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Child Abuse Linked to Higher Odds for Cancer as Adult

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Mark Your Calendar: SoCal Music Festival Coming to East Village ...

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Summer Fun in Dundrum for all the Family! | Dundrum Town Centre ...

We know it might not always feel like Summer outside, but here at Dundrum, we have a whole host of exciting activities to keep everybody entertained this Summer, rain or shine!

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Giddy Studios

Giddy Studios are our very popular pottery painting studio, perfect for a great summer art camp, family days out, birthday parties ? you name it? no matter what your age Giddy has something for you.

The Giddy Summer camps operate most weeks during the Summer holidays,?and are as flexible as you like, you can choose from 1 day to 5 days. Giddy Summer Camps are just ?30 per day.

Giddy is located in the red car park on level 2 it?s so easy to find and is nice and ?handy for drop off and collection.?For more information on Giddy Studios, visit our store page, or call us on?01 296 0 303.

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Hamleys

The Hamleys Beach Camp is open rain or shine!!! the friendly team at Hamleys Dundrum have a daily schedule of fun happening every day in store, for more information visit the Hamleys Summer Camp Schedule?.

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They also have some very exciting guests visiting Hamleys over the next few weeks from Hello Kitty on July 28th and 29th to Barbie in August!

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Movies@Dundrum?

Kids Club Movies are screened every day during the Summer holidays, and with tickets just ?3.50 its a reel bargain!!

For more info visit?http://www.movies-at.ie/dundrum/kids-club.php

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Rainforest Adventure Golf

Rainforest Adventure Golf, is an amazing, purpose-built, indoor mini golf centre in Dundrum South. ?It?s the perfect indoor entertainment on a rainy Summers day! Suitable for the whole family, from toddlers to competitive Dads, it?s got something for everyone!

Take on the awesome Aztec course and you?ll golf your way through lush tropical foliage, uncovering strange carvings while monkeys screech and chatter above you.?Dare to challenge the mysterious Mayan course? Then prepare to be mesmerized by the chilling crystal skulls and the mask of death and rebirth as you try to sink a putt!

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Del Arte?

Feeding the family doesn?t have to break the bank, the newly opened Del Arte, has a fantastic childrens menu, so the kids are fed, and you can enjoy a tasty meal at he same time, its a win win, and with a?childrens menu for just ?6.95 which includes a drink, main course and a dessert, a family of four can eat for less then ?35! Click here to check out the mouthwatering menu!?

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Pirates Village

A treasure chest of fun, The Pirates Village, and The Pirates Cover, have landed at Dundrum Town Centre and will be here until the?2^nd?of September.

The ?pop-up? play-zone consists?of themed, custom-made inflatable games and is suitable from toddlers up to 10 year olds!?Visit the Pirates Village for further information on prices and opening hours.

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Source: http://www.dundrum.ie/events/summer-fun-in-dundrum/

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Report: Christie to Speak at GOP Convention

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Oxbanger BBQ Sat 28th July ? Oxjam Newcastle 2012

The Oxjam Oxbanger Barbecue is all about enjoying the best of local music and food. It will be an afternoon of live music from top bands in a sunny beer garden, accompanied by delicious locally sourced food and drinks- or in short-?bands, bangers and beers!

We?ve planned a great afternoon of live music from?Tomahawks for Targets,?This Ground Moves?(formerly The Soviets) and?How Askew,?accompanied?by delicious locally sourced food and drink from the barbecue, all in the perfect summer setting of the Brandling Villa?s beer garden. And the weather forecast is looking distinctly?optimistic!

Entry to the event is free, but for just ?5 you can also enjoy delicious regional food and drinks including an ?Oxbanger? sausage from the Northumberland Sausage Co (of hugely popular ?Sausage Fest? fame), spicy relish from Grainger Market?s foodie heaven Mmm?, and a pint of Wylam Brewery?s finest ale (soft drink / cider / wine options will also be available).

There will also be local ice-cream from the regions best ice-cream parlour;?Minchella & Co.?s, delicious cupcakes and fun fundraising activities to take part in throughout the afternoon.

All money raised from this event will go towards helping Oxfam?s work fighting poverty around the world.
We look forward to seeing you there!

Join the facebook event http://www.facebook.com/events/469599356398750/

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The Brandling Villa welcomes all dogs, and even serves Doggy beers!

