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and interrogation of top terrorists publisher Threshold Editions said.
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forces last weekend. and it was believed that the tapes George Tenet’s book. officers captured and detained
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Bin Laden's wife spent 5 years in Pakistani house (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Popular) AP - One of three wives living been staying in the al-Qaida information about how he avoided
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:22:09 AM with Osama bin Laden told chief's hideout for five years, and capture for so long, a Pakistani
Pakistani interrogators she had could be a key source of intelligence official said Friday.
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The cost of bin Laden: $3 trillion over 15

years (Exclusive to Yahoo! News)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) All of that has not given us, at Stiglitz. Considering that we've spent one- the war on terror isn't going to
Submitted at 5/6/2011 7:12:11 AM least not yet, anything close to the ( TIMELINE: Obama's big secret. fifth of a year's gross domestic compare."
social or economic advancements When he knew about bin Laden product—more than the entire On the other hand, these earlier
Play Video By National Journal produced by the battles against (and we didn't) 2008 budget of the United States conflicts—for all their human
By Tim Fernholz and Jim America's costliest past enemies. Certainly, in the course of the government—responding to his cost—also furnished major
Tankersley Defeating the Confederate army fight against bin Laden, the 2001 attacks, he may have been benefits to the U.S. economy.
National Journal brought the end of slavery and a United States escaped another onto something. THE After entering the Civil War as a
The most expensive public wave of standardization—in truly catastrophic attack on our SCORECARD loose collection of regional
enemy in American history died railroad gauges and shoe sizes, for soil. Al-Qaida, though not Other enemies throughout history economies, America emerged
Sunday from two bullets. example—that paved the way for destroyed, has been badly have extracted higher gross costs, with the foundation for truly
As we mark Osama bin Laden's a t r u l y n a t i o n a l e c o n o m y . hobbled. "We proved that we in blood and in treasure, from the national commerce; the first
death, what's striking is how much Vanquishing Adolf Hitler ended value our security enough to incur United States. The Civil War and standardized railroad system
he cost our nation—and how little the Great Depression and ushered some pretty substantial economic World War II produced higher sprouted from coast to coast,
we've gained from our fight in a period of booming prosperity costs en route to protecting it," casualties and consumed larger carrying goods across the union;
against him. By conservative and hegemony. Even the massive says Michael O'Hanlon, a national shares of our economic output. As and textile mills began migrating
estimates, bin Laden cost the military escalation that marked -security analyst at the Brookings an economic burden, the Civil from the Northeast to the South in
United States at least $3 trillion the Cold War standoff against Institution. War was America's worst search of cheaper labor, including
over the past 15 years, counting Joseph Stalin and his Russian But that willingness may have cataclysm relative to the size of former slaves who had joined the
the disruptions he wrought on the successors produced landmark given bin Laden exactly what he the economy. The nonpartisan workforce. The fighting itself
domestic economy, the wars and technological breakthroughs that wanted. While the terrorist leader Congressional Research Service sped up the mechanization of
heightened security triggered by revolutionized the economy. began his war against the United estimates that the Union and American agriculture: As farmers
the terrorist attacks he engineered, Perhaps the biggest economic States believing it to be a "paper Confederate armies combined to flocked to the battlefield, the
and the direct efforts to hunt him silver lining from our bin Laden tiger" that would not fight, by spend $80 million, in today's workers left behind adopted new
down. spending, if there is one, is the 2004 he had already shifted his dollars, fighting each other. That technologies to keep harvests
What do we have to show for that accelerated development of strategic aims, explicitly number might seem low, but rolling in with less labor.
tab? Two wars that continue to unmanned aircraft. That's our $3 comparing the U.S. fight to the economic historians who study ( UPDATED: New pictures from
occupy 150,000 troops and tie up trillion windfall, so far: Predator Afghan incursion that helped the war say the total financial cost bin Laden's Pakistani hideout)
a quarter of our defense budget; a drones. "We have spent a huge bankrupt the Soviet Union during was exponentially higher: more World War II defense spending
b l o a t e d h o m e l a n d - s e c u r i t y amount of money which has not the Cold War. "We are continuing like $280 billion in today's dollars cost $4.4 trillion. At its peak, it
apparatus that has at times pushed h a d m u c h e f f e c t o n t h e this policy in bleeding America to when you factor in disruptions to sucked up nearly 40 percent of
the bounds of civil liberty; soaring strengthening of our military, and the point of bankruptcy," bin trade and capital flows, along with GDP, according to the
oil prices partially attributable to has had a very weak impact on Laden said in a taped statement. the killing of 3 to 4 percent of the Congressional Research Service.
the global war on bin Laden's our economy," says Linda Bilmes, Only the smallest sign of al-Qaida population. The war "cost about It was an unprecedented national
terrorist network; and a chunk of a lecturer at Harvard University's would "make generals race there double the gross national product mobilization, says Chris Hellman,
our mounting national debt, which John F. Kennedy School of to cause America to suffer human, of the United States in 1860," says a defense budget analyst at the
threatens to hobble the economy Government who coauthored a economic, and political losses John Majewski, who chairs the National Priorities Project. One in
unless lawmakers compromise on book on the costs of the Iraq and without their achieving anything history department at the 10 Americans—some 12 million
a n u n p r e c e d e n t e d d e f i c i t - Afghanistan wars with Nobel of note other than some benefits University of California (Santa
reduction deal. Prize-winning economist Joseph for their private corporations." Barbara). "From that perspective, COST page 3
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people—donned a uniform during
the war.
But the payoff was immense. The
war machine that revved up to
defeat Germany and Japan
powered the U.S. out of the Great
Depression and into an
unparalleled stretch of postwar
growth. Jet engines and nuclear
power spread into everyday lives.
A new global economic
order—forged at Bretton Woods,
N.H., by the Allies in the waning
days of the war—opened a
floodgate of benefits through
international trade. Returning
soldiers dramatically improved
the nation's skills and education
level, thanks to the GI Bill, and
they produced a baby boom that
would vastly expand the
workforce.
U.S. military spending totaled
nearly $19 trillion throughout the
four-plus decades of Cold War
that ensued, as the nation
escalated an arms race with the
Soviet Union. Such a huge
infusion of cash for weapons
research spilled over to
revolutionize civilian life,
yielding quantum leaps in
supercomputing and satellite
technology, not to mention the
advent of the Internet.
Unlike any of those conflicts, the
wars we are fighting today were
kick-started by a single man.
While it is hard to imagine World
War II without Hitler, that conflict
pitted nations against each other.
(Anyway, much of the cost to the
United States came from the war
in the Pacific.) And it's absurd to
pin the Civil War, World War I,
or the Cold War on any single
individual. Bin Laden's mystique
(and his place on the FBI's most-
wanted list) made him—and the
wars he drew us into—unique.
By any measure, bin Laden
inflicted a steep toll on America.
His 1998 bombing of U.S.
embassies in Africa caused
Washington to quadruple
spending on diplomatic security
worldwide the following
year—and to expand it from $172
million to $2.2 billion over the
next decade. The 2000 bombing
of the USS Cole caused $250
million in damages.
( FALLOUT: U.S. Pakistani
relations strained like never
before)
Al-Qaida's assault against the
United States on September 11,
2001, was the highest-priced
disaster in U.S. history.
Economists estimate that the
combined attacks cost the
economy $50 billion to $100
billion in lost activity and growth,
or about 0.5 percent to 1 percent
of GDP, and caused about $25
billion in property damage. The
stock market plunged and was
still down nearly 13 percentage
points a year later, although it has
more than made up the value
since.
The greater expense we can
attribute to bin Laden comes from
policymakers' response to 9/11.
The invasion of Afghanistan was
clearly a reaction to al-Qaida's
attacks. It is unlikely that the
Bush administration would have
invaded Iraq if 9/11 had not
ushered in a debate about Islamic
extremism and weapons of mass
destruction. Those two wars grew
into a comprehensive
counterinsurgency campaign that
cost $1.4 trillion in the past
decade—and will cost hundreds
of billions more. The government
borrowed the money for those
wars, adding hundreds of billions
in interest charges to the U.S.
debt.
Spending on Iraq and
Afghanistan peaked at 4.8 percent
of GDP in 2008, nowhere near the
level of economic mobilization in
some past conflicts but still more
than the entire federal deficit that
year. "It's a much more verdant,
prosperous, peaceful world than it
was 60 years ago," and nations
spend proportionally far less on
their militaries today, says S.
Brock Blomberg, a professor at
Claremont McKenna College in
California who specializes in the
economics of terrorism. "So as
bad as bin Laden is, he's not
nearly as bad as Hitler, Mussolini,
[and] the rest of them."
Yet bin Laden produced a ripple
effect. The Iraq and Afghanistan
wars have created a world in
which even non-war-related
defense spending has grown by 50
percent since 2001. As the U.S.
m i l i t a r y a d o p t e d
counterinsurgency doctrine to
fight guerrilla wars, it also
continued to increase its ability to
fight conventional battles,
boosting spending for weapons
from national-missile defense and
fighter jets to tanks and long-
range bombers. Then there were
large spending increases
following the overhaul of
America's intelligence agencies
and homeland-security programs.
Those transformations cost at
least another $1 trillion, if not
more, budget analysts say, though
the exact cost is still unknown.
Because much of that spending is
classified or spread among
agencies with multiple missions, a
breakdown is nearly impossible.
It's similarly difficult to assess
the opportunity cost of the post-9/
11 wars—the kinds of productive
investments of fiscal and human
resources that we might have
made had we not been focused on
combating terrorism through
counterinsurgency. Blomberg
says that the response to the
attacks has essentially wiped out
the "peace dividend" that the
United States began to reap when
the Cold War ended. After a
decade of buying fewer guns and
more butter, we suddenly ramped
up our gun spending again, with
borrowed money.
The price of the war-fighting and
security responses to bin Laden
account for more than 15 percent
of the national debt incurred in the
last decade—a debt that is
changing the way our military
leaders perceive risk. "Our
national debt is our biggest
national-security threat," Adm.
Mike Mullen, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, told
reporters last June.
All of those costs, totaled
together, reach at least $3 trillion.
And that's just the cautious
estimate. Stiglitz and Bilmes
believe that the Iraq conflict alone
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cost that much. They peg the total
economic costs of both wars at $4
trillion to $6 trillion, Bilmes says.
That includes fallout from the
sharp increase in oil prices since
2003, which is largely attributable
to growing demand from
developing countries and current
unrest in the Middle East but was
also spurred in some part by the
Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.
Bilmes and Stiglitz also count part
of the 2008 financial crisis among
the costs, theorizing that oil price
hikes injected liquidity in global
economies battling slowdowns in
growth—and that helped push up
housing prices and contributed to
the bubble.
Most important, the fight against
bin Laden has not produced the
benefits that accompanied
previous conflicts. The military
escalation of the past 10 years did
not stimulate the economy as the
war effort did in the 1940s—with
the exception of a few large
defense contractors—in large part
because today's operations spend
far less on soldiers and far more
on fuel. Meanwhile, our national-
security spending no longer drives
innovation. The experts who
spoke with National Journal could
name only a few advancements
spawned by the fight against bin
Laden, including Predator drones
and improved backup systems to
protect information technology
from a terrorist attack or other
disaster. "The spin-off effects of
military technology were
demonstrably more apparent in
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Face The Nation: How Sensory Logic Sees

Secrets In Candidates' Mugs
Kevin Randall (Fast Company)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:47:27 AM

The likely Republican candidates

might not be saying much about
their candidacies just yet. But, as
the saying goes, the medium is the
message. Facial decoding firm
Sensory Logic has figured out
ways to interpret their messages.
Although President Barack
Obama is substantially boosted by
the killing of Osama Bin Laden,
and a relatively unknown few
Republicans debated last night in
Greenville, South Carolina,
Campaign 2012 nevertheless is
starting to take shape. During the
campagign, many Americans will
meet GOP contenders for the first
time. But what the presidential
hopefuls say may not matter that
much. Their faces may be doing
the heavy lifting. A scientific,
emotional “facial coding” of the
candidates and their expressions
may determine who gains traction
and who gets the nomination.
Campaigns and the public will
soon be inundated with
information on how candidates
are tracking and their odds for
success ("the horse race").
Politicians and the populace will
turn to social media to influence
and gauge our opinions and
moods. But few candidates and and the science of “facial coding.” ever began using neuromarketing messages that would appeal to neuromarketing researchers can
voters are likely aware of “facial After the 2010 the midterm techniques, that is, studying the them and win votes at the polls.
media” (you heard it here first) elections, more campaigns than brains of voters in order to craft Turning the tables now in 2011, FACE page 6
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The Wall Street Journal Launches

WikiLeaks Competitor
Gregory Ferenstein (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:59:38 AM

