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Invasive species ride tsunami debris to US shore

A floating dock from Japan washed up on an Oregon beach this week. Scientists worry that it represents a new way for invasive species to muck up the West Coast's marine environments.

By Jeff Barnard,?Associated Press / June 9, 2012

Volunteers remove marine organisms from a Japanese dock that came ashore on Agate Beach, one mile north of Newport, Oregon.

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When a floating dock the size of a boxcar washed up on a sandy beach in Oregon, beachcombers got excited because it was the largest piece of debris from last year's tsunami in Japan to show up on the West Coast.

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But scientists worried it represented a whole new way for invasive species of seaweed, crabs and other marine organisms to break the earth's natural barriers and further muck up the West Coast's marine environments. And more invasive species could be hitching rides on tsunami debris expected to arrive in the weeks and months to come.

"We know extinctions occur with invasions," said John Chapman, assistant professor of fisheries and invasive species specialist at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center. "This is like arrows shot into the dark. Some of them could hit a mark."

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Though the global economy has accelerated the process in recent decades by the sheer volume of ships, most from Asia, entering West Coast ports, the marine invasion has been going on since 1869, when the transcontinental railroad brought the first shipment of East Coast oysters packed in seaweed and mud to San Francisco, said Andrew Cohen, director of the Center for Research on Aquatic Bioinvasions in Richmond, Calif.

Now, hotspots like San Francisco Bay amount to a "global zoo" of invasive species and perhaps 500 plants and animals from foreign shores have established in U.S. marine waters, said James Carlton, professor of marine sciences at Williams College. They come mostly from ship hulls and the water ships take on as ballast, but also get dumped into bays from home aquariums.

The costs quickly mount into the untold billions of dollars. Mitten crabs from China eat baby Dungeness crabs that are one of the region's top commercial fisheries. Spartina, a ropey seaweed from Europe, chokes commercial oyster beds. Shellfish plug the cooling water intakes of power plants. Kelps and tiny shrimp-like creatures change the food web that fish, marine mammals and even humans depend on.

A 2004 study in the scientific journal Ecological Economics estimated 400 threatened and endangered species in the U.S. are facing extinction because of pressures from invasive species.

It is too early for scientists to know how much Japanese tsunami debris may add to the invasive species already here.

"It may only introduce one thing," said Cohen of the Aquatic Bioinvasions research center. "But if that thing turns out to be a big problem, we would rather it not happen. There could be an economic impact, an ecological impact, or even a human health impact."

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Florida bingo set will go for safest net-but whose?

BONITA SPRINGS, Florida (Reuters) - Bill James, a retired state trooper and resolute Republican, knows what he wants from a presidential candidate: "Fix the economy, straighten out the budget, do something about the national debt."

But when it comes to curbing Medicare costs, a prime driver of the nation's deficit, James doesn't favor any cutback.

Should the ballooning federal insurance program be revamped? "Only if I got approximately the same benefits and paid approximately the same amount of money," said the 77-year-old, who is battling bone cancer.

Medicare and Social Security, the massive programs that pay benefits to tens of millions of older Americans, are contentious issues in the 2012 presidential campaign. Seniors want the nation's sputtering economy to be fixed, but not at their expense.

In the midterm elections two years ago, one in five voters were over 65. If older Americans turn out in force this year, they could swing the presidential race. President Barack Obama and his GOP opponent, Mitt Romney, are neck and neck in current surveys.

In a nationwide Reuters/Ipsos poll, 42 percent of seniors said they would vote for Romney and 39 percent for Obama if the election were held today. Among other voters, the two candidates were even.

However, when asked which party better serves the needs of Americans over 65, Democrats edged out Republicans among seniors by 34 percent to 31 percent.

CONFLICTING MESSAGES

As was the case in 2010, strident rhetoric, partisan distortions and ugly ad campaigns are sowing confusion over programs that serve the elderly.

