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com
Method: Only Inauthentic "Green" Cleaning
Products Are Failing
Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company)
Submitted at 5/13/2011 6:22:08 PM
Numbers show that people are
giving up on non-toxic cleaning
products. But they're really just
giving up the ones that are doing
it for show.
Are people so fed up with
greenwashing that they're giving
up entirely on non-toxic cleaning
products? Last month's New York
Times article entitled "As
Consumers Cut Spending, 'Green'
Products Lose Allure" seems to be
a downer at first. Sales of Clorox
Greenworks and other "green"
cleaning products from big brands
have dropped precipitously over
the past few years--perhaps
because of cost or simply because
consumers don't care about
environmental responsibility
during a recession. Commence
rending of garments.
But buried in the article is this:
Sales held up at smaller, and more
expensive, brands like Method
and Seventh Generation, Mr.
Powers suggested, because those
customers tended to be more
affluent and more wedded to
environmental causes. Both
companies say they had double-
digit growth in 2010 after a flat
year in 2009.
That may be only part of the
- 14/05/11
story. We had the chance to visit
Method's offices earlier this week,
where cofounder (and occasional
Fast Company contributor) Eric
Ryan explained his side of the
issue. "It's not that clean products
are failing by any means... it's that
the players that have gone into the
green space are not doing it in an
authentic way," he says.
http://www.LibertyNewspost.
Ryan likens the "played-out" eco-
friendly cleaning product trend to
what we have already seen with
food, "where the nonauthentic
brands that tried to put a
proposition of health and wellness
out there failed, but the authentic
brands are doing great." What
would you trust more for your
health: Natural Cheetos or Kashi
crackers?
Ryan acknowledges that the big
players--Clorox Greenworks, Arm
& Hammer Essentials, and so
forth--did help grow the eco-
friendly cleaning product category
through low prices, but ultimately
"they brought in people who
weren't committed to moving
towards the cause of
sustainability."
So while we can't begrudge
companies like Clorox for making
non-toxic cleaning products
widely accessible, they aren't
winning out. It may be more of a
credibility problem than anything
else. If these companies want to
bring in repeat customers, they
have to convince them that it's
more than just branding--and they
can do that by making customers
care about what they're buying.
[Image: Ariel Schwartz]
Reach Ariel Schwartz via Twitter
or email.
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Ron Paul Launches 2012 Bid; Says America

Is Ready for His Libertarian Message
(Christianpost.com > Politics) surprise that Texas Congressman illegal in terms of substances: lot of areas where people just
Submitted at 5/13/2011 1:31:43 PM Paul's rhetoric about limited marijuana, cocaine, heroin, don't want to hear about it."
government is gaining methamphetamines, you name it," A March Barna poll seems to
(Reuters / Brian Snyder) momentum. explained Franc. affirm Franc's view. Although
U.S. Representative Ron Paul (R- Prior to the announcement, Paul Paul, a 12-term House Paul was listed among
T X ) w a i t s f o r a t e l e v i s i o n tested the waters at the Fox News representative, affirmed his purist evangelicals' top five presidential
interview at a campaign stop in GOP debate. The debate featured views during the May 5th debate, picks, he was ranked last with a
Exeter, New Hampshire May 13, Herman Cain, Gary Johnson, Rick saying "If you have the 51 percent approval rating.
2011, after announcing his Santorum and Tim Pawlenty. inconsistency, then you are not Former Arkansas Gov. Huckabee
candidacy for the Republican Notably absent were the bigger came out on top in the debate.
defending liberty." took the top spot in the poll with
Presidential nomination earlier in names including Mike Huckabee, Paul has also won the straw polls
He also affirmed that if he were an 88 percent favorable rating.
the day. from the 2011 Conservative
Mitt Romney, Donald Trump and president, he would end federal Evangelicals may have also
Paul made his bid for the 2012 Michele Bachmann. Political Action Conference and
regulation on illegal substances bypassed Paul because of doubt
GOP presidential nomination Though Cain, a former CEO the online poll for the 2011 Tea
allowing states like California to over his electability.
official Friday on ABC's "Good Godfather's Pizza, initially was Party Patriots' American Policy
legalize the drug if they desired to Tom Minnery, vice president of
Morning America." A staunch pegged as the winner of the first Summit.
do so. Focus on the Family's government
libertarian, Paul believes that Republican debate in the focus Heritage Foundation Vice
Paul, a supporter of the Defense and public policy arm Citizen
"[the] time has come around to the group, many of Paul's responses President of Government Studies
of Marriage Act, explained his Link, said of Paul during the
point where the people are roused the audience in applause. Michael Franc acknowledges that
support saying that he approved February CPAC, "He has a very
agreeing with much of what I've The following weekend, Paul's Paul's message about limited
of allowing states to decide small but very strong following."
been saying for 30 years." government appeals to many
poll approval rating as the whether or not to legalize same- The FOTF official said Paul's
An April Gallup poll showed that debate's winner soared among Fox conservatives, including some
sex marriage. However, he told base will not be enough to help
nearly half of Americans (47 News viewers. Christians.
the crowd that he did not think him win the GOP primary. "I
percent) rated current economic Like us on Facebook "In many cases that would be
anyone should try to put their suspect that he will not prevail,"
conditions as "poor." When Last Friday, the FoxNews.com viewed as a positive by Christian
views of marriage on others, Minnery predicted.
respondents were asked in another debate poll showed that Cain was conservative voters," he said
including his own as a Protestant. A CNN poll released last week
April Gallup poll to express how up by 54 percent (1,103 voters) as noting that that libertarians' belief
Franc noted that Christian revealed that Paul has the best
much confidence they had in a of 5 p.m., ET. Paul, with the in limited government is
conservatives recognize that chance of all the possible GOP
particular group or position to approval of 543 voters or about 29 consistent with Christians' desire
families, churches and other contenders against Obama. The
recommend the right thing for the percent of the poll, was a distant to worship without government
forms of community should come poll showed that he would only
economy, the largest majority (58 second. interference.
first in regulating its members. trail the president by seven points
percent) said they had a great deal By Saturday, 2:55 p.m.ET, the However, Franc says purist
But they also recognize that some in a hypothetical election.
to a fair amount of trust in their results changed to reveal Paul as libertarianism views on the
actions have widespread However, Paul's national support
governors over President Barack the winner of the first Republican legalization of drugs and same-
repercussions and should be currently ranks at six percent in a
O b a m a o r R e p u b l i c a n s o r presidential debate by 55.45 sex marriage may be a stumbling
regulated on a larger scale. Gallup poll comparing his
Democrats in Congress. block for Christians who consider
percent (2665 votes). A similar He concluded, "There's going to favorability to that of A list
With Americans disgruntled with poll posted on FoxInsider.com themselves social conservatives.
be some selective ... libertarian contenders.
the president and government's also showed last Saturday that a "Some libertarians ... believe that
messages that will be well
handling of the economy, it is no majority of voters believe Paul the government should have no RON page 9
received, but there's going to be a
role in deciding what should be
Newstablet Edition Top News/ 3

How one Japanese village defied the tsunami

(AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) seawall behind the community's Fudai, about 320 miles (510 "They weren't necessarily against Fudai Elementary School sits no
Submitted at 5/13/2011 1:04:06 PM adjacent fishing port protected kilometers) north of Tokyo, the idea of floodgates, just the more than a few minutes walk
Fudai from the waves that depends on the sea. Fishermen size," said Yuzo Mifune, head of inland. It looks the same as it did
By TOMOKO A. HOSAKA, obliterated so many other towns boast of the seaweed they harvest. Fudai's resident services and an on March 10. A group of boys
Associated Press on March 11. Two months after A pretty, white-sand beach lures unofficial floodgate historian. recently ran laps around a
FUDAI, Japan – In the rubble of the disaster, more than 25,000 are tourists every summer. "But Wamura somehow baseball field that was clear of the
Japan's northeast coast, one small missing or dead. But Wamura never forgot how persuaded them that this was the junk piled up in other coastal
village stands as tall as ever after "However you look at it, the quickly the sea could turn. only way to protect lives." neighborhoods.
the tsunami. No homes were effectiveness of the floodgate and Massive earthquake-triggered Construction began in 1972 Their coach, Sachio Kamimukai,
swept away. In fact, they barely seawall was truly impressive," tsunamis flattened Japan's despite lingering concerns about was born and raised in Fudai. He
got wet. Fudai Mayor Hiroshi Fukawatari northeast coast in 1933 and 1896. its size as well as bitterness said he never thought much about
Fudai is the village that survived said. In Fudai, the two disasters among landowners forced to sell the floodgate until the tsunami.
— thanks to a huge wall once Towns to the north and south also destroyed hundreds of homes and land to the government. "It was just always something that
deemed a mayor's expensive folly braced against tsunamis with killed 439 people. Even current Mayor Fukawatari, was there," said Kamimukai, 36.
a n d n o w v i n d i c a t e d a s t h e concrete seawalls, breakwaters "When I saw bodies being dug up who helped oversee construction, "But I'm very thankful now."
community's salvation. and other protective structures. from the piles of earth, I did not had his doubts. The floodgate works for Fudai's
The 3,000 residents living But none were as tall as Fudai's. know what to say. I had no "I did wonder whether we needed layout, in a narrow valley, but it
between mountains behind a cove The town of Taro believed it had words," Wamura wrote of the something this big," he said in an wouldn't necessarily be the
owe their lives to a late leader the ultimate fort — a double- 1933 tsunami in his book about interview at his office. solution for other places,
who saw the devastation of an layered 33-foot-tall (10-meter- Fudai, "A 40-Year Fight Against The concrete structure spanning Fukawatari said.
earlier tsunami and made it the tall) seawall spanning 1.6 miles Poverty." 673 feet (205 meters) was Fudai's biggest casualty was its
priority of his four-decade tenure (2.5 kilometers) across a bay. It He vowed it would never happen completed in 1984. The total bill port, where the tsunami destroyed
to defend his people from the next proved no match for the tsunami again. of 3.56 billion yen was split boats, equipment and warehouses.
one. two months ago. In 1967, the town erected a 51- between the prefecture and central The village estimates losses of 3.8
H i s 5 1 - f o o t ( 1 5 . 5 - m e t e r ) In Fudai, the waves rose as high foot (15.5-meter) seawall to shield government, which financed billion yen ($47 million) to its
floodgate between mountainsides as 66 feet (20 meters), as water homes behind the fishing port. public works as part of its postwar fisheries industry.
took a dozen years to build and marks show on the floodgate's But Wamura wasn't finished. He economic strategy. One resident remains missing. He
meant spending more than $30 towers. So some ocean water did had a bigger project in mind for On March 11, after the 9.0 made the unlucky decision to
million in today's dollars. flow over but it caused minimal the cove up the road, where most earthquake hit, workers remotely check on his boat after the
"It cost a lot of money. But damage. The gate broke the of the community was located. closed the floodgate's four main earthquake.
without it, Fudai would have tsunami's main thrust. And the That area needed a floodgate with panels. Smaller panels on the Wamura left office three years
disappeared," said seaweed community is lucky to have two panels that could be lifted to allow sides jammed, and a firefighter after the floodgate was completed.
fisherman Satoshi Kaneko, 55, mountainsides flanking the gate, the Fudai River to empty into the had to rush down to shut them by He died in 1997 at age 88. Since
whose business has been ruined offering a natural barrier. cove and lowered to block hand. the tsunami, residents have been
but who is happy to have his The man credited with saving tsunamis. The tsunami battered the white visiting his grave to pay respects.
family and home intact. Fudai is the late Kotaku Wamura, He insisted the structure be as tall beach in the cove, leaving debris At his retirement, Wamura stood
The floodgate project was a 10-term mayor whose political as the seawall. and fallen trees. But behind the before village employees to bid
criticized as wasteful in the 1970s. reign began in the ashes of World The village council initially floodgate, the village is virtually
But the gate and an equally high War II and ended in 1987. balked. untouched. HOW page 10
4 Top News/ Newstablet Edition

This Is What It Really Looks Like When

The Coal Industry Targets Kids
Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company)
Submitted at 5/13/2011 5:54:52 PM

Coal Cares was just a parody of

what it would look like if the coal
industry targeted kids. But the
coal industry's actual marketing
to children, (with an assist from
Scholastic), is much more
insidious.
We recently looked at Coal
Cares, a parody site that imagines
what it would look like if Peabody
Energy--the world's largest
private coal company--launched a
pro-coal website for kids (Bieber-
themed inhalers for everyone!).
But the coal industry's actual
marketing for kids is much more
insidious, and markedly less
funny.
Friends of the Earth launched a
campaign this week asking
Scholastic to "stop selling
elementary school students on
coal." What exactly is Scholastic
doing? The American Coal
Foundation recently hired the
company to produce The United
States of Energy, a set of pro-coal
materials intended to teach fourth-
grade kids about the different
energy sources used to power the
U.S. The materials were
distributed to classrooms around fail to mention any of the map below (larger PDF here). benefits of different energy without coal: "Coal is produced in
the country. disadvantages of coal--like the This would be fine for coal sources. But Bill Bigelow, half of the 50 states, and America
At first glance, the coal- fact, for example, that coal marketing materials. It's less Curriculum Editor of Rethinking has 27 percent of the world’s coal
sponsored worksheets seem burning is linked to numerous acceptable when it's what we're Schools magazine, reads between resources. In fact, America has
benign enough. But the materials health problems, including asthma teaching our kids as fact. The map the lines ( PDF): The map’s THIS page 9
and bronchitis. Take a look at the seemingly runs through all the subtext is that we’d be lost
Newstablet Edition
Rising Mississippi River may take toll on
businesses - NOLA.com
(Top Stories - Google News)
Submitted at 5/14/2011 8:38:57 AM
As the Mississippi River
continues to rise and state and
local officials make plans for how
to handle the deluge of water
heading South, businesses in
Louisiana are preparing for
shutdowns and financial losses.
Though they likely will not flood,
chemical plants, refineries and
shipyards that depend on the
state’s collection of waterways to
receive and distribute products,
are among the businesses most at
risk for economic disruption.
“The rising river is of great
concern to our companies,” said
Dan Borne’, president of the
Louisiana Chemical Association.
“Many along the river are
experiencing production and
shipping challenges because of
the rise.”
Borne’ said he has heard from 14
or 15 chemical plants expressing
varying degrees of operational
limitations. Many of them say
they are having docking issues,
which make it difficult to get raw
materials in and to ship their
products out.
“Some of the plants are
attempting to make provisions to
try to ship cargo that would have
gone by barge by truck or rail,
instead,” Borne’ said. “But that
doesn’t automatically happen
because trucks are few and far
between and are already
committed.”
As a result, Borne’ said several
plants preshipped goods last week
but others have had to curtail
production.
At least one plant shut down
completely. The Mosaic Co.,
which produces phosphate
chemicals, said Tuesday that it
had temporarily closed its
Louisiana operations due to the
impact of river flooding on its
electrical supplies. The company
said it would resume operations
“when river water levels recede
and conditions permit.” The
Minnesota company has two
plants in St. James Parish.
Similarly, Conrad Industries Inc.
temporarily shuttered its Morgan
City shipyard on the Atchafalaya
River.
The company moved vessels,
equipment and about 200
employees to two shipyards in
Amelia, said Cecil Hernandez,
Conrad’s vice president and chief
financial officer.
“We’re trying to be proactive and
plan for the floodwater,”
Hernandez said.
However, economist Loren Scott,
a professor emeritus at Louisiana
State University, said he doesn’t
believe shipyards on the whole
will suffer tremendous losses.
Bollinger Shipyards and
McDermott International, for
instance, both have facilities in
Amelia, just outside Morgan City.
But because the company’s
operations occur largely outdoors
and the equipment can easily be
moved, operations should restart
soon after any flooding occurs,
Scott said.
“It’s not like a General Motors
plant that you can’t move and if
you flood it’s ruined,” Scott said.
“They should be able to recover in
the short period.”
Instead, Scott said concern
should be on whether or not a
network of natural gas and
hazardous liquid pipelines that run
under and over the Atchafalaya
River will be disrupted. There are
15 major natural gas lines and 13
hazardous liquid lines in the area,
Scott said. The former carries
natural gas to the northeastern
part of the country.
“The questions are ‘Are those
very old pipelines? Are they
buried properly so that they’ll stay
down? If they are over (the river),
are they high enough that they
won’t get hit by debris?’” Scott
said. “That’s something that
would affect the entire nation.”
The complete economic impact
of the rising river and expected
flooding won’t be known for
weeks.
Researchers at Louisiana State
University are working on a plan
to measure the economic impact
of the rising river and any
potential flooding on Louisiana
businesses. Ryan Bilbo, assistant
director of the Department of
Economics at Louisiana State
University, said researchers are
using a database of Louisiana
businesses that is “spatially
aware,” meaning able to be
directly compared with Army
Corps of Engineers flood maps to
determine which businesses are
likely to flood. The team will then
use Bureau of Economic Analysis
multipliers to measure the
economic impact of those
business closures over varying
periods of time.
But that information won’t be
available for several weeks, Bilbo
said, because it will need to be
“mulled over internally” before
being passed along to the state.
Such data, Bilbo said, could be
used to make the state’s case for
federal assistance when the time
comes. So far, the LSU
researchers are not including the
impact to industries like tourism,
which are unlikely to suffer from
flooding but may still be
negatively impacted.
“That’s something we have yet to
consider and will consider in the
future,” Bilbo said. “Right now
we’re picking the largest things
that are easiest to measure first.”
Outside the study’s purview, for
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instance, would be the three
Louisiana riverboat casinos
currently assessing their risks,
said Wade Duty, president of the
Louisiana Casino Association.
The Amelia Belle in Amelia just
outside Morgan City and the Belle
of Baton Rouge and Hollywood
Casino, both in the capital city, all
are in areas where higher river
levels will affect operations.
Though there’s no worry that the
boats would be damaged, Duty
said, there is concern that the
shore side operations would be
damaged, limiting access to the
boats. In Amelia, there is the
added worry that flooding in and
around Morgan City would inhibit
the ability of the casino’s 400
employees to report to work, Duty
said.
“The bigger challenge for them
won’t be the property,” Duty said.
“It’s going to be how it’s going to
affect their employees.”
The Governor’s Office of
Homeland Security and
Emergency Preparedness virtually
activated the state’s Business
Emergency Operations Center on
May 5 to assist businesses with
emergency preparation and
response.
Jaquetta White can be reached at
jwhite@timespicayune.com or
504.826.3494.
RISING page 9
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Libya buries imams 'killed in NATO strike'

(AFP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) every man we should take down grandchildren. reported having struck 20 Fogh Rasmussen also was at the
Submitted at 5/14/2011 8:34:46 AM one thousand men... from France, Ibrahim told reporters Kadhafi "is armoured vehicle storage White House Friday for closed-
Italy, Denmark, Britain, Qatar and in very good health, high morale, buildings around Tripoli on door discussions with Obama.
by W.G. Dunlop the United Arab Emirates." high spirits," and "he is in Friday, as well as an armoured Rasmussen said NATO was
TRIPOLI (AFP) – Libyans Ibrahim said Mijrah's views were Tripoli." personnel carrier and four military fulfilling its UN-mandated
prepared Saturday to bury 11 his own. Kadhafi's audio message trucks in the vicinity of Misrata. mission in Libya, had saved
imams killed in what Moamer Meanwhile Kadhafi, whom Italy appeared to have been made after On the diplomatic front, the rebel "numerous lives" and had stopped
Kadhafi's regime said was a claimed was wounded and on the a NATO strike on his Bab al- leadership made tepid gains. the Kadhafi regime's bid to retake
NATO air strike, but the alliance run, said he was beyond the reach Aziziya compound early In Washington, the Libyan rebel the country by force after
said it had targeted a military site of NATO bombs. Thursday, because he referred to movement's number two, widespread uprisings.
yet regretted any loss of civilian "I want to say to the Crusader "the martyrdom of three civilians, Mahmud Jibril, was received at Nicolas Sarkozy will meet Jibril
lives. cowards that I live in a place journalists." the White House by President in Paris on Saturday, the French
At least 50 other people were where I cannot be reached or Late Friday and early Saturday, a Barack Obama's national security president's office said.
wounded in the attack on the killed; I live in the hearts of series of six loud explosions adviser Tom Donilon. Meanwhile, rebel chief Mustafa
eastern city of Brega early Friday, millions," he said in an audio rocked Tripoli as jets flew The White House said the rebels' Abdul Jalil was holding Saturday
with five of them in critical message aired Friday on state overhead. Smoke could be seen National Transitional Council was what the insurgents billed as a
condition, government spokesman television. rising from one of the sites in a "legitimate and credible" voice "town hall" meeting in the rebel
Mussa Ibrahim said on Friday. Italian Foreign Minister Franco eastern Tripoli, witnesses said. of the Libyan people but stopped stronghold of Benghazi with
NATO said a "command and Frattini had said Kadhafi was On the battlefield, rebels short of offering it full diplomatic leaders from western cities that
control bunker was struck in "probably outside of Tripoli and reportedly made new progress in recognition. remain under Kadhafi's control.
Brega early this (Friday) morning, probably also injured," and that their advance towards the eastern The White House said it was In The Hague, ICC prosecutor
as the structure was being used by the reports came from the Roman and western boundaries of the working with Congress on Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he
the Kadhafi regime to coordinate Catholic bishop of Tripoli. western port city of Misrata. changes to the law to allow a would seek arrest warrants for
strikes against the Libyan civilian But the bishop, Giovanni An AFP correspondent said they portion of around $30 billion (21 three people considered most
population." Martinelli, denied making such had moved 20 kilometres (12 billion euros) in Kadhafi regime responsible for crimes against
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Newstablet Edition Top News/ 7

One Last Battle: Spinning Bin Laden's

Legacy - NPR
(Top Stories - Google News) footage released by the U.S. Finding and killing bin Laden that a bin Laden diary found in his an example of what's called
Submitted at 5/14/2011 9:56:20 AM Department of Defense. was not enough. Almost as house showed he had differences strategic communication —
The operation against Osama bin important was what came with his followers over what putting out news that furthers
Enlarge Rex Features/ AP Laden was more than just a afterward: the work of telling the targets should be hit. And U.S. your cause.
The Osama bin Laden watches military raid. It was also an story of the operation in such a officials anonymously told "Strategic communication is a
himself on TV, a still from video opportunity to attack bin Laden's way as to advance U.S. interests. Reuters that pornography was huge part of the bin Laden killing.
footage released by the U.S. image and ideology. The Bin Laden Narrative found in bin Laden's compound. Taking advantage of that, getting
Department of Defense. Rex The war on al-Qaida is in part a In the time since bin Laden was Were those details leaked by U.S. the message out, framing it in the
Features/ AP propaganda struggle, fought with killed, each day has brought a officials anxious to discredit bin right way to get some benefit
The Osama bin Laden watches the aim of changing attitudes in little more news about the Laden's al-Qaida movement in the
himself on TV, a still from video the Muslim world. operation. This week, we learned Muslim world? If so, it would be ONE page 10
8 Top News/ Newstablet Edition