Rupert Murdoch's baby unveils

its own data tip line, SafeHouse,
but will it attract whistle-blowers?
And can it fix security issues?
The Wall Street Journal quietly
launched a WikiLeaks competitor
yesterday, SafeHouse, a data
dump and tip site for government
and corporate wrongdoing. The
attention-capturing power of
WikiLeaks has often compelled
reluctant partnerships with legacy
media outlets. Founder Julian
Assange's personal life and
insistence on selectively handing
out evidence to multiple outlets
puts publishers in the awkward
position of negotiating with a
liable upstart muscling in on their
territory.
SafeHouse will surely be the first
of many WikiLeaks alternatives
attempting to cut out the
anarchistic middleman.
Ultimatley though, data dump
sites will have to attract the
leakers themselves, but poor
shield laws, insufficient security,
and editorial bias may convince
whistle-blowers to stand by the
original Wikileaks. and database tipline, fully Managing Editor, Kevin Delaney, doorstep. Emails contain traceable to hunt them down.
SafeHouse admitting that disclosed data is to Forbes, "They’ve been a information, and given the U.S.'s Thus, rather than an email
SafeHouse (or what will surely "the key to modern watershed." aggressive search for Assange, attachment, files are encrypted
be known to some as WSJileaks) journalism."WikiLeaks has had a First and foremost, SafeHouse government whistle-blowers can and information is kept hidden
bills itself as a secure document huge amount of impact on the wants leakers to feel that there's expect the full investigative WALL page 7
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measure candidates’ own brain-
driven facial movements and
emotions, in order to assess their
performance, fine-tune campaign
marketing, or even predict
election outcomes.
Dan Hill, president of Sensory
Logic and author of
Emotionomics and About Face, is
a facial coding expert who works
with leading Fortune 150
companies, professional sports
teams, and government agencies
(e.g. TSA). Sensory Logic works
with clients who market to
consumers by measuring their
emotional facial responses to
various stimuli in an effort
maximize appeal. Companies also
hire Hill to help with employee
recruitment and talent
management.
Hill has been diagnosing
candidates and predicting
elections since 2004. In October
2007, he had Obama 2-1
emerging as the Democratic
presidential nominee when a
famous former White House
advisor and current GOP pundit
had him at 20-1. He was ahead of
the pack in predicting the demises
of Rudy Giuliani and Fred
Thompson. Historically, Hill says,
the happier candidate triumphs
(think frowny Dole, Kerry,
McCain, etc.). Sensory Logic uses
proprietary Cartesian Graphs to
measure and score the impact,
appeal, and engagement, emoted
and emitted, by the candidate’s
face. A person can show four
types of smiles but a “’true smile’
which is a strong natural smile
seen around the eyes and mouth”
is more rare, distinctive, and
powerful. Hill’s analysis suggests
when a politician should drop out
or not even enter the race (when
his heart, or face, is not in it).
Fast Company, exclusively, met
with Hill to understand his
methodology and get an initial
read and deconstruction of the
Republican faces of 2012. This
first-ever facial coding of the full
presidential field is based on
Hill’s methodology, which
correlates 23 Facial Action Units
to 7 Core Emotions plus the
widely accepted Big 5 Personality
Traits model producing Sensory
Logic’s EmoTraits®. [The
methodology builds off of a 19th
century foundation laid by
biologist Charles Darwin and
refined more recently by Paul
Ekman.]
Several of Hill’s conclusions
drawn from the candidate
analysis:
• "Chris Christie (who says he
won't run for president) is the
most negative, making him a
logical VP choice to tap into the
Tea Party's anti-establishment
anger."
• "Mitch Daniels and John
Huntsman are the antithesis of
Trump: Trump is most intense,
while they are the least intense
and the most understated."
• "If Romney wins the
nomination, Buddy Roemer could
be a natural VP choice--fellow
businessman and the same
emotional profile while adding
regional diversity.”
For our own visualization of
Hill's full analysis of the current
crop of prospective candidates--
and what their faces are saying
about their mood and their odds,
click here.
But how reliable and useful are
the analyses and findings? Hill
tells Fast Company he has not
been hired by political campaigns;
but his client list is growing,
diversifying, and becoming more
global, he says. Recently Sensory
Logic clients asked that their
names be removed from the
firm’s Web site due to project
confidentiality and competitive
reasons. With the assistance of
Ekman, the CIA uses their own
facial coding and
“microexpressions” analysis in
recruiting and conducting
espionage. What did they recently
glean from Bin Laden’s facial
gestures? Hill also revealed he
was asked though the BBC by an
unknown sponsor to interview and
code people in Karachi, Pakistan
(he declined).
Fred Davis, a seasoned political
consultant who has advised
George W. Bush and John
McCain on their presidential
campaigns (he will soon work for
former US Ambassador to China,
Jon Huntsman, Jr., whose entry
into the presidential race is all but
assured), extols the tactics of
neuromarketing and has
confirmed their use in his past
campaign work. He thinks Hill’s
facial coding approach and
findings are interesting but says
perhaps just a "clearly written
analysis of what people feel in
their gut when they see a
candidate … I'd put this
technology in the category of
extensive focus groups on
demeanor and personality. Nice to
have, but quite a luxury. [It]
probably never would be given
significance."
Hill concedes some challenges
and limitations of political facial
coding. The data is based on his
own observation and coding and
using other (not as proficient or
expert) coders might mean less
reliability and consistency. Also,
the analysis and findings derive
from a limited sample of
candidate speeches. What if the
sample pool happens to be based
on a candidate’s few bad hair
days? And while politicians
cannot fake their facial muscle
movements and those
corresponding “core emotions,”
they could fudge to a degree and
manipulate the "personality traits"
they want to project.
Darryl Howard, who has applied
the neuromarketing methods of
"muscle, pupil, and skin response"
on a number of successful GOP
campaigns, finds Hill’s facial
coding approach useful and the
data valuable. "Hill’s
understanding of how the human
body gives information both
voluntarily and involuntary is
brilliant. And this [facial coding]
information can be very helpful to
the voter in making their choice in
an election."
Hill thinks the data can also help
a candidate understand how he or
she can differentiate from the
field--as a brand, (e.g. if the pack
shows anger, then stand out as
bright), or to assess the
competition, strengths, and
weaknesses. The coding may
point to the need for a candidate
to be truer to his or her authentic
emotions versus being staged
(think Gore), or to be more
singular and polar emotionally
and personality-wise, instead of
all over the map and bland.
The 1960 Nixon-Kennedy
debates famously underscored the
power of mass media and
ascendant television to shape
elections and shined a harsh light
on candidate facial expressions. In
2008, no one exploited the power
of emerging social media
channels more effectively than
Barack Obama. In 2012, who can
turn facial media and smiles into
victory?
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from "third-party" partners, which
is most likely other media
institutions, analytics firms, and
advertisers.
Additionally, uploaders can
secure files with the WSJ's public
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
encryption key, a security
standard that has so far eluded
federal authorities hoping to break
it. Finally, for the uber-paranoid,
SafeHouse recommends traffic-
masking software, such as Tor,
which has been used by the likes
of Chinese citizen journalists to
disguise their location from
trackers.
Problems and Solutions
Ironically, security expert and
Tor developer, Jacob Appelbaum,
lashed out at SafeHouse over
Twitter hours after the launch,
blasting the WSJ for a laundry list
of amateurish security flaws and
questionable tattle-telling fine
print. Applebaum said:
"I’m sure they’ll fix this in good
time, but to give you an example,
I thought about leaking them all
this information through their
leaking interface, but I couldn’t
use their interface with Tor. And
I’m a Tor developer."
Even worse, the fine print leaves
open the very real possibility of
revealing sources, as the WSJ
says, "We reserve the right to
The Real Housewife of Abbottabad: What bin Laden's Spouse Knows
(Time.com)
(Yahoo! News: Most Popular)
disclose any information about
you to law enforcement
authorities." In response to
criticism, spokesperson Ashley
Hutton offered a PR-rish
statement that looked like it had
been run through their legal mill
more than once. After reaffirming
their committment to sources, it
said, in part:
"...Because there is no way to
predict the breadth of information
that might be submitted through
SafeHouse, the Terms of Use
reserve certain rights in order to
provide flexibility to react to
extraordinary circumstances...
Fast Company reached out to The
Wall Street Journal for
clairification on both security and
legal matters, and received
immediate notification that we
would get a response, but are still
waiting (we imagine their legal
and technical teams are prepping
a fuller rebuttle for later today and
will update this post if and when
that happens).
In the end, the WSJ is likely to
get the security aspect fixed, since
encryption might be as much for
the safety of WSJ editors as it is
the leaker. In 2005, federal
investigators successful cracked
New York Times journalist Judith
Miller after nearly three months in
prison for refusing to divulge her
Time.com - The U.S. Navy Seal
team that killed the al-Qaeda
source related to the Vice
President's aid, "Scooter" Libby.
The Obama administration-
supported detention (and
suspected torturing) of alleged
WikiLeaker Bradley Manning
would mean that changes in
political party aren't any
indication of friendlier whistle-
blower treatment. in other words,
WSJ reporters have no interest in
warming the beds at Gitmo for
their sources.
Still, SafeHouse is only one leak
site, and uncertainty over security
measures necessary to dodge the
government watchtower might
spook potential sources into going
with the old online stalwart.
Leakers are often not prodigy
hackers: Manning allegedly used
a CD-RW and a Lady Gaga
diversion story to download
diplomatic cables, which were
apparently as secure as an open
cookie jar.
In other words, what the Wall
Street Journal is missing is why
leak to SafeHouse?
Diversification
Media outlets have differed
dramatically in both their
interpretation and release of
classified information. As such,
Wikileaks has played a clever
game of releasing information to
several outlets at a time, fully
leader may have left behind a vital
source of information: his
knowing that competition for
traffic rewards a race toward more
transparency. The Wall Street
Journal, especially then, would be
a curious choice given its more
conservative stance on
government transparency. The
Journal has refused WikiLeaks
cables in the past, and has been
the home of critical op-eds
condemning Julian Assange as an
"enemy" of the U.S. (including
another one yesterday).
The concern that editors may self
-censor information may be a
weakness of newspaper-based
leak sites in general. For anyone
who has risked Gitmo-style
torturous conditions to steal
incriminating documents, why not
submit them to an organization
that releases to multiple
publications?
Two potentially attractive
features of SafeHouse are 1. A
guaranteed spotlight for less-than-
juicy stories and 2. A prudent
choice for data related to life-
endangering military operations.
The public appetite for fraud
stories is limited, meaning that
there will likely be a parallel
market for whistle-blowers
competing to cut through the
WikiLeaks noise. For leaked
documents of shady
pharmaceutical dealings or
youngest wife, Amal Ahmed
Abdul Fatah
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unscrupulous bankers, a
megaphone like The Wall Street
Journal might be willing to
negotiate an exclusive for
promoted coverage.
Second, past leakers have been
concerned with the inadvertent
casualties of exposure. A Wall
Street Journal op-ed reports that
Pentagon Papers source Daniel
Ellsberg deliberately withheld
diplomatic information because,
as he said, "I didn't want to get in
the way of the diplomacy."
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Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:42:24 AM Economists and investors seemed that the jump in new "And it's just nowhere near that." by 250,000, the Labor Department
to heave a sigh of relief after unemployment claims recently She concluded: "We're still in a said.
Reporting from Washington— Friday's report as the stock market were reported in the weeks after rocky place." Business and professional
The American economy created a turned up after several days of the April jobs surveys were It's unclear whether the services, which generally pay
healthy batch of new jobs in April weakening performance. Analysts conducted. And job losses in the unemployment rate will go up in higher-than-average wages,
for the third straight month, were generally forecasting job public sector could intensify, she the coming months. Theoretically increased by 51,000, with
allaying fears of a stall in hiring gains of about 185,000 for April, said, with more teachers getting it should as the job market consulting businesses, computer
due to higher oil prices and and some had ratcheted down pink slips as the school year improves and more of the millions services and architectural firms all
concerns about an economic their expectations in recent days winds down and local of people who had dropped out of showing solid growth.
slowdown. in the wake of other reports governments try to deal with the job market during the Educational and health services,
The Labor Department said showing the economy may have budget shortfalls. recession return to looking for and the leisure industry, each also
Friday that employers last month hit a soft patch at the start of What's more, even though the job jobs as their prospects improve. added nearly as many jobs. Even
added 244,000 new net jobs spring, as it did last year at this gains over the last three months The Labor Department doesn't the hard-hit construction industry
across a broad spectrum of time. were solid, averaging 233,000 a count jobless people who aren't saw a small gain last month.
industries. That was similar to the It was reported earlier that U.S. month, those numbers are still looking for work as unemployed. Government was the only major
payroll growth numbers in March economic output expanded in the modest compared to what's Friday's report suggests that employment group that saw a
and February. first quarter at an anemic 1.8% needed to recover the more than many employers may have little decline; its payrolls shrank by
But the unexpectedly strong annual rate, and unemployment 8.8 million jobs lost between the choice but to add workers if they 24,000, mostly because of cuts at
report on hiring was clouded by claims have been surging in end of 2007 and early 2010. Since want to grow sales. Many state and public agencies.
the news that the jobless rate for recent weeks amid sharply higher February 2010, the economy has companies had cut to the bone don.lee@latimes.com
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the '40s and '50s and '60s," says
Gordon Adams, a national-
security expert at American
Univeristy.
Another reason that so little
economic benefit has come from
this war is that it has produced
less—not more—stability around
the world. Stable countries, with
functioning markets governed by
the rule of law, make better
trading partners; it's easier to start
a business, or tap national
resources, or develop new
products in times of tranquility
than in times of strife. "If you can
successfully pursue a military
campaign and bring stability at
the end of it, there is an economic
benefit," says economic historian
Joshua Goldstein of the
University of Massachusetts. "If
we stabilized Libya, that would
have an economic benefit."
Even the psychological boost
from bin Laden's death seems
muted by historical standards.
Imagine the emancipation of the
slaves. Victory over the Axis
powers gave Americans a sense of
euphoria and limitless possibility.
O'Hanlon says, "I take no great
satisfaction in his death because
I'm still amazed at the devastation
and how high a burden he placed
on us." It is "more like a relief
than a joy that I feel." Majewski
adds, "Even in a conflict like the
Civil War or World War II, there's
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a sense of tragedy but of triumph,
too. But the war on terror … it's
hard to see what we get out of it,
technologically or institutionally."
BIN LADEN'S LEGACY
What we are left with, after bin
Laden, is a lingering bill that was
exacerbated by decisions made in
a decade-long campaign against
him. We borrowed money to
finance the war on terrorism
rather than diverting other
national-security funding or
raising taxes. We expanded
combat operations to Iraq before
stabilizing Afghanistan, which in
turn led to the recent reescalation
of the American commitment
there. We tolerated an
unsupervised national-security
apparatus, allowing it to grow so
inefficient that, as The
Washington Post reported in a
major investigation last year,
1,271 different government
institutions are charged with
counterterrorism missions (51
alone track terrorism financing),
which produce some 50,000
intelligence reports each year,
many of which are simply not
read.
We have also shelled out billions
of dollars in reconstruction
funding and walking-around
money for soldiers, with little idea
of whether it has even helped
foreigners, much less the United
States; independent investigations
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demonstrates how to make
suggest as much as $23 billion is
unaccounted for in Iraq alone.
"We can't account for where any
of it goes—that's the great tragedy
in all of this," Hellman says. "The
Pentagon cannot now and has
never passed an audit—and, to
me, that's just criminal."
It's worth repeating that the actual
cost of bin Laden's September 11
attacks was between $50 billion
and $100 billion. That number
could have been higher, says
Adam Rose, coordinator for
economics at the University of
Southern California's National
Center for Risk and Economic
Analysis of Terrorism Events, but
for the resilience of the U.S.
economy and the quick response
of policymakers to inject liquidity
and stimulate consumer spending.
But the cost could also have been
much lower, he says, if consumers
hadn't paid a fear
premium—shying away from air
travel and tourism in the
aftermath of the attacks.
"Ironically," he says, "we as
Americans had more to do with
the bottom-line outcome than the
terrorist attack itself, on both the
positive side and the negative
side."
The same is true of the nation's
decision, for so many reasons, to
spend at least $3 trillion
responding to bin Laden's attacks.
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bought a sense of action in the
face of what felt like an existential
threat. We staved off another
attack on domestic soil. Our debt
load was creeping up already,
thanks to the early waves stages
of baby-boomer retirements, but
we also hastened a fiscal mess
that has begun, in time, to fulfill
bin Laden's vision of a bankrupt
America. If left unchecked, our
current rate of deficit spending
would add $9 trillion to the
national debt over the next
decade. That's three Osamas, right
there.
Although Bin Laden is buried in
the sea, other Islamist extremists
are already vying to take his
place. In time, new enemies,
foreign and domestic, will rise to
challenge America. What they
will cost us, far more than we
realize, is our choice.
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victims at Ground Zero - Detroit Free Press
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NEW YORK -- Beneath the
shade of an improbable pear tree,
President Barack Obama laid a
wreath of white and red flowers,
saying nothing, his head bowed
standing beside colleagues of
those who died in the attacks of
Sept. 11, 2001.
But for all the solemnity, there
was still something of a victory in
it.
A victory that here, at Ground
Zero, monumental pools are being
constructed to remember the
victims of 9/11. A victory that, all
around it, office structures are on
the way up. And a victory that, on
Monday, the mastermind behind
the attacks -- al-Qaida leader
Osama bin Laden -- was found in
a compound in Pakistan by U.S.
Special Forces and killed.
"I just want to tell him thank you,
for taking out this killer, for never
giving up," said John Gates, a
retired New York firefighter who
served on 9/11 and lost a cousin
in another unit and 12 members of
his own unit, Ladder 3. He was
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standing just outside the
ceremony at the memorial being
built at Ground Zero.
The pain from the loss never goes
away, said Gates, "but I'm glad
the monster who did it is dead."
Thursday's ceremony, itself at
Ground Zero -- the site of the
World Trade Center towers'
collapse after bin Laden's
followers flew aircraft into them -
- was quiet, peaceful, respectful
and short. But the signs of the
thousands who gathered outside
the barricades evinced a clear, if
subdued, moment of celebration.
There was no talk of postmortem
photos or DNA evidence. No
discussion of whether bin Laden
could have or should have been
taken alive. New York Gov.
Andrew Cuomo said though all
the tragedy has come back to
mind, it comes with the sense that
justice has been done.
"We had both feelings," he said.
More than 3,000 people died on 9
/11 at the twin towers, the
Pentagon in Washington and
aboard Flight 93, which crashed
in a rural field in Pennsylvania.
Obama limited his comments to
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Standing in the "Pride of
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Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9 -
- which lost 15 firefighters on 9/
11 -- the president said that
though no one can bring back
their friends and family members,
bin Laden's killing delivered a
message.
"When we say, 'We will never
forget,' we mean what we say,"
Obama said.
He also visited a police precinct
in Manhattan and with the
families of victims. Greeting
Obama as he landed in Marine
One at a Wall Street helipad was
former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who
was praised for his quick response
at the time of the attacks.
"What we did ... was directly
connected to what you do every
single day," Obama told officers
at the First Precinct of the
operation in Pakistan. "You are
part of the team that helped us
achieve our goal, but also help us
keep our citizens safe each and
every day."
None of the president's remarks
was made to the news media,
members of which were kept at
the Ground Zero site. A news
media pool was the only coverage
of the remarks.
Joining the president at Ground
Zero -- now a huge construction
site for buildings as well as the
deep pools that will commemorate
the footprint of both towers when
opened on the 10th anniversary of
the attacks -- were Cuomo, New
York Mayor Michael Bloomberg,
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie
and an honor guard of local law
enforcement and firefighters.
The president stayed 15 minutes,
shaking hands, talking with local
and congressional leaders and
stopping to greet 14-year-old
Payton Wall, who lost her father,
Glen James Wall, in the attack.
She had written Obama about
how she handled the attack; she
was joined by her mother, her
sister and a friend who also lost
her dad in the attacks.
At least one family related to one
of the Flight 93 victims visited
with the president in New York,
as well.
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After the towers fell, a piece of a
pear tree -- about 8 feet tall -- was
found on the site. It had been
planted in the 1970s and was
badly damaged in the attacks.
New York City's parks and
recreation department took it out,
in hopes of nursing it back to
health.
Thursday, it stood at Ground
Zero -- 30 feet high and healthy
again -- shading the president and
those gathered around him, as he
quietly laid flowers to remember
the dead.
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Nuclear Fusion In Four Years?
Amazon's Jeff Bezos Is Betting On
It Christian
Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:40:44 AM
Ethonomic Indicator of the Day:
1,000 liters--the equivalent
amount of gas you would need to
get the nuclear fusion power of
one liter of seawater.
Nuclear power is having a bit of a
low moment these days. But that's
just because we don't know how
to do it right, the way the sun
does. General Fusion--a startup
that just announced that
Amazon.com billionaire Jeff
Bezos is providing financial
backing as part of a $19.5 million
funding round--claims it's going
to solve the nuclear problem by
creating clean, harmless nuclear
power from water.
You read that correctly--Bezos is
betting on nuclear fusion, the holy
grail of nuclear nerds everywhere.
Today's nuclear plants generate
power from fission, a process
that splits atoms to release energy
as heat. The simple version of the
nuclear fusion process--which is
what happens on the sun--goes
something like this: isotopes of
hydrogen atoms fuse together to
make helium. The reaction
releases incredibly large amounts
of heat, which is used to power
steam turbines.
The amount of hydrogen isotopes
found in one liter of water could
generate the power of 1,000 liters
of gasoline. Some of the hydrogen
isotopes for the process can be
found in seawater, and others can
be found in lithium. This means
that nuclear fusion should be
able to provide virtually unlimited
amounts of clean energy
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Fusion sounds a little crazy in
saying that it can. But the
company is confident, claiming
that it will have a full-scale proof-
of-concept fusion generator
within four years. The key,
according to General Fusion, is its
Magnetized Target Fusion
technology, which traps plasma in
a magnetic field and then
compresses it to high
temperatures and density.
If the plan works, General
Fusion's nuclear plants could be
cost-competitive with the capital
and operating costs of today's coal
plants. It all sounds a little too
good to be true: scalable, ultra-
safe, reasonably priced, and
unlimited nuclear power? It's the
kind of breakthrough that really
gets a tech billionaire's heart
(according to General Fusion, we pumping--but we'll have to wait
have enough lithium for 23,000 four years to see if General Fusion
years of fusion energy). There is can actually save us from our
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May 6 (Reuters) - The European
Union agreed on Friday to impose
sanctions on 14 Syrian officials
for their part in a violent
government crackdown against
protesters, but President Bashar al
-Assad was not among those
targeted.
After a meeting of EU
ambassadors, the 27 country bloc
said it would impose travel
restrictions and asset freezes on
the 14 individuals, with the
measures to be formally approved
early next week if no member
state objects.
The restrictions, which do not
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include any move against Syria's
oil industry or its exports, will
come into law later this month,
once the legal framework has
been drawn up.
The move follows a decision last
week to impose an arms embargo
against Syria.
"There is an agreement in
principle," an EU official said of
the asset freeze and travel ban
decision. "It would be adopted
probably officially early next
week."
While Assad is not on the list,
there is the possibility that he will
be added in time, the official said.
Syria's defence minister was also
not included among the 14.
Assad, grappling with the most
serious challenge to his 11-year
rule, has ordered the military to
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subscription services to decide
which one best suits your needs.
These reviews emphasize the
crush demonstrators who have Compared to things like bicycles mobile experience, because
been inspired by anti-government or shoes, music subscription today's smartphone apps make
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loyal to Assad have killed at least for the same monthly prices: $5 you may not be right for some.
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Quarterlife Crisis, Which Affects
73% Of Young Professionals
Aimee Groth (Business Insider)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 11:35:00 AM
You are not alone. Beauty,
wealth and a great sex life won't
save you. And it's not a myth.
The quarter-life crisis is a
growing phenomenon that affects
73% of people aged 26-30,
according research presented in
the Daily Mail.
Here's what the afflicted go
through, psychologist Dr. Oliver
Robinson told The Guardian:
Phase 1 is defined by feeling
"locked in" to a job or
relationship, or both. "It's an
illusory sense of being trapped,"
he said.
Phase 2 is typified by a growing
sense that change is possible.
"This mental and physical
separation from previous
commitments leads to all sorts of
emotional upheavals. It allows
exploration of new possibilities
with a closer link to interests,
preferences and sense of self.
"A minority of participants
described getting caught in a loop,
but the majority reflected on a
difficult time which was a catalyst
for important positive change."
Phase 3 is a period of rebuilding
a new life.
Phase 4 is the cementing of fresh
commitments that reflect the
young person's new interests,
aspirations and values.
A bad economy is one reason for
the growing trend. Dr. Donna
Dawson tells The Daily Mail: "On
the whole, young people are much
more stressed than previous
generations were. They leave
university saddled with debt, life
is more expensive, and it's harder
to get on the property ladder. That
is why we are seeing this
epidemic."
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Tenn. Officials Urge Evacuations
Near Flooding River- Disasters
Challenge GOP Governors of Ala.,
Miss.
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Submitted at 5/6/2011 12:05:43 PM
In Tennessee, where local
officials do not have the authority
to order people to evacuate, they
AP hoped the fliers would persuade
May 5: The rising waters of Lake them to leave. Bob Nations,
Ferguson flood the Greenville d i r e c t o r o f e m e r g e n c y
Yacht Club in the foreground and management for Shelby County,
are forcing the evacuation of the which includes Memphis, said
Lighthouse Point Casino, left rear, there was still plenty of time. The
in Greenville, Miss. river is not expected to crest until
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Police Wednesday.
officers went door to door Friday "This does not mean that water is
urging Memphis residents to leave at your doorstep," Nations said of
nearly 1,000 homes expected to the door-to-door effort. "This
be inundated by a near-record means you are in a high impact
flood of the Mississippi River and area."
its tributaries. Shelby County Division Fire
Emergency workers handed out Chief Joseph Rike said about 950
bright yellow fliers in English and households in Memphis and about
Spanish that read, "Evacuate!!! 135 homes in Shelby County are
Your property is in danger right getting the notices.
now." Shelters have been opened, and
All the way south into the the fliers include a phone number
Mississippi Delta, people faced to arrange transportation for
the question of whether to stay or people who need it.
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Al Qaeda confirms bin Laden is dead and
vows revenge
(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:17:19 AM
By Augustine Anthony
ISLAMABAD| Fri May 6, 2011
11:17am EDT
(Reuters) - Al Qaeda confirmed
Osama bin Laden was dead on
Friday, dispelling some of the fog
around the killing of the "holy
warrior," and vowed to mount
more attacks on the West.
The announcement by the
Islamist network, which promised
to publish a taped message from
bin Laden soon, appeared likely to
silence doubts expressed by some
that he had died at all.
In a statement online, it said bin
Laden's blood "is more precious
to us and to every Muslim than to
be wasted in vain."
"It will remain, with permission
from Allah the Almighty, a curse
that hunts the Americans and their
collaborators and chases them
inside and outside their country."
Al Qaeda urged Pakistanis to rise
up against their government to
"cleanse" the country of what it
called the shame brought on it by
bin Laden's shooting and of the
"filth of the Americans who
spread corruption in it."
"Before the sheikh passed from
this world and before he could
share with the Islamic nation in its
joys over its revolutions in the
face of the oppressors, he
recorded a voice recording of
congratulations and advice which
we will publish soon, God
willing," the militant group said.
"We warn the Americans not to
harm the corpse of the sheikh or
expose it to any indecent
treatment or to harm any members
of his family, living or dead, and
to deliver the corpses to their
families," it added. U.S. officials
say bin Laden's body has been
buried at sea.
Anger and suspicion between
Washington and Islamabad
showed no sign of dispersing.
A U.S. drone killed 17 in
northwest Pakistan, despite
warnings from the Pakistani
military against the mounting of
attacks within its borders.
Islamists in the south rallied to
vow revenge for the shooting of
the "martyr" bin Laden. Afghan
Taliban and Islamist Indonesian
youths made similar threats.
"FIVE YEARS" IN
COMPOUND
One of Osama bin Laden's wives,
Amal Ahmed Abdulfattah, told
Pakistani interrogators the al
Qaeda leader had been living for
five years in the compound where
he was killed by U.S. forces this
week, a Pakistani security official
told Reuters.
The revelation appeared sure to
heighten U.S. suspicions that
Pakistani authorities have been
either grossly incompetent or
playing a double game in the hunt
for bin Laden and the two
countries' supposed partnership
against violent Islamism.
Pakistani security forces took
between 15 and 16 people into
custody from the Abbottabad
compound after U.S. forces
removed bin Laden's body, said
the security official. Those
detained included bin Laden's
three wives and several children.
Surveillance of bin Laden's
hideout from a CIA safe house in
Abbottabad had led to his killing
in the Navy SEAL operation, U.S.
officials said.
The U.S. officials, quoted by the
Washington Post, said the safe
house had been the base for
intelligence gathering that began
after bin Laden's compound was
discovered last August.
U.S. officials told the New York
Times computer files and
documents seized at his
compound showed bin Laden had
for years orchestrated attacks
from the Pakistani town, and may
have been planning a strike on
U.S. railways this year.
The fact that bin Laden was
found in a garrison town -- his
compound was not far from a
military academy -- has
embarrassed Pakistan and the
covert raid has angered its
military.
On Thursday, the Pakistan army
threatened to halt counter-
terrorism cooperation with the
United States if it conducted any
more similar raids.
It was unclear if such attacks
included drone strikes which the
U.S. military regularly conducts
against militants along Pakistan's
border with Afghanistan.
On Friday U.S. drone aircraft
fired missiles into a house in
North Waziristan region on
Friday, killing at least 17
suspected militants.
Pakistani security officials have
charged that U.S. troops, after
landing by helicopter, shot the
unarmed al Qaeda leader in cold
blood rather than in a firefight, as
U.S. officials first suggested.
One senior Pakistani official told
Reuters on Friday: "We didn't find
any bullet shells inside the house.
There is no doubt that no shots
were fired from there."
Another security official said: "If
there was exchange of fire
between U.S. Navy SEALS and
people inside the house then they
(Americans) should prove it. They
must have footage of the
operation. They should release it."
In Washington, people familiar
with the latest U.S. government
reporting on the raid told Reuters
on Thursday only one of four
principal targets shot dead by U.S.
commandos had been involved in
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hostile fire.
U.S. officials originally spoke of
a 40-minute firefight. The White
House has blamed the "fog of
war" for the changing accounts.
U.N. human rights investigators
called on the United States to
disclose the full facts "to allow an
assessment in terms of
international human rights law
standards."
"It will be particularly important
to know if the planning of the
mission allowed an effort to
capture bin Laden," Christof
Heyns and Martin Scheinin said
in a joint statement.
FEW QUALMS AMONG
AMERICANS
Few Americans appear to have
qualms about how bin Laden was
killed, and on Thursday people
cheered President Barack Obama
when he visited the site of New
York's twin towers, leveled by al
Qaeda on September 11, 2001,
killing nearly 3,000 people.
But many Americans are
questioning how bin Laden could
live for years in a town teeming
with military personnel, 50 km
(30 miles) from Islamabad. Two
U.S. lawmakers have complained
about the billions in U.S. aid to
impoverished Pakistan.
Seeking to repair ties, Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton said in
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Republican presidential hopefuls
on Thursday night didn't allow
President Obama's widely-praised
operation that killed Usama bin
Laden this week to deter them
from attacking his foreign policy
or blaming his domestic policies
for high gas prices and the fragile
economy recovery.
During the first debate of the
2012 election season, former
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty
congratulated Obama for
capturing the world's most wanted
terrorist nearly 10 years after the
Sept. 11 attacks.
"I tip my cap to him in that
moment," he said. "But that
moment is not the sum total of
America's foreign policy. He's
made a number of other decisions
relating to our security here and
around the world that I don't agree
with."
Pawlenty cited Libya as one
example, saying he didn't agree
with Obama's decision to defer to policies. gotten it wrong strategically every Republican Party sponsored the presidential exploratory
the United Nations on how to deal "The decision he made with single time." debate that also featured Texas committee, filing state GOP
with Muammar Qaddafi's violent Usama bin Laden was a tactical Pawlenty and Santorum were Rep. Ron Paul, former New paperwork and paying $25,000 to
crackdown on rebels. decision," he said. "It wasn't a among the five participants Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson and get on the state primary ballot.
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Private sector hiring hits 5-year
high in April
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Submitted at 5/6/2011 9:23:08 AM
A Fresh Direct employee makes a
grocery delivery at a residence in
New York City May 6, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson
By Lucia Mutikani
WASHINGTON| Fri May 6,
2011 10:23am EDT
(Reuters) - U.S. private employers
shrugged off high energy prices to
add jobs at the fastest pace in five
years in April, pointing to
underlying strength in the
economy, even as the jobless rate
rose to 9.0 percent.
Private sector hiring, including a
big jump in the retail sector,
boosted overall nonfarm payrolls
by 244,000, the largest increase in
11 months, the Labor Department
said on Friday. Economists had
expected a gain of only 186,000.
The private sector created
268,000 new jobs, the most since
February 2006, while government
payrolls shrank.
The data suggested the economic
recovery would regain speed this
quarter after stumbling in the first
three months of the year, a view
that had suffered setbacks earlier
this week as other reports pointed
to a slowing in the labor market.
"We're getting close to the point
where we are seeing sustainable
job growth. That creates income
that generates spending and,
hopefully, more jobs," said Gary
Thayer, chief macro strategist at
Wells Fargo Advisors in St.
Louis, Missouri.
U.S. stocks opened higher on the
report, which knocked down U.S.
government bond prices. The
dollar initially rose against the
euro, but later gave up those
gains.
SEVEN STRAIGHT MONTHS
OF JOB GAINS
The U.S. economy has now
created jobs for seven straight
months, but the gains have been
too meager to make much of dent
in the pool of 13.7 million
Americans out of work.
Payroll figures for the previous
two months were revised to show
46,000 more jobs were added than
previously reported.
The unemployment rate in April
backed away from a two-year low
of 8.8 percent. It is derived from a
separate survey of households,
which showed a sharp decline in
employment and a modest rise in
the size of the labor force.
Economists, however, place more
weight on the larger, less-volatile
survey of employers.
The White House welcomed the
report, which it said was a sign
the jobless rate would soon
recede.
"If you're putting up jobs numbers
like the ones we have been putting
up in the last three months --
quarter million a month -- steadily
that's going to bring the
unemployment rate down," White
House economic adviser Austan
Goolsbee told CNBC.
The lofty level of unemployment
has been a key reason the Federal
Reserve has kept the monetary
spigots opened. It is on course to
complete a $600 billion round of
bond buying at the end of June.
However, the relatively vigorous
expansion in payrolls in April, if
sustained, could encourage some
members of the Fed to begin
pushing for interest rates hikes.
"To us it looks like a good
recovery taking place in payrolls.
We think employment is
recovering strongly and will
continue to do so throughout
2011," said Michael Shaoul,
chairman of Marketfield Asset
Management in New York.
SLOW CRAWL BACK TO
HEALTH
The United States has recovered
only a fraction of the more than 8
million jobs its lost in the 2007-
2009 recession. Even at April's
relatively rapid rate of job growth,
it would take nearly 2-1/2 years to
reclaim all those jobs. For a
graphic see: r.reuters.com/gek49r
High gasoline and food prices
clipped U.S. economic growth in
first quarter when the economy
grew at a subdued 1.8 percent
annual rate. It had expanded at a
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Rome on Thursday that
Washington was still anxious to
maintain its alliance with
3.1 percent clip in the final three
Islamabad.
Friction between Washington and
Pakistan has focused on the role
of Pakistan's top security service,
months of last year.
the ISI or Inter-Services
Details of the report were
Intelligence Directorate. Foreign
generally upbeat with the
Secretary Salman Bashir denied
exception of government
Pakistani forces had aided al
employment, which contracted for
Qaeda.
a sixth straight month in April,
Lobbyists for Pakistan in
shedding 24,000 jobs.
Washington have launched an
The bulk of gains in payrolls last
intense campaign on Capitol Hill
month were in the private services
to counter accusations that
sector, which created 224,000
Islamabad deliberately gave
new positions after adding
refuge to bin Laden.
194,000 in March. Within that
(Additional reporting by Erika
segment, retail saw a surge of
Solomon in Dubai, Michael
57,100 jobs and leisure and
Georgy in Islamabad and Reuters
hospitality added 46,000 new
bureaux worldwide; writing by
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toward full-fledged campaigns.
Among the notable absences were
Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Mitt
Romney, Mike Huckabee and
Newt Gingrich.
They missed out on a chance to
weigh in on the biggest issues of
the day, including whether to
release a photo of bin Laden's
corpse, something that Obama has
said he won't do. But four of the
five participants said they would
release the photo. Cain was the
only one who opposed it.
Three participants said they
support waterboarding on a case-
by-case basis. It is a sort of
simulated drowning that Obama
has deemed torture and banned
but that others some believe led to
the capture of bin Laden. Paul and
Johnson said they didn't support
waterboarding.
"Because you don't achieve
anything," Paul said.
But Santorum shot back, "Well
that's just simply not true, Ron. I
mean the fact is that some of this
information that we have found
out that led to Usama bin Laden
actually came from these
enhanced interrogation
techniques."
At one point, Johnson, a
libertarian-leaning Republican
who backs gay rights and
legalizing some drugs, cried foul
over not getting as many
questions as his fellow debaters.
Fox News' anchor Bret Baier said
the moderators would be "fair and
balanced" with the questions.
Paul, the Libertarian Party
presidential nominee in 1988,
received thunderous applause
after most of his answers. His
2008 GOP-run inspired the
modern Tea Party movement, and
he planned to address the
marathon South Carolina Tea
Party rally after Thursday's
debate.
Asked to reconcile his support for
the Defense of Marriage Act, a
federal law banning gay marriage,
and his statements saying the
government shouldn't dictate who
can get married, Paul said the law
protects states' rights.
"The Defense of Marriage Act
was really designed to make sure
that the states have the privilege
of dealing with and the federal
government can't impose their
standards on them," he said.
The participants agreed that the
economy would be the president's
biggest weakness in the election.
"We're on the verge of a financial
collapse unless we balance the
budget, and that means some
really, really tough decisions,"
Johnson said.
Cain, a former Federal Reserve
banker and CEO of Godfather's
Pizza, criticized Obama's energy
plan, which he blamed for rising
gas prices.
"If the world market believed that
we were serious about energy
independence and we were going
to utilize all of our existing
resources, the speculators wold
stop speculating up and they
would speculate down until we
get our own oil out of the
ground," he said to roaring
applause.
Paul outlined his "theory" that
Americans "vote from their
bellies."
"Because it's whether they're
hungry, or have jobs or need
things, that's why they vote," Paul
said. "And we're in big trouble.
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Epoch Times Staff Created: May
6, 2011 Last Updated: May 6,
2011
REINCARNATION: Movie
director Hong Wei explains the
challenges in making the film
"Awakening," on April 26,
following the world premiere of
the movie in the Wechsler
Theater, at American University,
in Washington, D.C. She said that
the movie's several stories and
time phases are unified through
reincarnation, which connects our
lives with one another. (Lisa Fan/
The Epoch Times)
WASHINGTON—While just a
movie, Awakening attempts to
provide some answers to the
fundamental questions of our
existence. Inspired by her own
personal spiritual revelations, the
director of “Awakening,” Hong
Wei, ambitiously seeks to
interweave individual lives and
history’s tragic events by a
common thread.
For the first time, the director
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history to the Song and Han to happen. Again, sadness
dynasties and reaching further prevails.
back in time to a prehistoric Finally, in modern times, the two
period, the movie follows the individuals are married and have a
lives of a couple that are together son. But due to the low morality
repeatedly—as two deities, as two in communist China, their
women, and as a man and a relationship is profoundly tested
woman. and falters for a while. They are
“What do we really come here faced with difficult decisions. The
for? … A deep question,” Wei severe and brutal persecution of
asks. Then she says humbly, “I Falun Gong provides the
don’t know. Maybe everyone has backdrop for the main characters
a different answer or perhaps no to understand the meaning of their
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Visually Striking
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and also preserving considerable Festival taking place in New BBC's 1986 Domesday Project
areas of pristine nature. York. and speak to the man who led the
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The Realist Prism: Prioritizing for the Post-

Bin-Laden Era
(World Politics Review: Articles) Qaida, he argued, might be the Afghanistan may prove to be the willingness to assist in Hosni in the Middle East and the need to
Submitted at 5/6/2011 6:34:00 AM 21st-century equivalent of the first test. If the Taliban does not Mubarak's departure from power rebalance priorities to focus on
long twilight struggle against the share bin Laden's vision of a in Egypt and to use force to U.S. interests in the Asia-Pacific
If the death of Osama bin Laden Soviet Union during the second struggle against the "far enemy," dislodge Libya's Moammar region.
marks the beginning of the end of half of the 20th century. Peter then the conflict there is no longer Gadhafi, even though both firmly But it is in the context of setting
the "global war on terrorism," as Bergen's recently released tome a central front in the war against opposed al-Qaida. In so doing, the priorities in an era of shrinking
Michael Cohen argued in a WPR on the war on terror is even terror, but rather a regional U.S. has accepted the risk that the resources that the nature of a post-
briefing this week, it will have explicitly titled, "The Longest insurgency that imperils a nation- effort to create more-open, bin-Laden world will become
profound consequences for U.S. War," and posits an "enduring building mission in a country pluralistic and democratic regimes most critical. If terrorism is
national security policy. For the struggle" in the years to come. peripheral to the Arab and Islamic in the Middle East might result in reclassified as a law enforcement
last decade, the fight against But the logic of the "war on worlds. As I noted in the hours Islamist elements gaining strength issue, who will be responsible for
i n t e r n a t i o n a l t e r r o r i s m , a s terrorism" was about more than after bin Laden's death was and influence -- something that addressing it: the FBI, which has
personified by bin Laden, was one j u s t c o m b a t i n g a s i n g l e announced, "If a combination of was anathema five years ago. traditionally spearheaded efforts
o f t h e c e n t r a l o r g a n i z i n g organization, al-Qaida. It was also military pressure in Afghanistan Other autocratic regimes that against other transnational
principles of American foreign about providing an overarching combined with bin Laden's death banked on the assumption that criminal enterprises, or a defense
and defense policies. Preventing narrative that knitted together a creates conditions for a cooperation with the U.S. in the and foreign policy establishment
another Sept. 11 was the rationale number of discrete, regional settlement, it is unlikely that the war on terror would guarantee that has been developing
for the military actions in problems -- from Chechen U.S. will continue to devote large their standing may have to revise expeditionary capabilities to fight
Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as separatists and Colombian narco- amounts of time and resources to those plans. global terror?
for a whole host of programs in traffickers to Somali pirates and changing Afghanistan, especially That's because countries that The stage is being set for a
dozens of countries around the North Korea's nuclear program -- in the wake of the Arab spring. have been vital in the war on struggle for resources and
world, ranging from security into a global strategic view. It [Getting things right in Egypt] -- terror may be less valuable to the programs with the decisive
c o o p e r a t i o n t o i m p r o v i n g provided a unifying template by the country at the center of the United States if Washington shifts quesiton being, Is the United
governance and social services. It w h i c h U . S . e n g a g e m e n t i n Arab world -- is going to be much its focus to improving America's States threatened more by the rise
was also cited as one of the different regions of the world more critical than trying to nation- own economic standing. The of great powers or by the
reasons for seeking improved could be portrayed as combating build . . . in Afghanistan." willingness to tolerate the foibles proliferation of weak and failing
relations with other major powers the same threat in multiple guises There are also broader of a Central Asian regime in order states? If the latter, should the
including Russia, China and India. and locations. Bin Laden's demise implications. For the past 10 to secure access to bases that were military and civilian agencies be
One month after the Sept. 11 could be the catalyst that scatters years, counterterrorism has been key for projecting power into preparing for more Afghanistan-
attacks, at a forum sponsored by the assembled pieces of this the animating theme of the Afghanistan may diminish in style missions -- in Somalia, for
the National Interest and the jigsaw puzzle, particularly if al- national security establishment. coming years, while states in the instance -- involving sustained
Nixon Center in Washington, Qaida, having lost its effective But even though terrorists may Western Hemisphere that were involvement in counterinsurgency
columnist Charles Krauthammer founder and guide, breaks into still be with us for a long time, if ignored in the past decade may operations combined with efforts
o p i n e d t h a t i n t h e d e c a d e smaller regional franchises with the threat posed by them is seen in become much more critical as the to build effective governance?
following the end of the Cold less global reach. That could a different perspective, then the U.S. seeks to rebuild an economic These missions require "boots on
War, the United States used a return terrorism to its pre-Sept. 11 yardstick of U.S. policy will community in its own backyard. the ground" trained in a whole
"holiday from history" to kick status as a "law enforcement" change. The Obama National Security Adviser Tom host of nonconventional missions.
pressing global problems "down rather than a "national security" administration has already begun Donilon has already quite openly
the road." The fight against al- problem. this shift, reflected by its talked about an "overinvestment" REALIST page 24
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U.S. 'Human Rights' Stance on Iran Would
Weaken Opposition
(World Politics Review: Articles)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 6:34:00 AM
The recent events in the Arab
world and Iran have led many in
the West to urge President Barack
Obama to take a stronger stance
against human right abuses in
Iran. The Obama administration
should resist this temptation, as
doing so would only serve to
weaken Iran's domestic
opposition. As the popular
uprisings in the Middle East have
demonstrated, revolutions are
most successful when they are
organic.
The voices calling on the Obama
administration to give greater
attention to human rights abuses
in Iran have been forceful and
diverse. A Washington Post
editorial from last month, for
instance, told the administration
to "bet on a renewed popular
uprising in Iran" and advocated
increasing U.S. aid to Iranian
dissent groups. Then, after the
European Union placed sanctions
on 32 Iranian officials for human
rights abuses, a bipartisan group
of U.S. senators sent a letter to
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
urging her to "designate President
[Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad as an
Iranian human rights abuser" and
to enact sanctions against other
Iranian officials. More
proactively, two prominent think
tanks have formed a joint task
force to generate
recommendations for how the
United States can place
democracy and human rights at
the forefront of its Iran policy.
These arguments, however well-
intentioned, are misguided. The
Iranian government's violent
repression of dissidents certainly
stands in direct contrast to
democratic values as well as to
the professed values of the
Islamic Republic itself. But
putting overt pressure on the
Iranian government for its human
rights abuses risks alienating the
domestic opposition from the
Iranian population and would
almost certainly unify an
increasingly fractured Iranian
leadership.
When faced with domestic
opposition, the Iranian
government has consistently
fallen back on portraying
dissidents as puppets acting on
behalf of foreign powers. The
government has used this
approach for one simple reason: It
has often proved effective.
Centuries of exploitation at the
hands of foreign powers have left
the Iranian people fiercely
nationalistic and conspiracy-
minded, prone to believing that
foreign designs on their
sovereignty abound.
Conscious of this, Green
Movement leaders went to great
lengths following the fraudulent
presidential election in 2009 to
frame themselves as an
indigenous movement devoid of
foreign influence. The fact that
Iranians took to the streets in such
large numbers was itself a
validation of the Obama
administration's engagement
strategy, which deprived the
ayatollahs of their favorite
scapegoat, the United States, for
explaining away their many
failures.
Leaving nothing to chance,
however, the Green Movement's
leadership actively countered
government propaganda aimed at
portraying them as foreign agents.
Thus the movement's de facto
leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi,
championed the slogan, "Na
dolat'e d'etat, na menat'e Amrika!"
-- which roughly translates to
[http://www.amazon.com/
Ayatollahs-Democracy-Iranian-
Challenge/dp/0393072592] "No
to a coup d'etat government, but
no to an indebtedness to
America." Mousavi's job was no
doubt complicated by Iranian
exile groups and Western leaders
who offered their unsolicited
support for the Green Movement.
In describing the effect this
support had in Iran, Iranian-
American author Hooman Majd, a
close confidant and relative of
former President Mohammad
Khatami, wrote, "Tehran's
propaganda machine could not
have asked for a greater gift, one
they could use to further
marginalize Mousavi." As
political insiders who understand
Iran in ways outsiders cannot,
Mousavi and Majd's message is
clear: U.S. interference
undermines the strength of Iran's
opposition.
Overt action against human rights
abusers would also unify an
increasingly fractured Iranian
leadership. Students of
revolutions have identified
divisions among the ruling elite as
one of the conditions that
historically have created
situations favorable to the success
of uprisings. Right now the
Iranian elite are more divided than
at any point in the Islamic
Republic's brief history.
These divisions began to surface
in earnest in February, when the
government took the
unprecedented step of arresting
Mahdi Karroubi and Mousavi,
both opposition leaders who
nonetheless remain longstanding
regime insiders. To put this in
perspective, even after helping
lead the 2009 protests, Mousavi
still retained his post on the
powerful Expediency Council. An
even more surprising change took
place in March, when Ali
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Hashemi Rafsanjani, a fixture of
Iranian politics since the Islamic
Republic's founding, was stripped
of his chairmanship of the
Assembly of Experts, a body of
clerics tasked with choosing and
overseeing the supreme leader.
Then in April, Supreme Leader
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
withdrew the unequivocal support
he has given President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad since the latter was
elected in 2005, by reinstating an
intelligence official Ahmadinejad
had fired. Adding insult to injury,
Khamenei also publicly chastised
Ahmadinejad in the media. For
his part, Ahmadinejad skipped
several cabinet meetings
following Khamenei's rebuke.
Nonetheless, the different
factions remain united in their
support for the preservation of the
Islamic Republic, in some form or
another, and in their opposition to
foreign interference in Iran's
internal affairs. It is therefore
difficult to conceive of a more
effective way to bring the feuding
parties together than a U.S.-led
human rights initiative aimed at
facilitating the government's
overthrow.
As the events of the Arab Spring
have demonstrated once again,
successful opposition movements
come from within. Iran's leaders
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continued from page 22
But as Stewart Patrick of the
Council on Foreign Relations
recently argued, "While failed
states may be worthy of America's
attention on humanitarian and
development grounds, most of
them are irrelevant to U.S.
national security." Indeed, he sees
more developed states, not failed
ones, as a bigger threat.
Or perhaps the template is Libya,
with the goal of interventions
being to "tip" the course of events
using what I have termed the "Just
Enough" doctrine. Here, the
emphasis would be on having
expeditionary forces capable of
being rapidly deployed, but with
the U.S. unlikely to leave much of
a footprint on the ground, thus
favoring air and naval assets.
On the other hand, we might be
returning to a world where the
United States must be prepared to
deter and contain a major great
power rival with global reach. If
so, then having large numbers of
Apple now ranks #35 in Fortune 500
Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 11:00:00 AM
Apple climbed its way into the
elite Top 50 of the Fortune 500
list for this year. The Cupertino
company climbed 21 spots to
claim the #35 position between
Medco Health solutions and
Boeing. Apple was propelled
conventional platforms trumps
having small, mobile teams
capable of digging wells one day
in the Horn of Africa, fighting
drug traffickers the next day in the
jungles of the Andes, and securing
villages in the Hindu Kush the
day after.
Leon Panetta, the nominee to
take over as defense secretary for
Robert Gates, has a mandate to
take an axe to the Pentagon's
budget. Where he comes down in
this debate -- sustained
commitment versus limited
engagement versus preparing for
the next USSR -- may give us the
best sense of how U.S. national
security policy will evolve in the
post-bin-Laden era.
Nikolas K. Gvosdev is the former
editor of the National Interest, and
a frequent foreign policy
commentator in both the print and
broadcast media. He is currently
on the faculty of the U.S. Naval
War College. The views
upwards by sales of the iPad, the
iPhone and content from the iOS
App Store. Combined with its
iTunes and Mac hardware sales,
the company netted US$14 billion
in profits in 2010 and is counted
among the 20 most profitable
companies in the world.
Apple leads both the tablet and computer sales are growing.
s m a r t p h o n e m a r k e t a n d i t s When looking at revenue for the
expressed are his own and do not
reflect those of the Navy or the
U.S. government. His weekly
WPR column, The Realist Prism,
appears every Friday.
Photo: U.S. Army soldier from
the 10th Mountain Division scans
for suspicious activity, Kunar
province, Afghanistan, June 2009
(U.S. Army photo by Sgt.
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are currently off balance. The
United States should resist the
urge to stand them back up.
Zachary Keck is currently a
Joseph S. Nye Jr. National
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New American Security.
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T-Mobile USA Q1 2011: Income dives as

nearly 1m subscribers jump ship
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:32:35 AM

