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Chromecast and Moto X

I think I just saved $500 by spending $35.

I'll most likely be canceling my Xbox One subscription this week. It's not that I wouldn't love to have one — I loathe that aging, noisy beast that's currently in my living room. But it's getting harder and harder to justify that much money on some that's mostly been replaced by a $35 USB-powered dongle. No, I won't be playing hardcore games with it, and it doesn't get anywhere near replacing Kinect. But I think I'm going to be replacing my old Xbox with a cheap Blu-Ray player and calling it a day.

But maybe the most important part of Chromecast is one that's gotten short shrift in nearly every review I've read, including ours. Chromecast is in its infancy. Having an SDK — software development kit — means that anyone and everyone can essentially write an app for it. Koushik Dutta — the developer behind ClockwordMod recoveries and Helium backup (to name but two projects) has been teasing a few on Google+. Streaming local files from a phone or tablet. Streaming files from Dropbox. Streaming files from RSS (and wrapping them in individual channel UIs).

And that's just one developer.

Reviews of devices are great. But it's important to remember that Chromecast is just getting started, with the SDK currrently available as a developer preview. It'll be interesting to how the ecosystem grows. You can't yet distribute Chromecast apps. Will it be a walled garden? Wide open like Android? I imagine anything that plays alongside DRM-enabled apps like Netflix will have a bit of oversight along with it.

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LACHAQUI, Peru (AP) ? His left knee to the ground, Nuno Casquinha theatrically tosses away his red cloth, muleta and sword and stares down the bleeding bull that is scratching the dirt with its hooves in a haze of rage.

Casquinha pivots, rising to his feet, and turns his back on the fuming half-ton beast, its rack of sharp horns just paces away.

The crowd jumps to its feet and cheers the 27-year-old Portuguese matador whose Iberian elan graces the makeshift ring on the edge of a cemetery in Lachaqui, a tiny town more than 12,000 feet (3,700 meters) up in the Andes.

"If you don't kill the bull, we'll kill you," a group of drunkards shouts, hurling bottles.

Casquinha is unruffled, and the spectacle ends with the bull slain and the matador on the shoulders of an ecstatic farmer, villagers clamoring for his autograph, pleading to be photographed with him.

The Lisbon native is among dozens of bullfighters, mostly Spaniards, who are hoping to gain the fame in Latin America that the economic crisis back home, compounded by rising ethical opposition to the bloody sport, has made near impossible.

The number of annual bullfights in Europe nearly halved to 1,997 last year from the crisis' inception in 2008 and is down an additional 15 percent this year, said Vicente Royuela, a University of Barcelona economist who studies the sport.

When the trim, blue-eyed Casquinha left home early last year, Spain had 765 registered bullfighters competing in the fights, known as "corridas."

He'd only managed to get into one bullfight in the first four months of last year, spending his time instead raising bulls on his parents' farm and training in the family's basement, "imagining all the bulls I would never see."

Even before hard times bit, only 10 percent of bullfighters in Spain got more than 20 fights a year and half quit after six years, Royuela said.

"Things were so bad, with no bullfighting in Europe, that I decided to take whatever I could," Casquinha said over coffee on a gray afternoon in the working class Lima district of San Felipe where he lives.

Peru, his friends told him in Facebook chats, was the place to be. Not Lima's storied Acho ring where accomplished matadors entertain the capital's elite, but the Peru of rugged mountains and unknown backwater corridas where the Spanish tradition is as alive as ever, the bulls have no pedigree and getting gored is best avoided because hospitals are scarce.

"In Mexico, I know, you've got to pay (to fight) when you are starting," he said. "In Colombia, when you discount the big festivals, there are few events ? same in Venezuela. And in Quito (Ecuador), it's prohibited to kill the bull. Peru was the ticket."

Peru hosts 540 corridas a year, more than any other in Latin America, and protests against the sport are minimal and limited to Acho.

Currently, 59 European bullfighters are active in Peru, according to Agenda Taurina, Peru's leading bullfighting guide. That's nearly three times the 2008 roster.

"There are more bullfights than days in the year," said one of the guide's authors, Dikey Fernandez. "The market is jammed."

The pay, however, is modest.

