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Even Congress gets weary of Congress… Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row Washington)

out, Republican Sean Duffy suddenly became the front runner in that district, a Submitted at 5/5/2010 3:30:07 PM Milwaukee Journal Sentinel It’s not just voters who get tired columnist blogged. of Congress – members of “I believe the job of a good Congress get tired of Congress. politician was to be used up “I am bone tired,” David Obey fighting on behalf of causes you s a i d i n a n n o u n c i n g h i s believed in, and when you are retirement after 21 terms (that used up, to step aside and let w o u l d b e 4 2 y e a r s ) a s a someone else carry on the battle. Democratic congressman from Well, today I feel used up,” Wisconsin. Obey said. Public opinion polls show that Why would someone leave a anti-incumbent sentiment is high-powered post as chairman high going into the November of the House Appropriations congressional elections in which Committee with his fist on the every House seat and one-third government’s purse strings? of the Senate are up for grabs. “I am, frankly, weary of having There’s also history to contend to beg on a daily basis that both with – in the mid-term election parties recognize that we do no during a new presidency the favor for the country if we party of the president usually neglect to make the long-term loses seats — that would be i n v e s t m e n t s i n e d u c a t i o n , Democrats this year. science, health, and energy that A n d s o m e m e m b e r s o f are necessary to modernize our Congress have decided it’s just economy and decline to raise the not worth the fight, even from revenue needed to pay for those r e l a t i v e l y s a f e d i s t r i c t s . crucial investments,” he said. A l t h o u g h , O b e y s a y s h i s “I do not want to be in a decision had nothing to do position as Chairman of the with any concern about winning Appropriations Committee of the election. By dropping producing and defending lowest

common denominator legislation that is inadequate to that task and, given the mood of the country, that is what I would have to do if I stayed.” Obey, saying he would turn 72 soon, noted the recent deaths of his former colleagues Charlie Wilson and Jack Murtha at age

76. And he said he will have served longer than all but 18 of the 10,637 members ever to serve in the House –”The wear and tear is beginning to take its toll.” So Obey asked himself how he wanted to spend the rest of his life. “Frankly, I do not know

what I will do next. All I do know is that there has to be more to life than explaining the ridiculous, accountability destroying rules of the Senate to confused, angry, and frustrated constituents.” While the Democrats, who control Congress, are able to push their priorities through the House, in the Senate they face rules that allow the minority party to more easily block legislation. And then there was the swing at reporters. “I am also increasingly weary of having to deal with a press which has become increasingly focused on trivia, driven at least in part by the financial collapse of the news industry and the need, with the 24-hour news cycle, to fill the air waves with hot air,” Obey said. Do you think the retirement of senior, experienced, members of Congress like Obey is a plus or a minus? Photo credit: Reuters/Yuri Gripas (Obey after announcing his retirement)

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Ahmadinejad says bin Laden in Washington Deborah Charles (Front Row Washington) Submitted at 5/5/2010 8:55:56 AM

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has the answer to the question that has plagued the United States since Sept. 11, 2001. He knows where Osama bin Laden is — in Washington. In an interview with ABC’S “Good Morning America” on Wednesday, Ahmadinejad rejected reports that the al Qaeda leader was in Iran. “I heard that Osama bin Laden is in the Washington, D.C.,” Ahmadinejad said through an interpreter in a contentious giveand-take with his interviewer, George Stephanopoulos. “He’s there. Because he was a previous partner of Mr. Bush. They were colleagues in fact in the old days. You know that.

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There's Only One Kind Of Bailout That Works, And That's A Dumb Bailout (AIG, GS) Joe Weisenthal (Business Insider) Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:23:19 AM

In his morning note, RBS strategist Tim Ash makes an important observation regarding the ongoing crisis in Europe, and how it differs from past They were in the oil business crisis. together. They worked together. In many respects it reminds me Mr. Bin Laden never cooperated of the run up to the April 2009 with Iran but he cooperated with G20 London summit, when Emerging Mr. Bush,” Ahmadinejad said. Europe was in the eye of the “Rest assured that he’s in storm and clearly in crisis. Washington. I think there’s a The G20 London summit high chance he’s there.” turned sentiment because G20 For more Reuters political news states agreed to give click here Photo credits: Reuters/State the IMF the firepower to tackle Dept handout ( Bin Laden the problem. The Fund dolled picture); Reuters/Molly Riley out money first and asked questions later. My sense (U.S. Capitol) is that Europe needs to follow a similar strategy. Decisive action is now ADVERTISEMENT: required, but I worry that Europe is simply unable to act (BloggingStocks) quickly enough. The Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:23:00 AM developing cycle/spiral needs turning, and very, very fast. Ash's comments are smart, but are coming a little late. Europe (HowStuffWorks Daily Feed) Ministerial - The 2010 UK decided to ask questions first, General Election. Available and then only drib out the cash (more info) tools: PDF Newspaper, Full slowly (if at all-- Greece has yet Five Filters featured article: Text RSS, Term Extraction. to receive a penny). Now it's too The Art of Looking Prime late to put the genie back in the

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bottle. Ash could also include the US' bank bailout, which "worked" because the government basically decided: We're going to give the banks gobs and gobs of cash in every way possible (direct investments, preferred stock investments, cheap money, AIG (AIG) as a conduit to Goldman Sachs (GS), etc.), and then we'll ask questions later. Remember, the initial TARP proposal was just one page, which basically said: Give us lots of cash to do whatever we want with. If Bernanke and Paulson had taken the Europe approach, and

demanded the banks offer extensive details about what exactly they were going to do with their money, it probably wouldn't have worked. The problem, there, though is that blank-check bailouts are basically immoral, taking cash from one party and giving it to another party, and that's why we're asking a lot of questions now (in the form of SEC charges and extensive hearings). But if it's going to work, that's probably the way it has to be. Don't miss: The complete Goldman winners and losers > Join the conversation about this story »

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11 Ways You Can Make Your Space as Collaborative as the Stanford d.school Linda Tischler (Fast Company) Submitted at 5/6/2010 9:05:09 AM

The Stanford d.school, which opens officially on May 7, is a space whose design has been refined over the course of six years to maximize the innovation process. Every wall, every nook, every connecting gizmo, every table, every storage cabinet, has been created with a grand, collaborative vision in mind. Nice for them. But what about the rest of us, out here in standard-issue cubicle land? Are we all destined for subprime collaborative work lives because our office spaces and furniture are so numbingly left brain? Not so, says George Kembel, the executive director of the school. Even if your company doesn't have a few million to throw at making your space more innovation-friendly, there are things you can do to optimize what you've got. The d.school team sat down and brainstormed 11 great ways to transform your digs into a little hive of bubbling creativity--or at least a place that manages to capture the occasional good idea. 1. Start with what you have. "We started in a trailer," Kembel points out, "with the 'd.school'

as a sign on the table." Kembel's advice: Claim a space and label it. 2. Go to the people who are interested first. Form a crack team of true believers to spearhead your campaign. Revolutions start from the bottom up. 3. Empower your team to change their space. Somebody high enough up the food chain needs to defend this activity against facilities managers who

may not be amused. 3. Then, be willing to keep changing things. Try out different ways to configure space to see what works best. 4. Watch the behavior of the group and take notes. Have somebody in your band of innovators own this task. What's working, what isn't? "Try, reflect, modify," says Kembel. 5. Develop group-sized artifacts. Whaa? In short, forget the spreadsheets with the tiny

type. "Get your ideas up in big enough form so that others can see and add to them." 6. Keep any prototypes, sketches, or idea-jam artifacts low-rez and not precious. "Don't get too formal too fast," says Kembel. Making things precious locks them in too soon, shortcircuiting potential improvements. 7. Show your work in progress. "Put your underwear up on the line and let people comment.

But keep it safe," Kembel says. No rude comments allowed. 8. Do something simple to surprise people. At the d.school, they painted the women's restroom lipstick pink, and hung disco balls. "That makes people realize that somebody cares about your experience," Kembel says. 9. Invest more in "we" spaces than in "I" spaces. Cozy nooks WAYS page 5

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Apple's iAd Goes ViP, Leaving Google Behind the Velvet Ropes Kit Eaton (Fast Company) Submitted at 5/6/2010 9:37:08 AM

Apple's new iAd platform is going to be a serious contender, newly leaked data shows. The company is so keen to beat its competition in the mobile advertising space that it's releasing a special paid analytics system that leverages iTunes data. The news comes via TechCrunch, which has received inside information from a Quattro Wireless sales rep (Quattro is the mobile advertising platform Apple bought earlier this year). This makes the information extremely reliable, and the news itself even more spicy. The system is called Verification of iTunes Purchase (ViP) and it works pretty much as the name implies: App developers who place an iAd in their apps, and buy into the ViP system, will get a direct measure of the conversion of ad impressions into app purchases. So what's the big deal? This route to ad efficiency measurement is 100% reliable, coming via Apple's own servers and requiring no other special action on behalf of app writers. No need to program specific SDK hooks or adhere to another competing ad company's code

requirements. It's the kind of data path, in fact, that competitors like AdMob would kill to get their paws on, as without the inside proprietary data from Apple, they actually have to guess at similar sorts of statistics. The benefit to advertisers is an excellent understanding of their ad activities, users benefit form only seeing the original ad once (ViP enables the app owner to suppress showing the particular ad to users who go ahead and

purchase the app) and Apple benefits from having an advertising loop that's more reliable than what its competition can offer. The folks at Cupertino are well aware of this, and the email TechCrunch saw notes ViP is unable to be "duplicated by any of our competitors." Is this a murky pool for Apple to be dipping its toe into though? The very fact that it's promoting this inability for others to compete may well ring

alarm bells in industry regulators' minds. Or perhaps not: ViP would only seem to work for a specific sort of advert --in-app placements for products that a user will purchase from within Apple's system. It doesn't work for non-iTunes wares, like other people's software or realworld products, and this limited scope softens Apple's monopolistic lead. It's also arguable that Apple couldn't open ViP's data to public view, as it would reveal proprietary

information to its competitors, and not the good sort of "promoting healthy competition" data either. The main complication is that the FTC is rumored to be about to pronounce on the GoogleAdMob deal, and some indications are that it may bar it, on monopolistic grounds. In this sense, Apple's ViP may be in trouble. But if these rumors are wrong, as other commenters are beginning to ponder, and the deal does get approval, it would sensible to enable companies like Apple to develop strong competitor technology, lest Google's massive bulk let it establish a consumer-unfriendly bloc in yet another market space. There's also one more thing to note: The ViP deal seems to be targeted at the iPhone and iPod Touch only...not the iPad. Which makes us wonder if Apple's got another secret system up its sleeves, also under the iAd umbrella, but primed to make the most of the iPad's greater processing power and screen real estate? To keep up with this news follow me, Kit Eaton, on Twitter. That QR code on the left will even take your smartphone to my Twitter feed. APPLE'S page 5

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Fmr. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich on FTC: Why Investigate Apple? Investigate Banks! Dan Nosowitz (Fast Company)

largest U.S. financial institutions are legitimately controlling the U.S. economy? His argument on Submitted at 5/6/2010 9:47:36 AM behalf of Apple, which is being You might remember Robert investigated largely due to its Reich as President Clinton's decision to ban third-party Secretary of Labor, the man development tools--anyone who largely responsible for the wants to make an iPhone app Family and Medical Leave Act must use Apple's own tools. who successfully lobbied to What’s wrong with that? Apple raise the minimum wage, an says it’s necessary to maintain economic powerhouse who was quality. If consumers disagree named one of the 10 most t h e y c a n b u y p l a t f o r m s successful cabinet members of elsewhere. Apple was the the century. Or, if you're more world’s #3 smartphone supplier familiar with one-off sketches in 2009, with 16.2 percent of from Late Night With Conan worldwide market share. RIM O'Brien than with brilliant was #2, with 18.8 percent. politicians whose far-reaching G o o g l e i s n ’ t e x a c t l y a work has helped millions of wallflower. These and other A m e r i c a n s , y o u m i g h t firms are innovating like mad, remember him as being very as are tens of thousands of short, and standing next to independent developers. If Conan O'Brien, who is very tall. Apple’s decision reduces the [youtube kWliylnxSrA] number of future apps that can Reich recently gave his two run on its products, Apple will c e n t s o n t h e w h o l e F T C suffer and presumably change investigation of Apple, and its mind. effectively offered a smack And compared to the situation down. Why investigate Apple of the four largest banks in the when the case is questionable to country, that minor quirk is begin with, when the four absolutely meaningless. On the

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reform. Reich echoes the conclusions of most tech experts in his analysis of the merits of the investigation against Apple, and it's great to have someone who's so knowledgeable about these kinds of investigations, as well as the ebbs and flows of the economy, weigh in and provide some perspective. The Apple story isn't exactly related to other hand, the four largest U.S. banking reform--I'm sure (at financial institutions are so big least, I hope) the FTC can and the rest of the economy so handle two things at once--but dependent on them that if one of Reich's argument definitely them makes a bad decision it reminds us that there are more can take us all down. Between i m p o r t a n t t h i n g s f o r them they hold more than $7 governmental agencies to be trillion in assets, over half the focusing on than an admittedly size of the entire U.S. economy. fun slap-fest between Apple and So why is the FTC nosing Adobe. around Apple and not around Dan Nosowitz, the author of W a l l S t r e e t ? B e c a u s e t h e this post, can be followed on Federal Trade Commission Act Twitter, corresponded with via allows the agency to stop email, and stalked in San “unfair methods of competition” Francisco (no link for that one-a l m o s t a n y w h e r e i n t h e you'll have to do the legwork economy except in the financial yourself). sector. Banks are explicitly excluded. Another reason for financial

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for teams, not plush corner offices for the alpha dogs. 10. Mix up seating options. Take the table out of the room and sit on the floor. Vary seat heights. Change customary positions at meetings. For example, put the group leader in the middle, instead of at the head of the table. Try holding a meeting where only standing is allowed. In general, work to lower status markers. 11. Make idea generation and capture easy. Any non-porous surface can be a whiteboard, says Kembel. Buy a sheet of sheer acrylic at Home Depot and mount it on a wall as a writing space. Keep markers handy. Put prototyping tools out where people can grab them when an idea strikes. "Creativity follows context," says Kembel. The main idea, he says, is not to segregate creativity from other activities. "You don't need to be fancy to do it," he says. d.school principals (l to r): d.school founder David Kelley, Environments Collaborative codirectors Scott Witthoft and Scott Doorley, faculty member Bernie Roth, and executive director George Kembel.

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Options Update: Russell 2000 Volatility Increasing Paul Foster (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:00:00 AM

Filed under: Options Russell 2000 ( IWM) is recently trading up 28 cents to $70.20 in pre-open trading. Overall option implied volatility of 29 is above its 26-week average of 24, according to web agency involved in the Track Data, suggesting larger making of the film) writing price movement. these little automatic sentences, NASDAQ 100 ( QQQQ) closed not like a marketing tool, but as at $48.18. Overall option an extension of our job/work as implied volatility of 24 is at its journalists. These sentences are 26-week average of 24, a kind of symbol of what social according to Track Data, media could be as a creative suggesting non-directional price tool." movement. By the time the project comes CBOE Volatility Index ( VIX) to a close, it will have spawned at 24.90; 10-day moving a Web documentary, a TV average is 20.38. documentary, a book, an iPhone Update is by Stock Specialist app and even an exhibition in P a u l F o s t e r o f Paris next month. The Web site theflyonthewall.com. Innovative Interactivity has an Options Update: Russell 2000 in-depth interview with Volatility Increasing originally Dufresne on the technical details appeared on BloggingStocks on of making Prison Valley. Thu, 06 May 2010 08:00:00 One warning, though. While EST. Please see our terms for Dufresne acknowledges the role use of feeds. Permalink| Email of tech in the project's this| Comments production, there is no doubt as Option- VIX- Implied volatility to the real star of the show. - Investing- Business "Story is all," he says. "If you don't have a good story, technology is technology."

Prison Valley Interactive Documentary Puts AntiSocial Behavior Into Social Media Addy Dugdale (Fast Company) Submitted at 5/6/2010 9:34:45 AM

Last month, a strange little project launched online. Prison Valley is an interactive, Webbased documentary with its own iPhone app, and a heavy social media presence. It's been produced in three languages, by two French guys with a little help from the the FrancoGerman arts channel Arte. What's odd about this project is that, instead of the TV documentary being the focal point and using the Web as a promotional tool, it's the other way round. The premise of Prison Valley, which took 16 months to complete, is about a town in Colorado called Canon City. 36,000 residents, 13 prisons. The crew spent time in the town, interviewing the people who live and work there, and

documenting what the voiceover calls "the clean version of hell." The town has grown up around the prisons. "If the prisons weren't here, there would be nothing and nobody, because there is nothing else to offer." Gritty stuff. After a four-minute introduction, the $300,000 project gets interactive. Viewers register via Facebook or Twitter, and watch the documentary, pausing every couple of minutes to check out additional footage and information. There's a forum for the community to share opinions of the show, and a blog where this afternoon (Thursday), French Secretary of State for Justice, Jean-Marie Bockel, is doing a live chat. Thanks to the member profiles, the Web site remembers the last bit you watched, so there's no need to go back to the beginning and search for where you left off.

David Dufresne, one of the creators of the Web doc, spoke to Fast Company about the project. "We didn't plan to make a movie at the beginning," he says. "That came after our initial filming in Colorado." He and the rest of the crew on Prison Valley wanted to prove that online video is not just about the five-minute YouTube clip, but that a long-form doc can be executed successfully on the Web. "Our goal is to provide the elements and tools of the debate about prisons." Most interesting, however, is the way that Prison Valley unfolds for each individual viewer. "When you log into Prison Valley with either Facebook or Twitter," says Dufresne, "your journey in the movie is 'told' to your friends on either your Facebook wall or your Twitter timeline. We spent several days with Eric Drier of Upian(a Parisian production and

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Mark Zuckerberg's Brutal Prank On Sequoia Nicholas Carlson (Business Insider) Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:37:00 AM

Back in Facebook's early days, Mark Zuckerberg used to carry a business card that read, "I'm CEO…Bitch." So yeah, he had an attitude. Take, for instance, that time Mark took a meeting with top venture capital firm Sequoia Capital in his pajamas and presented a PowerPoint deck titled "The Top Ten Reasons You Should Not Invest." David Kirkpatrick explains in Fortune's excerpt of his upcoming book The Facebook Effect: As the Facebook boys started dealing increasingly with real business professionals, a reputation for rambunctiousness spread throughout the valley. "It's Lord of the Flies over there," one executive told an executive recruiter. Zuckerberg had to be careful which business card he handed out at meetings. He had two sets. One simply identified him as "CEO." The other: "I'm CEO...bitch!" One of the crew's edgiest

pranks in those days was a presentation made to the bluechip venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital, known in the Valley for a certain humorlessness. Sequoia éminence grise and consummate power player Michael Moritz had been on Plaxo's board. Parker saw him as having contributed to his downfall. "There was no way we were ever going to take money from Sequoia, given what they'd done to me," says Parker. The firm wanted to invest in Facebook, so as a joke the boys offered to

pitch the partners a Zuckerberg side project called Wirehog, a peer-to-peer file-sharing program. Zuckerberg and another partner showed up deliberately late for an 8 a.m. meeting, in their pajamas. They didn't even make a pitch for Wirehog. Zuckerberg showed a PowerPoint presentation David Lettermanstyle: "The Top Ten Reasons You Should Not Invest in Wirehog." It started out almost seriously. "The number 10 reason not to invest in Wirehog: we have no revenue." Number

9: "We will probably get sued by the music industry." By the final few points it was unashamedly rude. Number 3: "We showed up at your office late in our pajamas." Number 2: "Because Sean Parker is involved." And the number one reason Sequoia should not invest in Wirehog: "We're only here because [a Sequoia partner] told us to come." The partners seemed to listen respectfully, recalls Zuckerberg, who says he now regrets the incident. "I assume we really offended them and now I feel really bad about that." Read the whole excerpt at Fortune > Join the conversation about this story » See Also: • Why Mark Zuckerberg (And Facebook) Is Throwing Privacy Out The Window • How A Russian Billionaire Is Changing The Way Startups Grow Up • Here Is The Dollar Sign Of The Future

A day with the Kin (photos) (CNET News.com) Submitted at 5/6/2010 6:00:00 AM

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Images: Toy Story 3: The Video Game (CNET News.com) Submitted at 5/6/2010 6:00:00 AM

Pixar's 'Toy Story 3' comes out on June 18. Three days earlier, Toy Story 3: The Video Game comes out on Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and DS, PlayStation 3 and Portable. The game features both a story mode --which follows much of the arc of the film--as well as a unique 'toy box' adventure mode. The game was made by Avalanche Studios, which took two-and-ahalf years to make the film. The PS3 version will feature archvillain Zurg as a playable character. Photo by Disney/Pixar Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Yahoo Slams Google in New, IllConceived Ads Dan Nosowitz (Fast Company) Submitted at 5/6/2010 3:59:34 AM

Yahoo's got lots of stuff going for them. Flickr is the best photo uploading service around, and they've got a massive audience for news and entertainment (just ask any blogger who's had a post featured on their site). Their new ads try to stick it to Google, which isn't the worst idea in the world, since Google is encroaching on pretty much everything Yahoo does. But the strategy they've chosen? Awful. Obviously and excessively awful. First, Yahoo's CEO, Carol Bartz, told the BBC that "Google is going to have a problem because Google is only known for their search...they've got to find other things to do." Even those cave lizards that are born without eyes can name a solid five Google services off

the top of their sightless little heads. How about Maps, Picasa, Reader, Voice, Docs, Calendar, News, and Buzz? How about Android? YouTube? Or Gmail, for God's sake? There are lots of things you could pick apart about Google. Their design work is often iffy. Android is rapidly gaining popularity but not necessarily functionality, and splintering could lead to its d o w n f a l l . T h e interconnectedness in Google Apps also puts users at risk of loss of privacy and information. But accusing Google of a lack of diversification is almost a punchline, as told in the world's worst comedy club somewhere in San Jose.

The new ads take it a step further, positioning Yahoo's busy site as the ideal homepage, compared to Google's "box and a button" minimalism. And that would be a good argument, if there wasn't an airplane-sized hole in it by the name of iGoogle. iGoogle is pretty much what Yahoo wishes it was--and who uses Google.com as a homepage, anyway? Every modern browser has a Google search bar next to the address bar. Yahoo is a fine company run by fine people, I'm sure. But seriously guys--get a new ad team. This one's a dud. Dan Nosowitz, the author of this post, can be followed on Twitter, corresponded with via email, and stalked in San Francisco (no link for that one-you'll have to do the legwork yourself).

Before the Bell: Futures Lower on European Debt Crisis Concerns Melly Alazraki (BloggingStocks) Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:23:00 AM

Filed under: Before the Bell, International Markets, Market Matters, CIGNA Corp (CI), Costco Wholesale (COST), BP p.l.c. ADS (BP), AlcatelLucentADS (ALU), Economic Data U.S. stock futures, which inched higher earlier Thursday morning, now turned lower even after several selloff sessions the past week due to concerns over the debt crisis in Greece and contagion probability across Europe. While Wall Street awaits some data on employment and retail among others, the European Central Bank has decided on interest rates. Once again, U.S. stocks finished the session lower Wednesday, albeit with smaller declines. Civil unrest in Greece,

Now The Tiny Netherlands Will Get Spotify Before The US Mike Butcher (TechCrunch) Submitted at 5/6/2010 7:27:05 AM

It appears that hot streaming music startup Spotify will

launch in the Netherlands on May 18, if Dutch news reports and their own manager there are to be believed. Currently Spotify operates in Britain,

France, Spain, Sweden, Norway and Finland. But not yet the US, even though they have confirmed their CTO is over there right now looking into

servers (see interview with Paul Brown, Spotify's go-between man with the music labels, below).

fear of contagion and the euro sliding to 14-month lows were signs the crisis in Europe was deepening. Continue reading Before the Bell: Futures Lower on European Debt Crisis Concerns Before the Bell: Futures Lower on European Debt Crisis Concerns originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 06 May 2010 08:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments Greece- European Central Bank - Wall Street- Cigna- Business

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Time Warner's Q1: Buy Will the Euro Retain its or Sell on the News? Reserve Status? Steven Mallas (BloggingStocks)

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Filed under: Earnings Reports, Time Warner (TWX), Walt Disney (DIS), Viacom (VIA), News Corp'B' (NWS) Time Warner ( TWX), a media entity whose competitors include Disney ( DIS), News Corp. ( NWS), and Viacom ( VIA), reported first-quarter earnings on Wednesday. The stock ended up selling off, closing down 2.4% to $31.88 by the end of the session. Volume was heavy. But was the information contained within the report so bad? Or, was it simply a case of the shares reacting more to the general market weakness? It's hard to say since you can't always be sure what's going on in the minds of the sellers. But I'll say this: The first quarter

Filed under: International Markets, Politics, Financial Crisis, Currency The euro is the reserve currency for 16 didn't look so bad to me. Net European countries. With riots income was 61 cents per share, raging in Greece against the adjusted. Expectations were set austerity program, reserve bank at 48 cents per share. managers are wondering about C o n t i n u e r e a d i n g T i m e the status of the euro. Warner's Q1: Buy or Sell on the Heavy selling is battering the News? euro, which reached a low of Time Warner's Q1: Buy or Sell $1.2804 against the U.S. dollar o n t h e N e w s ? o r i g i n a l l y Wednesday. In this atmosphere, appeared on BloggingStocks on central bankers are reluctant to Thu, 06 May 2010 09:00:00 hold euros. They may continue EST. Please see our terms for selling, pushing it even lower. use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Next, we see Spain and Email this| Comments Portugal in dire circumstances. Time Warner- Walt Disney- M o o d y ' s m a y d o w n g r a d e Viacom- Walt Disney Company Portugal still another notch. - News Corporation Investors must be asking: Do I want to hold Spanish or

Apprupt, A Mobile App Affiliate Network, Closes Financing Mike Butcher (TechCrunch) Submitted at 5/6/2010 4:03:28 AM

Portuguese debt? Probably not. Most likely it will drop in price and we'll lose our shirts. Sell now, before it gets worse. Continue reading Will the Euro Retain its Reserve Status? Will the Euro Retain its Reserve Status? originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Thu, 06 May 2010 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments Portugal- Greece- Financial Crisis- Spain- Moody

Apprupt, an affiliate network for mobile apps aimed at developers and ublishers, has closed what we think is a large financing round with Deutsche Telekom's T-Venture arm, KfW and its existing investor Neuhaus Partners. The startup, based out of Hamburg Germany, will use the additional funding to accelerate growth and international expansion. Terms were undisclosed.

Summer 2010 Is Worth $4 Billion To Hollywood Lauren Hatch (Business Insider) Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:40:00 AM

Summer is always boom time for the box office, and this year should be no different. According to Reuters, studios are expected to bring in $4 billion over the next four

months by releasing more than 100 different films, including "Sex and the City 2," Iron Man 2, and Russell Crowe's "Robin Hood." 3D movies like "Shrek Forever After" and "Toy Story 3" are also on track to be huge moneymakers. 3D has become extremely popular on the big

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Euro Bank CDS Go Vertical (BNP, FIA) Gregory White (Business Insider) Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:28:20 AM

Major European banks are feeling the pressure from the Greek crisis and starting to show significant signs of market worry in their CDS. BNP Paribas, which has seen its CDS dramatically rise throughout April, announced$6.4 billion in exposure to the Greek market this morning. From CMA Datavision: Non-German European auto makers have seen their CDS spreads widen as well, with the Italian giant Fiat and French manufacturer Renault showing dramatic increases.

