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The Jets made some moves with their backup quarterbacks yesterday in an effort to clear some cap space before their pursuit of prized free agent Nnamdi Asomugha fizzled.
The Jets first released veteran backup Mark Brunell, but a source said Brunell will re-sign with the team at a lower salary figure. The Jets then waived Kevin O'Connell, according to sources.
If Brunell does return, he will be the team's No. 2 quarterback behind Mark Sanchez with draft pick Greg McElroy most likely serving as the third quarterback. Brunell joined the Jets last season, and clicked with Sanchez. He played in just two games, but he is seen as a mentor for the Jets third-year starter.
O'Connell came to the Jets in 2009 from the Lions after the Patriots had released him a few weeks earlier. He never gained traction with the team and was released last season before re-signing a short time later. He suffered a torn labrum last year that he is trying to come back from.
The Jets also waived quarterback Erik Ainge, who spent last season on the reserved/did not report list after entering drug rehab.
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The Jets signed three of their draft picks yesterday, striking deals with running back Bilal Powell, a fourth-round pick and both of their seventh-round picks -- McElroy and wide receiver Scotty McKnight. That leaves three draft picks unsigned, including first-rounder Muhammad Wilkerson.
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After losing punter Steve Weatherford to the Giants, the Jets signed Chris Bryan, an Australian who punted in four games for the Buccaneers last season. . . . The Jets lost cornerback Drew Coleman, who signed a three-year deal with the Jaguars with a max value of $7.4 million, per a source. . . . Multiple reports had the Jets making an offer to safety Eric Smith to return.
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Maybe Italian athletes don't like the pasta in Canada. Italy is taking home only five medals this year, its worst winter performance since the Olympics were held in Calgary in 1988. To add insult to injury, Italy's competitors came in dead last in six different events, more than any other country besides Canada, which at least walks off with 14 gold medals.
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But as we've continued our tally of last-place finishes, awarding less-precious "metals" to athletes bringing up the rear—lead medals to those who finish last, tin for second-to-last and zinc to the third-to-last—it was Russia that clunked home with 19 total medals, more than any other nation. Sadly, this is four more than the number of real medals it earned. (In our tally we didn't count anyone who didn't finish or was disqualified, and score differential was used for team tournaments.) But at least Russia can blame a sizable delegation at the Games for its poor showings. Ukraine, Latvia and Poland have no such excuse—all three were in the top 10 in last-place finishes despite having 60 or fewer athletes each.
For some countries—especially those in warmer climates—scoring these dubious medals was still quite a feat. Iran earned two lead medals, thanks to Marjan Kalhor, who finished last in two Alpine-skiing events. And Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, nicknamed the "Snow Leopard," earned a tin medal in the men's slalom. Let's cut him some slack: He's Ghana's first-ever Winter Olympian.
Write to Hannah Karp at hannah.karp@dowjones.com
Dubious Medalists
Here are the countries that had the most last-place finishes (lead), second-to-last (tin) and third-to-last (zinc).
Country
Lead
Tin
Zinc
Total
Russia
2
6
11
19
U.S.
4
8
5
17
Canada
6
5
3
14
Czech Republic
4
2
8
14
Italy
6
3
4
13
Japan
5
5
1
11
Poland
4
2
5
11
Ukraine
4
3
2
9
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King Island platypus in the wild, pic 2
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Handa Island, North West Sutherland
Marvellous blue sky and blue sea, first impressions of Handa. We arrived at this beach, Temple Beach, with it's inviting golden sands {Traigh am Teampull} in Gaelic
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Hackescher Markt, Berlin
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Two former executives broke ranks with News Corp. for the first time on Thursday over whether James Murdoch knew in 2008 that the phone-hacking scandal at the company's now-defunct U.K. tabloid likely involved more than just one rogue reporter, as the company had long maintained.
The rupture in the ranks comes as News Corp. is under pressure over a key piece of its defense against phone-hacking allegations: a 2007 internal investigation by an outside law firm. That inquiry appears to have been less rigorous than company executives have said.
