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Submitted at 5/16/2011 9:10:23 AM
CORRECTS POLL NUMBER
ON OBAMA’S HANDLING OF
ECONOMY
The United States is due to hit its
$14.3 trillion debt limit today, and
tensions are understandably on the
increase with Republicans and
Democrats wide apart on the
budget deal the GOP wants in
exchange for increasing the
ceiling.
World markets and America’s
economic future could be
jeopardized if negotiators still
have no deal when the Treasury
Department runs out of tricks to
stave off default.
But do those fears a crisis make?
Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell suggests not. “Rather
than thinking of this as a crisis, I
think of it as an opportunity to
come together and those talks are
under way led by the vice
president.”
Those talks are looking for ways
to reduce the current annual U.S.
budget deficit of $1.4 trillion and
the mounting debt. McConnell
also says any deal should be
reviewed by Wall Street credit
rating agency Standard & Poor’s,
which has warned it could nix the
AAA U.S. debt rating without a
credible plan to tackle those pesky
fiscal issues.
However, it’s not as if Wall
Street and the federal government
always see eye to eye, particularly
on the regulatory side.
But what does all this mean for
the 2012 presidential election?
Hard to tell. But there’s
something about Barack Obama
that should terrify Republicans:
People like him. They really like
him.
A new POLITICO-George
Washington University
Battleground Poll says that 52
respondents are open to voting for
him again even though 47 57
percent disapprove of his
economic job performance.
Why so popular? It may have
something to do with what Obama
did to Osama.
Obama is also well on his way to
becoming the great fund-raising
juggernaut of the 2012 campaign.
He’s expected to raise a record $1
billion for his re-election.
Meanwhile, it’s hard to find a
percent of registered voters Republican presidential candidate,
approve of him as president and or a definite GOP wannabe
are open to the idea of re-electing candidate, who doesn’t have a
h i m i n 2 0 1 2 . T h a t ’ s u p 7 sizeable challenge to overcome.
percentage points since the last But things could change. Two top
battleground poll in October. Republicans tell ABC News that
And get this. On a personal they believe Mitch Daniels is in.
basis? Seventy-two percent of the With Mike Huckabee out of the
1,000 people polled say he’s a running, signs are that other
swell guy. potential candidates could be
That could make it hard for moving closer to a run. We should
Republicans to organize public learn today whether Donald
discontent over the economy, Trump remains as the star of NBC
given that more than half of poll reality TV show“The Celebrity
Apprentice”. Meanwhile, Sarah
Palin has hired a new foreign
policy adviser.
Now why would she do that?
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OF INNOVATION Illustration by
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FIRST LETTER OF THE STATE
to browse 51 -- yes, we included
the District of Columbia! -- bold
ideas and brilliant urbanites who
are helping to build the cities of
America's future. A| C| D| F| G| H|
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ALABAMA: BIRMINGHAM
Meagan and Darrius Peace |
Magic City Black Expo Three
years ago, the Peaces, owners of a
cosmetics company, decided that
young black business owners like
themselves needed a local
showcase. Today, the Magic City
Black Expo is a nexus of
entrepreneurial camaraderie -- and
so important locally that it's a
regular stump stop for area
politicos. Back to Top
ALASKA: ANCHORAGE
Michael Sobocinski | Seeds of
Change Community gardens are
not new. Nor are efforts to aid
youth in the juvenile-justice
system. But merge the two, as
Sobocinski did, and add a social
enterprise selling vegetables from
the gardens -- then you have a
program with the potential to
change lives on multiple levels.
Back to Top
ARIZONA: PHOENIX
Nicollette Lewis and Priya Nathan
| Partnered For Success This
project, started by Arizona State
students Lewis and Nathan, pairs
foster kids with local collegians
who can lend listening ears and
the wisdom of their years. Back to
Top
ARKANSAS: BENTONVILLE,
FAYETTEVILLE, JOHNSON,
LOWELL, ROGERS, AND
SPRINGDALE Razorback
Regional Greenway These cities
united to support the Razorback
Regional Greenway, a 36-mile
hike-and-bike trail to link all six.
No one city could have footed the
$38.5 million bill. The
from the federal government.
Back to Top
CALIFORNIA: SAN DIEGO
Voiceofsandiego.org The staff of
this website has set the standard
for online, hyperlocal
investigative journalism. Every
city could use such in-depth
reporting, which has held local
officials to account and prompted
reform. Back to Top
COLORADO: DENVER The
Reverend Ambrose Carroll | the
Renewal Worship Center Carroll
has taken faith-based initiatives to
a new level with what you might
call initiative-focused faith. His
inner-city church has an explicitly
environmental emphasis and an
outreach arm that offers green-job
training and placement. Back to
Top
CONNECTICUT: NEW
HAVEN Ben Berkowitz |
SeeClickFix When Berkowitz saw
graffiti near his home, he tried to
notify the right authorities. Not
easy. So he built SeeClickFix, a
site where citizens can post such
alerts and flag any they deem
urgent. Some 30 cities use a
premium version of the site. Back
to Top
D.C.: WASHINGTON Affinity
Lab A model incubator that's part
shared office and part creative
collective, Affinity Lab is
nurturing both for-profit and not-
for-profit businesses. Back to Top
DELAWARE: WILMINGTON
West End Neighborhood House
An old settlement house turned
full-scale social-services provider,
West End offers low-interest
payday loans as an alternative to
the typical high-interest kind. It
also lends money for security
deposits and utility payments. All
services come with financial
counseling. Back to Top
FLORIDA: MIAMI P. Scott
Cunningham | University of
Wynwood Imagine the brainy
stimulation of college without the
loans or homework. That's what
poet Cunningham sought when he
started the University of Wyn-
wood to hold events promoting
contemporary literature. Back to
Top
GEORGIA: ATLANTA Michael
Rich | Emory Community
Building and Social Change
Fellowship This interdisciplinary
program, created by poli-sci prof
Rich, gives Emory University
students hands-on experience with
community development. Back to
Top
HAWAII: KAUAI Justin
MacNaughton | GreenCar Hawaii
MacNaughton's startup takes car
sharing in a clever, locally driven
direction perfect for tourist-
centric communities: the hotel.
Guests can rent by the hour, via
kiosks in the hotel lobby. Back to
Top
IDAHO: BOISE Trey McIntyre
Project The story of how this
avant-garde dance troupe, a 2008
transplant from N.Y.C., seduced
its new hometown -- and how
Boise has embraced it -- is a
lesson in both arts marketing and
the cultural sophistication of the
heartland. Back to Top
ILLINOIS: CHICAGO Adrian
Holovaty | EveryBlock A
hyperlocal-news aggregator from
web developer Holovaty,
EveryBlock emphasizes data that
are often hard to access, such as
crime statistics and restaurant-
inspection info. Back to Top
INDIANA: INDIANAPOLIS
The National Design District This
redevelopment, centered on an old
auto factory, aims to build a
neighborhood-wide incubator. Its
live-work spaces are meant for
professionals in the design fields.
Back to Top
IOWA: DUBUQUE Smarter
Sustainable Dubuque With a
helping hand from IBM, the city
of Dubuque is using cloud-
computing technology to gather
data on -- and ultimately cut
levels of -- water and electric
usage. Back to Top
KANSAS: OLATHE Olathe
Works Well Clinic This
pioneering clinic for current and
retired city employees, which
charges no copays and focuses on
preventive health, is shaving
millions of health-care dollars a
year from the municipal budget.
Back to Top
KENTUCKY: LEXINGTON
Eric Patrick Marr | Lexenomics
How can Lexington spur growth?
Via communication and
3
inspiration, Marr thinks. So he
built Lexenomics, a project that
holds networking gatherings and
ideas-based events, including a
speaker series to bring big
thinkers to Kentucky. Back to Top
LOUISIANA: NEW ORLEANS
Byron Mouton | Tulane
University/Urbanbuild Mouton,
an architecture professor, needs to
train his students. New Orleans
needs houses. Thus, Urbanbuild
was born, with architecture
students creating sustainable
modern housing in the Lower
Ninth Ward. Back to Top
MAINE: PORTLAND Susan
Conley, Sara Corbett, and Mike
Paterniti | The Telling Room At
this writing center founded by a
trio of journalists, youth are using
storytelling to help boost literacy
and self-confidence. Back to Top
MARYLAND: BALTIMORE
The Baltimore Free School
Anyone can teach and all classes
are, yes, free at the Baltimore Free
School, created by some of the
staff at Red Emma's bookshop.
The eclectic curriculum includes
classes on film, font design, and
European politics. Back to Top
MASSACHUSETTS: BOSTON
Health Leads For the past 15
years, the not-for-profit Health
Leads has been redefining
medical care. In its holistic model,
doctors can prescribe food, job
training, and housing aid as easily
as pharmaceuticals. Back to Top
MICHIGAN: DETROIT
TechTown A stunning factoid:
The fastest-growing tech-job
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market in the U.S. over the past
year was Detroit. A key part of
the equation is TechTown, an
incubator started in 2004 by
Wayne State University that's now
home to 220 firms. Back to Top
MINNESOTA: MINNEAPOLIS
Metro Transit Ride to Rewards In
the nation's first public-transit
frequent-rider program, you can
collect points -- tradable for ride
credits or Visa gift cards -- both
by using the system and by
shopping at partner retailers. Back
to Top
MISSISSIPPI: PASS
CHRISTIAN Evelina Shmukler |
the Pass Christian Gazebo Gazette
This newspaper, born after
Hurricane Katrina, quickly
became vital for a city that lacked
a resource for local news and
information. Started, owned, and
operated by journalist Shmukler,
the Gazebo Gazette doesn't claim
to be objective; it's a proud
community cheerleader. Back to
Top
MISSOURI: ST. LOUIS Schlafly
Bottleworks Over the past 20
years, this microbrewery has
blossomed into a community hub,
hosting lectures, foodie
gatherings, and even a special
series of Washington University
classes. Back to Top
MONTANA: MISSOULA Urban
Fringe Development Area Project
This dynamic road map,
coordinated jointly by the city of
Missoula and Missoula County, is
used to allocate where growth
should go. The goal: to balance
the needs of the booming
population and Montana's fragile
ecosystem. Back to Top
NEBRASKA: LINCOLN
StarTran The local public-transit
authority has worked hard to help
reduce driving miles in the city to
the lowest of any U.S. metro area
with a population under 250,000.
Also awesome: a program
offering monthly bus passes to
low-income residents for just
$7.50. Back to Top
NEVADA: RENO Jason Geddes
| City of Reno There's much talk
of wind power today, but which
turbines work best? Geddes,
Reno's environmental-services
administrator, is testing them side
by side in a project that has
deployed nine turbines in
Nevada's third-biggest city. Back
to Top
NEW HAMPSHIRE:
MANCHESTER Emily Shakra |
Building on Hope After Extreme
Makeover: Home Edition did an
episode in New Hampshire,
Shakra was inspired to continue in
that spirit, uniting local builders to
aid those who need building help.
Her current project: a group home
for boys. Back to Top
NEW JERSEY: CAMDEN Dr.
Jeffrey Brenner | Camden
Coalition of Healthcare Providers
Brenner learned that 1% of those
who used Camden's hospitals and
clinics racked up 30% of costs.
He hypothesized that
microtargeting them for treatment
would slash city health spending
and save lives. He was right. Back
to Top
N E W M E X I C O :
ALBUQUERQUE Calott +
Gifford Architecture This award-
winning firm specializes in city-
revitalizing "infill" and
brownfields projects. Back to Top
NEW YORK: BINGHAMTON
The Design Your Own Park
Competition Too often, amenities
like parks are conceived by
bureaucrats, not end users.
Binghamton changed that with a
contest that invites residents to
plan revamps of neglected spaces.
The first new parks will be
finished this year. Back to Top
NORTH CAROLINA:
CHARLOTTE The Charlotte
Regional Partnership This group
aims to build Charlotte into an
energy R&D hub by emphasizing
education and training. Its
strength: buy-in from all quarters,
including big business (Duke
Energy calls Charlotte home), city
government, and local
universities. Back to Top
NORTH DAKOTA: FARGO
Karen Stoker | Hotel Donaldson
Every city needs smart
entrepreneurs and good hosts.
Stoker is both. She's the proprietor
of Hotel Donaldson, Fargo's
chicest lodging, a repository of
creativity (each room was
designed by an area artist), and a
symbol of and a catalyst for the
revitalization of this North Dakota
city. Back to Top
OHIO: CINCINNATI Strive
Partnership It takes a village -- or
a whole city -- to boost education.
Strive Partnership's "cradle-to-
career" model unites more than
300 organizations and interest
groups, including businesses,
parents, and schools to do that in
Cincy. Back to Top
OKLAHOMA: OKLAHOMA
CITY Ron Norick | MAPS Some
cities try to lure businesses to
restore them- selves. As OKC
mayor from 1987 to 1998, Norick
realized the city needed to restore
itself to lure business. His MAPS
plan involved no debt; a voter-
backed 1¢ sales tax paid for new
infrastructure. Today, downtown
is abuzz and the NBA's Thunder
call OKC home. Back to Top
OREGON: PORTLAND Cindy
Cooper | Portland State University
Social Innovation Incubator Tech
has incubators, but not-for-profits
and social enterprises? Started last
year by Cooper, the SII features a
Circuit Program that provides six
months of startup assistance to
five new social entrepreneurs each
year. Back to Top
PENNSYLVANIA:
PHILADELPHIA Christian
Kunkel | Startup Corps An
initiative to back youth enterprise,
Startup Corps has funded ventures
such as a hip-hop label, a not-for-
profit trying to make prom
fiscally viable for low-income
students, and a diner. Back to Top
RHODE ISLAND:
PROVIDENCE Umberto Crenca |
AS220 Crenca has shown how an
arts not-for-profit can be a
keystone of urban renewal.
AS220's studio space, artist
housing, and café/bar have helped
boost a once-seedy area and lift
property values. Back to Top
SOUTH CAROLINA:
CLEMSON Jim Oswald |
PinPoint Public Works This GPS
-- based touch-screen platform,
developed by Oswald, enables
sanitation workers to log
problems -- say, a pile of debris.
The data are used to create a daily
citywide "to-do" map to deploy
staff smartly and save fuel. Back
to Top
SOUTH DAKOTA: SIOUX
FALLS Phillips to the Falls
Revitalization The federally
funded remake of an industrial
riverfront area has boosted the
city as a whole and shown the
importance of partnerships, public
and private. Back to Top
TENNESSEE: KNOXVILLE
Alex Lavidge | Knoxville
Overground The city's first
coworking space attracts the self-
employed who seek collaboration.
Lavidge has also created a series
of podcasts about Knoxville
entrepreneurs. Back to Top
TEXAS: HOUSTON Rick Lowe
| Project Row Houses A
community-building program
under the guise of a house-rehab/
artist-support effort, Lowe's
Project Row Houses boasts artist
housing, meeting space, and
redevelopment in a poor part of
Houston. Back to Top
UTAH: SALT LAKE CITY
Clear the Air Challenge Driving
less has been a game in S.L.C.
during each of the past two
summers. Teams, formed to
telecommute and carpool, cut
pollution and shine a light on bad
habits and conservation
possibilities. The 2010 contest
saved $735,000 in vehicle costs.
Back to Top
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NBC picks up 12 new series for next season

(AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) network," said Greenblatt, who Williams as host and "as soon as adaptation of "The Firm" will be New York City trying to navigate
Submitted at 5/15/2011 2:03:43 PM said he wanted "bigger and it's ready, we will put it on the on Sunday's schedule when the boys' club of a new police
broader" comedies to bring more schedule, with enthusiasm," football season ends, and precinct.
By DAVID BAUDER, AP viewers back to NBC. The Greenblatt said. Such a series will "Smash," a drama that was Steven _"Grimm," an elaborate drama
Television Writer network has lagged far behind have a greater variety of stories Spielberg's idea about an effort to inspired by Grimm's Fairy Tales.
NEW YORK – NBC is betting CBS, Fox and ABC this season. than "Dateline NBC," which put on a Broadway musical about It features a homicide detective
on the Playboy club, Chelsea The strong debut of the music remains on the network's Friday the life of Marilyn Monroe, will who learns he is the descendant of
Handler and a raft of romantic competition "The Voice" has schedule. Unlike the replace "The Playboy Club" in an elite group of hunters who
comedies among the dozen new given NBC more optimism, and entertainment division, NBC midseason. NBC's plan is to run fight to keep the world safe from
series it has ordered in its latest that show will be back for another News has stayed atop the ratings full seasons of "The Playboy supernatural creatures.
attempt to come back from a long run next winter. with "Nightly News" and Club" and "Smash" without Here are the four series NBC has
slump that has made it television's NBC's midseason schedule "Today." reruns. decided to make that do not have
fourth-place broadcast network. includes a two-hour edition of Greenblatt also would not say Aside from "The Playboy Club," time slots yet:
The network outlined its fall "Celebrity Apprentice" on Sunday who, if anyone, will replace actor here are the NBC series that will _"Awake," a complex drama
plans on Sunday, opening a hectic nights. Asked if that meant NBC Steve Carell when "The Office" debut on the network's fall about a reality-defying double
week in which broadcasters unveil had a commitment from host returns for a new season next fall. schedule: life. A detective regains
their fall schedules to advertisers Donald Trump that he wouldn't The comedy "30 Rock" won't be _"Up All Night," a comedy about consciousness following a car
i n h o p e s t h e y w i l l m a k e run for president, Greenblatt said, on NBC's fall schedule but will new parents created by Lorne accident to be told that his wife
multimillion dollar commitments "We're putting a pin in that for the return in midseason, the delay due Michaels and Emily Spivey of was killed but his teenage son
to buy commercials. It was the next 24 hours or so. Things will to creator and star Tina Fey's "Saturday Night Live." Applegate survives. He soon finds that there
first new schedule formulated by become clearer soon." pregnancy, he said. portrays a successful public is a parallel reality where his wife
NBC Entertainment Chairman But he said NBC was prepared to The series "Chuck" is returning relations executive and Arnett is survives and son dies.
Bob Greenblatt, appointed when go forward with a new host for for a final season of 13 episodes. her stay-at-home husband, and _"Are You There, Vodka? It's Me,
C o m c a s t t o o k o v e r N B C "Celebrity Apprentice" if Trump Last season's high-profile science Maya Rudolph is also featured. Chelsea," is a comic look at
Universal. decides to run. "I hope we don't fiction series "The Event" was _"Free Agents," a romantic Handler's life based on the E!
NBC ordered six new dramas and have to go there," he said. canceled, so its relatively few comedy with Azaria and Kathryn Entertainment network star's
six new comedies, with half of By devoting its Sunday night viewers won't find out what "the Hahn of HBO's "Hung" as public book. Handler's character is a
them on the fall schedule and the prime-time schedule in the fall to event" actually was. NBC will relations executives on romantic strong-willed bartender. Handler
rest planned for later debuts. pro football, NBC appeared also pull the plug on "Law & rebounds. herself has a recurring role
"The Playboy Club," a 1960s-era confident that the NFL's labor Order: Los Angeles." _"Whitney," a romantic comedy playing her sister.
drama set in Chicago's bunny p r o b l e m s w o u l d b e s o l v e d . NBC is also "circling" Jennifer starring Whitney Cummings of _"Best Friends Forever," a
world, will spice up NBC's G r e e n b l a t t s a i d N B C i s Love Hewitt as a candidate to join "Chelsea Lately" as half of a comedy about a woman who flies
M o n d a y l i n e u p . T w o n e w developing some high-profile the cast of "Law & Order: SVU" happily unmarried couple. She across the country to move in with
comedies will also debut in the reality competitions as substitutes as a third detective with Mariska tries to break the relationship out her best friend when the woman's
fall on Wednesday nights with for football but said that "we're Hargitay and Christopher Meloni of boredom after attending a husband files for divorce, only to
Christina Applegate, Will Arnett feeling pretty optimistic that sometime during next season, friend's wedding. cause disruptions in the friend's
and Hank Azaria among the football will be there." Greenblatt said. _"Prime Suspect," an adaptation relationship.
featured stars. NBC News is developing a Two of NBC's new series have of a British series that stars Maria
"This is a marathon to rebuild this n e w s m a g a z i n e w i t h B r i a n firm midseason time slots: a series Bello as a homicide detective in NBC page 7
6 Top News/ Politics/ Newstablet Edition

Blackwater founder builds foreign
force in UAE: report (Reuters)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 5/15/2011 5:26:06 PM
traffic, killing at least 14 people in
what the Iraqi government called
foreign troops.
The UAE military said in a
Wholesome girl
opposite Brando
in `Wild One'
Prince had insisted the force hire
dies (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
no Muslims, because they "could Submitted at 5/16/2011 8:44:54 AM

a "massacre." statement that "all engagements of not be counted on to kill fellow

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The One former Blackwater guard commercial entities by the UAE Muslims," the paper said. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. –
crown prince of Abu Dhabi has pleaded guilty to manslaughter Armed Forces are compliant with Former employees also told the Actress Mary Murphy has died at
hired the founder of private charges in those killings, and a international Law and relevant newspaper the Emirates hoped the 80. She was discovered in a
s e c u r i t y f i r m B l a c k w a t e r U.S. court reinstated charges conventions." force could be used to counter any coffee shop and landed a role as
Worldwide to set up an 800- against five others last month. "The UAE armed forces currently threat from Iran, which the Arab the small-town wholesome girl
member battalion of foreign Prince has since sold the firm, engage a number of third parties, states in the Gulf consider a foe. opposite Marlon Brando in "The
troops for the United Arab which changed its name to Xe. such as Spectre, which delivers Although The Times said the Wild One."
Emirates, the New York Times The firm denies wrongdoing. academy training capabilities; documents it had obtained did not Daughter Stephanie Specht tells
said Sunday. The newspaper said the Emirates, Horizon, a pilot training partner mention Erik Prince, former the Los Angeles Times that
The Times said it obtained a close ally of the United States, and R2 which provides employees had told the newspaper Murphy died May 4 of heart
documents that showed the unit had some support in Washington operational, planning and training he had negotiated the contract disease at her Beverly Hills home.
being formed by Erik Prince's for Prince's new project, although support," said the statement with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Murphy had several roles in
new company Reflex Responses it was not clear if it had official carried by the state news agency Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan. 1950s films, including "The
with $529 million from the UAE U.S. approval. WAM. Emirati officials had proposed Desperate Hours," "Beachhead,"
would be used to thwart internal Two UAE government officials The statement did not name expanding the force to a brigade "A Man Alone," "Sitting Bull"
revolt, conduct special operations contacted by Reuters declined Blackwater or Prince. of several thousand if the first and "The Mad Magician."
and defend oil pipelines and immediate comment on the New "NO MUSLIMS" battalion was successful, the But she's best-known as the
skyscrapers from attack. York Times report, and the U.S. Toner also pointed out that newspaper said. innocent in a town terrorized by a
The newspaper said the decision embassy in the UAE also had no Blackwater had paid $42 million (Additional reporting by biker gang led by Brando.
to hire the contingent of foreign immediate comment. It was not in fines in 2010 for training Mahmoud Habboush; editing by Murphy was a package wrapper
troops was taken before a wave of possible to locate Prince for foreign forces in Jordan without a Andrew Roche) at Saks Fifth Avenue on Wilshire
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and a follower of Jesus Christ. Huckabee said. “For me, to do Newport noted that almost every immediately, because of their
And that relationship is far more t h a t a p a r t f r o m a n i n n e r year leading up to the presidential strong positions on issues like life
important to me than any political confidence that I was undertaking election there has been a clear and traditional marriage, as well
office,” said Huckabee, a former it with God’s full blessing is leader among the pack who leads as fiscal conservatism,” Huckabee
Southern Baptist pastor.
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simply unthinkable.”
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Ikea Tries To Assemble A Sustainable
Operation, Despite Disposable Products
Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:45:28 AM
The cheap furniture giant's
products are getting more stable,
and they are now making more
from less.
Everyone's favorite Swedish
furniture superstore is among the
best places to buy cheap, easy-to-
assemble furniture. But the
company's products aren't built to
last--just think a about the
amount of splintered Ikea
furniture that is tossed on the side
of city streets every day. That's
the challenge facing Steve
Howard, Ikea's newly initiated
COO of sustainability: Can a
company that makes easily
disposable goods ever be truly
responsible?
We asked Howard, the former
CEO of The Climate Group who
joined Ikea in January 2011, about
why the company's products aren't
simply another symptom of our
disposable and wasteful culture.
According to Howard, buying a
piece of Ikea furniture (say, the
Lack coffee table) often makes
Army of robots work together to map unknown spaces
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:00:00 AM
A team of roboticists and
computer scientists has
developed a team of autonomous
more sense than buying a pricier
alternative. "If a product isn't
handled carefully, then it doesn't
last as long," Howard
acknowledges. "But with the Lack
tables today, you've got a table
that's got a veneer on it, is strong
enough to stand on and has a
honeycomb in the middle which is
structurally very strong. We can
produce five tables from the
same raw material [as one solid
robots designed for collaborative
exploration and mapping of
uncharted territory.
Researchers from the Georgia
Institute of Technology, the
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simply feed their bulbs into the
machine and get a coffee voucher
in return. For bulkier items (i.e.
mattresses and tables), Ikea may
even be willing to pick up items
from homes. "For us to do this in
a comprehensive way is a major
undertaking. It's establishing a
reverse supply chain," Howard
says. In other words, you'll soon
be able to have your slowly
disintegrating Billy bookcase
taken off to be ground up and
converted to more Billy
bookcases, instead of just leaving
it on the street.
Ikea also hopes to have all of its
products either recyclable, made
of recycled materials, or
wood table]." possible from the same raw renewable by 2015. It's about
So here's the question: Does it material. Everyone needs a coffee branding and, of course, the
make more sense to manufacture table. bottom line. "In our transparent
one pricey table that lasts decades, And since the company knows world, every product will have a
or five tables that don't last quite that most people do inevitably story. You've got to make sure it's
as long (though sometimes they want to give up their Ikea a good one," says Howard.
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maybe you we should be a u t o m a t e d m a c h i n e t h a t
squeezing as many tables as recognizes CFL bulbs. Users
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Socialist Strauss-Kahn was chance to change this; latest treatment installation. Back to Third Ward, which now typifies
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:22:30 AM widely expected to soon declare opinion polls had given him a Top urban gentrification, with roaming
his intention to run for president clear lead on the incumbent, VIRGINIA: NORFOLK Hannah hipsters and chichi design shops.
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strong contender to become trying to gauge the consequences former party leader François barren Norfolk storefronts for a income housing agency, builder
France's next president. Now his of his arrest. Hollande as likely Socialist t w o - m o n t h - l o n g a r t f a i r Grimshaw pushes quality,
candidacy for the Socialist party Strauss-Kahn is to appear in court contenders for the presidency. celebrating local creativity. Back amenities such as public art, and
is in serious doubt. Berlin today in New York, where he is Mr. Sarkozy’s conservative UMP to Top reuse of materials from historic
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important events these days. He Socialist leader Martine Aubry. “I Lellouche stressed that Strauss- started a company that has A version of this article appears
missed a meeting with German myself, like everyone, am totally Kahn should be granted the transformed waste management in the May 2011 issue of Fast
Chancellor Angela Merkel on astounded. I ask the Socialists to benefit of the doubt. via a pay-as-you-dump model. Company.
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Before the NYPD arrested him defeat in the 2007 presidential Decades Of US-UK Attempts To has been hard. The payoff:
on Saturday at JFK airport on elections. Strauss-Kahn, or DSK Topple Gadafi. Hundreds have learned to cook
sexual assault charges brought by as the former finance minister is healthily, and Huntington is
a Manhattan hotel maid, French known in France, had a good getting a new farmers' market.

