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Man of Steele seems to have avoided Family Dollar's kryptonite for now Earnings Increase 19%, Outlook Soft Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row Washington)

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After a weekend of some prominent Republicans calling for his resignation — Liz Cheney among them — and a round of phone calls trying to explain himself, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele appears likely to hold onto his job through the election. Washington Whispers has a look at how Steele’s gaffe on Afghanistan does not affect Republican fundraising, which is obviously key to the November elections when Republicans are hoping to gain seats and possibly control of Congress from President Barack Obama’s Democrats. After the election will be quite another story for the RNC chairman, with Republicans probably looking to replace Steele. Hotline has a piece on

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possible candidates in the next go-around. (Sarah Palin is not considered to be a serious contender). Among prominent Republicans unhappy with Steele’s Afghanistan comments is Senator John McCain, who in an interview from Kabul with ABC’s “This Week” said Steele’s comments were “wildly inaccurate.”

It wasn’t the first time that Steele has been in hot water as chairman of the RNC, but Republicans are hoping it will be the last for the next four months until the elections are over. Photo credit: Reuters/Sean Gardner (Steele at 2010 Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans April 2010)

Filed under: Earnings Reports, Family Dollar Stores (FDO) Discount retailer Family Dollar Stores ( FDO) announced that its net profit increased 19% during the third quarter. The company realized earnings of 77 cents per share, far better than the 62 cents per share earned a year ago and a penny better than the consensus estimate. FDO's gross profit margin increased to 36.6% from 36.2% because of a reduction in markdown expenses along with a shrinking in inventory. Looking ahead, FDO predicted fourth-quarter earnings between 46 cents per share and 51 cents per share with sales growth of 5% to 7%. Analysts were expecting the company to earn 53 cents a share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Full-

year earnings are expected to come in between $2.53 and $2.58 per share. The upper end of the range fell short of the consensus estimate by a penny. Continue reading Family Dollar's Earnings Increase 19%, Outlook Soft Family Dollar's Earnings Increase 19%, Outlook Soft originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments Family Dollar- Thomson Reuters- Retail- BloggingStocks - Net profit

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Gawker Media Growth Explodes In First Half Of Year After Denton Starts Paying Writers For New Readers Joe Pompeo (Business Insider)

no easy tricks; just great stories that other publishers have to link to; and that readers have to Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:26:00 AM click. Nick Denton has issued his I promised Brian Lam and latest memo to the troops on the others that I would talk less state of Gawker Media. The first about the numbers and more half of the year appears to have about the stories. But the growth been very good to the leading over the last 12 months has been blog network, after a flat 2009. too impressive to neglect. The What's responsible for the audience at the end of June was change? A new focus on unique some 38% up on a year earlier visitors instead of pageviews. and many sites individually did Writers are now compensated in better than that -- even those part for how many new readers supposedly mature sites like they bring in each month. Gizmodo and Gawker -- up 59% Gawker's biggest story in June and 68% respectively -- that w a s G a w k e r . c o m ' s A p p l e some skeptics thought had security breach scoop, with maxed out in 2007 or earlier. 594,962 uniques. Here are the detailed numbers: Here's the memo to staff: https://spreadsheets.google.com When we started paying more / attention to new readers -- rather ccc?key=0AvyOUt3j4XoudFlY than simply pandering to our T1lSM0twSHNEWmNLRkYzZ regulars -- we knew it would be GxkSFE&hl=en difficult. So why -- putting modesty Our audience, drained by the aside -- are we so amazing? sale of sites like Consumerist Well, first, Gawker's and the merger of others, was technology underpinnings have largely flat during 2009. There's improved. (Yeah, I know that more competition for the favor might seem a stretch after the of Google, which has long been problems of the last two weeks.) the primary source of new Pageload time has gone from 8 readers. Several of our sites are seconds to between 5 and 6. mature; and we've wondered on And the new design will take us occasion whether we're reaching down to 4 seconds. the natural limit of their reach. Second, we've begun our first And we all know unique serious marketing effort. (We visitors are much harder to were always to editorially move than pageviews. There are snobby before to pitch our wares

in a consistent fashion; marketing was for losers.) The greatest success: Chris Mascari's drive to promote Fan pages on Facebook and distribute our stories into individual newsfeeds. Our Facebook refers were 6.2m last month, up 67% on the month before and triple what they were at the end of last year. Most of these are new readers; some of them we believe will become regulars. But above all, our stories are stronger and sharper. The numbers on the Big Board have helped focus attention on the performance of each story; but the reports below from each site lead demonstrate something else. It's editorial flair, not some descent to the web lowest

common denominator, that is rewarded and recognized. The Top 100 in June https://spreadsheets.google.com / ccc?key=0AvyOUt3j4XoudGpB NFpRN0ppdTVNWklDT3NNL TI4ZFE&hl=en&authkey=CJav 76wF GAWKER Ryan's iPad post taught us a lesson about paying close attention to random tips that come in. What initially seemed somewhat dubious turned out to be our biggest story of the month: http://gawker.com/ 5559346/ Hamilton's American Apparel story comes up on the list 4 times... A good example of how to dig into a story and mine it

for all its worth and solicit info from readers: http://gawker.com /tag/american-apparel A couple of Maureen's posts deconstructing web rumors were on the list... i think that's turned into a good conceit for us: http:// gawker.com/5563416 FLESHBOT The rules of Fleshbot traffic are simple, says Lux: "sex + tech and sex + D-list celebrities. Also, crossposting." The Future of Sex: iPhone FaceTime Edition: http:// fleshbot.com/5571074 (that's the one I'm most proud of) Do You Care If Your Smartphone Has Porn Apps? http://fleshbot.com/5560049 Exclusive: Stills From The Danielle Staub Sex Tape: http:// fleshbot.com/5559469 DEADSPIN Pete Rose's Corked Bat was really the biggest breakout with extra effort. Built from an eBay tip, Deadspin's Barry Petchesky put in the extra effort to find out whether MLB's all-time hits leader was also a scoundrel on the field. http://deadspin.com/5555714/ GIZMODO iPhone 4 Loses Reception When You Hold It By The Antenna Band? Constantly updated (60+times), GAWKER page 3

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incorporating readers into submitting their problems and being a part of of a communitysourced movement to determine whether or not there was a problem or not paid off. Hitting the topic early and hard also helped to make us definitive on this, so anyone who mentioned the issue had to mention/link us. http://gizmodo.com/5571171 Watch the Apple Keynote's Network Meltdown: Everyone loves to see someone flop, and to break this out early was smart. http://gizmodo.com/ 5557458 Are Cameras the New Guns? Proof that spotting a good syndication is as good as executing on your own idea. http://gizmodo.com/5553765 LIFEHACKER Our "silence vuvuzela" post wasn't the first by any means, but I think we took the idea and made more out of it than anyone else was doing. It ended up getting picked up everywhere, and I think a lot of that was because of the video we made.

http://lifehacker.com/5564085 The Watch World Cup Online post was kind of a gimme. It ended up high in Google, and we just timed the post well. http: //lifehacker.com/5559652 How to Downgrade Your iPhone 3G[S] from iOS 4 to iOS 3.1.3. Good timing, fixing a problem for a lot of people. http: //lifehacker.com/5572003 JEZEBEL Looks like our entry into the top 25 was that silly cat video. What I will say about that: It never hurts to pick up a viral video a day or two after it's come out; you can't assume your readers have already seen it. Give it the right headline, and send virals to facebook automatically. Always helps. http://jezebel.com/5564433/ Sarah Palin's breast implants was our next highest story. This worked for a couple of reasons: We were the first big-big site to grab it off of a smaller site (Wonkette), which helped us claim it. We also wisely (given that Jez isn't really about

analyzing someone's boobs) distanced ourselves from the piece by chuckling about what the other idiots were saying. But we still inserted our own takeaway (probs not fake). Took all of 20 minutes to write it, photo time included. http:// jezebel.com/5558324/ The Lohan porn-star script: Why'd it work? A straight-up scoop. Scored a document that, while ostensibly "just a script," has a tabloidian interest factor (ie, it's Lohan's next movie). http://jezebel.com/5571979/ And while it's not in the top 100, I'd give Irin's Daily Show item a mention: It still did very well, and it earned us the kind of publicity -- Jon! Namechecked! Us! -- we can't buy. Moreover, it was widely circulated within the media, spawned several more discussions, and affirmed our status as both an influencer and a muckraker. http://jezebel.com/ 5570545 IO9 Explainer about mass extinction - everybody loves learning

about the end of the world: http://io9.com/5558871/ A good headline works wonders: http://io9.com/ 5557894/ So does snark, occasionally: http://io9.com/5576076/ JALOPNIK and KOTAKU were awesome, obviously. But their site leads didn't tell me about the awesomeness in time for this note. Join the conversation about this story » See Also: • Why Did Nick Denton Truncate Gawker’s RSS Feeds? • Nick Denton: I Paid Good Money For The Naked "McSteamy" Video • How HBO And Gawker Tricked Us Into Reporting An Ad Campaign As News

Remember how everyone thought LeBron would announce his decision on Twitter? Wasn't that cute? Mainstream media 1, S... (Business Insider) Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:37:09 AM

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TransCanada: Promising Natural Gas Play Joseph Lazzaro (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 7/7/2010 10:30:00 AM

Filed under: Stocks to Buy The shares of TransCanada Corp. ( TRP), which I first discussed on May 11, 2009 at a price of $26.56, have cycled between

$31 and $38 over the last four months or so, but I still like the business model. Here's why: TransCanada Corp. is natural gas play with promise: It's a natural gas transmission and storage company that also owns oil assets and electric power generation assets (including 19

wholly owned power plants). A solid $1.45 annual dividend

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Borders Joins the E-Books Game Late, but Still Competes With Amazon Kit Eaton (Fast Company) Submitted at 7/7/2010 10:05:09 AM

Borders just joined the ranks of bricks-and-mortar bookstores embracing the brave new world of e-publishing by launching its own digital bookstore and ereader apps. It's late to the game, but not too late, and it's a sure sign of the future. Barnes and Noble's efforts to counter Amazon's dominance of the e-book market struck an interesting chord as the publishing giant also commissioned its own dedicated e-book reader device. This was an attempt to really tackle Amazon head-to-head with a device demonstrating all the supposed benefits of e-ink screens. The company also launched e-reader apps for other platforms, so that it could compete on an ecosystem level as well as a device level. And that's what Borders' approach seems to be. It's not launching its own dedicated ereader, but instead it has said that by the end of 2010 it'll sell more than 10 different compatible e-book readers in stores. It's also fronted its new efforts with free iPhone and iPad e-book apps, with BlackBerry and Android apps "coming soon." The apps let you do all the same interactive

things that competing systems do--change font sizes, browse an e-book store, automatically sync bookmarks and so on. Borders' move may actually be the boldest we've seen yet among "traditional" bookstores to embrace the future. It's as if your local record store suddenly replaced a whole shelf of CDs with an iPod stand, an in-store dock, and PC so you can download tracks and a rack of iTunes vouchers so you could pay for them. Borders is saying there're a million and a half titles available right now, including free ones,

and that's comparable with B&N's million-plus titles. And while Amazon's 600,000 paid titles and 1.8 million free ones definitely mean it's still dominating this market, it's only going to take a short while for B&N and Borders to catch up. It's just a question of signing the right deals with the right publishing houses. There's one problem with Borders' new e-book powers: It's for U.S. customers only. We've contacted the company to find out when, and indeed "if," it's going to be rolling out the service internationally ... but for

now it's extraordinarily limiting to the company's potential for growth. B&N's service has similar limitations, and considering the deeply bookish character of other nations-particularly in Europe--it's quite surprising that neither company has considered launching an ebook system outside the U.S. Until they do, Amazon is going to have a definite upper hand. But really, the writing is on the wall for Amazon and the future of e-publishing. It's difficult for bookstores to compete with Amazon's physical book sales network, as the company's

business model and reduced costs mean it's often more convenient for today's book enthusiasts to shop this way. But when books go digital, it's a whole new paradigm, with everybody--including Apple, which is playing along too with its iBook store--having pretty similar chances for success. Since Amazon's Kindle ecosystem is the only one that's limited to consuming only its own content, the e-book consumer of tomorrow looks like they're going to have a lot BORDERS page 6

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iFive: Storms Push Oil Closer to Shore, Climategate Report, UK's Tech Bill, Sea Shepherd, Firefox 4

Sam's Club Enters World of SmallBusiness Finance

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While you were sleeping, innovation was not crying in court after being informed it was to spend time in chokey. Instead it was poring over data received courtesy of an FOIA request, picking the right smiley face, and then facing deportation. Oh, innovation, what will we do without you? 1. The East Coast might be enjoying a heatwave, but weather further south isn't exactly endearing itself to the Gulf states. With oil found in Lake Pontchartrain and Barataria Bay, it's causing spats between the state of Louisiana and scientists as they work out how to handle the spill. Two of the men who are used to dealing with situations such as this one are profiled: well-killer John Wright, and Lee Wilson,

emergency services expert. 2. Last year, the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit had its emails hacked. Today, the inquiry into the affair publishes its report, at 8 a.m. EST, and The Guardian is liveblogging the event. The leaked email addresses have led to some pretty unsavory behavior, such as Internet threats to U.S. climatologists, and it's worth reading the Beeb's environment analyst, Roger Harrabin's musings on the subject. 3. Memo to the U.S. Government's technology czar: If you want to find out how have an unsuccessful online policy, look across the Atlantic. There's been a lot of huffing and puffing about government overspend on its official Web sites over the past month, and Rory CellanJones, the BBC's tech editor, has delved into the case of a Web site that was rumored to have

cost £105 million to build and maintain. Urk! The Telegraph has been investigating government apps through a Freedom of Information request. A total of £126 million was spent on online ventures by Her Majesty's Government between 2009 and 2010. 4. Anti-whaling campaigner Peter Bethune, he of the Sea Shepherd conservation society, has been given a two-year jail sentence, suspended for five years, by a Japanese court. The 45-year-old will be deported to New Zealand later this month. Shades of Flight of the Conchords, I think. 5. Finally, browser wars are back! Mozilla has rolled out Firefox 4 in beta form. Feedback takes the form of smiley and scowly faces, with "Firefox makes me happy/sad because" buttons to click on.

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Filed under: Wal-Mart (WMT), Costco Wholesale (COST) Walmart's ( WMT) Sam's Club chain is launching a new initiative that is bound to steal a few customer away from rival Costco Wholesale ( COST). It is teaming up with Superior Financial Group to offer loans of up to $25,000 to its small business members. Now small business owners will be able to get their office supplies, their break room treats and their financing in one stop. The credit markets have been tight since the financial crisis of 2008, and it has been especially difficult for small businesses to obtain financing -- which makes this a ripe market for Sam's Club to dive into. The program

will focus on businesses owned by minorities, women and veterans. Continue reading Sam's Club Enters World of Small-Business Finance Sam's Club Enters World of Small-Business Finance originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments Wal-Mart- Small businessBusiness- Sams ClubBloggingStocks

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Renault Unveils the Ultra-Slick DeZir Gullwing Coupe EV Ariel Schwartz (Fast Company) Submitted at 7/7/2010 10:14:43 AM

Watch out Tesla, Fisker, and Mercedes-Benz. French automaker Renault is angling for a share of the luxury electric vehicle market with the DeZir coupe, an electric two-seater concept car with a Kevlar body and tubular steel frame. The vehicle, set to make its official debut at the Paris auto show in October, has a top speed of 112 mph, and a range of 100 miles. DeZir also has 150 horsepower, and 167 lb-ft of torque--not all that impressive, but the lightweight vehicle can zoom to 62mph in 5.0 sec. And while the driver can't go very far, the vehicle can be recharged

to 80% of full charge in 20 minutes with Renault’s Quick Drop charging technology. Like the Nissan LEAF and the rest of EVs produced as part of the Renault-Nissan partnership, the DeZir offers a mid-mounted 24kW/h lithium-ion battery and

Renault models in the future." Renault does have a number of EVs that will be released in the near future, however. The 2011 Fluence ZE will be the first production-ready vehicle that uses Better Place’s battery swap system. The Kangoo ZE electric van will also be released in 2011. And by the end of 2013, the Renault-Nissan alliance hopes to produce 500,000 EVs globally. The DeZir is, in other words, at least a hint of things to come. electric motor. [youtube ycGMpjFl-Rs] There's no guarantee that the [ DeZir] DeZir will ever go into Ariel Schwartz can be reached production, but Renault on Twitter or by email. explained in a statement that, "The front-end design previews the new front-end identity that is poised to become a feature of all

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Google and Ridley Scott Go to Sundance With "Life in a Day" Austin Carr (Fast Company) Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:50:00 AM

Google is attempting to tell the story of a single day on earth by collecting videos from around the globe. The " Life in a Day" project, a collaboration with filmmaker Ridley Scott, will "aggregate and mold" the videos into a "cohesive story." In order to participate, grab a video camera and capture some footage on July 24th (Queue

viral ad campaign slogan: Google is with you 24/7). After uploading it to YouTube, Oscarwinning director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) and executive producer Scott (Gladiator, Black Hawk Down) will try their best to sift through all this footage to find the most compelling bits. "Life in a Day" will then in the movie, you'll be credited premiere at the 2011 Sundance as co-director--not a bad deal. Film Festival, and if you're one Google is already hailing the of the lucky few to be featured project as "a historic cinematic

experiment." It's hard to imagine how this barrage of video will hang together, even under the

direction of Macdonald and Scott. Trying to edit down a single hour's worth of uploaded content into a coherent message sounds like a feat. Won't the film just end up being a hodgepodge of viral clips, like Weezer's Pork 'N Beans video? Who would want to watch that for two hours? The judges at Sundance, apparently. [Youtube XMxuocCN1O0]

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Israel prepared to take steps for peace talks: Netanyahu (Reuters: Top News) Submitted at 7/7/2010 8:25:02 AM

Apple's New Shanghai Store Looks Amazing (AAPL) Jay Yarow (Business Insider)

up on Flickr, first spotted by 9 to 5 Mac. Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:40:48 AM Unlike the store Apple opened Apple is opening a new store in in Paris last weekend, this one Shanghai, China and it looks resembles the modern design like another beautiful retail spot. we've grown accustomed to The curtain has been pulled from Apple. back on the outside of the new See Also: store to reveal a giant glass • And Now Companies Are cylinder that sits atop the store. Buying Boatloads Of Apple's Similar to its 5th avenue store in iPhones And iPads, Too (Sorry, Manhattan. Photos are popping Microsoft)

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A Lot to Like at Intel Steven Halpern (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 7/7/2010 10:00:00 AM

Twitter Now the World's Fastest Growing Search Engine Austin Carr (Fast Company)

While Stone's company is still a long way off from Google, Submitted at 7/7/2010 10:27:10 AM which supports around 88 What is your search engine of billion search queries per month, choice? Google? Yahoo? Bing? Twitter is quickly catching up. Try Twitter. Since last April, Twitter According to cofounder Biz searches are up 33%. To put that Stone, who spoke yesterday at in perspective, a study by t h e A s p e n I d e a s F e s t i v a l , Nielsen last year concluded that Twitter now reaches some 800 Bing was the fastest-growing million search queries per day. search engine in the U.S. after it That's over 24 billion searches ballooned over 22%. Now it per month, more than Bing (4.1 seems Twitter has taken the billion) and Yahoo (9.4 billion) title. combined. And this is something the

service has been angling for. Last month, at the the World Innovation Forum, Stone argued that Twitter is "not a social network," though many people view it as one. "That's been a myth since the beginning," he explained. "We're much more like an information network or a source of news." With 24 billion search queries a month, perhaps Twitter and Stone are onto something.

Filed under: Intel (INTC), Newsletters, Stocks to Buy "The tech sector remains one of the more attractive areas for investment. One stock in the technology group that offers a lot to like right now is Intel ( INTC)," says Chuck Carlson. The editor of The DRIP Investor explains, "And the recent pullback in the stock price is now offering an excellent opportunity to begin building a position in these shares. "I like the fact that the company is coming off three quarters of much-better-than expected earnings. I like the stock's valuation at just 11 times the consensus 2010 earnings

estimate of $1.87. That seems cheap to me given the expected profit growth for this year and next. Continue reading A Lot to Like at Intel A Lot to Like at Intel originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments Intel CorporationBloggingStocks- BusinessInvesting- Stocks and Bonds

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Twitter creates an account that brings bargains to you, an MIT project lets you mouse around sans a mouse, and Borders opens a digital-book store.

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Dance fever sweeping through Israeli military (The Upshot) (Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)

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Remember a few weeks back when a video featuring a group of U.S. soldiers stationed in Afghanistan performing their own version of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” video stormed the Internet? Well, it looks like they’ve got some competition from their counterparts in the Israeli military, AFP reports. You can watch the video-which has gone viral, and has since been edited with politically minded pop-up features protesting the conditions of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank city of Hebron--below: The clip features six soldiers on patrol in Hebron, which is home to many sites that Jews, Muslims and Christians consider holy. Some 600 Israeli settlers live in the city among roughly 160,000 Palestinians— which means it has also been the site of tension over the Israeli occupation. As the soldiers canvass the street with weapons in hand, a muezzin can be heard leading a call for Muslim prayers.