From CMA Datavision: Airlines, which have been put under stress by the profitsucking Iceland volcano ash crisis, have too seen their CDS rise as a response to market worries. Notably British Airways, which recently merged with Iberian Airways, has seen a large widening as their key London hubs were shut for several days during the heights of the crisis. From CMA Datavision: See who else could be feeling market stress soon if Greece defaults > Join the conversation about this story »

Retail Sales Confirm That Wall Street Got WAY Too Optimistic About The Recovery (GAP, ARO, COST, DDS, ANF, HOTT) Vincent Fernando, CFA (Business Insider)

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APNewsBreak: Boat with containment box at oil site (AP) (Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:17:50 AM

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scene Thursday in an unprecedented attempt to cap a blown-out well spewing hundreds of thousands of gallons a day. Another boat with a crane would start lowering the box to the seafloor later in the day. Engineers hope it will be the best short-term solution to controlling the leak that has only worsened since it began two weeks ago. The waters at the spill site Thursday morning were calm with some clouds in the sky, though visibility was good. Roughly a dozen other ships either surrounded the spill site or could be seen in the distance. Thick, tar-like oil surrounded the boat for as far as the eye could see. The pungent scent of oil could be smelled even in the bridge of the boat. The Joe Griffin was expected to meet up with another BPchartered boat, the Boa Sub C, a Norwegian vessel that will use a crane to lower the contraption to cover the gusher of oil spewing from the seabed — something that has never been tried before at such depths. BP spokesman Bill Salvin said the drop is expected at about noon Thursday. "We're even more anxious," the Joe Griffin's first mate, Douglas Peake, said. "Hopefully, it will work better than they expect." A rapid response team planned to head to the Chandeleur

Islands off Louisiana's coast Thursday to look into unconfirmed reports that oil from the spill had arrived there, Coast Guard Petty Officer Erik Swanson said. The boat hauling the specially built containment box and dome structure pushed off Wednesday evening from the Louisiana coast. The dome-like top of the structure is designed to act like a funnel and siphon the oil up through 5,000 feet of pipe and onto a tanker at the surface. Oil has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of at least 200,000 gallons a day since an offshore drilling rig exploded and sank last month, killing 11 people. "We're a little anxious. They're gonna try everything they can. If it don't work, they'll try something else," Capt. Demi Shaffer told The Associated Press aboard his boat just after it set off. The AP is the only news organization with access to the containment effort. A 12-man crew aboard a supply boat was carrying the precious cargo. The 280-foot Joe Griffin, owned by Edison Chouest Offshore, also was involved in helping fight the fire that resulted from the oil rig explosion. The vessel is named for a boat captain who worked with company founder Edison Chouest, when Chouest was still in the shrimping business. The operator of the oil rig, BP

PLC, has tried several high-tech undersea tactics to cap the leak. The containment dome endeavor is unprecedented and engineers are fully aware of the risks. First, crews need to properly position the four-story structure above the well as it sinks deep into the mud at the bottom of the Gulf with the help of a remotecontrolled robotic submarine. A steel pipe will be attached to a tanker at the surface and connected to the top of the dome to move the oil. "It's very dark down there ... and we will have lights on the (submersibles), and we know exactly where to put this and guide it into place," said David Clarkson, BP's vice president for project execution. That process presents several challenges because of the frigid water temperature— about 42 degrees Fahrenheit — and exceptionally high pressure at those depths. Those conditions could cause the pipe to clog with what are known in the drilling industry as "ice plugs." To combat that problem, crews plan to continuously pump warm water and methanol down the pipe to dissolve the clogging. They are also worried about volatile cocktail of oil, gas and water when it arrives on the ship above. Engineers believe the liquids can be safely separated without an explosion. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary

Landry tried to moderate expectations that the containment box would be a silver bullet. "I know we are all hoping that this containment system will work, but I want to remind everybody that this containment system is a first of its kind deployed in 5,000 feet of water," Landry said. Asked to handicap the odds of success, Bob Fryer, a senior executive vice president for BP's Deep Water Angola, offered up this assessment: "This has never been done before. Typically you would put odds on something that has been done before." Fryer also said BP is exploring a technique in which crews would reconfigure the well that would allow them to plug the leak, but that effort is a couple weeks off. On Wednesday, good weather allowed 18 flights to drop 150,000 gallons of a chemical meant to break down the oil on the ocean surface, drag it into the water column and prevent it from floating to shore, said Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Blackwell, a spokesman for the oil spill command center in Robert, La. Crews also skimmed a total of 588,000 gallons of an oil and water mixture and conducted five controlled burns. More fires are scheduled for Thursday. The containment effort comes as dozens of boats were

deployed across the Gulf to fight back the slick at the surface, including setting fires to burn off oil and laying booms to soak up the crude and block it from reaching the coast. While people anxiously wait for the mess to wash up along the coast, globules of oil are already falling to the bottom of the sea, where they threaten virtually every link in the ocean food chain, from plankton to fish that are on dinner tables everywhere. Hail-size gobs of oil with the consistency of tar or asphalt will roll around the bottom, while other bits will get trapped hundreds of feet below the surface and move with the current, said Robert S. Carney, a Louisiana State University oceanographer. "The threat to the deep-sea habitat is already a done deal — it is happening now," said Paul Montagna, a marine scientist at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Scientists say bacteria, plankton and other tiny, bottom-feeding creatures will consume oil, and will then be eaten by small fish, crabs and shrimp. They, in turn, will be eaten by bigger fish, such as red snapper, and marine mammals like dolphins. The petroleum substances that concentrate in the sea creatures APNEWSBREAK: page 15

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slick will hitch a ride to the East Coast by way of a powerful eddy known as the " loop current," which could send the spill around Florida and into the Atlantic Ocean. If that happens, the oil could foul beaches and kill marine life on the East Coast. The cause of the rig explosion is still not known, but investigators from multiple federal agencies are looking into the matter. The rig owner, Transocean Ltd., said in a filing with regulators Wednesday that it has received a request from the Justice Department to preserve information about the blast.

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Prosecutors on Tuesday charged Faisal Shahzad, 30, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, with five counts, including attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and trying to kill and maim people within the United States. He is accused of driving a crude homemade bomb of gasoline, propane gas, fireworks and fertilizer into Times Square on Saturday. New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the Times Square plot was the 11th thwarted attack on New York City since hijacked airliners destroyed the World Trade Center's twin towers on September 11, 2001, killing more than 2,600 people. (Reporting by Michelle Nichols; Editing by Peter Cooney) Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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been used in water nearly 1 mile deep. Prevailing winds kept the giant VENICE, Louisiana(Reuters) - oil slick offshore two weeks BP engineers prepared on after the Deepwater Horizon Thursday to start lowering a 98- drilling rig accident triggered ton metal chamber over a the breach, and it was barely ruptured undersea oil well in the moving. Gulf of Mexico, trying to "If you look at our trajectory for control a spill that threatens an the next 72 hours, they don't environmental catastrophe for show a whole lot of real the U.S. shoreline. movement from where it's at," U.S.| Green Business said Charlie Henry, a The barge carrying the massive meteorologist with the National white-painted box arrived at the O c e a n i c a n d A t m o s p h e r i c site of the spill where a BP- A d m i n i s t r a t i o n . owned well blew out two weeks The calm weather allowed for a ago 40 miles/64 km off the series of "controlled burns" of Louisiana coast, causing the t h e m a s s i v e s l i c k o n explosion and sinking of the Wednesday, the first such Deepwater Horizon rig. attempts since a 28-minute blaze Oil workers, volunteers and the on April 28 that removed military have been battling thousands of gallons of fuel. desperately to shut off the Throughout the Gulf Coast, gushing oil leak and stop the c r e w s d e p l o y e d m i l e s huge spreading slick from (kilometers) of protective booms reaching major ports, tourist to block the slick and used beaches, wildlife refuges and dispersants to break up the thick fishing grounds on the U.S. Gulf oil before it fouls tourist beaches Coast. and fishing grounds, threatening Once lowered to the seabed, an an environmental catastrophe. operation that could take two BP has capped one of three days, the massive riveted metal leaks in the ruptured well, but containment dome is designed o i l i s s t i l l f l o w i n g a t a n to capture and channel leaking u n c h a n g e d 5 , 0 0 0 b a r r e l s oil to a drilling ship on the (210,000 gallons/795,000 liters) surface, and BP said it could a day. begin doing this by Monday. It has started drilling a relief But company officials, facing well, but that could take two or enormous pressure to limit the three months to complete. e c o l o g i c a l a n d e c o n o m i c INSPECTION TOUR damage from the accident, Homeland Security Secretary cautioned the device had never Janet Napolitano, Commerce Submitted at 5/6/2010 7:56:39 AM

Secretary Gary Locke and other administration officials will travel to Biloxi, Mississippi, on Thursday to review relief operations and meet with officials. Obama administration officials were reviewing the practice of granting exemptions from environmental impact studies for oil exploration projects deemed to involve little risk. The Minerals Management Service had exempted BP from a detailed environmental review of the project. U.S. government agencies grant the so-called categorical exclusions for types of projects typically found to not have substantial environmental impacts, or in cases where the agency has past experience with a similar projects. Driller Transocean Ltd said the U.S. Justice Department asked it to preserve records related to the well's drilling and the deadly blast on its rig two weeks ago. BP shares rose to nearly 572 pence on Thursday, gaining 1.2 percent, as bargain hunting has emerged after almost two weeks of declines wiped more than $32 billion from the company's market value. The STOXX Europe 600 Oil and Gas index stayed relatively steady. Authorities are on alert for the first major landfall of the oil slick, estimated to be at least 130 miles by 70 miles in size, and scientists monitored the

impact on marine and coastal wildlife in the region. Anthony Nelson, one of thousands of idled shrimpers, oystermen and fishermen in Bayou La Batre -- the heart of Alabama's seafood industry -signed up to help BP contain the oil spill. He spent hundreds of dollars getting his small fleet of nine vessels Coast Guard-certified for cleanup duty while waiting to hear if he would be called into service. Still, he said laying boom in the gulf will earn a fraction of what shrimping would pay. "We'll help them clean it up, but we rather go to work," Nelson said. "I'm 55, and by the time they open this back up again (for fishing), I'll be dead, or I'll be in a convalescent home." (Additional reporting by Matt Daily in New York and Tom Bergin in London; Anna Driver and Chris Baltimore in Houston; Tom Brown and Pascal Fletcher in Miami; Michael Peltier in Pensacola; Brian Snyder in Mobile, and Richard Cowan in Washington; Writing by John Whitesides; Editing by Vicki Allen) Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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There are many things that can leave someone breathless, aside from grinding out a triathlon or spending time at high altitudes. The sight of a bride on her wedding day may take the breath from a groom-to-be. Witnessing an orchestra play a Mozart symphony in a grand concert hall might do it as well. Perhaps the sight of your baby being born might do the trick. But sometimes it's not a life event at all, but the mere sight of something awe-inspiring. You stand before it, a chill comes over you and your breath becomes shallow and measured. One can only imagine the early settlers making their way across the American West and riding up to the rim of the Grand Canyon for the first time. The feeling they must have gotten is likely similar to what a modern tourist might feel when faced with that same breathtaking vista. The Grand Canyon makes the cut on our list, along with nine other breathtaking views around the globe. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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to al Qaeda and the Pakistani Taliban. "The people who have been KARACHI/BEIJING(Reuters) picked up do have links to Jaish - Pakistani Interior Minister and have also been in touch with Rehman Malik said on Thursday Shahzad during his visits here," he thought it unlikely that a a Pakistani security official in Pakistani-American arrested Karachi told Reuters. over a failed plot to bomb New The official was referring to York's Times Square had acted Mohammad Rehan, a friend of alone. Shahzad, who was detained on U.S. Tuesday after leaving the Bat'ha Investigations in Pakistan have Mosque in Karachi. Other u n c o v e r e d p o s s i b l e l i n k s associates, including Shahzad's between Faisal Shahzad, 30, the father-in-law, have also been P a k i s t a n i T a l i b a n a n d a detained in Karachi, according K a s h m i r i I s l a m i s t g r o u p , to CNN. officials and news reports said. The mosque is said to have "According to the available links to Jaish and neighbors tell information he says it was his of visits by its leaders. individual act," Malik told U.S. investigators are also Reuters in an interview during a taking a "hard look" at possible visit to Beijing. "I would not ties between Shahzad and the tend to believe that." Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan Pakistani security officials told (TTP), the Taliban Movement of Reuters that Shahzad, who is Pakistan, a U.S. official said s u s p e c t e d o f d r i v i n g a n Wednesday. explosives-laden SUV into "It is a known fact that the Times Square on Saturday, was mosque (in Karachi) has been a close to Jaish-e-Mohammad, a recruiting ground for Jaish and group fighting Indian forces in many people have been sent to t h e d i s p u t e d t e r r i t o r y o f the tribal areas (home to the Kashmir and which also has ties TTP) for training," a second Submitted at 5/6/2010 7:53:58 AM

Pakistani security official told Reuters. The official said several men recruited through the mosque had fought against the military during recent offensives against the TTP. "It may not be a surprise if the people associated with the mosque, or those who come here for recruitment, are linked with the TTP," he said. The U.S. official agreed. "TTP is entirely plausible but we're not ruling out other groups," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. If confirmed that the Taliban in Pakistan sponsored the attempted bombing in New York, as it claimed over the weekend, it would be the group's first attack on U.S. soil. PARENTS WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN The United States had asked Pakistan for help in investigating the failed bomb plot, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, and is preparing a detailed request for urgent and specific assistance to

be presented by the end of the week. Pakistan was ready to give them "every help, full support" to bring the culprits to justice, Malik said. The United States has also asked to interview Shahzad's parents, the Post reported, quoting a Pakistani official who said their whereabouts are still unknown. Shahzad was arrested on Monday night after he was removed from an Emirates plane at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport that was about to depart for Dubai. He had been on his way back to Pakistan. Shahzad, who was born in Pakistan and became a U.S. citizen last year, has been charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and trying to kill and maim people within the United States as well as other counts. U.S. prosecutors said Shahzad, the son of a retired Pakistani vice air marshal, had admitted to receiving bomb-making training in a Taliban and al Qaeda

stronghold in Pakistan. A law enforcement source said investigators believed the Pakistani Taliban financed that training. Shahzad waived his right to an initial court appearance within 48 hours of his arrest and other U.S. constitutional rights, a U.S. official and sources said. He faces life in prison if convicted of the charges against him, unless he negotiates a lesser sentence in exchange for cooperation. (Additional reporting by Michelle Nichols, Edith Honan and Daniel Trotta in New York; Jeremy Pelofsky, Adam Entous and Andrew Quinn in Washington; and Zeeshan Haider in Mohib Banda, Pakistan; Editing by Chris Allbritton and Nick Macfie) Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Thursday on the bill, which foresees 30 billion euros ($40 billion) of new deficit-cutting ATHENS(Reuters) - Greece's measures, including drastic government told parliament on reductions to public sector T h u r s d a y t h e r e w a s n o bonuses which will sharply alternative to the deep budget reduce take-home pay for a fifth cuts in its austerity bill and of the workforce. vowed to press ahead with it The main conservative and despite opposition from other leftist opposition parties have parties and violent protests. said they will vote against the World| Greece bill, which should not get in the Speaking to lawmakers a day way of its passage but has after some 50,000 Greeks doomed government hopes of marched in Athens and a petrol establishing a broad political b o m b a t t a c k k i l l e d t h r e e consensus for the measures. workers in a bank, Finance Greece's main public and Minister G e o r g e private sector unions, whose Papaconstantinou made clear the strikes on Wednesday grounded government had no intention of flights, shut shops and brought backing down from its three- public transport to a standstill, year plan to radically reform the plan to demonstrate in front of country's broken economy. parliament on Thursday "We will press ahead, even if e v e n i n g . we have to walk alone, without Shop owners were repairing the backing of other parties," he broken windows on Thursday said. and plumes of smoke were still "We know the political cost is rising from burned-out garbage very high, but have no doubts, containers protesters had set on w e a c c e p t t h i s i n f u l l fire. conscience. The solution for the Dozens of Athenians flocked to Greek economy lies in this the site of the Marfin bank program, in these changes and branch on Stadiou Avenue in in the reduction of our public central Athens, laying flowers at debt." the entrance of the blackened Parliament is due to vote late on building where three employees Submitted at 5/6/2010 7:55:26 AM

died of smoke inhalation at the height of the Wednesday march. More than 50 people were injured in Wednesday's clashes and 25 have been arrested for attacking police and damaging shops. "DEVOURING EACH OTHER" While people in the streets denounced the deaths as a tragedy, nobody was in a mood to rein in the protests against government plans. "There were many people in the streets yesterday, but there should be even more. Everyone should come out to prevent these measures becoming law," said Avgoustinos Tertopoulos, 58, a mail courier. "The death of three young people, of a pregnant woman, was a tragedy. It has nothing to do with the protests." Thanassis Nazaris, an elderly shop owner, said he expected protests to build after Greeks return from summer breaks and find they do not have enough money to live. "Things will get worse. Wait till autumn, we will be devouring each other," he said. Leading center-right daily Kathimerini said the country

had reached the most critical point in its post-war history. "Whether we self-destruct, go bust in other words, depends on our leadership but also on all of us," the paper said. Center-left newspaper Eleftherotypia called the public reaction predictable and inevitable, forecasting more unrest in the months to come. Despite the risks, University of Athens professor Kostas Ifantis predicted that the government would stick with the measures, which are being pushed through in exchange for 110 billion euros in aid from the EU and IMF. "What can they do, scrap the whole program?" he said. "I don't think so. They have no choice, there is no choice." (Additional reporting by George Georgiopoulos; writing by Noah Barkin; editing by Andrew Roche) Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Faisal Shahzad ‘carried out dry run’ before Times Square attack (World News from Times Online)

Shahzad discovered he had left the keys for the getaway vehicle inside the explosive laden car, Submitted at 5/6/2010 6:50:03 AM the official said. The man accused of attempting He was forced to travel by to use a weapon of mass public transport after leaving destruction in Times Square Times Square and returned on carried out a dry run days before Sunday May 2 to retrieve the the failed attack, it has been Isuzu even as investigators were claimed. searching for suspects. Mr Faisal Shahzad, who is in Shahzad used the black vehicle c u s t o d y i n N e w Y o r k o n to drive to John F. Kennedy terrorism and weapons charges, a i r p o r t w h e r e h e w a s d r o v e f r o m h i s h o m e i n apprehended on board a flight Connecticut to the theatre out of the country. district on April 28 in the Mr Shahzad, 30, admitted to vehicle that days later he would rigging the Pathfinder SUV with pack with explosives, a law a c r u d e b o m b b a s e d o n enforcement official told the explosives training he received Associated Press. in Pakistan, authorities say. He Mr Shahzad then returned on was pulled off a plane on April 30 - the day before the Monday headed for Dubai and attack - to drop off a black has been cooperating with Isuzu get-away vehicle near to investigators. He has yet to the target site. appear in Manhattan federal But despite these preparations court. his escape from the scene on Kifyat Ali, a cousin of Mr May 1 was hampered when Mr Shahzad’s father, has called the

arrest “a conspiracy”. The 30-year-old PakistaniAmerican could have links to both the Pakistani Taleban and a Kashmiri Islamist group, officials said today. The United States has asked Pakistan for help in investigating the failed bomb plot, and is preparing a detailed request for urgent and specific assistance to be presented by the end of the week. Pakistani security officials told Reuters that Mr Shahzad was close to Jaish-e-Muhammad, a group fighting Indian forces in the disputed territory of Kashmir and which also has ties to al Qaeda and the Pakistani Taleban. “The people who have been picked up do have links to Jaish and have also been in touch with Shahzad during his visits here,” a Pakistani security official in Karachi said. The official was referring to

Mohammad Rehan, a friend of Shahzad, who was detained on Tuesday after leaving the Bat’ha Mosque in Karachi. Other associates, including Mr Shahzad’s father-in-law, have also been detained in Karachi. The United States has also asked to interview Mr Shahzad’s parents, the Washington Post reported, quoting a Pakistani official who said their whereabouts are still unknown. The suspect’s family packed belongings from their Peshawar home on Tuesday night and disappeared, neighbours said. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

The Keyboard Shortcuts of Ubuntu 10.04 [Ubuntu] Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker) Submitted at 5/6/2010 5:30:00 AM

The free Ubuntu Linux operating system finally has some decent, condensed, official documentation, but curiously missing are the changes to keyboard shortcuts that control the desktop. The Tombuntu blog helpfully lists the multi-desktop, window management, and accessibility key combos in Ubuntu 10.04. More » Ubuntu- Linux- Operating Systems- Distributions- FAQs Help and Tutorials

Capellas to lead Cisco-EMC cloud venture (CNET News.com) Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:23:37 AM

Michael Capellas, former CEO of Compaq, MCI, and First Data, has a new gig: front man for the Virtual Computing Environment coalition. Capellas, who is 55, has also

been appointed to the "complementary role" of CEO of Acadia, a joint venture of Cisco Systems and EMC with investment from Intel and VMware, the companies said Wednesday. Acadia has been created to support the coalition. In a nutshell, Acadia is aimed at

next-generation data centers designed to deliver private cloud infrastructure. The goal is to give customers the advantages of one throat to choke in terms of support without relying on a single vendor. In his role, Capellas will be talking cloud computing and data

management as well as data center architecture. This story, with the headline " Capellas to lead Cisco-EMC Acadia joint venture," was originally posted at ZDNet's Between the Lines. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime

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Mumbai attacks: Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, sole-surviving terrorist, sentenced to death

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singled out soft targets popular with foreigners: two luxury hotels, a backpacker bar and a Submitted at 5/6/2010 4:47:41 AM Jewish prayer centre. The sole gunman to be taken Kasab helped to conduct the alive during the 2008 Mumbai bloodiest episode of the 60-hour terror attack was sentenced to siege of south Mumbai: the death today for his role in an slaughter of 52 people at atrocity that left 166 people Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, dead and shocked the world. Mumbai’s main train station. T h e j u d g e s e n t e n c e d "He should be hanged by the Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, 22, to neck until he is dead," the judge, death by hanging on four M.L. Tahaliyani, said. "I don't counts: murder, abetting and find any case for a lesser conspiracy to murder, waging punishment than death in the war against the state, and case of waging war against violating India's unlawful India, murder and terrorist acts." activities laws. The judge added that in Sitting in the dock of a special considering whether the death bomb-proofed courtroom in sentence should be applied he Mumbai’s highest security had tried to draw up a "balance prison, the Pakistani national sheet" of mitigating and said nothing as the sentence was aggravating factors. But he had read out. At two points he found nothing to mitigate the appeared to break into tears. crimes that would argue against Once he was escorted from the execution. dock, apparently to compose He said that the evidence had himself, before reappearing. shown "previous, meticulous On Monday he had been found and systematic planning" of an guilty of being one of ten atrocity that led India to halt Islamist gunmen who sailed peace talks with Pakistan. f r o m P a k i s t a n t o I n d i a ’ s "Brutality was writ large," the commercial capital 18 months judge said, adding that the ago with orders to kill as many offences were "of exceptional people as possible. depravity" and constituted a The commando-style assault brazen act of war against India.

“It was not a simple crime of murder or intent to murder.” Kasab and his colleagues, the judge added, had been trained and equipped by the Pakistanbased Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist faction. Before announcing the death penalty, he asked Kasab if he had anything to say. Kasab, who wore a traditional white kurta, said nothing and gave a dismissive gesture with his hands.“ The death sentence is likely to lead to a series of appeals and a lengthy wait on death row for Kasab. The last execution in India was in 2004, when a security guard was hanged in Calcutta for the rape and murder of a schoolgirl 14 years earlier. Since then the last trained hangman in India has reportedly retired, leaving the country with no executioners. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Leena Rao (TechCrunch)

HelloWallet, personal finance software, has raised $3.6 million in Series A funding, from Grotech Ventures and AOL cofounder Steve Case and his wife Jean. The company, which launched in March of this year, aims to bring professional financial advisors to the masses through partnerships with companies and organizations. Currently, HelloWallet reaches more than 3.5 million people. Similar to Mint, HelloWallet helps users track and proactively manage their personal finances. But HelloWallet aims to be a full-service financial advisor, and looks forward to proactively uncover savings opportunities and potential threats for its members. Additionally, HelloWallet does not allow banks to advertise or promote products, so its recommendations claim to be untouched by any business interests. The startup plans to use the fund to further product development and build out its businesses development team. HelloWallet’s team of consumer finance experts have developed a platform that helps

users set and reach specific financial short- and long-term goals for important life milestones including buying a home, saving for retirement, reducing debt safely, and saving for college. For example, HelloWallet stores tuition information for nearly every college and university across the country, and models the tuition out to a users’ expected enrollment date. The service is then able to make specific recommendations for the best approach to educational savings, on an individual basis. HelloWallet partners with companies like Ernst & Young, to provide their users and clients with its online financial advisory. While HelloWallet costs around $5 per month, the startup is pledging to give a free subscription to one needy family for every five of the site’s paying members. And the company has caught to attention of President Bill Clinton, The Rockefeller Foundation and others. CrunchBase Information HelloWallet Information provided by CrunchBase

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Man who turned pigs’ guts into blood thinner tops China’s rich list (World News from Times Online) Submitted at 5/6/2010 6:40:29 AM

A pharmaceutical researcher who discovered a way to harvest blood thinner from pig’s intestines has become the richest man in China. Li Li rose to the top slot of China’s rich list today as shares in his Shenzhen Hepalink Pharmaceutical Co were listed on China’s Nasdaq-style market for start-ups. Looking overwhelmed by the extraordinary investor interest in his firm, Mr Li made a rare public appearance to strike the gong marking the start of trade this morning in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen. The price of the shares rose 27 per cent on their first day of trading in an issue underwritten by Goldman Sachs, swelling the wealth of Mr Li and his wife and business partner, Li Tan, to $7.8 billion (£5.2 billion). That ensured the couple, who own a 72 per cent stake in

Hepalink, comfortably overtook the $5.1 billion fortune of Wang Chuanfu, chairman of the hugely successful car manufacturer BYD. Hepalink shares traded as high as 188 yuan (£18), a record for a Chinese stock. This values the company at about $10.5 billion. Mr Li owns about 40 per cent of the company and his wife holds 32 per cent. Interest was fuelled by the fact that Hepalink is the only Chinese company accredited by the US Food and Drug Administration to export heparin – a blood thinner harvested from pigs’ intestines and used in kidney dialysis and many types of surgery. Little is known about Li Li and Li Tan, both of whom refused interviews in the run-up to the listing. What is known is that both were born in 1964 and graduated from Sichuan University in southwestern China with degrees in chemistry in 1987.

Mr Li first worked for a stateowned meat processing plant in the provincial capital until 1992, leaving to become chief executive of a biotechnology firm. After failed attempts to cooperate with state-owned firms, the couple set up Hepalink in 1998 to produce heparin using a procedure that Mr Li had been perfecting for 25 years. True to his modest image, Mr Li told one newspaper before the listing: “My success is really due to this great era.” The Southern Metropolis Daily ran reports on the company’s rags-to-riches story last week, including one under the headline: “Processing pig intestines fares better than making cars.” Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Found footage: Android tablet prototype running (and crashing) Flash Chris Rawson (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

Flash," the browser crashes. "Whoops," the reviewer says, gamely trying to carry on with Submitted at 5/5/2010 10:00:00 PM his review in spite of the crash. Filed under: Found Footage, [Never mind that he's demoing iPad Flash by playing a YouTube Adobe is showing off Android- video, which of course the iPad based prototype tablets at the does just as well. -Ed.] Web 2.0 conference in San As an interesting side note, the Francisco. Zedomax has a pretty same reviewer says that these gushing review of Flash's Android tablets are "basically a performance on these tablets, giant Android phone." So, if you calling it "rather incredible hate the iPad because "it's just a technology." There's no mention b i g i P o d t o u c h , " p l e a s e of how the battery life in these remember that, in the interest of prototype tablets suffers while not sounding like a fanboy, you playing Flash video, though. In a r e o b l i g a t e d t o h a t e t h e his " Thoughts on Flash," Steve Android tablet (whenever it Jobs noted that using Flash on actually gets released) for the the iPhone effectively halves its same reason. battery life. [Via Daring Fireball] What's far more interesting, and TUAW Found footage: far more hilarious, is that A n d r o i d t a b l e t p r o t o t y p e although Zedomax claims Flash running (and crashing) Flash works "flawlessly" on these originally appeared on The tablets, there's certainly Unofficial Apple Weblog evidence to the contrary. In the (TUAW) on Wed, 05 May 2010 video above, the Android tablet 22:00:00 EST. Please see our reviewer is showing off the terms for use of feeds. Flash functionality. Just as he Read| Permalink| Email this| says, "Good thing I didn't buy Comments an iPad, because this one does

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Air France crash: black box recorders Guzzle Turns Out 2.0 located Curt Hopkins (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 5/5/2010 11:17:00 PM

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Air accident investigators have located the black box flight recorders from an Air France plane which crashed into the deep ocean last June - but say they will probably never be brought to surface. The aircraft ditched in a remote corner of the Atlantic when it was caught in a storm on its way from Rio De Janerio to Paris. All 228 people on board died. The black box recorders have now been tracked down “with a margin of error” of three nautical miles. France’s Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses, BEA, which looks into air crashes, said it made the breakthrough after a further analysis of sonar data gathered during an initial search of the crash area last year when the

recorders were still emitting signals. “The BEA was told yesterday ... that the black box recorders have been tracked down by the defence ministry thanks to data from the first phase of the probe, and a further perimeter for searches has been set up,” said a BEA spokeswoman. The cause of the crash is not known but despite this breakthrough it is unlikely that the boxes will be brought to the surface. General Christian Baptiste, the deputy defence ministry spokesman, said: “This does not mean we are going to retrieve the black boxes, because they are not giving off a signal any more and the zone where they are is very rugged terrain.” Two sophisticated salvage vessels, using miniature submarines, have been scouring a 3,000-square-km area to try to

locate the flight recorders of the Airbus A330 plane. Earlier this week, the BEA said it would extend a deep-sea search for the wreck of the plane and that the new search would cover a broader expanse of ocean. Speculation about the cause of the crash has focused on possible icing of the aircraft’s speed sensors, which appeared to give inconsistent readings seconds before the plane vanished. However, investigators need to recover the flight recorders to confirm or deny that theory. The French Navy started a new operation on Monday to find the black boxes. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Paris-based Lemonchik has announced Version 2.0 of their topic-by-topic aggregator, Guzzle. Do you...dig? Guzzle's new backend, Nibble, has been rewritten from scratch. Nibble receives PubSubHubbub notifications and every story is automatically processed with Reuters Calais technology, adding rich semantic encoding information. There's also a new user interface, categories and archives and a magazine-like "extended view." Sponsor To set up a Guzzle page you search terms and the service searches down rich content, tearing out spam by the roots and never even stopping to say its sorry. "Guzzle constantly monitors

hundreds of feeds. Each new article is carefully inspected, analysed. The language it has been written in is detected, and important keywords, places, companies and people's name are extracted and indexed." If you're like me, you looked at a thing called Guzzle by an outfit called Lemonchik from a place like Paris and you expected cocktails. A sidecar, perhaps, in a space-age bachelor pad set in an alley off the place de la Bastille. Well, who said life was fair? Discuss