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Study says Obama tax proposals could cost 700,000 jobs

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Samsung Galaxy S III - 32GB - marble white (Verizon Wireless)

Editors' note: This review of Verizon's Samsung Galaxy S3 varies from my review of the T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint models in the areas of apps, call quality, and data performance.

With the Samsung Galaxy S III (S3), Samsung has done it again. For the third consecutive year, its flagship Galaxy phone is a tidy package of top-flight specs, approachable design, steady performance, and compelling pricing. Starting its U.S. sales debut with five carriers -- Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and U.S. Cellular -- makes this smartphone nearly ubiquitous. Samsung's aggressive distribution strategy gives it a leg up against its chief Android rival, the HTC One X, but it fails to sweep HTC's finest, and Apple fans will scoff at S Voice, Samsung's imitation Siri.

That isn't to say that the Galaxy S 3 (henceforth also known as the GS3) does not impress. From the outside in, it has a large, vibrant HD display; Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich; a sharp 8-megapixel camera; 4G LTE or HSPA+ support; a zippy dual-core processor; and tons of internal memory and 2GB RAM. The $199.99 price tag for the 16GB version is highly competitive, and that, along with its carrier spread, makes the GS3 priced to sell.

Some have slammed Samsung for formulaic specs and design, and to some extent, the critics are correct. Samsung isn't setting hardware standards with new creations, and the GS3's software additions, while interesting and useful, mostly build off existing Android capabilities. Regardless, Samsung has continued to produce stronger subsequent models than its first Galaxy S home run. There's a reason why the Galaxy S II sold over 50 million units worldwide, and why the GS3's preorder sales smashed U.K. records. Samsung clearly has its formula worked out for making higher-end features familiar, expected, and easily within reach -- and in the all-around excellent Galaxy S3, it shows.

Pricing and availability
I don't usually start a review with pricing information, but in this case, it's worth the bird's-eye view of which carrier offers which capacity of each color when, and for how much.

AT&T Samsung Galaxy S3 ($199.99): 4G LTE in 39 markets; simultaneous voice and data; 16GB model available in blue, white, and, exclusively, red

Sprint Samsung Galaxy S3 (16GB, $199.99; 32GB, $249): 3G now, 4G LTE when Sprint launches its LTE network; Google Wallet, unlimited data option; available in 16GB (blue, white) and 32GB (blue, white) models

T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S3 (16GB, $229.99, $279.99 [Value plan]; 32GB, $279.99, 329.99 [Classic plan]): HSPA+ 42; simultaneous voice and data; available in 16GB (blue, white) and 32GB (blue, white) models U.S. Cellular Samsung Galaxy S3 (16GB and 32GB, price TBD): 4G LTE in 6 markets, 3G elsewhere; eligible for carrier points; available in 16GB (blue, white) and 32GB (white) models Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III (16GB, $199.99; 32GB, $249): 4G LTE, 258 markets; eventual global data roaming, voice/data; available in 16GB (blue, white) and 32GB (blue, white) models

This is a review of the 16GB version of Verizon's GS3 in glossy white.

Design
It won't wow you with neon colors or evocative industrial design; it doesn't have the sharpest screen on the market; and its body isn't fashioned from ceramic, glass, or micro-arc oxidized aluminum. That said, the Galaxy S3 is about the nicest plastic phone I've ever seen. Likely tired of hearing complaints about how cheap-feeling Samsung phones can be, the company seems to have decided to focus instead on making the contours more premium -- without giving up its light, inexpensive, and shatterproof material of choice.

The Samsung Galaxy S III looks and feels smooth, glossy, and far more luxe than previous Galaxy handsets.

(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET)

Peer closely at the phone, which comes in ceramic white, pebble blue, and later a red shade exclusive to AT&T, and you'll see that Samsung has rounded the edges and corners to create smooth spines and trim pieces all around. The phone designers also intentionally arranged the backing to give the phone more of a unibody feel.

Samsung doesn't shy away from high gloss and sheen in either white or blue models and, somehow, it all works. The pebble-blue variety's spines are a lighter blue than its steel gray-blue backing, and I like the brushed-metal grain to its uncompromisingly plastic finish. In addition, the phone has felt good in my hand every time I've picked it up since CTIA. It's slick and touchable, and seems to warm to the touch, which makes it feel like it's conforming to your grip. Though smooth, the GS3 isn't slippery, and although fairly light (at 4.7 ounces, just a tad heavier than the HTC One X), it doesn't feel like it's missing a battery or other essential components. The handset's highly reflective surfaces are its most major design flaw.

