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Pennsylvania primary: undecideds may decide it
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 5/17/2010 11:03:43 AM
The Pennsylvania Democratic
primary may end up decided by
the undecideds.
Senator Arlen Specter and
Congressman Joe Sestak are
vying for the Democratic vote in
Tuesday’s primary, which will
determine who runs against the
Republican candidate for the
Pennsylvania Senate seat in
November.
A Quinnipiac University poll
released Monday shows the race
is too close to call — with
Sestak at 42 pecent versus
Specter at 41 percent. Add to the
mix 16 percent undecided and
25 percent saying they might
change their mind, and the vote
could go any which way.
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“Sen. Arlen Specter has the
party organization behind him,
which should help with turnout.
But Congressman Joe Sestak
could benefit from the relatively
large group of undecided voters.
Generally, incumbents don’t do
all that well with undecideds,
who are more likely to vote for
the challenger or not vote,” said
Peter Brown, assistant director
of the Quinnipiac University
Polling Institute.
“Moreover, as we have seen
elsewhere this spring, there is an
anti-incumbent mood in the
electorate and Specter, with 30
years in the Senate, is the
ultimate incumbent,” he said.
The survey of 951 likely
Democratic primary voters was
conducted May 12-16 and has a
margin of error of plus or minus
3.2 percentage points.
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face strong tests in
votes to prevent Lincoln from
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Ask away, Obama says, without Before the Bell: Futures

answering reporters questions Higher Ahead of
Deborah Charles (Front Row
Washington) Housing, PPI Data
Submitted at 5/17/2010 11:46:12 AM
Melly Alazraki
(BloggingStocks)
Freedom of the Press is all well
and good, but don’t expect Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:10:00 AM

President Barack Obama to

always answer journalists’
questions.
That’s what the president made
clear in the Oval Office after he
signed the Daniel Pearl Freedom
of Press Act — a new piece of
legislation named after the Wall
Street Journal reporter who was
kidnapped and beheaded in
2002. The new law requires the
State Department to identify
countries and governments that
restrict press freedoms.
Seated at his desk surrounded
by members of the Pearl family,
Obama made a little speech
talking about how important
journalists were and how vital a
free press was to keep the world
informed.
In the name of press freedom,
one reporter asked if the
gathered pool of reporters could
ask some questions.
“You are free to ask them,”
Obama said.
But when asked if he would
actually answer any of the
questions the free press asked,
Obama said: “We won’t be
answering …I’m not doing a
press conference today.”
Despite continued attempts to
ask about energy giant BP
which owns a well that is
spewing huge amounts of oil in
the Gulf of Mexico and Iran’s
nuclear program, Obama stuck
to his word. He didn’t answer
any questions.
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advanced Tuesday as investors
eye key economic and earnings
results. The Home Depot has
already reported strong results
and Wall Street awaits results
from Walmart. Several key
economic reports, including
readings on inflation and
housing will also be in focus
this morning.
Economic data will start
pouring in at 8:30 a.m. Eastern.
At that time, a report on April
housing starts and building
permits is due. Housing starts
are expected to have risen to a
seasonally adjusted annual unit
rate of 675,000 from 626,000 in
March, according to
Briefing.com. Building permits
are expected to have risen to
715,000 from a 680,000 annual
unit rate.
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Wise Words: Stand Up and Speak Up

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Hot or Not? Technology Entrepreneurship in New York City

Mike Katz (Business Insider) community’s optimism, in sectors common to NYC (see
Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:34:21 AM eagerness to defy odds, and the below section analyzing the
diversity, New Yorkers have leading technology areas in New
Mike Katz is in a Venture entrepreneurship wired into their York), these investment sizes
C a p i t a l S e m i n a r c l a s s a t DNA. tend to creep into the low seven
Columbia. Below is an excerpt However, other variables such digit range, and the active VC
from his final paper. We've as (i) the amount of capital firms in NYC often form
lightly edited his intro, and available for investment, (ii) the syndicates of two to three firms
reprinted the rest from his blog ability to attract and retain per deal. Unlike other hotbeds
with permission. employees, and (iii) leadership of entrepreneurship – such as
For the past six months, in several subsectors to foster a Silicon Valley, Boston, or the
prominent players in the New community, are essential to Research Triangle – venture
Y o r k C i t y t e c h n o l o g y turning ideas into thriving capitalists in New York are
community have loudly – and companies. Early Dollars: reasonably accessible. This
increasingly – asserted that V i b r a n c y o f t h e S t a r t u p accessibility means that even
NYC is “hot,” or “exploding,” I n v e s t m e n t C o m m u n i t y entrepreneurs with poor social
or “insert any other dramatic Angels and Seed Funds networks – but exceptional
adjective here.” In terms of investors, New products – can still get meetings
The individuals making these York has a plethora of seed with investors.
claims are as smart as they are funds, micro venture capitalists, which this pool is deployed. not have as many chances to
Conversely, many
savvy, and are astutely aware of and wealthy individuals to However, getting funding is impress this group. Mireless
entrepreneurs complain there are
the value of increased attention financially help companies at o n l y p a r t o f a t h r i v i n g says there is “no learning on the
not enough investors in NYC
on the blogosphere. Although the most embryonic stages. The technology startup community; job; you better wow them right
capable of writing “real” Series
provocative, these declarations Center for an Urban Future, a entrepreneurs need advice and out of the gate” or they will talk
A checks. The evidence
have generally lacked hard nonprofit that studies the overall guidance as much as they need to each other and the company
suggests they are probably right
evidence and usually have been health of New York City, money. In this area, New York will never get funding. Although
(see below), but many non-NYC
inspired by biased anecdotes estimates that these angel appears to only have a nascent, many in the community would
based firms have slowly crept
from a select few. albeit growing, network of disagree with him (or at least
investors and their associated into the five boroughs to fill this
I set out to go beyond one-off funds have “$250-500 million e x p e r i e n c e d e a r l y - s t a g e say he's over the top), the crux
investing gap. Some Boston
observations by analyzing available for investment” over investors. In the words of of Mireless’s thesis appears true.
VCs that are active in New York
concrete macroeconomic data the next decade. Assuming an outspoken entrepreneur, Matt In short, the money is out there
include Matrix Partners, Spark
about t e c h n o l o g y average angel/seed investment Mireless of SpeakerText, “good for young companies in New
Capital, Polaris(through Dog
entrepreneurship in NYC. As o f $ 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 ( w h i c h i s luck finding angels in NYC who York City, but the community
Patch Labs), Softbank, and
part of this process, I conducted conservative), this current understand early-stage tech needs more seasoned very early-
General Catalyst(far from a
3 5 i n t e r v i e w s w i t h l o c a l aggregate pool of capital will investing. Technically, they’re stage investment professionals
complete list). Silicon Valley
investors, start-up founders, and fund somewhere between 1,000 out there somewhere… But I and outlets for mentorship.
investors are also increasing
government officials. It might and 2,000 companies in NYC. haven’t seen them.” Traditional “Series A” Venture
their time in New York with
be a long list of some of the Of note is that most of these Mireless also scolds the tight Capitalists
Battery Ventures being
who’s-who of New York, but it funds are small and tend to k n i t n a t u r e o f t h e a n g e l Once startups pass the initial
particularly active. Finally,
i s u n f o r t u n a t e l y f a r f r o m diversify risk by co-investing c o m m u n i t y i n N e w Y o r k funding hurdle and build a proof
other tri-state area firms such as
exhaustive. because although it enables easy of concept, many will require
with other angels. This practice Edison and Updata, both of New
If the lifeblood of an innovative increases overall activity, and collaboration amongst investors, more substantial capital from a
it also means entrepreneurs do VC. For businesses competing HOT page 4
e n v i r o n m e n t l i e s i n a hopefully speeds the rate at
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Jersey, have enriched the
entrepreneurial community of
New York by investing here for
many years.
Despite this interest from firms
based outside the Big Apple, it
is difficult to determine what
percentage of these non-NYC
firms have earmarked assets for
investments in New York.
Confounding this ambiguity
further are firms like Bessemer
which are based locally but have
offices around the globe.
Consequently, to assess how
much “pure” New York VC
money exists, I assembled the
following table:
As mentioned in the caption,
this data is simply a back-of-the-
envelope analysis using public
sources. In fact, I previously
worked/interned for two of these
firms and back then loved
laughing at how wrong outsiders
could be when trying to draw
conclusions from fuzzy private
information. I would never
reveal confidential data, but I
think this analysis – although
likely extremely incorrect –
provides some interesting
insights.
With that said, this data comes
from Capital IQ and details the
two most recent funds for
venture capital firms that meet
the following three
requirements: (1) the most
recent fund exceeds $100
million, (2) the firm’s primary
offices are in New York City,
and (3) the firm has a bias to
invest in NYC above other
regions. In the far right column,
I also attempted to estimate the
capital that remains from the
most recent fund (note: assumes
half of the fund is reserved for
follow-on investments, fees, etc.
and the remainder is invested
equally over five years. This
equal allocation clearly happens
infrequently in reality and five
years is likely too long, but I
tried to estimate variables that
seemed consistent with trends in
NYC).
As shown, all but one New
York VC will need to raise a
new fund in the next few years,
and the aggregate estimated
Series A capital available for
investments in new startups is
$197 million. Considering VCs
have likely delayed deploying
capital through the economic
crisis, there is a respectable
amount of dry powder
remaining. Also, capital will
increase further once
fundraising returns to traditional
levels. Interestingly, the data
suggests the sum of NYC
venture capital funding closely
approximates the sum of
angel/seed capital available
(although this ignores entry by
non-native firms as mentioned
above and the creation of new
vehicles such as AOL
Ventures). Scaling Headcount:
Educational Support & Finding
Talent
Perhaps even more difficult for
startups than finding helpful
investors is attracting and
retaining talented employees.
New York has the largest
consolidated workforce in the
country, yet, like any other city,
has challenges matching
candidates with companies that
can fully leverage employees’
skills. Also, Silicon Valley has
long been a draw for the best
engineering talent because that
is where the startups were.
However, as Fred Wilson of
Union Square Ventures likes to
half-joke, “nobody graduating in
the top of his or her class from
MIT, Carnegie Mellon, or
Columbia actually wants to
move into the California
suburbs at age 22, buy a car, and
commute every day to a
nondescript office park. These
kids would much rather enjoy
the New York lifestyle of living
in Williamsburg and hopping on
the subway to code in an airy
loft/office in SoHo.” As a result,
the tide of this “westward
migration” of technical talent is
starting to turn due in large part
to changing practices at New
York’s schools as well as altered
attitudes about the financial
services sector.
Powerhouse Academic
Institutions
In my chat with Mayor
Bloomberg, he pressed that
NYC’s universities have created
“legendary inventions with no
real companies.” Although this
represents some hyperbole,
Columbia, NYU, Pratt, Parsons,
SVA, etc. are poor incubators
for commercial enterprises. For
example, in 2007, the most
recent year for which data is
available, the Center for an
Urban Future noted that “NYU
was number one among all U.S.
universities with $791 million in
royalties, while Columbia was
number two, with $135 million.
No other university topped $100
million.” Further investigation
by the CUF suggests New York
schools are unwilling to “swing
for the fences” like Stanford,
Harvard, and MIT do. This is a
fundamental problem for New
York – both inside and outside
of schools – and an issue
discussed in more detail in the
below conclusion.
The Curse of Wall Street
Thousands of high-quality
engineers and computer
scientists might graduate from
New York’s world class schools
every year, but “these
individuals have historically
flocked to write algorithms for
hedge funds rather than work on
manipulating open APIs,” says
David Lerner of Columbia
University’s Technology
Ventures Lab. With these Wall
Street jobs come high wages and
annual cash bonuses and the top
talent is not accustomed to being
paid in stock options. This is a
hindrance for New York
because founders make
significantly below market
salaries until they have a
successful exit, and although the
long run financial benefit might
be on the side of founders, the
difference in the interim is so
stark (i.e. the dramatic change in
lifestyle) that few technologists
are willing to take the plunge.
The collapse of the financial
community has changed this
slightly with so many “quants”
out of work, but the attitude is
still pervasive in NYC.
Technology Leadership:
Finance and Media + 5 Exciting
New Sectors
New York has always been a
center for finance and media,
but from these two behemoth
industries have emerged five
sectors where New York is
currently leading the technology
world:
1) Advertising Technology.
Google acquired NYC-based
DoubleClick for its superior
ability to match advertisers and
publishers down the long tail of
the curve. Out of this firm, a
number of other companies like
ContextWeb and MediaMath
have been spawned or
encouraged. Additionally, New
York businesses outside of
technology spend huge portions
of their budgets on advertising
and web promotions so it is not
coincidental that the leading
search marketing firms (such as
Conductor, Altruik, and
Clickable) are also based in
Manhattan.
2) Advancements in Finance.
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Fannie And Freddie Need To Go -- NOW

Jim Boswell (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:38:17 AM

No institution or group of
institutions should be held more
accountable for the current
financial crisis in America than
the Government Sponsored
Enterprises (GSEs) with the
endearing names of Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac. And it is long
past time that we put these
culprits out of our misery.
Management of long term
mortgage debt is too important
to the U.S. economy (and thus
the world’s economy) to leave
in the hands of two entities that
make up less than one percent of
the Fortune 500 companies in
America. Although supposedly
sponsored by the Government,
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
never worked for the
Government, nor did they ever
serve the general welfare of the
American public.
As private companies, whose
stock is still being bought and
sold on the New York Stock
Exchange, Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac were out to make
money for themselves and their
stockholders. By manipulating
mortgage rates to their
advantage, lowering credit
standards, holding their own
securities funded by ultra-cheap debt beyond reasonable means. Reserve), mortgage debt in the growth in mortgage debt grew period.
treasury debt, and trading on Because of the oligopoly-like U.S. grew nearly three fold from larger and faster than the better In truth, without the housing
inside information, the two control over mortgage lending $2.8 Trillion to $10.2 Trillion in known National Debt which bubble collapse, there would
GSEs intentionally strategized given to the GSEs by Congress the fifteen-years between 1992 grew from $4.1 Trillion to $9.0
FANNIE page 7
on ways to increase mortgage (and conceded by the Federal and 2007 (See Exhibit). This Trillion during the same time
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Hey, New York Times: You Can Change The Game In Online
Advertising
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry in their excellence at getting online. Because of its prestige
(Business Insider) people to sellers' sites and and scale, only can the New
Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:00:00 AM leading them to buy stuff. York Times establish this as the
These ads, however, form only new standard. Only can the New
The most meaningful equation one part of the ad landscape. York Times say to the agencies:
in business is that sales minus The rest is brand advertising. "We're sorry but if you want to
costs equals profits. And it's the Brand advertising tells a story run ads on our website this is
one that sums up why so many and conveys emotion. And this what the format will be and this
old media outlets have such is why, for the most part, brand is what the rates will be."
difficulty switching to the advertising has stuck to TV and What are they going to do? Not
internet: their costs are too high hasn't moved enough to the run ads on the New York
and their profits too low. internet: the TV medium is great Times? Well, maybe some of
In particular, while they're for telling stories. Internet ads, them would. We're not saying
trying to implement paywalls, or at least classic IAB banner this wouldn't be a gutsy move.
something which we think will ads -- not so much. But with a little cojones, just as
fail for all but a few (business) You get where I'm going with Steve Jobs set a new benchmark
newspapers, ad rates for news, this. ( and price!) for mobile ads with
e v e n q u a l i t y n e w s , a r e For brand advertising to get its the stroke of a pen, so can the
abysmally low. just deserts on the internet -- to New York Times change the
Why is that? paradigm he introduced with Ok, but what does that have to
become nicer and better at game for online brand
Part of it is simple supply and telling stories, which is good for iAds can't come to the web. do with online news and the
advertisers and publishers by
demand: the supply of news to consumers and brands, and more In fact, it's already here: New York Times?
establishing a new online brand
put ads against is infinite. But a expensive, which is good for companies like Sprout and Simple: news is one of the best
advertising standard based on
big part of it is because ads next publishers -- it needs to move to V i d e o E g g c r e a t e v e r y places to put immersive,
quality, richness, interactivity
to news are stuck in the wrong a different paradigm. compelling ads that unfold into engaging brand ads next to!
and engagement.
paradigm. videos, games or other creative, News are a bad place to put
This is the issue that Steve Once these new formats move
The promise of online ads for Jobs, who is unrivaled when it interactive content. VideoEgg normal online ads next to
out of the "experimental" ghetto
the past 15 years has been that comes to cutting to the core of a doesn't use CPM (cost per because people aren't thinking
and into the production rooms of
everything is measurable -- problem -- tackled with iAds, thousand views) to charge for about buying stuff when they're
every large agency, the new
views, clicks, etc. -- and so t h e i P h o n e a d f o r m a t h e their ads; instead they use a new reading news. But when they're
reality will proliferate outside of
advertisers will know which of introduced. TV ads have no metric called CPE, or Cost Per reading news they're highly
NYTimes.com and onto the rest
their dollars are wasted. Engagement. attentive, so they can be
interactivity, but are great at of the web. Everyone will be
But the problem is that this conveying emotion, he said. Ads like these are the brand ads engaged by the right brand ads.
better off.
p a r a d i g m h a s o n l y r e a l l y Meanwhile internet ads can of the future. And that ought to Making these ads the new
Ideally the New York Times
w o r k e d f o r o n e k i n d o f have interactivity, but are be worth a lot of money to standard would be a big help to
would come out with their own
advertising. Online ads are great c r a p p y w h e n i t c o m e s t o advertisers and publishers. But online news outlets.
SDK, based on HTML5, for
when it comes to generating conveying emotion. iAds does to do that we have to move to a And this is where the New
agencies to create rich,
transactions directly. The key both. Boom. paradigm of online display York Times comes in. We don't
immersive, engaging ads for
example of that is Google's Steve Jobs is a great salesman, a d v e r t i s i n g t h a t v a l u e s know of any other news
search ads, which are unrivaled but there's no reason that the interactivity and engagement organization that has such a HEY, page 7
over other metrics. strong brand both offline and
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have been no bank bailouts, no
Lehman bankruptcy, no
Countrywide failure, no Fed
lending, no AIG (the list could
go on and on). And if you are
looking for the people most
responsible for the housing
bubble, then that leads you right
to the front doors of Fannie and
Freddie.
If it had not been for the self-
serving business strategies of
the GSEs’ to increase debt and
keep housing prices escalating
for their own company gains,
the housing bubble that caused
the recession would never had
occurred in the first place. And
even though GSE Executive
Management may not have
intended to create a global
financial crisis with criminal
intent in mind, that same
management must still be held
accountable for the global
financial crisis none-the-less.
Either through ignorance or a
need to satisfy their own
personal greed, the GSEs
mismanaged their power over
mortgage rates and their
underwriting systems for nearly
a thirty-year period going back
as far as the early 1980s. And
no one should overlook the fact
that the GSEs regularly used
inside information to purchase
their own securities prior to
selling the remainder to
unsuspecting global investors,
thus enhancing their bets on
how their securities would pay
down over the counter bets of
those unsuspecting investors.
Now here is the solution to our
current dilemma about what to
do with the GSEs.
Abolish Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac. Replace them
with a much smaller and more
conservative government
agency modeled after that of
Ginnie Mae. Ginnie Mae (with
less than eighty government
employees) managed the risk of
its MBS programs better than
the GSEs. In fact, this little guy,
unlike the GSEs who have now
accrued more than $200 billion
in losses since 2007, managed to
make money during the same
time period.
Put some respected financial
person in charge of the new
Federal entity, not some
“political hack”. Treat this
position like you would when
choosing a Federal Reserve
Chairman or Secretary of
Treasury. Mortgage debt in the
United States has grown to be
one of the most important
factors that we need to manage
for a growing economy.
Keep this new entity simple and
operate it like Ginnie Mae
operates. In fact, merge Ginnie
Mae into this new agency.
Ginnie Mae doesn’t purchase its
own product, but instead, sells it
all to investors. Compare
annual reports. You’ll find it
fifty times easier to understand
the business model behind that
of Ginnie Mae compared to the
business models of the GSEs.
End the government’s
involvement in subprime and
outright purchase subsidies.
These activities just put houses
in the hands of people who
ultimately cannot afford them.
Instead, the government should
encourage and reward financial
responsibility. And here’s how
to do that.
Have the new agency establish
a 30-year 4.0% fixed rate
mortgage program for highly
qualified purchasers and
refinancers with a minimum of
10-15% equity and good credit
for “primary” residences under
$500,000. This approach offers
two major advantages: (1) it will
reduce our long term debt
obligations; and (2) it is a way
to stimulate the economy better
than we have been able to in the
last eighteen months through
increased government spending.
Back these loans and securitize
them with the Full Faith and
Credit Guaranty of the United
States Government. Think of
these new securities like long
term U.S. Treasury Notes.
Marginal borrowers that don’t
meet new strict underwriting
standards used by the new
agency must go to the private
sector banks for their mortgages
which “will not” carry the same
Government Guaranty.
One thing we should learn from
this latest financial crisis. Not
everything has been all bad.
During this latest recession,
heroes have stepped forward,
and I would like to tip my hat to
two of the most important: (1)
the FDIC, which despite the
TARP bailouts, has continued
doing its essential job like it has
in the past—shutting down the
riskiest and most dysfunctional
banks in America; and (2)
maybe the most important of all,
those American homeowners
who month after month
continued making their monthly
principal and interest payments
despite their deteriorating
financial circumstances during
the crisis. It is because of
heroes like these that we are
continuing to recover from the
Greatest Recession since the
Great Depression.
Jim Boswell (MBA, MPA, BA)
directed the analytical risk
monitoring activities of Ginnie
Mae’s $500 billion portfolio of
mortgage-backed securities for
twelve years (1988-2000),
including the period of the S&L
crisis. His recent book, Crush
Depth Alert, published by
Fourth Lloyd Productions,
explains in detail with
supporting exhibits, graphs, and
tables the factors that led up to
the financial crisis while
offering solutions on how to
move forward.
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HEY,
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NYTimes.com, and new
analytical tools to describe (and
price) engagement. In time, they
could move up the value chain
to create their own creative
material for advertisers, as
Condé Nast, Vice, Monocle and
others are doing. Of course, if
they come up with tools and
frameworks that are much better
than what already exists, they
could expand it off their site into
an ad network, but that would be
a whole other ballgame.
So anyway, that's my pitch,
New York Times: you can
change the game in online
advertising. For that you have to
take a stand and take a big risk -
- that if you dare the ad agencies
not to follow you, they'll call
your bluff. You have to venture
out into the unknown. But you
know what? You don't have a
choice anyway.
So think about it.
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People Who Might Buy
Newsweek...
• Steve Jobs Hates The New
York Times iPad App
• Suddenly, Google Is An
Underdog In Mobile
Advertising
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HOT
continued from page 4
Maybe Goldman Sachs’
innovation of credit default
swaps is not a praise-worth
advancement in recent news, but
New York is home to the most
innovative “fintech” firms in the
world. SecondMarket, an online
portal for shares in private
companies, is the first of its kind
to scale and is now experiencing
significant network effects.
Fynanz(a private student loan
platform) and ProtEquity(a firm
focused on creating downside
protection tools for
homeowners) both could not be
born anywhere else.
3) Next Generation E-
Commerce. New Yorkers have
always needed to be creative to
survive, so serving as home to
the next generation of e-
commerce is a perfect fit. Gilt
Groupe, Etsy, VillageVines,
Kickstarter, Quirky, etc. are
redefining how transactions are
sourced and executed in our
changing economy.
4) Creative Content. In
addition to finance, media is the
second logical strength of New
York. NYC is home to the
cutting edge of what some have
coined “Creative Content 2.0,”
with Gawker, The Huffington
Street Chic: New York
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
Blogs)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 6:00:00 AM
Glam-up casual cargos and a t-
Post, Daily Candy, Thrillist,
LearnVest, JauntSetter, and
countless others are eroding
marketshare daily from “old
school” media.
5) Collaboration & “Real”
Social Interactions. New York
City’s diverse neighborhoods,
bustling restaurants, and
crowded bars are examples of
how the city’s residents crave
social interaction. Maybe people
like to get out because the
apartments are so small, but
NYC is the ideal playground for
entrepreneurs developing tools
that enable individuals to
collaborate. FourSquare, Hot
Potato, and Meetup all embody
New York’s leadership in this
sector. Moving Forward: New
York’s Key Areas for
Improvement & Potential
Solutions
Mentorship & Employee
Development
To support younger and less
experienced entrepreneurs,
programs like Silicon Valley’s
Y-Combinator and TechStars
need to take hold in New York.
I would like to see the Mayor’s
office fund these initiatives, but
VC firms should consider
financing them too. These
shirt with fringe and chain
details. In this look: Myne shirt,
Bellarana pants, Camilla
Skovgaard shoes, bag from
Manhattan Vintage Show, and Chloe sunglasses.
efforts will attract more
entrepreneurs to NYC (and keep
the ones we have) while
providing tools vital startup
success.
Also, the gap between new and
seasoned entrepreneurs seems
unfathomably wide in NYC.
We need to close this. The
Columbia Venture Community
has already started formal
mentorship programs, but
opportunities for informal
meetings and hands-on learning
need to be more commonplace.
Perhaps the Ace Hotel or Tom
& Jerry’s can play the role of
Buck’s of Woodside in Silicon
Valley to facilitate this.
Need to Swing for the Fences
The most common remark
shared by all three groups of
people I interviewed was that
New York needs, in the words
of Joe Einhorn (CEO of
Thingd), an “ecosystem for a
few runaway successes.” As
California has seen with the
“PayPal Mafia,” and more
recently with Google and
Facebook, big successes lead to
the next generation of new
startups when employees leave
and start new companies. These
departing employees can tap an
established network to avoid
“reinventing the wheel” and also
offer an opportunity for creative
talent to remain in the economy
and not get bored or retire to a
desert island.
DoubleClick was a homerun,
but it would be phenomenal for
New York City to see other
thriving businesses such as
FourSquare, RecycleBank, Etsy,
Gilt Groupe, and SecondMarket
go public or be acquired for
multiple hundreds of millions of
dollars. These exits are the
essential next step in furthering
the community.
Join the conversation about this
story »
See Also:
• The 20 Hot New York City
Startups You Need To Watch
• Great News, Startups: New
York Is Finally Taking Its
Coffee Seriously
• The SAI 50+: World's Most
Valuable Internet Startups
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Go To Barnes
& Noble, Get
A Free E-book
Nicholas Deleon
(TechCrunch)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 7:25:11 AM
Do you have a nook or the less
elegantly named iRex
DR800SG? If so, get thee to a
Barnes & Noble store to
participate in the new Fun and
Free e-books promotion. It's a
pretty simple concept: you waltz
into a Barnes & Noble store, get
an access code, then download a
free e-book. Done and done.
The promotion runs for the next
five weeks, and is also
compatible with the B&N e-
reader software that runs on
your laptop, BlackBerry, or
iPhone (or whatever).
Follow ELLE on Twitter.
Become our Facebook fan!
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Windows Live Hotmail: Completely Re-Invented (Read: It

