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Former political enemies join hands to save the world?
Richard Cowan (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 5/19/2010 6:02:01 PM
Nearly six years ago, Senator
John Kerry and Texas oil tycoon
T. Boone Pickens were mortal
political enemies.
As a major backer of President
George W. Bush’s re-election
effort in 2004, Pickens
contributed millions to a right-
wing ad campaign questioning
Kerry’s record as a Vietnam war
hero. The ads, which Kerry
disputed, put him on the
defensive and may have
contributed to the
Democrat’s failure to win the
White House.
On Wednesday, the billionaire
and the Massachusetts senator
sat side-by-side in the Capitol’s
ornate Senate Foreign Relations
Committee room, where Kerry
presides as its chairman.
Their mission: To spread the
word about the legislation Kerry
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and Senator Joseph Lieberman
have written to tackle global
warming by reducing U.S.
consumption of dirty-
burning fossil fuels blamed for
climate change.
“If you look at life looking
backwards and standing in one
place, you’re going to waste
your time,” Kerry told a small
group of reporters when asked
about the new relationship with
the man he now calls “Boone.”
“Six years ago was six years
ago,” Kerry said.
Both Kerry and Pickens talked
about the need to reduce
America’s reliance on foreign
oil, which the Kerry-Lieberman
bill aims to do. Pickens talked in
patriotic tones about the need to
make America energy
independent within 10 years.
“I don’t care whether you use
natural gas, ethanol, the battery.
You can use anything, just so
it’s American,” said Pickens,
who turns 82 this week.
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Patriotism aside, Pickens stands
to gain financially from the
climate change bill that Kerry
hopes to push through the
Senate this year.
His BP (as in “Boone Pickens”)
Capital Management firm has
bet that natural gas prices will
rise as the U.S. turns to cleaner-
burning fuels. Kerry’s bill
attempts to encourage heavy-
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persuasion on Republican
senators, who so far are
boycotting Kerry’s climate
initiative?
“Let me think about it ,” Pickens
said. “I don’t know for sure how
active I’m going to be on that.
No question I know most of the
Republican senators and all.”
Kerry wasn’t shy, though,
knowing he’s got a tough sales
job ahead. “I hope he contacts
some.”
Climate legislation pending in
Congress also would encourage
the development of wind
energy, which Pickens also is
duty trucks to switch from diesel
investing in. “We have the best
gasoline to natural gas and it
wind in the world,” boasted
also provides incentives for
Pickens.
natural gas cars. While Pickens
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out that natural gas is “the only
John Kerry (L) with financier T.
(alternative) fuel that will move
Boone Pickens at the U.S.
an 18-wheeler.”
Capitol)
Will Pickens use his powers of
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Options Update:
Question raised by Obama-Calderon presser: Was Campbell Soup
Volatility Near Eight-
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Republican YouCut seeks to shear Before the Bell: Wall

Mohair from budget Street Headed for Sharp
Donna Smith (Front Row
Washington)
producers despite repeated
attempts by some lawmakers
over the last two decades to get
would undermine welfare
reforms put in place in 1996 and
encourage states to increase
Declined at Open
Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:57:50 AM
Melly Alazraki
rid of it. welfare rolls and eliminate work (BloggingStocks)
It’s worth about $1 million a The program is once again requirements.
year. being targeted as unnecessary Democrats called the Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:30:00 AM

For most people that’s a lot of spending. This time by House Republican YouCut claims false
money. But in the context of a Republicans on their new Filed under: Before the Bell,
and said the money was helping
$3.7 trillion federal budget and a Y o u C u t International Markets, Market
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economic downturn.
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With Democrats in control of
(SYMC), Economic Data U.S. Geopolitical concerns as
it has more lives than an Angora spending. the House, Republicans will
stock market futures fell sharply tensions between the U.S. and
cat. The mohair item is one of five unlikely succeed in their effort
lower Thursday morning, North Korea grew, didn't help
Federal subsidies for mohair, being featured this week and the to cut that item out of the
indicating Wall Street is set to sentiment there.
which is produced from the hair public is invited to vote on budget. But it will be
extend Wednesday's declines. Continue reading Before the
of Angora goats, began in 1947 which one they think should be interesting to see what happens
Concerns over European debt Bell: Wall Street Headed for
b e c a u s e t h e m i l i t a r y w a s tossed out of the federal budget. on the mohair program. So far
persisted and the new unilateral Sharp Declined at Open
worried that there was not The top vote getter will be there is no flood of press
regulations by Germany Before the Bell: Wall Street
e n o u g h d o m e s t i c w o o l brought to the House floor by releases to defend it. Yet the
continued to shake markets. Headed for Sharp Declined at
production to supply its need for Republicans for a possible vote. program has survived past
Investors also digested news the Open originally appeared on
uniforms. Folks are also being asked to budget cutting attempts.
Senate vote on Wall Street BloggingStocks on Thu, 20 May
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Guess What: The S&P Is Just 12 Points Above Its

"Flash Crash" Low
Joe Weisenthal (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:27:00 AM
At 1077, the S&P is just 12
points above the "Flash Crash" Join the conversation about this
lows of May 6. story »
The actual number to watch is
1065.89. prices after all.
Guess those weren't broken
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Second-grader puts Michelle Obama Applied Materials: Do
on the spot
JoAnne Allen (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 5/19/2010 7:05:54 PM
As her husband made his case
for sweeping immigration
reform in the White House Rose
Garden, first lady Michelle
Obama got a first-hand peek at
the human face of the debate as
she visited an elementary school
in Silver Spring, Maryland, with
Mexico’s first lady Margarita
Zavala.
Obama answered questions
from a group of second graders
who wanted to know things like
what’s the president’s favorite
sport and whether her daughters
exercise. But one little girl
asked about immigration.
The school did not identify the
little girl who posed the
question. Montgomery County
schools spokesman Dana Tofig
said schools are barred by law
from asking about students’
Body Fluid-Powered Fuel Cell Could Turn
Pacemaker Patients Into Steve Austin
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:34:32 AM
Q2 Results Make the
Stock a Buy?
immigration status or providing
such information to others, The
Washington Post reported.
“We won’t help identify the kid.
We won’t help identify the
parents,” Tofig told the
newspaper.
The school’s principal, Jane
Litchko, told the Post that she
called the little girl’s parents to
let them know what had
happened. The girl went home
as usual at the end of the school
day, Litchko was quoted as
saying.
Here’s the transcript of the
exchange provided by the White
House:
STUDENT: Mrs. Obama, I
have a question.
MRS. OBAMA: What’s your
question?
STUDENT: I have a question.
My mom said — my mom said
that — I think that she says that
Barack Obama is taking
everybody away that doesn’t
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that’s something that we have to
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interesting trading-vehicle-type 17% and announced a buyback
to fix that, and everybody has
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got to work together in Congress
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indicated by the one-year chart, years.
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Law & Order: SVU star stops by for U.S. Jobless Claims
chat with Attorney General Increase to a Month-
Jeremy Pelofsky (Front Row
Washington) Long High
Submitted at 5/19/2010 4:53:50 PM
Mark Fightmaster
(BloggingStocks)
When Hollywood and
Washington meet, the geeky Submitted at 5/20/2010 10:30:00 AM

government bureaucrat is
usually the one in awe of the Filed under: Economic Data
movie or television star. The Labor Department issued a
But when “Law & Order: bit of a nasty surprise this
Special Victims Unit” television morning in its report on initial
jobless claims. Last week, the to the release.
heroine Mariska Hargitay
department issued 25,000 new Continue reading U.S. Jobless
stopped by the Justice
claims for unemployment Claims Increase to a Month-
Department to meet Attorney
benefits, far more than the Long High
General Eric Holder, the awe
expected drop of 6,000 claims. U.S. Jobless Claims Increase to
was focused squarely on the the
The resulting 471,000 total a Month-Long High originally
chief law enforcement officer.
claims in the past week was the appeared on BloggingStocks on
Describing their meeting as a
most in a month. Thu, 20 May 2010 10:30:00
“huge thrill”, Hargitay described
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Holder as a “rock star.” She is in
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according to August, told him: the ax last week when NBC employment because it smooths United States- Unemployment
anniversary of the Violence
“Don’t lose it!” canceled the long-running out the volatile weekly numbers benefits- United States
Against Women Act which was
Hargitay will also be testifying original series “Law & Order.” -- increased. According to the Department of Labor- Jobless
aimed at focusing more
before a House Judiciary - Photo credit: Reuters/Jeremy Labor Department, there were claims- Employment
resources and attention on
subcommittee on Thursday Pelofsky (Hargitay and her no unusual factors contributing
violent crimes against women.
about the backlog of rape kit husband stop by to talk to
She was joined in her meeting
tests. reporters at the Justice
with Holder by her husband and
She is best known for her Department)
fellow actor Peter Hermann and
starring role on“Law & Order:
their 3-year-old son, August.
SVU” as detective Olivia
The attorney general handed

Oracle Acquires Data Security Company Secerno

Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 7:26:48 AM
Oracle is acquiring Secerno, an
Oxford, UK-based provider of
database firewall solutions for end of June 2010. Until the deal layer of security around
Oracle and non-Oracle closes, each company will databases, which blocks
databases. The terms of the continue to operate unauthorized activity in real-
agreement were not disclosed, transaction to close before the independently. Secerno's time.
and Oracle expects the solution adds a critical defensive
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REMINDER: Here Are The 25 Financial Institutions Most
Likely To Default
Gregory White (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:15:21 AM
With the wild action going on
in the market today, we thought
we'd bring this back to you...
Financial firms around the
world have been under
increased stress due to the
sovereign debt crises of Europe
and the resulting reduction in
confidence in the global
economy.
We've outlined 25 companies,
using data from CMA
Datavision, which have the
largest risk of default.
Notably, Greek banks, Chinese
real estate developers, and U.S.
subprime giants show up big on
the list.
That default risk (cumulative
probability of default) is
measured through fluctuations
in the company's CDS rating,
and the height of that rating. The
spread of each 5-year CDS is
also listed. 25: Assured
Guaranty Corp CEO: Dominic J.
Frederico
What Do They Do: Asset
backed and structured finance
underwriters and insurers.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 38.6%
5-year Mid CDS: 675.6
Source: CMA Datavision
24: Caja de Ahorros de
Valencia, Castellon y Alicante
CEO: José Fernando García
Checa
What Do They Do: Mainly a
banking a credit services firm,
they are also involved in
investing across a range of asset
classes including real estate.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 38.8%
5-year Mid CDS: 568.6 bps
Source: CMA Datavision
23: DEPFA Bank Plc CEO:
Cyril Dunne
What Do They Do: A
subsidiary of German financial
firm Hypo, DEPFA is a public
sector and infrastructure finance
company.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 41.7%
5-year Mid CDS: 730.6
Source: CMA Datavision
22: EFG Eurobank Ergasias
S.A. CEO: Nicholas C.
Nanopoulos
What Do They Do: Third
largest Greek bank, focusing on
both private and commerical
banking. Has a particular
interest in Southern Eastern
Europe.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 41.9%
5-year Mid CDS: 677.5
Source: CMA Datavision
21: Caja de Ahorros del
Mediterraneo CEO: Roberto
Lopez Abad
What Do They Do: A non-
profit Spanish banking firm,
which focuses on retail banking,
but also works in insurance.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 42.4%
5-year Mid CDS: 639.6
Source: CMA Datavision
20: American General Finance
Corp. CEO: Jerry Schiano
What Do They Do: As a
division of AIG, American
General Finance Corp. provides
a variety of loan services,
including consolidation, home
equity, and vacation loans.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 42.5%
5-year Mid CDS: 734.0
Source: CMA Datavision
19: Residential Capital, LLC
CEO: Thomas Marano
What Do They Do: A holding
company for GMAC's assets,
and securitizer of mortgage
loans.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 43.7%
5-year Mid CDS: 478.8
Source: CMA Datavision
18: Kazkommertsbank JSC
Chairman of the Board of
Directors: Nurzhan S.
Subkhanberdin
What Do They Do: As
Kazakstan's largest bank,
Kazkommertsbank works in
both retail and commercial
banking and lending.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 44.1%
5-year Mid CDS: 897.4
Source: CMA Datavision
17: Piraeus Bank S.A. CEO:
Michael Sallas
What Do They Do: A Greek
bank, Piraeus works in south
eastern and eastern Europe, with
a special emphasis on Romania.
The bank engages in traditional
retail and commercial banking,
as well as real estate.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD):
5-year Mid CDS:
Source: CMA Datavision
16: Agile Property Holdings
Limited Chairman: Chen
Zhuolin
What Do They Do: Chinese
land developer, focusing on
Guangdong Province.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 46.8%
5-year Mid CDS: 705.1
Source: CMA Datavision
15: Shimao Property Holdings
Limited Chairman: Wing Mau
Hui
What Do They Do: A property
investment and holding
company centered in Shanghai,
China.
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Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 46.9%
5-year Mid CDS: 826.9
Source: CMA Datavision
14: Radian Group Inc CEO:
S.A. Ibrahim
What Do They Do: Provides
insurance protection for
mortgage instruments,
headquartered in Philadelphia.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 48.4%
5-year Mid CDS: 642.6
Source: CMA Datavision
13: Realogy Corporation CEO:
Richard Smith
What Do They Do: Real estate
company, which includes
Century 21 and Coldwell
Banker in its holdings.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 48.4%
5-year Mid CDS: 1124.8
Source: CMA Datavision
12: The PMI Group Inc CEO:
What Do They Do: Centered in
San Francisco, the PMI Group
provides risk analysis and
insurance products for the
mortgage market.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 48.9%
5-year Mid CDS: 788.9
Source: CMA Datavision
11: Russian Standard Bank
CEO: Dmitry Levin
What Do They Do: The biggest
consumer bank in Russia and
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Abracadabra Moments, the Opening Line You Should Never
Use, and 10 More Ways to Sell Ideas
(Fast Company)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:59:28 AM
A good idea can only become
great if you've got the skills to
sell it. We asked Sam Harrison,
a speaker and writer on
creativity-related topics, for a
how-to in this excerpt from his
latest book IdeaSelling:
Successfully Pitch Your
Creative Ideas to Bosses, Clients
and Other Decision Makers.
1. " If they feel they birthed it,
they can't kill it." David
Schimmel touts this tenet at And
Partners, his New York design
firm. "If you truly collaborate
with your clients and let them
take credit for ideas," says
Schimmel, "there's a good
chance you'll sell your strongest
ideas without having them
watered down."
2. Leave creative chaos at the
door. The route for discovering
an idea is usually a winding,
twisted path. But the way we
present that idea should be a
straight and narrow road. That's
not saying pitches should be dull
and didactic. Be bold. Rouse the
room. Playing it safe is for
wimps. But pitch ideas with a
clear and logical flow. Meet
clients on their mental turf.
Gently guide them to your
world.
3. Pause before you start. A few
years ago, Edward Norton and
four other actors participated in
a discussion at the Directors
Guild in Manhattan. The panel
quickly adopted a rotation, with
each actor commenting on film-
related topics. When Norton's
turn, he would always pause
before speaking. The audience
awaited his words. Norton's
comments were no more
profound than those of fellow
panelists, but the pauses
positioned him as the group's
sage. For your next pitch, pause
before starting. Lock eyes with
audience members. Build
anticipation. Capture their
complete attention--then begin.
4. One opening line never to
use. Never start your pitch with
"You're going to love this idea."
Kick off with that line and you'll
kick-start skepticism. The
decision maker will think, "Oh,
yeah?" or "Wanna bet?" I
learned this lesson on my first
job out of college. To help roll
out a new corporate identity
program, I was dispatched to tell
a plant manager he would need
to replace his facility's signage.
In my youthful exuberance, it
didn't occur that the gruff,
overworked manager might
have other priorities. "You're
going to love these signs we
created for you," I said. Looking
up from a mess of thick reports,
he stared at me for a long time.
"No," he said, "what I would
love is to send you back to
headquarters with those fancy
signs stuck up your tail." Last
time I used that line.
5. Help clients visualize your
ideas in living color. Lexington,
Kentucky asked design firm
Pentagram to develop an
identity reflecting the Bluegrass
Region's personality. Partners
Michael Bierut and DJ Stout
took Edward Troye's portrait of
Business/ 7
the great racehorse Lexington,
changed its color to blue and
named it Big Lex. "When we
showed city leaders Troye's
horse colored bright blue, their
initial resistance was evident,"
says Stout. "But then we
displayed ads and billboards.
We also presented a small
model of Big Lex for gift shops
and showed Big Lex as a
mascot, with a person wearing
a blue horse suit and educating
school kids. Before long,
everybody in the room was
tossing out ideas on how Big
Lex could promote the city."
6. Stand tall, talk short.
President Abraham Lincoln and
orator Edward Everett spoke at
the dedication of a cemetery for
soldiers killed at Gettysburg.
Everett talked for two hours,
delivering more than 13,500
words. Lincoln spoke for two
minutes, delivering 272 words.
Nobody remembers Everett's
talk, but Lincoln's Gettysburg
Address is celebrated as one of
America's finest speeches.
When picking between a longer
or shorter presentation, choose
shorter. "I wish you had talked
longer" are words you’ll never
hear from clients.
7. Throw out handouts.
Handouts are those ubiquitous
pages distributed before pitches.
ABRACADABRA page 8
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The intent is for decision makers
to follow along as you explain
each point. But people follow
handouts about as well as cats
follow tour guides. They'll jump
ahead. Double back. When
you’re on page one, they're on
page six. When you're at page
six, they're back at page three.
And pray for mercy if you
include project costs on the last
page. That's the first place
clients will go. They'll scan the
numbers and shake their heads.
Then they’ll tune you out and
turn on their BlackBerries. If
you don't want audiences to skip
past your ideas, skip the
handouts.
8. Bank on leave-behinds.
Leave-behinds are for after the
sales pitch. Clients review them
later to dive deeper into content.
Leave-behinds also serve
another powerful purpose--
decision makers use them to sell
your ideas to their bosses. So
invest in leave-behinds, not
handouts. Include samples,
photos, examples, and case
studies--anything to ignite the
selling of your idea. Before
starting your pitch, let clients
know you'll provide ample
content once you're done. Watch
them sit back and absorb your
pitch.
9. Stop selling, start
storytelling. Storytelling is jet
fuel for presentations. "There's
something primal about stories,"
says Lisa Maulhardt of Stone
Yamashita Partners. "They help
us make sense of our world. By
using stories in pitches, we're
enticing people to follow along.
Stories say, 'Come this way,
take that hill, believe in
something better.'"
[youtube R2bLNkCqpuY]
10. Get personal. In the TV
show Mad Men, ad man Don
Draper advises Kodak
executives on introducing the
firm's new slide projector.
Kodak calls the projector a
"wheel." But Draper suggests
the name "carousel," describing
it as a childlike time machine.
With family snapshots and soft
words, Draper pitches his
carousel idea. "This device...lets
us travel the way a child
travels," he says. "Around and
around and back home again, to
a place where we know we are
loved." Do you have an idea
with emotional pull? Share
personal episodes to connect
with your audience.
11. Create abracadabra
moments. Remember when
Steve Jobs introduced the
remarkably thin MacBook Air
by sliding it out of an ordinary
manila envelope? Truly an
abracadabra moment--as
memorable as a rabbit pulled
from a hat. Look for ways to
create dramatic, abracadabra
moments in your pitch. Pitching
his home-office products for our
direct-mail catalog, a supplier
opened his briefcase and
dumped its contents--notes,
receipts, pads, pens, paper clips,
business cards--on my desk. He
then grabbed a leather organizer
and, in less than two minutes,
placed everything in its proper
place. Abracadabra.
12. Once you've sold an idea,
don't buy it back. "I have
watched creative people destroy
their own work--after the client
buys into the idea," says Brian
Collins, CEO of Collins:, a New
York design firm. "They blab
themselves right out of the
client's approval. For goodness
sake, if the client finally says
yes, then say thank you and
leave the room with your idea
sold. Tell them you will pick up
the conversation later or call on
the phone or send an email or
telegram. But whatever you do,
bolt."
Sam Harrison is author of the
newly released IdeaSelling:
Successfully Pitch Your
Creative Ideas to Bosses, Clients
and Other Decision Makers. He
is a speaker on creativity-related
topics and also the author of two
other books, Zing! and
IdeaSpotting. His Web site is
zingzone.com.
Cisco Pays $99 Million
In Cash For Optical
Networking Firm
CoreOptics
Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:19:01 AM
Cisco is to buy privately held
CoreOptics, a designer of digital
signal processing solutions for
high-speed optical networking
applications. Under the terms of
the agreement, Cisco will pay
approximately $99 million in
cash and retention-based
incentives in exchange for all
shares of CoreOptics. The
acquisition is subject to
customary closing conditions
and is expected to close in the
second half of calendar year
2010.

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Pakistan Blocks Blasphemic YouTube and Wikipedia as

Facebook Considers Solutions
Addy Dugdale (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:10:49 AM

First, the Pakistani authorities

came for Facebook; today it's
YouTube, Flickr, Wikipedia,
and 450 other websites. Early
this morning, reports Agence
Presse, the country ruled that
content on Google's video site is
"sacrilegious," and the Pakistan
Telecommunications Authority
has ordered the site blocked
from the public, along with
image-sharing portal Flickr,
Wikipedia and, of course,
Facebook.
This is not the first time that
YouTube has been taken offline
by the Pakistani authorities. In
2007, access was pulled for
seven hours for the same(-ish)
reason: "material offensive to Everybody Draw Mohammed Facebook for anyone living in issues and express their views, ideas."
the government of Pervez Day," urging people to create Pakistan until May 31 at the while respecting the rights and May has really not been the
Musharraf." The government is caricatures of the prophet earliest. feelings of others. While some greatest of months for Mark
asking representatives from Mohammed, a figure so close to Facebook, which is already kinds of comments and content Zuckerberg. The ongoing
YouTube and Facebook to God it is deemed un-islamic to hosting an anti-Draw may be upsetting for someone, rumbles over privacy
resolve the agreement in a way depict his likeness. (There is Mohammed Day page, is criticism of a certain culture, culminated in an internal
that "ensures harmony and scant info available about the mulling over the possibility of country, religion, lifestyle, or meeting last Friday to discuss
respect." There is, however, group's founder, we've emailed blocking access to the offending political ideology, for example the issue (details still haven't
nothing particularly harmonious for more details.) This led to page in Pakistan, released this that alone is not a reason to emerged, blinking, into the
and respectful about censorship protests on the streets in various statement. remove the discussion. We sunlight, there yet, I'm afraid).
in a seemingly civilized country. parts of the Pakistan, and a "We are very disappointed with strongly believe that Facebook He's now been accused of
May I perhaps suggest a more group calling itself the Islamic the Pakistani courts' decision to users have the freedom to securities fraud in a lawsuit filed
laid-back way of getting one's Lawyers' Movement filed a block Facebook without express their opinions, and we by his former Harvard
religious views across? petition at the Pakistani High warning, and suspect our users don't typically take down schoolmates (If the Zuck is
This week's problems began Court, asking the authorities to there feel the same way. We content, groups or pages that indicted for securities fraud,
when a group on Facebook block Facebook, saying that the want Facebook to be a place speak out against countries,
mounted a competition for " page was blasphemic. Thus, no where people can openly discuss religions, political entities, or PAKISTAN page 10
10 Technology/ Economy/ Culture/
REMINDER:
continued from page 6
one of the biggest in the country
overall.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 50.6%
5-year Mid CDS: 833.3
Source: CMA Datavision
10: Alpha Bank A.E. CEO:
Demetrios Mantzounis
What Do They Do: The Greek
bank specializes in retail lending
in Greece, as well as
expansionist retail and
commercial banking in
Southeast Europe.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 50.9%
5-year Mid CDS: 861.5
Source: CMA Datavision
9: Hopson Development
Holdings Limited CEO: Xue Hu
What Do They Do: Chinese
property development and
investment firm.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 51.7%
5-year Mid CDS: 1119.2
Source: CMA Datavision
8: National Bank of Greece
S.A. CEO: Apostolos
PAKISTAN
continued from page 9
then he would have to step
down as CEO). And those crazy
-buff Winklevoss twins, along
with Divya Narendra, are
claiming that Facebook's $65
million offer to settle a long-
running court case(breach of
Tamvakakis
What Do They Do: Commercial
bank with an emphasis on the
Mediteranean and Southeast
Europ e.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 51.7%
5-year Mid CDS: 1104.4
Source: CMA Datavision
7: Country Garden Holdings
Company Limited Chairman:
Yang Guoqiang
What Do They Do: Chinese
high-end real estate developer.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 58.3%
5-year Mid CDS: 1047.6
Source: CMA Datavision
6: MBIA Inc. CEO: Jay Brown
What Do They Do: MBIA is a
financial holding company, its
holdings work in fixed-income
markets across the world.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 61.7%
5-year Mid CDS: 1197.2
Source: CMA Datavision
5: Dubai Holding Commercial
Operations Group LLC CEO:
contract and theft of idea,
litigation fans) was calculated
incorrectly.
Ahmad Bin Byat
What Do They Do:
Government holding company
for the assets of Dubai.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 63.4%
5-year Mid CDS: 1625.5
Source: CMA Datavision
4: iStar Financial Inc CEO: Jay
Sugarman
What Do They Do: A
commerical real estate
investment trust.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 66.4%
5-year Mid CDS: 1024.4
Source: CMA Datavision
3: Takefuji Corp President:
Akira Kiyokawa
What Do They Do: Subprime
consumer finance company,
centered in Japan.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 85.1%
5-year Mid CDS: 2895.1
Source: CMA Datavision
2: MBIA Insurance Corporation
Jay Brown CEO: Jay Brown
What Do They Do: The
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insurance division of MBIA.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 88.7%
5-year Mid CDS: 2938.6
Source: CMA Datavision
1: AMBAC Financial Group
Inc. CEO: David Wallis
What Do They Do: Provider of
insurance and swap agreements,
largely to American
municipalities.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 96.5%
5-year Mid CDS: 8841.4
Source: CMA Datavision
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Obama's Data.gov Relaunch: Twitter-Tracked Airport Security

Lines, County-by-County Health, and More
Dan Nosowitz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:29:48 AM

Part of Obama's pledge for

greater governmental
transparency in his first term
was the Web site Data.gov, a
massive repository for datasets
on all manner of government
statistics, including hot-button
topics like health care and the
environment. It's come a long
way since launch--it now has
more than 250,000 datasets,
compared to 47 at launch--but it
never received the popularity
(read: Web traffic) the
administration expected. That
was in large part because it was So instead of dozens of (and, it seems, pretty much enter the security line, and I'd imagine most people would
a massive repository of columns indicating average everybody else in the country) “#airportsecurity [airport code] take advantage if they knew
governmental datasets, designed body fat percentage, now you didn't know existed: on-time out” once you’ve gotten about it.
in standard-issue governmental can check out detailed flight trackers. On a given day, through. The redesigned Data.gov
Web site format. information on health and it tracks the average amount of How great is that? There are should launch this Friday, May
Wired got a look at the new obesity, county by county. Want time it takes to get through any lots of other new features to 21st.
version, which will launch this to know if your home county security line at an airport, so you come, including some kind of Dan Nosowitz, the author of
Friday, and there've been a ton fares better or worse than the can time your trip accordingly. monitoring or statistic study of this post, can be followed on
of changes that make the service national average in consumption It even does it in an incredibly the oil spill in the Gulf. I just Twitter, corresponded with via
much more approachable for the of fruits and vegetables, or cool and efficient way, using hope people actually use it this email, and stalked in San
everyday interested party. The percentage of smokers? That's Twitter. time--a lot of that will depend Francisco (no link for that one--
main ideas: an aesthetic all there, in easy-to-read visuals, To report security wait times on the administration's ability to you'll have to do the legwork
redesign, and a new focus on maps, and graphs. using your cellphone, bookmark advertise the site and why yourself).
presenting information people One of the coolest flyontime.us/m/lines/security or people should use it, because
care about in ways that are more implementations is something tweet “#airportsecurity [three- features like that flight tracker
understandable than giant that's in effect now, but which I letter airport code] in” when you are so cool, easy, and useful that
spreadsheets.
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Amazon Launching AmazonCrossing to Publish

Foreign-Language Books (and e-Books) in
Translation
Dan Nosowitz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:25:54 AM
Amazon announced yesterday
the launch of a new publishing
imprint, to be called
AmazonCrossing, that will
release foreign-language books
translated into English. It's the
second such imprint from
Amazon, after AmazonEncore,
which takes self-published
books and re-publishes them for
a wider audience.
AmazonCrossing is an
interesting case--it's not
necessarily a traditional Amazon
move, meaning it's not
particularly tech-focused.
Instead, Amazon's filling a
niche left vacant by traditional
publishing companies, who feel
translated books are often too
expensive and low-selling to
bother with.
Publishers say the number of
books published in translation
each year remains low. Paul
Bogaards, a spokesman for
Alfred Knopf, an imprint owned
by Bertelsmann AG's Random
House Inc. publishing arm,
estimated that fewer than 5% of
the 150 new titles that Alfred
Knopf is publishing in 2010 will
be books in translation.
But many classics and even pop
-literary successes have been
translated--the Wall Street
Journal, which originally
reported the story, names
Umberto Eco, Haruki
Murakami, and Stieg Larsson as
examples (I'd add Gabriel
Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis
Borges, Javier Marias, and
Milan Kundera to the list) of
more popular foreign-language
writers.
Sounds like the typical problem
is that of cost and sales:
Traditional publishers often
assume translated foreign works
won't be as successful as
English-language works, and
translation can often be
expensive. It's not mentioned
how much Amazon intends to
pay for translations, but
evidently they think there's a
market for these books, which
will be released both in print
and in e-book formats.
The first AmazonCrossing
book, "The King of Kahel" by
French author Tierno
Monenembo, will be released
this November.
Dan Nosowitz, the author of
this post, can be followed on
Twitter, corresponded with via
email, and stalked in San
Francisco (no link for that one--
you'll have to do the legwork
yourself).
After Selling Citydeal
To Groupon, Samwer
Brothers Get Some
Panfu
Markus Goebel (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 5:38:50 AM
The Samwer brothers are at it
again. Shortly after cashing in
on Citydeal, Germany's most
prolific startup investors have
put millions into Panfu. Their
incubator Rocket Internet joined
by Holtzbrinck Ventures has
invested a rumored seven digit
Euro sum in the multi-language
educational gaming world for
kids. It's their third joint
investment in Panfu, former
rounds were done together
alongside other investors. Since
its launch in December 2007,
Panfu has become Europe's
leading website for kids
between 6 and 14 years with
nearly 13 million registered
users and has been profitable
since early 2009.

