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Small-timers, probation violators no longer thrown in jail so easily Crime down slightly since ’08 {page 03} News Exelon’s oil power plant on the Delaware River off Interstate 95 is one of four in the city.

Pa. second-most ‘toxic’ in country Pennsylvania ranks second-worst for toxic air pollution, much of which comes from power plants, according to a new analysis. Only Ohio has more industrial toxic air pollution. Congress is currently weighing stricter standards for “Air Toxics.” {page 02}

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Fired for taking dinners A city employee who handled a large Verizon contract with the city has been fired for accepting gifts and dinners. Information technology worker Joseph James Sr. received 18 business meals from Verizon along with a Flyers playoff ticket and $77 worth of cheesesteaks.

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Society Hill choke suspect surrenders Society Hill mugging suspect Willie Wyche, 39, turned himself into police headquarters yesterday afternoon after police identified him from a surveillance video as the man allegedly leaving the scene of one of the attacks and mounted a public cam-

paign for his capture.

“Police had been going to his family’s house looking for him, so he knew he was wanted,” said Capt. Sharon Seaborough.

“He surrendered to the pressure.”

Six women have been similarly assaulted in the

neighborhood since June 25. Though he is a “prime suspect” in all of the incidents, Wyche is only being charged with the July 10 robbery on the 700 block of Lombard Street at this time. Detectives are working to tie him to the other crimes, including the most

recent attack on Sunday near Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

“When you look at the method and the location, it really seems like he did them all, but we have to let the evidence talk,” said Seaborough.

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‘Toxic’ reliance on Pa. coal, oil plants State ranked second on list of ‘most toxic’ pollution Study released by advocacy group as fight in Washington for stricter standards grows RIKARD LARMA/METRO

Pennsylvania’s addiction to coal and oil-fired power plants is well documented, but a new analysis released yesterday puts it in a new light as Congress considers stricter standards proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The commonwealth ranks second-highest for toxic air pollution from power plants, according to the analysis from the National Resources Defense Council and Physicians for Social Responsibility, based on 2009 data from the EPA. Medical experts say increased exposure to pollution can lead to medical conditions such as asthma, birth defects and development disorders.

“We know very clearly that the toxins pose a health risk,” said Peter Altman, Climate Campaign Director for the NRDC, an international nonprofit. “As a rule, the less of it there is the better.”

EPA has proposed revising its public health protections by making its Mercury and Air Toxics standard stricter, but some federal lawmakers have vowed to block the measure.

According to NRDC analysis, only Ohio has more industrial toxic air pollution. In 2009, the last full year for which data is available, Pennsylvania produced more than 50 million pounds in industri-

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District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman will seek the death penalty against James Lee Troutman in the murder of Skyler Kauffman, reports from the arraignment said.

Troutman allegedly killed Skyler, 9, at the apartment complex where both lived in Souderton, the Inquirer reported.

Skyler’s body was found in a Dumpster hours after she disappeared May 9. METRO

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Exelon’s Richmond Generating Station is one of Philadelphia’s four oil-fired plants and part of the company’s “peaking division.”

“We get a significant amount of our energy and rely heavily on the coal-fired power plants and most of them are extremely old power plants that have not been updated in 30, 40 years.”

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The coal industry argues

that it has reduced the amount of pollutants and that opponents are trying to get America away from

coal-based energy.

“When you use the word ‘toxic,’ I do dispute the use of that word,” George Ellis, of the Pennsylvania Coal Association, said of the analysis. “I think it’s more a scare tactic than scientifically based.”

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FOX CHASE. Two alleged firebugs have been charged with Dumpster fires, police said.

Kaitlin Curren, 19, and Jason McIver, 20, confessed to setting the 3 a.m. fire that spread from a rear dumpster to Bell’s Market on Bustleton Avenue, causing severe damage to the building, police said. They also admitted to setting a second Dumpster fire a halfmile away at Loretto and Solly avenues.

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Jail populations smaller, violent crime reduced Win-win situation over past two years New study finds jail population has declined 1,700 in two years Philadelphia’s jail population declined 11 percent from 2009 to 2010, according to a study released yesterday from the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Philadelphia Research Initiative.

The report reveals that the average daily population in 2010 was 8,273 — down from 9,321 in 2009.

The number dipped as low as 7,700 earlier this year, but rose to 8,048 in June.

Experts attribute the reduction to fewer people

being held pretrial and those held for parole and probation violations.

