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Jay Williams, a former Duke basketball star who played for the Blue Devils between 1999-2002, has agreed to become managing partner for the Leverage Agency, a sports, entertainment and media marketing company based in New York, reports The Durham Herald-Sun.

Williams, 31, suffered a motorcycle accident in 2003 that cut his NBA career short. Recently, he has served as a basketball analyst for ESPN. Although his contract with ESPN is up, Williams plans to continue working in television in addition to his new role with Leverage.

Leverage was founded by Ben Sturner, a 1995 Chapel Hill High School graduate, in 2005.. The company has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Beijing and Dubai and has sold more than $100 million in sponsorships.

Burkhart oversees TBJ's web operation.

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(CNN) - Anthony Weiner?s proclivity for sending sexually charged online messages is a ?pathological problem? that should prevent him from assuming the role of New York City mayor, Rep. Peter King said Sunday.

A Republican representing parts of Long Island, New York, King said on CNN?s ?State of the Union? that Weiner was ?not psychologically qualified to be mayor of the city of New York.?

King?s comments came days after Weiner admitted to sending lewd chats and photographs to women online last year. He resigned from Congress two years ago for similar actions.

Despite calls from some of his rivals to step out of the race, Weiner has not withdrawn. His campaign has seen a hit, however ? the NBC 4 New York/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released Thursday showed him dropping to second among the Democratic candidates for mayor, and his favorable rating took a nose dive.

Previously, Weiner was leading in some polls, which King attributed Sunday to a ?perverse celebrity factor? in the race.

?I just can't see any way, even if this latest scandal would not have come out, that Anthony Weiner could have won,? King told chief political correspondent Candy Crowley.

Listing past New York mayors such as Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani and the current one, Michael Bloomberg, King said it was impossible to imagine Weiner joining their ranks.

?I think he should do himself and everybody a favor and step to the sidelines,? he said.

Source: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/28/king-pathological-problem-should-bar-weiner-from-becoming-mayor/

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George Borst's move in 1997 to Toyota Motor Credit Corp. puzzled some Toyota insiders because of his lack of experience within the finance arm.

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LOS ANGELES ? George Borst, who led Lexus through the endaka currency exchange crisis of the mid-1990s and who has been CEO of Toyota Financial Services for the past 13 years, announced his retirement from Toyota today.

Borst will stay with the U.S. credit and insurance arm through the end of September, he told a meeting of top Toyota and Lexus dealers. He will turn 65 on Sept. 2.

His replacement will be Mike Groff, 58, the seventh employee hired by Toyota Motor Credit Corp. when the captive finance company was formed in 1983. Groff has been head of Toyota Financial Services' sales and marketing for the past five years.

Borst presided over massive growth in Toyota's finance arm ? from about $21 billion in assets in 1997 to $91 billion today, with its operating income jumping sixfold in that period, to $1.8 billion. Toyota's share of its dealers' finance business has soared from 37 percent in 1997 to 64 percent today.

In an interview, Borst said Groff is an excellent choice as his successor.

"Mike has worked in the branches and regions, in operations and strategic planning," Borst said. "His five years in sales and marketing have been the toughest five years ever, and we've had terrific results in that time."

Hired by McCurry

Borst was hired in 1985 by legendary Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. executive Bob McCurry to oversee the marketing department, a position that evolved into running Toyota's budding strategic planning department in 1991.

But his biggest challenge may have been as general manager of Lexus Division, a job he assumed in 1993. During his tenure, the dollar collapsed against the yen, making the cost of Japan-built vehicles sold in America much more expensive. The yen went from 115 to 80 to the dollar by 1995, and Lexus' launch momentum was derailed.

"I am most proud of my time at Lexus," Borst said in an interview. "When we started to struggle, we could have had bargain-basement sales and eliminated all those customer handling touches. This was our first test of who we were. And in 1995, even as our sales volume had dropped, we still swept the J.D. Power awards."

Borst's move in 1997 to Toyota Motor Credit Corp. puzzled some Toyota insiders because of his lack of experience within the finance arm. At the time, even Borst admitted he was a bit at sea. But his background in strategic planning helped meld an organization that has become a financial powerhouse.

In 2000, Toyota Motor Corp.'s 16 separate finance arms worldwide were absorbed by a new global finance unit called Toyota Financial Services Corp. Borst was named CEO of Toyota Financial Services U.S.A.

One of his first moves was to create a collaborative management committee to analyze strategies to help build the business. He also changed the unit's field structure.