Here's Your Deflation

Vincent Fernando, CFA (The and there is absolutely nowhere disappointing claims number, prices are indeed falling as if
Money Game) to hide. plus signs of inflation dying out. they know something's up.
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Chinese Officials Don't Mind The Analysis: what next for

Property Bubble Because They Don't the great firewall of
Pay Real Prices Pakistan?
Gus Lubin (Business Insider) (World News from Times photo-sharing website, have
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:31:51 AM
Online) been blocked in the country.
Submitted at 5/20/2010 7:10:30 AM In the past, Pakistan has
As a nice gesture to the poor blocked YouTube and
families in a country with Are we seeing the creation of B l o g g e r . c o m , b u t t h o s e
skyrocketing home prices, the Great Firewall of Pakistan? blockades were temporary. It is
China has started building low- In extraordinary moves, the expected that the current ban
income housing. country’s authorities first w i l l n o t b e a p e r m a n e n t
Too bad 80% of the homes in blocked Facebook, and then measure, but no time period has
the first major subsidized YouTube. The two websites been given.
housing project have been stand accused of containing However, it does seem likely
allocated to government i m a g e s o f t h e P r o p h e t that the bans will affect the
officials. Muhammad that are deemed country’s growing number of
Caixin: blasphemous. internet users.
An insider from the Mei The blocking of these websites Nayatel, an internet service
County local government said is not the beginning of an provider, said the ban could cut
this subsidized housing project elaborate internet filtering up to 25 per cent of total internet
has almost been allocated to houses, they should enjoy the their parents. No wonder they system, such as the one operated traffic in Pakistan.
government employees, and the low-cost housing policy." were pissed off when a rich girl by censors in China. Facebook is thought to have
public has little access to the Which makes one wonder if (perhaps the daughter of a party Indeed, many experts have said about 1.8 million Pakistani
project. However, official government officials such as the official) bragged about living in that it would have been possible users.
statements from the Mei County a b o v e a r e r e a l l y a l l t h a t subsidized housing... j u s t t o b l o c k i n d i v i d u a l Pakistani internet users have
Construction Bureau reiterated concerned about reigning in the Meet 19-Year-Old Yingzi, offending pages on the sites. taken to their blogs and message
that the housing project is nation's soaring property prices. China's Most Obnoxious Real Instead, Pakistan’s High Court boards to register their anger,
specifically for low-income They're not feeling any pain, so Estate Mogul --> and its Telecommunications but many seem to believe that
families in Mei County. why rock the boat. Join the conversation about this Authority took more draconian t h e b a n s a r e a t e m p o r a r y
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FINALLY: iPhone OS 4.0 Beta Has Daily Buzz: French

Tethering Screen; Is It Finally Women Come to Blows
Coming To AT&T? (AAPL) Over Muslim Veil
Vince Veneziani (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:25:49 AM
Okay, we know we're a bit late
on this but FINALLY! --
Internet tethering for the iPhone
is about to make an official
debut.
Macrumors has an image of the
new iPhone OS 4.0 beta that
shows an option for 3G
tethering.
As you can see, you just can't
switch it on and begin surfing
the 'net. Users will have to call
AT&T to setup a plan, which
has not been officially
announced yet.
their computers since iPhone OS
3.0 was released.
The ball's in your court now,
AT&T. Your move.
See Also: What Apple's New
iPhone Means For You
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Why We Won't Get Our Butts
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To Verizon
• What Apple's New iPhone
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IAC Buys Into Fitness Social Network DailyBurn

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Submitted at 5/20/2010 7:34:16 AM and Girlsense, personal interest plans and try to motivate each and Tim Ferriss participating.
sites such as Life123 and Excite, other. For TechStars, DailyBurn
Dailyburn, formerly known as and interactive products such as DailyBurn currently has about marks the fifth significant exit
Gyminee, a social network for Webfetti and My Fun Cards. thousands of foods, allowing 500,000 members. after Socialthing (AOL), Intense
fitness and diet tracking, online From our earlier DailyBurn you to quickly figure out how The company was launched as Debate (Automattic), Brightkite
accountability, and motivation, review: many calories you’ve eaten Gyminee and debuted publicly (Limbo) and Filtrbox (Jive
has been sold. IAC has acquired The overall purpose of the site throughout the day. at TechStars’ Demo Day In Software).
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DailyBurn will become part of aspect of the food you consume of miles run, bench-press seed funding in a round led by provided by CrunchBase
IAC’s Mindspark Interactive and your workouts, all presented weight, etc.), so you can track FF Angel(Founders Fund), with
Network, which is also is home in a very attractive interface. your progress over time on slick a number of angels including
to social and entertainment The site offers a database of graphs. The site’s social features Garrett Camp(StumbleUpon),
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NKorea warns of war if punished for ship sinking (AP)
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Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:07:36 AM
SEOUL, South Korea – North
Korea said Thursday that South
Korea fabricated evidence
implicating the North in a
torpedo attack in order to pick
on the North and any attempt at
retaliating for the warship's
sinking would be answered with
"all-out war."
South Korean President Lee
Myung-bak vowed "stern
action" for the attack after a
multinational investigation
issued its long-awaited results
Thursday, concluding the North
fired a torpedo that sank the
Cheonan navy ship March 26
near the Koreas' tense sea
border.
"If the (South Korean) enemies
try to deal any retaliation or
punishment, or if they try
sanctions or a strike on us .... we
will answer to this with all-out
war," Col. Pak In Ho of North
Korea's navy told broadcaster
APTN in an exclusive interview
in Pyongyang.
An international civilian-
military investigation team said
evidence overwhelmingly
proves a North Korean
submarine fired a homing
torpedo that caused a massive
underwater blast that tore the
Cheonan apart. Fifty-eight
sailors were rescued from the
frigid Yellow Sea, but 46
perished in the South's worst
military disaster since the
Korean War.
Since the 1950-53 war on the
Korean peninsula ended in a
truce rather than a peace treaty,
the Koreas remain locked in a
state of war and divided by the
world's most heavily armed
border.
The truce prevents Seoul from
waging a unilateral military
attack.
However, South Korea and the
U.S., which has 28,500 troops
on the peninsula, could hold
joint military exercises in a
show of force, said Daniel
Pinkston, a Seoul-based analyst
for the International Crisis
Group think tank.
South Korean and U.S. officials
also said they are considering a
variety of options in response to
the warship's sinking, ranging
from U.N. Security Council
action to additional U.S.
penalties.
The exchange of war rhetoric
raised tensions, but the isolated
communist regime — already
under international pressure to
cease its nuclear weapons
program— often warns of dire
consequences against South
Korea or Washington for any
punitive steps against it. Its
large but decrepit military
would be no match for U.S. and
Korean forces.
The impoverished country is
already chafing from
international sanctions tightened
last year in the wake of widely
condemned nuclear and missile
tests. U.N. sanctions currently
block funding to certain officials
and companies, while North
Korea is barred from exporting
weapons and countries are
authorized to inspect North
Korean ships suspected of
carrying illicit cargo.
South Korea "will take resolute
countermeasures against North
Korea and make it admit its
wrongdoings through strong
international cooperation," Lee
said during a call with
Australian Prime Minister Kevin
Rudd, the presidential office
said. Lee convened an
emergency meeting for Friday.
The White House called the
sinking an unacceptable "act of
aggression" that violates
international law and the 1953
truce. Japanese Prime Minister
Yukio Hatoyama declared his
support for South Korea, calling
North Korea's actions
"inexcusable."
China, North Korea's traditional
ally, called the sinking of the
naval ship"unfortunate" but
stopped short of backing Seoul.
Pyongyang continued its
steadfast denials of involvement
in the sinking.
"Our Korean People's Army was
not founded for the purpose of
attacking others. We have no
intention to strike others first,"
Col. Pak, the naval spokesman,
told APTN in the North Korean
capital. "So why should we
attack a ship like the Cheonan
which has no relation with us,
no need to strike it and we have
no significance in doing so."
North Korea has waged a slew
of attacks on South Korea since
the 1950-53 fighting ended,
including the 1987 downing of a
South Korean airliner that killed
all 115 people on board.
Pyongyang has never owned up
to the attacks.
North Korea also disputes the
maritime border drawn
unilaterally by U.N. forces at the
close of the Korean War, and
the waters have been the site of
several deadly naval clashes.
Detailed scientific analysis of
the wreckage, as well as
fragments recovered from the
waters where the Cheonan went
down, point to North Korea,
investigators said.
The bending of the ship's keel
backs the theory that an
underwater torpedo triggered a
shockwave and bubble effect
that tore the ship apart, the
report said.
The report also cites fractures
on the main deck, statements
from survivors and a sentry on a
nearby island, and fractures and
lacerations on the remains of
deceased sailors.
Pieces of the torpedo "perfectly
match" the schematics of a
North Korean-made torpedo
Pyongyang has tried to sell
abroad, chief investigator Yoon
Duk-yong said.
A serial number on one
fragment is consistent with
markings from a North Korean
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torpedo that Seoul obtained
years earlier, Yoon said.
"The evidence points
overwhelmingly to the
conclusion that the torpedo was
fired by a North Korean
submarine," he said. "There is
no other plausible explanation."
At Seoul's main train station,
scores of people watched raptly
as the investigator laid out the
evidence against North Korea.
"I'm afraid," said Naima Vela,
26-year-old student from Italy.
"I still have a month or two to
stay in Seoul and I don't know if
I should."
Near the Demilitarized Zone,
tourists peered across the border
into North Korea.
"As a mother of a boy who is
serving his military duty right
now, I don't want a war to break
out," Jeon Bok-soon said in Paju
as she looked across the border
into North Korea.
"However if (North Korea)
keeps mentioning war, I think
we should also show our strong
military power," she said.
___
Associated Press writers
Matthew Lee in Washington,
Jay Alabaster in Tokyo, Kelly
Olsen and Claire Lee in Seoul,
and Chi-Chi Zhang in Beijing
contributed to this report.
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A charter school in Idaho is
considering an appeal against
the dismissal of its lawsuit,
which challenged the ban on
religious texts in its curriculum.
Alliance Defense Fund, the
legal representative of the
charter school Nampa Classical
Academy, said it is “considering
all available options for appeal”
of the ruling made by U.S.
District Judge Edward Lodge’s
on Monday.
Lodge dismissed the NCA’s
lawsuit against the Idaho Public
Charter School Commission,
which decided last year that the
academy could not use the Bible
and other religious texts in its
curriculum.
“Children deserve a complete
education, which is what Nampa
Classical Academy provides,”
said ADF senior legal counsel
David Cortman, in a statement
Tuesday. “Moreover, the court’s
opinion requiring the removal of
religious books to comply with
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the most influential book that
has ever been written. It was one
of the first resources ever used
in this country’s public schools
to teach students to read.
"The Academy believes that
many students are receiving an
inadequate education and
therefore, the Academy is
striving to utilize a historical,
classical teaching model" – that
includes utilizing primary,
rather than secondary, sources.
They also noted that the
commission knew of the
school’s intended use of primary
texts, both secular and religious.
Yet approximately one week
before the academy was
originally scheduled to open its
doors, and nearly one year after
approving its charter, the
commission enforced a ban on
religious texts in the classroom.
The charter school opened last
year with more than 500
students, but could be shut down
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Uneasy peace in Thailand, uncertainties lie ahead

(Reuters: Top News) coaxed out by police. miscalculated incursion led to a the red shirts, said in a televised affluent backers.
Submitted at 5/20/2010 7:37:49 AM Dozens of buildings were burning Bangkok." statement while in custody, The rioting spread to north and
torched, including many banks, Troops have now established calling on protesters to go home. northeast provinces, a red-shirt
BANGKOK(Reuters) - Thai t h e s t o c k e x c h a n g e a n d control of Bangkok and the RURAL UNREST stronghold and home to just
authorities restored order over Southeast Asia's second-biggest protest encampment occupied Thailand's unifying figure, over half of Thailand's 67
most of Bangkok on Thursday department store. By morning, since April 3, but at great cost. revered 82-year-old King million people. But trouble spots
but the peace looked fragile, a t h e w o r s e w a s o v e r . T h e Checkpoints of armed troops Bhumibol Adulyadej, has not were quiet on Thursday and
day after rioting and fires that p r o t e s t e r s w e r e g o n e . form a 6 sq-km (2.3 sq-mile) publicly commented on the protest leaders urged calm.
veered toward anarchy as troops Some unrest continued in the cordon in Bangkok, a city of 15 current bout of turmoil in the Army spokesman Sansern
took control of a camp occupied Din Daeng area, scene of million known for its raucous kingdom, after defusing Kaewkamnerd said about
by anti-government protesters. intense fighting last weekend. nightlife but now reduced to previous crises during his 63 13,000 people were still
World| Thailand Dozens of protesters burned smoldering fires, scarred streets, years on the throne -- including "actively waiting to riot and
Thousands of the mostly rural tires and set a bank building and 9 p.m. night curfews. the last political riots in perpetrate illegal acts" in
and urban poor "red shirt" ablaze. Troops fired warning "The question is: how long do Bangkok -- on the same date 18 provinces under a state of
protesters had deserted their shots. But compared to recent troops have to be deployed on years ago. emergency.
once-barricaded rally site in f i g h t i n g , t h e a r e a w a s this level in the city? The anger The king has been in hospital In Bangkok, fires at 39 sites
central Bangkok, but the tough r e m a r k a b l y t a m e . is still simmering," said Tanet since September 19. still smoldered but most had
crackdown and bloodshed raised Political analysts say the next Charoengmuang, a political The unrest has hammered been extinguished. Central
fears of deepening anger among step is up to Prime Minister scientist at Chiang Mai Thailand's lucrative tourism World, Southeast Asia's second-
Thailand's underclasses. Abhisit Vejjajiva, who some say University. industry, which supports six biggest department store and a
Modern Thailand has never will forever be tarnished by The red shirts want fresh percent of Southeast Asia's symbol of wealth, was
seen such a protracted period of overseeing military operations elections, saying Abhisit lacks a second-biggest economy and destroyed. Many of its
urban violence, deadly riots, in which 82 people, mostly popular mandate after coming to employs 15 percent of supporting steel beams had
c l a s h e s a n d w i d e s p r e a d civilians, have been killed since power in a controversial Thailand's workforce directly or collapsed.
destruction, and has never April 10. parliamentary vote in 2008 with indirectly. "WOUNDED HEARTS AND
teetered so close to full civil Nearly 1,800 people have been tacit military support. Abhisit A source at state planning MINDS"
conflict. wounded in the period as the last week withdrew an offer of agency National Economic and The protesters' tented
"Thailand has become a nation g o v e r n m e n t , b a c k e d b y fresh elections. Social Development Board said encampment in the heart of
deeply divided, and although T h a i l a n d ' s royalist Analysts say regardless of the the economic impact of nine Bangkok's commercial district --
talk of a civil war may still be establishment, and the protesters outcome, the violence marked a weeks of political turmoil and an area lined with luxury hotels
premature, there is a high risk with their support from the rural turning point in a country where rioting would easily cost $3 and shopping plazas -- was
that civil unrest and political masses and ousted premier the richest 20 percent of the billion, or about one percentage strewn with rubbish, clothing
violence will not be contained," Thaksin Shinawatra, failed to population earn about 55 point of gross domestic product. and the smell of refuse and
said Danny Richards, analyst at find common ground. percent of the income while the A curfew in Bangkok and 23 human waste. Troops roamed
the Economist Intelligence Unit. "He is more than tarnished," poorest fifth get 4 percent, provinces was extended for the area and some were
The crackdown that began M i c h a e l M o n t e s a n o o f according to the World Bank. another three nights, raising positioned on an overhead
before dawn on Wednesday S i n g a p o r e ' s I n s t i t u t e o f But protest leaders, now questions about whether subway system.
morning killed 15 people and Southeast Asian Studies said of detained, called for calm. authorities feared more unrest in There were no signs of clashes.
wounded nearly 100. About t h e B r i t i s h - b o r n , O x f o r d - "Democracy cannot be built on a country where the ranks of the Groups of soldiers sat on a
1,500 protesters took refuge in a e d u c a t e d A b h i s i t . revenge and anger," Veera military and the police are split sidewalk near the twisted
temple, where six bodies were "All extenuating circumstances Musikapong, chairman of the along the same socio-economic wreckage of trucks that had
found on Thursday. Hundreds notwithstanding, he will always United Front for Democracy fault lines dividing protesters UNEASY page 22
who remained inside were be recalled as the man whose Against Dictatorship, known as from the government and its
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Tensions rise as South Korea says North torpedoed ship
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:21:21 AM
SEOUL(Reuters) - South Korea
accused the reclusive North on
Thursday of torpedoing one of
its warships, heightening tension
in the economically powerful
region and testing the
international position of China,
Pyongyang's only major backer.
World| China| South Korea
South Korea said it would take
"firm" measures against its
impoverished neighbor, which
furiously responded that it was
ready for war if Seoul or its
allies imposed sanctions.
A report by investigators,
including experts from the
United States, Australia, Britain
and Sweden, concluded that a
North Korean submarine had
fired the torpedo that sank the
Cheonan corvette in March,
killing 46 sailors.
"There is no other plausible
explanation," their report said.
Fear of escalating tension
weighed on South Korean
financial markets, already
worried that investors jumpy
about global financial concerns
may pull out their money.
"News of North Korea's torpedo
isn't new, but growing tension
around the case is keeping
sentiment weak," said Cho
Yong-hyun, an analyst at Hana
Daetoo Securities.
The South Korean won suffered
its biggest daily fall against the
dollar in 10 months. Stocks
closed at their lowest in almost
three months.
International condemnation was
immediate, with the stark
exception of China, which
analysts say is desperate to
avoid any action that might
destabilize its reclusive neighbor
and lead to a spill-out into in its
territory.
A senior South Korean
government official said
previously the attack appeared
to have been in revenge for a
firefight near the disputed North
-South border late last year in
which the North's navy was
humiliated.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki
-moon called the contents of the
South Korean investigation
deeply troubling.
Both the United States and
Britain gave their backing to the
findings, with the White House
calling it an act of aggression
that was another sign of the
North's unacceptable behavior.
Japan ruled out the resumption
of nuclear disarmament talks by
five regional powers and the
North, and said Washington
shared its view that such
negotiations aimed at aiding
Pyongyang in return for a
promise to drop its nuclear arms
were unthinkable.
Chinese Foreign Ministry
spokesman Ma Zhaoxu urged
both sides on the divided
Korean peninsula to exercise
restraint and said Beijing would
make its own assessment of the
South Korean investigation.
FIRM MEASURES
South Korean President Lee
Myung-bak will hold an
emergency meeting of his
National Security Council on
Friday. His government has
made clear it has no plans for a
retaliatory strike but will be
pressing the international
community to take action,
probably more sanctions,
against the North.
"We will be taking firm,
responsive measures against the
North, and through international
cooperation, we have to make
the North admit its wrongdoing
and come back as a responsible
member of the international
community," Lee was quoted by
his office as telling Australian
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
The report, announced in a
nationally televised news
conference, said intelligence had
shown that North Korean
submarines were likely in
operation near the scene of the
sinking, with similar vessels of
other neighboring countries all
inside their territorial waters.
"The evidence points
overwhelmingly to the
conclusion that the torpedo was
fired by a North Korean
submarine," it said.
The issue has plunged already
icy relations between the two
Koreas deeper into the cold.
North Korea said the South's
conservative government was
using the incident for political
gain and to further undermine
ties between the two Koreas,
which have yet to sign a formal
peace treaty to end their 1950-
53 war.
"Our army and people will
promptly react to any
'punishment' and 'retaliation' and
to any 'sanctions' infringing
upon our state interests with
various forms of tough measures
including an all-out war," its
official news agency quoted the
powerful National Defense
Commission as saying in a
typically florid statement.
The issue also puts China in a
tricky spot. The host of on-
again, off-again regional talks to
rein in North Korea's nuclear
weapons program is the
reclusive state's only major ally
and is reluctant to penalize its
government.
"It's going to be very, very
difficult for China to navigate
this one. The South Koreans are
not particularly pleased about
what China's doing," said
Charles Freeman, China expert
at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies in
Washington.
Seoul is already upset with
Beijing, a major trading partner,
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for hosting North Korean leader
Kim Jong-il on a rare trip
abroad before the outcome of
the investigation was
announced.
But there have been media
reports in the South that Chinese
leaders may not have given the
frail-looking Kim as much
support as he wanted,
speculating ties may now be
starting to fray.
Paik Jin-hyun, a North Korea
expert at Seoul National
University, said tension between
the two Koreas was inevitable.
"North Korea has given out war
threats before and they are doing
this now because the situation
has become urgent for them.
They will try to block sanctions
at all costs. In this heightened
state of affairs, provocations
may occur."
(Additional reporting by Rhee
So-eui, Miyoung Kim, Christine
Kim and Kim Yeon-hee in
Seoul, Chris Buckley in Beijing,
Paul Eckert and Matt Spetalnick
in Washington; Writing by
Jonathan Thatcher; Editing by
Paul Tait)
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U.S. to check BP spill size, heavy oil comes ashore

