Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers review [Giveaway]

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The Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers are a set of A2DP speakers for your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad (or non-Apple mobile device) are different than similar offerings like the Jawbone JAMBOX in that each speaker comes in a separate housing so that you can direct your sound independently, in any which way you wish.

Upon opening the box I noticed what looked like a treatise on clicks and commands handily arranged on a reference sheet. Since I ignore instructions, I never looked at it. And I didn't need to. The Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers were easy enough to control, and since they're separate, I could easily arrange them to fit almost any area, including corners and cramped workstations. If you want sound where you want sound, that's a huge plus.

The Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers come with a decent leather-like carrying case that does look a little like a 1950s hosiery package, which was... disturbing. But it's convenient none-the-less.

The box also contains a charging cable, wall plug adaptor and a user manual that I will never look at either. Just plug the cable into the Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers and they charge, and their built-in lithium-polymer batteries hold that charge about as long as they claim -- 8 hours of play time, 240 hours of standby. It does take about 3.5 hours to charge them, however, so if you have a long trip or big party coming up, make sure to plan your charging accordingly.

The left speaker has a power button, mic, volume, and skip forward and back buttons, while the right speaker only has a power button to activate it.

Bluetooth setup is as easy as you've come to expect from iOS, and straight forward once you put it into discover mode by holding the power button for 5 seconds. They have the same range as other Bluetooth devices, about 30 feet, and the speakers themselves can be positioned up to 15 feet apart.

Now here we come to sound quality -- the Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers isn't bad except that there is quite a bit of distortion at high volume levels and there is no bass to speak of. That turns me off to these speakers.

Granted the Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers are significantly cheaper than the Jawbone JAMBOX, but we're living in a post-JAMBOX world now and we no longer put up with small sound from small Bluetooth speakers. Expectations have been set.

They have a mic, so you can have Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers serve double-duty as speaker phones for conference calls as well. As expected, they sound better than the tiny iPhone and iPad speakers both for telephone and for FaceTime and Skype.

The good

• Right and left channels can be position independently
• Easy to pair
• Less expensive than competitors

The bad

• Some sound distortion at high volume levels and bass isn't great

The conclusion

If you want separate speakers so you can position your right and left channels just exactly where you want them, the Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers are the ones to get. However, if overall sound quality is more important to you than a lower price or independent speaker placement, the Jawbone JAMBOX remains a better choice.

Bottom line, while they won't shake the house, if you want a fairly cheap, really flexible sound system for anywhere from the kitchen to the pool, the Qmadix iharmonix Q-i-sound Stereo Bluetooth Speakers willl do the trick.

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Today's College Students are the Next Great Generation and Here's ...

Published: July 31, 2012 at 04:18 PM GMT
Last Updated: July 31, 2012 at 04:18 PM GMT

The following is excerpted from Jack Myers new best-selling book Hooked Up: A New Generation's Surprising Take on Sex, Politics and Saving the World. The book focuses on "Internet Pioneers" born 1991-1995. They are the first generation of college students to grow up with the Internet and the first to cross the chasm from the pre to the post-Internet Age. The following is excerpted from Chapter 20: Jobs & Careers. For more information visit www.hookedupgen.com and visit www.amazon.com for more excerpts and the full table of contents.

Lifestyles of the Non-Upwardly Mobile

The life model for Generation X and Tom Brokaw's "Greatest Generation" was to commit totally to a job and job security. For the Greatest Generation, this meant mothers in unpaid work at home and fathers who were rarely home. For Generation X, it meant both parents working long hours outside the home with children in the care of daycare centers, nannies, babysitters, relatives and a string of after-school enrichment activities. More men in this generation have taken an active role in childrearing, and this pattern will accelerate among Internet Pioneers and Natives, who will be more likely to put families ahead of careers, even changing jobs and careers to adjust to changing family requirements.