In 2001, Toyota decided that its 36 finance branch offices should handle only dealer business and stop handling customer interaction. Instead, three call centers handled all customer service. About 1,000 people were affected, and some branch offices were closed. But with more than a year's notice, Toyota Financial suffered little loss of service in the move.

Award winner

The increased efficiencies allowed the unit's volumes to nearly double in five years ? growth that slowed only when the recession hit. Again, Borst made a tough decision, refusing to let Toyota Financial back out of leasing when the rest of the industry panicked. Toyota stood by its residual values, and dealers and retail customers stayed loyal to the brand.

As a result, Toyota has 345,000 off-lease customers returning to the fold within the next 18 months ? a significant opportunity for loyalty retention, Borst said.

"When you think of how competitive this market is, that's a significant advantage," he said. "Were giving dealers 18,000 leads a month from this."

Toyota Financial Services is now the No. 2 issuer of commercial paper in the world, behind General Electric. And the unit's in-house treasury department has won all four of the financial services industry's coveted awards for performance, stability, speed-to-market and risk management. No company, automotive or otherwise, has ever done that, Toyota said.

Those were key reasons why Borst was named an Automotive News All-Star in 2012.

Borst said he was proud that Toyota's finance arm ranked atop seven categories in the recent National Automobile Dealers Association survey.

"Toyota dealers can only get their cars from Toyota," he said. "But finance is a commodity product. It's a relationship business."

You can reach Mark Rechtin at mrechtin@crain.com. -- Follow Mark on

Source: http://www.autonews.com/article/20130729/OEM02/130729894/borst-will-retire-as-toyota-finance-chief

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RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) -

The Chesterfield youth soccer coach accused of inappropriately touching a young boy is due in court on Monday morning.

Investigators say 22-year-old Joe Crespo texted and groped the boy during a car ride.

Crespo has been in jail since his arrest last week. He'll appear in juvenile court at 11 a.m. for an attorney status hearing.

Source: http://www.nbc12.com/story/22953884/chesterfield-soccer-coach-accused-of-touching-boy-due-in-court

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The Haunted: - Open: Once a revered physician, but by falling into Lazarus's trap of poisoning Leonard Heyward, and was caught. Thus he became an exiled man because it was he who essentially killed Eden's favoured Dictator. It was during his short time in the Wastelands he happened upon The Silent and was able to see his point of view that Eden must fall. After the death of Leonard, he has experienced frequent visions of Leonard's "ghost", sometimes telling him things, sometimes merely asking why he was killed, or seemingly doing so to get some kind of revenge on The Haunted for killing him. (The Haunted Palace)

The Sleeper: - Open: A child, the AI who runs Gehenna, the entire underground portion of Eden City. She is a full machine covered by a human skin, in contrast with her brother, the more advanced bio-machine. She was created separately from The Enigma, and wants to find him. She was the first to be uncovered by "Mother" and the less complicated of the two. As such, she is mobile and can use her body to travel. She shows no emotions, but feels them, though it is somewhat limited. She can communicate with The Enigma through dreams. (The Sleeper)

Master Eldorado: - Open: Is an old scholar who travelled with the original people that founded Eden. There he finds the old books pertaining to how the city originally was. He is strong in his belief that it can be restored back and searches for someone that can do just that. He lives in Eden where he continues to study and teach about the history. He lives alone, sacrificing his own love life to see the city shine like it once had. He taught Leonard and Lenore hoping that they would be the ones to do just that. Now he works with the Lenore, Annabel, and others to try and get rid of Lazarus. He holds onto a book that is forbidden to anyone. He keeps it hidden in a small library that he keeps hidden away from everyone. No one, not even the people who was with him at the time Eden was found, knows about it. (Eldarado)

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JERUSALEM (AP) Israel will release some "hardcore" Palestinian prisoners as part of the new breakthrough by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in efforts to restart Mideast talks, a senior Israeli official said Saturday.

The remarks by Yuval Steinitz were the first Israeli comment detailing the terms for the negotiations since Kerry on Friday night announced that the two sides will meet soon in Washington to formalize an agreement on relaunching peace talks that collapsed in 2008.

Kerry's announcement came after last-minute meetings with Palestinian officials at the end of a day in which he shuttled between the Jordanian capital and the West Bank. In Amman, Kerry said Israel and the Palestinians had agreed on a basis for returning to negotiations, five years after talks broke down.

Steinitz's remarks on Saturday were all the more surprising because Kerry insisted that the agreement is still in the process of being formalized, "so we are absolutely not going to talk about any of the elements now."