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Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:46:11 AM (126,000 gallons/477,000 liters) "It's already here but we know green logo and the words Coast.
a day of oil, from what it has more is coming," he said. "British Polluters." Chief Fallout in Washington
VENICE, Louisiana(Reuters) - estimated was a 5,000 barrels The marshes are nurseries for Executive Tony Hayward was increased. The U.S. Interior
The U.S. government will (210,000 gallons/795,000 liters) shrimp, oysters, crabs and fish expected to meet with board Department said its embattled
independently verify how much a day gusher. that make Louisiana the leading members on Thursday to discuss Minerals Management Service
oil has leaked into the Gulf of With heavy oil washing ashore producer of commercial seafood the spill. will be broken up into three
M e x i c o f r o m a r u p t u r e d in fragile Louisiana wetlands, in the continental United States. The discovery of heavy oil in separate divisions in a
undersea well owned by BP, wildlife and environmental Fishing is banned in a large part the Louisiana marshlands restructuring of how it handles
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar groups accused BP of holding of the Gulf waters because of showed that authorities lack the offshore energy production.
said on Thursday. back information on the real size the spill. capacity to track undersea oil Top U.S. Senate Democrats
Green Business and impact of the growing slick, BP said it could begin injecting effectively, marine conservation urged Obama to order
"We're not depending on what and urged President Barack mud into the well as early as biologist Rick Steiner said. immediate inspections of all
BP is telling us," Salazar said on Obama to order a more direct Sunday in a bid to permanently It also called into question a offshore oil rigs and production
CNN in one of a series of federal government role in the plug the leak. Its shares gained containment effort that focused platforms.
t e l e v i s i o n a p p e a r a n c e s t o spill response. more than 2 percent on on oil on the surface of the Gulf, "Until we can ensure the safety
address the ecological disaster Salazar said the Obama Thursday in London trading. Steiner said. of our offshore platforms, our
unfolding in the Gulf Coast. administration had been Adding another name to the "I am very confident that a lot of nation's coastlines will be
Energy giant BP Plc was aggressive in its response to the group of companies connected the oil that has come out has not threatened by the possibility of
responsible for damages so s p i l l b u t h a d i n h e r i t e d a to the doomed rig, surfaced yet and the government more manmade catastrophes,"
getting accurate data was r e g u l a t o r y s y s t e m " t h a t Schlumberger Ltd said it had a can't track subsurface plumes," they said in a letter. (Additional
essential, he said. "It's a grave essentially was rubber-stamping crew on the Deepwater Horizon said Steiner, a retired professor reporting by Jeff Mason,
and a very serious situation and whatever it was the oil and gas that departed only hours before at the University of Alaska who Tabassum Zakaria and Vicki
w e ' r e t a k i n g n o t h i n g f o r industry wanted." the explosion and fire that has spent a week on the Gulf Allen; Writing by Jane Sutton;
granted," Salazar told NBC's ' W E K N O W M O R E I S engulfed it. coast. Editing by Doina Chiacu)
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Landis admits using performance
enhancing drugs
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:46:15 AM
NEW YORK(Reuters) -
Disgraced Tour de France
winner Floyd Landis has sent a
series of e-mails to cycling
officials and sponsors admitting
to the use of performance
enhancing drugs, the Wall Street
Journal reported on Thursday.
U.S.| Sports| France
The report said the American's
e-mails detailed his systematic
use of the drugs during his
career.
In an interview with ESPN.com
late on Wednesday, Landis
admitted using performance-
enhancing drugs for most of his
career, including during the
2006 Tour de France, which he
won but was stripped of after
failing a dope test.
"I want to clear my conscience,"
the 34-year-old told ESPN. "I
don't want to be part of the
problem any more."
The World Anti-Doping
Agency's (WADA) statute of
limitations for doping offenses
was eight years and that was
also part of the equation, Landis
said.
"Now we've come to the point
where the statute of limitations
on the things I know is going to
run out or start to run out next
month. If I don't say something
now then it's pointless to ever
say it," he said.
The Wall Street Journal said it
had reviewed three emails sent
earlier this year.
"Mr. Landis copied seven
people on these three e-mails,
including officials with USA
Cycling and the International
Cycling Union (UCI)," the
report said.
"Three people who have seen
the emails and spoken to Mr.
Landis about them say they are
authentic."
However, the timing of the
American's announcement was
questioned by UCI president Pat
McQuaid.
"He probably needed to get it
off his chest. Why is he
announcing it in the week of the
Tour of California?" McQuaid
told Reuters. "He must have an
agenda."
USADA RESPONSIBILITY
McQuaid added that Landis's
fate was now in the hands of
American anti-doping
authorities.
"USADA (U.S. Anti-Doping
Agency) will now look into
this," McQuaid said.
Landis, the first rider to be
stripped of a Tour victory, had
previously denied any
wrongdoing but the Court of
Arbitration for Sport (CAS)
rejected his assertion that his
positive test was due to
procedural mistakes by the
laboratory.
He said last year after his two-
year ban ended that he was
trying to decide whether to ride
again in the Tour de France.
In February, a French judge
issued an arrest warrant against
Landis for suspected hacking
into an anti-doping laboratory
computer.
French anti-doping agency head
Pierre Bordry told Reuters the
judge, Thomas Cassuto,
believed Landis wanted to prove
the laboratory where his
samples were tested was wrong.
(Additional reporting by Julien
Pretot in Paris)
(Writing by Mark Lamport-
Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing
by John O'Brien)
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been packed with explosives roads but we do not know how
and blown up at barricades
overnight. They looked relaxed
long it will take to fix the
wounded hearts and minds of
in contrast to the tension of the people," Bangkok Governor
recent days, smiling at Sukhumbhand Paribatra told
journalists. local television. (Additional
Ten journalists have been shot reporting by Damir Sagolj,
in six days of violence, Nopporn Wong-Anan and
including an Italian cameraman Vithoon Amorn; Writing by
killed on Wednesday. Jason Szep; Editing by Bill
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Pakistan blocks YouTube in ‘sacrilege’ row
(World News from Times
Online)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 6:35:47 AM
Pakistan blocked access to
YouTube today because of
“growing sacrilegious content”
on the video-sharing website. It
is the latest twist in an
escalating international row over
Islam and freedom of speech
online.
The move came a day after the
Pakistani Government
responded to a court order by
temporarily blocking Facebook
over a page advertising a contest
to draw cartoons of the Prophet
Muhammad.
The Everyone Draw
Muhammad Day page and
several spin-offs invite users to
send in caricatures of the
Prophet today – infuriating
many Muslims who regard any
image of him as blasphemous.
T h e P a k i s t a n
Telecommunications Authority
did not say specifically which
material on YouTube was
iPad steel drum played with conductive fiber mallets
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 5/20/2010 10:00:00 AM
Filed under: iPad
Jobs told us, " If you see a
stylus, they blew it," but what if
the stylus is a steel drum mallet?
Someone built an iPad app, as
deemed sacrilegious, but there
are several clips relating to
Everyone Draw Muhammad
Day.
The Government took action
against Facebook and YouTube
after it failed to persuade the
websites to remove the
“derogatory material”, the
regulatory body said in a
statement.
It invited representatives from
the two websites to contact
Pakistani authorities to resolve
the dispute in a way that
“ensures religious harmony and
respect”.
It added that it had blocked
more than 450 Internet links
containing offensive material,
but did not make clear how
many had been blocked in the
past two days.
Access to the online
encyclopaedia site Wikipedia
and the photo-sharing site Flickr
also appeared to be restricted
today, but Twitter was still
accessible.
Facebook was blocked until
you can see above, that is
designed to imitate the look and
sound of a steel drum. It needed
something a little extra, though,
... like actual mallets to play
with. So, they made a mallet out
of conductive cloth, which is a
special fabric that enables the
iPad's surface to recognize the
May 31 on the orders of the
Lahore High Court, following a
petition by a group of Islamic
lawyers, but it was unclear how
long the YouTube ban would
last.
The bans have been welcomed
by many people in Pakistan,
whose population of 166 million
is 97 per cent Muslim.
But they are also re-igniting an
international debate over Islam
and freedom of speech that was
sparked by the publication of
cartoons of the Prophet
Muhammad in a Danish
newspaper in 2005.
Those cartoons caused riots in
several Muslim countries, which
killed about 50 people in total,
including five in Pakistan.
Al-Qaeda claimed
responsibility for a suicide
attack on Denmark’s embassy in
Islamabad that killed six people
in 2008, saying it was in
revenge for the cartoons.
Pakistan blocked access to
YouTube for two days in 2008
in response to what it said was
touches. Wrap the end of a
drumstick in fabric, tie it off,
and you're good to start
drummin', mon!
That's good stuff. There have to
be other great uses for this kind
of cloth, too; while a stylus isn't
ideal most of the time, there are
certain times when specific tool-
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Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon

wins extradition reprieve
(World News from Times the self-confessed “bumbling were in opposition and the
Online) computer nerd” as the last Tories said that they would
Submitted at 5/20/2010 7:07:25 AM chance to keep him in this change the law if they came to
country. power so that cases like his
The extradition of a hacker who A Home Office spokesperson could be tried in the UK.
broke into the Pentagon's said: "The Home Secretary has Last year David Cameron said iTunes Store now shows
computer network has been put considered the proposal from that if Mr McKinnon had
on hold after an intervention Gary McKinnon's legal team questions to answer there was Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer
from the Home Secretary today. and has agreed an adjournment “a clear argument to be made
Theresa May is looking at s h o u l d b e s o u g h t . A n that he should answer them in a reviews for movies
medical evidence to determine application to the court is being British court”. Michael Grothaus (The chart featuring the total count of
whether Gary McKinnon, who made today." Mr McKinnon's Mr McKinnon, 44, from North Unofficial Apple Weblog reviews along with a
has Asperger’s syndrome and is lawyer, Karen Todner, said that London, admitted breaking in to (TUAW)) fresh/rotten breakdown and the
said by experts to be suicidal, is she hoped Mrs May would make secret military computers but
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:30:00 AM average rating. Viewers are also
fit to be extradited to America. a decision on whether he was fit said that he was looking for Filed under: iTS shown four review snippets
He has admitted hacking into to be extradited in a matter of evidence of UFOs and had no Apple has quietly added Rotten from Top Critic reviewers,
Pentagon files before and after weeks. malicious intent. Tomatoes Tomatometer ratings follow by a link to the movies
the September 11 attacks. Ms Todner said: "The Secretary Last night his mother, Janis and reviews for movies in the page on RottenTomatoes.com.
If convicted he could face 60 of State, having recently taken Sharp, said: “Obviously, the iTunes Store. Rotten Tomatoes Thanks to reader Eric Zigler
years in jail but the review by office and having received Home Secretary reconsidering is one of the most popular who sent this in.
Mrs May, the sixth home further representations from the the case would be good news movie review sites on the web. TUAW iTunes Store now
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Masked thief steals priceless
masterpieces from Paris museum
(World News from Times
Online)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 6:25:39 AM
A lone masked intruder stole
five priceless paintings,
including a Matisse and a
Picasso, from the Paris Museum
of Modern Art last night.
Guards discovered the theft as
they made their rounds at dawn
and police have described the
raid as one of the most daring
thefts for many years. Security
cameras at the museum showed
a hooded man cutting open a
window, breaking locks and
climbing inside, police said.
He apparently cut the art works
from their frames, leaving them
empty on the wall. It was not
clear whether the man could
have been working alone or had
accomplices inside the museum.
The stolen Picasso is a 1912 oil
painting, Le pigeon aux petits
pois(Dove with Green Peas).
Also taken were Henri Matisse’s
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Estaque, 1906), Amédéo Banditisme, the elite police unit
Modigliani’s La femme a that fights organised crime and
l’éventail(Lady with Fan), and art theft, has taken charge of the
Fernand Léger’s Nature Morte investigation.
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Chandelier, 1922). stolen artist, according to the
The prosecutor’s office initially London-based Art Loss
estimated the five paintings’ Register.
total worth at as much as €500 In June last year a sketchbook
million. Christophe Girard, worth more than €8 million was
deputy culture secretary at Paris stolen from the Picasso
City Hall, later said the total museum in Paris. It has not been
value was “just under €100 recovered.
million”.
As stolen goods with well-
In 2007, two paintings by the
artist vanished from his
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Paris suffered three major art spotted in the wild in
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Current: Meme Tracker With Data Visualizations
Richard MacManus
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 2:00:03 AM
While in New York earlier this
month, I attended New York
University's annual ITP Spring
Show. ITP is a graduate
program for communications
studies and the Spring Show is a
chance for students to showcase
their interactive projects. I saw
everything from Matrix-like
interactive squiddies, to a
woman on stilts powered by an
iPhone app, to a paint brush that
made music.
Probably the most impressive
thing I saw, though, was a
media project by a student
named Zoe Fraade-Blanar.
Current: A News Project is a
prototype meme tracker using
data visualization.
Sponsor
Current tracks the lifecycle of
internet memes over 24 hours,
using data visualization of U.S.
news media coverage. It makes
it easy to identify when a meme
is starting, trending, at its peak,
or dying. The tool is aimed at
newspaper editors and writers,
as it tells them which stories
have the best chance of success.
The underlying data of Current
comes from Google Trends, in
particular the Hot Searches
section. So it is ultimately
powered by Google search
queries. That data is cross-
referenced with the five largest
newspapers in the United
States, using Google News.
"...it is not the placement but
the thickness and volume of
each line that represents the
fluctuating level of interest."
Creator Zoe Fraade-Blanar has
a noble goal for the project. In
an explanatory paper, she
explains that the goal is to
"spotlight missed opportunities
in news coverage, and,
potentially, recover news
readership that has been lost to
more sensational sources."
Current is Fraade-Blanar's third
attempt to use data visualization
"to tackle the question of what
topics news media should be
covering."
Fraade-Blanar did a stint with
the New York Times Analytics
Group in the summer of 2009,
helping to analyze incoming
traffic behavior. She discovered
then that it often wasn't 'hard
news' like politics or economics
which drew the most traffic, but
'soft news' such as celebrity
gossip or entertainment news.
Here at ReadWriteWeb, we're
well aware of this issue. Some
E-reader News Edition
existed on the topic."
As we've noted before on
ReadWriteWeb, content farms
aim to supply content to meet
demand- usually perceived to be
what people are searching for on
A Quick Look At Banks
Google. Demand Media, for Getting Hammered
example, has a sophisticated Around The Globe
analytic engine that identifies Gregory White (The Money
topics that will be most Game)
attractive to Google.
So although Current aims to Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:03:00 AM
of our best posts are ones that mediate between a writer's
our writers sweat over for hours, "need to drive traffic to [their] Financials around the world are
yet probably won't hit the Digg website and the need to cover feeling the pain of today's early
frontpage because of the topic. i m p o r t a n t , a l b e i t l e s s selloff, with UBS a notable loser
Whereas a top 10 list about sensational topics," in reality it down over 4%
YouTube videos can draw would most likely be used to UBS
h u n d r e d s o f t h o u s a n d s o f identify high traffic topics (the In the U.S.:
visitors! • Morgan Stanley, down 2.3%
ones that will make money).
"Each of these circles is a news Regardless of how it might be • Goldman Sachs, down 1.6%
item. So every time you see a deployed in the real world,
circle inside this information Current is a beautiful tool that In France:
stream, that's a successful news nicely illustrates trending stories • Societe Generale, down
item." - Zoe in an On The Media on the Web. Although currently 3.53%
interview. • Credit Agricole, down 3.11%
it is based on Google Trends, it
While Current has a noble aim, may add other sources like • BNP Paribas, down 2.2%
curiously it's the exact same Yahoo, Technorati, Twitter and
goal that motivates content Bing. In Germany:
farms like Demand Media and Congratulations to Zoe Fraade- • Deutsche Bank, down 2.2%
the newly Yahoo-acquired Blanar for a smart and well- • Commerzbank, down .81%
Associated Content. In the designed project! There is
words of Fraade-Blanar's white definite potential for Current to In Spain:
paper: "Each highlighted meme become a useful commercial • BBVA, down 2.65%
represents untapped traffic that product. Check it out for • Santander, down 2.35%
could be channeled to a specific yourself on the project website.
news site if only an article Discuss In the UK:
• Barclays, down 3.2%
• Lloyds, down 1.7%
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Who's thrilled about Facebook's privacy crisis?

Hollywood
(CNET News.com) CEO Mark Zuckerberg keep approve of Mezrich's book or privacy developments have
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:29:01 AM dominating technology news for Sorkin's screenplay treatment thrown it out of many members'
a few more months. thereof, and its few comments in good graces, and seeing a slick,
Recent changes to Facebook's That's because tumult at the press about the matter have on-screen fulfillment of their
privacy controls, as well as a Facebook could very well painted the tale as fanciful concerns about the company
litany of new products that share amount to free press for "The gossip. Indeed, the storyline could amount to even more
Password Sync Coming
more user and demographic Social Network," the upcoming doesn't portray Zuckerberg as malaise. Soon to Google Chrome
information with third-party film about the origins of the the good guy--he's depicted as Trailers for "The Social [Google Chrome]
partners, are ticking off a lot of company that's slated for an ruthless, greedy, and more than Network" should be popping up Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
users. Weblogs Inc. and Mahalo October 15 release. willing to stab former in movie theaters very soon,
f o u n d e r J a s o n C a l a c a n i s Based on author Ben Mezrich's collaborators in the back on his likely running ahead of Submitted at 5/20/2010 6:00:00 AM

recently joined GDGT founder unauthorized Facebook tell-all way up Silicon Valley's power Columbia Pictures releases that
It just landed in the open-source
Peter Rojas and prominent "The Accidental Billionaires," ladder. When I read the book are coming out this summer.
code for Chromium, so expect
Googler Matt Cutts in the ranks the Columbia Pictures movie and the screenplay, I theorized TheWrap's Jeff Sneider
password syncing to arrive soon
of notable tech industry figures stars Jesse Eisenberg and Justin that Facebook was already so speculates that the first of these
in Google Chrome's Dev
who have announced that they're Timberlake as Zuckerberg and powerful and ubiquitous that it may be the upcoming Angelina
Channel. It will likely require a
deleting their profiles altogether. former Facebook exec Sean shouldn't have to care much Jolie flick "Salt." That comes
command line switch (--enable-
Rumors have been swirling Parker, respectively. In a blog about a movie revealing its out on July 23--but knowing
sync-passwords) to activate, and
about internal disputes at p o s t o n W e d n e s d a y , (allegedly) shady early days. how these things work, a trailer
no details yet on whether
Facebook over whether maybe TheWrap.com blogger Jeff "The Pirates of Silicon Valley," may leak to the Web sooner
Chrome will offer a master
the company really did cross the Sneider speculates that the star a late '90s made-for-TV movie rather than later.
password to protect your
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unfold with glee, secretly or not- That's good news for Columbia image-wise, than it was a few
WWW- Browsers- Google
so-secretly hoping that the Pictures, and bad news for months ago. The aftermath of
rabble-rousing headlines about Facebook. The company did not the company's most recent

Katie Holmes Steps Her Way Into Dance Class

PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:00:00 AM
Katie Holmes headed out in LA
yesterday for her latest dance
lesson. She often accompanies
Suri to her children's ballet
class, but this time Katie was on
her own to refine the skills she
recently showed off onstage
with Tom Cruise. Tom had a big
evening out in Hollywood on
Monday, when he joined Jake
Gyllenhaal to celebrate the
Bruckheimer and attend a Prince To see more Katie on her way
of Persia premiere. Katie wasn't to the studio, just read more.
by Tom's side for the festivities, View 10 Photos ›
but she apparently joined him
later for dinner at Soho House.
career of super-producer Jerry
28 Technology/ E-reader News Edition

First Look: TweetDeck Now

Supports Foursquare and Buzz
[SCREENSHOTS]
Chris Cameron time, and global filters will let
(ReadWriteWeb) users automatically remove feed
Submitted at 5/20/2010 7:40:00 AM entries across all columns based
on any terms. This latest release
Popular cross-platform social will also provide users with the
app TweetDeck is announcing ability to incorporate their own
an update to its desktop client custom URL shortening service.
this morning which will add After a quick test of a pre-
Foursquare and Google Buzz to of the Buzz experience within release of the latest version of
its arsenal of supported streams its column system, letting users the app, I found that the Buzz
which already includes Twitter, collapse and expand comments and Foursquare integration
Bang & Olufsen
L i n k e d I n , M y S p a c e a n d for a streamlined experience. worked smoothly. When trying
Facebook. In addition, the The app has also added support to add a Twitter-compatible announces 40-inch
version 0.34 update will allow f o r l o c a t i o n , i n c l u d i n g API, WordPress failed to sync
for the addition of any Twitter- geotagged Tweets, Buzz entries up but Tumblr was successful. I
compatible APIs, including and Foursquare updates. By was able to publish text entries
BeoVision 8 LCD
Laura June (Engadget) quality in there too -- and the
WordPress, StatusNet and adding their Foursquare account on Tumblr, but adding photos or
Tumblr, as well as a slew of to a column within TweetDeck, videos did not seem to transfer Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:31:00 AM BeoVision 8 will be available
other features such as global users will be able to view their the way I had hoped they would. "this summer" for something in
filters and scheduled posts. The friends' location-based updates, With this update TweetDeck is Come on, admit you: you know the neighborhood of$5,400. Full
company will also announce as well as visualize their taking enormous steps toward want a Bang & Olufsen LCD. press release follows.
financial news this morning, locations with an embedded becoming a complete social Well, the BeoVision 8 which Continue reading Bang &
confirming that it has raised an Google Map within the column. dashboard - at least on the has just been announced, is a Olufsen announces 40-inch
undisclosed amount of Series B A d d i t i o n a l l y , T w i t t e r - desktop. To be honest, I had smaller, slightly less expensive BeoVision 8 LCD
funding. one than the BeoVision 10 is -- Bang & Olufsen announces 40-
compatible APIs may also be largely given up on the app
Sponsor so maybe you'll be able to afford i n c h B e o V i s i o n 8 L C D
added, allowing the client to because of the sluggish feel of
TweetDeck, which was invited interact with services like Adobe Air applications, but the it, after all. The 40-incher boasts originally appeared on Engadget
to test the Google Buzz API T u m b l r , W o r d P r e s s a n d integration of Foursquare, Buzz 240Hz motion processing, on Thu, 20 May 2010 09:31:00
announced Wednesday, is S t a t u s N e t . resulting in a picture refresh rate EDT. Please see our terms for
and other services may just draw
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updates to Buzz, as well as recording videos to 12seconds better things from the company some banging B&O sound
view, like and comment on their or TwitVid is integrated into the in the near future. Discuss
friends' posts directly from a client. Updates can also be
stand-alone Buzz column in the scheduled for a later date and
app. TweetDeck maintains most
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Geolorean: A Check in App with Check.in Integration
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:55:21 AM
Yesterday we looked at
Check.in, the universal "check
in" web application that
provides a single interface for
registering your location with
several location-based social
networking services like
Foursquare and Brightkite.
Today, we're learning of a
native iPhone application that
integrates Check.in's
functionality: Geolorean.
Sponsor
Not only does the new
Geolorean application provide
all the features of Check.in, it
also provides an aggregated
view of all your friends' check-
ins across the applications it
supports: Gowalla, Brightkite,
and Foursquare. Check-ins and
Check in Streams
The web page for Geolorean
answers the first question we
had about this application: is
this new? The site reads:"What
do you mean you've seen this?
It's brand new."
Open-Toe Tantrum
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
Blogs)
Submitted at 5/19/2010 4:22:41 PM
SD: Open toes are the name of
the game this summer. Toe
rings? French pedicure? What is
Joe's open-toe etiquette?
Well, indeed it is.
Check.in only launched out of
private beta yesterday and
already here's an app taking
advantage of the functionality it
provides. The App Store,
though, shows an "Update Date"
of May 6th for Geolorean and
the app itself launched back in
late April. That means it
actually launched even before
Check.in went into public beta.
JZ: I think I am cringing right
now just thinking about a set of
French pedicured toes and a
crazy toe ring! If you are going
to have open toes, keep the
pedicure clean (or try a fun
color like Chanel’s Parpiculiere, short! And preferably saddled in
a chic gray!) and your nails
If only we had known!
Geolorean(love the name, by
the way) is a creation of two
Chicago developers, Andy
LaVoy and Max Beatty. With
this $0.99 app, you can view an
aggregated stream of your
friends' check-ins and you can
locate your friends on a map
where you can see the details of
each check in. And when you're
out and need to check in
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somewhere, you can use the
Check.in web service, which is
integrated into the application
by way of a web view. When
selecting this option, Check.in
launches within the app, not in
an external Safari window.
The iTunes app description
promises more "updates and
expanded features soon," but
apparently that won't include
any additional location-based
a pair of sexy, strappy
Louboutins. (And note: never
engage in shrimp cocktailing,
where your toes curl over the
front of the shoe! Not a cute
look at all!)
SD: Just saw a model on the
street rocking a green metallic
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services for the time being.
According to a Q&A on the
app's homepage, they'll add
other services only "if another
one gets popular." (Does no one
use Loopt?) However, the site
does mention that you'll soon be
able to use the app to merge
contacts across the three
supported services into a single
contact in order to better track
their check-ins.
There isn't much more to this
app, but I tried it this morning
and it worked well without any
crashes or noticeable bugs. Of
course, I'm sitting here at home
writing about it, so I haven't
been able to test the Check.in
feature yet. But based on my
previous experience with the
standalone web app, it should do
just fine.
If you're interested in trying
Geolorean for yourself, you can
grab it from iTunes here.
Discuss
toe polish. Are you down with a
little glam rock?
JZ: Always. Ziggy Stardust
anyone? (Or is it Adam G-
Lambert?)
SD: Roxy Music to you too!
SHOP THESE SHOES
30 Technology/ Culture/ Food/
Google offers free fonts for the Web
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 7:41:52 AM
Some of the 18 fonts Google
released for free use on the Web
and anywhere else.(Credit:
Google)
In an attempt to move beyond
drab typography on the Web,
Google on Wednesday released
18 freely usable fonts and an
open-source tool designed to
smooth over browser issues in
displaying downloaded fonts.
A number of Web designers--if
not all readers--are excited that
newer browsers support
downloadable fonts so sites can
use more than the handful that
it's safe to assume are installed
already on people's computers.
For every eyeball-searing
grunge font and blood-pressure-
raising instance of Comic Sans,
there's a tasteful use of an artful
logo or distinctive text.
But font licensing rules mean a
Web designer can't necessarily
upload any old font for a site.
This is where Google's move,
announced at its Google I/O
conference, comes in. The
company released 18 fonts and
also announced an interface that
lets Web sites use them.
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copyright concerns that might
put off Web developers.
Google's fonts are free of
copyright restrictions, though.
"Since all the fonts are open
source, you can use them any
way you like. We also have a
separate project hosted on Mary-Kate Olsen Sticks
Google Code for downloading Around NYC to
the original font files. Since Supervise Her Real
they're open source, they can be
used for just about any purpose, Estate
including for print," the Google PopSugar (PopSugar)
font team members said. Submitted at 5/20/2010 6:00:00 AM
In addition, Google announced
an open-source project called
Mary-Kate Olsen let her hair
WebFont Loader to supply Web
hang loose leaving a friend's
developers with code to deal
place in NYC yesterday. She's
with differences in how
holding down the fort on the
browsers handle downloaded
East Coast while Ashley and her
Web fonts. The software, a
boyfriend Justin Bartha had a bit
collaboration with Small Batch's
of a scare this week when their
TypeKit project, includes
plane had to make an emergency
"Google has been working with "web-safe" fonts that come JavaScript code to control how landing as they were flying to
a number of talented font installed on most computers." Web pages display types for a LA. He wasn't too shaken up to
designers to produce a varied The way to Web fonts was uniform experience across hit the red carpet the next night,
collection of high quality open paved with the Cascading Style different browsers, Google said. however, as he joined a handful
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Millennial Media: Android Ad Impressions Rise
77 Percent In April, iPhone Sees 8 Percent Drop
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 6:56:10 AM
Mobile ad network Millennial
Media, which claims that its
mobile advertising network
reaches 83 percent of 72 million
mobile web users in the U.S., is
reporting that Android ad
requests grew 77% month over
month, and have grown 282%
since January. This growth is
higher than the rise in
impressions in March, which
clocked in at 72%.
Although the Apple OS had a
month-over-month decrease of
8% it still remained the leading
OS on Millennial’s network in
April with 62% share of
Smartphone impressions. RIM’s
BlackBerry remained the second
largest OS on Millennial’s
network for the ninth
consecutive month with a 3%
increase month-over-month and
a 17% share of impressions.
Android’s took a 10% share of
impressions for the month of
April.
Android Smartphone
manufacturer, HTC, entered the
top ve this month for the rst time
and represented the largest
increase within the Top 15
Manufacturers in April with a
2.5% impression share increase
month-over-month. All Android
devices, including the MyTouch
(Magic), HTC G1 (Dream), G2
Touch (Hero), experienced
month-over-month increases in
impression shares. In terms of
type of device, the majority of
ad impressions took place on
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what the Apple device is seeing.
Millennial has been seeing
strong growth, just launching an
iPad SDK, and is now one of the
largest mobile ad networks in
the space. The Baltimore-based
startup is growing; in February
Millennial Media acquired
mobile metrics and analytics
firm TapMetrics. Additionally,
the ad network raised $16
million in Series C funding last
November.
It should be interesting to see
how things play out for ad
networks like Millennial and
competitor Greystripe with the
Apple’s iAd format entering the
space. And the Google/AdMob
acquisition(which may be
smart phones (45%), with derailed) could add another
Feature Phones seeing 35% of formidable competitor to the
ad impressions, and Connected party. Interestingly, AdMob also
Devices, like the iPad, seeing recently reported a faster growth
20% of impressions. in Android ad traffic than
Clearly the Android is seeing iPhone traffic (although, similar
impressive growth in terms of to Millenial’s report, iPhone OS
ad impressions and even sales. took a greater share of traffic).
That being said, it still seems to C r u n c h B a s e I n f o r m a t i o n
be way behind the iPhone and Millennial Media Information
needs a lot more ad impressions provided by CrunchBase
and use to even come close to
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Foxy Lady: Whitney
Port's Behind-the-
Camera Look From The
City
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
Blogs)
Submitted at 5/19/2010 12:45:16 PM
Whitney may be too charming
for her own good. While styling
her new lookbook, she tried not
to lead-on the photographer who
was obviously interested in her
for more than just her talent. In
a flirty leopard crop top, tight
skinny jeans and cute flats, she
looked too sweet to pass up.
When the photographer tried to
ask her on another date, she had
to turn him down softly
claiming work was her priority.
Oh, Whitney how you play with
those boys' emotions! Shop
Whitney's flirty behind-the-
scenes look with these pieces.
Clockwise from top left: Shirt,
$190, by All Saints. Tank, $65,
by Topshop. Customized name-
plate necklace from Patricia
Field. Studded belt, $237, by
Linea Pelle. Bow ring, $58, by
Marc by Marc Jacobs. Lace-up
shoes, $370, by Opening
Ceremony. Jeans, $160, by J.
Brand.
32 Technology/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

