Ex-Tunisia PM creates party as counter-balance

(AP) ? A former prime minister who led Tunisia's transition government after the fall of its autocratic leader has launched a new political party to counter-balance the Islamists running the North African country.

Beji Caid Essebsi announced the formation of the Nida' Tounes, or Call of Tunisia, party on Saturday before thousands of people, men, women and artists, in a packed hall. The 85-year-old politician said he wants a party "that unifies everyone, without exclusion." He called it a "balancing force that can create conditions for an alternative."

The moderate Islamist Ennahda party was elected after a transition period following the ouster in January 2011 of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. However, hardline Islamists are emerging and last week clashed with police over an art exhibit they judged blasphemous.

Associated Press

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NBC to live stream events at London Olympics

In addition to live television broadcasts, NBC and its cable subsidiaries will present many Olympic events live over the Internet this summer.

By David Bauder,?Associated Press / June 15, 2012

In this file photo, a tug boat pulls a barge with giant Olympic rings that are 36 feet tall and 82 feet wide towards Tower Bridge as they are unveiled on the River Thames in London.

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Every sport, every single competition will be streamed live online or telecast by NBC and its affiliated cable networks in the U.S. this summer ? starting with the Great Britain vs. New Zealand women's soccer game on July 25, two days before the opening ceremony.

It will be the most visible change for NBC in its first Olympics coverage since 1992 not run by veteran television executive Dick Ebersol. Ebersol, executive producer of eight winter and summer Olympic telecasts for NBC, quit as head of NBC Sports in May 2011. He will still be in London working for NBC as a consultant.

On television and online, NBC will offer 5,535 hours of Olympics coverage. The NBC broadcast network itself will have 272 hours, including the flagship prime-time telecast that will amount to a "greatest hits" of each day's competition.

Ebersol's successor as NBC Sports Group chairman, Mark Lazarus, ordered the live streaming during his first Olympics planning meeting after taking the new job.

"I said, 'This is what I believe. Convince me that we should not be doing it,'" Lazarus recalled. "Nobody convinced me."

NBC offered streams of several events from the 2008 Beijing Games, but would not present any of the showcase competitions that it was taping for later broadcast in prime time. The concern was that fans who saw the events live online wouldn't bother watching NBC that night, depressing ratings for the broadcast that mattered most.

In Beijing, however, some marquee events such as swimming were held in the morning in China so they could be televised live in prime time in the United States. In London, the time difference won't allow for that option.

Lazarus believes that many people who watch an event online will be interested in seeing how NBC handles it later. Fans watching live streams are also expected to use social media, building anticipation for the broadcast.

Any people who don't want to watch on NBC what they've seen online will be more than offset by extra viewers drawn in by the excitement, Lazarus said.

Fans who want to see the streams on NBCOlympics.com will have to verify that they are paying cable or satellite subscribers. NBC says that's necessary to protect these businesses since they pay a premium to air the NBC cable stations because of the Olympics. While most live streams will be archived, reruns of high-profile events that are going to be shown on the network will not be available until after the West Coast broadcast.

There will be times that NBC's Olympics website is showing as many as 40 separate competitions at the same time, said Gary Zenkel, president of NBC Olympics.

The decision could neutralize what has always been a major criticism of NBC ? that showing some events only on a tape-delay basis makes them feel stale, particularly in an era of instant communication. It might keep viewers from fleeing NBC, since some frustrated fans had sought out live telecasts from other television or Internet sources, said Andrew Billings, a sports media professor at the University of Alabama and author of "Olympic Media: Inside the Biggest Show on Television."

"They realize it has to go in this direction," Billings said. "Some people say they are four to eight years late in this game."

The time difference ? it will be 1 a.m. in London when NBC's prime-time broadcast begins on the East Coast, 4 a.m. for the West Coast show ? means no events will be offered live on the telecast most people watch.

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Accounting for natural wealth gains world traction

(AP) ? What is a sip of clean water worth? Is there economic value in the shade of a tree? And how much would you pay for a breath of fresh air?

Putting a price on a natural bounty long taken for granted as free may sound impossible, even ridiculous. But after three decades on the fringes of serious policymaking, the idea is gaining traction, from the vividly clear waters of the Maldives to the sober, suited reaches of the World Bank.

As traditional measures of economic progress like GDP are criticized for ignoring downsides including pollution or diminishment of resources such as fresh water or fossil fuels, there has been an increased urgency to arguments for a more balanced and accurate reckoning of costs. That is particularly so as fast-developing nations such as India and China jostle with rich nations for access to those resources and insist on their own right to pollute on a path toward growth.