Steinitz, Israel's intelligence and strategic affairs minister, told Israel Radio on Saturday that "there will be hardcore prisoners (released) ... those that have been sitting in jail for dozens of years."

In Israeli parlance, term "hardcore" refers to prisoners implicated in deadly attacks.

Their release has been a long-standing Palestinian demand. Steinitz didn't say how many would be released, adding only that they would be freed in phases.

But, Steinitz said, other Palestinian demands will not be met, such as a freeze on settlement building and defining the 1967 lines as borders ahead of the negotiations.

The fate of the prisoners is extremely sensitive in Palestinian society, where after decades of fighting Israel, many families have had a member imprisoned. The Palestinians are held on a range of charges, from rock throwing to deadly assaults like shooting attacks or bombings targeting Israeli soldiers and civilians.

The Palestinians mostly view the prisoners as heroes while Israelis tend to see them as terrorists.

Steinitz also said it was agreed that there would be a timetable of at least nine months during which the negotiations would go on, to prevent them from collapsing along the way.

He also said the Palestinians agreed to refrain from taking action against Israel at the United Nations while the talks are underway.

Other Israeli officials in the government could not be immediately contacted to back up Steinitz's remarks. There was no word from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who did not meet with Kerry during the American diplomat's trip this week.

And though Kerry's statement fell short of an outright resumption of Mideast negotiations, which would tackle the toughest issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he said the two sides had agreed on "a basis" for the talks.

"If everything goes as expected," Israeli and Palestinians negotiators will hold initial talks "within the next week or so," Kerry said.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who met with Kerry in the West Bank town of Ramallah earlier on Friday, said "lengthy talks ... have resulted in the Palestinians accepting the resumption of talks."

In a statement, Abbas said "some details still need to be worked out."

Kerry said all talks are being held privately.

"Any speculation or reports you may read in the media or elsewhere or here in the press are conjecture. They are not based on fact because the people who know the facts are not talking about them. The parties have agreed that I will be the only one making further comments about this," Kerry said.

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This story has been automatically published from the Associated Press wire which uses US spellings

Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10900965&ref=rss

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Fans crowd the entrance to the San Diego Convention Center on the first day of Comic-Con International 2013 in San Diego, California July 18, 2013. Comic-Con is a four-day geekfest of pop culture attended by some 130,000 devotees of comic books, movies and TV shows -- many dressed up in the costumes of their idols.

A masked attendee outside the Comic-Con International 2013 in San Diego, California July 18, 2013. Comic-Con is a four-day geekfest of pop culture attended by some 130,000 devotees of comic books, movies and TV shows -- many dressed up in the costumes of their idols.

A man in a Wolverine costume uses his mobile photo on the first day of Comic-Con International 2013 in San Diego, California July 18, 2013. Comic-Con is a four-day geekfest of pop culture attended by some 130,000 devotees of comic books, movies and TV shows -- many dressed up in the costumes of their idols.

An attendee carries her baby in a Captain America costume on the first day of Comic-Con International 2013 in San Diego, California July 18, 2013. Comic-Con is a four-day geekfest of pop culture attended by some 130,000 devotees of comic books, movies and TV shows -- many dressed up in the costumes of their idols.

SAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 18: A costumed fan attends day 1 of Comic-Con International 2013 on July 18, 2013 in San Diego, California.

Costumed fans attend day 1 of Comic-Con International 2013 on July 18, 2013 in San Diego, California.

Festival goers during Comic-Con International at San Diego Convention Center on July 18, 2013 in San Diego, California.

A general view of atmosphere during Comic-Con International at San Diego Convention Center on July 18, 2013 in San Diego, California.

A general view of atmosphere during Comic-Con International 2013 in San Diego, California.

LG Electronics and Legendary Entertainment team up at Comic Con 2013.

A general view of atmosphere during Comic-Con International 2013 in San Diego, California.

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A general view of atmosphere during Comic-Con International 2013 in San Diego, California.

2013 Comic-Con - Preview Night Event

A general view of atmosphere during Comic-Con International 2013 in San Diego, California.

A Storm Trooper walks through the crowd outside Comic-Con 2013 in San Diego California July 19, 2013. Comic-Con is a four-day geekfest of pop culture attended by some 130,000 devotees of comic books, movies and TV shows -- many dressed up in the costumes of their idols.