How Fox News is fueling the Common non-

controversy (The Cutline)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) (Common is among those who threats to shoot police and at least so it seemed like it was finally those who huff only the heady
Submitted at 5/13/2011 12:03:42 PM have vocalized their support for one passage calling for the time to put the whole episode to mix of partisan hackery, character
Mumia Abu Jamal and Assata "burn[ing]" of then-President bed. assassination and manufactured
By Joe Pompeo Shakur, two convicted cop killers. George W. Bush." But alas, Common-gate was alive outrage known as Foxygen,
As far as trumped up non- Activists have long questioned the From there, the furor migrated and well the next night, as Stewart Common's performance looked a
controversies go, the rapper fairness of their trials. This week over to the airwaves of Fox News, and his frenemy Bill O'Reilly little more like this."
C o m m o n ' s a p p e a r a n c e also happens to be National Law where the right-wing outrage of traded jabs Thursday on the And you can watch Stewart's
Wednesday at a White House Enforcement Memorial Week.) pundits like Sean Hannity helped subject. punch line below:
poetry reading was the perfect set Why did the Common fuel a vigorous churn of blog "Predictably, some on the left So that's that, right? Wrong.
piece to rile a few cable news commotion fizzle out politically? posts, online video embeds--and condemned the coverage of "I would like to debate you [Jon
personalities. Perhaps because present and retorts from talking heads on the Common on Fox News," said Stewart] about the Common
But it quickly turned out to be a prospective lawmakers are simply left, like Comedy Central host Jon O'Reilly during his 8 p.m. hour. situation because it's important,"
dud in the political arena. preoccupied with more important Stewart. "On 'The [O'Reilly] Factor' we're said O'Reilly on Thursday night's
George W. Bush versus the Dixie matters at the moment. Or maybe "Remember, like, a week ago, the not objecting to Common's style. show. "With all due respect, I
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live on as Obama's Sister Souljah at any chance to skewer the certificate and celebrated his Common is sticking up for two mistake in trying to run down Fox
moment. And it is hardly poised president were willing to give newfound citizenship by having convicted police killers. There is News and defend Common, and I
for the legendary status of say, Obama a pass now that Osama bin someone shoot Osama bin Laden no way around that. It is look forward to Mr. Stewart
Dan Quayle's anti-"Murphy Laden has exited the world under in the face? It felt like ... maybe incredible that the White House coming on 'The Factor' to discuss
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p o t e n t i a l 2 0 1 2 R e p u b l i c a n were not about to be deprived of non-controversies ... to rest, to You can watch the video of invitation--he's scheduled to
presidential candidates, it appears the type of uproar that can boost focus on things that matter. ... O'Reilly's remarks below: appear on O'Reilly's program
Sarah Palin was the only one to ratings and send pageviews Well, I hope you enjoyed that Stewart's take aired a few hours Monday night. Stay tuned.
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more coal than any nation has any
single energy resource... Coal is
the source of half of the electricity
produced in the United States..."
The only solar icon on the map is
in the Mojave Desert, implying
that solar may work in deserts, but
the rest of us need to rely on more
conventional sources of power,
like burning coal. The mapping
exercise treats all sources of
energy as fundamentally equal:
One is as good as another, except
that coal is a lot better, students
will infer, because we have so
much of it.
The Related Resources section of
the United States of Energy
website is even more blatant,
recommending that teachers
supplement their curriculum with
information from the American
Coal Foundation, Women in
Mining, the Colorado School of
Mines, and the American Coal
Council, among other similar
sites.
It's not surprising that the coal
industry would attempt to spawn a
generation of coal-cheerleading
kids, but why is Scholastic getting
on board? The company emailed
us a statement explaining that it
works with a number of non-
profits, government agencies, and
corporations on supplemental
educational materials; a program
with the National Institute on
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teens about the science of drug
addiction. Which would be
comparable if it taught them that
all drugs, from aspirin to heroin,
were roughly the same.
As for the ultra-simplified
explanation of the coal industry in
the United States of Energy,
Scholastic says: Since the
program is designed for
elementary schoolchildren, the
materials do not attempt to cover
all of the complex issues around
the sourcing and consumption of
energy. Rather, they focus on
grade-appropriate information
about the geography of energy
sources in the U.S. and provide
links to additional resources,
including those provided by the
federal government, for teachers
who want to pursue a deeper,
more complex discussion about
energy.
Kyle Good, Scholastic's Vice
President of Corporate
Communications, tells us that
there are no plans to repeat the
program. But in a blog post from
late last year, Alma Hale Paty,
Executive Director, American
Coal Foundation, seems
enthusiastic about the prospect of
turning kids pro-coal through
educational materials: "We are in
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includes an increase in traffic to
the American Coal Foundation
website from about 8,000 visits
per month before 2008 to over
24,000 visits in late 2010. Paty's
post suggests that this is the result
of its partnership with Scholastic.
The Scholastic program is
probably not the last we'll see of
the coal industry attempting to
preach the wonders of its toxic
product to kids. Can we at least
have the Bieber inhalers instead?
Update: Scholastic offered up
another statement today admitting
that it wasn't "vigilant enough"
when thinking about the potential
effects of the sponsorship:
"Scholastic's children's books,
magazines, reading programs and
website content are used in most
American classrooms - a
responsibility and trust that we
built through painstaking work
through 90 years of service to
teachers and schools. A tiny
percentage of this material is
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government agencies, non-profit
associations and some
corporations. This week,
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for an 11" x 16" poster map which
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energy--coal, nuclear,
hydroelectric, solar, wind and
natural gas--not so much for the
content of the poster but primarily
its sponsorship by the American
Coal Foundation. We
acknowledge that the mere fact of
sponsorship may call into
question the authenticity of the
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conclude that we were not vigilant
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distribute this particular program.
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do better, we are undertaking a
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Paul also fared poorly during the
2008 presidential primary.
During his 2008 primary race,
Paul's campaign had a strong
online presence and raised a lot of
money. Despite this, he
continually came in a distant third
in the Super Tuesday primary
races. He garnered 35 delegates
compared to Romney's 278 and
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)'s
1,575. Paul dropped out of the
race in June.
So far, Paul's online supporters
are already in gear spreading his
libertarian message and
fundraising. Paul raised more than
$1 million online in the 24-hour
period leading up to the first GOP
presidential debate, according to
Politico.
He's also rallying supporters in
New Hampshire, the state said to
be a libertarian stronghold.
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from it," says Christopher Paul of
the RAND Corporation.
If before his death bin Laden had
lost some control over his
followers, the al-Qaida movement
could be in real turmoil now.
Michael Doran, who served as the
Pentagon's strategic
communications specialist under
President Bush, says he'd be
emphasizing that point if he were
still in his old job.
"There's one main message that
you want to hammer home at
every opportunity, and that's
basically: al-Qaida is on the ropes,
the organization is going down,"
Doran says.
The White House has in fact been
making that point.
Paul, who studies strategic
communication efforts, says
administration officials have
generally risen to the strategic
occasion in talking about bin
Laden's death.
"They got a solid B or B+. They
planned ahead. They did a lot of
things right. They grappled with
some hard issues, and there were
a few things that didn't go
perfectly," Paul says.
The most notable faux pas was
on the day after the bin Laden
raid, when White House
counterterrorism adviser John
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opposition, have conviction and
finish what you start. In the end,
people will understand."
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Brennan suggested that bin
Laden, the jihadi hero, resided in
a mansion and used a woman as a
shield when Navy SEALs came
after him.
"Here is bin Laden, living in this
million-dollar-plus compound in
an area that is far removed from
the front, hiding behind women
who were put in front of him as a
shield. I think it really just speaks
to just how false his narrative has
been over the years," Brennan
said.
U.S. officials later corrected their
own narrative, saying bin Laden
did not use a woman as a human
shield. They did later put out a
video of bin Laden sitting on his
floor, wrapped in a blanket,
watching himself on television,
The idea there may have been to
portray him as vain and obsessed
with his own image. But some
pious Muslims may actually have
seen him as appearing humble,
and Doran points out that bin
Laden's residence appeared a bit
shabby.
"It didn't look like a mansion. The
pictures of him, the video of him
in front of the television, didn't
look like he was living in luxury.
If you're inclined to follow bin
Laden and to respect him, I don't
think anything you saw there is
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him," Doran says.
Managing The Message
When government spokesmen
exaggerate in their eagerness to
score a propaganda point, their
credibility suffers.
Ben Rhodes, the deputy national
security adviser for strategic
communication, says the Obama
administration knows that, and he
points out that any administration
misstatements about the bin
Laden raid were quickly
corrected.
"What was important in those
initial days was getting the facts
out and then insofar as they
needed to be corrected, very
forthrightly and immediately
coming forward and saying,
'We've learned additional
information. Here's what we
understand the facts to be,'"
Rhodes says.
Propaganda and spin are
generally seen as efforts to
manipulate or even deceive
people. But in this media age,
there is little disputing the notion
that any organization — from al-
Qaida to the U.S. presidency —
needs to have a message and put it
out clearly. Rhodes says a
strategic communications goal of
the Obama administration has
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States is at war with Islam or the
Muslim world.
"Around his death, I think we saw
it as an important opportunity to
say Osama bin Laden in many
ways had already become
irrelevant in parts of the region,"
Rhodes says. "His narrative of
violent resistance and violent
change had actually been eclipsed
by the peaceful protests that we
see in many parts of the Arab
world."
And that strategic message is one
we'll likely hear next week, when
President Obama makes a speech
about recent developments in the
Middle East.
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Wanderfly's Christy Liu On steps to speed US oil
production (AP)
Reimagining Travel Sites
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Submitted at 5/13/2011 5:52:28 PM
Christy Liu is the cofounder of
travel site Wanderfly, "We help
people figure out where they can
go and what they can do based on
their budgets." Liu, and
Wanderfly's three other
entrepreneurial cofounders, work
to make travel planning more fun-
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About Christy Liu: Born in
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Louisiana Is About To Be Flooded
With A Wall Of Water Nearly As
Big As Connecticut
Gregory White (Business
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Submitted at 5/14/2011 9:27:39 AM
The Morganza floodway, a safety
valve on the Mississippi River
that allows water to flow into low
lying areas north of major cities,
is set to be opened today
unleashing a wall of water on the
region.
The water flow will impact at
least 2,500 people, and potentially
as many as 22,500, according to
Bloomberg.
From Bloomberg:
The opening of Louisiana’s
Morganza floodway today may
send enough water to fill a
football field 10 feet deep every
second across the heart of Cajun
country, eventually filling an area
almost as large as Connecticut.
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Major General Michael Walsh,
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Commission, has told Col.
Edward Fleming to open the
spillway as soon as the river’s
flow reaches 1.5 million cubic
feet per second at Louisiana’s Red
River Landing, the U.S. Army
times by grant funds, and can
mean the difference between life
and death for hungry children.
flooded in Louisiana as well.
The opening of the Morganza
floodway will also have an impact
on oil and gas production in the
region, as several refineries
operate in affected areas.
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Submitted at 5/14/2011 9:00:00 AM
Are you a disgruntled PlayStation
Network gamer? At least you're
not alone--there are more than
100 million PSN users who've had
their data nicked by shadowy
digital thieves. Sony's (probably)
working hard to get the service
back online before everyone
throws their PS3s in a canal, but
with the only date we have to go
on still nearly three weeks away,
we thought we'd rattle through a
few suggestions of what to do in
the meantime.
1. Go outside
Just kidding. We hate the
outdoors as much as you.
Seriously, it's full of bugs and
pollen. Besides, everyone knows
you can get a decent tan simply
by turning your monitor up really
bright.
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How You Can Profit From Japan's Solution

To Its Energy Crisis
William Patalon III (Business accident, Japan already consumed accuracy and timing. I reached
Insider) about 35% of the world's annual him at his office in Canada, where
Submitted at 5/14/2011 9:50:00 AM liquefied natural gas output, he and his family live so that he
meaning heightened LNG imports can be closer to many of the
Just days after Money Morning would be one of the most likely natural-resources companies that
columnist Peter Krauth predicted candidates to make up for the he follows for the "Global
a global uptick in liquefied natural energy shortfall. Resource Alert" (so many of the
gas (LNG) demand because of the Krauth also understood that miners and energy firms that he
nuclear-powerplant disaster in Japan had to move quickly - follows are Canadian-based).
Japan, experts predicted the Asian e s p e c i a l l y s i n c e t h e f a s t - After accepting my kudos, his
heavyweight would boost LNG approaching hot-weather season comments were both modest - and
imports by 50% to help ease the would only exacerbate that matter of fact.
massive energy shortage the country's energy shortfall. Said Krauth: "In assessing the
country now faces because of the Surprisingly, we very quickly consequences of Japan's nuclear
tragedy. received a number of comments, e disaster, it was clear to me that
Krauth is Money Morning's -mails and other bits of feedback LNG would really benefit," he
resident natural resources expert, f r o m r e a d e r s w h o a r d e n t l y said in a call from his office up in
and he also runs the " Global disagreed with Krauth's LNG resource-rich Canada. "Of all the
Resource Alert" advisory service. imports prediction. options, it made the most sense in
Late last month, in the special Krauth knew that he'd be terms of a quick turnaround time."
and Australia were meeting to the greeting: "Congratulations, my
report " A Trillion Reasons to Bet vindicated. But even he was Added Krauth:"And here's the
discuss ways that Australia could boy - you just hit the ammo
Big on LNG," Krauth told Money surprised at just how quickly that other thing, Bill: When it comes
help Japan solve its energy dump."
Morning subscribers to take a vindication arrived. to worldwide demand growth, the
shortfall. Australian LNG imports I brought that little tradition with
close look at liquefied natural gas, LNG Imports Will be the Key global uptick will not be limited
was listed as a likely option. me to Money Morning: When the
predicting that Japan would seize The very next night after we to Japan. South Korea is eyeing
And that still wasn't the end of it. very smart gurus who write for
u p o n L N G a s a r e a d y a n d published Krauth's essay, Radio Canada's high arctic as a major
A few days later, a survey of you "hit the ammo dump" with a
plentiful partial solution to its Japan- the country's external LNG source, and making concrete
experts revealed that Japan would major market "call," I
increasingly serious energy- shortwave-broadcasting service - moves.
likely boost LNG imports by 50% immediately phone them to offer
shortfall quagmire. reported that Indonesia, the "This past January, a group of
to address the energy shortfall. congratulations - and to pump
Japan relies on fuel imports for world's third-largest exporter of South Korean ‘natgas' executives,
Years ago, when I was covering them for some follow-up fodder
most of its energy needs. After the liquefied natural gas, was looking including the CEO of Kogas
Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK) to present to all of our readers.
M a r c h 1 1 e a r t h q u a k e a n d to ship as many as 21 additional (Korea Gas Corp.), the world's
as a business reporter for the A Look Ahead
subsequent powerplant accident cargoes of the fuel to Japan this largest LNG importer, met in
Gannett Co. Inc. (NYSE: GCI) After reviewing all three of the
ruined 20% of its nuclear power year. Canada's Northwest Territories.
newspaper in Upstate New York - global media reports that
output, Japan has been forced to And the "vindication" didn't stop Though in its infancy, their idea is
and broke a big story - a Wall supported his prediction that
s e e k o u t o t h e r s o u r c e s o f there. to someday import LNG from
Street analyst friend of mine who Japan would dramatically boost
electricity. A day after the Indonesia Canada's Mackenzie Delta
also followed the photo giant its LNG imports, I telephoned
Krauth knew that, even before revelation, Radio Japan reported
would routinely telephone me, Peter to congratulate him for a
the earthquake and powerplant that the prime ministers of Japan HOW page 14
and would start off his call with call that was impressive in both its
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through an eventual LNG
terminal. Korea could ship the gas
in ice-breaking LNG tankers
across the top end of Alaska, and
on to Asian ports.
"And they're serious about taking
position. Kogas has already
agreed to pay $30 million for 20%
of a Northwest Territories gas
field currently owned by MGM
Energy Corp. (PINK: MGMCF).
"Clearly, projects like this face
important challenges both
financial and technical. But with
higher energy prices, those
barriers can come down pretty
quickly."
Saudi Arabia Looks To Buy
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Louisiana to Open Spillway To Avert Flood
Disaster
(FOXNews.com)
Submitted at 5/14/2011 9:33:52 AM
LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. --
Army engineers prepared
Saturday to slowly open the gates
of an emergency spillway along
the rising Mississippi River,
diverting floodwaters from Baton
Rouge and New Orleans, yet
inundating homes and farms in
parts of Louisiana's populated
Cajun country.
About 25,000 people and 11,000
structures could be in harm's way
when the Morganza spillway is
unlocked for the first time in 38
years. Sheriffs and National
Guardsmen were warning people
in a door-to-door sweep through
the area, and shelters were ready
to accept up to 4,800 evacuees,
Gov. Bobby Jindal said.
Some people living in the
threatened stretch of countryside -
- an area known for small farms,
fish camps and a drawling French
dialect -- have already started
fleeing for higher ground.
"Now's the time to evacuate,"
Jindal said. "Now's the time for
our people to execute their plans.
That water's coming."
Opening the spillway will release
a torrent that could submerge
about 3,000 square miles under as
much as 25 feet of water in some
areas but take the pressure off the
downstream levees protecting
New Orleans, Baton Rouge and
the numerous oil refineries and
chemical plants along the lower
reaches of the Mississippi.
"Protecting lives is the No. 1
priority," Army Corps of
Engineers Maj. Gen. Michael
Walsh said at a news conference
aboard a vessel on the river at
Vicksburg. A few hours later, the
corps made the decision to open
the key spillway and inundate
thousands of homes and farms in
Louisiana's Cajun country to avert
a potentially bigger disaster in
Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
Engineers feared that weeks of
pressure on the levees could cause
them to fail, swamping New
Orleans under as much as 20 feet
of water in a disaster that would
have been much worse than
Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Instead, the water will flow 20
miles south into the Atchafalaya
Basin. From there it will roll on to
Morgan City, an oil-and-seafood
hub and a community of 12,000,
and eventually into the Gulf of
Mexico, flooding swamps and
croplands.
A sliver of land north of Morgan
City, about 70 miles long and 20
miles wide, was expected to be
inundated with 10- to 20-feet of
water, according to Army Corps
of Engineers estimates. It will
take hours and days for the water
to run south, and wasn't expected
to reach Morgan City until around
Tuesday. Still, the city has already
taken steps to shore up its levee.
The corps employed a similar
cities-first strategy earlier this
month when it blew up a levee in
Missouri -- inundating an
estimated 200 square miles of
farmland and damaging or
destroying about 100 homes -- to
take the pressure off the levees
protecting the town of Cairo, Ill.,
population 2,800.
The disaster was averted in
Cairo, a bottleneck where the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers meet.
This intentional flood is more
controlled, however, and residents
are warned by the corps each year
in written letters, reminding them
of the possibility of opening the
spillway, which is 4,000 feet long
and has 125 gate bays.
The spillway, built in 1954, is
part of a flood plan largely put
into motion in the 1930s in the
aftermath of the devastating 1927
flood that killed hundreds.
It is set to be opened when a flow
rate of 1.5 million cubic feet per
second is reached and projected to
rise. Just north of the spillway at
Red River Landing, the river had
reached that flow rate, according
to the National Weather Service.
To put things in perspective,
corps engineer Jerry Smith
crunched some numbers and
found that the amount of water
flowing past Vicksburg, Miss.,
would fill the Superdome, where
the NFL's New Orleans Saints
play, in 50 seconds.
This is the second spillway to be
opened in Louisiana. About a
week ago, the corps used cranes
to remove some of the Bonnet
Carre's wooden barriers, sending
water into the massive Lake
Ponchatrian and eventually the
Gulf of Mexico.
That spillway, which the corps
built about 30 miles upriver from
New Orleans in response to the
flood of 1927, was last opened in
2008. May 9 marked the 10th
time it has been opened since the
structure was completed in 1931.
The spillways could be opened for
weeks, or perhaps less, if the river
flow starts to subside.
In Vicksburg, Miss., Warren
County Sheriff Martin Pace said
at least five neighborhoods have
taken on water.
"We're patrolling subdivisions by
boat," Pace said Friday.
Deputies are also living at Eagle
Lake, a community north of
Vicksburg that was evacuated and
is now isolated. And U.S.
Highway 61, a major north-south
route has been cut off by water,
affecting thousands of people,
Pace said.
Meanwhile, farmers along the
lower Mississippi had been
expecting a big year with crop
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prices skyrocketing, but now
many are facing ruin, with
floodwaters swallowing up corn,
cotton, rice and soybean fields.
In far northeastern Louisiana,
where Tap Parker and about 50
other farmers filled and stacked
massive sandbags along an old
levee to no avail. The Mississippi
flowed over the top and nearly 19
square miles of soybeans and
corn, known in the industry as
"green gold," was lost.
"This was supposed to be our
good year. We had a chance to
really catch up. Now we're
scrambling to break even," said
Parker, who has been farming
since 1985.
Cotton prices are up 86 percent
from a year ago, and corn --
which is feed for livestock, a
major ingredient in cereals and
soft drinks, and the raw material
used to produce ethanol -- is up
80 percent. Soybeans have risen
39 percent. The increase is
attributed, in part, to worldwide
demand, crop-damaging weather
elsewhere and rising production
of ethanol.
While the Mississippi River
flooding has not had any
immediate impact on prices in the
supermarket, the long-term effects
are still unknown. A full damage
assessment can't be made until the
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Obama to Step Up U.S. Oil Production
(FOXNews.com) its opposition to all three bills,
Submitted at 5/14/2011 9:33:52 AM which are unlikely to pass the
Democratic-controlled Senate,
AP saying the measures would
May 12: President Barack undercut safety reviews and open
Obama, accompanied by National environmentally sensitive areas to
A s s o c i a t i o n o f P o l i c e new drilling.
Organizations (NAOP) President But Obama is adopting some of
Thomas J. Nee, speaks in the the bills' provisions.
Rose Garden of the White House U.S. lawmakers in Alaska
during a ceremony to honor the immediately voiced support for
NAOP, TOP COPS. Obama's drilling plan.
WASHINGTON -- Seeking to "I've been strongly critical of this
address mounting criticism over administration's policies on
high gas prices, President Obama domestic production, but today I
is directing his administration to w a n t t o g i v e c r e d i t t o t h e
ramp up U.S. oil production by president," Sen. Lisa Murkowski,
extending existing leases in the the top Republican on the Senate
Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska's Energy and Natural Resources
coast and holding more frequent C o m m i t t e e , t o l d t h e H i l l .
lease sales in a federal petroleum "Permitting is the single greatest
reserve in Alaska. obstacle to domestic production
Obama said Saturday that the and the president's establishment
measures "make good sense" and of a new team to coordinate work
w i l l h e l p r e d u c e U . S . on Alaska drilling permits is a
consumption of imported oil in positive development, as is the
t h e l o n g t e r m . B u t h e extension of leases in the Gulf of
acknowledged anew that they Mexico and Chukchi Sea."
won't help to immediately bring "I consider the president's address
down gasoline prices topping $4 a today a positive step forward and
gallon in many parts of the a commitment that he is ready to
country. put words into action,"
His announcement followed Democratic Sen. Mark Begich
passage in the Republican- said in a statement. "These steps
controlled House of three bills -- will hopefully lead to expanded
including two this week -- that development in Alaska and long-
would expand and speed up term reduction in our dependence
offshore oil and gas drilling. on foreign oil from unfriendly
Republicans say the bills are countries. However, Congress still
aimed at easing gasoline costs, but must pass comprehensive energy
they also acknowledge that won't and tax reform bills to bring some
be immediate. relief to families facing high gas
The White House had announced prices today and in the future."
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Committee Chairman Doc
Hastings of Washington, sponsor
of the legislation, said it was
"ironic" that Obama "is now
taking baby steps in our direction"
after the White House and
congressional Democrats
criticized the bills.
"The president is finally admitting
what Republicans have known all
along, that increasing the supply
of American energy will help
lower prices and create jobs,"
Hastings said.
Obama also called on Democrats
A n s w e r i n g t h e c a l l o f House. A sale off the Virginia and Republicans to vote to
Republicans and Democrats from coast still would not happen until eliminate billions in taxpayer
Gulf Coast states, Obama said in 2017 at the earliest. But Obama s u b s i d i e s t o o i l a n d g a s
his weekly radio and Internet s a i d h e w o u l d s p e e d u p c o m p a n i e s .
address that he would extend all environmental reviews so that In the weekly Republican
Gulf leases that were affected by a seismic studies to determine how message, Alabama Rep. Martha
temporary moratorium on drilling much oil and gas lies off the R o b y s a i d i t ' s t i m e f o r
imposed after last year's BP oil Atlantic Coast can begin. Washington to get serious about
spill. That would give companies To further expedite drilling off the challenges facing the country,
additional time to begin drilling. the Alaskan coast, where such including straightening out its
The administration had been plans by Shell Oil Co. have been finances and tackling the gas price
granting extensions case by case, delayed by an air pollution permit, issue. She praised the House for
but senior administration officials Obama said he would create an passing measures to expand
said the Interior Department i n t e r a g e n c y t a s k f o r c e t o domestic energy production
would institute a blanket one-year c o o r d i n a t e t h e n e c e s s a r y "because when we're talking
extension. approvals. He also will hold about energy, we're talking about
New safety requirements put in annual lease sales in the vast jobs."
place since the BP spill also have National Petroleum Reserve on "The greatest threat to our
delayed drilling in Alaska, so Alaska's North Slope. Officials economy, job creation, and the
Obama said he would extend said the most recent sale was last future of our children is to do
lease terms there for a year as year, but that they had not been nothing," Roby said. "We have to
well. An oil lease typically runs held on any set schedule. act. It is what we were sent to
10 years. Republicans dismayed by the Washington to do."
Lease sales in the western and lack of progress in Shell's drilling The Associated Press contributed
central Gulf of Mexico that were have drafted legislation to exempt to this report.
postponed last year will be held drilling off Alaska from air This entry passed through the
by the middle of next year, the pollution laws.
same time period required by the House Natural Resources OBAMA page 20
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Falun Dafa Day in Pictures
(Epoch Times | All headlines)
Submitted at 5/14/2011 6:54:57 AM
Falun Dafa Day is a double
celebration for Falun Gong(also
called Falun Dafa) practitioners.
May 13 is the anniversary of the
day that the founder of Falun
Gong, Mr. Li Hongzhi, began
publicly teaching this spiritual
practice in China, and also Mr.
Li's birthday.
Mr. Li first taught Falun Gong in
a schoolhouse in Changchun in
northeastern China in 1992. At the
time, Falun Gong was known as
one among many qigong practices
that were offered to the public in
China.
But Falun Gong was special.
Practitioners of Falun Gong
reported extraordinary
improvements in their health and
also dramatic changes in how they
lived their lives. In large numbers,
they reported having less stress,
fewer conflicts with family,
friends, and colleagues, improved
character, and a deeper
understanding of the purpose of
life.
Falun Gong involves practicing
five meditative exercises and
living according to moral and
spiritual teachings based on the
principles of truthfulness,
compassion, and tolerance.
Spread by word of mouth, Falun
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Gong soon became very popular
among the people of China and
was honored by local and central
state offices for its benefits. In
1996 the chief text of Falun Gong,
Zhuan Falun, became a best seller
in China.
In February 1999 U.S. News and
World Report, citing state
officials, reported that between 70
and 100 million people in China
were practicing Falun Gong.
Falun Gong sources say the
number of practitioners was in
fact over 100 million at that time.
Persecution and Resistance
On July 20, 1999 the then-
paramount leader of the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP), Jiang
Zemin, ordered the “eradication”
of Falun Gong. The largest
religious persecution in the world
followed. The Falun Dafa
Information Center reports that
hundreds of thousands have been
detained in jails, prisons,
brainwashing centers, psychiatric
hospitals, and labor camps. It
estimates the deaths due to torture
and abuse as in the tens of
thousands.
Additional tens of thousands of
practitioners are believed to have
died due to the forced harvesting
of their organs. In their book
“Bloody Harvest” David Kilgour
and David Matas report that
according to official figures
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41,500 organs were transplanted
between 2000 and 2006 for which
the CCP cannot provide a source.
They conclude that detained Falun
Gong practitioners were the most
likely source for these organs.
In spite of this persecution, Falun
Gong practitioners in China have
persisted in their practice. The
Falun Dafa Information Center
estimates that between 20 and 40
million people in China continue
to practice Falun Gong. Not only
have Falun Gong practitioners
continued to practice, they have
mounted an unprecedented
campaign of nonviolent civil
disobedience in China.
Exiled human rights lawyer Mr.
Guo Guoting told The Epoch
Times, “Under the whole violent,
totalitarian CCP, there has been
wave after wave of crazy
persecution and attacks, but there
has never been an organization or
group that openly stands up and
protects its legal rights.”
“This isn’t a hotheaded resistance
that is quickly over,” said Mr.
Guo. “It’s been an ongoing
process, an extraordinarily
tenacious process of protecting
their rights to their beliefs, a
display of persistence and
dauntlessness.”
This campaign is changing
China. Chinese human rights
lawyer Gao Zhisheng, in an open
cause and a clear solution.
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letter in 2005 to paramount leader
Hu Jintao and head of the state
bureaucracy Wen Jiabao, said the
actions of Falun Gong
practitioners have “allowed me to
see a spark of hope for rescuing
our nation from its current
depraved state.” Celebration
Practitioners, even while
celebrating Falun Dafa Day, say
they never forget the persecution
and resistance going on in China.
Wendy Yang at a Falun Dafa
Day celebration in Chicago said
that she looked forward to a future
Falun Dafa Day at which all of
the practitioners in China will be
able to practice the Falun Gong
exercises outside, without fear, as
she could do in the United States.
While Falun Gong has been
persecuted in China, it has spread
around the world. According to
the main Falun Gong website,
Clearwisdom, Falun Gong is now
practiced in 104 countries where
30 different languages are spoken.
Falun Dafa Day has become a
world-wide celebration.
The Clearwisdom website reports
receiving cards and letters from
300 regions inside China wishing
Mr. Li a happy birthday. In
addition, greetings are received
from countries around the world.
The birthday greetings might take
the form of a handwritten note, an
e-card, calligraphy, or oil or water
17
painted scenes. Clearwisdom
publishes hundreds of these
greetings, but says only a small
portion of those received are able
to be published. Activities both
simple and elaborate are held,
varying from place to place
according to local circumstances.
Proclamations from local officials
congratulating Mr. Li and Falun
Gong practitioners on the
occasion of Falun Dafa Day are
read. Parades are held with
marching bands and drum corps.
Performances of dance and song
are staged. Photo or art
exhibitions are shown. Booths or
tables are set up to educate
passerby about the benefits of
Falun Gong and about the
persecution it suffers in China.
And, very commonly,
practitioners come together to
practice the Falun Gong exercises
and to share with one another the
difficulties and successes they
have had in their practice.
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Pakistan's parliament condemns U.S. bin