"There's only one president in history who has cut Medicare by $500 billion - and that's Barack Obama," Mitt Romney tells voters. (In fact, Medicare spending would continue to grow under Obama's plan.)

A conservative group, AmericanDoctors4Truth, launched an ad campaign in March that showed Obama pushing an old lady in a wheelchair off a cliff. The spot, which ran in Florida and Texas, mimicked a 2011 video by a liberal group that showed Republican Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, author of a Medicare privatization plan, rolling a disabled senior down a steep hill.

Romney has endorsed Ryan's legislation to steer future retirees to private health insurance, which was adopted by the GOP-controlled House earlier this year, along with a cap on Medicare spending.

Obama contends that the Romney-backed plan would "end Medicare as we know it," telling an Ohio rally last month, "We're not going to go back to the days when our citizens spent their golden years at the mercy of private insurance companies."

In Limetree Park, a Gulf Coast mobile home community where James and his wife, Rosalie, spend the winter, the ideology of residents ranges from far left to far right. But all agree on one thing: the importance of an adequate federal safety net.

"We couldn't survive without Medicare," said Rosalie James. At 78, the former switchboard operator has had two knee replacements and is being treated for diabetes and heart disease.

Two doors away, Andrea Davis, 63, a former secretary, said she hadn't worked long enough at one place to build up a 401(k). "If it weren't for Social Security, I would probably be on the street," she added.

BINGO, BILLIARDS AND BIBLE STUDY

On a sunny afternoon in Limetree, men in shorts play shuffleboard; women in floral bathing suits lounge around the pool. Activities are posted on a board at the barbecue pavilion. Monday: poker and dominoes. Tuesday: bingo and billiards. Wednesday: koffee klatch and Bible study.

An entrance sign at the 240-unit park greets visitors with the motto "Finding friendship in paradise." To preserve harmony, Limetree retirees say they rarely talk politics with their neighbors.

In the Reuters/Ipsos poll, 32 percent of seniors said Obama has better plans for Social Security and Medicare, while 30 percent said Romney does.

"Rich seniors are better served by the GOP, while the policies of the Democrat party are slanted toward the middle class," said Mark Findlay, 67, a retired Pennsylvania businessman who spends winters at Limetree. "But ... Tea Party members don't seem to realize it."

Bill Bontrager, who lives a few doors away on Golden Sand Avenue, sees it differently. A Tea Party sympathizer and Romney supporter, he wants fewer government regulations, lower taxes and spending cuts to fix the deficit.

Including cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits? No, that's not what Bontrager, 68, has in mind. "It is very irritating when they say these are entitlements," he complained. "How can something be an entitlement when you've paid for it your whole life?"

DEFICITS AHEAD

In fact, American workers and retirees are not paying enough for either Social Security or Medicare to remain solvent.

Obama and Romney agree that the programs must be changed, but they differ sharply on how to do it.

With 78 million baby boomers entering retirement, Social Security is set to run short of money by 2037, according to government actuaries. The projected deficit: roughly $87 billion a year.

Romney favors a plan, popular in the business community, to partly privatize Social Security by directing the contributions of future retirees into 401(k)-type investment accounts. Obama opposes the idea, saying it would subject retirement savings ?to the whims of the stock market.? In the Reuters/Ipsos poll, seniors disagreed with the idea by 46 percent to 25 percent.

Romney would also raise the retirement age for full Social Security benefits beyond 67 and would gradually boost the eligibility age for Medicare until it matches life expectancy. These "commonsense reforms," he says, would help "save Social Security and Medicare for future generations."

Obama has backed away from proposals to postpone benefits, which would be unpopular among blue-collar voters with arduous jobs.

"I blew out my knees, my feet and my shoulder with construction work," said Limetree resident Dewey Schilling, 62, who survives on Social Security disability benefits. "If you work till you're 70, you ain't got a whole lot of life left to enjoy."

