Shady car dealers targeting military buyers

By Herb Weisbaum, The ConsumerMan

Cody Cameron, a Marine stationed in Jacksonville, N.C., got burned when he bought a used car. He paid $17,000 last year for a 2004 Nissan 350-Z with 60,000 miles on it. He figured the car would last him a long time. It didn?t.?

?I drove the vehicle for about two weeks. And one day all of the wheel studs on the left rear tire just popped off and the tire took off down the road,? he recalls.?

He was able to get the dealership to pay for the repairs.? But about a week later, the studs broke again. This time they refused to pay.?

Cameron couldn?t afford the repair work, so he took the car to another dealer, hoping to get some money for a trade-in. That?s when he discovered his car had been in a wreck. The AutoCheck report showed extensive damage to the left side of the vehicle.?

?When I bought it, I specifically asked the salesman ? multiple times ? if it had been in a wreck,? Cameron tells me. ?And he said no. There were no accidents.??

Right now, Cameron?s 350-Z cannot be driven. But he?s still on the hook for the payments. He?s suing the dealer.?

It?s a common problem
It?s unfortunate. Shady car dealers often target military customers. Unethical salespeople see them as easy marks.?

Holly Petraeus, director of the Office of Servicemember Affairs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, warns military personnel to be on guard when they walk onto a car lot.?

?You have these car places that spring up around military installations selling used cars for a very marked-up price and then putting high financing on top of that,? she says.?

Military personnel can be especially vulnerable customers. They?re young. This may be their first car purchase. They often have a limited or negative credit history.?

Petraeus (whose husband, Gen David Petraeus is CIA Director) tells me everyone in the service is afraid of doing anything that could cost them their security clearance. A bad credit report is the No. 1 reason for having that clearance pulled.?

?They?re very conscious of that,? she says. ?So somebody can threaten them and say, ?If you don?t pay up then you?re going to get in trouble,? which of course, is the last thing they want.??

Holly Petraeus is not the only one sounding the alarm. The auto experts at Edmunds.com advise military customers to watch out for deceptive sales practices.?

"Military personnel have a steady income. The government is paying them every single month for their service. Unscrupulous car dealers know that and are really anxious to get into that income stream,? says Edmunds.com?s Carroll Lachnit.?

Edmunds.com warns military families to be on the lookout for crafty salespeople who use patriotism as part of their sales pitch.?

"We're trying to get them to be aware that appealing to their pride or flattering them may not be sincere appreciation for their military service, but just another way to get their hooks into that paycheck,? Lachnit says.?

Car dealer rip-offs affect mission readiness
Rosemary Shahan, president of Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety, has a long list of ?unconscionable practices? she says unethical dealers use on military buyers. They include: falsifying loan applications, bait-and-switch financing and selling a car they know has been in a wreck without telling the customer.?

?Auto sales and financing scams are leading causes of financial readiness problems for military service members and their families,? she says.?

Two years ago, while Congress was debating the Dodd-Frank bill on financial reform, Air Force Secretary Michael Donley wrote a letter to lawmakers. It said:?

?I'm sure you agree that Airmen who are distracted by financial issues at home decreases readiness. Protection from unprincipled automobile lending enables our Airmen to concentrate on their primary mission -- fly, fight and win in air, space and cyberspace." (See full letter)?

In a similar letter, John McHugh, Secretary of the Army wrote:?

"Over the years, many of our Soldiers have fallen victim to predatory lending practices and have entered into contracts for prohibitively expensive financial products promoted by some unscrupulous car dealerships and lenders. Though the Army does educate our Soldiers about buying cars in our normal financial education curriculum, the fact remains that junior enlisted Soldiers ? remain an easy target for dishonest brokers.? (See full letter)?

McHugh?s letter listed the results of an informal Department of Defense survey of officers who do financial counseling for the four main branches of the armed forces. The vast majority (79 percent) reported they were seeing military members with auto financing problems. Many of these clients, they reported, worried they could not make their car payments.?

The National Independent Automobile Dealers Association(NAIDA) does not shy away from the problem.?

?Try as we may to get rid of them, there are still bad actors in our industry,? says Steven Jordan, NIADA?s chief operating officer. ?We are aware of the growing issue regarding vehicle purchases and financing by military personnel and we feel there is no place in our industry for those who wish to take advantage of or deceive our military personnel with improper disclosure or unfair & deceptive trade practices.?

Protect yourself
There are things everyone ? military and civilian ? should do when buying a vehicle.?

• Do your homework. Check out the dealership. Talk with friends and go to the Better Business Bureau website. Learn the actual market price of any vehicles you are interested in. It?s easy. Just go to Edmunds.com, Kelly Blue Book ?or TrueCar.?
• Never shop alone. You should always have someone there to watch your back. Remember, dealership salespeople do this every day for a living. No matter what they say, their job is to get the most money possible on every transaction.?
• Don?t let anyone pressure you into signing the sales contract. Once you sign it, the vehicle is yours and you are legally required to make the payments. There is no three-day ?cooling-off period? for car sales.?
• Never buy a used car until you have it inspected by a qualified independent mechanic. They can spot damage from a previous wreck or potential mechanical problems. The small price you pay for this inspection (normally $100 to $150) could save you literally thousands of dollars down the road.