T-Mobile USA has announced its

Q1 2011 results, and the numbers
don’t look great. Net customer
losses hit 99,000 while revenue
flatlined from Q1 2010 at
$4.63bn; however, despite ARPU
(average revenue per user)
remaining steady at $46, overall
income dived from $362m in Q1
2010 to $135m in Q1 2011.
That contrasts sharply with
Verizon and AT&T, both of
whom had relatively strong first
quarters. T-Mobile did see data
revenue rise 20-percent compared
to the same period a year ago,
though that’s less than the 22.3-
and 23.9-percent rise of Verizon
and AT&T respectively. Part of
the reason for T-Mobile’s
declining income is that the cost
of acquiring each customer rose,
up $10 year-on-year to $310 per
subscriber, which the carrier
reckons was predominantly down
to increased 4G and device
advertising.
That advertising does seem to
have worked somewhat, with a
net increase of nearly 1m
smartphone customers and 3G/4G
smartphones now accounting for
27-percent of T-Mobile’s total
customer base. We’re wondering
if AT&T is beginning to regret
that$39bn acquisition plan.
Press Release:
T-Mobile USA Reports First
Quarter 2011 Results
Service revenues in the first
quarter of 2011 at $4.63 billion,
consistent with the first quarter of
2010
Contract ARPU $52 in the first
quarter of 2011, up from $51 in
the first quarter of 2010
Blended data ARPU of $13.10 in
the first quarter of 2011, up more
than 20% from the first quarter of
2010
9.1 million customers using 3G/
4G smartphones as of the first
quarter, a net increase of nearly 1
million customers in the first
quarter of 2011
OIBDA of $1.19 billion in the
first quarter of 2011, down from
$1.39 billion in the first quarter of
2010 driven primarily by
investment in customer loyalty
initiatives and customers
upgrading to smartphones
America’s largest 4G network
currently covers over 200 million
people in 170 markets; the
network is being upgraded to even
faster speeds (42 Mbps); these
faster speeds will cover more than
140 million people by mid-2011,
with the first markets already
launched
B E L L E V U E ,
Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–T-
Mobile USA, Inc. (“T-Mobile
USA”) today reported first quarter
of 2011 results. In the first quarter
of 2011, T-Mobile USA reported
service revenues of $4.63 billion,
consistent with the first quarter of
2010, and OIBDA of $1.19
billion, compared to $1.39 billion
reported in the first quarter of
2010. The number of customers
using smartphones continued to
increase significantly during the
quarter, driving growth in blended
data ARPU. Blended data ARPU
in the first quarter of 2011 was
$13.10, up more than 20% from
the first quarter of 2010. Net
customer losses were 99,000 in
the first quarter of 2011 compared
to 77,000 net customer losses in
the first quarter of 2010.
“The loaded T-Mobile G2x with
Google is the fastest, smoothest
Android smartphone available
today.”
“We continue to drive our
strategy and lay the foundation for
improved future performance and
have seen some positive trends in
the quarter as evidenced through
data ARPU growth rates,” said
Philipp Humm, President and
CEO of T-Mobile USA. “The
success in our data business has
been driven by our 4G network
message, our compelling 4G
device offerings and our attractive
data plans; however, we still have
challenges facing our business as
evidenced by high contract churn
and contract customer losses in
the first quarter of 2011.”
“The first quarter shows a mixed
picture with positive trends in the
development of data ARPU. Our
deal with AT&T announced a few
weeks ago will not change the
focus of our US business. Until
the closing of the deal, T-Mobile
will continue to challenge its
competitors and compete
aggressively in the US market,”
said René Obermann, CEO of
Deutsche Telekom.
Customers
T-Mobile USA served 33.63
million customers (as defined in
T-MOBILE page 26
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T-MOBILE
continued from page 25
Note 3 to the Selected Data,
below) at the end of the first
quarter of 2011, down from 33.73
million at the end of the fourth
quarter of 2010 and 33.71 million
at the end of the first quarter of
2010.
In the first quarter of 2011, net
customer losses were 99,000,
compared to net losses of 23,000
in the fourth quarter of 2010 and
77,000 in the first quarter of 2010.
Contract customer losses were
the primary driver for the
sequential and year-on-year
change in net customers.
Contract net customer losses
were 471,000 in the first quarter
of 2011, compared to 318,000 net
contract customer losses in the
fourth quarter of 2010, and
118,000 net contract customer
losses in the first quarter of 2010.
Sequentially and year-on-year,
the decline in net contract
customers was driven primarily
by fewer contract gross customer
additions and continued high
contract churn due to competitive
pressures.
Connected device net customer
additions, included within
contract customers (as defined in
Note 3 to the Selected Data,
below), were 192,000 in the first
quarter of 2011 compared to
113,000 in the fourth quarter of
2010 and 165,000 in the first
quarter of 2010. Connected
devices totaled 2.1 million at
March 31, 2011.
Prepaid net customer additions,
including MVNO customers (as
defined in Note 3 to the Selected
Data, below), were 372,000 in the
first quarter of 2011, compared to
295,000 in the fourth quarter of
2010 and 41,000 in the first
quarter of 2010.
Sequentially and year-on-year,
prepaid net customer additions
increased due in part to the
growth in customers purchasing
prepaid monthly unlimited plans.
MVNO customers continued to
grow, totaling 3.2 million at
March 31, 2011, and made up a
significant portion of net prepaid
customer additions in the first
quarter of 2011.
Churn
Blended churn (as defined in
Note 2 to the Selected Data,
below), including both contract
and prepaid customers, was 3.4%
in the first quarter of 2011,
compared to 3.6% in the fourth
quarter of 2010 and 3.1% in the
first quarter of 2010.
The sequential decrease in
blended churn was driven
primarily by seasonally higher
churn in the fourth quarter of
2010 due to the holiday season, as
in previous years.
Year-on-year, the increase in
blended churn was driven
primarily by higher contract
customer churn.
Contract churn was 2.4% in the
first quarter of 2011, down from
2.5% in the fourth quarter of
2010, but up from 2.2% the first
quarter of 2010.
The year-on-year increase in
contract churn was driven by
continued competitive pressures
in the US wireless industry.
Prepaid churn decreased in the
first quarter of 2011 to 6.7% from
7.5% in the fourth quarter of 2010
and 6.8% in the first quarter of
2010.
The sequential and year-on-year
decrease in prepaid churn was
driven primarily by lower branded
prepaid churn resulting from the
growth in prepaid monthly
unlimited customers.
OIBDA and Net Income
T-Mobile USA reported OIBDA
(as defined in Note 6 to the
Selected Data, below) of $1.19
billion in the first quarter of 2011,
compared to $1.34 billion in the
fourth quarter of 2010 and $1.39
billion in the first quarter of 2010.
Sequentially and year-on-year,
OIBDA fell due to increased
investment in customer loyalty
initiatives and customers
upgrading to smartphones (as
defined in Note 11 to the Selected
Data, below). Additionally,
OIBDA decreased in the first
quarter of 2011 as a result of
higher operating expenses for
advertising and the continued
expansion of our 4G network.
OIBDA margin (as defined in
Note 7 to the Selected Data,
below) was 26% in the first
quarter of 2011, down from 29%
in the fourth quarter of 2010 and
30% in the first quarter of 2010.
Net income in the first quarter of
2011 was $135 million, compared
to $268 million in the fourth
quarter of 2010 and $362 million
in the first quarter of 2010.
Sequentially and year-on-year,
net income decreased due
primarily to higher retention
equipment subsidies related to
customer loyalty initiatives and
customers upgrading to
smartphones, as described above.
In addition, compared to the first
quarter of 2010, depreciation
expense increased $84 million due
primarily to continued investment
in our network.
Revenue
Service revenues (as defined in
Note 1 to the Selected Data,
below) were $4.63 billion in the
first quarter of 2011, down from
$4.69 billion in the fourth quarter
of 2010 and consistent with $4.63
billion in the first quarter of 2010.
Service revenues in the first
quarter of 2011 were positively
impacted by data revenue growth,
driven by the adoption of mobile
broadband data plans, the revenue
contribution from providing
handset insurance services (which
commenced in the fourth quarter
of 2010), and higher prepaid
revenues from the growth of
monthly unlimited plans. These
revenue growth drivers were more
than offset, compared to the
fourth quarter of 2010, by voice
revenue declines related to net
losses of branded customers.
Year-on-year, quarterly service
revenues were consistent due
primarily to data revenue growth
and from directly providing
handset insurance services which
offset voice revenue declines.
Total revenues, including service,
equipment, and other revenues
were $5.16 billion in the first
quarter of 2011, down from $5.36
billion in the fourth quarter of
2010 and $5.28 billion in the first
quarter of 2010.
Equipment revenues decreased
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sequentially and year-on-year due
primarily to lower handset sales
volumes.
ARPU
Blended Average Revenue Per
User (“ARPU” as defined in Note
1 to the Selected Data, below)
was $46 in the first quarter of
2011, consistent with the fourth
quarter of 2010 and first quarter
of 2010.
Contract ARPU was $52 in the
first quarter of 2011, consistent
with the fourth quarter of 2010
and up from $51 in the first
quarter of 2010.
Year-on-year contract ARPU
increased as data revenue growth
and handset insurance revenues
more than offset lower voice
revenue.
Prepaid ARPU was $19 in the
first quarter of 2011, consistent
with the fourth quarter of 2010
and up from $18 in the first
quarter of 2010.
Data service revenues (as defined
in Note 1 to the Selected Data,
below) were $1.33 billion in the
first quarter of 2011, up 20% from
the first quarter of 2010. Data
service revenues in the first
quarter of 2011 represented 29%
of blended ARPU, or $13.10 per
customer, up from 28% of
blended ARPU, or $12.80 per
customer in the fourth quarter of
2010, and 24% of blended ARPU,
or $10.90 per customer in the first
quarter of 2010.
9.1 million customers were using
smartphones enabled for the T-
Mobile USA 3G/4G network (as
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BlackBerry PlayBook: A Work in Progress
Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 9:00:00 AM
I've had the BlackBerry
PlayBook for nearly two weeks
now. Although we don't typically
review gadgets and hardware here
at ReadWriteWeb, RIM was able
to send us a review unit. Below
are some initial impressions and
thoughts, but for a more detailed
review, you should head to the
gadget blog of your choice, if you
haven't done so already.
The PlayBook is, in a word,
serviceable. It is not a nightmare,
but it's not incredible, either.
However, it shows potential. It's
surprisingly heavy for its small, 7-
inch size. It needs apps, badly. It
needs core apps, including email,
calendaring and contacts at the
very least, because webmail
doesn't seem work properly. It
needs to be less buggy, in general.
But the PlayBook is rapidly
improving. Although in the short
term, it's an unfinished product,
perhaps undeserving of a full
review, and possibly even
undeserving of your money as of
yet - that situation is changing
quickly. How quickly? RIM is
currently promising PlayBook
updates as often as every two
weeks.
Sponsor
Hoping for Better of the Gate
One the day of the PlayBook's
arrival, I have a confession to
make: I wanted to like the thing. I
still have a soft spot in my heart
for RIM, the BlackBerry maker,
Technology/ 27
whose BlackBerry Pearl was my contacts - those will ship via a top (pull down, via swipe) and
first real smartphone. I loved the software update later this summer, access to navigation at the bottom
Pearl. It taught me the value (and says RIM. Clearly, consumers are (swipe up for an interface that lets
the addictiveness), of the always- a second priority for RIM when it you switch between apps). This is
on world. I was truly mobile at comes to the PlayBook. not quite as intuitive as with the
last. I was connected! I discovered But while some have said that iPad and the its simple, one-
a world beyond the clamshell comparing the PlayBook to the button interface. The slightly
feature phones I had toted for iPad makes no sense, I think the upped complexity is evidenced by
years prior. I hacked the phone to comparisons are necessary. I don't the tutorial on "how to use the
PlayBook in your hands. It's a
make the pearl change colors. I think a company can expect to PlayBook" which loads during the
turning point for RIM, and either
installed apps. I twittered! launch a tablet anything, and not PlayBook's setup.
the beginning of the end for RIM
And I used the Pearl to death, be compared with the market That's not to say the interface
or the beginning of its future. The
until the iPhone launched and the leader, for starters. More can't be learned, it just takes a
company has dominated the
world changed. The iPhone, or philosophically, I think the world minute. Someone may have to
smartphone industry for years It
specifically, the iPhone 3G (I had is changing, even, very slowly, in explain it to you. Meanwhile, my
has sold 150 million smartphones,
to save up, times were tough) was the enterprise, under the influence daughter, not yet two, can use an
14.9 million of which were sold
my next phone. I never used a of Apple, Google and others who iPad. She pushes the button, and
last quarter and it still plans to
BlackBerry since, but I have are bringing the says "bye-bye." The app is gone.
ship around 13 or so million
moved on to Android and even "consumerization" of technology That's simplicity.
smartphones in its upcoming May
Windows Phone in recent months. to corporate end users. The CEO Once the learning curve is out of
quarter. Sales at RIM are higher
I realize that confessing a desire demands that I.T. support his the way, and again, it's only
year-over-year, but its OS market
to like the PlayBook is not the iPhone, and it's all downhill from momentary, the OS itself is
share percentage continues to fall.
objective journalist's take, but there. Small groups are sharing actually enjoyable to use. From
The PlayBook, as a tablet, is not
what can I tell you? I grew up a data on Google Sites, disgruntled the home screen, you can flip
just an iPad competitor, it's a back
blogger. employees are tweeting company through open apps, and view their
door to selling BlackBerry phones
Unfortunately, the PlayBook secrets, sales professionals are large, oversized live thumbnails
and servers. Its most notable
didn't immediately inspire friending clients on Facebook. which keeps them easily
differentiating feature is called
feelings of awe or devotion, the The consumer world and the viewable. The tablet supports
BlackBerry Bridge, and it allows
way the Pearl once did. Its enterprise have merged, and RIM multi-tasking, so you can listen to
users to tether the PlayBook to
operating system (QNX) is quite would do best to keep that in music while surfing the Web, for
their BlackBerry phone in order to
nice, but nice only takes you so mind when it comes to the example. There are notifications
access email, contacts and
far these days. RIM, sadly, seems PlayBook. Consumers should at the top of the screen, which is
calendaring. Untether it, and the
to have lost its mojo lately. It's not never be second, they should be handy. Overall, the operating
content is gone. This is a feature
even in IDC's ranking of the top 5 equal, if not first. system runs well, and seems fast
designed with the enterprise in
worldwide phone manufacturers Apple showed the world that and responsive, for the most part.
mind, and it's a good one in that
these days - it has been lumped technology can be accessible, and I did run into an issue twice where
sense. Security conscious
into the "Others" category. now the world expects accessible the PlayBook stopped responding
businesses will be more likely to
Can the PlayBook change that? technology. In that regard, I don't altogether, and wouldn't even
allow tablet computers onto their
So Much Riding on PlayBook think RIM has entirely succeeded. reboot. For several minutes, it was
network knowing that confidential
But RIM has seen the writing on First Impressions, Software and completely locked up. I have not
content isn't stored on the device.
the wall, and it's doing...well, Hardware had a reappearance of this
Consumers, however, will have
what it's doing is the PlayBook. The user interface for the
to wait for access to core BLACKBERRY page 29
It's an odd experience to hold the PlayBook involves menus at the
applications like email and
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defined in Note 11 to the Selected
Data, below) such as the T-
Mobile® myTouch® 4G, T-
Mobile® G2® with Google™,
and the Samsung Galaxy S™ 4G
at the end of the first quarter of
2011. This was a net increase of
11% or nearly 1 million
customers using smartphones
from the fourth quarter of 2010.
3G/4G smartphone customers
now account for 27% of total
customers, up from 24% in the
fourth quarter of 2010 and over
15% in the first quarter of 2010.
In addition, 3G/4G smartphones
accounted for over 75% of
equipment sales revenue in the
first quarter of 2011 and fourth
quarter of 2010.
In the first quarter of 2011, the
increase in the number of
customers using smartphones and
the continued upgrade of the
network were driving Internet
access revenue growth with the
increasing adoption of mobile
broadband data plans.
CPGA and CCPU
The average cost of acquiring a
customer, Cost Per Gross Add
(“CPGA” as defined in Note 5 to
the Selected Data, below) was
$300 in the first quarter of 2011,
up from $290 in the fourth quarter
of 2010 but down from $310 in
the first quarter of 2010.
Sequentially, CPGA increased in
the first quarter of 2011 due
primarily to higher marketing
costs associated with advertising
our 4G network and strong device
lineup.
Compared to the first quarter of
2010, CPGA decreased due
primarily to lower commission
expense and a shift in customer
additions toward MVNO
customers and connected devices.
The average cash cost of serving
customers, Cash Cost Per User
(“CCPU” as defined in Note 4 to
the Selected Data, below), was
$25 per customer per month in the
first quarter of 2011, up from $24
in the fourth quarter of 2010 and
$23 in the first quarter of 2010.
The sequential and year-on-year
CCPU increase was due primarily
to a higher equipment subsidy
loss from customer loyalty
promotions and programs.
Additionally, the equipment
subsidy loss increased due to
customers upgrading to
smartphones and the cost of
directly providing handset
insurance services.
Capital Expenditures
Cash capital expenditures (as
defined in Note 8 to the Selected
Data, below) were $749 million in
the first quarter of 2011,
compared to $828 million in the
fourth quarter of 2010 and $666
million in the first quarter of
2010.
Sequentially, the decrease in cash
capital expenditures was a result
of lower network capital
expenditures partially offset by
payment timing differences.
Compared to the first quarter of
2010, cash capital expenditures
increased due primarily to
network coverage expansion and
the upgrade to HSPA+ 42, which
will double the theoretical
download speed of T-Mobile
USA’s 4G network.
To further boost the value
provided to customers through its
4G mobile broadband network, T-
Mobile USA is doubling the
speed of its 4G network in 2011
to achieve theoretical download
speeds of 42 Mbps. T-Mobile
USA customers in Las Vegas,
New York and Orlando were the
first in the USA to experience the
increased 4G speeds, followed
closely by Chicago and further
expansion of the New York
network into Long Island, NY,
and Northern New Jersey. By mid
-2011, T-Mobile USA expects
more than 140 million Americans
in over 25 markets to have access
to these increased 4G speeds.
T-Mobile USA currently offers
its customers America’s largest
4G network with HSPA+ service
available in 170 markets reaching
over 200 million people.
T-Mobile USA Recent Highlights
On March 20 2011, Deutsche
Telekom AG and AT&T Inc.
entered into a definitive
agreement under which AT&T
will acquire T-Mobile USA from
Deutsche Telekom in a cash and
stock transaction valued at
approximately $39 billion, subject
to adjustment in accordance with
the agreement. The agreement has
been approved by the Board of
Directors of both companies, and
is expected to provide an optimal
combination of network assets to
add capacity and provide an
opportunity to improve network
quality in the near term for the
customers of both companies. In
particular, the transaction is
important to address spectrum
constraints and gives T-Mobile
USA customers a clear path to
take advantage of new generation
LTE (Long Term Evolution)
services. The transaction is
expected to close in the first half
of 2012, subject to regulatory
approvals and other closing
conditions. As part of the
transaction, Deutsche Telekom
will receive an equity stake in
AT&T that, based on the terms of
the agreement, would give
Deutsche Telekom an ownership
interest in AT&T of
approximately 8 percent and one
seat on the AT&T Board of
Directors.
In the first quarter of 2011, T-
Mobile unveiled a broad lineup of
leading devices including the new
Dell™ Streak™ 7 – the first 4G
tablet in the U.S., the Galaxy S™
4G – the fastest 4G smartphone
running on America’s Largest 4G
network, the T-Mobile
myTouch® 4G, the T-Mobile
G2® with Google™, and mobile
broadband products such as the
Rocket™ 2.0 Laptop Stick and
the Dell™ Inspiron™ Mini 10 4G
netbook. In addition, T-Mobile
recently launched the T-Mobile
Sidekick® 4G™ by Samsung, the
T-Mobile G2x™ with Google™
by LG, and the T-Mobile G-
Slate™ with Google™ by LG.
On January 6, 2011, at the 2011
International Consumer
Electronics Show, T-Mobile USA
President and CEO Philipp Humm
highlighted the company’s
network leadership, supported by
Nielsen data confirming that T-
Mobile USA delivered on average
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the fastest wireless data
performance in the top 100 U.S.
markets during the second half of
2010.
On January 6, 2011, T-Mobile
USA Chief Operations Officer
Jim Alling announced a new
structure for T-Mobile USA’s
field teams designed to shift
business responsibility and
accountability closer to
customers. Twenty-three
geographic regions will each be
led by a Vice President General
Manager (VP GM) with full profit
and loss accountability. Each VP
GM will have direct responsibility
for all sales across all channels in
a region, including business sales.
On March 16, 2011, T-Mobile
USA was recognized by the
Ethisphere Institute as one of the
2011 World’s Most Ethical
Companies, which marks the third
consecutive year that T-Mobile
USA has received this distinction.
This is a significant achievement
and recognition of the compliance
/ethics/governance program at T-
Mobile USA, showing
commitment to ethical leadership
and corporate social
responsibility. T-Mobile USA was
also the only US wireless
telecommunication service
provider listed this year.
On April 26, 2011, T-Mobile
USA’s G2x with Google by LG
was named the best Android
smartphone in America by PC
Magazine. According to the
publication, “The loaded T-
Mobile G2x with Google is the
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continued from page 27
problem since the latest software
update, however, so I assume this
bug has been fixed.
Unlike on Android and Windows
Phone devices, there is no
dedicated, universal "back"
button. This is frustrating at times,
but it may be a worse problem for
those who are used to its existence
on their devices (i.e. Android
users) than for those who don't
expect one (i.e. iPhone users).
Then there is the hardware. I like
the grippy, rubbery back, but for a
tiny tablet, it's rather heavy. The 7
-inch PlayBook is supposedly .9
lbs to the iPad's 1.5, but it still felt
like a brick in my purse. In return
for giving up all that screen real
estate, you would think the thing
would feel more like a heavy
phone than a tablet, but that's not
the case.
The power button's size and
protuberance is a joke. The button
is tiny, and must be pressed with a
fingernail, practically. On newer
hardware, RIM seems to have
slightly raised the button after a
number of complaints, but it's still
very small. We wouldn't be
surprised to see a next-generation
PlayBook one day that changes
this design altogether. It's that
bad.
Apps and Services
The PlayBook also has front and
back cameras, but no built-in
photo-sharing features. It has
video capabilities, but no Skype.
RIM did, however, launch its own
video chat app just this week
which works over Wi-Fi.
The PlayBook has a media
player, but no iTunes-like store
where you can purchase or rent
TV shows or movies. However,
through a partnership with
7Digital, there is a music store on
the device. And it has some apps
that deliver video content, like
VEVO's music video app, for
example, due to arrive soon.
Also missing on the PlayBook:
official Twitter and Foursquare
apps (Facebook was added this
week), and pretty much every
other app you think of as in your
"default set" you expect when you
change platforms, from Amazon
to Yelp.
Microsoft, for what it's worth,
understood the importance of this
and made great efforts to attract
developers to build for its
Windows Phone platform, now
approaching 12,000 applications.
It even paid developers to port
apps to Windows Phone. The
PlayBook has some 3,000 apps
today, according to RIM. It will
soon support Android apps, too,
but it still won't be full Android
Market access - developers will
have to repackage their Android
apps and submit them again to
BlackBerry App World.
Android app support is probably
RIM's riskiest move for its tablet,
and will either end up being a
brilliant one, or a monumental
mistake.
RIM is also actively courting
developers to build for the
PlayBook, we've heard, but not
with cash like Microsoft did. That
said, there are some high-profile
apps on the tablet's "upcoming"
list, including Rovio's Angry
Birds and Amazon's Kindle, to
name a couple. Who Needs Apps?
We Have the Real Web
But what about the Web? After
all, with the promise of the "real"
Web, Flash and all on the
PlayBook, isn't the Web surfing
experience worth it? Well, no, not
yet. Not only has the browser
become unresponsive at times,
forcing me to shut off Wi-Fi and
turn it back on in order to resolve
the situation, websites themselves
didn't function as I thought they
would. For example, in the mobile
view of Gmail's webmail interface
(which I prefer on smaller
screens), I couldn't check the
checkboxes to Archive or Delete
mail en masse very easily. When I
finally got them checked, the
Archive and Delete buttons didn't
work at all. It's hard to be sure
where to point the finger on this
one - has Google done something
to ensure that, outside of Android
and iPhone, this mobile view
doesn't work properly? After all,
an HTML5-ready Web browser
shouldn't have issues here, right?
Or is this a failure on RIM's part
somehow? As a consumer, the
answer is "I don't care," however.
I just want it to work.
Also, despite having support for
Flash, YouTube videos wouldn't
play on YouTube.com for me -
there was just a giant exclamation
mark where the video should be. I
had to use the dedicated YouTube
app. This is not how it was
supposed to work, but it's
indicative of the bugginess
present in this first-gen device. A
subsequent software update
resolved this issue, but it was
troubling for some time.
Finally, the PlayBook defaults to
the desktop view for webpages,
which is supposed to be a great
feature. Unfortunately, the mobile
view sometimes would work
better - the screen just isn't that
big. But how can you switch to a
mobile view when the site in
question doesn't know to provide
you the option? You have to
actually know the URL. Is it m. or
/mobile or what? Better make a
list and add those sites to your
favorites. We would love to see
RIM implement a toggle switch in
its browser settings that let you
switch between the mobile and
desktop views for a Web page, if
at all possible, in order to make
the choice ourselves, as the need
arose.
Will Parents and Kids Like the
PlayBook?
Because I was curious about the
consumer angle of the PlayBook,
I handed it over to some kids I
know. They didn't love it, it
seemed. This is almost entirely
due to the fact that there are very
few apps available for the
PlayBook at present and fewer
still that are within a mom's
budget, (aka "free" to $0.99-
$1.99). Within less than half an
hour, the tablet was set aside for a
yo-yo, a puppet and a Nintendo
DS, respectively, among my three
young, unknowing beta testers.
Ironically, it was only a year ago,
April 2010 in fact, after the iPad's
launch, that I took the new tablet
to a family gathering over Easter
where it was in use all day long. I
never got my hands on my iPad
29
again that day. The point is, it's
not longer impressive just to be a
tablet, you need to have content.
It's not simply a box to check, as
RIM's CEO would have you
believe. It's everything. Have
$500? Need a Tablet Now? Buy
an iPad. Saving Up? Check Back
on PlayBook Later
The PlayBook, while offering a
great OS with a lot of potential,
just does not have enough content
yet. It's an unfinished device with
an unknown future. It's a risky
purchase for a consumer. How
well will the core apps work when
they do ship later this summer?
Will RIM ever have a movie and
media store with enough selection
to keep you entertained? Will it
get Netflix or Hulu? Will the
PlayBook ever gain enough
traction to attract great
developers? Will the big names in
apps ever arrive? How well will
those Android apps really run?
How many will arrive?
There's too much unknown about
the PlayBook as it is today. The
one thing we do know: for $500,
you'll get a lot more for your
money with an iPad 2. In a few
months time, that will likely still
be the case, but the PlayBook
reviewed above will be an entirely
different device by then, and one
that may be ready for your
consideration. Discuss
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An ARM MacBook could revolutionize the

industry
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:03:30 AM

It’s a strange week to be talking

about Apple dumping Intel. Only
a few days ago, the company was
proudly unveiling its new iMac
line-up, relying on Core i5 and
Core i7 processors – along with
AMD GPUs – to make them the
fastest all-in-ones Apple has
offered to-date. Yet at the same
time as Intel’s latest quad-core
chips are finding their way into
what Apple’s Phil Schiller
describes as “the world’s best
desktop,” there’s also talk that the
company’s close relationship with
Intel is about to get served with
divorce papers. ARM is coming,
and the computing industry will
never be the same again.
It’s not the first time I’ve talked
about potentially revolutionary
Apple changes. Back in
November, rumors around the
MacBook Pro refresh earlier this
year suggested some of the
hardware and design decisions
Apple might be making:
bypassing USB 3.0 for
Thunderbolt (then known by its
Intel Light Peak codename),
dropping optical drives, and
switching wholesale to SSD for
storage. Obviously not all of those
panned out: the early 2011
MacBook Pro line got its
Thunderbolt connection, but SuperDrive lived on and so did traditional hard-drives. Now the rumor machine has ARM page 33
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Is Android Really Open? Skyhook's Battle

With Google Challenges That Claim
Dan Rowinski (ReadWriteWeb) Skyhook won the first courtroom stop ship of Android devices was OK with that.
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:13:25 AM battle with the search giant."Being loaded with Skyhook location "It is all a cover story to be able to
told you are going to lose your software. Morgan said that is control the location [on Android
Imagine you have a date set up Android license is Google's exactly the same thing Google did devices,]" Morgan said. "We
with one of the prettiest girls in nuclear option," Morgan said. between Skyhook and Samsung. would be fine with it if that is the
school. You may not be the most "And Google uses its nuclear Skyhook is accusing Google of way it started but it wasn't and we
popular kid in the halls, but she option often." threatening to take away the feel that might be illegal."
seems to like you and going out Judge Judith Fabricant of the Android licenses of Motorola and The next phase of the process
with her will be a big boost to Massachusetts Superior Court Samsung if did not launch with will take about another six months
your reputation. dismissed Google's request for Google Location Services. as lawyers go through the
Along comes the captain of the summary judgment of Skyhook's "We looked at these deals that we discovery process. Skyhook's
football team. He tells the girl that complaint. That means the case wanted and we thought they were attorneys will be looking to prove
she cannot go out with you or her, will go into discovery, something all pretty big," Morgan said. "We that Google is stifling innovation
or any of her friends, will never that Skyhook CEO Ted Morgan What Skyhook is upset about is thought we were on an IPO track and forced Android OEMs to
be able to date a football player thinks Google did not want to go that it says it was led to believe by after seven years in business and break contracts with Skyhook
ever again. In the sociological through. Google that Android would be an this happens." because the search company
mess that is high school, that "All this, as I am learning, is a "open" platform. Morgan said that Skyhook. Meet carpet. Yeah, the wanted to control the location
would be absolutely devastating. long game and we are only in the Google had initially said that one that Google just pulled out data. There is a side case to all of
Essentially, that is what Google early innings," Morgan told us. Android contained no location from under you. this where Skyhook is suing
is doing to location service "From what we have seen, Google resources and hence Skyhook felt "Being told you are going to lose Google over four location-based
provider Skyhook. And Skyhook doesn't want to go to discovery." free to go ahead and negotiate your Android license is Google's patents.
is fighting back. In court. Google has not yet responded to contracts with original equipment nuclear option," Morgan said. To a certain extent, Google's
Sponsor our request for comment. Update: manufacturers like Motorola and "And Google uses its nuclear notion of "open" is on trial.
Skyhook provides its customers Google has declined comment on Samsung. Skyhook spent$1.5 option often." Skyhook's battle is the height of
with a giant database of locations the case. million wooing Motorola and Then we come back to the notion legal and economic intrigue
it has mapped to Wi-Fi signals As we have seen with recent thought it had a foot in on the of "open." Skyhook would not be mixed with world's current
and MAC addresses around the location tracking controversies ground floor of Android in 2009. upset with Google if they had technology ecosystem. Will the
United States. Mobile phone a r o u n d A p p l e a n d G o o g l e , Stop ship been upfront with their intentions final result be a change in the way
manufacturers, among others, knowing where people are and Literally, that is what the the for Android in the first place. Google operates Android?
license Skyhook's technology to what they are doing is big money. court documents say, say, at least A p p l e a n d M i c r o s o f t w e r e Discuss
augment GPS and tell phone users With the meteoric rise of Android, according to the complaint filed straightforward with Skyhook in
where they are. Skyhook is feeling that it is being by Skyhook. Google's head of saying that they were going to use
In its legal battle with Google to w r o n g f u l l y s h u t o u t o f a n Android, Andy Rubin, reportedly their own location services (for
save Android contracts it signed explosive market sector that it sent a message to Motorola co- better or worse) and Skyhook,
with Motorola and Samsung, and thought it had firm grapple on. CEO Sanjay Jha telling him to though probably disappointed,
32 Technology/ Economy/ Newstablet Edition

