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By Yeganheh Torbati and Marcus George
Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani took office as Iran?s president on Saturday, succeeding Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei endorsed him, Iranian media said.
Rouhani?s resounding election win in June raised hopes of a negotiated end to the dispute over Iran?s nuclear programme. That would avert a possible new war in the Middle East.
Khamenei kissed Rouhani on the cheek and the new president kissed the leader on his lapel.
The start of Rouhani?s presidency puts an end to Ahmadinejad?s eight years in office during which Iran grew more isolated and came under wide-ranging United Nations, U.S. and European Union sanctions over its nuclear programme, putting enormous pressure on the economy.
Rouhani faces huge challenges, including combating inflation he put last month at 42 percent, bringing down high unemployment and bridging the political divisions between conservative, moderate and reformist factions.
His most immediate test is persuading parliament to approve his candidates for cabinet positions, which he is expected to introduce on Sunday after he takes the oath of office.
?Rouhani will certainly appoint more competent men and women to key economic ministries and institutions. He will also follow saner economic policies,? said Shaul Bakhash, an Iran historian at George Mason University in Virginia.
?But the economic problems are staggering ? Above all, without a serious easing of sanctions, it is difficult to see how Rouhani can get the economy moving again.?
Source: http://cyprus-mail.com/2013/08/03/rouhani-becomes-new-iranian-president/
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In this Wednesday, July 31, 2013 photo-illustration, the home page for Twitter is displayed on an iPad and a laptop computer. If Twitter is the chirping chatterbox of the Internet, trolls are its dark underground denizens. The collision of the two is driving a debate in Britain about the scale of hatred and the limits of free speech online.The furor erupted this week after several women went public about the sexually explicit and often luridly violent abuse they receive on Twitter from trolls _ online bullies and provocateurs who send abusive or disruptive messages, often for their own amusement. Many regard trolls as an annoyance to be ignored, but there are growing calls for action when their abuse crosses over into threats. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
In this Wednesday, July 31, 2013 photo-illustration, the home page for Twitter is displayed on an iPad and a laptop computer. If Twitter is the chirping chatterbox of the Internet, trolls are its dark underground denizens. The collision of the two is driving a debate in Britain about the scale of hatred and the limits of free speech online.The furor erupted this week after several women went public about the sexually explicit and often luridly violent abuse they receive on Twitter from trolls _ online bullies and provocateurs who send abusive or disruptive messages, often for their own amusement. Many regard trolls as an annoyance to be ignored, but there are growing calls for action when their abuse crosses over into threats. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
LONDON (AP) ? If Twitter is the chirping chatterbox of the Internet, trolls are its dark underground denizens.
The collision of the two is driving a debate in Britain about the scale of online hatred and the limits of Internet free speech.
The furor erupted this week after several women went public about the sexually explicit and often luridly violent abuse they receive on Twitter from trolls ? online bullies and provocateurs who send abusive or disruptive messages, often for their own amusement.
Many regard trolls as an annoyance to be ignored, but there are growing calls for action when their abuse crosses over into threats.
Police are investigating a threat of rape and murder made to Labour Party lawmaker Stella Creasy by a user with the Twitter name @killcreasynow. The crude and graphically violent tweet was one of many Creasy received after she tweeted in support of feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez. Criado-Perez was sent a torrent of invective after she campaigned, successfully, for novelist Jane Austen to appear on a British banknote.
Two men have been arrested in connection with the Twitter threats, but have not been charged.
Such abuse is neither new nor confined to Britain. American writer Lindy West wrote earlier this year about receiving a slew of sexual threats after she appeared on a TV debate about rape jokes.
But the subject has received an unprecedented level of public exposure this week, sparking debates on British radio and television news programs and articles in national newspapers ? even the tabloids. Creasy and Criado-Perez are among a growing group who have decided to face down the abusers, retweeting their messages in an attempt to "name and shame" the offenders, and reporting the most threatening messages to police.
"This is not about Twitter," Creasy told the BBC. "This is about hatred of women and hatred of women who speak up."
Online trolls don't just target women, although women come in for a specific kind of abuse, says Claire Hardaker, a lecturer at Lancaster University in northwest England who researches aggression, deception and manipulation online.
Trolls pick out one defining characteristic to attack their victims, she said. "If you are a Muslim, it's all Islamophobia. If you are gay, it's all homophobia. If you are a woman, it's all misogyny."
