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Pakistani found guilty over Mumbai attacks

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Ujjwal Nikam, the state “He is only a footsoldier. India India, whose tense relationship months later, taking his defence
The sole terrorist gunman to be prosecutor, told The Times last has not been able to touch the with Pakistan was seriously lawyer by surprise, he confessed
c a p t u r e d a l i v e d u r i n g t h e week. masterminds behind the damaged by the Mumbai to taking part in the most
Mumbai attacks of 2008 was Sentencing will begin Mumbai attacks.” attacks. audacious terror attack since
today found guilty of murder tomorrow. A death sentence is The Indian Government Today, however, all eyes were 9/11 and said that he was
and of waging war against India. likely to lead to a lengthy series believes that Lashkar-e-Taiba on Kasab, a poor high-school “ready to hang”.
The prosecution in the trial of of appeals and an indeterminate (LeT), a Pakistan-based drop-out who drifted into In December he retracted a
Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab wait on death row. terrorist faction, was behind the radicalism from a life of petty confession that had included a
has indicated that it will ask for The last execution in India was strike on Mumbai. The charge crime and whose behaviour has detailed account of his
him to be executed for his part in 2004, when a security guard sheet against Kasab also lists 35 become increasingly odd as his indoctrination and weapons
in the most audacious terrorist was hanged in Calcutta for the suspects wanted for their alleged trial has progressed. training. Instead he claimed to
atrocity since 9/11. rape and murder of a schoolgirl links to the Mumbai attacks. All Today, he appeared pale and be a wannabe film star who had
Kasab, 22, a Pakistani citizen, 14 years earlier. Since then the are thought to be in Pakistan and shaky as he sat in the dock. He been in Mumbai hoping to break
was one of ten Islamist gunmen last trained hangman in India is to be linked to LeT. showed no emotion throughout into Bollywood when he was
who sailed from Pakistan to understood to have retired, No 1 on the list is the LeT the judge’s reading of a précis arrested and framed.
hold India’s commercial capital leaving the country with no founder Hafiz Saeed. of the verdict against him, the The judge today dismissed that
under virtual siege for 60 hours executioners. Mr Saeed — who claims that he full version of which runs to version of events as false.
in November 2008. "I, my family and people of quit LeT in 2002 and denies any more than 1,500 pages. Five Filters featured article:
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il travels to China Wise Words:

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Mr Kim’s 17-carriage train is
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Korea has already agreed to
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suspected stroke in 2008, cities, where the leader of the States, Russia and Japan, on nuclear weapons drive in return Here's a little bit of inspiration
travelling by train to China – his Stalinist state could be shown how to denuclearise the for security guarantees and to make your day fun, fabulous
biggest benefactor. some of the achievements of peninsula. Just as possibly, badly needed fuel aid. and full of joy. Today's quote
Visits to China by Mr Kim have more than 30 years of opening Beijing may have given the go- The mysterious sinking of a was submitted by Beth Marsh.
long been shrouded in secrecy – and market-oriented reform. A ahead for Mr Kim to come to try South Korean warship near the Enjoy doing nothing, and you
his most recent trip in 2006 was motorcade of 15 cars was later to persuade him in person. disputed sea border with North can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy
announced only after he had left seen pulling up at the city’s Mr Kim may also be keen to Korea on March 26, with having nothing, and you can
the country. luxury Furama hotel. use the talks as a bargaining suspicion falling on Pyongyang, enjoy whatever you have. -
What was clear today was that Like his father before him, the ploy to press Beijing to provide has served as a further setback. Ralph Marston
security was tight at the border North Korean strongman seems more food aid to his country, US and South Korean officials How do you find pleasure in
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Buffett: The Government Has Definitely Lit The Fuse Of Inflation

Joe Weisenthal (The Money
Game)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 7:49:04 AM
Warren Buffett's interview on
CNBC has been almost entirely
about Goldman Sachs(GS) this
morning, a testament to how
much this story has enveloped
the financial industry. Becky
quick has only asked a couple
questions about the economy.
Among them: The inflation
question.
Buffett's view is that the
government has definitely laid
the groundwork for inflation -- Join the conversation about this
basically by going into so much story »
debt -- though he's hopeful it's
not inevitability.
We've lit the fuse, but it's not
too late to blow it out if we take
the right corrective course.
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Spider-Man thwarts robbery in comic iPad 3G sales estimated
shop caper
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When Australian comic book
store owner Michael
Baulderstone dressed up as
Spider-Man for a promotional
event in his shop last weekend,
he never imagined by the end of
the day he would become a real-
life crime-fighting superhero.
But luckily, Mr Baulderstone’s
“Spider-sense” was tingling and
he was able to thwart a robbery
attempt at his shop in the South
Australian capital of Adelaide,
with the aid of The Flash and
some trusted Jedi Knights
wielding light sabres.
The comical crime caper began
on Saturday morning in the
Adelaide Comics Centre,
tucked away in a mall in the
heart of the city, which was full
of fans dressed as their
favourite superhero characters
who had descended on the store
for international ‘free comic
book day’, aimed at encouraging
children to read.
Mingling among the customers
in fancy dress — including a
Wolverine, a Catwoman and
someone dressed as Kick-Ass,
at 300,000 for launch
weekend
the character from the recent
British film about a hapless
American teenager who creates
his own superhero character to
fight crime — Mr Baulderstone
noticed someone acting
suspiciously.
The customer, who was dressed
as himself — a comic fan in an
overcoat and jeans – allegedly
picked up an X-Man Omnibus
(worth $AU160, or £97) from
the shop window display.
“My Spider-sense was tingling,“
Mr Baulderstone, 45, told The
Times as he fielded
congratulatory calls for his
superhero behaviour. “I didn’t
want to scare him off so I
followed him around the store
and eventually said: ‘Are you
right there mate?’”
With no police – or Batman –
on hand to help, Mr
Baulderstone decided to take
matters into his own red and
blue lycra-clad hands.
“I’m 169cm tall and only 57kg,
so I’m a tiny bloke, but I just
grabbed his bag and looked in it
and there was the book,” he
said.
“I had 50 people in the store so I
just shouted for someone to
guard the front door and it just
happened that the Jedi Knights
were there and they had their
lightsabres out so they held the
door until the police arrived.
“My colleague, who was
dressed as The Flash, kept
running the shop and stayed
calm, it really was a team
effort.”
CCTV footage captured the
whole scene on tape, which
shows Spider-Man calmly
confronting the unmasked
offender and confiscating his
backpack.
Mr Baulderstone, a life-long
comic fan who has owned the
shop with his colleague Peter
Spandrio for the past three
years, said they often have
people trying to steal valuable
comics and collectors' items.
However he said that never
before has one been stopped by
a real-life superhero: “When the
police came in they managed to
keep a straight face and just
hauled him away”.
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wi-fi only models)," Munster
The iPad 3G's first weekend at
wrote in a Sunday note to
market was a successful one,
clients. "While it is difficult to
though not quite as successful as
gauge, we believe this is due to
that of its Wi-Fi-only
both stronger than expected
predecessor.
demand and lower than intended
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene
supply on the part of Apple.
Munster estimates that Apple
Near-term, this may put
sold about 300,000 iPad 3Gs
downward pressure on launch
between Friday afternoon and
day/weekend statistics, but long-
Sunday afternoon, including 52
term we see it as a positive, as
days of preorders. That's
consumers are definitely
approximately what the original
interested in the iPad as a new
iPad sold during its first day of
category."
availability, including 22 days
Munster figures that by now
of preorders. So while the 3G
Apple has sold more than a
isn't selling quite as briskly as
million total iPads (Wi-Fi-only
its sibling, it's selling well--so
and 3G, both), enough to make
well, in fact, that by Sunday
him wonder whether his
afternoon most of the Apple
estimate of 1.3 million sold
stores Munster surveyed were
during the June quarter might be
completely sold out of the
conservative.
device. Not bad considering
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BP says it will pay for Gulf spill's cleanup (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) out well a mile under Gulf of Katrina, which Louisiana is still Southwest Pass to enter the vital Capt. Doogie Robin, 84, sat at a
Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:31:31 AM Mexico waters. However, the recovering from after nearly five waterway. bar, sipping a Budweiser from
plan to lower 74-ton, concrete- years. Shipment delays — either the jaws of an alligator-head
VENICE, La. – BP PLC said and-metal boxes being built to "My kids will be talking about because oil-splattered ships need beer cozy. He runs eight oyster
Monday that it will pay for all capture the oil and siphon it to a the effect of this when they're to be cleaned off at sea before boats.
t h e c l e a n u p c o s t s f r o m a barge waiting at the surface will my age," said 41-year-old docking or because water lanes "Katrina really hit us hard," he
massive oil spill in the Gulf of need at least another six to eight Venice charter boat captain Bob are shut down for a time — said. "And this here, I think this
Mexico that could continue days to get it in place. Kenney. would raise the cost of is going to finish us now. I think
spewing crude for at least Crews continued to lay boom in At BP's Houston offices, transporting those goods. this will wipe us off the map."
another week. what increasingly feels like a dozens of engineers and "We saw that during Hurricane The Coast Guard and BP have
Meanwhile, chief executive futile effort to slow down the technicians were cloistered on Katrina for a period of time — said it's nearly impossible to
Tony Hayward said Monday spill, with all ideas to contain the third floor, working 12-hour we saw some prices go up for know exactly how much oil has
that chemical dispersants have the flow failing so far. shifts round-the-clock to come food and other goods because gushed since the blast, though it
worked to some degree to keep "I've been in Pensacola and I am up with a solution. they couldn't move some fruit has been roughly estimated to be
oil from flowing to the surface, very, very concerned about this "It's probably easier to fly in down the shipping channels and at least 200,000 gallons a day.
though he did not elaborate. He filth in the Gulf of Mexico," space than do some of this," it got spoiled," PFGBest analyst At that rate, it would eclipse the
said on ABC's "Good Morning Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said Charlie Holt, BP's drilling and Phil Flynn said. 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker spill
America" that the new approach at a fundraiser for his U.S. completion operations manager The Port of New Orleans said — which dumped 11 million
s e e m e d t o b e h a v i n g a Senate campaign Sunday night. in the Gulf of Mexico, said projections suggest the pass will gallons off the Alaska coast —
significant impact. "It's not a spill, it's a flow. Sunday. be clear through Tuesday. as the worst U.S. oil disaster in
The company posted a fact Envision sort of an underground Everything engineers have tried President Barack Obama toured history in a matter of weeks.
sheet on its Web site saying it volcano of oil and it keeps so far has failed. After the April the region Sunday, deflecting "None of us have ever had
took responsibility for the spewing over 200,000 gallons 20 oil rig explosion, which criticism that his administration experience at this level before. It
response to the Deepwater every single day, if not more." killed 11 people, the flow of oil was too slow to respond and did ain't good," said Bob Love,
Horizon spill and would pay Fishermen from the mouth of should have been stopped by a too little to stave off the coastal and nongame resources
compensation for legitimate the Mississippi River to the blowout preventer, but the catastrophe. administrator with the Louisiana
claims for property damage, Florida Panhandle got the news mechanism failed. Efforts to A piece of plywood along a Department of Wildlife and
personal injury and commercial that more than 6,800 square remotely activate it continue to Louisiana highway had these Fisheries.
losses. miles of federal fishing areas prove fruitless. On the surface, words painted on it: "OBAMA Even if the oil stays mostly
"We are responsible, not for the were closed, fracturing their windy weather and waves have SEND HELP!!!!" offshore, the consequences
accident, but we are responsible livelihood for at least 10 days hampered plans to burn the oil The blessing of the boats is could be dire for sea turtles,
for the oil and for dealing with it and likely more just as the prime and made booms all along the normally a joyous kickoff to the dolphins and other deepwater
and cleaning the situation up," spring season was kicking in. coast ineffective. spring fishing season in St. marine life — and microscopic
Hayward said. He said the The slick also was precariously The oil probably could keep Bernard Parish. But this year, it plankton and tiny creatures that
equipment that failed on the rig close to a key shipping lane that gushing for months until a had more the air of a funeral. are a staple of larger animals'
and led to the spill belonged to feeds goods and materials to the second well can be dug to Some years, as many as 200 diets.
owner Transocean Ltd., not BP, interior of the U.S. by the relieve pressure from the first. craft, most of them working Moby Solangi, director of the
which operated the rig. Mississippi River. Besides the immediate impact boats, lined up at the Gulf Outlet Institute for Marine Mammal
The update on the dispersants Even if the well is shut off in a on Gulf industries, shipping Marina to be sprinkled with holy Studies in Gulfport, Miss., said
came as BP was preparing a week, fishermen and wildlife along the Mississippi River water by a priest. On Sunday, at least 20 dead sea turtles were
system never tried nearly a mile officials wonder how long it will could soon be limited. Ships only four boats floated by — found on the state's beaches. He
under water to siphon away the take for the Gulf to recover. carrying food, oil, rubber and and not one a commercial SAYS page 8
geyser of crude from a blown- Some compare it to Hurricane much more come through the vessel.
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Tenn. officials brace for more flooding, deaths (AP)
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – About
1,500 guests of a downtown
hotel complex spent the night in
a high school to escape the
flooding Cumberland River,
which was expected to crest
Monday following weekend
thunderstorms that killed at least
19 people in Tennessee,
Mississippi and Kentucky.
Officials in Tennessee were
preparing for more deaths and
for the Cumberland River,
which winds through the Music
City, to crest more than 11 feet
Monday afternoon, putting
portions of downtown in danger
of the kind of damage
experienced by thousands of
residents whose homes were
swamped by flash floods.
The Cumberland River had
already reached record levels
since an early 1960s flood
control project was put in place.
With so much water inundating
the Cumberland's tributaries,
however, it was difficult to
gauge whether the river would
stop at 50 feet or exceed the
forecast, increasing the water's
spread in the city.
Authorities weren't taking any
chances. They evacuated the
downtown area and north
Nashville where a leaky levee
threatened residents and
businesses. Flooding could hit
the downtown tourism industry,
a commuter train depot and the
nearby LP Field, where the
Tennessee Titans play.
Floodwater spilled onto a
couple of downtown streets near
the riverfront and restaurants
and bars in the tourist district
were closed.
At the Opryland Hotel, Monday
morning brought sunshine and a
view of flooded parking lots
around the hotel and adjacent
venues. Water surrounded the
Grand Ole Opry House and the
Opry Mills shopping mall.
Mayor Karl dean called on
Nashville residents Monday to
use water only for cooking and
drinking because one of the
city's two water treatment plants
was flooded.
Forecasters were on the money
when they warned residents
there would be severe weather
across the Mid-South, but few
could have predicted the
devastation the relentless line of
storms brought.
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen
called it an "unprecedented rain
event," but that failed to capture
the magnitude. More than 13
inches of rain fell in Nashville
over two days, nearly doubling
the previous record of 6.68
inches that fell in the wake of
Hurricane Fredrick in 1979.
"That is an astonishing amount
of rain in a 24- or 36-hour
period," Bredesen said Sunday.
At least 11 were dead in
Tennessee, six in Mississippi
and two in Kentucky.
Tennessee Emergency
Management Agency officials
say there was likely an
additional victim, but a body
had not been recovered. Three
people in Mississippi were
killed when high winds believed
to be tornados hit their homes
and three others were killed in
what authorities said were
weather-related traffic accidents.
Kentucky Emergency
Management officials said two
deaths in Barren and Madison
counties in central Kentucky
were weather-related.
The weekend deaths came on
the heels of a tornado in
Arkansas that killed a woman
and injured about two dozen
people Friday. And just a week
ago, 10 people were killed by a
tornado from a separate storm in
western Mississippi.
Bredesen said officials hoped
for the best, but knew there
might be more deaths reported
Monday as authorities got their
first real look at the damage
after a weekend filled with
frantic rescues.
"This is going to go on for a
while," Bredesen said. "It's
going to take a while for the
water to recede and us to get
down into this. It's going to take
several days for this to get back
to anything near normal."
Much of the damage from
flooding was done in outlying
areas of Nashville and across the
middle and western parts of
Tennessee. Rescues turned
dramatic with homeowners
plucked off roofs and pregnant
women airlifted off a
waterlogged interstate.
The rain ended Monday but
there will likely be weeks of
cleanup for residents and public
works employees alike. Though
there was no official estimate, it
was clear thousands of homes
had been damaged or destroyed
by flooding and tornados.
Thousands of residents were
displaced with some going to
more than 20 shelters opened
around Tennessee.
Emily Petro, with the Red
Cross in Nashville, said the
agency was sheltering about
2,000 people across Tennessee
— about 1,200 of them in
Nashville.
Hospitals, schools and state
buildings also were flooded.
Most schools in middle
Tennessee would be closed
Monday and most universities in
the Nashville area postponed
final exams, though many state
workers were expected to return
to their jobs, if possible.
The state's roads were in bad
shape. The three major
interstates in the Nashville area
were closed over the weekend
and Interstate 40, which runs
east to west through the state,
would likely remain closed
since standing water is still
stranding drivers.
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Bredesen said more than 150
roads were closed in middle
Tennessee alone with washouts
and bridge damage destruction
fairly common.
The Cumberland could add
millions of dollars to the
damage total.
Officials in Tennessee said
Sunday the flooding is as bad as
they've seen since 1975 when
water memorably inundated the
old Opryland amusement park
east of downtown Nashville.
Even the state's own emergency
operations center wasn't
immune. It took up to a foot of
water below a false floor,
forcing officials to relocate to an
auxiliary command center.
"I've never seen it this high,"
said emergency official Donnie
Smith, who's lived in Nashville
45 years. "I'm sure that it's
rained this hard at one time, but
never for this much of an
extended period."
___
Associated Press Writers Erik
Schelzig in Ashland, Miss.,
Shelia Byrd in Jackson, Miss.,
and Travis Loller and Joe
Edwards in Nashville, Tenn.,
contributed to this report.
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8 Technology/ Culture/
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continued from page 5
said it's too soon to say whether
oil contamination killed them
but that it is unusual to have
them turning up across such a
wide stretch of coast, nearly 30
miles.
None of the turtles have oil on
them, but Solangi said they
could have ingested oily fish or
breathed in oil on the surface.
The situation could become
even more grave if the oil gets
into the Gulf Stream and flows
to the beaches of Florida — and
potentially whips around the
state's southern tip and up the
Eastern Seaboard. Tourist-
magnet beaches and countless
wildlife could be ruined.
Crist has declared a state of
emergency for six counties in
Florida. Louisiana also has
declared an emergency.
Obama has halted any new
offshore drilling projects unless
rigs have new safeguards to
prevent another disaster. On
Sunday he called the spill a
"massive and potentially
unprecedented environmental
disaster," and made clear that he
was not accepting blame.
"BP is responsible for this leak.
BP will be paying the bill," he
said.
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The containment boxes being
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original response plan. The
approach has been used
previously only for spills in
relatively shallow water. Coast
Guard Adm. Thad Allen said
engineers are still examining
whether the valves and other
systems that feed oil to a ship on
the surface can withstand the
extra pressures of the deep.
If the boxes don't work, BP also
has begun work on its only other
backup plan: two relief wells
that will take as long as three
months to drill.
BP has not said how much oil is
beneath the seabed the
Deepwater Horizon rig was
tapping when it exploded. A
company official, speaking on
condition of anonymity because
he was not authorized to discuss
the volume of reserves,
confirmed reports that it was
tens of millions of barrels. Fryar
said any numbers being thrown
out are just estimates at best.
Peter Young has spent the
better part of 18 years earning a
living as fishing guide and he's
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slipping away. The government
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versions of fried foods abound,
but some things just taste better
fried. If you'd like an occasional
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down vital fishing areas in the
marshes before the oil has posed
a threat, he said.
Until he sees oil himself,
Young will keep fishing the
closed areas.
"They can take me to jail," he
said. "This is our livelihood. I'm
not going to take customers into
oil, but until I see it, I can't sit
home and not work.
"I've got customers that are
canceling because they're
scared, and I don't know what to
tell them."
___
Associated Press writers Harry
R. Weber, Jay Reeves, Mike
Graczyk, Tamara Lush, Brian
Skoloff, Melissa Nelson, Mary
Foster, Chris Kahn, Vicki
Smith, John Flesher, Holbrook
Mohr and AP Photographer
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means of disseminating
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Facebook page, Deepwater
Horizon Response. The
response team's YouTube page
is at Deepwater Horizon Oil
Spill.
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numbers to call for oiled
wildlife, to report oil spill
related damage, to report oiled
shoreline, to request volunteer
information or to submit
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Indian court convicts Mumbai attack gunman

