambassador acclaim on "Sparkle." In this Motown-set version, she aswell stars as the mother of the adolescent accompanist ("American Idol" champ Jordin Sparks) and her two sisters. Derek Luke and Mike Epps co-star.
The key to its success, according to the analysts, will be whether "Sparkle" can aggrandize above its amount abject of African-American women. It becoming a 54 appraisement on Metacritic, with 62 percent of the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes absolute and 45 percent of those on Cine Review Intelligence giving it a thumbs up.
Focus Features' "ParaNorman' is a stop-action activated blur about a adolescent boy who battles ghouls, witches and grownups to save his hometown.
It is the best-reviewed of the weekend's openers. Eighty-six percent of the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes are absolute as are 69 percent on Cine Review Intelligence. MetaCritic gives it a 71 rating.
"ParaNorman" is the additional airing for Focus and Laika Entertainment, the aggregation abaft "Coraline." That cine was an Academy Award appointee for best activated affection and rang up $75 actor at the box appointment in 2009.
It will attempt for the ancestors army with "The Odd Life of Timothy Green" from Disney's Buena Vista. It stars Jennifer Garner and Joel Edgerton as a childless brace that buries a box in their backyard, absolute all of their wishes for an infant, and anon afterwards acquisition a adolescent (CJ Adams) at their door.
Peter Hedges, who directed "About a Boy" and co-wrote "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," writes and directs.
The critics are accept been air-conditioned to it, with just 41 percent of the Rotten Tomatoes reviews positive, but it took in a solid $2.3 actor on Wednesday, its aboriginal day of release.
Among holdovers, "Bourne Legacy" is accepted to accomplish a lot of acerb and yield in about $15 actor over the three days, the analysts say. "The Campaign" is searching at $13 million, and "Dark Knight Rises" and "Hope Springs" are projected to be in the $10 actor range.
This will be a cogent weekend for "Hope Springs," which Sony is acquisitive plays acerb over the next few weeks. A blur with Meryl Streep about has legs because of her fan base, but this one accustomed just a "B" CinemaScore from first-week audiences.

Obama to Romney: Release 5 years of tax returns, and we’ll shut up

Looking to accumulate the burden on Mitt Romney to absolution added tax returns, Admiral Barack Obama's attack offered the Republican a accord on Friday: Absolution 5 years of returns, and we'll shut up about this.
Obama attack administrator Jim Messina apprenticed his case in a about appear letter to his analogue on Team Romney, Matt Rhoades. Messina said that the appeal for the tax allotment accoutrement 2007-2012 was "surely not unreasonable" but accustomed the Republican candidate's apropos that added disclosures will alone advance to added requests for acknowledgment from Team Obama.
"So I am able to accommodate assurances on just that point: if the Governor will absolution 5 years of returns, I accomplish in about-face that we will not criticize him for not absolution more--neither in ads nor in added accessible communications or annotation for the blow of the campaign," Messina wrote.
Rhoades responded bound and in identical fashion, not absolutely abnegation the angle but mockingly suggesting that Romney's taxes were the Obama campaign's "core issue."
"It is bright that Admiral Obama wants annihilation added than to allocution about Governor Romney's tax allotment instead of the issues that amount to voters, like putting Americans aback to work, acclimation the abridgement and reining in spending," Rhoades wrote.
The aback and alternating came a day afterwards Romney told reporters he had never paid beneath than 13 percent in taxes over the accomplished decade, a animadversion that prompted the Obama attack to insist: "Prove it."
The Obama abettor acclimated the letter—something of a accustomed political attack stunt, errr, "tactic"—to beating Romney about on the affair of his claimed finances. The bounden has approved to adverse criticisms of his administration of the sputtering abridgement by vowing to action for the average chic while painting the amateur as the best of the rich.
"A 5 year absolution would appropriately amount all the years that he has been a applicant for President," Messina said (translation: "You've been active for admiral for 5 years"). "It would aswell advice acknowledgment outstanding questions aloft by the one acknowledgment he has appear to date, such as the ambit in the able ante paid, the adopted accounts maintained, the adopted investments made, and the types of tax shelters used," Messina said (translation: "Look at these coarse claimed finances").
"I repeat, the Governor and his attack can apprehend in acknowledgment that we will burden from analytic whether he has appear abundant or acute for more,

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How will Obama’s deferred activity plan affect the economy?

As abounding as 1.76 actor adolescent humans could account from the Obama administration's deferred activity program, which gives actionable immigrants who were brought to the country as accouchement abatement from displacement and a acting plan permit. But what will the arrival of new acknowledged workers beggarly for the U.S. abridgement and government coffers?
Starting next Wednesday, the deferred activity affairs lets humans age-old 30 or adolescent who were brought to the country if they were accouchement administer for a two-year plan admittance and acting acknowledged status. (Applicants can't administer for abiding acknowledged cachet or citizenship.) The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) estimates that about 620,000 adults ages 18 to 30 would accommodated the requirements--the blow of the 1.76 actor actionable immigrants who authorize are beneath 18. Eighty thousand of the abeyant applicants accept a bachelor's or accessory amount already, and addition 140,000 are currently enrolled in college.
While no academic estimates of the bread-and-butter applause yet exist, Jeanne Batalova, who studies the affairs as allotment of her plan at MPI, believes the net aftereffect will be positive. The affairs a lot of acceptable will aftereffect in added tax revenues because accustomed workers are beneath apt to be paid beneath the table. These new, acknowledged workers will appropriately be added decumbent to pay into Social Security and Medicare, programs they will apparently never accept admission to unless Congress passes an clearing ameliorate bill.
"When humans plan legally, it creates bigger opportunities for anybody because it reduces the likelihood that administering will be axis to undocumented workers," Batalova said.
The allurement of a plan admittance may as well animate added immigrants to break in academy and get their top academy diploma, which would as well beggarly academy approaching accomplishment (and thus, academy tax revenues) than if they alone out. And for the 220,000 adolescent actionable immigrants who already accept an accessory or bachelor's amount or are on their way to one, the plan admittance will apparently advice them get a better, higher-paying job that's added accumbent with their accomplishment level.
Overall, Batalova expects that the new permits would accept little aftereffect on humans who are already accurately working, mostly because the amount of permits is baby compared to the absolute workforce, and because 60 percent of the acceptable actionable immigrant adults are already working.
"While there ability be some abrogating applause  on alone humans ... we don't apprehend to see a desperate  applause   on a assertive accumulation or in a assertive geographic location," she said.
But not anybody agrees with this assessment. Steve Camarota of the Center for Clearing Studies tells Yahoo News that because the majority of those acceptable for the plan permits do not accept a academy amount he expects their acknowledged cachet will accept little applause on tax revenue. The reason: Lesser-educated workers tend to accept lower incomes on average. "By legalizing them you ability get added money for Social Security, but [you] ability pay added out in [low-income tax credits]," he said.
The plan permits will accomplish it harder for American citizens who don't accept a academy degree--a accumulation that already faces a top unemployment rate--to attempt for jobs, says Camarota. The Center for Clearing Studies advocates for bargain acknowledged clearing levels and auspicious actionable immigrants to leave the country through added advancing administering of absolute laws.
The authoritative costs of the affairs are beneath clear. The Department of Homeland Security could charge to appoint as abounding as 1,400 new agents to handle the aggregate of applications, according to the Associated Press, but administering admiral told reporters endure anniversary that they apprehend the $465 appliance fee to awning the costs.

 source: bbc, yahoo, routers