Cleveland police: teen killed, 3 wounded as fighting ends with shots - CNN

New: Cleveland police chief said officers were within 100 feet of the tyre siteNEW: tensions of musician George Clinton on Twitter incident was after the show's 16-year-old died after being shot on Saturday night in Cleveland, the authorities sayThree, others are injured following the incident, which occurred after a local festival

They(CNN) - four people were shot, one fatally, before a man pulled out a gun during a fight in Cleveland and began to shoot at a crowd after a party, police said.

Nobody had been named or arrested suspect in the case of the Sunday night.

The shooting took place on Saturday shortly after the close of the eighth annual family unit in the Park festival, held an event throughout the day in the section of Mount Pleasant in the city of Northern Ohio.

Parliament-Funkadelic, the inductee's Hall of Fame of Rock and Roll in 1997 with George Clinton, was the titular night at the free event.

After the Group wrapped all around 9: 40 p.m. and Fireworks exploded five minutes later, the crowd began to heading home, Cleveland City Councilman Zachary Reed said this Sunday.

Later, a small group of young men got into a fight with fists in a parking lot about three-fourths of a mile from the Park, said Sergeant Sammy Morris, a spokesman for the Cleveland Police Department.

One of those involved pulled out a gun and began firing, said Morris. The murder of 16-year-old died after being shot in the head.

A 20-year-old woman who was shot in the neck was "conscious and talking about", said the spokesman for the police, while 14 and 22-year-old men were shot in the leg.

"My thinking here is happening again," Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson said at a press conference Sunday, explaining his reaction to learning of the incident. "And it is again, with the children."

Chief Constable of Cleveland Michael McGrath told reporters had officers at 100 m from the shooting.

"Still suspect had the audacity to misconduct the respect and get a gun and shoot the victim," said McGrath, adding that he believed that the other three were shot with the victim.

It was not clear whether any of those involved went to the concert. Morris noted that Clinton supporters and players from Ohio, who also did tend to be more than 40. The victims are in their teens or 20s.

Clinton, on his personal Twitter page, wrote: "this incident happened after the show and they are truly saddened and we send our sincere condolences to the families".

Reed, who organized the festival represents the area where he carried out the shooting, described the mother of the victim's 16 years as "devastated" when he visited on Sunday morning.

"Forget about the event, I'm just sad for the family," said.

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Cain, Perry lead conservative Western Summit survey for President - Denver Post

A presidential poll in the Summit of West Denver conservative overwhelmingly chose Herman Cain for President, with the Governor of Texas Rick Perry finalist.

Cain and Perry speak during the event for three days. The Senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, who is also the presidential candidate, had addressed the Summit.

A total of 508 votes votes and Cain had received 48 percent of the vote and Perry 13 percent, according to the organizers of events.

Conference attendees include volunteers Republicans, activists from the Party of tea, the Conservatives and libertarians, along with members of the community of faith, said John Andrews, executive director of the Institute centenary and organizer of the event.

The vote on the survey of Denver alphabetically listed the following announced and undecided Republican candidates. Their names, and percent of votes continues:

Michele Bachmann-9 %

John Bolton 4 %

Herman Cain-48 %

Newt Gingrich-1 %

Rudy Giuliani-0 %

Jon Huntsman-0 %

Gary Johnson-0 %

Thaddeus McCotter-0 %

Sarah Palin-1 %

Ron Paul - 2 %

Tim Pawlenty-1 %

Rick Perry-13 %

Mitt Romney-10 %

Rick Santorum-10 %

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Libya rebels making progress in the Western mountains - Washington Post

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JAWSH, Libya — Libyan rebels battling on multiple fronts attacked and held ground Sunday in committed fighting that reached from a besieged oil refinery city in the east to the rugged desert mountain towns in the west.

Revolutionary brigades in the western Nafusa Mountains are fighting on four active fronts, making slow but steady progress — and galloping ahead in search-and-destroy commando operations — in their drive to control vital highways that crisscross the barren hills and desert plains just beyond the Libyan capital of Tripoli.

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The success of the past few days and the still tenuous rebel advances in the mountains come at a price, as opposition commanders here worry that their lines are stretched too thin, leaving their rebel cadres composed of dentists, shop clerks and college students vulnerable to counterattack.

One of the rebel leaders in Zintan, Moktar Alakdar, left a meeting of commanders, shaking his head and saying, “Now we have too many fronts!”

Coming into the crossroads of Jawsh south of Tripoli, rebel fighters struggled for hours Sunday to enter the ghost town as snipers loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi fired from water towers and mosque minarets.

“He had very good aim,” said Mohammad Elesh, showing off his driver’s-side door where a sniper’s bullet entered his truck but did not strike him. A sandstorm of red dust clogged his throat and reduced visibility to a few hundred yards.

Many fighters have not been so lucky. The hospital in rebel-held Zintan held six fighters who were wounded by rocket shrapnel when they encountered surprisingly stiff resistance in their exploratory commando operations in the deserts farther south.

“They hit us hard,” said Mohammad Omar, whose left leg lay stretched out on a rubber mattress, a tube draining away black blood from his wound.

At the same time, opposition fighters in the mountains confess they are bewildered and disturbed by news from the rebel capital in Benghazi, where early Sunday one group of rebel fighters attacked another rebel faction now alleged to be a rogue militia whose members still support Gaddafi.

According to Mahmoud Shammam, information minister for the rebel’s Transitional National Council, security forces under the control of the council raided the suspect al-Nidaa Brigade about 3 a.m. on the western outskirts of Benghazi. Four rebels were killed and six were wounded in what became a five-hour drama.

“At 8 a.m., the barracks was brought under control. Thirty men surrendered and we took their weapons,” Shammam told reporters. “We consider them members of the Fifth Column,” meaning pro-Gaddafi elements operating among the rebels.

Al-Nidaa members are suspected of raiding two prisons in Benghazi last week and helping 200 to 300 inmates escape, including Gaddafi mercenaries and regime loyalists.

Benghazi is filled with dozens of semiautonomous brigades under various degrees of central control — a challenge that NATO officials and Washington diplomats say must be solved, and quickly.

The Benghazi clashes follow the assassination Thursday of a once popular rebel military chief, Gen. Abdul Fattah Younis, who was shot dead and his body burned under still mysterious circumstances.