Actually Looks Good Now)
Dan Nosowitz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:21:22 AM

Hotmail seems like one of those

relics of the early Internet, like
AOL, that I'm always surprised
to find out still exists. That's my
fault in Hotmail's case, really,
because despite its current
lousiness (compared to Gmail,
say), it's still the biggest email
client in the world. But Gmail's
better interface, features, and
ease of use have led to a quickly
growing userbase, and
Microsoft had to act. The new
Hotmail is the result, and it
looks surprisingly excellent.
Let's get to the big features.
The interface. The new Hotmail
looks good, taking a page out of
the Zune and Windows Phone 7
design book. That means
pastels, big text, horizontal sub-
menus, and simplicity. It also
means Hotmail does a boatload Gmail's, though, with features and files certain types of email. is an obvious integration, pretty within the Web client.
of things you will be surprised called Sweep and Hotmail All daily newsletters will go in much like Gmail works with Powerful inbox. Microsoft is
to learn it couldn't do before, Highlights. Sweep lets you one folder; all shipping notices Google Docs. Hopefully Office using their muscle-bound tools,
like threaded messages, a check a checkbox to (from UPS, FedEx, whatever) 2010 brings better file Silverlight and SkyDrive, to
suggestion search box, and some automatically shuffle a go in another; all updates from compatibility or something to provide a flashier and more
decent spam protection. particular type of email (by social networks ( Facebook make up for its comparative lack capable inbox experience. If
Basically, it's pretty, and it sender, say, or subject) into a friend requests) go in another. I of features (like simultaneous somebody sends you photos,
behaves like a modern email particular folder. Tired of love that feature--I'm sure Gmail editing). you won't have to dick around
Web client should behave-- getting Gilt Groupe's daily has an extension or something The Social. Microsoft is adding with saving files or opening
meaning, really, that it looks a deals? Sweep them into a Gilt that can do it, but it's not built-in a feed of Facebook, Twitter, them in a new tab, like in Gmail
lot like a Microsoft version of Groupe folder and check them a nearly as nicely as it looks in MySpace, LinkedIn, and every --there's a built-in, flashy-as-hell
Gmail. couple times a week. Hotmail. other network you can thing of, slideshow photo browser, right
Folders. Microsoft's version of Hotmail Highlights is even Office. We've covered Office directly into Hotmail. You can
folders goes a lot further than cooler. It automatically creates 2010's Web client before. This send and reply to messages from WINDOWS page 14
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Amazon Posts Dozens of New Job Listings Implying a New

Kindle Is on the Way
Dan Nosowitz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:25:18 AM

Amazon has been posting

dozens of job listings on its site
over the past few weeks, most
notably for positions that have
nothing to do with the
company's core retail business.
"Hardware platform engineer"?
"Advanced materials
specialist"? "Product design
manager"? These are not online
retail positions: These are for
the next-gen Kindle.
Frustratingly, they're all very Lab126 is the division of be tested." An ad went up honestly, that's not the most that something in the Amazon
vague. Just once, I'd like Amazon responsible for the yesterday seeking a "Product important piece of the puzzle labs is nearing completion. You
Amazon to put out a job listing Kindle, so we can safely assume design engineer," and the here. What we really want to can check out our wish-list of
for, I don't know, "LCD all of these listings are in some posting itself implies the work know has less to do with what we'd like the Kindle 3 to
multitouch display engineer," way Kindle-related. There are will be for accessories rather hardware than software--the be over here.
with job requirements including, several signs here that Amazon than a primary device. interface and underlying OS will Dan Nosowitz, the author of
"2+ years experience with 10- is in a fairly late stage of In terms of clues as to what decide what kind of device the this post, can be followed on
inch, Samsung-made OLED development with a new Kindle- features might be coming, we're next Kindle is. Twitter, corresponded with via
displays." That kind of thing -a "Software quality assurance mostly in the dark. There are So we can't really tell much email, and stalked in San
would really make my job engineer" and "Software several positions open for those from these ads, but the fact that Francisco (no link for that one--
easier. But Amazon is damnably development test engineer" both tinkering with wireless, but it's there are hardly any ads posted you'll have to do the legwork
clever, and steadfastly refuses to suggest that, as the New York unclear if that's Wi-Fi or 3G (the for designers of either hardware yourself).
do my job for me, so let's do Times says, "a product needs to Kindle line already has 3G), and or software definitely implies
some analysis.

10 Drinks Your Kids Should Not Be Drinking

(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:00:00 AM
Many kids have a drinking
problem that could be harming
their health: sodas, energy
drinks, lattes and even chocolate
milk. From innocuous-seeming
bottles of flavored water to
sports drinks that seem to
populate every Little League
dugout, we uncover the truth
about what your kids (and ours)
are drinking. The truth is that
the silent calories and surprising
ingredients in these and other
beverages are often the
equivalent of liquid dessert -- or
worse. In fact, most Americans
get 450 calories a day and an
extra 23 pounds (10 kilograms)
a year from what they drink, a
University of North Carolina
study reported.
So, when it comes to what your
kids are drinking, what are the
10 worst offenders? Some of the
answers may surprise you.
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Study Links ADHD in Children to Pesticide Exposure
Ariel Schwartz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:35:52 AM
No, the increase in ADHD over
the past decade or so isn't just
your imagination. It might even
be linked to the food we eat
every day. A recent study in the
journal Pediatrics claims that
children with high levels of
exposure to a group of
pesticides called
organophosphates are nearly
twice as likely to end up with
ADHD as kids with minimal
levels of the pesticides in their
urine.
Reuters explains that
researchers analyzed the urine
of 1,139 children between the
The New American Consumer Is Terrified Of Debt Even As
The Economy Grows
Vincent Fernando, CFA
(Business Insider)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:11:11 AM
Carpe Diem highlights how
credit card delinquencies are
falling nicely, down four months
in a row.
"With fewer consumers late on
their bills, the outlook for credit
losses over the summer may be
improving," says Reuters.
Moreover, credit card debt fell
to a 45-month low, as shown by
ages of 8 and 15. The kids
represented the average
incidence of ADHD in the
general population--1 in 10 met
the criteria for the disorder. The
results: For children with above-
average levels of dimethyl
triophosphate, a common
breakdown product of
organophosphates, the chance of
having ADHD nearly doubled.
And a 10-fold increase in one
class of organophosphates
increased the odds by over a
half. So how do kids end up
with organophosphates in their
urine? A 2007 article from
Beyond Pesticides reports on the
insecticide chlorpyrifos, an
organophosphates manufactured
by Dow AgroSciences:
Carpe Diem's graphic the right.
Overall, as we've highlighted
before, U.S. households reduced
their total debt (inclusive of
everything, mortgages, credit
cards, etc) by$239 billion in
2009. Yes much of this is due to
people defaulting on their
obligations, but much needed
financial adjustments are being
made in the U.S., even if
painfully.
Moreover, given the latest
credit card data shown above,
Although chlorpyrifos was
outlawed from residential use in
2001, it is still applied
intensively on corn, wheat, and
soy through a product called
Lorsban. In Florida, 41% of the
we're confident that the overall
deleveraging trend of 2009 is
continuing in 2010 even though
the larger, total household debt
corn in 2004 had been treated
with chlorpyrifos, according to a
report by the National
Agriculture Statistical Service.
A study led by an Emory
University researcher found that
number isn't out yet from the
Federal Reserve.
Despite an economic recovery
post-crisis, hard times are still
Business/ 11
chlorpyrifos can enter children’s
bodies through dietary exposure.
The foods that are treated with
chlorpyrifos—corn, wheat, and
soy—are used in a variety of
processed foods.
But exposure to these pesticides
isn't inevitable. In the Emory
University study,
organophosphate levels dropped
to nearly undetectable levels
when children were put on an
organic diet. Kids living near
farms that use the pesticides,
however, are out of luck. All the
more reason to ramp up organic
farming.
driving Americans to reduce
their financial leverage. The
new American consumer will
likely be more conservative than
we've been used to over the last
decade, even as the economy
gets better. Which is a good
thing in the long-term given
how extreme things got.
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Martin Armstrong: The "Flash Crash" Delta CEO Sells Stock:
Was A WATERFALL Event Like The No Signs of Turbulence
One That Preceded The Fall Of Rome Ahead
Joe Weisenthal (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:07:00 AM
The famous market philosopher
Martin Armstrong, who is
currently in prison in Ft. Dix
New Jersey, has turned his
attention to the "Flash Crash" of
May 6, which he sees as a
profound event.
He describes the event as a
waterfall -- the opposite of a
blowoff bubble top -- that
presages the start of a profound
shift in the world economy.
He calls the "fat finger" or
glitch theories nonsense, saying
it's all about Greece, and the
global debt crisis. This is what a
market "waterfall" looks like.
Image: MartinArmstrong.com
Source: Martinarmstrong.org
The pundits got it all wrong,
thinking that this is somehow an
unusual fat finger error.
Image: MartinArmstrong.com
Source: Martinarmstrong.org
Waterfalls have been with us
through the ages. The collapse
of Roman Silver occurred
before the collapse fo the
Roman empire
Image: MartinArmstrong.com
Source: Martinarmstrong.org
This is a distinctly different
pattern than other major peaks
(such as the blowoff peak in
Gold or the Nikkei)
Image: MartinArmstrong.com
Source: Martinarmstrong.org
The WATERFALL is far more
devastating
Image: MartinArmstrong.com
Source: Martinarmstrong.org
The cause of the crisis: Greece.
Image: MartinArmstrong.com
Source: Martinarmstrong.org
And DEBT!
Image: MartinArmstrong.com
Source: Martinarmstrong.org
This is not about the world
Wade Hansen
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: Delta Air Lines
(DAL) Delta Air Lines ( DAL)
CEO Richard Anderson recently
made a cool $1.3 million by
selling 100,000 shares of his
company's stock at an average
price of $13.47 per share.
Obviously, this was a nice
payday for Anderson, but
should this stock sale be a red
flag for Delta investors?
Analysts and traders love to
watch insider stock transactions
because they believe it will give
coming to an end, as other them insight into the health of
doomsayers say. the company. If insiders are
Image: MartinArmstrong.com buying stock in their own
Source: Martinarmstrong.org company, it is viewed as a
And after capital rushes to bullish sign for the company. If
America, it will rush out, insiders are selling stock in their
leaving us in crisis. own company, it is often viewed
Image: MartinArmstrong.com a s a b e a r i s h s i g n f o r t h e
Source: Martinarmstrong.org company. After all, who has
Read the whole report At more information about how
MartinArmstrong.org... well the company is doing than
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the CEO or some other member
of senior management, right?
Unfortunately, it's not that cut
and dry.
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Real-Time Feeds Coming to a Web Site Near You, Courtesy of

Google
Dan Nosowitz (Fast change on their side. Once that's We'll hear more at I/O on
Company) done, the next time a visitor to Wednesday (though, let's be
Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:14:51 AM the site reloads the page, they'll honest: Google TV could well
see the new content. overshadow everything else at
Google's Feed API lets Web The new version was revealed the conference).
site owners easily pop different after ReadWriteWeb spotted a Dan Nosowitz, the author of
types of data onto one page, by video Google had accidentally this post, can be followed on
simply adding a few lines of uploaded to YouTube, a few Twitter, corresponded with via
JavaScript code. It's pretty great, days ahead of the new product's email, and stalked in San
really; you can add a Twitter d e b u t a t G o o g l e ' s I / O Francisco (no link for that one--
feed, blog, news updates, or all conference (this Wednesday in you'll have to do the legwork
kinds of other feeds to a Web S a n F r a n c i s c o ) . G o o g l e yourself).
page really easily. It currently confirmed that the video's legit, Instead of waiting for Google to constantly uploaded within
works like the rest of the and that the feature would crawl a feed, then reloading, seconds, sort of like how push
Internet is indexed: Google (or indeed be unveiled at I/O, Google's Feed API will be email works on a smartphone.
whoever) essentially looks to which, while obvious, is nice of upgraded to allow feeds to be It's a really nice feature for
see if the feed in question has them. The video: pushed to any given Web site. smaller Web sites that can't
any updates, then makes that [youtube 9FhVKx6-C6w] That means feeds will be afford to hire skilled designers.

iPhone's In2Pay Case Turns Your iPhone Into a Credit Card

Dan Nosowitz (Fast out your iPhone and swipe it No word on exact release date
Company) over Visa's PayWave consoles. or price yet.
Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:10:58 AM PayWave is fairly common Dan Nosowitz, the author of
already--many grocery and retail this post, can be followed on
U s i n g y o u r i P h o n e a s a stores use it, and I've played Twitter, corresponded with via
membership card or even a with it in my hometown at the email, and stalked in San
plane ticket is nothing new, but Wawa deli chain (I mention Francisco (no link for that one--
soon you will be able to use it as Wawa because my barometer of you'll have to do the legwork
a Visa card too. DeviceFidelity's how useful a new payment yourself).
I n 2 P a y i P h o n e a c c e s s o r y , system is is heavily based on its previously underserved regions, be generating a unique ID
a n n o u n c e d y e s t e r d a y , i s ability to buy a hoagie). and DeviceFidelity insists number for every single
basically a paired case and app Visa says it's expanding they're working hard on security transaction, which should put
that allows you to simply whip PayWave nationwide, to include --according to Gizmodo, they'll minds at ease.

Tea Minus Zero

John B. Judis (The New Liberals have responded to the these guys can possibly be for party” and a “media creation”; manufactured by the usual
Republic - All Feed) Tea Party movement by real. The movement has Paul Krugman has called Tea suspects.”
Submitted at 5/17/2010 11:00:00 PM reaching a comforting variously been described as a Party rallies “AstroTurf (fake
conclusion: that there is no way “front group for the Republican grass roots) events,
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WINDOWS
continued from page 9
in your inbox. Same with videos
--YouTube and Hulu will both
embed naturally instead of
showing up as external links.
Microsoft is also using their
cloud storage service, SkyDrive,
to offer up to 25GB of free
storage, which means you can
send files of pretty much
unlimited size. Note: The
complete series of Planet Earth,
in high-def Blu-ray rips, is just
slightly too large, at 26GB, to
email to all your friends. Why
does Microsoft hate nature?
We'll never know.
There's a lot we don't know
about yet--the new service isn't
due to launch for "a few weeks,"
and the integration with mobile
devices (not just Windows
Target's Q1 Report: What Should We Expect?
Steven Mallas
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 5/17/2010 6:00:00 PM
Filed under: Earnings Reports, quarter numbers. They should
Wal-Mart (WMT), Target Corp. arrive on Wednesday, May 19.
( T G T ) , B e s t B u y ( B B Y ) , Are you going to buy or sell
GameStop Corp (GME)
Target Corporation ( TGT), a Let's take a look at how the
Phone 7, but iPhone and
Android as well) will be vital.
Windows Live Hotmail looks to
continue Microsoft's recent hot
streak--will it pull users away
from Gmail? Maybe, and maybe
not. But it won't be for lack of
trying.
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).
retailer that competes with Best
Buy Co., Inc. ( BBY), Wal-Mart
Stores, Inc. ( WMT), and others,
is getting ready to report first-
ahead of the event?
Nouriel Roubini Feels
European Crisis Isn't
Over
Mark Fightmaster
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:40:00 AM
Filed under: Economic Data,
Financial Crisis New York
University professor Nouriel
Roubini, often dubbed Dr.
Doom, has given his analysis of
the financial issues in Greece
and Europe, and I am not sure
that his comments are welcome.
Roubini told the BBC that the
crisis is "not over" and that the
situation in the eurozone "is a
second stage of a typical
financial crisis."
Roubini noted that the EU's
rescue package has not calmed
the markets and he worries that
the governments are not "strong
enough to implement the
austerity measures required."
Continue reading Nouriel
stock has been performing over
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the last twelve months to get a
cursory feel of the situation.
Right now, as of this writing,
Target is trading at roughly $55.
Such a value is definitely closer
to the 52-week high of $58.52
than to the 52-week low of
$36.36.
Continue reading Target's Q1
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Total Commander 7.5
RC Speeds Up Tabbed
File Browsing [Updates]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 7:00:00 AM
Windows: Total Commander,
our readers' favorite alternative
Windows file manager, has
updated a lot of its geekier and
more powerful features,
including FTP and file
comparison tools. But what fans
of Total Commander will really
notice is how snappy it moves.
More »
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Good News! Housing
Starts at Highest Level
Since 2008
Connie Madon
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 10:10:00 AM
Filed under: Economic Data,
Housing In the battered housing
market, here's some good news.
Housing starts rose to a 672,000
annual rate last month, up 5.8%
from March. A Bloomberg
News survey of 77 economists
had predicted median starts to
be lower, at a 650,000 rate.
The housing market got a
special boost from the $8,000
first time home buyer incentive.
To qualify, buyers had to sign
contracts by March 31 and close
their deals by June 30.
Here are some interesting
figures of several sub
categories:
Continue reading Good News!
Virgin's Branson does battle with carbon
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 7:46:02 AM
Virgin chief Richard Branson
has seen the enemy and it is
carbon.
Branson is touting the Carbon
War Room, a group of
entrepreneurs, public sector
officials, and industry leaders as
a way to "remove gigatons of
Housing Starts at Highest Level
Since 2008
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Branson, speaking at the SAP
Sapphire conference, a
coordinated Orlando-Frankfurt
powwow with customers,
Branson said:
Basically the enemy is carbon.
There was no war room to
coordinate to fight carbon.
When asked where information
technology fits into this war on
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Pfizer to trim 6,000 jobs, shut 8
plants worldwide (AP)
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"The restructuring of our global
plant network is critical to our
efforts to remain competitive so
the complexity of operations,
the amount of time required for
product transfers, and other
NEW YORK – Pfizer Inc. said that we can continue to meet business requirements.
Tuesday it will cut 6,000 jobs as patient needs and expand the The company has also
it trims its manufacturing access and affordability of our recommended reductions in
c a p a c i t y w o r l d w i d e a f t e r medicines," said Pfizer global several other plants, including
acquiring smaller rival Wyeth manufacturing president Nat Guayama, Puerto Rico;
last year. Ricciardi, in a statement. Newbridge, Ireland; Andover,
The world's biggest drugmaker Under the plan, Pfizer will cut Mass.; Sanford, N.C.; Havant,
says it will cease operations at operations at pharmaceutical
U.K.; and Illertissen, Germany.
eight plants in Ireland, Puerto plants in Caguas, Puerto Rico;
Also, Pfizer said it is evaluating
Rico, and the U.S. by the end of Loughbeg, Ireland, and Rouses
options for its animal health
2015, and reduce operations at Point, N.Y. The company plans
manufacturing sites and
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recommendations are expected
several years. The plants make a medicines plants in Carolina,
by the end of June.
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Arkansas.
Here are four things to
contemplate as the candidates
make their final pitches
Monday:
1. What will the race to fill
Democratic Rep. John Murtha’s
House seat in Pennsylvania tell
us about November?
When Congressman Murtha
passed away in February after
35 years in the House,
conventional wisdom held that
the Democrats would have a
hard time holding onto this
conservative-leaning district.
But Democrat Mark Critz and
Republican Tim Burns are neck
and neck, as Mr. Critz has
turned his time as a Murtha aide
into a plus – ironic, given all the
anti-Washington feeling out
there. But Critz’s time as
Murtha’s economic
development director allows
him to channel part of why
Murtha was so beloved in his
district: He knew how to bring
federal money home.
Critz also gains from the
competitive Senate primary
race, which will turn out
Democratic voters. (The
Republican primary is not
competitive.)
The stakes could not be higher
for each party. If Mr. Burns
wins – and the Republican wins
in Hawaii’s special House race
on May 22, as expected – the
GOP can credibly claim
momentum toward November
and possible takeover of the
House. If Critz wins, that
assumption goes out the
window, giving Democrats a
boost of confidence and greater
hope of keeping their House
majority.
2. What will undecided voters
do in Pennsylvania’s
Democratic Senate primary?
With 16 percent undecided and
25 percent of the decideds
saying they could change their
mind, according to the latest
Quinnipiac Poll, the race
between Sen. Arlen Specter(41
percent) and Rep. Joe Sestak(42
percent) is too close to call.
Turnout will be critical. For
Senator Specter, the ideal
scenario is high turnout in
Philadelphia and low turnout
statewide. Analysts assume
Specter will do better among
black voters, who are
concentrated in Philadelphia –
Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell’s
home base. ( Governor Rendell
and President Obama are firmly
behind Specter.) Statewide,
though, low turnout means
undecided and marginal voters
are staying home.
Typically, voters who are still
undecided this late in a
campaign go against the
incumbent.
3. Should top Senate
Republican Mitch McConnell
take it personally that his chosen
candidate is likely to lose the
Kentucky GOP Senate primary?
The polls show political novice
– and “ tea party” movement
favorite – Rand Paul is ahead of
state Secretary of State Trey
Grayson, Senator McConnell’s
recruit, by double digits. The
only suspense, at this point, is
which Democrat Mr. Paul will
face in November, Lt. Gov.
Daniel Mongiardo or state
Attorney General Jack Conway.
There’s no doubt the expected
voter rejection of Mr. Grayson
is an embarrassment for
McConnell, but does it portend
problems for McConnell’s
future in Kentucky? Probably
not. By the time he’s up for
reelection again, in 2014, the
2010 elections will be a distant
memory.
But just to be sure, McConnell
compared himself to President
Obama on NBC’s “ Meet the
Press” Sunday. The current
situation “reminds me of when
the president went into
Massachusetts, a state he carried
by 26 points, and tried to elect
the candidate running against
Scott Brown,” McConnell said.
“I don’t think anybody seriously
thinks the president won’t carry
Massachusetts next time.”
The situations aren’t exactly
parallel, of course. But if
nothing else, this cycle may end
up proving that big-name
endorsements are next to
meaningless.
4. If Sen. Blanche Lincoln(D)
of Arkansas survives her
primary battle, does she go into
the general election battle-tested
or battle-weary?
Probably the latter, given that
she may not get the requisite
majority of votes on Tuesday in
her primary with Lt. Gov. Bill
Halter. If she doesn’t, she will
face a runoff on June 8.
Lieutenant Governor Halter,
who is challenging Senator
Lincoln from the left, has helped
cement Lincoln’s image as a
centrist for the general election,
if she gets there. But no
incumbent wants to face a
primary, which siphons money
and energy away from what is
expected to be an uphill battle in
the general.
The front-runner in the eight-
candidate Republican primary is
Rep. John Boozman. The Real
Clear Politics average of recent
polls shows Congressman
Boozman beating Lincoln by 20
points. Related:
Kentucky Senate race looks set
to boost the 'tea party,' Rand
Paul
Why Arlen Specter is in trouble
A primary fight for Sen.
Blanche Lincoln: Good for
Republicans?
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(Reuters: Top News) Taylor State Park found some "We'll see how much that flow A Senate Commerce Executive Tony Hayward said
Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:50:24 AM twenty tar balls on the shore on increases today, and are looking Committee hearing Tuesday on in Florida on Monday, referring
Monday. The balls ranged from for steady operations with the oil spill is also due to to the containment efforts.
H O U S T O N / B U R A S , three to eight inches in diameter. incremental increases over question BP America President Investors have knocked $30
Louisiana(Reuters) - A Tests were under way to time," he said. Lamar McKay and Steven billion off BP's value over the
d i s c o v e r y o f t a r b a l l s o n determine whether the tar blobs Officials say the spill has so far Newman, president of spill, which followed the April
Florida's Key West fanned fears on Key West, the southernmost had only a small pollution Transocean, which owned the 20 rig explosion that killed 11
on Tuesday that a massive Gulf tip of the popular Straits of impact on the shoreline and rig that exploded and was workers and the fallout it faces
o f M e x i c o o i l s p i l l w a s Florida island chain, came from wildlife along the Gulf Coast, working on behalf of BP. is ramping up.
s p r e a d i n g t h r o u g h o c e a n the BP-owned blown out Gulf but oil debris and tar balls had "Whether it's a nuclear The disaster has hurt BP's
currents, as energy giant BP Plc well. If confirmed, it would be been reported earlier in meltdown at Three Mile Island image, already tarnished in the
worked to capture more of the t h e s o u t h e r n m o s t a n d Louisiana, Alabama and or an oil blowout one mile deep, United States from a 2006 spill
crude leaking from its gushing easternmost impact reported Mississippi. appointing an independent in Alaska from a BP-owned
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well, said it was now capturing Keys and possibly up the East way of life is under threat. independence. it was providing grants to Gulf
an estimated 2,000 barrels per Coast. This has stirred fears of "They're not only taking our The presidential commission coast states to help them
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the 5,000 barrels (210,000 industry, as well as on the only food straight out of our mouths, including rig safety and region's economy.
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Bangkok braced for bloodshed as Red Shirts vow no surrender