(Reuters: Top News) should not export terrorism to commander Zaki-ur Rehman white, stood but did not react to
Submitted at 5/3/2010 7:54:39 AM India," Indian Home Minister Lakhvi. a summary of the verdict read
Palaniappan Chidambaram told It acquitted two Indians accused out to him in Hindi by the judge
MUMBAI(Reuters) - An Indian r e p o r t e r s a f t e r t h e c o u r t of being LeT members and of and then sat down.
court Monday found a Pakistani d e c i s i o n . conducting reconnaissance in He was also found guilty of
man guilty on 86 charges from New Delhi broke off peace Mumbai for lack of evidence. offences ranging from damage
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Authorities seek man in New York car bomb

incident
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 7:17:46 AM
NEW YORK(Reuters) -
Investigators in the New York
Times Square car bomb attempt
sought on Monday to track
down a man seen on a
surveillance video nearby as
police combed through evidence
looking for the culprits.
U.S.
Times Square, the well-known
entertainment and shopping area
in Midtown Manhattan, was
packed with tourists and theater-
goers on a warm Saturday
evening.
"He was seen leaving the
scene," Homeland Security
Secretary Janet Napolitano said
on CNN on Monday.
"So he may have been a witness.
He may have observed
near the scene at about the time
of the incident.
Investigators were poring over
the vehicle and the explosive
device, which was made of
propane, gasoline and fireworks.
New York and its 8 million
people have been on high alert
since the September 11 attacks
in 2001 in which airliners
hijacked by al Qaeda militants
toppled the World Trade
The Taliban in Pakistan said on
Sunday it planted the bomb to
avenge the killing in April of al
Qaeda's two top leaders in Iraq.
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Police said that a white man in
his 40s was spotted in security
video footage about half a block
from where the sport utility
vehicle that contained the bomb
was left with its engine running
and hazard lights flashing on
Saturday evening.
In about 19 seconds of video
released by police, the man, who
appears to be thin, is seen
removing a dark shirt, stuffing it
into some sort of bag and
walking away down the
sidewalk, carrying the bag and
glancing at least twice over his
shoulder.
something. He may be someone
who was involved. We don't
know. It would be premature to
suggest that. We do know (that)
what we would like to do is be
able to identify him and speak
with him," Napolitano said.
New York Police
Commissioner Raymond Kelly
on Monday declined to call the
man a suspect in the failed
bombing.
Speaking on CNN, Kelly also
said police planned to release
later on Monday a second
videotape -- this one taken by a
tourist -- showing a man running
Center's twin towers, killing
more than 2,600 people.
NO EVIDENCE OF AL
QAEDA, TALIBAN
New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg, speaking on ABC's
"Good Morning America"
program, reiterated on Monday
that there was "no legitimate
evidence" of a link to al Qaeda,
the Taliban or any other group
in the incident, which prompted
the evacuation of the area.
Kelly and Napolitano both said
it is unclear whether the failed
attack was staged by a single
person or by a group of people.
spaces, a Department of
Homeland Security official said.
Michael Cheah, senior portfolio emailers have written in to
manager at SunAmerica Asset
Management, said the car bomb
was an "isolated incident" that
was not likely to spark any
Treasury market reaction.
(Additional reporting by Will
Dunham and Deborah Charles)
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UAL, Continental to form largest
airline
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 7:03:25 AM
N E W Tilton will be non-executive
YORK/CHICAGO(Reuters) -
UAL Corp, parent of United
Airlines, said it will buy
Continental Airlines Inc for
about $3.17 billion in stock,
forming the world's largest
carrier and further shrinks the
U.S. airline industry.
Deals
Continental shareholders will
receive 1.05 shares of United
common stock for each
Continental common share they
own. Based on United's stock
price of $21.60 on Friday
afternoon, and Continental's
139.6 million outstanding shares
as of April 21, United would
pay $3.17 billion for
Continental, or $22.68 a share.
That represents a 1.5 percent
premium over Friday's closing
price.
The name of the combined
airline will be United Airlines.
The name of the holding
company will be United
Continental Holdings Inc.
Continental Chief Executive
Jeff Smisek will run the Chicago
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chairman. Smisek, 55, will
become executive chairman
when Tilton steps aside,
expected two years after the
merger closes.
Based on current shares
outstanding, the combined
company would have 314.5
million shares, and UAL
shareholders will own roughly
55 percent of it.
United Chief Tilton said in a
message to employees on
Monday that that "some
reductions in the salaried and
management work force" for
both companies would result.
If approved by regulators and
shareholders, the deal is
expected to produce $1 billion
to $1.2 billion in annual revenue
and cost benefits for the
combined company by 2013.
One-time costs of about $1.2
billion are expected over a three
-year period.
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United and Continental said
their merger would expand
service with minimal domestic
and no international route
overlap. The combined
company will have 10 hubs,
with Houston as its largest, and
a workforce of nearly 90,000.
The International Association
of Machinists and Aerospace
Workers said in a statement that
it was concerned about the
effect of the merger on benefits
and job security of its more than
26,000 members at both
carriers.
(Reporting by Kyle Peterson in
Chicago, Deepa Seetharaman in
New York and Karen Jacobs in
Atlanta; Editing by Dan Lalor
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Mint.com Debuts
Android App
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:00:37 AM
Personal finance site Mint.com
has debuted its Android app
today, which lets Mint.com
users access a complete
snapshot of their financial
picture and manage their
finances on the go. Mint.com, a
TechCrunch40 company that
was acquired by Intuit for$170
million last fall, initially
announced the development of
the free app last November.
The app includes many of the
key features of Mint.com’s
iPhone app, including the ability
for users to see real-time
account balances, check recent
transactions; compare their application.
spending against their monthly Of course, including all of your
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details. The app also includes a can pose a potential security
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to the Android app, including stolen. But Mint.com says that
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BP says tackling oil spill, to pay
legitimate claims
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:18:47 AM
VENICE, Louisiana(Reuters) -
Energy giant BP Plc , its
reputation battered by a
catastrophic oil spill threatening
the U.S. Gulf shore, said on
Monday it was working to stem
the gushing undersea leak and
promised to pay for the cleanup
and compensation claims.
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The London-based company
has come under heavy criticism
and pressure from President
Barack Obama and the U.S.
public to do more to stop, or at
least control, what is fast turning
into the worst oil spill in U.S.
history.
With a huge oil slick
threatening shipping, wildlife,
beaches and one of the United
States' most fertile fishing
grounds, Obama has called the
situation "a massive and
potentially unprecedented
environmental disaster."
In a visit to Louisiana, one of
four coastal states at risk,
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was responsible for the spill and
for paying for the cleanup
involving hundreds of boats and
planes and thousands of military
and civil personnel.
"Our job basically is to keep the
boot on the neck of British
Petroleum," Interior Secretary
Ken Salazar said on CNN's
"State of the Union" program on
Sunday.
BP CEO Tony Hayward on
Monday squarely acknowledged
this responsibility in
appearances on American TV
and radio shows.
"We are responsible not for the
accident but we are responsible
for the oil and for dealing with it
and cleaning the situation up,"
he told NBC's "Today" show.
He told National Public Radio
the company would also pay all
"legitimate claims" resulting
from the spill.
"We have the claims process set
up, small claims today that are
being paid instantly ... bigger
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The swelling black tide
threatens shipping, wildlife,
beaches and one of the nation's
most fertile fishing grounds
stretching across the Mississippi
Delta from Louisiana to Florida.
Air quality could also become
an issue, and is being monitored
by authorities.
The slick appeared likely to
move toward the Alabama and
Florida coasts and engulf the
Chandeleur Islands off
Louisiana's southeast tip in the
next few days, the U.S. National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration said.
(Additional reporting by Kelli
Dugan in Mobile and Anna
Driver and Kristen Hays in
Houston; Writing by Pascal
Fletcher; Editing by Doina
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Submitted at 5/3/2010 10:00:00 AM
Filed under: Apple Corporate,
iPad Apple announced today
that on Friday the one millionth
iPad was sold. The figure does
not break out Wi-Fi vs. 3G
iPads, yet the number is still
staggering considering it only
took 28 days. For the original
iPhone, the million unit
milestone was not hit until 74
days after release.
Apple also announced that iPad
users had purchased 12 million
apps and 1.5 million eBooks
from its fledgling store. Friday
was the release of the iPad 3G in
the US; it's likely that this was
the source of the final push that
got Apple to the millionth unit.
Those first-year sales
projections from analysts are
beginning to look a little
conservative.
Although Apple has not
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Social media games: Badges or badgering?

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 6:00:00 AM

Foursquare's badges have

become so iconic that one
company created physical
versions to sell to fans.(Credit:
Nerd Merit Badges)
Earning badges and climbing a
ladder of "levels" used to be the
respective domains of Boy
Scouts and devoted video
gamers. No more: It's officially
the hottest craze in social-media
marketing to make your
customers think they're playing
a game.
A niche discussion site,
Gravity, instantly informs new
users that they've earned a
virtual "New Kid on the Block"
badge, and when they upload a
profile photo, they get a
"Photogenic" badge--and there
are plenty more where that came
from. An upstart daily deals site
called HomeRun is attempting
to take a bite out of market
leader Groupon by letting repeat
users rack up points by
participating in and rating deals
as well as referring friends; once
they have enough points, they're
eligible for high-end "private
reserve" deals like wine tastings
and charity ball tickets. On
Thursday, news outlet The
Huffington Post unveiled a set
of graphic "badges" to designate wanted a large degree of you're seeing with the badges is we give them a badge so that readers.
participation in comment engagement on the part of our the public reflection of what they're recognized as such." "Game mechanics," as this sort
discussion and moderation. audience, our readers," we've been doing for a while There are also badges for of points-and-achievements
"From the very beginning we've Huffington Post CEO Eric now, which is to allow people to frequent commenters and
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taken the position that we Hippeau told CNET. "What be community moderators. Now particularly "networked"
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continued from page 13
gimmick is called, is tough to
get right: Turning everything
into a contest may grab some
extra attention at first, but it can
easily veer into the annoying.
Leaving a well-researched
comment about foreign policy
on a news story only to earn a
cartoon badge for your effort,
for example, may seem a little
bit inappropriate. But don't be
fooled. Gimmicky game
mechanics aren't really the
"World of Warcraft"-ization of
marketing: they're the first entry
of customer loyalty programs,
long the sort of thing that even
the customers themselves didn't
know much about, into the age
of Facebook and Twitter. This
business tactic is here to stay,
even though the "Animal
House" badges might not be.
"I like game playing when it
comes to really any kind of
service," Gravity Chief Product
Officer Steve Pearman told
CNET. "It's just a question of
identifying what are the right
kinds of games to play." At least
for now, the games du jour
involve racking up what often
amounts to little more than
bragging rights.
Sometimes, though, there's
money involved. HomeRun
CEO Jared Kopf says that the
still-in-beta start-up's various
gaming features--from the
"private reserve" achievement
unlocking to a feature called
"Avalanche," in which buyers
can watch the price of a deal
drop as more people spring for it
--are designed to legitimately
make commerce more exciting.
"We were trying to determine a
mathematical model for
concepts of seduction, of
addiction, of excitement, and
although it wasn't a perfect
model we could begin to
understand the principles behind
what made things feel exciting,"
he said. HomeRun's team has
experience in convincing users
to commit some eyebrow-
raising acts in the name of social
media: most of them are former
employees of Slide, the original
home of the sheep throw.
The little company that ignited
this fad was almost certainly
Foursquare, which may be on its
way to finally convincing
mainstream Web users that
sharing their precise location
with their friends is more fun
than creepy. Part of how it was
able to do this was through a
system of points and
achievements which let users
compete against their friends,
strive to become the "mayor" of
a venue by checking in the most,
and earn virtual badges based on
activity: the "Swarm" badge for
checking in somewhere where at
least 50 other Foursquare users
have made their presence known
in the past three hours, or the
"Warhol" badge for going to ten
different museums and art
galleries.
Marketers have jumped on the
trend, with restaurant reviewer
Zagat, TV networks Bravo and
The History Channel, coffee
chain Starbucks, and even
software maker Adobe
partnering with Foursquare to
let users earn sponsored badges.
Even the staid Wall Street
Journal has caught the
Foursquare badge fever, this
week heralding the arrival of its
New York metro section--in
clear competition with The New
York Times--with three New
York-specific badges. One of
them rewards Foursquare users
who "check in" at least once to
all five of the city's boroughs; it
has yet to be seen if the quest
for the "Urban Adventurer"
badge will actually drive snooty
Manhattan residents to Staten
Island.
The badges all mean, for the
most part, literally nothing,
though Foursquare is attempting
to build a business model out of
tying real-world rewards to in-
app achievements. A handful of
local businesses around the
country now let the "mayor" of
a venue obtain special deals. On
Wednesday, PepsiCo unveiled a
whole sort of loyalty program
centered on Foursquare check-
ins, a sign that more
sophisticated implementations
of Foursquare data are on the
way.
"Badges are at the risk of
becoming the new banner
advertisement," Foursquare
director of business
development Tristan Walker
admitted to CNET. "A lot of
folks ask, 'How can you make
this scalable?" and I say, 'Do we
need to? Can we make it scarce,
and make it really high impact
for our users?"
To that end, Foursquare
requires users to "follow" most
brands before being eligible to
earn their respective badges.
"Sure, people can get sick of it,"
Walker said. "I think people will
still go to the people who are
doing it smart. We're never
going to give up on game
mechanics."
But game mechanics
themselves will mature--much
as the viral channels backing
Slide's sheep-throwing evolved
into the basis for Zynga and
Playfish's highly profitable
productions. In due time, they'll
probably look like their pre-
social-media cousins: loyalty
programs, credit card points,
and referral programs. Think
about the devotees of
complicated airline "mileage"
systems, whose behavior was
satirized in last year's film "Up
In The Air." In the movie,
George Clooney plays an
obsessive business traveler who
says of his addiction to frequent
flyer miles, "I don't spend a
nickel, if I can help it, unless it
somehow profits my mileage
account."
Still, even with Facebook
Connect all over the Web,
airlines aren't broadcasting to
your friends list that the miles
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earned on your trip to Rio just
bumped you up to the Gold Elite
membership class--well, they
aren't yet. Consumer
incentivizing has been, at most,
a process only visible to the
consumer in question (unless
they choose to brag about it) and
sometimes even more opaque
than that. Generally, you don't
know how your drugstore
loyalty program card is
tabulating your purchasing
history, but you're relatively
confident that it will churn out
discounts for you on a reliable
basis.
"Most people wouldn't look at
their airline miles on a credit
card and say 'this is a game,' but
it's a very well executed game
mechanic," Gravity's Steve
Pearman said. And that's a sign
that in the long run, the blatantly
"game"-like elements will be
toned down. After all, this really
only makes sense if users really
feel that it's worth competing
with others or showing off a sort
of status.
"You have to be a social
network. You can't just create
something where there is no
social network," Huffington
Post CEO Eric Hippeau said of
the company's decision to
integrate badges into its
commenting community. "We're
not a game site. We're not going
to reward people for things that
don't make sense for them on
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How Can Social Media Save the Starving Children?
Arden Pennell (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:00:58 AM
Social media has superpowers.
Or so goes current tech-wonk
opinion on Facebook, Twitter,
et. al. From creating a “social
Web,” to shaking up e-
commerce, to mobilizing people
behind a presidential candidate,
social media has reached its
tentacles into pretty much
everything. Except places where
there aren’t iThings and high-
speed wireless. Ya know, most
of the places on earth. Until
now.
Facebook co-founder and
c r e a t o r o f
MyBarackObama.com Chris
Hughes aims to make social
media matter more with his
latest venture, Jumo. He’ll delve
into how social media can create
offline change at TechCrunch
Disrupt, our conference on
media and technology, taking
place May 24-26, 2010, in New
York City. You can get tickets
at our early-bird rate if you visit
our ticket page. We’re also
happy to announce speakers
including Meetup Co-founder
and CEO, Scott Heiferman –the
guy behind 50K weekly
meetups — and Gilte Group
CEO Susan Lyne. She’s at the
helm of a buzzed-about sample-
sale startup that’s caused
“couture” and “clickthrough” to
occur in the same sentence.
Some of our latest sponsors
include Google, Bing–yes, you
read that right — and
DataRockIt.
So, back to social media. When
I say, “matter more,” I’m
paraphrasing a bit. Hughes’
actual wording in an
announcement last month was:
“leverag[ing] the participatory
web to foster long-term
engagement with the issues and
organizations that are relevant to
each individual.” If you visit
Jumo now, the preview site asks
you Hunch-style questions about
your preferences such as which
do-good cause you’d spend
$100 million solving, which
language you’d like to learn,
and what you’d name your
child. (I chose “Grace” over
“Crystal.”) At Disrupt, Hughes
and Heiferman will discuss how
social media can foment
positive fallout offline,
including in places that aren’t
wired and wealthy. (Hughes
probably won’t tell us much
about Jumo, but we’ll hear some
of the inspired thinking behind
it, no doubt.) Heiferman’s
laudable goal with Meetup is to
offer a tool for people anywhere
to create communities around
any interest. If you want to hear
more details on what Hughes
and Heiferman are dreaming up
with their ventures, you’ll just
have to come to Disrupt.
Chris Hughes
Founder & Executive Director,
Jumo
Chris Hughes has spent his
career developing technologies
to make social communication
and political organizing easier
and more efficient. After co-
founding Facebook in 2004,
Chris worked first as the site’s
spokesperson and later as a
product manager specializing in
user experience. In 2007, Chris
went to work on President
Barack Obama’s presidential
campaign as the Director of
Online Organizing, where he
was charged with developing
web technologies to engage and
empower supporters. Chris
oversaw the development of the
on-site network
My.BarackObama.com along
with the campaign’s distributed
presence on all other networks
across the web like Facebook
and Twitter. After working in
2009 in venture capital for the
firm General Catalyst Partners,
he is currently embarking on a
new initiative called Jumo to
use the social web to foster long
-term relationships of
responsibility between
individuals and organizations
working to change the world.
Scott Heiferman
Co-founder & CEO, Meetup
Scott Heiferman is Co-Founder
& CEO of Meetup, the world’s
largest network of local
community groups. Over 50,000
Meetups (self-organized
community events) happen each
week. Millions of people in over
more than 100 countries “use
the internet to get off the
internet” using Meetup, which
is built on the idea that every
town needs support groups,
playgroups, bookclubs,
business circles, running groups,
community action groups, etc.
Previously, Heiferman co-
founded Fotolog, a photo
sharing network where over 30
million people have uploaded
nearly a billion photos. He also
founded i-traffic, a top online ad
agency in the 90s. He then fled
the ad industry and was
influenced by 9/11 to start
Meetup. Scott graduated from
The University of Iowa. He is an
angel investor in Betaworks,
Founders Collective, Virgance,
20×200, and others. Scott
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received the Jane Addams
Award from the National
Conference on Citizenship and
was named an MIT Technology
Review “Innovator of the
Year”. He’s @heif.
Susan Lyne
CEO, Gilt Groupe
Susan Lyne is Chief Executive
Officer of Gilt Groupe, an
ecommerce company whose
event-based sales model is
changing consumer behavior
and redefining luxury shopping.
From November 2004 to July
2008, Ms Lyne was President
and CEO of Martha Stewart
Living Omnimedia. In that
capacity, she steered the
company’s recovery and return
to profitability, led by a three-
fold increase in advertising
revenue. Before 2008, Susan
spent eight years at
Disney/ABC, rising to President
of ABC Entertainment where
she oversaw the development of
shows such as Desperate
Housewives, Lost, and Grey’s
Anatomy. Ms Lyne’s early
career was spent in the
magazine industry, including
The Village Voice and Premiere
Magazine. Ms. Lyne is a Board
of Director for AOL and The
New School and lives in New
York City.
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Lonely Planet Learns A Lesson From Eyjafjallajokull (Video)

Evelyn Rusli (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:00:36 AM

Lonely Planet has revamped its

price structure— the travel
publisher has significantly
dropped prices, by up to 50%,
on all of its mobile apps. Its
European city guides will now
be available at $5.99, other city
guides will be $7.99 (a few
small cities like Macau and
Manchester will be priced at
$2.99). That’s a major discount
when you consider that several
of the city guides were
originally priced at $15.99.
Meanwhile, Lonely Planet’s just
released iPad app, 1,000
Ultimate Experiences, is getting
a third price cut at $7.99 (the
app was originally released at
$19.99, dropped to $9.99 two
days after its debut).
Why the sudden generosity?
Well, it could have something to
do with the company’s recent
foray into “free” and the story of
that unpronounceable volcano.
In the wake of Eyjafjallajokull’s
eruption, Lonely Planet offered
13 European city guides for free
for four days to help stranded
travelers. The response was
overwhelming: 4 million
downloads in 4 days. Even
more unexpected, revenues rose Because of the positive about one week. Phrasebook (offered as cuts signals a shift in strategy
during the period, according to reaction, on the expiration of the The company is no stranger to promotional bonus guides)— for the travel publisher. The
CEO Matt Goldberg who could promotion Lonely Planet offered “free,” it offers a couple of but the vast majority of its apps accidental experiment and the
not disclose specific numbers— its entire European city mobile apps at no charge— have carried premium price tags unexpected spike in revenues,
he said many new consumers catalogue of 32 cities for the namely its San Francisco City of $10 or more on average.
came for the free apps and discounted price of $4.99 for Guide and the Mexican Spanish The basket of dramatic price LONELY page 18
ended up buying other apps.
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The Huffington Post."