Suddenly, Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” abruptly comes on and the six soldiers break out into a dance routine. After a few seconds of hearty gyrating, the soldiers promptly return to their patrol duty and to appropriate military postures. The Israeli Defense Forces brass is not amused, AFP reports: In a statement, the IDF leadership called the performance a “joke by the soldiers” that amounts to “inappropriate conduct during a

military operation” and will be “investigated by battalion commanders.” The video, first posted to YouTube on Friday by the user "cleangrunge," has since disappeared from its original account — but several other users have reposted it. Since women also serve in the Israeli army, it bears noting that they, too, have lately succumbed to a bit of dance fever. A video uploaded to YouTube on Monday allegedly features female Israeli soldiers shaking it

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Xavier Samuel has had a busy few days in NYC filled with shopping, kisses, a surprise appearance, and a movie premiere. There was one thing in common with all the events his cute girlfriend Shermine Shahrivar was by his side the whole time. Xavier is going strong with the publicity tour, fresh off the big London premiere where she was on his arm. Over the weekend the handsome Eclipse star surprised a lucky group of Twilight fans at a screening, just like Robert and Kristen in LA. Xavier signed autographs and took to Avril Lavigne’s “Girlfriend.” p i c t u r e s w i t h s t u n n e d Other popular Yahoo! stories: moviegoers at the Manhattan • Justice Dept. suing over Ariz. theater and Shermine came immigration law along to help thank everyone for • U.S. soldier accused of leaking making Eclipse open at number video is charged one. Ever the devoted partner, • What could trigger a double- she certainly earned their SoHo dip recession shopping trip on Sunday. Xavier Five Filters featured article: kept things going today with a Headshot - Propaganda, State PDA-filled walk with his lady Religion and the Attack On the before the two hit the red carpet Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available together for the premiere of The tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Sorcerer's Apprentice. Text RSS, Term Extraction. To see more Xavier, just read more. View 15 Photos ›

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BP boss in Mideast talks as relief well advances (Reuters: Top News)

issue new equity, but bankers say it is on a marketing drive for its stock, which has fallen by By Amena Bakr and Kristen half since the Gulf of Mexico Hays well blew out in April. ABU DHABI/HOUSTON| "We are here to talk to our Wed Jul 7, 2010 10:21am EDT e x i s t i n g s h a r e h o l d e r s , " a A B U D H A B I / cheerful-looking Hayward told HOUSTON(Reuters) - BP's Reuters in the ornate, marble boss met officials from Abu lobby of an Abu Dhabi office D h a b i s t a t e f u n d s o n building before heading into a Wednesday as prospects for meeting there along with his sixfresh investment and progress man entourage. toward closing a leaking U.S. oil The relief well being drilled to well lifted the company's halt BP's spill is a week ahead battered shares. of schedule, the U.S. official A United Arab Emirates official overseeing the response to the said Chief Executive Tony d i s a s t e r s a i d o n T u e s d a y . Hayward had met officials from However, mid-August remains A b u D h a b i I n v e s t m e n t the target date for completion of Authority (ADIA) during a drilling of two relief wells, he routine visit. added. He spoke as speculation BP shares, already on the rise in mounted of a stake purchase by recent days, rose a further 9 a M i d d l e E a s t o r A s i a n percent in New York trade and sovereign wealth fund such as reached their highest since June ADIA to help BP ward off 21 in London on Wednesday, takeovers and pay the rising standing 4.25 percent higher at costs of the worst oil spill in 360 pence at 1406 GMT. U.S. history. One report said "With the CEO in Abu Dhabi Saudi investors were looking to speaking to the sovereign wealth buy 10 to 15 percent. fund to get some investment it's The UAE official, speaking on not surprising that there is some condition of anonymity, said enthusiasm in the market for BP Hayward's visit was a scheduled shares," said Mic Mills, head of one mainly to discuss BP's electronic trading at Londonconcessions with Abu Dhabi based ETX Capital. N a t i o n a l O i l C o m p a n y Progress on the relief well is (ADNOC). Hayward was also also a factor lifting the investor seen by Reuters in the company mood. of a senior officials from "Anything that would speed up another state investment fund. the process, or any kind of BP has said it has no plans to success at all as far as capping Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:21:22 AM

it, would be a welcome relief," said Alan Lancz, president at Alan B. Lancz & Associates Inc in Toledo, Ohio. A third vessel at the leak site that will more than double BP's oil-capture capacity to 53,000 barrels a day from around 25,000 is now partially hooked up, but rough seas are hampering efforts to finish the job. Estimates of the leak's severity vary widely and run as high as a 100,000 barrels per day. BP is already committed to a $20 billion fund for clean-up and other costs stemming from the spill. Its costs to date have topped $3 billion. The final costs would depend on how much crude has leaked from the well, which blew when a rig exploded on April 20, killing 11 workers. Analysts said that barring other negative news, the stock may have found a floor. "We're optimistic that the news can get better from there. The talk about sovereign buyers may not lead to anything, but it certainly means that valueorientated investors are seeing opportunity." said Kurt Wulff, president at McDep LLC, an oil and gas research firm in Needham, Massachusetts. The spill is wreaking havoc on coastal ecosystems, fishing communities and a tourist industry seen as especially important during a time of high

unemployment. It has also thrust itself to the top of President Barack Obama's crowded domestic agenda and presented a tough test for his leadership. TALKS WITH SOVEREIGN FUNDS BP executives held talks with sovereign wealth funds in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Qatar, and Singapore, seeking a partner who might help it avoid being taken over, a UAE source said on Tuesday. Abu Dhabi's International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC), was not interested in buying a stake in BP, a source at the company said. IPIC invests in global oil and gas assets. A spokesman for ADIA declined to comment. Sovereign funds holding BP stakes include Norway and Kuwait, controlling about 1.8 percent each, while China owns 1.1 percent and Singapore 0.7 percent, according to Thomson Reuters data. Hayward's meeting in Abu Dhabi concerns an oil concession that dates back to 1939 and is due to expire in 2014. BP is a minority stakeholder in Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO). Talks on renewal have been going on between Abu Dhabi authorities and companies involved for years. ADCO is responsible for onshore oil production in the

emirate, which holds most of the UAE's oil reserves. State run ADNOC holds 60 percent of the concession. BP holds 9.5 percent, as do Royal Dutch Shell, Total and Exxon Mobil. BP confirmed on Wednesday that it had received a letter from the U.S. government, but would not comment further on a report that the Department of Justice had asked on June 23 to be consulted in advance about any asset sales or transactions. TAR BALLS REACH TEXAS Tests this week showed tar balls washed up on the Texas coast were from the spill, meaning every U.S. Gulf state -Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and now Texas -- has been soiled by the spill. There was a chance disturbed weather over the southern Gulf of Mexico could strengthen into a tropical storm this week, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Although it was not expected to travel over the site of the blownout BP well, it could come closer than Hurricane Alex, which interrupted the cleanup operations last week. (Additional reporting by Matthew Bigg in Bay Jimmy, La., Sarah Young in London, Stanley Carvalho in Abu Dhabi and Shaheen Pasha in Dubai, BOSS page 17

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Obama administration sues Arizona over immigration law (Reuters: Top News)

laws will only create more problems than it solves," U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, By Jeremy Pelofsky and James said in a statement. Vicini The legal action, filed while WASHINGTON| Tue Jul 6, Congress was on a week-long 2010 11:54pm EDT break, is a political gamble by WASHINGTON(Reuters) - The the administration as a Pew O b a m a a d m i n i s t r a t i o n o n Research Center poll showed 59 Tuesday sued Arizona over the percent of people approve of the state's strict new immigration Arizona crackdown. law, attempting to wrestle back And the legal fight also comes control over the issue but at a critical juncture, four infuriating Republicans who months ahead of the mid-term said the border required more congressional elections, and the security. Hispanic community has been a The administration argued the major voting bloc that typically Arizona law, which requires has sided with Democrats but s t a t e a n d l o c a l p o l i c e t o Republicans have tried to woo. investigate the immigration The Justice Department filed status of anyone they reasonably the lawsuit in federal court in suspect of being an illegal Arizona and asked for an immigrant, is unconstitutional injunction to prevent the law and would sap law enforcement from taking effect on July 29. resources. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer The Republican-controlled condemned the lawsuit as a Arizona legislature passed the waste of taxpayer funds and said controversial law to try to stem the state law was needed the flood of thousands of illegal because the federal government immigrants who cross its border had not done its job. from Mexico and to cut down "As a direct result of failed and on drug trafficking and other i n c o n s i s t e n t f e d e r a l crimes in the area. enforcement, Arizona is under The lawsuit is part of a broader attack from violent Mexican approach by President Barack drug and immigrant smuggling Obama to deal with the 10.8 cartels. Now, Arizona is under million illegal immigrants attack in federal court from believed to be in the country, P r e s i d e n t O b a m a a n d h i s arguing that immigration is the Department of Justice," Brewer, responsibility of the federal a R e p u b l i c a n , s a i d i n a government not each state. s t a t e m e n t . "Seeking to address the issue Brewer vowed to fight the through a patchwork of state lawsuit and said she had set up a Submitted at 7/6/2010 10:54:07 PM

legal defense fund to cover legal fees stemming from the federal challenge and other lawsuits. "LEGITIMATE CONCERNS" RAISED The Justice Department acknowledged that Arizona legislators had "legitimate concerns" about illegal immigration but noted that the U.S. Constitution gave the federal government sole authority over immigration matters. The Arizona law would also divert critical law enforcement resources and would cause the "detention and harassment of authorized visitors, immigrants and citizens" who do not have to carry identification papers, the department said. Some immigration provisions provide exceptions to illegal immigrants on humanitarian grounds, whether the individuals were fleeing natural disasters or political persecution, the Justice Department added. The Obama administration warned in the lawsuit that other states were considering similar immigration measures which would result in "further and significant damage" to U.S. relations with countries like Mexico, which last month joined a lawsuit seeking to derail the Arizona law. Mexico's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday expressed "satisfaction" at the Obama administration's move to

challenge the state law. "The Mexican government will continue to follow this process closely, and stands by its firm commitment to protect the rights of Mexicans abroad," the ministry said in a statement. The lawsuit drew fierce criticism from Russell Pearce, the Arizona state legislator who authored the law. "Shame on them. This is malfeasance and they are in violation of their oaths of office," he told Reuters after the lawsuit was filed. A Justice Department official said that if the court refused an injunction, the federal government would closely monitor enforcement of the Arizona law for possible illegal racial profiling or other civil rights violations. Obama has warned that the Arizona law could lead to a patchwork of different laws passed by the various U.S. states and said that the matter should be resolved at the federal level by Congress. The U.S. leader last week gave his first major speech on immigration reform since taking office, calling for both parties to join together to pass a comprehensive measure, but the issue has largely been overshadowed by the economic crisis and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Obama has backed allowing undocumented immigrants in good standing to pay a fine,

learn English and become citizens. He also has supported tightening border security and clamping down on employers that hire undocumented workers. But opposing Republicans have said that border security must be significantly improved before dealing with the millions of illegal immigrants, many of them Hispanics, in the country. Obama has pledged to spend an extra $600 million and send up to 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to tighten security, however the initial steps to do so have been criticized by Republicans as too little to address the matter. The suit came after the U.S. Supreme Court said last week that it would decide whether another Arizona law that punishes employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants infringed on federal immigration powers. The case is United States of America v. State of Arizona et al; Case No. 10-cv-1413 in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. (Additional reporting by David Schwartz in Phoenix; editing by Paul Simao) Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Russia seeks spy swap for agents in U.S: lawyer (Reuters: Top News)

arrested in the United States for spying," Anna Stavitskaya, a Submitted at 7/7/2010 8:38:23 AM lawyer acting for Sutyagin, told By Guy Faulconbridge and Reuters. Alexei Anishchuk "It is a one-for-one exchange. MOSCOW| Wed Jul 7, 2010 So each of those detained in the 10:35am EDT United States will be swapped MOSCOW(Reuters) - In an for one person from Russia." espionage drama worthy of the U.S. counter-intelligence agents Cold War, Russia wants a spy arrested 10 people last month on s w a p t o r e t u r n h o m e i t s suspicion of being members of a suspected agents arrested in the Russian spy network that was United States last month, a trying to infiltrate policymaking lawyer involved in the affair circles in the United States. said on Wednesday. In court documents that read T h e s w a p p l a n s i n c l u d e like the spy novels of John le exchanging a Russian nuclear Carre, FBI counter-intelligence expert jailed for passing secrets agents explained that many of to the West. They add a new the accused Russian agents were twist to a cloak-and-dagger saga living under false identities and t h a t b o t h M o s c o w a n d communicating with Moscow Washington hope will not by concealing invisible text u n d e r m i n e i m p r o v i n g messages in photographs posted d i p l o m a t i c r e l a t i o n s . on public internet sites. Russia wants to swap its A spokeswoman for Russia's national Igor Sutyagin, who was Foreign Intelligence Service sentenced to 15 years in jail in (SVR) declined to comment and 2004 for passing classified no Russian official has yet military information to a British confirmed that a swap could firm which prosecutors said was take place. a front for the U.S. Central But Russia has always prided Intelligence Agency. itself on bringing trusted agents " T h e y w a n t t o e x c h a n g e back to Moscow at all costs and Sutyagin for one of those Washington has agreed to swaps

before. Despite steadily improving relations between the two former superpowers under Kremlin chief Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Barack Obama, diplomats say both sides continue to spy actively on each other for military and political secrets. One of the most famous cases from the Cold War was in 1962 when the United States released Russian spy Rudolf Abel in exchange for Francis Gary Powers whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960. And a swap could prevent a long drawn out trial of the Russian suspects and avoid a possible row that both the White House and the Kremlin say they are eager to avoid. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the U.S. government was discussing a "broad and rapid resolution to the case" with lawyers for the defendants which could allow them to return to Russia. News of the possible swap emerged after Sutyagin was suddenly moved this week from

a prison in Kholmogory, in Russia's northern region of Arkhangelsk, to Moscow's highsecurity Lefortovo prison and allowed to see his family. Sutyagin told his family, including brother Dmitry, of the plans to exchange him for the accused in the United States in a swap that would involve travel to Vienna and London. Dmitry said that Sutyagin had seen a list of names of other people who would be swapped. One name on the list was Skripal -- a likely reference to Sergei Skripal, a Russian officer who was convicted of spying for Britain in 2006. "Sutyagin agreed to the swap offer as he had no other choice left. He knew that otherwise his whole life would be broken," said Stavitskaya. "But he still insists he is innocent." (Editing by Dmitry Solovyov and Michael Stott) Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Good and bad news for Hurt Locker sharers (CNET News.com)

of The Hurt Locker, Voltage has obtained at least 5,000 Internet protocol addresses belonging to Anyone who fears being sued people it says shared the film for pirating the Oscar-winning i l l e g a l l y . E F F a n d A C L U film "The Hurt Locker" can representatives argue there is likely relax for a while. nothing that binds these people The law firm representing indie together and making them all move producers, including the defendants in a single suit isn't makers of 'The Hurt Locker' proper. won a big victory in court last The strategy of filing suits week.(Credit: Voltage Pictures) against those that download The law firm representing media files via peer-to-peer Voltage Pictures, the producers services was pursued by the of the Iraq war film, is suing Recording Industry Association illegal file sharers on behalf of of America, the trade group for independent filmmakers but is the top music companies, for being delayed by watchdog five years before they gave it up groups. in December 2008. Since then, Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver, the the major Hollywood studios law firm filing copyright a n d m u s i c l a b e l s h a v e complaints on behalf of Voltage concentrated on convincing Pictures, makers of "The Hurt Internet service providers, such Locker," and at least a dozen as Time Warner Cable and o t h e r i n d i e p r o d u c t i o n AT&T, to penalize chronic companies, were in a District of copyright abusers. But small Columbia court last week where indie movie producers may not a federal judge told them to help have the resources to lobby create a new way of notifying ISPs. "The Hurt Locker," leaked people that they are being sued to the Web months before the for copyright violations. theatrical release and it was the T h e E l e c t r o n i c F r o n t i e r lowest grossing Oscar winner Foundation, a pro-technology for Best Picture ever. a d v o c a c y g r o u p , a n d t h e Dunlap said it offers these American Civil Liberties Union producers a means to protect challenged Dunlap's attempt to their property and recoup losses. file a single law suit against It's still too early to determine thousands of people. In the case how profitable this will be for Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:04:18 AM

litigation and made the strategy unviable. "We are pleased with what we believe was a very well considered opinion by Judge Collyer," said Thomas Dunlap, founder of Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver. "We are working with the EFF...to craft a notice to accompany the order to the Defendants in these cases." The complaint involving "The Hurt Locker" is before another judge but that case is just getting started while a complaint involving "Far Cry," a movie from German director Uwe Boll, film producers or how effective these notices until the issue is is further along in the legal at stop piracy. settled, McSherry said. process. In the Hurt Locker U.S. District Judge Rosemary "The defendants may not know situation, Dunlap is waiting to Collyer said during the hearing that they can raise these issues receive permission from the last week that she had concerns [ o f j u r i s d i c t i o n a n d m a s s court to subpoena the names of about this issue as well as the litigation," McSherry said."I the people Voltage accuses of question of whether she has think we definitely planted a see pirating the film. jurisdiction over accused file with the judge. This judge is With "Far Cry," and several sharers presumably from across g o i n g t o b e p a y i n g c l o s e other films, Dunlap has already the country, according to attention to these cases to make acquired the names of the Corynne McSherry, an EFF sure the process is fair." accused and has notified them attorney who was at the hearing. The good news for the that they should pay $1,500 to The good news for file sharers filmmakers is that the judge get rid of the lawsuit or else risk is that Collyer told Dunlap and rejected arguments by EFF and getting sued for as much as the film producers that they the ACLU that Dunlap should $150,000. need to work with EFF and the be required to file a single Five Filters featured article: ACLU on providing information lawsuit for every individual Headshot - Propaganda, State to those accused of copyright a l l e g e d t o h a v e v i o l a t e d Religion and the Attack On the violations about their rights. copyright. Had the judge agreed, Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available That means it is unlikely Dunlap that would have dramatically tools: PDF Newspaper, Full will be sending out any more of driven up the costs of pursuing Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Nokia Turns To Russian Authorities To Get Leaked N8 And Other Property Back Robin Wauters (TechCrunch) Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:06:47 AM

A couple of months ago, Russian gadget blogger Eldar Murtazin posted a review of a new Nokia phone, the N8 – the first to feature the Symbian^3 platform – before it was officially announced. This thing happens all the time, but there’s much more to this story. A day after the review, Nokia posted a message on its blog titled‘One of our children is missing’, positing that Murtazin somehow got his hands on a very early, pre-production prototype with dated software that was far from ready. The company also added that it was “determined to protect its intellectual property”. Nokia is now making good on that promise. In a blog post published moments ago, the Finnish mobile juggernaut explains that it had formally requested Murtazin the return of “all unauthorized Nokia property”, which he apparently didn’t respond to. As a result, Nokia says it has now contacted Russian authorities to assist the company in the return of the goods. For what it’s worth, from what I can gather from Murtazin’s blog posts on the matter (in

Russian), he has tried to contact Nokia over the past few weeks to no avail. He also claims the whole ordeal is now doing damage to his reputation. Going back to Nokia’s statement, the company claims its move is unrelated to Murtazin’s recent criticism directed at the company and its products, and that it has no intention to have his blog Mobile-review.com shut down. But the company does seem

keen on exploring legal actions against Murtazin, as well as casting more doubts over his objectiveness with regards to the mobile industry he covers: To be perfectly clear, we are defending our intellectual property by asking for the return of all unauthorised property in Mr. Murtazin’s possession. This is not about attacking bloggers or people who give critical reviews of our products. So as we don’t confuse the

issue, while this individual does operate a blog, he is also very public about being a ‘consultant’ to other international mobile manufacturers. He has confirmed he is in possession of unauthorised Nokia prototypes and other intellectual property, and we have asked for their return. Whether Mr. Murtazin’s actions were as a blogger, or whether he is acting in the capacity of a consultant in order to provide information to his clients is an open question. We’re not able to comment on what would or would not happen if the unauthorised property were returned. It would be inappropriate to speculate on future actions at this stage. However, you can be sure that we are prepared to take all appropriate and legal measures to protect our intellectual property. We believe every individual or organization has the right to protect itself. Nokia says it will let the Russian authorities determine what the most appropriate course of action is going forward. CrunchBase Information Nokia Information provided by CrunchBase

5 Scariest Stunt Car Feats (HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:00:00 AM

For some people, using a car to get from point A to point B simply isn't enough. In fact, many have taken an automobile to the edge of destruction (or beyond) in the name of adventure, thrill-seeking and of course, for big-name blockbuster movies. To honor those men and women who've come up with some creative ways to use a car, we've collected five of the scariest car stunts we could find, and assembled them right here in no particular order. Some are famous and some are just downright crazy, but all involve a car and a whole lot of danger. Fortunately, in each one of these examples, no one was permanently injured -- but that doesn't necessarily mean they were completely unharmed either. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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The Solar Impulse takes to the skies for its longest attempted flight yet.(Credit: SolarImpulse.com) A solar-powered plane designed to fly both day and night has embarked on its first attempt at a 24-hour voyage. Taking off from its base in Switzerland, the Solar Impulse HB-SIA soared into the sky at 6:51 a.m. Wednesday local time, intent on staying in the air nonstop for 24 hours. If all goes according to plan, the plane will fly through the night powered purely by the solar energy captured during the day. The Solar Impulse site has been tracking the progress of the pilot, Andre Borschberg, and has outlined the itinerary and the hopes for the entire flight. During the day, the Solar Impulse will slowly attain an altitude of nearly 28,000 feet with the sun's rays both powering the plane and charging its batteries to prepare for the

night flight. As the sun starts to sink too low to continue providing energy to the solar cells (about two hours before sunset), Borschberg will begin a slow descent, hitting at altitude of around 4,900 feet by 11 p.m. local time. The goal at that point will be to continue flying throughout the night and until the next sunrise using only the captured energy stored in the

and other specialists gathered to create the first prototype of such an aircraft. Unveiled a year ago, the Solar Impulse HB-SIA took off for its first test flight in December before embarking on its first official maiden voyage in April and a series of other flights in May. If all goes well with the 24-hour flight, the next step will be to cross the Atlantic in 2011 in a new, lighter prototype plane dubbed the HB-SIB, followed by an around-the-world trip in 2012. "The goal of the project is to have a solar-powered plane flying day and night without plane's batteries. The question hour flight for last week. But a fuel," team co-founder Bertrand will be whether Borschberg can t e c h n i c a l g l i t c h w i t h t h e Piccard said in a statement. coax the batteries to supply telemetry transmitter, which lets "This flight is crucial for the enough juice to keep him aloft the ground crew monitor the credibility of the project." all night before landing at dawn flight, kept the plane grounded Five Filters featured article: on Thursday. until the problem was resolved. Headshot - Propaganda, State If successful, this will prove to The public can follow the flight Religion and the Attack On the be the longest and highest flight via the site's dedicated page, its Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available completed by a solar plane, blog and its Twitter feed. tools: PDF Newspaper, Full according to Solar Impulse. The saga of the Solar Impulse Text RSS, Term Extraction. T h e S o l a r I m p u l s e t e a m began seven years ago when a originally planned the first 24- team of 70 designers, engineers,

Robert and Kristen Head Home Together After a Show in LA! PopSugar (PopSugar) Submitted at 7/7/2010 8:30:00 AM

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart stepped out in LA last night to see Sam Bradley play at the Hotel Cafe. The pair was

also side by side on Monday, when they surprised fans with an appearance before a screening of Eclipse. After their relationship was outed by a Twilight producer and even director David Slade, it seems

like Robert and Kristen might be getting more comfortable being in public together. He'll still have to spend time away from Kristen, though, as filming for Water for Elephants continues he was busy before the long

Fourth of July weekend shooting with costar Reese Witherspoon. Kristen herself will be back on set soon, putting her new hair to work in front of the cameras for On the Road.

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Steve Jobs stops by Paris Opera store Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 7/7/2010 6:00:00 AM

Filed under: Steve Jobs I have my doubts about what's going on here, but I'll let you judge the veracity of this one for yourself. The above video is supposedly a short clip of none other than Steve Jobs walking through the newly opened Paris Opera Apple Store during this past weekend on July 3rd. A commenter on 9to5Mac says that the guy in black walking in front of Steve is Steve Cano, the senior director of Apple International Retail, so

supposedly Steve and entourage were there to check out the new store and see how things were going. Of course, not everything you read and see about Steve is true- while it certainly makes sense that he'd be there (and that he's probably also dropping by the new store in Shanghai), there's no verification on this one, so we don't know for sure if this is him or just a well-dressed French impostor. But either way, enjoy the fleeting glance of what seems to be the man himself out in public. Oh, and Steve? You were too busy to spend the July 4th

weekend at home, cooking on the grill and watching fireworks with the rest of us? Sure, it was probably just a bit of bad timing, but next time the Independence Day holiday rolls around, take a break and enjoy it a little, won't you? TUAW Steve Jobs stops by Paris Opera store originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

Ways to Save When Shopping - from Consumer Reports Press Room (Consumer Reports) Submitted at 7/6/2010 9:00:59 PM

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as a $1 billion space. The platform allows parents to Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:30:48 AM exchange boxes of outgrown ThredUP, an online exchange kids clothing and shoes for new for children’s clothes, has raised items that fit. Since launching a $1.4 million led by Trinity few months ago, thredUP has V e n t u r e s w i t h F o u n d e r accumulated 12,000 members Collective, High Line Ventures and saved families an estimated a n d N e x t V i e w V e n t u r e s $195,000 in children’s clothing. participating. This brings the The startup’s co-founder James startup’s total funding to $1.7 Reinhart tells me that ThredUP million. is adding 1,000 new members T h r e d U P a i m s t o b r i n g per week. affordability and convenience to The new funding will be used the children’s clothing market, to build out the startup’s which is estimated to be valued engineering team, to further

product development and to acquire customers. And Reinhart says that ThredUP is expecting increased transactions on its platform in preparation for the Back to School season and Halloween. ThredUP will be

Reese Recharges With Shopping After Her Busy Long Weekend PopSugar (PopSugar) Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:30:00 AM

Reese Witherspoon shielded her face from the sun with a fedora yesterday while shopping in LA. She enjoyed some alone time after a social long weekend - she first was decked out in a glam red gown to film Water for Elephants on Friday. She and costar Robert Pattinson shared a romantic late night shoot, but then the pair wrapped up work holding its first costume swap to enjoy a break with their loved ones. Reese went on to celebrate on halloween. The startup has a solid idea. Independence Day with a Many parents end up donating Malibu beach barbecue, where old kids clothes to charity she toasted the Fourth of July (which is a worthy cause) but with boyfriend Jim Toth and ThredUP gives families an friends Sean Penn and Tim alternative to this and at the Robbins. same time save families money on further spending. C r u n c h B a s e I n f o r m a t i o n To see more Reese, just read thredUP Information provided more. View 10 Photos › by CrunchBase

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IR-beaming RedEye mini iPad / iPhone remote dongle gets real, its own video demo Darren Murph (Engadget) Submitted at 7/7/2010 10:21:00 AM

Oh, sure -- ThinkFlood promised us back in early March that a RedEye mini would be landing this summer, but at the time, all we had were a few luscious renders. Today, the company has finally revealed the first actual shots of the forthcoming device, along with a video showing it in action. While diminutive, it's certainly not as compact and discrete as IR-enabled cases, but if you've already committed to an iPod hold and shake the iPhone in due out soon, and it allows you touch / iPhone / iPad case (or determines where the darts land t o u s e y o u r i P h o n e a s a just prefer rocking your device on the iPad's board. controller for the iPad version. I sans clothing), this here dongle W h a t a w e i r d c o n c e p t . t h i n k t h e r e a r e p l e n t y o f is likely the next best thing. In Unfortunately, it's probably a p o s s i b i l i t i e s l i k e t h a t f o r case you're wondering, this little better idea than it actually is a developers to play around with. guy will transform your iDevice into a universal remote, enabling game; the iPhone app requires [via MacStories] OS 4, you've got to have both TUAW Darts from the iPhone i t t o t a l k t o a n y h o m e devices, and the reviews on the to the iPad originally appeared entertainment component that iPad app say it doesn't really o n T h e U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e listens to IR (read: that's just work that well. It's impossible Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 07 about all of 'em). We're still for the iPad to know "where" Jul 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please the iPhone is, so you don't even see our terms for use of feeds. need to face the screen to throw Read| Permalink| Email this| the darts correctly. Comments Still, I think we'll see more cross-device interaction like this; Chopper 2 is a game that is

Darts from the iPhone to the iPad Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 7/7/2010 10:00:00 AM

Filed under: iPhone, iPad This is probably the coolest bit of iOS connectivity I've seen so far. KL Dartboard is an iPad app (for US$3.99) that serves as a virtual board for darts thrown by an app, called KL Darts, ... for the iPhone. So, the idea is that you buy the iPad app and set it up on the wall, and then you download the free iPhone app and connect the two using Bluetooth, Once the setup is complete, the position that you

stuck waiting a few more months for this $49 product to hit shelves, but for now, feel free to hop past the break and peek a brief demonstration. Continue reading IR-beaming RedEye mini iPad / iPhone remote dongle gets real, its own video demo IR-beaming RedEye mini iPad / iPhone remote dongle gets real, its own video demo originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| ThinkFlood, MoreControl| Email this| Comments

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Honda shows off conceptual, solar-powered station to refill your conceptual, hydrogen-powered car (video) Tim Stevens (Engadget)

splitting water molecules into hydrogen atoms. Eight hours of sunlight generates a halfHydrogen-powered cars, like kilogram of hydrogen, enough Honda's FCX Clarity, face a lot for the FCX to cover about 30 of hurdles, not the least of which miles -- your average commute. being a fuel source requiring H o w e v e r , t h e r e a r e s o m e more energy to produce than it obvious concerns, not the least in turn gives out as energy. of which being that massive Honda is showing one way to solar array (shown on the right mitigate that with its conceptual in the picture above), which is home-based recharging station. t w i c e t h e s i z e o f c a r i t ' s It relies on a six-kilowatt solar powering. Then there's the cost, array to power an electrolyzer, and while Honda isn't saying Submitted at 7/7/2010 10:42:00 AM

how much this might set you back if it ever did come to production, we're guessing it'd m a k e t h e J F E

Gawker Media Grinds To A Halt – Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Other Blogs Down (Update) Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)

Gawker tech is holding the servers differently now :) Submitted at 7/7/2010 7:11:25 AM I’m not sure just how big We’ve had our fair share of Gawker Media is, but in terms outages around here, but we’re I’ve been checking out some of of reach, it’s very big. The last not nearly as big as the Gawker the Twitter feeds of said blogs, report I can find on its traffic blogging empire is, so it’s worth as well as that of founder Nick numbers date back to November noting that every site in the Denton(whose personal blog is 2009, when Denton said the Gawker Media blog network is also down), but it appears company’s network was at currently down and out. they’re either not yet aware of nearly 400 million pageviews a From Gizmodo to Gawker.com, the issue – rather unlikely – or month, with not a single blog Kotaku, Jezebel and Lifehacker, too busy getting things back up g e t t i n g u n d e r 2 0 m i l l i o n every visitor to the sites again to let their respective p a g e v i e w s p e r m o n t h . operated by the new media audiences know what’s up (or C r u n c h B a s e I n f o r m a t i o n company is being served a dry Gawker Media Information down, rather). message that reads ‘Http/1.1 Update: and they’re all back – provided by CrunchBase Service Unavailable’.

