My First JUGEM!

The four finalists on the second season of NBC's singingbarbour jackets competition – Jermaine Paul, Tony Lucca, Chris Mann and Juliet Simms – gave their last performances on Monday night, and the winner will be announced Tuesday, based on audience votes. All four celebrity coaches also teamed up with their protégés for special duet performances throughout the evening, and the contestants each performed barbourone of their mentor's hits as a thank you for their guidance throughout the competition. But the night wasn't all about camaraderie. Spoilers ahead! Tensions continued to flare between Christina Aguilera and Team Adam's Lucca, who offered a bluesy take on Jay-Z's "99 Problems" for his final performance. Aguilera offered tepid feedback of her fellow former Mouseketeer's song choice. (The chorus? "I got 99 problems but a b–– ain't one.") Aguilera told Lucca he "sounded great" before adding: "Your beautiful wifebarbour jacket and your daughter and family are here tonight and I just thought, you know, the lyrical connotation was a little derogatory towards women." "It's called a metaphor," Levine snapped at her, insisting that the line was referring to "life getting at you, things bringing you down." "We're not referring to women," he added. "We're referring to everything." But Aguilera had the last word. "This is a real man [who] respects women," she said of her own team member, opera singer Chris Mann, who performed her song "The Voice barbour coatsWithin" before closing out his run with Josh Groban's "You Raise Me Up." Team Blake's Jermaine Paul chose R. Kelly's "I Believe I Can Fly" for his swan song. Paul, who gained stage experience as a backup singer for Alicia Keys, gave an impassioned performance that left his mentor, Blake Shelton, "speechless." "My heart is in my throat right now," Shelton said after Paul finished the http://www.shopbarbourjackets.comsong. "My job on this show ... is to be a coach, but I continue to feel like I learn things from you." The last performance of the evening came from Juliet Simms, who was battling "throat and health issues," according to her coach, Cee Lo Green.

SALT LAKE CITY―The San Antonio Spurs werebarbour jackets feeling good Monday night after sweeping their first-round Western Conference series with the Utah Jazz. They also were feeling some pain. "I'm sore," said reserve Stephen Jackson, who played 26 minutes in the down-to-the wire 87-81 victory. "Those guys play hard." Fortunately, the Spurs are going to get some rest before the next round. San Antonio awaits the winner of the Grizzlies-Clippers series, barbourwhich may not be decided until Sunday. The Clippers lead 3-1 after winning 101-97 in overtime on Monday night. "There's going to be some rust there," All-Star Tim Duncan said of the wait between series. "We have been playing so many games back to back, you're going to lose your rhythm a little. ... But health-wise and for us to get 100 percent in the tank, it's great." The Spurs blew out the Jazz by 58 points combined in the first three barbour jacketgames but had to sustain a furious rally Monday after going up by as many as 21 points in the fourth quarter. "This is probably the hardest-playing team in the league," said Jackson, who was part of the Spurs bench that contributed 57 points. "The way they played the last five minutes showed the character of this team. We take our hats off to them. They fought to the end." The Spurs can thank their bench for keeping them in it. Star sixth man Manu Ginobili hit consecutive 3-pointers after the Jazzbarbour coats had pulled within 61-58 late in the third quarter. And after the Jazz rallied from 21 down to get within four on Al Jefferson's put-back in the final minute, Ginobili turned a steal by MVP candidate Tony Parker into a layup that sealed the win. "I wasn't making many shots, but I wasn't taking that many either," said Ginobili, who was 0 for 8 from 3-point range in the first three games but had three 3s Monday and finished with http://www.shopbarbourjackets.coma team-high 17 points. "I really wasn't that worried. I was happy that the team was playing as well as we were. We were 3-0 and winning those games with authority." It was the West's second first-round sweep as Oklahoma City eliminated defending champion Dallas in four games.

