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First Person: Health Care Supreme Court Decision: Thanks Judges
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Key Holder Resume Example - Cover Letters and Resume Samples
Key holders have very interesting and extremely demanding jobs which is why it is important for them to show just what they have in terms of mettle when they are writing a resume.
Here is a key holder resume sample that highlights experiences that will justify a candidate for this job. Also use this Key Holder Cover Letter to support your resume.
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Key Holder Resume Sample
Alexander Mason
33 Limestone Drive NE, Rio Rancho, NM 11111
Contact #, Email
__________________________________________________________________
OBJECTIVE
To obtain a position of Key Holder with K-Mart in order to ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
? Over 3 years of practical experience working as a key holder for Hyberbolt
? Profound experience in handling over all operations of the hypermarket
? Good familiarity with merchandising programs and related standards and procedures
? Proficient in assisting retail managers and store managers by supporting a buying environment and ensuring customer loyalty
? Highly experienced in motivating and directing others to meet or exceed sales goals
EMPLOYMENT
October 2008 ? Present
Hyperbolt
Key Holder
? Oversee the overall operations of the hyper market
? Work towards creating a bridge between and assisting with sales, merchandising, operations, training and development and loss prevention
? Drive sales and productivity
? Maintain liaison with customers to ensure customer loyalty and long term business growth
? Assist in recruiting procedures
? Fill in for sales assistance in the absence of one
VOLUNTEER WORK
? Worked as a volunteer for Greenpeace in their program called Let Nature Do The Talking
EDUCATION
High School Diploma ? 2007
SPECIAL SKILLS
? Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
? Above par organizational and time management skills
? Proven ability to demonstrate high quality services
? Ability to stand for long hours
? Proven ability to handle a diversity of customers
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Ping Pong Dim Sum Dupont Circle - Johnna Knows Good Food
If you are looking for a fresh, filling meal and a few cocktails after work, Ping Pong is the place to be this summer. ?I had the pleasure of attending the unveiling of the summer menu at the Ping Pong location in Dupont Circle.??The restaurant offers a central location, smooth refreshing drinks, and food with the freshest of ingredients.??Before partaking in the new summer cocktails, I must admit I was never a fan of dark liquor.?Matter of fact, in the past, if bourbon was the only offer, I politely passed.??However, I am a new woman.?Ping Pong has cleverly paired Jim Beam Red Stag (Cherry Bourbon) with a host of other flavors to create the perfect martini compilation.??The Asian Manhattan is the perfect happy hour cocktail because it is smooth, rich, and has just the right amount of kick for the end of a long day.??It was so well flavored, I found myself going back for seconds.??Ping Pong has made me a true bourbon believer.??This drink paired with the shrimp dumplings and cool breeze on the patio could not have presented a better combination.??I am looking forward to partaking in another cocktail adventure here (*very) soon.
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Samsung Galaxy S III will be available at Sprint beginning on Sunday, July 1
If you're holding out for the Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III you still have a little bit longer to go. The latest official confirmation coming from Sprint has the device arriving for folks on July 1st now.
Samsung Galaxy S III will be available at Sprint beginning on Sunday, July 1. It will be offered in a 16GB version for $199.99 and 32GB version for $249.99 (excluding taxes) with a new line or eligible upgrade and two-year service agreement at Sprint Stores, Sprint Business Sales, Telesales (1-800-SPRINT1) and Web Sales. The 32GB version will be available in Web Sales, Sprint Business Sales and Telesales.
Sure, it's a bit later than expected but things could always be worse and it's certainly nice of Sprint to keep everyone in the loop rather than just leaving us to guess when it will arrive.
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Video: Are You a Financial Thrill-Seeker?
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Pond scum gets top billing as future fuel source
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Algae, known to most of us as pond scum, is the most promising sustainable source of energy to meet the growing demand for juice to power everything from cars to factories, according to a major technical organization.?
?There is not an infinite amount of oil in the Earth and we are using it quite rapidly,? William Kassebaum, a senior member with the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the world?s largest technical professional organization, told me today.
While there?s plenty of debate over when the oil will run dry, ?eventually we will need to find other sources to replace these hydrocarbon fuels,? Kassebaum, who is also CEO of Algaeon Inc., an Indiana-based algae producer.
In a statement issued Tuesday, the IEEE endorsed algae as ?the best candidate to provide a sustainable energy source to meet increasing global demands.?
The potential of algae-based biofuel has long been known, but not seriously considered largely because making a barrel of the stuff was?too expensive compared to traditional fossil fuels.?
?Everyone understands that you have to be able to ship a product at a competitive price with fossil fuels,? Kassebaum said.?
When the seminal research on algae-based biofuels was conducted in the 1970s, the price of a barrel of oil was around $20. Today, oil is around $80 with recent spikes over $100 a barrel, a price range where algae fuel producers believe than can compete.
Doing so, Kassebaum noted, will take major capital investment and perhaps government support to enable the industry to produce commercially viable quantities, but in the coming years he believes algae ?will become part of the oil industry.?
The industry will still need?to confront concerns such as water supplies ?? perhaps by producing algae in parts of the country where water supplies are abundant, such as the Midwest, where Algaeon is located.
The Midwest, Kassebaum noted, is already?rich with corn, much of it grown for ethanol.?
In the IEEE statement, he noted that ?An acre of corn can be used to generate 300 gallons of ethanol per year, while an acre of algae can produce 6,000 to 10,000 gallons of light sweet crude oil annually.?
Put that way, perhaps algae really is worthy of the endorsement.
--via SmartGridNews.com
John Roach is a contributing writer for msnbc.com. To learn more about him, check out his website and follow him on Twitter. For more of our Future of Technology series, watch the featured video below.
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Why Batman needs to die in 'Dark Knight Rises'
Warner Brothers
By Cody Delistraty
Warning: Possible spoilers for "The Dark Knight Rises" ahead.
COMMENTARY: Director Christopher Nolan?s take on Batman has always been darker, grittier and more realistic, but now he and his fellow series creators have?told Empire magazine that?"The Dark Knight Rises" may come to a definitive end.?Will Batman have to die to bring closure to the trilogy?
The director?s brother, Jonathan Nolan,?certainly makes it seem that way.
?It?s the right way to end it?-- to blow the whole thing up!" he told Empire.?"It?s better than trying to spin the thing out indefinitely and make it into the Bond franchise.?
