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Former political enemies join hands to save the world? Richard Cowan (Front Row Washington) Submitted at 5/19/2010 6:02:01 PM

Nearly six years ago, Senator John Kerry and Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens were mortal political enemies. As a major backer of President George W. Bush’s re-election effort in 2004, Pickens contributed millions to a rightwing ad campaign questioning Kerry’s record as a Vietnam war hero. The ads, which Kerry disputed, put him on the defensive and may have contributed to the Democrat’s failure to win the White House. On Wednesday, the billionaire and the Massachusetts senator sat side-by-side in the Capitol’s ornate Senate Foreign Relations Committee room, where Kerry presides as its chairman. Their mission: To spread the word about the legislation Kerry

and Senator Joseph Lieberman have written to tackle global warming by reducing U.S. consumption of dirtyburning fossil fuels blamed for climate change. “If you look at life looking backwards and standing in one place, you’re going to waste your time,” Kerry told a small group of reporters when asked about the new relationship with the man he now calls “Boone.” “Six years ago was six years ago,” Kerry said. Both Kerry and Pickens talked about the need to reduce America’s reliance on foreign oil, which the Kerry-Lieberman bill aims to do. Pickens talked in patriotic tones about the need to make America energy independent within 10 years. “I don’t care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it’s American,” said Pickens, who turns 82 this week.

Patriotism aside, Pickens stands to gain financially from the climate change bill that Kerry hopes to push through the Senate this year. His BP (as in “Boone Pickens”) Capital Management firm has bet that natural gas prices will rise as the U.S. turns to cleanerburning fuels. Kerry’s bill attempts to encourage heavy-

duty trucks to switch from diesel gasoline to natural gas and it also provides incentives for natural gas cars. While Pickens said he doesn’t care which alternative energy the United States turns to, he eagerly points out that natural gas is “the only (alternative) fuel that will move an 18-wheeler.” Will Pickens use his powers of

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persuasion on Republican senators, who so far are boycotting Kerry’s climate initiative? “Let me think about it ,” Pickens said. “I don’t know for sure how active I’m going to be on that. No question I know most of the Republican senators and all.” Kerry wasn’t shy, though, knowing he’s got a tough sales job ahead. “I hope he contacts some.” Climate legislation pending in Congress also would encourage the development of wind energy, which Pickens also is investing in. “We have the best wind in the world,” boasted Pickens. For more Reuters political news, click here. P h o t o C r e d i t : REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (Sen. John Kerry (L) with financier T. Boone Pickens at the U.S. Capitol)

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Question raised by Obama-Calderon presser: Was that it?

Options Update: Campbell Soup Volatility Near EightMonth Highs into EPS

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TV, 52 to newspapers and magazines, 11 to radio, 11 to mixed media and two to online Submitted at 5/19/2010 2:05:05 PM organizations. It was definitely not a press In recent months Obama has conference and it was barely a Q taken questions in more -and-A. informal settings such as on Air For a White House that is more Force One. He did a joint press agile than any predecessor in availability with Afghan new media –Twitter, blogs, President Hamid Karzai recently video — it seems to be getting a and he took questions during a bit out of practice with the nuclear summit earlier this year. traditional question-answer On Wednesday, even by the format with real, live reporters. usual standard of two questions President Barack Obama and from U.S. press and two from Mexican President Felipe foreign press, the joint media Calderon faced the media in the availability with Calderon was White House Rose Garden. the oil spill in the Gulf of Here are the numbers according thin with only a total of two They took a total of two Mexico which is still spreading? to Martha Joynt Kumar, Towson questions. questions, both were on border What about the rioting in State University professor who “When are you going to have a i s s u e s . O b a m a a n s w e r e d Thailand in which people have is an expert on White House real press conference?” Chip lengthily about his concerns been killed? There’s Germany communications, as reported by Reid, CBS News White House w i t h t h e c u r r e n t U . S . banning naked short sales in its Steven Thomma of McClatchy correspondent, yelled out at the immigration system, the fight war on speculators, what about Newspapers. In 15 months, end of the Obama-Calderon against drugs, and the positive that and the financial state of Obama took questions in formal appearance. coordination with Mexico. All European allies? What does the news conferences or short That about sums it up for the g r o u n d c o v e r e d b y t h e president think about the latest sessions 83 times compared media… administration many times. Not words from Iran on a draft U.N. with George W. Bush’s 205 Photo credit: Reuters/Jason exactly headline-making. resolution to expand sanctions? times over that period and Bill Reed (Obama and Calderon at a W h a t a b o u t T u e s d a y ’ s Well we don’t know, because Clinton’s 367 times. joint press availability) primaries since Obama is after no one got a chance to ask. Obama gave many more all the top Democrat in the land The last time Obama held a full interviews — 184 in his first 15 and had earlier supported -scale, formal news conference months, compared with 56 for Pennsylvania Senator Arlen at the White House was in July Bush and 61 for Clinton. And of Specter who lost? What about 2009. those interviews, 108 went to

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Filed under: Campbell Soup (CPB), Options Campbell Soup( CPB) is expected to report Q3 EPS on May 24. June put option implied volatility is at 26, August at 25, November is at 26, above its 26week average of 20, according to Track Data, suggesting larger price movement. MSCI Spain Index ETF ( EWP) closed at $34.30. The IBEX 35 Index is recently down 2.29%. EWP overall option implied volatility of 49 is above its 26week average of 31, according to Track Data, suggesting larger price movement. CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) is at 35.31; 50-day is at 20.57. Options Update is by Stock Specialist Paul Foster of theflyonthewall.com. Options Update: Campbell Soup Volatility Near EightMonth Highs into EPS originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 20 May 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments Option- VIX- Chicago Board Options Exchange- InvestingBusiness

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Republican YouCut seeks to shear Mohair from budget Donna Smith (Front Row Washington)

producers despite repeated attempts by some lawmakers over the last two decades to get Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:57:50 AM rid of it. It’s worth about $1 million a The program is once again year. being targeted as unnecessary For most people that’s a lot of spending. This time by House money. But in the context of a Republicans on their new $3.7 trillion federal budget and a Y o u C u t web site, $1.5 trillion deficit, it’s small http://republicanwhip.house.gov potatoes. Except in this case it’s /YouCut/, that features budget a federal subsidy for mohair and items they think are wasteful it has more lives than an Angora spending. cat. The mohair item is one of five Federal subsidies for mohair, being featured this week and the which is produced from the hair public is invited to vote on of Angora goats, began in 1947 which one they think should be b e c a u s e t h e m i l i t a r y w a s tossed out of the federal budget. worried that there was not The top vote getter will be e n o u g h d o m e s t i c w o o l brought to the House floor by production to supply its need for Republicans for a possible vote. uniforms. Folks are also being asked to The development of synthetic submit their own ideas. fabrics has long made that Some 280,000 people voted on c o n c e r n i r r e l e v a n t , y e t last week’s inaugural list and the apparently the government still winner was $2.5 billion in w r i t e s c h e c k s t o m o h a i r spending that Republicans said

would undermine welfare reforms put in place in 1996 and encourage states to increase welfare rolls and eliminate work requirements. Democrats called the Republican YouCut claims false and said the money was helping states cope with rising demand for public assistance due to the economic downturn. With Democrats in control of the House, Republicans will unlikely succeed in their effort to cut that item out of the budget. But it will be interesting to see what happens on the mohair program. So far there is no flood of press releases to defend it. Yet the program has survived past budget cutting attempts. Photo Credit: Reuters/Yves Herman (Angora cat)

Before the Bell: Wall Street Headed for Sharp Declined at Open Melly Alazraki (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:30:00 AM

Filed under: Before the Bell, International Markets, Market Matters, Applied Materials (AMAT), Sears Holdings (SHLD), Symantec Corp (SYMC), Economic Data U.S. stock market futures fell sharply lower Thursday morning, indicating Wall Street is set to extend Wednesday's declines. Concerns over European debt persisted and the new unilateral regulations by Germany continued to shake markets. Investors also digested news the Senate vote on Wall Street financial regulation failed as they awaited employment data out of the U.S. Overseas, Asian markets fell Thursday, with Japan's Nikkei dropping 1.5% and China's Shanghai index down 1.2%.

Guess What: The S&P Is Just 12 Points Above Its "Flash Crash" Low Joe Weisenthal (Business Insider) Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:27:00 AM

At 1077, the S&P is just 12

points above the "Flash Crash" lows of May 6. The actual number to watch is 1065.89. Guess those weren't broken

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Geopolitical concerns as tensions between the U.S. and North Korea grew, didn't help sentiment there. Continue reading Before the Bell: Wall Street Headed for Sharp Declined at Open Before the Bell: Wall Street Headed for Sharp Declined at Open originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 20 May 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments Wall Street- North KoreaApplied Materials- BusinessInvesting

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Second-grader puts Michelle Obama Applied Materials: Do on the spot Q2 Results Make the Stock a Buy? JoAnne Allen (Front Row Washington) Submitted at 5/19/2010 7:05:54 PM

As her husband made his case for sweeping immigration reform in the White House Rose Garden, first lady Michelle Obama got a first-hand peek at the human face of the debate as she visited an elementary school in Silver Spring, Maryland, with Mexico’s first lady Margarita Zavala. Obama answered questions from a group of second graders who wanted to know things like what’s the president’s favorite sport and whether her daughters exercise. But one little girl asked about immigration. The school did not identify the little girl who posed the question. Montgomery County schools spokesman Dana Tofig said schools are barred by law from asking about students’

immigration status or providing such information to others, The Washington Post reported. “We won’t help identify the kid. We won’t help identify the parents,” Tofig told the newspaper. The school’s principal, Jane Litchko, told the Post that she called the little girl’s parents to let them know what had happened. The girl went home as usual at the end of the school day, Litchko was quoted as saying. Here’s the transcript of the exchange provided by the White House: STUDENT: Mrs. Obama, I have a question. MRS. OBAMA: What’s your question? STUDENT: I have a question. My mom said — my mom said that — I think that she says that Barack Obama is taking everybody away that doesn’t

have papers. MRS. OBAMA: Yeah, well, that’s something that we have to work on, right, to make sure that people can be here with the right kind of papers, right? That’s exactly right. STUDENT: But my mom doesn’t have … (crosstalk). MRS. OBAMA: Yeah, well, we have to work on that. We have to fix that, and everybody has got to work together in Congress to make sure that that happens. That’s right. Click here for more Reuters Political news. Photo Credit: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (U.S. first lady Michelle Obama (L) and Mexico’s first lady Margarita Zavala speak to children about health and fitness during a visit to a Maryland school)

Steven Mallas (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:30:00 AM

Filed under: Earnings Reports, Applied Materials (AMAT), Technology Applied Materials ( AMAT) is one of those interesting trading-vehicle-type stocks. It's been up, it's been down. The sideways action, as indicated by the one-year chart, isn't for everyone. And it's been one narrow range: The 52-week low is $10.31, while the 52week high is $14.94. There's obviously some resistance by the market players in terms of taking this one out of its box. But are the market players wrong? Management sure thinks so, judging by a recent action on its part. As Brent Archer wrote here back near the beginning of March, the company raised its quarterly dividend by nearly

Body Fluid-Powered Fuel Cell Could Turn Pacemaker Patients Into Steve Austin Kit Eaton (Fast Company) Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:34:32 AM

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17% and announced a buyback of over $2 billion, to be implemented over the next few years. Continue reading Applied Materials: Do Q2 Results Make the Stock a Buy? Applied Materials: Do Q2 Results Make the Stock a Buy? originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 20 May 2010 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments Applied Materials- BusinessInvesting- AMAT- Stocks and Bonds

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Law & Order: SVU star stops by for U.S. Jobless Claims chat with Attorney General Increase to a MonthLong High Jeremy Pelofsky (Front Row Washington)

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When Hollywood and Washington meet, the geeky government bureaucrat is usually the one in awe of the movie or television star. But when “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” television heroine Mariska Hargitay stopped by the Justice Department to meet Attorney General Eric Holder, the awe was focused squarely on the the chief law enforcement officer. Describing their meeting as a “huge thrill”, Hargitay described Holder as a “rock star.” She is in town as part of the commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act which was aimed at focusing more resources and attention on violent crimes against women. She was joined in her meeting with Holder by her husband and fellow actor Peter Hermann and their 3-year-old son, August. The attorney general handed

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their son a little coin that senior administration officials give out as souvenirs to visitors and, according to August, told him: “Don’t lose it!” Hargitay will also be testifying before a House Judiciary subcommittee on Thursday about the backlog of rape kit tests. She is best known for her starring role on“Law & Order: SVU” as detective Olivia

Benson, but has also starred in movies and other television hits like “ER”. Her show was spared the ax last week when NBC canceled the long-running original series “Law & Order.” - Photo credit: Reuters/Jeremy Pelofsky (Hargitay and her husband stop by to talk to reporters at the Justice Department)

Filed under: Economic Data The Labor Department issued a bit of a nasty surprise this morning in its report on initial jobless claims. Last week, the department issued 25,000 new claims for unemployment benefits, far more than the expected drop of 6,000 claims. The resulting 471,000 total claims in the past week was the most in a month. In addition, the four-week average of initial claims, which many see as a better gauge of employment because it smooths out the volatile weekly numbers -- increased. According to the Labor Department, there were no unusual factors contributing

to the release. Continue reading U.S. Jobless Claims Increase to a MonthLong High U.S. Jobless Claims Increase to a Month-Long High originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 20 May 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments United States- Unemployment benefits- United States Department of Labor- Jobless claims- Employment

Oracle Acquires Data Security Company Secerno Robin Wauters (TechCrunch) Submitted at 5/20/2010 7:26:48 AM

Oracle is acquiring Secerno, an Oxford, UK-based provider of

database firewall solutions for Oracle and non-Oracle databases. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed, transaction to close before the and Oracle expects the

end of June 2010. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently. Secerno's solution adds a critical defensive

layer of security around databases, which blocks unauthorized activity in realtime.

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REMINDER: Here Are The 25 Financial Institutions Most Likely To Default Gregory White (Business Insider) Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:15:21 AM

With the wild action going on in the market today, we thought we'd bring this back to you... Financial firms around the world have been under increased stress due to the sovereign debt crises of Europe and the resulting reduction in confidence in the global economy. We've outlined 25 companies, using data from CMA Datavision, which have the largest risk of default. Notably, Greek banks, Chinese real estate developers, and U.S. subprime giants show up big on the list. That default risk (cumulative probability of default) is measured through fluctuations in the company's CDS rating, and the height of that rating. The spread of each 5-year CDS is also listed. 25: Assured Guaranty Corp CEO: Dominic J. Frederico What Do They Do: Asset backed and structured finance underwriters and insurers. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 38.6% 5-year Mid CDS: 675.6 Source: CMA Datavision 24: Caja de Ahorros de Valencia, Castellon y Alicante

CEO: JosĂŠ Fernando GarcĂa Checa What Do They Do: Mainly a banking a credit services firm, they are also involved in investing across a range of asset classes including real estate. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 38.8% 5-year Mid CDS: 568.6 bps Source: CMA Datavision 23: DEPFA Bank Plc CEO: Cyril Dunne What Do They Do: A subsidiary of German financial firm Hypo, DEPFA is a public sector and infrastructure finance company. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 41.7% 5-year Mid CDS: 730.6 Source: CMA Datavision 22: EFG Eurobank Ergasias S.A. CEO: Nicholas C. Nanopoulos What Do They Do: Third largest Greek bank, focusing on both private and commerical banking. Has a particular interest in Southern Eastern Europe. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 41.9% 5-year Mid CDS: 677.5 Source: CMA Datavision 21: Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo CEO: Roberto Lopez Abad What Do They Do: A nonprofit Spanish banking firm,

which focuses on retail banking, but also works in insurance. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 42.4% 5-year Mid CDS: 639.6 Source: CMA Datavision 20: American General Finance Corp. CEO: Jerry Schiano What Do They Do: As a division of AIG, American General Finance Corp. provides a variety of loan services, including consolidation, home equity, and vacation loans. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 42.5% 5-year Mid CDS: 734.0 Source: CMA Datavision 19: Residential Capital, LLC CEO: Thomas Marano What Do They Do: A holding company for GMAC's assets, and securitizer of mortgage loans. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 43.7% 5-year Mid CDS: 478.8 Source: CMA Datavision 18: Kazkommertsbank JSC Chairman of the Board of Directors: Nurzhan S.

Subkhanberdin What Do They Do: As Kazakstan's largest bank, Kazkommertsbank works in both retail and commercial banking and lending. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 44.1% 5-year Mid CDS: 897.4 Source: CMA Datavision 17: Piraeus Bank S.A. CEO: Michael Sallas What Do They Do: A Greek bank, Piraeus works in south eastern and eastern Europe, with a special emphasis on Romania. The bank engages in traditional retail and commercial banking, as well as real estate. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 5-year Mid CDS: Source: CMA Datavision 16: Agile Property Holdings Limited Chairman: Chen Zhuolin What Do They Do: Chinese land developer, focusing on Guangdong Province. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 46.8% 5-year Mid CDS: 705.1 Source: CMA Datavision 15: Shimao Property Holdings Limited Chairman: Wing Mau Hui What Do They Do: A property investment and holding company centered in Shanghai, China.

Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 46.9% 5-year Mid CDS: 826.9 Source: CMA Datavision 14: Radian Group Inc CEO: S.A. Ibrahim What Do They Do: Provides insurance protection for mortgage instruments, headquartered in Philadelphia. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 48.4% 5-year Mid CDS: 642.6 Source: CMA Datavision 13: Realogy Corporation CEO: Richard Smith What Do They Do: Real estate company, which includes Century 21 and Coldwell Banker in its holdings. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 48.4% 5-year Mid CDS: 1124.8 Source: CMA Datavision 12: The PMI Group Inc CEO: What Do They Do: Centered in San Francisco, the PMI Group provides risk analysis and insurance products for the mortgage market. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 48.9% 5-year Mid CDS: 788.9 Source: CMA Datavision 11: Russian Standard Bank CEO: Dmitry Levin What Do They Do: The biggest consumer bank in Russia and REMINDER: page 10

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Abracadabra Moments, the Opening Line You Should Never Use, and 10 More Ways to Sell Ideas (Fast Company) Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:59:28 AM

A good idea can only become great if you've got the skills to sell it. We asked Sam Harrison, a speaker and writer on creativity-related topics, for a how-to in this excerpt from his latest book IdeaSelling: Successfully Pitch Your Creative Ideas to Bosses, Clients and Other Decision Makers. 1. " If they feel they birthed it, they can't kill it." David Schimmel touts this tenet at And Partners, his New York design firm. "If you truly collaborate with your clients and let them take credit for ideas," says Schimmel, "there's a good chance you'll sell your strongest ideas without having them watered down." 2. Leave creative chaos at the door. The route for discovering an idea is usually a winding, twisted path. But the way we present that idea should be a straight and narrow road. That's not saying pitches should be dull and didactic. Be bold. Rouse the room. Playing it safe is for wimps. But pitch ideas with a clear and logical flow. Meet clients on their mental turf. Gently guide them to your world. 3. Pause before you start. A few years ago, Edward Norton and

four other actors participated in a discussion at the Directors Guild in Manhattan. The panel quickly adopted a rotation, with each actor commenting on filmrelated topics. When Norton's turn, he would always pause before speaking. The audience awaited his words. Norton's comments were no more profound than those of fellow panelists, but the pauses positioned him as the group's sage. For your next pitch, pause before starting. Lock eyes with audience members. Build anticipation. Capture their complete attention--then begin. 4. One opening line never to use. Never start your pitch with "You're going to love this idea." Kick off with that line and you'll kick-start skepticism. The decision maker will think, "Oh, yeah?" or "Wanna bet?" I learned this lesson on my first job out of college. To help roll out a new corporate identity program, I was dispatched to tell a plant manager he would need to replace his facility's signage. In my youthful exuberance, it didn't occur that the gruff, overworked manager might have other priorities. "You're going to love these signs we created for you," I said. Looking up from a mess of thick reports, he stared at me for a long time. "No," he said, "what I would

love is to send you back to headquarters with those fancy signs stuck up your tail." Last time I used that line. 5. Help clients visualize your ideas in living color. Lexington,

Kentucky asked design firm Pentagram to develop an identity reflecting the Bluegrass Region's personality. Partners Michael Bierut and DJ Stout took Edward Troye's portrait of

the great racehorse Lexington, changed its color to blue and named it Big Lex. "When we showed city leaders Troye's horse colored bright blue, their initial resistance was evident," says Stout. "But then we displayed ads and billboards. We also presented a small model of Big Lex for gift shops and showed Big Lex as a mascot, with a person wearing a blue horse suit and educating school kids. Before long, everybody in the room was tossing out ideas on how Big Lex could promote the city." 6. Stand tall, talk short. President Abraham Lincoln and orator Edward Everett spoke at the dedication of a cemetery for soldiers killed at Gettysburg. Everett talked for two hours, delivering more than 13,500 words. Lincoln spoke for two minutes, delivering 272 words. Nobody remembers Everett's talk, but Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is celebrated as one of America's finest speeches. When picking between a longer or shorter presentation, choose shorter. "I wish you had talked longer" are words youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never hear from clients. 7. Throw out handouts. Handouts are those ubiquitous pages distributed before pitches. ABRACADABRA page 8

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The intent is for decision makers to follow along as you explain each point. But people follow handouts about as well as cats follow tour guides. They'll jump ahead. Double back. When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on page one, they're on page six. When you're at page six, they're back at page three. And pray for mercy if you include project costs on the last page. That's the first place clients will go. They'll scan the numbers and shake their heads. Then theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll tune you out and turn on their BlackBerries. If you don't want audiences to skip past your ideas, skip the handouts. 8. Bank on leave-behinds. Leave-behinds are for after the sales pitch. Clients review them later to dive deeper into content. Leave-behinds also serve another powerful purpose-decision makers use them to sell your ideas to their bosses. So invest in leave-behinds, not handouts. Include samples, photos, examples, and case studies--anything to ignite the

selling of your idea. Before starting your pitch, let clients know you'll provide ample content once you're done. Watch them sit back and absorb your pitch. 9. Stop selling, start storytelling. Storytelling is jet fuel for presentations. "There's something primal about stories," says Lisa Maulhardt of Stone Yamashita Partners. "They help us make sense of our world. By using stories in pitches, we're enticing people to follow along. Stories say, 'Come this way, take that hill, believe in something better.'" [youtube R2bLNkCqpuY] 10. Get personal. In the TV show Mad Men, ad man Don Draper advises Kodak executives on introducing the firm's new slide projector. Kodak calls the projector a "wheel." But Draper suggests the name "carousel," describing it as a childlike time machine. With family snapshots and soft words, Draper pitches his carousel idea. "This device...lets

us travel the way a child travels," he says. "Around and around and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved." Do you have an idea with emotional pull? Share personal episodes to connect with your audience. 11. Create abracadabra moments. Remember when Steve Jobs introduced the remarkably thin MacBook Air by sliding it out of an ordinary manila envelope? Truly an abracadabra moment--as memorable as a rabbit pulled from a hat. Look for ways to create dramatic, abracadabra moments in your pitch. Pitching his home-office products for our direct-mail catalog, a supplier opened his briefcase and dumped its contents--notes, receipts, pads, pens, paper clips, business cards--on my desk. He then grabbed a leather organizer and, in less than two minutes, placed everything in its proper place. Abracadabra. 12. Once you've sold an idea, don't buy it back. "I have

watched creative people destroy their own work--after the client buys into the idea," says Brian Collins, CEO of Collins:, a New York design firm. "They blab themselves right out of the client's approval. For goodness sake, if the client finally says yes, then say thank you and leave the room with your idea sold. Tell them you will pick up the conversation later or call on the phone or send an email or telegram. But whatever you do, bolt." Sam Harrison is author of the newly released IdeaSelling: Successfully Pitch Your Creative Ideas to Bosses, Clients and Other Decision Makers. He is a speaker on creativity-related topics and also the author of two other books, Zing! and IdeaSpotting. His Web site is zingzone.com.

Cisco Pays $99 Million In Cash For Optical Networking Firm CoreOptics Robin Wauters (TechCrunch) Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:19:01 AM

Cisco is to buy privately held CoreOptics, a designer of digital signal processing solutions for high-speed optical networking applications. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay approximately $99 million in cash and retention-based incentives in exchange for all shares of CoreOptics. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the second half of calendar year 2010.

Limited Brands Sells Off Despite Topping Estimates Michael Fowlkes (BloggingStocks)

expected numbers Wednesday afternoon for its first quarter, but the stock traded lower in Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:00:00 AM after-hours action. Filed under: Earnings Reports, The company posted earnings Forecasts, Limited Brands of 25 cents per share, beating (LTD) Limited Brands ( LTD), the 19 cents per share that the parent company of Victoria's analysts had been expecting to year the company earned just a Secret, reported better-than- see. During the same period last penny per share.

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Pakistan Blocks Blasphemic YouTube and Wikipedia as Facebook Considers Solutions Addy Dugdale (Fast Company) Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:10:49 AM

First, the Pakistani authorities came for Facebook; today it's YouTube, Flickr, Wikipedia, and 450 other websites. Early this morning, reports Agence Presse, the country ruled that content on Google's video site is "sacrilegious," and the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority has ordered the site blocked from the public, along with image-sharing portal Flickr, Wikipedia and, of course, Facebook. This is not the first time that YouTube has been taken offline by the Pakistani authorities. In 2007, access was pulled for seven hours for the same(-ish) reason: "material offensive to the government of Pervez Musharraf." The government is asking representatives from YouTube and Facebook to resolve the agreement in a way that "ensures harmony and respect." There is, however, nothing particularly harmonious and respectful about censorship in a seemingly civilized country. May I perhaps suggest a more laid-back way of getting one's religious views across? This week's problems began when a group on Facebook mounted a competition for "

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day," urging people to create caricatures of the prophet Mohammed, a figure so close to God it is deemed un-islamic to depict his likeness. (There is scant info available about the group's founder, we've emailed for more details.) This led to protests on the streets in various parts of the Pakistan, and a group calling itself the Islamic Lawyers' Movement filed a petition at the Pakistani High Court, asking the authorities to block Facebook, saying that the page was blasphemic. Thus, no

Facebook for anyone living in Pakistan until May 31 at the earliest. Facebook, which is already hosting an anti-Draw Mohammed Day page, is mulling over the possibility of blocking access to the offending page in Pakistan, released this statement. "We are very disappointed with the Pakistani courts' decision to block Facebook without warning, and suspect our users there feel the same way. We want Facebook to be a place where people can openly discuss

issues and express their views, while respecting the rights and feelings of others. While some kinds of comments and content may be upsetting for someone, criticism of a certain culture, country, religion, lifestyle, or political ideology, for example that alone is not a reason to remove the discussion. We strongly believe that Facebook users have the freedom to express their opinions, and we don't typically take down content, groups or pages that speak out against countries, religions, political entities, or

ideas." May has really not been the greatest of months for Mark Zuckerberg. The ongoing rumbles over privacy culminated in an internal meeting last Friday to discuss the issue (details still haven't emerged, blinking, into the sunlight, there yet, I'm afraid). He's now been accused of securities fraud in a lawsuit filed by his former Harvard schoolmates (If the Zuck is indicted for securities fraud, PAKISTAN page 10

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Tamvakakis What Do They Do: Commercial bank with an emphasis on the Mediteranean and Southeast Europ e. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 51.7% 5-year Mid CDS: 1104.4 Source: CMA Datavision 7: Country Garden Holdings Company Limited Chairman: Yang Guoqiang What Do They Do: Chinese high-end real estate developer. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 58.3% 5-year Mid CDS: 1047.6 Source: CMA Datavision 6: MBIA Inc. CEO: Jay Brown What Do They Do: MBIA is a financial holding company, its holdings work in fixed-income markets across the world. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 61.7% 5-year Mid CDS: 1197.2 Source: CMA Datavision 5: Dubai Holding Commercial Operations Group LLC CEO:

Ahmad Bin Byat What Do They Do: Government holding company for the assets of Dubai. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 63.4% 5-year Mid CDS: 1625.5 Source: CMA Datavision 4: iStar Financial Inc CEO: Jay Sugarman What Do They Do: A commerical real estate investment trust. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 66.4% 5-year Mid CDS: 1024.4 Source: CMA Datavision 3: Takefuji Corp President: Akira Kiyokawa What Do They Do: Subprime consumer finance company, centered in Japan. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 85.1% 5-year Mid CDS: 2895.1 Source: CMA Datavision 2: MBIA Insurance Corporation Jay Brown CEO: Jay Brown What Do They Do: The

insurance division of MBIA. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 88.7% 5-year Mid CDS: 2938.6 Source: CMA Datavision 1: AMBAC Financial Group Inc. CEO: David Wallis What Do They Do: Provider of insurance and swap agreements, largely to American municipalities. Cumulative Probability of Default (CPD): 96.5% 5-year Mid CDS: 8841.4 Source: CMA Datavision Worried about these financials? Check out the banks that are causing the most systemic risk. Jamie Dimon Image: ap Here are the big boys that could bring down the whole system > Join the conversation about this story Âť

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Part of Obama's pledge for greater governmental transparency in his first term was the Web site Data.gov, a massive repository for datasets on all manner of government statistics, including hot-button topics like health care and the environment. It's come a long way since launch--it now has more than 250,000 datasets, compared to 47 at launch--but it never received the popularity (read: Web traffic) the administration expected. That was in large part because it was a massive repository of governmental datasets, designed in standard-issue governmental Web site format. Wired got a look at the new version, which will launch this Friday, and there've been a ton of changes that make the service much more approachable for the everyday interested party. The main ideas: an aesthetic redesign, and a new focus on presenting information people care about in ways that are more understandable than giant spreadsheets.