Activision announces Modern Warfare 3

Submitted at 5/16/2011 7:06:10 AM
Activision has officially
announced Call of Duty: Modern
Warfare 3 after a bunch of
websites got their mitts on leaked
secrets and spoilers about the
game.
Earlier this month gaming blogs
like Kotaku revealed all on the
dumping a pile of concept art and
juicy details on the game's plot,
characters, locations, weapons
t h e n u n a n n o u n c e d s e q u e l , and multiplayer for all to see.
Continue reading...
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Ashton Kutcher, Intel Join Forces To Create
"Digital Content Units"
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:36:53 AM
Ashton Kutcher's production
company Katalyst has revealed its
first output from new hothousing
venture IdeaJam. Its partnered
with Intel and 48 creative
professionals for a narrative
experiment that will yield "six,
short, digital content units."
Here's what that means.
Ashton Kutcher's production unit
Katalyst has revealed its first
output from new hothousing
venture IdeaJam, where it
partnered with Intel and 48
creative professionals for an
experiment to invent new ways to
tell stories in video format. And,
no, this won't make Two and A
Half Men any funnier.
Last week Ashton Kutcher's
IdeaJam: Dream Bigger
conference kicked off with an
attempt to challenge 48
"mavericks" in digital and social
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media to come together and put
together some original content in
just 48 hours. IdeaJam is a bigger
program (sponsored by "the
innovators" at Intel) that's based
on the idea of a musical jam
session. Instead of novel, live
music, however, it's designed to
produce content that varies from
videos to technology boosts for
Up to 1,000 of RIM's BlackBerry
PlayBooks are recalled, Netflix
scoops up films from Miramax,
and Sony finally starts to relaunch
the PlayStation Network but not
without glitches.
2 minutes 13 seconds
education--as Kutcher explains in
his introductory video. There's
also a degree of competition to
drive the six team's thinking, as
the winners get $20,000 and the
"potential to partner with
Katalyst."
[youtube U0fyxf79Eas]
The session is now over, and over
the weekend YouTube revealed
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"engaging with the online
community" and "deepening the
connections between video and
viewer" according to Google...but
what did they actually produce?
How about the odd notion of
"MatchMyFriend," which would
allow you to watch a live stream
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of your friend's first date, after
you've set them up with another of
your acquaintances--a mashup of
dating sites and social media, that
repays your effort at setting two
people up together on a date with
a little voyeuristic pleasure.
[youtube 7lovVVyMHAc]
There's also Alibuys--a "business
that sells alibis online," one that
would help clients with their
problems by purchasing an excuse
to help them solve a tricky
problem.
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Did the teams actually invent
new ways to tell a story? The
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Survivor news: A TIDAL WAVE: Prepare
proposal, and a For The Magazine iPad
victory - USA Today
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Submitted at 5/16/2011 9:05:47 AM
May 16, 2011'Survivor' news: A
proposal, and a victory
Who knew that Survivor could
produce its own awww moment?
On last night's finale of CBS'
Survivor: Redemption Island,
David Murphy popped the
question to Carolina Eastwood,
who competed on 2009's
Survivor: Tocantins. Murphy
proposed to Eastwood, who was
in the audience.
And she said yes.
Meanwhile, diabolical "Boston
Rob" Mariano pocketed $1
million and was named the winner
of Survivor: Redemption Island.
The canny, crafty competitor had
won the last four immunity
challenges.
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Yorker hit iTunes, the publishing
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Sarah Palin Hits Daily Double: Obama

Approves Drilling In Alaska And Huckabee
Says He Won’t Run
Joe McGinniss (Business chance–at the brass ring of fade away now?
Insider) national political power. Having come out of nowhere to
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:43:00 AM And don’cha think she’s gonna get this far, will she go gently
take it? into that good night without even
The president’s announcement, Because Sarah is not an elected a last hurrah?
w h i c h i n c l u d e d p l a n s f o r official, but only a celebrity Especially after Huckabee’s
expanded drilling in Alaska screecher from the sidelines, she Saturday night announcement that
demonstrate[s] his commitment to can’t claim credit (except on her he won’t run,
reducing oil imports by increasing Twitter and Facebook pages and His decision to forgo a run
domestic production…Mr. Obama o n F o x N e w s ) f o r h a v i n g presumably leaves that space wide
said the administration would persuaded President Obama to open for Ms. Palin, a self
begin to hold annual auctions for change his mind about the vital described “Bible-believing
oil and gas leases in the Alaska economic and environmental Christian”
National Petroleum Reserve, a 23- issues posed by the prospect of Doesn’t it seem that God is
million-acre tract on the North reopening Alaska’s North Slope working overtime this weekend to
Slope of Alaska. The move comes to further exploration (some open doors for her so she can
after years of demands for the would say “exploitation”) by Big plow through?
auctions by industry executives Oil. Hope he gets at least time-and-a-
and Alaska’s two senators, Lisa And won’t it gall her to see Sen. half.
Murkowski, a Republican, and Lisa Murkowski, in particular,
personal bottom line of S a r a h ’ s g r e a t e s t f e a r i s This post originally appeared at
Mark Begich, a Democrat. cited as one who made “demands” http:www.Palingrifters.com is irrelevance. What if she fell in a The Rogue Blog.
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only), she must recognize that as Bruce Springsteen might as well
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soon as she definitively takes have been writing Fade Away for
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any more about what she says, I don’t wanna fade away
Hours later, Mike Huckabee, who this year: if she doesn’t, a year Pregnant Than Sarah Palin At
what she wears, how she looks, Oh I don’t wanna fade away
won the 2008 Iowa Caucus, from now people won’t even Seven Months
Track’s latest brush with the law, Tell me what can I do what can I
announced he would not be a remember how she spells her
Bristol’s latest plastic surgery, say
candidate next year. name. (Is it p-a-l-i-n, or p-a-l-l-i- Willow’s latest brush with the Cause darlin’ I don’t wanna fade
Today’s news makes it clearer n, as in“pallin’ around with
law, or even whether she really away
than ever that Sarah will have a terrorists”?)
gave birth to Trig. Do you really think she’ll just
second chance–and her last Even if, as many argue, the
14 Business/ Technology/
Goldman's Jim O'Neill: Forget
This Nonsense That GDP Growth
Doesn't Matter For Stocks
Gregory White (Business
Insider)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:42:27 AM
While you may have been
convinced that GDP growth
doesn't matter for equity
performance over the long-term, it
actually matters a great deal,
according to Goldman Sachs' Jim
O'Neill.
O'Neill argues that, while GDP
and stocks don't rise together,
stocks tend to rise ahead of
positive GDP growth.
Current actual growth rates and
forecast revisions for current year
growth do not have any
significant impact on equity
market performance in the same
period. What does impact equity
returns is the expectation of
growth in the year ahead. Thus
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equity markets may be viewed as
a leading indicator of GDP
growth.
For O'Neill, this is an indication
that growth markets remain where
to be in terms of equity
investments. That's because as an
investor there you're in a market
with "growth sustainability" rather
than one where growth
expectations may turn negative,
dragging down equity returns, like
in developed markets.
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expectations drive equity returns
in the U.S.:
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Strauss-Kahn appears in NY court in sex
assault case
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:25:40 AM
By Basil Katz and Edith Honan
NEW YORK| Mon May 16, 2011
11:25am EDT
(Reuters) - IMF chief Dominique
Strauss-Kahn appeared in court on
Monday for the first time since he
was accused of trying to rape a
hotel maid in a case that sent
shockwaves through French
politics and left the IMF in
turmoil.
A handcuffed and drained Strauss
-Kahn, whose hopes of becoming
France's next president appear to
have been wrecked, faced a
barrage of cameras when he was
escorted to the booking station at
Manhattan Criminal Court on
Sunday night.
His lawyers said he would plead
not guilty to charges of a criminal
sexual act, attempted rape and
unlawful imprisonment that could
bring a humiliating end to his
public career and political
ambitions.
"Our client willingly consented to
a scientific and forensic
examination ...," said William
Taylor, the IMF chief's
Washington-based lawyer. "He's
tired but he's fine."
Any restriction the judge places
on Strauss-Kahn's freedom of
movement after Monday's
arraignment hearing may
determine whether he is able to
continue in his globe-trotting role
as managing director of the
International Monetary Fund.
His arrest on Saturday plunged
the Washington-based global
lender into disarray in the midst of
the euro zone's debt crisis and
threw France's presidential race
wide open. The IMF board
postponed an informal meeting
pending further information from
New York.
German Chancellor Angela
Merkel, whom Strauss-Kahn had
been due to meet on Sunday, said
that finding a successor for the
Frenchman was "not a question
for today", but there were good
grounds to have a European
candidate ready.
European sources said French
Economy Minister Christine
Lagarde had been picking up
support before the Strauss-Kahn
news broke. Former Turkish
Economy Minister Kemal Dervis
is considered a favorite among the
non-European possibilities.
More allegations involving
Strauss-Kahn surfaced in Paris,
where a lawyer said a woman
writer was considering filing a
legal complaint against the IMF
chief over an alleged sexual
incident dating back to 2002.
Strauss-Kahn, the Socialist early
favorite in the 2012 presidential
race, had his hands manacled
behind his back and looked
strained on Sunday as detectives
led him to a waiting police sedan
in front of a battery of television
cameras.
A police spokesman said the 32-
year-old chambermaid at the
Times Square Sofitel had
identified Strauss-Kahn on
Sunday from a police lineup that
included five other men.
STAR LAWYER
The IMF chief, who has retained
Michael Jackson's former star
defense lawyer Benjamin
Brafman to lead his legal team,
submitted to the forensic
examination with police looking
for scratches or evidence of his
alleged assault.
A charismatic figure, Strauss-
Kahn led the IMF through the
2007-09 global financial
meltdown, pressing for stimulus
measures and interest rate cuts to
avoid a depression, and has been
central in galvanizing Europe to
tackle its debt woes.
The IMF, which said Strauss-
Kahn had been in New York on
private business, moved to fill a
leadership vacuum by naming No.
2 official, John Lipsky, as acting
managing director.
Strauss-Kahn wore a black
overcoat, blue dress shirt and
black dress slacks on Sunday, his
hair neatly parted, as he was
escorted to a police car in front of
the assembled media. He kept his
eyes straight ahead, avoiding
looking at the cameras.
French Socialist party leader
Martine Aubry called the pictures,
which dominated all news
bulletins, "profoundly
humiliating" and told reporters:
"Fortunately in France we have a
law on the presumption of
innocence which means that at
this stage of proceedings, people
cannot be shown like this."
NAKED CHASE
Police said the maid had
described how the IMF chief,
naked, sprang on her from the
bathroom of his hotel suite,
chased her down a hall, pulled her
into a bedroom and assaulted her.
She told police she broke free but
that he dragged her into the
bathroom where he forced himself
on her again.
The woman, who has not been
named, was treated in hospital for
minor injuries. She has worked at
the hotel for three years and the
property's manager said she has
been a "completely satisfactory"
employee in her work and her
behavior.
Strauss-Kahn's wife, French
television personality Anne
Sinclair, jumped to her husband's
defense, saying she did not
believe the accusations "for a
single second," and other
supporters in France cautioned
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against a rush to judgment.
Police say Strauss-Kahn left his
$3,000-a-day suite in such a rush
that he left his mobile phone
behind but a French tourist who
said she saw him check out told
France 2 television he had
appeared calm and in no hurry.
After he called the hotel from
John F. Kennedy airport asking
about his phone, police located
him in the first-class section of an
Air France flight bound for Paris.
He was pulled from the flight
minutes before takeoff.
Police say the IMF chief does not
have diplomatic immunity from
the charges, which if proven could
carry a prison sentence of 15 to 20
years.
Defense attorney Brafman is a
high-profile criminal lawyer who
was part of the team that
successfully defended pop singer
Michael Jackson against child
molestation charges in 2005.
Brafman also won an acquittal on
weapons and bribery charges for
rap mogul Sean "P. Diddy"
Combs.
In France, Strauss-Kahn had not
yet declared his candidacy but
was widely expected to seek the
Socialist Party nomination.
Early opinion polls gave him a
big lead over conservative
incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, who
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ICC prosecutor targets Gaddafi as NATO

steps up raids
(Reuters: Top News) strong evidence," Moreno- they were forced to take action Belkacem, a rebel spokesman in high, and drive thousands more
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:10:18 AM Ocampo said, adding: "We are against criminal armed gangs and the besieged city of Misrata. migrants to risk death trying to
almost ready for trial ... Gaddafi al Qaeda militants. They say a "Gaddafi hasn't stopped killing flee.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya through fear and NATO bombing campaign is an our brothers in all areas across Italy's Frattini, asked about the
cheers his supporters after a Libyans are losing that fear now." act of colonial aggression aimed Libya." possibility of arranging exile for
meeting with a delegation of five The prosecutor's office had at grabbing Libya's oil. Libya is not a member of the Gaddafi, said: "If we talk about it
African leaders at his Bab al- r e c e i v e d c a l l s f r o m s e n i o r PERSECUTION, TORTURE ICC, but Moreno-Ocampo said now, we'll burn this possibility."
Aziziyah compound in Tripoli, o f f i c i a l s i n t h e G a d d a f i Moreno-Ocampo said Libyan authorities had primary "We're obviously working with
April 10, 2011. government in the past week to persecution was still taking place responsibility to make arrests and the United Nations on finding
Credit: Reuters/Zohra Bensemra provide information. Prosecutors in areas under Gaddafi control that arrests are the best way to exactly this way out," he told
By Aaron Gray-Block and Joseph spoke with eyewitnesses to with forces arresting, imprisoning protect civilians. Canale 5 television on Monday.
Logan attacks and assessed evidence and torturing alleged dissidents. The ICC has no police force and "A political way out that would
THE HAGUE/TRIPOLI| Mon from 1,200 documents, plus Some people had disappeared. relies on member states to enforce remove the dictator and his family
May 16, 2011 11:10am EDT videos and photos. Prosecutors are also investigating arrests. Despite NATO bombing from the scene and allow the
( R e u t e r s ) - A w a r c r i m e s Thousands of people have been reports of mass rapes, war crimes operations intended to protect immediate creation of a
prosecutor on Monday sought an killed in the conflict in the North committed by different parties and civilians, Libya has been plunged government of national
arrest warrant for Muammar African oil-producing desert state, attacks against sub-Saharan into civil war, seriously reconciliation," he said.
Gaddafi accusing him of killing the bloodiest of the revolts which Africans wrongly seen as complicating efforts to arrest ICC "I think if an agreement doesn't
protesters against his 41-year rule have convulsed the Middle East in mercenaries once the Libyan suspects. begin with Gaddafi and his
as NATO stepped up air strikes on what has been called the "Arab situation developed into an armed "The request for these warrants is immediate family leaving office it
Libyan forces. Spring." conflict. a reminder to all in Gaddafi's isn't going to fly with the
L u i s M o r e n o - O c a m p o , NATO, which has been hitting Moreno-Ocampo signaled his regime that crimes will not go opposition or with NATO," said
International Criminal Court targets in Libya for nearly two action earlier this month when he unpunished and the reach of David Hartwell, Middle East
prosecutor, also asked judges, months, appeared to step up its said he would seek three arrests international justice will be long," analyst with IHS Jane's, adding:
who must now see if there is bombing campaign on Monday for the "pre-determined" killing of British Foreign Secretary William "The ICC warrant today also
e n o u g h e v i d e n c e t o i s s u e with strikes in several towns and protesters in Libya after the U.N. Hague said. makes things more complicated."
w a r r a n t s , f o r t h e a r r e s t o f cities including Tripoli, according Security Council referred the Three months after a revolt began Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam and to Libyan state television and violence to the Hague-based court against Gaddafi's four-decade Lavrov said Gaddafi envoys were
his spy chief brother-in-law rebels. in February. rule, fighting between rebels and expected in Moscow on Tuesday
Abdullah al-Senussi. On the diplomatic front, Italian Libyan officials have already government forces on several and Russia hoped to host Libyan
In the uprising, civilians were Foreign Minister Franco Frattini denounced the ICC prosecutor's fronts has come to a near- rebel envoys soon.
attacked at home, protests were said the United Nations was action, saying the court is a standstill and Gaddafi is refusing NATO warplanes, acting under a
s u p p r e s s e d u s i n g l i v e working on the removal of creation of the West for to bow to efforts to force him U.N. mandate to protect civilians,
ammunition, heavy artillery was Gaddafi to exile to make way for prosecuting African leaders. from power. have stopped government troops
used against funeral processions a new government and a Libyan Rebels welcomed the prosecutor's DIPLOMATS SEARCH FOR advancing on rebel strongholds
and snipers deployed to kill government delegation was move. SOLUTION but the collapse of Gaddafi's rule,
people leaving mosques after expected in Moscow on Tuesday. "We have been impatiently An inconclusive outcome to the which many Western
prayers, the prosecutor said. Libyan officials have denied waiting for such a decision. It is civil war is likely to limit Libyan
"We have strong evidence, so killing civilians, saying instead an important decision," said oil exports, keeping world prices ICC page 21
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Ghost Towns: Louisiana Residents Abandon
Homes
(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:25:18 AM
KROTZ SPRINGS, La. –
KROTZ SPRINGS, La. -- Renee
Ledoux cried when the National
Guard and sheriff's deputies
showed up at her front door and
warned her she needed to get out
to avoid water gushing from the
Mississippi River after a floodgate
was opened for the first time in
four decades.
But by the 5 p.m. deadline
Sunday, the 44-year-old Ledoux
and her boyfriend Billy Hanchett
decided to ride it out one more
night on air mattresses inside the
empty home in Krotz Springs.
They have a camper they plan to
stay in on a friend's property
outside the flood zone.
"We really don't want to go,"
Hanchett said. Ledoux added that
she felt blessed that they had the
camper because a lot of others
have nowhere to go except
shelters.
Meanwhile, President Obama
planned to fly to Memphis, Tenn.,
on Monday to meet with families
affected when the river flooded
there as well as local officials,
first responders and volunteers.
Deputies all over Louisiana
Cajun country were warning
residents to head for higher
ground and most heeded it, even
in places where there hasn't been
so much as a trickle, hopeful that
the flooding engineered to protect
heavily populated New Orleans
and Baton Rouge would be
merciful to their way of life.
Days ago, many of the towns
known for their Cajun culture
bustled with activity as people
filled sandbags and cleared out
belongings. By Sunday, some
areas were virtually empty as the
water from the Mississippi River,
swollen by snowmelt and heavy
rains, slowly rolled across the
Atchafalaya River basin. It first
started to come, in small amounts,
into people's yards in Melville on
Sunday. But it still had yet to
move farther downstream.
The floodwaters could reach
depths of 20 feet in the coming
weeks, though levels were
nowhere close to that yet in the
towns about 50 miles west of
Baton Rouge.
About 11 miles north of Krotz
Springs in the town of Melville,
Mary Ryder, her fiance and her
fiance's father were loading up a
trailer with as many belongings as
they could fit to drive over the
levee to stay with relatives on the
other side of town. Ryder lives in
a mandatory evacuation area,
where water is starting to creep
into backyards. They worried
about what might happen if a
broader evacuation is ordered.
"They say we have to leave town.
We have nowhere to go," she
said. "What are we going to do? I
have no idea. We need help up
here."
The spillway's opening diverted
water from the two major
Louisiana cities -- along with
chemical plants and oil refineries
along the Mississippi's lower
reaches -- easing pressure on the
levees there in the hope of
avoiding potentially catastrophic
floods.
That choice angers John Muse,
who drove from Lafayette to
Melville to help his 86-year-old
father-in-law Clovis Cole move
his belongs. He said officials
seem to be paying more attention
to the concerns of Baton Rouge
and New Orleans than people who
live in the basin.
"They hurt a lot of feelings by
putting that water in here like they
did," he said. "What's happening
here, I'll tell ya, it's not fair."
In Butte LaRose, some 50 miles
downstream from where the
Morganza spillway was opened,
Chalmers Wheat, 54, was among
the few left -- and even he was
headed for his father's home in
Baton Rouge outside the flood
zone. He and his twin brother,
Chandler, were making a few
final preparations to protect his
home with plastic lining and
sandbags.
"It's almost like a ghost town,"
said Wheat.
It will be at least a week before
the Mississippi River crest arrives
at the Morganza spillway, where
officials opened two massive
gates on Saturday and another two
Sunday. There are 125 in all. The
Mississippi has broken river-level
records that had held since the
1920s in some places.
The Army Corps of Engineers
has taken drastic steps to prevent
flooding. Engineers blew up a
levee in Missouri -- inundating an
estimated 200 square miles of
farmland and damaging or
destroying about 100 homes -- to
take the pressure off floodwalls
protecting the town of Cairo, Ill.,
population 2,800.
The Morganza flooding is more
controlled, however, and residents
are warned each year that the
spillway could be opened. A
spillway at the 7,000-foot Bonnet
Carre structure in Louisiana also
has been opened.
Just outside Krotz Springs, 23-
year-old Jake Nolan said National
Guard troops knocked on the door
of his home in a subdivision to
tell his mother of the evacuation
order. He said they advised her to
have white towels and have
access to the roof if they planned
to ride it out -- presumably in case
of a rescue -- though that didn't
appear to be part of any official
instructions. And besides, he
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didn't need an order to leave with
his wife and three children.
"I don't want to be stuck here if
the water does get bad," said
Nolan, who planned to stay with a
sister in Port Barre.
It seemed animals didn't want to
be stuck anywhere: Deer, hogs
and rabbits have started running
from the water flowing near the
floodgates, said Lt. Col. Joey
Broussard of the Louisiana
Department of Wildlife and
Fisheries. An electronic sign on
Interstate 10 warned of a possible
animal exodus: "Wildlife crossing
possible. Use caution," it read.
Despite the mandatory
evacuation order, Krotz Springs
town clerk Suzanne Bellau said it
was unlikely the sheriff's office
would force people to leave. For
most, the worst part was
wondering what may happen.
National Guardsmen were
building a second levee to bolster
protection for the town.
"It's the unknown, that's the
problem," Bellau said. "Is it going
to come into their homes or not?
And the people who are leaving,
what are they coming back to?"
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18 News Wire/
Nasdaq, ICE withdraw NYSE bid, cite
regulators
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:17:08 AM
A NASDAQ screen above Times
Square in New York, in a file
photo.
Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson
By Phil Wahba and Paritosh
Bansal
NEW YORK| Mon May 16, 2011
11:17am EDT
(Reuters) - Nasdaq OMX Group
Inc and IntercontinentalExchange
withdrew their hostile $11.3
billion bid for rival NYSE
Euronext on Monday, citing
opposition from U.S. antitrust
regulators.
The withdrawal of the offer
removes a major hurdle to NYSE
Euronext's plans to sell itself to
Deutsche Boerse AG for $9.9
billion.
The deal with Deutsche Boerse
must still win regulatory and
shareholder approval in Europe
and the United States, but
investors said the odds of the
merger going through now had
improved substantially.
"To me, it's a clear signal that
Deutsche Boerse's offer will go
ahead," said fund manager
Juergen Meyer of SEB Asset
Management, which owns
Deutsche Boerse shares. "That's
what I'm expecting, actually."
In a statement, the U.S. Justice
Department said that if the
Nasdaq-ICE bid had not been
abandoned, it would have filed a
lawsuit to stop it.
NYSE shares fell 10.4 percent
while Deutsche Boerse rose 4.1
percent after news of the Nasdaq-
ICE decision. NYSE shares were
trading at $36.65, closer to the
implied $37.79 per share price in
the Deutsche Boerse deal.
Nasdaq was up 1 percent and ICE
was up 5.8 percent.
The withdrawal of the Nasdaq-
ICE bid leaves Nasdaq searching
for its next move. It could look at
deals with other exchanges such
as Singapore Exchange or London
Stock Exchange Group.
"They need to continue to run a
strong operation. They also need
to keep their eyes on the horizon
for any strategic opportunities."
said Keith Wirtz, chief investment
officer at Fifth Third Asset
Management, which has $18
billion in assets and owns more
than 60,000 Nasdaq shares.
Nasdaq needs to pursue deals that
would provide growth, including
in Asian markets and derivatives
products, Wirtz said.
"They need to make sure they
have their capital war chest
prepared," he added.
In a statement, Nasdaq CEO Bob
Greifeld said his company was
"surprised and disappointed" with
the decision by U.S. Justice
Department antitrust regulators.
Greifeld said it became clear that
regulators would not give the go-
ahead for a deal despite Nasdaq
and ICE offering a variety of
remedies to address antitrust
concerns.
Combining Nasdaq and the
NYSE would have brought
together the top two U.S. stock
exchanges, creating a virtual
monopoly on listings and
dominance in trading U.S. cash
equities and options.
The Justice Department, in its
statement, said, "The acquisition
would have substantially
eliminated competition for
corporate stock listing services,
opening and closing stock auction
services, off-exchange stock trade
reporting services, and real-time
proprietary equity data products."
Other deals struck in the recent
global exchanges consolidation
frenzy have also run into trouble
over national-interest or
regulatory concerns.
Singapore Exchange last month
had to abandon its deal with
Australia's main exchange after it
was rejected on national-interest
grounds.
More recently, LSE's bid to buy
TMX Group hit rough waters
after a group of Canadian banks
and pension funds came up with a
counter proposal for the Ontario-
based exchange operator, touting
the benefits of such a deal to
Canada.
"Much like national airlines and
other things that are sovereign by
nature, there is a lot of politics
involved in these exchanges,"
Wirtz said.
NYSE-D.BOERSE DEAL
Nasdaq and ICE first offered to
buy the New York Stock
Exchange's parent on April 1,
seeking to thwart NYSE
Euronext's friendly deal with
Deutsche Boerse, announced in
February.
NYSE Chief Executive Duncan
Niederauer refused to talk to
Nasdaq and ICE about their offer,
but some NYSE shareholders
thought he should.
Investors are now likely to back
the NYSE board's decision.
"I doubt that we will see the
shareholders demand an elevation.
I think they will rely on the advice
of the board at this stage," said
Wirtz, whose firm also owns more
than 160,000 NYSE shares.
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The Nasdaq-ICE offer would
have split NYSE Euronext in two:
Nasdaq would have acquired
NYSE's equities and equities
options business, and ICE would
have bought its London-based
futures unit, Liffe.
NYSE's board twice rejected the
unsolicited offer, and Nasdaq said
earlier this month that it and ICE
would go directly to NYSE
shareholders with a hostile bid.
NYSE acknowledged the
withdrawal of the Nasdaq-ICE
proposal on Monday.
Deutsche Boerse also
acknowledged Nasdaq's decision
and said it would "continue with
the NYSE Euronext deal process."
(Additional reporting by Edward
Taylor and Christoph Steitz in
Frankfurt; Editing by Lisa Von
Ahn and John Wallace)
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Stormy End for Luxury Steamer
'YONGALA'
(Epoch Times | All headlines)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 7:21:47 AM
LUXURY Australian coastal
passenger/cargo ship Yongala in
her heyday before that ill-fated
night on March 23 1911.
(Yongala Dive)
When he went in search of a cab
in the days before radio taxis,
David Coyne went to the rank
near his local pub at Mackay in
Queensland, and to his delight
found not only a cab—but one
that was being driven by a seldom
-seen old mate.
The two men had a drink in the
pub to celebrate the encounter,
then headed back to the Coyne
home to pick up the family and
their luggage, and on to a steamer
they were to join that afternoon
for a voyage up the coast to
Townsville.
And if David Coyne had thought
his brush with the pub had
brought down the wrath of Mrs
Coyne, it was nothing compared
with what awaited him upon their
arrival at the wharf—their ship,
the SS Yongala was fast
disappearing into the distance.
But while that drink may have
cost them their trip aboard the
luxury steamer, it had saved the
family their lives: the Yongala
that was now sailing over the
horizon was unknowingly heading
into a cyclone that would send her
News Wire/ 19
to the bottom of the sea within Queensland absolved Captain
hours, with the loss of all 122 Knight of any responsibility and
passengers and crew. the disappearance remained a
Less fortunate than David Coyne mystery…and even though
and his family was John Australia’s greatest coastal
Campbell, a Brisbane shipping disaster, it could have
businessman who several days been much worse: while she
before, had arrived just as foundered with the loss of 49
Yongala was about to leave passengers and 73 crew, at full
Brisbane for Mackay. After at capacity Yongala had berths for
first being denied boarding with as many as five times that number
his newly-bought thoroughbred of passengers.
racehorse named Moonshine, Mr Thirty-six years later in 1947, an
Campbell used his business Australian Navy hydrographic
influence to not only get aboard, survey ship, HMAS Lachlan
but to be allocated a First Class investigated “an obstruction”
Saloon Cabin. It would be his last reported by a Navy minesweeper
exertion of business power. on the seabed between Mackay
And for years a Miss Annie and Townsville. The Lachlan used
the year. on the high seas between England
Murray would tell how she’d been anti-submarine equipment and
Ironically that last trip was her and Australia.
visiting Brisbane from her home echo sounders, noted that the
99th in Australia, and her Master, Missing
in Townsville, and at the last obstruction “was presumed to be
Captain William Knight, and And when three other ships
minute had cancelled her return the SS Yongala”, then proceeded
owners, the Adelaide Steamship arrived late into Townsville a few
voyage home on Yongala because on its way with the
Company, were planning suitable days later after taking shelter from
she was having such a great time Navy—inexplicably—doing
Champagne celebrations for their the cyclone they’d been warned
in the Big City ... a great time that nothing to confirm the finding
passengers when she sailed her about before leaving Mackay (and
saved her her life. Epitome of was Yongala and so solve the
100th voyage from Cairns back to after Yongala had sailed), the
Luxury mystery of the missing steamer
Melbourne the following week. luxury steamer and all aboard
POSTCARDS such as these were and her 122 lost souls.
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GHOST
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from Illinois to Louisiana, face

severe flooding. Emergency
workers try to protect small

What's It Costing YOU?