Proponents of so-called "green accounting" ? who will gather in Rio de Janeiro this week for the Rio Earth Summit ? hope that putting dollar values on resources will slam the brakes on unfettered development. A mentality of growth at any cost is already blamed for disasters like the chronic floods that hit deforested Haiti or the raging sand storms that have swept regions of China, worsening desertification.

Environmental economists argue that redefining nature in stark monetary terms would offer better information for making economic and development decisions. That, they say, would make governments and corporations less likely to jeopardize future stocks of natural assets or environmental systems that mostly unseen make the planet habitable, from forests filtering water to the frogs keeping swarming insects in check.

If the value of an asset like a machine is reduced as it wears out, proponents say, the same accounting principle should apply to a dwindling natural resource.

"Environmental arguments come from the heart. But in today's world based on economics it's hard for arguments of the heart to win," said Pavan Sukhdev, a former banker now leading an ongoing project that was proposed by the Group of Eight industrialized nations to study monetary values for the environment.

That study, started in 2007, has estimated the world economy suffers roughly $2.5 trillion to $4 trillion in losses every year due to environmental degradation. That's up to 7 percent of global GDP.

"We need to understand what we're losing in order to save it," Sukhdev said. "You cannot manage what you do not measure."

Using the same accounting principles, some countries are already changing policy.

The Maldives recently banned fishing gray reef sharks after working out that each was worth $3,300 a year in tourism revenue, versus $32 paid per catch. Ugandans spared a Kampala wetland from agricultural development after calculating it would cost $2 million a year to run a sewage treatment facility ? the same job the swamp does for free.

But environmental accounting still faces many detractors and obstacles. Among them is resistance from governments who might lack the resources and expertise to publish a "greened" set of national accounts alongside those measuring economic growth. Particularly in the developing world, many still struggle to produce even traditional statistics that are timely and credible.

And even practitioners are riven by debates on how to put a price on a vast range of natural resources and systems that encapsulate everything from pollination by bees to the erosion prevented by mangroves in an estuary. The single largest difficulty is that markets, which are the easiest way to value goods and services, don't exist for ecosystems.

"Since many things don't formally have a market price, how do you value them? Almost all the debate and discussion really hinges around valuation issues, and that is where it can get flakey," said India's former chief statistician Pronab Sen.

At one extreme, said Sen, are people who say natural resources should get a zero value since we don't know how to value them. Others argue that the values for such resources should be infinite, meaning they can't be touched since no one has an infinite amount of money.

Opposition is also expected from parts of the corporate world, since green accounting could make doing business or buying products more expensive.

A forest once valued by what its trees fetch on the timber exchange might instead be valued according to the carbon dioxide it absorbs, the animals it supports, the water it filters and the firewood it provides. Or it could be revalued with future generations in mind. That might lead to higher felling fees, pricey replanting requirements or more expensive wood. Some might rethink the economic benefit of cutting it down. Science would become a more important factor in economic decision-making.

Some businesses, however, are embracing the idea to appeal to consumers demanding more accountability. Supermarkets like Britain's Tesco now offer carbon footprints on packaging alongside calorie counts.

At a national level, green accounting is already being embraced by some governments, even if still in piecemeal fashion.

India in April announced plans for green national accounts by 2015 though it's unclear if the country's chaotic bureaucracy can reach that target. Australia will soon begin taxing carbon dioxide emissions, which Costa Rica has been doing for a decade to fund forest preservation.

Late last century, a team of U.S., Dutch and Argentine researchers put a $33 trillion value a year on natural resources such as water, wood and fossil fuels and "services" such as a forest's absorption of carbon dioxide. The estimate is more than double the value of the U.S. economy, the world's largest. While admitting difficulties and uncertainties in their methods and calculations, the team's report said the $33 trillion figure was conservative.

Carbon credits, perhaps the best known example of giving a value to an environmental good, also illustrate the difficulties. Experts thought the pricing of carbon credits might have been straightforward, since emissions are easily measured and every CO2 unit is the same. But the carbon market wobbled wildly for years over estimates ranging from $5 to $500 per unit.

Other resources open worlds of debate. Water ? frozen, liquid or gas, it's found just about everywhere from vast oceans or tropical mist to mountain glaciers and underground aquifers. It's used for drinking, bathing, growing plants, processing sewage, powering hydroelectric plants, driving weather systems and more. So not all water is created equal.