Younis’s killing and the Sunday clashes between rebels in Benghazi have shaken the rebel coalition and raised doubts among their supporters.

But rebel fighting continued in the hours before Islam’s holy month of Ramadan. Opposition forces made gains in the oil town of Brega, where they have been struggling for weeks against minefields and deeply entrenched forces loyal to Gaddafi.

Libyans reporting on Facebook and Twitter networks, and witnesses on the ground, say rebel forces have also fought their way into the suburbs of the coastal city of Zlitan, just over 100 miles east of Tripoli.

The rebels appear split between their hunger to press forward and the fear that they will beaten back. An exhausted infantry commander, who fought for hours to take the town of Tekut in the western mountains, said “we need to hold this territory and advance slowly.”

But the impatience is palpable. “The important thing is we need to go. Time is running out. We have to liberate our country,” said Salah Matouk, a colonel who defected from Gaddafi’s army in March to fight in the western mountains.

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Katzenberg gives $ 2 million to group Pro-Obama - Wall Street Journal (blog)

A group founded by former aides of the White House are working to reelect President Barack Obama raised $ 3.2 million in the first half of 2011 through a small box of 25 donors, according to a Sunday at the Federal Election Commission.

Scope of action of United States of priorities most came from a single donation of 2 million dollars of Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of Dreamworks Animation.

The group?received?$ 500,000 worth of SEIU COPE, a political arm of the service employees International Union. Chicago?philanthropist?Fred Eychaner, a major democratic donor, you astillas in $500,000.

The Group was founded by Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney, former White House aides. Also started a group of members, the priorities of United States, to not disclose its list of donors.

The two groups are among a host of new committees for political action, working on behalf of both parties, which can raise unlimited amounts of individuals and organizations. The groups must act independently of the candidate and could not coordinate with campaigns of candidates?.

Jennifer Egan, author of "To visit from the Goon Squad", her won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year, he gave us action priorities $250.

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Syrians mark sombre Ramadan after 80 dead in Hama - Reuters

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Amman (Reuters) - Syrians began the Muslim Ramadan quickly in somber mood Monday after troops stormed Hama, scene of a massacre of 1982, in one of the bloodiest days of a five month uprising against President Bashar al - Assad.

Rights activists said that 80 civilians died in the assault with support from tanks on Sunday in the central city of Syria where Assad father crushed an armed rebellion of the Muslim Brotherhood for 29 years by sweeping neighborhoods and killing many thousands of people.

The security forces had besieged the city Muslim Sunni 700,000 for almost a month before the crackdown on Sunday on the eve of Ramadan, a month sacred when the Muslim fasting hours of the day.

Many attend mosque prayers at night, sometimes they can offer opportunities for the protests multiplied by Syria.

The State News Agency Syria, said the military introduced Hama to purge the armed groups were citizens terrorize, an account dismissed as "nonsense" by an American diplomat in Damascus.

The Agency said that eight police officers were killed while "against armed terrorist groups" in Hama.

Of Barack Obama of the United States President said he was dismayed by the violence of "horrible" from the Syrian Government against its people in Hama and promised to work with others to isolate to Assad.

"Syria is a place better when a democratic transition goes forward", Obama said in a statement.

Great Britain and France condemned the attack on Hama. Italy calls for a tough statement by the Security Council United Nations, where Russia and China have opposed previously any condemnation of Syria.

Germany asked the Security Council will meet on Monday, said a spokesman for the Mission of the United Nations. He said that Germany had asked the India, which holds the Presidency of the Council for August, scheduled closed consultations and these were probably will take place in the afternoon, New York time.

The plans of the European Union to extend the sanctions on Monday by slap active freezes and five Syrians travel bans. EU sanctions already go to Assad and at least two dozens of officials, as well as the Syrian companies involved in the military.

Turkey, one of the main allies of Assad until the uprising, said that he and the rest of the Muslim world were "very disappointed" by the violence that denied Assad before reform pledges.

The human rights organization SIRIUS Sawasiah said the civilian deaths number in Hama rose to 80. The independent group cited medical officials and witnesses in his report.

Syrian authorities have expelled more independent journalists since the riots anti-Assad began in March, making it difficult to verify reports of violence and victims.

Assad has relied more and more to the security services and units of the army, dominated by members of his minority Alawite sect, which has dominated the power from a 1963 Ba'ath party coup to quell the protests in Syria, where the majority of people are Sunni Muslims.

In a letter to the troops on the occasion of army day, Assad reiterated earlier statements that Syria faces a foreign plot to sow sectarian strife, adding that its aim was to "tear Syria in small statelets which are competing to satisfy those who have worked to cut off..."

"All the honorable people of Syria are confident that we will go stronger from the crisis," said Assad.

"They wanted to cause sectarian conflict that destroys everything." "We have achieved avoid sectarian strife and examine ourselves to find mistakes and deal with them."

MASSACRE INFUNDI? FEAR

The massacre of 1982 Hama instilled such fear that few Syrians are willing to openly challenge rule Assad family until this year, when many were inspired by the popular uprisings in much peaceful toppled Arab autocrats in Egypt and Tunisia.

United States press added J.J. Harder "authorities think that somehow you can prolong their existence through full war armed its own citizens," he told Reuters.

The Muslim Brotherhood accused the elite Alawi of waging sectarian war in Sunni attacking Hama.

"Syria is witness to a war of sectarian cleansing." The regime has linked its annihilation opened with the half moon of Ramadan. "Is a war about the identity and beliefs of the Syria nation... the Muslim Arab Syria, added in a statement."

Citing hospital officials, the Syrian Centre for human rights said earlier that the number of dead in Hama is likely to rise, adding that dozens were seriously injured.

A doctor, who did not want to identify themselves more by fear of detention, told Reuters that dozens of people were injured and blood for transfusion in short of supply.

"The tanks are attacking from four directions". They are firing their machine guns heavy randomly and conquering locks improvised by the inhabitants, "the doctor said by telephone, the sound of crackling Viet machine gun fire in the background."

Residents said Alawi "shabbiha" irregular militiamen had accompanied the forces in buses and set tents overnight at Qazo roundabout in the Western District of the city.

The State news agency said that military units were fighting gunmen armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.

The Syrian leadership accuses "armed terrorists" in the majority of murders during the revolt, saying that it has killed more than 500 soldiers and security personnel.