(FOXNews.com) Pakistan, polls show the country aid Pakistan makes the U.S. look would be a great thing to fund,
towns, farms and urban areas.
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basic interests and national calculator
other nations is wasted and Now with the recent discovery security interests of our own While foreign aid is less than 2 Topple Gadafi.
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receive the money frankly don’t s o m e U . S . l a w m a k e r s a r e Yet there are others who say the Pakistan gets less than Israel&
like the United States. questioning why we continue to U.S. should continue its aid to Egypt, here's another way to look
The latest country under scrutiny support the nation that may have Pakistan. They believe cutting at the $3 billion.
is Pakistan. h a r b o r i n g t h e m o s t w a n t e d development aid would have an Excluding Social Security and
More than $20 billion has been t e r r o r i s t . even more negative effect. Medicare, a married couple
given to Pakistan since Sept. 11, C o n g r e s s m a n D a n a “I think it's really crucial that we earning $50,000 pays $260 a year
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on Terror for fiscal year 2012. to cut off aid completely. Winthrop, Director of the Center the aid to Pakistan. Become The IBM
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assistance. bin Laden.” economic assistance, some crucial information
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STRAUSS-KAHN
continued from page 15
is likely to seek a second term at
the election next April.
France's government as well as
Strauss-Kahn's allies and rivals
called for caution and respect for
the presumption of innocence. But
unless the case against him
collapses rapidly, it is hard to see
how he could enter the Socialist
primary, for which the deadline
for candidates to declare is July
13.
That leaves former party leader
Francois Hollande and 2007
presidential candidate Segolene
Royal as the only declared
Socialist contenders, but Aubry or
former Prime Minister Laurent
Fabius might join the race if
Strauss-Kahn is out.
French voters are famously
tolerant of political leaders'
extramarital affairs, but the
allegations against Strauss-Kahn
are entirely different, and much
more serious.
The charges were a huge
embarrassment for an institution
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that oversees the world economy
and has authorized hundreds of
billions of dollars of loans to
troubled countries.
The IMF faces questions of its
own, because Strauss-Kahn's
character had been questioned
before. In 2008, he apologized for
"an error of judgment" after an
affair with a female IMF
economist who was his
subordinate.
The Fund's board warned him
against improper conduct, but
cleared him of harassment and
abuse of power and kept him in
his job. It will now face new
scrutiny over whether that
response was too weak, especially
as there have been persistent
rumors about Strauss-Kahn
making sexual advances to
women.
The left-leaning French daily
Liberation published comments it
said he had made at a private
lunch with reporters last month in
which he said the three most
the Azimuth SP-1 that looked like
an old WWI tank. That watch was
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difficult hurdles for his
presidential bid would be "money,
women and my Jewishness".
(Additional reporting by Michelle
Nichols, Lesley Wroughton,
Noeleen Walder, Christine
Kearney, Andrew Longstreth,
Brian Love, Catherine Bremer,
John Irish, Gernot Heller, Evren
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governments seek, has not
materialized.
NATO HITS TRIPOLI,
ZAWIYAH
State-run television in Libya
reported on Monday that there
were NATO strikes on Tripoli, the
town of Zawiyah about 50 km (30
miles) west of the capital, the
western Tripoli suburb of Tajoura,
and on the town of Zuara, 120 km
(80 miles) west of Tripoli.
In each case, according to
television, strikes hit military and
civilian targets and caused
"material and human losses."
A rebel spokesman in the town of
Zintan, in the Western mountains
region south-west of Tripoli, told
Reuters by telephone that NATO
had been hitting government
weapons depots about 30 km (20
miles) from the town.
"The strikes started at 2:00 a.m.
and are still going on. They are
sporadic. I'm hearing loud
explosions," said the spokesman,
called Abdulrahman.
After a series of air strikes on his
Bab al-Aziziyah compound in
Tripoli, Gaddafi taunted the
Western military alliance, saying
in an audio recording that he was
in a place where NATO could not
reach him.
NATO is broadcasting its own
message to Gaddafi forces on
Libyan army radio frequencies,
telling them foreign mercenaries
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are raping the Libyan people and
urging them to give up.
"Nobody has the right to make the
lives of their people a living hell,"
says the broadcast, heard by
Reuters on a Libyan army radio
taken by rebels in the Western
Mountains.
"Stop fighting against your own
people," it continues, saying that
the Libyan leadership has lost
control and recruited non-Libyan
mercenaries "and allowed them to
rape your people."
(Reporting by Hamid Ould
Ahmed in Algiers, Tarek Amara
and Sylvia Westall in Tunisia,
Mariam Karouny in Beirut and
Silvia Aloisi in Rome, Aaron
Gray-Block in The Hague, Matt
Falloon, Peter Apps and Adrian
Croft in London, James
Mackenzie in Rome, David
Brunnstrom; Writing by Peter
Millership; Editing by Giles
Elgood)
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NASA Space Shuttle Launch:
Endeavour to Make Final Trip
(Epoch Times | All headlines)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 9:25:09 AM
By Ram Srinivasan
Epoch Times Staff Created: May
16, 2011 Last Updated: May 16,
2011
NASA space shuttle Endeavour
on Launch Pad 39A at the
Kennedy Space Center in Florida
(NASA/Troy Cryder) NASA's
space shuttle Endeavour blasted
off into the skies early Monday
morning on its final voyage to
outer space.
The voyage, which is being
documented live on NASA's
website, www.nasa.gov, and on
NASA TV. Space shuttle
Endeavour launched from Launch
Pad 39A in Kennedy Space
Center in Florida at 8:56 a.m.
EDT, according to NASA's
website.
The crew members who are part
of the NASA space shuttle's final
voyage to space are: Commander
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Gingrich Rips Own Party
for 'Right Wing' Health
Plan
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AP
In this image released May 15 by
NBC News, former House
Speaker Newt Gingrich is
interviewed on NBC's "Meet the
Press" in Washington.
White House hopeful Newt
Gingrich called the House
Republican plan for
Medicare"right-wing social
engineering," injecting a
discordant GOP voice into the
party's efforts to reshape both
entitlements and the broader
budget debate.
In the same interview Sunday, on
NBC's " Meet the Press," Mr.
Gingrich backed a requirement
that all Americans buy health
insurance, complicating a
Republican line of attack on
President Barack Obama's health
law.
The former House speaker's
decision to stick with his previous
support for an individual mandate
comes days after former
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney
defended the health revamp he
championed as governor, which
includes a mandate.
The moves suggest the
Republican primary contest,
which will include both men,
could feature a robust debate on
health care, with GOP candidates
challenging the Democratic law
while defending their own
variations.
Later Sunday, in an interview
with the Wall Street Journal, he
also acknowledged that many
Republicans are uncomfortable
with requiring insurance coverage
but challenged them to offer an
alternative solution. "Most
Republican voters agree with the
principle that people have some
responsibility to pay for their
costs," he said.
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The New Rules: Four Options for

Redefining the Long War
(World Politics Review: Articles) Tactically speaking, the network's Pakistan, even as we are loath to other regional players are far why not let them succeed and
Submitted at 5/16/2011 2:14:00 AM center of gravity sits today in admit it to ourselves. But with the more easily incentivized to pick shift some of this alleged
Yemen with al-Qaida in the help of the hefty intelligence haul up any slack we create by "imperial" burden to the cash-rich
There is a profound sense of Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). from bin Laden's compound, we refocusing on the Middle East. A Chinese? Honestly, they can't do
completion to be found in Given the instability and should strike at additional targets reasonably democratic Egypt, any worse than we have. By
America's elimination of Osama proliferation risks of Libya's civil while the iron remains hot -- combined with rising Iraq and that ditching Afghanistan-Pakistan, we
bin Laden, and the circumstances war, we must also consider al- whatever the consequences. We emerging-market wunderkind not only tie down China a bit, but
surrounding his death certainly fit Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb can't draw down too fast in Turkey, gives the region an we avail ourselves of India and
this frontier nation's historical (AQIM) to be of second-order Afghanistan anyway, so President entirely new cast. Think of the even give ourselves more wiggle
habit of mounting major military i m p o r t a n c e . S t a y i n g i n Barack Obama's instinctive past three decades and our room with Iran as it goes nuclear.
operations to capture or kill super- Afghanistan keeps us in bed with preference for the aggressive use persistent frustrations with That's a win all around, and given
empowered bad actors. Operation Pakistan, which means continuing of drones, special operations Palestine-Israel, Saudi Arabia and our tight finances and need for
Geronimo, like most notable U.S. to provide massive military aid to hunters, CIA paramilitary teams Iran. Isn't it time to bet on some internal renewal, it's a frugal
overseas interventions of the past the closest thing China has as a and the like is right on the mark. new ponies? Ten years from now, strategy to boot. We can sell arms,
quarter-century, boiled down to military ally. If we're so worried If Obama's talk of sticking with Turkey will be that much more like we're already doing,
eliminating the one man we about China's growing might, this Pakistan is just cover for such a powerful, while Iraq should be throughout both the Persian Gulf
absolutely felt we needed to get to path seems downright goofy. maximal push, then fine. But if closing in on Saudi Arabia in and East Asia to hedge against
declare victory. Now we have the Afghanistan's run as the "good he's serious about lashing U.S. terms of oil production, and Egypt Iran and China, respectively,
opportunity to redefine this "long war" is officially over. strategic interests to this failed could be doing a decent imitation while playing offshore balancer
war" to America's most Press on maximally -- in and fake state, then we've just of post-Sukarno Indonesia. That across Asia's southern rim, where,
immediate advantage. I spot four Pakistan. Over time, this would bought ourselves a West Asian trio of stable democracies could as Robert Kaplan cogently argues,
basic options, each with their own require only a small-footprint version of North Korea. be a bulwark against the the real "great game" is about to
attractions and distractions. presence in Afghanistan to Pivot toward the Arab Spring. If inevitable nuclear brinkmanship be played by twin risers India and
Declare victory and go home. facilitate cross-border strikes that not for America's obsession with between Israel and Iran once the China. That will be a marathon,
This is what the bulk of the will eventually get us kicked out nuclear weapons, there would be latter gets the bomb -- with the not a sprint, to a post-2030
American public wants, and that of Pakistan anyway. The aid price virtually no reason for us to care Saudis likely joining in. You want strategic space in which al-Qaida
desire shouldn't be casually tag Kabul will demand in return about Pakistan. Indeed, for a host a nuclear nightmare to get ready -- and most likely Pakistan -- will
dismissed as naïve. After all, we for allowing us to maintain bases of reasons too obvious to list, it for? It's in the Middle East, not be a distant memory.
went to Afghanistan to dismember in Afghanistan for this purpose would make much more sense for South Asia. The four options fit together like
al-Qaida's central leadership cell has to be less than the $20 billion us to side with rising India than Pivot toward rising China. The a puzzle: de-emphasize
there, and by all accounts, we've we've doled out to Pakistan since sinking Pakistan. Meanwhile, latest National Military Strategy Afghanistan-Pakistan and let
basically accomplished that Sept. 11, the vast majority of Egypt's future path will determine all but said we should forget the China start paying its way more;
mission. Al-Qaida's headquarters which has been diverted to much of what happens in the Arab Middle East and focus future go more virtual, light and offshore
staff is in permanent, off-the-grid p u r p o s e s o t h e r t h a n t h o s e world moving forward. We are strategic attention on East Asia in general; pay close attention to
hiding -- overwhelmingly in intended. Pakistan, for example, is witnessing the rebirth of a and rising China. If that is the Egypt while prepping the Middle
Pakistan. It has also been reduced on the verge of fielding tactical civilizational giant, and if we are case, why not burden China with East for the near-fireworks to
to providing leadership that is nuclear weapons vis-à-vis India, going to spend nation-building both Afghanistan and Pakistan? come; and build a real strategic
m o r e i n s p i r a t i o n a l t h a n paid for by us! We are heading funds, it should be there, not in The Pakistanis are trying to sell
o p e r a t i o n a l i n c h a r a c t e r . toward eventual containment of Afghanistan-Pakistan, where that deal right now in Kabul, so NEW page 28
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New Opening for India in Afghanistan?
(World Politics Review: Articles)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 2:53:00 AM
Indian Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh landed in Kabul
last week amid renewed interest
in India's trajectory in
Afghanistan following the death
of Osama bin Laden. Singh, in
Afghanistan after a six-year
absence, announced a fresh
commitment of $500 million for
Afghanistan's development, over
and above the $1.5 billion in aid
India has already allocated. New
Delhi and Kabul agreed that the
two neighbors' "strategic
partnership" will be implemented
under the framework of a
partnership council to be headed
by the countries' foreign
ministers. It will entail
cooperation in security, law
enforcement and justice, including
an enhanced focus on cooperation
in the fight against international
terrorism, organized crime, illegal
narcotics trafficking and money
laundering.
In a rare honor, Singh addressed
a joint session of the Afghan
Parliament, underscoring Indo-
Afghan unity in fighting
extremism. Describing bin
Laden's death as a "unique
moment," Singh tried to use
India's political capital to
reinforce New Delhi's centrality in
the region's evolving strategic
realities. Only weeks ago, the
Pakistani military was urging
Kabul to dump the U.S. and look
instead to Pakistan and its ally
China for help in striking a peace
deal with the Taliban and
rebuilding the economy. Just last
month, Kabul and Islamabad
announced the establishment of a
two-tier joint commission that
gave the Pakistani military a
formal role in reconciliation talks
between Kabul and Pakistan-
based insurgents.
In contrast, India's options in
Afghanistan have shrunk over the
past few years, despite its success
at winning the hearts and minds of
ordinary Afghans. The fault lies
entirely with New Delhi. By
failing to craft its own narrative
on Afghanistan and Pakistan
following the arrival of U.S.
troops in the aftermath of Sept.
11, New Delhi has allowed the
West, and increasingly Pakistan,
to dictate the contours of Indian
policy towards the region.
Two major strands can be
discerned in the Indian debate
over Afghanistan. One side argues
that, despite recent setbacks, India
should continue to rely on the
U.S. to secure its interests in
Afghanistan and Pakistan. They
suggest that there is a
fundamental convergence
between India and the Obama
administration, both of whom
now view Pakistan as the source
of Afghanistan's insecurity and
believe that the world must act
together to cure Islamabad's
political malaise.
In recognizing that the
borderlands between Pakistan and
Afghanistan constitute the
greatest threat to regional peace
and security, in arguing that
Islamabad is part of the problem
rather than the solution, and in
asking India to join in the effort to
manage the Afghanistan-Pakistan
region, the U.S. has made
significant departures from its
traditional posture toward South
Asia. India, therefore, would be
best served by coordinating its
counterterror strategy with the
U.S and should acknowledge the
linkage between Pakistan's eastern
and western borders. In this view,
India should try to address
Pakistan's fears of Indian
meddling in Afghanistan --
unfounded as they may be -- and
should not hesitate to reach out to
the Pakistani army.
The other side in this debate has
grown impatient with India's
continued reliance on the U.S. to
pull its chestnuts out of the fire.
According to this argument, a
fundamental disconnect has
emerged between U.S. and Indian
interests in Afghanistan and
Pakistan. The Obama
administration has systematically
ignored Indian interests in crafting
its regional priorities. While
actively discouraging India from
assuming a higher profile in
Afghanistan for fear of offending
Pakistan, the U.S. has failed to
persuade Pakistan to take Indian
concerns more seriously. Anxious
for some kind of victory in
Afghanistan, the West has
decided to court the "good"
Taliban with Pakistan's help. This
has underlined Islamabad's
centrality in the unfolding
strategic dynamic in the region,
much to India's discomfort. By
pursuing a strategy that gives
Pakistan the leading role in
Afghanistan's state structures, the
West is only sowing the seeds for
future regional turmoil.
Washington may have no vital
interest in who actually governs in
Kabul, so long as Afghan territory
is not used to launch attacks on
U.S. soil. But New Delhi does, as
the Taliban, good or bad, are
fundamentally opposed to India.
Abandoning the goals of a
functioning Afghan state and a
moderate Pakistan will increase
the pressure on Indian security.
India's influence in Afghanistan
rose significantly in the
immediate aftermath of Sept. 11,
as the policies that Washington
demanded of Islamabad were ones
that India had long wanted.
Moreover, India emerged as a
major economic actor in
Afghanistan, trying to bolster
Afghan state capacity in various
ways. But by refusing to use hard
power and forcefully assert its
profile, India quickly made itself
irrelevant as the realities on the
ground changed and as New Delhi
and Washington's strategic
interests diverged. The Obama
administration, intent on exiting
Afghanistan, has signaled to
India's adversaries that they can
shape the post-American
landscape to serve their own ends.
In short, India lost the confidence
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of its allies in Afghanistan. With
India unwilling to stand up for its
own interests, few saw the benefit
of aligning with India. India's
presence -- formidable during the
George W. Bush period -- started
weakening with the emergence of
an Obama administration that was
deepening its security dependence
on Pakistan in the hope of
achieving a rapid success.
Moreover, Pakistan's weak
democracy and powerful military
and intelligence apparatus has
failed to get a grip on terrorism, a
problem that now threatens to
overwhelm the Pakistani state
itself. The Pakistani army's
inflexible, India-centric security
strategy makes rapprochement
with India a nonstarter. Pakistani
army chief Gen. Ashfaq Kayani
has made it clear that he wants to
call the shots in Kabul. He
remains wedded to the notion of
"strategic depth" -- that is, to
making Afghanistan the kind of
proprietary hinterland for
Pakistan, free of Indian and other
outside influence, that it was from
1992-2001.
Bin Laden's death has once again
given India a new opportunity in
Afghanistan. If Singh's visit is any
indication, New Delhi is intent on
not letting it go to waste.
Harsh V. Pant teaches at King's
College London in the
Department of Defense Studies.
He is also an associate with the
King's Centre for Science and
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Will India Continue to Rise Peacefully?

(World Politics Review: Articles) sign of an egalitarian world in the liberation of Bangladesh, India India's current strategy is to brand itself as the symbol of a
Submitted at 5/16/2011 2:21:00 AM making. The absence of an did not press for a solution to the bandwagon with other liberal muscular -- Hindu -- India. The
official narrative on India's global Kashmir problem. China, democracies to ensure its ascent. "maximalists," as eminent Indian
The 21st century's great shift of trajectory suggests that even New however, is extremely assertive The history of international scholar Kanti Bajpayee calls
power from West to East is not Delhi's leadership believes that on issues it considers vital to its politics tells us, though, that rising them, believe in an open-ended
limited to China alone. The Asian India's rise will be inherently sovereignty. Tibet, Xinjiang, states often turn aggressive. nuclear arsenal to deter the U.S.,
century also belongs to India. peaceful. Taiwan, Diaoyu and the South Wilhelmine Germany and as well as China and Pakistan.
Already the world's fourth-largest Why is a rising India not China Sea are manifestations of contemporary China fit this bill. If The recent rise of Hindu
economy, India has continued to considered a threat when a China's acute sovereign anxieties. India's rise continues, delusions of extremism and nationalism
grow swiftly even after the growing China is? The threat of the use of force if power may lead it to be assertive threatens the secular and
financial crisis, expanding at 8-9 First, India is a democracy, disputes are not solved amicably in its neighborhood and around democratic fabric of the Indian
percent annually. With more than whereas China is an authoritarian has been a constant in China's the Indian Ocean. Pakistan's state, as illustrated by the 2001
60 percent of its population s t a t e . I n d i a ' s d e m o c r a t i c narrative. From the time of apprehension toward India's Godhra riots and killings of
younger than 35, it possesses the credentials engender an extremely Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first continuous growth is not without minority Muslims in Gujarat state.
world's most potent demographic positive image around the world, prime minister, New Delhi has reason, and other smaller South Pakistan and China have been the
dividend. Its recent affluence has e s p e c i a l l y a m o n g l i b e r a l always relegated force to the Asian countries are courting primary targets of India's right-
also increased India's appetite for democracies -- plainly visible in backdrop. China to counterbalance India. In wing nationalists, but the U.S. has
military power. India's annual the recent bonhomie between the However, the influence of India's fact, the narrative of rising power also received flak for its terror
defense expenditure stands at $30 U.S. and India. Democracy is democratic dividend should not be is slowly percolating in New policies and for cajoling China at
billion today, or 2 percent of India's most important soft power exaggerated. Two factors can Delhi as it pursues a colossal India's expense. If India's
global defense spending, making resource. China's opaque political complicate India's peaceful rise. military buildup. Remarks by the economy stagnates or religious
it the world's biggest importer of system, on the other hand, acts as First is the role of increasing chief of the Indian army in the polarization accelerates, the
arms. From 2006-2010, India a threat multiplier. power capabilities. India is still aftermath of Osama bin Laden's increasing hold of right-wing
accounted for 9 percent of the Second, whereas the Indian not powerful enough to be a death, indicating that India has the Hindu fundamentalists on
global arms trade. After the Indo- government's legitimacy rests on serious threat to other dominant capability to undertake U.S.-like domestic politics may result in an
U.S. civilian nuclear agreement, the free will of its people, China powers. Whereas China has surgical strikes in Pakistan, are a overtly hostile foreign policy.
India stands as a de facto nuclear derives its state authority from achieved a degree of relative case in point. As India's power To sustain its peaceful rise, India
weapons state, and almost all constant policing of its citizenry autonomy in global affairs, India's grows, so will its appetite for needs to shield itself from the ill
Security Council veto holders and its ability to satisfy their growth trajectory is dependent on power projection -- and other effects of delusional power and
have accepted India's candidacy growing material demands. Many other states. Because India's states' anxieties. crude nationalism. The time has
for a permanent seat on the fear that Beijing would resort to a power capabilities are still Second, when power and come for a rising India to think
council. belligerent, hypernationalist underdeveloped -- at least nationalism collide, the results are thoroughly about its role in the
Compared to that of China, few foreign policy if it lost its compared to China's -- few states often explosive. India's future global order and the
feel threatened by India's rise. The domestic credibility, a tendency consider it a serious threat. By the democracy does not shield it from peaceful mechanisms it must
China-threat syndrome defines the evident in China's ubiquitous anti- same logic, Indian decision- deleterious nationalism. India's employ to achieve its desired
new geopolitical reality. In fact, Japan protests. makers also desist from openly nuclear weapons tests are an apt ends.
the rhetoric of China's avowedly Finally, as Stephen Cohen and challenging the current world example. Although the 1974 Yogesh Joshi is a graduate
peaceful rise suggests Beijing is Sunil Dasgupta argue in their order, even when their worldview nuclear test aimed primarily to student at Jawaharlal Nehru
wary of the negative fallout from book " Arming Without Aiming," is at odds with the West's, as bail out an incompetent and University, New Delhi, and a
perceptions of a hostile China. India practices a policy of evident in the impasse on Doha corrupt government by fomenting CSIS-Pacific Forum Young
India's rise, in contrast, has been strategic restraint on security Development Round and India's nuclear nationalism, the 1998 Leader.
w e l c o m e d a s a n e c e s s a r y matters. Even after a complete criticism of interventions in the tests were motivated by the
counterweight to China and as a victory over Pakistan during the Middle East. Bhartiya Janta Party's desire to WILL page 28
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relationship with India. Once we
get past the brinkmanship period
with Iran, and once China starts
hitting some of those inevitable
developmental walls, we work on
forging more realistic
relationships with each.
I'm not optimistic regarding such
a path, especially given President
Obama's fixation on nuclear
proliferation. Instead, I expect he
will tie America's fate to
Pakistan's, replacing unsuccessful
nation building in Afghanistan
with unsuccessful nation building
in Pakistan -- one of the worst
strategic trades imaginable.
Pakistani Chief of Staff Gen.
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani gives every
indication of wanting to continue
milking the U.S. for military aid
while resisting the White House's
demand that Islamabad finally
root out the country's large
network of extremist militants.
This is the national security
WILL
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Photo: Indian Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh and Chinese
President Hu Jintao at the BRIC
summit, June 2009,
Yekaterinburg, Russia (photo by
the Web site of the president of
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emotional blackmail.
The Obama administration
should think long and hard before
it chooses, without any genuine
national debate, to assume
responsibility for Pakistan's
future. Iraq cost the U.S. plenty,
but it was a country worth
recasting, especially now that the
Arab Spring has come along.
Afghanistan, which has cost us
less, is not worth recasting-- even
if that were possible. Pakistan,
though worth recasting, is
arguably no more subject to such
a project than Afghanistan, and
the effort would cost a good deal
more. A truly frugal superpower,
one that's concerned about its
future, would admit that and
recognize the wisdom of a
containment situation.
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analyst at Wikistrat and a
contributing editor for Esquire
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current research is focused on
Asia-Pacific security and defense
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StackMob: Backend Services Platform for

Mobile Gets More Funding, More Features
(+Invites)
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) in their applications. Currently, StackMob, the company said it not sure whether it will support
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:10:50 AM StackMob offers things like would soon be offering OS 7, QNX or both - again, it will
messaging, analytics, social monetization services, but at the listen to its developers in making
StackMob, a startup providing integration (soon) and, one of the moment, the company has paused this decision. Invites!
backend services for mobile most popular features, API development in that area. Because Update: Having issues with URL,
applications, today announced it c r e a t i o n a n d m a n a g e m e n t . so much is changing with regard in touch with company to resolve.
has closed a $7.5 million round of A c c o r d i n g t o A m e l l , i t s to Apple's rules, StackMob is Please check back shortly.
funding led by Trinity Ventures. developers can't believe how fast going to wait until "the dust Update 2: LINK WORKS
The service, in private beta since the API creation tool is, even settles" before it readdresses this AGAIN!
M a r c h , h a s s e e n o v e r 2 0 0 asking, "it can't be that easy, what area. Although not mentioned ReadWriteMobile readers can get
applications created using its am I missing?" specifically, the recent lawsuit priority access to the StackMob
platform, and has a waiting list of StackMob's Roadmap: New threats related to the patents for in beta via this address: http://
developers interested in the Languages, Android Support & -app purchases are likely another www.stackmob.com/rww. If
private beta over 1,000 people More month or two, and will begin to holdup for StackMob.(For those you're at all interested in using
long. Now that StackMob has new support Android as well. Amell unaware, Lodsys, a holder of a StackMob, beta access is going to
Want to jump in line? You can funding, it will use the money to says demand for Android has patent for in-app purchases has be the only way in for some time -
grab one of 200 invites to invest in the creation of additional been huge with developers from sent out letters to iOS developers, StackMob doesn't plan to launch
StackMob's private beta below. services and features. One of the all over the world asking for it. He demanding they license the patent commercially for another 6-9
Sponsor newer features, due to arrive in estimates that Android support is from them. In case you're looking months.
When we first covered StackMob the next week or two, is the about 3 months out. for yet another example of how StackMob's funding round, led
in January 2011, we noted that support for sandboxes. Every As the service grows, it will patent trolls stifle by Trinity Ventures, also included
company co-founder Ty Amell developer will get a sandbox in introduce a freemium business innovation...well, there you go.) funding from StackMob’s existing
described the service as sort of a a d d i t i o n t o a p r o d u c t i o n model with tiered monthly On StackMob's long-term investors, Harrison Metal and
"Heroku for mobile," referring to environment, and when they're subscriptions, based on usage, the roadmap is adding support for Baseline Ventures. Dan
the way Heroku, a platform-as-a- ready, one click of a "deploy" number of backups, the customer HTML5 or BlackBerry. Both are Scholnick, General Partner at
service company, provides add- button will take a snapshot of the service level desired, the on the company's radar, but Trinity Ventures, has joined
ons to Ruby developers looking to s a n d b o x a n d m o v e i t i n t o redundancy wanted, etc. But StackMob isn't convinced Harrison Metal founder Michael
integrate additional functionality production. You can even change Amell says StackMob is in "no HTML5 is quite "there yet." Dearing on StackMob’s board of
into their apps. your API with a click of a button. rush" to start charging - the Developer feedback will help it directors, too. Discuss
StackMob works in a similar way StackMob will also focus on freemium pricing is still months determine what which platform
- developers can pick and choose a d d i n g s u p p o r t f o r m o r e away. will be added next. And if
what services they want to include languages, starting in the next When we first heard about StackMob does choose RIM, it's
30 Technology/ Culture/ Finance/
Twitter followers help recover
stolen MacBook
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Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:32:55 AM
And they said Twitter was just
another useless, self-aggrandizing
waste of finger-pressing.
So see what you make of this
tale, related by CBC, of a
Canadian who says his MacBook
was stolen last week in New
York.
Sean Power, who happens to be a
Web analyst and all round geekish
hero, suddenly remembered on
Thursday that he had installed
Prey tracking software and began
to wonder whether he might be
able to follow the alleged thief.
Then he had another thought:
perhaps he could tweet about this
situation.
The Ottawa man began like this:
"Shit! Twitter, help! Prey just
found my stolen (as of three days
ago) laptop. Here's the report. I
see the guy! http://awe.sm/
5J8gE."
His next tweet read: "I have a
picture and IP of the guy that has
my stolen laptop. What should I
do next? http://awe.sm/5J8gI."
Over the next several hours,
Power began to use the Prey
software not only to follow the
Equitable Life compensation payments to begin
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alleged thief, but also to take
photographs of him as he logged
into a Chase bank account, Gmail,
and Skype. Power even posted the
alleged thief's name.
Naturally, Power contacted the
police, too. In the meantime,
though, Power's Twitter followers
began to do what Twitter
followers do: they followed. No,
literally. Some of them began to
follow the alleged thief for real--
in the real world of New York.
The police, though, wouldn't
come out until Power filed a
report. So, with his Twitter
followers hot on the trail (Power
himself was back in Canada),
Power begged them not to do
anything silly, violent, or
untoward. He tweeted:
"Retribution is lame. Violence is
lame. I'm sure there's a peaceful
way of resolving this. That's the
only acceptable scenario."
Then, it seems one follower (who
was unknown personally to
Power) and someone else
appeared at the bar where Power
knew his MacBook to be.
Power tweeted about the pair:
"OK. There are two people
currently in place at the bar.
@nickreese and a non-twitterer."
Investors who lost money with
Equitable Life are to start
One of the pair--@nickreese,
who describes himself as a
strategic thinker and change
maker (don't we all?)--decided
that it would be fun to confront
the man.
When Power realized that one of
his Twitter followers had gone so
far as to place himself in potential
danger, Power was concerned.
"It was just stress when I realized
there were people who literally
could have been risking their lives
for a stupid piece of plastic," he
told CBC.
However unlikely, the operation
went smoothly, and @nickreese
even persuaded the man to talk to
Power on the phone. It must have
been an endearing conversation.
Whatever was said, the man
apparently gave the MacBook
back.
The way @nickreese sees it, he
was doing something entirely
normal (for a strategic thinker and
change maker). For he tweeted:
"Thank you for all the kind words.
In reality, I just helped out a
stranger in need. I hope others
would do the same for me. Would
you?"
There is the question. The
answer: some yes, some no.
receiving compensation next
month, the Government has
Power told CBC he won't be
pressing charges. Instead, before
disappearing to a farm for the
weekend, he tweeted: "I am
happily reunited with my laptop. I
slept so much last night that I
didn't even look inside the bag to
see what was in it!"
He also insisted on Twitter that
he has no connection to Prey and
that this is not some splendid
publicity caper.
Say what you will about Twitter,
but it does create connections that
previously would never have been
made--even if it's only to help
recover a stupid piece of plastic
from Cupertino. And Twitter
doesn't seem to hire PR
companies to say nasty things
about Google, either.
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Hand sanitizers
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Frequent use of hand sanitizers
can lead to a false positive result
on certain types of tests that
screen for alcohol use. That's
pretty bad news for health
professionals, who depend on
germ-killing sanitizers every day
and are tested routinely for
alcohol use.
“Anyone out there who is
required to abstain from alcohol
needs to be very cognizant about
alcohol that may be hidden in
products such as handwashing
gels, mouthwashes, hairsprays,
and cosmetics,” says Gary
Reisfield, an assistant professor of
psychiatry at the University of
Florida. “You need to be careful
not just what you put in your body
but what you put on your body.”
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Nokia Discontinues Ovi Brand,

