Walmart hostage video: Man killed by police after taking toddler hostage

Walmart hostage video footage has been released, showing how police officers, including the hostage negotiator, interacted with the man who took a 2-year-old hostage at a Walmart.

By Associated Press / July 1, 2013

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Newly released surveillance video shows a man taking a toddler hostage?at a?Walmart in suburban Oklahoma City, two weeks ago. The hostage-taker was shot and killed by law enforcement.

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Midwest City Police Assistant Chief Sid Porter says the child wasn't harmed in the incident on June 18. Police say Sammie Lamont Wallace took the 2-year-old girl out of her mother's shopping cart and held a knife to the child. Porter says the store was evacuated within minutes and police began negotiating with Wallace.

Porter says an officer opened fire after Wallace began "counting down" on the girl's life.

The shot killed Wallace and no one else was hurt. Porter says Wallace, who was 37, apparently had no connection to the toddler or her mother.

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Court: No class-action status in Google book case

NEW YORK (AP) ? Google Inc. got a friendly ruling Monday from a federal appeals panel that stripped a group representing authors of class-action status as the search engine defends itself against claims that its plan to create the world's largest digital library will violate copyrights.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it was too early for authors to be considered as a group in a lawsuit brought against the Mountain View, Calif.-based company by the Authors Guild.

A three-judge panel of the Manhattan court said a judge presiding over the 8-year-old case must consider fair use issues before deciding whether to consider authors as a class. A judge last year granted class-action status to the Authors Guild, which is seeking $750 in damages for each copyrighted book Google copied. Google has said such a payout would cost the company more than $3 billion.

The appeals court said Google's argument that the Authors Guild and other plaintiffs cannot fairly represent the interests of hundreds of thousands of authors because some of the authors will benefit from Google's digital library "may carry some force."

It also said a consideration first by a trial-level judge of Google's claims that it can fairly use snippets of longer works without violating copyrights "will necessarily inform and perhaps moot our analysis of many class certification issues."

The court also said neither side will be harmed by a delay in deciding whether the Authors Guild can represent all writers.

So far, Google has copied more than 20 million books. The appeals panel that heard arguments earlier this year seemed reluctant to get in the way of the plans. One judge said it would be a "huge advantage" for many authors while another said it would have "enormous societal benefit."

A lawyer for the Authors Guild told the judges earlier this year that there was only a "very remote" possibility that the lawsuit would derail Google's library. He said the aim of the lawsuit was to make sure authors are properly compensated.

The appeals panel noted in its ruling Monday that any further appeal in the case should be assigned to the same appeals judges.

Lawyers on both sides did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.

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Why Hedge Funds Are Failing Right Now - Business Insider

Over the last several weeks Wall Street has learned a powerful and painful lesson: Sometimes nothing is safe.

Call them what you want to ? Top Dogs, Smart Money, Heavyweights ? these are the kings, and their castles are crumbling.

Funds that looked bulletproof are getting smoked.

Ray Dalio's famous 'All Weather' fund is down 8% for the year. The top performer of 2012 is down 5.66% for the year as of last week.

Market gurus may try to make what's happening sound complicated, but it's really not. In fact, what's going on can be explained in two big market and investing themes. The first theme is the overall effect of the Federal Reserve's change in policy and what it's doing to risk across asset classes. The second theme is an age-old debate about how people should structure their investments in general.

First the Fed. After Bernanke announced that the Fed would gradually reduce purchase of Treasuries, the market has become unrecognizable. Interest rates on the 10-year Treasury note have leaped to 2.5% from 1.93% in early May.

Investors are selling bonds like crazy, and hedge funds with exposure to credit markets ? like Metacapital Management, the best performer of 2012 which made mortgage backed arbitrage its cornerstone? ? are suddenly losers. Bond mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs) have seen record monthly redemptions of $61.7 billion through June 24th, according to Bloomberg.

Meanwhile, the stock market has been a whipsaw. In early April the S&P 500 hit 2007 highs (1575), climbing steadily until Bernanke's speech on the 19th, when it decided to take us all on a ride. That's when if fell and kept falling almost 5%. At the beginning of last week traders were starting to think this was the new normal, and then all of a sudden, over the past three days the S&P rallied 2.7%.