Batman?s possible death, however, is inherently problematic. Superhero stories don?t end in tragedy. Batman is stronger, more courageous and has all the right gadgets and sidekicks. If he cannot defeat evil, then what does that say about the rest of us? Imagine if Voldemort defeated Harry Potter or if Frodo and Sam hadn't destroyed the Ring. If even the greatest, the anointed fail, then certainly that means we are helpless to the evils of the world.
Still, some tales are meant to be tragic. What if Romeo and Juliet had run off and lived out their days in love and happiness, or if Humphrey Bogart?s Rick had stayed with Ilsa in ?Casablanca?? Tragedy in film helps position the moral compass of society, exposing the natural vulnerability and flaws of?people through on-screen characters.
To see misery unfold unrelentingly on screen or in text is one of the greatest forms of catharsis we can experience.? For a hyper-affluent, handsome,?righteous hero like Batman to die would be a blow to the good-triumphs-over-evil trope that is so thoroughly ingrained in Western cultural and religious traditions. The good figure?-- the Christ figure?-- must always rise after being beaten down; yet, as anyone struck by tragedy knows, this is not always the case in real life.
Batman?s death would be the only satisfying conclusion to this trilogy that has seen its own fair share of heartbreak with the death of Heath Ledger, who?played The Joker in ?The Dark Knight.?
Still, his death would upend the first rule of superheroes: They are beyond human and therefore out of reach of death?s mighty grasp. Batman as a symbol of good over evil is forever immortal. The character Bruce Wayne's fate, however, is up in the air.
But is his death absolutely necessary for a satisfying ending to Nolan's series?
?You?ve given them everything,? a distressed Catwoman says in the trailer, whereupon Batman forebodingly?replies: ?Not everything. Not yet.?
"The Dark Knight Rises" hits theaters July 20.
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Amanda Guinzburg: I Remember Nora
"Well, I think you know this: That very few people end up knowing who you are. I don't mean me. I just mean that most people are misunderstood in some way. I don't mean in a bad way. I just mean that they're not comprehended. But I don't really think about it a whole lot. And if I do think about it, I think I must do something to make them misunderstand me. But, what's for dinner?" -- Nora Ephron, 2010
Everyone's dying but not Nora. Nora was supposed to be here forever. Who else is going to tell us that egg white omelettes are bullshit? I seriously started eating whole eggs again because she said to.
As much as I trusted her, my mother's constant companion from my earliest years through my young teens, Nora seemed always, inexplicably, to trust me too. She trusted me to helm the stroller (which would look like the equivalent of a phonograph next to an iPod in the world of aerodynamic instantly collapsible contraptions mothers currently pilot their kids in) her sons Jacob and Max rode as we traversed the late 70s version of the Upper West Side. Jacob could say "Amsterdam" when he was one. Nora took me away for the weekend with her then boyfriend, a a man who, because we lived in a City at once teeming and tiny, had been my mother's boyfriend at some point too. His name was Joe Fox (fans of You've Got Mail, take note) and he was a giant slouch of a brilliant editor and a wonderful guy. Nora and Joe took me with them to their house in Sagaponack for the weekend and left me alone one night, while they went out to dinner, to babysit Jacob. She told me where to find the Oreo ice cream from Candy Kitchen and when he woke up scared and crying I gave him some and we talked about dinosaurs until he fell back to sleep. I was nine years old then.
This was not the other house nearby which was aptly named "Trees" where my Mom used to take me a few years before, to swim in Nora's big blue pool and lie in the hammock which left its white ropey lines tattooed to my sun-baked skin. Lots of famous people were around then, or maybe they were pre-famous like Nora who was writing Silkwood at the time, but I had no clue either way... they were just the grown-ups and I loved them because they were smart and funny and always talked to me like I was smart and funny too. I secretly hoped we would get to stay for whatever meal was afoot -- because Nora cooked the most amazing food. Her food was a lot like her movies; big-hearted and lovingly made with little patience for preciousness, ceremony or attitude. I remember a massive hunk of white frosted yellow cake she casually presented me with following some extraordinary luncheon feast as one of the most sublime dessert experiences of my entire life. As a gift for my mom, Nora compiled all her favorite recipes, handwritten into a black binder that still presides over the other fancily published tomes in our kitchen. I once took one of the recipes out to try to cook for a boy and lost it -- no one has ever forgiven me.
I went to Manhattan at the end of May and stayed overnight for the first time since my father died a year and a half ago. It took me that long to feel like I might be able to tolerate being back in the city I once loved with every cell of my self, a place so defined by certain people like my Dad whom I adored, I was sure I could only feel haunted and lost there without him. I stayed at my best friend from high school's apartment alone and shaking from Scrabble DTs, unable to get my computer online decided I'd try something old-fashioned like reading a book. Nora's last, I Remember Nothing was sitting right there, on the glass table in front of me, dedicated to my friend's extraordinary mother, Mona, and her boyfriend Richard Cohen who was one of the smart funny grown-ups at the Trees house way back then and who remained one of Nora's best friends. I read it quickly all at once and it left me weepy and changed. The book is about about nostalgia and death, about what we forget and what we remember. It's about how we create certain myths to sustain us around the people we set out determined to love and what happens when those myths come loose, frayed and eventually undone. It's hilariously funny of course and about plenty of the irksome daily minutiae that defined her style, but it's also wise, wistful, delicate and arrestingly true.
Nora's movie Michael about an angel in the unlikely body of John Travolta came out when I was in my early twenties. My dad took me to see a screening of it. I remember that afterwards there was a cocktail party and Nora, ever slender and stylishly attired, hugged me tight while a photographer took a picture of the three of us. She asked me what I was doing as it had been a few years since I'd seen her. I told her I was trying to be a writer, that I'd applied to graduate school but who knew. She looked me square in the eyes and said: "Amanda, you should go write for a newspaper, like the New York Post. Do that for a while and then you'll be ready. You'll meet smart funny people and you'll get your muscles in shape." She said it better though, like Nora would, with something pointed and wry to balance the instruction. People are always talking about what advice they would give their 14 year old selves. 14-year-olds don't have time for advice, they want their parents to shut up, their bodies to stop acting completely insane, their braces off, considerably less homework and that Boy or that Girl to notice them. It's twenty-somethings who need to hear from us, all grown up now, to tell them that it's not always going to be so painful, baffling, empty and hard, that you can find and make peace with yourself once you stop being so afraid and so busy trying to make everyone else like you.