Roadmaps Not Changed
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) rebranding through software content for Bing Maps" already.
Submitted at 5/16/2011 11:28:16 AM updates instead. consumers to see "Ovi" services This is due to the Nokia-owned
According to DeVard, "the on those devices, as the brand is subsidiary, Naveteq, a provider of
Nokia announced today it would reasons for this decision includes not as well-known as "Nokia" or GIS (geographic information
soon discontinue the use of the the fact that Nokia is a well- "Bing, for that matter." Will systems) data and electronic
"Ovi" brand, the name it has used known and highly-loved brand the Nokia's Windows Phone Devices maps. Over the years, Navteq has
for its services offerings since world over."
2007. The Ovi brand encompasses "Our mobile experiences are
Offer "Nokia"-Branded Maps?
What's less clear is how the
provided content for Bing Maps,
Yahoo Maps, MapQuest, Garmin The Ultimate
Ovi Maps, Ovi Mail, the Ovi tightly integrated with our devices rebranding will be presented to and Magellan GPS devices and
Store, and more, all of which will – t h e r e i s n o l o n g e r a
now be rebranded as "Nokia" differentiation," she said. "For
end users of these new Nokia- more, and has continued to do so,
even after Nokia's acquisition of
Music
built Windows Phone devices. On
services. The decision, according example, if consumers want the
to Nokia EVP and Chief b e s t m o b i l e n a v i g a t i o n
a post over the weekend on
Search Engine Land, writer Greg
the company in October 2007.
However, says LiveSide, just
Festivals Quiz
Marketing Officer Jerri DeVard, experience, they know it’s a because Nokia will now be the (HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Sterling said he was "shocked" to
w i l l a l l o w t h e c o m p a n y t o Nokia that they can rely on. These discover that Nokia Maps would core mapping service in Bing Submitted at 5/16/2011 9:00:56 AM

centralize its services identity last few years, and moving become the back end for Bing Maps, that doesn't necessarily
under one brand, not two. forward, our mission remains Maps. This is not new mean that Microsoft's mapping Thousands of people flock to
However, DeVard assures us, all unchanged: we will continue our information, of course - Nokia innovations, like Bird's Eye view, music festivals every year. Each
service roadmaps will continue as work to deliver compelling, and Microsoft have both said Street Side view and PhotoSynth, festival has its own character and
planned. unified mobile service offerings since day one of their partnership would disappear. flair, but they all have one thing in
Sponsor and next-generation, disruptive that Nokia Maps would become But will "Maps" on Windows common: music. If you are a fan
Ovi to Nokia Transition Begins technologies.” the new core mapping service for Phone be branded as "Nokia of music festivals, have a go at
in July This name change makes sense Windows Phone devices in this Maps" or "Bing Maps," or just this quiz and see what you know
The transition from Ovi branding for the company, which is poised new collaboration between the "Maps?" Will end users realize a about a few of the most popular
to Nokia will begin in July 2011, to launch its first devices based on two companies. back-end change has occurred? music festivals in the world.
and will be completed across all Microsoft's Windows Phone The Microsoft-watching blog This is where details become Earn a point for every right
countries and service by the end operating system in the months LiveSide added their thoughts more vague. But as LiveSide answer! Save your score at the
of 2012. Anyone buying a new ahead. These devices are expected about the Search Engine Land notes, most consumers won't care end of the quiz.
smartphone or mobile phone this in late 2011 at the earliest, or at blog post, in a post titled"A Nokia as long as everything works as This entry passed through the
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Report: Windows 7 almost Goods Versus

five times more secure Services: A Call for
Sales Tax Neutrality
than XP
(CNET News.com) while XP with SP2 had the bit editions, had 5.8 infections per
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 5/15/2011 11:00:00 PM
require separate analysis.
The exemption of necessities
from sales tax is intended to serve
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:39:18 AM highest number at 19.3. Breaking 1,000. Windows Server 2008 R2, View the full text of this article the legitimate goal of easing the
down the numbers, Microsoft's which comes only in a 64-bit as an Adobe Acrobat PDF. tax burden on low-income
Windows 7 is four to five times stats mean that Windows 7 is flavor, had 3.6 infections. In the inaugural issue of Marginal households. As I will explain in
less vulnerable to malware around four to five times more Security holes in applications Impact last June, I criticized state
an upcoming article, this policy
infections than is Windows XP. secure than XP. versus those in operating systems and local sales taxes for taxing a turns out to be an ineffective and
Those are the findings of Windows Vista's infection rate or Web browsers accounted for significant number of business
undesirable way to promote that
M i c r o s o f t ' s l a t e s t S e c u r i t y was considerably lower than that most of the vulnerabilities last purchases. Even as I said that
goal. Nevertheless, the policy
Intelligence Report ( PDF), which for XP but still turned out to be year, according to Microsoft. sales taxes were overbroad along
clearly has a coherent motivation.
detailed in depth the state of double that for Windows 7. However, the total number of that dimension, I also observed In contrast, the failure to tax
software vulnerabilities, exploits, Drilling down further, the 64-bit holes found in applications fell that they were overly narrow
consumer services, which is the
security breaches, and malware in versions of Windows 7 and 22.2 percent from 2009. But along another dimension, because
topic of this article, has no
2010. Windows Vista are less infection- exploits that take advantage of they exempted a significant defensible policy basis, despite its
Overall, the study found that prone than are their 32-bit J a v a v u l n e r a b i l i t i e s r o s e fraction of consumer spending. I
venerable pedigree in the history
i n f e c t i o n r a t e s f o r n e w e r counterparts, which Microsoft dramatically in last year's third elaborate on that point in this
of sales taxation. The disparate
Microsoft operating systems with attributes to a couple of factors. quarter, surpassing every other article and an upcoming article.
treatment of goods and services
the latest service packs are First, the 64-bit versions of both category, the report noted. The typical state sales tax has has been uniformly condemned by
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nospam@example.com at such reasonable prices it’s no
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wonder that the average…
on Shine) Nevertheless, the two policies
Ikea offers sleek, modern design
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Productive Macs bundle features eight super

apps
Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 11:00:00 AM
The folks at Apparent Software
have compiled a new productivity
bundle of eight apps designed to
make your life easier.
Individually, the ProductiveMacs
bundle would cost US$221, but
Apparent Software is selling the
apps collectively for $29.99.
Included in the bundle are the
following applications:
• TextExpander: TextExpander
lets you use customized
abbreviations to let you insert
frequently-used text strings and
images. Originally priced at $35.
• Path Finder: Path Finder is a file
browser and management
application. Originally priced at
$35.
• Socialite: Socialite is multi-
social network client that lets you
pull information from Facebook,
Twitter, Digg and Google Reader
into a single app. Originally
priced at $20.
• HoudahSpot: HoudahSpot
increases the functionality of
Spotlight with the ability to save
queries, setup templates for
common search terms and tag
files. Originally priced at $30.
• Today: Today syncs with iCal
and gives you a quick and easy
way to view your daily agenda
without launching iCal. Originally
priced at $25.
• Blast: Blast tracks your file
usage and prioritizes files that you
frequently access by placing them
in your menu bar. Originally
priced at $10.
• Keyboard Maestro: Keyboard
Maestro is a macro program the
lets you execute scripts, launch
applications, close multiple
windows and more. Originally
priced at $36.
• Mail Act-On: Mail Act-On is a
Mail plug-in that lets you process
multiple email messages at once
using rules and keyboard
shortcuts. Originally priced at
$25.
The bundle is on sale now until
the end of May, so you have
another two weeks to snag these
applications at an 86% discount.
You can also receive it for free, if
two of your friends buy the
bundle on your recommendation.
Lastly, websites can join the
affiliate program and earn $3 for
each users who clicks through a
hosted link and but a
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iPad app Flipboard blocked in China

Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW) from sending data to the question, "Do the Chinese censor iPad app Flipboard blocked in
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:00:00 AMFlipboard app. All services, US services to protect their China originally appeared on
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The company is investigating the policy or a way to promote company from further tapping this
problem, but it seems that China Chinese businesses that clone "They (the clones) are complete lucrative market.
is now blocking Flipboard servers Flipboard. He says, replicas visually," begging the [Via TechCrunch]
34 Technology/ Culture/ Products/ Obituaries
New Core version of
Curio in the Mac App
Store
Brett Terpstra (TUAW)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 9:00:00 AM
We've mentioned the
brainstorming, mind mapping,
project managing notebook
application Curio a few times
before. The full version, Curio
Professional, runs US$169.99,
and the Standard version is
US$119.99, both well worth it, in
this blogger's opinion. Today,
however, Curio announced a new
Core Edition in the Mac App
Store, with a tasty price of
US$39.99.
The Core version retains many of
the essential tools from the full
versions, including the freeform
note-taking and brainstorming
style of the original. You can
place rich text figures, flowcharts,
mind maps in various
configurations, shapes with
gradient fills and shadow effects,
connection lines, tables and more
Woot Podcast Mailbag
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Deal)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 12:00:57 AM
What should Woot customers do
right into your workspaces. You
can also embed documents,
images, movies and other media.
You have lists, outlines, and even
to-do lists available. Sort your
ideas on index cards and
rearrange them in the freeform
space.
Tagging, checkmarks, percent
complete, priorities and ratings, as
well as advanced search features
make project management easy.
There is also a wide array of
when they have questions about
their orders or other customer-
service-type issues? Simple: Post
in the forums or email
service@woot.com. Sure, you
import and export options,
keeping your data portable and
making presenting your ideas a
simple task.
At the new price of US$39.99,
it's worth a look for users who've
been holding out, as well as for
folks who've never heard of Curio
before. While there's not a free
trial of the Core version available
(Mac App Store-style), Zengobi
just informed me that there is, in
fact, a 15-day trial version
(extendable to 60-day) of Core
available at www.zengobi.com/
curio/core. Consult the
comparison matrix to see what
features are available in the Core
version vs. full versions.
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to get anyone who can help.
You'll get the video podcast guy.
Or worse, you could get our pal
Joel, director of Shirt.Woot, who
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Drew Barrymore Celebrates
Charlie's Angels' Success
With Her Boyfriend
Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 7:59:39 AM
Drew Barrymore linked arms
with her man Will Kopelman on
Friday as they walked through
LAX. The actress had a small
smile on her face, which makes
sense because her latest project as
an executive producer, the
Charlie's Angels TV series, was
picked up by ABC for the Fall
season. The small screen version
will be back as an actress in
of the series stars Minka Kelly,
2012's Everybody Loves Whales
Rachael Taylor, and Annie
with John Krasinski and Kristen
Ilonzeh, though you aren't sure the
Bell. Drew's also prepping for
new trio can top Drew's movie
another stint as a director with a
series with Cameron Diaz and
planned adaptation of the best-
Lucy Liu. Nonetheless, Drew and
selling book How to Be Single.
her business partner Nancy
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Juvonen have high hopes for the
upcoming show. Drew herself
Wholesome girl
opposite Brando
in `Wild One'
dies (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Obituaries)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 8:57:35 AM
AP - Actress Mary Murphy has
describes the time he accidentally
died at 80. She was discovered in
fielded a customer service call a coffee shop and landed a role as
and ended up with a desk full of the small-town wholesome girl
smoked turkey. opposite Marlon Brando in "The
Wild One."
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Trials Continue for
BlackBerry PlayBook
With Unit Recall
Dan Rowinski (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:31:33 AM
Research In Motion has recalled
approximately 1,000 BlackBerry
PlayBooks because of a bug in the
operating system, according to
Endgadget.
RIM told BlackBerry-loving blog
CrackBerry that the recall is due
to a glitch a in the OS "that may
result in the devices being unable
to properly load software upon
initial set-up." It affects 16GB
models that were shipped to
Staples and most have not reached
consumers and are still in
distribution. Does RIM have a
brewing PlayBook problem on its
hands?
Sponsor
From the reports, this appears to
be an isolated incident with a
batch of PlayBooks going to one
particular retailer. At the same
time, the "where there is smoke
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Submitted at 5/16/2011 5:00:00 AM
This Italian staple uses flavorful
plum tomatoes, which are easy to
find year round. We tossed the
there is fire" principle could be
applied as well. If there is one
batch with faulty loaders in the
OS, there may be more. The
development of the PlayBook has
been a trial for RIM as it has been
trying to squeeze a foreign OS
into the BlackBerry system and
conform it to tablet format.
There are reasons it took RIM
almost seven months between
announcement and launch of the
PlayBook. Apps have been a
sauce with spaghetti but you can
easily substitute with your
favorite noodle. Finish the dish
with a little Parmigiano-Reggiano
for an easy crowd pleaser. Next
Step 1: Score
problem, both native and the
proposed Android app playe r.
RIM may have been a touch
ambitious as it tried to leapfrog a
generation of software
development and provide a wide
array of developer tools that will
work with the PlayBook. The
PlayBook is a sophisticated piece
of hardware running a new form
of consumer gadget OS (QNX
Neutrino ran in stuff like cars and
jets before RIM acquired it).
There are necessary growing
pains.
Fact of the matter - recalls
happen. This one, as long as it is
isolated as believed, is not a
problem for anyone but RIM and
Staples and only a minor
inconvenience at that.
If you are a PlayBook owner,
Endgadget published the serials
numbers of all the devices in the
recall.
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Elizabeth Olsen Hits Cannes
in Designs From Sisters
Mary-Kate and Ashley
Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 8:24:03 AM
Elizabeth Olsen was in a white
number from The Row, a line
designed by her sisters Mary-Kate
and Ashley, yesterday for a photo
call supporting her new movie
Martha Marcy May Marlene at
the Cannes Film Festival. By
nighttime, she changed into a long
black Row number for her red
carpet debut. Elizabeth has been
Your Mother star Josh Radnor's
busy hitting cinema events all
Liberal Arts, and will appear
over the world for her new
opposite Dakota Fanning in Very
project, including a cameo at
Good Girls, a comedy about two
Sundance. There buzz around
girls trying to lose their virginity
Elizabeth's performance in the
during a crazy Summer in NYC.
thriller has been intense enough to
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score her two more major roles.
She nabbed a lead in How I Met
Ex-head of
Nathan's Famous
hot dogs dies at
89 (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Obituaries)
Submitted at 5/15/2011 4:30:42 PM
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AP - Murray Handwerker, who
helped grow Nathan's Famous
from his father's Coney Island hot
You Don't Succeed - Four dog stand into a national
Decades Of US-UK Attempts To franchise, died Saturday at his
Topple Gadafi. home in Palm Beach Gardens. He
was 89.
36 Technology/ Culture/ Newstablet Edition

eBay Takes Auto Marketplace Mobile With

Dedicated Motors iPhone App
Leena Rao (TechCrunch) 2,000 cars are purchased per week eBay expects the additional
Submitted at 5/16/2011 8:51:36 AM globally from eBay’s general functionality in the mobile app to
mobile apps. continue to buoy sales of cars via
It’s no secret that eBay has been The free app allows users to the marketplace. For eBay, motors
pushing a significant mobile search for, bid on or buy anything is a vertical that is growing in
strategy of late, and today the from parts to accessories to cars terms of sales. The total amount
company is rolling out a new app from the app. Via a “My Garage” of vehicles sold via mobile in the
in its mobile family—an eBay feature, users can add favorite first quarter of 2011 increased
Motors iPhone app. cars and parts to a wish list. Using more than 160% compared to first
eBay said it made sense to launch Red Laser’s barcode scanning quarter of 2010. And globally, the
a dedicated app for the Motors technology (which eBay acquired total number of parts and
vertical (one of the company’s last year), users can scan any accessories sold in the first
strongest auction place verticals) , Vehicle Identification Number quarter of 2011 was nearly 250%
which sells cars, parts and (VIN) to automatically add car matching parts and accessories for free Experian AutoCheck Vehicle higher than the first quarter of
accessories, because the volume details including year, make and their specific vehicles in My History Reports, save searches for 2010. CrunchBase Information
of purchases made via eBay’s model to My Garage. From My Garage. vehicles, ask sellers questions eBay Information provided by
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90,000 parts and accessories and eBay Motors inventory to find vehicle history information with with Facebook, Twitter or email.

Make Easy, Cheap, Homemade

TV Talk: Catchphrase Soft Soap to Clean Delicate
Surfaces [Saving Money]
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"Holy catchphrase, Batman." Our on someone else's site, please read mixing it with Borax, baking
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buzzwords and catchphrases only/faq.php#publishers. Five some seriously strong soft soap
we've picked up from television. Filters featured article: If At First that can clean "delicate" surfaces, because it can clean these things
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character in our TV Talk quiz. If answer! Save your score at the Topple Gadafi. of a car, or a regular household
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The Tyrant Temptation

(AEI.Org: Articles) Qaddafi a rogue state is an insult nuclear-weapons program in 2003 blindness to Qaddafi's character of the Mediterranean, is
Submitted at 5/15/2011 11:00:00 PM to rogues everywhere. This is the and agreed at last to compensate and regime belongs to Rutgers repressive: "The position of the
man who in the 1970s wanted to the victims of the 1988 Lockerbie University political scientist Foundation has now been made
There is a close contest under u s e a b o r r o w e d E g y p t i a n airliner bombing, it was all the Benjamin Barber ("the untenable by the country-wide
w a y t o c h o o s e t h e m o s t submarine to sink the Queen opening the experts needed to internationally renowned political repression of protesters by the
embarrassing aspect of our Libyan Elizabeth II ocean liner and who rehabilitate the Libyan loon. Ray theorist," as he describes himself most barbaric means, and the
misadventure: Is it the utter routinely sent assassination Takeyh, senior fellow in Middle in his latest press release), who public declaration of the
fecklessness of American and squads abroad to kill Libyan Eastern studies at the Council on until mid-February was a board Foundation's honorary chairman,
NATO power in the field, the exiles. "It is the duty of the Foreign Relations, pronounced in member of the Qaddafi Saif Qaddafi, endorsing the
murkiness of the result being Libyan people constantly to the Washington Post that International Charity and repression and rationalizing the
sought, or the wider incoherence liquidate their opponents . . . at "Qaddafi's recent rhetoric and Development Foundation, the massacre of protesters." Who
of the Obama administration's home and abroad, everywhere," behavior hint at a genuine outfit Qaddafi's son Saif operated could have seen that coming?
perspective on the "Arab Spring," Q a d d a f i d e c l a r e d . H e o n c e ideological conversion. The as a forum for "complaints about Barber added on the Huffington
one day declaring that Egypt's ordered the assassination of an collapse of the Soviet Union, a torture, arbitrary detention, and Post that the prospects for
Hosni Mubarak is "not a dictator," American ambassador to Egypt; growing interest in Africa and an disappearances." Who needs democracy are now very slim--
demanding his ouster the next, o n l y a s t e r n w a r n i n g f r o m emerging disdain for Arab politics Amnesty International when unless Qaddafi survives, in which
and then going on to declare Washington, tipped to the plot, led him to offer a new vision for you've got Saif Qaddafi on the case "all those who cast him as
hands-off in Syria because its dissuaded him. At one point in the his restive nation," one that job? Barber was the ideal Libyan nothing more than a monstrous
bloodthirsty ruler, Bashar Assad, 1980s, Qaddafi was supplying supposedly included liberalizing lackey, having written in the buffoon will have to rethink their
is a "reformer"? arms to guerrilla insurgencies in markets and encouraging more Washington Post in 2007: easy dismissal and deal with stark
The Obama administration can at 45 countries, arming the Irish foreign investment. (Notably "Qaddafi is a complex and reality again."
least claim that a certain amount Republican Army in Northern absent was any offer to make adaptive thinker as well as an But the stark reality is that
o f o p a c i t y o r a m b i g u i t y i s Ireland and providing $300 restitution for the foreign assets efficient, if laid-back, autocrat. Qaddafi is a tyrant plain and
necessary in dealing with a region million in weaponry for the he seized back in the 1970s, but Unlike almost any other Arab simple, and tyrants always abide
of such immense instability and Nicaraguan Sandinistas. About a never mind.) British sociologist ruler, he has exhibited an in tyrannical oppression. Equally
p o l i t i c a l i m m a t u r i t y . T h e third of African nations, many of Anthony Giddens visited Qaddafi extraordinary capacity to rethink stark is the reality that Barber's
intellectual class that had come to them fellow despotisms, refused in his tent in 2006 and wrote his country's role in a changed and approach to tyrants is entirely
regard Qaddafi as a more or less to have diplomatic relations with afterward that "Qaddafi's changing world . . . . Surprisingly typical of modern political
normal ruler with potentially Libya. Qaddafi crushed several 'conversion' may have been driven flexible and pragmatic, Qaddafi science. As Leo Strauss observed
reasonable or liberal inclinations coup attempts against him the old- partly by the wish to escape was once an ardent socialist who in his treatise On Tyranny, a
has no such excuse, and their self- f a s h i o n e d w a y : w i t h m a s s sanctions, but I get the strong now acknowledges private commentary on Xenophon's
d e c e p t i o n h a s h a d t h e executions of opponents. sense that it is authentic and that property and capital as sometimes Hiero, "it is no accident that
consequence of enabling the Intellectuals have always been there is a lot of motive power appropriate elements in present-day political science has
policy incoherence of our political cheap dates for tyrants, never behind it." Dartmouth professor developing societies. Once an failed to grasp tyranny as what it
leaders. more so than during the Cold Dirk Vandewalle explained on opponent of representative central really is. Our political science is
It is one thing to accept the War, when Communist rulers NPR recently that Qaddafi's government, he is wrestling with haunted by the belief that 'value
existence of tyrants as a practical learned how easy it was to get bizarre squad of all-female the need to delegate substantial judgments' are inadmissible in
matter, but it is debilitating to take Western intellectuals to swoon "Amazon" bodyguards was not authority to competent public scientific considerations, and to
the next step and whitewash their before the lyrics of justice and evidence of the usual tyrant's officials if Libya is to join the call a regime 'tyrannical' clearly
characters. Qaddafi has been equality. indulgence in kinkiness, but arose global system." amounts to pronouncing a 'value
among the worst of the worst But when Qaddafi, under from his "attempt to improve the But now Barber is shocked to judgment.' The political scientist
since his rise to power in the late m o u n t i n g d i p l o m a t i c a n d situation of Libyan women." discover that this laid-back, would
1960s--calling Libya under economic pressure, renounced his But the gold standard for moral -be-liberal regime, this California TYRANT page 39
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Press the Advantage
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Submitted at 5/15/2011 11:00:00 PM
When you are in a fight and have
your opponent down on the
pavement with your boot on his
neck, the last thing you want to do
is step off. You keep the boot
firmly planted, pressing even
harder, until he yields. Otherwise
it's a certainty that he'll get back
up, start throwing punches again,
and drag out a fight that should
have been settled sooner.
Such is the case in Afghanistan
with the American-led
counterinsurgency against the
Taliban and its jihadist allies. It's
becoming increasingly clear that
we have the boot on our
opponent's neck. First, there was
the killing of Osama bin Laden.
While not directly related to the
insurgency, the raid on
Abbottabad did eliminate the most
notable figure tied to the original
reason for invading Afghanistan
and deposing the Taliban regime.
Second, as each day goes by,
there are more signs that the surge
of troops into Afghanistan has
reversed the momentum of the
insurgency. So far, the Taliban's
spring offensive has amounted to
attacks designed more as pub-
licity stunts than as operationally
serious counteroffensives. In the
past 90 days alone, the allied
effort has killed or captured some
500 insurgent leaders, while
taking 2,700 lower-level fighters
off the battlefield as well. Over
the past half-year, with the surge
fully in place, the coalition has
seized more weapons caches than
in the previous two years
combined. Faced with this
mounting pressure, it's no surprise
that reports from the field are full
of accounts of local Taliban and
Taliban sympathizers attempting
to cut deals to save their skins.
Instead of using this momentum
to finish the job, however, there
are persistent rumors that the
White House wants to use the
success of the surge to reduce
force levels this July more than
commanders in the field desire.
Bolstered by the usual voices on
Capitol Hill, the White House
may also use the opportunity to
call for further cuts at year's end,
and promise more rapid
withdrawals over the following
year as we head into the
presidential campaign season.
To be fair, President Obama has
twice added a substantial number
of U.S. troops to the Afghan
theater, bringing the total number
of American forces to around
100,000. But a precipitous
withdrawal of those forces, just as
they have gained the initiative,
will only prolong the conflict. Our
European allies will use the
announcement of cuts to make
their own. The Taliban will be
bolstered by believing that time is
on their side. Both the Afghan and
Pakistani governments will
increase their self-dealing and
Machiavellian scheming. And the
general population of Afghanistan
will once again go back to fence-
sitting, hoping for the best but
fearing the worst.
There is a simple truth about
counterinsurgencies: If resourced
properly, and if the strategy of
"clear, hold, and build" is carried
out consistently, success is very
likely. Final victory may take
awhile. But the cost of securing
that victory decreases fairly
rapidly once the population views
the insurgents as more of an
irritant than a potential victor.
Since these conflicts often occur
in the messiest and most
uninviting of places, however,
democracies typically under-
resource their effort and do all
they can to get out as quickly as
possible. All of which is
politically understandable--but
strategically self-defeating.
We should not kid ourselves that
the number of troops we have
deployed to Afghanistan gives us
the kind of flexibility that would
allow for a significant drawdown.
In late 2009, when General
Stanley McChrystal spelled out
his plans for what was required to
turn around Afghanistan, he said
the minimum number of troops
needed was 40,000. The president
gave him 30,000. The Afghan war
is resourced at a level that allows
the military to simply "get by"
with its campaign plans. It's a
credit to the American and
coalition troops that the anti-
Taliban campaign has been as
successful as it has been over the
past year. But one would be hard
pressed to find anyone on the
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ground in Afghanistan who thinks
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who accepts this view of science
will speak of the mass-state, of
dictatorship, of totalitarianism, or
authoritarianism, and so on, and
as a citizen he may
wholeheartedly condemn these
things; but as a political scientist
he is forced to reject the notion of
tyranny as 'mythical.'"
Barber and other intellectuals
who cozied up to Qaddafi did
eventually render such value
judgments, but only after the
tyrants' crimes became so
conspicuous as to embarrass
them.
These enablers of modern
tyranny can always be counted on
to overlook its markers, which are
obvious even in cases in which
violent oppression is largely
absent.
Intellectuals have always been
cheap dates for tyrants, never
more so than during the Cold
War, when Communist rulers
learned how easy it was to get
Western intellectuals to swoon
before the lyrics of justice and
equality. Redemptive ideological
movements such as Communism
may have lost their élan, but the
chief attraction of tyrants for
intellectuals is not ideology but
proximity to power: hence
Thomas Friedman's endless
"China is awesome" columns.
Behind the immense egos of
"internationally renowned
political theorists" such as Barber
(or Friedman) lies a hubristic
confidence in the efficacy of their
wisdom. Xenophon had their
number 2,500 years ago: Just as
the poet Simonides hopes to
instruct the tyrant Hiero on how to
govern as a benevolent dictator,
today's wise poets of human
improvement think they can at the
very least moderate the modern
tyrant's excesses if only they gain
his ear. And even if the tyrant is
unwilling to govern in a way that
is worthy of honor, the
intellectuals can bask in the self-
honor of their endeavors to "reach
out" as they pat themselves on the
back in Davos.
These enablers of modern
tyranny can always be counted on
to overlook its markers, which are
obvious even in cases in which
violent oppression is largely
absent. One hallmark of the tyrant
is that he always loots his people
and does so far in excess of his
own material needs. But the
United States and its coalition
partners were reportedly stunned
when they moved to freeze
Qaddafi's assets and found that he
had socked away about $60
billion, a sum that works out to
more than $9,000 per capita in a
poor and decaying country.
Egypt's Hosni Mubarak had a
more modest $3.5 billion in his
own Swiss bank account, but
there are rumors that his net worth
may be as much as $70 billion.
The tyrant's insatiability for
recognition and reassurance
against personal insecurity always
runs deeper than the need for a
huge cash stash; think of Imelda
Marcos's shoe collection, and the
nearly uniform practice of
plastering the tyrant's picture
more ubiquitously than the Coca-
Cola logo. The greed and the
vanity are expressions of the same
underlying pathology of tyranny.
The lowliest social-science
undergraduate ought to be able to
make out these hallmarks of rulers
who are never going to rule in the
best interests of their subjects, let
alone allow any genuine
liberalization. Tyrants understand
themselves quite well--this is one
of the clear teachings of
Xenophon, whose Hiero tells
Simonides that the tyrant "lives
night and day as one condemned
by all human beings to die for his
injustice." Poland's foreign
minister and former National
Review correspondent Radek
Sikorski reported in 2005 about a
conversation at a diplomatic
dinner in Havana involving Fidel
and Raúl Castro, during which the
former rebuffed a speculative
suggestion from his brother that
Cuba consider liberalizing its
economy, arguing that they'd both
end up swinging from a lamppost
in a matter of months.
The elites' excusing of tyranny
has real-world consequences, as it
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leads to appeasement and
weakness. It makes it possible for
Nicolas Sarkozy to say watery
things such as "Qaddafi is not
perceived as a dictator in the Arab
world. He is the longest-serving
head of state in the region--and, in
the Arab world, that counts," and
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for Hillary Clinton to say of and Out of Any
Syria's Assad, "Many of the
members of Congress of both Windows
parties who have gone to Syria in
recent months have said they Application with
believe he's a reformer."
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ISLAMABAD — The almost professionalism, and "we're going
sanctuaries where insurgents now
shelter, the Afghan army would
have to make major strides in
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decade-long American war in to need more political will offing on the other side of the already tried to preserve his
Afghanistan has now reached the expressed by President [Hamid] planned national election in 2014. freedom of maneuver by writing Tampa Bay Online Tampa Bay
beginning of the end. All hopes of Karzai." A new Afghanistan is struggling to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Online updated 5/16/2011 6:47:29
anything like "victory" have long "Any sign of that?" I asked. to be born, one often hears, an -moon, asking the organization to AM ET 2011-05-16T10:47:29
since vanished, but so have most "No," he said, citing the Afghan Afghanistan of institutions rather abandon its current role Tampa— Tampa Bay's special
fears that falling short of victory president's continuing protection than one of tribal and ethnic overseeing national elections. teams proved especially effective
will jeopardize American national of highly placed criminals and loyalties. A vibrant private sector So the bridge to the future is once again on Saturday. Through
security. The essential remaining warlords and unwillingness to is emerging; an unfettered media, extremely rickety, and perhaps the first two rounds of the
questions, then, are what they permit independent political in league with civil society also booby-trapped. But the U.S. playoffs, the Lightning dominated
once were in Vietnam: How fast i n s t i t u t i o n s , i n c l u d i n g t h e groups, is exposing the corruption official I spoke to said that he special-teams play against
do we leave? And what do we p a r l i a m e n t , t o f l o u r i s h . and cynicism of the old order; a would advocate a deliberate Pittsburgh and Washington,
leave behind? My impression, So why bother at all? Why not new generation has been weaned drawdown of forces even if he scoring key power-play goals and
after a short trip to Afghanistan, is crate everything up and leave as on Western ideals and technology. thought the probability of a good killing off virtually every power
that the United States should fast as possible? There are several Mahmoud Saikal, a former deputy outcome in 2014 was low. Hasn't play against. In Game 1 of the...
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Here Are The Top 10 Reasons Why I'm