Engineering's$60k quick charger look like something of a bargain. Continue reading Honda shows

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Testing Suites Show Firefox 4 Not Quite Caught Up in Speed [Performance Tests] Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 7/7/2010 7:00:00 AM

We ran our own Mac-based performance tests last week with Firefox's pre-beta release candidate, and found Firefox 4 an improvement, but not quite catching up to other browsers in raw speed. Web Worker Daily did its own MacBook Pro tests, and found that Firefox 4 was, at best, on par with Opera 10.6 on Mozilla's Dromaeo testing suite (they ran the combined "Recommended Tests," whereas we broke the results into JavaScript and CSS). Pure speed

isn't everything, of course, and the new Firefox has a lot to recommend. Have you found Firefox 4 to be faster, or comparable to other browsers? [ Web Worker Daily] More » Mozilla Firefox- Firefox 4Firefox- Mozilla- browser

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Researchers whittle 'world's thinnest' metal lines

TWC rebadges Sprint Culinary term Overdrive, offers it as IntelliGo or military mobile 3G / 4G hotspot term?

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A group of international scientists have collaborated to create what they say is the "world's thinnest" and smoothest metallic lines which are used in electronic components. The technological breakthrough will aid in future miniaturization of devices, they say. Singapore's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering(IMRE) said Tuesday that scientists from IMRE, the University of Cambridge in the U.K., and Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea have succeeded in creating metallic lines so thin and smooth that they can only be seen using electron

microscopes. This breakthrough was achieved through "material and technique," IMRE explained, where researchers used organometallic material made up of a metallic and organic component, and applied a combination of electron beam lithography and subsequent gas treatment to chip away organic portions in a uniform manner. Read more of "'World's thinnest' metal lines to spur device miniaturization" at ZDNet Asia. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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And then, there were three. Three ways to snag an Overdrive, that is. Months after Sprint issued the original 3G / 4G mobile hotspot, Clear came along and introduced a rebadged version of the same thing. Now, Time Warner Cable (who is also in cahoots with Sprint and Clear) is following suit by tossing its logo on the all-toofamiliar device and christening it the IntelliGo. Functionally, it's the same as ever -- there's a built -in battery that'll provide 3G / 4G mobile internet to a smattering (read: five) of nearby devices via WiFi, a microSD slot and USB connectivity. The difference here, though, is that it'll run you $49.99 on a twoyear contract, and the fee will "vary by region." Speaking of regions, it'll be available

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You'd think this one would be easy -- a chef and an Army colonel don't exactly share the same professional language, after all. But which one talks about "bloody chits"? Or wherever Road Runner Mobile "davits"? And then there are the is offered, which means Texas, times that the culinary and North Carolina, Hawaii and military worlds collide. Soldiers Kansas City for now. do have to eat, of course. Can C o n t i n u e r e a d i n g T W C you figure out which of these rebadges Sprint Overdrive, words you'd use in a kitchen, a offers it as IntelliGo mobile 3G / mess hall -- or the trenches? 4G hotspot Five Filters featured article: T W C r e b a d g e s S p r i n t Headshot - Propaganda, State Overdrive, offers it as IntelliGo Religion and the Attack On the m o b i l e 3 G / 4 G h o t s p o t Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available originally appeared on Engadget tools: PDF Newspaper, Full on Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:14:00 Text RSS, Term Extraction. EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| untangled| Email this| Comments

Jennifer Garner Goes From Business to Casual in One Day PopSugar (PopSugar) Submitted at 7/7/2010 6:00:00 AM

Jennifer Garner looked perfectly polished yesterday morning toting a Chanel bag and wearing Christian Louboutin heels for an early meeting and a

stop to peruse dresses for her daughters in LA. By the afternoon Jennifer switched into glasses and a more casual cozy yellow sweater to combat the unseasonable cold. Jennifer was one of many stars who got patriotic over the weekend, making it back to California

from West Virginia just in time to spend the Fourth of July at a parade with Violet and Seraphina. Unfortunately, Ben was laid up for part of the holiday festivities with a migraine, which kept him from joining his girls or Matt Damon

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Apple issues MobileMe calendar beta Dave Caolo (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 7/7/2010 8:00:00 AM

Filed under: MobileMe Early this morning, Apple released a beta of the MobileMe Calendar Web app. MobileMe customers can request an invitation at me.com/calendar. As with the Mail beta, the new Calendar has received a major UI overhaul. A new list view, similar to what's on the iOS devices, makes it simple to scan upcoming events. Also, the day, week, and month views have been redesigned. A new feature will let users share calendars with other MobileMe members. During the beta, you can share one readonly calendar. You'll also be able to send out invitations with RSVP from the Web app. Of

course, users will still be able to sync all events between the Web app, desktop iCal, and iOS versions. It might take a few days to receive your beta invitation, so be patient. The Mail beta became a final product in relatively short order, so we're looking forward to enjoying an

all-new Calendar Web app soon. TUAW Apple issues MobileMe calendar beta originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

Reset GNOME When Things Go Wrong on Your Linux Desktop [Linux Tip] Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 7/7/2010 7:30:00 AM

The great thing about Linux systems? They're so highly configurable. The really rough part of Linux? When things go

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Hacker creates Lego Mindstorms NXT-606 drum kit, just because he can (video) Tim Stevens (Engadget) Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:36:00 AM

If you've taken your Lego Mindstorms NXT kit to the Nerd Cup, created a 3D scanner to digitize your Precious Moments collection, and trained it to solve a Rubik's Cube, you might think you've run out of things to do. Perhaps this was the problem that Peter Cocteau faced -- or maybe he just wanted to make the most bombastic NXT project yet. He created an 8-bit sample drum machine with 24 sounds controlled entirely by two Lego rotation sensors. He did have to make a few augmentations to get the audio output working (and to add in that bitching DJ-style light to

make it more club friendly). He's kindly provided all the source that you'll need to get your little blocks bumpin', but if you want yours to be just like his you'll need to do your own soldering. Continue reading Hacker creates Lego Mindstorms NXT606 drum kit, just because he can (video) Hacker creates Lego Mindstorms NXT-606 drum kit, just because he can (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Make| nxtasy.org| Email this| Comments

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MobileMe iDisk app updated Dave Caolo (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:00:00 AM

Filed under: App Store Apple has updated the MobileMe iDisk app(free) with several new features, including full iPad compatibility. Now universal, MobileMe iDisk looks great on an iPad and offers full iOS 4 multitasking support. It saves its state like other multitask-optimized apps, so it'll present the last file you were browsing at launch. Also, you can open compatible documents for iBooks, Pages, GoodReader, or other apps that support the "Open in..." feature. The iPad's split screen display also makes it very easy to view documents while browsing folders. If you have audio files stored on your iDisk, the app will let

you listen to them in the background while you do other things. MobileMe iDisk is free, but it requires a valid MobileMe account. The app was first released last year for the iPhone, and this is its first significant upgrade since last December. TUAW MobileMe iDisk app updated originally appeared on

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I spent some time in a car over the holiday weekend (which is unusual for my city, pedestrian self) so I had a good excuse to stop at Trader Joe's and pick up one of my favorite snacks beforehand. I grabbed a bag of TJ's Chile Spiced Mango. These dried fruits are delicious because they have a sweet mango taste (which you know I

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us our time with a side order of superfly, but then the $158,000 Submitted at 7/7/2010 8:48:00 AM price tag ensures that we won't This isn't just a watch, it's a be able to do something foolish horological machine. The HM4 like buying one for ourselves. Thunderbolt, recently unveiled See the HM4 on video after the by designer Maximilian Busser, break. represents an intriguing mixture Continue reading MB&F HM4 even just a few are enough to o f h i g h - g r a d e m a t e r i a l s , Thunderbolt considers legible precision engineering, and time 'a fringe benefit' (video) satisfy. MB&F HM4 Thunderbolt Yum! What is your favorite outlandishly macho design. The case is composed of titanium considers legible time 'a fringe road trip snack? -- Abby Cuffey, Associate a n d s a p p h i r e - - w h i c h benefit' (video) originally collectively take over 200 hours appeared on Engadget on Wed, Health Editor Five Filters featured article: of machining and finishing to 07 Jul 2010 08:48:00 EDT. Headshot - Propaganda, State achieve the desired aerodynamic Please see our terms for use of Religion and the Attack On the look -- while ensconced within feeds. Permalink Professional Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available it are over 300 parts composing Watches| MB&F| Email this| a "transcendental" engine. We Comments love) as well as a hint of spice. tools: PDF Newspaper, Full can't say we're not attracted by They are a bit high in sugar so I Text RSS, Term Extraction. the bullet-shaped dials offering try to limit myself to only a couple of pieces at a time, but

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Apple’s Invasion of China Begins With This Shanghai Apple Store Matt Burns (TechCrunch) Submitted at 7/7/2010 7:58:02 AM

There has been a lot of talk the last couple of days with Apple’s stance on the gigantic Chinese market. The Lenovo’s chief and founder stated“We are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China. If Apple were to spend your troubles might soon begin. the same effort on the Chinese Apple plans on opening three consumer as we do, we would stores in Shanghai and is be in trouble.” Well, good sir, considering more locations in

other first and second-tier Chinese cities as well. The first Chinese Apple Store opened in 2008 in Sanlitun, Beijing but these new locations mark a strategy shift for Apple. In fact, The Oriental Morning Post stated this morning that Apple plans on having as many Chinese retail outlets as Louis Vuitton – that’s over two dozen.

Persistent Max Google Calendar Keeps GCal Maximized [Google Calendar] Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker) Submitted at 7/7/2010 6:30:00 AM

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Don't Worry, Financial Conditions Are Only As Bad As When The Tech Bubble Burst Gregory White (The Money Game) Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:25:00 AM

If you perceived growing worries in the economy about everything from a double dip recession, to a European

banking crisis, to a Chinese slow down, well, you were right. The St. Louis Fed's Financial Stress Index suggests that right now, the economy is under as much stress as it was at the end of the tech bubble and when

Russia collapsed, and nearly where we were at the time of the

September 11th attacks and the recession thereafter. Fortunately, we're not even close to the heights of the financial crisis of 2008. From the St. Louis Fed via Paper Money(chart from Blytic) Now check out why Deutsche

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The New Frontier: "Covering" Conservatives (AEI.Org: Articles)

on American politics. And that is why many of our leading journalistic enterprises There has been a lot of news in have found it worthwhile to t h e l a s t w e e k o r s o : t h e assign full-time reporters to the resignation of Gen. Stanley task of spelunking through the McChrystal, the death of Sen. dark caves of conservatism to Robert Byrd, the oil spill off the b e t t e r u n d e r s t a n d t h e s e Gulf Coast, the Elena Kagan f a s c i n a t i n g , i f v a g u e l y confirmation hearings, the w o r r i s o m e , b e i n g s . cratering economy and stock The 'party of Mordor' market, even the World Cup. As for Weigel, though he But for a few days at the end of officially resigned from the June, Beltway pundits were Post, theories still abound about consumed with the ballad of whether he really jumped from David Weigel, a blogger for the his perch there or was pushed. W a s h i n g t o n P o s t , b r i e f l y Either way, the reason he had to a s s i g n e d t o c o v e r t h e go stemmed from comments he "conservative beat." made in an off-the-record online A n d j u s t w h a t i s t h e chat group for liberal journalists. conservative beat? He said he hoped that Internet Well, according to many of the phenom Matt Drudge would "set nation's leading editors, it's that himself on fire" and that Rush shadowy, often-sinister world Limbaugh should drop dead. where carbon based-life forms Conservatives, according to o f a g e n e r a l l y h u m a n o i d Weigel, are obsessed with appearance say and do things protecting "white privilege" and relating to, and supportive of, are bigots for opposing gay conservative causes and the marriage. The GOP is the "party Republican Party. These strange o f M o r d o r " a n d , i f l e f t creatures have been observed unchecked, will one day deliver using complex tools, caring and the West into the hands of nurturing their young and even Sauron. (Not really, but if you participating in complex social read between the lines, it's in rituals. Most worship an unseen there.) Note: Weigel's actual sky god that traces its roots back work product was far more to the ancient Middle East. Even balanced and seemingly openmore astounding, these creatures minded than what you'd expect are having a noticeable impact knowing his private views. Submitted at 7/6/2010 6:00:00 PM

The incident has sparked a lot of discussion over how mainstream journalistic institutions such as the Washington Post and the New York Times should cover conservatives. Even if you leave aside the ancient arguments about media bias, this is still an old debate. In 2004, the Times assigned a reporter to cover conservatives full-time in order to better inform their readers and staff how the conservative movement works. "We wanted to understand them," explained editor Bill Keller. The Times' ombudsman later observed that the "decision not to create a liberal beat, it seems to me, reflected the reality that the Times' coverage of liberals had no gaps similar to those in its reporting on the conservative movement." Translation: The Times is staffed almost entirely by liberals and their news judgment flows directly from that fact. Many mainstream news outlets have been caught flat-footed on some major stories in recent years precisely because of this attitude. For instance, Van Jones, the White House "green jobs czar," was brought down by controversies that went ignored by most leading news outlets but

were widely covered by (the hugely successful) Fox News and the thriving conservative press. It seems at times that if conservatives consider something big news, the editors at such places as the Times and the Post must first conduct an anthropological analysis: Why are these right-wing natives so upset? It's difficult to exaggerate how bizarre this predicament is. In America, self-identified conservatives outnumber selfidentified liberals by 2 to 1. And yet many of our leading journalistic bastions have found themselves stuck in something akin to media monasteries with a Fort Apache complex. Now the Washington Post is scrambling to figure out how to cover conservatives. Part of the reason the Post looks so lost is that it seems apparent that it thought it was hiring a conservative to cover conservatives when Weigel was more like a libertarian-leaning liberal with a good conservative phrase book and a dashing rightwing pith helmet. A registered Republican, Weigel nonetheless voted for Barack Obama, John Kerry and Ralph Nader for president. Meanwhile, left-wing groups who find the news media insufficiently liberal are now

clamoring for their own reporters to cover the "liberal beat." Lefty, meet righty What a strange hot mess the press has gotten itself into. And there are no easy answers about how to clean it up. One solution, offered by the Washington Examiner's Byron York: Hire a lot more openly ideologically committed--and fair-minded-reporters, but with one caveat: Have the conservatives cover the liberal beat and the liberals cover the conservatives. York rightly notes that a little ideological distance tends to temper the cheerleading. It's a good idea. But here's some even simpler advice for liberal editors unwilling to break out of the bunker: Just try to keep in mind that these strange alien creatures are also potential customers. Jonah Goldberg is a visiting fellow at AEI. Photo Credit: Flickr user DRB62/Creative Commons Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Thomas's Principled Jurisprudence in Arms Case (AEI.Org: Articles) Submitted at 7/6/2010 6:00:00 PM

In 1978, Justice Lewis Powell wrote an opinion in the Bakke case asserting that the need for diversity could justify racial preferences in university admissions. No other justice joined this opinion, but because the other justices were split 4-4, Powell's opinion decided the case, and in time his argument has been embraced by a majority of the court. A regrettable result, in my view, but a consequential one. Last month Justice Clarence Thomas delivered a similarly decisive opinion in McDonald v. Chicago, the case holding that the Second Amendment's right to keep and bear arms, recognized by the court in 2008 as applying to the federal government, also limits the power of the states. The other eight justices argued whether that right was fundamental enough to apply to the states under the 14th Amendment's guarantee of "due process of law." Since the 1940s the justices have been arguing whether various federal rights were fundamental enough to apply to the states under this clause. In McDonald, four justices argued that the Second Amendment was fundamental to the states, and four disagreed. Thomas, writing separately, declined to apply the due

process clause. Rather he argued that the Second Amendment applied to the states because the right to keep and bear arms under the 14th Amendment's command that "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." Legal scholars have generally considered that the Supreme Court's decision in 1873 in the Slaughter-House Cases rendered the privileges and immunities clause a nullity. Thomas, who has regularly declined to follow precedent he considers incorrect, argued persuasively that the 1873 case was incorrectly decided. Certainly it is not a precedent that is an ornament of the law. As Thomas pointed out, the 14th Amendment was passed in 1868 to guarantee the rights of the newly freed slaves. The Slaughter-House Cases undercut that purpose and made possible the violent subjugation of American blacks that is one of the most regrettable episodes of our history. And, as Thomas argues in vivid detail, one of the key rights black Americans were deprived of was the right to keep and bear arms. The wisdom of the Founders' inclusion of the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights is clear from the efforts black Americans made to exercise that right and from the

efforts of white racists to deprive them of it. For many years "the educated class" has denigrated the Second Amendment and argued that it was outmoded and only concerned national guards. But legal scholars, liberal as well as conservative, demonstrated that the Framers fully intended to protect citizens' rights to arm and protect themselves. At the same time, empirical evidence has made it clear that gun control laws infringing that right left law-abiding citizens at the mercy of criminals. And empirical evidence in the 40 states that now allow lawabiding citizens to carry concealed weapons has demonstrated that they could be trusted to exercise that right responsibly. The only alarming thing about the McDonald decision was that it was decided by only a 5-4 margin and could conceivably be reversed later by the court. As a practical matter it allows reasonable restrictions on firearms while eliminating laws that attempt, futilely, to ban them altogether. Thomas' colleagues, like many legal scholars, were evidently unwilling to join him in overturning the Slaughter-House Cases and based their decisions on the privileges and immunities clause, presumably because that might undercut other precedents.

But Thomas, in my view, has the better logical argument. "The notion," he writes, "that a constitutional provision that guarantees only 'process' before a person is deprived of life, liberty or property could define the substance of those rights strains credulity for even the most casual user of words." As he points out, the court has used the due process clause to find rights--notably the right to an abortion--that are not specified in the Constitution, while at the same time four current justices have also used it to argue that a right specified in the Second Amendment does not apply to the states. Thomas' concurring opinion points the way to a more principled jurisprudence, based more clearly on the text of the Constitution, while at the same time making the strongest of possible cases that Second Amendment rights are fundamental. Michael Barone is a resident fellow at AEI. Photo Credit: Flickr user SP8254/Patrick Dirden/Creative Commons Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Street Chic: New York ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion Blogs) Submitted at 7/7/2010 6:00:00 AM

Who: Morgan Cros What: The straw boater hat is this year's fedora. Wear: Alexandre Herchcovitch dress, ChloĂŠ shoes, In God We Trust hat, Sonia Rykiel bag Photo: Courtney D'Alesio Think you are Street Chic? Email us your photo and you could appear in ELLE.com's Street Chic Daily. Follow ELLE on Twitter. Become our Facebook fan!

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It's Like We're Back In 1776 And We Need A Henry Knox (SPDR) Daryl G. Jones (The Money Game) Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:00:00 AM

“We have arrived at that point in time in which we are forced to see our own humiliation, as a nation, and that a progression in this line cannot be productive of happiness, private or public.” -Henry Knox I just finished reading 1776, by David McCullough. He’s of no relation to Keith, but he, too, is a fine Yale man; even if not a hockey player. So why am I wasting my time reading early American history? Well, very simply, because the United States is at the crossroad of political and economic policy leadership. The future will look remarkably different than the most recent past, and that future will be shaped by the decisions made by those who take leadership roles in the years ahead. This is a year that is not unlike the year of 1776. While the battle for independence was fought for many long years, the Founding Fathers changed the trajectory and future of America by declaring independence in 1776. Many well known names played critical roles that year and in the continued battle for independence, but the name Henry Knox was one that

jumped out at me from my readings. Knox was a book seller from Boston, who quickly earned the

trust and confidence of General George Washington. Like much of the American Army in those days, he had very little real

military experience. But what he liked in experience, he made up for in courage and leadership.