More detailed advice for U.S. service members is available at ?Boot Camp for Military Car Buyers.??

You can also read my car-buying tips at ConsumerMan.com.

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Scents and Senescence: "Old Person Smell" Is Real, but Not Necessarily Offensive

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A new study confirms that people, like many animals, easily recognize a unique?but not unpleasant?eau de elderly

By Ferris Jabr ?| May 30, 2012?|

EAU DE ELDERLY: There may be some biological truth to the popular notion of 'old person smell,' but the elderly do not necessarily smell more unpleasant than anyone else. Image: Portrait of a Elderly Lady, Mary Casatt (Wikimedia Commons)

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Wait a minute. There's something unusual about the subway seat you just claimed. It's awfully warm, and a peculiar odor seems to hover in the air nearby?a stale, musty odor tinged with something as acrid as mothballs. You know this aroma: it's "old person smell."

Anecdotally, the unique scent of the elderly lingers wherever they live and in any confined spaces they have recently occupied, such as taxis and elevators. Many different cultures have recognized the phenomenon?the Japanese even have a word for it, kareishuu?but the biological truth of old person smell remains uncertain. In a new study, blindfolded volunteers reliably recognized the aroma of the elderly by sniffing sweat-soaked armpit pads, although they had a much harder time correctly matching pads to the young and middle-aged, and they were not able to make fine distinctions about age based on scent alone. Contrary to the popular notion that old person smell is disagreeable, volunteers in the new study rated the odors of the elderly as much less unpleasant and intense than those of the middle-aged and young. Combined with earlier research, the new findings suggest that people retain a latent ability to gauge someone's age based on their odor, a talent inherited from evolutionary ancestors that might be linked to the ways animals recognize the sick and dying.

Researchers have shown that the body odors of some animals?including mice, black-tailed deer, otters, owls and rabbits?change with age and that animals can distinguish their young and old peers by smell. In other studies, investigators discovered that people, too, can tell the difference between old and young otters and rabbits by using scent cues.

Human body odor also changes with age, depending largely on the activity of various skin glands and how the substances they release interact with bacteria. The sebaceous glands, which secrete a waxy substance called sebum to lubricate and waterproof the skin, are particularly active during puberty and throughout most of adulthood. Likewise, apocrine sweat glands?which are only located in a few places, such as the armpits and genital region?rev up during puberty. Eccrine sweat glands, found all over the human body, exude a clear, odorless, salty liquid throughout life. All these fluids begin to stink when bacteria break down the various chemicals they contain?especially steroids and lipids?into smaller, odorous molecules that easily waft into the air. The more sweat on the skin, the more chemicals for the bacteria to break down, and the stronger the body odor.

Johan Lundstr?m of the Monell Chemical Senses Center studies human and animal body odors and how the brain responds to smells. Every now and then, he gives scientific talks at an elderly care center in the greater Philadelphia area that?he realized one day?smells almost exactly like the nursing home his mother managed in Sweden when he was young. Perhaps the smell really did emanate from the residents. Knowing about earlier research on animal body odors and age, Lundstr?m decided to test whether smell also informs how people evaluate age.

In their new study, Lundstr?m and his colleagues sewed absorbent nursing pads into the armpits of T-shirts and asked volunteers of different ages to sleep in the shirts for five consecutive nights. The researchers divided the 44 volunteers into three groups: eight women and eight men between the ages of 20 and 30 (the young); the same number of men and women between 45 and 55 (middle-aged); and six women and six men between 75 and 95 (elderly). During the day, the volunteers stored the T-shirts in sealed plastic bags; avoided spicy foods, cigarettes and alcohol; and showered with odorless shampoo and soap.

After the fifth night, Lundstr?m and his team collected and carefully quartered the sweaty nursing pads, placing four segments from each age group in different glass jars in preparation for a smell test. A different group of 41 young men and women volunteered their noses, taking a big whiff of the air at the top of a jar while blindfolded and rating both the intensity and pleasantness of the odor. Sometimes volunteers had to choose which of two odors most likely came from the older volunteer. Other times the volunteers had to label different jars "young," "middle-age" or "old-age."

Contrary to common complaints about "old people smell," the volunteers' blind ratings revealed that they found elderly people's odors both less intense and less unpleasant than odors from young and middle-aged people. Middle-aged man musk took top prize for intensity and unpleasantness, whereas volunteers rated the odors of middle-aged women most pleasant and whiffs of old man as least intense.

Not only did volunteers in Lundstr?m's new study rate the scent of the elderly as less offensive than any other, they also had the easiest time singling out old person smell from a selection of odors. When the volunteers compared two jars containing pads from different age groups, they reliably recognized that the odors were different, but they were not particularly adept at deciding which scent came from the older person. When volunteers attempted to label several different jars by age group, they also often failed to correctly identify odors from the young and middle-aged?but they were much more successful at picking out the jars containing pads soaked in elderly sweat. Old people smell was often instantly recognizable. The findings appear May 30 in PLoS ONE.

