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Hotter ties with Brazil? Tap Obamamania, says

expert
Anthony Boadle (Front Row at Johns Hopkins University’s
Washington) School of Advanced Video: Facebook
Submitted at 5/4/2010 9:02:09 PM International Studies. Security Hole Lets You
“Washington does not get it.
The United States’ influence in The United States is no longer View Your Friends’
its traditional “backyard” is an empire,” he said. Live Chats
waning and needs a boost. “A short visit to South America Steve O'Hear (TechCrunch)
Washington should be forging would make a great deal of
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:20:45 AM
closer ties with Latin America’s difference. It would be a very
emerging powerhouse Brazil, important way of indicating our You've got to hand it to
says Johns Hopkins political willingness to have a stronger Facebook. They certainly know
scientist Riordan Roett. rapport with the region.” how to do security -- not.
Best way to do that? Send the For more stories from the Today I was tipped off that there
Obamas to Brazil because Reuters Latin American is a major security flaw in the
Brazilians will go nuts about the Investment Summit, click here. social networking site that, with
U.S. First Family. Reuters photos by Sergio just a few mouse clicks, enables
“The White House should send Moraes (a samba school reveller any user to view the live chats
partner and Chinese clout is c o n f i r m a t i o n o f O b a m a ’ s
the Obamas to Brazil. Can you dances among mannequins of their 'friends'. Using what
growing in a region where nominee, Thomas Shannon.
imagine the Obamas getting off
Beijing is lining up long-term Brazil, the world’s 8th largest during the 2010 Rio Carnival) sounds like a simple trick, a user
the plane in Rio de Janeiro? It
supplies of r a w economy, has emerged as a and Jason Reed (the Obamas can also access their friends'
would be extraordinary, a
m a t e r i a l s . M e a n w h i l e , leading developing nation, a walk to Marine One at the latest pending friend-requests
carnival, absolute madness,”
Washington had no ambassador strong BRIC and G-20 voice White House on January 12, and which friends they share in
Roett told the Reuters Latin
in Brasilia for 11 months last that Washington should be 2010). common. That's a lot of
American Investment Summit. potentially sensitive
year, because of domestic listening to, says Roett, who
China has displaced the United information. Unbelievable I
politics: the Republicans held up directs Latin American studies
States as Brazil’s largest trading thought, until I just tested the
exploit for myself. And guess
what? It works.
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Obama promises to work overtime to Ahmadinejad says bin
ease economic impact of oil spill Laden in Washington
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 5/4/2010 2:11:02 PM
There’s not much to offer by
way of comfort to coastal states
threatened by the oil spill that’s
spreading over the Gulf of
Mexico like The Blob from
horror movies past.
And then there’s also the threat
from the“Loop Current” that
could carry the oil around
Florida’s peninsula and north…
So there’s not much by way of
lemonade likely to come out of
the lemons of this disaster, but
President Barack Obama
promised to work overtime to
limit the economic damage to
affected communities and to try
and make sure that jobs created
to clean up the mess would go to
local residents.
The oil spill will affect the
“lives and livelihoods of people
all along the Gulf Coast, from
Options Update: CBOE Volatility Index Increases 18%
Paul Foster (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:30:00 AM
Filed under: Dow Chemical
(DOW), Options
CBOE Volatility Index ( VIX)
at 23.84; 10-day moving
average is 19.52, 50-day is
the fishing industry to the
tourism industry,” Obama said
in a speech to business
executives.
“We are committed to
preventing as much of the
economic damage as possible by
working to contain the impact of
this potentially devastating
spill,” he said.
17.99, 200-day moving average
is 22.07, according to Track
Data.
Two stocks with IV rise on
May 4; Annaly Mortgage (
NLY) +5%, Dow Chemical (
DOW) +9%, according to
IVolatility.
“In addition, wherever possible,
I would like to see the people
most affected by the disaster
employed in helping in the
cleanup,” Obama said.
“And we will continue to
explore every possible option to
create jobs and support local
economies in the Gulf while
continuing to monitor any
potential effects on the national
economy,” he said. “But
obviously this is going to be a
significant challenge, and we are
going to be working overtime to
make sure that we mitigate its
impacts.”
How would you rate the federal
government’s response to the oil
spill?
Photo credit: Reuters/Sean
Gardner (birds fly over oil on
water south of Louisiana),
Reuters/Carlos Barria (pelican
flies against backdrop of drilling
platform near Breton Island,
Louisiana)
Crocs ( CROX) is expected to
report Q1 EPS on May 6th.
CROX May put option implied
volatility is at 97, June is at 77,
September is at 70, above its 26-
week average of 64, according
to Track Data, suggesting larger
price movement.
Deborah Charles (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:55:56 AM
Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad has the answer to
the question that has plagued the
United States since Sept. 11,
2001.
He knows where Osama bin
Laden is — in Washington.
In an interview with ABC’S
“Good Morning America” on
Wednesday, Ahmadinejad
rejected reports that the al
Qaeda leader was in Iran.
“I heard that Osama bin Laden
is in the Washington, D.C.,”
Ahmadinejad said through an
interpreter in a contentious give-
and-take with his interviewer,
George Stephanopoulos.
“He’s there. Because he was a
previous partner of Mr. Bush.
They were colleagues in fact in
the old days. You know that.
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They were in the oil business
together. They worked together.
Mr. Bin Laden never cooperated
with Iran but he cooperated with
Mr. Bush,” Ahmadinejad said.
“Rest assured that he’s in
Washington. I think there’s a
high chance he’s there.”
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The 4 Hot Digital Marketing Trends You Need To Know

About
John Arnold (Business may sound like an antiquated anyone to search real-time
Insider) way to get noticed, but actually availability and local product
Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:18:00 AM display advertising is becoming information on every product,
much more interesting due to on every shelf, in every local
From Entrepreneur: two important trends. business in America.
Sometimes the most important One such trend is better local ad Another outstanding innovation
small business marketing tools targeting. for online retail comes from
and technologies start out as Several companies, such as Pixazza. Pixazza is changing the
expensive enterprise solutions L o c a l . c o m , L i n k e d I n a n d way consumers shop by
exclusive to big brands and Facebook, have announced that allowing people to browse and
agencies; only much later do they're getting into the local buy products that appear in any
they become affordable and targeting game by offering photos.
accessible to small businesses. geography-based advertising For example, let's say you're
During a recent trip to San a l o n g w i t h t h e s t a n d a r d reading an article in an online
Francisco, I stopped by the d e m o g r a p h i c o r k e y w o r d entertainment magazine and you
tradeshow floor at Ad:Tech and targeting you'd expect. Local see a photo of Jennifer Lopez
found myself staring into the not targeting is already prevalent in wearing earrings that are to-die-
-too-distant future of small search engine marketing and it's for. Getting yourself a similar
business marketing. I didn't good to know that display ads pair is easier than ever; as you
have a chance to see everything a r e h e a d i n g i n t h e s a m e How to get ready Get to know to get that information, online
hover over the photo Pixazza
Ad:Tech had to offer, but I did d i r e c t i o n . your acquisition costs on an advertising company Ad Buyer
recommends earrings at
have time to talk with a few The other noticeable trend to intimate level. offers a set of free audience
suggested prices far below what
innovative companies offering g e t e x c i t e d a b o u t i s t h e If cost-per-action advertising profiling tools.
Jennifer Lopez probably paid
solutions that are sure to movement toward ad pricing sounds attractive, you'll need to Innovation No. 2: Online Retail
for hers.
i n f l u e n c e t h e w a y s m a l l based on cost-per-action rather have a firm understanding of Promotions
How to get ready It's time to get
businesses approach marketing. than cost-per-click. what you're willing to pay for Image: AP Selling physical
your inventory database in
Here's what I found that's worth Paying for ads based on CPA each new customer or action goods has long been about
shape.
sharing along with some tips for means that you don't pay the your advertising obtains in order driving traffic to your e-
Selling products on websites
getting ready to adjust to new publisher until you get the to know how to bid. If you're commerce store so prospective
owned by other companies will
trends. interested in the possibilities of customers can see and buy your
action you want from the ad. For likely require you to conform to
See Also: targeted display advertising (and products. That trend seems
example, if you want your their database and information
• 5 Entrepreneurship Trends To online display ad to drive you're interested in getting destined for a giant turn in the
technology standards.
Watch In 2010 sophisticated with your opposite direction, because it
someone to an online store to There's no need to get overly
• 5 Keys For Successful Mobile buy the advertised product, you targeting) start building a profile won't be long before smaller
sophisticated here. If your
Marketing of your best prospects and retailers have the ability to sell
won't have to pay until someone company has the ability to
• 10 Ways To Stretch Your actually clicks the ad and customers--including more of their products on other
publish real time inventory and
Marketing Budget geography, demographic highly targeted consumer
completes the purchase. Several product information to your own
information and typical buying websites.
companies--such as Hydra-- website, you probably already
Innovation No. 1: Online have announced an emphasis on behavior. One such website is Milo.com,
Display Advertising Banner ads CPA tracking and billing. If you need help figuring out where the CEO announced the HOT page 4
how to analyze your customers company's intention to enable
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have enough technology to
quickly enable a feed of that
information to other online
databases.
Innovation No. 3: Social Media
Advertising
Image: respres (via Flickr)
Social media is arguably the
most innovative internet tool to
emerge since, well, the internet.
There are definitely good
reasons to advertise on social
media sites (this includes your
own fan pages and networks).
The challenge for a small
business is the same challenge
facing any business: How do
you get enough people to pay
attention to your ads while they
are busy uploading photos or
conversing with friends?
There are a number of
companies working to make
social media advertising more
engaging and even fun, and it
won't be long before there are a
plethora of choices for small
budgets.
At the show, NTB Media
Senate Reaches Agreement on 'Too Big to Fail'
Connie Madon
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:30:00 AM
Filed under: Politics, Financial
Crisis
As the Senate moves forward
with passing its landmark
financial reform bill, it has at
least reached an agreement on
one important component -- the
announced an interesting video
advertising product with built-in
games and quizzes to get people
to pay attention and remember
the content in the videos, and
Fan Appz announced access to
an integrated suite of social
media applications designed to
attract attention and engagement
in exchange for a subscription of
just $50 per month.
How to get ready Test before
you invest.
Social media advertising is
already accessible and
affordable to small business, but
affordability isn't the only
reason to invest in a particular
form of advertising.
Don't invest in a new social
media tool or advertising
strategy until you are sure you
have the ability and the time to
track your results and compare
them against other
opportunities. As a small
business, you can't afford to
invest in everything. If you don't
track and compare your results,
"too big to fail" provision. The
Dodd-Shelby accord was
supposed to include a proposed
$50 billion fund, paid by large
financial firms to cover the costs
of break up firms when they get
in a bind.
There are several other
proposals and provisions still
being discussed. A proposal by
Blanche Lincoln calling for
you won't have the information
you need to make budget-wise
choices.
Innovation No. 4: Mobile
Marketing Advertising and
messaging to mobile phones is
definitely a hot topic among
marketers.
In the past, most mobile
marketing tools focused on only
one aspect of mobile marketing,
such as text-messaging,
application development or
mobile websites. Those tools are
now converging as integrated
solutions.
One such company, 2ergo,
recently announced plans to
offer a comprehensive suite of
marketing solutions that include
SMS, MMS, e-mail and mobile
websites. Be on the lookout for
companies offering
comprehensive mobile solutions
priced for small businesses in
the not-too-distant future.
How to get ready Make sure at
least a portion of your website is
designed to display and function
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derivatives business is losing 'Too Big to Fail' originally
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properly on mobile devices--
especially the pages that contain
contact information for your
business.
If you have a location-based
business, start making your
communications more mobile
friendly so people can respond
to your offers and information
while they are on-the-go.
Sending text-messages and e-
mails with mobile coupons and
snack-sized bites of product
information are great places to
start. Also, social media users
are more likely to become
mobile savvy than the average
internet user, so make sure you
have a presence on the most
common social sites.
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Let's not forget that it was the
wild speculation in derivatives
that caused our financial
meltdown. To do nothing on this
issue borders on irresponsibility.
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Users of Facebook's Social Network Are Mostly Anti-Social:
Poll
Austin Carr (Fast Company)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:50:11 AM
Facebook users are still very
skeptical about socializing
online. And they're slightly
confused about what exactly
Facebook should be used for,
according to a study of user
behavior by Denmark-based
Red Associates. They surveyed
close to 500 members of the
Facebook community -- hand-
picked from fans of Fast
Company -- to learn more about
how users interact online.
When did you first register for
Facebook? Has it been that
long? Can you even remember
why you registered (Besides:
All my friends are doing it!)?
What did you expect the social
network to deliver?
Facebook's homepage promises
to help "you connect and share
with the people in your life."
Red Associates's study,
though, suggests that users want
far more, with 90% of
respondents expecting that the
social network will "deepen or
strengthen their friendships."
Very few actually believe
Facebook delivers on this
expectation, with more than half
of respondents viewing
10 Ways To Contact A Ghost Videos
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Facebook instead as a
relationship-management tool,
not a useful way to deepen
relationships. Just 0.7% see
Facebook as only good for
strengthening friendships.
Should Facebook still be
considered a "social"
networking site?
The study points out that even
your "friends" online are not
actually your friends, finding
that close to 40% of respondents
say they added "friends" to their
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Facebook network simply
because it was easy. "Facebook
has no intelligent mechanism for
figuring out who your close
friends are or who you would
like them to be," the study
reminds us. "Online social
networks make it easy for
people to accumulate friends
rapidly and to make
commitments easily," and in
fact, "What define social
networks most [is] a lack of
depth in relationships."
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appropriate)My wonderful
father died last night (57.2%)My
wife left me (10%)
Certainly, these are extreme
posts, but what's interesting here
is that there is roughly an even
split between the number of
respondents who feel sharing
information about a father's
death is appropriate and those
who do not, suggesting,
according to the study, that
"people are uncertain about
what's okay to express
emotionally without being a turn
-off."
For nearly half of all
respondents, Facebook isn't
considered a social network but
more a public phone book or
search engine. Contact is
minimal and impersonal, and
M a n y u s e r s a p p e a r close to a fourth of all
disappointed by this lack of respondents said that Facebook
intimacy, according to the has not led to a better social life.
survey; moreover, they are even So just how social is Facebook?
unsure how intimate they can Is it just good for birthday-
act on Facebook. For example, reminders and the occasional
the survey asked users about wall post? Do you agree with
their level of comfort in sharing the study's findings? Share
information online. They asked below.
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appropriate to post on
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from college (92.8% feel this is
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Threadsy Smooshes Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and More Into
a Surprisingly Clean Stream
Dan Nosowitz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:45:32 AM
Threadsy has been available in
a private beta for a little while
now, but today opened the
service to the public. I hadn't
used the beta, so this public
release is my first exposure to
Threadsy, and honestly, I'm a lot
more impressed than I expected.
That doesn't mean I'm going to
use it, though.
There've been social
networking aggregators before--
FriendFeed comes to mind--but
Threadsy is the best one I've
seen yet. Instead of one Twitter-
like stream a la FriendFeed,
Threadsy smartly separates
messages from live updates. On
the left, you've got messages,
including email (Gmail is
supported handily, and it looks
like it can handle most email
services), Facebook messages,
and Twitter direct messages. On
the right are your feeds--so far,
only Facebook and Twitter are
supported, but those are the two
biggies (and, if I'm being
honest/selfish, the only two I
use).
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Pittman lighten Pork and Pinto
The Facebook and Twitter
stream section is handled really
well--updating to either or both
is easy, the interface is clean and
obvious, and combining those
two just makes sense. You can't
seem to upload photos, which is
a problem; you want an
aggregator to be able to handle
absolutely everything a
standalone app could, otherwise
you'll keep bouncing back and
forth between the aggregator
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and the standalone and
eventually, necessarily, stop
using the aggregator.
One really cool feature: If you
click on a message in the left-
hand column, you'll see a
complete overview of the sender
in the right-hand column. Open
an email from a friend, and
you'll see his photos, links to his
Facebook and Twitter, and all
his recent updates.
But overall, email isn't
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interplay between Gmail and
Google Apps (Reader, Maps,
Documents, Calendar, Picasa).
Even worse, you can't upload or
send files of any kind, including
photos and documents.
Threadsy is a good idea, and it's
got promise. But it's not going
to succeed unless it can offer
everything a standalone app can
(which is going to be a hell of a
challenge in the case of Gmail).
Really, this kind of concept
works better in the limited space
and limited power of a
smartphone, like Larva Labs'
excellent Slidescreen app for
Android, HTC Sense UI's
FriendStream, and the home
screen of Microsoft's upcoming
Windows Phone 7 OS. Maybe if
amazing. It's a pretty good you're a very rudimentary email
client, don't get me wrong, and I u s e r ( a n d I m e a n v e r y - -
like how it integrates Facebook remember, you can't even email
messages into the messages, photos) yet a voracious social
along with email (because I networking user, Threadsy
have a tendency to completely would work. And for those in
ignore Facebook and thus that category, it's pretty great.
Facebook messages), but for But I'm going to stick with
those of us who use email separate apps for now.
extensively, Threadsy just can't
stack up to Gmail. I miss the
keyboard shortcuts, the speed,
the file previews, and the
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How to Build a Monument to Nazi Evil Without Celebrating It

Suzanne LaBarre (Fast Until now, visitors to the
Company) Topography of Terror snaked
Submitted at 5/5/2010 10:00:01 AM along a makeshift outdoor
exhibit with informational
Berlin's new "Topography of placards thrown up here and
Terror" exhibition center there. The SS and Gestapo
documents, doesn't honor, the buildings were badly damaged
Gestapo and the SS. in the war then razed (though
These were some of the most some scraps remain and have
evil 11 acres in Germany, a been incorporated into an
place where Nazi leaders informal walking tour). Over the
hatched plans to terrorize years, the site has been both
millions as casually as you home to construction companies
might send an email. Heinrich and a place to practice for your
Himmler had an office there. So driver's license. The Berlin Wall
did Adolf Eichmann, the rose, then fell, just feet away.
"architect of the Holocaust." It Berlin has done an excellent job
was there that, in a matter of commemorating the victims of
months, German democracy Nazi Germany, unlike some
began to crumble. cities(subscription required).
Sixty-five years on, Berlin has vexing one for architects: How minimal to the point of being headquarters after $18 million Daniel Libeskind unveiled his
transformed the Topography of do you document evil without utilitarian, and that's precisely was spent on construction, Jewish Museum Berlin in 2001,
Terror, a cluster of buildings building a monument to it? the point. There's nothing to p a r t l y b e c a u s e o f b u d g e t and Peter Eisenman's Memorial
that housed the Gestapo, the SS, Ursula Wilms with Heinle, consecrate, no one to adulate, o v e r r u n s a n d p a r t l y , o n e to the Murdered Jews of Europe
and other police agencies from W i s c h e r u n d P a r t n e r h a s nothing to be proud of. In the suspects, because the design had opened four years later. But
1933 to 1945, into an exhibition designed an anti-monument of great tradition of Maya Lin's some powerful detractors. One architecture for perpetrators is in
space trained on the elaborate sorts. A box ensconced in a Vietnam Memorial, it exists for m e m b e r o f t h e G e r m a n many ways a trickier feat.
workings and aftermath of the gunmetal gray skin, it crouches the sake of remembering. government's media and culture Wilms's design manages to
Third Reich. The center opens low to the earth, ghost-like, Wilms's design is not the first. department called it, rather point at a dark period of history
this week. It's the site's first practically fading into the Berlin Berlin scrapped Swiss architect d i s p a r a g i n g l y , a " v e r y without prettying it up.
permanent landmark, after more landscape. Save a reflecting Peter Zumthor's plans to plant a complicated and a very artificial [ P h o t o s c o u r t e s y o f t h e
than 20 years of fits and starts, pool in the inner courtyard, it's structure on the old Gestapo plan." Topography of Terror]
and the problem it confronts is a

Latest Oil Slick Projections Show Ominous Circling Of Louisiana Coast

Joe Weisenthal (The Money The NOAA's latest map of the though though there is only story »
Game) oil slick is out. Note the landfall in a couple of small
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:53:13 AM projections for tomorrow points.
indicate that the slick will encircle the tip of Louisiana, Join the conversation about this
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Time Warner's Profits Boosted By Cable, DVD
And Ad Dollars (TWS)
Associated Press (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:21:52 AM
NEW YORK – Tim Warner
Inc. said Wednesday that
improving results at its cable
channels and a couple of
popular DVD releases boosted
its first-quarter net income by 10
percent.
The New York media
conglomerate's premium HBO
channels took in more from
subscription revenue, while its
Turner cable networks rode a
recovery in ad spending.
The improving ad market and
cost cutting also helped Time
Warner's publishing segment
reverse its losses. The
publishing division includes
Time Inc. magazines such as
Time and Sports Illustrated.
First quarter results across the
media business have brought
evidence that companies are
more comfortable putting
money into marketing their
products as the recession fades.
Viacom Inc., whose cable
channels include BET, MTV
and Comedy Central, reported a
3 percent uptick in worldwide
ad sales in the first quarter.
Comcast Corp., which has E!
Entertainment Television, Style
Network and the Golf Channel,
reported a 23.5 percent jump.
Overall, Time Warner earned
$725 million, or 62 cents per
share, for the period ended
March 31. That's better than its
profit of $660 million, or 55
cents, a year ago.
Removing one-time items,
profit was 61 cents per share.
Revenue climbed 5 percent to
$6.32 billion from $6 billion,
the biggest increase in almost
two years.
Nonetheless, its shares fell 27
cents to $32.40 in morning
trading as the broader market
fell on European debt worries.
In the network division, which
houses HBO and Turner
Broadcasting, revenue rose 9
percent on a 7 percent increase
in subscription revenue, a 9
percent rise in ad revenue and a
22 percent increase in content
revenue.
The filmed entertainment unit,
which contains Warner
Brothers, reported a 2 percent
revenue increase mainly on its
improved home video sales.
Revenue for the publishing
division dipped 1 percent
"The advertising recovery
despite a 5 percent increase in
benefited both Turner and Time
ad revenue and a 2 percent rise
Inc., while the continuing
in subscription revenue.
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East Coast (BP)
Gus Lubin (Business Insider)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:30:00 AM
Oceanographers at University
of South Florida College are
frantically preparing models to
forecast the oil slick.
This video ( via The Map
Scroll) shows how ocean
currents will move the oil slick.
Basically one part is moving
west along the coast and into the
backside of Florida. But another
part is moving south toward
currents that will push it around
Florida and up the east coast.
Just imagine what this map will
look like after months of
leaking.
The narrator warns (3:22): "I
hope people on the East Coast
are getting prepared for this and
in Florida, because it looks like
it's going to come your way. It is
not just a Gulf Coast deal."
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Gold Going To $3,000 Is Getting Unknowns for Investors
Joseph Lazzaro
Stronger By The Day (GLD) (BloggingStocks)
Joe Weisenthal (Business broken below 1.30 to Germany Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:00:00 AM

Insider) the U.S. dollar and there is comes through after the vote — Filed under: Exxon Mobil
Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:10:08 AM plenty of room for additional is a case in point. (XOM), BP p.l.c. ADS (BP)
decline going forward. So contagion risks loom and Any institution that says it can
David Rosenberg of Guskin- It’s only at a one-year low — there are simply not enough forecast with any confidence the
Sheff is a deflationist, but unlike wait until it moves to a decade trees on the planet impact of the BP Plc. ( BP) Gulf
some (like Robert Prechter), he's low. that can provide enough paper of Mexico oil spill on energy offshore spill. BP has
also pro-gold. Make no mistake — the currency to backstop countries policy is asking someone to put demonstrated that some oil
Today he argues that the problems in Greece are mirrored like Portugal and a lot of trust in the companies may not -- a reality
breakdown of the euro is very in places like Portugal Spain. Moreover, what organization's powers of that throws into doubt the safety
bullish for gold. and Spain — this is not about investors see is that if there is so prediction -- certainly more than of deep-water drilling for oil.
ECB IS NO BUNDESBANK, liquidity, like Bear Stearns and much political foot- an investor should. How can you drill one, two,
EURO IS NO D-MARK Lehman, it is a dragging in Germany and other And the reason is obvious three miles below sea-level if
In the interim, the ECB has crisis in confidence (Banco EU countries to approve a enough: The scope of the oil it's uncertain that the company
been forced to water down its Santander, widely seen as a bailout of tiny Greece, spill's damage will vary can contain a spill, and even less
charter as it permits barometer of financial achieving a rescue plan for depending on the weather, ocean likely that it can do so quickly?
sub-investment grade Greek health in Spain, cratered 7% other large basket-cases will be currents, the size of the spill, Continue reading Oil Spill: Too
bonds as collateral. Sadly, the yesterday). The FT reports even more arduous technology, the size of the Many Unknowns for Investors
central bank is not a today that there has a task. Have a look at Martin containment and repair effort -- Oil Spill: Too Many Unknowns
remake of the Bundesbank and been some market chatter that Wolf’s column on page 9 of the all of which may vary over the for Investors originally appeared
the Euro is less of a “hard Spain has been “negotiating” FT — A Bailout For coming weeks. on BloggingStocks on Wed, 05
currency” than its with the IMF for Greece is Just the Beginning. What is certain is that the spill May 2010 09:00:00 EST.
architects could have ever assistance (€280bln) too. What a tale of woe. And let’s has damaged the environment Please see our terms for use of
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quantitative easing plan (see than liquidity crunches. The to Play For on page that oil companies had plans in Energy- BP- ExxonMobil
ECB Should Resist QE fact that Greek short- 7 of the FT). place to deal with a large,
Siren Call on page C14 of the term bonds have collapsed in Don't miss: Pictures of today's
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Starbucks Opens LEED Pilot Shop in NYC

Ariel Schwartz (Fast Hanna, Starbucks' director of Starbucks roasting plants.
Company) environmental affairs, said that Custom artwork by local artist
Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:56:53 AM Starbucks simply aimed to Peter Tunney integrates
create the most sustainable store Starbucks existing marketing
Starbucks is one of those rare possible--LEED certification collateral into the canvases.
food and beverage chains that was an afterthought. Still, the The focus on all things local
embraces sustainability in both possibility of approval from the isn't new to Starbucks--founder
their products (Fair Trade U.S. Green Building Council Howard Schultz has recently
coffee, for example) and in must have crossed Starbucks encouraged stores to feature
retail locations. The latter can be designers' minds at some point. local artists, live music, and
s e e n i n S t a r b u c k s ' n e w l y Starbucks' Soho shop doesn't local bean providers. But the
completed Manhattan Soho pilot skimp on design, either. The sustainability element is a
store, which is up for LEED store attempts to shed the change, and it will likely be
certification in July. Starbucks corporate image with incorporated into all Starbucks
The shop incorporates a laundry l o c a l a n d h o m e y t o u c h e s , stores as part of the five-year
list of green features that including: The countertops of also made of repurposed wood community board is made of renovation cycle. Even if the
increase its chances of getting the Clover® and espresso bar, from Somerset, PA. The metal panels repurposed from coffee chain uses its newfound
LEED certified, including dual- bar cladding, column cladding, bar casework, wood seat retired espresso machines. The focus on sustainable design to
flush toilets, low-flow faucets, chair rail and base are made of roundabouts and metal stools wallpaper next to the Clover® drum up publicity, we won't
water-based paints, and LED repurposed white oak recovered were manufactured locally on bar area is made of reused complain.
bulbs. In an interview with from several barns in Somerset, Long Island. The magnetic burlap coffee sacks from
Tonic's Nadia Hosni, Jim PA. The community table is

Before the Bell: Futures Lower on Fear of Greece

Debt Woes Contagion
Melly Alazraki sovereign debt problem and fear Greece Debt Woes Contagion
(BloggingStocks) of contagion in the euro zone Before the Bell: Futures Lower
Ning Will Remain
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:15:00 AM continued. Meanwhile, more on Fear of Greece Debt Woes Free for Public
earnings are on tap, as well as Contagion originally appeared
Filed under: Before the Bell, some economic data. on BloggingStocks on Wed, 05 Schoolteachers
International Markets, Time U.S. stocks sank Tuesday in May 2010 08:15:00 EST. Dan Nosowitz (Fast
Warner (TWX), Market Matters, heavy trade, with the Dow Jones Please see our terms for use of Company)
A m e r I n t l G r o u p ( A I G ) , Industrial Average sliding 225 feeds. Permalink| Email this|
Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:50:48 AM
Economic Data U.S. stock points, or 2%, the S&P 500 Comments
futures fell again Wednesday shedding 2.4% and the Nasdaq by rumors that were later denied Dow Jones Industrial Average- Brain Trust: Ning chairman
morning, indicating Wall Street C o m p o s i t e d r o p p i n g 3 % . that Spain asked the IMF for Spain- Wall Street- International Marc Andreessen (he built
may open the session lower, a Worries that Greece's debt help. Monetary Fund- Nasdaq Netscape back in the day), with
day after markets tumbled over problems would extend to Spain Continue reading Before the Composite Bianchini, at the company's HQ
2%. Concerns over Greece's and Portugal were exacerbated Bell: Futures Lower on Fear of
NING page 11
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NING
continued from page 10

in Palo Alto. | Photograph by
Art Streiber
Back on April 15th, Ning
announced that they'd be
moving from both paid and free
offerings for their social
network building service to paid
-only. Ning was and is mostly
used by those to whom the word
"free" is most important--
nonprofits. It's tricky and
expensive to build a private
social network, and even large-
ish organizations like crazy
commercial-maker T. Boone
Pickens's 200,000 alternative
energy enthusiasts opted for
Ning's free service as an
alternative.
Ning's new paid service is
hardly expensive, starting at $3
per month ($20 per year) and
going up to $50 per month for
more premium options. But one
group apparently complained
loudly enough to be heard:
public schoolteachers. Teachers
have both a minuscule budget
and an insane amount of red
tape to go through to have any
funds approved, and even Ning's
cheapest option may have been
too much to afford. (That says
as much about our public school
system as it does about social
networking startups, but that's a
different argument.)
So, according to the New York
Times, Ning will exempt public
schoolteachers from fees. This
might all be just a minor
sacrifice to score some press
adulation, which is going to be
an uphill battle since tons of
other nonprofits will be taken
offline, but it's a nice gesture
nonetheless.
You can read more Ning
coverage here ( The Five Things
Ning Got Right) and here (
Ning's Infinite Ambition).
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).
Gmail returns to the
U.K.
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NOAA:1 of 3 Gulf well leaks halted