But should one lake be worth more than another? Does it matter if people depend on it, or if it supports schools of tasty fish? Should it even matter what it's used for now? Or is it more important to consider if it can be replenished?

Some argue such questions make it clear that subjecting the natural world to free market ideology is immoral and counterproductive.

"The result would be the further privatization of essential elements of our planet to which we all share rights and have responsibilities," writes Hannah Griffiths from the World Development Movement, a UK-based anti-poverty campaigning organization, in a recent essay for the Guardian.

Still some experts in the field say the world is on track to having comprehensive green accounts within 10 to 15 years.

A crucial advance has been the United Nations' quiet adoption in April of a framework of agreed concepts and definitions for green accounting that can be applied in any country. It took two decades to develop but stops short of valuing complex ecosystems.

"The accounting is not pie in the sky anymore," said economist Peter Bartelmus, who led the original U.N. effort.

The World Bank, meanwhile, is backing projects in Botswana, Colombia, Costa Rica, Madagascar and the Philippines that are looking for ways for national accounts to include the value of natural resources.

"Doing something is better than doing nothing. We shouldn't even aim for perfection, either," said Sen, the former statistician.

"It is much more important to come up with a methodology that people find intuitively acceptable rather than looking for hard commercial truths. If at a gut level people find it fair, then I think we can run with the idea."

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The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB): http://www.teeb.org

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Apple Maps App In iOS 6 Missing Key Features - Business Insider

Steve Kovach, Business Insider

I've been testing the beta version of Apple's new mobile operating system, iOS 6, all week.?

One of the features I've been testing the most is Apple's new Maps app. That's because Apple decided to ditch Google Maps and go with a bunch of other companies like Tom Tom and Waze.

(By the way, there seems to be a lot of confusion about this. Apple has always made the Maps app on iPhone and iPad. It wasn't a Google app. Apple just used Google Maps?data for the app.)

In short, I don't think the new Maps app will be as good as the current one that uses Google Maps data.?

Here's why:

  1. There's no public transportation data. Instead, Apple will rely on third-party developers to fill in public transportation information like subway times, bus stops, etc. With the current Maps app, you can easily get this information from Google. You don't have to install a separate app.
  2. There's no Street View data.?Since Apple ditched Google Maps data, Street View is gone. To make up for it, Apple added something called Flyover, which are gorgeous photorealistic 3D maps. Unfortunately, Flyover only works on the iPhone 4S, iPad 2, and new iPad.
  3. Turn-by-turn directions don't work on older iPhones.?It'll only the iPhone 4S and new iPad will support turn-by-turn directions. This was a killer feature a lot of iPhone users were waiting for. Unfortunately, many of them won't get it.
  4. The new iOS maps don't have as much information as Google Maps do. Gizmodo has a really good demonstration of this. Google Maps does a much better job at labeling streets, landmarks, and businesses than Apple's new Maps app does. You simply get more information from Google.

In almost every instance, the new iOS Maps is downgrade from the current Google-powered version.?Yes, I know Apple will make Maps better over time. It does that with all its products. But I've never known Apple to take an existing product, strip it of some key features, and then start building it up again. Bizarre.

Maps is arguably one of the most important apps on the iPhone. And it really looks like Apple is going to screw it up this time.?

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Injured hiker missing for week found in forest

A severely injured man spends seven days alone in the Connecticut wilderness. Ilana Gold reports.

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By Ilana Gold, NBCConnecticut.com

A Connecticut hiker who had been missing for a week was found severely dehydrated with a broken leg just before the search for him was to end, authorities said.

A state worker found Richard Roncarti, 50, around 12:30 p.m. Thursday in the Beacon Falls section of the Naugatuck State Forest. That's?

He?was rescued just minutes before the search was going to be called off, officials said.?


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Crews said Roncarti was stranded in the Naugatuck State Forest with severe injuries after falling 100 feet and having no food or water for seven days. The area is a few miles south of Waterbury.

Emergency crews said he was lucky to be alive.

?He looked like he had been in the weather a few days. He was beat up pretty good,? Chief Michael Pratt, of the Beacon Falls Fire Department, said.?

Pratt said the hiker from Watertown had no idea he was stranded in the Naugatuck State Forest for so long.

Roncarti?s family reported him missing last Thursday night. His vehicle was found over the weekend, parked in the parking lot of the state forest, but there was no sign of him until yesterday.

?He said, 'I?ve been out here seven days.' After seven days you don?t think positive. You don?t think you're going to find someone alive,? Pratt admitted.

Roncarti was taken to Waterbury Hospital on Thursday and is being treated for non-life threatening injuries. He is expected to be released in the next few days.