(World News from Times several thousand people forward with negotiation when the Bon Kai intersection Mr Thaksin issued a statement
Online) remained in the protest area, the situation is defused, when beneath one of Bangkok’s demanding that the United
Submitted at 5/18/2010 6:59:20 AM which has been sealed off and the protest ends, violence ends elevated expressways, and Nations be allowed to mediate
fortified with towering and attacks on authorities end,” young men continued to play a an end to the crisis – a
Hospitals in Bangkok are barricades of rubber tyres and said Panitan Wattanayagorn, dangerous cat and mouse game possibility that has been rejected
preparing for bloodshed after bamboo poles. spokesman for Mr Abhisit. “We with soldiers along the Rama by the Government. “The
anti-government Red Shirt “If you insist on brutality, we insist they have to be sincere to IV road in front of it, throwing present action of the
protesters ignored an ultimatum will stay here persistently, and make every effort to return the fireworks and petrol bombs and Government dishonour our
to abandon their occupation of we will tell out people, ‘Do not country to normality … This ducking down side alleys when history and will forever weaken
central Bangkok, but there were b e a f r a i d ’ , ” s a i d W e n g sincerity must be reflected by the soldiers fire their rifles. our institutions and democracy,”
faint signs of a last minute Tojirakarn, a senior Red Shirt their action to bring back The Government has frozen said Mr Thaksin, who lives in
compromise between the two leader. “Stay here, do not fight peace.” 106 personal and business bank exile, through his lawyers.
sides. back, and let them shoot us.” Yesterday, doctors announced accounts of leading Red Shirts “The pictures that I have seen
The chief negotiator for the The Rajvithee Hospital, which the death in hospital of Major and of companies associated go beyond any nightmares that
Government told a senior is closest to the protest site, General Khattiya Sawasdiphol, with Thaksin Shinawatra, the could have been envisaged. I
protest leader that the Royal confirmed that it had 40 a militant supporter of the Red former prime minister whose have no choice but to state
Thai Army will stop firing on ambulances on standby and had Shirts, who was suspected by ejection from power in a 2006 resolutely the need for all sides
Red Shirts if they withdraw to made ready 190 beds in case of many Thais of organising a coup was the beginning of the to step back from this terrible
t h e i r m a i n c a m p i n t h e a crackdown by the Thai army, covert militia to fight off protest movement. The Reds are abyss and seek to begin a new,
Ratchaprasong district of central which has killed at least 37 attempts to break up the demanding that Mr Abhisit, genuine and sincere dialogue
Bangkok. “If they call their people and injured close to 300 demonstrations. General whose party was repeatedly between the parties.”
people back to Ratchaprasong more since last Thursday. Khattiya was shot in the head defeated by Mr Thaksin, step The UN’s human rights chief,
there will be no single bullet “The operation [to disperse] will last Thursday during an down and call a general Navi Pillay, called on the two
fired by the soldiers,” said b e e x e c u t e d a s s o o n a s interview with an American election. sides to negotiate an end to the
Korbsak Sabhavasu. “”If he is p o s s i b l e , ” s a i d S a t i t reporter by an unidentified The authorities have been violence. “Ultimately, this
s e r i o u s a b o u t s o l v i n g t h e Wonghnongtaey, a minister sniper. Yesterday, Red Shirts in encouraging women and situation can only be resolved
problem he is capable of doing attached to the office of the the central stronghold in the children to move from the by negotiation,” she said. “I
it. He can simply call back his P r i m e M i n i s t e r , A b h i s i t Ratchaprasong district wept as protest area to the sanctuary of a urge leaders to set aside pride
people.” Vejjajiva. “The authorities will a song was sung to honour him. nearby Buddhist temple, but the and politics for the sake of the
The contact between the two do everything possible … At his funeral a few hours later, suggestion was largely ignored. people of Thailand.”
sides came as leaders of the Red including broadcast radio mourners angrily tore apart “My children are worried about Five Filters featured article:
Shirt demonstration promised messages, police loudspeaker bouquets sent by the Thai armed me, but I am not afraid,” said The Art of Looking Prime
to die rather than give in to the trucks and leaflets.” But both forces. Rojanee Cheepacrarat, a 57-year Ministerial - The 2010 UK
authorities. sides still held out the faint Despite the existence of a old volunteer nurse at one of General Election. Available
An aeroplane dropped leaflets possibility of a compromise, supposed blockade, supplies of the medical and first aid stations tools: PDF Newspaper, Full
urging protesters to leave suggesting that even at the food, water and tires for in the protest area. “I smile at Text RSS, Term Extraction.
immediately and warning that moment of greatest tension a constructing barricades were the soldiers – I call them my
anyone caught inside the area peaceful solution was being still entering Ratchaprasong. A sons. They are innocent, and
faced two years in prison. But discussed behind the scenes. new protest base has been they are scared – it is just their
after the 3pm deadline passed, “The Government is ready to go established to the south-east at officers who tell them to shoot.”
22 World News/ Culture/ Featured/ E-reader News Edition

Greek minister Angela Gerekou quits over

husband’s £4.7m tax bill
(World News from Times take Greece to the verge of revelations of her husband’s tax Government has promised to cut
Online) bankruptcy. status in the liberal daily salaries and pensions, raise
Submitted at 5/18/2010 6:42:14 AM Mr Voskopoulos and Ms newspaper Eleftherotypia, and a consumer taxes, and crack down
Gerekou, 51, had filed joint tax government spokesman claimed on tax evasion and corruption.
As Greece took stock of its declarations for many years, but yesterday that it was a private Protests over the austerity
b u d g e t c a t a s t r o p h e , i t s a government statement on her matter. measures turned to violent
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glamorous deputy tourism r e s i g n a t i o n s a i d t h a t M s However, the Finance Ministry rioting earlier this month, and Delayed, But Likely
minister – once a model for Gerekou claimed to have no has now taken up the case, on May 3 three people died in a Still Coming [Delays]
Playboy– promised that she, like knowledge of her husband’s tax freezing Mr Voskopoulos’s real fire at a bank that had been
everyone else, could live a life affairs. estate assets and investigating firebombed by protesters. Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
of austerity. “Angela Gerekou submitted her with a view to a criminal Ms Gerekou is the second Submitted at 5/18/2010 5:30:00 AM

“The measures are painful for resignation out of sensitivity and prosecution. member of Mr Papandreou’s
e v e r y o n e , ” s a i d A n g e l a to avoid causing any damage to “Measures taken to collect this cabinet to be forced to quit. In The "Hulu Plus" subscription
Gerekou, a protégée of the the Government,” the statement big amount have obviously not December, the deputy interior plan, nearly confirmed to be on
P r i m e M i n i s t e r G e o r g e said. been sufficient,” the ministry minister stepped down amid its way, would give viewers
Papandreou, in March. Last week the Greek said. claims that he had tried to greater access to back episodes
But now she has been forced to Government launched a high- Mr Voskopoulos had a series of secure favours for army and for $10 per month. But that
resign as her husband, one of profile campaign against what hits in the 1960s and 1970s, police officers. won't happen by Monday, May
Greece’s best-known nightclub the Prime Minister called “a most famously the 1969 song On the Troktiko blog, one 24, according to MediaMemo.
s i n g e r s , f a c e s c r i m i n a l culture of tax evasion”. Agony. He lives with Ms contributor wrote: “Shame, As Peter Kafka reports, there are
prosecution over €5.5 million It published the names of 60 Gerekouin Corfu, where he shame, shame. I asked the tax many players and many rights to
(£4.7 million) of unpaid taxes. doctors and dentists who faced frequently gives charity office for a week to pay my dues be worked out, but when it does,
Tolis Voskopoulos, 70, who legal action for under-reporting concerts. and it said no, but they got off one insider claims it will be
has starred in films including their incomes, and said it would Greece receives the first slice of the hook for 17 years. The rest "revolutionary." It might have to
My Brothers, Footloose Tramps use satellite photos to locate its €110 billion rescue package of us are all idiots.” be. Lifehacker readers, certainly
and Marijuana Stop!, was swimming pools that could be a later today, just in time to Five Filters featured article: among the earliest of Hulu
exposed by a daily newspaper sign of undeclared wealth. prevent it defaulting on its The Art of Looking Prime adopters, are fairly divided, but
this week as owing the huge “ T h i s i d e a t h a t y o u ’ r e a debts. Ministerial - The 2010 UK leaning toward free-only for
sum in taxes and fines. successful tough guy if you The country’s budget crisis General Election. Available their favorite streaming service.
It is the latest embarrassment evade taxes and deceive the forced other eurozone countries tools: PDF Newspaper, Full [ MediaMemo] More »
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Rebooting the News #52
(Scripting News) t h e f a n t a s t i c M e s h 1 0 Times and blogging in NYC. A teeny bit of Angry Birds was
Submitted at 5/17/2010 12:03:41 PM conference, so Jeremy Zilar of thrown in for fun. :-)
the NY Times filled in as guest. http://mp3.morningcoffeenotes.c
Jay is traveling to Toronto for We talked about blogging at the om/reboot10May17.mp3
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German girls freed in Yemen raid

(World News from Times dead. to the border. It was decided we Al-Qaeda has regrouped in
Online) “The girls are unharmed and in must do something to save Yemen behind the jihadist
Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:29:00 AM a stable condition. They will be them,” General al-Turki said. preacher Anwar al-Awlaki.
transferred to Germany as soon “We have no information at the With the Government facing an
Two German girls aged 3 and as possible,” General Mansour moment on the rest of the family uprising by Shia Houthi rebels
5, who were kidnapped in al-Turki, a spokesman for the or the other hostages.” based in Saada province, and a
Yemen last year by suspected al Saudi Interior Ministry, said. The Foreign Office said today growing separatist movement in
-Qaeda militants, have been An unnamed British engineer that it remained “very the south, the country has
freed by security forces from w a s a l s o a m o n g t h o s e concerned” for the safety of the provided an ideal location for al- "Start Drawing
Saudi Arabia in a cross-border kidnapped. His whereabouts are British hostage. Sources in Qaeda to reopen the training
raid. still unknown. Yemen confirmed that camps destroyed by coalition Your Ideas"
The two sisters, named only as Two German nurses from the negotiations were ongoing to forces in Afghanistan.
Anna and Lydia, were among a party, Anita Stewjab, 25, and establish the whereabouts of the Sanaa agreed an uneasy truce [Quotables]
party of nine foreigners seized Rita Julie, 24, and a South remaining hostages. with the Houthis in February Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
in June last year during a picnic Korean teacher, Eom Young- In January, the Yemeni this year after a six-year
Submitted at 5/18/2010 6:00:00 AM
in Yemen’s mountainous Saada Son, 34, were found murdered Government said that it had conflict, but initially blamed the
province, known to be a haven soon after the kidnapping took received information that the rebels for the kidnapping. The Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey
for al-Qaeda. place. They had been shot and remaining hostages were still tribe has always denied any recently described how working
Their parents, Johannes and stabbed. alive. Reports in Germany at the involvement. as an emergency dispatcher in
Sabine, along with their brother Saudi troops were tipped off by time claimed a ransom of $2 Five Filters featured article: New York City inspired
Simon, aged 1, were also local tribesmen that the two girls million (£1.4 million) had been The Art of Looking Prime Twitter's model, citing paper
captured. had been separated from the demanded for their release. Ministerial - The 2010 UK sketching as the key behind
The girls are being treated in a other hostages and were being No group has ever claimed General Election. Available turning ideas, even non-visual
Saudi hospital and will be flown held in a village close to responsibility for the tools: PDF Newspaper, Full ideas, into moving products.
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T h e i r p a r e n t s a r e s t i l l kingdom. Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, say it Twitter- Jack Dorsey- Social
u n a c c o u n t e d f o r b u t a “Our security forces received is believed the hostages are network- Online Communities-
spokesman for the family said intelligence that the two little being held by a group affiliated New York City
today that Simon was probably girls were being held very close to al-Qaeda.

MacBook gets a stealthy update

Chris Rawson (The Unofficial Vietnamese leak a few days ago: "wireless productivity" TUAW MacBook gets a
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo according to Apple's estimates. stealthy update originally
Submitted at 5/18/2010 5:30:00 AM processor The MacBook box from the appeared on The Unofficial
2 GB RAM Vietnamese leak showed the old Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue,
Filed under: MacBook I didn't 250 GB 5400 RPM hard drive 7-hour battery graphic, which 18 May 2010 05:30:00 EST.
even see the Apple Store go NVIDIA GeForce 320M led us to believe the battery Please see our terms for use of
down, did you? Well, no matter: i n t e g r a t e d g r a p h i c s c a r d the same 63.5 watt-hour battery might not have been updated. feeds.
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24 World News/ Technology/ E-reader News Edition

China jails home appliance magnate Open source video

Huang Guangyu for 14 years for blimp controlled by an
bribery iPad
(World News from Times benefits” for Gome Electronics street stall selling radios and Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Speaking of augmented reality,
Online) and other businesses controlled watches in Beijing in the 1980s, Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Yelp's Ben Newhouse suggested
Submitted at 5/18/2010 7:06:00 AM by Huang, the agency said. when the Communist Party Submitted at 5/18/2010 10:00:00 AM a while back that the relatively
Huang was also convicted of allowed private entrepreneurs to inexpensive iPad could be used
The founder of China’s largest insider trading in the shares of do business. Filed under: iPad for all sorts of tasks that
home appliance chain was Centergate Technologies, a He became known as the “Price So far, we've seen a car, a previously required much more
sentenced today to 14 years in Beijing-based IT group in which Butcher” for his cut-price helicopter, and even a Dalek specialized computers, and
prison for bribery and other he was the majority shareholder. merchandise. However, his high controlled by an Apple device, something like this proves that
crimes. He allegedly earned more than profile left him vulnerable in a so here's another form of the iPad makes an excellent and
Huang Guangyu, 41, the former 300 million yuan in illegal system that continues to favour transportation: a blimp, this time cheap touchscreen and
head of Gome Electronics, was profits from the trading. state-owned firms and the status controlled by an iPad. Bonus accelerometer-based interface
also convicted of insider dealing The court said that, although of entrepreneurs remains points for making the video for any kind of remote control. I
and other unspecified “illegal H u a n g ’ s c r i m e s w e r e uncertain. interesting and fun, too -- we get don't know if we'll be flying real
operations” at Beijing No 2 “extremely serious”, it had Many newly rich property a well-edited and shot video blimps with iPads in the future,
Intermediate People’s Court. shown “leniency” because he developers and private montage of how the iPad got but any sort of remote interface
Famed for his rags-to-riches had admitted his guilt and co- businessmen have been snared hooked up via code to a blimp, could definitely make use of a
t a l e , H u a n g h a s b e e n i n operated with investigators, in corruption cases after making equipped with a propeller, a quick app that hooks up our
detention since November 2008, Xinhua reported. their fortune in a country in camera, and even some lights. actions to mechanics on the
the year in which he topped the Security was so tight at which bribing officials is often The blimp is actually a other end.
Hurun Rich List of China’s Huang’s trial last month that necessary to get ahead. "Blimpduino," a low-cost open [via MacStories]
wealthiest for the third time with only family members and one Huang’s case has netted several source blimp design connected TUAW Open source video
a fortune estimated at $6.3 journalist from Xinhua were senior officials, including the to an arduino controller. This blimp controlled by an iPad
billion (£4 billion). allowed in the courtroom. Pens, mayor of the southern boom blimp's controller is connected originally appeared on The
He became the country’s richest paper, cameras and mobile town of Shenzhen, on the border to an iPad's accelerometer, so Unofficial Apple Weblog
man in 2004. It took prosecutors phones were confiscated from with Hong Kong, as well as a tilting the iPad determines the (TUAW) on Tue, 18 May 2010
until February this year to bring those entering the court. deputy minister of police. blimp's movement. 10:00:00 EST. Please see our
charges against him. Huang was Prosecutors had collected so Five Filters featured article: Plus, it looks like they even terms for use of feeds.
c o n v i c t e d o f b r i b i n g f i v e much evidence in the case that a The Art of Looking Prime threw in some basic augmented Read| Permalink| Email this|
government officials with 4.56 series of vans were required to Ministerial - The 2010 UK reality through the camera, too, Comments
m i l l i o n y u a n i n c a s h a n d transport the paperwork. General Election. Available just for the heck of it. Very cool.
properties from 2006 to 2008, The son of poor devout tools: PDF Newspaper, Full
according to the Xinhua news Christian peasant farmers from Text RSS, Term Extraction.
agency. southern China, Huang built his
The bribes were offered in nationwide chain of several
e x c h a n g e f o r “ i m p r o p e r hundred stores from a single
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Microsoft Brings Enhanced Security Features, Large

Attachments & an Uncluttered Inbox to Next Version of
Hotmail
Frederic Lardinois make up somewhere between 15 Hotmail email and data from Hotmail, Microsoft hopes to be
(ReadWriteWeb) to 30% of all mail in Hotmail your Windows Live Calendar able to close this gap. Email, of
Submitted at 5/18/2010 12:00:00 AM users' inboxes. In addition, directly to the iPhone, for course, tends to be a very sticky
email users now send out example - as well as a unified service and users aren't likely to
Microsoft just announced the b i l l i o n s o f p h o t o s a n d contact list for all Windows abandon Yahoo for Hotmail
next version of Hotmail, which documents. Microsoft alone filters." These filters will allow Live services and third-party anytime soon. Thanks to today's
will bring a large number of stores over 15 billion office users to just see messages from services like Facebook and updates, however, chances are
new features to the world's most documents on Hotmail and its services like Facebook and MySpace. Improved Security that many new users will choose
popular email service. Hotmail's users send out close to 1.5 shipping updates from the On the security front, Microsoft Hotmail over Yahoo.
360 million users will soon get billion photos every month. USPS. is introducing full-session SSL In terms of functionality,
enhanced security features, a Bigger Attachments - Other new features that will encryption for all accounts and a however, the real competition
Gmail-like conversation view, Integration with Office Web help to keep Hotmail users' feature that will identify and for Hotmail isn't Yahoo but
automatic filters for status Apps inboxes organized include a new highlight trusted senders (like Google. Google, after all, also
updates from social networks, Today's update tackles these Gmail-like conversations view known banks and online stores) offers integration with its online
i n t e g r a t i o n w i t h t h e n e w changes head-on. Hotmail users (which will be an opt-in feature in order to prevent phishing office suite and photo service.
Microsoft Office Web Apps and will now, for example, be able and turned off by default), as scams. Microsoft has also Unlike Google, however,
numerous other new features to send up to 10 GB of photos well as the ability to quickly see managed to bring down the Microsoft doesn't plan to offer a
that are meant to make using and documents in a single all the emails from a given average number of spam emails small business version of
Hotmail safer and reduce the message. Instead of sending sender while reading an email in its users' inboxes to only 4% Hotmail and prefers to steer
amount of clutter in Hotmail these messages as attachments, from this sender. Hotmail users (down from 35% in 2006). people towards Microsoft
users' inboxes. however, Hotmail will simply will also be able to just see all Another nifty new security Exchange and Outlook instead.
Sponsor route these files to the sender's the new emails that contain feature is the introduction of a Microsoft's services - and
Email has Changed Windows Live SkyDrive photos. single-use code that allows users especially the Office Web Apps
As Walter Harp, Microsoft's account (Microsoft's free online Microsoft has also partnered to log in from a public computer - are competitive with Google's
director of product management storage service), where the with a number of third-party at an airport or coffee shop services (and, in many respects,
with Windows Live, told us recipients can access them s e r v i c e s , i n c l u d i n g H u l u , without having to fear that their better). Thanks to the integration
earlier today, this redesign of through a link. Thanks to the YouTube, JustinTV, the USPS, passwords could be stolen. with SkyDrive and Office Web
Hotmail evolved as Microsoft n e w O f f i c e W e b A p p s , SmugMug and Flickr to provide Users will receive these codes Apps, Hotmail now presents a
started to think about how email recipients will also be able to additional functionality through by SMS or through an alternate very viable alternative to Gmail
has changed over the last few see and edit Office documents a feature called "active views." email account. Microsoft Wants and it will be interesting to see if
years. According to Harp, the right in the browser. Less T h i s a l l o w s M i c r o s o f t t o to be #1 in the U.S. Microsoft will be able to
last major revolution in email Clutter in Your Mailbox i n t e g r a t e s o m e o f t h e As Walter Harp pointed out capitalize on this.
was the arrival of Gmail in In order to make it easier for functionality of these sites when we talked to him today, Discuss
2004. Since then, however, the users to wade through lots of directly into the emails. Hotmail is the #1 email service
way people use email has social network status updates Other new features include in the world, but in the U.S., it is
c h a n g e d . S o c i a l n e t w o r k and unclutter their Hotmail Exchange ActiveSync push currently only the second-most
u p d a t e s f r o m s i t e s l i k e inbox, Microsoft is introducing email for Hotmail - which used service after Yahoo Mail.
Facebook and LinkedIn now a new feature called "1-click means that you can now push With this new version of
26 Technology/
Russian module joins space station via 'hole in one'
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:52:11 AM
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER,
Houston--Using robotic
precision in place of brute force,
astronaut Garrett Reisman
attached a nine-ton Russian
module loaded with U.S.
supplies and equipment to the
International Space Station early
Tuesday after an orbital "hole in
one."
Appropriately, robot arm
operator Reisman waited until
orbital sunrise to dock the
"Rassvet"--Dawn--compartment
to the Earth-facing port of the
Russian Zarya module as the
shuttle Atlantis and the space
station sailed 220 miles above
Argentina.
The Russian Rassvet module,
top, is poised for capture by the
docking system of the space
station's Zarya module.(Credit:
NASA TV)
"Capture," astronaut Piers
Sellers called at 7:20 a.m. CDT.
"Contact. And Houston, ISS
robo. It looked like a pretty
good docking. We never got
'contact 1,' straight down the
middle and got capture and
contact."
"Houston copies," astronaut
Steve Swanson replied from
mission control.
"And Houston, ISS robo. Just to
follow up on [readings from the
Russian] laptop," Sellers called.
"We said before 'contact 1'
never came on and it's still not
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and pilot Dominic Antonelli,
operating Atlantis' robot arm,
pulled the mini-research module
from the shuttle Atlantis'
payload bay around 4:50 a.m.
Reisman then locked on and
took over, maneuvering the
squat module into position for
attachment to the Zarya module.
The Rassvet module in position
for docking. The multiwindow
cupola, visible at left, gave robot
arm operator Garrett Reisman a
bird's-eye view of the
docking.(Credit: NASA TV)
Russian modules normally dock
autonomously, using more force
than NASA typically employs.
Using momentum to overcome
alignment errors, a probe on the
front end of a Russian module
can hit anywhere in the
receiving cone and still end up
in the correct central position for
capture.
The station's robot arm could
not deliver the normal docking
force, but more than made up
for that shortcoming by
showing. And also we got a With the attachment of Rassvet, this point and we're very happy precision alignment ahead of the
fault, a yellow block, 'no auto also known as the mini-research that we now have MRM-1 final capture sequence. The
docking signal' statement under m o d u l e M R M - 1 , t h e docked to the station." approach was so precisely
the ADS faults." International Space Station now Reisman and Sellers, speaking aligned that the Russian laptop
" A n d s t a t i o n , t h a t e r r o r ' s masses 816,349 pounds and is Russian, both then thanked the Sellers was using to monitor the
expected," Swanson replied. 93 percent complete by mass Russian mission control team. docking sequence did not even
"Everything looks good at this and 98 percent complete by "Houston, Moscow, thank you register several intermediate
time to us...The reason you habitable volume, with more for delivering a new module," steps.
didn't get 'contact 1' is because than 29,500 cubic feet of station commander Oleg Kotov With Rassvet in place, the
Garrett did too good of a job pressurized volume. radioed, speaking English. "We Atlantis astronauts planned to
flying. He went right down the Reisman thanked station flight really enjoy work with excellent spend the rest of the day gearing
middle and got a hole in one." director Emily Nelson and the crew and they did excellent job. up for a spacewalk Wednesday
"He knows that and he's loving rest of the U.S.-Russian team, Thank you very much."
it," Sellers replied. saying "great job getting us to Shuttle commander Ken Ham RUSSIAN page 28
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Building Silicon Cape: How Much of a Difference Can One