GPS Power-Up: USAF Gets Ready for New Sense of Place Mario Aguilar (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 5/5/2010 6:00:00 PM

Photo courtesy: Boeing The global positioning system works fine if you’re trying to persuade your phone to point you to the nearest bar or

untangle a freeway interchange. But it’s not exactly accurate — GPS can be off by 15 feet or more, and the signal degrades when confronted with tall buildings and trees. It even gets screwed up by the slightest electromagnetic interference, like stray radio waves or storms

in the ionosphere. Hopefully this will soon be a distant memory. In May the Air Force will begin launching the so-called IIF generation of GPS satellites, which will eventually replace half the existing armada. The new birds each transmit three civilian GPS signals —

we’ve typically been making do with just one for years — including a military-strength transmission that should enable autopilots to land with zero visibility. A three-signal world will mean always-on GPS that’s accurate to within 3 feet, even indoors and in concrete urban

canyons. Forget finding the bar; you’ll be able to geolocate your stool. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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The Age Of Facebook: Excerpts From The New Book By David Kirkpatrick Michael Arrington (TechCrunch) Submitted at 5/6/2010 6:55:48 AM

The long awaited book about the first few years of Facebook is almost over. You can preorder David Kirckpatrick’s The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World for the Kindle here and in hardcover here. In the meantime, Fortune has access to two excerpts from the book, and this stuff is solid gold. The first is here, the second is here. We’ve reprinted the excerpts below with permission. I would summarize the best parts for you but, really, the whole thing is the best part. Kirkpatrick clearly got very deep access to Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook execs, as well as relevant outsiders. He details Mark’s constant need to fend off venture capitalists and suitors, the raucous early days of the company (including a lawsuit by a very angry owner of a trashed house), and a whole lot more. Much of this has never been written about before. I will be interviewing Kirkpatrick about the book at a Commonwealth Club event on June 23 in San Francisco. You can get tickets to that event here(they’re just $20). Excerpt

1: The Early Days In the first week of his sophomore year at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg cobbled together an internet software program he called Course Match. The idea was to help students pick classes based on who else was taking them. If a cute girl sat next to you in Topology, you could look up next semester’s Differential Geometry course to see if she had enrolled in that as well. Hundreds of students immediately started using it. His next project, in October, he called Facemash. Its purpose: figure out who was the hottest person on campus. He invited users to compare two different faces of the same sex and say which one was hotter. A journal he kept at the time, which for some reason he posted along with the software, suggests Zuckerberg got into this jag while upset about a girl. “______ is a bitch. I need to think of something to take my mind off her,” he wrote, adding, “I’m a little intoxicated, not gonna lie.” By the time the program launched, he had dropped the idea of also comparing students to farm animals. “Another Beck’s is in order,” Zuckerberg wrote as he continued his Facemash chronicles. By the time he

feature that has no specific purpose… So mess around with it, because you’re not getting an explanation from us.” At the end of the school year, Zuckerberg and his cohort moved their fledgling operation to a four-bedroom sublet house in Palo Alto, Calif., which became a combination home and office. Zuckerberg slept later than most — he seldom got to work in the equipmentjammed dining room before afternoon. His typical garb in the office was pajama bottoms and a T-shirt. When the software code-writing got returned to his room from a intense, he was a taskmaster. If meeting the next day, his laptop someone got hungry and wanted was so bogged down with to go out for fast food, recalls a Facemash users that it was frequent visitor, “Mark would, freezing up. like, pound the table and just When he launched Facebook say, ‘No! We’re in lockdown! the following February (initially No one leaves the table until called thefacebook.com), it was we’re done with this thing.” a rudimentary site, but flirting Zuckerberg was determined to on Facebook quickly became a keep this ship moving forward, sort of art form. One feature — and he was more than happy to the poke — made doing so be the captain. absurdly easy. Poking was a Not infrequently, he acted like particular fascination in those he was captain of a pirate ship. d a y s , e v e n a m o n g t h e Among the few possessions he s u p p o s e d l y s o p h i s t i c a t e d had brought to Silicon Valley students of Harvard. What did a with him were his fencing poke mean? Its indeterminate paraphernalia, which he left message was one of its appeals. lying in a pile. Often he’d grab Zuckerberg posted an insouciant his foil and start swinging it answer on the site: “We thought through the air. “Okay, we’ve it would be fun to make a got to talk about this,” he would

declare, one hand held behind his back, lunging forward with this foil. Often the sword would get uncomfortably close to people’s faces. “I’m the personality type where that would get me sometimes,” says co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. “It was a pretty small room.” Later Moskovitz and the others banned fencing from the house. The house at 819 La Jennifer Way, with a resident population of seven guys, felt like a dorm. Some people — female and male — stopped by for days and just hung around. Stanford University was only a mile away, so the housemates would announce parties using a Facebook feature that enabled them to target specific schools. They were mobbed by Stanford students and townies. Hanging out by the pool was a major activity, and broken glass would simply be swept into the water. One housemate strung a wire from the top of the chimney to a spot on a telephone pole beyond the pool. With a pulley, he turned it into a zip line, so partiers could ride down the wire and drop into the pool with a massive splash. (When the owners finally returned in the fall, they were shocked. In a later court case, the owners AGE page 24

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described the house as “in total disarray and very dirty.”) The house’s cultural mascot was Tom Cruise, who had camp appeal because he was “not a very cool character,” recalls a housemate. Pretty soon the resident nerds were naming their computer servers after characters in Tom Cruise movies: “‘Where’s that script running?’ ‘It’s running on Maverick.’ ‘Well, run it instead on Iceman, I need Maverick to test this feature.’” Zuckerberg, who had loved studying the classics, had a way of punctuating a conversation by suddenly pronouncing, “Now you know who you’re fighting!” It was a quote from one of his favorite movies, Troy, which he had seen on his 20th birthday. Incongruous movie quotes gave Zuckerberg, who could otherwise lapse into long periods of silence, tremendous pleasure. He also inserted them in the site. Whenever you searched for something in those days there was a little box below the results that had tiny type that said, “I don’t even know what a quail looks like.” It’s a throwaway line from The Wedding Crashers. Another quote that appeared there was a Tom Cruise line from Top Gun: “Too close for missiles. Switching to guns.” The quotes came to encapsulate, in the fashion of schoolboy in-jokes, the spirit of the company —

playful, combative, and despite the technical sophistication, a bit juvenile. Students at colleges around the U.S. spent hours arguing about the significance of these inscrutable epigrams. As the Facebook boys started dealing increasingly with real business professionals, a reputation for rambunctiousness spread throughout the valley. “It’s Lord of the Flies over there,” one executive told an executive recruiter. Zuckerberg had to be careful which business card he handed out at meetings. He had two sets. One simply identified him as “CEO.” The other: “I’m CEO…bitch!” One of the crew’s edgiest pranks in those days was a presentation made to the bluechip venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital, known in the Valley for a certain humorlessness. Sequoia éminence grise and consummate power player Michael Moritz had been on Plaxo’s board. Parker saw him as having contributed to his downfall. “There was no way we were ever going to take money from Sequoia, given what they’d done to me,” says Parker. The firm wanted to invest in Facebook, so as a joke the boys offered to pitch the partners a Zuckerberg side project called Wirehog, a peer-to-peer file-sharing program. Zuckerberg and another partner showed up deliberately late for

an 8 a.m. meeting, in their pajamas. They didn’t even make a pitch for Wirehog. Zuckerberg showed a PowerPoint presentation David Lettermanstyle: “The Top Ten Reasons You Should Not Invest in Wirehog.” It started out almost seriously. “The number 10 reason not to invest in Wirehog: we have no revenue.” Number 9: “We will probably get sued by the music industry.” By the final few points it was unashamedly rude. Number 3: “We showed up at your office late in our pajamas.” Number 2: “Because Sean Parker is involved.” And the number one reason Sequoia should not invest in Wirehog: “We’re only here because [a Sequoia partner] told us to come.” The partners seemed to listen respectfully, recalls Zuckerberg, who says he now regrets the incident. “I assume we really offended them and now I feel really bad about that.” Facebook’s final fling of sophomoric adventures came in late 2006, when the company was starting to get billion-dollar takeover offers from major corporations. For its holiday party that December, the entire company, now about 150 people, took buses to the Great America Theme Park in nearby Santa Clara. From the minute people got on the buses they started drinking. By the time they arrived at the park many

were already drunk. Facebook’s employees celebrated a successful year on the park’s thrill rides that spun, dropped, twisted and inverted them. On the way home an employee threw up in an air vent of one of the buses. The company had to pay several thousand dollars to repair the damage. It was, in a way, Facebook’s last gasp of amateurism. The company had 12 million active users. It had passed the point where it could be run like a dorm-room project. Excerpt 2: The Early Days The Viacom executive figured he’d impress the kid with a ride on the company jet, but clearly it was the youth who was in the driver’s seat. Of all the suitors courting Mark Zuckerberg in the fall of 2005, one of the most enterprising was Michael Wolf, president of Viacom’s MTV Networks. He had heard college students in MTV’s focus groups talking incessantly about the new site, and he was determined to snag it for his parent company. But first he had to “friend” Zuckerberg. Wolf had figured out that the best way to reach the Facebook leader was to instant-message him, so he IM’d Zuckerberg periodically to say he planned to be in Palo Alto — whether it was true or not — and suggest a dinner. If Zuckerberg agreed, Wolf would fly out. But as the end of the year approached, Wolf got in

touch with a better offer. He was planning to be in San Francisco with the Viacom corporate jet, he claimed. Would Mark like a ride back to New York for the holidays? Zuckerberg took Wolf’s bait. Since Viacom’s corporate planes were in fact unavailable, Wolf chartered a top-of-the-line Gulfstream V for the trip from the San Francisco airport to Westchester County Airport, near Zuckerberg’s parents’ home in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Wolf flew out that morning from New York on American Airlines. The MTV executive was waiting aboard the G5 as if it were the most normal thing in the world when Zuckerberg arrived, late, about 5:30 p.m. Then, as Wolf had shrewdly planned, they spent five uninterrupted hours together aboard the plane. He was resolved to find a way for Viacom to buy Facebook. For much of the trip, however, the 21-year-old was in control of the conversation. He interrogated Wolf about MTV’s business. How did companies like Viacom make their money? How much did MTV charge for advertising? How do you build your audience? During the trip Zuckerberg took to admiring the G5. “This plane is amazing,” he said. “Maybe you should just sell a AGE page 25

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piece of the company to us,” Wolf replied. “Then you can have one for yourself.” Wolf invited his guest to sit in the jump seat in the cockpit as the powerful jet landed at Westchester. When it pulled up to the private aviation terminal, two cars were waiting. One was Wolf’s corporate sedan to drive him into the city. The other was the Zuckerberg family minivan, from which Mark’s parents emerged. They beamed and gave their son a big hug. It was as if he were merely coming home from a semester at college. The MTV president kept up his pursuit after the holidays, flying to Palo Alto in January with an elaborate PowerPoint presentation and again the next month with a more personal appeal. He and Zuckerberg were becoming chums. They took a long walk around the palmy, well-groomed streets and stopped by Zuckerberg’s onebedroom apartment. The place was messy, with a mattress on the floor, piles of books, a bamboo mat, and a lamp. Then they headed for dinner at a nearby restaurant. Wolf popped the same question he’d asked on the plane. “Why don’t you just sell to us?” he asked. “You’d be very wealthy.” “You just saw my apartment,” Zuckerberg replied. “I don’t really need any money. And anyway, I don’t think I’m ever

going to have an idea this good again.” Viacom would try money nonetheless, with a cash offer of $800 million and provisions that could make it worth as much as $1.5 billion. But like many other suitors, the Viacom executives discovered they were dealing with a formidable character. If his invention’s early appeal was at a freshman level, exploiting the desire of college students to check each other out, his professed ambition was much higher: to change the world. Zuckerberg’s financing needs were far from his mind when he launched the site on Feb. 4, 2004, from his dorm suite at Harvard. Zuckerberg, a code writer since middle school, had arrived at Harvard equipped with his own computer and a giant whiteboard, the geek’s consummate brainstorming tool. He built the site using free, open -source software like the MySQL database and fueled his late-night coding sessions with plenty of Beck’s and Red Bull. A month before the site launched, Zuckerberg paid $35 to register the web address thefacebook.com (the name was later shortened) and started paying $85 a month to a webhosting company. But the infectious appeal of the service went beyond what anyone expected. At the end of the semester, when the user base had reached 100,000 students at

30 schools, a well-connected classmate took Zuckerberg around Manhattan to meet with potential investors. At one of those meetings a financier offered Zuckerberg $10 million on the spot for the company. Mark had just turned 20. His company was four months old. He didn’t for a minute think seriously about accepting. Instead, Zuckerberg decided to relocate his company for the summer to the promised land of technology, Palo Alto. Searching Craigslist, he found a four-bedroom house to sublet as an office and bunkhouse, and persuaded roommate Dustin Moskovitz to give up a summer computer-lab job at Harvard to become essentially his chief operating officer. Keeping Facebook running, which meant constantly adding more servers, was starting to cost real money. Zuckerberg spent about $20,000 in the first few weeks in Palo Alto, using money he had saved from programming jobs. But clearly much more cash would soon be necessary. A block away in Palo Alto, Internet wunderkind Sean Parker was stressed out. It was a hot afternoon, and the skinny blond 24-year-old hated doing physical work. But his lease was up and he was short on cash. So there he was in June 2004 on the sidewalk in front of his girlfriend’s family’s house, unloading boxes from the white

BMW he had bought when times were flush. When he noticed a group of boys heading toward him, he stiffened. His boxes contained expensive computer gear. He didn’t like the look of these kids — all wearing sweatshirts with hoods up despite the heat. He thought they had a menacing air, but the shortest one walked right up. “Sean,” the guy said. “It’s Mark, Mark Zuckerberg.” Suddenly it all snapped into place. This was the guy he had met at dinner in New York City two months earlier, the kid who had treated him like a legend for his role in helping Shawn Fanning launch Napster. Later Parker cofounded another Internet company, Plaxo, a contact-infomanagement venture that had raised millions of dollars from investors. Lately Parker had run into trouble with his backers, who found him brilliant but unreliable. Yet to these 20-yearolds, Parker was an industry sophisticate. Over dinner in Palo Alto, Zuckerberg witnessed firsthand the denouement of Parker’s battle with his Plaxo backers. While Zuckerberg was introducing Parker more fully to his Harvard chums, Parker got a call from his lawyer. The news was bad. The Plaxo board was not only kicking him out of the company but also refusing to allow about half of his remaining shares in the

company to vest. Parker was enraged. He was getting screwed. The Facebook boys listened in awe and dismay. “VCs sound scary,” Zuckerberg recalls thinking. It was a formative moment. Feeling for his friend, and thinking he might learn much from Parker, Zuckerberg invited him to move into the house with them. By September, Zuckerberg was calling him the company’s president. Besides his sage advice, Parker came in handy for one other corporate role: The boys relied on him to buy the alcohol for house parties, since he was the only one in the group over 21. As the fall semester of 2004 loomed, the company was on the verge of a crisis. Over the summer membership had almost doubled, to 200,000. That was good and bad. “We were just lucky it wasn’t completely bringing down the architecture,” says Moskovitz. Zuckerberg and Moskovitz had decided not to return to Harvard that fall so that they could focus on the company. But now they needed money. At this point a Silicon Valley startup would typically solicit venture capitalists to make a cash infusion in return for a very big chunk of the company, as much as a third. Zuckerberg didn’t want to give up that much control. AGE page 26

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Parker called his friend Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn and a key member of an important Silicon Valley subculture — the wealthy former leaders of PayPal. Hoffman arranged for Parker and Zuckerberg to meet with PayPal’s onetime CEO Peter Thiel, now a private investor. When the Facebook boys made their presentation (Zuckerberg in his usual Adidas flip-flops), Thiel was impressed, especially with what was happening at colleges where Facebook was newly introduced. Within days it typically captured almost the entire student body. Thiel then made what may be one of the great investments of all time. He agreed to lend $500,000, which would convert into a 10.2% stake in the company, giving the company a valuation of $4.9 million. That was lower than other offers, but Zuckerberg was pleased to have found an investor who seemed to trust him. The extent of Thiel’s early advice to Zuckerberg: “Just don’t fuck it up.” Thiel sold a large amount of his stock in 2009; his remaining shares are worth several hundred million dollars. During the fall, the originally static Facebook had already started evolving into the revolutionary medium it is today by adding new features like “the wall,” which allowed anyone to write on a friend’s profile.

Membership reached 500,000 by October, and it was soon clear that even Thiel’s money wasn’t enough to pay for the company’s growing infrastructure. But Zuckerberg remained deeply wary of Silicon Valley moneymen. Their thinking was short-term, he felt. His was epic. Through a classmate whose father worked at the Washington Post Co., Zuckerberg had struck up a friendship with CEO Donald Graham, a member of the family that has controlled the Washington Post since the 1930s. Graham, who was immersed in building the company’s own web businesses, recalls being immediately taken. “I thought it was a simply stunning business idea,” he says, and made Zuckerberg an investment offer more spontaneously than any he has made before or since. Zuckerberg was impressed with how different Graham was from a bloodthirsty VC. “I was just blown away by the difference in culture — that it’s just such a long-term focus there. I was just like, ‘Wow, I want to be more like this guy.’ And that’s when I seriously started thinking about doing another [investment] round.” As soon as word got out that Facebook was contemplating an investment, the Silicon Valley greed machine kicked into high gear. By February, 12 venture

capital firms, four major tech companies, and the Post company were pursuing an investing deal. Viacom suddenly expressed interest in buying the company outright for $75 million, which would have put about $35 million in Zuckerberg’s pocket for a year’s work. But he had no interest in selling. The Post offer came in at $6 million for 10% ownership, valuing the company at $60 million. Ron Conway, a veteran investor who was advising Parker, told him, “My God! Take it! Close that sucker!” After a bit more haggling, a deal seemed to be done. Until another party entered the picture. The Accel Partners VC firm was looking for a bigger score. After making its mark in the 1990s with a series of software and telecom investments, the Palo Alto firm had missed out on social-media opportunities. Kevin Efrusy, a junior member of the Accel team, had heard about Facebook from a Stanford University grad student interning at Accel and started making overtures. Parker declined to return his phone calls at first, thinking the VC firm had lost its mojo. Finally, on April Fool’s Day, 2005, Efrusy decided to just walk over to Facebook’s office. The two executives he encountered, Moskovitz and Matt Cohler (a recruit from LinkedIn), were

struggling to assemble office furniture from Ikea. Moskovitz’s head was bleeding from hitting a piece of furniture, and Cohler’s pants were torn after getting caught on a nail. But their presentation of the business was brilliant, Efrusy recalls. Four days later Efrusy again walked down University Avenue to Facebook’s office, barged into a meeting, and slapped a term sheet on the table. It topped the Washington Post terms by far, a $10 million investment valuing Facebook at $80 million. (The deal eventually reached $12.7 million and a valuation of just under $98 million.) After Efrusy left, the young entrepreneurs looked at one another in jubilation. Eighty million? Amazing! “But what about the Post?” Zuckerberg asked. Nobody had a good answer. That night Accel’s comanaging partner, Jim Breyer, a Silicon Valley heavyweight who’s also a director of WalMart, hosted a dinner for Facebook’s leaders at the elegant Village Pub near Palo Alto. The Pub is known for its wine list, and Breyer, a connoisseur, ordered a $400 bottle of Quilceda Creek Cabernet. Zuckerberg, still only 20, ordered a Sprite. Breyer was doing everything he could to loosen Zuckerberg up. But Zuckerberg remained uncomfortable about something.

Then he started to tune out, Matt Cohler noticed. Zuckerberg went to the bathroom and didn’t return for a surprisingly long time. Cohler got up to see if everything was okay. There, on the floor of the men’s room with his head down, was Zuckerberg. And he was crying. “Through his tears he was saying, ‘This is wrong. I can’t do this. I gave my word!’ ” recalls Cohler. “He was just crying his eyes out, bawling. So I said, ‘Why don’t you just call Don up and ask him what he thinks?’ ” Zuckerberg took a while to compose himself and returned to the table. The next morning he did call Graham. “Don, I haven’t talked to you since we agreed on terms, and since then I’ve had a much higher offer from a venture capital firm out here. And I feel I have a moral dilemma,” Zuckerberg began. Graham was disappointed, but he was also impressed. “I just thought to myself, ‘Wow, for 20 years old, that is impressive — he’s not calling to tell me he’s taking the other guy’s money. He’s calling me to talk it out.’ ” Graham knew that even his first offer was very high for a company so tiny and so young. “Mark, does the money matter to you?” Graham asked. Zuckerberg said it did. It could, he went on, be the one thing that AGE page 28

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Requires a Village: A Quest for Payment Data Portability Mike Kirkwood (ReadWriteWeb)

feet: Payment Processing Landscape BrainTree is a payment Submitted at 5/6/2010 1:15:00 AM gateway that is part of the In this post, we'll explore the payments landscape. Here, we tug-of-war landscape of the see where the gateway (in this payments industry through the case BrainTree) fits in the l e n s o f p a y m e n t g a t e w a y ecosystem. Braintree. For purposes of security and The company has initiated a liability, the merchant calls Credit Card Data Portability services that transact, but don't Standard, starting with a small s t o r e i n f o r m a t i o n o n t h e g r o u p f o r m e r c h a n t s a n d transaction. In processing this payment processors that intend information the gateway is to "meet in the middle" and shielding the merchant from provide both security and change in the payment system portability of the sensitive credit and technology framework by card authorization used by offering front end services to merchants to bill for services. websites that connect to backToday, for some parties in the end (and PCI compliant) back ecosystem, this data is locked up ends. with payment providers due For reasons of liability and data good faith efforts to achieve compliance, many merchants compliance, but what has and gateways have agreed to h a p p e n e d i s v e n d o r l o c k allow the payment processor centered around personal data. " h o l d " t h e d a t a f o r t h e Sponsor consumer. This practice has In a not-so-distant m-commerce created a sense of lock and post, Sarah Perez covered some causes merchants to restart o f t h e " t o w e r o f b a b e l " transactions with consumers by c h a l l e n g e s t h a t o c c u r f o r speaking with them manually. developers when dealing with It is in this process where payment processes for mobile customers can leak out by payments. opting out, or not confirming the In the organic information continued transaction. economy that has been built in BrainTree points out that this is our world, we find sometimes effectively holding consumers things that should be simple are data hostage. Scope of the Data not. To help us understand the scope Here, we explore the concept of o f t h e p o r t a b i l i t y b e i n g Data Portability means and requested, asked the team at where a dialog is taking place in BrainTree to share the data the payments industry. 30,000 fields that fall under this model

and which of those fields are considered required and optional. Here is the list he shared below: • Payment information • Credit Card Number Required • Expiration Date Required • Amount Required • CVV Optional- While not required, sending the CVV may help with approval percentages. • Name Optional • Address Optional- Merchants get rewarded with lower processing rates if they include the billing address, so while it's not required, merchants have a big incentive to send it. • Phone Number Optional • Order Information Optional • Customer Number Optional • Product / Service Optional • Etc. Optional Out of this list there is an interesting mix, both transactional and conversational on what is going on with our credit cards. Yes, indeed, (especially if you're in Vegas) transactions can tell a story. The Required Fields: Transaction

Authorization In the most basic form, merchants (through gateways) would receive portability in this proposed standard. That is the goal of the team at BrainTree and others that support this open approach to industry competition. At this stage, it consists of programs for merchants and payment processors to announce their intention to support portability of credit card authorization information. For merchants it suggests they ask these questions when negotiating a contract with a payment processor and gateway. • Does your organization adhere to the Credit Card Data Portability Standard? • What is required of us to receive the sensitive data we process and/or store with you? • What is the process of receiving the data and how long does it take? • Are there fees associated with releasing the data to us? • What data will be released and is there a time limit? • Where can I get a copy of the terms? In addition to these questions for merchants, the Credit Card Portability site includes suggestions for payment processors on how they can setup infrastructure needed to meet required PCI requirements

for managing the sharing of sensitive information. The Optional Transaction Fields: Authentication and Details These optional fields above (name, address, phone number, what was purchased) are not required to enable transaction authorization in its base form. However, considering consumer rights and privacy they are in a way the most sensitive. For example, if each field was populated with detailed text, values from a list, or microsyntax, we could easily see valuable consumer level data involved in the transaction between parties. One are in the specification that might be nice is a focus on customers and rights of customers to have a say in how this information is stored, forwarded, and retained. We took a few moments to consult some of the folks at the DataPortability Project (similar name, broader scope) to weigh in. Connecting Dots: Start of Data Portability.Org Working Group We had a chance to ask Elias Bizannes, member of the DataPortability Project his take on whether these credit cards fit into the vision of data portability. We found the DataPortability Project supportive about all types of data portability efforts. REQUIRES page 31

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could prevent Facebook from going into the red or having to borrow money. “Mark, I’ll release you from your moral dilemma,” said Graham. “Go ahead and take their money and develop the company, and all the best.” For Zuckerberg it was a huge relief. And it further increased his respect and admiration for Graham. (Zuckerberg eventually asked the publisher to take a seat on the Facebook board.) Facebook entered a new kind of boom phase, hiring staff, adding new features like photo sharing, and attracting millions more users. But Facebook was not yet a real business, especially given Zuckerberg’s disdain for intrusive advertising, so it was burning quickly through its capital at the rate of about $6 million a year. That failed to discourage the delegates from corporate America, who continued to enhance their temptations. Zuckerberg kept huddling with the moguls, which gave rise to grumbling at Facebook, especially among the growing number of executives whom Silicon Valley recruiter Robin Reed was bringing onboard. What did all these meetings mean, they wondered? Zuckerberg wasn’t bothering to

explain his thinking. He thought of these meetings as a learning process. Reed had become a close observer of all the unhappiness, partly because she had one of the only private offices at the company. Zuckerberg wouldn’t listen, Facebook staffers said. Zuckerberg should be replaced. Zuckerberg didn’t know what he wanted to do with the company. Finally Reed reached the end of her rope. “The team was almost ready to mutiny,” says Reed. She arranged to meet with Zuckerberg on his way back from an East Coast meeting. But his plane was delayed, so when they finally met it was at 2:30 a.m. in the neon glow of a diner. Reed unleashed her frustration. “Mark, nobody knows what’s going on. If you want to sell your company, then stop dicking around and say you want a billion dollars. If it’s 2 billion, say that. If you don’t want to sell, then say that!” “I don’t want to sell the company,” Zuckerberg answered. “Then stop taking all these meetings! You’re sending the wrong message.” Then she unleashed her final barrage. “You’d better take CEO lessons or this isn’t going to work out

for you!” “So now you’re finally being straight with me,” Zuckerberg replied, turning more animated. “This is the first time I feel like you’re telling me what you really think.” Over the next few weeks Reed noticed a distinct change in Zuckerberg. For one thing, he did agree to start seeing an executive coach to get lessons on how to be an effective leader. The week after the confrontation he called the entire staff together for Facebook’s first all-hands meeting. While the talks with Viacom eventually fell apart over the structure of the deals, other offers kept coming and reached numbers that Zuckerberg had trouble dismissing out of hand. In July 2006, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel offered to buy Facebook for $1 billion cash. Zuckerberg seemed more than relieved a few weeks later when Yahoo, its stock suffering, reduced its offer to $850 million. As soon as he heard, a grinning Zuckerberg strode over to Moskovitz’s desk a few feet away and gave a big high-five. The deal was off. As all this was underway, executives at other media and tech firms were starting to ask if they ought to buy Facebook.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had flown to Palo Alto to visit his young counterpart twice. As Zuckerberg is wont to do, he took Ballmer on a long walk. Zuckerberg told Ballmer that Facebook was raising money at a $15 billion valuation. But Ballmer had come with something more sweeping in mind. “Why don’t we just buy you for $15 billion?” he replied, according to a very knowledgeable source. Zuckerberg was unmoved even by this offer. “I don’t want to sell the company unless I can keep control,” said Zuckerberg, as he always did in such situations. Ballmer took this reply as a sort of challenge. He went back to Microsoft’s headquarters and concocted a plan intended to acquire Facebook in stages over a period of years to enable Zuckerberg to keep calling the shots. But Zuckerberg rejected all the overtures. What Ballmer finally agreed to instead was an advertising deal that included a provision for Microsoft to pay a huge amount, $240 million, for a sliver of Facebook, 1.6%. Microsoft’s investment gave Facebook an implied value of $15 billion. Since then the company has

reached another level of dominance, where the most passionate buyers are likely to be the public when the company eventually launches an IPO. Facebook expects to become profitable this year and bring in close to $2 billion in revenues. Zuckerberg owns about 24% of the stock, which puts his stake at almost $5 billion. But he seems in no rush for an IPO or the next big thing. After all, what would he do all day? “Unless I feel like I’m working on the most important problem I can help with, then I’m not going to feel good about how I’m spending my time,” he says. “And that’s what this company is.” The ultimate payday is not a priority. Changing the world is. CrunchBase Information David Kirckpatrick Information provided by CrunchBase CrunchBase Information Facebook Mark Zuckerberg Information provided by CrunchBase