BrightSource Energy raises funds for big solar plants

(CNET News.com) the heliostats on the ground indicated that it would provide
Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:36:30 AM which reflect light to the tower engineering and project
to make steam. expertise in developing solar
B r i g h t S o u r c e E n e r g y o n The money will be used to projects.
Thursday said it has raised $150 d e v e l o p a p l a n n e d 2 , 6 1 0 Although the company has
million to fund the construction megawatts of solar power under lined up financing and partners
of a string of large solar power contract from utilities Pacific to aid in construction, large-
plants in the southwest U.S. Gas and Electric and Southern scale solar projects require
over the next six years. California Edison. The company lengthy permitting processes
New investors in the Oakland, a l s o p l a n s t o e x p a n d and environmental reviews.
Calif.-based company include i n t e r n a t i o n a l l y . The $150 million financing
the California State Teachers In all, BrightSource Energy appears to be the second largest
Retirement System (CalSTRS) plans to build 14 power plants investment in a venture-backed
and Alstom, the France-based between this year and 2016 in company this year, following
conglomerate which develops the desert areas of the southwest electric car maker Better Place's
power generation and rail U.S., where its concentrating $350 million round earlier this
projects. Existing investors solar technology works. The year.
VantagePoint Venture Partners, plants would provide enough from the Department of Energy. mirrors which reflect light onto Five Filters featured article:
Morgan Stanley, and Draper e l e c t r i c i t y h u n d r e d s o f BrightSource Energy a tower, which heats up a liquid The Art of Looking Prime
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the series D round, which brings The company expects to start make steam which is passed Alstom said that it has invested General Election. Available
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than $300 million. California, for which it received of fields of ground-mounted BrightSource Energy and
The view of a solar tower from a $1.37 billion loan guarantee

Pakistan on a Censorship Binge: First Facebook, Now

YouTube
Reuters (Wired Top Stories) Internet service providers to provider, said the PTA issued A Foreign Office spokesman garb of freedom of expression,”
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:00:00 AMstop access to social network an order late on Wednesday condemned the publication of the spokesman, Abdul Basit,
site Facebook indefinitely on seeking an “immediate” block caricatures of the Muslim told a weekly briefing.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Wednesday because of an online of YouTube. prophet on Facebook and urged Pages: 1 2 View All
Pakistan has blocked the competition to draw the Prophet “It was a serious instruction as countries to “address the issue” Five Filters featured article:
popular video sharing website Mohammad. they wanted us to do it quickly which he said was an The Art of Looking Prime
YouTube indefinitely in a bid to Any representation of the and let them know after that,” “extremely sensitive and Ministerial - The 2010 UK
contain “blasphemous” material, Prophet Mohammad is deemed he told Reuters. emotional matter for Muslims.” General Election. Available
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Pakistan Telecommunication Wahaj-us-Siraj, the CEO of about a year for what it called Muslims around the world and
Authority (PTA) directed Nayatel, an Internet service un-Islamic videos. can not be accepted under the
E-reader News Edition Technology/ TV/ Products/ 33
Tailpipe Smoke
UrbanSpoon Challenges OpenTable With iPad- Signals - from
Based Restaurant Reservations Service Consumer Reports
Press Room (Consumer
Frederic Lardinois management database. Manage
(ReadWriteWeb) Your Restaurant with the iPad Reports)
Submitted at 5/19/2010 10:22:00 PM As Lowry told us, the iPad is an Submitted at 5/19/2010 9:00:59 PM

ideal device in the restaurant

Restaurant review site context, as it gives the host far Tailpipe Smoke Signals - from
UrbanSpoon is slowly moving more mobility than the regular Consumer Reports When
into OpenTable's territory. large terminal that you can find everything is working just right,
About half a year ago, the in most restaurants today. your car's tailpipe emissions
company launched a very Besides that, Lowry noted, the should be almost invisible.
limited test of a basic iPad is also very "cool and Consumer Reports spotlights
reservations tracking system for sexy," something that a lot of tailpipe emissions that could
restaurants in the Seattle area. restaurateurs appreciate. signal engine problems. From
At that time, however, With this move, UrbanSpoon is the May issue. Tailpipe Smoke
restaurant owners could only clearly invading OpenTable's Signals Podcast Subscribe now!
use UrbanSpoon to tell their territory. According to Lowry, S u b s c r i b e t o
customers whether they had last restaurateurs never really had an ConsumerReports.org for expert
-minute openings. Now, alternative to OpenTable until Ratings, buying advice and
however, UrbanSpoon is now. With over 8 million users, reliability on hundreds of
launching RezBook, an iPad app UrbanSpoon's iPhone app is products. Update your feed
and online reservations platform expand this program nationwide customers a subscription fee of already one of the most popular preferences
that will allow restaurants to over the next few months. $99 per month and a $1 fee for restaurant-related mobile apps
bypass OpenTable and manage U r b a n S p o o n w i l l f i r s t every reservation that is made and given that the company
their tables and reservation concentrate its marketing on through its system (reservations offers a cheaper subscription
books. large markets like Seattle and through UrbanSpoon's widget price and runs on relatively
Sponsor Los Angeles, but anybody with will be free). cheap hardware, the company,
Currently, UrbanSpoon is an iPad will soon be able to The application will store its which has been working on this
testing the iPhone app with 5 download the application and data on UrbanSpoon's servers. s e r v i c e e v e r s i n c e A p p l e
restaurants in the Seattle area, use it. The app will be available Besides allowing restaurants to announced the iPad, has a
but as the company's co-founder in Apple's store within the next manage their reservations, the chance to make a dent in
Ethan Lowry told us earlier few weeks. service will also include a OpenTable's market. Discuss
today, the company plans to UrbanSpoon will charge its c u s t o m e r r e l a t i o n s h i p

'Cougar Town' - 'Finding Out' Recap (Season Finale)

Joel Keller (TV Squad) such a high-concept premise and l o w - k e y , h e a r t w a r m i n g , indication of what we might see
Submitted at 5/20/2010 5:17:00 AM a big star, then made a massive straightforward season finale. next year.
readjustment midway through But that's what Bill Lawrence Permalink| Email this| Linking
F i l e d u n d e r : R e c a p s , the season, then gave us and Kevin Biegel came up with Blogs| Comments
Finales(S01E24) It's interesting episodes that seemed to be a for 'Cougar Town.' And it
how, after this show started with series of vignettes in search of a plot, that we would get such a hopefully gives a good
34 Technology/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Lit Fix: Paddy Whacked

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

Today's book review is from

WomansDay.com Senior
Associate Editor Meghan
Ahearn. She read Paddy
Whacked by T.J. English :
Irish-American history buffs
Blizzard to update WoW app with will love this comprehensive
non-fiction book that tells “The
Untold Story of the Irish
Auction House service, subscription American Gangster.” From the
famine years, when Irish
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial game's $15/month charge), One thing that the update won't immigrants were arriving in the
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) players will be able to buy, bring (yet, presumably) is iPad United States by the boatloads,
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:00:00 AM create, and relist items on sale in compatibility -- this app is still until the early-2000s, when the
the in-game marketplace. only for the iPhone and iPod last king of Southie went into who strove to take care of their
Filed under: iPhone We've This is a functionality that a lot touch. Blizzard has been pretty hiding, English tells the gripping own no matter what the
posted about the World of of people have wanted ever committed to Mac development tale of the Irish underworld in cost.—Meghan Ahearn
Warcraft Armory app from since Blizzard released the in the past, though, and it's still cities like New York, Boston, We'd love to hear about what
Blizzard Entertainment before. iPhone app in the first place. n o t o u t o f t h e r e a l m o f Chicago and New Orleans. you're reading, too. Send your
Now, Blizzard has announced While at least one other MMO possibility that we'll see an iPad Covering all the bases, including r e v i e w s t o
that they'll soon be adding a company has planned to use the offering from them. We'll have the early immigrant experience LitFix@womansday.com and
new, long-awaited feature: the iPhone in this same way, to stay tuned. we'll post them right here on the
when “No Irish Need Apply” blog.
ability to browse and even set Blizzard is the first to bring an TUAW Blizzard to update was the norm, the mobster hey-
up in-game auctions from on the extra subscription charge for the WoW app with Auction House d a y o t h e r w i s e k n o w n a s Five Filters featured article:
iPhone itself. The Remote privilege. The extra fee will also service, subscription originally Prohibition and how La Costra The Art of Looking Prime
Auction House on the iPhone allow players to access the AH appeared on The Unofficial Nostra finally became the Ministerial - The 2010 UK
Armory app is just one feature on the Web from anywhere, and Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, exalted American gangster General Election. Available
of their upcoming Armory even without the extra charge, 20 May 2010 09:00:00 EST. experience, this fascinating tools: PDF Newspaper, Full
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auction house for free, and for the App Store, and the Remote
an extra subscription price of $3 Auction House service will be
per month (in addition to the out soon.
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Top 5 Myths About Bill

Gates
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) His colossal fame and
Submitted at 5/19/2010 1:00:00 PM worldwide impact means certain
fabrications circulate for years,
Microsoft Corporation co- hidden in the deepest recesses of
founder Bill Gates often tops the Web long after other media
lists of the world's richest outlets dismiss them. But not
people. His computing and everyone who encounters a
business prowess, and more Gates rumor ends up reading or
r e c e n t l y , h i s s t a g g e r i n g hearing the follow-up stories
philanthropic acts have attracted which dispel those tales.
immense media coverage. But None of the following rumors,
living in the spotlight means listed in no particular order, are

Seagate's 'game-changing' storage more than just fame; it also true, but they all serve as proof
means dealing with an Internet- that Bill Gates is leaving an
age rumor mill that perpetuates indelible mark on the world.
tech coming to ASUS ROG G73Jh half-truths and, in some cases, Read on to see five of the most
outright lies. popular Bill Gates myths.
Rumors about Gates have been Five Filters featured article:
laptop zipping around the Internet for The Art of Looking Prime
years. They veer from unlikely Ministerial - The 2010 UK
Darren Murph (Engadget) we're guessing it's a breed of May 26th -- till then, try not to t o o u t l a n d i s h , b u t w h a t ' s
General Election. Available
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Well, well -- what's this? product will be 20 percent may finally be ready to launch
difficult to prove or dispel.
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Apple relents, allows cash for iPads It's Robert Pattinson vs. Sandra
Erica Sadun (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Bullock in the PopSugar 100
Submitted at 5/19/2010 10:00:00 PM Finals - Time to Vote!
Molly (PopSugar)
Filed under: iPad Good news,
everyone! In response to the Submitted at 5/20/2010 7:30:00 AM

public outcry over Apple's no-

cash-for-iPad policy, Apple has
relented. You will now be able
to purchase iPads in-store using
cash and gift cards. Yes, you'll
also have to set up a traceable
Apple account at the same time,
but the lack of credit or debit
card will no longer bar the sale
of iPads to consumers.
Apple's controversial ( although
not illegal in most states) no-
cash policy for the iPad was
introduced to limit gray-market
iPad redistribution. The demand
for iPads remains high world-
wide, and as the eBay iPad site
shows, there's money to be
made for anyone willing to part
with their new electronic friend.
It's kind of like Terry Pratchett's
notion of"negotiable affection."
Sure, you love the iPad -- but
there's no question that it's
profitable to share that love with
others.
Under Apple's new rules, you
will still be limited to two-
device-purchases per user.
You'll be able to pay for those
two devices using an expanded
payment vocabulary, but Apple
intends to firmly enforce its
existing allocation control
measures. So Apple will ban
any customer it finds purchasing
too many iPads -- even if you
are picking that extra one up for
a colleague or a gift.
Thanks, Sara Bueno
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The City's Cover Conflict: Which Fergie Would You Choose?

ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
Blogs)
Submitted at 5/19/2010 1:30:00 PM
Last night’s episode of The
City offered a behind the scenes
look at Fergie’s May cover
shoot.
But you’d already seen that Post-shoot Elle’s own Joe Zee Erin or Olivia (for a minute at
here, here, and here---what you explained the importance of the least), tell us which portrait
didn’t see was the battle behind perfect cover image, “I walk by you'd have chosen for the cover.
the cover, the sweet Burberry- a newsstand and you have
clad Fergie versus the sexy, seconds to stop me and make
barely-in-Marc Jacobs Fergie me pick that issue up. That’s
(which of course mirrored the tension between Olivia and what it’s about!”
u n d e r l y i n g , n e v e r - e n d i n g Erin). Putting aside your allegiance to
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Gateway brings ZX4300 and ZX6900 all-in-one touchscreen

PCs into a world of fingers
Darren Murph (Engadget)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 10:11:00 AM
We've still yet to find a great
reason to eschew our tried-and-
true mouse / keyboard tandem in
favor of using our desktop with
just our fingers, but if you know
better, Gateway has a new duo
it'd sure love for you to check
out. The ZX4300 line, which is
the lower-end of the two, gets
served AMD's Athlon II X2
CPU, Windows 7 Home
Premium (64-bit), a 20-inch
touchpanel (1,600 x 900
resolution), integrated ATI
Radeon HD 4270 graphics, 4GB
of DDR3 memory a 640GB hard
drive, 8x SuperMulti drive, a
bundled wireless keyboard and
mouse, inbuilt WiFi, gigabit
Ethernet, six USB 2.0 sockets
and a pair of five-watt speakers.
The Gateway One ZX6900
family sports a 23-inch LCD
(1,920 x 1,080), and while the
vast majority of the specs mimic
the others we've mentioned, the
Core i3 power plant is a notable
touchscreen PCs
Continue reading Gateway
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President Obama and Congress Must Stop Iran's Nuclear

Program
(AEI.Org: Articles) electoral victory for Mahmoud In a shocking act of negligence, energy partners that they are be presented with a very clear
Submitted at 5/19/2010 6:00:00 PM Ahmadinejad, shot protesters in the Obama White House has doing business with blacklisted and very real threat--and will
cold blood and arrested others, signaled to lawmakers privately U.S. entities. have gotten the message that the
The Obama administration has sentencing them to the Iranian it does not want the legislation Finally, the administration United States will do nothing to
pursued a foreign policy that gulag in show trials. to reach the president's desk, as should provide the same kind of help.
ranges from feckless to reckless, Obama was slow to condemn the administration chases a false tangible, material and moral Their reaction might well be to
from pursuing fantasies like a the violence, apparently still chimera of U.N. sanctions. So support to the Green Movement develop their own nuclear-
global nuclear summit to acts of hoping for Iran to voluntarily sanctions with teeth languish in in Iran that President Ronald weapons capabilities, thrusting
genuine irresponsibility, like relinquish its nuclear program-- a conference committee while Reagan gave to the Solidarity the world's most dangerous
d i m i n i s h i n g l o n g s t a n d i n g even as Tehran boasted about its Iran gets ever closer to movement in Soviet-dominated region into a full-blown nuclear
relationships with allies like uranium enrichment progress. possessing a nuclear weapon. Poland during the Cold War. arms race.
Poland, Israel and Britain. Obama finally set a deadline of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D Releasing restrictions on the Putting the crisis off can only
But of all the national security Dec. 31, 2009, for a diplomatic -Calif.) and Majority Leader transfer of communications make things worse.
i m p e r a t i v e s f a c i n g t h e solution to the nuclear crisis. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) should technology to the Green Washington's options dwindle
administration, none is more The deadline has come and gone move these two bills out of Movement would give its as Iran gets closer to making its
critical than preventing Iran, the with no response from the committee and send them to leadership the vital access it first bomb.
world's leading state sponsor of United States. Obama for his signature by needs to satellite phones, Let's be clear. Every day Pelosi
terrorism, from developing The time for delay is over. Memorial Day--if not sooner. satellite subscriptions and secure and Reid fail to act, Iran takes
nuclear weapons. Now President Despite sitting atop some of the Congressional action is only the computer networks to evade another step closer to
Barack Obama's actions have world's largest proven oil first step. The administration Iranian censors. developing a nuclear weapon.
actually made the situation more r e s e r v e s , I r a n ' s I s l a m i c should also sanction those We've now learned that as Congress needs to pass a strong
dangerous, not less so. revolutionary government lacks companies already in violation recently as January, Defense sanctions bill and send it to the
Obama pledged during the 2008 sufficient refinery capacity to of the Iran Sanctions Act, which Secretary Robert Gates sent a president's desk before they
p r e s i d e n t i a l c a m p a i g n t o turn that oil into the gasoline, has been on the books for memo to the president's national adjourn for the Memorial Day
negotiate with Iran without diesel and other fuels it needs. almost 15 years. Penalizing one security team warning that the recess.
preconditions, a naive and The House and Senate have energy company would send a administration has no effective Newt Gingrich is a senior
utopian promise that has yielded overwhelmingly passed, with clear signal that Washington has policy for dealing with Iran fellow at AEI.
p r e d i c t a b l y d i s a p p o i n t i n g bipartisan support, sanctions a policy of zero tolerance when achieving nuclear capability-- Photo Credit: Daniella
results. bills to curtail shipments of it comes to enabling the Iranian which many experts predict Zalcman/Flickr/Creative
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I r a n i a n r e g i m e r i g g e d a n House. shockwaves through Iran's nations in the Middle East will
E-reader News Edition
REMINDER: Here Are The 25 Financial Institutions Most
Likely To Default
Gregory White (The Money
Game)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:15:21 AM
With the wild action going on
in the market today, we thought
we'd bring this back to you...
Financial firms around the
world have been under
increased stress due to the
sovereign debt crises of Europe
and the resulting reduction in
confidence in the global
economy.
We've outlined 25 companies,
using data from CMA
Datavision, which have the
largest risk of default.
Notably, Greek banks, Chinese
real estate developers, and U.S.
subprime giants show up big on
the list.
That default risk (cumulative
probability of default) is
measured through fluctuations
in the company's CDS rating,
and the height of that rating. The
spread of each 5-year CDS is
also listed. 25: Assured
Guaranty Corp CEO: Dominic J.
Frederico
What Do They Do: Asset
backed and structured finance
underwriters and insurers.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 38.6%
5-year Mid CDS: 675.6
Source: CMA Datavision
24: Caja de Ahorros de
Valencia, Castellon y Alicante
CEO: José Fernando García
Checa
What Do They Do: Mainly a
banking a credit services firm,
they are also involved in
investing across a range of asset
classes including real estate.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 38.8%
5-year Mid CDS: 568.6 bps
Source: CMA Datavision
23: DEPFA Bank Plc CEO:
Cyril Dunne
What Do They Do: A
subsidiary of German financial
firm Hypo, DEPFA is a public
sector and infrastructure finance
company.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 41.7%
5-year Mid CDS: 730.6
Source: CMA Datavision
22: EFG Eurobank Ergasias
S.A. CEO: Nicholas C.
Nanopoulos
What Do They Do: Third
largest Greek bank, focusing on
both private and commerical
banking. Has a particular
interest in Southern Eastern
Europe.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 41.9%
5-year Mid CDS: 677.5
Source: CMA Datavision
21: Caja de Ahorros del
Mediterraneo CEO: Roberto
Lopez Abad
What Do They Do: A non-
profit Spanish banking firm,
which focuses on retail banking,
but also works in insurance.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 42.4%
5-year Mid CDS: 639.6
Source: CMA Datavision
20: American General Finance
Corp. CEO: Jerry Schiano
What Do They Do: As a
division of AIG, American
General Finance Corp. provides
a variety of loan services,
including consolidation, home
equity, and vacation loans.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 42.5%
5-year Mid CDS: 734.0
Source: CMA Datavision
19: Residential Capital, LLC
CEO: Thomas Marano
What Do They Do: A holding
company for GMAC's assets,
and securitizer of mortgage
loans.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 43.7%
5-year Mid CDS: 478.8
Source: CMA Datavision
18: Kazkommertsbank JSC
Chairman of the Board of
Directors: Nurzhan S.
Subkhanberdin
What Do They Do: As
Kazakstan's largest bank,
Kazkommertsbank works in
both retail and commercial
banking and lending.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 44.1%
5-year Mid CDS: 897.4
Source: CMA Datavision
17: Piraeus Bank S.A. CEO:
Michael Sallas
What Do They Do: A Greek
bank, Piraeus works in south
eastern and eastern Europe, with
a special emphasis on Romania.
The bank engages in traditional
retail and commercial banking,
as well as real estate.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD):
5-year Mid CDS:
Source: CMA Datavision
16: Agile Property Holdings
Limited Chairman: Chen
Zhuolin
What Do They Do: Chinese
land developer, focusing on
Guangdong Province.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 46.8%
5-year Mid CDS: 705.1
Source: CMA Datavision
15: Shimao Property Holdings
Limited Chairman: Wing Mau
Hui
What Do They Do: A property
investment and holding
company centered in Shanghai,
China.
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Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 46.9%
5-year Mid CDS: 826.9
Source: CMA Datavision
14: Radian Group Inc CEO:
S.A. Ibrahim
What Do They Do: Provides
insurance protection for
mortgage instruments,
headquartered in Philadelphia.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 48.4%
5-year Mid CDS: 642.6
Source: CMA Datavision
13: Realogy Corporation CEO:
Richard Smith
What Do They Do: Real estate
company, which includes
Century 21 and Coldwell
Banker in its holdings.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 48.4%
5-year Mid CDS: 1124.8
Source: CMA Datavision
12: The PMI Group Inc CEO:
What Do They Do: Centered in
San Francisco, the PMI Group
provides risk analysis and
insurance products for the
mortgage market.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 48.9%
5-year Mid CDS: 788.9
Source: CMA Datavision
11: Russian Standard Bank
CEO: Dmitry Levin
What Do They Do: The biggest
consumer bank in Russia and
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Their number is up
(The Economist: Daily news out of port during the attack, on the results on May 18th. complex, known as Kaesong. It called for. The more the cash-
and views) allowed the investigators to In coming days China will may close a shipping shortcut to strapped regime in Pyongyang
Submitted at 5/20/2010 1:48:29 AM conclude on May 20th that the come under pressure to issue a North Korean vessels, and feels economically isolated, the
Cheonan“was sunk as the result tougher response, during what conduct joint training exercises more it is likely to step up its
A guilty verdict for North of an external underwater could be some uncomfortable with American maritime forces provocations against the South
Korea Evidence that North explosion caused by a torpedo diplomatic meetings. Hillary in the Yellow Sea. unless it is decisively put in its
Korea torpedoed the Cheonan made in North Korea.” Or as Clinton, America’s secretary of A retaliatory strike, which some place, Mr Myers says. As it is,
puts it—and China—on the spot o n e p e r s o n c l o s e t o t h e state, is to visit Beijing on May hawkish South Koreans are the North is in desperate
May 20th 2010 | SEOUL AND investigation succinctly put it: 24th and 25th. Following that, calling for, is something the pro- economic straits. Six-party talks
TOKYO | From The Economist “ I t w a s e i t h e r t h e N o r t h the leaders of China, South business President Lee is that aimed to encourage it to
print edition Koreans, or it was the Korea and Japan are scheduled considered reluctant to do for give up nuclear weapons in
WHOEVER failed to erase the M a r t i a n s . ” to hold a summit in South Korea fear of escalating the conflict. exchange for cash are stalled
words “Number One” in blue The South Korean government on May 29th and 30th. His party faces local elections indefinitely as a result of the
Korean script etched inside the of President Lee Myung-bak The proof of North Korean that it is expected to win on June torpedo attack. International
propulsion shaft of a deadly had barely dared hope to find involvement, say diplomats, 2nd (his liberal opponents sanctions have hit other sources
torpedo may well be in deep hard evidence of North Korean may help South Korea and its already accuse him, perhaps of hard currency.
trouble in Pyongyang. On May g u i l t , h o w e v e r s t r o n g i t s allies persuade China to back unfairly, of using the incident China is its economic lifeline,
15th a ship dredging the site of suspicions. In doing so, it some form of United Nations for political ends). After that he as was shown again when Kim
the attack on a South Korean pushes the belligerent regime in condemnation of the attack. hosts an important G20 summit Jong Il, North Korea’s dictator,
warship in March that killed 46 Pyongyang into a corner. True South Korea’s allies such as in November. made a hasty trip to Beijing not
seamen made a spectacular find: to form, it continued to deny its America, Japan, Britain and Among the population at large, long after the Cheonan incident
propellers, motors and a steering involvement on May 20th, Australia were quick to express there seems little stomach for a to beg for continued economic
s e c t i o n t h a t i n t e r n a t i o n a l calling the investigation a their outrage. But the toughest fight. Indeed, despite a national support. At that point, Beijing
investigators say “perfectly “fabrication” and threatened “all condemnation, in the form of a outpouring of grief, the had an excuse, in public at least,
match” those of a CHT-02D -out war” if new sanctions were Security-Council resolution, senseless attack aroused to take his claims of innocence
torpedo that North Korea sells imposed. needs China’s support, or at surprisingly few public at face value. It no longer does.
abroad. What’s more, the blue Diplomats say it will also make least abstention. demonstrations of wrath with Readers' comments
marking was similar to one on a it harder for North Korea ’s Beyond diplomatic measures, the North. Brian Myers, a writer The Economist welcomes your
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one of the biggest in the country
overall.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 50.6%
5-year Mid CDS: 833.3
Source: CMA Datavision
10: Alpha Bank A.E. CEO:
Demetrios Mantzounis
What Do They Do: The Greek
bank specializes in retail lending
in Greece, as well as
expansionist retail and
commercial banking in
Southeast Europe.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 50.9%
5-year Mid CDS: 861.5
Source: CMA Datavision
9: Hopson Development
Holdings Limited CEO: Xue Hu
What Do They Do: Chinese
property development and
investment firm.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 51.7%
5-year Mid CDS: 1119.2
Source: CMA Datavision
8: National Bank of Greece
S.A. CEO: Apostolos
Tamvakakis
What Do They Do: Commercial
bank with an emphasis on the
Mediteranean and Southeast
Europ e.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 51.7%
5-year Mid CDS: 1104.4
Source: CMA Datavision
7: Country Garden Holdings
Company Limited Chairman:
Yang Guoqiang
What Do They Do: Chinese
high-end real estate developer.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 58.3%
5-year Mid CDS: 1047.6
Source: CMA Datavision
6: MBIA Inc. CEO: Jay Brown
What Do They Do: MBIA is a
financial holding company, its
holdings work in fixed-income
markets across the world.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 61.7%
5-year Mid CDS: 1197.2
Source: CMA Datavision
5: Dubai Holding Commercial
Operations Group LLC CEO:
Ahmad Bin Byat
What Do They Do:
Government holding company
for the assets of Dubai.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 63.4%
5-year Mid CDS: 1625.5
Source: CMA Datavision
4: iStar Financial Inc CEO: Jay
Sugarman
What Do They Do: A
commerical real estate
investment trust.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 66.4%
5-year Mid CDS: 1024.4
Source: CMA Datavision
3: Takefuji Corp President:
Akira Kiyokawa
What Do They Do: Subprime
consumer finance company,
centered in Japan.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 85.1%
5-year Mid CDS: 2895.1
Source: CMA Datavision
2: MBIA Insurance Corporation
Jay Brown CEO: Jay Brown
What Do They Do: The
insurance division of MBIA.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 88.7%
5-year Mid CDS: 2938.6
Source: CMA Datavision
1: AMBAC Financial Group
Inc. CEO: David Wallis
What Do They Do: Provider of
insurance and swap agreements,
largely to American
municipalities.
Cumulative Probability of
Default (CPD): 96.5%
5-year Mid CDS: 8841.4
Source: CMA Datavision
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42 Economy/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

With Euro Plunging, Here Comes The Plaza Accord 2.0

Joe Weisenthal (The Money
Game)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:59:26 AM
Are we about to see another
version of the Plaza Accord, the
1985 event when leaders of
major Western powers
coordinated to depreciate their
currencies against the yen?
From a reader:
So, in the rapidly unraveling
Euro drama…who stands to lose
the most economically with a
continued collapse of
Euro?...and who stands to gain
the most by deploying their vast
currency reserves to buy the
Euro?...China of course
Therefore the looming unasked
question is….Does China start
supporting the Euro soon with
significant intervention?...do the
rest of G20 countries join
in?...The G20 co-ordinated
currency intervention scenario
has not been discussed
much…the Plaza Accord
precedent to engineer currency
moves to address global trade
that hits you.
Peter Stock
Stock Investment Mgmt
3556 Main Street
Manchester Vt
05254
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imbalances is out there…it may buy the Chinese and US time to
be just the thing, at a minimum, work out their trade imbalance
to stabilize the Euro and allow differences.
the Eurocrats in Brussels to save In the volatile FX
political face and at same time business…you never see the bus

How did the universe begin?