I didn't think about it at the time nor was I smart enough to listen to her then, but when I read I Remember Nothing I realized Nora was giving me the very advice she'd taken as a young writer herself. She was telling me to do what she did, which seems like an enormous compliment now. That she trusted me enough, for whatever reasons, to tell me I could follow the path she once blazed through the grey streets of her beloved Manhattan and eventually, somehow, do it too. I remember many other things I want to tell you, but it's getting dark here now in salty-aired, tree-filled East Hampton, time for dinner, and I know exactly what Nora would say that I should do.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
News Corp. considers split in 2, stock jumps
FILE- This combination of Associated Press file photos show a Fox Sports logo, left, and a person holding a copy of a Wall Street Journal, right. Under pressure to limit contagion from the British phone hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. confirmed Tuesday, June 26, 2012, that it is considering splitting into two publicly traded companies. The Wall Street Journal, News Corp.'s flagship newspaper, reported late Monday that the company is considering the separation of the newspaper and book publishing businesses from the entertainment arm, which includes Fox News Channel, broadcast TV network and 20th Century Fox movie studio. The media conglomerate did not specify Tuesday which businesses each company would contain. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Matt Dunham, File)
FILE- This combination of Associated Press file photos show a Fox Sports logo, left, and a person holding a copy of a Wall Street Journal, right. Under pressure to limit contagion from the British phone hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. confirmed Tuesday, June 26, 2012, that it is considering splitting into two publicly traded companies. The Wall Street Journal, News Corp.'s flagship newspaper, reported late Monday that the company is considering the separation of the newspaper and book publishing businesses from the entertainment arm, which includes Fox News Channel, broadcast TV network and 20th Century Fox movie studio. The media conglomerate did not specify Tuesday which businesses each company would contain. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Matt Dunham, File)
FILE- This Monday, Feb. 1, 2010, file photo, shows News Corp.'s headquarters in New York. Under pressure to limit contagion from the British phone hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. confirmed Tuesday, June 26, 2012, that it is considering splitting into two publicly traded companies. The Wall Street Journal, News Corp.'s flagship newspaper, reported late Monday that the company is considering the separation of the newspaper and book publishing businesses from the entertainment arm, which includes Fox News Channel, broadcast TV network and 20th Century Fox movie studio. The media conglomerate did not specify Tuesday which businesses each company would contain. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Under pressure to limit contagion from the British phone-hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. said Tuesday that it is considering splitting into two publicly traded companies.
The move comes as Britain's communications regulator, Ofcom, enters the final stages of its review of whether satellite TV firm British Sky Broadcasting ? of which News Corp. holds a 39 percent stake ? is "fit and proper" to hold a broadcast license.
The separation of News Corp.'s tainted newspaper division from the lucrative TV and movie assets might appease regulators, analysts said.
"I'm not saying it completely ameliorates Ofcom's concerns. But I think it helps," said Canaccord Genuity analyst Tom Eagan.
British investigators have been probing allegations that News Corp.'s U.K. newspaper journalists hacked into phones and bribed public officials in the hunt for scoops. The probe has caused the company to abandon its bid for full control of British Sky Broadcasting. A split could help the company avoid being forced to sell off its remaining stake, worth some $6.9 billion.
The media conglomerate did not specify Tuesday which businesses each company would contain.
The Wall Street Journal, News Corp.'s flagship newspaper, reported late Monday that the company is considering separating the newspaper and book publishing businesses from the entertainment arm, which includes Fox News Channel, its broadcast TV network and the 20th Century Fox movie studio.
The entertainment arm is far more profitable. It accounted for about 75 percent of the company's revenue and nearly all of the operating profit in the first nine months of the fiscal year, which ends this coming Saturday.
Bernstein analyst Todd Juenger said in a research note that the split would allow the company to invest more in the growing entertainment field "without the baggage of publishing."
Investors welcomed the news. News Corp.'s stock rose $1.72, or 8.5 percent, to $21.80 in mid-afternoon trading. During the day, shares reached as high as $21.89, the highest level since hitting $21.90 on Oct. 25, 2007.
A former News Corp. executive familiar with internal company deliberations says such a split has been talked about for years, although discussions gained new momentum in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal, which erupted last July.
The split would allow Murdoch to keep control of his prized publishing operations through his voting shares while pleasing investors who have viewed the newspapers as a drag on shareholder value.
The 81-year-old billionaire built the company from a single Australian newspaper he inherited from his father. The Murdoch family controls about 40 percent of News Corp.'s voting shares.
The former executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to speak candidly about internal company deliberations, said no final decision has been made.
Evercore Partners analyst Alan Gould said the publishing assets, which include Dow Jones & Co. and newspapers such as The Times of London, could be worth about $5 billion. Without them, he estimated revenue growth of the bigger TV and movie entity would nearly double to about 7 percent a year.
It is unclear if the spun-off publishing unit would also bear the legal costs of the U.K. probe. In the first nine months of the fiscal year, probe costs have totaled $167 million.
The point of a split is not to create a smaller company "that would just wither and die," Eagan said. It would have to contain enough profitable businesses to attract investors.
Eagan pointed to the successful spin-off of cable TV giant Time Warner Cable Inc. from the entertainment company Time Warner Inc. in March 2009. Because the cable division was more willing to pay out dividends and buy back shares, its stock price has more than tripled since then. Meanwhile, Time Warner Inc.'s stock price has doubled.
Time Warner shareholders were granted stakes in both separated companies, but "overall you are better off" with the split, Eagan said.
The problem for News Corp. isn't just that newspapers and books make less money than television and film. It's also that investors value the earnings from each differently. They are willing to pay less for a single dollar of earnings from the former than they are for a single dollar of earnings from the latter.
On Monday, investors buying News Corp. stock were paying the equivalent of $5.80 for every $1 of operating earnings that the combined company is expected to generate this year, according to Gould. That is 20 percent lower, or $1.50 less, than investors are paying for more pure play TV and film companies like CBS Corp. and Viacom Inc.
Do the math on News Corp.'s expected $6.6 billion in operating earnings this year, and that means the company is being valued $10 billion less than its TV and film rivals. Gould says the idea behind the split is to capture some of that $10 billion. He believes the company could do it and is recommending that his investing clients buy the stock.
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Associated Press writer Raphael Satter in London and Business Writer Bernard Condon in New York contributed to this report.
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President Obama Pleased, Concerned on Ariz. Decision
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Women want it all? Its' time to fight for it
Former Obama administration official Anne-Marie Slaughter talks to TODAY's Natalie Morales about her controversial article in The Atlantic, which debates whether women can juggle high-powered careers and be good mothers at the same time.