When it comes to size, the GS3 is a big device. At 5.4 inches tall and 2.8 inches wide, it's slightly larger and thicker than the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Samsung seems to enjoy pushing the envelope when it comes to creating smartphone displays that border on minitablet territory (the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note even became a cult hit, with about 7 million global sales). Yet, the handset's slim 0.34-inch width, contoured sides, and glossy coating add up to that comfortable handhold.

My hands are fairly small, so I passed the phone around to see what others thought, regardless of their personal phone choice. Most initially found the GS3 large, but warmed up to it as they played around. Those with smaller hands than mine generally thought it too big. Almost all of them commented on the light weight. My colleagues also stuck the GS3 in front, back, shirt, and jacket pockets; everyone found a way they said they'd carry it (which really only proves that CNET editors are a resourceful bunch).

Press and hold the GS3's home button to surface your recent apps. Double-press to launch S Voice.

(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET)

Above the screen are the proximity and ambient light sensors, the indicator LED, and a 1.9-megapixel front-facing camera. Below it is a physical home button, which Samsung managed to keep in this handset, as opposed to the typical soft-touch navigation buttons we often see in Android phones. In general, I can get behind this kind of button, but the GS3's is slightly less comfy in its squashed and narrow form than if it were a larger rectangle or a square. Flanking this button are the back key and the menu key, which fade after a few seconds of use. It's interesting that Samsung kept its menu button rather than the default recent-apps tab in Ice Cream Sandwich. You can still view recent applications by holding down the Home button.

On the right spine is the power button, and on the left you'll find the volume rocker. You'll charge through a Micro-USB power button on the bottom, and listen to audio through the 3.5mm headset jack up top. The 8-megapixel camera lens and flash are on the rear, with the microSD card slot and Near-Field Communication (NFC)-capable battery behind the back cover. The Galaxy S III takes a micro-SIM card.

All about the screen: In terms of screen size, the Galaxy S III's 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display (with a 1,280x720-pixel resolution) fits right between the Galaxy Nexus (4.65 inches) and the Galaxy Note (5.3 inches), both of them honkers on their own. It's almost identical to the HTC One X (4.7 inches). How much you like the size depends on your preference for large-screen phones. If you like 'em on the smaller side, you'll find this excessive. If you enjoy having more screen real estate for reading and watching videos, you'll likely approve.

The HD Super AMOLED screen on the Galaxy S3 (center) was dimmer beside those of other top smartphones, the HTC One X (top) and iPhone 4S (bottom).

(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET)

Samsung's new flagship phone is one of the first handsets to use Corning's Gorilla Glass 2, a thinner, lighter, more responsive cover glass material that the two companies also say lets colors shine brighter. I definitely noticed the screen's sensitivity; at times I barely had to brush the display for a response. Colors looked bright and vibrant with the phone in a dark setting, but slide to full brightness and the screen sometimes seemed dark, especially when compared with other phones at full throttle.

Like typical AMOLED displays, the GS3 overdoes it on the greens, which stand out more than on phones with LCD screens, or when you view photos you took yourself. I downloaded a high-res image with varying contrasts and colors on five phones, also at peak brightness -- the GS3, Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy Note, iPhone 4S, and HTC One X. The Galaxy Note's resolution was a little looser than that of the other four because of its lower pixel density. The GS3 showed a much dimmer picture than the Galaxy Nexus did. Colors on the HTC One X and iPhone 4S were bright and looked truer to life. Blacks looked blacker on the Nexus' AMOLED screen, but there was far more detail throughout the images on the One X and iPhone 4S, which both use LCD screens with in-plane switching (IPS.) From there, quality was a tossup, with some features of the image looking better on the iPhone, and some looking better on the One X.

Don't get me wrong -- the GS3's screen is still lovely when you aren't peering at it side by side with another screen, but the comparative image darkness is a little disappointing, and was especially noticeable in my sunny-day photo and video shoots. Part of the screen dimness problem is that some apps, like the browser, were actually less bright by default. Even when I changed system settings to full blast, the browser remained dimmer until I changed its individual brightness setting. In general, I appreciate Samsung's power-saving checks and balances, but checking settings throughout the phone was confusing.

