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Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:54:52 AM lieu of $50,000 bond. the attack and telephoned for help Musil. Schiavone said. Bertrand, of Portland, Ore., but didn't intervene. Adams and Musil stopped the The district attorney's office said By SHEILA V KUMAR, appeared calm at his court The two workers, Frontier assault, yet the two wish they a decision on whether to file Associated Press appearance but occasionally Airlines mechanics Mark Adams could have done more. Both said formal charges would come later DENVER – The rape of a woman wrung papers he was holding. He and Kris Musil, told Denver's they feel tremendous guilt. this week. Authorities said he at Denver International Airport had a beard and wore yellow KMGH-TV they were working on "I wish we could have got there a didn't yet have an attorney. has left family members raising prison-issued shirt and pants. the tarmac when they saw lot sooner," said Adams. No one returned telephone questions about the late-night The family of the woman who something happening through the Despite the attack, the two messages left at what were attack and officials defending was raped raised questions about window inside concourse A but believe the airport is safe, but they believed to be Bertrand's home in security at the Rocky Mountain whether some employees they weren't sure what. do have a warning. Portland and his family's home in hub, which serves millions of witnessed the attack about 12:30 "To me it looked like someone "If it happened up there on a Vancouver, Wash. travelers each year. a.m. Tuesday in Concourse A was trying to stuff something into concourse, it can happen KMGH-TV reported that a Police spokesman Sonny Jackson without intervening. Family a suitcase," Adams said. anywhere," said Adams. woman who identified herself as said Wednesday that violent crime members said the woman told The men quickly realized The family members said the Bertrand's grandmother said is rare at the airport, and that he them three people she believed to someone was being hurt. woman was flying from her home Bertrand is a former Marine. One knows of one other alleged sexual be airport employees walked by "I saw the hair waving and that is in Oregon to a convent in Peoria, of his previous addresses in public assault there, which he said without helping. when I yelled at Mark and said, Ill., to look into a yearlong service records was a U.S. Marine facility involved an airport worker The victim's family members said `we got to go,'" said Musil. program through the Catholic in Japan. attacking another employee in an she had missed a connecting flight Once inside, they saw a man and Church. The woman, who comes ___ area not accessible to the public. Monday evening and had to spend a woman. from a military family, is Associated Press reporter Dan An airport spokeswoman the night at the airport. She said "The first thing I saw as I went participating in a program at a Elliott contributed to this story. seconded Jackson's comments, her assailant had struck up a through the door and was going convent and is on a break from This entry passed through the telling The Denver Post that conversation with her in a after him was he reared back and studying to be a dental hygienist, Full-Text RSS service — if this is "something like this is terrible, but restaurant, and then followed her smacked the girl pretty hard," said according to her family. your content and you're reading it it's also very rare." out of the eatery, sat down beside Adams. "Then (he) finally The Associated Press does not on someone else's site, please read "We have many, many layers of her and tried to kiss her, stopped when I yelled at him." use the names of people who the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- security," spokeswoman Jenny according to a family member. While Adams approached the report being sexually assaulted only/faq.php#publishers. Five Schiavone told the newspaper. When she objected, the man man, Musil said he came from unless they agree to be identified. Filters featured article: Libya and "We believe the airport is threw her to the floor and behind. The workers said once he The AP isn't identifying the Oil. absolutely safe." assaulted her, the relative said. saw both men and heard Musil family member to protect the The suspect, Noel Alexander Jackson, of the Denver police, yelling at the police, he stepped woman's identity. Bertrand, 26, appeared in district said two workers pulled a man off away from the woman. Airport officials said they believe court Wednesday after his arrest the woman shortly before police "At one time the man said, `I am airport workers, including on suspicion of sexual assault a officers and airport security going to go now,' and I told him employees of outside contractors, Newstablet Edition Top News/ 3 Lack of Clear 2012 GOP Candidate Is 'Unusual,' Says Pollster (Christianpost.com > Politics) according to a Gallup poll Heritage Foundation, says the Convention earlier this year. He

Submitted at 4/14/2011 5:55:03 AM analysis. ground is already set for a GOP reminded the audience of the Interestingly, candidates such as challenger. biblical Proverb that teaches a (Photo: AP Images) Mitt Romney who were “The country has moved to the good man leaves an inheritance (from left) Mitt Romney, Michele previously expected to be clear right,” asserted Franc. Last year, a for his children. “It is immoral to Bachmann, and Mike Huckabee favorites in 2012 race have not Gallup poll showed that 42 bind our children to as leeching have established exploratory met expectations, Newport noted. percent of respondents describe and destructive a force as debt," commitees for a possible In Gallup’s positive intensity poll, themselves as either very he said. presidential run. only 17 percent of Republicans conservative or conservative. According to Jackson, the NAE– vote. Just last month, Trump, a said they had a favorable view of Another 20 percent reported they which represents some 30 million That same weekend, Pacific political unknown, was nowhere him. By comparison, Huckabee were either very liberal or liberal. evangelicals – has also Homeschool Super Conference close to the top spot. Huckabee, a who led the poll had a 27 percent The new conservative majority, acknowledged the national debt as attendees selected former Senator consistent leader in the polls, only favorable rating. according Franc, is primarily a moral issue and believes that Rick Santorum as their winner in leads the pack by single-digit Newport said of Romney, “He’s concerned with reigning in evangelical voters will be a straw poll with 28 percent. Tim percentage points. very well known. He’s been a government spending and searching for a candidate that can Pawlenty was the runner up with Frank Newport, the editor in front runner, but he’s just not instituting fiscal responsibility. grow the economy. 20 percent of the vote, followed chief of Gallup, says “this is a generating the energy.” He expects evangelicals will put Both Romney and Huckabee by Herman Cain with 16 percent. very unusual year” for GOP The difference between previous down their Christian hats and vote touted their experience as a Bishop Harry Jackson, a candidates because, unlike years and this year, Newport with fiscal conservatives in the businessman in their recent Maryland pastor and a board previous presidential races, there opined, is “that none of the 2012 race. This election year, exploratory committee member at the National is no clear leader. candidates have established Franc said, “It’s all hands on announcement videos. However, Association of Evangelicals, said Newport revealed that almost themselves.” deck, especially Christian hands.” Newport said the momentum is he believes conservative voters every year leading up to the Still, the polls show that GOP He explained that Christians are behind Huckabee as well as are very concerned with picking a presidential election, there has voters also have not established intensely focused on the budget Bachmann. leader that they can follow. “Folks been a clear leader. In 2008, Rudy which candidate they favor. talks currently taking place in the This entry passed through the don’t want to be duped one more Giuliani was a clear favorite This past weekend, attendees of White House and on Capitol Hill. Full-Text RSS service — if this is time,” said Jackson. among Republicans. In 1999, the Awakening 2011 conference “There are a lot of moral aspects your content and you're reading it President Obama’s approval George W. Bush was the chief for American values voters to what is going on in on someone else's site, please read rating currently rests at 44 GOP contender. In 1996, Robert selected Rep. Michele Bachmann Washington,“ stated Franc. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- percent, according an April “Bob” Dole dominated the right’s as its straw poll winner. House Speaker John Boehner only/faq.php#publishers. Five Gallup poll. His disapproval candidate list. Each of those Bachmann won 23 percent of the touched on the immorality Filters featured article: Libya and rating is at 48 percent. candidates had a double-digit vote, while Huckabee garnered Christians believe is threatening Oil. Michael Franc, vice president of lead, which in Bush’s case, 22.8 percent and Newt Gingrich the nation’s economy at the conservative think tank the carried him into the presidency, placed third with 21 percent of the National Religious Broadcasters Pa. woman critical after knitting needle stabbing (AP) (Yahoo! News: Most Popular) AP - A woman in Pittsburgh who knitting needle is in critical surgery. said she'd been stabbed with a condition following emergency 4 Top News/ Newstablet Edition Highway To Health: Rock Health Wants To Make Wellness As Fun As Guitar Hero David Zax (Fast Company) with health," he tells Fast

Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:46:50 AM Company, in a great understatement. And yet consider Halle Tecco, who founded the for a moment the act of sprinting, new health-care startup incubator and the game of tag. If a PE Rock Health, is bringing in teacher takes a class outside to do visionaries like the founder of sprints, they hate it. Have them Guitar Hero to help creative, play tag, and they'll do it innovative, and--dare we say it-- voluntarily for 30 minutes without fun health-care startups get off the complaining. "Tag is sprinting, ground. wrapped in a set of rules and Halle Tecco was working last objectives that makes it a game. I year for the Apple App Store know we can find many ways to when she realized something: she make health, fitness, and wellness was jealous of her coworker's job. more fun." This was curious, because in Games drive adoption of new some respects, Tecco was right technologies, he adds. 3D, where she wanted to be. A student accelerometers, and gesture- at the Harvard Business School, control all found their footing in she knew she wanted an gaming. "Games have to keep internship in the health-care field. innovating because the lifecycles But at the same time, she wanted of games are so short," says to work in a place filled with a coming in. There was lots of process will close May 13, and Health has a team of physicians Huang. "Pharma companies are spirit of innovation. Her job in the creativity around building a some dozen lucky winners will willing to offer medical expertise. worried about patent expiration business development division of product, using all the features." soon be receiving $20,000 grants Can Tecco really make health for blockbuster drugs. In games, the App Store, with a focus on Hospitals, meanwhile, seemed to along with a host of other startup care as creative, innovative, and-- few games will ever live long medical apps, ought to have been create their apps almost support (legal counsel, design dare we say it--fun as gaming? enough to see the end of a 17-year ideal. reluctantly, as part of a "check-the advice, mentoring, and so on). She's off to a good start, to judge patent protection period." "That being said, I was jealous of -box strategy," recalls Tecco. The cohort will be announced in from her partners. Charles Huang, Follow Fast Company on Twitter. the woman who sat next to me," Tecco developed a business plan June. who founded Guitar Hero, is on Email David Zax, the author of Tecco tells Fast Company. That in a class, and that grew into Rock "We don't care if someone has board; he has a longstanding this post, or follow him on woman who sat next to Tecco Health, a nonprofit incubator for health experience," Tecco says of interest in health care, and has Twitter. covered gaming, rather than health-care startups. Rock Health the applicants. "In fact, if they volunteered to mentor startups Read More: Most Innovative medical, apps. "Every day, really has been soliciting applications have no experience in health care, that come through Rock Health. Companies: Apple interesting developers were since the first of this month; that it might even be better." Rock "'Fun' is a word rarely associated Newstablet Edition Top News/ Technology/ 5 New App To Fix Android's Privacy And Data-Security Holes Coming Soon Kit Eaton (Fast Company) that data on a per-app basis. What

Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:45:07 AM iOS lacks is the "anonymized" or "bogus" setting equivalents to Android phones have many good send misleading data to an app-- qualities, but privacy protection but it's something Apple would be and personal data security aren't unlikely to sanction, because such high on the list. Enter a new app data is used to drive advertising that enables privacy mode. systems which earn developers Researchers at North Carolina money, and the money is one of State University tackled the the attractions of iOS as a emerging concerns about user- platform. data privacy protection in Android We can gain a little insight as to smartphones. To combat leaking why Android needs a third party data, prevent apps from sharing app like this from the recent data that users would prefer they pronouncements of Andy Rubin didn't, and to prevent data loss if about fragmentation. According to an app is maliciously searching Google's engineering exec, the for info, a team under Dr. Xuxian platform doesn't need protection Jiang put together has created a from fragmentation because the new mode for Android devices protocols already in place are that adds in a user-controlled good enough and the key to privacy interface. "anonymized," "bogus," and specialization options for resources. everything is openness. If we The system is called Taming "empty"--apps that are trusted are particular types of personal data, The question remains, of course, extrapolate this stance to privacy/ Information-Stealing Smartphone allowed free reign, apps that are and even for different why Android doesn't have this protection matters, then it's Applications (TISSA), and its anonymized are sent general applications, but for now it's a one kind of protection built in to the basically in the hands of the users, primary task is to install information but barred from -size-fits-all affair and the team is core OS. It's something that the gods, and third-party customizable privacy settings for accessing "real" personal data, investigating how it could make Apple's highly controlled iOS developers who are trying to help. the level of information that each and "bogus" apps get sent fake its research available to Android code includes, and has actually [Image via Flickr user ptc24] app can access and/or share. The data. The highest setting ,"empty," users. The hands-on management improved over time. Recent To read more news like this settings can be tweaked merely tells apps that request the system requires even lines up adjustments to iOS have even follow Kit Eaton himself and Fast dynamically, and could be personal data that is does not exist pretty well with the way Android seen visual alerts that remind Company on Twitter. adjusted each time you run an app or is unavailable. users have to manage their users an app is asking for personal if you so choose. Essentially, it Jiang has suggested the system existing apps to ensure they don't information, like location, even lets you switch between "trusted," could be customized, adding extra use up too many system though you can choose to share Ebooks for PCs, Macs, Sony Readers, mobile phones ... [email protected] (Ad A vast range of ebooks from the and professional publishers ServeRSS) (AdServRSS Feed) world's leading academic, popular 6 Top News/ Newstablet Edition 'American Idol' finalists attack movie tunes (AP) (Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) Cyrus." "Nature Boy" from "The Boy with

Submitted at 4/14/2011 2:15:20 AM "I love what you bring to a song, Green Hair." Ivovine originally and I love more what a song pushed Abrams to perform Phil By DERRIK J. LANG, AP brings to you," said Steven Tyler. Collins' "In the Air Tonight" from Entertainment Writer Paul McDonald and Scotty "Risky Business," but Abrams 'Several injured as 4 LOS ANGELES – Jennifer McCreery stayed in their comfort took a stand with "Nature Boy." Lopez isn't sure "American Idol" zones. McDonald, the 26-year-old James Durbin, the 22-year-old viewers will be calling in for performer from Nashville, Tenn., rocker from Santa Cruz, Calif., blasts strike Libyan finalist Haley Reinhart. kicked off the show with Bob also faced off against Ivovine Lopez said the bluesy 20-year- Seger's "Old Time Rock and Roll" over his song choice of Sammy capital' - Jerusalem Post old college student from from "Risky Buisness." Hagar's "Heavy Metal" from the (Top Stories - Google News) Wheeling, Ill., didn't dial up her McCreery, the 17-year-old high film of the same name. The who heard the gunfire said. The correspondent said coalition best performance with Blondie's school student from Garner, N.C., rebellion also paid off for Durbin, Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:57:17 AM "Call Me" from "American kept it mellow with George who was accompanied by guitarist jets appeared to have increased Libyan state television reported Gigolo" on the Fox talent Strait's "I Cross My Heart" from Zakk Wylde of Black Label the number of sorties over the that air strikes hitting Tripoli on competition's evening of film "Pure Country." Society. His performance capital and could be heard flying Thursday resulted in several tunes Wednesday. The show's Stefano Langone's take on Boyz prompted Randy Jackson to overhead throughout the morning casualties. Four blasts were heard lone female judge was reluctant to II Men's "End of the Road" from repeatedly chant, "Durbin rocks!" and early afternoon. in the Libyan capital and NATO criticize Reinhart because every "Boomerang" incited Lopez to One of the eight finalists will be Earlier on Thursday, Libyan warplanes could be seen eliminated finalist has been a shout an expletive after the 21- dismissed Thursday. government forces struck the overhead, two Reuters witnesses woman this season. year-old crooner from Kent, ___ coastal city of Misrata with said. "I don't want any of the girls to go Wash., performed. Tyler was also Fox is a unit of News Corp. dozens of Grad rockets, killing One photographer said she saw a home," lamented People silenced after Jacob Lusk, the 23- ___ eight people, a rebel spokesman jet in the sky moments before one magazine's most beautiful woman. year-old spa concierge of Online: said. loud explosion that threw up a The show's other remaining Compton, Calif., sang Simon and http://www.americanidol.com Misrata, Libya's third-biggest plume of smoke. female crooner, 16-year-old high Garfunkel's "Bridge Over This entry passed through the city, is the only major rebel RELATED: school student Lauren Alaina of Troubled Water" from "The Full-Text RSS service — if this is stronghold in the west of the Clinton slams Libya forces' Rossville, Ga., fared better with Pursuit of Happyness." your content and you're reading it country. It has been the scene of 'brutal attacks' on civilians Miley Cyrus' "The Climb" from "God bless you and your voice," on someone else's site, please read major fighting between rebels and NATO hawks and doves bitterly "Hannah Montana: The Movie." boasted Tyler. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- Gaddafi's forces for several divided over Libya Before taking the stage, "Idol" The judges provided a standing only/faq.php#publishers. Five weeks. A second correspondent said he mentor and Interscope chief ovation to Casey Abrams, the 20- Filters featured article: Libya and This entry passed through the could see smoke rising from the Jimmy Ivovine told Alania that he year-old film camp counselor of Oil. Full-Text RSS service — if this is southeast of the city after hearing thought she was "a much, much Idyllwild, Calif., after his jazzy your content and you're reading it four blasts. stronger singer than Miley rendition of Nat King Cole's on someone else's site, please read Moments beforehand, Libyan the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- government forces fired anti- only/faq.php#publishers. Five aircraft guns at NATO warplanes Filters featured article: Libya and from positions in the Libyan Oil. capital, a Reuters correspondent Newstablet Edition Top News/ 7 What Netflix And eHarmony Can Teach College Guidance Counselors Gregory Ferenstein (Fast can often outpace their tolerance Company) for chemistry or their awareness

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Submitted at 4/14/2011 2:43:10 AM And “scale” was one of those key sustainable energy solutions in leading service providers. “In the At another Roundtable panel words many speakers underscored India) stated, “To bring clean past, if you uttered the words discussion The Asset Owner By James O. Grundvig Created: during the summit. energy to India, we need a ‘clean energy’ around the UN, the Perspective, Dr. H. Jeffrey Apr 14, 2011 Last Updated: Apr From the keynote speakers and paradigm shift in business delegates just looked at you or Leonard, CEO of Global 14, 2011 UN delegates, to industry models. Local ownership.” He turned away. That was because Environment Fund, and Vickie NEW YORK—$100 billion by executives, business leaders and paused and with a passion for his for sixty years, Saudi Arabia and Tillman, VP of environmental 2020, with $100 billion of annual politicians, the summit talked, homeland, said: “Existing the United States controlled the markets and former heard of funding thereafter—that is the discussed, debated, and business models of the West will conversations on energy. No ratings at Standard & Poor’s, both goal made by the United Nations disseminated all things green. not work in countries like India. more. Over the next two decades, emphasized the need to develop a Foundation, UN-Energy, and How to reduce the global carbon Flat fees and subscription fees are we will deliver clean new metrics. It would evaluate many countries of the developed footprint; how to build incentives out. Micro-usage model in paying energy—solar, wind, and clean energy risk. Combined with world attending the 4th annual to invest; how to provide access to for clean energy is what will work biofuels—to the billion and a half public money and policymakers, Bloomberg New Energy Finance energy for the many poor, remote for the people of India. It has to people who don’t have access to the assets component of pension Summit, held in New York City regions around the world; how to be like kerosene. Behave as if it’s electricity and to the more than funds, hedge funds, and sovereign for the first time. aggregate and monetize an array mobile so the neighbors in one billion using unreliable wealth funds will spur private The multilateral investment of clean energy systems over off- villages can share and pass energy electricity today.” capital flow to follow. framework will be key to deliver the-grid, decentralized models; like a kerosene lamp from one “But to do so, we must design, “$100 billion wouldn’t work in clean energy to Africa, India, and how to reduce oil house to another.” establish a business ecology to 2012,” Dr. Leonard pointed out Southeast Asia, and other dependency, while improving the Kendeh Yumkelia, director- attract investors,” he concluded. with a douse of cold water. “Such emerging markets in the next aging infrastructure in developed general UNIDO and Chairman By bringing energy to rural large investments need to be done decade. To reach the critical mass nations. Other Clean Energy UN-Energy, drove home that markets will provide a path for incrementally and commercially required for such an ambitious Questions point, saying, “In my country of people to climb out of poverty. deployed. That’s why my fund, global commitment, while What roles will designing a new Sierra Leone, solar and wind Transform the Metrics for Risk setup in 1990 with $5 million in ensuring its successful metrics and telecommunications energy will work there in the near and Investment startup capital, was capped at $1 implementation, the need for have in the evolving strategy, -term with investments from the At the Summit, attendees learned billion. We needed to see if our public investment and loan integration, and delivery of clean outside world. But today, the Kenya is the largest user of wind investment strategy would work guarantees will be the engine that energy? people could use a flashlight.” He in Africa. Such information over time. That strategy paid off; draws large institutional funds and Will it be a grid tie plan? Or the dangled a flashlight for affect. impelled Statoil-Hydro’s clean it has been a top tier fund the past private equity firms into the decentralized model? What model “One flashlight hanging from the energy asset manager, Anne S. twenty years.” investment fold. of payments will work in the ceiling in each home would go a Lycke, who had flown in from He then listed the keys for the Call the next eight years grasping varying cultures that need access long way to providing the basic Norway for the Summit, to jot $100 billion international the risk transfers phase. That can to reliable energy? need for light. 83% of the houses down notes. In an aside with her, investment to work by 2020. only be achieved if a new metrics On the latter point, at day four of in my country are without power.” she stated that Statoil’s Hywind “Incremental funding to is developed, so as to illuminate Roundtable panel discussions on In the bigger vista, Mr. Yumkelia project—one mobile, floating and demonstrate a track record. 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Submitted at 4/14/2011 2:27:18 AM restrictions, home searches, the U.S. Attorney General pushed property confiscations, job losses, the issues aside the following Chet Campanella speaks at 'Una internments, and the like that were year, however, some members of Storia Segreta: An Open Forum.' applied to Italian Americans. the State Legislature continued to (Perple Lu/The Epoch Times) 600,000 Italian immigrants were adhere to the allegations. SAN JOSE, Calif.— ”...against classified as “enemy aliens.” In “People should have stood up and their civil liberty rights ... were California 50,000 Italian spoken then. Not many did,” said arrested and interned. But they Americans were subjected to Simitian. “We all should stand up didn’t say if you want an curfew, house arrest, travel and speak today.” Why do we talk attorney? No. Do you want a restrictions, and arrests, said Rep. about something that’s decades in court date? No. Arrest. Zoe Lofgren at Una Storia the past now? Understanding what Internment,” started Chet Segreta: An Open Forum went wrong is a part of preventing Campanella. presented by the Italian American what will go wrong in the future, If you thought it was the Heritage Foundation in San Jose. believes Lofgren, who Japanese internment during World Lawrence DiStasi, the keynote cosponsored the Wartime War II the retired pharmacist is speaker of the day, author of the Violation of Italian American talking about, you’re only half book Una Storia Segreta and Civil Liberties Act in 1999. right. Japanese Americans were project director of a traveling and she was under restriction as classified for decades. “Those who don’t learn from certainly subjected to such harsh exhibit bearing the same name, well.” Determined, Campanella and a history are doomed to repeat it,” treatment during World War II, not only uncovered the secret Tony Zerbo, one of the event’s group of dedicated Italian answers this question, says Rep. but while the Japanese internment history of an era in his research, chairpersons, recalled his own Americans wrote numerous letters Mike Honda, who also stated that has been popularized in history but also discovered surprises of father, Vencenzo Zerbo, who to three New York while the scenarios have changed texts and the media, relatively his own. “I found out just last came to the U.S. after World War Congressmen—Rick Lazio, today, the same sentiment still little is known about the treatment year—my own father was an I to work on the railroad and in Alfonse D’Amato, and Eliot exists towards various immigrant of Italian Americans during the ‘enemy alien.’ I have never steel mills, was also classified as Engel—whose legislative groups. same period. known this. There was nothing an “enemy alien.” “If you didn’t sponsorship eventually made “History is a teacher of life,” Out of 400 submissions last year, ever, ever said.” have a citizenship paper, you possible the declassification of Deputy Consul General of Italy Campanella’s entry to State “My own uncle was an ‘enemy would be in trouble,” said Zerbo. materials. “They declassified 90 Marcello Curci put it, which Senator Joe Simitian’s T here alien’ during the war. His house “They were treated terribly. They percent of it, but 10 percent still “makes it more easy to understand Oughta to be a Law won the was raided. They took his were called ‘wops;’ they were remains classified,” said the present, and makes it more contest. Simitian subsequently shortwave radio. Not only that, called ‘dagos.’ They were called Campanella. easy to bring our future.” authored Senate Concurrent his wife, my Aunt Ruth, was also ‘enemies’. They were very much Simitian’s 2010 bill is a landmark With fewer and fewer survivors Resolution 95, which an ‘enemy alien’ even though she discriminated.” for Italian Americans in left to tell their stories, acknowledged and apologized for was born in the United States.” While Ronald Reagan and Bill California, but why should the Campanella, who has already the mistreatment of Italian Under the Cable Act of 1922, an Clinton offered formal apologies state make an apology? Wasn’t scheduled a presentations in a Americans during World War II. American born woman who to the Japanese Americans in this really a federal problem? In local church and a local school, is The San Jose resident then married a foreign national 1988 and 1993 respectively, and 1943 the Joint Fact-Finding determined more than ever to tell testified in Sacramento before a becomes a citizen of that foreign each living survivor received Committee on Un-American his stories. Senate committee. “What struck nation. “So my aunt, whose $20,000 reparations, the Activities in California issued the This entry passed through the me was that not a single member family went back to the American mistreatment of the Italian Tenney Report. Authored by the Full-Text RSS service — if this is of the committee has ever heard Revolution, was characterized as Americans, German Americans, then committee chair, Sen. Jack about the secret story,” recalled an ‘enemy alien’ during the war, and American Jews remained Tenney, Italian Americans were UNA page 17 16 News Wire/ Newstablet Edition Schalke Through to First Ever Champions League Semi-Final (Epoch Times | All headlines) that they could turn things around. down no less than three penalty