Chris Cameron leader of NATO forces in capital firm Andreessen
(ReadWriteWeb) And yes, it makes sense for
Afghanistan, who when shown a Horowitz wrote an interesting badges to be displayed on
Submitted at 5/2/2010 7:30:00 PM particularly convoluted graphic piece Wednesday on why he and Huffington Post profiles to give
(see below) during one briefing g r a d u a t e , a n n o u n c e d l a s t partner Marc Andreessen look a bit of insight into who the
It's hard to believe that it is said, "When we understand that M o n d a y t h a t i t w o u l d b e for strong founding CEOs when trusted and regular users are in a
May already as a third of the slide we'll have won the war." shutting down after being active i n v e s t i n g i n c o m p a n i e s . community of highly
year is complete and summer is What to Do When a PR Disaster for nearly two years. News of a Founding CEOs are the kind of opinionated armchair pundits. It
almost here. With graduation Strikes Your Startup startup closing up shop is never entrepreneurs that run their makes the whole thing easier.
season upon us, perhaps the Thursday was a good PR day a fun thing to hear about, but companies from the early Meanwhile, maybe you'll want
entrepreneurs of tomorrow will for the social buying site Blippy. fortunately many lessons can be development stages and are not some insight into how you could
want to take a look at the most They were featured in two New gleaned from the experiences of replaced by a professional CEO modify your purchasing
popular startup stories from this York Times articles. But Friday the entrepreneurs. Today, co- as the company grows and behavior to achieve better
week in our Weekly Wrapup. wasn't so great, as the major founder Ben Brinckerhoff builds. In this lengthy but discounts in your local
This week we've got more pitch technology blogs reported that provided just such lessons with worthwhile read, Horowitz supermarket's loyalty program,
deck suggestions, dealing with credit card information from its an insightful blog on the Devver provides insight into what but do you want it to issue you a
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failure. Also, we discuss some An hour later, Blippy responded f o u n d e r D a n M a y e r a r e CEO, and why he believes they buy economy-sized jars of
new data surrounding angel- w i t h a p o s t o n i t s b l o g , choosing to move on. Angel- are more likely to help a mayonnaise for the fifth time,
backed companies, founders as explaining that the leak was Backed Companies More Likely c o m p a n y s u c c e e d t h a n a and then share it on your
l o n g - t e r m C E O s a n d h o w months old and affected only to Succeed, Says Harvard Study professional CEO. Intellectual Facebook profile?
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the slides the military utilizes Startup's Story of What Went funding. For the Long Haul: Do consumer devices that allow for
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18 Technology/ Culture/
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continued from page 16
revealed that cheaper prices
could work for Lonely Planet
without hurting profits, by
lowering the bar to entry and
encouraging new users to buy
apps. That may hurt profit
margins but it’s also offset by
all the new customers and repeat
purchases. Lonely Planet has
tried to guard the value of its
premium content by maintaining
higher price points, but the latest
move, seems to be
acknowledgment that the gap
between the company’s prices
and its growing number of
competitors on the iPhone was
too wide.
The mobile travel app market is
a competitive space, new rivals
like Nile Guide or Gliider are
creating interesting and often
cheap solutions to chip away at
legacy travel brands. For
example, Nile Guide’s app
(which is a geo-based service
that aggregates data from 30
sources to tell you about your
surroundings) requires a one-
time install fee of $2.99.
Apple sells 1 million iPads
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:16:53 AM
Apple on Monday said it sold
its 1 millionth iPad last Friday
with the introduction of the iPad
3G model.
The company didn't say how
many iPads of each model were
Meanwhile, Lonely Planet’s
longstanding competitor,
Frommers offers their city guide
apps at $4.99. Lonely Planet’s
apps obviously offer their own
premium content, but $2.99 or
$4.99 versus $15.99 is a huge
differential. The city guide app
was selling well, according to
Goldberg—with roughly one out
of five guides sold on the
mobile platform— but I imagine
Lonely Planet took a hard look
at the numbers and decided to
sacrifice the rich price per app
for a bigger user base and a
greater share of the travel app
marketplace.
I chatted with the CEO on
Friday— at the time he was not
aware of the price drop and still
defending the $15 rate—- but he
did discuss the growing
importance of mobile and said it
was the largest contributor to
revenues after the core
publishing segment (print and e-
books). The company which is
75% owned by the BBC, is still
undergoing an interesting
sold, but we do know that on
April 8 during the iPhone OS 4
event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs
said the company had sold
450,000 iPads, so sales have
remained brisk. The first model
of the iPad, known as the Wi-Fi-
only model for its most notable
difference from the new 3G
transformation, from travel book
publisher to multimedia
platform. Beyond mobile, the
company has expanded
television production, released
an app on the iPad and yes, even
launched a magazine in the past
year. A magazine!
“Books Are A 500-year-plus
Technology”
And that’s what’s amusing
about this company and the
CEO, a former SVP of Dow
Jones. As Lonely Planet
transitions into a more
multidimensional and digital
brand, it’s comfortable
straddling areas that are
typically defined as new media
and areas of old media. The
seemingly slow death march of
print publications has given rise
to a binary language to describe
media, books are old, blogs are
new, newspapers and magazines
are old, mobile apps are new.
And while that logically makes
sense, we now also associate
“old” with bad, archaic,
regressive and “new” with
version, hit the market April 3.
Ahead of Apple's
announcement, Piper Jaffray
analyst Gene Munster said he
believes Apple sold about
300,000 iPad 3Gs in its opening
weekend of sales. In fact, many
of the Apple retail stores that
Munster checked on Sunday
exciting, progressive…correct.
Lonely Planet is out to prove
that all “new” is not correct and
that perhaps the most
progressive mind will borrow
solutions or elements from old
and new media and find ways to
synthesize disparate parts.
Goldberg is confident that the
print book will still be a major
money maker in a few years, in
fact he lauds it as a “500-year-
plus technology” that still works
really well: “We do believe in
the future of the book.” You can
call him naive, and chalk it up to
the same naivete that introduced
$15.99 city guide apps, but he’s
got at least one good reason: the
company’s “traditional” book
segment continues to grow in
revenues. Here is part one of our
interview: CrunchBase
Information Lonely Planet
Information provided by
CrunchBase
afternoon had already sold out
of the 3G models.
In all, it took Apple 28 days to
reach the 1 million mark in iPad
sales. The company also said
that iPad customers have
downloaded over 12 million
apps and more than 1.5 million
ebooks from the iBookstore
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Mint.com Android App
Puts All Your Finances
on Your Phone
[Downloads]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 6:00:00 AM
Android: Personal finance uber-
aggregator Mint.com just
released a free Android
application, and it's a must-have
for Mint fans. Besides the usual
glances at your accounts,
spending, and budgets you'd
expect, Mint brings Quick
Search integration and handy
home screen widgets. More »
Mint.com- Personal finance-
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Monitor money matters on Android

with Mint
(CNET News.com) best features--such as
Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:00:29 AM suggestions on ways to save
dough and those colorful charts
About a year and a half after and graphs that diagram your
releasing a mobile version of its spending habits. These are the
personal-finance service for the same missing features we've
iPhone, Mint.com is bringing its been pining over since Mint
free credit-card and budget released its iPhone app in 2008.
tracker to Android phones. Frankly, we were hoping for
As with the iPhone app,
password-protected Mint on
more.
You can still access Mint's full
iPad 3G's non-WiFi
Android has you monitoring range of tools and features at the
c r e d i t c a r d , b a n k , a n d seven months ago by Quicken- mobile-optimized Web site. But
investment accounts; your and TurboTax-maker Intuit-- starting Monday, those who
video playback
budget; and your cash ebb and has kept both the iPhone and prefer to snap open an app
flow. The app presents your Android apps simple with just a rather than wait for a site to load
restrictions detailed
money matters in summary few customizations. The settings can download Mint from the Tim Stevens (Engadget) the ABC Player devs chose to
form, with the ability to drill menu contains an option to add Android Market app on their Submitted at 5/3/2010 9:31:00 AM skip that option, so when you
down to the item level of a a 4-digit passcode. Another phones. Mint for Android runs lose WiFi you also lose Tom
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20 Technology/
iPad & iPhone OS 3.1.3 Jailbreak
"Spirit" Released
Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 9:44:07 AM
For some of you, your brand
new iPhone 3GS came with the
newest OS 3.1.3. For others,
you unknowingly upgraded your
OS without realizing what it
would mean. Either way, we
know that you've been stuck
obediantly following the terms
of your license agreement and
running only authorized apps.
Well, those days are finally
over.
A new jailbreak called Spirit
just been released and works on
the latest iPhone and iPad
operating systems.
Sponsor
The latest jailbreak was
announced late last night on the
iPhone Dev-Team blog. The
Spirit jailbreak is now out!
Congratulations to @comex for
the first userland jailbreak since
the 1.x days.
Spirit provides an untethered
jaibreak on those newer devices
which used to require a
computer nearby to finish the
boot process. Spirit is able to do
this because it doesn't actually
kick in until after the kernel is
running.
Spirit is an "untethered"
jailbreak for any iPad, iPhone or
iPod Touch running firmware
3.1.2, 3.1.3 or 3.2. Untethered
means that the user does not
need to plug the device into
their computer every time they
reboot it, as opposed to
"tethered", which requires this.
This latest jailbreak works on
both Mac and PC and is
available free for download. The
Reddit discussion of the new
jailbreak indicates that Spirit
works on the 3GS with the latest
software updates, but as with
anything of this sort, a full
backup would be strongly
advisable.
Spirit is not a "carrier unlock",
which allows the iPhone to be
used with carriers other than
AT&T, but a "jailbreak", which
allows users to run unauthorized
software. If you're wondering
why you would want to
jailbreak your iPhone, give
Sarah Perez's article, " Why You
Have To Jailbreak the iPhone" a
quick read. Discuss
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Sony's 35-inch atracTable to be
'industrialized' in June, show
Microsoft how it's done (video)
Vladislav Savov (Engadget) contrast, Full HD screen is
Submitted at 5/3/2010 9:07:00 AM promised, which will be able to
communicate with your mobile
Swiss company Atracsys swims devices ( naturally) or respond
i n t h e s a m e w a t e r s a s to motion input picked up by a
Microsoft's mythical Surface pair of Sony's camcorders which
beast-- namely, multitouch come built in. Skip past the
horizontal displays -- but where break for a couple of video
it might differ from its more demos from last year.
lauded competitor is in actually Continue reading Sony's 35-
bringing its hardware to wider i n c h a t r a c T a b l e t o b e
markets. Having sold the tech 'industrialized' in June, show
knowhow to Sony, the company Microsoft how it's done (video)
is today informing the world Sony's 35-inch atracTable to be
that its atracTable is ready for 'industrialized' in June, show
m a s s p r o d u c t i o n a n d Microsoft how it's done (video)
commercialization this June. originally appeared on Engadget
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iPad user case: Foodie
Steven Sande (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 5/3/2010 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: iPad
Over the past few weeks, we've
heard many people say, "The
iPad is cool, but what would I
do with it?" This new series
aims to answer that question.
We'll examine one user case per
post, from couch surfer to
mobile professional, and
describe just how that person
uses his or her iPad.
I love food. In fact, I probably
love it too much. Part of the
problem is that I was a ovo-lacto
vegetarian for 17 years and a
pesco-vegetarian for 5 years
after that. Now, I want to eat all
of those things that were
"forbidden fruit" for 22 years,
and it has really made me
appreciate good food.
Being a foodie isn't just about
eating food, however. It's also
about having the skill and desire
to cook food. Yeah, that means
being a wannabe gourmet chef.
And there's one more piece to
the foodie puzzle - beverages. I
mean, what's the use of being
able to whip up a killer bison
chili without knowing what
wine or beer would go best with
it?
What I've found is that the iPad
is a much better foodie-puter
than either a MacBook or an
iPhone. I can turn off screen
dimming, twist the Apple iPad
Case around so that the iPad is
standing straight up, and see
recipes from across the kitchen.
Even with the screen at regular
brightness, I don't have to worry
about my battery getting chewed
up while I'm working on a time-
consuming dinner. Want to
know what apps I'm using to
feed my foodie jones? Read
on...
TUAW iPad user case: Foodie
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iPad hacksugar:
iPad 3G hacked to
send native SMS
Erica Sadun (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 5/2/2010 9:00:00 PM
Filed under: iPad
Here's a cool little find for a
quiet Sunday. MuscleNerd of
the iPhone dev team has
managed to allow his jailbroken
3G iPad to send command-line
SMS text messages. This hack
only works with SIM cards that
have already paid for an SMS
plan, in this case a T-Mobile
SIM that was downsized to
microSIM dimensions. (More
about using T-Mobile SIMs
here.) The 3G iPad was
jailbroken using Spirit.
IPAD page 22

SandForce makes SSDs cheaper, faster, more reliable -- just

how IBM likes it
Tim Stevens (Engadget) according to the company, higher (per-core) than other 03 May 2010 09:56:00 EST.
Submitted at 5/3/2010 9:56:00 AM makes them reliable enough for entries in the TPC-C benchmark Please see our terms for use of
enterprise use, and IBM has -- and considerably cheaper, too. feeds. Permalink
We've been covering the added its vote of support, IBM's configuration is set to be StorageReview.com, The Wall
progression of SandForce for configuring a 9189 Power 780 available around October of this Street Journal| TPC-C Result
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extend the life of flash storage SandForce's SF-1500 processor. SandForce makes SSDs
by better spreading writes across That combination, when running cheaper, faster, more reliable --
150,000 transactions per minute
them, boosting performance and t h e T P C - C b e n c h m a r k , just how IBM likes it originally
per CPU core. That's 50 percent
reliability along the way. This, delivered a performance of appeared on Engadget on Mon,
22 Technology/ Culture/
TUAW's Daily App: Google Buys Bumptop
Curt Hopkins (ReadWriteWeb)
Bird Strike Submitted at 5/2/2010 7:00:00 PM
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) BumpTop, the 3D desktop
organizing and interface tool has
Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:00:00 AM been snapped up by Google. An
announcement on the website
Filed under: Gaming If you're
not one of the many who have
says that downloads of the free
version will end in a week.
discovered Bird Strike yet, then "BumpTop (for both Windows
you're in luck. The game just and Mac) will no longer be
got a solid update, with new available for sale. Additionally,
levels, new power-ups, and no updates to the products are
OpenFeint integration. The
planned."
game is almost like Doodle Google's plans for the
Jump but I actually enjoyed it a organizing software are
little more. You play a bird that
uncertain but the growth in
is constantly trying to fly higher mobile could indicate a
and higher with the help of
direction. The simple fight
rockets and various tools. The between Apple and Google for
graphics are clean and fun, and
check it out, now's the time to the best interface could also
it's actually a little more come into play.
forgiving than some of the do it.
Sponsor
Doodle Jump-style games that TUAW TUAW's Daily App: We described BumpTop when
I've played. Bird Strike originally appeared
it first launched as "a physics
The game was free for a little o n T h e U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e driven 3D desktop environment
while and is now back up to Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 03
US$0.99. Even at that price, M a y 2 0 1 0 0 8 : 0 0 : 0 0 E S T . IPAD
though, it's an easy buy. Lots Please see our terms for use of continued from page 21
and lots of people have already feeds. The hack works by
gotten a chance to play the Read| Permalink| Email this| communicating directly with the
game, because it's hit nearly Comments iPad baseband, using standard
every spot on the charts already. AT commands. As of yet,
However, if you've waited to Apple's MobileSMS application,
the SMS application that
normally appears on iPhone
home screens, has not worked
on the iPad.
Will standard phone call service
be next? Using minutes from a
downsized SIM? Wait and see.
[via RedmondPie] Thanks,
Steven Kappler.
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CyanogenMod 5.07
Brings Android 2.1 to
G1 and myTouch
with an innovative menu Phones [Android]
system.""Among some of
BumpTop's most interesting Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
features are its innovative, free- Submitted at 5/3/2010 4:00:00 AM
form method of selecting items
on the desktop, the ability to flip If you're an early adopter of
Android feeling left in the cold
through piles of files (with your
mouse-wheel, or through an with your phone stuck on a 1.6
build, the hacker community
actual flipping motion if you
have a touch-screen), and its offers an alternative—bust your
warranty wide open and install
highly intuitive pie menu
system" CyanogenMod 5.07, a nearly
complete 2.1 upgrade. More »
Wellington Financial estimated
the sale at $35-40 million. CyanogenMod- Android- hack-
HtcMagic- Cyanogen
Discuss
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3G hacked to send native SMS
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3D printer creates ice sculptures -- just add water

Sean Hollister (Engadget) Model 1 by replacing the soft boost from liquor sold in frosty
Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:32:00 AM goo extruders with a custom containers. We're thirsty
temperature-controlled water just looking at them.
Paper-mache, candy, and delivery system, and set about 3D printer creates ice sculptures
human cells have all been seen making decorative ice sculptures -- just add water originally
flowing through 3D printers for and a large beer mug for good appeared on Engadget on Mon,
custom fabrication work, but measure. While the academic 03 May 2010 08:32:00 EST.
students and faculty at Canada's project is officially supposed to Please see our terms for use of
McGill University have a explore "economic alternatives feeds. Permalink Fabbaloo,
cheaper prototyping material: to intricate 3D models of to do with prototypes that drip... Boing Boing| McGill| Email
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Give Me My Data Helps Refill The Day BMW Became