Together, the evidence indicates that people recognize a characteristic "old people smell" not because of the aroma's intensity or offensiveness, but because of its uniqueness compared to the body odors of younger people. "I think it's true that old people smell a certain way," Lundstr?m says, "but the idea that the smell is negative may largely be social stigma." An earlier study found that, compared with people aged 25 to 40, people over age 40 have higher levels of a fragrant organic compound known as 2-nonenal in their sweat and on their skin. The chemical, which the researchers described as having an "unpleasant grassy and greasy odor," might be "a major cause of the deterioration in body odor that has been observed with aging"?in other words, the biological explanation for why older people have a characteristic odor. But the compound has also been linked to the scent of cucumbers and aged beer, which are not distasteful to most people; others have compared old people smell to old book smell, which most people find benign at worst and enjoyable at best.

Compared with many other animals, humans have a lousy sense of smell. Determining exactly how people change their behavior based on one another's scents?or possibly pheromones?has frustrated and challenged scientists. Still, some evidence suggests that subtle chemical communication, much of it subconscious, helps people recognize family, changes women's reproductive cycles and makes it easier to empathize with others. As for the advantage of recognizing age by odor, "It might be a way to distinguish the sick from the healthy?not overt sickness, but underlying cell decay," Lundstr?m says. "The older we get, the more natural decay we have. But no one really knows why animals or people have this ability."

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E.P.I.C. Reborn:The Milele Jua

Welcome to the United Nations school for the gifted. But more importantly, welcome to E.P.I.C., a program funded by the United Nations to protect Milele Jua. The Milele Jua is a relic that was found in southeastern Africa by some of the natives. Many people have risked their lives to possess such a powerful device. There is a ritual, known by only a few. This ritual is the key to unlocking the Milele Jua's powers. Long ago, a powerful sorcerer created the Milele Jua to obtain ultimate power. Eventually, the insane power drove him mad, and eventually consumed his soul. Only someone with an incredibly strong will can handle it. The Milele Jua incradles the power of immortality. The sorcerer's spirit lies within it, and chooses whether the wielder of the Milele Jua is worthy of obtaining it's power. If not, then he will consume their soul and trap them into the relic as part of him and the Milele Jua. He has never found a being worthy enough of obtaining it's power throughout the years. Many have completed the ritual only to have their soul taken away and devoured by a madman.

"Ah! Welcome to Apocalypse." You have been recruited by the head of Apocalypse because you are ruthless, unforgiving, killing machines. The heads of Apocalypse have a job for you, which will have a high reward. All you have to do is bring us the relic that is contained within the United Nations school for the gifted. "Do you think you can do that?"
There are four factions in Apocalypse with four different leaders. Although they are all of the same organization, the four factions don't trust each other, and see each other as obstacles in reaching the Milele Jua. On rare occasions, the four faction work together during missions. No matter who is going on said mission, the leader always accompanies them. The four leaders have all given themselves titles based off of the 4 horsemen of apocalypse. Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. Originally, the four factions were separate groups who each had an ulterior motive. They formed a coalition known as "Apocalypse". Famine was the one who brought up the idea, and the others agreed. Thus, Apocalypse was born.

At most, 16 students are allowed, with no limit to how many of each class there is. They are all in the same class, and will have a teacher who may choose his/her own class-type.
5 members will be allowed in each faction of Apocalypse- 4 including the faction leader. Each leader may also choose their own class-type. Only 1 male or female role of each class will be allowed in Apocalypse. Whichever class-type they choose will also determine which faction they are in.

Class-types:
Swordsman- Someone whose choice of weapon is the ever-so-lethal blade. They are the mainly focused around melee combat.
Magician- Someone who has magical abilities. Their powers can vary from the ability to wield fire, to moving air currents with their mind.
Tech- A hacker, mechanic, someone who can use technology to fight, or all of the above. The tech's capabilities are only limited to the supplies at their disposal, and their imagination.
Hunter- Someone who is more like an animal than a man. Hunters can make great scouts, trackers, or beast masters. Many tend to have strong attachments to inhuman creatures, while others prefer humans. They could possibly have instinctual or physical capabilities, that a normal human wouldn't be capable of.
Gunman/Marksman- People who specialize in ranged combat. People who, much like swordsmen, wield their weapon as an extension of their arm. But their arm can reach far longer than most. Perfect accuracy, quick eye movement, speed that is focused in their arms rather than their legs. You can always rely on them to watch your back. Especially a good sniper.
Thief- Those who practice the art of stealth, and stealing. A person who can walk by another person and completely relieve them of everything in their pockets in a split second. Pick pocketing, lock picking, backstabbing, and how could we ever forget the power of persuasion. Of course someone of these talents could also make the perfect assassin. Thieves will do anything to obtain what they want. Especially if they can do it through strictly illegal means.
Medic- This person takes care of their teammates, and mends their wounds. They can cure even the most deadly of poisons and illnesses. The best medics can bring someone back from the brink of death. Even if they seem weak at first, medics are far more powerful than one would believe.
Heavy- The heavy is short for "Heavy Weapons Expert". They specialize in tanks, mobile gatling guns, bombs, RPG's(Rocket Propelled Grenades or Bazookas), the works. They don't know the meaning of too large. The bigger the better, and more easy to use in a fight. These people are often unusually strong, even if they don't appear to be. Some wimpy-looking heavies are even stronger than the large, muscular ones.