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MIAMI(Reuters) - One of three "While this stopped one of the amount leaking".
leaks from the ruptured Gulf of three leaks, oil continues to U.S. authorities and BP are
Mexico undersea well owned by enter the Gulf of Mexico at a racing to try to contain a huge
BP has been capped, but oil is rate of approximately 5000 oil slick from the ruptured well
still flowing out at a rate of barrels per day," it added. that is threatening four Gulf
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Giant dome for Gulf oil leak is next best solution (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) Class David Mosley said. I'm not resting," U.S. Coast more containment equipment PLC. In lawsuits filed Tuesday,
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:01:26 AM The capped leak was more than Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry and repaired some booms three workers say they were
800 feet from the blowout said. damaged in rough weather over kept floating at sea for more
NEW ORLEANS – The best preventer, which sits over the In their worst-case scenario, BP the weekend. They also hoped than 10 hours while the rig
short-term solution to bottling well head on the seafloor. executives told members of a to again try to burn some of the burned uncontrollably. They are
u p a d i s a s t r o u s o i l s p i l l Most of the oil is coming from congressional committee that up oil on the water's surface, seeking damages.
t h r e a t e n i n g s e a l i f e a n d a leak about 460 feet from the to 2.5 million gallons a day possibly Wednesday. Guy Cantwell, a spokesman for
livelihoods along the Gulf Coast preventer, while a smaller leak could spill if the leaks Chemical dispersants piped rig owner Transocean Ltd.,
should be headed out to sea is still allowing oil to escape worsened, though it would be 5,000 feet to the main leak have defended the company's
Wednesday in the form of a from a crack where the pipe more like 1.7 million gallons. In significantly reduced the amount response, saying 115 workers
specially built giant concrete- casing bent about 5 feet from an exploration plan filed with of oil coming to the surface, BP did get off alive. Two wrongful
and-steel box designed to siphon the top of the preventer. the government in February said. death suits also have been filed.
the oil away. Meanwhile, the effort to protect 2009, BP said it could handle a From the air Tuesday, the site While officials worked on
At about midday, a barge will Louisiana coastal wetlands was "worst-case scenario" it of the Deepwater Horizon cleanup, the long wait took its
haul the 100-ton contraption 50 expected to pick up. described as a leak of 6.8 explosion looked similar to a toll on nerves and incomes.
miles offshore to a spot where a In Plaquemines Parish, officials million gallons per day from an week ago except for the In Gulf Shores, Ala., the real
mile-deep gusher from a blown- loaded absorbent boom shortly uncontrolled blowout. appearance of a massive rig estate firm Brett/Robinson
out undersea well has been after dawn to take out to the Containment boxes have never brought in to drill a relief well to Vacations sent a note to those
spewing at least 210,000 gallons mouth of the Mississippi River. been tried at this depth — about shut off the spewing oil. That renting vacation properties that
of crude a day into the Gulf for The barge will be used as a 5,000 feet — because of the will take months. they would not be penalized for
two weeks. BP spokesman John distribution point for local extreme water pressure. If all People along the Gulf Coast any spill-related cancellations,
Curry said it would be deployed fishermen to lay the boom goes well, the contraption could have spent weeks living with but urged them not to jump the
on the seabed by Thursday. around sensitive marshes. be fired up early next week to uncertainty, wondering where gun.
It's the latest idea engineers Parish President Billy start funneling the oil into a and when the huge slick might "There are many questions and
from oil giant BP PLC are Nungesser said the parish has 24 tanker. come ashore, ruining their many `what ifs' regarding this
trying after an oil rig the miles of the boom. Workers in "We don't know for sure" beaches — and their livelihoods. event," the message read.
c o m p a n y w a s o p e r a t i n g yellow rain suits scrubbed air whether the equipment will The anxiety is so acute that "Because changes come about
exploded April 20, killing 11 boats. At a nearby marina, local work, said BP spokesman Bill some are seeing and smelling oil hourly and 30 days is a long
workers. It sank two days later. shrimpers planned to use their Salvin. "What we do know is where there is none. And even way away, we are asking you to
BP is in charge of the cleanup boats to put down boom as part that we have done extensive though the dead turtles and wait before canceling your
and President Barack Obama of a program BP is running. engineering and modeling and jellyfish washing ashore along vacation, especially those of you
and many others have said the In all, about 7,900 people are we believe this gives us the best the Gulf of Mexico are clean, who are scheduled to arrive
company also is responsible for working to protect the shoreline chance to contain the oil, and and scientists have yet to more than 30 days from today."
the costs. and wildlife, and some 170 that's very important to us." determine what killed them, There are legitimate concerns,
BP capped one of three leaks at boats are also helping with the The seas calmed Tuesday, many are just sure the flow of experts say. A second bird
the well Tuesday night, a step cleanup. allowing more conventional crude unleashed by the found in the slick, a brown
that will not cut the flow of oil A rainbow sheen of oil has methods to contain the spill to explosion at BP's Deepwater pelican, is recovering at a bird
but that BP has said will make it r e a c h e d l a n d i n p a r t s o f get back on track as businesses Horizon is the culprit. rescue center in Louisiana.
easier to help with the gusher. Louisiana, but forecasts showed and residents kept an eye on the The rig was owned by National Wildlife Federation
"It doesn't lessen the flow, it just the oil wasn't expected to come ocean currents, wondering when Transocean Ltd. Some of the president and CEO Larry
simplifies the number of leak ashore for at least a couple more the sheen washing ashore in 115 surviving workers who Schweiger says there's no way
points they have to address," days. places might turn into a heavier were aboard when it exploded GIANT page 17
Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st "It's a gift of a little bit of time. coating of oil. Crews put out are suing that company and BP
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Times Square bombing suspect's life had unraveled (AP)
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Submitted at 5/4/2010 9:34:09 PM
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – Not
long ago, Faisal Shahzad had a
pretty enviable life: He became
an American citizen after
emigrating from Pakistan, where
he came from a wealthy family.
He earned an MBA. He had a
well-educated wife and two kids
and owned a house in a middle-
class Connecticut suburb.
In the past couple of years,
though, his life seemed to
unravel: He left a job at a global
marketing firm he'd held for
three years, lost his home to
foreclosure and moved into an
apartment in an impoverished
neighborhood in Bridgeport.
And last weekend, authorities
say, he drove an SUV loaded
with explosives into Times
Square intent on blowing it up.
The bomb didn't go off, and
Shahzad was arrested on a plane
in New York as he tried to leave
the country. He was in custody
Tuesday and couldn't be reached
for comment. Authorities say he
is cooperating and has admitted
getting explosives training in his
native Pakistan.
Shahzad's behavior sometimes
seemed odd to his neighbors,
and he surprised a real estate
broker he hardly knew with his
outspokenness about President
George W. Bush and the Iraq
war.
"He mentioned that he didn't
like Bush policies in Iraq," said
Igor Djuric, who represented
Shahzad in 2004 when he was
buying a home.
Djuric said he couldn't
remember the exact words
Shahzad used about Bush but
"something to the effect of he
doesn't know what he's doing
and it's the wrong thing that he's
doing."
"I don't know if he mentioned
9/11," Djuric said, "but
something like that, Iraq has
nothing to do with anything."
Shahzad, 30, is the son of a
former top Pakistani air force
officer, according to Kifyat Ali,
a cousin of Shahzad's father. He
came to the United States in late
1998 on a student visa,
according to an official who
spoke to The Associated Press
on condition of anonymity due
to the sensitive nature of the
investigation into Saturday's
failed car bombing.
He took classes at the now-
defunct Southeastern University
in Washington, D.C., then
enrolled at the University of
Bridgeport, where he received a
bachelor's degree in computer
applications and information
systems in 2000.
"He was personable, a nice guy,
but unremarkable," said William
Greenspan, adviser for
undergraduate business students
at the University of Bridgeport.
"He would just come in and take
the course as needed so he could
graduate in a timely manner."
"If this didn't happen, I probably
would have forgotten him,"
Greenspan said. "He didn't stand
out."
Shahzad was granted an H1-B
visa for skilled workers in 2002,
according to the official who
spoke to the AP. He later
returned to the University of
Bridgeport to earn a master's in
business administration,
awarded in 2005.
In 2004, he and his wife, Huma
Mian, bought a newly built
home for $273,000 at the height
of the market in Shelton, a
Fairfield County town that in
recent years has attracted
companies relocating to
Connecticut's Gold Coast.
Like her husband, Mian was
well educated. She graduated
from the University of Colorado
at Boulder in 2004 with a
bachelor of science in business
with an emphasis in accounting,
the school said.
On her profile on the social
networking site Orkut, she
described herself as "not
political" and said she spoke
English, Pashto, Urdu and
French. She listed her passions
as "fashion, shoes, bags,
shopping!! And of course,
Faisal." She posted a picture of
Shahzad, smiling, with the
caption, "what can I say ... he's
my everything."
Last year, the couple
abandoned the home.
Neighbor Davon Reid and his
girlfriend, Heatherlee Tyler, said
they were puzzled that the
couple moved out abruptly and
left behind a mess of food,
broken dishes and baby formula
in the cabinets. They say the
couple piled up remaining
possessions in the closet of an
upstairs bedroom. Tyler said
there were bugs on the floors
and stains.
"It was like they just picked up
everything they wanted and just
left one day," Reid said.
He said Shahzad was generally
friendly but had some quirky
habits, including jogging at
night while wearing dark
clothing.
Shahzad worked from mid-
2006 to May 2009 as a junior
financial analyst for the
Affinion Group, a marketing
firm in Norwalk. Company
spokesman Michael Bush said
Shahzad held a lower-level
position dealing with the
company's budget and projected
income and left on good terms.
Still, Shahzad defaulted on a
$200,000 mortgage on his
Shelton home, and the property
is in foreclosure, court records
show. Shahzad took out the
mortgage on the property in
2004, and he co-owned the
home with Mian.
Chase Home Finance LLC sued
Shahzad in September, and the
foreclosure is pending in
Milford Superior Court.
Frank DelVecchio, a broker
trying to sell the home for
Shahzad, said Shahzad told him
to let the bank take it. He said
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Shahzad told him he owed too
much on it and planned to return
to Pakistan.
Authorities say Shahzad
returned to Pakistan then came
back to the United States. He
took an apartment in Bridgeport,
and his landlord told
investigators the apartment
came with a garage that he alone
had access to. The landlord also
told police that he spotted two
bags of fertilizer when he saw
Shahzad entering the garage
May 3.
The SUV Shahzad is accused of
driving into Times Square
contained a metal rifle cabinet
that was packed with fertilizer,
but police bomb experts believe
it wasn't a type volatile enough
to explode like the ammonium
nitrate grade fertilizer used in
previous terrorist bombings.
Neighbors in Bridgeport said
Shahzad kept to himself, rarely
socializing or stopping to chat.
"He usually walks around alone,
looking lonely and kind of
depressed usually," Nejilia
Gayden said.
Since Shahzad's arrest late
Monday, investigators have
removed fireworks and fertilizer
from the property. They also
recovered a gun from the car
Shahzad had driven to the
airport.
Federal agents also searched the
empty home in Shelton on
Tuesday after The Connecticut
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NY car bomb suspect cooperates, but motive mystery (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:40:50 AM
NEW YORK – A man accused
of trying to detonate a car bomb
in Times Square had found the
stable, suburban life he had
spent a decade working toward,
then abandoned his house in
Connecticut and decided to
supplement his business degrees
with explosives training in
Pakistan, authorities say.
Faisal Shahzad, the 30-year-old
son of a retired official in
Pakistan's air force, was charged
Tuesday with trying to blow up
a crude gasoline and propane
device inside a parked SUV
amid tourists and Broadway
theatergoers. He was in custody
after being hauled off a Dubai-
bound plane he boarded
Monday night at John F.
Kennedy International Airport
despite being under surveillance
and placed on the federal no-fly
list.
Passengers disembarking from
the flight many hours later
described a calm scene as he
was removed from the plane.
They said he didn't put up a
struggle.
U.S. Attorney General Eric
Holder said Shahzad had been
providing valuable information
to investigators as they sought to
determine the scope of the plot
to blow up the SUV last
Saturday night in the heart of
Times Square near bustling
restaurants and a theater
showing " The Lion King."
"Based on what we know so far,
it is clear that this was a terrorist
plot aimed at murdering
Americans in one of the busiest
places in our country," Holder
said.
A court hearing was canceled
Tuesday in part because of
Shahzad's continuing
cooperation with investigators,
but authorities said they had
shed little light on what might
have motivated him.
Until recently, his life in the
U.S. appeared enviable. He had
a master's degree from the
University of Bridgeport in
Connecticut, a job as a budget
analyst for a marketing firm in
Norwalk, Conn., two children
and a well-educated wife who
posted his smiling picture and
lovingly called him "my
everything" on a social
networking website.
But shortly after becoming a
U.S. citizen a year ago, he gave
up his job, stopped paying his
mortgage and told a real estate
agent to let the bank take the
house because he was returning
to Pakistan.
Once there, according to
investigators, he traveled to the
lawless Waziristan region and
learned bomb making at a
terrorist training camp.
In court papers, investigators
said Shahzad returned to the
U.S. on Feb. 3, moved into an
apartment in a low-rent section
of Bridgeport, then set about
acquiring materials and an SUV
he bought with cash in late
April. They said that after his
arrest, Shahzad confessed to
rigging the bomb and driving it
into Times Square. He also
acknowledged getting training
in Pakistan, the filing said.
The investigation of the fizzled
bomb attack unfolded quickly,
with a suspect in custody in only
53 hours — but it didn't go off
without a hitch.
After identifying Shahzad
through the previous owner of
the SUV, investigators had him
under surveillance when he
nearly slipped away.
Authorities initially planned to
arrest him at his Connecticut
home but lost track of him, two
people familiar with the probe
told The Associated Press. The
people spoke on condition of
anonymity because they weren't
authorized to talk publicly about
the breach in surveillance.
NYPD Commissioner
Raymond Kelly played down
the slip on the morning TV talk
shows Wednesday, telling
ABC's "Good Morning
America" that "it's not unusual
in an investigation" to briefly
lose track of the target.
Emirates airlines also didn't
initially notice when Shahzad
purchased a ticket that he had
been placed on the government's
no-fly list, according to a law
enforcement official.
The government will now
require airlines to check updated
no-fly lists within two hours of
being notified of changes to the
list, a Homeland Security
official said Wednesday. The
official spoke on condition of
anonymity because he was not
authorized to speak publicly
about the change.
U.S. Department of Homeland
Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano credited customs
officials with recognizing
Shahzad's name on a passenger
manifest and stopping the flight.
Agents apprehended him on the
plane.
Passengers said the arrest was
made quietly.
"There was no commotion, no
general alarm or concern," said
Robert Woodward, of Boulder,
Colo.
A gun was discovered in the car
Shahzad left at the airport,
investigators said.
Kifyat Ali, a cousin of
Shahzad's father, spoke with
reporters outside a two-story
home the family owns in an
upscale part of Peshawar,
Pakistan. He said the family had
yet to be officially informed of
Shahzad's arrest, which he
called "a conspiracy so the
(Americans) can bomb more
Pashtuns," a reference to a
major ethnic group in Peshawar
and the nearby tribal areas of
Pakistan and southwest
Afghanistan.
The Pakistani Taliban has
claimed responsibility for the
Times Square car bomb plot, but
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U.S. officials said they are still
investigating. Federal authorities
are looking into possible
financing of Shahzad's activities
by the group, according to one
of the law enforcement officials
who spoke to the AP. A
spokesman for Pakistan's army
said Wednesday that it does not
believe the insurgent group was
behind the attempt.
In Pakistan, authorities detained
several people, although the FBI
said it had no confirmation that
those arrests were relevant to the
case.
Shahzad came to the U.S. in
late 1998 on a student visa. Not
long after earning his MBA, he
took a job at the Affinion
Group, which does brand-
loyalty marketing, and stayed
there until leaving voluntarily in
May 2009, a company
spokesman said.
His path to citizenship was
eased by his marriage to an
American, Huma Mian, who has
a business degree from the
University of Colorado at
Boulder.
On her profile on the social
networking site Orkut, she
described herself as "not
political," said she spoke
English, Pashto, Urdu and
French and listed her passions as
"fashion, shoes, bags,
shopping!! And of course,
Faisal."
She posted a picture of
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IN (AP)
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INDIANAPOLIS – It turned
out anger didn't translate at the
ballot box.
Voters in North Carolina and
Ohio kept their incumbents
while those in Indiana turned to
an old Capitol Hill hand —
Republican Dan Coats— in
Tuesday's primaries despite the
nation's bottom-of-the-barrel
support for Congress and
frustration with the Washington
establishment.
Coats, who was recruited by the
National Republican Senatorial
Committee, will face Democrat
Brad Ellsworth, whose
nomination is assured. The
candidates are seeking the seat
held by retiring Democratic Sen.
Evan Bayh.
Coats, 66, retired from the
Senate in 1998, has worked as a
lobbyist and was U.S.
ambassador to Germany under
President George W. Bush. He
overcame spirited challenges
from four opponents, including
state Sen. Marlin Stutzman, a
tea party favorite who was
endorsed by South Carolina Sen.
Jim DeMint, and former Rep.
John Hostettler, who had the
support of one-time presidential
candidate Rep. Ron Paul, R-
Texas.
Democrats quickly piled on,
calling Coats a "deeply flawed
candidate" and casting him as a
Washington insider beholden to
special interests.
Turnout was exceptionally light
in Ohio and North Carolina, a
possible indication that voter
anger over economic woes,
persistently high unemployment
and Congress itself wasn't
influencing elections — and,
perhaps, a reflection of the
limited influence of the
conservatives and libertarians
who make up the fledgling tea
party coalition.
"We rebuilt the pyramids and
recarved the Grand Canyon in
our spare time," joked poll
worker Dina Roberts, who saw
only 147 voters in nearly 12
hours at her downtown
Indianapolis polling site.
By the end of the day, however,
the Republican turnout in the
Indiana Senate primary was the
highest this decade, including
presidential election years.
In all three states, candidates
backed by party leaders in
Washington squared off against
challengers drawing their
support from elsewhere. While
it's difficult to draw concrete
conclusions about the state of
the country from just a few
races, the results gave some idea
of whether the national parties
still can influence rank-and-file
supporters.
At the very least, the outcome
of Tuesday's primaries — the
first set of contests in the two
months since Texas held its
February primary — set the
stage for November's
congressional matchups and
provided early insights about
voter attitudes ahead of this
fall's elections.
Among the notable House races
in Indiana, 14-term Republican
Rep. Dan Burton— Indiana's
longest-serving congressman —
struggled but managed to fend
off six challengers for his 5th
Congressional District seat, and
Rep. Mark Souder easily won
the GOP nomination in the 3rd
District after a nasty campaign.
In North Carolina's 6th
Congressional District,
Republican Rep. Howard Coble,
who first won his seat in 1984,
easily beat five opponents. And
in the 8th District, first-term
Democratic Rep. Larry Kissell
survived a primary challenge
from one of his former
campaign volunteers.
The state's first-term
Republican Sen. Richard Burr,
whose public approval numbers
are lower than expected, easily
won his party's nomination.
Democrats won't decide his
general election opponent until a
June 22 runoff, as none of the
six candidates achieved the 40
percent of the vote necessary to
win outright.
The runoff will pit Secretary of
State Elaine Marshall against
Cal Cunningham, a former state
senator who is the favored
choice of the Democratic
Senatorial Campaign
Committee.
In Ohio, Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, a
former state attorney general
backed by Democrats in
Washington, withstood a
challenge from Secretary of
State Jennifer Brunner. The two
sought the nomination to fill the
Senate seat of retiring
Republican George Voinovich.
Fisher will face former Rep.
Rob Portman, the budget
director and trade representative
under George W. Bush.
____
Sidoti reported from
Washington. Associated Press
writers Mike Baker in Raleigh,
N.C., and Julie Carr Smyth in
Columbus, Ohio, contributed to
this report.
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Post and The New York Times
said its reporters had discovered
a trove of rain-soaked
documents outside the home.
The Post's find included an old
passport from Pakistan, an
academic transcript from
Southeastern University listing a
grade point average of 2.78 and
tax returns showing Shahzad
earned $22,650 income as an
account analyst in 2001.
The newspaper also found
greeting cards, including one in
which someone named Fayeza
addressed him as "sweetest
Faisal."
"Wish you happiness and joy
now and always," the card said.
"Praying for your bright future."
___
Associated Press writers Eric
Tucker in Shelton, Conn., David
Caruso in New York and Dave
Collins, Stephen Singer, Pat
Eaton-Robb and Stephanie Reitz
in Hartford contributed to this
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to know how many birds have
been oiled because the slick is
so big and so far offshore.
Perdido Key, a barrier island
between Pensacola and the
Alabama state line with sugar-
white sand studded with
condominiums, likely would be
the first place in Florida affect
by the oil spill. Perdido —
Spanish for "Lost" — got a sniff
Tuesday morning of what may
be in store.
"You could smell the smell of it,
real heavy petroleum base," said
Steve Ownesby, 54, a
maintenance man at the Flora-
Bama Lounge abutting the state
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Shahzad, smiling, with the
caption, "what can I say ... he's
my everything."
___
Christoffersen reported from
Bridgeport and Shelton, Conn.
Contributing to this report were
Associated Press writers Eileen
Sullivan, Pete Yost, Matt
Apuzzo and Julie Pace in
Washington, Larry Neumeister,
David Crary, Colleen Long,
David B. Caruso and Sara
Kugler in New York, Chris
Brummitt in Islamabad, Adam
Schreck in Dubai, Eric Tucker
line on the Florida side.
The air cleared later, but
Owensby's 28-year-old
daughter, Stephanie, who tends
bar at the lounge, said some
visitors have complained of
feeling ill from the fumes.
"It's very sad because I grew up
out here," she said. "I remember
growing up seeing the white
beaches my whole life. Every
day I've been going to the beach
... a lot of people are out
watching and crying."
___
Associated Press writers Harry
R. Weber, Kevin McGill in New
Orleans, Ray Henry in Robert,
in Shelton, and Dave Collins,
Stephen Singer, Pat Eaton-Robb
and Stephanie Reitz in Hartford,
Conn., and the AP News
Research Center in New York.
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Ala., Jennifer N. Kay in Fort
Walton Beach, Fla., Bill Kaczor
in Perdido Key, Fla., Holbrook
Mohr in Venice, La., and Cain
Burdeau who flew over the site
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Submitted at 5/5/2010 1:50:44 AM
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Offermatic is this – imagine if
Mint, Blippy and Groupon went
off to Vegas for the weekend,
got wasted and ended up in bed
together. Nine months later, out
pops Offermatic.
Like Mint, Offermatic is a front
end user interface to Yodlee’s
robust financial network. And
the service digs through your
credit card transactions just like
Blippy does (although they
aren’t posted for the world to
see). And like Groupon,
Offermatic is pushing special
offers to users.
The result is something unique,
though, and some people may
love it. Here’s how it works:
You register your credit cards
with Offermatic via the Yodlee
back end (which is secure).
Offermatic then downloads your
individual credit card purchases
and matches offers from
advertisers relevant to your
purchase history. If you buy
something at Home Depot, for
example, you may get a $30 off
coupon from Lowes. You’ve
spent money on textbooks and
you get a special offer from
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Offermatic also offers users
actual cash just for registering
credit cards. Each month that
any of your credit cards has at
least 20 transactions and $1,000
in total charges, you’ll get
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make up to $15/year on up to
each of four credit cards. The
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out via check or paypal.
The service hasn’t officially
launched yet and it isn’t clear
how much, if any, outside
funding they’ve received.
Normally that might give users
pause before entering in
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eagerly you people jump on new
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Euro zone warned of contagion

(Reuters: Top News) unless the rescue for Greece Europe." zone governments for charging drivers of the euro zone turmoil.
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:59:44 AM succeeds. Without the aid, a chain Greece a 5 percent interest rate Prime Minister George
European Monetary Affairs reaction threatened to on the loans, largely at Papandreou presented an
ATHENS/BERLIN(Reuters) - Commissioner Olli Rehn said it destabilize the European and Germany's insistence, saying austerity bill to parliament on
European policymakers warned was vital to stop the crisis international financial system, they should have lent at the Tuesday which foresees 30
of the risk of "contagion" spreading beyond Greece. she said in a debate on same rate as the IMF, more than billion euros in new savings
spreading the euro zone debt "It's absolutely essential to approving Berlin's 22 billion- half a point less. through deep cuts in wages and
crisis beyond Greece, as unrest contain the bushfire in Greece euro contribution to the The euro fell to a one-year low pensions and a hike in sales tax.
in Athens claimed its first lives so that it will not become a emergency loans for Athens of $1.2936 while the cost of But the conservative opposition
and investors fled to the safe forest fire and a threat to despite German public hostility. insuring Spanish and Portuguese vowed to vote against it,
haven of the dollar. financial stability for the European Central Bank debt against default rose further. dooming hopes of a political
World| Greece European Union and its governing council heavyweight Seeking to calm markets, Rehn consensus.
Three people burned to death economy as a whole," he told a Axel Weber gave a similar said Spain did not need an aid Analysts were watching
when protesters set a central news conference. warning in a statement to mechanism of the kind created Wednesday's protest for pointers
A t h e n s b a n k a b l a z e o n Anxiety over a widening of the German lawmakers, saying that for Greece and he was not going to the degree of mobilization of
W e d n e s d a y d u r i n g a crisis sent stocks tumbling a Greek default would pose a to propose one. But he also said Greece's powerful trade unions.
demonstration against austerity worldwide, and the euro hit a substantial risk to the stability of the deficit levels of all EU states So far, demonstrations have
measures that are the price of new one-year low. European monetary union and were "worryingly high." been limited to tens of
the 110 billion euro ($146.5 Battered Greek bank shares the financial system. Despite official denials, many thousands but anger is
billion) EU/IMF bailout agreed shed a further 5 percent on news "There is a threat of serious economists are convinced mounting, with opinion polls
on Sunday. of the fire deaths -- the first contagion effects for other euro Greece will have to restructure showing ordinary Greeks
Public and private sector casualties in three months of zone countries and increasing its debt, making private believe they are paying the price
workers shut down airports, sporadic strikes and street negative feedback effects for investors take a share of the of the crisis while tax evasion
tourist sites and public services protests. capital markets," he said. pain. and corruption go unpunished.
in a general strike and tens of Shares in Spain and Portugal, VIGILANT "What we are seeing today is "With our strike today we are
thousands of demonstrators seen as the next two targets for The head of the International very classical financial continuing our fight against
marched against the planned investors testing the European Monetary Fund acknowledged contagion effect," said Sebastian harsh and unfair measures that
cuts to wages and pensions and Union's will and ability to the risk of the debt crisis Barbe, head of emerging hit workers, pensioners and the
tax increases. defend weak euro zone spreading from Greece to other markets strategy at Credit unemployed," Yannios
A giant plume of dark grey economies, fell for a second European countries but said he Agricole, Hong Kong. Panagopoulos, president of
smoke rose over central Stadiou straight day. Lisbon had to pay saw no real threat to the big euro "This is because the market is private sector union GSEE, told
Avenue where a two-storey m o r e t h a n f o u r t i m e s i t s zone states such as France and still pricing in some more Reuters.
building housing a branch of previous yield to sell six-month Germany. sovereign crisis problems out of (Additional reporting by Harry
Marfin bank was burning. treasury bills at auction on "There is always a risk of Europe, and for the short term it Papachristou and Lefteris
Hundreds of protesters threw Wednesday. contagion," Dominique Strauss- can continue for some more Papadimas in Athens, Jan
rocks and bottles at police who Merkel, whose foot-dragging Kahn told French daily Le time." Strupczewski in Brussels and
responded with tear gas. many analysts have blamed for Parisien. GREEK AUSTERITY Carolyn Cohn in London;
German Chancellor Angela aggravating the Greek crisis, "Portugal has been mentioned, Concern that Greece's Socialist writing by Paul Taylor; editing
Merkel told parliament in Berlin told parliament the success of but it is already taking measures government will be unable to by Andrew Roche)
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(Reuters: Top News) about him, we want to learn "This is a blow back. This is a identification card from General Election. Available
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N E W Y O R K ( R e u t e r s ) - REMOVED FROM PLANE not going to sort of sit and Rehman Malik said Shahzad's
Investigators questioned the Shahzad was taken off an welcome you to eliminate them. family "are on our radar."
suspected Times Square bomber Emirates plane that was about to They're going to fight back. And "He is not from a radical or
hoping to uncover links he d e p a r t f o r D u b a i l a t e o n we have to be ready for this illiterate family. He is from an
might have had to foreign M o n d a y .
militant groups and U.S. media An Emirates spokesman said on
fight."
If links are found between the
educated family. We are looking
into how he got radicalized," he Wise Words:
said he could appear in a New Wednesday that Shahzad's final attempted bombing and told Reuters.
York court on Wednesday. destination was Islamabad. Pakistan's Taliban, Islamabad JPMorgan Chase's mortgage Forgiveness
U.S. Several of Shahzad's relatives could come under renewed U.S. unit sued Shahzad in September
Faisal Shahzad, 30, who was were arrested in Pakistan hours pressure to open risky new last year to foreclose on his over Judgment
born in Pakistan and became a after he was removed from the fronts against Islamic militants. three bedroom home in Shelton, WomansDay.com Editors
U.S. citizen last year, is accused plane, security sources said. ACTED ALONE? Connecticut, court documents (Daily Woman's Day Blog)
of trying to kill and maim Kelly said it was the 11th Shahzad told authorities he and county records show.
Submitted at 5/5/2010 6:30:00 AM
people with a car bomb in the thwarted attack on New York acted alone, but officials said he The bomb was in a sports utility
heart of Manhattan on Saturday City since hijacked airliners had spent five months in vehicle that prosecutors said Here's a little bit of inspiration
night. He faces life in prison if destroyed the World Trade Pakistan of late and Kelly said Shahzad bought three weeks ago to make your day fun, fabulous
convicted. Center's twin towers on Shahzad had a wife and two in Connecticut for $1,300. and full of joy.
Prosecutors say Shahzad, the September 11, 2001 killing children living in Peshawar. Street vendors alerted police to I can have peace of mind only
son of a retired Pakistani vice more than 2,600 people. The United States and Pakistan the smoking vehicle that had when I forgive rather than
air marshal, drove a crude President Barack Obama said will try to trace Shahzad's path been parked with the engine judge. -Gerald G. Jampols
homemade bomb of gasoline, the investigation would seek to to Times Square, determine how running and the hazard lights When have you forgiven
propane gas, fireworks and determine whether Shahzad had he ended up in a militant on. Thousands of people were someone instead of judging him
fertilizer into Times Square and any connection with foreign training camp in Pakistan and evacuated from Times Square. or her?
fled. Authorities defused the extremist groups. which group influenced him, in (Additional reporting by Daniel Have a favorite quote? Send it
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CBS News said he would for the attempted bombing, Shahzad, a former financial Allen and Jim Vicini in your name, city and state. You
appear in New York federal saying it was planned to avenge analyst who worked in the U.S. Washington; and William might be featured in an
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York television station. "We United States targeting Taliban bombings. They said Shahzad
want to learn as much as we can followers. also has a residency
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G8 corruption scandal hits Silvio Berlusconi coalition
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Online)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 6:57:22 AM
Silvio Berlusconi fears more of
his close government allies will
fall victim to a growing
corruption scandal involving
building contracts following the
resignation of Claudio Scajola,
the Industry Minister.
In a blow to the Italian Prime
Minister’s increasingly fragile
two-year-old centre-right
Government, Mr Scajola, 62,
resigned over allegations of
impropriety in his purchase of a
Rome flat with a view of the
Colosseum.
Mr Scajola is the first minister
to resign since Mr Berlusconi’s
coalition swept to a landslide
victory in 2008.
The allegations arose from a
broader inquiry into alleged
corruption in the awarding of
contracts for last year’s lavish
G8 summit in L’Aquila, at
which Mr Berlusconi, 73,
sought to regain international
prestige after becoming
embroiled in a series of sex
scandals.
Mr Scajola, who is said to have
been in tears as he offered his
resignation to the Prime
Minister, told a press
conference: “I cannot defend
myself if I carry on as minister.
My resignation will allow the
government to move forward.”
He said he was the victim of a
“media campaign”, and walked
out without taking questions
from reporters.
“Now Berlusconi fears the
domino effect” was the
headlines in Corriere della Sera
and La Stampa.
Mr Berlusconi said that he was
losing a “very capable” minister,
adding that there was “too much
liberty of the press” in Italy.
Mr Berlusconi had initially
defended Mr Scajola over
allegations that the owners of
the flat near the Colosseum were
paid €900,000 more than the
€600,000 which Mr Scajola said
he had paid. He admitted this
was below the market value.
Investigators say the money
was paid in cheques that could
be traced to Diego Anemone, a
Rome construction magnate
who was one of four people
arrested in February over
suspected corruption in the
awarding of public works
contracts.
Mr Scajola said: “I have no
knowledge of money paid by
someone else for the apartment.
I know how much I paid, with a
bank mortgage and a normal
contract, without any tricks.”
He added, however, that he
could no longer stay in a
dwelling “if it was paid for by
others for reasons unknown to
me”.
The left-wing daily Il Fatto
Quotidiano said this was a
“comic explanation” amounting
to “They bought me a house and
I didn’t know about it”.
Pierluigi Bersani, the
opposition leader, said the
Government was “in a
quagmire”.
Mr Berlusconi is not himself
under investigation over the
alleged G8 corruption.
However, he is on trial in two
other corruption cases, which he
says are the result of a campaign
against him by politically
motivated left-wing magistrates.
He has passed a law excusing
himself from attending hearings
for the next 18 months.
The G8 scandal is the subject of
a new film by the satirist Sabina
Guzzanti entitled Draquila,
which is to be shown at the
Cannes Film Festival.
She alleges that the earthquake
which devastated L’Aquila a
year ago could have been
predicted but that the Civil
Protection Agency headed by
Guido Bertolaso, Mr
Berlusconi’s right-hand man,
was distracted by grandiose
projects unrelated to
emergencies such as plans to
celebrate 150 years of Italian
unity next year.
Mr Bertolaso is also under
investigation over the G8
contracts but remains in his
post. He said Ms Guzzanti’s
film was a “distortion of the
truth” which would put Italy in a
bad light.
In his two years as Industry
Minister, Mr Scajola oversaw
the privatisation of the state-
controlled airline Alitalia and
announced plans to reintroduce
nuclear power plants to Italy.
His position became untenable
after Il Giornale, the newspaper
owned by the Berlusconi family,
said in a front-page banner
headline this week “Scajola
must clear everything up or
resign”. The right-wing paper
Libero took a similar line.
Mr Berlusconi is publicly at
odds with Gianfranco Fini,
Speaker of the Lower House and
co-founder of the ruling People
of Liberty (PdL), who has
criticised the Prime Minister’s
populist and authoritarian style
and has formed a movement of
his own called Generation Italy.
He insists that the new
organisation is not a breakaway
party.
Last week Mr Berlusconi
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insisted he would serve out the
remaining three years of his
term. He said there were no
doubts about the stability of his
Government, adding: “We will
proceed on the path of reforms
without any delays caused by
counterproductive in-house
discussions.”
Mr Fini claims that Mr
Berlusconi is a hostage of the
increasingly powerful Northern
League, the PdL’s coalition ally,
which takes an anti-immigrant
stance and has angered Italy’s
Catholic bishops as well as
mainstream Right and Left by
deriding the 150th anniversary
of Italian unity as “making little
sense”.
Mr Scajola resigned before,
when he was Interior Minister,
after making disparaging
comments in 2002 about Marco
Biagi, a government economic
adviser murdered by the Red
Brigades, saying he had been “a
pain in the arse” for asking for a
police escort.
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Three killed as Greek austerity protest turns
violent
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Online)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 6:21:47 AM
Three people were killed in a
firebomb attack on a bank in
central Athens today as protests
against the Greek Government
turned violent.
Two women and one man died
in the blaze after a petrol bomb
was hurled into the bank in the
centre of the capital by hooded
demonstrators. It is not clear
whether the victims were
customers or whether they
worked at the site. Employees
covered in ash fled the burning
building which was destroyed.
Demonstrators attempted to
storm the Greek parliament
while riot police used teargas
against tens of thousands
protesting against austerity
measures.
It came in the midst of a 48-
hour general strike that
paralysed the country, causing
travel disruption and closing
schools and hospitals.
Thousands of civil servants and
private sector workers marched
under large banners urging
Greeks to defy the strictures of
the International Monetary
Fund and protesting what they
called a catastrophic rollback of
labour workers’ rights.
A news blackout descended
after the politically powerful
journalists’ unions joined the
strike.
Unions claim that spending cuts
and tax rises, proposed in return
for £95 billion in loans to the
Government, target the poor.
Parliament will vote on the
package tomorrow.
The proposals include pension
cuts and wage freezes. The aim
is to cut Greece’s public deficit
to less than 3 per cent of GDP
by 2014 — today it stands at
13.6 per cent.
The proposed package includes
cuts worth €30 billion (£26
billion) over three years.
Angela Merkel, the German
Chancellor, urged MPs to back
the emergency loan package
agreed by EU finance ministers.
Germany would be required to
pay the largest part of the loans.
“Quite simply, Europe’s future
is at stake,” she said. The
destiny of the EU and
Germany’s place in it depended
on the outcome of the Greek
crisis, she added.
George Papandreou, the
socialist Prime Minister who
marks 7 months in power this
week, has vowed to keep the
IMF-mandated austerity
programme in place “without
regard to political cost.”
However the left-wing parties
and the main unions have been
equally adamant in civil
disobedience, raising serious
issues of Greece’s governability
in the coming months.
Antonis Samaras, the leader of
the opposition conservative New
Democracy party, added to the
uncertainty this week by saying
that his party would vote down
the austerity programme when it
comes up for a vote in the
Parliament today. The
Government’s 165-strong
majority in the 300-seat
chamber, however, ensures that
the package will pass.
Rallies started shortly before
midday during the third general
strike among public sector
workers in as many months.
Workers fear that the cuts will
bring financial pain but fail to
remedy the chronic debt.
The protests were expected to
be the biggest since March,
when more than 20,000 people
marched in Athens and police
clashed with youths who threw
stones.
Although polls show that most
Greeks disagree with the
austerity measures
demonstrations until now have
been limited and mainly
peaceful – nowhere near the
size of the crowds that marched
in protest against a police killing
of a teenager in December 2008.
Flights to and from Greece
were suspended at midnight and
trains and ferries were not
running this morning.
About 10,000 protesters from
the main public and private
sector unions massed in the
capital for speeches while the
PAME communist union drew
another 10,000 people.
Protesters bore banners reading
“IMF and EU are stealing a
century of social progress” and
“The rich must pay for the
crisis”.
In Greece’s second city in the
north of the country,
Thessaloniki, about 14,000
people gathered to protest,
police said.
Yesterday militant Communist
Party members stormed the
Acropolis and hung a giant
protest banner over the parapet.
Another group burst into a state
television studio on Monday
evening, interrupting a live news
broadcast.
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Media Relations 101 for Your Startup
Guest Author
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 5/4/2010 9:30:00 PM
First off, you do not need a PR
firm. The retainer is usually not
worth it, especially for a young,
growing startup because your
product is still drastically
changing and because your
conversion rates are probably
very low.
As a startup that is looking to
innovate in your industry, it
usually does not make any sense
for you to allow someone else to
communicate your vision. PR
firms do not always get it. Even
with stellar communication
skills, only you and your core
team really understand the
message and the vision.
Sponsor
Danny Wong is the co-founder
and lead evangelist of Blank
Label, a provider of custom
dress shirts. He has been
featured in publications like
ReadWriteWeb, FastCompany,
ABCNews, FoxNews,
BusinessWeek and more. He is
also a 19-year-old evangelist
and rockstar studying full-time
at Bentley University.
If you are a first-timer at PR,
start small so you do not burn
any important bridges (but be
aware that every bridge counts).
Start pitching to small blogs and
websites in your niche and
occasionally take a shot at
medium-sized blogs. Once you
start feeling more comfortable
with your email pitch, and are
making decent traction with
small blogs and websites, move
onto pitching to medium-sized
sites. Then, as you gain
experience, and learn a bit more
about tailoring your pitch to
specific authors, you can move
onto mass-media outlets that can
really increase your exposure
because of their tremendous
reach.
Here are some pieces of advice
that will get you featured more
often. Speak Their Language
and be Concise
As in all communications
practices, you want to make sure
that your audience can
understand what you are saying
without thinking too much. Do
not foolishly use inner-office
jargon that no one else
understands. Not to insult
journalists, but pitch as if you
were addressing a 14-year-old.
Seriously. This manner of
communication should be the
same for everyone you talk to
about your brand. You are not
condescending them this way;
you are allowing them to easily
digest your message. Make
Some Friends
Sometimes it's good to build a
relationship with a reporter
before pitching them. In our
digital age, this is much easier to
do too since we have Twitter,
Facebook and LinkedIn for
interacting with new people. In
fact, you can also leverage your
secondary network (your
network's network) to get in
contact with writers. Knowing
people that know people is a
great way to get your foot in the
door. Always be Reading
Keep an eye out for relatable
content or news, and pitch
writers with a fresh angle since
they are obviously interested in
related subjects. Or, provide
meaningful commentary
(typically best with email) that
can help kick-start your
relationship with the writer
through intellectual dialogue.
Indirectly Target Reporters
Sometimes it's not ideal to pitch
directly to reporters. It might be
better to target media outlets
that the influentials are reading.
If you know that Om Malik
reads some small-time tech
blog, you might want to get
featured on that blog to get Om
Malik's eyes on you without
directly contacting him. When
you finally do contact him, you
will have higher visibility in his
overflooded inbox because he
has heard of you before. Do
Something Different
No one wants to talk about
something that's been done
before. What's your angle that
makes you so special? Sure, you
can do something similar to big
businesses, but make sure
there's also something distinctly
different about what you do.
Always be innovating and let
people know that! Do a
Giveaway
Blogs and medium-sized
websites love this. You are
offering value to them and their
readers because you are giving
something away for free that the
publisher and the audience does
not have to pay for. This also
serves as free publicity for you,
so everyone wins. The publisher
gets a new piece of content, the
audience gets a free prize, and
you get some eyes on your
product and website. NOTE:
This typically does not work on
bigger publications or mass-
media outlets because they are
looking for newsworthy content,
or sponsored posts. Be Part of a
Movement
Being part of a movement
validates what you're doing as a
business, and sometimes gives
reporters more newsworthy
content than just a solo feature
of you because they can profile
other businesses within the same
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space that are doing awesome
things. Have an Actionable
Conclusion to Your Pitch
Do not just pitch your story and
hope the recipient will email or
call. Ask them their thoughts on
the pitch, or prompt them to
reply via email or call to further
discuss the story. Be Patient, but
Persistent
This is very important.
Sometimes it takes a while for a
journalist to get back to you, and
sometimes they forget to reply. I
tend to follow up one to two
weeks after emailing a journalist
to see if they received my email
and their thoughts on it. I've
closed many more stories this
way rather than trying to let my
first email do all of the work.
Even after you've had an
interview or a briefing, it is
important to follow up with your
media contact until the story is
live because it doesn't count
unless the public sees it! One
recent media hit took a month
from initial pitch before being
published live, and I've been
nurturing one media lead I have
had since December of 2009!
Do you have any other
wisdoms on how startups can
power their media relations?
Feel free to add your tips in the
comments below.
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MIT researchers print solar cell on paper