This is the return of volatility. It had been kept bottled up, and now it's on the loose to wreak havoc on investors who thought they knew what they were doing.

As U.K. hedge fund manager Hugh Hendry put it in a note (via Zero Hedge):

The invisible regime of low volatility and low correlations that had been so supportive of risk markets for at least the last year started to become unhinged... As cross-asset correlations rose, the Fund became less diversified.

What that means in plain English is that assets that once had nothing to do with one another started exhibiting the same behaviors. Hendry' fund is down 2.1%. Some of the calls that he made earlier this spring, like going long Japanese equities, turned against him.

That brings us to the second theme ? the debate about investing being played out in markets right now.

It goes something like this: Old school portfolio managers like Jack Bogle's Vanguard maintain that a 60/40 portfolio (60% stocks, 40% bonds) will serve you well. The newer breed of high-powered hedge fund managers think differently. They argue that a 60/40 strategy puts too much risk (and thus the portfolio's success) into equities.

That's why Dalio created the first "risk parity" fund (yes, the All Weather) in 1996. Ideally, it spreads risk evenly across one's portfolio by using leverage to amp up traditionally secure assets (like bonds) and deemphasizing more volatile assets like stocks.

You can imagine how that wouldn't work in this market.

From Reuters:

Bridgewater created a portfolio based on two of the four basic economic scenarios: rising growth, falling growth, rising inflation, falling inflation. Different types of assets do well in each of these scenarios and the all-weather portfolio contemplates spreading its risk evenly.

After Bernanke made his statement, those economic scenarios fell apart as stock and bond prices fell together. Now that stocks are making their way up and 10-year Treasury bonds are still yielding 2.4%, risk parity still isn't the answer.

Meanwhile, the $19.5 billion Vanguard Balanced Index Fund, which uses the 60/40 method is up 5.48% this year through June 24th, according to Investment News.

Timing is everything, and if you called this, you're smarter than a lot of brilliant people.

Or you're just lucky ... this is investing after all.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-hedge-funds-are-failing-right-now-2013-6

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Eric Garcetti takes over as Los Angeles mayor

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Eric Garcetti celebrated the start of his first term as mayor Sunday with a promise to do the basic things right while getting Los Angeles' economy rolling again.

The 42-year-old Ivy Leaguer, a veteran city councilman and son of a former prosecutor, took a ceremonial oath of office on the City Hall steps as part of inaugural festivities featuring Jimmy Kimmel and the musician Moby.

Officially, he takes over the job leading a sprawling city of nearly 4 million people on Monday.

"These times demand a back-to-basics mayor focused above all else on our economy and jobs," Garcetti said in a speech punctuated by optimism and recognition of a tough job ahead.

"We have to accept that the days of seemingly spontaneous growth in huge mega-industries are gone, maybe for good," he said.

He replaces fellow Democrat Antonio Villaraigosa, 60, who exits after two uneven terms during which he expanded rail lines in a city notoriously choked by cars and pushed to improve a school district over which the mayor has no direct control.

Garcetti sketched an agenda that included cultivating ideas with business executives and universities, stopping the flight of Hollywood productions and reducing red tape and business taxes long seen as discouraging job growth.

"You'll have a local government that's off your back and on your side," he promised.

The new mayor takes charge of a city with problems all too familiar: knotted freeways, an unemployment rate hovering around double digits, many struggling schools, battered roadways.

The lingering homeless problem was on display just steps from the podium, where park benches were occupied by sleeping bodies.

Garcetti has long said he will focus on the economy "like a laser beam" and try to recover jobs lost in the recession. His goals range from getting all city workers to contribute to costly health care to dealing with long-standing gripes about potholes and cracked sidewalks.

In a historical footnote, Garcetti becomes the city's first elected Jewish mayor. His background reflects the city's diversity: he often refers to his Italian and Mexican roots, and talked in the speech about family members fleeing persecution in Poland and Russia to come to the U.S.

Garcetti has a temperate, wonky style ? he was a Rhodes Scholar, after attending Columbia University ? that will be a change from Villaraigosa, who was known for his outsized personality and ability to make headlines about his nightlife and dating.