(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) Meanwhile, physicist Albert or space. There was just a single stars and galaxies formed as universes in the fourth
Submitted at 5/19/2010 1:00:00 PM Einstein had just completed his hot, condensed point -- a well. (For more detailed dimension. And the big bounce
general theory of relativity, singularity -- containing all information on these beginning theory suggests our universe is
"In the beginning" -- before the which provided a model of a matter in the universe. In steps, read How the Big Bang caught in an eternal cycle of big
1920s, these words had no place finite, homogenous cosmos addition, all four fundamental Theory Works. bangs and big crunches.
in our scientific understanding shaped by gravity. These efforts forces (the gravitational, The big bang theory still You can think of such theories
of the universe. Astronomers laid most of the groundwork for electromagnetic, strong and provides the best model for how and models as piers extending
believed the cosmos to be a flurry of new discoveries and weak forces) were unified as a the universe arose, but it's not into the cosmic unknown. Some
eternal and unchanging. We fresh theories in the decades single force. This unified period, the only theory we have. For provide us with solid enough
knew of only one galaxy and a ahead. called the Planck epoch, lasted example, the steady-state theory footing to observe and test the
few million visible stars, and Our modern scientific 10-43 seconds. Then the modeled a universe with a universe as we steadily
this was the scope of our understanding of the universe universe expanded at a rate consistent density that appears determine exactly where and
observable universe. provides a kind of road map faster than the speed of light, to expand due to the constant what we are in it.
Then astronomer Edwin Hubble through time. Based in Hubble growing from subatomic to golf- generation of new matter. Explore the links on the next
observed, courtesy of redshift, and Einstein and corroborated ball size almost instantaneously. Support for it, however, largely page for even more
distant galaxies speeding away by such discoveries as the Scientists call this the died out, thanks to the discovery cosmological quandaries.
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E-reader News Edition Culture/ 43

On Web Video Support, Safari Now Stands Alone

Michael Calore (Wired Top I/O, links went up to new “Unfortunately, just because video won’t work on those
Stories) versions of Firefox and Opera something is open source, it devices until Apple adds
Submitted at 5/19/2010 4:58:00 PM with built-in support for WebM doesn’t mean or guarantee that it support.
video. Chrome support will be doesn’t infringe on others However, it wouldn’t be tough
SAN FRANCISCO — When coming in the next beta, due patents,” Jobs wrote. for Apple to implement WebM
Google announced it would be later this month. Microsoft says But Monty isn’t worried about support. All of the technologies
releasing the VP8 video codec that Microsoft Internet Explorer the MPEG-LA suing him or involved have been released
under an open source license, all 9, due to arrive as soon as the anyone at the WebM Project. under permissive open source
of the major browser vendors end of 2010, will support VP8 “The recent saber-rattling by licenses, and it’s already been
jumped up to support it. video playback if a user has Jobs felt more like a message to rolled into three major browsers.
Well, all of them except Apple. installed the free codec on their nervous to use it. Apple owns his own troops than a warning “It’s not a technical challenge,”
T h e W e b M P r o j e c t , a copy of Windows. Adobe says patents around H.264 and shot to ours,” he says. “MPEG says Google VP of engineering
partnership between Google, Flash Player will also support it benefits from the licensing fees itself has always has an internal Linus Upson. “If you look at the
Mozilla, Opera and dozens of as soon as possible. Executives that allow its use (so does contingent that has pushed hard other browsers that have already
other software and hardware from Mozilla, Opera and Adobe Microsoft, and many other for royalty-free baselines from implemented VP8, it’s just been
m a k e r s , p r o v i d e s w e b were all on stage during companies). MPEG, and the missives about a matter of a few weeks.”
developers a way of embedding Wednesday morning’s keynote So, will Apple begin supporting video codecs and patents were Google’s Upson and Pichai
video and audio in HTML5 to pledge their support. a open source video codec that probably meant for them, not both say they hope all web
pages without plug-ins, and But nobody from Apple competes for space on the web us.” browsers will support WebM’s
without resorting to patent-laden appeared, and as of Wednesday with H.264? Google VP of product efforts eventually.
technologies. afternoon, the company has “Stranger things have happened, management Sundar Pichai says See Also:
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different flavors of video, in a competing technology, mail to Webmonkey. The Safari browser is based on Using HTML5
creating a poor user experience H.264. Its Quicktime ecosystem Apple has sent not-so-subtle the same WebKit engine as
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44 Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Farm Wars: How Facebook Games Harvest Big Bucks

Chris Kohler (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 5/19/2010 5:20:00 PM

For Kira Greer, FarmVille

became a virtual obsession.
Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com
Kira Greer was sitting in a
meeting one afternoon when she
suddenly remembered an urgent
deadline. The San Francisco
instructional designer knew
there was no time to waste.
She excused herself, saying she
had to go to the bathroom, then
rushed back to her desk.
Quickly opening Facebook, she
began furiously clicking on
rows of virtual vegetables,
harvesting her FarmVille crops
before they withered and died.
“I realized I was hooked when I
was planning my day around
when I knew crops needed to be
harvested,” says Greer, 39.
Leaving a meeting to tend to
her videogame of choice was
Greer’s wake-up call. “Once I
realized I’d done that, I told my
husband and I just came home
and had a moment — d’oh! And
I realized, OK, I’m taking it a
little bit too far.”
“If there’s any way to explain it,
it’s that I’m playing it right now, They’re not working real farms, Farm, Country Story, Barn Villain, which let you steal other players and designers, and more
because you reminded me that I with dirt, crops and diesel- Buddy and Sunshine Ranch, people’s crops or raise Wookies. about the social experience:
had crops,” she tells me over the belching tractors. Instead, these each of which draws millions of Zynga’s FarmVille, the biggest Fields adjacent to your farm
phone. back-to-the-land pioneers are players on the social network. Facebook game of all, pulls in belong to family members and
Here a Farm, There a Farm plowing the back 40 on their The farming games have more than 75 million players friends pulled from your
We may live in a post-agrarian Facebook homesteads. Budding become so successful that who log in each month to plant, Facebook profile. You can visit
society, but that isn’t stopping virtual farmers stake their they’ve even spawned parodies tend and harvest virtual crops, their acreage, help them
millions of Americans from claims in free games like and hybrid knockoffs like over and over. The attraction is
FarmVille, Farm Town, Happy Jungle Extreme and Farm less about the game itself, say FARM page 46
heading back to the farm.
E-reader News Edition Culture/ 45

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

1990: The Hubble Space

Telescope sends its first image
back to Earth.
The new telescope’s imaging
prowess clearly exceeded that of
the best ground-based
telescopes, as shown in the
image above of stars in the
Carina cluster. But after a few
weeks, scientists began to
realize something was amiss.
Hubble’s images weren’t as
sharp as they should be. A
NASA investigation discovered
that the telescope’s 8-foot
primary mirror had been ground
just a little bit too flat around the
edges due to a miscalibrated
measuring instrument.
Though the slightly blurry
images were still good enough
for scientists to see space as
never before and do ground-
breaking research, the mirror’s
aberration meant Hubble would
not be able to complete some of
its mission, and its images
wouldn’t be as spectacular as
they could be.
This would have been hugely for the problem before the space If the repair had not succeeded, the Carina Nebula(below) until 1984.
disappointing for the many shuttle was due to visit Hubble the Hubble Space Telescope demonstrates. The entire spacecraft was ready
scientists and engineers who had in 1993 was able to correct the almost certainly would not have The mirror issue was not the to go by 1985, and slotted for
been dreaming of — and flaw and rescue the mission. come to occupy its current place only setback the Hubble mission launch in October 1986, but the
working toward — launching a Astronauts replaced the in the hearts of people across the has faced over the years. The Challenger disaster in January
telescope into space since the telescope’s Wide world. It’s the astonishing detail telescope was originally of that year halted shuttle flights
National Academy of Science Field/Planetary Camera with the of Hubble’s images that has scheduled to launch in 1983, but for two years. Hubble finally
formed a committee to study the Wide Field/Planetary Camera 2, turned people on to space for the though the mirror was finished made its way into space aboard
possibility in 1966. which compensated for the last 17 years, as one of the in time, the entire optical
mirror aberration. telescope’s most recent shots of apparatus didn’t come together MAY page 47
A heroic effort to devise a fix
46 Culture/ TV/
FARM
continued from page 44
complete farm chores and
exchange gifts of in-game items.
The appeal is natural. “I was
raised around farms,” says
Leslie Nautiyal, a 64-year-old
from Rockford, Illinois, who
says she’s hooked on FarmVille.
“I spent a lot of time on my aunt
and uncle’s farm. So it’s kind of
fun to have your own crop, go in
and harvest them, feel like
you’re doing something.”
By utilizing the simplest action-
reward gameplay mechanic —
borrowed from a Chinese game,
which was itself inspired by a
Japanese RPG — Facebook’s
farm games have quietly turned
millions of people into constant
gardeners (and consistent
gamers).
Cheri Van Hoover, 56, tends a
real 11-acre farm in Washington
state, but she’s glued to her
virtual fields, too. “What these
games give me is a sense of
control over my life,” she says.
“It is a neat, orderly place that I
can escape to, and where things
unfold in a relatively predictable
fashion, and I can work out all
of my needs for domination and
power and control in a safe
environment.”
Jesse James to Appear on 'Nightline'
TV Squad Staff (TV Squad)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 4:20:00 AM
Filed under: TV News Jesse
James will break his silence in
his first television interview
Such “social games” on
Facebook have quietly turned
time-waster appeal into big
business: Close to 100 of them
boast more than a million active
users each, and Facebook says
100 million unique people play
just the top 10 games on the site
every month.
And this is just the beginning:
After some very public turmoil,
Facebook and Zynga announced
Tuesday they have entered into
a five-year strategic
relationship. Zynga is currently
testing Facebook Credits in
some games and will expand use
of the social network’s virtual
currency to more titles in
coming months.
As social games explode in
popularity, the videogame
industry’s big players, faced
with slumping sales of
traditional games, have a hungry
eye on the fresh produce:
Electronic Arts recently
acquired Country Story maker
Playfish for $300 million in cash
and another potential $100
million in performance bonuses,
and plans to bring its Madden
football franchise to Facebook.
“The game industry’s going
since news broke that he had
cheated on his wife, Oscar-
winning actress Sandra Bullock.
According to ABC News,
James will sit down with exclusive interview set to air
'Nightline's' Vicki Mabrey in an
mainstream,” says Gareth Davis,
head of Facebook’s game
division. “A lot of people who
built traditional games for a long
time are starting to build social
games.”
Companies like Playfish and
Zynga say their free games are
profitable “many times over.”
How? Through the sale of
virtual goods. While the vast
majority of users put in the
hours to build their own little
slices of nature for free, a small
percentage pony up real-world
cash to buy the best decorations,
seeds, fertilizer and farm
animals.
In other words: Why get the
milk for free when you can buy
the cow?
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kept the festival rolling
yesterday at premieres and
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Discovery on April 24, 1990.
Once the mirror mistake had
been found and corrected, the
space telescope performed
beautifully, receiving upgrades
and repairs from shuttle
servicing missions in 1997,
1999 and 2002. Hubble has
enthralled scientists and the
public alike with stunning
images and unparalleled data
about the universe.
In more recent years, Hubble’s
future was again thrown into
question by a shuttle disaster
when Columbia disintegrated
upon re-entry in 2003, and
questions arose whether
repairing the telescope was
worth the risk. Ultimately, the
National Academy of Sciences
recommended that a shuttle
service mission be scheduled.
Hubble narrowly escaped
having its life span drastically
shortened once again in 2008.
The final service mission was
scheduled for October, but in
September a central data
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controller on the craft failed,
effectively shutting Hubble
down. If this had happened just
weeks later — after the shuttle
visit — it would have left the
telescope with just the backup
system, and the next failure
would have spelled the end.
Instead, engineers scrambled to
get a second backup system
ready on the ground, and after
several more shuttle delays and
some fears that space junk from
a satellite collision could make
the mission too risky, astronauts
were able to repair, service and
upgrade Hubble one last time in
May 2009. The famous
telescope got right back to
sending us amazing images just
a few months later.
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Did the Russians Win on Missile Defense in the New START

Treaty?
Baker Spring (The Foundry: defense issued by the Kremlin threats have had an impact on
Conservative Policy News.) on its website at the time of U.S. decision-making in the
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:03:08 AM signing which states: “[New past:
START] can operate and be • The Obama administration
The Senate Committee on viable only if the United States abandoned plans to deploy long-
Foreign Relations met on May o f A m e r i c a r e f r a i n s f r o m range missile defense assets in
18 to hold a hearing with developing its missile-defense Poland and the Czech Republic
Secretaries Clinton and Gates capabilities quantitatively or in order to remove an irritant in
and Admiral Mullen on the new qualitatively.” Also at issue is U.S.-Russian relations and
U.S.-Russia Strategic Arms w h e t h e r l a n g u a g e i n t h e enable NEW START
R e d u c t i o n ( N e w S T A R T ) preamble linking offensive and negotiations; and
Treaty. The three officials gave defensive weapons is legally • In a May 1, 1996 letter to
testimony and urged ratification binding and will restrict the U.S. Senator Nunn expressing his
saying the treaty will enhance from building missile defenses. views on the Defend America
U.S. security and aid nuclear Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) Act of 1996, then-Chairman of
non-proliferation efforts. In a raised concerns by saying that it the Joint Chiefs of Staff, John
n e a r - h e r c u l e a n e f f o r t , t h e is “troubling that each country Shalikashvili, argued that
witnesses, over and over, sought has divergent views on missile “efforts which suggest changes
to persuade lawmakers that defense.” Senator Jim Risch (R- to or withdrawal from the ABM
divergent views with Russia on ID) echoed this and said, “When Treaty may jeopardize Russian
the key issues of missile defense you read the preamble, and ratification of START II and, as
should not be an obstacle to when you read some of the articulated in the Soviet
ratification, reiterating that l a n g u a g e i n i t a n d m o s t Statement to the United States
nothing in New START will importantly, when you read the of 13 June 1991, could prompt
prevent the U.S. from deploying unilateral statement, we have Russia to withdraw from
missile defenses. irreconcilable differences.” He START I.”
Secretary Clinton, for example, continued, “This treaty means
stated that “nothing in the new something different to the After the cancellation of the
treaty constrains our missile Russians than it means to us “Third Site” long-range missile
defense;” while Secretary Gates when it comes to protecting our site in the Poland and Czech
said, “there are no limits [for people with a defensive missile on missile defense, and remarks succeeded. Republic, it is clear that U.S.
deploying missile defense] on structure.” These concerns are by senior Russian officials T h e a d m i n i s t r a t i o n ’ s policy will be colored by what
u s . ” M o r e t h a n a c o u p l e not unwarranted, especially suggest an attempt by Russia to rejoinder—reiterated by Sec. the Russians say is destabilizing.
members on the committee were when you consider the growing limit or constrain future U.S. Clinton and Gates during the It is also clear that U.S. policy
skeptical, however. missile threat from rogue missile defense capabilities by hearing—is that none of this will be to clearly limit missile
At issue regarding the question nations such as Iran and North threatening to withdraw from verbiage is legally binding, and defenses at any point that they
of New START’s impact on Korea. the treaty should the U.S. t h a t t h e U . S . U n i l a t e r a l can be perceived as upsetting
U.S. missile defense plans is the When viewed together, it is expand its current capabilities. Statement expresses its intent to the balance with Russia, as
legal standing of a Russian clear that the treaty’s Preamble, And by outward appearances, continue with its missile defense
unilateral statement on missile the Russian unilateral statement the Russians appear to have activities. Still, such Russian DID page 52
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AP Analysis: Obama's Endorsement Hurts

(Newsmax - Inside Cover) embolden Republican establishment Tuesday, Sen. Specter's behalf, and he was the aside for an 80-year-old
Submitted at 5/19/2010 4:57:42 PM lawmakers and candidates who Blanche Lincoln was forced into first person Specter thanked in longtime Republican.
oppose him. a runoff in Arkansas' his concession speech. Pennsylvania's Democratic
WASHINGTON - Voters "We're licking our chops at Democratic senatorial primary. Vice President Joe Biden, a voters were asked to concur.
rejected one of President Barack r u n n i n g a g a i n s t P r e s i d e n t Obama supports her bid for a Pennsylvania native, made Sestak, a former Navy vice
Obama's hand-picked candidates Obama," said Rand Paul, tea third term, but he is not as several appearances for Specter. admiral first elected to the
and forced another into a runoff, party candidate and victor in closely associated with her Last week he told a Pittsburgh House in 2006, refused to go
the latest sign that his political Kentucky's Republican primary campaign as he was with radio station, "Arlen is the along. He plugged away without
capital is slipping beneath a for retiring GOP Sen. Jim Specter's. Democratic candidate." help from the state or national
wave of anti-establishment Bunning's seat. Paul told CNN In previous months, Obama's Moreover, Obama was central party. A few weeks ago he
anger. on Wednesday he'd relish endorsements and campaign to an all-important deal with trailed Specter by about 20
Sen. Arlen Specter became the Obama's campaigning on behalf appearances weren't enough to Specter that struck some percentage points in polls of
fourth Democrat in seven of Democrat Jack Conway. save then-Gov. Jon Corzine's re- Democratic voters as likely Democratic voters.
months to lose a high-profile Obama's agenda, Paul said, is election bid in New Jersey, opportunistic at best. But Sestak caught fire in the
race despite the president's "so far to the left, he's not Creigh Deeds' run for governor Specter had been a Republican closing days, partly through a
active involvement, raising popular in Kentucky." in Virginia or Martha Coakley's senator for 28 years, opposing TV ad showing Specter
doubts about Obama's ability to Obama's track record also campaign in Massachusetts to countless Democratic bills and campaigning enthusiastically
help fellow Democrats in this raises the question of whether he keep the late Edward M. appointees even if he showed with then-President George W.
November's elections. may be hurting candidates he Kennedy's Senate seat in more independence than most Bush, who remains deeply
The first three candidates fell to supports by motivating his foes Democratic hands. lawmakers. Thirteen months unpopular with many
Republicans. But Specter's loss — such as tea party supporters In fairness, Deeds was an ago, however, he concluded he Democratic primary voters.
Tuesday to Rep. Joe Sestak in — to vote. Though this month's underdog from the start, and could not win the GOP In the past few weeks, the
Pennsylvania's Democratic AP-GfK Poll shows Americans Corzine brought many problems nomination for a sixth term White House has played down
senatorial primary cast doubts split about evenly over how he's on himself. But the Coakley loss against conservative Pat Obama's role in the Tuesday
on Obama's influence and handling his job, those strongly to Republican Scott Brown was Toomey. He and top Democrats primaries, and he spent Election
popularity even within his own disapproving outnumber people excruciating. She once was struck a deal. Day in Ohio talking about the
party — and in a battleground who strongly back him by 33 considered a shoo-in, and her Specter would become a economy.
state, no less. percent to 22 percent — not an defeat restored the Republicans' Democrat, giving the party the "At some point, you feel like
Of course, it's possible that e n v i a b l e p o s i t i o n f o r t h e ability to block Democratic bills crucial 60th Senate vote it we've done what we can do,"
Democrats will fare better than p r e s i d e n t ' s p a r t y . with Senate filibusters. needed to overcome Republican senior White House adviser
expected this fall. And there's Sestak's victory over Specter is Unlike the Corzine, Deeds and filibusters, which were David Axelrod told The
only so much that any president e s p e c i a l l y e m b a r r a s s i n g , Coakley races, Obama made no frustrating the administration. In Associated Press in an
can do to help other candidates, because he won by portraying late-campaign appearances for exchange, Obama, Biden, interview. "We do have other
especially in a non-presidential himself and his supporters as Specter. But it will be hard for Rendell and the entire stuff going on," he said.
election year. being more faithful to the the president to distance himself Democratic hierarchy agreed to Matt Bennett, a Democratic
Still, Obama's poor record thus Democratic Party than were from Specter's career-ending support Specter's 2010 re- strategist and vice president of
far could hurt his legislative Specter and his backers — who loss. election, including efforts to the group Third Way, said he
agenda if Democratic included the president, Obama campaigned for Specter clear his way to the party's doubts that Democratic
lawmakers decide they need Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell last September in Philadelphia, nomination. lawmakers will panic over
some distance from him as they and other high-ranking party where he said, "I love Arlen The losers in the deal were any Obama's inability to help
seek re-election in what is officials. Specter." Specter used the clip longtime Democrats who Specter to a victory.
shaping up as a pro-Republican Creating another bruise for in recent TV ads. Obama also e- aspired to the U.S. Senate. They ANALYSIS: page 52
year. Conversely, it might Obama and the Democratic mailed his supporters on essentially were told to step
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Senators Press for National Guard Troops On Border