The fewer inmates, which depending on who you ask can cost anywhere from $20 to $95 per inmate per day, saved the city prison system $10 million. It also meant $6.4 million over two years less in police overtime and $1 million less for sheriff ’s officer salaries this year. “I would take it as a col-

The old House of Correction, left, sits next to the newer Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility o Street Road.

laboration and of better things to come. It’s a statement of what the DA has done in terms of changing some charging policies,

Still pretty high The city’s jail population still remains high compared to other cities, with the fifth-highest rate of incarceration among the 50 jurisdictions with the largest jail populations.

getting rid of some of them,� said William DiMascio, executive director of the Pennsylvania Prison Society. “It points out the move to more alternatives to incarceration.�

District Attorney Seth Williams said the policy changes have been part of a collaboration across the law enforcement and prison systems in Philadelphia. “Through our efforts to charge only the crimes we

can prove in court, divert small amounts of marijuana cases as well as low-level misdemeanors out of the court system and offer appropriate plea offers on other cases, we have simultaneously reduced the number of cases dismissed and delayed, reduced the size of Philadelphia’s prison population and concentrated our resources on violent crimes and other felonies,�

Williams said.

“We have simultaneously improved public safety and reduced the size of the county prison population — and proved that the two are not mutually exclusive.� WILLIAMS BRIAN X. McCRONE and SOLOMON D. LEACH

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Free Library wants TLC in digital age The Free Library's Central Branch hosted a dive barthemed author event last night as part of an attempt to attract an underserved demographic: young adults who have graduated from college but have not yet settled down.

“Once people have families, they tend to come back here for children's books; but in the meantime, people’s social lives don’t generally revolve around going to events at the library,” said library coordinator Dan Schiffner.

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But in hours of stormy questioning he seemed to rally his Conservative Party behind him and stopped short of bowing to demands that he apologize outright for what the Labour leader called a “catastrophic error of judgment” in appointing as his spokesman a former editor of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World.

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Checking in with some of Hollywood’s biggest names to see what they’ve been up to — in their own words, in 140 characters or fewer.

@TomArnold Biggest changes in the last 10 years: My love affair with my Blackberry and Tivo. You? @hwinkler4real So if everyone in England is resigning because of phone hacking HOW FAR BEHIND ARE WE here in the US It has to be in the NEWS CORP culture @Pink just tried 2do yoga class w/ a 6 wk old.even dressed her in buddha onesie thinking it’d keep her calm. wrong. so wrong. no dwnwrd dog 4 me @CarrieFFisher Though life is far from a bed of roses Thru which one lethargically loiters It nevertheless is more savory Than a bed comprised of goiters

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Actors Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Jeremy Piven, Kevin Dillon and Jerry Ferrara attend the ‘Entourage’ Season 8 premiere at the Beacon Theatre on Tuesday night in New York City.

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t was packed Tuesday night on Amsterdam Avenue in New York City for the premiere of the final season of “Entourage.” Mark Walhberg, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Jeremy Piven, Sir Ben Kingsley, Andrew Dice Clay and many others were on hand to say goodbye to the hit HBO show. Now that the series is done filming, we asked some of the stars we saw: Who would make up their ultimate entourage?

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Tom Arnold can’t live without his gadgets, Henry Winkler thinks this is far from over, Pink is adjusting to motherhood, and Carrie Fisher is keeping a positive outlook.

Bryan Batt: (“Mad Men” actor) I’d love

to have my mom, she just passed away. I would love to have her back.

She’d be first on my list.

I would have Christina Hendricks, and my friend Patricia Clarkson. They’re grounded and cool people and I love to hang with them. They’re also gorgeous red heads.

We’d go to Venice and get in a gondola and row and row.

Adrian Grenier:

Jeremy Piven:

John Lennon.

My mom.

Definitely my momma.

Doug Ellin (“Entourage” creator) My kids and my dogs. That’s it. I’m not really into the entourage. I still have

“The show this year will be extremely nostalgic, extremely touching. Everyone will be smiling and crying at the same time.” ADRIAN GRENIER, ON THE FINAL SEASON OF “ENTOURAGE”

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More drama on Lopez-Anthony While Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have announced that their split was “amicable,” sources tell People magazine it was anything but. The decision to separate reportedly came “after months

of nonstop arguing,” a source says, adding that Anthony feeling jealous about Lopez’s “American Idol” success and Lopez fearing Anthony wasn’t being faithful were factors. “

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Kevin Dillon: I think I would like Dean Martin. He’s a golfer, he sings great and he’s cool. He’s smooth as butter.

my best friends. My best friends from elementary school are here tonight.