Laden raid
(Reuters: Top News) criticism of the government and told reporters in Afghanistan. of the two suicide bombers who Pasha, who was asked tough
Submitted at 5/14/2011 7:45:50 AM military, partly because bin Laden Kerry is due to visit Pakistan in killed at least 80 struck at a questions by some members of
had apparently remained the coming days. paramilitary force academy. parliament, told the assembly he
By Zeeshan Haider undetected in Pakistan for years, Members of the two houses of A Taliban spokesman said on did not want to "hang around" if
ISLAMABAD| Sat May 14, 2011 but also because of the failure to parliament said the government Friday the attack was in revenge parliament deemed him
8:45am EDT detect or stop the U.S. operation should review ties with the United for bin Laden's death and vowed responsible, legislator Riaz
(Reuters) - Pakistan's parliament to get him. States to safeguard Pakistan's there would be more. Fatyana told reporters.
condemned on Saturday the U.S. "Parliament ... condemned the national interests and they also The killing of bin Laden could "I am ready to resign," Fatyana
raid to find and kill Osama bin unilateral action in Abbottabad called for an end to U.S. attacks trigger a backlash from his quoted the ISI chief as saying.
Laden, calling for a review of which constitutes a violation of on militants with its pilotless supporters across a giant area Opposition leader and former
U.S. ties and warning that Pakistan's sovereignty," it said in drone aircraft. surrounding Afghanistan, the prime minister Nawaz Sharif said
Pakistan could cut supply lines to a resolution issued after security They also called for an Shangahi Cooperation Council civilian leaders, not the security
American forces in Afghanistan if chiefs briefed legislators. independent commission to (SCO)regional security body said. agencies, should be deciding
there were more such attacks. Pakistan has dismissed as absurd investigate the bin Laden case. Dominated by China and Russia, policy toward India, the United
Pakistan's intelligence chief was any suggestion that authorities BODY PARTS the SCO also unites the mostly States and Afghanistan.
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resign over the bin Laden affair, high-walled compound near the drone attacks, but U.S. officials states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, formulate foreign policy. A
which has embarrassed the country's top military academy. have long said they are carried out Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. parallel policy or parallel
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Pakistani security agents knew accused Pakistan of complicity in countries. supporters of al Qaeda, the to work," Sharif told a news
where the al Qaeda chief was hiding bin Laden but has said he The legislators said U.S. Taliban movement and other conference.
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Obama seeks more drilling in Alaska and

Gulf of Mexico
(Reuters: Top News) In his weekly radio and Internet Energy companies have long in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP That drew praise from one
Submitted at 5/14/2011 5:02:52 AM address, the president met some of dreamed of tapping oil reserves oil spill. Republican aide: "The single
those Republican demands, beneath that site, a home to herds The administration banned new greatest obstacle to domestic
President Barack Obama gestures outlining ways to boost domestic of migrating animals. exploration on offshore leased production in the U.S. these days
as he speaks to a worker after drilling and better coordinate the A senior Obama administration tracts for about six months after is permitting," he said.
touring the Allison Hybrid process of issuing permits in official said the White House the spill. That plan comes as Royal Dutch
Transmission headquarters in Alaska. remained firmly opposed to The president said the Interior Shell relaunches its long-delayed
Indianapolis, Indiana May 6, "I am directing the Department of drilling in that arctic refuge. Department would extend the life push to drill off the coast of
2011. Interior to conduct annual lease Alaska's NPR is a different story, of the affected leases to make up Alaska.
Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque sales in Alaska's National however. Rising crude prices have for the lost time companies had to Over the past two weeks, the oil
By Jeff Mason and Tom Doggett P e t r o l e u m R e s e r v e , w h i l e boosted the amount of oil that can explore for oil and give them giant has submitted plans to the
WASHINGTON| Sat May 14, respecting sensitive areas, and to be recovered economically from more time to meet safety Interior Department to drill up to
2011 6:02am EDT speed up the evaluation of oil and that area, even though it holds less requirements. That was one of the 10 wells in the Beaufort and
(Reuters) - President Barack gas resources in the mid and south oil than previously thought, the requirements of Republican- Chukchi Seas in 2012 and 2013.
Obama, under pressure from Atlantic," Obama said in the government said last week. backed legislation approved this Opposition from environmental
Republicans and the public to address. EXTENDING DRILLING week in the House of groups and other regulatory
bring down gasoline prices, Government lease sales give LEASES, STREAMLINING Representatives to boost offshore hurdles have scuttled Shell's
announced new measures on energy companies the opportunity PERMITS drilling. Arctic drilling plans thus far, but
Saturday to expand domestic oil to rent offshore or onshore federal The White House is increasingly The legislation would also the company said it has received
production in Alaska and the Gulf tracts, which can be drilled for oil concerned about the effects of require the government to hold more positive signals from
of Mexico. or natural gas. Companies with rising oil prices on U.S. certain lease sales in the Gulf, government this time around.
High fuel prices have dented the highest bids generally lease consumers and on Obama's which administration officials (Editing by Todd Eastham)
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Reports of Iran Prison Rape Spark Calls to

Protest
(FOXNews.com) great detail about men being “I don’t know what will become scale, and within prisons today, Iranian authorities.
Submitted at 5/14/2011 9:33:52 AM raped in the prison. of me once this letter is rape appears to be common, A religious man, Zeidabadi has
“Throughout the different quarters published,” Mahmoudian also encouraged by prison guards as a always advocated democracy in
As Iranian students call for of Rajaei Shahr prison, sodomy wrote. way to punish targeted prisoners.” his country. But his insistence on
demonstrations on Sunday as a has become a commonplace He has since been transferred to Even cleric Mehdi Karroubi, referring to the supreme leader
sign of solidarity with jailed routine occurrence. And it seems solitary confinement, his mother, former speaker of the Iranian simply as "Mr. Khamenei” as
student leader Majid Tavakoli, the that to lessen the dangers of Fatemeh Alvandi, told BBC parliament and another participant opposed to a divine supreme
blogosphere is buzzing over contamination, prison guards Persian. She says also that he is in the 2009 elections, has written leader got him into trouble.
another imprisoned figure who p r o v i d e h e a l t h p r o d u c t s t o being denied visitors, and his about the sexual assault of young Zeidabadi was awarded the
has written an incendiary letter i n m a t e s . ” father was turned away from jail men in prisons. He says the UNESCO Guillermo Cano World
exposing the sordid details of Mahmoudian does not use the on Thursday after waiting hours assaults leave the men Press Freedom Prize in 2011 for
sexual assaults against political word condoms, but that is the to see his son. demoralized, with “physical and his reporting.
prisoners and others. implication when he discusses Alvandi sent an open letter psychological problems, and Zeidabadi was sentenced to six
Journalist Mehdi Mahmoudian, “health products.” His letter goes herself to the website Rah Sabz, unable to even leave their homes.” years imprisonment, after which
s e r v i n g a f i v e - y e a r p r i s o n on to say “anyone with a little or the Green Way, addressed to He also says reports of such he is to be exiled for five years to
sentence in Rejaie Shahr prison, beauty of the face, but who lacks the heads of the judiciary and abuses have been revealed to him the desert town of Gonabad. The
wrote a September 2010 letter to physical strength in his arms or security services. In it, she says by people in “sensitive positions.” most unusual and unprecedented
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah money in his account to pay that because of the way they have Rejaie Shahr prison was once aspect of his sentence is a
Ali Khamenei. The letter has just extortionists, will be paraded in treated this “illiterate old woman” notoriously known as a holding “lifetime ban from political and
been published on Kaleme, a different rooms, and each quarter and her son, she understands that pen for hardened criminals and social life.”
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water has receded in many places.
Some of the estimates have been
dire, though.
More than 1,500 square miles of
farmland in Arkansas, which
produces about half of the nation's
rice, have been swamped over the
past few weeks. In Missouri,
where a levee was intentionally
blown open to ease the flood
threat in the town of Cairo, Ill.,
more than 200 square miles of
croplands were submerged,
damage that will probably exceed
$100 million. More than 2,100
square miles could flood in
Mississippi.
When the water level goes down
-- and that could take many weeks
in some places -- farmers can
expect to find the soil washed
away or their fields covered with
sand. Some will probably replant
on the soggy soil, but they will be
behind their normal growing
schedule, which could hurt yields.
Many farmers have crop
insurance, but it won't be enough
to cover their losses. And it won't
even come close to what they
could have expected with a
bumper crop.
"I might get enough money from
insurance to take us to a movie,
but it better be dollar night," said
Karsten Simrall, who lives in
Redwood, Miss.
Simrall's family has farmed the
low-lying fields in Redwood for
five generations and has been
fighting floods for years, but it's
never been this bad. And the river
is not expected to crest here until
around Tuesday.
"How the hell do you recoup all
these losses?" he said. "You just
wait. It's in God's hands."
The river's rise may also force the
closing of the river to shipping,
from Baton Rouge to the mouth of
the Mississippi, as early as next
week. That would cause grain
barges from the heartland to stack
up along with other commodities.
If the portion is closed, the U.S.
economy could lose hundreds of
millions of dollars a day. In 2008,
a 100-mile stretch of the river was
closed for six days after a tugboat
collided with a tanker, spilling
about 500,000 gallons of fuel. The
Port of New Orleans estimated the
shutdown cost the economy up to
$275 million a day. Related
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Flood Threat Along the
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As the Mississippi River swells,
areas along the river, stretching
from Illinois to Louisiana, face
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towns, farms and urban areas.
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TIMELINES: First American
space station launched on
May 14 of what year?
(Epoch Times | All headlines) usually clean themselves with wet
Submitted at 5/14/2011 6:49:03 AM washcloths daily instead.
Recently, the U.S. Congress
TIMELINES Thursday May 14, passed a budget cutting NASA’s
2011 funding by approximately $240
The first American space station million below last year’s funding
was launched into orbit on May level. NASA officials have stated
14 of what year? On May 14, that, despite the significant budget
1973, during a time of acute cuts, the agency will continue to
interest in space exploration aggressively develop a new heavy
between the U.S and the former lift rocket, a multipurpose crew
Soviet Union, America’s first v e h i c l e , a n d c o m m e r c i a l
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Submitted at 5/13/2011 1:08:00 PM
Plant-inhabiting ants act as a
miniature army for the survival of
the Peruvian rainforest trees they
make their homes, with the aid of
chemical signals, researchers
have found.
Symbiotic relationships appear
throughout the natural world, but
horticulturalists and biologists
from Colorado State University
have been in the Tambopata
National Reserve in Peru
discovering how a new one
works. A type of ant known as
Pseudomyrmex triplarinus have
developed a special "you scratch
my back, I'll scratch yours" bond
with the trees they inhabit.
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CNET's got your Android coverage right
here
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 5/14/2011 7:00:00 AM
The new and--we think--much
improved Android Atlas.(Credit:
CNET)
Chromebooks and cloud music
and tablets, oh my! It was very
busy this week at Google's I/O
developer conference.
With all the news (and killer
freebies) that got tossed around at
the event, you're forgiven if you
failed to notice that we launched a
new and improved Android Atlas.
So let me introduce it to you and
share some internal CNET
numbers that demonstrate
Android's growing stature in the
smartphone and tablet markets
and why we're doubling down on
the OS.
Android Atlas has a new design
for showcasing product and app
news; phone and tablet reviews;
app recommendations; videos;
and how-to content. In addition,
we've added a venue for asking or
answering Android-related
questions, a place to submit
rumors/tips to CNET editors, and
new ways to quickly drill into
specific topics. Over the next few
weeks you'll start noticing a
substantial increase in the amount
of how-to content on CNET,
around Android and other
platforms.
We're doing this because Android
represents a challenge to the
status quo, which will spur more
innovation and ultimately benefit
consumers. And we're also doing
it because CNET users seem to be
clamoring for anything Android
related. Let me show you.
Below you'll see two charts
showing the growth of Android-
related traffic on CNET. (Yes,
there are more Android devices,
we get that. But that just means
more devices for consumers to
consider buying.) The lines
represent monthly traffic to CNET
Reviews pages that are product-
specific, including the product
review pages, product specs, and
user reviews. As you can see,
Android is surging. (We call users
visiting these pages "considered
users" because they are
considering buying these products
--there's little reason to read editor
or user reviews for products you
aren't interesting in buying.)
Here's some data on what CNET
readers who were researching
tablets looked at, broken down by
platform.(Credit: CNET)
Traffic data on CNET reader
interest in smartphones, broken
down by OS.(Credit: CNET)
Because people reading CNET
reviews are in the research phase,
the trends seen on CNET are
typically a precursor to actual
sales numbers, by two to four
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months.
On a personal note, I switched
from iPhone to Android (Galaxy
S) last summer--a switch
prompted by AT&T's service and
a desire to learn Android; so far, I
haven't regretted it (though the e-
mail client gets an F). I recently
tried a Windows Phone 7 device
for about a month and would
definitely consider switching. It
feels more polished and thought-
through than my Android; and e-
mail handling, specifically, is
much, much better. So yeah, you
can probably expect a Windows
Phone 7 home fairly soon. Until
then, check out Android Atlas and
/or iPhone (soon to be iOS) Atlas.
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One Day Will People Be Living In Shroom
Houses?
Matylda Czarnecka
(TechCrunch)
Submitted at 5/14/2011 7:55:13 AM
Construction material
manufacturing often produces
hazardous byproducts that are
either toxic or difficult to recycle,
as are many of the materials
themselves. Brooklyn based
Planetary ONE is experimenting
with the idea of grow-your-own
construction materials by making
bricks from mushrooms.
Their latest project, Mycoform,
places mushroom roots known as
mycelium spores into a mold and
feeds them with agricultural
byproducts like buckwheat husks.
In just over a week at 80 degrees,
the spores grow to fill the form,
resulting in a light yet solid
structure. The brick is heated to
100 degrees when complete to kill
the spores, preventing further
growth.
Maria Aiolova, a Planet ONE
team member, said they have been
BPI Chair Tony Wadsworth: 'The future's here and it's
not going away'
Submitted at 5/13/2011 12:47:00 PM
At the Great Escape music
conference in Brighton, the
chairman of UK record industry
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can go to energy for kiln firing
and drying. Traditional brick
production also produces up to 1.3
pounds of carbon dioxide per unit.
Mycoform bricks require very
little energy, produce no carbon,
and cost as little as a quarter of a
penny per unit. The startup cost of
Mycoform brick manufacturing
include a $150 hydraulic press
and $50 steel mold for shaping the
aluminum, and a greenhouse
structure, which can be made
from plastic and wood, for
growing the spores.
The team has applied for grants
to expand their production
working on the idea of growing for creating shipping materials. structures. To address this, the capacity and, in the future, hopes
building materials for more than a I n t h e i r e x p e r i m e n t s , t h e team makes brick molds out of t o s e n d M y c o f o r m k i t s t o
year to develop materials for a Mycofoam team found the edible recycled aluminum sheets. When d e v e l o p i n g c o u n t r i e s .
variety of uses. In addition to R e i s h i m u s h r o o m p r o v i d e s grown inside this aluminum Shroom house art by Cornelia
construction materials, Mycoform consistent results. The finished casing, the bricks are expected to Kopp
can be used to make acoustic tiles, s t r u c t u r e i s e n t i r e l y last between 25 and 30 years. Mycoform illustrations by
insulation, shelters for disaster- b i o d e g r a d a b l e . Each brick can withstand about Planetary ONE
stricken areas, and temporary Although Mycofoam by itself is 2000psi, equivalent to the strength
structures such as street fair sun, mold and water resistant, of a regular brick.
b o o t h s . A n o t h e r c o m p a n y , biodegradability makes it a poor As much as half the cost of
Ecovative, uses a simliar process s o l u t i o n f o r l o n g e r - t e r m manufacturing traditional bricks
trade body BPI, Tony Wadsworth, challenges in the dynamic mindset than protectionism", and
gave a keynote speech where he between the artist and the label to that "the appetite for change has
declared that "the future is here ensure that everyone feels never been healthier". Continue
and it's not worth going away". rewarded", but insisted that "risk- reading...
Wadsworth admitted that "new b u s i n e s s m o d e l s p r e s e n t taking is more in the current
26 Technology/
Lockitron Lets You Unlock Your
Door With Your Phone
Alexia Tsotsis (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 5/13/2011 7:31:37 PM
Ever wish you could just call
your keys? Well the Ycombinator
-backed Lockitron aims to replace
physical keys entirely by letting
you control your door lock with
your phone. The Lockitron web
app and hardware package are as
of today available for general
users, for a one time fee of
between $295 to $500.
Instead of using relatively
unreliable wifi, the service works
by utilizing a plug server and
ethernet cable tied to an electronic
lock. Your smartphone talks to the
server controlling the lock via the
web which means that you can
control the lock from wherever
you are. Lockitron also has an
NFC option if you’ve got a Nexus
S or are planning on buying a
iPhone 5 if/when NFC
happens. The system works with
both deadbolt and handle locks.
While the Lockitron locks do
accept traditional keys, the main
advantage of using the same
technology as found in car key
fobs to open your front door is
that everything is in the cloud
(your data is encrypted). With
Lockitron you can create multiple
“keys” and pass them around to
friends via email. You also no
longer have to worry if you’ve
locked your apartment in the
morning, as you can just control
the lock from your phone.
Says co-founder Paul Gerhardt,
“I wanted to be able to email a
key or text a key to somebody
else, the technology was there, it
just needed a good experience on
top of it.”
The app is particularly useful for
people who need to have multiple
efficient ways to enter a shared
building. For example, the initial
beta was sixty Lockitrons
installed, supporting 400 users.
Schlage, a giant in the lock space,
also has a smart phone unlocking
product that is available at a $9 a
month fee and a $300 hardware
price point. That product is more
hardware focused and not nearly
as accessible to end users,
according to founders Gerhardt
and Cameron Robertson. Text is
the only Lockitron subscription
feature at $5 a month.
Apigy, the company behind
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School of Life
zoo visit sheds
light on human
behaviour
Submitted at 5/13/2011 1:22:00 PM
Cheeky monkey. Sick as a dog.
Eating like a pig. We often
describe human behaviour in
animal terms. A forthcoming
School of Life event will allow
you to directly compare yourself
to the animals in London Zoo,
under the guidance of human
behaviour expert Mark Earls.
Lockitron, wants to be seen as
Between the monkey house, the
appifying hardware and has a
reptile enclosure and the
Lockitron iPhone and Android
aquarium, attendees will be
app in the works for its next
whisked through communications
project. But the founders have set
theory, behavioural science,
their sights beyond locks, “At the
anthropology, ethnography and
end of the day we just want to
psychology and learn how
make sure that there’s one less
observing animals offers insights
thing in your pocket,” Gerhardt
into the way we communicate,
said.
organize and act. Later in the day,
CrunchBase Information Y
attendees will visit Camden
Combinator Information provided
Market for some "field work"
by CrunchBase
where you can observe human
behaviour "in the wild". The aim
is to understand what makes us
behave the way we do. Continue
reading...
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Dell CEO Michael Dell has
teased the company’s notebook. The apparent spiritual keyboard and patterned perforated
upcoming Dell XPS 15z, taking to successor to the Dell Adamo – speaker grilles. It’s not the first
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Flash Player for Mac updated to 10.3, adds