Bin Laden raid live-blogged (week

in review)
(CNET News.com) helicopters used during the raid. improve both performance and site of caution and making users
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:45:15 AM He shared updates live on Twitter, energy efficiency. change their master passwords.
according to the microblogging • How Intel's 3D tech redefines • Why potential LastPass data
Twitter was where many people service's timestamps. the transistor (FAQ) Lime Wire's breach isn't last straw
got news of the death of Osama • Sohaib Athar on Twitter fame day of reckoning is here A jury Also of note Euro Tanks On
bin Laden, but it was also after bin Laden raid (Q&A)
unwittingly an excellent venue to • Bin Laden, Twitter, and the
will decide how much money
Lime Wire and founder Mark
• TiVo, EchoStar case ends with
$500 million payout Report Of Greek
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Speculation that American • Malware exploits bin Laden
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ARM
continued from page 30
reignited, spitting out something
with even more game-changing
possibilities than mere drives and
ports. Sources claim Apple is
looking to switch from Intel’s x86
processors to ARM-based chips,
potentially as early as in mid-
2013, as big a platform evolution
as the transition from PowerPC in
early 2006. The company plans,
it’s suggested, to use 64-bit ARM
processors like NVIDIA’s Project
Denver– first in notebooks but
then likely across the desktop
range as well.
It’s a shift that could have far-
reaching implications, not just for
Intel’s bottom line. ARM
processors, as we’ve seen in
smartphones and tablets, are
capable of all the multimedia and
gaming performance users expect
– like 1080p Full HD, supporting
multiple displays, accelerated
encoding/decoding of graphics
and real-time processing – while
simultaneously demanding far
less power than their x86
counterparts. The iPad’s lengthy
battery life is partly down to the
fact that its slender chassis is fair
stuffed with Li-Poly cells, but also
that its Apple A5 processor
handles everything iOS throws at
it in an efficient manner.
Now, the demands of iOS – and
what we ask of a tablet or phone –
are obviously different to what we
expect from our notebooks and
US economy: in graphs
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desktops, but there’s still plenty of
overlap. Browsing, video editing
and playback, messaging and
email, a little gaming: they’re all
common tasks, and well within
the capabilities of ARM chips.
Much of it will come down to OS
X, and how Apple’s engineers re-
compile it for the change in
processor architecture, as well as
how it handles existing OS X apps
running on the new platform.
We’ve seen a similar – though far
smaller scale – transition from
Apple before, with the Apple TV.
The first-gen model used a
Pentium M processor, thrown out
for the second-gen version in
favor of the same Apple A4 chip
as in the iPhone 4 and original
iPad. Transparent to the user,
plenty of work going on behind
the scenes. Apple would likely
look to taking easy steps forward
with a MacBook ARM transition
too, perhaps starting with
machines that have less
demanding use-cases (or are
treated by many as secondary
computers) like the MacBook Air.
That has already borrowed
heavily from the lessons Apple
learnt in making the iPad and
other mobile devices, with its
instant-on technology and all-SSD
storage.
So, what might these new
MacBooks look like? Optical
drives certainly look to be on
The US economy created the
highest number of new jobs since
February 2006 last month, adding
notice: Apple has made its disdain
for Blu-ray clear, and the latest
murmurs suggest the company is
looking to shift even significant
software releases, like OS X Lion
due this summer, to digital
delivery via its Mac App Store.
SSDs across the board were
perhaps too expensive for 2011,
but by 2013 that may be a
different story; Apple will also be
able to offset any capacity
shortcomings using its imminent
cloud-storage services. Don’t
underestimate what the company
has been learning from WWAN
options on the iPhone and iPad,
either. By mid-2013, 4G networks
like LTE and WiMAX will be far
more prevalent, potentially giving
Apple’s portables a high-speed
hookup to the cloud.
There’s also a change in aesthetic
tipped, with Apple’s next
MacBook Pro refresh expected to
bring a significant reworking of
the notebook’s physical design.
Some have suggested that might
see a shift from all-aluminum to
carbon fiber, but whatever the
material we’re guessing it will be
lighter and more portable. Throw
in ARM chips and you’re looking
at a potentially long-lasting, easily
carried notebook with the
possibility of cross-platform OS X
/iOS apps and lashings of
connectivity.
Apple was criticized by some
268,000 posts in the private
sector. The news got a positive
reaction from markets. Here, we
during the PowerPC transition for
abandoning what made the
company’s computers unique:
after all, anybody can buy an Intel
processor and put it in a notebook
or desktop. Shifting to ARM
would certainly address that, with
Apple already owning a fabless
semiconductor company, 2008
acquisition P.A. Semi, to design
custom chips that would once
again make their mainstream
range distinct. Dumping Intel
wouldn’t be easy, in either
hardware or software terms, but it
could be the decision that seals
the deal on Apple’s ascendance.
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Mom
Businesses
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 9:00:56 AM
It wasn't so long ago that the
"normal" family consisted of a
father who went to work every
day and a mother who stayed
home and minded the house and
the children. My, how times have
changed. These days, many of the
most successful women in
business are also moms. Some are
heads of companies, some are
entrepreneurs, and all are as busy
as it gets.
So, how do they balance work
and family? Well, they'll all admit
that it isn't easy, but that it's
totally worth it. And most of these
power moms agree that following
their passions makes them a better
parent all around. So, what's the
secret of their success to this
elusive work-life balance? Read
on for the tips, tricks and
compromises of the women who
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34 Technology/ Newstablet Edition

Google algorithm tweak Zendesk And MindTouch

Add Social Knowledge
socks Demand Media To Customer Support
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)

traffic
(CNET News.com) very useful." make up to $350 per story,
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:00:38 AM

Customer support startup

Zendesk is partnering with
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:17:44 AM Though Demand Media said at depending on the topic and the knowledge base company
the time that it was unaffected by expertise required to write a piece. MindTouch today to offer a social
Demand Media, which operates the change, it's clear now that it Outside of its search engine help solution for customer service
s i t e s s u c h a s e H o w a n d was. And as the company's CEO traffic troubles, Demand Media agents. Now support agents using articles have the highest ratings or
Livestrong, has been hit hard by said yesterday, it's taking the had a solid first quarter. Its Zendesk’s customer support SaaS, most comments, which articles or
Google's algorithm changes, the decline in search referral traffic revenue was up 48 percent year can query a MindTouch-powered subjects are the most requested in
company revealed yesterday. "very seriously." over year to $79.5 million. Its knowledge base for quick terms of new info needed, which
"In February and April, we To address the problem, page views rose 32 percent year answers. The idea is that customer end users are contributing the
experienced two major algorithm Rosenblatt said his company has over year to nearly 2.6 billion. support agents can share their most really helpful content, which
changes," Demand Media CEO been working diligently over the That said, the company's losses knowledge base with other agents are pushing changes most
Richard Rosenblatt said during his last several months to remove deepened from $4.1 million in the support agents to improve service frequently, and more.
company's first-quarter earnings user-generated content that did first quarter of 2010 to $5.6 to consumers. MindTouch’s social knowledge
call yesterday. "For eHow, here is not live up to its standards of million last quarter. The crowdsourcing functionality platform adds to Zendesk’s
the impact: as compared to the quality. Demand Media now has Looking ahead, Demand Media is allows for collaborative editing, existing Twitter integration,
levels before the first February "full editorial control over the expects to generate between $73.5 content scoring, commenting, which allows agents to turn a
change, we saw a net decline in remaining user articles," he said, million and $77.5 million in media and video. And support Tweet into a Zendesk ticket and
search engine referrals of 20 and many of those will likely be revenue in the second quarter. It is tickets sent to an end user can also respond publicly to a complaint
percent." removed from its sites due to forecasting a loss from operations be republished as knowledge base on Twitter from Zendesk’s
Google's algorithm update gives quality issues. of between $600,000 and $2.1 articles. Within the knowledge platform.
less weight in its results to so- In their place, Demand Media is million. base platform, customer service MindTouch has powered
called "content farms" that bringing "feature" content to the Further reading: Testing Google's agents can search by keyword and knowledge bases for companies
p r o v i d e l o w - q u a l i t y , q u i c k service. Rather than share revenue Panda algorithm: CNET analysis see what articles are getting like Paypal, Autodesk, The
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sites, as well as competitor exclusive, long-form content on on someone else's site, please read edited the most. service support platform makes
Answers.com, were placing the site on a wide range of topics. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- The new offering also has sense, so the offering is sure to be
highly in Google search results. The company said that the writers only/faq.php#publishers. Five “Google Analytics for your popular amongst Zendesk’s
When Google made the first big will work with its more than 50 Filters featured article: If At First support knowledge base,” so both 10,000 customers. CrunchBase
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rankings for low-quality sites-- exclusive quotes, [and] side bars." Topple Gadafi. being most searched for, which CrunchBase
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articles have lots of material
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Newstablet Edition Technology/ Culture/ 35
T-MOBILE
Sprint again delays continued from page 28

fastest, smoothest Android

smartphone available today.”
T-Mobile USA is the U.S.
accordance with GAAP.
Reconciliations from the non-
GAAP financial measures to the

BlackBerry tablet
(CNET News.com) delay is a setback for the
wireless operation of Deutsche
Telekom AG (OTCQX: DTEGY).
In order to provide comparability
most directly comparable GAAP
financial measures are provided
below following Selected Data
with the results of other US and the financial statements.
Submitted at 5/6/2011 11:08:54 AM PlayBook.
wireless carriers, all financial Relevant Entries on SlashGear
Verizon Wireless, which had
Potential BlackBerry PlayBook amounts are in US dollars and are • Intel Q4 income up 875%;
initially appeared interested in
customers apparently will have to based on accounting principles AMD settlement small notch out
carrying the tablet, at least
wait a while longer before they generally accepted in the United of billions
according to RIM, recently
can buy the tablet through Sprint. States (“GAAP”). T-Mobile USA • Microsoft Announces Strong
revealed a certain lack of
RIM PlayBook(Credit: RIM) results are included in the Q3 Earnings Report, Revenue At
enthusiasm. In late April, a
In a document addressed to consolidated results of Deutsche $16.43 Billion
Verizon rep said simply that "we
dealers and revealed this week by Telekom, but differ from the • AT&T Q4 income up 2.4% to
are still evaluating the Blackberry
mobile-device blog BriefMobile, information contained herein as $2.4bn net; 1.9m iPhone 3Gs
Playbook and have not made a
Sprint broke the news of another representative said the company determination as to whether or not D e u t s c h e T e l e k o m r e p o r t s activated
delay in offering Research In has not said it would offer a 3G we're going to distribute it." financial results in Euros and in • AT&T and Sprint May Divide
Motion's new tablet. This latest CDMA version of the PlayBook Currently available only with Wi- accordance with International the Spoils of T-Mobile
delay follows initially promised and has instead been eyeing the Fi, a PlayBook 4G edition is Financial Reporting Standards • T-Mobile UK backtrack on data
launch dates of April 19 and May Wi-Fi edition. (IFRS). slash: Only new customers
supposed to jump onto Sprint's
8, according to BriefMobile. This press release includes non- affected
"It was recently announced that WiMax network this summer. GAAP financial measures. The
Announcing the delay, the Sprint will be a retail channel for RIM has also been planning 4G
document promises that a new the Wi-Fi-based PlayBook, but an versions for Verizon Wireless's non-GAAP financial measures
launch date will be communicated a v a i l a b i l i t y d a t e w a s n o t LTE network and the HSPA+ should be considered in addition
as soon as it's available. It also announced by Sprint or RIM," the networks from AT&T and T- to, but not as a substitute for, the
advises dealers who've bought Sprint rep said in the e-mail. Mobile. information provided in
PlayBook display pedestals to "Sprint and RIM did jointly This entry passed through the
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confusion over exactly which The Wi-Fi model has been only/faq.php#publishers. Five
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Star Wars prequels
the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-

delaying. since its launch last month but not Y o u D o n ' t S u c c e e d - F o u r

The BriefMobile post mentions a through the major carriers. Decades Of US-UK Attempts To
CDMA version. However, in an e Regardless of the model, Sprint's Topple Gadafi.
[video]
(Holy Kaw!) ized summary of all three flicks in
-mail to CNET, a Sprint
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:50:00 AM just two minutes? Thank you,
internet.
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ASUS blames unexpected demand for Eee

Pad Transformer shortages
Chris Davies (SlashGear) “It really depends on the demand” Transformer in our full review.
Submitted at 5/6/2011 9:36:04 AM Chang explained, saying that Relevant Entries on SlashGear
ASUS was expecting to produce • ASUS quad-core Tegra 3 tablet
Shortages of ASUS’ Eee Pad 100,000 Transformer units in May incoming
Transformer are apparently down and then a further 200,000 or • ASUS Eee Pad Transformer
to the tablet being a victim of its more in June. “The current gets US/Canada release date &
own success, according to the d e m a n d s u r p a s s e s o u r pricing
company’s Taiwan spokesperson, expectations by far.” Chang says • ASUS Eee Pad Transformer
not component shortages or the company believes “we will walkthrough [Video]
anything else. Despite reports that see a significant alleviation in the • Eee Pad Transformer launches
ASUS could only build 10,000 month of June.” and short supply is almost gone
T r a n s f o r m e r s p e r m o n t h In fact, ASUS only expected to already
because Apple had snapped up all sell 300,000 Eee Pad Transformer spot, with the XOOM and Iconia shortages of the iPad 2 have left • ASUS Eee Pad Transformer
the available display supplies, units in Q2 2011 altogether, a Tab A500 failing gain traction in would-be tableteers looking stock delay: Honeycomb demand
David Chang told Netbook News n u m b e r w h i c h n o w s e e m s comparison to the Transformer’s around for alternative ways to get gobbles supplies
that in fact it was simply down to conservative – if, of course, it can clever battery-toting Keyboard their touchscreen fix.
ASUS not expecting as many ramp up production in time. This Dock. Meanwhile, ongoing More on the ASUS Eee Pad
buyers as they’ve had. certainly looks to be the sweet-

OWC offers 480 GB SSD for 2010

MacBook Air
Kelly Hodgkins (TUAW) and fits both the 11.6-inch and OWC offers 480 GB SSD for
Submitted at 5/6/2011 12:15:00 PM 13.3-inch Air models that debuted 2010 MacBook Air originally
in late 2010. appeared on TUAW on Fri, 06
If you want to give your 2010 Big and fast, OWC claims the May 2011 12:15:00 EST. Please
MacBook Air a competitive edge Aura Express SSD delivers a see our terms for use of feeds.
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party SSD is available in 180, drive will set you back US$480 of some MacBook Air models, model.
240, 360 and 480 GB capacities while the top of the line 480 GB which start at $999 for the entry- [Via Macworld]
Newstablet Edition
Comparison Engine FindTheBest
Nabs Former Google Exec Rabin
Yaghoubi As President
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 11:27:57 AM
Comparison engine FindTheBest
has announced a key hire today.
Former Google and DoubleClick
exec Rabin Yaghoubi will be
joining the company as President.
At FindTheBest, Rabin will lead
Business Development,
Marketing, Sales and Operations
from the company’s newly
opened New York office.
At Google, Yaghoubi helped
launch and lead Google’s content,
commerce and local partnerships.
At DoubleClick Rabin was Vice
President of Global Media,
responsible for expanding and
ultimately selling the company’s
media business.
FindTheBest was founded by
DoubleClick cofounder Kevin
O’Connor so Yaghoubi and
O’Conner go back to their
DoubleClick days. The startup
launched late last year, took
funding by Kleiner Perkins
Caufield & Byers in December,
and has been growing fast. The
site now has 1.5 million monthly
users, after only six months open
to the public.
What makes FindTheBest unique
Take a Brain Break!
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 9:00:56 AM
Technology/ Culture/ 37
Apple's Bud Tribble will
testify before Senate
committee, says Franken
Michael Rose (TUAW)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 11:30:00 AM
In the ongoing commotion
around location, privacy and what
your iPhone knows about what
you did last summer, the witness
list for upcoming Senate Judiciary
subcommittee hearings on mobile
privacy has been announced.
Senator Al Franken's (D-MN)
office told The Loop that Apple's
is its ability to compare in-depth VP of software technology, Guy
searches that crawl large amounts L. "Bud" Tribble, will be there,
of data. For example, the engine is along with regulators, privacy
perfect for comparing colleges, advocates and Google's VP of
a l l o w i n g y o u t o c o m p a r e public policy.
universities by acceptance rates, Franken invited the companies to one of the longest-serving Apple enters the room... the ones that
SAT scores, tuition, and more. As send representatives to his hearing and NeXT veterans, and is recoil and run away are almost
we wrote in our previous review, a couple of weeks ago, as the credited with identifying the certainly Klingons.
the quality of the data they’ve location issues were making legendary Reality Distortion Field Apple's Bud Tribble will testify
gathered from government and news. Tribble has been on the hot power of Steve Jobs. Perhaps he before Senate committee, says
o t h e r t r u s t e d s o u r c e s , t h e seat before when it comes to should borrow the field generator Franken originally appeared on
transparency into how the data is Congressional oversight of digital for his testimony. TUAW on Fri, 06 May 2011
sources, and the tools available to privacy; he appeared at a similar The hearings will begin on May 11:30:00 EST. Please see our
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38 Technology/ Culture/
Janrain Engage Offers
Social Login And Sharing
For Android Apps
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 11:00:16 AM
Software creator Janrain is
bringing its social login SDK to
Android phones today.
Janrain’s plug and play
technology allows an app
developer’s visitors to sign-in to
the app with their existing
accounts on Facebook, Google,
Twitter, Yahoo, LinkedIn or other
networks and then publish their
comments, purchases, reviews or
other activities from the app to
multiple social networks.
Features of the Janrain Engage
for Android SDK include social
Login for 20-plus identity
providers and social networks,
social sharing to 5 networks, a
built-in preview feature that
displays how a social post would
appear on the social network; and
more. Janrain Engage will also
remember an app user’s preferred
network on return visits and will
provide a single-click return
experience.
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Celebrate With 50 Sexy
Shots of the Heartthrob!
Katie Henry (PopSugar)
Janrain Engage was extended to
the iPhone last year, and the iPad
earlier this year. Future releases
will include email and SMS
sharing as well as a tablet
optimized version, says the
company. CrunchBase
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Newstablet Edition
Bad cholesterol’s
good for big
muscles [video]
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 11:14:00 AM
The more LDL, or “bad
cholesterol,” you have, the more
muscle you build during
resistance training, according to a
new study.
After fairly vigorous workouts,
adults who were in generally good
health, but not normally
physically active, gained the most
muscle mass but also had the
Bullish banks will make highest levels of the “bad”
cholesterol—low-density
lipoprotein (LDL).
it hard for startups to “It shows that you do need a
certain amount of LDL to gain
more muscle mass,” says Steve
lure tech talent Riechman, assistant professor of
health and kinesiology at Texas
Submitted at 5/6/2011 11:27:00 AM
product that could be used by A&M University. “There’s no
millions (and if you are lucky doubt you need both, the LDL and
I was heartened to hear about the hundreds of millions) of people. the HDL, and the truth is, it
l a u n c h o f t h e S i l i c o n The software that you develop (cholesterol) is all good. You
Milkroundabout initiative by could get into the hands of friends simply can’t remove all the “bad”
London's tech startup community and family rather than a faceless cholesterol from your body
that seeks to stem the flow of the business elite. Secondly, startups w i t h o u t s e r i o u s p r o b l e m s
best computer science talent to tend to run lean operations and as o c c u r r i n g . ”
the City. such you will likely have more Full story at Futurity.
Set up by 30 of London's r e s p o n s i b i l i t y a n d l e s s More research news from top
t e c h n o l o g y s t a r t u p s , t h e bureaucracy. You get to create universities.
Milkroundabout aims to draw something entirely new rather Permalink| Leave a comment »
undecided graduates away from than operating on something that
being small cogs in enormous is already established. Finally
financial machines. there are often exciting stock
The draws of working for a options to be had for those who
startup versus the City are join at the beginning. Continue
obvious. For a start it's likely that reading...
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Newstablet Edition
Build Cross-Platform
Widgets in the Cloud
with Netvibes Studio
Klint Finley (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 5/5/2011 9:30:32 PM
Dashboard software-as-a-service
provider Netvibes and enterprise
Java platform builder eXo have
teamed up to create Netvibes
Studio, a cloud-based
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ventured out for a stroll around
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Netvibes shifted from being a
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their NYC neighborhood
yesterday. Jane gave birth to
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like she's already showing the
little guy all the sights of
springtime in New York. 30 Rock
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Technology/ Policy/ Culture/ 39
No-Drama Osama - An FP
List
JOSHUA E. KEATING (Foreign
Policy)
GEORGE W. BUSH
March 13, 2002:"Terror is bigger
achievement marks a victory for
America, for people who seek
Submitted at 5/5/2011 6:53:10 PM than one person. And he's just -- peace around the world, and for
he's a person who's now been all those who lost loved ones on
Just days after the 9/11 attacks, marginalized. His network, his September 11, 2001. The fight
President George W. Bush vowed h o s t g o v e r n m e n t h a s b e e n against terror goes on, but tonight
that Osama bin Laden would be destroyed. He's the ultimate America has sent an unmistakable
captured"dead or alive." But as parasite who found weakness, message: No matter how long it
the days turned into weeks, exploited it, and met his match. takes, justice will be done."
months, and years, Bush, along He is -- as I mentioned in my This entry passed through the
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finally dead, however, the very know, I just don't spend that much You Don't Succeed - Four
same people have rediscovered time on him." Decades Of US-UK Attempts To
his centrality to the war on terror. May 2, 2011:"This momentous Topple Gadafi.
and Elizabeth Banks welcoming cleverly concealed her former
her son Felix via surrogate earlier bump. View Slideshow ›
this year. Their cliffhanger season
finale aired last night, and Jane
was up to her usual scene stealing
boom this year, with Tina Fey tricks, galloping around the set in
announcing her second pregnancy a shaggy animal costume that also
40 Policy/
The LWOT: Al-Qaeda acknowledges bin
Laden death - by Andrew Lebovich
ANDREW LEBOVICH (Foreign
Policy)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 8:17:59 AM
Al-Qaeda acknowledges bin
Laden death
Al-Qaeda offered the first
confirmation of the death of its
leader today, saying in a statement
posted to a jihadist Internet forum
that the group will continue to
target Americans and America's
allies, and that bin Laden's blood,
"will not be wasted" ( AP). For a
full collection of news on bin
Laden's death, the political debate
and regional responses to the
killing, see Katherine
Tiedemann's AfPak Channel
Daily Brief here, here and here.
Intelligence officials yesterday
indicated that initial information
gleaned from a store of papers and
files taken from Osama bin
Laden's compound in Abbottabad,
Pakistan indicate that the
deceased al-Qaeda leader stayed
in contact with the terror network,
and played a direct, operational
role in planning attacks ( NYT,
Washington Post, Guardian).
Pakistani officials asserted that
bin Laden was marginalized in al-
Qaeda and split with bin Laden
six years ago, a claim U.S.
officials dispute ( WSJ).
The information gathered in the
raid has already prompted an
attack warning from the
Department of Homeland
Security, which cautioned
yesterday in a release that as late
as February 2010 al-Qaeda
contemplated an attack on U.S.
rail systems, though a DHS
spokesman deemed the plot to be
aspirational ( CNN, Guardian,
WSJ, AP). Officials have been
concerned about the threat of a
retaliatory attack since bin Laden
was killed by Navy SEALs last
Sunday (early Monday in
Pakistan), as the FBI went back
on "war footing" and senior
officials indicated that arrests of
terror suspects may be
accelerated, while additional
names may be added to terrorism
watch lists and "no fly" lists (
National Journal, Washington
Post, CNN, ABC, NYT). British
and French officials have also
expressed concern about possible
retaliatory attacks ( Le Monde,
BBC, Telegraph).
The news comes as the White
House has had to alter its account
of the raid that killed bin Laden,
as officials told reporters this
week that bin Laden was unarmed
when he was killed, toned down
earlier statements about the
intensity of fighting in the house,
and debated and then rejected
releasing photos of bin Laden's
body ( NYT, Washington Post,
Telegraph). The Washington Post
has a must-read series on the hunt
for bin Laden, and the New York
Times reports on a raid carried out
in 2007 in Afghanistan based on
intelligence that bin Laden would
be in the country ( Washington
Post, NYT). And Indonesian
officials said this week that
Indonesian terrorist Umar Patek
was going to meet bin Laden
when he was arrested in
Abbottabad earlier this year ( AP,
TIME).
Bin Laden killing sparks debate
on Guantánamo, torture, and
targeted killings
Bin Laden's death has fueled
debate about how the information
leading to the terror leader was
gathered, as leading Republicans
like Rep. Peter King and former
Bush administration officials
insisted this week that the harsh
interrogation of terror suspects in
CIA prisons and Guantánamo
Bay, including Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed and Abu Faraj al-
Libbi, helped lead to bin Laden's
trusted courier, Abu Ahmed al-
Kuwaiti, who owned the house in
which bin Laden was killed (
WSJ, NYT, LAT, CNN, New
Yorker, Toronto Star, FT, CBS,
TIME). White House and
Democratic members of
Congress, as well as some
Republicans, have disputed this
claim, arguing that the courier's
identity was known before the
capture of KSM or al-Libbi, and
that it took years of intelligence
gathering from myriad sources to
find al-Kuwaiti's real name and
track him down ( NYT, CNN,
AFP, National Journal).
Additionally, key information in
the investigation seems to have
come from cooperative detainees,
such as Hassan Ghul, captured in
2004, as well as detainees seized
after the most brutal interrogation
practices of the Bush
administration had been
discontinued, such as important
militant Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi, who
was captured in 2007 ( Guardian).
International experts and officials
also continue to question the
legality of bin Laden's killing, as
the UN high commissioner for
human rights Navi Pillay
indicated that she would like a
"full disclosure" of details
surrounding the operation ( CNN,
Guardian, Reuters, The Atlantic).
U.S. Attorney General Eric
Holder told a Congressional
committee on Wednesday that the
raid was "lawful" and that the
United States was acting in
"national self-defense" by
targeting bin Laden, and implied
that the Navy SEALs would have
been allowed to shoot bin Laden
even if he had indicated a desire
to surrender ( Politico, AFP).
Surrenders must be accepted
under international law, though
Holder and others pointed to the
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possibility of a fake surrender as
grounds for using lethal force if
the SEAL team perceived bin
Laden as a threat.
Many experts, however, have
concluded the raid and killing was
legal even if bin Laden was
unarmed, pointing to the
Authorization of the Use of
Military Force that allows for the
targeting of al-Qaeda
commanders and the possibility
that the room in which bin Laden
was found had been booby-
trapped ( WSJ, Lawfare Blog).
U.S. officials also assert that a
plan was in place to interrogate
bin Laden had he been taken
alive, a move that would have
doubtless raised further questions
over how bin Laden would be
held and eventually tried ( LAT,
Washington Post, National
Journal)
In other al-Qaeda news...
A German-Syrian man, Rami
Makanesi, confessed in a
Frankfurt court on May 5 to being
a member of al-Qaeda as well as
receiving training from the group
in Pakistan's tribal areas (
Deutsche Welle, AP, Reuters).
Makanesi, who was arrested last
year by Pakistani authorities and
may have provided some of the
information that led German
authorities to issue terrorism alerts
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Newstablet Edition Policy/ 41

Calling a Rogue a Rogue

(AEI.Org: Articles) affluent shops and restaurants and Korea and India serve as foils for The United States and other duped by these regimes for years
Submitted at 5/5/2011 11:00:00 PM a cadre of English-educated, North Korea and Pakistan's Western powers declare a minor to the detriment of our security
Western-oriented elites. From the aggressive foreign policy, success and then provide some and that of our allies. But we can't
North Korea and Pakistan have level of regime control in each militarization, and domestic sort of aid to the North Korean make changes in policy until we
many differences. But they also state to the amount of public propaganda campaigns, and they regime as a reward for 'good acknowledge how rogue regimes
share some key similarities--not openness and civic dialogue, legitimately fear that their behavior.' A few years later, take advantage of our diplomatic
least a history of taking the US for North Korea and Pakistan are neighbour could rashly resort to North Korea misbehaves again, strategy.
a ride worlds apart. Unlike North Korea, force at any moment. and the process starts over. Critics within and without the
For years, the threat of instability Pakistan has no totalitarian or Third, both North Korea and What we don't seem to have current administration have
in North Korea and Pakistan has revisionist ambitions. And even Pakistan are intensely militarized acknowledged, though, is that the recognized this problem in North
haunted US foreign policy, though they are tense—and could nations. In fact, they are 'military Pakistani regime is using this Korea, yet change has been slow.
challenging the United States to be become more so in light of the first' societies (a term that same subversive cycle for its own Perhaps the immediacy of the
develop an effective plan for killing of Osama bin Laden deep Pyongyang explicitly embraces) benefit and survival. Pakistan problem, and the
confronting and reforming these inside Pakistan—diplomatic where, despite all of the In Pakistan, the narrative is implications of bin Laden having
unstable regimes. relations do at least exist between uncertainties and instabilities that slightly different: the country's been discovered so close to
Yet success has been elusive. Washington and Islamabad. the countries face, the armed military and intelligence services Islamabad, can bring some much-
To date, the United States has But beneath the obvious forces remain stern, nationalistic, allegedly covertly help Islamic needed light to this issue as we
approached its policy to these two differences between the two, there and stable.But perhaps most terrorists receive funding, train, accept that diplomatic
high-risk countries separately. are some uncanny similarities. importantly, North Korea and and then plot attacks in countries engagement without rigorous
And, ostensibly, they do appear to First, both countries have rogue Pakistan share a trait that they such as India or the United States. demands is a waste of time.
b e t w o v e r y s e p a r a t e nuclear programmes developed have learned by subverting years They then innocently beseech the Until the United States changes
problems—North Korea has outside agreed international of US diplomatic United States for assistance, course, North Korea and
nothing to do with fomenting frameworks, and both have in the efforts—engagement in a cycle of lamenting that terrorism harms Pakistan—kindred spirits in
radical Islamic terrorism, and past sold weapons technology to misbehaviour, 'engagement,' them as much as it does America. diplomatic deception—will be
there's no aging and unpredictable other sponsors of terrorism, such token concession-making, and The United States, recognizing happy to continue business as
dictator like Kim Jong-il to deal as Iran and Syria. And, despite the foreign aid cadging that spans the diplomatic imperative, usual.
with in Pakistan. United States' best efforts to years and multiple provides a massive foreign aid Apoorva Shah is a research
Yet what if we were to rethink control their nuclear ambitions, administrations. package (see Kerry-Lugar). fellow at AEI.
o u r a p p r o a c h t o t h e s e t w o both countries continue to develop For US diplomats working on Pakistan subsequently makes a This entry passed through the
c o u n t r i e s w i t h a n e w their technology, building new North Korea, this process is few symbolic arrests of terrorist Full-Text RSS service — if this is
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more alike than they are different? themselves in negative terms. tested a nuclear weapon, there's the cameras leave). Months and the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-
Of course, to appreciate how Pakistan is Pakistan because it is some panic among policymakers years later, there are few concrete only/faq.php#publishers. Five
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differences. For a start, even a Korea. Their rivals are richer and, Talks. After half-heartedly Pakistan once again begs the Decades Of US-UK Attempts To
casual observer would note the in many ways, have moved on participating in these talks, North United States for aid, and the Topple Gadafi.
contrast between desolate North past the internecine conflict that Korea decides it will provide a cycle continues.
K o r e a a n d a P a k i s t a n t h a t separated the nations in the first token concession, for example by In the cases of both North Korea
resembles many other poor yet place—they are now concerned destroying a single nuclear and Pakistan, it's clear it's time for
developing countries, with their with more pressing issues like cooling tower that is already the United States to break out of
signs of modernity such as economic growth. Yet both South disused, as it did in June 2008. this vicious cycle. We've been
42 Policy/ Newstablet Edition