So instead of dozens of columns indicating average body fat percentage, now you can check out detailed information on health and obesity, county by county. Want to know if your home county fares better or worse than the national average in consumption of fruits and vegetables, or percentage of smokers? That's all there, in easy-to-read visuals, maps, and graphs. One of the coolest implementations is something that's in effect now, but which I

(and, it seems, pretty much everybody else in the country) didn't know existed: on-time flight trackers. On a given day, it tracks the average amount of time it takes to get through any security line at an airport, so you can time your trip accordingly. It even does it in an incredibly cool and efficient way, using Twitter. To report security wait times using your cellphone, bookmark flyontime.us/m/lines/security or tweet “#airportsecurity [threeletter airport code] in” when you

enter the security line, and “#airportsecurity [airport code] out” once you’ve gotten through. How great is that? There are lots of other new features to come, including some kind of monitoring or statistic study of the oil spill in the Gulf. I just hope people actually use it this time--a lot of that will depend on the administration's ability to advertise the site and why people should use it, because features like that flight tracker are so cool, easy, and useful that

I'd imagine most people would take advantage if they knew about it. The redesigned Data.gov should launch this Friday, May 21st. Dan Nosowitz, the author of this post, can be followed on Twitter, corresponded with via email, and stalked in San Francisco (no link for that one-you'll have to do the legwork yourself).

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Amazon announced yesterday the launch of a new publishing imprint, to be called AmazonCrossing, that will release foreign-language books translated into English. It's the second such imprint from Amazon, after AmazonEncore, which takes self-published books and re-publishes them for a wider audience. AmazonCrossing is an interesting case--it's not necessarily a traditional Amazon move, meaning it's not particularly tech-focused. Instead, Amazon's filling a niche left vacant by traditional publishing companies, who feel translated books are often too expensive and low-selling to bother with. Publishers say the number of books published in translation each year remains low. Paul

Bogaards, a spokesman for Alfred Knopf, an imprint owned by Bertelsmann AG's Random House Inc. publishing arm, estimated that fewer than 5% of the 150 new titles that Alfred Knopf is publishing in 2010 will be books in translation. But many classics and even pop -literary successes have been

translated--the Wall Street Journal, which originally reported the story, names Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Stieg Larsson as examples (I'd add Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Javier Marias, and Milan Kundera to the list) of more popular foreign-language

writers. Sounds like the typical problem is that of cost and sales: Traditional publishers often assume translated foreign works won't be as successful as English-language works, and translation can often be expensive. It's not mentioned how much Amazon intends to pay for translations, but evidently they think there's a market for these books, which will be released both in print and in e-book formats. The first AmazonCrossing book, "The King of Kahel" by French author Tierno Monenembo, will be released this November. Dan Nosowitz, the author of this post, can be followed on Twitter, corresponded with via email, and stalked in San Francisco (no link for that one-you'll have to do the legwork yourself).

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The Samwer brothers are at it again. Shortly after cashing in on Citydeal, Germany's most prolific startup investors have put millions into Panfu. Their incubator Rocket Internet joined by Holtzbrinck Ventures has invested a rumored seven digit Euro sum in the multi-language educational gaming world for kids. It's their third joint investment in Panfu, former rounds were done together alongside other investors. Since its launch in December 2007, Panfu has become Europe's leading website for kids between 6 and 14 years with nearly 13 million registered users and has been profitable since early 2009.

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photo-sharing website, have been blocked in the country. In the past, Pakistan has Submitted at 5/20/2010 7:10:30 AM As a nice gesture to the poor blocked YouTube and families in a country with Are we seeing the creation of B l o g g e r . c o m , b u t t h o s e skyrocketing home prices, the Great Firewall of Pakistan? blockades were temporary. It is China has started building lowIn extraordinary moves, the expected that the current ban income housing. country’s authorities first w i l l n o t b e a p e r m a n e n t Too bad 80% of the homes in blocked Facebook, and then measure, but no time period has the first major subsidized YouTube. The two websites been given. housing project have been stand accused of containing However, it does seem likely allocated to government i m a g e s o f t h e P r o p h e t that the bans will affect the officials. Muhammad that are deemed country’s growing number of Caixin: blasphemous. internet users. An insider from the Mei The blocking of these websites Nayatel, an internet service County local government said is not the beginning of an provider, said the ban could cut this subsidized housing project elaborate internet filtering up to 25 per cent of total internet has almost been allocated to houses, they should enjoy the their parents. No wonder they system, such as the one operated traffic in Pakistan. government employees, and the low-cost housing policy." Facebook is thought to have were pissed off when a rich girl by censors in China. public has little access to the Which makes one wonder if (perhaps the daughter of a party Indeed, many experts have said about 1.8 million Pakistani project. However, official government officials such as the official) bragged about living in that it would have been possible users. statements from the Mei County a b o v e a r e r e a l l y a l l t h a t subsidized housing... j u s t t o b l o c k i n d i v i d u a l Pakistani internet users have Construction Bureau reiterated concerned about reigning in the Meet 19-Year-Old Yingzi, offending pages on the sites. taken to their blogs and message that the housing project is nation's soaring property prices. China's Most Obnoxious Real Instead, Pakistan’s High Court boards to register their anger, specifically for low-income They're not feeling any pain, so Estate Mogul --> and its Telecommunications but many seem to believe that families in Mei County. why rock the boat. Join the conversation about this Authority took more draconian t h e b a n s a r e a t e m p o r a r y The deputy chief of the Mei Meanwhile, high rents mean story » measures, ordering the country’s irritation that will soon pass. county Construction Bureau that normal Chinese are stuck internet service providers to Five Filters featured article: Zhao Hong said, " Most public living in pods or slums or with block the websites in their The Art of Looking Prime servants don't have their own entirety. Ministerial - The 2010 UK What could be next on the General Election. Available blacklist? Users on Twitter have tools: PDF Newspaper, Full a l r e a d y c l a i m e d t h a t t h a t Text RSS, Term Extraction. Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, and Flikr, the Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:31:51 AM

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FINALLY: iPhone OS 4.0 Beta Has Daily Buzz: French Tethering Screen; Is It Finally Women Come to Blows Coming To AT&T? (AAPL) Over Muslim Veil Vince Veneziani (Business Insider) Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:25:49 AM

Okay, we know we're a bit late on this but FINALLY! -Internet tethering for the iPhone is about to make an official debut. Macrumors has an image of the new iPhone OS 4.0 beta that shows an option for 3G tethering. As you can see, you just can't switch it on and begin surfing the 'net. Users will have to call AT&T to setup a plan, which has not been officially announced yet.

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Chinese kung fu kids guard against school attacks (Reuters) (Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)

20 percent since April, China state media reported. At the Changzhen Kongfu BEIJING (Reuters) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Parents school near Beijing's university in Beijing are taking no chances district, more than a dozen 7- to over the safety of their children 12-year-old children were after a series of attacks on learning martial arts techniques schoolchildren frightened and meant to help them escape angered China. potential danger. A growing number of parents "There have been many changes have turned to self-defense recently. Before, only one to classes for children more used to two students will come to wielding electronic games than consult, but since last week, we their fists. have received about 30 Six times since March, angry i n q u i r i e s , " s a i d Z h a n g and apparently deranged men Xiaohang, the chief kung fu h a v e a t t a c k e d C h i n e s e instructor at the school. schoolchildren with knives and, "A lot of parents register their in one case, a hammer, killing children for the self-defense 27 people and injuring more class as soon as they arrive, than 80. Officials have vowed to without hesitation. Parents are " s t r i k e h a r d " a g a i n s t t h e putting much more emphasis on problem and schools have added children's safety." security guards, but many Zhang now teaches about 10 parents think that's not enough. classes per week and instructs Admissions to kung fu schools more than 60 kids. in Beijing have risen by at least For pudgy 12-year-old Deng Submitted at 5/20/2010 5:47:39 AM

Zhiheng, the lessons serve two purposes. "I am a little bit fat so I want to lose some weight," he said. "Second of all, there have been many school attacks recently and I want to know how to prevent such attacks. So it is best if I learn these skills." The class mainly focuses on teaching children how to respond to threats calmly and react quickly. Self-defense techniques emphasize avoiding confrontation and escaping to safety, Zhang said. (Editing by Lucy Hornby) Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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coaxed out by police. Dozens of buildings were torched, including many banks, BANGKOK(Reuters) - Thai t h e s t o c k e x c h a n g e a n d authorities restored order over Southeast Asia's second-biggest most of Bangkok on Thursday department store. By morning, but the peace looked fragile, a t h e w o r s e w a s o v e r . T h e day after rioting and fires that p r o t e s t e r s w e r e g o n e . veered toward anarchy as troops Some unrest continued in the took control of a camp occupied Din Daeng area, scene of by anti-government protesters. intense fighting last weekend. World| Thailand Dozens of protesters burned Thousands of the mostly rural tires and set a bank building and urban poor "red shirt" ablaze. Troops fired warning protesters had deserted their shots. But compared to recent once-barricaded rally site in f i g h t i n g , t h e a r e a w a s central Bangkok, but the tough r e m a r k a b l y t a m e . crackdown and bloodshed raised Political analysts say the next fears of deepening anger among step is up to Prime Minister Thailand's underclasses. Abhisit Vejjajiva, who some say Modern Thailand has never will forever be tarnished by seen such a protracted period of overseeing military operations urban violence, deadly riots, in which 82 people, mostly c l a s h e s a n d w i d e s p r e a d civilians, have been killed since destruction, and has never April 10. teetered so close to full civil Nearly 1,800 people have been conflict. wounded in the period as the "Thailand has become a nation g o v e r n m e n t , b a c k e d b y deeply divided, and although T h a i l a n d ' s royalist talk of a civil war may still be establishment, and the protesters premature, there is a high risk with their support from the rural that civil unrest and political masses and ousted premier violence will not be contained," Thaksin Shinawatra, failed to said Danny Richards, analyst at find common ground. the Economist Intelligence Unit. "He is more than tarnished," The crackdown that began M i c h a e l M o n t e s a n o o f before dawn on Wednesday S i n g a p o r e ' s I n s t i t u t e o f morning killed 15 people and Southeast Asian Studies said of wounded nearly 100. About t h e B r i t i s h - b o r n , O x f o r d 1,500 protesters took refuge in a e d u c a t e d A b h i s i t . temple, where six bodies were "All extenuating circumstances found on Thursday. Hundreds notwithstanding, he will always who remained inside were be recalled as the man whose Submitted at 5/20/2010 7:37:49 AM

miscalculated incursion led to a burning Bangkok." Troops have now established control of Bangkok and the protest encampment occupied since April 3, but at great cost. Checkpoints of armed troops form a 6 sq-km (2.3 sq-mile) cordon in Bangkok, a city of 15 million known for its raucous nightlife but now reduced to smoldering fires, scarred streets, and 9 p.m. night curfews. "The question is: how long do troops have to be deployed on this level in the city? The anger is still simmering," said Tanet Charoengmuang, a political scientist at Chiang Mai University. The red shirts want fresh elections, saying Abhisit lacks a popular mandate after coming to power in a controversial parliamentary vote in 2008 with tacit military support. Abhisit last week withdrew an offer of fresh elections. Analysts say regardless of the outcome, the violence marked a turning point in a country where the richest 20 percent of the population earn about 55 percent of the income while the poorest fifth get 4 percent, according to the World Bank. But protest leaders, now detained, called for calm. "Democracy cannot be built on revenge and anger," Veera Musikapong, chairman of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship, known as

the red shirts, said in a televised statement while in custody, calling on protesters to go home. RURAL UNREST Thailand's unifying figure, revered 82-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej, has not publicly commented on the current bout of turmoil in the kingdom, after defusing previous crises during his 63 years on the throne -- including the last political riots in Bangkok -- on the same date 18 years ago. The king has been in hospital since September 19. The unrest has hammered Thailand's lucrative tourism industry, which supports six percent of Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy and employs 15 percent of Thailand's workforce directly or indirectly. A source at state planning agency National Economic and Social Development Board said the economic impact of nine weeks of political turmoil and rioting would easily cost $3 billion, or about one percentage point of gross domestic product. A curfew in Bangkok and 23 provinces was extended for another three nights, raising questions about whether authorities feared more unrest in a country where the ranks of the military and the police are split along the same socio-economic fault lines dividing protesters from the government and its

affluent backers. The rioting spread to north and northeast provinces, a red-shirt stronghold and home to just over half of Thailand's 67 million people. But trouble spots were quiet on Thursday and protest leaders urged calm. Army spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd said about 13,000 people were still "actively waiting to riot and perpetrate illegal acts" in provinces under a state of emergency. In Bangkok, fires at 39 sites still smoldered but most had been extinguished. Central World, Southeast Asia's secondbiggest department store and a symbol of wealth, was destroyed. Many of its supporting steel beams had collapsed. "WOUNDED HEARTS AND MINDS" The protesters' tented encampment in the heart of Bangkok's commercial district -an area lined with luxury hotels and shopping plazas -- was strewn with rubbish, clothing and the smell of refuse and human waste. Troops roamed the area and some were positioned on an overhead subway system. There were no signs of clashes. Groups of soldiers sat on a sidewalk near the twisted wreckage of trucks that had UNEASY page 22

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SEOUL(Reuters) - South Korea accused the reclusive North on Thursday of torpedoing one of its warships, heightening tension in the economically powerful region and testing the international position of China, Pyongyang's only major backer. World| China| South Korea South Korea said it would take "firm" measures against its impoverished neighbor, which furiously responded that it was ready for war if Seoul or its allies imposed sanctions. A report by investigators, including experts from the United States, Australia, Britain and Sweden, concluded that a North Korean submarine had fired the torpedo that sank the Cheonan corvette in March, killing 46 sailors. "There is no other plausible explanation," their report said. Fear of escalating tension weighed on South Korean financial markets, already worried that investors jumpy about global financial concerns may pull out their money. "News of North Korea's torpedo isn't new, but growing tension around the case is keeping sentiment weak," said Cho Yong-hyun, an analyst at Hana Daetoo Securities. The South Korean won suffered

its biggest daily fall against the dollar in 10 months. Stocks closed at their lowest in almost three months. International condemnation was immediate, with the stark exception of China, which analysts say is desperate to avoid any action that might destabilize its reclusive neighbor and lead to a spill-out into in its territory. A senior South Korean government official said previously the attack appeared to have been in revenge for a firefight near the disputed North -South border late last year in which the North's navy was humiliated. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki -moon called the contents of the South Korean investigation deeply troubling. Both the United States and Britain gave their backing to the findings, with the White House calling it an act of aggression that was another sign of the North's unacceptable behavior. Japan ruled out the resumption of nuclear disarmament talks by five regional powers and the North, and said Washington shared its view that such negotiations aimed at aiding Pyongyang in return for a promise to drop its nuclear arms were unthinkable. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu urged

both sides on the divided Korean peninsula to exercise restraint and said Beijing would make its own assessment of the South Korean investigation. FIRM MEASURES South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will hold an emergency meeting of his National Security Council on Friday. His government has made clear it has no plans for a retaliatory strike but will be pressing the international community to take action, probably more sanctions, against the North. "We will be taking firm, responsive measures against the North, and through international cooperation, we have to make the North admit its wrongdoing and come back as a responsible member of the international community," Lee was quoted by his office as telling Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. The report, announced in a nationally televised news conference, said intelligence had shown that North Korean submarines were likely in operation near the scene of the sinking, with similar vessels of other neighboring countries all inside their territorial waters. "The evidence points overwhelmingly to the conclusion that the torpedo was fired by a North Korean submarine," it said.

The issue has plunged already icy relations between the two Koreas deeper into the cold. North Korea said the South's conservative government was using the incident for political gain and to further undermine ties between the two Koreas, which have yet to sign a formal peace treaty to end their 195053 war. "Our army and people will promptly react to any 'punishment' and 'retaliation' and to any 'sanctions' infringing upon our state interests with various forms of tough measures including an all-out war," its official news agency quoted the powerful National Defense Commission as saying in a typically florid statement. The issue also puts China in a tricky spot. The host of onagain, off-again regional talks to rein in North Korea's nuclear weapons program is the reclusive state's only major ally and is reluctant to penalize its government. "It's going to be very, very difficult for China to navigate this one. The South Koreans are not particularly pleased about what China's doing," said Charles Freeman, China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Seoul is already upset with Beijing, a major trading partner,

for hosting North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on a rare trip abroad before the outcome of the investigation was announced. But there have been media reports in the South that Chinese leaders may not have given the frail-looking Kim as much support as he wanted, speculating ties may now be starting to fray. Paik Jin-hyun, a North Korea expert at Seoul National University, said tension between the two Koreas was inevitable. "North Korea has given out war threats before and they are doing this now because the situation has become urgent for them. They will try to block sanctions at all costs. In this heightened state of affairs, provocations may occur." (Additional reporting by Rhee So-eui, Miyoung Kim, Christine Kim and Kim Yeon-hee in Seoul, Chris Buckley in Beijing, Paul Eckert and Matt Spetalnick in Washington; Writing by Jonathan Thatcher; Editing by Paul Tait) Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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U.S. to check BP spill size, heavy oil comes ashore (Reuters: Top News)

siphoning about 3,000 barrels (126,000 gallons/477,000 liters) a day of oil, from what it has VENICE, Louisiana(Reuters) - estimated was a 5,000 barrels The U.S. government will (210,000 gallons/795,000 liters) independently verify how much a day gusher. oil has leaked into the Gulf of With heavy oil washing ashore M e x i c o f r o m a r u p t u r e d in fragile Louisiana wetlands, undersea well owned by BP, wildlife and environmental Interior Secretary Ken Salazar groups accused BP of holding said on Thursday. back information on the real size Green Business and impact of the growing slick, "We're not depending on what and urged President Barack BP is telling us," Salazar said on Obama to order a more direct CNN in one of a series of federal government role in the t e l e v i s i o n a p p e a r a n c e s t o spill response. address the ecological disaster Salazar said the Obama unfolding in the Gulf Coast. administration had been Energy giant BP Plc was aggressive in its response to the responsible for damages so s p i l l b u t h a d i n h e r i t e d a getting accurate data was r e g u l a t o r y s y s t e m " t h a t essential, he said. "It's a grave essentially was rubber-stamping and a very serious situation and whatever it was the oil and gas w e ' r e t a k i n g n o t h i n g f o r industry wanted." granted," Salazar told NBC's ' W E K N O W M O R E I S "Today" show. COMING' BP has scrambled to contain Heavy oil -- not just tar balls -crude from the gushing seabed came ashore in Louisiana for the Macondo well since it blew out first time since the rig exploded after an April 20 explosion on a month ago, threatening the the Deepwater Horizon rig that s t a t e ' s p r i z e d m a r s h l a n d s . killed 11 workers. Louisiana Governor Bobby The company said it is now Jindal called it a "day that we Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:46:11 AM

have all been fearing." "It's already here but we know more is coming," he said. The marshes are nurseries for shrimp, oysters, crabs and fish that make Louisiana the leading producer of commercial seafood in the continental United States. Fishing is banned in a large part of the Gulf waters because of the spill. BP said it could begin injecting mud into the well as early as Sunday in a bid to permanently plug the leak. Its shares gained more than 2 percent on Thursday in London trading. Adding another name to the group of companies connected to the doomed rig, Schlumberger Ltd said it had a crew on the Deepwater Horizon that departed only hours before the explosion and fire that engulfed it. The world's largest oilfield services company had not previously revealed its work on the Horizon. In London, Greenpeace protesters scaled a balcony at BP's headquarters and hoisted a large flag bearing an oil-soaked

version of the company's bright green logo and the words "British Polluters." Chief Executive Tony Hayward was expected to meet with board members on Thursday to discuss the spill. The discovery of heavy oil in the Louisiana marshlands showed that authorities lack the capacity to track undersea oil effectively, marine conservation biologist Rick Steiner said. It also called into question a containment effort that focused on oil on the surface of the Gulf, Steiner said. "I am very confident that a lot of the oil that has come out has not surfaced yet and the government can't track subsurface plumes," said Steiner, a retired professor at the University of Alaska who has spent a week on the Gulf coast. Meanwhile, the U.S. government's weather forecaster said a small portion of light sheen from the giant oil slick had entered the powerful ocean flow known as the Loop Current, which could carry the oil down to the Florida Keys,

Cuba and up the U.S. East Coast. Fallout in Washington increased. The U.S. Interior Department said its embattled Minerals Management Service will be broken up into three separate divisions in a restructuring of how it handles offshore energy production. Top U.S. Senate Democrats urged Obama to order immediate inspections of all offshore oil rigs and production platforms. "Until we can ensure the safety of our offshore platforms, our nation's coastlines will be threatened by the possibility of more manmade catastrophes," they said in a letter. (Additional reporting by Jeff Mason, Tabassum Zakaria and Vicki Allen; Writing by Jane Sutton; Editing by Doina Chiacu) Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Landis admits using performance enhancing drugs (Reuters: Top News) Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:46:15 AM

NEW YORK(Reuters) Disgraced Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has sent a series of e-mails to cycling officials and sponsors admitting to the use of performance enhancing drugs, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. U.S.| Sports| France The report said the American's e-mails detailed his systematic use of the drugs during his career. In an interview with ESPN.com late on Wednesday, Landis admitted using performanceenhancing drugs for most of his career, including during the 2006 Tour de France, which he won but was stripped of after failing a dope test. "I want to clear my conscience," the 34-year-old told ESPN. "I don't want to be part of the problem any more." The World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) statute of limitations for doping offenses was eight years and that was also part of the equation, Landis said. "Now we've come to the point where the statute of limitations

on the things I know is going to run out or start to run out next month. If I don't say something now then it's pointless to ever say it," he said. The Wall Street Journal said it had reviewed three emails sent earlier this year. "Mr. Landis copied seven people on these three e-mails, including officials with USA Cycling and the International Cycling Union (UCI)," the report said. "Three people who have seen the emails and spoken to Mr. Landis about them say they are authentic." However, the timing of the American's announcement was questioned by UCI president Pat McQuaid. "He probably needed to get it off his chest. Why is he announcing it in the week of the Tour of California?" McQuaid told Reuters. "He must have an agenda." USADA RESPONSIBILITY McQuaid added that Landis's fate was now in the hands of American anti-doping authorities. "USADA (U.S. Anti-Doping Agency) will now look into this," McQuaid said.