preference pane and auto-updates
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The beta version of Flash Player
10.3 gave way Thursday to the
release version, downloadable
freely from Adobe for installation
on your Mac. The new build
finally restores auto-update
capability, which was unstable or
unsupported on Mac OS X for
quite a while. Now you'll be
prompted to patch Flash when
necessary (unless you're running
the Chrome browser, which packs
its own version of Flash).
Up until now, adjusting Flash's
preferences and settings was done
inside a Flash movie in the
browser, which was quirky and a
bit confusing for novice users.
Now there's an honest-to-
goodness System Preferences
pane for controlling local data
storage, peer-to-peer playback,
camera/audio settings, purchased
content and updating -- much
more convenient. Flash Player
now respects your private
browsing settings (since 10.1) and
will avoid saving any local
content if your browser is set to
private mode, but now you have a
convenient button to clear the
cache of all Flash content or block
specific sites from storing local
data.
Other new features include audio
improvements for echo
cancellation, video analytics tied
to Adobe's SiteCatalyst product,
bug fixes and security features.
The full change list is here.
Of course, some would prefer to
have no truck with Flash Player;
we've got your back.
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Submitted at 5/13/2011 6:16:16 PM
"I get the feeling that the five of
you are like Saudi Arabia," Sen.
John D. Rockefeller IV (D-
W.Va.) fumed to the CEOs of the
world's five largest oil companies
on Capitol Hill on May 12.
"You're caught up in your profits,
you're highly defensive, and you
yield on nothing. You're deeply
and profoundly committed to
sharing nothing."
So it continued at the hearing on
a Democratic proposal to repeal
tax breaks for the oil industry, a
venerable ritual in Washington at
times of high gas prices.
Democrats on the Senate Finance
Committee railed about Big Oil's
outsized profits, tax breaks, high
prices, and failure to contribute to
society. Republicans defended the
companies just as fervently,
arguing among other things that
the proposed legislation would
worsen the country's economic
malaise. None of it was new, save
for a certain poetic symmetry:
The hearing took place almost
100 years to the day after the
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Supreme Court handed down its
decision in Standard Oil Co. of
New Jersey v. United States, the
ruling that created the oil industry
as we know it today and set the
tone for the climate of paranoia
and suspicion that has hung over
Big Oil ever since. And there was
no small irony in Rockefeller's
turn as inquisitor: His great-
grandfather, the most famous
oilman of all time, had been at the
center of the dispute -- and on the
opposite side of it.
In its May 15, 1911, opinion, the
court wrote that Standard Oil had
come by its hegemony "not as a
result of normal methods of
industrial development, but by …
excluding others from the trade,
and thus centralizing in the
combination a perpetual control of
the movements of petroleum and
its products." Such a judgment
was a long time in coming for
Standard, the company that John
D. Rockefeller, a Cleveland
refinery owner and former
produce trader, had built over the
space of four decades into the
world's first gigantic multinational
company. Anger had built for
much of those years over his
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underhanded attempts to drive
rivals out of business and capture
90 percent and more of the U.S.
market. But it finally came to a
head after a 24-month
investigative series by a writer
named Ida Tarbell in McClure's
Magazine starting in 1902.
Tarbell's stories described
kickbacks that Rockefeller
arranged with railroads,
effectively forcing his rivals to
subsidize Standard's business.
Almost as soon as he took his
oath of office, President Theodore
Roosevelt ordered a government
investigation of the company. In
1906, the government filed
restraint-of-trade charges against
Standard.
The Supreme Court ruling forced
Standard to break itself up into 34
companies, producing today's
Exxon and Chevron and no-longer
-extant companies such as Mobil,
Amoco, and Unocal. But in a
sense, the breakup came too late:
The basic DNA of the industry
had already been set. Alone
among the personalities and
industrial creations of the Gilded
Age, Rockefeller and Standard
Oil have continued to loom over
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their industries, and the global
economy, into the 21st century.
The most successful among
Standard's heirs -- ExxonMobil --
routinely reports the highest profit
of any commercial enterprise on
the planet, a feat it has achieved
by explicitly observing many of
Rockefeller's practices: the
accumulation of big cash reserves,
highly disciplined spending,
centralized and methodical
decision-making, and brilliantly
engineered and executed complex
projects. The public, meanwhile,
has largely forgotten the Supreme
Court case, along with the
specifics of the charges, but not
the sentiments underlying the
decision. Simply put, Americans
are wary of oilmen -- as are
people in nearly every other
corner of the Earth to which the
industry has spread in the past
century. "There's a legacy of
distrust," Paul Sankey, an oil
analyst with Deutsche Bank, told
me. "The industry was born of a
PR disaster [and] has never shed
the image."
Such a disaster was perhaps
inevitable, given how widely
Rockefeller's views diverged from
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came to his business. Although
memorialized as an archcapitalist,
Rockefeller believed that Adam
Smith's invisible hand was
nonsense, a creation of "virtuous
academic Know-Nothings about
business." The unbridled free
market was a "sinking ship," he
told his biographer. Rather, he
believed in "cooperation," as he
called his collusion with railroads
and like-minded oilmen. In
general, Rockefeller believed that
flat-out capitalism was fatally
chaotic and acted accordingly,
variously buying out and crushing
his rivals to the best of his ability.
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on What's Worth
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BRYAN WALSH (Foreign view it as a vote of confidence." major reasons that the United that there is potentially money to
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undisclosed infusion of cash from drooling -- gets more funding of the 10 most prolific scientists because being seen as anti-climate In 2009, it was all about the "
a pair of investors. That by itself from BP than any other source. denying the human origins of change was far less acceptable in staycation" -- foregoing expensive
wasn't unusual -- Verdezyne, a This month, French oil giant Total climate change had links to London than it was in Houston. travel and enjoying vacation time
California-based company that invested nearly $1.4 billion in the Exxon; the company spent John Browne, BP's former CEO, at home. Just a year later,
e n g i n e e r s y e a s t c a p a b l e o f American solar firm SunPower, millions in the 1990s funding wanted the respect of the Davos travelers are back in the game,
d i g e s t i n g p l a n t s u g a r s a n d paying generously for 60 percent think tanks like the Atlas elite, for whom climate change willing to spend some cash to get
e x c r e t i n g b i o f u e l s a n d of the company and extending Economic Research Foundation became an article of faith by the the heck outta town. Economic
biochemicals -- is considered one another $1 billion in credit. Shell and the Institute for Energy beginning of the 2000s. But by situations seem to be better.
of the most promising firms in the has worked with Codexis and Research that spread doubt about 2007 even Exxon was backing Few of us, however, are rolling in
crowded advanced-biofuels space. Brazilian ethanol giant Cosan on a global warming. You won't find away from climate denial, it. For most of the regular people
T h e c o m p a n y h a d a l r e a d y $12 billion sugar-cane-to-biofuel any major oil players in the U.S. promising to cut ties with global out there, all-out, splurging
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Silicon Valley stalwarts like as one of the largest investors in loose organization of was clear: If you made your Going away means making some
Monitor Ventures and Life solar power in California, and it environmental groups and money drilling for climate- choices. But it doesn't have to
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from the federal government. But wind turbines near its oil fields in General Electric and DuPont set expected to at least show a bit of It's simply a matter of knowing
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Economic Bust in Australia:Near-Record Corporate
Bankruptcies, Employment Drops Unexpectedly; Rise
in Bad Home Loans;Record Low Property Transactions
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Those looking for bad news can
find plenty of it in Australia,
which in my opinion is soon
headed for recession and rate cuts.
Near-Record Corporate
Bankruptcies
Please consider Rising rents,
cautious consumers behind rise in
insolvencies
The number of companies
entering insolvency in March
reached a near-record high of just
under 1,500, according to the
corporate regulator, with cautious
consumers and rising rents
believed to be behind the
worrying result.
Figures from the Australian
Securities and Investments
Commission show the number of
company collapses reached 1,491
in March, versus 1,299 in
February and 640 in January.
The 1,491 figure is one of the
highest ever figures released by
ASIC since the late 1990s, and a
significant rise on March 2010s
figure of 1,313.
Small Business Council of
Australia chief Peter Strong warns
we might not have seen the worst
yet, with the impact of the
flooding and Cyclone Yasi in
summer not yet reflected in the
numbers.
Record Low Property
Transactions
The Sunday Times reports WA
suffers record low property
transactions
THE State Government has
confirmed that WA’s declining
property market has hit rock
bottom, with property activity last
month falling to 16-year lows.
“The low April figure came on the
back of March which was the
worst for 14 years, and January
and February which saw the
lowest activity for nearly two
decades,” he said.
Rock Bottom?
What makes anyone think this is
the bottom?
Employment Unexpectedly Falls
Most Since 2009
Bloomberg reports Australian
Employment Unexpectedly Falls
Most Since 2009, Currency
Weakens
Australian employers
unexpectedly cut workers in April
by the most since 2009 as hiring
weakens in states less affected by
the nation’s mining boom,
sending the local currency
tumbling and stocks lower.
The number of full-time jobs
declined by 49,100 in April, the
most since February 2009, and
part-time employment rose by
26,900, today’s report showed.
Australia’s participation rate,
which measures the labor force as
a percentage of the population
over 15 years old, fell to 65.6
percent in April from 65.8 percent
a month earlier, it showed.
Last month’s decline in jobs
brings to 26,300 the number of
net new positions created in the
first four months of the year, the
weakest January-through-April
period of employment growth
number since 1999.
Economists in a Bloomberg
News survey forecast a 17,000
increase in April, according to
the median of 21 estimates. The
jobless rate held at 4.9 percent.
The RBA said in its May 6
quarterly policy statement that
“most leading indicators point to
further growth in employment
over the months ahead, although
at a slower pace than in 2010.” It
also predicted the jobless rate
would fall to 4.25 percent by
December 2013.
RBA Calls For Unemployment
Rate to Drop
What the hell is it that the RBA
sees that I don’t? The property
bust is underway and going to
accelerate, retailers are going
under, and consumers are tapped
out.
How exactly does that translate to
lower unemployment rate?’
I certainly have to laugh at the
economists in that Bloomberg
survey because the employment
report came out after the reported
rise in corporate bankruptcies.
Here is one more piece of the
puzzle to consider.
Rise in Bad Home Loans
The Age reports a Rise in CBA
bad home loans
Commonwealth Bank’s decision
to aggressively grow its mortgage
market share at the height of the
financial crisis is starting to cause
indigestion after it revealed an
increase in the number of housing
loans starting to turn bad.
Further stress in the housing
market could emerge with CBA
chief executive Ralph Norris
predicting the Reserve Bank could
issue as many as two interest rate
increases by October.
”We’re obviously expecting the
Reserve Bank to increase rates
and there’s possibly one or two
rises to come in the next six
months,” Mr Norris told an
investor briefing.
Mr Norris was speaking as CBA
confirmed it was on track for a
record profit result after it
reported third-quarter earnings of
$1.7 billion.
Even with demand for credit
expected to remain subdued until
after next month, the latest
performance so far should see the
bank deliver cash earnings of
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$6.8 billion.
This will comfortably beat last
year’s profit result of $6.04
billion.
But CBA’s experience with an 11
per cent jump in the number of
missed payments on housing
loans in the March quarter follows
a similar run-up in arrears by
ANZ and Westpac.
Usually such a sudden increase in
lending arrears would be a cause
for concern in the banking sector
given their large exposure to
mortgages. But Mr Norris pointed
to natural disasters such as
Queensland’s floods causing
stress among some homeowners.
Norris Way to Optimistic
I disagree with the CBA chief
executive Ralph Norris on nearly
every point.
• I highly doubt the RBA hikes
twice more.
• I expect cuts as the Australian
economy slumps into a big
recession.
• I expect delinquencies to rise
further.
• I expect profits at CBA have
peaked or will soon do so.
Except for my economist friend
Steve Keen, I have to ask: Has
anyone down under learned
anything from the property bust in
ECONOMIC page 36
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How You Can Profit From Japan's Solution

To Its Energy Crisis
William Patalon III (Money accident, Japan already consumed accuracy and timing. I reached
Game) about 35% of the world's annual him at his office in Canada, where
Submitted at 5/14/2011 9:50:00 AM liquefied natural gas output, he and his family live so that he
meaning heightened LNG imports can be closer to many of the
Just days after Money Morning would be one of the most likely natural-resources companies that
columnist Peter Krauth predicted candidates to make up for the he follows for the "Global
a global uptick in liquefied natural energy shortfall. Resource Alert" (so many of the
gas (LNG) demand because of the Krauth also understood that miners and energy firms that he
nuclear-powerplant disaster in Japan had to move quickly - follows are Canadian-based).
Japan, experts predicted the Asian e s p e c i a l l y s i n c e t h e f a s t - After accepting my kudos, his
heavyweight would boost LNG approaching hot-weather season comments were both modest - and
imports by 50% to help ease the would only exacerbate that matter of fact.
massive energy shortage the country's energy shortfall. Said Krauth: "In assessing the
country now faces because of the Surprisingly, we very quickly consequences of Japan's nuclear
tragedy. received a number of comments, e disaster, it was clear to me that
Krauth is Money Morning's -mails and other bits of feedback LNG would really benefit," he
resident natural resources expert, f r o m r e a d e r s w h o a r d e n t l y said in a call from his office up in
and he also runs the " Global disagreed with Krauth's LNG resource-rich Canada. "Of all the
Resource Alert" advisory service. imports prediction. options, it made the most sense in
Late last month, in the special Krauth knew that he'd be terms of a quick turnaround time."
and Australia were meeting to the greeting: "Congratulations, my
report " A Trillion Reasons to Bet vindicated. But even he was Added Krauth:"And here's the
discuss ways that Australia could boy - you just hit the ammo
Big on LNG," Krauth told Money surprised at just how quickly that other thing, Bill: When it comes
help Japan solve its energy dump."
Morning subscribers to take a vindication arrived. to worldwide demand growth, the
shortfall. Australian LNG imports I brought that little tradition with
close look at liquefied natural gas, LNG Imports Will be the Key global uptick will not be limited
was listed as a likely option. me to Money Morning: When the
predicting that Japan would seize The very next night after we to Japan. South Korea is eyeing
And that still wasn't the end of it. very smart gurus who write for
u p o n L N G a s a r e a d y a n d published Krauth's essay, Radio Canada's high arctic as a major
A few days later, a survey of you "hit the ammo dump" with a
plentiful partial solution to its Japan- the country's external LNG source, and making concrete
experts revealed that Japan would major market "call," I
increasingly serious energy- shortwave-broadcasting service - moves.
likely boost LNG imports by 50% immediately phone them to offer
shortfall quagmire. reported that Indonesia, the "This past January, a group of
to address the energy shortfall. congratulations - and to pump
Japan relies on fuel imports for world's third-largest exporter of South Korean ‘natgas' executives,
Years ago, when I was covering them for some follow-up fodder
most of its energy needs. After the liquefied natural gas, was looking including the CEO of Kogas
Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK) to present to all of our readers.
M a r c h 1 1 e a r t h q u a k e a n d to ship as many as 21 additional (Korea Gas Corp.), the world's
as a business reporter for the A Look Ahead
subsequent powerplant accident cargoes of the fuel to Japan this largest LNG importer, met in
Gannett Co. Inc. (NYSE: GCI) After reviewing all three of the
ruined 20% of its nuclear power year. Canada's Northwest Territories.
newspaper in Upstate New York - global media reports that
output, Japan has been forced to And the "vindication" didn't stop Though in its infancy, their idea is
and broke a big story - a Wall supported his prediction that
s e e k o u t o t h e r s o u r c e s o f there. to someday import LNG from
Street analyst friend of mine who Japan would dramatically boost
electricity. A day after the Indonesia Canada's Mackenzie Delta
also followed the photo giant its LNG imports, I telephoned
Krauth knew that, even before revelation, Radio Japan reported
would routinely telephone me, Peter to congratulate him for a
the earthquake and powerplant that the prime ministers of Japan HOW page 35
and would start off his call with call that was impressive in both its
Newstablet Edition
Investor Poll Says Tax Hikes Needed; 60% Think
No Budget Agreement by October 1; McConnell
Wants Medicare Cuts Before Hiking Debt Ceiling
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 5/13/2011 1:47:00 PM
In a Bloomberg poll, 60% believe
budget issues will not be resolved
by October 1, the start of the
fiscal year. Meanwhile the battle
between Republicans and Obama
lingers on.
Senate Minority Leader
McConnell Seeks Cuts to
Medicare and Medicaid in U.S.
Debt-Cutting Talks, but Obama
Wants Tax Hikes. Senate
Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell said he wants
“significant” near-term cuts in
federal agency budgets paired
with longer-term reductions to
programs like Medicare and
Medicaid in exchange for his
support for a boost in the U.S.
debt limit.
McConnell, a Kentucky
Republican, said he will insist on
big policy changes in the
Medicare and Medicaid health-
care programs to help restore the
nation’s fiscal balance. He urged
Obama to help specify
adjustments both parties can
embrace. Doing so now, with
bipartisan support, would help
Skatalites' drummer Knibb dies in Jamaica at 80 (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Obituaries)
Economy/ Obituaries 35
HOW
continued from page 34
through an eventual LNG
terminal. Korea could ship the gas
in ice-breaking LNG tankers
across the top end of Alaska, and
on to Asian ports.
"And they're serious about taking
nullify the policy changes as curb spending, the speaker said, -term deal, more than 7 of 10 poll position. Kogas has already
issues in the 2012 elections, he as otherwise “the markets will act r e s p o n d e n t s a r e c o n f i d e n t agreed to pay $30 million for 20%
said. f o r u s v e r y s o o n . ” G l o b a l Congress will raise the $14.29 of a Northwest Territories gas
“We can do something important Investors Say Tax Hike Needed to trillion debt limit and stave off a field currently owned by MGM
for the country together, and this Cut U.S. Deficit default on U.S. obligations. The Energy Corp. (PINK: MGMCF).
is the opportunity,” the top Senate Please consider a Bloomberg Poll government will run out of "Clearly, projects like this face
Republican said. “That is the that shows Investors Say Tax options for avoiding default by i m p o r t a n t c h a l l e n g e s b o t h
importance of this debt ceiling Hike Needed to Cut U.S. Deficit about Aug. 2, according to financial and technical. But with
moment. It is the one time when Global investors, by an almost 2- Treasury Secretary Timothy higher energy prices, those
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Jamaican drummer who played develop the ska beat, has died, his
36 Economy/ Culture/
ECONOMIC
continued from page 33
the US?
The Balance Sheet Is The Future
Let’s now review Peter Atwater’s
post on Bank Earnings 102 also
from September 2007.
[Here is] one simple rule for
financial services firms: The
income statement is the past. The
balance sheet is the future.
Let me repeat it again. The
income statement is the past and
the balance sheet is the future,
especially now.
At the top of a credit cycle, the
income statement for a financial
institution shows “the best of
times”, but buried in the balance
sheet is “the worst of times” to
come.
I commented on that many times
including Questions Linger Over
Lehman’s Balance Sheet on
March 25, 2008. “Judging from
what’s happening to its balance
sheet, Lehman’s future looks
Google Expects "Full Recovery" of
Missing Blogger Posts
noreply@blogger.com (Michael
Shedlock) (Mish's Global
Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 5/13/2011 2:17:00 PM
As many of you are aware, today.
Blogger posts on Thursday were I am missing a post on Australia
wiped out across the board (all and another one on weekly
blogs) when Google restored unemployment claims numbers.
B l o g g e r t o a s t a t e f r o m Hopefully both will be back
Wednesday, having to back out online soon.
maintenance gone awry.
bleak.”
The more leveraged one is to real
estate the bigger the ultimate
bust. Commonwealth Bank is
likely to be punished severely for
its willingness to expand into
risky assets at the top of the
bubble.
Addendum:
Anyone who thinks short sellers
and options traders sunk Lehman
or Bear Stearns is mistaken.
Leverage killed both companies.
Leverage would have and should
have killed Citigroup as well, had
not the Fed and Congress stepped
in with ill-advised bailouts.
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Newstablet Edition Economy/ Culture/ 37

Louisiana Is About To Be Houdini's Letter, Mary

Shelley's Hair Among New
Flooded With A Wall Of Water York Public Library's Artifacts
Angela Watercutter (Wired Top
Nearly As Big As Connecticut
Gregory White (Money Game)
Stories)
Submitted at 5/14/2011 7:00:00 AM
bizarre, items going on display
this weekend. The preview gallery
includes a letter that Harry
Houdini wrote to the NYPL’s
Submitted at 5/14/2011 9:27:39 AM Harry Houdini's letter to the New d i r e c t o r i n 1 9 1 1 a b o u t t h e
York Public Library accompanied library’s meager collection of
The Morganza floodway, a safety h i s c o n t r i b u t i o n s t o t h e magic books, a lock of Mary
valve on the Mississippi River institution's collection of books on S h e l l e y ’ s h a i r a n d C h a r l e s
that allows water to flow into low "legerdemain, magic or hand-cuff Dickens’ letter opener — made
lying areas north of major cities, tricks." from the paw of his cat, Bob.
is set to be opened today The curators at the New York Celebration of the centennial,
unleashing a wall of water on the Public Library have spent a which will include a festival
region. century amassing the library’s featuring Lego sculptures of the
The water flow will impact at extensive research collection — library’s famous lions on May 21
least 2,500 people, and potentially everything from 4,300-year-old and 22, comes at a trying time for
as many as 22,500, according to Sumerian cuneiforms to Malcolm the institution. It’s currently
Bloomberg. X’s briefcase. facing $40 million in cuts under
From Bloomberg: Now the library is putting a vast Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s
The opening of Louisiana’s selection of that stash on display proposed budget, leading the
statement. For the latest news, visit
Morganza floodway today may in Celebrating 100 Years. The library to launch a letter-writing
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15,000 acres of farmland will be • The Mississippi Nightmare
Major General Michael Walsh, a r e n o t o n l y i n d i v i d u a l l y display and free to the public until
flooded in Louisiana as well. Scenario
president of the Mississippi River compelling, but shown together, the end of December.
The opening of the Morganza • Check Out This Insane Before-
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operate in affected areas.
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sneak peek at some of the Decades Of US-UK Attempts To
sometimes funny, sometimes Topple Gadafi.
38 Economy/ Culture/ Featured/
China Just Banned Diesel
Exports And Its Oil Demand
Could Be About To Surge
Gregory White (Money Game)
Submitted at 5/14/2011 8:41:00 AM
China just banned the export of
all diesel fuel from the country,
according to the Financial Times.
The move comes in advance of
the high-demand summer season
and recent protests in the county
against rising fuel prices. It's the
second such move by a BRIC
nation, with Russia banning
gasoline exports through
prohibitive export taxes in recent
weeks.
But China doesn't just consume
its own diesel, it also ships some
to markets like Vietnam, Japan,
the U.S., France, and Singapore.
Japan in the wake of the
Fukushima and tsunami disasters,
has seen its production decline as
well.
With the threat of summer power
outages looming, the big worry
now is that Chinese demand may
come in higher than expected,
with the IEA saying the country
Downloading my videos from Flickr
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 5/14/2011 4:11:58 AM
I'm working on getting my Flickr
pictures to flow to an S3 bucket
may add 200,000 - 300,000
barrels a day to global demand.
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to do something special with
Talks Made "Significant
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• Obama Eases Restrictions On
Oil And Gas Drilling In Alaska,
Atlantic, And Gulf Of Mexico
• What Rampant Chinese
Inflation Really Means For The
Common Shanghai Consumer
them.
Most of my Flickr uploads have
been JPGs, but there are a few
MP4s.
Near as I can tell, there is no way
Newstablet Edition
Sarah Jessica Parker Parties
With Harvey Weinstein and
Hits the Carpet in Cannes
Molly Goodson (PopSugar)
Submitted at 5/14/2011 7:15:00 AM
Sarah Jessica Parker dazzled in a
white Dolce&Gabbana gown at
The Weinstein Company's soiree
in Cannes last night. Harvey
Weinstien presented previews of
their upcoming slate including My
Idiot Brother, which debuted at
Sundance, and My Week With
Marilyn, which is out later this
year and stars Michelle Williams
Harvey Weinstein gushed a bit
as Marilyn Monroe. Sarah Jessica
about Sarah up on stage, saying
Parker took the stage to present a
that his friend Anthony Minghella
five minute peek at I Don't Know
would have loved her for the part.
How She Does It, the romantic
SJP then changed and was off to
comedy she recently filmed. It
the Cannes Film Festival premiere
stars Sarah as a working mom
of TWC's Wu Xia. Don't miss all
trying to juggle her career and
our coverage of Cannes straight
family, and it costars an ensemble
from the action in France! View
cast including Pierce Brosnan,
Slideshow ›
Olivia Munn, Christina
Hendricks, and Greg Kinnear.
to actually download the videos. I it. Also on the Flickr developer
could of course be missing blog.
something.
PS: It seems from this thread
there was at one time a way to do
Newstablet Edition Culture/ 39

How Google Chromebook Will Feel For

Music Fans
Eliot Van Buskirk (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 5/13/2011 11:00:00 PM