The crucial recommendation that Knox made to General IT'S page 32

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protecting nature, she hopes to get more impact out of the limited conservation funds Submitted at 7/7/2010 2:21:55 AM available. Thomas Brooks, a biologist A new Australian study, w i t h N a t u r e S e r v e , a published in Nature provides conservation group based in support for the idea. According Arlington, Virginia, has long to its lead author, Richard Fuller b e e n f i g h t i n g t o p r e s e r v e of Queensland University, biodiversity in the Philippines. Australia’s protected areas were Quite often it can feel like a lost designed more systematically cause. Conservation efforts in than in many other countries in the country have struggled the world. a g a i n s t e v e r g r e a t e r Even so, he and his colleagues deforestation and decades of found that not all of Australia’s environmental neglect. You protected areas had been created might think that, when Mr equal. Acre for acre, some Brooks heard that the Philippine sanctuaries—such as those in government is considering rainforest, tropical grassland or opening some of its protected mangrove swamps—offered a areas to mining, it would have lot more species protection per been the last straw. Instead, it acre than others did. What’s was an occasion for hope. more, the protected areas According to Theresa Mundita showed a wide range in costLim, Director of the Protected e f f e c t i v e n e s s . T h e w o r s t Areas and Wildlife Bureau of underperformers—the real t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f t h e dogs—cost thousands of times E n v i r o n m e n t a n d N a t u r a l more than the average for a Resources, who made the g i v e n a m o u n t o f h a b i t a t announcement at a meeting of p r o t e c t i o n . the Convention on Biological Fortunately, there’s a fairly Diversity in Nairobi, the move s t r a i g h t f o r w a r d f i x , t h e on mining is part of a larger researchers argue: ditch the strategy to improve how much dogs, and buy up more winners. biodiversity the government Dr Fuller and his colleagues protects. By cutting spending on d i d n ’ t i n v e n t t h i s i d e a : areas that are lower-priority and conservationists have been instead putting the money where talking about such schemes for a it will be more effective in few years, at least. But as far as

Dr Fuller knows, his study is the first to try to put hard numbers on the costs and benefits. Based on current land prices, selling off just the bottom 1% of sites would allow Australia to expand its protected lands from about 629,000 square kilometres to around 6.2m square kilometres—an almost tenfold increase. Such an increase could triple the number of types of rare plant in the preserves. One reason for this is that areas near cities, Dr Fuller says, often have high land values whereas in remote areas, land can come much cheaper. But the idea is not simply to sell all the protected areas near cities, which are also the ones it is easiest for the public to visit. A bigger reason for the potential gains is that, even in Australia, many protected areas are poorly chosen. Many were set up more than a century ago, when conservationists were largely concerned with preserving landscapes they considered beautiful. These days p r o f e s s i o n a l conservationists—unlike, perhaps, the users of national parks—focus much more on protecting rare plants or animals. They’ve made leaps in their knowledge of where rare species are found, and which

ones are at risk, and they have built far better mathematical and geospatial tools for selecting places to protect. In Australia there doesn’t seem to be much room for further improvements once the least cost-effective 1-2% of protected areas is ditched: selling off more of the underperformers provided hardly any boost in protection. But elsewhere the situation may be different. If Australia’s protected areas were more systematically designed than most, as Dr Fuller and his colleagues argue, then in other countries there might be even more scope for slicing away underperformers and improving the system as a whole. Giving up some protected areas in the name of protecting others would undoubtedly be politically tricky. The attitude among most conservationists, Dr Fuller says, is that nature preserves are, so to speak, “too green to fail”. Even those that are struggling to provide much protection should be propped up, mainstream thinking goes, if the alternative is to give ground to relentless development. This may just be a variant of the sunk -cost fallacy to which everyone from gamblers to stock managers falls prey: instead of looking ahead, to the prospects

for future returns, they try to make up for past losses. A more feasible approach may be not to dispose of the poorest performers but simply to starve them of funds. The number of species protected would still go up, but without sending a signal that preservation policies were easily overthrown. The Philippines may wind up being the first place to put this to the test. The country is reviewing its protected areas to see which are really important for biodiversity, says Ms Mundita Lim. Then there will be negotiations with the industries—such as mining, fishing, and logging—that are based in some of the biodiversity hotspots with a view to identifying less biodiverse areas where they could work instead. Will this work? In any negotiation, she says, you can’t always get what you want. But if they try, they might get what the wildlife needs. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Washington, as a 26-year old, was that the Guns of Ticonderoga should be retrieved as they could have a crucial impact on ending the Siege of Boston. Washington appreciated the importance of increasing his artillery surrounding Boston, so he sent the young colonel on the mission to retrieve the Guns of Ticonderoga. From early December of 1775 to late January of 1776, Colonel Knox and his men transported 59 cannons and mortars weighing more than 60 tons over 300-miles through the dead of winter. Knox and his team averaged over five miles a day, and despite death and hardship, eventually arrived in Boston. The British quickly realized they were outgunned, and shortly thereafter withdrew from Boston, which ended the Siege of Boston. The key current strategic question facing the nation also relates to resolving a siege, the Siege of Deficit and Debt. The United States currently has more debt on its balance sheet than any year since World War II. You don’t have to be a student

of history like David McCullough to realize that is not ok. The Keynesians will have you believe that the way to reignite the American economy, and ultimately narrow deficits, is to Pile Debt Upon Debt. The flag bearer for this school of thought is none other than Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman. In a New York Time column on July 1st Krugman wrote: “What’s the evidence for the belief that fiscal contraction is actually expansionary, because it improves confidence? ( By the way, this is precisely the doctrine expounded by Herbert Hoover in 1932.)” While this is a synopsis, Krugman has consistently argued that the recent stimulus was not substantial enough and that austerity will lead to slow growth and, by the aforementioned association to Herbert Hoover, a Depression. While using history as a guide is important, fear mongering as a way of substantiating economic policy, like using erroneous comparisons to Herbert Hoover, is not. The stimulus undertaken globally

over the past couple of years is about as good of a Keynesian experiment as we can analyze. While the massive stimulus may have served to halt the economic slowdown in the short term, the massive amount of debt that was used has leveraged the economic future of the free world. So, what’s the solution? Well, for starters, it begins with admitting what doesn’t work. Massive government borrowing and associated debt that doesn’t create long run economic activity or build new industries, such as after World War II, doesn’t work. Increasingly, it is also becoming clear that expanding the government doesn’t work either. To this point, Krugman’s counterpart at the New York Times, David Brooks, offered some quantified support against increasing government spending. As Brooks recently wrote: “Moreover, public spending seems to have odd knock-off effects. Professors Lauren Cohen, Joshua Coval and Christopher Malloy of Harvard surveyed 42 years of

government spending increases in certain Congressional districts. They found that federal spending increases dampened corporate hiring and investment in those districts.” Brooks went on to highlight the need for confidence in our economy above all else. The type of confidence that does not come with burgeoning deficits and fiat currencies. According to Brooks, Lord Keynes wrote that the state of confidence is “a matter to which practical men pay the closest and most anxious attention.” One thing I don’t currently have is confidence in the economic leadership of America. I do have confidence that new leadership will emerge, just as it did with the 26 -year old Henry Knox in 1776. The real work at our firm gets done by the Young Hedgeye Knights who sit on our trading floor every day. They open the office up at 430 a.m., and they are the guys and gals that shut the office down at night when most of us are already in bed. Yes, indeed. The future economic leadership of this fine nation is not going to come

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from the Hallowed Halls of the Fiat Fools in Washington, but will come from the youthful entrepreneurs of our economic future. We are lucky to count many on our staff: Darius Dale, Matt Hedrick, Zach Brown, Allison Kaptur, Rory Green, Felix Wang, and Christian Drake. All of these folks are in their mid to early 20s and collectively show more economic leadership daily than most of the Fiat Fools in Washington have shown in their careers. The history of this nation has simply taught us this: when this fine republic is at a crossroads, new leadership will emerge. I’m lucky enough to see this every morning. Keep your head up and stick on the ice, Daryl G. Jones Managing Director Join the conversation about this story »

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A year ago, when the car industry was in the toilet, many people -- including ourselves-were leaving satellite radio monopolist Sirius XM for dead. Why? The merger took too long (thanks to the dopey FCC), the car market -- where Sirius gets most of its new customers-wouldn't come back quickly enough, and free streaming radio apps on iPhones would quickly replace satellite radio as the hot new way to listen to music. Not so fast! Sirius XM is actually signing up a lot of new customers, and while it isn't growing as fast as it used to, it's actually growing. And shares are up 6% on the news. • Sirius said it added 583,000 net new subscribers during Q2, compared to a net decline of 186,000 in Q2 2009. • Sirius announced its third guidance increase this year; now expects to finish 2010 with 1.1 million net subscriber additions. (So it expects a slowdown in the second half.)

year ago. • In the first six months of 2010, it has added 755,000 net subs, compared to a net loss of 590,000 during the first half of 2010. • Sirius finished June with a record 19.5 million subs. • The conversion rate it gets from people who buy new cars with free trial subscriptions also increased. It now gets 46.7% of those people to sign up for paid subscriptions, up from 44.3% a

Sirius will announce full Q2 results in August. Don't miss: 10 Things We Love And Hate About The iPhone 4 Join the conversation about this story » See Also: • 10 Things We Love And Hate About The iPhone 4 • CHART OF THE DAY: Sirius XM And Detroit Are Joined At The Hip • Sirius Smashes The Street; Executives Mum On Howard Stern's Contract Renewal

Cameron Diaz landed by helicopter in Rio de Janeiro yesterday, joining Tom Cruise for the Brazilian premiere of Knight and Day. They both had a break from their busy promoting schedules to spend Fourth of July in the states and the costars picked opposite coasts for their holiday weekend. Cameron stayed in NYC where she hung out with Alex Rodriguez at a Broadway show while Tom made the trip back to California to be with Katie Holmes and Suri. Tom's family had more than just Independence Day to celebrate since Saturday was his 48th birthday, and they recognized the milestone with a trip to the mall. Last night Tom and Cameron were all dressed up and showing off those movie star smiles for their screening. Tom was

presented with a soccer jersey, while Cameron showed off her long legs thanks to a high slit in her tight black dress. Tom's Brazilian trips have been known to include some shirtlessness and perhaps while they're in the country Cameron will have a chance to hit the beach and show off the bikini body that has her leading Lily Allen in our bracket round one- vote for your chance to win an iPhone 4! To see more Tom and Cameron, just read more. View 10 Photos ›

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July 7, 1550: Europeans Discover Chocolate Hugh Hart (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 7/6/2010 11:00:00 PM

1550: Chocolate is introduced in Europe, and the Mexican drink creates a passion that endures after nearly half a millennium. Europe came late to the joys of chocolate. Native to Mexico, Central and South America, cacao cultivation dates to at least 1250 B.C., according to archaeologists. Mayans grew cacao trees in their backyards and used the seeds to brew ceremonial drinks. In the fifth century, Aztecs consumed xocoatl(bitter water) flavored with vanilla and chili pepper. The highly valued bean served as currency in Aztec society. One turkey, for example, cost 100 cacao beans. As far back as 1504, Christopher Columbus may have brought cacao beans to Spain from his fourth and final voyage to the Americas. Hernan Cortes, the Spanish conquistador who subdued Mexico with luck and pluck (and guns, germs and steel), wrote in 1519 that chocolate is “the divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food.” Cortes brought cacao beans and chocolate-brewing apparatus back to Spain when he returned in 1528. And Dominican friars

who introduced native peoples to Spanish royalty in 1544 also gave chocolate to their majesties. Yet for all this, the great onrush of the continental cocoa craze is often traced to July 7, 1550, and July 7 is even gaining currency as Chocolate Day. So who are we to argue? It’s not brain surgery (though chocolate does have neural effects). Whatever its original date of

introduction in Spain, chocolate did not stay there. Spanish friars spread the gospel of Theobroma cacao throughout Europe as they traveled from monastery to monastery. Hot chocolate became a hit with French royalty after cocoa enthusiast Marie Therese married Louis IV in 1660. At the Palace of Versailles, courtiers regarded the drink as an aphrodisiac.

London’s first chocolate house opened in 1657. English cafe society believed the drink to be a cure-all medicine capable of treating tuberculosis. Initially flavored with coffee, wine and pepper, hot chocolate finally achieved liftoff in the early 1700s when English and Dutch impresarios hit on the idea of adding milk and sugar. It was only a matter of time before mass-production

technologies would transform bean-based treats from luxury to everyman staple. A century later, chocolate assumed solid form, courtesy of Fry and Sons. The British confectioners figured out how to add sugar and cocoa butter to create a malleable paste that could then be packaged as “eating chocolate.” The same standardized processes for extracting cocoa butter to manufacture hard, durable candy are still used today, essentially unchanged since the Industrial Revolution. Unwittingly, chocolate lovers through the ages embraced a source of natural caffeine that’s packed with flavonoid antioxidants (also found in tea, red wine and tomatoes) known for reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. Chocolate continues to fuel daily fits of chemical-based exhilaration for sweet-toothed consumers around the world. Source: Various Photo: Adrienne Newman smells cacao beans during a tour of Scharffen Berger chocolate factory in Berkeley, California, in 2007. Noah Berger/AP See Also: • Geekdad Chocolate Chronicles • April 23, 1516: Bavaria Cracks Down on Beer Brewers JULY page 36

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24 Hours of Solar-Powered Flight Jason Paur (Wired Top Stories)

on battery power. If the night flight is attempted, Borschberg will very slowly descend to Submitted at 7/7/2010 8:27:00 AM around 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) The Solar Impulse aircraft before making a dawn landing known as HB-SIA is in the back at the home airfield in middle of its first 24 hour flight Payerne. including a complete day/night HB-SIA (its Swiss aircraft cycle. The aircraft took off from identifier) is a prototype design its home airfield in Payerne, powered by four, 10 horsepower Switzerland shortly before 7 electric motors with a cruise a.m. local time on Wednesday speed of roughly 40 miles per (1 a.m. EDT). It will spend the hour (70 km/h). 11,628 solar day climbing to an altitude to cells power the motors and nearly 28,000 feet (8,500 c h a r g e p o l y m e r l i t h i u m meters) while charging its batteries. With a wingspan of batteries. 208 feet (63.40 meters), the Just before sunset, pilot André delicate aircraft rivals a jumbo Borschberg will decide whether jet in width, but only weighs or not to continue the flight 3,520 pounds (1,600 kilograms). t h r o u g h t h e n i g h t . O n c e The Solar Impulse team is darkness falls over the Swiss using today’s flight to test both countryside, the aircraft will fly the aircraft and pilot capabilities

that will be used when the around the world flight is attempted in 2012. By using sunshine to climb to altitude and charge batteries, the airplane will be able to fly for up to 36 hours at a time, limited only by

pilot fatigue. By flying at night, Bertrand Piccard, the man behind the Solar Impulse program, hopes to show that a solar powered airplane is more than just a stunt. On the Solar Impulse blog

posted before today’s flight started, it was noted that Piccard had given a pep talk to the team reminding them “this airplane is here to prove that renewable energies are not just pornography for tree huggers.” The public can follow the flight in real time via video, graphs showing the aircraft’s flight and power data, as well as a simulated cockpit of sorts showing the location. Photo: Solar Impulse Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Fetish: B&O's BeoLab 11 Subwoofer Is a Boom in Bloom Cliff Kuang (Wired Top Stories)

on La Brea &mdash Bang & Olufsen's BeoLab 11 subwoofer. Nicknamed the Tulip, its distinct Submitted at 7/6/2010 7:00:00 PM design is optimized for both a Fetish: B&O's BeoLab 11 f r e s h l o o k a n d s t u n n i n g Subwoofer Is a Boom in Bloom performance. Audio designers Sure, summer's here, but maybe typically add ballast to their you don't like the outdoors. room shakers to kill soundMaybe you burn easily. Still, spoiling vibrations. Instead of you can bring a little of the piling on pounds, B&O set two outside in with a "flower" that 6.5-inch drivers across from one drops more bass than a lowrider another. The sound waves they

create push in opposite directions, preventing vibrations from propagating. At just 18 pounds, the 200-watt powered sub is light enough to mount on a wall. It's also eerily still: Set a cocktail on top and the booze won't even ripple. But don't make a habit of it &mdash this flower doesn't like to be watered. • Home Audio Components:

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Ft. Meade, Maryland– one of the military’s most secretive and secure facilities. Its mission is largely opaque, even inside the armed forces. But the there’s another mystery surrounding the emerging unit. It’s embedded in the Cyber Command logo. On the logo’s inner gold ring, there’s a code: 9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce 2b22a “It is not just random numbers and does ‘decode’ to something specific,” a Cyber Command source tells Danger Room. “I believe it is specifically detailed in the official heraldry for the unit symbol.” “While there a few different

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proposals during the design phase, in the end the choice was obvious and something necessary for every military unit,” the source adds. “The mission.” With that hint in hand… Go crack this code open. E-mail us your best guess, or leave it in the comments below. Our Cyber Command source will confirm the right answer. And the first person to get it gets his/her choice of a Danger Room t-shirt or a ticket to the International Spy Museum. See Also: • Cyber Command: We Don’t Wanna Defend the Internet (We Just Might Have To) • Prospective U.S. Cyber

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Dinner Diary: Chicken Fajitas WomansDay.com Editors (Daily Woman's Day Blog) Submitted at 7/6/2010 3:00:00 PM

I love visiting people and finding out what their day-today cooking is like. We visited my sister-in-law and her family for the July 4th weekend and, the day after all the festivities, my husband's sister pulled out one of her go-to meals: chicken fajitas. She simply follows the instructions on the back of the McCormick fajita seasoning packet; sour cream, shredded lettuce and cheese, diced tomatoes, salsa and warmed

flour tortillas make the meal. For an easy weeknight meal, keep reading: The first thing we did was cut some chicken tenderloins into bite-size pieces and cook in

some oil in a skillet for 3 minutes, until they were basically cooked through. Then I added a thinly sliced onion and cooked 3 minutes more, until the onion was softened.

Next I added the seasoning packet and about a 1/4 cup water. Simmered 5 more minutes, then served. A few more ideas for weeknight meals: What do you make on an average weeknight? — Kim Walker Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Kelly Cutrone on Whitney's Thick Skin & The City's Latest BreakUp ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion Blogs) Submitted at 7/6/2010 10:00:00 PM

On tonight's episode of The City, Roxy accuses Whitney of having changed — mostly from living in New York City, but also from spending too much time with Kelly Cutrone. So we called Kelly for her take on the episode. ELLE: So, has Whitney KELLY page 37

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changed? Kelly: Not enough! So her skin's gotten thicker, but unless you're born and raised in New York, no one's prepared to live here. When I moved here, the things my parents told me to focus on would've gotten me killed. Like having good manners or saying, "Hi! I really like your shoes!" to some random guy in the subway — those things actually cause you trouble. But if I'd had my way Whitney would've really told Olivia off when they had that confrontation.

ELLE: Instead she's essentially breaking up with her best friend. Was it Roxy's fault Lights took off Whitney's jacket? Kelly: No, but I mean that's part of being a publicist. Whitney's saying good bye to the PR person in her and hello to the designer. We're coaching her to become the designer, but is it Roxy's fault she took the jacket off when there are 100 degrees of stage lights on her? No. ELLE: Because Roxy really did her part. Kelly: Yeah I mean did we get the picture? We just have to

make sure we got that shot because it doesn't really matter anyway. It's like all the kids in that concert don't care, it's the people who see the photos and the credits after who really matter. So just let it go and let's move on. Direct that energy into something else! Photo via MTV

Roger Vivier's Launching Five New Perfumes, & Other Couture Trivia ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion Blogs)

shooting stars. At Louis Vuitton, I saw a rock and roll inspired necklace: a Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:28:11 AM vinyl record, guitar and pave The lovely thing about diamond drumsticks swirled into attending the couture shows is a fantastical mix that rests on that there aren't a lot of shows the collar bone. — which leaves plenty of time At Roger Vivier, Ines de la to visit other people and see Fressanges was delighted to more beautiful things in Paris. inform me that they were This morning I visited Van launching five special Cleef and Arpels. They fragrances. After focusing their presented a dazzling collection resources and attention on inspired by the stories of Jules thousand leagues below the sea: obtaining the very best essential Verne. Fantasy things that you Enormous octopus brooches fragrances their new rose, ambre might see if you visited the made from opals, mezmerizing and santal take you to a very center of the earth twenty diamonds, jumping dolphins and heavenly place indeed.

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Lindsay Lohan's going to jail for 90 days. Here's hoping she emerges with red hair and a better sense of reality. { NewYorkTimes} There's a chance Valentino may actually make a profit in 2010. Designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli have had a couple of successful seasons in a row, as well as killer shoes and bags to help them along the way. { BusinessWeek} Lady Gaga played a sold out show at Madison Square Garden last night. She's come a long way from Terminal 5, the midtown venue she played less

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QuickCal Adds Calendar Events with Natural Language on iPhones [Downloads] Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)

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Fireworks are kinetic drawings inscribed in the sky. On the night of July 4, in the little upstate New York town of Narrowsburg, we stood on the bridge over the Delaware River and watched with a few hundred other people as the bursts of choreographed color exploded overhead. I had been thinking about the fantasy element in American art for a week or so, since I saw the Charles Burchfield show that has just opened at the Whitney Museum (Newsmax - Inside Cover) diplomatic efforts and economic of American Art. Although sanctions if we can, but through B u r c h f i e l d ’ s f o r e s t s a n d Submitted at 7/7/2010 4:58:00 AM military action if we must," said skyscapes do not always give After a meeting with Defense Lieberman. me enough subtleties of color or M i n i s t e r E h u d B a r a k i n Although US officials often say form to entirely engage my eye, Jerusalem at the David Citadel no option should be taken off I do admire the Gothicizing, H o t e l o n W e d n e s d a y , U S the table in relation to Iran's fairy tale dimension in his Senators John McCain, Joseph nuclear program, this is one of paintings, which are almost Lieberman and Lindsey Graham the few times an official of without exception done in held a press conference where L i e b e r m a n ' s s t a n d i n g h a s watercolor. There is something t h e y s p o k e a b o u t s e v e r a l e x p l i c i t l y u s e d t h e t e r m winningly mysterious and pressing foreign policy issues in "military action" while in Israel. magical in Burchfield’s hymns the region. © The Jerusalem Post. All to nature, with trees gathered Sen. Lieberman used some very Rights Reserved together to create elaborately h a r s h l a n g u a g e a t t h e Five Filters featured article: spun cathedral visions, a small Wednesday press conference to Headshot - Propaganda, State town version of a medieval describe the Iranian nuclear Religion and the Attack On the dream world. program, saying the US must do Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available I felt some of that same spirit, everything it can to stop Iran tools: PDF Newspaper, Full from becoming a nuclear Text RSS, Term Extraction. power. The US will address the Iranian threat "through It's not a new idea, but it bears repeating: setup and skill are usually a lot more important than how expensive your camera is. A photo shoot using Photography- Camera- Artsonly an iPhone 3GS camera puts Shopping- Techniques and the lie to camera stat obsessions. Styles More »

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explosions of gold, silver, and green lights—and, of course, red, white, and blue lights—in the darkening July 4 sky. The setting was perfect. The Delaware is intimate and meandering at Narrowsburg, and the trees on each bank, framing the light show, turned the scene into a romantic postcard, the sort of postcard of an American town that 90 years ago would have been chromolithographed in colors that were not quite perfectly registered. Of course the fireworks display that we saw the other night was pure kitsch, with great gilt chandeliers of light turning into streaks of glitter before they expired. And the red, white, and blue of the grand finale did not really have the coloristic punch that one hoped for. But taken together, it was an enchanted vision: the little town, the handsome bridge, the winding river, the deep green foliage, and the crowd clapping and hooting in delight. The blaze of July 4 fireworks, starbursts, and floral symmetries suspended in the velvet sky, reminded me of the elaborate arabesques, like New

Burchfield worked into his fantasy kingdoms. In Narrowsburg, we were watching the afterimages of fireworks of yore, of all the princely displays in all the European capitals, but now reduced to the perfectly intimate scale of an old American town. Here was an indigenous version of nonobjective art, a dime store Kandinsky with its own matterof-fact honesty, an American abstraction that was immediately comprehensible to everybody who was there. In the end, after the ultimate onslaught of gaudy color, a great yell went up from the crowd. We were saluting those fiery decorative flourishes, but also the democratic vision they honored. For a minute or two we were all united in our faith in the United States of America. And then everybody headed for their cars and the drive home. Jed Perl is the art critic for The New Republic. For more TNR, become a fan on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