Going To Load The Boat On LinkedIn's IPO
Inside Man (Money Game) stark contrast to many of the “dot the centerpiece of the Internet’s
Submitted at 5/16/2011 9:31:00 AM com busts” in 2000, who had little professional graph and makes
proven merit. Starting with the LinkedIn ubiquitous. While the
In this post, an anonymous LinkedIn’s vision of “creating monetization and impact to the
institutional money manager economic opportunity for every financials is hard to fully gauge at
explains why he plans to buy professional in the world,” the this point, like most platform
LinkedIn's (LNKD) stock when company has set an ambitious stories, the platform manifests its
the company goes public and why goal. Amazingly though, the value in the financials eventually -
he thinks other investors should company has been executing this clearly positions LinkedIn
buy it, too. against that goal, building a well for the long term. Platform
The Bottom Line registered user base of over 100m, companies are valuable – and
Since most of you wont have the up from just 32m in 2008, for an rare.
time or inclination to read the full ~80% compounded growth rate 4. The Market Opportunity is
post below, the main take away is (CAGR): T r e m e n d o u s a n d
t h a t t h e u p c o m i n g I P O o f Registered Members (m) Underpenetrated– One of the
LinkedIn is a unique opportunity However, some could be great things about investing in
for investors to own a truly skeptical about this growth, Internet companies is that the
special and rare Internet company. questioning how truly active these Growth of Corporate Customers Finally, the more recruiters that target markets can be tremendous
LinkedIn is a market leader with members are. Interestingly The success LinkedIn is seeing in are on the site patrolling for job and relatively nascent online.
reinforcing network effects in a though, Unique Visitors are up these metrics, manifests in its vacancy candidates, the more L i n k e d I n ’ s m a r k e t i s n o
huge, underpenetrated market. It over 60% over the last 5 quarters, financials (which I do into more l i k e l y a m e m b e r i s t o b e exception. IDC estimates the
is experiencing rarely seen levels and pageviews per member per detail below), further discovered and find their next worldwide talent acquisition
of growth, and is steered by month, have risen ~25% to 23. differentiating from the 2000 dot dream job. This cycle just market as $85b vs. LinkedIn’s
experienced management and a While some of this increase in com busts. continues to feed on itself, 2010 revenues of ~$240m. To
well-respected board. Most of you PVs is from recruiters, the 2. A True Network Effect forming a very strong barrier to hone the market opportunity
will agree with these points, but members are clearly becoming Business is Rare— Many competitors. (i.e. think eBay’ s further, the “hiring solutions
may get hung up on valuation – more active. Moreover, I think the companies claim to have a vast seller & buyer network market” was $27b in 2010,
my recommendation is to look new products that LinkedIn is network effect (the idea that the effect). making LinkedIn’s ENTIRE 2010
through the near term estimates working on are designed to larger the business becomes, the 3. Linked Becoming a True revenue base
that are likely too low anyway and increase the activity of members more valuable it becomes to new Platform– I think that much like 5. Large Barriers to Entry Create
invest in one of the next platform on the site in the future. customers / members). LinkedIn Facebook and Twitter have built a Competitive Advantage– While
plays on the Internet. PageViews per Registered truly becomes more valuable to platforms on which others can this point relates to the first three
Top 10 Reasons Why You Member per Month members the bigger it gets, as it develop, LinkedIn is also creating points pretty closely, it is worth
Should Buy this IPO Moreover, this large growing provides more networking a platform where their data can be emphasizing. The established
1. The Company Has a Track community has attracted the opportunities. Moreover, for accessed by 3rd Parties via APIs. s u c c e s s o f t h e c o m p a n y ,
Record of Success — One of the attention of paying corporate recruiters, the larger the talent This harnesses the “wisdom of combined with the network
things that separates this company customers, who have grown even pool is, the more valuable crowds” and the vast creativity effects of the business, and the
(and many Internet IPOs lately) is faster (~130% since 2008) to over LinkedIn becomes for finding that one company could never
the proven track record – this is in 4.8m. potential job candidates. produce. It makes LinkedIn’s data HERE page 42
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platform nature of the it make it
very difficult for a competitor to
steal share. The size will remain
attractive to recruiters and leave
less of a budget to help support
smaller upstart competition.
Facebook and Google have the
size and can try to penetrate the
“professional graph” but it is not
at their core. While Facebook may
have cornered the “social graph”
on the Internet, I think LinkedIn is
clearly a leader in the
“professional graph” – further, I
don’t think it would be easy for
Facebook to spread its social
graph dominance into the
“professional graph,” as people
general want to separate their
close friends and family from
work colleagues – each group of
people should see different
information. Smaller, focused
sites (i.e. Dice.com for technology
jobs) can co-exist due to their
hyper specialization, but longer
term these sites have to keep an
eye on what further products /
abilities LinkedIn creates.
6. Top Notch Leadership & Well
Respected Board– While many
investors will look at the quality
of a management team, I think the
board quality can be just as
important. LinkedIn happens to
have high quality in both areas.
On the management side, the team
is led by CEO Jeff Weiner who
earned a strong reputation at
Yahoo!, where he worked for 7
years until 2008. Complementing
Jeff is CFO Steven Sordello, who
has earned a strong reputation as
CFO of two public companies:
Ask Jeeves and TiVo. The very
strong board complements the
management team, led by
Chairman / Cofounder Reid
Hoffman who was also the CEO
from 2003-2007 and an EVP at
PayPal. Also on the board is well
-respected VC partner Mike
Moritz (Sequoia), who has been
on the boards of Google, Yahoo!,
Zappos and is currently on the
board of Green Dot.
The rest of the board is very
strong as well with the former
CEO of Ask Jeeves(Skip Battle),
CMO of Netflix(Leslie Kilgore)
and respected VCs Greylock and
TCV. It’s this leadership that is
deciding to build LinkedIn for the
long term, investing in the near
term against the tremendous long
term opportunity – I like that they
are focusing on maximizing the
long term value, and not feeling
pressured to juice near term
financials for Wall Street.
7. The Product is Better– It’s
more Economical for Recruiting
Clients - Not only do I see value
in the core of the product
(creating a networking base for
members), but I also think that
LinkedIn provides a more
economic means for corporate
clients to find job candidates. For
example, the average package for
a company looking to find a
candidate to fill a job opening is
$8000 / yr. That compares to the
typical 25% of the candidate’s
base salary fee that’s usually paid
to recruiters (or $25,000 on a
$100,000 salary). So a large
corporation can use the site to not
only fill 1 job opening cheaper,
but also it can fill multiple job
openings, all for the $8000 fee.
That’s a powerful cost savings
and likely a large reason behind
the explosive clients growth – it’s
simply a good product.
8. Very Few “Warnings” in the S
-1—The document that the
company files to do its IPO is
called an S-1. This is where all
the financial information and
discussion of the business resides.
Moreover, it’s where the company
has to disclose as many warnings
about its business as possible (i.e.
this is where it points out every
potential pitfall to protect itself
later should something go wrong).
For example, when Demand
Media filed its S-1 for its IPO,
one of the first warnings, was that
it was susceptible to any changes
by Google’s algorithm – we’ve
recently seen how Google’s
“panda” algorithm change has
hurt Demand Media’s traffic. But
what struck me in reading the
LinkedIn warnings (officially
dubbed “risk factors”), were the
lack of any really significant
issues. Don’t get me wrong, there
were many boilerplate risk factors
(short operating history, stock
could be volatile, susceptible to
cyber attacks, etc), but there
wasn’t anything unusual to worry
about. This is fantastic for
investors, as this is where the
company really tries to stress all
that could go wrong to protect
itself later.
9. Tremendous Financials- All of
the points I’ve made above would
be mute, without the support of
strong financials. LinkedIn
should grow revenue >70% this
year, with a compounded annual
growth rate (CAGR) of >50%
through 2013. This should put the
company ~ $1b in revenue by
2014. One of the great things
about this revenue is that it’s
highly visible, as customers
commit to yearlong packages.
Hiring solutions should represent
> 50% of revenues this year,
growing over 130%; but the other
two segments (Marketing
Solutions and Premium
Subscriptions) are growing >70%
and 50% respectively.
International growth is fueling a
lot of this but it still represents a
large opportunity as International
was only 27% of revenues in
2010. Coupled with this strong
revenue growth is the long-term
margin expansion – currently
LinkedIn’s EBITDA (think of as
cash operating profit) is only in
the mid single digits, as the
company is investing for the
future (i.e. infrastructure,
increased sales people).
Side Note: One point I want to
make here is the “ Fred Wilson
marketing point.” If you’ve
followed the Internet sector lately,
prominent Union Square VC
partner Fred Wilson implied that
the best companies don’t need to
spend as much on marketing as
companies with inferior products
(I’m paraphrasing). I agree with
this to an extent, as great products
tend to get “free” viral marketing.
LinkedIn’s near term investments
in Sales & Marketing, are not
being spent on advertising, but
more on ramping the sales force.
I believe LinkedIn is a great
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example of Fred’s point, as it too
benefits from the free viral
marketing of its product.
After this year, margins should
start to grow, hitting mid teens
next year and ~20% by 2013 –
longer term EBITDA margins
should grow north of 30%. This
margin expansion means that
profits are growing faster than
revenues – a great thing for the
company and investors. Free Cash
Flow (cash flow from operations
– capital expenditures) should be
near flat this year, as the company
invests aggressively. However, as
the company spends more at
normalized levels, free cash flow
should approach $100 in 2013.
This metric should grow even
faster than EBITDA, as capex
reduces to normalized levels of
8% of revenues over time.
Lastly, the company will have a
very clean balance sheet as it
starts its public life – the company
will have no debt and ~ $300m of
cash. It can use this cash for
further investments, acquisitions,
or for a rainy day should the
economy turn sour for a while.
Once again, this is a great place
for the company to be as it gives it
cushion, as well as options.
10. Valuation is More
Reasonable Then First Glance-
Taking the high end of the
offering range ($32-35 per share),
LNKD appears to have an
Enterprise Value of ~$3.5b and
can be viewed as richly valued at
45x next year’s EBITDA and
240x next year’s earnings.
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Huge Cracks in Global Recovery Thesis;

Industrial Production Unexpectedly Drops in
Germany, France; UK Weaker than Expected
noreply@blogger.com (Michael have moved to Germany. If there Barclays Capital strategists production there was weaker than
Shedlock) (Mish's Global were separate currencies, the including Piero Ghezzi, head of expected in March due to
Economic Trend Analysis) German mark would have global economics, emerging continued maintenance on oil and
Submitted at 5/16/2011 2:06:00 AM appreciated against the other markets and currency research in gas infrastructure. However, the
Before taking a look at industrial European currencies. London, wrote in an investor narrower measure for
production, let's take a look at As it is, none of that happened. report yesterday. A restructuring manufacturing also raised
how uneven the jobs recovery has Many Germans resent the need to is “unavoidable,” Credit Suisse questions about the strength of
been. bail out other countries, and many Group AG analysts, including economic growth.
The New York Times reports A people in those countries resent Andrew Garthwaite, wrote a The government hopes
Jobs Recovery Is Happening being forced to cut wages and research note today. French manufacturing will play a
Faster for Some Countries Than payrolls in the name of restoring Industrial Production significant role in the U.K.'s
Others THE financial crisis and competitiveness. Unemployment Unexpectedly Declines .9 Percent economic recovery. The sector,
the severe recession that followed Rate Comparison Please note French industrial which has been boosted by the
d e s t r o y e d j o b s i n e v e r y Spain, Ireland, Greece, Portugal production unexpectedly fell in pound's depreciation since late
industrialized country. While Continue Decline March French National Bureau of 2007, has performed well and was
many countries have started to European Production Slips Statistics (Insee) on Tuesday the one bright spot in the
recover, in only one major one, The charts above show what has (May 10) released data show that economy's surprise contraction in
Germany, has unemployment transpired. However, the pertinent statistics office in Luxembourg the French industrial production the fourth quarter of 2010.
declined to a level lower than it question, as always is "What's said today. The median prediction unexpectedly fell in March. But there are signs of a loss of
was in September 2008. Next?" of 25 economists surveyed by Data show that the French rate of momentum. The latest Purchasing
When the downturn began, For some clues about Europe, Bloomberg was for a 0.3 percent industrial output in March fell Managers' Index survey showed
Germany had about 25 percent of please consider German Bonds gain. 0.9%, is expected to rise 0.4% manufacturing growth slowed to a
the population in the euro zone Rise as European Production Greek unions kept ferries docked Spain Production Down 1%, seven-month low in April, while a
a n d a s i m i l a r s h a r e o f t h e Slips, Limiting Rate Speculation at ports, grounded flights and shut Ireland Down 1%, Greece Down Confederation of British
u n e m p l o y e d w o r k e r s . I t s May 12, 2011 10:27 AM CT hospitals and schools yesterday in .6% Industry's survey showed a drop
population share is about the same German bunds rose, pushing the protests against Prime Minister According to the Wall Street in the number of firms expecting
now, but it has only 17 percent of 10- year yield toward a two- George Papandreou’s plans to sell Journal article Industrial Output output to rise in the next three
the unemployed. month low, as a report showed state assets and usher in more S i g n a l s S l o w e r E u r o - Z o n e months.
If the euro zone were a fiscal European industrial production spending cuts. The country’s Growth, industrial production Economists said Thursday's data
union rather than just a monetary unexpectedly fell in March, unemployment rate rose to 15.9 dropped 1% in Spain, Dropped added to signs that growth rates in
one, there would have been strengthening the case for interest percent in February, from 15.1 1% in Ireland, and dropped .6% in the manufacturing sector, which
automatic subsidies through rates to be kept on hold. percent the previous month, Greece. Moreover, things do no accounts for about 11% of the
unemployment benefits and other Production in the euro area Athens-based Hellenic Statistical look so good for the UK either. U.K.'s gross domestic product, are
programs for the weaker areas. If slipped 0.2 percent in March from Authority said. Figures released Thursday by the returning to more typical
there were easy labor mobility in February, when it grew 0.6 Greece is likely to restructure its U . K . ' s O f f i c e f o r N a t i o n a l HUGE page 44
the zone, more workers would percent, the European Union’s debt in the first half of next year, Statistics showed industrial
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levels—but that might highlight
weakness elsewhere. Pound
Declines as Traders Scale Back
Interest-Rate Bets on Growth
Concern
Please consider Pound Declines
as Traders Scale Back Interest-
Rate Bets on Growth Concern
The pound weakened against
most of its major peers this week
as signs the U.K. economic
recovery is faltering heightened
speculation that the Bank of
England won’t raise interest rates
anytime soon.
Risks to economic growth remain
“skewed to the downside,” the
central bank said in its quarterly
inflation report. Price growth may
quicken to 5 percent this year, it
said. Statistics this week also
showed U.K. industrial and
manufacturing production
increased by less than economist
forecasts. Traders scaled back
bets on when policy makers will
boost borrowing costs.
“We’re starting to see some of the
effects of the government
spending cuts feed through to the
real economy and that’s causing
rate hike expectations to be
pushed back,” said Chris Walker,
a currency strategist at UBS AG
in London. “The pound has very
much moved in tandem with rate
expectations. It’s looking a bit
vulnerable now.”
Growth is slowing as Prime
Minister David Cameron’s
coalition government is seeking to
reduce a fiscal deficit of almost 10
percent of gross domestic product
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Thursday, May 05, 2011 3:39 PM • Direction of interest rate are enormous cracks in the global with a heartbreaking title.
ECB President Jean-Claude differentials recovery picture. I wish these guys would stop and
Trichet has backed off his usual • Actual interest rate differentials Mike "Mish" Shedlock think before indulging in
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vigilance". Instead, Trichet said • Deficits com bad for everything we, the guys
today "the ECB will monitor • Actions on Deficits Click Here To Scroll Thru My who came before, hold dear.
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However, we’ve seen these
platform / network effect / hyper
growth companies before (this
reminds me of OpenTable’s IPO).
These types of companies are
ones that investors are willing to
pay a premium for, and the better
way to look at them is to look out
a few years and compare the
multiples to the growth.
To account for the rapid growth,
we need to look out a few years
and see where earnings can be to
derive a target for the stock in a
few years. It seems that the
industry expects the company to
generate over $950m in revenues,
EBITDA margins near 25%, and
EPS of > $1 of EPS in 2014.
However, I think these estimates
may prove conservative, as a
company typically gives guidance
to its bankers that it feels is
readily achievable (so it is more
likely to beat Street estimates).
Hence, I think that the company
can probably do over $1b in
revenues in 2014, likely still
growing >20% for $1.2b in
revenues for 2015. At a 27%
margin (the company said long
term margins should be > 30%),
that would equate to ~$325m of
EBITDA, EPS > $1.60 and FCF
>$210m. Quality Software as a
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Service ( SaaS) companies like
Salesforce or Concur can trade
anywhere from 5-7x forward
sales. So with $1.2b in revenues
in 2015, a 6x multiple would
imply an Enterprise value of
$7.2b in 2014 - adding in the cash
and cash flow over that time and
that would be a over an $8b
equity value for >$80 a share 3
years from now. That would
imply over 125% return from the
IPO if done at $35. Similarly,
applying a 50x forward PE
multiple (reasonable as EPS
should still be growing 50%+ at
that point) to the EPS of $1.60 in
2015 would imply a target >$80 a
share. Applying a similar free
cash flow multiple would also
support this level. Lastly, the top
SaaS names can warrant a
forward EBITDA multiple of 20-
30x. Applying a 25x forward
multiple would also derive a stock
greater than $80 in 2014.
How Big can LinkedIn Be? I
think the most difficult part for
investors will trying to sketch
“how big LinkedIn can be?” As I
mentioned above, the market for
Hiring Solutions is almost $30b
Is it reasonable that 20% is online
over time (ecommerce expected to
get up to 20% over time). That’s
marinade for the chicken. Then
it's grilled, chopped, and stirred
together with tangy dressing,
which includes store-bought
mango chutney. If you prefer
more spicy heat, add a bit more
a $6b online hiring solutions
market online. If LinkedIn
establishes itself as the pre-
imminent player in the space, it’s
reasonable to think it could be a
third of the online market or $2b
of revenue from Hiring Solutions
alone.
Next, layer on top of that the
Talent Based Advertising market,
which LinkedIn cites as $25b
currently. Should 20% migrate
online as well for another $5b
target opportunity? Maybe
LinkedIn takes 20% of that
market for another $1b revenue
opportunity? Together, that
implies LinkedIn could reach $3b
in revenues – at a 35% EBITDA
margin that would be over $1b in
EBITDA and $600m in earnings
(40% tax rate) or $6 share. SaaS
companies trade anywhere from
30-60x forward earnings. Since
LinkedIn would be more likely
more mature at this point, if we
applied the low end of the range
(30x multiple), that would imply a
$180 stock. To be clear, I’m not
saying this is where the stock
should be immediately after the
IPO, but I’m merely sketching the
potential for the company should
it continue to execute.
Summarizing. It’s hard to argue
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that LinkedIn is a unique
company with strong leadership
parental leave law
that is executing against a large 'flies in face' of
opportunity. I think many
investors will agree with that but pledge to cut red
will struggle with trying to figure
out the right valuation. While the tape
IPO may look expensive on short (Finance News - Business news
term numbers, I think by looking from the UK and world)
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will appreciate what valuation
LinkedIn could grow into. Lastly, The Government has been
investors should take note that not accused of "saying one thing and
one of the 3 largest VCs are doing another" after bringing in
selling any shares (and new employment rules less than a
management is barely selling any week after announcing a review
either) – it would appear as if they of workplace law.
may agree with me.
May the markets always move
your way,
- Buyside Insider
(I can be reached via Henry
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Minister the "Tortured Body Will
Surrender" because Greece is Insolvent
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Newstablet Edition
Political Infighting Is Damaging
Japan's Massive Reconstruction
Plan Just Like In 1923
Gregory White (Money Game)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:05:00 AM
Political infighting in Japan is
preventing progress on the design
and funding of the country's
massive reconstruction strategy,
in a situation eerily reminiscent of
the 1923 Great Kanto quake,
according to Deutsche Bank.
Right now, Japan's Prime
Minister, Naoto Kan, is struggling
to make progress on his
rebuilding scheme. His political
rivals don't want to join in his
plan, for fears they'll be just seen
as part of a coalition government.
His own party members don't
want to be involved, because they
still question his response to the
disaster. And his own government
is now acting out, with members
making policy announcements
without party approval.
Deutsche Bank analysts point to
1923 and the Great Kanto quake,
where similar infighting stopped
the progress of a rebuilding plan
for Tokyo, and limited
government spending.
From Deutsche Bank:
Unfortunately Goto’s grand
scheme was gradually scaled back
as time passed. One factor was
disagreements between Goto, who
was not closely affiliated with a
political party, and active
politicians (Diet members),
political doyens (such as former
prime ministers) and the
Reconstruction Agency. He also
faced widespread scrutiny,
including from the public,
concerning funding for the plan.
Continuing...
Moreover, the budget had to pass
the Diet for the reconstruction
plan to take concrete shape, and
budgeting for the plan meant
dealing with the Ministry of
Finance (MoF). MoF’s top
priority was to ensure that there
was sufficient funding, so the size
of the reconstruction scheme
again had to be slashed.
The model plan presented by
Goto at the Reconstruction
Agency’s first meeting on 9
September was a vast ¥4.4bn,
equivalent to 29.5% of nominal
GDP. By the time of the final plan
on 19 December, that figure had
shriveled to ¥400m. Goto initially
considered resigning as agency
chief, but he stayed on and
worked to do what he could
within an inadequate budget. In
the end, the final plan proved
insufficient to buy land in affected
areas or realize town demarcation.
Without political support, Kan
could turn out like Goto, with his
ambitious plan cut down in the
face of debt concerns.
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Blowout That Will Make
Politicians Howl
The CW to Pick Up New Reality
Series 'H8R,' Russell Hantz Gets
A&E Show and More
Jean Bentley (TV Squad)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 6:15:00 AM
Filed under: Reality-Free, TV
News The CW has reportedly
ordered a new reality series for
the fall called 'H8R.'
According to Deadline
Hollywood, the show features
celebrities trying to win over their
biggest detractors. Hosted by
Mario Lopez, the first episode of
the show features Snooki and Kim
Kardashian. 'H8R' will likely be
paired with 'America's Next Top
Model' on the network's fall
schedule.
Meanwhile, the deal to bring
Sarah Michelle Gellar to the
network with 'Ringer' is done. The
network will officially announce
its lineup on Thursday morning.
In other TV news ...
o. Russell Hantz might not have
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won 'Survivor: Redemption
Island,' but the reality star has
landed a new series on
A&E.'Flipped' will see Hantz and
his family buying and selling
houses in the Houston area. [ EW]
o. NBC is still working on that
primetime Brian Williams-fronted
newsmagazine show. The network
president said he'll debut the show
once it's fully developed. [ THR]
o. Speaking of NBC, the
network's orders for new mid-
season comedies 'Bent' and 'BFF'
were for six episodes each.
Though it'll be harder for the
shows to earn loyal audiences
from just six episodes, it's worked
in the past for peacock comedies
like 'The Office.' [ Deadline]
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Late Mortgage Payments or No Payments

Drop for Fifth Straight Quarter; At Current
Pace, Situation will be Normal in 8 Years
noreply@blogger.com (Michael from 14.65 percent a year ago, reflects the number of
Shedlock) (Mish's Global followed by last year's leader, foreclosures.
Economic Trend Analysis) Nevada, at 14.19 percent, down If everyone 90 days or more late
Submitted at 5/15/2011 8:50:00 PM from 15.98 percent. lost their home to foreclosure
The good news is the rate of late Arizona was next, at 9.14 tomorrow, we would see a
payments is falling. The bad news percent, compared with 10.94 stunning drop in the late payments
is that at the current rate it will percent in the 2010 first quarter. category as well as a stunning rise
take 8 years to get to normal. California, fourth at 8.58 percent, in bank REOs.
TransUnion finds Late payments showed the biggest drop of any Mike "Mish" Shedlock
on mortgages fall again in 1st state in the past year, falling from h t t p : / /
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payments -- or no payments -- on housing meltdown. Click Here To Scroll Thru My
their mortgages fell for the fifth If delinquency continues to
straight quarter in the first three improve at its current pace,
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months of 2011. But the figure Martin said rates won't return to
r e m a i n s s t u b b o r n l y h i g h normal for another 8 years. "It just
investment advisor representative
for SitkaPacific Capital
Charles Promises the Season 2
compared with the pre-crisis gives you a sense for how high
norm, likely because of the huge these rates are, historically
Management. Sitka Pacific is an
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Finale 'Will Get People Talking'
backlog of homes waiting to be speaking, and how far we have to goal is strong performance and Chris Harnick (TV Squad) In the episode, Lockhart/Gardner
foreclosed. go at this kind of slow low volatility, regardless of Submitted at 5/16/2011 5:00:00 AM represents a man on trial for
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who were 60 days or more past TransUnion expects rates to www.sitkapacific.com/ Filed under: TV Previews, Glenn Childs' (Titus Welliver)
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fell to 6.19 percent for the three the rest of the year. Improvement learn more about wealth Friendships and relationships he's going out with a bang.
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according to credit reporting Much if not all of the preservation strategies of Sitka Wife,' but one thing has remained - Charles, who plays attorney Will
agency TransUnion. That was improvement is a mirage. After Pacific. the same over the last two Gardner (and one half of the star-
down from 6.77 percent at the foreclosure, people no longer s e a s o n s : W i l l a n d A l i c i a ' s crossed lovers opposite Julianna
same time last year. have to make payments and are no unresolved feelings. Margulies), says there will be
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Twitter's New Comedy Genre: The 140-

Character One-Liner
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Stories)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 6:00:00 AM

Illustrations: Rob Delaney:

Daniel Bejar; Mindy Kaling,
Steve Martin, Conan O’Brien,
Sarah Silverman, Rainn Wilson:
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Solar-Powered Survival Tool Puzzles as