(CNET News.com) around nanoscale materials at
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:19:04 AM the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers
Center. Layers of these
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-- materials could essentially be
Scientists at the Massachusetts sprayed using different
Institute of Technology have manufacturing techniques to
successfully coated paper with a make a thin-film solar cell on a
solar cell, part of a suite of plastic, paper, or metal foils.
research projects aimed at Silicon, the predominant
energy breakthroughs. material for solar cells, is
Susan Hockfield, MIT's durable and is made from
president, and Paolo Scaroni, abundant materials. Many
CEO of Italian oil company Eni, companies sell or are
on Tuesday officially dedicated developing thin-film solar cells,
the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers which are less efficient but are
Research Center. Eni invested cheaper to manufacture.
$5 million into the center, which During a tour, Bulovic showed
is also receiving a $2 million one of the center's labs, where
National Science Foundation researchers use a laser to blast
grant, said Vladimir Bulovic, light at nanomaterials for
the center's director. picoseconds. A picosecond is
The printed solar cells, which one trillionth of a second. The
Bulovic showed at a press laser provides data on how the
conference Tuesday, are still in light excites electrons in the
the research phase and are years material, which will provide
from being commercialized. clues as to whether it will make
However, the technique, in a good solar cell material, he
which paper is coated with explained.
organic semiconductor material MIT is focusing much of its
using a process similar to an effort on quantum dots, or tiny
inkjet printer, is a promising crystals that are only a few
way to lower the weight of solar LaMonica/CNET) MIT professor Karen Gleason believes that solar can be a nanometers in size. A human
panels. "If you could use a The materials MIT researchers headed the research and has replacement. At the same time, hair is about 50,000 to 100,000
staple gun to install a solar used are carbon-based dyes and submitted a paper for scientific he said, current technologies are nanometers thick.
panel, there could be a lot of the cells are about 1.5 percent to review but it has not yet been not sufficient. By using different materials and
value," Bulovic said. 2 percent efficient at converting published. MIT and Eni said this "We are not very active (in sizes, researchers can fine-tune
Vladimir Bulovic, director of sunlight to electricity. But any is the first time a solar cell has a l t e r n a t i v e e n e r g y ) t o d a y the colors of light that quantum
the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers material could be used if it can been printed on paper. because we don't believe today's dots can absorb, a way of
Research Center, hold a solar b e d e p o s i t e d a t r o o m During the press conference, technologies are the answer of isolating good candidates for
cell printed onto a piece of temperature, Bulovic said. Scaroni said that Eni is funding our problems," he said. quantum dot solar cells.
paper to spell MIT. This is the "Absolutely, the trick was the center because the company Quantum dots Researchers at the center are
first paper solar cell, according coming up with ways to use understands that hydrocarbons The paper solar cells are one of MIT page 27
to MIT and Eni.(Credit: Martin paper," he said. will eventually run out and many avenues being pursued
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including music uploads and a p p l i c a t i o n d e v e l o p m e n t ;
were worried about the impact And in a move that echoes what Tote, Hand Bag
branded players, and advanced i n c r e a s i n g s i t e s ' d e s i g n
customization. Price: $49.95 per flexibility; and adding enhanced Ning's decision would have on many users of Ning have been
month or $ 499.95 per year. reporting and analytics their networks, as well as on thinking, the website offered a
Ning Plus: Offers unlimited information. For those who are their limited budgets. link to a list of Ning
membership, full control over currently using the system but In response, Ning indicated a l t e r n a t i v e s . D i s c u s s
branding, and features including plan to move elsewhere, Ning today that K-12 educators would
events, groups, chat, pages and w i l l a l s o o f f e r a c o n t e n t be able to continue to have
Ning Apps. Ning Plus will also m i g r a t i o n t o o l . access to free Nings, in the form

Miranda and Orlando Have a Gala For Two in the City of Love
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Submitted at 5/5/2010 4:00:00 AM at Dior yesterday. Miranda and however, in a new V Magazine e v e n t h o n o r i n g J e r r y
Orlando missed out on the spread with fellow swimsuit B r u c k h e i m e r .
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their Paris hotel for a stroll many other hot and sexy couples in attendance. The leggy bikini LA later this month to introduce
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The Art of the Twitter Pitch

Audrey Watters your ideas, here are a few things on Twitter and to pay attention
(ReadWriteWeb) to keep in mind: to your tweets. If you only tweet
Submitted at 5/4/2010 9:30:00 PM 1: Pitch Publicly. If you target self-promotional links and
your message using the @ reply blurbs, chances are you aren't
Over the past few weeks, we've function, your conversations going to maintain followers.
highlighted some tips and tricks will only be seen by mutual 4. Don't spam. While Twitter
for polishing your elevator and followers and could be missed can be a great way to spread the
email pitch. If a pitch is b y o t h e r s w h o m i g h t b e message about your business, VegetarianRecipe.us
designed to deliver a succinct interested in your idea. And if don't repeatedly blast your Finds No-Meat Recipes
presentation of your product or you use the direct message contains compelling and
followers with the same PR
service, then it may be that the function, your tweet just ends up pertinent information about you
information.
From Dozens of Sites
140 character limitation of as an email would, without all and your company. Be sure to [Recipes]
5. Follow up. Twitter provides
Twitter makes it a great venue the care and presentation of a include your URL.
a real-time way to both monitor Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
for a pitch. 3. Include a URL in your tweet.
full-blown email pitch. Of and participate in conversations.
Sponsor If your tweet is a pitch, drive Submitted at 5/5/2010 7:00:00 AM
course, a public tweet runs the Do make sure that you aren't
Stowe Boyd is often credited risk of being lost in the shuffle. traffic to a webpage or blog post
just using Twitter to broadcast The search engine at Recipe
with the idea of pitching via And one of the drawbacks to with more information about
messages, but that you are Puppy indexes more than a
Twitter. He proposed the " pitching via Twitter is that, you, your company and your
actively engaging your million recipes, but limits itself
Twitpitch" in order to help him unlike the elevator or email service. Consider linking to a
followers as well. to ingredient lists. By stripping
schedule meetings with startups pitches, you can't really craft page with a more elaborate
There are numerous out recipes calling for meat, the
at the Web 2.0 Expo in 2008. pitch, not just merely to your
your pitch to suit your audience. announcements you can pitch search filter now offers
Twitter has grown in use and If you want to have a bit more home page. Whether you're
via Twitter: news, events, vegetarian and vegan recipes,
acceptance since Boyd's idea for precision in your pitch, consider using a URL shortener (such as
product launches, and from sites that aren't necessarily
t h e T w i t p i t c h , a n d t h e including a hashtag to link it bit.ly) or not, it's good to
employment opportunities, for focused on veggies. More »
microblogging service can be a with other conversations on the identify the type of link - a link
example. But remember, as with Cooking- Home- World
valuable site for entrepreneurs topic. (This is particularly useful to a blog post or a video, for
the elevator pitch, it's important Cuisines- Vegetarian- Recipe
to pitch their ideas. But with the when you plan to be onsite for example - so people know what
to sell yourself, not just your Collections
increasing level of chatter there, an event, such as the Web 2.0 to expect when they click.
products. Discuss
you need to make sure your Expo.) 3. Don't use Twitter solely to
pitch stands out. So if you do pitch. There needs to be a
2. Complete your Twitter
decide to use Twitter to pitch profile. Make sure your profile compelling reason to follow you

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also looking at different
molecules or biological
elements which can act as solar
cell material.
If 0.3 percent of the U.S. were
covered with photovoltaics with
10 percent efficiency, solar
power could produce three times
the country's needs, including a
transition to electric vehicles,
Bulovic said. For example, the
easement strip on highways
could be coated with material
that could capture energy from
the sun.
But don't expect a revolution in
solar power tomorrow.
"I'm giving you a whole bunch
of hype," Bulovic said while
explaining solar's potential
during the tour. "It usually takes
10 years from the time between
when you invent something and
you commercialize it." He
estimated that many of the tools: PDF Newspaper, Full
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the first three years of a five-to-
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Blockbuster Video Launches API to Here’s An Easier, Faster
Open the Web, Mobile, Set Top
Boxes and More
Alex Williams
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:00:00 AM
Blockbuster Video is launching
an API called "Blockbuster
Everywhere." The new cross-
channel API is designed to
deliver films, reviews and real-
time inventory to devices that
include phones, set top boxes,
gaming consoles and other point
of sale locations such as gas
stations.
The Blockbuster story is
another example of how
companies are re-architecting
through open API's to
reconfigure their businesses. A
point of sale can be in any
number of places. It may be a
store, the Web or through a
platform like Tivo.
Sponsor
Open API's are lightweight,
flexible and relatively
affordable. And that's just what
Blockbuster needs. Blockbuster
has been close to bankruptcy.
The company plans to close
20% of its stores by 2011.
An API strategy gives
Blockbuster the leverage to give
the customer a unified
experience across multiple
channels. It also opens new
ways to sell products as the API
can present the right information
Way To Embed Tweets
at the right time on the platform
of the customer's choice. For
instance, that may mean doing a
check on the availability of a
film at local stores. It may also
mean accessing Blockbuster
through a smartphone or other
devices. Blockbuser is limiting
the API to its partners but may
open it up in the future. Partners
include Tivo, Samsung and
HTC.
The new API strategy comes
after two years of work to
consolidate Blockbuster's
multiple channels to represent
its new philosophy: "One
Customer, One Blockbuster."
The time was right to make the
transition. API's were on the
rise. But for a while it looked
like it would be a massively
expensive, heavyweight
integration.
In 2008, open API's began to
appear in enterprise
environments. But for the most
part, customers received pitches
like Blockbuster did from the
big technology companies to
"blow up the databases," said
Mike Debnar, Blockbuster Vice
President of Retail Systems.
And the cost? Some bids came
in at $1 million.
In 2009, a convergence came.
CEO James Keyes became a
strong partner in a customer
focused strategy. The company
started aggregating its legacy
data to integrate into an API that
it built with Sonoa Systems.
Sonoa worked with Blockbuster
to develop API that is built on
RESTful web services. It can be
easily managed by a small team.
The API is integrated with back
office systems.
Blockbuster is also updating its
iPhone app to reflect the new
cross-channel efforts.
Sam Ramji of Sonoa puts it this
way. The API gives Blockbuster
greater possibilities to reach
across a number of varied
channels.
It mat seem far away but
retailers are preparing for the
holiday season. And where may
customers be doing shopping?
Perhaps in the store or from
their desktop. But it's also likely
they will be on the couch using
their iPad to buy their holiday
gifts. Discuss
E-reader News Edition
Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 4:25:31 AM
it here), which you can drag to
@robinwauters I made a your bookmark bar and click
bookmarklet for twitter whenever you’re looking at a
b l a c k b i r d : tweet you’d like to embed.
http://bit.ly/aL4QVG(3 steps
Three steps instead of eight.
instead of 9 to embed a tweet),
Will save you a couple of
could be useful 4 u Wed May 05
microseconds. No need to say
07:18:34 via Tweetie Xavier
thanks.
Damman
Also cool: if you use the
xdamman
bookmarklet instead of
As we had noted earlier,
Blackbird Pie, the embedded
Twitter yesterday launched a
tweet will display the exact date
new tool that allows you to
and time of tweets instead of “X
easily embed tweets into a
minutes ago”, which is
website or blog post. The tool,
admittedly rather pointless as it
called Blackbird Pie, simply
doesn’t update the timestamp
asks you for the URL of a tweet
going forward.
and lets you “Bake it,” meaning
Bonus: when you open a
you get a preview of how it will
T w i t t e r p r o f i l e
look on the Web and a box with
(say@TechCrunch) or a list (say
the code you need in it. Simple
the@TechCrunch team), you
enough as far as I’m concerned.
can click the bookmarklet to
But as Xavier Damman from
make new links appears
Publitweet points out, it takes
alongside all tweets on that
eight steps (not 9 like he says in
page. Simply click those links
his tweet) to use Blackbird Pie
and voilà, an embed code
for embeddable tweets, and that
appears. CrunchBase
is just unacceptable. Well, it’s
Information Twitter Publitweet
acceptable, but there should be
Information provided by
an easier way.
CrunchBase
Enter Xavier’s bookmarklet(get
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Finding the Right Doctor Made Google ups its TV bet,

Easier: Insider Pages Launches invests in Invidi
(CNET News.com)
Doctor Finder Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:11:32 AM

Frederic Lardinois ability to speak certain date.

(ReadWriteWeb) Google, which is still trying to
languages. figure out how to crack the TV People familiar with the
Submitted at 5/5/2010 12:00:00 AM As Insider Pages' general business, has invested in a tech transaction tell me Google has
Pages has partnered with
manager Eric Peacock told us firm trying to do the same thing. invested between $10 million
HealthGrades.com, which
Insider Pages, which was when we talked to him earlier The search giant is leading a and $15 million in company in
syndicates about 1.2 million
acquired by CitySearch in 2007, today, rating doctors is different $23 million series D round in this round, which brings Invidi's
patient surveys to Insider Pages.
just announced the launch of its from rating a restaurant. While Invidi Technologies, a New total capital raised above the
While most of the company's
new Doctor Finder tool. While Insider Pages allows its users to York City company that works $85 million mark. Other
competitors offer extensive
there are already a few doctor write regular freeform reviews, on "addressable" TV ads. investors include WPP's
databases and reviews, this
review sites available on the the company also asks every Addressable ads are supposed to GroupM, Motorola, Menlo
cooperation with
Internet, most people in the U.S. reviewer 10 questions about target specific viewers, using Ventures, InterWest Partners
HealthGrades.com also gives
still mostly base their choice of their experience, ranging from data from set-top boxes, in the and EnerTech Capital.
Insider Pages access to the
doctor on the location of the how much time the doctor spent same way that Internet ads sniff The Business Insider, which
HealthGrade's database of
doctor's office and the insurance with the patient to how well out specific Web surfers. first reported the investment,
doctors' records. Thanks to this,
the doctor accepts. To find these they listened to the patient's You can see why Google would says the transaction is connected
users can also check if their
doctors and dentists, most complaints. be interested in that stuff, to Google's ad pact with the
doctor is board certified and has
patients still rely on the Privacy, of course, is a major particularly as it tries to Dish satellite network. But I'm
a clean record. For more details
insurances' online directories, concern when it comes to integrate its Android platform told Dish doesn't factor into the
about a doctor's records
which usually don't feature any doctors. As Peacock told us, the into TVs. deal.
(including malpractice and
patient feedback. company gives users the Shishir Mehotra, who runs Story Copyright (c) 2010
sanction records), Insider Pages
Sponsor freedom to share as much product management for all of AllThingsD. All rights reserved.
refers its users to HealthGrades.
800,000 Doctors - 1.2 Million information as they want to, but Google's video businesses, will Five Filters featured article:
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Reviews by default, these reviews are join Invidi's board. The Art of Looking Prime
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Insider Pages currently has never shared on the patient's Addressable ads are a holy grail Ministerial - The 2010 UK
based on other criteria like the
more than 800,000 doctors in its Facebook feed. for the TV business, but they General Election. Available
doctor's gender, experience and
system. To get started, Insider Discuss may still be several years away. tools: PDF Newspaper, Full
Invidi, founded in 2000, has Text RSS, Term Extraction.
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Blogs)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 6:00:00 AM
Get biker chic with an
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Humble Indie Bundle

offers five great Mac games
for pay-what-you-will
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial purchase, and not only are you
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) supporting developers and
Submitted at 5/4/2010 9:00:00 PM charities, but you're supporting
the decision to release great
Filed under: Deals games like this cross-platform,
A group of independent game without DRM, and without a
developers have released a publisher or middleman getting
"Humble Indie Bundle," and if in the way and taking a cut.
you're a Mac gamer, it's a Excellent deal -- they've already
treasure trove. For a donation of raised over $31,000, and if you
your choice (the retail value is play games on your Mac at all,
set at $80, but you can pay what definitely head over there and
you want, and you can even put ten or twenty dollars in the
TUAW's Daily App: White Lines specify whether your money pot to support the bundle.
goes to the game developers or a TUAW Humble Indie Bundle
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial things can get overwhelming maybe the author will smooth couple of different charities), offers five great Mac games for
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) very fast. There are quite a few that out in the future. you can pick up the indie pay-what-you-will originally
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:00:00 AM difficulty levels for all kinds of Still, for US$0.99, White Lines classics World of Goo, Aquaria, appeared on The Unofficial
gamers, and the experience of is a fun touchscreen twist on the Gish, Lugaru, and Penumbra Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue,
Filed under: iPhone This drawing with a purpose on the memory game, and the stark Overture, all playable on Mac, 04 May 2010 21:00:00 EST.
iPhone game borrows its title multitouch screen does keep it s t y l e i s c o m p e l l i n g . I t ' s Linux, and Windows. Please see our terms for use of
from Grandmaster Flash, but i n t e r e s t i n g . O p e n F e i n t definitely worth a download, Amazing deal, and this is about feeds.
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perils of drug addiction, it's challenge friends for high keeping young ones busy while -friendly way to do it. Any one Comments
actually a memory game. Kyle scores, too, which increases the waiting in line or driving around of these games is well worth the
Webster is an illustrator who replayability. The one drawback town.
made this Simon-like drawing I found (and maybe it's just TUAW TUAW's Daily App:
challenge. The game offers up a because I was playing the game White Lines originally appeared
series of white strokes on the on my 1G) was that, at times, o n T h e U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e
screen, and its your job to registering the strokes was Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 05
replicate them exactly. Get them w o n k y . I w o u l d d r a w i t M a y 2 0 1 0 0 8 : 0 0 : 0 0 E S T .
right to earn a higher score, but correctly, but because the game Please see our terms for use of
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Coming soon: Paying for stuff on
Visa by waving your iPhone
Steven Sande (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 5/5/2010 10:00:00 AM
Filed under: iPhone You've
probably seen contactless
payment terminals before.
They're used in many stores,
restaurants, and other locations,
with either a smart credit card
containing a secure memory
card or some sort of fob being
used to make the payment. You
just wave it at the terminal, and
you've paid your bill.
Visa and DeviceFidelity are
working on a way to let iPhone
users make payments by waving
their iPhones in front of
contactless payment terminals.
They'll be offering an iPhone
case with an embedded secure
memory card that hosts Visa's
payment application, Visa
payWave.
Any place you find a Visa
contactless payment terminal,
there will also be a potential
spot for iPhone users to pay for
goods or services using their
Brunch for Mother's Day
(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks)
The rules: Keep it clean, and
stay on the subject or we might
delete your comment. If you see
inappropriate language, e-mail
Visa credit card account.
Security is still important: Visa
notes that the mobile payment
application can be protected
with a password, and that users
will have to treat the case as if it
were a credit card, calling the
bank if it gets lost or stolen.
Market trials of this service are
expected to start this summer.
It's an interesting proposal, but
we'll have to see what the case
looks like. And of course it's
only for Visa customers so far --
us. An asterisk* indicates a
required field.
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for stuff on Visa by waving your
iPhone originally appeared on
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Droid Incredible versus
Nexus One:
cameraphone showdown
Vladislav Savov (Engadget) turns out, the Nexus One rather
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:56:00 AM swept the contest in both
naturally and flash-lit shots,
With all this talk of the Droid while the Incredible habitually
Incredible ousting the Nexus exhibited a blue hue in less than
One from Verizon Wireless, perfectly lit photos. Both
having a better multitouch cameras were adept at taking
implementation, and just being excellent daylight photos, as is
newer and shinier, you might to be expected, but the devil is
t h i n k t h i s c o m p a r i s o n o f as usual in the details -- and you
cameras is just mercilessly can find all of them at the source
piling on the pain for the link below.
original Googlephone. After all, [Thanks, Matt]
t h e N e x u s O n e a n d i t s 5 Droid Incredible versus Nexus
megapixel sensor came out a One: cameraphone showdown
good few months ahead of the 8 originally appeared on Engadget
megapixel Droid Incredible, so on Wed, 05 May 2010 08:56:00
surely this battle would be over EST. Please see our terms for
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side-by-side shootout. As it
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Clear security lanes storming back to airports,

principled travelers high five one another
Darren Murph (Engadget) plopped down $6 million in Continue reading Clear security
Submitted at 5/5/2010 10:16:00 AM order to acquire the assets of lanes storming back to airports,
Verified Identity Pass out of principled travelers high five
D on't call it a comeback. Or b a n k r u p t c y p r o t e c t i o n . one another
do, because that's precisely what According to our hombres at Clear security lanes storming
this is. After Clear shuffled its Gadling, that purchase price back to airports, principled
final incorruptible passenger doesn't include individual travelers high five one another
through a speedy security lane airport contracts, so it'll be an originally appeared on Engadget
i n J u n e o f l a s t y e a r , t h e uphill battle getting these lanes on Wed, 05 May 2010 10:16:00
company closed up shop and back into the places in which EST. Please see our terms for
forced even the nicest of they're needed. If all goes well, use of feeds. Permalink| Fly
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Thankfully for us all, Alclear avenues reopen this fall, with use. Head on past the break for
has decided that life's simply no pricing set at $179 per year for more details on reactivating old
good without a hasty security unlimited individual use or $229 subscriptions and the full
option at airports, and it has per year for unlimited family presser.