Landis, the first rider to be stripped of a Tour victory, had previously denied any wrongdoing but the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected his assertion that his positive test was due to procedural mistakes by the laboratory. He said last year after his twoyear ban ended that he was trying to decide whether to ride again in the Tour de France. In February, a French judge issued an arrest warrant against Landis for suspected hacking into an anti-doping laboratory computer. French anti-doping agency head Pierre Bordry told Reuters the judge, Thomas Cassuto, believed Landis wanted to prove the laboratory where his samples were tested was wrong. (Additional reporting by Julien Pretot in Paris) (Writing by Mark LamportStokes in Los Angeles; Editing by John O'Brien) Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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been packed with explosives and blown up at barricades overnight. They looked relaxed in contrast to the tension of recent days, smiling at journalists. Ten journalists have been shot in six days of violence, including an Italian cameraman killed on Wednesday. The surrender of key protest leaders on Wednesday and a seeming end for now to violence that has killed at least 53 people and wounded more than 400 in six days could put the focus back on early elections and a "reconciliation roadmap" the prime minister had proposed before the latest bout of violence. "We can immediately fix the

roads but we do not know how long it will take to fix the wounded hearts and minds of the people," Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra told local television. (Additional reporting by Damir Sagolj, Nopporn Wong-Anan and Vithoon Amorn; Writing by Jason Szep; Editing by Bill Tarrant) Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

The Best Tools for Setting Up Second Accounts [Ask Lifehacker] Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 5/20/2010 7:10:00 AM

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Pakistan blocks YouTube in ‘sacrilege’ row (World News from Times Online) Submitted at 5/20/2010 6:35:47 AM

Pakistan blocked access to YouTube today because of “growing sacrilegious content” on the video-sharing website. It is the latest twist in an escalating international row over Islam and freedom of speech online. The move came a day after the Pakistani Government responded to a court order by temporarily blocking Facebook over a page advertising a contest to draw cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The Everyone Draw Muhammad Day page and several spin-offs invite users to send in caricatures of the Prophet today – infuriating many Muslims who regard any image of him as blasphemous. T h e P a k i s t a n Telecommunications Authority did not say specifically which material on YouTube was

deemed sacrilegious, but there are several clips relating to Everyone Draw Muhammad Day. The Government took action against Facebook and YouTube after it failed to persuade the websites to remove the “derogatory material”, the regulatory body said in a statement. It invited representatives from the two websites to contact Pakistani authorities to resolve the dispute in a way that “ensures religious harmony and respect”. It added that it had blocked more than 450 Internet links containing offensive material, but did not make clear how many had been blocked in the past two days. Access to the online encyclopaedia site Wikipedia and the photo-sharing site Flickr also appeared to be restricted today, but Twitter was still accessible. Facebook was blocked until

May 31 on the orders of the Lahore High Court, following a petition by a group of Islamic lawyers, but it was unclear how long the YouTube ban would last. The bans have been welcomed by many people in Pakistan, whose population of 166 million is 97 per cent Muslim. But they are also re-igniting an international debate over Islam and freedom of speech that was sparked by the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper in 2005. Those cartoons caused riots in several Muslim countries, which killed about 50 people in total, including five in Pakistan. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on Denmark’s embassy in Islamabad that killed six people in 2008, saying it was in revenge for the cartoons. Pakistan blocked access to YouTube for two days in 2008 in response to what it said was

un-Islamic content. Turkey, Thailand, Indonesia and Morocco have all blocked access to YouTube in the past. The creators of Everyone Draw Muhammad Day say it was a response to Muslim bloggers who threatened the creators of the television comedy South Park over their depiction of the Prophet in a bear suit. Facebook said that it was investigating the controversial page. “While the content does not violate our terms, we do understand it may not be legal in some countries,” the company said in a statement. “In cases like this, the approach is sometimes to restrict certain content from being shown in specific countries.” Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Breevy Expands Text Snippets and Shares with TextExpander [Downloads] Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 5/20/2010 5:35:00 AM

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iPad steel drum played with conductive fiber mallets Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 5/20/2010 10:00:00 AM

Filed under: iPad Jobs told us, " If you see a stylus, they blew it," but what if the stylus is a steel drum mallet? Someone built an iPad app, as

you can see above, that is designed to imitate the look and sound of a steel drum. It needed something a little extra, though, ... like actual mallets to play with. So, they made a mallet out of conductive cloth, which is a special fabric that enables the iPad's surface to recognize the

touches. Wrap the end of a drumstick in fabric, tie it off, and you're good to start drummin', mon! That's good stuff. There have to be other great uses for this kind of cloth, too; while a stylus isn't ideal most of the time, there are certain times when specific tool-

like metaphors (maybe a brush for a painting app?) would work better than just a finger. What else can we use to control the multi-touch screen? TUAW iPad steel drum played with conductive fiber mallets originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog

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Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon wins extradition reprieve (World News from Times Online)

the self-confessed “bumbling computer nerd” as the last chance to keep him in this Submitted at 5/20/2010 7:07:25 AM country. The extradition of a hacker who A Home Office spokesperson broke into the Pentagon's said: "The Home Secretary has computer network has been put considered the proposal from on hold after an intervention Gary McKinnon's legal team from the Home Secretary today. and has agreed an adjournment Theresa May is looking at s h o u l d b e s o u g h t . A n medical evidence to determine application to the court is being whether Gary McKinnon, who made today." Mr McKinnon's has Asperger’s syndrome and is lawyer, Karen Todner, said that said by experts to be suicidal, is she hoped Mrs May would make fit to be extradited to America. a decision on whether he was fit He has admitted hacking into to be extradited in a matter of Pentagon files before and after weeks. the September 11 attacks. Ms Todner said: "The Secretary If convicted he could face 60 of State, having recently taken years in jail but the review by office and having received Mrs May, the sixth home further representations from the secretary to deal with the long- claimant's representatives, r u n n i n g c a s e , o p e n s t h e wishes to have appropriate time possibility of prosecution in the fully to consider the issues in UK Alan Johnson, the former the case." She said that she Home Secretary, had refused to hoped the decision was a “signal prevent Mr McKinnon being of a more compassionate and sent for trial in the US. A caring Home Secretary". judicial review of that decision The Conservatives and Liberal had been due to start next week Democrats were sympathetic to and was seen by supporters of Mr McKinnon’s case when they

were in opposition and the Tories said that they would change the law if they came to power so that cases like his could be tried in the UK. Last year David Cameron said that if Mr McKinnon had questions to answer there was “a clear argument to be made that he should answer them in a British court”. Mr McKinnon, 44, from North London, admitted breaking in to secret military computers but said that he was looking for evidence of UFOs and had no malicious intent. Last night his mother, Janis Sharp, said: “Obviously, the Home Secretary reconsidering the case would be good news but we will only be happy if we are told it is all over.” Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

iTunes Store now shows Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer reviews for movies Michael Grothaus (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

chart featuring the total count of reviews along with a fresh/rotten breakdown and the average rating. Viewers are also Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:30:00 AM Filed under: iTS shown four review snippets Apple has quietly added Rotten from Top Critic reviewers, Tomatoes Tomatometer ratings follow by a link to the movies and reviews for movies in the page on RottenTomatoes.com. iTunes Store. Rotten Tomatoes Thanks to reader Eric Zigler is one of the most popular who sent this in. movie review sites on the web. TUAW iTunes Store now It uses reviews from top critics s h o w s R o t t e n T o m a t o e s and film societies to produce T o m a t o m e t e r r e v i e w s f o r T o m a t o m e t e r r a t i n g s - - a movies originally appeared on percentage-based rating of a The Unofficial Apple Weblog m o v i e d e r i v e d f r o m t h e (TUAW) on Thu, 20 May 2010 averages of all the reviews of 09:30:00 EST. Please see our the film. terms for use of feeds. iTunes' integrated Rotten Permalink| Email this| Tomatoes ratings presents the C o m m e n t s movie's prospective buyers and renters with the Tomatometer

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Masked thief steals priceless masterpieces from Paris museum (World News from Times Online) Submitted at 5/20/2010 6:25:39 AM

A lone masked intruder stole five priceless paintings, including a Matisse and a Picasso, from the Paris Museum of Modern Art last night. Guards discovered the theft as they made their rounds at dawn and police have described the raid as one of the most daring thefts for many years. Security cameras at the museum showed a hooded man cutting open a window, breaking locks and climbing inside, police said. He apparently cut the art works from their frames, leaving them empty on the wall. It was not clear whether the man could have been working alone or had accomplices inside the museum. The stolen Picasso is a 1912 oil painting, Le pigeon aux petits pois(Dove with Green Peas). Also taken were Henri Matisse’s La Pastorale(Pastoral, 1906),

Georges Braque’s L’Olivier près de l’Estaque(Olive tree near Estaque, 1906), Amédéo Modigliani’s La femme a l’éventail(Lady with Fan), and Fernand Léger’s Nature Morte au Chandelier(Still Life with Chandelier, 1922). The prosecutor’s office initially estimated the five paintings’ total worth at as much as €500 million. Christophe Girard, deputy culture secretary at Paris City Hall, later said the total value was “just under €100 million”. As stolen goods with wellknown histories, however, they might be worth more for possible ransom, police speculated. The museum was closed to visitors this morning as police and investigators cordoned off the area in the Palais de Tokyo, across the River Seine from the Eiffel Tower. A notice on the door said “Closed today for technical

reasons”. The Brigade de Répression du Banditisme, the elite police unit that fights organised crime and art theft, has taken charge of the investigation. Picasso is the world’s most stolen artist, according to the London-based Art Loss Register. In June last year a sketchbook worth more than €8 million was stolen from the Picasso museum in Paris. It has not been recovered. In 2007, two paintings by the artist vanished from his granddaughter’s home in Paris. Paris suffered three major art thefts in one day in 1990, forcing the city to step up security at its art collections. Five Filters featured article: Tim Stevens (Engadget) The Art of Looking Prime Submitted at 5/20/2010 10:33:00 AM Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available It's not often you see four tools: PDF Newspaper, Full u n r e l e a s e d g a d g e t s r a t h e r Text RSS, Term Extraction. unceremoniously attached to a plank of wood on the sidewalk, but that's exactly what Seattle Times blogger Brier Dudley spotted: four Dell Streaks all in a row. AT&T network sorbet typically contains no cravings for a frozen treat. technicians were apparently dairy, making many of these Next Pineapple Sorbet r e c i p e s Five Filters featured article: verifying performance of the a good choice for anyone who is The Art of Looking Prime devices on the company's 3G lactose intolerant or vegan. Ministerial - The 2010 UK network and also ensuring their From fruity strawberry sorbet to General Election. Available ability to send accurate e-911 decadent chocolate sorbet, find tools: PDF Newspaper, Full information. Among the four the perfect recipe to satisfy your Text RSS, Term Extraction. was a bright crimson model, but

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Quartet of Dell Streaks spotted in the wild in Seattle, testing for AT&T sadly the pink and orange versions we're holding out for were not present on this particular piece of timber. We should be just a few weeks away from the Streak going fully public, at which point you can hopefully find something a little more suitable to attach yours to. [Thanks, Kris Hill] Quartet of Dell Streaks spotted in the wild in Seattle, testing for AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 May 2010 10:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| The Seattle Times| Email this| Comments

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Current: Meme Tracker With Data Visualizations Richard MacManus (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 5/20/2010 2:00:03 AM

While in New York earlier this month, I attended New York University's annual ITP Spring Show. ITP is a graduate program for communications studies and the Spring Show is a chance for students to showcase their interactive projects. I saw everything from Matrix-like interactive squiddies, to a woman on stilts powered by an iPhone app, to a paint brush that made music. Probably the most impressive thing I saw, though, was a media project by a student named Zoe Fraade-Blanar. Current: A News Project is a prototype meme tracker using data visualization. Sponsor Current tracks the lifecycle of internet memes over 24 hours, using data visualization of U.S. news media coverage. It makes it easy to identify when a meme is starting, trending, at its peak, or dying. The tool is aimed at newspaper editors and writers, as it tells them which stories have the best chance of success. The underlying data of Current comes from Google Trends, in

particular the Hot Searches section. So it is ultimately powered by Google search queries. That data is crossreferenced with the five largest newspapers in the United States, using Google News. "...it is not the placement but the thickness and volume of each line that represents the fluctuating level of interest." Creator Zoe Fraade-Blanar has a noble goal for the project. In an explanatory paper, she explains that the goal is to "spotlight missed opportunities in news coverage, and, potentially, recover news readership that has been lost to more sensational sources." Current is Fraade-Blanar's third attempt to use data visualization "to tackle the question of what topics news media should be covering." Fraade-Blanar did a stint with the New York Times Analytics Group in the summer of 2009, helping to analyze incoming traffic behavior. She discovered then that it often wasn't 'hard news' like politics or economics which drew the most traffic, but 'soft news' such as celebrity gossip or entertainment news. Here at ReadWriteWeb, we're well aware of this issue. Some

existed on the topic." As we've noted before on ReadWriteWeb, content farms aim to supply content to meet demand- usually perceived to be what people are searching for on Google. Demand Media, for example, has a sophisticated analytic engine that identifies topics that will be most attractive to Google. So although Current aims to of our best posts are ones that mediate between a writer's our writers sweat over for hours, "need to drive traffic to [their] yet probably won't hit the Digg website and the need to cover frontpage because of the topic. i m p o r t a n t , a l b e i t l e s s Whereas a top 10 list about sensational topics," in reality it YouTube videos can draw would most likely be used to h u n d r e d s o f t h o u s a n d s o f identify high traffic topics (the visitors! ones that will make money). "Each of these circles is a news Regardless of how it might be item. So every time you see a deployed in the real world, circle inside this information Current is a beautiful tool that stream, that's a successful news nicely illustrates trending stories item." - Zoe in an On The Media on the Web. Although currently interview. it is based on Google Trends, it While Current has a noble aim, may add other sources like curiously it's the exact same Yahoo, Technorati, Twitter and goal that motivates content Bing. farms like Demand Media and Congratulations to Zoe Fraadethe newly Yahoo-acquired Blanar for a smart and wellAssociated Content. In the designed project! There is words of Fraade-Blanar's white definite potential for Current to paper: "Each highlighted meme become a useful commercial represents untapped traffic that product. Check it out for could be channeled to a specific yourself on the project website. news site if only an article Discuss

A Quick Look At Banks Getting Hammered Around The Globe Gregory White (The Money Game) Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:03:00 AM

Financials around the world are feeling the pain of today's early selloff, with UBS a notable loser down over 4% UBS In the U.S.: • Morgan Stanley, down 2.3% • Goldman Sachs, down 1.6% In France: • Societe Generale, down 3.53% • Credit Agricole, down 3.11% • BNP Paribas, down 2.2% In Germany: • Deutsche Bank, down 2.2% • Commerzbank, down .81% In Spain: • BBVA, down 2.65% • Santander, down 2.35% In the UK: • Barclays, down 3.2% • Lloyds, down 1.7% Join the conversation about this story »

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Who's thrilled about Facebook's privacy crisis? Hollywood (CNET News.com)

CEO Mark Zuckerberg keep dominating technology news for a few more months. Recent changes to Facebook's That's because tumult at privacy controls, as well as a Facebook could very well litany of new products that share amount to free press for "The more user and demographic Social Network," the upcoming information with third-party film about the origins of the partners, are ticking off a lot of company that's slated for an users. Weblogs Inc. and Mahalo October 15 release. f o u n d e r J a s o n C a l a c a n i s Based on author Ben Mezrich's recently joined GDGT founder unauthorized Facebook tell-all Peter Rojas and prominent "The Accidental Billionaires," Googler Matt Cutts in the ranks the Columbia Pictures movie of notable tech industry figures stars Jesse Eisenberg and Justin who have announced that they're Timberlake as Zuckerberg and deleting their profiles altogether. former Facebook exec Sean Rumors have been swirling Parker, respectively. In a blog about internal disputes at p o s t o n W e d n e s d a y , Facebook over whether maybe TheWrap.com blogger Jeff the company really did cross the Sneider speculates that the star line and whether changes should power of the movie--director be in store. David Fincher, screenwriter But I'm willing to guess that a Aaron Sorkin, and producer few people very high up in Scott Rudin, not to mention the Hollywood are watching the cast--may very well add up to Facebook privacy hysteria Oscar nominations. unfold with glee, secretly or not- That's good news for Columbia so-secretly hoping that the Pictures, and bad news for rabble-rousing headlines about Facebook. The company did not Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:29:01 AM

approve of Mezrich's book or Sorkin's screenplay treatment thereof, and its few comments in the press about the matter have painted the tale as fanciful gossip. Indeed, the storyline doesn't portray Zuckerberg as the good guy--he's depicted as ruthless, greedy, and more than willing to stab former collaborators in the back on his way up Silicon Valley's power ladder. When I read the book and the screenplay, I theorized that Facebook was already so powerful and ubiquitous that it shouldn't have to care much about a movie revealing its (allegedly) shady early days. "The Pirates of Silicon Valley," a late '90s made-for-TV movie about the rivalry between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, for one, didn't do a thing to derail either Microsoft or Apple. But Facebook right now is in a far more vulnerable position, image-wise, than it was a few months ago. The aftermath of the company's most recent

privacy developments have thrown it out of many members' good graces, and seeing a slick, on-screen fulfillment of their concerns about the company could amount to even more malaise. Trailers for "The Social Network" should be popping up in movie theaters very soon, likely running ahead of Columbia Pictures releases that are coming out this summer. TheWrap's Jeff Sneider speculates that the first of these may be the upcoming Angelina Jolie flick "Salt." That comes out on July 23--but knowing how these things work, a trailer may leak to the Web sooner rather than later. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Password Sync Coming Soon to Google Chrome [Google Chrome] Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 5/20/2010 6:00:00 AM

It just landed in the open-source code for Chromium, so expect password syncing to arrive soon in Google Chrome's Dev Channel. It will likely require a command line switch (--enablesync-passwords) to activate, and no details yet on whether Chrome will offer a master password to protect your browsing. In the meantime, we recommend LastPass, the secure password solution that works with any browser. [ Download Squad] More Âť Google Chrome- ClientsWWW- Browsers- Google

Katie Holmes Steps Her Way Into Dance Class PopSugar (PopSugar) Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:00:00 AM

Katie Holmes headed out in LA yesterday for her latest dance lesson. She often accompanies Suri to her children's ballet

class, but this time Katie was on her own to refine the skills she recently showed off onstage with Tom Cruise. Tom had a big evening out in Hollywood on Monday, when he joined Jake Gyllenhaal to celebrate the

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First Look: TweetDeck Now Supports Foursquare and Buzz [SCREENSHOTS] Chris Cameron (ReadWriteWeb)

time, and global filters will let users automatically remove feed entries across all columns based Submitted at 5/20/2010 7:40:00 AM on any terms. This latest release Popular cross-platform social will also provide users with the app TweetDeck is announcing ability to incorporate their own an update to its desktop client custom URL shortening service. this morning which will add After a quick test of a preFoursquare and Google Buzz to of the Buzz experience within release of the latest version of its arsenal of supported streams its column system, letting users the app, I found that the Buzz which already includes Twitter, collapse and expand comments and Foursquare integration L i n k e d I n , M y S p a c e a n d for a streamlined experience. worked smoothly. When trying Facebook. In addition, the The app has also added support to add a Twitter-compatible version 0.34 update will allow f o r l o c a t i o n , i n c l u d i n g API, WordPress failed to sync for the addition of any Twitter- geotagged Tweets, Buzz entries up but Tumblr was successful. I compatible APIs, including and Foursquare updates. By was able to publish text entries WordPress, StatusNet and adding their Foursquare account on Tumblr, but adding photos or Tumblr, as well as a slew of to a column within TweetDeck, videos did not seem to transfer other features such as global users will be able to view their the way I had hoped they would. filters and scheduled posts. The friends' location-based updates, With this update TweetDeck is company will also announce as well as visualize their taking enormous steps toward financial news this morning, locations with an embedded becoming a complete social confirming that it has raised an Google Map within the column. dashboard - at least on the undisclosed amount of Series B A d d i t i o n a l l y , T w i t t e r - desktop. To be honest, I had funding. compatible APIs may also be largely given up on the app Sponsor added, allowing the client to because of the sluggish feel of TweetDeck, which was invited interact with services like Adobe Air applications, but the to test the Google Buzz API T u m b l r , W o r d P r e s s a n d integration of Foursquare, Buzz announced Wednesday, is S t a t u s N e t . and other services may just draw wasting no time in integrating Rich media will also be given a me back to it. The securing of the service into its desktop front-row seat in the latest additional funding means we client. Users will be able to send release, as uploading and can expect only bigger and updates to Buzz, as well as recording videos to 12seconds better things from the company view, like and comment on their or TwitVid is integrated into the in the near future. Discuss friends' posts directly from a client. Updates can also be stand-alone Buzz column in the scheduled for a later date and app. TweetDeck maintains most

Bang & Olufsen announces 40-inch BeoVision 8 LCD Laura June (Engadget)

quality in there too -- and the BeoVision 8 will be available Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:31:00 AM "this summer" for something in Come on, admit you: you know the neighborhood of$5,400. Full want a Bang & Olufsen LCD. press release follows. Well, the BeoVision 8 which Continue reading Bang & has just been announced, is a Olufsen announces 40-inch smaller, slightly less expensive BeoVision 8 LCD one than the BeoVision 10 is -- Bang & Olufsen announces 40so maybe you'll be able to afford i n c h B e o V i s i o n 8 L C D it, after all. The 40-incher boasts originally appeared on Engadget 240Hz motion processing, on Thu, 20 May 2010 09:31:00 resulting in a picture refresh rate EDT. Please see our terms for that the guys at B&O say is use of feeds. Permalink| | nearly double conventional Email this| Comments LCDs. Of course they've packed some banging B&O sound

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Geolorean: A Check in App with Check.in Integration Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:55:21 AM

Yesterday we looked at Check.in, the universal "check in" web application that provides a single interface for registering your location with several location-based social networking services like Foursquare and Brightkite. Today, we're learning of a native iPhone application that integrates Check.in's functionality: Geolorean. Sponsor Not only does the new Geolorean application provide all the features of Check.in, it also provides an aggregated view of all your friends' checkins across the applications it supports: Gowalla, Brightkite, and Foursquare. Check-ins and Check in Streams The web page for Geolorean answers the first question we had about this application: is this new? The site reads:"What do you mean you've seen this? It's brand new."

Well, indeed it is. Check.in only launched out of private beta yesterday and already here's an app taking advantage of the functionality it provides. The App Store, though, shows an "Update Date" of May 6th for Geolorean and the app itself launched back in late April. That means it actually launched even before Check.in went into public beta.

If only we had known! Geolorean(love the name, by the way) is a creation of two Chicago developers, Andy LaVoy and Max Beatty. With this $0.99 app, you can view an aggregated stream of your friends' check-ins and you can locate your friends on a map where you can see the details of each check in. And when you're out and need to check in

somewhere, you can use the Check.in web service, which is integrated into the application by way of a web view. When selecting this option, Check.in launches within the app, not in an external Safari window. The iTunes app description promises more "updates and expanded features soon," but apparently that won't include any additional location-based

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services for the time being. According to a Q&A on the app's homepage, they'll add other services only "if another one gets popular." (Does no one use Loopt?) However, the site does mention that you'll soon be able to use the app to merge contacts across the three supported services into a single contact in order to better track their check-ins. There isn't much more to this app, but I tried it this morning and it worked well without any crashes or noticeable bugs. Of course, I'm sitting here at home writing about it, so I haven't been able to test the Check.in feature yet. But based on my previous experience with the standalone web app, it should do just fine. If you're interested in trying Geolorean for yourself, you can grab it from iTunes here. Discuss

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SD: Open toes are the name of the game this summer. Toe rings? French pedicure? What is Joe's open-toe etiquette?

toe polish. Are you down with a little glam rock? JZ: Always. Ziggy Stardust anyone? (Or is it Adam GLambert?) SD: Roxy Music to you too! SHOP THESE SHOES

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Google offers free fonts for the Web (CNET News.com) Submitted at 5/20/2010 7:41:52 AM

Some of the 18 fonts Google released for free use on the Web and anywhere else.(Credit: Google) In an attempt to move beyond drab typography on the Web, Google on Wednesday released 18 freely usable fonts and an open-source tool designed to smooth over browser issues in displaying downloaded fonts. A number of Web designers--if not all readers--are excited that newer browsers support downloadable fonts so sites can use more than the handful that it's safe to assume are installed already on people's computers. For every eyeball-searing grunge font and blood-pressureraising instance of Comic Sans, there's a tasteful use of an artful logo or distinctive text. But font licensing rules mean a Web designer can't necessarily upload any old font for a site. This is where Google's move, announced at its Google I/O conference, comes in. The company released 18 fonts and also announced an interface that lets Web sites use them.

copyright concerns that might put off Web developers. Google's fonts are free of copyright restrictions, though. "Since all the fonts are open source, you can use them any way you like. We also have a separate project hosted on Google Code for downloading the original font files. Since they're open source, they can be used for just about any purpose, including for print," the Google font team members said. In addition, Google announced an open-source project called WebFont Loader to supply Web developers with code to deal with differences in how browsers handle downloaded Web fonts. The software, a collaboration with Small Batch's TypeKit project, includes "Google has been working with "web-safe" fonts that come JavaScript code to control how a number of talented font installed on most computers." Web pages display types for a designers to produce a varied The way to Web fonts was uniform experience across collection of high quality open paved with the Cascading Style different browsers, Google said. source fonts for the Google Font S h e e t s ( C S S ) f o r m a t t i n g Five Filters featured article: Directory," said Raph Levien standard and more recently the The Art of Looking Prime and David Kuettel of the Google W e b O p e n F o n t F o r m a t Ministerial - The 2010 UK Font API team in a blog post. t e c h n o l o g y t h a t h e l p e d General Election. Available "With the Google Font API, encourage Web typography tools: PDF Newspaper, Full using these fonts on your web support from traditional font Text RSS, Term Extraction. page is almost as easy as using licensing companies. But even the standard set of so-called with those foundations, there are

10 Foods That Sound Healthy (but Aren't) Salad, bran muffins, fat-free

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Mary-Kate Olsen let her hair hang loose leaving a friend's place in NYC yesterday. She's holding down the fort on the East Coast while Ashley and her boyfriend Justin Bartha had a bit of a scare this week when their plane had to make an emergency landing as they were flying to LA. He wasn't too shaken up to hit the red carpet the next night, however, as he joined a handful of other actors honoring his National Treasure producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Mary-Kate and Ashley are busy with their separate personal lives and they just made another joint business transaction. They finally sold the West Village penthouse they bought when they first arrived in the Big Apple to attend NYU, making over $1 million in profit foodsthey're good for you, you alternatives. tools: PDF Newspaper, Full despite never actually living in right? Not always. Nutrition Five Filters featured article: Text RSS, Term Extraction. the apartment. expert Katherine Brooking, MS, The Art of Looking Prime View 5 Photos â&#x20AC;ş R D , r e v e a l s s u r p r i s i n g l y Ministerial - The 2010 UK unhealthy foods, plus better-for- General Election. Available

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Millennial Media: Android Ad Impressions Rise 77 Percent In April, iPhone Sees 8 Percent Drop Leena Rao (TechCrunch) Submitted at 5/20/2010 6:56:10 AM

Mobile ad network Millennial Media, which claims that its mobile advertising network reaches 83 percent of 72 million mobile web users in the U.S., is reporting that Android ad requests grew 77% month over month, and have grown 282% since January. This growth is higher than the rise in impressions in March, which clocked in at 72%. Although the Apple OS had a month-over-month decrease of 8% it still remained the leading OS on Millennial’s network in April with 62% share of Smartphone impressions. RIM’s BlackBerry remained the second largest OS on Millennial’s network for the ninth consecutive month with a 3% increase month-over-month and a 17% share of impressions. Android’s took a 10% share of impressions for the month of April. Android Smartphone manufacturer, HTC, entered the top ve this month for the rst time

and represented the largest increase within the Top 15 Manufacturers in April with a 2.5% impression share increase month-over-month. All Android devices, including the MyTouch (Magic), HTC G1 (Dream), G2 Touch (Hero), experienced month-over-month increases in impression shares. In terms of type of device, the majority of ad impressions took place on

what the Apple device is seeing. Millennial has been seeing strong growth, just launching an iPad SDK, and is now one of the largest mobile ad networks in the space. The Baltimore-based startup is growing; in February Millennial Media acquired mobile metrics and analytics firm TapMetrics. Additionally, the ad network raised $16 million in Series C funding last November. It should be interesting to see how things play out for ad networks like Millennial and competitor Greystripe with the Apple’s iAd format entering the space. And the Google/AdMob acquisition(which may be smart phones (45%), with derailed) could add another Feature Phones seeing 35% of formidable competitor to the ad impressions, and Connected party. Interestingly, AdMob also Devices, like the iPad, seeing recently reported a faster growth in Android ad traffic than 20% of impressions. Clearly the Android is seeing iPhone traffic (although, similar impressive growth in terms of to Millenial’s report, iPhone OS ad impressions and even sales. took a greater share of traffic). That being said, it still seems to C r u n c h B a s e I n f o r m a t i o n be way behind the iPhone and Millennial Media Information needs a lot more ad impressions provided by CrunchBase and use to even come close to

Foxy Lady: Whitney Port's Behind-theCamera Look From The City ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion Blogs) Submitted at 5/19/2010 12:45:16 PM

Whitney may be too charming for her own good. While styling her new lookbook, she tried not to lead-on the photographer who was obviously interested in her for more than just her talent. In a flirty leopard crop top, tight skinny jeans and cute flats, she looked too sweet to pass up. When the photographer tried to ask her on another date, she had to turn him down softly claiming work was her priority. Oh, Whitney how you play with those boys' emotions! Shop Whitney's flirty behind-thescenes look with these pieces. Clockwise from top left: Shirt, $190, by All Saints. Tank, $65, by Topshop. Customized nameplate necklace from Patricia Field. Studded belt, $237, by Linea Pelle. Bow ring, $58, by Marc by Marc Jacobs. Lace-up shoes, $370, by Opening Ceremony. Jeans, $160, by J. Brand.