Social Security Benefits in Context

(AEI.Org: Articles) Now, one reason to be skeptical know how Social Security to the overall size of government. which the argument will be
Submitted at 5/5/2011 11:00:00 PM of this argument is that Medicare compares with pensions in Anglo U.S. total federal-, state-, and decided, is far from clear.
benefits are generous relative to countries? Pension-replacement local-government spending was Our fundamental disagreement
Who you compare yourself with other countries' old-age health- rates for an average wage earner 36.8 percent of GDP in pre- isn't over Social Security's
says a lot about who you want to care benefits, and yet the Left in the Anglo countries range from financial-crisis 2007. That ranks generosity or the myriad other
be. A common talking point from wants to fix Medicare the same a low of 31.9 percent to a high of us above Australia and below technocratic questions of federal
the Left regarding the generosity way it wants to fix the allegedly 47.3 percent. The U.K. has the Canada. policy. Those can be
of Social Security benefits isn't stingy Social Security program: least generous pension for the But it's precisely that political compromised on. But when one
e n t i r e l y h o n e s t , b u t m o r e by raising taxes rather than average earner, followed by New heritage that the Left disagrees side benchmarks itself against
important, it's indicative of the reducing benefits. Zealand and Ireland. The U.S., with, which is why they doubtless countries whose governments pay
broader views of American But there's another reason this paying 39.4 percent to an average would reject comparisons to the average individual in
liberals. argument doesn't do much for me: earner, is in the middle of the Anglo countries in favor of the retirement as much as or more
It's a mantra from the Left that I honestly don't care very much pack. Interestingly, Australia both broader OECD. That in itself is than his employer paid him when
Social Security benefits are low w h a t G r e e c e , I c e l a n d , a n d pays the most generous benefits telling. It shows the Left's view of he was working, there is a
compared with the pensions Luxembourg (the medal round of and is the only country in the the role of government to be philosophical disagreement that is
provided in other countries, and the OECD pension-generosity group to have what the American inconsistent with the political far more fundamental and far
therefore we should fix Social Olympics) do. Leaving aside that Left would call a "privatized" traditions of the U.S. and other more difficult to reconcile. Who
Security by raising taxes instead t w o o f t h e s e c o u n t r i e s a r e program. Imagine that! Anglo nations, traditions of a you compare yourself with is an
of reducing benefits. For instance, insolvent and the third is a The U.S. is also in the middle of limited role for government and indicator of who you want to be.
the Century Foundation argues Lilliputian tax haven, these the pack when it comes to an expansive role for individuals As for me, I'm with the 70 percent
that Social Security's benefit countries and most of the rest in financing its pensions. Australia, and private markets. of Americans who really don't
l e v e l s a r e f a r f r o m o v e r l y the OECD simply think very New Zealand, and Ireland finance In a sense, there's nothing wrong care what Luxembourg does.
generous and, internationally, differently about the role of their programs through general with that: Europe's overweening Andrew G. Biggs is a resident
rank near the bottom in the share government than we do. When the tax revenues, which are more welfare state comes not from scholar at AEI
of a retired worker's past earnings French decry "Anglo-Saxon progressive than Social Security's dictatorial imposition but from the This entry passed through the
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O E C D c o u n t r i e s o f f e r of nations that, while each is lower wage ceiling. Social Arthur Brooks is correct — that the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-
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retirement earnings — than does of Australia, New Zealand, percent of) the average wage. In most Americans. This Decades Of US-UK Attempts To
the U.S. Essentially the same Canada, Ireland, and the United Canada, payroll taxes are levied philosophical debate is the Topple Gadafi.
point has been made by, among States. Despite our differences, up to 96 percent of the average common thread that runs through
others, the Center on Budget and most Americans will find far wage, and in the United Kingdom the Tea Party, the fight over
Policy Priorities, the National more in common with the Anglo up to only 115 percent, according Obamacare, and Rep. Paul Ryan's
Academy of Social Insurance, and nations than with Luxembourg. to the OECD. budget. The outcome of the
the AFL-CIO. Wouldn't it be interesting to We're not an outlier with regards argument, and even the means by
Newstablet Edition
Politics after Osama
(AEI.Org: Articles)
Submitted at 5/5/2011 11:00:00 PM
It’s not 1992 again, but it isn’t
Morning in America, either.
Killing Osama bin Laden is a
strange way to start a presidential
campaign season, but that's where
we are.
Now, bin Laden wasn't taken out
for partisan political reasons. Nor
was his death ultimately the result
of a partisan policy. With only the
most cartoonish exceptions
imaginable (a President Kucinich,
perhaps), it's inconceivable that
any Republican or Democratic
president would have passed up
the opportunity to kill the world's
most wanted man. Killing
murderers like bin Laden is
simply what U.S. presidents do.
Hence, in a single week, the
president put to rest two famous
conspiracy theories. The release
of his birth certificate delivered a
fatal blow to birtherism,
figuratively speaking. Meanwhile,
the fatal blow delivered to bin
Laden, literally speaking, laid to
rest the far more insidious idea
that the U.S. government was "in
on" 9/11. (Though I have no
doubt there are those who believe
Osama bin Laden was a mere
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Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:34:51 AM
patsy, taken out before he could
tell the real story, just as there are
those who are convinced that
Obama's birth certificate is really
an elaborate forgery. Toxic
conspiracy theories never
completely go away, they simply
have an ever-decaying half-life.)
But Obama also put to rest other
fanciful notions about the
president's motives. The man who
allegedly inherited his father's
"anti-colonial" passions ordered
the killing of the foremost anti-
colonial terrorist in the world.
And — however ineptly —
Obama orchestrated a NATO-led
bombing campaign against
Africa's most prominent self-
proclaimed anti-colonial leader,
Moammar Qaddafi.
These and similar actions
effectively exonerate him from a
host of irrelevant and unhealthy
charges. But they do nothing to
acquit him from the relevant ones:
that he is a too-liberal American-
born president who has failed to
make good on myriad promises or
to be a capable steward of the
economy. Nor has he, potential
bin Laden "bounces"
notwithstanding, succeeded at
putting America on what the
pollsters glibly call "the right
A four-day oil sell-off steadied
on Friday after a better-than-
expected rise in US job, with
prices rising to $113 a barrel from
track."
It's no surprise that news of bin
Ladin's tardy departure for hotter
climes has sparked an enormous
riot of punditry about whether the
president will be able to ride the
news to re-election in 2012.
Legendary political analyst
Barbara Walters opined: "I would
hate now to be a Republican
candidate thinking of running."
And I agree with her. I, too,
would hate for Barbara Walters to
be a Republican candidate
thinking of running. But as for the
rest of the field, Obama's triumph
over bin Laden no more rules out
Republican success than George
H. W. Bush's victory in Kuwait
prohibited Democratic success in
1992. After winning the first
American war since Vietnam,
Bush had an approval rating of 89
percent yet was still undone by a
hostile media, a mild recession,
and his own complacency.
The analogy can be — and is
already — overdone. We are
technically in a recovery, albeit a
tepid one. Obama has the media
in his corner and no Ross
Perot–type figure nipping at his
heels. (Donald Trump may play
such a role, but he would, like
Perot, steal more votes from the
intra-day lows of $105.15. This is
how economists and analysts
reacted to this week's falls:
Republicans than from the
Democrats. Already the fever
swamps speculate that Trump-the-
Birther is an Obama plant. He's
not. He's simply an ego with
hair.).
The 1992 analogy falls apart in
other ways as well. Bush was
challenged in the primaries. To
date, Obama's party may not be as
enthusiastic as the White House
would like, but there are no signs
of revolt either, despite an
increasingly long list of
disappointments and betrayals
from Obama.
But there are ways in which 1992
is instructive. First, the challenger
won by "focusing like a laser" on
the economy. (Remember "It's the
economy, stupid"?) It is already
looking next to impossible for the
White House to coast on a
resurgent economy the way
Reagan did in 1984. Things will
likely improve, but don't expect a
lot of "Morning in America" ads
from the Democrats.
More important, 1992
demonstrated the folly of
complacency. The first President
Bush wasn't the only one who
thought he was a shoe-in for re-
election. So did a great many top-
tier Democrats who opted not to
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run against the "unbeatable"
incumbent. Bill Clinton saw an
opportunity, and he was hungrier
for victory than his opponent was.
This election will likely go to the
hungrier candidate who can
convince Americans he or she can
deliver better days.
Getting rid of bin Laden is a good
start. But there's an irony here.
Obama has treated foreign policy
(at least until his Libyan
adventure) as something to keep
on the back burner so he could
concentrate on domestic politics.
By killing Osama bin Laden, he
got what he wished for. And that
may just be the beginning of his
problems.
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fellow at AEI
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44 Policy/ Obituaries
Pop Goes Istanbul - By Andrew Finkel
ANDREW FINKEL (Foreign
Policy)
Submitted at 5/5/2011 4:11:48 PM
View photos of the dark side of
Istanbul.
ISTANBUL — Istanbul
famously straddles two
continents, but pity the working
stiff who commutes to Europe in
the morning and home to Asia at
night. The journey along the
feeder roads funneling into the
city's Bosphorus Bridge is a
bumper-to-bumper ordeal.
Once onto the bridge itself, the
view is suddenly extraordinary.
To the south, across the water, is
the skyline forged by the rulers of
the Byzantine and Ottoman
empires. To the north are the
summer palaces and the stately
waterfront homes of Turkey's
elite. But beneath the picturesque
vistas lies a city growing
dangerously out of control.
In many ways, Istanbul is
thriving. A joint study by the
Brookings Institution and the
London School of Economics
named it the world's best-
performing city, in terms of
income and employment growth,
over the past year. Meanwhile,
Istanbul came out on top of an
Architect of Carter's health care reforms dies (AP)
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Submitted at 5/5/2011 10:12:17 PM
informal survey of the cities that
New York Times readers most
want to visit.
A provincial backwater that
reinvented itself in 330 A.D. as
the New Rome, Istanbul now
serves as Turkey's own New
York. It produces well over a
quarter of the country's GDP, its
businesses generate 60 percent of
Turkey's trade, and its citizens and
businesses pay 40 percent of the
country's taxes. Districts covered
with mulberry orchards little more
than two decades ago have now
sprouted bank towers and high-
rise corporate headquarters. In the
gardens of the Istanbul Stock
Exchange, the statue of a vast
marble bull is poised in a
perpetual charge.
But even while Istanbul is
already on the way to becoming
the commercial capital of a region
well beyond Turkey's frontiers,
the city's ambitions know no end.
Recessions in Europe and
rebellions in North Africa have
only strengthened the conviction
that the tide is drifting Turkey's
way -- that, if it plays its cards
right, Istanbul can become the
new London or Hong Kong.
Yet the city's confidence may
turn out to be its curse. Relentless
AP - A health care policy expert
who helped develop President
Jimmy Carter's doomed national
urban expansion threatens to lay
siege to the former imperial
capital and scrub away its natural
beauty.
Istanbul is a city under
construction. From the faux-
Ottoman housing estate on the
Thracian approach to the city --
with its own mock Bosphorus
canal -- to the $2.5 billion
conversion of a government office
block into a sprawling office
complex at the entrance to the
first Bosphorus bridge, the
feeding frenzy over Istanbul's
relentless expansion has also
transformed the city's politics.
Istanbul has always been a
magnet for the Turkish
countryside. And as it has become
ever more closely integrated into
a global economy, the pickings
have become all the richer. "The
incorporation of Istanbul into the
international real estate market
has changed all the rules," says
Ilhan Tekeli, emeritus professor
of the City and Regional Planning
Department at the Middle East
Technical University.
For some, those rules were there
to be broken. Kemal Kiliçdaroglu,
now leader of the opposition
Republican People's Party (CHP),
made his name in national politics
health plan and was one of the died. Dr. James Mongan was 69.
architects of Massachusetts'
landmark health care law has
in 2008 when he charged the
deputy head of the governing
Justice and Development Party
(AKP) with accepting $1 million
to arrange for the rezoning for
commercial use a piece of land on
the western approach to Istanbul.
The site, which had been
purchased for $3.5 million, was
sold one year later for $13 million
to the Turkish arm of a British
supermarket giant.
At the heart of Istanbul's
transformation is not just the
surge in land values, but in
population. In 1945, the city had
less than a million inhabitants; by
the end of the Cold War that
figure had risen to some 6.5
million. In the past 20 years, the
population doubled to 13 million.
New urban settlements have
eroded the boundaries of areas
earmarked for water reservoirs,
and gnawed away at forestry and
green spaces. Istanbul is not only
a meeting point of continents, but
of Black Sea and Mediterranean
climate systems. The result is a
unique micro-environment that
sustains some 2,000 species of
plant life -- 500 varieties more
than in all of Britain, according to
Andrew Byfield, co-author of
Important Plant Areas of Turkey.
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And as Istanbul grows, it is also
growing warmer. NASA satellites
reveal thermal pockets where the
city has expanded that are up to
1.4 degrees Celsius warmer than
25 years ago -- a result of urban
settlements replacing ancient
landscapes. Istanbul's new
prosperity ensures that its carbon
emissions will increase at a far
greater pace in the years to come,
putting its special ecosystem in
jeopardy.
It's not just the flora that is in
danger. At some time, the city
will reach a limit for people, too.
"Beyond 16 million, there is no
future for Istanbul; there is no
future for anyone," says Ibrahim
Bas, head of Istanbul's planning
department.
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last fall, was reportedly sent back
by a senior al-Qaeda member to
raise funds in Germany.
Saudi Arabian officials
announced on May 4 that an al-
Qaeda member on the Kingdom's
most wanted list, Khaled Hathal
Abdullah al-Atifi al-Qahtani, had
turned himself in to Saudi
authorities ( Guardian, AP). And a
U.S. drone has reportedly killed
two brothers and members of Al
Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
(AQAP) in Yemen's Shabwa
province, the first drone strike to
target Yemen since 2002 (
Washington Post, CNN, FT).
Moroccan authorities have
arrested three people in
connection with last Friday's
deadly bombing of a popular café
in Marrakesh, saying that at least
one was "loyal" to al-Qaeda, and
had tried to travel to Chechnya
and Iraq ( Guardian, AP). They
also said the man had learned to
fabricate explosives over the
Internet.
Anarchy in the UK
The coroner conducting the
inquest into the 7/7 London transit
bombings announced the results
of her findings (available here)
today, formally recording verdicts
for "unlawful killing" for the four
suicide bombers who killed 52
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commuters, and offering a series
of recommendations for
improving the practices of the
internal security agency MI5 as
well as London's emergency
responders ( Guardian, Telegraph,
BBC, AP).
British police this week arrested
five men near a nuclear power
plant under anti-terrorism laws, a
move that prompted several raids
in London but ended with the
men's release on May 4 (
Guardian, NYT, WSJ). And a
Manchester court heard
arguments yesterday in the case of
a former Taliban fighter who
allegedly tried to recruit
undercover security officers to
fight for the group in Afghanistan
and Pakistan ( BBC). The man's
son and two others are also on
trial.
Finally, the trial for four British
police officers accused of beating
a terrorism suspect began this
week in London ( Reuters, BBC,
Independent).
Trials and Tribulations
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that the trial of Canadian-born
Chicago man Tahawwur Hussain
Rana, scheduled to begin this
month, will bring out new details
about the alleged terrorist ties of
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46 Economy/
BLS Jobs Report: Nonfarm Payroll Headline
Number Looks Good, Beneath the Surface,
Awful
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:15:00 AM
Thoughts on the Jobs Report
Thoughts on the Jobs Report
On the surface, this was the third
consecutive solid jobs report, not
as measured by the typical
recovery, but the best back-to-
back reports we have seen for
years. The Payroll Survey
Establishment Data showed
employment up by 244,000.
At that pace of hiring, the
unemployment number would
ordinarily drop, but not fast.
Instead, the unemployment rate
ticked up. The reason is beneath
the surface, employment fell by
190,000 according to the
Household Survey.
According to the Household
Survey, the number of
unemployed rose by 205,000.
Another 131,000 dropped out of
the labor force or the
unemployment rate would have
been even higher.
Which survey to believe?
It is hard to say on one month's
data. However, during a recovery
the household survey is supposed
to lead. Moreover, the household
survey is more consistent with
three recent reports.
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9.0 percent, the U.S. Bureau of
• Weekly Unemployment Claims Labor Statistics reported today.
Soar to 474,000; Bogus Excuses Job gains occurred in several
Offered service providing industries,
• Oil Consumption Demand manufacturing, and mining.
Destruction vs. Speculative Unemployment Rate - Seasonally
Futures Positions Adjusted
• Non-Manufacturing ISM Nonfarm Employment - Payroll
Plunges Below Prediction of All Survey - Monthly Look -
73 Economists, New Orders Seasonally Adjusted
Collapse, Prices Firm; Did click on chart for sharper image
Rosenberg Capitulate at the Top? Nonfarm Employment - Payroll
Survey - Annual Look -
Unless the Household Survey is Seasonally Adjusted
an outlier, the implications are not Notice that employment is lower
good than it was 10 years ago.
Last month I said "It is very Nonfarm Employment - Payroll
by 2,916,000. looking for jobs, once again
questionable if this pace of jobs Survey - This Month - Seasonally
In January alone, a whopping started looking. Instead, an
keeps up." Adjusted
319,000 people dropped out of additional 548,000 people
Well, it kept up if the Payroll Employment in the private sector
the workforce. In February dropped out of the labor force in
Survey is correct, it sure didn't if rose by 268,000 in April. Since
another 87,000 people dropped the first four months of the year.
the Household Survey is to be reaching a low point in
out of the labor force. In March Were it not for people dropping
believed. employment in February 2010,
11,000 people dropped out of the out of the labor force, the
Recall that the unemployment the private sector has added 2.1
labor force. In April, 131,000 unemployment rate would be well
rate varies in accordance with the million jobs—an average of
dropped out of the labor force. over 11%.
Household Survey not the 149,000 per month.
The 4-month total for 2011 is As I said, the report looks good
reported headline jobs number, Statistically, 127,000 jobs a
548,000 people dropped out of the on the surface, it does not look
and not in accordance with the month is enough to keep the
labor force. good if you poke around in the
weekly claims data. unemployment rate flat.
Many of those millions who details. April 2011 Jobs Report
Digging deeper into the Index of Aggregate Weekly
dropped out of the workforce Please consider the Bureau of
Household Survey, we see some Hours
would start looking if they Labor Statistics (BLS) April
more interesting data. In the last In April, the average workweek
thought jobs were available. 2011 Employment Report.
year, the civilian population rose for all employees on private
Indeed, in a 2-year old recovery, Nonfarm payroll employment
by 1,817,000. Yet the labor nonfarm payrolls was unchanged
the labor force should be rising rose by 244,000 in April, and the
force dropped by 1,099,000. BLS page 47
sharply as those who stopped unemployment rate edged up to
Those not in the labor force rose
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at 34.3 hours. The average
workweek for production and
nonsupervisoryemployees on
private nonfarm payrolls was also
unchanged at 33.6 hours.
The index of aggregate weekly
hours for all employees rose by
0.3 percent over the month. Since
reaching a low point in October
2009, the index has increased by
3.3 percent.
Average Hourly Earnings vs. CPI
Average hourly earnings of all
employees in the private sector
increased by 3 cents in April to
$22.95. Hourly earnings are up
1.9 percent over the year.
Between March 2010 and March
2011, the consumer price index
for all urban consumers (CPI-U)
increased by 2.7 percent.
Not only are wages rising slower
than the CPI, there is also a
concern as to how those wage
gains are distributed.
BLS Birth-Death Model Black
Box
The big news in the BLS Birth/
Death Model is the BLS has
moved to quarterly rather than
annual adjustments.
Effective with the release of
January 2011 data on February 4,
2011, the establishment survey
will begin estimating net business
birth/death adjustment factors
on a quarterly basis, replacing the
current practice of estimating the
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factors annually. This will allow
the establishment survey to
incorporate information from the
Quarterly Census of
Employment and Wages into the
birth/death adjustment factors as
soon as it becomes available and
thereby improve the factors.
For more details please see
Introduction of Quarterly Birth/
Death Model Updates in the
Establishment Survey
In recent years Birth/Death
methodology has been so screwed
up and there have been so many
revisions that it has been painful
to watch.
It is possible that the BLS model
is now back in sync with the
real world. Moreover, quarterly
rather than annual adjustments
can only help the process.
The Birth-Death numbers are not
seasonally adjusted while the
reported headline number is. In
the black box the BLS
combines the two coming out
with a total.
The Birth Death number
influences the overall totals, but
the math is not as simple as it
appears. Moreover, the effect is
nowhere near as big as it might
logically appear at first glance.
Do not add or subtract the Birth-
Death numbers from the reported
headline totals. It does not work
that way.
AP - Tony Award-winning
"Promises, Promises" actress
Marian Mercer, whose five-
Birth/Death assumptions are
supposedly made according to
estimates of where the BLS
thinks we are in the economic
cycle. Theory is one thing.
Practice is clearly another as
noted by numerous recent
revisions.
Birth-Death Number Revisions
Inquiring minds note enormous
backward revisions in Birth-Death
reporting.
Birth Death Model (as
reported in January)
Birth Death Model Revisions
2010 (as reported February)
Is this new model going to reflect
reality going forward?
That's hard to say, but things
were so screwed up before that it
is unlikely to be any worse. One
encouraging sign is several
negative numbers in the recent
chart. January would have been
negative too, had they shown it.
Historically there were only 2
negative number every year,
January and July. That anomaly
broke November of 2010.
Birth Death Model April 2011
Do NOT subtract 175,000 from
the headline number. That is
statistically invalid.
Household Data
In the last year, the civilian
population rose by 1,817,000. Yet
the labor force dropped by
1,099,000. Those not in the labor
decade career also included
dozens of television appearances,
has died in California at age 75.
force rose by 2,916,000.
Were it not for people dropping
out of the labor force, the
unemployment rate would be well
over 11%.
Table A-8 Part Time Status
click on chart for sharper
image
There are now 8,600,000
workers whose hours may rise
before those companies start
hiring more workers.
Note the number rose by 167,000
in the last month
Table A-15
Table A-15 is where one can find
a better approximation of what the
unemployment rate really is.
click on chart for sharper
image
Distorted Statistics
Given the total distortions of
reality with respect to not
counting people who allegedly
dropped out of the work force, it
is hard to discuss the numbers.
The official unemployment rate
is 9.9%. However, if you start
counting all the people that want
a job but gave up, all the
people with part-time jobs that
want a full-time job, all the
people who dropped off the
unemployment rolls because
their unemployment benefits
ran out, etc., you get a closer
picture of what the
unemployment rate is. That
Obituaries 47
number is in the last row
labeled U-6.
While the "official"
unemployment rate is an
unacceptable 9.0%, U-6 is much
higher at 159%.
Things are much worse than the
reported numbers would have you
believe, and this month's report
was exceptionally weak beneath
the surface.
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48 Economy/
Oil Consumption Demand Destruction vs.
Speculative Futures Positions
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 2:23:00 AM
Commodities got smacked hard
across the board on Thursday with
silver and crude leading the way.
Silver is now down close to 30%
from the peak, and crude is down
close to 13% from the peak four
days ago. The rest of this post
deals specifically with crude.
West Texas Intermediate Daily
Chart
click on chart for sharper image
Discounting the civil war in
Libya and Mideast disruption
concerns in general, there is no
fundamental reason for crude to
be above $100.
Oil Consumption Demand
Destruction
My friend Tim Wallace follows
petroleum distillates usage
closely. He is concerned over
what demand destruction says
about the economy. Tim writes ...
Hello Mish
Attached please find some charts
on petroleum distillates demand.
These are based off peak demand,
which for the USA was Feb '07 to
Jan '08. Those are the highest
months of demand in our history.
Demand has never approached
those numbers again.
As you can see on the first chart,
titled "Year-Over-Year vs. Peak",
the months of January through
May are measured against the
peak years for 2008 to 2011. Note
that except for April, this year is
by far the biggest drop off peak in
this depression. This May has
begun with a significant drop off
last year after a big rise off 2009.
Last May more than likely
reflects the rebound on "shovel
ready" paving projects that ate up
a lot of distillates products. This
May has begun with the first week
showing scary down numbers!
Needless to say we need to look
again at the rest of the month, but
this is the worst week of the year
to date.
The second chart shows each
month by year off the peak
period. May is off to a rocky start.
It will be very interesting to see
how this May ends up.
The third chart shows how the
historic petroleum distillates
demand has trended since the
early '90's. I learned back in the
'70's in my days at Exxon that any
demand growth of less than 0.8%
showed a weak economy,
anything less than 0.5% was
recessionary as you can see in the
recession of 2001/2002 on the
chart.
Look at the numbers now and tell
me where we are headed.
Tim Oil Consumption Year-Over
-Year vs. Peak
click on chart for sharper image
Oil Consumption Drop From
Peak Usage
click on chart for sharper image
Oil Consumption Historical
Growth vs. Peak
click on chart for sharper image
2010 Rebound in Oil Usage
Collapses
For all the brouhaha over the
"recovery" one cannot see it in oil
usage. However, you can see it at
the pump!
You can also see it in oil futures
speculation.
Oil Futures Speculation
Here is a chart of oil futures
Commitment of Traders courtesy
of SentimentTrader.
click on chart for sharper image
Annotations in blue on the chart
are mine. Jason Goepfert at
SentimentTrader was kind enough
to allow me to post the chart.
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One certainly cannot use this
information as a timing device,
but it is interesting to see
everyone plow into this "sure
thing" trade right as demand has
collapsed.
Unwinding this trade can easily
collapse the price of oil and send
the US dollar higher, and I think it
will.
For more on the US dollar and
currencies in general, please see
Trichet Backs off Rate Hikes; US
Dollar Up Sharply; Currency
Fundamentals
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BOMBSHELL: Greece Jennifer Aniston Treats
Threatens To Quit The Euro, Herself to a French
Emergency EU Meeting Tonight Meal on Cinco de Mayo
Gregory White (Money Game)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:57:00 AM
Greece's government is
considering leaving the euro and
returning to its own currency,
according to Der Spiegel.
The move comes as a result of
austerity measures that have
broken the back of the country's
economy, and limited its ability to
escape recession.
Der Spiegel claims to have
obtained Greek government
documents that include plans to
leave the euro.
A secret crisis meeting of
European leaders is to be held
tonight in Luxembourg, according
to Der Spiegel. The meeting will
also include a discussion of a
restructuring of the country's debt,
in the short, rather than long term.
Jean-Claude Juncker, president of
the European council, has denied
the Der Spiegel report and the
existence of an emergency
meeting this evening, according to
Bloomberg. German government
Picture of the Day: Trump's First Campaign Poster?
Garance Franke-Ruta and Chris
Good (Politics : The Atlantic)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 9:24:30 AM
If Donald Trump really does run
spokesman Steffen Seibert has
also denied European talks on the
matter.
The euro is sliding and European
bank shares are also down on the
news.
German officials, including
Finance Minister Wolfgang
Schäuble, will be attending the
emergency meeting, according to
the Der Spiegel report. They will
be armed with a report that says
the country's national debt will
swell to 200% of GDP if it leaves
the currency union. Schäuble will
argue that a independent Greek
currency would be devalued by
50% against the euro, and drive
the debt surge, which will force
for president, he can look forward
to a lot more of this.
Via Phil Demetrion, this
campaign poster spoof takes an
easy shot at The Donald's
the country to restructure its debt
anyway.
Further, the report alleges
potential knock on effects for the
eurozone, with the possibility of
more departures, and the banking
sector of both Greece and the
broader eurozone being rattled.
Read the full story at Der Speigel
> Reminder: Here's who gets
pounded in a Greek debt
restructuring >
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Submitted at 5/6/2011 8:55:35 AM
Jennifer Aniston treated herself
to a special Cinco de Mayo meal
last night at L'Atelier Joel
Robuchon in NYC. The French
restaurant was an interesting pick
for Jennifer, who is known to love
Mexican-inspired fun, from
margaritas to getaways at her
favorite Cabo resort! She went out
for food following a busy
apparently planted some
afternoon launching her perfume,
permanent roots in the Big Apple.
Jennifer Aniston, at a midtown
Jennifer reportedly just shelled
Sephora. The beauty retailer is the
out $5.9 million for a penthouse
only US shop that carries the
apartment in Greenwich Village,
beachy scent, and Jennifer looked
though her Hollywood pad has yet
fresh from the sand herself with
to sell at the $42 million asking
tousled hair and a golden glow. It
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Frequently Flying Finn Finds Fun,

Friendship
Keith Barry (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 9:45:00 AM