Blanked Facebook Profiles
Curt Hopkins (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 5/2/2010 8:00:00 PM
We've reported that if you
disconnect your Facebook
account from the manufactured
pages that now connect to things
like hometown and interests, it
will blank your profile.
The default response was a
shrug. What can you do? Now
an indie app, Give Me My Data,
promises to replace that missing
information on your profile.
Sponsor
Owen Mundy, a Florida State
art prof and the developer,
Facebook for any purpose they
see fit. This could include
making artwork, archiving and
deleting your account, or
circumventing the interface
Facebook provides. Data can be
exported in CSV, XML, and
other common formats."
The application does not export
the data, then import it back into
the profile section. Instead, a
user can use the data to
explained the app and its use.
construct a new-old profile in a
"Give Me My Data is a
less restrictive part of their
Facebook application designed
Facebook account. Discuss
to give users the ability to
export their data out of
'The Ultimate Driving
Machine'
Chuck Squatriglia (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 5/2/2010 11:00:00 PM
BMW has long hailed itself as
building “the ultimate driving
machine,” and never was that
more true than when the
company thoroughly dominated
the Mille Miglia 70 years ago.
Even now, BMW considers
winning the inaugural Gran
Premio Brescia dell Mille
Miglia its greatest auto racing
success. The sleek and sexy
BMW 328 racers, with their
small but powerful engines and
superlative handling, were so
wickedly good that BMW
scored the overall win, the team
win and third, fifth and sixth
place.
“The victory in the 1940 Mille
Miglia remains a milestone in
the history of the BMW brand,”
Klaus Draeger, a company
board member who oversees
R&D, said in a statement
heralding the anniversary of the
win on April 28.
That success followed nearly
five years of hard work.
Above: One of the five BMW
328 racers that raced in the 1940
Mille Miglia. Photo: BMW
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iPad jailbreak released,
works on iPhone and
iPod touch
Aron Trimble (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 5/3/2010 9:30:00 AM
Filed under: Jailbreak/pwnage
Within a few hours of its release
the iPad had already been
jailbroken and video proof
released. The Dev-Team
with@comex have released the
first "userland" jailbreak for
iPhone OS devices since the
initial year of the iPhone's
release.
The current jailbreak, dubbed "
Spirit," allows you to jailbreak
all models of iPad, iPhone, and
iPod touch running the latest
firmwares available (3.2 and
3.1.3, respectively, as of this
writing).
Also, the authors note that "On
iPad, all this is still sort of beta,"
and as such if anything goes
wrong you might need to
restore.
[via Engadget]
TUAW iPad jailbreak released,
works on iPhone and iPod touch
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Apple sells 1,000,000
iPads in revolution's
first month
Vladislav Savov (Engadget)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:39:00 AM
Steve told us it'd be
revolutionary, and if sales are
the measure of a device's
success, then the iPad seems to
be well on track to validating its
creator's bold claims. This past
Friday, "just 28 days after its
introduction," Apple sold its
millionth iPad. 1.5 million
ebooks have already been
downloaded to the device, along
with 12 million apps. Steve Jobs
has also taken time from his
busy essay-writing schedule to
remind us that that's less than
half of the 74 days it took to
achieve the milestone with the
original iPhone, and demand for
the "magical" slate continues to
outstrip supply. Full PR after the
break.
Continue reading Apple sells
1,000,000 iPads in revolution's
first month
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revolution's first month
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The Slimline
Workspace: Hungarian
Shelves and Hidden
Cables [Featured
Workspace]
Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 5/2/2010 4:00:00 PM
We've featured wall-mounted
desks before, but none of them
have had this level of hand-
crafted flair to them. Today's
featured workspace is a
beautiful hand-built wooden
desk and bookshelf that blends
seamlessly into the living room
it's a part of. More »
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Desperate Housewives Episode Recap: "A Little Night Music"
(TVGuide.com: Breaking
News)
Submitted at 5/2/2010 8:04:00 PM
On Sunday's episode of
Desperate Housewives, Mary
Alice thinks her friends on
Wisteria Lane need to beware of
the mysterious men in their
lives: Eddie, Sam, Patrick
Logan and... Mike? Tonight we
saw dubious actions by all four
men, and as a result there's
danger looming on the horizon.
SUSAN and GABY
Susan inherited a piano from an
aunt, but she wants Gaby to
think she and Mike bought it for
$30,000 since she's jealous that
Gaby always brags about how
much money she and Carlos
spend.
Cut to Gaby in lingerie — "I
know, right?" she says, when
Carlos' jaw drops — who is
offering afternoon sex. In
exchange for what, asks Carlos.
It seems Mrs. Solis has her mind
set on a ski house in Aspen.
Carlos bluffs and says they can't
afford it because of a top-secret
business deal.
That's enough for Gaby to go
see their business manager to
find out about the deal. Utilizing
her own special brand of
blackmail, she gets him to tell
her about Carlos' loan to Mike.
Her initial reaction surprises me.
Instead of going straight to
anger, she feels compassion for
Susan and Mike.
Once she learns about the
Delfinos' financial troubles, she
drops by with a few bags of
groceries for Susan. In a case of
really bad timing, Susan decides
to show Gaby her new piano —
and to brag about the "cost." At
first, Gaby plays it cool, but of
course she ends up blabbing
about the $50,000 loan and her
lack of a ski house in Aspen.
(By the way, since when does a
ski house in Aspen cost
$50,000?)
Before Susan calls Mike,
though, Gaby thinks they should
have some fun at their doofus
husbands' expense.
Over dinner, Gaby pulls Mike
aside and says that she thinks
Carlos is having an affair.
Meanwhile, Susan is wearing a
very low-cut blouse and is
playing the part of the mistress
very well. She "confesses" that
she told Carlos that she would
sleep with him if he lent Mike
the money. Naturally, Carlos
and Mike are befuddled, just
long enough for Gaby and
Susan to come clean about their
little scheme. It's pretty funny.
But it's also pretty poignant. "I
did it to show you what happens
when the person you love the
most lies to you," Susan says. "I
just did it because I want a ski
chalet," Gaby says. Oh, Gaby.
Ultimately, Mike apologizes and
shows Susan all his paperwork.
One question is left unanswered:
Is Susan going to write Carlos a
check?
LYNETTE
Eddie might as well have the
surname Haskell this week. He's
quite the helpful little scamp
since he moved in with the
Scavos. He did the grocery
shopping, and is generally
sucking up to Lynette. When
Porter refuses to help his mother
with the laundry, Eddie pins him
to the floor and raises a fist. "I
just can't watch you be
disrespected," Eddie says
creepily to Lynette.
Lynette sympathizes with
Eddie, since she too grew up
with an alcoholic mother. She
knows what it feels like to be
angry all the time. She tells him
about a breathing technique she
used to use to help her get
through it.
Later, Tom gets home from a
business trip and starts carping
about the lack of a prepared
dinner or any food in the
refrigerator. (Wait, didn't Eddie
just go shopping?) Eddie starts
using Lynette's coping
mechanism, hilariously
breathing deep while Lynette
and Tom bicker. To stem the
tide of Eddie's anger, Lynette
starts kissing Tom. "See, we
love each other," she says.
When Lynette explains later
about his altercation with Porter,
Tom says he wants Eddie out.
Lynette wants to try therapy.
The therapist says Eddie has a
lot of issues, so he wants to talk
to Barbara, Eddie's mother. So
Lynette goes to Eddie's house to
find Barbara, where she hears
from a neighbor that nobody's
seen her for days.
BREE
Bree and Sam bump into Lillian
(guest star Linda Purl, who you
recognize as Pam's mom on The
Office) at the grocery store.
There is clearly some tension
between her and Sam. Bree
investigates and finds out that
Lillian is Sam's supposedly dead
mother, not to mention Rex's ex.
"He's a complicated boy,"
Lillian says of her son.
It turns out that when Sam was
4, Rex asked for full-time
custody and Lillian declined —
a secret to which Bree was
never privy. A few months ago,
Sam learned of Rex's offer, and
something snapped, and his plan
to worm his way into Bree's life
was set into motion.
Orson says he was right about
Sam all along. Bree admits it's a
hard pill to swallow because
having Sam around has been
like having a piece of Rex back,
but it now forces her to
remember that Rex was a liar
too.
Bree confronts Sam about his
lie about his mom being dead.
"She is dead... to me," a shaken
Sam replies, reporting that he is
jealous of the life that Andrew
and Danielle had, a life he could
have had. He has a tantrum and
smashes a vase against the wall.
Bree apologizes to Andrew, and
tells him and Orson that she's
afraid of Sam.
ANGIE
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We finally get Angie's back-
story, which we sort of already
knew. Angie and Patrick Logan
(guest star John Barrowman)
were environmental
activists/terrorists. They built a
bomb together, but then
something went wrong and
someone was killed. Angie fled
with the FBI agent who was
assigned to apprehend them,
Nick, and Patrick has been
looking for them ever since.
Patrick comes to see Danny at
the coffee shop and chats
amicably about the surprise
ending to his metaphorical
novel. Nick comes in as well,
which momentarily panics
Patrick, since he knows that
Nick will recognize him. Nick
doesn't see him, but he lets it
slip that he'll be going running
that evening.
When he straps on his sneakers
that night, Patrick is waiting,
and hits Nick Bolen with his car.
In the hospital, the doctor wants
to induce a coma to stop the
swelling in Nick's brain. Before
he goes under, he insists that
Angie send Danny off to a hotel,
and eventually Angie plans to
join him.
She rushes home to pack, there
are candles everywhere in their
house, and Patrick's there.
Here's his plan: He's going to
bunk in the guest room for the
night. Angie won't call the cops
since she'll be arrested. She
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26 TV/
As the World Turns' Helen Wagner
Dies at 91
(TVGuide.com: Breaking
News)
Submitted at 5/2/2010 10:01:00 PM
Helen Wagner
Helen Wagner, best known for
playing Nancy Hughes on As
the World Turns for more than a
half-century, has died. She was
91.
Wagner, who acted up until her
death, died Saturday, the show's
New York-based production
company, TeleNext Media Inc.,
announced. She spoke the first
words on As the World Turns
when it premiered in 1956, and
holds the Guinness World
Record for playing the same role
on television for the longest
time (54 years). She was
awarded a Lifetime
Achievement Award from the
National Academy of Television
Arts and Sciences in 2004.
See other celebrities who've
died in 2010
"All of us at As The World
Turns are deeply saddened by
Helen's passing," executive
producer Christopher Goutman
said. "She is loved by
generations of fans and, while
we will miss her greatly, Helen
will always remain the heart and
soul of As The World Turns."
On Nov. 22, 1963, Wagner's
character was saying her lines
when the broadcast was
interrupted with a "CBS News
E-reader News Edition
Bulletin" sign and Walter
Cronkite announced that
President John F. Kennedy had
been shot in Dallas.
Before joining the CBS soap
opera, Wagner appeared on TV
programs including Studio One,
Philco Television Playhouse and
The World of Mr. Sweeney.
Born in Lubbock, Texas, she
also starred in several Broadway
productions including Rodgers
and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!,
Sundays with Seth: A
A Streetcar Named Desire, The
Bad Seed, My Name Is
Quiet Anniversary
Acquilon and Love of Four
Colonels.
Wagner was married to
Celebration
Jason Hughes (TV Squad) two of the show's most popular
Broadway producer Robert
Submitted at 5/3/2010 9:37:00 AM characters have a conversation.
Willey from 1954 until his death And that's it.
in May 2009. One hundred and fifty episodes The tail end of the hour-long
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Ministerial - The 2010 UK Seth MacFarlane's'Family Guy.' numbers. But the bulk of the
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tools: PDF Newspaper, Full revived due to fan response to locked in a bank vault for two
Text RSS, Term Extraction. DVD sales and airings on cable, days, just talking to one another.
MacFarlane is now the king of No cutaways, no broad humor,
FOX Sunday nights. So how did though I won't say there wasn't
he choose to celebrate his toilet humor.
perseverance? Continue reading Sundays with
'Family Guy' is known for Seth: A Quiet Anniversary
elaborate musical numbers, Celebration
innumerable cutaway gags, and Filed under: Other Comedy
sheer nonsense sequences like a Shows, OpEd, Animation,
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Polanski Breaks Silence: I'm Being
Served "On a Platter to the Media"
(TVGuide.com: Breaking
News)
Submitted at 5/2/2010 10:13:00 PM
Roman Polanski
Oscar-winning filmmaker
Roman Polanski said Sunday
that he is being treated unfairly
and that the U.S. is demanding
his extradition from Switzerland
in order to serve him "on a
platter to the media," reports
The Associated Press.
Polanski's latest appeal rejected
"I have had my share of dramas
and joys, as we all have, and I
am not going to try to ask you to
pity my lot in life," Polanski
said, breaking his months-long
silence. "I ask only to be treated
fairly like anyone else."
The 76-year old director of
Chinatown and The Pianist
accused Los Angeles County
District Attorney Steve Cooley,
who is running for California
attorney general, of using the
case for publicity. The district
attorney's spokeswoman, Sandi
Gibbons, said the D.A.'s office
"will withhold comment until
the Swiss make a decision on
his fugitive status."
TV/ 27
'The Simpsons' - 'To
Surveil With Love'
Recap
Sharon Knolle (TV Squad)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:29:00 AM
(S21E20) From the inspired 'Tik
Tok' musical opening sequence
to the last gag, 'To Surviel With
Love' ranks as one of the
best'Simpsons' episodes in
years.
I never expected the rest of the
episode to live up to that killer
opening, but, unbelievably, it
just got better as it went along.
The bit that had me laughing
the hardest: After surveillance with my butt," says Bart. "My
Polanski's victim wants case by Swiss authorities and is
cameras are installed in every little Einstein," Homer says
dismissed wanted by U.S. authorities for
inch of Springfield, Bart proudly as he pats Bart's head.
Polanski's most recent bid to having sex with a 13-year-old
marking the town's one blind Continue reading'The
have his case reviewed by a girl in 1977. He fled the United
spot dropping his pants and Simpsons' - 'To Surveil With
s p e c i a l c o u n s e l o r t o b e States in 1978 for France after
drawing a line every time he Love' Recap
sentenced in his absence was pleading guilty to one count of
doesn't hear Ned gasping, Filed under: OpEd, The
r e j e c t e d l a s t m o n t h b y a unlawful sexual intercourse with
"Buttocks!" "Tushie! or "Boy Simpsons, Animation, Episode
California appeals court. Swiss the girl.
cheeks!" A perfectly funny bit Reviews, Reality-Free, Episode
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Polanski, whose most recent General Election. Available
what he's doing. "Experimenting
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'Treme' - 'At the Foot of Canal Street' Recap

Sandie Angulo Chen (TV girlfriend Jill (how funny that
Squad) both he and his father were
Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:03:00 AM chatting up ladies in this
episode) and has no intention of
( S01E04) Antoine perfectly returning home, Antoine, the
captures the theme of
tonight's'Treme' episode (and,
OK, the entire series so far)
native son, and Sonny, the
Amsterdam expat, are desperate
to make a living in the city they
'The Pacific'
when he sings the line "I have
roamed this whole wide world
call home but venture to Baton
Rouge and Houston,
- 'Iwo Jima'
over, but New Orleans is still
my home" while waiting at the
respectively.
Continue reading'Treme' - 'At Recap
E.R. It's the first post-Katrina country a "F--k you"; Ladonna three men -- Delmond, Sonny, the Foot of Canal Street' Recap Jason Hughes (TV Squad)
Christmastime in New Orleans, still doesn't know where her a n d A n t o i n e - - w h o f i n d Filed under: Other Drama
and everyone is far from jolly: brother is; and Janette is themselves away from New S h o w s , E p i s o d e R e v i e w s , Submitted at 5/3/2010 9:04:00 AM
Albert is denied his insurance screwed by the utility company. Orleans for very different Reality-Free, Episode Recaps
claim; Davis's car gets busted What was most compelling reasons. While Delmond lives it Permalink| Email this| | 'THE page 29
into; Creighton gives the entire about tonight's story was the up in New York City with his C o m m e n t s
DESPERATE
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won't run because Patrick will season will play out?

Overseas kill Nick if she does. And she
won't try to kill Patrick in his
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(TVGuide.com: Breaking during its opening weekend in sleep, he says, since they both Online Video Guide or with our
News) 2008 and made $585 million know she's not comfortable with My TVGuide.com DVR and
Submitted at 5/2/2010 6:37:00 PM worldwide. taking a life. Is that still true? follow TVGuide.com on Twitter
DJ AM heads to the big screen So what did you think of "A for more breaking news and
Robert Downey Jr. in posthumous Iron Man 2 Little Night Music"? Are you scoop
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raked in $100.2 million in North America on Friday. ( A keep his financial troubles from Ministerial - The 2010 UK
overseas, according to Reuters. N i g h t m a r e o n E l m S t r e e t Susan? What are Sam and General Election. Available
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international territories over the million). Ministerial - The 2010 UK looks like an ominous one. How
weekend in 6,764 theaters, with The first Iron Man made $98.6 General Election. Available do you think the rest of the
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(E08) If it seems like forever Basilone. In doing so, the

since'The Pacific' spent any time
with John Basilone, that's
because it has been. As Basilone
himself said, it's been more than
a year since he saw action. Since
he couldn't just go back into the
heart of the war, he asked for
writers and producers managed
to find yet another facet of the
war to show us. The emotional
struggles of a soldier away from
the war, and the conflicting ties
that pull him in both directions
at once.
Sheen, CBS close to Get Ready
cutting a new deal for for a
'Two and a Half Men'? Nuclear Iran
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Mike Moody (TV Squad)
Submitted at 5/2/2010 6:00:00 PM
Submitted at 5/3/2010 9:21:00 AM

the next best thing: the Continue reading'The Pacific' - Negotiations grind on toward a
opportunity to train the next 'Iwo Jima' Recap It looks like Charlie Sheen's
fourth U.N. Security Council
batch of marines who'd be Filed under: Other Drama uncle Joe won't be taking over
sanctions resolution against
heading out to back up his Shows, OpEd, Episode his role on 'Two and a Half
Iran's nuclear weapons program,
friends still on the line. Reviews, Reality-Free Men' after all (like that was ever
even as President Mahmoud
Other than a brief interlude Permalink| Email this| | going to happen). While lawyers
Ahmadinejad arrives in New
with Sledge, who's back at base Comments hammer out a plea deal to end
York to address the Non-
camp with a Snafu slipping the troubled actor's legal woes
Proliferation Treaty review
toward hypochondria, we spent comes news that he and CBS are
conference. Sanctions advocates
the entire hour with Sgt. ready to cut a deal to keep him
acknowledge that the Security
on the hit sitcom.
GET Council's ultimate product will
According to Deadline
continued from page 29 do no more than marginally
Hollywood, Sheen and CBS are
impede Iran's progress.
markets and choke off its derail his Security Council both"cautiously optimistic" was for James Franco). In Congress, sanctions
importation of refined petroleum efforts. about a new deal that would Continue reading Sheen, CBS legislation also creaks along, but
products, which domestically The further pursuit of sanctions keep the star cracking wise in close to cutting a new deal for that too is simply going through
are in short supply. Any new is tantamount to doing nothing. bowling shirts for two more 'Two and a Half Men'? the motions. Russia and China
U.S. legislation will be ignored Advocating such policies only seasons on 'Two and A Half Filed under: Other Comedy have already rejected key
and evaded, thus rendering it benefits Iran by providing it Men.' This comes, of course, Shows, Industry, Celebrities, proposals to restrict Iran's access
largely symbolic. Even so, cover for continued progress after Sheen publicly declared Reality-Free to international financial
President Obama has opposed toward its nuclear objective. It that he was ready to leave the Permalink| Email this| |
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unilateral U.S. action could who could replace him(my vote

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of "doing something." Just as
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This article is available from tools: PDF Newspaper, Full (HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) the nail folds, and the nail bed is
the Wall Street Journal. The full Text RSS, Term Extraction. the skin underneath the nail
text will be available on AEI.org The most requested manicure plate. The whitish crescent
on Monday, May 10. service is artificial nails, but not moon at the nail base, under the
John R. Bolton is a senior for Lee Redmond -- she hasn’t nail plate, is called the lunula,
fellow at AEI. cut her fingernails since 1979. and the tissue overlapping the
Her right thumbnail alone nail at the base is the cuticle.
measures 2 feet, 11 inches (90
Albert Keidel's Excellent Presentation: Your nail grows from the
centimeters), and in total, her matrix, an area under the
nails reach 28 feet, 4.5 inches protective cuticle at the base of
You've Got It All Wrong, China (8.65 meters) [source: Guinness the nail bed. Fingernails grow 2
World Records]. to 3 millimeters every month
For most of us, our nails are and toenails about 1 millimeter,
Should NOT Revalue The Yuan hardly world record worthy, but growth is faster in the
although they still have an summer months and on your
Gregory White (The Money now than ever that the yuan will important role to play: They
Game) dominant hand [source:
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Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:39:00 AM Source: Albert Keidel and act as windows to our D e r m a t o l o g y ] .
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32 Economy/ Business/
Here's What You Need To Know TODAY About BIO
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (BP, RIG, International
CAM)
Gus Lubin (The Money Game)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:24:00 AM
Estimates for the Deepwater Oil
Spill are getting wilder by the
day.
At the very least, it's an
environmental disaster that will
ravage the fragile New Orleans
marshlands. It's a PR disaster
and financial disaster for all
companies involved.
At worst, oil is coming up the
east coast, wrecking the market,
and coming out of your tax
dollar.
So, let's learn where we are,
and how we got there. 2001:
Transocean (RIG) builds the
state-of-the-art Deepwater rig.
2009: Deepwater drills the
deepest well in history at
another Gulf oil field
April 20, 2010: During the final
stage of a drilling a well --
BEFORE ANY OIL WAS
PRODUCED -- a pressure build
up caused an explosion
Deepwater used a Cameron
(CAM) blowout preventer to cut
flow in the event of abnormal
pressure. It did not work.
April 20 & 21: 115 workers
escape by lifeboat and
helicopter... another 17 are
presumed dead
Convention
April 21: BP estimates oil
leakage at 1,000 barrels per day
Doug Suttles, BP’s chief
operating officer for exploration
and production
April 28: Louisiana shrimp
farmers file suit against BP
April 29: Government experts
increase their estimate to 5,000
barrels per day.
Janet Napolitano
Louisiana Governor Bobby
Jindal declares a state of
national emergency. Barack
Obama confirms.
Stocks in BP, Transocean, and
See: Domestic Drilling: Yes,
We Still Believe
May 2: NOAA closes
commercial and recreational
fishing in a large part of the
Gulf -- for at least ten days
BP has been unable to close the
leak using robotic vehicles. The
next option involves putting a
dome over the well head --
which could take weeks -- or
introducing a second rig to
siphon flow -- which could take
months
A remote-operated underwater
vehicle
At 5,000 bbl per day, it will
take only 53 days for the spill to
exceed Exxon-Valdez. If the
Cameron take a big hit leakage rate is higher...
Oil makes landfall in New Worst case scenario: oil could
Orleans Read more. enter the gulf stream and spread
April 30: Experts say the up the east coast... and around
leakage could be much higher... the world
estimates vary from 5,000 to May 3: Before US markets
25,000 barrels per day Source: open, BP is already bleeding
WSJ another $4 billion
Latest estimates put BP cleanup Here's why we need deep-ocean
costs at $3 billion Source: d r i l l i n g . . . 1 5 D r i l l C r a z y
Bloomberg Countries That Are Rapidly
Obama suspends off-shore Running Out Of Oil >>
drilling plans pending a review Join the conversation about this
of the Deepwater accident story »
Sarah Palin reaffirms her
support of off-shore drilling
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Company)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 9:02:19 AM
Policy wonks and science
wizards unite at this year's big
biotech-industry conference in
Chicago, where more than
15,000 attendees talk biofuels,
health innovation, and
superpowered agriculture with
former presidents George W.
Bush and Bill Clinton and
former vice president Al Gore.
With roughly $250 billion in
market cap and influence across
a staggering number of sectors,
it's no wonder biotech managed
to snag a bipartisan clutch of big
names to key-note. "We like to
invite speakers who challenge
our industry and who don't
necessarily agree with us," says
Robbi Lycett, BIO's VP for
conventions and conferences.
With an agenda that includes
genetically modified crops and
stem-cell research, we suspect
that stirring debate will not be a
problem. -- Lillian Cunningham
BIO International Convention
mon, may 03 LIVE BIO
International Convention
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Americans Are Back To Spending NYC Mayor: We'll Find