Hardaker said that while the stereotypical image of a troll is of a man in his late teens or early 20s, they are a surprisingly disparate group ? 30-something women and men in their 60s have been caught trolling.
The motivation ranges from revenge to entertainment to boredom. While it seems a solitary activity, there is an online community of trolls who use sites like the anarchic forum 4Chan used to swap congratulations and criticism and egg one another on.
And while the technology is new, the impulses are as old as time.
"We have long been entertained by watching violence happen to other people," Hardaker said. "It isn't that the Internet has turned us into monsters. It has produced this online Colosseum where we can go and throw people to the lions ourselves."
The relative anonymity of the Internet makes online abuse hard to stop. Many trolls change online identities frequently and use software that masks their ISP address, making them hard to track down. Police are sometimes reluctant to spend major resources on what can be seen as minor online crime.
British campaigners are calling for Twitter to do more to block bad behavior. The site's rules explicitly bar threats of violence, but users currently have to fill out an online form to report abuse, a process some say is time-consuming and unwieldy. An online petition calling for the social networking site to establish a single "report abuse" button has more than 100,000 signatures.
Lawmaker John Whittingdale, the head of Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Committee, said the group was planning to summon Twitter bosses to appear before it in the fall, "to determine whether they are doing as much as they can or whether they should do more."
Twitter insists it takes the issue seriously and is planning to expand an abuse-reporting button, already available on its iPhone app, to other platforms.
"We absolutely do work with law enforcement on issues like these," Del Harvey, Twitter's senior director of trust and safety, told the BBC's "Newsnight" program. "These sorts of threats are against the rules. We suspend accounts when they're reported to us. We're working to make it easier to report those accounts. We think this is really important."
Some say Twitter can't, and shouldn't, police the Internet. While the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that First Amendment protections of freedom of speech apply to the Internet, restrictions on online expression in other Western democracies vary widely.
In Germany, where it is an offense to deny the Holocaust, a neo-Nazi group has had its Twitter account blocked. In Britain, hundreds of people are charged each year for sending menacing, indecent, offensive or obscene messages. People have been convicted for making offensive comments about a murdered child and for posting on Facebook that soldiers "should die and go to hell."
Some civil libertarians are wary of criminalizing even more online activity.
They argue that most online talk is just that ? talk, never intended to translate into action. GQ magazine recently reprinted some of the blood-curdling threats it received from One Direction fans after running a cover story on the boy band that some fans found insufficiently reverential. Many of the comments were obscene, intemperate and violent ? but few people suggest the tweeters should be prosecuted.
Padraig Reidy of civil liberties group Index on Censorship cautioned that the "report abuse" button was no quick fix ? it could itself be abused by governments to silence their opponents or by celebrities to muzzle their critics.
He said stopping "real harassment, threats and incitement" would involve cooperation by Twitter, police, prosecutors and users of social networking sites.
"We often think that just because things are happening online there is a technical solution to make the Web a better place," Reidy said. "But it's going to take real engagement."
Anti-trolling campaigners have already taken matters into their own hands ? retweeting abuse in order to expose the problem.
A group of women in Britain has coined the #everydaysexism hashtag to chronicle the extent of misogyny many women still face. Last month it was used to draw attention to dozens of tweets calling Wimbledon women's tennis champion Marion Bartoli "fat," ''ugly," a "slut" and even more offensive terms.
Sometimes such "naming and shaming" can be remarkably effective.This week a Twitter troll sent an abusive and sexually explicit tweet to Mary Beard, a Cambridge University classicist and television presenter. Beard retweeted it to her 43,000 followers, and soon a second Twitter user was offering to supply the mailing address of the offender's mother so she could see what her son had written.
He quickly became contrite. "I was wrong and very rude," he wrote. "Hope this can be forgotten and forgiven."
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Jill Lawless can be reached at http://Twitter.com/JillLawless
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Liberty Global plc. (LBTYA) declared weak financial results for the second quarter of 2013 as both the top and bottom line fell below the respective Zacks Consensus Estimate. In the reported quarter, the company added 191,000 organic revenue generating units (:RGU), down 47.5% year over year.
Quarterly GAAP net loss was $11.6 million or a loss of 4 cents per share compared with a net loss of $219.9 million or 81 cents per share in the prior-year quarter. However, adjusted earnings per share of 12 cents were way below the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 30 cents. Quarterly total revenue of $3,161.9 million was up 25.3% year over year, but fell below the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $3,413 million.