Submitted at 4/14/2011 4:24:20 AM Star midfielder Wesley Sneijder appeals. Two of those were was only just recovering from a blatant including Xabi Alonso’s By Denis Charlton bout of flu and someway below trip on Luka Modric in only the Epoch Times Staff Created: Apr peak form, yet he still looked 3rd minute. If Spurs had got that 14, 2011 Last Updated: Apr 14, Milan’s best player before fatigue vital early goal then who knows 2011 necessitated his substitution after what might have happened. But Benedikt Hoewedes fires 78 minutes. most likely they would still have Schalke's winning goal past The Dutchman had done his not been quite good enough. goalkeeper Julio Cesar of Inter utmost to try and inspire his team The point was emphasized when Milan during the UEFA and was primarily responsible for their Brazilian goalkeeper Champions League quarter final them enjoying a 60% - 40% Heurelho Gomes committed one second leg match at Veltins Arena advantage in possession over the of his periodic blunders, palming on April 12, 2011 in course of the match. Sneijder Cristiano Renaldo’s speculative Gelsenkirchen, Germany. (Lars might have crowned his gallant shot from outside the penalty area Baron/Bongarts/Getty Images) FC performance with a goal but his only playing for pride now and towards him Howedes opted into his own net. Sure, Renaldo Schalke 04 from Germany’s 75th minute free kick curled just showed a little more spark. On 49 against trying anything fancy, and hits the ball with swerve and dip, Bundesliga has reached the club’s wide of the post. minutes they drew level on the simply thundered the ball into the but having learned his trade in first ever European Champions Despite enjoying the lion’s share night when Thiago Motta netted net before Cesar could even get Brazil that should be something League semi-final with a 2-1 of possession Inter proved from close range. near him. For a central defender it Gomez grew up with. At this level victory over holders Inter Milan, toothless in the final third with the However, that was as good it was was an impressive finish. you simply have to do better. giving them a resounding 7-3 likes of Samuel Eto’o and Diego going to get for the holders. With Schalke will now play So Real Madrid progress 5-0 on aggregate win over the two legs. Milito looking like pale shadows their ailing playmaker Sneijder Manchester United in the semi- aggregate to set up that eagerly When a club changes managers of the players they were last year tiring the rest of the team finals and no doubt be encouraged anticipated clash with eternal in mid campaign is not generally under Jose Mourinho. The game appeared even wearier as if they by the English giant’s exit from rivals Barcelona while Spurs, grounds for optimism. But the remained scoreless until the 44th could hardly for the final whistle the competition at the hands of having acquitted themselves replacement of Felix Magath with minute when Schalke’s direct to end their misery. German opposition (Bayern better than anyone would have Ralf Rangnick now looks to have approach straight down the Just before the hour, central Munich) last year. No miracle for expected in this year’s been a masterstroke. middle cut through the Inter defender Benedickt Howedes Spurs competition, must now focus on Coincidentally, Schalke’s only defense like a knife through thought he had extended Tottenham Hotspur manager trying to qualify for next year’s European trophy was a EUFA butter. Raul Gonzalez was the Schalke’s lead but was ruled to be Harry Rednapp was talking up his tournament. Cup triumph over Inter Milan at man on the end of the move and marginally offside. Twenty team’s chances prior to the second This entry passed through the the San Siro back in 1997. 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Submitted at 4/14/2011 11:00:34 AM foreign aid are offset by nearly no deficit savings, can be claimed "phantom savings." He plans to changes to Medicare will burden equal increases in defense under budget rules to pay for vote against the final package. seniors with higher out-of-pocket The $38 billion in budget cuts spending. When war funding is spending increases elsewhere in Republicans lost 28 members on health care costs. touted by Republicans over the factored in the legislation would the legislation. All told, $17.8 the stopgap bill Saturday morning President Obama outlined his weekend might end up being less. actually increase total federal billion in such savings is claimed that was meant to keep the counter budget proposal A lot less. outlays by $3.3 billion relative to but just a tiny portion of it would government running through this Wednesday in a high-profile According to a Congressional current levels. actually reduce the deficit. week. The House needs a total of speech. He claimed he could cut Budget Office estimate, the hard- To a fair degree, the lack of With Democratic and Republican 217 votes to pass the bill deficits by $4 trillion in 12 years, fought budget deal funding the immediate budget-cutting punch congressional leaders preparing to Thursday afternoon, and but described Republicans' plan as government for the rest of the is because the budget year is more bring the budget bill to the floor Republicans can only afford to an erosion of America's social year saves only $352 million from than half over and that cuts in new Thursday, the vote could be lose 24 of their own before they'll safety net which has been in place non-war accounts this year. The spending authority typically are rockier than anticipated. need to start picking up for decades. new figure has rankled slow to register on deficit tallies. House Democrats have Democratic support. Republicans described Obama's conservative lawmakers who And Republicans promise that complained since the deal was Conservatives are skittish about speech as overtly partisan, and thought they had extracted a fair when fully implemented and struck that it would cut too much, voting for the bill after seeing the criticized him for pinning his plan amount of concessions out of the repeated year after year, the cuts and upper-level members of the CBO score. on a proposal to raise taxes on other side of the aisle. It wasn't in the measure would reduce the caucus could buck the president. Should it pass, the bill will kick those making more than the $61 billion in cuts they had deficit by $315 billion over the Rep. 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Submitted at 4/13/2011 11:57:00 PM leader of a failed military coup, it Humala promises to focus on later turned Humala into a on the private sector, nationalized is the distinct outline of income redistribution and said he character in one of his novels. hundreds of companies and When Peruvians went to the polls Venezuelan President Hugo would rewrite the country's Humala has long expressed undermined both market on April 10 to choose a new Chávez that many voters will see. constitution, as Chávez and his admiration for Venezuela's mechanisms and democratic president, they faced an Meanwhile, the 35-year-old Latin American emulators have Chávez, but ever since he decided norms. uncommon variety of choices. Fujimori is overshadowed by the done. He claims to have to seek the presidency by Just as Humala is trying to escape The fractured vote left no one image and legacy of her father, moderated his positions and tries democratic means, he has tried to a large shadow with limited with the required majority, the now-imprisoned former to distance himself from Chávez. run away from his political success, his rival is trying to producing another extraordinary President Alberto Fujimori. Still, his rivals maintain the mentor's shadow. In 2006, a escape hers, but even less field for the second-round voting The slate of candidates in the first claims are nothing but electoral disenchanted supporter accused effectively. on June 5. The top two vote- round of voting did include calculation, raising the specter him of receiving millions of Keiko Fujimori grew up in the getters bring minimal experience politicians and technocrats who that he would bring Venezuelan- dollars in cash from Chávez. halls of power. Her father, the and maximum polemic. In the not were well-known quantities to style changes. Humala denied the accusation. He child of Japanese immigrants, -very-kind words of Mario Vargas Peruvians. There was Alejandro Humala ran in 2006, when he went on to lose the election to yet rose seemingly out of nowhere in Llosa, Peru's Nobel Prize- Toledo, a former president with a also finished first in the first another disgraced former 1990 to capture the presidency. winning author, it's like "choosing Ph.D. from Stanford University, round, only to lose in the runoff. president, Alan Garcia. Politics in The agricultural engineer and between AIDS and cancer." and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a During both campaigns, he denied Peru is never dull. university rector surprised Peruvians hope their Nobel respected academic and former links to Chávez, who is This time around, Humala has everyone by defeating none other laureate was using hyperbole in finance minister with degrees profoundly disliked by most again tried to distance himself than Vargas Llosa to become his choice of metaphors, but from Oxford and Princeton. In the Peruvians. from Chávez. When Chávez Peru's new president. At the time, though they might disagree over end, the votes were closely On the right, the young Fujimori, declared that Humala is "a good the country was caught in a the reasons why, most are indeed divided. Humala garnered just 31 whose father still enjoys a soldier," Humala publicly asked maelstrom of hyperinflation and deeply concerned about who their percent, Fujimori 23 percent, devoted following, said she would him not to meddle in Peruvian political violence. The Maoist next president will be. The two Kuczynski 19 percent and Toledo continue current economic politics. Shining Path guerrillas were candidates facing off in the 15 percent. policies but also bolstered her Chávez remains unpopular in terrorizing the countryside, and second round are Ollanta Humala In a country with one of the campaign with populist planks, Peru despite the country's the government seemed helpless. and Keiko Fujimori, two sharply world's fastest-growing including a tax hike for the rich. enormous economic disparities, Fujimori dissolved congress and different and enormously economies, but also an intractably Her campaign, however, was which conceivably could make it gave free rein to the army and controversial personalities. But high poverty rate and a history of centered on a subdued version of ripe for the Venezuelan leader's intelligence services. When Keiko while both raise misgivings political violence, voters had their her convicted father's ideology. brand of leftist populism. While was 19, Fujimori divorced his among observers and voters, the pick from among all points on the The two candidates both grew up the economy has been growing at wife and named Keiko first lady real source of the concerns lies ideological spectrum. They not in families with forceful political the fastest rate in Latin America of Peru, forcing her into a busy less in the candidates themselves only chose the two furthest to the ideologies that deeply affected and one of the fastest in the world, public role. than in the names that will appear left and the right, but also the two their upbringing. Humala's father, most Peruvians still live in Later, when the excesses of her alongside theirs, in invisible ink, most directly influenced by men Isaac, was a leftist activist and poverty. father's authoritarian government on the ballot. Behind each with undemocratic tendencies. founder of the Ethnocacerista Humala now claims his model is came to light and he was arrested, candidate looms another larger- While both candidates now try to Movement, which seeks to re- Brazil's former President Luiz her political career moved in than-life persona, and while the portray themselves as centrist on establish the supremacy of the Inacio Lula da Silva, a leftist tandem with the legal case against ballot may list Ollanta Humala the economy and free of the "copper-skinned" Peruvians. leader who helped the poor him, as she sought to mobilize his and Keiko Fujimori as the two outside influences that voters fear Interestingly, when Vargas Llosa without alienating foreign supporters and gain his freedom. choices, the campaign is really may control them, they represent was a university student, Isaac investors or the business about those ghost candidates. sharply different views about the Humala was his instructor in community. That's in sharp WORLD page 25 Newstablet Edition World News/ 23 Academic Stovepipes Undermine U.S. Security (World Politics Review: Articles) Stovepipes are the institutional useful or even viable. Both were as an object of policy came of age nuclear weapons and politics.

Submitted at 4/14/2011 2:13:00 AM and cultural barriers that prevent missed opportunities, even during the Cold War and provided Accustomed to technological different groups of experts from failures. Why? both the means to peer over the miracles, Americans assume that The United States faces a serious understanding or cooperating with Some fault lies with the usual Iron Curtain and the staging area technical problems can always be but silent intellectual crisis: U.S. each other on everything from suspects of bureaucratic politics: from which nuclear-tipped fixed with enough money. national security elites have terminology to budgets and, partisan haggling and Cold War ICBMs would pierce it. NASA, as Engineers are not asked if missile separated into two tribes of ultimately, goals. Fed into baggage. Equally important, the face of the U.S. civil space defense is a viable solution to the specialists, technical and stovepipes, national security however, the intellectual gulf program, joined in this effort by horrific threat of nuclear warheads nontechnical, who are incapable problems get broken into ever between the groups of experts gloriously beating the Soviets in carried on missiles, and political of communicating with each smaller but less relevant pieces by involved in preparing the reviews the moon race. Space was as analysts do not care about the other. The implications of the experts working in parallel with, all but guaranteed that the much a Cold War weapon as any difficulties involved in developing divide between experts in science but in isolation from, each other. products would satisfy no one. tank or jet, and the scientists and hardware. In the end, this and technology on one hand and This insularity begins in graduate Consider the disconnect between engineers who facilitated these disconnect could produce a experts in politics on the other are school or during professional people who study nuclear political goals were can-do situation where a U.S. president is dangerous and far-reaching. If the preparation, where young weapons and those who study the heroes. asked to rely on a system that United States policymaking specialists are taught to revere the owners of nuclear weapons. The Though the political will required technical experts cannot assure community cannot bridge the gap norms and knowledge of their rise of nuclear strategists during for a robust human space him will work but that political between these communities, we own field or institution above all the Cold War coincided with the exploration program has since advisers insist must be risk making mistakes with others. Scientists and engineers growth of "Sovietology" as a self- faltered in the United States, brandished. repercussions running all the way focus on hard facts and universal contained intellectual industry; enthusiasm for use of space assets Stovepiping is not exclusively an from wasting scarce resources to methods, while political experts rarely were the scholars who as military force multipliers, American problem. Most national war. are driven by contingency and studied the Soviet Union as fluent capable of providing a representatives to multinational While hardly a golden age of possibility. Military officers are a in the language of deterrence as considerable edge over America's organizations tasked to deal with national security policy decision- third tribe, who from their early they were in Russian. This opponents, has not. Consequently nuclear and space weapons issues making, the Cold War set commissioning develop loyalty to hampered communication with there is a political and military are professional bureaucrats on boundaries on science and their services and to the the technical specialists who policymaking contingent that assignment, unfamiliar with either politics, both of which served the uniformed ethos. All are educated could explain a Soviet ICBM but feels that if using space gives the the policy issues or the overall goal of avoiding -- or and trained to value different knew little about the leaders who United States an advantage, then accompanying technical systems winning -- a war with the Soviet things, and in the process, to would launch it. Military officers, it stands to reason that the total in their portfolios. The result is Union. For better or for worse, the devalue others. In areas as crucial, meanwhile, followed the logic of control of space would be even gridlock on these politically scientists, engineers, military as technical and as controversial their profession and prepared for better. But the lure of space charged and technologically officers and civilian strategists of as space and nuclear weapons, nuclear war, almost regardless of dominance can tempt supporters complicated issues. the national security this insularity can become political instructions. Though the to ignore pesky impediments like The legacy of intellectual establishment were all yoked debilitating to national security. Cold War has ended, the gulf the laws of physics, which they insularity lives on in current together toward this common Take, for example, the 2009 between the technical, strategic assume can be solved by people debates about nuclear deterrence purpose. Nuclear Posture Review and the and military communities persists. they respect but whose expertise and space security. Is deterring With the Cold War over, the 2010 Space Posture Review. In space policy, as well, there is a they do not understand. China a matter of deploying natural bureaucratic tendency of Neither was received by scholars wide gap between the technical Missile defense represents the "stovepiping" has taken over. or practitioners as particularly and policy communities. "Space" most severe collision of space, ACADEMIC page 25 24 World News/ Newstablet Edition Indonesia's Security Sector Reform Still Fragile (World Politics Review: Articles) and largely moved on, the work is level. This is the core of the accountability, transparency and counterterrorism potential, while

Submitted at 4/14/2011 2:15:00 AM not yet completed. military's reserved domain, democratic oversight of the ignoring its shortcomings. It is Democratization and SSR are through which it asserts political security apparatus have taken a likely that they would have paid DENPASAR, Indonesia -- The lengthy processes with a known and economic influence in the back seat. As a result, CSO much closer attention during the recent spate of popular uprisings start date but an unknown end provinces. The debate on Koter is involvement, which is considered period of more-active SSR from in the Middle East has surprised date. The reality in Indonesia is now all but dead. a necessary pillar of the kind of 1998-2002. and captivated public attention. It that democratic advancement and Indonesia's democratization, democratic oversight so often The danger now is that, with the is now widely expected that SSR remain superficial and especially its SSR component, has advocated for, has suffered. Middle East taking center stage policymakers in Washington, potentially reversible. been a largely internally driven A present example of these trends and the global financial crisis still Brussels and the U.N., among The 2004 and 2009 elections process. But the international is the intelligence bill currently felt in donors' pockets, the others, will draft pro-democracy passed smoothly. But the community has played a role being discussed in parliament. spotlight on Indonesia, and other aid packages for the region, many influence of money in politics is through political pressure and aid Indonesia's intelligence nations with still-fragile SSR of which will focus on security still dominant, while democracy packages. During the 1998-2002 community operates in a legal processes, will fade even further. sector reform (SSR). remains procedural in nature and period, locally dubbed the golden void, as there is no law regulating That could end up being a This is a welcome development, structured around oligarchic era of reforms, the U.S. led a it. So generally speaking, the draft dangerous trade-off. but in the rush to support Egypt, power struggles. President Susilo group of donors that poured bill is a positive development. The Fabio Scarpello is a journalist Tunisia and possibly Yemen and Bambang Yudhoyono's second money into local civil society details of the draft, however, see and a doctoral student at the Asia Libya, aid donors should not term, begun in 2009, has so far organizations (CSOs). Since the government and the national Research Centre, Murdoch forget countries that are already been defined by two 2002, however, two concomitant intelligence agency (BIN) pushing University, where he is going through a similar process. controversies, concerning the shifts became apparent: Donors for wide powers, including the researching SSR as a conflict- Indonesia is a case in point. government bailout of Bank shifted their support away from right to arrest and wiretap without management tool. The archipelago nation, with its Century and the future of CSOs in favor of national a warrant. The draft bill also Photo: Indonesian armed forces 240 million inhabitants, happens Indonesia's anti-corruption institutions, and most of the recognizes BIN as a government prepare to disembark from a to be the country with the world's commission (KPK). Above all, residual support for SSR began agency and presents weak helicopter, Sumatra, Indonesia largest Muslim population and is these conflicts have highlighted focusing on enhancing the oversight measures. That bodes (U.S. Navy photo by Philip A. the third-largest democracy on the the persistence of vested interests capacity of the military and the poorly for reining in a service McDaniel). planet. Its political weight is thus in maintaining the status quo, both police in fighting terrorism. notorious for its murky This entry passed through the unquestioned, as is its value as a in traditional law enforcement The logic behind these shifts is operations. 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This is particularly began, but dwindling funds and Filters featured article: Libya and movement toppled the Suharto at restructuring the territorial evident among the SSR-focused the changed political scenario Oil. regime in 1998 has been structure of the Indonesian army CSOs, a community that has have meant that they have remarkable. However, while the (known as Koter), which sees shrunk considerably and is progressively taken a back seat. world has praised Indonesia, soldiers deployed across the struggling to maintain a voice. Foreign donors have largely checked it off as a success story nation, all the way to the village Also, issues such as supported the bill in light of its Newstablet Edition Technology/ 25 WORLD ACADEMIC continued from page 22 continued from page 23 The elder Fujimori was eventually is synonymous with human rights assessment that the choice is enough nuclear force or enough affairs at the Naval War College sentenced to 25 years in prison on violations and a security apparatus between two deadly alternatives. diplomacy? Should space assets and a fellow of the Project on human rights violations and run amok. The election will come down to be protected by military means? Managing the Atom at Harvard embezzlement. Keiko There seems little doubt that if which specter Peruvians fear Can they be? A holistic approach University's Kennedy School of subsequently launched a political she became president her father most, the ghost of Hugo Chávez to answering these and other Government. 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Nichols is a presidential campaign from inside shown strong authoritarian professor of national security his prison cell. To her followers, tendencies. the notion is not troubling. To Most Peruvians are worried, even others, however, Fujimori's name if not everyone agrees with the Old school technology betrays the magic of illusion

Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:17:00 AM of a salvaged slide projector, sculpture which puts the viewer retro 3D scenes and an 150-year in charge of creating an illusion An artist has taken augmented old optical illusion. and "reverses the process of reality into a "media Sebastian Schmeig, a Berlin art Points of View, an interactive hiding all the technology archeological" realm with the aid student, has recently created 81 involved." Continue reading... 26 Technology/ Newstablet Edition Twitter: Consider This Your Intervention. Sarah Lacy (TechCrunch) acquisition bait. It needs a product was essentially his path in leaving

Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:45:03 AM visionary, which leads us to point Pixar and returning to Apple for number 2…. redemption and glory. But if I had This is the post I haven’t wanted 2. A product visionary, at a to bet, I’d go with Fortune’s to write for weeks. This is the post minimum, is a full time job. At sources and guess Twitter is the no one wants to write. No one most great technology companies more temporary post. wants to say Twitter is in trouble. the product visionary is the CEO– That means Twitter needs to find That’s like shooting your best think Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, an amazing product visionary– friend’s dog. Apple’s Steve Jobs, Zynga’s stat. (To Twitter’s credit, some But I’m increasingly convinced Mark Pincus, Salesforce’s Marc attempts at this have been that Twitter is operationally in Benioff, Oracle’s Larry Ellison thwarted.) trouble, for a lot of the same and of course Facebook’s 3. This is more important for reasons that Fortune’s Jessi Zuckerberg. Plenty of research Twitter than it might be at a lot of Hempel outlines in her cover has shown that when a product- tech companies because product is today, and other reasons I’ve been oriented founder stays the CEO the thing that is hearing about for months. the company tends to excel. But unequivocally working. Sure it The signs: for a variety of reasons, this has glitches, and sure it hasn’t 1. Three CEOs in less than three doesn’t always work out. That shown dramatic innovation, but it years is never a good sign. Jack doesn’t mean a company is toast. doesn’t matter. People love it. It Dorsey was the clear visionary of Titles are just titles. In an earlier has transformed how the media this company, and as we’ve seen era, Sandberg might have been works. And it has the one thing with Square, a visionary beyond named Facebook’s “grown up” Facebook lacks: Celebrities all Twitter. Evan Williams was the CEO ala Google. over the place. The reason Twitter guy who saw the promise of But at a minimum, a company is worth billions of dollars is the Twitter, invested his own money centered around a surging, product. in it and made sure it actually beloved, disruptive product needs It makes sense that Costolo became a company. Without a full-time, in-house C-level running Square. Square– while a brainstorming Finding Nemo or would be focused on revenues and either of them, Twitter would not executive who is focused 100% potentially a more disruptive sketching out fish, while he was operations– those are his strengths exist. But the two couldn’t coexist on product– not only 40 hours a company than Twitter– has a long dreaming up the look and feel of and Twitter’s weakest spots. at the company. week, but every second of every way to go on distribution, the iPod. Elon Musk comes to Reports Twitter’s revenues are So what does the company do? day. Despite early reports when business model and execution. mind with Tesla and SpaceX, but higher than many expected, but Well it tried Dorsey running it; it he stepped down, that is not Time-sharing Square’s product he always conceded it wasn’t they’re still in the low hundreds of tried Williams running it and for a Williams. He has stepped into a visionary– long term– just hurts sustainable and recently has millions of dollars. That’s a lot variety of reasons– some board member and advisor role, both companies. If Dorsey is stepped down as CEO of Tesla. lower than most Valley documented and some not– eyeing his next thing. And, as going to do a great job at either, I’d heard speculation earlier this companies valued at several neither worked. Everyone I’ve Fortune reports via unnamed he has to pick. week that Dorsey might pick billion dollars. And I’ve heard spoken with in the industry and at sources, that is not Dorsey. There are few examples of even Twitter, stepping into a chairman from a dozen sources that Twitter the company says CEO #3, Dick And really, that Fortune story the best entrepreneurs and CEOs role at Square and leaving the day has been a mess operationally. Costolo, has what the others shouldn’t be a surprise, although managing two more-than-full- -to-day responsibility to Keith I’ve heard there’s a rift between lacked– he’s an amazing operator. Dorsey denies telling anyone it is time jobs. Steve Jobs comes to Rabois, who has had plenty of older employees owning most the But that’s a Sheryl Sandberg. a short-term gig. Of course mind being CEO of Apple and startup experience with PayPal, stock and working fewer hours Twitter needs a Mark Zuckerberg Twitter’s product visionary can’t Pixar, but he was clearly more LinkedIn and Slide. If you want to if it’s going to be more than be Dorsey– he has a full-time job hands on at the former. He wasn’t stretch the Jobs analogy, that’s TWITTER: page 31 Newstablet Edition Technology/ Obituaries 27 Far East Fashion Algae oil could dent U.S. oil Photography - Tara Emad Harper's imports, report says Bazaar Arabia (CNET News.com) because a lot of water is required modeling of algae growth rates, Takes on Oriental- Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:07:34 AM to grow it. and processing, drew on that Inspired Pieces Related links database for its outcome. Unrefined algae oil is also known • Algae fuel crosses paths with "That database contained (TrendHunter.com) as 'green crude'.(Credit: Sapphire Monsanto, cancer research information spaced every 100 feet (TREND HUNTER - The Latest Energy) • Study: Algae biofuels need 10 throughout the U.S., which is a Trends) The U.S. has enough land in the years of R&D to compete much more detailed view than right climate to produce • In the lab, designing the ultimate previous research. This data Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:14:03 AM homegrown algae oil that would biofuel bug allowed them to identify available ( TrendHunter.com) The Tara Instead, the PNNL researchers, replace a significant amount of The PNNL says its study is the areas that are better suited for Emad Harper's Bazaar Arabia led by hydrologist Mark foreign oil imported for first comprehensive land-use and algae growth, such as those with spread for the April edition takes Wigmosta, recommend producing transportation use--without water-use assessment of a flat land that isn't used for farming you away to the Orient in Asian- algae only in regions of the endangering its water supply. potential algae oil industry in the and isn't near cities or inspired clothing. The shoot country with both the right land The Gulf Coast region, the U.S. environmentally sensitive areas features exotic ethnic pieces with and high humidity. They found Southeastern seaboard, and the PNNL researchers found that if like wetlands or national parks," a dose of elegance and that if algae are grown in a Great Lakes areas are ideally you compare algae and corn the PNNL said in a statement. extravagance... suited to grow algae in outdoor hectare to hectare, algae grown in climate already high in humidity, The study concentrated on freshwater ponds with minimal outdoor ponds annually produces much less water is needed. The freshwater algae. The PNNL water usage. 80 times more oil than corn. group also identified the regions researchers of the study That's according to a study Theoretically, they said, the U.S. mentioned above as the best announced that there next project released today by the Department has enough available land to places to grow it. is a comprehensive study on the of Energy's Pacific Northwest produce "48 percent of the current This would still give the U.S. the feasibility of using salt water and National Laboratory (PNNL) in transportation oil imports" with ability to produce 21 billion waste water to grow algae. the journal Water Resources algae. However, that level of gallons of algal oil a year; roughly This entry passed through the Research. production across the U.S. would 17 percent of the amount of oil Full-Text RSS service — if this is Biofuel made from refined algae require too much water--an that was imported for your content and you're reading it oils, while showing promise, is average of 350 gallons of water to transportation in 2008. on someone else's site, please read still in the early stages of grow and produce one gallon of The study involved the creation the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- development. In addition to the algae oil. of a massive database that used 30 only/faq.php#publishers. Five usual scalability questions put to Raceway algae ponds in Southern years of meteorological data and Filters featured article: Libya and the developers of any new California.(Credit: Pacific comprehensive geological surveys Oil. technology, algae developers have Northwest National Laboratory/ of the U.S. in addition to algae oil been under even closer scrutiny QuickBird) research data. Mathematical Audio pioneer Sidney Harman dies in DC at age 92 (AP) (Yahoo! News: Obituaries) AP - Audio equipment bought Newsweek magazine last The Daily Beast, has died in millionaire Sidney Harman, who year and oversaw its merger with Washington. He was 92. 28 Technology/ Newstablet Edition Vintage Trailer HTC Dominating Online Chatter, Homes - Matthew Hofmann Converts Says Market Research Firm a 1970s Airstream Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) and " HTC Thunderbolt: First & dominating the conversation. into a Clean Living Submitted at 4/14/2011 11:22:30 AM Last iPhone Killer?" While it may be true that, as Space Also this past month, the HTC SocialNuggets claims, the After having analyzed over a Incredible S received the highest sentiment around that (TrendHunter.com) million conversations taking place ranking in terms of net perception. conversation is now skewing (TREND HUNTER - The Latest in social media channels, market And while not at the top negative due to consumers' desire Trends) research firm SocialNuggests says perception-wise, the new HTC for a new iPhone, that's not really that consumers are currently more Thunderbolt received a good a net negative for the brand, is it? Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:36:02 AM interested in talking about HTC enough score to place it in the If your customers are complaining ( TrendHunter.com) Converting devices than iPhones. According number one spot on the that they want an update, they're an old, retro vehicle into a new, to the firm's March smartphone smartphone index as the most saying, essentially, they want to modern home isn't necessarily index, the iPhone 4 was ranked talked about device. buy from you again. It's a something new, yet Matthew 10th, while the HTC Thunderbolt Meanwhile, according to different type of negative The Thunderbolt, it should be Hofmann has managed to do just came in at number one. Two other SocialNuggets, the iPhone 4 has sentiment than saying that a that with a beat-up 1970's HTC phones rounded out the top been plagued by negative noted, launched in March 2011 on phone is "terrible," "doesn't Verizon Wireless in the U.S.. The Airstream trailer. Instead of three. perceptions as of late, due to the work," or is "being returned." It's letting this... While it's always interesting to fact that it has not been updated, iPhone 4 launched in June a desire for more. parse the current social media especially compared with newer 2010. Looking at the above chart, Something tells us that when chatter, does this report have any Android phones, including those in terms of sheer mentions, the Apple gives the world a sneak deeper implications other than that have 4G capabilities. But iPhone is still doing well, it peek at the new version of the being a reflection of the despite SocialNuggests' decision seems, for such an old device. iPhone's OS in at its Worldwide ephemeral and immediate nature to focus on the "negative" chatter Not only is the iPhone holding its Developer Conference in June, of Twitter posts and Facebook about the iPhone, we actually find own in this social media ranking these trends will radically shift updates? the graph below fairly impressive. against hot, new competitors like again, with the iPhone topping Sponsor This chart shows "Share of the Motorola Atrix 4G, the both mentions and positive HTC Gets Talked About...A Lot Voice," which only focuses on the "PlayStation phone" (Sony's sentiment. What do you think? In online chatter, the trends show raw number of mentions. For Xperia Play), the various Note: More details on how the HTC brand, overall, on the example, if there are one million Samsung Galaxy variants, a SocialNuggets calculates its Index rise. This is not surprising, posts (after removing spam), and number of HTC phones, a couple (top chart) is available here. The considering recent headlines like " brand X has 100,000 of the total of Droids and even a new mobile index combines Share of Voice HTC overshadows Nokia at posts, then its share of voice is operating system from Microsoft and Net Perception. Discuss smartphone launches," " HTC 10%. iPhone 4 Still Dominates (the HTC HD7, running Windows overtakes Nokia in market value" Conversations Phone 7) - the device is still Newstablet Edition Technology/ 29