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personality," said Harvard Law graduate David Mandelbaum, a trustee of real estate giant One talent Supreme Court Vornado Realty Trust and part nominee Elena Kagan displayed owner of the Minnesota Vikings in her career climb could create football team. He declined to unique ethics questions for her reveal how much he gave. as a justice: the ability to "She has a very pleasant way persuade Harvard Law School a b o u t h e r , a n d b a s i c a l l y alumni and other wealthy indicated to us that we benefited donors to give hundreds of from the Harvard Law School millions of dollars, more than education and those of us who meeting a daunting fundraising could should be able to pay back goal that came with her job as and give a future generation the dean. kind of education we had." The $476 million total Kagan Fundraising is one of the key reached for the "Setting the measures by which law school Standard" campaign was a deans are judged, said Stephen record not just for her university Gillers, a New York University but for all law schools. Harvard Law School professor and legal Law sought $400 million to add ethics expert. professors, buildings, programs "It's a salesman's job. You're and financial aid, and Kagan selling a product and the school was in charge of pulling it off. is a product," Gillers said. She raised about $303 million "There are two things that make f r o m 2 0 0 3 - 0 8 , a f t e r h e r people contribute: Nostalgia as a predecessor had pulled in $170 graduate and a feeling of million toward the goal. obligation ... and the second Kagan's prolific fundraising thing you're selling is the work sets her apart from the current the school is doing. You want to Supreme Court justices. To raise persuade the donor, who may that kind of money, Kagan drew not be an alum at all, you want on interpersonal skills honed to persuade them that this school w o r k i n g i n t h e h i g h l y is doing important work in an competitive environments of the area of interest to the donor." Clinton White House and law If Kagan is confirmed to the school faculties. court as expected, it's possible She did it by reaching out to she will encounter Harvard lawyers, corporate executives donors again, this time arguing and others from the law school a s l a w y e r s , p l a i n t i f f s o r and broader legal and business d e f e n d a n t s . communities. "She raised the For example, alumni listed by money basically purely on her H a r v a r d a s a c t i v e i n t h e Submitted at 7/7/2010 5:19:31 AM

fundraising campaign include Sumner Redstone, chairman of the board of CBS Corp. and Viacom. Redstone and his family are controlling shareholders in both companies. Viacom is pursuing a $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube and Google in federal court. A judge last month ruled against Viacom, owner of cable channels such as MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon; Viacom plans to appeal. If attorneys or law firms who donated represent clients before the court, it probably wouldn't be considered a close enough link to force Kagan to recuse herself from the case — even if the giving helped her succeed as dean, which in turn made her a more attractive candidate for the court, said Arthur Hellman, a University of Pittsburgh law school professor and expert in federal courts and judicial ethics. If a person or company who gave at Kagan's behest ended up a party in a Supreme Court case, "that's a closer question," Hellman added. New York University's Gillers agreed. "You need two things. You need a contribution so large that we could say that Dean Kagan would feel a sense of great personal gratitude and then you need a case in which the donor had a significant personal or business interest before the

court," Gillers said. Plenty of people saw reason to help Kagan's cause as donors and fundraisers, including prominent attorneys, law firms and business executives, according to law school announcements during the campaign. Among them: — Law firm Sidley Austin established a visiting professorship of law. — John Cogan Jr., former chairman of the law firm Hale & Dorr, now called WilmerHale, gave at least $6 million. Kagan announced in early 2009 that the money would be used for the school's international legal studies program. — Joseph Flom, a partner in the law firm Skadden Arps, helped found the school's Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics. — Rita Hauser, named by President Barack Obama to his intelligence advisory board, and her husband Gus Hauser donated to establish the Rita E. Hauser Professorship of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. — Howard Milstein, chief executive of the New York Private Bank & Trust Corp., and his wife Abby Milstein donated. — The law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz donated. — Finn M.W. Caspersen, a Harvard Law alum, heir to a financial services company fortune and chairman of the fundraising campaign, gave $30

million, Harvard Law's single largest contribution. A new student center is named after him. Caspersen committed suicide last year. — Law school graduate and then-Lazard Ltd. financial advisory and assets management firm chief executive Bruce Wasserstein and his family gave $25 million, the second biggest donation in the school's history. A new hall is named after Wasserstein, who died last year. — Partners in the Kirkland & Ellis law firm gave $3 million to renovate a large classroom, now named Kirkland & Ellis Hall. As dean, Kagan frequently expressed gratitude to the Harvard donors. "We are enormously grateful to everyone at Kirkland & Ellis for this new gift, and for Kirkland's unwavering support over the years," Kagan said in June 2005, announcing the firm's donation. Harvard declined to release a full donor list. Asked by the Senate Judiciary Committee to list potential conflicts of interest, Kagan didn't mention her Harvard fundraising, and senators didn't ask her about it during two days of questioning at her confirmation hearing last week. "The principal conflicts of interest that I would encounter arise from my service as solicitor general," Kagan wrote KAGAN: page 44

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Politics Before Law in Obama’s Arizona Suit Hans von Spakovsky (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.)

and their radical allies like La Raza that Arizona’s law violated federal civil rights laws, there is no civil rights claim whatsoever Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:23:15 AM The Justice Department filed its in the complaint. expected lawsuit against Instead, the Obama Arizona’s new immigration law Administration argues that S.B. (S.B. 1070) yesterday and 1070 is invalid because it i s s u e d a p r e s s r e l e a s e violates the Supremacy Clause, trumpeting its action. It is clear is pre-empted by federal law, from reading the lawsuit and the and (most bizarrely of all) press release that politics—not violates the commerce clause. a n o b j e c t i v e a n a l y s i s o f First, the Justice Department Arizona’s law—is driving the c l a i m s t h a t A r i z o n a i s Justice Department’s action. unconstitutionally interfering This should be no surprise to with the federal government’s a n y o n e g i v e n t h e J u s t i c e authority to set immigration Department’s recent politicized policy. This claim is nonsense. actions in other matters like the Arizona is not interfering with New Black Panther voter the federal government’s intimidation case. But it should immigration policy as it is set in c o n c e r n e v e r y o n e w h o the laws passed by Congress. understands the enormous A r i z o n a is simply power of federal prosecutors complementing and helping the and the danger posed by an federal government enforce its Attorney General who is willing immigration laws. On the other to use that power to achieve the hand, states that give illegal President’s partisan political aliens drivers licenses and objectives rather than the s a n c t u a r y c i t i e s l i k e S a n interests of justice and the Francisco that help illegal aliens impartial enforcement of the violate immigration laws do law. The claims made in the interfere with federal law, but, case range from ridiculous to as evidenced by the lack of being very revealing (perhaps federal lawsuits in those cases, unintentionally) about the this Administration has no Administration’s apparent views interest in suing to stop that kind about immigration policy. of interference. The Obama One of the most interesting Administration thus appears to things about this lawsuit is only be interested in stopping what’s missing. After all of the enforcement of federal law, not spurious claims and pernicious its violation. charges by President Obama, The DoJ press release is Attorney General Eric Holder, actually amusing. This is an

Administration that has made border security a non-priority and that has demonstrated little interest in fixing the enforcement problem; yet the press release claims that if states and local governments develop policies like Arizona’s, it will “disrupt federal immigration enforcement.” But by enforcement, the Administration actually spends significant time arguing for nonenforcement. Surely, I jest? No, the lawsuit actually claims that Arizona’s enforcement interferes with Obama’s prerogative not to enforce the law: DHS and other agencies may exercise their “discretion” and choose not to enforce the law for “humanitarian reasons.” Under the new section 2 of the Arizona law, any legal resident of Arizona may bring a civil action in an Arizona court to challenge

area of immigration enforcement and to directly regulate immigration and the conditions of an alien’s entry and presence in the United States despite the fact that those subjects are federal domains and do not involve any legitimate state interest.” (emphasis added). So despite the deaths of Arizona citizens caused by illegal immigrants involved in smuggling drugs and other illegal immigrants across the border, as well as the enormous costs imposed on local any official or agency that communities by illegal aliens, “adopts or implements a policy the Obama Administration that limits or restricts the believes that local communities enforcement of federal have no “legitimate state immigration laws… to less than interest” in this issue. the full extent permitted by Astonishing. federal law.” DOJ claims this is The weakest claim in the bad policy that will “burden” lawsuit is that because the and “divert” federal resources purpose of this law is to deter away from federal policy and prevent the movement of priorities, which it essentially certain “unlawfully present describes as a very limited aliens” into Arizona, the law enforcement regime restricts interstate commerce (supplemented, it should be and is thus a violation of the noted, with discretionary Commerce Clause. This is like nonenforcement), targeting saying that because the federal terrorists and violent criminals government makes trafficking in but, as experience has shown, cocaine a federal offense, if a essentially ignoring all others. state passes a complementary The most galling aspect of the local law punishing the government’s brief is its importation of cocaine into the treatment of the state’s interest. state, it is interfering with The DOJ states: “S.B. 1070 (as interstate commerce. This claim amended) attempts to second borders on the frivolous. guess federal policies and rePOLITICS page 42 order federal priorities in the

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Morning Bell: The Rationer-in-Chief Conn Carroll (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.)

economy. “NICE had set a general limit of £30,000, or about $49,000, on the cost of Submitted at 7/7/2010 8:29:57 AM extending life for a year,” When Linda O’Boyle was Singer writes. Following this diagnosed with bowel cancer, logic, Singer supported NICE’s her doctors told her she could decision not to allow British boost her chances of survival by citizens the kidney cancer adding the drug cetuximab to fighting drug Sutent. As a result her regimen. But the rationing of this, and many other rationing body for Britain’s National decisions Britain, has one of the Health Service, the National lowest cancer survival rates in Institute of Health and Clinical the Western world. While E x c e l l e n c e ( N I C E ) , h a d 60.3% of men and 61.7% of previously ruled that the drug women in Sweden survive a was not cost-effective and cancer diagnosis, in Britain the therefore would not be paid for figure ranges between 40.2% to by the government. So O’Boyle 48.1% for men and 48% to liquidated her savings and paid 54.1% for women. And NICE’s for the drug herself. But this is rationing has not just hit cancer not allowed under NHS rules. patients. Doctors have warned When government bureaucrats that patients with terminal found out that O’Boyle had illnesses are being made to die purchased the drug with her own prematurely under the NHS money, she was denied NHS r a t i o n i n g s c h e m e . A n d treatment and died within a c c o r d i n g t o t h e P a t i e n t s months. Association, one million NHS Defenders of Britain’s health patients have been the victims of care rationing system may try to appalling care in hospitals claim that this tragic death is an across Britain. o u t l i e r i n a n o t h e r w i s e Most Americans would find acceptable government run t h i s h a r r o w i n g . B u t n o t health care system. They are P r e s i d e n t B a r a c k O b a m a . wrong. It is the point of the Yesterday he bypassed the system. As socialized medicine Senate confirmation process and and infanticide advocate Peter used a recess appointment to Singer has argued in The New install Dr. Donald Berwick to be Y o r k T i m e s , t h e N I C E the administrator of the Centers bureaucrats must ration care or for Medicare and Medicaid else free government health care Services (CMS is the agency would bankrupt the British that runs the Medicare and

Medicaid programs). Dr. Berwick said of Britain’s health care system: “Cynics beware, I am romantic about the National Health Service; I love it.” And his love for Britain’s health care system is not in spite of its rationing, but because of it. In 2009 Dr. Berwick told Biotechnology Healthcare: “NICE is extremely effective and a conscientious and valuable knowledge-building system. … The decision is not whether or not we will ration care – the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.” The fact that the White House chose to empower Dr. Berwick by recess appointment is particularly audacious. The recess appointment power was intended to be used for occasions when the Senate is out for moths at a time. The Senate is currently out of session for just 11 days. Worse, the Senate majority has never even scheduled a hearing so that Dr. Berwick’s rationing views could be given an “open” forum. In fact, Dr. Berwick has not even returned Senators’ written questionnaires. The White House defends the move by claiming “there’s no time to waste with Washington gameplaying.” But then why did the Obama administration wait until April 2010, a full 15 months

after President Obama was sworn into office, to nominate Dr. Berwick? Is it because they did not want Dr. Berwick’s well known and public support for rationing health care to affect the debate over Obamacare? In a 2005 interview with Health Affairs, Dr. Berwick said: “(G)overnment is an extraordinarily important player in the American health care scene, and it has inescapable duties with respect to improvement of care, or we’re not going to get improved care. Government remains a major purchaser. … So as CMS goes and as Medicaid goes, so goes the system.” And that was before Obamacare gave far reaching new powers to government bureaucrats. In June of 2009, President Obama told the American Medical Association that “identifying what works is not about dictating what kind of care should be provided.” Moreover, the president has assured the public time and again that the government will not get between patients and their doctors. His nomination of Don Berwick for Director of CMS, however, tells a different story. Quick Hits: • Arizona Democrats who have to face voters this year are lining up against the Obama

administration’s suit aimed at stopping states new immigration enforcement law. • According to a new study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the cost of harboring illegal immigrants in the United States is a staggering $113 billion a year. • According to Gallup a majority of Americans believe the government’s main focus should be on halting the flow of illegal immigrants coming into the U.S., not developing a plan to deal with those already here. • The Obama EPA proposed new regulations for coal-burning power plants yesterday that would cost consumers nearly $3 billion a year. • Also according to Gallup, only 38% of independents approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as president, the first time independent approval of Obama has dropped below 40%. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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GOP Aims at Record for Gubernatorial Wins (Newsmax - Inside Cover) Submitted at 7/7/2010 3:36:59 AM

Republicans are poised to win more gubernatorial seats in 2010 than in any election during the past 90 years - a feat that would eclipse the 24 seats won during the "Republican Revolution" of 1994, a new study shows. The GOP also has a good chance to challenge the party's tally of 29 seats it won in 1920, its best showing during the 20th and 21st centuries, according to an analysis by Smart Politics, a nonpartisan blog. "We are going to see a historic or near-historic year for the GOP" in gubernatorial elections," said Eric J. Ostermeier, a University of Minnesota professor who writes and moderates Smart Politics. While the 1994 elections are best known for the Republican's 54-seat swing in the House, the two dozen governor seats won by the party that year was the most since the 24 seats it captured in 1966. The GOP also won 24 seats in 1928. Yet Republican gubernatorial candidates are looking even stronger in 2010 than in 1994. The latest public opinion surveys give Republicans the advantage in 28 of 37 states holding gubernatorial elections this year, says Smart Politics, which is run by the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of

Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. "A lot of these polls are obviously fluid and a lot of these are within the margin of error, but they're almost all tilting toward the Republicans in a lot of these tossup states," Mr. Ostermeier said. "So 25 [seats] is definitely a number I think that the Republican Governors Association is going to try to hit." Polling shows that gubernatorial candidates in 15 of these states would win by double digits: Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming. GOP candidates also have more narrow advantages in Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Vermont and Wisconsin, the blog says. Democrats currently lead in the latest polling in just seven states: Arkansas, California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire and New York. Independent candidate and former Republican senator Lincoln Chafee has a narrow lead in Rhode Island, the blog says. Maryland Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley is in a tight reelection race against former Republican Gov. Robert L.

Ehrlich Jr. Some pollsters show Mr. O'Malley with a slight advantage, although a Rasmussen Reports survey from early June shows the race as dead even. The predicted Republican wave is due somewhat to a large number of open gubernatorial seats, political experts say. "We have some semi-popular Democratic governors who are term limited, which is giving Republicans an opportunity even in a GOP-leaning year which they may not necessarily have as strong a chance," Mr. Ostermeier said. Of the 1,775 gubernatorial races from 1900 through 2009, Democrats won 923 times, or 52 percent, while Republicans won 831, or 46.8 percent, Mr. Ostermeier's research shows. Third party candidates won 21 times, or 1.2 percent. To help its cause, the Republican Governors Association (RGA) says it just wrapped up its largest fundraising quarter in its history. The RGA raised $18.9 million for the second quarter of 2010, which ended June 30. That brings its fundraising total for the year to $28 million. The RGA says it has $40 million cash on hand after spending $10 million in political expenditures for the year. "The Republican Governors Association has the momentum, message and money needed to

make massive gains this November," RGA Executive Director Nick Ayers said last week. The Democratic Governors Association (DGA), meanwhile, raised $9.1 million in the second quarter and has about $22 million in cash on hand. But Democrats contend they're not conceding a Republican gubernatorial landslide without a fight. The DGA says it had its best-ever fundraising for the first six months of the year, bringing in more than $17 million through June. DGA Executive Director Nathan Daschle said last week that, given the "mass donor exodus" from the Republican National Committee to the RGA, "we never expected to out -raise the RGA." "But we have marshaled historic resources to compete aggressively across the map," he said. "With marquee states like California, Florida and Texas up for grabs, more Americans could have a Democratic governor after November than ever before." ÂŠ Copyright 2010 The Washington Times, LLC Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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This lawsuit should be dismissed by the federal court in Arizona where it has been filed. It is a politically motivated lawsuit designed to placate the Administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s allies who believe in open borders and complete amnesty for all illegal aliens. Arizona should fight this suit as hard as it can. It has fought other lawsuits filed over its prior related laws like its 2004 referendum that requires newly registered voters to provide proof of citizenship and its 2006 law that requires use of the federal E-Verify System and punishes employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens. So far Arizona is 2 for 2, having prevailed in both of those lawsuits. If the state mounts an effective defense of this poorly reasoned and legally unsupported lawsuit, the odds are good that it will be 3 for 3. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Side Effects: Obamacare Shifts Costs to the Privately Insured Joshua Wade (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.) Submitted at 7/6/2010 4:15:52 PM

President Obama promised to address the growing costs in health care with passage of his “reform” bill. But instead of reducing costs, Obamacare will succeed only at shifting the burden to taxpayers and the privately insured. Americans with private health insurance will indirectly subsidize care received by those reliant on Medicare and Medicaid. It is for this reason that for many Americans, Obamacare will actually cause medical costs to rise. Some reform, right. A recent study by PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that the rate of growth in medical costs will slow to 9.0% in 2011, down from 9.5% in 2010. However, this good news is tempered by the complexity of the responsible factors, a combination of inflators and deflators. Medical costs will decrease as consumers of health care make more responsible decisions, due to greater use of consumer-driven health plans, as generic drugs gain more market share, and as government subsidies for COBRA, enacted as part of the stimulus, expire.

On the flip side, costs will grow due to consolidation of health care providers, mandated investment in electronic health record systems, and costshifting on the part of health care providers from Medicare patients to privately insured patients. It is the last of these, cost shift, which will be most worrisome under Obamacare. As the PwC study highlight, “cost-shifting was identified as the number one reason for the medical trend pushing higher in 2011.” Costshifting occurs when hospitals and doctors receive reimbursement rates from Medicare and Medicaid that are lower than the cost of providing care. To break even, doctors compensate for these unpaid

costs by increasing how much they charge other patients. This effect is only going to get worse under Obamacare, which will make drastic cuts to Medicare payments for hospitals and other care providers. And though Congress just passed a temporary “doc fix” to keep painful cuts to Medicare doctors from going into effect, after the short-term “fix” expires, docs can expect to fight again to ward off reductions, this time of 26.2 percent of current reimbursement. Then there’s the expansion of Medicaid, which pays providers even less than Medicare. Obamacare extends this lowquality, poorly-functioning entitlement to an additional 40 percent of its current enrollment.

Remember, more enrollees and lower payments in government programs directly translate to higher costs for everyone else. Care providers will be left with a choice, shift costs to private payers, or go out of business. Medicare’s Chief Actuary predicts that fifteen percent of hospitals that serve Medicare patients could face going out of business because of reimbursement cuts. Obamacare increases inflation of medical costs for private payers by expanding government programs and reducing payment rates. Just another reason for Americans to wonder if perhaps they would’ve been better off without the president’s vision of health care reform. Joshua Wade is a member of the Young Leaders Program at the Heritage Foundation. For more information on interning at Heritage, please visit: http:// www.heritage.org/about/ departments/ylp.cfm Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

'Warehouse 13' 'Time Will Tell' Recap (Season Premiere) Mike Moody (TV Squad) Submitted at 7/7/2010 4:15:00 AM

Filed under: Recaps(S02E01) So that was pretty fun, huh? 'Warehouse 13' returned to Syfy with one of its best and most entertaining episodes to date. Sure, this goofy show -- with its screwball comedy tone and wacky sci-fi premise - might lack the soul and finesse of 'Caprica' or the emotion of 'Stargate Universe,' but it mostly makes up for that with a cast of likable characters, an aw-shucks sense of wonder, and a charming underdog spirit. But 'Warehouse 13' is certainly no underdog. It's one of Syfy's top performing shows. But in order to keep genre fans coming back for more, the show desperately needed to break out of its gimmicky procedural plot routine. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

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BP's Hayward Flies to Mideast to Meet 'Partners' (Newsmax - Inside Cover) Submitted at 7/7/2010 2:27:06 AM

BP's embattled CEO is in Abu Dhabi to meet business partners amid speculation that the oil giant is looking to drum up cash to cover clean up costs from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Chief Executive Tony Hayward arrived in the Emirati capital Tuesday and would be staying "a couple of days," BP spokesman Andrew Gowers said. He would not say whether Hayward planned to sit down with the region's powerful investment funds. "He's visiting partners as he does from time to time. He's conducting normal business," Gowers said. Hayward has been criticized for his handling of the oil spill in the U.S., and in recent days has traveled to other countries where BP operates to reassure the company's partners of its commitments. BP has a long-standing partnership with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co., which is responsible for producing crude

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on her Senate questionnaire, adding that the only others she was aware of would involve oil in the Arab emirate. Abu "He may go somewhere else. Harvard litigation. Dhabi is the capital of the seven But we're not commenting on It's up to justices to decide -state UAE federation, and holds where he goes ahead of time," whether to recuse themselves. Kagan told the committee she the bulk of the OPEC member's he said. oil wealth. Hayward arrived in Abu Dhabi would step away from all cases Hayward's visit comes as from the capital of oil-rich in which she had been attorney speculation swirls that BP might Azerbaijan, where he tried to of record, and would look to be looking for investment calm fears BP might sell assets judicial and government ethics partners from the oil-rich there to help pay for the spill rules and her colleagues for Middle East. clean up. While in Baku, guidance. Abu Dhabi is home to some of Hayward met with Azerbaijan Harvard Law graduate Jack S. Levin, a Kirkland & Ellis the Arab Gulf's most influential President Ilkham Aliyev. sovereign wealth funds. BP The BP CEO also met with partner in Chicago who helped shares rose earlier in the week Russian officials in Moscow last arrange his firm's $3 million amid reports that the company w e e k . F o l l o w i n g t h o s e d o n a t i o n a n d h e a d t h e was reaching out to Gulf funds meetings, an official at the campaign's Midwestern effort, about investment opportunities company's Russian joint venture said he knows four justices well. in an attempt to fend off TNK-BP said that firm would Levin said he has a high regard possible takeover bids. consider buying some of BP's for Kagan and thinks the feeling The company said this week it assets if they were put up for is mutual, but doesn't consider their connection something that would welcome new investors sale. but had no plans to issue any © C o p y r i g h t 2 0 1 0 T h e would give him or his firm an new shares to help pay for the Associated Press. All rights oil spill. reserved. This material may not BP shares have lost about half b e p u b l i s h e d , b r o a d c a s t , their value since the Deepwater rewritten or redistributed. Horizon oil rig exploded in Five Filters featured article: A p r i l , c a u s i n g t h e w o r s t Headshot - Propaganda, State offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Religion and the Attack On the Gowers declined to say exactly Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available who Hayward would be meeting tools: PDF Newspaper, Full with in Abu Dhabi or where he Text RSS, Term Extraction. was headed next.