According to the Bookends Generation study conducted by New York City's Center for Work Life Policy, 89 percent of current college students report valuing flexibility in their work life as among the most important aspects of a happy work environment. For Baby Boomers, flexibility meant leaving work early to catch their children's ball games or dance recitals. For Internet Pioneers, flexibility includes the ability to work from home -- or anywhere -- as an acceptable option. Tim Ferriss' The Four Hour Work Week even suggests putting in a full week's worth of work from a tropical island. As long as the island has wireless connectivity, this scenario is entirely possible for the next wave of Internet-bred corporate managers (assuming they can pay off their student loans and afford to travel).

Their focus on outside-of-work success may lead to a very different work landscape than before, with greater flexibility in how jobs are performed so long as benchmarks are met, and with the need for corporations to demonstrate social responsibility far beyond the degree to which they contribute today. Internet Pioneers will be less tolerant of corporate malfeasance and will be aggressively intolerant of a Profit at Any Cost approach to corporate strategy.

Because the generation overall considers global impact as important as financial gain, today's college students may be able to alter the direction of businesses as a whole -first by altering employment policies and later through their influence within the management chain.

Again, the Internet Pioneer generation of college graduates doesn't feel bound to follow the implied contract of job loyalty that served their parents and grandparents. For earlier generations, a college diploma meant a middle-class job and upward mobility. However, a combination of economic recession and overabundance of college-educated candidates means this is no longer true.

The Next Great Generation

Red Tree Leadership, a management training consultancy, describes today's college students as potentially being the "next great generation." How big businesses choose to deal with this incoming cohort of new team members over the next few years will have a powerful influence on the future of each company. Corporations that underestimate Internet Pioneers and Internet Natives do so at their own peril. Internet Pioneers have the potential to change, streamline and improve business ethics and communications from the ground up.

Internet Pioneers may need guidance from senior colleagues about the politics and social mores within corporations, but senior managers will, in many ways, have far more to learn from their younger colleagues. Internet Pioneers have grown up with the ability to multitask, to access information at any hour, and to conduct work from any place with an Internet connection. Many will be willing to work for less money, and even for more hours, if given the flexibility to work on their own schedules with liberal telecommuting opportunities. Even with the challenging reality of a tough job market for Internet Pioneers, they have the values, work ethic and self-esteem to face these challenges with determination and vision.

They may initially step back and wait for more appropriate timing ? meanwhile accepting roles they perceive as jobs rather than careers. But they will inevitably gain a foothold in small businesses, large corporations, education, government, non-profits, the arts and organizations. Once they gain that foothold, their unique perspectives and skills will enable them to mature quickly in their roles, bring new insights, and move up the career ladder into positions of increased responsibility and authority.

Employers who recognize these individuals and seek their counsel, contributions and ideas will be well rewarded. On the other hand, employers who fail to empower Internet Pioneers will find themselves rapidly becoming irrelevant.

Finding Their Way

Internet Pioneers prefer to avoid conflict, are uncertain of how their opinions will be received and are, therefore, often reluctant to voice them forcefully. They may, however, begin to find that voice as they move through their college years, gain more confidence, emerge into graduate schools and the workforce, and realize how advantaged they are and how uniquely qualified they will be to manage organizations and direct strategies. Internet Pioneers are likely to achieve success following the volatile economic and social climate of the next two decades, more so than the X-Gens who are finding themselves less relevant in a business world that is increasingly digital.

As the nation and world emerge from the period of upheaval caused by the technological inventions of the past two decades, we will move faster and further into the application period of the Internet Transformation. As change accelerates, the need for economic, political, societal and organizational stability will increase.

From our current perspective of economic uncertainty and political dissension, the future may seem hazy. Internet Pioneers are just a few years away from imprinting their values on the nation and world. Their priorities and challenges will be many: to advance logic, honesty and human rights into the corporate mainstream, and to assure that we return to policies that are of, by and for the majority of the American people and the people of the world.

In the coming decades, Internet Pioneers and subsequent generations of Internet Natives will dominate the workforce. Those organizations that empower them will be best positioned for success.

Source: http://www.jackmyers.com/jackmyers-think-tank/Todays-College-Students-are-the-Next-Great-Generation-and-Heres-Why-You-Should-Hire-Them.html

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Dr. Gary Steen ? Blog Archive ? Eyesight Workout routines to raise ...