If you ever pass through

Finland’s Helsinki-Vantaa airport,
you’ll probably run in to Petteri
Räisänen. He doesn’t work at a
security checkpoint, nor is he a
pilot. He’s not even a jet-setting
business traveler, but he’s always
at the gate or sitting in an airport
lounge.
He’s a frequent flier — but only
for the fun of it.
Räisänen, a software engineer,
has flown more than 530,000
miles over the course of 1,008
flights. That’s the equivalent of
two solid months on an airplane,
traveling the distance to the moon
2.218 times. Sure, a lot of Up In
The Air-style business travelers
surpass those statistics, but
they’re forced to fly.
Räisänen subjects himself to
commercial air travel solely for
the love of getting on a plane.
“It’s just a hobby. People do crazy
things as their hobbies. I know
grown up women who collect
Barbie dolls,” he said. “I don’t
get it, so I don’t really expect
them to get me either!”
Räisänen has always loved
flying, but his passion didn’t turn
into a full-fledged obsession until
2001, when he landed a flexible
job that afforded him plenty of
time to take off. He started taking weekend trips around
FREQUENTLY pageEurope,
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then eventually began searching
out unique airlines, plane types
and destinations that take him off
the beaten path.
For example, in August he built a
whole trip around a flight on a
Dornier 328 jet, a relatively rare
plane flown by Denmark’s Sun
Air, and ended up spending time
in a number of Swedish cities.
When he gets to a new city,
Räisänen usually leaves the
airport and absorbs the local
culture. Sometimes, he even stays
overnight in a hotel, but it’s
usually for a brief visit. “Many
people would go to Paris for a
week,” he said. “I’d get bored by
the second day.” Of course, he’ll
be back as soon as he can get a
discounted ticket.
An Online Community
If the thought of taking multiple
whirlwind tours through Europe
on cramped planes, sleeping in
airport hotels and catching buses
to and from city centers is
daunting, consider that Räisänen
also documents his travels with
exquisitely detailed photographs
and narratives.
It’s for the benefit of members of
Airliners.net, one of the many
hobbyist sites devoted to fans of
commercial aviation. Räisänen
posts the details of every flight,
from check-in and first class
lounge to what kind of meal was
served on board and on what
runway the flight landed. Those
writeups, known as trip reports,
are a deceptively fascinating read.
Imagine a bizarro travelogue, with
the same amount of passion
usually reserved for describing
Buckingham Palace, Beefeater
guards and tea at the Ritz instead
devoted to Terminal 5 at
Heathrow, security screeners and
a ham sandwich in seat 36F.
The best trip reports begin with a
description of arriving at the
airport, coupled with pictures of
departure terminals and ticket
counters. Each writer has his or
her own style and obsessions.
Some photograph the available
leg room, others photograph the
meals and some even take
pictures of the restrooms.
For his reports, Räisänen
maintains a level of mystique,
only showing his trademark
brown shoes or black fedora in
photographs — although that’s
him in the above picture, posing
in the cockpit of a British Airways
757 that just completed its final
flight. Even the kinds of trips
vary, from those obsessed with
getting a luxury suite on an
Emirates A380 to others who
travel to the furthest corners of the
world to fly on old Soviet-era
aircraft.
For every Boston to Atlanta flight
on Delta that gets written up,
there’s a gem that reminds readers
just what is possible in a world
connected by flight. One recent
trip report described a frequent
flyer’s journey to Libya just
before the no-fly zone was
imposed. A kindly ticket agent
stepped in to prevent the writer
from getting stuck in a war zone,
and the first hand account of what
went on in the Tripoli airport is a
riveting read.
When flying into their
hometowns, Räisänen will meet
up with other trip reporters, not to
mention fellow aviation geeks of
various flavors. For example,
there are spotters, synthetic
birdwatchers who keep an eye out
for rare aircraft and jot down their
tail numbers in books. Then there
are mileage runners, who do
whatever it takes to keep elite
status and remain pampered in lie-
flat seats and lounges.
It’s that sense of community that
spurred Räisänen on with
pursuing an admittedly geeky
hobby. ”Some ‘offline’ friends are
moderately interested in aviation,
but none in the hardcore sense
that I am,” he said.
Taking Flight
Though he’s got a good job,
Räisänen is no Richard Branson.
He is, however, lucky that Finland
is home to multiple low-cost
carriers, clean and efficient
airports and a domestic aviation
industry built to serve cities that
in winter are most easily reached
by air. Carriers like Air Berlin,
Wizz, Air Baltic and EasyJet
often run specials that allow him
to fly between two cities for less
than 20 Euro.
The key, he said, is doing
research and planning ahead. “It
might not be viable for many
people to plan their life six to
eight months in advance, but if
that works then you can save a lot
of money,” he said. “Try to be
aware of what is a good fare for
any given route or flight, that
helps to put things into
perspective.”
Reading Räisänen’s trip reports,
one may think he lives in a
magical world without weather
delays, overtime crews and
overbooked flights. Despite
cramming three or four individual
flights into a day, often with mere
minutes between connections, he
rarely misses a flight or ends up
stranded in a terminal far from
home.
“I try to keep in mind what is
realistic and what isn’t, and
usually try to have enough of a
buffer for connections so
that a moderate delay will not
wreck the whole plan,” he said.
For instance, he’ll always check
in online for all flights so that he
won’t have to waste time at a
ticket counter.
A Strange Obsession?
Dr. Gerald Tarlow is a
psychologist who treats patients
with fears of flying. Though he’s
met countless folks who would
rather give a speech to a room full
of spiders and snakes than set foot
on an airplane, he’s never heard
of anyone who willfully subjects
himself to the indignities of
commercial air travel.
“I’ve never in my life come across
anyone who flies commercially
for fun,” he said. “If they’re doing
it because they enjoy flying and
they’re not pilots, I can see that.
The rest of it is a bit masochistic.”
Indeed, the seat Räisänen would
most like to be sitting in is in the
nose of the plane but poor
eyesight kept that from being a
possibility. “Unfortunately my
eyesight is so bad without glasses
that being a pilot, at least a
commercial one, just isn’t
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possible for me,” he said. “As for
an airline job generally – yeah, I
think it could be fun, but so far I
haven’t come up with a suitable
opening whenever I’ve been
looking for a job.”
Still, he gets ample opportunities
to interact with airline pilots and
crew. Often, he’ll fly in and out of
the same city within a few hours
on the same aircraft with the same
crew. “I had a number of one
liners I used on them, stuff like
‘Oh, what a boring place it was –
I decided to go right back!’” On
another flight between the
Channel Islands of Jersey and
Guernsey, he was the only
passenger on board a one-pilot
aircraft. “So basically I got a
private twenty minute flight,” he
said. “Sat right behind the pilot
which afforded me excellent
views out – that was an amazing
experience!”
Räisänen and other flyers like
him are unique, however, in that
they can find excitement during
all parts of a flight, from boarding
to cruise. “If it is a new carrier,
plane type or something like that
it is right at boarding, you see a
new cabin with new kinds of seats
and colors for the first time,” he
said. “On the other hand if I’m
flying somewhere nice it is the
final approach and landing — the
first glimpses of a nice place,
whether it is a familiar or a
new one and the feeling that you
have arrived.”
“But sometimes cruising is just as
fun – your mobile phone is off,
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Cracking the Code of The New Yorker' s

Cartoon Caption Contest
Angela Wattercutter (Wired Top from Brown University, on the
Stories) study of what makes a New
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:00:00 AM Yorker cartoon caption
successful.
Researchers analyzed The results of the study weren’t
submissions to The New Yorker's shocking, said Robert Mankoff,
Cartoon Caption Contest No. 281, The New Yorker’s cartoon editor.
won by film critic Roger Ebert. “I can say with certainty that we
Image courtesy The New Yorker shouldn’t compromise our
If you want to win The New research ethics by generalizing the
Yorker’s Cartoon Caption results beyond this particular
Contest, you’d do well to mind caption contest to all the other 283
these four factors: novelty, length, contests, or, for that matter, to non
punctuation, and “abstractness -caption-contest New Yorker
and imaginability.” cartoons, or to humor in general,”
Paying attention to those Mankoff said in his response on
parameters certainly doesn’t McGraw’s blog post about the
guarantee a win in the weekly caption contest findings. “That
competition, which calls on would be a grave mistake which
readers to craft their own punch would only be justified if we
lines to accompany black-and- could make a lot of money out of
white drawings. But it will it.”
increase your winning potential, So how did McGraw et al come
according to a professor who to their conclusions? First, they
analyzed the captions submitted had to figure out what data they
for a recent round. could glean from the captions.
McGraw, a professor of “Basically, we have these 5,000
marketing and psychology at captions, information about
University of Colorado Boulder,
some ways. There was this York sensibilities and deadpan b r e v i t y , p u n c t u a t i o n a n d whether they made the shortlist or
was looking to see if patterns
tension between, ‘Will we find punch, among other things. It’s imagination to come up with a not and whether or not they were
emerged that might reveal what
something? Or will we just fall notoriously frustrating trying to winning caption with little effort. finalists, but that’s about all we
factors are present in submissions
flat and have nothing to report?’ I write a top submission — just ask Yet he submitted captions 107 had,” Fernbach said. “So the
shortlisted by New Yorker
have to say that I didn’t have famed film critic Roger Ebert, times over the years before question is (A) ‘What can you get
editors. out of that?’ and (B) ‘If you think
strong expectations.” who tried more than 100 times winning contest No. 281.
“I have to admit I was worried we
The jokes submitted to the The before finally winning the contest McGraw, who was featured in that you can’t get that much out of
wouldn’t find anything,” McGraw
New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption last month. this month’s Wired magazine for it, you have to go and collect
said of his research into contest
Contest possess a humor all their Presumably Ebert, a funny man his theory on why things are some additional data.’”
No. 281. “The Cartoon Caption
own. They’re an interesting mix in his own right, should’ve been f u n n y , w o r k e d w i t h P h i l
Contest seems to be a mystery in CRACKING page 54
of social commentary, wry New well-versed enough in novelty, Fernbach, a cognitive scientist
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Foxconn Employees Forced To Sign 'No
Suicide' Pledge: Report
Mark Brown (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:23:00 AM
Employees at the Foxconn
facilities in China are forced to
sign a pledge, promising that they
will not commit suicide. The new
mandate comes after more than a
dozen staff members killed
themselves over a 16 month
period. This latest revelation
comes from a new report that
looks into the notoriously grim
working conditions of the gadget
manufacturing plant. Foxconn is
hired by companies like Apple,
HP, Nokia and Dell, to build their
fleets of laptops, smartphones and
tablets.
The firm has a reputation for
depressed workers and suicides,
with some plants even putting up
“anti-suicide” nets to catch
employees who throw themselves
off buildings, or bringing in
monks to exorcise evil spirits. The
plant’s managers and companies
like Apple have promised to
improve conditions and wages.
“It is very troubling,” Apple CEO
Steve Jobs said, when asked in
June 2010 about the numerous
suicides. “Apple does one of the
best jobs of any company
understanding the working
conditions of our supply chain.
We are all over this.”
Labor group Students and
Scholars Against Corporate
Misbehaviour (SACOM) went to
the facility and interviewed more
than a hundred employees in
March and April 2011, to survey
the current working conditions.
The report found staff working
overtime that exceeded the legal
limit, endless back-to-back shifts
and dormitories that feel like
prison blocks.
Labor laws in China dictate that
overtime should not exceed 36
hours per month. The report says
that workers are usually subjected
to 50 to 80 hours of overtime a
month. In the Chengdu facility —
where Foxconn employees put
together the iPad— staff could
expect a grueling 80 to 100 hours
of overtime, on top of the 174
regular work hours.
Staff members interviewed said
that working overtime was
voluntary, but making up the extra
hours was necessary to earn a
regular salary.
A typical day for a worker at
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confession letter and hand it to the
supervisor,” the report says. “If
the mistake is serious, the worker
has to read the confession letter in
front of his other colleagues.”
A spokesperson for the firm,
Louis Woo, admitted to the Daily
Mail that conditions can be rough.
When asked about the humiliation
of workers, Woo said, “It is not
something we endorse or
encourage. However, I would not
exclude that this might happen
given the diverse and large
population of our workforce. But
we are working to change it.”
SACOM has demanded that
Foxconn and the technology
companies that hire the plant
change their policies. For the
employees, though, they just want
to be able to talk, to hold a normal
social life or, in some cases, get
their hands on the gadgets they
make.”
Chengdu consists of waking up at “Though we produce for iPhone, I
6:45 AM for a 7:40 AM start at haven’t got a chance to use
work assembly, before working iPhone,” a worker from Guanlan
all day until 8:00 PM. Staff are said. “I believe it is fascinating
often bullied into moving directly and has lots of function. However
from regular work into overtime I don’t think I can own one by
hours without a break, and are myself.” A luxury gadget like that
often punished if they don’t. would cost a Foxconn employee
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Fernbach considered using
machine-learning techniques to
find some meaning in the words,
but because the captions were so
short, the algorithms, which
typically analyze pages of text,
didn’t offer much information.
He looked at a psycholinguistic
database and compared the words
in the captions to what they mean
psychologically. Basically, this
answered questions like “Is this
word imaginable?” or “Is this
word abstract?”
Since the available databases
didn’t contain values for
abstractness or imaginability for
all the words, the researchers took
the 5,291 captions submitted for
the contest and narrowed the pool
to 86 — the 43 captions the New
Yorker editors had shortlisted and
a randomly selected additional 43
captions.
A research assistant then judged
that sample set on imagery (from
“very hard” to “very easy” to
imagine) and abstractness (from
“very concrete” to “very
abstract”), on a scale of one to
seven. The researchers then took
the database they created, as well
as additional information they
collected, and conducted
statistical and textual analysis.
Captions with uncommon words
were more likely to make the
shortlist.
From that analysis, the team
determined that captions with
uncommon words were more
likely to make the shortlist.
Editors also liked captions that
were on average one word shorter
than others. Captions with fewer
punctuation marks fared better
than others, as did captions that
were harder to visualize.
Mankoff addressed some of these
findings based on his own
experience as cartoon editor.
Regarding punctuation he noted:
“I generally agree that shouting a
joke doesn’t make it any funnier
unless it’s to a deaf person,” but
added that a well-placed
exclamation point has helped
captions in the past. He also said
that while McGraw’s findings
about caption length and novelty
are true to a point, there are
always exceptions to the rule. (His
full response is in McGraw’s blog
post.)
McGraw agrees that his findings
aren’t absolute. If someone really
wants to improve their chances of
winning The New Yorker Cartoon
Caption Contest, they’re better off
creating a long list of potential
captions and then analyzing which
ones follow his guidelines, like a
stand-up comic trying out new
jokes at a comedy club.
The professor is also quick to
point out that a lot more research
needs to be done.
“My guess is that we have to be a
little bit careful about the
conclusions we can draw,”
McGraw said. “This is only one
contest. As a good scientist I
would want to replicate these
effects with many different
contests.”
Fernbach said that applying their
results to generate general insights
about humor “would probably
require more theoretically
motivated investigations.”
“There might be some people who
t h i n k t h a t N e w
Yorker&endash;style cartoons are
funnier than others,” Fernbach
said. “There are a million
different ways you can go.”
That could be the hardest part
about trying to crack the code.
With New Yorker humor being as
peculiar as it is (just ask Seinfeld),
finding any sort of steadfast
formula that produces winners
seems highly unlikely.
McGraw and Fernbach’s findings
provide guidance, but aspiring
cartoon captioneers will just have
to stick to their wits.
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said. Indeed, many of his trip
reports feature spectacular aerial
shots of cities, military bases,
bridges and other landmarks. “It’s
very relaxing and a good
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Deaths reported as thousands protest in Syria

(AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)) had any knowledge that Syrian humanitarian situation there.
Submitted at 5/6/2011 11:21:05 AM protesters had been killed on Aid workers from the Red Cross
Friday. and Red Crescent delivered their
Al Jazeera speaks to an exiled She said the planned visit by first emergency relief supplies to
Syrian activist about how a U N d e l e g a t i o n a i m e d Deraa on Thursday, according to
i n f o r m a t i o n f r o m S y r i a i s at investigating the situation in a spokesperson for the
reaching the rest of the world Syria would be a positive thing organisation.
Thousands of protesters have for the government. Hicham Hassan said a convoy of
taken to the streets across Syria "The Syrian government is not two lorries carrying clean
f o r a n o t h e r d a y o f a n t i - worried, because there is nothing seven years in jail, for seeking Thursday night, but on Friday he drinking water and two more with
government rallies, dubbed a "day wrong," Haddad said. r e f o r m s a n d c o n s t i t u t i o n a l said the withdrawal "is gradual". f o o d a n d f i r s t - a i d m a t e r i a l
of defiance". Later, state television reported changes in Syria. "Throughout the night, they accompanied a team of 13 experts
Ammar Qurabi, who heads the that a Syrian army officer and 'Will never stop' withdrew ... and this is continuing from the Syrian Red Crescent and
National Organisation for Human four policemen were shot dead by Huge crowds were rallying in the today," he told AFP. International Committee of the
Rights in Syria, said ten people a "criminal gang" in Homs. coastal city of Baniyas, where H e s a i d 6 0 0 p e o p l e h a d Red Cross.
were killed on Friday in Homs The military earlier deployed there was a heavy army presence. been arrested in Daraa during 11- Rights campaigners say army,
and six others in Hama. troops and tanks in flashpoint "We are here today to say we day operation. security forces and assailants
Activist Najati Tayara said cities including Baniyas, Homs don't want to die. We don't want Activists said the city remained loyal to Assad had killed at least
security forces opened fire to a n d R a s t a n a n d i n s o m e to be humiliated and we will under the army's control and was 560 civilians during seven weeks
disperse protests that broke out D a m a s c u s s u b u r b s . never stop," a protester told Al surrounded by tanks. of pro-democracy demonstrations.
after noon prayers in Homs. In the Damascus district of Jazeera. Footage emerging from the city The authorities blame "armed
A l J a z e e r a c o u l d n o t Midan, protesters marched "Killing us and invading us with showed massive destruction, with terrorist groups" for the violence,
independently verify the reports. chanting "To heaven we go, one tanks will never stop us. Our souls shelled buildings and burnt cars. including the killings of civilians
"We were chanting 'The people million martyrs". will ascend to heaven calling for A c t i v i s t s s a y s c o r e s o f and members of the security
and the army are one' and 'The The daughter of prominent freedom". civilians were killed during the forces.
p e o p l e w a n t t o t o p p l e t h e opposition leader Riad Seif said In the mainly Kurdish town of s i e g e a n d t h a t a s e v e r e Syrian television has shown what
regime'," a witness told Al Jazeera h e r f a t h e r h a d b e e n Amuda in the northeast, people humanitarian crisis had emerged, it said were confessions of
over the phone. "Then security arrested during the demonstration were chanting "The Syrian people with shortages of bread, water and terrorists arrested in Deraa and
and thugs opened fire." along with several others. are one" and "Freedom, freedom, gas. caches of weapons it said were
The sound of continuous gunfire "Around 1.30pm, someone told peaceful, peaceful". EU sanctions seized.
was audible over the phone, as me that my father was arrested at More than 1,000 people have President Bashar al-Assad is Assad said the protesters were
well as people shouting "There the al-Hassan mosque," Jumana reportedly been arrested in the last under international pressure to part of a foreign conspiracy to
are snipers on the rooftops". Seif told Al Jazeera. "A friend week. end the violent crackdown on cause sectarian strife.
There were also reports that one told me later that he [Riad] had T h e a r m y a n n o u n c e d o n protesters. Dorothy Parvaz, an Al Jazeera
p e r s o n h a d b e e n k i l l e d i n been hit on his head by the Thursday that its forces had The European Union on Friday journalist, has been detained since
Hama, and that live ammunition security elements." begun to pull out of Deraa, the agreed to impose sanctions on 14 she flew in to Damascus one week
had been fired in the Damascus She said her father had been southern city which has been Syrian officials involved in the ago. The network and her family
suburb of Tel, wounding several participating in rallies in Midan under military siege since April crackdown, diplomats said. are calling for her immediate
protesters. every Friday since protests there 25. Meanwhile, UN Secretary- release.
Reem Haddad, a spokeswoman began. General Riad Haddad, the General Ban Ki-moon said on This entry passed through the
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Al-Qaeda vows revenge for bin Laden death
(AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE))
Submitted at 5/6/2011 9:08:43 AM
Al-Qaeda says it will release a
recording of Osama bin Laden
made one week before his death
[GALLO/GETTY]
Al-Qaeda has confirmed the
death of its leader, Osama bin
Laden, and said in an online
posting that it would continue to
launch attacks on the West.
The group said it would not
deviate from the path of armed
struggle and that bin Laden's
blood " is more precious to us and
to every Muslim than to be wasted
in vain".
The statement was released on
forums sympathetic to al-Qaeda
and translated by the SITE
monitoring service on Friday.
"It [bin Laden's blood] will
remain, with permission from
Allah the Almighty, a curse that
chases the Americans and their
agents, and goes after them inside
and outside their countries,"al-
Qaeda said.
It was not clear what country the
statement had been posted from.
Osama's death 'a catastrophe'
The message called upon
Pakistan, where bin Laden was
discovered, to "rise up and revolt
DEATHS
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to cleanse this shame that has
been attached to them... and to
clean their country from the filth
of the Americans who spread
corruption in it".
It added that the group would
soon release an audiotape of bin
Laden that was recorded one
week before he was killed by US
commandos on Monday.
Al-Qaeda's branch in
Yemen confirmed the death of bin
Laden four days ago, after
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A spokesman for al-Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) said
they were devastated at the news.
"This news has been a catastrophe
for us. At first we did not believe
it, but we got in touch with our
brothers in Pakistan who have
confirmed it," a member told the
AFP news agency.
UN human rights investigators
called on the United States on
Friday to disclose the full facts
surrounding the killing of bin
Laden, in particular whether there
had been any plan to capture him.
Christof Heyns, UN special
rapporteur on extrajudicial,
summary or arbitrary executions,
and Martin Scheinin, special
rapporteur on protecting human
rights while countering terrorism,
said that in certain exceptional
cases, deadly force may be used
in "operations against terrorists".
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"However, the norm should be
that terrorists be dealt with as
criminals, through legal processes
of arrest, trial and judicially-
decided punishment," the
independent experts said in a joint
statement.
"In respect of the recent use of
deadly force against Osama bin
Laden, the United States of
America should disclose the
supporting facts to allow an
assessment in terms of
international human rights law
standards," they said.
"It will be particularly important
to know if the planning of the
mission allowed an effort to
capture bin Laden."
It was important to get this
information "into the open,"
according to the investigators who
report to the UN Human Rights
Council whose 47 members
include the United States.
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Gaga will join Jimmy Iovine in good mentor? You Don't Succeed - Four backstage during the 2008
the studio to help Lauren Alaina, Watch her video for "Judas" Decades Of US-UK Attempts To Broadway revival of "Gypsy." As
James Durbin, Scotty McCreery below. Related Links Other James Durbin, Lauren Alaina, Topple Gadafi. most drama buffs know, saying
and Haley Reinhart prepare to Links: American Idol, Jimmy Scotty McCreery, Lady Gaga the title of Shakespeare's play
sing songs by Jerry Leiber and Iovine, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Presents the Monster Ball Tour: spells unfortunate luck for a
Mike Stoller. Reinhart performed Lady GaGa, Haley Reinhart, production.
Newstablet Edition TV/ 59

Lost and Supernatural Vet Mark Pellegrino

Gets Menacing on Breakout Kings
Ileane Rudolph (TVGuide.com: Virgil a perfect Mark Pellegrino Jesus. fights between Eastman and
Breaking News) role? Pellegrino: No. [ Laughs] But Ernest Hemingway [Clive Owen].
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:46:00 AM Pellegrino: The more mysterious myths usually explain human They had a critical disagreement
and enigmatic the character is, the issues, so I looked at it as a son and actually came to blows in
Mark Pellegrino more interesting they are. And the betrayed by his father and Hemingway's editor's office
Best known for his powerful and more the audience has to fill in wanting revenge. I felt that rolling around on the floor
scary mythical characters, Mark the blanks and guess what's Lucifer was standing up for punching and kicking each other.
Pellegrino is just plain scary as an coming up next adds to the justice and reason. TV Guide Magazine: OK. Not so
escaped murderer on this week's suspense and the terror quotient TV Guide magazine: God loved different.
Breakout Kings(Sunday, 10/9c, that you feel. The character I play the flawed humans more than his Pellegrino: I originally auditioned
A&E). The good-natured actor in Kings is just that. angel son? for this Russian general who's
filled TV Guide Magazine in on TV Guide Magazine: How did Pellegrino: Yes. drunk and also gets into a fight
his latest role and some of his you get the buzzy role of Jacob on TV Guide Magazine: Will the with Hemingway. The director,
favorite non-humans ( Lost's Lost? Big Bad return? Phillip Kaufman, told me, "We
Jacob, Supernatural's Lucifer and Pellegrino: It was kind of luck. I Pellegrino: I'm sure Lucifer will absolutely love your Russian
Being Human's Bishop) as well as was going to skip my audition for come back but he could be in a general but we had to give it to
peek at his new Fox pilot Lost because I had four different meat suit — that is body. Bobby Duval." [ Laughs]
TV Guide Magazine: So who is appointments that day and had no TV Guide Magazine: You have a TV Guide Magazine: Is it fun
V i r g i l D o w n i n g , t h e l a t e s t time to study three pages of "Play it like Jesus the carpenter," role in another supernatural that people still remember you for
escaped con that the Breakout dialogue. I went anyway, even the idea of a messianic but human project, the Fox pilot Locke & that thug who beat up the Dude in
Kings have to haul back to though I felt like I wasn't as person who knew you and loved Key, based on a comic book The Big Lebowski?
prison? prepared as I wanted to be. And you. Jacob was a saint who had series by Stephen King's son Joe Pellegrino:[ Laughs] Yeah, it is
Pellegrino: He's an enigmatic they really liked me. I didn't even elements of sinner him. Hill. Good or evil? kind of funny. It's amazing that
assassin, an efficient killing know that the part was Jacob TV Guide Magazine: Will your Pellegrino: In the pilot, Rendell the movie has become iconic and
machine. The Kings are trying to because it was a different name. "misunderstood" Being Human Locke is a happily married that my character has a little place
figure out why he's on a murder When I got on set, I found out it character, Bishop, the power- guidance counselor and father of in cinematic history. It is also
spree and what his victims have in was Jacob, this character that they hungry vampire with the bad hair, three. Like most of my characters, funny that I'm remembered as the
common. had been building up for a long return? there's darkness but there's Blonde Thug.
TV Guide Magazine: Why are time and that just brought me into Pellegrino: I hope they bring s o m e t h i n g m o r a l l y v a l i d TV Guide Magazine: You're so
you cast so often as villains? the sci-fi radar. It's been really Bishop back from the dead — but u n d e r n e a t h . good at being menacing. Did you
Pellegrino: I like to think of them good. I really love the genre. with a different hair-do! I had my TV Guide Magazine: You hang out at prisons when you
as misunderstood. People are a TV Guide Magazine: Lost's hair colored for another project actually play a real person, the were young?
little daunted by me because I'm Jacob was opaque and mysterious and we had to keep matching it. It writer Max Eastman, in the Pellegrino:[ Laughs] Can't say I
6' 3" and 235 pounds and I'm a even for that show. What helped did look a little bit weird. I was a u p c o m i n g H B O m o v i e , had that privilege, but I do watch
little physically imposing, so their you really get that character? very frumpy vampire. Hemingway and Gellhorn. How addicting prison reality shows like
first impression is that I'm Pellegrino: I was just as lost as TV Guide Magazine: You played different was it playing the Lockup and Jail. They're great
probably hiding something and I everybody for a while. Jack the biggest baddie of all, the intellectual? character studies!
want to harm everybody. Bender, an executive producer, f a l l e n a n g e l L u c i f e r , o n Pellegrino: Not so much in one
TV Guide Magazine: Why is gave me a clue when he said, Supernatural. He certainly wasn't respect. The scenes are mostly LOST page 60
60 TV/ Newstablet Edition

Report: Paul
McCartney to Wed
Longtime Girlfriend
Robyn Ross (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News) Kathie Lee and
Submitted at 5/6/2011 11:43:00 AM Hoda Attack
Paul McCartney and Nancy
Shevell
Meredith Vieira
Paul McCartney is engaged to With Pillows on
girlfriend Nancy Shavell, People
reports. 'Today' (VIDEO)
The 68-year-old Beatles singer Donald Deane (TV Squad)
and the 51-year-old

'30 Rock' Season businesswoman have been dating

for four years after meeting in the
Hamptons.
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reigned as Kathie Lee Gifford and

5 Finale Recap
This will be the third marriage Hoda Kotb engaged in a pillow
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But that's only because that one This entry passed through the Topple Gadafi. became a seemingly unwilling
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'The Vampire Heart bypass surgery on
Diaries' Season 2, the decline
Episode 21 Recap
Jean Bentley (TV Squad)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 5:45:00 AM
Filed under: Reality-Free,
Recaps['The Vampire Diaries' -
'The Sun Also Rises']
Well, we can't say we weren't
warned.
'The Vampire Diaries' executive
producer Julie Plec told reporters
last week that "there will be some
severe and tragic consequences
[as a result of the sacrifice], and
loss of life would be extreme over
the last several episodes."
Last night's sacrifice-a-palooza
certainly followed through on that
promise. And while I expected
plenty of gasps and "oh my god"s,
I did not expect the uncontrollable
sobbing. (Although I probably
should by now, it basically
happens every other day in Mystic
Falls.)
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Heart bypass surgery on the
decline
You might think that a drop in
heart bypass surgeries would be
good news. But some patients
who would have undergone
bypass surgery a decade ago are
now instead having other
procedures, such as angioplasty,
that might not be as effective for
them, according to a study
published this week in the Journal
of the American Medical
Association.
Heart bypass surgery(in which
heart surgeons use grafts to
reroute blood around blocked
coronary arteries) and
angioplasty(where doctors use
balloons to push the blockages
aside and then place stents to prop
open the arteries) are among the
most common and costly
procedures performed in U.S.
hospitals. Over a million occur
each year, and Medicare pays
more than $6.5 billion for them.
The new study tracked the rate of
the procedures at U.S. hospitals
between 2001 and 2008, and
found a steady drop in bypass
surgery over that time, while
angioplasty and other alternative
procedures remained about the
same.
Guidelines for who is a candidate
for the procedures have changed
little over that span, say the
researchers, but the evidence
suggests that some patients are
getting angioplasty today who are
actually candidates for heart
bypass surgery. Moreover, the
declining number of bypass
surgeries has some experts
worried that fewer heart surgeons
will have the experience
necessary to perform the
complicated procedures. For
example, the study found that ten
years ago only 10 percent of
hospitals performed fewer than
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100 bypass surgeries a year. By
2008, that number grew to 25
percent.
Bottom line. While heart disease
is a serious problem, in most
cases you don’t have to rush into
a decision whether to have
angioplasty or bypass surgery.
Instead, take your time to discuss
your options with your doctors,
including lifestyle changes and
medication, which in some cases
is all you really need. For details,
see our advice on treating heart
disease. If bypass surgery is
necessary, use our heart surgery
ratings to find a good surgical
group.
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Will Customers Shafted In Verizon/Alltel

Deal Get Shafted Again By AT&T/T-Mobile
Merger?
Chris Morran (The it picked up in the wake of the contract customers from jumping be out of luck. the marriage more palatable.
Consumerist) Alltel sale. to whichever provider they T-Mobile could be a viable While they are hashing things out
Submitted at 5/6/2011 11:15:00 AM In the months since AT&T began choose. "All wireless customers option, once again depending on in back rooms and boardrooms,
officially changing these are free to choose their wireless where you live. Its coverage in why not start saving now?
While most of the country wasn't customers over to its service, the service provider," the rep tells many of the affected areas is Speaking of the drawn-out
directly affected by Verizon's Consumerist tipline has gotten Consumerist. "That is the primary better than Sprint, but nowhere regulatory review process, the big
purchase of Alltel, a handful of more and more questions each goal of ensuring that competition near that of AT&T or Verizon. question that can't be answered
both companies' former customers week from former Alltel and continues in a market." But if you happen to live in an here is whether or not regulators
have now ended up — through no Verizon subscribers, asking for Then there are those people who area with decent T-Mobile will call for an encore of the
choice of their own — as AT&T clarification on what choices are were already ticked off that Alltel coverage, there are two reasons it Verizon/Alltel divesting when
subscribers. Many of these people available to them. was bought by Verizon, only to couldn't hurt to investigate they get around to ruling on the
are peeved about being stuck with "I have been a Verizon customer find out they have been shipped whether or not T-Mobile has a AT&T/T-Mobile deal. If so, it's
a company they never signed up for countless years and do not off to AT&T without consent. lower-cost option for you. completely conceivable that some
with. They also want to know if want to move to AT&T," writes "I feel like a cow being shuttled First, AT&T has a history of of these former Verizon
AT&T's pending purchase of T- one reader. "I just spent $500 on from pen to pen," reads an e-mail grandfathering in existing plans, customers could somehow end up
Mobile means in terms of their my new Verizon new phone with from a former Alltel customer. and the company's CEO Randall back in Big Red's lap in a few
already slim pickings. all accessories... What can I do to "I'm fed up with both Verizon and Stephenson has hinted that there years.
For those unfamiliar with the stay with Verizon and tell AT&T AT&T... I'd move to T-mobile (at should be no difference with this From ConsumerReports.org:
backstory, one of the antritrust no thanks? Neither company is least I'd save some money) but merger. So if you switch over to This entry passed through the
conditions on the Verizon/Alltel v e r y h e l p f u l w h e n c a l l i n g everything I read says I'll something cheaper at T-Mobile Full-Text RSS service — if this is
deal was that Big Red had to c u s t o m e r s e r v i c e . " probably just end up back on before the merger is finalized, the your content and you're reading it
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— and a few Verizon assets — this reader can do to actually keep What about Sprint?" afterward (that is, until you make the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-
around the country in areas where her old Verizon account. And if The answer to that question any sort of change). only/faq.php#publishers. Five
the companies' overlap would she is still under contract with depends mostly on where you Second, while it's unlikely that Filters featured article: If At First
have damaged the competitive Verizon, she will have to finish live. Of the four major providers, the government will block the You Don't Succeed - Four
landscape. Those customers' that contract or pay any associated Sprint has the weakest coverage merger, the wheels in Washington Decades Of US-UK Attempts To
accounts were then held in a trust early termination fees. in the areas most affected by the turn slowly and it could take quite Topple Gadafi.
which was ultimately purchased However, a Verizon rep confirms Alltel deal. So unless they a while for the Justice Dept. and
by AT&T. to Consumerist that there is seriously start filling in the blanks FCC to negotiate conditions with
Here is AT&T's map of the areas nothing to stop affected out-of- on their coverage map, you might the companies that would make
64 Products/ Newstablet Edition