NEW YORK ― Afterward, with their incredible comebackbarbour jackets completed, it was easy for the Rangers to say they’d never lost hope even with their season 6.6 seconds from the brink of facing another elimination game. But Brad Richards’ tying, power-play goal leading to Marc Staal’s power-play winner 1:35 into overtime wasn’t necessarily the comfortable way to win. "I’d rather not have to score with 6.6 seconds left," said center barbourJohn Mitchell, whose faceoff win in the Capitals’ zone set up Staal’s winner. "I’d like to give us at least five minutes so I’m not having a heart attack on the bench." But, to the top-seeded Rangers’ credit, they never exhibited frustration in their 3-2 win in Game 5 against the seventh-seeded Capitals on Monday night at Madison Square barbour jacketGarden, not when their early domination only led to a one-goal lead, not when their power play was faltering and not at the end, when they were desperate to score. The Rangers’ rally left them with a 3-2 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinal. Game 6 is Wednesday night at Washington and Game 7, if necessary, is Saturday back at the Garden. "I don’t think I’ve been in a game like that before," Rangers center Brian Boyle said. "It was fun." "The last minute was incredible," Staal added. "We knew we had barbour coatsa power play going into overtime and we wanted to get one and be quick and that’s what we ended up doing." In the first round, the Rangers lost Game 5 at home to the eighth-seeded Senators yet rallied to advance in seven games, marking just the second time in 18 opportunities the Rangers had rallied from a 3-2 series deficit. Monday, the Rangers’ comeback started when Joel Ward was assessed a http://www.shopbarbourjackets.comdouble minor for high sticking as he split Carl Hagelin’s lip with 21.3 seconds left in regulation. That allowed the Rangers to skate six on four with Henrik Lundqvist (16 saves) pulled for an extra skater.

ATHENS -- Greece's failure to reach consensus on a coalition barbour jacketsgovernment after inconclusive elections has produced one clear winner: Alexis Tsipras, the charismatic 37-year-old head of the Coalition of the Radical Left and the new force to be reckoned with in Greek politics. Tsipras led his party, known as Syriza, to second place in the polls on Sunday with 16.8% of the vote, just two percentage points behind the winning center-right New Democracy, relegating the once-powerful Socialist, or Pasok, party to third place. Syriza, which campaigned against the austerity policies championed bybarbour Greece's European partners, more than tripled its share of the vote in the last elections in 2009. In the process, Tsipras, an admirer of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, won a seat at the table in forming a new Greek government -- something that seemed unlikely just a few days ago. On Tuesday, he will attempt to form a coalition government, after rival New Democracy party leader Antonis Samaras failed on Monday to secure enough backing. "We never expected such percentages," a Syriza official said. "But thebarbour jacket message from the electorate is clear. They want a radical change to how this country is run, they want an end to the brutal austerity and we are ready to take on the challenge." Tsipras, who rides a BMW BMW.XE -2.23% motorcycle to Parliament, advocates annulling Greece's bailout agreement with its foreign creditors, the euro-zone countries and the International Monetary Fund. He has raged against the austerity measures and structuralbarbour coats reforms demanded of Greece in exchange for hundreds of billions of euros in financial aid. He also has campaigned for debt forgiveness or a moratorium on debt servicing for the next three years. Tspiras argues this is the only way Greece can build a primary surplus and extend a safety net of support to a growing number of citizens suffering from the recession, http://www.shopbarbourjackets.com now in its fifth year. He has been less clear about whether he wants Greece to stay in the euro zone. "The parties that signed the memorandum [on the bailout] now form a minority. Their signatures have been delegitimized by the people," Tsipras said Sunday.

MOSCOW – Vladimir Putin returned to power Monday amidbarbour jackets riots from demonstrators outside the Kremlin and questions over how he will handle a Russia that is much changed since he last ran the country four years ago. "Mr. Putin faces serious economic and political questions at home," said Steven Pifer, senior fellow and Russia expert at the Washington-based Brookings Institution think tank. "He may need a different set of politicalbarbour skills than have been necessary in the past." Russia's economy has lagged and the country is more dependent on energy exports for revenue than it was when Putin was forced to step down by the constitution four years ago. And world powers are putting more pressure on ally Iran to end its nuclear program. Pro-democracy protests have grown in strength, with thebarbour jacket biggest anti-government rallies since the fall of theSoviet Union taking place last winter in Moscow. On Monday, hundreds of activists tried to protest along the route Putin's motorcade took to the Kremlin. Many wore the white ribbons that are the symbol of the "For Fair Elections" movement. barbour coatsHelmeted riot police apprehended about 120 people, including opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. The inauguration came a day after Putin opponents drew up to 50,000 people to protest his return to the presidency after four years of his handpicked successor,Dmitry Medvedev. After taking the oath http://www.shopbarbourjackets.comof office, Putin stated his commitment to democracy. "We want to live and we will live in a democratic country where everyone has the freedom and opportunity to apply their talent and labor, their energy," he said before nominating Medvedev as his prime minister.