Guy Make?
Sarah Lacy (TechCrunch) Vinny Lingham while I was in conference on African Web
Submitted at 5/18/2010 7:30:59 AM Cape Town last week and came entrepreneurship called Net
away impressed for a few Prophet where more than 800
S o m e p e o p l e , a h e m , a r e reasons. For one thing, this guy people crowded in a hall to
predicting a big resurgence in knows more about acquiring share ideas and absorb advice
business software. Given how traffic than a lot of people in from those like Lingham. Still,
outdated most tools are, that’s Silicon Valley have forgotten. how much of a difference can
probably a safe bet – whether it He spent the bulk of his career one guy make? In my
happens now or in the next few building search campaigns for experience traveling to more
years. While software as a huge multinational companies than a dozen markets in the last
service and open source have and made a pretty sweet living year, one guy (or girl) can make
plugged many holes, most large at it. (Check out his BMW more of a difference than most
companies still run themselves c o n v e r t i b l e i n t h e v i d e o well-meaning government
on one of two companies: below–those cost about double institutions. Good entrepreneurs
Oracle or SAP. That can’t last in Cape Town.) need role models, mentorship
forever. That business was lucrative, but and angels more than any other
But the amazing thing is, when Lingham soon saw what many raw materials.
it comes to small business entrepreneurs in emerging Here’s a short video I shot with
software, the market is still markets are realizing: Services Lingham on the way to the
pretty wide open, with most companies don’t scale the way Lingham is pretty relentless pay that forward to the home
airport my last day in town.
b u s i n e s s e s s t i l l r u n n i n g product companies do. And when it comes to bringing country. I’ve also theorized that
(Yeah it gets dark, get over it.
themselves on pen-and-paper or Lingham wants to build a big people to his site and the paucity of huge, Brazilian-
I’m on the road.) We talk about
Excel spreadsheets. There is a company. A big company converting them. born startup successes in the
the Silicon Cape initiative, why
reason that Intuit has managed helping small businesses build Here’s the other thing notable Valley is a big reason that
you should care about small
to keep a stranglehold on small Web sites. about Lingham: He really wants Valley VCs largely ignore
business software and how his
business software—because it is You may be thinking, doesn’t Cape Town to be a tech hub. He Brazil and South American
wife feels about him spending
hard to build and even harder to everyone who wants a Web site moved to Silicon Valley to get generally. Simply put: No one is
all his money on startups.
market to such a huge, h a v e o n e b y n o w ? greater access to deals, talent hounding them to go. The famed
CrunchBase Information Yola
fragmented market with so Astonishingly, no. Yola has a and money, but he returns to Israeli Web investor Yossi
Information provided by
many different needs. Especially few competitors—most notably Cape Town several times a year Vardi calls it “profitable
CrunchBase
when the revenues per customer Y Combinator graduate Weebly and invests in and mentors patriotism.”
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are necessarily puny. companies there. I’ve written To Lingham, success is Yola
and Israel’s hometown darling Information provided by
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face it, it’s not a sexy one. And iPad everywhere–is quick to India has gotten so much US business. But equally success is
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that’s one reason a company point out Wix is Flash-based, venture capital is because of the Cape Town giving rise to lots
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like Yola doesn’t get more while Yola bet on HTML5.) But Indians who made it in the of other successes. I don’t mean
by CrunchBase
press. ( Here’s our previous ultimately, this is a business that Valley and were to suggest he’s alone in this
coverage.) determined—either out of effort. I was in Cape Town last
will be won on distribution not
I hung out with Yola’s founder n e c e s s a r i l y p r o d u c t , a n d nationalism or opportunity—to week to speak at an excellent
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Kindle for Android is Coming
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 10:11:20 AM
Good news, Android owners!
One of the iPhone and iPad's
best mobile applications, the
Amazon Kindle app, is coming
soon to phones running the
Google Android mobile
operating system. Like all
Kindle products, the Android
app will include Amazon's
Whispersync technology, which
synchronizes reading progress,
notes and bookmarks across
devices including Kindle brand
e-readers, desktop software and
mobile applications.
Sponsor
Techcrunch, who reported the
news late last night when the
press release hit the wires, notes
that the new Android app will
include a native Kindle
bookstore that operates within
the mobile application itself(at
least that's what the headline
appears to imply: "You Can Buy
Books in It.") This would be a
bit different than how the
iPhone and iPad Kindle apps
work - they redirect you to the
device's web browser so you can
purchase Kindle books from
Amazon's mobile-optimized
website.
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Many have suspected that the
reason Amazon's Apple-
compatible applications do this
redirection is so they don't
compete with Apple's own
venture into mobile e-books:
Apple iBooks. Originally
released alongside the new iPad,
the Apple iBooks mobile
application is now available for
iPhones and iPod Touch
devices, too. Native Bookstore?
A native bookstore within the
Android app would be ideal, and
definitely a selling point for not
just the app itself, but for
Android phones in general as
yet another example of how
Apple's application restrictions
lead to a less than ideal
experience for its smartphone
owners. However, it's unclear if
that's the case from the way both
the Kindle for Android website
text and the press release text is
worded (i.e. " the Kindle Store
optimized for your Android
phone").
Also, the screenshot included
with the press release shows the
Android Kindle Store which
looks identical to the mobile
website the iPhone sends you to
when you want to find a new
book.
Of course, that's not to say that
the Android app doesn't wrap
the mobile site into the
application itself as opposed to
kicking you out of the app and
redirecting you to the mobile
web browser. The Kindle
Blackberry application keeps
you in-app, so it's likely that the
Android app will as well. But to
be sure, we've contacted
Amazon for clarification.
In any event, what we do know
about the coming Kindle for
Android app is that it will be out
"later this summer" and will
provide access to 540,000
books, plus tens of thousands of
free classics. As mentioned
above, the app supports
Whispersync and it also will
offer five different font sizes,
the ability to read the beginning
of a book prior to purchase,
multiple ways to flip through
pages and support for both
portrait and landscape reading
modes.
Instead Android phone owners
can sign up here to be notified
when the Kindle for Android
application becomes available.
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to begin replacing six aging
batteries in the station's oldest
set of solar arrays.
Reisman also planned to use the
station arm to pull the shuttle's
heat shield inspection boom
from the orbiter's payload bay,
handing it off to Atlantis' arm.
Interference with a cable in the
pan-and-tilt mechanism of the
primary sensor package on the
end of the boom forced the
astronauts to use a backup
procedure to inspect the shuttle's
nose cap and wing leading-edge
panels the day after launch.
Additional inspections may be
necessary later.
But engineers have developed a
repair plan to move the
offending cable and tie it out of
the way. Repair plans were
uplinked to the crew overnight
for possible use during the
crew's second spacewalk
Wednesday.
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Google Buys Real-Time Video LinkedIn Adds Netflix

Communications Company Marketing Chief Leslie
Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
time web. Whether it's adding
Twitter and Facebook updates to
its search results or making
Kilgore To Board
Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:58:13 AM
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Google Reader and the Google
Google announced early this index itself real-time with Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:41:09 AM

morning that it would acquire could also create a direct PuSH, Google has consistently
Global IP Solutions Holding. competitor with Skype by moved away from the old way Professional social network
The company provides the adding video capabilities to of doing things, wherein updates LinkedIn is adding another
VOIP engine behind Yahoo, Google Voice (such as are occur on a timed schedule. member to its board, Netflix
A O L , W e b E x a n d L o t u s already possible with GChat, but Chief Marketing Officer Leslie
Yesterday, Marshall
conferencing and had said last with mobile capabilities). At the Kirkpatrick broke the story on a Kilgore. LinkedIn, which has 65
month that it would be the first same time, Google could offer new version of Google's Feed million members, recently
to bring video chat to Android the technology to developers via API, which will push updates named former Ask.com CEO
phones. API in an attempt to become a directly to a user's browser. He Skip Battle to its board, joining
Google has offered $68.2 defacto place to look when argued in that article that it was founder and chairman Reid
million for the company, which deciding to add real-time a sign of the times: "No more Hoffman, current CEO Jeff
it has said it will use for real- c o m m u n i c a t i o n s t o W e b refreshing pages to see when Weiner, Greylock’s David Sze,
t i m e v i d e o a n d a u d i o applications. and Sequoia’s Marc Kvamme.
new content is available - the
communications. Larry Dignan at ZDNet also real-time web comes to you live, Kilgore joined Netflix in 2000
Sponsor brings up an interesting point - nearly instantly as soon as it's and has helped the company
"The Web is evolving quickly as what will become of GIPS' published." grow its subscriber base from
a development platform, and multitude of other clients, all of fewer than 100,000 to more than CEO Jeff Weiner isn’t ruling out
An API from Google
real-time video and audio which happen to be Google incorporating this real-time 13 million subscribers. Prior to any possibilities, but the idea
communication over the Internet competitors? According to the video communication, pushing joining Netflix, Kilgore was has certainly been bandied about
are becoming important new joint statement, GIPS CEO content in the same way as it director of marketing for quit a bit. While LinkedIn is a
tools for users," said Rian Emerick Woods said that "we will with its Feed API, would Amazon.com, and also held strong IPO candidate, LinkedIn
Liebenberg, an engineering are confident that our existing further enable this possibility. positions at Procter & Gamble co-founder and Chairman Reid
d i r e c t o r a t G o o g l e , i n a customers will continue to be With Google's developing and Booz, Allen and Hamilton. Hoffman told us at
statement. fully supported while we capabilities with speech Of course, the appointment of TechCrunch50 last fall that he’s
The question now is, what does continue to enhance and extend recognition and translation, an Kilgore and Battle to the board not in any rush to go public.
Google plan to do with this our products and technology at embeddable and linked real-time is interesting when you consider Later, Hoffman told Reuters that
acquisition? The company can Google." that both executives have the company plans to pursue an
video communication protocol
keep hold of it and use it to The purchase is part of a could be revolutionary. Discuss significant experience in IPO at some point, but not any
p o w e r r e a l - t i m e v i d e o general push at Google in advising technology companies time soon.The company was
communication on Android. It moving to an increasingly real- through the IPO process. valued at around $1 billion in its
Kilgore, of course, has helped last round of financing in 2008,
Netflix go public and Battle and has been profitable since
serves on the board of 2007. CrunchBase Information
OpenTable, Expedia and LinkedIn Information provided
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Read/write APIs redefine content Tim Ferriss Joins

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:33:36 AM
features, the NPR API will soon
provide access to NPR blog
content, providing developers
noncommercial online use by
nonprofit organizations.
The big picture on read-write
Startup Evernote As
National Public Radio, which access to blog content using the
produces popular programs such same API that provides access
APIs is the potential for other
news outlets to follow suit and Strategic Advisor
as "All Things Considered," to NPR stories and transcripts. allow for broader integration of Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
"Talk of the Nation," and Generally speaking, it's much stories across multiple Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:41:05 AM
"JazzSet," was an early adopter easier to provide an API that properties in a similar model, a
of Web technology, making its allows consumption without role that RSS has largely filled.
Multi-platform memory
content available through a publishing (or read-only), but In addition to read-write
enhancing service provider
s t a n d a r d s - b a s e d A P I , o r services such as Twitter that rely functionality, APIs can offer a
Evernote(granted, you have to
a p p l i c a t i o n p r o g r a m m i n g on third party clients and number of advantages over RSS
use it to know what that means)
interface. services to post to their stream in that they can be designed to
has added author, speaker and
APIs are at the heart of many wouldn't have nearly the scale better enhance content with
angel investor Timothy Ferriss
cloud services that provide for or user base they do without the metadata or other criteria (such
to its already quite impressive
t w o - w a y , o r r e a d - w r i t e , publishing functionality built as location) that bring additional
circle of company advisors.
communication such as Twitter into APIs. In fact, the Twitter value to the content. And while
In case you’re not familiar with
or Salesforce.com. API has roughly 10 times more more complexity is usually not
Evernote: its self-stated goal is
A firehose of content (meaning usage than the Web interface better, a number of new
to give its users near-perfect
read-only) is all well and good, garnering 75 percent of tweet services, such as Apigee,
memory by allowing them to regions and markets, reads the
b u t h a v i n g t h e a b i l i t y t o traffic. provide tools and analytics to
save and find their ideas and official press release. Ferriss,
integrate and tweak content into NPR's approach to read-write ensure that APIs remain stable
experiences whenever and says he was introduced to
new forms makes it much more news is a logical step in the and functional.wherever they like. The Evernote through Twitter, and
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addition to these new read-write noncommercial use, or for PayPal co-founder and Slide captured on video. You might
CEO Max Levchin sits on the be inclined to check it out as
Foods for Women company’s board, along with
Esther Dyson and others.
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Google Will Push Real-Time Feeds Best Buy's internet movie

to Browser (Updated) store launches this month
Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb)
it appears more significant. It
will also likely seem like a
under the CinemaNow brand
Richard Lawler (Engadget)
Submitted at 5/17/2010 10:54:51 PM significant change to the
Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:17:00 AM
publishers and web users who
Updated at 9:30 PM PST with /push, isn't live yet. This will come in contact with the API's
That Best Buy is ready to
comment from Google. Google probably be one of the things pushed content.
launch its entry into the online
posted an unlisted video to announced later this week at the Update: Google contacted us
video on-demand game is not at
YouTube tonight showing G o o g l e I / O d e v e l o p e r s ' after publishing this story and
all a surprise, but we weren't
details of a 2.0 version of its c o n f e r e n c e . confirmed that the technology expecting to see such a familiar
Feed API, a simple tool for This Spring we reported that would be unveiled at Google I/O
name. The retail giant purchased
displaying recent headlines from Google has plans to transform this week. Interested parties available in 1080p. Apparently
the CinemaNow brand away
a syndicated feed on any web its index of the web with the should attend this session the name game is how Best Buy
from Sonic Solutions
page. The new version will addition of real-time feed Wednesday morning. Google plans to sneak boxes with its
(explaining the latter's sudden
accept real-time PubSubHubbub consumption, in addition to the says that the Feed API is one of store embedded through other
switch to RoxioNow) and will
feeds and will publish new standard spider crawl it has used its most popular APIs and that retailers, we'll see how Wal-
start selling movies sans-disk to
headlines to a site visitor's for years. Last year, Google the new version will be rolled mart / VUDU, Amazon and the
web connected devices later this
browser within seconds of their Reader began offering real-time out slowly starting next week. rest respond to the challenge.
feeds of user feedback to Reader We were also told that Google month, starting with LG Blu-ray Continue reading Best Buy's
being published to the feed.
players (where buyers won't see
This new version turns the Feed items, but that was outbound software engineer Brett Bavar internet movie store launches
the Best Buy logo at all) and
API from cool to super-cool. and not a case of Google decided to build the technology this month under the
home theater in a box systems,
It's a good example of the way consuming real-time feeds. after being inspired by the CinemaNow brand
followed by Samsung's internet
much of the web is likely to go Google Buzz supports both ReadWrite Real-Time Web Best Buy's internet movie store
connected home theater
in the near-term future. No i n b o u n d a n d o u t b o u n d Summit in October. That's launches this month under the
equipment and of course the
more refreshing pages to see PubSubHubbub feeds. It plans pretty awesome to hear and CinemaNow brand originally
house Insignia brand. As
when new content is available - on offering read/write API might persuade the savvy reader appeared on Engadget on Tue,
planned, it will have"first run"
the real-time web comes to you access via Hubbub in the future. to consider attending our next 18 May 2010 08:17:00 EST.
The inclusion of Hubbub Real-Time Web Summit on movies for sale as soon as they Please see our terms for use of
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Turn a Suction Cup into a Phone Stand [DIY]

Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 6:30:00 AM
A frequent complaint with DIY
stands for iPhones—among
other expensive phones and
portable devices people watch
movies on—is the lack of
sturdiness. Who wants their $$$
device to slide off the table?
the back. More »
Shopping- IPhone- Consumer
Electronics- Communications-
Business and Economy
This stand suctions right onto
32 Technology/
As expected, The Pirate Bay returns
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:40:09 AM
The Pirate Bay, the highly
controversial BitTorrent search
engine, reemerged Tuesday in
typical defiant fashion after
Hollywood film studios helped
trigger a day-long blackout of
the site.
A screen shot of The Pirate
Bay's remade front door on
Tuesday.(Credit: Screen shot:
Greg Sandoval/CNET)
The Web site, which is targeted
for destruction by content
owners nearly the world over,
presumably has found a new
bandwidth provider. The
service, which has helped
millions locate and eventually
download scores of pirated
films, saw German authorities
order its former Internet host to
cease providing Web access to
the site.
On Tuesday morning, the Pirate
Bay posted a photo of a cat and
a note to those who pursue a
strategy of taking down the site:
"Ims ins yours skynets, lollings
aways ats yours futile attempts
ats controllings ours Internets."
The cat photo is appropriate
because The Pirate Bay has
played a cat-and-mouse game
with content providers for years.
This is at least the third time a
bandwidth provider was forced
to take down the site and the
third time the site has returned.
One has to question whether the
studios don't play into the the
hands of The Pirate Bay
operators with these attempts to
knock out the site. Every time
they do, The Pirate Bay rises
and to the file-sharing
community these comebacks
boost their reputation as
unconquerable heroes.
Later this year, Swedish courts
are expected to rule on an
appeal made by the four
founders of The Pirate Bay. The
four were found guilty of
copyright violations last year,
sentenced to a year in jail and
ordered to pay the equivalent of
$3 million.
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Google's VOIP buying
spree continues with
Global IP Solutions offer
Tim Stevens (Engadget) the OS, but that's pure,
Submitted at 5/18/2010 10:17:00 AM unfounded speculation. This
offer still needs to be approved
We're not entirely sure what b y 9 0 % o f G l o b a l I P ' s
Google is up to, but we're shareholders but, since that
inclined to think that there's an $68.2 million represents a nearly
awful lot of voice over IP magic 3 0 p e r c e n t b o o s t i n t h e
coming, with the company company's stock price last week,
announcing the anticipated we don't think there will be any
acquisition of another VOIP problem there -- but there we go
company. Back in November it speculating again.
acquired Gizmo5 for about $30 Continue reading Google's
million, and now it has made a VOIP buying spree continues
$68.2 million offer for Global IP with Global IP Solutions offer
S o l u t i o n s . T h a t c o m p a n y Google's VOIP buying spree
provides VOIP solutions for a c o n t i n u e s w i t h G l o b a l I P
number of clients, including S o l u t i o n s o f f e r o r i g i n a l l y
Yahoo, and recently announced appeared on Engadget on Tue,
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Booyah raises $20m, aims for 6m Washington Post iPhone

users app not winning very
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
million virtual item impressions
a day. Along with selling virtual
items, they're also putting
many friends
Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:00:00 AM
Mel Martin (The Unofficial
together high-profile Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Filed under: iPhone I've lately partnerships with companies
been guessing that Booyah like H&M and The Travel Submitted at 5/17/2010 8:30:00 PM

might eventually hook up with Channel.

Ngmoco, since they're both Filed under: iPhone Somehow
And they've done all of this
iPhone gaming/app companies in my recent comments on News
while still standing in the
with somewhat similar goals apps I missed the Washington
shadow of more well-known
that could help each other out. Post effort, which has been
check-in services like Gowalla
But it looks like Booyah doesn't recently updated. It's not a home
and Foursquare. There's a heck
need any help any more -- it's run, combining a subscription
of a lot of activity and potential
just raised a whopping $20 cost and intrusive ads.
coming out of Booyah, and with
million from investors in a new The app, called Wash Post costs
this big chunk of funding,
round of funding. Booyah was US$1.99 a year. Wash Post
they're set up to do some more
originally included in the iFund contains articles and photos, and
amazing things with their next
investment, but that contribution it allows you to share content
app. We'll have to keep an eye
pales in comparison to this one, via Twitter or e-mail. The app
on them.
which sets Booyah up as one of growing by 100,000 users a TUAW Booyah raises $20m, has built in search, which helps
the heaviest single-brand hitters week, and they're aiming to hit 6 aims for 6m users originally to make up for some of the charging for the content in the
in the app market. million users by the end of the appeared on The Unofficial shortcomings I'll detail later. iPhone app and giving it away
Booyah is made up of a few ex- summer (presumably with a new Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, The Washington Post is a bit for free at the website? Why not
B l i z z a r d d e v e l o p e r s ( w e app coming as well, not all 18 May 2010 09:00:00 EST. schizophrenic about their be just a bit consistent?
interviewed CEO Keith Lee inside just MyTown). Their user Please see our terms for use of content. You can pay for this TUAW Washington Post
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Tranquil PC serves up a
TUAW's Daily App: Strike Knight pair of high-end but laid
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
your shots while an arcade
board flashes your high score as
leaderboards to top.
Farrior and his team at Backflip
-back HTPCs
you play. are doing a great job pinning Tim Stevens (Engadget) $700). The other is a more
Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:00:00 AM
The game is free-to-play, so it's down some solid, quick Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:33:00 AM powerful beast, the ixVL,
Filed under: App Store I saw definitely worth a try. The ads experiences on the iPhone, and coming sometime next month
Backflip Studios' Julian Farrior are slightly distracting (aside Strike Knight is nice addition to We haven't heard from the folks with either an Intel Core i3 or i5
speak at GDC earlier this year, from the banner ads, currently the company's lineup. If all of at Tranquil in some time, the CPU inside and an optical drive
and while there, he showed a all advertising the rest of the apps he promised this year UK-based firm's employees (DVD or Blu-ray), but still no
few upcoming App Store games Backflip's other titles, there are are as worthy as this one, they'll surely too busy watching all the fans for quiet operation. No
of his in a quick slide. Strike interstitials as well), but for a 99 have an impressive stable of As Time Goes By episodes they price on this one yet, but expect
Knight was one of those, and it's cent in-app purchase, you can apps in the store. stuffed onto their last five-bay it to cost, you know, more than
now out in the App Store in all get rid of them, so if you like the TUAW TUAW's Daily App: media server, but they've sent the other one.
of its glory. It's a simple game, you might as well make Strike Knight originally Gene and Lionel on their way Tranquil PC serves up a pair of
shuffleboard bowler game -- the buy. Aside from the regular appeared on The Unofficial and are back to announce two high-end but laid-back HTPCs
you grab a puck at the bottom of singleplayer action, the app Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, new HTPCs. First is the T7- originally appeared on Engadget
the screen, and flick it up allows pass and play multiplayer 18 May 2010 08:00:00 EST. MP2, a tiny, fanless Ion- and on Tue, 18 May 2010 09:33:00
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the titular Knight reacts to all of there are awards to earn and
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ASUS Eee PC 1215 with Ion receives Optimus

and USB 3.0 augmentation
Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:56:00 AM
When we found out that the Ion
2-packing Eee PC 1201PNs
lacked NVIDIA Optimus tech
for switching graphics hardware
on the fly, well, it was a bit of a
bummer to say the least. But,
ASUS is at least fixing its
successor, the Eee PC 1215. It's
largely the same machine as the
1201, packing a dual-core Atom
D510 processor and Ion
graphics to complement the
onboard graphics. This one,
though, will have the Optimus
hardware to switch betwixt the
two, saving battery life all the
while. The case has also been
subtly refreshed but, most
interestingly, ASUS saw fit to
throw in a pair of USB 3.0 ports,
their cerulean insides shining
like beacons to guide us toward
the future of high-speed file
transfers. We're not sure when
the 1215 is destined to hit retail
and make the 1201PN obsolete,
nor how much of a premium it
will cost when it does, but there
are plenty more pictures of the
thing and even a few
benchmarks at the source link.
ASUS Eee PC 1215 with Ion
receives Optimus and USB 3.0
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iPad used to replace Apple IIe data cassette, feels seriously

underutilized (video)
Joseph L. Flatley (Engadget) named Stewart Smith asked a Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful data cassette, feels seriously
Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:55:00 AM Mac software developer called Ground) by Grandaddy. Thanks underutilized (video) originally
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36 Technology/ Economy/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

YouTube Enters Africa BofA's Rosenberg: Expect German

Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb) Reprisals When They Realize What
Submitted at 5/17/2010 8:48:52 PM
Trichet Is Doing At The ECB
Africa doesn't get enough
attention. That's one reason to
celebrate the launch of
YouTube's first country channel
in Africa. The company
announced its new South
African channel in a blog post
minutes ago, bringing the total
number of country channels
globally to 23.
"In practice, this means that
South Africa-based channels
like Freshlyground and Khayav
should enjoy more profile
locally, and at the same time
should also find it easier to
Hotmail Reboots with Inbox-
Clearing Functions and Office
Webapp Integration [Webmail]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 5:00:00 AM
What can Hotmail offer over a
certain emerging webmail
standard? A good bit, it turns
out. Windows Live Hotmail
now offers inbox-cleaning
Sweep and filter functions, More »
Exchange support, direct Office Hotmail- Microsoft- Client-
Web App tools, in-message Email- Office Web App
slideshows and video, and more.
identify other local users," wrote
Divon Lan, YouTube Product
Manager for Africa. "From now
on when users in South Africa
visit the localized site they will
see, for example, the Most
Popular and Most Viewed
videos in South Africa along
with local content that closely
matches their interests."
Sponsor
African competitors include
ZedClips, Zoopy, and My Video
from South Africa, and Nigerian
Naijoo.tv. See also Afrigator,
an excellent pan-African media
aggregator. Discuss
Joe Weisenthal (The Money
Game)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:29:48 AM
A lot of folks are calling out
ECB chief Jean-Claude Trichet
for his claim that buying
European government debt on
the secondary market is not the
same as quantitative easing.
Yesterday John Hussman called
him out, noting that despite
plans to "sterilize" the purchases
by withdrawing liquidity, there's
still the phenomenon of rotating sterilizing its own sterilization. creates of debt monetization
the ECB's balance sheet away This occurs as the term deposits nevertheless is the larger issue
from healthy debt to toxic debt.
BofA's Jeffrey Rosenberg (via
used for sterilizing the to the near term outlook for the
EUR16.5bn of purchases last Euro, in our view.
ZeroHedge) sees the same thing:
We believe undermining the
week itself are eligible as The only thing mitigating the
collateral against ECB repo likelihood of "reprisals" is the
Euros valuation vs. the dollar
stands the threat of indirect debt
liquidity. To us that means that fact that the Germans already
the liquidity drain of collecting know they're getting screwed.
monetization of Greek and other deposits from banks could be Remember, they call
periphery debt. Despite its effectively unwound in the themselves the "schmucks of
claims to the contrary, today’s scenario whereby the bank used Europe" (or at least the famous
ECB announcement on
those term deposits as collateral Bild headline did) because
operational details of its against ECB repo lending, a they're bailing everyone else
Securities Markets Programme
possibility explicitly permitted out.
of direct secondary market in today’s announcement. While Join the conversation about this
purchases of sovereign debt
suggests the possibility the ECB
we believe such a scenario is story »
could end up effectively
highly unlikely, the perception it
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Martin Armstrong: The "Flash Crash"

Was A WATERFALL Event Like The
One That Preceded The Fall Of Rome
Joe Weisenthal (The Money
Game)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:07:00 AM