Another resident said that in the assault on Sunday, bodies were lying not charged in the streets and therefore the number of dead would rise. Army snipers were posted on the ceilings of the State electricity company and the main prison, he said.

Tank shells were falling at a rate of four a minute in the vicinity of Hama in the North, residents said on Sunday morning. Reduced supplies of electricity and water to the main neighborhoods, a tactic regularly used by the military when sweeping in restive cities.

South Syria, rights activists said that security forces killed three civilians when they stormed houses in the town al - Hirak, 35 kilometers (20 miles) northeast of the city of Deraa.

The Syrian Centre for human rights said that troops had arrested more than 100 people in Mouadamiyah in Damascus. A Western diplomat said he saw several tanks entered the suburb.

In the Eastern Province of Deir al - Zor, residents said at least 11 civilians were killed in a weekend offensive.

(Additional by Suleiman al - Khalidi in Amman, Oliver Holmes in Beirut, David Brunnstrom Brussels, Daren Butler in Istanbul, Catherine Hornby in Rome;) Written by Alistair Lyon; (Edited by Mark Trevelyan)

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Ramadan added new tumult to a region plunged into chaos - Globe and Mail

Uprisings in the Arab world promise to make Ramadan this year the party either before difference.

Ramadan in Cairo, which starts on Monday, always meant fasting by day and party by night: a big slowdown in economic production and a great surge in festivals at night, as well as an orgy of gifts and much, much time family.

This year, however, the religious feast of month have their share of the political winners and losers also.

The fact that it is this year in the middle of summer only amplifies the effects of holidays from fasting, even of drinking water, has a greater number of victims in the heat.

Along with the economic downturn and rising prices of food, this means that more people increasingly are is changing to the charity to provide them with food and dining.

However, the fall of the ruling National Democratic Party, the popular uprising and the expulsion of Hosni Mubarak as President, has meant that one of the largest distributors of charity has disappeared.

There are no power stations are being prepared in the neighborhoods rich in the capital, such as the leafy former British community of Maadi, South of Cairo, on Sunday. Would lawns in the homes of party and members that tables and booths of light normally be in Assembly sitting empty; catering in the area, which have much in these large orders gone own begging.

The big political winner in this case is the Muslim Brotherhood to be ascending ramp your usual charitable distribution of food. "Going to be the only game in the city," said lawyer Karim Azmi in his Office in Maadi.

Not look to the young revolutionary demonstrators of much help. They are not organized for such things in a very beneficial spirit these days.

On Friday took a drubbing of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists than crammed religious demonstrations calling for an Islamic State in the Tahrir square very secular youth have become famous in February.

On Sunday, leaders of many of the protest groups announced they were pulling their people and shows in the plaza during Ramadan.

"They are licking their wounds," said Hisham Kassem, former editor of the independent newspaper at Al - Masry al - Youm. "

Course, Ramadan is complete without a large budget soap opera to occupy the attention of the Egyptians. People wait all year for productions on a large scale.

See normally after iftar, or breakfast each night, increased production this year was expected to be the third season of the Daly, a look every night in the life and loves of a rich made fictional Egyptian family through big construction projects. Starring the gallant young Nour Sharif, return of the series has been promoted on billboards in the Cairo.

End entry, however, threatens to overcome the popular ratings: the life of the Mubarak family murder trial.

Starting Wednesday and runs every day of work until the end, you can expect the televised trial Hosni, Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, along with former Minister of the interior of the country and several assistants, captivated the nation. In this reality series, the accused could face the death penalty if convicted.

While Egyptian protesters may be home to watch television, Syrian activists will push to increase the intensity of their protests.

Taking advantage of a reduction of hours of work and an increase in attendance at mosques during the religious festival of the month, protest organizers say they plan to turn the pressure on the regime of Bashar al - Assad.

In anticipation, demonstrators in Hama last week began to sing: "Our God, help to fast and pray... and overthrow the regime".

All of which can explain the forces Syrian come Sunday in the central city Syria of Hama and killing dozens of people, according to activists in the region. They may have been a heavy-handed attempt to avoid the increase of the protests.

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What is Ramadan?

Ramadan is a month, when Muslims around the world spend thirty days of fasting in an effort to be more patient and spiritual with Allah, to improve themselves in their faith.

When is Ramadan?

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar. This year it falls on August 1 to August 29. Ramadan is based on the lunar cycle and there is a debate among Muslim leaders when he starts precisely.

Why Muslims fast Ramadan?

The Muslims refrain from eating and drinking during the day to better concentrate on prayer. The lack of food and beverage is intended to allow for better reflection and worship.

Do do end the Ramadan?

Ramadan ends with Eid al - Fitr, a three-day Muslim holiday. EID literally means "party" while Fitr means "original nature". The Festival is celebrated by a feast with family and donating food to the poor.

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Father of girl lack N.H. says 'expected' his 'come home' - CNN

Celina Cass, 11, was last seen at his home in New Hampshire on Monday night.Celina Cass, 11, was last seen Monday night in her homeAuthorities have got about 400 potential customers, but we still don't know where she isHer father said: "whenever you want at home..." "We are waiting for Daddy"

(CNN) - the father of a girl of New Hampshire's missing 11-year-old girl pleaded for her safe return Sunday, six days after she was last seen at his home.

Local, State and federal researchers continue to search for Celina Cass, with searches "by air, by land, by water" in the vicinity of hometown girl of West Stewartstown, tax New Hampshire Senior Deputy General Jane Young said this Sunday.

He noted that authorities, including members of the FBI, had received more than 400 prospects as of Sunday evening, but "at this time, still have not discovered Celina." The community of about 1,000 people is bordered by Vermont and is also very near the Canadian border.

Young said that "we are working tirelessly to bring her home".

Fr. Adam Laro said this Sunday recovering after being released recently from the hospital - sending a message to his girl that "Daddy is OK now, I'm putting much better." He did not describe in detail why it had been hospitalized.

He added that he, like others, is "asking where is my daughter" and hoping that is safe.

"When you want to come home, Celina, Daddy will be here waiting," said Palu'e.

Celina was last time in his room, on your computer, at around 9 p.m. on Monday evening, according to police. WMUR reported their parents told the authorities that the girl had disappeared when they went to wake her up on Tuesday morning.