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be unpopular especially in the run-up to next year’s scheduled Parliamentary elections. Foreign policy will be deeply Submitted at 7/6/2010 4:30:04 PM This past weekend, Civic impacted by the new one-party Platform’s (PO) Bronislaw government. Next July, Poland Komorowski narrowly beat Law will hold the Presidency of the a n d J u s t i c e ’ s J a r o s l a w EU, and both Prime Minister Kaczynski in the second round Tusk and President Komorowski o f v o t i n g f o r t h e P o l i s h are deeply committed to further Presidency. After a race that E u r o p e a n i n t e g r a t i o n . P O was closer than most pundits supports the EU’s burgeoning were predicting, Komorowski defense identity and is planning will formally take control of the to take Poland into the failing presidential office in August, single European currency as consolidating the leadership of soon as possible. Whereas PO Prime Minister, Donald President Kaczynski was seen as Tusk. a stalwart Atlanticist, The early election was called Komorowski is seen more as a following the tragic death of resolute Europeanist. As head of President Lech Kaczynski in the Polish armed forces, he has April. His twin brother Jaroslaw stated that he wants to end and leader of the Center-Right Poland’s commitment to the L a w a n d J u s t i c e P a r t y mission in Afghanistan by 2012. performed far better than His focus is also likely to fall expected. Komorowski’s victory more on warming relations with means that the Tusk government Russia, than with shoring up the will now be forced to make Polish-American relationship. good on its promise of economic Poland is one of America’s reform and spending cuts, which closest allies in Eastern Europe, PO had accused President and has emerged as a regional Kaczynski of holding up. These leader and significant NATO reforms, however, are likely to ally. However, ties between

Washington and Warsaw remained strained following President Obama’s withdrawal from the Third Site missile defense agreement—announced on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland. Komorowski’s election and commitment to strengthening ties with Brussels means that both Administrations should be mindful not to neglect the transatlantic relationship. President Obama is yet to visit Poland, despite multiple trips to ‘old’ Europe, Turkey, and other NATO allies. Now is as good an opportunity as any. Tags: Poland, Polish president, Transatlantic relationships You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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America's Got Talent Talent is in the eye of the beholder. And tonight, the eye belongs to Piers Morgan, who, with fellow judges Howie Mandel and Sharon Osbourne, helps select the Top 48 acts that will perform during the live competitions in Los Angeles. With so much chaff among the wheat, we asked Morgan for his suggestions on how the players can stand out from the crowd and make a lasting—and good—impression. 1. Cage your inner chameleon."Be true to yourself," Morgan says. "Too many contestants pretend to be someone they're not." 2. Perform—and behave—like a champ."Show confidence in your ability, but humility in your conduct, on stage." 3. Learn the Boy Scouts' motto."Be prepared," Morgan cautions. "Rehearse, rehearse and rehearse again. Oh, and then do more rehearsal!" 4. Don't make like Madame Tussaud."Show passion and

emotion. If I want to see lifeless dummies, I'll go to a wax museum." 5. Get the eye of the tiger."Carpe diem." Morgan says. "Seize the day, take your shot, or as Rocky Balboa used to say: 'Go for it!'" Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now! Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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summer. Shortly after, they denied reports by Us Weekly that Swiderski was cheating on Submitted at 7/7/2010 8:32:00 AM Harris with two ex-girlfriends Ed Swiderski and Jillian Harris during filming of the show. The terrible track record has The Bachelorette: Is Jillian's gotten worse. fiancé, Ed, a cheater? The Bachelorette's Jillian Harris In March, Harris told and fiancé Ed Swiderski have TVGuide.com that the couple ended their engagement, Us had most of their wedding Weekly reports. planned out. The Bachelor' s terrible track Bachelorette's Jillian Harris on record: A history of failed Ed: "I forget we met in such a romances bananas way" "I love him and I'm really sad, "I have everything picked out, but I have to look out for me," but we just don't know when it's the 29-year-old Harris told the going to be and we don't know magazine. franchise's poor track record. where it's going to be," she said Added Swiderski: "We're both Jason Mesnick and Molly then. "We want a big barbecue, kind of resetting. Jillian isn't Malaney, who wed in February, maybe an '80s band, some food happy and I'm definitely sad make up the only remaining made by my Auntie Betsy. I about the whole thing, but we love match from 14 Bachelor want it to be big and exciting got to work through some things seasons, while Trista and Ryan and beautiful, but at the same on our own if we decide to Sutter constitute the only pair time down-to-earth." move forward." still going strong from five Five Filters featured article: Bachelor's Chris Harrison: Bachelorette seasons. The Headshot - Propaganda, State "You saw Jake for who he is" Sutters have been married for Religion and the Attack On the Their breakup comes two six years and have two children. Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available weeks after The Bachelor's Jake Harris and Swiderski, 30, got tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Pavelka and Vienna Girardi's engaged on the Season 5 finale Text RSS, Term Extraction. contentious split and puts o f T h e B a c h e l o r e t t e l a s t another dent in the ABC

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E! Going (Lady) Gaga for Ryan Seacrest Dance Show (TVGuide.com: Breaking News) Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:09:00 AM

Ryan Seacrest And the Ryan Seacrest empire expands. The entertainment mogul and E! have teamed up to develop the network's first dance show featuring Lady Gaga's choreographer, Laurie Ann Gibson, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Check out photos of Ryan Seacrest The as-yet-untitled series will focus on choreographers and dancers in Los Angeles. Gibson — who has choreographed a routine on Fox's So You Think You Can Dance in addition to Lady Gaga's videos for "Paparazzi," "Telephone" and "Love Game" — will be one of the cast members. Watch Lady Gaga's "Telephone" video The series would be Seacrest's fifth project for E!, following Denise Richards: It's Complicated, Bank of

Hollywood, Keeping Up With the Kardashians and its spinoff Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami. Calls and e-mails to E! were not immediately returned. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Dean McDermott LeBron James to Released from Hospital Announce Decision on ESPN Thursday Night (TVGuide.com: Breaking News) Submitted at 7/7/2010 8:35:00 AM

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Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott Dean McDermott has been discharged from the hospital, says wife Tori Spelling. McDermott, who was being treated for a punctured and collapsed lung following a dirt bike accident last week, was released Tuesday afternoon, Spelling tweeted. She said she picked him up with their kids, Liam, 3, and Stella, 2. Tori Spelling: Dean McDermott out of ICU McDermott injured himself June 29 after smashing his chest into the bars on his bike. He also received three stitches in his right butt cheek, where a stone got embedded, he tweeted Friday. "Let's just say, I won't be dirtbiking anymore," he wrote. Dean McDermott suffers collapsed lung in dirt bike accident On Monday, the actor tweeted

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Filed under: TV News The LeBron James free-agent saga is due to come to a conclusion Thursday night with a one-hour televised broadcast on ESPN when James will reveal which team he'll play for next season. ESPN said his representatives had contacted the network with a proposal that included donating sponsorship money raised from the broadcast that he will be doing rehab for a to the Boys and Girls Clubs of while as he "messed a few America. things up" in the crash. James's plans are still a closely McDermott, 43, and Spelling, guarded secret, but as reported 37, have been married for four by the AP he met last week with years. six teams -- the New Jersey Five Filters featured article: Nets, New York Knicks, Miami Headshot - Propaganda, State Heat, Los Angeles Clippers, Religion and the Attack On the C l e v e l a n d C a v a l i e r s a n d Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available Chicago Bulls -- at his office in tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Cleveland, OH. Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Another 'Bachelorette' Couple Calls it Quits TV Squad Editors (TV Squad) Submitted at 7/7/2010 4:40:00 AM

More than 184,000 people signed up to follow James on Twitter after he opened an account on Tuesday, but so far his only tweet has been: "Hello World, the Real King James is in the Building Finally. My Brother ... gas'd me up to jump on board so I'm here. Haaaa." Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

Filed under: TV News Move over, Jake and Vienna. Another 'Bachelorette' couple is calling it quits. According to US Weekly, Jillian Harris and Ed Swiderski have split and called off their engagement. Swiderski, who proposed on the reality TV show, admits, "We're both kind of resetting. Jillian isn't happy and I'm definitely sad about the whole thing, but we've got to work through some things on our own if we decide to move forward." Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

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Ryan Seacrest, E! Developing Dance Show With Lady Gaga's Choreographer Laura Prudom (TV Squad) Submitted at 7/7/2010 5:20:00 AM

'Memphis Beat' - 'Love Me Tender' Recap Bob Sassone (TV Squad)

version of his ex from that show. Maybe that's a superficial comparison but it sticks out Filed under: Recaps, Summer nonetheless. TV(S01E03) "Just because I'm Actually, it's like a lot of in beauty pageants doesn't mean shows. This isn't necessarily a I'm vain, superficial, or snide. bad thing, but it's not necessarily You suffer from a lack of a good thing either. As we see i m a g i n a t i o n , d e t e c t i v e . " - more and more episodes of Pageant contestant 'Memphis Beat' it seems more 'Memphis Beat' is like a Bizarro and more like just a routine World version of'My Name Is show. Earl.' They're both set in the Permalink| Email this| Linking south, Dwight is a smart, serious Blogs| Comments version of Earl, and even his exwife is like a nicer, classier Submitted at 7/7/2010 2:10:00 AM

Filed under: TV News Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the dancefloor ... As if screeching Kardashians and Denise Richards weren't enough, The Hollywood Reporter has just revealed that Ryan Seacrest and E! are developing a new dancing show under the TV host's Ryan Seacrest Productions banner. Details are still scarce, but according to reports, the project will co-star choreographer Laurie Ann Gibson, best known for designing the dance moves for Lady Gaga's most notable videos, including 'Paparazzi,'

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Nebraska launches cash for appliances program; rebates still available in 37 states, territories Consumer Reports Shopping Blog (Consumer Reports) Submitted at 7/6/2010 2:03:20 PM

Nebraska launches cash for appliances program; rebates still available in 37 states, territories With the launch today of its$1.5 million Energy Star Appliance Rebate Program(877-820-9192), Nebraska became the latest state to get in on the cash for appliances bonanza. Nebraska residents can get rebates on the following qualifying appliances ( check here for the specifics for each appliance): air-source heat pump, $250; central air conditioner, $200; dishwasher, $150; natural-gas or propane furnace, $250; refrigerator, $200; and washing machine, $100 or $200. Cash for appliances rebates are now available in 37 of 56 states and territories. Tennessee, the District of Columbia, and Guam are supposed to launch their program later this month. To see the status of the program where you live how and find out its status, refer to our chart by clicking on "See the full

article" below, then go to the site of the responsible agency in your state/territory. Essential information: Check out our cash for appliances buyer's guides to air conditioners, dishwashers, refrigerators, washing machines, and water heaters and find the best places to buy appliances. To stay on top of the latest cash for clunkers for appliances news, follow us at Twitter.com/ CRHomegarden. Cash for Appliances Status, July 6, 2010 State Status Web Site Telephone Alabama Open Program Web Site 334-2425290 Alaska Open Program Web Site 877-257-3228 Arizona Open Program Web Site 877307-5336 Arkansas Open Program Web Site 800-5582633 California Open Program Web Site 888-3904034 Colorado Open Program Web Site 800-4620184 Connecticut Open Program Web Site 877-9473873 Delaware Open Program Web Site 877-624-4448 Dist. of Columbia July Program Web Site 202-6736733 Florida Closed Program

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Daily electronics deals Paul Eng (Consumer Reports)

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or higher Physical specifications: • I/O interface: USB 2.0 • Power: 2 AA Ni-MH batteries, 2 AA lithium batteries, 2 AA alkaline batteries • Dedicated buttons: power, shutter, flash, mode dial (Smart Capture, program, scene, sport, close up, blur reduction, video) zoom, delete, menu, review, info, share, 5-way controller • Tripod mount: ¼ in. standard • Dimensions: W × H × D: 3.7 × 2.5 × 1.2 in. • Weight: without batteries: 129 g Compatibility: • Direct printing: PictBridgeenabled • Software: works with KODAK EASYSHARE Software

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Dutch beat Uruguay to reach World Cup final Associated Press (ESPN.com) Submitted at 7/7/2010 8:48:05 AM

Game Notes • The Netherlands advances to its third World Cup final. The Dutch lost to host countries West Germany in 1974 and Argentina in 1978. • The Dutch will face Germany or Spain on Sunday in Johannesburg (1:30 ET on ABC). • It's the first time a team scored three goals in a World Cup semifinal since 1982, when West Germany and France tied 3-3 (Germany advanced on PKs). • Dutch captain and defender Giovanni van Bronckhorst opened the scoring in the 18th minute with one of the best goals of the tournament, a beautiful 58-mph strike from 42 yards out, his sixth career goal in 106 appearances. The 35year-old van Bronckhorst, who had already announced he will retire after the World Cup, is the second-oldest player to score in a World Cup semifinal, behind only 37-year-old Gunnar Gren of Sweden in 1958.

• Wesley Sneijder scored in the 70th minute. His five goals are tied with Spain's David Villa for most in the tournament, and he also ties a Dutch record for most in a single World Cup. • Diego Forlan became the first player to score three goals from outside the box at a single World Cup since Germany's Lothar Matthaus in 1990. • The tournament has seen goal scoring rise during the knockout stages. Teams averaged 2.10 goals per match during the group stage, lowest since the tournament expanded to 32 teams in 1998. However, goal scoring has risen to 2.85 goals per match in the knockout stage, second-highest since FIFA adopted its current knockout stage format in 1986. The 1994 World Cup (2.93) was the only tournament with a higher goalsper-match average in the knockout stage. -- ESPN Stats & Information Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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guardian) ...that a new account called Earlybird has launched, Submitted at 7/6/2010 2:10:02 PM seemingly primed to channel Daily Dispatch: Chase joins offers, deals and other exclusive USAA with mobile deposits; goodies from outside retailers. Twitter's Earlybird account to The Future is Bright for Online carry deals Socialization( ReadWriteWeb) Combing through hundreds of . . . T h e P e w I n t e r n e t a n d blog posts and news articles American Life Project has d a i l y , D i r k K l i n g n e r , o u r released its report on Internettechnology-trend watcher, sifts b a s e d s o c i a l i z a t i o n . T h e through the noise to bring you conclusions in The Future of the tech news most important to Online Socialization segment of consumers. If you have a tip on the survey are positive. The a story you want to share, leave online world, according to most a comment below. of the Internet specialists Chase Mobile iPhone app surveyed, is going to add to the update: picture your paycheck texture and mood of social d e p o s i t e d , a n d i t ' s t h e r e ( interactions, not detract from Engadget) them. ...A recent update to the Chase Car for blind drivers under Mobile iPhone app enables development( Telegraph) customers to photograph the . . . T h e t e c h n o l o g y , c a l l e d front and back of checks made nonvisual interfaces, will guide out to them and then have it its driver through traffic by deposited directly into whatever transmitting information about Chase account (with their name nearby vehicles or objects. on it, obviously) they choose. Vibrating gloves or streams of Earlybird: the next step in compressed air directed behind T w i t t e r m a k i n g m o n e y ? ( the wheel are among the options

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Filed under: Nationals, MLB All-Star Game The man at the center of this year's biggest AllStar controversy finally got to have his say on whether he should be headed to the Midsummer Classic next week. Unsurprisingly, he falls more in line with the thinking of baseball traditionalists. Nationals phenom Stephen Strasburg said he did not deserve to make this year's National League All-Star team Tuesday. "Obviously, only having six starts over here, it didn't really matter what I was going to do," Strasburg told reporters. "I really didn't feel like I was qualified to make the team, No. 1, based on how much experience I have. I'm sure I'll have some opportunities somewhere down the road. Right now, it was never a goal of mine. "You look at the guys that are going to the All-Star Game and the years that they've had, they

did that from Opening Day. I haven't been here since Opening Day. They deserve it. Hopefully someday I'll deserve it, too." The prospect of being named to the team apparently made Strasburg so uncomfortable that he was considering declining the invitation if it was offered to him. "It would have been a real tough decision," Strasburg said. "I never really felt like it was going to happen. I didn't really put much thought into it. Right now, I'd much rather pitch this team to the World Series before I make the All-Star team, to be quite honest."

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â&#x20AC;˘ Share â&#x20AC;˘ Retweet '); } else { $(_this).append(' Follow him on Twitter: @'+value+'.'); } } }); } }); T(_t.selector).hovercards(anywh ereOptions); T(".fortwitter").hovercards(anywhereO ptions); //REMOVE THE CLASS NAME SO WE DON'T ANYWHERE IT TWICE $ ( " . f o r twitter").removeClass("fortwitter"); }); } if(typeof(twttr) == "undefined") { $.getScript("http:// platform.twitter.com/ anywhere.js?id="+config.key+" &v="+config.version,anywhere) ; } else { anywhere(); } return this; }; })(jQuery); LeBron James is planning to announce the team with which he will sign during a one-hour special on ESPN Thursday night, ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard has learned through independent sources. ESPN would only confirm that active discussions for the special are ongoing. But sources tell

Broussard that representatives for James contacted the network, proposing that James makes his announcement during a 9 p.m. ET special. Those sources said that James' representatives requested they be allowed to sell sponsorship for the one-hour special, with the proceeds going to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and that ESPN agreed to the proposal but had not been told what James has decided. Adande: LeBron's TV Special It only makes sense that LeBron James would create a show to tell his choice, that he would drag teams and fans along until the camera's red light comes on, writes ESPN.com's J.A. Adande. Daily Dime The NBA's most prized free agent opened a Twitter account on Tuesday and posted his first message on the social networking site. While he provided no information about his future plans, at least he offered something as the NBA awaits the decision on where he'll play next. "Hello World, the Real King James is in the Building," said the tweet on the kingjames feed, which by 9 p.m. ET had more than 167,000 followers. James' publicist, Keith

Estabrook, confirmed the superstar's entrance to Twitter, a place where fellow prized free agents Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh often post details about their public lives off the floor. James' plans still are a closely guarded secret. He visited with six teams -- the New Jersey Nets, New York Knicks, Miami Heat, Los Angeles Clippers, Cleveland Cavaliers and Chicago Bulls-- last week at his business offices in downtown Cleveland. Early Wednesday, it appeared that if James were to play next season with Wade and Bosh, he'd do it in Miami: Bosh has decided to join Wade with the Heat, a source with knowledge of the situation told Broussard. An announcement was expected later in the day. ESPN's Shelley Smith also reported that Bosh would join Wade in Miami. It was not immediately clear whether Bosh would sign with Miami outright or join the Heat through a sign-and-trade deal. Bosh could earn $125 million over six years via sign-andtrade, but only $96 million over five without it. If Bosh joins a team without doing a sign-and-trade, he will be able to sign only a five-year

deal worth $96 million. He is determined not to leave that $29 million on the table, sources told Broussard. "Either way, he's definitely going to Miami," the source said. There had been various reports that the Toronto Raptors were working on a sign-and-trade deal with Cleveland for Bosh, and that James tried to convince him to join the Cavaliers. Both James and Bosh were aware that such a trade was possible, and James tried to recruit Bosh to the Cavaliers several times in the past few weeks, sources told Broussard. But Bosh wanted to play with James in Cleveland, Chicago or Miami, and told the Raptors he'd accept sign-and-trades to those cities, sources told Broussard. Unsure of James' decision, the Nets have a Plan B in case he rejects their offer. The agent for Knicks forward David Lee says the Nets have talked to him several times since free agency began on Thursday. An official within the league who is very close to the Nets' management team said the team would also consider going after Utah Jazz forward Carlos Boozer if James rejected the offer that was presented by new

owner Mikhail Prokhorov and a team that included hip-hop mogul Jay-Z. Nets president and general manager Rod Thorn said in a text message on Tuesday that there was nothing to report on the free-agency front. Asked about the Nets' options if The King nixes their overtures, Thorn wrote: "We will look at other options if we don't get one of the top guys." While James is the star attraction in this summer's stacked class of free agents, other players have either stayed home or found a new one. On Monday, Amare Stoudemire agreed to a five-year deal with the Knicks and said he would continue to recruit James to join him. Information from ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard and The Associated Press was used in this report. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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NBA Free Agents: Source: Chris Bosh to join Dwyane Wade with Miami Heat Chris Broussard (ESPN.com) Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:03:33 AM

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Whether LeBron James, the kingpin of this summer's celebrated free agent class, will join them remains to be seen. James will announce his decision Thursday night at 9 ET during a one-hour special on ESPN. Wade and Bosh are expected to announce their decision on Wednesday, according to the source, and continue to lobby James, along with Heat president Pat Riley, to join them in Miami, despite the financial complexities involved for the Heat to make room for all three. Both players are expected to get the maximum amount allowable under the league's collective bargaining agreement, though the addition of James could change the players' salaries. Contracts cannot be officially signed until July 8. It was not immediately clear whether Bosh will sign with Miami outright or join the Heat through a sign-and-trade deal. Bosh could earn $125 million over six years via sign-andtrade, but only $96 million over five without it. "Either way, he's definitely going to Miami," the source

said. James or not, the Heat could emerge as one of the top teams in the Eastern Conference with Wade and Bosh aboard. Wade, who led the Heat to the NBA title in 2006, is re-signing with the club, while Bosh will leave the Raptors after seven years in Toronto. Wade, Bosh and James have maintained a dialogue throughout the free agent process and in the days leading up to July 1, keeping alive the possibility that all three could wind up playing together for the Heat while also sifting through the various options on the table. ESPN.com reported June 28 that the trio held a scaled-down version of the free agent summit originally suggested by Wade to seriously discuss their futures, with a focus on the idea that all three could team up with the Heat. Sources close to the situation insist, though, that James has not promised anything to his Team USA colleagues and is not tipping off which way he's leaning. For much of Monday and Tuesday, several team executives and league insiders

expressed their belief to ESPN.com that James resigning with his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers and Wade and Bosh landing together in Miami was the most likely outcome of a saga that began three years ago when James, Wade and Bosh all signed contracts that enabled them to become free agents in the summer of 2010. But the New York Knicks, after securing a verbal commitment from free agent power forward Amare Stoudemire, have not surrendered in the chase for James, despite a growing sense around the league that the opportunity to play with Wade and Bosh is the only scenario that prevent the Cavs from keeping their face of the franchise. Raptors general manager Bryan Colangelo, in a text message to The Associated Press on Wednesday morning, said "I have nothing official from anyone." One source with knowledge of Toronto's thinking told ESPN.com's Marc Stein that the Raptors, as of 9 a.m. ET, had yet to hear anything official from

Bosh's camp about his intentions. Toronto's growing frustration with the lack of communication with Bosh in recent days and reluctance to participate in a sign-and-trade with Miami has been well-chronicled. But the source said that the outcome -whether a sign-and-trade can still be salvaged or whether Bosh will indeed sign with Miami as an outright free agent -- was "unknown" at this point. ESPN.com's J.A. Adande reported earlier this week that the Raptors have become "increasingly disenchanted" with the idea of helping Bosh obtain a maximum contract via a sign-and-trade deal. Chris Broussard is an NBA writer for ESPN The Magazine. ESPN.com senior NBA writer Marc Stein and The Associated Press contributed to this report. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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celebration, but the shooter will not be charged "at this time" because the victim has not cooperated with investigators. Vick was not the shooter and there are no suspects other than the shooter, police spokesman Adam Bernstein said. The decision not to press charges was made by the prosecutor's office but could be reversed if the victim decides to cooperate. In a statement released Tuesday, police said witnesses have also been reluctant to help in the investigation of the shooting outside a nightclub just after 2 a.m. on June 25. The statement said because the shooter will not be charged, his identity will not be released. The shooting took place about a block away from the club where a 30th birthday party for the Philadelphia Eagles' quarterback was ending. According to a spokesman for the nightclub, video surveillance cameras positioned in front of the club showed Vick climbing into a car and leaving about four minutes before the shooting. The victim has not been

identified by the police, but Vick's attorney, Larry Woodward, said it was Quanis Phillips -- a co-defendant in the federal dogfighting case that landed Vick in federal prison. Phillips, who Woodward said was not invited to the party and did not interact with Vick while there, was treated at a hospital and released the following day. Woodward did not return a phone call from The Associated Press seeking comment. Vick has said he was not involved. In a statement to the AP on Thursday, Vick also said he notified the NFL and the Eagles once he was aware of what had taken place. The team and league have said they are looking into the situation. Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Filed under: Bulls, Heat, Raptors, NBA Rumors, NBA Transactions, NBA Free Agents Chris Bosh will announce his decision to join Dwyane Wade in Miami today, according to ESPN's Chris Broussard. FanHouse's Sam Amick reported over the weekend that the Heat and Bulls were the leading candidates to sign the 25 -year-old power forward. It is not known if the Heat will execute a sign-and-trade deal allowing Bosh to sign a sixyear, $125 million contract. If not, Bosh would be eligible for a five-year, $96 million deal. Wade can sign a six-year deal worth $125 million with Miami. He could not have done so with the Bulls or any other team with a sign-and-trade. Bosh averaged 24 points and

10.8 rebounds a game for Toronto last season, and was named to his fifth All-Star Game in seven NBA seasons. In Toronto, he has appeared in the playoffs just twice, exiting in the first round in both 2006-07 and 2007-08. The Raptors were on a the precipice of making the 2009-10 playoffs before Bosh broke his face during a lateseason game. The Bulls ended up beating out Toronto for the East's eighth seed by one game.

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Netherlands Beats Uruguay, Returns Fan Falls 30 Feet From Upper Deck of Rangers to World Cup Final Brian Straus (FanHouse Main) Submitted at 7/6/2010 3:30:00 PM

Filed under: FIFA World Cup, Netherlands, Uruguay CAPE TOWN, South Africa -Uruguay made a game of it. They defended well, scored a great goal in the first half and left many in the crowd of more than 62,000 here at Green Point Stadium wondering if the tiny South American country's impossible World Cup fairy tale, one in which they were the villain for some, would continue. But within the space of four historic minutes midway through the second half of this semifinal, Netherlands stars Wesley Sneijder and Arjen Robben jolted feisty Uruguay, and the tournament, back to reality. Sneijder scored his fifth goal of the competition in the 70th, Robben headed home his second in the 73rd, and the undefeated but long-suffering Oranje were through to their first World Cup final since 1978 with a 3-2 win.