Interface and OS
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich looks great on the GS3, especially because Samsung used a lighter hand with its TouchWiz interface than on previous versions. That said, Samsung hasn't fully adopted all of Google's visual cues, like the ICS menu (I personally miss this interface touch). With TouchWiz, Samsung is able to add things like gestures and systems control access in the notifications pull-down. There are also the unique additions that Samsung tacked on to Android Beam.

Android Beam gets a boost in S Beam, which can share videos and photos with a tap.

(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET)

Not every one of the GS3's special additions is essential, and some, like sharing content through AllShare Play and GroupCast, are unnecessarily complicated to set up and use. While Samsung deserves kudos for brainstorming and implementing these features, customers will care more about overall camera performance than whether they can tag friends' faces in photos.

S Beam: Built on top of Android Beam for Ice Cream Sandwich, the Samsung-only S Beam wields NFC and Wi-Fi Direct to "beam" larger-file photos, videos, and documents -- that's in addition to Android Beam's capability of sharing URLs, maps, and contact information. Behind the scenes, NFC initiates the handshake, and the Wi-Fi Direct protocol takes over for larger files. The combination isn't groundbreaking, perhaps, but Samsung deserves credit for packing it up in one seamless action. As with Beam, you won't have to do more than press the backs of the phones together, confirm the beam, and pull the phones apart. The larger the file, the longer it usually takes for the transfer magic to happen.

S Beam worked flawlessly every time I tried it. Samsung really does get a high-five for this addition, which goes beyond simple cleverness to actual usefulness.

S Voice: And then there's S Voice. Samsung's answer to Apple's Siri, S Voice is a personal assistant that plumps up Android's built-in Voice Actions into the more personal format that Apple popularized with Siri. Vlingo powers S Voice on the listening and interpretation front (Siri uses Nuance), and draws answers from databases like Wolfram Alpha. You launch S Voice by double-pressing the home button, and can wake up S Voice in between commands by saying, "Hello, Galaxy" (this is optional and drains the battery faster).

You can do a lot with S Voice (left), but only if it understands you (right).

(Credit: Jessica Dolcourt/CNET)

S Voice can launch apps and turn-by-turn navigation; switch into driving mode; voice-dial; tweet; get the weather; compose a memo; search contacts; and schedule tasks. It can also take a photo, place and answer calls, search the Web, adjust the volume, send e-mail and text messages, record voices, and launch the native music player. It ties into Android 4.0's lock screen security, so you can use your voice to unlock the phone. As a bonus, you can program four of your own voice commands to open the camera, record your voice, and check for missed calls and messages.

S Voice sounds great in theory, but it didn't work well. Sometimes it didn't work at all. Throughout my testing period, I used S Voice extensively, asking the phone to perform the full range of tasks. Sometimes it delivered what I wanted immediately, like driving directions or turning Wi-Fi on and off. Other times, it must have stuffed cotton in its digital ears and repeatedly garbled or blanked on what I wanted. My favorite was when it knew exactly what I said, repeated my command (you can choose voice feedback in addition to text), and then did nothing. There was also the time that S Voice stalled on deleting an alarm, then ignored my subsequent request to finish the first one.

S Voice is Samsung's garbled answer to Apple's Siri.

(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET)

On the whole, S Voice is more rigid than Siri about syntax and the software takes a while to process. Unless I'm driving or otherwise hands-free, I find it faster and less frustrating to set an alarm myself, or turn on driving directions before engaging the ignition. Siri also has its share of slowness and interpretation issues, but it's performed more consistently for me in my tests thus far. Stay tuned for a more detailed comparison with Siri, and in the meantime check out our CNET UK editor's test, in which S Voice clearly won only one out of 15 voice test scenarios, a poor showing that makes S Voice seem more like a beta product than a Siri substitute. I'll update this review with a similar showdown.

Sharing software: Multimedia sharing is a Galaxy S3 emphasis, with four main ways to share your stuff through different means, like DLNA and Wi-Fi Direct protocols.