As it tends to do around this time

of year, Google is making waves
this week with its Google I/O
developers’ conference in San
Francisco, where it announced not
only the innovative WebGL-
enabled music video we profiled
on Wednesday, but — more
importantly for the future of
computing — its Chromebook
series of netbooks, which sit
somewhere between the tablet and
the laptop and are designed from
the ground up for cloud
computing. Perhaps Larry Ellison
wasn’t wrong about “thin clients”
— just 15 years too early about
the tipping point when processing
power and data storage would
retreat from the personal
computer at the edge of the
network, migrating back to big,
centralized mainframes like the
one pictured above.
Google envisions schools and
businesses snapping up
Chromebooks (initially from Acer
and Samsung) at bulk rates for
deployment across student
populaces or roving sales forces.
But as happened with the personal continue to migrate to the cloud you carry around a laptop, with its than for listening to Spotify as one collecting to the cloud — not only
computer, plenty of “regular” where they can be accessed by expensive memory, operating edits a Google Doc and plays the on these recently-announced
people will surely buy these multiple personal devices. s y s t e m , a n d web app version of Angry Birds? Chromebooks, but also on
devices over the coming years After all, if all your music and other accouterments more suited As music fans make the transition
too, as their data and software apps are stored online, why would for downloading email in 1996 from iTunes-style music HOW page 40
40 Culture/
HOW
continued from page 39
smartphones, tablets, and other
computer-like devices that are not
computers — they’re in for some
big changes:
The main allure of cloud music is
its elimination of bloated client-
side software like iTunes, which
duplicates music files all over
your hard drive, eats up RAM,
and requires wires to transfer
music to devices. Instead, your
computing devices will function
more as input points for uploading
songs, bookmarking them on
music services such as YouTube,
tagging them as favorites within a
music service, adding them to
your personal collection, or
making playlists out of them in
order to find them more easily
within a large subscription library.
Your media and playback
software will reside on a server
far, far away, whether it’s
administered by Google, Amazon,
Apple, or whoever. Say goodbye
to knowing where your music
actually lives — the future of
music collecting lies in access, not
storage.
Angelina, Miley Bikini, Penelope, Posh, and
More in This Week in Pictures!
PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 5/14/2011 6:02:00 AM
I t w a s a b u s y w e e k w i t h Diane Kruger, and more while
Hollywood's hottest stars stepping back in LA Penelope Cruz
out for events across the globe. p r e m i e r e d P i r a t e s o f t h e with Johnny Depp and Mickey
The Cannes Film Festival kicked Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Web apps are your new friends
If you want to branch out to
music services that are not offered
by the same big company behind
your netbook or operating system,
web apps — including not only
official Chrome apps like the ones
offered by Google itself but also
web-based music services such as
MOG, which runs within a
browser — will become a crucial
part of your music experience.
Google plans to charge an extra
$2/month for the ability to install
Chrome apps, but anything you
can access within a web browser
will be free to access (other than
whatever subscription fees you
have to pay to access those
services).
Data plans are the enemy
Other than worrying that the
company you just entrusted your
music collection to might go out
of business or change its terms
(assuming services don’t agree to
enact“one big database” to allay
those fears), the biggest problem
with cloud computing, and by
extension Chromebooks, is the
off with appearances from Rachel
McAdams and her boyfriend
Michael Sheen, Angelina Jolie,
limited wireless data plans upon
which they rely for just about
everything whenever there’s no
access to WiFi.
Assuming you use your data plan
for nothing else, here’s how much
wireless listening the standard
Chromebook 3G wireless plans
will allow (assuming a 128 Kbps
bit rate for the music) depending
on how much you pay for your
wireless data, above and beyond
whatever your music locker or
subscription service might cost:
• Free 100MB per month(what
you get with the first two years of
ownership under the current plan):
1 hour and 45 minutes of music
playback for an entire month
• $10 for an unlimited day pass:
listen all day
• $20 for 1GB of data in a given
month: a little over half hour of
music per day
• $35 for 3GB of data in a given
month: nearly two hours of music
per day
• $50 for 5GB of data in a given
month: a little over three hours of
music per day
Newstablet Edition
As Chromebooks and other cloud
-oriented devices take hold, music
fans will come to appreciate what
is now a relatively arcane feature:
the ability to cache music offline,
so that we can listen without
eating up our data plans —
Top 10 Awesome
ironically, the same way we do Android Features
today with iTunes, just on a
smaller, bite-sized scale. that the iPhone
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History Museum Doesn't Have
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you won't find on its Apple-clad
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Mouse at Disneyland. Miley pictures and biggest stories
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Newstablet Edition Culture/ 41

Artist Creates Intricate Portraits Out of Old

Maps
Olivia Solon, Wired UK (Wired Rosato noted that because paper
Top Stories) maps are rarely used any more,
Submitted at 5/14/2011 8:00:00 AM they are easy for her to acquire.
“For my birthday this year, my
Nikki Rosato's Two Bostons mom surprised me with about 20
turns sliced-up maps into an pounds of used road maps that she
intriguing human form. obtained from online sources such
Photo: Nikki Rosato as eBay.”
Artist Nikki Rosato creates More recently, Rosato — who is
intricate portraits by cutting away studying at the School of the
at old maps, leaving only the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston—
roads and rivers behind like a has been using the cut-away maps
network of blood vessels. Rosato as stencils to aid the creation of
uses a Stanley knife to hand-cut large-scale drawings. “I’m hoping
away all of the landmasses to create a narrative through the
between the roads and waterways, visual figural relationships that I
and then uses the delicate paper lay out across the drawing paper
left to create portraits — some in — touching on ideas of loss,
2-D and some sculptural pieces. abandonment, memory, identity
For the sculptural pieces, such as and relationships,” she explained.
a bust she created of herself, she Make sure you check out Wired
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with, noticing how there was a of identity. The surface of the delicate, skinlike structure,” she
“Through the removal of the land Decades Of US-UK Attempts To
parallel between the road lines human body is literally covered in added. “The map serves as a
masses, the places almost become Topple Gadafi.
and the lines that cover the human lines, and these physical lines visual system mimicking skin or
ambiguous, since all of the text is
body. hold stories about our lives.” veins, etc., and it is a system that
lost. Unless someone really
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knows the roads and highways, it
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New York Rangers' Derek

Boogaard Found Dead at
28
Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com:
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Submitted at 5/14/2011 9:53:00 AM

Derek Boogaard
New York Rangers forward
Derek Boogaard has been found
dead. He was 28.
The Rangers did not release
details of his death, but according
How to make an X-Wing to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune,
Boogaard was found Friday
Fighter out of office supplies evening in his Minneapolis
apartment by his family. The

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Examiner's office in Minnesota
said an autopsy was pending.
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"Derek was an extremely kind and
caring individual," New York
Rangers President and General
Manager Glen Sather said in a
statement. "He was a very
thoughtful person, who will be
dearly missed by all those who
knew him. We extend our deepest
sympathies to his family, friends
and teammates during this
difficult time."
Known as the "Boogeyman,"
Boogaard hailed from Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, and played for the
Minnesota Wild for five seasons
before signing a four-year, $6.5
million contract with the Rangers
in July. Boogaard's season ended
Dec. 9 when he sustained a
concussion in a fight the Senators'
Matt Carkner in Ottawa. He did
not play again.
At 6-foot-7 and 265 pounds,
Boogaard was an enforcer and
had been voted the toughest
fighter and most intimidating
player in NHL polls several times.
"I'm not afraid to do what I do,"
Boogaard said when he joined
Rangers. "New York knows what
type of player I am."
Get the rest of today's news
Boogaard played only 22 games
with the Rangers. In his 255-game
NHL career, he had 3 goals, 13
assists and 589 penalty minutes.
Boogaard also is survived by his
mother, Joanne; father, Len; a
sister, Krysten; and two brothers,
Aaron, a minor league hockey
player, and Ryan, a Royal
Canadian Mountie in
Saskatchewan.
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Mass sackings in Bahrain crackdown

(AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)) unions called a general strike on both the earlier mass protests, and
Submitted at 5/14/2011 7:02:10 AM March 13. Under Bahraini law, now mass dismissals of
companies are within their rights employees. Analysts say the
More than 2,000 private sector to terminate the employment of sackings do not inspire confidence
employees, most of them Shia, staff members who miss days of in the business community.
have either been sacked or w o r k a b o v e a n d b e y o n d a In March, foreign assets in the
suspended in an expanding specified period of unexcused country's offshore banking sector
Bahraini crackdown on anti- leave. fell 10 per cent, hitting their
government protests, an Al Another man who lost his job lowest levels since 2005.
Jazeera investigation has found. told Al Jazeera that he was The Bahraini government insists
The General Federation of struggling to support his family. it has only punished those who
Bahrain's Trade Unions puts the He said that the mass dismissals committed criminal acts during
figure of those who have been were completely unexpected. the protests, and denies there is a
fired at 1,300, with Bahraini "We have never faced this before. sectarian angle to the issue.
rights groups reporting that We have no idea how to deal with Analysts are not so sure,
h u n d r e d s m o r e h a v e b e e n it. We are waiting for news from however.
suspended from their government the company. Will they let us "I do believe this is a political
jobs. back? Will i be compensated?" he and other repressive measures that Contradictory discourses decision done by the authorities,
T h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l L a b o u r asked. Click here for more of Al effectively undermine its capacity Speaking to Al Jazeera, Guy rather than decisions done by the
Organisation says that the number Jazeera's special coverage to exercise its legitimate trade Ryder, the deputy director-general companies or establishments,"
of people dismissed or suspended "It's the only job I know and I union functions," the statement of the ILO, said that there were s a i d S a y e d H a d i , a f o r m e r
currently stands at over 2,000. loved it." read. two contradictory discourses at member of parliament and a trade
Al Jazeera spoke to a number of The International Labour T h e I L O s a i d t h a t m a s s play. union chairman.
people who had been fired in Organisation has appealed to the dismissals had been reported from "The discourse of the government The ILO's Ryder pointed out that
recent weeks. They spoke on Bahraini government to ensure the Bahrain Petroleum Company is that it has had, in fact, no role Bahrain, in comparison to other
condition of anonymity, fearing that workers are not subjected to (including the president of that whatsoever in the dismissal of countries in the region, has had a
government reprisals. "unfair, unjust and degrading" company's trade union), the Alba workers. That dismissals have much freer labour law regime, and
One man said that lawyers asked treatment. Aluminium Company, the Khalifa taken place by decision of that this offers hope for workers
him questions related to anti- In a statement released on April Sea Port and Gulf Air. It said that companies and in accordance with who have been dismissed.
government protests the day he 5, 2011, Juan Somavia, the employees and trade union labour legislation prevailing in "It's worth recalling that Bahrain
was fired. director-general of the ILO's activists were facing dismissal Bahrain. So the government has has stood out over the last decade
"He kept asking if I went to the international labour office, said a n d l e g a l p r o s e c u t i o n f o r very much a hands-off discourse or so as perhaps the best example
Pearl Roundabout, if I went to the that he had conveyed "grave encouraging workers to take part on this matter. of progressive policies towards
protests. If I met any of the concern" to the Bahraini prime in the general strike. "That version is contradicted by labour in the Gulf region. Bahrain
opposition leaders. If I was a minister in an earlier missive. The American Federation of the trade unions in Bahrain, who stands out as a country with an
member of any political societies. "In the wake of the recent wave of Labor and Congress of Industrial say that employers, in fact, have i n d e p e n d e n t t r a d e u n i o n
If I made donations to the peaceful demonstrations which Organizations (AFL-CIO), the b e e n s u b j e c t e d t o p o l i t i c a l m o v e m e n t , a n d t h a t i s n o t
protesters. These questions were w e r e m e t b y t h e B a h r a i n i largest trade union group in the pressure to dismiss people who generally the case in the region,"
repeated again and again," he authorities with excessive use of US, has also urged Washington to the government perceives as he said.
said. force and the declaration of a state suspend a free trade pact with having been active in the ... "It's existed since 2002, so there's
Turning point of emergency, the ILO has Bahrain over alleged human rights protest movement," he said. a tradition of labour activism in
The turning point for this side of received further information about abuses committed since the The Bahraini economy,
the crackdown came when labour dismissals of GFBTU activists MASS page 46
crackdown on protests began. meanwhile, continues to reel from
44 Politics-Left/
US stops short of recognising Libya rebels
(AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)) what the NTC had sought. In an
Submitted at 5/14/2011 12:12:19 AM op-ed published in the New York
Times ahead of his meetings in
The United States has stopped Washington, Jibril had written
short of granting full diplomatic that the NTC was seeking to be
recognition to Libya's rebel r e c o g n i s e d a s t h e " s o l e "
council, but the White House has legitimate representative of the
said the council is a "legitimate Libyan people.
and credible interlocutor of the The White House, however, has
Libyan people". signalled that such a move would
Mahmoud Jibril, who serves as be premature.
the foreign minister of the rebels' "I don't anticipate action like
National Transitional Council that," Jay Carney, the White
(NTC), met Tom Donilon, the US House spokesman, said.
president's national security Financial aid
advisor, at the White House on Meanwhile, the US has stepped
Friday. up financial assistance for the anti
"During the meeting, Mr Donilon -Gaddafi rebels, with Obama
stated that the United States views authorising $25m in non-lethal
the [NTC] as a legitimate and a s s i s t a n c e a n d $ 5 3 m i n
credible interlocutor of the Libyan h u m a n i t a r i a n a i d .
people," the White House said in The White House said it was
a statement released after the looking for ways to increase
meeting. Click here to follow our f i n a n c i a l s u p p o r t t o t h e
Libya live blog opposition, in part through
"In contrast, Mr Donilon stressed congressional legislation that
that [Libyan leader Muammar] would free up a portion of the
Gaddafi has lost his legitimacy to more than $30bn in frozen assets
rule and reiterated [US] President c o n n e c t e d t o t h e G a d d a f i
[Barack] Obama's call for Gaddafi government in US banks, so that
to leave immediately," it said. it could be used to aid the rebels.
Obama did not meet with the "We believe that if we could
opposition leaders. access and use blocked
"Mr Donilon and Dr Jibril government of Libya assets it
discussed how the United States could make a significant amount
and the coalition can provide of money available to alleviate the
additional support to the [NTC]. suffering of the Libyan people,"
M r D o n i l o n a p p l a u d e d t h e Carney said.
[ N T C ' s ] c o m m i t m e n t t o a n The rebels have said they need up
inclusive political transition and a to $3bn in the coming months for
democratic future for Libya," the military salaries, food, medicine
statement concluded. and other supplies. They also say
The recognition stops short of no country has sent the arms they
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the country's Agriculture
Ministry. The same building,
however, was targeted days ago
and, at the time, residents said it
was a government intelligence
building.
Shortly before Gaddafi's remarks
were broadcast, regime
spokesman Moussa Ibrahim
need. continues to attack his people. claimed that a NATO airstrike in
"If there is any country that is The White House spokesman Brega had targeted a meeting of
willing to arm us, we are happy to offered no specifics on how the dozens of clerics and officials
defend ourselves," Ali Tarhouni, US planned to do that, saying from around Libya, a claim
the council's minister of finance only that officials were, "in NATO denies.
and oil, said after a meeting at the regular communications with Ibrahim said 11 imams were
State Department on Friday. Congress, and that will continue". k i l l e d i n t h e i r s l e e p a t a
"This is a thug, a killer regime Administration officials have guesthouse, and 50 people were
that took a peaceful movement been eager to show signs of wounded, including five in critical
and forced us to carry arms. It's progress in the Libyan bombing condition.
legitimate that we have arms to campaign, first led by the US and The alliance, responding to the
defend ourselves." now overseen by NATO. claim, said it had attacked a
Despite financially backing the Obama on Friday met privately military command-and-control
opposition, the White House says with Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the centre, and that it could "not
questions about who exactly the NATO Secretary-General, in the i n d e p e n d e n t l y c o n f i r m t h e
rebels are and their long-term Oval Office. The White House validity" of claims of civilian
objectives are keeping the United said the two agreed that military casualties.
States from recognising the action would go on until Gaddafi's " W e ' r e v e r y c a r e f u l i n t h e
council as the legitimate Libyan assault on civilians had stopped. selection of our targets and this
government. NATO has been intensifying one was very clearly identified as
"The question of recognition is airstrikes in several areas of Libya a command center," said an
one of many policy issues still against Gaddafi's troops in a bid official at NATO's operational
under review," Carney said. to weaken his campaign against headquarters in Naples, Italy, who
Military offensive the rebel uprising. spoke under the alliance's rules
Friday's meetings came as a The Libyan leader, in an audio that he could not be named.
deadline neared on a 60-day message broadcast on state This entry passed through the
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Deaths as Syrian army storms border town

(AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE))
Submitted at 5/14/2011 9:33:48 AM