E.P.I.C.:
Teacher- Taken by Byte
Student 1(Male)- Reserved for AkionAkamura
Student 2(Female)- open
Student 3(Male)- open
Student 4(Female)- open
Student 5(Male)- open
Student 6(Female)- open
More student roles will be added if needed. Limit is 16. It is possible for one gender group to outnumber the other depending on requests to have a certain role.

Apocalypse:
Death faction leader- Taken by StefanLF
Swordsman(Male)- open
Magician(Female)- open
Tech(Male)- open
Hunter(Female)- open

War faction leader- Reserved for Mat_z6

Gunsman(Male)- open
Thief(Female)- open
Medic(Male)- open
Heavy(Female)- open

Famine faction leader- open
Swordsman(Female)- open
Tech(Female)- open
Thief(Male)- open
Heavy(Male)- open

Pestilance faction leader- open
Magician(Male)- open
Hunter(Male)- Taken by Gintoki Sakata
Gunsman(Female)- open
Medic(Female)- open

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Olympus, whistleblower reach settlement in Britain

TOKYO (AP) ? Olympus Corp. has reached a settlement with whistleblower Michael Woodford who had been suing over his dismissal as chief executive of the Japanese camera maker.

Woodford, a Briton, was fired in October after he blew the whistle on dubious accounting at Olympus. The Tokyo-based company has acknowledged it hid 117.7 billion yen ($1.5 billion) in investment losses dating back to the 1990s.

Terms of the deal reached Tuesday were not disclosed as a condition of the settlement, both sides said. The company said Wednesday its board must also sign off on the settlement.

"Hopefully today is a closer. A line has been drawn, and the company can move on and I can," Woodford told reporters in London.

The case had been set to go before a British employment court Monday, but that got delayed.

Woodford said a board meeting was set for June 8, but Olympus declined to confirm that. Woodford said he could not give details of the agreement.

Woodford, a rare foreigner to lead a major Japanese company and the first at Olympus, has conceded he has given up on any comeback at the camera and medical equipment maker.

Three former Olympus executives, including the company's ex-chairman, were arrested earlier this year on suspicion of orchestrating the cover-up. The company has carried out its own investigation and is suing some executives for damages.

Woodford has been praised by some Japanese as courageous in bringing dubious old-guard company practices to light. Others have criticized his methods as too confrontational. He has appeared often on Japanese media, and the public response has been overwhelmingly warm.

Associated Press

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City to host laser research hub

29 May 2012 Last updated at 20:17 ET

Europe's largest contract research organisation is to create a hub for laser research and technology in Glasgow.

The move by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is a strategic collaboration with the University of Strathclyde.

The Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics will cover a variety of sectors including security, healthcare, energy and transport.

It will be the organisation's first centre in the UK.

The hub will be based in the university's Technology and Innovation Centre, which is due to open in 2014.

About 10 people will be employed there in its first year.

That number is expected to rise to 80 staff and postgraduate students after five years.

The photonics centre is being funded by Fraunhofer and the university, the Scottish government, Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Funding Council.

It is expected to be the model for more Fraunhofer research centres around the UK.

The research organisation said it would also be establishing its UK headquarters at the university.

'Win-win situation'

Education Secretary Michael Russell said: "Scottish universities are known around the world for their excellence and Glasgow has a global reputation for advanced research and technology.

"It's great news that this success has helped to attract Fraunhofer to Scotland.

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It is fitting that the UK's first Fraunhofer Centre is dedicated to lasers, a thriving industry Scotland has excelled in for decades?

End Quote Prof Jim McDonald University of Strathclyde principal

"Building on the links between education and industry is a win-win situation that will benefit our economy.

"Securing the UK's first Fraunhofer centre is a major achievement for the University of Strathclyde's Technology and Innovation Centre and I look forward to watching this exciting initiative develop," he added.

The innovation centre aims to transform the way universities, business and industry collaborate to find solutions to global challenges, create jobs and support the economy.

University of Strathclyde principal Prof Jim McDonald commented: "It is fitting that the UK's first Fraunhofer Centre is dedicated to lasers, a thriving industry Scotland has excelled in for decades.

"The plans have already been endorsed by our partners in industry and we look forward to working together to innovate, design and develop the products and services of tomorrow."

'Excellent reputation'

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft executive board member Ulrich Buller said the university had an excellent reputation for industrial engagement and specifically for photonics research and commercialisation via its Institute of Photonics and other research groups.

"Consequently, Fraunhofer has been eager, for some time, to create a research centre in Glasgow in conjunction with Strathclyde," he added.

The UK headquarters and the Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics will join a growing community of Fraunhofer centres globally.

Fraunhofer has more than 20,000 employees in more than 80 research units in Germany alone, and is establishing centres throughout Europe, Asia and North America.