More Than They Earn And Saving Whoever Is Behind Car
Less Bomb
Vincent Fernando, CFA (The (Newsmax - Inside Cover) thought there was a good chance
Money Game) Submitted at 5/3/2010 3:32:04 AM any perpetrators would be
Submitted at 5/3/2010 7:53:38 AM caught.
New York City Mayor Michael "Working with White House,
Personal income rose in line Bloomberg reiterated Monday w o r k i n g w i t h H o m e l a n d
with expectations, up +0.3% in that there is no "legitimate" Security, working with the FBI,
March. Personal expenditures evidence that foreign terrorists all city agencies working
rose at twice this rate, +0.6%, were connected to a car bomb t o g e t h e r , t h e r e ' s a h i g h
also expected. found in a smoking sport utility probability that we will find out
Meanwhile, the personal vehicle in Times Square, adding who did this and apprehend
savings rate slipped to 2.7% of that there is a "high probability" them," Bloomberg said.
income, from 3% in February. that law enforcement would Two street vendors alerted
Looks like the American capture whoever was behind it. police to the car Saturday night
consumer has, perhaps Investigators still had videos to parked on a block lined with
unfortunately, come full circle: look through, but there was still B r o a d w a y t h e a t e r s a n d
--- no proof of any connection to restaurants. Thousands of
Personal income increased groups such as the Taliban or al- tourists were cleared from the
$36.0 billion, or 0.3 percent, and Qaida, Bloomberg said on area, and streets were shut down
disposable personal income billion, or 0.5 percent, based on billion in March, compared with A B C ' s " G o o d M o r n i n g for 10 hours.
(DPI) increased $32.3 billion, or revised estimates. $332.2 billion in February. A m e r i c a . " The gasoline and propane bomb
0.3 percent, in March, according R e a l d i s p o s a b l e i n c o m e Personal saving as a percentage Homeland Security Secretary was crude but could have
to the Bureau of Economic increased 0.2 percent in March, of disposable personal income Janet Napolitano cautioned sprayed shrapnel and metal parts
Analysis. Personal consumption compared with an increase of was 2.7 percent in March, Monday against "premature with enough force to kill
expenditures (PCE) increased l e s s t h a n 0 . 1 p e r c e n t i n compared with 3.0 percent in decisions one way or another," pedestrians and knock out
$58.6 billion, or 0.6 percent. In February. Real PCE increased February. telling NBC's "Today" that windows on one of America's
February, personal income 0.5 percent, the same increase as Continue for the full BEA "every lead has to be pursued." busiest streets, police said.
increased $7.1 billion, or 0.1 in February. release here > Investigators haven't ruled out © C o p y r i g h t 2 0 1 0 T h e
percent, DPI increased $4.3 ... Join the conversation about this any suspects, including foreign Associated Press. All rights
billion, or less than 0.1 percent, Personal saving -- DPI less story » terrorist organizations, she said. reserved. This material may not
a n d P C E i n c r e a s e d $ 5 6 . 4 personal outlays -- was $304.0 Authorities are seeking a b e p u b l i s h e d , b r o a d c a s t ,
middle-aged man who was rewritten or redistributed.
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Organizing Armageddon: What We Learned From the Haiti

Earthquake
Vince Beiser (Wired Top enough, it’s the flight from pitched 100 yards from the Wired reporter Vince Beiser earthquake with one of the
Stories) Iceland he is expecting — a airport runway. A member of narrates. biggest international aid efforts
Submitted at 5/2/2010 11:00:00 PM civilian charter, complete with one of the Red Cross’ Chips in hand, Immonen sets ever mounted, sending
blond flight attendants, here to Emergency Response Units, out across the tarmac again, all thousands of tons of food, water,
Armageddon from above. drop off aid and a relief team Immonen has been a first the while exchanging rapid-fire and medicine pouring in from
Photo: C a m e r o n and to pick up a search-and- responder in crisis zones from radio calls with the Red Cross every corner of the globe to a
Davidson/Corbis rescue crew. Immonen bounds Darfur to Afghanistan to base camp a couple of miles tiny island that had little
Pauli Immonen is quick- up the steps and talks his way Pakistan. away in Port-au-Prince and infrastructure even before the
marching the length of the through more people until he His job is to wrangle airplanes, trading text messages with its ground started convulsing.
tarmac at Port-au-Prince’s f i n d s s o m e o n e f r o m t h e making sure that the people and logistics hub in Panama. A Physically moving those
crippled airport, looking for a Icelandic Ministry for Foreign materiel on every Red Cross second flight, this one from supplies into the country, let
missing 737. It’s not as if he can Affairs. The official asks relief flight get to where they’re Germany, has also arrived. alone getting them into the
just check the arrivals board — Immonen if he’d care to step supposed to be. He’s been Supposedly. Earlier today, hands of the millions who
the 7.0 earthquake that rocked outside and check their cargo. fascinated by aircraft since he Panama told Immonen that an needed help, posed a logistical
the Haitian capital eight days “Yes,” Immonen replies crisply, was a kid, hanging around the incoming Red Cross plane had problem of epic proportions.
ago has left the main terminal a in flawless but accented English. local airport taking snapshots of landed, but someone forgot to The capital’s port was wrecked,
flooded, deserted husk. The “But first let me get a drink planes. He parlayed his Finnish mention it had been diverted to its airport badly damaged, and
floors are littered with broken from one of your lovely ladies.” Air Force training into a stint the neighboring Dominican its roads choked with rubble and
ceiling tiles, and inch-wide A flight attendant looks up with with the United Nations Republic. bodies. More than 200,000
cracks snake along the walls. a professional smile and opens a peacekeeping force in Lebanon He finds the German flight, people were dead; at least 2
Outside, Immonen skirts a snack-laden drawer in the and has been doing though, and gets to work lining million were homeless.
blacktop crowded with military galley. She extracts a couple of humanitarian work since 1995. up trucks to take its cargo into For people like Immonen, it
transports and chartered jets; the Fantas. Immonen gets a look at The military has left a mark on town. He shakes hands with at was the latest in a lifetime of
flock of small planes that the stock and courteously but his personal style: Whereas least 20 people in as many urgent reasons to fly halfway
usually roosts here has been unsmilingly requests a can of most of his colleagues are minutes, extracting and around the world. But the
forced onto an adjacent patch of Pringles as well. He’s worked shaggy-faced and grubby by this dispensing required information, disaster was also a laboratory, a
grass. The noise is as oppressive enough disasters to know that stage of the operation, Immonen bluntly cutting off conversations rare opportunity to test methods
as the afternoon heat — deep you have to grab high-calorie shaves daily and always keeps when they wander off-topic. and technologies that define
belly rumbles from taxiing snacks when you can. She hands his Red Cross T-shirt tucked “I’m not polite,” Immonen tells “mission critical.” For the
a i r c r a f t , t h e b a s s o w h u p - one over, and Immonen leads neatly into his jeans. “You have me between impromptu world’s emergency relief
whupping of helicopter blades, the official off the plane. three jobs in the field,” he says, meetings. “Sometimes you have agencies, Haiti is the latest on-
the grumbling and reverse- Immonen hit the ground in Port “taking care of the planes, to be military. If you make one the-job experiment in the
signal beeps of forklifts and -au-Prince less than 72 hours paperwork, and yourself. But small mistake, the shipment developing field of humanitarian
buses. after the quake, when the streets the first couple of days, you goes to the wrong place, and logistics.
Spotting a promising-looking were still strewn with corpses. only do planes.” then it might as well be lost.” Despite the massive scale of
Boeing, the lean, 42-year-old He arrived from Helsinki with Shot a week after the Jan. 12 Getting the right aid to the right their operations, only in recent
Finn hurries over to the two little more than a mosquito net, earthquake in Haiti, these place is the whole reason years have the people who
Nordic types at the foot of the a sleeping bag, a laptop, and a stunning images of the Immonen — and hundreds of deliver disaster aid begun to
stairs leading up to the plane sat phone. When he snatches a devastation and recovery effort people like him — are here. The
and introduces himself. Sure few hours of sleep, it’s in a tent were captured by Q. Sakamaki. world responded to the Haiti ORGANIZING page 36
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May 3, 1815: Blown Away by Horn With Valves

Michael Calore (Wired Top composers started scoring
Stories) secular and religious pieces for
Submitted at 5/2/2010 11:00:00 PM them, and their inherent
musicality began to shine. But
1815: A Prussian composer compared to stringed
reports a new contrivance. A instruments and wind
local chamber musician has instruments, trumpets were still
modified his brass concert horn, limited.
adding valves that allow him to The early brass horn was tuned
play all the notes in the to one note (this lowest natural
chromatic scale deftly and with note is called the
total precision. “fundamental”), which was
Brass instruments were determined by the length of its
exceedingly limited at the time, tube. By tightening his lips, a
and the invention put the concert player could produce higher
horn technically on par with the notes, called overtones — an
rest of the orchestra. Gottlob octave above the fundamental,
Benedikt Bierey of Breslau then a fifth, then a fourth, and so
(now the city of Wrocaw, on — but the number of exact
Poland) was bowled over. pitches that could be played
In fact, he was so tickled, he maxed out at about 12 or 13.
wrote about the valves in the This problem was partially
local newspaper: “What a new solved by the addition of a slide,
realm of beautiful effects this a section of tubing the player
has opened up to composers!” could move in and out to reach
This was the first public those “missing” notes in
announcement of a valved horn. between overtones. It’s the same
To fully appreciate Bierey’s mechanism you see (and hear)
enthusiasm, you have to in the modern trombone. Other
understand that for a very long players developed the technique
time, trumpets were pretty of placing their hand into the
boring. bell of a curved horn to make
The earliest brass instruments, reaching the trickiest overtones
up until about the 15th century, easier.
were simple, straight tubes with The addition of the slide greatly
a mouthpiece at one end and a improved the versatility of brass
fluted bell at the other. They instruments, but it wasn’t until
were used mostly as signaling the invention of the valve that
devices, or for ceremonial brass players could hit all of the
purposes. The brass was a notes in the chromatic scale with
civilized step up from the days absolute precision and
when people just blew into MAY page 37
animal horns or sea shells to get e a c h o t h e r ’ s a t t e n t i o n o r announce somebody’s arrival. In the early 1600s, some
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Scott Brown on How Twitter + Dopamine = continued from page 34

benefit from the kind of data-

Better Humans driven decisionmaking and
rigorous academic study that
Scott Brown (Wired Top can spend it, faster than Justin In fact, one can easily imagine Of course, impulse altruism has their commercial and military
Stories) Bieber can warble “ We Are the socio-technological advances its drawbacks. For one thing, it’s counterparts rely on. In the past
Submitted at 5/2/2010 11:00:00 PM World,” faster than Bono can knitting us into a kind of stimulus-dependent, which decade, the responses to major
bang out a turgid op-ed. For this decentralized superorganism — doesn’t necessarily translate into disasters have been analyzed in
Illustration: Leo Espinosa new generation of donors, pop a pan-humanity nerve array that long-term giving, the brass ring hundreds of case studies and
Man, what a bunch of selfish culture, public discourse, social senses where it hurts and sends f o r m o s t c h a r i t a b l e pored over by experts, their
bastards we are. Gold hoarding media, and charity all run help in real time. Remember organizations. It also means conclusions field-tested in
abounds. Tea parties rage. Atlas through the same router — and that tacky fiber-optic Tree of we’re “at the whim of the next subsequent crises where yet
Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s gospel of speed, not greed, is good. What Souls from Avatar? Well, fluff media blitz,” Brown says. more data is collected. Learning
self-interest, is outselling The gives? your brain-braid, my blue Without the gruesome imagery the right lessons could not be
A u d a c i t y o f H o p e o n We do, it turns out. Heck, we’re brother: It already exists, and and visceral you-are-thereness more important: The stakes are
Amazon.com. And trust in the wired for it: Our brains release i t ’ s g r o w i n g o u t o f y o u r of unfolding catastrophe, we literally life and death.
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consistency of tone.
A few rudimentary valve
designs began showing up in the
early 1800s, but it is Heinrich
Stölzel who is credited with
affixing the first documented
valve to his Waldhorn (the
instrument we now call the
french horn) in 1814. By most
accounts, Stölzel’s system used
two spring-loaded cylindrical
piston valves. Holes were bored
through the pistons to redirect
air through shorter and longer
tubes — each offering a
different array of notes — when
the valves were depressed.
We know to honor Stölzel with
this invention, because he took
the time to write King Friedrich
Wilhelm III of Prussia a letter
trumpeting his efforts.
“My horn can play all the notes
from the lowest to the highest
with the same purity and
strength without having to stop
the hand into the bell,” he wrote
in December 1814. “The
mechanism of my invention is
most simple…. This device
renders the many crooks
superfluous and makes it
possible for the artist to play all
the notes without losing any of
the instrument’s tone.”
Obviously a proud man, Stölzel
was showing off his invention
all over Silesia. Bierey, a
composer and theater director,
seems to be the first to publicize
the invention. Here’s Bierey’s
report, published in the
Allgemeine musikalische
Zeitung(General Musical
Newspaper) on May 3, 1815:
Heinrich Stölzel, the chamber
musician from Pless in Upper
Silesia, in order to perfect the
Waldhorn, has succeeded in
attaching a simple mechanism to
the instrument, thanks to which
he has obtained all the notes of
the chromatic scale in a range of
almost three octaves, with a
good, strong and pure tone.
All the artificial notes —
which, as is well known, were
previously produced by stopping
the bell with the right hand, and
can now be produced merely
with two levers, controlled by
two fingers of the right hand —
are identical in sound to the
natural notes and thus preserve
the character of the Waldhorn.
Any Waldhorn-player will, with
practice, be able to play on it.
Bierey was fully aware the
impact this advancement would
have on the music of the time,
noting it allowed horn players to
perform any musical passage
with “a perfection not hitherto
attained.”
Stölzel’s design was widely
copied, and variations began
giving shape to new instruments
from manufacturers all over
Europe. Soon there were
cornets, valve trombones, tubas
and euphoniums. The orchestral
trumpet produced the most
dramatic tones, and composers
began writing for it, scoring for
brass sections and crafting solos.
A century after Stölzel installed
his valves, the technique of
playing with them was applied
to an entirely new form of music
by great early 20th-century
trumpet players like Louis
Armstrong and Tommy Dorsey.
They started to find semitones,
the “notes between notes” that
provide a pleasant dissonance
and give any tune a somber air.
These so-called “blue notes,” so
critical to the jazz soloist, are
the bread and butter of modern
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music as we know it.
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Mexico's Illegals Laws Tougher than Arizona's

(Newsmax - Inside Cover) dependents. along the southwestern border. what Mexican law requires its between Mexico and Arizona.
Submitted at 5/3/2010 4:16:28 AM "This sounds like the kind of It includes the deployment of own to do." The Arizona law, which is set
law that a rational nation would National Guard troops, an Rep. John Culberson, a Texas to take effect in midsummer,
Mexican President Felipe have to protect itself against increase in U.S. Border Patrol Republican who has advocated authorizes state and local law
Calderon denounced as "racial illegal immigrants — that would agents and 700 miles of fencing, for stricter border enforcement enforcement officers — during
discrimination" an Arizona law stop and punish the very people along with other equipment and policies, said the Arizona law lawful stops only — to
giving state and local police the who are violating the law," said funding upgrades. was enacted as a result of the determine the immigration
authority to arrest suspected Rep. Steve King of Iowa, He said skyrocketing violence nation's "failed immigration status of people for whom there
illegal immigrants and vowed to ranking Republican on the on the border, including the policies." is "reasonable suspicion" that
use all means at his disposal to House Judiciary subcommittee recent killing of an Arizona "We should focus our time and they are in the country illegally.
d e f e n d M e x i c a n n a t i o n a l s on immigration, citizenship, rancher by an illegal immigrant resources on enforcing policies Known as Senate Bill 1070, it
against a law he called a refugees, border security and he had gone to assist, has not that work, like zero tolerance, was enacted in response to a
"violation of human rights." international law. gone unnoticed by the public, which has reduced crime and dramatic rise in violence along
But the legislation, signed April "Why would Mr. Calderon have adding that until the federal illegal immigration dramatically the Arizona-Mexico border.
23 by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, any objections to an Arizona government provides the along our southern border," he Reasonable suspicion is a legal
is similar to Reglamento de la law that is less draconian than necessary funding and said. standard requiring that before
Ley General de Poblacion — the his own, one he has pledged to manpower to adequately secure Ricardo Alday, a spokesman at someone is arrested or detained
General Law on Population enforce?" Mr. King said. the southwestern border, the Mexican Embassy in there must be reasonable belief
enacted in Mexico in April Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Arizona will not long remain the Washington, did not return calls that the person has been, is or is
2000, which mandates that ranking Republican on the only state to pass legislation to for comment. about to be engaged in criminal
federal, local and municipal Senate Judiciary subcommittee do it on its own. But the embassy has said the activity.
police cooperate with federal on terrorism and homeland Rep. Ted Poe, Texas Mexican government is "deeply A Rasmussen Reports poll has
immigration authorities in that s e c u r i t y , d e s c r i b e d M r . Republican and a member of the concerned by the potential dire found that 70 percent of likely
country in the arrests of illegal C a l d e r o n ' s c o m m e n t s a s House Judiciary and Foreign effects" that the Arizona law voters in Arizona approve of the
immigrants. "hypocritical to say the least." Affairs committees, described will have on the estimated 12 legislation, while 23 percent
Under the Mexican law, illegal "I would have expected more Mr. Calderon's criticism as million illegal immigrants in the oppose it.
i m m i g r a t i o n i s a f e l o n y , from Mr. Calderon," said Mr. "arrogant and hypocritical." He United States — about 450,000 Half of the nearly 1 million
punishable by up to two years in Kyl, who serves as the Senate said Mexico's immigrations of them in Arizona. illegal border crossings into the
prison. Immigrants who are m i n o r i t y w h i p . " W e a r e laws are "even tougher than "As it has been raised by United States each year occur in
deported and attempt to re-enter spending millions of dollars to those in the United States" and it national Latino and immigration Arizona, according to a report
can be imprisoned for 10 years. help Mexico fight the drug was inappropriate to denounce rights organizations, initiatives by the Federation for American
Visa violators can be sentenced cartels that pose a threat to his the Arizona law when "Mexico that exclusively criminalize Immigration Reform (FAIR),
to six-year terms. Mexicans who government, and he doesn't does the very same thing." immigration create opportunities which also said Arizona
help illegal immigrants are seem to recognize our concerns. "Mexico wants people to come for an undue enforcement of the taxpayers spend more than $2
considered criminals. He ought to be apologizing to us to the United States and to send law through racial profiling," billion a year on education and
The law also says Mexico can instead of condemning us." their money home," he said. Mr. Alday said in an April 15 health care for illegal
deport foreigners who are Mr. Kyl, along with fellow "They want to make their statement. immigrants and their children.
d e e m e d d e t r i m e n t a l t o Arizona Republican Sen. John problems our problems — that's The ambassador also warned of "The porous border is virtually a
"economic or national interests," McCain, has introduced a 10- their foreign policy. President the "likelihood of negative welcome mat for criminal
violate Mexican law, are not point comprehensive border Calderon should spend more effects that this measure … may organizations that run drugs and
"physically or mentally healthy" security plan to combat illegal time focusing on problems in his have for the future development other contraband through the
or lack the "necessary funds for immigration, drug and human own country instead of of friendship, commercial, MEXICO'S page 41
their sustenance" and for their smuggling, and violent crime criticizing Arizona for doing tourist and cultural ties"
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Double Take
Mark Greenbaum (The New once he became a judge, Senate on the Judiciary Committee, Majority Leader Tom Delay of courts of appeals is 65 years
Republic - All Feed) Democrats waged a harsh two- called Estrada politically Texas called the Democrats’ old—and no one is younger than
Submitted at 5/2/2010 11:00:00 PM year campaign against him. In “dangerous” because he “has a procedural behavior a “political 56.) As Michael Gerhardt of the
2003, Estrada removed himself minimal paper trail, he is Latino, hate crime.” But Democrats University of North Carolina
Miguel Estrada seemed to be a from consideration and returned and the White House seems to breathed a sigh of relief, School of Law recently told The
shoo-in for the federal bench. to private law practice. be grooming him for a Supreme knowing that Estrada was no Washington Post, his
Nominated by George W. Bush Today, another judicial Court appointment.” And, in longer on the fast-track to the confirmation process is “an
to the D.C. Circuit Court of nomination is following a route 2003, the late Senator Ted Supreme Court. initial referendum on Goodwin
Appeals in 2001 when he was strikingly similar to Estrada’s. Kennedy told his colleagues, Goodwin Liu is, in many ways, Liu as a Supreme Court
just 39, Estrada was born in Goodwin Liu, whom President “The White House is almost Estrada’s liberal foil. He clerked nominee.”
Honduras. He arrived in the Obama has nominated for a seat telling us that they plan to for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Fully aware of Liu’s prospects,
United States as a teenager on the Ninth Circuit Court of nominate him to the Supreme Bader Ginsburg and has served Republicans have launched a
speaking little English and went Appeals, is 39, the son of Court. We can’t repeat the as the chair of the board of campaign against him.
on to graduate from Harvard T a i w a n e s e i m m i g r a n t s , a mistake we made with Clarence directors of the American Numerous conservatives have
Law School and clerk for Rhodes Scholar, and one of his Thomas.” Constitution Society, the blasted him for lacking judicial
Supreme Court Justice Anthony generation’s sharpest legal When Democrats united against nation’s foremost liberal legal experience, while Senator Jeff
Kennedy. He then worked at minds. Yet he has already drawn Estrada, they accused him of interest group. Currently, he is Sessions, the ranking
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & heavy fire from conservatives, being a “stealth nominee” an associate dean of the Boalt Republican on the Senate
K a t z , a r g u a b l y t h e m o s t largely because they see him as because, having never been a Hall School of Law at the Judiciary Committee, has called
prestigious law firm in the a potential Supreme Court judge, he had a scant written University of California at Liu“beyond the mainstream.”
n a t i o n , a n d , l a t e r , a s a n nominee later in Obama’s record of opinion. His Berkeley. He publicly opposed On “Meet the Press,” Sessions
Assistant U.S. Attorney for the presidency. “This is the revenge opponents demanded that the the Supreme Court nominations recently added, “We’ll not
Southern District of New York, of Miguel’s supporters,” Tom Bush administration provide the of John Roberts and Samuel confirm somebody like that.”
itself the most prestigious such G o l d s t e i n , a p r o m i n e n t Judiciary Committee with Alito, even testifying against What’s more, the GOP
office in the country. He later Washington attorney, blogger, memos Estrada had penned Alito during his confirmation membership of the Judiciary
became assistant to the U.S. and TNR contributor, says of while working for the Solicitor hearings, and he has staked out Committee issued a public letter
Solicitor General, arguing L i u ’ s n o m i n a t i o n . “ E v e r y General, and, when the decidedly liberal positions on prior to Liu’s April 16
s e v e r a l c a s e s b e f o r e t h e indication is that it will go into a administration refused— an abortion rights, gay marriage, confirmation hearing, saying the
Supreme Court, and established black box never to be seen action backed up by a bipartisan affirmative action, and other hot nominee may have “knowingly
himself as a prominent member again.” group of former Solicitors -button issues. attempted to hide his most
of the Federalist Society, the Democrats opposed Estrada General, who said it would Most importantly, like Estrada, controversial work from the
n a t i o n ’ s m o s t i n f l u e n t i a l because they feared him. In constitute a breach of legal Liu is seen as a probable Committee.”
conservative legal-interest addition to being young (which confidentiality—the Democrats Supreme Court pick. If This objection echoes the
group. most Republican appointees on said Estrada and his backers confirmed, Liu, in addition to “stealth nominee” charge hurled
But Estrada never made it to the the federal courts at the time were refusing to give evidence being liberal and from a at Estrada. Yet, unlike Estrada,
bench. The same qualities that were not), a minority, and a of the nominee’s ideology. minority background, would be Liu has a host of public
had earned him a conservative, Estrada was Finally, when the GOP tried to one of the only Democratic writings, and, in completing the
nomination—his youth, political headed for the D.C. Circuit, bring Estrada’s nomination to judges in the nation young Judiciary Committee’s
l e a n i n g s , a n d m i n o r i t y which is the top feeder for the the floor for a vote, they were enough to be attractive for the questionnaires, he included
background—perversely worked Supreme Court: Four of the stymied by an historic High Court. (Excluding much of his past work. But
a g a i n s t h i m : F e a r i n g t h a t current justices came directly Democratic filibuster—the first- Obama’s nominees confirmed Republicans found some of his
Estrada would sit atop a list of from there. A 2001 staff memo ever to defeat a court of appeals so far, the average age of DOUBLE page 45
possible Supreme Court picks to Senator Dick Durbin, who sat nominee. Republican House Democratic appointees on the
40 Politics/ E-reader News Edition