Cost of operations was $2,716.7 million, up 32.8% year over year. Operating income was $445.2 million, down 7.1% year over year. Operating margin was 14.1% compared with 19% in the year-ago quarter.
During the first half of 2013, Liberty Global generated $1,346.2 million of cash from operations compared with $1,454.9 million in the year-ago period. Free cash flow in the reported period was $351.6 million compared with $460.8 million in the prior-year quarter.
At the end of the second quarter of 2013, Liberty Global had $4,647.4 million of cash and marketable securities and $41,059.2 million of outstanding debt on its balance sheet compared with respectively $2,989 million and $27,524.5 million at the end of 2012.
Subscriber Statistics
As of Jun 30, 2013, Liberty Global had 24.474 million customers in 14 countries. Out of the total, customer count for European Operations, VTR and Other operations were 23.019 million, 1.1829 million and 0.2721 million, respectively. The total Single-Play customer count was10.9544 million, down 0.7% year over year. The total Double-Play customer count was 3.9816 million, up 34.9% year over year. The total Triple-Play customer count was 9.538 million, up 69.5% year over year.
During the reported quarter, Liberty Global added 191,000 organic RGUs including net gains of 149,000 and 142,000 subscribers, respectively, for broadband Internet and telephony services and a net loss of 100,000 subscribers for video services. At quarter end, the company had over 270,000 Horizon TV subscribers and more than 1.7 million TiVo Inc. (TIVO)-platform based video subscribers and 4,064,000 mobile subscribers.?
Segment-wise Results
Total revenue from the European Operations division was $2,719.8 million, up 25.8% year over year. Within this segment, revenues from Western Europe were $2,407 million, up 29.6% year over year. Revenues from Central and Eastern Europe were $281.5 million, up 2.4% year over year. Revenues from Central and other operation were $31.3 million, up 8.3% year over year. VTR Chile revenues were $252.7 million, up 11.4% year over year. Corporate and other revenues were $210.5 million, up 41.3% year over year.
Latest Development
Liberty Global currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). In June, the company completed the acquisition of the British cable MSO, Virgin Media. The acquisition makes Liberty Global the largest cable TV MSO in the world, surpassing Comcast Corp. (CMCSA). In the U.K., the merged entity has become a formidable challenger to British Sky Broadcasting Group plc., which is the largest pay-TV operator in that country and is partially controlled by News Corp. (NWSA).
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/liberty-global-lags-earnings-rev-184001998.html
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A conservative advocacy group that spent millions on issue ads during the 2012 election cycle plans to continue a seven-figure campaign that aims to convince people to think twice before signing up for health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.
Americans for Prosperity, a group partially funded by donors David and Charles Koch, plans to release a? television ad Wednesday to raise questions about the law. Instead of focusing on the law?s repeal, AFP's newest effort will argue that health insurance premiums will rise for those who sign up for the exchanges. The group also is making plans to dispatch activists to sporting events, festivals and town fairs in multiple states for the next several months to warn people that they could have fewer medical choices under the law.
?This is more about going to folks where they are and talking to them,? AFP President Tim Phillips told Yahoo News. ?We?re saying, make sure you understand the impact this law will have on you if you sign up.?
The federal government will begin to implement key parts of the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance overhaul commonly called Obamacare that passed along partisan lines and was signed by President Barack Obama in 2010, as early as 2014. In order for the law to function as planned, millions of Americans must pro-actively sign up for health insurance plans enacted by the legislation. The Obama administration is urging people to enroll. An independent group, Enroll America, has launched a nationwide campaign to provide information about how to take part in the exchanges.
But a coalition of conservative groups is urging people not to sign up at all, which, if effective, would make it difficult for many parts of the law to function. The AFP campaign, which began with an initial $700,000 investment for an ad in July, won?t explicitly advise people not to sign up, but the insinuation is strong.
?The reason we?re doing this now is that this is the final run-up to final implementation,? Phillips told Yahoo News. ?As a lot of Americans decide what to do when the Enroll America paid community organizer shows up at an event in their community, we want them to consider exactly what this law means for them personally. So we want to run these ads now before they make that decision.?
Enrollment for the exchanges is set to begin in October.
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