AllShare Play uses DLNA to share multimedia across your Samsung TVs, tablets, and phones, so you can play a video you shot on your phone on the TV, and do things like control the volume from your handset. A Web storage element has you access content on your other devices by tapping into a third-party client, SugarSync.

Face recognition software prompts you to tag yourself and your friends, even on photos taken with the front-facing camera, like this one.

(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET)

GroupCast, which you can use as a presentation service, uses AllShare Play. It takes seven steps (including a password and PIN number) to set up the share, but once you do, you can share a folder -- like slides or photos -- across all phones you've invited into the GroupCast. Any device can control the screens, and annotate with pen strokes that fade after a few seconds. Samsung should let the GroupCast leader lock it down.

Buddy Photo Share is a neat optional in-camera feature that can e-mail or text a freshly shot photo to the person you tag in it. Photos show up in a "received" folder in the recipient's gallery.

ShareShot is a camera shooting mode that uses Wi-Fi Direct in the background to automatically send photos to your friends as you shoot them, instead of e-mailing them after the fact. Multiple people can get in on the deal -- so long as they're within about 100 yards, about the length of a football field. Photos also appear in the gallery. You lose ShareShot when you switch shooting modes.

My problem with these tools is that some of them have unintuitive and disjointed user experiences. It isn't always obvious how to get to a feature, how to sign others up, and how to find your shared content afterward.

Features
An Android Ice Cream Sandwich phone through and through, the GS3 is fully loaded with all the Google goodies, and then some. There are the Google apps and services, like Gmail, Maps with turn-by-turn voice navigation, a music player, and YouTube, to name just a few. Wi-Fi, GPS, Wi-Fi Direct, and Bluetooth 4.0 are other communication features, along with NFC (which powers stuff you can do with TecTiles and Google Wallet).

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NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The subtext of JPMorgan's landmark deal to buy crude and sell gasoline for the largest oil refinery on the U.S. East Coast was barely disguised.

In joining private equity firm Carlyle Group to help rescue Sunoco Inc's Philadelphia plant from likely closure, the Wall Street titan cast its multibillion-dollar physical commodity business as an essential client service, financing inventory and trading on behalf of the new owners.

This was about helping conclude a deal that would preserve jobs and avert a potential fuel price spike during the heat of an election year summer -- not another risky trading venture after the more than $2 billion 'London Whale' loss.

But the deal also highlights a largely overlooked clause in the Volcker rule that threatens to squeeze banks out of physical markets if applied strictly by regulators, one that JPMorgan and rivals like Morgan Stanley have been quietly fighting for months.

While it has long been known the Volcker rule will ban banks' proprietary trading in securities, futures, and other financial tools like swaps, a draft rule released in October cast a net over commercial physical contracts known as ?commodity forwards', which had previously been all but exempt from financial oversight.

The banks say that physical commodity forwards are a world away from the exotic derivatives blamed for exacerbating the financial crisis. A forward contract in commodities exists somewhere in the gray area between a derivative like a swap - which involves the exchange of money but not any physical assets - and the spot market, where short-term cash deals are cut.

Banks say they are also essential to conclude the kind of deal that JPMorgan lauded on Monday.

"JPMorgan's comprehensive solution, which leverages our physical commodities capabilities... demonstrates how financial institutions with physical capabilities can prudently, yet more effectively, meet our clients' capital needs," the bank said in a press release.

But regulators say they are keen to avoid leaving a loophole in their brand new rule, named after former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, that could allow banks to shift high-stakes trades from financial to physical markets.

"We intended the Volcker Rule to prohibit a broad swath of risky bets, including bets on the prices of commodities," said Democratic Senator Carl Levin, who helped draft the part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law that mandates the proprietary trading ban.

"The proposed Volcker Rule should cover commodity forwards because those instruments often constitute a bet on the future prices of commodities."

In the latest example of a refining company outsourcing its trading operations to Wall Street, JPMorgan will not only provide working capital for the joint venture between Carlyle Group and Sunoco Inc, but will also operate a 'supply and offtake' agreement that has the bank's traders shipping crude oil from around the world to the plant, then marketing the gasoline and diesel it makes.

If the rule is finalized as it stands the question will turn on whether banks can convince regulators that their physical deals are only done on behalf of clients, making them eligible for an exemption from the crackdown.