The famous market philosopher

Martin Armstrong, who is
currently in prison in Ft. Dix
New Jersey, has turned his
attention to the "Flash Crash" of
May 6, which he sees as a
profound event.
He describes the event as a
waterfall -- the opposite of a
blowoff bubble top -- that
presages the start of a profound
shift in the world economy.
He calls the "fat finger" or
glitch theories nonsense, saying
it's all about Greece, and the
global debt crisis. This is what a
market "waterfall" looks like.
Image: MartinArmstrong.com
Source: Martinarmstrong.org
The pundits got it all wrong,
thinking that this is somehow an
unusual fat finger error.
Image: MartinArmstrong.com
Source: Martinarmstrong.org
Waterfalls have been with us
through the ages. The collapse
of Roman Silver occurred
before the collapse fo the
Roman empire
Image: MartinArmstrong.com
Source: Martinarmstrong.org
This is a distinctly different
pattern than other major peaks
(such as the blowoff peak in
Gold or the Nikkei)
Image: MartinArmstrong.com
Source: Martinarmstrong.org
The WATERFALL is far more
devastating
Image: MartinArmstrong.com
Source: Martinarmstrong.org
The cause of the crisis: Greece.
Image: MartinArmstrong.com
Source: Martinarmstrong.org
And DEBT!
Image: MartinArmstrong.com
Source: Martinarmstrong.org
This is not about the world
coming to an end, as other
doomsayers say.
Image: MartinArmstrong.com
Source: Martinarmstrong.org
And after capital rushes to
America, it will rush out,
leaving us in crisis.
Image: MartinArmstrong.com
Source: Martinarmstrong.org
Read the whole report At
MartinArmstrong.org...
Join the conversation about this
story »
Eastern Europe's Past Disaster
Shows Why Fears Of Greek
Default Are Way Overblown
The Economist (The Money
Game)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:01:47 AM
FOR anyone from the ex-
communist world with a
medium-term memory, the
frantic efforts under way to save
Greece (and the other wobbly
southern members of the euro
zone) are rather puzzling.
For a start, what is so bad about
default and restructuring? In the
1990s Russia restructured $32
billion worth of Soviet debt into
PRINs and IANs (both are now
stored in the Museum of
Financial Archaeology and may
be viewed on application to the
curator). In 1998 it defaulted on
those debt instruments. People
said Russia’s financial
credibility would never recover.
One banker said he would rather
eat nuclear waste than invest in
Russia again. But within a
couple of years, Russia was
flavour of the month.
Continue reading at The
Economist >
Join the conversation about this
story »
38 Economy/ Culture/
Bill Ackman Has Been Holding An Investment In
Yum Brands Since Well Before The Double Down
Premiered (YUM, KFT, YUM, GGP, CXW)
Courtney Comstock (The
Money Game)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:10:07 AM
Bill Ackman's 13f filing is
always a fun one because he
keeps very few positions that he
believes strongly in on his
portfolio; he's "activist
investing."
Last quarter, in Q1, Ackman's
Pershing Square fund sold out
completely of a ~$80 million
stake in Hyatt and a ~$5 million
investment in Automatic Data
Processing (ADP).
He picked up a huge new
investment in Kraft, around $1
billion, which we knew about
already because he made a big
case for why he thinks the Kraft
and Cadbury merge will be
successful.
We also discovered Pershing's
~$600 million investment in
YUM brands (lots of delicious
food brands are owned by YUM
like, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and
KFC - maybe Ackman knew the
Double Down would be a hit??
), which they made sometime in 5. Corrections Corp of America the big bang occurred?
Q4 but only disclosed in a 13F (CXW): 6.55%
amendment last month.
Marketfolly has a breakdown of 0.84%
how Pershing's entire Q1
portfolio is made up:
1. Target (TGT): 32.79%
2. Kraft Foods (KFT): 29.89%
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17.56%
4. General Growth Properties
(GGP): 11.62%
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Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:00:00 AM surface than a satellite in orbit.
The difference is too small to
It is difficult enough to imagine notice, but time even runs more
a time, roughly 13.7 billion slowly for someone standing
years ago, when the entire next to a large boulder than it
universe existed as a singularity. does for a person standing alone
According to the big bang in a field. The pre-big bang
t h e o r y , o n e o f t h e m a i n singularity possessed all the
contenders vying to explain how mass in the universe, effectively
the universe came to be, all the bringing time to a standstill.
matter in the cosmos -- all of Following this line of logic, the
space itself -- existed in a form t i t l e o f t h i s a r t i c l e i s
smaller than a subatomic f u n d a m e n t a l l y f l a w e d .
particle. According to Einstein's theory
Once you think about that, an of relativity, time only came
even more difficult question into being as that primordial
arises: What existed just before singularity expanded toward its
current size and shape.
The question itself predates Case closed? Far from it. This
6. Landry's Restaurants (LNY): modern cosmology by at least is one cosmological quandary
1,600 years. Fourth-century that won't stay dead. In the
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The New American Consumer Is
Terrified Of Debt Even As The
Economy Grows
Vincent Fernando, CFA (The
Money Game)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:11:11 AM
Carpe Diem highlights how
credit card delinquencies are
falling nicely, down four months
in a row.
"With fewer consumers late on
their bills, the outlook for credit
losses over the summer may be
improving," says Reuters.
Moreover, credit card debt fell
to a 45-month low, as shown by
Carpe Diem's graphic the right.
Overall, as we've highlighted
before, U.S. households reduced
their total debt (inclusive of
everything, mortgages, credit
cards, etc) by$239 billion in
2009. Yes much of this is due to
people defaulting on their
obligations, but much needed
financial adjustments are being
made in the U.S., even if
painfully.
Moreover, given the latest
credit card data shown above,
we're confident that the overall
deleveraging trend of 2009 is
continuing in 2010 even though
the larger, total household debt
number isn't out yet from the
Federal Reserve.
Despite an economic recovery
post-crisis, hard times are still
driving Americans to reduce
their financial leverage. The
new American consumer will
likely be more conservative than
we've been used to over the last
decade, even as the economy
gets better. Which is a good
thing in the long-term given
how extreme things got.
Join the conversation about this
story »
Economy/ Culture/ 39
Josh and Diane Join the
Glee Cast, Keri Russell
For Fox Bash!
Molly (PopSugar)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:00:00 AM
The stars of Fox TV present
and future stepped out in NYC
last night to celebrate the
Upfronts announcement of their
Fall schedule. Fringe's Joshua
Jackson brought Diane Kruger
to the party, just the latest stop
Harris which may convert even
in their loved-up world tour
more fans into full-fledged
featuring their popular PDA.
Gleeks.
Keri Russell is another welcome
face in the crowd to celebrate
her new sitcom Running Wilde
To see lots more from the party
alongside Will Arnett. Bones
including Cat Deeley, Cory
duo David Boreanaz and Emily
Monteith, Hugh Laurie, Jane
Deschanel stuck together as his
Lynch, and others just read
relationship with his wife makes
more.
frequent headlines. Lea Michele
View 35 Photos ›
continued her reign of the red
carpet in a short, colorful
Images include: Keri Russell,
number after the Glee creator
Cat Deeley, Colin Hanks, Cory
Ryan Murphy denied rumors
Monteith, David Boreanaz,
that she's difficult or a diva on
Diane Kruger, Dianna Agron,
set. He also said that they are
Emily Deschanel, Hugh Laurie,
talking to Britney Spears about
Jane Lynch, Jayma Mays,
tapping into her musical
Joshua Jackson, Kara
archive! Dianna Agron looked
DioGuardi, Kevin McHale, Lea
adorable in red before the whole
Michele, Mark Sailing, Matthew
cast hits the road when their tour
Morrison, Randy Jackson, Will
kicks off in LA on Thursday.
Arnett
Tonight's Joss Whedon directed
episode features Neil Patrick
40 Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Microsoft Seeks to Put Hot Back in Hotmail With New

Features
Ryan Singel (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 7:34:00 AM

Microsoft is unveiling a major

upgrade to Hotmail this
summer, in an attempt to
become the top webmail
provider in the U.S. by outdoing
the innovations that Google’s
Gmail brought to the online
inbox.
Now nearly 15 years old,
Hotmail serves more users
worldwide than any other online
e-mail service, with 360 million
users.
Despite reports to the contrary,
e-mail isn’t going away anytime
soon, Microsoft said, noting that
even avid users of social media
services check their e-mail more
often than other users, and
Hotmail users share 1.5 billion
photos a month.
But a year ago, the Hotmail
team looked around and realized
that Hotmail was lacking
features (particularly in
comparison to Gmail, which U.S. market was important for will encounter a first screen are one click options on the top But perhaps the most
remains in third place among us.” that’s on overview of new bar and the left bar to view interesting part of the upgrade
webmail providers, though its So now Microsoft wants to messages, sorted into categories, messages of different types. comes with messages involving
numbers continue to grow). make e-mail simpler, with e-mails from known Users can easily categorize photos or Office documents.
“Hotmail wasn’t doing the best automatically divvying up contacts in the top heap, updates messages and even permanently Hotmail will soon open emails
job it could to serve customers,” emails into convenient from services like Facebook and rid themselves of annoying with multiple photos attached by
Microsoft vice president Chris categories, such as e-mails from Twitter at the bottom, and a bar marketing messages using what displaying them in a row on the
Jones told reporters Monday at a contacts, ones from e-mail lists, up top that lets you send a status Microsoft calls “Sweeping,” screen, and users can click to
briefing in San Francisco. “We ones from social media services, message to whatever online which moves all messages — launch a graceful slideshow
were behind on features and we ones with photos, others with service you like. past and future - from selected right inside the browser (see the
felt like being number in the Office documents, etc. Once you are past that into the marketers or annoying contacts MICROSOFT page 41
Starting in July or August, users typical view of an inbox, there into the trash.
E-reader News Edition
MICROSOFT
continued from page 40
top image) using Microsoft’s
own Flash-like platform
Silverlight, which users will
have to install to get the full
shebang.
The online gallery and preview
also works with links to public
galleries on SmugMug and
Flickr, and Microsoft says it’s
working on doing the same for
galleries that aren’t public that a
user has the right to see.
Users can also open a Microsoft
Word, Excel or PowerPoint
document into Office Live, an
online service that pairs with
Skydrive to give users 25GB of
online storage. Once you open
the document and make a
change, the versions are saved
online and you are prompted to
e-mail the original recipient a
link to the changed document.
Neither user needs to have
Office installed on their local
machines to use the service.
Hotmail will let you watch
video links from Hulu and
YouTube right in the e-mail you
are reading, and you can easily
find videos to send to people
using a Bing search drop down
box in the compose window.
Sending a large selection of
images is easy in the new
Hotmail as well, since the
images aren’t attached to the e-
mail and instead are uploaded
into a user’s 25GB SkyDrive.
Recipients get an HTML e-mail
with thumbnails of the image
and a specially crafted link to
look at a gallery online.
Recipients will need a Microsoft
Live ID to leave a comment on
the photos, but don’t need one
just to see or download them as
a zip file.
A view of a photo gallery sent
by a Hotmail user.
For those worried about
security, Hotmail says it’s
getting good at preventing
phishing attacks aimed at
stealing your online passwords
and will offer users the option to
use HTTPS for full e-mail
sessions if they want to protect
their accounts from snoopers at
a wifi cafe or at their work or
school. (Gmail is the leader,
using full HTTPS sessions as
the default for all users).
Microsoft also wants Hotmail
users to have a great experience
on mobile devices, so it makes it
easy to use via POP and IMAP
pull protocols or its push email
service ActiveSync. The
company is not planning native
apps for Android and Apple
mobile products, saying users
like the built-in tools and can
easily use Hotmail on those
services.
Still, Microsoft’s new product
retains hallmarks of the
company’s long-standing legacy
of pushing users towards its
proprietary formats. For
instance, if a user gets a PDF,
text or Open Office file in an e-
mail, there’s no option to open
them online — something that
Gmail users can do now. The
company says such support will
come in future versions, but it’s
telling that even a format as
simple to convert as .txt can’t be
opened into Microsoft’s online
version of Word from a Hotmail
account.
Overall, the revamp is
impressive and should keep
current users from jumping ship
for Google’s Gmail. Like Yahoo
Mail, Hotmail will retain display
ads, which run in a vertical bar
on the right side of the screen.
Those seem far more distracting
than the simple text ads Gmail
uses, but unlike Google’s
product, the ads are not based on
a computer analysis of the
contents of your mail. Users can
also pay $20 a year for an ad-
free service.
Many of the new features will
sound familiar to Gmail users
(like seeing attached images
rendered without downloading
them and being able to open
attached documents online). But
to its credit, Microsoft has
Politics/ 41
Kyl, McCain Plead
created some thoughtful features with Obama: Send
that outshine those that remain
roughly implemented in Gmail.
Troops to Border
Many may shy away from (Newsmax - Inside Cover)
using Hotmail as many see the Submitted at 5/18/2010 4:00:42 AM
name as just one step up above
having an AOL address. For Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Sen.
those who want the new features John McCain, R-Ariz., have
without the Hotmail name, called on President Barack
Hotmail will let you send and Obama to send 6,000 National
recieve mail using a different Guardsmen to the Arizona-
address. For those still toolingMexico border, according to
around with an AOL e-mail rollcall.com.
address, moving to Hotmail The lawmakers argued that
would be a definite upgrade. troops are needed because
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Users their own property. They feel
• Most Common Hotmail that they live in a lawless area of
Password Revealed! the country and have been
• Microsoft Aims to Use the abandoned by the federal
Cloud to Outdo Apple and government, which has a duty to
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How to Transfer Your Stanza E-Book Library to iBooks for

iPad
Charlie Sorrel (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:14:00 AM

Stanza, our favorite iPhone e-

reader application, has not yet
been updated for the iPad.
Maybe it’s coming soon and
will be awesome, or maybe the
current owner, Amazon, has
killed it to reduce competition
for its money-making Kindle
app. Either way, unless you
want to read your e-book
collection on a blocky, pixel-
doubled screen, you’ll have to
switch readers. But what of all
the books you already have in
your Stanza library? Here we
show you how to extract you
books from Stanza, pretty them
up and put them into iBooks on
your iPad.
Getting books into Stanza is computer and sift out the books they’ll be imported into your a book (or hit the “e” key) you but right now the newly added
easy. You can beam them across within. book collection, but the lovely can edit the metadata. The metadata isn’t baked into the
your Wi-Fi network using the Download the app, called cover artwork you enjoyed in easiest way is to let Calibre pull files. Running an export won’t
companion desktop application “Stanza Book Restore Tool”, Stanza will be gone, replaced by the info down from the internet. create new files, but it will
or with the clunky but powerful from Lexcycle, the developers text on a generic, plain book Once this is done, click the replace the old one with the
e-book manager Calibre. You of Stanza. Point it at your cover. What you need is the “Download cover” button to do newly enriched versions. Do this
can buy them from within the backup folder (on the Mac aforementioned Calibre, just that. Calibre gets it right as a bulk action and go make a
application itself, or you can add you’ll find it in previously seen on Gadget Lab 99% of the time. If you don’t coffee. If you’re using a Mac,
online repositories of varying Users/you/Library/Application in the service of adding like the cover, you can add your don’t get too scared when its
legitimacy. Once the books are Support/MobileSync/Backup), Instapaper and other newspapers own from an image file. fans start to spin like a leaf-
on there, though, they’re stuck. choose a destination and hit to your Kindle. The next step is essential if you blower.
You can jailbreak your iPhone “Recover Books”. All the books Download the free Calibre app want to import all the new Next, you need to separate out
and go fishing around in the file will be copied to your computer. for Mac or Windows, drag in the keywords and cover art along all the EPUB files and just drag
system, looking for the books. But what then? Now you have a EPUB files and then go to work. with the books into iTunes. You them into iTunes. The problem
Or you can download a Java app bunch of EPUB files littering Your books’ title and author need to convert the books to is that they’re stuck inside
that will churn through the your desktop. You could drag data should be cleanly filled out EPUB. But wait. They’re
iPhone backups on your HOW page 46
them straight into iTunes, where already, but if you right click on already EPUB files, right? Yes,
E-reader News Edition Culture/ 43

May 18, 1952: Carbon-14 Dates Stonehenge as 3,800 Years

Old
David Kravets (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 5/17/2010 11:00:00 PM

1952: An analysis of the carbon

-14 radioisotope in a piece of
charred oak from an excavated
pit at Stonehenge estimates that
the mysterious structure on
England’s Salisbury Plain is
3,800 years old, plus or minus
275 years.
The carbon-dating process that
dated Stonehenge to about 1848
B.C. was conducted by the
technique’s godfather, Willard
Libby. The University of
Chicago professor developed
radiocarbon dating in the late
1940s and won the 1960 Nobel
Prize in chemistry for it.
When plants or animals die,
they no longer exchange their rate. However, the Archeology been “credited, at one time or its exact history, origins or age, Circle Maker Patented
carbon with fresh atoms from Expert website notes, another, to the Phoenicians, thousands each year flock to • Sept. 20, 1952: Kitchen
their environment. Thus, as the “experimental evidence Celts, Romans, Sumerians, Stonehenge to welcome the sun Blender Pegs DNA as Stuff of
radioactive carbon-14 in dead indicates that C-14 decay is Druids and early Christians.” on the summer solstice. Life
matter decays to the more slowing down and that millennia Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, Source: Various • Nov. 4, 1952: Univac Gets
plentiful isotope carbon-12, the ago it decayed much faster than who co-discovered helium and Photo: technowannabe/Flickr Election Right, But CBS Balks
proportion of C-14 to C-12 is observed today.” founded the journal, Nature, See Also: • Dec. 1, 1952: Ex-GI Becomes
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life of about 5,600 years, so mollusk shells in Hawaii were Stone section of Stonehenge “ Knows How Stonehenge Was • May 18, 1953: Jackie
measuring the proportion of C- dated as 2,000 years old and a had been originally aligned with Built Cochran, First Woman to Break
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organic matter, and comparing it Antarctica dated 1,300 years. calculated that it was built in Stonehenge - Video - Wired • May 18, 1980: St. Helens
to the known proportion of C-14 Improved techniques now date 1800 B.C. • May 2, 1952: First Blows Its Top Off
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14 broke down at a constant MAY page 44
the 1952 dating, Stonehenge has perhaps a cemetery. Whatever • July 22, 1952: Genuine Crop-
44 Culture/
Gallery: Polaroid Archives Provide a Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom
Snapshot of History
Priya Ganapati (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 5/17/2010 7:00:00 PM
Polaroid has one of the world’s
most iconic brands: The self-
developing snapshots, with their
classic white borders, are nearly
as recognizable as the red Coca-
Cola logo, the Campbell’s soup
can or the Burberry plaid.
The company’s cameras
delivered instant visual
gratification long before digital
cameras arrived on the scene,
making them an early
photographic sensation.
But Polaroid’s fortunes have
waned. The company, which
was founded in 1937, has
declared bankruptcy twice and
was sold to two different buyers.
Its assets have long been
dispersed, and its factories were
shut down. Polaroid even
announced in 2008 that it would
stop making its instant film,
prompting some enthusiasts to
MAY
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create their own Polaroid-
compatible film packs.
Now a company called PLR IP
Holdings has rights to the
Polaroid brand and has said it
will revive some iconic Polaroid
cameras. The company recently
introduced a new camera, the
Polaroid PIC-300.
Last month, the Cambridge,
Massachusetts-based MIT
Museum announced that PLR
Holdings has donated a massive
collection from Polaroid’s
archives.
The archive has some
fascinating objects. There are
boxes of rare Polarized glasses
dating from the 1939 World’s
Fair, original newsprint sketches
by Polaroid founder Edwin
Land, a historic bellows camera
the size of a filing cabinet and
the SX-70 cameras that defined
the instant-photography era.
Overall, the collection has more
than 1,800 boxes containing
10,000 items.
“For anyone interested in
science, technology, art or
consumer culture, this is an
unprecedented opportunity to
look at a series of products and
watch their design unfold from
every aspect,” says Deborah
Douglas, curator of the
collection at the MIT Museum.
Polaroid is unusual among
American companies in that it
has extensively documented its
products and maintained
archives of its work, says
Douglas.
“This is one of the top five
company collections out there,
along with IBM, Bell Labs,
DuPont and Boeing,” she says.
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Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:00:00 AM
Jake Gyllenhaal wore a polka-
dot tie to triumphantly bring his
Prince of Persia home to LA last
night. He was full of smiles and
happy to sign autographs
between posing with his
beautiful costar Gemma
Arterton. Jake has already been
around the world with the movie
including when they managed to own promotional tour for
premiere it in three cities in one Knight and Day starting with
evening. Jake also famously last week's Oprah so we'll be
showed off his dance moves seeing a lot more of that famous
during his stop in Russia. Now, grin over the next month.
they're back in the states for one
more big push before the May
27 release. The Grauman's To see lots more from the
Chinese Theatre red carpet premiere including Alanis
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Tom Cruise also came out to Images include: Alanis
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being celebrated with a series of
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star-studded screenings of his
Michelle Monaghan, Tom
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Flywheel Sports Spinning Studio's Butt-Kicking
Workout
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
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Submitted at 5/17/2010 4:36:52 PM
Spinning class always seemed a
little aggressive for my yoga-
typical taste, but as I was
walking on the street one recent
evening I overheard a woman
loudly and proudly proclaim her
spin instructor “is God—he
helped me lose 35 pounds like
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time enjoying my experience
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start or end of your ride for the
Daily Buzz: Laura Bush Book Offers Suprising
Revelations
WomansDay.com Editors
(Daily Woman's Day Blog)
Submitted at 5/17/2010 3:32:26 PM
Ever since Laura Bush released
her memoir Spoken from
My Heart on May 4, we've
gotten a lot more insight into the
former
first lady than we did during her
years as Mistress of the White
House. And a lot
of it has been very different
ultimate ying and yang
experience. Yes, it’s hard, and,
yes, it can be torturous—but you
feel really, really, really good
when you are done. (And,
surprisingly, you feel great the
next day, too.) “When you ride
from what we'd expect.
In a recent interview with Larry
King, for instance, Bush
said she disagrees with her
husband on both abortion and
gay marriage (she's
pro-choice and feels gay
marriage should and will
happen). And Sunday, she
expressed support for Obama's
Supreme Court Nominee Elena
Kagan, or at the very
least, in support of another
with the proper posture and
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women on the Supreme Court."
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curious what you think about
Mrs. Bush
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everyone is married to the
President of the United States.
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subfolders. On a Mac, the best
way is to run a spotlight search
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choosing “file extension=epub”
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files onto the iTunes icon and
wait. Once the import is done,
you’ll see a beautiful library of
e=books ready to sync to iBooks
on the iPad.
Restoring Stanza books from
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Slow-Cooker Monday: Carnitas Chopard Brings Out Beauties

WomansDay.com Editors
(Daily Woman's Day Blog)
Submitted at 5/17/2010 3:00:00 PM
My goodness, slow-cooking
has changed! Go to the
bookstore and, alongside that
old favorite Fix-It and Forget-It,
you'll find slim volumes of
carefully curated recipes with
lush photos and thick cookbooks
full of techniques for things like
baking cakes and cobblers. I
even found a recipe for mac and
cheese! The skeptic in me
awoke, along with her
counterpart, that urge to
experiment and prove myself
wrong. I've never been a big fan
of slow-cookers, but when the
editors at Woman's Day asked
me to write a weekly post on the
subject I felt it was time for me
to take a fresh look. Will you
help me?
My slow-cooker, a wedding gift
from more than a decade ago,
Like Naomi, Kate, LL, and
Paris Who Cannes Celebrate!
Molly (PopSugar)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 7:00:00 AM
Lindsay Lohan bucked the
gown trend and opted for a
short, tight, white dress for the
Chopard 150th Anniversary
Party during Cannes last night.
LL has been partying all over Richie that her dad Lionel
the Riviera while she's in performed.
trouble back home in LA, where
her lawyer reiterated that
broke last year and I didn't setting. I'm excited to put it to Lindsay needs to be back for her To see more from the party
bother at the time to replace it, the test. Thursday court date. Kate including Meg Ryan, Naomi
so the kind folks at Sunbeam Find out how my carnitas fared Beckinsale continues to grace as Campbell, Margherita Missoni,
have sent me a new one. It's a in the slow-cooker and see the many red carpets as possible as and others, just read more.
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throughout the evening, and was Hilton
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Morning Bell: The New START Threat to Missile Defense