They’ve been to every one of these premieres — even to my bad movie premieres.

— With additional reporting by Jeryl Brunner

Shooting down the ‘malarkey’ After stepping out for a business meeting in Beverly Hills in a body-hugging minidress, Jessica Simpson is shooting down rumors that she and fiance Eric Johnson are expecting, according to Celebuzz. “This photo agency is full of malarkey,” Simpson’s publicist says.

Constance Zimmer (Dana Gordon) My

husband, my daughter and my nanny. That’s pretty much my entourage. We go to the park. We eat a lot. We do a lot of eating. Mind you, that’s my posse. But my ultimate entourage would probably be people who are shorter than me and not as pretty as me. Anything to make me feel better about myself. Just kidding!

Matt Damon feels sorry for Brad Pitt Matt Damon admits

that he has it pretty easy: “I do the work that I love and need, but don’t need paramilitary troops to protect me,” he says in an interview with Germany’s Tele 5. “I have friends who are like prisoners. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, for instance. If they go for a walk, it turns into an international incident.”

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It’s been a whale of a week so far 1: Will Ferrell found something whiter than he is: Nanuq, a 2,000-pound beluga whale. Ferrell hung out with the whale at SeaWorld San Diego’s Wild Arctic attraction Tuesday in San Diego, Calif.

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3: Jennifer Aniston (love a leather one piece with pockets) poses for a photocall to promote the U.K. release of her film “Horrible Bosses” on Wednesday in London.

4: Abby Wambach, Hope Solo and David Letterman have a ball outside the “Late Show with David Letterman” at the Ed Sullivan Theater on Tuesday in New York City.

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2: Madeline Follin of the band Cults hung out with Matt Pinfield at Bowery Electric on Tuesday night in New York.

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6: Robert Downey Jr. hams it up at the “Captain America: The First Avenger” premiere Tuesday in Los Angeles.

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‘Friends With Benefits’ Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis attempt to make work what absolutely no one else in the history of predictable romcoms has been able to. At least they’ll look hot doing it.

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‘Zookeeper’ Fans of Kevin James will likely enjoy his romp around a Boston zoo where talking animals give him dating advice.

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‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2’ You may have heard about this little sleeper hit. The final installment of the franchise pits Potter against his life-long nemesis, the creepily noseless Lord Voldemort.

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‘Winnie the Pooh’ No 3-D, no computer animation, just a purely delightful little film set in the Hundred Acre Wood.

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‘Horrible Bosses’ No one likes working for a man eater, a psychopath or a jerk —

but very few of us would actually embark on eliminating said boss. Jason Sudeikis, Charlie Day and Jason Bateman star as three hardworking men who attempt to do just that.

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‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ Michael Bay has paid for the sins of the last “Transformers” film with this straightened-out sequel, which features fight scenes where you can actually see what’s going on.

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Chris Evans puts his very square jaw to use as the Marvel Comics hero.

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‘What’s stayed the same is that we have a good time’ ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ is back for its eighth season Star Jeff Garlin dishes about life on and off the set

Matt Lauria guest stars on “Burn Notice.”

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n between interviews and an acupuncture appointment, Jeff Garlin wasn’t able to tell us too much about the eighth season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” on which he plays Larry David’s irritable manager. The 49-year-old actor and comedian did, however, spill some tidbits about starring on the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning show.

‘Burn Notice’ DRAMA. After playing under “Friday Night Lights” and walking the beat as a rookie cop on “The Chicago Code,” Matt Lauria is now a former Special Forces soldier in need of Michael’s special brand of help.

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‘Love Bites’

What can we expect to see this season?

COMEDY. Bed bugs are doing the biting tonight when Jodie and Charlie move in to a new place. 10 p.m., NBC

I hope that people will think it’s funny. I can’t really give anything away.

How about your character?

Any major upheavals?

‘Futurama’ COMEDY. Leela creates a hit TV show, possibly with the aid of Matt Groening’s head in a jar. 10 p.m., Comedy Central AMBER RAY

There’s actually one big upheaval. There’s one big change for my character early in the season.

What’s changed over the past eight seasons, and what has remained the same?