(Newsmax - Inside Cover) pressure on those who traffic in the Guard to go to the border Pentagon and Homeland improve security at the border,
Submitted at 5/20/2010 2:32:31 AM drugs, guns and people." back in 2006." Security drafted a $225 million including adding more law
Fueling the discord over Napolitano, a former Arizona plan, but disagreed over who enforcement personnel and
H o m e l a n d S e c u r i t y a n d sending the National Guard to governor, responded that the would pay for it and how the prosecutors, and increasing
P e n t a g o n o f f i c i a l s a r e a t the border was the U.S. response request involves the White troops would be utilized. cooperation with the Mexican
loggerheads over a plan to send to the Gulf oil spill, which has House as well as the Pentagon Pentagon officials, worried government.
National Guard troops to the included federal authorization and the Homeland Security about perceptions that the U.S. "The president is firmly
U.S.-Mexico border, even as for deploying up to 17,000 Department, and is still in the was militarizing the border, committed to ensuring that our
President Barack Obama is National Guard troops. interagency process. While she argued that the Guard could Southwest border is secure,"
pledging to bolster security Those costs, however, are likely said she would like the decision only be used for particular Shapiro said. "The
there. to be borne by oil giant BP PLC, to be made as soon as possible, duties. Military leaders said they administration continues to
The Guard stalemate has which leased the offshore she added she could not say did not want Guard troops to evaluate additional law
festered for nearly a year, and drilling rig Deepwater Horizon when she would have an screen vehicles at border points enforcement options as well as
f r u s t r a t e d l a w m a k e r s a r e that exploded off the Louisiana answer. or perform any law enforcement the use of the National Guard, as
demanding action to stem the coast April 20, killing 11 and "We don't have a resolution on duties, and said the program needed, along the Southwest
spread of violence and drug releasing a huge, continuing oil that yet," Air Force Gen. Gene should be temporary and not border."
trafficking that has spilled spill. Renuart said in an interview tied to any existing program that ——
across the border into their The oil spill notwithstanding, with The Associated Press. could get extended. Online:
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Morning Bell: Dodd Bill is Just the Beginning of ‘Too Big to
Fail’
Conn Carroll (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:21:20 AM
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-
NV) failed to end debate on Sen.
Chris Dodd’s (D-CT) financial
regulation bill yesterday when
two Democrats broke ranks to
vote with conservatives. The
Dodd bill is already is already a
big government monstrosity,
expanding powers for existing
Washington regulators as well
as creating and empowering
new ones. But frightened by the
defeat of Sen. Arlen Specter (D-
PA) and the near defeat of Sen.
Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), Sens.
Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and
Russ Feingold (D-WI) issued
statements following their “no”
voted demanding that the bill
further increase the power of
Washington bureaucrats.
Specifically, Cantwell wants to
criminalize violations of the
bill’s extremely complex new
derivatives provisions, and
Feingold is demanding the
resurrection of Depression Era
prohibitions on banking
diversification. Not only has our
federal government already
criminalized the violation of far
too many arcane regulations,
but the derivatives provisions
already in the bill are sure to
drive investment, jobs and
revenues out of our domestic
markets and into foreign ones.
And Feingold’s claims that
restoration of the Glass-Steagall
would prevent “too big to fail”
bear no relation to reality. None
of the major entities at the core
of the 2008 financial crisis
would have been affected by
Glass-Steagall because none of
them are commercial banks.
Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch,
Lehman Brothers, AIG, Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac all dug
their financial crisis graves by
making terrible decisions that
would have been perfectly legal
under a Glass-Steagall regime.
Speaking of Fannie and
Freddie, there is still nothing in
this bill that addresses the
perverse incentives and moral
hazard that is created when the
federal government sticks its
nose into the housing market.
Last year, the two financed or
backed about 70% of single-
family mortgage loans. They
hold about $5 trillion in their
investment portfolios. Both are
losing money fast, with those
losses being covered by the U.S.
taxpayer. Last month, Freddie
announced it had lost $8 billion
in the first quarter of 2010 and
would be asking for another
$10.6 billion in taxpayer help.
Not to be outdone, Fannie
announced an $11.5 billion loss
and asked for another $8.4
billion from taxpayers. That’s
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protégés — to set things right.
… But their fixes tend to make
the system even more complex
and centralized, and more
vulnerable to the next national-
security surprise, the next
natural disaster, the next
economic crisis. Which is why,
despite all the populist backlash
and all the promises from
Washington, this isn’t the end of
the ‘too big to fail’ era. It’s the
beginning.”
Quick Hits:
• The South Korean
government presented forensic
evidence, including part of a
torpedo propeller made in North
atop the nearly $145 billion of virtually any business including Korea, and formally accused
your dollars that Fannie and motor cycle manufacturers, North Korea of sinking one of
Freddie have already received. retailers, car dealers and even its warships.
Fannie and Freddie alone prove coffee shops. • New documents and witness
this bill does nothing to end “too On Sunday, columnist Ross testimony show Venezuelan
big to fail.” Fannie and Freddie Douthat described the Dodd bill P r e s i d e n t H u g o C h a v e z
should be partly wound down, as just one example of “the real provided arms and sanctuary to
the rest broken up and sold off s t o r y o f o u r t i m e . F r o m Marxist rebels intent on toppling
— not replaced, reformed, or Washington to Athens, the Colombian President Álvaro
rejuvenated. The Dodd bill does economic crisis is producing Uribe.
none of that. c o n s o l i d a t i o n r a t h e r t h a n • According to Rasmussen
This bill extends the power of revolution, the entrenchment of Reports, 67% say of American
Washington at the expense of a u t h o r i t y r a t h e r t h a n i t s adults say Mexico does not want
Economic Freedom in other diffusion, and the concentration to stop its citizens from entering
ways too. It creates a permanent of power in the hands of the the United States illegally.
new bailout authority that same elite that presided over the • According to industry data
undermines our bankruptcy disasters in the first place. … If r e l e a s e d W e d n e s d a y , t h e
system and the rule of law. And Robert Rubin’s mistakes helped number of U.S. homeowners
the new Bureau of Consumer c r e a t e a n o u t - o f - c o n t r o l w h o a r e b e h i n d o n t h e i r
F i n a n c i a l P r o t e c t i o n i s financial sector, then naturally mortgages rose to a record level
empowered to regulate the you need Timothy Geithner and
f i n a n c i a l t r a n s a c t i o n s o f Lawrence Summers — Rubin’s MORNING page 54
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stated in the Department of
Defense’s Ballistic Missile
Defense Review Report.
During the hearing, Secretary
Clinton acknowledged that the
Preamble contains an explicit
linkage between offense and
defense weapons but said it
“does not constrain our missile
defense programs in any way.”
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) had
a different take: “The Russians
don’t appear to misunderstand
what’s in this treaty, and I don’t
have to read the preamble to
you, but it’s very clear that we
can develop defensive missile
defense as long as it does not
threaten their offensive
capabilities” This was an
important observation.
The Heritage Foundation has
pointed out that the while the
Preamble certainly contains an
explicit linkage between
offensive and defense weapons,
the language relating to missile
defense establishes a logic that
works to restrain missile defense
options.
Recognizing the existence of
the interrelationship between
strategic offensive arms and
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"Presidents have coattails when
their names are on the ballot,"
Bennett said, and that can't
happen for Obama until 2012.
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strategic defensive arms, that
this interrelationship will
become more important as
strategic nuclear arms are
reduced, and that current
strategic defensive arms do not
undermine the viability and
effectiveness of the strategic
offensive arms of the Parties.
The key phrase is more
important as strategic arms are
reduced. The language
establishes a logic that missile
defense capabilities must come
down in coordination with
reductions in offensive strategic
weapons because otherwise
defenses will call into question
the “viability and effectiveness”
of strategic offensive weapons.
Otherwise, they will upset the
strategic balance and the
“balance of terror.” Or, in
Putin’s parlance from last
December, the U.S. may begin
to feel “ secure.”
Prior to the signature, the
Administration asserted that
there would be no reference to
missile defense other than in the
Preamble of the Treaty, and
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ICBM and SLBM launchers into
launchers for missile defense
interceptors and vice versa.
Absent from the discussion in
the hearing was reference to the
unsettling revelations made by
Dimitri Simes, a prominent
Russia expert and President of
the Nixon Center. Simes
published an article saying that
senior Russian officials told him
that high ranking Russians told
him that during negotiations
senior American officials
conveyed to the Russian side
that there was no reason to put
more restrictive language on
missile defense in the treaty.
This is because the Obama
Administration has no intention
of moving forward with
strategic missile defenses in
Europe. In addition, Americans
told the Russians that specific
restraints in the treaty would
only cause the Senate to block
its ratification. Senior U.S.
officials apparently confirmed
this to Simes.
Even if these revelations are not
true, the Russian leadership had
a fairly well-defined game plan
in negotiating the treaty and as
Sergei Karagonov, Chairman of
the Russian Council on Defense
and Foreign Policy, put it, “In
the course of the negotiations,
Russia reached almost all of the
objectives it could possibly set.”
Moreover, as Senator DeMint,
Corker, and Risch all pointed
out, in a world with a growing
missile threat to the United
States it is absolutely critical
that we develop the missile
defense system needed to
protect ourselves. Accordingly,
the Senate must confirm that
Russia did not win on the
missile defense issue before it
consents to ratification.
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Surges in Ct.
Senate Race
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Submitted at 5/20/2010 5:05:37 AM
Republican Linda McMahon’s
quest for the US Senate seat in
Connecticut has evolved to a
genuine threat to the GOP
opponent she faces in a party
nominating contest Friday,
according to a report by
Boston.com.
McMahon has raced ahead in
polls against her primary
challenger, former
representative Rob Simmons --
once touted as the GOP’s best
chance of capturing the seat
being vacated by retiring
Democratic Senator Chris Dodd.
"I’m capitalizing on the mood I
find across Connecticut. We
don’t want people who are the
same old career politicians. We
want a fresh face and fresh
ideas," McMahon said in an
interview this week.
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Economic Freedom Remains Elusive to Our Neighbors to the
South
Israel Ortega (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 5/19/2010 5:00:35 PM
Mexican President, Felipe
Calderon, is set to address a
joint session of Congress today
to address issues of mutual
interest on both sides of our
almost two thousand mile
border. Among the issues that
will likely dominate Calderon’s
prepared remarks will include
the ongoing drug violence
engulfing Mexico and
threatening to spill over to our
border states even more.
But beyond this critical issue of
mutual concern, rest assured that
Mr. Calderon will use this
opportunity to speak about
immigration. Mr. Calderon will
likely talk about the thousands
of men, women and even
children that die every year in
the US-Mexico border yearning
for an opportunity to live in our
country. But what Mr. Calderon
will likely not tell us is how true
economic freedom remains
elusive for the vast majority of
his citizens.
This claim is validated in our
most recent Index of Economic
Freedom that pegs Mexico in
the 41st position. Despite
modest improvements in many
of the ten key economic
indicators in our Index,
economic underdevelopment
continues to plague Mexico. As
the authors of the Index write,
“Mexico’s overall economic
freedom remains limited by
lingering institutional
weaknesses that include
considerable corruption and a
rigid labor market. The judicial
system is slow to resolve cases
and vulnerable to corruption.
The rule of law is undermined
by drug cartels and kidnapping.”
Additionally, as reported in this
Heritage Foundation research
paper, monopolies and
duopolies in various key
industries hamper economic
freedom – stifling innovation
and entrepreneurship.
Under this light, it is not
surprising that many of
Mexico’s citizens look to the
north for economic opportunity
and a higher quality of life. To
be fair, Mexican President
Felipe Calderon has spoke about
the need for Mexico to retain
more its citizens and curtail the
seemingly endless exodus to the
United States. Nonetheless, it is
clear that more is needed than
lofty rhetoric if Mexico is to be
successful stemming the flow of
undocumented workers to our
shores.
Of course, we too have an
obligation to strengthen
cooperation by reaffirming our
commitment to trade and
shunning protectionist policies.
Unfortunately, this
Administration has shown a
willingness to placate the
demands of the labor unions in
the past as seen in last summer’s
decision to pull funding for the
Mexican truck program – aimed
at facilitating trade between the
two countries.
President Calderon no doubt
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faces a number of challenges,
none more than reducing drug
violence, but if he is serious
about reducing the number of
Mexicans looking to the United
States for economic
opportunities, he will need to
take on the entrenched interests
in Mexico. The energy and
telecommunications industries
are in serious need of
competition, and if opened to
increased competition could
prove vital in creating jobs in
Mexico for thousands of well
qualified Mexican professionals.
In short, only by empowering
the Mexican people with
increased economic
opportunities, while resisting the
lure of failed statist economic
policies, will Calderon be able
to provide his citizens the
chance for a better life at home.
Unfortunately, for all too many
Mexicans, that seems possible
now only in their neighbor to
the north.
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Living Longer in a Warming World
Nicolas Loris (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 5/19/2010 6:00:14 PM
Indur Goklany was involved
with the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change as an
author, U.S. delegate and
reviewer since before its
inception. His focuses are
climate change and economic
development, among others, and
his presentation at Heartland’s
4th International Climate
Change Conference on global
warming and mortality was one
of the standout presentations in
the entire conference. His talk
establishes the long-standing
fact that cold kills more than
warmth and that global warming
policies cost more lives than
global warming itself.
One of the justifications for
combating global warming is
that higher temperatures will
threaten human health and could
cause sweeping epidemics of
infectious diseases and
ultimately more deaths. But
don’t forget a warmer world has
benefits as well as costs, as does
a cooler one. The empirical data
shows that mortality rates rise in
colder months, and this is
evident across latitudes and well
-recognized by the medical
community.
As the earth has warmed the
extent of malaria and hunger
rates have dropped and life
expectancy and health-adjusted
life expectancy (disability
adjusted life years) has
increased. Goklany says that
“global warming or its
underlying human causes, if
any, have not increased death or
disease. In fact, they are
probably responsible for the
worldwide decreases in
mortality rates and increases in
life expectancy over the last
century.”
Goklany stresses that there are
more important health risks than
climate change. According to
the World Health Organization,
climate change health risks are
last out of 24 risk factors- even
ignoring the gains in mitigating
cold-weather gains. Unsafe sex,
unsafe drinking water and
vitamin deficiencies are much
higher on the list. When it
comes to climate change, the
real threat to increased death
and disease is global warming
policies, more specifically
biofuel production.
Goklany project 51,000 world-
wide excess deaths because of
additional poverty from bio-fuel
programs alone. While climate
change ranks on the WHO’s risk
factor’s, being underweight
ranks at the top. Biofuel
production, which is heavily
subsidized in many developing
countries, diverts food away to
fuel and attempts to address the
lowest risk factor at the expense
of the most important. To truly
help developing countries with
the risks associated with climate
change as well as the many
more important ones, we should
shift away from biofuel policies
and focus on broader economic
development. He writes:
Developing countries are
generally deemed to be most
vulnerable to climate change,
not necessarily because they
will experience greater climate
change, but because they lack
adaptive capacity (that is,
financial and human capital) to
acquire and use the technologies
necessary to cope with its
impacts. Hence, another
approach to addressing climate
change would be to enhance the
adaptive capacity of developing
countries by promoting broad
development, i.e., economic
development and human capital
formation, which, of course, is
the point of sustainable
economic development.
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in the first quarter.
• The President of the American
Federation of Teachers makes
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Supreme Court nominee Elena
Kagan counted the days like a
nervous student anticipating a
tough oral exam before she
made her first appearance last
year at the court she's now
seeking to join.
"Four weeks from Wednesday
— not that I'm counting — will
be my first argument as solicitor
general and also my first
argument at the Supreme
Court," she told summer interns
in Washington with a laugh.
"I come into this job not having
a whole lot of experience myself
in oral arguments," the then-
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solicitor general told the
students in a video of her
appearance the White House
submitted this week, along with
reams of files on her
background and record, to the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
Kagan was returning to Capitol
Hill on Thursday for more
meetings with Republicans and
Democrats who will vote on her
nomination.
Her lack of courtroom
experience has been a focus of
criticism for Republicans
skeptical about Kagan's
nomination for the nation's
highest court, and she almost
certainly will have to address
the issue at confirmation
hearings set to begin June 28.
But for now, the documents are
offering some glimmers of
Kagan's personality and style.
The papers demonstrate Kagan's
sense of humor, her view of the
importance and limits of the
law, her take on the role of the
Supreme Court in American life,
and the major issues and
sometimes-mundane tasks she
handled during a career in legal
circles, academia and a
Democratic White House.
In 2007, Kagan opined that the
law sometimes allows things
that are "just plain dumb."
"Don't think that law is
everything," she told a group of
West Point cadets in a speech,
reflecting on lessons she took
away from her time serving as a
domestic policy adviser to
former President Bill Clinton.
"Even when the lawyers clear
something, it may not be the
right thing to do. It may be
unethical, even if it's not
illegal," she said. "Or it may just
be plain dumb."
In the same talk, Kagan, who
stepped aside Monday from her
job as solicitor general, offered
a hint of how she might
approach her job as a justice.
She said she learned as a
Clinton aide, "When in doubt
and when possible, ask" and
seek "a real, not foreordained,
answer."
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Megan Fox On Wednesday, Paramount second film, who wrote an open theaters June 18.
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CW's Fall Lineup Adds Two New
Shows, Shifts Schedule
(TVGuide.com: Breaking
News)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:14:00 AM
Maggie Q and Ashley Tisdale
Two new series will join the
CW's existing mix of youth-
targeted shows, the network
announced Thursday.
Nikita, a remake of the Luc
Besson film and the '90s
syndicated hit starring Peta
Wilson, will follow The
Vampire Diaries on Thursdays.
High School Musical's Ashley
Tisdale stars in Hellcats— a
cheerleading dramedy produced
by Smallville's Tom Welling—
which will run on Wednesdays
after America's Next Top
Model.
Fall TV Scorecard: Which
shows are returning? Which
aren't?
Speaking of the red-blue blur,
Smallville will air its 10th and
final season on Fridays, paired
with Supernatural.
Gossip Girl stays on Mondays,
following 90210, which moves
from Tuesdays. The new
Tuesday lineup will feature
fellow former bubble shows
One Tree Hill and Life
Unexpected.
The network also announced
that Plain Jane, a new reality
makeover show, will get a
summer run.
Check out our day-by-day
guide to all the networks' fall
schedules
The CW's fall schedule:
MONDAY
8 p.m. 90210
9 p.m. Gossip Girl
TUESDAY
8 p.m. One Tree Hill
9 p.m. Life Unexpected
WEDNESDAY
8 p.m. America's Next Top
Model
9 p.m. Hellcats
THURSDAY
8 p.m. The Vampire Diaries
9 p.m. Nikita
FRIDAY
8 p.m. Smallville
9 p.m. Supernatural
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'24': The Top 5 Villains
Kim Potts (TV Squad)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 4:00:00 AM
Filed under: Features In our
continuing countdown to --
sniff, sniff -- the '24' series
finale on May 24 (8M ET, Fox),
here's a our list of the all-time
most villainous Jack Bauer foes.
Nina Meyers
(Played by Sarah Clarke)
'24' seasons: 1-3
Why she's one of the bad guys:
She was the first big traitorous
villain in the series, betraying
her co-workers and friends,
committing numerous murders, incredibly cruel. Nina had
dealing in biological weaponry already betrayed Jack and Tony
and devastating every member (both of whom she had also had
of Jack Bauer's family. affairs with), CTU and her
Most evil moment: Killing Teri country, and after the brutal day
Bauer at the end of season one. Teri had already suffered, it was
True, it was the moment that tragic that she and Jack's unborn
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2010 Upfronts: The CW MTV Orders Teen Wolf

Scott Harris (TV Squad)
Series
Submitted at 5/20/2010 3:50:00 AM

(TVGuide.com: Breaking
Filed under: TV News The CW News)
held its annual upfronts today
and its motto this year appears Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:53:00 AM

to be "everything old is new

again," as next season's schedule
will look nearly identical to last
season's. The only new arrivals
this fall: 'Nikita' and 'Hellcats,'
which will replace outgoing
shows 'Melrose Place,' 'Fly
Girls' and 'High Society.'
Those changes will result in
some shuffling of the schedule,
however, with '90210' and 'One
Tree Hill' swapping time slots;
'90210' will now air on
Mondays as lead in to 'Gossip
Girl,' forming perhaps the
cattiest block on television,
while 'One Tree Hill' moves to
Tuesdays and a more synergistic
partner in 'Life Unexpected.'
'Supernatural,' meanwhile,
jumps to Fridays to team with
fellow sci-fi staple 'Smallville,'
with 'Hellcats' and 'Nikita'
filling the 9PM slots on
Wednesday and Thursday,
respectively.
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has been developing for more Artemis Dibenedetto
than a year, stars Tyler Posey( (Consumer Reports)
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'The Good Guys' - 'Pilot' Recap (Series Premiere)

Jane Boursaw (TV Squad)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 3:33:00 AM
Filed under: Recaps
(S01E01) "There are no small
crimes, there are only small
cops. Put that in your computer
circuit. Look, you wanna get rid
of me? You wanna work on
your career? Grow a pair! Crack
some cases!" - Dan to Jack
I'm not usually one to go for
police procedurals. For one
thing, it's a lot of work keeping
perps, and everything else. But I
figured'The Good Guys' would
be different, and I was right. It's
not so much a procedural as it is
an action-thriller with plenty of
track of alibis, clues, witnesses, laughs thrown in. Our own
Danny Gallagher has been
having a blast with it, too; check
out his preview and interviews,
and he even got to play an extra!
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reports of the handle detaching.
Two incidents required
professional medical treatment
and 26 resulted in minor scrapes
and scratches. Health Canada is
also recalling the rider. Made in
the U.S., the toys were sold at
major retailers and specialty
stores from August 1999
through March 2010. The recall
covers Push Around and
Whisper Ride "buggies." Learn
more in the full Safety blog.
Recalled: Toy dart set, after two
deaths
The Consumer Product Safety
Commission has announced a
recall of 1.8 million Auto Fire
Target Sets because the darts
can be inhaled by a child and
stop his or her breathing. The
soft plastic darts measure just
over one inch in length and have
a small suction cup at one end
with a diameter of about ½ inch.
"Gordy Toy" for "Ages 8+" is
printed on the packaging, and
they were sold exclusively at
Lakers Still 'Lucky' Against Setting Suns
Chris Tomasson (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 1:39:00 AM
Filed under: Lakers, Suns, NBA
Playoffs LOS ANGELES --
Look up in the Staples Center
rafters, where 15 championship
banners hang. It's got to be luck,
right?
Well, maybe the last 10 of
them.
Family Dollar stores nationwide
from September 2005 through
January 2009. According to the
CPSC, the boys who died were
9 and 10—older than the
recommended 8+ age on the
product’s packaging—so a
hazard clearly exists for all ages
of kids, not just younger ones.
Learn more in the full Safety
blog.
Parents angered and confused
by Tylenol recall
When children get sick, two of
the popular remedies used to
relieve their aches, pains, and
fever are children’s Tylenol and
Motrin. So when the Food and
Drug Administration announced
a recall of children’s Tylenol
last September, I was quick to
look in my medicine cabinet to
see if the bottles I was using for
my kids were affected.
Fortunately, they weren’t. But
recently, when Johnson &
Johnson’s McNeil division
recalled more than 40 children's
In 1960, the Minneapolis
Lakers moved after having won
five titles in the 1950s. They
painkillers and allergy
medications, I checked again.
This time those same two bottles
I’d been using for my kids were
on the recall list. I was stunned
and angry. Could I have given
them something that harmed
them? How could such trusted
brands have fallen short?
Congress is asking the same
questions. Learn more in the full
Safety blog.
Learn more about ride-on toys,
children's medication dosing,
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Schenectady, NY or Des
Moines, Iowa.
But, no, they moved to Los
Angeles. And all those star big
men eventually came to sunny
Southern California through free
agency ( Shaquille O'Neal) or
trade requests (Wilt
Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul
-Jabbar).
Daily electronics deals
Paul Eng (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 5:55:53 AM
Daily electronics deals
Today's electronics deals,
courtesy of The Consumerist:
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The Consumerist receive
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are intended to be purely
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often fleeting, with prices
changing or products becoming
unavailable as the day
progresses.
These posts are not an
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sell them—though some of the
sites may be included, and
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retailers for computers and other
major electronics(both available
to subscribers). Price shouldn't
be your only criterion. Be wary
of lower-priced deals that seem
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Q&A: Can no-cal and low-cal
sweeteners help me lose weight?
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(Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 6:25:55 AM
Q&A: Can no-cal and low-cal
sweeteners help me lose weight?
You would think so, but there’s
no evidence that’s true.
The artificial sweeteners
acesulfame-K (Sunett, Sweet
One), aspartame (Equal,
NutraSweet), and saccharine
(Necta Sweet, Sweet ’N Lo),
don’t contain any calories.
Neither do tagatose (Naturlose)
or sucralose (Splenda), both of
which are derived from sugar, or
those made with stevia
(PureVia, SweetLeaf Stevia, and
Truvia) or concentrated monk
fruit (BioVittoria). Sugar
alcohols such as erythritol
(Sweet Simplicity), maltitol
(Nature Sweet), sorbitol, and
iPad App Store Now Live Internationally
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 3:48:26 AM world, such as Australia and
A stream of tweets tells us that Customers in Europe were able
the iPad App Store is now live to pre-order the iPad on May 10,
in certain European countries, and the device is slated to ship put in the time and effort to
namely the UK and France, as on May 28. Now, the folks that
appetite, so people end up eating
more.
If you use them, make sure you
still pay attention to the rest of
the food in your diet. And be
aware that Consumer Reports
tests found that not everyone
likes the taste of those nonsugar
sweeteners, some don’t work
xylitol have about half as many
well in recipes, and they can
calories as sugar.
cost more.
So it seems logical that
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Many Americans haved
turned from giddy to
gloomy on retirement
Consumer Reports Shopping
Blog (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 5/19/2010 2:04:58 PM
Many Americans haved turned
from giddy to gloomy on
retirement For years now, the
Employee Benefit Research
Institute has published a
periodic Retirement Confidence
Survey. The latest installment,
released today, reads more like a
Lack of Confidence Survey.
EBRI’s new data show that the
portion of retirees who say
t o
they’re very confident of having
enough money to live
comfortably throughout their
retirement years has fallen from
a peak of 41 percent in 2007 to
just 19 percent in 2010. Among
the still working, the percentage
has dropped from 27 in 2007 to
16 today.
Of course, it’s possible that
people in mostly pre-recession
2007 were too giddy about their
bring the iPad from the U.S.
before it was available in
Europe can enjoy the benefits of
the App Store a couple of days
early.
[via Engadget]
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financial prospects. Or that now
they're too gloomy. Still, if
you're concerned about whether
you'll have enough to retire in
the comfort you deserve, here’s
some advice from our money
team that may be of help:
• A happy retirement: 6 steps
that work
• Retirement planning time
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• Rebuild your nest egg
• Create a retirement
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writes the “Retirement Guy”
column each month in our
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Floyd Landis admits to using PEDs most of his career
Bonnie D. Ford (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:17:32 AM
Nearly four years after he
began waging a costly, draining,
and ultimately losing battle to
discredit his positive test for
synthetic testosterone at the
2006 Tour de France, Floyd
Landis told ESPN.com on
Wednesday that he used
performance-enhancing drugs
for most of his career as a
professional road cyclist,
including the race whose title he
briefly held.
In a lengthy telephone
interview from California,
Landis detailed extensive,
consistent use of the red blood
cell booster erythropoietin
(commonly known as EPO),
testosterone, human growth
hormone and frequent blood
transfusions, along with female
hormones and a one-time
experiment with insulin, during
the years he rode for the U.S.
Postal Service and Switzerland-
based Phonak teams.
“ of involvement in doping.
I don't feel guilty at all about
having doped. I did what I did
because that's what we [cyclists]
did and it was a choice I had to
make after 10 years or 12 years
of hard work to get there, and
that was a decision I had to
make to make the next step. My
choices were, do it and see if I
can win, or don't do it and I tell
people I just don't want to do
that, and I decided to do it.”--
Floyd Landis
Landis confirmed he sent e-
mails to cycling and anti-doping
officials over the past few
weeks, implicating dozens of
other athletes, including seven-
time Tour de France winner
Lance Armstrong; team
management and owners; and
officials of the sport's national
and international governing
bodies. ESPN.com is in the
process of seeking comment
from those individuals.
Armstrong has long been
dogged by accusations that he
used performance-enhancing
drugs, but no anti-doping
authority has ever confirmed
that he tested positive.
Armstrong is currently
competing in the Tour of
California.
The Wall Street Journal first
reported details of Landis' e-
mails.
Landis also accused American
riders Levi Leipheimer and
Dave Zabriskie and Armstrong's
longtime coach, Johan Bruyneel,
In an e-mail to USA Cycling
president Steve Johnson dated
April 30, Landis related a
number of anecdotes he said
were representative of his time
in the European peloton.
However, as Landis told
ESPN.com, no one ever coerced
him into doping. "I take
responsibility for all the stuff I
did,'' Landis said in the
interview. "No one gave me
something and said, 'Don't ask
what this is, just take it.' I would
never have done that. The things
I took, I knew what they were,
and I spent the time researching
what the risks were, and the
decisions I made were mine.
The whole entire process of
doping in the entire sport and
the evolution of it all wasn't my
fault, but when it came down to
it, me being there, I made the
decision to do it. It wasn't
anyone else telling me to do it.
I'm not blaming anyone for that.
It was my decision. Every time."
In the e-mail to Johnson, Landis
said that Johan Bruyneel, the
longtime sports director of the
U.S. Postal Service, Discovery
Channel, Astana and
RadioShack teams who guided
Armstrong and Spain's Alberto
Contador to a combined nine
Tour de France victories,
"instructed" Landis on how to
use testosterone patches when
he was riding for Postal in 2002.
Landis added that he first used
EPO on Bruyneel's advice the
following summer while
training for the Tour of Spain,
that he obtained the drug
directly from Armstrong, and
that he started using HGH that
he bought from a team trainer in
Valencia during that same
training period. In the same e-
mail, Landis said he worked
with Armstrong's personal
trainer, Dr. Michele Ferrari of
Italy, who consulted with
several riders on the Postal team
at the height of Armstrong's
career. Ferrari helped Landis
with the extraction and re-
tranfusion of his own blood
during one session in St. Moritz,
Switzerland in 2002, according
to Landis. "I paid [Ferrari]
$10,000 [that season]," Landis
told ESPN.com. "He only
accepted cash. His normal fee is
10 percent of your salary." "I
mean, he's one of the best
references," Landis said of
Ferrari, who worked with
numerous top cyclists. In 2004,
Ferrari was convicted of
sporting fraud and abusing his
medical license by an Italian
court, but later succeeded in
having that judgment reversed
on appeal. "I didn't wish to take
the risks on my own and
especially since it was fairly
clear that his advice was
endorsed by Lance himself,"
Landis said in the ESPN.com
interview. "And therefore Johan
and the other guys that knew of
it and were involved -- working
with him, they'd understand the
risks that I was taking as well
and therefore trust me." Landis
also said he and Armstrong
discussed the efficacy of the
then-newly developed test for
EPO in 2002. In the e-mail to
Johnson, Landis said he had
blood extracted in 2003 inside
the apartment Armstrong owned
in the historic center of Girona,
Spain, and that it was stored in a
refrigerator there along with
blood extracted from Armstrong
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and teammate George Hincapie.
Landis said Armstrong asked
him to stay in the apartment on
one occasion while Armstrong
was away in order to make sure
the refrigerator did not
malfunction.
“
What's his agenda? The guy is
seeking revenge. It's sad, it's sad
for cycling. It's obvious he does
hold a grudge.”-- UCI president
Pat McQuaid He also said in the
e-mail that a team doctor gave
him and Hincapie, who he said
was his roommate during the
2003 Tour de France, syringes
filled with olive oil in which
andriol, a form of testosterone
that can be taken orally, had
been dissolved. Landis further
described personally seeing
other riders receive transfused
blood, including once on the
team bus after a stage of the
2004 Tour de France, The bus
driver stopped on a "remote
mountain road" for an hour,
pretending the bus had engine
trouble while the entire team
received transfusions, Landis
said in the e-mail. Landis,
seeking his own chance to
become a team leader, signed
with the Phonak team before the
2005 season. In the e-mail to
Johnson, the rider claimed that
he negotiated with team owner
Andy Rihs for extra money to
cover the expenses of a doping
program. Phonak was stung by
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several high-profile doping
cases from 2004-06, including
that of Landis' fellow American
Tyler Hamilton, who was
convicted of using banned
transfusions.
UCI president Pat McQuaid
questioned Landis' credibility in
a telephone interview Thursday
with The Associated Press.
"What's his agenda?" McQuaid
said. "The guy is seeking
revenge. It's sad, it's sad for
cycling. It's obvious he does
hold a grudge."
McQuaid said he received
copies of the e-mails sent by
Landis to the U.S. cycling
federation, but declined to
comment on their contents. He
said Landis' allegations were
"nothing new."
"He already made those
accusations in the past,"
McQuaid said. "Armstrong has
been accused many times in the
past but nothing has been
proved against him. And in this
case, I have to question the
guy's credibility. There is no
proof of what he says. We are
speaking about a guy who has
been condemned for doping
before a court."
Landis' doping conviction cost
him his Tour title, his career, his
life savings and his marriage.
He said he knows his credibility
is in tatters and that many
people will choose not to
believe him now. He added that
he has no documentation for
many of the claims he is making
about other riders or officials,
and that it will be his word
against theirs.
However, Landis said he finally
decided to come forward
because he was suffering
psychologically and emotionally
from years of deceit, and
because he has become a
cycling pariah with little to no
chance of ever riding for an elite
team again. Prior to speaking
with ESPN.com, he said he
made his most difficult phone
call -- to his mother in
Pennsylvania to tell her the truth
for the first time.
"I want to clear my conscience,"
Landis said. "I don't want to be
part of the problem any more.
"With the benefit of hindsight
and a somewhat different
perspective, I made some
misjudgments. And of course, I
can sit here and say all day long,
'If I could do it again I'd do
something different,' but I just
don't have that choice."
Landis said he takes full
responsibility for having doped
on every occasion that he did it,
and added he was never forced
or threatened.
"I don't feel guilty at all about
having doped," Landis told
ESPN.com. "I did what I did
because that's what we [cyclists]
did and it was a choice I had to
make after 10 years or 12 years
of hard work to get there, and
that was a decision I had to
make to make the next step. My
choices were, do it and see if I
can win, or don't do it and I tell
people I just don't want to do
that, and I decided to do it."
According to Landis, his first
use of performance-enhancing
drugs was in June 2002, when
he was a member of the U.S.
Postal Service team. The World
Anti-Doping Agency's statute of
limitations for doping offenses
is eight years, and Landis said
that, too, is part of his
motivation for divulging his
inflammatory information.
"Now we've come to the point
where the statute of limitations
on the things I know is going to
run out or start to run out next
month," Landis said. "If I don't
say something now, then it's
pointless to ever say it."
Landis, who began his career as
a top mountain biker, had kept
detailed training journals since
he was a teenager. He said he
continued the same methodical
record-keeping once he started
using banned drugs and
techniques. Landis said he spent
as much as $90,000 a year on
performance-enhancing drugs
and on consultants to help him
build a training regime. Landis
said he has kept all of his
journals and diaries and has
offered to share them with U.S.
anti-doping authorities in recent
meetings. He added that he has
given officials detailed
information on how athletes are
beating drug testing.
As for his own positive test,
Landis still maintains that result
was inaccurate and that he had
not used synthetic testosterone
during the 2006 season --
although he now admits he used
human growth hormone during
that time. At this point, he said
he does not want to dwell on
any of the issues he and his
lawyers hammered at during his
case.
"There must be some other
explanation, whether it was
done wrong or I don't know
what," he said. "You can try to
write it however you want -- the
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problem I have with even
bothering to argue it is [that] I
have used testosterone in the
past and I have used it in other
Tours, and it's going to sound
kind of foolish to say I didn't."
Landis exhausted most of his
own savings in fighting his case,
which cost an estimated $2
million, and also raised funds
for his defense in a well-
publicized effort. He said he
would pay those donors back if
he could, but does not have the
money to do so. He said he did
not level with the people close
to him, but declined to say
whether he informed his lawyers
of his past drug use.
Bonnie D. Ford covers tennis
and Olympic sports for
ESPN.com. Information from
The Associated Press was used
in this report.
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Report: Santana Moss
Hanley Ramirez: Hall of Famers Andre Dawson, of Washington Redskins
got HGH from Galea
Tony Perez took Florida Marlins shorstop aside ESPN.com news services
(ESPN.com)
for lecture Submitted at 5/20/2010 8:51:37 AM