Conn Carroll (The Foundry: constrain the United States from scheduled to be Secretary of Here in the United States, the that he too wished “the
Conservative Policy News.) deploying the most effective State Hillary Rodham Clinton. administration is going to Republican Party should get out
Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:40:28 AM missile defenses possible.” Maybe she can explain why the underscore that this in no way of his way” and that “it would
Notice the change? The Obama April 8th State Department fact ties the administration’s hands be good…if [Obama] could be a
On March 26 the White House administration has backtracked sheet had to be updated with the on missile defense. These are dictator for a few years because
released a fact sheet on the New from “does not contain any April 21st version. Maybe she rather contradictory messages he could do a lot of good things
START Treaty. It claimed that c o n s t r a i n t s o n t e s t i n g , can explain why Undersecretary coming from Moscow and quickly.”
t h e a g r e e m e n t s i g n e d b y development or deployment of of State for Arms Control and Washington on a fairly critical
President Barack Obama and current or planned U.S. missile International Security Ellen issue.” The Senate needs to start Tags: Missile Defense,
R u s s i a n P r e s i d e n t D m i t r i defense programs” to “does not Tauscher used the April 8th sorting these contradictions out. Morning Bell, New START,
Medvedev “does not contain constrain the United States from language “the Treaty does not Today. Philip Coyle, Russia 3
any constraints on testing, deploying the most effective constrain U.S. missile defense Quick Hits: Responses to “Morning Bell:
development or deployment of missile defenses possible.” So programs” as opposed to the • Iran reached a surprise nuclear The New START Threat to
current or planned U.S. missile are only the “most effective equivocal April 21st language agreement with Brazil and Missile Defense”
defense programs.” missile defenses” allowed by when she testified before the Turkey yesterday, undermining • Mary…. WI on May 18th,
But the Russians seem to have a New START? As determined by Senate Armed Services the Obama administration’s 2010 at 9:40am said: Kind of
different interpretation of the whom? By the Russians? By Committee on April 22nd. plans to impose economic like the “keystone cops”! Better
document they signed. Russian O b a m a ’ s n o m i n e e t o b e And New START’s problems sanctions on Tehran. yet, it’s like the skit done by
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Associate Director for the do not end with its constraints • The Obama administration’s Abbott and Costello….”Who’s
told reporters in Moscow on N a t i o n a l S e c u r i t y a n d on missile defense. An signature housing bailout on Second, What’s on First”.
April 6th that Russia would exit International Affairs, Office of independent assessment by the program, Making Home • Blair, Franconia, NH on May
the treaty if “the U.S.’s build-up Science and Technology Policy New START Working Group Affordable, is dropping 18th, 2010 at 9:40am said: This
of its missile defense strategic Philip Coyle? Coyle, by the has identified other key homeowners from the program is disconcerting. What was
potential in numbers and quality way, has made a name for problems with the agreement at an increasing rate. Obama thinking?
begins to considerably affect the himself by questioning whether including: the possible exclusion • A 2002 Justice Department • Richard H. Irish, Edmond,
efficiency of Russian strategic missile defense is technically of rail-mobile ICBMs from Office of Legal Counsel memo OK on May 18th, 2010 at
nuclear forces. … Linkage to possible, despite a proven track coverage under the Treaty’s concluding that state police 9:40am said: So, the Obama
missile defense is clearly spelled record of repeated successes by launcher limits, the lack of a officers have “inherent power” administration continues to lie,
out in the accord and is legally the Pentagon’s Missile Defense proper definition of air-launched to arrest undocumented what ELSE is new?
binding.” Agency. If a new U.S. President ICBMs under the counting rules immigrants for violating federal
So which is it? Does New who actually believes in missile and the fact that the U.S. and law is making it difficult for the You can follow any responses
START place limits on U.S. defense is elected, would that Russia have failed to agree on Obama administration to to this entry through the RSS 2.0
missile defense or not? While an C o m m a n d e r i n C h i e f b e the matter of limitations on the challenge Arizona’s new feed.
April 8th State Department fact constrained by what President U.S. missile defense program. immigration law. Five Filters featured article:
sheet on “Ballistic Missile Obama and anti-missile defense David J. Kramer, who spent • President Barack Obama The Art of Looking Prime
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Treaty” mirrored the March qualified as “effective missile and now works as a fellow at the the press at the official signing General Election. Available
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sheet showed significant the Senate Committee on Robert Bluey: “The Russians • Echoing President Obama’s
movement towards the Russian Foreign Relations will hold its have to spin this at home as call for conservatives to “get out
position. It says, “The New first hearing on the New START saying they have laid down of the way,” Woody Allen told a
S T A R T T r e a t y d o e s n o t Treaty. The first witness is markers on missile defense. Spanish language newspaper
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Candidates Cut Back Bucks for Hill Seats
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 2:21:08 AM
For all the talk of the growing
role of money in American
politics, the nation's
congressional candidates appear
to be on track to spend less on
their campaigns for the second
straight election cycle,
according to official data.
The nearly $1.38 billion spent
by the 2,382 House and Senate
candidates seeking office in
2008 was almost 3 percent
below the cumulative tab for the
2006 elections, according to the
Federal Election Commission.
And the $1.42 billion in receipts
— including donations and even
overpayment refunds from
vendors — represented a 1
percent decline compared with
the previous election cycle,
according to the Federal
Election Commission.
The agency has offered no
official explanation for the drop
in 2008, when candidates
Barack Obama and John
McCain raised a record $1.8
billion for their presidential race
— four times more than in 2004.
Private analysts have offered
their own explanations for the
drop and about where the trend
might go. The recession, which
hurt donors in both parties, and
the meteoric rise of free social
networking sites such as
Facebook to replace traditional
paid media advertising are seen
as prime causes.
Times remain tough, and the
early signs are that the 2009-
2010 cycle will also not be
setting any new records for
congressional political spending.
Though 2010 has no
presidential race, cash on hand
for the Democratic
Congressional Campaign
Committee is significantly down
compared with the same period
in 2008. The group has $26
million compared with $44.3
million for 2008, according to
information supplied to The
Washington Times. The
National Republican
Congressional Committee has
$9.9 million, compared with
$7.2 million in 2008.
Campaign finance experts said
the recession had cut into how
much supporters were willing
and able to contribute to the
2007-08 campaigns, which
coincided with the start of the
worst economic downturn in
decades.
"Clearly that's when the
economy went down," said Dick
Wadhams, chairman of the
Colorado Republican Party.
"People couldn't give money."
He noted that the tightest 2008
races still proved very
expensive, particularly the
unsuccessful Colorado Senate
campaign he managed for
former Rep. Bob Schaffer
against then-Rep. Mark Udall, a
Democrat.
Mr. Schaffer spent $7.2 million
and Mr. Udall spent $13 million,
compared with the average cost
of $8.7 million to win a Senate
seat in 2008, according to FEC
records.
"That was a competitive race, as
you know, and Senate races cost
more," Mr. Wadhams said.
Experts say that Republican
losses in 2008 were in part from
the excitement generated by Mr.
Obama's candidacy and by his
unprecedented fund-raising
machine, which may have
inhibited spending by
congressional and other
candidates of both parties.
"Maybe some of the
[Democratic] candidates rode on
the coattails of the massive
amount Mr. Obama was
spending," said Jessica
Levinson, director of political
reform for the Los Angeles-
based Center for Governmental
Studies. "And that race really
sucked the air right out of the
room. There could have been
less need — or reason — to
spend as much money as in
2006 because there's only a
finite amount of time a voter can
spend on politics."
Ms. Levinson pointed out the
2008 races also marked the real
emergence of social media
networks on the Internet in
politics and fundraising.
"Facebook, blogging, e-blasts
— it's free media and has the
potential to get bigger as
candidates look for less-
expensive ways to reach voters,"
she said.
But while congressional
incumbents and challengers hold
the line on spending, the same
restraint is not evident for
outside groups. Campaign
finance experts are watching
closely to determine whether the
recent Supreme Court ruling
striking down some federal
restraints on political advertising
by private independent groups
will affect expenditures in the
upcoming midterm elections.
The nonpartisan Campaign
Media Analysis Group in a new
study found that independent
political groups have spent $62
million on political advertising
so far in the 2009-2010 electoral
cycle, triple the amount
compared with the same point
four years ago.
The Wall Street Journal
reported this week that the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, labor
interests such as the AFL-CIO
and interest groups from the
Sierra Club on the left to the
new American Crossroads on
the right are promising to spend
freely this year as Republicans
make a push to reclaim control
of Congress.
© Copyright 2010 The
Washington Times, LLC
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'Gossip Girl' - 'Last
Tango, Then Paris'
Recap (Season Finale)
Laura Prudom (TV Squad)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 3:22:00 AM
Filed under: Recaps,
Finales(S03E22) "Miss Blair, I
defriend Mr. Chuck in Facebook
and in life, but this is pretty
romantic thing he's doing." -
Dorota
Welcome back, 'Gossip' girls
and guys; there's nothing more
explosive than a season finale
on the Upper East Side, so I
hope you're strapped in for a
bumpy ride -- it seems our
scandalous socialites really did
save the best for last this year.
Little J is once again wearing
one of Nate's shirts and wearing
out her welcome after a platonic
night in his bed, which I can
only imagine she spent staring
dreamily at his perfect eyelashes
while he slept, like the creeper
she is. Huge sighs of relief all
around that despite his despair
with Serena, Nate still doesn't
want to touch that hot mess with
a ten foot pole.
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Deal with Fannie and Freddie Now or We’ll Pay Later
David John (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 5/17/2010 5:00:18 PM
What’s the main selling point
for the financial regulation bill
Congress is debating? That it
would end taxpayer bailouts.
The Senate even added an
amendment directly noting that
the bill is intended to “prohibit
taxpayers from ever having to
bail out the financial sector.”
But don’t breathe a sigh of
relief too quickly. Because the
bill’s many problems include
this frequently overlooked fact:
It does nothing to fix the
problems with Freddie Mac and
Fannie Mae, both of which A)
played a major role in the
meltdown of 2008 and B) are
asking for more money.
Ignoring Fannie and Freddie
would be a huge mistake. More
than a year after going into
receivership, they still dominate
the housing finance market by
buying mortgages from lenders,
packaging them into bond
issues, and then reselling them
to investors worldwide. Last
year, the two financed or backed
about 70% of single-family
mortgage loans. They hold
about $5 trillion in their
investment portfolios.
Most importantly: Both are
losing money fast, with those
losses being covered by the U.S.
taxpayer. About a week ago,
Freddie announced it had lost $8
billion in the first quarter of
2010 and would be asking for
another $10.6 billion in taxpayer
help. Not to be outdone, Fannie
announced an $11.5 billion loss
and asked for another $8.4
billion from taxpayers.
That’s atop the nearly $145
billion of your dollars that
Fannie and Freddie have already
received. And the total is sure to
go higher: Last December, the
Obama administration lifted
caps on how much total bailout
money the two can receive. The
old limits were $200 billion
each (though those estimates
were widely understood as
fiction). The new limits {hellip}
well, there are no new limits.
Moreover, requirements that the
two shrink their portfolios were
watered down.
There seems to be no end in
sight — the two firms’ own
management admits that there is
no prospect for ending the red
ink in the foreseeable future.
The crisis should have come as
no surprise. Experts have
warned for decades that both
entities lacked sufficient capital
— made up of both investors’
money and retained earnings —
to protect against losses. Back
when they were privately
owned, Fannie and Freddie had
only $1 for every $20 in assets,
while most banks had $1 in
capital for every $12 in assets.
Congress considered higher
standards in the 1990s, but
many of the same congressional
leaders who head their oversight
E-reader News Edition
to Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), a
plan to tame Fannie and Freddie
will have to wait until at least
next year. An effort by Sen.
John McCain (R-AZ), to amend
the pending financial regulation
bill to address the problem was
defeated last week, replaced by
a call for a “study” of the issue.
The issue has also been slow-
tracked by the Obama
administration, which only
recently opened a formal
proceeding to examine options
for the two firms. In fact, rather
than resolving the pair, the
administration is making them a
key part of its economic arsenal,
using them to prop up the
housing markets. As support
from TARP and by the Fed
shrinks, Freddie and Fannie
seem — at least in part — to be
taking their place.
Fannie and Freddie haven’t
been coy about their new role.
In a financial statement released
last year, Fannie Mae was
unusually blunt about what the
administration was asking, and
what the financial effects were:
“Our financial results are likely
to suffer, at least in the short
committees today bowed to a done overnight. Realistically, term, as we expand our efforts
h i g h - p o w e r e d l o b b y i n g this will take several years. But to assist the mortgage market,
campaign that derailed reform. t h a t o n l y m a k e s i t m o r e thereby increasing the amount
Enough is enough. Fannie and important that the process begin of funds that Treasury is
Freddie should be partly wound now. required to provide to us and
down, the rest broken up and Yet, reforming these two further limiting our ability to
sold off — not replaced, g o v e r n m e n t - s p o n s o r e d r e t u r n t o l o n g - t e r m
reformed, or rejuvenated. Such a enterprises isn’t a priority for p r o f i t a b i l i t y . ”
process of course cannot be many policymakers. According DEAL page 51
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SESTAK vs. SPECTER
Jesse Zwick (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 5/17/2010 11:00:00 PM
Whether you like the old
codger or not, Arlen Specter
knows how to win elections. At
least that’s what he and his
surrogates have been telling
Pennsylvania voters—over and
over again—in his dead-heat
senatorial primary race with Joe
Sestak. “People recognize that I
am the only guy who can beat”
GOP challenger Pat Toomey,
Specter told CNN on Sunday.
Sestak “can’t do it.” Meanwhile
the state Democratic chairman,
T.J. Rooney, has been
drumming up similar visions of
apocalypse, remarking to
Politico that a Sestak primary
win would be “cataclysmic” for
Democrats’ chances to keep the
seat blue in the fall.
Recent poll numbers don’t
exactly bear this out—the May
13 Quinnipiac poll actually
shows Sestak performing better
than Specter in a matchup
against Toomey, while Franklin
& Marshall has both Democrats
polling virtually the same. Still,
it’s an argument that’s not
entirely without merit. Specter’s
got over 30 years of experience
winning statewide elections in
Pennsylvania, and he’s acquired
a cadre of deep-pocketed
campaign donors in the process.
State-level officials on both
sides of the political aisle
generally know and respect the
rascally senator, and he’s
maintained the backing of Biden
and Obama to boot.
More than the facts, however,
it’s the perception that Arlen
Specter is unbeatable that seems
to be keeping his faltering
campaign afloat. He constantly
invokes his narrow win over Pat
Toomey in a heated 2004
Republican primary as evidence
that he’s got the guy’s number,
and Democrats are buying it.
The same Quinnipiac survey
that showed Sestak outpolling
Specter in a fall matchup against
Toomey also found that 54
percent of Democrats
nonetheless figured Specter was
more likely to beat Toomey,
with only 29 percent placing
their confidence in Sestak.
Specter, in other words, has
been successful in convincing
voters that he’s the practical
choice. The only problem is it’s
probably not true.
Signs that Specter isn’t a sure
bet in November have been
around for months, long before
Sestak’s recent 20-point surge in
the polls. First, there’s the
matter of Specter’s favorability
numbers, which have steadily
declined since he switched
parties last year. At the end of
April 2009, 52 percent of
Pennsylvania voters had a
favorable impression of him,
while 34 percent had an
unfavorable one; now, he’s at 36
percent favorable and 50 percent
unfavorable, according to
Quinnipiac( other polls follow
the same trend.) Indeed,
Specter’s unfavorable ratings
have hovered in the 45 percent
range since last
November—high negatives that
reveal a dangerously low ceiling
to his support.
That there are consistently
fewer undecided voters in
Specter’s hypothetical matchups
with Toomey than in Sestak’s
underscores the same point: that
Pennsylvanians have already
made up their minds about the
30-year incumbent—and that
they’re not thrilled. Sestak, on
the other hand, possesses a
much less-defined public
persona and therefore has room
to grow, especially against
Toomey, who coasted through
the Republican primary, but
who has some ultra right-wing
views that could prove
troublesome in the general.
Specter’s party flip has also left
him without a natural political
base. Sestak’s devastating ad
campaign linking Specter to
George W. Bush has planted
plenty of distrust among the left,
while moderate Republicans
have flocked to Toomey out of a
sense of betrayal. “I would say
the most honest candidate is
Sestak,” one disgruntled
Toomey supporter told me in
Philadelphia. “The deceiver is
Specter.” And what about
independents—Specter’s fabled
bread and butter? They put his
unfavorable rating at 58 percent,
according to Quinnipiac.
A lot can happen between a
primary and a general election,
but it seems increasingly
unlikely the Specter will be able
to redeem himself in the eyes of
Pennsylvania voters. Add to that
an anti-incumbent fervor
sweeping the nation, and one
thing is pretty much clear: no
matter what he says, Arlen
Specter is very far from a sure
thing in November.
Jesse Zwick is a reporter-
researcher for The New
Republic.
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DEAL
continued from page 50
This must stop. Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac have distorted
housing markets enough. Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac should be
put on a path to resolution. And
Congress should ensure that no
successor institution be provided
with the implicit guarantees that
allowed these two to play havoc
with financial markets.
Otherwise, we can look forward
to many more bailouts in the
future.
Co-authored by James Gattuso.
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Wheel?
Kathryn Nix (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 5/17/2010 6:00:55 PM
Greece’s recent escapades in
economic disaster are a sobering
example to the United States of
the consequences of allowing
government spending to far
exceed revenue. But though
Americans’ concern regarding
the financial outlook of the
federal government grows, those
with the power to act something
seem largely unaffected.
The International Monetary
Fund (IMF) recently released a
report that the United States’
debt could surpass 100 percent
of Gross Domestic Product
(GDP) as early as 2015.
According to the Hill, “The IMF
predicts that the U.S. would
need to reduce its structural
deficit by the equivalent of 12%
of GDP, a much larger portion
than any other country analyzed
except Japan. Greece, in the
midst of a financial crisis, needs
to reduce its structural deficit by
just 9% of GDP, according to
the IMF’s analysis.”
As depicted in Heritage’s 2010
Federal Budget Chart Book, the
national debt is on its way to
unprecedented and
unsustainable new levels. The
Congressional Budget Office
predicts that the budget deficit
in 2010 will be 10.3 percent of
GDP—the historical national
average is 2.9 percent. The end
of the recession will mean
increased revenues and deficit
reductions, but it is nevertheless
on track to climb dramatically in
future years.
These numbers prove that it’s
time to get serious about
government spending, and the
recent case in Greece serves as
the supporting evidence.
However, lawmakers didn’t
seem to get the memo. Writes
Robert Samuelson in the
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considers them at all it, would
be in a lame duck session, make
this a weak approach at best to
reversing the government’s
deficit spending problem.
Moreover, the Commission will
exclude interest payments from
its considerations, real spending
that rivals spending on
government programs and will
climb to$768.2 billion by 2020.
A serious proposal would not
disregard this serious
expenditure.
Writes Samuelson, “The
message from Europe is that this
ultimately fails. Intellectually
elegant evasions are still
evasions.” Samuelson claims
both increases in taxes and
decreases in spending are
necessary to balance the
budget–However, new taxes
would have deleterious
effects on the growth of the
Washington Post, “The lack of find a way to balance the U.S. economy, likely without
seriousness is defined by three budget. Instead, they have been e v e n p r o d u c i n g e x p e c t e d
missing words: “balance the charged to “stabilize the debt-to- revenue s. Controlling deficits
budget.” GDP ratio at an acceptable should thus focus on reducing
In fact, for the first time since level.” According to Samuelson, reckless spending. It’s time for
1 9 7 4 , t h e H o u s e o f this is “…the language of Washington to wake up and get
Representatives failed to even “experts”, employed to deaden real about seeking solutions to
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and reckless move that throws “something is being done” when crisis.
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Submitted at 5/17/2010 4:00:32 PM would only deflate the perceived
urgency of imposing sanctions
Iran announced today that it
had reached an agreement with
on Iran while allowing Tehran
to advance its nuclear weapons
Obama's
Turkey and Brazil to exchange
some of its stockpile of low
program with impunity. As a
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enriched uranium for more
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Submitted at 5/18/2010 2:42:52 AM
President Mahmoud settle the problem posed by the
Ahmadinejad announced the Iranian nuclear program.” The A U.S. immigration court has
controversial deal in a three way Obama Administration must granted asylum to President
press conference with Turkish immediately reject the proposed Obama's African aunt, allowing
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan deal and denounce it as yet her to stay in the country, her
and Brazilian President Luiz sanctions on Iran. Tehran’s Iran has been trying to talk its another Iranian ploy to stall attorneys announced Monday.
Inacio Lula da Silva in Tehran. latest ploy is entirely consistent way out of another round of e f f o r t s t o i m p o s e f u r t h e r The decision was mailed Friday
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would send 1200 kilograms minimizing the international The problem is a lack of action the core problem of Iran’s drive Kenya native Zeituni Onyango,
(2,646 pounds) of low enriched reaction to its nuclear defiance: – Iran has failed to comply with for nuclear weapons. the half-sister of Mr. Obama's
uranium to Turkey within a “ cheat, retreat, and delay.” By repeated U.N. Security Council Tags: Brazil, iran, Luiz Inacio late father, testified at a closed
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k i l o g r a m s o f 2 0 p e r c e n t does not address the central uranium enrichment efforts and Ahmadinejad, nuclear weapons, arrived in a wheelchair and two
enriched uranium that would be problem of Iran’s continued refute charges that it is using its Turkey, United Nations Security doctors testified in support of
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Kagan Courts Potential GOP Ally continued from page 53

asylum "due to violence in Obama wasn't involved in the

During Hill Visits Kenya." The East African nation
is fractured by cycles of
Boston hearing. The White
House also said it was not
(Newsmax - Inside Cover) legislation, which was struck members of the Judiciary panel electoral violence every five helping Ms. Onyango with legal
Submitted at 5/18/2010 3:17:00 AM down by the Supreme Court. that will hold her confirmation years. fees.
Graham voted "pass" last year hearings. Democrats have more In a November interview with In his memoir, "Dreams from
Supreme Court nominee Elena when the Judiciary Committee than enough votes to confirm the Associated Press, Ms. My Father: A Story of Race and
K a g a n o n c e c l a s h e d w i t h approved Kagan's nomination to her, and Republicans, seven of Onyango said she was disabled Inheritance," Mr. Obama
R e p u b l i c a n S e n . L i n d s e y be solicitor general, then missed whom voted to make her and was learning to walk again affectionately referred to Ms.
Graham over the treatment of her final confirmation vote. But solicitor general, say for now after being paralyzed from Onyango as "Auntie Zeituni"
terrorism detainees. he hinted last week that he they're not inclined to try to Guillain-Barre syndrome, an and described meeting her
Now she's looking for his might be persuaded to vote block a vote. autoimmune disorder. during his 1988 trip to Kenya.
support in her drive to win "yes" on making her a justice. Kagan's meeting schedule Ms. Onyango moved to the Ms. Onyango helped care for
c o n f i r m a t i o n a s P r e s i d e n t "I have been generally pleased Tuesday also includes a strong United States in 2000. Her first the president's half brothers and
Barack Obama's choice to with her job performance as critic, Sen. John Cornyn of asylum request was rejected, sister while living with Barack
replace retiring Justice John solicitor general, particularly Texas, as well as two Democrats and she was ordered deported in Obama Sr. in Kenya.
Paul Stevens. regarding legal issues related to who are backers, Sens. Al 2004. But she didn't leave the © Copyright 2010 The
Kagan is returning to Capitol the war on terror," Graham said Franken of Minnesota and country and continued to live in Associated Press. All rights
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Amy Adams Welcomes a Daughter

(TVGuide.com: Breaking
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Fall 2010 TV Scorecard: Which Shows Are Returning? Which

Aren't?
(TVGuide.com: Breaking Friday Night Lights(NBC) Lost(ABC)
News) Fringe(Fox) Mercy(NBC)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:11:00 AM Glee(Fox) Past Life(Fox)
Gossip Girl(CW) R o m a n t i c a l l y
Zachary Levi and Elizabeth The Good Wife(CBS) C h a l l e n g e d ( A B C )
Mitchell Grey's Anatomy(ABC) Scrubs(ABC)
It's that time of year, folks: pilot How I Met Your Mother(CBS) Sons of Tucson(Fox)
season! To make way for the Human Target(Fox) Three Rivers(CBS)
new shows, the networks have Law & Order: SVU(NBC) 'Til Death(Fox)
s t a r t e d t o t r i m t h e f a t , Lie to Me(Fox) Trauma(NBC)
announcing cancellations and The Middle(ABC) Ugly Betty(ABC)
reduced episode orders left and Modern Family(ABC) PILOTS PICKED UP
right. Have your favorites made NCIS: Los Angeles(CBS) Body of Proof(ABC)
the cut? See the list below and The Office(NBC) The Cape(NBC)
check back often for the latest Parenthood(NBC) Chase(NBC)
renewal/cancellation news: Parks and Recreation(NBC) The Event(NBC)
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30 Rock(NBC) The Simpsons(Fox) CSI: Miami(CBS) The Forgotten(ABC) Love Bites(NBC)
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Charlie Sheen Returning to Two and Matt Nix's 'The Good

a Half Men
(TVGuide.com: Breaking
News)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:34:00 AM
Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen will return to
Two and a Half Men for two
more seasons.
"To put a fitting end on the two
and one-half months of
whirlwind speculation, I'm
looking forward to returning to
my CBS home on Monday
nights," Sheen said in a
statement. "I want to thank
[CBS President and CEO] Les
Moonves for his support."
Terms of the deal were not
disclosed. Calls to CBS and
Warner Bros. were not
immediately returned, but CBS
will unveil its fall lineup
Wednesday.
Charlie Sheen: If I leave Two
and a Half Men, "so be it"
The actor's future with the hit
sitcom — which was already
renewed for two more years —
Guys' Rocks Cop Dramas,
was uncertain after he publicly
stated last month that he was
ready to walk away should
contract negotiations fall
through. Sheen earned $825,000
per episode last season and was
ranked the highest-paid actor on
TV. He denied reports that he
was demanding a bigger
paycheck as a last-minute
negotiating tactic, saying that he
submitted his terms for Season 8
last June.
Two and a Half Men's
production order cut by two
episodes
The deal caps a tumultuous
season for Sheen, who faces
domestic violence charges
stemming from a Christmas Day
fight with wife Brooke Mueller.
He has pleaded not guilty and is
due back in court July 21.
Production on Men halted for
three weeks in February when
Sheen entered rehab as a
"preventative measure." He
returned to work March 16, and
the show's production order was
later reduced by two episodes.
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Submitted at 5/18/2010 5:08:00 AM
Filed under: Features, TV
Previews Cop shows have been
in serious need of a humor
transfusion. Ever since the hard
nosed days of'Dragnet" in which
Joe Friday would lecture young
punks on the dangers of drug
use, grand theft and bad
grammar, cop shows have
always had a hard time finding
the funny in the lives of the boys
and girls in blue. Although,'Cop
Rock' made me laugh harder
than most of the sitcoms of the in the pain pile.
'Burn Notice' creator Matt Nix
'80s, but I'm sure that wasn't
intentional. has found it.'The Good Guys,'
premiering Wednesday on Fox,
It's easier said than done. Police
work is dirty business and offers a fresh take on the buddy
cop comedy that does for police
mining it for humor is like
trying to find hay in a needle shows what Thomas Magnum
did for bushy mustaches: made
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2010 Upfronts: ABC Q&A: Can I use