A less-than-graceful keynote Threadsy Combines All Your

Mike Schramm (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: Steve Jobs
We've seen the keynote in 60
seconds, and we've seen the "
only the adjectives" 'approach
before. Here's a slightly less
complimentary way to show off
the keynote, though, with all of
the "ums," "aahs," and other
interjections that popped up
during the iPhone OS 4.0
keynote a while back.
Far be it from us to make fun of
Mr. Steven P. Jobs, of course,
but something funny like this
actually shows off how good he
really is at doing it right. Seeing
him up there on stage with his
turtleneck and jeans, all
enthusiastic about whatever
"magical and revolutionary"
device they've cooked up this
time, is half the fun of a new
Apple product announcement. If
Steve were any less eloquent
and smooth than he is, you
might end up with something
like this: a guy desperately
trying to put a few words
together about his new product.
It's not nearly as effective, but
it's much funnier.
[via MacStories]
TUAW A less-than-graceful
keynote originally appeared on
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Inboxes and Social Streams
on One Page [Inboxes]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 5:00:00 AM
Threadsy wants to be a
situation room for everything
you check online—email,
Twitter, Facebook, and chat
services. You don't just view
them, however—Threadsy lets Facebook- Social network-
you archive, reply, delete, and Twitter- Online Communities-
otherwise control your web life Trending and Popularity
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Sony Ericsson X10
family to get Android
2.1 in 'Q4 2010'
Vladislav Savov (Engadget)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:24:00 AM
The Xperia X10, one of the big
mindshare-grabbing devices of
the smartphone world, made us
wait a cool six months between
its November announcement
and wide retail availability in
April. One of the secret hopes
while all that waiting was going
on was that perhaps SE would
surprise us and upgrade the
dusty old Android 1.6 base
installation to a fresh and
creamy Eclair(2.1) or even a
frosty Froyo(2.2) treat shortly
after launch. Time to lay those
dreams to rest, dear friends, as
Sony Ericsson has come with an
official schedule for upgrading
the firmware on the Xperia X10
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Newsy Raises $2 Million
For Multi-Source Video
News Platform
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:50:26 AM
Consider Serious Lack
Newsy, a news destination of Sleep Like Being
website that collects and
analyzes perspectives from Newsy offers an i Phone Drunk on the Job [Sleep]
multiple sources, has raised $2 app(my colleague Robin Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
million in funding from
undisclosed investors.
Wauters is a fan), Newsy just
launched a nifty iPad app that
allows you to watch high-
Submitted at 5/5/2010 5:30:00 AM
The funding will be used to Pulling late nights, or an all-
grow news operations and to
build distribution and marketing
quality Newsy videos, which
highlight the differences in how
nighter, feels like a badge of
honor you can wear at some
partnerships. Newsy monitors,
analyzes, curates and presents
the world’s news coverage
global media outlets report a
story. Users can flip through
videos in a nifty cover flow type
jobs. But given the impact of
sleeplessness on work, at least
and its X10 mini and X10 mini one researcher considers it like
through short 2 to 3 minute fashion, which should be showing up at work loaded.
pro siblings, which places the
video segments available both familiar to anyone that uses More »
Android 2.1 delivery in the
on the web and mobile devices. Apple’s iTunes interface. Sleep disorder- Health-
fourth quarter of 2010 -- and
It is useful for quick news CrunchBase Information Conditions and Diseases-
knowing the company that
consumption on the go, but also Newsy.com Information Insomnia- United States
probably means closer to
helpful in understanding context provided by CrunchBase
Christmas than Halloween. All
around stories covered by media
we can say is you'd better really
like that UX platform a great outlets from around the world.
deal, because it'll be the only
Disable Google Reader's Social
thing you'll be seeing for quite a
while on Sony Ericsson's
Googlephones.
Sony Ericsson X10 family to Features [Google Reader]
get Android 2.1 in 'Q4 2010' Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
they're sharing—this simple
originally appeared on Engadget
hack will strip the social
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features out. More »
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handicapped shoppers this November (video)
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The Robovie R3 is the latest in
a distinguished line of humanoid
bots developed for the purposes
of research, discovery, and (a
tiny bit of) geeky fun. Following
its predecessor's footsteps -- the
R2 secured employment as a
guide to lost shoppers-- the R3
will be making its mall debut in
November of this year, where
it'll assist people by carrying
their shopping, providing November (video)
information about nearby Robovie R3 all set to assist,
products, and holding their hand freak out elderly and
as it guides them through the handicapped shoppers this
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again, shows off OS 6 infusion
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Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:52:00 AM
It's escaped again, the
mysterious BlackBerry 'T'(for
Talladega) slider that we've seen
making the rounds over the past
few months. These new pictures
from Mr. Blurrycam (courtesy
of BBLeaks) don't show us
anything new on the hardware,
but do show the phone running
OS 6. Assuming it's scheduled
to launch alongside that latest
crawls to retail. Deciding
between the two? That should
not be difficult.
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Our Defunct Commercial Constitution
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Submitted at 5/4/2010 6:00:00 PM
There is, or there once was,
such a thing as the "commercial
Constitution." Most of the
powers and prohibitions
specified in the Constitution
concern commercial matters:
commerce itself, obviously, but
also patents and copyrights,
bankruptcy, taxation, tariffs and
duties, the coinage of money,
contracts, and property rights.
Enough of those provisions have
fallen into desuetude to suggest
that we no longer have a
commercial Constitution.
Conservative jurists should be
favorably disposed to restoring
it, not simply because doing so
would help to protect commerce
against a government that seems
to know no restraint, but also for
a deeper reason: "Structure is
everything," Justice Scalia has
insisted, and the basic stuff of
the commercial Constitution is
structure--the allocation of
powers to and placing of
limitations on particular
branches and levels of
government. The commercial
Constitution thus offers an
antidote and alternative to the
airy abstractions and
aspirational "rights" of
contemporary constitutional
law. Implementing a
constitutional program along
these lines, however, would
require a serious rethinking of
two central conservative legal
tenets: originalism and
federalism.
The Constitution's individual
clauses presuppose some
general comprehension of what
the structure as a whole is
supposed to do. Happily, the
basic thrust of our constitutional
commercial arrangement is
perfectly clear: free trade and
commerce across state borders.
To that end, the Constitution
prohibits state tariffs and "duties
of tonnage," state discrimination
against citizens of other states,
state laws impairing the
obligation of contracts, and
states' exploiting the citizens of
other states by means of taxation
or regulation (an implied rule
commonly known as the
prohibition against
"extraterritorial" state laws).
Congress can, in theory, block
states' interfering in business
under its power to regulate
interstate commerce. However,
legislative interventions can
oppress as easily as liberate
commerce. In fact, the odds of
protecting commerce by means
of federal legislation are much
worse than 50/50. The
Constitution's checks and
balances are designed to make
federal legislation deliberate and
cumbersome, the better to
prevent factional schemes and
fevered responses to perceived
crises. Those checks, though
salutary in the ordinary course
of business, prove debilitating
when the task is to beat back
state measures that hobble
commerce. Ingeniously,
therefore, the Constitution
entrusts the protection of
commerce in the first instance
not to Congress but to the
federal courts.
The viability of this
arrangement depends on the
federal courts' elaboration of the
commercial Constitution by way
of doctrine and constitutional
common law. That is essential
because states and legislators
have every incentive to exploit
the commerce of the United
States and to evade the rules that
protect it. The protection of the
Constitution's guarantees against
state commercial circumvention
figured prominently in the
Supreme Court's 19th-century
book of business.
Constitutionally barred from
taxing imports, the states
endeavored to tax importers
instead; the Supreme Court
enjoined them from doing so in
1827's Brown v. Maryland, lest
the constitutional prohibition
become an empty letter.
No specific constitutional
clause barred states from taxing
the instruments of the United
States, including its central
bank; but because "the power to
tax involves the power to
destroy," the Supreme Court
supplied a constitutional
common-law rule, inferred from
the general structure of the
Constitution, to block the tax in
the 1819 decision M'Culloch v.
Maryland. Likewise, no
constitutional clause specifically
prohibited New York from
establishing a steamship
monopoly to the exclusion of a
rival steamship operating under
a federal license; but in 1824's
Gibbons v. Ogden, the Court
read the license, which
essentially served to free U.S.
vessels from the obligations
imposed on foreign ships, as
also forbidding state monopoly
and discrimination among
domestic carriers. This position
later developed into what is
known as "implied federal
preemption," a doctrine holding
that, unless Congress declares
otherwise, any federal law
operates to the exclusion of any
state law in the same field,
regardless of whether the two
conflict. Further, Chief Justice
John Marshall's Gibbons
opinion attributed "great force"
to the notion that the Commerce
Clause, even in the absence of
congressional legislation, erects
a judicially enforceable barrier
against protectionist state
legislation. This "dormant
Commerce Clause" would in
later decades play a central role
in preventing states from doing
indirectly what the Constitution
bars them from doing directly.
The Supreme Court's principal
means of making the rules of the
commercial Constitution stick
was its "diversity" jurisdiction--
that is, jurisdiction over disputes
between parties from different
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states. The exercise of this
jurisdiction protects parties
engaged in interstate commerce
against judicial bias in a
plaintiff's home-state courts. In
commercial cases in which no
state statute and no federal law
or constitutional provision
applied, the Court decided these
"diversity" cases under a federal
general common law--not under
state law. The constitutional
guarantee of an unbiased court,
the theory went, implied a
guarantee of access to an
unbiased body of law.
If this constitutional universe is
unfamiliar, that is because it was
wiped out by the New Deal's
very different Constitution.
Contrary to the
misunderstanding that is
especially widespread among
conservatives, the New Deal did
not simply unleash the federal
government's power on the
states and the private economy.
Rather, it expanded government
power at all levels, state as well
as federal. And to that end, it
effectively repealed the
commercial Constitution that
had governed the United States
for roughly 150 years.
Supreme Court diversity
jurisdiction became optional in
1928, and, over the ensuing
decades, the federal courts
created a slew of "abstention"
doctrines that oblige federal
courts to defer to state law, and
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continued from page 35
to state courts--even when
federal jurisdiction plainly
exists. The federal general
common law was summarily
abolished--as unconstitutional,
no less--in Erie Railroad v.
Tompkins, the 1938 decision
that effectively commands
federal courts hearing diversity
cases to follow the state law
chosen by the plaintiff. Of the
entire constitutional edifice,
only the dormant Commerce
Clause and federal preemption
law survive, and those only in a
greatly weakened form. The
dormant Commerce Clause was
s t r i p p e d o f i t s
"extraterritoriality" prohibition:
While outright protectionism is
still prohibited, states may tax,
regulate, and exploit other
states' citizens and businesses
virtually without hindrance.
(Kansas may regulate the
Internet so long as it does not
overtly favor its own citizens.)
Federal preemption lost its
presumption of exclusivity: Its
post-New Deal touchstone is the
"intent" of Congress, and, unless
Congress has made its
preemptive intent unmistakably
clear, the Court will construe
federal statutes against
preemption and in favor of the
states' "traditional" police
powers.
It is to this jurisprudence,
driven by the New Deal's
eagerness to unleash interest-
group politics and to enhance
the redistributive power of
government at all levels, that we
owe our current chaotic
commercial order. Economic
actors must now deal with a
cascade of conflicting and
compounding demands and
regulations, inflicted by a
multitude of semi-autonomous
institutional actors and a wholly
autonomous litigation industry.
First prize often goes to the
most exploitative regulator. The
Erie Railroad regime, for
example, pulls lawsuits into the
most pro-plaintiff jurisdiction
available: hence the litigation
explosion. At the same time,
current practices regarding
preemption law and the dormant
Commerce Clause reward the
state that proves most creative in
taxing and regulating outsiders.
What is the correct conservative
response to this transformation?
By some conservatives' lights,
the New Deal metamorphosis
hasn't gone far enough. Justices
Scalia and Thomas have
denounced the dormant
Commerce Clause as a pure
judicial invention. Justice Scalia
would still enforce the doctrine,
on stare decisis grounds, against
overtly discriminatory state laws
and against laws identical to
those invalidated in the past.
That is not much of a restraint:
Even the stupidest state
legislator can write a
discriminatory statute in neutral
language. Justice Thomas would
abolish the dormant Commerce
Clause altogether and instead
protect interstate commerce
under the explicit provisions of
the Import-Export Clause, and
perhaps under the Privileges and
Immunities Clause. Good luck
with that: The Import-Export
Clause provides protection
against some, but not all,
protectionist taxes, while it
offers no protection from
equivalent regulations; the P&I
Clause, for its part, protects
individuals but not corporations.
The entire point of the dormant
Commerce Clause is to block
obvious state maneuvers to
circumvent the constitutional
protections enjoyed by
businesses. To eviscerate the
doctrine is to expose all
interstate commerce to
unchecked state exploitation.
The Court's avowed originalists
have taken an equally radical
view of federal preemption. Last
year's decision in Wyeth v.
Levine was occasioned by a
tragic injury to a patient whose
doctor and nurse, in an act of
flagrant malpractice, had
administered a drug in direct
contravention of a warning label
that conformed with--and was
practically dictated by--Food
and Drug Administration (FDA)
requirements. Even so, the
Court decided that federal law
does not preempt tort lawsuits
under state law. FDA-approved
warnings, the 6-3 majority said,
are a mere federal minimum;
state courts and lay juries can do
better in determining the
adequacy of drug labels. In a
breathtakingly expansive
concurring opinion, Justice
Thomas inveighed against any
implied preemption and insisted
that federally regulated drug
manufacturers have no
"unfettered right, for all time, to
market [a] drug with the specific
label that was federally
approved." That form of
originalism recasts preemption
law as something it has never
been. Gibbons v. Ogden directly
confronted the argument that a
federal coastal trading license--a
routine license of far less
obvious preemptive force than a
painstakingly considered and
negotiated drug label--"gives no
right to trade." Marshall rejected
that argument. By the lights of
Justice Thomas's Wyeth
opinion, Gibbons was either
decided wrongly or should have
been decided under the dormant
Commerce Clause--if, pace
Justice Thomas, such a thing
exists.
Also last year, the Court held
that the lending practices of
federally chartered financial
institutions are subject to open-
ended fraud investigations and
lawsuits by state attorneys
general. Ever since 1864, the
National Bank Act has shielded
the banking operations of
federally chartered institutions
against state investigation and
prosecution, leaving state banks
subject almost exclusively to
state supervision. This dual
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banking system reflects the 19th
-century constitutional
understanding, exemplified by
M'Culloch v. Maryland, that any
given set of private transactions
should be regulated by the
federal government or by states-
-but not by both. Justice Scalia's
5-4 majority opinion in Cuomo
v. Clearing House Association,
joined by the Court's liberal
bloc, effectively ends that
sensible system. M'Culloch
hovers over Justice Scalia's
opinion, but is not cited therein.
By the lights of Cuomo, it may
no longer be good law.
A jurisprudence that renders
John Marshall's commercial
Constitution obsolete is
probably mistaken. And when
that same jurisprudence turns
the Constitution and its
federalism into a trial lawyers'
Bill of Rights, suspicion hardens
into certainty. The question is,
What went wrong?
One obvious source of error is
an excessively clause-bound,
literalist originalism. On this
view, the specific clauses of the
Constitution and their
historically settled meaning are
the Constitution, and the will of
the Congress must be the
declared will of the Congress.
This is what drives originalists'
hostility to the dormant
Commerce Clause and to federal
preemption. It also drives their
enthusiasm for Erie Railroad,
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Congress's Busy Agenda Just Got Even Busier

(AEI.Org: Articles) moved forward with any action. another stimulus. And by the way, Rush path to citizenship for those
Submitted at 5/4/2010 6:00:00 PM This is malpractice on a grand I can't tell at this point whether Limbaugh first suggesting that people who have been here
scale. the catastrophic oil spill environmentalists sabotaged the undocumented for more than 10
The heavy agenda Congress The car bomb is appropriately increases the chances of a oil rig to block any more drilling years. We are not going to round
faces for the remainder of the getting a lot of attention. But so climate change bill moving and then saying that nature up and deport millions of
year has gotten much heavier are two other recent events that forward, or kills it dead. would take care of the cleanup people, most of whom are
over the past week. The botched will force Congress to consider Certainly, the hope of finding by itself demands another hardworking contributors to our
car bomb in New York puts a or reconsider its agenda this some modest bipartisan support Congressional action: a joint society and economy. But we
new emphasis on threats to the year: the oil spill in the Gulf of f o r t h e resolution demanding that also need to clean up our broken
homeland, and it will (or Mexico and the Arizona law Graham/Kerry/Lieberman plan Limbaugh fulfill his public visa system, making sure we
should) require a renewed focus t a r g e t i n g i m m i g r a n t s . rested on the president's promise to move to Costa Rica expand it so people can come
on the threat that exists to the Conventional wisdom has had it willingness to entertain an if the health care bill were here legally and fill jobs where
most endangered places in that there was little chance of a expansion of offshore drilling enacted into law. there are needs, whether
America, namely New York and climate change bill getting (as well as movement on nuclear The misguided Arizona temporarily or permanently, and
W a s h i n g t o n , t h e s i t e s o f enacted this year and no chance power). The need to step back immigration law also demands to make sure we get a strong
previous terrorist attacks. That o f a n i m m i g r a t i o n b i l l . from that pledge, via a Congressional attention--and not supply of the brightest and best
should mean enhanced oversight Conventional wisdom may still moratorium for now, may limit just on immigration. I don't highly trained people in tech,
of our mechanisms in place and be right, but both issues have GOP support for any bill, while blame Arizona for grappling medicine and other fields to
inadequacies in response-- been complicated by these any proposal that might expand with this problem. It is clear that maintain our edge in innovation
including our chronic problems events, and both need at least a offshore drilling could cause Mexican drug gangs are in the world.
of coordinated communication renewed focus, and a wider some Democrats to disavow the growing more violent and more Each of these issues is critical
for first responders. focus, by Congress. legislation. depraved, and their behavior is to the future of the country.
But it should also mean another The oil spill, of course, has But if anything, the spill should spilling across our borders in They can't be put on the back
w a k e - u p c a l l - - a b o u t t h e even broader implications than demonstrate the need both to Texas and Arizona. They burner. It is time for some of our
hundredth--for Congress to do climate change. There will be reduce our dependence on oil represent a threat to governance lawmakers to show some
s o m e t h i n g t o p r o t e c t o u r major economic fallout, which and to focus yet again on in Mexico, to the Mexican backbone and look for genuine
constitutional institutions of w i l l a d d s u b s t a n t i a l l y t o environmental policy. Of people and to our own. cross-party solutions or at least
governance from decapitation government costs for disaster course, Congress needs to get to Congress needs to focus on interim steps, and not leave Sen.
via an attack. More than eight relief and to ameliorate the the bottom of the causes of the ways to help Mexico battle these Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
years after 9/11, we still have no economic effects of the spill, spill, including whether threats and definitely needs to twisting alone in the wind.
serious plans in place to deal especially if it spreads across the Norway's requirement of find ways to beef up border Norman J. Ornstein is a resident
with a disruption of government Gulf and potentially up the East acoustic valves on offshore security against drug lord terror. scholar at AEI.
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which originalist justices and
scholars have sought to establish
as a bulwark against judicial
overreach even when the
decision manifestly does not
apply. Structure may be
"everything," but hidebound
originalism holds that judges
may do nothing to make
structure work: This would
smack of raw politics and
judicial imperialism. So long as
this Manichean view prevails,
the commercial Constitution
will remain a dead letter.
A second error, pervasive not
only among jurists but among
conservatives more broadly, is
the misguided expectation that
federalism will automatically
translate into smaller, more
responsible government. The
demise of the commercial
Constitution exposes the
commerce of the United States
to relentless exploitation by trial
lawyers who shop for hellhole
jurisdictions, by attorneys
general and treasurers who have
become rainmakers for their
states, and by crusading state
lawmakers who inflict costly
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"federalism" is more a menace
than a blessing. What is often
called for is centralization--not
the bureaucratic centralization
of No Child Left Behind or
Obamacare, but legal
centralization. For example,
airline and trucking deregulation
worked because states' rights
were overruled under a single
federal rule: The states are
categorically barred from re-
regulating the rates, routes, or
services of common carriers. By
the same token, if one wants to
enable individuals to purchase
health insurance across state
lines, the countless interests and
regulators who now oppose that
reform will have to be stopped
from regulating and litigating it
into the ground after the fact.
Misapplied federalist thinking
would make that impossible.
Congress is built to promote
interest-group politics and
parochial exploitation. The
Roberts court, to its credit, has
cut back some of liberalism's
more exotic legal flora. If its
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failed to recognize that the task
of disciplining state-by-state
factionalism and exploitation is,
by constitutional design,
principally that of the judiciary.
A jurisprudence that would "let
Commerce struggle for
congressional action to make it
free" has already pronounced it
dead, as Justice Robert Jackson
wrote in a dormant-Commerce
Clause case in 1941. Not an
original or particularly
conservative insight--but one
that originalists would do well
to remember.
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The Belarus Chokehold -- Transfent's Tokarev Squeezes,
Lukashenko Twists, Timchenko Gains
John Helmer (The Money
Game)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:05:39 AM
The Lithuanians tried it more
than a decade ago. The
Belarussians are trying it again
– no one in Moscow believes it
can be done. In fact, the
Russians say it’s childish to try.
When the Russian noose goes
round your neck, they say, you
either beg forgiveness, or you
choke to death. If the President
of Belarus Alexander
Lukashenko weren’t regarded
more negatively than the
Russian leadership in the Anglo-
American press, there might be
more geopolitical interest in
what is happening – or more
curiosity about who gains
commercially.
The breaking news is that
Lukashenko’s government is
testing tanker and rail delivery
alternatives for the crude oil the
Belarussian refineries need. The
source of this crude is
Venezuela, whose President,
Hugo Chavez, agreed in mid-
March with Lukashenko on a
trial shipment of up to 70,000
tonnes.
The first of these, a 4,400-tonne
cargo, was tankered through the
Atlantic, the Mediterranean,
and the Black Sea to Odessa,
Ukraine, last month; and then
despatched by rail to the Mozyr
Economy/ 39
refinery, where it arrived on lowered the effective tax to
Sunday. Mozyr has output $53/tonne. The transit fee was
capacity of 95,000 barrels daily, cut to a percentage of the export
while the second Belarus tax, amounting to about
refinery, Novopolotsk, has $2.10/barrel this year. At the
88,000 bd capacity. Depending same time, it was agreed that
on the petroleum products Russia would receive 70% of all
refined, that output would export duties on oil products
require at least 180,000 bd of produced by Belarus refineries
crude oil feedstock. In annual from Russian crude in 2007, and
terms, that amounts to about 9.5 then re-exported. The annual bill
million tonnes of deliveries. to the Russian oil companies,
But Belarus media are which were obliged to pay the
forecasting inward shipments of compromise transit fee, came to
up to 10 million tonnes per year $85 million, compared to
(206,000 bd) for domestic $131.4 million demanded under
consumption, refining for the Belarus proposal. The
export, and apparently re-export premium for exporting oil to
as crude. The Belarus prime Belarus for refining there was
was pumped across Belarussian petroleum products.
minister, Sergei Sidorsky, was thus significantly reduced.
territory. That was until In January of 2007, the two
in Lithuania last week to Taking all these terms together,
December 2006, when Belarus presidents, Lukashenko and
consider whether the this deal meant that the
announced it was imposing an Vladimir Putin, agreed to
Venezuelan cargoes may be commercial advantage of
extra transit fee. That move was r e s o l v e t h i s d i s p u t e b y
delivered via the Baltic Sea to shipping oil to market through
triggered by a Russian move to preserving some of the new
the Lithuanian ports of Klaipeda Belarus dropped significantly,
impose an export duty on the charges each had forced on the
and Butinge, and then sent on by making other routes more
oil Belarus kept for its own other that month, while allowing
rail from there. attractive. But Transneft, then
refineries. And that in turn was discounts to reduce the pain,
Last year, Belarus reportedly run by Semyon Vainshtok, said
done because, according to the and permit crude deliveries to
imported 21.5 million tonnes of it was opposed to building a
Russian claims, the duty-free r e s u m e o n t h e D r u z h b a
crude from Russia; that is new 1,015-km pipeline to
regime on the eastern Belarus pipeline, after Transneft, the
roughly one-third of the total 60 bypass Belarus. Two reasons
border (with Russia) required s t a t e c o n t r o l l e d R u s s i a n
million tonnes which has been were given — there was no
Belarus to share with Russia the pipeline company, had halted
piped annually through the crude to pump through the new
proceeds of its re-export of oil at p u m p i n g a n d i m p o s e d a
Soviet-era Druzhba line, and the $4.5 billion
the western Belarus border b l o c k a d e .
(“Friendship”) pipeline, and financing appeared to be too
(with Poland). After a fortnight of haggling,
across Belarus to Poland, costly.
At the time, Moscow argued Russia agreed to reduce its
Germany and other central But Vainshtok was replaced by
that Belarus aimed to charge too e x p o r t d u t i e s o n c r u d e
European markets. In the past, Nikolai Tokarev (right figure at
much for transit, and pay too shipments to Belarus, preserving
most of that oil has been
little for the crude it took, the official rate of $180/tonne BELARUS page 40
charged a maintenance fee as it
refined, and then re-exported as but giving a discount that
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continued from page 39
desk) in September 2007, and
the commercial calculation
began to change. Especially so
for Gunvor, the leading Russian
oil trader owned by Gennady
Timchenko. For Gunvor
proposed to load the Belarus
bypass oil at the new tanker
terminal it was building at Ust-
Luga, just 80 kilometres across
the Gulf of Finland from
Primorsk, Russia’s main Baltic
oil outlet. In December 2008,
Putin signed an order for
Transneft to start construction
of the Baltic Pipeline System
BPS-2, in order to pump the oil
around Belarus to Ust-Luga. A
report by Troika Dialog
investment house the same
month said this was “politically
-driven…It is unclear where
Transneft intends to find oil for
the new pipeline, given
declining oil production and
exports and already ample spare
capacity in the pipeline system.
Moreover, some 450,000 bpd of
West Siberian crude will be re-
routed to fill the first phase of
the Eastern Siberia – Pacific
Ocean (ESPO) pipeline.
Transneft therefore faces the
prospect of paying up to $5 bln
for a project that would bring no
additional revenues.”
In July 2009, Timchenko
agreed through his London
lawyers to settle a libel suit he
had initiated against the
Economist magazine. According
to the retraction which the
Economist agreed to publish,
“we are happy to make it clear
that when we referred to the
“new corruption” in today’s
Russia, we did not intend to
suggest that either Gunvor or Mr
Timchenko obtained their
Russian oil business as a result
of payment by them of bribes or
like corrupt inducements.
Rosneft sells only 30-40% of its
oil through Gunvor rather than
the “bulk” of Rosneft’s oil (as
we described it). We accept
Gunvor’s assurances that neither
Vladimir Putin nor other senior
Russian political figures have
any ownership interest in
Gunvor. We regret if any
contrary impression was given.”
In February of this year,
Tokarev of Transneft told an oil
industry publication in Moscow
that he plans to complete BPS-2
by December of next year. He
described the priority for
building the pipeline as bypass.
“Everyone knows in which
connection we decided to build
it: Russia and the European oil
consumers were already tired of
all this transit trouble. We don’t
want to depend on someone in
this matter. And for the EU
these are completely
unnecessary problems. Negative
points accumulate and create a
very unpleasant atmosphere.
Okay if it was for the
atmosphere, but we suffer direct
economic losses, and it is true
not only for us, but for the oil
companies and European
consumers as well. BPS-2 is
built to ensure, first and
foremost, Russia’s export
interests.
“But we are not planning to
leave our traditional markets in
southern Europe, Germany and
Poland. That would be quite
wrong. Many plants in Europe
are technologically oriented to
processing Russian oil, and it
would be unwise, un-
businesslike to abandon these
markets. All of these Druzhba
pipelines will be loaded the
same way as they are now. The
only thing that is realistic is the
reorientation of the volume from
foreign ports – Yuzhny
[Ukraine], Gdansk [Poland] – to
our site in Ust-Luga.”
As for the previous charge that
the bypass was duplicating the
delivery of oil to Primorsk, and
would lack throughput, Tokarev
now says: “the Primorsk port is
overloaded. Its design capacity
is 70 million tonnes a year, and
currently it pumps 74 million
tonnes a year. We cannot
operate the facility for a long
time in this mode. About 7
million tonnes per year could be
removed and redirected to Ust-
Luga.”
In the text of his interview,
Tokarev is also reported by
Petroleum Argus as resuming
the earlier criticism of Belarus’s
positions during the January
2007 conflict. “Russia has fairly
and liberally supplied oil and
oil products to Belarus… The
budget of Russia for just the last
three years was missing $10
billion due to the fact that the
coefficient on the export duty
on oil deliveries to Belarus
amounted to 0.33. This is a
serious amount of big money.
Belarus certainly would like to
continue to live in such a
comfortable position…But we
also have retired people, social
programs, and thousands of
problems to solve that need
money. It’s time to bring the
situation into line with reality.
As a result, an agreement was
signed which provides for
delivery from January 29, duty-
free, of 6.3 million tonnes of oil
for domestic consumption in
Belarus. These volumes are
likely to be delivered evenly. A
clear timetable for the year will
be drawn up, and this amount
will be distributed in equal
quantities. Here we will work
together with Customs.
Consideration will now be
organized at two levels — the
first, duty-free oil, the second,
with duty. One chart, but it will
all be provided.”
This is no plan of blockade,
although the numbers indicate
deliveries of much lower
volumes of Russian crude than
Belarus would like to receive
on the old terms. But Transneft
spokesman Igor Dyomin goes
further than Tokarev to deny
there is no dispute with Belarus,
and no intention to bypass the
country. “We do not want to
lose clients in Belarus,”
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Dyomin told Fairplay today.
“By putting BPS-2 in operation
we are reaching the following
goals: we stop using the services
of transit third-party states, for
example the [Polish] port of
Gdansk, and instead develop
our own infrastructure at Ust-
Luga; also, the BPS-1 pipeline
is currently overloaded, and
launching BPS-2 will allow us
to decrease the volume at BPS-
1.”
Some Russian analysts in
Moscow believe the Belarus-
Venezuela link is “comic”, and
will end in costly failure, just as
Lithuania’s attempt to feed its
Mazeiku refinery with non-
Russian crude ended up a
decade ago. But Alexei
Bezborodov, head of
Infranews.ru, a maritime
specialist, says Belarus may be
able to free itself of the Russian
chokehold. “It is quite logical to
work through Klaipeda. There
are no hopeless situations. This
is the way the Polish and
Lithuanian refineries operate, to
some extent. So everything is
possible. Except for the loss of
profit margin [that was earned
on] Russian oil. With that
money Batka [Lukashenko] was
feeding the retired.”
The existing oil pipeline
network (Druzhba) running
across Belarus (solid red line)
The new BPS-2 route bypassing
Belarus (red dotted line)
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created. This would make euro- says he's going to Washington
Even if Greece wanted to leave denominated debt burdens even to make a case for additional
the Eurozone, it's far from clear more onerous to the Greek homeland security money.
how they could do so legally. public and private institutions, The mayor spoke Wednesday at
Risk: since as shown above they an event with members of the
Charles Proctor, a partner at would still need to be honored. bomb squad that defused a
UK-based law firm Bird & Bird, Moreover, it's not just Greece bomb in Times Square on
who worked on a number of the that could have difficulty Saturday.
early bond deals denominated in leaving the euro from a legal He said New York is the
euros, says a unilateral perspective. The above issues symbol of America, "where
withdrawal from the currency, would also apply to Spain, Italy, terrorists come and we need to
without the consent of other Portugal, etc.., even perhaps have homeland security funds."
member states, would be a clear Germany if the country tried to He said Saturday's failed attack
breach of the Maastricht Treaty. do it unilaterally. proved the need. Faisal
“Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty Deep down we feel ejecting Shahzad, a 30-year-old
[signed in 2007] allows a Greece is theoretically the best naturalized U.S. citizen, was
member state to withdraw from withdrew by breaking this one be recognised by courts in long-term solution, but this charged Tuesday with trying to
t h e E u r o p e a n U n i o n a s a treaty, it's not like the nation Greece, but courts in London might be impossible from a blow up a crude device inside a
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Gartman: Greece Can't Fix Itself,
Because Its Culture Is Dependent On
Government Spending
Vince Veneziani (The Money
Game)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:38:49 AM
As Greek CDSs widen, riots
break out, and the county of
Greece cheers as the rest of
Europe hands it a big bag of
money, financial analysts are
pulling back the curtain to
expose what's really going on
across the Atlantic.
In this morning's The Gartman
Letter, Dennis tears into Greece
as a country, putting petty things
like billions of dollars of debt
aside and focusing in on the real
problem: the people of Greece.
There will be no end to
Greece's underlying problem of
being fiscally irresponsible and
that is what must be fixed if we
expect to stop bailing them out
every other decade.
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modern Greek culture is do
dependent upon government
largesse, and is so used to the
fact that Greek fiscal
irresponsibility will be bailed
out by the taxes paid by
responsible German workers
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and businessmen, that we cannot
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something more rational;
something more “modern” will
evolve and that all shall be well,
the egg shells that are the EMU
will be patched together and
magically re- glued and that all
shall be well with the world…
but we are not naïve. Rather we
are realists, and realists know
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'Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston' Premieres at Tribeca
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
Blogs)
Submitted at 5/4/2010 3:25:40 PM
Whitney Sudler-Smith, the
creator of Ultrasuede: In Search
of Halston, poses (sans the
Boogie Nights mustache he
sports in his documentary) with
Sarah Jessica Parker on the red
carpet.
Last Friday was the world
premiere of Ultrasuede: In
Search of Halston at the Tribeca
Film Festival, a documentary
about one of American fashion’s
most tumultuous legacies.
Among a swarm of fashionistas
decked out in vintage Halston
dresses, Whitney Sudler-Smith,
the film’s creator, posed with
Sarah Jessica Parker, while
Marc Jacobs slipped by
incognito. But the star of the
evening really was the lost 70’s
icon himself, Roy Halston.
“The seventies had everything,”
Sudler-Smith says in the
movie’s opening, “sex, drugs,
fashion, and”—to borrow from
the designer’s plaque on the
Fashion Walk of Fame—“the
seventies belonged to Halston.”
His 1973 show at Versailles, the
first year American designers
were invited to present their
work alongside top French
fashion houses, was such a hit
that Yves St. Laurent apparently
threw his book in the air with
excitement. But while Halston
put American fashion on the
map, few who grew up after the
era of Studio 54 know about his
reign as the country’s first
celebrity designer.
Ultrasuede maps Halston’s
spectacular rise in the party
culture of the 70’s, and his
label’s disappointing decline in
the 80’s, when Halston lost the
rights to his brand name and
was ruined by a close friend of Andy Warhol
disastrous—though, considering
the high-low state of fashion
today, revolutionary—billion-
dollar partnership with JC
Penney. Sudler-Smith, who
suffers from self-diagnosed “era
envy” and spends most of the
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movie strutting around in an
ironic Burt Reynolds get-up, is
just as interested in how the 70's
created Halston as he is in how
Halston created the 70's.
Halston was a talk show
regular, a Studio 54 staple, and a
and his entourage. But while his
lifestyle was one of excess, his
designs were pure, elegant
minimalism. Sudler-Smith calls
him “an extremist” for living
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44 Culture/
Intel Introduces Ultra-Low-Power Processor for Smartphones
Priya Ganapati (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:44:00 AM
After a few false starts, Intel is
making yet another attempt to
get inside smartphones with the
launch of a new Atom processor
designed specifically for mobile
devices.
The chips, codenamed
“Moorestown,” will be highly
power efficient, while still
packing enough computational
muscle to enable features such
as video conferencing and HD
video, says Intel.
“This is our second generation,
low-power Atom platform that
can exceed our competition in
terms of power and
performance,” says Anand
Chandrasekher, Intel senior vice
president and general manager
of the Ultra Mobility Group.
The system-on chip package
will be based on Intel’s 45-
nanometer process and will pack
140 million transistors.
Intel’s chips run the show in
netbooks, notebooks and
desktop processors, but the
company been sidelined in the
fast growing smartphone
market. Processors based on the
rival ARM architecture are in
most smartphones today. For
instance, Qualcomm’s
Snapdragon processor, which
has an ARM-based CPU, is
inside the Google HTC Nexus
One phone and HTC’s
upcoming EVO 4G phone.
Intel tried its hand in the phone
chip business earlier, but in
2006, it sold its XScale ARM-
based division to Marvell. More
recently, Intel has also tried to
pitch its current generation of
Atom processors to smartphone
makers, but the chips were
never accepted because they
consumed too much power for
phone use.
This time around, Intel says its
made major improvements to
power efficiency so its
Moorestown chips can stand up
or even beat the competition in
energy efficiency.
“This is the third time Intel is
entering the smartphone
market,” says Flint Pulskamp,
an analyst with IDC. “The
difference is this time they
realize being inside phones is
essential to their long term
viability so they are being very
aggressive with their design and
architecture.”
The Moorestown system-on-a-
chip has three parts. The first is
an Atom processor that
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combines the CPU core with 3-
D graphics, video encoding,
memory and display functions.
The second is a controller hub
that supports system level tasks.
The final piece is a mixed-signal
integrated circuit that handles
the power delivery and battery
charging features.
Together these chips use just
1.75% the power of current
Atom chips, in the idle state:
Instead of the 1.2 Watts drawn
by current Atom CPUs, the new
Moorestown chips will draw
just 21 milliwatts.
Similarly, Intel is promising 5%
the power consumption of
current Atom processors, or 115
milliwatts, while browsing the
web; and 1/3rd the power
consumption while playing
video.
These power savings translate
into more than 10 days of
standby time, up to 2 days of
audio playback and four to five
hours of browsing and video
battery life, says Intel.
“We can generally dynamically
detect what the phone is doing
and adjust the power
consumption,” says Belliappa
Kuttanna, the principal architect
of Intel’s Atom architecture.
The new Moorestown chip
supports clock speeds of up to
1.5 GHz for high-end
smartphones (compared to the 1
GHz seen in Qualcomm’s
Snapdragon processors) and up
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May 5, 1945: Japanese Balloon Bomb Kills 6 in Oregon