By Eve Tahmincioglu
Women can have it all if they fight for what they need.
That was the message that came from a powerful woman who sparked a national debate last week about women and their success in the workplace and as mothers.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former U.S. State Department official and now a Princeton professor, spoke about her The Atlantic article, ?Why Women Still Can?t Have It All?, Monday on TODAY, and wanted to make it clear that her piece was not negative but more of a call to action to women struggling with balancing work and life.
?Women have come leaps and bounds,? she said about the advancements women have made in the workplace, ?but we need another round of change.?
Working mothers, she continued, make it to a point in their career where they?re beginning to climb the ladder of succes, but then they end up feeling ?unbelievably torn? when family and work responsibilities clash.
Indeed, many women are questioning whether they can really have it all. An informal poll taken last week in an article about Slaughter?s story and the controversy that ensured, asked ?Do you think women can have it all?? found only 11 percent of the nearly 4,000 respondents felt it was possible, compared to 48 percent that offered a resounding ?no? to the question.
But in a sign of hope, 41 percent voted: ?Maybe, when the workplace changes.?
And it?s change Slaughter wants to see.
?We need to be honest about how hard it is,? she said about the first step women need to take. And secondly, she stressed, ?you have to ask for what you need. If you need to work from home, ask for it.?
In the end, she added, it?s all about a serious ?desire for change.?
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Sunday, June 24, 2012
Family dinner with the Gallegoses: Tortillas and togetherness
The great American family dinner tradition, Census data show, is perhaps greatest among Latino households in the US. Four generations of the Gallegos family ? of San Ysidro, Calif. ? have regular dinners together. And gorditas ? small, stuffed tortilla pouches ? are a dinner mainstay.
The family dinner ritual at the Gallegoses home includes four generations for tortillas and togetherness. Rosa Gallegos serves gorditas ? stuffed tortilla pouches ? to her mother, Manuela Mar?n. This is part of the cover story project on family dinners in the June 25 issue of The Christian Science Monitor/Weekly magazine.
Max Dolberg/Special to TCSM
EnlargeOn the most southwesterly street in the United States, inside a shade-dappled tract house, Rosa Gallegos is in the kitchen preparing gorditas de chicharr?n on a recent Saturday afternoon. Her husband, Jesus, and grown kids, Ailin and Omar, hover nearby waiting to help slice strips of cheese and stuff the little tortilla pouches with a spicy filling of pork rinds, tomatoes, and chilies.
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For now, though, the kitchen is Rosa's domain. She reaches into a bowl of masa (corn dough), shapes a golf-ball-sized sphere, flattens it into a disc with a tortilla press, and cooks it on the comal (tortilla griddle).
"My mother used to make the masa at home from scratch," she says in Spanish, cocking her chin toward 85-year-old Manuela Mar?n, who is watching a black-and-white movie on TV. "But I just buy this from the?tortiller?a."
PHOTO GALLERY: The great American family dinner ritual
US Census data show that among the 10 million Latino households in America ? like the Gallegoses ? family dinners are more common than in the general population. More than 84 percent of Latino parents with kids under age 6 report having daily meals together.
Four generations wait hungrily for Rosa's gorditas today, including Omar's wife, Mary, and their infant son, Carlo; Ailin and her daughter, Paulette, 7; and cousin Melanie Diaz, 5.
Store-bought masa is but a minor tweak of a family tradition that has remained unchanged for generations. Rosa learned this recipe at Manuela's skirts. Manuela learned it from her mother back in Durango, Mexico. Manuela's memories are fuzzy, but thinking of her own mother's cooking induces reverie over bu?uelos (sweet, fried dough).
When the gorditas are done, the kids are called to put down their iPods and Barbies and come to the table. Extra stools are pulled in, and raspberry lemonade is poured. The conversation touches on borderland topics ? how long was the wait at la linea (the border) today? ? but is dominated by Paulette, who speaks animated Spanish, with occasional English words like "report card."
Afterward, Omar helps his grandmother to the couch and returns to linger at the table with Jesus. Mary and Ailin argue good-naturedly about who will wash dishes. The little girls scamper to the kitchen and plunge their hands into the bowl of masa to press gorditas for leftovers.
Later, Jesus wanders into his toy-strewn backyard. Not far beyond the back wall, the vibrant chaos of his native Tijuana rises over a trio of border fences festooned with concertina wire. In Jesus' 1960s childhood, there was no fence, and he recalls sneaking across the border to snatch tomatoes and cucumbers from farms on the US side before his grandmother called him and his cousins into the house for dinner.
"People here aren't used to eating together," he says. "Kids come home after school and they eat what they want. They don't wait for everybody to sit together. With Latino customs, there's more communication; you feel more relaxed with the support of your family. If someone has a problem, you can vent about it; but if you sit and eat alone, you keep your stress inside."
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Friday, June 22, 2012
Greece seeks to win Germany's respect at Euro 2012
GDANSK, Poland (AP) ? Now for the really important business between Greece and Germany: Soccer.
On Friday, thousands of fans from the two nations at opposite ends of the eurozone financial crisis converged on neutral Polish turf for a European Championship quarterfinal match.
For Greece fans, Friday's clash in Gdansk inevitably mixes sports and politics, Euro 2012 and the euro currency. They seek respect for their country after its humiliating economic collapse ? and the German government's role in imposing strict austerity measures as a condition of Greece getting ?240 billion ($300 billion) in bailout pledges.
"It's not good that sports and politics are together, but today we have no other choice," Greece fan Michalis Kalotrapesis said, wearing a white national team shirt and tracksuit top. "We are playing for our country and for our image in Europe and all over the world."
Kalotrapesis, and three Greek friends who now live in Germany, drove through the night to support their native nation here. Their pride in performing what they see as a patriotic duty fits into Greece's favored national narrative: In soccer as in finance, Germany is the traditional power and Greece the spirited underdog.
"We are a little bit crazy, but it's the Greek mentality," said Nikos Barzas, pointing out the bloodshot eyes of the group's designated driver, Georgios Kotiniotis. They left Gifhorn, Germany, at midnight with 750 kilometers (about 465 miles) of roads ahead of them.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will attend the match after morning economic meetings in Italy that were brought forward to help fulfill her role as the supposed lucky charm of the national team.
Barzas is glad she is coming ? to further spur the team and 5,000 Greece fans expected to attend the match.
"(The players will) fight a little bit more because (they want) to beat Angela Merkel. (It would be) a little bit of a small kick in Germany's (backside)," he said.