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Former MySpace security chief starts company (CNET News.com) Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:00:00 AM

After four years as chief security officer at MySpace, Hemanshu Nigam is leaving his full-time job to start a new firm that advises companies on how to handle safety, security, and privacy. Nigam, who will continue to advise MySpace and its parent company News Corp., hopes to bring his expertise to start-ups, existing Internet companies, and even governments seeking to better understand how to avoid Internet-related problems. Hemanshu Nigam(Credit: MySpace) A former sex-crimes prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Department, Nigam also served as director of consumer security outreach at Microsoft and was as an enforcement officer at the Motion Picture Association of America. During his tenure at MySpace, Nigam was widely credited with helping the company shed its image as a dangerous place for kids. For years MySpace was under pressure from a variety of

fronts including Connecticut and North Carolina attorneys general Richard Blumenthal and Roy Cooper, who claimed that the site was a haven for child predators. In 2008 MySpace signed an accord with 49 state attorneys general that lead to the creation of the Internet Safety Technology Task Force which, in January 2009, issued a report that the threat of predators was less than some had feared. I was a member of that task force. Nigam's new company, SSP Blue, will focus on safety, security, and privacy by helping companies deal with issues including international hackers, online child predators, and identity thieves. Nigam said his advice to companies is to "develop a holistic approach." He said that while he was full time at MySpace, he would field questions from other companies with the blessing of his bosses. "Safety, security, and privacy is something that none of us should be competing on," he said. "People go online to enjoy and have a good experience...they

don't go online to have trouble so, in many ways, companies have an incentive to provide safety, security, and privacy to their users. It's expected by users and by advertisers," he said. Unsolicited advice for Facebook I asked Nigam if he had any

advice for Facebook (which is not a client) in terms of its current privacy issues. "Many of these issues would not happen if you thought about privacy or even safety and security holistically," said Nigam. He also said that if he were advising Facebook he would tell them that "things that matter in the

privacy world are transparency and control. How much information are you collecting and what types of control are you giving your users to decide what happens to that information?" He would also advise them to be transparent. "Are you setting default settings that your users know about, and are you offering tools that your users are aware they can use to control what's public and what isn't?" (Disclosure: MySpace and Facebook are supporters of ConnectSafely.org, a non-profit Internet safety organization I help operate) You can listen to my interview with Hemanshu Nigam here: Listen now: Download today's podcast Subscribe now: iTunes (audio)| RSS (audio) Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Seeker Nails Hacker Pr0n Roi Carthy (TechCrunch) Submitted at 5/6/2010 2:42:09 AM

Do SQL injections turn you on? How about double SQL injections? If the answer is ‘yes’, then 1): Good luck with your dating life 2) Boy are you in some luck! A new of breed of security product called Seeker produces some vivid hacker pr0n in the form of a video (see above) of how it broke and exploited every nook and cranny of your unsecure code. Yes, I’m going to say it, Seeker might be the Seymore Butts of security products! Kidding aside, Seeker seems be packing pretty fearsome application security technology. The company behind it is an Israeli white hat hacking shop called Hacktics. These guys do work for startups, banks, telcos, governments, and homeland security agencies. Their team members hold very high security clearances due to their prior and current service records in the IDF (Israeli Defense Force). It’s safe to say these guys know a thing or two about application security. Seeker was designed for use by individuals that are part of the development organization which do not necessarily possess security knowledge, or even deep technical knowledge. These can range from

developers, to QA staff, to team leaders. It’s for this reason that Seeker points to real business threats rather than just technical issues. This is where a two particular product features stand out. Seeker produces screenshots (see below) that allow testers to see the vulnerabilities in the context of the actual application functionality they relate to, rather than getting just technical information based on URLs. The screenshots also contain screenshots showing how the application handled each attack. The second stand-out feature is ‘Exploit Videos’. Seeker

automatically creates a step-bystep exploit video for each vulnerability it identifies and exploits, making it easier for the developer to manually reproduce errors before and after fixing the code. Video is also quite an effective method for non-security users to understand the actual threats and potential exploits. Just imagine being able to show management or external developers such a video. Pretty effective stuff. Seeker’s methodology is to perform runtime analysis of code executed in order to identify security flaws in the application. This is done by

hooking into the process executing the application, and performing step-by-step analysis of the executed code. The attacks themselves are generated dynamically based on a ‘Smart Attack Tree,’ a long list of rules for mutating attacks based both on how the application reacts to them, and the actual application code. The product supports an orgy of vulnerabilities, including: SQL injection, XML/XPath injection, directory traversal, cross-site scripting, parameter tampering, forceful browsing, malicious c o n t e n t u p l o a d , username/password

enumeration, insecure redirects, source code disclosure, insecure storage of sensitive data (such as Credit cards, CVVs, SSNs), cookie poisoning and plenty more. Currently supported are Java and .NET code analysis, using any database if no stored procedures are used. For stored procedures, Seeker supports Microsoft SQL and Oracle. PHP, as well as support for MySQL stored procedures, will be rolled out in a few months. Seeker is currently headquartered in Israel, with $3M in funding under its belt.

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Facebook's New Policies Make Harassment Easy Curt Hopkins (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 5/5/2010 11:00:00 PM

North Africa has become a testing ground for a new sort of online harassment, and ReadWriteWeb is in the middle of it. Groups of Islamists are using the proliferation of Facebook's public pages to single out users they consider ideologically unorthodox (a broad category indeed by their definition) and then using Facebook's public ban process to stop their mouths. Once a target is identified, groups of allied Facebook users report the target as defying terms of service. Once a certain number of users mark a profile to be blocked, Facebook automatically does so. How do we know? Because our French editor, Fabrice Epelboin was one such target. Sponsor On ReadWriteWeb France, Epelboin published a translation of a post by Jillian York that identified this phenomenon.

Epelboin summed it up."(A) group was created on Facebook (in Arabic) for the sole purpose of reporting, and thus having removed, Facebook profiles of atheist Arabs. The group, which appears to have also been removed, was entitled 'Facebook pesticide' and its sole purpose was to 'identity Atheists / Agnostic / anti-religion in the Arab world and specifically in Tunisia ...' Once identified, the group members would then attempt to report such users." Although the post by York was modestly received in the original, in the RWW translation, it was very popular and attracted over 200 comments. One of the commenters on this post was "Hannibal," the apparent leader of a group who banded together to block Epelboin's Facebook profile. If he had not been been able to speak directly to

Facebook's French PR representative, he would have automatically been banned, as others have."All of this started when groups and fanpages became public," Epelboin said, "allowing those guys to make some list of profiles to be harassed on Facebook, taking advantage of a loophole in Facebook's crowd-sourced moderation process when it comes to banning profiles: if a few dozen members alert Facebook about one profile as being a fake, it is automatically deactivated." Facebook has been informed of this situation. They've been quick to console but slow to act. This policy remains in place. We hate to say we told you so, but, you know. We told you so. As of posting time, the press representatives from Facebook have not responded questions we sent on this issue. Screenshot by Jillian York Discuss

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The group is is welcoming the Credit Card Data Portability effort to join as a workgroup in the project. As this happens, it is likely that an increasingly broader voice and view into the issues surrounding the importance of data portability to businesses and consumers alike will form. One of the active DataPortability Project efforts is focusing on Terms of Service. A team, led by Stephen Greenburg is focused on the portability of personal information offered and agreed to when agreeing to use different web sites. We can see a direct tie-in to these efforts. Where business is conducted on the web, whether transactional (Visa), learning (Google), or social (Facebook), consumer rights to a basic set of patterns around portability could center around the consumer and the agreements accepted at point of entry into a new site. Summary The case of credit card portability shows that industry privacy and liability can create significant boundaries between parties sharing data. This can create information lock and become a fertile ground for vendor lock in an ecosystem. In a service-orientated world

we look to simplifying processes for everything. In payments, the flash point is recurring payments and finding a balance for the many businesses that doesn't increase exposure for customers. The current state of affairs in the credit card ecosystem is a big challenge to building seamless apps between merchants and consumers. In many ways, it seems much more challenging than the problems of "end to end control" that Apple tends to demonstrate in its business. Perhaps because Apple thinks of model driven architecture and wants to have no surprises in the user experience, it has set constraints on how applications perform. So far, the credit card data portability effort seems like it is off to a good start. It is working on expanding its team, focusing on quick wins, and keeping it simple. Does your gateway or payment processor support data portability? What would it take for you to insist? Photo credit: andresrueda Discuss

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Demotix Introduces Video, Redesign Curt Hopkins (ReadWriteWeb)

media power. CEO Turi Munthe was a policy analyst with a high media profile prior to launching Today, one year-old Demotix, the company. His partner, COO t h e L o n d o n - b a s e d c i t i z e n Jonathan Tepper, worked in journalism site, has introduced finance at SAC Capital, Lehman video to its popular photo- Brothers and Bank of America centric site. prior to throwing in his lot with Demotix, the winner of a Media Munthe. From the outset the Guardian Innovation Award, has idea was to both honor the placed its crowd-sourced photos individual contributor and to on the front pages of traditional leverage their past lives to raise media organizations from Le the profile of this new "street Monde to the New York Times wire" as they called it. to BBC News Online. Although Munthe said the site now there have always been articles features 3,000 active photoas well, it is the photostream contributors in 190 countries that has proven to be Demotix's and a photostream of 200,000 bread and butter. Video, like images. photos, may prove capable of Demotix's first video is an speaking across more borders interview Munthe did with than words. Kazakh journalist Ekaterina Sponsor Belyaeva of Vzglad Newspaper With an emphasis on both in Almaty. The two attended "a citizen-reporter safety and monster regime-backed fluff remuneration, Demotix started fest: the Eurasia Media Forum." out very grass-roots, but quickly "I almost had a fist-fight with moved into the corridors of the Iranian Ambassador there," Submitted at 5/5/2010 10:00:00 PM

Munthe told us. (Horseshoes and hand-grenades, Turi.) Other larger-scale citizen journalism sites, such as NowPublic and AllVoices also feature video. It is hard to say if it's been used to good effect, and impossible to say whether Demotix will. In keeping with its heightened profile and success, Demotix has also launched a new look, more saturated and uptown. It looks like a Web version of that moment when a young turk gets made partner and winds up on Savile Row for his first bespoke suit. A window-pane preview shows the latest video, surrounded by feature stories, and postage-stamp rows below are broken out into geographic sections. All in all, a fairly handsome attempt. Citizen journalists in areas both nearby and far-flung deserve to feel like their not begging at the back door. Discuss

Touch Bionics i-LIMB Pulse, the Bluetooth bionic hand, makes your meaty one obsolete Tim Stevens (Engadget)

up to 90kg (about 200lbs), which is a lot more than our crippled carpal tunnels can Let's say you got in a fight with manage these days. The Pulse your dad. You said some things, starts shipping to would-be he said some things, and then he chosen ones on June 1 -- just in cut your hand off. Don't go all time for Father's Day. emo: Touch Bionics has a new Gallery: Touch Bionics i-LIMB product that will have you Pulse overthrowing empires again in Continue reading Touch no time. A successor to the Bionics i-LIMB Pulse, the company's revolutionary i- Bluetooth bionic hand, makes LIMB Hand, the i-LIMB Pulse your meaty one obsolete is a more streamlined version Touch Bionics i-LIMB Pulse, meant to look more natural, also the Bluetooth bionic hand, offered in two sizes, and comes makes your meaty one obsolete complete with Bluetooth that originally appeared on Engadget allows prosthetists and users to on Thu, 06 May 2010 09:32:00 tweak settings easily. The EST. Please see our terms for device's name comes from its use of feeds. Permalink| Touch "pulsing technology" that boosts Bionics| Email this| Comments strength, enabling it to handle Submitted at 5/6/2010 9:32:00 AM

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8coupons Geolocates Your Savings Curt Hopkins (ReadWriteWeb) Submitted at 5/5/2010 10:30:00 PM

For an average Joe, one of the short-comings of coupons, and of coupon sites, is the motivation necessary to page through, search, burrow and worry your way through large offerings to find something of use to you. 8coupons is trying to address this concern by marrying its offerings to geolocation. When I enter my location Eugene, Oregon - the coupons available for my use populate an interactive local map. I can get a free burrito at Chipotle's, a deal at Walgreen's, a "green phone" for $10 at T-Mobile and a break on Nutri-Dog at Petco. Sponsor National coupons good anywhere are also featured and a series of tabs across the top let you drill down to areas of interest like services, beauty and spa offerings or entertainment. Click through a coupon and you find not only the offering but a

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list of every person or group that has posted an offering and a link that takes you to the details of the deal and the action point. The site takes advantage of community input to put deals up or down in the mix. "Is this a real deal?" you're asked at each coupon, and vote either plus or minus. It strikes me that there is nonetheless a lot of clicking one needs to do to find the buried treasure. Perhaps that's part of the hunt for a coupon lover. For this average Joe it's a bit tedious. Another element that might make it more usable to such as we would be mobile versions of each, or most, or at least some of these coupons. If such a thing exists here I'm having a hard time finding it.

If nothing else, the site gives a defined sense of community to the lonely job of clipping coupons and saving cash. The site is fairly robust. Nationally, the company says it currently has 194,720 deals nationwide. These deals come in from a multitude of source, not least among them a 150,000member coupon community. Merchants can also sign up and use on-site tools to create and disburse coupons. Major coupon groups like Valpak, Money Mailer and Red Plum partner with the site. Finally, a group of about 20 regional deal blogs, like Chicago's Fantabulously Frugal, NYC Recession Diary and New Orleans on the Cheap pitch in. Discuss

How to create your own Micro SIM card using a chef knife and some scissors Vladislav Savov (Engadget) Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:42:00 AM

We told you you could shave down your old and busted SIM cards and turn them into minty fresh Micro SIMs, didn't we? An industrious Londoner by the name of John Benson has gone and proven that concept with the help of some cutting implements and an original Micro SIM to use as a reference. His saintly patience resulted in his being able to negotiate the Vodafone SIM you see above into his iPad 3G(imported from the USA) and riding the waves of Voda's network as if Apple never decided to encumber its portable and beautiful, this tart will Five Filters featured article: device with a silly new standard. satisfy every chocoholic's need The Art of Looking Prime The 3FF (Micro) SIMs and the f o r a c h o c o l a t e f i x , " Ministerial - The 2010 UK c o m m e n t s T e s t General Election. Available Kitchen Professional Deb Wise. tools: PDF Newspaper, Full View Recipe: Upside-Down Text RSS, Term Extraction. Fudge-Almond Tart Next January: Poutine

bulkier original ones are electrically identical, so there's no threat of harm by using them interchangeably, though we can't say the same thing about the tools that get you there. As always, we advise trying to rope someone else into doing the work for you -- less chance of hurting yourself that way. Hit the source for more. [Thanks, Brandon] How to create your own Micro SIM card using a chef knife and some scissors originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 May 2010 08:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| John Benson| Email this| Comments

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TUAW's Daily App: John Enock's Quaso Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:00:00 AM

Filed under: iPhone We've been spotlighting a lot of quick and easy action games in our Daily App feature lately, so here's something a little more cerebral. Quaso is a new kind of Crossword-style puzzle game, except that instead of guessing words, you're trying to figure out numbers in math equations. The game was created by an English mathematics teacher named John Enock, and has been brought to the iPhone by a developer as John Enock's Quaso, now available on the App Store for free. Here's how it works. For every crossword line on the board, you're given a set of math equations with the numbers missing. There's one total number for every puzzle (say, 6), and then for each equation,

you need to figure out how another set of numbers fits in to complete the clue and make the equation equal to the total number. In other words, given the clue(*+*) x (*-*), and the answer of 6, you'd eventually work out that the numbers should be (1+2) x (5-3), and then put 1, 2, 5, and 3 in each

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spot on the answer. But that answer line has to match up to any that it intersects with, so you may need to switch the numbers around -- (2+1) instead of (1+2) -- for it all to work. It's fiendishly clever, and it really puts your brain to work, especially if (like me) you're not that great at casual math. But there are a ton of puzzles to work through, and then you can even buy a puzzle pack via inapp purchase for more. Especially at the current price of free, Quaso is a mathematical brain teaser that you shouldn't miss. TUAW TUAW's Daily App: John Enock's Quaso originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 06 May 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Clearwire WiMAX to cover 120 million prospective HTC EVO 4G owners by end of year Thomas Ricker (Engadget) Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:13:00 AM

With the HTC EVO dual-mode 3G/4G handset launching this summer (and nearly ready for pre-order) with built-in hotspot capability, we've got a pretty good idea what all you US Americans are wondering: is WiMAX available in my city? Well, buried inside the Clearwire financials is mention of the 19 additional cities scheduled for WiMAXing this summer, joining the 32 markets (pictured above) and 41 million

people already served by its 4G network offering 3Mbps to 6Mbps average downloads with an occasional 10Mbps peak: Clearwire also today announced plans to launch 4G mobile broadband service in 19 additional cities this summer, including previously announced markets Kansas City, KS; St. Louis, MO; Salt Lake City, UT, and the core area of Washington, D.C. and newly announced markets Nashville, TN; Daytona, Orlando and Tampa, FL; Rochester and Syracuse, NY; Merced,

Modesto, Stockton, and Visalia, CA; Wilmington, DE; Grand Rapids, MI; Eugene, OR; and Yakima and Tri-Cities, WA. Things will get really interesting

later in 2010 when Clearwire and Sprint take their 4G mobile broadband network to New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, Denver, Minneapolis, the San

Francisco Bay Area, Miami, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburgh for a 120 million person strong data footprint. LTE who? Clearwire WiMAX to cover 120 million prospective HTC EVO 4G owners by end of year originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 May 2010 08:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Android and Me| Clearwire| Email this| Comments

MyTown updates to version 3.1, adds collectibles and social features Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW))

then use to customize the properties you "own"), as well as more social features. You can Submitted at 5/6/2010 9:00:00 AM now browse through the top Filed under: iPhone MyTown is trending properties, see your one of the hottest things going most frequent check-ins, and on the App Store right now in browse through where your terms of social apps. As we friends are going out to and mentioned in the interview with checking-in from. CEO Keith Lee a while back, Additionally, Booyah tells us they've actually got more users that the app is growing by over than Foursquare. The company 100,000 players each week. has just released version 3.1 of They're suggesting that the the app, which introduces more average player of the game collectible rewards earned by spends "more than an hour a day checking-in to certain local, real within the app." That's kind of life locations (which you can incredible, but if it's true, that's

one heck of an attachment rate. In fact, those are exactly the kind of usage stats that Ngmoco's Neil Young would drool over. Considering that

MyTown just made an appearance in Ngmoco's We Rule splash screen, odds are that the two companies are at least sharing notes and, at most,

possibly primed for a partnership. We'll have to wait and see what happens. TUAW MyTown updates to version 3.1, adds collectibles and social features originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 06 May 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Lower Merion, PA school district denouement: cleared of spying charges Laura June (Engadget) Submitted at 5/6/2010 9:08:00 AM

The long, intense saga over in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania -in which lawsuits were filed alleging that the school district used students' laptops to spy on them -- may be nearing its end. The class action suit was filed back in February claiming that the school district had made use of "unauthorized, inappropriate and indiscriminate remote activation" of webcams in laptops issued to students," with the school countering that it had some security features that allowed the laptops to be tracked in case of loss or theft, but that those features hadn't been used to track students in any way. The case got more complicated of course, with webcam usage allegations, as well as evidence that plenty of photos had been captured by the spy-crazy school district. Well, now an attorney hired by the school district says a report's been released that says there is

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no evidence of spying on the part of the school district, after all. It's all pretty boring after all the hubbub, and it turns out to be likely that the school was just tracking the laptop (which wasn't actually a school-issued laptop, but a loaner given to a student while his actual unit was repaired) in order to get it back over outstanding insurance fees. Nothing too exciting here, but if you're interested in the rest of

same store sales expectations vs. 9 meeting or beating expectations. Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:40:44 AM 13 companies have reported After March same store retail negative year over year SSS, sales (SSS) rose by a 9.1% year while only 9 reported growth. over year thanks to an early Standout outperformers have Easter, analysts had far more b e e n G a p ( G A P ) a n d the story, hit up those source subdued expectations of 1.7% A e r o p o s t a l e ( A R O ) : links. growth for April according to While some ugly misses have Lower Merion, PA school Reuters. come out for Costco (COST), district denouement: cleared of Yet the majority of retailers Dillards (DDS), Abercrombie s p y i n g c h a r g e s o r i g i n a l l y who have reported so far have (ANF), and Hot Topic (HOTT): appeared on Engadget on Thu, missed these lower expectations. Don't miss: 10 things that could 06 May 2010 09:08:00 EST. According to the data below destroy this recovery > Please see our terms for use of s o u r c e d f r o m C N B C , 1 5 Join the conversation about this feeds. Permalink Switched| CBS companies have missed their story Âť News| Email this| Comments

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Enter to win a copy of Fruit Ninja from TUAW and Halfbrick Studios Mike Schramm (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 5/5/2010 11:00:00 PM

Filed under: Deals I wrote about Fruit Ninja last week, and since then it's been very popular on the App Store. Creators Halfbrick Studios tell us it's sold quite well so far. The game's simple, but well-polished and a lot of pick-up-and-play fun. It's only $1, so there's no reason not to go over and get it yourself. Just in case you haven't, though, Halfbrick has sent us a few promo codes for the game to give away to five lucky TUAW

commenters. Want to win a copy of Fruit Ninja? Here are the rules: • Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older. • To enter, leave a comment on this post telling us what kind of fruit you like slashing most. • The comment must be left before midnight EST on Thursday, May 6th, 2010. • You may enter only once. • 5 winners will be selected in a random drawing.

• Prize: A promo code redeemable for a copy of Fruit Ninja (Value: US$0.99 ) • Click Here for complete Official Rules. Good luck to everyone who enters! TUAW Enter to win a copy of Fruit Ninja from TUAW and Halfbrick Studios originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 05 May 2010 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Former US Labor Secretary on antitrust investigation: "Hands off Apple" Chris Rawson (The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)) Submitted at 5/5/2010 9:00:00 PM

Filed under: iPhone If you want a preview of how this nonsensical antitrust investigation against Apple is going to play out, look no farther than Robert Reich, US Secretary of Labor during the Clinton administration. Reich has written in defense of Apple regarding the possibly forthcoming antitrust investigations. He notes that the investigations are taking place because o f Apple's disallowing of third-party programming tools like Flash CS5 when writing apps for the iPhone. "What's wrong with that?" Reich asks. "Apple says it's necessary to maintain quality. If consumers disagree they can buy platforms elsewhere."

An expert in US labor law, who was once the secretary in charge of labor policy in the US, sees no problem with Apple's practices regarding development for its platform. Case closed, Adobe. Thanks for playing. Read on to find out why this investigation started in the first place.

TUAW Former US Labor Secretary on antitrust investigation: "Hands off Apple" originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 05 May 2010 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read| Permalink| Email this| Comments

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1997 -- as the company was in the midst of a steep decline Like many other successful tech [source: The Apple Museum]. companies, Apple, Inc. is a That decline may have been myth magnet. There's a simple fortuitous, as no one saw the reason for this: The Cupertino, iMac coming. No one predicted C a l i f . - b a s e d c o m p a n y i s the revolutionary impact of the shrouded in secrecy. The press iPod and iPhone, either. As a and Internet message boards are r e s u l t o f t h e s e i n s a n e l y rife with rumors about Apple's successful products, Apple next big product release -- a f a i t h f u l a w a i t t h e a n n u a l secret guarded more closely MacWorld conference as if than the plot twists contained in Steve Jobs were a divine oracle the next Dan Brown novel. instead of an extremely savvy The mystique surrounding the businessman with a limited company is both justified and wardrobe. hard-earned. Apple was founded For all of Apple's rock-star in 1976 and found success status in the tech world, there's quickly with the invention of the still a lot that we don't know Apple I personal computer (PC). about the company. Here, we'll However, it was the advent of debunk five myths about Apple, the Macintosh in 1984 (and the in no particular order. Mystery classic television commercial solved -- or is it? that launched it) that would Five Filters featured article: make Apple famous. It wouldn't The Art of Looking Prime last, though: Tensions between Ministerial - The 2010 UK co-founder Steve Jobs and General Election. Available president and CEO John Sculley tools: PDF Newspaper, Full would lead to Jobs' departure Text RSS, Term Extraction. the following year. Jobs wouldn't return to Apple until

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Apple's Seamlessly Embedded Heart Ryan Phillippe Takes a Rate Monitor could turn the iPhone Break From Revealing into a new-age mood ring All Tim Stevens (Engadget) Submitted at 5/6/2010 7:44:00 AM

Nike is making millions from its Apple-friendly wares, designed to turned technophiles into fitness freaks. Imagine the possibilities if the iPhone could not only track your running stride but also monitor your heart rate while doing it. That's one of a suite of potential uses for this patent app from Apple, a Seamlessly Embedded Heart Rate Monitor. The design is for a series of electrodes that are, well, seamlessly embedded into the shell of a given device in

such a way that they are "not visibly or haptically distinguishable on the device." The device could then, with a

touch, measure heart-rate, uniquely identify a user, and even "determine the user's mood from the cardiac signals." Just imagine the new flood of EKGrelated apps: iPalpitate, Murmur Maker, Cardiac Arrest... the possibilities are endless. [Thanks, Staska] Apple's Seamlessly Embedded Heart Rate Monitor could turn the iPhone into a new-age mood ring originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 May 2010 07:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Unwired View| USPTO| Email this| Comments

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Ryan Phillippe let his forearm tattoo peek out from his tight white shirt while running errands around LA Monday. With MacGruber coming out later this month the normally private star is opening up in interviews all over including one about all his body art - Ryan showed off his shirtless sexy back for Inked magazine and also revealed how he covered up a ladybug tat he got for Reese years ago. His ex wife has been a frequent topic of conversation

during the lead up to his movie's release and Ryan seems to have won back some fans talking about his sadness over their breakup and found support in how unfairly he's been treated in the media. View 5 Photos â&#x20AC;ş

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3.6% in Q1, which was well ahead of the 2.4% expected growth. Unit labor costs also fell 1.6%, which was substantially different to the 0.6% gain expected. BLS: Nonfarm business sector labor productivity increased at a 3.6 percent annual rate during the first quarter of 2010, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today, with output rising 4.4 percent and hours worked rising 0.8 percent. (All quarterly percent changes in this release are seasonally adjusted annual rates.) From the first quarter of 2009 to the first quarter of 2010, output increased 3.1 percent while hours fell 3.0 percent, yielding an increase in productivity of 6.3 percent (tables A and 2). This gain in productivity from the same quarter a year ago was the largest since output per hour increased 7.0 percent over the

four-quarter period ending in the first quarter of 1962. ... Unit labor costs in nonfarm businesses fell 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2010, as the 3.6 percent increase in productivity outpaced a 1.9 percent gain in hourly compensation. Unit labor costs fell 3.7 percent over the last four quarters, as the 6.3 percent increase in productivity outpaced a 2.3 percent rise in hourly compensation (tables A and 2). ... Manufacturing sector productivity grew 2.5 percent in the first quarter of 2010, as output rose 7.5 percent and hours worked increased 4.9 percent, the first increase in hours since the second quarter of 2007. Gains in productivity, output, and hours were each larger in the durable goods sector than in the nondurable goods sector (tables A, 3, 4 and

5). Unit labor costs in manufacturing declined 3.7 percent in the first quarter of 2010 and fell 6.1 percent over the last four quarters. The fourquarter decline was the largest in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1988. ... Fourth quarter and annual 2009 measures of productivity and costs were announced for the nonfinancial corporate sector (tables C and 6). Output per employee hour rose 8.2 percent for the fourth quarter of 2009 as output and hours rose 8.5 percent and 0.3 percent, respectively. See the official release here > Q1 Prod Join the conversation about this story »

Summer Movie Preview: Sex, Spies, DNA Hugh Hart (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 5/5/2010 6:20:00 PM

When it blasts into theaters this week, Iron Man 2 kicks off a summer movie season dominated not by superheroes or well-known sci-fi brands but by fresh characters that might launch cinematic franchises of their own. The most intriguing films headed for theaters over the next four months promise a number of captivating concepts. You can’t go wrong with Angelina Jolie as a sexy CIA spy or Michael Cera as a bass-playing nerd, right? And the Guillermo Del Toro-produced, DNAthemed freak show Splice could take flight as this year’s

Paranormal Activity. These movies and others are repped in ScreenRant’s “Ultimate 2010 Summer Movie Trailer” mashup above, which shows off the popcorn season’s biggest offerings. Read on for snapshots of the summer’s 12 most interesting movies. Check them out, then let us know which movies you’re most looking forward to this summer. Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 View All Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Lit Fix: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society WomansDay.com Editors (Daily Woman's Day Blog)

Never before could you call a book about German occupation and the Nazi work camps Submitted at 5/5/2010 4:00:00 PM “charming,” but Mary Ann Today's book review is from Shaffer and Annie Barrows have Alexandra G e k a s , pulled just that off in their book WomansDay.com's Associate The Guernsey Literary and Editor. She read The Guernsey Potato Peel Pie Society. Set Literary and Potato Peel Pie immediately after WWII ended, Society by Mary Ann Shaffer the story follows Juliet Ashton, she discovers the personal and Annie Barrows. an English reporter and writer as stories and history of a small