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BrightSource Energy raises funds for big solar plants (CNET News.com)

the heliostats on the ground which reflect light to the tower to make steam. B r i g h t S o u r c e E n e r g y o n The money will be used to Thursday said it has raised $150 d e v e l o p a p l a n n e d 2 , 6 1 0 million to fund the construction megawatts of solar power under of a string of large solar power contract from utilities Pacific plants in the southwest U.S. Gas and Electric and Southern over the next six years. California Edison. The company New investors in the Oakland, a l s o p l a n s t o e x p a n d Calif.-based company include i n t e r n a t i o n a l l y . the California State Teachers In all, BrightSource Energy Retirement System (CalSTRS) plans to build 14 power plants and Alstom, the France-based between this year and 2016 in conglomerate which develops the desert areas of the southwest power generation and rail U.S., where its concentrating projects. Existing investors solar technology works. The VantagePoint Venture Partners, plants would provide enough Morgan Stanley, and Draper e l e c t r i c i t y h u n d r e d s o f Fisher Jurvetson, also funded thousands of U.S. homes. the series D round, which brings The company expects to start the total equity raised for construction later this year of BrightSource Energy to more the Ivanpah solar project in than $300 million. California, for which it received The view of a solar tower from a $1.37 billion loan guarantee Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:36:30 AM

from the Department of Energy. BrightSource Energy technology uses the sun's heat to make steam which is passed through a turbine to generate electricity. It plants are made up of fields of ground-mounted

mirrors which reflect light onto a tower, which heats up a liquid to make steam. Alstom said that it has invested $55 million of the total $150 million investment in BrightSource Energy and

indicated that it would provide engineering and project expertise in developing solar projects. Although the company has lined up financing and partners to aid in construction, largescale solar projects require lengthy permitting processes and environmental reviews. The $150 million financing appears to be the second largest investment in a venture-backed company this year, following electric car maker Better Place's $350 million round earlier this year. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Pakistan on a Censorship Binge: First Facebook, Now YouTube Reuters (Wired Top Stories)

Internet service providers to stop access to social network site Facebook indefinitely on ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Wednesday because of an online Pakistan has blocked the competition to draw the Prophet popular video sharing website Mohammad. YouTube indefinitely in a bid to Any representation of the contain “blasphemous” material, Prophet Mohammad is deemed officials said on Thursday. un-Islamic and blasphemous by The blockade came after the Muslims. Pakistan Telecommunication Wahaj-us-Siraj, the CEO of Authority (PTA) directed Nayatel, an Internet service Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:00:00 AM

provider, said the PTA issued an order late on Wednesday seeking an “immediate” block of YouTube. “It was a serious instruction as they wanted us to do it quickly and let them know after that,” he told Reuters. YouTube was also blocked in the Muslim country in 2007 for about a year for what it called un-Islamic videos.

A Foreign Office spokesman condemned the publication of caricatures of the Muslim prophet on Facebook and urged countries to “address the issue” which he said was an “extremely sensitive and emotional matter for Muslims.” “Such malicious and insulting attacks hurt the sentiments of Muslims around the world and can not be accepted under the

garb of freedom of expression,” the spokesman, Abdul Basit, told a weekly briefing. Pages: 1 2 View All Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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UrbanSpoon Challenges OpenTable With iPadBased Restaurant Reservations Service

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management database. Manage Your Restaurant with the iPad As Lowry told us, the iPad is an Submitted at 5/19/2010 10:22:00 PM ideal device in the restaurant Restaurant review site context, as it gives the host far UrbanSpoon is slowly moving more mobility than the regular into OpenTable's territory. large terminal that you can find About half a year ago, the in most restaurants today. company launched a very Besides that, Lowry noted, the limited test of a basic iPad is also very "cool and reservations tracking system for sexy," something that a lot of restaurants in the Seattle area. restaurateurs appreciate. At that time, however, With this move, UrbanSpoon is restaurant owners could only clearly invading OpenTable's use UrbanSpoon to tell their territory. According to Lowry, customers whether they had last restaurateurs never really had an -minute openings. Now, alternative to OpenTable until however, UrbanSpoon is now. With over 8 million users, launching RezBook, an iPad app UrbanSpoon's iPhone app is and online reservations platform expand this program nationwide customers a subscription fee of already one of the most popular that will allow restaurants to over the next few months. $99 per month and a $1 fee for restaurant-related mobile apps bypass OpenTable and manage U r b a n S p o o n w i l l f i r s t every reservation that is made and given that the company their tables and reservation concentrate its marketing on through its system (reservations offers a cheaper subscription large markets like Seattle and through UrbanSpoon's widget price and runs on relatively books. Los Angeles, but anybody with will be free). Sponsor cheap hardware, the company, Currently, UrbanSpoon is an iPad will soon be able to The application will store its which has been working on this testing the iPhone app with 5 download the application and data on UrbanSpoon's servers. s e r v i c e e v e r s i n c e A p p l e restaurants in the Seattle area, use it. The app will be available Besides allowing restaurants to announced the iPad, has a but as the company's co-founder in Apple's store within the next manage their reservations, the chance to make a dent in service will also include a OpenTable's market. Discuss Ethan Lowry told us earlier few weeks. today, the company plans to UrbanSpoon will charge its c u s t o m e r r e l a t i o n s h i p

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'Cougar Town' - 'Finding Out' Recap (Season Finale) Joel Keller (TV Squad)

such a high-concept premise and a big star, then made a massive readjustment midway through F i l e d u n d e r : R e c a p s , the season, then gave us Finales(S01E24) It's interesting episodes that seemed to be a how, after this show started with series of vignettes in search of a Submitted at 5/20/2010 5:17:00 AM

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Lit Fix: Paddy Whacked by T.J. English WomansDay.com Editors (Daily Woman's Day Blog) Submitted at 5/19/2010 4:00:00 PM

Today's book review is from WomansDay.com Senior Associate Editor Meghan Ahearn. She read Paddy Whacked by T.J. English : Irish-American history buffs will love this comprehensive non-fiction book that tells “The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster.” From the famine years, when Irish One thing that the update won't immigrants were arriving in the bring (yet, presumably) is iPad United States by the boatloads, compatibility -- this app is still until the early-2000s, when the only for the iPhone and iPod last king of Southie went into touch. Blizzard has been pretty hiding, English tells the gripping committed to Mac development tale of the Irish underworld in in the past, though, and it's still cities like New York, Boston, n o t o u t o f t h e r e a l m o f Chicago and New Orleans. possibility that we'll see an iPad Covering all the bases, including offering from them. We'll have the early immigrant experience to stay tuned. when “No Irish Need Apply” TUAW Blizzard to update was the norm, the mobster heyWoW app with Auction House d a y o t h e r w i s e k n o w n a s service, subscription originally Prohibition and how La Costra appeared on The Unofficial Nostra finally became the Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, exalted American gangster 20 May 2010 09:00:00 EST. experience, this fascinating Please see our terms for use of book is steeped in the blood, feeds. sweat and tears of a fiercely Read| Permalink| Email this| loyal, political-minded people Comments

Blizzard to update WoW app with Auction House service, subscription Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

game's $15/month charge), players will be able to buy, create, and relist items on sale in Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:00:00 AM the in-game marketplace. Filed under: iPhone We've This is a functionality that a lot posted about the World of of people have wanted ever Warcraft Armory app from since Blizzard released the Blizzard Entertainment before. iPhone app in the first place. Now, Blizzard has announced While at least one other MMO that they'll soon be adding a company has planned to use the new, long-awaited feature: the iPhone in this same way, ability to browse and even set Blizzard is the first to bring an up in-game auctions from on the extra subscription charge for the iPhone itself. The Remote privilege. The extra fee will also Auction House on the iPhone allow players to access the AH Armory app is just one feature on the Web from anywhere, and of their upcoming Armory even without the extra charge, system; they're going to be players can get notifications releasing an update to the about when auctions are up or official app soon that will let sold and browse auction house W o W p l a y e r s b r o w s e t h e sales. The update is out now on auction house for free, and for the App Store, and the Remote an extra subscription price of $3 Auction House service will be per month (in addition to the out soon.

who strove to take care of their own no matter what the cost.—Meghan Ahearn We'd love to hear about what you're reading, too. Send your r e v i e w s t o LitFix@womansday.com and we'll post them right here on the blog. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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His colossal fame and worldwide impact means certain fabrications circulate for years, Microsoft Corporation co- hidden in the deepest recesses of founder Bill Gates often tops the Web long after other media lists of the world's richest outlets dismiss them. But not people. His computing and everyone who encounters a business prowess, and more Gates rumor ends up reading or r e c e n t l y , h i s s t a g g e r i n g hearing the follow-up stories philanthropic acts have attracted which dispel those tales. immense media coverage. But None of the following rumors, living in the spotlight means listed in no particular order, are more than just fame; it also true, but they all serve as proof means dealing with an Internet- that Bill Gates is leaving an age rumor mill that perpetuates indelible mark on the world. half-truths and, in some cases, Read on to see five of the most outright lies. popular Bill Gates myths. Rumors about Gates have been Five Filters featured article: zipping around the Internet for The Art of Looking Prime years. They veer from unlikely Ministerial - The 2010 UK Darren Murph (Engadget) we're guessing it's a breed of May 26th -- till then, try not to t o o u t l a n d i s h , b u t w h a t ' s General Election. Available SSD this world has never seen. gnaw your nails past the cuticle. interesting about the Gates Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:09:00 AM tools: PDF Newspaper, Full We're told that the mystery Update: Sounds like Seagate anecdotes is that they're often Text RSS, Term Extraction. Well, well -- what's this? product will be 20 percent may finally be ready to launch difficult to prove or dispel. Wouldn't you like to know. q u i c k e r t h a n a 6 0 0 G B that "pie in the sky" mutant What it is, fine people, is the 10,000rpm SATA drive, 80 hybrid SSD technology that we "device that becomes you, so p e r c e n t f a s t e r t h a n a first caught wind of back in you become faster." Seriously, conventional 7200rpm HDD and 2 0 0 8 . D a r e w e s a y , t h e that's the teaser line that able to boot "within six seconds Momentus XT Hybrid? Thanks, (Cooking Light: Editor's Picks) spinach or alongside broccoli, asparagus, green beans, or any Seagate's feeding the press this of an SSD drive." It'll also be Sneakz and Khattab! A hallmark of Mediterranean other green vegetable. fine morning, inviting us to join able to "learn about its user to [Thanks, Michael] the company as it reveals the dynamically decrease disk time, Seagate's 'game-changing' dishes is that they derive deep View Recipe: Lemon Basil next "game-changing" device boot time, and application load storage tech coming to ASUS flavor from simple ingredients Shrimp and Pasta m e a n t t o b o o s t s y s t e m time," and if you're lucky, it ROG G73Jh laptop originally prepared simply. This dish is a Next Chicken Souvlaki performance by a staggering may just cleanse that work coat appeared on Engadget on Thu, great example: You cook the Five Filters featured article: 150 percent. Judging by the of yours, whip up a nutritious 20 May 2010 09:09:00 EDT. shrimp in the water with the The Art of Looking Prime image above and the fact that breakfast and convert your Please see our terms for use of pasta, then add herby basil, Ministerial - The 2010 UK ASUS' ROG G73Jh gaming clunker into a hovercraft. We'll feeds. Permalink| | Email this| briny capers, rich olive oil, and General Election. Available b r i g h t tools: PDF Newspaper, Full laptop will be first to house it, be finding out a lot more come Comments lemon juice, no further cooking Text RSS, Term Extraction. required. Serve on a bed of Submitted at 5/19/2010 1:00:00 PM

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Apple relents, allows cash for iPads Erica Sadun (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 5/19/2010 10:00:00 PM

Filed under: iPad Good news, everyone! In response to the public outcry over Apple's nocash-for-iPad policy, Apple has relented. You will now be able to purchase iPads in-store using cash and gift cards. Yes, you'll also have to set up a traceable Apple account at the same time, but the lack of credit or debit card will no longer bar the sale of iPads to consumers. Apple's controversial ( although not illegal in most states) nocash policy for the iPad was introduced to limit gray-market iPad redistribution. The demand for iPads remains high worldwide, and as the eBay iPad site shows, there's money to be made for anyone willing to part with their new electronic friend. It's kind of like Terry Pratchett's notion of"negotiable affection." Sure, you love the iPad -- but there's no question that it's profitable to share that love with others.

It's Robert Pattinson vs. Sandra Bullock in the PopSugar 100 Finals - Time to Vote! Molly (PopSugar) Submitted at 5/20/2010 7:30:00 AM

Under Apple's new rules, you will still be limited to twodevice-purchases per user. You'll be able to pay for those two devices using an expanded payment vocabulary, but Apple intends to firmly enforce its existing allocation control measures. So Apple will ban any customer it finds purchasing too many iPads -- even if you are picking that extra one up for a colleague or a gift.

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The whole road has led to this Robert Pattinson and Sandra Bullock have defeated all the competition to reach the very final matchup of the 2010 PopSugar 100! From an initial lineup of 132, you have narrowed the contest down to the two stars who have had the absolute biggest years in Hollywood and those past 12 month's couldn't have been more different for Sandra and Robert! For the next week we'll be breaking down all the reasons to vote for both, but it's time to start picking - click below or here to start, and don't forget that every vote enters you in the running to win Chanel! Even if you didn't get a chance to vote in any of the rounds so far, you can still enter by voting

in the bracket! With every round you complete, you will be entered to win this Chanel purse - so you have seven chances to enter! The winner will ultimately be selected randomly from the pool of users who completed each round and will be announced in June near when the new PopSugar 100 list is revealed. You must be logged in to your OnSugar account in order for your entry to be counted. Log in or register here! Click here for all the rules. So who do you think will take home the top spot? Vote for Rob or Sandra!

The City's Cover Conflict: Which Fergie Would You Choose? ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion Blogs) Submitted at 5/19/2010 1:30:00 PM

Last night’s episode of The City offered a behind the scenes look at Fergie’s May cover shoot.

But you’d already seen that here, here, and here---what you didn’t see was the battle behind the cover, the sweet Burberryclad Fergie versus the sexy, barely-in-Marc Jacobs Fergie (which of course mirrored the tension between Olivia and u n d e r l y i n g , n e v e r - e n d i n g Erin).

Post-shoot Elle’s own Joe Zee explained the importance of the perfect cover image, “I walk by a newsstand and you have seconds to stop me and make me pick that issue up. That’s what it’s about!” Putting aside your allegiance to

Erin or Olivia (for a minute at least), tell us which portrait you'd have chosen for the cover.

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Gateway brings ZX4300 and ZX6900 all-in-one touchscreen PCs into a world of fingers Darren Murph (Engadget) Submitted at 5/20/2010 10:11:00 AM

We've still yet to find a great reason to eschew our tried-andtrue mouse / keyboard tandem in favor of using our desktop with just our fingers, but if you know better, Gateway has a new duo it'd sure love for you to check out. The ZX4300 line, which is the lower-end of the two, gets served AMD's Athlon II X2 CPU, Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit), a 20-inch

touchpanel (1,600 x 900 resolution), integrated ATI Radeon HD 4270 graphics, 4GB of DDR3 memory a 640GB hard drive, 8x SuperMulti drive, a bundled wireless keyboard and mouse, inbuilt WiFi, gigabit Ethernet, six USB 2.0 sockets and a pair of five-watt speakers. The Gateway One ZX6900 family sports a 23-inch LCD (1,920 x 1,080), and while the vast majority of the specs mimic the others we've mentioned, the Core i3 power plant is a notable

r e a s o n f o r p a y i n g e x t r a . the ZX6900-01e lands alongside Speaking of which, the ZX4300- of it for $1,019.99. 01e is slated to first hit stores Gallery: Gateway brings next month for $749.99, while ZX4300 and ZX6900 all-in-one

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eviGroup's Android Wallet MID now available, chrome is optional (video) Tim Stevens (Engadget)

€199 (about $245). For that you get a five-inch, 800 x 480 resistive touchscreen device T h e l a s t t i m e w e s a w running Android 1.5 from 1GB eviGroup's Wallet it'd been of built in storage, augmented given an '80s-style two-tone by a microSD slot. Power comes bezel and a January release date. from a 667MHz Samsung ARM Thankfully, the two-tone look processor and the battery is said has gone, but that anticipated to last about six hours. For your date didn't exactly pan out €199 you'll also get a car mount either. The MID is officially and a car charger, but given the now shipping, with the base device has neither GPS nor (chrome-free) model going for access to Google Navigation Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:50:00 AM

we're not entirely sure the point of all that. Still, it's not a bad price, but those who really like showing off their wealth can get

one with a chrome backside for an extra €20. Heart-felt unboxing after the break. Continue reading eviGroup's

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electoral victory for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, shot protesters in cold blood and arrested others, The Obama administration has sentencing them to the Iranian pursued a foreign policy that gulag in show trials. ranges from feckless to reckless, Obama was slow to condemn from pursuing fantasies like a the violence, apparently still global nuclear summit to acts of hoping for Iran to voluntarily genuine irresponsibility, like relinquish its nuclear program-d i m i n i s h i n g l o n g s t a n d i n g even as Tehran boasted about its relationships with allies like uranium enrichment progress. Poland, Israel and Britain. Obama finally set a deadline of But of all the national security Dec. 31, 2009, for a diplomatic i m p e r a t i v e s f a c i n g t h e solution to the nuclear crisis. administration, none is more The deadline has come and gone critical than preventing Iran, the with no response from the world's leading state sponsor of United States. terrorism, from developing The time for delay is over. nuclear weapons. Now President Despite sitting atop some of the Barack Obama's actions have world's largest proven oil actually made the situation more r e s e r v e s , I r a n ' s I s l a m i c dangerous, not less so. revolutionary government lacks Obama pledged during the 2008 sufficient refinery capacity to p r e s i d e n t i a l c a m p a i g n t o turn that oil into the gasoline, negotiate with Iran without diesel and other fuels it needs. preconditions, a naive and The House and Senate have utopian promise that has yielded overwhelmingly passed, with p r e d i c t a b l y d i s a p p o i n t i n g bipartisan support, sanctions results. bills to curtail shipments of On taking office, as part of a gasoline and other refined diplomatic offensive, Obama petroleum products into Iran. videotaped a greeting to the This could force the regime to Iranian people for Nowruz, the f o c u s o n l o n g - i g n o r e d 12-day holiday marking the conventional energy problems New Year in Iran. Tough talk instead of pursuing nuclear about Iran's nuclear program capabilities. The bills passed would wait. unanimously in the Senate, and Months passed. In June, the with only 12 "no" votes in the I r a n i a n r e g i m e r i g g e d a n House. Submitted at 5/19/2010 6:00:00 PM

In a shocking act of negligence, the Obama White House has signaled to lawmakers privately it does not want the legislation to reach the president's desk, as the administration chases a false chimera of U.N. sanctions. So sanctions with teeth languish in a conference committee while Iran gets ever closer to possessing a nuclear weapon. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D -Calif.) and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) should move these two bills out of committee and send them to Obama for his signature by Memorial Day--if not sooner. Congressional action is only the first step. The administration should also sanction those companies already in violation of the Iran Sanctions Act, which has been on the books for almost 15 years. Penalizing one energy company would send a clear signal that Washington has a policy of zero tolerance when it comes to enabling the Iranian nuclear program. Second, the Treasury Department should build on its designation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a supporter of terrorist by designating major IRGC entities that are dominant players in the Iranian energy sector--sending shockwaves through Iran's

energy partners that they are doing business with blacklisted U.S. entities. Finally, the administration should provide the same kind of tangible, material and moral support to the Green Movement in Iran that President Ronald Reagan gave to the Solidarity movement in Soviet-dominated Poland during the Cold War. Releasing restrictions on the transfer of communications technology to the Green Movement would give its leadership the vital access it needs to satellite phones, satellite subscriptions and secure computer networks to evade Iranian censors. We've now learned that as recently as January, Defense Secretary Robert Gates sent a memo to the president's national security team warning that the administration has no effective policy for dealing with Iran achieving nuclear capability-which many experts predict could take place within a year. For the president to be so ill prepared for what nearly everyone agrees to be the greatest threat facing the region-and the world--is unacceptable. If Iran develops a nuclear weapon, and Washington does nothing to stop them, the other nations in the Middle East will

be presented with a very clear and very real threat--and will have gotten the message that the United States will do nothing to help. Their reaction might well be to develop their own nuclearweapons capabilities, thrusting the world's most dangerous region into a full-blown nuclear arms race. Putting the crisis off can only make things worse. Washington's options dwindle as Iran gets closer to making its first bomb. Let's be clear. Every day Pelosi and Reid fail to act, Iran takes another step closer to developing a nuclear weapon. Congress needs to pass a strong sanctions bill and send it to the president's desk before they adjourn for the Memorial Day recess. Newt Gingrich is a senior fellow at AEI. Photo Credit: Daniella Zalcman/Flickr/Creative Commons Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Their number is up (The Economist: Daily news and views)

out of port during the attack, allowed the investigators to conclude on May 20th that the Submitted at 5/20/2010 1:48:29 AM Cheonan“was sunk as the result A guilty verdict for North of an external underwater Korea Evidence that North explosion caused by a torpedo Korea torpedoed the Cheonan made in North Korea.” Or as puts it—and China—on the spot o n e p e r s o n c l o s e t o t h e May 20th 2010 | SEOUL AND investigation succinctly put it: TOKYO | From The Economist “ I t w a s e i t h e r t h e N o r t h print edition Koreans, or it was the WHOEVER failed to erase the M a r t i a n s . ” words “Number One” in blue The South Korean government Korean script etched inside the of President Lee Myung-bak propulsion shaft of a deadly had barely dared hope to find torpedo may well be in deep hard evidence of North Korean trouble in Pyongyang. On May g u i l t , h o w e v e r s t r o n g i t s 15th a ship dredging the site of suspicions. In doing so, it the attack on a South Korean pushes the belligerent regime in warship in March that killed 46 Pyongyang into a corner. True seamen made a spectacular find: to form, it continued to deny its propellers, motors and a steering involvement on May 20th, s e c t i o n t h a t i n t e r n a t i o n a l calling the investigation a investigators say “perfectly “fabrication” and threatened “all match” those of a CHT-02D -out war” if new sanctions were torpedo that North Korea sells imposed. abroad. What’s more, the blue Diplomats say it will also make marking was similar to one on a it harder for North Korea ’s previously captured North main ally, China, not to accept Korean torpedo. This was as the regime’s culpability. A close to a smoking gun as the s e n i o r o f f i c i a l i n B e i j i n g South Koreans could have reportedly called the incident hoped to find. “very unfortunate”. He did not The discovery, combined with comment on the investigation, intelligence reports indicating though an official in Seoul said North Korean submarines were China’s ambassador was briefed

on the results on May 18th. In coming days China will come under pressure to issue a tougher response, during what could be some uncomfortable diplomatic meetings. Hillary Clinton, America’s secretary of state, is to visit Beijing on May 24th and 25th. Following that, the leaders of China, South Korea and Japan are scheduled to hold a summit in South Korea on May 29th and 30th. The proof of North Korean involvement, say diplomats, may help South Korea and its allies persuade China to back some form of United Nations condemnation of the attack. South Korea’s allies such as America, Japan, Britain and Australia were quick to express their outrage. But the toughest condemnation, in the form of a Security-Council resolution, needs China’s support, or at least abstention. Beyond diplomatic measures, South Korea’s retaliatory options are relatively puny—and dangerous. South Korean diplomats suggest that the government may announce a halt to remaining business ties with the North, except through the cross-border industrial

complex, known as Kaesong. It may close a shipping shortcut to North Korean vessels, and conduct joint training exercises with American maritime forces in the Yellow Sea. A retaliatory strike, which some hawkish South Koreans are calling for, is something the probusiness President Lee is considered reluctant to do for fear of escalating the conflict. His party faces local elections that it is expected to win on June 2nd (his liberal opponents already accuse him, perhaps unfairly, of using the incident for political ends). After that he hosts an important G20 summit in November. Among the population at large, there seems little stomach for a fight. Indeed, despite a national outpouring of grief, the senseless attack aroused surprisingly few public demonstrations of wrath with the North. Brian Myers, a writer on North Korea, notes that there was more palpable anger in 2002 when an American army vehicle ran over two South Korean schoolgirls. However, he and other North Korea watchers think tough measures may eventually be

called for. The more the cashstrapped regime in Pyongyang feels economically isolated, the more it is likely to step up its provocations against the South unless it is decisively put in its place, Mr Myers says. As it is, the North is in desperate economic straits. Six-party talks that aimed to encourage it to give up nuclear weapons in exchange for cash are stalled indefinitely as a result of the torpedo attack. International sanctions have hit other sources of hard currency. China is its economic lifeline, as was shown again when Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s dictator, made a hasty trip to Beijing not long after the Cheonan incident to beg for continued economic support. At that point, Beijing had an excuse, in public at least, to take his claims of innocence at face value. It no longer does. Readers' comments The Economist welcomes your views. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Coarsely chopped almonds, two kinds of chocolate, and golden cane syrup help give UpsideDown Fudge-Almond Tart its r i c h f l a v o r and our highest rating. "Easy and beautiful, this tart will satisfy every chocoholic's need for a chocolate fix," c o m m e n t s T e s t Kitchen Professional Deb Wise. View Recipe: Upside-Down Fudge-Almond Tart Next January: Poutine Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Jake Gyllenhaal Takes a Brief Break From Sweet Princely Duties Molly (PopSugar)

promotional tour for Prince of Persia which included the Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:00:00 AM London premiere and a Russian Jake Gyllenhaal ran errands in stop that ended in some amazing B e v e r l y H i l l s y e s t e r d a y , dancing. On Monday he and grabbing a smoothie and helping Gemma Arterton celebrated a female friend carry her stuff t h e i r p r o d u c e r J e r r y into a hotel. He's back from a Bruckheimer at another red

carpet event, which also brought

out some other big Hollywood names. There's one more week before the movie hits theaters on May 28, and while we await the shirtless body he worked so hard for, our lucky contest winner will get to meet Mr. Gyllenhaal himself at the special LA

screening tonight - stay tuned here and on Twitter for updates! To see more photos of Jake in LA, just read more. View 20 Photos â&#x20AC;ş

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With Euro Plunging, Here Comes The Plaza Accord 2.0 Joe Weisenthal (The Money Game) Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:59:26 AM

Are we about to see another version of the Plaza Accord, the 1985 event when leaders of major Western powers coordinated to depreciate their currencies against the yen? From a reader: So, in the rapidly unraveling Euro drama…who stands to lose the most economically with a continued collapse of

Euro?...and who stands to gain the most by deploying their vast currency reserves to buy the Euro?...China of course Therefore the looming unasked question is….Does China start supporting the Euro soon with significant intervention?...do the rest of G20 countries join in?...The G20 co-ordinated currency intervention scenario has not been discussed much…the Plaza Accord precedent to engineer currency moves to address global trade

that hits you. Peter Stock Stock Investment Mgmt 3556 Main Street Manchester Vt 05254 And for a sense of how that works out: Join the conversation about this story » imbalances is out there…it may be just the thing, at a minimum, to stabilize the Euro and allow the Eurocrats in Brussels to save political face and at same time

buy the Chinese and US time to work out their trade imbalance differences. In the volatile FX business…you never see the bus

How did the universe begin? (HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)