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Q&A Have Larry’s neuroses rubbed off on you?

No. It’s all pretend. We don’t blur a line between off-camera and on-camera.

He’s been a big influence on me personally, but that’s not the character that people see.

that we improvise, we have a good time and we don’t believe the hype. What’s changed is the shows have become more dense as the years go on. There’s more things going on in each episode.

Do you curse as much as your onscreen wife, Susie Essman?

Yes, I actually do curse a lot, more than I’d like. People come up to me on the street and say, “My wife is just like Susie,” and the wife is standing right there, and

they’re proud of it. I’m like, “Are you kidding me?”

I hear that you might play Babe Ruth in an upcoming movie. Is that true?

That’s not true. I was offered that role and a friend of mine at the time was directing it. I said, “Sure, I’m interested,” and the money never came together. And also, I’m dropping weight, so if they want me to be Babe Ruth, they had better hurry up.

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I eat healthy and I exercise.

Dieting is a bunch of crap.

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Slipknot singer’s ‘Deadly’ new book He’s led a wild life as the lead singer of hard rock bands Slipknot and Stone Sour, but Corey Taylor is also surprisingly sensitive.

The 37-year-old’s first book, “Seven Deadly Sins” — dedicated to his children, wife and grandmother — is an in-depth argument for the redefinition of sin, meshed with personal stories from his childhood and career.

How is your book different from other rock-star books?

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ples, so I can only hope that people take a lot of different things away from it.

versus believing in God and having faith. Like, how can I believe in ghosts when I don’t believe in God? It’s like believing in aliens and not God. ... It’ll probably be a lot more comedy, and some of the chapters will probably be a little darker than “Seven Deadly Sins,” but I’m actually gonna go out and go on different ghost hunts.

Will you write more books?

I wrote it myself — that’s probably a huge difference.

A lot of people think that just sitting down with someone who’s punching letters into a computer counts as writing your own book, but I completely disagree. I felt I had a very relevant thing to say and I could use my own life as exam-

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I’ve actually been talking about a concept for another book; I’m kind of waiting to see how this book does before I start working on it, but I’ve pretty much written the first chapter.

What’s it about?

Basically, it’ll be a collection of stories, the difference between believing in the paranormal or the supernatural,

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What will you tell your kids if they want to read your book?

I guess what I would say to my kids is like, “Look: Don’t miss the point. It’s supposed to be talking about being human, making mistakes and at the end of the day, striving to be a better person. And [it’s about] using these ‘sins’ to whittle away all the clay to get to what’s inside, which is the beautiful sculpture, the beautiful piece of art, the human that you wanna be.”

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going out Food and drink Philadelphia Zoo Summer Ale Festival Saturday, 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Advance tickets required: $60-$90 ($39 for designated drivers) www.philadelphiazoo.org After the field trips go home, the zoo turns into a mega beer garden this Saturday with craft brews from over 20 local breweries to pair up with nibbles from more than 30 restaurants. And, of course, we can’t forget about the lions — try finding another place to drink with lions this weekend.

Farm to Fork Week Through Saturday www.sjhotchefs.com This annual partnership between South Jersey farmers and chefs is back, with more than 30 restaurants offering special menus starring local ingredients. Participants serving the four-course menus ($25-$35) include Caffe Aldo Lamberti, Arugula and Carolina Blue, while 1895 Organic Farm, Hunters Farm, Muth Family Farm and Spinella Farm are providing the goods.

University City Dining Days Through July 28 www.universitycity.org Summer is the prime time to sample what University

City’s restaurants and bars have to offer. For an extra bonus, do it now while many are offering special three-course menus for three different prices. In the $15 range, try Tria’s new sibling across the river, Biba, or go west with Dock Street. On the higher end, neighborhood fave Rx has a $25 menu, and JG Domestic is offering a $30 prix fixe.

THE RUNDOWN Metro’s guide to what’s happening in Philly this week

Vox Populi Benefit Show

Arts Shakespeare in Clark Park Through Sunday Free, Chester Ave. and 43rd streets www.shakespearein clarkpark.org This magical West Philly series is back with an outdoor performance of the Bard’s “Much Ado About Nothing.”

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Tonight, 9 Johnny Brenda’s, $10 www.voxpopuligallery.org Reading Rainbow, Creepoid, Gunn-Truscinski Duo and Dan Murphy (of Megawords) play this benefit for the always innovative gallery. Next weekend, help them celebrate the opening of AUX, their new live arts performance space.