British island in the English Channel, which had been occupied by Germany. Not only does Juliet uncover the tragic, cruel reality of an occupied island, cut off from its homeland during wartime, but she also meets the people who endured it all. They are funny and engaging characters, and through them you see the decent

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In his morning note, RBS strategist Tim Ash makes an important observation regarding the ongoing crisis in Europe, and how it differs from past crisis. In many respects it reminds me of the run up to the April 2009 G20 London summit, when Emerging Europe was in the eye of the storm and clearly in crisis. The G20 London summit turned sentiment because G20 states agreed to give the IMF the firepower to tackle the problem. The Fund dolled out money first and asked questions later. My sense is that Europe needs to follow a similar strategy. Decisive action is now required, but I worry that Europe is simply unable to act quickly enough. The developing cycle/spiral needs turning, and very, very fast. Ash's comments are smart, but are coming a little late. Europe decided to ask questions first, and then only drib out the cash slowly (if at all-- Greece has yet to receive a penny). Now it's too late to put the genie back in the

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May 6, 1953: The Heart-Machine Age Begins Alexis Madrigal (Wired Top Stories) Submitted at 5/5/2010 11:00:00 PM

1953: Philadelphia surgeon John H. Gibbon Jr. performs the first successful human-heart surgery assisted by a heart-lung machine. For 26 minutes, Gibbon unhooked his patient’s heart from its usual vascular networks and plugged the 18-year-old woman’s arteries and veins into a machine that oxygenated and pumped blood. The operation was the first to use a machine to temporarily duplicate the functions of the cardiopulmonary system. It confirmed what many had suspected: Some aspects of living are as mechanical as a Model T. The machine he used contained four primary components: “a venuous reservoir, an oxygenator, a temperature regulator for extracorporeal blood and an arterial pump.” The idea was quite literally to take blood out, push oxygen gas into it, and send it back out, so that the machine could keep feeding the body while the surgeons did their work on the biological heart. News of the operation ran in The New York Times and other major newspapers. Jefferson Medical Hospital officials trumpeted the achievement as opening “ new vistas in the field

of heart surgery.” Before the machine, the Times noted, the surgeon had to operate on the beating heart as it went about its business of pumping blood. “The surgeon must grope and rely on some mysterious power of divination born of his knowledge of anatomy and physiology and his experience,” the Times wrote in an article

headlined, “ Machine Hearts.” But with the new machine, “the heart was virtually dry, so that the operating surgeon could see what he was doing.” Under those circumstances, Gibbon was able to patch the small congenital hole in the woman’s heart with no problems. The woman recovered and reportedly lived

into the 1980s. The surgery was the culmination of more than 20 years of work by Gibbon and his wife Mary. Working on dogs and cats, they designed, engineered and troubleshot the early versions of the machines that would eventually be used in open-heart surgery. At first, the mortality rate for

their experimental animals was over 80 percent. They persevered, though, and eventually came up with the right processes to simulate the body’s heart and lungs. Or at least processes good enough to try out in human beings and thereby interest the rest of the MAY page 43

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Republicans as an example of the middle-class worker who would be hurt economically by Joe the Plumber is plunging an Obama presidency. into party politics. Mr. Wurzelbacher has since Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher, written a book, spoken at who was hailed by Republican conservative gatherings and John McCain's presidential spent a few weeks as a war campaign in 2008, won one of correspondent in the Gaza Strip. nearly 400 seats on the local He's resisted calls to run for Republican Party committee in Congress and has criticized Ohio's Lucas County. Democrats and Republicans But don't call him Joe the alike. He's also taken shots at Politician just yet. Mr. McCain, confessing in his The group he'll serve on meets book that he did not want him as only a few times a year to elect the Republican presidential the county chairman and sets the nominee. party agenda. Mr. Wurzelbacher Mr. Wurzelbacher remains an won the seat by a 38-24 vote i c o n f o r m a n y a n t i Tuesday in his suburban Toledo establishment conservatives. precinct. A message seeking He drew cheers at a "tea party" comment was left with him rally last month in Cincinnati Wednesday. when he told the crowd not to He became an overnight let "a bunch of liberal pansies" sensation almost two years ago take away their rights. after questioning then-Sen. "Illegal immigration?" he said. Barack Obama on the campaign "Put a fence up and start trail about his economic policies shooting." and then when Mr. McCain of Mr. Wurzelbacher has never Arizona repeatedly cited "Joe been shy about sharing his the Plumber" in a debate. views even if they open him up H e w a s h e l d u p b y t h e to critics. Submitted at 5/6/2010 3:58:58 AM

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Merely Mortal Terrence Holt (The New Republic - All Feed) Submitted at 5/5/2010 5:17:17 PM

I still remember him. He was, between gulps of oxygen, a compulsive raconteur. Drawn largely from the Korean war, most of his stories were elaborate jokes that, obliquely, appallingly, reflected on his current situation: Surrounded at Chosin Reservoir, his toes freezing off, “We fought our way out. Know why? Ran out of smokes!” Then he would laugh, going blue before managing to begin, like Scheherazade, another tale. He dreaded being alone. Except several times a day, when someone would find his oxygen line trailing out of his room into the adjacent stairwell. The light spilling in through the opening door would catch him, carefully alternating puffs on the oxygen with a lit cigarette. “Are you crazy?” I said the first time I found him there. “Do you want to go up in smoke?” “Doc,” he husked, taking a last drag as deeply as he could. “Bit late to be. Worrying ’bout that.” It was hard not to admire him. Which was why, one morning, three days before he died, it took me a while to realize he was crying. “Doc,” he croaked, as I fiddled with his oxygen valve. “Isn’t there. Anything. You can. Do?” I was puzzled by this. What did he have in mind?

“Can’t you. Get me. A lung transplant?” And then, his face crumpled as sobs fought for possession of his airway. The rest of that day and the next, every time I walked into his room, he asked me the same question. Bringing it up reminded both of us that I’d seen him cry, but he was past caring. After a while, I stopped trying to explain: The long, careful process of selection, the cold logic of the transplant committee. It felt cruel to go on about it. It was clear he wasn’t listening: The question had become another kind of story, something to keep me there a little longer. On the morning he died, as they wheeled his bed out of the room toward the intensive care unit, I realized I wasn’t thinking realistically about his chances. I was thinking instead, fantastically, “If only we could get him a lung transplant.” If our long, evasive encounter with mortality teaches us anything, it is the power of denial. Harder to understand is what shapes that denial—something I have come to think of as the medical imaginary. We expect medicine to do the impossible. How else do we account for a man who can smoke himself to death and still believe, to the last minute, in the possibility of rescue? This fantasy of medicine’s omnipotence takes a variety of

forms: wishful, fearful, angry, even vengeful. The power and persistence of such fantasies suggests a source deep in the human psyche, in beliefs mere knowledge cannot shake. Medicine is all about knowledge, but there are things we cannot—or will not—know. Much of this knowledge we gain, if we ever do, through tragedy. It was such a tragedy that culminated, a few years ago, in a U.S. appeals court decision. A young woman was dying of cancer. Her only hope, her doctors said, was an experimental compound. It was not yet approved for treating cancer; it hadn’t been tested for effectiveness, or even completed safety trials. But the patient, judged unfit for enrollment in the trials, was denied the last hope she, and medicine, could imagine. Her survivors, aided by an advocacy group, felt that a wrong had been done to a “young cancer victim who perished because she was not able to access an experimental cancer drug.” Seeking to spare others this fate, they sued the Food and Drug Administration, arguing that its procedures violated a right of access to “effective drugs.” The court, hearing the case on appeal, held otherwise. It is impossible, at this distance, to apprehend fully the grief that found expression in that suit, or how the court’s opinion must

have added to its weight. Yet the substance in question was not an “effective drug”—at the time, there was no evidence of effect at all. And, even though it has since been found “effective,” what does that mean? It means that patients receiving it live, on average, 81 days longer than otherwise. The drug does not cure. Eighty-one days of life can be an enormous gift. To a grieving family, the loss of those days is a wound that never heals. But false hope is no gift. It spares no one any grief. It seems to me crueler in the end, an unwitting kind of torture, to draw out hope where there is none. To me, the most important lesson this tragedy can teach is in the margins: that the imaginary found its voice not in the grieving family (why should grief have patience with the law?), but in the medical establishment, which also clutched at hope where there was none. As doctors, we should know better. But, apparently, none of us does. The medical imaginary magnifies the power of medicine not only to help, but also to harm. Consider a brief notice that appeared recently in The Lancet, retracting an article published over a decade earlier. The article described children who started showing signs of autism shortly after immunization against measles,

mumps, and rubella. Although the original article flatly denied any claim of causal connection, in the aftermath of its publication, statements by the lead investigator were widely interpreted in the media as suggesting otherwise. Some parents understandably avoided vaccinating their children. Over the following decade, the incidence of measles in England increased by over 2,000 percent, producing one or two preventable deaths each year—a small number, one could say, except such grief knows no scale. The Lancet withdrew the article, but the fears it stirred went viral long ago. Vaccines have always been controversial: Witness James Gillray’s 1802 print (seen below) mocking the rhetoric of “ye anti-vaccine Society.” The depiction of the vaccination’s grotesque results refers comically to the source (pus from a cowpox blister) of the smallpox vaccine. These images satirize the fears that surrounded this new, untested medical technology, fears that still echo in the nightmares conjured by genetic engineering. But they resonate back in time as well. The framed picture hanging in the background shows the Children of Israel worshipping the Golden Calf. The printmaker’s choice of a MERELY page 55

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The Government We Deserve Howard Jacobson (The New Republic - All Feed) Submitted at 5/5/2010 3:06:49 PM

If an election is a battle for the soul of a country, the question one's left asking after this election is whether Britain in 2010 has a soul to battle over. Where were the big ideas? Where was the conviction of high purpose? Where was the heart? The Tories trumpeted “change,” which is hardly a purpose, and alluded intermittently to “the great society,” a concept that amounted to no more than letting people do what government no longer had the stomach or the cash for. The Liberal Democrats rode in with some success on the Tories' “change” ticket, since they could be said to be offering a change from both parties, but their only justification for change was “fairness”—a smaller, more querulous thing than justice. And New Labour forgot what it was for entirely, campaigning desperately at the last merely to keep the other parties out. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't. Not exactly a big idea. So what has this election been about? Television, is one answer. This is the year British politics went presidential, the three party leaders—Cameron for the Conservatives, Clegg for the

Liberal Democrats, and Gordon B r o w n f o r N e w Labour—agreeing for the first time to a series of televised debates. It would be no exaggeration to say that these debates seized the attention of the country as little else has since Tony Blair smiled the Tories out of power in 1997. What they showed us of our political leaders that we hadn't seen already is hard to say. Perhaps the simple gladiatorial nature of the debates, the three of them toe-to-toe, no matter how many ground rules restricting combat had been laid down, energized us. Perhaps we were relieved to seem them answering one another rather than the inquisitors of the media, who have grown as predictable as those they inquisition. Or, most likely, the debates picked up where Britain's Got Talent and the XFactor left off: We were doing what television has accustomed us to do, scrutinizing contestants for their likeability. Weighing in with a likeability factor not everyone knew he had, Nick Clegg became an instant star, dulling not only Gordon Brown, which, by his own admission, isn't hard to do, but also dulling the would-be glossy Cameron too, and thereby throwing the contest for change wide open. We should have seen this coming. It had been clear for a long time, both

from polls and the tenor of public conversation, that although the country was weary after 13 years of New Labour—two unpopular wars, the scandals involving MPs and their expenses, the meltdown of the banks and the ever-widening gap between rich and poor—it couldn't get itself excited by the Conservatives. Same old same old to replace same old same old doesn't get the pulses racing. Enter Nick Clegg. He looked good on television, and that was enough, in a medium which isn't friendly to ideas, to start the country thinking that it could make a change without that change having to be too drastic. Clegg was a break from Labour but not a break too far. And not a break too far from Cameron either, both Clegg and Cameron being ex-public school boys possessed of that born-to-govern air which we thought had vanished from British political life but which has made a surprise return, not impossibly as a reaction against the grasping entrepreneurial spirit of the new money men. Perhaps without realizing it, the British are slowly crawling back to the old idea that a member of the landed gentry has less reason to be greedy than, for example, a Tony Blair, and will therefore serve us more disinterestedly. The charm debates saw Gordon Brown off, anyway. Intellectually, he ran away with

at least two of them, but television is cruel to intellect. Throughout this campaign Brown was ill-served by his advisors, who tried to make a grinning Malvolio of him, when his strength is a cold, disapproving clarity. "This may have the feel of a TV popularity contest," he unwisely conceded in the third debate, so "if it's all about style and P.R. count me out." Since it was all about style and P.R—hadn't Blair made New Labour all about style and P.R.?—that amounted to a technical knockout delivered by himself. You don't monkey about with television. You accept its rules or you stay well clear of it. By the time of that third debate, Brown was already a wounded man, again partly as a result of an act of self-harming, this time his failure to check whether his microphone was off when he called a woman we'd just seen him Brown-nosing on television "bigoted." Known thereafter as Bigotgate, this incident roused the British press to levels of sanctimoniousness and hypocrisy unusual even by its standards. If soul had been lacking from the campaign so far, here finally it was: pretend blue-collar Britain outraged by this elitist attack on one of its own. The issue was immigration, a touchy subject in Britain at any time, but especially vexed in

places where the Polish population is high and job prospects are low. The woman whom Brown called a bigot instantly became another Boadicea for daring to say what every true born Brit was thinking. Her actual question was, "All these Eastern Euopeans what are coming in, where are they flocking from?" Some commentators went so far as to call this small-minded complaint magnificent in its baffled oratory, the eloquence of an ordinary person speaking out of her ordinary pain. In fact, bigotry is a perfectly good word for it. But you cannot call the people pig ignorant, no matter how pig ignorant they are. And rather than stick to his guns, Brown recognised his blunder and set about Brown-nosing her again. Much of the small-talk of this election has been about numbers, the unfairness of our “first past the post” electoral system which can put a party with the smaller popular vote in power. But Bigotgate was the moment to despair over the very principle of democracy itself. “The people stink,” Bill Maher said in an interview with Larry King a couple of months ago, when Obama's health care plans were stuck fast in the mud of uneducated populism. In fact, it probably isn't the people GOVERNMENT page 56

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Five Reasons the UK General Election Matters to the United States Nile Gardiner (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.) Submitted at 5/5/2010 3:00:34 PM

British voters go to the polls on Thursday in the tightest political race in the UK in a generation. Several opinion polls have indicated the strong possibility of a hung parliament, with a Conservative minority government led by David Cameron as prime minister. In order to guarantee passage of legislation under this scenario, the Conservatives would be forced to negotiate with other political parties, significantly weakening the government’s power. Other polls, concentrating on key marginal seats, have pointed to a small Conservative majority, which would give Cameron, if elected, a far stronger mandate to lead on his own. Here are five key reasons why the United States and American foreign policy may be directly affected by the outcome of this week’s election in Washington’s closest ally on the world stage. 1. The British Economy Britain is facing a massive deficit crisis, which the next government will have to deal with. Unless the UK implements huge cuts in public spending, it could eventually face a Greek-

style economic meltdown. The U.S. and British economies are closely interlinked through investment stock worth over $800 billion, with about a million American jobs depending on British companies and vice versa. UK direct investment accounts for a fifth of all foreign direct investment in the U.S. A hung parliament this Friday, which is a distinct possibility, would make it significantly more difficult to bring about much needed economic reform in Britain, and would have an immediately negative effect on the world’s two biggest financial markets in London and New York. 2. The “Special Relationship” Under Gordon Brown and Barack Obama, the AngloAmerican “special relationship” has reached its lowest point on a political level since the Suez Crisis of 1956. Rebuilding it will be a priority for a Conservative government, and David Cameron is likely to seek a strong partnership with the White House, even though President Obama has been indifferent, and at times even hostile, towards Britain. It remains to be seen of course whether the Obama administration will shift this stance, which has come under increasing fire in the British

The Iranian nuclear threat is likely to be the top foreign policy issue confronting the United States and Great Britain over the next two years. The Conservatives are notably more hawkish than the other major parties on Iran, and have made it clear they will support the use of force if necessary against Iran’s nuclear facilities. David Cameron is likely to seek a prominent leadership role for Britain on the world stage on the Iranian nuclear question. In contrast, the Liberals are adamantly opposed to any military action against Tehran, and have been almost m e d i a . I f G o r d o n B r o w n three main parties are against an completely silent on the Iranian survives as prime minister, there immediate withdrawal of forces, issue. Prime Minister Gordon is little likelihood of a recovery despite strong public opposition Brown has been relatively low in the “special relationship,” to the war. However, a hung key on Iran, unlike his French with significant tensions and a parliament with a minority counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy, distinct lack of chemistry government in place would and if he remains in Downing between the PM and his U.S. m a k e a f i r m l o n g - t e r m Street he is unlikely to play a counterpart. If left-wing Liberal commitment to the war a far leading role in addressing the leader Nick Clegg plays a role more difficult proposition for Iranian threat. i n t h e n e x t B r i t i s h the public. In addition, if the 5. The War on Terror administration, he will press Liberal Democrats have any The British election will have strongly for a pro-European role or influence in the next important implications for the approach, which downplays the government, they are likely to UK’s national security strategy. alliance with Washington as press for a more rapid exit The Conservatives are likely to well as the broader transatlantic strategy for Afghanistan. It is back most aspects of the U.S.alliance. also important to note that led war on terror, and of the 3. The War in Afghanistan NATO is not even mentioned in three British parties they are by Britain has 10,000 troops the Liberal party manifesto, a far the most committed to fighting in Afghanistan, and is c l e a r s i g n o f w h e r e t h e i r addressing the threat of Islamist the largest contributor to the thinking lies on the Afghan NATO-led mission after the mission. FIVE page 54 United States. At present, all 4. The Iranian Nuclear Crisis

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Roughed Up by the PC Police Michelle Cottle (The New Republic - All Feed) Submitted at 5/5/2010 11:00:00 PM

Catching up on the political chat shows last week, I stumbled across Sarah Palin and Sean Hannity enthusing about Arizona’s hot new immigration law. Unsurprisingly, both Fox Newsies approve of HB 2162, which requires police to check the immigration status of anyone “stop[ped], detain[ed], or arrest[ed]” whom they suspect is here illegally. Both also scoff at “the left’s” concerns that the measure will result in racial profiling. Touting fellow conservative Byron York’s Washington Examiner column about how the “carefully crafted” law explicitly forbids focusing solely on race or ethnicity, Hannity blamed hysterical libs and cynical journalists for misrepresenting the measure and fomenting discontent. Palin could not have agreed more. Assuring viewers that “there is no ability or opportunity in there for the racial profiling,” she scolded both “the lamestream media” and, more pointedly, the Obama administration for “perpetuating this myth that racial profiling is a part of this

law.” Listening to the exchange, all I could think was: What a bunch of chicken-shit, PC wimps. Since when did conservatives in this country get squeamish about racial profiling? I realize many people find the practice constitutionally indefensible. But conservatives, God love ‘em, usually spurn such squeamishness. Indeed, post-9-11, conservatives have touted racial and ethnic profiling as the greatest homeland security tool since waterboarding. Not only do they embrace it, but they also decry the dearth of aggressive profiling as a sign of the PC madness crippling this nation. For years after the attacks, you could not open a newspaper or flip on the television without seeing some revved-up conservative hyperventilating about how airport screeners needed to be given a more sensible mandate: strip search anyone who looked like he’d ever tasted a falafel and stop harassing our fair-haired daughters and dangerously frail grandmothers. Channeling all this energy, New York Representative Peter King, then chairman of the House Homeland Security

Committee, proposed a measure in 2006 that would have subjected anyone of South Asian or Middle Eastern descent to increased airport screening. We all know what enemies of the state look like, goes the argument; if libs would stop wringing their hands about constitutional niceties, we could get around to making this a much safer nation. Now, I’m content to let the experts haggle over profiling’s efficacy and constitutionality. This is a long and storied debate (before Islamist terrorists, the focus was on African-American men), and far be it from me to relitigate it in the course of a single column. But seeing as how the right has staked out such a bold pro-profiling position, why back away from it now? Surely most conservatives don’t actually believe “there is no ability or opportunity for profiling” in Arizona. Doesn’t that seem a touch naive for the cold-eyed Daddy Party? Regardless of how carefully crafted the law’s language, its messy, real-world application won’t crack the door to profiling so much as remove the door from its hinges and vaporize the sucker. Just ask a black kid

cruising through a white neighborhood at night how little it takes to get stopped for looking “suspicious.” But let’s assume conservatives do think profiling is off the table in this case. Why then aren’t they furious? I mean, if ever there was a homeland security issue where racial profiling made sense, this would seem to be it. Islamic terrorists have been known to throw an occasional curveball into the mix (Jose Padilla: ethnic Puerto Rican; Richard Reid: of Jamaican descent; Jihad Jane: garden-variety crazy white woman). By contrast, the Mexican illegals driving Arizonans round the bend are, by definition, Mexican. And in the frenzy to round ‘em up and ship ‘em back, demanding documentation from frail, pastyfaced grandmas would be even more absurd at a DUI checkpoint in Nogales than in a security line at JFK. If essentially 100 percent of people impacted by this law don’t belong to a single ethnic minority, we’re talking about a waste of law enforcement resources. So why get touchy about profiling now? Who can say? Maybe the more colorful

elements of the Tea Party have the entire right wing edgy about being labeled racist. Or perhaps even conservative Republicans are loath to admit their willingness to trample the rights of all Latinos—just in case the GOP ever wants to try and win back that demographic. Or maybe Palin still has a note scribbled on her palm from her days on the McCain campaign: Profiling Bad. Whatever the cause, the panicky rush by some on the right not just to distance this law from profiling but also to imply that they regard the practice itself as distasteful (how dare Obama suggest such a thing is possible!), is pathetic—uncharacteristically so. One of the more admirable qualities of the conservative movement is members’ usual willingness to stick by their principals even at the risk of looking extreme. But with this Arizona business, Palin et al look suspiciously like they’re struggling to have it both ways. That may not qualify as political correctness exactly, but it definitely smacks of political cowardice. Michelle Cottle is a senior editor of The New Republic.

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The Reverse Katrina E.J. Dionne Jr. (The New Republic - All Feed) Submitted at 5/5/2010 11:00:00 PM

WASHINGTONâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Ever heard the one about the guy who hated government until a deregulated Wall Street crashed, an oil spill devastated the Gulf of Mexico, a coal mine collapsed, and some good police work stopped a terrorist attack? Rarely has the news of the day run so counter to the spin on the news of the day. It's hard to argue that the difficulties we confront were caused by an excessively powerful "big" government. Rather, most of them arose from the government's failure to do its job in the first place. The central tasks of democratic government, after all, typically involve standing up for the many against the few, the less powerful against the more powerful. Government is supposed to make sure that corporations are properly supervised when they turn public resources (the environment in the Gulf of Mexico, for example) into private gain. It is charged with protecting those with weaker bargaining positions (coal

miners, for example) against the harm that those in stronger bargaining positions might inflict. Its duty is to keep the private economy running smoothly by preventing fraud, shady dealing and forms of self-interested behavior that threaten the entire system. And yes, it's supposed to keep us safe from physical harm, as it did in New York City. Especially in the economic sphere, government in recent years failed to carry out too many of these basic functions. That explains why this moment's anti-government feeling reflects two entirely different strains of thinking. Public attention has largely gone to the strain exemplified by the tea party movement, opposition to government bailouts and an absolute hatred of Congress. This is the oldfashioned, garden-variety conservatism that somewhere between a fifth and a third of Americans have long subscribed to. These are the citizens you see on television at the antiObama rallies, the members of Congress who give speeches denouncing "overregulation," and the think tankers who insist

that the private sector always performs more efficiently and effectively than "government bureaucrats." Their views were definitively summarized many years ago by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, now a tea party friend, who declared: "The market is rational and the government is dumb." Because they have always thought and voted the same way, partisans of this view do not account for shifts in opinion, let alone swing elections. The more important and dynamic force behind the current disillusionment with government comes instead from those who actually believe it can and should be effective. They do not think that the market is automatically rational or that the government has to be dumb. They are not fed up with government because their ideology or philosophy tells them to be, but because they don't think government has been doing a proper job of promoting prosperity, equity and fairdealing. So far, the Obama administration has missed the opportunity to demonstrate to such voters how it is changing

the way government works. How is its approach to writing and enforcing regulations different from what was done before? How is its management of the agencies different? How are its priorities different? What specific past failures is it addressing? As Al Gore understood when he embarked on his "reinventing government" project for President Clinton, such an undertaking is more essential for liberals and progressives than for conservatives. Conservative ideas generally gain ground when government is discredited. But progressives who insist on government's constructive role can't succeed unless they persuade voters that public agencies are up to the missions they undertake. Starting with the newly urgent threat of domestic terrorism and the environmental disaster in the Gulf, the administration does not lack for obvious challenges to which it must respond effectively. Competence is the antidote to the electorate's sick feeling about public authority. But President Obama must also press on with the defense of government he offered in his recent University of Michigan

commencement address. And he has a new piece of evidence that will help him make his case that government in a free society is not a distant force, but rather something that all of us influence and shape. We need to remind ourselves that a bomb could have devastated Times Square in the absence of the most basic form of cooperation between an observant merchant and a responsible police officer. This is what happens when government is seen as being in partnership with democratic citizens. And there's nothing dumb about it. E.J. Dionne's e-mail address is ejdionne(at)washpost.com. E.J. Dionne, Jr. is the author of the recently published Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right. He is a Washington Post columnist, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a professor at Georgetown University. (c) 2009, Washington Post Writers Group For more TNR, become a fan on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

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Tom Price: Obama Lacks Anti-Terrorism Strategy (Newsmax - Inside Cover) Submitted at 5/5/2010 5:21:49 PM

Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., says President Obama’s terrorism policy is sorely lacking. Times Square terrorist Faisal Shahzad’s ability to board a plane in New York City despite having been placed on the government’s no-fly list proves the point, Price explained on Newsmax.TV. “On this and so many other things I see the administration pointing fingers more than working to solve the challenge,” said Price, who is chairman of the Republican Study Committee, a caucus of House conservatives. “Our thanks go out to the New York City Police Department and the FBI. What incredible work they did to make certain this individual was apprehended.” The White House deserves no such praise, Price says. “This administration isn’t doing all that we must to make certain that these kinds of activities don’t occur,” he explained. Story continues below. “What we need is a strategy going forward. What are we

doing to make certain the American people are absolutely as safe as can be? I haven’t seen that kind of resolve put forward by this administration. That’s what people across this land are crying out for.” The White House also has mishandled the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Price says. “My sense right now is that they didn’t” act quickly enough, he said. “The action of the administration initially was to belittle what happened in the Gulf, but also to not have the people they needed on the ground.” BP has taken responsibility for the disaster, just as it ought to have, Price says. He hopes the accident doesn’t derail offshore drilling for oil and gas. “It can and should be done in a responsible way. There are more safeguards that should be put in place,” Price said. But the bigger issue is creating an overall energy policy. “Are we going to allow onshore exploration, allow clean coal technology, expand nuclear capacity? Are we going to utilize oil shale technology that’s used in other nations in an

environmentally responsible way? There’s a fundamental problem with giving hundreds of billions of dollars to energy producing nations that hate us, Price points out. He ripped into Democrats’ plans for financial regulation. “The strategy we see coming out of the White House is all politics and power and no reasonable policy.” The proposals in Congress would ensure future bailouts, Price says. “We believe that ought to never happen again,” he pointed out. “Democrats believe it should be enshrined into law.” The Democrats also have failed to control the governmentbacked mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, he notes. “We believe they ought to be reined in, decreased in their power,” Price said. “The Democrats believe they ought to be unleashed, given unlimited power. They believe the taxpayer ought to be on the hook for whatever Fannie and Freddie want to do.” Republicans believe in responsible regulation.

“Democrats believe the regulatory scheme simply needs to be oppressive to avoid risk,” Price said. “I always remind my friends on the other side of the aisle that if there’s no risk, then there’s no reward. Are we going to allow an economic system that allows for risk and opportunity, or are we going to have a very oppressive economic system that results in no American dreams being realized?” Price doesn’t understand the recent federal court decision that declared the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional. “The vast majority of Americans are scratching their heads and saying, what’s going on?” The big problem as far as religion goes is that the White House doesn’t recognize American exceptionalism or its Judeo-Christian roots, Price maintains. “I find that to be unconscionable and offensive,” he said. “One of the reasons we’re great is that we’ve been founded upon and adhere to Judeo-Christian principles.” Price lambastes the new healthcare law, which isn’t a

surprise given that he was a practicing doctor before coming to Congress. “It doesn’t work for the federal government, patients or doctors. The bill needs to be repealed.” What’s needed is reform that will give Americans insurance coverage, solving portability and pre-existing condition issues. True healthcare reform would ensure that medical decisions are made between patients and their doctors, rather than by bureaucrats, Price says. And the lawsuit abuse issue must be addressed. “You can’t be serious about healthcare reform if you’re not serious about lawsuit abuse reform, and the law signed by the president does absolutely nothing about it.” © Newsmax. All rights reserved. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Morning Bell: Fannie and Freddie Failure Forever Conn Carroll (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.) Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:29:16 AM

Yesterday, Sen. Chris Dodd (DCT) told reporters about his financial regulation bill, “We’ve ended the ‘too big to fail’ debate. So no longer do I expect any argument to be made that this bill exposes the American taxpayer.” Really. Someone might want to tell Sen. Dodd that in other news yesterday, Freddie Mac announced that it lost another $6.7 billion in the first quarter of 2010 and therefore needed another $10.6 billion in cash from U.S. taxpayers. Since formally nationalizing Freddie in 2008, the federal government has already spent $50.7 billion bringing the Freddie bailout total to $61.3 billion so far. Combined with Fannie Mae’s raid on the Treasury, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the American people will spend $389 billion bailing out the two Government Sponsored Entities by 2019. So much for American taxpayers no longer being exposed to “too big to fail.”