Friends have created a Facebook page, "Missing Celina Cass," with one of the wheels which acts as a profile picture. According to the Aviator, Celina is 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighs 95 pounds, with long brown hair and Brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a pink shirt, pink jacket and blue pants.

Young said this Sunday that researchers consider this a case of "missing". The authorities have offered more details on the case and has not issued an alert Amber. Among other pieces of potential evidence, Young said investigators are looking for computer and telephone records, trying to find clues.

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Teachers March in Washington - Washington Post

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Tracy A Woodward/The Washington Post - Teachers march past the White House during a ”Save Our Schools“ rally.

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There are many reasons thousands of teachers traveled across the country to protest in front of the White House on Saturday — including to oppose charter schools, to fight for equal funding for poor schools, and to have more say in public education policies.

But at a noisy rally starting at noon under soaring temperatures, their message boiled down to one point, which was summed up by the sound check before the first speaker took the stage:

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Tap. Tap. “No testing, no testing, 1-2-3.”

The assembled teachers, education advocates and parents vented a frustration they said has been building since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, which made standardized testing the centerpiece of a school reform agenda championed by George W. Bush.

With the election of Barack Obama in 2008, many thought their long-standing complaints, about how the policy has imposed unfair penalties on the poorest schools and how it has narrowed curriculum to make time for test preparation, would finally be heard.

But three years later, the law is still intact, more schools are being labeled as failing, and standardized tests are starting to be used to make teacher tenure and termination decisions.

“We had reason to believe from his campaign promises that Obama was going to reverse the damage that this law has caused,” said Jonathan Kozol, a public education activist and author. “He has betrayed us. .?.?. That’s why we are here today.”

And so about 5,000 people, according to the organizers’ estimates, stood on the Ellipse between the White House and the Washington Monument and waved posters that read “Boycott NCLB” and “Teach Me, Don’t Just Test Me.”

A row of white tents on the edge of the crowd offered shade next to an art display of a graveyard meant to represent “the very real destruction that NCLB has brought to the important experiences and processes of learning.” Most teachers baked on the lawn, waving fans emblazoned with the Washington Teachers’ Union logo.

The “Save Our Schools March” was part of a four-day event including a two-day conference at American University with dozens of workshops, such as “Winning the Testing War” and “Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline.” There was also a half-day strategy session and a film festival, headlined by the documentary “The Inconvenient Truth About Waiting for Superman,” a response to the 2010 film “Waiting for Superman,” which featured then-D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee and which promoted charter schools.

The event, which was endorsed by the two major teachers unions, took about a year and $150,000 to organize. At least a dozen other cities hosted sister rallies or events. The demonstration’s leaders are a core group of teachers, parent activists and education bloggers who maintain that federal policies are too influenced by business leaders and too little by educators who know how policies play out in classrooms.

The White House invited some of the organizers to speak with education policy advisers Friday, but the organizers turned down the offer, saying they would be willing to meet after Saturday’s march. “July 30 is your opportunity to listen to us,” they said in a news statement.

Bonnie Van Roekel, a 61-year-old music teacher from Commerce City, Colo., said she came to the march because “testing has become a ‘Saturday Night Live’ skit” in her district. Teachers are expected to follow scripts for each lesson, a new strategy intended to boost scores, she said. Like many in the crowd, she wore red (“for public ed”) .

Sonya Romero, 36, said she flew from Albuquerque because “No Child Left Behind is demoralizing New Mexico.” The state has a population that is poorer and more diverse than much of the country, she explained. By now, the vast majority of the schools statewide have been classified as “failing” under the federal law, which sets increasingly high pass rates for state tests each year.

Under that “failing” label, Romero’s school has cut back time for physical education and recess, and she has been required to use a new reading curriculum, she said. The regimen “stifles imagination,” she said.

The speakers included a long list of longtime education advocates and a few Hollywood celebrities whose mothers are teachers or public education advocates.

“The Daily Show’s” Jon Stewart sent his support by jumbo-size screen rather than driving to the march because, he said, “the dog ate his car.”

Actor Matt Damon elicited cheers when he commiserated with the crowd. “This has been a horrible decade for teachers,” he said. “The next time you feel down or exhausted .?.?. please know there are millions of people behind you.”

With that send-off, they marched off the lawn, up 17th Street and around the White House, many chanting, “Education under attack! What do we do? Stand up, fight back.”

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Two Libyan cities bombed after Gadhafi rallies supporters - CNN

A photo of rebel armed Libya file standinjg with the coffins of Benghazi on June 10, 2011.The rebel - held attack Misrata city and the besieged city of Dafniya SaturdayExplosions began shortly after Gadhafi threatened to take the fight against the U.S. EuropeThe is taking the threats seriously, a spokesman for the Department of State saysU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the NATO mission is underway

Misrata, Libya (CNN) - heavy artillery fell on the city Misrata besieged port and the city besieged Dafniya Saturday's agreement to a team CNN in Libya, he heard the explosions.

Attacks began shortly after the ruler Moammar Gadhafi, meeting his supporters in a State television audio message, threatened to take the fight to Europe in retaliation for the NATO bombing campaign.

"As soon as he finished the speech by Gadhafi, started shelling Dafniya and around midnight there except eight rockets in own Misrata, and remains in the front this morning", said Ben Wedeman of CNN, who was in Misrata on Saturday.

Gadhafi has vowed revenge for the bombing in Libya. He said that the Libyan military could be "like locusts, as bees" in Europe, potentially aimed at homes and offices.

"You are wrong, is involved in a battle that you do not know what you face, so remove and flee" Gadhafi said a pro-Government meeting in Tripoli. "Our people are capable of one day to move the battle to the Mediterranean and able to move the battle to Europe".

Gadhafi referred to NATO, which began the bombing of military targets in Libya after the UN Security Council passed a resolution existing authorization of March by any means necessary - with the exception of an invasion of the ground - to protect civilians.

On Saturday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that NATO in Libya's mission is under way, with pressure on the rebel forces getting stronger and Assembly of Gadhafi.

"We have to see this from, and we fully agree that we," said on Saturday with the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs in Madrid.