Instead, Obama, along with many Democrats, would replenish Social Security by lifting the current cap on the payroll tax, so that income above $110,100 a year would no longer be exempt.

THE 'MEDISCARE' STAMPEDE

Lifting the cap is anathema to Republicans who vow not to raise taxes, but it taps into a growing public sentiment that the rich are not paying their fair share.

"They need to change the tax structure," said Jeanne Cross, 82, a former receptionist who votes Republican. "All these people making all this money, they're not paying as much taxes as you and I."

Bontrager, the Tea Party sympathizer, disagrees. He once owned an Indiana factory that made truck bodies and employed 135 people. The tax-the-rich rhetoric is foolhardy, he said. "Have you ever seen a poor man create a job?"

In the 2010 midterm elections, Republican assertions that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, passed by Congress and dubbed Obamacare, would slash Medicare benefits and institute "death panels" to ration care set off a stampede to the polls by furious seniors.

In 2008, 16 percent of voters were over 65, but two years later that proportion had jumped by five points. The power of what pundits called Mediscare helped the GOP recapture control of the House and gain six seats in the Senate.

In the next decade, spending for the giant insurance program is set to nearly double, from $576 billion to $1.05 trillion a year, because of the rising cost of medical care and the aging of the population. By 2030 the number of Americans on Medicare will jump from 49 million to 79 million.

Obama's healthcare reform law doesn't cut senior benefits. In fact, it expands preventive care and prescription coverage for the elderly. It would slow Medicare spending by curbing payments to nursing homes and other health facilities, penalizing error-prone hospitals, speeding generic drugs to market, and boosting premiums for wealthier retirees.

Overall, it would cut the projected rise in per capita Medicare costs from 6.8 percent to 5.5 percent over 10 years, for a net savings of $428 billion by 2019.

WIDESPREAD CONFUSION

That estimate has given Romney an opening to accuse Obama of cutting healthcare for seniors. Obama, meanwhile, calls the GOP-supported budget and Medicare plan "a radical vision" and "thinly veiled social Darwinism."

A TV spot launched in Florida and other swing states last month shows a young Obama with his grandparents and touts his administration's recovery of $4 billion from healthcare scam artists who prey on seniors.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll revealed the whipsaw effect of conflicting messages: Sixty-one percent of seniors disapproved of the Obamacare law. But they were evenly split on whether Obama or Romney has a better plan for healthcare.

In Limetree Park, confusion is widespread. Stan Brummel, 69, a retired Michigan toolmaker, voted for Obama in 2008. Now he's on the fence. Obama is the one trying to cut Medicare, said Brummel, who suffers from polymyalgia.

Like many of his neighbors, Brummel was unfamiliar with the Ryan plan to restructure Medicare, which, as it happens, retains the very savings in Medicare spending that were enacted under Obamacare and that GOP candidates have attacked.

The House-passed premium support plan, endorsed by Romney, would give seniors vouchers to buy private insurance beginning in 2022, gradually replacing government-run Medicare. The goal: market competition to drive down costs.

Last year the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office calculated that if Medicare fully transitioned to private insurance plans, as proposed in the 2011 House-passed budget, it would more than double seniors' out-of-pocket costs, to $12,500 a year. That measure died in the Senate.

This year's version retains traditional Medicare as an option. It is co-authored by Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, a Democrat, but most Democratic lawmakers oppose it because it could allow premiums to rise.

COMFORT FACTOR

At Limetree, Ruth Hoeger, a retired nurse, knows the value of a safety net more than most. Her father was a coal miner who died of black lung disease when she was 11; Hoeger and her siblings survived on Social Security.

Now she and her husband live with a 45-year-old son who receives Social Security disability payments for chronic pulmonary disease. A former carpenter, he was exposed to asbestos.

Hoeger, 74, fears the Romney Medicare plan. "I've got arthritis and high blood pressure. What insurance company would cover me for the price of the voucher?" she asks. "If you privatize Medicare, the elderly will die earlier."