In fact, nothing in the Dodd bill does anything to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This despite the fact that Fannie and Freddie were key components in causing the very financial crises Dodd claims his bill will forever prevent. Fannie and Freddie were both created for the specific purpose of making it easier for Americans to buy more expensive housing. Starting in 1993, political forces pushed Fannie and Freddie to loosen their once strict loan purchasing requirements. By 1996, regulations required that 40% of all Fannie and Freddiebought loans must come from individuals with below median incomes. In 1995, Fannie and Freddie began buying subprime securities originally bought and bundled by private firms. One of these firms was Countrywide Financial who, thanks to their status as Fannie Mae’s biggest customer, delivered investors a 23,000% return between 1985 and 2003. By 2004, Fannie and Freddie were purchasing $175 billion worth of subprime securities per year from Countrywide and their brethren… a 44% share of the

entire market. There are other factors that helped contribute to the 2008 financial crisis, but Fannie and Freddie’s use of their “too big to fail” status to create and grow the subprime security market was essential. But Sen. Dodd, who received V.I.P. treatment from Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo, never saw any problem with Fannie and Freddie. On July 13, 2008, Senator Dodd said on national television, “To suggest somehow that [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] are in trouble is simply not accurate.” Less than two months later the bailouts of Fannie and Freddie began. Keep these facts in mind when Dodd says his bill solves the “too big to fail” problem. The problems with the Dodd bill go beyond its failure to let Fannie and Freddie wither into extinction. While Dodd has agreed to get rid of the $50 billion bailout fund, the underlying bailout authority still remains. Now taxpayers are expected to front the government money while firms are liquidated. But the irresponsible creditors who let those firms borrow money

irresponsibly would still be eligible for taxpayer bailouts. According to The Washington Post, “a failing firm would be forced to pay back the government any money they received above what they would have gotten under a bankruptcy proceeding.” But how does the government know what creditors would have got if the company went into bankruptcy? Why not just strengthen the existing bankruptcy system and actually allow these too big to fail firms to, ya know, fail? But Dodd and the Obama administration would never allow that. It would defeat the whole purpose this financial regulation bill, which is to transfer as much power to the federal government as possible. Never mind that these are the same government regulators who failed to see the last crisis coming. Quick Hits: • Protesters objecting to the cuts in government wages and pensions necessary to secure $141 billion in loans for Greece from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund turned violent yesterday.

• The European commission forecasts that the United Kingdom’s budget deficit is set to surpass Greece’s as worst in the European Union. • Celebrating Cinco de Mayo at the White House, President Barack Obama promised to press for amnesty for illegal immigrants this year. • The Federal Communications Commission announced yesterday that for the first time in its history, the federal government will try to regulate the Internet. • Sens. John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) plan to use the BP oil spill to push their energy tax bill next week. Tags: bailouts, Chris Dodd, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Morning Bell, Wall Street bailouts You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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financial companies such as PIMCO and GE Capital that Submitted at 5/6/2010 4:06:29 AM provide capital for loans to Treasury Secretary Timothy consumers and small businesses. Geithner says a root cause of the When rumors spread in 2008 financial crisis was Congress' that Bear Stearns was teetering, f a i l u r e t o g i v e r e g u l a t o r s these companies started what authority to curb risk in a former Bear Stearns executives system of institutions operating described Wednesday as a "run outside rules for traditional on the bank," drawing so much banks. of its capital that it could not Geithner is testifying at a survive. hearing Thursday of a special Then-Treasury Secretary panel investigating the crisis and P a u l s o n a n d G e i t h n e r , a s this so-called "shadow" banking president of the Federal Reserve system. As president of the New Bank of New York, engineered York Federal Reserve in 2008, Bear's rescue. The New York he was one of the key architects Fed put up a $29 billion federal of the government's response to backstop to limit JPMorgan's the crisis and the federal bailout. future losses on Bear Stearns' Geithner says in his prepared bad investments. testimony that the financial Bear Stearns was the first Wall overhaul legislation now before Street bank to blow up. Its Congress would close the gaps d e m i s e f o r e s h a d o w e d t h e to give regulators needed cascading financial meltdown in powers to restrain risk in the the fall of that year. " s h a d o w " s y s t e m . T h e The panel is investigating the testimony was given before the roots of the crisis that plunged F i n a n c i a l C r i s i s I n q u i r y the country into the most severe Commission, a bipartisan panel recession since the 1930s and established by Congress to brought losses of jobs and probe the roots of the financial h o m e s f o r m i l l i o n s o f crisis. It is the first time the A m e r i c a n s . panel has heard from either of In earlier testimony before the the men who called the shots in House Committee on Oversight late 2008 as the global financial a n d G o v e r n m e n t R e f o r m , system nearly collapsed. Paulson defended his response The panel is looking at nonbank to the economic crisis as an

imperfect but necessary rescue that spared the U.S. financial market from total collapse. "Many more Americans would be without their homes, their jobs, their businesses, their savings and their way of life," he said in testimony prepared for that hearing. While losses have been staggering, "that suffering would have been far more profound and disturbing" had the government not intervened, Paulson said. In addition to Geithner and Paulson, the meltdown probe will hear Thursday from leaders of key players in the shadow banking system including senior executives from GE Capital and asset managers PIMCO and State Street. In its first day of hearings on shadow banking Wednesday, the FCIC dissected Bear Stearns as a case study, and heard from former CEOs James Cayne and Alan Schwartz. The commissioners challenged them and other former Bear Stearns' executives on what caused Bear Stearns to collapse. The executives testified that they did all they could to keep Bear Stearns afloat before it fell victim to an unstoppable run on the bank. Its business strategy of

borrowing funds from rival firms was sound under the crimped credit market conditions at the time, they said. The role of federal regulators also is key in the panel's autopsy of the financial disaster and the huge Wall Street investment banks. The Securities and Exchange Commission's oversight of the firms — some rotting from within from piledup securities tied to subprime mortgages — was criticized by lawmakers and investor advocates both during and after the crisis. Wednesday's hearing marked Cayne's first public appearance in the aftermath of the crisis. Cayne was a flamboyant character who led Bear Stearns — a firm known for its goagainst-the-grain scrappiness — for 15 years. © Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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terrorism in the UK, which has a direct impact on U.S. national security as well. David Cameron has pledged to outlaw some Islamist groups operating in Britain such as Hitzb utTahrir. On the opposite side of the political spectrum, Nick Clegg is strongly opposed to the war on terror, and has accused his own country of complicity in the “torture” of terror suspects. Neither the Liberals nor Labour have made the fight against terrorism a priority issue in their manifestos, and have almost completely ignored it as a campaign issue. If the Liberals play a key role in the next government, especially on national security, there may be significant, negative implications for Britain’s intelligence services and their ability to collaborate with their American counterparts. Cross-posted at The Corner. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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High Corporate Income Tax Rate Driving Jobs Overseas Curtis Dubay (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.) Submitted at 5/5/2010 4:20:37 PM

The United States has the second highest corporate tax rate of any of the 30 countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – a collection of the most economically developed countries in the world. The federal rate is 35 percent. Add on the average state corporate income tax and United States businesses pay a top rate over 39 percent. This is just below Japan which has a rate slightly over 39.5 percent. The average corporate income tax rate in the OECD is about 25 percent. The United States’ rate is almost 15 percentage points higher. Of the 30 countries in the OECD, 27 of them have cut their corporate income tax rates since 2000. By standing still, the United States has fallen behind. The top marginal tax rate is the tax rate a business will pay on new investment, so it is an

important determinant for businesses when they make decisions about where to locate new facilities. The high U.S. corporate income tax rate is driving jobs overseas as businesses work to remain as competitive as possible in the global marketplace. It doesn’t help that the United States is the only country in the world that taxes its businesses on the income they earn in foreign countries. Every other country only taxes businesses on the income earned within their borders. A reduction of the corporate income tax rate down to at least the average 25 percent rate in the OECD is long overdue. Liberals have long argued that a rate cut is not necessary because the effective corporate income tax rate in the United States (calculated by dividing the amount businesses pay in taxes by their income) is comparable to the effective rate in other countries. They claim that all the credits, deductions and

exemptions available to businesses drive the effective rate down and therefore the marginal rate is unimportant. This argument has just been shattered in new study by the Cato Institute. The study found that while it is true that credits, deduction and exemptions lower the effective tax rate, it turns out the effective corporate tax rate in the United States is still considerably higher than international averages. The effective corporate income tax rate in the United States is 35 percent. This is significantly higher than the average of the G -7 countries (29 percent), the average in the OECD (20 percent), and the average of 80 developed nations (18 percent). There is no way anyone can argue against cutting the rate. There is bipartisan acknowledgement in Congress that the corporate income tax rate must be lowered; Cato’s compelling new evidence shows the need for Congress to act soon before more jobs are

lost to foreign countries more welcoming to new investment. Additionally, a lower corporate income tax rate would also raise the United States’ standing in the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom. In 2010, The United States fell out of the group of “free” countries and for the first time is the land of the “mostly free”. A lower corporate income tax rate would go a long way to restoring the United States to its rightful standing among free nations. Tags: Cato Institute, corporate tax rate, corporate taxes, Index of Economic Freedom, OECD, taxes You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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painting of a cow is anything but casual. But why this cow? The picture tells the old tale of impatient mankind forsaking the Law and its Giver for its own profane technologies, a tale in which technology courts disaster. The story gets told again and again because of something we keep forgetting. In the cultural imagination, disease speaks in ways that medicine, its understanding burdened by facts, struggles to contradict. When Boston physician Zabdiel Boylston offered vaccinations during an early eighteenth-century smallpox epidemic, the town’s leading doctor, Edinburghtrained William Douglass, led a protest that denounced him for “an encroachment on the prerogatives of Jehovah, whose right it is to wound and smite.” Interpreted under the ancient laws by which nervous cultures still fence off the human from the animal, injecting a healthy body with cow pus could only be an abomination. The imagination recoiled, as it still MERELY page 57

Elizabeth Perkins Trading 'Weeds' for Big Screen Kim Potts (TV Squad)

nominee Elizabeth Perkins is leaving her drug-dealing former neighbors and cohorts behind to Filed under: TV News Well, join the cast of a big-screen t h e r e g o e s t h e comedy. plotting neighbor Celia Hodes neighborhood.'Weeds' Emmy Perkins, who plays crabby, Submitted at 5/6/2010 4:20:00 AM

on the Showtime series, will not be in the cast when the show returns for its sixth season on Aug. 16. Instead, she'll be playing James Marsden's mom in the upcoming live-action/CG-

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A Snake Oil Sales Pitch for President Obama’s Bank Tax Mike Brownfield (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.) Submitted at 5/5/2010 4:00:51 PM

It must not be easy being Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, these days. His latest task is to sell a skeptical Congress on the Obama Administration’s $90 billion bank tax with something of a convoluted snake oil sales pitch. He tried to make his argument to the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday. You see, Geithner explained, “Banks should bear the costs for bank failure,” and the tax is really a “too-big-to-fail tax” designed to recoup funds used to bail out banks under the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Unfortunately for Geithner, that went over about as well as trying to sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman in white gloves. And with good reason. Here’s why. The banks who received bailout funds already repaid the government, so the very premise of the tax is null and void. Then there’s the fact that those who haven’t repaid their bailout funds – Fanny Mae, Freddie Mac, General Motors and Chrysler – don’t have to pay the tax. And the worst feature? Consumers will bear the brunt of the tax, according to the

Congressional Budget Office. This isn’t to say that Geithner didn’t come armed with answers to some of these critiques. Why don’t Fannie and Freddie have to pay the tax, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) asked? Geithner said that since they’ve been taken over by the government, taxing them would be “one hand of government paying another.” (That means, then, that there’s a de facto advantage to being

publicly-owned in Obama’s America.) And what about GM and Chrysler? Geithner said they aren’t being taxed because they didn’t cause the economic crisis, but were merely victims. Geithner’s logic fails, though, because consumers will be the ones paying the bank tax. Aren’t they innocent victims, too? Geithner said, “This is a simple and fair principle: banks, not the

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themselves who stink, but those who interpret them to themselves. Certainly the fourth taxpayer, should pay for bank estate has acquitted itself badly failures.” No matter how many throughout this election, seizing times he says it, the fact remains enthusiastically on popular that banks have already repaid prejudice, going out of its way the American people, and under to discredit Clegg the moment the bank tax, it is the taxpayers he appeared a threat, and issuing thundering warnings of the who will pay. G o o d l u c k s e l l i n g t h o s e moral and financial catastrophe that awaits a hung parliament. popsicles. T a g s : b a i l o u t , b a n k t a x , As for the people, with hardly Chrysler, Fannie Mae, Freddie any time left before polling, Mac, GM, TARP, Timothy almost half the country still Geithner, troubled asset relief claims it’s yet to make its mind program One Response to “A up. Indecision is a respectable Snake Oil Sales Pitch for political position. It, too, is President Obama’s Bank Tax” entitled to representation. So if a • Gary Wise on May 5th, 2010 bit of this and a bit of that is a t 5 : 0 0 p m s a i d : S o m e d a y what the country wants, because taxpayers will realize that any no party is offering a package, time business has to pay more let alone a vision, enough of us for something, such as materials can feel wholehearted about, o r a d d e d t a x e s t o t h e then a hung, tentative, and govenment, the price of the suspenseful parliament will be product goes up by passing the the truest reflection of its state increased cost of doing business of mind. to the public. Economics 101. Howard Jacobson is the author, College grad, don’t think so, most recently, of The Act of Love. show me the deploma! You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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does. And likely always will. Medicine has always drawn its own meaning from the struggle to hold that last vital line, the one separating the quick from the dead. But that struggle leaves medicine contaminated, its meaning drawn from both sides of that line. We know our doctor is not only death’s opponent; he will also someday be its herald—and, perhaps, something worse. In Gillray’s print, vaccination turns people into monsters. Fed by both hope and fear, our imagination endows medicine with a power over life and death it could never actually possess. Except in the imagination: what none of us, not even doctors, ever entirely escapes. Medicine has its own nightmares, not least of which is its inadequacy to an impossible task. The most practiced

physician eventually succumbs. Timor mortis conturbat me: The fear of death unhinges us all. Which may be why, in our politics, as they apply to medicine, we have been so long paralyzed. The struggle to make health care universally available is over a century old, but what conturbs that struggle is far older. The hand of the imaginary in politics is unusually strong: There are no prices to be paid, no promise too extravagant, no conspiracy too unlikely—and legislation is always subject to interpretation. If we ever reach a day when we are no longer fighting over how to pay for medical care, the battle will shift to what we should pay for: cloning, genetic remodeling, pharmaceutical alterations of personality. The list is as inexhaustible as our capacity to see in medicine the embodiment of our darkest

fears—or merely the solution to our mortal state. Before this prospect, we will always stand in the grip of the imaginary, like that one patient as he still haunts my memory: Gasping for breath, he holds up his cigarette, bright in the cloud of oxygen sustaining them both, and wishes fire would burn and not consume. Terrence Holt practices medicine and teaches at the University of North CarolinaChapel Hill. Information that could identify patients described in this essay has been altered to protect their privacy. Any resemblance with actual individuals, living or dead, is accidental.

'Justified' - 'Blowback' Recap Danny Gallagher (TV Squad) Submitted at 5/6/2010 2:33:00 AM

Filed under: Recaps(S01E08) "You know a box of chicken ain't gonna resolve this." Wallace to Raylan on their hostage situation The running joke about Raylan blowing away some poor perp per episode can finally be put to rest. Raylan went out of his way to spare the life of a man determined to let himself die. His gun barely spent more than five minutes out of its comfy home on Raylan's hip. His actions and the ensuing

events surrounding this gripping episode not only set up another interesting cliffhanger, but it also opened up the psyche of a man who has a much deeper mind than his cowboy hat can contain. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

'Modern Family' - 'Airport 2010' Recap Jason Hughes (TV Squad) Submitted at 5/6/2010 3:37:00 AM

Filed under: Recaps(S01E22) Only'Modern Family' could pull off having a set-up episode for their big Hawaiian vacation and

have it succeed in its own right. The episode explored the comic misadventures that every sitcom explores when a trip is planned. They managed to find a clever way to play up familiar topics by playing around with time.

That way we could experience

things like a stray sneeze at one point in the episode, wondering if there was more to it, only to find out later that it was the result of an entirely different scenario playing out during the same scene. Attention to detail

keeps 'Modern Family' at a different level as all those other sitcoms out there. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

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Private Practice: Are Addison and Sam Meant to Be? (TVGuide.com: Breaking News)

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Taye Diggs, Kate Walsh Addison Forbes Montgomery ( Kate Walsh) has had quite the revolving door of men on Private Practice, though executive producer Shonda Rhimes says it's all for good purpose: "We're bringing her on a journey to get a chance to have a happy ending." So, is the happy ending with Pete ( Tim Daly), with whom Addison has been playing house this season, or Sam ( Taye Diggs), whose pining has sent him into an angry tailspin? Private Practice exclusive: Who is getting engaged and will it stick? Although Addison has been in a relationship with Pete for the better part of Season 3, "it's really about the baby," Walsh tells TVGuide.com. "The baby is like the little carrot that's being dangled in front of Addison. She's super torn, but her affection is really about that baby." Her affection also springs from her need to avoid being with Sam, says Walsh. "That tension with Sam is still there and lingering. It's always there, like avoiding the forbidden fruit."

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"There will always be that kind of tension between these two characters just because of their history," adds Diggs, noting that he's been having fun playing the awkward moments with Walsh. "If you're in love with someone and see they're with someone else and playing family, it can get to you. Even though Sam has his own family, he feels like he's on the outside." And Sam certainly has been on the outside this season, with Pete playing "a really good boyfriend to Addison," says Daly, adding she still has strong feelings for Sam "and it's a big mess." Private Practice's custody hearing will tear the practice apart

Addison's love life may be complicated now, but Rhimes insists that she has a shot at obtaining happiness in the near future. "I would love to see her in a healthy relationship," she says. "She might put one foot down on the road to happiness," adds Walsh. "Like she dips her toes in the happiness pool, so hopefully in the fall she'll be full -on swimming in happiness." Who should be Addison's swimming partner next season: Pete or Sam? Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

Filed under: TV News It's shaping up to be quite a busy summer for the USA -- the USA Network, that is. According to the Wrap, the basic cable network has arranged for last summer's hit'White Collar' to premiere its second season on Tue., Jul. 13. The show will move up an hour to 9PM so it can serve as a leadin to USA's newest original series, 'Covert Affairs,' which premieres that same night at 10PM. 'White Collar' stars Matt Bomer

as a crook who arranges to team up his criminal mind with the feds in order to fellow crooks and secure his freedom. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

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Michelle "Bomshell" McGee: I Had an Affair with Jesse James Out of "Boredom" (TVGuide.com: Breaking News)

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Samuel L. Jackson Talks Sex Scene with Naomi Watts on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' (VIDEO) Aimee Deeken (TV Squad) Submitted at 5/6/2010 1:56:00 AM

Filed under: TV Replay For the film'Mother and Child,' Samuel L. Jackson and costar Naomi Watts had to get (nearly) naked on day one of filming to shoot a sex scene. Jackson and Watts barely knew each other. "You always ask the actress, 'Where can I touch you,

where can I not touch you?'" he explained on'Jimmy Kimmel Live'(weeknights, 12:05AM ET on ABC). "Then you apologize for, you know, 'I'm sorry if I get excited, and I'm sorry if I don't.'" "And which way did it go?" asked Jimmy Kimmel. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments

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David Hasselhoff, Bob Saget and Tony Danza Head to A&E for New Series

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How Consumer Reports tests baby strollers Consumer Reports tests strollers for ease of use, maneuverability, and safety. Here are some specifics: Ease of use scores take into account such factors as how easy it is to fold and unfold the stroller, lift and carry it, engage the brakes, adjust the harness and backrest, remove and install a car seat (in applicable models) and access the basket. Maneuverability is evaluated on a test-course created by our engineers. The course measures a stroller's maneuverability when going uphill and downhill; over paved blacktop, grass, and dirt; through a series of "S" curves between traffic cones; up and down a simulated "curb"; and through a narrow space alongside a parked van. Strollers are scored on a nine-point scale. Safety scores include each stroller's performance in the voluntary American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard tests, as well as in Consumers Union's own stability and braking test. The

latter test involves placing each stroller in different orientations on a platform whose angle is gradually increased to 20 degrees, unless the stroller slides or tips before then, and comprises a significant part of the score. Stroller safety is assessed primarily by applying ASTM F833-09, a voluntary industry standard. Tests cover the efficacy and integrity of the restraining system; occupant retention; passive containment; unintended folding or release of an attached car seat during an impact, and hand and finger entrapment points while the stroller is in the normal operating position. We then go beyond the voluntary standard and perform a Consumers Union -designed stability and braking test. (See video at right for strollers that pose a risk.) Learn more in Stroller safety standards and Stroller safety tips. Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences

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Is James Gandolfini Returning to HBO?

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James Gandolfini James Gandolfini may be returning to HBO, Variety reports — this time, in a comedy. The 48-year-old actor is an executive producer on the pay channel's planned adaptation of the French Canadian series Taxi 22. It's being developed as a possible acting vehicle for the Emmy winner, his first TV role since The Sopranos abruptly faded to black in 2007. Check out photos from The Sopranos Gandolfini would star as a politically incorrect New York cab driver in the half-hour series. Dave Flebotte, most recently of Desperate Housewives and Sherri, is writing and executive-producing the project.

Gandolfini won widespread acclaim, including three Emmys, for his performance as mobster Tony Soprano. The Sopranos, which ran on HBO from 1999 to 2007, helped shepherd in a new era in TV dramas and is considered one of the best TV series of all time. Since the series, Gandolfini has produced the HBO documentary

Happy Mothers Day, here's a computer virus If you receive an e-card from someone for Mother’s Day, don’t just blindly open it. If you do, you could get an unexpected surprise. Scammers frequently have used bogus e-card messages to spread computer viruses and other malware. Such messages contain holiday-related subject lines but include nasty attachments or hyperlinks. For Alive Day Memories: Home example, in 2008, the FBI From Iraq and starred in Tony- warned that e-card emails were winning play Gods of Carnage. being used to spread the Storm A r e y o u e x c i t e d t o s e e Worm Trojan horse, which Gandolfini return to TV? a l l o w e d o u t s i d e r s t o Five Filters featured article: c o m m a n d e r W i n d o w s The Art of Looking Prime c o m p u t e r s . Ministerial - The 2010 UK Tips for Mom General Election. Available If you receive a Mother’s Day tools: PDF Newspaper, Full e-mail message, don’t just open Text RSS, Term Extraction. any attachments or click on hyperlinks, especially if the message wasn’t sent by a person you know. Scammers can disguise emails to make them appear as though they’re from legitimate e-card sites. It’s best to verify the sender. And make sure your computer

has up-to-date anti-virus software. If you need an antivirus program, download the free Alvira AntiVir Personal, a top-rated antivirus program, according to our latest tests featured in the June issue of Consumer Reports magazine. Tips for the giver If you’re sending a card, stick to wellknown sites. Check the site’s privacy policy for assurances that e-mail addresses are safeguarded and are not sold or traded. And if you're really stumped on a gift for Mom, send her a free musical Mother’s Day e-card from the Federal Trade Commission. It includes tips Mom can use to safeguard her privacy. Okay, maybe a card courtesy of a federal agency won’t come off as heartfelt as one from Hallmark. But at least Mom will know that your heart is in the right place.—Anthony Giorgianni Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences

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When Headaches Beget Headaches; Plus, “Best Buy” for Treating Migraines Press Room (Consumer Reports) Submitted at 5/6/2010 2:59:59 AM

When Headaches Beget Headaches; Plus, “Best Buy” for Treating Migraines Money Saving Strategies for Prescription Drugs YONKERS, NY — People suffering from chronic headaches can easily fall prey to “rebound headaches,” overdoing it with non-prescription pain relievers such as aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin IB, and generics), and naproxen (Aleve and generics), in addition to certain prescription pain medications, including drugs to treat migraines. Current estimates indicate that one in four adults exceeds the recommended dosage on nonprescription pain medications and, according to a recent Consumer Reports online survey of 47,283 subscribers, even more people (31 percent) fess up to not carefully following the directions on the label. “It’s not uncommon for people to experience medicationoveruse headaches,” said Orly Avitzur, M.D., medical adviser, Consumer Reports Health, and a practicing neurologist. The same online survey by Consumer Reports suggests that

people don’t consider nonprescription pain medication to be as “serious” as prescription drugs. “It often comes as a surprise to my patients when I tell them that overuse of an over -the-counter medication such as ibuprofen or aspirin may be causing their headaches. We all keep these OTCs in our medicine cabinets and I think many of us are so accustomed to them that we may underestimate the risk of overmedicating,” added Dr. Avitzur. According to another recent Consumer Reports survey of more than 6,000 subscribers, 73 percent said they kept acetaminophen (Tylenol and generics) in their medicine cabinets, and the same percent kept ibuprofen on hand, while 69 percent had aspirin in their medicine cabinets. A new Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs report recommends seeing a doctor if you suffer from chronic headaches or migraines, which afflict nearly 20 percent of women and 6 percent of men. The report, available for free online at www.ConsumerReportsHealth.o rg/BestBuyDrugs, helps consumers differentiate between the most common tension-type headache and the less common cluster headaches and migraines, which can be

incapacitating. Migraines are a leading cause of absenteeism and decreased work productivity, exacting a higher price to society than other chronic conditions including asthma, depression, diabetes, and heart disease. The report provides a detailed evaluation of a group of drugs called the triptans, which have become the most commonly prescribed remedy for migraine patients when an attack occurs. While doctors are unclear how they work, the drugs are known to affect how the nervous system handles serotonin, which is involved in pain processing. Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs, a public information project, uses comparative effectiveness research to compare the safety, effectiveness and cost of drugs for more than 20 common medical conditions. For this report, Consumer Reports BBD looked at more than 1,600 peerreviewed studies and from there focused on 98 studies that directly compared one triptan with another or with other migraine medications or a placebo. “Before considering a prescription medication, such as a triptan, I advise patients to remove as many offending triggers as possible to manage or

prevent migraines. Typical triggers include certain foods like chocolate and cheese; red wine; dehydration; getting too little sleep; and skipping meals,” said Dr. Avitzur, who recommends keeping a daily diary to help track down triggers over time. When that doesn’t work, and when over-the-counter pain remedies haven’t helped sufficiently, some people find relief with prescription medications. As a class, triptans can be expensive: a single dose ranges in cost from $21 to $157, depending on the dosage and the form the medication comes in (tablets, nasal spray, or injection). For people with frequent migraines, the cost of multiple doses of a triptan drug can add up and may even pose a barrier to treatment. The generic version of sumatriptan, a Consumer Reports Best Buy Drug, can save migraine sufferers hundreds of dollars annually if their migraines are serious enough to warrant the use of a triptan. Sumatriptan is currently the only triptan available as a generic, making it the least expensive in the category. Because it is the oldest triptan on the market, sumatriptan has a long established safety profile. A month’s supply of

sumatriptan (assuming a 25 mg dose taken two times a month) can cost $48, whereas the same dosage of the branded version, Imitrex, can cost $78. For consumers, switching to generic sumatriptan could represent a savings of $360 over the course of a year. Triptans are generally safe medications when used appropriately and prescribed for the correct patients, but they should not be taken by people with certain conditions and risk factors for heart disease and stroke. Triptans have several significant limitations, including side effects such as dizziness, fatigue, and, sleepiness. And, like many headache drugs, they can cause “rebound headaches”—migraines that are brought on by repeated use or overuse of the drug itself. Triptans are just one of several classes of drugs with an unusually high price tag. Consumer Reports BBD helps consumers get the best value for their health care dollars by identifying “Best Buys” based on safety, efficacy, and cost. Consider the following cost saving tips: MONEY SAVING STRATEGIES FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUGS WHEN page 63

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• First check our free CR Best Buy Drug reports to find out whether generics are more costeffective for treating your condition than drugs available as brand name only. Then ask your physician or pharmacist about switching to those or other generic versions of the drugs you need.• Let your doctor know that cost is an issue for you. Many people are reluctant to discuss the cost of their medicine with their doctor, and studies have found that doctors do not routinely take the price of medication into consideration when they prescribe. Also, discuss the option of pill splitting, an effective cost saving measure for some types of medications.• Ask for the cheapest form. We have found that prices of the same drug might vary substantially depending on whether it’s a capsule or tablet.• Keep in mind that older drugs are often just as good. The evidence is now convincing that many older drugs available as low cost generics are as good as, or better than, the pricey new ones coming on the market.• Know

that drugs within a class or group aren’t always different. Drug makers argue that each drug is unique and that each person may respond differently to it. That’s true, but it’s also true that in some classes of medicines, there are several drugs that achieve pretty much the same results for most people. In other words, your doctor can substitute one for another.• If you have health insurance, you can find out which drugs are covered by your pharmacy benefits manager (PFB). The PFB determines which drugs that are covered and may have a special relationship with a given pharmacy.• Consider a loyalty card. Whether you’re insured or not, look into a pharmacy discount card which can save you as much as 10 to 20 percent.• Shop around. A recent report about drugstore savings by Consumer Reports found that large discount stores like Costco and Walmart are now competing for your prescription business. Prices can vary so it’s best to shop around.• Ask your pharmacist to match lower

prices. Many independent pharmacies will match prices found at the large, big-box retail stores. It makes sense, too, if you want to stick with one pharmacy, which can reduce the chance of taking incompatible drugs. Wherever you buy drugs, note all the medications and supplements you take so that the pharmacist can check for potential interactions.