Military Defends Prosecution of SEAL

(Newsmax - Inside Cover) other people who do not know "The command can no longer the detainee was in U.S. did not believe the terrorist at
Submitted at 5/3/2010 3:25:29 AM all the facts surrounding the proceed on a good-faith belief custody. all," Ms. Lombardi said. "They
incident," Lt. Col. Holly that they are prosecuting a guilty "If the alleged assault occurred, said his testimony was a
The U.S. military is issuing an Silkman, a spokeswoman for sailor." this reflects on the good order, complete lie. He basically
extensive defense of its decision U.S. Central Command, told But Col. Silkman said the personal integrity, and discipline claimed there was a beat-down.
to prosecute three Navy SEALs The Washington Times in an e- McCabe court-martial will go in a unit where those qualities 'Oh, they beat me on my
o n c h a r g e s o f a b u s i n g a mail. forward. are of the utmost importance in shoulders and my back, and my
terrorism suspect they had Petty Officer McCabe's "The investigation raised serious its members. Furthermore, stomach and they kicked me in
captured in Iraq, after two of the attorney, Neal Puckett, has questions about the accounts allegations of abuse by U.S. my legs.'
servicemen were found not called on Army Maj. Gen. given to the U.S. investigator, forces have strategic "I have the photographs that
guilty during courts-martial. Charles Cleveland, who brought and the matter must be implications that can hinder the were taken about the day after
The case of the SEALs — Petty the case as the top special- adjudicated," Col. Silkman said. very efforts of the very same this alleged beat-down, and
Officers Julio Huertas, Jonathan operations officer at Central "The fact that a special court- forces to keep the American there were no injuries," she said.
Keefe and Matthew McCabe — Command, to drop charges that martial has been convened rests people safe. The background of "And I had argued to the jury if
has outraged many Americans his client punched Abed, who on the key decision made by the detainee is not the focus; the a bunch of Navy SEALs was
who see the prosecution as was captured last year on [Petty Officer] McCabe and his alleged assault of any detained kicking and punching him, he
weakening the war on terrorism. suspicion of masterminding the defense counsel to refuse person would be illegal and would really be in bad shape.
Some members of Congress 2004 killings of four Blackwater administrative punishment." therefore must be investigated, And obviously, he wasn't."
have condemned the criminal security guards in Fallujah. The three SEALs could have and then adjudicated properly." Ms. Lombardi also discounted
charges as unnecessary, while Mr. Puckett noted that Abed received a disciplinary Abed is being held on order of the testimony of Petty Officer
thousands of people have signed and a Navy petty officer master- reprimand, but requested courts- an Iraqi judge. Defense Kevin DeMartino, the master-at-
up on Facebook pages to at-arms testified as the chief martial to clear their names. If attorneys at last month's courts- arms who says he saw Petty
support the specialized warriors. p r o s e c u t i o n w i t n e s s e s a t convicted, Petty Officer martial homed in on Abed's Officer McCabe strike Abed.
Petty Officers Huertas and separate trials last month in McCabe faces up to a year in inconsistent testimony and "With the petty officer who
Keefe were acquitted of charges Baghdad that ended in the prison, reduction in rank, loss of evidence that al Qaeda claimed to see the one punch, I
of dereliction of duty and acquittals of Petty Officers one year's pay and a bad- operatives are trained to claim discredited his testimony," she
impeding an investigation Huertas and Keefe. conduct discharge. abuse. said. "There were too many
during courts-martial last month "The commander should dismiss Col. Silkman said it is The other key prosecution inconsistencies in his testimony
in Baghdad. Petty Officer charges because a jury and a important for the military to witness, the master-at-arms at that the jury could really rely on
McCabe, who is accused of j u d g e h a v e a c q u i t t e d t w o treat detainees properly no the base in Anbar province, also that. So the jury just said it was
punching Ahmed Hashim Abed SEALs after hearing identical matter their background. gave varying statements, not even close. There was just
after capture, goes on military evidence purporting to establish "The evidence gathered in this according to press reports from so much doubt to the story. He
trial Tuesday in Norfolk, Va. t h a t M c C a b e p u n c h e d a case points to an alleged assault the trial. Other SEALs rebutted claimed to have conversations
"It is our hope now, just as it has detainee," Mr. Puckett told The of a flex-cuffed, blindfolded his version of events. with other members of the team
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brought to our attention in "I learned that a debrief of the of U.S. forces, and the alleged represented Petty Officer 'I told them I saw some abuse.'
September 2009, that justice jury revealed that not a single perpetrator is a member of a Huertas, said that Abed's Three people said when they
will be reached through a one of the six court members highly trained special-operations testimony, which will be played testified that conversation never
properly constituted process, no believed either the terrorist or unit, well-versed in rules on the at Petty Officer McCabe's trial happened."
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state," the immigration
watchdog group said, adding
that kidnappings in Phoenix are
at a record high.
Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, an
Illinois Democrat who was
arrested Saturday during a rally
at the White House calling on
Congress and the Obama
administration to enact
immigration reform, said more
states "could adopt Arizona's
draconian law" if Congress
doesnt act now.
"We must have fair and
balanced reform to ensure
immigrants are full participants
in our economic recovery," said
Mr. Gutierrez, chairman of the
Democratic Caucus Immigration
Task Force, for which he is the
party's leading strategist and
spokesman on immigration
issues. "Enforcement-only
tactics break up families, disrupt
businesses, distract local law
enforcement and drain local
budgets."
In signing the bill, Mrs. Brewer
said she would "not tolerate
racial discrimination or racial
profiling" and emphasized an
amendment to the bill that
prevents law enforcement
personnel from using a person's
race as the only factor in
implementing the law.
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here lawfully," she said.
The key legal issue, according
to attorneys on both sides, will
be whether the state law
interferes with the federal
government's duty to handle
immigration.
Criticism of the Arizona law
has come from several sources,
including President Obama, who
described it as an example of
"irresponsibility" by the state.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder
Jr. has said the Justice
Department is considering a
legal challenge to the law.
Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano told the Senate
Judiciary Committee last week
that the Arizona law could
distract the agency from using
its resources to go after serious
criminals. She said there were
concerns that at some point
"we'll be responsible to enforce
or use our immigration
resources against anyone that
would get picked up in
Arizona."
She said she vetoed similar
measures when she served as
Arizona governor from 2003 to
2009.
On Sunday, she called the
Arizona law "really a cry of
frustration," while noting that
"more assets have been put into
Arizona in the last 15 months
than ever in history."
"But, you know what, there's
still a frustration out there. It's a
frustration ultimately that will
only be solved with
comprehensive immigration
reform," she said on ABC's
"This Week."
The American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU), the Mexican
American Legal Defense and
Educational Fund (MALDEF)
and the National Immigration
Law Center (NILC) also are
preparing legal challenges.
During a Phoenix news
conference last week, MALDEF
President and General Counsel
Thomas A. Saenz said "a
vigorous and sophisticated legal
challenge will be mounted"
before the bill's implementation
this summer "to prevent this
unconstitutional and
discriminatory law from ever
taking effect."
Linton Joaquin, NILC's general
counsel, added that the Arizona
law "sends a strong message to
all immigrants to have no
contact with any law
enforcement officer." He said
the "inevitable result" would not
only be to make immigrants
more vulnerable to crime and
exploitation, "but also to make
the entire community less safe
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witnesses and victims from
reporting crimes."
The Rev. Eve Nunez of the
Arizona Latino Commission and
National Hispanic Christian
Leadership Conference said the
Arizona law will be divisive and
demonstrates the need for
Congress to pass an immigration
reform bill.
"A lot of pastors are very fearful
they will be fined for
transporting members of their
congregation in their church
vans. Churches are already
losing members," she said.
"There is great fear in the
Hispanic community. It is very
sad that in a state that should be
welcoming the stranger, we are
allowing oppressive laws to
pass."
Mr. King defended the bill,
saying Arizona and other states
are being forced to "step up and
fill the void" left by the failure
of the Obama administration
and Homeland Security
Department to secure the
nation's borders.
"I commend Arizona for
standing up for the rule of law,"
he said.
Mr. King also noted that critics
of the law have distorted what it
says. He said the law allows
state authorities to inquire into
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the immigration status based
only on a "reasonable suspicion"
that the person is unlawfully
present in the United States.
As a state senator in Iowa, he
was the principal sponsor of a
workplace drug and alcohol
testing bill in 1998 that also
relied on "reasonable
suspicion." That bill allowed the
taking of urine or other samples
from employees for whom there
was a reasonable suspicion that
they were under the influence.
"That bill passed into law in
1998 and there has not been a
constitutional challenge to it
yet," Mr. King said.
Arizona state Sen. Russell
Pearce, the bill's author, said a
constitutional challenge would
"determine whether our nation
enforces its immigration laws
and secures its borders or
becomes victim to its enemies."
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Crist Blames GOP Exit on 'Primary Fear' Quick

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in a year ago to win his party's
primary and the probable winner
in November's general election.
Chris Wallace asked how a self-
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Morning Bell: Another Bullet Dodged in New York
Conn Carroll (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:15:28 AM
This past Saturday evening at
6:28 p.m., a white male in his
40s drove a 1993 Nissan
Pathfinder into Times Square,
parked, departed the vehicle,
and slipped down a nearby
alley. Within minutes a t-shirt
street vendor alerted authorities
about smoke emanating from
the vehicle and, after pedestrians
had been cleared from the area,
a bomb squad discovered that
the SUV was packed with what
was intended to be lethal
incendiary materials.
The device inside the SUV has
since been described by
investigators as “at the bottom
of the food chain when it comes
to explosives.” The large
amounts of fertilizer
surrounding the gas and propane
tanks in the car was good for
growing plants but bad for
explosions; it was not the
ammonium nitrate grade that
can explode. Still if the propane
and gas had ignited, the SUV
would have exploded in half,
spraying shrapnel with enough
force to kill innocent pedestrians
enjoying a warm summer
evening in a busy Times Square.
On Sunday, the Pakistani
Taliban posted a YouTube video
created on April 30th claiming
responsibility for the attack. But
New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg said, “So far, there is
no evidence that any of this has
anything to do with one of the
recognized terrorist
organizations,” and New York
police Commissioner Ray Kelly
noted that the same group had
falsely taken credit for previous
attacks on U.S. soil.
Whether Saturday’s failed
attack turns out to be connected
to Islamic radicalism or is the
work of a lone wolf, there have
now been 31 foiled terrorist
attacks in the United States
since 9/11, eleven in New York
City alone. Yesterday’s plot was
foiled by sheer luck and quick-
thinking civilians. But luck is
not an adequate strategy for
protecting a nation. Continuing
to stop acts of terrorism requires
vigilance in finding and
stopping people from doing this
before they launch their attack.
Effective intelligence collection,
information-sharing and counter
-terrorism operations are the
best tools we have, making
investigative authorities such as
those granted under the
PATRIOT Act so very
important.
Unfortunately this Congress
and this President have
repeatedly prioritized politics
over security. Instead of
providing stability and
confidence in the intelligence
community by seeking long-
term renewal of key
investigatory authorities
authorized under the USA
Patriot Act, President Obama
has settled for a six-month
extension tacked on to the
Defense appropriations bill.
Such a move is unfortunate
given that the PATRIOT Act
provides just the type of
investigative tools the United
States needs for the foreseeable
future. If our political leaders
are serious about preventing
terrorist attacks in the United
States, they need to stop the
delaying and renew the crime-
stopping, lifesaving provisions
of the act.
Quick Hits:
• A May Day rally for workers
and illegal immigrant rights
turned violent Saturday in Santa
Cruz, California.
• The New York Times
confirms: General Motors’
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claim that they have paid back
taxpayers is false.
• According to Rasmussen
Reports, 69% of Americans are
not willing to have their taxes
raised to deal with deficits that
are projected to rise to historic
levels over the next decade.
• Also according to Rasmussen
Reports, 66% of likely voters
believe cutting taxes is a better
way to create new jobs than
increasing government
spending.
• Thanks to exploding
government spending, more tech
firms are setting up offices in
the Washington area to get
federal business.
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Failed Times Square Car Bombing, Another Terror Plot

Averted?
Jena McNeill (The Foundry: the automobile. This type of investigative authorities such as
Conservative Policy News.) “see something, say something” those granted under the
Submitted at 5/2/2010 4:21:44 PM is a vital tool of public PATRIOT Act so very
safety—lives and property were important. Congress, however,
S a t u r d a y a t 6 : 3 0 p . m . , saved as a result of these recently made the mistake of
authorities were alerted that a reports. punting reauthorization of the
Nissan Pathfinder was billowing While there is in fact a report Act down the road (giving it a
smoke in the middle of Times from MEMRI of a Taliban short term, one year extension).
Square, New York City. Upon leader claiming responsibility Such a move is unfortunate
investigation, they found the car for the attack on a website, there given that the PATRIOT Act
was rigged with explosives is still a significant investigation provides just the type of
including “three propane tanks, remaining—it is important to investigative tools the U.S.
consumer-grade fireworks, two w a i t a n d s e e w h a t l a w needs for the foreseeable future.
gasoline containers, [and] wires enforcement authorities discover The response to this attempted
and two clocks.” No one was before leading to conclusions on bombing by law enforcement,
hurt, and authorities were able attribution. No city in America the press, and American citizens
to stop a potentially deadly is perhaps better able to deal has been reasoned and
explosion. New York Governor with these types of threats than appropriate. It is vital that
David Paterson has recently NYC. And since the bomb did Congress and the
stated that this attempted car not go off, there will likely be a Administration follow suit.
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past writings, speeches, and
interviews on the Internet that
Liu had not specifically
provided the committee—a not
uncommon error among federal
judicial nominees, given the
reams of information they are
required to provide, but one
perfectly suited for the GOP’s
opposition. At Liu’s hearing,
Texas Senator John Cornyn said
the nominee had shown
“contempt” for the Senate by
not providing fuller answers to
his questionnaire. Other senators
attacked Liu’s writings directly;
Arizona Senator Jon Kyl called
his 2006 testimony against Alito
“vicious, emotionally and
racially charged.”
Whether Liu’s nomination
makes it to the Senate floor will
depend in part on how hard
Obama is willing to go to bat for
him. But, even then, Liu could
be headed for a dead end. In
Rockies Feeling Sense of Urgency
Jeff Fletcher (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 5/2/2010 4:46:00 PM
Filed under: Rockies SAN
FRANCISCO -- The Rockies
had been muddling along,
playing decent enough baseball
considering all the adversity
they had faced. Just four weeks
into the season, there didn't
seem to be any reason to doubt wait for eventually.
that things would eventually After a three-game losing
turn around. streak, the Rockies manager
But Jim Tracy didn't want to called a team meeting for
what would be a raw display of
political hypocrisy by
Republicans, he could face the
same filibuster the GOP decried
when it was used on Miguel
Estrada. Like Estrada, Liu could
soon be another failed judicial
nominee.
A failure to confirm both
Estrada and Liu, two nominees
with watertight academic and
legal credentials, would signal
that placing young, qualified
nominees with clear political
and legal predilections on the
federal appeals courts is
virtually impossible. Thanks to
the ratcheting up of the judicial
wars in the Senate, new legal
talent could continue to go to
waste, as up-and-comers refuse
to participate in the contentious
confirmation process. Or,
knowing that they must remain
as uncontroversial as possible in
their early careers, they may
keep tight-lipped about
important issues, writing or
saying little of legal import.
This would mark a serious
setback for the quality and
influence of the judiciary.
Indeed, the current battle on
Capitol Hill over Goodwin Liu
is a pivotal moment for the U.S.
courts. “This nomination will be
very telling,” says Carl Tobias, a
professor at the University of
Richmond School of Law. “If
[Democrats] can’t win this one,
the process may be hopeless.”
Mark Greenbaum is a writer
and attorney in Washington,
DC.
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Sunday morning, just to give his
club the kick in the pants he felt
it needed before a season of
high expectations could go too
far south.
"I just don't want to sit here and
see it get away from us
completely and have to dig out
of a huge hole again," Tracy
said after the Rockies answered
his plea with a much-needed 4-1
victory over the Giants.
Before the Bell: Futures
Higher After Greece
Bailout, Airlines Merger
Melly Alazraki
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:25:00 AM
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International Markets, Deals,
Market Matters, Contl
Airlines'B' (CAL), UAL Corp
(UAUA), Oil U.S. stock futures
rose Monday morning as
investors examined the aid
package the European Union
countries approved for Greece.
As expected, the merger
between Continental and United
airlines was announced
Monday, without much in the
way of surprise. Investors await
several economic reports,
hoping some good figures
would help markets rebound
from Friday's selloff.
European governments and the
International Monetary Fund
agreed Sunday to euro110
billion ($145 billion) in loans to
debt-laden Greece over three
years. In return, Greece
promised to commit to euro 30
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billion in austerity measures
through to 2012, cutting wages
and pensions and increasing
sales taxes. But even as the aid
was approved, world markets
fell Monday.
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Apple iPad 3G's Opening Weekend: Video Restrictions,
Jailbreaking, and Shortages
Dan Nosowitz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 9:07:33 AM
Apple's iPad 3G's launch isn't
nearly as big as that of the Wi-Fi
-only iPad, a few weeks back.
But that didn't stop Apple from
crowing that the 1 millionth
iPad was sold on Friday. That's
half the time it took to achieve
the same milestone with the
iPhone, CEO Steve Jobs said in
a press release. At the same
time, iPad owners have
downloaded 12 million apps
from the store and over 1.5
million ebooks. But not
everything is rosy after the
launch of the 3G version of the
device.
The 3G is the same in all
respects, except it's $130 more
expensive for each model, and it
packs a 3G antenna so you can
use AT&T's fast-when-it-works-
but-usually-it-doesn't 3G
network on the go. Here's what
we've learned.
Some features are Wi-Fi only.
Users discovered that the iPad
3G won't stream just any video--
and we're not talking about the
legions of Flash video that no
iPhone OS gadget can use.
Example: YouTube and Netflix
both work, but while you can
eke out some pretty high-quality
streaming over Wi-Fi, you're
stuck with low-quality video
over 3G. Fairly expected, really-
-less bandwidth equals less data
equals lesser quality. But some
video, like everything from
ABC, is Wi-Fi-only on the iPad.
Lame, right? And lamer for fans
of Modern Family or Lost who
wanted to take advantage of the
bigger screen and always-on
connection.
Speeds are...fine. The iPad's
superior innards give it really
impressive performance when
compared to the iPhone, but 3G
is 3G-- Gizmodo tested out the
iPad 3G's speed and found it just
about exactly equal to the
iPhone's, meaning they're okay.
iLounge conducted an
exhaustive (seriously)
examination of the iPad 3G, and
found that battery life is less by
about 90 minutes, compared to
the Wi-Fi version--totally
negligible, considering we're
talking about double digit
battery life.
iFixit Tore It Apart. Not really
any surprises here. It's got five
separate antennae, which is
impressive, I suppose, and
actually seems to be using the
tablet's frame itself as an
antenna for better reception (and
saved space). If you like seeing
what gadgets look like on the
inside, check it out.
Jailbroken Already. The iPad
was technically jailbroken
(meaning, its security software
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was disabled so users can do
unapproved things, like run porn
apps or overclock) on launch
day, but it was only yesterday
that the hack was released to the
general public. It's called
"Spirit" and you can grab it
here.
Sales Were Excellent. I did
some accidental reporting on
Friday, wandering past the
downtown San Francisco Apple
Store on my way to the
Embarcadero to buy some
cheese and sneer at tourists, and
the line was a full three blocks
long. No surprise, then, that
there've been actual reports of
shortages of the iPad 3G, unlike
the Wi-Fi iPad launch. Gene
Munster estimates 300,000
iPads sold, though after the last
round of crazy estimates, we
won't believe any numbers until
Apple releases them. But
apparently Best Buy had a
limited stock, and many Apple
Stores actually sold out,
according to the Wall Street
Journal.
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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Work Smart: How to Write a To-Do List