BalletX: Summer Series 2011

Awesome Fest: ‘Orbit’ Sunday, 7:30 p.m.

The Piazza at Schmidts www.theawesomefest.com This new, free outdoor series from PUFF and Philly CineFest artistic director Josh Goldbloom brings both obscure indies and more mainstream films to the Piazza’s gigantic screen. This week, stop by for “Orbit,” a story of the solar system told through short films about each planet. And yes — Pluto is on the bill.

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Through Sunday The Wilma Theater $20-$30 www.balletx.org Two world premieres (“Castrati” by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Roger C. Jeffrey’s “a soliloquy among many”) a company premiere (“It’s Not a Cry”

by Amy Seiwert) and the company’s first short film (“en dedans,” by Gabrielle Lamb) make up BalletX’s season finale.

Rihanna: Loud Tour Saturday, 7:30 p.m.

The Wells Fargo Center $23-$250, www.wells fargocenterphilly.com Somehow, Rihanna found room among the platforms and props to pack guest J. Cole on her summer tour.

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National Hot Dog Day at Silicon Gallery

Movie Monday: ‘Arthur’ Monday, 8 p.m.

The Trocadero $3 (goes toward a drink) www.thetroc.com Russell Brand flicks are what the Troc’s delightfully rowdy Movie Monday series were made for. This week, they screen this remake starring Brand as a childish billionaire and Helen Mirren as his sassy caretaker.

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Rihanna is in town this weekend.

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Squeeze a quarter lime wedge on top of the cocktail. Garnish with a piece of lime and candied pineapple.

Ben Folds plays the River Stage at 6:40 p.m. on Sunday. The festival runs Friday through Sunday at Wiggins Park on the Waterfront in Camden.

For details, visit www.xpn.org.

XPoNential Music Festival WXPN’s annual weekend-long jam on the river is back, with no shortage of both local and bigger-name acts.

These are just a few of the reasons you might want to consider hanging out in shore-bound bridge traffic: Emmylou Harris, Citizen Cope, Ra Ra Riot, Matt Duke, Hezekiah Jones and Andrew Lipke, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Kuf Knotz and The Smithereens.

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RE: “IF ONLY VEGGIES TASTED BETTER”: Reader Mark,

what separates us from the geese upon whose livers you feast is our alleged capacity for compassion. I’m sure you’ll be able to fill the foie void in your life somehow — maybe go to the park and watch the geese.

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Your blatant advocacy for the torture of a species just so people like you can have the luxury of enjoying an unnecessary delicacy is completely repulsive.

The wrinkled prune (I’ve seen better-looking burn victims) Rupert Murdoch testified that he employs 53,000 great and ethical people (sans the 10 arrested and one dead). He’s up on that, but when it came to paying hacking victims multimillion-dollar settlements, he claims he knows nothing. If I were James Murdoch, I’d brush up the old man on the definition of perjury.

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First the Strauss-Kahn screw up, then the Casey Anthony screw up, and

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From what I can see, justice is not just blind, but deaf and dumb, too.

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Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 23. Owing to an inclination to negatively judge people in advance, you could easily begin a relationship thinking the worst of someone.

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Sagittarius Nov. 23-Dec. 21. Just because a friend of yours is in a mood that makes him or her difficult to get along with at this point in time, there’s no reason to shun this person altogether.

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I don’t know if Congress has awakened to the fact yet that their duty in office is to the American people first and foremost, and not to stall the government. This isn’t a game of Scrabble or tictac-toe; real lives weigh in the balance and real money is on the line here.

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Act now, or hold our peace RE: “DEMOCRATS WILL INDEED PAY TAX”: Tax

increases sound like a simple answer (aside from the fact that taxation is theft), but they will just create more of the same gluttonous spending. Try cutting $1.6 trillion immediately from the next fiscal year. There is plenty of

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Whatever it is, if the debt ceiling is not raised, the market will crash along with those dear US bondholders and whatnot.

Why it has to be done on the back of the elderly or anyone or anything else beats me, but so be it.

America Inc. is not a welfare state, so let’s now put our words into action and eat our peas.

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Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19. Once you establish an objective, you’re apt be quite headstrong when going after it — which is well and good, as long as you don’t carry it too far.

Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 19. If you’re looking for some encouragement, don’t seek out the opinions of someone who seldom endorses another person’s ideas. All you’ll get is a negative assessment.