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NJ's MetLife Stadium to host huge celebration of Talmud

In what is being hailed as the "largest celebration of Jewish learning in the last 2,000 years," nearly?100,000 people are expected to gather in?New Jersey's MetLife stadium in East Rutherford Wednesday night to mark the completion of a seven and a half year exercise in reading the entire Talmud.

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The $4 million event Wednesday night will draw nearly 100,000 people to mark the completion of the reading of the Talmud. The event has been two years in the making.

Rabbi Yosef Golding, who is coordinating logistics, says organizers have 50,000 ponchos and 35,000 towels on hand should it rain.

Golding says security will include 660 New Jersey state troopers, as well as federal agencies.

Organizers call it the "largest celebration of Jewish learning in the last 2,000 years."

Many attending have read one page of the Talmud, which pertains to Jewish law, each day for seven and a half years.

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Enghouse Expands Its Portfolio of Contact Center Vendors ?

A look at Enghouse Interactive?s Products page?shows it is not the easiest of companies to understand. Listed are six products ? companies actually ? that make up the parent: Arc Solutions, CosmoCom, Datapulse, Synellect, TelRex and Trio. As yet this list doesn?t include the latest acquisition, Zeacom. All the businesses in some way connect to multichannel communications and the contact center, with products that range, respectively, from communication management systems for Cisco, a cloud-based contact center, unified communications applications that improve collaboration between employees within an organization, a premises-based multichannel contact center, IP call recording and workforce management, and telephony systems, with Zeacom adding a cloud-based unified communications system based on Microsoft Lync.

Since Enghouse Systems Ltd. was formed in 1984 as a software and service company, the company has pursued an aggressive acquisition strategy but has largely left the companies it acquires to operate as independent businesses. This strategy serves Enghouse Interactive?s objective to provide systems that support organizations as they come to grips with customer interactions that arrive through an increasing number of communication channels. My research into cloud-based contact centers?shows that this is no easy task; companies today support around five interaction channels, and the number is rising with the introduction of chat, text-based messages and social media.? The research also shows that many companies see cloud-based systems as the answer, so it is no surprise that Enghouse Interactive makes several of these systems available in the cloud.

The primary example is CosmoCom. CosmoCall Universe is an all-in-one, multimedia, multichannel (telephone, video, email, text, IM and collaboration) contact center suite, which includes ACD, IVR, video-based IVR and interaction recording. It also supports intelligent interaction routing, as all interaction types, regardless of media, are placed in a single queue and routed based on the same rules. Single-queue interaction routing is supported by CosmoDesigner, which is an easy-to-use graphical tool that allows users to build interaction flows by dragging and dropping icons into a flow diagram, which is then converted to routing rules.? The product includes an agent desktop, web-based administration, performance dashboards and a full set of reports.? It is all IP-based, built to be highly scalable, and supports multitenancy architecture. ?These last three capabilities make it ideal for CosmoCom?s primary market, which is telecom service providers and large outsourcing companies that run the software as the basis for on-demand contact center services. For example, British Telecom?s Next Generation Contact Center (NGCC) is a network-hosted contact center that allows BT to offer its customers contact center services that are fully under the control of the customer because the platform is multitenant ? each customer can administer the service as if it were their own.

Enghouse?s Syntellect?CIM product includes capabilities similar to those of CosmoCom but aimed at the on-premises market. It offers unified multichannel interaction management (inbound and outbound voice, email, fax, SMS, social media and chat), intelligent routing, an agent desktop, recording and a comprehensive set of reports, plus post-call surveys and a complete searchable customer interaction history called iVault. Intelligent routing is achieved by converting all interactions to tasks, which are then managed from a single queue based on one set of rules. Rules can include agent profiles, so that interactions can be routed on more than agent skills; for example, they could be routed to the agent with the best success rate at handling a particular type of interaction. They also include predefined escalation rules so that tasks can be raised in priority. The architecture is highly scalable, distributed and designed to be fault-tolerant, with built-in redundancy at multiple levels. Although aimed at on-premises installations, the platform can be offered as a cloud-based, but not fully multitenant, system.