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eastern Oregon. They are the was a terrible explosion. Twigs • Jan. 27, 1945: Nazi Hell on
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casualties in the 48 states. needles began to fall, dead • Jan. 30, 1945: Torpedoed
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World War II. The United States E d w a r d E n g e n , S h e r m a n • April 14, 1945: Tweaky Toilet
had turned the tables and Shoemaker, Dick Patzke and Costs Skipper His Sub
invaded Japan’s outlying islands their teacher were all dead, • April 30, 1945: New
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invasion of the U.S. naval base The teacher’s dress was ablaze. Too Late
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That probably seemed a world severely injured and died Opens Atomic Age
away to a Sunday school minutes later, the Mail Tribune • Aug. 6, 1945: 'I Am Become
teacher, her minister husband wrote. Death, Destroyer of Worlds'
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students near Klamath Falls. so-called Fu-Go or fire-balloon U.S. Atom Bomb Secrets
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driving the group along a 19,000 cubic feet of hydrogen D' Shoots the First-Person
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a Saturday afternoon picnic, stream, the balloons were sandbags if it flew too low. nuclear-weapons plant at • May 5, 1809: Hats Off to First
according to the Mail Tribune, a designed to travel across the In all, the Japanese released an Hanford, Washington. U.S. Woman Patent-Holder
southern Oregon newspaper. Pacific to North America, where estimated 9,000 fire balloons. At But the only known casualties
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46 Culture/
iPad Keyboard: Pricey and Awkward, But a Must-Have for
Productivity
Brian X. Chen (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 7:00:00 AM
As beautiful as they may be,
virtual keyboards can’t replace
the speed and precision of
typing on physical keys. If you
actually plan on doing work on
an iPad, you should probably
buy Apple’s integrated keyboard
-and-dock.
Once you attach your iPad to
the dock, you can begin typing
in basically any app that has a
text field: e-mails, URL
addresses, documents, etc. No
setup is required. If you want,
you can plug your iPad power
cable into the back of the dock
to charge your iPad while you
type, but it works just fine even
if the keyboard’s not plugged
into a power source.
I’ve had some time to test the
iPad keyboard for the past few
days, and the experience is quite
liberating. Without modesty, I’ll
admit I’m a really fast typist
(180 WPM is my max), and
typing on the iPad’s soft virtual
keyboard was daunting and
error-prone.
The addition of a physical
keyboard transforms the iPad
from a couch-surfing media
device into a lean-forward
productivity tool. I particularly
enjoy using the keyboard for
chatting, writing e-mails and
paying bills: Punching in credit
card numbers and addresses
with a virtual keyboard is a huge
pain in the butt.
The experience, however, is
still slightly awkward compared
to typing with a traditional
computer keyboard. Though the
keyboard dock is designed
specifically for the iPad —
including keys to launch the
Home screen or a Spotlight
search — there are some
functions that don’t work with
the keyboard. For example, in a
drop-down menu, you can’t use
the arrow keys to move up or
down the items in the menu; you
have to just tap the touchscreen.
Apple did say during its iPhone
OS 4 event that improved
keyboard integration is coming
in the next OS, so one hopes
these issues will be resolved.
I also think it’s particularly
disappointing that you can’t
dock the iPad horizontally onto
the keyboard to view the screen
in landscape mode. The iPad’s
only docking port is under its
Home button, meaning the only
way you can plug it into the
keyboard dock is in vertical
mode.
A lot of apps that involve
typing, such as IM+ or even
Apple’s Mail app, look a lot
better in landscape mode, and
it’s a shame we can’t use them
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that way when docking on the
keyboard. I’m typing this blog
post on the iPad docked on the
keyboard, and I gotta say:
Writing in a portrait-oriented
screen is weird.
Although the keyboard will
enhance your productivity on
the iPad, it won’t completely
solve the tablet’s shortcomings
as a work device. Any app you
open takes up the entire screen.
Not being able to view other
media and notes while writing a
blog post like this one, for
example, feels stifling.
Apple has announced
multitasking is coming to
iPhone OS 4, which will partly
address the problem, because
you’ll be able to switch between
apps much faster.
Bottom line: For what the
keyboard dock does, it’s pretty
pricey at $70. Apple’s wired
keyboard for Macs costs $50,
and I would hope the iPad
keyboard matches that price tag
at some point. Nonetheless, I
think this is a crucial buy for
professionals and students
planning to do some serious
work on their iPads.
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only on either end of the dial. In
the end, though, the film
presents him as a gifted artist.
Ralph Rucci, whose first job
was cutting muslins for Halson,
recalls a particularly stirring
memory of the designer taking a
pair of scissors to a bolt of
fabric and suddenly turning it
into a dress. What other
designer, Rucci asks the
audience, can so easily see a
piece of fabric in three
dimensions and turn it into
something beautiful? Roy
Halston died in 1990 of AIDS-
related cancer, and he was
eulogized on TV news stations
w i t h o n l y o n e
factoid—historical though it
may be—that he designed
Jackie O’s famous pillbox hat.
And now, after a staggering
number of corporate
acquisitions and inheritances,
Halston’s sketches, photos, and
designs are stored in a
downtrodden storage room in
Lipscomb Bible College, the
irony of which would be
delicious if it wasn’t so
depressing. So Sudler-Smith
instead recreates Halston’s life
and faded legacy through the
insights of friends and fashion
aficionados.
He starts by meeting Halston’s
best friend, Liza Minnelli, in the
New York apartment he had
decorated for her. Minnelli was
one of the many 70's icons that
r e g u l a r l y w o r e
Halston—including Bianca
Jagger, Elizabeth Taylor, and
Candice Bergen, who he dressed
for Andy Warhol’s Black and
White Ball. Halston was, in fact,
the person who brought together
Minnelli and her one true
love—sequins—after seeing her
leave stage soaked in sweat.
“You’re already shining,” he
told her, “So you might as well
shine all over!”
From there, Sudler-Smith seeks
the insights of, among others,
Cathy Horyn, Anjelica Huston
(one of the Halstonettes), and
Diane Von Furstenberg. But the
movie’s greatest insights come
from the personal testimony of
Rucci and former Halston model
Pat Cleveland, both of whom sat
down for a panel discussion
after the film, moderated by
Matt Tyrnauer, director of
Valentino: The Last Emperor.
Together, the panels shared
their thoughts on Halston.
Tyrnauer expressed shock that
the announcement of Halston's
death was marked only with a
bit of Kennedy-headwear trivia,
ignoring over a decade of six-
ply cashmere, "one-note"
monochrome looks, and flowing
winged dresses, all of which
Halston brought into vogue.
Rucci lamented that his
mentor’s memory is so often
marred by the “provincial”
objections to his elevated, but
still somewhat typical 70's
lifestyle. And Cleveland, who
Halston called “the moth” for
the way she fluttered down the
runway, compared wearing his
clothes to “being wrapped in
music, and as you move, a
different part of the fabric
touches a different note on your
body”—and what a lovely note
it was to end the evening on.
—Nojan Aminosharei
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Taylor, Ashton, Demi, and
Betty Spread Their Influence
at the Lincoln Center
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Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:00:00 AM
New York City's red carpet
wattage for the week isn't only
about the Costume Institute
Gala- stars stepped out for Time
Magazine's 100 Most Influential
People party at Lincoln Center but still flashed a beautiful smile
on her way in. She looked
last night. Taylor Swift wore a
LBD for the red carpet before flawless both nights and by day
headed to DC to speak out
changing into a sparkly silver
number to perform and say her against child slavery. Also at the
Time soiree, Betty White had a
thanks for being included on the
list. The country star and new break from preparing for this
weekend's highly anticipated
face of CoverGirl was also
among the Met ball's best Saturday Night Live where
she'll be hosting with musical
dressed and stopped to talk
about the flooding in Tennessee guest Jay-Z.
at both events. Lea Michele also
earned her way there thanks to
the success of Glee, Elizabeth To see more from Time's 100
Most Influential Gala, just read
Hurley brought a dose of
glamour and jack-of-all-trades more.
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Neil Patrick Harris suited up -
sadly another of the honorees,
Robert Pattinson, didn't make Images include: Ben Stiller,
Leslie Mann, Judd Apatow,
the bash.
Ashton Kutcher joked about his Betty White, Nick Cannon,
Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher,
powerlessness in getting his
minibar restocked before Taylor Swift, Neil Patrick
stepping out to pose with Demi Harris, Lea Michele, Kathryn
Moore and even once with Bigelow, Martha Stewart, Lorne
Sarah Palin's daughter Piper Michaels, Andy Samberg, Elton
inside. Demi was one of the last John
to arrive at the Costume Gala,
48 Culture/ E-reader News Edition

What's Inside Triple Paste Diaper Daily Buzz: Celebrate

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Springtime Style: Milliner Gigi Burris Launches
Exclusive Collection for Screaming Mimis
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Nothing says “spring garden
party” quite like a whimsical
topper, complete with dotted
veil and vintage hand-made
flower petals. Hence, a perfect
marriage of a Sunday afternoon
in the Yard at Soho Grand hotel
and the launch of the Gigi
Burris hat collection exclusive
for Screaming Mimi’s vintage
boutique. Guests socialized
under the green-vined pergola
while summertime music filled
the garden space and citrus-y
drinks were passed around.
Downtown dwellers there to
support Ms. Burris included The
Misshapes, Sophia Lamar,
models Cole Mohr and Martin
Cohn, Genevieve Jones,
designer Timo Weiland and
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to 1.9 GHz for tablets and other
handheld designs. The chips
have been designed for the
Android operating system and
for Intel’s Moblin OS.
Intel says it is already
producing these chips and
consumers can expect mobile
devices that use Intel chips later
this year.
But so far, the company hasn’t
announced any smartphone
Elle’s own Kate Lanphear.
Friends of Gigi donned her
flirty headpieces with floral
dresses and sheer rompers,
perfect attire for a weekend
garden party in the middle of
Manhattan.
The collaboration came about
through the friendship of Gigi
models that will use
Moorestown. Earlier this year,
the company has demonstrated
the use of Atom processors in a
phone produced by LG.
Breaking into the smartphone
market will be tough for Intel,
says IDC’s Pulskamp. Intel will
have to compete with companies
such as Qualcomm, Texas
Instruments, and Infineon, all of
which use ARM-based
and Screaming Mimi's buyer
Nicollette Santos, who
suggested she create a diffusion
line for the social downtown
girl. "I was excited about fusing
my love of old world craft with
the flirty and forward vintage
essence that is Screaming
Mimi's," says Burris. "Creating
architecture.
“Intel is trying to move step-by-
step in the mobile market,” says
Pulskamp. “They did well with
netbooks and now they are
looking at phones. But they are
going to face more a challenge
in smartphones than they did
with netbooks.”
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allows me to reach a new
customer, a customer I am
probably friends with since I
have been shopping at
Screaming Mimi's since I
moved here!"
See all five pieces from the
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Available at Sreaming Mimi's
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Jennifer Aniston Kisses

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Jennifer Aniston and Adam

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meanwhile, went shirtless to Emma Watson. The match-ups
get answers. On'NCIS: Los
Angeles'(Tue., 9PM ET on
CBS), Callen went to extreme
Avocado film poolside with a few child
actors who ended up being
thrown in the water. Jen's
in the Sweet Sixteen end today
at midnight PDT, so make sure
lengths to get answers, he even
pretended to kill a man to get a
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Sienna Miller and Jude John Mayer Bides His

Law Are Flying High as Time by Blogging
Sexiest and Best Dressed! Down Under
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Sienna Miller and Jude Law

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John Mayer arrived in Sydney

stepped out into the NYC
sunshine yesterday, not looking
any worse for the wear after
being out late the night before.
The two were one of the
Quiche
yesterday for the Australian
stops on his Battle Studies tour
and he was quick to whip out his
Lorraine
(Simply Recipes)
camera and capture the view
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highlights of Monday's Costume
Institute Gala- it was their first
time stepping out on a red carpet
as a couple since rekindling
their romance and their obvious
happiness had all eyes on them.
Sienna's gorgeous Pucci dress
earned your best-dressed honors
and is among Fab's favorites,
and Jude has celebrating of his
own to do after being nominated
for a Tony. Even dressed down
at the end of the evening, Sienna
and Jude had us smiling as one
headed back to their hotel off to Japan and Europe next, Urban promoting their
together. Hopefully this is only but despite the busy travel Crossroads concert airing June It occurred to me a while ago
the beginning of Sienna and schedule he's also finding time 18- check out a clip below. The that the site was missing a
Jude going public, as they are to work on new music - he just guitar playing duo will also Quiche Lorraine recipe. Hah!
q u i c k l y b e c o m i n g a v e r y shared a peek into his writing reunite this Summer with a An opportunity to cook bacon!
welcome sweet sight! concert in Washington state on (Like we don't get enough of
process with a video on his blog. those around here?) Culinary
August 28.
John's all about his Tumblr trends took an odd turn in the
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these days, which is handy 70s when quiche gained the
To see more Sienna and Jude, considering his anti-Twitter
just read more. sentiments. He reverted to the To see a video from John's reputation of being a Ladies-
View 10 Photos › interview just read more. who-lunch type of dish. Must
more traditional medium of TV have been because they took the
for an interview with Keith bacon out and started putting
everything else in ( asparagus,
goat cheese, mushrooms, heck,

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launch an exciting online finally, the winner will also geta we've included some chopped
As the days start to warm, swimsuit design contest. Swim trip to Hawaii. Gnarly. chives because as of this writing
everyone—including us—is aficionados can participate by —Jade Frampton, Market Editor it is springtime, and the chives
starting to think about swim submitting their bikini designs Check out Gabeira in action on are flourishing in the garden.
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Outsourced Racism
Neera Tanden (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 5/4/2010 11:00:00 PM
Americans for Job Security is a
corporate front group. It has
spent millions on behalf of
campaigns to repeal the estate
tax and take down the Employee
Free Choice Act. This week it
unrolled a spot that can’t help
but be described as racist. The
ad targets Bill Halter, who is
running in the Arkansas
Democratic primary against
Senator Blanche Lincoln. It
features Indian actors—in
Indian outfits, with Indian
Cutest Pet of the Day: accents, with images of India
behind them. They thank Halter
Kiwi for his support of outsourcing to
Bangalore while he served as
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Looks like Kiwi look to dress receive a Harry Barker collar Job Security$900,000, trades in
up and is ready for the beach. a n d l e a s h s e t f r o m crude cultural clichés and
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never, for instance, ads
attacking outsourcing to Ireland
with Irish actors, even though
that country has made a major
push to become an outsourcing
hub. Or imagine an ad featuring
Hassidic Jews and klezmer
music and the outrage that
would generate. Or remember
the storm of condemnation that
rightly rained down on Senator
Bob Corker for his racially-
tinged attack on Harold Ford.
Yet, similar treatment of Indians
seems to be perfectly acceptable
in many quarters.
Of course, this isn’t the first
time that a politician has
dangerously injected Indians
into a political attack. During
the Democratic primary, the
Obama campaign attacked
Hillary Clinton for supporting
outsourcing and described her as
“D-Punjab.” But there was a big
difference between that incident
and this one. Senator Obama
quickly apologized to the Indian
community. And we later
learned from David Plouffe’s
campaign memoir (and others)
that he yelled at his staff for the
attack. At the end of the day,
Obama was deeply offended by
it.
With the Americans for Job
Security smear, Senator Blanche
Lambert Lincoln wasted no time
in condemning the ad—blasting
it the very morning it surfaced.
It begs the question, why hasn’t
a single Republican politician
stepped forward to do the same?
Hey, Michael Steele, you said
you cared about the concerns of
minorities. Sarah Palin, you
frothed when Rahm Emanuel
used a crude term for the
disabled. So, we know you’re
willing to condemn offensive
language, at least when it
applies to your family and it
profits you politically. And what
the hell does Bobby Jindal, the
most prominent Indian-
American politician, think about
this? I suppose business groups
would never target him. But he
won’t have much of a moral leg
to stand on, when in a
Republican primary, some
shady group runs a similarly
racist ad against him.
Neera Tanden is the Chief
Operating Officer of the Center
for American Progress. She
served in the Obama and
Clinton administrations.
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Beating the Street
Noam Scheiber (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 5/4/2010 11:00:00 PM
Shortly after nine on a Monday
morning in late April,
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission (CFTC) Chairman
Gary Gensler filed into a
meeting room with nine senior
aides. The aesthetic was what
you might call “bureaucratic
drab”—fluorescent lights, beige
carpeting, American flag—and
the mostly middle-aged men did
not seem out of place. Their
suits ranged from gray to
charcoal and the complexions
were varying degrees of pasty.
Many wore looks of mild
disbelief, as though at a loss to
explain their presence so soon
after going to bed.
The CFTC is the federal
regulator whose primary
responsibility is to oversee
derivatives, essentially bets on
movements in financial data like
bond prices and interest rates. In
the past decade, much of the
derivatives market has grown up
outside the government’s reach,
which helps explain how AIG
massively overdosed on them.
At the time of the April meeting,
Congress was on the verge of
enacting a package of
derivatives regulations, and
Gensler had gathered his team to
figure out where the late-inning
negotiations had left them.
Gensler, who is short and lean
with eyes like a Pokémon
character, promptly slouched in
his chair at the head of a
conference table and eased off
his loafers. “Let’s do the side-by
-side,” he said. “What I’d like to
do is, as fast as humanly
possible, tell me where we think
the merged bill is.”
Everyone in the room now
considered a 19-page document
listing 38 provisions related to
derivatives. For each provision,
the document summarized
where the Senate bill stood,
indicating where Gensler could
breathe easy and where he
should keep pressing. “Foreign
exchange?” Gensler asked. “I’m
putting Senate Ag and a check
mark—we’re fine.” “Swap
dealers?” he continued, “We’re
fine.” “Set-aside segregation
requirements. ... This is, like,
huge. We like this, right?” As
the team worked through the
list, it became clear that the bill
had, if anything, become
stronger. Even the occasional
question mark seemed to work
out for the best. “Do we have
the Eddie Murphy provision?”
Gensler wondered, alluding to a
statute he’d named after the star
of the 1980s Wall Street
comedy, Trading Places.
“Insider trading—that’s the
Eddie Murphy—that stayed in,”
he confirmed.
Basic political science tells us
that, when Congress targets a
complex industry with billions
of dollars at stake, the
legislation should weaken as it
moves toward passage. The
industry will plead its case with
vehemence, while voters will be
oblivious to the importance of
subtle changes. “Words on the
page are not that critical to the
public,” one derivatives industry
lawyer told me in March,
conveying a general truism. But
something unforeseen is
happening as Congress wraps up
its overhaul of Wall Street: Key
elements of the bill are getting
tougher—in some cases
markedly so. And no subplot
illustrates this dynamic more
vividly than the one starring
Gary Gensler.
Gensler’s unlikely derivatives
crusade began only hours after
Obama named him to head the
CFTC. That’s when incoming
White House chief of staff
Rahm Emanuel informed him
that Minnesota’s Collin
Peterson, chairman of the House
committee that oversees the
agency, was preparing a
statement opposing the
nomination. The 51-year-old
Gensler was a former partner at
Goldman Sachs, and Peterson
was wary of his Wall Street ties.
Gensler promptly called
Peterson at home and persuaded
him to holster his statement, but
he was hardly in the clear.
Washington Senator Maria
Cantwell worried that Gensler
would be soft on derivatives.
Vermont’s Bernie Sanders was
skeptical of Gensler’s tour under
Treasury Secretary Robert
Rubin. The two senators would
eventually block his nomination,
demanding assurances that he
and his Obama colleagues
planned to rein in the financial
markets.
The suspicions weren’t
necessarily unfair. In 2000, the
Clintonites had joined forces
with Republicans to exempt so-
called over-the-counter
derivatives from regulation, and
Gensler had played a supporting
role in the effort. But his
Treasury experience had also
made him appreciate the chaos
that derivatives could wreak. In
1998, Rubin had dispatched him
to inspect the books at Long-
Term Capital Management
(LTCM), a hedge fund on the
verge of collapse. Gensler was
startled to learn that LTCM's
derivatives portfolio had tied it
to so many firms that its failure
could threaten the financial
system.
And so, when Treasury
Secretary-designate Timothy
Geithner, Gensler’s fellow
under secretary during the
Clinton years, pitched him on
the CFTC job, the chance to
reform the derivatives market
held real appeal. As Gensler
would testify last February, he
believed the Clintonites hadn’t
done enough to protect the
public. “There’s not a day that
goes by that I don’t think what
we might have done
differently,” Gensler told me at
the time.
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Cantwell finally relented on
Gensler’s appointment in May
2009, after Geithner sent a letter
to Congress committing to a
hawkish regulatory scheme.
Among other things, he favored
requiring most derivatives to be
“cleared”—meaning the two
sides of each deal would place
their bets through a middleman,
to which they’d have to post
collateral. (That wasn’t the case
with AIG, which is why its
housing-market losses could
have brought down the banks it
had bet with.)
By early summer, though, the
Wall Street skeptics had reason
to worry again. The big banks
that trade derivatives had
mobilized hundreds of
sympathetic customers—the
industrial companies that use
derivatives to lock in prices of
inputs like oil and steel—rather
than do the brunt of the
lobbying themselves. The “end
users” flocked to Capitol Hill to
complain that the new
regulations would raise their
costs. Moderate Democrats on
Barney Frank’s House Financial
Services Committee took up
their cause, agitating for an
exemption so wide it would
even include hedge funds.
The administration now had a
choice: It could accept a wider
exemption than it supported in
principle, so as to improve the
bill’s prospects in the House. Or
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The TNR Reader’s Guide to the British Elections
Alex Massie (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 5/4/2010 3:24:05 PM
Overall Best One-Stop Shop
Politics Home. With all the
latest polls, headlines, and
videos from the campaign trail,
PoliticsHome is clearly the best
and easiest-to-use election
portal. It’s got enough detail to
satisfy political junkies and
plenty of overview material for
novices and newcomers.
Runner-up: the BBC.
Best Conservative One-Stop
Shop
Conservative Home. An
excellent, even essential, stop
for Conservative news and
much more useful than the
official party website. This is
where the Tory grassroots
congregate for polls, analysis,
tactics, and strategy.
Best Labour One-Stop Shop
LabourList. An attempt to do
for Labour what
ConservativeHome does for the
Tories—and increasingly
influential in Labour circles.
Best Liberal Democrat One-
Stop Shop
LibDem Voice. See above, but
because it’s a Lib Dem site, Lib
Dem Voice receives a fraction
of the attention paid to
ConservativeHome and
LabourList. And frankly you
can see why.
Best Swingometer
UK Polling Report, Electoral
Calculus, and the BBC all allow
you to plug in the numbers and
build your own fantasy election.
For instance, a Tory-Labour-Lib
split of 36-28-27 could leave the
Conservatives the largest party
but short of a majority.
Best Blogs
Modesty prohibits one from
mentioning one's own blog or
the work done by colleagues at
The Spectator. But you might
also want to check in on:
Nick Robinson, the political
editor of the BBC and thus
perhaps the most influential TV
reporter in Britain.
Guido Fawkes. As the name
suggests, he’s happy to see
Parliament blown up (he’s
particularly fond of arguing that
Fawkes remains the only man to
have entered parliament with
honest intentions). Though he
advocates a plague on all
houses, he does so from a right-
wing perspective.
Paul Waugh, political editor of
The London Evening Standard.
Read by everyone in the
Westminster Village so you
might as well read him too.
Iain Martin provides irreverent
Toryism from The Wall Street
Journal’s European deputy
editor.
Sunder Katwala, the General
Secretary of the Fabians, offers
astute analysis from the heart of
the metropolitan, middle-class
Labour tradition.
Best Blogging Labour MP and
Best Blogging Tory MP
Tom Harris, MP for Glasgow
South, and John Redwood, MP
for Workingham. Many MPs
now blog but few are better than
these two. Harris for his insights
into life as an MP; Redwood for
his clear advocacy of
Conservative policy.
Blogger Who Most Brings to
Mind the Black Knight From
Monty Python and the Holy
Grail
Alastair Campbell, previously
Tony Blair's spin-meister, was
last heard insisting that being at
25 percent in the polls is "only a
flesh wound."
Runner-up: former Brown
henchman Charlie Whelan,
whose Twitter feed offers up
unapologetic gems like this:
"Not up on 'mikegate' yet out in
Brum but calm down. Who has
not let off steam under stress
and strain of campaign. He's
apologised move on.”
Who is the British Nate Silver?
Scarily, the answer is Nate
Silver. Everyone's favorite
boffin has been busy
constructing a statistical model
for the British election, too. He
admits it’s more of a work-in-
progress than his U.S. models,
but if he beats the British
pollsters and prognosticators,
our boys will hang their heads in
shame. Elsewhere, the statistical
models at the UK Polling Report
and the London School of
Economics are quite useful.
Best Close-to-Project-Cameron
Columnist
Daniel Finkelstein of the
Times. A former head of the
Conservative Research
Department and advisor to
William Hague, the Fink is a
must-read. (He blogs here too.)
Typical comment: "Whether the
Conservatives have a proper
majority or are merely the
largest party will depend on [the
public’s] view of David
Cameron. Because that is all
there is left for undecideds to
decide about. They have already
decided that it is time for a
change. More than 80 per cent
of voters believe that it is time
for a change. This is a very
strong political sentiment that is
hard for any governing party to
overcome."
Best Head-in-Hands and
Despairing Labour Columnist
Polly Toynbee of the Guardian.
Typical comment: "Yes, it is the
knuckle-head Labour tribalists
who blocked Tony Blair's
attempt to bring in proportional
representation. Blame that
formidable array of
dinosaurs—Gordon Brown, Ed
Balls, Jack Straw, John Prescott
and most unions. Now—so
late—Labour would trade PR
for a coalition with the Lib
Dems. People have good
reasons to deny their vote to
Labour, but why should pro-Iraq
war, pro-rich, anti-reform
Cameron be the beneficiary?"
Best Conservative Columnist
Appalled By Cameron
Simon Heffer of the Daily
Telegraph. Typical comment: “I
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do not yet despair of the Tories
being the largest party on May
7. Whether they would be able
to form a government is quite
another matter. Whether they
deserve to be able to form one is
another still. Perhaps the
meltdown at Tory HQ that we
are told is under way, with talk
beginning about who or what
might come next, is an
indication that a moral defeat
has already taken place. We
hear little about the ‘big idea’ of
the ‘big society,’ which despite
the efforts of propagandists died
almost the second it left the
womb. The public knows it is
inadequate: the big idea it wants
is about securing prosperity
again, and the Tories are
nowhere near a credible plan for
that.”
Just About the Last Blairite
Columnist in Britain
John Rentoul of the
Independent on Sunday,who
also blogs here. Typical
comment: “Just because I
thought Tony Blair was the
finest peace-time Prime Minister
in our democratic history does
not mean that anyone who
copies his rhetorical and
campaign techniques gets my
vote. Blair did all that ‘contract’
stuff in 1997, and it was all right
as a device, but what matters is
the content. ... Only by deciding
that Cameron is incompetent, by
allowing this juvenile ‘contract’
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it could hold firm and risk
failure. Treasury opted for the
weaker bill when it sent
legislation to the Hill on August
11. “The House committee was
where it was,” says one
Treasury official. “We were not
keen to draft something up that
wouldn’t have worked.”
Gensler, for his part, still
favored the harder-line approach
and told Geithner as much
behind closed doors.
This much was hardly
unexpected, as Geithner had
solicited the views of regulators
like Gensler. It’s what came
next that raised eyebrows. One
week after Treasury unveiled its
legislation, Gensler outlined his
reservations in a public letter to
Congress. It was a step Gensler
had indicated he might take, but
the follow-through caught
Treasury off guard. “It’s
possible he felt he’d given us a
sense of it ... but it didn’t
penetrate the consciousness,”
says the Treasury official. “We
were definitely surprised when
we read it, that I can say for
sure.”
Whatever the case, Gensler’s
zeal served as a counterweight
to the natural rightward drift on
the Hill. Every week, he seemed
to appear before another
industry group insisting that no
financial company should
escape the new regulations.
When Frank put out a discussion
draft that weakened the bill
further, Gensler promptly
testified that the proposal “could
have the unintended
consequence of exempting a
broad range of entities,” even
big financial institutions. “He’s
turned a rinky-dink commission
into the most powerful agency
in the federal government when
it comes to derivatives,” one
industry lobbyist told me. A key
upshot was to galvanize a
coalition of labor unions and
activists who, in meetings with
Frank and his staff, stressed that
derivatives could cost
Democratic seats if they didn’t
clamp down.
By the time the House passed
its financial-reform bill last
December, the derivatives
provision was far from
ideal—the new regulations
appeared to exempt most hedge
funds and insurance companies.
But it was somewhat stronger
than many would have
predicted. Still, no one had any
illusions about the endgame. It’s
an article of faith on Capitol Hill
these days that legislation from
the House, where the leadership
can exert near-ironclad control
over the rank and file, will be
more progressive than what
passes the Senate, where
moderates can cut their own
deals and Republicans can
thwart action with a mere 41
votes.
To anyone who was looking,
the first sign that the usual logic
might not apply came in late
fall. As it prepared to weigh in
with the Senate, Treasury
noticed that the climate on
derivatives was shifting—that
the opposition from Wall Street
and its industry allies was being
matched by a reformist passion
on the center-left. And so,
whereas tactical considerations
had once dictated trimming the
bill’s ambition, Treasury now
worked to beef it up.
At first, the administration’s
new tack had little discernible
effect. For months, Chris Dodd,
chairman of the Senate Banking
Committee, led a bipartisan
negotiation aimed at building a
hefty majority on the Senate
floor, the result of which, many
feared, would be a porous bill.
But, in late March, Democrats
high off their health care victory
became frustrated with GOP
obstructionism and abruptly
scheduled a vote. After a mere
21 minutes, all 13 Democrats on
the Banking Committee
supported the measure, which
reflected the administration’s
tougher approach to derivatives.
Most lobbyists continued to
believe the derivatives piece of
Dodd’s bill would disappear
once Senate Agriculture
Committee Chairman Blanche
Lincoln negotiated a
compromise with her
Republican counterpart, Saxby
Chambliss. (The Agriculture
Committee shares jurisdiction
over derivatives.) What the
industry hadn’t realized was
that, as the White House pivoted
to financial reform, derivatives
were rocketing up its priority
list. One reason was strategic:
The White House began to
recognize that derivatives might
be more hospitable terrain than,
say, the too-big-to-fail problem,
the solution to which
Republicans dishonestly dubbed
a “permanent bailout.” “Rahm’s
view is: ‘I like the derivatives
issue,’” says one administration
official. “‘We’re on better
ground on that than talking
about bailouts. If they talk
bailouts, we talk derivatives.’”
Unbeknownst to Wall Street,
the new White House focus had
transformed the Dodd bill from
a legislative ideal—worth
striving for but unlikely to pass
intact—to a minimally
acceptable standard. Two weeks
later, when Lincoln’s staff
began circulating the outlines of
a bipartisan compromise,
Treasury’s response was
unequivocal: The administration
couldn’t support the deal
because it was a retreat from
Dodd’s position.
That left Lincoln with a
problem. Her plan had been to
attract enough Republicans to
offset defections by a handful of
liberals on her committee. Now
it turned out that a bill forceful
enough to win Obama’s
imprimatur would almost
certainly cost her those
Republican votes, meaning
she’d need to keep the
Democrats united. Lincoln
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accomplished this by
outflanking the administration
on the left. The result was an
apparent lurch from the weakest
derivatives bill in Congress to
the strongest.
One derivatives-industry lawyer
I spoke with recently recognized
the handiwork of a certain
federal regulator: “I think
Gensler drafted it, his staff put it
together from various pieces,”
he told me. “It does embrace
[certain restrictions] which the
administration asked not to be
included.” When I asked
Gensler about this role, he
downplayed it but didn’t
disavow it. “Sure, there’s lots of
language that we’ve helped
with,” he told me. “We’ve given
technical advice. It’s inaccurate
to say it’s ‘our language.’”
Regardless of who deserves
credit, the bill quickly gained
steam: In addition to every
Democrat on her committee,
Lincoln also picked up the vote
of one Republican.
What explains the unexpected
success? The financial-services
industry had counted on public
passion subsiding with time. As
the derivatives lawyer told me a
few weeks ago, “The current
strategy you’re hearing is
basically to keep Republicans
together till cooler heads
prevail.” But cooler heads aren’t
prevailing. As the bailed-out
banks have surged back to
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Cash for Caulkers: Another Subsidized Clunker
Nicolas Loris (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:54:45 AM
This week The House of
Representatives is set to vote on
a, $6.6 billion home energy
efficiency bill commonly
referred to as “cash for
caulkers.” The plan would give
rebates to homeowners willing
to green their homes by
installing new windows and
retrofitting homes energy
efficient upgrades. The
legislation, H.R. 5019, is being
sold as a win for the economy,
the planet and consumers. Its
supporters of say it will create
jobs and lower both greenhouse
gas emissions and electric bills
through less energy usage. But
the old “If it’s too good to be
true” adage holds up again.
Cash for caulkers is nothing
more than a $6.6 billion,
taxpayer-funded government
program that of wealth that will
be fraught with fraud and is
another step in the direction in
the creating a green bubble.
More Picking Winners and
Losers
Cash for Caulkers. allows for a
maximum of$3,000 for
homeowners to weatherize their
homes as they see fit. Incentives
work and surely enough, if you
subsidize anything enough,
people will buy it. But who are
the taxpayers subsidizing?
Those who would have made
improvements in their house
without the government’s help
or those who are on a tight
budget in a recessionary
environment – and could
ostensibly default on paying for
the rest of the project. If people
are careful however, and make
cuts in their budget elsewhere,
then there is no increase in
economic activity but rather a
shift from one sector to another.
The Wall Street Journal labels
it“a federally sponsored sale at
the local Home Depot or Lowe’s
through 2011, at least for those
products and services that the
government has decided are
environmentally correct.”
This program is also more of
the “we know what’s best”
mentality that our government
has. It’s attempting to change
Americans’ choices by footing a
portion of the bill with taxpayer
dollars. Consumers are in a
much better position to
determine how to be energy
efficient than the government
and we as a country have
become a much more energy
efficient over time.
Just like cash for clunkers, the
auto program deemed successful
by the administration, these
programs can have long-term
effects on consumption patterns
in the United States. If
consumers come to expect a
handout from the government,
they may hold off on buying a
new product. When the
government provides subsidies,
whether it is to businesses or
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Potential for Fraud and Abuse
As colleague and Senior
Research Fellow David Kreutzer
said, “Any program that is going
to run through a third party and
is going to distribute billions of
dollars needs to have lots of
checks and balances to make
sure there’s not abuse.” The
government’s ENERGY STAR
program is an infuriatingly
perfect example of this. The
Government Accountability
Office (GAO) released a report
and exposed the ENERGY
STAR’S flaws finding that the
government had endorsed 15
fake products of 23 submitted
by GAO, including a gasoline
powered alarm clock and an
electric hammer. Maybe it’ll be
more difficult to commit fraud
when it comes to greening one’s
home, but if a feather duster
taped to a space heater earned
i n d i v i d u a l s , i t c r e a t e s a homes from the passage of the the ENERGY STAR seal of
dependence that isn’t easily stimulus bill through 2012, approval, who knows.
forgotten. which means they’re 1.5% of Seeing Bigger Picture: The
We Already Have Ineffective the way there towards meeting Next Bubble?
Cash for Caulkers the goal. Texas Watchdog Sure, it’s only another $6.6
We already have a $5 billion detailed their state’s problem billion added to the national
stimulus program to weatherize with the weatherization program debt but we could be on the
homes and it is off to a shaky two weeks ago noting that $3.7 verge of something much more
start. ABC News reports that at million in taxpayer money had catastrophic. The talks of cap
the end of 2009, only 9,100 been spent to weatherize 47 and trade, the creation of carbon
have been weatherized to save homes – a steal at $78,000 per credit markets, the subsidies and
energy through the American home. The stimulus bill also has mandates for renewable energy
Reinvestment and Recovery tax credits for government- and the tax credits for energy
Act. $522 million of the $5 l a b e l e d E N E R G Y S T A R efficiency could artificially prop
billion has been spent thus far, appliances – 30 percent up to up an industry at any cost to the
which equates to over $57,000 $1,500. Do we need another taxpayer. Arnold Kling and
per home. The goal of the $6.6 billion on top of these
CASH page 60
program was to cover 593,000 programs already in place?
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Bank Bill Could Help Feds Snoop, GOP Warns