About 15,000 Germans were expected to go to the match, according to the Football Supporters Europe group. Many of the Germans arrived at Gdansk's main train station, where the scalpers' asking price was ?200 (about $250) for a ticket with a face value of ?75 ($95). There didn't appear to be any Greek fans in the market for them.
Cafes in the narrow cobbled street were occupied by either camp of genial beer-drinking fans. As the street filled up and drinks flowed, a large German flag had claimed the iron fence surrounding the ornate Neptune's fountain. Nearby, Greek fans waving an even larger flag occupied the steps leading up the main town hall. On the Motlawa river bank, fans stopped to get their faces painted in team colors, with accordions being played in the background.
Confident German fans could plan ahead of Euro 2012 for a likely quarterfinal in Gdansk. Fans from the Greek Diaspora knew only last Saturday where to head after an upset win over Russia.
"I was actually happy for them (the Greeks) that they finally had something to celebrate," said Stefan Leidig, a Germany fan from Koblenz. "Besides, I hope that they will manage to get out of the crisis at one point."
Two days after being sworn into office, the prime minister of Greece's new conservative-led coalition government is staying at home to work.
Antonis Samaras, a Harvard-educated former finance minister, is better employed stabilizing the country after a tense election last weekend than cheerleading at a soccer match, fan Thomas Nikolopulos said.
"I'm glad they are at home," said Nikolopulos, who arrived on a morning flight from London.
Before Samaras met with lawmakers in Athens on Friday afternoon, he could read headlines fueling national wishes to repel German policy on the field: "Bankrupt Them!" read Greek paper SportDay, as Derby News repeated the Spartan motto "Come and Get it."
In Germany, the best-selling daily Bild led with: "Bye bye Greece; we can't rescue you today."
Nikolopulos, who is originally from Athens, said the feeling back home is that "Germany has put them in the corner" over the euro currency crisis.
"This is Greece's opportunity to stand up and try to go back to being historical wonders," he said, with a blue-and-white striped national flag draped across his shoulders.
Greece fans takes faith in their team's surprise run to be Euro 2004 champion, founded on the same solid defense and dogged resistance shown by the current team in Poland. For three-time European champion Germany, the match seems more routine ? aiming for its fourth straight semifinal at each World Cup and Euro since Greece's golden year.
"For me, it's a normal football match," said German fan Klaus Lehmkuhl, a technical consultant from Muenster. "I don't think the politics is important for the German team."
Still, some off-field tensions are expected when the German national anthem is played minutes before kickoff. And if images of Merkel sitting next to UEFA President Michel Platini in the VIP seats are shown on the stadium giant screens?
"There will be massive boos. I can't see there not being some," said Yiannis Televantibes, a real estate agent from London. "But there's no problem between the fans."
In Berlin, thousands of soccer fans waving German flags flooded the area in front of the landmark Brandenburg Gate. Organizers of the public viewing event said they expected around 400,000 to turn out to watch the match on large screens.
Earlier, a German deputy government spokesman was peppered with questions about the match and asked whether Merkel would feel the need to tone down any goal celebrations, because of the eurozone crisis.
"I think it depends a bit on how the game goes, but I think you will see that she is glad if there's a goal on the right side," Georg Streiter said.
Streiter also shrugged off a question as to whether Merkel would consider herself partly responsible if German loses.
"I think you would be loading up the chancellor, who already has plenty of packages to carry, with an unjustified package," he said. "She's a spectator."
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Associated Press writers David Rising and Juergen Baetz in Berlin, and Menelaos Hadjicostis in Athens, Greece, contributed to this report.
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Samsung Galaxy S III (Sprint)
The new flagship?smartphone?from the world's number-one mobile phone company, Samsung's Galaxy S III ($199.99 with contract) is literally a huge achievement. If you love big phones with lots of options, the GS3 will deliver state-of-the-art performance with bonus sharing and media features that you're likely to continue discovering a year from now. Sprint subscribers now have two solid choices: The Galaxy S III ties with the HTC EVO 4G LTE ($199, 4 stars) as our Editors' Choice for touch-screen smartphones on Sprint.
Editors' Note: The Samsung Galaxy S III models on all four major carriers are extremely similar, so we're sharing a lot of material between our various reviews. That said, we're testing each device separately, so read the review for your carrier of choice.
Physical Design
All of the new Galaxy S III models look the same, except for the carrier logo on the back panel. Each is available in dark blue or white (AT&T also has a red option coming this summer), and they're some of the biggest phones we've ever handled. At 5.4 by 2.8 by 0.34 inches (HWD) and 4.7 ounces, the GS3 is slightly bigger than the already-large HTC One X ($199, 4.5 stars), although it's still noticeably smaller and lighter than the Samsung Galaxy Note phone/tablet hybrid ($299, 3 stars). ?That said, this is not a phone for folks with small hands.
I'm not a fan of the huge?phone. But I've given up on panning them because every time I suggest these handsets are too big, I get pummeled by comments from people who adore them. Huge phones are the thing. I accept it.
The all-plastic body feels a little less high-end than the exotic materials of the HTC One series, but the phone is solidly built, and light despite its size. The front of the phone is dominated by the 4.8-inch, 1280-by-720-pixel Super AMOLED HD screen. Yes, it's PenTile, which can sometimes look slightly pixelated. But, no, you probably won't notice. Below the screen, there's a physical Home button, as well as light-up Back and Multitasking buttons that start out invisible, so you have to memorize where they are or change a setting to keep them illuminated. The 8-megapixel camera is on the back panel, which, thanks to its reflective finish, doubles as a pocket mirror.?
The default Automatic Brightness setting makes the screen too dim. Kill it and pump up the brightness and it's fine, even outdoors. It's not as bright as the One X's Super LCD 2 display, but it's fine.
Unlike the competing HTC One X, the S III has a removable 2100mAh battery. Taking off the back cover also reveals the microSD card slot, which supports cards up to 64GB.
Call Quality and Internet
Are you willing for Sprint to pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today? The EVO 4G LTE promises spectacular call quality with HD Voice?sometime in 2013, once Sprint gets the network running. But the GS3 lets you tweak your call quality now.
Default call quality is good. Volume is on the high end of average, with no distortion from loud inputs. The speakerphone isn't quite loud enough to use outdoors, but it's fine for the car or a boardroom. The microphone does a good job of cancelling background noise. Bluetooth headsets work fine with Samsung's S-Voice voice dialing system.