ESPN.com news services The two Hall of Famers -- "You really have stepped across "We are all professionals here Washington Redskins receiver
(ESPN.com) Perez was inducted in 2000, the line," Dawson said he told and we're pulling for the same Santana Moss received human
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:09:30 AM while Dawson will be inducted Ramirez, according to the side. I'll try to close this chapter growth hormone from Anthony
this summer -- told Ramirez he report. "You owe that manager a and focus on playing baseball," Galea, the Canadian doctor who
Hall of Famers Andre Dawson needs to set an example and sincere apology. And if you Ramirez added. is charged with providing illegal
and Tony Perez took Florida earn his teammates' respect, think your teammates have your The Marlins welcomed him drugs to professional players,
M a r l i n s s h o r t s t o p H a n l e y according to the report. back with this, you've got back, then beat the St. Louis The Washington Post reported,
Ramirez aside on Tuesday and Dawson said during he did another thing coming because Cardinals 5-1 as Ramirez went 3 citing an unnamed source.
let him know he needed to most of the talking, according to the mind-set, and this is from -for-5 and drove in a run. The Buffalo News was first to
apologize and atone for failing the report. He said he started the me to you, the mind-set is these "He told us he was sorry and he report that Moss was a patient of
to hustle and showing up his lesson this way, with Perez at guys are laughing at you." was wrong ... and he wouldn't Galea.
manager, according to The Palm his side: "I'm not going to say a Ramirez, a two-time All-Star, let it happen again," teammate Galea is accused of smuggling,
Beach Post. lot, because if you say the accidentally booted a ball and Wes Helms said Wednesday. unlawful distribution of human
Dawson and Perez, who are wrong the thing to me, then you then lightly jogged after it, "We just wanted him to do it, growth hormone and unlawfully
b o t h s p e c i a l a s s i s t a n t s t o might wind up on the floor on allowing two runs to score and he did it. So now it's done treating professional athletes.
Marlins team president David your rear end. Monday night in a 5-1 loss to with." On Wednesday, a Canadian
Samson, talked to Ramirez for "I said, 'I'm going to give it to Arizona. "I think we're all parents here," court document revealed that
15 minutes in a Sun Life you raw. I'm not telling you how Gonzalez benched Ramirez, Gonzalez said Wednesday. Galea made multiple trips to
Stadium office about an hour to play the game,' " Dawson who let loose with his criticisms "Sometimes our children will New York City, Boston,
before Tuesday's game. said, according to the report. the next day, saying he felt no say something that hurts, but it's Cleveland and other U.S. cities
Ramirez was not in the lineup "You have a ton of ability, but need to apologize, he'd lost no big deal, we still love them. to meet with professional
for that game. On Monday there's more than just going out respect for his manager, and that "After this is all said and done, athletes.
night, he was benched in the and having a ton of ability. With "It's [Gonzalez's] team. He can 10-15 years down the road we'll Moss is not in danger of being
second inning for failing to that comes some ground rules, do whatever ... He doesn't sit down and say: 'What a charged in the case, however.
hustle after a kicked ball. some things that you will learn understand that. He never privilege to get a chance to "At this juncture, any of the
Afterwards, he ripped manager as you go along the way. played in the big leagues." manage this type of ballplayer.'" persons who are alleged to have
Fredi Gonzalez to reporters for "But you've got to start thinking On Wednesday, Ramirez Information from The used these substances are
taking him out of the game. about setting an example and apologized to his manager and Associated Press was used in considered witnesses, and not
“ having your teammates respect teammates and was re-inserted this report. targets, of this investigation,"
You've got to start thinking you in the manner that they into the starting lineup. Five Filters featured article: William J. Hochul Jr., the U.S.
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you in the manner that they cut it." a distraction," Ramirez told General Election. Available Mark J. Mahoney, one of
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cut it.”-- Hall of Famer Andre that if he thought his teammates Wednesday. "I'm sorry that
Dawson, had his back after the episode, things got this heated. The team, REPORT: page 63
to Marlins SS Hanley Ramirez he had another thing coming. the fans don't deserve it.
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Healing Continues for UVa Lax Teams
Jim Henry (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 1:20:00 AM
Filed under: College Sports,
Lacrosse
While the healing process
continues at the University of
Virginia, Cavaliers men's
lacrosse coach Dom Starsia is
unsure of his next step regarding
one issue. Former player George
Huguely remains in jail four
miles away from campus,
charged with first-degree
murder of UVa women's player
and former girlfriend Yeardley
Love.
"I've thought about it. I don't
know where that one goes yet,"
Starsia said during Wednesday's
teleconference with the media
when asked if he planned to
reach out to Huguely. "I am
probably not prepared to answer
that just this moment, but it's
certainly something I've thought
about."
With the emotions of the past
weekend behind them and
lingering uncertainty in front,
the Cavaliers lacrosse teams are
preparing for second-round
NCAA tournament matches this
weekend.
The top-ranked men play No. 8
Stony Book on Sunday and
enter as the favorites to win and
advance to the Final Four in
Baltimore. The women travel to
North Carolina on Saturday as
underdogs but are determined to
prolong their season to honor
Love and remain together. Both
teams continue to lean on each
other for support and strength.
Starsia is hosting a dinner at his
home Wednesday night for the
two programs.
"These recent events have just
made it more obvious to me
how close these teams are,"
Starsia said.
"I talked to Julie earlier in the
week and just said, 'Do you
think this is a good idea?'
Throughout this, you've got
people trying to help each other
from both programs and both
directions and seemed like an
obvious way to try to come
together away from the field
before we both have to go off to
take care of our athletic
commitments."
Women's coach Julie Myers
embraced the idea, saying it
would be "a really nice energy
lift and emotional pickup for
us." Myers admits her team is
fatigued physically and
emotionally from the past 16
days. Last weekend's opening-
round play of the NCAA
tournament marked the first
time the teams returned to the
public eye since the death of
Love on May 3.
"We are trying to heal, trying to
play lacrosse and trying to stay
together."
-- Women's coach
Julie Myers The men beat
Mount St. Mary's on Saturday
night, while the women
dispatched Towson Sunday
afternoon. Both games attracted
large crowds and media
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"Officials of the NFL and other
sports organizations can sleep
soundly tonight, because there is
nothing he did with these
athletes to help them with
performance enhancement,"
Mahoney told the Buffalo News
on Wednesday.
"[Galea] strictly provided
treatment for injuries. If any
athlete got [HGH], it was
injected directly into injured
tissue, in very small amounts,
for purposes of healing,"
Mahoney told the newspaper.
According to an affidavit,
Galea's assistant said a
professional football player
from Washington called to
request a session with Galea at a
Washington-area hotel last
September.
representation. The Love family The New York Times on
attended the women's game but Tuesday reported that the
won't be in attendance at UNC. player, who it didn't name, was
While the Charlottesville, Va., a member of the Redskins.
community has provided a When contacted Wednesday by
welcomed safety net for the the Washington Post about
teams, Myers believes a road a l l e g a t i o n s i n v o l v i n g a n
trip could provide a needed unnamed Redskins player, Moss
reprieve for the women. tried to keep the topic on
"It was great to be home the first football.
week but I do think that our "I'll talk about football. I don't
general sense of the team is let's know about nothing else," Moss
go, let's step out, let's have a told the newspaper. "I ain't got
couple of great dinners, a couple nothing to do with nothing that
of fun memories and see what ain't about me."
the road brings," Myers said. Moss is currently rehabbing
"We are trying to heal, trying to from minor offseason knee
play lacrosse and trying to stay surgery.
together." Coach Mike Shanahan said
REPORT: page 64
64 Sports/
Kobe the Scorer Transforms into
Facilitator in Game 2
Sam Amick (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 1:47:00 AM
Filed under: Lakers, Suns, NBA
Playoffs LOS ANGELES --
Amar'e Stoudemire had finally
stopped talking, or at least
talking in the kind of way that
riled these NBA lions known as
the Lakers.
His Phoenix squad was unlucky
once again, 124-112 losers on
Wednesday night at the Staples
Center to fall behind 0-2 in this
Western Conference finals
matchup that hasn't had any of
the parity so many expected. In
the other locker room, one of the
most vocal Lakers of them all
found himself at a loss for
words.
But Derek Fisher's momentary
Floyd Landis Admits Drug Use, Accuses Lance Armstrong of
Doping
FanHouse Newswire
(FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 5:00:00 AM
The Wall Street Journal is
reporting that disgraced
American cyclist Floyd Landis
has admitted to systematic use
of performance-enhancing drugs
and accused seven-time Tour de
France champion Lance
Armstrong of involvement in
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REPORT:
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Wednesday that the team hasn't "I hope the details don't come
been contacted about the
investigation into Galea's
out," Daniels said. "I don't want
to know. I don't want to have to
has been along for most of the a c t i v i t i e s . look at my partner and say 'You
incredible Kobe Bryant ride Asked if he knew the identity of were doing that illegally all this
ever since its 1996 beginning, the Redskins player who was time?' I hope they just tear the
was marveling at the Lakers star supposedly involved, the coach papers up and just go to him
who set a career playoff high said: "I don't know anything privately and do it that way."
with 13 assists while adding 21 about it." Information from The
points. "A doctor comes to town and Associated Press was used in
"He, um ... I don't know man," has supposedly seen a player," this report.
Fisher began. "I know people Shanahan said. "The NFL's on Five Filters featured article:
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So, Fisher was asked, is Bryant On Wednesday, Redskins
still the best player in the game defensive end Phillip Daniels
muteness wasn't a reaction to in this LeBron James-folding, said he hopes he doesn't find out
Stoudemire's ridiculous claim, Dwight Howard-shrinking, John who the identity of the unnamed
the one about Lamar Odom Wall's-coming era? Redskins player.
finding a four-leaf clover while "In my opinion, yes," he said.
landing on Park Place during his "No question."
Game 1 outburst. Fisher, who
doping. make after 10 years or 12 years Associated Press that Landis is
The paper says Landis, who of hard work to get there; and "seeking revenge" and holds a
was stripped of his 2006 Tour that was a decision I had to "grudge" against Armstrong and
de France title for doping, sent a make to make the next step. My others.
series of e-mails to cycling choices were, do it and see if I McQuaid says Armstrong has
officials and sponsors detailing can win, or don't do it and I tell been accused of doping many
his use of banned drugs. people I just don't want to do times but nothing has ever been
Landis also admitted to doping that, and I decided to do it." proven.
in an interview with ESPN.com. Pat McQuaid, the head of Information from the
"I don't feel guilty at all about cycling's world governing body Associated Press was used in
having doped," Landis told because that's what we [cyclists] UCI, questions Landis' this report.
ESPN.com. "I did what I did did and it was a choice I had to credibility. McQuaid tells The
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2010 NBA Playoffs: Dwight Howard
of Orlando Magic won't be suspended
for Game 3 over flagrant foul
Henry Abbott (ESPN.com)
Submitted at 5/19/2010 7:28:02 PM
The NBA will not suspend
Orlando's Dwight Howard for
Game 3 of the Eastern
Conference finals between the
Magic and Boston Celtics for
his flagrant foul in Game 2.
In the second quarter of Game
2, the All-Star center was called
for a flagrant foul 1 after
swinging his arm so that his
elbow swept through the head of
the Celtics' Paul Pierce, who
tumbled to the floor clutching
his head in pain. Both players
remained in the game.
The NBA reviews all flagrant
foul calls, and officials spent
part of Wednesday deciding
whether to upgrade Howard's
foul to a more serious flagrant 2
or suspend him for Game 3. A
league spokesperson said the
play will "stand as called."
The NBA has a track record of
punishing blows to the head
severely. Howard himself was
suspended for a first-round
playoff game last season against
the Philadelphia 76ers after
swinging an elbow at the head
of Samuel Dalembert.
Henry Abbott writes for
ESPN.com's TrueHoop blog.
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'Sore' Barbosa Expects
to Be Ready for Game 3
Chris Tomasson (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 12:25:00 AM
Filed under: Lakers, Suns, NBA
Injuries, NBA Playoffs LOS
ANGELES -- Some players like
time with the camera. But not
this kind.
Phoenix guard Leandro
Barbosa went careening out of
bounds with 7:40 left in
Wednesday's 124-112 loss to the
Lakers in Game 2 of the
Western Conference finals at the
Staples Center. The back of his
head banged against a camera let me come back in. ... Bang on
lens, and Barbosa had to leave the head. They said for me to
the game with a laceration. stay in the locker room. ... They
Barbosa wanted to return. But just asked me how I felt, and I
doctors, after putting in five said, 'I have a little sore on the
stitches, told him he was done head.' So they said, 'So you stay
for the night. here.' "
"It was bad because I wanted to Doctors wanted to take no risks
stay in the game, and I had to with Barbosa's head injury. But
leave,'' Barbosa, who scored he doesn't believe there's any
three points in 12 minutes, told chance he will miss Sunday's
FanHouse. "The doctors didn't Game 3 in Phoenix.
66 Gaming/ E-reader News Edition

Finally, a Wii Sports

Interview: Karl Stewart on Lara Resort rowing exercise
Croft and the new Crystal Dynamics machine
Christopher Grant (Joystiq) Karl Stewart: We had actually realized that when we started Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) after the jump. We know you're
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:15:00 AM been going through the shakeup looking at our next game we Submitted at 5/20/2010 3:00:00 AM probably a little bit dubious, but
at the studio prior to it, and knew that we needed to take a what you don't know is that you
At Square Enix's pre-E3 event really we had already presented step back and build the next big Remember when you first can also use it to do sit-ups. It
yesterday, we got a chance to that we knew we needed to title and it wasn't going to come played the Rowing event in Wii practically pays for itself, in the
talk with Karl Stewart, global make a drastic change for the year after year. That's been one Sports Resort, and wished that sense that having a tight, rippled
brand director for Tomb Raider studio and that continuing down of our frustrations: seeing the there was some way you could abdomen counts as its own form
developer Crystal Dynamics. the same path wasn't really titles come out year after year simulate the tactile feedback of currency.
W e a s k e d h i m a b o u t t h e going to cut it any longer. So after year, so we decided that associated with dragging a Continue reading Finally, a Wii
r e o r g a n i z a t i o n i n s i d e t h e Darryl Gallagher had taken over was the end of that. paddle through water? Sports Resort rowing exercise
developer (which lead directly the studio at that time and he Continue reading Interview: Peripheral manufacturer CTA machine
to the development of the had some great ideas about how Karl Stewart on Lara Croft and Digital, which brought us the 8- Finally, a Wii Sports Resort
already impressive Lara Croft to sort of retool the studio, and it the new Crystal Dynamics in-1 Wii Sports Kit, the Wii rowing exercise machine
and the Guardian of Light), its was around then that Square Interview: Karl Stewart on Lara Remote Dumbell Set and the 9- originally appeared on Joystiq
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acquisition? already shipped and we just
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New UK government a possible
setback for game dev tax breaks
Ben Gilbert (Joystiq) place on the previously greenlit
Submitted at 5/20/2010 1:30:00 AM tax break initiative.
"We're not really sure what the
[ James Stringer] future holds. It's very early days
A report from Develop claims and we have to hold discussions
that the much-lobbied game and set in train how this is going
development tax breaks that UK to work," the source told
developers have been seeking Develop. That said, newly
may have to wait a bit longer a p p o i n t e d , g a m e - f r i e n d l y
before coming to fruition. Culture Minister Ed Vaizey
S o u r c e s c l o s e t o t h e U K could help to get plans quickly
government told the site that the back on track. Vaizey has
r e c e n t l y r e o r g a n i z e d spoken out in defense of games
government -- a new coalition of in the past, even belonging to a
Liberals and Conservatives -- group set to publicly defend the
will "look to find its feet" before medium earlier this year. For the
any further discussion takes t i m e b e i n g , a T r e a s u r y
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Robots team up in
Virtual-On Force for
Xbox 360
JC Fletcher (Joystiq) be defeated for the opposing
Submitted at 5/20/2010 10:30:00 AMteam to win. Players can protect
the leader (or either teammate)
Sega has announced a second with a health-sharing "Rescue
game for people who bought Dash" move.
that $300 Xbox 360 twin stick Virtual-On Force will be
Department source added that controller. Now it's totally a released in Japan this winter --
the previous party's tax break worthwhile investment! on a disc, unlike the recent port
bill is still "in motion" and that Cyber Troopers Virtual-On o f V i r t u a l - O n O r a t o r i o
the new administration would Force is a port of the latest T a n g r a m .
"have to act to stop the plan." arcade Virtual-On title, which [Via Famitsu]
We're hoping it'll still be too adds 2-on-2 battles to the usual Robots team up in Virtual-On
busy finding those feet to stop it. robot-fighting formula. The Force for Xbox 360 originally
New UK government a possible Xbox 360 version will allow appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 20
setback for game dev tax breaks players to meet up online or pit M a y 2 0 1 0 1 0 : 3 0 : 0 0 E S T .
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Spanish Scientists Clone First Bull

for Fighting
Rebecca Boyle (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 5/19/2010 3:59:28 PM
Fighting Bull Cloned Got, a
cloned fighting bull, was born
Tuesday at a farm in northern
Spain. AP, via Washington Post
Vets hope little Got is as tough a
THQ introduces its own fighter as his father the source
of his genetic material was
Scientists in Spain have cloned
'Online Pass' in UFC a fighting bull for the first time,
saying they hoped he would be

2010 as fierce as his father. The feat

could mean that a fresh version
JC Fletcher (Joystiq) Destructoid, adding that "Codes of the same animal would be
for accessing the content will be able to fight again and again stripped of their nuclei. The same experiment. That bull's
Submitted at 5/20/2010 10:00:00 AM
available for second-time buyers (and be killed again and again). process created embryos which name was El Alcalde, which
EA isn't the only company to for an additional $5." So, right The 53-pound calf, named were then implanted into a means "the mayor."
hit on the idea of a one-time-use now, THQ is winning the price "Got," which means "a glass" in surrogate cow. The same Torrent told AP the
code for online play of sports war in terms of online play Valencian, was born Tuesday, process was used to create Dolly accomplishment could pave the
games. THQ is penalizing used privileges. Well, not counting BBC reported. the sheep, the first cloned way for a "tissue bank" to save
sales of UFC Undisputed 2010 all those companies that let even It took three years for the team mammal. endangered species. Gene banks
in exactly the same way -- and, second-hand buyers play games to find a way to do it, according Got should exhibit the same already exist in several
since Undisputed will be in o n l i n e w i t h o u t a d d i t i o n a l to the project leader, Vicente traits as his genetic predecessor, countries, but they usually
stores next week, THQ is even c h r a g e s ( f o r n o w ) . Torrent. Vasito, researchers say. involve frozen semen from
beating EA to it. THQ introduces its own 'Online Got was created using nuclear Several news outlets reported various animals.
Pastapadre discovered that Pass' in UFC 2010 originally transfer, wherein DNA from the last year on the efforts of a [BBC]
copies of Undisputed will appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 20 "father" bull was inserted into Spanish farmer to clone his
include a code on the back page M a y 2 0 1 0 1 0 : 0 0 : 0 0 E S T . cow's eggs that had been prized bull, but this is not the
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Invention Awards: A Fish-Friendly Tidal Turbine
Rena Marie Pacella (Popular
Science - New Technology,
Science News, The Future
Now)
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:36:07 AM
ECO-Auger John B. Carnett An
underwater energy extractor that
doesn't harm sea life
Today's featured Invention
Award winner is the ECO-
Auger, which accesses tidal
energy without harming marine
life.
W. Scott Anderson spent the
past five decades creating
complicated machines for
manufacturing, including a
lipstick labeler and a plastic-
straw maker. So when two years
ago the 77-year-old industrial
engineer invented a fish-friendly
underwater turbine that looks
like a giant screw, it seemed a
cruel twist of fate that every
manufacturer he approached
said it was too complex to
produce economically. But that
didn't stop him.
Invention: ECO-Auger
Inventor: W. Scott Anderson
Cost: Undisclosed
Time: 5 years
Is It Ready Yet? 1 2 3 4 5
There are a handful of
companies using windmill-like
turbines to capture the untapped
energy in tidal streams, bays and
inlets and convert it to
Science/ 69
handcrafting a two-foot-
diameter polyurethane-and-
fiberglass auger that in a test
captured 14 percent of the
water's energy-not as much as
the 25 to 45 percent that huge
propeller-driven turbines can
get, but Anderson says that
percentage will go up as the
auger's diameter increases, and
for a fraction of the cost.
Recently the inventor bought
two cast-aluminum molds to
make the first few six-foot-
diameter prototypes and has
persuaded a plastic-molding
company to produce them in
segments. If he gets approval, he
will have them spinning in inlets
around the world this year. In a
10-knot current, each will
generate five to seven kilowatts,
enough to power four to six
electricity. But these projects drive an attached generator, a Anderson had used a revolving homes. Most important, he
tend to be huge and expensive, hydraulic pump in the nosecone horizontal corkscrew to feed wants to show that his method
a n d r e q u i r e p e r m a n e n t pumps high-pressure oil to turn plastic to machines in his New of mass production is sound, so
installations that can disrupt a generator outside the water. Jersey factory and knew that he can move on to the full-scale,
marine life. The arrangement lets the turbine ancient Egyptian farmers used 16-foot-diameter augers. "We
Anderson's ECO-Auger is capture energy in shallow augers to irrigate high ground. already know it will work," he
based on a much different waters, and to tether to bridges To see if a water-driven auger says. "Now it's just a matter of
design, enabling it to access and other structures so that the could do the job of conventional doing it."
energy that regular water auger is relatively easy to lift turbine blades, he tested an eight
turbines can't. Rather than using o u t o f t h e w a t e r f o r -inch plastic prototype in a pool,
blades, it produces power when maintenance. Whereas most measured the torque, and ran it
the current spins a drill-shaped bladed turbines need at least 30 in a tank of minnows. When he
device called an auger, which f e e t o f w a t e r t o o p e r a t e , saw that it worked without
has tapered ends that don't harm Anderson's smallest units need affecting the fish, he spent four
fish. Instead of using gears to only 10. months in his garage
70 Science/
New 'Methalyzer' Scans the Breath For
Amphetamine Use
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 5/19/2010 3:18:47 PM
Scanning the Breath for
Amphetamines Copyright Olof
Beck, Karolinska Institutet
Breathalyzers aren't just for
barflies anymore. Researchers at
Sweden's Karolinska Institutet
have created a novel breath
meter that can test for
amphetamine and
methamphetamine in a person's
exhaled breath.
Most drug tests -- like the kind
you sweat every time you get a
new job -- require either a urine
or blood sample to test for
controlled substances. Naturally,
it would be easier and less
expensive to conduct random
drug tests or keep tabs on a
patient's prescription drug use if
there was a means to test for
substances without the need for
medical personnel and
biological samples. That's not
even taking into account the
perceived slight to a person's
integrity when you ask him or
her for a urine sample.
Breathalyzers, on the other
hand, aren't considered
particularly invasive, and
require no medical oversight to
operate. The methalyzer (clever
nickname courtesy of PopSci
contributor Rebecca Boyle)
aims to achieve the same kind of
ease and ubiquity for
amphetamine testing. Their
device collects breath samples
and passes them through a filter
that can be easily be tested for
narcotic substances using liquid
chromatography or tandem mass
-spectrometry.
In tests, the researchers
collected samples from a dozen
patients hospitalized for having
toxic levels of amphetamine in
their bodies. The researchers
waited for the effects of the
drugs to dissipate, then asked
the subjects to breath into a
E-reader News Edition
Fetching Infant
Incubator Backpack
May Save Newborn
Lives
Denise Ngo (Popular Science
- New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 5/19/2010 4:28:25 PM
Four guys and a heated
backpack aim to reduce infant
mortality rates in developing
nations
While covering the inventions
of the year this week, we came
mask for 10 minutes. They also someone to breath into a mask. across another project that may
o b t a i n e d u r i n e a n d b l o o d But those of you sitting back well deserve a gold star. Four
samples from each patient to with your feet up chuckling at seniors at Colorado State
ensure the accuracy of the y o u r a m p h e t a m i n e - a d d l e d University have produced a
breath measuring device. In counterparts should take notice shock-absorbent backpack,
each case, the machine came to as well: Further research will called the neonatal transport
t h e s a m e c o n c l u s i o n s a s focus on identifying other illegal incubator, designed to reduce
standard blood and urine tests. substances that might produce infant deaths by helping safely
During control group testing the an exhalable biomarker, with the p i g g y b a c k s i c k b a b i e s t o
machine returned no false ultimate aim of creating a multi- m e d i c a l f a c i l i t i e s .
positives. substance testing platform that According to Phil Brox, a
But breathe easy, speed freaks: l a w e n f o r c e m e n t o f f i c e r s , mechanical engineering student
the device is still in testing, and e m p l o y e r s , s c h o o l who worked on the incubator,
some tweaks will have to be a d m i n i s t r a t o r s , a n d o t h e r the team started the project in
made before a commercial officials can use to identify all response to the dire infant
methalyzer finds its way into the self-medicators out there. mortality rate in developing
your boss's office -- for one, ten [ Science Daily] countries. Many regions not
minutes is a long time to ask only lack the resources for
timely infant care, but their
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rough terrain and poor roads
make it difficult for medical
responders to transport babies to
safety.
Portable Baby Incubator:
Inhabitots/Colorado State
University
Although neonatal transporters
are nothing new, the students'
invention is less pricey and
more portable than the
alternatives. An integrated
electric heating system, air
controller, temperature-
monitoring alarms, and an air
reports that the students have
filed a provisional patent
through the Colorado State
University Research Foundation
(CSURF), thus allowing them to
publicly discuss the technology
with outside investors. If all
goes as planned, what began as
a senior design project may
Sea Scallops
become an indispensable piece
of affordable medical
with Asparagus
technology.
[ Inhabitots]
Sauce
(Simply Recipes)
Submitted at 5/19/2010 1:37:24 PM