Taptu Brings A Personalized And Customizable Social News Reading App To The iPad Leena Rao (TechCrunch) aims to offer a social news offered the service on the Android clean, allowing you to separate The app offers a StreamStore,

Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:00:39 AM reading experience for the iPad, and the iPhone. each stream. Instead of accssing which allows you to search and including Pulse, Summify, Flud Taptu’s iPad app allows you to RSS feeds for news sources, choose for news streams. You can Another day, another launch of a and others. And today, Taptu is bring in streams of content from Taptu uses its proprietary mobile also import your RSS feeds as Flipboard-like news and social debuting its free iPad app, which news sources, your Facebook, search technology to aggregate well. The app goes beyond just reader for the iPad. It seems like offers a sleek, social news service LinkedIn and Twitter streams. news from thousands of news every day a new app launches that for the tablet. Taptu has already The design itself is sleek and sources. TAPTU page 30 30 Technology/ Newstablet Edition TAPTU continued from page 29 Research: Most can't tell aggregating news from your indexing, search crawling and social feeds and sources and sleek presentation. “It’s not just a allows you to personalize your magazine format with a beginning streams. You can act as a DJ for and an end,” explains Lazar. pricey wine from cheap news streams, and can aggregate “Taptu is built around a and merge select news feeds into continuous stream.” (CNET News.com) clarity of a mind devoid of claret. group. one stream. So you could create For Taptu, this app is an entry He told the Guardian: "People I cannot decide whether this Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:10:18 AM your Tech news stream with point. The company says that the just could not tell the difference result is depressing or uplifting. various technology news sources. next step will be to create user Perhaps you, like me, enjoy a between cheap and expensive Living just an hour from Napa You can also change the size of accounts and perhaps approach glass of wine. Especially if it's a wine. When you know the and Sonoma-- and being an all too the stream to display its content monetization with premium larger glass, at least half full of answer, you fool yourself into frequent visitor to both-- I can more prominently or modify the features. Taptu also plans to good wine. thinking you would be able to tell only hope that everyone can color of your streams, allowing launch a universal, HTML5 app Perhaps you, riding on your usual the difference, but most people distinguish between a glass of you to color code by interest. that will allow users to access the wave of intelligence and simply can't." Honig's fine 2007 Cabernet Taptu has also integrated its same app across iOS devices. sophistication, believe that you Mathematics would dictate that Sauvignon or Ladera's astounding recommendation technology If you are a power reader or a can always taste the difference simply guessing would offer a 50 2001 Merlot(yup, Merlot) and, which will serve new content news junkie, Taptu’s app is the between cheap wine that deserves percent result. However, with well, some of the eight buck from news sites and blogs based way to go. Not only does it allow a box or a hole in the ground, and some varietals, there was a quite gargle you can sometimes find on what you read within the app. you to access a large number of expensive wine that deserves drunken discrepancy between next to the bananas at your corner Taptu will serve related articles, news sources (thousands), in an another year or two in a dimly lit mathematics and dim reality. store. both by topic and by source. And easy to read interface, but it cellar. The wine that fooled most people But so often at the end of Hope you can share your newly created allows you to personalize and Richard Wiseman, a psychologist was, indeed, the claret, with only Street, lies the Domicile of streams with friends on the app. customize your feeds, which is a at the University of Hertfordshire 39 percent of people being able to Despair. In terms of Facebook and Twitter, useful feature. My only complaint in England, believes the tell the difference between wine Please, though, tonight (or, the app will display full stories in is that if your bring in a lot of mathematical likelihood is that priced around $23 and one that perhaps, this weekend), try the a pane from links shared by feeds (and news from your you have no idea what you're must have been sold out of a blind test experiment at home. I friends, so you don’t need to leave Twitter and Facebook streams); talking about. bucket for just over $5. am sure it will give hours of to app to access shared content. the app can get a little cluttered. Wiseman, you see, decided that Each of the pairs of wines were purely scientific pleasure. I am An interesting sidenote-Taptu’s But you can easily close streams he would take the opportunity of characterized by at least a sure that everyone in these pages iPad app is the brainchild of CEO if things get crowded. this month's Edinburgh doubling of price. would love to hear your results. Mitch Lazar, a former journalist CrunchBase Information Taptu International Science Festival to In the end, the combined results This entry passed through the for CNN and member of the Information provided by conduct an experiment. of all the varietals, red and white, Full-Text RSS service — if this is founding team of CNN.com. He CrunchBase According to the Guardian, offered almost exactly the same your content and you're reading it says that the virtue of Tatptu’s : Wiseman asked 578 of the results as would the tossing of a on someone else's site, please read app is that it mixes four important attendees to do a blind test. The coin, a fork, or the lid of a trash the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- elements in aim was to see if these wise and, can. And Wiseman reportedly only/faq.php#publishers. Five development—relevancy, no doubt, refined scientists and believes that it doesn't matter if Filters featured article: Libya and acolytes, could tell pricey pinot the attendees were sophisticated Oil. from grotty grigio. or not-- he thinks his results His conclusion seems to have the would be replicated with any Newstablet Edition Technology/ 31 TWITTER: continued from page 26 Tweetbot: A Beautiful Twitter than newer employees hired by is more important than that. the hard-charging Costolo. And When Williams was running it, that makes sense, given the three the odds seemed remote– barring iPhone App (& Proof That Third CEOs the staff has been hired by an obscene offer from Google– and variously reported to. because Williams had been down Parties Should Still Build Clients?) Most people I’ve spoken with that route before with Blogger and seem confident Costolo can fix didn’t exactly relish the Audrey Watters making it easier to read and (ReadWriteWeb) these problems. Here at experience, even being a part of a respond with having to hit the TechCrunch, we salute the ballsy smaller, more nimble and pre-IPO "back" button. Submitted at 4/14/2011 11:15:38 AM stance he’s taken on San version of Google. Reading tweets, of course, can be Francisco’s payroll tax– which But now Williams is gone. I'm an avid Twitter user. I spend overwhelming particularly if you potentially benefits the entire Dorsey is half-there. I have an much of my day monitoring follow a great number of others. ecosystem. But what gives him uncomfortable feeling that if the tweets for news stories. As With Tweetbot, you can actually cover to do that is the product product void isn’t filled by Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote set a list as your main timeline. continuing to grow and delight its someone dynamic, Twitter will almost 4 years ago, Twitter helps (You do use lists, right?) users. Twitter absolutely can not start to sputter and that several me do my job better: " Twitter The app doesn't currently support afford to get complacent at billion dollar purchase offer will pays my rent." But I don't push notifications as the official product as it’s turning this corner. be impossible to turn down. I actually use any Twitter's own Twitter client does, but it is If it does, it risks looking don’t want to be alarmist– Twitter clients or website to do this, with integrated with Boxcar so you can accounts, search, old- and new- uncomfortably like MySpace in isn’t at that point now. But it’s at one exception: Twitter for iPhone. can set up notifications if you its glory years– an innovative that crossroads now, where it And as of the release last night of style retweets, list management. choose. If Tweetbot Beats the Unique Features product people loved with loads needs to get back on the path to Tapbots' new Twitter app, Official Twitter App, Then What? of celebrity cache that had no building the next great public Tweetbot, I think I'm ditching the But it also has a few new features Add to all this, the fact that the that no other Twitter app does, innovation and was out-gunned Web company or pick the path of official Twitter app on my iPhone app is beautifully designed, and and out-maneuvered by Facebook. inevitable acquisition. now too. and these make navigating the I'm willing to agree with the Twitter timeline and Twitter 4. Please don’t settle for the Twitter has a great board, a stable Sponsor praise from others: it's the best acquisition, Twitter. On a day-to- CEO and the goodwill of nearly The stakes are rather high here. conversations much more Twitter for iPhone app currently pleasurable and much more day basis I use Twitter more than all of Silicon Valley. This doesn’t After all, last month, Twitter's available. I say that as a power any other Web 2.0 product, and have to end badly. API lead Ryan Sarver issued the efficient. This navigation is user, of course. I say that as accomplished via gestures. it’s transformed the distribution of CrunchBase Information Twitter decree to third party developers: someone who wants her mobile TechCrunch. It’s the realization of Information provided by stop building Twitter clients. Double-tapping a tweet, link, or version of Twitter to be sleek and avatar in your timeline takes you the early promise of Digg’s CrunchBase Work on something else on the efficient. I say that as someone mission to up-end the media platform, he said. to their respective details. who needs Twitter on the iPhone Tapping and holding those business. I would hate to see it I'm glad that Tweetbot didn't to fully support lists. gobbled up as a pawn in the war listen. elements gives you options. And So while Twitter insists that no finally you can configure triple- between Google and Facebook. The app costs $1.99, while the one else work on building (better) Twitter is better than that. Twitter official Twitter iPhone app is free. tap to reply-to, fave, retweet, or clients, I am glad that Tweetbot That immediately puts the bar even translate a tweet. Swipe to has. At the very least, the app higher for Tweetbot, but it has the right to view a conversation demonstrates why innovation is features that make it worthwhile. thread. Swipe to the left to view important to the Twitter It does have all the standard replies and related tweets. That ecosystem. It will be interesting abilities you'd expect in a Twitter might seem confusing, but it's to watch how Twitter will client: support for multiple actually quite intuitive, certainly respond. Discuss 32 Technology/ Newstablet Edition iOS Grows in March, Oprah Comes to Generates More Ad Flipboard Mike Melanson (ReadWriteWeb) Revenue Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:00:00 AM Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb) known as "feature phones." Flipboard fans get ready, because Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:59:05 AM Revenue Share Oprah is on her ways to the app's Developers, of course, will be iPad-only digital pages. And In mobile ad network Millennial most interested in the data on Oprah fans, you should get ready Media's March 2011 report on revenue share. iOS apps too, because you've likely never mobile platform trends, it found represented 47% of the seen Oprah's content look this that iOS's share has grown, thanks Application Platform Mix, when good before. to the recent launch of the ranked by revenue. Android apps Starting today, Flipboard will Verizon iPhone. Month-over- were 36%, BlackBerry apps were feature an official Oprah section, month, the iPhone grew 17% and 7% and "Other," a category that which will be automatically McCue, CEO and Co-founder of the iOS platform itself grew by included Nokia's Symbian, included with every new Flipboard. "We've been honored 11%. The Verizon iPhone Windows Phone and Palm, were download of the Flipboard iPad to work with her team to create a accounted for 8.2% of all the at 10%. This trend is more truly integrated Oprah experience Motorola. app. iPhone impressions on its network indicative of Millennial's Sponsor that gives her audience a way to during March, says Millennial. Connected Devices Growing customers, however, than it may enjoy her stories and easily share Millennial doesn't just track "With the Oprah curated section," Meanwhile, Android was the be of general revenue trends on writes the company in its release, and comment on the things that leading smartphone platform on smartphones, though. It looks at various platforms. inspire them everyday." other "connected" devices, too, "fans will not only see the latest the network for the 4th month in a That said, Millennial found that and greatest from Oprah In February, Flipboard managed row, with a 48% ad impression including the iPad, iPod Touch gaming applications were the to bring legendary music and Samsung Galaxy Tab, for properties, but they will be able to share. However, in terms of number one app category last view the launch of her personal magazine Rolling Stone on board impression growth, as opposed to example. This group increased month, with 37% of the app and ReadWriteWeb's Audrey 21% month-over-month, now Farewell Countdown Videos share, Apple iOS impressions revenue share. Shopping and exclusively on Oprah.com and on Watters was gushing over the grew at 29% while Android accounting for 17% of the total Retail apps also grew by 40% news. If Flipboard can continue device impression share. Flipboard." impressions grew 23%. month-over-month. Ranked by "What we've announced today is a with content deals of this level, it Sponsor Smartphones were at 64% and revenue, the top categories in surely has a good thing going. feature phones were at 19%. The first for Flipboard and an exciting Also of note, 14 of the top 20 March were games, music and step toward connecting Flipboard Discuss devices on Millennial's report run feature phone share number entertainment, social networking, shouldn't be taken as indicative of readers to the globally admired Android. The top five, in order, mail and messaging, news and content of Oprah," said Mike were the iPhone, the BlackBerry wider market share trends, current events, weather, sports, Curve, the HTC Evo, the however, because Millennial's ads health and fitness, shopping and Samsung Bolt and the BlackBerry can't even run on what's still a retail and finally, books and Bold 2. very large portion of the mobile reference. The top 5 manufacturers were phone market - the "dumb" Discuss Apple, Samsung, HTC, RIM and devices without apps or browsers Newstablet Edition Technology/ Culture/ 33 YAAM Android Market Means 100% Profit Share for Developers Chris Burns (SlashGear) easily manage your

Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:33:50 AM consommation… We are surely going to create an Well what do you know, a fair enterprise, to manage this money deal for developers, could it be? It legally ! appears that a group of developers But we’re excited at the prospect! from XDA forums have created For more information on why this an Android Market alternative matters, check out[THIS article.] that allows creators of apps and [ via Android Community] games to grab 100% of the profit Relevant Entries on SlashGear from their wares. In a move that • Developing for Android? How seems nearly impossible without Does a 95% Profit Cut Sound? the backing of a major • Data shows Android 2.2 is most corporation, a few smalltime common, 3.0 the least players have set themselves up for • Adobe AIR for Android arrives what might be a power move in Android Market against the titans. centered around getting a fair deal applications, a drop in the bucket enough for this writer to • Android Market in-app billing YAAM stands for Yet Another for developers. Will it catch on? compared to Google and recommend everyone use it quite enabled: Try-and-Buy apps, extra Android Market, a rather Only time and perhaps advertising Amazon’s markets, but yet: levels, more unassuming title for a project that will tell. Marketing is basically impressive for a teeny tiny Paid applications are managed • Amazon AppStore for Android could be such a big deal. The the biggest component in getting a startup, if I do say so myself. And this way : You have a YAAM detailed: One-Click, aesthetics of the market are just project like this off the ground, as integration with PayPal – if they account, you send money on this Recommendations & more about as simple as they could be, evidenced by Amazon’s push with wanted to find a payment group account (via paypal, allopass, the app itself works inside a free app every day. that people trusted, they hit that etc…), and you use this money handsets, tablets, and even Google This market is currently said to right on the money. They’ve not into the application, to buy TV, and the whole business is play host to 23,000 users and 400 got their orders completely set up applications. In that way, you can Movie-Inspired Accessories - The FileShuttle Makes File Sharing Hello Kitty 3D Collection is Fit for and Uploading to FTP Dead a Movie Buff (TrendHunter.com) Simple [Downloads] (TREND HUNTER - The Latest been launched by Sanrio and Trends) features the famous kitty wearing Melanie Pinola (Lifehacker) Submitted at 4/14/2011 8:30:00 AM Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:25:01 AM 3D movie shades and eating a bag of popcorn. The collection offers Mac only: FileShuttle is a nifty ( TrendHunter.com) The Hello up whole range of accessories... file sharing. More » Kitty 3D collection has recently little application for drag-and- drop FTP or SFTP uploading and 34 Technology/ Newstablet Edition Friendslist Wants To Topple Craigslist By Being Even More Social Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch)

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So many companies have tried to topple Craigslist, and they have all failed. Ethan Wegener thinks Official F1 Timing App they’ve all done it the wrong way. Today at Techstars Demo Day, he 2011 for iPhone and introduced Friendslist, a listing service that taps into your social Yes, Oodle does this to some brands and the best marketers.” network without requiring the extent on Facebook Marketplace, Friendlist right now is only but Friendslist takes a slightly Wegener and his co-founder iPad, is it worth $33? middelmen (your friends who Samuel Gibbs (TUAW) wall and in the garage. connect buyers and sellers) to do different approach. If you know Benny Wong. Wegener has your friend Mark is a great created a few fun apps, such as Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:00:00 AM But what about the fans? How any work. “Craigslist obliterated can they get a bigger slice of the the classifieds newspaper designer and you are looking to 4Squareand7yearsago(an app that hire a designer for your startup, tells you where you checked in on Formula 1 has always been the data-pie when it comes to the industry,” he acknowledges, but pinnacle of the FIA's motor racing race? That's where the officially Craigslist is now “a scary place.” you would post your jobs listing Foursquare a year ago). Wong to his Friendslist, which shows the worked at Gilt, where he was the roster. It's the most licensed, universal Formula 1 In between the the legitimate technologically advanced motor Timing App 2011 for iOS comes listings, there are “lots of scam listing to all of his Facebook lead engineer who built Gilt City, friends. Mark acts as the a sub-brand which now employs racing championship on Earth, in. listings and half of the postings with the teams and drivers Gallery: F1 Timing app 2011 are duplicates.” middleman, but he doesn’t have to 70 people. do anything. Can Friendslist take on the pushing their cars to the absolute Continue reading Official F1 Friendslist offers a cleaner limit every time they hit the track. Timing App 2011 for iPhone and interface to start, but that’s “Nobody is trying the very mighty Craig? It will need a little approach that made Craisglist help from its friends (and maybe Everything on the cars is iPad, is it worth $33? nothing new. What it does is monitored remotely via a wireless Official F1 Timing App 2011 for connect buyers and sellers, or work in the first place, the social more than two employees). approach,” says Wegener. “We CrunchBase Information data link; Formula 1 isn't a solo iPhone and iPad, is it worth $33? people who are looking for jobs effort by the racing driver by any originally appeared on TUAW on and people who are hiring, think people are the best platform TechStars Information provided in the world. They are the best by CrunchBase stretch of the imagination, it's Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:00:00 EST. through the people they know. most certainly a team game. From Please see our terms for use of sector split times to track position, feeds. the amount of G experienced in Source| Permalink| Email this| the corners to the tire pressure and Comments brake temperature, the team monitors it all from the pit lane Newstablet Edition Technology/ 35 Atari classic Yar’s Revenge DODOcase for iPad 2 as gets revamped and comes good as the original to Xbox Live Arcade Dave Caolo (TUAW) Shane McGlaun (SlashGear) Submitted at 4/14/2011 7:53:18 AM Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:00:00 AM

My love affair with the I bet a lot of gamers played Yar’s DODOcase is well documented. Revenge back in the day on their I've used one since day one, and I Atari game consoles. If you were even credit one with saving my a big fan of the original and like iPad's life(though the retro inspired gaming still today, get revenge on her master and his manufacturers note that the Atari has a new classic on the assassins. This sounds like a DODOcase is not an impact case). Xbox Arcade for you to check pretty cool game. So, I was thrilled to be able to test out. The game is Yar’s Revenge. Relevant Entries on SlashGear a DODOcase for iPad 2 for the The game is on Xbox 360 Arcade • Delisted XBLA games will still last week. As a bonus, I've also right now for 800 Microsoft be hiding somewhere been using a BOOKback for iPad Points. The game is not a straight • X-Arcade announces PS2 to 2. Both are quite nice and will be up reissue of the original game. It Xbox 360 adapter for X-Arcade especially appealing to those who has anime inspired art and a controllers appreciate good design. Here's my narrative story to it that expands • Have You Heard of the XBLA? review. on the story from the original • Ben Heck combines Xbox 360 Looks back in the 80s. The game also and 70s Atari The DODOcase has been re- inside a hand-carved bamboo the cable while the DODOcase is supports co-op play local. • Rumor – Xbox 360 Arcade to designed to accommodate Apple's frame. Four rubber bumpers hold in use). The player plays as Yar who has replace the Core System by the new tablet, but the high-quality the iPad 2 firmly in place. And I Gallery: DODOcase for iPad 2 been brainwashed by the Qotile holiday season build and materials are mean firmly. I had to press to get Continue reading DODOcase for empire to do their bidding. Yar unchanged. The exterior is it in where it was held tight. It's a iPad 2 as good as the original gets shot down and rescued by wrapped in that nice, Moleskine- grip that inspires confidence; you DODOcase for iPad 2 as good as Bar Yarglar and then sets off to esque material and closes with a know the typical bumps and the original originally appeared on similar elastic band. The grain is a nudges won't knock your iPad TUAW on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 bit different than that on the free. 09:00:00 EST. Please see our notebooks, but at first glance, The top and bottom of the frame terms for use of feeds. that's what most people will are cut away to expose the Source| Permalink| Email this| assume you're carrying. controls, speaker and dock Comments On the inside, the iPad rests connector (yes, you can connect 36 Technology/ Economy/ Culture/ Newstablet Edition Taptu for iPad brings China's foreign reserves: Who wants to blended feeds to be a triple trillionaire? (The Economist: Full print showing that its reserves at the newsreader app lineup edition) end of March had soared above $3 trillion. Michael Rose (TUAW) Submitted at 4/14/2011 3:04:51 AM China’s central bank has a lot of Submitted at 4/14/2011 11:15:00 AM [ fivefilters.org: unable to retrieve money but not a lot of full-text content] imagination. It keeps a big chunk Considering how eerily the 2001: Window-shopping with China’s of its reserves in boring American A Space Odyssey version of a central bank government securities. That tablet newsreader matches the BY THE end of last year, China's means it can count on getting its 2011 reality of the iPad, it's no foreign-exchange reserves dollars back. But it frets about surprise that the App Store amounted to $2.85 trillion. how much those dollars will be landscape is getting crowded with Although China ran a rare trade worth should America succumb to newsreader options. deficit in the first quarter of this inflation or depreciation. ... Beyond the standalone startups year on April 14th the country's and the gray standards, a whole central bank released new figures bunch of RSS-centric tools have made the scene: Flipboard, Early Edition, Pulse and more. Now we can add another reader to the Psychic tip on Long master list: Taptu, a company with a heritage in search technology, has built out the free Given a serious search brings blended feeds to Island serial killer? iPad version of its app to infrastructure, it's much easier to newsreader app lineup (Holy Kaw!) proclaimed psychics in the world accompany the existing iPhone tackle the problems of story Taptu for iPad brings blended who claim to be able to find and Android versions. The app Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:54:00 AM duplication and "what should I feeds to newsreader app lineup missing persons and help police launches today in the App Store. read now?" than it would be originally appeared on TUAW on While police continue their solve crimes. The real question is Taptu's CEO Mitch Lazar, a without that underlying Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:15:00 EST. search for a serial killer stalking why they can't help police catch veteran of CNN and Yahoo!'s intelligence. Taptu's Please see our terms for use of Long Island, a psychic is claiming serial killers before they strike mobile efforts, told me that the recommendation engine will feeds. to have accurately predicted again -- and why they exploit the experience of building the recommend related stories as you Source| Permalink| Email this| where the body of one of the first emotions (and sometimes money) company's consumer search read, and it will find feeds and Comments victims would be found. The New of bereaved families. product ( now discontinued) has collections that match your York Post reported that "nine Full story at Discovery News. informed and supported the interests over time. months before cops dug up the More news from Discovery newsreader platform that Taptu is Continue reading Taptu for iPad corpse and that of three other Communications. aiming to create. young women on a Long Island Permalink| Leave a comment » beach, police sources said." There are thousands of self- Newstablet Edition Technology/ Culture/ 37 What you should University of Main creates golf ball know about the Large Hadron out of lobster shells Collider Shane McGlaun (SlashGear) the material costs about 19 cents (Holy Kaw!)