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News Corp.'s James Murdoch said Thursday he stands by his testimony.
On Thursday, Colin Myler, former editor of the News of the World tabloid, and Tom Crone, a former lawyer for the paper, said in a joint statement that in 2008 they informed Mr. Murdoch, now News Corp.'s deputy chief operating officer, about a crucial email suggesting that phone hacking went beyond one reporter. Mr. Murdoch on Tuesday said before a parliamentary committee in the U.K. that he had never been made aware of the email—even though he had approved a roughly £700,000 settlement ($1.1 million) in the matter.
In a statement, Mr. Murdoch said, "I stand by my testimony." The settlement was one of his first major decisions after becoming head of News Corp.'s Europe and Asia operations in 2007. He didn't work at News Corp. at the time of the alleged hacking.
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The two executives' statement amounts to an unusual public rebuke by long-serving allies of News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch, who is the father of James. Mr. Myler edited the New York Post before returning to the U.K. to run the News of the World in 2007. Mr. Crone had made his name defending the company's racy tabloids in court.
Meantime, News Corp. and its former U.K. law firm are increasingly at odds.
As recently as last week, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch said the company had hired "the best lawyers in London" to investigate the hacking claims in 2007, providing them with "thousands of documents." Mr. Murdoch said Harbottle & Lewis LLP was hired "to inquire into the whole situation" and that "it was their major mistake in reporting that there was nothing further to worry about."
However, the law firm's inquiry was limited—not a full-blown investigation but rather a narrow inquiry related to an employment dispute—according to public evidence submitted to parliament and people familiar with the matter. It was based on a review of at least 300 emails forwarded to the law firm by two executives at News International, the media company's U.K. newspaper unit, according to the parliamentary committee evidence. The law firm's remit was limited to whether or not five staffers at the News of the World tabloid knew about one reporter's illegal hacking activities or had engaged in similar activities, according to evidence submitted by News International to a parliament committee.
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The tabloid's former editor, Colin Myler.
Furthermore, the batch of emails also contained evidence of police bribery, according to a lawyer recently hired by News Corp. to review some of them. The indications of bribery weren't reported to the police until last month, according to News Corp.; it isn't clear why. The recently hired lawyer, a former U.K. prosecutor and current News Corp. adviser, Ken MacDonald, on Tuesday told a parliamentary committee that the nine or 10 emails he reviewed contained "blindingly obvious" evidence of bribes.
Lord MacDonald and other legal specialists said British lawyers generally don't have a duty to report crimes to authorities because advice to clients is privileged. But lawyers said it would be typical to alert a client if evidence of serious wrongdoing were found.
U.K. Hacking Scandal
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More on the Claim by Former Soccer Player Gordon Taylor Against News Corp.
There is much that isn't yet known about the Harbottle inquiry. Among important unanswered questions: exactly how many emails News International turned over to Harbottle, how many people at the media company read those emails, and to what degree senior executives were made aware of their contents. It's also unclear whether Harbottle interviewed any News of the World staffers.
On Thursday, Harbottle said it couldn't discuss the details of its work because of client-confidentiality restrictions. The firm said it had asked News International to release it from those restrictions.
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The tabloid's former lawyer, Tom Crone.
Under pressure from a parliamentary committee, News International on Wednesday partially lifted the restriction, allowing the law firm to give evidence to the committee and to police. However, a person familiar with the matter said the company hadn't authorized Harbottle to speak to the media.
News Corp., which owns The Wall Street Journal, declined to comment.
Harbottle wasn't the only law firm News International drafted to look into phone-hacking allegations. After the scandal first erupted, in 2006, it hired another law firm, London-based BCL Burton Copeland, during a police investigation at that time following the arrest of News of the World reporter Clive Goodman for phone hacking.
In July 2009, Mr. Crone—one of the two men who on Thursday broke ranks with News Corp.—told a parliamentary committee looking into the phone hacking that the firm was "brought in to go over everything and find out what had gone on, to liaise with the police." At that time, Mr. Crone was News of the World's legal counsel.