Fraunhofer research has formed the basis of a wide range of technologies for industry and products in everyday use, such as the MP3 player and apps for mobile phones, including customised weather reports and music identification systems like the iPhone app, Shazam.

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Huawei files EU antitrust complaint against InterDigital

Huawei has filed an EU antitrust complaint against InterDigital to end its "abuse" of the allegedly standards-essential patents it controls. The company has urged the commission to examine its demands, which are considered too hefty to come under the protection of FRAND terms. The shoe normally resides on the other foot, with InterDigital previously instigating battles with Nokia, Samsung and ZTE. This time, it looks like the Chinese giant was tired of being pushed around by what it's derisorily called a non-practicing entity -- which we've taken to be a polite euphemism.

Update: InterDigital has released a statement, which we've included after the break.

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Many businesses are constantly creating original intellectual property, this can be in the form of anything from articles, web pages to videos. As you are putting considerable time and resources into producing your original material it is understandable that you would also want to protect it. This is where copyright law comes into play.

Copyright will keep all of your original work protected from being used without your permission. If you discover that someone has breached your copyright and gone on to use your work without asking you first, you will have the right to take legal action against them to seek financial compensation.

If your work has a copyright you will be able to license it out and reproduce it in anyway you like. This means that you can receive an income from your copyrighted material.

In the UK you do not have to register to get a copyright. Copyright is created automatically as soon as an original work is made. A work has to be original to be granted a copyright, which means it must be significantly different to any other existing work. This is a qualitative evaluation as opposed to a quantitative measurement. To ensure that people are made aware that a work is protected by copyright you might want to consider adding a ?©? mark to any original material that you create along with the name of the person that made it and the date of which it was made.

Some industries such as the music industry are protected by copyright collection societies. These societies will often deal with licensing of copyrighted material on behalf of the copyright owner.

If you decide to licence out of your copyrighted material, you need to make sure that you have written up a firm copyright licensing agreement. This should include the terms in which you are licensing out the material, where it can be used and how long for. You should expect to get a fee for licensing out any copyrighted material and you should detail the amount in your agreement. This is known as a royalty.

You should ensure that you licensing agreement is written up by a legal professional to ensure that it is highly secure and that you don?t leave yourself open to being exploited.

You may also wish to consider registering a trademark for your company. This should be a sign that people associate with your business and could be an image, logo, phrase or any other thing which identifies your company. If someone copies your trade mark you will be able to take legal action against them. Sometimes even if you haven?t registered your trade mark you may be able to get compensation if another company uses your logo, as it is illegal to get trade by using a logo which is already associated with another company. When this happens it is known as ?passing off? but it can be difficult to prove.

If your company invents new products, you may wanted to consider getting them patent protected. A patent protects an invention for a specific amount of time so that no one else can make the same invention and sell it.

 

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Romney promises world's strongest military

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, speaks during a campaign event at the Veterans Museum & Memorial Center, Monday, May 28, 2012 in San Diego. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, speaks during a campaign event at the Veterans Museum & Memorial Center, Monday, May 28, 2012 in San Diego. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets veterans after speaking at a campaign stop at the Veterans Museum & Memorial Center, Monday, May 28, 2012 in San Diego. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, center, stands with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., second from right and San Diego Veteran of the year Marine David Dicky while during a campaign stop at the Veterans Museum & Memorial Center, Monday, May 28, 2012, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

David and Cynthea Brown, of San Diego, wait for the start of a campaign event with Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., at the Veterans Museum & Memorial Center, Monday, May 28, 2012 in San Diego. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

SAN DIEGO (AP) ? Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney promised Monday to maintain an American military "with no comparable power anywhere in the world."

The likely Republican presidential nominee faced a San Diego crowd estimated at 5,000 in what was billed as a Memorial Day service paying tribute to the nation's war dead, not a campaign rally. The appearance came the day before Romney was expected to win enough delegates to claim his party's nomination, a formality that cements his status as President Barack Obama's general election opponent.

Without naming his general election rival on Monday, Romney drew clear contrasts with Obama on the issue of defense.

The Democratic president has proposed reducing the size of the military following the end of the U.S. combat role in Iraq and plans to remove troops from Afghanistan at the end of 2014.

"We have two courses we can follow: One is to follow in the pathway of Europe, to shrink our military smaller and smaller to pay for our social needs," Romney said outside the city's Veterans Memorial Center and Museum. "The other is to commit to preserve America as the strongest military in the world, second to none, with no comparable power anywhere in the world."

The White House and congressional Republicans have agreed to cut $487 billion in military spending over the next decade. Even with Obama's proposed cuts in the military budget, the U.S. would remain by far the world's dominant military power. The Pentagon's budget this year exceeds $600 billion. Closest rival China said this year its defense budget will top $100 billion for the first time, although the U.S. claims China spends twice as much.

Across the country in Washington, Obama marked the solemn holiday with remembrances at Arlington National Cemetery, and later at the Vietnam War Memorial marking the 50th anniversary of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

He noted that for the first time in nine years "Americans are not fighting and dying in Iraq. After a decade under the dark cloud of war, we can see the light of the new day on the horizon."