Meanwhile, physicist Albert Einstein had just completed his Submitted at 5/19/2010 1:00:00 PM general theory of relativity, "In the beginning" -- before the which provided a model of a 1920s, these words had no place finite, homogenous cosmos in our scientific understanding shaped by gravity. These efforts of the universe. Astronomers laid most of the groundwork for believed the cosmos to be a flurry of new discoveries and eternal and unchanging. We fresh theories in the decades knew of only one galaxy and a ahead. few million visible stars, and Our modern scientific this was the scope of our understanding of the universe observable universe. provides a kind of road map Then astronomer Edwin Hubble through time. Based in Hubble observed, courtesy of redshift, and Einstein and corroborated distant galaxies speeding away by such discoveries as the from each other and formulated abundance of light elements and Hubble's Law to explain the t h e c o s m i c m i c r o w a v e universe's uniform expansion. background radiation, this map Redshift just refers to a distant points back 13.7 billion years to celestial body's shift toward an event we know as the big longer, or redder, wavelengths, bang. compliments of the Doppler At this point in the ancient past, effect. there was no such thing as time

or space. There was just a single hot, condensed point -- a singularity -- containing all matter in the universe. In addition, all four fundamental forces (the gravitational, electromagnetic, strong and weak forces) were unified as a single force. This unified period, called the Planck epoch, lasted 10-43 seconds. Then the universe expanded at a rate faster than the speed of light, growing from subatomic to golfball size almost instantaneously. Scientists call this the inflationary period. The universe then expanded outward in a flood of superheated subatomic particles. Three seconds after the big bang, space cooled enough for these particles to form elements. Some 300 million years later,

stars and galaxies formed as well. (For more detailed information on these beginning steps, read How the Big Bang Theory Works. The big bang theory still provides the best model for how the universe arose, but it's not the only theory we have. For example, the steady-state theory modeled a universe with a consistent density that appears to expand due to the constant generation of new matter. Support for it, however, largely died out, thanks to the discovery of the cosmic microwave background( CMB) in 1965. The CMB was, in essence, the radiation signature of the early, expanding universe. The Ekpyrotic model suggests the universe formed due to the collision of two separate

universes in the fourth dimension. And the big bounce theory suggests our universe is caught in an eternal cycle of big bangs and big crunches. You can think of such theories and models as piers extending into the cosmic unknown. Some provide us with solid enough footing to observe and test the universe as we steadily determine exactly where and what we are in it. Explore the links on the next page for even more cosmological quandaries. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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On Web Video Support, Safari Now Stands Alone Michael Calore (Wired Top Stories)

I/O, links went up to new versions of Firefox and Opera with built-in support for WebM Submitted at 5/19/2010 4:58:00 PM video. Chrome support will be SAN FRANCISCO — When coming in the next beta, due Google announced it would be later this month. Microsoft says releasing the VP8 video codec that Microsoft Internet Explorer under an open source license, all 9, due to arrive as soon as the of the major browser vendors end of 2010, will support VP8 jumped up to support it. video playback if a user has Well, all of them except Apple. installed the free codec on their T h e W e b M P r o j e c t , a copy of Windows. Adobe says partnership between Google, Flash Player will also support it Mozilla, Opera and dozens of as soon as possible. Executives other software and hardware from Mozilla, Opera and Adobe m a k e r s , p r o v i d e s w e b were all on stage during developers a way of embedding Wednesday morning’s keynote video and audio in HTML5 to pledge their support. pages without plug-ins, and But nobody from Apple without resorting to patent-laden appeared, and as of Wednesday technologies. afternoon, the company has Watchers of the open web have made no such announcement b e e n w a i t i n g f o r t h i s about support for WebM video development for some time. The in Safari. When asked to H T M L 5 v i d e o p l a y b a c k comment on this story, Apple e x p e r i e n c e v a r i e s g r e a t l y didn’t respond. b e t w e e n b r o w s e r s , w i t h Of course, Apple has a great different browsers supporting deal of time and money invested different flavors of video, in a competing technology, creating a poor user experience H.264. Its Quicktime ecosystem and forcing developers to rely is built on H.264, and it uses the heavily on plug-ins like Flash video format for all of its and Silverlight. Google was content served through iTunes. widely expected to take a step It’s also the native format on towards solving the video iPads, iPhones and iPods. problem on the web with Most video on the web — W e d n e s d a y ’ s W e b M approximately two-thirds of it announcement. — is served in the H.264 Indeed, within minutes of the format, but various licensing project’s launch here at Google r e q u i r e m e n t s m a k e s o m e

“Unfortunately, just because something is open source, it doesn’t mean or guarantee that it doesn’t infringe on others patents,” Jobs wrote. But Monty isn’t worried about the MPEG-LA suing him or anyone at the WebM Project. “The recent saber-rattling by Jobs felt more like a message to nervous to use it. Apple owns his own troops than a warning patents around H.264 and shot to ours,” he says. “MPEG benefits from the licensing fees itself has always has an internal that allow its use (so does contingent that has pushed hard Microsoft, and many other for royalty-free baselines from companies). MPEG, and the missives about So, will Apple begin supporting video codecs and patents were a open source video codec that probably meant for them, not competes for space on the web us.” with H.264? Google VP of product “Stranger things have happened, management Sundar Pichai says but I’d be surprised if that the company has done “a h a p p e n e d s o o n , ” s a y s thorough legal analysis of VP8 C h r i s t o p h e r “ M o n t y ” since acquiring it, and remains Montgomery, creator of the Ogg confident it can release the container, an open source video technology under an open and audio technology integral to s o u r c e l i c e n s e w i t h o u t the new WebM Project, in an e- infringing on any patents. mail to Webmonkey. The Safari browser is based on Apple has sent not-so-subtle the same WebKit engine as threats about possible patent G o o g l e C h r o m e , a n d t h e violation complaints being WebKit engine is open source. brought against supporters of But codec support is not a open video codecs. In an e-mail component of the rendering to a blogger, Jobs warned that engine, so even though Google’s MPEG-LA, the licensing group browser supports VP8 and t h a t o v e r s e e s H . 2 6 4 , w a s WebM content, it doesn’t assembling a patent portfolio to provide an instant fix for Safari. “go after” open video codec And of course, iPad and iPhone makers. browsers run Safari, so WebM

video won’t work on those devices until Apple adds support. However, it wouldn’t be tough for Apple to implement WebM support. All of the technologies involved have been released under permissive open source licenses, and it’s already been rolled into three major browsers. “It’s not a technical challenge,” says Google VP of engineering Linus Upson. “If you look at the other browsers that have already implemented VP8, it’s just been a matter of a few weeks.” Google’s Upson and Pichai both say they hope all web browsers will support WebM’s efforts eventually. See Also: • Major Browser Vendors Launch WebM Free Open Video Project • Google I/O Will Be Chrome’s Time to Shine • Who Needs Flash? • Embed Videos on Your Page Using HTML5 Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Farm Wars: How Facebook Games Harvest Big Bucks Chris Kohler (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 5/19/2010 5:20:00 PM

For Kira Greer, FarmVille became a virtual obsession. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com Kira Greer was sitting in a meeting one afternoon when she suddenly remembered an urgent deadline. The San Francisco instructional designer knew there was no time to waste. She excused herself, saying she had to go to the bathroom, then rushed back to her desk. Quickly opening Facebook, she began furiously clicking on rows of virtual vegetables, harvesting her FarmVille crops before they withered and died. “I realized I was hooked when I was planning my day around when I knew crops needed to be harvested,” says Greer, 39. Leaving a meeting to tend to her videogame of choice was Greer’s wake-up call. “Once I realized I’d done that, I told my husband and I just came home and had a moment — d’oh! And I realized, OK, I’m taking it a little bit too far.” “If there’s any way to explain it, it’s that I’m playing it right now, because you reminded me that I had crops,” she tells me over the phone. Here a Farm, There a Farm We may live in a post-agrarian society, but that isn’t stopping millions of Americans from heading back to the farm.

They’re not working real farms, with dirt, crops and dieselbelching tractors. Instead, these back-to-the-land pioneers are plowing the back 40 on their Facebook homesteads. Budding virtual farmers stake their claims in free games like FarmVille, Farm Town, Happy

Farm, Country Story, Barn Buddy and Sunshine Ranch, each of which draws millions of players on the social network. The farming games have become so successful that they’ve even spawned parodies and hybrid knockoffs like Jungle Extreme and Farm

Villain, which let you steal other people’s crops or raise Wookies. Zynga’s FarmVille, the biggest Facebook game of all, pulls in more than 75 million players who log in each month to plant, tend and harvest virtual crops, over and over. The attraction is less about the game itself, say

players and designers, and more about the social experience: Fields adjacent to your farm belong to family members and friends pulled from your Facebook profile. You can visit their acreage, help them FARM page 46

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May 20, 1990: Hubble Opens Its Eye ... and Blinks Betsy Mason (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 5/19/2010 11:00:00 PM

1990: The Hubble Space Telescope sends its first image back to Earth. The new telescope’s imaging prowess clearly exceeded that of the best ground-based telescopes, as shown in the image above of stars in the Carina cluster. But after a few weeks, scientists began to realize something was amiss. Hubble’s images weren’t as sharp as they should be. A NASA investigation discovered that the telescope’s 8-foot primary mirror had been ground just a little bit too flat around the edges due to a miscalibrated measuring instrument. Though the slightly blurry images were still good enough for scientists to see space as never before and do groundbreaking research, the mirror’s aberration meant Hubble would not be able to complete some of its mission, and its images wouldn’t be as spectacular as they could be. This would have been hugely disappointing for the many scientists and engineers who had been dreaming of — and working toward — launching a telescope into space since the National Academy of Science formed a committee to study the possibility in 1966. A heroic effort to devise a fix

for the problem before the space shuttle was due to visit Hubble in 1993 was able to correct the flaw and rescue the mission. Astronauts replaced the telescope’s Wide Field/Planetary Camera with the Wide Field/Planetary Camera 2, which compensated for the mirror aberration.

If the repair had not succeeded, the Hubble Space Telescope almost certainly would not have come to occupy its current place in the hearts of people across the world. It’s the astonishing detail of Hubble’s images that has turned people on to space for the last 17 years, as one of the telescope’s most recent shots of

the Carina Nebula(below) demonstrates. The mirror issue was not the only setback the Hubble mission has faced over the years. The telescope was originally scheduled to launch in 1983, but though the mirror was finished in time, the entire optical apparatus didn’t come together

until 1984. The entire spacecraft was ready to go by 1985, and slotted for launch in October 1986, but the Challenger disaster in January of that year halted shuttle flights for two years. Hubble finally made its way into space aboard MAY page 47

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complete farm chores and exchange gifts of in-game items. The appeal is natural. “I was raised around farms,” says Leslie Nautiyal, a 64-year-old from Rockford, Illinois, who says she’s hooked on FarmVille. “I spent a lot of time on my aunt and uncle’s farm. So it’s kind of fun to have your own crop, go in and harvest them, feel like you’re doing something.” By utilizing the simplest actionreward gameplay mechanic — borrowed from a Chinese game, which was itself inspired by a Japanese RPG — Facebook’s farm games have quietly turned millions of people into constant gardeners (and consistent gamers). Cheri Van Hoover, 56, tends a real 11-acre farm in Washington state, but she’s glued to her virtual fields, too. “What these games give me is a sense of control over my life,” she says. “It is a neat, orderly place that I can escape to, and where things unfold in a relatively predictable fashion, and I can work out all of my needs for domination and power and control in a safe environment.”

Such “social games” on Facebook have quietly turned time-waster appeal into big business: Close to 100 of them boast more than a million active users each, and Facebook says 100 million unique people play just the top 10 games on the site every month. And this is just the beginning: After some very public turmoil, Facebook and Zynga announced Tuesday they have entered into a five-year strategic relationship. Zynga is currently testing Facebook Credits in some games and will expand use of the social network’s virtual currency to more titles in coming months. As social games explode in popularity, the videogame industry’s big players, faced with slumping sales of traditional games, have a hungry eye on the fresh produce: Electronic Arts recently acquired Country Story maker Playfish for $300 million in cash and another potential $100 million in performance bonuses, and plans to bring its Madden football franchise to Facebook. “The game industry’s going

mainstream,” says Gareth Davis, head of Facebook’s game division. “A lot of people who built traditional games for a long time are starting to build social games.” Companies like Playfish and Zynga say their free games are profitable “many times over.” How? Through the sale of virtual goods. While the vast majority of users put in the hours to build their own little slices of nature for free, a small percentage pony up real-world cash to buy the best decorations, seeds, fertilizer and farm animals. In other words: Why get the milk for free when you can buy the cow? Pages: 1 2 3 View All Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Discovery on April 24, 1990. Once the mirror mistake had been found and corrected, the space telescope performed beautifully, receiving upgrades and repairs from shuttle servicing missions in 1997, 1999 and 2002. Hubble has enthralled scientists and the public alike with stunning images and unparalleled data about the universe. In more recent years, Hubble’s future was again thrown into question by a shuttle disaster when Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry in 2003, and questions arose whether repairing the telescope was worth the risk. Ultimately, the National Academy of Sciences recommended that a shuttle service mission be scheduled. Hubble narrowly escaped having its life span drastically shortened once again in 2008. The final service mission was scheduled for October, but in September a central data

controller on the craft failed, effectively shutting Hubble down. If this had happened just weeks later — after the shuttle visit — it would have left the telescope with just the backup system, and the next failure would have spelled the end. Instead, engineers scrambled to get a second backup system ready on the ground, and after several more shuttle delays and some fears that space junk from a satellite collision could make the mission too risky, astronauts were able to repair, service and upgrade Hubble one last time in May 2009. The famous telescope got right back to sending us amazing images just a few months later. Source, Images: NASA See Also: • Reader Photo Gallery: Your Desk Celebrates Hubble's 20th Anniversary • Photo Gallery: Hubble Is Back! With New Stunning

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defense issued by the Kremlin on its website at the time of signing which states: “[New Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:03:08 AM START] can operate and be The Senate Committee on viable only if the United States Foreign Relations met on May o f A m e r i c a r e f r a i n s f r o m 18 to hold a hearing with developing its missile-defense Secretaries Clinton and Gates capabilities quantitatively or and Admiral Mullen on the new qualitatively.” Also at issue is U.S.-Russia Strategic Arms w h e t h e r l a n g u a g e i n t h e R e d u c t i o n ( N e w S T A R T ) preamble linking offensive and Treaty. The three officials gave defensive weapons is legally testimony and urged ratification binding and will restrict the U.S. saying the treaty will enhance from building missile defenses. U.S. security and aid nuclear Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) non-proliferation efforts. In a raised concerns by saying that it n e a r - h e r c u l e a n e f f o r t , t h e is “troubling that each country witnesses, over and over, sought has divergent views on missile to persuade lawmakers that defense.” Senator Jim Risch (Rdivergent views with Russia on ID) echoed this and said, “When the key issues of missile defense you read the preamble, and should not be an obstacle to when you read some of the ratification, reiterating that l a n g u a g e i n i t a n d m o s t nothing in New START will importantly, when you read the prevent the U.S. from deploying unilateral statement, we have missile defenses. irreconcilable differences.” He Secretary Clinton, for example, continued, “This treaty means stated that “nothing in the new something different to the treaty constrains our missile Russians than it means to us defense;” while Secretary Gates when it comes to protecting our said, “there are no limits [for people with a defensive missile deploying missile defense] on structure.” These concerns are u s . ” M o r e t h a n a c o u p l e not unwarranted, especially members on the committee were when you consider the growing skeptical, however. missile threat from rogue At issue regarding the question nations such as Iran and North of New START’s impact on Korea. U.S. missile defense plans is the When viewed together, it is legal standing of a Russian clear that the treaty’s Preamble, unilateral statement on missile the Russian unilateral statement

threats have had an impact on U.S. decision-making in the past: • The Obama administration abandoned plans to deploy longrange missile defense assets in Poland and the Czech Republic in order to remove an irritant in U.S.-Russian relations and enable NEW START negotiations; and • In a May 1, 1996 letter to Senator Nunn expressing his views on the Defend America Act of 1996, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, John Shalikashvili, argued that “efforts which suggest changes to or withdrawal from the ABM Treaty may jeopardize Russian ratification of START II and, as articulated in the Soviet Statement to the United States of 13 June 1991, could prompt Russia to withdraw from START I.”

on missile defense, and remarks by senior Russian officials suggest an attempt by Russia to limit or constrain future U.S. missile defense capabilities by threatening to withdraw from the treaty should the U.S. expand its current capabilities. And by outward appearances, the Russians appear to have

After the cancellation of the “Third Site” long-range missile site in the Poland and Czech Republic, it is clear that U.S. succeeded. T h e a d m i n i s t r a t i o n ’ s policy will be colored by what rejoinder—reiterated by Sec. the Russians say is destabilizing. Clinton and Gates during the It is also clear that U.S. policy hearing—is that none of this will be to clearly limit missile verbiage is legally binding, and defenses at any point that they t h a t t h e U . S . U n i l a t e r a l can be perceived as upsetting Statement expresses its intent to the balance with Russia, as continue with its missile defense DID page 52 activities. Still, such Russian

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embolden Republican lawmakers and candidates who oppose him. WASHINGTON - Voters "We're licking our chops at rejected one of President Barack r u n n i n g a g a i n s t P r e s i d e n t Obama's hand-picked candidates Obama," said Rand Paul, tea and forced another into a runoff, party candidate and victor in the latest sign that his political Kentucky's Republican primary capital is slipping beneath a for retiring GOP Sen. Jim wave of anti-establishment Bunning's seat. Paul told CNN anger. on Wednesday he'd relish Sen. Arlen Specter became the Obama's campaigning on behalf fourth Democrat in seven of Democrat Jack Conway. months to lose a high-profile Obama's agenda, Paul said, is race despite the president's "so far to the left, he's not active involvement, raising popular in Kentucky." doubts about Obama's ability to Obama's track record also help fellow Democrats in this raises the question of whether he November's elections. may be hurting candidates he The first three candidates fell to supports by motivating his foes Republicans. But Specter's loss — such as tea party supporters Tuesday to Rep. Joe Sestak in — to vote. Though this month's Pennsylvania's Democratic AP-GfK Poll shows Americans senatorial primary cast doubts split about evenly over how he's on Obama's influence and handling his job, those strongly popularity even within his own disapproving outnumber people party — and in a battleground who strongly back him by 33 state, no less. percent to 22 percent — not an Of course, it's possible that e n v i a b l e p o s i t i o n f o r t h e Democrats will fare better than p r e s i d e n t ' s p a r t y . expected this fall. And there's Sestak's victory over Specter is only so much that any president e s p e c i a l l y e m b a r r a s s i n g , can do to help other candidates, because he won by portraying especially in a non-presidential himself and his supporters as election year. being more faithful to the Still, Obama's poor record thus Democratic Party than were far could hurt his legislative Specter and his backers — who agenda if Democratic included the president, lawmakers decide they need Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell some distance from him as they and other high-ranking party seek re-election in what is officials. shaping up as a pro-Republican Creating another bruise for year. Conversely, it might Obama and the Democratic Submitted at 5/19/2010 4:57:42 PM

establishment Tuesday, Sen. Blanche Lincoln was forced into a runoff in Arkansas' Democratic senatorial primary. Obama supports her bid for a third term, but he is not as closely associated with her campaign as he was with Specter's. In previous months, Obama's endorsements and campaign appearances weren't enough to save then-Gov. Jon Corzine's reelection bid in New Jersey, Creigh Deeds' run for governor in Virginia or Martha Coakley's campaign in Massachusetts to keep the late Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat in Democratic hands. In fairness, Deeds was an underdog from the start, and Corzine brought many problems on himself. But the Coakley loss to Republican Scott Brown was excruciating. She once was considered a shoo-in, and her defeat restored the Republicans' ability to block Democratic bills with Senate filibusters. Unlike the Corzine, Deeds and Coakley races, Obama made no late-campaign appearances for Specter. But it will be hard for the president to distance himself from Specter's career-ending loss. Obama campaigned for Specter last September in Philadelphia, where he said, "I love Arlen Specter." Specter used the clip in recent TV ads. Obama also emailed his supporters on

Specter's behalf, and he was the first person Specter thanked in his concession speech. Vice President Joe Biden, a Pennsylvania native, made several appearances for Specter. Last week he told a Pittsburgh radio station, "Arlen is the Democratic candidate." Moreover, Obama was central to an all-important deal with Specter that struck some Democratic voters as opportunistic at best. Specter had been a Republican senator for 28 years, opposing countless Democratic bills and appointees even if he showed more independence than most lawmakers. Thirteen months ago, however, he concluded he could not win the GOP nomination for a sixth term against conservative Pat Toomey. He and top Democrats struck a deal. Specter would become a Democrat, giving the party the crucial 60th Senate vote it needed to overcome Republican filibusters, which were frustrating the administration. In exchange, Obama, Biden, Rendell and the entire Democratic hierarchy agreed to support Specter's 2010 reelection, including efforts to clear his way to the party's nomination. The losers in the deal were any longtime Democrats who aspired to the U.S. Senate. They essentially were told to step

aside for an 80-year-old longtime Republican. Pennsylvania's Democratic voters were asked to concur. Sestak, a former Navy vice admiral first elected to the House in 2006, refused to go along. He plugged away without help from the state or national party. A few weeks ago he trailed Specter by about 20 percentage points in polls of likely Democratic voters. But Sestak caught fire in the closing days, partly through a TV ad showing Specter campaigning enthusiastically with then-President George W. Bush, who remains deeply unpopular with many Democratic primary voters. In the past few weeks, the White House has played down Obama's role in the Tuesday primaries, and he spent Election Day in Ohio talking about the economy. "At some point, you feel like we've done what we can do," senior White House adviser David Axelrod told The Associated Press in an interview. "We do have other stuff going on," he said. Matt Bennett, a Democratic strategist and vice president of the group Third Way, said he doubts that Democratic lawmakers will panic over Obama's inability to help Specter to a victory. ANALYSIS: page 52

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pressure on those who traffic in drugs, guns and people." Fueling the discord over H o m e l a n d S e c u r i t y a n d sending the National Guard to P e n t a g o n o f f i c i a l s a r e a t the border was the U.S. response loggerheads over a plan to send to the Gulf oil spill, which has National Guard troops to the included federal authorization U.S.-Mexico border, even as for deploying up to 17,000 President Barack Obama is National Guard troops. pledging to bolster security Those costs, however, are likely there. to be borne by oil giant BP PLC, The Guard stalemate has which leased the offshore festered for nearly a year, and drilling rig Deepwater Horizon f r u s t r a t e d l a w m a k e r s a r e that exploded off the Louisiana demanding action to stem the coast April 20, killing 11 and spread of violence and drug releasing a huge, continuing oil trafficking that has spilled spill. across the border into their The oil spill notwithstanding, states. The inaction raises border state lawmakers say they questions about whether the need help too. White House is convinced the "If you'll indulge me, we think federally funded deployment is we have another crisis on the necessary, or whether border border," Sen. John McCain, Rstates will be forced to bear the Ariz., told Homeland Security costs of dispatching the Guard Secretary Janet Napolitano at a troops on their own. hearing this week. "I want to Speaking at the White House know about whether you're on Wednesday with Mexican going to send the Guard to the President Felipe Calderon, border or not." O b a m a s a i d t h e U . S . i s When she tried to explain other committed to standing with DHS improvements along the Mexico against the drug cartels. border, McCain cut her off. "As your partner, we'll give you "People's homes are being the support you need to prevail," violated, and their families can't he said, adding that through take kids to the bus stop," the increased law enforcement on senator fumed. "And you are the U.S. side of the border, very familiar with the issue, "we're putting unprecedented because you yourself asked for Submitted at 5/20/2010 2:32:31 AM

the Guard to go to the border back in 2006." Napolitano, a former Arizona governor, responded that the request involves the White House as well as the Pentagon and the Homeland Security Department, and is still in the interagency process. While she said she would like the decision to be made as soon as possible, she added she could not say when she would have an answer. "We don't have a resolution on that yet," Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart said in an interview with The Associated Press. Renuart, who headed the U.S. Northern Command until his retirement Wednesday after 39 years of service, added that while money is a point of contention, the greater disagreement centers on what missions the National Guard would perform. He said the discussion between the Defense and Homeland Security departments continues, and some of the requests "have evolved a bit in this interim period." He did not provide details. First floated last June, the idea was to use 1,500 Guard troops temporarily to supplement border patrol agents. The

Pentagon and Homeland Security drafted a $225 million plan, but disagreed over who would pay for it and how the troops would be utilized. Pentagon officials, worried about perceptions that the U.S. was militarizing the border, argued that the Guard could only be used for particular duties. Military leaders said they did not want Guard troops to screen vehicles at border points or perform any law enforcement duties, and said the program should be temporary and not tied to any existing program that could get extended. Defense officials have said that possible missions for the Guard soldiers could include surveillance along the border, intelligence analysis, helicopter transportation support and aviation surveillance, which likely would involve unmanned aircraft. In a letter to Obama this week, McCain and Sen. Jon Kyl, RAriz., said sending at least 6,000 National Guard to the border — with half focused on the Arizona portion — would immediately improve the safety of Americans there. White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said the administration has taken a number of steps to

improve security at the border, including adding more law enforcement personnel and prosecutors, and increasing cooperation with the Mexican government. "The president is firmly committed to ensuring that our Southwest border is secure," Shapiro said. "The administration continues to evaluate additional law enforcement options as well as the use of the National Guard, as needed, along the Southwest border." —— Online: Defense Department: http://www.defenselink.mil Homeland Security D e p a r t m e n t : http://www.dhs.gov/index.shtm © Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Morning Bell: Dodd Bill is Just the Beginning of ‘Too Big to Fail’ Conn Carroll (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.) Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:21:20 AM

Majority Leader Harry Reid (DNV) failed to end debate on Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-CT) financial regulation bill yesterday when two Democrats broke ranks to vote with conservatives. The Dodd bill is already is already a big government monstrosity, expanding powers for existing Washington regulators as well as creating and empowering new ones. But frightened by the defeat of Sen. Arlen Specter (DPA) and the near defeat of Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Russ Feingold (D-WI) issued statements following their “no” voted demanding that the bill further increase the power of Washington bureaucrats. Specifically, Cantwell wants to criminalize violations of the bill’s extremely complex new derivatives provisions, and Feingold is demanding the resurrection of Depression Era prohibitions on banking diversification. Not only has our federal government already criminalized the violation of far too many arcane regulations, but the derivatives provisions already in the bill are sure to drive investment, jobs and revenues out of our domestic

markets and into foreign ones. And Feingold’s claims that restoration of the Glass-Steagall would prevent “too big to fail” bear no relation to reality. None of the major entities at the core of the 2008 financial crisis would have been affected by Glass-Steagall because none of them are commercial banks. Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac all dug their financial crisis graves by making terrible decisions that would have been perfectly legal under a Glass-Steagall regime. Speaking of Fannie and Freddie, there is still nothing in this bill that addresses the perverse incentives and moral hazard that is created when the federal government sticks its nose into the housing market. Last year, the two financed or backed about 70% of singlefamily mortgage loans. They hold about $5 trillion in their investment portfolios. Both are losing money fast, with those losses being covered by the U.S. taxpayer. Last month, Freddie announced it had lost $8 billion in the first quarter of 2010 and would be asking for another $10.6 billion in taxpayer help. Not to be outdone, Fannie announced an $11.5 billion loss and asked for another $8.4 billion from taxpayers. That’s

protégés — to set things right. … But their fixes tend to make the system even more complex and centralized, and more vulnerable to the next nationalsecurity surprise, the next natural disaster, the next economic crisis. Which is why, despite all the populist backlash and all the promises from Washington, this isn’t the end of the ‘too big to fail’ era. It’s the beginning.” Quick Hits: • The South Korean government presented forensic evidence, including part of a torpedo propeller made in North atop the nearly $145 billion of virtually any business including Korea, and formally accused your dollars that Fannie and motor cycle manufacturers, North Korea of sinking one of Freddie have already received. retailers, car dealers and even its warships. Fannie and Freddie alone prove coffee shops. • New documents and witness this bill does nothing to end “too On Sunday, columnist Ross testimony show Venezuelan big to fail.” Fannie and Freddie Douthat described the Dodd bill P r e s i d e n t H u g o C h a v e z should be partly wound down, as just one example of “the real provided arms and sanctuary to the rest broken up and sold off s t o r y o f o u r t i m e . F r o m Marxist rebels intent on toppling — not replaced, reformed, or Washington to Athens, the Colombian President Álvaro rejuvenated. The Dodd bill does economic crisis is producing Uribe. none of that. c o n s o l i d a t i o n r a t h e r t h a n • According to Rasmussen This bill extends the power of revolution, the entrenchment of Reports, 67% say of American Washington at the expense of a u t h o r i t y r a t h e r t h a n i t s adults say Mexico does not want Economic Freedom in other diffusion, and the concentration to stop its citizens from entering ways too. It creates a permanent of power in the hands of the the United States illegally. new bailout authority that same elite that presided over the • According to industry data undermines our bankruptcy disasters in the first place. … If r e l e a s e d W e d n e s d a y , t h e system and the rule of law. And Robert Rubin’s mistakes helped number of U.S. homeowners the new Bureau of Consumer c r e a t e a n o u t - o f - c o n t r o l w h o a r e b e h i n d o n t h e i r F i n a n c i a l P r o t e c t i o n i s financial sector, then naturally mortgages rose to a record level empowered to regulate the you need Timothy Geithner and f i n a n c i a l t r a n s a c t i o n s o f Lawrence Summers — Rubin’s MORNING page 54