Mike Moody (TV Squad)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 4:28:00 AM
Filed under: TV News ABC has
announced its new fall schedule
ahead of its upfront presentation
later to day in New York City.
The network has picked up five
new dramas including 'No
Ordinary Family,' 'Detroit 187,'
'The Whole Truth,' 'Body of
Proof' and 'My Generation.'
The new comedy 'Better
Together' has also made the
schedule as well as the reality
game show 'My Secret
Millionaire,' which previously
ran on Fox. All in all, it looks
like ABC has greenlighted 10
new shows for next fall,
including comedies 'Mr.
Sunshine' and 'Happy Endings'
and drama 'Off the Map' for mid
-season
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Submitted at 5/18/2010 6:55:13 AM
Q&A: Can I use glucosamine
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Can I buy glucosamine by
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gathered for an event called Lost were donated the to auction by sweetened the pot by having the
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s e a s o n o f t h e s e r i e s a n d production company and various the'Lost' cast.
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Expecting Twins
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Chris and Deanna Daughtry
Chris Daughtry and his wife,
Deanna, are expecting twins via
a surrogate.
"Deanna and I are overjoyed
about this double blessing," the
American Idol alum announced
on his band's website. "Thank
you for your expressions of love
and support and for respecting
... our privacy during this
special time."
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The babies, who are due in
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man who has a steamy in-flight
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Jennifer Love Hewitt, who plays
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Tip of the Day: Cut cooling costs

with ceiling fans
Consumer Reports Shopping • Run the ceiling fan only when
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Tip of the Day: Cut cooling the room.
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Houston's heady player has
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Source: Chicago Bulls not discussing LeBron James-John
Calipari package deal
Andy Katz (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 5/17/2010 11:41:19 PM
A source with direct knowledge
of the Chicago Bulls front
office's plans says the team
believes it has the right players
in place -- namely, Derrick
Rose, Joakim Noah and Luol
Deng-- to surround LeBron
James when it makes its case
with the free agent-to-be on July
1.
But the source said there has
been no discussion of bringing
Kentucky coach John Calipari in
with James as part of a package
deal.
The Chicago Tribune reported
Monday that according to
league sources, basketball
power broker William Wesley --
a friend of both James and
Calipari -- has been quietly
contacting NBA teams that have
coaching vacancies and salary-
cap space about the possibility
of bringing in James and
Calipari together.
Mike & Mike in the Morning
ESPN NBA insider Chris
Broussard talks about Mike
Woodson being fired in Atlanta
and Mike Brown being on thin
ice in Cleveland. Broussard also
says he doesn't think LeBron
James and John Calipari will be
a package deal.
But the source with knowledge
of the Bulls front office's
thinking insisted that the team
hasn't been approached about
packaging Calipari to get James
to come to Chicago. The source
also said that bringing Calipari
along to get James would lessen
Calipari's status in the locker
room, because of the perception
that he was James' handpicked
coach.
Another league source told the
Tribune that another person,
described as an "unknown
Calipari connection," contacted
the Bulls over the weekend.
However, ESPN The
Magazine's Chris Broussard
reported Monday on
"SportsCenter" that according to
his sources, James is not
demanding Calipari coach him
on whichever team he plays for
next season. And a source close
to Wesley told ESPN.com that
Wesley had not contacted the
Bulls or any other team about a
James/Calipari package deal.
A source with knowledge of the
Los Angeles Clippers' thinking
denied there had been any
contact with Wesley or any
other inquiries about Calipari.
The source called the report
linking Wesley to the Clippers
"inaccurate." Another Western
Conference front-office
executive questioned the
validity of the story, telling
ESPNLosAngeles.com via text
message, "Nobody's buying
that."
Calipari has publicly stated that
he is coaching at Kentucky next
season.
NBA teams cannot formally
contact free agents until the
league signing period starts at
12:01 a.m. ET on July 1.
James and Calipari have
become friends through their
mutual friendship with Wesley,
who is considered one of the
most powerful men in
basketball. Wesley is part of the
"family" that James referred to
repeatedly in his postgame
comments after the Celtics
knocked James' Cleveland
Cavaliers out of the playoffs.
Wesley was also reportedly
involved in steering Rose and
Tyreke Evans to Memphis when
Calipari was coaching there.
Calipari, who completed his
first season at Kentucky this
year, said Friday on his Twitter
feed that he will remain in
Lexington to coach the Wildcats
in 2010-11.
"I've said many times that I've
got the best job in the country.
Still the speculation runs wild
and I can't stop that. I want to
address this with the Big Blue
Nation one last time, I will be
coaching at Kentucky next year.
Now let's finish what we
started!" Calipari said Friday on
Twitter.
Calipari has one NBA stop on
his coaching résumé, with the
Nets from 1996 to '99, making
the playoffs in 1997-98. He
coached two full seasons and
was fired 20 games into the
1998-99 season, finishing with a
72-112 record in 184 games.
But a source close to Wesley
said it was "insulting" to assume
that Calipari could get an NBA
coaching job only with James'
help. The source also said that it
would take between $5 million
and $6 million to pry Calipari
from Kentucky, where he earns
$3.5 million.
Multiple sources close to
Calipari have also recently said
it would take at least $5 million
a year to bring him back to the
NBA.
On Monday in response to the
report, Calipari said on Twitter:
"Now, do I have to respond to
these rumors too?"
James, meanwhile, has declined
to address whether he will return
to the Cavs or sign with another
team, as speculation about his
future mounts. The Bulls, Nets,
Clippers and New York Knicks
are all among teams expected to
make a full-court press for
James, the NBA's two-time
defending MVP.
The Daily Herald of Arlington
Heights, Ill., reported Sunday
that according to league sources,
James has contacted Rose to
express interest in playing with
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him.
Fans in Chicago appear
confident that James will choose
the Bulls. In the first 24 hours
after the Celtics eliminated the
Cavaliers from the NBA
playoffs on Thursday, the Bulls
sold more than 500 new full-
season tickets and a team
official estimated call volume at
about 50 times the normal level,
according to the Tribune.
But the source close to Wesley
said James has not made a
decision and that leaving Ohio
won't be easy.
"He has a $30 million
compound there and with all his
friends and family there that
aren't going to just leave for
another city, it's not easy to just
leave," the source said, pointing
out that James has spent his
entire life in the Akron-
Cleveland area.
The source said that anyone
who says what James is going to
do is "lying, because he doesn't
know now."
Cleveland's second-most
popular athlete made his pitch to
James.
Browns Pro Bowl return
specialist Josh Cribbs, whose
connection with Cleveland fans
helped get him a new contract,
said Monday night that he
would hate to see James bolt as
SOURCE: page 63
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Despite knee, Kobe erupts as Lakers work Suns

Associated Press opened the series with ruthless in the playoffs this season," round series to earn their third MVP. But Bryant showed no ill
(ESPN.com) offensive efficiency in a 128- Suns coach Alvin Gentry said. postseason date in five years, effects, and he even bounced
Submitted at 5/18/2010 1:51:07 AM 107 victory on Monday night. "Kobe kind of controlled the but the Lakers didn't allow a back up after hitting his head on
"Just being aggressive, playing whole game. I thought we could week off to affect their Richardson's knee during a drive
LOS ANGELES -- Kobe my game," Bryant said. "Got have withstood the game that he remarkable execution. They in the first quarter.
Bryant dribbled toward the shots, took them. Got lanes to had ... but when he's making his scored easily and often, even "He's the best scorer in the
Lakers' bench, luring Channing the basket, took them." jumper like that, there's not a with center Andrew Bynum league," said Odom, who set a
Frye and Jason Richardson Pau Gasol had 21 points for the whole lot you can do about it." managing just four points while career playoff high for rebounds
along with him. Bryant leaned top-seeded Lakers, who won Game 2 is Wednesday night at playing shakily on his own sore in his most assertive game of the
back and launched a feather-soft their seventh straight playoff Staples Center. knee. current postseason. "Drives,
jumper over Phoenix's double game and snapped the Suns' six- Amare Stoudemire scored 23 After a 62-point first half for fadeaways with his back to the
team, neatly beating the first- game streak with a phenomenal points and Steve Nash had 13 the Lakers, Bryant alternated basket, inside-outside, with his
quarter buzzer. second half, highlighted by points and 13 assists for the jumpers and strong drives while left hand. Time off is exactly
That's about when the Suns Bryant's 21-point third quarter. Suns, who hadn't lost since Los Angeles pulled away, what he needed."
should have noted the bright He barely stepped on the Lakers' April 24. Robin Lopez started at making a 13-2 run in the third Game notes
yellow brace on Bryant's right practice court during the past center and scored 14 points in quarter. His 13-for-23 shooting Bryant last scored 40 points in
knee is the color of a caution week to rest his ailing knee, his playoff debut, but Phoenix performance included three 3- the postseason during the opener
sign. ankle, finger and back -- all couldn't keep up with the pointers and 11 free throws with of last year's NBA finals against
More from ESPN.com minor impediments to a major champs' height and 58-percent just one miss. Orlando. ... Lakers G Sasha
Kobe Bryant turned this into his talent. shooting in the Suns' first "Kobe carried a lot of the Vujacic appeared in his first
game -- and put his name at the "I practice so much during the conference finals appearance offense tonight, no doubt," game of the postseason after
top of the playoff storylines, season," Bryant said. "In the since 2006. Lakers coach Phil Jackson said. missing the first two rounds
writes J.A. Adande. Daily Dime offseason, I work a lot. To take 2010 NBA Playoffs "I will say he was going to with a sprained ankle. ... Bryant
The Suns slinked away from a week off, I'm not going to lose The 2010 NBA playoffs have shoulder the game. He was and Grant Hill got technical
G a m e 1 o f t h e W e s t e r n all the work I put in prior to begun. Keep track of your going to take it on. He's been fouls for arguing with officials
Conference finals with as many that." favorite team here: very optimistic through the 57 seconds apart in the third
worries as 48 minutes can Game In A Quarter Playoff index whole week. He felt like he had quarter. ... Larry David watched
generate, writes Marc Stein. Game 1 was decided in the Los Angeles committed just the amount of rest and shooting the game from the same eight-
Story third quarter as Kobe Bryant nine turnovers in Game 1 -- its he had to have. He was attentive seat courtside section where his
• McMenamin: Odom's effort nearly matched the entire Suns third straight single-digit and involved [in practice]." fictional alter ego infamously
key team point-for-point. turnover game -- while The Suns sent Bryant, Odom tripped Shaquille O'Neal during
• TrueHoop: Lopez is back The defending NBA champions outrebounding the smaller Suns and the Lakers home for the a first-season episode of "Curb
Even with a balky knee and a beat the third-seeded Suns at 42-34. summer in 2006 and 2007, and Your Enthusiasm."
litany of additional woes, Bryant their own uptempo game when "They're probably going to Los Angeles' veterans Five Filters featured article:
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Bryant scored 40 points, Lamar playoff career. make enough shots, and we had was drained "a while ago,"
Odom added 19 points and 19 "They played great, one of the a few too many breakdowns." moving it to the top of the injury
r e b o u n d s , a n d t h e L a k e r s best games I've seen them play Both teams swept their second- list for last season's NBA finals
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Pittsburgh Steelers to resume OTAs minus Ben continued from page 61

a free agent.
Roethlisberger Cribb says Cleveland "wouldn't
be the same" without James.
ESPN.com news services 1-3 and June 8-10. a big supporter of the charity. conduct policy who has not been "He's the king here. LeBron
(ESPN.com) There was a Roethlisberger "Ben lost his mother early in his arrested or charged with a James is king, being in this city
Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:42:48 AM sighting on Monday, however, life, and he has been a main crime. Goodell said the league's and growing up in the Cleveland
as the quarterback played in the contributor," Ward told WTAE. conduct policy gave him the area. If he goes anywhere else,
The Pittsburgh Steelers are set Hoge Starks Ward Celebrity Ward said the golf event was a right to impose discipline he'll just be a phenomenal,
to resume voluntary organized Golf Classic for Children. g o o d f i r s t s t e p f o r r e g a r d l e s s o f w h e t h e r extraordinary athlete.
team activities on Tuesday and The charity event benefits the R o e t h l i s b e r g e r . Roethlisberger broke the law. "But he will not be the king in
they likely will do so without Highmark Caring Place, which "Now, it's working on how to The suspension can be reduced any other city but Cleveland."
Ben Roethlisberger, who is still benefits grieving children. Since get things back on the right to four games if Roethlisberger Andy Katz covers college
not cleared by the NFL after his 1994, the event has raised track. Having him out here c o m p l e t e s a n e v a l u a t i o n b a s k e t b a l l f o r E S P N . c o m .
mandated behavioral evaluation. almost $2 million for the [Monday] -- I'm glad to have mandated by the league, any Information from Ramona
Roethlisberger has reportedly charity. him here. His suspension is action that is mandated by that S h e l b u r n e a n d D a v e
completed his evaluation and "Ben has always been here, what it is. Life isn't over for evaluation and he remains out of M c M e n a m i n o f
the Steelers are still waiting for always supported us," former him. He has to go on," Ward trouble. He can practice during ESPNLosAngeles.com and The
word when the quarterback will Steelers running back and told WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh. training camp and play in Associated Press was used in
b e c l e a r e d b y N F L current ESPN NFL analyst O n A p r i l 2 1 , G o o d e l l preseason games, but cannot this report.
commissioner Roger Goodell to Merril Hoge told WTAE-TV in suspended the two-time Super return to game action until at Five Filters featured article:
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Thunder Series a Distant Memory as Lakers Hit Groove

Chris Tomasson (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 2:00:00 AM
Filed under: Lakers, Suns, NBA
Injuries, NBA Playoffs
LOS ANGELES -- When those
on the Lakers got up following a
110-89 April 24 pounding in
Oklahoma, they weren't singing, what's wrong with the Lakers? "convincingly.''
"Oh, What a Beautiful How much was Kobe Bryant So let's flash forward a little
Morning.'' hurting after that strange Game more than three weeks. What's
The team's season was at a 4 in which he didn't take a shot wrong with the Lakers?
crossroads. After a lackluster 4- for the first 15 minutes?
7 finish to the regular season, Lakers forward Pau Gasol
the top-seeded Lakers were tied challenged his teammates that
2-2 in the first round of the Oklahoma City Thunder. night. He said they needed to
p l a y o f f s w i t h t h e N o . 8 Everybody was wondering, win Game 5 of the series
64 Sports/ Gaming/ E-reader News Edition

Tiger Woods adds British Open to

summer schedule
ESPN.com news services he returned from a five-month commitment Woods has made
(ESPN.com) layoff at the Masters, and that it for this summer. He has already
Submitted at 5/18/2010 7:23:08 AM was not related to the Nov. 27 committed to the U.S. Open at
car accident when he ran into a Pebble Beach and the AT&T
Neck injury or not, Tiger tree, setting off revelations of National at Aronimink, where
Woods added the British Open infidelity. he is the defending champion.
to his schedule. Tests last Wednesday showed Woods said in a news
Woods filed his entry form, an inflamed neck joint that conference last week that he
according to Golf Digest, and causes pain and makes it hard hoped to be able to defend his
added the British Open to the for him to turn his head, an title at the Memorial, which
s c h e d u l e o n h i s w e b s i t e injury that will require little
Monday. more than medicine, massages
starts June 3 at Muirfield
Village in Ohio. Exploring a 'Cyber
Woods has a chance to become and rest. His next tournament will be his
the first player in the 150-year Woods had an MRI exam that
history of the British Open to revealed inflammation in a facet
first without swing coach Hank
Haney, who stepped aside last
Renaissance' in Deus
win three times at St. Andrews, joint of his neck. He said on his
w h e r e g o l f ' s o l d e s t website that when facet joints
championship will be held July are inflamed, it causes pain in
Monday.
Information from The
Associated Press was used in
Ex: Human Revolution
Mike Schramm (Joystiq) genres and settings for the third
15-18. the area along with headaches this report. Deus Ex game, Belletête and the
Submitted at 5/18/2010 4:00:00 AM
Woods, the 2000 and 2005 and difficulty rotating the head. Five Filters featured article: team landed on the phrase
British Open winner, withdrew "I now need to take care of this The Art of Looking Prime When Art Director Jonathan "Cyber Renaissance" to describe
from the final round of the condition and will return to Ministerial - The 2010 UK Jacques-Belletête sat down to the look they chose. In a pre-E3
Players Championship on May 9 p l a y i n g g o l f w h e n I ' m General Election. Available design the overarching look of presentation this week, Belletête
after a week in which he was physically able," Woods said tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Deus Ex: Human Revolution, he t a l k e d a b o u t " C y b e r
seen stretching and rolling his last Wednesday. Text RSS, Term Extraction. had two big criteria for his R e n a i s s a n c e , " a n d h o w i t
neck. Woods said his neck had The British Open entry marks designs to meet. First, he wanted defined the art and architecture
been bothering him since before t h e t h i r d t o u r n a m e n t to choose "illustration over of Square Enix's Deus Ex title.
simulation" -- rather than Continue reading Exploring a
creating something exactly real, 'Cyber Renaissance' in Deus Ex:
he wanted to make a game that Human Revolution
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he adhered to the theory that R e n a i s s a n c e ' i n D e u s E x :
"design distinction creates Human Revolution originally
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More Questions Emerge in McCourts' Tussle
Over Dodgers
Jon Weinbach (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 5/17/2010 11:28:00 PM
Filed under: Sports Business
and Media
Over the past 18 months, the
Los Angeles Dodgers paid
nearly $4 million in "consulting
services" to an entity that has
done virtually nothing for the
club, even as the team has made
a concerted effort to raise ticket
prices, trim payroll and acquire
players on the cheap. Moreover,
the club paid two of Frank and
Jamie McCourt's adult sons
large salaries -- $400,000 and
$200,000 per year, respectively
-- for services that are undefined
and could not be described by
either Frank or Jamie McCourt,
according to court documents
filed in the couple's divorce
case.
FanHouse has also learned that
the Dodgers' ownership includes
two limited partners who
provided loans to help the
McCourts finalize their purchase
of the club in 2004, according to
people familiar with the matter.
One of the limited partners is
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Spanish
Tortilla
(Simply Recipes)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 12:43:44 AM
To a native Californian like
myself, "tortilla" is round and
flat, and comes in only two
styles, flour and corn. So the
concept that a tortilla could also
be a thick potato omelette, took
some getting used to. But that is
Franklin Weigold, a long-time "sizable" equity in the team in Reached at his home in Beverly t h e d i f f e r e n c e b e t w e e n a
executive with Analog Devices, the event of a default on the Hills, Weigold had no comment Spanish tortilla and a Mexican
Inc., a Norwood, Mass.-based loans, according to the source. and referred all questions to tortilla. The Spanish version is
maker of electronic equipment. (The McCourts have not missed Frank McCourt. The Dodgers made by frying thinly sliced
Weigold lives part of the year in any of the payments since they d i d n o t c o m m e n t o n t h e potatoes in olive oil, then
Los Angeles and was also part became owners six years ago.) consulting payments or loans. layering those slices in a pan
of the McCourts' failed bid to There has never been any "Frank McCourt is the 100 (preferably a cast iron frying
purchase the Boston Red Sox in previous mention of the limited percent owner of the Dodgers, pan), covering with beaten eggs,
2001. partners, their loans or their as confirmed by Major League and cooking until set. It's
It is not clear who the other potential stake in the club by Baseball," a team spokesman perfect for a weeknight meal,
limited partner is, but that entity either the McCourts or the said via e-mail during the team's a n d o n l y r e q u i r e s a f e w
a n d W e i g o l d b o t h o w n Dodgers. Weigold is not listed Monday night home game ingredients which you likely
c o n v e r t i b l e b o n d s i n t h e anywhere in the club's media against the Houston Astros. have in your pantry. It's good
Dodgers that would transfer into guide or on its website. warm, room temperature, or
cold, and makes for great
leftovers.
Continue reading "Spanish
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Kobe's Physical Toughness One-Ups
Phil's Foolishness
Jay Mariotti (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 2:15:00 AM
Filed under: NBA LOS
ANGELES -- So gushers of
fluid were drained from his right
knee, forcing him again to wear
a protective wrap. In Kobe
Bryant's voluminous medical
journal, isn't that the equivalent
of a hangnail or pulled earlobe?
Lost in the LeBron James
tanking debacle last week was
how Bryant, once derided as the
NBA's most petulant punk, has
endured so much pain and
treatment this season that we're
starting to view him as one of
the baddest asses ever to play
basketball.
What does LeBron go, 6-9 and
260 with the body of a
Hummer? And what does Kobe
go, 6-6 and 205, built like a
Testarossa? And yet, who's the
tougher guy in crash scenarios?
I still don't know what look he
was going for in that regrettable
Los Angeles Times photo shoot
recently, the first -- and
hopefully last -- time in the
history of fashion that a man
would wear a headband, top hat
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Team Fortress 2 +
Portal gun = Team
Portress
David Hinkle (Joystiq) reloading, you can manually kill
Submitted at 5/17/2010 10:00:00 PM any active portals in the game
world.
N o t s i n c e w e ' v e s e e n a Peer past the break to check out
DeLorean in Crysis have we a bunch of videos showcasing
been so in love with a mod. the mod, courtesy of 3 Point
Team Portress, a 3 Point Games Games and Pixelated Geek.
Community mod for Team [Via Pixelated Geek; thanks,
Fortress 2, adds the iconic gun Jessica]
and bow tie in the same way- overmatched Phoenix Suns. from Portal into the mix. As Continue reading Team
funky portrait. And we thought What about the knee, the index you'll see in the multiple videos Fortress 2 + Portal gun = Team
Alex Rodriguez was narcissistic. finger, the back spasms, the past the break, nothing stops a Portress
But a bad idea will be forgiven ankle? "I practice so much Scout dead in his tracks like a Team Fortress 2 + Portal gun =
quickly if Bryant, the last during the season," he said after nice portal trap. Team Portress originally
megastar left in the NBA leading the Lakers to a 128-107 Some necessary changes had to appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 17
playoffs, keeps ignoring his blowout that should revive be made from how the portals M a y 2 0 1 0 2 2 : 0 0 : 0 0 E S T .
injuries and scores 40 points confidence that they are the usually operate. For example, Please see our terms for use of
seemingly without effort. favorites to repeat. "In the there's a timer for each portal, feeds.
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fouls Monday night against the that."
straining, reaching and
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Nintendo registers
Report: Industry missing out on several '3DS' trademarks
revenue from aging, disabled gamers in Japan
Richard Mitchell (Joystiq) players that are more prone to to cater to the disabled market. Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) stereoscopic handheld?
Submitted at 5/17/2010 11:00:00 PM disability than the young. "By making video games Submitted at 5/18/2010 9:55:00 AM More importantly, do they
Finally, Baby Boomers -- those accessible to gamers with really think they can make the
A c c o r d i n g t o a r e p o r t born between 1946 and 1964 -- disabilities, which includes Though Iwata recently alluded shorthand version of the device's
coauthored by the Able Gamers have much more disposable older gamers," writes co-author to the fact that a "formal" name "N3DS" and not expect us
Foundation and 7-128 Software, i n c o m e t h a n y o u n g e r Eleanor Robinson, "game moniker for the Nintendo 3DS to exclusively refer to it as a
the game industry is losing out demographics, adding up to manufacturers will unlock a h a r d w a r e w o u l d s o o n b e "Ned's?" Because, heads up
on up to $3 billion in revenue by billions in potential revenue. lucrative, paying market of announced, a set of trademarks guys, that's exactly what we're
failing to cater to older or "If the gaming industry does not consumers for years to come." recently filed in Japan seem to going to call it. "It might be a
disabled gamers. The report realign their priorities to include [Via The Escapist. Image: hint that the device won't long car ride, Billy," we'll say.
a l l e g e s t h a t t h e g a m i n g accessible gaming," notes the AbleGamers.org] actually undergo a name change. "You'd better bring your Ned's."
population is getting older, report, "then a collision will Report: Industry missing out on Siliconera reports that Nintendo Nintendo registers several
noting that the ESA pegged the happen in the next five years," revenue from aging, disabled recently registered Japanese '3DS' trademarks in Japan
average gamer's age at 35 in resulting in "lost sales and lost gamers originally appeared on trademarks for "Nintendo 3DS," originally appeared on Joystiq
2008, up from 33 in 2007 and customers." The report proposes Joystiq on Mon, 17 May 2010 " N 3 D S , " " 3 D S P l a y " a n d on Tue, 18 May 2010 09:55:00
30 in 1995. It states further that that game developers begin 23:00:00 EST. Please see our "3DSWare." There's a lot of EST. Please see our terms for
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the industry to a wide potential color blind modes, variable implementing a separate online
audience of older players -- speed settings and more in order store specifically for the
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Massive, Cataclysmic Star Death

Now Available in 3-D
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 5/17/2010 2:57:35 PM
Simulated 3-D Star Death
About 0.5 seconds after initial
core ignition, the supernova
blasts outward in an uneven,
lumpy manner. The whitish,
transparent outer layer is the
blast front. Max Planck Institute
Alpha Protocol's Michael for Astrophysics
Massive stars live for a very