Submitted at 4/14/2011 7:17:35 AM per ball. The catch is that ball Submitted at 4/14/2011 8:51:00 AM won’t fly as far as a regular golf We lived near a golf course when ball. Built by CERN, the Large I was a kid and we thought it was [via BoingBoing] Hadron Collider is supposed to great fun to grab the balls as they Relevant Entries on SlashGear search for the elusive Higgs rolled down the fairway. What we • Put your golf buddy to shame Boson -- but why? Tune in as didn’t realize was that the golfers for April Fool’s Day Josh and Chuck catch you up to were hitting those balls from over • The safest way to play golf yet speed on the Higgs Boson in this the hill and they didn’t appreciate • M16 golf ball launcher is Mr. exclusive video from at all that we swiped their balls. Driving Range Ball Picker HowStuffWorks.com and the We moved to wading in the water Upper’s worst nightmare Science Channel. hazards gathering up the balls • Robot Lobsters Spy the Coastal Full playlist at sitting on the bottom of the pond. has invented a new biodegradable coating that is biodegradable too. Waters HowStuffWorks.com. If you think about it, there are golf ball that is made from the That means after the ball sits in • Sharkoon combines a geeks Total aggregation of probably thousands of golf balls stuff the lobster canning industry that water for a certain amount of love for golf with PC cooling HowStuffWorks.com. under the water in those hazards tosses out. time it will just melt away leaving Photo credit: Fotolia on golf courses all around the The balls are made from lobster some lobster shell chunks behind. Permalink| Leave a comment » country and the things will be shells that are held together with a The balls are on the market now there forever unless someone digs biodegradable binder and a for a bit less than $1 per ball and them out. The University of Main Drew Barrymore Celebrates a Detox With Jenna, Channing, and Fergie Allie Merriam (PopSugar) Solution. Kimberly gathered even production office of 21 Jump prepping for her own next big

Submitted at 4/14/2011 7:52:37 AM more of her famous friends for the Street with Jonah Hill earlier this thing, which is directing the big- event, including Hilary Duff, week. Jenna is likewise busy screen adaptation of How to Be Drew Barrymore stepped out in Fergie along with hosts Channing shooting the pilot for her new TV Single. She's clearly off the LA last night without her Tatum and Jenna Dewan. series The Playboy Club, and it market, though, as her boyfriend Will Kopelman in order Channing was able to spend time apparently already has the relationship with Will continues to toast pal Kimberly Snyder's socializing during a break from blogged a photo from the approval of Hugh Hefner. Drew to grow. View Slideshow › new book The Beauty Detox working on his next project - he had the evening free from 38 Policy/ Culture/ Newstablet Edition Top 20 Two to Tango - By Christian Caryl mostunusual CHRISTIAN CARYL (Foreign empowered to supervise an their arms within the framework leadership are any indication, the 'RAP Star' Policy) overarching process that would of the reconciliation process. message is fairly clear: Foreign Submitted at 4/13/2011 5:52:54 PM allow for the active participation Reporters in the field seem to troops have to go, outside species of all the Afghan parties, have no trouble finding rank-and- influences must be purged, and There's a lot of talk in various including the Taliban -- which file Taliban who say they just the current Afghan Constitution (Holy Kaw!) world capitals right now about the would also include a mechanism want the war to end. (regarded as insufficiently Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:58:00 AM need for an Afghan peace deal. for discussing the legitimate Yet Afghans have been saying Islamic) is anathema. Asked U.S. Secretary of State Hillary interests of regional powers. they are sick of the warfare in whether the Taliban really appear To mark 20 years of field study, Clinton recently declared that the Clinton, he told me a few days their country almost from the willing to talk, Miliband responds Conservation International's war in Afghanistan can't be won ago, was on the right track a few moment it started in 1978. If with corresponding nuance: "I Rapid Assessment Program has by military means alone -- and in weeks ago when she spoke of the combat fatigue were the criterion think that the truth is that there are just named the Top 20 "RAP" so doing she was echoing the need to devote as much energy to by which we measure the signals in both directions," he Stars of the program's history. words of senior U.S. military the civilian and diplomatic imminence of peace, the conflict says. "There are signals both of According to CI, these species are men, including International components of the Afghan should have been over a long time truculence and refusal to "some of the most biologically Security Assistance Force equation as the military one. But ago. But there still seem to be recognize reality. There are surprising, unique, or threatened commander Gen. David Petraeus. Miliband would prefer to take it a plenty of Taliban willing to fight - signals also of the desire to bring discoveries" from their teams’ Officials in Ankara are floating step further: "My own view is that - and even to blow themselves up the war to an end." But Miliband surveys. the notion of allowing the Taliban a political framework doesn't just in suicide attacks. (The Taliban notes the only way we can obtain The director of CI's RAP is to open an office in Turkey that sit alongside a military effort and claimed responsibility for one that clarity is for the current Afghan Leeanne Alonso, who helped to would give them an official development effort." In fact, he killed six last week near government and the international select the top 20. “It’s been an "address" for talks. And in Kabul said, a political settlement should Kandahar, for example.) And why community to announce their own amazing adventure,” Alonso was itself, Hamid Karzai's government be the point of the whole exercise. should they stop? The United vision of what a settlement would quoted as saying in a press seizes every opportunity to Everything else should be States and NATO have declared look like -- complete with "red release. “Despite the pressures we reiterate its willingness to designed with this endgame in that they'll be withdrawing their lines" on security, renunciation of put on nature, it continues to negotiate. mind. forces by 2014. If the Taliban ties with al Qaeda, and protection mystify, inspire and teach us with There's just one small catch: Sounds great. Yet what all this want to achieve their oft-stated of basic human rights. "Until we a wealth of hidden treasures and Where are the Taliban? presupposes is that the Taliban are goal of driving all foreign forces clarify our own endgame, I don't ecosystem services that people The latest voice to join the actually interested in peace to out of the country, all they have to think we'll see what the Taliban rely on, and that we’re still only campaign for peace belongs to ex- begin with. Now, it's certainly do is sit back and wait. But that endgame is." beginning to understand.” British foreign minister David true that there are many intriguing doesn't seem to have diminished This entry passed through the Full story at Discovery News. Miliband; he's still a Labour Party signs that the insurgents are fed their motivation to keep killing Full-Text RSS service — if this is More news from Discovery member of Parliament. He's up with fighting. Just two days people. Perhaps three years your content and you're reading it Communications. pushing for what he calls a ago, for example, 50 militants doesn't seem that long measured on someone else's site, please read Permalink| Leave a comment » "comprehensive political surrendered to the government in against the past 33 years of war. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- settlement" to end the war. And the Taliban heartland of Nor are the Taliban completely only/faq.php#publishers. Five he doesn't think that this should be Kandahar, saying that they'd had mysterious about their intentions. Filters featured article: Libya and left to the Americans to negotiate enough. The Kabul government The lower ranks might be Oil. alone. He would like to see a claims that thousands of former demoralized, but if the ever- United Nations mediator guerrillas have already laid down proliferating websites of their Newstablet Edition Policy/ Culture/ 39 Were Galileo's The World of Holy Warcraft - By inventions all about the Jarret Brachman and Alix Levine cosmos? JARRET BRACHMAN, ALIX and his rep power is at 50, line Islamist forum is not as applied to non-game activities. It (Holy Kaw!) LEVINE (Foreign Policy) whereas most other users score in exciting as one might expect. You turns out that what drives online Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:34:00 AM

Submitted at 4/13/2011 5:39:05 PM the teens. He's also started using don't get paid, and you spend jihadists is pretty much exactly the chat software Paltalk and most of your time posting links what drives Internet trolls, airline You probably already know In December 2004, a frequent Skype to reach out, hosting live and videos, commenting on other ticket consumers, and World of Galileo Galilei was one of the first online commenter who had forums. people's links and videos, and Warcraft players: competition. major scientific figures to support reached "administrator" level on The user's online handle is then commenting on other Gamification started out as a Copernicus' idea that the Earth his favorite chat site admitted that Abumubarak, and the forum people's comments. So why do corporate buzzword, meaning any revolved around the sun. In early he was getting fed up with his where he spends hours at a time is people like Abumubarak spend attempt to ensure brand loyalty 1600s Italy, that was a pretty bold online life. In his 19,938th not a gaming site or a forum about weeks and months and years of and engagement through applying position, and one that got him in a comment on the forum, he wrote celebrity gossip, but one of the their time doing it? Explanations gaming principles. It doesn't mean lot of trouble. that his wife had grown impatient dozens of hard-line Islamist sites from scholars have ranged from turning something into a game, But what most people aren't with how much time he spent where commenters post news the inherently compulsive and but rather allowing users to gain aware of is that many of Galileo's online, he was sick of the verbal articles, terrorist propaganda, and violent quality of Islam to the status-based awards and inventions weren't focused, assaults from other posters, and their own opinions on the subject psychology of terrorists. reputation, earn meaningful literally or figuratively, on the despite being just a few posts of jihad. And more than a few of But no one seems to have noticed badges, compete with others, use stars above. Galileo was also very away from the 20,000 mark, he the commenters have gone from that the fervor of online jihadists avatars, and trade in a virtual keen on creating mechanical was throwing in the towel. online jihad to the real thing: The is actually quite similar to the currency. If you've used frequent- devices that could help people "Seriously, i am tired," he wrote. majority of Westerners following fervor of any other online group. flier miles, earned stars with your better do their jobs. Find out more "Looking at that number [of a radical interpretation of Islam The online world of Islamic coffee purchase at Starbucks, or in this article. posts] just reminded me of how who have been arrested on extremists, like all the other checked in on Foursquare, you've Full article at much time i am online my wife terrorism charges have either been worlds of the Internet, operates on had a gamified experience. HowStuffWorks.com. will love me for it, she says i active in the hard-line forums or a subtly psychological level that This entry passed through the Total aggregation of spend too much time here." in possession of extremist does a brilliant job at keeping Full-Text RSS service — if this is HowStuffWorks.com. He did not, however, stick to his materials downloaded from the people like Abumubarak clicking your content and you're reading it Photo credit: Fotolia resolution. Seven years later, this web. and posting away -- and amassing on someone else's site, please read Permalink| Leave a comment » same user continues participating The counterterrorism community all the rankings, scores, badges, the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- as a senior administrator on the has spent years trying to and levels to prove it. Like only/faq.php#publishers. Five same forum, where he has now determine why so many people virtually every other popular Filters featured article: Libya and posted an astonishing 63,000 are engaged in online jihadi online social space, the social Oil. posts. The forum measures "rep communities in such a meaningful space of online jihadists has power," a way of rating users way. After all, the life of an become "gamified," a term used based on the quality of their posts, online administrator for a hard- to describe game-like attributes 40 Policy/ Culture/ Travel/ Newstablet Edition Trailer Gallery: God- Will Voters Accept Tax Warriors, Vile Monsters Increases? Fill Capcom's New Games (AEI.Org: Articles) one striking similarity, as neither though, because this approach Chris Kohler (Wired Top looking cinematics, which are Stories) Submitted at 4/13/2011 11:00:00 PM specifies which tax preferences does little or nothing to mitigate about as useful as that Dead

will be curtailed or eliminated. the saving and investment Submitted at 4/14/2011 6:00:00 AM Island trailer in terms of President Obama's plan recycles Each plan will face hard choices disincentives arising from the illustrating what this mythology- two of his longstanding tax when it comes time to spell out taxation of business profits, A panoply of bizarre and exotic themed action game will be like. proposals, the expiration of the the details. Significant base interest, dividends and capital creatures — including Hindu Jason: Asura's Wrath, which tells Bush tax cuts for high-income broadening cannot be achieved by gains. Long-run economic growth gods, many-headed dragons and the story of deity Asura as he households and a limitation on eliminating unpopular loopholes. could be better advanced by paunchy journalists — populate attempts to rescue his kidnapped itemized deductions claimed by Instead, it will be necessary to replacing the entire income tax the new games coming from daughter, is a gorgeous, far-out those households. But the plan make major changes to at least system with a progressive Capcom Entertainment. game that appears to involve a lot adds a new element by calling for some of the most widely used tax consumption tax, but neither Capcom took the veil off its of Quick Time Events. According additional curtailment of tax preferences, such as the exclusion President Obama nor upcoming slate of videogames at to previews by some of the writers preferences to further broaden the of employer-provided health Representative Ryan has its recent Captivate event in who went to Capcom's Miami income tax base. insurance and the deductions for embraced that far-reaching Miami. Game|Life, having not event, this trailer is part of a boss Both the president's and Paul state and local taxes, mortgage reform. jetted off for fun in the Florida battle that's at least partially on Ryan's plan call for limiting tax interest and charitable giving. If Alan Viard is a resident scholar sun, was not in attendance to see rails. Though the whole breaks. But neither specifies the political will is found to make at AEI. these games revealed. But like mythology thing is getting a little which ones. such changes, the income tax can This entry passed through the you, we have been watching the overdone, there's something very Interestingly, Representative Paul be redesigned to facilitate a more Full-Text RSS service — if this is trailers with great interest, filled compelling about an epic duel Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican, efficient allocation of resources your content and you're reading it as they are with the sorts of against an obese god. included a similar proposal in his across economic sectors. For on someone else's site, please read fantastical characters and Chris: Wait, so that's actually budget plan. He would use all of example, while such a tax system the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- gameplay that we expect from the gameplay? Hmm. Where are the the revenue from base broadening might still promote only/faq.php#publishers. Five company, the leader in high-end QTE button prompts? I'm so to lower tax rates; the president homeownership, it would no Filters featured article: Libya and games from Japan. confused. would use much of the revenue to longer provide lavish subsidies for Oil. Jason Schreier and I offer our All videos courtesy Capcom lower tax rates, but would devote expensive houses. first impressions of each game, Entertainment. some revenue to deficit reduction. The economic gains from income from Asura's Wrath all the way to This entry passed through the The Obama and Ryan plans have tax base broadening are limited, Street Fighter x Tekken, in this Full-Text RSS service — if this is handy trailer gallery. your content and you're reading it Above: on someone else's site, please read Chris: I figured Capcom, after the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- When In Rome& announcing Asura's Wrath at the only/faq.php#publishers. Five (CONCIERGE.COM: LATEST A Gold List winner favored by A- Tokyo Game Show, would put the Filters featured article: Libya and TRAVEL FEATURES) list celebs, this neoclassical focus on showing off actual Oil.

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Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:46:00 AM 3. Everyone’s doing it, Mom! cash to buy and sell commodities 7. Current owners are cashing for the job. Not only does this in higher volumes. out. candidate have the reputation to Glencore International AG is Cash is king. These guys have it 5. Strong commodities = Strong reassure investors of the about to take over the world -- and really don’t even need to go Glencore. Let’s not start with the whole company’s corporate governance literally. public. Yeah, little tricks, little “well they’re only paper rich” credentials, his Rolodex is stacked 1. This mega-company dominates quicks… they can fund any This is a given. There are two argument. It’s reported that after with deep pocket investors all the supply chain. project they want. But this IPO is dynamics at play here: supply/ the $60 billion valuation, each of over Asia, having previously been a power play at an opportune demand and speculation. 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With a weak five, this IPO creates a massive In October of last year, Roger metals and minerals, as well as investment in an attempt to meet dollar, inflation expectations, amount of wealth for the Agnelli, Chairman of Vale, the various energy and agricultural future supply demands. Someone Black Swans, and the global employees that own the group. world's largest producer of iron products. This makes them an needs to appease the world’s sovereign debt crisis, you and I 8. Glencore will become a major ore, said, "Everyday I pray for enabler. With increased capital hunger, right? Glencore’s can bank on this rally. market indicator. China-- it's good for everybody. they’ll be able to finance idle turnover last year was $145 6. Increased scrutiny for a The market is in Asia today." This operations all over the world. billion- tighten your tie, it’s time secretive company. 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Although Glencore will stake flags all over name changed thereafter, his 9. “Sail forth- steer for the deep story » similar companies like Vitol and South America, Africa, and pupils still hold various roles waters only.” See Also: Trafigura reportedly need cash, maybe even the US. The company within and around Glencore’s deal • U.S. Sees IPO Market Share they have not expressed any already operates in 40 countries -making apparatus. These“Rich A South Pole adventurer and Slip intention of floating anything and has some 55,000 employees. Boys” are assumingly trying to former Vodafone Group Plc board • Is Grey Metal Driving The right now, let alone allowing the Even though they may choose to shed the company’s guarded member is in the running to be public know how they run their purchase more mines and farms, culture by going public. They’re Chairman: Simon Murray, ‘The THINGS page 44 Newstablet Edition Economy/ 43 Housing Denial in Australia Feeds Off Same Myths We Heard in the US [email protected] (Michael Diego, Phoenix, Las Vegas, or by a large adverse impact on To be fair, the article did mention in Australia in spite of the fact the Shedlock) (Mish's Global Miami property values,” said Gerard that Gerard Minack, a market US provides a clear model of Economic Trend Analysis) Minack, Sydney-based global strategist at Morgan Stanley, what happens to prices once the

Submitted at 4/13/2011 9:16:00 PM For varying reasons every city developed markets strategist at believes Australian home prices pool of greater fools runs out. It is amusing to watch Australian thought "it's different here". Yet Morgan Stanley (MS), who are as much as 40 percent For more on the Australian analyst after analyst cite the same the bubble bust spread from city asserts Australian home prices are overvalued. However, that housing bubble and the pool of silly myths regarding housing that to city and eventually engulfed as much as 40 percent overvalued. opinion is in the minority. greater fools, please see we saw in the united states. First the entire country. “We’re seeing that now in parts of Five Facts Australian Home Sales Sink, consider a sampling of the Similar denial runs deep in Queensland.” Luxury Units Sell for Half Cost; nonsense we heard in the US. Australia. 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Sales have more than halved northern Gold Coast suburb that’s was a shortage because inept Fed /account_management.html to across Queensland state’s home to the world’s tallest policies fueled bubble mentality. learn more about wealth • Las Vegas is not Miami Sunshine coast, home to residential tower. “In 2011, more Moreover, prices eventually management and capital • Phoenix is not Las Vegas or “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin’s investors will start to come back crashed in places where there preservation strategies of Sitka Miami Australia Zoo, and the Gold into the marketplace as prices were limited properties for sale. Pacific. • San Diego is not Phoenix, Las Coast, known for its surfing fall.” Look at those last two Home prices simply will not Vegas, or Miami beaches and casinos. paragraphs. I believe that is the forever stay monstrously elevated • Chicago is not San Diego, “We have a very overvalued typical attitude. It is the same over wage growth and the cost to Phoenix, Las Vegas, or Miami housing market and even a small nonsense we saw in the United rent even if there is a shortage. • Seattle is not Chicago, San adverse shock can be magnified States. Yet, the same denial is happening 44 Economy/ Culture/ Newstablet Edition THINGS continued from page 42 BRICS Leaders Demand Green Revolution? • Markets Look To Be Deteriorating And Buyers Don't Seem To Like American Goods More Power, Attack EU And US Old Guard Mamta Badkar (Money Game) countries." been increasingly frustrated with Jessica Simpson Serenades Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:21:00 AM Chinese trade practices that involved pegging the currency to The Asia Report is supported by • Increased regulation of the the dollar to keep Chinese exports Military Families and the Cathay Pacific commodities derivatives market. cheap. Leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, In a joint statement, they said: China, and South Africa (BRICS) "We call for more attention to the First Lady! are demanding a revamp of the risks of massive cross-border • A proposal to include Indonesia Allie Merriam (PopSugar) world's monetary make-up, capital flows now faced by the in BRIC group. Submitted at 4/14/2011 6:54:48 AM according to Reuters. emerging economies" At the meeting in China, the five Indian prime minister Manmohan Jessica Simpson sang "Got Bless countries outlined their demands Singh has invited BRICS leaders America" joined by First Lady for what they want from the • A Russian developed proposal to India for the 2012 summit. 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Jessica • IMF's SDR to to be broadened. differences - Jessica was well talks with Chinese President Hu Join the conversation about this Simpson tweeted, "It's such an BRICS members were light on known as a favorite of former Jintao after the summit on story » honor to join First Lady Michelle specifics for the role of the yuan. president George Bush. The event Thursday and wants to trade See Also: Obama as she kicks off her new was also a chance for Michelle energy for investment in Russia. • China Just Gave You Another initiative in support of our and Jill to kick off their new This comes after China and Brazil Big Reason To Be Bullish On military & their families." View • A proposal to use local Joining Forces initiative, which signed commercial agreements on Energy Slideshow › currencies, not dollars, to Tuesday, including, a $1.5 billion • Forget Falling House Prices, aspires to help soldiers and their establish mutual credit lines at offer from Chinese companies for China Looks Ready To Tighten loved ones deal with long development banks. President Wu Brazilian air crafts. Again separations. It was a humbling said: "Trade settlement in local • There's A New Number One In currencies among the five World Oil Production countries will promote trade and investment liberalization. It will And some controversial topics lead to even closer business and they avoided: trade ties among these five • The yuan. Recently Brazil has Newstablet Edition Economy/ Culture/ 45 Courteney Cox Talks Nip- Why We Could Be In A Slips and Avoiding Arquette Recession By The End Of Advances on Letterman Allie Merriam (PopSugar)

Submitted at 4/14/2011 8:26:43 AM The Year Courteney Cox and her daughter Mike "Mish" Shedlock (Money short end of the stick regardless of on parts of the curve. For Coco swung by The Late Show Game) what the ECB does. example 2-year treasuries could studio in NYC last night for an interview about her new movie Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:30:22 AM Recession Odds Depend on invert with 3-year treasuries, 5- Definition year treasuries with 7-year Scream 4, which arrives in John Taylor, CEO of FX If one defines a recession as treasuries, or 7-year treasuries theaters tomorrow. Promotion for Concepts, a currency trading firm measured by 2 consecutive with 10-year treasuries. The the film gave Courteney regular with $8 billion under quarters of negative GDP it is current spreads are 53 basis opportunities to see her estranged management says "We'll be in a possible but highly unlikely. points, 32 basis points, and 61 husband David Arquette, who also stars in the project. 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Follow us on slight wardrobe malfunction - sharing, as she told David Eurozone Interest Rates global slowdown is coming and a Twitter and Facebook. David even shared a picture of Letterman yesterday. Courteney Taylor thinks interest rates reasonable chance we see a Join the conversation about this Courteney's nip-slip, which she said, "Dude, that's not really for should be 5% in Germany and 0% recession in 2012 heading smack story » was surprised to see. She said, everyone to know. . . . He did try in Greece but that is impossible. into the next presidential election. See Also: "Wow, Dave, that's not pixelated to hit on me. He hit pretty hard. I don't know where they should be Those waiting for a fully • The QE2 Trade Is Over: Can or anything!" View Slideshow › because rates should be set by inverted yield curve signal or We Start Dumping Risk Assets And I said, 'You don't have the the free market not a bunch of even a 2-year treasury inversion Now? fast pass right now. Not for that central planners. Moreover, it with the 10-year treasury will not • Markets Look To Be ride.'" Despite being separated was government bureaucrats not get a signal because the Fed has Deteriorating And Buyers Don't the free market that created an the short-end of the curve Seem To Like American Goods EU currency union with no fiscal artificially pegged at zero percent • Do We Have Inflation, Or Not? controls on individual countries.. while the long-end of the curve is I believe there is no correct pressured by huge budget solution as to where rates should deficits. be. Some countries will be on the However, we could see inversion 46 Economy/ Culture/ Newstablet Edition Recession by End of Jennifer Lawrence Year? Poses in Bikinis [email protected] (Michael short end of the stick regardless of on parts of the curve. 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Three reasons: Taylor does think we see two The one to watch closely is the 5- high heels for the May issue of Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger QE2 will end, Republicans are consecutive quarters of negative year to 7-year spread. GQ. The Oscar-nominated Games is perfect casting, but running the House, and the price growth. On that I disagree. Mike "Mish" Shedlock actress, who made a name for she'll reportedly be changing her of gas is heading up." However, the NBER, the official http://herself in Winter's Bone, is look, starting with making those Video arbiter of recessions, does not globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. making her blockbuster debut this blond locks much darker for the Taylor also takes a look at global define recessions that way. The com Summer in X Men: First Class, role. 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Submitted at 4/14/2011 7:30:00 AM remodeling projects. If you're should monitor especially. More » looking for a good return on investment, there are a couple of 48 Culture/ Newstablet Edition Taptu For iPad Successfully Taps Into News Junkie Territory John C Abell (Wired Top overwhelmed keeping up with the Reader lets you create “folders” All is not perfect, especially in bookmark provision which creates Stories) sources we know — and are — but in the cramped the all-important baseline a “saved” stream.

Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:00:00 AM hungry for more because we don’t environment of a tablet screen this requirement that an app like this • In the default size of the feeds, know what we don’t know. is a boon. Taptu even says mixed must be pretty and quick. Stories the headline obliterates the picture Taptu on Thursday released an Zite and the web-only service streams are de-duped — if the open up below the stream, where (if there is one) and is not news app for the iPad, joining paper.li attack the second problem same item appears more than in my limited experience an positioned in a consistent spot. what for news junkies is happily by algorithmically bubbling up once, because it shows up in more uncannily unusuable piece of the The strip is resizable, which becoming a mad dash for a Holy only certain links of those shared than one of your sourses, it shows full item seemed to be the norm. makes the strip much more Grail: A tablet “personal me” by people you follow on Twitter. up in your feed only once. Fullouts should be on the right, readable and attractive. I’d vote which makes boring feeds Taptu takes a big step further by Then, you can share your own which minimizes the need for for a convention which renders visually compelling, is easy to relying on an older tool — the dynamic publication with the scrolling, or should take over the the feed in focus — say, the one navigate and configure and allows good, old fashioned search engine Taptu universe, and on the screen. When I’m reading at the top of the screen — always for persistent discovery in a way — to find sites based on the internet, even with people who something I don’t want to in the larger footprint. which borders on a mind-reading infinite reach of simple keyword don’t use the app — a nifty and compromise on that experience to parlor trick. searches. fearless nod to the blurred line see what else there is to read. I But despite some layout Taptu looks and feels a lot like Taptu sticks with some familiar that should exist between the just need an easy way back to the shortcomings Taptu is poking the apps it joins, including Pulse, (dare I say boring) metaphors and closed world of apps and the open index. through some interesting Flipboard and Zite. They are all a UI conventions, like vertical and limitless web. Other nitpicks: boundaries about finding, new breed of publisher — for lack scrolling thumbnails. And the In the few pre-launch days I’ve • The app runs a bit on the packaging and re-distributing of a better word, yet — unique in basic ingredients of your stone had to play with the app it passed unsmooth side. I am using a beta content. As fodder grows by leaps at least two ways: None gather soup are also the same, like the the key litmus test with flying version of course and can’t hold and bounds and sometimes exists news, and all seem infinitely ability to import from your colors: I didn’t give up on it after this against then unless this herky- in what is for you uncharted better than the gatherers at Google Reader, pick from some initial enthusiasm. I kept jerkiness is replaced by smooth territory, that is the real Holy distribution on a platform that is “featured” feeds and browse pre- going back not only to read up on transitions in one of the first Grail. barely a year old. curated topics. things but also to try things out releases. This entry passed through the We’ve come a long way from But Taptu’s secret sauce it that it that occurred to me randomly and • The Rubik’s Cube mosaic Full-Text RSS service — if this is just tarting up RSS feeds found lets you mash up “mixed to tinker with feeds. In the interest which displays small thumbs to at your content and you're reading it and stored someplace else, like streams.” Rather than serve up of full disclosure: reporters given least nine stories in the stream on someone else's site, please read Google Reader. With the rise of every feed as a single, walled-off access before the launch were seems like utterly superfulous. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- Twitter, and the viral sharing of source, you can combine them offered the opportunity to create Hint: It’s hidable. only/faq.php#publishers. Five news links by everyperson with each other, web sites and personal feeds that Taptu would • You can share to Facebook, Filters featured article: Libya and curators, news junkies now suffer searches ad infinitum into what list in their featured section. Twitter and via e-mail, though not Oil. from a sort of Woody Allen then becomes a single feed. On Modesty did not prevent me from to save to Instapaper or Read It syndrome: We’re already the web, this isn’t new — Google accepting this offer. Later. Instead, there is an internal Newstablet Edition Politics-Left/ 49 NATO fails to reach consensus on Libya (AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)) who are entrenched in eastern Mahmud Jibril, who handles

Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:27:52 AM Libya, but have been unable to foreign policy for the rebels' push westward toward Gaddafi- Transitional National Council, NATO pledge "all necessary controlled Tripoli. was due in Washington to meet resources" as the military alliance "It's very important to broaden the with senior state and defence struggled to find a consensus on discussion about this point," he department officials and whether to arm Libya's rebels in said. congressional leaders. But his trip their fight against troops loyal to But Alain Juppe, the French was cancelled and the talks Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. foreign minister whose country postponed, US officials said. But the pledge, made was the first to bomb Gaddafi's In Doha, the international contact by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, forces, came down against arming group on Libya decided, after a NATO's secretary general, came the rebels, who have been calling day-long gathering, to set up a after a day marked by a day of for more airstrikes as Gaddafi's "temporary financial mechanism" disputes on how to resolve the troops blasted Misurata with to aid the rebels seeking to oust Libyan conflict. rockets, killing a reported 23. Gaddafi. The division, evident at the time William Hague, British foreign It "affirmed that Gaddafi's regime of a March 29 conference on secretary, said Britain, which was has lost all legitimacy and he Libya in London, was still also among the first countries to continuing attacks on civilians by day summit on Thursday. should leave and allow the Libyan manifest at the first meeting in carry out air strikes in Libya, had Gaddafi's forces. Meanwhile, there were reports of people to decide their future." Doha on Wednesday of the been providing non-lethal "In recent days, we have received four blasts in Tripoli on Thursday, While there was a consensus that contact group on Libya, which equipment to the rebels, and disturbing reports of renewed which Libyan state television Gaddafi must go, differences includes Western and Arab states, would continue to do so. atrocities conducted by Gaddafi's claimed were airstrikes. It also emerged over arming the rebels. the United Nations, the North And Belgium expressed forces," she said. reported civilian casualties which The meeting's final statement Atlantic Treaty Organisation and opposition to arming the rebels, Multi-alliance approach have not yet been verified. said "participants in the contact the Arab League. while Germany insisted that there The NATO meeting was part of a Khaled Kaim, the Libyan deputy group agreed to continue to Italy, a former close ally of could be "no military solution". three-pronged push - at the UN, as foreign minister, charged that provide support to the opposition, Gaddafi, who has ruled for 41 The final statement from the well as the meetings in Doha and elements of the Lebanese group including material support." years, said the UN Security meeting said that "participants in Cairo - by the international Hezbollah were fighting alongside Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, the Council resolution under which the contact group agreed to community to find a solution to the rebels in the east of his Qatari prime minister, told international forces have bombed continue to provide support to the end the fighting in Libya and halt country. reporters the statement refers to Gaddafis troops since March 19 opposition, including material the growing political impasse. Hezbollah, however, denied "humanitarian means, and also permits providing defensive arms support". But even as NATO and its allies sending fighters to aid rebels in means of defence. And that means to the rebels. The diplomatic moves come scrambled to formulate a Misurata. that the Libyan people should get Franco Frattini, the Italian amid rising friction within the unified front on Libya, five big "Hezbollah denies this accusation the means that they need to foreign minister, said "either we alliance over a NATO air emerging powers expressed and maintains that all such talk is defend themselves." make it possible for these people campaign in Libya that has so far misgivings about the air strikes unfounded," said a brief But he seemed to acknowledge to defend themselves, or we failed to change the balance of against Gaddafi targets and urged statement released by the group that this view was not universally withdraw from our obligation to power on the ground. an end to the fighting. on Thursday. held. He said "people gathered support defending the population Hillary Clinton, the US secretary The air campaign was one of the Gadaffi also said Qatar had sent here have different of Libya." of state, who arrived in Berlin for issues on the table when the military trainers to Libya and was interpretations," while reiterating Frattini said that Resolution 1973 the meetings on Thursday and leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, supplying the rebels with French- that "the first thing that the Libyan "does not prohibit supplying arms Friday, issued a statement China and South Africa (BRICS) made Milan anti-tank missiles. NATO page 52 ... for self-defence" to the rebels, denouncing what she said were met in southern China for a one- Trust fund for rebels 50 Politics-Left/ Newstablet Edition Rebels warn of 'massacre' in Misurata (AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE))

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A television shot of the centre of Misurata, which was hit with a rocket attack, reportedly killing 23 people [Al Jazeera] Rebels have warned of an impending "massacre" by troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi if NATO does not intensify its attacks on government forces in and around Misurata, which has been besieged for weeks. Libyan government forces launched a heavy attack against the coastal city on Thursday, with dozens of Grad rockets, killing at least 23 people, a rebel spokesman said. Misurata, Libya's third-biggest city, is the only major rebel stronghold in the west of the country. It has been the scene of major fighting between rebels and Gaddafi's forces for several weeks. "They fired Grads at a residential area called Kasr Ahmad near the port this morning. They fired at least 80 rockets on that area," Abdelbasset Abu Mzereiq told Gaddafi loyalists were firing the ship was carrying. clear that they will be crushed Their criticism contrasted with Reuters by telephone. shells on Tripoli Street, a It is difficult to independently without NATO support, the the first joint call for Gaddafi's He later clarified that those killed thoroughfare which cuts to the verify accounts from western international community is overthrow from a group of Middle had been civilians and not rebel city centre from the western Libya because journalists are struggling to come up with a Eastern and Western countries fighters as earlier understood. The outskirts, eyewitnesses told Al prevented from reporting freely. united approach. meeting in Qatar on Wednesday. death toll from the 90 minute Jazeera. Electricity and communications The five so-called BRICS In its strongest language yet, the artillery barrage was likely to rise, The rocket assault on the lines to the city have been cut emerging powers - Brazil, international "contact group" on the spokesman added. residential area near the rebel- while a rebel spokesman told Al Russia, India, China and South Libya demanded that Gaddafi "They keep killing civilians. controlled port had also prevented Jazeera that the city faced food Africa - expressed misgivings leave power and voiced support Yesterday we lost five civilians in a Qatari vessel from docking, shortages. about NATO air strikes after talks for the rebels, while Washington the shelling and 37 were another rebel spokesman said. It Disparate international response in China and urged an end to wounded." was not immediately clear what While the rebels have made it the two-month conflict. REBELS page 51 Newstablet Edition Politics-Left/ 51 Ugandan opposition leader injured at protest (AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)) secretary of the Uganda Red still being watched by a large

Submitted at 4/14/2011 7:51:48 AM Cross, told the AFP news agency contingent of police. "He got injured in the process of On Monday, he was arrested and The Ugandan Red Cross the demonstration. It was a hand charged with "inciting violence" confirmed that Besigye had been injury." for attempting to organise a injured [EPA] Police used tear gas and fired in similar march. He will appear in Kizza Besigye, Ugandan the air to prevent Besigye from court again on May 11. opposition leader and president holding the march to protest the Besigye's arrest was widely Yoweri Museveni's closest rival in rising cost of living and what the criticised by rights groups. February elections, has been taken opposition says is bad governance He chalked up his third to hospital after apparently being on the part of Museveni. consecutive loss to Museveni in a injured while taking part in a Besigye had planned for the February presidential election, protest, police said. second time this week to get with the opposition saying that "Besigye fell down, we don't Ugandans to join a walk-to-work poll was marred by fraud. know what happened to him but protest march. This entry passed through the the next thing we saw was that a When the opposition leader left Full-Text RSS service — if this is Red Cross vehicle came nearby his home in Kasangati, a suburb your content and you're reading it and he jumped into it," Vincent of Kampala, he was met by anti- told AFP. was within his rights to walk to on someone else's site, please read Sekate, a police spokesman, said riot police. "There are laws governing work. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- on Thursday. "We stopped him from walking to processions, and Besigye should "Do I have to ask for permission only/faq.php#publishers. Five The Ugandan Red Cross work because we received follow these guidelines. Short of from the police to walk to my Filters featured article: Libya and confirmed that Besigye had been information that he had asked that we cannot allow him to place of work?" he asked. Oil. injured. people to join him on the way to proceed," he added. By mid-morning, Besigye, Michael Richard Nataka, general create chaos in town," Ssekate However, Besigye said that he surrounded by his supporters, was REBELS continued from page 50 has taken a back seat after reluctance to launch attacks. at Arab League headquarters. NATO members are also divided council spokesman. handing command to NATO on Amid a flurry of international Ban expressed grave concern over meeting a rebel request for This entry passed through the March 31. diplomacy over Libya, over the escalation of violence in weapons. Full-Text RSS service — if this is Gerard Longuet, the French UN Secretary General Ban Ki- Libya and called for a ceasefire Trinidad Jimenez, Spain's foreign your content and you're reading it defence minister, said this week moon, Catherine Ashton, EU and the relief of besieged cities. minister, said this was not allowed on someone else's site, please read Gaddafi's attacks would not be foreign policy chief, Amr Moussa, The longer fighting went on, the under the UN resolution the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- stopped without US participation Arab League head and officials more difficult a political solution authorising military action but only/faq.php#publishers. Five in strikes on his tanks and from the African Union and would be, he said. other nations suggested it could Filters featured article: Libya and artillery. Organisation of the Islamic Britain and France are leading air be possible. Oil. But Spain said it had no plan to Conference discussed the war at a strikes against Gaddafi's forces, The rebels said they were in talks join the seven NATO states that meeting in Cairo on Thursday. but have grown frustrated with the with "friendly" countries to obtain have conducted ground strikes A few dozen pro and anti- lack of support from their allies. arms: "I don't think there will be a while Italy, Libya's Gaddafi protesters NATO says it is still short of problem getting weapons," said former colonial power, expressed demonstrated outside the meeting about 10 aircraft a day for strikes. Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, national 52 TV/ Featured/ Newstablet Edition NATO continued from page 49 people need is self-defence". your content and you're reading it Hooray for However, Mahmud Shammam, a on someone else's site, please read spokesman for the rebels, the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- indicated that the arms issue does only/faq.php#publishers. Five the not require consensus. Filters featured article: Libya and "If needed, we will request (arms) Oil. from countries on a bilateral President! basis," he said. (Scripting News) This entry passed through the Submitted at 4/14/2011 7:16:12 AM Full-Text RSS service — if this is Gotta say it, I was proud of my President yesterday for calling bullshit on the Republican American Idol Backstage Report: bullshit. This morning, listening to NPR, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. They were picking at The Simon Factor every little thing. It was as if they had been given the Republican Deborah Starr Seibel nice, super supportive judges. of the (two remaining) girls to go talking points and were going (TVGuide.com: Breaking News) "Pia was so much better than home." over them, again and again. anyone else out there," said one So it falls to record producer Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:53:00 AM Contrast this to the way they audience member Wednesday Jimmy Iovine to play the new explained the Ryan "plan" -- with Jimmy Iovine night. "But the judges say heavy. "He totally is," says Idol no skepticism, glossing over the It's taken five weeks, but the everyone is great. To Steven vocal coach Debra Byrd after the core idea of letting old people die studio audience is finally starting [Tyler], everyone is 'beautiful.'" show. "I never thought of it that in poverty, while giving more tax to drop the "S" bomb: Simon. He And that's why Simon Cowell's way, but he is." Trouble is, Iovine cuts to the richest people! was gone like a puff of black name has surfaced again. Where isn't sitting at the judges' table, I don't know where they get the smoke. And in the hoopla is that scathing criticism, that and we don't hear what he really idea that NPR has a liberal bias. surrounding the two new judges unapologetic boredom when a thinks of a performance until a Sounds to me like they take their — glamour goddess Jennifer contestant fails to set the room on week later. orders from the Repubs. Lopez and rock god Steven fire? When all the critiques are Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine No matter, the President spoke to Tyler— he was almost forgotten. favorable, how is a viewer now! all of us who love our parents and But that was before Pia Toscano supposed to edit his or her This entry passed through the grandparents, and realize that was booted off the show, making choices? 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"I'm so afraid to say girls tend to vote for boys, then it Lopez to country singer Scotty anything because I don't want any had to be the fault of the super McCreery, apparently aware of Newstablet Edition TV/ 53 'The Vampire Diaries' Cast NBC Launches New Talks Klaus & Season 3 Social Network Wishes (VIDEO) Michael Schneider Maggie Furlong (TV Squad) (TVGuide.com: Breaking News) Submitted at 4/14/2011 4:00:00 AM

Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:57:00 AM Filed under: Reality-Free, NBC Live Celebrity Interviews, The Show NBC's getting more social. As Girl Have you heard? Klaus is the networks continue to dabble coming. with Twitter and Facebook, NBC Yes,'Vampire Diaries' fans, I this week will unveil plans to take know that's all anyone can talk that kind of interactivity one step about these days, but come on -- further. the guy is an Original. We've Get ready for the launch of NBC witnessed some pretty powerful Live ( www.nbc.com/live), which supernatural stuff on that show, will shoot out polls, trivia, insider but Klaus' arrival will absolutely commentary, photos and other be the craziest thing we've seen behind-the-scenes information yet. synced up to what's happening in We hit the Atlanta set of 'The relatively submissive. [laughs]" real time on-screen. As The Vampire Diaries' to catch up with Katerina Graham dished about Office features a scene with synced-up information. with the debut of The Voice but the cast and talk all about the Bonnie's inevitable showdown Dwight ( Rainn Wilson, who "This is a great way for fans to will eventually encompass all of O.G. fanged one's arrival in with Klaus: "She's the one person serves as the site's "host"), for communicate with each other as a the network's shows. Mystic Falls. Who's met Klaus so -- that's been revealed -- that can example, NBC Live might ask companion to live TV, on an Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine far? And who's gone head-to-head stop him. ... So I don't think she's users to vote on whether he official site with real info," says now! with him? "Actually I've just shot expecting to just fly to Hawaii and deserves a promotion to branch NBCUniversal Digital This entry passed through the one scene with him so far," Paul forget about him for a while." manager. Entertainment president Vivi Full-Text RSS service — if this is Wesley revealed. "It was pretty Permalink| Email this| Linking NBC Live's real backbone will be Zigler. The goal: To get more your content and you're reading it submissive ... one of us was Blogs| Comments a social stream in which users can viewers to turn off their DVRs on someone else's site, please read comment about what's on screen and watch TV live (which would the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- and interact in real time with other make advertisers happy). only/faq.php#publishers. Five viewers. A live moderator will be NBC designed the new site with Filters featured article: Libya and stationed at NBC to promote iPads in mind; the official NBC Oil. comments, weed out off-topic Live app is already available. The posts and coordinate all of the site officially launches April 26 54 TV/ Newstablet Edition VIDEO: Taylor Lautner Shows Off His Action Acting Muscles in Abduction Robyn Ross (TVGuide.com: Breaking News)

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Abduction Twilight hottie Taylor Lautner is making his solo starring debut in the action thriller Abduction. In the recently released trailer, Lautner's character Nathan learns from a missing persons website Stephen Colbert Mocks Tim that he was abducted as a child. After his parents are confronted, Pawlenty for Declaring Candidacy Nathan makes a harrowing escape from home only to be relentlessly Watch the trailer below and your content and you're reading it to Piers Morgan (VIDEO) pursued by a group of men who weigh in with your comments. on someone else's site, please read Jeremy Taylor (TV Squad) Report'(weekdays, 11:30PM ET call him a "high-valued asset." Related Links Other Links: Alfred the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- Submitted at 4/14/2011 2:40:00 AM on Comedy Central), Stephen Check out more movie scoop Molina, Jason Isaacs, Maria only/faq.php#publishers. Five Colbert presented a theory as to Newcomer Lily Collins, daughter Bello, Phil Collins, Sigourney Filters featured article: Libya and Filed under: Reality-Free, TV why Pawlenty's campaign issued of singer Phil Collins, who just Weaver, Taylor Lautner, Twilight, Oil. Replay the clarification. won the coveted title role in Snow Lily Collins Tags: Breaking Earlier this week, it appeared as "I do not blame them for trying to White, co-stars. The ensemble News, Celebs, Movie Trailers, if Tim Pawlenty had declared his walk this one back," Colbert said. cast also includes Maria Bello, Movie Scoop, Videos candidacy for president on'Piers "Declaring your candidacy for Alfred Molina, Sigourney Weaver This entry passed through the Morgan Tonight'. However, once president is supposed to be and Jason Isaacs. Full-Text RSS service — if this is CNN began running promos for special. You only get to do it 'Piers Morgan' highlighting the once. So you want to wait for that declaration, Pawlenty's campaign perfect journalist to share it with. said he had not yet officially Not just give it up for the first guy announced his run for office, and who asks. Certainly not to CNN was taking the quote out of Morgan the Organ." context. Permalink| Email this| Linking On'The Colbert Blogs| Comments Newstablet Edition TV/ Food/ Products/ 55 'Breaking In' Season 1, Healthy & Episode 2 Recap Sustainable Fish Mike Moody (TV Squad) (Cooking Light: Editor's Picks) OMEGA-3s, THE "GOOD"

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Hacker News, I threw in the I also redirected my RSS feed, So with any luck we should be Newstablet Edition 61 BARRY continued from page 60 The decision from the eight While Bonds stood on the Forakis to read. career, Bonds faces up to 10 years testimony that was intentionally women and four men who sidewalk on the courthouse's north Bonds leaned forward, looked at in prison on the obstruction evasive, false or misleading." listened to testimony during the side, the jurors -- whose names the clerk, but never reacted when conviction. Yet federal guidelines The defense plans to argue that 12-day trial turned out to be a are being withheld until Thursday the verdict was read. His mother, call for 15-21 months. Bonds' answer wasn't relevant to mixed and muddled verdict on the -- went out the south entrance and Pat, watched from a second-row For similar offenses in the Bay the grand jury. slugger that left more questions many lingered to answer bench. Area Laboratory Co-Operative The government "has determined than answers. questions. For now, they only "Divided, not unanimous," on steroids ring case, known as it's unlawful for Barry Bonds to U.S. District Judge Susan Illston would give their first names. count one. BALCO, Illston sentenced cyclist tell the grand jury he's a celebrity declared a mistrial on the three Amber, a 19-year-old blonde "Divided, not unanimous," on Tammy Thomas to six months of child and to talk about his charges that Bonds made false woman who was the youngest count two. home confinement and track friendship with Greg Anderson," statements when he told a grand juror, said the final votes were 8-4 "Divided, not unanimous," on coach Trevor Graham to one year Ruby said. jury in December 2003 that he to acquit Bonds of lying about count three. of home confinement. Jurors said they unanimously never knowingly received steroids steroids and 9-3 to acquit him on And then, just when it appeared Baseball's season (73) and career agreed Tuesday on the obstruction and human growth hormone from lying about HGH use. The panel Bonds would escape unscathed, (762) record-holder for home verdict. trainer Greg Anderson and that he voted 11-1 to convict him of came the final word from the jury: runs, Bonds testified before a "When you're in front of a grand allowed only doctors to inject getting an injection from someone "Guilty," on obstruction of justice. grand jury that Anderson told him jury you have to answer, and he him. other than his doctor, with one Dennis Riordan, one of the the substances he was giving gave a [expletive] answer," said Defense lawyers will try to woman holding out, she said. lawyers on Bonds' legal team that Bonds were flaxseed oil and Fred Jacob, the 56-year-old jury persuade Illston or the 9th U.S. Jurors decided to convict Bonds numbered as many as 13 some arthritic balm, and that Bonds foreman. "He gave a story rather Circuit Court of Appeals to toss on the obstruction count on days, asked Illston to throw out didn't know they were designer than a yes-or-no answer." out the lone conviction. Federal Tuesday; on Wednesday they the guilty verdict and for a new steroids. Jurors generally spent one day of prosecutors must decide whether decided they could not come to trial on that count. Assistant U.S. "Did Greg ever give you anything deliberations on each count. it is worth the time and expense to unanimous decisions on the rest. Attorney Matthew Parrella asked that required a syringe to inject A 60-year-old juror, who try Bonds for a second time on the There was initial confusion when the judge to set a sentencing date. yourself with?" Bonds was asked. identified himself only as Steve, deadlocked charges. the jury informed Illston's clerk, Instead, Illston set a May 20 date His answer meandered, talking thought the defense successfully Less than two miles from the Tracy Forakis, that they had for a status conference. about his friendship with impeached key prosecution ballpark where he broke Hank reached a verdict, and the court "This case is about upholding one Anderson. The underlined part in witnesses Steve and Kathy Aaron's career home run record in made a public announcement. But of the most fundamental the indictment, the crime he was Hoskins and Kimberly Bell during August 2007, Bonds walked out when Forakis went back to the principles in our system of justice convicted of, was this response: cross-examination. of the Phillip Burton Federal jury room, the panel said the -- the obligation of every witness "That's what keeps our friendship. "They tried to discredit the Building on a sunny, windy verdict form wasn't completed to provide truthful and direct You know, I am sorry, but that -- witnesses. They tried to make the afternoon and looked on as his because there was a deadlock. The testimony in judicial you know, that -- I was a celebrity prosecutors look like bad guys. lead lawyer, Allen Ruby, held a court then issued a retraction of its proceedings," Melinda Haag, the child, not just in baseball by my Were they successful in doing sidewalk news conference. Ruby verdict announcement and Illston U.S. attorney in San Francisco, own instincts. I became a that? Yes," he said. instructed Bonds not to comment convened the lawyers, first said in a statement. "In the United celebrity child with a famous He also said the government was because the case wasn't over. without jurors, then with them, States, taking an oath and father. I just don't get into other hurt by Bonds' physician, Dr. Impeccably dressed in black suit and learned they were stalemated promising to testify truthfully is a people's business because of my Arthur Ting, who refuted many of and purple necktie, with a few on at least some of the charges. serious matter. We cannot ignore father's situation, you see." Steve Hoskins' allegations. days of stubble on his chin, Bonds Bonds, the seven-time National those who choose instead to The jury instruction said that to "I think the prosecutors got a big flashed a victory sign to a few League MVP, chatted with his obstruct justice. We will decide be convicted, Bonds must be bomb thrown in their lap," Steve fans. lawyers while Illston and the jury whether to seek a retrial of the found to have "obstructed, said. "Are you celebrating tonight?" went back behind closed doors. defendant on the remaining counts influenced or impeded, or Jacob said the absence of one asked. When they returned, Illston as soon as possible." endeavored to obstruct, influence, Anderson -- who was imprisoned "There's nothing to celebrate," he opened a manila envelope with Now 46 and far trimmer than he or impede" the grand jury "by BARRY page 66 replied. the verdict and handed it to appeared in the final years of his knowingly giving material 62 Sports/ Newstablet Edition Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant fined $100,000 for directing homophobic slur at ref ESPNLosAngeles.com the gay and lesbian communities play or look to me as a role model what he did was wrong after he court or in society at large," said (ESPN.com) and were NOT meant to offend or whatever it is, for them not to uttered the phrase that got him in Joe Solmonese, president of

Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:27:39 AM anyone." take what is said as a message of trouble. Human Rights Campaign -- a Bryant appeared on ESPN 710's hate or a license to degrade or "I was thinking about the game. I lesbian, gay, bisexual and Updated: April 14, 2011, 11:34 Mason & Ireland show embarrass or tease. That's wasn't thinking about anything," transgender civil rights AM ET ESPNLosAngeles.com Wednesday afternoon and something I don't want to see he said on Mason & Ireland. "I organization. "We hope such swift Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe reiterated that his comments happen. It's important for me to was thinking about the game and and decisive action will send a Bryant was fined $100,000 by the shouldn't be taken literally, but he talk about that issue because it's thinking about 'Damn, I'm sittin' strong and universal message that NBA on Wednesday for a gay slur also said he will appeal the fine. OK to be who you are, and I don't on the bench and this is a big this kind of hateful outburst is that commissioner David Stern Asked what he would say to want this issue to be a part of game for us and we have to win simply inexcusable no matter called "offensive and Bennie Adams now, Bryant something or to magnify it.' Because I was in the moment. I what the context." inexcusable." laughed and said: "That wasn't a something that shouldn't be." was in the moment and obviously Bryant called Solmonese After receiving a technical foul damn foul." Stern strongly condemned the emotions of the game. Being Wednesday before the Lakers' during Tuesday's game against the Bryant then said that he actually Bryant's use of the slur in a wrapped up in the moment and game at Sacramento to apologize San Antonio Spurs, Bryant did talk to Adams. statement. having those outbursts is totally and express regret. stormed to the bench, hit his seat "We talked after that during the "While I'm fully aware that normal. Hopefully, other players "I applaud Kobe Bryant for his before sitting down, threw a towel game when both of us were a lot basketball is an emotional game, look at what happened to me and swift apology," Solmonese said in and then yelled "Bennie!" toward calmer," Bryant said on Mason & such a distasteful term should what I said and understand you statement. "We had a very sincere referee Bernie Adams. Bryant Ireland. "Officials understand never be tolerated," he said. have cameras around the league conversation in which he then leaned back and muttered a that, understand that you have "Accordingly, I have fined Kobe and there are a lot of things being expressed his heartfelt regret for gay slur. emotional outbursts during the $100,000. Kobe and everyone said that shouldn't be said. the hurt that his words caused. He The episode was caught on course of the game. That doesn't associated with the NBA know Hopefully, we all learn from this told me that it's never OK to camera on TNT's national actually mean that mean what you that insensitive or derogatory experience and follow suit. " degrade or tease, and that he telecast, prompting announcer say." comments are not acceptable and The Lakers are battling the understands how his words could Steve Kerr to say: "You might Bryant admitted his choice of have no place in our game or Mavericks for the second seed in unfortunately give the wrong wanna take the cameras off of him words was not appropriate, society." the West. They beat the Spurs 102 impression that this is appropriate right now, for the children however. Saying that the league's fine is "a -93 on Tuesday. conduct. At the end of a difficult watching from home." "The comment that I made, even judgment call that they decided to Stern's action drew praise from day, I applaud Kobe for coming Bryant issued a statement though it wasn't meant in the way make and I'm going to abide by gay-rights organizations that have forward and taking responsibility Wednesday afternoon. it was perceived to be, is it," Bryant also said he would demanded a fuller apology from for his actions." "What I said last night should not nonetheless wrong, so it's appeal. Bryant and the Lakers. Bryant also told Mason & Ireland be taken literally," he said. "My important to own that," Bryant "We are appealing it, yeah, that's "We applaud Commissioner Stern that he will try to be more actions were out of frustration said. just typical protocol, and what and the NBA for not only fining involved with gay and lesbian during the heat of the game, Bryant added: "The concern that I they do with the response we'll Bryant but for recognizing that issues by reaching out to groups period. The words expressed do have is for those that follow what wait and see," he said. slurs and derogatory comments LOS page 67 NOT reflect my feelings towards I say and are inspired by how I Bryant was asked if he knew have no place on the basketball Newstablet Edition Sports/ 63 Judging Bonds Has Only Just Begun - New York Times (- Bing News) “He did. It took him six months, be flaws with such logic, but that almost 40 percent of the time). instruction on every ballot that

Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:12:34 AM and he did it brilliantly; I still is reality. According to Baseball- reads: “Voting shall be based have it in my file. And his Bonds will appear on the Hall of Reference.com, McGwire’s upon the player’s record, playing Barry Bonds’s statistics cannot conclusion is every era has had its Fame ballot in December 2012, closest historical comparable of ability, integrity, sportsmanship, be erased. Bonds did not get away problems, whatever it is.” five years after his final season. the pre-steroid era is Harmon character and contributions to the with his actions in federal court, Selig then spoke about the color Ten-year members of the Baseball Killebrew, who received 59.6 team(s) on which the player where he was convicted of a count barrier, not just before Jackie Writers’ Association of America percent of the vote in his first played.” If more than 25 percent of obstruction of justice Robinson broke it in 1947, but for will have 15 years to consider his ballot, in 1981. Three years later, of voters disqualify Bonds based Wednesday. But in his era Bonds many years later, when some candidacy, as long as Bonds never he was in. on his lack of integrity, was allowed to stay on the field teams enforced it on their own. falls below 5 percent of the vote. Killebrew hit 573 homers and sportsmanship and character, he and hit 762 home runs and win He said he was in Detroit the day Seventy-five percent is needed for batted .256. McGwire hit 583 will not get in. seven Most Valuable Player Ozzie Virgil integrated the election. (The New York Times homers and batted .263. Maybe Writers were duped into awards. Tigers— 11 years after does not allow its writers to vote.) voters’ attitudes would have celebrating the achievements of Fans can judge those Robinson’s debut for the If Bonds does not make it on the shifted over the years, but it McGwire and Bonds and so many accomplishments however they Brooklyn Dodgers. writers’ ballot, he could someday seems safe to guess that 60 others. Most of us were not want, but they did happen, and Racism clearly affected appear on the veterans committee percent of voters think a player aggressive enough in following they are as historically valid as the baseball’s records. So did the ballot, which for now consists of like Killebrew should go in right our suspicions. For many, barring 714 homers Babe Ruth hit without rampant use of steroids. But all eight Hall of Famers, four away. a player from Cooperstown is a ever facing an African-American the records stand, as they should. executives and four members of In McGwire’s first year on the chance to belatedly take a stand, pitcher. “That’s a slippery slope,” Selig the news media. Again, he would ballot, in 2007, he received 23.5 with the sportsmanship clause as Commissioner Bud Selig said said. “Once you get involved in need 75 percent to be elected. percent — which means, justification. Tuesday that he had already that, there’s no fair way to do it. Seventy-five percent is an awful unscientifically, that 36.1 percent If the writers reject Bonds for 15 studied the integrity of baseball’s At this moment I have no feeling lot. Joe DiMaggio needed three of voters disqualified him years, he might have a better records, with help from Jerome of doing anything differently than appearances on the ballot to cross immediately because of steroids. chance with contemporaries from Holtzman, the Chicago writer I’m doing.” the threshold. So did Catfish That is easily a strong enough his era on the veterans committee. who was baseball’s official But while facts are facts, the Hall Hunter and Juan Marichal. Andre voting bloc to bar a candidate But Hall of Famers tend to cherish historian. of Fame is subjective, and the Dawson needed nine years, Jim from Cooperstown. And after the exclusivity of their club, and “I had enormous affection and guardians of Cooperstown are not Rice the full 15. Voters’ opinions McGwire’s admission of steroid those who did not use steroids respect for him,” Selig said. “I keen on cheaters. That is why can change over time, but does use in 2010, his total slipped might be unlikely to welcome a said to him one day — because he Bonds seems very unlikely ever to anyone believe three-quarters of below 20 percent. player who did. thought that was being be enshrined. voters will ignore the sport’s most Bonds was a much better player Bonds retains respect from his overblown, about steroids and the The verdict in San Francisco does explosive issue since the Black than McGwire — a better peers for his ability, which was way people were reacting — I not help his cause, but it is Sox scandal? No chance. offensive force, maybe, than wondrous. However he achieved said: ‘All right, Jerome, why peripheral to the Hall of Fame Consider Mark McGwire. You anybody else who ever played. He it, he was a marvel to behold. don’t you do this for me? Why debate. Almost everybody can make a case that McGwire will get some votes from people “You look back at Barry Bonds don’t you go back to the ’20s and believes Bonds used steroids, and was not a Hall of Famer if you who believe he would have been a and all the stuff he’s going ’30s and show me the things that well more than a quarter of voters believe he was simply a one- Hall of Famer without using through, supposedly what he did, were aberrational and caused believe steroid use disqualifies a dimensional home run hitter steroids. differences in records?’ player from induction. There may (albeit one who reached base But there is a one-sentence JUDGING page 65 64 Sports/ Newstablet Edition With Hamilton’s Arm in a Sling, The Rangers Lose to the Tigers - New York Times (- Bing News) roughed up starter Francisco the 12th, only his fifth hit in 49 at- singles with four strikeouts and a a .280 batting average. He played

Submitted at 4/13/2011 9:23:53 PM Liriano and host Minnesota. bats this season. walk. in two All-Star Games. The Royals scored six times in Hisanori Takahashi won his first MARLINS 5, BRAVES 1 Josh The pain that usually struck every Brandon Inge hit a solo home run the fourth inning to break open game in the American League Johnson took a no-hit bid into the training session was too much to in the bottom of the ninth inning the game. with two perfect innings. eighth inning before the rookie endure, Delgado said. “I always Wednesday as the Detroit Tigers ATHLETICS 7, WHITE SOX 4 PADRES 3, REDS 2 Orlando Freddie Freeman doubled with said I would try to return until my beat the visiting Texas Rangers in Oakland scored three times to tie Hudson hit a bases-loaded single one out as visiting Florida beat body had enough, and my body their last at-bat for the second the score in the ninth inning, then with two outs in the ninth inning Atlanta. could take no more,” the 38-year- straight day, 3-2. Coco Crisp hit a go-ahead single as host San Diego avoided a three Chipper Jones homered in the old Delgado said Wednesday. Texas played its first game since in a three-run 10th as the Athletics -game sweep. ninth, giving him 1,500 R.B.I. for Delgado stopped playing in the the star Josh Hamilton broke his feasted on host Chicago’s shaky Joey Votto had three hits for the his career. majors in May 2009 and had two arm. Hamilton, the American bullpen. Reds, including an R.B.I. double. CUBS 9, ASTROS 5 Pitcher hip operations in nine months. League most valuable player last Closer Matt Thornton, who gave PHILLIES 3, NATIONALS 2 Carlos Zambrano extended a RED SOX RAINED OUT Boston year, could miss two months after up the winning runs, does not Despite a shaky ninth inning, Roy franchise record with his 22nd (2-9) cannot seem to shake its his injury Tuesday against the have a save this season. Halladay threw his first complete career homer and ran his winning miserable start. “We’ve created a Tigers. BLUE JAYS 8, MARINERS 3 game of 2011 for visiting streak to 10 games, leading nine-game fiasco early in the Hamilton was injured while Jose Bautista hit a three-run Philadelphia. visiting Chicago to a victory and a season, and now we’ve got to try being thrown out at the plate homer off Seattle reliever Chris Through eight shutout innings, series win over Houston. and figure out a way to make it when he tagged up on a foul pop- Ray, part of Toronto’s six-run Halladay (2-0) allowed only a pair Alfonso Soriano’s home run off better,“ Red Sox Manager Terry up. eighth inning, and the Blue Jays of singles. In the ninth, he allowed Wandy Rodriguez capped a five- Francona said after Wednesday’s Manager Ron Washington said avoided a three-game sweep by four hits, including R.B.I. singles run first inning for the Cubs. series finale with Tampa Bay was before the game that his team rallying over the host Mariners. It by Laynce Nix and Danny Zambrano’s homer — his sixth rained out. would not be any less aggressive was Bautista’s third homer of the Espinosa. against the Astros — made it 6-0 This entry passed through the on the bases, and Texas stole season. But with two on, he ended the in the sixth. Full-Text RSS service — if this is three bases Wednesday. ANGELS 4, INDIANS 3 Jeff game with two strikeouts. 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Five ROYALS 10, TWINS 5 Mike Angeles. homered for the third time in four Delgado, the former Mets and Filters featured article: Libya and Aviles, who had been in an 0-for- Wells singled sharply into the games as visiting Milwaukee won Toronto Blue Jays first baseman, Oil. 18 slump, doubled twice and hole off the glove of shortstop for the sixth time in seven games. played 17 major league seasons, drove in three runs as Kansas City Asdrubal Cabrera with one out in Marcum allowed only four finishing with 473 home runs and Newstablet Edition Sports/ 65 JUDGING continued from page 63 Coyotes' power play comes up this and that, when you saw that guy hit, it was like no other,” Boston’s Kevin Youkilis said last weekend. “The guy would see 15 short in loss to Wings - FOX News pitches, the catcher would hold his hand out, and then he’d get (- Bing News) off a whopping 7:09 of man- stuff like that, just get pucks to the regroup and address the issue in one pitch to hit and it was a home advantage time for Phoenix in the net." practices between now and Game Submitted at 4/14/2011 1:34:26 AM run.” first 25 minutes of the game. That was much easier said than 2 on Saturday afternoon. The Those home runs, and that DETROIT – After his team's Pavel Datsyuk scored at 7:38 of done. good news is there is time to get it reputation, are Bonds’s to keep. morning skate, Phoenix Coyotes the second to knot it 1-1 before With every Coyotes power play fixed – but there won't be much The trouble begins when others coach Dave Tippett said his Johan Franzen and Brian Rafalski minute that ticked away without a more left if the struggles continue begin to judge him, and team's power play was, in his added markers for a 3-1 lead goal, the Red Wings seemed to much longer. Wednesday was only the start. opinion, better than its ranking of heading into the second get even more brazen in their shot "Hopefully it's a kick in the pants This entry passed through the 23rd in the League. intermission. blocking and checking. Detroit for us and hopefully we can come Full-Text RSS service — if this is His point was that sometimes Mixed into those goals was a finished the regular season with back in Game 2 and get a win," your content and you're reading it statistics can be deceiving. momentum-shifting fight between the League's 17th-best penalty Yandle said. "We try not to get on someone else's site, please read Unfortunately for the Coyotes on Todd Bertuzzi and Rotislav Klesla killing (82.3 percent), but the too frustrated (in the power play). the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- Wednesday night, they weren't midway through the second that Wings played like the top unit in We moved it around pretty well. only/faq.php#publishers. Five during a 4-2 loss to the Detroit also contributed to the huge swing this series opener. We just didn't get to score. We've Filters featured article: Libya and Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena– in Detroit's favor. Looking back Was that more because of just got to simplify things and get Oil. putting Phoenix down 1-0 in this on it, the Coyotes were left Detroit's skill, or more a result of pucks to the net and get guys in Western Conference quarterfinal grimacing less because of Phoenix's power play struggling? front of the net." Related Links series. Bertuzzi's fists and more because Probably a little of both, but Rookie Tyler Ennis comes up big After taking an early 1-0 lead on they couldn't solve the Red either way, it's starting to toy with for Sabres Halak anything but an even-strength goal by Kyle Wings' penalty kill units – who the Coyotes' minds. Goalie Ilya shaky in must-win game Keith: 'I Turris just 2:16 into the game, the killed off all six power plays they Bryzgalov admitted as much just wanted to play in the NHL' NFL owners, Coyotes couldn't extend their lead faced by blocking shots, taking afterward, saying that not scoring Hornqvist latest key Pred to get despite getting five power-play away shooting lanes and getting a with the two-man advantage even hurt in playoffs Laperriere willing union resume opportunities in the game's first great effort from goalie Jimmy had him second-guessing things. to trade pain for victory mediation in 25 minutes – including a 5-on-3 Howard. "When you've got an opportunity This entry passed through the situation in the first that lasted The 5-on-3 in the first was like a 5-on-3, you must get a Full-Text RSS service — if this is Minneapolis almost a full minute and a half. particularly vexing. goal," he said. "If we score a your content and you're reading it Associated Press (ESPN.com) "That was the difference in the "If we'd gotten a 2-0 lead there, it second goal, who knows how the on someone else's site, please read game," a frustrated Tippett said would've been big," said Coyotes game would turn? When you've the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:14:49 AM afterward. "Our execution wasn't defenseman Keith Yandle, who got so many opportunities on the only/faq.php#publishers. Five Updated: April 14, 2011, 11:14 good enough. We had a 1-0 game. got only one shot on goal and had power play and you can't create Filters featured article: Libya and AM ET Associated Press We could've pushed the game four blocked. "We've got good any scoring chances, it probably Oil. MINNEAPOLIS -- The NFL and along and we didn't do that." players on both units. We've got gets in your head. Everybody's its locked-out players have Instead, the Red Wings stormed guys who can make plays. We've trying to do some different things, resumed mediation. back into it with three second- just got to simplify things. Instead but they probably don't have to." Commissioner Roger Goodell, period goals after having to kill of making backdoor tap-ins and Now, what they must do is Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson and New England NFL page 66 66 Featured/ Newstablet Edition NFL BARRY continued from page 65 continued from page 61 Patriots owner Robert Kraft were NFL wound up with its first work wants to decrease that figure by lawsuit has been combined with during the trial on a contempt in the league contingent that stoppage since the 1987 strike. $300 million, according to two other similar claims from citation for refusing to testify -- arrived at the federal court house The lockout followed 16 days of documents obtained by The retirees, former players and hindered the government's ability in Minneapolis on Thursday. negotiations overseen by a federal Associated Press. The NFLPA rookies-to-be. to prove Bonds lied about NFLPA executive director mediator in Washington, with the had no immediate comment. For now, at least the two sides steroids. DeMaurice Smith was joined by league and players failing to agree Boylan has a reputation as a will be talking again -- even "We couldn't connect the dots lawyers, free-agent linebackers on how to divide more than $9 problem-solver, but his work is though it's under a court order. between steroids, Greg and Ben Leber and Mike Vrabel, as billion in annual revenue. cut out for him. "Whether they'll make progress, Barry," he said. well as Hall of Fame defensive The owners initially wanted to The key for Boylan is to make it's really hard to tell," Berliner On the HGH count, he said: end Carl Eller. double the money they get off the both sides comfortable with his said. "I'd like to think so because "There just wasn't any evidence. This is the first meeting between top for expenses from about $1 neutrality and fairness, said I'm firmly a believer that parties HGH is very hard to detect and the two sides since March 11, billion to about $2 billion, but that Robert Berliner, an attorney who are way better off deciding these there wasn't any scientific when the old collective bargaining number decreased during the last runs the Berliner Group mediation issues for themselves than having evidence. Everything was agreement expired, the union round of mediation. The players service in Chicago. He said the courts decide them." circumstantial." dissolved and the lockout began. have insisted on full financial judge also has to prove he knows Copyright 2011 by The The holdout on the "needle" Thirty-three days after the NFL disclosure from all 32 teams, and the subject and is flexible. Associated Press Updated: April count was a juror who identified and the players cut off so far the league has not opened Persuasiveness is a must, too. 14, 2011, 11:14 AM ET herself as Nyiesha. She said she negotiations and put the 2011 the books to their liking. U.S. District Judge Susan Associated Press didn't believe the testimony of season in peril, U.S. Magistrate Other major issues included Richard Nelson, who ordered the This entry passed through the Bonds' personal shopper, Kathy Judge Arthur Boylan began benefits for retired players and the mediation, is still considering a Full-Text RSS service — if this is Hoskins, who told the jury she mediating Thursday's session. NFL's desire to stretch the regular request from the players to lift the your content and you're reading it watched Anderson inject the League officials, led by executive season from 16 to 18 games. The lockout imposed by the owners. on someone else's site, please read slugger in the belly. vice president Jeff Pash, met with NFL also wants to cut almost 60 After an April 6 hearing, she said the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- "They were family," Nyiesha said Boylan for about five hours percent of guaranteed pay for first she planned to rule on the only/faq.php#publishers. Five of the Hoskins siblings. "That left Wednesday. Lawyers for the -round draft picks, lock them in injunction request in a couple of Filters featured article: Libya and me with reasonable doubt." players met with Boylan for about for five years and divert the weeks. Oil. Nyiesha, a 28-year-old nurse, four hours Tuesday. savings to veterans' salaries and Players including MVP said she almost changed her mind Mediation is considered the first benefits. quarterbacks Tom Brady and Monday, but decided to remain positive step in this process since More than $525 million went to Peyton Manning filed the request steadfast after "sleeping on it." the union was dissolved last first-rounders in guaranteed along with a class-action antitrust BARRY page 68 month, the CBA expired and the payments in 2010. The league suit against the league. The A call for Frontier jocks (Scripting News) of people say they loved it. Well it blorking, which I'm going to talk in time.

Submitted at 4/13/2011 6:51:45 PM lives. For you to love again. about at The Next Web http://frontiernews.org/ In 2004 it was released under the conference in Amsterdam at the I'll have a lot more to say about Remember Frontier? GPL. And this year it's bundled as end of the month. A long way to this. Sooon. The object database, outliner- an Amazon AMI and forms the go to tell you all about what I've Still diggin! based, multi-threaded core of EC2 For Poets. been cooking up. Unless you love PS: We also need jQuery and programming environment that In the last four months, we've Frontier and you love an node.js programmers, or equivs -- spawned blogging, RSS, released a bunch of major new coral reef for a new activity called adventure. For those of you who to port bits of the back-end to help podcasting and much more. Lots code. It's going to form a huge do, start reading here, going back us scale. Newstablet Edition Gaming/ 67 LOS continued from page 62 to help. James' new Miami uniform in the discipline this spring. He ranks "It's not OK to insult or NBA's annual rankings released second only to Orlando's Dwight disrespect," he said. "It's not the earlier Wednesday. Howard in technical fouls this right thing to do, so I will be "It's unfortunate he got caught season, mostly for arguing with saying something to them, so saying something like that. It referees. hopefully we can do some things came in the heat of the game. He Bryant was called for an to try to prohibit violence, to made his apology, and we move additional technical foul that was prohibit hate crimes and things of forward," Lakers coach Phil rescinded Monday. If Bryant had that nature because it's extremely Jackson said before his team gotten another T in the Lakers' important to do that." faced the Sacramento Kings on season finale at Sacramento on The 32-year-old Bryant is a Wednesday night. Wednesday night, he would have former league MVP, a 13-time All Gay-rights groups quickly been suspended for the first game -Star, the leading scorer in Lakers denounced Bryant's actions of next season, not for a playoff franchise history and sixth on the against Adams. Jarrett Barrios, game. NBA's career list after passing president of the Gay & Lesbian The Lakers will open the playoffs Moses Malone last month. He was Alliance Against Defamation, saw this weekend at Staples Center. the MVP of the last two NBA an opportunity to put a spotlight Information from The Associated Finals while leading the Lakers to on the unacceptable nature of anti Press contributed to this report. back-to-back titles. -gay slurs. Updated: April 14, 2011, 11:34 Razer, Intel, Tencent to Bryant has been among the "Professional sports players need AM ET ESPNLosAngeles.com NBA's most popular players to set a better example for young This entry passed through the worldwide for most of his 15-year people who use words like this on Full-Text RSS service — if this is bring Switchblade career, spent entirely with the the playground and in our schools, your content and you're reading it Lakers, even after he was arrested creating a climate of intolerance on someone else's site, please read and accused of sexual assault in and hostility," Barrios said. "The the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- gaming device to China 2003 in a case that was later LA Lakers have a responsibility only/faq.php#publishers. Five Richard Mitchell (Joystiq) device, with the three companies dropped. He has several lucrative to educate their fans about why Filters featured article: Libya and Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:00:00 AM only promising that there will be endorsement deals with this word is unacceptable." Oil. updates in "the months to come." companies ranging from Sprite to Known as a fierce competitor Just in case you were worried, it That's probably for the best, as Turkish Airlines. with a nasty edge, Bryant has looks like Razer's Switchblade we're fairly certain that the ability His No. 24 jersey was the ranked among the NBA's top 10 ultra-portable PC "concept" is to play League of Legends at any league's best-selling uniform accumulators of technical fouls totally, really real -- in China at time will bring civilization to a among fans during each of the during each of the past six the very least. Razer, Intel and screeching halt. past two seasons, and Bryant's seasons, and he has edged right up Tencent have announced "a Continue reading Razer, Intel, jersey finished second to LeBron to the line of serious NBA strategic partnership aimed at Tencent to bring Switchblade expanding the entertainment gaming device to China possibilities for Chinese gamers" Razer, Intel, Tencent to bring based around the Switchblade. Switchblade gaming device to Several of Tencent's titles, China originally appeared on including League of Legends and Joystiq on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 Dungeon Fighter Online, will be 10:00:00 EST. Please see our optimized for the Switchblade and terms for use of feeds. its magical keyboard. Permalink| Email this| Comments There's still no release date for 68 Gaming/ Food/ Newstablet Edition BARRY continued from page 66 Other jurors said they found called 25 to the stand. leagues and our 11th season in the Kathy Hoskins to be the most Next up is Roger Clemens, a minors. With increased testing, credible of the central witnesses. seven-time Cy Young Award cutting-edge research, proactive Jacob didn't hold out much hope winner, scheduled for trial in security efforts, and extensive for prosecutors gaining additional federal court in Washington, D.C., education and awareness convictions in a retrial. starting July 6, on three counts of programs, we have demonstrated If they want to "pursue this case," making false statements, two an unwavering commitment to he said, "they're going to have to counts of perjury and one count of keeping illegal substances out of do more homework than they obstruction of Congress. That the game." did." case may be delayed by wrangling The Giants had no comment Bonds became the 11th person -- over evidence. beyond a statement that said, and fourth athlete -- who either Jeff Novitzky, the federal "This case is ongoing and we was convicted or pleaded guilty in investigator who aggressively led expect it will proceed in a fair and the BALCO case, which began in the BALCO investigation, is at orderly manner." 2002. Other athletes, besides the forefront of a different grand Information from The Associated Thomas, include NFL defensive jury probing Lance Armstrong, Press was used in this report. lineman Dana Stubblefield and who has won the Tour de France a Updated: April 14, 2011, 11:16 Backbreaker: Olympic track gold medalist record seven times. AM ET ESPN.com news services Marion Jones, who also pleaded Baseball Commissioner Bud This entry passed through the guilty in a check-fraud scheme. 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Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:55:00 AM Kinect sub-Dashboard Netflix application will be selectable. In Rumor: Sonic It's only been 25 days since so many words, you still have to spring officially started, but it start playing the majority of films Generations, appears that Microsoft is already with a controller, though all can rolling out one of its promised be controlled with Kinect after Mario and Sonic spring updates-- Kinect-enabled they start playing. Netflix control. That's right, folks, Continue reading Kinect- at the London now you can wave your arms and controlled Netflix available today 2012 Olympic speak commands directly at your on Xbox 360 Xbox when you've had enough Kinect-controlled Netflix Games logos leak Say Yes to the Dress for one available today on Xbox 360 Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq) evening. Xbox 360 online and browse the remote control." Well, that sounds originally appeared on Joystiq on We imagine Kinect will work in full Netflix library to find the ... limited! Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:55:00 EST. Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:40:00 AM a pretty cursory capacity -- as the Please see our terms for use of movie or TV show that you want, A Microsoft representative Users on the Sonic Stadium announcement video or launch Netflix from the Kinect further detailed Netflix's Kinect feeds. demonstrated -- with the release Permalink| Email this| Comments forums have captured what Hub and select from one of the functionality to us on the phone, appears to be leaked (and describing two options for recommended titles using your saying that all Netflix films will accessing Netflix via Xbox 360: voice and hand gestures as the be navigable with Kinect, but only RUMOR: page 70 "With Xbox LIVE, take your NATO Sec. Gen.: "There is no military solution to the Libya conflict" (The Feed) NATO, saying the alliance has not Rasmussen: I can assure you that flew more than 1,000 sorties. We the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content-