Star matadors in Spain can charge upward of $200,000 for a single performance while novices like Casquinha don't earn much more than $800 a fight. In rural Peru, the European migrants get paid about $1,500 per outing. Normally, three matadors participate in each "fiesta taurina," or bullfighting event.

Casquinha didn't come for the money. And for his first Peruvian fight he said he hardly deserved the pay, failing miserably in May 2012 in Huancavelica, Peru's poorest region. He felt faint in the high altitude. The bulls were also old and wily, which makes them less ferocious and more dangerous and the fight less dramatic.

With the passing months, he adapted to the altitude, the dangerous mountain roads, the public buses, the cheap hotels and the ringside drunkards. He left behind a girlfriend of six years but is now dating a Peruvian.

He's got 40 Peruvian bullfights notched, and his confidence is up.

"I'm going to leave here a winner, a well-known figure in bullfighting. I'll make a mark. I won't return to Europe a failure," Casquinha asserted during one of his daily two-hour training sessions in a Lima park, where he choreographs moves against phantom bulls.

Experts in Spain say Casquinha may be deluding himself.

"The impact for Spain is zero. It only serves for more such gigs in Andean towns, traveling over those god-forsaken highways," said Antonio Picamills, a former manager to such star matadors as Juan Jose Padilla, who he took to the Peruvian city of Trujillo in 1994 to fight a fearsome 1,000-pound (450-kilogram) bull named Pajarito or "Little Bird."

That corrida did nothing to forward Padilla's career, said Picamills, a writer for Dietario Taurino, Spain's main bullfighting guide. "It was only so he could fight during (Europe's) winter."

Casquinha doesn't care to listen to such talk.

After all, this only child is not even heeding his parents' wishes that he return home and forget his matador dreams.

"For me, life is the bulls ? or nothing."

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Associated Press writer Frank Bajak in Lima contributed to this report.

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KEIZER, Ore. ? So many of us rely on our cell phones, but probably not as much as a man in Keizer who?s blind.

Earlier this week, someone snatched 29-year-old Josh Bowen?s phone out of his hand and ran off while he stood at a bus stop.

Bowden uses the audible features on the iPhone for directions, to read text messages, and for email.

He also works as an employee at the Oregon Commission for the Blind, teaching others how to use the iPhone.

?They don?t realize what they took from me. To them it?s just another iPhone, but to a person with a disability such as someone who is blind or visually impaired even, these phones, and technology in general, really enhances the quality and independence of their life,? Bowen said.

Bowen has since bought a new phone but it still doesn't take the sting away.

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HOUSTON ? As three of WWE?s top Superstars battled it out for the right to face World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio at SummerSlam, CM Punk dazzled Fandango with the power of Straight Edge, a stunning turn of events helped decide the Divas Title Match and Damien Sandow showed Cody Rhodes the true value of ?Money.?

Several weeks ago, newly crowned Raw General Manager Brad Maddox gave WWE Champion John Cena the opportunity to choose his No. 1 contender at SummerSlam, paving the way for The Champ to create a highly anticipated clash between himself and Daniel Bryan.

Photos: Guerrero laid down the law?

After SmackDown General Manager Vickie Guerrero offered the World Heavyweight Champion the same chance, Alberto Del Rio tried to name Ricardo Rodriguez as his No. 1 contender. But, The Queen Diva swiftly rejected the titleholder?s feeble attempt at a summer siesta ? instead creating an explosive blue brand Triple Threat Match to determine his SummerSlam opponent: RVD vs. Randy Orton vs. Christian for later in the night!

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Social finance is continuing to move into uncharted territory in Canada. However, while crowd equity has yet to barge through the regulatory schema in most Canadian provinces (with the exception of Saskatchewan?see more on its equity crowdfunding proposal here), I decided to look closer at the role crowdfunding can play as a direct competitor, substitute or partner in crime to impact investment.

Before diving into this discussion, I feel that we need to take a few steps back and look at the social finance space, and where, based on its definition, crowdfunding platforms have already and have the potential to fit in. The word social?in social finance typically refers to something which is of benefit to the welfare of individuals comprising a given community. Individuals? welfare within this community depends on multiple factors, including the sustainability and cleanliness of the community and the equity of opportunities available to the community?s members within and outside of its precincts.