(Newsmax - Inside Cover) weeks as two top Republicans agencies. logjam blocking the bill's divest of the parts of their
Submitted at 5/5/2010 3:24:09 AM have questioned the proposed Democratic staffers on the passage. business that made them too big.
Office of Financial Research Senate Banking, Housing and But the overall bill remained "If you are too big to fail, you
Fights over derivatives and and the Bureau of Consumer Urban Affairs Committee didn't stalled Tuesday, and Senate are too big," Mr. Dorgan said.
b a i l o u t s a r e g e t t i n g m o r e Financial Protection, both to be return messages, but during Majority Leader Harry Reid, Another idea, sponsored by two
a t t e n t i o n , b u t S e n a t e created under the bill as written floor debate last week, Sen. Nevada Democrat, accused other Democratic senators, calls
Republicans are planning a by Democrats. Christopher J. Dodd, Republicans of refusing to allow for limiting the liabilities banks
battle over two federal agencies The consumer protection Connecticut Democrat, who is votes on any amendments to can hold.
created by Senate Democrats' bureau, to be part of the Federal chairman of the committee and stall the overall bill. Even as those proposals were
f i n a n c i a l - r e g u l a t i o n b i l l , Reserve, and the financial wrote most of the Senate's bill, The Senate is now racing a mid circulating, Mr. Dodd and Sen.
warning that the proposed research office, proposed within called those charges "totally -May deadline imposed by Mr. Richard C. Shelby of Alabama,
agencies give the government the Treasury Department, could false" and said opponents are Reid, who said that's all the time the ranking Republican on the
new ways to tap into consumers' gather information on financial trying to hook onto anything he can spare, as he must push on banking committee, appeared
personal information. transactions right down to that could tarnish the legislation. to other issues, such as food close to a deal to jettison the $50
As the Senate on Tuesday consumers' loans, according to "That is the intent of all this. I contamination and emergency billion fund to dismantle
slogged through more debate on critics, who said this is the first know what it is," Mr. Dodd said. spending bills. troubled firms.
the far-reaching regulatory time the government would cast "They do not want to take on the "We have no choice but to finish Big financial institutions would
overhaul, the privacy concerns such a wide net. bill itself and what it does, so it by the end of next week," said have paid into the fund, but Mr.
could present another hurdle for "They both have sweeping they are out there Mr. Reid, effectively putting a McConnell and other
Democrats hoping to pass a bill authority to collect information propagandizing with false cap on the debate only minutes Republicans said it would have
by the middle of the month. about financial transactions, and information about this to after Senate Minority Leader enshrined government bailouts
The measure, backed by there's little to ensure they aren't undermine what we are trying to Mitch McConnell, Kentucky — even though Democrats
President Obama, is arguably g o i n g t o c o l l e c t d e t a i l e d achieve." Republican, begged for argued that taxpayers would not
the biggest piece of legislation information, personal financial Separately, liberal lawmakers extended floor time. have footed the bill and the
still left on Congress' must-pass transactions," said Jim Harper, are demanding an audit of the Mr. Dodd faces other criticism, companies would have been
c a l e n d a r h e a d i n g i n t o director of information-policy Federal Reserve and will offer this time from the left. dismantled.
November's elections. The studies at the Cato Institute. amendments to try to break up While his bill seeks to shield © Copyright 2010 The
House passed a regulation bill in With data-mining tools growing financial companies that are on taxpayers from getting stuck Washington Times, LLC
December, but that legislation ever more powerful, he said, the the verge of becoming "too big with the tab should major banks Five Filters featured article:
attracted no Republican support best solution is to stop the to fail." run into trouble in the future, The Art of Looking Prime
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more critical battleground. information in the first place. seal a bipartisan deal to drop a Dakota Democrat, plans an General Election. Available
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traction in the past couple of amendments to reel in both prove a major break in the amendment would force firms to
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Morning Bell: The Congressional Assault on Criminal Justice

Ryan O'Donnell (The Foundry: Criminal Defense Lawyers safe from unjustified criminal
Conservative Policy News.) (NACDL), the 109th Congress punishment in such disregard.
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:34:27 AM alone proposed 446 non-violent Quick Hits:
criminal offenses, 57 percent of • Japan’s prime minister said
If Congress drafts a law and no which lacked an adequate guilty for the first time Tuesday that at
one can understand it, can -mind requirement. The report, least part of a key U.S. military
individuals be punished for Without Intent: How Congress base will remain on the southern
breaking it? Increasingly, to the Is Eroding the Criminal Intent island of Okinawa.
detriment of all Americans, the Requirement in Federal Law, • Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
answer is yes. Since our also reveals that 23 of those Corps is taking control of the
nation’s founding, a core inadequately protective offenses country’s oil industry.
principle of our system of were even enacted into law. • The Dodd-Obama financial
justice has been that no citizen Today on Capitol Hill in a rare regulation bill will be a boon for
should be subjected to criminal display of bipartisanship in President Obama’s home town
punishment for conduct that he Washington, Reps. Bobby Scott Chicago Mercantile Exchange
did not know was illegal or (D-VA) and Louie Gohmert (CME).
o t h e r w i s e w r o n g f u l . T h i s (R–TX) are holding a joint press • According to the Center for
principle is embodied in the conference to announce the law to unaccountable regulators; The release of “Without Intent”
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candidates over the past 20
knowledge, before subjecting General Edwin Meese and Committees for review. How Crazy Laws, Rogue
years, with the largest chunk
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going to President Obama.
Unfortunately this cornerstone Norman Reimer. “Without By consistently creating new Threaten Your Liberty. The
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estimated tens of thousands punishment. For example, in the violating crimes they did not conscientious Americans into
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regulatory code. Many of these • Over 57 percent of the committing. The one-two punch of “Without
offenses were only recently offenses introduced, and 64 Fortunately, “Without Intent” Intent” and today’s “One
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U.S. International Broadcasting in Leaderless Limbo
Helle Dale (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 5/4/2010 6:30:01 PM
Well into the second year of the
Obama administration, U.S.
international broadcasting
services remain in a leaderless
state of vacuum. Nor are these
important public diplomacy
assets of the government likely
to emerge from limbo anytime
soon, which is deeply
unfortunate given the
intensifying global competition
for information dominance.
At a time when China’s Xinhua
news agency announced the
launching of a global English-
language channel, China
Network Corp., or CNC, and the
Russian government’s English
language Russia Today channel
is building up capacity with 40
staffers right here in
Washington, the U.S.
government appears incapable
to getting its broadcasting act
together.
Observers of U.S. international
broadcasting have been
watching for the Senate
confirmation vote of the eight
new members of the
Broadcasting Board of
Governors, which oversees the
operations of Voice of America,
Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty, Radio Marti, Radio
Free Asia, Al Hurra television,
Radio Sawa, Radio Free Asia,
and the other entities under its
umbrella. Despite the fact that
the terms of the old board
members were running out, it
took the Obama administration
eight months to send up the
names, including that of the new
chairman of the board Walter
Isaacson of the Aspen Institute,
TIME magazine and CNN. It
further took another eight
months to get six of the names
voted out of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee in April.
Hearings on the other two
board members are pending
hearings — Michael Meehan
and Dana Perino – have been
delayed due to objections from
Sen. Jim DeMint. (Meehan, who
worked as press secretary for
Massachusetts senate candidate
Martha Coakley, shoved a
reporter to prevent him from
asking questions of the
candidate. Perino is the
Republican tit-for-tat in this
equation.)
And now, Sen. Tom Coburn (R
-OK) has stated that he is not
about to let the Senate move
forward with a floor vote on the
six that have been voted out of
committee unless he has a
chance to interview each
nominee personally about their
views and qualifications, this
according to Josh Rogin, writing
in Foreign Policy magazine.
The senator has a track record of
demanding accountability from
the BBG and of delving into
mismanagement and waste at
the broadcasting services. “The
BBG is the most worthless
organization in the federal
government. It’s full of people
who know nothing about media
or foreign policy. All they are
doing is spending money and
somebody’s got to look into it,”
the Senator fumed in an
interview with the FB blog. (In
the President’s FY 2011 budget
request, the BBG is slated to
receive $755 million.)
The Senator is on to something.
The board members are political
appointees. Over the years,
some have been well-qualified,
some ineffective and some
focused very much on their own
agenda and business interests.
Some have been so hands-on as
to function like executives,
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running afoul of other
management structures. In
surveys by the Office of
Personnel Management, the
BBG ranks routinely by far the
lowest of any U.S. government
entity in job satisfaction among
its employees. And recently a
letter from 69 members of
Congress went to the BBG
demanding an investigation into
problems with the Voice of
America Persian News
Network, which was accused of
bias against human rights and
democracy activists in favor of
radical Islamist voices. This was
only the last in a long series of
letters from members of
Congress trying to get
accountability from the BBG.
Nor is this the first time Sen.
Coburn has tried to force the
issue of oversight. When James
Glassman, President Bush’s last
chairman of the BBG, was
nominated for the post of
undersecretary for public
diplomacy in December 2007,
Sen. Coburn held up his
conformation vote for months in
the hope of shining a light on
irregularities at Al Hurra
television, the U.S.
government’s Arab language
television channel.
The nomination of the new
BBG provides an excellent
opportunity for Congress to
exercise oversight of this
troubled institution. The BBG
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to go out under his name, was I
able to write that I hope he wins
this election. So that is my
message: vote Cameron; he's
useless rather than malign. Let's
see if Conservative Campaign
HQ put that on their next email
shot.”
Where to Watch the Election
C-SPAN. It’ll broadcast the
BBC’s coverage on Thursday
from 4:55 pm eastern time to 1
am the next morning.
Seats to Watch
Luton South: This seat and its
predecessors have been taken by
the winning party in every
election since 1951. Margaret
Moran, the outgoing Labour
MP, was one of the most
flagrant abusers of the
parliamentary expenses racket.
Rochdale: If only to see what
impact Gordon Brown's
encounter with that "bigoted
woman" Gillian Duffy has in
Mrs. Duffy's constituency. New
boundaries make it a "notional"
Labour seat, but the sitting MP
is a Liberal Democrat.
Enfield North: Like Watford,
one of the many London
commuter Tory-Labour battles.
The Tories must take these seats
if they are to prevail.
South Cornwall: One of many
key Tory-Lib Dem battles in the
southwest of England. Others
include Taunton Deane, Torbay,
and Somerton and Frome.
Stourbridge: This midlands
commuter seat is number 25 on
the Tory target list and losing it
could be the moment when it
becomes clear that Labour
cannot win the election.
Barking: Neo-fascist Nick
Griffin is standing in this Essex
constituency and hoping to pick
up support from disillusioned
and, they say, ignored white
working-class voters.
Morley and Outwood: The
Tories would love to defeat
Gordon Brown's protégé and
confidante, Ed Balls. They must
overturn a notional 10,000
person majority to do so and
have devoted considerable
resources to a "Castration
Strategy" to defeat the much-
loathed Balls.
Redditch: Jacqui Smith, the
former Home Secretary who
was disgraced during the great
Parliamentary Expenses Scandal
when her husband charged
taxpayers the cost of
pornographic films, defends a
majority of just 2,000 votes.
What to Say
On Cleggmania: "Remember
Macauley's wise words: 'We
know no spectacle so ridiculous
as the British public in one of its
periodic fits of morality.’"
On Gordon Brown: "Of course,
poor man, he's only the third
post-war Prime Minister to
never have won a general
election...".
On Cameron: "If he wins he'll
be only the 19th Prime Minister
to have been educated at Eton."
What Not to Say
On Nick Clegg: "Who's he?"
On David Cameron: "Why is
Lieutenant Commander Data
eligible to stand in this
election?"
On Gordon Brown: "Oh dear."
On Britain: "This lot once ruled
much of the world? How?"
A former Washington
correspondent for TheScotsman,
Alex Massie writes a blog for
The Spectator.
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continued from page 56
Nick Schulz liken it to the
housing bubble:
“The echoes of the efforts to
expand home ownership are
eerie. Expanding the housing
supply was always justified in
part because it, too, could
“create jobs.” A little over ten
years ago, then-HUD chief
Andrew Cuomo testified before
Congress that “we must work to
do two key things: We must
create housing, and we must
create jobs.” He then asked
Congress for billions of dollars
of loan guarantees and millions
of dollars of subsidies that
would “help create jobs and
leverage private investment.”
President Bush was similarly
enthusiastic about boosting
home ownership, no matter the
costs. His former economics
adviser Larry Lindsey admitted
one year ago that “No one
wanted to stop that bubble. It
would have conflicted with the
president’s own policies.”
And we have now seen how
those policies, promoted by both
political parties, have turned
out. Does anyone doubt today
that if a green-energy bubble
emerges, President Obama’s
own advisers will stay silent, as
popping such a bubble would
conflict with the president’s
own policies? There is no doubt
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that the boosters of green-
energy programs have their
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then, so did most of those who
were pumping up the housing
bubble.”
We Don’t Need the
Government to Be More Energy
Efficient
Motives of cost reduction and
increased profits go hand-in-
hand with becoming more
energy efficient. If a company
can find a way to reduce its
energy use, it can lower costs
and thus the price to consumers.
For instance, Wal-Mart did this
by lowering packaging and fuel
costs. Overall, energy
consumption per real dollar of
gross domestic product has
dropped dramatically over the
past sixty year and will continue
to do so if we allow business to
innovate – not stranglehold
them with regulations and
mandates.
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National Security
Nile Gardiner (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
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UK Liberal Democrat Leader
Nick Clegg, increasingly a
darling of American liberals, has
come under heavy fire today
from three leading former
defence, intelligence and
counter-terror chiefs. The attack
in The Times of London on
Clegg’s left-wing national
security policies comes just two
days before the British General
Election on Thursday, and
highlights the glaring
weaknesses of his foreign and
defence policies.
Here’s an excerpt:
We are concerned that the
Liberal Democrats make no
mention of Nato in their
manifesto. Almost every
reference to the United States is
accompanied by a call for a
much more distant
relationship…
The Liberal Democrats appear
shy of putting forward serious
new proposals for combating
terrorism, the No 1 one threat to
the safety and wellbeing of the
United Kingdom.
The Liberal Democrats are
seemingly willing to expose our
intelligence and security
services to relentless inquiry and
investigation. The agencies must
be held accountable. But how
this accountability is achieved is
critical. The Liberal Democrats’
approach lacks balance. Their
way of doing things would
further jeopardise the close
intelligence and security co-
operation of our allies, which is
vital to preventing terrorist
attacks.
The Liberal Democrats’
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has the important mission of
presenting the message of the
United States to the world,
would inevitably lead to British b a s e d o n t h e v a l u e s a n d
decline: principles on which this nation
Clegg’s international agenda was founded. It desperately
bears no relation to the harsh n e e d s t h e r i g h t k i n d o f
realities of an increasingly l e a d e r s h i p .
dangerous world. It gives rise to Helle C. Dale is Senior Fellow
a nightmarish scenario of a great for Public Diplomacy at the
n a t i o n w i t h a p r o u d a n d Heritage Foundation.
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more than ever, and the British
people must be prepared to
confront the dangers of Islamist
terrorism and the dictators that
back them.
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As I’ve written previously, Text RSS, Term Extraction. Times Square bombing attempt
Nick Clegg’s foreign and and the Fort Hood attack are
security policy would be part of a growing, more serious
disastrous for Britain on the threat to U.S. security.
world stage, and if enacted Rep. Peter Hoekstra of
Michigan told CBS' "The Early
Show" that Saturday's attempt in
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Times Square and an earlier plot
to blow up New York's subways
are among the changes in
strategy that terrorists abroad
are using against the United
States.
Hoekstra says that intelligence
officials have long thought that
al-Qaida wanted to launch an
attack as big, if not bigger than,
9/11. But now officials are
seeing people acting
independently after training with
groups abroad. The groups
recognize that even if their
attempts fail, they can spread
fear in America.
The FBI is investigating
possible ties between terrorist
groups and Faisal Shahzad, the
Pakistani-American arrested in
the Times Square bombing
attempt. Officials would not say
whether they believe Shahzad
acted alone or as part of a
conspiracy.
Raymond Kelly, New York
City's police commissioner, was
asked on NBC's "Today" show
Wednesday whether Shahzad
represents a change in the
profile of the type of terror
suspect authorities are seeking
in order to prevent such attacks.
"We don't really have an exact
profile .... These are what we
call unremarkable people who
decide to kill innocent people in
their own country. So it's very
difficult for law enforcement to
get their arms around this. It's an
individual that by all indications
wouldn't be involved in
something like this," Kelly said.
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profitability while
unemployment hovers near 10
percent, the public has, if
anything, grown crankier. By
holding the line on a tougher
reform package, the White
House has been able to ride the
anger rather than get trampled
by it. In a moment of rising
public frustration, the populist
argument gains force the longer
the debate continues.
There’s just one catch: In
drafting her bill, Lincoln
included an idea that Gensler
denies authoring—a provision
that would force big banks like
Goldman Sachs to spin off their
derivatives businesses if they
want access to credit from the
Fed. The administration is cool
Democrats. But, given the
public mood, no senator wants
to be linked to its death. At one
point, New York Senator
Kirsten Gillibrand filed an
amendment simply requiring
federal regulators to assess the
idea before voting to implement
it. But Gillibrand never offered
it up because she and other
Democrats didn’t want to slow
the momentum behind an
otherwise solid bill. It’s a funny
thing about populist fervors:
Once unleashed, no one can say
where they’ll end.
Noam Scheiber is a senior
editor of The New Republic.