Her neighbor, Bontrager, thinks the privatization plan might be a good idea. "What happens to the money we pay into Medicare?" he asks. "It is mismanaged. The government should get out of the insurance industry."

As the campaign heats up, the intricacies of how to slash the deficit and reform entitlements seem unlikely to lend themselves to nuanced discussion.

Beyond the charges and countercharges, however, many older Americans are fully aware that how the safety net is designed can mean the difference between poverty and a comfortable life in a place such as Limetree Park.

They'll be paying keen attention before casting their votes in November.

(This is the third article to run as part of American Mosaic, a yearlong Reuters/Ipsos polling and reporting project that focuses on the diverse groups and competing views at play in the 2012 presidential race. The data is drawn primarily from online surveys using sampling methods developed in consultation with outside experts. By Election Day the survey will have reached 150,000 people, mixing respondents recruited from the Internet with individuals screened by Ipsos. Their responses are weighted based on demographic information and refined using a monthly telephone poll. With this method, accuracy is measured using a statistical calculation called a credibility interval. To see all the data from this survey and other polls in the series, go to www.reuters.com/politics/american-mosaic.)

(Editing by Lee Aitken, Prudence Crowther and Douglas Royalty)

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The real effect of expiring tax cuts

In deciding the fate of expired and expiring tax cuts, lawmakers should consider the larger problems facing our tax system. That system is needlessly complex, economically harmful, and widely perceived as unfair. And it fails at its most basic task: raising enough money to pay our bills.

By Donald Marron,?Guest blogger / June 9, 2012

In this November 2011 file photo. The US Capitol building is seen in Washington. Before a decision can be made on expiring tax cuts, fundamental flaws in our tax system must be addressed, Marron argues.

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Yesterday I had the chance to testify before the Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee about a perennial challenge, the ?tax extenders,? which really ought to be known as the ?tax expirers.? Here are my opening remarks. You can find my?full testimony?here.

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Donald B. Marron is director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. He previously served as a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and as acting director of the Congressional Budget Office.

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As you know, the United States faces a sharp ?fiscal cliff? at yearend when numerous policy changes occur. If all these changes happen, they will reduce the fiscal 2013 deficit by about $500 billion, according to the?Congressional Budget Office, before taking into account any negative feedback from a weaker economy. About one-eighth of that ?cliff??$65 billion?comes from the expiring and expired tax cuts that are the focus of today?s hearing.

In deciding their fate, you should consider the larger problems facing our tax system. That system is needlessly complex, economically harmful, and widely perceived as unfair. It?s increasingly unpredictable. And it fails at its most basic task, raising enough money to pay our bills.

The ?expirers? often worsen these problems. They create uncertainty, complicate compliance, and cost needed revenue. Some make the tax code less fair, some more fair. Some weaken our economy, while others strengthen it.

Fundamental tax reform would, of course, be the best way to address these concerns. But such reform isn?t likely soon.

So you must again grapple with ?the expirers.? As a starting point, let me note that they come in three flavors:

  1. ?Tax cuts enacted to address a temporary challenge?such as recession, the housing meltdown, or regional disasters.
  2. Tax cuts that have reached a sunset review. Prolonged economic weakness and recent omnibus extensions mean there aren?t that many of these, but they do exist.
  3. Tax cuts that expire to game budget rules. These appear to be the most common. Supporters intend these provisions to be long-lived or permanent, but they haven?t found the budget resources to do so.

To determine which of these policies should be extended and which not, you should consider several factors:

  • Does the provision address a compelling need for government intervention?
  • Does it accomplish its goal effectively and at reasonable cost?
  • Does it make the tax code more or less fair?
  • Do its potential benefits justify the revenue loss or the need for higher taxes elsewhere?