JERUSALEM ― Prime Minister Benjaminbarbour jackets Netanyahu and the chairman of the opposition Kadima Party struck a deal early Tuesday morning to form a unity government, a surprise move that staves off early elections and creates a new coalition with a huge legislative majority. According to the three-page agreement that Mr. Netanyahu and the opposition leader, Shaul Mofaz, signed after midnight, Mr. Mofaz will become a deputy prime minister, standing in for Mr. Netanyahu when he is abroad and joining all closed sessions of the cabinet. A former defense minister and military chief who has been critical barbourof the government’s aggressive focus on the Iranian nuclear threat, Mr. Mofaz will be “in charge of the process with the Palestinians,” according to a Kadima spokesman, Yuval Harel, who said that “part of the deal is to turn on the process.” The unity agreement came hours after the Israeli Parliament took the first steps toward dissolving itself ahead of elections scheduled for Sept. 4 rather than at the end of the government’s term in October 2013. With his coalition divided over how to replace a law expiring Aug. 1 thatbarbour jacket exempted many ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service, Mr. Netanyahu had said in a speech to the convention of his right-leaning Likud Party on Sunday night that he wanted early elections to avoid the instability of a campaign atmosphere stretching over more than a year. But even as the political establishment here was kicking into high gear in recent days, leaders of the Likud and Kadima parties had been in secret negotiations that culminated barbour coatsat midnight Tuesday at the prime minister’s home in Jerusalem, where he and Mr. Mofaz signed a contract, according to Mr. Harel. The two men then went to the Parliament building around 2:30 a.m., where they met with lawmakers from their parties, who voted to approve the deal, officials said. A news conference was scheduled for noon in Jerusalem. “It was at the initiation of both sides,” Mr. Harel said in an overnight telephone interview. “This is the best way to get influence.” In a brief statement issued Tuesday morning, Mr. Netanyahu, http://www.shopbarbourjackets.comwho moved closer to the center as a result of the accord, said: “A broad national unity government is good for the security, for the economy, for the people of Israel.”

SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--Crude-oil futures in barbour jackets Asia recovered part of the losses from earlier Monday as fresh buying kicked in following sharp selloffs over the last couple of sessions, but market participants remain cautious of further downside later in the day as traders in Europe and the U.S. react to the political shift in France and Greece. Oil prices fell sharply Monday after early results from French and Greek elections reignited worries about the European Union's ability to solve its sovereign debt woes, further weakening market sentiment, after disappointing U.S. jobs data. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude barbour futures for delivery in June traded at $97.09 a barrel, down $1.40 in the Globex electronic session, after having lost as much as $3.15 earlier in the day. June Brent crude on London's ICE Futures exchange was trading down $0.74 at $112.44 a barrel, off its day's low of $110.34. Crude recovered part of its losses, but the market could test fresh lows "when European traders come in to sell" later in the day, said barbour jacket Yusuke Seta, a trader at Newedge Japan. Prices may remain volatile amid thin volumes due to a U.K. banking holiday Monday. Buying interest may remain weak as the euro slipped further against the U.S. dollar, making oil more expensive for European investors. The euro was trading at $1.2986 at 0600 GMT, dipping below the psychologically important $1.30 level and down from $1.3083 in barbour coats late New York Friday. Earlier, it touched $1.2955, its lowest level since January. Crude prices have broken through key support levels, Seta said. ICE Brent may again find some support at $110.30 a barrel, "but this is not a strong support level" and leaves the risk of further downside. The defeat of incumbents in France and Greece is seen http://www.shopbarbourjackets.com as a backlash against budget tightening and austerity measures of ruling governments and has reignited concerns over the euro-zone debt crisis, which fueled a fresh bout of selling in crude following last week's disappointing U.S. jobs data. Exit polls in Greece signaled that voters delivered a stinging rejection of the country's two incumbent parties--the Socialist, or Pasok, party and the conservative New Democracy party--and the austerity program they support, with many voting for smaller, anti-austerity parties of the left and right.