McCain: Shahzad Should Not Have to the proposal, which it fears

might make the system less
stable, as are many Senate
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(Newsmax - Inside Cover) would be a serious mistake [to evidence."
Submitted at 5/5/2010 4:15:30 AM Mirandize Shahzad]... at least "He was Mirandized later and
until we find out as much continued to cooperate and
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., information we have. Don't give provide valuable information,"
said reading alleged terrorist this guy his Miranda rights until he added.
Faisal Shahzad his Miranda we find out what it's all about." To read the full CBS report Go
rights would be a "mistake," Meanwhile, Deputy Director of Here Now.
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bomb-carrying car in Times Pistole added that the suspect
Square in New York City. was "cooperative" and provided
McCain added, "Obviously that "valuable intelligence and
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Every week, senior editors
Mickey O'Connor and Adam
Bryant satisfy your need for TV
scoop. Please send all
q u e s t i o n s t o
mega_scoop@tvguide.com.
I'm tired of Callie and Arizona
fighting on Grey's Anatomy. Is
there happiness ahead for them?
— Nicole
ADAM: The people behind the
show are big fans of the Calzona
pairing and are committed to
seeing the couple through their
differences over having a baby.
But don't take my word for it. "I
really do feel like Callie and
Arizona are made for each
other," creator Shonda Rhimes
tells us. "They're one of those
couples that you adore seeing
together, and when they're in
pain, you're in pain. ... So I think
that there's hope."
What have you heard about the
24 movie? — Cary
MICKEY: There's a script, but
the studio hasn't read or
approved it, so any intel must be
taken with a grain of salt. As of
now, the movie finds Jack all
over Eastern Europe, but
particularly in Prague. Of all the
cast members past and present,
only Chloe ( Mary Lynn
Rajskub) is being considered to
appear alongside Jack. Further,
I'm hearing that no effort will be
made for the film to be
canonical — that is, it won't
necessarily be a "sequel" to the
TV series. (Double-secret
scoop: I hear it might feature a
mole.)
Anything about the CSI finale
that doesn't involve Dr. Jekyll?
— Beverly
ADAM: Make no mistake: Dr.
Jekyll is the main attraction. But
fans who enjoy seeing Catherine
and Detective Vartan together
will get another taste of the
pairing in the season's final
episode. Marg Helgenberger
tells us, however, not to assume
there will be a big romantic
scene. "It's like we usually do
with physical relationships on
the show — it's all very subtle,"
she says. "But it definitely leads
to a continuing relationship.
Things are going really well."
Huge Glee fan here! Sue
Sylvester scoop, please! —
Damon
MICKEY:"I'm going to get my
heart broken a little bit, but you
won't cry because I deserve it,"
Jane Lynch tells us. Could she
be talking about that creepy-
fabulous tête-à-tête that Sue will
have with Neil Patrick Harris'
Brian Ryan?
I love NCIS: Los Angeles. Will
we ever know Callen's first
name? — Natalie
ADAM: As luck would have it,
that is one of the big mysteries
to be addressed in the Callen-
centric season finale. "We have
this huge trail, and it leads us to
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I think V needs more lizards,
don't you?— Avi
MICKEY: Personally, yes. I
love lizards! But the creators of
the V remake have been aiming
for more action than sci-fi —
hence the shortage of all things
green and scaly. Executive
producer Scott Rosenbaum says
that won't change. "You won't
see the full-on what the Visitors
look like underneath [until early
in] Season 2," he says. Yes, he
said Season 2, and he said it
with confidence.
When are we going to see more
between Raylan and Winona's
some potential answers about Temps, which will require other h u s b a n d o n J u s t i f i e d ? —
Callen's past and who he is," vampires to step in in an B r a n d o n
Barrett Foa tells us, though I advisory capacity. In other ADAM: Very soon. The folks
wouldn't bet on getting all your words, Jess is so grounded. Raylan investigated for Winona
questions answered this season. I've been a fan of Sam Neill for a few weeks ago will come
"We do get closer to it, and I years, so I'd love some scoop on looking for the money they gave
think the fans will be satiated in Happy Town. — Doris Gary in the May 11 episode.
some way." Foa also says the ADAM: As you may have William Ragsdale, who plays
ops center will be seriously g u e s s e d a l r e a d y , N e i l l ' s Gary, says Raylan is reluctant to
compromised, and that the character, Merritt Grieves, is help. "There's a murky area
b r e a c h w i l l c r e a t e m a j o r more than just a guy who wants about what Raylan's able to do,
headaches for Eric. to sell movie memorabilia. His what he's comfortable doing,
There seem to be a lot of new mysterious past will slowly be and what Gary needs done,"
people in the cast of True Blood. revealed, and star Geoff Stults Ragsdale says. "And there's the
What will our old favorites do? says there's an interesting emotional part too — he's
— TeamAnna connection between Grieves and basically saving his ex-wife's
MICKEY: Watch for Jessica to M.C. Gainey's Sherriff Conroy. husband's butt, and that doesn't
steal the show a little. While "My character's father and sit perfectly well." Before it's all
Sookie's off looking for Bill, G r e i v e s h a v e s o m e p a s t over, Ragsdale says, "multiple
and Pam and Eric recommit [history]; my character's father things hit the fan."
themselves to Fangtasia, Jessica doesn't want him around," Stults Why aren't more people
is going to be left to her own says. "He might be a good guy, w a t c h i n g C o m m u n i t y ? —
devices for a bit, and by devices he might be a bad guy, or he H a w l e y
w e m e a n h e r o v e r g r o w n might be a little of both, but MICKEY: Because Advil is
choppers. Her feasting will there's a reason he's there. He's MEGA page 66
cause quite a scene in Bon looking for something."
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'The Biggest Loser' - 'Week Sixteen' Recap
Jason Hughes (TV Squad) in that gym. He clearly has some
Submitted at 5/5/2010 4:31:00 AM mental blocks to work through
still. Four months may be
Filed under: Recaps(S09E16) It enough to transform your body,
couldn't be more appropriate but it's not enough to get rid of
that TV Squad got our makeover the "fat guy syndrome" mucking
on the same night that the a b o u t i n h i s h e a d . S e l f -
remaining contestants on'The confidence is the opposite of
Biggest Loser' got theirs. We are weight. It's far easier to lose
i n t u n e w i t h t h e g o d s o f than it is to gain.
television. But Daris is getting there, and
"Makeover Week" is always an Bob got in his head at just the
e m o t i o n a l j o u r n e y f r o m right time to keep him from
beginning to end, because we psyching himself right out of the
spend a lot of time remembering competition. Right to the end of
where these men and women the episode, we got to see Daris
were when the competition with his mind fully in the game,
began, and get to enjoy how far making strategic moves to help
they've come. push himself closer to that
As always, there were some finale.
absolutely stunning The challenge had the
transformations, while for at contestants on a Jacobs Ladder
least one the whole process was ten feet above the pool. It
a little bittersweet. After that, clearly favored the smaller
there was a challenge, a last- contestants, as the heaviest two,
chance workout, some serious Michael and Ashley, didn't even
emotional issues, a crazy weigh- make it six minutes. After that,
in and then an elimination Sunshine fell, and then finally
ceremony. I know it's a two Sam. It was two and a half hours
hour show, but somehow this into the competition before
week it feels like I just watched Daris decided it wasn't worth it.
four hours of intensity in half Both he and Koli looked like
that time. they could have gone all night,
I ' m a c t u a l l y a l m o s t a s but Koli was confident he
exhausted as Daris after Bob ran woudn't need it. Daris, like Sam,
him through the wringer in that is so close to his goal weight
last chance workout. But why that every pound is crucial.
was Bob picking on Daris? I expected Koli's cockiness to
Daris asked for it. be his downfall in a week of
Not directly maybe, but by makeover distractions, but he
admitting he quit on the earlier proved me beyond wrong by
challenge, Daris told Bob that dropping 15 pounds. The one
he needs to have his ass kicked pound advantage he won at the
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nearly 200 pounds he's already
lost, and think about the 100 or
so still to go.
Still, Michael and all of the
contestants looked great in their
makeovers. Particularly startling
was Daris' transformation. With
his curly hair held down with
product he was virtually
unrecognizable. You could tell
Ashley was still wearing dark
colors to hide her shape, but she
seemed in a better place about
only being halfway through her
weight loss journey than
Michael.
The alliance between Ashley,
Michael and Daris again bore
challenge didn't matter in the the inner strength they found. fruit this week in an interesting
s l i g h t e s t . E v e r y o n e w a s Michael in particular is in a elimination. With the end so
d r o p p i n g b i g n u m b e r s . . . tough place. As he mentioned, close, strategically it would
actually, everyone else was going into this week's episode make far more sense to keep
dropping nines, except for he weighed three pounds less Sam than Michael. Sam can
Ashely who pushed it up a notch than Daris' starting weight in the barely lose weight anymore,
to get her long coveted double c o m p e t i t i o n . H a l f o f t h i s having achieved his stated goal -
digit drop. season's 22 starting contestants - another thing that's never been
Like Michael, Ashley has a didn't weigh as much at the start done before on the ranch. But
long way to go before achieving of the season as Michael did with a promise of his name not
her goal, and their time at the coming into this week. being written down, the three
ranch is quickly running out. When the contestants were stayed true to one another, and
But that same fact makes them shopping for new clothes, and forced a tie vote which pushed
both incredibly huge threats to enjoying the ability to wear 34" Sam home, as he had the lowest
win the prize at the end of the jeans, or looking for smaller percentage of weight loss.
competition. They could lose than a size 12, Michael was still Sam has everything to be proud
nearly 2/3 of their total body at the big and tall stores, o f , t h o u g h . H e ' s a l r e a d y
weight and still be healthy because he's still too big to find achieved his weight-loss goal,
simply by how big they started clothes that will fit him in a and he apparently found a love
the game. Who could touch traditional story. That has to be connection on the Ranch. One
that? Granted, they have to do it an incredible emotional burden so strong that he moved to Los
first, but the willpower both to carry, especially knowing that A n g e l e s t o m o v e i n w i t h
have displayed lately to stay there are only a couple more Stephanie, eliminated in Week
c o m p e t i t i v e a g a i n s t m u c h weeks to go on the ranch. It can
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storyline. It was a very romantic castaways. Whoever is leftover
Lost death. will fight Locke to the end. The
[Spoiler Warning: This article TVGuide.com: The episode conclusion to Locke's story, that
contains details from Tuesday was jampacked with death, is part of the secret last act.
n i g h t ' s e p i s o d e o f L o s t , especially with Sayid ( Naveen Getting Lost: What does the
including which characters died. Andrews) taking one for the finale hold?
Reader, beware!] team. TVGuide.com: How do you
After waiting nearly two years Kim: Yeah, I think we all feel now that the show is
for a sweet reunion, Sun ( become heroes at the end as far coming to a close?
Yunjin Kim) and Jin ( Daniel as the island story goes. I have a Kim: It's very bittersweet. It's
Dae Kim) took their last breath feeling that's how the series is great that I survived six years of
in the submarine — a Charlie going to end. Sayid's death is Lost, literally meaning my
Pace-like death — in Tuesday very abrupt and ours is very character has survived to the
night's episode of Lost. So, was drawn out. Daniel and I both very end. I'm proud to be a part
that really the end of Sun and had water pouring on top of our they do in the final episodes. Kim: Yeah, they will complete of this amazing journey. I have
J i n K w o n ? Y u n j i n K i m heads while shooting it, so it Lost's Jorge Garcia: The Man in [their sideways] storyline and my emotional days, but some
discusses what we'll see of the was hard to even keep our eyes Black cannot lie fans will be very satisfied at the days I'm really good and I'm
star-crossed lovers in the final o p e n . I t w a s p h y s i c a l l y TVGuide.com: A lot of fans end. The finale will be a very really looking forward to what's
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last scene of the series and TVGuide.com: How did you Sun and Jin to be reunited. Do TVGuide.com: What's going to married, so it will be interesting
more. feel when the producers told you you expect to meet some angry happen to Ji Yeon in the regular to find out what I'll be doing
Watch full episodes of Lost in that your characters were going fan reaction? universe since both her parents after Lost.
our Online Video Guide to die? Kim: I think that's where the just died? TVGuide.com: Will Sun and
TVGuide.com: I'll admit that I Kim: As soon as I got on the writers wanted the fans to be: Kim: In the normal universe, Jin get a happy ending after all?
did shed a few tears after your phone with Damon Lindelof, he To be very angry at Locke. It's Sun's mother is taking care of Kim: We'll see. I believe in
death in Tuesday's episode. The said "This phone call is not one just the way the story needs to her. That's how we left the story, happy endings, but this is Lost,
Sun and Jin reunion was so of those phone calls." He told end. Then again, I think the fans so I guess Sun's parents will so you never know. [ Laughs]
short-lived! me how it was going to happen will realize that it's not the end take over the custody. Again, What did you think of Sun and
Yunjin Kim: It was a brilliant and I actually thought it was a of Sun and Jin's storyline, we because there's another lifeline, Jin's submarine death?
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This was a particularly
melancholy episode of'NCIS,'
moody and emotional. It was
reminiscent of a Hitchcock film
at times, even with the allusions
to espionage, the Cold War and
things being hidden plain sight.
But there were also definitive
story points dropped in that will
play out in the weeks to come as
the season finale arrives. For
more on those points, as well as
Tim's reference to Abby's tats,
follow after the jump.
Story threads involving the
disappearance of Dana Hutton, a
ZNN reporter, soon after her
brother -- a Navy lieutenant --
died mysteriously, were all
connected in a weird way to
NCIS. Tony's fascination with
Dana was beyond obvious. He
was a big fan, and the way Tony
was touching the furniture on
the set of her TV show was
almost like Monk analyzing a
crime scene. For a while, it
seemed like a put on, but it
wasn't. Tony really had a thing
for Dana.
Perhaps because they're more
connected than they've let on,
but Ziva realized Tony was
breaking Gibbs rule about not
getting personally involved.
When she found him at Dana's
apartment, she reached out to
Tony in a way that he would
understand. She compared his
obsession to the 1944 movie
'Laura.' She was right, only
Dana was his Laura, the elusive
beauty, and Tony was Dana
Andrews' character, the police
detective.
There was another movie
reference that Tony recognized
with the revelation that the
bookstore owner, Charlie
Bascom, was a KGB contact
who ran a slush fund for
Russian spies. It was the Kevin
Costner movie, 'No Way Out,' in
which Costner's character turned
out to be a Russian spy planted
in the Pentagon.
Tony finally made contact with
Dana and got her to trust him
enough to tell NCIS what Yuri
had been up to and where the
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Eleven. Sam was right that the
being temporarily assigned to game isn't so much about prizes
NCIS for some Mexican drug or confetti. It's about changing
task force. Any connection to lives and finding a better way to
Allison invariably links back to be. And it's about happiness,
Colonel Bell and his private and he may be right about that,
military company, which was too. He may be happy in a way
being investigated by both that many of us can't even
Jeffrey and Dana Hutton. There fathom right now.
was also Senor Alejandra [Share in all their journeys with
Rivera, an admirer of Abby's. clips and full episodes of 'The
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McGee's jealousy.
Other points of interest
-- Tony was obsessed with
Dana, but it looked like Brenda
Bittner, the barrista, was just as
hidden money wasn't hidden at obsessed with him after a one-
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all. Charlie had put the money nighter.
expensive, that's why. And how
into rare books, and that was -- Palmer earned his pay by
else does one treat all those split
like 'Charade' where Cary Grant finding the poison pellet in the
sides and busted guts? If you're
and Audrey Hepburn discovered corpse. Ducky was impressed,
a fan of Alien, Predator or The
that the money everyone was too. Ducky's explanation about
Matrix, you'll love this week's
after had been converted into the umbrella murder was very
episode, "Modern Warfare," in
rare stamps. No sooner did Dana cool.
which a campus-wide paintball
share what she had discovered -- Gibbs' advice to Tony: "Don't
game allows Greendale's finest
than she revealed that she was ever settle, DiNozzo."
to trot out more action-movie
dying the same way her brother -- Tony's threat to McGee to get
clichés that you can shake a
died. Dana's nnumber: "Give me the sexually tense wound-dressing
The KGB killing method, the number or I'll Gibb-slap you."
scene at.
ricin-filled metal ball bearing, -- Gibbs' response to Allison
So is Jesse really going to work
was lethal and ingenious. When about why he doesn't lock his
with Walt on Breaking Bad, or
Dana showed them that she'd front door. "If I did that I'd have
is he setting him up? — Wayne
been hit, there was no saving no social life."
ADAM: I'll admit I also
h e r . T o n y ' s s a d n e s s w a s -- Fun fact of the night: 1985
wondered if Jesse had ulterior
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(and angry) motives when he
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the future included Allison Hart
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says. "I think the entire time
Jesse's in the hospital, he was
able to just vent and tell Walt
what was on his mind. Walt and
Jesse have gone through the
darkest rabbit hole possible and
climbed out of it, but they're
together. They definitely have
this strange bond, and I think it's
very genuine."
Is Royal Pains coming back this
summer? — Lorraine
MICKEY: Yep. Keeping with
the "eternal summer" concept,
Season 2 starts on June 3 pretty
much where we left off. Hank
and Evan are still dealing with
the sobering reality that their
deadbeat dad (guest star Henry
Winkler) has bankrupted them.
As a result, their Hamptons
summer will be less swinging,
and they'll both have to find
other ways to pay the bills.
Mickey's Mega Rave:"Brown
Coming to 'In Treatment': Debra Winger!
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Filed under: TV News She
made a big guest appearance
on'Law & Order' earlier this
year, and now, Oscar-nominated
actress Debra Winger has signed
on as a regular cast member on
HBO's 'In Treatment.' She'll
play one of Dr. Paul Weston's
(Gabriel Byrne) patients when
the show returns for its highly
anticipated third season later
this year.
Betty," Fringe's musical
episode, was a nice palate-
cleanser after Peter's
acrimonious discovery that
Walter kidnapped him from an
alternate universe. Not only do
cast members Anna Torv, Jasika
Nicole and Lance Reddick sport
some serious pipes, but Walter's
allegorical fairy tale about
broken hearts was particularly
poignant in the wake of Peter's
disappearance.
Adam's Mini Rant: I understand
that ladies like to look at him,
but I'm not sure I can stand a
whole season of Gilles Marini
and his flat line readings on
Brothers & Sisters. Do we really
need an extra series regular on
this show?
Reader Quote of the
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years! So how about just
renewing Chuck and letting J.J.
Winger is one of those actresses
who used to be everywhere, and
then, she, well, wasn't. She had
big hits in the '80s with movies
like 'An Officer and a
Gentleman' and 'Terms of
Endearment' -- and was even the
voice of E.T.! -- but then she
stayed away from Hollywood
for awhile. When she returned,
she was more selective about the
roles she chose.
Recently, Winger played Anne This is just one of the changes
Hathaway's mother in the 2008 coming to the show, which is
Oscar-nominated film 'Rachel
focus on the new Star Trek
movie? " — deathvalleyjason,
on NBC ordering J.J. Abrams'
new spy drama, Undercovers
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based on the Israeli series
'BeTupil' that ran for two
seasons. Emmy winner Dianne
Wiest, who played Paul's
therapist, is leaving the show
after two seasons, and Dane
DeHaan will join the cast as a
teen patient. The new
showrunners are Dan Futterman
and Anya Epstein. ABC Extends
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series finale of'Lost'(particularly
after last night's heartbreaking
episode)? So is ABC, so much
so that the network has again
extended what is already a two-
night event.
According to the Hollywood
Reporter, the May 23 series
That caps off a weekend of
'Lost,' which begins on May 22
with a re-airing of the original
two-hour pilot (with
informational 'pop-ups'
throughout the airing) and
continues into Sunday night
with a two-hour 'Lost'
crew had constructed all new
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warn will answer some Becomes a Skateboard
questions, but also spark a
whole batch of new ones.
Meanwhile, there's still no word
[VIDEO]
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ender will now run 30 minutes
longer, from 9PM ET to
11:30PM. After a break for
affiliates to air local news, the
'Lost' celebration picks back up
at 12:05AM with the previously
scheduled 'Jimmy Kimmel Live:
Aloha to Lost' special that will
feature series showrunners
Carlton Cuse and Damon
Lindelof (who've said they will
not answer questions about the
finale ... we'll see) and several
'Lost' cast members.
retrospective (7PM) called
'Lost: The Final Journey,' which
leads into the actual finale.
Cuse and Lindelof confirmed
via Twitter this week that they
finished production and post-
production on the much-
anticipated finale on Monday.
"We're done. Amen," they
Tweeted about the episode that's
called, of course, 'The End.'
The producers had recently
revealed to the Hollywood
Reporter that the production
Monday about an Italian
Website that posted what it
claims are pages of the script
from the series ender.
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Only yesterday we expressed
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can one gadget take? Obviously,
a lot. If this trend continues,
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customers who bought the iPad
merely to destroy it.
This time, the iPad has been
turned into a skateboard. Does it
work? Well, you’ll have to
check it out for yourself in the
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ABC Extends Lost Series Finale by 30 Minutes

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Submitted at 5/4/2010 11:04:00 PM
Lost
Lost's goodbye has expanded
yet again, this time by 30
minutes, according to The
Hollywood Reporter.
The drama's series finale will
now run two-and-a-half hours.
The episode, scheduled to air
Sunday, May 23 at 9/8c, will
push the local news back a half-
hour, followed by the previously
announced post-finale special,
Jimmy Kimmel Live: Aloha to
Lost, at 12:05 a.m.
Lost producers finish finale:
"We're done. Amen."
This adds to the two-hour
retrospective scheduled to air
immediately before the series
finale, at 7/6c, and ABC's
planned rebroadcast of the 2004
pilot on Saturday, May 22.
News of the extra time comes
one day after Lost executive
producers Carlton Cuse and
Damon Lindelof both tweeted
that they had completed editing
the final episode.
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Submitted at 5/5/2010 1:59:59 AM
Safety bed rails for toddlers and
young children
When your child begins to
climb out of the crib or reaches
a height of 35 inches, it’s time
to leave the crib behind. Some
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the crib earlier than others, so be
sure to make the switch if you
see this behavior, even if your
child is still less than 35 inches
tall.
If you don’t have a toddler bed,
consider using an adult-size bed
and install bed rails to keep you
child from falling out of bed.
Use bed rails only with adult
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Never install portable bed rails
on a crib or toddler bed because
the mattress is too small to
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them on bunk beds, waterbeds,
youth beds, inflatable
mattresses, or a bed without a
box spring. (Young children
should never sleep on
waterbeds.) Look for a
certification sticker from the
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mean?) Bed rails should be used
when your child is about 2 until
age 5.
Follow the manufacturer’s
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rails. If they leave a gap or
loosen during the night, your
child could get trapped, so use
the rails strictly according to the
instructions and check them
each night before use. Be sure
they fit tightly with no gaps
between the mattress and the
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between the bed rail and the
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Putting a bed against the wall is
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Losing Harwell Is
Losing Family Member
Steve Phillips (FanHouse
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Submitted at 5/4/2010 8:00:00 PM
Filed under: Tigers, Sports
Business and Media, Executive
Take I was so very lucky as a
kid. The luckiest, in fact. During
the summer, I fell asleep every
night with the voice of a family
member in my ear. He was
grandfatherly. He told the most
amazing stories. Sometimes
they were comedies. Sometimes characters remained the same
dramas. The stories didn't for years. What amazed me was
always have happy endings. the fact that the characters were
His delivery was so rhythmic. always doing the same thing yet
He had a cadence to each of his the story was always different.
tales. He spoke like he knew My family member had an
exactly what to say. He was amazing ability to recall facts.
friendly. He was humble. He He was able to tie each story to
was safe and convincing. other stories, creating a sense of
The stories were always so real history and tradition. He made
even though the characters the characters come to life. They
seemed bigger than life. The were real. They were familiar. I
names changed from time to felt like I knew them.
time but many of the main
72 Sports/
Hall of Fame Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell dies at
92
ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:13:33 AM
DETROIT -- From the sandy
shores of Lake Michigan to the
rugged streets in Flint, they
listened to Ernie Harwell tell the
Detroit Tigers' tales for more
than 40 years.
Beloved by generations of
baseball fans who grew up
enraptured by his rich voice,
Southern cadence and quirky
phrases on the radio, Harwell
died Tuesday after a months-
long battle with cancer. He was
92.
The longtime Tigers
broadcaster died about 7:30 p.m.
in his apartment at Fox Run
Village and Retirement Center
in the Detroit suburb of Novi,
said his attorney and longtime
friend, S. Gary Spicer.
His wife of 68 years, Lulu, and
his two sons and two daughters
were at his side, Spicer said.
More from ESPN.com
Some men lament the loss of
their baseball cards. Not me.
No, what I wish I'd saved is that
microcassette with Ernie
Harwell's golden voice all over
it. But it's gone. Eleven years
ago, I was young. I thought he
would live forever, writes
ESPN.com's Rob Neyer. Blog
For generations, famed
broadcaster Ernie Harwell made
listening to the Tigers an almost
spiritual happening. As he dealt
with cancer, ESPN.com's Liz
Merrill watched as Harwell's
own spirituality provided peace
as his friends and fans said their
goodbyes. Story
"We'll miss you, Ernie Harwell.
You'll forever be the voice of
summer," Michigan Gov.
Jennifer Granholm tweeted.
A Hall of Fame announcer who
was acquired by the Brooklyn
Dodgers for a catcher in 1948,
Harwell revealed in September
that he'd been diagnosed with
inoperable cancer of the bile
duct. He took the news with
characteristic poise, saying he
planned to continue working on
a book and other projects.
"Whatever happens, I'm ready to
face it," Harwell told The
Associated Press on Sept. 4,
2009. "I have a great faith in
God and Jesus."
Harwell's body will lie in
repose at Comerica Park on
Thursday beginning at 7 a.m.
and "until the last person who
wishes to pay their respects" has
done so, Spicer said.
"It might be an all-night vigil,"
he said.
There will be no public
memorial service, and the
family will hold a private
funeral service at a location
Spicer declined to disclose.
The Tigers were in Minnesota
on Tuesday night. During the
seventh-inning stretch, the
Twins announced Harwell had
died, and fans honored him with
a standing ovation.
"All of Major League Baseball
is in mourning tonight upon
learning of the loss of a giant of
our game," commissioner Bud
Selig said. "This son of Georgia
was the voice of the Detroit
Tigers and one of the game's
iconic announcers to fans across
America, always representing
the best of our national pastime
to his generations of listeners.
"Without question, Ernie was
one of the finest and most
distinguished gentlemen I have
ever met," Selig said.
Shortly after Harwell
announced that he was ill, the
Tigers honored him during a
game against the Kansas City
Royals, showing a video tribute
and giving him a chance to
address the crowd at Comerica
Park.
"In my almost 92 years on this
earth, the good lord has blessed
me with a great journey,"
Harwell said at a microphone
behind home plate. "The blessed
part of that journey is that it's
going to end here in the great
state of Michigan."
Harwell spent 42 of his 55
years in broadcasting with the
Tigers, joining Mel Allen, Jack
Buck, Harry Caray and others
among the game's most famous
play-by-play voices. Vin Scully
on Ernie Harwell
Hall of Fame announcer Vin
Scully (right) began
broadcasting Brooklyn Dodgers
games in 1950, the season after
Ernie Harwell left. He shared
some his memories of the
legendary broadcaster with
ESPNLosAngeles.com's Tony
Jackson.
• "Ernie Harwell, I don't know if
any of you know it, set a record
before he ever came to the
major leagues. In 1948, the
Brooklyn Dodgers were in
Pittsburgh. It was an off-day,
and Red Barber was playing
golf at the Pittsburgh Field
Club. He was at a place on the
golf course that was close to the
clubhouse, and he felt very
nauseous. He was wearing a
coconut straw hat. He took it off
and ran to the clubhouse and
upchucked, only blood. He had
a bleeding ulcer, so they flew
him to New York immediately.
Branch Rickey was running the
Brooklyn Dodgers at the time.
Arthur Mann was running the
Atlanta Crackers. Branch called
Arthur, because they knew each
other very well, and he said, 'I
need your announcer.' And
Arthur said, 'Well, I need a
catcher.' So Clint Dapper was
sent to Atlanta, and Ernie
Harwell came to Brooklyn. It
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involved an announcer."
• "He was with the Dodgers in
'48 and '49, then I sat in his
chair. I didn't follow or succeed
him, I just sat in his chair. He
was so gracious and kind.
Probably the best word is that he
was a gentleman, and it came
across. He just cared for people.
He loved baseball. He was such
a nice guy, so you can
understand why the people of
Detroit just loved him."
• "I can't remember the year, but
there was a game where the
Dodgers turned a triple play
against Atlanta in Atlanta. I had
never seen the Dodgers turn a
triple play. Ernie Harwell was
sitting on the other side of a
glass partition from me, and he
had called the other Dodgers
triple play in 1949. So l leaned
back and asked him about it. I'm
thinking this is great, both of us
right there together. But he just
said in that perfect Southern
way, he said, 'Vinny, I don't
rightly remember.' And that put
in perspective, to show that it
was one moment, now let's get
on with it."
He announced Detroit games on
radio from 1960 to 1991, again
in 1993 and from 1999 to 2002.
He broadcast games on over-the
-air and cable television from
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Lakers stand tall, take 2-0 series lead over Jazz