Gina Trapani (Fast Company)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 9:05:41 AM

A to-do list is a fundamental

tool for getting things done: it
helps you plan your day, see
what you've accomplished, and
what you should work on next.
But a badly-written to-do list
can actually sabotage your
productivity instead of boost it.
[twistage df561a3e051ef]
The best part of using a to-do
list is crossing items off of it as
done, finished, complete. Some
tasks are easier to tick off as
done than others, so you want to
make your to-do list as doable
as possible. A common mistake
is assigning ourselves
impossible tasks that never get
done because we didn't think
them through. If you put in
some thought up front, you can do list for the next steps that your computer, you can quickly smaller, less procrastination- Whatever to-do list tool you do
pare down your to-do list to the move a project along. Your goal send an email; if you're in the worthy tasks? Is it something decide to use, remember to keep
tasks you're most likely to check to "Save $5,000" is going to waiting room at the dentist, you you need to do at all? Try to the tasks you put on it small,
off the list. start with a simple task, like can make a call on your cell recognize your block around the manageable, and specific to
First, know the difference setting up a monthly savings phone. Give yourself enough task and clear it away. increase their chances of getting
between a project, goal, and a transfer. information to get the task done The most popular tool for done.
task. A project is a big Second, break down your to- wherever you are. keeping track of your to-do list Gina Trapani is the author of
undertaking that involves do's into small, manageable Finally, purge your list of the is plain old pen and paper, but Upgrade Your Life and
several tasks. A goal is bites. Don't put "Write 50 page stuff that's not moving. Your to- some computer-based tools are founding editor of
something you want to achieve report" on your to-do list. Try do list should be a fluid f a n t a s t i c , t o o . Lifehacker.com. Work Smart
through both tasks and repetitive something smaller, like "Jot document, changing every RememberTheMilk.com is a appears every week on
actions. "Clean out the garage," down 5 main ideas for the single day. Still, we all have Web-based to-do list you can FastCompany.com.
"Save $5,000," "Learn how to report." Use specific action items that have stuck around on access from work, home, or Last week: 3 Apps for Syncing
speak French"--these are verbs. Instead of writing "Ask our lists for weeks, months, or from your smartphone. Things is Home and Office
projects and goals, and they Susan about her French class," even years. Every once in a an iPhone app that lets you work
don't belong on your to-do list. opt for "Email Susan" or "Call while, audit the oldest stuff on with your to-do's on the go. If
They'd just sit there and haunt Susan." That makes it easier for your list, and think about why most of your tasks come in
you, because it wouldn't be clear you to see what tasks you can do you've put it off so long. Can through email, try Gmail or
where to start. Reserve your to- in certain situations. If you're at you break it down into a Outlook's built-in Task lists.
48 Business/
Europe Approves $146 Billion Greek
Bailout
Connie Madon
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 9:30:00 AM
Filed under: International
Markets, Financial Crisis
The European Union and
International Monetary Fund
agreed on Sunday to bailout
terms for Greece. In exchange
for multi-year loans, Greece has
agreed to a tough austerity
program. The total aid package
carries a price tag of $146
billion dollars.
The spending cuts amounting to
30 billion euros will push the
country deeper into recession
with GDP expected to shrink by
4% this year and another 1% in
2011. The goal of the program is
to bring the budget deficit below
3% of GDP by 2014.
Here are the proposed spending
cuts and tax increases:
• Public sector workers will
E-reader News Edition
First Solar: An
Encouraging First
Quarter
Joseph Lazzaro
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: Stocks to Buy First
face a three-year salary freeze. will be reborn."
Solar ( FSLR), which I first
• They also face cuts in The bailout package will be
discussed here on Feb. 1, 2010
allowances and the abolition of presented to the Greek
at a price of $113.81, is off to a
the 13th and 14th monthly parliament on Tuesday for a
good start in 2010, and I Continue reading First Solar:
salaries paid as holiday bonuses. vote within three days. Greece's
obviously still like the shares An Encouraging First Quarter
• Private companies will pay a approval of the bailout package
here. First Solar: An Encouraging
one-off tax on 2009 profits -- on is the first step. Germany's
First Solar posted first quarter First Quarter originally appeared
top of a tax six months ago on Prime Minister Merkel is facing
earnings per share of $2.00 -- on BloggingStocks on Mon, 03
profits from the previous year. reelection with strong public
well above the$1.63 First Call May 2010 09:00:00 EST.
• The EU-IMF package will opposition to helping Greece.
estimate. That puts FSLR on Please see our terms for use of
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Also, look for FSLR to increase First Solar- Business- Energy-
• The Greek government could week.
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expand the existing program by Europe Approves $146 Billion
gigawatts by the end of 2010
40 billion euros. Greek Bailout originally
from 1.23 gigawatts in 2009.
appeared on BloggingStocks on
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catastrophe -- but we are domestic product- Germany
determined and by the end of
my term in office (2013) Greece
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FarmShare Turns Backyard Farms Into a Large-Scale,

Community Co-Op
Cliff Kuang (Fast Company) the 2010 Buckminster Fuller here), a program that teaches
Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:45:00 AM Challenge, which seeks to find women in rural Africa how to
big-idea solutions to install solar power in their
The program is one of six "humanity's most pressing communities, and a plan to
f i n a l i s t s i n t h e $ 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 problems." create " Eco-Boulevards" in
Buckminster Fuller Challenge. [youtube vDxBEUOImjI] Chicago that will clean run-off
At-home, DIY farming has The program uses Web tools water and return it to the city's
become the rage among eco- a n d s o c i a l n e t w o r k i n g t o lakes.
conscious hipsters, but there's c o n n e c t m y r i a d u n u s e d The winner will be announced
still one big problem: scaling up resources that would otherwise in May, and receive a $100,000
your window farm, so it can b e w a s t e d . F o r e x a m p l e , grant. You can see all of the
become a real food-source homeowners can announce that finalists here.
rather than a feel-good lark. they have a patch of land ripe example, 10 pounds of coffee Other finalists in the 2010
And that's what FarmShare, a for farming and receive a grounds begging for Buckminster Fuller Challenge
Brooklyn-based project created portion of the yield in return. composting. Participants can include Living Building, a new,
by Stacey Murphy, aims to Meanwhile, local businesses and also sign up to volunteer on any ultra-stringent building standard
solve. The service, which is still c o m m u n i t y g r o u p s c a n of the micro-farms in their (whose first building, the
in its early phases, is a finalist in announce that they have, for neighborhood. Omega Center, we covered

Amazon Updates Kindle With Facebook and Twitter Support

Dan Nosowitz (Fast second major firmware update PDFs, in case you have a death cloud and offer a link? Or will it
Company) to an e-book reader post-iPad-- wish for your eyeballs and want only be viewable for other
Submitted at 5/3/2010 9:10:39 AM Barnes & Noble released theirs to punish them with slow- Kindle users? Who knows. But
a few weeks ago. refreshing e-ink. it's kind of a cool idea--I was
Amazon just announced the So what does Amazon bring to But the biggest update has to be just reading Reality Matters this
next major update to its Kindle Kindle version 2.5? There's Facebook and Twitter week, and wanted to share the
software, version 2.5. It's about "collections," which seem integration. We're not really section on The Real Housewives
to start rolling out to some users, mostly like folders to me--you sure exactly how it'll be of New York City with a friend
to see a full rollout in May can organize your books or implemented, but Amazon says who happens to live across the
(pretty sure it's already May, w h a t e v e r e l s e i n t o t h e s e you'll be able to share book country. Hopefully this update
Amazon--check your farmers' collections. There's now a passages with friends via will provide a way to make that
market. They'll be selling password protection, in case you you're reading Dan Brown, and Facebook and Twitter. Will vital exchange of ideas possible.
asparagus. May.). This is the don't want anyone to know you can zoom and pan around Amazon upload snippets to the
50 Products/ Sports/ E-reader News Edition

Just In: 2011 Infiniti M37

Consumer Reports Shopping wheel. It’s also a prerequisite transmission to improve fuel
Blog (Consumer Reports) for adding other option economy over the previous
Submitted at 5/3/2010 1:59:59 AM packages, like the Technology M35’s 19 mpg. Despite being a
package. That includes active sizable car, though, the M’s
Just In: 2011 Infiniti M37 cruise control, collision posh interior feels oddly snug
Despite stiff competition in the warning, adaptive headlights, inside, with a visually looming
midsized luxury car segment, Active Trace Control (which A-pillar and dashboard. And
the second-generation Infiniti M changes braking and engine hard-to-access seat controls and
stayed atop CR’s Ratings in that torque application to individual gauges that are blocked by the
category for all five model-years wheels to “smooth vehicle the brakes on one side of the steering-wheel rim are odd
( 2 0 0 6 - 2 0 1 0 ) t h a t i t w a s response”), and an Eco drive car, with input from radar ergonomic oversights.
p r o d u c e d . I n a d d i t i o n t o mode that, when turned on, sensors and a camera, to keep We’ll see if the M37 regains its
p r o v i d i n g g e n e r o u s pushes back on the accelerator the M in its original lane of place atop our luxury car
accommodations, this luxury pedal to force better fuel travel if its driver starts to move Ratings as we fully test it in the
into a lane that is occupied by
sedan is as fun to drive on a economy.
twisty backroad as it is The $3,000 Technology another (presumably unseen)
vehicle. This system doesn’t
weeks ahead.— Tom Mutchler
Next Steps Kobe, Lakers
comfortable while cruising on package also adds two dynamic • Sedan Buying Advice:
the highway. electronic safety systems—Lane care if you’re using the turn
signals or not.
• Types of Sedans| Chug in
Now, 2011 brings a redesign Departure Prevention and Blind • Sedan Features|
for the M. Gone is the stolid Spot Intervention—that go
“Prevention” and “intervention”
• Sedan Brands Survival Mode
upright styling; now the car beyond simply beeping to warn Jay Mariotti (FanHouse Main)
looks like a pumped-up version the driver of impending danger, are rather strong words for All Sedan Ratings Subscribers
of Infiniti’s G37 sports sedan, or even autonomously slowing active safety devices. Given can view and compare all Sedan Submitted at 5/2/2010 4:30:00 PM

with even more overt curves. the car down. Both systems that, we’re curious to see if Ratings. Recommended Sedans
drivers take kindly to this much Filed under: NBA LOS
The interior is even more u t i l i z e D y n a m i c D r i v e r Look at the ones that we chose ANGELES -- Life moves very
l u x u r i o u s a n d t h e l i s t o f Assistance-- braking each wheel “assistance” as the miles go by, as the best of the best. Subscribe
even if they paid extra for it. fast, I realize, at the juncture of
available electronic options is i n d e p e n d e n t l y , s i m i l a r t o now! the Harbor and Santa Monica
even longer. electronic stability control--to Fortunately, if drivers don’t like S u b s c r i b e t o
the Dynamic Driver Assistance, freeways. But the Lakers are not
Our $53,825 rear-wheel-drive help keep the car away from ConsumerReports.org for expert going to win another
M37 has the optional Premium danger: there is a button on the steering Ratings, buying advice and
wheel that turns the intervention championship at warp speed,
and Technology packages. The • Lane Departure Prevention reliability on hundreds of much as they'd like their playoff
P r e m i u m p a c k a g e a d d s will actively push the car back off. products. Update your feed
First impressions? Like the highway to be fast, free and
navigation, a Bose stereo system into its lane if it senses the car preferences unclogged. They rely more on
with a hard drive for storing veering over lane markings G37, the drivetrain is eager and
willing, and we’d expect the talent, size, energy and a
music, climate-controlled front without using a turn signal. steadily healing Kobe Bryant
seats, and a heated steering • Blind Spot Intervention uses new seven-speed automatic
than they do heart and guts, and
if they're not careful, they still
could be sideswiped at some
point.
Their survival instincts

KOBE, page 51
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KOBE,
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continue to be impressive,
though. And if a team does
topple them, it won't be the Utah
Jazz. You gathered that the
undersized Jazz, depleted by
injuries and a recent history of
lopsided futility against the
Lakers, never will have a better
shot to take a series lead in this
ongoing farce than they had
Sunday. They led by four points
with four minutes left thanks
largely to the effort of players
many sports diehards haven't
heard of, much less Sly Stallone,
Andy Garcia, Glenn Frey, Julia
Louis-Dreyfus and Flea from
the Red Hot Chili Peppers, gap
toothed and all.
There were C.J. Miles and
Wesley Matthews and Paul
Millsap and a dude who still
looks like Ashton Kutcher --
Kyle Korver hates that
comparison, you know --
playing in the everlasting mold
of their coach. Jerry Sloan
probably won't win an NBA title
in his lifetime, but he's
definitely the champion of
extracting the most from the
least. It would have been easy to
lay down and get blown out in
Game 1 of the Western
Conference semifinals after the
Jazz began slowly again.
Adding to the struggle was a
setback only 20 seconds after tip
-off. That's how long it took
Deron Williams-- who must be
the league's best point guard
now, seeing how everyone
finally is pronouncing his first
name correctly -- to writhe on
the floor in pain, clutching his
right shoulder after tangling his
arm with Derek Fisher's on a
seemingly harmless attempt to
shoot. In the freakiest of
sequences, Williams bruised his
left elbow Friday night when he
crashed into a pick with 20
seconds left in Utah's first-round
series clincher over Denver,
then banged up the other arm in
the opening hiccups here. Forty
seconds, one superstar, fluke
injuries to both arms? It could
have been a nightmare on
Figueroa Street.
But Sloan never lets his team
quit, using old-school language
that somehow inspires the
young. "They will take your
nose and stick in into the ground
and turn you on your heels.
Sharks' Top Line Finally
That's how good they are," he
said of the Lakers. "It's the
Breaks Through
playoffs. We can't accept getting A.J. Perez (FanHouse Main) San Jose Sharks winger Dany
our nose rubbed into the dirt." Submitted at 5/2/2010 8:11:00 PM Heatley, who moments earlier
took the puck from Nicklas
Filed under: Sharks, Red Lidstrom after the Detroit Red
Wings, NHL Playoffs Wings defenseman's stick
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- All it took
SHARKS' page 52
was a broken stick.

McIlroy's Incredible 62 Wins Quail Hollow

Mick Elliott (FanHouse Main) He only played like a well- It showed. To claim his first away and trying only to two-putt
Submitted at 5/2/2010 3:15:00 PM worn veteran. PGA Tour victory and become for a par, he rolled in the birdie.
McIlroy, a golf prodigy from the PGA Tour's youngest winner How's that for a finish?
F i l e d u n d e r : P G A Northern Ireland, will celebrate since Tiger Woods was a rookie More Coverage: McIlroy
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- After his 21st birthday on Tuesday, in 1996, McIlroy carded a back- Scorecard| Quail Hollow
crushing the field and the golf but Sunday he played a final nine 30, eagling the par-5 15th Leaderboard| Photos
course with an eye-bulging, round for the ages. Beginning after a 6-iron from 206 yards to Also See: New Major Tour
final-round 10-under-par 62 to the afternoon four shots out of inside four feet, then going Record Set in Japan
w i n t h e Q u a i l H o l l o w the lead, he finished four strokes birdie, par, birdie. He closed the
Championship, Rory McIlroy in front of runner-up Phil tournament with six straight 3s
had one more thing to address: Mickelson. He made eight "I absolutely flushed it on the on his scorecard and seven out
"I've got to ring my mum and birdies, an eagle and no bogeys. range and knew. I was excited to of the last eight.
dad." "It started on the range," he said. go out there and play." On the final hole, from 42 feet
52 Sports/ Gaming/
SHARKS'
continued from page 51
shattered on a slap shot, sent a
shot on net that ricocheted off
goalie Jimmy Howard's blocker.
Joe Thornton tapped the puck
into the net, his first goal of the
postseason and the decisive goal
in a 4-3 Sharks victory in Game
2 of the second-round series at
HP Pavilion Sunday night.
In a playoff season where the
Sharks' No. 2 line -- Joe
Pavelski in particular -- has
carried the team, it was the more
veteran top line that put the
Sharks up 2-0 in the best-of-
seven series with the third-
period conversion.
"They played a lot all year," said
Adorable, nightmarish Left 4 Dead Boomer plush toy on sale
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 9:30:00 AM
If you're attempting to ween
your teenage offspring off their
collection of stuffed animals, we
suggest investing in a line of
plushies which are capable of
scaring them out of their
adorable addiction. Valve is
coach Todd McLellan, who put
Heatley, Thornton and Patrick
Marleau together as the Sharks
entered the third period down 3-
2. "When we needed big goals,
they got them for us. There was
a lot of talk about them being
shut out in the first round. I
thought by putting them back
together, it'd be a challenge for
them."
Sharks Lead Series, 2-0
Sharks 4, Red Wings 3: Recap|
Box Score| Series Page
releasing a set of five Left 4
Dead plush toys which should
suit your needs quite well, the
first of which -- based on the
digestivally challenged
"Boomer" special infected -- is
currently available on Valve's
online store for $49.99.
That price is a tad steep, though
each toy comes with a sound
Mariners' Lifeless Bats
Make Life Rough on
Pitchers
John Hickey (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 5/2/2010 5:25:00 PM
Filed under: Mariners
SEATTLE -- At some point the
Mariners will score some runs.
No one can say when that point
will be, but it's likely to come
after manager Don Wakamatsu
shakes up the lineup, because
Wakamatsu seems to be leaning
toward making changes as early
as the club's next game on
Tuesday against Tampa Bay.
Maybe it's time to move Ken
Griffey Jr., still without a homer
this year, down to seventh in the
batting order. Maybe it's time to
move one of the two players on
the team actually hitting, Ichiro
Suzuki, to second or even third
in the lineup where he might
have a chance to drive in some
chip that can emit ten of the
Boomer's in-game grunts and
belches. Just think of it like a
E-reader News Edition
Black Nintendo Wii
bundle to include
MotionPlus, Wii Sports
Resort; available May 9
Andrew Yoon (Joystiq)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:08:00 AM
Nintendo of America has
finally announced the
availability of a new colored
Wii for North America. First
spotted in a leaked GameStop
runs. ad, new Nintendo Wii bundles --
The fact is that Wakamatsu available in black or white --
doesn't have many choices. will include a Wii MotionPlus
Franklin Gutierrez, his center and Wii Sports Resort. This is
fielder, and Ichiro are the only essentially the same bundle that
two players on the entire roster has been available in Europe
hitting over .243. They're at .320 since late last year(pictured
and .317, respectively. above).
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Download: April 26 -
May 2
John Callaham (Joystiq)
Submitted at 5/2/2010 11:30:00 PM
Filed under: Mac, PC, Meta
(about Joystiq) Ahh yes, the end
of another month and the
beginning of a new one. It's time
to reflect, and a time to move on
to the future. It's also time to
check out Big Download's
highlights from the past seven
days (and you should probably
take a bath as well -- sheesh!):
Exclusive features
• Left 4 Dead 2: The Passing
DLC Game Guide: We do a
detailed look at the new (and
free for PC owners) expansion
pack for Valve's zombie co-op
shooter.
• Future Wars review: We give
our final verdict for this sci-fi
turn-based strategy game.
• Boot Disk: Our retro games
feature checks out the classic
space shooter Freespace.
• All You Need To Know: We
get you the 411 on Darksiders
which will come to the PC in
June.
• Freeware Friday: Our free PC
games feature checks out the
RPG The Spirit Engine 2 which
was just released as freeware.
Continue reading The Best of
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The enhanced bundles will be
available at retail stores
beginning May 9th for the same
price as the current Wii
package: $199.99. While it may
not be the price drop some have
been waiting for, Nintendo's
Reggie Fils-Aime thinks the
new bundle adds even more
"value." In a press release, he
stated: "By including even more
of our top-quality hardware
and software in the basic Wii
system package, we're extending
StarCraft 2 map editor that commitment to
entertainment and value. Now
turns supply depots into more than ever, consumers
can count on Nintendo to deliver
inclusive fun and advanced
Tetris blocks motion controls at a mass-
market price."
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) you know, so we can take Black Nintendo Wii bundle to
Submitted at 5/3/2010 10:04:00 AM breaks from SC 2 -- for which include MotionPlus, Wii Sports
we lack the strategy and reflexes Resort; available May 9
originally appeared on Joystiq
S t a r C r a f t 2 m a p e d i t o r ' s and play a few rounds of Tetris on Mon, 03 May 2010 08:08:00
versatility, look no further than ... for which we lack the strategy EST. Please see our terms for
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you might imagine, the map map editor turns supply depots
bends the rules and controls of into Tetris blocks
Blizzard's uber anticipated StarCraft 2 map editor turns
strategy game, turning it into a supply depots into Tetris blocks
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Conan O’Brien on “60 Minutes”:

The Full Interview [VIDEO]
Samuel Axon (Mashable!) his “small victory.” “Okay, so I
Submitted at 5/2/2010 10:54:47 PM lost the tonight show,” he said,
“but I’ll show them — I’ll stop
Former The Tonight Show host shaving.”
Conan O’Brien sat down with O’Brien is returning to
CBS’ 60 Minutes for his first on television this winter, hosting a
-the-record interview since he new show on the cable network
left The Tonight Show and NBC TBS. With a predominantly
in January. Topics covered young audience, it’s an excellent
included Jay Leno, NBC to the tour he said, “There’s no demographic match, and the
executives, Conan’s new cable better antidote to what I’ve just pressure to succeed with a broad
OFLC rates 'Project TV show and his beard.
When asked why he left NBC,
he said that the situation had
been through than to do this
every night.”
The most striking moment in
audience will be greatly
lessened as compared to hosting
The Tonight Show on NBC.
Red' for EA become “toxic.” He left when it
got to the point where he said to
the interview was Conan’s
hesitation when he was asked
Here’s the complete interview
as it was aired on CBS.
Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq) is just the most recent example. himself: “I’m not sure these whether or not he believes that For more entertainment
Submitted at 5/3/2010 9:09:00 AM Last year, The Beatles: Rock people even really want me Jay Leno acted honorably coverage, follow Mashable
Band was titled Rock Band here.” during the NBC scheduling Entertainment on Twitter or
Australia's OFLC has rated " Project 9. EA has apparently Though Conan had the support fiasco. “If I had surrendered The become a fan on Facebook
Project Red" for EA, classifying figured out how to get its of thousands of die-hard fans Tonight Show and handed it Reviews: Facebook, Twitter
it with an MA 15+ label. If the paperwork into the OFLC who rallied behind him using over to somebody publicly and Tags: 60 minutes, cable, cbs,
classification is related to " without accidentally revealing a Facebook, he was legally wished them well, I would not celebrities, conan o'brien, jay
Project RedLime," it is likely f o r t h c o m i n g g a m e prohibited from appearing on have come back six months leno, nbc, TBS, television, the
the rating for the alleged a n n o u n c e m e n t . television immediately after his later. But that’s me. Everyone’s tonight show, tv, video
Syndicate game in production OFLC rates 'Project Red' for departure, so he started a got their own way of doing
by Starbreeze Studios and EA. EA originally appeared on Twitter account and went on a things,” he said.
Of course, without the direct Joystiq on Mon, 03 May 2010 national comedy tour. Referring As for the beard, he said it was
RedLime connection, this could 09:09:00 EST. Please see our
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Devout or deviant?
Mollie (GetReligion) and Afghanistan. They blurred there are a few women showin But they say “perception is unclean, when one could be
Submitted at 5/2/2010 2:06:21 PM the faces of some people in the in the film — but, with the reality” and in this case I guess with a man, who is clean?
film and not others. exception of Radhika Afghan men don’t perceive Surely this must be wrong.’”
A reader alerted us to the airing The story revolves around Coomaraswamy, a U.N. special themselves as homosexuals, so I watched this show at the onset
of a PBS Frontline documentary Dagastir, who was a Northern representative for Children and they aren’t. When we would talk of a horrific stomach flu so I
on “The Dancing Boys of Alliance warlord and is now a Armed Conflict, they are all to our Afghan Army figured I’d missed either of
Afghanistan”. I had the chance powerful businessman. The completely covered. Is there a counterparts about two men these things that the Slate
to watch it earlier in the week report describes him as a relationship between the Afghan snuggled together in a bed, or blogger says are in the piece. I
and it is absolutely riveting. You “ d e v o u t ” M u s l i m w h o i s treatment of women and the why the Kandak Commander had hoped to peruse a transcript
can watch it online and I married and has two young treatment of these boys? kept young boys with him all — PBS said one would be
encourage you to do so if it has sons. This is said while we are Undoubtedly. the time, they commonly would available by now but it’s not.
already aired in your market. shown him saying his daily I also wish there was an say it was okay because they Still, I don’t remember any
In “The Dancing Boys of prayers. But there’s little else explanation of how Islam in were “deployed away from meaningful discussion of the
A f g h a n i s t a n , ” j o u r n a l i s t we’re told about his piety — general — and the forms home.” I guess it doesn’t matter role religion plays in boy play or
Najibullah Quraishi investigates and a lot we’re told about his practiced in various regions of that for some “home” is only a in confusion about procreation.
what’s happening to boys who inhumanity. I understand that Afghanistan — treats bacha bazi few hours drive away and they Stomach flu or not, I do think
are bought and trained to space is an issue but I think that and surrounding issues of sex get there at least every two it’s one area that this report
entertain at all-men parties the report should have explained and power. In fact, the reader months. could have improved upon.
hosted by wealthy businessmen. what was meant by calling him who suggested we watch the In May, 2009 The Dude, my This is a breathtaking encounter
The children are aged 11 to 15 devout. Particularly since this piece sent us a link to a preview former ETT teammate and a with an alarmingly different
or so. They are dressed as man commits unspeakable that led me to believe we would guest blogger on culture. This documentary
women, given women’s jewelry crimes. get a bit of discussion about Bouhammer.com, wrote a post shows us how man is able to
and makeup. They are taught to We follow him as he picks out religion. It’s from a section of called “Can You Look at My subjugate the weak in order to
use effeminate gestures and a new boy to be apprenticed into Slate called The Sandbox: Wife?”, about an Afghan men satisfy selfish desires. Both of
dance as women. They have no the bacha bazi lifestyle. He is 11 According to a recent Frontline having a hard time these things could be improved
idea what they’re being sold but he looks like he could be 8. report, Pashtun men interpret the understanding why his wife with a bit more discussion of
into. If they do not comply with His first lessons are in music, Islamic prohibition on couldn’t get pregnant. After you religion. Still, I hope that this
the wishes of their owners, they t h e n i n d a n c e . Q u r a i s h i homosexuality to mean they read that, the following documentary gets all the praise
frequently end up dead. After convinces Dagastir to let the boy cannot “love” another man — statement from the Frontline it deserves and is widely viewed
they perform dances dressed as visit his parents. On the way but that doesn’t mean they can’t story should not be a surprise: and appreciated.
women, they are rented for sex. there, things sort of start falling use men for sexual gratification. The U.S. army medic also told Five Filters featured article:
Reporting and producing the a p a r t f o r D a g a s t i r . T h i s This story shines some light on members of the research unit The Art of Looking Prime
piece was difficult, and I documentary is unbelievably how Afghan men can justify this that she and her colleagues had Ministerial - The 2010 UK
appreciated the way they i n f o r m a t i v e , b u t a l s o practice in their own minds. I to explain to a local man how to General Election. Available
explained their decisions. To get unbelievably dramatic. You have heard the term “selective get his wife pregnant. tools: PDF Newspaper, Full
powerful Afghan men to speak really have to watch as it compliance,” but for a The report said: “When it was Text RSS, Term Extraction.
with them on the record, for navigates murder, intrigue, supposedly religious man whose explained to him what was
instance, they claimed that their witness protection and the like. faith says homosexuality is a necessary, he reacted with
documentary was actually about But there are many ghosts that terrible sin to follow this disgust and asked, ‘How could
how the practice — called are left unexplored. Some of practice is, well — pretty one feel desire to be with a
Bacha bazi — is done in Europe them just sit there. For instance, selective in my book. woman, who God has made
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How to write a bad story

Mollie (GetReligion) compare to other religious “conservatives nationwide.” But
Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:57:12 AM groups? How does their the only substantiation of that
candidacy rate compare to other claim is a Glenn Beck quote.
Every reporter has his off days. religious groups throughout It’s sort of a good primer in
I have to think that’s what time? Give us some data. how not to write a religion story.
happened with this story, which Or, if you don’t have data, how It’s all over the map, relies on
ran on page 1 of Jacksonville’s a b o u t y o u j u s t p a i n t a l l too few actual conservative
Florida Times-Union. Written evangelicals as sub-literate evangelicals, precisely no liberal
by an award-winning religion yokels with irrational hatred in evangelicals, and almost all the
reporter, Jeff Brumley, the piece their heart? Oh you can do that? context is given by this Wald
seems to take an almost personal Great: fellow, the one who believes
interest in disparaging The smart money says a evangelicals have intellectual
evangelicals. It’s kind of odd. snowball has a better chance problems. Another expert says
Here’s the headline: you-know-where than a Muslim that political opposition to the
Muslims nearly impossible to has being elected to statewide or appointment of Parvez Ahmed,
elect in Bible Belt national office from Northeast the man named in the lede, was
In fact, observers of Southern Florida - or anywhere else in the nothing more than racism.
politics can’t even remember a Bible Belt. Ahmed was the former
candidate. If the recent hullabaloo chairman of the Council on
Well, yes, it is very difficult to surrounding Parvez Ahmed’s American-Islamic Relations.
elect people to office before appointment to the Jacksonville CAIR has its fans. It was also
they become candidates for Human Rights Commission named as an unindicted co-
office. Now, I have a horrible didn’t confirm that, maybe this conspirator in the Holy Land
memory so if you asked me to does: Observers of Southern Foundation trial involving
name a candidate in the most politics and religion can’t recall Hamas funding.
recent election, I’d have trouble. a single Muslim candidate That’s how the story began. difficulties” was in any way The reporter allowed various
I think you want to have better running for major office. Yes, that was the lede. No, I okay? I do not know. sources to trash evangelicals but
data than “observer recall,” “I thought about it, and I don’t know how the “smart And just a small point of logic. never found less biased sources
p a r t i c u l a r l y w h e n t h e r e ’ s couldn’t come up with any money” or the “snowball” made That there has never been a o r g a v e t h e s m e a r e d a n
actually only one observer in the names,” said Ken Wald, a it into the first sentence. Perhaps Muslim candidate running for opportunity to respond. It makes
story even asked to recall the political science professor and they give copyeditors, or editors major office doesn’t speak in for a really bad story. I know
data. Just give us some facts and expert on religion and politics at in general, the weekends off at any meaningful sense to the this reporter can do better and I
figures. How many Muslims are the University of Florida. the Florida Times-Union. I don’t probability that one will be hope he does so in the future.
there in the so-called “Bible “Of all the places, the South is know. But this was not written e l e c t e d i n t h e f u t u r e . I f Five Filters featured article:
Belt”? One recent religious self- the least likely for that to by a high school student. thousands of Muslims had run The Art of Looking Prime
identification survey says that happen,” Wald said. Brumley is actually a good for office and been defeated, Ministerial - The 2010 UK
there were 1.3 million Muslims The reason: The region is reporter whose work we’ve that would be different. General Election. Available
throughout the country, or about d o m i n a t e d b y e v a n g e l i c a l praised before. The piece then goes on to say tools: PDF Newspaper, Full
.6% of the population. How Protestantism, “a religion that So why did he think painting that the election of two Muslim Text RSS, Term Extraction.
many are in the South? How has intellectual difficulties with evangelicals as members of a r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s c a u s e d
d o e s t h e i r c a n d i d a c y r a t e religious diversity.” religion with “intellectual c o n s t e r n a t i o n a m o n g
E-reader News Edition
Marvel Brings “Iron Man” to the iPhone
Christina Warren (Mashable!)
Submitted at 5/3/2010 7:06:25 AM
Marvel Entertainment and
Zumobi have teamed up to bring
a new Iron Man application to
the iPhone and iPod touch. The
free application is more than just
a tie-in for the upcoming Iron
Man 2 movie, it’s an app
designed to keep fans connected
to the entire Iron Man universe,
provide video clips,
downloadable wallpapers,
access to movie tickets and
more.
We got a chance to talk to both
Marvel and Zumobi about the
app, its development and future
plans to bring Marvel properties
to mobile devices.
Zumobi designed the app to fit
in with the existing Iron Man
motif. The graphics and colors
match the film and comic series
and elements of the apps control
panel mimic the HUD (heads-up
display) that resides inside Tony
Stark’s Iron Man helmet.
From the main screen, users can
choose to view videos, news,
wallpapers, the origin of Iron
Man, buy tickets and access
other Marvel links.
The video clips feature a
variety of TV commercials for
Iron Man 2 and its tie-in
sponsors (like Dr. Pepper and
Audi) and there are also links to
clips from the film, which match
up with what Marvel has been
posting to its official YouTube
page.
The news section is one of the
most interesting because it
gathers news not just about the
film, but about the comics and
the related universe as well. So
fans can read details about
upcoming books in Avengers
series (or looks at past books),
find out about collectibles or
special edition memorabilia
that’s coming out, get a look at
movie posters, movie clips and
more.
Marvel pumps out literally
dozens of news items a day
about each of its different
properties and the Iron Man
iPhone app is updated as soon as
those articles hit the web. For
newer fans to the series who
might want to learn more about
Iron Man and the other
characters in the series, there is
an origins area that gives
background as to the character’s
history, his stats, the cool stuff
he can do, and so on. Social
Media, In-App Purchases and
More
Zumobi has a history of
creating mobile apps that tie-in
with social media — the
MSNBC.com and Rachel
Maddow iPhone apps are both
from Zumobi and both have
social elements. For the Iron
Man app, users can share
virtually any item they find in
the app via e-mail, Twitter or
Facebook. That’s pretty cool
and that’s the sort of thing we
like to see in branded
applications.
Social Media/ 57
sense. While I don’t expect this some of the existing marvel
to appeal to all users, for a core websites and applications —
group of Marvel fans, that’s the like the Marvel Comics app for
sort of thing that is worth $1. the iPhone and iPad. The plan is
The iPhone is Now, the iPad to have even better integration
Coming Soon with those apps in the future.
The iPhone and iPod touch Marvel also said that they are
have access to the Iron Man app anticipating building more
now, however, an app that is character or franchise centered
Zumobi told me that with the optimized for the iPad will be mobile apps. Marvel and
Iron Man app, the company is available soon. This app will Android?
making its first foray into h a v e s o m e o f t h e s a m e I asked Marvel about their
including in-app purchases. On characteristics of the Iron Man plans for Android and was told
that end, users can buy movie iPhone app but the extra space that the company is definitely
tickets for Iron Man 2 directly and faster processor of the iPad looking into Android and hopes
from the application. The app will be utilized to give an even to really dive into the platform
ties into Fandango.com, so you more immersive look and feel. later this summer. They are
can use the app to buy tickets Zumobi told me that they looking at other mobile
using new or your existing d e s i g n e d t h e i P a d a p p t o platforms too, but after the
Fandango information. Using basically be “what Tony Stark’s iPhone/iPad, Android is priority
geolocation, the app can point personal control center would number one. Future of Branded
out what theaters nearby are look like.” That’s pretty cool, Mobile Applications
playing the film and at what especially since we all know The most successful branded
time. Tony Stark would totally have mobile applications are those
The app also offers access to an iPad (OK, a souped-up super that match the sensibilities of
exclusive Marvel wallpaper for iPad with lasers and rocket the brand itself. The Iron Man
the iPhone. Right now, there are boosters) at his side at all times. app does that, both in what
a number of free selections that Extending Beyond the Movie features it offers and its overall
can be downloaded, but in the When I spoke with Marvel at look and feel. We think that
future, exclusive wallpaper the end of last week, they having applications that look the
designs will be available for stressed to me that the Iron Man part — and offer content and
$0.99 each. At first, I thought app is not an Iron Man 2 app. value beyond just an upcoming
t h a t c h a r g i n g $ 0 . 9 9 f o r That means that when the promotion — is necessary for
wallpaper was sort of insane, fanfare over the film dies down, brands that want a mobile app to
but then Zumobi told me that the app won’t disappear. News stay on users radars for more
these aren’t just going to be and character information and than just a few days.
standard movie graphics but other data will continue to be By catering first and foremost
actual designs commissioned by fed into the app, as it really is to comic fans – but also offering
the Marvel team. Suddenly, the designed to be a portal for all movie goers access and
idea of having access to a things Iron Man and as a way to information, Marvel has done a
specially designed iPhone better introduce people to the great job building a branded app
wallpaper that was drawn by a franchise.
famous Marvel artist makes Right now, the app links to MARVEL page 58
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Apple Has Sold 1 Million iPads continued from page 57

that doesn’t feel like it is one YouTube, Zumobi, news

Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) one store in 50 didn’t sell all of note. Tags: app reviews, apple, Film,
Submitted at 5/3/2010 2:49:44 AM the iPads it had in stock by What do you think of the trend iphone, iphone apps, iron man,
Sunday. Munster estimates that in branded applications? What Marvel, zumobi
Update: Apple has officially the overall number of iPads sold do you think of the Iron Man
confirmed it has sold 1 million is over 1 million, and expects app? Let us know! Reviews:
iPads. The company sold its one overall sales in 2010 will reach Android, Facebook, Twitter,
millionth iPad on Friday, April 4.3 million.
30, just 28 days after the If Apple indeed sold 1 million WORLD
device’s release. More than 12 iPads, we will probably hear it continued from page 58
million apps from the App Store So, now that the iPad 3G is from Apple very soon — the more credible if we had a video,
and over 1.5 million e-books finally available, what everyone company likes to brag about big but it poses some interesting
have been downloaded from the wants to know is: How well is numbers. On the other hand, questions: when (if) the
new iBookstore. this thing selling? Munster was wrong before, so technology behind Gaikai (or
“One million iPads in 28 According to Piper Jaffray we should probably take his their competitors OTOY or
days—that’s less than half of the analyst Gene Munster, it’s estimates with a grain of salt. OnLive) reaches maturity, could
74 days it took to achieve this selling very well — pretty much For more Apple coverage, it be used for playing
milestone with iPhone,” said as well as the Wi-Fi only iPad, follow Mashable Apple on graphically intensive games on
Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. in fact. About 300,000 3G iPads Twitter or become a fan on
“Demand continues to exceed were sold on launch weekend. Facebook
the iPad?
[via Pocket Gamer]
World of Warcraft
supply and we’re working hard Munster surveyed 50 Apple Tags: apple, Apple Tablet, ipad, For more Apple coverage, on the iPad With
to get this magical product into stores to arrive at this number. sales, trending follow Mashable Apple on
t h e h a n d s o f e v e n m o r e He concluded that the iPad 3G WORLD page 59 The Help of Gaikai
customers.” is essentially sold out, as only
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)

Apple Could Face Antitrust Inquiry Over Flash Submitted at 5/3/2010 5:16:10 AM

Have you ever heard of Gaikai?

Ban [REPORT] It’s a service (currently in beta)

that lets you play games in your
browser, directly from the
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) couple of days as the New York Apple has been at the receiving cloud. Gaikai runs and hosts the
Submitted at 5/3/2010 8:16:54 AM Post reports that either the end of several antitrust suits in games, which are then streamed
Department of Justice or the its history, but hasn’t yet to the end user with the help of
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has Federal Trade Commission suffered real damage. Could this Java, Flash, or Silverlight.
been very clear on the matter of might begin an antitrust inquiry time be different? Although iPad’s browser
Flash, and why Apple won’t let to determine into Apple’s new For more Apple coverage, doesn’t support Flash, someone
developers use a third-party policy, introduced a month ago follow Mashable Apple on seemingly found the way to run
layer of software to create apps with the revised section 3.3.1 of Twitter or become a fan on World of Warcraft on the iPad
for its mobile devices, the iPad, the the iPhone Developer Facebook
decision on which agency will via Gaikai, as seen in the
iPhone and iPod touch. Program License Agreement. Tags: adobe, Antitrust, apple, screenshot below.
The question is: Is it fair to The New York Posts quotes a launch the inquiry. The inquiry Flash, ipad, iphone
itself does not mean action will The entire thing would be far
developers and to Adobe? This person familiar with the matter,
question will definitely be the who claims that regulators are be taken against Apple, but it’s a
subject of debate in the next “days away” from making a step in that direction. WORLD page 58
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