In Washington, the spokesman for the Department of State Mark Toner said that United States was taking seriously the comments made by the Libyan leader. "No doubt this is a person who is obviously capable of performing this type of threat," he told reporters. "It is what makes it so dangerous.""But it is also someone who gives the exaggerated rhetoric."

He said that United States will continue to support the growing pressure of Gadhafi NATO's mission to put aside.

The French Government was in talks with Libyan rebels on supplying arms and ammunition, a military spokesman of the opposition Libya in Misrata said Thursday.

The French Government has not confirmed the claim, which follows a recognition earlier this week that its military has previously fallen light weapons to rebels in other parts.David McKenzie of CNN contributed to this report

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Energy problems could make to Panetta first head of Department of Defense green - New York Times

More than 3,000 members of service and civilian contractors have been killed or wounded protecting the long-term supply convoys carry fuel and water through winding roads of Afghanistan, according to the Secretary of Defense Deputy William Lynn. Recognizing that even though the military is becoming more technologically capable, it is more intensive in energy, the Pentagon last month released its first strategy of energy of battlefield (Greenwire, 15 June).

At the same time, fuel costs are affecting the budget of the hard Department - in 2008, when oil prices hit record, the Pentagon spent 20 million dollars in fuel alone. Each $10 increase in the price of a barrel of oil cost the Department $ 1.3 billion extra.

"The way to build energy in our operations is a key part of fight and win wars of the nation", said Lynn at the opening of the new energy battleground of the Pentagon report last month. "We need less [energy], the more operationally resistant will be".

But while insiders say outgoing Secretary of Defense Robert Gates understands military energy dependence poses serious security challenge, he stopped participating publicly the issue. And although President Obama talked often geopolitical threats from dependence on fossil fuels, power of the military requirements have not made their way into its national programme of energy.

Now, as Panetta comes to the Pentagon-backed bipartisan, strong, some energy defense insiders expect it will bring the kind of support at a higher level that could break the Department grinding bureaucracy and bring transformational change.

His friends and colleagues say they have little doubt that Panetta understands the importance of energy issues for the Department of Defense and the advantages and disadvantages in the game.

"Get the equation of energy beautifully," said Admiral James Watkins, a Republican who was senior officer of the Navy in the 1980s before becoming Secretary of energy by President George h. Bush and served as co-Chairman of the joint initiative of Committee of ocean with Panetta. "It has long prospects, has reality in the short term, who knows that he has to face and he knows how to deal with the two."

Former Senator John Warner (R-va.), a former Secretary of the Navy and President of the Commission of the Senate Armed Services said that Panetta is the dependence of fuel for the military security implications.

"Given the fuel is as ammunition - one without the other can do", said Warner.

But get nothing in agenda of the Chief of the defence budget and the current wars found that a heavy lift. In confirmation of Panetta hearing month passed there was only a question of energy buried among the flood of consultations on spending cuts, terrorism and the withdrawal of troops.

"This is an area that I want to learn much more about" Panetta told Senator Mark Udall (D - Colo.), who recently submitted a draft law on Defense (Journal on June 9 in E & E) energy. Udall thanked him and then directed the conversation to terrorist havens in Pakistan.

Costs of energy in question

Panetta was chosen largely for his budgetary prowess. As a Congressman from California, he presided over the Committee's budget from 1989 to 1993. During the Clinton administration, he was director of the Office of management and budget and later served as Chief of staff of the White House. Obama calls for 400 million dollars in defense cuts in the next 12 years, and some in Congress want to go even deeper. If energy capture attention of Panetta in his new job, likely to be at the cost.

"When you look at the tax cuts that would have to make, it would be almost impossible not to address energy," said retired air force general Charles Wald, who now works in the main military power of Deloitte DOD business issues. "Different types of energy can have the potential to reduce costs, and you can certainly ensure greater stability [than oil] as regards budgets."

Money saved in energy can be reinvested elsewhere in the army, as Gates suggested other savings this year, said Wald.

But while the savings of energy efficiency measures can return quickly, alternative fuel and clean technology is currently being pushed by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and others typically require large initial investments and take years to pay for themselves.

The formulas that the Pentagon used to calculate the return on investment are beginning to take into account these paybacks in the long term and are beginning to incorporate the intangible benefits, such as the security that comes from a base not dependent on the civil power grid. But in the current fiscal environment, Panetta will be under pressure to reduce costs in the short term, and currently the Department is taking all the advantages of financial tools that you can distribute the costs of investment in years (Greenwire, 30 June).

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn diners as the conditions of bail violation claim lift - Telegraph.co.uk

When leaving the frantic atmosphere of the room packed Manhattan, its covered arm to the shoulder of his wife, Mr. Strauss-Kahn seemed as if it had lifted a heavy weight on his shoulders.

His bail of $ 1 million and $ 5 million bonus will now be returned and is free to travel anywhere in the United States, although the authorities will keep your Passport, awaiting possible trial.

The restrictive conditions of bail - even with a monitor of ankle, output limited and confined to a house in Lower Manhattan, under the surveillance of armed guards - were also lifted.

Savouring their first hours of freedom, Mr. Strauss-Kahn left his home which later Friday dressed in a dark suit. His wife Anne Sinclair, on the other hand, disappeared behind the tinted windows of a large SUV 4 x 4 black.

The party went to dinner at Scalinatella, an Italian restaurant on the superior-este side, located at the corner of 61 Street and Third Avenue, is occasionally visited by the star of pop Madonna.

According to Silvia Grottola, a Canadian who was inside the restaurant for your dinner, Strauss-Kahn and his wife were recognized and greeted by a couple dined at a nearby table.

The couple came up and shook the hand of the former IMF Chief and his spouse.

"I saw him in the news," said Ms. Grottola. "He looks in a good mood, is having a very good diner." The wife is having a good time. "The smile on his face was enough for me."

After an aperitif of Serrano ham and melon, Strauss-Kahn had a course of pasta pappardelle with truffles, which are on the menu at $100 per plate.

"This is not the dish more expensive - pasta with white truffle is $180,", said the owner of the restaurant, who would not give his name.

Under the gaze of several bodyguards with earphones, the guests drank red wine Brunello di Montalcino (116 dollars). For dessert, the former head of the IMF had cheesecake and a cafe.

The tab ran around $600, the owner.

The four guests came out through the back door, but without trying to hide. Confrotned by photographer expects Mr. Strauss-Kahn and Ms. Sinclair only smiled.