Will Customers Shafted In Verizon/Alltel

Deal Get Shafted Again By AT&T/T-Mobile
Merger?
Chris Morran (The it picked up in the wake of the contract customers from jumping be out of luck. the marriage more palatable.
Consumerist) Alltel sale. to whichever provider they T-Mobile could be a viable While they are hashing things out
Submitted at 5/6/2011 11:15:00 AM In the months since AT&T began choose. "All wireless customers option, once again depending on in back rooms and boardrooms,
officially changing these are free to choose their wireless where you live. Its coverage in why not start saving now?
While most of the country wasn't customers over to its service, the service provider," the rep tells many of the affected areas is Speaking of the drawn-out
directly affected by Verizon's Consumerist tipline has gotten Consumerist. "That is the primary better than Sprint, but nowhere regulatory review process, the big
purchase of Alltel, a handful of more and more questions each goal of ensuring that competition near that of AT&T or Verizon. question that can't be answered
both companies' former customers week from former Alltel and continues in a market." But if you happen to live in an here is whether or not regulators
have now ended up — through no Verizon subscribers, asking for Then there are those people who area with decent T-Mobile will call for an encore of the
choice of their own — as AT&T clarification on what choices are were already ticked off that Alltel coverage, there are two reasons it Verizon/Alltel divesting when
subscribers. Many of these people available to them. was bought by Verizon, only to couldn't hurt to investigate they get around to ruling on the
are peeved about being stuck with "I have been a Verizon customer find out they have been shipped whether or not T-Mobile has a AT&T/T-Mobile deal. If so, it's
a company they never signed up for countless years and do not off to AT&T without consent. lower-cost option for you. completely conceivable that some
with. They also want to know if want to move to AT&T," writes "I feel like a cow being shuttled First, AT&T has a history of of these former Verizon
AT&T's pending purchase of T- one reader. "I just spent $500 on from pen to pen," reads an e-mail grandfathering in existing plans, customers could somehow end up
Mobile means in terms of their my new Verizon new phone with from a former Alltel customer. and the company's CEO Randall back in Big Red's lap in a few
already slim pickings. all accessories... What can I do to "I'm fed up with both Verizon and Stephenson has hinted that there years.
For those unfamiliar with the stay with Verizon and tell AT&T AT&T... I'd move to T-mobile (at should be no difference with this From ConsumerReports.org:
backstory, one of the antritrust no thanks? Neither company is least I'd save some money) but merger. So if you switch over to This entry passed through the
conditions on the Verizon/Alltel v e r y h e l p f u l w h e n c a l l i n g everything I read says I'll something cheaper at T-Mobile Full-Text RSS service — if this is
deal was that Big Red had to c u s t o m e r s e r v i c e . " probably just end up back on before the merger is finalized, the your content and you're reading it
divest itself of certain Alltel assets Unfortunately, there is nothing AT&T's books in a year or so. odds are AT&T will honor it on someone else's site, please read
— and a few Verizon assets — this reader can do to actually keep What about Sprint?" afterward (that is, until you make the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-
around the country in areas where her old Verizon account. And if The answer to that question any sort of change). only/faq.php#publishers. Five
the companies' overlap would she is still under contract with depends mostly on where you Second, while it's unlikely that Filters featured article: If At First
have damaged the competitive Verizon, she will have to finish live. Of the four major providers, the government will block the You Don't Succeed - Four
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accounts were then held in a trust early termination fees. in the areas most affected by the turn slowly and it could take quite Topple Gadafi.
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Five things to do when a
company leaks your personal info
Even if you're not among
customers put at risk by hackers
stealing personal data from over
100 million user accounts at Sony,
odds are that you or someone you
know already has or will receive
notice of a data breach notice
from a bank, retailer, hospital,
former employer, or even a
government agency.
As our cover story in the June
issue of Consumer Reports
reveals, there are plenty of things
consumers could be doing—but
aren't—to protect themselves
from online risks, credit card
scams and other security threats.
Here are five tips on how to
respond to a data breach notice
and guard against fraud and
identity theft:
1. Accept offers of free credit
monitoring services. Don't
consider them foolproof,
however. And put a note on your
calendar to remind you when the
free monitoring period ends, so
that you aren't automatically
charged for continuing such
services, which can cost more
than $200 a year. There are some
types of ID theft that aren't
covered by such protection
programs and the value of the
services offered varies
considerably. You can take most
of the steps needed to protect
yourself on your own at little or
no cost, including getting a free
copy of your credit report once a
year from each of the three credit
reporting agencies at
www.annualcreditreport.com.
2. Monitor credit and debit card
accounts online at least once a
week to spot and report any
unauthorized credit or debit
transactions as quickly as
possible. Use other services
offered by your bank or card
issuer that can help protect you,
such as an e-mail or text alert if a
transaction occurs for more than a
dollar limit you've specified.
3. Put a security freeze on your
files at the three credit reporting
agencies if there is a chance that a
data breach includes your Social
Security number, by following the
i n s t r u c t i o n s a t
www.financialprivacynow.org.
Armed with your Social Security
number, crooks can open new
accounts in your name—but use a
different mailing address so that
you may not be aware of
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passwords on any accounts you
know have been breached: Here I love watching videos of the
are some tips on how to choose large-scale manufacturing of food
strong passwords. It's also a good products. They often make me
idea to periodically change the never want to eat it again. This is
PIN on your ATM/debit card to one for bubble gum. It shows how
reduce your odds of being a they take a rubber and plastic
fraudulent charges until you begin victim of skimming, in which base, add flavoring and color and
getting calls from collection crooks install equipment at ATMs puddles of glucose, and then mix
agencies. A freeze is more or gas pumps that steals both your it together into a giant pink
effective than a fraud alert to PIN and the account information doughy substance. That gets
protect yourself from this kind of stored on the magnetic stripe on extruded into continuous bubble
scam, known as new account the back of your card. Crooks gum strands, cooled down, and
fraud. may hold onto this information then chopped and wrapped, all by
4. Heighten your guard against for months before using it to make machines. It's entrancing to watch.
phishing scams, which are likely clones of your cards or selling it Seriously, just put that part where
to increase in the wake of April's to other thieves, so changing your they appear to be churning
mega breach at Epsilon, an online PIN at least once a year could together the love child of Pepto-
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Home prices may have
plummeted in Miami, but the
rising cost to rent has become an
unbearable burden for more low-
and middle-income households in
the area. City of Miami
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Commissioner Francis Suarez
says his office receives more
inquiries about affordable housing
than any other issue. When Miami
-Dade County opened a lottery for
public housing and housing
vouchers in 2008, he says, 70,000
people applied within 30 days. At
a turnover rate of about 1,400
units per year under existing
funding, "it would take 50 years
for the demand created in 30 days
to be satisfied," he says.
The problem spreads well beyond
the city. David O. Deutch, partner
at Pinnacle Housing Group, which
has built about 3,000 affordable
housing units in Miami-Dade
County, says, "Central and north
Dade County have a voracious
need for affordable housing." The
occupancy rate in these
properties, whose rents range
from about $700 per month for a
one-bedroom to $960 for a three-
bedroom, stays at about 97
percent, he says. According to
apartment market research firm
AXOIMetrics, the average
effective rent (which includes
concessions) in Miami is $1,269
per month. In the U.S. as a whole,
it's $964.
While renters in such high-cost
cities as New York and San
Francisco grumble about how
much they pay their landlords
every month, residents in the
Miami, McAllen (Tex.), and
Detroit metro areas are actually
more strained, according to a new
report by Harvard University's
Joint Center for Housing Studies.
More>
Metro Miami has the greatest
share of renters nationwide who
pay more than half of their
income to rent. The share reached
34.2 percent in 2009, up from 26
percent in 2000, as growth of real
household income stagnated and
median rent in the area, adjusted
for inflation, rose 22.2 percent
during that period, according to
the Joint Center report. In
McAllen, the proportion of
severely burdened renters rose to
33.1 percent and in Detroit to 32.8
percent.
"The impact is on what decisions
families have to make. They will
spend less on things that are
important to their well-being,
such as health care, food, and
savings," says Chris Herbert,
research director at the Joint
Center. "There are also tradeoffs
on the types of places they occupy
and where they live, which also
affects other life outcomes" and
access to jobs, schools, and other
opportunities, he adds.
Matthew Greer, chief executive
of Carlisle Development Group --
Florida's biggest developer of
affordable housing with about
4,000 affordable rental units in the
Miami metro area -- says, "It's not
bad to be a lifelong renter, but
there's something ignoble for (a
government) to say you will live
and die here, but you'll never live
comfortably, or you'll never be
able to live in what the federal
government considers to be a
reasonable home or pay a
reasonable amount for rent."
Decline>
In the past few decades, rental
affordability has become a
widespread problem. Households
paying more than 30 percent of
income for rent and utilities are
considered moderately cost-
burdened, and those paying more
than half of income are severely
cost-burdened. In 1960, about one
-quarter of renters in the U.S.
were at least moderately
burdened, including 12 percent
with a severe burden, according to
the Joint Center. By 2009, the rate
doubled to nearly half of renters
with at least a moderate burden,
including 26 percent with a severe
burden.
The problem is that rent levels
have grown faster than renter
income. Median gross rent (rent
and utilities) in the U.S. climbed
nearly 10 percent, after adjusting
for inflation, from 1997 to 2007,
according to the Joint Center
report. Real median renter income
in that period barely changed.
While many Americans shifted to
homeownership in the past
decade, easing demand for rental
housing somewhat, median rent
still rose as thousands of low-cost
units were demolished: The
supply of low-cost units renting
for less than $400 dropped 28
percent from 1999 to 2009,
according to the Joint Center.
Also, developers focused on
building new high-end units with
unprecedented asking rents, states
a report by the Center for Housing
Policy, a Washington (D.C.)
research group.
A report by the Miami-Dade
County Department of Planning
and Zoning shows that gross rent
in the county from 1980 to 2000
was well below the 30 percent
affordability threshold, but costs
escalated quickly over the next
few years. By 2006, the average
renter was spending more than 27
percent of income on rent, and the
share of cost-burdened renters
rose to 64.5 percent, from 47.1
percent in 2000.
Strain>
Of course, low-income
households represent a large share
of severely cost-burdened
households, but more middle-
income earners are also under
pressure. The share of moderately
and severely burdened middle-
income renter households in the
U.S. rose from 4.3 percent in
1960 to 10.2 percent in 2000,
according to the Joint Center.
That rate more than doubled, to
22.6 percent, by 2009.
In metro Miami -- where the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
estimates the jobless rate reached
11.5 percent in 2010 -- 42 percent
of working households (both
owners and renters) were severely
cost-burdened in 2009, according
to the Center for Housing Policy.
Still, middle-income renters
currently receive less help than
low-income renters. Deutch says
the population earning 60 percent
to 120 percent of area median
income doesn't get much
attention.
Tax>
Developers' ability to add
affordable housing supply
depends heavily on government
support, according to Jeff
Goldstein, executive vice-
president and chief operating
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officer at Boston Capital, the
country's largest apartment owner
and an investor in affordable
multifamily housing.
Through the Low Income
Housing Tax Credit program, the
federal government subsidizes the
private-sector development of
affordable rental housing for low-
income households. The federal
government allocates credits to
each state based on population,
and state housing authorities
decide how the credits are
awarded.
The tax credit is the critical
resource for building affordable
rental housing and currently "the
only viable incentive to produce
new affordable housing," says
Goldstein, as it allows apartment
owners to drive rents down. While
profits on tax credit projects are
limited, the subsidy makes
affordable housing a stable
business.
The Obama Administration's
budget for its fiscal year 2012
includes a proposal that would
effectively raise the income limit
for a portion of the tax credit
housing units in a given
development from 60 percent of
area median income to 80 percent,
capturing some of the need from
middle-income renters, according
to Michael Novogradac, who
heads the San Francisco
accounting and consulting firm
Novogradac. Funding for housing,
however, is being reevaluated as
budgets are cut.
As much as the tax credit is the
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Rob Iracane (Y! Sports Blogs -
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Submitted at 5/6/2011 9:19:24 AM
Welcome to Throwing Pains,
your weekly run to the hot corner
hospital to see what the Rx roll
call looks like. I am not a doctor
and I won't even play one on the
web. Nope, it's up to the players
to get hurt and for me to give
them my wildly unprofessional
diagnoses based on a semester of
high school anatomy and a
cursory knowledge of how to
search the WebMD website.
To the DL!
Pablo Sandoval, San Francisco
Giants: Sandoval, who made
headlines this winter for his
successful weight-loss program,
just went down with a fractured
wrist that required surgery.
There's no diet in the world that
could have prevented this ouchie.
Sandoval broke his hamate bone
during an at-bat last Friday; the
hamate is towards the lower part
of the hand, near where the knob
of the bat usually rests.
Diagnosis: The once pudgy
Panda will miss 4-6 weeks
recovering from surgery. Luckily,
the injury should make it easier
for him to maintain his svelte
figure through his rehab. Ever try
to grip an ice cream scoop with a
busted hamate?
Ryan Zimmerman, Washington
Nationals: Looks like it was a bad
week for star third basemen
around the majors. The Nats
franchise star played through pain
for a while but the abdominal
strain he suffered during spring
training turned out to be far worse
than originally diagnosed. There's
a tear down there.
Diagnosis: Zim will also miss
about four to six weeks after
having his torn muscle fixed up.
But good news! He's already
walked a 30-minute mile on the
treadmill just a day after surgery.
Hey, if walking a mere mile in 30
minutes on the treadmill was such
big news for us regular schmoes
in our local gym, we'd all be
making headlines.
Bobby Jenks, Boston Red Sox:
Jenks, along with fellow new Sox
reliever Dan Wheeler, were
shelved Thursday after a
marathon 14-inning loss to the
Los Angeles Angels that forced
manager Terry Francona to empty
his bullpen. Jenks and Wheeler
have minor maladies but it's their
combined ERA over 9.00 that is
causing concern in the Hub.
Diagnosis: The Sox called up
veterans Rich Hill and Scott
Atchison to fill the empty spots on
the bullpen bench. Pitching coach
Curt Young says he's diagnosed
Jenks' mechanical flaw via
videotape but he is still unsure
how to solve the awful yellow
beard.
Orlando Hudson, San Diego
Padres: Blame Hudson's hustle for
his hampered hamstring. While
trying to extend a double into a
triple on Monday, Hudson
strained his left hamstring
rounding second base and pulled
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Curtis Granderson but for old missed Tuesday's game.
dudes over 40, it could take a bit Diagnosis: Brian snuck back into
more work and time. No matter, the Orioles lineup on Wednesday
the big man is a tough guy and and collected a double and a run
heck, he only needs to get back scored in Baltimore's win over the
for more at-bats. Kansas City Royals. Good work,
Zach Braddock, Milwaukee doc! Sounds like your endodontic
Brewers: In one of the more expertise (and a little bit of
bizarre trips to the disabled list in Novocaine) has this fan favorite
recent memory, the Brewers back and at 'em.
reliever needs some time off from Eric Chavez, New York Yankees:
baseball to work out a sleeping If there was a wing at the Baseball
disorder that has plagued him for Hall of Fame that saluted players
a while. It's no joke, either. for injuries suffered, Eric Chavez
Braddock has been seeing doctors would be in the inaugural class
and getting tested and the with Mike Hampton and Mark
diagnosis is not good. Prior. Shame, then, that a guy
up lame. So let the lesson be Diagnosis: There's no telling who found a comfortable role as
learned: Never hustle. what's really hurting Braddock. backup corner infielder with the
Diagnosis: Orlando begged his Tom Haudricourt reports that his Yanks broke his pinky toe while
manager, Bud Black, to not be symptoms could be related to the legging out a triple in Thursday's
placed on the DL and said he was anxiety disorder that shelved Zack game. Odd, the Detroit Tigers
ready to go on Wednesday. It was Greinke a while back. Those of us center fielder, Don Kelly, dove
for naught, as Hudson was placed who don't get a full night's sleep for the line drive and whiffed,
on the 15-day-DL and replaced in from time to time know how it turning a would-be double into a
the starting lineup with Eric can affect our bodies and our triple. Had Kelly played it straight
Patterson. moods. up, Chavez' little piggy would still
Jim Thome, Minnesota Twins: Brian Roberts, Baltimore Orioles: be crying "Wee wee wee!" all the
The Year of the Oblique strikes Yowch! Too often we lay people way home.
again! The aging slugger was read about the injuries that Diagnosis: Chavez will
moved to the 15-day-DL Tuesday baseball players suffer and we can supposedly be out for four to six
night after he strained his left only wonder what that pain must weeks. He hasn't played more
oblique. Thome was initially day- be like. How many of us have than 137 games in a season since
to-day but when day-to-day experienced thoracic outlet 2005 and, with his backup role
turned into a whole week of not syndrome or blown out a knee behind Alex Rodriguez firmly
playing, the Twins felt it best to l i g a m e n t ? N o t m a n y ! B u t entrenched, he would have
shelve him and call up Trevor longtime Orioles second baseman struggled to make 50 appearances
Plouffe to take his roster spot. He Brian Roberts went down this in 2011. Still, this injury is yet
could be back in his DH spot as week with a totally non-sports- another shame for a talented
early as next weekend. related injury ... a toothache! player still just 33 years of age.
Diagnosis: Recovering from Roberts underwent a root canal Welcome Back! Victor Martinez,
oblique strains might be easy for after a sleepless night of pain in Evan Longoria, Zack Greinke
young whippersnappers like his chompers on Monday and
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Ryan Kesler's third-period goal --
Can-Do Spirit Source: SI After on the power play, following an
skating past the Predators (and astonishing lapse of discipline by
their rabid, gold-clad crowd) in Preds defenseman Ryan Suter --
Game 4, Ryan Kesler and the top- broke a 2-2 tie and proved enough
seeded Canucks are just one for Luongo. It was Kesler's
victory away from clinching a second straight game-winner for
berth in the Western finals. the Canucks, who can advance to
Canucks center Ryan Kesler had their first Western finals since
the game-winner in the 3rd period 1994 with one more victory.
after splitting two blueliners and In a tie game, not long after Cody
beating goalie Pekka Rinne. Franson had evened it with a
Jamie Sabau/Getty Images slapshot goal for Nashville, Suter
The NHL's last, best chance for decided to grab Kesler around the
any drama in its conference neck from behind with two hands
semifinal series seemed to die a and dump him to the ice. There
dull death Thursday night in was no other option, not even in
Nashville. With one series already the third period of a playoff game,
having ended in a sweep and two but to call that one.
others at 3-0, it was left to the A little more than minute later,
hometown Predators to create at Kesler broke down the middle,
least one rubber Game 5 to this splitting Nashville D-men Shea
round. Weber and Shane O'Brien, and
Rubber, or lack thereof toward pinpointed a wrist shot to the left
Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo, side past goalie Pekka Rinne.
is a big reason why the series tally Nobody was expecting a bonanza
is now 3-1 as it heads back to of goals from Nashville in this
Vancouver. While the Predators series.
acquitted themselves well with The team's leading scorer in the
two highly competitive games in regular season, Martin Erat,
their first Round 2 games in posted 50 points.
franchise history at the ironically The Preds win with goaltending,
named Bridgestone Arena, a four- defense and discipline. Strangely,
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major enabler for developing
affordable new housing, it is also
a limitation: Only a finite number
of government dollars is budgeted
for the program each year.
Carlisle's Greer says demand in
Miami is so large that even if
developers had the resources to
build five times as many units per
though, the third part of that ominous turn for them in the year in the area, thousands would
equation deserted Nashville in second period, when they got a 5- still be in need.
Games 3 and 4. Even stranger, it on-3 power play for 47 seconds, As more Americans are expected
was top D-men Weber (hooking but put just one shot on Luongo. to rent in the next few years until
of Kesler in OT, Game 3) and The Canucks keyed their three- restrictions on homeownership
Suter in Game 4 whose loss of man defense at taking away the ease, increases in rent levels are
composure in key moments that shooting lanes for Weber's cannon expected to continue outpacing
hurt the Preds the most. shot -- and it worked. Weber income growth. Demand for
Is it fair to say that Kesler is finished the game with no shots rentals also may continue to grow
officially under their skin? The a n d a m i n u s - 2 , a m o s t a s t h e p r e f e r e n c e f o r
Canucks center, whom many disappointing showing for coach h o m e o w n e r s h i p c h a n g e s .
compare to former NHLer Ken Barry Trotz after his costly OT Unfortunately for cost-burdened
"The Rat" Linseman for his penalty two nights before. renters, Greer says, as this
s a n d p a p e r - l i k e g a m e , w a s Suter, too, was a minus-2. For a happens, "the supply of affordable
unquestionably the first star of team so offensively challenged at housing near the job core or by
both games in the Music City. He regular strength, one so heavily rapid transit lines is going to be
added two assists in the win (on reliant on their two young stars of unbelievably insufficient."
goals by Christian Ehrhoff and the blue line, those kinds of Click here to see the U.S. cities
Henrik Sedin), giving him six numbers just aren't enough to that are toughest for renters.
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Detroit vs. San Jose - CBS

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(- Bing News) be part of that storm. leads all U.S.-born NHL players
Submitted at 5/6/2011 9:50:54 AM "We'd like to push back and be in goals and points, has been a
ready to play when the puck is healthy scratch for all but one
TIME: 07:00 P.M. EST dropped." game during the playoffs and the
VENUE: Joe Louis Arena The Sharks will have their first center nearing his 41st birthday
DETROIT (AP) - The storied chance to advance to the Western sounds like he's leaning toward
history of the Detroit Red Wings Conference finals - for the third retirement. He might not get
does not happen to include time in the franchise's two
coming back from a 0-3 deficit in decades - on Friday night in
the Stanley Cup playoffs. Detroit.
another opportunity to play in the
NHL.
"The knee-jerk reaction is to kind
Pass or Fail: San
Pavel Datsyuk is confident Captain Joe Thornton wants to
Detroit can do it, figuring out a take advantage and eliminate the
way to beat the San Jose Sharks Red Wings.
of say that's it and be done with it
because the frustration level is
fairly high at this point," he said.
Jose playoff anthem
four straight times after losing "You don't want them to get any "But I'll let the dust settle and
three in a row by a goal each time. momentum," Thornton said.
"If we do not believe, we should "We're taking the mental attitude
just go home," Datsyuk said that it's a must-win game."
make a decision."
That is Nicklas Lidstrom's plan as
well. The 41-year-old
‘Mack The Shark’
Greg Wyshynski (Y! Sports Shark," name-checking every
Thursday. "We believe 100 The Sharks seem to be beating defenseman, a finalist to win his Blogs - Yahoo! Sports) player and broadcaster while
percent." the Red Wings mentally and seventh Norris Trophy, reiterated Submitted at 5/6/2011 9:32:33 AM goofing around with San Jose
Just three NHL teams have pulled physically, becoming the first that he isn't ready to think or talk fans.
off the feat. team to have eight postseason about his future. > Again, there's a part of you that
The 2010 Philadelphia Flyers, wins in row by a goal each time in "I'm going to wait until this We're predisposed to loathe any wants to FAIL this, but honestly:
1942 Toronto Maple Leafs and league history. season is over and then make a parody of Bobby Darin's swingin' It's goofy, it's clever and this
1975 New York Islanders are the McLellan hopes that doesn't decision on what I want to do," "Mack the Knife" because, well, d u d e ' s e n t h u s i a s m r e a c h e s
only teams in league history to make the Sharks cocky. Lidstrom said. it's a classic. But when the moments of Buster Poindexter
win a series after losing the first "I want to separate last year from This entry passed through the original classic has lyrics like bombast near the end.
three games. this year, but I believed we Full-Text RSS service — if this is ,"when that shark bites, with his Really, our only complaints are
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there's a team that can do it, it The Sharks lost Game 4 to the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- — at least in the mind of Greg what say you?
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should help us prepare. Our lesson Red Wings with a 2-1 victory. You Don't Succeed - Four Here's Kihn with "Mack The
that we were taught last year "We did not come back," Datsyuk Decades Of US-UK Attempts To
should help us. We know the said. "Now, we have another Topple Gadafi.
s t o r m i s c o m i n g , w e ' v e chance."
experienced that, but we'd like to Detroit's Mike Modano, who
Newstablet Edition
Brandon Knight’s NBA-bound, but what
about Jones, Liggins?
Jeff Eisenberg (Y! Sports Blogs
- Yahoo! Sports)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 9:37:19 AM
The sight of Kentucky freshman
Brandon Knight sitting alone at a
podium Friday morning
announcing he's NBA-bound
undoubtedly raised an obvious
question in the mind of every
Wildcats fan doubling as an
amateur detective.
Does the fact that Terrence Jones
and DeAndre Liggins weren't
alongside Knight suggest they're
both leaning toward returning to
school?
Many programs would hold a
joint news conference if multiple
prospects were ready to announce
they were remaining in the draft,
so at the very least this suggests
that Knight and Liggins truly are
still undecided. Jones confirmed
as much Thursday night when he
addressed via Twitter whether he
will pull out of the draft by
Sunday's deadline, telling
Kentucky fans he's "still 50/50 at
this point."
The prospect of Jones and
TEDTalks : Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination - Louie
Schwartzberg (2011)
(TEDTalks (video))
Submitted at 5/6/2011 9:25:00 AM
Liggins potentially returning next
season must have Big Blue Nation
salivating at the possibilities. If
the high-scoring forward and
defensive-minded wing join
returners Doron Lamb and Darius
Miller and the nation's No. 1
recruiting class, Kentucky could
easily challenge or even overtake
North Carolina for the top spot in
the preseason polls.
It's no surprise that Knight won't
Pollination: it's vital to life on
Earth, but largely unseen by the
human eye. Filmmaker Louie
be joining his teammates in
Lexington again, especially after
coach John Calipari said after the
Kentucky combine earlier this
week that his point guard received
the confirmation he was looking
for from NBA executives. Knight
will likely become the latest
Calipari point guard to become a
lottery pick after his freshman
year, an opportunity he couldn't
pass up.
Schwartzberg shows us the
intricate world of pollen and
pollinators with gorgeous high-
Sports/ Talk/ 71
potential lottery pick, so it
certainly wouldn't be a surprise if
he followed Knight out the door.
Liggins likely won't be selected
until the second round, but it
would be understandable if he left
since he might be fearful that he
won't get the chance to showcase
his abilities with all the younger
talent set to arrive in Lexington
next season.
The fact that Jones is "50/50" so
close to Sunday's deadline is a bit
frightening considering his track
record making big decisions like
this. The McDonald's All-
American famously donned a
Washington cap at his news
conference to announce his
"My main goal was to be a top-10 college choice last spring before
pick. Nothing's for sure in the experiencing second thoughts and
draft, but I wanted to hear signing with Kentucky a few
something like that," Knight told weeks later.
reporters in Lexington on Friday. Hopefully Jones will be more
"A lot of feedback was in that secure in whatever decision he
area. Coach Cal basically said makes this time. Either way, we
whatever my decision was, he'd should know for sure in the next
have a lot of confidence in me and 48 hours.
he told me to test the waters, and
the feedback was great."
Jones is also regarded as a
speed images from his film primary pollinators, the honeybee.
"Wings of Life," inspired by the
vanishing of one of nature's
72 Gaming/ Food/
Capcom profits soar with help from
record AAA game sales
James Ransom-Wiley (Joystiq)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 11:30:00 AM
Good ol' video games came
through for Capcom over the
twelve months ending March 31,
2011. The company reported "a
history-making milestone" of five
million-seller titles in the period,
with Monster Hunter Freedom
3(4.6 million units shipped)
leading the pack. Additionally,
Dead Rising 2(2.2M units),
Marvel vs. Capcom 3(2M units),
Super Street Fighter IV(1.6M
units) and Lost Planet 2(1.5M
units) racked up high shipment
numbers, and each surpassed the
million-mark in pure sales.
In all, net sales in Capcom's
"Consumer Online Games"
division increased 60.8 percent
over the previous fiscal year to
¥70.3 billion (about $873
million). But the sales success of
so-called "major titles" wasn't the
only contributing factor in
Capcom's record bottom line for a
fiscal year, which showed a net
income increase of 257.6 percent
over the previous year to ¥7.75
billion -- roughly $96.3 million in
profit!
Despite reported losses of ¥1.45
billion due to restructuring and
Newstablet Edition
Asparagus
Artichoke
Salad
(Simply Recipes)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 6:39:24 AM
Although for the most part we
can get asparagus all year long, I
usually only get them in the
spring, when they are in season.
How can you resist, when you see
another ¥105 million filed under for the current fiscal year (ending i n d u s t r y r a p i d l y c h a n g e s , " hundreds of them in the produce
"disaster" -- the Great East Japan March 31, 2012) calls for "lower Capcom said, observing that "the section, saluting you like bundled,
Earthquake knocked out ten of sales and earnings." The company rise of social games [is] fueling upright green soldiers? "Hello
Capcom's arcades -- all of the a n t i c i p a t e s " i m m e a s u r a b l e the growth of new competitors in m'am. Please cook me." So, we
company's business units recorded economic losses" in Japan due to the industry." buy asparagus, and more
operating income gains for the the earthquake and its aftermath, Capcom profits soar with help asparagus. Here is a recipe for
year. Notably, the "Mobile a s w e l l a s a " d o w n t u r n i n from record AAA game sales what to do with our long green
Contents" division enjoyed some consumer confidence" in the game originally appeared on Joystiq on friends, when you're tired of
highlights, with downloads of The industry at large -- not to mention Fri, 06 May 2011 11:30:00 EST. everything else. (Thank you
Smurfs' Village Facebook game Capcom's weaker offering of Please see our terms for use of Whole Foods deli section for the
exceeding expectations "by far" AAA titles this year. Dead Rising feeds. idea.) Grill them or roast them
and the Japan-only iPhone version 2... again? Permalink| Email this| Comments (grilling will taste better if you
of Ghost Trick faring "well." "We will focus more than ever can do it), and toss them in a
Capcom tempered its jubilation, before on our global operations as simple salad with marinated
however, noting that the forecast the environment surrounding the artichoke hearts, shallots, and
grape tomatoes. Carry on...
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Artichoke Salad" »
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The
Dogs of
War
(The Feed)
Submitted at 5/5/2011 4:05:51 PM

[ Via: ABC News]