Thorton goes globetrotting long time, so when their lives

finally do come to an end they
like to go out with a bang -- a
in latest trailer bang that can become brighter
than the whole galaxy for a
Ben Gilbert (Joystiq) kid, Brits!). AP is due to hit time. Astronomers have studied
Submitted at 5/18/2010 12:30:00 AM retailers in under two weeks-- and modeled these supernovae
just enough time for Thorton to for decades, but for the first time like nickel asymmetrically lot questions about how those
When he's not busy being tour the globe three or four more researchers at the Max Planck blasting outward from the core. asymmetries form at the
f o r m a l l y i n t r o d u c e d o r times. We'll be watching our Institute for Astrophysics have The team found significant beginning of a supernova event.
eloquently headslamming foes, backs just in case he stops by. created a 3-D computer sim of a differences in their 3-D model Future simulations will model
Alpha Protocol's Michael C o n t i n u e r e a d i n g A l p h a star undergoing core collapse form their previous work in two the supernova of a wide array of
Thorton is hopping on planes, Protocol's Michael Thorton goes over a timescale of hours after dimensions, shedding light on progenitor stars so researchers
trains, and automobiles around globetrotting in latest trailer the initial explosion. exactly how some metal rich can try to get a better grasp on
the globe. In the game's latest Alpha Protocol's Michael This wasn't just an exercise in clumps are flung out of the what traits are common to all
trailer (found after the break), Thorton goes globetrotting in modeling one of the more center of the star at much higher supernovae, as well as what
Thorton travels to exotic locales latest trailer originally appeared sensational events in the cosmic velocities than other gases and characteristics make them
the world over ... and kills on Joystiq on Tue, 18 May 2010 catalogue. Researchers wanted elements present in the dying unique.
people! He's a lot like that 00:30:00 EST. Please see our to know why supernova blasts star. [ Science Daily]
James Bond fella, but without terms for use of feeds. are uneven, with some elements The 3-D models could answer a
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Largest-Ever Study On Cancer and Cellphones Finds "No
Increase in Risk"
James Geary (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 5/17/2010 4:25:47 PM
Electro-Magnetic Model
Electro-magnetic waves from
the phone's antenna penetrate
the brain several centimeters
deep. Paul Wootton But the long
-term effects of prolonged
cellphone use require further
study-and will spark fresh
controversy
When I was reporting my
March 2010 PopSci feature
story on the possible health
effects of cell phone radiation, I
was particularly interested in
learning about the Interphone
project, a collection of 13
different national studies
coordinated by the International
Agency for Research on Cancer
(IARC), part of the World
Health Organization.
Interphone is the largest
completed analysis to date of
brain tumor (glioma and
meningioma) risk in relation to
mobile phone use. When I was
writing my piece, none of the
scientists I interviewed could or
would say much about the
study, since it had yet to be
published. So not much about
Interphone ended up in my
story. But when I asked one
source familiar with the study's
progress what we would learn
once the results appeared, this
person said: "We'll learn how to
do better studies."
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Epidemiology, concludes:
"Overall, no increase in risk of
either glioma or meningioma
was observed in association
with use of mobile phones.
There were suggestions of an
increased risk of glioma, and
much less so meningioma, at the
highest exposure levels …
However, biases and errors limit
the strength of the conclusions
we can draw from these
analyses and prevent a causal
interpretation."
This result is in line with the
majority of other published
studies, which also observed no
increased risk of brain tumors in
association with cell phone
radiation and cite biases and
errors in those studies that do
show a correlation. But the
publication of the Interphone
results does not address the two
main concerns of those who
believe cell phone radiation may
have an impact on human
health: namely, that the effect of
long-term exposure, especially
on children, is still unknown and
that brain tumor rates alone are
not the proper metric by which
to measure risk.
Methodological failings-
especially recall bias; i.e. people
incorrectly remembering past
cell phone use-have long
plagued research on this topic.
Well, the Interphone study has right.
f i n a l l y a p p e a r e d a n d , The paper, published this week LARGEST-EVER page 71
unfortunately, my source was in the International Journal of
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New X-Ray Security Scanners Present Radiation Risk,
Scientists Say
Rebecca Boyle (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 5/17/2010 4:20:41 PM
Airport Security The security
screening area at Denver
International Airport. via Flickr/
sixmilliondollardan
A group of scientists from the
University of California-San
Francisco is worried that a new
generation of airport security
scanners could present a cancer
risk, NPR reports. But skeptics
say people flying at 30,000 feet
are already bombarded by
cosmic rays, so a brief trip
through an X-ray machine on
the way to the plane is a drop in
the radiation bucket.
After the "underwear bomber"
incident on Christmas, the
Obama administration ramped
up deployment of advanced
scanners that can spot
explosives or weapons, NPR
says. Some 1,000 new machines
will be in use by the end of next
year, roughly half of which are
X-ray back-scatter scanners.
The machines, which can look
beneath passengers' clothes,
expose passengers to ionizing
radiation for about six seconds.
So far, much of the concern
about the scanners has come
from privacy advocates -- the
scanners produce a detailed
image of a person's body
without clothes. But David
Agard, a biochemist and
biophysicist at UCSF, says they
may present a health risk, too.
He wrote a letter last month to
Obama science adviser John
Holdren, asking for a more
thorough review of the scanners'
potential health risks.
"Ionizing radiation such as the
X-rays used in these scanners
have the potential to induce
chromosome damage, and that
can lead to cancer," Agard says
in the letter.
The scanners' potential harm
comes from the low energies at
which they operate. Most of the
energy is delivered to the skin
and immediately underlying
tissue, Agard writes. If the dose
were distributed throughout the
entire body, it would be safe,
but a targeted dose to the skin is
too high, he says.
Certain people might be at a
particularly high risk of cancer
from radiation exposure,
including the elderly; a small
percentage of people with DNA
anomalies, who represent about
5 percent of the population; HIV
and current cancer patients; and
children, Agard says.
But the Food and Drug
Administration, the U.S. Army
Public Health Command and
researchers at the Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics
Laboratory have said the
machines are safe, according to
the Transportation Security
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Administration.
NPR quoted an FDA radiation
specialist who said the scanners
put out far less radiation than
what passengers get from
cosmic rays. He told NPR one
screening would be equivalent
to spending four minutes in the
air.
But Agard attacks that
assumption, too, saying cosmic
rays and chest X-rays are
absorbed by the whole body. X-
ray scanners that deposit their
energy into the skin represent a
different dose, targeted to a
certain area, and their effects are
not as well understood, he says.
David Brenner, head of
Columbia University's Center
for Radiological Research, also
expressed concern about the
scanners during a recent a
congressional hearing. He said
the government should invest in
millimeter-wave scanners,
which have no known radiation
risks. They produce images
using radio waves rather than X-
rays, and the TSA says the
images are comparable in
quality to the X-ray scanners.
The cost is comparable, too,
according to NPR.
The government has prepared a
response to Agard's concerns,
but he hasn't gotten it yet,
according to NPR. Agard says
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continued from page 69
The Interphone authors once
again cite bias as preventing any
firm conclusions about the
effects of long-term use: "The
possible effects of long-term
heavy use of mobile phones on
risk of brain tumors require
further investigation," the paper
states, "given increasing mobile
phone use, its extension to
children and its penetration
world-wide." To that end, the
IARC will carry out a
comprehensive review of all
published epidemiological and
experimental evidence and the
European Union will fund
MobiKids to investigate the risk
of brain tumors in childhood and
adolescence.
Studies like Interphone and
MobiKids take a long time to
conduct and, of course, by the
time they are finished the
technology has already moved
on, which raises doubts about
the usefulness of the results.
Since Interphone was launched,
for example, cell phone usage
NEW
continued from page 70
further studies are needed.
"After review of the available
data we have already obtained,
we suggest that additional
critical information be obtained,
with the goal to minimize the
potential health risks of total
body scanning," he writes.
has increased dramatically but
radiation levels from cell phones
have decreased.
Plus, the scientists who believe
there could be a risk from cell
phone radiation believe that risk
could involve the immune
system as a whole rather than a
direct cause-and-effect
relationship between radiation
and brain tumors. So many of
these scientists suspect studies
like Interphone don't give the
full picture.
One thing is clear, though:
After Interphone, opinion will
be just as polarized and passions
will run just as high as before
Interphone.
Browse through some of the
comments posted to my original
story for a taste of the debate.
Many people ridiculed the very
idea of risk from cell phone
radiation, and accused Per
Segerbäck, a Swedish former
telecoms engineer who suffers
from electro-hypersensitivity
(EHS) and whom I profiled in
[NPR]
the piece, of inventing his
condition. Several EHS
sufferers wrote back, explaining
their condition and citing studies
that suggest it's real.
Segerbäck's daughter even
responded with a comment of
her own: "Maybe you never
heard anyone say anything bad
about your dad, but … reading
you comments made me cry …
I'm sorry if you don't understand
the illness, but I promise you
that a lot of people has it. But
please do not think that he is just
making this up. That breaks my
heart."
I do not believe Segerbäck
invented his condition, but I am
not able to cite a study that
provides a scientific explanation
for it either. There is evidence to
suggest possible mechanisms for
a health effect from cell phone
radiation; these are outlined in
my story. None of the scientists
who did this research and whom
I interviewed for my story said
their work ‘proved' that cell
phones have an impact on
human health. They all did say,
however, that the evidence
merited further research-which
is exactly what the IARC is
saying.
Research into the potential
health effects, if any, of cell
phone radiation is so hotly
contested in part because the
technology is relatively young,
but also because the research
itself is so difficult to carry out.
I don't know if cell phone
radiation has an effect on human
health, but I do know it's not
good science to dismiss the
unproven as impossible. In fact,
we could do a lot worse than to
take Segerbäck's own advice:
"Be careful, weigh the evidence,
and make your own decision."
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Computer Algorithm
Can Recognize Sarcasm
(Which Is Just Soooo
Cool)
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:38:04 AM
Recognizing Sarcasm with
Computer Algorithms
The pursuit of machine
intelligence means we have to
come up with ways to
communicate with our
computers in a way both entities
can understand. But while
computers process verbal
commands in a straightforward
fashion, humans tend to use
more sophisticated speech
forms, employing slang or
symbols to convey an idea. So
an Israeli research team has
developed a machine algorithm
that can recognize sarcasm.
SASI, a Semi-supervised
Algorithm for Sarcasm
Identification, can recognize
sarcastic sentences in product
reviews online with pretty
astounding 77 percent precision.
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Northern Arizona University To Use RFID Tags continued from page 71

To create such an algorithm, the

to Monitor Student Attendance team scanned 66,000
Amazon.com product reviews,
Rebecca Boyle (Popular with three different human
Science - New Technology, annotators tagging sentences for
Science News, The Future sarcasm. The team then
Now) identified certain sarcastic
Submitted at 5/17/2010 3:46:46 PM
patterns that emerged in the
RFID Attendance-Taker RFID reviews and created a
chips like this one could soon be classification algorithm that puts
integrated into student ID cards each statement into a sarcastic
at Northern Arizona University. class.
Flickr/ Oskay The algorithms were then
Lazy college students are trained on that seed set of 80
Arizona's latest target of identity sentences from the collection of
-tracking. Students at Northern reviews. These annotated
Arizona University are sentences helped the algorithm
protesting a plan to monitor learn what sorts of words and
their attendance using radio- patterns distinguish sarcastic
frequency ID chips embedded in remarks - those that mean the
their student IDs. opposite of what they literally
A university spokesman told convey, or that convey a
Government Technology sentiment inconsistent with the
magazine that the intent is to smaller classes would have to the Arizona Republic reports. the dorms, the Republic reports. literal reading.
e n c o u r a g e p r o f e s s o r s t o f i n d a n o t h e r w a y t o t a k e As of Monday, about 1,500 So it's probably not worth They then turned the algorithm
incorporate attendance into attendance. Given that class NAU students had joined a trading with a friend. loose on an evaluation set.
grading systems. More frequent sizes shrink as a student's Facebook group protesting the It remains to be seen whether Pattern evaluation efficiency
attendance leads to higher education progresses, the policy cards' use, saying it violates the chips would contribute to scored accurately 81 percent of
grades, the university says. The would likely impact freshmen their rights as students to choose i n c r e a s e d a c a d e m i c the time, while the overall
system, purchased with $85,000 and sophomores. whether or not to go to class. performance. After all, as every p r e c i s i o n o f t h e p a t t e r n
in federal stimulus funds, would Students wouldn't have to take Privacy advocates are also student knows, just showing up r e c o g n i t i o n / s a r c a s m
start this fall. their ID cards out, because the voicing concern, Government for class doesn't mean you're categorizing algorithm was
The idea is to install card readers would be sensitive Technology reports. awake. accurate in 77 percent of
readers in all classrooms that enough to pick up signals from Although some students might [IEEE Spectrum, Government instances. Not bad for a
seat 50 or more students -- those anywhere in the room. Data try to subvert the system by Technology] computer's first shot at
in which it'd be difficult or time- from each class would be having a friend carry his or her interpreting the human sense of
consuming to take attendance recorded, and instructors would card, the cards are also used to humor.
every day. Professors who teach get reports on who was in class, pay for food and gain entry to This isn't all just so your
Roomba gets the joke when you
tell it it sucks. Computer
programs that can recognize

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sarcastic statements could that troll the Web trying to

generate better personalized measure public sentiment about
content and make better a product or idea.
recommendations to human [ Slashdot]
users by not mistaking a product
review titled "keep your receipt"
with a sound piece of online
shopping advice. It could also
benefit opinion-mining systems

Microsoft Reinvents Hotmail with an Onslaught of New

Features
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) which gives you a quick some other features it hasn’t
Submitted at 5/18/2010 4:07:42 AM overview of what’s new in your discussed in detail, including:
inbox organized by source, such enhanced account protection,
Microsoft has announced a as e-mail contacts or social full-session SSL, multiple email
huge slew of upgrades to contacts from Facebook or accounts, subfolders, contact
H o t m a i l t o m a k e i t m o r e Twitter. This reminds me of the management and ever-growing
competitive with Gmail, and we way Windows 7 “simplifies” the storage. All in all, you could say
h a v e t o a d m i t t h e l i s t i s control panel and many other it’s a catchup effort, but we’ll
impressive. Windows features, and I prefer give Microsoft the benefit of the
W i t h 3 4 3 m i l l i o n u s e r s , to skip to the real thing. But this doubt and call it a complete
Hotmail is still the top e-mail new view is definitely clean and overhaul. It’ll be hard to steal
service provider. Gmail is much simple, and I’m sure many users users away from Gmail —
smaller, with approximately 150 will get used to it quickly. which still has dozens of minor
million users as of September The Sweep function is touted as features that Hotmail doesn’t
2009. a simpler alternative to e-mail (just check the Labs) — but
Gmail has been adding features filtering, enabling you to Hotmail will most likely be a
relentlessly in the past couple of quickly organize the e-mails worthy competitor after the new
inbox. You can also store the comes to consuming content. If
years, however, and the sleek which aren’t exactly spam, but version is launched this summer.
documents and photos you send you receive a video from Hulu
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on Microsoft SkyDrive, which or YouTube, you can view it
services has made it the fastest y o u r i n b o x . I t ’ s n o t For more technology coverage,
means you don’t have to worry right there in the inbox. If you
growing webmail. And just like groundbreaking, but it’s simpler follow Mashable Tech on
about size constraints because receive attached photos, you can
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your documents reside in the see them in the form of a nifty
also happens to generate the The new Hotmail is also Facebook
cloud. slideshow, provided you have
most buzz in the media. integrated with Office Web Tags: hotmail, microsoft,
Microsoft also took document Silverlight installed.
Among the new Hotmail Apps, meaning that you can edit trending
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The Pirate numbers

Episcopal Bay to RIAA:
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in greater
Are LA Kindle Arrives on
tmatt (GetReligion)
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to all comers. Then the big event homepage of the absolutely
arrives and about, oh, 5,000 gigantic Catholic Archdiocese
people show up. of Los Angeles lists Masses in
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covering the event do the math includes “African-American
and ask even the most basic of focus” and “Native American
questions about the health and focus” rites.
happiness of people — on both bishops, one of whom is the first England ringed the arena, each draws 3,000 when the room was
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Mollie (GetReligion) teenager, makes food from It began and ended with University students, then with a about Emily’s List — a PAC
scratch, reads a lot (“every word
Submitted at 5/17/2010 10:01:25 AM references to her vocation as group of teens at a health clinic that supports candidates who
in every paragraph”), and loves mother and included nothing but in Northeast. She had lunch with support abortion rights — that
The Washington Post is known to wash dishes. Here was a positive information about a a small group of professional read like a press release.
for puffy Style-section profiles sample from that hagiography: woman who oversees the largest women and stay-at-home moms Compared to these puff pieces,
of movers and shakers in the Kate Michelman is the face of provider of abortions in the in their thirties and forties. As last week’s story about Marjorie
Washington area. A few years reproductive rights. It’s a thin country. Instead, it’s just nice: she rode from place to place, she Dannenfelser, who heads the pro
ago, we looked at the puffiest face with high cheekbones, dark To get the job done, she has asked her driver, Ron Evans, for -life Susan B. Anthony list, is
Washington Post Style profile I eyes that can light up and a been traveling and seeking an update on the NCAA just odd. (It might have run
can recall. It was about Kate mouth with a corner that upturns advice. Thursday she was back tournament so she could talk because Sarah Palin, pictured,
Michelman, the former head of at comic moments. in Washington, where she lives brackets with her husband. spoke at an SBA List function
NARAL Pro-Choice America. Or there was the much more with her husband and 15-year- At the end of the story, she’s last week.) The best thing I can
We learned from that piece that informative, if no less puffy, old twins, until they all move to actually playing Foosball with say about it is that, unlike all of
she organized sales to benefit treatment of Cecile Richards, New York this summer. She met kids from the projects. More
Mexican farm workers as a the head of Planned Parenthood. with George Washington recently, there was this story GETTING page 77
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Seriously spiritually ‘Lost’

Sarah Pulliam Bailey easy to read into the show and kind of connect into “live
(GetReligion) look for religious references. together, die alone,” which is
Submitted at 5/17/2010 11:30:43 AM For example, did Sayid look like that these people were all lone
Jesus when he came out of the wolves who were complete
I can’t express my love for Lost water in cross-like fashion? Tim strangers on an aircraft, even the
enough. For a while, I was Townsend explored some of the ones who were flying together
almost convinced The Onion religious-related theories in his like Sun and Jin. Then let’s
produced the clip“Final Season weekly column on Saturday. bring them together and through
Of ‘Lost’ Promises To Make Here’s a teaser for the rest of the their experiences together allow
Fans More Annoying Than” column: themselves to be redeemed.
about me. Is it a show about a modern-day When the show is firing on all
In fact, I’m still stinging from shipwreck, featuring misfit pistons, that’s the kind of
tmatt’s description of his friends castaways trying to survive storytelling that we’re doing.
who have “consumed a bit too i n c r e a s i n g l y b i z a r r e I think we’ve always said that
much Kool-Aid.” I’m not alone, circumstances on an island the characters of “Lost” are
t h o u g h . A b o u t 1 0 - 1 5 somewhere in the Pacific deeply flawed, but when you
Christianity Today International O c e a n ? look at their flashback stories,
employees meet over lunch each Or is the island just a they’re all victims. Kate was a
week to discuss theories. What metaphor? Is it really a show victim before she killed her
is the smoke monster? Why about faith, redemption, evil, stepfather. Sawyer’s parents
doesn’t Richard Alpert ever predestination, love, suffering, killed themselves as he was
age? Is shirtless Sawyer f r e e w i l l a n d h u m a n hiding under the bed. Jack’s dad
necessary? These are the u n d e r s t a n d i n g o f t h e was a drunk who berated him as
probing questions that keep us s u p e r n a t u r a l ? a child. Sayid was manipulated
awake at night. For those who Either way, when “Lost” ends by the American government
aren’t caught up, there are no in just over a week, what will into torturing somebody else.
spoilers in this post. remain is the debate — John Locke had his kidney
By now, most of you should conducted in offices, gyms, stolen. This idea of saying this
know the show’s premise. A coffee shops, elevators, taxis bad thing happened to me and
plane crashes on a mysterious and especially on thousands of I’m a victim and it created some
island in the middle of the blogs across the country—about bad behavior and now I’m going
Pacific ocean. The characters the religious themes sprinkled to take responsibility for that
surprised to see religion asked there’s one word that we keep
were originally just trying to throughout the series’ six and allow myself to be
about up front and center. coming back to, it’s redemption.
survive as their stories were told seasons. redeemed by community with
Q. Your show traffics in a lot of It is that idea of everybody has
through flashbacks. Then their All of this brings me to an other people, that seems to be
big themes — fate versus free something to be redeemed for
purpose evolved into some interview The New York Times the theme that we keep coming
will, good versus evil, faith and the idea that that redemption
larger meaning as a character did with the show’s executive back to.
v e r s u s r e a s o n , h o w o f t e n doesn’t necessarily come from
n a m e d J a c o b s u p p o s e d l y producers Damon Lindelof and Later in the interview Lindelof
Sawyer should be shirtless. a n y w h e r e e l s e o t h e r t h a n
brought them to the island. Talk Carlton Cuse. That’s a lot of said that the characters’ names
Ultimately, what were the most internally. But in order to
to me after Sunday’s finale, and pressure to put on interviewer come from a mix of their
important themes for you in this redeem yourself, you can only
I may be disgusted with the Lorne Manly because fans want favorite stories, including “Bible
series? do it through a community. So
show if it’s all Hurley’s dream. to know a lot of answers to a lot SERIOUSLY page 78
D A M O N L I N D E L O F : I f the redemption theme started to
Because theories abound, it’s of questions. I was pleasantly
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the other profile pieces you read
day-in and day-out in the
Washington Post style section,
this one is not puffy. But it’s
also rather distant … and cold. I
don’t know Dannenfelser and I
didn’t really feel like I knew her
any better after reading this
piece. It’s not that it has many
errors, or completely fails to
discuss Dannenfelser’s religious
views, it’s just written as if the
reporter and the subject inhabit
different planets.
We learn a bit about the group’s
political strategy, an interesting
topic these days when those who
oppose abortion have been dealt
some tremendous defeats at the
federal level. But it certainly
seems as if the issue is personal
for reporter Jason Horowitz.
Note this paragraph:
Dannenfelser, wearing a striped
beige jacket and a necklace of
silver spheres, came out of her
small office, where books about
the importance of women in the
life of Pope John Paul II
(“Wojtyla’s Women”) and an
anti-Democratic screed (“The
Party of Death”) sat in a short
bookcase. She spoke in a warm
Southern accent, and as she
fiddled with a pink packet of
Post-it Notes, declared that the
abortion issue is back on the
nation’s radar.
I’ve read “ Party of Death.” I’m
pretty sure that Mr. Horowitz
hasn’t. It’s the opposite of a
screed. It has an aggressive title
— one that refers not to a
political party but to a
movement that, Ponnuru argues,
has overtaken the Democratic
Party, the media, many courts
and other institutions — but the
book itself is very calm and
reasoned. The author, who I
know and who is actually a Post
contributor, is unique. He lays
out his case without personal
invective, something that’s
almost unheard of in modern
political writing. Ponnuru’s
book, which is about many
aspects of modern bioethics and
political history is just not a
screed. Ponnuru is a tough
opponent. His book certainly
angered pro-choicers as much as
it delighted pro-lifers. But no
matter what your personal view
of abortion politics, screed is
just not an appropriate word to
use about an important book like
“Party of Death” in a profile
piece about a pro-life activist.
Of course, whether Horowitz is
writing on the front page of the
Post or in his normal Style
section digs, I think he lets too
much of his own politics into his
writing.
Anyway, back to the profile.
Here’s a sample:
Dannenfelser, a native of
Greenville, N.C., and former
debutante, grew up as Marjorie
Jones, an Episcopalian and
defender of a woman’s right to
choose. One summer spent in a
Georgetown house for
Republican interns changed that,
when a bitter schism erupted
between social conservatives
and libertarians over a
pornographic video. That
domestic dispute began the
gradual transformation that led
Dannenfelser to her current
antiabortion crusade, her
conversion to Catholicism and
the founding of a society named
after the suffragist who,
according to historians, hardly
made abortion a signature issue.
OK, the last line is also
interesting to me.
I remarked last week how
funny it is that the media never
ever discuss that the founder of
Planned Parenthood — one
Margaret Sanger — was a major
league eugenicist. Sometimes
when I’ve criticized that
absence of information, a reader
will say “Come on! Everyone
knows she was a eugenicist.”
I’ve come to wonder how
everyone “knows” something
that is never mentioned by the
mainstream media.
You will note that in that long,
puffy profile of Cecile Richards,
current head of Planned
Parenthood, no one mentioned
that the organization’s founder
had some (in my view, at least)
pretty disgusting things to say
about some people. Nope, not
even in a profile of the current
head of Planned Parenthood.
But this article includes several
paragraphs complaining that the
suffragist Susan B. Anthony
didn’t make abortion her
“signature issue.” I think — I
hope — we all know what
Susan B. Anthony’s signature
issue was. It’s also undeniable
that she was an outspoken critic
of abortion. All suffragists of
that era were against the practice
of abortion, of course.
Abortion as a political issue is a
modern invention but abortion
as a signature political issue is
of even more recent vintage. Pro
-choicers have been
complaining about pro-life
feminists using the anti-abortion
writings of the suffragists for
77
years — they concede Anthony
was morally opposed to abortion
but say it’s unclear whether she
would have supported the right
to commit what she called
“child murder.” Fair enough —
it’s a legitimate issue to
highlight, I guess. But I just find
it fascinating that so much space
is devoted to examining Ms.
Anthony’s views (and,
implicitly, the motivation of this
particular pro-life activist group)
when the more recent views of
Margaret Sanger never seem
worthy of being explored or
analyzed.
Anyway, perhaps this tepid
profile of Ms. Dannenfelser is
an indication that the Post’s
Style section is going to drop
it’s slobbery puff pieces.
Somehow I don’t think so,
however.
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stories from Sunday school.”
Jacob and Esau anyone? The
interviewer asks the producers
about the seasonal shift.
Q. Last season you guys
doubled down on the science
fiction with the time travel, and
this year you introduced a much
I wish there were time for more
follow-ups, because “spiritual
journey” seems so vague. Still,
I’m glad the interviewer found
time to ask about the religious
themes. What questions would
you have asked the show’s
writers? In tmatt fashion, please
question would you find most
New MacBook
important?
Update: Melissa Nann Burke Promises 10 Hour
has an excerpt from
Entertainment Weekly about the
show’s producers, who describe
Battery
themselves as “men of faith,” Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
“intensely spiritual people, and Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:26:06 AM

more religious overview. What
drove that shift?
CUSE: We view each season of
the show like a book in a series,
and so last year was the time
travel book, and that story had a
beginning, middle and end. This
season is significantly spiritual.
We felt the mission of the final
season of the show was to bring
the show full circle. And that if
we were going to be discussing
what was really important to us,
which was how do these
characters’ journeys conclude,
that journey is a spiritual
journey.
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express your opinion on the
following: Which question do
you most want answered?
(a) Which side is good and
which is evil?
(b) Who will replace Jacob?
(c) Is there fate or free will on
the island?
(d) When and what
created/formed the island?
(d) What’s with the sideways
time line?
(e) Will Juliet and Sawyer get a
coffee date?
(f) Something else
In other words, if you were the
Times interviewer, what
that ‘Lost’ is ultimately a deeply
spiritual show.” She also
pointed me to this fascinating
feature at USA Today, including
a video interview with the
producers.
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MacBook line, offering Nvidia’s
GeForce 320M graphics and
Intel’s 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo
CPU, all for the price of $999.
The price is interesting because
the 13” MacBook Pro with
similar specifications costs
$1,199. The MacBook seems
like a really good deal, but the
Pro does bring a lot of goodies
for the extra 200 bucks: 4GBs of
memory instead of 2GB, a
FireWire port, a memory card
reader, an audio in jack, and the
unibody aluminum enclosure.
However, the really interesting
bit about the new MacBook is
Apple’s promise of a 10-hour
battery life – same as the Pro.
So, if long, uninterrupted,
battery-powered sessions on
your laptop are a top priority,
the little guy no longer takes the
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back seat to its aluminum

Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!)
Submitted at 5/18/2010 8:58:19 AM
The intersection of music and
technology is a wild, fascinating
frontier. Ever since the first
computer-synthesized sounds
were created, people have
struggled and succeeded — to
varying degrees — to reshape
how we think about musical
instruments.
Today, thanks to innovators
such as Ray Kurzweil and
Robert Moog, we have a wider
range of digital music machines
than the inventors of keyboard
instruments could have ever
dreamed.
But the innovation didn’t stop
there. Drum machines, music-
making software and even
mobile phones now compose
melodies, thanks in a large part
to the men in this video. One of
the creations included in these
demos is the LinnStrument we
told you about recently.
Check out this showcase of
futuristic instruments and the
philosophies of those who make
them, and let us know what you
think about the future of musical
instruments in the comments.
Footage was shot at the SF
MusicTech Summit. Special
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