This equity of opportunities is precisely what Danae Ringelmann (co-founder of IndieGoGo, one of the world?s largest crowdfunding platforms) stressed as being at the centre of the crowdfunding giant?s mandate?to prioritize the democratization of the financial system. So much so, that, despite the recent controversies regarding crowdfunding fraud (see this snapshot of some divergent uses of funds raised through crowdfunding platforms here), IndieGoGo continues to stay away from curatorship. It prides itself on promoting a faith-based system, which gives every idea equal freedom, and thereby emphasizes the role of crowdfunding as a key tool in unlocking market interests.?

But when putting crowdfunding capital transfers and standard market transactions side by side, do we have an apples-to-apples comparison? When a knowledgeable consumer goes to purchase a product through a well-established platform such as Amazon, is she faced with the same risks as those faced by funders of ?Kobe Red ? 100% Japanese Beer Fed Kobe Beef Jerky? (a fraudulent Kickstarter campaign which almost ran off with the $120,000 it raised through the platform, before Kickstarter axed the project)? And is this consumer motivated by the same drivers as those propelling him to contribute to crowd-funded start-ups? Does groupthink diminish the perception of risk for a crowdfunder? Is there a fragment of altruism associated with giving to a ?collective wallet? to fund an initiative, versus making an isolated purchase?

The question remains: can the socializing of finance be synonymous with social finance? Before you lock in your answer, I would like to put the spotlight on another crowdfunding platform?CSI?s Catalyst. In acknowledging the democratic underpinnings of crowdfunding, Catalyst has sought to do more than facilitate supply and demand dynamics. Its co-founders, Chris Charlesworth and Asier Ania, stressed the importance of educating consumers about the viability of crowdfunding?showcasing crowdfunding as a mechanism for individuals to become more financially engaged. In addition, all of the campaigns on this platform are CSI members, which means that every dollar contributed to a venture through the Catalyst platform will trickle down an intricate supply chain geared toward social growth. A dollar spent here will have far-reaching resonance in the CSI community. Campaigns in the Catalyst world are part of an intertwined network, and accountability and growth are the primary catalysts for the viability of this platform.

Chris and Asier are beaming with the community reach of their platform. They estimate that 40-60% of those enterprises which are funded on their platform are run by women, with those run by minorities not far behind. Since Catalyst is in a sense strengthening webbing within local communities, it could be argued that successful minority-lead initiatives will prompt financial engagement from funders in these minority groups (or vice versa), thereby creating a robust cycle of participation and growth among typically vulnerable fractions of the population. The mission, as Chris and Asier emphasize, is to contribute to a global movement and to internationalize financial participation and social development.

Unlike many other crowdfunding platforms, Catalyst stresses impact as the integral component of those ventures it brings under its umbrella. Chris and Asier stipulate that social causes are more attractive for donors, as people are more likely to see their dollar make a contribution to someone?s well-being. In this sense, social causes should see more traffic on crowdfunding platforms than other sectors. Interestingly enough, this may not necessarily be true for impact investing?where investors who are still operating under traditional financial mandates could reasonably be expected to put their wealth in sustainable food, cleantech, housing, or community infrastructure, says Adam Spence (manager of special projects at the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing). The returns to these sectors, he observes, are more direct and tangible, and provide a more transparent risk-reward trade-off for wary newcomers.

As it stands today, crowdfunding and impact investing are not yet playing in the same sandbox. Crowdfunding is estimated to account for approximately $3 billion worldwide, while impact investing amounts for nearly $5billion in Canada alone. Regulations aside, the potential for growth, according to Adam, is the same for both financial channels; however, it is ultimately impact investing which is more conducive to large amounts of capital to change hands. However, looking at Pebble watch (and the $10 million it raised on Kickstarter), Chris and Asier could not help but emphasize the enormous potential for crowdfunding to be both a complement and a substitute for impact investing. It has the capacity to be both a fund-raising and a market validation mechanism, both explain with enthusiasm.

The idea that crowdfunding failures and successes could serve as investment signals to venture capitalists and impact investors is slowly picking up traction in off-record conversations (I share more thoughts on this in my latest blog). However, the question of the existing and necessary regulatory frameworks is still at the forefront. How can authorities put in place a regulatory structure that will:

Stimulate other Canadian jurisdictions to follow Saskatchewan?s footprints;
Protect consumers against fraud occurrence and intensity lurking in the corners of a generally-unaudited market, and also
Ensure that the democratization of the market is not suffocated in the process?

