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It?s strange to think of Italy as upstarts, but given what the Azzurri have been through since their 2006 World Cup, their presence in Sunday?s Euro 2012 final is a minor shock. They floundered at Euro 2008, leading to the dismissal of their coach. They finished last in their group at South Africa 2010. Grouped with Spain and Croatia at this tournament, Italy weren?t a sure bet to make the quarterfinals, particularly given a squad that lacked proven international scorers.

Three weeks later, Italy has earned a rematch their chance to claim another improbable title. In 2006, the Azzurri won their fourth world championship while their country?s domestic league was in the middle of the?calciopoli?scandal. This year, with another match-fixing probe engulfing Italian soccer, Italy has made another strangely timed run. That they?ve done so with a less-talented team than the one that won Germany 2006 emboldens conspiracy theorists ascribing undo connections between scandal and success.

Spain ? the defending world and european champions ? aren?t worried about the mystical as much as the practical. Italy has neither lost nor trailed in the tournament, having already claimed an opening match draw from the Spaniards. That the world?s top-ranked team played well against Italy and wasn?t able to get a win had to be engender some doubts.

Doubts or not, Spain still go into Sunday?s final marked favorites. They haven?t allowed a goal since Toto Di Natale scored in the teams? first meeting, setting a record Euro record for the longest span without allowing a goal (a streak now up to 419 minutes). Between European Championships and World Cups, Spain have not allowed a knockout round goal since World Cup 2006.

Their quest to extend that streak begins at 2:45 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, when they?ll meet Italy in Kiev for the title of 2012 European champions. Here?s your playlist:

source:  1. Stories of threes and nines

Italy and Spain?s first meeting nearly broke the internet, with tactics freaks freaking out when a sweeper system went up against a team employing a false nine. Crudely translated: One team (Italy) was playing with too many defenders against another (Spain) with not enough forwards. Somehow, we got two goals out of a match that?s turned out to be one of the tournament?s best.

On Sunday, Italy will start with a conventional back four, though it?s unclear what Spain will do. They could see their first match struggles as caused by their lack of a striker. That would almost assuredly push Cesc Fabregas to the bench, even though Fabregas has arguably been their best attacker (when playing). He scored the goal versus Italy and was the team?s best playmaker when coming on against Portugal.

In that match, Vicente Del Bosqure gave Alvaro Negredo his first start of the tournament, trying yet another striking option. Negredo was also Del Bosque?s first sub after the Sevilla striker never properly utilized. Ultimately, the choice was little more than a hint that Del Bosque doesn?t have things figured out. Who knows which direction he?ll go in on Sunday.

2. Andrea and Mario

Italy?s had been a one-man show throughout most of the tournament, but with Mario Balotelli bagging two goals against Germany, Andrea Pirlo?s no longer the only star Spain will have to worry about. Fortunately for Vicente Del Bosque, the holders are well-equipped to handle both.

Against Pirlo, Spain will have a number players capable of pestering him. Xavi Hernandez is most likely. If Spain goes striker-less from the start, Cesc Fabregas will help. Also expect David Silva and Andres Iniesta to help, with Italy having almost no threat from the fullback positions. All of Spain?s players are used to the kind of high-intensity pressing that could disrupt Italy.

At the back, the holders have two defenders who match up well with Balotelli, even if a Sergio Ramos-Mario Balotelli confrontation could be explosive. But both Ramos and partner Gerard Pique have a combination of footspeed, athleticism, and strength that will keep them from being overmatched in one-on-one situations.

The bigger worry for Spain is whether their defense can avoid the mistakes that befell Germany ? the type of mistakes that were responsible for Italy?s only goal during the teams? group stage meeting.

source:  3. Relying on Andres

Even through all three of Spain?s forwards played well against Italy, Andres Iniesta was by far Spain?s most effective player. His willingness to dribble at and through defenders was Spain?s most reliable tactic, with the Barcelona star often forcing sweeper Daniele de Rossi into evasive action to snuff out movements.

Unfortunately, that tactic didn?t produce any goals in the first game. Though Iniesta started the movement that led to Spain?s equalizer, that goal came via combination play through the middle (David Silva finding Cesc Fabregas running through the left channel). It didn?t come through Iniesta?s ability to beat a man.

On Sunday, Iniesta will be going at a right side anchored by Andrea Barzagli. His injury during Italy?s first two matches caused Cesare Prandelli to go to a 3-5-2/5-3-2 formation. Since he?s been back, Italy?s gone 4-4-2 (or, 4-3-1-2) and have not allowed an open play goal.