But as with so many things here, call quality gets richer if you burrow down into the GS3's menus. A Volume Boost button throws the phone into a super-loud, quasi-speakerphone mode for noisy areas, but that's just the start. Deep within the settings, there's an option to set custom call EQ. The phone plays you a sequence of quiet high and low tones and you tell it which ones you can hear, and then it EQ's calls accordingly. This is pretty radical stuff. I prefer my calls sharp, with more high-end, and the GS3 delivers.
On data though, the Sprint GS3 is crippled. All new Sprint phones are. Although the phones support speedy LTE, Sprint has steadfastly refused to give us a rollout timetable for its new LTE network, leaving its high-end smartphones on the slowest 3G network in America. We tested Sprint LTE, and it's competitive with AT&T and Verizon, but none of this matters a whit if Sprint won't tell us when anyone is getting it.?
This is why Sprint's Galaxy S III is getting a slightly lower rating than the other major carrier models. Sprint needs to get its act together. We will not give a Sprint phone a 4.5-star rating until the carrier gives its subscribers more information about LTE coverage.
You'll have better luck getting your Internet via Wi-Fi on both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. Bluetooth 4.0 and NFC are also onboard, and Google Wallet is preloaded.
Our battery test didn't complete because we ran out of time. But that's good; we just about ran down the battery with an 8 hour, 35 minute call. This phone has solid battery life, and considering the battery is removable, you can carry a spare. That's something you can't do with the EVO 4G LTE.
Software and Performance
The Galaxy S III runs Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" with a whole lot of exclusive Samsung extensions. Performance was excellent in my tests. The Qualcomm S4 chip running at 1.5GHz is the fastest one we've seen in smartphones so far, and it's able to take on any app challenge you throw at it, including games on the HD screen. Our benchmark tests proved this, although they were within the margin of error when compared with the One X. Both phones are very fast.
Exclusive new features include S-Beam, the ability to transfer files by tapping two phones together and using a combination of NFC and Wi-Fi Direct; S-Voice, Samsung's answer to Apple's Siri; TecTiles, NFC-enabled accessory tags that can change the settings on your phone, and lots of sharing and tagging options in the camera, such as the ability to automatically tag your friends' faces, and the ability for multiple GS3s within a few feet of each other to automatically share all of their photos.
Many of these features work well, but they're almost all buried. The interface is something of a scavenger hunt. Take Smart Stay, a neat new feature which detects your face and keeps the screen from going black while you're looking at it. I love it! But it's not on by default, and the only way to turn it on is by going to the Display area under Settings. S-Beam is similarly buried, under the Wireless menu.
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Researchers tune the strain in graphene drumheads to create quantum dots
ScienceDaily (June 21, 2012) ? Tightening or relaxing the tension on a drumhead will change the way the drum sounds. The same goes for drumheads made from graphene, only instead of changing the sound, stretching graphene has a profound effect on the material's electrical properties. Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have shown that subjecting graphene to mechanical strain can mimic the effects of magnetic fields and create a quantum dot, an exotic type of semiconductor with a wide range of potential uses in electronic devices.
The results were reported in the June 22, 2012, issue of Science.
Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice. Able to conduct electricity with little resistance at room temperature, graphene is a prime candidate for applications ranging from flexible displays to high-speed transistors.
However, the same lack of electrical resistance that makes graphene attractive for some uses also makes it ill-suited for digital computing applications. Graphene conducts electricity so well because it doesn't have a band gap -- an energetic threshold beneath which the material won't conduct electricity. This means that graphene can't be turned "off," and computers need "on" and "off" signals to transmit and process information.
Because substrates slow the speed of electrons moving through graphene, Nikolai Klimov, a University of Maryland postdoctoral researcher working at NIST, suspended the graphene over shallow holes in a substrate of silicon dioxide -- essentially making a set of graphene drumheads. To measure the graphene's properties, the team used a unique scanning probe microscope designed and built at NIST.
When they began to probe the drumheads, they found that the graphene rose up to meet the tip of the microscope -- a result of the van der Waals force, a weak electrical force that creates attraction between objects that are very close to each other.
"While our instrument was telling us that the graphene was shaped like a bubble clamped at the edges, the simulations run by our colleagues at the University of Maryland showed that we were only detecting the graphene's highest point," says NIST scientist Nikolai Zhitenev. "Their calculations showed that the shape was actually more like the shape you would get if you poked into the surface of an inflated balloon, like a teepee or circus tent."
The researchers discovered that they could tune the strain in the drumhead using the conducting plate upon which the graphene and substrate were mounted to create a countervailing attraction and pull the drumhead down. In this way, they could pull the graphene into or out of the hole below it.
And their measurements showed that changing the degree of strain changed the material's electrical properties.
For instance, the group observed that when they pulled the graphene membrane into the tent-like shape, the region at the apex acted just like a quantum dot, a type of semiconductor in which electrons are confined to a small region of space.
Creating semiconducting regions like quantum dots in graphene by modifying its shape might give scientists the best of both worlds: high speed and the band gap crucial to computing and other applications.
According to Zhitenev, the electrons flow through graphene by following the segments of the hexagons. Stretching the hexagons lowers the energy near the apex of the tent-like shape and causes the electrons to move in closed, clover-shaped orbits -- mimicking nearly exactly how the electrons would move in a vertically varied magnetic field.
"This behavior is really quite remarkable," says Zhitenev. "There is a little bit of electron leakage, but we found that if we complemented the pseudomagnetic field with an actual magnetic field, there was no leakage whatsoever."
"Normally, to make a graphene quantum dot, you would have to cut out a nanosize piece of graphene," says NIST fellow Joseph Stroscio. "Our work shows that you can achieve the same thing with strain-induced pseudomagnetic fields. It's a great result, and a significant step toward developing future graphene-based devices."
The work was a collaborative effort with the University of Maryland, College Park, and the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science.
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- N. Klimov, S. Jung, S. Zhu, T. Li, C. Wright, S. Solares, D. Newell, N. Zhitenev and J. Stroscio. Electromechanical Properties of Graphene Drumheads. Science, Vol. 336 no. 6088 pp. 1557-1561 DOI: 10.1126/science.1220335
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
Syrian fighter pilot defects to Jordan, gets asylum
AMMAN (Reuters) - A Syrian air force pilot flew his MiG-21 fighter plane over the border to Jordan and was granted political asylum on Thursday, the first defection with a military aircraft since the start of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
The pilot landed at the King Hussein military air base 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Amman and immediately asked for sanctuary, Jordanian officials told Reuters.