But its problems have not disappeared. Lawyer of the maid, Kenneth Thompson, she says her story to the media, amid fears that prosecutors are preparing to abandon the case.

"The only defense that Dominique Strauss-Kahn has is that the sexual encounter was consensual." "That's a lie," said Mr Thompson.

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs denies that they claim Irish sabatoge flotilla - Jerusalem Post

 
Photo: REUTERS/John Kolesidis Israel wasn't behind damage of the engine to an Irish ship participating in Gaza flotilla linked, officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Saturday.

Last week, Saoirse, one of the ten ships to sail in the mass movement to break the blockade of Gaza sea, was docked in Turkish waters, when it suffered engine damage. Fintan Lane, Coordinator of the Irish shipping organization in Gaza, called the law of "dangerous sabotage" and said that the boat believed to be that the divers had worked under water to cut a piece of the propeller shaft.

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Damage to the transatlantic Irish caused the boat pull the flotilla.

The controversy surrounding the Saoirse is only the latest in a series of events that have caused the new flotilla difficulty in the establishment of sailing.

On Friday, the Greek Ministry of citizen protection issued a statement saying that the Minister, C. Papoutsis, decided to prohibit the departure of ships flying Greek flags or foreigners "to the maritime area" of Gaza.

"On the orders of the coast guard Hellenic headquarters central to local authorities all of the coast guard Hellenic, all appropriate measures for the implementation of this decision", the statement said.

The Greek Ministry said that the "broader East Mediterranean Sea area will be continuously monitored by electronic means to monitor, where appropriate, of the movements of the ships allegedly involved" in the flotilla from Gaza.

While Cyprus had already banned headed to Gaza to leave its ports of vessels, the Greeks had not taken this measure until Friday.

The Greek Coast Guard intercepted a boat carrying activists we shortly after it set sail from Greece on Friday to join a flotilla of pro-palestinos in Gaza, one of the activists said.

Friday night, the ship's U.S. scheduled to take part in the flotilla from Gaza, the audacity of hope, returned to a Greek port after was intercepted by Greek commandos on Friday night, organizers said via his Twitter feed. The ship was taken under coastguard escort to a coast guard closed base in Greece.

The ship had just left Perama port of Piraeus, the open sea, a Reuters witness said.

Minutes before being intercepted initially, organizers said that the passengers of the ship being prepared for "not violently resist any attempt to stop the boat," said moments later that the ship "is about to set sail," followed by a message saying that the boat had left. By feeding twitter of the ship, said the organizers a ship Greek coastguards approached the audacity of hope was pulling the base, but then accelerated distance.

It is expected that a flotilla of ships plans to challenge the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip Israel to sail the next week, after repeated delays blamed on sabotage Israeli activists. Israel has denied the accusations.

"We are only here two miles in Piraeus". We have detained by the coast guard, his maniobrado ship in front of us services and they are now talking to the captain, they want to turn back, "Ann Wright, one of the activists, told Reuters."

"We are not violent, they pose no threat," he added, saying that the Group was informed of the ban on navigation as he was leaving.

It was not immediately clear how affect global plans for the flotilla departure of the ship.   Sign up for our newsletter to receive news directly to your email

       

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Court decides against ban on affirmative action in Michigan - Boston Globe

DETROIT - a federal appeals court yesterday quashed the ban in Michigan for the consideration of race and gender in university admissions, saying minority of loads and violates the Constitution.

The decision 2-1 upends a comprehensive law that forced the University of Michigan and other schools to change admission policies. The Sixth Circuit Appeals Court said the law, passed by voters in 2006, violates the equal protection of the amendment clause XIV.

The Court mostly concerned about how the ban on affirmative action was created. Because it was adopted as an amendment to the Constitution of the State, can only be altered with another vote of the entire State. This places a large burden on minority opposed to it, said that judges r. Guy Cole Jr. and Martha Craig Daughtrey.

They said supporters of the ban on judges could have chosen "less onerous means to achieve political change", in the opinion of the Court. "

Michigan promised to appeal. State of Arizona, California, Nebraska and Washington have similar bans, but are not affected by the decision because the judgment of the Court is limited to the States in the Sixth Circuit, which includes Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee.

The judges cited two cases of cut Supreme's United States, one in 1969 with the repeal of a law on equity housing in Akron, Ohio and another in 1982 with an effort to stop the racial integration in schools of Seattle.

The American trade union freedoms, which was part of a group who defied the ban of Michigan, welcomed the decision of the Court.

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Charges in the case of 1957 - Northwest Herald

By KATE SCHOTT - Shaw Suburban Media |

SYCAMORE: a Seattle man has been charged in the murder of Sycamore 1957 7 years Maria Ridulph.

Prosecutor Clay Campbell in the State of the County of DeKalb announced in a press release Friday that Jack Daniel McCullough's 71-year-old was charged with murder for allegedly causing the death of Ridulph when she was kidnapped on December 3, 1957.

A warrant for the arrest of $ 3 million was obtained for McCullough, to be held in the prison of King County in Seattle pending extradition proceedings. He was arrested on Wednesday, police said, and reserved in the King County jail coming from 2: 50 am on Thursday, according to reservation in the prison register.

Detective Mark Jamieson with the Seattle Police Department, said the Illinois State police established contact with his Office and asked for help in locating McCullough. He said that McCullough was taken into custody without incident.

Family to the brother of the Sycamore House of Maria, Charles Ridulph, refused to comment Friday on the arrest.

The file of McCullough in Office of the DeKalb County Court circuit used in Sycamore said that he was facing charges of murder, kidnapping a felony and the abduction of a child. The documents were presented on Friday.

Ridulph and her friend were playing near their homes in Sycamore when she was kidnapped. Their skeletal remains were found on April 26, 1958, in Jo Daviess County.

According to the press release, McCullough was a suspect at the time of the disappearance, but the case was cold after McCullough, then known as John Tessier, joined the military and changed its name.

"This crime has tormented Sycamore for half a century", Campbell said in the press release. "We hope that the family of Maria Ridulph and this community can find some comfort and closure to this arrest."

Don Sycamore's Chief of police Thomas said authorities received new information on the case several years ago and which caused that authorities focus on McCullough.