In short, you should subject these provisions to the same standards applied to other policy choices. And in this case, you should keep in mind that most of the so-called ?tax extenders? are effectively spending through the tax code. You should thus hold them to the same standards as equivalent spending programs.

You should also reform the way you review expiring tax provisions.

  1. Flip the burden of proof.?Today?s standing presumption is that most of these provisions will ultimately be extended. That?s why they are called ?the extenders,? even after they have expired. Ultimately, though, we should move to a system in which the presumption, rebuttable to be sure, is that expiring provisions will expire unless supporters can justify their continuation. In short, they should be ?the expirers.?
  2. Second, divide them up. Like musk oxen, the beneficiaries of these provisions have realized that there is safety in numbers. They thus do their best to coalesce as a single herd??the extenders??and to migrate across the annual legislative tundra with as little individual attention as possible.You should break up the herd. Reviewing each provision in detail may not be practical in a single year, but you can identify specific groups for careful review. For example, you can separate out the stimulus provisions, the charity provisions, the?energy provisions, and so on.You should also spread scheduled expirations out over time. If fewer expire each year, you will be able to give each one more attention.
  3. Third, change budget rules for temporary tax cuts. Pay-as-you-go budgeting creates crucial discipline but has an unfortunate side effect: long-term tax policies often get chopped into one-year segments. In addition, 10 years of offsets can be used to pay for a single-year extension.To combat this, you could require that any temporary tax provision be assumed to last no less than five years in the official budget baseline. Proponents would then have to round up enough budget offsets to pay for those five years.In addition, Congress could require that offsets happen over the same years as an extension. That would eliminate situations in which 10 years of offsets pay for a single-year extension.

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EURO 2012 LIVE: Poland vs.Greece

WARSAW, Poland (AP) ? The 2012 European Championship kicked off Friday with co-host Poland playing Greece. Later Friday, the Czech Republic plays Russia.

Here's a running account of developments. The times, which indicate when each update was filed, are Polish time, which is two hours ahead of GMT and 7 hours ahead of EDT.

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GAME OVER: POLAND 1 GREECE 1. Honors even in first game of the Euros. Loads of action, two goals, two red cards and a missed penalty. It's a great start.

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1944:Lewandowski unleashes a stinging half volley from the right corner of Greece's penalty area. It swerves into the side netting, but signs are there that Poland will try to snatch a goal here. Eugen Polanski tries his luck from 20 yards out, but it is straight at Kostas Chalkias. Six minutes left for Poland or Greece to find a winner. Kostas Fortounis replaced Fanis Gekas moments before the Greece penalty, by the way.

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1937: Dimitris Salpingidis has been at the heart of everything since he came on at half time. He has a goal ruled out for offside now. He timed his run well, but Kostas Fortounis was ahead of the play before he centered the ball. Greece have the upper hand.

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1931: Greece missed two penalties in their last warm-up match against Armenia. One was taken by Georgious Samara, the other by Kostas Katsouranis. This time, captain Giorgios Karagounis steps up and brings a fine save from substitute goalkeeper Przemyslaw Tyton, who dives low to his left and claws the ball away with his first touch of the game.

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PhillipsIan: But advice to the referee: After giving a red card, don't get caught on TV cameras smiling and joking with the opposition.

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PhillipsIan: What a start from the Polish substitute 'keeper , saving penalty with first touch.

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1927: A ball over the top is taken down by Dimitris Salpingidis, who in the process looks to take it round Szczesny. His stray foot catches Salpingidis though, who goes to ground leaving the referee with no choice but to send Szczesny off and give Greece a penalty.

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RED CARD: WOJCIECH SZCZESNY, POLAND. GREECE PENALTY SAVED.

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1924: Chance for Greece. Samaras turns his marker as a ball is chipped over the top. But the ball refuses to sit up for him and in the end Samaras slices high and wide from a tight angle.