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A second leaked cover also feeds. meeting always goes the same MIT's Kinect-Powered Real-Time You could even tamper with your indicates that Sega is working on Permalink| Email this| Comments way: you get out of bed, and it Hologram System Could Bring physical traits, Blascovich and Mario & Sonic at the London goes downhill from there. But if a Holographic Video Chat Home Bailenson say, to make a better 2012 Olympic Games for Wii. No couple of researchers from Tags Technology, Clay Dillow, impression. Research shows that surprise there, as the first Mario Stanford and UC Santa Barbara avatars, kinect, Nintendo 3DS, when a person's face is subtly and Sonic sold over five million are correct in their new book, in a telecommuting, telepresence, digitally morphed with that of a few years we'll all be meeting in virtual meetings, watson This isn't politician's in an image, the virtual classrooms and conference like videoconferencing--it's far person receives that politician rooms anyhow. This isn't just the more immersive--nor is it like two more warmly even if they don't It's On: Bieber same old future hype, they say; avatars chatting in two- share simpatico political views. technology has caught up with the dimensional environs like Second The person won't even realize the vision, and the age of the avatar is Life. Essentially, you would use a photo has been altered. vs. Bibi imminent. photo to generate a true 3-D That means you could doctor Which technology? Specifically, avatar to your liking--perhaps one your own features to exhibit some (The Feed) “We never asked to meet with Drs. Jim Blascovich (of UCSB) that's had a shower and dresses a of those of a professor, a client, or Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:42:26 AM [Netanyahu], nor has anyone and Jeremy Bailenson (of bit more smartly than you do--and a superior to gain a little extra connected with us asked to meet Stanford) cite the Microsoft you and each of your meeting- goodwill. Of course, that might be [ Via: Christian Science Monitor] him,” Bieber manager Scooter Kinect, the Nintendo 3DS, and mates would sit around looking, considered unethical. Since you're . . .Prime Minister Benjamin Braun, • a vocally pro-Israel IBM's Watson computer. They gesturing, and talking to each already sleeping straight through Netanyahu (nicknamed Bibi) American Jew, told The call these technologies "paradigm- other in 3-D. your 8:30 while some AI keeps invited some school children from Jerusalem Post. . . shifting" for avatar conferencing But it gets better. The Watson your avatar nodding attentively, Sderot, a town often targeted by Maybe we can send Bieber to and say that they make virtual piece of the technology means you might not want to push it. Palestinian militants with rocket Gaza.— GP meetings ready for the living avatars could be put on a kind of [ NYT] attacks. 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Submitted at 4/13/2011 3:28:18 PM Scenes of The Neutron Stars We'd call that strongly interacting alright. Hobbit NASA Strange gases could model Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!) processes in neutron stars Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:18:11 AM Gases, as we all know, don't generally offer a lot of resistance. Nerdlings, rejoice! Peter Jackson That is, if you try to walk through has revealed a 10-minute video a cloud of gas, you'll pass right taking us behind the scenes of The through it. The same is true for Hobbit, slated for release in two clouds of gases that meet December 2012. each other: they pass right Jackson posted the above video through each other. But MIT to his Facebook Page with the physicists have observed the first comment, “As promised, my first exception to the rule by creating video from the set of THE two clouds of ultra-cold gases that HOBBIT. Enjoy!” There are more bounce right off each other like than 1,000 comments on the video solids. superconductors, and the quark- they bounced off each other. temperature semiconductors--a and nearly 10,000 “Likes.” The researchers had set out to use gluon soup that existed right after The gas clouds aren't exactly key technology for creating long- Start queuing up now, kids. lithium gas atoms as stand-ins for the Big Bang. impenetrable. They did eventually range electricity transmission More About: Film, peter-jackson, electrons in models of strongly To achieve the impenetrable gas diffuse into each other, but only lines that are efficient enough to the-hobbit, viral-video-of-day, interacting systems--that is, effect (our nomenclature, not after a long second had gone by-- support a renewable energy youtube systems in which atomic particles theirs) the MIT team cooled their which is a pretty lengthy amount economy. The discovery could For more Video coverage: are likely to collide with each lithium isotopes to about 50 of time when you're working at also be used to simulate other • Follow Mashable Video on other. They were trying to study billionths of one Kelvin, or a the atomic scale. strongly interacting systems found Twitter the circumstances that cause hair's breadth from absolute zero. But they do have a research at much larger scales in the • Become a Fan on Facebook electrons and other fermions to After separating the gas into two potential beyond just being cosmos, like those in neutron stars • Subscribe to the Video channel form a given state of matter. clouds with a magnetic field, the generally interesting that are far smaller in size than • Download our free apps for What they got instead is a team then used a laser light trap to (impenetrable gases!). By our sun but pack many times more Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad surprising phenomenon that could push them together. But instead of confining the lithium gas to two mass. help model and explain the diffusing right into one another as dimensions, researchers could [ Science Daily] behaviors of systems like neutron is common (and was expected), simulate the electrons in high- stars, high-temperature 72 Science/ Daily Word/ Newstablet Edition Trimensional iPhone App Takes 3- James 4:14 (04- D Scan of Your Face, Sends to 3-D 14-11) (Verse of the Day) Printer to Produce Face Tchotchkes Submitted at 4/14/2011 2:00:00 AM Dan Nosowitz (Popular Science - New Technology, Science Why, you do not even know what News, The Future Now) will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:05:00 AM Trimensional PhloSoft appears for a little while and then 3-D scanning shouldn't be limited vanishes. Instead, you ought to to expensive equipment in labs. say, "If it is the Lord's will, we Developers have started to use will live and do this or that." increasingly powerful consumer — James 4:14(NIV) Thoughts on electronics to do what just a few Today's Verse..."If the Lord years ago was well out of the wills!" Do you do short term and reach of consumers. Grant long range planning? I do. But my Schindler's Trimensional app for planning always has an invisible the iPhone 4 is one of those--and asterisk: "If Lord, this is your will it just got an update to allow it to and your timing." I don't know export your 3-D facial scans to a 3 about you, but God has shown me -D printer. time and again that if I will be face (the part with the eyes and printer. Given our current enough to have an iPhone 4(or Grant Schindler, a research open to him, his timing is always nose and mouth on it, you know obsession with 3-D printers current-generation iPod Touch, or scientist at Georgia Tech, released better than my planning. Does that the one)--to map your entire head (we've recently published both an iPad 2, or, soon, an Android the Trimensional iPhone app back mean I quit planning? Nope. I just would require either some very animated walkthrough and a look device, as Schindler is working on in January to make use of the plan with prayer, asking for precise movement or, as in the at the future of the technology), an Android version) as well as a 3 iPhone 4's front-facing camera wisdom and the Holy Spirit to recent Kinect art installation, this is the part that's really -D printer can fill up their houses beyond video chat. It takes help me find God's timing to several different cameras. exciting to us. Trimensional's with 3-D representations of their advantage of the iPhone's bright know and do his will (James 1:5-6 Recently released is an update algorithms can only scan faces, faces. And why wouldn't they? screen to make its 3-D scans: The & Ephesians 5:15-18). Life is too that allows you to send a movie or but the possibility is there to scan [via PhysOrg] app bounces light off the user's short to not plan with prayer and animated .GIF file by email, and a just about anything, and face from four different angles, to not walk led by the Spirit! My new in-app purchase (only $5; the reproduce it incredibly easily and combining the resulting images Prayer... Not my will, Father, but app itself costs $1) that adds the cheaply. into a 3-D map. It's limited to yours be done this day, and all the ability to send the scan to a 3-D For the time being, those lucky essentially the front half of your days of my life. In Jesus' holy name I ask it. Amen. Newstablet Edition Science/ Social Media/ 73 Elusive White iPhone 4 Video: Meet FRIDA, the May Be Available Within Dainty Factory Robot Weeks [REPORT] Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) That Wants Your Job Submitted at 4/14/2011 8:50:57 AM Apple’s Phil Schiller said in Rebecca Boyle (Popular assembly line. instance. Check it out in the video Science - New Technology, March that the white version of Related Articles Human-Sized below. the iPhone 4 is coming “this Science News, The Future German Workerbot Is It can operate in tight spaces and Now) spring.” Now that timeframe has Programmed to Be Happiest can even reach components below been reduced to “the next few Submitted at 4/13/2011 4:31:32 PM When It Stays Busy Workers at its base. The arms have seven weeks,” according to a new Frida the two-armed robot would Japanese Nuclear Plant Finally joints and the controls are report. like to work with you. She wants Get A Robot Assistant Some embedded in the torso, Apple has finally overcome the you to know she would make a Japanese Patients Shun Robot simplifying design for easy problems, including paint peeling great assistant, with her dextrous Helpers, Throwing High-Tech cleanup. It can be carried around when exposed to heat, with the arms and headless torso, actually hits the market. Future of Elder Care Into Doubt with a handle where its head manufacturing process of the incapable of inane small talk. She What do you think? Would you Tags Technology, Rebecca Boyle, would be, and is easily mounted white iPhone, according to will not hurt you, she promises. buy a white iPhone 4, or would assembly line, automated, factory, to a workbench or wall. Bloomberg. The device will But she might make you obsolete. you rather wait for a (white) robot arms, robot workers, robots, Frida was unveiled at the reportedly be available from both A new breed of friendly iPhone 5? Please share your Video, workers Frida is designed Hannover Fair, but it's just a AT&T and Verizon. workerbots like Frida is poised to opinions in the comments. for the express purpose of prototype, so companies can't get The white version of the iPhone 4 take over painstaking small-scale [via Bloomberg] working with people, either side- one yet. Remaining factory doesn’t bring any technical assembly work, matching human More About: apple, iphone 4, by-side or face-to-face, and as workers can breathe a sigh of improvements, but Apple dexterity and careful movement. smartphone, white iphone such it calmly obeys the first law relief. confirmed its existence in 2010, Frida stands for "Friendly Robot For more Mobile coverage: of robotics and keeps people safe. and constant delays turned it into for Industrial Dual-Arm • Follow Mashable Mobile on It stops its weird hand-clasping a myth that many thought would Assembly," and is designed to be Twitter motion if any human limbs never be a reality. installed anywhere within an • Become a Fan on Facebook happen to get in the way, for Of course, with the iPhone 5 • Subscribe to the Mobile channel launch getting closer and closer, • Download our free apps for the idea of owning a white iPhone Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad 4 feels less enticing, but we’re

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Obama Wants Medicare To Flex Muscle For Lower Drug Costs (NPR Blogs: Shots - Health his plan for the nation's future by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), would Medicare rather than transform it. drugmakers. Or as Obama put it: Blog) fiscal policy at George privatize and subsidize coverage A prime target: drug spending. We will cut spending on

Submitted at 4/13/2011 5:03:00 PM Washington University in for Americans now younger than Early on in his speech at George prescription drugs by using Washington, D.C. 55. Washington University, Obama Medicare's purchasing power to Enlarge Mandel Ngan/ AFP/ President Obama came out Obama has different ideas. He called out Republicans and drive greater efficiency and speed Getty Images swinging in the fight with rejected Ryan's approach and Democrats for expanding generic brands of medicine onto President Barack Obama unveils Republicans over how much the would keep Medicare fully part of Medicare to cover prescription the market. his plan for the nation's future federal government will spend in the federal government. (Planet drugs without paying fully for the That's a tall order. And it's a hard fiscal policy at George the future. Money's Jacob Goldstein has the increase in federal spending one to parse. Washington University in Medicare, the health program for tale of the Ryan vs. Obama tape required to make it happen. If Obama's to be taken literally, Washington, D.C. Mandel Ngan/ the elderly, is a big target for on Medicare here.) So one way to save money would and he means, at least in part, that AFP/Getty Images budget-cutters in both parties. The Basically, Obama would take be to use Medicare's clout to OBAMA page 76 President Barack Obama unveils Republican vision, as articulated steps to reduce the costs of the wring better prices from Newstablet Edition Health/ 75 Hospitals Face Challenges In Battle Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria (NPR Blogs: Shots - Health Both studies appeared in the Blog) latest issue of the New England

Submitted at 4/14/2011 8:14:00 AM Journal of Medicine. The number of MRSA infections Enlarge Janice Haney Carr and has been dropping overall, down Jeff Hageman/ CDC 28 percent in 9 cities over four Keeping MRSA bacteria like years, according to a study these under control in hospitals published last year in the Journal remains a challenge. Janice Haney of the American Medical Carr and Jeff Hageman/ CDC Association. So it could be that Keeping MRSA bacteria like we're getting better at battling these under control in hospitals MRSA. But as that second study remains a challenge. shows, the bug has hardly called it Antibiotic-resistant staph quits. infections can be deadly for Separately, earlier this week the hospital patients. Department of Health and Human One way to curb them is with Services pledged up to $1 billion better hospital hygiene. A new toward improvements in quality study found that hand-washing, of hospital care. Reducing and wearing gowns and gloves, hosptial infections is one of the cuts the number of infections with top priorities. methicilln-resistant percent of them turned out to 18 academic medical centers, it outcomes, and we didn't." This entry passed through the Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. carry MRSA in their noses, even didn't stop the bacteria from Huskins tells Shots that workers Full-Text RSS service — if this is But another study found that even though they weren't sick. traveling from patient to patient. were less careful about hand- your content and you're reading it with all those precautions, the Hospital employees were told to "We looked at whether the health washing and proper use of gloves on someone else's site, please read bacteria can still be tough to wipe wear gloves and gowns when care workers wore clean gloves and gowns when they were just the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- out. treating those carriers, and to be and did hand hygiene," says W. touching objects in a patient's only/faq.php#publishers. Five In 2007, the VA hospital system sure to wash hands before and Charles Huskins, an infectious room. So it may be that hospitals Filters featured article: Libya and launched a huge effort to reduce after treating patients. That disease specialist at the Mayo will need to come up with better Oil. the number of MRSA infections lowered MRSA infections of Clinic and lead author of the ways to clean hospital rooms to by ordering all 150 of its acute- patients in intensive care units by second study. "We didn't find a keep the bug at bay. Or, Huskins care hospitals to change how they 62 percent over three years. correlation between those told Shots, it may take another do business. For starters, patients But when a second group of behaviors and the outcomes. You intervention, like swabbing were screened for MRSA when researchers used similar tactics to would expect units with lower patients with antimicrobial rinses, they were admitted. And about 14 try to stop the spread of MRSA in adherence to have worse to stop MRSA. 76 Daily Word/ Newstablet Edition OBAMA continued from page 74 Medicare should start negotiating is oxymoronic. Generics are the treatments and cures. If the prices directly with drugmakers, antithesis of brand-name drugs. proposal were successful, the U.S. the administration will run into a But if Obama means the feds will would then provide less data wall. The law that expanded try to get generic versions of protection for new, innovative Medicare to cover prescription biotech medicines (or "biologics" biologics than is currently drugs expressly prohibits direct in industry lingo) on the market bestowed in Europe. price negotiation. faster — and that's where the big The administration puts a bit Another possibility would be money is in the future — he's more meat on the bone in this fact caps on Medicare's drug spending. going to hit an industry buzz saw. sheet. While the details are still a That's clearly what the brand- The current approach to patent little sparse, the gist is clear: name drug trade group PhRMA is protection for biotech medicines President Obama wants Medicare worried about. "Implementing was part of the negotiations that to squeeze money out of government price controls in the led to the big law overhauling drugmakers. Medicare prescription drug health care. The pharmaceutical This entry passed through the program would not achieve better and biotech industries did pretty Full-Text RSS service — if this is patient care, sustainably cut the well in return for supporting the your content and you're reading it deficit, foster the development of overall thrust of the Democrats. on someone else's site, please read future medical advances or grow Again, PhRMAs Castellani the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- the economy," PhRMA CEO John weighs in: only/faq.php#publishers. Five J. Castellani said in a statement. Reducing the 12 years of data Filters featured article: Libya and PhRMA also makes the point that protection that was approved in Oil. UK documents Medicare Part D, the prescription strong, bipartisan votes by drug coverage, is costing quite a Congress – as the President has bit less than originally expected. proposed – would seriously Oh, and then there's Obama's jeopardize innovative companies' confirm torture of plan for "generic brands," which ability to fund research on future Mau Mau rebels The World (PRI's The World) highest levels in the 1950s, during

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More Than Half Of Americans Take Dietary Supplements (NPR Blogs: Shots - Health someone next to you does. study period from 1988 to 1994. increased use of calcium and But there's quite a bit of variation Blog) Data just out from the Centers for More women than men take vitamin D supplements. Antacids by racial and ethnic group.

Submitted at 4/13/2011 3:11:00 PM Disease Control and Prevention supplements. And women 60 and containing calcium or tablets rich A similar increase occurred with show that more than half of over take the most of all. The in calcium are often vitamin D. In the most recent Enlarge iStockphoto.com Americans take some sort of most commonly consumed recommended to help strengthen period, about 56 percent of Did you take a supplement supplement. To be precise, it's supplement is a multivitamin, bones. Same goes for vitamin D. women 60 and older took some today? iStockphoto.com something about 53 percent of which include at least three In the late '80s and early '90s the form of vitamin D compared with Did you take a supplement Americans do, according to a different substances, in case you proportion of women 60 and older 30 percent in the period from today? survey conducted between 2003 were wondering. taking calcium supplements was 1998-1994. Do you take a vitamin or herbal and 2006. The proportion is up One of the biggest changes over about 28 percent. The latest data supplement? If not, chances are from 40 percent during a previous the years is older women's show it has climbed to 61 percent. MORE page 78 78 Politics-Right/ Newstablet Edition MORE continued from page 77 This entry passed through the Pakistan Overplays Its Hand in Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- Making Demands of U.S. only/faq.php#publishers. Five Lisa Curtis (The Foundry: region and continue to pursue Filters featured article: Libya and Conservative Policy News.) policies in Pakistan that prioritize Oil. Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:00:56 AM protecting the U.S. homeland from additional terrorist strikes. Posted April 14th, 2011 at Rather than seeking to change 11:00am in American Leadership U.S. counterterrorism objectives Print This Post in the region, Pakistan should Pakistan is reportedly calling for propose strategies for jointly a reduction in U.S. drone missile tackling the threat. Morning Bell: strikes against terrorists sheltering The trial of David Headley, the Playing Politics in its tribal border areas, greater Pakistani-American arrested in transparency from the CIA Chicago in 2009 for involvement Isn’t the Answer, regarding its counterterrorism in the 2008 Mumbai terror activities inside Pakistan, and a attacks, is set to resume in the Mr. President reduction in U.S. military trainers middle of next month. The Mike Brownfield (The Foundry: in the country. disclosures that come to light Conservative Policy News.) Following a meeting in during that trial are sure to raise Washington between the director more questions about Pakistan’s Submitted at 4/14/2011 8:47:01 AM of Pakistan’s intelligence service, relationship with the LeT. To Shuja Pasha, and CIA Director responsible for some of the instructing LeT operatives while In a speech yesterday on avoid further international Panetta on Monday, a Pakistani fiercest attacks against coalition in Pakistani custody, raising America’s fiscal crisis, President embarrassment over the issue, official told The Washington Post soldiers and civilians in questions over whether the Barack Obama invoked the legacy Pakistan must take action against that the CIA must share more Afghanistan. Pakistanis were “protecting” of Abraham Lincoln and said, the perpetrators of the attacks. information about what it “wants Moreover, Pakistan has failed to rather than “prosecuting” him. In “through government, we should Punishing the perpetrators would and is doing” inside Pakistan, take substantive action against the congressional testimony, U.S. do together what we cannot do as be the best way to quell adding, “They have to stop Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) terrorist Pacific Commander Admiral well for ourselves.” Yet since his accusations of official Pakistani mistrusting [Pakistani group responsible for the 2008 Robert Willard expressed concern presidency began, Barack Obama involvement in the attacks. intelligence] so much.” Mumbai attacks that killed nearly about the expanding international has proven that what he cannot do This entry passed through the The problem is that Pakistan’s 166, including six Americans. reach of the LeT. very well for himself or for the Full-Text RSS service — if this is handling of recent terrorism cases Pakistan has dragged its feet on Pakistani intelligence officials are nation is provide even a modicum your content and you're reading it and its dealings with the Afghan trying and prosecuting seven LeT seeking to take advantage of the of leadership on out-of-control on someone else's site, please read Taliban have done little to inspire members who are widely believed Ray Davis episode to gain government spending. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- the trust Pakistani officials seek. to be behind the Mumbai carnage leverage in their dealings with the To fill that vacuum, Americans only/faq.php#publishers. Five Pakistan maintains links with the that it took into custody over two U.S. But the Obama rose up in 2010 and elected new Filters featured article: Libya and Afghan Taliban as well as deadly years ago. In fact, one of the Administration must remain representatives to steer the nation Oil. militant groups, such as the alleged ringleaders of the attacks, committed to U.S. toward fiscal sanity. Now, in the Haqqani network, that are Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, had been counterterrorism goals in the 9th inning, the same president MORNING page 79 Newstablet Edition Technology/ 79 MORNING continued from page 78 who handed his mantle of Prosperity” which attempts to future of its own. Those policies • Defying economists’ forecasts, leadership to a “fiscal solve the twin crises of spending include higher taxes on savers, new claims for unemployment commission” has responded to the and debt through real spending investors, and job creators. It benefits shot up last week above call for reform by doing what he reductions and reforms – not new would also bring cuts in military the 400,000 level. knows best – slinging arrows with taxes or higher rates. And it is that spending totaling $400 billion, • Mr. Walker goes to Washington a partisan, poison-tipped speech, plan which forced President which Heritage’s Mackenzie today. The Wisconsin governor proposing higher taxes and Obama to change course and Eaglen notes have already begun who took on public sector unions Verizon Guy gets slashing America’s defense reluctantly broach the subject of and are coming at the expense of is testifying before Congress on spending to dangerously low our nation’s endless spending national security. (Cleverly, the reducing state budget deficits. let go, turns out levels. spree. But unfortunately for president attempts to redefine • Iran is secretly helping Syria’s The president’s speech purported America, the president didn’t those cuts as“Security president put down pro- that wasn't his to address a very real problem – a offer a thoughtful response that Spending.”) And as for democracy demonstrations by growing $14.3 trillion deficit. It’s would live up to the seriousness entitlements? Don’t count on providing gear to suppress crowds name anyway a problem that would only be of the challenge America faces. serious solutions from the and assistance blocking Internet Tim Stevens (Engadget) exacerbated by the president’s Instead he invited Chairman Ryan president on those issues, either. and cell phones, according to U.S. 2012 budget, released just two to the speech, only to insult him. Heritage economist J.D. Foster officials. Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:34:00 AM months ago, which offers more As The Wall Street Journal writes: • Congress is expected to vote You won't be able to hear him for spending, higher taxes and $9 observed: The surest sign that the President today on the FY 2011 budget much longer, folks. Paul trillion in new debt, but does Mr. Obama did not deign to is not serious is that he sets as his deal. The Hill reports that the Marcarelli, aka "Verizon Guy," is nothing to reform entitlements. propose an alternative to rival Mr. defining goal a steady reduction funding bill is expected to pass. being let go. As it turns out that Rather than digging us out of a Ryan’s plan, even as he in government debt as a share of • Watch where you step! Hotels, wasn't even his character's name, hole, that budget would send categorically rejected all its our economy beginning in the restaurants and airlines must now VZW settling on "Test Man" America further underground and reform ideas, repeatedly vilifying second half of this decade. In case accommodate mini-horses as when scripting the early shots. into the red, with deficits them as essentially un-American. anyone is curious, that would be service animals, according to new Now that company is "taking its averaging $952 billion over eight “Their vision is less about beginning in 2016, the last year of government regulations. ads in a different direction," a years (more than double the $415 reducing the deficit than it is the second term the President direction that apparently does not billion average during President about changing the basic social aspires to gain. The deficit This entry passed through the include Mr. Marcarelli. But, based George W. 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President Obama Filters featured article: Libya and body was being lowered into the International Monetary Fund join the debate Mr. Ryan has would do well to step out from Oil. grave. Yup, it's time for a role weighed in on Tuesday and urged started, but to close it off just as it behind the podium and hear some change. the United States to develop begins and banish House GOP common sense from the American Verizon Guy gets let go, turns out serious measures to reduce the ideas to political Siberia. people. Spending is the problem, that wasn't his name anyway budget deficit. On top of attempting to banish cutting it is the solution. Higher originally appeared on Engadget Since the president would not act, the Ryan plan to “political taxes, decimating our defense and on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:34:00 others came forward. House Siberia,” the president trotted out playing partisan politics are not EDT. Please see our terms for use Budget Committee Chairman Paul policies that would send the the answers. of feeds. Permalink All Things Ryan (R-WI) proposed a “Path to United States to a cold, desolate Quick Hits Digital| The Atlantic| Email this| Comments 80 Politics-Right/ Newstablet Edition The Next Declaration of Palestinian Statehood Seth Mandel (FrontPage want to think long and hard about Magazine » FrontPage) whether they’d want to subject

Submitted at 4/13/2011 11:45:23 PM themselves and the actions of Hamas, who operate in their On Tuesday, the United Nations territory, to that type of published a report by its Middle jurisdiction.” East coordinator claiming that the Ironically, Bell said it is Hamas Palestinian Authority is prepared in Gaza that possess the legal to govern a state of its own, and prerequisites to form a state—not that any challenges it faces would Fatah, which controls the West be the fault of the continued Bank and runs the PA. Israeli “occupation.” “Hamas in Gaza has the legal The report is another step toward ingredients, which are territory, a the declaration of a Palestinian population, government, and a state with the imprimatur of the capacity to carry on foreign United Nations. Just a few months relations,” Bell said. “So if they ago the Palestinian leadership of declare themselves to be a state, I Mahmoud Abbas and Salam think they are a state. They don’t Fayyad were threatening apparently have any interest. And unilateral declaration through the then you have Fatah, which UN Security Council, though that controls some authority in the would be subject to an almost West Bank, though under Israel, certain veto by the U.S. This time, Bell said that if the U.S. vetoes Palestinians would gain nothing “It could lead to diplomatic and I don’t think they have the the Palestinians are seriously the resolution at the Security from the vote, even if the recognition individually among ingredients. Do they have floating a plan to call for a vote on Council, the Palestinian Authority resulting resolution is nonbinding. states in increasing numbers. And territory? It’s doubtful; they don’t statehood by the full General would be denied statehood, but The Heritage Foundation’s Brett it does give them more leverage really control exclusively any Assembly this coming September. that in the General Assembly the Schaefer, author of ConUNdrum: over certain things including, territory. Do they have a But as University of San Diego Palestinians would likely have the The Limits of the United Nations potentially, joining the government? Yes, but it’s law professor Abraham Bell votes for a supermajority. If the and the Search for Alternatives, International Criminal Court, as a subordinate to Israel under the pointed out, this would not enable Palestinians get only the said that the Palestinians could participant in that. That’s a double agreements. They have a the Palestinians to avoid the supermajority vote in the General still open certain legal doors with -edged sword. One ramification of population; they have the capacity American veto. Assembly, their status would not such a vote, and would certainly that, should it happen, would be to carry on foreign relations. So I “Member states have to be change one iota under reap some diplomatic benefit from that any attacks that Israel think they’re missing ingredients. recommended by the Security international law. “It doesn’t it. launches on Palestinian territory The General Assembly voting to Council, and then after the make something that wasn’t a “It’s obviously a political coup for could be subject to the jurisdiction say that they’re a state doesn’t Security Council recommends state into a state. And failure to the Palestinians, because what it of the ICC. However, the make them actually one if they’re them, the General Assembly can win the vote, doesn’t make what does is it signals widespread Palestinians themselves would missing legal ingredients. And then vote by two-thirds majority is a state, not a state.” recognition of them as an also be subject to that jurisdiction. to accept them,” Bell said. But that doesn’t mean the independent state,” Schaefer said. I think that the Palestinians would NEXT page 83 Newstablet Edition Politics-Right/ 81 Obama’s Demagogy on the Deficit Rick Moran (FrontPage Republicans generally of Practically speaking, he will look Magazine » FrontPage) “paint[ing] a vision of our future to reducing our readiness, which

Submitted at 4/13/2011 11:50:45 PM that is deeply pessimistic.” is the easiest and least painful part As for his own plan, the president of the military budget to cut, but Obama unveiled his deficit proposed massive tax increases on the one which is the most cutting proposal yesterday that the “rich,” cuts in defense dangerous to skimp on. was long on partisan spending, Medicare and Medicaid The president’s plan was claimed demagoguery and short on “reform,” and closing tax to have been based loosely on the specifics. In what details were loopholes, while continuing to report issued by his Deficit given, there is serious doubt that “invest” in clean energy, Reduction Commission, which such proposals genuinely put forth education, medical research, and recommended broad cuts in practical solutions to the deficit transportation. He would leave government programs and smaller crisis. Elsewhere, the Medicare and Medicaid relatively tax increases. Both parties nebulousness of the president’s untouched, while claiming that his rejected the findings of the “plan” left many wondering plan would cut $4 trillion over the commission as unrealistic and whether the administration truly next 12 years. unworkable. has a firm grasp of the Yet, the president offered no Perhaps most disturbingly, the complicated factors contributing specifics on the cuts he was president seems to believe he is to the national debt. At the very advocating except broad, scarcely culpably for the deficit least, the president’s short-notice, unrealistic dollar amounts. For crisis himself. Obama’s long, ill-defined speech on the deficit example, the president believes Board can keep costs down. The this number is as real as his $1 misleading narrative on how the — one that was filled with more we can realize budget savings by president said he would do this by trillion in Medicare “savings” to deficit was created at the political punches than proposals cutting $1 trillion from interest “chang[ing] the way we pay for come out of Obamacare — beginning of his Wednesday — shows that the White House is payments on the debt over the health care -– not by the savings that are dubious in the speech, completely absolved him on the defensive, trying next 12 years. But interest rates procedure or the number of days extreme— the result will be little of any responsibility for the $4.5 desperately to make the case that, are near zero now, and it is highly spent in a hospital, but with new or nothing done about an trillion in debt his administration contra the united Republican front unlikely that they will remain that incentives for doctors and entitlement program that is going has piled on in just two years. At that has co-opted deficit discourse low for the next 12 years, hospitals to prevent injuries and broke and could sink the US times, it was a surreal in Washington, incisive budget especially given the fact that improve results.” Obama clearly economy by itself eventually. performance, as the president cuts are not all they’re cracked up inflation is rearing its head. Some believes he can slow the growth Obama offered no specific cuts in talked about problems with the to be. analysts are predicting debt of Medicare by strengthening the defense beyond savings that deficit as if his administration’s In unusually harsh language, the service payments to rise from its advisory board, which will would occur in winding down the increase of nearly 40% in federal president began by railing against current $196 billion to a recommend the best ways to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and spending never happened. He the GOP’s plan authored by whopping $800 billion by 2016 as reduce spending while still a promise to look into more cuts. placed the entire blame for our Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI), a result of rising interest rates. providing seniors with adequate He will do this by conducting a fiscal woes on his predecessor — saying there was “nothing serious The president’s Medicare care. The president claims that “fundamental review” of our “role something he has been doing or courageous” about cutting $6.2 proposal is equally unclear. these measures will save an in a changing world” and examine since he was sworn in. trillion of government spending Obama proposed that the additional $500 billion by 2023. If our mission and capabilities. over the next decade. He accused Independent Medicare Advisory 82 Politics-Right/ Newstablet Edition

Pro-Israel Penn State Students Assaulted for Putting up ‘Palestinian Wall of Lies’ Emily Esfahani Smith Robeson Center Thursday the demonstration, handing out scene before providing comment Palestinian student gets into an (FrontPage Magazine » afternoon. pamphlets and attempting to strike — yelled obscenities at Settle and argument with the YAF FrontPage) The sign, part of a demonstration up conversation with passersby. the rest of the group, calling it demonstrators about the sign.