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stated in the Department of Defense’s Ballistic Missile Defense Review Report. During the hearing, Secretary Clinton acknowledged that the Preamble contains an explicit linkage between offense and defense weapons but said it “does not constrain our missile defense programs in any way.” Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) had a different take: “The Russians don’t appear to misunderstand what’s in this treaty, and I don’t have to read the preamble to you, but it’s very clear that we can develop defensive missile defense as long as it does not threaten their offensive capabilities” This was an important observation. The Heritage Foundation has pointed out that the while the Preamble certainly contains an explicit linkage between offensive and defense weapons, the language relating to missile defense establishes a logic that works to restrain missile defense options. Recognizing the existence of the interrelationship between strategic offensive arms and

strategic defensive arms, that this interrelationship will become more important as strategic nuclear arms are reduced, and that current strategic defensive arms do not undermine the viability and effectiveness of the strategic offensive arms of the Parties. The key phrase is more important as strategic arms are reduced. The language establishes a logic that missile defense capabilities must come down in coordination with reductions in offensive strategic weapons because otherwise defenses will call into question the “viability and effectiveness” of strategic offensive weapons. Otherwise, they will upset the strategic balance and the “balance of terror.” Or, in Putin’s parlance from last December, the U.S. may begin to feel “ secure.” Prior to the signature, the Administration asserted that there would be no reference to missile defense other than in the Preamble of the Treaty, and certainly no limitations.[1] However, Article V contains a

limitation on the conversion of ICBM and SLBM launchers into launchers for missile defense interceptors and vice versa. Absent from the discussion in the hearing was reference to the unsettling revelations made by Dimitri Simes, a prominent Russia expert and President of the Nixon Center. Simes published an article saying that senior Russian officials told him that high ranking Russians told him that during negotiations senior American officials conveyed to the Russian side that there was no reason to put more restrictive language on missile defense in the treaty. This is because the Obama Administration has no intention of moving forward with strategic missile defenses in Europe. In addition, Americans told the Russians that specific restraints in the treaty would only cause the Senate to block its ratification. Senior U.S. officials apparently confirmed this to Simes. Even if these revelations are not true, the Russian leadership had a fairly well-defined game plan

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in negotiating the treaty and as Sergei Karagonov, Chairman of the Russian Council on Defense and Foreign Policy, put it, “In the course of the negotiations, Russia reached almost all of the objectives it could possibly set.” Moreover, as Senator DeMint, Corker, and Risch all pointed out, in a world with a growing missile threat to the United States it is absolutely critical that we develop the missile defense system needed to protect ourselves. Accordingly, the Senate must confirm that Russia did not win on the missile defense issue before it consents to ratification. Co-authored by Owen Graham. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Republican Linda McMahon’s quest for the US Senate seat in Connecticut has evolved to a genuine threat to the GOP opponent she faces in a party nominating contest Friday, according to a report by Boston.com. McMahon has raced ahead in polls against her primary challenger, former representative Rob Simmons -once touted as the GOP’s best chance of capturing the seat being vacated by retiring Democratic Senator Chris Dodd. "I’m capitalizing on the mood I find across Connecticut. We don’t want people who are the same old career politicians. We want a fresh face and fresh ideas," McMahon said in an interview this week. To read the full story Go Here Now. © All Rights Reserved. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Economic Freedom Remains Elusive to Our Neighbors to the South Israel Ortega (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.) Submitted at 5/19/2010 5:00:35 PM

Mexican President, Felipe Calderon, is set to address a joint session of Congress today to address issues of mutual interest on both sides of our almost two thousand mile border. Among the issues that will likely dominate Calderon’s prepared remarks will include the ongoing drug violence engulfing Mexico and threatening to spill over to our border states even more. But beyond this critical issue of mutual concern, rest assured that Mr. Calderon will use this opportunity to speak about immigration. Mr. Calderon will likely talk about the thousands of men, women and even children that die every year in the US-Mexico border yearning for an opportunity to live in our country. But what Mr. Calderon will likely not tell us is how true economic freedom remains elusive for the vast majority of his citizens. This claim is validated in our most recent Index of Economic Freedom that pegs Mexico in

the 41st position. Despite modest improvements in many of the ten key economic indicators in our Index, economic underdevelopment continues to plague Mexico. As the authors of the Index write, “Mexico’s overall economic freedom remains limited by lingering institutional weaknesses that include considerable corruption and a rigid labor market. The judicial system is slow to resolve cases and vulnerable to corruption. The rule of law is undermined by drug cartels and kidnapping.” Additionally, as reported in this Heritage Foundation research paper, monopolies and duopolies in various key industries hamper economic freedom – stifling innovation and entrepreneurship. Under this light, it is not surprising that many of Mexico’s citizens look to the north for economic opportunity and a higher quality of life. To be fair, Mexican President Felipe Calderon has spoke about the need for Mexico to retain more its citizens and curtail the seemingly endless exodus to the United States. Nonetheless, it is

clear that more is needed than lofty rhetoric if Mexico is to be successful stemming the flow of undocumented workers to our shores. Of course, we too have an obligation to strengthen cooperation by reaffirming our commitment to trade and shunning protectionist policies.

Unfortunately, this Administration has shown a willingness to placate the demands of the labor unions in the past as seen in last summer’s decision to pull funding for the Mexican truck program – aimed at facilitating trade between the two countries. President Calderon no doubt

faces a number of challenges, none more than reducing drug violence, but if he is serious about reducing the number of Mexicans looking to the United States for economic opportunities, he will need to take on the entrenched interests in Mexico. The energy and telecommunications industries are in serious need of competition, and if opened to increased competition could prove vital in creating jobs in Mexico for thousands of well qualified Mexican professionals. In short, only by empowering the Mexican people with increased economic opportunities, while resisting the lure of failed statist economic policies, will Calderon be able to provide his citizens the chance for a better life at home. Unfortunately, for all too many Mexicans, that seems possible now only in their neighbor to the north. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Living Longer in a Warming World Nicolas Loris (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.) Submitted at 5/19/2010 6:00:14 PM

Indur Goklany was involved with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as an author, U.S. delegate and reviewer since before its inception. His focuses are climate change and economic development, among others, and his presentation at Heartland’s 4th International Climate Change Conference on global warming and mortality was one of the standout presentations in the entire conference. His talk establishes the long-standing fact that cold kills more than warmth and that global warming policies cost more lives than global warming itself. One of the justifications for combating global warming is that higher temperatures will threaten human health and could cause sweeping epidemics of infectious diseases and ultimately more deaths. But don’t forget a warmer world has benefits as well as costs, as does a cooler one. The empirical data shows that mortality rates rise in colder months, and this is evident across latitudes and well -recognized by the medical community. As the earth has warmed the extent of malaria and hunger

rates have dropped and life expectancy and health-adjusted life expectancy (disability adjusted life years) has increased. Goklany says that “global warming or its underlying human causes, if any, have not increased death or disease. In fact, they are probably responsible for the worldwide decreases in mortality rates and increases in life expectancy over the last century.” Goklany stresses that there are more important health risks than climate change. According to the World Health Organization, climate change health risks are last out of 24 risk factors- even ignoring the gains in mitigating cold-weather gains. Unsafe sex, unsafe drinking water and

vitamin deficiencies are much higher on the list. When it comes to climate change, the real threat to increased death and disease is global warming policies, more specifically biofuel production. Goklany project 51,000 worldwide excess deaths because of additional poverty from bio-fuel programs alone. While climate change ranks on the WHO’s risk factor’s, being underweight ranks at the top. Biofuel production, which is heavily subsidized in many developing countries, diverts food away to fuel and attempts to address the lowest risk factor at the expense of the most important. To truly help developing countries with the risks associated with climate change as well as the many

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more important ones, we should shift away from biofuel policies and focus on broader economic development. He writes: Developing countries are generally deemed to be most vulnerable to climate change, not necessarily because they will experience greater climate change, but because they lack adaptive capacity (that is, financial and human capital) to acquire and use the technologies necessary to cope with its impacts. Hence, another approach to addressing climate change would be to enhance the adaptive capacity of developing countries by promoting broad development, i.e., economic development and human capital formation, which, of course, is the point of sustainable economic development. Tags: biofuels, climate change, global cooling, global warming, Heartland, life expectancy, mortality rates You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

in the first quarter. • The President of the American Federation of Teachers makes the case for a bailout of government run school teachers. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Kagan Papers Shed Light On Nominee's Personality (Newsmax - Inside Cover) Submitted at 5/20/2010 1:57:50 AM

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan counted the days like a nervous student anticipating a tough oral exam before she made her first appearance last year at the court she's now seeking to join. "Four weeks from Wednesday — not that I'm counting — will be my first argument as solicitor general and also my first argument at the Supreme Court," she told summer interns in Washington with a laugh. "I come into this job not having a whole lot of experience myself in oral arguments," the thenKAGAN page 55

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solicitor general told the students in a video of her appearance the White House submitted this week, along with reams of files on her background and record, to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Kagan was returning to Capitol Hill on Thursday for more meetings with Republicans and Democrats who will vote on her nomination. Her lack of courtroom experience has been a focus of criticism for Republicans skeptical about Kagan's nomination for the nation's highest court, and she almost certainly will have to address the issue at confirmation hearings set to begin June 28. But for now, the documents are offering some glimmers of Kagan's personality and style. The papers demonstrate Kagan's

sense of humor, her view of the importance and limits of the law, her take on the role of the Supreme Court in American life, and the major issues and sometimes-mundane tasks she handled during a career in legal circles, academia and a Democratic White House. In 2007, Kagan opined that the law sometimes allows things that are "just plain dumb." "Don't think that law is everything," she told a group of West Point cadets in a speech, reflecting on lessons she took away from her time serving as a domestic policy adviser to former President Bill Clinton. "Even when the lawyers clear something, it may not be the right thing to do. It may be unethical, even if it's not illegal," she said. "Or it may just be plain dumb."

In the same talk, Kagan, who stepped aside Monday from her job as solicitor general, offered a hint of how she might approach her job as a justice. She said she learned as a Clinton aide, "When in doubt and when possible, ask" and seek "a real, not foreordained, answer." ÂŠ Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

VIDEO: Community's Alison Brie and Danny Pudi Do an Impromptu "Little Turtle" Rap (TVGuide.com: Breaking News)

aren't? Though Brie and costar Danny Pudi had a lot to say about being Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:53:00 AM picked up for a second season If you're dying to find out and the diverse comedic styles what's coming up in the final on the show, nothing trumps episode of Community, we can t h e i r i m p r o m p t u f r e e s t y l e only tell you this: It involves a rap/song/beatbox performance. giant cookie. Check it out in the video below: "I think it's one of our sweeter Five Filters featured article: episodes," says star Alison Brie, The Art of Looking Prime hinting at both the deliciousness Ministerial - The 2010 UK of the monstrous treat and the General Election. Available touching way the season wraps tools: PDF Newspaper, Full up. Text RSS, Term Extraction. Fall TV Scorecard: Which shows are returning? Which

Megan Fox: I Chose to Leave Transformers 3 (TVGuide.com: Breaking News)

decision not to return. She wishes the franchise the best." Megan Fox not returning for Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:34:00 AM Transformers 3 Megan Fox On Wednesday, Paramount Megan Fox says she wasn't Pictures said it declined to pick dropped from Transformers 3, up Fox's contract for the third but rather she chose not to installment. The studio did not return. give a reason, but according to "Megan Fox will not be starring T h e H o l l y w o o d R e p o r t e r , in Transformers 3," reps for the d i r e c t o r M i c h a e l B a y i s different direction and will cast star told People. "It was her planning to take the story in a a new love interest for Shia

LaBeouf. The split comes a few months after Fox's alleged dispute with cast and crew members of the second film, who wrote an open letter on Bay's website condemning Fox's behavior on set. Patrick Dempsey to play "dark" role in Transformers 3 Transformers 3 is set to start production this summer, while

Fox can next be seen in Jonah Hex. The action film, which costars Josh Brolin, John Malkovich and Will Arnett, hits theaters June 18. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Maggie Q and Ashley Tisdale Two new series will join the CW's existing mix of youthtargeted shows, the network announced Thursday. Nikita, a remake of the Luc Besson film and the '90s syndicated hit starring Peta Wilson, will follow The Vampire Diaries on Thursdays. High School Musical's Ashley Tisdale stars in Hellcatsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; a cheerleading dramedy produced by Smallville's Tom Wellingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; which will run on Wednesdays after America's Next Top Model. Fall TV Scorecard: Which shows are returning? Which aren't? Speaking of the red-blue blur, Smallville will air its 10th and final season on Fridays, paired with Supernatural. Gossip Girl stays on Mondays, following 90210, which moves from Tuesdays. The new Tuesday lineup will feature fellow former bubble shows One Tree Hill and Life

Unexpected. The network also announced that Plain Jane, a new reality makeover show, will get a summer run. Check out our day-by-day guide to all the networks' fall schedules The CW's fall schedule: MONDAY 8 p.m. 90210 9 p.m. Gossip Girl TUESDAY 8 p.m. One Tree Hill 9 p.m. Life Unexpected WEDNESDAY 8 p.m. America's Next Top

Model 9 p.m. Hellcats THURSDAY 8 p.m. The Vampire Diaries 9 p.m. Nikita FRIDAY 8 p.m. Smallville 9 p.m. Supernatural Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

'24': The Top 5 Villains Kim Potts (TV Squad) Submitted at 5/20/2010 4:00:00 AM

Filed under: Features In our continuing countdown to -sniff, sniff -- the '24' series finale on May 24 (8M ET, Fox), here's a our list of the all-time most villainous Jack Bauer foes. Nina Meyers (Played by Sarah Clarke) '24' seasons: 1-3 Why she's one of the bad guys: She was the first big traitorous villain in the series, betraying her co-workers and friends, committing numerous murders, dealing in biological weaponry and devastating every member of Jack Bauer's family. Most evil moment: Killing Teri Bauer at the end of season one. True, it was the moment that defined '24' as the show that was going to go beyond the limits of what we were used to expecting from TV dramas. But it was also

incredibly cruel. Nina had already betrayed Jack and Tony (both of whom she had also had affairs with), CTU and her country, and after the brutal day Teri had already suffered, it was tragic that she and Jack's unborn baby wouldn't survive it. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

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2010 Upfronts: The CW MTV Orders Teen Wolf Series Scott Harris (TV Squad)

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Filed under: TV News The CW held its annual upfronts today and its motto this year appears to be "everything old is new again," as next season's schedule will look nearly identical to last season's. The only new arrivals this fall: 'Nikita' and 'Hellcats,' which will replace outgoing shows 'Melrose Place,' 'Fly Girls' and 'High Society.' Those changes will result in some shuffling of the schedule, however, with '90210' and 'One Tree Hill' swapping time slots; '90210' will now air on Mondays as lead in to 'Gossip Girl,' forming perhaps the cattiest block on television, while 'One Tree Hill' moves to Tuesdays and a more synergistic partner in 'Life Unexpected.'

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Tyler Posey MTV has picked up the reboot of the classic 1985 film, Teen Wolf, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project, which the network has been developing for more than a year, stars Tyler Posey( Lincoln Heights, Brothers & Sisters) in the Michael J. Fox role as a teenager who discovers he is a werewolf. MTV's Teen Wolf series takes shape The pilot was written by Jeff Davis ( Criminal Minds), who will serve as executive producer alongside Marty Adelstein ( Prison Break) and Rene Echevarria ( Castle). Calls to MTV were not immediately returned.

Recalls: Children's ride on toys, Tylenol and Motrin update, choking hazards Artemis Dibenedetto (Consumer Reports) Submitted at 5/20/2010 1:59:59 AM

Recalls: Children's ride on toys, Tylenol and Motrin update, Will you tune in to Teen Wolf? choking hazards Five Filters featured article: Recalled: 2.5 million children's The Art of Looking Prime ride-on toys Ministerial - The 2010 UK A riding toy that has been on General Election. Available the market for 11 years was tools: PDF Newspaper, Full recently recalled because the Text RSS, Term Extraction. maker, Step2, has received 28 RECALLS: page 58

'The Good Guys' - 'Pilot' Recap (Series Premiere) Jane Boursaw (TV Squad) Submitted at 5/20/2010 3:33:00 AM

Filed under: Recaps (S01E01) "There are no small crimes, there are only small cops. Put that in your computer

circuit. Look, you wanna get rid of me? You wanna work on your career? Grow a pair! Crack some cases!" - Dan to Jack I'm not usually one to go for police procedurals. For one thing, it's a lot of work keeping

perps, and everything else. But I figured'The Good Guys' would be different, and I was right. It's not so much a procedural as it is an action-thriller with plenty of track of alibis, clues, witnesses, laughs thrown in. Our own Danny Gallagher has been

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reports of the handle detaching. Two incidents required professional medical treatment and 26 resulted in minor scrapes and scratches. Health Canada is also recalling the rider. Made in the U.S., the toys were sold at major retailers and specialty stores from August 1999 through March 2010. The recall covers Push Around and Whisper Ride "buggies." Learn more in the full Safety blog. Recalled: Toy dart set, after two deaths The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a recall of 1.8 million Auto Fire Target Sets because the darts can be inhaled by a child and stop his or her breathing. The soft plastic darts measure just over one inch in length and have a small suction cup at one end with a diameter of about ½ inch. "Gordy Toy" for "Ages 8+" is printed on the packaging, and they were sold exclusively at

Family Dollar stores nationwide from September 2005 through January 2009. According to the CPSC, the boys who died were 9 and 10—older than the recommended 8+ age on the product’s packaging—so a hazard clearly exists for all ages of kids, not just younger ones. Learn more in the full Safety blog. Parents angered and confused by Tylenol recall When children get sick, two of the popular remedies used to relieve their aches, pains, and fever are children’s Tylenol and Motrin. So when the Food and Drug Administration announced a recall of children’s Tylenol last September, I was quick to look in my medicine cabinet to see if the bottles I was using for my kids were affected. Fortunately, they weren’t. But recently, when Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil division recalled more than 40 children's

painkillers and allergy medications, I checked again. This time those same two bottles I’d been using for my kids were on the recall list. I was stunned and angry. Could I have given them something that harmed them? How could such trusted brands have fallen short? Congress is asking the same questions. Learn more in the full Safety blog. Learn more about ride-on toys, children's medication dosing, and recalled children's toys. Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences

Lakers Still 'Lucky' Against Setting Suns Chris Tomasson (FanHouse Main) Submitted at 5/20/2010 1:39:00 AM

Filed under: Lakers, Suns, NBA Playoffs LOS ANGELES -Look up in the Staples Center rafters, where 15 championship banners hang. It's got to be luck, In 1960, the Minneapolis right? Lakers moved after having won Well, maybe the last 10 of five titles in the 1950s. They them.

could have gone somewhere like Schenectady, NY or Des Moines, Iowa. But, no, they moved to Los Angeles. And all those star big men eventually came to sunny Southern California through free agency ( Shaquille O'Neal) or trade requests (Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul -Jabbar).

Daily electronics deals Paul Eng (Consumer Reports) Submitted at 5/20/2010 5:55:53 AM

Daily electronics deals Today's electronics deals, courtesy of The Consumerist: • Sony: $50 Off + Free Blu-Ray Drive Upgrade on VAIO FSeries • Microsoft Store: 15.6" HP Pavilion dv6-2182nr Laptop $569 Shipped • HP: 8 New Models Launched on May 19 with Coupons • SuperBiiz: Intel X25V 40GB Solid State Drive $103.99 + free shipping • Lenovo: Lenovo C315 20inch 4GB/500GB AMD All-inOne $669 + free shipping • Newegg: Iomega 1.5TB USB External Hard Drive for $99.99 w/ Free Shipping • Dell: Unlocked Nokia SmartPhone w/ Bonus Bluetooth Headset for $199.99 [w/ Coupon JM37$839TWTHB$] w/ Free Shipping • Buy.com: I-Tec 150-Watt Power Inverter for $14.99 w/ Free Shipping Entertainment • Scholastic: 20% Off Entire Purchase [w/ Coupon SSSRC20] • Amazon: New Super Mario Bros Wii Game + $10 Video

Games Credit + $5 MP3 Download Credit for $34.99 w/ Free Shipping Neither Consumer Reports nor The Consumerist receive anything in exchange for featuring these deals; the posts are intended to be purely informational. These deals are often fleeting, with prices changing or products becoming unavailable as the day progresses. These posts are not an endorsement of the featured products or the Web sites that sell them—though some of the sites may be included, and recommended, in our Ratings of retailers for computers and other major electronics(both available to subscribers). Price shouldn't be your only criterion. Be wary of lower-priced deals that seem too good to be true, and check return policies for restocking fees and other gotchas. For general buying advice for many of the products on sale above, check out our free Buying Guides. Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences

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Q&A: Can no-cal and low-cal sweeteners help me lose weight? rss@consumerreports.org (Consumer Reports) Submitted at 5/20/2010 6:25:55 AM

Q&A: Can no-cal and low-cal sweeteners help me lose weight? You would think so, but there’s no evidence that’s true. The artificial sweeteners acesulfame-K (Sunett, Sweet One), aspartame (Equal, NutraSweet), and saccharine (Necta Sweet, Sweet ’N Lo), don’t contain any calories. Neither do tagatose (Naturlose) or sucralose (Splenda), both of which are derived from sugar, or those made with stevia (PureVia, SweetLeaf Stevia, and Truvia) or concentrated monk fruit (BioVittoria). Sugar alcohols such as erythritol (Sweet Simplicity), maltitol (Nature Sweet), sorbitol, and

xylitol have about half as many calories as sugar. So it seems logical that substituting those sweeteners for sugar or consuming foods made with them should help you lose weight. But no studies have confirmed that benefit. Some even suggest that they encourage weight gain, possibly because people who consume them think that gives them license to load up on highcalorie foods. Or the sweeteners may somehow stimulate the

appetite, so people end up eating more. If you use them, make sure you still pay attention to the rest of the food in your diet. And be aware that Consumer Reports tests found that not everyone likes the taste of those nonsugar sweeteners, some don’t work well in recipes, and they can cost more. For more on artificial sweeteners, see the results of our tests of 11 brands(subscribers only) from agave nectar to xylitol. Photo: avrene Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences

Many Americans haved turned from giddy to gloomy on retirement Consumer Reports Shopping Blog (Consumer Reports) Submitted at 5/19/2010 2:04:58 PM

Many Americans haved turned from giddy to gloomy on retirement For years now, the Employee Benefit Research Institute has published a periodic Retirement Confidence Survey. The latest installment, released today, reads more like a Lack of Confidence Survey. EBRI’s new data show that the portion of retirees who say they’re very confident of having enough money to live comfortably throughout their retirement years has fallen from a peak of 41 percent in 2007 to just 19 percent in 2010. Among the still working, the percentage has dropped from 27 in 2007 to 16 today. Of course, it’s possible that people in mostly pre-recession 2007 were too giddy about their

financial prospects. Or that now they're too gloomy. Still, if you're concerned about whether you'll have enough to retire in the comfort you deserve, here’s some advice from our money team that may be of help: • A happy retirement: 6 steps that work • Retirement planning time clock • Rebuild your nest egg • Create a retirement budget—Greg Daugherty Greg writes the “Retirement Guy” column each month in our Consumer Reports Money Adviser newsletter. Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences

iPad App Store Now Live Internationally Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)

well as in other parts of the world, such as Australia and New Zealand. A stream of tweets tells us that Customers in Europe were able the iPad App Store is now live to pre-order the iPad on May 10, in certain European countries, and the device is slated to ship put in the time and effort to namely the UK and France, as on May 28. Now, the folks that Submitted at 5/20/2010 3:48:26 AM

bring the iPad from the U.S. before it was available in Europe can enjoy the benefits of the App Store a couple of days early. [via Engadget] For more Apple coverage,

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Floyd Landis admits to using PEDs most of his career Bonnie D. Ford (ESPN.com) Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:17:32 AM

Nearly four years after he began waging a costly, draining, and ultimately losing battle to discredit his positive test for synthetic testosterone at the 2006 Tour de France, Floyd Landis told ESPN.com on Wednesday that he used performance-enhancing drugs for most of his career as a professional road cyclist, including the race whose title he briefly held. In a lengthy telephone interview from California, Landis detailed extensive, consistent use of the red blood cell booster erythropoietin (commonly known as EPO), testosterone, human growth hormone and frequent blood transfusions, along with female hormones and a one-time experiment with insulin, during the years he rode for the U.S. Postal Service and Switzerlandbased Phonak teams. “ I don't feel guilty at all about having doped. I did what I did because that's what we [cyclists] did and it was a choice I had to make after 10 years or 12 years of hard work to get there, and that was a decision I had to make to make the next step. My choices were, do it and see if I can win, or don't do it and I tell people I just don't want to do that, and I decided to do it.”--