The Zeacom acquisition adds another multichannel contact center?platform to the portfolio. The Zeacom platform includes a workflow engine and capabilities to support business process automation ? two major differentiators that support companies? efforts to redefine their multichannel interaction handling processes. It is based on the Microsoft Lync platform, and so offers unified communications and collaboration capabilities.

In CosmoCom, Syntellect and Zeacom, Enghouse Interactive has made three acquisitions with very similar top-line capabilities but several lower-level variations. The question this raises is where this is all heading. More acquisitions to buy more market share? Not so, I was told. The long-term objective is to rationalize the portfolio to create a full-featured cloud-based interaction management platform that maximizes the relationships with Cisco and Microsoft. The company therefore continues to invest in product development across all three platforms, along with more technology-based partnerships and an ecosystem of partners to provide sales and services around the globe.

Enghouse Interactive is company to watch, with some interesting products that, if successful, will match up to the way our research suggests the interaction management market is moving.

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What A Tea Party Candidate's Win Means For Washington

By MICHAEL FALCONE ( @michaelpfalcone ), CHRIS GOOD ( @c_good ) and ELIZABETH HARTFIELD ( @LizHartfield )

NOTABLES:

VEEP DAY DRAWS NEAR: Mitt Romney's campaign won't say anything about when a vice presidential announcement will be made, but here is a hint: ABC's Jonathan Karl reports that two potential candidates who have been told to stand ready for an announcement any day now that Romney has returned from his foreign trip. The messages were delivered before Romney returned. The candidates were told to be prepared to jump into action anytime after the end of the trip. Only Romney ultimately knows when he will pull the trigger, but the widespread expectation of those close to him is that it will happen well before the Republican convention - although likely not before next week. As for who the pick will be, Karl notes that the shortened short list comes down to three names: Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan. WATCH Jon Karl's "Good Morning America" report on veepstakes: http://abcn.ws/NIRiSY

FUELING THE SPECULATION: Romney is back in the U.S. after an international trip plagued with gaffes, and at an event tomorrow in Colorado, he will share the stage with a number of Republican governors and veep potentials, ABC's Arlette Saenz notes. Romney will appear with Governors Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell and potentially others at the event in Basalt, Colo. NOTED: A number of potential running mates, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez head to Aspen today for the Republican Governors Association quarterly meeting and a few will participate at a conversation at the Aspen Institute.

OBAMA GETS A SUMMER BUMP: New polls from Quinnipiac/New York Times/CBS News give President Obama the lead over Romney in Pennsylvania (53 percent to 42 percent), Florida (51 percent to 45 percent), and Ohio (50 percent to 44 percent). The New York Times' Jeff Zeleny and Dalia Sussman write: "While independent voters break strongly for Mr. Obama in Pennsylvania, a state that Mr. Romney has been trying to make more competitive, they are closely split in Florida and Ohio. Of the coalition that Mr. Obama built to win the White House, independent voters remain a hurdle, with a little more than half in Florida and Ohio saying they disapprove of his job performance." http://nyti.ms/OCzJ7c

THE NOTE:

He's already being called the next Marco Rubio.

Conservative Republican Ted Cruz, who scored an upset - but rock-solid - victory over Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in yesterday's Texas U.S. Senate runoff is being hailed today as the second coming of the current Florida senator and vice presidential short-lister.

"Just like the upstart Rubio, who started with long odds but defeated long time incumbent Florida Governor Charlie Christ in the 2010 GOP Primary with major support from the Tea Party, Cruz did exactly the same thing in Texas," the Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody wrote in an analysis of last night's results. http://bit.ly/PokGJf

By Election Day, Cruz, a former Texas solicitor general, had already overtaken Dewhurst in recent polls. Cruz had the backing of Tea Party stalwarts like Sarah Palin and Sen. Jim DeMint whereas Dewhurst won the support of establishment figures like Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the erstwhile presidential hopeful.