circulation device also put the

Behold, Japan's Largest students' project on par with
other transport systems.
A few years ago my father
SEA page 72
The university's web site
Elevator
Rebecca Boyle (Popular
Science - New Technology,
efficient way to move large
amounts of people.
Five Amazing App and Gadget
Science News, The Future
Now)
They are operated as shuttles
between Hankyu Department
Store's Umeda store and several
Demos from Google I/O [VIDEO]
Submitted at 5/19/2010 5:00:52 PM Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!) and videos. Check out all of our
E n o r m o u s E l e v a t o r T h i s floors of offices, according to a Google I/O coverage to get the
Submitted at 5/20/2010 2:01:03 AM
elevator can hold 80 people. press release [PDF]. latest announcements from the
Mitsubishi Elevator The department store is located Cool gadgets, one-off web Big G.
A new Japanese office building near one of Japan's largest train apps, AR on Android — this And if you happen to be in
that opened earlier this month in terminals, and the shops nearby year’s Google I/O Sandboxes town, we hope you’ll join us for
Osaka is home to two dozen are a popular destination, have got ‘em all. We got to see a our post-conference MashMeet
g i n o r m o u s w i n d o w - v i e w meaning the elevators will few demos today at Google’s at Roe at 8 p.m.
elevators, the largest in Japan. probably see much more traffic developer-focused conference in [music credit: Peter John Ross]
Each can hold 80 passengers than the picture shown above. San Francisco, and we were “Holodeck” at the end. For more technology coverage,
and are 12 feet wide, 9 feet long The Japanese also want to be incredibly impressed. Which clips are your favorites, follow Mashable Tech on
and 8.5 feet high, with a floor the first to elevate to space, so Check out this video with cool and what kinds of tech do you Twitter or become a fan on
space of about 102 square feet. perhaps it makes sense they'd toys and tricks from Yelp, want to see more of tomorrow? Facebook
Japanese architecture is often install an enormous one in a Pandora, TweetDeck, Google We’ll be back at Google I/O for Tags: demos, google io,
notable for its smallness -- this building first. Earth and even Nordic Track. another long, fun day of Google holodeck, pandora, video, yelp
is the country that invented the [via Gizmodo] And be sure not to miss the and Android news, interviews
capsule hotel, after all. But the
commodious elevator is a more
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discovered scallops, not that he
didn't know about them before,
it's just that some light bulb
went off in his head one day and
he decided that he had to cook
them. So for a time he would
madly attack any scallop recipe
that seemed half-way
interesting. The problem was
that he just couldn't get them
right. He had a hard time
getting them browned, and more
often than not, they were
overcooked. So when the-man-
who-knows-more-about-seafood
-than-I-ever-hope-to Hank Shaw
was here the other day cooking
scallops, both dad and I circled
Hank like hawks, watching to
see how he did it. Here's what
we learned. You need a
screaming hot pan. Scallops
have a lot of moisture in them,
which means you have to get the
pan really hot to dry the outer
edge of that moist scallop so
that it can actually get hot
enough to brown. When the
scallops brown, the meat pulls
back a bit (contracting proteins)
making them easier to turn.
Now theory doesn't always
translate to practice, you might
still have some sticking. But
when the scallop is seared
enough, it should move more
easily.
Continue reading "Sea Scallops
with Asparagus Sauce" »
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Foursquare Now Adding 15,000
Users Per Day
Adam Ostrow (Mashable!) As for the rapid ascent of
Submitted at 5/20/2010 9:32:00 AM Foursquare, Crowley says that
he actually expected to only
Foursquare, which recently have about 30,000 users in the
surpassed the one million user first year. Now, with more than
mark, is now adding about a million users, Crowley “sees a
15,000 users per day according path to ten million users,” but
to CEO Dennis Crowley, who isn’t sure we’ll see Foursquare
revealed the number this go as mainstream as Facebook
morning at Business Insider’s expansion well into the future. or Twitter.
Startup 2010 event in New York I f F o u r s q u a r e g o e s t h e Nevertheless, Crowley believes
City. independent route, expect a that competition in the location
In an interview with Business heavy focus on small business. space from those companies
Insider founder Henry Blodgett, One of the things Crowley is w o n ’ t r e n d e r F o u r s q u a r e
Crowley commented on his most excited about is the irrelevant, as he thinks the
company’s rapid rise, its recent opportunity to provide “Google unique experience it has built
deal with Starbucks, and A n a l y t i c s b u t f o r l o c a l for location-based social
ongoing rumors that Foursquare merchants” — for example, networking is different than
may soon be sold. letting a local coffee shop see its what larger sites will offer, since
Addressing the latter, Crowley demographics and identify its it needs to make its tools appeal
noted that he sold Dodgeball most influential customers. t o a b r o a d , m a i n s t r e a m
“too soon,” and that the options We’re already starting to see a u d i e n c e .
f o r F o u r s q u a r e a r e n o w some of that vision come to life We’ll be learning more about
considerably different than with the recently launched Foursquare and its plans for the
when his first attempt at location business dashboard. future in a couple of weeks
-based social networking was Eventually, that could be a when we catch up with Crowley
acquired by Google in 2005. money maker for Foursquare in at the Mashable Media Summit.
Back then, raising money for a the form of subscription fees For more mobile coverage,
l o c a t i o n - b a s e d s o c i a l (Crowley wouldn’t reveal the follow Mashable Mobile on
networking service was far more financial terms of Foursquare’s Twitter or become a fan on
difficult –- now, the company is recent deal with Starbucks or Facebook
weighing massive acquisition past partnerships with media Tags: business, foursquare,
offers with big funding rounds companies like Bravo and The MARKETING, money
that would finance Foursquare’s Wall Street Journal).
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Culture wars in Africa (specifically, Kenya)

Sarah Pulliam Bailey tries to connect what American new constitution, and it will be
(GetReligion) politicians object to (abortion) put to a yes-or-no referendum
Submitted at 5/19/2010 3:00:43 PM with a bill under consideration later this year. So far, polls
in Uganda (homosexuality). show the public is firmly behind
Recently I asked a woman from Now that the draft is done, it.
Nigeria what she thought of the three Republican members of The proposed new constitution,
media’s coverage of her Congress contend that it which curtails the sweeping
c o u n t r y . S h e s a i d w h a t significantly expands abortion powers of Kenya’s presidency
frustrated her most was when rights, and are accusing the and addresses questions about
r e p o r t e r s g a v e s w e e p i n g United States Embassy in Kenya dual citizenship and other
statements or connected African of openly supporting it in issues, may not be as pro-
countries as though it were one violation of federal rules. abortion as many of its critics
uniform nation. I thought of our It is the latest battle in the contend. It still outlaws
conversation when I read a American culture wars playing abortion, which is currently
recent New York Times piece o u t i n A f r i c a . L a s t y e a r , illegal under Kenya’s current
on Kenya’s culture wars. Stay American Christians helped penal code, though it spells out
with me as we read these first stoke antigay sentiments in exceptions if “in the opinion of
few paragraphs. Uganda; later, Ugandan a trained health professional,
NAIROBI, Kenya—The push p o l i t i c i a n s p r o p o s e d t h e there is need for emergency
to pass a new constitution in execution of some gay people. treatment, or the life or health of
Kenya, a cornerstone of the That debate is still raging, the mother is in danger, or if
effort to correct longstanding t h o u g h i t l o o k s a s i f t h e permitted by any other written
i m b a l a n c e s o f p o w e r a n d Ugandan government is backing law.”
prevent the kind of upheaval down and will not pass the Those caveats have set off an
that followed deeply flawed antigay bill after all. intense debate, with American
elections here, has attracted Help me out here. I know groups on both sides of the
some u n e x p e c t e d Uganda and Kenya are abortion issue weighing in and
interference—from more than neighboring countries, but is sending representatives to
7,000 miles away. there really any connection Kenya. Abortion opponents
Before Kenyan lawmakers had here? Is this seriously the first complain that the new
even finished drafting the time American culture wars constitution allows “abortion on
proposed constitution, American have played out in Africa? Also, demand,” while abortion rights
Christians organized petition earlier we questioned the adherents, concerned about the
drives in Kenya against it, reporting behind “American thousands of Kenyan women
o b j e c t i n g t o a p r o v i s i o n Christians helped stoke antigay who die each year in secretive,
recognizing Islamic courts. sentiments in Africa.” Didn’t botched operations, think the
Okay, I’m intrigued. Is there A m e r i c a n C h r i s t i a n s a l s o constitution is too weak on the
more information about this strongly denounce the bill? This explains that the United States object to a new referendum that issue. They wanted stronger
provision recognizing Islamic c o n n e c t i o n b e t w e e n t h e has been aggressively would allow abortion in some protections and are upset that
courts and which American proposals in the two different supporting a new constitution as cases. the constitution says, “The life
Christians organized drives countries seems like such a part of a reform package. In April, the Kenyan of a person begins at
against it? Apparently not. The stretch to me. American politicians, however, government passed a proposed CULTURE page 76
reporter lets that dangle and then Back to Kenya, the reporter
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A cautious use of the word ‘cult’

tmatt (GetReligion) family members by name; and use this loaded word at all? A characterized as the head of the living in a residential treatment
Submitted at 5/19/2010 12:41:45 PM not leave her home on her own, new story in the Baltimore Sun group, a cult leader who lured facility, while receiving long-
among other things. about the Javon Thompson case young people into her home and term psychiatric care. You may
I know that it will be painful, However, subsequent stories — does a pretty good job of controlled the most minute recall that authorities agreed to
but think back for a moment to especially in the Washington placing the term — as used aspects of their lives through her drop the charges against her if
earlier posts about the young Post and the Baltimore Sun— during legal proceedings — in a self-styled religion. … her son came back to life. She
mother Ria Ramkissoon and the made it clear that this group sociological context and then According to court testimony had been given a 20-year term,
death of her infant son, Javon could accurately be described backing it up. Here is how the and prosecutor statements, with her prison time commuted
Thompson. The child was with a cautious use of the word story opens: Sloan took in at least a half- to the 19 months she had
starved to death because he kept “cult,” both in terms of its Three accused cult members, dozen young people, including already served.
refusing to say “amen” after the approach to faith and, most of convicted of starving a toddler her co-defendants, over several Prosecutors concluded that,
prayers during meals in the a l l , i n t h e l i f e - a n d - d e a t h to death in the name of religion, months in 2006, convincing simply stated, she had been
bizarre religious community that authority that Queen Antoinette were sentenced Tuesday to a them that they would suffer brainwashed to believe anything
h i s m o t h e r h a d j o i n e d i n held over the lives of her collective 150 years in prison. “eternal damnation” if they and everything Queen
Baltimore. disciples. Toni Sloan, 41, who claimed failed to follow her rules. … Antoinette said, as her spiritual
The key issue here, from a Now, I realize that “cult” is a God had christened her “Queen Among the group living with leader. This was, in effect, a
journalism perspective, is how loaded word, whether one is Antoinette,” received a 50-year Sloan in 2006 was 19-year-old personality cult that led to the
to describe the community of using it in a doctrinal context or sentence composed of two Ria Ramkissoon. She had creation of a new and twisted
people surrounding “Queen in a sociological context. In a consecutive 25-year terms, one moved in with her infant son, form of faith. Thus, it was —
A n t o i n e t t e ” a n d h e r mainstream newsrooms, for second-degree murder and Javon Thompson, in part sociologically speaking — a
congregation — One Mind reporters have no business using the other for first-degree child because she wasn’t getting “cult.”
Ministries. it in stories about doctrinal abuse. Sloan said she was “not along with her stepfather at That’s a loaded word. But
An early CNN report — the conflicts, unless the word is sorry” for the toddler’s death. home. Things were fine at first. sometimes people are going to
subject of a GetReligion post— used by one of the groups in a Trevia Williams, 22, and But when Javon stopped use it in the public square,
offered this context, with some dispute and there is no way to Marcus Cobbs, 23 received the repeating his mother’s “amen” which means that journalists
attribution to Ramkissoon’s avoid explaining how and why same sentence, with all but 15 after prayers, Sloan ordered have to have some standards on
attorney, Steven Silverman: they are using it. Like what? years suspended for each. food and water withheld from how they will allow the word to
C o u r t d o c u m e n t s s a y Southern Baptists may refer to “There can still be hope” for him until he said it. He never make it into print. The Sun
Ramkissoon joined One Mind Mormonism as a “cult,” because them, said Baltimore Circuit did. His body wasted away, and pulled that off, in this case.
Ministries after Javon’s birth in of the latter faith’s radically Judge Timothy J. Doory. He did he died within a week. Art: An old CNN report that
2005. Silverman described her different doctrine of God, in not express the same optimism Ramkissoon testified that she still provides some useful
as a petite, soft-spoken woman comparison with traditional for Sloan, who had issued the had agreed to let Javon go background material.
who rejected her family’s Hindu forms of Christianity through order in 2006 to starve the 16- hungry because she thought it Five Filters featured article:
religion, became a devout the ages. But no one, including month-old boy until he said would rid him of a “spirit of The Art of Looking Prime
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her son in that religion. … The leaders I know, would claim that prosecutors. actual entity. After his death, General Election. Available
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white, tan and blue; give up her word. in the story. had enough faith.
cell phone; stop referring to her Should mainstream reporters During the trial, Sloan was The young mother is currently
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Sexual sin vs. “misplaced” words Times Square

Mollie (GetReligion)
Submitted at 5/19/2010 2:00:52 PM
in Christ, to be exact). So the
stories about him actually led
education system; and how do
we change the cultural and
mutual relationship with a part-
time member of my staff,”
suspect gets
with his religion! Check out this
Earlier this week we saw two Associated Press report:
moral direction of this country.”
Souder, 59, a pudgy man with
Souder said in a statement
Tuesday. “I am so shamed to
NYT tome
sad stories involving political Indiana Rep. Mark Souder — an unruly shelf of gray hair, got have hurt those I love.” Brad A. Greenberg
figures. It turned out that the an evangelical Christian who high marks in his district for his The general tone of all the (GetReligion)
Democratic nominee to be the promoted abstinence education evangelical beliefs. He received media coverage I’ve read is that Submitted at 5/20/2010 6:40:53 AM
next Connecticut Senator, a n d w a s k n o w n f o r h i s an A-plus rating from the the takeaway from the news is
Richard Blumenthal, had lied outspoken views on religion — National Rifle Association and a nothing more than: This is one of those stories that
(or“misplaced” his words, as he said Tuesday he will resign from 100 percent rating from the HYPOCRISY! It’s probably reminds you of what makes The
put it) about whether he’d C o n g r e s s b e c a u s e o f a n National Right to Life worth reminding reporters that New York Times so great.
served in Vietnam. And a extramarital affair with a part- Committee. religious folks who espouse In the two weeks since Faisal
Republican Congressman from time staff member. Yes, nothing says particular values don’t believe Shahzad was arrested for
Indiana, Rep. Mark Souder, I wish I could tell you what the professionalism like they’re immune from temptation allegedly planting a massive
resigned upon revelation of an writers meant when they said he subjectively weighing in on or sin. In fact, whatever one bomb in Times Square, a team
affair he’d had with a staffer. h a d “ o u t s p o k e n v i e w s o n someone’s looks. Anyway, I may think of whether social of reporters, including one who
Now, I certainly wish that religion” but they never got wish the reporters would have conservatism is right or wrong, won a Pulitzer for a series of
s t o r i e s a b o u t B l u m e n t h a l around to explaining it. It’s explained precisely how he got it is an acute awareness of stories in 2006 about a Brooklyn
engaged what his religion had to interesting when something is high marks in his district for his human failing that likely imam, dug deep into Shahzad’s
say about what he’d done, but important enough to be included evangelical beliefs. I’m not motivates some of the life and produced a 3,111-word
they didn’t even get to the part in the first few words of a story saying it’s wrong but the way outspoken advocacy for laws profile that contains just about
where they mention what his but not important enough to they’ve written it, it makes it that support morality. There every detail you could want to
religion is, much less how that explain in any way, shape or seem like the NRA and NRLC seems to be a ton of confusion know.
religion treats his sin. There form. ratings are equivalent to getting about that among reporters. But Here’s the opening of “ For
were a few things I found The Washington Post took a high marks for evangelical somehow I think it’s asking too Times Sq. Suspect, Long Roots
interesting — First Things had a particular delight in revealing beliefs. I don’t think that’s what much for reporters — or of Discontent”:
brief piece about aspirational Souder’s resignation and the they’re trying to say but without readers, for that matter — to Just after midnight on Feb. 25,
lying. And Slate’s William reason for it. They led with his any other supporting engage some of the more 2006, Faisal Shahzad sent a
Saletan had a devastating look at “support of traditional family information, it’s hard to say. substantive questions when we lengthy e-mail message to a
how Blumenthal holds himself values” and explained that he Anyway, apart from the could instead just delight in group of friends. The trials of
to a lower standard than those was confronted by his own staff. schadenfreude many of us have another sex scandal. his fellow Muslims weighed on
individuals he’s gone after as This type of story is catnip for over the downfall of a social Five Filters featured article: him — the wars in Iraq and
attorney general. I didn’t see inside the beltway journalists: conservative, Souder’s entry The Art of Looking Prime Afghanistan, the plight of
any of these explorations in the A self-described conservative into the “sex scandal press Ministerial - The 2010 UK Palestinians, the publication in
mainstream media. and a Christian, Souder had conference” hall of fame was General Election. Available Denmark of cartoons
But we’re in luck with Souder focused on three areas since certainly interesting. He said, tools: PDF Newspaper, Full lampooning the Prophet
s i n c e h e ’ s a n “ o u t s p o k e n entering Congress: in his words, according to Politico: Text RSS, Term Extraction. Muhammad.
evangelical” (a member of the “how to keep the economy “I sinned against God, my wife Mr. Shahzad was wrestling
Church of the United Brethren strong; how do we improve our and my family by having a with how to respond. He
understood the notion that Islam
forbids the killing of innocents,
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he wrote. But to those who insist
only on “peaceful protest,” he
posed a question: “Can you tell
me a way to save the oppressed?
And a way to fight back when
rockets are fired at us and
Muslim blood flows?
“Everyone knows how the
Muslim country bows down to
pressure from west. Everyone
knows the kind of humiliation
we are faced with around the
globe.”
Great details, thanks to good
reporting. (It evokes for me
memories of when a college
MSA leader told me: “Blowing
yourself up is not something
everyone can do or something
that everyone has the courage to
do.”) Such is the strength of
religion reporting by Andrea
Elliott, the aforementioned
Pulitzer-winner who penned this
multi-byline article.
The story doesn’t get bogged
down by discussing Shahzad in
the broader context of
homegrown terrorists. Maybe it
should have, but as executed,
the structure works well. We are
taken from the bomb being
found in Times Square at the
beginning of the month back to
his childhood in the liberal
home of a vice marshal of the
Pakistani Air Force. From there,
his immigration to the U.S. on a
student visa, and then through
his post-9/11 transformation that
oddly crested with him getting
his U.S. citizenship in April
2009.
There are tons of great details,
and revealing quotes, packed
into this story, especially in the
sections that show the war
within Shahzad’s own world of
Pakistani immigrants and
Pakistani-Americans and with
his own family back in Pakistan.
While Mr. Shahzad seemed
eager to carve out a life in his
host country, his anger at
America flared early. The
classmate recalled walking into
Mr. Shahzad’s apartment a few
days after the terrorist attacks of
Sept. 11 to find him staring at
news footage of the planes
hitting the towers.
“They had it coming,” Mr.
Shahzad said, according to the
friend, a Pakistani-American.
The friend said Mr. Shahzad
believed that Western countries
had conspired to mistreat
Muslims. “He would just go
off,” said the friend, adding that
he paid little heed to Mr.
Shahzad’s eruptions, dismissing
them as a product of his fierce
Pashtun pride.
Which makes it so tough, as a
media critic to know what to
talk about. Hagiography isn’t
really my strong suit. I’d just
recommend you read this story,
and let us GetReligionistas
know if I missed something
glaring.
Also, keep an eye out for
Andrea Elliott’s byline. It’s
always worth a read.
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conception”—a clause that was
included in a late version of the
draft after bitter debate.
The reporter writes that
Americans have been sending
groups from both sides of the
debate, but he doesn’t cite any
specific groups. What is the
religious climate like in Kenya?
Do any of the religious groups
play a larger role in this debate?
U.S. Ambassador Michael E.
Ranneberger welcomes the
unified constitution. Now, I
guess this is where the angle
that Americans are getting in the
way of African policy come into
play.
Pronouncements like these
apparently caught the eye of
three Republican members of
Congress: Christopher H. Smith
of New Jersey; Darrell Issa of
California; and Ileana Ros-
Lehtinen of Florida.
The three wrote a letter on May
6 to auditors at the State
Department, the United States
Agency for International
Development and the
Government Accountability
Office, saying that “the Obama
administration’s advocacy in
support of Kenya’s proposed
constitution may constitute a
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serious violation of the Siljander
Amendment.” The little-known
amendment, named after a
former Michigan congressman,
Mark D. Siljander, prohibits
foreign aid from being used to
lobby for or against abortion.
It seems like this is a battle
between members of Congress
and the Obama administration’s
ambassador, a debate over how
America should conduct its
foreign policy. Instead, the
reporter paints this as though
those pesky Americans are
getting in the way of politics in
Africa again. Remind me again,
what does a bill in Uganda have
to do with an entirely separate
issue in Kenya? There’s no need
to treat Africa as one sweeping
nation. This story is worthy of
coverage on its own.
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Pakistan Blocks YouTube Over

Sacrilegious Content
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) way to resolve such issues — if
Submitted at 5/20/2010 5:33:31 AM the group in question doesn’t
break the site’s terms of service
Following Pakistan’s blockade but is illegal in another country
of Facebook— allegedly — is to restrict the group from
because users had posted being shown in that country.
caricatures of Prophet However, it appears that
Muhammad on the network — Pakistan has blocked more than
comes news that Pakistan has just these two sites; some of our
Authority simply cited “growing
also blocked YouTube because readers, as well as reports on
sacrilegious contents” [sic] as
of content that’s offensive to Twitter, point out that access to
the reason for the ban.
Islam. Flickr, Wikipedia and other sites
The ban of Facebook and
While the Facebook ban in has been restricted, too.
YouTube is likely to continue
Pakistan was a direct result of a For more social media
until representatives from both
group that called on users to coverage, follow Mashable
sites resolve the dispute with the
submit drawings of Prophet Social Media on Twitter or
Pakistani government in a way
Muhammad, the YouTube become a fan on Facebook
that “ensures religious harmony
blockade isn’t explained in Tags: censorship, Pakistan,
and respect.” A Facebook
detail. According to AP, youtube
representative said the usual
Pakistan Telecommunications

Pete Cashmore Talks Google’s Venture into TV and VoIP on

Bloomberg [VIDEO]
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) I/O Conference in San GIPS could mean that Google is with Starbucks.
Submitted at 5/20/2010 2:30:46 AM Francisco, the biggest being the building a Skype competitor, or For more technology coverage,
release of an open source, at the very least bring significant follow Mashable Tech on
Google has been very busy in royalty-free video format called improvements to its gTalk and Twitter or become a fan on
the last few days. First came WebM. Google Voice products. Facebook
rumors of Google’s venture into Google, Intel and Sony’s Check out the video below to Tags: Bloomberg, GIPS,
TV space with SmartTV. Then, SmartTV project could reshape see Pete Cashmore discuss the Google, pete cashmore
Google offered to acquire television as we know it, and implications of Google’s
Global IP Solutions (GIPS), Android-based set-top boxes Furthermore, Google’s acquisition of GIPS and the
f o l l o w e d b y a s l e w o f could open a whole new world acquisition of VoIP-focused development of SmartTV, as
announcements at the Google to developers of Android apps. well as Foursquare’s recent deal