TONOPAH, Ariz. ― Acting on a tip, U.S. barbour jacketsmarshals in Arizona put an end to an Illinois couple's life on the lam, a dozen years after they fled punishment for running a Ponzi scheme that targeted friends, the elderly, and even family members, authorities said. As fugitives, Nelson Grant Hallahan, 65, and wife Janet Hallahan, 54, lived in several states in the Southwest and had used a number of aliases, the Marshals Service said Sunday. The two were arrested by deputy marshals Saturday barbourafternoon in Tonopah, a desert community 50 miles west of Phoenix. Officials believe they hid in Arizona for the past couple years. "The 12-year run from justice of the Hallahans, also known as the 'Mini Madoffs,' has come to an end," U.S. Marshal for Arizona David Gonzales said in a statement. "Their investment scams involving barbour jacket family, friends, and the elderly, ruined many lives." The agency said it received a tip about their location after they were featured on "America's Most Wanted" the previous night. The couple pleaded guilty in Illinois federal court to bank and mail fraud conspiracy charges and money laundering. They didn't show up for their sentencing and began life on the run. While living in Peoria, Ill., the couple promised barbour coats their victims significant returns on investments, the Marshal Service said. They were actually running a Ponzi scheme, repaying earlier investors with proceeds from new ones. They also defrauded investors by selling interests in a tanning salon they later sold without telling investors, the statement said. The Marshal Service said the couple netted millions of dollars from victims, and maintained a lavish lifestyle, buying yachts, luxury vehicles, designer clothes and jewelry. Teresa Allred, 63, said she and her husband went to dinner with the Hallahans several times and had considered them friends. They gave the Hallahans $15,000 to buy more tanning http://www.shopbarbourjackets.combeds for the salon. Allred, who lives with her husband just outside Peoria in Morton, Ill., said the Hallahans promised them a 10 percent interest rate on the investment. Allred told The Associated Press Sunday night that they never saw the money again. "When she (Janet) was borrowing money from us to buy tanning beds, she had already sold the tanning salon," she said.

WASHINGTON―The Republicans who control barbour jacketsthe House are using cuts to food aid, health care and social services like Meals on Wheels to protect the Pentagon from a wave of budget cuts come January. The reductions, while controversial, are but a fraction of what Republicans called for in the broader, nonbinding budget plan they passed in March. Totaling a little more than $300 billion over a decade, the new cuts are barbouraimed less at tackling $1 trillion-plus government deficits and more at preventing cuts to troop levels and military modernization. The House Budget Committee meets Monday to officially act on the measure, the product of six separate House panels. It faces a likely floor vote Thursday. The measure kicks off Congress' return to action after a weeklong recess. The House will also vote on a spending bill funding NASA barbour jacketand the Justice Department and on legislation to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. The Senate, meanwhile, has a test vote slated for Tuesday on a plan backed by President Barack Obama to prevent a doubling of college loan interest rates. Fully one-fourth of the House GOP spending cuts come from programs directly benefiting the poor, such as Medicaid, food stamps, barbour coatsthe Social Services Block Grant, and a child tax credit claimed by working immigrants. Federal workers would have to contribute an additional 5 percent of their salaries toward their pensions, while people whose incomes rise after receiving coverage subsidies under the new health care law would lose some or all of their benefits. The budget-cutting drive is designed to head off a looming 10 percent, $55-billion budget cut set to strike the Pentagon on Jan. 1 because of the failure of last year's deficit "supercommittee" to strike a deal. The Obama http://www.shopbarbourjackets.comadministration and lawmakers in both parties warn the reductions would harm readiness and weapons procurement, and reduce troop levels.

The nation's unemployment rate continued its rapidbarbour jackets decline last month, falling to 8.1 percent as another 115,000 jobs were added throughout the economy, the Labor Department reported Friday morning. The jobless rate is down substantially from 9 percent a year ago, dropping most dramatically during the winter when the pace of job creation picked up to over 200,000 a month. While job growth has slowed recently, at over 100,000 abarbour month it still is fast enough to keep drawing down the unemployment rate -- perhaps to under 8 percent by the end of the year, economists say. John Silvia, chief economist at Wells Fargo Securities, said the economy this spring appears to be chugging along in a modest but durable expansion after a brief hot spell in the winter. "The pattern appears to be an economy settling in to 2-2.5barbour jacket percent growth rate -- neither accelerating nor decelerating," he said. Job growth was widespread last month in the private sector, which is entering its fourth year of expansion this summer. Retailers, restaurants, manufacturers, mining firms, white-collar businesses and medical offices all added workers. The only sector that continues to shed jobs consistently isbarbour coats government, where budget cuts are forcing layoffs and other austerity measures. The retrenchment in the government sector is a drag on growth, and economists expect that trend to continue -- most likely worsening at the federal level in the next few years. Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, said world financial markets will be disappointed with the 115,000 job gain last month, as many investors were expecting a heftier increase of about 170,000. The Dow Jones http://www.shopbarbourjackets.comIndustrial Average dropped by about 90 points at the open of trading Friday morning. While revisions by the department show that businesses created 54,000 more jobs in previous months, the total created last month was the weakest since the swift improvement in the job market began last August, Mr. Williamson said.