As ABC's Elizabeth Hartfield points out, Cruz was also getting outspent. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Dewhurst poured $11 million of his own personal fortune into his campaign, spending a total of $19 million, compared to the $7 million Cruz's campaign spent. http://abcn.ws/NI5w6B

So, what does one Republican's victory over a fellow GOPer in the bright red state of Texas mean in the grand scheme of things?

As Brody noted: "Eventually the media and others will realize that the Tea Party is not only far from dead it's just warming up."

But regardless of who wins control of the Senate this November, we know that the upper body in Washington is going to be as polarized and uncompromising as ever, notes ABC News Political Director Amy Walter. Conservative Republicans like Cruz and Richard Murdouck in Indiana won because they insisted they wouldn't be part of a "go along, get along" culture.

Ultimately, it also means that even if Romney is elected President he can't expect to win votes on "team spirit" alone.

To put it another way, as one smart Republican strategist told the Note: "The fact the Tea Party can win is the 2010 story; whether they can govern and what the 'establishment' will do to retool is the question."

SARAH PALIN SEND 'CONGRATS'. ABC's Shushannah Walshe points us toward Sarah Palin's Facebook page, which includes this note: "Congratulations to Ted Cruz! This is a victory both for Ted and for the grassroots Tea Party movement. This primary race has always been about the kind of leadership we need in D.C. Our goal is not just about changing the majority in the Senate. It is about the kind of leadership we want. Ted Cruz represents the kind of strong conservative leadership we want in D.C." http://on.fb.me/Pr4eb8

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ABC's RICK KLEIN: Has a race ever had such wild shifts in momentum without the dynamics really changing at all? Now it's President Obama's turn on the upswing, coming off of a rough foreign trip for Mitt Romney and three battleground state polls that show Obama topping 50 percent. But lest you think anything is really different, the messaging is back to expected form. A new Obama ad accuses Romney policies of exploding the deficit; a new Romney ad blasts Obama over closed GM dealerships. So yes, those ads with the candidates looking to camera to lay out their visions won't be all we're seeing for the next three months.

NEW FROM ROMNEY H.Q. ABC's Arlette Saenz notes that Mitt Romney's campaign is out with a new ad hitting President Obama over the auto bailout this morning. The ad features a former auto dealership owner who lost his business during the bailout. WATCH: http://bit.ly/OnEFv

-The campaign also released this new web video hammering Obama over unemployment. "President Obama proudly proclaimed that his economic plan had 'worked.' Though with a decline in median household income and forty-one straight months of unemployment above eight percent, it's hard to see how it has been a success," according to a release accompanying the spot. WATCH: http://bit.ly/T2ll7F

-And while President Obama does not campaign in Florida until tomorrow, the Romney campaign has started the attacks in Florida with 13 large electronic billboards running today and tomorrow featuring real business owners upset with Obama's "You didn't build that" comment. The Tampa Bay Times reports on the campaign's billboard effort: http://bit.ly/OACwdD

Also, ABC's Gregory Simmons notes, this morning the Romney campaign is pushing an Op-Ed written by Ohio Sen. Rob Portman in the Akron Beacon Journal. The narrative Portman constructs is familiar: Obama thinks the government builds everything and is out of touch. Mitt Romney spent his life in the private sector and understands how to use government to create a business friendly environment. "By claiming that small business owners are not responsible for their own success, the president validates Washington's taxing them at the higher levels he is proposing to pay for an unprecedented level of federal spending," Portman writes. http://bit.ly/QoQ52h

ROMNEY WRAPS UP HIS JOURNEY OF GAFFES. With Mitt Romney returning from Europe, The Washington Post's Philip Rucker and Dan Balz write: "Romney flew home leaving two questions in his wake: Would the gaffes that dogged him abroad cause political damage at home, and did the trip speak to deeper problems in his campaign that could significantly hamper his hopes of winning in November? ? What he lacked was a strategy designed to draw attention to his role in turning around the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, which is generally regarded one of the highlights on his r?sum?. That left it to the British and American media to fill the vacuum with reports about his Olympics comments-which had some Republicans shaking their heads." http://wapo.st/OBm5O1