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Reserves Rally Suns to 2-0 Series Lead Sam Amick (FanHouse Main) Submitted at 5/6/2010 1:44:00 AM

Filed under: Spurs, Suns, NBA Playoffs PHOENIX -- Before these last few days, the only talk of border patrol when it came to the Phoenix Suns was their opponent's inability to defend their shooters from beyond the arc. San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich called them "the best three-point shooting team ever," a claim that was nearly supported by the history books as their 41.2 percent mark for the season was the second highest all time. The leader of that pack wasn't usual suspect Steve Nash, but offseason signee Channing Frye. Yes, that Channing Frye, the one who had buried all of 20 three-pointers in his first four seasons in the league. In what was one of the most dramatic player transformations in recent memory, Frye became one of the league's preeminent three-point threats. After seeing limited time in Portland last season and looking to up his

limited value as a free agent last summer, he went to work changing his game. The result? He made the Suns look like hoops geniuses by burying 172 of 392 attempts, ranking fourth in the league in total converted attempts and sixth in percentage (43.9) after signing a two-year, $3.8 million deal with Phoenix. But that much-needed element of his game had gone missing so far in this postseason. Until Wednesday night.

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Bob Arum Arrives In Philippines: 'My Job Is to Support Manny Pacquiao' Nancy Gay (FanHouse Main) Submitted at 5/5/2010 10:53:00 PM

Filed under: WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO, Golden Boy Promotions, Boxing Rumors, HBO, Showtime, FanHouse Exclusive, IBO GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Philippines -- Midmorning has seen a celebrity arrive at the East Asia Royale Hotel near Manny Pacquiao's compound and home base. Boxing promoter Bob Arum, dressed in a tropical weight gray T-shirt and slacks, has come straight here from his home in Las Vegas. His mission today: to accompany Pacquiao and his campaign convoy to a rally two hours away in Sarangani province. "You've got to understand -- I'm not here to talk about boxing. I'm not here as a boxing promoter, but as a wanna-be James Carville," says Arum,

who refuses to speculate whether the highly anticipated mega-bout between his client, Pacquiao, and Floyd Mayweather will ever happen, Olympic-style drug testing or not. This is Arum's ninth trip to the Philippines to attend to Pacquiao's needs. They discuss his career, they meet for training camps. On this trip, Arum says he is only here to support Pacquiao's run for Congress in Sarangani.

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himself. Bradley responded that someone had to say something and that if Wakamatsu wouldn't, Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:06:23 AM then he would. SEATTLE -- Milton Bradley, According to the source, a few baseball's self-described bad minutes later Bradley walked guy, has asked his Seattle back over to the skipper and Mariners for help in dealing said, "I'm packing my stuff. I'm w i t h w h a t m a n a g e r D o n out of here." Then he left. Wakamatsu says is "emotional Bradley sent ESPN's Colleen stress" from personal issues. Dominguez a message saying, W a k a m a t s u a n d g e n e r a l "Any reports that I said I'm manager Jack Zduriencik said packing up and leaving are 100 Wednesday that their fiery percent fabricated." slugger is out indefinitely until Bradley added, "I'm with an h e r e c e i v e s a n o u t s i d e organization of people that I assessment and a plan to address trust have my best interest in his issues. mind and have never passed Caple: Bradley's Quest For judgment. I'm a human being Help first to them." Milton Bradley didn't blame Wednesday morning, Bradley anybody else this time. Instead called Wakamatsu to ask for a he stood up, pointed at himself face-to-face meeting with him and asked for help, writes Jim and Zduriencik. The 32-year-old Caple. Story then arrived at Safeco Field and " I t ' s c o m e t o a h e a d , " told the leaders of his eighth Zduriencik said. team in 10 seasons, "I need your A day earlier, Bradley became help." angry for striking out twice and “ Wakamatsu removed him from I'm with an organization of a close game in the sixth inning people that I trust have my best because the manager thought he interest in mind and have never wasn't fit to play anymore. passed judgment. I'm a human Bradley left the stadium soon being first to them.”-- Milton after. Several Mariners players Bradley described his mindset Tuesday It was a startling admission night as "not good." from a player who publicly A source told 710 ESPN Radio blamed Chicago's fans and Seattle Bradley yelled at the media for running him out of umpire from the bench before that city following his failed being told by Wakamatsu to season with the Cubs in 2009. cool it. Wakamatsu said that he "The fact he has stood up and w o u l d h a n d l e t h e u m p i r e asked for us to help him, I think,

is an extremely important step for him as a young man," Zduriencik said. Bradley is batting .214 with two home runs and 12 RBIs in 21 games. Wakamatsu called him in last month after he flipped off a fan during a game in Texas in the midst of a 1-for-21 start. Also last month, the slumping slugger admitted to Wakamatsu he feels enormous pressure to produce in Seattle. His final strikeout Tuesday came looking at a pitch down the middle with the bases loaded in what became Seattle's fourth consecutive loss. He told the Mariners' leaders, and then his teammates in a clubhouse meeting later, that his issues have put him in a position where he can't compete the way he expects, and that "it's been a long time coming." Zduriencik said he spoke to Bradley's agent and "they are happy and are on board with this." Ryan Langerhans, called up from Triple A on Tuesday, was in Wednesday's lineup for Bradley in left field against Tampa Bay. The Mariners are exploring roster options to possibly deactivate Bradley for a short time. The Doug Gottlieb Show Former Mariners OF Eric Byrnes talks about his crazy last at bat, failing on a squeeze play, before reportedly exiting on his

bike which led to his sudden release. And his thoughts on Milton Bradley. More Podcasts » "He's going through some things in his life right now that are very personal and very emotional," Zduriencik said. "We firmly believe that we manage people first. Certainly we are about winning baseball games ... but most important is the employees that work with us. We will join together and help him receive the assistance that he needs." Two hours earlier, Bradley revealed yet another emotional side. Joined by fellow speakers Wakamatsu, Ichiro Suzuki, Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Sweeney, Bradley stood before students and teachers at Lakeridge Elementary school in south Seattle and openly discussed what motivates him. The man who in March told The Associated Press he was baseball's Kanye West interrupted himself at one point because he was getting overcome with emotions during an impassioned five-minute talk to students on the Mariners' annual education day. "I grew up in Long Beach, Calif., me and my mother," Bradley said softly through a microphone while in front of a stage in the school's lunchroom. "She worked in a grocery store, checking out groceries every day, 40 hours a week. Every day

she'd come home, get the mail. She'd get in the same chair with the bills. She'd put in one pile the bills she could pay. In another pile she'd put the ones she couldn't pay. Bill collectors would call. I saw her fall asleep in that chair. "I saw that every day. That was my motivation," to reach the major leagues. Then, Bradley -- who recently complained that no one ever asks him where he's from, what he's about -- shrugged. With a previously buzzing student body nearly silent and teachers watching intently, Bradley said through glistening eyes: "I'm kind of getting a little emotional right now, because this is my heart." Then he waved his hand over the kids. "The whole world's ahead of you," Bradley said. "Someone in here might change the world. Motivation is what's most important." As Bradley sat down, Sweeney hugged him. The five-time AllStar then gave Bradley's back a comforting pat. The slugger smiled. After the school event, Sweeney said the Mariners are going to help Bradley. "The way we're going to do that is just, to love on him," Sweeney said. "His track record shows he's had some ups and MILTON page 69

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them last season, Byfulgien was the biggest factor in putting Chicago ahead in the series for Submitted at 5/6/2010 7:46:45 AM the first time. Byfuglien's hat trick propels Moved back up front and onto Blackhawks to 2-1 series lead the top line after playing defense V A N C O U V E R , B r i t i s h in Game 2, the 6-foot-4, 257Columbia -- Chicago forward pound Byfuglien went hard to Dustin Byfulgien was all over the net all night, tucking in t h e V a n c o u v e r C a n u c k s , power-play rebounds in the first creating havoc in the crease and and second periods. He was on the score sheet. credited with his third goal with Byfuglien banged in a pair of 6:02 left after pushing Roberto p o w e r - p l a y r e b o u n d s a n d Luongo into his net, leaving the completed his hat trick in the goalie upset and the Canucks t h i r d p e r i o d t o l i f t t h e pledging retaliation. Blackhawks to a 5-2 win over "I think so," Byfulgien said the Canucks and a 2-1 lead in when asked if he was throwing t h e W e s t e r n C o n f e r e n c e the Canucks off their game. semifinal series on Wednesday "They've got to worry about me night. coming and worry about getting Greenberg: Believers hit." The Blackhawks gave fans a The Canucks seemed most scare with a Game 1 loss against w o r r i e d a b o u t c l e a r i n g the Canucks, but they've roared Byfuglien out of Luongo's face. back, writes ESPNByfuglien doesn't expect that to Chicago.com's Jon Greenberg. happen. Story Byfuglien Bounces Back â&#x20AC;˘ Check out the Blackhawks Dustin Byfuglien rebounded blog from a eight-game scoreless â&#x20AC;˘ Hawks-Canucks series page streak to begin these playoffs "He was in the middle of with a hat trick on Wednesday. everything," said Marian Hossa, It was the sixth Hawks' hat trick who scored 7:45 into the third in the playoffs since 1990. period to give Chicago a 4-2 "No, I don't think so," he said. lead. "He's dominating in the If not, Luongo would like to see c o r n e r s , i n t h e p h y s i c a l his teammates at least make life department and I think he was just as difficult for his Chicago frustrating their team." counterpart. Antti Niemi made Dismissed by the Canucks 16 of his 31 saves in the first before the series as a non-factor period, but didn't have to fight despite scoring two of his three through nearly as much traffic. career playoff goals against "If they do it on us and its not

being called, we have to do the same thing on the other side to at least get it even up as far as advantages are concerned," said Luongo, who finished with 30 saves. "We have to get some traffic." Kris Versteeg opened the scoring 5:19 in as the Blackhawks picked up where they left off with a third-period comeback in Game 2. "We built a lot of confidence in Game 2, but we knew it didn't mean much if we didn't come and keep playing the same way," said Chicago captain Jonathan Toews, who had three assists. "We did a lot of good things and put them on their heels for the most part." Jannik Hansen and Alex Burrows scored for the Canucks, who will try to even the series when they host Game 4 on Friday night. Vancouver will have to do a better job on special teams and against Byfuglien. "We're going to have to do a better job of protecting the front of our net," Canucks coach Alain Vigneault said. "At the same time, we know what's being allowed and permitted on the ice in front of the nets and we have to do the same thing." Byfuglien started the series on the fourth line and moved to defense in Game 2, but he shifted to the top line with Toews and Patrick Kane. But as he did in last year's series

against Vancouver, Byfuglien took his usual position in front of the net on the power play and made the Canucks pay. Pointless in his first eight playoff games, he lifted in a power-play rebound with 3:13 left in the first period after Toews won a faceoff cleanly and Luongo bobbled Duncan Keith's unscreened shot from the point. Hansen pulled the Canucks within a goal midway through the second, but Burrows took an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty 2 minutes later. Byfuglien then lifted in another rebound after Toews drove to the net along the goal line. "Big Buff, he's doing what he's got to do, he's crashing," Toews said. "When there is a puck race or a battle, their players definitely know he's there and give him a little more respect, so its good for whoever is playing with him. Just try to make plays and get pucks to the net and you saw what happens." Burrows made up for the undisciplined penalty by snapping a wrist shot from the slot under Niemi's blocker off the rush with 54 seconds left in the period. But any hope of Vancouver adding to an NHLleading 13 third-period comebacks ended when Hossa beat Shane O'Brien to a rebound for an easy goal at 7:45. Byfuglien, who skated along the end boards taunting the

crowd after his second goal, was back in the spotlight -- and on top of Luongo -- for the third. Luongo was in position to make the save before Byfuglien pushed him into the net, but the goal -- orginally given to Kane - was upheld after a video review. Byfuglien doesn't think he is getting Luongo off his game, but he admitted that seeing the goalie talking to the officials could mean he is getting close. "He doesn't like to talk too much, but he's not afraid to," Byfuglien said. "When he does, I think it means you are getting into his head, I guess," he said. Game notes To make room for Byfuglien, Chicago scratched Vancouver native Troy Brouwer, who scored 22 goals in the regular season but was pointless in eight playoff games. D Jordan Hendry, who played Game 1 but sat out Game 2, took Byfuglien's place on the third defense pairing alongside Brent Sopel. ... Fourth line Vancouver C Ryan Johnson returned after missing a month because of a broken foot, but the shotblocking, penalty-killing specialist was on the ice for the first goal. He also lost the faceoff cleanly to Toews on the second. Speedy rookie Michael Grabner, who scored in Game 1 but played just 4:19 in Game 2, BYFUGLIEN'S page 68

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Bruins can complete the sweep in Philadelphia on Friday night. Fast Facts Submitted at 5/6/2010 1:56:42 AM • The Bruins have won seven of Wheeler, Satan, Recchi help their last eight playoff games, Bruins go up 3-0 on Flyers including four straight. P H I L A D E L P H I A - - T h e • Danny Briere's point streak Boston Bruins are one win away ended at four games. from a surprising trip to the • Mike Richards was also held Eastern Conference finals that off the score sheet after having has been 18 years in the making. at least one point in 10 of his McDonald: All Together Now previous 11 postseason games. The Bruins aren't at full -- ESPN Stats & Information strength, but they still have the "It was just one of those games Flyers on the ropes in this series, when you see a lot of shots, you writes ESPNBoston.com's Joe feel comfortable, you're not McDonald. Story making any extra moves and • Check out the Bruins blog you're standing there and Blake Wheeler and Miroslav everything seems to hit you," Satan scored 94 seconds apart to Rask said. stun the Philadelphia Flyers on Wheeler and Satan scored in their home ice and get Boston the first period to wipe out the rolling in Game 3. Tuukka Rask Flyers' early lead, and the took over from there and made Bruins never looked back. They all the huge saves. won the first two games of the Mark Recchi and Patrice series at home -- and the Bruins Bergeron also scored for Boston might not play in Boston again in a 4-1 win over the Flyers that until the conference finals. l i f t e d t h e B r u i n s t o a Arron Asham scored for the commanding 3-0 lead in the Flyers. Philadelphia has never Eastern semifinal series on won a series when trailing 3-0 Wednesday night. (0-6). Only two NHL teams Boston is on the brink of a have recovered from such a sweep and a berth in hockey's deficit and advanced. final four for the first time since "We outplayed them pretty 1992. much in the first two periods. "We are in good shape, but now Our confidence was fine, we w e h a v e t o t a k e c a r e o f just couldn't get the puck past business," Rask said. Tuukka," Asham said. "He Rask finished with 34 saves made some big saves for them after allowing a quick goal. The and blocked a lot of shots. I

think if we play the same way Friday night, we will be fine." The Flyers' first home playoff game since April 20 had an unusual vibe from the start. There were large patches of empty seats -- mostly in the upper deck -- and the normally rocking crowd of 20,000-plus was quiet from the opening faceoff. Perhaps they sensed something. The Flyers gave their fans a quick jolt, scoring first when Asham flipped the puck under a sliding Rask's glove only 2:32 in. It did more than give the Flyers the first lead of the game -- it was their first lead of the series. And their last one of the night. The Bruins took over from there, even as injuries forced center David Krejci and Adam McQuaid out of the game. Krejci was leveled on a crushing hit from Flyers captain Mike Richards that actually led to Boston's go-ahead goal. The loose puck was corralled by Milan Lucic, who got it to Satan for his fifth goal of the postseason and a 2-1 Boston lead. Bruins coach Claude Julien said Krejci and McQuaid were being evaluated and was unsure if they would be available for Game 4. "For us to go down to a short bench and be able to sustain that and everything else, I thought

our guys responded well," Julien said. "If anything, I thought it was a real gutsy effort on our part." The Bruins were outshot by a 2to-1 margin most of the game. The Flyers had plenty of open looks, but they couldn't convert any rebounds against Rask. Rask stopped all 15 shots in the second period, including two Philadelphia chances on the power play. The Bruins defense did a fantastic job of shot blocking in front. "Guys are willing to do whatever it takes. Our guys feel the importance of blocking shots," Julien said. Unlike the Flyers, Boston was able to convert at least one power-play chance. Recchi, a former Flyers star, scored his 54th career playoff goal to make it 3-1. The Bruins never gave the Flyers a chance to get going in the first period. The Flyers seemed to overcome their faceoff woes when they won one, only to quickly lose the puck in the corner. Wheeler deflected the puck off his stick past startled goalie Brian Boucher to make it 1-1. Satan followed with a forehand-tobackhand goal that dropped the Flyers into a deep deficit. Bergeron scored an empty-net goal for the Bruins with 1:52 left. The Bruins are 16-0 when

they lead a best-of-seven series 3-0. The Flyers, playing without injured forwards Jeff Carter and Simon Gagne, failed on all four power-play opportunities. Boucher stopped 16 shots and appears doomed in his bid to lead the Flyers to the Eastern Conference finals as he did as a rookie 10 years ago. "We really needed this game, and now we've got a big hole," Boucher said. "Now it starts. Game 4. We've got to try and get that game." Hard to believe now this is the same Bruins team that lost 10 straight games in one stretch this season. They didn't clinch a playoff berth until their next-tolast game. None of that matters now. Game notes The Flyers are 31-31 in Game 3s. ... The Flyers have never won a playoff series when trailing 0-2 and returning home to play Games 3 and 4. ... The Bruins have a 30-12 career mark when winning Game 3 of a bestof-seven series. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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representatives, Ray Savage, had several conversations with the Bengals during the cornerback's visit with Cincinnati on Tuesday, and the sides have the nucleus of a multiyear deal in place. Savage and the Bengals expect to put the details to paper this week, according to the NFL Network, and Jones should join the team's offseason program Monday. A contract hasn't been signed as of Thursday, however. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that Jones and the Bengals are still negotiating performance incentives and conduct clauses in the contract. "There's no deal until there is something signed on paper," Tom Hunter, another of Jones' representatives told the newspaper. Jones hasn't played in the NFL since 2008, after being released by the Dallas Cowboys. Bengals defensive tackle Tank Johnson told the team's website that Jones told him he is going to sign with Cincinnati and "he's ecstatic." AFC North blog

ESPN.com's James Walker writes about all things AFC North in his division blog. • Blog network: NFL Nation Johnson was a teammate of Jones' with the Cowboys in 2008. That season, Jones was suspended for six games and later released. Jones has been suspended for the entire 2007 season while he was a member of the Tennessee Titans. However, Johnson said Jones has changed since. "I know he's settled down," Johnson said Wednesday, according to Bengals.com. "I think you have to settle down. I think he would have been dead by now if he didn't settle down. That's the honest to god truth." Johnson also has had off-field troubles and served a past eightgame suspension. But he's turned his life and career around with the Bengals and credits Zimmer. "I think Zim will be good for him; all he has to do is listen to Zim," Johnson said, according to Bengals.com. "I can talk to Zim. Adam needs to listen to Zim. There is a difference there. I've earned the right to talk to

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Cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones reportedly is close to a deal to play for the Cincinnati Bengals this season. The team's defensive coordinator said he doesn't believe Jones will be a distraction for the defending AFC North champions. "We've got a bunch of strong character guys on defense," Mike Zimmer told The Dallas Morning News. "I'm not going to let this kid screw up our chemistry. I don't think he will. He looked me in the eye and shook my hand and said, 'Coach, I just want to play.' He seems very humble. He seems to understand." “ I'm not going to let this kid screw up our chemistry. I don't think he will. He looked me in the eye and shook my hand and said, 'Coach, I just want to play.' He seems very humble. He seems to understand.”-- Mike Zimmer on Pacman Jones A league source told the NFL Network that one of Jones'

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Zim and Adam has not earned the right to open his mouth to Zim. He needs to listen to all the wise things Zim has to say and soak it all in like a sponge and go from there." If he signs with the Bengals, Jones will provide depth for an already talented secondary. The Bengals have one of the best cornerback tandems in the league in Johnathan Joseph and Leon Hall, who had six interceptions apiece last season. The defense finished fourth in the league, one of the main reasons Cincinnati won the AFC North with a 10-6 record. Cincinnati drafted cornerback Brandon Ghee from Wake Forest in the third round last month, looking for depth at the position. Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

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Filed under: Canucks, Capitals, NHL Playoffs Dustin Byfuglien spent a good portion of the season on defense, filling the void as the Chicago Blackhawks persevered through injured blue liners. In Game 3 of the second-round series on Tuesday, Byfuglien spent much of the night planted in front of the net of the host Vancouver Canucks as he netted a hat trick -- his first points of the playoffs -- in a 5-2 Blackhawks victory at GM Place. "That's my job to be in position and make them work around me," Byfuglien told reporters after Chicago built a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series. Vancouver goalie Roberto Luongo certainly didn't have an

answer. The first two goals came on the power play as Luongo allowed rebounds that Byfuglien directed into the net. His final goal -which was also the game's final with six minutes left in regulation -- was the most controversial as it appeared he shoved Luongo into the net along with the puck.

Blackhawks Lead Series, 2-1 Blackhawks 5, Canucks 2: Recap| Box Score| Series Page "That's something out of our control," said Luongo, who finished with 30 saves. "Obviously, it's disappointing. ... You try the best you can. What else can you do? What else are you going to do? Once it's called, it's called. You can't

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argue with that. You are trying to do your best to hold your ground. It's impossible." The call was subject to a video review, although not for goalie interference. A replay showed that the puck went off of Canucks defenseman Alexander Edler's skate and was not kicked in by Chicago.

Joe Johnson Must Raise His Play for Hawks and Himself Tim Povtak (FanHouse Main)

start playing like it. Both he, and the Atlanta Hawks, are running out of time. Filed under: Hawks, Magic, And at this point, he is nowhere NBA Playoffs ORLANDO, Fla. close -- and he knows it. -- If free agent-to-be Joe Johnson has been the Johnson really expects to be unquestioned leader of the paid like one of the NBA Atlanta Hawks for the past few their rise in stature -- and he has superstars this summer, he better years -- the biggest reason for Submitted at 5/5/2010 10:15:00 PM

taken them into this best-ofseven, second-round Eastern Conference matchup against the Orlando Magic. But he also was the reason they unexpectedly struggled against mediocre Milwaukee in the first round, and the biggest reason they looked so awful in Game 1

against the Magic. "I'm responsible when we play like this. I'll take that. I'm the one who's supposed to do something about it,'' Johnson told FanHouse Wednesday after practice. "If I can't play any better than I have, then we're probably not going to win.''

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THQ CEO cautiously optimistic about 3D gaming Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq)

more importantly and probably a little further out, is the install base of 3D-equipped TV sets or [Image Credit: Frank Reese] monitors." T H Q C E O B r i a n F a r r e l l Farrell doesn't believe 3D will mentioned during an earnings be "meaningful for a couple call call yesterday that the years." The company will publisher is interested in 3D " w a t c h t h e r a m p o f 3 D gaming and sees it as part of the monitors" and move based on industry going forward -- but that. Right now, THQ is likely don't expect THQ to be leading focused on the realities of its 2D the pack. Considering it's finally financial spreadsheet. on a path to avoiding oblivion, THQ CEO cautiously spending heaps of cash to add optimistic about 3D gaming the feature doesn't seem to be originally appeared on Joystiq part of the current plan. on Thu, 06 May 2010 09:30:00 The executive explained, EST. Please see our terms for "There's some neat things we use of feeds. see. We need two things: We do Read| Permalink| Email this| need some additional console Comments technology and I don't want to get into particulars on that, but Submitted at 5/6/2010 9:30:00 AM

StarCraft 2 and Battle.net to integrate Facebook features Richard Mitchell (Joystiq)

It's worth noting that the press release refers to the friend finding feature as "the first step Just when you thought your in integration," so it sounds like masterful Zerg Rushes couldn't there will be more Facebook get any more social -- you are features added over time. As reaching out and obliterating long as we're not flooded with someone, after all -- Blizzard status updates every time has announced that the new someone gets "pwned," we're all Battle.net and StarCraft 2 will for it. soon sport Facebook features. [Via Big Download] The only feature mentioned in StarCraft 2 and Battle.net to the announcement, however, is integrate Facebook features the ability to add StarCraft originally appeared on Joystiq playing Facebook friends to on Wed, 05 May 2010 23:30:00 your Battle.net friends list. The EST. Please see our terms for new feature will be added to the use of feeds. StarCraft 2 beta in "the near Read| Permalink| Email this| future" and should be available Comments to all players when the full game hits retail this July. Submitted at 5/5/2010 11:30:00 PM

Admittedly, Chuck Liddell is our second favorite "Iceman" -Bobby Drake's mutant powers and frosty quips make him slightly more endearing to video game nerds like us. But the UFC fighter has his charms as well. Not only is he the winning coach on this season of The Ultimate Fighter reality show, but here he is in a promo video for the upcoming UFC Undisputed 2010 game, schooling all of us pushovers on what it takes to win in the Octagon. [Spoiler: You have to get real angry and beat up that seemingly no-good Ortiz character.] UFC Undisputed's Chuck Liddell tells us what it takes originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 06 May 2010 01:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments

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Whether or not NYC is the next tech mecca, my moving here is not a reflection on that, one way or the other. I am here for mostly personal reasons. It's where I grew up. It feels like it's where I belong right now, so this is where I am. But people ask me the question all the time, and I've had enough time to think about it. First point, if we believe NYC is the next tech mecca, is it wise, on NYC's behalf, to boast about it? In business I like to follow the example of San Francisco 49ers coach Bill Walsh, one of the winningest coaches in history, and also one of the most modest. If you asked Coach Walsh did he think his team would clobber the Dolphins or the Bengals in the Super Bowl, he would tell you the other guys were the best team to ever take the field in the history of the sport. The Niners would be lucky to score a single touchdown against such a formidable opponent. They do the same thing in politics, always set the expectation a notch below reality. We should do this in tech too. Let the other

guy do the blustering. Make sure your team and its supporters know that victory is going to be hard. The other guy wouldn't have gotten so far if he wasn't great. Let the other guy know he has your respect. Maybe he'll relax. Now, with that in mind -- it pays to read Matt Mireles's piece that explains why Silicon Valley is still the place for bright entrepreneurs with a world-changing idea to build a team and get financing. He's probably right about that. But it may not be the best place to incubate the next layer of technology, in fact it almost certainly isn't. I have some experience with that, because in 1979, as a bright young person probably a lot like Matt, I moved west from Madison to Mountain View to seek fame and fortune as a software entrepreneur. The road was a lot rougher than I thought it would be, but within ten years I had founded a company and participated in an IPO and realized the dream that a lot of people still have today, which I think is good. But here's the important part of my story, that's relevant to whether or not Silicon Valley is

MBAs with pyramid schemes. Gotta say the VCs typically went for the MBAs. The era of the engineer, if it wasn't over, was certainly waning. But even then, everyone thought the future of the tech world was being hatched in Silicon Valley. The only problem was, with the benefit of hindsight, the future of the tech world was actually being hatched in Switzerland. And before that, the seminal the place to be, right now, to product of the tech industry, participate in the next level of VisiCalc, was being hatched in change. Cambridge, MA. When I started my second And in the next implosion, the company, in 1988, also in r e b o o t i n g t e c h w a s b e i n g Silicon Valley -- the industry developed by curmudgeons who was approaching a level of didn't look like MBAs and sure maturity that, in tech, warns of a didn't sound like them, so the looming implosion. I was too bright guys of the Valley missed young and inexperienced to it. (I'm talking about blogging know this, but the signs were and social media, of course.) everywhere. A few years before So Silicon Valley may be the if you had a good idea, you place you bring your revolution, could ship a product, promote it, once it's fully hatched, but the build a user base, and find revolution itself is (apparently) liquidity. Now the dominant hatched elsewhere. companies had grown so big So that says to me that NYC, they were starting to choke the with its incredibly huge pool of e c o s y s t e m . A n d t h e fresh talent, which is its e n t r e p r e n e u r s w h o w e r e advantage -- this is the largest showing up were less the bright- metro area in the United States, eyed engineers with big ideas, and one of the largest in the and more of the carpetbagging world -- shouldn't be thinking

about competing with Silicon Valley. They do what they do very well for a reason. We should be thinking about how we can work with Silicon Valley, when the time is right. In other words, I don't think we're going to stop taking planes to SFO anytime soon. What we can do here, though, is iterate on the vision for the next level of tech, which I feel intuitively involves the humanities and media, as much as it will involve memory, batteries and input devices. When we need financing, we can turn to local sources, or we can get on that plane and teach the investors of the west coast how to come to JFK, which they all want to do anyway. I think there are enough people here now with the right idea so that the chance of booting up the next level is pretty good. It is not in any way a certainty -there are plenty of other geographies with a lot going for them. So the answer to question is -no NYC is not the next tech mecca. But it could be.