Iniesta may be one of the best players in the world, but Italy?s performance since Barzagli?s return serves as a cautionary note. If Spain?s relying on Iniesta to break down Italy?s right side, the tactic?s unlikely to be more successful than it was three weeks ago.

4. No more patience

Last round, we noted many of Spain?s opening goals during their string of knockout round victories have come in the second half. Although they didn?t break through against Portugal, Spain certainly looked better at minute 120 than minute one, hinting Spain?s still capable of winning an attritional battle.

Italy doesn?t seem likely wilt by attrition. Though Cesare Prandelli has Italy playing with the ball more, they remain very comfortable ceding control of the game and waiting for their opponents to make mistakes in attack. That?s how they got their two goals against Germany.

That leaves Spain in the uncomfortable position of needing to increase pressure on Italy while maintaining more than a mere safety net at the back . You would think, given Germany?s problems breaking down Italy, one of those two things would have to give. Spain would either have to be more aggressive ? more readily push the likes of Jordi Alba and Xabi Alonso higher into the attacking third ? and push for a goal, or they could prioritize their shape at the back and perhaps end up waiting for an Italian mistake.

That paradoxical tension will define Sunday?s match. The more aggressive Spain are, the more they play into Italy?s hands. But if they aren?t aggressive enough, they risk Italy taking the game from them, as the Italians almost did in group play.

In that way, this will be the most difficult of Spain?s three major finals since 2008. Both Germany (`08) and the Netherlands (`10) were there for the taking. The Spanish could control the game without worrying about how that fed into their opponents? attack. On Sunday, unless they?re careful (or happen to score early), the qualities that make Spain so dominant could become their undoing.

ProSoccerTalk is doing its best to keep you up to date on what?s going on in Poland and Ukraine.?Check out the site?s Euro 2012 page?and look at the site?s previews, predictions, and coverage of all the events defining UEFA?s championship.

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Aziel - Coven Leader shall know the soon to be created Shifters Alpha. They have a Frenemies relationship though most dont know that since they havent lived long enough to witness their encounters. So most of their arguments will seem deadly to unknown eyes, yet really both of them would shrug an argument off after some brewding.

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Bristol Palin Reality Show: Pulled From Prime Time, Replaced By Dance Moms Re-Runs!


Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp is so unpopular, it can't even beat a RERUN of Dance Moms on Lifetime. So it's been pushed to 11 p.m., according to reports.

Lifetime will now be airing a new Dance Moms episode at 9 p.m. Tuesdays, followed by a repeat at 10 p.m. in Bristol's old slot, then Palin afterward.

The season premiere of Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp aired June 19 to abysmal ratings and worse reception from critics. It may be the worst show ever.

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It eked out a total audience of 726,000 viewers, many of whom probably hated it pretty bad, and a meager 0.2 rating in the key 18-49 demographic.

The show follows the daughter of former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin as she lives in an L.A. mansion and volunteers for charity.

Bristol Palin also rides a mechanical bull and so forth.

She brings along little Tripp, of course, her son by Levi Johnston, who turned down money to appear on the show because it's too bad for even him.

What's more, Kyle Massey, Bristol's former friend and DWTS co-star, is suing Lifetime claiming he created the idea and was screwed out of the project.

You might not want to claim credit for this debacle, K.

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Chimps attack American at South Africa sanctuary

JOHANNESBURG ? Chimpanzees at a sanctuary founded by famed primatologist Jane Goodall pulled a Texas graduate student into their fenced-off enclosure, dragging him nearly a half-mile and biting his ear and hands.

Andrew F. Oberle was giving a lecture to a group of tourists at the Chimp Eden sanctuary on Thursday when two chimpanzees grabbed his feet and pulled him under a fence into their enclosure, said Jeffrey Wicks of the Netcare911 emergency services company.

The 26-year-old anthropology student at the University of Texas at San Antonio suffered "multiple and severe bite wounds," Wicks said.

He was in critical condition Friday after undergoing surgery at the Mediclinic hospital in Nelspruit, 180 miles (300 kilometers) from Johannesburg, hospital officials said.

Oberle, who was doing research at the sanctuary, had crossed the first of two fences separating the chimpanzees from visitors and was standing close to the second fence, which is electrified, at the time of the attack, said Edwin Jay, chairman of the Jane Goodall Institute South Africa.

The sanctuary was temporarily closed after the attack, said David Oosthuizen, the institute?s executive director.

"The safety of our visitors and staff is paramount," he said. "We have never had an incident like this, and we have closed the sanctuary to investigate how we can ensure it will not happen again."