They may look like your normal
Dead Block pairs three house dog, but these military dogs
are highly trained, invaluable
unlikely survivors against the SCEE 'working incredibly assets in the war on terror. They
are capable of detecting
explosives, finding enemies and
zombie masses this summer hard' to offer protection chasing down anyone who tries to
escape.
Ben Gilbert (Joystiq) beefy construction worker with
SEAL Team Six, the elite
Submitted at 5/6/2011 12:00:00 PM questionable mustache to a
for European PSN users
Blaxsploitation-era, gun-toting
Candygun Games and Digital foxy lady to a chubby boyscout Richard Mitchell (Joystiq)
military operatives who killed
Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad,
plan is "a very complicated thing Pakistan on Sunday night, were
Reality Publishing are teaming up thrown in for good measure.
to achieve" given the number of accompanied by one canine
to release a bizarre-looking ... um Despite the seeming anachronism Submitted at 5/6/2011 12:30:00 PM
countries in the European region. companion. . .
... street defense game called of some of the game's characters, With Sony already offering
That said, he added that Sony is We’re sure to hear from PETA
Dead Block, coming this summer Dead Block's first trailer makes identity theft protection to PSN
"close" to finding a solution and on this. . .— GP
to XBLA, PSN and PC. Worried the game look rather promising. users in the United States,
hopes to announce something This entry passed through the
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PSN users originally appeared on the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-
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Joystiq on Fri, 06 May 2011 only/faq.php#publishers. Five
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Topple Gadafi.
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the fly) in a third-person view, appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 06
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74 Featured/
Did the Pakistanis know
Bin Laden was there?
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 4:18:11 AM
The question raised in the title of
this post is fairly naive. He was in
the middle of a Pakistani military
city. They knew, and they don't
mind if you figure it out. It won't
be acknowledged in the media.
Since they're mostly corporate-
owned, no one will ask the
question in any meaningful way.
The more interesting question is
how long did the US govt know
he was there, and how did they
pick the moment to kill him?
Before you rush in and say "It
was political" -- as the
Republicans are -- of course it
was political. Everything about
Bin Laden, on all sides, is and
was political.
And if you accept the US story
on its face, we could have gone in
there at any time in the last few
months. Why now?
Well, if you were the President,
would you have killed Bin Laden
in the middle of the revolutions in
the Middle East? Wouldn't have
been very good timing. Might
have hit the reset button on all
that. Much better to let it run its
course. Bin Laden wasn't going
anywhere. Not with the Pakistanis
having him so well controlled.
When did the President need the
rhetorical high ground to win the
war with the Republicans? Who
did he fear more, Bin Laden, who
was cornered, and controlled by a
US ally, Pakistan, or Mitch
McConnell, Eric Cantor and the
Koch brothers? Again, we don't
have a choice but to take things at
face-value. Obviously the
Republicans were doing a lot
more damage to the US than Bin
Laden was. A good President
picks his battles and fights them
on his own terms. Could the
President use Bin Laden to win
the war with teh Republicans?
Well, duh. (Hello.)
And it's working. The
Republicans are retreating on all
fronts. (But that's probably all
theater too, the real war is much
more complicated than the battle
between two political parties that
report to the same multi-national
corporate bosses.)
Bin Laden knew it was over for a
long long time. According to
reports he didn't leave the
compound for five years. He
probably couldn't get out if he
wanted to. He didn't have Internet
or phone service. His only
connection to the rest of the world
was through a courier, and we
knew all about that. Did Bin
Laden know we knew? I think so.
And there was nothing he could
do about it. The man was
cornered. And he was that way for
a long time.
Using an Occam's Razor
approach, the deal he had with the
Pakistanis and the US probably
went something like this. As long
as there are no major acts of
terrorism in the west, and as long
as we don't need you to die for
some greater political purpose,
you get to live. But you have to
stay confined to this prison, with
one wife and a few kids, a
vegetable garden and reefer. Bin
Laden's life was a chip that could
be cashed in for political gain
when needed. On Monday the
clock ran out for him.
Could the Pakistanis have
stopped us if they wanted? Yeah
they could have. But they were in
on it.
Feature requests
from an iPad-
using Blorker
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 5:46:01 AM
A simple feature request for
people who run news sites.
Make sure that the title of each
page contains the title of the story
that's on the page.
An example of a site that doesn't
do this -- the mobile version of
Gawker stories. When I'm reading
one of their stories on my iPad
and want to push it to my
followers, the entry box is pre-
populated with the title. Which is
always the same. "Gossip from
Manhattan and the Beltway to
Hollywood and the Valley." No
matter what the story is. Not
good.
Here's a screen shot.
Another peeve is sites that give
me a special version of a page for
my iPad. That's not necessary or
even welcome. The iPad has a full
-size web browser. I want your
normal version. Another feature
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request for Gawker. Don't treat
the iPad as if it were an iPhone.
Especially irritating are
wordpress.com sites, which put up
a Flipboard-like interface. I know
I can turn it off, but I don't want to
be bothered knowing how to do
that. I just want to read the news,
not be impressed by your
programming prowess, or
compliance with the latest Silicon
Valley fad. I went to the blog to
read what they had to say. I find it
especially irritating when they do
it to one of my own sites. That I
pay them to host. Without my
asking for it.
One more thing, Apple's insisting
that Flash die clearly isn't
working. As an iPad user, I miss a
fair amount of stuff I care about.
Yeah, it's too much trouble to get
up and go to my desktop
computer just to see what the
video says. At some point Apple
is going to throw in the towel on
this one. Sooner the better.
Newstablet Edition Featured/ Health/ Daily Word/ 75

Nuremberg does not apply 1 John 2:2 (05-06-11)

(Verse of the Day) Spread the word. My Prayer... I
(Scripting News) thing to do, no matter what, was his intentions were to kill am humbled to the point of
Submitted at 5/6/2011 2:00:00 AM
Submitted at 5/6/2011 8:09:37 AM to rebuild Europe. At most the Americans, that can't help but silence, Almighty God and
Nazis could have escaped justice, mean more dead Americans. He [Jesus] is the atoning sacrifice Heavenly Father, that you would
On Twitter, numerous people and therefore would fail to serve Maybe a lot more dead for our sins, and not only ours but take your most precious gift and
recall that the US insisted on trials as an example for future would-be Americans. also for the sins of the whole offer it for something as ugly and
for Nazi war crimes at the end of war criminals. The Nazis were As a dead man, we hope he world. horrid as my sins. I can think of
World War II. They cite this as done, and Germany was knocked remains silent. But that's not — 1 John 2:2(NIV) Thoughts on no way to repay you, but I want to
precedent that says that Bin Laden out. likely. He almost certainly left Today's Verse... Psst! I've got a thank you by sharing this good
should have been similarly tried. Pretty sure I don't have to finish some kind of message to be great secret. Jesus died to set you news with everyone else for
But they're mixing things up too this, but just in case. Trying Bin played on his death. Maybe many. free from the guilt and whom you've made this sacrifice.
much, the situations are not Laden would have created an But at least now it's finite. punishment of your own sins. Psst In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
comparable. unprecedented spectacle, and We did the right thing by killing #2! He didn't do it just for you; he
Suppose one of the Nazis had would have given him control of him. Sometimes being perfect did it for everyone else, too!
escaped or been acquitted. There everything until there was a costs too much. This is one of
was no danger of them re-opening resolution. Bin Laden was a those times when settling for
Auschwitz or invading Poland master of media. He would have imperfection was the correct
again. Germany was defeated and known what to do with such an choice.
Europe was in ruins. The next opportunity. And since we know

Corporations On The Bus: Drug And Device

Makers Splurge At Heart Meeting
(NPR Blogs: Shots - Health
Blog)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:37:00 AM
If you stand still for very long at
a big medical meeting, you run
the risk of having a corporate logo
getting slapped on your back.
Just make sure you charge for the
privilege.
ProPublica's Charles Ornstein
and Tracy Weber tally up the
oodles of cash flowing from
makers of drugs and devices to
the Heart Rhythm Society, whose
annual scientific meeting is in San
Francisco this week.
The group represents doctors
who use all sorts of pricey gear,
including implantable
defibrillators and sophisticated
catheters, to treat abnormal heart
beats. And the makers of the stuff
spare no expense in making
themselves known.
Last year, almost half of the $16
million collected by the Heart
Rhythm Society came from
makers of drugs and devices,
ProPublica reports. More than $5
million in industry largesse came
in the form of sponsorships and
support of the group's big annual
meeting.
The heart society says it has
procedures in place to prevent
conflicts of interest. And, the
group publicly discloses details
about its funders, something most
don't. For more on the society's
response, see a ProPublica Q&A
here.
Click here go to a slick
interactive graphic you can use to
see how much various companies,
including Johnson & Johnson and
Medtronic, are spending on
sponsorships.
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76 Health/ Newstablet Edition

7 Worst Supermarket Breakfasts

David Zinczenko with Matt numbers. All you need to do is sugar than either Lucky Charms
Goulding (Eat This, Not That) crunch the delicious food! or Frosted Flakes. For a good
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p r o d u c t s i n y o u r a v e r a g e packet) 6 g sugar
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swooping through the aisles with 2.5 g fat (0 g saturated) when you swap out sugar for
a math whiz (to calculate what the 14 g sugar fiber, and we'll show you how to
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(to explain what all those crazy sweetness to "organic evaporated Best and Worst Cereals in
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MEAT 7 g fat (2 g saturated)
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Banquet Brown ‘N Serve Maple 390 mg sodium
our at-home nutritional mistakes half. healthy breakfast. Think fruit,
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your appetite, but they are going sounds healthy, right? But upon
So until your career as a politician women eat an extra 328 calories down with dubious ingredients
to stuff your belly with 19 grams closer inspection, this may
/movie star/Middle East dictator per day, according a new study like soybean oil and potato starch.
of animal fat. Add that to your actually be the most deceptive
takes off, consider Eat This, Not from the New York Obesity The better option is Van’s Lite
daily breakfast and you'll gain 22 item on this entire list. It offers no
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Waffles. They cut the calories by
nearly half and offer three times
as much hunger-fighting fiber.
Eat This Instead!
Van’s Natural Foods Lite
Waffles (2 waffles)
140 calories
2 g fat
4 g sugar
6 g fiber
#3: WORST TOASTER
PASTRY
Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts, Frosted
Chocolate Chip flavor (2 pastries)
420 calories
12 g fat (4 g saturated)
34 g sugar
Since when has it been
acceptable to eat chocolate-frosted
pastries at breakfast? And yet,
Pop-Tarts keeps coming out with
new dessert-like options, destined
to further inflame America's flab
crises. Kellog's tries to claim that
one serving is one pastry, yet
there are two in each pack. That's
more than 400 dessert-like
calories before you start the day.
Essentially you end up with zero
fiber, a negligible amount of
protein, and more sugar than
you'd find in a Snickers bar.
Special K’s Fruit Crisps provide
you with the same ease and
convenience, but for less than a
quarter of the calories of a Pop-
Tart.
Eat This Instead!
Special K Fruit Crisps Blueberry
flavor (2 crisps)
100 calories
2 g fat (1 g saturated)
7 g sugar
#2: WORST BREAKFAST
SANDWICH
Jimmy Dean’s Sausage, Egg &
Cheese Biscuit Sandwiches (1
sandwich)
440 calories
31 g fat (11 g saturated, 3 g trans)
850 mg sodium
This is an instance where you'd
be better off ordering your
breakfast sandwich from a drive-
thru window. In fact, Jimmy
Dean’s Sausage, Egg & Cheese
Biscuit packs in as much fat as 2.5
McDonald’s Egg McMuffin
sandwiches! But equally bad here
is that glut of trans fat smooshed
into this biscuit. Many food
processors have begun scaling
back the dangerous trans fats. We
advise Jimmy to do the same.
Eat This Instead!
Jimmy Dean D-Lights Canadian
Bacon Honey Wheat Muffin
230 calories
4.5 g fat (3 g saturated)
760 mg sodium
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Verdict: Haiti's Cholera Outbreak Originated

In U.N. Camp
(NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Images it. tens of thousands of Haitians for perfect match."
Blog) A man walked by a Port-au- But an expert panel appointed by bathing, washing and drinking. Reflecting the sensitive nature of
Submitted at 5/6/2011 7:57:00 AM Prince wall in February covered U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki- So far, Haiti's cholera epidemic their findings, the panel takes
with anti-U.N. graffiti that equates Moon has concluded those has sickened nearly 300,000 pains to say the explosive
Enlarge THONY BELIZAIRE/ the organization with cholera. suspicions are correct. people and killed 4,500 of them. outbreak was due to a
AFP/Getty Images Suspicions that U.N. In a 32-page report released While the U.N. panel stops short "confluence" of factors "and was
A man walked by a Port-au- peacekeepers brought cholera to quietly on Wednesday, the four- of saying Nepalese peacekeepers not the fault of, or deliberate
Prince wall in February covered Haiti last fall are so incendiary in person panel leaves no doubt that carried cholera to Haiti, their action of, a group or individual."
with anti-U.N. graffiti that equates that beleagured nation that most cholera spread quickly from a report says preliminary genetic Some of those factors are:
the organization with cholera. h e a l t h e x p e r t s f i g h t i n g t h e U.N. camp in the upper Artibonite tests indicate "the strains isolated
VERDICT: page 79
THONY BELIZAIRE/ AFP/Getty outbreak have refused to discuss River valley to waters used by in Haiti and Nepal ... were a
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• Widespread use of the
Artibonite River and its tributaries
for washing, bathing and
drinking;
• Lack of immunity to cholera in
Haiti, where the disease hasn't
been seen for nearly a century;
• Poor water and sanitation
conditions in Haiti; and
• An especially virulent type of
cholera, with a toxin that causes
more severe diarrhea.
While all of those things
contributed, the experts don't
mince words in saying cholera
was introduced into Haiti and
spread from the U.N. camp where
peacekeepers were quartered.
"The sanitation conditions at the
[U.N. camp] were not sufficient to
prevent contamination of the
Meye Tributary System with
human fecal waste," the report
says. The Meye River feeds into
the Artibonite, Haiti's longest
river.
Sewage from the UN camp could
Herman Cain Storms South Carolina
Joshua Green (Politics : The
Atlantic)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 7:43:23 AM
There wasn't a ton at stake in last according to a Frank Luntz post-
night's Republican debate in d e b a t e f o c u s g r o u p ? T h e
South Carolina. Tim Pawlenty Hermanator! That'd be Herman
was the only top tier candidate, Cain, the former pizza magnate
and he continued having problems and talk radio host who I recently
have gotten into the river system
in two ways — from a drainage
canal running through the camp or
from an open septic pit near the
Meye River where a private
contractor dumped sewage from
the camp.
The experts say Hurricane
Thomas last November and a
flood in the region last summer
played no role in spreading
cholera.
The report says the U.N. should
clean up its facilities around the
world to make sure fecal wastes
don't contaminate the
environment.
Beyond that, the group says all
U.N. personnel mobilized for
emergencies should be vaccinated
against cholera, receive
prophylactic antibiotics, or both.
Personnel from areas where
cholera is endemic should be
screened for cholera before they
go to countries where it isn't a
problem.
And the panel says authorities
standing out. Some reporters
thought Mitt Romney got the
most benefit by skipping the event
( good strategy). The big winner,
should look into using cholera
vaccines to reduce spread of the
disease once an outbreak has
occurred – an idea that's
controversial among health
experts.
Secretary-General Ban says he
will appoint a task force to study
the panel's findings and "ensure
prompt and appropriate follow-
up."
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profiled for The Atlantic. Doesn't
surprise me. Although he didn't
get much press for it, Cain was
the clear winner in last Friday's
Republican"jobs summit" in New
Hampshire. He delivered a
memorable, seemingly
impromptu, speech about "big
potatoes" and "little potatoes"
Social Media/ Politics/
Spam Your Mom
This Mother’s
Day
Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:59:59 AM
It’s basically universally
acknowledged: Moms are the
biggest spammers out there. From
chain letters, to animal videos, to
police reports from your local
paper, most of us get an inbox
attack via Mommy Dearest at
least once a day.
If you’re among those mentioned
above (to be fair, my Mom sends
me awesome articles about David
Bowie and old bookstores, so I
shouldn’t complain), you should
probably check out Mom Spam.
It’s basically a website that lets
you choose what kind of spam
you want to send Ma, and then
take aim and fire.
Check out the video above for
(you had to be there), and then,
when the host called for a
benediction at the evening's end,
only to realize no one had lined
up a reverend to give it, Cain
hustled up to the stage and did it
himself.
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Morning Bell: It’s Just Lipstick on
a Pig, Mr. President
Mike Brownfield (The Foundry)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 8:50:19 AM
Despite the good news this week
about Osama bin Laden’s demise,
all is not rosy for President
Barack Obama — at least in the
eyes of the American people. The
approval of his handling of the
economy hit an all-time low with
only 34 percent of Americans
giving him a thumbs up,
according to a CBS/ New York
Times poll.
Looking for a reason why?
According to the Labor
Department’s monthly jobs report,
unemployment rose from 8.8
percent to 9 percent in April. And
though the U.S. economy added
244,000 jobs, beating
expectations, the bad news is that
when the bar for success is set so
low, even increasing
unemployment and decent job
growth can seem like a silver
lining on a dark and stormy cloud.
Or if you want another metaphor,
try “lipstick on a pig.”
There are other storm clouds in
America’s economic picture. New
claims for jobless benefits shot
through the roof to 474,000 last
week, increasing by 43,000,
according to a Labor Department
report. That’s its highest point
since last summer. For the fourth
month in a row, labor force
participation rate remained flat
and jobs are still difficult to
find. Meanwhile, gas prices are
topping out at $4 per gallon. All
in all, the American people sensed
what the statistics would show:
The U.S. economy continues to
drag, and they know full well
whom and what is to blame —
President Obama and his failed
stimulus economic policies.
Just over two years ago, the
president launched his much-
vaunted stimulus and said his plan
would create 3.3 million net jobs
by 2010. It didn’t happen, and the
American people have been stuck
with an unemployment rate
hovering around nine percent, not
to mention the cost of a $787
billion stimulus that has been
much less than stimulating. The
Heritage Foundation’s JD Foster
explains:
At best, stimulus efforts based on
government spending and tax cuts
with little or no incentive effects
have done no harm. At best. It is
quite possible most of these
efforts over the past couple of
years have slowed the recovery
while adding hundreds of billions
of dollars to the national debt.
Now America is saddled with the
price tag and calls by the
president to increase the debt
ceiling past its $14.3 trillion mark
— all so the spending parade can
continue. In reality, it’s the
spending that’s the problem. To
pay for it, the president has
proposed tax increases that will
only slow growth as the economy
is struggling to recover.
Heritage’s Curtis Dubay writes:
These enormous tax hikes will
slow down economic growth
because they will transfer
resources from the productive
hands of the private sector to the
wasteful hands of Congress, raise
energy prices, and reduce
incentives to work, save, and
invest.
Rather than helping the economy
get on its feet by tearing off the
bonds that are hampering its
growth, President Obama has
added new loads to drag it down.
Regulations, uncertainty and bad
tax policy are holding back
growth, and now — as the United
States nears the debt limit — it’s
staring down even more spending
that will only make matters worse.
The American people know the
real problem behind the economic
mess. It’s the spending. And no
amount of makeup will make the
president’s economic pig look
better than it really is.
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September 11th
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Zach Honig (Engadget)
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This year marks the 10th
anniversary of the September 11th
attacks. The brilliant memorial
(partially shown above) to be
unveiled that day is radical not
only as a result of on-site
electronics, but also thanks to a
computer algorithm, responsible
for resting fallen victims next to
each other based on affiliation,
not the alphabet. Victims will be
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their friendships -- before the
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No Honorary Degree for Israel-Hater Tony

Kushner
Arnold Ahlert (FrontPage characterized the rejection as moment to promulgate the false
Magazine » FrontPage) “McCarthyite nonsense.” narrative perpetrated by
Submitted at 5/5/2011 11:43:25 PM It’s hardly nonsense. Kushner has Palestinian Nazis, whose charges
been engaged in activities with of Israeli ethnic cleansing, racism,
For the first time since 1961, the Jewish Voice for Peace, an apartheid, imperialism, etc. are
C i t y U n i v e r s i t y o f N e w organization whose principal used to justify their terror and
York(CUNY) has rejected a strategy hinges around economic legitimize their desire to
candidate for an honorary degree. warfare (boycott, divestment and annihilate Israel. He has claimed
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright sanctions) against Israel “to end in the New York Sun that “[Israel
Tony Kushner’s nomination was the Israeli occupation of Gaza is involved in] a deliberate
tabled at a meeting of the board of and West Bank, including East destruction of Palestinian culture
trustees at member college John Jerusalem.” Kushner claims he and a systematic attempt to
Jay on Monday, when board does not support the boycott, but destroy the identity of the
m e m b e r J e f f r e y W i e s e n f e l d such claims ring utterly hollow Palestinian people.” He told the
o b j e c t e d . ” I f h i s l i b e l o u s given the playwright’s outrageous Baltimore Jewish Times that
statements against Israel were statements and background. Even “[T]he Israeli-built security wall
made by anyone outside the in his letter to the board of should come down, the homeland
Jewish community, that person trustees in response to his for the Palestinians should be
would be correctly labeled an anti rejection, Kushner accused Israel built up, with a strictly enforced
-Semite…when you spew libel of ”ethnic cleansing” and, in an peace, not enforced by the Israel
a g a i n s t o u r s o l e r e g i o n a l even greater departure from Defense Forces, but by the United
democratic ally for ‘crimes’ reality, also asserted that the Nations.” In a book entitled “
concocted by delegitimizers, you “brunt” of the “ongoing horror in Tony Kushner in
are an anti-Semite,” explained the Middle East..has been borne when I haven’t expressed the Chicago Tribune that it’s “the Conversation” (1998), the
W i e s e n f e l d . ” I w o u l d n o by the Palestinian people.” complete and full support of the shame of American Jews” for playwright offered up this
differently oppose a racist for an But this only scratches the State of Israel.” Evidently, one “failing to denounce Israel.” In assessment: ”The biggest
honorary degree who personifies surface. Kushner is currently out can be a supporter of Israel’s 2004, Ha’aretz quoted Kushner supporters of Israel are the most
himself by calumny against a in the sympathetic press peddling existence while also having “a saying that “[E]stablishing a state repulsive members of the Jewish
people,” he added. Kushner, an the worst of his obscurantist problem with the idea of a Jewish means f***ing people over,” and community and Israel itself has
unapologetic Israel-basher and rhetoric. In an interview with state. It would have been better if reiterated his contention that the got this disgraceful record…Israel
notorious propagandist for the Jewish Week nine days ago, it never happened,” as he told the creation of Israel was “mistake.” is a creation of the U.S., bought
genocidal Palestinian campaign Kushner claimed there “has never New York Sun. In 2002, he told Kushner has also rarely missed a and paid for[.]”
a g a i n s t t h e J e w i s h S t a t e , been a moment in my entire life
82 Politics-Right/
America’s Worst Ally
Ryan Mauro (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 5/5/2011 11:40:59 PM
After receiving $20 billion in
U.S. aid over the past decade,
Pakistan is unmistakably
America’s worst “ally,” having
committed the ultimate betrayal:
Hiding Osama Bin Laden. Now,
Pakistan is angrily protesting the
raid that killed him, refusing to
give access to 11 of those arrested
in his compound and is supporting
terrorists likely to try to avenge
his death. Pakistan is not an ally
worth defending as President
Obama did in his address to the
country; it is an enemy worth
punishing.
It is inconceivable that the
Pakistani government did not
know of Bin Laden’s presence at
the Abbottabad compound that
was obviously designed to hide
someone of enormous importance.
It is now known that Bin Laden’s
next-door neighbor, living only 80
yards away, was Major Amir
Aziz, a senior army officer. The
country’s premier military
academy is about a mile away,
which General Petraeus visited in
February of last year. Many
retired intelligence and military
personnel live in the affluent city
and it is only an hour away from
Islamabad.
The Pakistani government is
reacting to the exposure of its
guilt by bashing the raid, with its
officials describing it as “cold-
blooded.” The upper house of its
parliament is accusing the U.S. of
violating the country’s
sovereignty and the government is
threatening“disastrous
consequences” if there are any
more unilateral raids. The army
has announced that it will reduce
the number of U.S. troops in the
country to “minimum essential”
levels and the Army Chief of Staff
said there will be a “review on the
level of military/intelligence
cooperation with the United
States” if another raid is carried
out. Pakistan may also forbid
future drone strikes, as it was
pushing for an end to them shortly
before Bin Laden was killed.
President Obama’s
announcement that Bin Laden had
been killed was designed to
protect relations with Pakistan
from the inevitable outrage.
“It’s important to note that our
counterterrorism cooperation with
Pakistan helped lead us to Bin
Laden and the compound where
he was hiding. Indeed, Bin Laden
had declared war against Pakistan
as well, and ordered attacks
against the Pakistani people…it is
essential that Pakistan continues
to join us in the fight against Al-
Qaeda and its affiliates,” Obama
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told the nation.
Senator John Kerry does not
downplay Pakistan’s treachery but
cautions against jeopardizing the
relationship. Senator Richard
Lugar has not shied away from
pointing his finger at the Pakistani
government but likewise said,
“Distancing ourselves from
Pakistan would be unwise and
extremely dangerous.”
It is true that Pakistan’s limited
cooperation has been critical to
the prosecution of the War on
Terror. More than two-thirds of
the killings and arrests of Al-
Qaeda members have occurred on
Pakistani soil. However, there is a
clear pattern of the highest
terrorists living in comfortable
areas under the control of the
Pakistani government, including
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu
Zubaydah and Ramzi Binalshibh,
called the “20 th hijacker.” As
Richard Miniter writes,“Bin
Laden’s mansion-hideout in
Pakistan was not the exception,
but the rule.”
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Message for Mother’s Day:
Parenting Matters
Collette Caprara (The Foundry)
Submitted at 5/6/2011 8:31:26 AM
Posted May 6th, 2011 at 9:31am
in Family and Religion Print This
Post
The approach of Mother’s Day
brings to mind the great parenting
debate du jour and the very vocal
public reaction to the tenets of the
Tiger Mom—a style of mothering
that pushes and presses children
to achieve and won’t settle for
second best. On the other side of
the straight-laced Tiger Mom is
the overly protective Helicopter
Mom, who can’t help but want to
shield her children from the
world’s disappointments. Then
there’s the Coach Mom; while not
quite the drill sergeant, she wants
her children to deal directly with
problems that arise and provides
practical guidance for addressing
life’s frustrations.
Regardless of what adjective
precedes “Mom,”
preponderance of social data
demonstrates that a mother’s love
and attention is an invaluable
asset in the life of every child.
While the mundane tasks of
changing diapers, bandaging boo-
boos, and acting as chauffer and
chef might not seem like the most
influential job, the selfless
nurturing and timely insight of
mothers can have a significant
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impact on their children.
And the benefits of mothers’
tireless care and counsel go
beyond the lives of their own
children. As data from Heritage’s
FamilyFacts.org details,
are less likely to experience
emotional distress, and those
whose parents are more involved
in their lives tend to have higher
levels of self-esteem and self-
control. Teens with greater
parental involvement in their
schooling are also more likely to
graduate from high school and
achieve higher levels of
education. Finally, mothers’
investment in and communication
with their children has been
shown to have significant impact
regarding risky behaviors ranging
from sexual behavior to substance
abuse.
So on this Mothers’ Day, hats off
to the broad array of moms for all
they give throughout the lives of
their children.
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Time to Thank
“Enhanced
Interrogation
Techniques”
Alan W. Dowd (FrontPage
Magazine » FrontPage)
Submitted at 5/5/2011 11:50:01 PM
The successes of the CIA and
other intelligence agencies, the
old saying goes, are never known
and the failures are never
forgotten. The takedown of
Osama bin Laden by Navy
SEALs, who were guided onto
their target by the work of
hundreds of intelligence officers
around the world, is a welcome
exception to this rule. In a similar
way, the successful strike on bin
Laden forces us to take a fresh
look at the notion that enhanced
interrogation techniques (EITs)
are not useful or effective. If
recent comments from high-level
officials are any indication, EITs
played an important part in the
hunt for and elimination of the
terror mastermind.
Ever since 9/11, the CIA has
been pounded for not “connecting
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Outside the Beltway: The Blight

Mongers Lose in California
Alex Adrianson (The Foundry) blight. The CYAC, by the way,
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:31:30 AM offers boxing lessons and other
diversions to low-income youth in
Posted May 6th, 2011 at 11:31am the neighborhood.
in Rule of Law Print This Post See IJ’s Web site for more on the
In California, there’s never been case. As Doug Kaplan pointed out
a tougher time to be in the in our Fall 2008 issue of The
business of taking private Insider(“ The Allure of Public-
property from one person and Private Development,”) eminent
giving it to another. First, domain is but one of the many
Governor Jerry Brown proposed tools the redevelopment agencies
eliminating the state’s 400 some use to direct economic
redevelopment agencies. Now, the development. What it all amounts
agencies have been told by the to is politicians deciding what
courts that declaring blight just consumers want instead of
won’t do: They actually have to consumers deciding what
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the dots.” The “dots” in the world

of intelligence-gathering can be
anything—individuals, places,
times, targets, dates, fragments of
messages, inscrutable codes—but
they mean nothing to
policymakers unless or until an
intelligence analyst can draw a
line from one dot to another and
thereby paint at least part of a
picture.
That connecting line is crucial.
And in the case of taking down
bin Laden, that connecting line
was apparently provided by
sources that were subjected to
EITs, according to an NBC
interview of CIA director Leon
Panetta.
The most likely source to provide
what NBC calls “the thread of
information” about bin Laden’s
trusted courier was Khalid Sheik
Mohammed (KSM), who
masterminded the 9/11 attacks.
According to the Associated
Press, KSM, while being held in a
CIA prison somewhere in Eastern
Europe, divulged nicknames of
key bin Laden aides and couriers.
Although he had been subjected
to water-boarding, or simulated
drowning, several times prior to
divulging the names, KSM turned
over these fragments of info long
after agents had stopped using the
technique. Obama administration
officials concede, however, that
“U.S. intelligence did not learn
the identity of the courier until
after the CIA interrogation
program was terminated,” Reuters
reports. In other words, it is
possible fear of another round of
water-boarding had an impact on
KSM.
“We got beat up for it, but those
efforts led to this great day,”
Marty Martin, a retired CIA
officer, told AP.
Pictures To Protest Use of
“Geronimo” in Bin Laden Mission
Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!)
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Members of the Native American
community have spoken out
against the assignation of the
name Geronimo to the operation
to capture and kill Osama bin
Laden. They’re asking users to A message sent Sunday from a
change their Twitter and team of U.S. Navy SEALS to
Facebook pictures to that of Washington announced bin
legendary Apache leader Laden’s death: “Geronimo EKIA”
Geronimo as a form of protest and
to honor him. NATIVE page 86

10 Historic Tweets That Captivated the

World
Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!) journalists and react to our own tweeted the phone number of an
Submitted at 5/6/2011 10:08:24 AM culture. invasive fan as if it were his own.
Here are 10 of the most Said fan's phone was ringing off
Some tweets document history. noteworthy Twitter updates since the hook for hours and received at
Others make history. Others 2006. In the comments, let us least 26,000 text messages.
simply serve as a zeitgeist for how know which important tweets had Marriage Proposal
our culture and communication an impact on your life. Social media proposals are a
are evolving. The Hudson Plane Landing whole thing unto themselves these
Over the past several years, When a commercial flight was days, but the trend probably
we’ve documented quite a few forced to make an emergency started with this sweet tweet.
notable tweets, from the first landing in the Hudson River, Ice: The Final Frontier
Twitter marriage proposals to the Twitter -- with the help of image Tweets from space are all the
first tweeting fetus. From the service Twitpic -- told the story. rage. The landmark discovery of
service’s role in international Kenneth Cole's #Cairo Blunder ice on Mars caused quite the stir
politics to its part in devastating During a rash of riots in the on Twitter.
natural disasters, Twitter has Middle East and North Africa, "Arrested"
become a huge part of how many Twitter played a role in protesters' out as a hallmark of insensitivity. In what was called "kind of a jerk This single-word tweet ended up
of us communicate with one fight for democracy. But a crass Bieber Tweets "His" Digits move," teen idol Justin Bieber HISTORIC page 86
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(enemy killed in action). The use
of Geronimo’s name to identify
the most-wanted terrorist in the
world enraged many Native
Americans.
“To associate a Native warrior
with bin Laden is not an accurate
reflection of history and it
undermines the military service of
Native people,” Jefferson Keel,
president of the National
Congress of American Indians,
told CNN.
Geronimo fought the U.S. and
Mexico when the American West
was being settled.
His 1909 obituary in The New
York Times is particularly biased:
“Geronimo gained a reputation for
cruelty and cunning never
surpassed by that of any other
American Indian chief. For more
than twenty years he and his men
were the terror of the country,
always leaving a trail of
bloodshed and devastation.”
Geronimo managed to never be
captured. He died a prisoner of
war, after surrendering to the U.S.
when a general promised to
reunite him with his tribe.
“When people representing the
U.S. reach back a century to take
a gratuitous swipe at Geronimo as
an enemy and to equate him with
a terrorist, they are insulting all
Native American nations and
people,” Suzan Shown Harjo,
president of the Morning Star
Institute, told a senate committee
hearing Thursday. The hearing
had been scheduled before bin
Laden’s death to address racist
names of sports teams.
On Thursday, Indian Country
Today asked its Twitter and
Facebook followers to change
their pics for the next two days.
(Some of the Facebook fans asked
if they could extend or change the
time frame, because they had
photos of their mothers up for
Mother’s Day. ICT consented.)
Native American leaders,
including those from the tribe that
descended from Geronimo’s tribe,
and descendants of the Apache
leader have asked President
Barack Obama to issue a formal
apology and explanation.
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being a lifesaver for UC Berkeley
journalism student James Buck.
Jack's First Tweet ...
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's
first tweet -- the inauspicious
blurb that started it all back in
2006.
... and Oprah's First Tweet
When the talk show host
discussed Twitter with Biz Stone
and Ev Williams, she brought
mainstream attention to a rather
geek-centric web app. Twitter
adoption spiked as a consequence.
Tweets From Space: Now In Real
-Time!
The first live and real-time tweet
from space came from the
International Space Station in
early 2010.
The Abbottabad Tweeter
Without knowing exactly what
was going on, Twitter user
@ReallyVirtual started tweeting
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