"The cabinet has decided to grant the Syrian pilot political asylum upon his request," Jordan's Minister of State for Information Samih al-Maaytah told Reuters.
Syria's defense ministry called the pilot a "traitor to his country and his military honor".
In a statement it said it would punish the man, named as Colonel Hassan Hamada, under military law. Syria was in contact with Jordanian authorities to retrieve the aircraft, it added.
The defection will boost the morale of the rebel movement fighting Assad at a time when government forces are intensifying efforts to crush the uprising and international peace efforts are stalled.
Thousands of soldiers have deserted government ranks in the 15 months since the revolt broke out and they now form the backbone of the rebel army. But unlike last year's uprisings in Libya and Yemen, no members of Assad's inner circle have broken with him.
Elsewhere on Thursday, the Syrian army maintained its bombardment of downtown areas of Homs even though a temporary truce had been agreed to allow aid workers to evacuate the sick and wounded.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said its aid workers had been forced to turn back on the way into Homs old city because of shooting but would try again later in the day.
"The shelling across the city has been relentless since last night, intensifying this morning. The army has no intention of relieving the humanitarian situation. They want Homs destroyed," activist Abu Salah told Reuters from Homs.
The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 125 people were killed around the country during the day, with at least 18 of them in Homs.
DEFECTIONS
Opposition sources said pilot Hamada is a 44-year-old Sunni Muslim from Idlib province and he had smuggled his family to Turkey before his dramatic defection.
His hometown Kfar Takharim has been repeatedly shelled in the past several months and suffered intense artillery and helicopter bombardments in the last few days, opposition campaigners who spoke to his family said.
Many air force personnel and well as army soldiers are from Syria's Sunni majority, although intelligence and senior officers are largely Alawite, the minority sect to which Assad and his family belong and which forms their power base.
The International Institute for Strategic Studies says the air force has 365 combat capable aircraft, including 50 MiG-23 Flogger and MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters and 40,000 personnel - a reflection of the overwhelming military advantage Assad has over his poorly-equipped foes.
The most prominent defection so far in the conflict was that of Colonel Riad al-Asaad last July, who helped set up the rebel Free Syria Army after taking refuge in Turkey.
Last week Brigadier General Ahmad Berro, head of a tank unit in Aleppo province, fled with his family to Turkey.
Though a boost to Assad's foes, the pilot's defection could complicate the international scenarios of a conflict that many governments fear could spill over Syria's border and spread though the already volatile Middle East.
Ties between Jordan and Syria were already strained - Jordan has criticized Assad over his crackdown on the uprising but has been restrained in its rhetoric.
Amman is nervous over a possible Syrian military reaction after months of border tension as thousands of Syrians flee the violence to Jordan.
A Jordanian official, who asked not to be named, said the incident with the pilot was "difficult to handle".
MORNING BARRAGE
In Homs, dawn broke to heavy shelling but the barrages eased up during the day, resident Waleed Faris said.
"Now I can hear one or two mortars fall every half an hour. It is quiet today compared to the past few days," he said.
Two people were killed in his neighborhood of Khalidiya on Thursday, he said.
Homs has been at the center of the revolt against four decades of dynastic rule by the Assad family and became the focus of world concern in February and March when opposition-held neighborhoods endured weeks of government bombardments and sniper fire in which hundreds of people were killed.
In other violence on Thursday, activists said 18 people were killed when government forces rained shells on the village of Enkhel in the southern Deraa province, birthplace of the revolt.
Video posted on the Internet showed nine bodies wrapped in blankets and surrounded by weeping men and women.
Syrian state news agency SANA said 21 law enforcement members and civilians were buried on Thursday.
The United Nations says more than 10,000 people have been killed by Assad's forces during the conflict. The government says at least 2,600 members of the military and security forces have been killed by what it characterizes as a plot by foreign-backed "Islamist terrorists" to bring it down.
With a joint U.N.-Arab League ceasefire plan in tatters and the international community divided, world leaders and diplomats have been unable to stop the bloodshed.
The Arab League's deputy secretary general, Ahmed Ben Helli, criticized Russia on Thursday for selling arms to Syria and said that U.N. sanctions could be needed to force Assad and the rebels to implement international envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan.
"Any assistance in aiding violence should be stopped. When you deliver military equipment you are helping to kill people. That should be stopped," he told Russia's Interfax news agency.
Russia, one of Assad's main suppliers of military equipment, has shielded its long-standing ally Syria from tougher U.N. sanctions. It says the solution must come through political dialogue, an approach most of the Syrian opposition rejects.
(Additional reporting by Oliver Holmes, Erika Solomon and Dominic Evans in Beirut, Thomas Grove in Moscow, Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva, David Cutler in London; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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Europeans get some relief with Euro 2012 wins
Greek fans celebrate in downtown of Thessaloniki on Sunday June 17, 2012. A defensive Greece held off a nearly nonstop Russian attack on Saturday, putting the 2004 champions into the European Championship quarterfinals and eliminating Russia with a 1-0 victory. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)
Greek fans celebrate in downtown of Thessaloniki on Sunday June 17, 2012. A defensive Greece held off a nearly nonstop Russian attack on Saturday, putting the 2004 champions into the European Championship quarterfinals and eliminating Russia with a 1-0 victory. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)
Greek fans celebrate in downtown of Thessaloniki on Sunday June 17, 2012. A defensive Greece held off a nearly nonstop Russian attack on Saturday, putting the 2004 champions into the European Championship quarterfinals and eliminating Russia with a 1-0 victory. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)
Greek fans celebrate in downtown of Thessaloniki on Sunday June 17, 2012. A defensive Greece held off a nearly nonstop Russian attack on Saturday, putting the 2004 champions into the European Championship quarterfinals and eliminating Russia with a 1-0 victory. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)
FILE - In this July 3, 2010 file photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel celebrates next to South African President Jacob Zuma, left, after Germany's Thomas Mueller scored a goal during the World Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Argentina and Germany at the Green Point stadium in Cape Town, South Africa. Merkel will travel to Germany's European Championship quarterfinal match against Greece for a game that brings together nations at opposite ends of Europe's debt crisis, the German government said Wednesday, June 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer, File)
Filippo Bich, 33, designer, left, hugs his friend Edoardo Petti, 38, journalist, after Italy's Antonio Cassano scored during the Euro 2012 soccer match between Italy and Ireland broadcast on a tv,screen outside of a bar, in downtown Rome, Monday, June 18, 2012. Italy scored a goal in each half to beat Ireland and reach the quarterfinals but the mood on the streets of the Italian capital was as listless as the economy. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
ATHENS, Greece (AP) ? Chancellor Angela Merkel watched Germany weather the storm and emerge with flying colors, while other European countries simply floundered.