However, the law firm's review was in fact mainly limited to examining payments to one investigator on the paper's payroll, according to 2009 parliamentary testimony. BCL Burton Copeland didn't respond to requests for comment.
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Mr. Crone, who left News International this month, declined to comment.
Mr. Myler, the other former executive to break ranks on Thursday, told the parliamentary committee in 2009 that News International's own inquiry included a review of 2,500 emails and that he spoke to executives about the matter. It isn't clear how many of those emails Harbottle received for review; News Corp. handed over 300 emails from the file to police in June.
The Harbottle assignment was born out of a legal battle with Mr. Goodman, the former reporter, who had been dismissed from the paper in 2007 after his imprisonment for hacking.
Mr. Goodman brought an internal wrongful-dismissal action against the company. During this process, Mr. Goodman alleged other employees were engaged in, or knew about, similar phone-hacking practices, a person familiar with the matter said.
In response, News International's head of legal affairs and head of human resources, Jon Chapman and Daniel Cloke, brought in Harbottle. In May 2007, Messrs. Chapman and Cloke reviewed and sent a batch of emails between Mr. Goodman and five other individuals to Harbottle, according to a document News International submitted to the parliamentary committee.
Messrs. Chapman and Cloke are no longer with the company. A lawyer for Mr. Cloke declined to comment and Mr. Chapman couldn't be reached.
In a letter dated May 29, 2007, Harbottle told News International that it "did not find anything in those emails which appeared to us to be reasonable evidence that Clive Goodman's illegal actions were known about and supported by" senior editors, or that "others were carrying out similar illegal procedures."
The company ultimately reached a private settlement with Mr. Goodman. News Corp. has told the parliamentary committee that the settlement was approved by Les Hinton, who at the time was head of News International and to whom Messrs. Chapman and Cloke reported.
In this past Tuesday's parliamentary testimony, Rupert Murdoch said his close friend and longtime aide Mr. Hinton had informed him of the Harbottle review.
Mr. Hinton resigned last week as the head of Dow Jones & Co., which is owned by News Corp. and which publishes the Journal. At the time of his resignation, Mr. Hinton said he was "ignorant of what apparently happened" at the tabloid. He didn't respond to requests for comment.
In 2009, Mr. Hinton told a parliamentary committee, "Look, I obviously did not look at those emails personally but I know that that scrutiny went on and no emails that raised any further suspicion were brought to my attention."
The Harbottle work resurfaced this year when police re-opened a criminal investigation into phone hacking. Upon discovering suggestions of bribery in the emails, Lord MacDonald, the News Corp. adviser and former prosecutor, reported his findings to News Corp.'s board, and advised giving the material to police. The company did so in late June, sparking police to launch a probe into corrupt payments.
—Bruce Orwall and Jeanne Whalen contributed to this article.
Write to Cassell Bryan-Low at cassell.bryan-low@wsj.com, Paul Sonne at paul.sonne@wsj.com and Steve Stecklow at steve.stecklow@wsj.com
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The colors of twilight in Washington
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glise de la Sainte-Trinit
La Iglesia de la Sainte-Trinit es una iglesia catlica ubicada en el distrito 9 de Pars , francia . La iglesia es un edificio del perodo del Segundo Imperio, construido entre 1861 y 1867 con un costo de casi 4 millones de francos.
La Trinit, como se le conoce, fue diseada por Thodore Ballu como parte del embellecimiento y la reorganizacin de Pars con el Barn Haussmann.
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Youth Match Racing Camp & regatta - June 2011
This 'clinegatta' featured 2.5 days of coaching with Dave Perry, the USSTAG Women's Match Race coach followed by a regatta with continued, advanced coaching.
Sheboygan, WI
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Angels pitcher Nolan Ryan, center, is congratulated by Manager Bobby Winkles after throwing a no-hitter against the Detroit Tigers on July 16, 1973. What would have happened if the Angels hadn't traded Ryan in 1979? (Associated Press)
A dream I had at 14 — that my hapless Angels officially conquered Los Angeles with owner Nolan Ryan throwing out a ceremonial first pitch during the team's 50-year anniversary celebration — was supposed to come true Tuesday night.