IN OHIO, OBAMA FLIES INTO AIRPORT CONTROVERSY. With President Obama traveling to Mansfield, Ohio today, ABC's Ann Compton reports: "If President Obama has his way, his Air Force One arrival would be one of the final flights into Mansfield-Lahm Airport," claims Sen. Rob Portman, who is often a surrogate campaigner in Ohio for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The Mansfield News Journal has run a series of stories and editorials expressing local worries that the air mission of the 179th Airlift Wing of the Ohio Air National Guard will end if proposed Pentagon budget cuts close it down. The local paper quotes Vice Commander Col. Michael Howard as saying he will park the wing's C-27J aircraft on the tarmac in full view of Air Force One to make a point to the visiting president. http://abcn.ws/MbtJMU

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NEW OBAMA AD: MITT ROMNEY, DEFICIT DRIVER. ABC's Devin Dwyer reports: President Obama has presided over three consecutive years of historically high federal budget deficits and the addition of more than $5 trillion to the national debt. Yet, in a new television ad for his re-election campaign, Obama casts himself as the only candidate for president with a plan to narrow the budget gap, while suggesting GOP rival Mitt Romney would make deficits worse. ? "You watched ? and worried. Two wars. Tax cuts for millionaires. Debt piled up," the narrator says, over images of the Bush era. "Now we face a choice." http://abcn.ws/R4aFSU

IT'S CHICK-FIL-A DAY, BROUGHT TO YOU BY MIKE HUCKABEE. Yahoo! News' Dylan Stableford reports: "The still-simmering controversy sparked by the Chick-fil-A president's public comments against same-sex marriage is set to reignite this week, as more than 500,000 people say they will join former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's 'Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day' on Wednesday by 'simply showing up and eating' at one of the company's 1,600 restaurants, while protesters backed by gay and lesbian groups plan to participate in a same-sex 'kiss-in' on Friday at the same stores." http://yhoo.it/T32KbB

NEW ABC/YAHOO! VIDEO: CAN ROMNEY STOP THE GAFFE TRACK? In the latest installment of "Top Line," Yahoo!'s David Chalian and ABC's Rick Klein break down Mitt Romney's gaffe problem and the 2012 race's turn toward the positive in new TV ads from both candidates. Klein: "It almost seems reversed to me ? you start by introducing yourself, then you try to attack, attack, attack-it seems like we went to the attack part first." Chalian: "[Romney] comes back, turns the page, there's the bio push with the new ad, there's the VP rollout, there's the convention, and I think they're going to start doing sort of a three-dimensional Mitt Romney." http://yhoo.it/M3l3Nr

HOW OBAMA RATES IN SWING STATES. Thirteen states gave President Obama an approval rating of over 50 percent in the first half of 2012, while 16 delivered ratings of under 40 percent, according to a new state-by-state data from Gallup. Obama is most popular in D.C. (83 percent approval) and Hawaii (63 percent); he's least popular in Utah (26 percent) and Wyomong (28 percent). Here's how the president fared in swing states: Florida (46 percent), Virginia (46 percent), Pennsylvania (46 percent), Nevada (45 percent), North Carolina (45 percent), Ohio (44 percent), Colorado (43 percent), New Hampshire (43 percent). http://bit.ly/M3gMtp

ROMNEY MEETS WITH GOP MONEY MEN. Politico's Kenneth P. Vogel and William Bergsrtom report: "Mitt Romney will hold a fundraiser with some of the biggest donors in GOP politics in Aspen on Thursday night on the sidelines of a closed-door Republican Governors Association high-rollers event, sources tell POLITICO. After attending public events during the day at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds and Basalt High School, Romney plans to join mega-donors in town for a retreat hosted by the RGA's so-called Executive Roundtable program, which will draw some of the biggest names in GOP politics, including several high-powered governors, a top adviser to Romney, Karl Rove, and other representatives of deep-pocketed political spenders, including a top lieutenant of the Koch brothers." http://politi.co/MYN2NG