It was Kimmel who brought the laughs, at one point blaming Villaraigosa's administration for the unusually hot weather.

It also will be a generational change. Garcetti is just a few years older than Villaraigosa's eldest daughter.

Garcetti was elected with a yawn from most residents ? not even one in four voters cast a ballot in his May runoff against Controller Wendy Greuel. Los Angeles is known for mostly ignoring the scrum of local politics.

That means he takes office with many residents having no idea who he is.

Garcetti was able to defeat Greuel, a fellow Democrat, by depicting her as a pawn of utility union bosses in a city long friendly to labor, an outcome expected to echo beyond California as unions nationwide face threats to their clout.

The budget remains a central issue, though he didn't address it directly. He promised to make government "leaner and more efficient," including using more technology.

Bankrupt Stockton and other California cities are in worse shape, but spending in Los Angeles is projected to outpace revenue for years and rising pension and retiree health care bills threaten money that could otherwise go to libraries, tree-trimming and street repairs.

He's also facing a new round of labor contract talks.

"I will make my share of mistakes in this job," he said at one point.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/eric-garcetti-takes-over-los-angeles-mayor-161451313.html

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You Can Finally Browse the Web From Google Glass

For as crazily sci-fi as Google Glass is, it's been missing a big feature until just now: a web browser. Thanks to this month's big update to the specs, you can finally dispense with one-use apps and surf the whole web like a real person. Kinda.

As you can imagine, the logistics of navigating a website through Google Glass is a little bit weird; to click on things, you've got to move your head around and center them on screen, while tapping the side of your Glass to fire your eye beams click.

But to aid in avoiding exactly that kind of awkwardness in other pursuits, Google's also introducing a whole bunch of new voice-controlled features like "reply" or "read aloud" for texts, as well as "answer call," "share with [friend]."

All of the new functionality will be automatically rolling out to Glass over the next few days. So if you happen to see a Glasshole lolling his or her head randomly and tapping away furiously, it's not a seizure; that's just what the future of web-browsing looks like. [Project Glass]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/you-can-finally-browse-the-web-from-google-glass-637984909

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Crossing drug cartel territory from Pacific to Gulf, highway carves a path to Mexico's future

Mexico highway leapfrogs drug lands to link 2 seas

by KATHERINE CORCORAN, Associated Press ? 27 June 2013 12:28-04:00

ESPINAZO DEL DIABLO, Mexico (AP) ? Lavender-blue peaks of the western Sierra Madre jut as far as the eye can see, the only hints of civilization: a tendril of smoke from burning corn residue, a squiggle of dirt road.

Then out of nowhere, a flat ribbon of concrete runs like a roller coaster over giant pylons, burrowing in and out of the mountainside until it seems to leap midair over a 400-meter (1,200-foot) river gorge via the world?s highest cable-stayed bridge, called the Baluarte.

The Durango-Mazatlan Highway is one of Mexico?s greatest engineering feats, 115 bridges and 61 tunnels designed to bring people, cargo and legitimate commerce safely through a mountain range known until now for marijuana, opium poppies and an accident-prone road called the Devil?s Backbone.

Even those protesting the project say the 230-kilometer (140-mile) highway, expected to be completed in August, will change northern Mexico dramatically for the good. It will link port cities on the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific by a mere 12-hour drive, and Mazatlan with San Antonio, Texas, in about the same time. The highway will eventually move 5 million vehicles a year, more than four times the number on the old road, plus more produce and goods from Asia to the Mexican interior and southern U.S.

Sinaloa state tourism officials predict an ?explosion? for the resort city of Mazatlan, hard hit by drug violence in recent years, as the new road gives 40 million Mexicans in interior states an easy drive to the beach.

?It will change the landscape of this part of the country,? said Tourism Secretary Francisco Cordova. ?It?s an opportunity to develop these areas and diversify the local economy.?

But it remains to be seen if the $2.2 billion highway will pull the towns of wood and corrugated-metal shacks in rural Sinaloa and Durango away from their historical ties to drug trafficking. In Concordia, the municipality that abuts the Baluarte Bridge in Sinaloa state, nine people were ambushed and killed last December as they ate their Christmas Eve dinner. The prosecutor blamed the attack on a war for control of drug trafficking.