Much as It Impresses
John Lasky (Wired Top Stories) hours.
Submitted at 5/16/2011 6:00:00 AM While you get a lot of
functionality for the $150 price
Like an overstuffed Swiss Army tag, there is one key wilderness
knife, the Eton Raptor is survival feature it’s missing: GPS.
positively bursting with survival- It would be nice, especially for
minded tech, making it an when you’re stuck in the bush
essential gadget for trips into the after losing your smartphone in
backwoods, or even just a camp the river — though I shudder to
out in the backyard. think how many buttons I’d have
Just get a load of all the save- to press to get it working.
your-ass features that come built WIRED Versatile device comes
in: a compass, an altimeter, a loaded with life-saving functions
barometer and thermometer, a for hiking, biking and outdoor
chronograph with an alarm clock, frolicking. Charges your phone
a speaker fed by either a using the power of the sun.
multiband radio (AM, FM, Lightweight, splash resistant.
shortwave, NOAA weather alert) Solar panels mean it can go the
or an audio line input, and an distance without conking out.
LED flashlight. There’s even a TIRED Somewhat high learning
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brewskis. Finally — and this is They should fire the whiz kid who
key — it’s all powered by a 1800- designed the interface. Full solar
mAh lithium ion battery that recharge can take up to 18 hours
recharges using the built-in p o w e r t h a n m a s t e r i n g a buttons are terribly named. bag and leave all the other stuff — is there even that much sun in
monocrystal solar panel, and you SaladShooter or a Flowbee, “Volume –” and “Volume +” are — the compass, the radio, the a day?
can transfer that charge to a phone however. There are nine buttons no-brainers, but what’s the flashlight — at home. And really, Photo courtesy Eton
or any other gadget that accepts a on the face, and these buttons are difference between “M” and the most attractive function here This entry passed through the
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Next-to-Last Shuttle Mission Rockets Into
Orbit
Dave Mosher (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 9:15:00 AM
NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour
punched through a veil of clouds
this morning, making its 25th and
final ascent into space after
technicians quickly repaired
damage to its heat shield.
“This is a both a sad and proud
moment for your launch team and
America,” a Mission Control team
member at Kennedy Space Center
in Florida told the crew of seven
shortly before launch at 8:56am
EDT.
Commanding the orbiter’s final
mission, called STS-134, is
astronaut Mark Kelley — husband
of U.S. representative Gabrielle
Giffords (D-Arizona), who is still
recovering from a failed Jan. 8,
2011 assassination attempt.
As they always have, the couple
exchanged wedding rings prior to
launch, and will swap back when
he returns. Rep. Giffords watched
the launch from the Kennedy
Space Center, sequestered from
the press. But she did reach out
via her Facebook and Twitter
SOLAR-POWERED
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accounts.
“Good Morning! Who’s ready for
the best the show on Earth? http://
y f r o g . c o m /
h3srwkzj#NASA#NASATweetUp
,” she Tweeted about three hours
before launch. Post launch she
shared: “From Team Giffords
to@ShuttleCDRKelly&
entire#STS134 crew: God
Speed–We’ll see you in about two
weeks.”
Pioneering CBS Newsman Joseph Wershba dies at 90 (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Obituaries)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:35:37 AM
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pound particle physics experiment
to the top of the ISS where it will
search for evidence of dark
matter, strangelets and antimatter.
The device will also log cosmic
ray exposure that astronauts may
experience on prolonged trips to
Mars.
Endeavour was first launched 19
years ago this May. In early July,
space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled
to make its final flight, closing out
NASA’s space shuttle program.
Photo: The space shuttle
Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy
Space Center in Cape Canaveral,
Fla., Monday, May 16, 2011,
beginning a 14-day mission to the
international space station. (AP
Photo/Chris O’Meara)
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Auxiliary power unit failures p a y l o a d b a y . O n c e a t t h e Decades Of US-UK Attempts To
thwarted previous launch attempts International Space Station (ISS), Topple Gadafi.
in late April, but NASA reported astronauts will move the 15,000-
AP - Joseph Wershba, a CBS Murrow on the "See it Now" communist witch hunt, has died.
News producer and reporter segment about Sen. Joseph He was 90.
whose work for Edward R. McCarthy helped end the 1950s
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Peas performance as an act of
war.
Eugene Mirman
@EugeneMirman
I am eating that dense German
health bread that is the size and
weight of a thick leather wallet.
John Hodgman
@hodgman
12 string guitars only have 6
extra strings, but they’re 85
TIMES as likely to be used in a
song about wizards.
Rob Delaney
@robdelaney
Just visited MySpace. Half the
lights are out, bears are living in
my comments section, and a
homeless guy’s been pooping in
my blog.
Patton Oswalt
@pattonoswal
If someone says they’re only
human, give them a second look.
That sure does sound like
something a robot would say.
“LBJ”
@ladybirdj
Proverbs 3:27 (05-16-11)
(Verse of the Day)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 2:00:00 AM
Do not withhold good from those
who deserve it, when it is in your
power to act.
— Proverbs 3:27(NIV) Thoughts
on Today's Verse... Rather than
"looking out for" only "number
1," we are to look out for those
deserving of good -- whether that
Finding the perfect analogy is
like balancing a muffin on a
pencil.
Joe Randazzo
@Randazzoj
I think I could fake sign language
myself out of a jam.
Alec Sulkin
@thesulk
Graphic designers! Hire me to
explain your job to your dads!
Alison Agosti
@Just_Alison
I’m no doctor but I’ve seen
enough porn endings in my day to
suggest that penises should have a
“Not For Opthalmic Use” warning
on the side.
Chris Hardwick
@nerdist
Sometimes playing catch is very
similar to throwing things at a
child in a backyard.
Demetri Martin
@DemetriMartin
“Ok, sure.” -Nicolas Cage, after
reading any script
Jon Friedman
be help, aide, praise, love,
affection, attention -- and to act
decisively to give them what they
need and deserve. We are to be a
people, as Paul tells us, who Jesus
saved so we would be "eager to
do good deeds" (Titus 2:14). My
Prayer... Father, forgive me for
my selfishness. I so often notice
only my needs or what I think I
deserve. There are so many good
@friedmanjon
That cop says I should go to jail
for smoking PCP in my car, but I
say that cop should go to jail for
being a saber-toothed tiger.
Megan Amram
@meganamram
I think more than one company
should be allowed to sell
Monopoly.
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and deserving people you have
placed in my life who have
blessed me. Use your Spirit to
open my eyes and my heart to see
those around me whom I can
bless, and give me the courage to
act in ways that glorify you and
are a blessing to others. In Jesus'
name I pray. Amen.
Debt Collector
Evaporates At First
Sign Of Resistance
Ben Popken (The Consumerist)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:00:00 AM
Ryan shares with us his consumer
kicking booty story of how he got
a debt collector to run off with
their tail between their legs. It
sounded like an amazing deal. He
got a letter from a debt collector
telling him that they represented
AT&T and would cut him a
special break and settle for only
$69.30 instead of $693.30.
Wowzers! Problem was, he didn't
owe AT&T any money at all.
Remembering that we write
about these shenanigans a lot,
Ryan searched Consumerist and
found a post, " Sample Letter For
Disputing A Debt Collection
Notice."
He reformatted the sample letter
to fit his situation and mailed it by
certified mail. A few weeks later,
his "new friends" at the collection
agency wrote back:
"Regarding your previous request,
we have attempted to obtain the
Newstablet Edition
information you requested.
Unfortunately, the creditor has
been unable to provide us with
that information. Accordingly, we
are closing our file in this matter."
"Thanks to The Consumerist, I
was able to fight back and win,"
writes Ryan. "Chalk one up for
the little guy!!! I appreciate
everything you guys are doing,
keep it up."
Don't get freaked out by a
collection notice. Keep a cool
head and always make them prove
that they own the debt that they
say you owe.
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Security forces fire on Cairo 'Nakba' rally

(AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)) police officer told Al Jazeera that hearing gunfire from everywhere, twenties, owns an Internet cafe He had returned to Cairo at
Submitted at 5/16/2011 2:55:18 AM 137 protesters had been arrested and someone told me that there and uses the income to support his around 3am on Monday
and would be questioned by a was gunfire from the Central three sisters and mother, Khaled morning after an unsuccessful
At least 353 people were injured, military prosecutor. As they Security Forces ... I wasn't sure if said. His father died several years attempt to join a "Nakba Day"
one of them critically, when a w a i t e d q u e s t i o n i n g , t h e it was rubber or live, people were ago. protest at the Rafah border
Egyptian security forces attacked protesters was being held in saying rubber." Activist Sanaa "He's just like any other Egyptian crossing between Egypt and the
a pro-Palestine demonstration Hikestep military prison on the Seif shot this video of protester who loves his country" and Gaza Strip. The army shut down
outside the Israeli embassy in outskirts of Cairo, according to Ali Khalaf, who was reportedly wanted to express his anger with that demonstration, erecting
Cairo on Sunday night, according activists and a human-rights shot in the abdomen Israel in a peaceful way, Khaled several checkpoints along the road
to witnesses and the Health lawyer. In the chaos, a friend of Seif's, said. toward Rafah and preventing bus
Ministry. Surge toward building prompts Youssef Bagato, was shot by a Unclear fate for detainees companies from ferrying
Activists told Al Jazeera that shooting rubber-coated bullet that lodged in Street clashes continued for protesters from Cairo.
army and internal security troops The violence began at around his back and had to be taken to a several hours after security forces In the wake of the revolution that
used tear gas, rubber-coated 11pm after a group of protesters hospital. dispersed the crowd, and at unseated President Hosni
bullets and live ammunition to surged toward the front of the Another protester had fainted around 4am, Central Security Mubarak and replaced him with
disperse thousands of protesters multi-story office building that nearby, and Seif and her friends Force and army troops closed in the Supreme Council of the
who had gathered to mark the contains the Israeli embassy and helped him into the entrance of a on the remaining protesters and Armed Forces, the army has
63rd anniversary of the "Nakba" managed to push aside some of building to recover. They found arrested dozens. exercised nearly complete power,
or "catastrophe" - the day in 1948 the barriers that had been erected Khalaf suffering from a bullet Mohamed Effat, a freelance and thousands of Egyptians -
t h a t I s r a e l d e c l a r e d i t s in front of the ground-floor wound below his stomach. journalist, chronicled the arrests including at least hundreds of
independence and thousands of entrance, witnesses said. The group moved Khalaf inside a on Twitter. demonstrators - have been forced
Palestinians fled or were expelled The crowd had called for Egypt nearby shop to hide him from "They pointed their guns at us, into military trials that many
form their homes. to break off its diplomatic ties security forces but were forced to forced us to lie on our stomachs, describe as lacking due process.
At least two protesters were shot with Israel and for the Israeli flag leave by the owner, who feared fired heavily into air, cussing at Mona Seif, an activist working
by live ammunition, while others to be taken down from the they would be found. They moved and hitting us. An officer told me against such trials, said that the
were hospitalised after inhaling building. to a main street and put Khalaf whoever looked up would be arrests on Sunday night and
tear gas or being hit by rubber- Members of the Central Security into a cab with his friends to be smacked on the neck," he wrote. Monday morning indicated that
coated steel bullets, some of Forces responded with a heavy taken to a hospital. "Last thing was that they took our the armed forces were still
w h i c h p e n e t r a t e d t h e s k i n , volley of tear gas, driving the Yehia, who also had been hit phones and IDs, queuing us to put exercising their sweeping law
witnesses said. protesters back with support from during the initial retreat from the in [Central Security] cars while enforcement powers.
One protester, Atef Yehia, was military troops on the scene. security forces, was taken first to yelling 'Have fun in military "I thought we had started to make
shot in the head, while another, Witnesses said the army forces - a the nearby Om el-Misreyeen prison rev[olutionary] youth'." some progress on this, as in they
Ali Khalaf, was shot in the mix of regular soldiers and Hospital and then to the more Effat was released, but among started to refer people to civil
abdomen. Both survived, though military police - first fired in the advanced Kasr el-Aini Hospital in those still detained were Tarek trials and not military trials, but
Yehia was being kept on a air to disperse the protesters but central Cairo. Shalaby and Mosaab Elshamy, apparently this is not true," said
ventilator and would likely suffer then aimed at the crowd. He had been struck by a single two activists who had been Seif, who is also Sanaa Seif's
brain damage, his friend said on Protesters responded by burning bullet above his right eye and was prominent during the revolution. sister. "A spokesman for the
Monday afternoon. tires in the street and throwing awaiting surgery on Monday Shalaby had activated the mobile Suprme Council of the Armed
The crackdown on the protest stones. afternoon, his friend, Sabry phone livestreaming service Forces said a couple of days ago
a l s o m a r k e d a s e t b a c k f o r "The army was running after us, Khaled, told Al Jazeera. Doctors Bambuser shortly before his that anything that happens within
activists campaigning to limit the shooting rubber bullets," said said he would likely suffer brain arrest, leaving some video and the presence of the army is the
military's judicial power in post- Sanaa Seif, an activist who damage. audio of the incident posted
revolutionary Egypt. A senior attended the protest. "I kept on Yehia, who is in his early online. SECURITY page 56
54 Politics-Left/ Newstablet Edition

War crimes prosecutor seeks Gaddafi

warrant
(AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE))
Submitted at 5/16/2011 8:56:39 AM

Luis Moreno-Ocampo said

Gaddafi personally ordered
attacks on Libyan civilians
[Reuters]
The International Criminal
Court's chief prosecutor has asked
a three-judge panel to issue arrest
warrants for Libyan leader
Muammar Gaddafi, his second-
eldest son, Saif al-Islam, and his
intelligence chief, Abdullah
Senussi.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo described
the evidence against the three men
as "very strong" in a press
conference on Monday and said
he believed Libyans eventually
would turn them over to the court.
The filing against Gaddafi comes
just three months into the uprising
against his 41-year rule, which
evolved from peaceful protests in
major cities to an armed rebellion
based out of the east. Gaddafi's
regime has brutally attempted to
suppress the opposition
movement by shelling rebellious
cities, and imprisoning and
torturing those who speak out. against humanity charges and his authority, his absolute heavy weaponry on funeral Ocampo described Saif al-Islam
Ocampo was due to present a 74- issue international arrest warrants. authority." processions, and set up snipers to as Gaddafi's "de facto prime
page dossier of evidence to the "The evidence shows Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam and shoot at people as they left minister" and Senussi as his "right
court in the Hague, the Gaddafi personally ordered Abdullah Senussi held meetings prayers at mosques, he said. -hand man" and "executioner".
Netherlands, on Monday. The attacks on unarmed civilians," to plan the crackdown, Ocampo Activists were imprisoned, held "The office gathered direct
judges will decide whether to Ocampo said at the press said. Security forces loyal to the incommunicado and tortured, he evidence about orders issued by
reject the petition, ask for more conference. "[He] committed the government then attacked said.
evidence or confirm crimes crimes with the goal of preserving civilians in their homes, used 'International justice' WAR page 56
Newstablet Edition Politics-Left/ 55

IMF chief to appear in court over sex case

(AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE))
Submitted at 5/16/2011 9:33:02 AM

The allegations have seriously

jeopardised Strauss-Kahn's
political future in France [AFP]
The head of the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) is to face
charges at a New York court of
attempting to rape a 32-year-old
hotel maid.
Lawyers for Dominique Strauss-
Kahn have said he will plead not
guilty to the accusations when he
appears at the chambers later on
Monday.
Ryan Sesa, a police deputy
spokesman, said charges
against Strauss-Kahn included a
"criminal sexual act, unlawful
imprisonment and attempted
rape".
The 62-year-old, who was tipped
to run as a Socialist candidate in
French presidential elections next
year, has already undergone a
scientific and forensic
examination at the request of the Tristane Banon, a novelist and French election into disarray, as has such an impact on the the scandal threatened to
US government. journalist, previously made the the IMF chief was seen as a presidential election," Frederic undermine Europe's influence
He is accused of trapping a maid allegation against the leading strong contender for the position. Daby of pollster IFOP told within the body at a time when
at a luxury hotel in Manhattan and politician in 2007 on television Nicolas Sarkozy, the current Reuters television. "It's the euro single currency is in
sexually assaulting her. The and in an interview with a news president, is likely to have his unprecedented in France's crisis
woman, who has not been website, but she had not made a chances of re-election now political history." "It may well force the
identified, picked Strauss-Kahn formal complaint to authorities. improved, even if Strauss-Kahn The Socialists, who have no other organisation's members to
out of a line-up Sunday, as police Her mother, also a Socialist clears his name. candidate to match Strauss-Kahn, confront wider issues of European
said they had won a warrant to candidate, had previously urged Far-right leader Marine Le Pen, have vowed to press on with their influence over the fund, even as it
seek DNA evidence on his Banon not to press charges. who was predicted to come primary selection process. prepares to extend more rescue
clothes. "We're planning to make a second behind Strauss-Kahn in a The IMF has also been left loans to western Europe," the
Another assault accusation complaint. I am working with first round vote, also stands to reeling, with critical talks in paper said.
A French writer on Monday also her," Banon's lawyer David benefit given her long-running Brussels due to take place on But the European Commission
said she would make a complaint Koubbi said. complaint about French politics as Monday on the fallout of the debt has said the case should have no
against the IMF chief, claiming he The allegations against Strauss- an elitist boys' club. crisis sweeping the eurozone.
assaulted her in 2002. Kahn have thrown the 2012 "It is the first time a judicial affair London's Financial Times said IMF page 56
56 Featured/
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continued from page 54
Muammar Gaddafi himself, direct
evidence of Saif al-Islam
organising the recruitment of
mercenaries, and direct evidence
of the participation of Senussi in
the attacks against
demonstrators," Ocampo said.
The prosecution's investigation
into potential human rights
violations has spanned several
countries and involved around
1,500 documents, Al Jazeera's
Rory Challands said.
But the two-and-a-half months it
has taken to come up with a
petition for arrest warrants is a
"heartbeat in international
justice," he added.
Ocampo said he was able to
finish his investigation quickly
because the Gaddafi regime had
committed its crimes in only a
few cities, including Tripoli and
Benghazi, and because the crimes
had been committed in a short
time.
Investigators received numerous
phone calls from sources inside
Libya but took no official
testimony, since it would have put
IMF
continued from page 55
impact on bailout plans for
struggling eurozone nations.
Strauss-Kahn's deputy, John
Lipsky, has stepped in as acting
managing director.
"The IMF remains fully
functioning and operational," a
spokeswoman for the IMF said.
Paul Brennan, Al Jazeera's
reporter in Paris, the French
capital, said the incident had sent
shockwaves across France and the
them at risk, Ocampo said.
"Gaddafi ruled Libya through
fear, and Libyans are losing their
fear now," he said.
Pursuing ICC suspects
Despite NATO bombing
operations intended to protect
civilians, Libya has been plunged
into civil war, seriously
complicating efforts to arrest ICC
suspects.
In addition, the ICC has no police
force and must rely on states to
enforce any arrests - a strategy
which has failed to produce
results in the case of Omar al-
Bashir, the Sudanese president,
who is wanted for genocide in
Darfur.
Libya is not a member of the
ICC, but Ocampo said Libyan
authorities had primary
responsibility to make arrests and
that he expected Libyans to hand
over the three men on their own.
Richard Dicker, at New York-
based Human Rights Watch, said
the request for arrest warrants "is
a warning bell to others in Libya
that serious crimes there will be
international community.
"We're hearing rumours that Mr
Strauss-Kahn is considering
stepping down from the IMF,
notwithstanding any court
appearance or whether or not the
charges stick," our correspondent
said.
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Prosecutors are also investigating
allegations of mass rapes, war
crimes committed by different
parties and attacks against sub-
Saharan Africans wrongly seen as
mercenaries once the Libyan
situation developed into an armed
conflict.
Initially, prosecutors will rely on
a report from the UN Commission
of Inquiry set up by the Human
Rights Council, which itself is due
to report on the situation on June
7.
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army's responsibility ... and since
they are basically everywhere,
this is them telling us that
whatever happens in this country,
it will be referred to a military
prosecutor."
Human rights lawyer Ragia
Omran and relatives of the
detained protesters traveled to
Hikestep to visit the detainess and
gather more information about
them. As of Monday afternoon, it
was unclear whether
interrogations had begun or what
charges might be filed.
"We had an idea before that the
army and police aren't very good,"
Tumblr and my
Blork feed
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 6:51:25 AM
As you probably know, I'm using
my new Blork tool to do all my
link publishing these days. My
links flow, through RSS, to other
Blork users. And to Twitter, of
course. And now they flow to a
new place: Tumblr.
http://davelinks.tumblr.com/
I wanted to do this for three
reasons:
1. More and more people are
using Tumblr.
2. It's beautiful.
3. It seems uniquely suited to link
publishing. It even has a link type
post. And the templates account
for them.
Newstablet Edition
Khaled said. "But what happened
last night and what happened to
my friend made this idea
concrete."
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is working except for two things:
1. The order is all screwed up.
Every time I post a new item it's
like shuffling the deck.
2. The dates are wrong on the
posts. They all say May 16. Even
though most of them were
published on May 15.
I know that Tumblr has them in
the correct order in its database
because when I go to the
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order.
I see that other people are having
similar problems.
PS: My links flow to Tumblr
through its API. I'm not using
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Behind NBC's Sing-Off Decision
Michael Schneider
(TVGuide.com: Breaking News)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:32:00 AM
Committed
NBC's decision to turn singing
competition The Sing-Off into a
weekly series might be the biggest
surprise of the new fall season.
But it was a move that came only
after intense debate inside the
Peacock network over how and
when to air a second season of
new hit The Voice.
According to insiders, a faction
inside NBC was extremely keen
to find a way to keep The Voice
on the fall schedule, and the
choice was heavily examined.
"It was obviously much debated,"
confirms NBC Entertainment
alternative programming
executive vice president Paul
Telegdy.
Such a move would make sense:
The Voice talent competition has
given NBC some of its best
ratings in years, and has quickly
turned into a critical building
block for NBC's primetime
recovery. That's why many rivals
and TV analysts expected NBC to
rush the talent competition back
on the fall schedule. "Getting The
Voice on there is important," one
exec said prior to NBC's
announcement. "People are
responding to it."
And it could conceivably be
done: "If they tell me, within
reason, that they need The Voice,
I'll deliver it," executive producer
Mark Burnett told TV Guide
Magazine earlier this month. The
back-and-forth over The Voice
raged on until last Thursday,
when the network decided that it
just couldn't do a credible job in
bringing back The Voice too
soon. (The show will instead
launch in January, supported by a
heavy marketing push during the
Super Bowl.)
NBC Entertainment chairman
Bob Greenblatt told reporters
Sunday that one of his key goals
"is making sure The Voice is back
in as strong a format as possible.
[We want to] turn it into a multi-
year juggernaut for us."
NBC execs knew that they
wanted to use The Voice to
launch their most high-profile
new drama, the Steven Spielberg
musical Smash. In holding The
Voice to midseason, that also
meant keeping Smash off the fall
schedule. And with both of those
shows on the bench until
midseason, the network knew it
had to showcase something else
this fall. That's where The Sing-
Off came in.
The Sing-Off, which saw big
growth in its second season last
December, was originally
scheduled as a seasonal event
during the holidays. But the show
has been poised for bigger things
at NBC. Telegdy said The Sing-
Off was among the first shows
referenced by Greenblatt when the
exec arrived at NBC.
"Bob made a case that the show
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frontman Ben Folds, as judges.
Also back is executive producer
Joel Gallen, who signed off on the
move to fall as well. ("He's a
perfectionist and a music lover,"
Telegdy says). Nick Lachey is the
host.
Now, with The Sing-Off moving
to fall, Telegdy is looking to find
a new small TV franchise to air
during December holidays. But
Telegdy says he's not interested in
launching yet another talent or
singing competition.
Instead, options among the low-
budget shows available to fill that
holiday slot: Betty White's Off
Their Walkers hidden camera
was robust and showing strength," The Sing-Off pits teams of show, which already received an
Teledgy says. "He thought we acapella singers opposite each order from NBC. "NBC has had
should consider an elongated other. Telegdy says there will be a some success going into that part
series, and make it more of a few tweaks to The Sing-Off— of the year, so [it might be worth]
competition with stakes. The most notably, judge Nicole continuing experiments that could
quality of talent and musical Scherzinger will no longer be catch fire like The Sing-Off," he
performances is so good. He was involved. That's because she's the says.
confident in its potential." new host of Fox's The X Factor. Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine
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vibrant social media community. the final format of the show,"
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You Get Free Birth Control

Watercooler: Is It Time to In Maryland If You
Pull the Plug on Desperate Happen To Be A Deer
Phil Villarreal (The deer control. It is an option in

Housewives?
Damian Holbrook series opened with them all hiding
Consumerist)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:15:00 AM

Some frisky deer in Maryland

very limited circumstances and
will have virtually no
consequence in terms of day-to-
day deer management and deer
(TVGuide.com: Breaking News) something individually while now have the opportunity to get it hunting. It won't be used in 98
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:37:00 AM trying to crack the mystery of on without concern of possible percent of the state."
Mary Alice's suicide together. The parenthood, thanks to a state Select deer will be tranquilized
Felicity Huffman irony of them being linked by a directive to provide contraception and captured, then injected with
Can we just end it now? shared complicity in the crime to the animals in order to keep the the contraceptive, which is
Last night, Desperate would leave fans with the population under control. believed to be 80 percent
Housewives closed up its seventh assurance that these neighbors WBAL Baltimore reports the effective.
season with a two-hour endurance would forever be enmeshed and birth control, developed by the Maryland First State To Use Deer
challenge that was as stretched leave ABC's Sunday nights open U.S. Department of Agriculture Birth Control[WBAL Baltimore
out as it was a stretch. Oooh, to new options. With Brothers & and registered with the with the AP via Fark]
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Wisteria Lane! It's played out, and redevelop. You know, maybe The director of the state's on someone else's site, please read
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suburban septuagenarians in tacky good wife (big points to Tom for the Housewives to go home for "We feel good about being the You Don't Succeed - Four
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s i m p l e t o n w i t h s e v e r e l y secret—helping cover up Carlos' Topple Gadafi.
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Cheers & Jeers: A
Desperate Finale
Bruce Fretts (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:35:00 AM
Desperate Housewives
Jeers to Desperate Housewives
for wrapping up its seventh
season on an ugly note.
Want more Cheers & Jeers?
Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine.
The seemingly endless two-hour
finale of ABC's soap brought back
another Ugly Betty veteran, Tony
Plana, but unlike Vanessa
Williams, he was not put to good
use. He was miscast as Alejandro,
the presumed-dead stepfather who
raped Gaby (Eva Longoria) as a
virginal teenager and returned to
stalk her. After inexplicably
believing she'd chased him away
for good by pulling a gun on him
in the woods, Gaby was terrorized
by him again in her own
home—until husband Carlos
(Ricardo Antonio Chavira) hit
him in the head with a
candlestick, accidentally killing
him.
That's when things got really
weird. Rather than reporting the
incident—which seemed like a
clear case of justifiable homicide,
even though Alejandro didn't have
a weapon—Gaby and her fellow
Housewives covered it up from
their dinner-party guests,
including Bree's cop beau (the
unappetizing Jonathan Cake).
They stored the corpse in a trunk
and gaily ate dessert in the same
room. Apparently, the show's
writers feel like the ladies of
Wisteria Lane need a "secret" to
bind them together for the
eighth—and, we hope,
final—season. But like Bree's
burnt entreé, this twist just left a
bad taste in our mouths.
What did you think of Desperate
Housewives' finale?
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now!
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Accused Of Turning
Kids Into Gamblers
Phil Villarreal (The
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Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:30:00 AM
According to a potential class
action suit filed by a San Diego
mom, kiddie-themed pizza chain
Chuck E. Cheese's is a gambling
parlor disguised as a venue for
innocent entertainment.
The San Diego Union-Tribune
reports the suit targets seemingly
skill-based games that take tokens
and spit out tickets. She says the
games are closer to chance-based
games such as slot machines, and
that they "create the same highs
and lows experienced by adults
who gamble their paychecks or
the mortgage payment."
The woman filing the suit is
asking for a jury trial and $5
million in damages and
restitution.
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According to the story, Chuck E.
Cheese's has argued that its
machines are not illegal, and that
even if they are, the woman has
no right to receive damages
because she's allowed her kids to
play the games in question,
making her an admitted
participant in the activity she's
questioning.
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2012 Schedule
Jean Bentley (TV Squad)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 4:30:00 AM
Filed under: Reality-Free, TV
News In advance of this
afternoons Upfront presentation in
New York, Fox announced its fall
2011 TV schedule this morning.
There aren't any big surprises,
aside from the'Bones' spinoff
'Finder' getting its debut at
midseason instead of this fall as a
contingency plan for Emily
Deschanel's pregnancy like many
predicted.
The long-delayed 'Terra Nova'
finally gets its official debut this
fall, with the Steven Spielberg-
produced dinosaur show airing
Monday nights at 8PM before
'House.' 'The X Factor' takes over
'American Idol''s time slot, and
will help launch a new comedy on
Wednesday nights.
Another interesting tidbit to note:
'America's Most Wanted' has been
discontinued as a regular TV
series; after 23 years Fox has
decided to bring back the show in
the form of occasional specials.
Check out the full lineup after the
jump.
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Jukebox: The More
Things Change…
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal) Billy Murray - If You Talk In
Submitted at 5/16/2011 9:00:00 AM Your Sleep, Don't Mention My
Name
About a week ago, the Library of Now that you've listened, can you
Congress announced the opening really say the plot is any different
of a new fully searchable National from the 80's hit Human, the 90's
Jukebox, accessible via the web. hit O.P.P. or even the god-awful
Naturally, most people didn't bat 70's hit Escape (The Pina Colada
an eye, because who cares about Song)? The answer is no, you
classic old recordings from the can't say that, not even a little bit.
dawn of music? Well, you should So come on inside, where we've
care, because today's society- sorted out six tracks to show off
destroying lyrics have NOTHING exactly why the new National
on the vice from back then. For an Jukebox is kinda cool, and the
appetizer, check out this story of a music still very relevant.
young couple who just can't
NEW page 62
commit:

Velocity Micro
DTotD: Cruz Azul keeper rocks Cruz 7”
Moriela coach with a headbutt
Brooks Peck (Y! Sports Blogs - shortly after the 88th minute noticed until after the final whistle like the falcon punch of headbutts.
Android Tablet
(Woot! - One Day, One Deal)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 12:00:05 AM
Yahoo! Sports) winner that the violence took blew. At first it might seem as if The referee didn't see this happen
Submitted at 5/16/2011 8:19:35 AM over. First, a Morelia fan invaded Cruz Azul goalkeeper Jesus since he was distracted by the Trans-Human Error
the pitch, sparking a brawl with Corona was holding hands with other brawling players, but luckily (gulp) Well, that’s the (cough) last
The Mexican Clausura semifinal Cruz Azul players that resulted in Morelia assistant coach Sergio the TV cameras did. And I'm of it. It wasn’t easy, but I finally
second leg between Morelia and three red cards -- two for Cruz Martin while they had a nice chat, guessing all of those slow motion swallowed that Android Tablet.
Cruz Azul was a bit of a mess. Azul's Isaac Romo and Christian but it soon becomes clear that replays will add up to a ban for I love living in the future. Do you
After losing the first leg 2-0, Gimenez and one for Morelia's there was nothing nice about it Jesus. know how long I’ve dreamed
Morelia stormed back to win the Miguel Sabah. and oh my God -- Corona just Video via 101gg about being able to swallow a pill
second leg 3-0 and advance on an As ugly as that was, the worst blasted him in square in the face
aggregate score of 3-2. And it was incident of the night wasn't with a wicked headbutt. That was VELOCITY page 61
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VELOCITY
continued from page 60
and turn into an android? Just
when I was feeling like I’d never
leave this squishy, meaty body
behind, along comes the Velocity
Micro R101 Cruz 7” Android
Tablet.
OK, it doesn’t feel too good so
far. But if I’m understanding the
included documentation correctly,
once this tablet takes effect, I will
grow a 4:3, 7”, 800x600 full-color
touch screen. I’ll have the power
to play movies and music,
connect to 802.11b/g Wi-Fi,
browse the web, access over 2
million ebooks, and do much,
much more. My imperfect old
body couldn’t even go out in the
sunshine without having a
sneezing fit.
So bring it on, Velocity Micro
R101 Cruz Android Tablet! I’m
ready to transcend the bounds of
the biological and be reborn anew
as a perfect mobile computing
machine! Hail the new man, the
living fusion of- ugh, ow. OW.
Weird pain in my – ugh – gut, but
soon I’ll be beyond all that!
Hey, Kevin’s calling me. He’ll be
the first to know! Hang on, lemme
take this. Hello?
Hey, guess what? I’m about to
turn into a robot!
No joke! I swallowed this
Android Tablet a little while ago,
and now I’m just waiting-
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Yeah, I said I swallowed an
Android Tablet. A Velocity Micro
R101 Cruz Android Tablet. Why?
Wait, are you serious?
Authorized for SquareTrade
Extended Warranty
Warranty: 1 year Velocity Micro
Condition: New
Features:
• Crystal clear 4:3, 7”, 800x600
full-color touch screen display –
ideal for viewing ebooks and
magazines, web pages, and
movies
• Bring your favorite movies on a
plane without the hassle of a
portable DVD player or laptop,
with support for MPEG-4 and
H.264 video formats
• Listen to your favorite tunes in
MP3, WMA, AAC, or WAV
formats
• Share pictures from your last
vacation with JPEG, GIF, PNG,
and BMP support
• Install Android applications
from the Cruz Market, Amazon
Appstore, or other third-party
sources
• Allows you to view Microsoft®
Office files, including Excel®
Spreadsheets, Word® Documents,
and even PowerPoint®
Presentations
• Built-in tilt activated
accelerometer
• Mini USB and SD card slot for
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easier with their breathtaking
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geothermal hot springs in
upgradable storage
• Built-in Dictionary, Notepad,
Calendar, Alarm Clock, Contacts,
Games, and other useful apps
• Access to over 2 Million ebooks
via included Borders E-book
library portal application
• 10+ Hour battery life (user
replaceable)
• 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and full
browser support
• NOTE: Google does not permit
access to the official Android
Market at this time
• Product User Guide(not
included in box)
Technical Specifications: Display
Diagonal Size: 7 in Max
Resolution: 800x600 Technology:
TFT Resistive Touch Operating
System Android 2.0 Memory
RAM: 256MB Built-In Storage:
4GB (internal micro SDHC)
EBook Reader Supported Still
Image Formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG,
PNG Supported Text Formats:
EPUB, HTML, PDF, TXT Input
Device Touch Screen Card
Readers External: SD/SDHC/
MMC
Internal: 4GB micro SDHC (pre-
installed) External Ports Mini
USB
Headphone Jack Networking
Wireless Connectivity: IEEE
802.11b, IEEE 802.11g Wireless
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Protocol: 802.11b/g Audio Output
Integrated Speakers Audio Output
Formats AAC, MP3, WAV,
WMA Video Output Formats
H.263, H.264, MPEG-4 Office
Document Supported Formats
DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT,
PPTX, PPS Battery Type:
Lithium Ion (pre-installed) Life:
10+ Hours Weight 16oz
Dimensions 7.5”H x 5.6”W x
Apple Peanut
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Additional Photos: Butter
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Sandwich
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• Cruz Back
• Packaging "What? You've never eaten an
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• (1) Velocity Micro R101 Cruz (11) upon hearing that no, I had
7” Android Tablet not, and indeed somehow that rite
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Before we get started, be aware
that some of these song might be
NSFW. We tried hard to find only
clean ones, but sometimes things
slip through. If you're at work, put
on headphones, or don't blame us
if your co-workers wash your
mouth out with soap. All ready?
Josie Sadler - Beerland
Listen, dear friends, to the Missy
Elliot of 1909. The prohibition
movement was gearing up and
smashing barrels left and right,
and some states were already
turning dry. But Josie Sadler
wasn't giving in to "The Man" so
easily. Instead, she dreamed up
this world, borrowed a cool loop
from 1903's Toyland(which you
can hear in an updated version
here) then boom, she had a hit on
her hands. And by hit, we mean
we have no idea how it sold but
we're assuming it did well. Really,
look at how many rappers have
made a career talking about
nothing but weed. America's all
about the vice, yo. We're sure
Josie Sadler was swimming in
nickels.
Billy Murray - She Sells Sea
Shells
The idea of the recording artist
getting shafted by his bosses,
well, that doesn't exactly start and
end with The Sex Pistols. Poor
Billy here laments how he can be
handed something he doesn't want
to do, but still has to make the
most of it… or else. Also good to
remember is that in 1909,
recording's weren't from some
master edit, they were made live,
and in small batches. There's a
good chance Billy sang "She Sells
Sea Shells" a twenty times in a
row before he got paid. Try to
sing the chorus for eight hours
straight and see just how long you
last. You may not like his song,
but you gotta respect his skills.
Duncan Sisters - Crossword
Puzzle Blues
1924: The New York Times calls
crosswords are "a primitive form
of mental exercise" and condemns
the practice. And yet, for most of
the nation, crosswords are the
very latest thing. Sort of like how
the 1970's gave us Pinball Wizard
and the 1980's gave us Pac-Man
Fever and the 1990's gave us
Trent Reznor's Quake. Plus this
ode to the crossword invites a
question: where's the current
generation's novelty song? Or
have NSFW viral hits taken their
place?
Collins And Harlan - The
Mississippi Dippy Dip
Hear those lyrics? Update the
production and add a steel guitar,
you'll probably end up with
something not much different than
Josh Turner. Drop in a keyboard
and a drum machine, you're
edging close to Lady Gaga. Plus
check out that fantastic Danny
Elfman style bridge, and notice
how smoothly they spell
Mississippi? It's a great place for
the crowd to sing along, which
makes it good music for people
who are drunk. Think maybe they
opened for Josie Sadler?
Billy B. Van - Mickey The Pum
Pum Man
Tiddley um pum um pum
tiddleaddy um pum um pum
tiddleddy ay. We can all name a
song about a guy who makes his
name in music, right? Maybe
Piano Man or Jukebox Hero or
maybe even stretched to include
Kanye's rap on Jay-Z's Run This
Town, there are a ton of songs
where some poor slob goes from
rags to riches thanks to the way he
can sing, play or rap. But in 1916?
After hearing this, we think there's
a good chance Billy B. Van
created that whole genre by
himself. Of course, we're too lazy
to research our theory, so if one of
you guys could look into that and
report back, we'd really appreciate
it. Thanks in advance.
Bob Roberts - The Umpire Is A
Most Unhappy Man
On the other hand, we're certain
that Bob Roberts didn't invent the
idea of being mad at authority.
Heck, he didn't even invent being
mad at the umpire (that probably
happened in the very first game).
What he did do is make what
sounds like an early diss track,
easily predating stuff like The
Bridge and Hit 'Em Up by about
eighty or ninety years. "The only
job that's worse/is driver on a
hearse" would have gotten some
real street cred back in 1985 New
York.
Hopefully now everyone can see
why using the National Jukebox
can make you a better person.
Whether you're trying to prove
that Emo isn't new or just looking
for a potential prequel to a later
hit, all that old history is now
ready and waiting. So check out
our new National Jukebox and
find something you've never heard
before. Besides, how can we
lobby them to add more if nobody
listens to what's already there?
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Science:
Educated Women
Choose
Prostitution
(The Feed)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 8:13:38 AM
[ Via: UPI]
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., May 15
(UPI) — Prostitution is illegal
except for a few areas of the
United States, but some educated
women work in the sex industry
by choice, researchers says.
Jennifer Hafer, a doctoral
student, and economics Professor
Amy Farmer of the University of
Arkansas say contrary to
conventional wisdom that women
enter prostitution because they are
desperate — they need money to
pay bills or buy drugs — many
educated and affluent women are
making a rational decision to
enter certain segments of the
“world’s oldest profession.”. . .
It’s science so it must be
true.— GP
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• For a photo gallery of Sunday's
Game 1 action, click here.
• For a fans' photo gallery from
Game 1, click here.
VANCOUVER — Henrik
Sedin(notes) has been so good for
so long that he is held to a
different standard than most
players. For starters, he's not
allowed to be hurt.
The Canucks captain himself
doesn't accept that kind of
slackery. Sedin hasn't missed a
National Hockey League game
since the lockout. His red hair is
actually rust because Sedin is
made of iron.
Even when he is injured, he's not.
He tolerates no excuses and has
allowed himself no leeway for the
many nights over the years when
he is not fully fit.
Nights like these ones.
“Of course, there are going to be
nights when you're not feeling
100 per cent; that happens to
everyone,” Sedin said Sunday
after helping drive the Canucks to
a 3-2 victory against the San Jose
Sharks, opening Vancouver's first
conference final series since 1994.
“It's a tough sport and that's what
you have to battle through. You
still have to have high standards,
otherwise … you might as well sit
in the press box. My thing is, if
you're out on the ice, you should
be 100 per cent.”
If Sedin isn't going to cut himself
any slack, the rest us sure as heck
aren't.
Our record is pretty clear on this.
Sedin had a goal and assist —
both in the third period Sunday —
which means he's the NHL's
reigning Hart Trophy winner.
If he goes pointless in Game 2 on
Wednesday, he's the Swede who
has been blanked in seven of the
last 11 playoff games.
And he's under contract for three
more years at $6.1-million!
How did we get this way?
For an alternate perspective on
Henrik and Daniel Sedin(notes),
here was Sharks coach Todd
McLellan: “One was the most
valuable player in the league last
year and one is going to be the
most valuable player in the league
this year. So do we worry about
them? Absolutely. In fact, I told
our group prior to the game that
there's a lot of focus on Ryan
Kesler(notes)— and deservingly
so — but the two, three guys we
really needed to focus on was that
[Sedin] line. I don't know what
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happened in the Nashville series.
But I know we have a tonne of
respect for both of them.”
Here's what happened in the
Nashville series: Henrik left the
Canucks bench late in the third
period of a game that went to
overtime to have treatment on
something, then returned.
Sedin won't even admit he's hurt.
Asked why he did not practise
with teammates Thursday and
Friday, Henrik joked that he's the
coach's favorite.
A good sense of humour is a
necessary survival skill for
hockey players in Vancouver, and
the Sedins have relied on theirs
heavily these playoffs.
Watch closely the next time the
twins — heretofore identical —
have a battling shift in the
offensive zone. On Sunday,
Daniel had both hands on his stick
for leverage, and used all his force
to win or control the puck. Most
times, Henrik had one hand on his
stick, used the other as a brace
against his opponent, and prodded
and poked at the puck.
“That's because he's stronger than
me,” Daniel said of the puck-
battle technique.
Again, with the humour.
If I was gambling, I'd take back
in the injury pool but who knows?
Maybe we'll find out when the
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How the Heat played into the Bulls' hands -

ESPN.com
(- Bing News) that they couldn't combat the from Joel Anthony, then option. That means it's imperative So here are the Heat, with five
Submitted at 5/16/2011 8:48:56 AM Bulls' defense with isolation encountered -- quite predictably -- to have enough time to run seconds remaining on the shot
attacks, yet there they were in the two bodies at the border of the through counters, execute triggers clock and the ball has yet to cross
As bad as the situation was on the third quarter trying to penetrate paint. LeBron pitches the ball to and manufacture secondary the 3-point arc. If there's a longer,
defensive glass, the Miami Heat the half court with ... isolation Wade, who has been hanging out options. Against a defense as savvier isolation defender at the
couldn't generate a thing on the attacks. Take the possession at the on the right wing. stingy as Chicago's, you need shooting guard position in the
offensive end in the second half 2:30 mark with the Heat down In the last series, Wade zipped up every second on the shot clock to NBA than Brewer, we're taking
against the Chicago Bulls' stifling six. James working at the top of from the corner with a vengeance, work through these sequences. nominations. Yet, in a crucial
defense. the key, gets a screen from James at full speed. He'd collect the ball That's why it's odd to see the possession with the game slipping
All that nice-looking stuff they Jones that yields a mismatch on the move, turn the corner and Heat meandering across the time away, the Heat have Wade
executed against the Boston against Taj Gibson -- though not stop until he found rim. But line at the 1:05 mark of the third dribbling in place against Brewer
Celtics -- the pretty weakside Gibson's agility and instincts don't on Sunday night, he never found quarter, trailing by nine. By the with everyone on the floor in a
actions for LeBron James in make him much of a downgrade. that corner and kept running time James steps out to 25 feet to stationary position.
Games 4 and 5 of their Eastern Normally, a power driver like uphill. Even as LeBron throws a receive the first pass from Mike Wade drives, gets as far as the
Conference semifinal series, the James would back out a big man, body into Keith Bogans -- Wade's Bibby, there are only 14 seconds elbow, then realizes the shot clock
reversals to James Jones in Game then take him off the dribble, and defender -- Wade dribbles remaining on the shot clock. And is about to expire. He tosses up a
1, Dwyane Wade in constant that appears to be his initial plan. tentatively to the top of the key by the time Anthony arrives for desperate, fallaway, contested
motion within confines of the LeBron makes a little progress where he finds Joakim Noah, who the angle screen on the right jumper that clanks off the front of
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playoffs are over, maybe not.
If Sedin were another player,
perhaps with a lesser salary or
different birthplace — like one in
Canada — he would be lionized
for his toughness in playing
through injury and his willingness
to get out front and lead at a time
when expectations and pressure
on the Canucks have never been
higher.
But the Sedins long ago accepted,
even embraced, the idea that there
are no excuses for them.
They produce or they don't.
And Sunday they did.
Henrik started the play on the
tying goal at 7:02 of the third
period when he chipped the puck
into space for Alex Burrows,
whose pass allowed defenceman
Kevin Bieksa(notes) to beat San
Jose goalie Antti Niemi(notes)
stick-side from about 30 feet.
Sedin scored the winner 79
seconds later, taking Christian
Ehrhoff's(notes) goalmouth pass
and catching Niemi going the
wrong way, before gently sliding
a backhand into an unguarded net.
Kesler had made a terrific play to
shield the puck along the boards
and find Ehrhoff open at the
point.
“I saw a 2-on-1 in front of the net
and their defenceman took away
Danny because he wanted the
puck really badly, too,” Ehrhoff
said. “He was slapping his stick
[on the ice] and that got the D's
attention. It opened up Hank a
little more and he did the rest.
“I know he's taking a lot of
criticism. It's at times very unfair.
But that's just the way it goes
here.”
Henrik has 11 points in 14
playoff games. Only 13 players
have more points in this Stanley
Cup tournament. Daniel has 10
points. But the twins have
identical minus-8’s, almost
entirely amassed in two games.
The Sedins were obviously
negligent again near the end of the
first period Sunday when Canucks
goalie Roberto Luongo(notes)
heeled an attempted outlet pass
from behind his net onto the stick
of Shark Joe Thornton(notes),
who scored on the gift.
“Our job is to score goals and
produce,” Daniel reiterated. “For
us, like I said before, we can't be
Gaming/ 65
down on ourselves because we're
not scoring. If you create enough,
the puck's going to go in sooner or
later.”
And the Henrik factor?
“You have to play like you're 100
per cent; there's no other way,”
Danny said. “If Henrik's out there,
he has to play as good as he can.”
Maybe he is.
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UNC recruit P.J. Hairston: Duke

couldn’t ‘spell my name right’
Jeff Eisenberg (Y! Sports Blogs on decorated small forward
- Yahoo! Sports) Michael Gbinije, likely a good fit
Submitted at 5/16/2011 8:29:08 AM in a star-studded class that
includes guards Austin Rivers and
If North Carolina incoming Quinn Cook, forward Alex
freshman P.J. Hairston has big Murphy and center Marshall
games against Duke throughout Plumlee.
his college career, the Blue Devils The other reason Hairston lists
staffer in charge of mailing for not selecting Duke is actually
monthly letters to recruits may get more unusual than the first. He
some dirty looks around the
basketball office.
told the News-Record that Duke's
system is too "mechanical" for
Iowa golf coach
Hairston, a McDonald's All-
American small forward from
him, a strange complaint
considering Krzyzewski's offense
arrested for
Greensboro, N.C., decided to
remain close to home in college,
is typically fast-paced and free- driving team to
flowing.
so two of the programs to which "Don't get me wrong. Duke is a meet while drunk
he immediately gravitated were great school," Hairston said. "It Jonathan Wall (Y! Sports Blogs
Duke and North Carolina. He told wasn't just because they couldn't - Yahoo! Sports)
the Greensboro News-Record one spell my name right why I didn't
Submitted at 5/16/2011 8:24:51 AM
of the reasons the Tar Heels ended go there. I don't feel that I'm a
letters and HAIR and STON. I'm the same last name as a current
up being the more appealing Duke-type player, because they Playing in a high school
trying to figure out how that's so member of the Duke roster, guard
choice was because they had less have a crazy system. It's like conference tournament was
hard." Josh Hairston.
trouble getting his name correct. mechanical. pressure enough for the Fairfield
There's no way of verifying Of course, Duke certainly won't
"The thing about Duke was, every "I couldn't see myself playing at (Iowa) High School girls golf
whether Hairston is embellishing miss Hairston all that much
time they sent me a letter, they Duke …" he said. "I realized team. But head coach Susie
or not, but it would be quite a considering Mike Krzyzewski
wouldn't spell my name right," North Carolina is where I wanted Steinbeck decided to add a little
blunder from the Blue Devils if it managed to land the second-best
Hairston said. "They would have to be." more pressure to the situation by
happened even once or twice. Not 2011 recruiting class in the nation
'T.J. Harrison' or something like showing up the morning of the
only does Rivals.com rank behind only Kentucky. The Blue
that. And I'm like, 'OK. How can meet and driving the girls on the
Hairston the No. 13 prospect in Devils used the vacant scholarship
I go here? You can't even spell team to the tournament with a
the Class of 2011, he also shares that would have gone to Hairston
my name right.' It's only two blood alcohol level of .212, which
is more two and a half times
Iowa's legal limit to operate a
motor vehicle of .08.
Swerving all over the road during
the trip, Steinbeck took the team
IOWA page 67
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on a harrowing 90 minute trip
from Fairfield to the team's meet
in Keokuk. Sensing that
something was wrong with their
head coach, the Des Moines
Register reported that some of the
girls on the team started to text
their parents in case they crashed.
"Ohh myy goshh susie is going to
kill us! She cant stay on the road!
So in case this is the last time i
talk to you i love you! :)" team
of the way by another parent.
The worst part of all is that this
reportedly wasn't the first time
that Steinbeck had gotten behind
the wheel drunk with the golf
team.
"(My daughter) Liz complained to
me in the past that Susie had a
problem controlling vehicles,
wandering all over the road,"
Daryn Hamilton told the Des
Moines Register. "I kind of
parents of the kids she was
transporting, but also with the
school and the state of Iowa.
It's miracle that Steinbeck never
wrecked the SUV and injured the
girls on the team. Hopefully this
story is a wake up call for parents
if their child ever complains of a
coach driving erratically on the
roads to a sporting event.
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Hamilton, that morning.

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member Elizabeth Hamilton said
in a text to her dad, Daryn
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don't pay much attention when
they drive.'
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Soon after Hamilton received the
text, he phoned the police and
Steinbeck was pulled over and
arrested for drunk driving and
"I kind of didn't think much of it.
In retrospect, that probably wasn't
the best thing."
Steinbeck, who teaches
child endangerment about
charts
midway through the 60-mile trip.
The team was transported the rest
"computer-related classes at
Fairfield Middle School, is now in
hot water not only with the
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BRINK top spot
68 on the

Gears of War 3 Limited and Epic Edition

extras revealed
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Submitted at 5/16/2011 11:30:00 AM Tom Bissell (author of "Extra Limited and Epic Edition extras
Lives") about the art and design of revealed
Listen, everyone -- your desk the shooter; an "Octus Service Gears of War 3 Limited and Epic
simply isn't intimidating enough. Medal;" and everything else Edition extras revealed originally
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UK all-formats charts last week,
and even the PlayStation 3
version (which couldn't support
online play last week) became the
best seller on the platform. With
the PSN restored, it should soon
receive the matchmaking updates
added to the Xbox 360 version.
Lego Pirates of the Caribbean
sailed into second for its debut,
while Zumba Fitness held a solid
footing at third, experiencing only
a two percent drop in sales.
The rest of the top ten is a mix of
the regulars, except for THQ's
MX vs ATV Alive, which
premiered in the tenth spot. It'll be
interesting to see how that "
budget" title performs on the
charts, since most of its revenue is
expected to come from DLC.
Head past the break for the UK
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Video: Space Shuttle Endeavour
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Space Station One Last Time
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left Earth for the last time Kelly said. "In these efforts we shuttle is also delivering the
Monday, carrying a physics are often tested. It is in the DNA Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer,
experiment and spare parts to the of our great country to reach for which will search for dark matter
International Space Station. It was the stars and explore. We must and other cosmic phenomena.
a bittersweet moment for shuttle not stop." The crew is leaving behind a
followers who watched the This was at least in part a tacit piece of their ship - Endeavour's
shuttle's picture-perfect liftoff reference Kelly's wife, U.S. Rep. orbiter boom sensor system,
with the knowledge that there's Gabrielle Giffords, who was which could serve as an extension
only one of these left. critically injured in a shooting for the station's robotic arm. After
Commander Mark Kelly had rampage at a town hall meeting Endeavour undocks, Kelly and
some poignant words in the with constituents earlier this year. pilot Greg H. Johnson will ease
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David Horowitz at UCLA
Frontpagemag.com (FrontPage
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Submitted at 5/15/2011 11:19:38 PM
Watch the video of Horowitz’s
ferociously-opposed presentation
last week before a crowd of more
than 300 people at the University
of California:
Q&A below:
Read also Mark Tapson’s
coverage of the speech below:
Horowitz and Intellectual
Terrorism at UCLA
By Mark Tapson
Last Wednesday, evening the
Freedom Center’s David
Horowitz gave a much
anticipated and ferociously
opposed presentation before a
crowd of more than 300 people at
Moore Hall at the University of
California at Los Angeles. The
event was hosted by the Bruin
Republicans, self-described as
“the only officially right-of-center
organization on the UCLA
campus” – which is a good, albeit
disheartening, indicator of the
very issue Horowitz has been
addressing on hundreds of
campuses across this country, and
which was the evening’s topic:
the fact that our institutions of
supposedly higher learning are
utterly dominated by intolerant
progressive academics who are ill
-serving and mentally straight-
jacketing their students.
Horowitz’s speech was as blunt
as the title of his presentation –
“Intellectual Terrorism: The
Left’s War on Free Speech.”
Pacing back and forth at the front
of the hall, he was revved up right
out of the gate and became even
more impassioned as he went on.
He began the wide-ranging, forty
-minute speech with a
condemnation of academics who
indoctrinate rather than teach
(“The students who suffer most
are those of you who are on the
left, because your assumptions are
never challenged.”) Among other
topics, he went on to decry
campus anti-Semitism and to
identify Islam as the greatest
oppressor of women and gays in
the world today. He delivered a
myth-busting history of
“Palestine” and a concise
explanation of his opposition to
slavery reparations a hundred
years after the fact. And he
attacked the Muslim Student
Association, ubiquitous on major
college campuses, as a creation of
the Muslim Brotherhood, a
supporter of the terrorist
organization Hamas and the
sponsor of Israel Apartheid weeks
across the country.
Politics-Right/ 71
Muslims are of theirs.
But considering that Horowitz is
frequently the target of organized
disruption on the part of certain
antagonistic student groups, this
UCLA crowd was notably and
unexpectedly quiet and respectful.
There were literally no
interruptions, heckling or
outbursts, apart from frequent
applause from a largely
supportive crowd (and one other
I’ll describe in a moment).
Horowitz seemed so disarmed by
this that he commented on it and
commended the crowd for it more
than once, eventually confessing
that his many previous difficult
campus experiences may have
inclined him to a bit of paranoia.
However, the audience’s civility
belied the atmosphere of
intimidation under which the
event was organized in the first
place. In addition to the usual
concerns which prompted the
hiring of private security, there
was more subtle coercion at work.
He was flanked throughout the The Bruin Republicans were the
speech by very visible security – a only student group that dared host
tragic necessity for Horowitz, Horowitz; no Jewish group at
who is a lightning rod for some of UCLA would sponsor him or
the most bilious hatred that has p a r t i c i p a t e i n e r e c t i n g t h e
e v e r b e e n d i r e c t e d a t a Freedom Center’s “ Palestinian
conservative public figure. He Wall of Lies,” designed to
regularly receives threats prior to counteract campus campaigns
speaking engagements and has in a g a i n s t I s r a e l ’ s s o - c a l l e d
fact been physically attacked. “apartheid state;” indeed, one of
This is the inevitable result of his those Jewish groups told a Bruin
having once been a radical leftist Republican organizer that she
himself, for the Left is only would be ostracized by the Jewish
marginally more forgiving of its
apostates than fundamentalist DAVID page 74
72 Politics-Right/ Newstablet Edition

Stalemate in Libya
Rick Moran (FrontPage two weeks – since the reported negotiated way out. In Brussels,
Magazine » FrontPage) death of his son after a Tomahawk NATO spokeswoman Carmen
Submitted at 5/15/2011 11:17:04 PM cruise missile struck his living Romero said,“There can be no
quarters in Tripoli on April 30. solely military solution to the
As the war in Libya enters its This led to speculation, both crisis in Libya” – a significant
third month, forces loyal to official and unofficial, that statement coming from a source
Muammar Gaddafi have finally Gaddafi may have been badly that was saying one month ago
been pushed out of the rebel-held injured or killed in the same that “Gaddafi must go.”
city of Misrata after a siege action. Ostensibly, any negotiated
lasting for most of the conflict. But Gaddafi appeared in a news solution would involve the
But the fact that a reversal might clip on Thursday taken at a dictator, and anything short of
take place at any time highlights downtown Tripoli hotel meeting Gaddafi leaving the country and
an emerging truth about the with tribal leaders. While there handing the rebels total victory
NATO-led action: the only was no sound from the clip, the would be a humiliation for NATO
decisive blow that could be struck camera panned in on a desk clock and the UN.
by the UN forces to end the that read“Wednesday, May 11.” It is doubtful that there will be
conflict is the killing of Gaddafi. NATO refuses to say whether the victory on the battlefield for the
Meanwhile, members of the air strikes a few hours later were opposition forces despite their
Obama administration will meet t h e r e s u l t o f G a d d a f i ’ s first real success in weeks that
with the leadership of the Libyan a p p e a r a n c e . “ N A T O i s n o t occurred in the besieged city of
National Transitional Council in targeting individuals,” Brigadier Misrata. A battle that raged for
W a s h i n g t o n o n F r i d a y t o General Claudio Gabellini was complex in the middle of of hostilities was echoed by days at the airport ended with
underscore American support for quoted as saying. Gaddafi’s fortified compound. If NGOs and other aid groups in Gaddafi’s forces completely
the rebels. At the UN, Secretary While there are reports of unrest they are not targeting the dictator Libya where a humanitarian routed and the rebels in total
General Ban Ki-Moon has called in the Gaddafi stronghold of directly, it can be said that they disaster is occurring in cities like control. Significantly, opposition
for a ceasefire to address the Tripoli, the dictator’s forces would not be unhappy if one of Misrata. The western port city has forces pushed Gaddafi’s army far
massive humanitarian crisis appear to have a firm grip on the their air strikes were to catch little food, fuel, or water for the enough away from Misrata so that
caused by the war, especially in population and there is little Gaddafi in the wrong place at the people who haven’t fled the city most of the city is now free of
the city of Misrata. And despite chance that a revolt that might wrong time. with a pre-war population of bombardment. The indiscriminate
claims from NATO that they are overthrow Gaddafi could erupt in NATO should hope that its luck 100,000. use of artillery and tank fire killed
only hitting “military targets” in the capitol. on that score changes soon. Ban’s call may fall on deaf ears thousands of civilians and resulted
Tripoli, another air strike smashed Nevertheless, NATO has stepped Secretary General Ki-Moon has at the moment – the rebels in most of the remaining
a n u n d e r g r o u n d b u n k e r i n up attacks against Tripoli in called for“an immediate, unceremoniously rejected it – but inhabitants moving into
Gaddafi’s compound just hours r e c e n t d a y s , h i t t i n g verifiable cease-fire” in Libya on as the conflict drags on into its basements and cellars.
after he made an appearance on communications and “command Wednesday and freedom of third month with no end in sight,
Libyan television. and control facilities” last night, movement for humanitarian pressure may begin to come from
The dictator had not been seen in including an underground bunker workers. The call for a cessation NATO for some kind of
Newstablet Edition
Israel Invaded
Robert Spencer (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 5/15/2011 11:20:38 PM
Israel was invaded Sunday.
This time, however, the invaders
weren’t armed forces.
Nonetheless, they did not come in
peace, and their attempt to enter
Israel was no less an act of war
than the invasions of 1967 and
1973, and the rockets that
jihadists regularly shoot into
Israel from Gaza.
Thousands of Palestinian Arabs
tried to enter the country from
Lebanon, Syria, Gaza and Judea
and Samaria. Their declared
intention – announced weeks ago
on Facebook – was to return to
the lands from which they had
been expelled in 1948. The
Facebook page made clear the
sinister intentions of Sunday’s
action: it was entitled “Third
Palestinian Intifada,” and after it
posted numerous calls for
violence against Israel, Facebook
took it down – after it had gained
350,000 members.
“The leaders of these violent
demonstrations,” explained Israeli
Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu, “their struggle is not
over the 1967 borders but over the
very existence of Israel, which
they describe as a catastrophe that
must be resolved. It is important
that we look with open eyes at the
reality and be aware of whom we
are dealing with and what we are
dealing with.”
Indeed. And what they are
dealing with is precisely what has
been obscured, ignored, and
denied, by Western governments
and the mainstream media, for
decades now. The Obama
administration is just the latest
U.S. administration to assume that
Israel’s enemies can be negotiated
with and placated with some
agreement. The fact that every
such compromise has failed never
shakes this core belief, or leads
policy analysts to realize that
Israel is dealing with an
Politics-Right/ 73
unappeasable jihadist enemy.
No state has ever successfully
reached a negotiated settlement
with a jihadist enemy who avows
a religious obligation to destroy it.
So why is Israel constantly
expected to be the first? Barack
Obama and virtually everyone
else in power in America and
Europe assume that the violent
demonstrators who breached
Israel’s borders on Sunday will
ultimately be pacified once a
Palestinian state is set up. Yet as
Hamas is now merging with the
“moderates” of Fatah with whom
Obama and others have been
dealing, it is useful to recall that
the Hamas Charter of August
1988 declares that “nothing is
loftier or deeper in nationalism
than waging Jihad against the
enemy and confronting him when
he sets foot on the land of the
Muslims.” When will this Jihad
end? The Hamas Charter quotes
Hasan al-Banna, the founder of
the Muslim Brotherhood: “Israel
will rise and will remain erect
until Islam eliminates it as it had
eliminated its predecessors.”
74 Social Media/ Politics/ Newstablet Edition
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continued from page 71

community on campus if she

participated in arranging
Horowitz’s presentation – a
threat that was probably
unfounded and that she ignored,
to her credit.
Evidently, however, the Muslim
Students Association and Students
for Justice in Palestine – both
singled out by Horowitz as groups
conducting a hate campaign
against Jews on college campuses
– decided to sit the speech out.
The only questions about Islam
after the speech were raised by a
couple of members of
conservative organizations who
asked Horowitz to comment on
the threat of Sharia and the
existence of moderate Muslims.
Regarding the former, he pointed
out that people are so focused on
violent terrorism that they fail to
recognize the more subtle threat
on the cultural front. As to
moderate Muslims, he noted that
there are good and bad people in
all religions; there were probably
many Germans who did not
support Nazism either, he said,
but their existence didn’t make a
damn bit of difference in terms of
halting the Final Solution.
Turkey Protests New
Internet Filters
Sarah Kessler (Mashable!) new measures. The country has a
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:36:13 AM history of Internet censorship,
for families and children don’t famously blocking YouTube in
Disgruntled Turkish Internet work that well, he said, and the 2007 due to a video that was
users marched through the streets new system includes a “standard” deemed insulting to the founder of
in more than 30 cities on Sunday filter option for those who don’t modern Turkey. That ban has
to protest a new Internet filter want their Internet browsing been lifted, but thousands of other
s y s t e m t h a t t h e y c o n s i d e r experience to change. sites remain blocked.
censorship. Thousands of Turks who used More About: censorship,
The system will ask all users to Facebook to organize and attend f a c e b o o k , f i l t e r s , I n t e r n e t
choose from a selection of filters, marches on Sunday see the f r e e d o m , p r o t e s t , t u r k e y
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Video: Transparency on parade!