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Brooklyn Lawyer to Enter Brain Scan as Court Evidence for Client's Veracity Jeremy Hsu (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now) Submitted at 5/5/2010 3:00:59 PM

Lie Down No Lie MRI scans brain activity with fMRI to identify deceit patterns. Graham Blair The case could represent a legal precedent for sorting out truth from falsehood in a court of law Brain scans may become accepted evidence in a civil trial for the first time, if a Brooklyn lawyer gets his way, Wired reports.The case could set a legal precedent for allowing brain scans as evidence to determine whether or not a person is telling the truth. The lawyer, David Levin, represents a woman who claims that she no longer received good assignments from a temp agency after she complained of sexual harassment at a job site. A coworker at the temp agency claimed he heard a supervisor say the woman should not be placed on jobs because of the complaint. That prompted Levin to have the coworker undergo a functional magnetic-resonance

imaging (fMRI) brain scan by the company Cephos, which claims to provide scientific validation of whether someone is telling the truth. Now the proposed evidence will test the New York standards for scientific evidence in courts -known as the Frye standard -which typically requires the evidence to be considered

reliable among the broader scientific community. Both Cephos and another company called No Lie MRI have marketed their brain scans as lie detectors since 2007. They report accuracy rates from 75 percent to 98 percent under lab conditions, but many neuroscientists remain skeptical of, or outright opposed to, using

brain scan technology in court. We reported earlier on a Cephos-funded fMRI study at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, which tested people who participated in a mock crime within the experiment. The test caught guilty parties, but also sometimes netted innocents who were telling the truth. Last year, an Illinois court allowed an expert to describe the fMRI brain scan of man accused of murdering a 10-yearold-girl. But that was presented as evidence of the man's mental illness during the sentencing phase of the trial, whereas the new Brooklyn case would be a legal first for determining truthtelling. We'll be sure to keep an eye on whether this battleground between science and the law translates into wider use of brain scans or not. If it does pass muster with the Frye standard, expect even more debate over the use of brain scans as direct mind readers in the future. [via Wired]

FixPix Does Amazing Things With iPhone’s Tilt Sensor Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) Submitted at 5/6/2010 4:59:10 AM

Yes, we’ve seen many games that make use of iPhone’s tilt sensor, but FixPix somehow manages to make it look fresh with a simple, yet visually stunning game. The game is actually a 3D puzzle; by tilting the phone, you must align two superimposed images so that the overall picture makes sense. The fact that the graphics consists of beautiful pixel art, courtesy of eBoy, makes the experience even better. The game will be available for iPhone & iPod touch soon, but you can check out a neat video preview below. [ FixPix via Kotaku via Fast Company] For more mobile coverage, follow Mashable Mobile on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook Tags: FixPix, game, iphone, Mobile 2.0

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Inhalable Vaccine Get your daily dose here University of Colorado Snort a dose of prevention for measles or other diseases Future vaccination against measles, tuberculosis or even cervical cancer might be as simple as huffing from a plastic sack. Scientists have refined a powdered inhalable vaccine that is slated to undergo human clinical trials for preventing measles later this year in India. The inhalable vaccine bypasses the need for icky needles by mixing liquid carbon dioxide with weakened measles virus. That process creates microscopic bubbles and droplets which dry out and become an inhalable powder. Patients can then inhale their protection through a plastic nozzle similar to the neck of a plastic water bottle. Making the breakthrough required researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder to develop a mixing

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device known as the Carbon Dioxide Assisted Nebulization with a Bubble Dryer, or CANBD. The device mixes two streams of fluid and then rapidly expands them to atmospheric pressure, before mixing in warm nitrogen to try the tiny bubbles and droplets. "One of our primary goals of this project is to get rid of needles and syringes, because they frighten some people, they hurt, they can transmit diseases and there are issues with needle

disposal," said Robert Sievers, a biochemist at CU Boulder. His innovation also represents a cost -effective method, at just 26 cents per dose, or about the cost of an injectable vaccine. The no-needles approach has proved popular elsewhere. Australian scientists have developed a postage stamp-sized vaccine patches that can deliver a tiny but effective dose through the skin. A first focus on measles makes sense, given that the inhalable

vaccine goes directly to the lungs where measles typically attacks. But trypanophobes can also keep their fingers crossed for an inhalable treatment which delivers antibiotic particles for treating tuberculosis, or an inhalable treatment for the papilloma virus which causes cervical cancer.

It's abundantly clear that we need to get off fossil fuels for various reasons (try Googling "oil spill"), but our infrastructures are far better tuned for the hydrocarbon fuels of the past century than the renewables of the next. So why don't we just make fuels that work in our existing technology from renewable energy? A German-Austrian research collaboration has engineered a means to turn electricity from wind a solar resources into carbon-neutral natural gas that can be stored and deployed within existing natural gas infrastructure. The process hopes to create the storage capacity for renewable power sources that they so sorely lack. When the wind is blowing and the sun is shining, excess power is siphoned off and used to split water through electrolysis. But rather than storing the hydrogen gas for use in fuel cells -- technology that, while potentially gamechanging, is not widely employed -- a simple chemical reaction between hydrogen and SYSTEM page 76

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A Single Molecule Computes Thousands of Times Faster than Your PC Clay Dillow (Popular Science New Technology, Science News, The Future Now) Submitted at 5/5/2010 3:50:04 PM

Computing with Iodine A demo of a quantum calculation carried out by Japanese researchers has yielded some pretty mind-blowing results: a single molecule can perform a complex calculation thousands of times faster than a conventional computer. A proof-of-principle test run of a discrete Fourier transform -- a common calculation using spectral analysis and data compression, among other things -- performed with a single iodine molecule transpired very well, putting all the molecules in your PC to shame. Using quantum interference the vibrations of the atoms themselves - the team was able to run the complete discrete Fourier transform extremely quickly by encoding the inputs into an optically tailored vibrational wave packet which

is then run through an excited iodine molecule whose atomic elements are oscillating at known intervals and picked up by a receiver on the other side. The entire process takes just a few tens of femtoseconds (that's a quadrillionth of a second). So we're not just talking faster data flow or processing here; these are speeds that are physically impossible on any kind of conventional electronic device.

But don't trade in your conventional computing power just yet. Like other quantum information platforms, molecular computing is in its infancy; we understand some of its mechanisms, but it's difficult to execute and there are still a lot of unknowns. Further, researchers aren't quite sure how they could integrate such technology into something that works the way we're used to our

computers working. Still, the very fact that researchers were able to pull off a calculation at such speeds shows just how big of an impact molecular calculations could have on the science of computing. [ Science Daily]

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carbon dioxide is used to generate CH4, or a synthetic version of methane. That methane can be stored in existing natural gas facilities for use when renewable fuel sources are having an off day. Those supplies could also be used as a heat source during cold winters or burn in natural gas powered car engines. The synthetic methane does release carbon emissions into the air, but since the CO 2 used to make the synthetic methane is pulled from the atmosphere rather than the ground, the process only returns the carbon it initially pulled out.

And keep in mind this is envisioned as a backup storage system rather than a shift to a natural gas economy. On breezy, sunny days the synthetic methane stays in its tanks and the world turns on carbon-free power. The team has a demo plant up and running in Stuttgart, and a larger doubledigit megawatt system is planned by 2012. [ Fraunhofer]

Gallery: Inside the Pavilions of Expo 2010 John Mahoney (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)

here. Launch the gallery by clicking the thumbnails. Check out the rest of our World Expo coverage from Shanghai here: Submitted at 5/5/2010 1:34:40 PM Miguelín, the Spanish • Photo Guide: The Pavilion's Megababy John A r c h i t e c t u r e o f t h e E x p o Mahoney • I Want To Live in the Seed Yesterday we showed you some Cathedral o f o u r f a v o r i t e p a v i l i o n s ' • World Expo 2010 Shanghai: impressive exterior architecture, We're Here but what's on the inside, you • A Brief, Buttery Ride on may ask? Why, hyper-realistic Shanghai's Maglev Train megababies and other assorted wonders, of course! Check out a gallery of some of our favorite World Expo pavilion interiors

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And so forth and so on. Never mind. It’s time for the big questions: As it turns out, the Times Many details surrounding Square bomb may not have been Shahzad’s alleged attempt to set by someone who was mad bomb Times Square are hard to about Obamacare. reconcile. Why would someone As it turns out, the alleged links who spent a decade pursuing between the attempted bombing U.S. citizenship seek to bomb an and the Pakistani Taliban — American landmark and flee the which CBS initially called not country within a year of being credible — may have been real. naturalized? How could So once again, journalists are someone with a degree in playing catch up on a story that computers, who authorities say pivots on some of the central, admitted receiving bombhaunting questions of this era: making training in Pakistan, Why does this happen? Where is assemble such an the line between moderate and unsophisticated and non-violent forms of Islam and unsuccessful device? the radicalized forms that But the most elusive question embrace (and even mandate) about Shahzad — a man with no violence against infidels and known history of violence or even other Muslims that are connection to militant Islam — labeled as blasphemers? How do is the same one that often reporters find this line without surfaces in terrorism plots: asking questions about doctrine Why? and practice? Now, reporters Greg Miller and That’s the subject lurking Mary Beth Sheridan do appear behind the opening paragraphs to have asked some faith-based of this A1 Washington Post questions when talking with story, one of the first that I have people who knew Shahzad and seen that dares ask any religious his family, such as former questions about this event. family that neighbors often saw propane and a used car. r e n o u n c e a n d a b j u r e a l l neighbor Mary Ann Galich: Before he was accused of playing outside was suddenly OK, I’ll ask. What precisely is allegiance and fidelity to any Shahzad’s wife, Huma Mian, building a bomb, Faisal Shahzad gone. an “American life”? What are its foreign prince, potentate, state, often wore a veil and a robe, as had disassembled his American When Shahzad resurfaced in crucial elements? It looks like a or sovereignty of whom or did the family’s female friends, life. the United States in February, it suburban home in Connecticut, which I have heretofore been a Galich said. Shahzad wore suits In June, he abruptly quit his job appears to have been with a new a wife and two kids are the subject or citizen; or casual American standards as a financial analyst. The three- p u r p o s e . H e i g n o r e d t h e crucial ingredients. Then again, * that I will support and defend such as khakis. … In photos on bedroom, two-plus-bath house f o r e c l o s u r e f i l i n g s o f h i s it might have something to do the Constitution and laws of the social networking Web sites, he shared with his wife and two mortgage lender, and, according with: United States of America Shahzad gazes at the camera children in Shelton, Conn., was to authorities, spent his money I hereby declare, on oath, against all enemies, foreign and TIMES page 81 put on the market. The young on a prepaid cellphone, tanks of * that I absolutely and entirely domestic. … Submitted at 5/5/2010 10:41:53 AM

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‘Long gone,’ but not soon forgotten Bobby (GetReligion) Submitted at 5/6/2010 6:00:52 AM

To those who love baseball, it is more than a game. F. Scott Fitzgerald famously called it “the faith of 50 million people,” as Daniel Burke noted in a recent Religion News Service feature: It follows a seasonal calendar — begun this year on Easter Sunday — and builds towards a crowning moment. Its players perform priestly rituals, its

history abounds with tales of mythic heroes, and its fans study and argue arcana with the intensity of Talmudic scholars. Sadly, baseball has lost one of its true saints: Ernie Harwell, the longtime voice of the Detroit Tigers. Despite his love of the game, Harwell put his faith not in baseball, but in Jesus Christ. In his final months, Harwell, 92, made no secret of his strong Christian faith and his belief that God had a better home waiting

for him. In an October 2009 video interview with Mitch Albom that accompanies this post, Harwell talked about his spring-training conversion at a 1961 Billy Graham Easter crusade in Bartow, Fla.: “That’s what made the big change. I surrendered my life completely, and now whatever he (God) wants suits me fine. … It’s a great blessing that he has given to me that in my final days, I can really know where I’m going, whose arms I’m

going to end up in and what a great, great thing heaven will be.” As you’d expect, both Detroit newspapers devoted extensive space Wednesday to Harwell’s death, with plenty of colorful baseball anecdotes and warm personal tributes. But how’d they fare on the faith angle? Well, the Detroit Free Press didn’t exactly strike out. But the big part of the bat came nowhere close to the ball, either.

Let’s call it a weak infield fly. Up high in its nearly 3,900word main obituary, the Free Press references Harwell’s faith: “I’m ready to face what comes,” he said at the time. “Whether it’s a long time or a short time is all right with me because it’s up to my Lord and savior.” In the ensuing months, in an emotional farewell ceremony at Comerica Park, in his columns for the Free Press and in ‘LONG page 81

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Surveying the damage Sarah Pulliam Bailey (GetReligion) Submitted at 5/5/2010 1:30:49 PM

I have mixed feelings about newspapers conducting their own polls. On on hand, it seems too easy: conduct a poll, interpret the data and you have a story. On the other hand, it allows them to quickly pounce on a story in the news that scholars might not touch for several years. Often these newspaper surveys miss the potential religion angle or variable, but I’ve seen at least three compelling religionrelated polls to consider this week. First, let’s look at The New York Times poll of 412 American Catholics’ views on the Church. The data is interesting, but I’m not sure why it took five reporters to interview three people to fit the narrative they found in the survey: Betsy Conrath, who is 60 and a retired weather broadcaster in Spokane, Wash., said in a follow-up interview: “They are not going to cover up any more and hope and pray it will just go away. Now that the pope has a handle on it, things will change. “I have been totally saddened by all of this,” Ms. Conrath said, “but I’m still very much a Catholic and have not lost my faith in my religion.” Norbert Wellman, 71, a retiree

in West Point, Iowa, who worked for a chemical company and a state prison, said: “Since the news came out and was spread around in all the newspapers, they got the idea

they’re going to have to do the best they can to fix the problem. I think before, maybe, they thought it wouldn’t get out.” …Mary Dunham, a 64-year-old quilter and crafter in

Orfordville, Wis., said in a follow-up interview: “The sexual abuse issue goes back to the Vatican. They allowed it to be covered up for so long because they didn’t want the

church to look bad. Had a woman been pope, she wouldn’t have allowed it. She would have strung up these guys herself.” These quotes are kind of lame and serve as padding for the set narrative, but the poll itself reveals some interesting numbers. Almost 80 percent of survey respondents said that their financial contributions to the Catholic Church have stayed the same and 82 percent say media reports have had no effect on Mass attendance. For GetReligion readers, perhaps the most interesting number comes out of the news media treatment of the Catholic Church. Compared to the way the media treated other religions, 64 percent of respondents said that they have been harder on the Catholic Church, 3 percent said they have been easier, 30 percent said they have been the same, 4 percent had no opinion. Are you surprised by these numbers? Remember, this is media perception, which is interesting to evaluate. Next, we have USA Today, which released a poll related to the National Day of Prayer. One group was asked if they favored or opposed the National Day of Prayer or if it “doesn’t matter.” About 57% of adults favor it, and 38% shrugged it off. Only SURVEYING page 81

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Anglicans and/or Episcopalians? Mollie (GetReligion) Submitted at 5/5/2010 3:29:32 PM

Church splits, as anyone who’s ever been unlucky enough to endure one can tell you, are difficult. Writing about them is difficult, too. The point of disagreement leading to a break might not be the same for everyone. Different causes get lumped together. Personalities are wounded. It can be a mess. The Oregonian attempted to write about a recent congregational split at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Parish. The story isn’t bad, but it does have some errors: For the second week, two dozen people gathered in the wood and brick building on Northeast Prescott Street that has been their home for 55 years. An hour later, almost 100 of their former brothers and sisters in Christ, who recently declared themselves Anglicans, worshiped in rented space at Mt.Tabor Seventh-day Adventist Church. The storm that has battered the Episcopal Church in the United States has touched down in Portland. “Brother and sister in Christ” is not a term that Christians use just for members of a given congregation. Typically, that term is used to describe anyone else who is a baptized member of the church. So unless both parishes have written off the other group as heathens, that’s

not quite the best phrase to use. And about the Anglican business. This is tricky, sure, but both groups would consider themselves Anglican. The Anglican Communion includes the Episcopal Church in the United States. If you’re an Episcopalian, you’re an Anglican. But as the other group shows, being Anglican doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a member of the Episcopal Church in the United States — even if you’re geographically located in the United States. Moving on: Since the Episcopal Church in the United States decided in 2003 to accept the election of its first openly gay bishop, the denomination has been rocked with disagreements over biblical authority. With a reputation as a conservative congregation, St. Matthew’s had for 66 years included people who read the Bible almost literally and others who interpreted it from more liberal points of view. But over time, that range grew problematic. On March 21, a majority of St. Matthew’s members voted to leave the church. Well, not just since 2003, of course — but for decades prior to that. The denomination has been dealing with disagreements over biblical authority for at least 30 years, if not longer than that. The identification of the 2003 consecration of Bishop

Gene Robinson is important, but the story goes back further than that. And what does “almost literally” mean? That phrase is meaningless enough to warrant a better description. Still, the story is nice. It shows how different groups are reaching out to the congregation. It gives glimpses of the different worship services last Sunday. It puts the split in larger context, both for Oregon and North America. I didn’t realize, for instance, that the Anglican Church in North America (founded last year) already had 805 congregations

always been expressed. But it seems that the national church is reassessing its understanding, redefining it in some ways.” The “bonds of affection” that have held the Episcopal communion together have been stretched to the breaking point, he said. And even though the Episcopal bishop declined to be interviewed for the story, the reporter worked to include his perspective as well. And that from a member of the continuing congregation: Before the Episcopalian service, Toodie Butts, a member of St. Matthew’s for more than 40 years, said the separation has been heart-wrenching. She said she didn’t attend the year’s worth of Bible studies and small group meetings that Humphrey said led to the March vote. “I didn’t want to leave,” she as members. And it gives said. “This is my church. They members and clergy from both just decided to go, and I’ve sides ample space to put forth never known exactly why. I was their side of the story. In all here last week, and I’m afraid I cases, the quotes seemed well blubbered through the whole chosen and thoughtful: service. Hopefully, some of [The Rev. David] Humphrey’s them will come back.” words hinted at the division It’s a sad story, as all stories within St. Matthew’s Episcopal about splits are bound to be. Parish, where he had been rector And yet the reporter handled the since 2004 before resigning last story delicately and fairly, month. allowing people to speak about “We are a historic, orthodox, their motivations and hopes and traditional church with a biblical balancing those perspectives understanding of the faith,” with other helpful information. Humphrey said in an interview Five Filters featured article: last week. “We believe we are ANGLICANS page 81 expressing our faith as it has

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interviews with national media, Harwell referred to death as his next great adventure, a gift handed down by God. “I’ve had so many great ones,” he said. “It’s been a terrific life.” But that’s it. The end. There’s no mention of Harwell’s conversion experience back in ‘61. No discussion of the role faith played in his life. The only other reference to God is this quote from his final broadcast in 2002: He wrapped up the address and 55 years as a major league broadcaster by saying, “I thank you very much, and God bless all of you.” Interestingly enough, Harwell also said something else that day, but this didn’t make the story: “Now, God has a new adventure for me, and I’m ready to move on.” As part of its package on Harwell’s death, the Free Press

makes other quick references (in columns by Albom and Rochelle Riley) to Harwell’s faith, but nothing substantial. Meanwhile, let’s be blunt and say that The Detroit News missed the religion angle altogether, as best I can tell. As Harwell would put it, “They stood there like the house by the side of the road and watched that one go by.” Seriously, the News’ main obituary has more than 1,700 words — not a one of them “God,” “Jesus,” “Christian,” “faith” or “heaven.” We get tributes like this: Upon learning of Harwell’s death, Tigers owner Mike Ilitch said: “Ernie Harwell was the most popular sports figure in the state of Michigan. He was so genuine in everything that he did — from his legendary broadcasting to the way he treated the fans and everyone around him. He was truly a gentleman in every sense of the

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with a trimmed beard and tightlipped smile. In one, he wears a tan blazer and poses in front of a gothic cathedral — presumably in New York City — embracing his wife. Huma Mian wears a scarf and jeans in the photo, her tight curls uncovered. Her whereabouts are unclear now, amid reports that she and the children are in Pakistan. She used to update her

word. Ernie has a special place in the hearts of all Detroit Tigers’ fans and the memories he created for so many of us will never be forgotten.” That’s wonderful. But was there something inside of Harwell that made him such a gentleman? Was there a reason he was so genuine? Could it — just possibly — have something to do with his faith? By contrast, I was pleased to see ESPN highlight Harwell’s faith in a significant way. In a video accompanying its obituary, ESPN notes that Harwell started each season by referencing a Bible verse — a passage from Song of Solomon: For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. ESPN includes an AP quote

from Harwell on his faith in “God and Jesus” and links to a December 2009 feature on how Harwell’s spirituality provided peace as his friends and fans said goodbye. That feature ends this way: “I have great faith that heaven’s there and I’ll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there,” Harwell says. “I think it’s better than here. I think God always has the best for us. “I just have faith. It’s just there. It’s not any big deal.” No, it’s a real big deal, an important part of who Harwell was. Coverage of his life — and death — should reflect that. Five Filters featured article: The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.

4.5% opposed it. For most 18- to 29-year-olds, it could be the National Day of Whatever â€” 59% said it doesn’t matter. Those who most strongly favor it were Republicans (76%); women 50 and older (71%); and Midwesterners (71%) or Southerners (63%). In case you forgot, the National Day of Prayer is tomorrow, so the poll should give other reporters some numbers to jump off of if they’re looking for angles. Personally, I was surprised only about 5 percent of respondents oppose the day. Finally, the Washington Post did a general news poll that included questions religion news observers will find interesting. First, they asked whether respondents preferred the next Supreme Court nominee to be Protestant, and 83 percent of respondents said it was not a SURVEYING page 82

Facebook account frequently. Under “activities,” she lists the laments of a young mother: “changing diapers, feeding milk, wiping drools, being sleep deprived.” Of course, superficial details may not matter. In the past, it seemed that members of sleeper cells were trained to avoid visible signs of devout faith and practice, to

blend in. So Huma Mian is veiled some of the time and not at others. What does that mean? Was this before or after her husband returned from what is alleged to have been a pivotal trip to Pakistan for terrorist training? Did the details of their life and faith change at that time? Before? Meanwhile, there are biographical details that suggest

family roots that may, or may not, be important. The 30-yearold Shahzad, the story tells us, was “from Pabbi, the main town of the Nowshera district in the northwest, near Peshawar, a city at the edge of the tribal region where al-Qaeda and other militant groups now hide.” His father was in the Pakistani TIMES page 82

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factor, while 70 percent preferred someone with experience. The survey also asked whether respondents think Roe v. Wade should be overturned; 59 respondents said no while 38 percent said yes. About 35 percent of evangelical respondents said they identify with the tea party, when Quinnipiac University’s poll in March found that one in five evangelicals identify with that movement. Remember when we have several narratives going on about whether evangelicals were joining in with the tea party business? Unofficially, I haven’t

seen much excitement or activity in conservative Christian political action groups, though James Dobson did praise Rand Paul for identifying with the tea party movement. Theoretically, this gives us some data to consider at the grassroots level. Journalist can often ask the survey firm for the phone numbers for people who reveal certain characteristics on their answers. This can be very useful because if, for example, you find people who are sticking with Catholic Church even if they disagree with it, a survey can’t tell you why; you can call

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military. Then there are the details about his erratic behavior and bombfocused work once Shahzad returned to the United States. It seems clear that he returned with a mission. But was it a mission that he welcomed? Once again, why did a bright, educated computer professional build such a crude and flawed bomb? At this stage we still have a story containing a huge gap, a gap between the citizenship oath and the smoking SUV in Times Square. If Shahzad did this, why? If he was reluctant to do this act, what was the lever that

was pulled to force him to do it? Why, indeed. EDITOR’S NOTE: Those interested in the bloody and tragic history of Pakistan will want to check out this Wall Street Journal essay — “ Why Pakistan Produces Jihadists” — HootSuite Gives by Sadanand Dhume. Five Filters featured article: Groups More Twitter The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK and Facebook Tools General Election. Available Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!) tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:10:16 AM Text RSS, Term Extraction. For teams who use Facebook and Twitter for business or organizations purposes, HootSuite has rolled out a slew of new features for assigning HOOTSUITE page 83

Yahoo’s New Ad Disses Google, Glorifies The Web Portal of Old [VIDEO] Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) Submitted at 5/6/2010 3:49:20 AM

Yahoo launched a new$85 million ad campaign, aiming to promote Yahoo as the single destination for all your online needs. Their slogan: “Your favorite stuff all in one place. Make Yahoo your home page.” Their first target: Google. The ad from the campaign, embedded below, starts by showing a site much like Google, consisting of a search box and little else. When you look at this homepage, the ad claims, “nothing looks back at you. You come to this place so you can leave.” “At Yahoo, we have a different idea. Your homepage isn’t blank, or anonymous; it doesn’t hustle you out the door. It’s a place that gets to know you, a place that finds things for you, a place that surprises you, a place you wanna stay,” the ad continues. Yes, it’s one way to look at things. But Google’s idea of reducing the search page to little

more than a box and a button came years after Yahoo. The web portal of old, with news, links and search all in one place, is far from dead (and Yahoo is improving on the concept by adding access to numerous online services, such as Facebook, to its site), but most users still prefer Google, at least when it comes to search. What do you think: can this ad by Yahoo convince people to use Google less and Yahoo more? For more web video coverage, follow Mashable Web Video on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook Reviews: Facebook, Google, Twitter Tags: ad campaign, Google, MARKETING, Search, Yahoo

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and sharing tasks. HootSuite’s Assignment function lets managers assign a Twitter update to any team member, along with annotations if needed. The team member can mark the message resolved, and the manager can monitor progress and keep records of campaigns. Shared columns allow teams to simultaneously view data commonly used for social media marketing. HootSuite’s shareable columns can be used to monitor keywords, track conversations around a vertical or monitor @replies and DMs. Messages from columns can be assigned, and any changes a column creator makes to a column are seen by other team members, as well. The new tools also include the ability to send status updates via email and share collections of drafted messages. The ability to

assign tasks to team members and share content in columns across groups is “ideally suited for support desks, customer service groups, project teams and dynamic workplaces,” according to a release from Hootsuite last night. The company hopes the new features will allow teams to be more efficient and their brand messaging more consistent. Features are available now in the web-based version of HootSuite. We’ve noticed HootSuite cranking out major upgrades consistently over the past several months. In terms of team collaboration and CRM social media tools, this company seems to be en fuego. Last week, HootSuite added Facebook support and geolocation features to its iPhone app. A month ago, HootSuite integrated Foursquare

and MySpace capabilities— a surefire path to the hearts of marketers and recording artist promoters. You can use HootSuite from your Android phone; you can use it to update your WordPress blog. Clearly, this team is focused on making a robust and competitive application in a very crowded space. What do you think of these upgrades? If you use social media tools as a marketer, are HootSuite’s tools appropriate to the tasks you need to accomplish within your team? For more social media coverage, follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook Tags: crm, groups, hootsuite

Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!) Submitted at 5/6/2010 1:18:24 AM

A 6.5- or 6.4-magnitude earthquake has just hit parts of Peru and Chile, and tweets are flooding in from news sources and folks who were affected by the quake. Blackouts are being reported, likely due to downed electricity poles, and at least 10 injuries

Apple Patent Could See Heart Rate Monitors in iPhones Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) Submitted at 5/6/2010 8:46:49 AM

A new patent application by Apple describes an “integrated sensor for detecting a user’s cardiac activity” embedded into an electronic device – presumably an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. The sensor, as Apple describes it, could be completely hidden from view, and the “electrical signals generated by the user can be transmitted from the user’s skin through the electronic device housing to the leads.” Then, using these signals, the electronic device can “identify or authenticate the user and perform an operation based on the identity of the user. In some embodiments, the electronic device can determine the user’s mood from the cardiac signals and provide data related to the user’s mood.” have also been reported so far. I’m not particularly fond of the W h e t h e r t h e r e w e r e a n y idea of my iPhone glowing all casualties remains unknown, but only moderate damage has been seen so far. The epicenter of the quake was 25 miles west of Tacna, and it occurred at 10:42 p.m.

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red as I grab it, softly uttering the words “What’s the matter? Why are you angry, Stan?” I do, however, have to admit that the idea sounds interesting, especially when you think what Apple has been able to accomplish by adding some simple sensors, such as the accelerometer, to its smartphone. Check out the patent application here. For more Apple coverage, follow Mashable Apple on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook [via Unwired View] Tags: apple, heart rate monitor, iphone, ipod

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We have also heard that some people living near the Peruvian coast have evacuated their homes due to fear of a tsunami. Folks are using Twitter to share first aid information, including diagrams for treating fractures, and expressing feelings of concern for affected Peruvians. We will update as more information becomes available. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing an marked spike in the use of social media to spread news, find help and express condolences during and after natural disasters.

Following the earthquake in Haiti several months ago, pictures swept across Twitter. The same happened following a Mexicali earthquake last month and recent flooding in the American South. For more social media coverage, follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook Tags: Earthquake, peru, twitter