In 1957, McCullough was 18 years old and known by the name of John Tessier, said Thomas and lived in Sycamore within two blocks of the Ridulph family. At the time of the incident, which had an alibi, said Thomas.

The new information helped authorities to re-interview some people, as well as to McCullough, said Thomas. Allowed the police to "prevent his alibi", said Thomas and develop necessary to proceed with the arrest of probable cause. At the moment there is no any DNA evidence, he added.

"I'm not going to comment on the details of the interview," said Thomas. "I will say this: during the interview, we have been able to confirm that he was the author of the crime."

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Obama: put an end to taxes necessary to cut the deficit - Reuters

By Jeff Mason

WASHINGTON | SAT 2 Jul 2011 6: 34 am EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama press its case Saturday to reduce the deficit in part by complete tax and singling out the managers of hedge funds, oil corporations and billionaires to get success.

Obama is locked in a dispute with the Republicans on how to bring down the deficit as part of an agreement to raise the debt ceiling and avoid default Washington.

Democrats insist that some tax increases include a deficit-reduction package.

Republicans say that it would be bad for the economy.

"Now, would be nice that we could keep to every tax break, but we can not afford them," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address.

"Because if we decide to keep these exemptions from taxes for millionaires and billionaires, or administrators of funds coverage and owners of corporate jet or oil and gas companies pulling in huge profits without our help - then is to make it even shorter than anywhere else."

Obama shows a variety of areas, some of them are considered major democratic political priorities, which face the chopping block if such taxes were allowed to continue.

?We have to say to a student, "does not get a scholarship universitaria.??? We have to say to a medical researcher, "that cancer can be done.'" We have to tell seniors, 'You have to pay more for Medicare,' ", said."

"It is not correct, and is not intelligent." "We have to cut the deficit, but we can do it at the same time that investment in education, research and technology that really create jobs."

Senator Dan Coats, delivers the weekly Republican address, he said was the key to reducing spending.

"The President and Democrats in Congress should recognize that their game plan doesn't work," said. "It is time to recognize that the Government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem." "It is time for bold action and a new plan to resolve the current crisis."

TIT FOR TAT

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has warned of the enormous risks if Congress does not raise the ceiling of the debt of $ 14.3 trillion by August 2, potentially trigger a defect that could send chills through an already fragile banking system.

Obama said that both sides agreed to cuts were necessary and said that he and Vice President Joe Biden has advanced to the legislators to agree on areas to cut.

"In recent weeks, the Vice-President and I have reached both sides identify over 1 trillion dollars in spending cuts," said Obama.

"But after a decade in which Washington presented the country's credit card, we must find more savings out of the network." "It means looking at each hop program and taxes in the budget - each - to find places to cut waste and save money."

Fears of a default value, which could disrupt everything from debt payments to retirement benefits, when the Republicans withdrew from the negotiations on the budget led to Biden last week.

Coats told Obama step to make a deal.

"Now is the time for decisive leadership of the President," he said. "It is time to put aside the false security of political denial and re-election hopes and puts the future of our country above all else."

(Edited by Jackie Frank)

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The Governor of the province of Hama - Xinhua active Syrian President

(Damascus, July 2 Xinhua) - the President of Syria Bashar al - Assad Saturday sacked Governor of the central province of Hama Ahmed Khaled Abdul-Aziz, healthy news agency official of informed Syria without giving further details.

Al - Assad, since the outbreak of protests in March, has dismissed three Governors as part of many other gestures made calm the demonstrators demanding radical reforms in Syria, namely, the Governors of Latakia, Homs and the southern province of Daraa, which has been the epicentre of protests.

Syria has been in turmoil since mid-March when anti-Government protests erupted in the southern province of Daraa and spread to other Syrian cities. Syria blamed the unrest on "armed groups and foreign conspiracy" and noted it could locate to gunmen who have been intimidated to persons and damage to public and private property.

The Government said hundreds of security officers and policemen were killed by gunmen since the outbreak of protests. Syrian opposition, however, accused the security forces crackdown Syrian hard protests.

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Number of Syrians taking refuge in Turkey falls to 10,547

NKARA, Xinhua, July 2)-number of the Syrian people, who fled the violence in the home and will retreat in Turkey declined to 10,547 as of Saturday, said an official statement.

A total of 15,205 Syrian citizens had fled to Turkey, 4,658 of whom have returned to his country until Saturday, according to the Communique released by the disaster of the first Turkish Ministry and the direction of emergency (AFAD) management. Full story

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The pinch of the closure of the Minn. feel vulnerable. gov ' t - Atlanta Journal Constitution

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By MARTIGA LOHN

The Associated Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota lawmakers headed home for a long holiday weekend, bracing for likely public anger as some of them meet constituents for the first time since a failure to reach a budget agreement forced a government shutdown.

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Barriers were in place on the road in front of the Minnesota State Capitol Friday, July 1, 2011 in St. Paul, Minn., after negotiations over the state budget between Republican lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton broke down and the government shutdown at midnight. AP Photo/Jim Mone)
A bicyclist rides on the road leading out of the closed Fort Snelling historic site Friday, July 1, 2011 in Minneapolis after negotiations over the state budget between Republican lawmakers and Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton broke down and the government shutdown at midnight. AP Photo/Jim Mone)

The reception they get starting Saturday, and during 4th of July parades around the state, could go a long way toward determining how long the shutdown lasts. Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and GOP leaders had no plans for new talks before Tuesday, five full days after the shutdown started.

Minnesota's second shutdown in six years was striking much deeper than a partial 2005 shutdown. It took state parks and rest stops off line, closed horse tracks and made it impossible to get a fishing license. But it also was hitting the state's most vulnerable, ending reading services for the blind, silencing a help line for the elderly and stopping child care subsidies for the poor.

The shutdown was rippling into the lives of people like Sonya Mills, a 39-year-old mother of eight facing the loss of about $3,600 a month in state child care subsidies. Until the government closure, Mills had been focused on recovering from a May 22 tornado that displaced her from a rented home in Minneapolis. Now she's adding a new problem to her list.

"It just starts to have a snowball effect. It's like you are still in the wind of the tornado," said Mills, who works at a temp agency and was allowed to take time off as she gets back on her feet — but after the shutdown also has to care for her six youngest children, ages 3 through 14, because she lost state funding for their daycare and other programs.