Oberle lost part of an ear and parts of his fingers in the attack, according to the South African newspaper Beeld. The sanctuary?s manager, Eugene Cussons, fired into the air to scare the chimps away from Oberle, then chased them back into their enclosure. Cussons is the host of Animal Planet?s "Escape to Chimp Eden."

Oberle?s mother, Mary Flint of St. Louis, said her son has been in South Africa since May working with chimpanzees, which have been "his passion" since seventh grade, when he watched a film about Jane Goodall.

She said her son knew the risks of working with chimps and would not want them blamed for the attack.

"The last thing he would do is blame a chimp for this. He adored them," she said. "Since he was a little boy he just loved them, and I just have faith that ... when all is said and done, he?s going to go right back into it."

The two chimpanzees were placed in their night enclosure after the attack and will be held there pending the investigation, Jay said.

Steve Ross, an ape expert at Chicago?s Lincoln Park Zoo, said chimpanzees are "naturally a fairly violent species, naturally aggressive, very interested in things like power and hierarchy."

Even researchers who understand their power, "sometimes just relax a little bit," Ross said. "And you can never relax with these chimps. They are so unbelievably fast, strong, and they?re always looking for an opportunity."

Ross has worked to raise awareness, but says many chimpanzees are still bred and sold as pets in the United States. People who raise them from infancy often end up trying to place them in zoos when they become aggressive adolescents.

The Goodall institute opened the Chimpanzee Eden sanctuary in 2006 as a haven for chimpanzees, which are not native to South Africa, rescued from elsewhere in Africa. Some lost their parents to poachers in countries where they are hunted for their meat or to be sold as pets, and others were held in captivity in cruel conditions.

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Mansion featured on 'Real Housewives' burns

By Samantha Tata, NBCLosAngeles.com

The Beverly Hills mansion that caught fire Friday evening, injuring a responding firefighter, was under major renovation after having been sold recently?by "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Laura Vanderpump, sources told NBC4 News.

Vanderpump and Ken Todd sold the home for nearly $20 million last year, sources told NBC4 News. It is the location where her daughter was married, and the home can be seen in the opening credits and titles of the Bravo! show.

"I feel sorry for the new owners. I mean, they paid a lot of money for it, let?s be honest, and now I don?t know. What is it, three years under construction? I mean, it?s a nightmare," Vanderpump said.

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About 120 firefighters put out the blaze that ripped through the mansion, fire officials said.

One of the firefighters was injured when?part of the ceiling collapsed on his head, officials said. He was transported to the hospital with minor injuries, officials said.

"Possessions, houses, they can be replaced, you know, my heart goes out to the firefighter that was injured," Vanderpump said, adding that she chose not to watch the footage of the fire.

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The blaze in the 100 block of Beverly Park Way (map)?was reported at about 6:30 p.m. and was reported knocked down shortly before 8 p.m., said Erik Scott with the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Within minutes of issuing a media alert, fire officials?reported they had?requested additional units to respond to the blaze, which had fire and smoke billowing from at least three sections in the home?s roof.

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Weather's Weird Role in the Slowing Economy

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France's Strauss-Kahn and wife have separated: source

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Report: Google and Motorola being investigated by FTC for not honoring FRAND commitments

Bloomberg is reporting that the FTC is investigating both Google and its wholly owned Motorola Mobility subsidiary for not adhering to commitments to license FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory) patents. Google has received a civil investigative demand, similar to a subpoena, from the FTC. The government agency is looking at the two l's that have been so much in the news, licensing and litigation.Also being questioned by the FTC are Microsoft and Apple as the agency tries to discover whether Google plans to offer licenses based on FRAND terms for standards-essential patents on 3G connectivity, Wi-Fi, and H.264.When the Justice Department agreed to let Google buy Motorola Mobility, and allowed a group led by Microsoft and Apple to buy patents from Nortel, the agency said it would keep a close eye on the companies involved to make sure that there was no patent misuse. Both Apple and Microsoft agreed not to prevent? FRAND licensing of standards-essential patents. Google agreed to the same thing, but only if the negotiations were on good-faith and that it had the right to go to court if no licensing agreement could be made.

To understand the amount of money that is at stake here, Motorola Mobility usually asks for 2.25% of the cost of an entire device that uses one of its patents. For Microsoft's Xbox 360, Motorola receives $4.50 for each device sold. For the H.264 patent that Microsoft needs for Windows, the 2.25% for the video playback patent in question, would add up to billions of dollars, assuming the average PC is priced at $500. That would be much larger than the capped license fee of $6.5 million demanded for the patent by MPEG LA. The bottom line is that the FTC wants to make sure that Google is honoring its pledge to license these patents at a fair price and would have to accept a much lower price for the H.264 patent.

source: Bloomberg via electronista

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