That game 32 years ago was played before a raucous crowd in Buenos Aires, where the host Argentines benefited from some intimidation (they delayed the start of the game in order to allow tension in the stadium to build, the Dutch felt) and a military dictatorship that wasn't shy about expressing its support for the home team. Holland took the game to overtime, but Argentina scored twice and won, 3-1. More Coverage: Netherlands vs. Uruguay Live Blog| Golden

Ball Candidates Complete World Cup Coverage| World Cup Gallery| World Cup TV Schedule Four years before, Johan Cruyff's famous Total Football side took a 2nd-minute lead in the final against West Germany in Munich. Out to prove their soccer superiority to the Germans, they famously "forgot to score a second goal," according to right winger Johnny Rep. The Germans won their second World Cup, 2-1. The Dutch have always had their excuses. Brilliant players have come and gone: Marco van Basten, Ruud Gullit, Denis Bergkamp, Frank de Boer, Frank Rijkaard, Ruus van Nistelrooy and more. And yet something always came up -locker room discord, one bad game at the wrong time, a missed penalty kick or two, or an issue between a coach and a key player. There was always a reason the Netherlands disappointed. Share

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Filed under: Indians, Rangers, MLB Fans There was a very scary moment during Tuesday night's Indians-Rangers game in Arlington, as a fan fell from the club level on the second deck of the stadium to the seats below during the bottom of the fifth inning. He had been reaching for a foul ball off the bat of Nelson Cruz when it caromed off the facade of the stadium. The fan then, with his back to the field, reached up and over his head, losing balance in the process and tumbling over the railing. The game was delayed for 16 minutes as paramedics attended to the fan and removed him on a stretcher. The fan landed on his back, but was conscious and

responsive when paramedics arrived to treat him. The fan was taken to nearby John Peter Smith Hospital and has been able to move all of his extremities. Four other fans seated in the lower bowl area were treated for injuries, but none needed to be hospitalized.

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Podolski: 'We Want Revenge for 2008' FanHouse Newswire (FanHouse Main) Submitted at 7/7/2010 8:15:00 AM

Filed under: FIFA World Cup, Germany, Spain, Switzerland DURBAN, South Africa (AP) -Leave it to the Germans to make things interesting. Spain has gone out of its way to downplay the rematch of the 2008 European Championship title game in Wednesday night's World Cup semifinal, refusing to even acknowledge the grudge match factor. Not Germany's Lukas Podolski. "We want revenge for 2008," Podolski said Tuesday night. "When you are in a final you want to win. We still think about that defeat, and it still hurts. We want to reach the final and we'll do all we can to achieve that." Spain ended a 44-year major

title drought with its 1-0 victory over Germany two years ago -a win that wasn't nearly as close as the score indicated. But Germany is a far different team now -- in age and in attitude. Youngsters such as Mesut Oezil, Sami Khedira and Thomas Mueller have given Germany the speed and

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explained during our conversation at last month's show. We wondered if the shift " I t d o e s n ' t m a k e s e n s e in strategy was less ingenuity anymore," Activision executive and more a sign of the times. VP of worldwide studios Dave Last year's holiday season was Stohl declared to us in a small headlined by two major events: office, hidden away from the the slowdown of music game noisy E3 show floor. "You've sales and the ridiculous success r e a l l y g o t t o f o c u s . " T h e of Modern Warfare 2. executive, who oversees every Continue reading Activision d e v e l o p m e n t s t u d i o t h a t studios head brings development Activision owns, was reflecting strategy into focus folate and vitamin A from the and Sunflower Seed Salad on the old business model that Activision studios head brings arugula. A sweet mustard Next Tuna-Garbanzo Salad encouraged studios to take on development strategy into focus vinaigrette dressing matches Five Filters featured article: multiple projects at once. originally appeared on Joystiq both the peppery bitterness of Headshot - Propaganda, State Today, the industry's leading on Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:00:00 t h e g r e e n s a n d t h e s w e e t Religion and the Attack On the third-party publisher has a new EST. Please see our terms for j u i c i n e s s o f Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available mantra: one game per studio. use of feeds. the grapes. Try this salad topped tools: PDF Newspaper, Full "People want the freedom to put Permalink| Email this| with salmon or tuna for a Text RSS, Term Extraction. all their resources against the C o m m e n t s healthful dinner. big opportunity, and that's what View Recipe: Arugula, Grape, we're trying to do," Stohl

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sharpness it lacked in 2008. Despite their youth-with an average age under 25, this is the second-youngest team Germany has ever sent to a World Cupthe Germans are playing with discipline and a seamless chemistry that makes their plays unfold like a symphony.

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From Final Fantasy XIII Elixirs to Dragon Quest Monsters Battle Road Victory Syrupy Slime drinks, Square Enix and Suntory have Japan sugared -Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) More than that, though, we're with a side of hydration. The looking forward to the game's Syrupy Slime beverages go on Submitted at 7/7/2010 10:07:00 AM first commercial, where a kid is Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq) l i k e l y t h a t t h e r e c e n t l y sale in Japan on July 13 for D i s n e y I n t e r a c t i v e h a s playing his PSP in the back of announced Battlefield: Bad about $3.25 and come in Hoimi announced that its havoc- his mom's minivan, and oh no, Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:25:00 AM Company 2 Vietnam expansion Cider (blue) and Mera Tropical wreaking racer, Split/Second, is the road's blowing up in real Two "new" maps have been (coming "winter 2010") will be ( o r a n g e ) " f l a v o r s . " A s drifting onto the PSP in time for life! And the mom's swerving added to Battlefield: Bad the first add-on to include new Siliconera notes, the item names the holiday. The basic structure out of the way, like, why is this are based on Dragon Quest Company 2, free to Xbox 360 terrain. of the game will remain intact -- happening? And the kid smiles, and PS3 players who bought the Check out a video featuring the s p e l l s f o r h e a l a n d f r i z z , players drive across booby trap- knowingly. game new and registered their latest map update after the r e s p e c t i v e l y . infused tracks, attempting to Gallery: Split/Second (PSP) The Slime drinks also contain VIP codes. PC players will break. take out the competition by Continue reading Split/Second codes for in-game avatar items, unlock the new maps through an Continue reading Battlefield: setting off hazards at opportune 'sploding on PSP this holiday in-game patch. Atacama Desert Bad Company 2 deploys 'Map accessible using the Dragon times. Online multiplayer is a no Split/Second 'sploding on PSP Quest"Color Code Scanner" on has been added to Rush Mode, Pack 4' -show, but up to four players this holiday originally appeared while Conquest mode has seen Battlefield: Bad Company 2 the DSi. If it seems unlikely will be able to engage in ad-hoc on Joystiq on Wed, 07 Jul 2010 Port Valdez added to the deploys 'Map Pack 4' originally you'll ever have the chance to races. 10:07:00 EST. Please see our rotation. appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 07 imbibe a slime, drown your We're awfully curious about terms for use of feeds. A n d w h e n w i l l n e w ( n o Jul 2010 09:25:00 EST. Please s o r r o w s b y w a t c h i n g t h e how Disney plans on porting P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | quotation marks) maps drop into see our terms for use of feeds. slapstick Japanese commercial Split/Second's big, blockbuster C o m m e n t s the popular first-person shooter? P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | for the beverages on the Suntory feel to a much smaller device. site(press the blue button). It's looking more and more C o m m e n t s Syrupy Slimes refresh Japan this month, include in-game SYRUPY page 60

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months ago and still preferred Ray's on 6th Ave and 11th St. But I stopped in there on my Okay it was 103 degrees today. way home from an apointment And as I write this, at 2AM, it's today and got a meatball hero, 87. took it home. It was so The single-word description of freakishly hot outside, the summer weather here is: Sucks. sandwich was still warm when I But there's something that got home. And what a compensates. sandwich! A masterpiece. I Every apartment in NY, and couldn't believe how good it there are a lot of them, has room was. And the slice I had while I can place a $10 food order, and waited was pretty awesome too. service. And get this -- it's cheap and it will be at your door in 1/2 I think what's happening as my hour. To me, half-native and initial awe-of-NY starts fades, the food is good! ";->" At first I felt guilty for using half-transplant, that's pretty it's replaced by another level of room service at all. In the amazing. No, it's very amazing. awe. How many levels are v a r i o u s p l a c e s I ' v e l i v e d On another note, Jeff Cheney, there? I'll let you know. d e l i v e r y o f s o m e t h i n g a s an old friend from SF, swears by mundane as food is not only Village Pizza on 8th Ave and rare, it's unheard-of. In NY, you 13th St. I tried it a couple of Submitted at 7/7/2010 1:06:29 AM

Hori's Twin Stick EX controller returns for Virtual-On Force JC Fletcher (Joystiq) Submitted at 7/7/2010 10:30:00 AM

For Hori, the release of VirtualOn Force is another excuse to sell its expensive Twin Stick EX controller. The peripheral company is producing another run of the 짜30,000 ($344) Twin Stick EX, now bearing the Virtual-On Force logo and targeted at a winter release to coincide with that game. The current iteration of the stick is being sold only through preorders on Hori's website between now and July 20, but

we suspect a small number will find their way to importers, for those of you who started saving up the last time these sticks were announced and have only now managed to get enough money together. Hori's Twin Stick EX controller returns for Virtual-On Force originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

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DARPA's Dynamic Duo Plans to Turn Biology into Tools for Troops, Somehow Clay Dillow (Popular Science New Technology, Science News, The Future Now) Submitted at 7/6/2010 3:21:15 PM

Batman and Robin Shaun Wong via Flickr DARPA is an interesting and innovative agency, not only because it pushes the science and technology envelopes, providing funding, purpose, and goals to R&D houses looking to create next-gen technology, but also because its talents are unparalleled when it comes to acronyms. Take, for instance, the agency's two newest initiatives: Biochronicity and Temporal Mechanisms Arising in Nature, and Robustness of BiologicallyInspired Networks. That's right: BaTMAN and RoBIN. This dynamic duo of programs aims to turn basic biology into a tool for better situational

awareness and decision-making. Put in DARPA's own words, BaTMAN would strive to "develop an understanding of the relationship between biological systems and the spatial-temporal universe through the application of advanced principles from the physical sciences," while RoBIN will seek to "apply the critical control features of biological networks to build unique models for adaptable networks, and create a dynamic biologically-inspired network of scientists and other experts for crisis response and complex decision support." DARPA wants BaTMAN applicants to look into microscale physical and biological laws -- things like quantum and biological clocks, physiological signal processing, and synchronized natural rhythms --

and their influences on the world at large. The DoD would ostensibly use such mechanisms to "transform biology from a descriptive to a predictive field of science." For its part, RoBIN would

explore more macro-scale characteristics of nature -- group behaviors, complex adaptable networks, and other principles of biological design -- to inform the strategies used in complicated decision-making

processes (presumably in situations of gravity, such as in life-and-death battlefield scenarios or weighty decisionmaking procedures higher up the chain of command). Leveraging biology into better military performance is exactly what we expect from DARPA, but there is one mild disappointment here: two programs called named for the Dark Knight and his sidekick, and not a single mention of gravity defying grappling hooks, multi-wheeled all-terrain vehicles, or utility belts that, despite their compact size, contain any conceivable gadget one might require to escape a nefarious trap? It's almost as much of a letdown as Batman Forever. [ Danger Room]

Greek Black-Eyed Peas Salad (Simply Recipes) Submitted at 7/6/2010 11:06:41 PM

Please welcome Hank Shaw as he shares a favorite black-eyed pea salad. Perfect for hot summer days! ~Elise I spent much of my life

thinking that black-eyed peas were a Southern thing, and then I worked in an Ethiopian restaurant, where the African clientele told me that black-eyed peas actually come from Africa. Years later, I began cooking surprise to find all sorts of Greek food and imagine my

dishes using black-eyed peas! I have no idea how they became so popular in Greece, but there you go. This is not any sort of traditional Greek recipe, more of a Greek-inspired side dish or light vegetarian supper Ive done

in various forms over the years. I love black-eyed peas because they cook very fast and need no pre-soaking the way a lot of regular beans do. Continue reading "Greek Black -Eyed Peas Salad" Âť

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Nanoscale Light Mill Spins a Motor with a Beam of Light Clay Dillow (Popular Science New Technology, Science News, The Future Now) Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:50:00 AM

The Nanoscale Light Mill Motor Ignore the Reich-i-ness of the motor's shape and you'll notice that at a shorter 810nanometer wavelength the light strikes the outside of the motors arms, turning the motor counterclockwise. A larger 1,700-nanometer wave passes through to strike the elbows, turning the motor the opposite direction. Image courtesy of Zhang group Whether wielded by Egyptian sun gods, Luke Skywalker, or your run of the mill solarthermal power plant, light has the potential to do big things. Thanks to a breakthrough by UC Berkeley and the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, we can now make light do very small things as well. Researchers there have created the first nano-sized light mill motor that can be manipulated in both speed and direction by tuning the frequency of the light waves that serve as its power

Tiny Centipede-Like Microbot Carries Seven Times Its Weight on 512 Thermal-Powered Legs Clay Dillow (Popular Science New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)

source. The plasmonic motor is only 100 nanometers in size, but given the right kind of power in the form of a linearly polarized light beam, it can produce enough torque to turn a silica disk 4,000 times larger than the motor itself. This type of lightdriven motor isn't new, but the kind of power derived from a motor this small is unheard of up to this point. Previous attempts at plasmonic motors required the devices to be at least many micrometers in size, and even then they produced far less torque per unit volume. The breakthrough is in the

gammadion gold structures that make up the motor. The gammadion structure's symmetry coupled with the way it interacts with all incident light - not just light coming in from a particular angle - a simple linear polarized beam can coax a great deal of torque from the motor. That increased interaction between light and gammadion structures spells more power from less motor. The motor is also sensitive to wavelength, which can be used to change the direction of the motor. As you can see (sort of) in the video below, a shorter wavelength of 810 nanometers

gets the motor humming in a counterclockwise direction. A similar beam at 1,700 nanometers gets it cranking in the opposite direction. Such tiny, controllable lightpowered motors could have myriad biological applications, not least of which is manipulating DNA in vivo, using the motor to unwind and rewind a double helix. They could also lead to improved nanoelectromechanical systems and better solar harvesting devices. [ UC Berkeley]

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The Tiny, Cilia-like 'Feet' that Propel the Microbot John Suh, Stanford University University of Washington and Stanford researchers have created what could become a model for future microbots: a one-inch microchip sporting 512 thermal-powered "feet" that can carry more than seven times its own weight while moving in any direction. The tiny robotic centipede weights just half a gram, is only a third of an inch wide and is only the thickness of a fingernail. And while its tiny payload capacity isn't much on the macro scale, at small sizes the centipede is actually quite strong. Such microbots could come in handy for everything from search and rescue to TINY page 64

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Aerodynamic Rocket Nozzle Tech Could Be Repurposed to Efficiently Capture CO2 Clay Dillow (Popular Science New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)

molecules to freeze. In the case of water vapor, the gas would turn to regular water ice. In the case of CO 2-laden coal Submitted at 7/6/2010 4:04:47 PM From Rockets, Carbon-cleaning emissions, the carbon dioxide Tech By pressurizing coal plant should freeze into dry ice -- at emissions and running them least in theory -- allowing it to through high-speed rocket be culled from the other gases nozzles, engineers think power for sequestration or other uses. plants could cheaply scrub Considering that coal plants carbon dioxide from exhaust. make up for more than a third of NASA U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, It's not exactly rocket science, the ability to effectively pull CO but the same company that 2 out of coal emissions could builds the rocket boosters that restore coal's place as a viable launch the Space Shuttles into alternative to foreign oil and as orbit has a novel idea for a cleaner bridge to a renewable bringing down the cost of energy future. Of course, the carbon capture. Aerospace and technology has to work first. defense company ATK wants to scrub CO 2 from gas emissions. that to more like 30 percent. ATK wants to get it working pressurize the exhaust emissions Those chemicals make up a The science is pretty simple: smoothly in the lab within 14 from such high-carbon polluters large part of the expense of when you pressurize something m o n t h s a n d h a v e a p i l o t as coal-powered electrical scrubbing carbon dioxide form like coal plant emissions and program for the technology generators and run it through emissions -- a full 80 percent of then run them through a high- installed on a working power rocket nozzles that will freeze the cost per kilowatt hour of speed aerodynamic accelerator plant shortly thereafter. the CO 2 into dry ice, causing it electricity produced at a coal nozzle, the gasses will compress [ Discovery News] plant, ATK's vice president tells and then expand rapidly on the to fall out of exhaust gasses. Such a process could replace Discovery News. A rocket other side of the nozzle. That the chemical processes used to nozzle approach could reduce rapid expansion can cause some

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environmental monitoring to espionage. Not to mention, the researchers haven't even pushed the 'bot to its full capacity. The microchip -- which is also the robot's body and feet -- was developed in the '90s as a prototype for a ultra-thin printer or scanner. Since then it's been reconfigured a few times for different purposes, but now the researchers have flipped it over so the cilia-like feet are on the bottom. The feet themselves are essentially electrical wires sandwiched between two thin layers of different materials. One material expands under heat a bit more than the other, so a current traveling through the wire causes one side to expand slightly more than the other, interesting technique(which the software to show you a making the feet curl. A precisely they've dubbed the "Lo Res Lamborghini rendered with 24 choreographed sequence of this Project") to its shoe designs. triangles instead of 24 million. causes the feet to shuffle along Here's one of the first shoes to The other trick here is that the i n a n y d i r e c t i o n - - e v e n be designed with the process: low-resolution form is then sideways -- moving each row of I really like the effect. It's a what's manufactured into a purely modern composition physical real-world object. With form, taking a medium most advanced 3-D scanners and 3-D often used to create digital printers, it's even possible to (Mensfitness.com) objects that are indistinguishable skip the whole process of Submitted at 7/7/2010 3:00:00 AM f r o m t h e i r r e a l - w o r l d creating the 3-D model from counterparts. But here, they're scratch; just scan your object, Every good run begins with a broken down into newly abstract render the ensuing model at a good pair of shoes. We tested geometric shapes that out of lower resolution, then press the best of '10 to help you get their very nature preserve notes "print." And out comes your off on the right foot. of the original object; each data Lamborghini lite. by Noah Johnson p o i n t t h a t r e m a i n s i n t h e [ United Nude - Lo Res Project Print Article Email to Friend simplified form existed in the via Today and Tomorrow] New Balance 905 original, more accurate model. $110 @ newbalance.com It's what happens when you tell The perfect combination of

Nifty Low-Res Design Process Drops Polygons From Lamborghini Countach, Beauty Ensues John Mahoney (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now) Submitted at 7/6/2010 4:59:42 PM

Lo-Res Lambo United Nude Lo Res Project This is a Lamborghini Countach. It was created by taking a hyper-accurate 3-D model of an actual Lamborghini (made up of millions of polygons), then gradually decreasing the resolution of the model with 3-D software until the object is lo-resed down to its stealthy essence. United Nude, a shoe company founded by Rem D. Koolhaas (nephew to the Rem Koolhass), is applying this

feet 20 to 30 times per second. Even with all that movement, the microbot is limited to a speed of just 3 feet per hour, a sub-par top velocity for purposes of search and rescue or other time-sensitive tasks. But the chip was never designed to be a microbot, and therefore has not been optimized to minimize its weight, its energy consumption, or its strength. Researchers estimate they could trim the 'bot's weight by 90 percent. Soon microbots like these could find jobs exploring collapsed buildings, working hazardous environments like collapsed mineshafts, or carrying tiny sensors into other tight spaces. [ Science Daily]

Shoe Guide 2010 support and stability. The sole is specially designed to prevent pronation (your foot's natural tendency to roll inward), while the upper is stripped down to shed precious ounces. Pros: Stability and support for flat-footed runners; lightweight for speed training and racing. Nike Lunar Elite+ SHOE page 65

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$100 @ nike.com The most cushion and bounce of any shoe we tested. Credit Nike's space-age Lunar foam and a sole that actually adjusts its support to your stride. Pros: Cushion and support adapts while you run; lightweight for speed training and racing. Brooks Glycerin 8 $130 @ brooksrunning.com The shoe's sole adapts to your stride and size, so you get responsive cushioning, without a mushy feeling underfoot. Pros: Extra cushioning for runners with high arches; cushion and support adapts while you run; ideal for highmileage runners tackling any distance. Merrell CT Converge II $105 @ merrell.com Lightweight and jam-packed with cushioning in the heel. It's a soft and flexible everyday shoe for runners who don't need added stability or support. Pros: Extra cushioning for runners with high arches; ideal for high-mileage runners tackling any distance. Adidas Salvation 2 $140 @ shopadidas.com The Salvation provides extra

padding, plus stretch panels that adapt to your foot's shape, eliminating blister-causing hot spots. Pros: More support for flatfooted runners; ideal for highmileage runners tackling any distance. Saucony Triumph 7 $130 @ saucony.com If you're after a shoe that gives you an especially soft road feel, you'll dig the Triumph 7. Its comfy ride and snug midfoot make it ideal for just about any runner with high arches. Pros: Extra cushioning for runners with high arches; ideal for high-mileage runners tackling any distance. Brooks Adrenaline GTS 10 $100 @ brooksrunning.com The Adrenaline GTS provides ample support without sacrificing comfort or bounce. Pros: More support for flatfooted runners; ideal for highmileage runners tackling any distance. Asics Gel Kayano 16 $140 @ asics.com An improved lacing system takes the laces off the top of the foot, while a seamless heel with memory-foam cushioning ensures a great fit.

Pros: More support for flatfooted runners; ideal for highmileage runners tackling any distance. Newton Sir Isaac $150 @ newtonrunning.com Lug-style soles encourage you to strike the ground with your midfoot instead of your heel. You run at a faster pace and with a more upright, forward form. Pros: Cushion and support adapts while you run; lightweight for speed training and racing. Related articles: Walk Off the Pounds Improve your running formâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and performanceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with these five tips Six expert tips for getting the most of every running experience [on Facebook, Digg, Reddit and more] Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

MF City: Chicago (Mensfitness.com) Submitted at 7/7/2010 1:00:00 AM

Your guide to the Windy City's best gyms, healthiest food, and coolest clubs by Ariane Marder Print Article Email to Friend WORKING OUT OUTDOORS North Avenue Beach N. Lake Shore Drive at North Avenue With stunning views of the city skyline and lakeshore, Chicago's busiest beach boasts an ideal backdrop for a workout. There's a bike path, sand volleyball, a beach-hockey rink, even a Crunch mini-gym where you can blast your lats while ogling the babes on blades. Forgot your gear? Grab whatever you need at a nearby beach house. GYM Fitness Formula Clubs Union Station 444 W. Jackson Blvd. 312-6270444 This sprawling club and spa promises full service. When you're done lifting, compete in a friendly pickup game or work on your stroke in the Junior Olympic-size pool ($30 for a 24 -hour pass). HOTEL GYM Embassy Suites Lakefront 511 N. Columbus Dr. 888-9038884 This swank hotel spares no expense anywhere. The state-ofthe-art fitness center, just blocks

from Lake Michigan, is open round-the-clock. Among the recent additions: Precor machines and an indoor lap pool. GOING OUT EATS Powerhouse Restaurant and Bar 215 N. Clinton St. 312-9280800 Renowned Chi-Town chef Jeff Mauro serves up a seasonal menu of tasty New American cuisine. Trattoria No. 10 10 N. Dearborn St. 312-9841718 The standout pasta endears this restaurant to locals. Good food and affordable wine always make for an ideal power lunch. AFTERPARTY Rockit Bar and Grill 22 W. Hubbard St. 312-6456000 Rock fans come for the music, pool sharks love the custom tables, and everyone hits up Rockit for its laid-back vibe. Vertigo 2 W. Erie St. 312-202-6060 Located on the 26th floor of the Dana Hotel, this lounge is known for its pretty young things. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Beat Seasonal Allergies (Mensfitness.com) Submitted at 7/7/2010 5:00:00 AM

9 tricks to help squelch hay fever by Christine Richmond Print Article Email to Friend Itchy eyes. Scratchy throat. Relentless sneezing. It's freaking hay fever season, yet again. To avoid ODing on antihistamines, try a few of these tricks to keep your symptoms in check. 1.) Leave your shoes at the door. You can track pollen and other allergens all over your house. Indoor air pollution levels are already up to five times higher than outdoors, according to the EPA. 2.) Buy an air purifier. Look for one with a "clean air delivery rate" of at least 350 and a HEPA filter, which traps tiny particles like viruses and smoke. 3.) Shower before bed. It'll keep you from rubbing pollen you've gathered all day onto your pillow (and then inhaling it at night). 4.) Move your workouts indoors.