The public security chief in Pueblo Nuevo, on the Durango side of the bridge, was gunned down a year ago by armed commandos as he walked down a street in daylight.

Government officials say the new road will bring legitimate economic activity to a troubled area. Locals say it may improve access, or take what little honest business they had as trucks and buses bypass towns altogether.

?It could leave some of the communities even more isolated,? said Jose Luis Coria Quinones, spokesman for 1,800 communal tree farmers, who have an injunction suspending construction on the Durango side near the bridge while a court considers their case. They say that the federal government hasn?t paid them sufficiently for access to their property during the construction and hasn?t repaired the damage caused to pine forests, water supplies and endangered species habitat.

From a distance, the Baluarte Bridge and its triangular web of steel cables are both spectacular and wildly out of place, a Golden Gate Bridge in the middle of a moonscape. While shorter than the Golden Gate, the Baluarte crosses a canyon deep enough to fit the Chrysler Building.

Engineers pump their fists when asked who designed it: ?Puros Mexicanos.? All Mexicans.

A team of 60 to 80 experts started about 15 years ago in the Secretary of Communications and Transportation offices in Mexico City, said supervising architect Alberto Ortiz Martinez, using horseback, mule and helicopter to scope out possible routes. The entire road took 130,000 tons of steel and more than 20 times the concrete of an Olympic stadium.

Some 1,200 workers on the bridge lived for four years in a nearby encampment.

?The most complicated problem was getting there, to locations totally inaccessible, and bringing huge quantities of materials,? said engineer Jose Refugio Avila Muro, a federal subdirector of highway projects for Sinaloa state. He compared the topography to an electrocardiogram: ?Lots of peaks, and you have to find a way to get to each peak from below. You just keep going, one by one, to each new point of construction.?

The new highway will cut the drive between Durango and Mazatlan to 2.5 hours from the current six hours of hairpin turns, few guard rails and the Devil?s Backbone, a stretch of road along the spine of a mountain with drops of hundreds of meters (feet) on either side.

Coming around a blind curve, a driver may suddenly have to negotiate passage between a semitrailer barreling downhill and a handful of cows tiptoeing along a narrow shoulder. Deadly accidents are common. A bus carrying mostly retiree tourists to Mazatlan plunged off the road a year ago, killing a dozen and injuring 22.

But the old highway is not the most forbidding part of the landscape.

From December 2006 until September 2011, when the federal government stopped providing numbers, Sinaloa and Durango on either side of the Baluarte Bridge were among the deadliest states in terms of drug-related killings. Mazatlan ranked 8th among Mexico?s more than 2,400 municipalities and Pueblo Nuevo, the municipality on the Durango side of the highway, was 35th most violent up to the end of 2010.

The U.S. State Department discourages travel in both states, except for specific tourist zones of Mazatlan.

The killings spiked in townships near the new road as a group known as the Mazatlecos and the Zetas battle for territory controlled by the Sinaloa Cartel, named for its home state and headed by Joaquin ?El Chapo? Guzman, the world?s richest and most-wanted drug lord. A series of attacks around Concordia, Sinaloa, in late 2012, including the Christmas Eve massacre, caused some 250 families to flee their communities, said Concordia Mayor Eligio Medina. They have yet to move back.

Medina said the new highway could change the criminal dynamic, bringing tourism to colonial Concordia, founded in 1565 by the Spaniards as a way station between the coast and the gold mines. It?s also one of the most biologically diverse townships in the world, he said, noting that a new species of plant, the ageratina concordiana, was recently discovered there. He envisions everything from bird-watching to bungee jumping in Concordia?s Chara Pinta ecological preserve.

?The road will increase jobs and keep people busy,? Medina said. ?When there is social mobility, criminal groups are more limited.?

Medina said the area is quiet again, with the Mexican military patrolling the towns that were attacked. Mazatlan tourism officials say killings there have dropped from 307 in 2011 to 43 so far this year. Latin America security expert Samuel Logan agrees the new road could be a boost to tourism and commerce, and but also to illegal transport.