People in Star Trek -themed costumes attend Comic-Con 2013 in San Diego California July 19, 2013. Comic-Con is a four-day geekfest of pop culture attended by some 130,000 devotees of comic books, movies and TV shows -- many dressed up in the costumes of their idols.

Amanda Esposito (L) portrays the character Yoko Littner from the popular animee Gurren Lagann and her friend Jenn Hobbs is dressed as Tank Girl, at Comic-Con 2013 in San Diego California July 19, 2013. Comic-Con is a four-day geekfest of pop culture attended by some 130,000 devotees of comic books, movies and TV shows -- many dressed up in the costumes of their idols.

People in an eclectic collection of costumes pose together for a photo at Comic-Con 2013 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego California July 19, 2013. Comic-Con is a four-day geekfest of pop culture attended by some 130,000 devotees of comic books, movies and TV shows -- many dressed up in the costumes of their idols.

Attendee Shelby Cunningham is dressed as the character Sasha Blouse from the animee 'Attack On Titan,' at the Comic-Con International 2013 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego California July 19, 2013. Comic-Con is a four-day geekfest of pop culture attended by some 130,000 devotees of comic books, movies and TV shows -- many dressed up in the costumes of their idols.

Attendee Jacqueline Barker portrays the character Mileenathe from the Mortal Kombat series of fighting video games., at the Comic-Con International 2013 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego California July 19, 2013. Comic-Con is a four-day geekfest of pop culture attended by some 130,000 devotees of comic books, movies and TV shows -- many dressed up in the costumes of their idols.

Attendee Connor Sullivan, an artist and prop builder, is dressed as a character from the 'My Little Pony' franchise, at the Comic-Con International 2013 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego California July 19, 2013. Comic-Con is a four-day geekfest of pop culture attended by some 130,000 devotees of comic books, movies and TV shows -- many dressed up in the costumes of their idols.

An attendee in costume at the Comic-Con International 2013 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego California July 19, 2013. Comic-Con is a four-day geekfest of pop culture attended by some 130,000 devotees of comic books, movies and TV shows -- many dressed up in the costumes of their idols.

Dressed as the Submariner, Ian Bassett (L) and his friends in Ironman (C) and Captain America costumes attend the Comic-Con International 2013 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California, on July 19, 2013. Comic-Con is a four-day geekfest of pop culture attended by some 130,000 devotees of comic books, movies and TV shows -- many dressed up in the costumes of their idols.

Attendee DanWill McCann is dressed a character from Ghostbusters at the Comic-Con International 2013 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego California July 19, 2013. Comic-Con is a four-day geekfest of pop culture attended by some 130,000 devotees of comic books, movies and TV shows -- many dressed up in the costumes of their idols.

A woman dressed as Wonder Woman attends Comic Con at the San Diego Convention Center on July 19, 2013 in San Diego, California. Comic Con International Convention is the world's largest comic and entertainment event and hosts celebrity movie panels, a trade floor with comic book, science fiction and action film-related booths, as well as artist workshops and movie premieres.

Attendee Anthony Knight dresses as Skull Kid from Legends of Zelda at Comic Con at the San Diego Convention Center on July 19, 2013 in San Diego, California. Comic Con International Convention is the world's largest comic and entertainment event and hosts celebrity movie panels, a trade floor with comic book, science fiction and action film-related booths, as well as artist workshops and movie premieres.

Lisa Kruis shows her zombie outfit at Comic Con at the San Diego Convention Center on July 19, 2013 in San Diego, California. Comic Con International Convention is the world's largest comic and entertainment event and hosts celebrity movie panels, a trade floor with comic book, science fiction and action film-related booths, as well as artist workshops and movie premieres.

Ian Bassett dressed as the Submariner from the Avengers attends the Comic-Con International 2013 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California, on July 19, 2013. Comic-Con is a four-day geekfest of pop culture attended by some 130,000 devotees of comic books, movies and TV shows -- many dressed up in the costumes of their idols.

Michaell Cherry shows his Joker costume during Comic Con at the San Diego Convention Center on July 19, 2013 in San Diego, California. Comic Con International Convention is the world's largest comic and entertainment event and hosts celebrity movie panels, a trade floor with comic book, science fiction and action film-related booths, as well as artist workshops and movie premieres.

General view seen during Comic-Con International at San Diego Convention Center on July 19, 2013 in San Diego, California.

Festival goers during Comic-Con International at San Diego Convention Center on July 19, 2013 in San Diego, California.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/comic-con-costumes-2013_n_3625315.html

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Sunday, July 21, 2013

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