Protesters march through the

streets in Homs earlier in May in
this still image taken from a
YouTube video [Reuters]
At least four people have died
after army troops stormed the
town of Talkalakh in the restive
Homs province in western Syria.
Witnesses said those killed on
Saturday were among dozens of
people attempting to leave
Talkalakh and enter Lebanon,
which borders the town, a day
after a mass demonstration there
against the rule of Syrian
president Bashar al-Assad.
"The security forces, who had
been encircling Talkalakh since
the morning, fired machine guns.
At least three people were killed
and several were wounded," a
witness told the AFP news
agency.
A fourth died in hospital in
Lebanon from gunshot wounds
sustained while fleeing the Syrian the city, chanting for an end to the Syrian army personnel were including at least four injured government was implementing "a
town, medical sources said. siege on Homs, Baniyas and deployed in Talkalakh after people, had crossed into Lebanon comprehensive political,
Another eyewitness on the border Deraa, the major flashpoints in the officials said troops and tanks - fleeing the violence in their economic and social reform
told Al Jazeera that at least 19 country's uprising. were pulled out of Baniyas and country that has left at least 775 program in the interest of the
people were wounded as the An eyewitness in the city said Deraa. people dead since the start of the people".
military swooped into the town. that, due to the size of the Security barriers were set up at protest movement in mid-March. "There is a correlation between
The violence came after more procession, the military had the entrances of the Talkalakh and 'National dialogue' security and stability from one
than 8,000 people attended removed and relocated some of heavy gunfire was heard, Meanwhile, Adnan Mahmoud, hand, and the reform from the
a funeral in the provincial capital the checkpoints it had established according to activists' accounts. the minister of information, other hand," SANA quote the
of Homs for one of three throughout the city since mass Security forces were deployed in announced "a comprehensive minister as saying.
protesters killed on Friday by anti-regime protests erupted there surrounding villages as well. national dialogue in all Syrian Mahmoud said army units had
Syrian security forces. last month. Lebanese security officials said governorates," Syria's state-run started to leave the coastal city of
Mourners for Fouad al-Rajoub "Everything is peaceful now but cracks of gunfire could be heard SANA news agency reported on Baniyas and completed a pullout
gathered near Bab al-Dreib and we will be passing government on the Lebanese side of the Saturday. from Deraa, although residents
began making their way through buildings and I fear the snipers border. In a press conference on Friday, DEATHS page 46
will open fire on us," he said. Officials said scores of Syrians, Mahmoud said that the
46 TV/ Featured/
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continued from page 43
the country, and one of the
encouraging ... messages that we
got from the government in our
conversations with them is that
despite the events of recent
weeks, the government's clear
intention is to proceed with the
reform agenda, and that trade
unions will be a part of the future
of the country.
"The ILO is doing whatever it can
with the government and also
with the other social partners to
try to find a way forward so that
people can return to their jobs.
The government recently
announced... the establishment of
a joint committee, headed by the
minister of labour, with whom
we've been talking, to review all
dismissals."
The results of that review process
are due in the next few days, the
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Decades Of US-UK Attempts To
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government says.
In the meantime, dismissed
workers say they face crushing
uncertainty about their future.
"It's difficult to find another job if
you have been sacked at this time.
We cannot plan. I'm worried
about my kids and the future," one
such worker told Al Jazeera.
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Former Skinheads Apologize to
Oprah Winfrey (VIDEO)
Nick Zaino (TV Squad)
Submitted at 5/13/2011 4:30:00 PM
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In February, 1988, four skinheads
appeared on'The Oprah Winfrey
Show'(weekdays, syndicated) to
defend their views. One skinhead
said that blacks hadn't created
anything in America; they had
come to America from the jungles
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there reported tanks outside
mosques in the morning.
Aref Dalila, an economist who
met Shaaban last week, said "the
domination of the security
apparatus over life in Syria" must
end for different opinions to be
represented.
"We are long used to these
'dialogues' in Syria, where the
regime assembles its loyalists in a
conference and the other opinion
is either in jail or underground,"
he said.
According to the Syrian
government "police and security
forces have been sent to pursue
armed groups which perpetrated
of Africa and were taught by
white people. Another said the
skinheads only used violence
when they were attacked.
On Friday's show, two of those
former skinheads returned,
looking considerably older and
less dangerous.
"Absolutely from the bottom of were rude, we were arrogant, we
my heart I apologize for how we were disruptive, and hateful," said
were on your show, because we
acts of killing citizens, terrorised
people, burned public and private
properties, halted social and
economic life, threatened schools
and public security".
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Does this exist?
Easy-Linux-EC2
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Submitted at 5/14/2011 2:15:29 AM
I don't have a specific need for
this right now, just wondering if it
exists.
1. A machine image for Amazon
EC2.
2. A flavor of Linux, with basic
server stuff running (Apache,
FTP).
3. Pre-installed graphic user
interface shell.
Anticipating that people will say
I can install whatever shell I want:
I know that. I'm interested in
something that competes with
Windows on S3 without
Windows. And if this doesn't
exist, it should.
one of the former skinheads.
Winfrey accepted the apology.
Mike, the former skinhead who
had addressed the question of
violence, actually broke into tears
thinking about what he had said in
1988. "That kid was lost," he said.
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Soap Round-Up: Sami
Shoots Rafe on
'Days'...and More
Allison Waldman (TV Squad)
Submitted at 5/14/2011 3:00:00 AM
Filed under: Reality-Free, Recaps
Welcome to the Soap Round-Up,
our weekly recap of all the soap
action this past week. Rumors
persist that there might be a
reprieve for'All My Children' and
'One Life to Live', but so far
nothing concrete. But the shows
keep churning out great
storylines, and we're covering
them all on TV Squad.
If you don't want to know what
aired already, consider this a
SPOILER ALERT.
For instance, on 'Days of Our
Lives,' the two Rafes finally came
face to face with each other and
Sami! Shoots were fired, but if it
were you, would you have pulled
the trigger?
'Days of Our Lives'
Real Rafe came face to face with
fake Rafe. When the faker pulled
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a gun, a fight ensued and Sami
was knocked out. Sami came to
and shot fake Rafe. Chloe had a
one-night-stand with a stranger
named Quinn who left her money
on the nightstand, assuming that
she was a hooker. Jennifer and
Daniel's date went awry when she
had an allergic reaction. Carly
wrote a prescription for Katerina
Von Leuschner, her real name.
By: Juliana Weiss-Roessler
Budgeting can seem like math
minus the fun – and we all know
how fun math is. What’s exciting
Nicole forced EJ to remain in
their bedroom to keep up the
pretense of their marriage. Taylor
was frustrated that EJ couldn't
explain his reason for staying
married to Nicole.
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CBS Picks Up JJ Abrams'
'Person of Interest' &
Comedy 'Two Broke Girls'
Jean Bentley (TV Squad)
Submitted at 5/13/2011 3:45:00 PM
Filed under: Reality-Free, TV
News Finally CBS has joined in
on the pilot pickup action.
The network just picked up
'Person of Interest,' a thriller from
'Lost' co-creator J.J. Abrams and
Jonah Nolan. They also gave the
green light to sitcom 'Two Broke
Girls' starring Kat Dennings.
'Person of Interest' follows an ex-
CIA agent "who teams up with a
mysterious billionaire to prevent
violent crimes" in New York City,
says Entertainment Weekly. Norah's Infinite Playlist' actress
'Lost' veteran Michael Emerson is Kat Dennings as one of the titular
set to star alongside Oscar broke girls trying to live the
nominee Taraji P. Henson. The dream in Brooklyn. The show is
show is Abrams' second pickup of from 'Sex and the City' writer
the week, with Fox ordering a full Michael Patrick King and
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Hope for Breaking In?
Fox Moves Finale to
Tuesday
Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com:
Breaking News)
Submitted at 5/14/2011 9:53:00 AM
Breaking In
Is there still hope for Breaking
In?
Fall 2011 TV Scorecard: Which
shows are returning? Which
aren't?
Fox has moved the finale of the
axed Christian Slater sitcom to
Tuesday at 9:30/8:30c, where it
will air after Raising Hope,
Deadline reports.
Thus far, Breaking In has
inhabited the post- American Idol
Wednesday slot at 9:30/8:30c, but
the network wants to test the show
as part of its comedy block. A
good showing could mean a
resurrection for Season 2,
according to Deadline.
Fox cancels Lie to Me, Chicago
Fireburst trailer comes with a hot rock single
Mike Schramm (Joystiq)
Submitted at 5/14/2011 7:00:00 AM
Sure, this trailer for the upcoming
downloadable arcade racer
Fireburst has some fun jumps and
Code; picks up four new shows
Breaking In has averaged 7.83
million viewers over five
episodes.
To compensate for the open 30
minutes, Idol will expand to a two
-hour show Wednesday.
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Etta James
Hospitalized with
Blood Infection
Joyce Eng (TVGuide.com:
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Submitted at 5/14/2011 9:53:00 AM
Etta James
Jazz vocalist Etta James has been
hospitalized with a blood
infection.
The three-time Grammy winning
singer of "At Last" was admitted
to a hospital in Riverside, Calif.,
earlier this week with a urinary
tract infection and sepsis, her son,
Sametto James, told Reuters.
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Submitted at 5/13/2011 4:00:00 PM
Last time, it started with a photo.
This time, Randy found a video.
Randall C. The dude at :55 is
having the best/worst time ever.
Gatzby H. So many GIFs waiting
to happen.
Scott L. He's so gone
Jason T. wow
Matthew S. what in the
Randall C. This is why white
people keep their dancing to
tightly-confined, dark rooms.
And that's where it all began.
After the jump, enjoy another
peek into the Woot Writers' Room
and see our raw, mildly censored
real-time chat room commentary
as we enjoy a little trip back to the
days of rave. Don't watch too far
ahead without us!
Randall C. Even better dude at
3:00.
Gatzby H. 2:38 contends.
Scott L. haha around 2:10
Randall C. Ha at all three of our
examples being the same guy.
Scott L. DID HE JUST MIME
SHOOTING HIS OWN BRAINS
OUT
Gatzby H. He gets worse too.
Wow.
Jason H. In my heart, I'm hoping
he's trying to impress the girl next
to him.
Randall C." In this video which is
actually 4 hour long cut down,
you will see how some of the
people enjoyed the best music in
rave culture."
Randall C. SOMEBODY CALL
THE CRITERION PEOPLE.
Jason H."This is it, Bobby. Don't
screw this up. Show her your
sweet finger guns and you're in."
Gatzby H. This, friends, is why
Ecstasy is a Scheduled drug.
Gatzby H."OH GOD THE
LIGHTS! I WANT TO HOLD
MY HANDS IN THE AIR, BUT
IT'S SO BRIGHT. AND
COLORED. AND JELLO."
Matthew N. It looks like footage
of a music-in-occupational-
therapy session for people with
brain injuries
Gatzby H. 4:45: It may be the
saddest part of a DJs life when
someone has to force other
people's hands in the air for you.
Gatzby H. I love how everyone
else is completely oblivious to
him, even a half foot away.
Scott L. This is like what
everyone is afraid they look like
when they're dancing
Gatzby H. And the award for the
Sweatiest Man in Europe goes
tooooooo...
Jason T. 6:29: White Americans
doing the beaded-braid thing = Bo
Derek. White Brits doing the
beaded-braid thing = Boy George.
Scott L. That punching guy at 8
minutes is going to beat that girl
in the head
Matthew N. Is "Mining" the
name of a town? Or is the poster
saying he quit digging coal to do
this?
Jason T. a club, I assume
Gatzby H."Hey guys, remember
when overalls were hip? Back at
that club? You remember!"
Jason H. Why is the guy at 8:10
wearing mime gloves?
Jason T. maybe he does actually
mean mining
Scott L. he's like the guy they cut
to as a transition in an 80s movie
Gatzby H. He's justifying his
terrible choices as performance
art.
Matthew N. That would partially
explain the overalls
Jason T. they came with the
overalls
Matthew N. In 1992 I left the
smelting industry to pursue my
passion for LARP
Gatzby H. It's like a game of Spot
the Date Rapist where everybody
wins.
Scott L. maybe he's Mickey
Mouse at the local Disney and he
just took of his giant plastic head
and came to the club
Jason H. Heh. I thought the girls
at 8:55 were Twittering, not
pulling out cigaretees.
Gatzby H. He may be the reason
EuroDisney closed.
Jason H. or cigarettes
Randall C. I'll spot you overalls,
because at some point I remember
people wearing them a lot, but the
white Mickey Mouse gloves?
Gatzby H. Those guy's gloves
look like Ove Gloves. I'm
guessing he took "drop it like it's
hot" way too literally.
Randall C. Oh. Scott made that
joke already.
Scott L. sometimes it's like you
think i don't even exist
Scott L. I HAVE FEELINGS
TOO
Gatzby H. Who the hell is Scott?
Randall C. I take medication to
help.
Scott L. Did it come with
overalls?
Gatzby H. UNCEE UNCEE
UNCEE UNCEE
Matthew N. Finger Guns is like
"the 'Cabbage Patch' dance craze
was huge; why can't there be a
'Yosemite Sam?'"
Scott L. you can't unsee it, gatz
Jason T. My new motto: Dance
like nobody will you be watching
you on the Internet in 19 years
Randall C."Police believe the
suspect can be seen here, enjoying
a post-murder dance."
Scott L."He was busted by the
cop from the Village People in an
undercover sting"
Jason T. 9:23: the "Tasha Yar"
was big that year.
Gatzby H. 12:10 seems to have
an overall-clad go-go dancer.
Gatzby H. Haha, 12:50. Now
that's the kid that spent years
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trying to start fires with his mind
and was convinced it worked
when the house lights flared, if
only for a second.
Jason T. 12:20: You guys here
for the striped shirt meetup?
Jason H. There's a couple of lady
Mime Gloves. *shiver*
Randall C. That guy at 12:50 is
one of the scariest things I've ever
seen.
Gatzby H. 13:20: "The service is
TERRIBLE here. WAITRESS!
WAITRESS! WAITRESS!
WAITRESS!"
Gatzby H. 14:14: Winner of
Bulgiest Neck Veins
Randall C. Was this like a Jets/
Sharks thing? Why is the room
split in half with everyone facing
each other?
Gatzby H. Alternatively,
following the world's first high
speed Pong match.
3:25 PM
Matthew N. Life is a Euro Rave,
old chum. Come to the Euro
Rave.
Randall C. I wonder how many
people here were NOT high, and
just genuinely enjoyed rave
culture?
Jason H. The repeating cartoon
spring noise that happens from
13:45 to the end makes me
wonder how music ever survived.
Gatzby H. I'm honestly
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short period, just to see what
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In a post on Serendipity's Guide
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and planning out meals covered
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Submitted at 5/13/2011 12:00:00 PM
If this is your first venture into
the United States of Songs, here's
the skinny: I'm counting down a
weekly list of the best songs
honoring each of the states in the
union, and doing so
alphabetically. The rules are firm
but fair: the state must be
mentioned in the title of the song,
and the main focus of the song
must be on the state. So "I Love
LA" is out in favor of something
that exalts all of California. But
California's not our focus this
week, it's Arizona. Unfortunately
I couldn't find a YouTube vid that
allows embedded playing, so
you'll have to click through to
their site in order to watch. Or you
could torrent buy it online legally.
It's a good song; it's worth it.
The State: Arizona
The Song:"By the Time I get to
Arizona" by Public Enemy
(there are bad words, so listen at
work at your own risk)
I know, I know, "How come the
FIRST two states got loving
ballads and Arizona got the shaft
with a song about racist
hegemony?!" It's the result of a
Greek debt restructuring would do 'massive
harm' to eurozone, Jurgen Stark says
(Finance News - Business news
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couple of different factors: first
off, there aren't a lot of loving
ballads to Arizona that I can track
down. Loving odes to Yuma?
Sure. Songs about Arizona that
don't mention Arizona but aren't
titled after it? Plenty. But songs
with Arizona in the title that
celebrate Arizona? I had a hard
time finding any, and no
Arizonans stepped up to help me
out. Second, the tune is possibly
more relevant now than it was 20
Restructuring Greece's debt
would damage the embattled
country and the eurozone as a
whole, Jurgen Stark, one of
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motion, of course). When the bass
drops on the interlude and the
organ kicks up and you hear the
screams of the crowd it's like
you're reaching your own spiritual
epiphany in the desert. Then the
gospel chorus chimes in and you
can almost hear the notes
reverberating off the desert rocks
in a golden red sunset.
It might be a controversial pick
because of the politics, but
Arizona's just kind of a lightning
rod that way, lately, and I don't
think you can deny that it's just a
good song. A perfect match?
Maybe not. But the Grand Canyon
state is well represented.
Runner up:" Arizona" by
Scorpions
years ago when it was released. the state, I want you to know that Most laughable suggestion:"
(And if you're one of the people in you shouldn't take it personally.) Arizona" by Kings of Leon
Arizona mad that your state is Feel free to skip ahead to 0:42 to Think I'm way off base? Got a
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stupidity, I'm sorry. Genuinely. I the rant at the beginning. on Arkansas? Let me know in the
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The rest of the country is going to dirty-sounding beat that translates Commons License.
have a field day with this." So if great to driving through red, sun-
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rethinking my enjoyment of rave
music right now.
Matthew N. It shocks me how
many people know the lyrics. Did
they listen to this stuff in their
cars? On headphones at work?
Randall C. Do you not hear it
being repeated 700 times a verse?
Gatzby H. In most cases, I regret
not being part of cultural history:
Woodstock, Lollapalooza, and the
early days of Burning Man, but I
can honestly say this would cause
me to commit suicide faster than
the Seattle winter.
Jason H. HIIIIIIIIGHER
Jason H. I WANNA TAKE YOU
HIIIIIIIIIIGHER
Jason T. I've been watching this
whole time on mute.
Jason H. That's like every rave
song's lyrics.
Matthew N."I'm going to slow it
down now just a little bit. Here's a
new track I think you'll really
enjoy -- it's called 'Tears in
Heaven.'"
Randall C. These people are
what, 40 now? 50? They probably
own homes.
Randall C. Well, one of them
might.
Matthew N. That girl's black
glitter hat is left over from a
costume she wore for a dance
recital at age 9. SHE'S
BRINGING IT BACK.
Jason T. 20 in '92 would be 39
today
Gatzby H. The good news is,
there's just another 3 hours and 45
minutes to watch before the after
party!
Randall C. I didn't see the year.
Randall C. God there is a whole
rabbit hole of these things to fall
down into. Someone should do
something. What's the YouTube
equivalent of police tape?
Gatzby H. I start to see why the
French have notoriously bad taste
in music, if this was the
alternative.
Randall C."This video is surely
about the good times... Its about
Peace & Love"
Jason T. I don't know that it is
actually '92, Randy. Just
ballparking.
Randall C. I get neither of those
things while watching this.
Matthew N. We shouldn't give
them too hard a time. The other
things there were to do in their
town were all ethnic-violence-
based.
Randall C. Guaranteed dry heave:
try to imagine what that room
smelled like.
Gatzby H. Suddenly a crushing
dependence on heroin set to Iggy
Pop sounds like a good time.
Matthew N. I made it to the end.
Now this video is officially the
worst thing that has happened to
me today, and my infant son peed
in my mouth during a diaper
change earlier.
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Consumerist) researchers believe we're excited
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p.m. ET) features self-proclaimed The ads work by playing to our
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Woolsey, and her obsession with editor of Consumer Reports' The
all things "as seen on TV." She Consumerist blog.
has the "Ninja Blender, the Magic "There's not a whole lot of higher
Bullet, the George Foreman Grill level cognitive thinking going on
and the Han Steam Sanitizing that infomercials are targeting,"
Mop. Under every sink in her he said. "Fear, need, greed and
home, you'll find ShamWow sex. That's what they're going
towels." after."
So, why does Marisa order Infomercial Junkie: How She Got
product after product? From ABC H o o k e d . . . A r e You
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overnight shift as a home care watch NEXT FRIDAY when "20/
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hundreds of them — helped her Reports for a one-hour special,
stay awake, she said. "Infomercial Nation."

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While you're on vacation,
save on energy at home
Consumer Reports News
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Submitted at 5/13/2011 3:35:59 PM
While you're on vacation, save on
energy at home
The kids are counting down the
days until school ends and you’ve
probably got a few long weekends
or a vacation planned. You can
also give your finances a break by
cutting back on energy use while
you’re away. No need to leave the
toaster plugged in if you’re not
making toast.
Water heating generally accounts
for about 12 percent of the utility
bill, according to the U.S.
Department of Energy, so before
you skip town lower the
thermostat on the water heater.
The DOE recommends turning it
down to the lowest setting or
shutting off the water heater if
you’ll be away for at least three
days. Just be sure you know how
to relight the pilot light if you
have a gas heater, or use the
vacation mode.
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Summer
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By Yolander Prinzel As belts
The DOE’s Energy Savers blog
offers other tips, too. Since
another 12 percent of your utility
bill typically goes to cooling,
drawing the drapes and shades
will keep out the sun’s rays. If
you have central air conditioning,
set the programmable thermostat
higher than usual. For example,
North Carolinians can set the
thermostat to 85 degrees,
according to the state energy
office. But in Florida, where
indoor humidity can lead to mold
and mildew, the Florida Power &
Light Company suggests setting
the programmable thermostat to
71 degrees for four hours before
sunrise and to 88 degrees for the
rest of the day. Check with your
continue to tighten through
state energy department or local
utility for advice specific to your
area.
If you have a pool, you can save
money by cutting back on the
time the pool filter and auto-clean
sweep run by programming them
for off-peak hours. Lights eat
energy too, especially
incandescents, so turn most off,
but set a few with timers to deter
break-ins. Keep in mind that
many appliances use a small
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when they’re off. So unplug TVs,
DVD players, stereos, computers,
printers, toasters and coffee
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Drive-Thru Line For First
In-N-Out In Texas
Stretches Down Highway
Ben Popken (The Consumerist)
Submitted at 5/13/2011 4:00:00 PM
YouTube user kylecorley
captured on video the extremely
long line at lunchtime for the
drive-thru at the first In-N-Out
burger in Texas on opening day
this week. It goes way way way
down the highway leading up to
the joint. We're sure that just like
when Krispy Kreme places first
opened out west, those lines are
here to stay.
Explaining the chain's appeal is
difficult. The food itself gets great
Zagats reviews, part of which may
be due to the chain's "no frozen"
policy. And despite going
national, In-N-Out is still family-
owned and retains quixotic design
elements. The ads, artwork and
employee uniforms are a
throwback to 1950's and 60's
styles. The packaging also
contains discreet references to
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Bible verses.
In this era of mass-produced
lowest common denominator
everything, maybe people just
appreciate the freshness and
character and the nostalgic
touches that still haven't been
ironed out. Though I think tearing
up over a greasy burger is
overkill.
(Thanks to Andrew!)
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Eastern Conference Finals Storylines - CBS

Sports
(- Bing News) together. Are the Heat really just Bulls' season? end? If anything's going to strike can force the Bulls out of their
Submitted at 5/14/2011 8:08:21 AM that much better than everyone The Story: It's funny what six that spark of magnificence driven comfort zones. When that
else, even if they're not an all-time championships can do. The by imagination, it's this tale in the happens, cutters happen.
As the Heat and Bulls collide in team in terms of record? That's Jordan years taught Chicago, Windy City. Tom Thibodeau has orchestrated
the Eastern Conference Finals, we been the trend. The Heat really normally a pretty cynical sports The Line: Tom Thibodeau: the the best defense in the league for
set the table for LeBron James, are living and dying by the virtue city, an entirely new paradigm. real Lebron-stopper years. Instead of Rose vs. James,
Dwyane Wade, Derrick Rose, and of their superior talent. That's the We've seen the resurrection of the The Story: Boston failed. But it's really Thibodeau vs. James we
the rest. big clash in this series, because approach from those halcyon days then, was it really the same should be watching.
Posted by Matt Moore even with Rose, the Bulls this year as the Bulls climbed to Boston who shut down LeBron The Line: Which defense will
The Bulls and Heat begin a represent a more collective team contention, then domination, of James for three years (twice in the have more impact?
hugely anticipated series on effort. the Eastern Conference. I likened playoffs)? Doc Rivers is a great The Story: The Heat's defense is
Sunday. It's full of drama, moreso Is an overload of talent able to Bulls fans' belief in the 2011 Bulls coach, but the defensive system terrific. It's aggressive, athletic,
than the usual ECF, what with the overcome a complete team, if the to manifest destiny. They believe has long been considered the sound, and consistent. It's just not
MVP and the Triad and Thibs and elite team commits to defense? Or that as the heralds of the Jordan work of Tom Thibodeau, who as good as Chicago's. Chicago is
the Jordan legacy and everything is the complete team a more solid era, the team possesses a took his talents to Chicago and able to make any game into a
else. Here then, are the top option because it's about the preternatural right to the made them the best defense in the wrestling match in a trash
s t o r y l i n e s o f t h e E a s t e r n collective? The Heat aren't about championship. Rose is merely league. So did James really chase dumpster. It's principles are
Conference Finals between the one guy doing it all, they're about proof of that destiny. away any demons that had flawless, the execution superb,
Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls. two guys doing it all and a third So what's the story of the Bulls pursued him, or did different and more important, consistent as
The Line: Talent vs. Teamwork guy doing a lot, and a few other this season, what prompts that ghosts merely don the same clockwork. But this series really
The Story: Sounds absurd, but guys doing a little. Which, when claim to greatness? It follows the costumes? boils down to this question:
consider how the Heat won the you think about it, has actually script, even if the exact times and The elements that shut down Will the Heat's great-not-best
Celtics series. LeBron James been a fair model throughout the elements don't line up. Boozer is James against Boston in years defense do more damage to
drove on several occassions, but NBA considering all the 1a-1b surely no Pippen. Rose's first few past are easily recognizable in Chicago's good-not-great offense
he also hit a barrage of 3-pointers, duos we've seen. But it still feels playoff exits don't reek of the Chicago. James will clear the than Chicago's best defense will
heavily contested. Dwyane Wade like an abandonment of our frustration Jordan suffered at the pick and roll and find two do to Miami's great offense?
hit ridiculous Dwyane-Wade-shot principles that say it should be a end of the 80's. But it is a star who defenders cutting off his driving Chicago's offense can seem very
after ridiculous Dwyane-Wade- team "15 strong"... you know, the took the league by storm, not lane with a third covering the roll strong. When Carlos Boozer is
shot. The Heat finished off the m o t t o o f t h e 2 0 0 6 N B A riding pre-ordained hype like man. They'll bump him coming working off-ball, Rose is in rare
reigning Eastern Conference championship Heat. So this series, LeBron but instead making his around screens enough for the form, Joakim Noah is taking
Champs, the big bad boogeyman for all its overblown "good vs. own greatness. The youngest weakside big to rotate. They'll opponents off the dribble, and
Celtics, in five games, despite not evil" parallels, does have one MVP in the league, strafed by an challenge his dribble, challenge Kyle Korver and Keith Bogans
really getting contributions point where it reflects a "moral" all-world defensive system his passes, and focus on are nailing 3-pointers, they're a
outside of the Big 3 from anyone issue. The complete team vs. the created by a tactical genius and preventing him from getting to the versatile, dynamic, balanced
past James Jones' 20-point Game top heavy approach is on display, surrounded by shooters. The rim. Thing is, the Celtics did a lot attack. They produce enough
1. So there's a narrative starting to even with Derrick Rose arguably hometown kid takes the MVP, the of that in their series against offensive rebounds to negate their
take shape that echoes a version the single best player and the top seed in the East, and James, and he simply executed inefficiency, an advantage that
o f w h a t w a s d i s c u s s e d i n highest usage player in the series. eventually the championship. Isn't beyond them. James' jumper has
preseason when the Triad got The Line: Is destiny held in the that how the dream's supposed to gotten good enough to where it EASTERN page 58
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Sharks clinch series with 3-2 win over Red
Wings - CBS News
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Submitted at 5/14/2011 1:41:48 AM
(AP) SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) —
For all the blame Patrick Marleau
has shouldered for past postseason
failures by San Jose, it was only
fitting that his winning goal
helped the Sharks avoid their
biggest collapse yet.
Marleau got his first point of the
series when he knocked home a
rebound with 7:47 to play and
then made the key defensive play
in the closing seconds as the
Sharks managed to knock out the
Detroit Red Wings on their fourth
try with a 3-2 victory Thursday
night in Game 7 of their Western
Conference semifinal series.
"For him to end up with the
winning goal was pretty special
for our team and for him," coach
Todd McLellan said. "I think the
monkey may be off his back for
the next series. ... He was a
difference maker tonight."
Devin Setoguchi and Logan
Couture scored in the first period
and Antti Niemi made 38 saves
for the Sharks, who had lost three
straight potential clinching games
before eliminating the Red Wings
for the second straight year in the
second round.
San Jose avoided becoming the
fourth NHL team to lose a series
after winning the first three
games. A franchise known for its
playoff flops avoided a colossal
one and now heads into its second
straight Western Conference final.
"There's a lot of doubters who
said we probably couldn't do
this," captain Joe Thornton said.
"But that's two years in a row we
beat a pretty good team. We're a
pretty good team now, too."
The Sharks get two days off
before beginning the conference
final Sunday in Vancouver against
the Canucks, who also won a
Game 7 after blowing a 3-0 lead
in the first round against
defending Stanley Cup champion
Chicago.
Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik
Zetterberg scored for the Red
Wings, who fought valiantly to
the end but were unable to
complete their bid for an historic
feat. Detroit furiously pushed for
the tying goal in the frantic final
minutes, but couldn't beat Niemi
again &#8212 even after getting a
late power-play chance.
"It's not easy being down 3-0 and
having to win four games," Red
Wings captain Nicklas Lidstrom
said. "I felt like we had the upper
hand. But you never knew the
outcome of any game until the
end. At the end, it's still
disappointing to win three games
and come back here with a chance
to win or tie it in the final minutes
and then fall short."
The 41-year-old defenseman,
who has won four Stanley Cup
titles with Detroit, must decide if
he wants to come back for a 20th
NHL season.
"I'm going to take my time before
making a decision," Lidstrom
said. "We'll have our meetings
and go from there. I'm going to
take the whole year into account.
I'll take about as much time as last
year. I'll meet with the coaching
staff. It's been tough the last
couple of years."
The much-maligned Marleau,
who was called "gutless" by
former teammate Jeremy Roenick
after Game 5, gave the Sharks the
breathing room when he poked a
rebound of Setoguchi's shot into
an empty net behind Jimmy
Howard to give San Jose a 3-1
lead.
But as tough as it was to
eliminate the Red Wings in the
series, it was just that hard to
close out this game. Datsyuk beat
Niemi with a great individual
effort to make it a one-goal game
with 6:01 remaining. The Sharks
had to kill off a power play, when
Torrey Mitchell was called for
slashing with 5:03 left, to preserve
the lead. Niemi then made a stop
on a tricky shot by Datsyuk in the
final minute.
After a scramble in front of the
net, Marleau broke up a scoring
chance for Patrick Eaves and then
got the final clear, sending the
fans into delirium and giving the
Sharks their first sense of relief as
the clock ran out.
"It was just nice to have it over
and have us on top," Marleau
said. "They played great the
whole way through. It was just
nice to be able to shake hands and
come back in here."
The Red Wings fell behind 2-0 in
the first period but that deficit
surely wasn't daunting to a team
that overcame a 3-0 hole in the
series to force this Game 7.
Detroit dominated the second
period despite finishing it without
three of its top forwards, with
Johan Franzen missing the game
with an ankle injury, Todd
Bertuzzi getting knocked out in
the first period with an upper
body injury, and Danny Cleary
getting helped to the locker room
after appearing to hit his head on
the ice after a collision with
teammate Jiri Hudler.
"That's a huge chunk of team that
was missing," coach Mike
Babcock said. "We would love
having some more minutes out of
those guys."
The Red Wings outshot the
Sharks 17-6 in the period but
managed to get only one puck
past Niemi, who made tough
saves on Niklas Kronwall and
Cleary in the first half of the
period.
Zetterberg got Detroit on the
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board when he beat Niemi with a
backhand at the end of a three-on-
two rush with 6:50 left in the
second. The Red Wings kept the
pressure up the rest of the way as
the Sharks looked desperate for
the period to end, icing the puck
five times.
Detroit got the final 10 shots in
the period as the Sharks couldn't
manage even to get one after
Setoguchi's attempt with 7:48 to
go. But Niemi was able to
preserve the lead heading into the
third, robbing Zetterberg with his
glove late in the period.
"We had to get it done, especially
in the playoffs," Zetterberg said.
"We should have created a few
more chances."
The crowd was frenzied at the
start for what was being billed by
many as the biggest game ever at
the Shark Tank, cheering "Beat
De-troit! Beat De-troit!" That
energy from the fans was matched
by the Sharks, who were
thoroughly outplayed in their
Game 6 loss in Detroit two nights
earlier.
They scored on a power play
midway through the period when
Thornton threaded a perfect pass
from behind the net to Setoguchi,
who beat Howard with a one-
timer for his fifth goal of the
series. Then after killing off two
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East Final Preview: 10 things to know about
Boston vs. Tampa Bay
Sean Leahy (Y! Sports Blogs -
Yahoo! Sports)
Submitted at 5/14/2011 8:03:42 AM
The No. 3 seed Boston Bruins
and the No. 5 seed Tampa Bay
Lightning will clash in the Eastern
Conference final beginning
tonight. Here are 10 items for
your consideration about this
matchup.
10. The Dwayne Roloson/ Tim
Thomas backstory. This week,
Boston's Vezina Trophy nominee
recalled the decision he made to
choose the University of Vermont
over UMass-Lowell to play his
college hockey. When Thomas
was making his choice, Roloson
was about to return for his senior
season at Lowell, meaning the
Bruins goaltender would have had
to redshirt his freshman year.
After Vermont came in late,
Thomas decided on the
Catamounts, where he played
with Lightning forward Martin St.
Louis, and the rest of his journey
is history.
9. Vintage Vinny. How much fun
is it to see Vinny Lecavalier
playing like his old self? Tied for
third in points with 12, Lecavalier
has contributed in all but two of
Tampa's games so far.
8. Sean Bergenheim is in the
running for the " John Druce
Award". You probably didn't
know much about Bergenheim
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3. Eric Brewer. When Brewer
arrived from the St. Louis Blues
on Feb. 18, his presence quickly
settled down a mediocre blue line.
His leadership has helped
improved Tampa's penalty kill
and is the team's go-to guy in
shutting down the top players
from opponents. Brewer leads all
Tampa players with 43 blocked
shots, 32 hits and time on-ice with
26:09. The next highest is Victor
Hedman at 21:58. It's no surprise
that the Lightning went 22-6-2-3
after acquiring him.
2. Patrice Bergeron's absence.
Despite some belief out there that
Bergeron will return at a later
point in the series, the truth is that
he suffered his third career
concussion in Game 4 against
Philadelphia. It can be labeled as
before April. Now you probably kill (94.4-percent) against the 5. No more Jack Edwards. The "mild", but in this day and age of
know all there is about him. One worst remaining power play (5.4- conference finals means no more c o n c u s s i o n a w a r e n e s s a n d
of the unheralded breakout stars percent)? That'll remain to be local television broadcasts, which Bergeron's history, it should be
of the playoffs so far, Bergenheim seen, but Patrice Bergeron's means no more Jack. Love him or treated much more seriously than
has scored in seven of Tampa's presence will be missed as the hate him, no announcer delivers "mild". The Bruins are following
last nine games after going quiet Bruins appeared to have begun better soliloquies than the NESN NHL protocol and while he has
i n t h e i r f i r s t t h r e e a g a i n s t slowly busting out of their power play-by-play man. yet to partake in any physical
Pittsburgh and is now tied for the slump. Boston is two for their last 4. Hockey > Buzz Lightyear. St. activity, Bergeron did skate this
playoff lead with seven. His seven on the power play after Pete Times Forum was originally morning at TD Garden. That loss
contributions are a nice surprise beginning the playoffs 0-for-30. booked from the 18th to the 22nd is a blow to every aspect of the
as St. Louis and Lecavalier lead 6. Guy Boucher versus Claude with a Toy Story 3 / Disney on Ice Bruins' game. Will it be a rallying
the way, while Steven Stamkos Julien. If Boucher is a James show. Now with the the Lightning point for the team? Can a bumped
has rebounded after a slow start to Bond villain with his facial scar making the Eastern Conference up Chris Kelly and newly-added
the playoffs. and psychological tactics, does f i n a l , f i v e s h o w s b e t w e e n Tyler Seguin fill that hole
7. Tampa's kill vs. Boston's that make Julien Joe Cabot from Thursday, Friday and Saturday adequately?
power play. What happens when "Reservoir Dogs" just by sheer have been canceled to make way
EAST page 58
you get the best remaining penalty resemblance? for Games 3 and 4 of the series.
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EASTERN
continued from page 55
won't disappear against the Heat
in all likelihood. But when the
pieces don't come together, even
when Rose is hot to trot, the total
product can be less than
impressive. The Bulls were 11th
in offensive efficiency. When
things aren't clicking, the whole
orchestra's out of whack. Against
a Miami defense that can shut
down an opponent in their own
right, the Bulls' offense could
freeze solid.
Compare that with the Heat's
offense which is driven by players
you can count on. As goos as the
Chicago defense is, can it shut
down Miami, who don't need
open looks to create points? This
balancing act will decide the
series. The Bulls' defense doesn't
need to be perfect, if they can get
some production on offense. If
not, then their defense and Rose
Harvick/Busch truck race
showdown ends without fireworks
Jay Busbee (Y! Sports Blogs -
Yahoo! Sports)
Submitted at 5/14/2011 5:33:35 AM
The Lucas Oil 200 truck race at
Dover on Friday night had to be
the most eagerly anticipated tape-
delayed Friday night truck race of
the year, if not all time. Kyle
Busch and Kevin Harvick, stars of
this week's ongoing fight/spat/tiff/
drama, both in the race and both
will have to carry them, as they
have all season.
The Line: Is Derrick Rose ready?
The Story: Yes. Next Story.
The Line: Who's the Underdog?
The Story: It's a fascinating
question. All of our experts
picked the Heat. Vegas has the
Bulls. The majority of people are
picking the Bulls, but saying
they're picking the underdog. The
Heat have the Triad. Chicago has
the MVP. There's massive hype
on both sides. Both teams will
likely play with a chip on their
shoulder. Trying to decipher who
is really the one facing the bigger
challenge is nearly impossible.
This is just two great teams
meeting on even ground, with a
slight advantage for Chicago in
homecourt advantage.
Who's the underdog? No one.
Everyone's the favorite. That's
up front? Surely we'd see some
kind of spark between the two,
right?
A few laps into the race, Harvick
was leading, and right on his
bumper came Busch. Would this
be it? Would this be the moment
we'd been waiting for? Let's go to
the video:
Yeah, that was, well, pretty
anticlimactic. Busch screamed
right by Harvick as if Harvick
what will make this so fun.
The Line: Derrick Rose/LeBron
James is the best player in
basketball.
The Story: This series shouldn't
decide it. It's not reasonable for it
to. But it's still going to feel like
it. Both guys want it. Go get it.
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Sprint Cup. It'll be different on
Sunday, we're guessing.
As it turned out, both drivers
were in the mix late, but it was
Busch who had the shot at a win,
dueling Cole Whitt through
several restarts. And you know
how these things tend to turn out
when Kyle Busch is running for
the win in the lower series:
After the race, Harvick called his
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continued from page 56
Detroit power plays, San Jose got
a second goal when Couture stole
an outlet pass from Zetterberg,
and in the same motion beat
Howard with a wrist shot from the
faceoff circle with 59 seconds left
in the period.
Notes: San Jose F Ryane Clowe
returned to the lineup after
missing Game 6 with an upper
body injury. ... Kris Draper
replaced Franzen in the lineup.
Draper scored a goal in the only
previous Game 7 between these
teams, a game the Sharks won 3-2
car "really, really loose;" a pit
road speeding penalty doomed
any chance he might have had at a
challenge for Busch. While Kyle
is racing in the Nationwide event
on Saturday, Harvick isn't, so
we'll have to wait until Sunday to
see if there are further chapters to
the story.
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continued from page 57
1. Prediction: Bruins in six. Both
teams won't have to worry about
coming into the series tonight
tired considering they've had over
a week off to heal and rest up.
The key for the Bruins will be to
stay out of the penalty box and
keep things 5-on-5 where they've
found their most success in the
playoffs (31 goals). Tampa's
special teams are superior and
they've scored almost a third of
their goals on the power play. If
Boston can play smart, they'll be
able to fight their way through
what should be a very tight series.
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‘We’re not a team to concede anything’: Psalm 141:4 (05-