?Maybe Concordia will grow and there will be a Holiday Inn Express there,? he said. ?Will there be running daytime shootouts on this highway? Not likely. But will there be convoys of eight to 10 trucks going 90 mph (140 kph) filled with guys with guns? Probably.?

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Associated Press writers Martin Duran in Culiacan and Karla Tinoco in Durango contributed to this report.

Follow Katherine Corcoran on Twitter, @kathycorcoran

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Confed Cup Live: AP follows the final day action

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ? The Associated Press is following events in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. The Confederations Cup final between Spain and Brazil kicks off at 7 p.m. local time (2200 GMT). Follow this live feed for updates:

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INSPECTING THE FIELD

The players are out on the field at the Maracana Stadium for warmups. The Spanish team entered the field to a huge round of jeers from the thousands of Brazilian fans, while the hosts were giving a screaming welcome. With about 40 minutes still to go before kickoff of the Confederations Cup final, the players are jogging around and getting a feel for the stadium. The fans at the Maracana, almost all wearing yellow, should provide a huge boost for Brazil as it tries to win a fourth title at the World Cup warm-up tournament. - Chris Lehourites

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STARTING LINEUPS

The starting lineups for the Confederations Cup final are out, and there are no big surprises. Neymar will be the main man up front for Brazil, while Fernando Torres will start for Spain. In goal for Spain will be Iker Casillas. Here they are -- Brazil: Julio Cesar, Daniel Alves, Thiago Silva, David Luiz, Marcelo, Luiz Gustavo, Paulinho, Oscar, Hulk, Neymar, Fred. Spain: Iker Casillas, Gerard Pique, Andres Iniesta, Xavi Hernandez, Fernando Torres, Pedro Rodriguez, Juan Mata, Sergio Ramos, Sergio Busquets, Alvaro Arbeloa, Jordi Alba.

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SHOPS CLOSING

The number of protesters near the Maracana stadium has grown to about 10,000, reports AP's Jenny Barchfield. "Shopkeepers at the rare stores open on Sunday have pulled down gratings as the crowd passes. Helicopters hover overhead. Local residents lean out of apartment windows, filming the march with smartphones and video cameras," she says. Inside the stadium, it's a sea of yellow. With an hour to go before Brazil and Spain take the field for the Confederations Cup final, thousands of fans ? almost all of them wearing yellow ? have packed into the stadium and are dancing to the closing ceremony music. There are a few red Spain shirts scattered around the iconic venue, but there's no doubt Brazil is the home team for this match.

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CLOSING CEREMONY

With more than an hour until the Confederations Cup final starts and under darkening skies, the closing ceremony has started with dozens of people dancing on the field in the Maracana Stadium under football-like costumes. There's a carnival-like celebration on the pitch and the city's famous drums, hundreds of them, are creating a rumbling bass as dancers entertain the Brazilian crowd.

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TEAM BUS

Brazil's players are on their team bus and headed to the Maracana Stadium for the Confederations Cup final. Brazil has won all four of its matches at the World Cup warm-up tournament, but will have to beat world champion Spain to win their fourth title at the event. The match is scheduled to start in about two hours.

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GOING MOBILE

The so far peaceful gathering at the Saenz Pena plaza near central Rio is going mobile ? and immobile. Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets around the plaza, with many sitting down to block traffic. AP's Stephen Wade says there is no violence yet, but the demonstrators are becoming more animated, with several already wearing gas masks in anticipation of police retaliation. Many of them are singing anti-government and anti-FIFA chants. The Confederations Cup final at the nearby Maracana Stadium is still about two hours away from kickoff.

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PARTY TIME

With fears of violence ever present, the scene at the Saenz Pena plaza near central Rio is more like a party right now. There are still three hours to go before Brazil and Spain kick off the Confederations Cup final, and vendors are out selling beer to the gathering of demonstrators. Among the signs from the disenchanted: "FIFA, get out of here." Many of the protesters are angry that the Brazilian government is spending billions on next year's World Cup and the 2016 Olympics while health services and education continue to be underfunded.