The candidates' comments underscored the political and practical effects the presidential contest could have on America's role in the world.

A new Gallup survey found that veterans prefer Romney over Obama by a double-digit margin, 58 percent to 34 percent. That voting bloc, consisting mostly of older men, makes up 13 percent of the adult population.

Obama won the presidency handily four years ago while losing veterans by 10 points to Sen. John McCain, a former Navy pilot. Neither Obama nor Romney served in the military. Romney, 65, did not serve in Vietnam. His campaign says he received deferments for his Mormon mission to France and academic studies. He later entered the draft, but his number was not called, a spokesman said. Obama, 50, was a child during the Vietnam conflict.

In San Diego, Romney was joined by McCain, a Vietnam veteran who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war. McCain said that Romney, "I believe, is fully qualified to be commander in chief."

Romney noted that he visited Afghanistan and Iraq during his term as Massachusetts governor. But he has limited foreign policy experience.

Still, Romney has been critical of Obama's plans to reduce the military, in addition to the administration's policy toward Syria's handling of the uprising against President Bashar Assad's government.

In a written statement Sunday, Romney said Obama "can no longer ignore calls from congressional leaders in both parties to take more assertive steps in Syria." Romney said the current approach has only given Syrian leaders more time to crackdown on protesters.

World leaders blame the Syrian government for the weekend killing of more than 100 people, including 49 children and 34 women, following peaceful protests.

"I wish I could tell you that the world is a safe place today. It is not," Romney said Monday, ticking off a list of threats including Iran, Pakistan, China, Russia, Venezuela and Mexican drug cartels. He did not mention Syria.

He spoke a day before Texas voters were likely to give him enough delegates to formally clinch the Republican presidential nomination.

Texas' Tuesday primary offers 152 delegates, and Romney is just 68 delegates shy of the 1,144 needed to become the nominee.

Romney said Monday that America's military might is needed "not so that we just win wars, but so we can prevent wars."

"A strong America is the best deterrent to war that has ever been invented," he said.

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Washington hopes to buy historic ranch for conservation

BENTON COUNTY, Wash. (AP) ? Rattlesnake Mountain offers sweeping views of the historic McWhorter Ranch, a pristine property largely unchanged since it was settled in 1903, laced with dry grasses and sagebrush and home to elk and other wildlife. The ranch stretches down the mountain's south face across more than 20 square miles of Washington's shrinking shrub-steppe habitat.

In the not-so-far-off distance, another scene unfolds: the bustle of the nation's fastest-growing metropolitan area, complete with high-tech businesses and newly-planted vineyards to support a booming wine industry.

McWhorter Ranch is going up for sale June 1, and given its size and location, the property could very likely draw bids from agricultural and real estate developers. But state and local officials are working with conservation groups to try to raise enough money to stave off any speculators and preserve it.

"There aren't many of these big ranches left. It's a rarity and it's precious," said Jeff Tayer, regional director for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. "As rare as this is now and as precious as it is now, it's nothing compared to how rare it will be 20 years from now."

Lucullus Virgil McWhorter traveled west from Ohio to settle a sprawling stretch of land in arid south-central Washington in 1903, raising sheep, cattle and children. He developed relationships with the Native American tribes in the area, studied their culture and helped them defend their land and water rights.

Generations of McWhorters grew up on the ranch that has become a shining example of conservation farming practices.

"It's amazing to look around and see, not only the beauty, but how's it been preserved," said Max Benitz, a former Benton County commissioner and longtime family friend who's serving as property caretaker. "It's just a real opportunity for perspective."

Adding to that perspective is that during World War II the federal government condemned some of McWhorter's land ? along with the land of many others ? for a top-secret project to build the atomic bomb. In the process, the Hanford nuclear reservation was born, spawning a nuclear industry that produced plutonium for the nation's weapons arsenal for decades.

Thousands of people now work to clean up the highly contaminated Hanford nuclear site. Scientific research there and at the nearby Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has spawned dozens of high-tech businesses in the Tri-Cities of Richland, Kennewick and Pasco.

In addition, agriculture remains a huge economic driver. Dozens of apple, pear and cherry orchards line the hillsides, and new vineyards are continually being planted to support Washington's growing wine industry, ranked second nationally behind California.

Industry and jobs have boosted the region's population beyond 260,000, and the U.S. Census Bureau earlier this year tagged it as the nation's fastest-growing metro area since 2010.

All that growth doesn't bode well for Washington's shrub-steppe habitat, which is just a fraction of what it was decades ago, and the species that rely on it.

Wildlife officials see the ranch, with its deep soils and healthy plants, as an opportunity to boost populations of threatened sage grouse and ferruginous hawk, as well as a number of other species: badgers, black-tailed and white-tailed jackrabbits, Townsend's ground squirrels, burrowing owls and pygmy rabbits.

"Shrub-steppe diversity is based on space. In a forest, you can create diversity by going up, but to enable biodiversity in shrub-steppe, you need land," said Mike Livingston of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Water could be an issue for anyone who wants to develop the site. The water supply for the ranch came from 13 cisterns, which were gravity fed from a natural spring higher up the mountain.