Heat say slowing Rose must be top East
finals priority - Washington Post 14-11)
(Verse of the Day) have any part of evil. He didn't
(- Bing News) quarter during an NBA basketball tough on him as possible. He’s the
game, in Miami. Right from the MVP for a reason.” Submitted at 5/14/2011 2:00:00 AM want to be attracted to it. He didn't
Submitted at 5/14/2011 8:51:18 AM
start, Rose wondered why he Copyright 2011 The Associated want to be a part of those who
MIAMI — Stopping Derrick couldn’t be MVP. Turns out, Press. All rights reserved. This Let not my heart be drawn to committed vile deeds. He didn't
Rose, well, the Miami Heat know nothing was stopping him. Now material may not be published, what is evil, to take part in wicked even want to take part in the
that won’t happen in these Eastern the question is: Can he get by broadcast, rewritten or deeds with men who are luxuries and feasts. What are we
Conference finals. LeBron James and Dwyane redistributed. evildoers; let me not eat of their willing to ask God to withhold
Slowing him, that’s the more Wade. This entry passed through the delicacies. from us to keep us from evil? My
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matchup with the Chicago Bulls, against Miami this season, leading on someone else's site, please read important is it for you to be pure? or evil. Give me a holy revulsion
which opens Sunday night. his team to three wins by a the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- How important is it for you to be for what is false and deceptive.
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Press ) - FILE - This March 6, Heat guard Dwyane Wade is one Filters featured article: If At First experienced the elation of sharing of heart to be able to see evil and
2011, file photo shows Chicago of the handful of Miami players You Don't Succeed - Four an intimate holy relationship with the things associated with it so
Bulls’ Derrick Rose (1) going to who will take turns against Rose Decades Of US-UK Attempts To God and the utter pain of that I can stay far away from the
the basket defending by Miami in this series. He says the Heat Topple Gadafi. miserably failing God, guarding tempter's snare and the things that
Heat’s LeBron James (6) and know Rose will get his points, but his heart was of ultimate would soil your holy name. In
Dwyane Wade (3) in the third adds that Miami must “make it importance. He didn't want to Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

Man United celebrate 19th title with partially

inflated replica
Brooks Peck (Y! Sports Blogs -
Yahoo! Sports)
Submitted at 5/14/2011 7:57:44 AM
Manchester United earned the
one point they needed to ensure
their record 19th league title with
a 1-1 draw against Blackburn. As
they celebrated their tremendous to give Man United a cheapo wilt. Seriously, someone get
accomplishment after the match, trophy like this seems a little Fergie to give it the hairdryer and
the players lifted a replica of the harsh. Then again, maybe this is blow it back up.
Premier League trophy they will the first from a new line of "bus Photos: Reuters, AP
soon hoist that looked a safe" silverware that everyone is
little...deflated. switching to after the Sergio
I know this has been a Premier great teams and some may say no Ramos incident.
League season without any truly one really deserved to win it, but Look at that baby glisten. And
60 Gaming/ Politics-Right/ Newstablet Edition

Disney
Trademarks
'Seal Team Six'
(The Feed)
Submitted at 5/14/2011 7:31:23 AM

[ Via: Fisbhowl DC]

In a perfect example of a big

David Jones joins media company looking to

capitalize on current events, The
Walt Disney Company has
trademarked “Seal Team 6,”

APB Reloaded in which also happens to be the

name of the elite special forces
team that killed Osama Bin

'advisory role' Half-Life 2 H.E.V.

Mike Schramm (Joystiq) joined the free-to-play remake in
Laden.
The trademark applications came
on May 3rd, two days after the
operation that killed Bin Laden…
Submitted at 5/14/2011 3:00:00 AM "an advisory role."
Really? GamersFirst says it's
You know what they say: If at excited to have Jones around to
charging station case and two days after “Seal Team 6
was included in thousands of
news articles and TV programs
first you don't succeed, join the "share his vast game design
team doing the remake. Veteran experience during critical design mod is without equal
game developer David Jones, s t a g e s o f t h e o n g o i n g David Hinkle (Joystiq)
focusing on the operation.
Disney’s trademark applications
for “Seal Team 6 cover clothing,
them, trying to soak up the
responsible for classics like development of APB Reloaded." magnificence. footwear, headwear, toys, games
Submitted at 5/14/2011 5:00:00 AM
Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto and That sounds good, we guess. Of course, the downside to all of and “entertainment and education
Crackdown, made an MMO Everybody deserves a second We've showcased some PC mods this is that we're reminded of Half services,” among other things. . .
called APB a little while back that chance, right? here on our humble site before, -Life 2: Episode 3 yet again ... and Are you kidding me?— GP
eventually closed up shop in David Jones joins APB Reloaded but we're pretty sure we're ready how much we need it. This entry passed through the
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6 Worst Foods at the Amusement Park

David Zinczenko with Matt dining, I’ve compiled of foods to cream instead; you could eat three
Goulding (Eat This, Not That) avoid. Study up before heading and a half scoops before matching
Submitted at 5/13/2011 11:13:47 PM out to the amusement park and the sugar in one snow cone, and
you'll make it out unscathed. the cream's protein and fat will
The freak show, haunted house, Bonus Tip: I'll be providing tons help temper the rush of glucose
and Skull-Crushing Terror Drop more useful tips on health, wealth, that hits your blood.
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top hat and oversized scale, the calorie-cutting nutrition tips. Eat This Instead!
one who promises to give you a #6: WORST SWEET CLASSIC Strawberry Ice Cream (1/2 cup)
stuffed monkey if you let him Cotton Candy (2.1 Oz.) 125 calories
guess your weight in front of a 220 calories 5.5 g fat (3.5 g saturated)
gaping crowd of onlookers. That 0 g fat 19 g sugar
guy scares the bejesus out of most 56 g sugar #4: WORST DRINK
of us, and for good reason: Most Here's a brief intro to cotton Lemonade (24 oz)
Americans are overweight or candy production: To make the 300 calories
obese. "cotton," the candy maestro melts 0 g fat
The irony is, even as we bury our sugar into liquid, sprays it into 74 g sugar
heads to scuttle by the guess-your thin strands, and then rolls it into Noticing a trend here?
-weight guy, we still end up a ball. Essentially that makes this Lemonade, like cotton candy and
w a l k i n g a w a y f r o m t h e treat no different than eating sugar snow cones, earns all of its
concession stand with armloads of straight from the bag, a serious calories from sugar. No wonder
fatty foods and belt-breaking problem considering it has more the summertime beverage owns
confections. But why? Maybe it's sweet stuff than 3 scoops of its own category on The Worst
because we're captive eaters at the Breyers Chocolate Chip ice cream Drinks in America. The problem
amusement park, and the healthy and not one iota of redeeming is that lemon juice is inherently
foods are all but nonexistent. But nutritional value. That's enough to sour, and half a cup contains only
the truth is, you're not helpless, shift your body into fat-storage 3 grams of sugar. That means
even at the amusement park. You mode and land you a belly as soft virtually all the sweetness in the
may be locked into a car on the as the confection you're eating. cup comes from added sugars,
roller coaster and strapped to your Eat This Instead! which puts lemonade on par with
seat on the swinging chairs, but Popsicle (1 popsicle) that other liquid candy we call
when it comes to food, you're still 45 calories your problem areas today! sugar in strand form? Consuming soda. By switching to
in charge of everything that 0 g fat #5: WORST FROZEN TREAT liquid sugar in liquid form, which unsweetened tea and adding sugar
passes your lips. With a few smart 8 g sugar Snow Cone (3 oz. syrup) is precisely what you do when yourself, you can control the
swaps, you can have fun and Bonus Tip: The more healthy 270 calories you eat a snow cone. The ice is number of empty calories in your
chow down without developing a habits you form, the more weight 0 g fat completely benign, but the syrup cup.
freak-show worthy belly. To help you'll lose without trying. Check 68 g sugar it's soused in is anything but—it Eat This Instead!
you navigate the fun-house out the 25 habits for effortless You know what's ever-so-slightly harbors more than 5 tablespoon of
labyrinth of amusement park weight loss and start shrinking worse than consuming liquid pure sugar! Go with a scoop of ice WORST page 62
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Iced Tea (24 oz sweetened with 2
sugar packets)
30 calories
0 g fat
8 g sugar
#3: WORST CANDY
Chocolate Marshmallow Fudge
with Nuts (3 oz.)
400 calories
18 g fat (8.5 g saturated)
55 g sugar
No other amusement park candy
comes close the caloric density of
fudge. Each single ounce packs
well over 100 calories—not to
mention 6 grams of fat nearly 20
grams of sugar. If you're looking
to pack on pounds, go for it.
Otherwise, choose another treat.
Kettle corn is a great option. It
marries salty and sweet in a
relatively low-calorie package,
and it delivers a bonus package of
belly-filling fiber.
Eat This Instead!
Kettle Corn (3 cups)
195 calories
7.5 g fat (0 g saturated)
9 g sugar
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#2: WORST BREAD SNACK
Funnel Cake with Powdered
Sugar
580 calories
29 g fat (5 g saturated; 2.5 g
trans)
43 g sugar
Fried dough piled high with
refined sugar could hardly be
considered part of a healthy diet,
but the most concerning part
about this item is the trans fat.
When it comes to eliminating
partially hydrogenated oils from
their deep fryers, amusement park
venders aren't under the same
pressure as restaurants. As result,
funnel cakes have the potential to
put a serious strain on your
cardiovascular system. If you
simply must have a fried treat, opt
for a doughnut instead.
Eat This Instead!
Doughnut with Powdered Sugar
190 calories
10.5 g fat (2.5 g saturated)
22 g sugar
#1: WORST MEAL
Nachos with Cheese (40 chips, 4
oz cheese)
1,100 calories
59 g fat (18.5 g saturated)
1,580 mg sodium
If this is your lunch, expect to
leave the park with more belly
cargo than you brought in. Nearly
half the calories in this dish come
from two sources of fat: the oil
used to fry the chips and the oil
used to make the "cheese" sauce.
That's not good. Look—you're
probably not going to settle for (or
find) a grilled chicken garden
salad with fresh-harvested
dandelion sprouts on top, but you
can find a decent meal to combat
hunger. Your best bet is a corn
dog. It's not a paragon of
nutritional excellence, but it does
pad your belly with some belly-
filling protein and cut more than
800 calories from your day's toll.
If you're still hungry after one,
order another. You'll still save
hundreds of calories.
Eat This Instead!
Corndog
240 calories
21 g fat (8 g saturated)
810 mg sodium
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Out Of Cash Sooner
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Health and Human Services
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
listens as Social Security
Administration Commissioner
Michael Astrue speaks during a
Friday news briefing on Social
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Health and Human Services
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
listens as Social Security
Administration Commissioner
Michael Astrue speaks during a
Friday news briefing on Social
Security and Medicare.
The latest financial checkup for
Medicare finds the health program
for the elderly and disabled won't
be able to pay for all benefits due
starting in 2024.
The insolvency date for Medicare
comes five years sooner than the
estimate in last year's annual
report by its trustees. A crummy
economy shoulders a lot of the
blame for the deterioration.
Health and Human Services
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said
at a media briefing that the
outlook would have been worse
without savings due to changes
contained in the federal law
overhauling health care.
Still, the looming cash crunch
underscores the need for action.
At the same briefing, economist
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and Medicare, declared, "Under
current law these vitally important
programs are on unsustainable
paths." He urged that steps be
taken sooner rather than later to
shore up Medicare.
The focus of the report and
projections is on Medicare's so-
called hospital fund, which covers
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Health
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Everybody's looking for
something. iStockphoto.com
Everybody's looking for
something.
What's the Internet for? Finding
information about health.
Clearly, I bought into the idea a
while ago. But everybody's doing
it. Really.
Eighty percent of adults who use
the Internet have looked online
for health info, according to
national survey data just out from
the Pew Internet & American Life
Project and the California
HealthCare Foundation.
And there are some details on
exactly what people are looking
for and how they're doing it.
Two-thirds of those health-info-
seeking Internet users have looked
up a specific disease or medical
problem. More than half — 56
percent — have checked for info
on a particular treatment, drug or
procedure. Only 7 percent have
looked for info on end-of-life
decisions, though.
Beyond subject-oriented
searches, a fair number of people
also looking to tap into what other
people know. More than a third of
the Internet users have read
someone's commentary, blog post
or other account of their personal
health experience.
Want to know one thing people
aren't doing much? Looking for
ratings of doctors and hospitals.
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surfers consulted ratings and
rankings like those.
The findings come from a
national telephone survey of
3,001 adults conducted last
August and September. The
margin of error is plus or minus 3
percent.
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Claims that strawberries and
other foods rich in antioxidants
can reduce inflammation and pain
aren't backed up by much
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Claims that strawberries and
other foods rich in antioxidants
can reduce inflammation and pain
aren't backed up by much
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care provided in hospitals, at
home, in skilled nursing facility,
and in hospices. Other parts of
Medicare — for doctor visits,
outpatient care and prescription
drugs — get a mix of funding
from general tax revenue and
premiums paid by beneficiaries.
The report says that tax income
and other revenue for the
bellwether hospital fund "are
expected to fall short of ...
expenditures in all future years."
Even though the Affordable Care
Act does reduce the shortfall quite
research.
On this week's podcast we're
evaluating diets and debunking
some grand claims about them.
One question we had was about
the benefits of an anti-
inflammation diet. We also
wondered why Consumer Reports
would rank Jenny Craig as the
best diet plan this year.
From the Icky Department, we
looked at how a New Mexico man
was infected with the plague, and
the appearance of drug-resistant
bacteria on bedbugs in
Vancouver.
a bit, the Medicare trust fund for
hospital care "still does not meet
the short-range test of financial
adequacy."
Last year, Medicare paid out
$516 billion in benefits. Program
income was $486 billion. And, in
case you were wondering, 47.5
million people were covered by
Medicare.
For the gory financial details, you
can find the 2011 report by the
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Horowitz and Intellectual Terrorism at

UCLA
Mark Tapson (FrontPage condemnation of academics who counteract campus campaigns
Magazine » FrontPage) indoctrinate rather than teach against Israel’s so-called
Submitted at 5/13/2011 1:15:34 PM (“The students who suffer most “apartheid state;” indeed, one of
are those of you who are on the those Jewish groups told a Bruin
Last Wednesday, evening the left, because your assumptions are Republican organizer that she
F r e e d o m C e n t e r ’ s D a v i d never challenged.”) Among other would be ostracized by the Jewish
Horowitz gave a much anticipated topics, he went on to decry community on campus if she
a n d f e r o c i o u s l y o p p o s e d campus anti-Semitism and to participated in arranging
presentation before a crowd of identify Islam as the greatest Horowitz’s presentation – a threat
more than 300 people at Moore oppressor of women and gays in that was probably unfounded and
H a l l a t t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f the world today. He delivered a that she ignored, to her credit.
California at Los Angeles. The m y t h - b u s t i n g h i s t o r y o f Evidently, however, the Muslim
event was hosted by the Bruin “ P a l e s t i n e ” a n d a c o n c i s e Students Association and Students
Republicans, self-described as explanation of his opposition to for Justice in Palestine – both
“the only officially right-of-center slavery reparations a hundred singled out by Horowitz as groups
o r g a n i z a t i o n o n t h e U C L A years after the fact. And he conducting a hate campaign
campus” – which is a good, albeit attacked the Muslim Student against Jews on college campuses
disheartening, indicator of the Association, ubiquitous on major – decided to sit the speech out.
very issue Horowitz has been college campuses, as a creation of The only questions about Islam
a d d r e s s i n g o n h u n d r e d s o f the Muslim Brotherhood, a after the speech were raised by a
campuses across this country, and s u p p o r t e r o f t h e t e r r o r i s t apostates than fundamentalist that his many previous difficult c o u p l e o f m e m b e r s o f
which was the evening’s topic: organization Hamas and the Muslims are of theirs. campus experiences may have conservative organizations who
the fact that our institutions of sponsor of Israel Apartheid weeks But considering that Horowitz is inclined him to a bit of paranoia. asked Horowitz to comment on
supposedly higher learning are across the country. frequently the target of organized However, the audience’s civility the threat of Sharia and the
utterly dominated by intolerant He was flanked throughout the disruption on the part of certain b e l i e d t h e a t m o s p h e r e o f existence of moderate Muslims.
progressive academics who are ill speech by very visible security – a antagonistic student groups, this intimidation under which the Regarding the former, he pointed
-serving and mentally straight- tragic necessity for Horowitz, UCLA crowd was notably and event was organized in the first out that people are so focused on
jacketing their students. who is a lightning rod for some of unexpectedly quiet and respectful. place. In addition to the usual violent terrorism that they fail to
Horowitz’s speech was as blunt the most bilious hatred that has T h e r e w e r e l i t e r a l l y n o concerns which prompted the recognize the more subtle threat
as the title of his presentation – e v e r b e e n d i r e c t e d a t a i n t e r r u p t i o n s , h e c k l i n g o r hiring of private security, there on the cultural front. As to
“Intellectual Terrorism: The conservative public figure. He outbursts, apart from frequent was more subtle coercion at work. moderate Muslims, he noted that
Left’s War on Free Speech.” regularly receives threats prior to a p p l a u s e f r o m a l a r g e l y The Bruin Republicans were the there are good and bad people in
Pacing back and forth at the front speaking engagements and has in supportive crowd (and one other only student group that dared host all religions; there were probably
of the hall, he was revved up right fact been physically attacked. I’ll describe in a moment). Horowitz; no Jewish group at many Germans who did not
out of the gate and became even This is the inevitable result of his Horowitz seemed so disarmed by UCLA would sponsor him or support Nazism either, he said,
more impassioned as he went on. having once been a radical leftist this that he commented on it and p a r t i c i p a t e i n e r e c t i n g t h e but their existence didn’t make a
He began the wide-ranging, forty- himself, for the Left is only commended the crowd for it more Freedom Center’s “ Palestinian damn bit of difference in terms of
m i n u t e s p e e c h w i t h a marginally more forgiving of its than once, eventually confessing Wall of Lies,” designed to halting the Final Solution.
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Medicare’s Deteriorating Financial