BANKS GET PHYSICAL

Over the last decade Wall Street banks quietly grew from financial commodity traders into major players in the physical market of crude oil cargoes, copper stockpiles and natural gas wells, often owning and operating vast assets too.

Bankers argue that forward contracts are necessary if they are to help refineries like Philadelphia curb costs and free up capital, to help power plants to hedge prices, or to let metals producers and grain farmers finance storage.

Forwards are essentially contracts to buy or sell a certain amount of a physical commodity at an agreed price in the future. Their duration can range from a few days to a number of years.

"To pull forwards into the Volcker rule just because someone has a fear that they could, in some instances, be used to evade the swap rules is just ridiculous," one Wall Street commodities executive said.

"We move oil all over the world. We have barrels in storage. They are real, not just things on paper. They go on ships and they go to refineries. It is basically equating forwards with intent for physical delivery as swaps - and they're not."

She added: "You can't burn a swap in a power plant."

Unlike a swap, which will be settled between counterparties on the basis of an underlying financial price, a forward will usually turn into a real asset after time. Unlike hard assets, however, the forward contract can be bought or sold months or years before the commodity is produced or stored.

Historically the physical commodity markets have remained beyond financial regulatory supervision and forwards are not mentioned specifically in the part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law that mandates the drafting of the Volcker rule.

But the drafters of Dodd-Frank say it was always their aim to prevent banks that receive government backstops like deposit insurance from trading for their own gain. They worry that banks could quickly boost trading for their own book in forward markets rather than purely for the benefit of clients.

"The issue is the potential for evasion," said one official at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) who was not authorized to speak on the matter. He said traders could easily buy and sell the same commodity forward contract, profiting on the price difference, without the goods ever changing hands.

It would be a useful tool "if you want to hide activities or evade margin requirements," he added.

RISKY BET OR HARMLESS HEDGE?

Kurt Barrow, vice president at IHS Purvin & Gertz in Houston and lead author of a Morgan Stanley-commissioned report on the impact of the Volcker rule on banks' commodity businesses said deals like JPMorgan's with Carlyle and Sunoco could be in jeopardy.

"One of the problems with Volcker is the way it is written assumes that every trade the banks make is in violation of it, and then they have to go through a series of steps to prove that it's not," Barrow said.

"If the banks have physical obligations they need to hedge, like in supply and off-take agreements with refineries, there are already concerns that they could be seen to be in violation of the Volcker rule. The rules are geared toward equity trading and don't take account of how commodity markets really work."

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, which alongside JPMorgan dominate physical commodity trading on Wall Street, also take part in supply and offtake agreements with independent refiners.

Without leeway to trade forward contracts, banks would have little reason to retain the metal warehouses, power plants, pipelines, and oil storage tanks that are the crown jewels of their commodity empires.

The future of those assets is already in question as the Federal Reserve must soon decide if banks backstopped by the government will be allowed to retain those assets indefinitely.

In the years preceding the financial crisis, major banks were at times booking as much as a fifth of their total profits from their commodity trading expertise, but drew criticism they could combine their physical market knowledge with huge balance sheets to try and push prices in their favor.

That criticism has resurfaced this year.

"Americans are already paying heavily at the pump for excessive speculation in the oil markets," Senator Jeff Merkley, who co-authored the Volcker provision with Senator Levin, told Reuters.

"The last thing they need is more of that speculation and risk-taking, especially when it would not only drive gas prices even higher but could also contribute to another 2008-style meltdown."

NO FORWARDS, NO PHYSICAL, NO SERVICE

The inclusion of forwards in the proposed Volcker rule has created concern beyond Wall Street. Some industry groups argue banks have become so embedded in the structure of both financial and physical commodity markets that they are now key trading partners for a wide range of firms.

"We were surprised," said Russell Wasson at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRESCA). "To us they are straightforward business contracts because they're associated with physical delivery. They're being treated as derivatives when they never have been before."

The concerns are the same as with other aspects of the Dodd-Frank reforms, the biggest overhaul of financial regulation since the Great Depression: tough new limits will reduce liquidity, thereby increasing market volatility and hedging costs.

The Volcker rule does include key exemptions to allow banks to hedge risk and make markets for clients.

But some commodities experts say proving that forwards fit into these categories may be too onerous to be helpful.