Especially if you're a morning guy—pollen counts are highest between 5 a.m. and 10 a.m. says Fred Pescatore, M.D., author of The Allergy and Asthma Cure. 5.) Bust out the shades. Maybe Jack Nicholson and Kanye are onto something. "Sunglasses help keep airborne allergens out of your eyes," explains Pescatore. He suggests wearing them even when it's cloudy. 6.) Reach for natural remedies. Take 250 milligrams to 600 milligrams of quercetin (up to three times a day with your meals), Pescatore recommends. The antioxidant helps to block histamine. Other remedies include fish oil and the herbs butterbur and stinging nettle (follow the dosage on the bottle). 7.) Wash your car. And clean the inside, too. After all, you're in your vehicle an average of 20 hours per week. 8.) Cut back on sugar and dairy. Milk and its by-products can increase mucus production, so cutting back when you have symptoms will help you breathe

easier. Sugar's even worse. A single teaspoon of the sweet stuff can hike your body's inflammation levels and suppress your immune system by more than 50%, says Pescatore. 9.) Try pot. A neti pot! Some guys may find these teapot-looking remedies a tad bizarre, but they're astonishingly effective at reducing sinus pressure and flushing out your nasal passages. "They change people's lives," Pescatore says. (Also consider squeeze-bottle variations, which can be easier to control.) Related articles: 5 Tips For Better Sleep Boost Your Energy Does Soy Really Cause Man Boobs? [on Facebook, Digg, Reddit and more] Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Ridley Scott and YouTube Want You To Film One Day in Your Life Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) Submitted at 7/7/2010 6:03:05 AM

YouTube announced a project called “Life in a Day,” which attempts to document one day, July 24, seen through the camera lens of people around the world. The project will be executive produced by Ridley Scott of Blade Runner and Gladiator fame and edited by Kevin Macdonald, best known for directing films such as The Last King of Scotland and One Day in September. The film will premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival; if your footage makes the final cut, you’ll be credited as a codirector, and 20 contributors will be selected to attend the premiere. If you’re hoping for financial gain, however, you’ll be disappointed; for this one, glory is your only reward. To contribute to the project, you need to capture July 24, 2010, on camera, and upload the footage to the Life in the Day channel sometime before July

31. As for what your footage should consist of, YouTube wants you to have no limits, to be personal, to film anyone you like and to preferably film the footage in high resolution. You can find a full set of guidelines over at the official channel. Check out an introductory video for the project below. Reviews: YouTube More About: Film, Ridley Scott, video, youtube For more Social Media coverage: • Follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter • Become a Fan on Facebook • Subscribe to the Social Media channel • Download our free apps for iPhone and iPad

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with 2 tbsp of the brown sugar, 1 tbsp of the curry, and the coriander seeds. Salt and pepper Add a little exotic flavor to to taste. Add apricots, sliced your next cookout onion, wine, vinegar, and oil, Print Article Email to Friend then let marinate in fridge, Ingredients covered, for 2 to 4 hours. 2.) Meanwhile, cut peeled • 1 lb pork tenderloin, cut into onion in half crosswise, then cut cubes into quarters and break into • 1/2 lb lamb shoulder or leg, layers. cut into cubes 3.) Drain meat in a strainer over • 3 tbsp dark brown sugar large saucepan. Remove meat • 1 tbsp plus 1/2 tsp curry and apricots from strainer and powder discard remaining solids. Set • 2 tsp coriander seeds marinade aside. Thread • 2 cups dried apricots meat, apricots, onion layers, • 1 onion, sliced, plus 1 onion, and bacon onto skewers. peeled 4.) Place saucepan with • 1 1/2 cups dry red wine marinade over high heat, bring • 1/2 cup red wine vinegar to a boil, and cook until thick, • 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil about 10 minutes. Whisk in • 3 slices turkey bacon, cut into butter, apricot jam, remaining 1 chunks tbsp brown sugar, and 1/2 tsp • 1 tbsp butter curry. Let sauce continue to • 2 tbsp apricot jam boil, whisking until thick. Pour a quarter of the sauce into small How to Make It bowl for basting. 1.) In a bowl, sprinkle meat 5.) When grill is hot, cook Submitted at 7/7/2010 4:00:00 AM

kebabs until browned on the outside and meat is cooked through, about 2 minutes per side—8 minutes total. After 4 minutes, start basting with reserved sauce. 6.) Serve kebabs at once with remaining sauce for dipping. Nutritional Breakdown Per serving Calories: 665 Protein: 34 g Carbs: 61 g Fat: 26 g Fiber: 6g Serves 4 Related articles: Recipe: Quinoa Paella with Chicken and Chorizo Recipe: Black Bean Cakes Recipe: Skillet Mac & Cheese With Ham & Spinach [on Facebook, Digg, Reddit and more] Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Twitter Search Volume Up 33% Since April Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:14:43 AM

According to Twitter cofounder Biz Stone, who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival recently, Twitter is handling 800 million search queries per day. At Twitter’s Chirp conference in April, Stone said Twitter was serving 600 million search queries per day — 33% less than the microblogging service is processing now. The number reminds us of Bing’s impressive growth last year, when Nielsen reported that Microsoft’s search engine was growing 22.1% month-overmonth. However, Bing was unable to continue growing at that rate; it lost 5% of its stake in the search market the very next month. All this time, Twitter’s search has been growing; partly due to Twitter’s growth in use and users, and partly because Twitter’s real-time search is one

of the best ways to find out what’s happening right now. With the recent launch of Twitter’s ad platform, a huge search volume will definitely help Twitter increase its revenue stream. Reviews: Bing, Twitter More About: biz stone, Google, Search, twitter For more Social Media coverage: • Follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter • Become a Fan on Facebook • Subscribe to the Social Media channel • Download our free apps for iPhone and iPad

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news outlet should be, interested in making sense of this decision and, of course, grabbing In response to some of the r e a d e r s ’ a t t e n t i o n . outcry over the New York Put another way: inaccurate Times attack on Pope Benedict reporting is awesome because of XVI, there have been a couple — the children! defenses worth discussing. There are many problems with The first comes from Diane this statement. First off, if the Winston, the Knight Chair in point is making sense of how an Media and Religion at the institution didn’t do enough to A n n e n b e r g S c h o o l f o r protect children, how in the C o m m u n i c a t i o n a t t h e world can that objective be U n i v e r s i t y o f S o u t h e r n obtained by providing false and California. Winston is huge in inaccurate information? I can’t the religion and media universe look into anyone’s heart, of and is a well respected scholar course, but I like to believe that and former Godbeat journalist. everyone — from the harshest She is thoughtful and thought- Vatican critic to its strongest provoking. But I can’t say much defender — seeks to protect in favor of her defense of the children from those that prey on Times. Here’s a key chunk of t h e m . W a n t i n g a c c u r a t e that: theological information, a Critics complain that the Times proper understanding of history is out to get the Church and and context and a removal of Pope Benedict, in particular. tendentious reporting from T h e y c i t e t h e o l o g i c a l stories does not in any way i n a c c u r a c i e s , h i s t o r i c a l mean you support child abuse. misunderstandings and editorial This is such an obvious point intimations to justify their but one that needs reasserting. stance. But they miss the forest I mean, I’m Lutheran. We’re for the trees. The intricacies of not known for thinking the priestly ordination, Vatican law Vatican is infallible. When I and institutional preservation are look at these stories of how important to the story, but child abuse was perpetuated, it they’re not the point. The point disgusts and revolts me. I still is the church’s choice: opting to don’t think that factually safeguard the institution, its i n a c c u r a t e h i t p i e c e s a r e priests and reputation at the constructive or appropriate. e x p e n s e o f c h i l d r e n a n d Besides, did the article actually families. The Times is, as any show what Winston alleges (the Submitted at 7/7/2010 6:13:00 AM

Vatican choosing to hurt children) or did it present a history of the debate regarding who had competence to try cases of sexual abuse? The only part of the story where it comes close to showing “the church’s choice: opting to safeguard the institution, its priests and reputation at the expense of children and families” is the section concerning the 2000 meeting where several cardinals downplayed the significance of the issue. And yet that same section shows Cardinal Ratzinger standing up, speaking for reform and, then, moving to gain control of sex-abuse cases within a year. And there’s the rub. Because that contradicts the assertion made at the top of the Times story that “the future pope, it is now clear, was also part of a culture of nonresponsibility, denial, legalistic foot-dragging and outright obstruction.” A GetReligion reader described Winston’s defense as “just emotionalism.” It is certainly telling that a critic of Winston’s intelligence and stature is unable to defend the Times piece except through abstractions. Winston attempts to reimagine the story not as it stands but as something different. If it were, as she argues, an attempt to show that the Church at all levels wasn’t just slow to

respond but too concerned with its own reputation at the local level to effectively care for victims and the larger Catholic community, that would be unassailable. The pope himself has said: “Certainly, among the contributing factors [for the present crisis] we can include … a tendency in society to favor the clergy and other authority figures; and a misplaced concern for the reputation of the Church and the avoidance of scandal, resulting in failure to apply existing canonical penalties and to safeguard the dignity of every person.” But that’s not what the article said. The problems that critics have cited with the article deal with quite specific claims made by the reporters that go much further then general concern with Vatican culture. How in the world is it not appropriate to point out that those allegations weren’t proven by the reporters who made them — indeed, that they were refuted by their own reporting? This piece fails to respond to the actual criticism of the piece. It’s not as if there is a debate about whether the abuse happened or whether the bishops handled it horribly or that Rome was too slow to respond. Critics of the coverage in general — and this particular

Times story — take issue with the specific manner in which reporters are attempting to pin the story on Benedict. Good journalism should use clearly reported facts to scrutinize how the Church (and other institutions, such as public schools) have handled child abuse. Good journalism should provoke helpful reforms. That’s simply not going to happen if the reporting is biased, sensationalistic, lurid and patently unfair. This Times article wasn’t even subtle in intimating that the Pope is bad and that the Church itself is a sinister force. Winston defends the piece on just those grounds — essentially she says the church is a horrible institution so accuracy is optional. And the church is powerful, so journalists must afflict it any way they can. I just can’t agree with that. Facts always matter. Context always matters. Get the story straight. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Hymns for an old Democrat tmatt (GetReligion)

references are positive. Surely this breaks some kind of Submitted at 7/7/2010 9:21:04 AM percentage-of-Godtalk record One would have to conclude, for a Post report about a a f t e r r e a d i n g t h e l a t e s t political leader. Here’s the Washington Post hymn to the opening: late Sen. Robert C. Byrd of When Sen. Robert C. Byrd’s West Virginia, that we are niece began to sing “On the witnessing the end of an era in Wings of a Snow White Dove” which old Southern Democrats at his funeral Tuesday, she walked the earth like complex, faltered. even troubled, men of the Jassowyn Sale Hurd said she people. had never gotten the chance to There is so much religion in sing with the late statesman, and this funeral piece and all of the now, as she stood before his

polished brown casket in an Arlington church, she briefly forgot the tune. She apologized. “Let me try this again,” she said, and as she did, the congregation assembled to bid the lawmaker a last farewell on a broiling summer day began to softly sing along: When troubles surround us, when evils come, the body grows weak, the spirit grows numb. It was a moment that might have made the Democrat from

West Virginia smile: the sweet melody, the evocative refrain: On the wings of a snow-white dove, He sends His pure sweet love. I thought for a moment that the Post was going to let that reference to “He” — with a big divine H — pass without any kind of follow up remarks that punched home the faith content. But the Beltway paper of reference immediately labeled Byrd a “proud son of Appalachian Bible country”

who was remembered amid the “strains of the music he loved and the words of the Scripture he revered.” Wow. A big “S” on scripture, even though that isn’t the rule in the Associated Press Stylebook (please correct me if I’m wrong on that). Byrd was, of course, a complex man with some some big political sins in his past, most summed up in the letters KKK. HYMNS page 72

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Bible Belt begets better business? Bobby (GetReligion) Submitted at 7/6/2010 6:16:10 PM

Believe me, I understand the difficulty of writing about a complex academic study within the confines of a normal-sized daily newspaper or wire service story. Researchers spend months or even years examining a topic. They produce a thick report on their findings. Then a university PR office whips up an important -sounding press release and sends it out. What’s a reporter to do? Take time in a frenzied newsroom to understand the big words in the study report? Or run with the press release and produce a “news story” with a bunch of vague generalizations with no specific details to back them up? The above scenario falls under the category of hypothetically speaking. I have no way of knowing if it applies to a Birmingham News story that ran this past weekend with the headline Bible Belt may keep reins on accounting fraud, study says. What I do know about the Birmingham story — a version of which was picked up and distributed nationally by Religion News Service — is this: I wouldn’t bet the (meager) savings in my 401(k) retirement account on the claims made in this 475-word story. Here’s the top of the report:

Companies in Alabama and other Bible Belt states may do a better job of thumping accounting fraud than those in other states, a study indicates. Research by Mays Business School at Texas A&M University found that companies headquartered in counties with high levels of churchgoing are less likely to practice aggressive financial reporting. The study conducted by

accounting faculty members Sean McQuire, Thomas Omer and Nathan Sharp also found that small and medium-sized firms tend to use religion as a self-regulating mechanism in the absence of more formal external monitoring. Got that? Apparently, the idea is that religion contributes to a higher level of business integrity and ethics. But the story never connects those dots, except for

noting that the researchers — in a way never explained — compared Gallup surveys on religiosity with shareholder lawsuits related to accounting malfeasance. Also, the article never specifies what area is covered by the Bible Belt — an ambiguous geographic region that doesn’t exactly show up on U.S. maps. More from the story: Sharp, in an interview Friday, said the study is more a measure

of an overall accounting approach among multiple firms of various sizes in the Bible Belt and can’t predict mega frauds such as those at Birmingham-based HealthSouth Corp.; Clinton, Miss.-based WorldCom and Houston-based Enron Corp. — all companies in Bible Belt states. “We would view them more as anomalies,” Sharp said. “What BIBLE page 72

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Reading between the lines Mollie (GetReligion) Submitted at 7/6/2010 10:22:38 AM

A few weeks ago, there was a bit of a discussion on the internets about whether the mainstream media does a good job of covering honor killings in America. It began with Phyllis Chesler writing: The mainstream media rarely covers them. More often, local media does, but even local media does so walking on eggshells, careful to quote from at least one apologist and one know-nothing. Usually, the (hardcopy) mainstream media covers such events weeks later, only briefly, or as a way to “spin” any possible prejudice against the perpetrators involved. Sometimes they are mentioned, but only in passing. Rarely do follow-ups appear. Usually, a wire service piece is used, and no original reporting is done. Sometimes, the newspaper’s blog might refer to a piece which first appeared in another newspaper which, in turn, has mentioned the subject only in passing. National Review’s Mark Steyn

riffed on that here and here. The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf responded that the mainstream media was doing a great job of covering honor killings in America here and here. It’s not about an American honor killing but I thought of that debate when looking at the coverage of the alleged attempted murder of British actress Afshan Azad. She’s appeared in many of the Harry

Potter movies. Here’s how CNN put it: Abdul Azad, 54, and his son Ashraf, 28, are accused of attacking actress Afshan Azad earlier this month because of her relationship with a Hindu man, a spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service said. The family is Muslim. I don’t know if this is typically how the Daily Mail handles such news, but you pretty much

CNN story. But nowhere do the words “Hindu” or “Muslim” appear in the Daily Mail. Neither do they in this E! story about the situation. The Herald Sun in Australia began its story this way: The strict Muslim father and brother of “Harry Potter” actress Afshan Azad have been charged with threatening to kill her because she has a boyfriend. None of these stories is long. That’s excusable for the initial story. But is this related to an honor killing? What are the theological defenses and refutations of honor killing? What role does religion play in this story? If you can’t get the media interested in covering have to read in between every these issues when the target is line of this story to glean famous, what hope do we have a n y t h i n g f r o m i t . A f t e r for good coverage when the explaining the charges of assault victims are from a small town in and attempted murder, we get the middle of the nowhere? this: Five Filters featured article: As part of their bail conditions, Headshot - Propaganda, State they have to abide by an 11pm Religion and the Attack On the to 6am curfew and must not Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available travel to London or contact an tools: PDF Newspaper, Full unnamed man. Text RSS, Term Extraction. Presumably the “unnamed man” is the Hindu from the

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None of that made it into this story, however, although we are not told what was said in the funeral sermon. The old South was a complex place in the time when Byrd came to power and lots of folks veered from side to side trying to please a wide variety of voters. Note, for example, his complex history on right-to-life issues. I found myself wanting to know more about how Byrd actually got along with his Bible Belt supporters and opponents, as his party headed to the moral and cultural left. He was a Baptist, for example. What kind? The story does tell us this: Byrd was elected to nine terms in the Senate, starting in 1958, and served for almost a quarter of the country’s history. He wrote a history of the Senate, was twice majority leader and chaired the powerful Appropriations Committee. Yet his funeral was rich in plain, old -time hymns and readings from Scripture, both of which mourners said the senator would have loved. The Rev. William H. Smith, the

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church’s retired pastor, reminded those in attendance of how well Byrd knew the Bible. Smith recalled that once, when he had preached on a certain part of Scripture, Byrd approached him after the service, put his arm around him and recited from memory the 10 verses before and the 10 verses after the section cited. “He described himself to me as a born-again, old-time-religion, Bible-based Christian,” Smith said. “He was baptized along with Mrs. Byrd at age 19 in the Crab Orchard Baptist Church.” Smith recalled that one of Byrd’s favorite sections of Scripture was John 11, in which Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead. Lazarus emerges from the tomb bound in burial cloth. “Loose him,” Jesus says, “and let him go.” Smith said that phrase is carved on the tombstone at the grave where Byrd and his wife are buried. Now that’s strong stuff and this is a fine, simple story, in its own way. Still, I want to point out one interesting word near the start of

that long passage — “yet.” Why the need for that raised eyebrow of a word between the facts of the senator’s long tenure in public life and the Bible Belt details of his Baptist funeral? A contrast between the facts of power and the lowliness and simplicity of this other part of his life? An ironic nod to the common touch? Maybe. Byrd was a giant in public servant, YET his funeral included old-fashioned hymns and Bible readings. Y.E.T. Read the whole report and as you do so, meditate on how much the Democratic Party has changed in the American heartland. Times have indeed changed. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

we focused on was smaller, systemic aggressive accounting occurring as almost a part of doing business.” Sharp said the study also does not account for how some people use religion itself to defraud others. Instead, the study zeroed in on how companies in areas of high levels of religion approached accounting. “We can’t predict those one-off cases,” he said. “On average, when you hold everything constant, accounting practices are less aggressive in areas with high religiosity.” OK, do we all understand now? Even a few specific examples of companies — in the Bible Belt and beyond — reviewed by the researchers and how they fared might provide a bit of needed context. At the same time, it would be helpful to know if extenuating

factors were considered; for example, the types of companies that might be headquartered in the Bible Belt as opposed to New York or San Francisco. In other words, did researchers really compare apples, or could this be an apples-and-oranges situation? Maybe there really is a newsworthy story in this study. However, it’s impossible to tell based on this report. The headline grabs your attention, yes. But the story itself fall short. Five Filters featured article: Headshot - Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack On the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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The First Thing Young Women Do in the Morning: Check Facebook [STUDY] Ben Parr (Mashable!)

accounts. More than half of young women (57%) say they talk to people online more than Young women are becoming face-to-face. A full 39% of more and more dependent on them proclaim themselves social media and checking on Facebook addicts, while 34% of their social networks, according young women make Facebook to a new study released earlier the first thing they do when they today by Oxygen Media and wake up, even before brushing Lightspeed Research. In fact, as their teeth or going to the many as one-third of women bathroom. aged 18-34 check Facebook Here are some other interesting when they first wake up, even stats regarding young women before they get to the bathroom. and Facebook: The study sampled the habits of • 21% of women age 18-34 1,605 adults using social media check Facebook in the middle of between May and June of this the night year in an attempt to break • 63% use Facebook as a down their social media habits. networking tool While some of the results are in • 42% think it’s okay to post line with previous studies we’ve photos of themselves intoxicated read, others simply shocked us • 79% are fine with kissing in (e.g. 42% of young women photos t h i n k p o s t i n g p h o t o s o f • 58% use Facebook to keep themselves “visibly intoxicated” tabs on “frenemies” is okay). • 50% are fine with being Here’s a short rundown of how Facebook friends with complete young women are utilizing strangers Facebook and social media in general: Are Young Women What conclusions can we draw Addicted to Facebook? from this data? It’s not just that While the study covers all of y o u n g w o m e n a r e u s i n g social media, it’s clear that Facebook religiously: it’s that women in the 18-34 range are they’re very open with what focused on their Facebook they post and who they accept Submitted at 7/7/2010 2:49:50 AM

9% who think it’s just fine. Women and Privacy The Oxygen Media/Lightspeed Research survey is filled with a lot of other interesting data points, but it all circles back to the privacy issue. 54% of 18-24 year old women do not trust Facebook with their private as friends. Combined, it can information, and 89% agree that lead to a privacy mess. Social “you should never put anything Media’s Role in Dating on Facebook that you don’t We already knew that Facebook want your parents to see.” That has radically changed dating, seems contradictory to the 42% and Oxygen Media’s stats only that think it’s fine to post back up that assertion. 50% of pictures of themselves drunk. women believe that it’s just fine Our habits are changing due to to date people they’ve met on s o c i a l m e d i a t e c h n o l o g y , Facebook, compared to 65% of particularly Facebook. It’s not men. 6% of women use it to just a connection tool for many “hook up” (20% of men do the women, but a research tool, a same). dating network, and a way to I t g e t s m u r k i e r f o r keep tabs on both boyfriends relationships. 49% of women and enemies. believe it’s fine to keep tabs on What do you think of these a boyfriend by having access to stats? Do any of them surprise his accounts (42% of men think you? Let us know what you the same way). 9% of women think in the comments. Reviews: h a v e b r o k e n u p t h e i r Facebook relationships via Facebook, as More About: FacebookT, compared to a full 24% of men. trending, twitter Luckily, most women don’t believe that breaking up via Facebook is okay: 91% to be exact. I don’t want to meet the

Borders EBookstore Launches Today Lauren Indvik (Mashable!) Submitted at 7/7/2010 7:30:39 AM

Borders, the second largest bookstore chain in the U.S., is launching its e-bookstore today, as well as reading apps for Blackberry and Android devices. The company also announced its aggressive plans to capture 17% of the e-book market by July 2011, following arch rival Barnes & Noble’s recent disclosure that it has already secured 20% of the market in the first six months of its entry. Borders’s store is already stocked with more than 1.5 million titles (for comparison: Barnes & Noble offers more than 1 million, and Amazon boasts nearly twice that) in a variety of formats, including ePub, mobile and PDF. Customers will be able to read these titles on the two devices offered on Borders.com, the $150 Kobo and $120 Libre Pro e-readers, as well as on the BORDERS page 74

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company’s recently launched mobile apps for the iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android. As an added incentive, those who download the mobile apps on their devices from July 9-10 will receive the five recent bestsellers, including Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein, One Shot by Lee Child, Michael Scott’s The Alchemyst, Julia Child’s Kitchen Wisdom and Master Your Metabolism by Jillian Michaels, for free. This should ensure that a large number of people download and interact with the app right away — something Borders desperately needs if it’s going to carve out a significant marketshare this year. Borders is, after all, a latecomer to the e-book market, which is expected to surpass $500

million in the U.S. this year, after nearly doubling to reach $314 million in 2009. Amazon, the biggest player in the space, launched its ebookstore and e-reader, the Kindle, in November 2007. Sony and Barnes & Noble released their own stores and devices in 2009, followed by Apple’s iBookstore, which accompanied the release of the iPad in April. Yet Borders’s CEO Mike Edwards confidently insists, “The race to emerge as a retail leader within the digital category is just starting,” pointing to the company’s “device neutral philosophy” and the low prices of its e-readers compared to its competitors’. What do you think: Can Borders catch up to its

competitors and secure 17% of the e-book market in its first year? What do you think of the company’s e-reading devices and apps? Reviews: Android, iBookStore More About: amazon, android, apple, barnes & noble, blackberry, borders, e-books, ebookstore, e-readers, iBooks, iBookstore, Kindle, nook, sony For more Tech coverage: • Follow Mashable Tech on Twitter • Become a Fan on Facebook • Subscribe to the Tech channel • Download our free apps for iPhone and iPad

What Identities Are We Using to Sign in Around the Web? [INFOGRAPHIC] Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)

Yahoo, and Twitter, but are they always being used in the same way? The infographic below, The days of having a separate courtesy of social optimization login and password for each platform Gigya, shows that online service we use are behind users trust different identities on us. Now, you can log into most different services. For example, sites and services using your users are most likely to log on to social network’s ID. entertainment sites via The most popular social Facebook, but when it comes to T w i t t e r . F u r t h e r m o r e , t h e identities are Facebook, Google, news sites, the login of choice is infographic shows what profile Submitted at 7/7/2010 3:50:47 AM

data is available to services after users log in using various online identities. Check out a bigger version of the infographic here. Reviews: Facebook, Google, Twitter More About: facebook, gigya, Google, online identity, social networking, twitter, Yahoo For more Social Media

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