Firefighters said he had a broken leg, possibly a broken hip, and he was severely dehydrated.

?Yes it could have been a lot worse ... it could have been fatal,? said Pratt.

Emergency crews said Roncarti was nearly impossible to find because he didn?t have a cell phone.?

They want all hikers to make sure they were prepared for a worst-case scenario when they hit the trails this summer.?

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Bills TE Pete Metzelaars is trying to get his pupils to embrace blocking;??Blocking comes down to heart and will, it really does,? Metzelaars said. ??Are you willing to put the effort in? ?Are you going to work hard at it and take pride in doing it? ?If you?re going, ?Whoa, whoa, whoa, I?m a receiver,? it?s hard to get you to block.?

Dr. Van Nostrand is visiting the Dolphins? home stadium on Saturday.

Jets coach Rex Ryan admits he didn?t realize?the team had an issue in the locker room last season.

To promote team building, the Patriots went through offseason workouts with no numbers on their jerseys.

The newborn baby of Ravens QB Joe Flacco has a Twitter page.

Steelers RB Baron Batch likes to paint, but he?s surely hoping the doctor who fixed his knee was a ligament artist.

Browns QB Colt McCoy shouldn?t quit his day job. ?(Assuming he doesn?t get fired from it.)

Bengals CB Dre Kirkpatrick, after exclusively working in press coverage at Alabama, is learning how to backpedal.

The company that had been paid $1.2 million per year to manage Everbank Field since 1992 is willing to slash its price to $150,000. ?(Which raises a valid question: ?Who in the hell negotiated these deals for Jacksonville in the past?)

Titans RB Chris Johnson is comparing himself to LeBron James;??He just gives me motivation to bounce back for this year, to see the things he came back and did and prove the naysayers wrong,? Johnson said. ?So I kind of look at him as a guy like me.?

Colts coach Chuck Pagano told his players to stay out of trouble during their time off before training camp.

WR Mike Sims-Walker is still waiting to be signed by the Texans. ?Or anyone else.

Broncos LB Von Miller was named the Colorado Athlete of the Year. ?(The guy who likely would have been the first choice no longer lives or works there.)

Single-game tickets to Chiefs games will go on sale July 18.

The Raiders and S Tyvon Branch, who signed his one-year franchise tender, continue to work on a long-term deal;??Nobody?s slamming the phone on each other so that?s positive,? G.M. Reggie McKenzie said.

The third annual Philip Rivers 5K Celebrity Walk and Fun Run was held on Saturday. ?(Proceeds may or may not go to the search for a cure for rabies.)

Cowboys coach Jason Garrett told his team to ?make great decisions? during their time off (and he may or may not have been looking at Dez Bryant when he said it).

Don Banks of SI.com believes Vince Young?s dream may be realized?by the Eagles, a year late.

The Giants employees who don?t wear helmets and pads got their Super Bowl rings on Friday.

Redskins offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan says WR Santana Moss ?came in possessed.? ?(It makes it easier to track those deep balls if you can spin your head all the way around.)

CB Charles Tillman doesn?t care much for math problems based on the Bears losing to the Packers.

Lions coach Jim Schwartz doesn?t care about QB Kellen Moore?s height;??It?s well documented that he doesn?t have the strongest arm, he doesn?t have the prototypical size but once you get out on the field you don?t get extra points for being 6-foot-4, you get 7 points for moving the ball and getting it into the end zone, and that?s what he has done so far in camp.?

In the third week of OTAs, Vikings S Harrison Smith finally moved from the second-team to the first.

With help from starter Aaron Rodgers, QB Graham Harrell is solidifying his spot as the primary backup in Green Bay.

It?s official: ?Saints owner Tom Benson now owns the New Orleans Hornets.

Panthers WR Steve Smith is hosting his annual youth football camp.

With Mike Nolan now the defensive coordinator in Atlanta, the safeties could have a bigger role.

Bucs WR Vincent Jackson has a plan for the offseason;??Obviously you want to take a little rest for a short amount of time,? Jackson said. ??But the biggest thing is just to stay on top of things.? You don?t want to lose what we?ve built here. . . . ?[K]eep yourself in physical shape, be ready to go conditioning-wise and mentally stay in it.?

Rams coach Jeff Fisher is ?pleased? with where the team is after the conclusion of the offseason program.

A golfer wearing Niners gear shot an 80 on the first day of the U.S. Open.

The new rookie wage scale has helped the Cardinals end a long history of first-round holdouts.