Floyd Landis Landis confirmed he sent emails to cycling and anti-doping officials over the past few weeks, implicating dozens of other athletes, including seventime Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong; team management and owners; and officials of the sport's national and international governing bodies. ESPN.com is in the process of seeking comment from those individuals. Armstrong has long been dogged by accusations that he used performance-enhancing drugs, but no anti-doping authority has ever confirmed that he tested positive. Armstrong is currently competing in the Tour of California. The Wall Street Journal first reported details of Landis' emails. Landis also accused American riders Levi Leipheimer and Dave Zabriskie and Armstrong's longtime coach, Johan Bruyneel, of involvement in doping. In an e-mail to USA Cycling president Steve Johnson dated April 30, Landis related a number of anecdotes he said were representative of his time in the European peloton. However, as Landis told ESPN.com, no one ever coerced him into doping. "I take responsibility for all the stuff I did,'' Landis said in the interview. "No one gave me

something and said, 'Don't ask what this is, just take it.' I would never have done that. The things I took, I knew what they were, and I spent the time researching what the risks were, and the decisions I made were mine. The whole entire process of doping in the entire sport and the evolution of it all wasn't my fault, but when it came down to it, me being there, I made the decision to do it. It wasn't anyone else telling me to do it. I'm not blaming anyone for that. It was my decision. Every time." In the e-mail to Johnson, Landis said that Johan Bruyneel, the longtime sports director of the U.S. Postal Service, Discovery Channel, Astana and RadioShack teams who guided Armstrong and Spain's Alberto Contador to a combined nine Tour de France victories, "instructed" Landis on how to use testosterone patches when he was riding for Postal in 2002. Landis added that he first used EPO on Bruyneel's advice the following summer while training for the Tour of Spain, that he obtained the drug directly from Armstrong, and that he started using HGH that he bought from a team trainer in Valencia during that same training period. In the same email, Landis said he worked with Armstrong's personal trainer, Dr. Michele Ferrari of Italy, who consulted with several riders on the Postal team

at the height of Armstrong's career. Ferrari helped Landis with the extraction and retranfusion of his own blood during one session in St. Moritz, Switzerland in 2002, according to Landis. "I paid [Ferrari] $10,000 [that season]," Landis told ESPN.com. "He only accepted cash. His normal fee is 10 percent of your salary." "I mean, he's one of the best references," Landis said of Ferrari, who worked with numerous top cyclists. In 2004, Ferrari was convicted of sporting fraud and abusing his medical license by an Italian court, but later succeeded in having that judgment reversed on appeal. "I didn't wish to take the risks on my own and especially since it was fairly clear that his advice was endorsed by Lance himself," Landis said in the ESPN.com interview. "And therefore Johan and the other guys that knew of it and were involved -- working with him, they'd understand the risks that I was taking as well and therefore trust me." Landis also said he and Armstrong discussed the efficacy of the then-newly developed test for EPO in 2002. In the e-mail to Johnson, Landis said he had blood extracted in 2003 inside the apartment Armstrong owned in the historic center of Girona, Spain, and that it was stored in a refrigerator there along with blood extracted from Armstrong

and teammate George Hincapie. Landis said Armstrong asked him to stay in the apartment on one occasion while Armstrong was away in order to make sure the refrigerator did not malfunction. “ What's his agenda? The guy is seeking revenge. It's sad, it's sad for cycling. It's obvious he does hold a grudge.”-- UCI president Pat McQuaid He also said in the e-mail that a team doctor gave him and Hincapie, who he said was his roommate during the 2003 Tour de France, syringes filled with olive oil in which andriol, a form of testosterone that can be taken orally, had been dissolved. Landis further described personally seeing other riders receive transfused blood, including once on the team bus after a stage of the 2004 Tour de France, The bus driver stopped on a "remote mountain road" for an hour, pretending the bus had engine trouble while the entire team received transfusions, Landis said in the e-mail. Landis, seeking his own chance to become a team leader, signed with the Phonak team before the 2005 season. In the e-mail to Johnson, the rider claimed that he negotiated with team owner Andy Rihs for extra money to cover the expenses of a doping program. Phonak was stung by FLOYD page 61

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several high-profile doping cases from 2004-06, including that of Landis' fellow American Tyler Hamilton, who was convicted of using banned transfusions. UCI president Pat McQuaid questioned Landis' credibility in a telephone interview Thursday with The Associated Press. "What's his agenda?" McQuaid said. "The guy is seeking revenge. It's sad, it's sad for cycling. It's obvious he does hold a grudge." McQuaid said he received copies of the e-mails sent by Landis to the U.S. cycling federation, but declined to comment on their contents. He said Landis' allegations were "nothing new." "He already made those accusations in the past," McQuaid said. "Armstrong has been accused many times in the past but nothing has been proved against him. And in this case, I have to question the guy's credibility. There is no proof of what he says. We are speaking about a guy who has been condemned for doping before a court." Landis' doping conviction cost him his Tour title, his career, his

life savings and his marriage. He said he knows his credibility is in tatters and that many people will choose not to believe him now. He added that he has no documentation for many of the claims he is making about other riders or officials, and that it will be his word against theirs. However, Landis said he finally decided to come forward because he was suffering psychologically and emotionally from years of deceit, and because he has become a cycling pariah with little to no chance of ever riding for an elite team again. Prior to speaking with ESPN.com, he said he made his most difficult phone call -- to his mother in Pennsylvania to tell her the truth for the first time. "I want to clear my conscience," Landis said. "I don't want to be part of the problem any more. "With the benefit of hindsight and a somewhat different perspective, I made some misjudgments. And of course, I can sit here and say all day long, 'If I could do it again I'd do something different,' but I just don't have that choice." Landis said he takes full

responsibility for having doped on every occasion that he did it, and added he was never forced or threatened. "I don't feel guilty at all about having doped," Landis told ESPN.com. "I did what I did because that's what we [cyclists] did and it was a choice I had to make after 10 years or 12 years of hard work to get there, and that was a decision I had to make to make the next step. My choices were, do it and see if I can win, or don't do it and I tell people I just don't want to do that, and I decided to do it." According to Landis, his first use of performance-enhancing drugs was in June 2002, when he was a member of the U.S. Postal Service team. The World Anti-Doping Agency's statute of limitations for doping offenses is eight years, and Landis said that, too, is part of his motivation for divulging his inflammatory information. "Now we've come to the point where the statute of limitations on the things I know is going to run out or start to run out next month," Landis said. "If I don't say something now, then it's pointless to ever say it." Landis, who began his career as

a top mountain biker, had kept detailed training journals since he was a teenager. He said he continued the same methodical record-keeping once he started using banned drugs and techniques. Landis said he spent as much as $90,000 a year on performance-enhancing drugs and on consultants to help him build a training regime. Landis said he has kept all of his journals and diaries and has offered to share them with U.S. anti-doping authorities in recent meetings. He added that he has given officials detailed information on how athletes are beating drug testing. As for his own positive test, Landis still maintains that result was inaccurate and that he had not used synthetic testosterone during the 2006 season -although he now admits he used human growth hormone during that time. At this point, he said he does not want to dwell on any of the issues he and his lawyers hammered at during his case. "There must be some other explanation, whether it was done wrong or I don't know what," he said. "You can try to write it however you want -- the

problem I have with even bothering to argue it is [that] I have used testosterone in the past and I have used it in other Tours, and it's going to sound kind of foolish to say I didn't." Landis exhausted most of his own savings in fighting his case, which cost an estimated $2 million, and also raised funds for his defense in a wellpublicized effort. He said he would pay those donors back if he could, but does not have the money to do so. He said he did not level with the people close to him, but declined to say whether he informed his lawyers of his past drug use. Bonnie D. Ford covers tennis and Olympic sports for ESPN.com. Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Hanley Ramirez: Hall of Famers Andre Dawson, Tony Perez took Florida Marlins shorstop aside for lecture

Report: Santana Moss of Washington Redskins got HGH from Galea

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Washington Redskins receiver Santana Moss received human growth hormone from Anthony Galea, the Canadian doctor who is charged with providing illegal drugs to professional players, The Washington Post reported, citing an unnamed source. The Buffalo News was first to report that Moss was a patient of Galea. Galea is accused of smuggling, unlawful distribution of human growth hormone and unlawfully treating professional athletes. On Wednesday, a Canadian court document revealed that Galea made multiple trips to New York City, Boston, Cleveland and other U.S. cities to meet with professional athletes. Moss is not in danger of being charged in the case, however. "At this juncture, any of the persons who are alleged to have used these substances are considered witnesses, and not targets, of this investigation," William J. Hochul Jr., the U.S. attorney in Buffalo, told The Buffalo News. Mark J. Mahoney, one of Galea's attorneys, said his client did nothing wrong.

The two Hall of Famers -Perez was inducted in 2000, while Dawson will be inducted Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:09:30 AM this summer -- told Ramirez he Hall of Famers Andre Dawson needs to set an example and and Tony Perez took Florida earn his teammates' respect, M a r l i n s s h o r t s t o p H a n l e y according to the report. Ramirez aside on Tuesday and Dawson said during he did let him know he needed to most of the talking, according to apologize and atone for failing the report. He said he started the to hustle and showing up his lesson this way, with Perez at manager, according to The Palm his side: "I'm not going to say a Beach Post. lot, because if you say the Dawson and Perez, who are wrong the thing to me, then you b o t h s p e c i a l a s s i s t a n t s t o might wind up on the floor on Marlins team president David your rear end. Samson, talked to Ramirez for "I said, 'I'm going to give it to 15 minutes in a Sun Life you raw. I'm not telling you how Stadium office about an hour to play the game,' " Dawson before Tuesday's game. said, according to the report. Ramirez was not in the lineup "You have a ton of ability, but for that game. On Monday there's more than just going out night, he was benched in the and having a ton of ability. With second inning for failing to that comes some ground rules, hustle after a kicked ball. some things that you will learn Afterwards, he ripped manager as you go along the way. Fredi Gonzalez to reporters for "But you've got to start thinking taking him out of the game. about setting an example and â&#x20AC;&#x153; having your teammates respect You've got to start thinking you in the manner that they about setting an example and should. That act that you put on, having your teammates respect that's poor. That's not going to you in the manner that they cut it." should. That act that you put on, Dawson, according to the that's poor. That's not going to report, also said he told Ramirez cut it.â&#x20AC;?-- Hall of Famer Andre that if he thought his teammates Dawson, had his back after the episode, to Marlins SS Hanley Ramirez he had another thing coming.

"You really have stepped across the line," Dawson said he told Ramirez, according to the report. "You owe that manager a sincere apology. And if you think your teammates have your back with this, you've got another thing coming because the mind-set, and this is from me to you, the mind-set is these guys are laughing at you." Ramirez, a two-time All-Star, accidentally booted a ball and then lightly jogged after it, allowing two runs to score Monday night in a 5-1 loss to Arizona. Gonzalez benched Ramirez, who let loose with his criticisms the next day, saying he felt no need to apologize, he'd lost respect for his manager, and that "It's [Gonzalez's] team. He can do whatever ... He doesn't understand that. He never played in the big leagues." On Wednesday, Ramirez apologized to his manager and teammates and was re-inserted into the starting lineup. "I'm sorry that all this got so ugly. My intent was not to cause a distraction," Ramirez told ESPNdeportes.com in a phone interview from St. Louis on Wednesday. "I'm sorry that things got this heated. The team, the fans don't deserve it.

"We are all professionals here and we're pulling for the same side. I'll try to close this chapter and focus on playing baseball," Ramirez added. The Marlins welcomed him back, then beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-1 as Ramirez went 3 -for-5 and drove in a run. "He told us he was sorry and he was wrong ... and he wouldn't let it happen again," teammate Wes Helms said Wednesday. "We just wanted him to do it, and he did it. So now it's done with." "I think we're all parents here," Gonzalez said Wednesday. "Sometimes our children will say something that hurts, but it's no big deal, we still love them. "After this is all said and done, 10-15 years down the road we'll sit down and say: 'What a privilege to get a chance to manage this type of ballplayer.'" Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Healing Continues for UVa Lax Teams Jim Henry (FanHouse Main) Submitted at 5/20/2010 1:20:00 AM

Filed under: College Sports, Lacrosse While the healing process continues at the University of Virginia, Cavaliers men's lacrosse coach Dom Starsia is unsure of his next step regarding one issue. Former player George Huguely remains in jail four miles away from campus, charged with first-degree murder of UVa women's player and former girlfriend Yeardley Love. "I've thought about it. I don't know where that one goes yet," Starsia said during Wednesday's teleconference with the media when asked if he planned to reach out to Huguely. "I am probably not prepared to answer that just this moment, but it's certainly something I've thought about." With the emotions of the past weekend behind them and lingering uncertainty in front, the Cavaliers lacrosse teams are preparing for second-round NCAA tournament matches this weekend. The top-ranked men play No. 8 Stony Book on Sunday and enter as the favorites to win and advance to the Final Four in Baltimore. The women travel to North Carolina on Saturday as underdogs but are determined to prolong their season to honor Love and remain together. Both

teams continue to lean on each other for support and strength. Starsia is hosting a dinner at his home Wednesday night for the two programs. "These recent events have just made it more obvious to me how close these teams are," Starsia said. "I talked to Julie earlier in the week and just said, 'Do you think this is a good idea?' Throughout this, you've got people trying to help each other from both programs and both directions and seemed like an obvious way to try to come together away from the field before we both have to go off to take care of our athletic commitments." Women's coach Julie Myers

embraced the idea, saying it would be "a really nice energy lift and emotional pickup for us." Myers admits her team is fatigued physically and emotionally from the past 16 days. Last weekend's openinground play of the NCAA tournament marked the first time the teams returned to the public eye since the death of Love on May 3. "We are trying to heal, trying to play lacrosse and trying to stay together." -- Women's coach Julie Myers The men beat Mount St. Mary's on Saturday night, while the women dispatched Towson Sunday afternoon. Both games attracted large crowds and media

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"Officials of the NFL and other sports organizations can sleep soundly tonight, because there is nothing he did with these athletes to help them with performance enhancement," Mahoney told the Buffalo News on Wednesday. "[Galea] strictly provided treatment for injuries. If any athlete got [HGH], it was injected directly into injured tissue, in very small amounts, for purposes of healing," Mahoney told the newspaper. According to an affidavit, Galea's assistant said a professional football player from Washington called to request a session with Galea at a Washington-area hotel last September. representation. The Love family The New York Times on attended the women's game but Tuesday reported that the won't be in attendance at UNC. player, who it didn't name, was While the Charlottesville, Va., a member of the Redskins. community has provided a When contacted Wednesday by welcomed safety net for the the Washington Post about teams, Myers believes a road a l l e g a t i o n s i n v o l v i n g a n trip could provide a needed unnamed Redskins player, Moss reprieve for the women. tried to keep the topic on "It was great to be home the first football. week but I do think that our "I'll talk about football. I don't general sense of the team is let's know about nothing else," Moss go, let's step out, let's have a told the newspaper. "I ain't got couple of great dinners, a couple nothing to do with nothing that of fun memories and see what ain't about me." the road brings," Myers said. Moss is currently rehabbing "We are trying to heal, trying to from minor offseason knee play lacrosse and trying to stay surgery. together." Coach Mike Shanahan said REPORT: page 64

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Kobe the Scorer Transforms into Facilitator in Game 2 Sam Amick (FanHouse Main) Submitted at 5/20/2010 1:47:00 AM

Filed under: Lakers, Suns, NBA Playoffs LOS ANGELES -Amar'e Stoudemire had finally stopped talking, or at least talking in the kind of way that riled these NBA lions known as the Lakers. His Phoenix squad was unlucky once again, 124-112 losers on Wednesday night at the Staples Center to fall behind 0-2 in this Western Conference finals matchup that hasn't had any of the parity so many expected. In the other locker room, one of the most vocal Lakers of them all found himself at a loss for words. But Derek Fisher's momentary

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Wednesday that the team hasn't been contacted about the investigation into Galea's has been along for most of the a c t i v i t i e s . incredible Kobe Bryant ride Asked if he knew the identity of ever since its 1996 beginning, the Redskins player who was was marveling at the Lakers star supposedly involved, the coach who set a career playoff high said: "I don't know anything with 13 assists while adding 21 about it." "A doctor comes to town and points. "He, um ... I don't know man," has supposedly seen a player," Fisher began. "I know people Shanahan said. "The NFL's on have questioned his health and top of all those things, and if what he can or can't do anymore there's any validity to it, they based on his age. But I'm will contact me and contact our speechless, and that's very rare organization, which they have not done." that I'm speechless." On Wednesday, Redskins So, Fisher was asked, is Bryant still the best player in the game defensive end Phillip Daniels muteness wasn't a reaction to in this LeBron James-folding, said he hopes he doesn't find out Stoudemire's ridiculous claim, Dwight Howard-shrinking, John who the identity of the unnamed the one about Lamar Odom Wall's-coming era? Redskins player. finding a four-leaf clover while "In my opinion, yes," he said. landing on Park Place during his "No question." Game 1 outburst. Fisher, who

"I hope the details don't come out," Daniels said. "I don't want to know. I don't want to have to look at my partner and say 'You were doing that illegally all this time?' I hope they just tear the papers up and just go to him privately and do it that way." Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Floyd Landis Admits Drug Use, Accuses Lance Armstrong of Doping FanHouse Newswire (FanHouse Main) Submitted at 5/20/2010 5:00:00 AM

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that disgraced American cyclist Floyd Landis has admitted to systematic use of performance-enhancing drugs and accused seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong of involvement in

doping. The paper says Landis, who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title for doping, sent a series of e-mails to cycling officials and sponsors detailing his use of banned drugs. Landis also admitted to doping in an interview with ESPN.com. "I don't feel guilty at all about having doped," Landis told because that's what we [cyclists] ESPN.com. "I did what I did did and it was a choice I had to

make after 10 years or 12 years of hard work to get there; and that was a decision I had to make to make the next step. My choices were, do it and see if I can win, or don't do it and I tell people I just don't want to do that, and I decided to do it." Pat McQuaid, the head of cycling's world governing body UCI, questions Landis' credibility. McQuaid tells The

Associated Press that Landis is "seeking revenge" and holds a "grudge" against Armstrong and others. McQuaid says Armstrong has been accused of doping many times but nothing has ever been proven. Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.

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2010 NBA Playoffs: Dwight Howard of Orlando Magic won't be suspended for Game 3 over flagrant foul

'Sore' Barbosa Expects to Be Ready for Game 3

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The NBA will not suspend Orlando's Dwight Howard for Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals between the Magic and Boston Celtics for his flagrant foul in Game 2. In the second quarter of Game 2, the All-Star center was called for a flagrant foul 1 after swinging his arm so that his elbow swept through the head of the Celtics' Paul Pierce, who tumbled to the floor clutching his head in pain. Both players remained in the game. The NBA reviews all flagrant foul calls, and officials spent part of Wednesday deciding whether to upgrade Howard's

foul to a more serious flagrant 2 or suspend him for Game 3. A league spokesperson said the play will "stand as called." The NBA has a track record of punishing blows to the head severely. Howard himself was suspended for a first-round playoff game last season against the Philadelphia 76ers after swinging an elbow at the head of Samuel Dalembert. Henry Abbott writes for ESPN.com's TrueHoop blog. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Filed under: Lakers, Suns, NBA Injuries, NBA Playoffs LOS ANGELES -- Some players like time with the camera. But not this kind. Phoenix guard Leandro Barbosa went careening out of bounds with 7:40 left in Wednesday's 124-112 loss to the Lakers in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals at the Staples Center. The back of his head banged against a camera lens, and Barbosa had to leave the game with a laceration. Barbosa wanted to return. But doctors, after putting in five stitches, told him he was done for the night. "It was bad because I wanted to stay in the game, and I had to leave,'' Barbosa, who scored three points in 12 minutes, told FanHouse. "The doctors didn't

let me come back in. ... Bang on the head. They said for me to stay in the locker room. ... They just asked me how I felt, and I said, 'I have a little sore on the head.' So they said, 'So you stay here.' " Doctors wanted to take no risks with Barbosa's head injury. But he doesn't believe there's any chance he will miss Sunday's Game 3 in Phoenix.

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Finally, a Wii Sports Interview: Karl Stewart on Lara Resort rowing exercise Croft and the new Crystal Dynamics machine Christopher Grant (Joystiq)

Karl Stewart: We had actually been going through the shakeup at the studio prior to it, and At Square Enix's pre-E3 event really we had already presented yesterday, we got a chance to that we knew we needed to talk with Karl Stewart, global make a drastic change for the brand director for Tomb Raider studio and that continuing down developer Crystal Dynamics. the same path wasn't really W e a s k e d h i m a b o u t t h e going to cut it any longer. So r e o r g a n i z a t i o n i n s i d e t h e Darryl Gallagher had taken over developer (which lead directly the studio at that time and he to the development of the had some great ideas about how already impressive Lara Croft to sort of retool the studio, and it and the Guardian of Light), its was around then that Square new approach to managing the Enix came aboard, purchased Tomb Raider brand and how its us, so we presented our vision new focus is affecting the way for it and they thought it was the other Eidos studios work. We right way to go. And as a result, also got a taste of just how we continued down that path. o u t s i d e - t h e - b o x i t s n e w This was after the release of "experimental team" can go. Underworld? Joystiq: This reorganization all Yeah, this was. Underworld had happened after the Square Enix shipped, the DLC for 360 had acquisition? already shipped and we just Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:15:00 AM

realized that when we started looking at our next game we knew that we needed to take a step back and build the next big title and it wasn't going to come year after year. That's been one of our frustrations: seeing the titles come out year after year after year, so we decided that was the end of that. Continue reading Interview: Karl Stewart on Lara Croft and the new Crystal Dynamics Interview: Karl Stewart on Lara Croft and the new Crystal Dynamics originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 20 May 2010 09:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Remember when you first played the Rowing event in Wii Sports Resort, and wished that there was some way you could simulate the tactile feedback associated with dragging a paddle through water? Peripheral manufacturer CTA Digital, which brought us the 8in-1 Wii Sports Kit, the Wii Remote Dumbell Set and the 9in-1 Wii Sports Kit, has created a device which fills your very specific need: The Wii Rowing machine, currently available on Amazon for $34.99. Check out a video demonstration of the peripheral

after the jump. We know you're probably a little bit dubious, but what you don't know is that you can also use it to do sit-ups. It practically pays for itself, in the sense that having a tight, rippled abdomen counts as its own form of currency. Continue reading Finally, a Wii Sports Resort rowing exercise machine Finally, a Wii Sports Resort rowing exercise machine originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 20 May 2010 03:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Robots team up in Virtual-On Force for Xbox 360 JC Fletcher (Joystiq)

be defeated for the opposing team to win. Players can protect the leader (or either teammate) Sega has announced a second with a health-sharing "Rescue game for people who bought Dash" move. that $300 Xbox 360 twin stick Virtual-On Force will be Department source added that controller. Now it's totally a released in Japan this winter -on a disc, unlike the recent port the previous party's tax break worthwhile investment! bill is still "in motion" and that Cyber Troopers Virtual-On o f V i r t u a l - O n O r a t o r i o the new administration would Force is a port of the latest T a n g r a m . "have to act to stop the plan." arcade Virtual-On title, which [Via Famitsu] We're hoping it'll still be too adds 2-on-2 battles to the usual Robots team up in Virtual-On busy finding those feet to stop it. robot-fighting formula. The Force for Xbox 360 originally New UK government a possible Xbox 360 version will allow appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 20 setback for game dev tax breaks players to meet up online or pit M a y 2 0 1 0 1 0 : 3 0 : 0 0 E S T . originally appeared on Joystiq their Virtuaroids against one Please see our terms for use of on Thu, 20 May 2010 01:30:00 another offline in split-screen. feeds. EST. Please see our terms for The main gameplay mode in Read| Permalink| Email this| team battles involves assigning Comments use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| the position of "Leader" to one player on each team, who must Comments

New UK government a possible setback for game dev tax breaks Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)

place on the previously greenlit tax break initiative. "We're not really sure what the [ James Stringer] future holds. It's very early days A report from Develop claims and we have to hold discussions that the much-lobbied game and set in train how this is going development tax breaks that UK to work," the source told developers have been seeking Develop. That said, newly may have to wait a bit longer a p p o i n t e d , g a m e - f r i e n d l y before coming to fruition. Culture Minister Ed Vaizey S o u r c e s c l o s e t o t h e U K could help to get plans quickly government told the site that the back on track. Vaizey has r e c e n t l y r e o r g a n i z e d spoken out in defense of games government -- a new coalition of in the past, even belonging to a Liberals and Conservatives -- group set to publicly defend the will "look to find its feet" before medium earlier this year. For the any further discussion takes t i m e b e i n g , a T r e a s u r y Submitted at 5/20/2010 1:30:00 AM

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Spanish Scientists Clone First Bull for Fighting Rebecca Boyle (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now) Submitted at 5/19/2010 3:59:28 PM

Fighting Bull Cloned Got, a cloned fighting bull, was born Tuesday at a farm in northern Spain. AP, via Washington Post Vets hope little Got is as tough a fighter as his father the source of his genetic material was Scientists in Spain have cloned a fighting bull for the first time, saying they hoped he would be as fierce as his father. The feat could mean that a fresh version JC Fletcher (Joystiq) Destructoid, adding that "Codes of the same animal would be for accessing the content will be able to fight again and again Submitted at 5/20/2010 10:00:00 AM available for second-time buyers (and be killed again and again). EA isn't the only company to for an additional $5." So, right The 53-pound calf, named hit on the idea of a one-time-use now, THQ is winning the price "Got," which means "a glass" in code for online play of sports war in terms of online play Valencian, was born Tuesday, games. THQ is penalizing used privileges. Well, not counting BBC reported. sales of UFC Undisputed 2010 all those companies that let even It took three years for the team in exactly the same way -- and, second-hand buyers play games to find a way to do it, according since Undisputed will be in o n l i n e w i t h o u t a d d i t i o n a l to the project leader, Vicente Torrent. stores next week, THQ is even c h r a g e s ( f o r n o w ) . beating EA to it. THQ introduces its own 'Online Got was created using nuclear Pastapadre discovered that Pass' in UFC 2010 originally transfer, wherein DNA from the copies of Undisputed will appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 20 "father" bull was inserted into include a code on the back page M a y 2 0 1 0 1 0 : 0 0 : 0 0 E S T . cow's eggs that had been of the instruction manual, Please see our terms for use of required for online play. THQ feeds. confirmed the existence of the Read| Permalink| Email this| c o d e s i n a s t a t e m e n t t o Comments

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stripped of their nuclei. The process created embryos which were then implanted into a surrogate cow. The same process was used to create Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal. Got should exhibit the same traits as his genetic predecessor, Vasito, researchers say. Several news outlets reported last year on the efforts of a Spanish farmer to clone his prized bull, but this is not the

same experiment. That bull's name was El Alcalde, which means "the mayor." Torrent told AP the accomplishment could pave the way for a "tissue bank" to save endangered species. Gene banks already exist in several countries, but they usually involve frozen semen from various animals. [BBC]

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Invention Awards: A Fish-Friendly Tidal Turbine Rena Marie Pacella (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now) Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:36:07 AM