Pisces Feb. 20-March 20. Be careful about borrowing money that you could have trouble paying back, and avoid loaning out what you can’t afford to lose. In either case, it is likely to be problematic for you.

Aries March 21-April 19. Your selfsufficient qualities might desert you and you could wrongfully depend on others to accomplish your aims.

You won’t like what they do, and you won’t relish the results.

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Rollins homers from both sides Worley dominates in eight innings Team hosts Padres this weekend

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Overall wins (36 losses) for the Phillies this season. This weekend, the team returns to Citizens Bank Park, where they are 34-15. lins, Braves and Mets.

Vance Worley (6-1) dominated for eight innings, as the 23-year-old allowed just one run on four hits while striking out seven

and walking two. Ryan Madson worked a perfect ninth to seal the deal. Worley had a no-hitter going until Geovany Soto singled with one out in the fifth.

Michael Martinez continued his torrid stretch, with two hits, two steals and two runs. The Rule 5 pick is hitting .379 with six runs since July 9. Chase Utley added two RBI doubles.

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But the heat index, along with Jimmy Rollins’ smoking lumber, sure made it feel a lot hotter.

Rollins homered from both sides of the plate — a solo shot from the left in the sixth and another from the right in the eighth — as the Phillies beat the Cubs, 9-1. It was the eighth straight series’ win for the team, following victories over the Cardinals, Athletics, Red Sox, Blue Jays, Mar-

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Colombian goalkeeper humbled to be All-Star In their expansion season, the goalkeeping was inconsistent. That’s to be expected with young players like Chris Seitz and Brad Knighton.

All that changed in the winter when the Union brought in Faryd Mondragon. The 40-year-old Colombian goalkeeper has been more than a stabilizer. He’s been rock solid.

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Mondragon has posted a 0.84 goals-against average, along with seven shutouts

in 19 games.

“I’m obviously very proud, very happy,” said Mondragon. “I have to thank the ownership, front office, technical staff, fans and especially the players who have made my job very, very easy.”

Mondragon played in the 1992 Olympics and the ’98 FIFA World Cup. Capped 50 times by Colom-

bia, Mondragon was last in net for the national team when Colombia met the U.S. at PPL Park in 2010.

Now, he’s in net for the Eastern Conference-leading Union — and it has been a perfect marriage.

“I’m very humbled and proud,” Mondragon said.

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Deal with it Eagles QB Michael Vick picked up his third national endorsement yesterday, agreeing to represent Fuse Science, Inc. and its line of sports nutrition vitamins.

Lockout not over, but expected to end today Two sides working out last few kinks, says ESPN NFLPA president: ‘We’re not tied to timeline’ Tick, tock. Tick, tock.

No? Yesterday, the clock appeared to be ticking down on a new collective bargaining agreement and the end of the NFL lockout. Unfortunately, player reps left NFLPA headquarters in Washington, D.C. without a vote. The holdup, according to ESPN, was the lack

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The sports world fell in love with Rory McIlroy when he played three brilliant rounds at the Masters and then spectacularly collapsed on Sunday.

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You know that Biggie song, ‘Mo Money, Mo Problems?’ McIlroy’s success led to some issues with his longtime girlfriend, and the two were on and off prior to last week’s British Open.

Guess what McIlroy did Sunday after his final round?

Reportedly, he took a train to go and meet his rumored new girlfriend, the No. 1 tennis player in the world, Caroline Wozniacki. An intrepid blogger snapped two grainy

photos of McIlroy and Wozniacki at a bar and then in the street, but neither’s camp has confirmed or denied the budding romance.

After Greg Norman and Chris Evert, McIlroy and Wozniacki would have to be the second most-famous golf-tennis coupling of all time, right?

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Kenny Britt, the Titans wide receiver who leads the NFL in arrests during the lockout with three, attended a Britney Spears concert Monday in Nashville. For whatever reason, he ended up onstage (Britt and Britney, get it? Ha!), and in an ironic twist, was handcuffed to a pole. Britney wrapped a pink boa around Kenny Britt’s shoulders.

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Christmas in July The best and brightest video games hit store shelves just in time for the holidays Let’s take a look at a few of these stocking stuffers of the future just one more year.

‘The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword’

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What’s new this time around? In a word, swordplay. Fighting is more realistic than ever thanks to MotionPlus technology.

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