ROMNEY OP-ED: 'CULTURE DOES MATTER.' After offending Palestinian officials with his comment about economic disparity and culture, and after later saying he hadn't spoken about Palestinian culture specifically, Mitt Romney last night posted an op-ed at National Review's The Corner, entitled "Culture Does Matter": "In some quarters, that comment became the subject of controversy. But what exactly accounts for prosperity if not culture? In the case of the United States, it is a particular kind of culture that has made us the greatest economic power in the history of the earth. Many significant features come to mind: our work ethic, our appreciation for education, our willingness to take risks, our commitment to honor and oath, our family orientation, our devotion to a purpose greater than ourselves, our patriotism. But one feature of our culture that propels the American economy stands out above all others: freedom." http://bit.ly/Naj8Tn

A PARTING GAFFE? ROMNEY PRAISED ISRAELI HEALTH SYSTEM. The Boston Globe's Matt Viser writes: "'We have to find ways, not just to provide health care to more people, but to find ways to finally manage our health care costs,' Romney said during the fund-raiser at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. Romney's praise for Israel's health care system was greeted with some surprise. 'We're laughing - for a Republican to praise the Israeli health care system, which is managed care, universal coverage, with no small amount of federal government control and oversight,' said Karen Feinstein, president and chief executive of the Pennsylvania-based Jewish Healthcare Foundation, which has been studying the differences between the Israeli and US health care systems." http://b.globe.com/NIN5yX

ROMNEY TRIES TO TURN THE PAGE WITH PRESS. After one of his traveling press aides told reporters to "kiss my a**" at a Polish holy site, The Hill's Amie Parnes and Justin Sink report that the campaign will reset its media strategy: "Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is promising to become more media-friendly after headlines during the Republican candidate's weeklong foreign trip highlighted an increasingly fractious relationship with the press. Fewer than 100 days out from the election, the campaign is expected to provide more press briefings and heightened access to the candidate in the coming days, and to make changes to the travel pool that will make it more media friendly." http://bit.ly/QdN0T6

BY THE NUMBERS: WHO'S MORE ACCESSIBLE? ABC's Shushannah Walshe writes: Obama has held five press availabilities plus answered shouted questions from the press during at least two other White House events, equaling seven times. Romney's number is similar. He's held eight press conferences since Santorum got out of the race. http://abcn.ws/Qv4Pzq

CHECK YOUR MAIL: SOME WILL GET HEALTH INSURANCE REBATES. ABC's Julie Percha reports: A new provision of the Affordable Care Act - called the Medical Loss Ratio, or the "80/20? provision - could mean some Americans will see a rebate from their health insurance companies tomorrow ? Under the law, small-group and individual-plan insurance companies that annually spend less than 80 percent of premium dollars on medical care owe their customers a rebate. For insurers to large businesses, the percentage split is 85-15. http://abcn.ws/Plqvqw

USPS TO DEFAULT ON TREASURY PAYMENT. The Washington Post's Lisa Rein and Ed O'Keefe report: "The U.S. Postal Service, facing a $14.1 billion loss this fiscal year amid plummeting mail volume, will default for the first time Wednesday, on a congressionally mandated $5.5 billion payment to the U.S. Treasury. Postal officials said Monday that without close to that sum in the bank, they can't make the payment, which is part of a 10-year plan to set aside health benefits for retired postal workers." http://wapo.st/Qv2XGZ

HARRY REID SPECULATES WILDLY ABOUT ROMNEY'S TAXES. ABC's Sunlen Miller reports: Here's a totally unsubstantiated rumor: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said that he's heard that Romney did not pay any taxes for 10 years. ? In an interview with the Huffington Post , Reid said that a month ago someone who invested with Bain Capital, called his office to say that Romney, "didn't pay any taxes for 10 years." ? "He didn't pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain," said Reid. "But obviously he can't release those tax returns. How would it look?" http://abcn.ws/R7HAug

PFEIFFER APOLOGIZES TO KRAUTHAMMER. ABC's Mary Bruce reports: "On Friday, Pfeiffer slammed Krauthammer for repeating "this ridiculous claim" that President Obama had removed the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office and sent it back to the British Embassy. It was later discovered, as Jake Tapper reported, that there are actually two Winston Churchill busts ? "I take your criticism seriously and you are correct that you are owed an apology," Pfeiffer wrote Krauthammer. "There was clearly an internal confusion about the two busts ?" http://abcn.ws/NamBRW