University of Houston professor Craig Pirrong, an expert in finance and energy markets who has generally argued against the proposed regulation, said he was skeptical of the hedging exemption's utility, and was sure regulators would take a tough line in the wake of JPMorgan's recent losses.

"They will have to provide justification that these (commodity forwards) are hedges or entered into as part of their "flow" business with customers," he said.

"In the post-Whale world, banks are on the defensive and I would not bet on them prevailing on an issue like this."

Banking executives say they are now desperate to convince skeptical regulators that their physical arms have been transformed into purely market making and client facing businesses.

"Banks have been working to reposition their commodities business... under the assumption that physical markets would be covered by Volcker," one senior Wall Street commodities executive said.

"Several banks shut down their proprietary trading about two years ago in anticipation of this. The argument that physical commodity markets will present some kind of Volcker loophole for banks is false."

(Reporting By David Sheppard; Editing by Bob Burgdorfer)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/insight-banks-deepen-commodity-deals-volcker-test-likely-051226951--sector.html

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SideCar offers smartphone-based ride-sharing

SideCar matches up drivers with passengers who need a lift, helping to reduce urban congestion, fight climate change, and create a sense of community.

By Kelly McCartney,?Shareable.net / July 2, 2012

Traffic moves across the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. A new smartphone-based ride-sharing program called SideCar matches drivers and passengers headed in the same direction.

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After a four-month beta program in San Francisco with a reported 10,000 test rides, SideCar officially launched today (June 26) as ?the first on-demand rideshare community.?

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Though the company's beta test was invitation only, the service spread by word of mouth, and SideCar enjoyed high numbers of repeat participants in both the driver's and passenger's seats. The peer-to-peer ride-sharing service claims to be more than just a platform ? it's being dubbed a transportation community which brings one more option into the shareable transportation fray.

Using the free SideCar mobile app, drivers and passengers can find each other instantaneously and share on-demand rides. Rather than call a cab, riders can use their smartphones to find a SideCar ride. Passengers use the app to set their pick-up and drop-off locations, then track their SideCar driver in real-time to get an estimated pick-up time.

The app also tracks progress to destination in real-time, offers a constantly adjusted ETA, and lets riders easily message arrival information to those at the destination. I especially like the progress tracker that uses mapping software. It offers added assurance that you're actually headed in the right direction.

The mobile app includes sharing and rating features (for both riders and drivers), as well as an electronic tip jar so the rider can help cover the driver's expenses. SideCar is finding that the contributions often cover drivers' vehicle maintenance and operation costs. And voluntary online donations keep the service within the definition of ride-sharing instead of a taxi service, though the latter is exactly what Sidecar aims to disrupt.

But, as SideCar driver Eric Janson notes, it's not all about the money: ?I started out driving to cover the cost of my car, but now I just love meeting all the interesting people this city has to offer. I often see the same people, and I'm getting to know them. It?s more fun than you can imagine at first. The other great thing is I can log in to the app whenever it suits me, so it?s completely flexible for my schedule.?

To bolster trust and safety of all concerned,?SideCar offers a number of impressive features. They seem to have taken this aspect of the service quite seriously, and for good reason given high-profile incidents at sharing economy leaders Airbnb and RelayRides.?For passengers' safety, SideCar offers:

• ?Criminal background checks for all drivers.
• ?Confirmed drivers license and screening of DMV records.
• ?Interviews with all drivers before allowing them onto the system.
• ?The location of the vehicle is tracked by GPS. ?This location is?recorded by SideCar and the passenger can also share this.
• ?Tracking with friends during your ride.
• ?Passengers rate drivers, and SideCar investigates any low ratings and?removes members who get consistently bad feedback.
• ?Photos of the driver and the car are provided through the app.

For drivers, SideCar encourages civility by passengers in a few ways:

• ?No anonymity: a valid credit card and smartphone are required to be a?part of the community.
• ?Drivers rate passengers, and repeat offenders are removed from the?community.
• ?No cash changes hands.

SideCar's CEO and co-founder, Sunil Paul, boasts, ?SideCar is more than just the easiest way to get around the city. We have created a platform for the first-ever crowd-sourced transportation network. With SideCar we can help reduce urban congestion, fight climate change, and bring back a sense of community and connection to our cities.?

? This article originally appeared at Shareable.net, a nonprofit online magazine that tells the story of how sharing can promote the common good.

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