Minnesota is the only state to have its government shut down this year, even though nearly all states have severe budget problems and some have divided governments. Dayton was determined to raise taxes on the top earners to help erase a $5 billion deficit, while the Republican Legislature refused to go along with that — or any new spending above the amount the state is projected to collect.

Here, as in 21 other states, there's no way to keep government operating past the end of a budget period without legislative action. Even so, only four other states — Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Tennessee — have had shutdowns in the past decade, some lasting mere hours.

The shutdown halted non-emergency road construction and closed the state zoo and Capitol. More than 40 state boards and agencies went dark, though critical functions such as state troopers, prison guards, the courts and disaster responses will continue.

On Friday, former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz started the court-appointed job of sifting through appeals from groups arguing in favor of continued government funding for particular programs.

Nonprofit groups helping the state's poor have already been hit hard. Some closed their doors immediately, while others continued services, at least for now. Some were looking at layoffs, said Sarah Caruso, president and CEO of Greater Twin Cities United Way, which funds 400 programs serving poor people. She said the impact will depend on how long the shutdown lasts.

"If we go well beyond that two-week window, I think then we will start seeing much more significant closure of programs to support the vulnerable, and the long-term financial viability of some of these agencies will really be called into question," she said.

So far, 30 agencies had accepted United Way's offer of advances on their grants, seeking cash to stay up and running.

The stoppage suspended some programs for the blind and visually impaired, including a radio reading service run by volunteers and training for blind people who are learning to walk with a cane. Bonnie Elsey, director of the state's Workforce Development Division, said a vocational rehabilitation program that places people with disabilities in jobs or school was halted.

Minnesota food pantries scurried to make sure they would still get 700,000 pounds of food — about 30 percent of their total volume — in the next two months through a federal program. Nearly a million pounds already in warehouses were also put on hold by the shutdown. Colleen Moriarty, executive director of Hunger Solutions Minnesota, said the federal program's operation depended on a single state employee working in a data management system. Later Friday, Moriarty said the employee had been called back to work.

The shutdown also idled a state hotline set up to help seniors and their caregivers find services, housing options, help with Medicaid and Medicare insurance and more. A call to the 800 number Friday got a recording saying callers could leave a message.

The political stalemate meant instant layoffs for 22,000 state workers, including Paul Bissen, a road and bridge inspector for more than 26 years. Bissen said he cut back on spending last month. He figured he could go a couple of months without worrying, but on the first day of the shutdown, he said it looked like his washing machine had died — adding another expense.

"I want to work. I've got road construction projects to build, to try to make them safe and make them smooth so people can get back to forth to their work," Bissen said.

Fearful of voter anger, both parties blasted each other for Minnesota's second shutdown in six years.

GOP Chairman Tony Sutton called Dayton a "piece of work" and accused him of inflicting "maximum pain" for political reasons.

Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chairman Ken Martin laid the blame on Republicans, saying they drove the state to a shutdown to protect millionaires from tax increases sought by Dayton.

The Alliance for a Better Minnesota, a left-leaning group supportive of Dayton, plans to run weekend radio ads in three popular vacation areas blaming Republicans for the impact of the shutdown, including closed state parks. The group also debuted a "shutdown shame" website.

The shutdown has been a slow-motion disaster, with a new Democratic governor and new Republican legislative majorities at odds for months over how to eliminate the state budget deficit. Dayton has been determined to raise taxes on high-earners to close the deficit, while Republicans insisted that it be closed only by cuts to state spending.

Even after the shutdown looked like a certainty, Dayton and Republicans did not soften their conflicting principles. Dayton said he campaigned and was elected on a promise not to make spending cuts to a level he called "draconian."

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July 02, 2011 04:46 AM EDT

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A hybrid vehicle passes through the Bay Bridge toll booth HOV lane in Oakland. The program that allowed single occupants of hybrids to use carpool lanes expires at the end of June.

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Gasoline prices may have fallen recently but the cost of getting around the Bay Area is going up Friday for many transit riders and drivers.

And for hybrid drivers who have cruised solo through the carpool lanes for years, the cost will be rising. The state-issued gold stickers that allowed access become worthless Friday. Only drivers with white stickers, issued to all-electric and some compressed natural gas vehicles, will be allowed an exemption to the carpool rules.

And drivers of multiple-axle vehicles, including big-rigs, recreational vehicles and those towing boats or trailers, will pay higher tolls starting Friday.

When the Bay Area Toll Authority raised tolls for car drivers crossing state-owned bridges last year, it delayed the multiple-axle increase for a year to allow trucking companies to negotiate rates with clients. The increase also applies on the Golden Gate Bridge.

Boaters and RV owners are unhappy with the change, saying they shouldn't be treated the same as commercial truckers, but state law requires that tolls be charged by the number of axles.

Rates vary by the number of axles and at the state-owned and Golden Gate spans. At state bridges, the toll for a five-axle semi goes from $11.25 to $18 and will rise to $25 in 2012. Three-axle vehicles, including most boat trailers, will be charged $10.50, up from $6. That will rise to $15 in 2012. On the Golden Gate, a three-axle vehicle will pay $13, up from $9, and a five-axle truck will pay $22, up from $15.

The cost of some transit rides is also going up.

In San Francisco, the cost of adult Muni Fast Passes will rise by $2 a month, while passes for youths, seniors, the disabled and low-income riders will go up by $1. Tourists and cable car aficionados will also feel the pain. The cost of riding the rolling landmarks will increase to $6 per trip.

Caltrain will add 25 cents to one-way fares Friday. Parking will be $4 a day, up from $3, or $40 a month, up from $30.

Golden Gate Transit and Ferry fares are also going up. Ferry riders will pay an additional $1 from Sausalito and 50 cents more from Larkspur, bringing the one-way fares to $9.25 for the Sausalito boat and $8.75 for the Larkspur service. Discounted fares for Clipper card users will remain unchanged, but the cost of special event ferries to AT&T Park will go from $8 to $8.75.

The cost of riding Golden Gate Transit buses will rise by 5 percent. Fares will rise between 10 and 55 cents, depending on distance traveled.

Some of the new fares State bridges

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$10.50

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Ferry ride from Sausalito

$8.75

Ferry ride from Larkspur

E-mail Michael Cabanatuan at mcabanatuan@sfchronicle.com.

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