Condition
Bob Moffit (The Foundry) well as the 29 percent reduction in was last year, and the President is
Submitted at 5/13/2011 4:21:19 PM Medicare physician payments in required to develop a proposal to
2012. The Medicare trustees transmit to Congress to deal with
Posted May 13th, 2011 at 5:21pm concede the point: “ Although the the problem.
in Health Care Print This Post long-term viability of some of
The just released 2011 Medicare these provisions is debatable, the This year’s trustees report only
trustees report does not contain annual report to Congress on the confirms the seriousness of the
any big surprises. Much of what financial status of Medicare must financial challenge posed by an
the trustees say in this report they b e b a s e d o n c u r r e n t l a w ” unreformed Medicare program.
have said before: Medicare poses (emphasis added). Different Over the full 75-year budget
enormous challenges for patients a s s e s s m e n t a n d d i f f e r e n t window for the entitlements,
and taxpayers alike, and its accounting techniques, of course, about 90 percent of the growth of
financial condition continues a can yield different estimates of Medicare and Social Security is
downward slide. Some key these long-term costs. Based on going to occur by 2035. The baby
findings: an alternative scenario of boom generation, to be supported
• M e d i c a r e ’ s u n f u n d e d projected costs and spending that by a relatively smaller workforce,
obligations increased by $2 many analysts considered more will drive costs to new levels.
trillion. A key indicator of the true realistic, the Medicare actuary in That is indeed why The Heritage
cost of the program is the cost of 2010 estimated the long-term Foundation’s comprehensive
the promised benefits that are not Medicare debt at $34.8 trillion. $34 billion in 2011), the five-year pessimistic and projects an
reform proposal, Saving the
financed by dedicated revenues. The Medicare actuary has yet to acceleration of the fund’s exhaustion in 2020.
American Dream, takes on an
Using their standard 75-year offer his alternative assessment exhaustion has been aggravated • The “Medicare Funding
even greater urgency.
projection (2011–2085), the for 2011. by a combination of higher Warning” has been issued again.
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assumption that the estimated going to be exhausted in 2024 should be noted that the most revenues, is officially “excessive”
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$575 billion in savings from rather than 2029. While the fund recent Congressional Budget under current law. In this year’s
Medicare provider cuts under has started running big annual Office assessment of the trust report, the statutory threshold has
Obamacare will be sustained, as deficits ($32 billion in 2010 and fund (March 2011) is more been reached again this year, as it
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Making Health Insurance More Accessible

Thomas Capone (The Foundry) this as an argument for why the impact on premiums. According
Submitted at 5/13/2011 5:00:22 PM individual mandate in Obamacare to a study by the Maryland Health
that requires people to have health Care Commission, state mandates
Posted May 13th, 2011 at 6:00pm insurance is necessary. However, account for 18.6 percent of the
in Health Care Print This Post Obamacare will only make the cost of a premium in the
On Tuesday, May 10, 2011, the p r o b l e m w o r s e b y l o a d i n g individual market. The evidence
U.S. Department of Health and i n s u r a n c e p r e m i u m s w i t h is clear, the more benefits
Human Services released a report mandated coverage and thus mandated the more difficult it will
on the uninsured population and driving up the price of insurance. be to afford health insurance.
their ability to pay their hospital People need the option to buy
bills. One of the more interesting inexpensive health insurance that It is clear that Obamacare will
takeaways from the report is that is actual insurance against low only make insurance more
if you add up all the savings of the probability, but high cost medical unaffordable for those already
uninsured with incomes over 400 care. uninsured. There are steps,
percent of the federal poverty In addition, there are steps that however, that Congress can take
level (or about $88,000 for a can be taken to encourage people the help the uninsured by first
family of four), it will cover about to buy insurance: repealing Obamacare and
37 percent of their total hospital • One way to help the uninsured replacing it with the proposals
bills. would be to replace the tax outlined in Heritage’s plan
How do the uninsured get away exclusion for employer sponsored their employer chose, workers coverage. According to analysis
for“Saving the American Dream.”
with not having the assets to pay health care with a tax credit and would now be able to shop around done by several former members
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those with private insurance, w i t h a c c e s s t o e m p l o y e r - benefits that a health plan must (individual) market. The example
hospitals, and charities pick up the sponsored insurance, this would include, the more costly that plan of Maryland shows that having a
rest. will be, thereby making it more large number of mandated
enable consumer choice. Instead
Some analysts will want to use of being stuck with whatever plan difficult for people to purchase benefits can have a significant
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Hotel California: Million Dollar
Sheets on the Taxpayer’s Dime
Ericka Andersen (The Foundry)
Submitted at 5/14/2011 9:00:48 AM
Posted May 14th, 2011 at
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The California hotel workers
union is pushing a bill that
requires all hotel mattresses to
have flat sheets instead of fitted
sheets. They argue that the heavy
lifting required for fitted sheets is
causing back injuries for workers.
The problem is, the regulation
comes with a price tag of $30-$50
million dollars charged to the
taxpayers, according the
California Hotel and Lodging
Association.
With a $15 billion dollar deficit,
more costly regulations are the
last thing the state should be
considering. Not only that, but
hotel operators say the flat sheets
will need to be replaced more
often and require new laundering
equipment to wash effectively.
Some argue that even if the
regulation bill passes, it will be
difficult to enforce. Randi Knott,
of the California Hotel and
Lodging Association, also noted
that “when California’s looking at
over a $26 billion budget, you
would kind of think that the
legislature had other things to
worry about.”
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unprecedented rate” as well,
according to Heritage analysts
James Gattuso, Diane Katz and
Stephen Keene.
America is battling a jobs crisis
and increasing regulations only
contributes to the problem.
According to a study by the
Phoenix Center for Advanced
Legal & Economic Policy Studies
, “reducing the size of the federal
regulatory budget by even modest
amounts will have significant
positive effects on both GDP and
private sector growth.”
The same theory can be applied
at a state level and California
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Top 10 Twitter Trends This Week [CHART]
Matt Silverman (Mashable!) raw tweet volume.
Submitted at 5/14/2011 9:13:58 AM You can check past Twitter
trends in our Top Twitter Topics
International holidays almost section. Top Twitter Trends This
always win the day when it comes Week: 5/6 – 5/12
to the world of Twitter trends, and Rank Topic Intensity
Mother’s Day takes home the Description#1 Mother’s Day 3
prize on this week’s chart. May 8 was Mother’s Day in
Tweeters took time to wish their several countries, including the
moms well, and share facts and U.S., the Netherlands, Belgium,
sayings about moms all over the Ghana, and Germany. Users are
world. sharing facts about their mothers
If you were scoping out the and things that moms would
trending topics earlier this week, say.#2 Super Junior 2 Fans of the
you might have noticed a burst of South Korean band celebrated the
K-Pop activity. At times, nearly first anniversary of the release of
every worldwide trending topic t h e i r f o u r t h s t u d i o a l b u m ,
was referencing a member of the Bonamana. There were also a lot
epic Korean boy band Super of fans tweeting about individual
Junior. New album? New tour? band members, including Lee
Celebrity scandal? Nope. Just the Hyuk Jae, Park Jungsoo, and Lee
first anniversary of the band’s Sungmin.#3 Soccer/Football 1
fourth album. Fandom like this Club América, the most popular
puts “Beliebers” to shame. The soccer team in Mexico, was
buzz lands the band at number eliminated from the playoffs.
two. Some people in the U.S.
Soccer hovers in its usual region misunderstood the trend "Adiós
on the weekly list, this time América" as a reference to
ending up at number three after terrorism. Fans congratulated the
one of Mexico’s most popular team Ceará which eliminated
clubs was eliminated from a Flamengo, the most popular
playoff tournament. soccer team in Brazil, from the
To see the full list, check out the National Soccer Cup. There were
chart below. Because this is a also finals for the Dutch Cup
topical list, hashtag memes and (called the KNVB-Beker) which
games have been omitted from the was won by FC Twente.
chart. The aggregate is based on #4 Justin Bieber 1 It’s been a
Twitter’s own trending algorithm, rough week for Justin Bieber and
and does not necessarily reflect h i s f a n s . T h e h a s h t a g
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Meanwhile, fans were on the edge
of their seats as Game Four
between the Memphis Grizzlies
and the OKC Thunder went into
triple overtime in the Western
Conference Semis.#10 Lorca
Earthquake 10 There were two
moderate earthquakes in Lorca, in
the Region of Murcia, in
southeastern Spain on
Wednesday, May 11. The first
was 4.4-magnitude, the second
came in at 5.1. The quakes
inflicted substantial damage to
many older structures in the area,
and nine deaths have been
#KillEmWithKindness was shared of the web.#7 Jonas Brothers 1 reported.
often by "Beliebers" as a way to Fans dubbed May 7 "Jonas Data aggregate courtesy of What
deal with online hostility. Also, Brothers Day" because they have the Trend.
Bieber was sick, and fans wished a song titled "7:05." Users also Image courtesy of iStockphoto,
him well, and suggested he take a t w e e t e d t h e p h r a s e " H e l l o 123render Interested in more
b r e a k f r o m t o u r i n g . # 5 T h e Beautiful," the title of another Twitter resources? Check out
Vampire Diaries 1 The finale of Jonas hit.#8 Lady Gaga 1 Lady Mashable Explore, a new way to
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days leading up to the finale, fans and "The Edge of Glory" — trends, twitter, twitter trends
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Get Real-Time Fashion Advice Before You
Go Out [APP]
Lauren Indvik (Mashable!)
Submitted at 5/13/2011 10:55:54 PM
The Spark of Genius Series
highlights a unique feature of
startups and is made possible by
Microsoft BizSpark. If you would
like to have your startup
considered for inclusion, please
see the details here.
Name: Go Try It On
Quick Pitch: Crowdsourced
advice on your look, before you
go out.
Genius Idea: Go Try It On is a
website and iPhone app[iTunes
link] that enables users to get real-
time feedback on their outfits
before they make a purchase or
leave their bedrooms.
The site, which launched in
March 2010, attracts 80,000
unique visitors per month, 30% of
which are from outside the U.S.
More than 250,000 have
downloaded the iPhone app, about
half of which are active users,
founder and CEO Marissa Evans
claims.
Both the website and app have a
sleek, easy-to-use interface. Users
can upload photos from their
desktops or iPhones, or snap one
on the spot with a webcam, and
ask the community (or, if they
prefer, a private set of friends) to
approve a particular look or help
them choose the best of three
options.
The site’s most active users tend
to be young women in their teens
and early twenties; 20% of
registered users are men, Evans, a
graduate of Harvard Business
Social Media/ 71
School, says.
If Go Try It On sounds a lot like
another startup we’ve covered,
you’re not alone. When asked
how the startup differed from
Fashism, Evans said that Go Try
It On was making a greater
investment in data and analytics.
Soon, Go Try It On will begin
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displaying that data in a way that
is useful to members. The site will
notify a user if she tends to get
good feedback when she wears
white skinny jeans, for instance,
and send her product suggestions
to further expand that look — a
service that might prove useful
both to the user and the startup,
should it generate affiliate
revenues from the suggestions it
serves.
Evans also believes that users are
“about 10 times more engaged.”
While I wouldn’t place any bets
on that number, I will say that the
community is certainly very
active. Within an hour of
uploading a photo on a Friday
afternoon, I received 23 votes and
2 comments on my look. The
Amazon Servers Used in Sony Playstation
Hack [REPORT]
Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!)
Submitted at 5/14/2011 10:04:50 AM
Amazon servers may have been
used to carry out the massive
Playstation hack that
compromised the personal
information of more than 100
million Playstation Network
users.
According to a report from
Bloomberg, sources close to the
ongoing investigation say the
attack was mounted from Amazon
Web Service’s cloud computing
feedback wasn’t particularly
insightful, but it did up my
confidence about a recent dress
purchase.
Go Try It On currently has a full-
time staff of five, including the
three founders. The startup raised
a seed round of funding last fall
from Index Ventures. Series
Supported by Microsoft BizSpark
The Spark of Genius Series
highlights a unique feature of
startups and is made possible by
Microsoft BizSpark, a startup
program that gives you three-year
access to the latest Microsoft
development tools, as well as
connecting you to a nationwide
network of investors and
incubators. There are no upfront
costs, so if your business is
platform.
The hackers used fake personal
information to set up an AWS
account. They rented servers in
the cloud to carry out the exploit;
the related AWS account has
already been deleted.
In a previous statement, Sony
pointed to loosely organized
hacktivist collective Anonymous
as the perpetrators behind the uncharacteristic outright denial,
hack, citing the calling-card saying that the responsible parties
phrase “We are Legion,” which acted alone.
was found on Sony’s servers.
Anonymous countered with an
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years old, and generates less than
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government ever", an influential Friends of the Earth, Christian
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Military covenant 'will continued from page 72

Aid, Oxfam and the RSPB called

on Mr Cameron to set out the case
that a green economy was central
In the letter, the organisations
said there was scope for Mr
Cameron's government to be the

become law'
(Evening Standard - News) Daily Telegraph: "We are putting in Parliament in the face of real
to UK prosperity and not "a cost
to be endlessly debated and
watered down".
greenest ever, but it would require
urgency and resolve, and strong
leadership from the PM and
As a first step, they said, the ministers.
Submitted at 5/13/2011 7:29:11 PM the military covenant on a anger from forces families and
Prime Minister should send a A Government spokesman said:
statutory basis for the first time." MPs.
14 May 2011 signal to investors and the public "The Government stands by its
The move comes amid concerns "For months ministers have stuck
The Government is to announce that military personnel are failing by accepting key excellent record on green policies
their heads in the sand and denied
shortly that it is putting the to be provided with the level of recommendations by the over the last year to protect the
the military covenant should be
military covenant on a statutory service they are entitled to in Government's climate advisers to environment and deliver the low
enshrined in law. I hope this
basis for the first time, it has been areas such as health, housing and sign up to a 50% cut in emissions carbon economy.
marks the beginnings of a real
reported. on 1990 levels by 2025 and 60% "Environment Secretary Caroline
pay. Concerns over the reassessment of how the
Prime Minister David Cameron Government's legal liability are cuts by 2030. Spelman played a major role in
Government is treating our armed
has faced claims he was watering thought to have prompted the The call comes after reports of a securing a historic global deal to
forces.
down his commitment to write formulation in the Bill - which has split within the Cabinet over protect wildlife and habitats and,
"This is an issue the Labour Party
into law the state's duty of care to been strongly defended by Mr whether to accept the Committee in a tough economic climate,
and charities have been
armed forces personnel. on Climate Change's increased the budget for farming
Cameron in the Commons. campaigning on for months and I
Legislation being debated by recommendations on the fourth environmental schemes by 80%,
The Telegraph said the law would like to congratulate the
Parliament allows the Defence would not enshrine specific five-year "carbon budget" which and provided hundreds of millions
Royal British Legion for securing
Secretary to make an annual pledges about individual public will govern emissions reductions of pounds to clean up England's
a policy which will give vital
report on the military covenant, services but concentrate on to 2027, with some departments rivers and support international
protection for service personnel
but stops short of giving it formal broader principles - such as that voicing concerns that meeting the forestry and wildlife projects."
and their families."
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UK recovery.
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British woman beheaded NARN, the

in Tenerife
(Evening Standard - News) looking very scruffy, muttering to the supermarket with the head in
Mjöllnir Edition!
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Indiana Supreme Court rules Hoosiers have

no right to resist unlawful entry of their
homes by police
Bruce McQuain (Hot Air » Top unreasonable searches and officer can waltz into any home once so popular. with far too broad a brush by
Picks) seizures, shall not be violated, and he wants to “ for any reason or no And check out this “analysis”: essentially telling Indiana citizens
Submitted at 5/14/2011 9:03:00 AM no Warrants shall issue, but upon reason at all?” Professor Ivan Bodensteiner, of that government agents may now
probable cause, supported by The given reason by the Justice Valparaiso University School of enter their homes illegally — that
No, you read it right. That’s what O a t h o r a f f i r m a t i o n , a n d is resistance is “against public Law, said the court’s decision is is, without the necessity of a
the Indiana Supreme Court particularly describing the place policy?” What policy is that? For consistent with the idea of warrant, consent or exigent
decided in what would be a to be searched, and the persons or whatever reason, most believe our preventing violence. circumstances,” Rucker said. “I
laughable finding if it wasn’t so things to be seized.” public policy as regards our “It’s not surprising that they disagree.”
serious: Bzzzzzt. homes is set by the 4th would say there’s no right to beat Rucker and Dickson suggested if
Overturning a common law Wrong – in Indiana amendment to the US the hell out of the officer,” the court had limited its
dating back to the English Magna “We believe … a right to resist an Constitution. Since when does Bodensteiner said. “(The court is permission for police entry to
Carta of 1215, the Indiana unlawful police entry into a home Indiana’s “public policy” abrogate saying) we would rather opt on domestic violence situations they
Supreme Court ruled Thursday is against public policy and is the Constitutional right to be the side of saying if the police act would have supported the ruling.
that Hoosiers have no right to incompatible with modern Fourth “secure in our persons, houses, wrongfully in entering your house But Dickson said, “The
resist unlawful police entry into Amendment jurisprudence,” papers and effects”? your remedy is under law, to wholesale abrogation of the
their homes. David said. “We also find that Additionally, most would assume bring a civil action against the historic right of a person to
The author of the story reporting allowing resistance unnecessarily it is the job of the police not to officer.” reasonably resist unlawful police
this is right – somehow the ISC escalates the level of violence and “escalate the level of violence”, So we’ll just throw out your 4th entry into his dwelling is
managed, in one fell swoop, to therefore the risk of injuries to all not the homeowner. Like maybe a amendment right to satisfy the unwarranted and unnecessarily
overturn almost 900 years of p a r t i e s i n v o l v e d w i t h o u t polite knock on a door to attempt court’s desire to “prevent broad.”
precedent, going back to the p r e v e n t i n g t h e a r r e s t . ” an arrest instead of a battering violence,” is that it? I say mostly right because they
Magna Carta. David said a person arrested ram and the violent entry of a full One hopes the decision is indicated that in the case of
In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven following an unlawful entry by SWAT team to arrest a suspected destroyed on appeal and if the domestic violence, they too were
David writing for the court said if police still can be released on bail perpetrator of a non-violent crime. Justices are in an elected office willing to throw the 4th
a police officer wants to enter a and has plenty of opportunities to Maybe a little pre-raid they become very “insecure” in amendment under the bus.
home for any reason or no reason protest the illegal entry through intelligence gathering, or their probability of staying there. How does one say “it runs afoul
at all, a homeowner cannot do the court system. snagging the alleged perp when The two dissenting Justices got it of the Fourth Amendment” and
anything to block the officer’s One has to wonder what part of he leaves the house to go to work, mostly right: then later agree to a partial
entry. [emphasis mine] “unlawful” Justice David doesn’t or walk the dog, or go to the store. Justice Robert Rucker, a Gary abrogation of the 4th under
Or said another way, your home get. What part of the right of the Now citizens in Indiana are to native, and Justice Brent Dickson, certain circumstances? What part
is no longer your castle. people to “be secure… shall not give up their 4th Amendment a Hobart native, dissented from of “ shall not be violated” don’t
Remember the 4th Amendment be violated” wasn’t taught to him rights because it might “elevate the ruling, saying the court’s they understand? It doesn’t say
to the US Constitution? in law school. the violence” if they attempt to decision runs afoul of the Fourth “shall not be violated except in
“ The right of the people to be How secure is anyone in their protect themselves from unlawful Amendment of the U.S. case of domestic violence” does
secure in their persons, houses, “persons, houses, papers and activity? Sounds like the “don’t Constitution. INDIANA page 77
papers, and effects, against effects” if, per David, a police resist rape” nonsense that was “In my view the majority sweeps
76 Politics/ Newstablet Edition

How Likely is 'President Donald Trump'?

Apparently 5.2 Percent
Dominic Tierney (Politics : The
Atlantic)
Submitted at 5/13/2011 3:00:47 PM

According to Intrade.com, at
least. But don't scoff--these
prediction markets are eerily
accurate.
Reuters/Joshua Roberts
As you wake up on the morning
of November 7, 2012, it takes a
split second to remember: Donald
Trump was elected president last
night.
It's a fairytale for some and a
nightmare for others. But what are
the odds?
Well, according to Intrade.com,
the chances of Trump becoming
president are 5.2 percent.
Prediction markets like Intrade are
transforming the way that we
forecast tomorrow's news.
Speculators can trade futures
contracts on everything from
political earthquakes, like the U.S.
attacking Iran, to actual
information of traders and accurately predicted every Senate contract didn't pay out because the predict assassinations, coups, and
earthquakes, like a magnitude-9.0
assimilating their collective result. small print required confirmation terrorist attacks in the Middle
-or-higher quake occurring before
knowledge. But prediction markets also by the U.S. Department of East. After a congressional
the end of the year.
These markets can be eerily encounter the occasional snafu. Defense. The White House press backlash, the plan was shelved.
Prediction markets take
accurate. In the 2004 presidential The contracts are designed to be secretary said a launch had Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D.
advantage of the wisdom of
election, for example, the market "yes/no" propositions: like, will happened, but Defense never Wolfowitz said, "I share your
crowds by aggregating the
accurately estimated the winner of Trump win in 2012? Election confirmed because it was shock at this kind of program ... it
information of traders and
every state. Whereas several results are easy to verify. But in considered an issue of national is being terminated."
assimilating their collective
opinion polls had John Kerry 2006, one contract asked whether security. Cue many irate traders. Still, for those upset about
knowledge.
winning Florida, the markets North Korea would launch a Some markets can prove missing an opportunity to profit
Prediction markets take
correctly foresaw a George W. missile outside of its airspace. In politically explosive. In 2003, the from catastrophe--don't fear.
advantage of the wisdom of
Bush victory in the Sunshine July 2006, Pyongyang launched Department of Defense developed
crowds by aggregating the HOW page 77
State. Again, in 2006, the market just such a missile. But the a $3 million futures market to
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HOW
continued from page 76
Intrade allows a bet on whether "a
successful WMD terrorist attack
[will] occur anywhere in the
world before midnight ET 31 Dec
2013." The current probability is
28 percent.
Perhaps political correctness--or
simple human decency--prevents
people from wagering on Obama
resigning from the presidency, or
dying in office. But there is a
workaround, by betting that Joe
Biden will be elected president in
2012 (0.6 percent).
Another issue is that in prediction
markets, there is an opportunity to
manipulate the contract prices,
and therefore the apparent
probability of an event. If Trump's
supporters purchased Trump 2012
contracts en masse, it would boost
his seeming chances of winning.
In a world in which being seen as
the winner can be self-fulfilling,
the idea is not as crazy as it
sounds.
And are prediction markets even
legal? Good question. Intrade is
based in the Republic of Ireland,
and the legal status of prediction
markets in the United States
remains murky. Is it gambling or
is it more akin to investing in the
stock market? The jury is out.
So what do the Intrade tea leaves
have in store for us?
Well, many of the current odds
seem plausible enough, like the 70
-percent chance that Muammar
Qaddafi will be out of office by
the end of the year.
Other probabilities appear a little
skewed. Obama is only given a 59
percent chance of winning
reelection in 2012. This strikes me
as a little low, given that Obama
has the advantage of incumbency,
he likely won't face a serious
primary challenger, the economy
is improving (albeit slowly), the
killing of Bin Laden may provide
a small but permanent lift in the
polls, and the Republican bench is
lacking in star appeal.
Meanwhile, Trump's 5.2-percent
chance of becoming president is
surely generous and puts him
roughly on a par with Tim
Pawlenty.
Sarah Palin's star may have
descended recently, but does she
really have the same odds of
becoming president as Ron Paul
(1.4 percent)?
The occasional market doesn't
make sense. The probability of a
U.S. and/or Israeli airstrike
against Iran by the end of June is
4.9 percent. But the odds are just
2.5 percent before the end of
September--even though this is
later.
I could be wrong and the market
right. Or perhaps, pointing out
these skewed figures is exactly
how the market corrects itself.
Of course, if the markets do
become accurate enough at
predicting elections, none of us
need bother to vote. That might be
just what Trump needs to sneak
home.
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it?
Oh, and just to point out that this
likely isn’t an outlier for this
crew:
This is the second major Indiana
Supreme Court ruling this week
involving police entry into a
home.
On Tuesday, the court said police
serving a warrant may enter a
home without knocking if officers
decide circumstances justify it.
Prior to that ruling, police serving
a warrant would have to obtain a
judge’s permission to enter
without knocking.
Because, you know, it would be
just asking too much to have the
police actually justify a no-knock
entrance to a judge, wouldn’t it?
Amazing.
And you wonder why you have
to constantly protect your rights
daily from attacks within?
This is why.
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Osama bin
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Robot orchestra marries music and

machines (video)
Christopher Trout (Engadget)
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It may not be the first go-round
for the Karmetik Machine
Orchestra, but the automated
musicians, fashioned by a group
of students at the California
Institute of the Arts, took the
stage last night to prove that
robots can rock. Among the
mechanized musicians scheduled
to perform at the Walt Disney
Modular Theater were
MahaDevibot, Glockenbot,
BreakBot, and NotomotoN,
described as a "duel-head drum
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with twelve beaters and a mallet
orchestra." Each of the robots was
built from salvaged parts and
programmed by CalArts students,
who control the machines from
laptops during performances. A
description of the show posted to
the CalArts website touts music-
producing robots suspended from
the ceiling that trigger sound
activated light shows and
animation -- now that sounds like
a way to spend a Thursday night.
Check out a video of the players
and their masters after the break.
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Michael: "ZZ Top called, they
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Terrence: "Even Gandalf the
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magic of these glasses which
make any man look like a 90-year
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Richard Lai: "Ha, no 3D for that
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Darren: "One ring. Two Towers.
3Ds."
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Ambush Makeover."
Sean Buckley:"Confound it all,
told you about interrupting me
during my stories?"
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they say 3D is bad for children?
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