Tarvaris Jackson gets the first turn at quarterback once the Seahawks open training camp.

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Young millionaire's PAC seeks influence in races

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) ? College student John Ramsey stands out in a new campaign finance world order filled with big names like Republican casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and Democratic Hollywood producer Jeffrey Katzenberg.

The senior at Stephen F. Austin University is the founder of a team of college-age Republicans ? liberals have dubbed it the "Brat PAC" ? that helped propel one congressional candidate to victory and intends to get involved in other House races.

Ramsey is just the latest wealthy individual to try to influence federal elections in the wake of a series of federal court decisions that deregulated the campaign finance system and dramatically changed the country's political landscape.

It's not just his age ? he's 21 ? that sets him apart. There's his source of means: He turned $1 million of his inheritance into the Liberty For All Political Action Committee. And there's this: He's part of an army of young Ron Paul supporters who have turned their attention to federal, state and local races after their libertarian-leaning hero's presidential hopes were dashed once again.

"I could very easily, having that great fortune, be spending it on frivolous things ? big expensive cars or jets. But, you know, I'm really interested in making this world a better place," says Ramsey, a lanky 6-foot-7 Texan. "To be able to put your own personal wealth behind a humanitarian cause, it's really very refreshing for me."

In Ramsey's view, libertarian politics is humanitarian because it will produce a fiscally healthy United States and citizens who can afford to provide charity to poorer countries where people are starving.

He wouldn't have been able to choose this path if not for a series of federal court cases, including the Supreme Court's Citizen United ruling in 2010, that stripped away the old restrictions on campaign spending. Those changes have green-lighted wealthy individuals and corporations to open their wallets freely this election, but they've also given the OK for grassroots groups like Ramsey's to raise unlimited sums of cash.

As an economics and finance major, Ramsey is passionate in his belief that an overreaching government hinders rather than helps. He said his own philosophy mirrors that of Frederic Bastiat, a 19th century French legislator who decried government's intrusion on individual liberties, and that of Paul, the Texas congressman who gained a passionate following by espousing similar principles.

It's that belief that drove Ramsey to found his group, which the liberal-leaning magazine Mother Jones dubbed the Brat PAC.

Liberty For All's first order of business was supporting the primary campaign of a protege of Paul's son, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., for Kentucky's open 4th Congressional District seat.

Ramsey's committee poured a half-million dollars into that race to help Thomas Massie, a 41-year-old engineer and businessman, beat two well-established Republicans. One was state lawmaker Alecia Webb-Edgington, who had surged in polling after two influential politicians endorsed her.

Liberty For All's 23-year-old executive director, Preston Bates, initially ran ads that talked up Massie. Then he went on the air with attack ads against Webb-Edgington and a third contender, Boone County Judge-Executive Gary Moore. The strategy helped propel Massie to a decisive victory on May 22.

Massie credited the PAC for helping him overcome political adversity but added, "In a fair race, I would have won this without the PAC."

In winning the Republican nomination, he became the overwhelming favorite in the November general election over Democratic nominee Bill Adkins, a northern Kentucky attorney.

Bates said the Massie victory has given the fledgling PAC credibility and sparked hundreds of small contributions amounting to tens of thousands of dollars since the Kentucky primary. The group will have to report the exact amount in its July financial disclosure to the Federal Election Commission. That report, Bates said, will show Ramsey as the largest donor with a $1.3 million investment. Minus the $600,000 spent on the Massie race, the PAC will have to refill its coffers to have a continuing impact. Ramsey hasn't ruled out dropping in more cash himself.

The group is now turning its sights on a Michigan congressional race this fall, backing freshman Rep. Justin Amash's re-election. It plans to continue being involved in the Massie race, and perhaps 10 others that won't be announced until later this month. Bates also doesn't rule out the PAC's involvement in any of the remaining late primaries.

Ramsey is not without detractors. Adkins said he expects Kentuckians to refuse to let a rich Texan, whom he called "a bomb thrower" with "no clear agenda," tell them whom to elect to Congress.

"He got his money the old-fashioned way ? he inherited it," Adkins said.

Republican Marcus Carey, another candidate who lost the primary to Massie, said people he has talked to since the primary seem angry that Ramsey "in their words, 'bought the election.' "

"I think it's wonderful that young people are involved in politics and that young people are finding principles that they believe in and are becoming engaged," Carey said. But he said Ramsey's actions may have had negative consequences.

"What he did was he threw his weight around," Carey said, "and in doing it so, it has had a discouraging effect on others getting involved."

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