"Our experience has been that if there's a good place to develop, whether it's agriculture or housing, it gets developed," Fish and Wildlife's Tayer said. "Our idea is to focus development next to infrastructure and focus conservation on more remote areas. That's what we're trying to do here."

The property encompasses some 16,000 acres broken into three separate sales. The state is focusing its efforts on the main ranch of 14,135 acres as a public recreation spot for hikers, horseback riders, bird watchers and hunters.

Public land access for hunters is key to managing an elk herd that roams between private property, the nuclear site and the neighboring Hanford Reach National Monument. The herd is estimated at 700 animals ? roughly twice what wildlife managers say it should be ? largely because the elk migrate during hunting season to the federal lands, where hunting is barred.

"This could one of the largest remaining blocks of shrub-steppe that could be available for public acquisition, and the McWhorter family has been incredible stewards of the land," said Ranch Block, director of lands for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation based in Missoula, Mont. "We've committed to help financially, but as to what the value is and what the partnership is going to look like, it's too soon to say."

The McWhorter family declined to comment on the impending sale. The state has set aside $1.8 million toward the purchase. An appraisal of the property is still being completed, but Tayer estimates the state will likely need at least another $3.5 million to buy just the main ranch.

McWhorter's grandson, R.J. McWhorter, approached Tayer eight or nine years ago about selling the property to ensure it was preserved, Tayer said, but just couldn't part with it. R.J. McWhorter died in a four-wheeler accident on the ranch in 1987. He was 86.

Now his children have decided it's time to sell.

"My sense from the family is that they want to keep their options open," Tayer said. "We just hope we'll be the best option."

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2012 NBA Playoffs : Why Boston Celtics PG Rajon Rondo Is The Key Against The Miami Heat In East Finals.

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BOSTON ? Boston Celtics point guard, Rajon Rondo may be the Miami Heat?s worst nightmare come to life.

Rondo, the quick and crafty point guard out of Kentucky, would record a triple-double by scoring 18 points, ten rebounds and ten assists in Boston?s 85-75 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals.

With the fourth-seeded Celtics set to face the second-seeded Heat in Miami Monday evening, the Celtics may be the worst possible matchup for the star-studded Heat?who will most likely be without power forward-center Chris Bosh.? Boston who would win the season series between the two teams, 3-1, may be the one team in the East?and perhaps the whole NBA?that can match up with Miami in all positions.

If there is one weakness that the Heat has is going against a team with top-tier point guards?such as Chris Paul and Russell Westbrook and Derrick Rose respectively?and a dominant inside player in the post.

In the case of the Boston Celtics they have both in the form of Rondo and power forward-center Kevin Garnett?who will most likely be guarded by a combination of centers Ronny Turiaf, Udonis Haslem and power forward Shane Battier.

If Boston is going to exploit Miami?s weakness in guarding opposing point guards, look for the Celtic?s offense to run through a combination of Rondo?s speed, penetration, slick passing, timely shooting and Garnett?s inside presence in the post in a effort to exploit Bosh?s absence.

While shooting guard Ray Allen will most likely be matched up against Miami?s Dwyane Wade, the other key match-up in the Boston-Miami series?other than Rondo against Heat point guard Mario Chalmers?will be between small forwards Paul Pierce and LeBron James.

Going back to James? days in Cleveland, Pierce is one of the few players in the entire NBA that can match James in both scoring and in being physical down low, while there is no love lost between the two, look for Pierce to clamp down on James in what will be a tough series.

With Rondo most likely facilitating the Celtic?s offense, look for Boston to give the Miami all they can handle in what will be a rugged and physical series.

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Getting started with secure.me is a snap. Just visit www.secure.me, sign in with your Facebook account, and install the secure.me app. Click the Scan now button, wait a few minutes, and you've got immediate insight into your profile. Secure.me can only get the most recent seven days from Facebook, but if you turn on automatic monitoring it can capture new activity in real time and retain it for up to 90 days.

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Iran nuclear talks snag over dueling demands

BAGHDAD (AP) ? Talks between Iran and six world powers snagged Wednesday over dueling proposals concerning Tehran's nuclear program, a tug-of-war that pits international concerns about the Islamic Republic's potential to build atomic weapons against enforcing crippling sanctions on its people.

The daylong back-and-forth in Baghdad focused largely on whether the current enrichment level of Iran's uranium production is a red line the U.S. and other powers will not permit for fear it could become warhead-grade material.

At stake is the threat an Iran armed with nuclear weapons could pose to its neighbors. The U.S. and Israel have indicated readiness to attack Iran if diplomacy and sanctions fail to curb its nuclear program. Both suspect that Iran is aiming to build nuclear weapons, and Israel believes it would be a prime target.

Iran insists its nuclear program is peaceful.

The impasse threatened to dissolve the first serious move toward detente in nearly a decade, although both sides agreed to continue negotiations into Thursday.