Should crowdfunding platforms take it upon themselves to do their due diligence and engage in portfolio auditing, much like the vetting process endorsed among microfinance organizations? Is there room for campaigns utilising crowdfunding platforms to self-regulate and instigate community accountability practices? It is evident that crowdfunding is socializing finance, but in order for this tool to become sustainable, credible and relevant to impact investors and donors, we may need to reopen the conversation of how to find an equilibrium between financial regulation and financial inclusion.

[I would like to extend a special thank you to Danae Ringlemann, Adam Spence, Chris Charlseworth and Asier Ania for sharing their candid, insightful and inspiring thoughts and experiences.]?

Source: http://socialfinance.ca/blog/post/can-crowdfunding-be-considered-social-finance

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Ty Lawson has proved himself as one of the top point guards in the NBA over the past few seasons. His Denver Nuggets disappointed in the postseason, but they hope to rebound this coming season.?

Lawson isn't only known for his style of basketball play but also his personal style. He broke down some basic rules of fashion for NBA players.

What do you think about his rules? Let me know in the comments below.

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Last month, researchers at Georgia Tech unveiled a clever hack. Using a tiny Linux computer disguised as a USB charger, they could penetrate any iPhone or iPad's defenses and reportedly install malware in less than a minute. Thankfully, that attack vector will soon be far easier to combat: Apple has added a new prompt that warns users and asks them for permission in the latest beta of iOS 7.

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Ars Technica originally spotted the new prompt, which you can see below, and Reuters confirmed with Apple that the issue had been addressed. "We would like to thank the researchers for their valuable input," said Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr. Until iOS 7 arrives, we suppose you'll need to manually make sure your charger is yours. Afterwards, if you see this message pop up when you plug into what appears to be a simple wall wart, perhaps you should find another power source.

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Technology has made many things in our lives easier, but there?s no denying that it?s complicated certain things, too. Take etiquette for example, which has become increasingly difficult to navigate in this age of smartphones and?social networks. And in a socially complicated situation like a wedding, figuring out when exactly it?s polite to use your smartphone or snap a picture becomes even more complicated. So what tech rules should you follow to be a good wedding guest?and not upset the happy couple?s big day? We have 5 guidelines to follow for wedding success.

1. Know the sharing ground rules

Depending on the couple, their opinions on sharing photos and other updates on the Internet will vary. Some couples may prefer to keep their ceremony private?and offline. Others might encourage sharing and even recommend?a hashtag?to use or specific social networks to post on in order to make it easier for everyone interact and share memories. But even the more socially-minded couples may not want you sharing certain things?like the bride?s dress before the ceremony begins.

The key to being polite here is to make sure you know the couple?s wishes before you make any posts?look for anything in the invitation or other wedding info you?ve been given that tells you what or where to share. And if you aren?t sure? Don?t post any photos at all (especially of the bachelor/bachelorette party!) And if you have any particularly nice shots, you can always pass them on to the couple privately.

2. Photograph politely

For better or worse, having a smartphone makes all of us?photographers?and videographers, stalking around with our phones in-hand, ready to capture the perfect moment. But if you?re taking pictures?with your cell phone or not?be sure you?re being polite about it.

Do:

Snap photos or catch videos to help remember the event and, if the couple allows it, share with friends.
Be sure you aren?t blocking anyone?s view when you?re trying to snap photos.
Be careful using the flash, which can be disruptive if you?re constantly snapping candids.

Don?t:

Follow the bride and groom?or anyone else?around like a paparazzi trying to catch the perfect shot.
Take photos with your tablet, which is guaranteed to block someone?s view.

Also be aware that there may be times during which the couple won?t want you taking pictures at all?like during the ceremony. Remember: you?re here to enjoy the wedding, not be glued to your smartphone or camera. If the couple asks you not to take photos at any time, be sure to respect their wishes.

3. Pay attention to the ceremony, not your smartphone!

On that note, remember to pay attention to the ceremony and the people around you rather than your smartphone. Yes, we live in a connected world and most people will understand if you break away from the social situation to check out what?s on?Facebook?or Twitter. But don?t stay glued to your phone throughout the wedding?and definitely put it away during the ceremony.