As Dick Enberg used to say on KTLA, "Touch 'em all."
Well, not quite.
This is an Angels story, remember?
Ryan was hospitalized Monday with chest pains. He's going to be OK, but not OK soon enough to get to Tuesday's ceremony.
Dream deferred. The original one, anyway, had only one-hopped the wall.
Here's the script, as originally written:
With our pro football farmed out to St. Louis and Oakland, USC bowl-banned by NCAA probation, Major League Baseball lawyers throwing fits of caveat emptor regarding the Dodgers and the NBA lockout threatening to put the Lakers on hold, the Angels are positioned to dominate the Southland this fall.
It could almost match 2002, when the Angels claimed their lone World Series championship without winning the American League West.
Imagine the Halos not having to share headlines with USC football, the Lakers, or hopefully, by then, the 405 Freeway.
The idea is nearly as farfetched as the idea of Ryan, former Angels superstar and strikeout king, ever becoming a big-league owner.
We figured, post-career, "Tex" would lead a cattle drive from Refugio to Reno. Or maybe become mayor of Round Rock.
Ryan was to be honored at Angel Stadium on Tuesday night — in conjunction with former owner Gene Autry's hall of fame induction — as part of the team's 50-year anniversary festivities.
The "great eight" for me were 1972 to 1979, the years Ryan rocked the rubber.
Ryan returning as Texas' owner, when he does, is the part that will chap my saddle.
The Angels foolishly letting Ryan walk away in 1979 with 14 years left in his bionic arm still gnaws at me like Henry VIII on a turkey leg.
My first thought when hearing Ryan was supposed to throw out Tuesday's first pitch: "What, they couldn't find two 8-7 ceremonial hurlers?"
That was General Manager Buzzie Bavasi's rationale, remember, for letting Ryan walk in 1979 after he finished 16-14.
Bavasi later regretted saying he could find two 8-7 journeymen to replace Ryan, but he must have meant it when he said it.
Buzzie obviously sawed "Zzzs" through the 50 or 60 games Ryan deserved to win.
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1/25000 sec | Nikon D7000 + 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II + TC-14E | 7 Jul 2011
© 2011 José Francisco Salgado, PhD
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Gunnar with Tubers
Gunnar also enjoyed riding in the boat even when we were tubing.
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Blue food dye photo created by school student on Embrace photography workshop part of Embrace community project – Embrace Urban Photography
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Arroz ante la modernidad.
Esta ciudad la puedes mirar por sus monumentos modernos, o por sus tradiciones. Pero todo junto todava es posible.
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Cirque de Gavarnie
Auteur : Eugne Trutat
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plaque ngative au glatino-bromure d'argent, format 18x24 cm..
Sans inscription ni mention d'auteur.
Fonds du Musum de toulouse. Domaine public.
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La casa de mis sueos
La casita al lado del cementerio en Salem. Encantadora la mires por dnde la mires
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Circuit du Castellet (Paul Ricard HTTT) - Var - France
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Upper Arlington Independence Day Parade 2011
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Chasing after a sea turtle, Yaeyama Islands, Japan
Panari Island (Aragusuku Island), Okinawa, Japan
Aragusuku Island belongs to the Yaeyama Island group which boasts of paradisical beaches, untouched tropical rainforests, lush mangrove rivers and one of the world's largest coral reef systems.
Those islands are also known as one of the world's best diving destinations, having a number of coral species and marine lives as large as those in the Great Barrier Reef. (Over 400 types of corals, 5 types of sea turtles, manta rays, whale sharks and all kinds of tropical fish species all live around Okinawa.)
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Kill Me Laser, Fusion stage #EXIT2011
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disney's World of Color, Disneyland Resort
Taken from the Blue Section, Paradise Pier bridge
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Androidografia Barakaldo 41
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Small Boat Against the Waves
Golemi Beach, Albania
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