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1918: A second look at Greece's goal shows that Ninis had a header blocked by Szczesny before it dropped to Salpingidis. The Arsenal keeper will feel he could have got back in position quicker for that.

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1912: Captain of Greece, Giorgos Karagounis is booked for handball moments after the games get underway again. That goal has seen the volume levels drop inside the National Stadium. Poland had rarely been threatened until then.

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1909: Greece attack down the right this time and deliver a cross into Fanis Gekas, who attacks the ball as Szczesny comes to claim. They clash and the ball is spilt. For a split second nobody realises where it is, except for Dimitris Salpingidis who runs on to the ball and slots home from no more than six yards.

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GOAL: POLAND 1 GREECE 1

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1904: The second half is underway and Lewandowski comes close to doubling the lead for Poland and his tally for the match. He pulls away from his marker but blazes over the bar from inside the penalty box. Decent chance.

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1902: Dimitris Salpingidis replaces Sotiris Ninis for Greece at the start of the second half. No changes for Poland.

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1900: Poland manager Franciszek Smuda has spoken very highly of his side in the build up to the curtain-raiser of Euro 2012. "This team has convinced me I can rely on them; they have convinced me in every way during the last two and a half years," said Smuda. They have not let him down so far today.

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1857: The referee today is Carlo Velasco Carballo of Spain. He gave 15 red cards and 141 yellow cards in 19 matches last season.Jose Holebas is booked now for Greece. Defender Perquis loses his footing trying to deal with a ball in and seems to handle on his way down. Holebas is booked for protesting to the referee, who waves the play on. A good thing for Greece that half-time is now as a few players seems close to losing their temper.

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HALF TIMEPOLAND 1 GREECE 0

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Papastathopoulos has received the first red card at Euro 2012 after bringing down Rafal Murawski. It seemed harsh as Murawski looked to be on his way down already. The referee thought deeply about sending off Sokratis...

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1844: Away from events here at the National Stadium for a moment. AP reporter Karl Ritter says Denmark midfielder Niki Zimling left the team's training session in an ambulance today. It is unknown what the problem is at the moment.

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RED CARD. Sokratis Papastathopoulos picks up a second yellow in a few minutes and it's the first red of the tournament.

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1840: Poland should be 2-0 up but it is a horrible miss from defender Damien Perquis who drags his shot wide after Greece fail to deal with a set-piece. And the first substitution, too. Avraam Papadopoulos has picked up a knock and Kyriakos Papadopoulos replaces him.

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1838: Sokratis Papastathopoulos gets the first yellow card of the tournament after a challenge with the lively Lewandowski.

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1830: Signs in the last few minutes that Greece are getting back into the game but Poland look dangerous and fast on the counter attack. Greece win a free kick just outside the right hand side of the penalty area. Sotiris Ninis, who was fouled, takes it and Poland clear.

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1826: Kostas Katsouranis tries his luck from 25 yards out for Greece, but his effort bounces tamely wide of Szczeny. The Polish fans are waving their red and white scarves in unison and chanting the name of their team. That goal has seen the atmosphere go up another gear. Poland are looking to get forward at every oppoRtunity.

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1819: Poland attack down the right once again and this time, they take full advantage of another opportunity. A cross from captain Blaszczykowski finds an unmarked Lewandowski, who dispatches his header with ease and sends the National Stadium into raptures. Minutes earlier Lewandowski was inches away from giving Poland the lead. A neat interchange of passing releases Lukasz Piszczek and his ball across the six yard box is millimetres away from the head of Lewandowski, with goalkeeper Chalkias stranded.

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1817: Poland 1 Greece 0. Robert Lewandowski scores the first goal of the tournament with a close range header.

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1807: Greece are looking to keep the ball and take the pace out of Poland's early advances. When Poland win back possesion, Greece are quick to get at least eight men behind the ball. And it is not long until Chalkias is in action again, this time having to tip a shot from Rafal Murawski over the bar from 20 yards. The resulting corner is dealt with by Greece, but Poland have the upper hand in the opening minutes.