Only this time, it wasn't a test of economic strength in the ailing eurozone. It was the first round of the European Championship ? a soccer extravaganza lasting 3 1/2 weeks that dishes out elation and disappointment to millions of people from the Irish Sea to the Chinese border.
Just as Germany has enjoyed growth while other eurozone economies have sunk into recession, its team has emerged unscathed from arguably the toughest group at the tournament after beating Portugal, the Netherlands and Denmark.
However, Germany hasn't been the only one to prosper at Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine.
Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain may be struggling with waves of government austerity drives, high unemployment and either the prospect or the reality of embarrassing bailouts, but their soccer teams are doing just fine.
Among the 17-nation eurozone's financially troubled nations, only Ireland was sent home this week after failing to reach the quarterfinals. But ? just as Irish people have received plaudits for coping so stoically with austerity, their hard-drinking, fun-loving fans have by far been the best of the tournament.
Important though the sporting stakes may be, the soccer gods have also proved to have a sense of humor.
Germany will be up against Greece in the quarterfinals in Gdansk, Poland ? the biggest contributor to the bailout funds playing against the nation that ignited Europe's debt woes.
The irony wasn't lost on the Berliner Kurier newspaper, which printed a cartoon Tuesday of a German government spokesman telling the media that "our stance on Greece remaining in the eurozone depends entirely upon how the quarterfinal goes."
Germany's Bild newspaper put it like this: "Be happy dear Greeks, the defeat on Friday is a gift. Against (German coach) Jogi Loew, no rescue fund will help you."
Loew refused to be baited, laughingly telling reporters in Gdansk that the German team has a "close relationship" with Merkel.
"We've reached a deal in which she has no say in picking the lineup and tactics and we not in her political statements," he joked.
Here's a look at some key soccer results in the prism of the eurozone crisis:
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GREECE 1, RUSSIA 0
For Greeks who have seen their living standards plummet in the debt crisis, their team's unexpected win against Russia on Saturday night was as much about national validation as sporting prowess. Street celebrations in Athens saw Greeks wrapped in their flag, wearing replica helmets of ancient Greek warriors and waving spears.
"Greeks are portrayed as garbage abroad, but at least on the field we're not," said 29-year-old high school teacher Alexis Vasiliou.
Greece may be a debt-engulfed country that's threatening to drag down the entire eurozone, but at least has a soccer team its people are proud of.
"The spectacle offers people an outlet, an escape to leave behind even for 90 minutes this flood of negativity from the crisis," said Demetris Vestarchis, the owner of Mentor Cafe in the Athens suburb of Thission. "Most Greeks identify with these players who are showing that we're not dead and gone."
"What the politicians can't do for this country, these players have," said Yiannis Minasian, an unemployed 44-year-old. "These guys have heart and guts, something that politicians don't have."
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ITALY 2, IRELAND 0
Italy scored a goal in each half to reach the quarterfinals but the mood on the streets of the Italian capital was as listless as its hurting economy.
Romans packing a pub near the Campo dei Fiori, a popular square, to follow the match on TV. Afterward, they glumly described the victory as a metaphor for the state of the nation, which is facing concerns it could be the next country after Spain to need an international bailout.
"Look around, do you see people celebrating? No, because although it is a victory, we can only partially feel it," said Marco Cantelli, a 37-year-old banker.
"This team doesn't even help to forget the crisis. Actually, it makes it worse," said interior decorator Filippo Bich.
In Dublin, Irish fans walked out of pubs looking disillusioned after their Boys in Green bowed out of the tournament with three straight defeats. Some compared the ineptness of their athletes to the inability of their government leaders to negotiate better bailout terms.
"We're outgunned on the football pitch and in Europe. We need a win to feel better about ourselves," said Terry Rafferty, a retired Dublin bank manager.
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PORTUGAL 2, DENMARK 1
In Porto, Portugal, fans jumped from bar stools in dismay when their team made mistakes Sunday night. But citizens of this tiny bailed-out country emerged elated and briefly forgot their deep economic misery with communal cries of "Golo!" each time the team scored and finally beat Denmark.
Flag-waving supporters clogged streets with their cars, honking horns as drivers and passengers yelled "Portugal!" over and over. However, fans said the mood was much more subdued than during Euro 2004, which was held in Portugal, when the country's economy was charging ahead following its adoption of the euro.
After years of overspending, Portugal took a bailout last year and now has high unemployment, recession and harsh austerity measures imposed by creditors.
"We can have a break from the crisis of at least a month with Euro 2012, but I think both are coexisting, the cheerful mood and the crisis," said Ricardo Teixeira, a 30-year-old doctor. "Our life is completely dominated by the crisis."
Unemployed housekeeper Fatima Santos, 45, watched the game on large-screen TVs in Porto's main plaza ? happy to forget her economic worries for a few hours.
"Right now with the crisis we do what is possible to enjoy life," she said. "Being depressed isn't worth it and giving up would be like dying."
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SPAIN 1, CROATIA 0
Spain's late goal Monday night against a skillful Croatia generated whoops of joy in Madrid's packed bars after a particularly depressing day. The country's risk of needing an international bailout increased dramatically when its key bond interest rate hit an unsustainable rate of more than 7 percent ? a figure that had previously prompted Greece, Ireland and Portugal to ask for bailouts.
Fans said the win was redemption for a proud country and maybe ? just maybe ? a sign that Spain will emerge from its crushing financial chaos intact.
"Spain's economy is against the ropes, but watching our team struggle, suffer and win against tough opposition inspires us to think that if you work hard you can overcome," said Diego Escalante, a 28-year-old lawyer. "You can read a lot into this beautiful sport and translate it to life. Preparation and talent make up the base, and teamwork adds the cherry on top. Many Spaniards are talented, excellently prepared and educated to good levels. If we work together we will come through this."
Sales executive Ramona Zulma, 37, said her country's Euro 2012 performance showed that Spain is capable of achieving great things.
"Spain is not a backwater," she said. "It is a country that has worked hard to get where it is, and it is so sad and depressing to see that for reasons that many of us barely understand we are now suffering economic difficulties."
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Rising reported from Berlin. Contributing to this report: Harold Heckle in Madrid, Ana Paiva in Porto, Paola Barisani in Rome, and Shawn Pogatchnik in Dublin.
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