4. Turn off your tech

Trust us: you do not want to be the person whose phone rings in the middle of the ceremony. Not only is it terribly embarrassing for you, it?s sure to upset the everyone there. To avoid getting the cold shoulder from everyone, you should silence your phone and any other gadgets you?re carrying on you. Or, better yet, you can turn them off entirely: this means no chance of accidentally leaving your ringer on or the noise of it vibrating disturbing anyone nearby.

5. Be good to your friends and they?ll be good to you

The cardinal rule of etiquette really comes down to just being nice to others. And this goes double when you?re posting to social networks. Make sure you consider how what you?re posting will look to others and whether it might upset anyone. There?s a good chance you?ll catch?an unflattering or inappropriate photo?or two as the evening progresses, and no one?s going to want to wake up the next morning to find embarrassing photos online. This rule goes for comments, too: be polite, and if you can?t be polite, be quiet.

If you want to keep your friends as your friends, be sure to think before you post, and skip posting anything rude or embarrassing. No matter how funny you may find it, the laugh isn?t worth upsetting your friends.

Just remember the rules

These rules aren?t especially different from the everyday etiquette of social media?and so they shouldn?t be too hard to remember and follow. However, at a wedding?which is supposed the event of a lifetime for the happy couple?you should be especially careful to practice social media manners. Because, trust us, committing a social faux pas at a wedding can get remembered?and not in a good way?for a long time.

Having trouble remembering what to do? Then we can pare the list own to a single rule: keep your phone silent and in your pocket!

And now that we?ve gotten that covered, be sure to enjoy the wedding!

This article was written by Elizabeth Harper and originally appeared on Techlicious.
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Source: http://techland.time.com/2013/07/31/wedding-etiquette-5-tech-tips/

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Since returning to office in December, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has done little to reassure his neighbors that Japan comes in peace. Within his first two weeks of office, he ordered a review of his country's defense guidelines, which his defense minister, Itsunori Onodera, described as "a priority we must work on with no letup." On July 26, Japan's Defense Ministry released interim results of the review, urging significant military upgrades. It included plans to create an amphibious island defense force, and hinted at the possibility of preemptive strikes against foreign military targets.

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OPELOUSAS, La. -- The Opelousas City Council will have to rethink a citywide raise it approved Monday after Mayor Donald Cravins, citing insufficient funding, said he will veto the measure.

The Daily World reports (http://bit.ly/13v4Dl0 ) Cravins had warned earlier in the meeting that if the council passed a budget that included a raise for all city employees, he would veto it.

"If you vote to give it to everybody, no one will be able to get it," he said, referring to the potentially unsustainable nature of the raise.

Pay raises were a hotly debated item weeks ago at the city's budget committee meeting. The raise the council voted on Monday was actually a raise that was suspended for the 2012-13 fiscal year for the same reason ? insufficient funding. Because the council suspended the raise rather than denying it, it is legally bound to grant that raise before it grants any subsequent raises should funding become available.

The original budget committee recommendation was to grant the old raise only for municipal civil service employees, which includes street, parks, water, sewer, tourism and executive employees. Excluded were police, fire, city court and city marshal employees.

The municipal civil service raise would cost the city around $90,000 before benefits and overtime. If it included the other employees, it would add another $177,000.

Police Chief Perry Gallow and Fire Chief Lee Cahanin both lobbied for their employees to be included in a 2.5 percent raise because, they said, segregating which employees get raises would be unfair and their employees regularly put their lives on the line.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/31/3533487/opelousas-mayor-to-veto-raise.html

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The Management of the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) has held discussions with Executives and representatives of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) on the establishment of a Music Recording Department at NAFTI, which will lead to the award of a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music Production.

The information was contained in a joint press statement issued by MUSIGA and NAFTI.

It said the discussions focused on the content of the Music Production programme, and development of the necessary modern equipment and skilled faculty needed to develop a programme that responds to the needs of the film industry.

The statement explained that the BA in Music Production is intended to prepare and equip students to become highly skilled producers of musical and audio artefacts.

?The programme recognizes the creative, technical and compositional aspects of music production and aims to give students an academic and practical standpoint to be able to develop their craft and the craft in Ghana further. The BA degree is designed to equip musicians and composers with music production skills that are essential for success in today?s modern marketplace. Courses to be offered include Music Theory, Music and Sound Engineering, Composition and Performance, and African Music and Performance,? the statement added.