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ITALY WINS

Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon made three saves in the penalty shootout to help his team beat Uruguay in the third-place match for the Confederations Cup. The match was tied at 2-2 after extra time, and Italy won the shootout 3-2. Buffon saved penalties from Diego Forlan, Martin Caceres and Walter Gargano. Alberto Aquilani, Stephan El Shaarawy and Emanuele Giaccherini scored in the shootout for Italy, while Mattia De Sciglio's effort was saved. Edinson Cavani, who scored both of Uruguay's goals in the match, scored one of the shootout penalties while Luis Suarez added the other.

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SHOOTOUT TIME

Tied 2-2 in the third-place match for the Confederations Cup after extra time, Uruguay and Italy are headed to penalties. Each team will pick five players to take the spot kicks, but more will then come forward if the score is still even.

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RED CARD

Italy midfielder Riccardo Montolivo was sent off in extra time with a second yellow card in the third-place match of the Confederations Cup. Uruguay and Italy are tied at 2-2 in Salvador, Brazil.

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ARRIVING FANS

Besides the protesters, there are also football fans heading to the Maracana Stadium for Sunday's Confederations Cup final between Brazil and Spain. And those arriving at the stadium's main entrance are being met by some elite police units and military vehicles as the fans create a festive scene with Brazilian flags waving in the air. Instead of corruption and health care issues, 23-year-old teacher Vinicius Martins tells AP's Tales Azzoni that he is looking forward to the match. "It's a world classic. Nobody wants to miss this one," Martins said. "We know it's not going to be easy for Brazil against the world champions, but we came to see the 'Selecao' celebrating when it's all over."

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EXTRA TIME

The third-place match at the Confederations Cup has gone to extra time. Edinson Cavani twice equalized for Uruguay, putting the 2010 World Cup semifinalists even at 2-2 against Italy in Salvador. Davide Astori and Alessandro Diamanti scored the goals for the Italians. Extra time will consist of two 15-minute halves. If the teams are still tied at the end, they will go to penalty kicks.

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REMAIN CALM

With about four hours to go before the Confederations Cup final, protesters near the Maracana Stadium have remained calm but vocal about their demands. One of them, 31-year-old history professor Tatiana Poggi, has a message for the thousands and thousands of fans planning to come to Brazil for next year's World Cup: "Boycott the big event." Poggi tells AP's Rob Harris that the people of Brazil have reasons to protest, highlighting corruption, spending on the World Cup, health care and education. "The World Cup is one big government propaganda project. It won't boost the economy," Poggi said. "Our transport is not improving, our health care is not improving."

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CAVANI AGAIN

Edinson Cavani scored another equalizer for Uruguay, making it 2-2 against Italy in the third-place match for the Confederations Cup. Cavani scored straight from a free kick in the 78th minute, only five minutes after Alessandro Diamanti had given Italy the lead, also from a free kick.

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ITALY SCORES

Alessandro Diamanti gets a goal after all. The Italy midfielder curled in a free kick in the 73rd minute to give his team a 2-1 lead over Uruguay in the third-place match for the Confederations Cup. Diamanti was orginially credited with the first goal of the match, a free kick that hit the post but then went into the net off the back of Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando Muslera. That goal was later awarded to Davide Astori, who had made sure of the goal near the far post.

URUGUAY SCORES

Edinson Cavani scores for Uruguay to make it 1-1 against Italy in the third-place match at the Confederations Cup. The Napoli forward side-footed in a pass from Luis Suarez in the 58th minute at the Arena Forte Nova in Salvador. Suarez was booked moment later for a foul.

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ITALY LEADS AT HALFTIME

The halftime whistle has blown in Salvador, with Italy still leading Uruguay 1-0 in the third-place match for the Confederations Cup. The goal, however, has now been credited to Davide Astori. The ball appeared to go into the net off the back of Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando Muslera after a free kick from Alessandro Diamanti had hit the post in the 24th minute. Diamanti was originally named as the scorer, but the FIFA website now says it was Astori.