Ed Morrissey (Hot Air » Top
Picks)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 9:55:08 AM
This video comes courtesy of the
House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee, which was a
little surprised to see a White
House aide claim the need for
secrecy when it comes to a
proposed Executive Order on
transparency. Barack Obama
wants more transparency on
political contributions from
executives at government
contractors, but apparently his
staff believes in “transparency for
thee, opacity for we” in the West
Wing. Here’s Daniel Gordon
attempting to explain that there
isn’t any irony at all in invoking
executive privilege over their
efforts to promulgate an
unprecedented intrusion into
political thought in the private
sector:
“I think there are discussions,
even about transparency and
developing rules about
transparency that we need to be
able to have quietly and behind
closed doors.” – Daniel Gordon,
White House staff
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Glamour Editor Reflects on Early
Days of iPad Publishing
Lauren Indvik (Mashable!)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:07:26 AM
The June issue of Glamour hit the
App Store Monday morning, as
the tenth issue the magazine has
specially formatted for the iPad
and the first available via digital
subscription.
The issue[iTunes link], replete
with engaging how-to and stop-
motion videos, as well as an
autoplay video cover featuring
actress Olivia Wilde, illustrates a
growing investment in the tablet
edition of the monthly glossy.
Although parts of the magazine
— particularly the navigation —
are still clunky, the iPad version
of Glamour has come a long way
since its debut last August, when
it was little more than a PDF
replica of the print version.
We had a chance to speak with
Glamour editor Cindi Leive about
what she’s learned about iPad
publishing in the first year. Early
Lessons
In looking at early data, Leive
said she was surprised to discover
the types of iPad content creating
the greatest reader response. A
feature as simple as style
suggestions for different body
types, which features tap-to-
switch before and after shots,
often proves more popular than,
say, an elaborate fashion shoot
staged in Morocco.
“Sometimes [the features] that are
relatively simple turn out to be the
most satisfying in app form,”
Leive observes.
Her overarching goal for the
magazine, she says, is to embed
issues with features that
perpetually “surprise and delight
readers,” to continually push
beyond obvious additions like tap-
and-play videos. Print, Tablet &
Web: A Three-Part Strategy
When asked whether we could
expect to see greater integration
between the print, tablet and web
versions of Glamour, Leive says
that, for now, glamour.com will
remain mostly independent.
“What’s successful on
glamour.com is not always the
same content that’s successful in
print,” she says, explaining that
short, blog-style and humorous
posts tend to perform better on the
web. Furthermore, Glamour.com
produces much more content,
generally between 50 and 60
original pieces per day. Sales Will
Come
Leive admits that iPad sales are
still relatively insignificant
compared to print, but believes
“it’s really only a matter of time
before you see not just Glamour,
but any big magazine with
passionate reader followings
really generating significant sales
online.” The magazine will
continue to invest in building out
its tablet version “because it
promotes the brand and betters the
issue,” she says.
Subscriptions, she expects, will
help. As of Monday, the iPad
edition of Glamour is available
for $1.99 an issue, or $19.99 a
year, and free to existing print
subscribers — a significant
discount from the $3.99 per issue
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IPO Is Set
for Thursday
Todd Wasserman (Mashable!)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 9:53:13 AM
LinkedIn is set to go public May
19. The business-oriented
networking site hopes to raise as
much as $274 million this week in
what will be one of the first major
social media IPOs.
LinkedIn will begin trading on
the New York Stock Exchange
under the symbol LNKD. Its
shares are expected to trade in the
$32 to $35 range and 7.84 million
shares will be available. The
company will likely be valued
around $3 billion after the IPO.
LinkedIn announced its intention
to file for an IPO in January. At
the time, the company was valued
at $2.51 billion based on shares
traded on secondary market
SharesPost.
The eight-year-old company hit
the 100 million user mark in
March and became profitable in
2010 with a net income of $10.1
million and net revenues of
$161.4 million in the first nine
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months of 2010. In Q1, ipo, Kayak, linkedin, pandora,

LinkedIn’s revenues hit $93.9
million, a 110% increase from the
year-ago period. Net income was
$2 million, compared to $1.8
million in Q1 2010.
LinkedIn is the first of a slew of
anticipated social media IPOs set
for the next year or so. Others
include Facebook, Zynga,
Groupon, Pandora, Kayak, Yelp,
Rovio and Zillow. Renren, billed
as the “Facebook of China,” went
public this month and raised
$743.4 million.
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- News) the player in what the judge "I can't even defend myself she "needed" £50,000 from him. footballer was granted an
Submitted at 5/16/2011 6:37:20 AM considered payments to stop her because I've been gagged. If this The footballer, who is married injunction today to stop coverage
selling the story to the tabloids. is the way privacy injunctions are with children, said he agreed to of an alleged affair. At least 40
A former Big Brother contestant Explaining why he had issued the supposed to work then there's meet at a hotel in early April but celebrities now have gagging
w a s t o d a y a c c u s e d o f ban on the player's name being something seriously wrong with refused to give her any money. orders in place.
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naming him. outside court: "I am stunned by British courts. Mr Eady said the for £100,000. The next day a Decades Of US-UK Attempts To
At the High Court today she how I'm portrayed. Yet again, my footballer suspected the 28-year- report of her relationship with an Topple Gadafi.
failed in a bid to unmask the star. name and my reputation are being old underwear model was unnamed footballer appeared in
It was alleged that she demanded trashed while the man I had a thinking of selling her story after the Sun.
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Long running
Streets shut down for five hours pilots' pay dispute
could threaten
after Irish bomb alert closes The summer holiday
plans
Mall
Justin Davenport and Benedict level. There have been fears that Security expert Crispin Black last month at Trinity College
Dick Murray, Transport
Correspondent (Evening
Standard - News)
Moore-Bridger (Evening dissident republican groups might said London could have been Dublin, which is on the royal Submitted at 5/16/2011 7:49:22 AM
Standard - News) try to mount an attack on the chosen as a possible target itinerary. The threat of summer holiday
Submitted at 5/16/2011 6:29:53 AM mainland in advance of the because Dublin was seen as "too One was using a camcorder. On flight chaos returned today as
Justin Davenport and Benedict Queen's visit, which begins difficult" to attack. Thursday police held three Dublin Virgin Atlantic pilots announced
Moore-Bridger tomorrow. The Mall is where He said the Queen's visit had men in connection with "dissident that they are to ballot for strike
16 May 2011 Prince William drove new bride caused anger among republican and criminal groups". action in a long-running dispute
A major security alert was Catherine in his father's Aston extremists: "From what I have The Queen will visit Croke Park, over pay.
launched in London today after Martin after their wedding last seen going on in Dublin it is the scene of a massacre by British The first walkouts are threatened
Irish terrorists warned of a bomb month. going to be quite difficult to do troops in 1920, and attend a for July, at the start of the school
near Buckingham Palace. Police were called to reports of a anything there - it has been locked wreath-laying at the Garden of and summer holiday season. The
Streets around The Mall were b r e a k - i n n e a r t h e F o r e i g n down. Maybe they decided ... to Remembrance, which honours airline operates from Heathrow,
closed for more than five hours, Secretary's offices. When they do something in London to show those who died for Irish freedom. Manchester and Gatwick, with
on the eve of the Queen's historic were there an officer noticed a they are still there." She will also pay tribute to the key destinations including New
visit to Ireland. manhole cover was not se-cured The Irish Republic is staging its 49,400 Irish soldiers who died in York, Tokyo, Sydney and
Bomb disposal officers carried properly and raised the alarm. biggest ever security operation for the First World War. Nairobi, Orlando in Florida, and
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a codeword was used in the memorial outside Buckingham activity. The Irish Army bomb Decades Of US-UK Attempts To place since last year and, despite
warning. The threat was for a Palace was open to tourists. The squad has been called out to 84 Topple Gadafi. the involvement of Acas, the
bomb to explode in London today, traditional Changing the Guard incidents this year, including a conciliation service, there had
but the exact time or place was did not take place. The Met said it pipe bomb in the city centre. Two been no agreement.
not specified. was working closely with dissidents, including a man with Virgin has offered four per cent
The terror threat status remained Transport and City of London alleged links to the 1998 Omagh this year with three per cent for
at "severe", the second highest police. bombing, were caught on CCTV each of the next two years. Pilots
are said to earn up to £85,000
whereas those at British Airways
get about £100,000.
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Jimmy Carter: As a Nation, We're Bad at

Making Tough Decisions
Brian Till (Politics : The Atlantic)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 6:45:00 AM

The former president on the long

shadow of the Iranian hostage
crisis, the current president's
performance at leading the
American people honestly, and
whether we're capable of real
sacrifice
Reuters/Eduardo Munoz
The greatest disparagement of the
Carter presidency is the argument
that it was, at its core, a fluke.
That an unremarkable governor
from the South ran for president at
a moment when the nation,
ashamed and disheartened by the
Nixon years, was in search of
something good and decent. That
an ambitious man from a small
town who reminded us what was
great about our country started his
bid in Iowa, and campaigned there
for nearly a year, in the same
election that the national media
first began paying attention to the
incumbent Gerald Ford, was no Energy while on the campaign Office in his July 1979 "Crisis of consumption," he told the nation.
caucus system.
match for the history he was trail. Carter also instituted tax Confidence" speech. "From now "Human identity is no longer
While other candidates remained
stacked against. Carter won the breaks for wind energy and new on, every new addition to our defined by what one does, but by
preoccupied with the more
presidency with hardly a single standards for auto-fuel efficiency, demand for energy will be met what one owns."
traditional New Hampshire
policy proposal. and, as a result, fuel efficiency for from our own production and our The speech gave Carter an 11-
primary, Carter pulled almost 30
Carter, while in office, offered a cars doubled from and 1985, from own conservation. The generation point bounce in approval rating, a
percent of caucus-goers in Iowa,
prescient understanding of 13.5 miles per gallon to 27.5. -long growth in our dependence figure that's almost unimaginable
enough to place second, nine
America's overconsumption and "I am asking for the most massive on foreign oil will be stopped as the result of a single address
points behind "undecided." He
foreign oil addiction. He installed peacetime commitment of funds dead in its tracks right now and today. But the electorate would
captured national headlines. The
solar panels on the White House and resources in our nation's then reversed as we move through reject Carter's assessment a year
field of Democratic candidates
roof, which Reagan would later history to develop America's own the 1980s." later, instead choosing to heed
would never catch him. His
pull down, after promising to alternative sources of fuel," he "Too many of us now tend to
Republican opponent, the JIMMY page 80
dismantle the Department of told the nation from the Oval worship self-indulgence and
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JIMMY
continued from page 79
Reagan's words: "I find no
national malaise. I find nothing
wrong with the American people."
We met at the Carter Center in
Atlanta, a circular set of buildings
--round rooms, round hallways,
round columns--that makes a
rather ironic home for Carter and
his library, given the dominant
narrative that his presidency went
nowhere. When I walked into the
office at exactly the scheduled
meeting time--Carter has a
notorious affection for punctuality
--the old president was standing at
a tall window, his hands burrowed
in the pockets of brown wool
pants, as he looked out over a
small pond and grove at the center
of the compound. He wore a
collared blue cotton shirt and sat
on a hand-carved double rocker as
we spoke. Across from us was a
full-size replica of the intricately
carved Kennedy desk from the
Oval Office.
It looks a bit out of place in
Carter's quaint and tranquil office,
perhaps in the same way Carter
was seemed a bit out of place
where the original desk stood.
What's the single decision you
made as president that you most
regret?
I would say the hostage rescue
effort in Iran in April of 1980. It
was a perfectly planned, highly
secret, somewhat complex
procedure that everybody agreed
to do. And in order to extract all
of the hostages plus all the rescue
team from Iran, we had to have
six functioning helicopters. So I
ordered eight helicopters and two
of them had to fly from an aircraft
carrier about 600 miles across
areas of Iran and Oman and land
in a desert, which we had already
explored.
One of the helicopters, with no
reasonable explanation since then,
turned back to the aircraft carrier,
which left us seven. Another one
was forced down in the desert by
an unexpected sandstorm, which
left us six, which was fine. And so
our whole rescue operation
assembled there in the desert. And
then one of the helicopters
developed a hydraulic leak and
couldn't fly. So I had to abort the
rescue operation. We couldn't
have afforded to extract five-
sixths of our people and leave one
-sixth of our people in Iran to be
executed, so we had to terminate
the exercise.
So it was not sending a large
enough squad of helicopters?
If I'd sent one more helicopter,
there's no doubt in my mind we
would have had a successful
operation. The Iranians never
knew we were there until after we
all left. But we would have had
the hostages rescued, I would
probably have been reelected, and
so forth. So that was a bit of a
turning point.
Gary Sick, your national security
advisor for the Middle East, and a
number of others have written
convincingly that Reagan's
campaign staff were conspiring
against you to keep the hostages
held for fear you'd win reelection
if they were released. Do you
believe that? Does that resonate
with you?
I never have taken a position on
that because I don't know the
facts. I've seen both sides. I've
seen the explanations that were
made by George H. W. Bush and
the Reagan people, and I've read
Gary Sick's book and talked to
him. I don't really know.
The thing that I do know is that
after they [the Iranians] decided to
hold the hostages until after the
election, I did everything I could
to get them extracted, and the last
three days I was president, I never
went to bed at all. I stayed up the
whole time in the Oval Office to
negotiate this extremely complex
arrangement to get the hostages
removed and to deal with $12
billion in Iranian cash and gold.
And I completed everything by
six o'clock on the morning that I
was supposed to go out of office.
All the hostages were transferred
to airplanes and they were waiting
in the airplanes. I knew this--so
they were ready to take off--and I
went to the reviewing stand when
Reagan became president. Five
minutes after he was president,
the planes took off. They could
have left three or four hours
earlier.
But what, if any, influence was
used on the Ayatollah to wait until
I was out of office, I don't know.
When you look back at the Crisis
of Confidence speech, do you feel
vindicated? And secondly, it
seems to me that in 1980, voters
made a choice between your
assessment that outlined making
sacrifice and moving this nation
down one path toward energy
independence and living more
humbly, and another path that said
we can continue this, that there's
nothing wrong with the American
way of life. Are we particularly
bad as a nation at making the right
decisions that are hard?
Yes. We are bad about making
difficult decisions that everybody
knows are right. I don't know how
to talk to you frankly without
being so self-defensive, but of the
major decisions that I made as
president, I would say none of
them were politically attractive or
positive. I harassed the American
people constantly about doing
something about energy
conservation, and we were
remarkably successful in getting
laws passed and putting other
things in the hands of future
presidents.
Reagan, unfortunately, reversed
those energy conservation
measures over which the president
has a lot of control, like
mandatory efficiency of
automobiles and the allocation of
support for renewable energy
sources, photovoltaic cells,
windmills. He reversed all that
because his premise was that
America was self-sufficient, that
there was no shortage of energy.
We had a right to use what we
wanted--not what we needed, but
what we wanted--and we
shouldn't be insinuating that our
country was so weak that
Americans had to make a sacrifice
to face the future. And that
attitude was totally different from
what I had, and it was pretty well
adopted by Reagan's successors. I
think that some of these things are
coming back to haunt us.
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But even if we just look at
consumption in terms of living the
way we want versus the way we
need--
I know. Now, Obama is
beginning to see that some of
these things need to be
resurrected.
Right. But why won't he fall in
that same trap? Why won't he
speak honestly?
He hasn't done that yet.
But if he were to, wouldn't he be
undercut--?
Yeah. Well, I don't know.
By an opposition that says we
can continue our present course
without making sacrifices?
I'm not sure. That wasn't the
reason for my failure to be
reelected. It was a relatively
minor position. The main reason
was, we didn't have the hostages
back. And the Democratic Party
was split, and Iraq attacked Iran
and cut off about 20 percent of the
world's oil supply, which created
a 21 percent inflation rate in
Europe. Well, Kennedy split the
Democratic Party so that I lost by
10 percent of the Democratic
vote. But I have always felt that I
didn't need to be justified, to
answer your first question.
I never have felt that I made a
mistake in going to the American
people and saying, "This is what
we must do to show our resolve
and we're capable of doing it,"
with the so-called malaise speech,
which was a phrase that you know
I never used. I never had any
doubt about the accuracy of that
JIMMY page 84
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Same Old Newt

Eliza Newlin Carney (Politics :
The Atlantic)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 8:17:14 AM

He says he's changed, but

Gingrich still carries ethics
baggage
If political cartoonists cheered
the arrival of Donald Trump on
the campaign trail, investigative
journalists are rubbing their hands
over Newt Gingrich's recently
announced candidacy.
Gingrich's penchant for testing
ethics boundaries may not be his
biggest problem as he seeks the
GOP presidential nomination.
Some contend that the former
House speaker's undisciplined,
pedantic style will damage him
the most.
Still, as the first speaker ever
sanctioned by his colleagues,
Gingrich carries unusually heavy
ethics baggage. Although he
claims to have changed and
learned from his mistakes, he
was GOPAC, which Gingrich The House Ethics Committee philanthropic, and consulting fees from the ethanol
presides over a complex network
called an "educational institution," eventually punished Gingrich communications groups that industry. Reporters are going to
of controversial groups that is
but which looked more like a with a $300,000 sanction, which aggressively promote him. The enjoy digging into his network of
remarkably similar to the one that
leadership political action was euphemistically called a "cost biggest is his "527" group groups and itemizing every penny
got him in hot water almost 20
committee. GOPAC was at the assessment," faulting him for American Solutions Winning the that comes from ethanol, oil, coal,
years ago.
heart of an interlocking network failing to ensure that his Future, which, according to the and other special-interest donors.
For those who don't remember
of pro-Gingrich groups; it nonprofits didn't run afoul of the Center for Responsive Politics, Gingrich "is going to encounter
GOPAC, let's rewind the
collected big money from Internal Revenue Service and for raised and spent more than $28 increased scrutiny, and there is a
videotape to 1994 (retro reference
influential donors, most of it in giving investigators false million in the 2010 election cycle, clear potential downside of the
intentional). Gingrich had just
secret. (Sound familiar?) In his information. The IRS ultimately making it by far the most lucrative complexity of Newt, Inc.," said
helped his GOP colleagues take
GOPAC fundraising letters, cleared Gingrich-associated 527 out there. Bill Connelly, a professor at
over the House, but he faced a
Gingrich offered donors the groups of any tax violations, and Like GOPAC, American Washington and Lee University.
Federal Election Commission
chance to help him "draft the he and his allies claimed Solutions has attracted its share of "And that is partly because of his
lawsuit and complaints from state
Republican legislative agenda," vindication. controversy. It is heavily history."
ethics officials in Georgia and
and credited the group with Fast-forward to 2011. Gingrich underwritten by casino and fossil- Big differences exist between
Wisconsin.
helping elect 41 of that year's 48 presides over a complex network fuel money. Gingrich has also SAME page 83
The target of these complaints
House GOP freshmen. of political, consulting, taken heat for receiving generous
82 Politics/ Newstablet Edition

Audio: Newt responds, says

conservatives are taking him out of
The GOP's
context
Ed Morrissey (Hot Air » Top over the weekend, is now going to we pay between $70 billion and tectonic (or Teutonic!) shift in
Airport Security
Picks) be depleted by 2024 , five years $120 billion a year to crooks. that period. While Gregory in Backlash
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:36:22 AM earlier than predicted. Do you And IBM has agreed to help solve part posed the initial question as Conor Friedersdorf (Politics :
think that Republicans ought to it, American Express has agreed one of political strategy in the The Atlantic)
D i d N e w t G i n g r i c h g e t buck the public opposition and to help solve it, Visa ’s agreed to face of public opposition, the
Submitted at 5/16/2011 8:00:00 AM
misunderstood in his appearance r e a l l y m o v e f o r w a r d t o help solve it. You can’t get follow-up question was about
on Meet the Press yesterday? completely change Medicare , anybody in this town to look at it. Ryan’s plan specifically — which Some Republicans say body
That’s what Gingrich told Mike t u r n i t i n t o a v o u c h e r That’s, that’s almost $1 trillion Gingrich called “radical,” scanners are too expensive and
Gallagher this morning in a p r o g r a m w h e r e y o u g i v e over a decade. So there are things although framing it once again in intrusive pat downs are just
lengthy interview that aired live s e n i o r s … you can do to improve Medicare . terms of “imposing” solutions. wrong. Is it okay to criticize anti-
on Gallagher’s Salem Radio REP. GINGRICH:Right. MR. GREGORY:But not Besides, the oncoming terrorism measures again?
show. Gingrich says that MR. GREGORY:…some what Paul Ryan is suggesting, entitlement disaster can’t be In the fight over airport security,
conservatives have taken his premium support and — so that which is completely avoided with incremental civil libertarians just got some
remarks out of context, although t h e y c a n g o o u t a n d b u y changing Medicare . adjustments to the current welcome news: "House
he admits that the “social private insurance ? REP. GINGRICH:I, I think that, I system. His argument on waste, Republicans controlling the
engineering” may have been a REP. GINGRICH:I don’t think think, I think that that is too big a abuse, and fraud is not a bad Transportation Security
l i t t l e t o o s t r o n g . H e t e l l s right-wing social engineering is jump. I think what you want to point, but it’s entirely insufficient Administration's purse strings are
Gallagher that his response was to any more desirable than left- have is a system where people as a solution. Medicare will cost moving to cut off new funding for
David Gregory’s question about wing social engineering . I don’t voluntarily migrate to better us a lot more than $1 trillion over those advanced airport scanners
whether Republicans should force t h i n k i m p o s i n g r a d i c a l outcomes, better solutions, better the next decade in deficit that have sparked outrage over
a Medicare reform over public change from the right or the left is options, not one where you spending — and Ryan’s plan their revealing images of travelers'
opposition, saying it would be the a very good way for a free suddenly impose upon the — I makes the “waste, fraud, and bodies." In many ways, this is a
s a m e “ s o c i a l e n g i n e e r i n g ” society to operate. I think we need don’t want to — I’m abuse” a problem for insurers and small victory. It won't affect the
mistake Democrats made with a national conversation to get to a against Obamacare , which is the private sector to handle. body scanners already in place, or
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SAME
continued from page 81
Gingrich's current public-relations
and political empire and his
GOPAC operation, of course. The
most important is that Gingrich
has, until now, not been holding
or seeking public office,
insulating him from conflict-of-
interest allegations, noted John J.
Pitney Jr., a politics professor at
Claremont McKenna College.
Republican primary voters are
not likely to care much about
arcane political-money
controversies. And Gingrich,
having pioneered the use of
secretive, irregular committees for
political purposes, is now in good
company - thanks, in part, to the
Citizens United v. Federal
Election Commission ruling that
partly deregulated elections.
"In the early '90s, that model was
extremely unusual, and it stuck
out," said Pitney. "Twenty years
later, it's just the way politics is
done."
Gingrich undoubtedly has
scrupulous lawyers, and his allies
have maintained that all of his
activities are on the up-and-up.
Moreover, his 527 group, for one,
has helped him build an
impressive donor base. Although
American Solutions Winning the
Future spends a lot on overhead,
the group has cultivated hundreds
of thousands of small donors, a
pool that any presidential
campaign would envy.
Even so, Gingrich's official
candidacy changes everything.
Though campaign fundraising is
turning into something of a free-
for-all, the ban on soft
(unregulated) money remains in
place. Gingrich may no longer
raise and spend money through
his American Solutions 527, said
Paul S. Ryan, associate legal
counsel with the Campaign Legal
Center. And Gingrich's reputation
and history are bound to earn him
special scrutiny.
"Everything about Newt is a
double-edged sword," Pitney
observed. "On the one hand, his
network of organizations has
helped sustain his credibility as a
spokesperson on public policy,
including health issues, and has
kept him in the public eye. On the
other hand, any time large
amounts of money are changing
hands, watchdog groups are going
to get interested, and start raising
questions."
Gingrich's ethics issues may
prove to be the least of his
worries. His three marriages will
also come up. His tendencies to
speak before thinking and to play
the professor will not help.
Gingrich's strengths as a coach
and team leader are "not the same
skill set you need to be a unifying
figure as president of the United
States," his former chief of staff,
Frank Gregorsky noted. Gingrich
may well be a new man. But when
it comes to political money, the
new Newt Gingrich looks an
awful lot like the old one.
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attitude is much preferable to the
mindset articulated by the naked
scanner company. "Now they will
have to hand search more people,"
a Rapiscan Systems executive told
the Huffington Post. "Ninety-five-
plus percent of people would
rather be scanned than go through
a pat down."
So those are the only conceivable
choices now? Another group of
Republicans in Texas would beg
to differ:
The Texas House of
Representatives late on Thursday
approved a bill that would make
invasive pat-downs at Texas
airports a crime, after a former
Miss USA said she felt
"molested" at the Dallas/Fort
Worth airport last month.
Transportation Security
Administration agents could be
charged with a misdemeanor
crime, face a $4,000 fine and one
year in jail under the measure.
The proposal would classify any
airport inspection that "touches
the anus, sexual organ, buttocks,
or breast of another person
including through the clothing, or
touches the other person in a
manner that would be offensive to
a reasonable person" as an offense
of sexual harassment under
official oppression.
Much as I hate to ponder TSA
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employees being made into
criminals for doing their jobs, I
am heartened to see a state
government pushing back against
the federal bureaucracy's
procedures, even if the passage of
the bill would result in litigation
that they'd almost certainly lose.
These challenges in Washington,
D.C., and Austin are reminders
that opposing intrusive
government is possible, even
when counter-terrorism efforts are
implicated. I can't say that this is
the most vital war on terrorism
excess to remedy, or that I trust
the GOP to safeguard civil
liberties generally. But perhaps
we're finally returning to being a
country where invoking security
isn't the end of the argument.
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speech and the necessity for that
speech, so I didn't need to be
justified.
Does that distance concern you?
That distance between what is
right and what needs to be done...
Yeah, it concerns me.
And what the American people
are willing to give?
Yeah, it concerns me greatly.
Could it--is it likely that will be
our undoing, that this is the flaw
of our nation?
Well, I wouldn't want to predict
that America is going to be
undone, so I'm not agreeing with
that premise of yours.
But I think it does harm to our
country in not being willing to
face the facts as espoused from
the White House about the threat
of global warming and the
substantive things we need to do
to make sacrifices on a temporary
basis to resolve the long-term
threat. And the same thing applies
to health care. The same thing
applies to Middle East peace. The
same thing applies to control of
nuclear weapons and other major
issues.
This post was adapted from Brian
Till's new book,"Conversations
with Power: What Great
Presidents and Prime Ministers
Can Teach Us about Leadership".
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Vlad Savov (Engadget) never-before-seen aluminum see how well those decisions have
Submitted at 5/16/2011 11:00:00 AM unibody enclosure. come off, click past the break for
Today, the company's Android our full review.
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Eldar Murtazin: Microsoft will enter
negotiations to buy Nokia's mobile division
next week
Vlad Savov (Engadget)
Submitted at 5/16/2011 10:44:00 AM
Yes, this is a rumor, and by golly
it strains the limits of credulity,
but take note of its source. Firstly,
the details: according to Eldar
Murtazin, Microsoft and Nokia
will enter talks next week to
discuss the potential for the
American software giant to
purchase the Finnish company's
mobile arm, meaning the part that
makes all those delectable
smartphones. Eldar's not been
able to dig up any further intel,
but expects a deal could be closed
as early as the end of this year.
We're inclined to believe there's at
least some semblance of truth to
Eldar's words because of his track
record. Way back in December of
last year, when nobody believed
Nokia would deviate from its
Symbian strategy, Eldar reported
the similarly incredible-sounding
news that Microsoft and Nokia
were in discussions about the
latter using Windows Phone as its
main smartphone OS. That turned
into reality this February, and
more recently, the Russian mobile
spy managed to also accurately
predict Nokia killing off the Ovi
brand in favor of an eponymous
naming scheme for its services.
And that's all on top of Eldar's
knack for obtaining Nokia
prototypes way ahead of release.
So, assuming for a moment that
Microsoft does indeed have its
eyes set on turning Nokia's
handset business into its own
mobile hardware division, what
would it all mean? Well, we can
only see this making sense for
Espoo if underwritten by a
humongous check from
Microsoft, but that might not be a
problem. The Redmond camp has
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having an ex-Microsoft guy at the
top means that if this kind of
move were to ever happen, now
might just be the right time for it.
Update: As Reonhato pointed out
in comments, Mark Squires, UK
Communications Director for
Nokia, has already issued an
uncharacteristically pointed non-
comment. "We typically don't
comment on rumors. But we have
to say that Eldar's rumors are
getting obviously less accurate
with every passing moment."
Burn.
Eldar Murtazin: Microsoft will
enter negotiations to buy Nokia's
recently shown its determination m o b i l e d i v i s i o n n e x t w e e k
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forget, Nokia once used to
manufacture galoshes and tires, so
it already has a history of
transformative change. And hey,