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1805: Lewandowski and Obraniak look to link up in Greece's penalty area, but Lewandowski's overhead flick falls to Kostas Chalkias in the Greek goal. AP reporter Derek Gatopoulos says the majority of Greek fans in Poland are from the immigrant community in Germany. It is Greece who get the game underway. The pitch looks in immaculate condition.

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1800: The Euros have started. Poland and Greece teams on the field on a hot, humid day in Warsaw.

Today's match will be played at the newly built National Stadium. The first game there for Poland saw them draw 0-0 against Portugal.Stadium looks to be packed with red and white fans of Poland with a handful of Greeks.

Greece will look to Giorgios Samaras for goals today, as he will lead the line for them. They go into today's match on the back of a 1-0 victory over Armenia, where Samaras missed a penalty.Defender Kyriakos Papadopoulos scored for the 2004 champion Greece, who later missed a second penalty through Kostas Katsouranis.

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1713: No surprises there from Polish manager Franciszek Smuda, as Robert Lewandowski leads the attack for the co-host. Ludovic Obraniak, who normally plays behind Lewandowski, is also one to look out for. He is a Ligue 1 winner with Lille, too.

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1709: GREECE: Chalkias, Torosidis, Papadopoulos, Papastathopoulos, Holebas, Maniatis, Katsouranis, Karagounis, Ninis, Gekas, Samaras

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1717: POLAND: Szczesny; Piszczek, Wasilewski, Perquis, Boenisch, Blaszczykowski, Polanski, Murawski, Rybus, Obraniak, Lewandowski.

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1649: France has revealed that midfielder Yann M'Vila is likely to miss their Group D opener against England.

Arsenal's Wojiech Szczesny is expected to be named goalkeeper for Poland whilst home-fans will have their eyes on Robert Lewandowski, who played a vital role in helping his side Borussia Dortmund win the Bundesliga.

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June Programming at the NRV Neighborhood House Technology ...

Here?s what?s happening at the Technology Center at NRV?s Neighborhood House.

  • Job Seeker Club - Mondays, 11am - 1:30pm
    Looking for work? Join our Job Seeker Club and get assistance with online applications, network with other job seekers, and learn more about Neighborhood House employment programs
  • Basic Computer Skills Classes - Wednesdays, June 9th, 13th, & 20th, 4:00-6pm
    Learn the basics of computers from how to use a mouse, how to type, navigate the internet, or any other skills you would like to learn!
  • Green & Clean Kids - Wednesday, June 19th, 4:00 - 5:30pm
    Learn about the environment and help clean your community! Snacks provided.
  • ESL Classes - Mondays & Wednesdays, 10am - noon
    Starting June 12th.
  • Job Search 101 - Fridays from 1:30-3:30pm
    Need help creating a resume, cover letter, or completing an online job application? This class will provide one on one assistance.
  • Youth Tutor Time! - Thursdays, June 7th & 14th, 5:30-6:45pm
    Youth who need computers for their homework assignments are invited to attend and work with staff to complete their work!
  • Financial Literacy Class: - Wednesday June 27th, 4:00-6pm
    Learn about banks and credit unions and how to pay your bills online!
  • June Saturday Open Lab Hours
    • Saturday June 16th, 11:00-5:00

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Dear Eric Schmidt, It?s Been 6 Months ? Where Are Those iOS-Slaying Android Exclusive Apps?

Death_to_the_iEmpire_by_aoisora9xFlashback to December 6, 2011: Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is on stage at LeWeb in Paris and is asked by an audience member why most application developers still choose to?develop?for iOS first rather than Android? Schmidt's response:
?Six months from now you?ll say the opposite. Because ultimately applications vendors are driven by volume. And the volume is favored by the open approach that Google is taking.?
Well, Mr. Schmidt, it's been six months. And? Nope.

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