According to the Rector of NAFTI, Professor Linus Abraham, the Department is being developed in collaboration with MUSIGA to ensure it fits and corresponds to the needs of the Music Industry in Ghana.

Prof. Abraham therefore challenged MUSIGA to support realization of the initiative and also work towards the standardization of the requisite skills for all levels and aspects of the industry in Ghana. He expressed the view that such efforts can result in Ghanaian music genres attaining world class status.

Bice Osei Kuffour, aka Obour, the president of MUSIGA, in his response expressed MUSIGA?s commitment to the idea since it will fill a void in the professional training of musicians that has long existed in the industry in Ghana.

He indicated that there are a few music education institutions available in Ghana, and he noted that the addition of music business and marketing courses to the programme is crucial to developing the music courses in Ghana.

He was optimistic that the establishment of the Media and Creative Arts University will galvanize efforts by Ghanaian musicians to attain world class status.

A committee (made of representatives from NAFTI and MUSIGA) to fashion out the road map to the establishment of the Department has been set up under the chairmanship of Prof. John Collins, a patron of MUSIGA and a lecturer at the School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana, Legon.

NAFTI is in the process of being transformed into a Media and Creative Arts University to cater for the professional skills development of the creative arts industry. The President has identified the creative arts as a viable area of economic development for the nation and has expressed the vision of turning the industry in Ghana into a global competitive industry.

As a media arts university, NAFTI will provide training at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the creative arts in general ? in Film, Graphic Design, Production Design, Photography, Animation, Video, Multimedia Production, Broadcast Journalism, Performance for Film, Music Recording and Production, Film Producing and Entertainment Business Management, Broadcast and Media Engineering, amongst others.

The Department of Music Production is part of the gradual process of realizing this transformation in NAFTI. In the past year, the Multimedia Production and the Broadcast Journalism departments have been added to the programmes in Film and Television Production.

In attendance were industry giants such as Zapp Mallet, Willie Roi, Appietus, Rex Omar, Edem and Bessa Simons while NAFTI was represented by the heads of Departments of NAFTI.

The new MUSIGA Department of Music Production is expected to be operational by September 2014.

Source: http://www.news1ghana.com/?p=27671

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The US Department of Commerce has opened a probe into allegations that India and eight other countries are illegally selling steel pipe at an unfairly low prices in America.

?Domestic steel pipe producers are being crippled by an onslaught of foreign competitors illegally dumping imports in the United States,? Senator Sherrod Brown said, days after the Commerce Department launched a probe against South Korea, India, Vietnam, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and Ukraine of unfair and illegal trade practises.

Brown and Senator Rob Portman yesterday called on the US International Trade Commission (ITC) to protect domestic producers of Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG) from foreign competitors that use unfair and illegal trade practises.

?The International Trade Commission must commit to Ohio?s workers and businesses and crack down on countries that sell their products at unfair prices. As our trade deficit widens, levelling the playing field is the only way to protect local jobs, and in the future, create them,? Browne said after sending the joint letter to US ITC.

Noting that Ohio-based companies that produce Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG) support many good-paying jobs in the state, Portman said if the ITC does not stand up for these American manufactured goods and punish foreign companies who are flooding US, our markets, with unfairly imported cheap products, businesses and thousands of American workers are at risk.

?American manufactured goods must be allowed to compete with their global competitors on a level playing field,? Portman said.

OCTG are used for domestic oil exploration, particularly in the shale industry, and are produced in Ohio by companies including US Steel in Lorain, Wheatland Tube Company in Warren, Vallourec Star in Youngstown, and TMK IPSCO in Brookfield.

Each is among the plaintiffs accusing South Korea, India, Vietnam, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, and Ukraine of unfair and illegal trade practises.

The two Senators said OCTG imports from these countries have increased from 840,000 net tons in 2010 to more than 1,770,000 net tons in 2012, with the number continuing to rise.

Despite historically high level of demand for steel pipe, its domestic industry in the United States has deteriorated due to imports, which data shows, have consistently and substantially undersold the market.

This has resulted in petitions that allege dumping margins of at least 30 percent, and in most cases, significantly more, the lawmakers said.

(This article was published on July 30, 2013)

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Source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/international/us-to-probe-steel-pipe-imports-from-india-8-others/article4969306.ece

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