Associated Press -40 rebounding advantage and fighting, keep attacking and stay there," Williams said. "Their went 1 for 7 on 3-pointers in
(ESPN.com) 13 blocked shots, the Lakers aggressive." length bothered us tonight. Game 2, dropping to 7 for 42 in
Submitted at 5/5/2010 2:10:30 AM maintained a medium-sized lead For the third straight We've just got to hit some shots. the postseason.
throughout the second half of a postseason, the Lakers have a 2- We'll do better." "I don't know," Artest said when
LOS ANGELES -- Carlos disjointed, foul-choked game 0 series lead over the Jazz after The Lakers blew a fourth- asked to explain himself. "I feel
Boozer drove the lane, and his that lasted over 2 1/2 hours. consecutive wins at Staples quarter lead in Game 1 but great. I don't really know. I just
shot was disdainfully blocked " T h e y p l a y e d e x t r e m e l y , Center, where Utah has lost 16 rallied to win on a fantastic have to keep playing
by Lamar Odom. The Utah extremely well," Bryant said of straight games -- including eight finish by Bryant, who scored 11 basketball."
forward grabbed the ball to try his big men. "Pau and Andrew, in the playoffs. points in the final four minutes. The Lakers took a 58-46
another -- and Pau Gasol took a their work on the boards tonight Paul Millsap had 26 points and Things never got that interesting halftime lead with just eight
turn swatting it. was sensational. Lamar coming 11 rebounds, with the in Game 2 despite the Lakers' 20 points from Bryant, and Bynum
Big On Boards off the bench with 15 rebounds undersized power forward single turnovers: Los Angeles' big men didn't appear limited by his
The Lakers outrebounded the was just incredible. We really -handedly keeping the Jazz in ruled, with even Ron Artest injured right knee, getting 11
Jazz 58-40 and outscored them did a great job, and aside from the game at times. C.J. Miles contributing 16 points despite points and 13 rebounds in just
in the paint 64-50 as they took a scoring, the big fellas, obviously added 20 points for Utah, which another awful 3-point shooting 16 minutes. Millsap kept the
2-0 series lead. The Lakers are rebounding and controlling the will get three days off to plot performance. Jazz in it with 16 points off the
40-1 all-time when leading a paint." another way to counter the "We got some great play tonight bench.
best-of-7 series 2-0. Most The Lakers didn't mind Lakers' obvious advantages from our big guys," Lakers Game notes
Rebounds in Playoff Game skipping showtime for a steady down low. coach Phil Jackson said. "All of Bryant got a technical foul in
Lakers in Last 20 Seasons win that put them halfway to But without injured big men them played pretty well." the first half, while Boozer and
Although Boozer is not a small their third straight trip to the Mehmet Okur and Andrei The Jazz actually got within Gasol got offsetting T's with
man, the Los Angeles Lakers Western Conference finals. Los Kirilenko, the Jazz acknowledge four points in the final minutes, 2:28 to play. ... The Jazz elected
are taller, thicker, just plain Angeles is 40-1 in franchise they probably don't have the big but Bryant finally injected a to keep Kirilenko out of uniform
bigger -- and that could be an history after winning the first bodies necessary to contend little excitement with a shot for another game with a strained
insurmountable problem for the two games of a seven-game with the Lakers' height and clock-beating jumper, an left calf, which has prevented
Utah Jazz in this second-round series. sophisticated inside play. emphatic swat on Utah's next him from playing a full game
playoff series. McMenamin: No Excuses "Their rebounding tonight was drive to the hoop, and a dunk in since March 12. Kirilenko has
Kobe Bryant scored 30 points, The Lakers are beaten and just something we could not a 45-second span of the final said he's almost certain to return
Gasol added 22 points and 15 bruised, but don't seem to be handle," Utah coach Jerry Sloan minutes. for Game 3. ... Before the game,
r e b o u n d s , a n d t h e L a k e r s slowed by their injuries, writes said. "I don't like to use the Los Angeles appeared Jackson said there's a 90 percent
methodically pounded the ball E S P N L A . c o m ' s D a v e word 'disheartening.' I thought determined to use its advantages chance he'll coach the Lakers
down low in a 111-103 victory M c M e n a m i n . S t o r y our guys played extremely hard from the start of Game 2, first next season if he decides to
over the Jazz on Tuesday night, • Markazi: Jazz act like Lakers' to try and stay in the ballgame." weathering Utah's impressive coach again. He'll turn 65 in
taking a 2-0 series lead. kid brother Deron Williams managed 15 shooting start before continually September, and the Lakers'
Andrew Bynum had 17 points • Check out the Lakers blog points on 4-for-16 shooting and pounding the ball down low for apparent reluctance to pay him a
a n d 1 4 r e b o u n d s f o r t h e Game 3 is Saturday night in nine assists for the Jazz, who 38 first-half points in the paint. record $12 million again next
defending NBA champions, Salt Lake City. never were close to being blown The Jazz quickly lost their season has put his future in
who ruthlessly exploited their " W e ' r e n o t g o i n g t o b e out -- but who just didn't have outside stroke, and the Lakers' question. ... Staples Center fans
twin 7-foot starters' height frustrated," said Boozer, who the size or the game plan to keep starting frontcourt combined for included Chris Bosh and David
advantage, along with the 6-foot had 20 points and 12 rebounds. up with Los Angeles' patient 36 points in the first half -- Beckham; actors Christoph
-10 Odom's presence off the " W e ' r e n o t g o i n g t o g e t inside game. including 12 from Artest, Waltz, Will Ferrell and Michael
bench. demoralized. We're not going to "We'd try to get in the lane, and despite his stubborn insistence LAKERS page 77
With 64 points in the paint, a 58 back down. We're going to keep there were two or three guys on shooting from outside. He
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1960-64 and 1994-98.
When he signed off following
his final game in 2002, Harwell
was as eloquent as ever.
"It's time to say goodbye, but I
think goodbyes are sad and I'd
much rather say hello. Hello to a
new adventure. I'm not leaving,
folks. I'll still be with you, living
my life in Michigan -- my home
state -- surrounded by family
and friends," he said.
"And rather than goodbye,
please allow me to say thank
you. Thank you for letting me
be part of your family. Thank
you for taking me with you to
that cottage up north, to the
beach, the picnic, your work
place and your backyard. Thank
you for sneaking your transistor
under the pillow as you grew up
loving the Tigers. Now, I might
have been a small part of your
life. But you've been a very
large part of mine. And it's my
privilege and honor to share
with you the greatest game of
all," he said.
Hall of Fame announcer Vin
Scully began broadcasting
Dodgers games in 1950, the
season after Harwell left.
"Probably the best word, he was
gentle. And it came across. He
just cared for people and he
loved baseball," Scully said.
"You can understand how the
people in Detroit just loved him.
I followed him into Brooklyn,
and then I followed him into the
Hall. He was such a lovely man.
However that word is defined,
that was Ernie."
Harwell's passing came one
season after the death of another
cherished baseball announcer,
the Philadelphia Phillies' Harry
Kalas.
"What a voice," said longtime
Tigers shortstop Alan Trammell,
the World Series MVP the last
time the Tigers won it all in
1984. "He did it with class, he
did it with dignity. We shed a
tear tonight, that's for sure."
The Tigers and their flagship
radio station, WJR, allowed
Harwell's contract to expire after
the 1991 season in what became
a public relations nightmare.
Then-Tigers president Bo
Schembechler, the former
Michigan football coach, took
the blame. WJR general
manager Jim Long later took
responsibility for the unpopular
move.
When Mike Ilitch bought the
franchise from Tom Monaghan,
he put Harwell back in the booth
in 1993. Harwell chose to retire
after the 2002 season.
"Ernie Harwell was the most
popular sports figure in the state
of Michigan," said Ilitch, who
also owns the Detroit Red
Wings.
Harwell's big break came in
unorthodox fashion.
Dodgers radio broadcaster Red
Barber fell ill in 1948, and
general manager Branch Rickey
needed a replacement. After
learning that the minor league
Atlanta Crackers needed a
catcher, Rickey sent catcher
Cliff Dapper to Atlanta and
Harwell joined the Dodgers.
Harwell said his most
memorable game was the 1951
playoff between the Dodgers
and New York Giants for the
NL pennant, which Bobby
Thomson won with a walk-off
home run, but few if any people
remember his recount of the
"Shot Heard 'Round The World"
at the Polo Grounds that day.
Russ Hodges' exclamation on
radio of "The Giants win the
pennant!" became one of the
most famous moments in sports
broadcasting history. Harwell,
meanwhile, was calling the first
major sporting event televised
coast-to-coast in the United
States. His work that day has
been largely forgotten.
"I just said 'It's gone!' and then
the pictures took over," he
recalled.
By his own count, Harwell
called more than 8,300 major
league games, starting with the
Dodgers and continuing with the
Giants and Baltimore Orioles
before joining the Tigers. He
missed two games outside of the
'92 season: one for his brother's
funeral in 1968, the other when
he was inducted into the
National Sportscasters and
Sportswriters Association Hall
of Fame in 1989.
His easygoing manner and love
of baseball endeared him to
generations of Tigers fans,
enhancing the club's finest
moments and making its
struggles more bearable.
Even casual fans could tick off
Harwell catch phrases:
"Looooooong gone!" for a home
run; "He stood there like the
house by the side of the road
and watched that one go by" for
a batter taking a called third
strike; and "Two for the price of
one!" for a double play.
Foul balls into the stands were
"Caught by a man from
[whatever town in the area that
came to his mind]."
"I started that after I got to
Detroit in 1961 or '62, and it just
happened by accident," Harwell
explained. "I said, 'A guy from
Grosse Pointe caught that foul
ball,' then the next ones were
caught by a guy from Saginaw
or a lady from Lansing."
The Baseball Hall of Fame
honored Harwell in 1981 with
the Ford C. Frick Award, given
annually to a broadcaster for
major contributions to baseball.
A life-size statue of Harwell
stands at the entrance to
Comerica Park and its press box
is called "The Ernie Harwell
Media Center."
"I think we all know where he's
heading," Trammell said. "What
a gentleman, what a great
person. It's a sad day for
baseball."
Harwell took pride in making
rare visits to the ballpark and for
not doing much play-by-play
work as a retiree. But he did
make a guest appearance for
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ESPN Radio during the fourth
inning of the 2005 All-Star
Game in Detroit. He also
presented the ceremonial first
ball to Tigers greats Al Kaline
and Willie Horton before Game
1 of the 2006 World Series
when Detroit hosted the St.
Louis Cardinals.
"Ernie Harwell, it goes without
saying, was one of the greatest
in the history of our profession,"
Hall of Fame broadcaster Marty
Brennaman said in a statement.
"More important than that,
however, he was one of the
finest people I've ever known. I
was privileged to call Ernie my
friend. I will miss him greatly."
Harwell was born Jan. 25,
1918, in Washington, Ga., with
a speech defect that left him
tongue-tied. Through therapy
and forcing himself to
participate in debates and
classroom discussions, he had
overcome the handicap by the
time he graduated from Emory
University.
Harwell's survivors also include
seven grandchildren and seven
great-grandchildren.
Information from The
Associated Press was used in
this report.
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Associated Press Charlotte. when Howard snatched a layup outhustled and outmuscled at Woodson said of the latest
(ESPN.com) Maybe all Howard needed was attempt by Smith in the air, every step. The little more than defeat. "I wish I knew what
Submitted at 5/4/2010 11:14:40 PM some time to cool off. pulling down the ball with one 48-hour turnaround didn't keep happened."
"I still played about the same hand. He threw the ball upcourt them sharp, and they looked Howard and Co. weren't taking
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Stan Van amount of minutes," Howard to Jason Williams, who lobbed a more like the team trying to get any chances this time.
Gundy turned to his assistant said, chuckling, because he pass from just past midcourt for back in rhythm. If the NBA's two-time
coaches on the Orlando Magic wasn't needed much in the an alley-oop dunk to Mickael And they could do nothing to defensive player of the year can
bench, unsure what to do with fourth. "The first round is over Pietrus that was part of 17 stop Howard. avoid foul trouble, it could be
star Dwight Howard finally with." straight Magic points in the "I didn't allow anything to throw another quick second-round stint
avoiding foul trouble and his Josh Smith scored 14 points second quarter. me off my game," Howard said, for Atlanta. The Hawks were
team on his way to a blowout and Zaza Pachulia had 12 points The arena was roaring so loud adding that he made it a point swept by Cleveland in the
victory. for a Hawks team that had little that, even after Hawks coach not to engage officials about conference semifinals last year,
"Should I give Dwight a rest?" playoff poise. Game 2 in the Mike Woodson called timeout calls. "And I think that's what I and they'll need to find a way to
Van Gundy asked. "They said, best-of-seven series is Thursday and was on the floor pleading have to do the rest of the series, slow down Howard to have any
'No. Just let it ride." night in Orlando, and Atlanta with officials for a goaltend, just not let things take me off chance this time.
Sheridan: Annihilation At will have to find some way to many players couldn't hear the my game, just stay free and Van Gundy was already
Amway rally from such a paralyzing whistle and continued. clear." thinking about how his team
You are rightfully excused if defeat. Finally, somebody had to tell The Magic came out and hit the could put the win behind them.
you did a little channel surfing Another Dominating the Magic to stop. Hawks where it hurt -- literally. "I told them that [Wednesday] I
during Tuesday's 114-71 P e r f o r m a n c e "I think the challenge is not to Howard grabbed a defensive will have for them virtually
mauling of the Hawks by the The 43-point win was the get carried away with the score," rebound and swung his elbow to every time in NBA playoff
Magic that turned in Orlando's Magic's second-largest margin Van Gundy said. "It was one of shake off Smith, hitting history that a team had a
favor during a 17-0 second- of victory in a playoff game all- those nights where everything Atlanta's forward in the face. blowout win, came back and
quarter run and turned into a time and tied for the second- just snowballed." Howard was whistled for a foul, lost the next game," Van Gundy
joke the rest of the way, writes largest margin of victory in Timeouts might have been and Smith iced down his cheek said. "You've got to forget what
Chris Sheridan. Story NBA history in Game 1 of a Atlanta's only reprieve. on the bench during a break. happened."
What a ride it was. best-of-7 series. It was the 2010 NBA Playoffs The Hawks didn't know what Game notes
Howard had 21 points and 12 Hawks' second-worst loss in The 2010 NBA playoffs have hit them. NBA commissioner David
rebounds in one of the most their postseason history (worst begun. Keep track of your "They made a run," Pachulia Stern announced earlier in the
crushing playoff wins in Magic is 58-point loss to the Lakers in favorite team here: said, "and they never looked day that Orlando's new arena
history, a 114-71 victory over 1956). Largest Margin of Playoff index back." would host the 2012 All-Star
the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday Victory in Game 1 The Hawks were held to 10 That inside-outside game with Game. ... The fewest points an
night in Game 1 of their Eastern NBA Postseason History points in the second quarter, and Howard in the paint was the opponent has ever scored
Conference semifinal. "It's embarrassing," Hawks just 11 points in the third. biggest reason Atlanta has against Orlando in a playoff
Howard added five blocks and point guard Mike Bibby said. Howard and most of the Magic struggled against its Southeast game was 68. ... Actor Chris
avoided the fouls and frustration "They embarrassed us." starters weren't even needed in Division rival for several Tucker was among those in
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Yeardley Love
Associated Press expected to graduate this month. "That's what we're trying to get computer. He also told them games this season.
(ESPN.com) Huguely was not present at a to precisely, through our where they could find it; Longo And it was shaping up as a
Submitted at 5/5/2010 6:52:49 AM court hearing Tuesday, but interviews with friends, family said investigators have retrieved special year, with both players
appeared via videoconference and teammates -- to see to what it and are "in the process of heading toward graduation
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- from Albemarle-Charlottesville extent there's truth to that," trying to see what evidentiary while playing for teams viewed
On a day when gruesome details Regional Jail wearing a gray- Longo said. value may exist." as contenders to win the national
emerged about how a women's striped uniform. His lawyer, Longo said there were no past An autopsy on Love was championship.
lacrosse player at Virginia Francis Lawrence, said later that police reports of issues between concluded in Richmond, and Instead, though, on Tuesday,
wound up dead in a pool of her Love's death was "an accident the two. Longo said investigators passed there were signs of mourning. A
own blood and a player on the with a tragic outcome." Police in Lexington, Va., about along to him "pieces" of moment of silence for Love was
men's team was charged with Lawrence said Huguely also 70 miles from Charlottesville, information, but he would not observed before Virginia's home
killing her, the teams decided to planned to withdraw from the said that in November 2008, release details until he has the baseball game. And members of
play on in tribute. university. Huguely was shocked with a official report from the medical Love's high school lacrosse
Virginia athletic director Craig An affidavit for a search stun gun by an officer there after examiner. He could not say team -- Notre Dame Preparatory
Littlepage said in a statement warrant said two people found resisting arrest for public when the report was expected. of Towson, Md. -- wrote her
late Tuesday that the men's and Love, of Cockeysville, Md., intoxication. He pleaded guilty Medical student Cliff Cutchins, uniform number, No. 1, on their
women's teams "will represent face down in her bedroom with to two charges last year, was who lives in the apartment calves; put black tape on their
the University of Virginia as a pool of blood on her pillow, a placed on six months of building beside Huguely's, said sticks; and wore orange ribbons
they always have" if selected for large bruise on her face and one probation and given a 60-day he didn't know the suspect, but in their hair for their 17-9
the NCAA tournament, as eye swollen shut. She was sentence, which was suspended. had met Love and knew many victory Tuesday at St. Stephen's
expected, and play to honor the pronounced dead at the scene The arresting officer, R.L. of her friends. and St. Agnes School in
memory of Yeardley Love. after attempts to revive her. Moss, said in a statement Even with the details released Alexandria, Va.
The announcement came at the According to the document, Tuesday that she felt it Tuesday about Love's death, Meanwhile, on Virginia's
end of a dark two days for Huguely -- listed in the lacrosse necessary to use the stun gun Cutchins, of Virginia Beach, campus, two gates at the
Virginia lacrosse. media guide as 6-foot-2 and 209 because Huguely became Va., said it is hard to believe lacrosse practice field were
Describing a scene of violent pounds -- told police he was abusive and his size was no that her relationship with chained while players worked
rage, court documents revealed "involved in an altercation with match for her. Huguely could have been out.
that George Huguely, a senior Yeardley Love and that during She said in the statement that abusive. Copyright 2010 by The
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arrested and charged with first- Longo said investigators are Love's apartment. Huguely told games this season, with four
degree murder in the death of looking into whether Huguely police he communicated with goals and three assists. Love
Love, also 22. Both were had threatened Love in the past. Love by e-mail and left with her played defense and started three
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envision a major tragedy in the playing surface anyway? In they run out of juice and drop.
knife or a gun as he's spinning
near future. We're still waiting Philly, hotbed of lunatic sports The problem with those
around the outfield and waving
for leagues to mandate that fans, they aren't taking chances methods is that fans never learn.
a white towel in Philadelphia's
sophisticated X-ray machines be anymore. When Consalvi tried Maybe they will now that the
Citizens Bank Park?
installed at all entrances, and to sprint away from a police Taser shooting of Consalvi has
In an increasingly creepy
until they do, it will be fairly officer and security personnel, been shown non-stop the last 24
world, it would be foolish to cut
easy to sneak a weapon through the cop drew his Taser and fired hours on television. But don't
slack for any warped behavior at
the gates. several shots before hitting him. hold your breath.
a sports event. Security experts
So with athletes and paying Consalvi stiffened on impact,
fear that the next cataclysmic
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Hawks Make Howard,
Magic Look Super
David Whitley (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 5/4/2010 7:43:00 PM
Filed under: Hawks, Magic,
NBA Playoffs ORLANDO, Fla.
-- After pouting, fouling and
sitting his way through the first
round of the playoffs, everybody
was wondering what was wrong
with Dwight Howard.
Nothing the Atlanta Hawks and
Nick Nolte can't cure.
The NBA's self-proclaimed
Superman is back. If only he
could play the Hawks every
game from here on out, the
Magic would romp to the world
championship.
Based on Tuesday night's 114-
71 cataclysm, they might do it
anyway. They are the stealth
team nobody has noticed.
Maybe Howard needs to wrap
his elbow, wince a lot and start
shooting free throws with his
left hand.
But before we get carried away
with Orlando's pending
championship parade, a word
from the league's reigning
curmudgeon.
"You gotta let it go. It's one
game," Stan Van Gundy said.
"In the playoffs, margin means
absolutely nothing. It does not
matter. It should not lead to a
false sense of security."
False sense? How about a true
sense?
Red Wings, Down 3-0,
Sticking Together
Christopher Botta (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 5/4/2010 8:28:00 PM
Filed under: Sharks, Red
Wings, NHL Playoffs
DETROIT -- The Detroit Red
Wings culture does not call for a
hot-shot prospect to save them
when they drop the first three
games of a playoff series. A
slumping veteran is not benched
by a head coach calling attention
to himself, saying the team
needed "shock therapy." A
journeyman does not come out
of the press box to become the
next game's No. 1 star.
Whenever this run may end, the
Red Wings are going to go with
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Now that Adobe and Apple
have officially parted ways— at
least when it comes to Flash on
Apple’s mobile devices —
Adobe is strengthening its
the guys that brought them here. partnership with Google’s
In Motown, it's the same old Android, whose next version
song -- and who can blame (2.2) will support Flash.
them? It’s therefore no surprise that
Look at the box score from Adobe’s stand at the Web 2.0
Detroit's stunning 4-3 loss to Expo in San Francisco is
San Jose in Game 3 on Tuesday showcasing Android-based
at Joe Louis Arena. It looks like phones, but an unexpected guest
it could have been published in has appeared, as well — an
2009 or 2008 or, for that matter, Android-based, multi-touch
before the NHL lockout. tablet prototype.
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Wings lost. be running Flash and Air
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Nelson Over Bibby Big
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Tim Povtak (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 5/4/2010 7:42:00 PM
Filed under: Hawks, Magic,
NBA Playoffs ORLANDO, Fla.
-- There was no better example
of what a mismatch Game 1 was
-- and probably the whole
Orlando/Atlanta series will be --
than the difference between the
starting point guards.
By late in the third quarter, both
were on their respective
sideline, but all similarities
started and ended right there.
It's why this best-of-seven,
second-round matchup isn't
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Hands-on: Kane & Lynch 2 'Fragile
Alliance' multiplayer
Randy Nelson (Joystiq) your own. For the first match or
Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:00:00 AM two I played, everyone worked
together. After that, people
Whether or not it's Inspired by Here's the setup: Players start started getting greedy.
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to its developer, IO Interactive - crooks -- and steal loot at the D a y s - - F r a g i l e A l l i a n c e
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multiplayer mode in Kane & who can make it past A.I. Continue reading Hands-on:
Lynch 2: Dog Days definitely controlled cops in one piece Kane & Lynch 2 'Fragile
feels inspired. I recently played (and get inside the getaway Alliance' multiplayer
a few rounds of its increasingly vehicle before it leaves) share a Hands-on: Kane & Lynch 2
difficult, single-player Arcade cut of the cash everyone's 'Fragile Alliance' multiplayer
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their (and the cops') hands, in
hopes of taking all the spoils for
going to take very long.
Atlanta's Mike Bibby had
buried his head under a towel,
peeking out only once in awhile
to view the wreckage. On the
other side, Orlando's Jameer
Nelson was waving his towel
wildly, up on his feet every few
seconds.
"I just wanted to attack, and
keep attacking,'' Nelson said
after the Magic buried the
Hawks, 114-71, in a game that
was even more lopsided than the
score. "We're in this for the long
haul, so you have to keep
attacking.''
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GameCrazy internal document confirms
liquidation of remaining stores
Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:30:00 AM
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Movie Gallery Inc., owner of
the GameCrazy, Hollywood
Video, and Movie Gallery
franchises, is officially closing
its remaining 2,415 outlets
across the US. An internal
memorandum obtained by
Joystiq confirms reports that the
company will be closing its
doors and liquidating its
remaining stock over the
coming weeks. "A decision has
been reached by the board of
directors to liquidate the entire
assets of the organization," the
document reads.
The piece also notes that the
store closing sale will "likely
continue for up to 60 days" and
that employees who stick it out
to the end will receive "store
associate incentive plans" as a
reward. Additionally, it assures
said employees that "The
company expects to continue to
pay associates and provide
current benefits and insurance
programs during your active
employment until you are
released from the store or the
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Red Dead Redemption
getting free co-op
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Andrew Yoon (Joystiq)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:36:00 AM
Post-release downloadable
content is a certainty for nearly
every major game this
generation. However, it's not
often you see DLC as significant
as this being promised for free.
Rockstar Games has announced
a new expansion pack, coming
this June to Xbox Live and
PlayStation Network, for the yet
-to-be-released Red Dead
Redemption.
store closing sale ends." p r o c e d u r e s a n d c o m p a n y The "Outlaws to the End" Co-
It would appear that discount policies will persist through the Op Mission Pack will feature six
levels and liquidation plans have closings. multiplayer missions and be
yet to be finalized at the We wish the best of luck to the compatible with 2-4 players.
company. "We are also in the a p p r o x i m a t e l y 1 9 , 0 0 0 The free download will also add
process of evaluating liquidation employees affected by the Trophies and Achievements for
vendors who will oversee the closure. players to unlock. (For details
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2010
Submitted at 5/5/2010 10:03:00 AM
We were almost right about the
trademarked MySims
SkyHeroes: we guessed it would
be headed to DS and Wii, but
EA has surprised us by
announcing the game for PS3
and Xbox 360 as well!. You'll
be able to see your unbelievably
adorable characters in high
definition.
SkyHeroes is, of all things, a
cutesy air combat game, in
which My ... your ... your
MySim takes flight against the
(apparently) evil Morcubus and
his army. As you fight, your
character's fame will increase, as
will the customization options
for your plane.
The PS3 and Xbox 360
versions will feature both split-
screen online multiplayer, in
both cooperative and
competitive game modes, for up
to ten players. All four versions
will be released this fall.
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Medal of Honor is being
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are two main reasons for
workout-related injuries. The
first is poor posture during the
day, which eventually weakens
your entire musculoskeletal
structure. To combat this, make
sure your computer screen is
positioned in a way that you're
not straining or hunching to see
it.
The other mistake is trying to
do too much too fast, in both
reps and weight. "The problem
that got you into the gym didn't
happen overnight, so you can't
undo it overnight," says Price,
who co-authored the book The
Idiots' Guide to Functional
Training. In other words, those
50 pounds can't be erased in one
mega-marathon treadmill
session. And popping blood
vessels by overweighting the
bench press isn't going to take
you from Christian Bale in The
Machinist to Christian Bale in
Batman in one hard-core
workout.
To get started, find a certified
personal trainer (Price
recommends one with the PTA
Global, NSCA or NASM
certifications) to make sure
you're using the right technique
and try to think of yourself as
your own trainer by not making
your goals too personal. "Think
of working on your body as a
third party. If you remove your
ego from the situation you can
be realistic about your goals,"
says Price. You'll be able to
prevent injuries like the ones
below, which Price says he sees
most often.
FOOT AND ANKLE
Cause: When trying to explain
foot and ankle injuries, Price
starts at the top of the body.
"People spend their days in front
of their computer with rounded
shoulders. When your shoulders
are rounded and you stand up,
your weight falls to the front of
your foot," says Price. Take that
misplaced center of gravity and
put it into running shoes, which
naturally tip you forward with a
heel higher than the toe, and
your feet and ankles start to bear
the brunt of any impact.
Prevention:"You should look
for a running shoe that isn't too
high in the heel, or try a walking
shoe, cross trainer or tennis
shoe," suggests Price. By
helping spread the impact to the
whole foot, you'll prevent
problems like plantar fasciitis,
achilles tendonitis, anterior
compartment syndrome (a
compression in the front of the
ankle), lateral compression
syndrome (a compression at the
side of the ankle) and bunions.
KNEE
Cause: That damn desk job
again, unfortunately. "We don't
use our hip muscles during the
day. Then we decide to go
kickbox or do bootcamp," says
Price. The result is injury to the .
. . knee? "If our feet aren't
stable, due to improper
footwear, and our hip muscles
aren't strong, the knee gets all
the stress," says Price, who says
that leg extensions, curls, and
presses don't help resolve the
problem because they don't
strengthen the muscles of the
feet and hips.
Prevention:"A better exercise
would be lunges. With a lunge
your hip and ankle are bending
together, stabilizing and
strengthening the knee," says
Price. To get even more benefit,
do lunges both forwards and
backwards, then side to side
(also known as "step and
squats").
LOWER BACK
Cause: Three strikes and your
day job is officially in the dog
house in terms of your physical
health. "If someone is rounded
throughout the day in their
upper back, and then they go to
the gym and do an overhead
shoulder lift standing, their
upper back cannot extend
properly. They straighten and
arch upward from their lower
back, which has a nervous
breakdown [anything from
soreness to more permanent
injury] because it's getting all
the stress," says Price.
Prevention: Remember to
stretch and strengthen your
upper back to compensate for all
that hunching you do at the
office. Price suggests super-
setting in straight-armed wall
squats in with the rest of your
lifting regimen. "Sit against a
wall. Flatten your lower back
into the wall, by tilting your
pelvis under you. Straighten
your arms in front of you, and
try to raise arms up to your ears,
without letting a gap form
behind your lower back," says
Price. And whenever you can,
exercise standing up—really,
you've sat enough at the office,
right? "Standing helps you
engage bigger muscles in your
body," says Price.
SHOULDER
Cause: If you haven't been
convinced to hang up your
mouse and pick up a hard hat,
this just might do it. That carpal
tunnel you're complaining about
9-5 could contribute to a gym
injury after-hours. "Your arms
have to internally rotate when
you type, which puts pressure
on the shoulders," says Price.
"Then you go to the gym and do
chest press, shoulder press,
pushups, all also with your arms
rotated in," he notes. The
outcome? Supraspinatus
tendonitis, an overuse injury of
the rotator cuff.
Prevention: You need to
externally rotate your arms to
balance your shoulders, and a
great way to do that is by
rowing with cables. "Grab the
cables in front of you and pull
the arms back, rotating your
palms away from you and
behind you," says Price.
NECK
Cause: The other four areas
being out of whack lead to a
misalignment in your neck, says
Price. "If you sit with rounded
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shoulders, your neck follows
your upper back, but then your
eyes need to look at the screen,
so you arch your neck and you
get pain," says Price. As if work
wasn't a pain in the neck
enough, you get to the gym and
that poor posture follows you all
the way to the bench press,
where the real trouble starts,
when you're lying on the bench
but your back isn't flush with the
pad. "A lack of mobility and
extension in your upper back
will put stress on your lower
back and neck," says Price.
Prevention: Clearly, when
doing the bench press, make
sure your lower back and neck
are supported properly. Then,
avoid putting additional stress
on your neck with exercises that
cause you to raise your arms
over your head, especially if
you've just put in a 12-hour day.
Finally, strengthen your mid and
upper back—and improve your
posture—by doing reverse
shrugs. "Sit at the lat pull down.
Grab the bar in front of you and
do straight arm pull downs. Pull
down just the shoulder
blades—not the arms—and go
just slightly in front of you for
three to four inches," says Price.
You'll feel it in your lower
traps—which, once strong, will
help you maintain your
posture—and health—whether
you're at the office or at the
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Supplement Guide: Folic Acid
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Are you getting enough of this
B vitamin?
by Lisa Freedman
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Where it comes from: Folic
acid (and folate) is a water-
soluble vitamin B. Folate occurs
naturally in food and folic acid
is the synthetic form of folate.
Food sources include dark leafy
greens, cereals, pasta, beans,
mushrooms, organ meat, orange
juice, tomato juice and more.
Folic acid is frequently used in
combination with other B
vitamins in vitamin B complex
formulations.
What it'll do for you: Folic acid
helps the body break down, use
and create new proteins. It helps
form red blood cells and create
new DNA. "It plays a key role
with pregnant woman by
preventing birth and neural tube
defects," says Marissa Lippert,
RD and author of The Cheater's
Diet, who adds that Folic acid
also benefits men. Here, the
main benefits:
• Prevents against heart disease
Folate pairs up with vitamin
B12 as a coenzyme to aid the
metabolism of certain amino
acids—homocysteine and
methonine. Without enough
folic acid in the body,
homocysteine levels can
increase and impact
cardiovascular disease. Studies
have supported the use of folic
acid supplements for lowering
homocysteine levels, however
this does not fully prove that
folic acid supplements will
decrease the risk of
cardiovascular disease.
• Prevents Alzheimer's disease
A 2005 study at the University
of California at Irvine found that
adequate amounts of folic acid
may help ward off Alzheimer's
disease. The study looked at 579
men and women (ages 60 and
up) and found those who
regularly consumed the
recommended daily allowance
(RDA) of 400 micrograms
(mcg) of folic acid through
foods and supplements cut their
risk of developing Alzheimer's
by more than 50 percent. Other
studies support these findings
and suggest that folic acid plays
a key role in preventing the
general memory loss that tends
to come with old age.
• Helps prevent type-2 diabetes
Folic acid may increase the
breakdown of triglycerides—the
chemical form in which fat
exists in the blood—and
therefore may have a role in the
prevention of obesity and type-2
diabetes. A 2008 study by the
European Journal of
Endocrinology looked at four
groups of women (from
different geographic locations)
and found those with a BMI of
30 and above had low levels of
folic acid.
• Helps treat depression Folic
acid deficiency has been found
among people with depression
and has been linked as a
possible cause for poor response
to antidepressant treatment. So,
of course, folate supplements
have been used for enhancing
treatment response to
antidepressants. More research
is needed and folic acid is not a
replacement for conventional
antidepressant therapy.
Suggested intake: The upper
daily limit recommendation for
adult men is 1 milligram.
"Ideally, that would be reached
through food," says Lippert.
Foods that are known to be high
in folate are: dark, leafy greens
(spinach and kale), asparagus,
fortified whole grains (pasta,
cereal and whole grain breads),
beans and legumes (peanuts,
lentils, chickpeas, black beans
and kidney beans) and chicken
liver—a 3.5-ounce serving of
chicken liver provides 193
percent of the daily value of
folate. If you decide to opt for
supplements, doses of folic acid
should not exceed 1,000
micrograms per day, as too
much folic acid may result in a
vitamin B-12 deficiency, which
could cause permanent nerve
damage if not treated.
In lines with the benefits of
folic acid, folate deficiencies are
associated with increased risks
of heart disease, depression and
anemia (deficiency impacts red
blood cell production).
Deficiencies have been
observed in alcoholics. In 1997,
a review of chronic alcoholics
found low folate levels in more
than 50 percent of those
surveyed. Why? Alcohol
interferes with the absorption of
folate and increases the amount
of folate the kidney gets rid of.
Also, many alcoholics have poor
diets and don't meet the
recommended intake of folate.
Associated risks/scrutiny:
Folate intake from food is not
associated with any health risk.
"It's a water-soluble vitamin and
any significant excess will
naturally be eliminated through
the body via urine," says
Lippert. Ingesting too much
folic acid via supplements can
result in stomach problems,
sleep problems, skin reactions
and seizures.
While folic acid was, at one
time, considered protective
against cancers, it's now said it
may actually promote certain
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ones. First, a study of 643 men
at University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill School of
Medicine found that high doses
of folic acid supplements failed
to prevent colon cancer. Then
another analysis of the same
study's finding suggests a link
between folic acid supplements
an increased risk for prostate
cancer. In the study, the men
who took high doses of the
vitamin saw a 163 percent risk
increase in prostate cancer
compared to men who did not
take folic acid supplements.
Some researchers conclude that
folate is unlikely to be beneficial
in regard to certain
cancers—and may actually be
harmful. More research is
needed. Related articles:
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Submitted at 5/5/2010 2:00:00 AM and a 21-year-old's metabolism, Pain, No Gain" mantra quite like figure to cardio workouts, yoga,
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Five female stars who know made good lifestyle choices. Her bombshell discovered her love Jessica Biel
their way around a gym personal trainer has said that she for working out during the three Age: 28
by Devin Pratt has never been one to diet but -month martial arts training she Whether it was the famous bra
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Being a celebrity has its eliminating bad carbs. Charlie's Angels. While Chuck and Larry or the now
a d v a n t a g e s — m a m m o t h Halle Berry Cameron puts in more than legendary cover shoot for GQ
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events, vacationing in the most The oldest star on our list, Halle also manages to keep her shown us why she is the fittest
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leading ladies who define what week. Berry's trainer developed Age: 41 Plyometrics, and light weight
it means to be in shape and a routine that's comprised of Even though America's training. The striking beauty is with our
h e a l t h y , n o t t o m e n t i o n three cardio segments, two sweetheart hasn't had much luck also a strong believer in eating
incredibly sexy. circuit segments and one core in the love department, the only "clean foods" — that ‘spiritual’ age?
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FIVE OPRAH About a decade ago, in an
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25 Ways to Get Stronger Now Ministerial - The 2010 UK If only I had thought of the Hunter in the lede. The story is HomeliticsOnline.com, I
Injured? Make Sure to Get the General Election. Available word “ Truthiness”! packed with irony and sarcasm summed up this whole “feelings
Right Doc tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Anyway, the Washington Post and all kinds of Style section and experience trump doctrine
Check-Ups Every Guy Needs Text RSS, Term Extraction. Style section ran a story the stuff. and history” trend with the term
[on Facebook, Digg, Reddit and other day reviewing the Oprah I am here to suggest that the “OprahAmerica.” Please note
more] interview with Rielle Hunter, Style gods seem to have missed that I also included George W.
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journalism gets, starting with the
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After Rielle had explained to
Oprah about a gajillion times
that she was a person who was
deeply committed to the truth
and being authentic, Oprah was
finally driven to ask: “So you
are a person who is on a
spiritual path. You’ve
mentioned truth here several
times. What part of you could
make that okay, then, to be with
this married man with
children?”
“Because he was available,”
Rielle said simply.
And how does God fit into this
“spiritual” road map to truth,
authenticity, integrity, happiness
and a better America? A few
lines later we read:
In July 2007, Edwards and his
wife renewed their wedding
vows, even though he knew he
had a bun in someone else’s
oven, by Rielle’s account. They
had never used birth control, she
explained.
Rielle acknowledged that she
thought it was a bad thing for
Edwards to stand before God
and retake vows he knew to be a
lie, but she didn’t think less of
Edwards for having done that
because “I understood where he
was in his process,” Rielle said,
as she waggled her pink sandal
on her big toe. Oprah, to her
credit, did not roll her eyes and
throw up her hands.
Though he was “gracious”
when he found out she was
pregnant, he became “very
angry when she was
photographed by the National
Enquirer, while hiding out at
Edwards aide Andrew Young’s
North Carolina home, Rielle
told Oprah. She said Young then
brought up the idea to claim he
was the baby’s father.
“Why did you, Miss Spirituality
in Alignment With the Truth …
go along with it?” Oprah asked
— a great line.
Rielle capitulated, she said,
because she did not want her
baby girl to grow up blaming
herself for having kept Daddy
from being president of the
United States.
So, Oprah and the Style gods
are saying that what Hunter did
was absolutely wrong? By what
standard? Might her behavior,
and that of the candidate
himself, even be called a “sin”?
Is it always a sin to have sex
with a person who is married to
someone else? Where, precisely,
does it say that? Who gets to
articulate the exceptions to the
rule?
Is the problem here that what
Hunter did was tasteless and
embarrassing? What, precisely,
did “Miss Spirituality in
Alignment With the Truth” do
that was wrong, according to the
commandments of
OprahAmerica? She was
following her own feelings,
living out the experiences as
they came to her. She was
following her own path, right?
She was being “spiritual,” as
opposed to being tied down by
the ancient rules of “religion.”
That’s a good thing. Correct?
What a great story, whether this
was the story the Style gods
planned to publish or not. In a
way, this story “gets religion” in
this day and age or, I should say,
it “gets” what some people
consider to be “spirituality.”
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Cupidtino: A Dating
Site for Apple Fanboys
and Fangirls
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 5/5/2010 3:42:20 AM
There’s a new online resource
for singles coming to the
Internet: Cupidtino, a dating site
for fans of Apple products.
The site is currently in (closed)
beta, but it has an active Twitter
you.”
account which is (mostly) trying
Cupidtino is projected to launch
to convince people that the
in June 2010, and it’ll be
project is for real.
(surprise) available exclusively
“Diehard Mac & Apple fans
on Apple desktops, with some
often have a lot in common -–
location-based social apps for
personalities, creative
the iPhone and iPad in the
professions, a similar sense of
works. We’ll believe it when we
style and aesthetics, taste, and of
see it.
course a love for technology,”
For more Apple coverage,
the site says. “We believe these
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are enough reasons for two
Twitter or become a fan on
people to meet and fall in love,
Facebook
and so we created the first Mac-
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Generic Bible-quoting cop slain
Bobby (GetReligion)
Submitted at 5/4/2010 1:33:44 PM
“A gentle giant.”
“A man of God.”
The accolades are pouring in
for Brian Huff, a veteran Detroit
police officer killed in the line
of duty Monday. From the
earliest news reports, Huff’s
strong faith came into play.
This was the headline on the
initial online report by the
Detroit Free Press identifying
the officer:
Fallen officer was fun-loving,
devout
In that story, an officer friend
reflected on Huff:
Detroit Officer John Bennett
said he worked with Huff at an
alternative education school,
where Huff was moonlighting to
make ends meet.
“He was a man of God,”
Bennett said. “He was just a fun
-loving, big guy.”
Huff was as quick to quote
Scripture as he was to crack a
joke, Bennett said.
“I don’t think you’ll find
anyone who has anything bad to
say about him,” added Bennett,
who said his colleagues are
devastated.
The print version of the story
in today’s Free Press contained
basically the same details.
Meanwhile, The Detroit News
ran a Page 1 sidebar on Huff
with this headline and subhead:
‘A wonderful man we can’t
replace’
Friends, colleagues say fallen
Detroit policeman was devoted
to his family and faith
There’s that F-word one more
time. Again, Bennett is quoted,
this time telling the reporter:
“He could quote verses from
the Bible like he was a pastor,
and it was clear that God and
family were important to him.”
But neither the News nor the
Free Press makes the great leap
from generic quotes to meatier
details about the religious
background of this officer,
nicknamed “Huff Daddy.”
Now, I know how difficult it
E-reader News Edition
can be for a reporter to track
down such specific information
in the immediate aftermath of a
shooting like this. Police
officers, in particular, are not
always overly forthcoming with
personal details about
themselves or their colleagues. I
get that.
However, if the faith angle is
important enough to include in
the headline and the top of the
story, basic questions need to be
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answered: Was the officer a And hey, if they really want to

regular churchgoer? If so, where
did he maintain his
membership? What does the
pastor have to say about him?
How are his fellow church
members dealing with the
tragedy?
Undoubtedly, the Detroit papers
will write more about Huff in
coming days. I hope they take
advantage of the opportunity to
explain in more detail what
makes a burly cop quote
Scripture on the job.
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spook the religion ghosts, they
might even explore the specific
books, chapters and verses that
he quoted.
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Kitchen Cabinet [VIDEO]
Barb Dybwad (Mashable!)
Submitted at 5/4/2010 10:31:36 PM
The iPad is really starting to get
around — not only is it in the
car, but now it’s also embedded
in a kitchen cabinet. Alan Daly
custom mounted the “magical”
Apple device inside his kitchen
cabinet.
The headphone jack funnels
sound into a MIDI system for
audio output duties, and apps
like the Epicurious Recipes &
Shopping List App[iTunes link]
turn Daly’s kitchen cabinet into
a modern day bottomless recipe
book. Daly plans to use the
Apple Remote App[iTunes link]
to tap into the home’s main
music library once Apple
updates it to support landscape
mode.
Check out the video of the
installation below and let us
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know what you think. Are you

for America be interested in an iPad kitchen
centerpiece? Where will we see
Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!) promote transparency, using as citizens, as well. Apple’s tablet pop up next?
Submitted at 5/4/2010 9:35:51 PM participation and efficiency. For We like Code for America a lot; [via Engadget& TUAW]
example, apps could include an it ties into some of our core For more technology coverage,
Five American cities have been online network to connect beliefs about social media for follow Mashable Tech on
selected for a random act of neighborhood groups with social good and free and open Twitter or become a fan on
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developers. Boston, Boulder, permitting system to simplify developer, we encourage you to Tags: apple, Apple Remote
Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., administration of small business apply for the Fellows program App, ipad, kitchen
and Seattle will all receive free licensing and fees. and tell us about your ideas and
web and/or mobile apps to help This year, one of the months. Once each app is experiences.
administer government and applications that will be built is finished in January 2011, it What kinds of apps would you
serve citizens, thanks to a an Open311-type project. The becomes free to use and share want Code for America to build
program called Code for product to be built for for any other city. for your town?
America. Philadelphia will allow citizens Some of the communities Code For more technology coverage,
Back in February, Code for to monitor and give feedback on for America is helping, such as follow Mashable Tech on
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problems and engage citizens, group of Fellows to build the selected from those towns to
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