"The international community hasn't done something wrong here ? we haven't created a suspicious nuclear weapons program that the world doesn't know the answers to. Iran has," a senior U.S. official said early Thursday after the grueling day of discussions that, at times, appeared on the verge of breaking down. "They are the party who has acted to create concerns in the international community."

However, the official said, the negotiations remain in the beginning of a careful and drawn-out process. "We certainly are not at the end of it," said the U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the talks more candidly.

Western negotiators presented a package Wednesday that called on Tehran to place a freeze on its enrichment of uranium to 20 percent, considered a short technical step away from bomb grade. In exchange they offered benefits, including medical isotopes, some nuclear safety cooperation and spare parts for civilian airliners, much needed in Iran.

But they snubbed Iranian calls for an immediate easing of significant economic sanctions imposed on Tehran for flouting U.N. Security Council resolutions that demand the suspension of all enrichment.

Iran brought a potent bargaining chip to the table, tentatively agreeing on the eve of the negotiations to allow U.N. inspectors into a military complex suspected of conducting nuclear arms-related tests.

The gesture was seen as an attempt to head off painful July 1 sanctions on its oil exports to lucrative European markets. U.S. and European measures have targeted Iran's oil exports ? its chief revenue source ? and effectively blocked the country from international banking networks.

Diplomats from the six world powers have refused to consider postponing the new harsher sanctions, although the U.S. official said some restrictions could be removed as part of an agreement.

The talks are seen only as a small step forward in a delicate negotiating process that likely will unfold over months. That would likely bring objections from Israel, which claims that Iran is only trying to buy time to keep its nuclear fuel labs in full operation.

But a delay could allow U.S. and European allies to tone down threats of military action ? despite calls Wednesday from a hawkish alliance of U.S. senators who urged negotiators to take a hard line against Iran "to leave no doubt that the window for diplomacy is closing."

"The Iranian regime's long record of deceit and defiance should make us extremely cautious about its willingness to engage in good-faith diplomacy," Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham, and Independent Joe Lieberman, wrote in Wednesday's editions of The Wall Street Journal. "The U.S. must be prepared, if necessary, to use military force to stop Iran from getting a nuclear-weapons capability."

The Baghdad meetings opened with the so-called 5+1 group ? the permanent U.N. Security Council members, the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France, plus Germany ? putting forward a proposal aimed at putting a cap on Iran's growing stockpile of uranium enriched to 20 percent. Iran says the uranium is for fuel for medical reactors, but Western diplomats say Tehran already has many times more than it needs, and that moving from 20 percent to bomb-grade purity is a relatively quick and easy process.

The U.S. official said it is too early in the negotiations to discuss whether world powers would agree to let Tehran maintain a lesser percentage of uranium enrichment. "It's premature to have that discussion," the official said.

Mike Mann, spokesman for the head of the European Union delegation that is leading the talks, suggested that any rollback in sanctions was unlikely in the Baghdad talks. He called the upcoming sanctions a "matter of the law and they will come into force when they come into force."

Iran offered a counterproposal that includes "nuclear and non-nuclear issues," according to the member of its negotiating team. The official would not discuss details of the plan but said it was to be discussed in private meetings with diplomats from the European Union and China, an Iranian ally.

Iran's top officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have repeatedly said that Iran does not seek nuclear arms and have called such weapons against Islamic principles.

During a visit to western Iran on Wednesday, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad evoked Khamenei's belief that "production and use of weapons of mass destruction is forbidden" by Islam.

"There is no room for these weapons in Iran's defense doctrine," he said at a gathering to commemorate victims of Iraqi chemical weapons during the 1980-88 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Even so, Iran is sticking to its right to enrich uranium as a signatory of U.N. nuclear treaties. The high-enriched uranium is far above the level needed for energy-producing reactors, but is used in medical research. Iran claims its nuclear program is only for electricity and medical applications.

Earlier this week, Tehran tentatively agreed to allow the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency inspect the Parchin military complex southeast of Tehran. That's where the U.N. believes Iran ran explosive tests in 2003 needed to set off a nuclear charge. Tehran says Parchin is not a nuclear site.

The Iranian envoys entered the talks sorely wanting to lessen, or at least delay, an EU decision to cut all crude oil imports from Iran that are set to take effect July 1. The 27-nation EU accounts for just 18 percent of Iran's total oil exports.

Earlier this week, the U.S. Senate backed proposals for further sanctions on Iran, including requiring companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges to disclose any Iran-related business. U.S. and European measures already have targeted Iran's oil exports ? its chief revenue source ? and effectively blocked the country from international banking networks.

Oil fell to a seven-month low near $91 a barrel Wednesday on hopes of progress in the talks.

If the July 1 sanctions start as planned, Iran's Economy Minister Shamseddin Hossein predicted they will backfire, warning this week that Europe should expect a crude oil price of $160 a barrel should the embargo remain in place.

That puts a ticking clock on a negotiations process that, for all its bluffing and brinksmanship, may drag on "for several weeks, if not for several months," said Bruno Tertrais, senior research fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris.

"There will be incentives to not rush toward any kind of deal," Tertrais said.

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Associated Press writers Brian Murphy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran, contributed to this report.

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