CALLISTA GINGRICH'S ELEPHANT IS BACK. Politico's Ginger Gibson reports: "Ellis the Elephant will soon be making a return to book shelves. Callista Gingrich, wife of failed presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, is releasing a sequel to her book featuring the time-traveling title character, her publisher Regnery confirmed. 'Land of the Pilgrims Pride: Ellis Discovers the 13 Colonies' is set to release in October. The first book, 'Sweet Land of Liberty,' followed Ellis the Elephant as he traveled through time to learn about American history." http://politi.co/NIPQjG

REID, BOEHNER STRIKE 6-MONTH DEAL TO FUND GOVERNMENT. ABC's John Parkinson and Sunlen Miller report: "We've got an agreement," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Tuesday following the Democrats weekly caucus lunch. "This is very good, because we can resolve these critical issues that directly affect the country soon as the election's over and move on to do good things. It puts this out of the way, and that's very important." Congress will not pass the legislation before the August recess, but leaders said they expect to vote on it shortly after returning from a five-week recess September 10. http://abcn.ws/T32ut5

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with ABC's Arlette Saenz ( @ArletteSaenz)

-FORMER BUSH SPEECHWRITER PUSHES PAUL RYAN: Marc Thiessen, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, wrote Tuesday that Romney needs to select a runningmate like Dick Cheney, suggesting that Rep. Paul Ryan would fit the mold. "That is precisely what Mitt Romney needs: someone who, like Cheney, is seen by conservatives as one of their own, and, like Cheney, will be taken seriously from the get-go as a potential president of the United States," Thiessen wrote. "But Romney also must shore up his right flank, and generate enthusiasm for his ticket that is currently lacking with the GOP's conservative base. He needs a pick who will give conservatives a reason to vote for the Romney ticket and not just against Obama-Biden. So the question for him becomes, is there anyone among the current vice presidential contenders who can meet both tests? One obvious choice here is Paul Ryan. Ryan is serious, substantive - wonky, even - and is clearly ready for the presidency." http://bit.ly/OISDYy

-McDONNELL: 'I LOVE CHICKEN' Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell waded into the Chick-Fil-A controversy Tuesday, saying people should be allowed to open and grow businesses regardless of their political beliefs and also declared his affection for chicken, WTOP's Paul Shinkman reported. "The governor of Virginia became the latest politician to offer his perspective on a controversy that could banish Chick-Fil-A from jurisdictions nationwide," Shinkman wrote. "When asked about the backlash stemming from the fast food restaurant's public opposition to gay marriage, Gov. Bob McDonnell said, 'I love chicken.' Following a pause, the governor continued: 'If we start having governments issue permits or zoning changes, or withholding those because of someone's political or religious beliefs, we are going down a very bad road.'" http://bit.ly/OITOaa

WHO'S TWEETING?

NEW: @RomneyResponse : Follow @RomneyResponse for the latest on @BarackObama's failed record, his campaign's false attacks, and our response.

@jaketapper : RIP Gore Vidal. I interviewed him 12 years ago > http://www.salon.com/2000/09/20/vidal_5/ ? Quite an experience!

@HuntsmanAbby : Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half->Gore Vidal

@jonward11 : my guess is the Romney "ad" on auto bailouts is a head fake, but it certainly got Chicago to jump http://huff.to/PlwRpK

@ckanal : 5 must-watch #olympics events today, August 1 http://huff.to/NIBMqp via @HuffPostSports

POLITICAL RADAR

-President Obama hits the campaign trail in Mansfield and Akron, Ohio holding two grassroots events in the battleground state. First Lady Michelle Obama will also leave the White House for the day speaking at two campaign events in Greensboro and Raleigh, North Carolina.

-Mitt Romney is back in Boston, Massachusetts after his foreign trip and has no campaign events scheduled.

-On the Veepstakes front, Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, Bobby Jindal, and Bob McDonnell are all in Aspen, CO taking part in a conversation at the Aspen Institute.

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