ECO-Auger John B. Carnett An underwater energy extractor that doesn't harm sea life Today's featured Invention Award winner is the ECOAuger, which accesses tidal energy without harming marine life. W. Scott Anderson spent the past five decades creating complicated machines for manufacturing, including a lipstick labeler and a plasticstraw maker. So when two years ago the 77-year-old industrial engineer invented a fish-friendly underwater turbine that looks like a giant screw, it seemed a cruel twist of fate that every manufacturer he approached said it was too complex to produce economically. But that didn't stop him. Invention: ECO-Auger Inventor: W. Scott Anderson Cost: Undisclosed Time: 5 years Is It Ready Yet? 1 2 3 4 5 There are a handful of companies using windmill-like turbines to capture the untapped energy in tidal streams, bays and inlets and convert it to

handcrafting a two-footdiameter polyurethane-andfiberglass auger that in a test captured 14 percent of the water's energy-not as much as the 25 to 45 percent that huge propeller-driven turbines can get, but Anderson says that percentage will go up as the auger's diameter increases, and for a fraction of the cost. Recently the inventor bought two cast-aluminum molds to make the first few six-footdiameter prototypes and has persuaded a plastic-molding company to produce them in segments. If he gets approval, he will have them spinning in inlets around the world this year. In a 10-knot current, each will generate five to seven kilowatts, enough to power four to six electricity. But these projects drive an attached generator, a Anderson had used a revolving homes. Most important, he tend to be huge and expensive, hydraulic pump in the nosecone horizontal corkscrew to feed wants to show that his method a n d r e q u i r e p e r m a n e n t pumps high-pressure oil to turn plastic to machines in his New of mass production is sound, so installations that can disrupt a generator outside the water. Jersey factory and knew that he can move on to the full-scale, marine life. The arrangement lets the turbine ancient Egyptian farmers used 16-foot-diameter augers. "We Anderson's ECO-Auger is capture energy in shallow augers to irrigate high ground. already know it will work," he based on a much different waters, and to tether to bridges To see if a water-driven auger says. "Now it's just a matter of design, enabling it to access and other structures so that the could do the job of conventional doing it." energy that regular water auger is relatively easy to lift turbine blades, he tested an eight turbines can't. Rather than using o u t o f t h e w a t e r f o r -inch plastic prototype in a pool, blades, it produces power when maintenance. Whereas most measured the torque, and ran it the current spins a drill-shaped bladed turbines need at least 30 in a tank of minnows. When he device called an auger, which f e e t o f w a t e r t o o p e r a t e , saw that it worked without has tapered ends that don't harm Anderson's smallest units need affecting the fish, he spent four fish. Instead of using gears to only 10. months in his garage

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New 'Methalyzer' Scans the Breath For Amphetamine Use Clay Dillow (Popular Science New Technology, Science News, The Future Now) Submitted at 5/19/2010 3:18:47 PM

Scanning the Breath for Amphetamines Copyright Olof Beck, Karolinska Institutet Breathalyzers aren't just for barflies anymore. Researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet have created a novel breath meter that can test for amphetamine and methamphetamine in a person's exhaled breath. Most drug tests -- like the kind you sweat every time you get a new job -- require either a urine or blood sample to test for controlled substances. Naturally, it would be easier and less expensive to conduct random drug tests or keep tabs on a patient's prescription drug use if there was a means to test for substances without the need for medical personnel and biological samples. That's not even taking into account the perceived slight to a person's integrity when you ask him or her for a urine sample. Breathalyzers, on the other hand, aren't considered particularly invasive, and require no medical oversight to operate. The methalyzer (clever nickname courtesy of PopSci

Fetching Infant Incubator Backpack May Save Newborn Lives Denise Ngo (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now) Submitted at 5/19/2010 4:28:25 PM

contributor Rebecca Boyle) aims to achieve the same kind of ease and ubiquity for amphetamine testing. Their device collects breath samples and passes them through a filter that can be easily be tested for narcotic substances using liquid chromatography or tandem mass -spectrometry. In tests, the researchers collected samples from a dozen patients hospitalized for having toxic levels of amphetamine in their bodies. The researchers waited for the effects of the drugs to dissipate, then asked the subjects to breath into a

Four guys and a heated backpack aim to reduce infant mortality rates in developing nations While covering the inventions of the year this week, we came mask for 10 minutes. They also someone to breath into a mask. across another project that may o b t a i n e d u r i n e a n d b l o o d But those of you sitting back well deserve a gold star. Four samples from each patient to with your feet up chuckling at seniors at Colorado State ensure the accuracy of the y o u r a m p h e t a m i n e - a d d l e d University have produced a breath measuring device. In counterparts should take notice shock-absorbent backpack, each case, the machine came to as well: Further research will called the neonatal transport t h e s a m e c o n c l u s i o n s a s focus on identifying other illegal incubator, designed to reduce standard blood and urine tests. substances that might produce infant deaths by helping safely During control group testing the an exhalable biomarker, with the p i g g y b a c k s i c k b a b i e s t o machine returned no false ultimate aim of creating a multi- m e d i c a l f a c i l i t i e s . According to Phil Brox, a positives. substance testing platform that But breathe easy, speed freaks: l a w e n f o r c e m e n t o f f i c e r s , mechanical engineering student the device is still in testing, and e m p l o y e r s , s c h o o l who worked on the incubator, some tweaks will have to be a d m i n i s t r a t o r s , a n d o t h e r the team started the project in made before a commercial officials can use to identify all response to the dire infant mortality rate in developing methalyzer finds its way into the self-medicators out there. countries. Many regions not your boss's office -- for one, ten [ Science Daily] only lack the resources for minutes is a long time to ask timely infant care, but their FETCHING page 71

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Behold, Japan's Largest Elevator Rebecca Boyle (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)

efficient way to move large amounts of people. They are operated as shuttles between Hankyu Department Store's Umeda store and several Submitted at 5/19/2010 5:00:52 PM E n o r m o u s E l e v a t o r T h i s floors of offices, according to a elevator can hold 80 people. press release [PDF]. Mitsubishi Elevator The department store is located A new Japanese office building near one of Japan's largest train that opened earlier this month in terminals, and the shops nearby Osaka is home to two dozen are a popular destination, g i n o r m o u s w i n d o w - v i e w meaning the elevators will elevators, the largest in Japan. probably see much more traffic Each can hold 80 passengers than the picture shown above. and are 12 feet wide, 9 feet long The Japanese also want to be and 8.5 feet high, with a floor the first to elevate to space, so space of about 102 square feet. perhaps it makes sense they'd Japanese architecture is often install an enormous one in a notable for its smallness -- this building first. is the country that invented the [via Gizmodo] capsule hotel, after all. But the commodious elevator is a more

rough terrain and poor roads make it difficult for medical responders to transport babies to safety. Portable Baby Incubator: Inhabitots/Colorado State University Although neonatal transporters are nothing new, the students' invention is less pricey and more portable than the alternatives. An integrated electric heating system, air controller, temperaturemonitoring alarms, and an air circulation device also put the students' project on par with other transport systems. The university's web site

reports that the students have filed a provisional patent through the Colorado State University Research Foundation (CSURF), thus allowing them to publicly discuss the technology with outside investors. If all goes as planned, what began as a senior design project may become an indispensable piece of affordable medical technology. [ Inhabitots]

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Five Amazing App and Gadget Demos from Google I/O [VIDEO] Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!)

and videos. Check out all of our Google I/O coverage to get the latest announcements from the Cool gadgets, one-off web Big G. apps, AR on Android — this And if you happen to be in year’s Google I/O Sandboxes town, we hope you’ll join us for have got ‘em all. We got to see a our post-conference MashMeet few demos today at Google’s at Roe at 8 p.m. developer-focused conference in [music credit: Peter John Ross] San Francisco, and we were “Holodeck” at the end. For more technology coverage, Which clips are your favorites, follow Mashable Tech on incredibly impressed. Check out this video with cool and what kinds of tech do you Twitter or become a fan on toys and tricks from Yelp, want to see more of tomorrow? Facebook Pandora, TweetDeck, Google We’ll be back at Google I/O for Tags: demos, google io, Earth and even Nordic Track. another long, fun day of Google holodeck, pandora, video, yelp And be sure not to miss the and Android news, interviews Submitted at 5/20/2010 2:01:03 AM

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discovered scallops, not that he didn't know about them before, it's just that some light bulb went off in his head one day and he decided that he had to cook them. So for a time he would madly attack any scallop recipe that seemed half-way interesting. The problem was that he just couldn't get them right. He had a hard time getting them browned, and more often than not, they were overcooked. So when the-manwho-knows-more-about-seafood -than-I-ever-hope-to Hank Shaw was here the other day cooking scallops, both dad and I circled Hank like hawks, watching to see how he did it. Here's what we learned. You need a screaming hot pan. Scallops

have a lot of moisture in them, which means you have to get the pan really hot to dry the outer edge of that moist scallop so that it can actually get hot enough to brown. When the scallops brown, the meat pulls back a bit (contracting proteins) making them easier to turn. Now theory doesn't always translate to practice, you might still have some sticking. But when the scallop is seared enough, it should move more easily. Continue reading "Sea Scallops with Asparagus Sauce" »

Foursquare Now Adding 15,000 Users Per Day Adam Ostrow (Mashable!)

As for the rapid ascent of Foursquare, Crowley says that he actually expected to only Foursquare, which recently have about 30,000 users in the surpassed the one million user first year. Now, with more than mark, is now adding about a million users, Crowley “sees a 15,000 users per day according path to ten million users,” but to CEO Dennis Crowley, who isn’t sure we’ll see Foursquare revealed the number this go as mainstream as Facebook morning at Business Insider’s expansion well into the future. or Twitter. Startup 2010 event in New York I f F o u r s q u a r e g o e s t h e Nevertheless, Crowley believes City. independent route, expect a that competition in the location In an interview with Business heavy focus on small business. space from those companies Insider founder Henry Blodgett, One of the things Crowley is w o n ’ t r e n d e r F o u r s q u a r e Crowley commented on his most excited about is the irrelevant, as he thinks the company’s rapid rise, its recent opportunity to provide “Google unique experience it has built deal with Starbucks, and A n a l y t i c s b u t f o r l o c a l for location-based social ongoing rumors that Foursquare merchants” — for example, networking is different than may soon be sold. letting a local coffee shop see its what larger sites will offer, since Addressing the latter, Crowley demographics and identify its it needs to make its tools appeal noted that he sold Dodgeball most influential customers. t o a b r o a d , m a i n s t r e a m “too soon,” and that the options We’re already starting to see a u d i e n c e . f o r F o u r s q u a r e a r e n o w some of that vision come to life We’ll be learning more about considerably different than with the recently launched Foursquare and its plans for the when his first attempt at location business dashboard. future in a couple of weeks -based social networking was Eventually, that could be a when we catch up with Crowley acquired by Google in 2005. money maker for Foursquare in at the Mashable Media Summit. Back then, raising money for a the form of subscription fees For more mobile coverage, l o c a t i o n - b a s e d s o c i a l (Crowley wouldn’t reveal the follow Mashable Mobile on networking service was far more financial terms of Foursquare’s Twitter or become a fan on difficult –- now, the company is recent deal with Starbucks or Facebook weighing massive acquisition past partnerships with media Tags: business, foursquare, offers with big funding rounds companies like Bravo and The MARKETING, money that would finance Foursquare’s Wall Street Journal). Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:32:00 AM

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tries to connect what American politicians object to (abortion) with a bill under consideration Submitted at 5/19/2010 3:00:43 PM in Uganda (homosexuality). Recently I asked a woman from Now that the draft is done, Nigeria what she thought of the three Republican members of media’s coverage of her Congress contend that it c o u n t r y . S h e s a i d w h a t significantly expands abortion frustrated her most was when rights, and are accusing the r e p o r t e r s g a v e s w e e p i n g United States Embassy in Kenya statements or connected African of openly supporting it in countries as though it were one violation of federal rules. uniform nation. I thought of our It is the latest battle in the conversation when I read a American culture wars playing recent New York Times piece o u t i n A f r i c a . L a s t y e a r , on Kenya’s culture wars. Stay American Christians helped with me as we read these first stoke antigay sentiments in few paragraphs. Uganda; later, Ugandan NAIROBI, Kenya—The push p o l i t i c i a n s p r o p o s e d t h e to pass a new constitution in execution of some gay people. Kenya, a cornerstone of the That debate is still raging, effort to correct longstanding t h o u g h i t l o o k s a s i f t h e i m b a l a n c e s o f p o w e r a n d Ugandan government is backing prevent the kind of upheaval down and will not pass the that followed deeply flawed antigay bill after all. elections here, has attracted Help me out here. I know some u n e x p e c t e d Uganda and Kenya are interference—from more than neighboring countries, but is 7,000 miles away. there really any connection Before Kenyan lawmakers had here? Is this seriously the first even finished drafting the time American culture wars proposed constitution, American have played out in Africa? Also, Christians organized petition earlier we questioned the drives in Kenya against it, reporting behind “American o b j e c t i n g t o a p r o v i s i o n Christians helped stoke antigay recognizing Islamic courts. sentiments in Africa.” Didn’t Okay, I’m intrigued. Is there A m e r i c a n C h r i s t i a n s a l s o more information about this strongly denounce the bill? This provision recognizing Islamic c o n n e c t i o n b e t w e e n t h e courts and which American proposals in the two different Christians organized drives countries seems like such a against it? Apparently not. The stretch to me. reporter lets that dangle and then Back to Kenya, the reporter

explains that the United States has been aggressively supporting a new constitution as part of a reform package. American politicians, however,

object to a new referendum that would allow abortion in some cases. In April, the Kenyan government passed a proposed

new constitution, and it will be put to a yes-or-no referendum later this year. So far, polls show the public is firmly behind it. The proposed new constitution, which curtails the sweeping powers of Kenya’s presidency and addresses questions about dual citizenship and other issues, may not be as proabortion as many of its critics contend. It still outlaws abortion, which is currently illegal under Kenya’s current penal code, though it spells out exceptions if “in the opinion of a trained health professional, there is need for emergency treatment, or the life or health of the mother is in danger, or if permitted by any other written law.” Those caveats have set off an intense debate, with American groups on both sides of the abortion issue weighing in and sending representatives to Kenya. Abortion opponents complain that the new constitution allows “abortion on demand,” while abortion rights adherents, concerned about the thousands of Kenyan women who die each year in secretive, botched operations, think the constitution is too weak on the issue. They wanted stronger protections and are upset that the constitution says, “The life of a person begins at CULTURE page 76

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A cautious use of the word ‘cult’ tmatt (GetReligion)

family members by name; and not leave her home on her own, among other things. I know that it will be painful, However, subsequent stories — but think back for a moment to especially in the Washington earlier posts about the young Post and the Baltimore Sun— mother Ria Ramkissoon and the made it clear that this group death of her infant son, Javon could accurately be described Thompson. The child was with a cautious use of the word starved to death because he kept “cult,” both in terms of its refusing to say “amen” after the approach to faith and, most of prayers during meals in the a l l , i n t h e l i f e - a n d - d e a t h bizarre religious community that authority that Queen Antoinette h i s m o t h e r h a d j o i n e d i n held over the lives of her Baltimore. disciples. The key issue here, from a Now, I realize that “cult” is a journalism perspective, is how loaded word, whether one is to describe the community of using it in a doctrinal context or people surrounding “Queen in a sociological context. In a A n t o i n e t t e ” a n d h e r mainstream newsrooms, congregation — One Mind reporters have no business using Ministries. it in stories about doctrinal An early CNN report — the conflicts, unless the word is subject of a GetReligion post— used by one of the groups in a offered this context, with some dispute and there is no way to attribution to Ramkissoon’s avoid explaining how and why attorney, Steven Silverman: they are using it. Like what? C o u r t d o c u m e n t s s a y Southern Baptists may refer to Ramkissoon joined One Mind Mormonism as a “cult,” because Ministries after Javon’s birth in of the latter faith’s radically 2005. Silverman described her different doctrine of God, in as a petite, soft-spoken woman comparison with traditional who rejected her family’s Hindu forms of Christianity through religion, became a devout the ages. But no one, including Christian and wanted to raise 99.9 percent of the Baptist her son in that religion. … The leaders I know, would claim that group insisted she wear a modern Mormonism is a “cult,” uniform the colors of royalty: in a sociological sense of the white, tan and blue; give up her word. cell phone; stop referring to her Should mainstream reporters Submitted at 5/19/2010 12:41:45 PM

use this loaded word at all? A new story in the Baltimore Sun about the Javon Thompson case does a pretty good job of placing the term — as used during legal proceedings — in a sociological context and then backing it up. Here is how the story opens: Three accused cult members, convicted of starving a toddler to death in the name of religion, were sentenced Tuesday to a collective 150 years in prison. Toni Sloan, 41, who claimed God had christened her “Queen Antoinette,” received a 50-year sentence composed of two consecutive 25-year terms, one for second-degree murder and the other for first-degree child abuse. Sloan said she was “not sorry” for the toddler’s death. Trevia Williams, 22, and Marcus Cobbs, 23 received the same sentence, with all but 15 years suspended for each. “There can still be hope” for them, said Baltimore Circuit Judge Timothy J. Doory. He did not express the same optimism for Sloan, who had issued the order in 2006 to starve the 16month-old boy until he said “amen,” according to prosecutors. The Sun team unfolded that “cult” language a bit more later in the story. During the trial, Sloan was

characterized as the head of the group, a cult leader who lured young people into her home and controlled the most minute aspects of their lives through her self-styled religion. … According to court testimony and prosecutor statements, Sloan took in at least a halfdozen young people, including her co-defendants, over several months in 2006, convincing them that they would suffer “eternal damnation” if they failed to follow her rules. … Among the group living with Sloan in 2006 was 19-year-old Ria Ramkissoon. She had moved in with her infant son, Javon Thompson, in part because she wasn’t getting along with her stepfather at home. Things were fine at first. But when Javon stopped repeating his mother’s “amen” after prayers, Sloan ordered food and water withheld from him until he said it. He never did. His body wasted away, and he died within a week. Ramkissoon testified that she had agreed to let Javon go hungry because she thought it would rid him of a “spirit of rebellion” that she took to be an actual entity. After his death, she was convinced that she could resurrect him if only she had enough faith. The young mother is currently

living in a residential treatment facility, while receiving longterm psychiatric care. You may recall that authorities agreed to drop the charges against her if her son came back to life. She had been given a 20-year term, with her prison time commuted to the 19 months she had already served. Prosecutors concluded that, simply stated, she had been brainwashed to believe anything and everything Queen Antoinette said, as her spiritual leader. This was, in effect, a personality cult that led to the creation of a new and twisted form of faith. Thus, it was — sociologically speaking — a “cult.” That’s a loaded word. But sometimes people are going to use it in the public square, which means that journalists have to have some standards on how they will allow the word to make it into print. The Sun pulled that off, in this case. Art: An old CNN report that still provides some useful background material. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Sexual sin vs. “misplaced” words Mollie (GetReligion)

in Christ, to be exact). So the stories about him actually led with his religion! Check out this Earlier this week we saw two Associated Press report: sad stories involving political Indiana Rep. Mark Souder — figures. It turned out that the an evangelical Christian who Democratic nominee to be the promoted abstinence education next Connecticut Senator, a n d w a s k n o w n f o r h i s Richard Blumenthal, had lied outspoken views on religion — (or“misplaced” his words, as he said Tuesday he will resign from put it) about whether he’d C o n g r e s s b e c a u s e o f a n served in Vietnam. And a extramarital affair with a partRepublican Congressman from time staff member. Indiana, Rep. Mark Souder, I wish I could tell you what the resigned upon revelation of an writers meant when they said he affair he’d had with a staffer. h a d “ o u t s p o k e n v i e w s o n Now, I certainly wish that religion” but they never got s t o r i e s a b o u t B l u m e n t h a l around to explaining it. It’s engaged what his religion had to interesting when something is say about what he’d done, but important enough to be included they didn’t even get to the part in the first few words of a story where they mention what his but not important enough to religion is, much less how that explain in any way, shape or religion treats his sin. There form. were a few things I found The Washington Post took a interesting — First Things had a particular delight in revealing brief piece about aspirational Souder’s resignation and the lying. And Slate’s William reason for it. They led with his Saletan had a devastating look at “support of traditional family how Blumenthal holds himself values” and explained that he to a lower standard than those was confronted by his own staff. individuals he’s gone after as This type of story is catnip for attorney general. I didn’t see inside the beltway journalists: any of these explorations in the A self-described conservative mainstream media. and a Christian, Souder had But we’re in luck with Souder focused on three areas since s i n c e h e ’ s a n “ o u t s p o k e n entering Congress: in his words, evangelical” (a member of the “how to keep the economy Church of the United Brethren strong; how do we improve our Submitted at 5/19/2010 2:00:52 PM

education system; and how do we change the cultural and moral direction of this country.” Souder, 59, a pudgy man with an unruly shelf of gray hair, got high marks in his district for his evangelical beliefs. He received an A-plus rating from the National Rifle Association and a 100 percent rating from the National Right to Life Committee. Yes, nothing says professionalism like subjectively weighing in on someone’s looks. Anyway, I wish the reporters would have explained precisely how he got high marks in his district for his evangelical beliefs. I’m not saying it’s wrong but the way they’ve written it, it makes it seem like the NRA and NRLC ratings are equivalent to getting high marks for evangelical beliefs. I don’t think that’s what they’re trying to say but without any other supporting information, it’s hard to say. Anyway, apart from the schadenfreude many of us have over the downfall of a social conservative, Souder’s entry into the “sex scandal press conference” hall of fame was certainly interesting. He said, according to Politico: “I sinned against God, my wife and my family by having a

mutual relationship with a parttime member of my staff,” Souder said in a statement Tuesday. “I am so shamed to have hurt those I love.” The general tone of all the media coverage I’ve read is that the takeaway from the news is nothing more than: HYPOCRISY! It’s probably worth reminding reporters that religious folks who espouse particular values don’t believe they’re immune from temptation or sin. In fact, whatever one may think of whether social conservatism is right or wrong, it is an acute awareness of human failing that likely motivates some of the outspoken advocacy for laws that support morality. There seems to be a ton of confusion about that among reporters. But somehow I think it’s asking too much for reporters — or readers, for that matter — to engage some of the more substantive questions when we could instead just delight in another sex scandal. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Times Square suspect gets NYT tome Brad A. Greenberg (GetReligion) Submitted at 5/20/2010 6:40:53 AM

This is one of those stories that reminds you of what makes The New York Times so great. In the two weeks since Faisal Shahzad was arrested for allegedly planting a massive bomb in Times Square, a team of reporters, including one who won a Pulitzer for a series of stories in 2006 about a Brooklyn imam, dug deep into Shahzad’s life and produced a 3,111-word profile that contains just about every detail you could want to know. Here’s the opening of “ For Times Sq. Suspect, Long Roots of Discontent”: Just after midnight on Feb. 25, 2006, Faisal Shahzad sent a lengthy e-mail message to a group of friends. The trials of his fellow Muslims weighed on him — the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the plight of Palestinians, the publication in Denmark of cartoons lampooning the Prophet Muhammad. Mr. Shahzad was wrestling with how to respond. He understood the notion that Islam forbids the killing of innocents, TIMES page 76

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he wrote. But to those who insist only on “peaceful protest,” he posed a question: “Can you tell me a way to save the oppressed? And a way to fight back when rockets are fired at us and Muslim blood flows? “Everyone knows how the Muslim country bows down to pressure from west. Everyone knows the kind of humiliation we are faced with around the globe.” Great details, thanks to good reporting. (It evokes for me memories of when a college MSA leader told me: “Blowing yourself up is not something everyone can do or something that everyone has the courage to do.”) Such is the strength of religion reporting by Andrea Elliott, the aforementioned Pulitzer-winner who penned this multi-byline article. The story doesn’t get bogged down by discussing Shahzad in the broader context of homegrown terrorists. Maybe it should have, but as executed, the structure works well. We are taken from the bomb being

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found in Times Square at the beginning of the month back to his childhood in the liberal home of a vice marshal of the Pakistani Air Force. From there, his immigration to the U.S. on a student visa, and then through his post-9/11 transformation that oddly crested with him getting his U.S. citizenship in April 2009. There are tons of great details, and revealing quotes, packed into this story, especially in the sections that show the war within Shahzad’s own world of Pakistani immigrants and Pakistani-Americans and with his own family back in Pakistan. While Mr. Shahzad seemed eager to carve out a life in his host country, his anger at America flared early. The classmate recalled walking into Mr. Shahzad’s apartment a few days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 to find him staring at news footage of the planes hitting the towers. “They had it coming,” Mr. Shahzad said, according to the friend, a Pakistani-American.

The friend said Mr. Shahzad believed that Western countries had conspired to mistreat Muslims. “He would just go off,” said the friend, adding that he paid little heed to Mr. Shahzad’s eruptions, dismissing them as a product of his fierce Pashtun pride. Which makes it so tough, as a media critic to know what to talk about. Hagiography isn’t really my strong suit. I’d just recommend you read this story, and let us GetReligionistas know if I missed something glaring. Also, keep an eye out for Andrea Elliott’s byline. It’s always worth a read. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

conception”—a clause that was included in a late version of the draft after bitter debate. The reporter writes that Americans have been sending groups from both sides of the debate, but he doesn’t cite any specific groups. What is the religious climate like in Kenya? Do any of the religious groups play a larger role in this debate? U.S. Ambassador Michael E. Ranneberger welcomes the unified constitution. Now, I guess this is where the angle that Americans are getting in the way of African policy come into play. Pronouncements like these apparently caught the eye of three Republican members of Congress: Christopher H. Smith of New Jersey; Darrell Issa of California; and Ileana RosLehtinen of Florida. The three wrote a letter on May 6 to auditors at the State Department, the United States Agency for International Development and the Government Accountability Office, saying that “the Obama administration’s advocacy in support of Kenya’s proposed constitution may constitute a

serious violation of the Siljander Amendment.” The little-known amendment, named after a former Michigan congressman, Mark D. Siljander, prohibits foreign aid from being used to lobby for or against abortion. It seems like this is a battle between members of Congress and the Obama administration’s ambassador, a debate over how America should conduct its foreign policy. Instead, the reporter paints this as though those pesky Americans are getting in the way of politics in Africa again. Remind me again, what does a bill in Uganda have to do with an entirely separate issue in Kenya? There’s no need to treat Africa as one sweeping nation. This story is worthy of coverage on its own. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Pakistan Blocks YouTube Over Sacrilegious Content Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) Submitted at 5/20/2010 5:33:31 AM

Following Pakistan’s blockade of Facebook— allegedly because users had posted caricatures of Prophet Muhammad on the network — comes news that Pakistan has also blocked YouTube because of content that’s offensive to Islam. While the Facebook ban in Pakistan was a direct result of a group that called on users to submit drawings of Prophet Muhammad, the YouTube blockade isn’t explained in detail. According to AP, Pakistan Telecommunications

Authority simply cited “growing sacrilegious contents” [sic] as the reason for the ban. The ban of Facebook and YouTube is likely to continue until representatives from both sites resolve the dispute with the Pakistani government in a way that “ensures religious harmony and respect.” A Facebook representative said the usual

way to resolve such issues — if the group in question doesn’t break the site’s terms of service but is illegal in another country — is to restrict the group from being shown in that country. However, it appears that Pakistan has blocked more than just these two sites; some of our readers, as well as reports on Twitter, point out that access to Flickr, Wikipedia and other sites has been restricted, too. For more social media coverage, follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook Tags: censorship, Pakistan, youtube

Pete Cashmore Talks Google’s Venture into TV and VoIP on Bloomberg [VIDEO] Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)

I/O Conference in San Francisco, the biggest being the release of an open source, Google has been very busy in royalty-free video format called the last few days. First came WebM. rumors of Google’s venture into Google, Intel and Sony’s TV space with SmartTV. Then, SmartTV project could reshape Google offered to acquire television as we know it, and Global IP Solutions (GIPS), Android-based set-top boxes Furthermore, Google’s f o l l o w e d b y a s l e w o f could open a whole new world acquisition of VoIP-focused announcements at the Google to developers of Android apps. Submitted at 5/20/2010 2:30:46 AM

GIPS could mean that Google is building a Skype competitor, or at the very least bring significant improvements to its gTalk and Google Voice products. Check out the video below to see Pete Cashmore discuss the implications of Google’s acquisition of GIPS and the development of SmartTV, as well as Foursquare’s recent deal

with Starbucks. For more technology coverage, follow Mashable Tech on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook Tags: Bloomberg, GIPS, Google, pete cashmore