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SITTING THIS ONE OUT

Mariela Simao, a 22-year-old biotechnology student who lives near the Maracana Stadium, has decided to sit this one out ? both Sunday's protest and the Confederations Cup final. Simao, who first took the streets about two weeks ago when many local Brazilians let their rage spill over into violence while calling for government reforms, tells AP's Rob Harris that she is staying behind this time because she is afraid of the police. "They are not only looking at the people doing bad stuff, breaking windows, they are shooting everyone indiscriminately," Simao said of police firing rubber bullets and tear gas. She also said she loves football and supports Brazil's national team, which will be facing Spain in the final of the World Cup warm-up tournament, but she is now more concerned about other problems in the country. "I hope they are champions," Simao said, "but the country needed to invest in a lot of things before bringing the World Cup here - hospitals, schools."

ITALY TAKES THE LEAD

Italy has taken a 1-0 lead over Uruguay in the third-place match in Salvador. Alessandro Diamanti sent in a free kick that hit the post and then bounced in off the back of Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando Muslera. Italy defender Davide Astori made sure it was a goal, but the ball looked like it had already crossed the line before he got a foot to it.

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POLICE HALT PROTESTERS

Protesters marching toward the stadium ahead of the final have been stopped on Avenida do Maracana by a battalion of military police carrying shields, says AP's Jenny Barchfield. There are also bus loads of police reinforcements nearby in case of violence. Standing in front of a line of police and yelling at them is a middle-aged woman with a T-shirt that says "Grandma." Protesters have taken to the streets all over Brazil in the past two weeks, calling for a wide-range of reforms. Some of their ire has been targeted at the high cost of staging next year's World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.

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THIRD PLACE

The match for third place at the Confederations Cup has started, with South American champion Uruguay playing Italy at the Arena Forte Nova in Salvador. Uruguay lost to Brazil in the semifinals, and Italy was beaten by Spain in a penalty shootout. Cesare Prandelli, the coach of Italy, has complained about the third-place match, calling for FIFA to review whether it's needed. The Italians are upset because they have had only two days to rest since Thursday's draining loss, while Uruguay last played on Wednesday. Another cause of contention is the start time. The third-place match is the only game of this year's tournament to start at 1 p.m., when it can be quite warm in Brazil -- especially up north in Salvador.

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PROTEST & POLICE

Brazilian police told AP's Tales Azzoni that they would allow people to protest outside the Maracana Stadium as long as they kept their demonstrations peaceful. People without tickets usually are not allowed near the venue in FIFA tournaments, but the Maracana sits in a crowded Rio neighborhood and authorities said they would not keep local residents away from the venue. A few civil law enforcement officers and an elite police unit were in front of the main entrance, so far just watching the demonstrators. A handful of people were calling for attention to human trafficking, and others complained of poor conditions at Rio de Janeiro hospitals. "We want better conditions in the health services in Rio," said 59-year-old Geralda Ramos, who works at a local hospital. "We need to speak up because the government is not paying attention to us. We need better salaries and better equipment to be able to treat our people."

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FOOTBALL, TANKS, RIOT GEAR

A crowd of protesters has started to make its way from Saenz Pena, a square not far from central Rio, and is heading for the Maracana, says Barchfield. Once they get near the stadium, they'll find officers in riot gear and tanks awaiting them. If there is going to be a violent standoff, it's likely to occur there.

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ON ALERT

The Confederations Cup has been marred by violent anti-government protests, partly aimed at the high cost of staging next year's World Cup. More are expected for the final day of the Confederations Cup, but no one is quite sure how big they will be. Several thousand police have been put on alert, but as of noon in Rio, only a few hundred people had gathered in the center of the city, according to Barchfield. Outside the Maracana Stadium, a handful of protesters held banners saying, "How much is silence worth?"

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DRESSED IN YELLOW

The clouds hovering over Rio de Janeiro haven't darkened the mood ahead of Sunday's Confederations Cup final between Brazil and Spain. The Brazilian fans are already out on the streets in force, many wearing the team's traditional yellow colors. In the country that will host next year's World Cup, football is a serious event, and the match against world champion Spain is going to be one to remember. Brazil's national team has been in a rebuilding phase under coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, the same man who led the team to its fifth and last World Cup title in 2002. But the team has so far met Scolari's expectations, winning all four of its matches to reach the final. Spain made it through by beating Italy in a penalty shootout in the semifinals, and could even be considered the underdog for the match since it will be played at the Maracana Stadium, Brazil's most renowned football venue.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/confed-cup-live-ap-follows-final-day-action-155751891.html

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