Submitted at 4/13/2011 11:39:32 PM by the Penn State chapter of “Many people have hatred for “terrible” and proceeding to kick Near the end, the pro-Palestinian This article is reprinted from The Young Americans for Freedom, Israel and that’s why this is the group’s box of handouts student’s frustration and anger Blaze. was titled “The Palestinian Wall important,” Settle (junior-political across the sidewalk. reaches a bit of a boiling point, The Collegian of Penn State of Lies.” It featured two large science and history) said. “People Other students simply shook their causing him to reach for the reports: silhouettes of men with guns and need to look at the facts.” heads. Some even laughed. camera and then kick a box A 10-by-10-foot sign drew outlined 10 “lies” the group But the demonstration didn’t go One student’s opposition to the belonging to the YAF conflict and crowds of more than believes Palestinians propagate. without opposition. sign took an aggressive turn. In 50 people outside the HUB- YAF President Samuel Settle led One student — who fled the the video below, a pro- PRO-ISRAEL page 84 Newstablet Edition Politics-Right/ 83 NEXT continued from page 80 Echoes of Carter they’re the ones who are going to be pressing for this vote.” Daniel Flynn (FrontPage Hosni Mubarak, was a U.S. ally in Both Bell and Schaefer agreed Magazine » FrontPage) an unfriendly region. Both were that the vote would be designed to Submitted at 4/13/2011 11:40:25 PM sick old men who had ruled their put diplomatic pressure on Israel. countries for more than a Bell referenced the vote the PLO Do you ever get the feeling that generation. Mubarak stood by an called for in 1988, which was you’re really living in a television unpopular peace treaty with intended to pressure Israel into program? For 2011 America, the Israel while the Shah supplied the unilaterally relinquishing territory rerun we are collectively forced to Jewish state with oil. Both men that UN member states now act in is That ’70s Show. stood athwart religious fanatics recognized as part of “Palestine.” Supermarket prices have threatening their regimes. Both Amir Mizroch, former executive skyrocketed. An energy crisis sometimes did so through editor of the Jerusalem Post, looms. The economy sputters unsavory means. believes it would accomplish just along. Back then, the president By dwelling on the ways in that—if the Palestinians invoked imposed price controls on oil as a which the Shah and Mubarak UNGA Resolution 377, also misguided means to keep were like other Middle Eastern known as the “uniting for peace” consumer costs under control; rulers, and overlooking the ways resolution. It states that the now, the president is poised to in which they differed from General Assembly may take implement price controls as part neighboring strongmen, matters into its own hands if the of his health care plan. People Presidents Carter and Obama Security Council fails to uphold talk openly of an America in undercut longtime U.S. allies. commencement ceremonies. The dignity are upheld by all.” its responsibilities to maintain decline. The local currents were probably 39 th president committed One hears the echoes of Carter peace. If the Palestinians won a We may have traded in CB too strong for distant presidents America to regarding “human not only in the call for a foreign GA vote after invoking 377, radios for Facebook, streaking for to hold back regional change in rights as a fundamental tenet of policy occasionally divorced Mizroch wrote on his website, it celebrity sex videos, Betamax for 1979 and 2011. But transfixing our foreign policy.” from national interest and tethered would put Israel in an exceedingly Blueray, and eight-tracks for on the human rights abuses of the “Sometimes, the course of history to human rights. The echoes difficult situation diplomatically. MP3s. But the similarities dictator in power left them blind poses challenges that threaten our reverberate loudest in the manner between our times and those times to the human rights abuses that common humanity and our foreign policy is carried out in are uncanny. might follow their departures. common security,” Barack Obama the Middle East. The Carter “I believe we can have a foreign When events went sour in Iran explained in his recent televised administration in 1979, and the policy that is democratic, that is and Egypt, President Carter and address on the Libyan Obama administration in 2011, based on fundamental values, and President Obama reversed course intervention. He continued that cheered on the fall of a garden- that uses power and influence, on support for dictators who had America, by working alongside variety strongman as the dawn of which we have, for humane supported the United States. purposes,” Jimmy Carter allies, should “see that the something better. announced at Notre Dame’s 1977 principles of justice and human The Shah of Iran, like Egypt’s 84 Politics-Right/ Newstablet Edition PRO-ISRAEL continued from page 82 Pentagon Warns on Cost of demonstrators across the quad- like area. The YAF president, Samuel Settle, describes the incident in Obama’s Military Cuts his own words: Today, members of the Penn Mike Brownfield (The Foundry: Slashing defense spending State Young Americans for Conservative Policy News.) without any changes–specifically Freedom (YAF) set up a reductions–in U.S. foreign policy Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:30:02 AM Palestinian Wall of Lies outside commitments around the world is of the HUB Student Center at the Posted April 14th, 2011 at not only dangerous but more University Park campus. The 11:30am in Protect America Print costly in the long run than demonstration began shortly This Post maintaining stable defense before 1:00, and received an The Pentagon has issued a budgets. almost immediate hostile reaction warning: the major cuts to the A review of roles and missions from two nearby Arab students. military that President Obama will not change U.S. foreign The students described the Wall proposed in his speech on policy, only the President can do as “bullshit” and “a f***ing lie,” spending are going to come with a that. Starving the military as part but were initially nonviolent. heavy price. Reuters reports: of a deficit reduction plan may Shortly afterwards, the Wall The United States may have to end up costing taxpayers more in began attracting significant scrap some military missions and the future if it makes the country attention, including from a trim troop levels if President less safe and increases the risk of reporter and photographer with Barack Obama sticks with his another terrorist attack or the the Daily Collegian student goal of saving $400 billion on likelihood of drawing U.S. forces newspaper. Most of the reception security spending over a 10-year into yet another overseas mission. The cuts come to a military that priority programs. was positive; in particular, a period, the Pentagon said on This entry passed through the has already been paring back The core Pentagon budget is now group of Israeli students came Wednesday. … Full-Text RSS service — if this is forces. More from Reuters: about $530 billion, roughly $10 around to express their support. “It’s not just a math exercise your content and you're reading it Defense Secretary Robert Gates billion less than Gates said was At this point, one of the two Arab which is ‘cut $400 billion’,” said on someone else's site, please read already had eliminated or scaled critical when the Obama students came back around and Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- back more than 20 troubled or administration sent Congress its began arguing with the YAFfers secretary. “It’s ‘let’s review our only/faq.php#publishers. Five “excess” weapons programs since spending plan for 2012. and Israelis, using abusive roles and our missions and see Filters featured article: Libya and April 2009. Last June he ordered The Heritage Foundation’s language and saying, “I have a what we can forgo, or pare down, Oil. in this age of fiscal constraint, the military to come up with more Mackenzie Eaglen says cutting problem with Israelis.” where we are all collectively than $100 billion in overhead the military without considering The argument lasted for about 3 trying to work with the deficit savings over five years, which America’s national security needs minutes, during which the problem.’” could be reinvested in higher is a recipe for disaster: aggressor became increasingly aggravated, ultimately demanding that the YAFfers stop filming him. His request was refused, at which point he lunged for, but missed, the camera I was holding. He then kicked over a crate full of YAF pamphlets and stormed PRO-ISRAEL page 85 Newstablet Edition Social Media/ 85 PRO-ISRAEL continued from page 84 off. A photographer from the success. As mentioned, with the Collegian was present at the exception of some MSA time.Although this display was members, the Wall seemed to get disappointing, it was not a mostly positive reception. surprising. This was the only Several of the students indicated student to actually become that they were extremely pleased violent, but many other students to see a counter-balance to the from the MSA came by at various anti-Israel narrative frequently points to verbally denounce the promoted on campus. Wall, and often to personally insult those present. None of these people were able to point out a single error on the Wall, and they dispersed once it became clear that they were being filmed. On whole, the event was a great Checking In on Foursquare or Facebook Becomes a Game With Virgin America Todd Wasserman (Mashable!) (one to four checkins) and More About: facebook,

Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:32:04 AM “captain” (50 checkins). foursquare, MARKETING, virgin Passengers will randomly be america Virgin America, which has awarded prizes — like T-shirts For more Business & Marketing sought to make flying more fun and flight vouchers — based on coverage: than mundane for its customers, is the checkins. • Follow Mashable Business & now trying out a similar In order to take part, consumers Marketing on Twitter philosophy for those waiting at have to agree to Facebook’s • Become a Fan on Facebook one of its terminals. Terms of Service on the Terminal • Subscribe to the Business & The airline has launched a 2 Takeover app, created by Marketing channel program at the new Terminal 2 at Context Optional, on Virgin video games and artwork. lighting, organic dining and • Download our free apps for San Francisco International America’s Facebook Page. Once Terminal 2, which opens elevated work tables with outlets Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad Airport, combining Foursquare consumers opt in for the program, Thursday at the airport, includes a and Wi-Fi. The video below and Facebook checkins to award they’ll find various surprises at “Recompose” lounge, mood provides more details. badges such as “ground crew” the terminal checkin areas, like 86 Social Media/ Daily Word/ Newstablet Edition Spotify to Cut Back on Free Music Brenna Ehrlich (Mashable!) just because you don’t own the

Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:32:46 AM MP3, doesn’t mean you don’t own the song. With offline Spotify users will see some caching, it’s basically the same changes to the way they listen to thing; You just won’t lose your music come May; the service will entire collection if you drop your Protecting small be adding more limits to listening laptop (and haven’t loaded time. everything onto the Amazon businesses in Starting May 1, new free users Cloud Player). will have unlimited listening for Limiting users’ consumption to a Spain the first six months. But after that, rather reasonable scale and asking The World (PRI's The World) they will be limited to 10 hours of them to pay to go beyond that is music per month (that’s about 20 not “destroying a community of Submitted at 4/13/2011 3:20:23 PM albums’ worth of music), the music lovers.” It’s building one. Tweet music streaming service Perhaps Spotify should have had Las Arenas, a former bull ring announced Thursday. In addition, this model in place upon launch, turned mega-mall (Photo: Gerry any user who signed up for the radio service would no longer be to make its way to the U.S., where so as not to jolt users, but, Hadden) free service at the beginning of free on mobile and consumer it needs to be in the good graces ultimately, it seems like the Download MP3 November 2010 will be able to electronic devices. of the labels (who are generally service needs to make this change By Gerry Hadden play each track five times for free, Although it’s understandable that against free music) in order to to survive. In the heart of Barcelona an and the 10-hour monthly limit folks would be miffed that launch. Photo courtesy of Flickr, Andreas abandoned bull ring has just been will go into effect six months after something that was once free is Fourth of all — and this is pure Blixt reborn. Las Arenas is a huge brick their start dates. now not-so-free ( paywalls, opinion here — sorry guys, but More About: music, spotify coliseum-style structure where Naturally, Spotify users are anyone?), the changes make you should, in some respect, have For more Media coverage: once man squared off against angry. Comments below the post sense. First of all, Spotify has 1 to pay for music. Spotify costs • Follow Mashable Media on beast. Now shoppers line up to read, “So long Spotify. It was nice million paying subscribers— and about $16 per month (10 pounds Twitter buy toasters and blue jeans. In the nowing [sic] you. Guess I’ll go millions more use the free service. in the U.K.) for its most expensive • Become a Fan on Facebook weeks since the new mega-mall back to pirating music again That’s a lot of people listening service, which, in the scheme of • Subscribe to the Media channel opened tens of thousands of then,” “Bye bye Spotify,” and without ponying up. things is a good deal, considering • Download our free apps for people have been flocking in. “Thanks for destroying a Second of all, the service is not 20 albums would cost about $200. Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad On the rooftop observation deck, community of music lovers. yet profitable. Spotify reportedly More and more, users are seeing a shopper named Carmen Villen Goodbye.” lost$26.7 million in 2009. the value of cloud-based music was taking in the view of the Last.fm users had a similar And, third: Spotify is still trying services and understanding that surrounding city. reaction after they learned that the “I’ve lived in this neighborhood for many years,” she said. “And this is stupendous! When I was born the bullring was still open, but otherwise the neighborhood was blighted. Then the bullring was abandoned. I think the mall has taken good advantage of the PROTECTING page 88 Newstablet Edition Daily Word/ 87 Mexicans fed up with violence The World (PRI's The World) Mexico and is home to Ciudad Before Ciudad Juarez gained the been slow to investigate or even

Submitted at 4/13/2011 3:10:20 PM Juarez, a city with one of the reputation as a drug war murder document this. But just this highest murder rates in the world. capital, it was infamous for a month, the National Human Tweet In making recommendations to string of disappearances and Rights Commission said that Download MP3 revitalize Ciudad Juarez, brutal killings of young women nearly 5,400 people have been By Shannon Young researchers from the Northern — known as the femicides. When reported as “missing or absent” in The expansion of Mexico’s drug Border College generated a series teenage girls disappeared, the past five years. war has many Mexicans worried of maps of the city. They show authorities often failed to act and Antonio Cerezo is a member of a about their country, and their the most violent neighborhoods sometimes questioned the human rights group that has been personal safety. also lack high schools and public character of the missing person. documenting cases of forced And increasingly, they’re green spaces. Mothers of murdered and missing disappearances. speaking out against the violence. Julian Contreras lives in Villas girls organized themselves to He said that fear can sometimes A demonstration took place De Salvarcar, a Juarez demand justice, carry out private prevent people from going public recently in Oaxaca City. Isabel neighborhood that grabbed investigations, and pressure the with their cases or attending a Nivon was one of the marchers. international headlines last year authorities to act. demonstration against the “I attended the march because the when an armed group massacred Marcela Turati, author of a recent government’s militarization news each day outrages me,” 16 people — mostly teenage book on the hidden victims of policy. Nivon said. “Conflicts that used to students — at a birthday party. Mexico’s drug war, said these “While I respect an individual’s be between drug traffickers and Meeting point same mothers are now helping personal decisions, I tell anyone the military have expanded to the “The massacre forced neighbors parents of missing young men. who’s hesitant to speak that in point that ordinary civilians in to get to know each other and — “They teach them how to Mexico’s current militarized supermarkets, stores or private ultimately — organize to create document and build their cases, climate, the violence touches parties can become targets. I common spaces for their and they also help them to cope everybody, even the silent,” normally don’t like to go to children,” Contreras said. “They with the pain,” she said. Cerezo said. demonstrations, but now I feel the decided to create a library. Disappeared And that may be why more and need to exchange ideas with Neighbors donated books, held On a national scale, the number more ordinary Mexicans are others about how to tackle the small fund raising events, and of cases of missing or starting to look for ways, however situation as a society.” renovated an abandoned house. “disappeared” persons in Mexico small, to speak out against it. That’s a discussion people in The library has become a de-facto has increased since President Chihuahua have already started. meeting point whenever a major Calderon launched his crackdown The state has seen more drug-war- security concern arises in the on the drug cartels in 2006. related deaths than any other in area.” The Mexican government has 88 Politics/ Newstablet Edition PROTECTING continued from page 86 old structure.” practically in the shadow of Las that business models – small Donald Trump: 'I Have Most visitors here marvel at the Arenas. On a recent afternoon, store, big store – have much of a feat of engineering that’s left the Fantastic’s owner, a woman role in defining local culture. But facade intact but packed the inside named Niko said she’s not just at the Fantastic curtain shop, a Great Relationship with chain stores and restaurants. worried about her business, but customer Montse Blanco said he But some question whether the about the way of life her business was mistaken. With the Blacks' cost was too high — not the cost represents. “I’m sick of incompetent sales Garance Franke-Ruta (Politics : go on and say it had nothing to do of construction, but to the “The big stores are very people in the big stores,” Blanco The Atlantic) hundreds of small, local shops impersonal,’ Niko said. “Here we said. “I’ve reached an age where I with race. But how come she had such a tiny piece of the vote? And that stand to lose business. treat the people with familiarity. don’t have time for inexperienced Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:29:12 AM Villen’s friend, Mariangels Sanz We go to their house to hang young sales people who don’t you know, it's a very sad thing. said she has mixed curtains. We take measurements, know what they’re selling … or Well then. From Donald Trump's "I have a great relationship with feelings about Las Arenas. Too we give advice.” how to sell it. If I need to buy an appearance on the Talk1300 radio the blacks. I've always had a great many malls Catalonian stores are already appliance and the sales girl can’t show in New York this morning: relationship with the blacks. But “We have too many malls now,” suffering, according to the explain how it works I’ll just The show's host, Fred Dicker -- unfortunately, it seems that, you Sanz said. “And with the crisis, regional association of small and purchase it online.” who is also the New York Post's know, the numbers you cite are it’s even worse. A lot of small medium sized businesses. Since Of course, more and more people state editor, read a recent poll very, very frightening numbers." businesses are closing. People are the economic crisis began three are doing that too. But in the end showing Obama's sky-high Read the full story at The New not suddenly going to buy three years ago, tens of thousands of what may likely save Catalonia’s support among African- York Observer. shirts instead of just the one they small businesses have closed for best small shops isn’t only the Americans. This entry passed through the need just because there are more good. But Barcelona economist customer service. It’s medieval Trump said the numbers were Full-Text RSS service — if this is stores to shop in.” Lluis Renart said businesses have urban planning. The region’s troubling and pointed to Hillary your content and you're reading it Small business owners in been evolving and adapting to the towns and cities tend to have lots Clinton as proof that he probably on someone else's site, please read Barcelona agree. Until now marketplace at least since the of small winding streets – streets won't get the kind of support the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- they’ve had strong local laws to world’s first department store where really big stores simply among African-Americans that he only/faq.php#publishers. Five protect them against places like opened in the mid 19th Century, can’t fit. deserves. Filters featured article: Libya and Las Arenas. But one key in Paris. He said models that "I tell it like it is," Trump said. Oil. argument local officials have used work better shouldn’t be Gerry Hadden on The World:• "[Y]ou'll hear a political reporter to keep the big players out has punished. Portugal seeks bailout just been declared illegal — in “I would tend to think that • Stolen babies in Spain Brussels. The European Union’s unfortunately in Catalonia we • More of Gerry Hadden’s stories Court of Justice has ruled that you have over regulated commerce,” can’t keep a mega store or mall he said. “We should give a little out just because it will siphon off bit more of breathing space for business from existing shops. companies to establish themselves One such shop is a curtain and and offer their wares to the sheets boutique called Fantastic. public.” Defining local culture It’s located on a quiet side-street Renart said he doesn’t believe Newstablet Edition Daily Word/ Technology/ 89 Further shutdowns at Toyota plants The World (PRI's The World) could be delayed a month in Nissan are experiencing similar

Submitted at 4/13/2011 3:25:30 PM reaching consumers. problems. Daimler, the maker of Like Toyota plants in North Mercedes-Benz, said the company Tweet America, Toyota’s European couldn’t rule out supply-chain Download MP3 facilities are supplied with parts disruptions either. General Motors By Clark Boyd from Japanese factories. And sources many of its parts from Toyota said Wednesday it will many of those factories are on Japan as well. suspend production at some of its hold, said Paul Nieuwenhuis, All of them, Nieuwenhuis said, plants in Europe for eight days director of the Center for are scrambling. over the next two months. Toyota Automotive research at Cardiff “They’ll try and re-source some Netflix for Xbox 360 has already announced similar Business School in Wales. parts from other locations,” shutdowns at some of its US “In Japan, a lot of factories have Nieuwenhuis said. “But plants. The problem is a shortage been knocked out, through lack of everybody’s going to be doing updated with Kinect of parts from Japan, where power,” Nieuwenhuis said. “And that at the same time. So then you production has been severely some of the smaller factories get capacity constraints. A lot of limited in the weeks after the feeding into these factories have suppliers that could make certain support, everybody wave! earthquake and tsunami. disappeared [following the parts are already constrained Richard Lawler (Engadget) and is probably the method most The European plants that will be tsunami]. because they’re working at full Submitted at 4/14/2011 11:43:00 AM will want to stick with, however affected, in late April and May, It usually takes three to four capacity for other manufacturers.” being able to pause the movie are in Britain, Turkey, France and weeks for those parts to get here Analysts say that it may take The next time you hit the Netflix quickly during playback by Poland. Jean-Yves Jault, a by ship. Now, a month on from months before Toyota and other app on your Xbox 360 the update simply saying Xbox, Pause (or spokesman at Toyota’s European the earthquake and tsunami, the Japanese car makers are able to we heard about at CES will be FF, rewind, skip scene, etc.) is corporate headquarters in parts pipeline is running dry, return to full production. waiting, bringing Kinect owners quite convenient. Not near your Brussels, said Wednesday that according to Nieuwenhuis. the ability to flick through their Xbox? Check out a brief video of Toyota will also probably slow “Toyota uses a just-in-time • Toyota to cut back on European videos (like ESPN3 and Zune it in action after the break. production in May. system, so there’s not a lot of production have since the peripheral [Thanks, George] “Beyond that, I cannot say slack. Once you stop that supply • Toyota to suspend North launched) without digging a Continue reading Netflix for anything because we are assessing of parts in the pipeline, it doesn’t American production controller out of the couch Xbox 360 updated with Kinect the situation literally take very long for all the plants • Global car industry cushions. After the 43Mb update support, everybody wave! day by day,” Jault said. around the world to be affected,” downloads waving ones hand for Netflix for Xbox 360 updated Jault said the European he said. the camera or saying Xbox will with Kinect support, everybody shutdowns may mean that cars Toyota’s not alone. Honda and pull up the new menu seen above, wave! originally appeared on which auto sorts selections from Engadget on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 your queue for browsing by voice 11:43:00 EDT. Please see our or gesture based on what it thinks terms for use of feeds. Permalink| you may want to watch next. Major Nelson| Email this| Selecting "browse all" brings you Comments right back to the standard menu 90 Politics/ Newstablet Edition Who Has Too Much Power in America? Conor Friedersdorf (Politics : misleading. Gallup does a far on its financial crisis losses. I planning were more regional. And basketball hoop in my driveway. The Atlantic) better job describing the results in know Drum is with me on this insofar as the ballot initiative But I don't live there. I voted with

Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:55:06 AM prose on its Web site: one, so I won't elaborate. process as constrained the ability my feet. And while I'm sure I'd Lobbyists, major corporations, The federal government in of state legislators to flexibly change all kinds of municipal After examining the above chart, banks, and the federal government Washington DC- Warrantless budget, I'd transfer some power laws if given the opportunity Kevin Drum writes: all have too much power, wiretapping, holding Bradley away from the people. Overall it's (really, I can't drink a beer on the So here's the latest Gallup poll, according to Americans. By Manning naked in solitary a mixed bag, and although it beach at sunset?) my libertarian asking people whether various contrast, the public largely confinement when he hasn't been doesn't capture my exact view, I streak is mitigated by the groups have "too much power." believes state and local tried or convicted of anything, guess I'd have answered "about knowledge that if I really wanted The funny thing about it is that governments, the legal system, indefinite detention, the DEA, the right" or "don't know." to I could launch a meaningful bid Americans apparently think that organized religion, and the Defense of Marriage Act, The courts, legal system, and to change things, and have a everyone has too much power: military each have the right prohibitions on medical judges - Another tough one. decent chance of success Churches and the military manage amount of power or too little marijuana, No Child Left Behind. Sometimes I think judges go too assuming a decent number of to escape the "too much power" power. Labor unions elicit mixed I could go on all day. far in legislating from the bench. people agreed with me. box largely thanks to support responses, with the plurality Labor unions- Since I think it And the legal system is rife with All in all, it seems like my from huge numbers of saying they have too much power, should be easier than this to fire prosecutorial abuses, as Radley answers - rendered in the answers Republicans. Labor unions and but a slim majority saying their bad teachers, that prison guard Balko so often points out. I wish offered in the survey - track the the federal government go the power is about right or lacking. unions have brought about an this judge had less power. But I American majority opinion pretty opposite way, but Democrats Contra Drum, I don't think these explosion in jail construction and also think judges should have closely, though obviously don't support them enough to keep results suggest incoherence in the incarceration, that ludicrous work power to review wiretap orders, or everyone's particular reasoning is their overall numbers from being political views of Americans. But rules helped destroy GM, and that whether someone is actually an going to differ a lot. But does pretty dismal. Lobbyists, banks, perhaps I'm biased. It so happens public safety unions have enemy combatant, and I would do Drum find something incoherent and corporations come in for that I largely agree with the arranged it so that their members away with mandatory minimums, about my mix of views? He's a mostly bipartisan abuse. majority of respondents. can radically inflate their pensions returning more discretion to smart guy. If so, I'd like to know Roughly speaking, I'd say that Here's my take on the categories: by working overtime in the last judges. what. this poll doesn't tell us much aside Lobbyists- they've got far too year of their contracts, this one Organized religion and churches- This entry passed through the from the fact that American much power. seems like a yes. I think Scientology and other cults Full-Text RSS service — if this is political beliefs are fairly Major corporations- after the The government in your state- have too much power over their your content and you're reading it incoherent. But we knew that financial bailout, the GM rescue, This one is tougher to answer. I members. But generally I don't on someone else's site, please read already. Beyond that, an awful lot several generations of the military wish California had more power think religions or churches wield the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- of Americans apparently feel that industrial complex, and regulatory to set its own policy on issues like very much formal power. And only/faq.php#publishers. Five they themselves have no voice to capture gone wild, it's my belief medical marijuana, euthanasia, that's the way I like it. Filters featured article: Libya and speak of, which must mean that that large corporations wield and gay marriage. As a civil The municipal government where Oil. everybody else has too much. And excessive power too. libertarian, there are other aspects you live- If I resided in Irvine, they might be right. Banks and financial institutions- of state power that grate on me, or where Drum lives, I'd go crazy My interpretation is different. It still beggars belief that that I wish were left to localities. not being able to paint my house That column on the far right is Goldman Sachs was made whole Then again, I wish transportation certain colors or put up a Newstablet Edition Politics/ Technology/ 91 Where's Mitt Romney's Birth Certificate? Joshua Green (Politics : The nickname was "Mitt'' -- a totally still has not produced a " Atlantic) understandable preference for a certificate of live birth." And we

Submitted at 4/14/2011 9:59:08 AM football player or a presidential know for a fact that as a young candidate. But what does the birth man he spent years living in a I'll admit this: I did not know that certificate belonging to the foreign country that looks down Mitt Romney is refusing to presidential candidate actually on America. A country that is produce his birth certificate until I state? intimately familiar with colonial read a column by Joan Vennochi Four years ago, I asked Romney thinking. I trust that the more than in today's Boston Globe blowing spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom to 1,000 people who posted the lid off this important story. It settle the matter. comments on my story about turns out that we don't even know "It's Willard Mitt Romney on the Donald Trump and his "birther Mitt Romney's real name! And birth certificate,'' he replied, via e- investigators,' and the 100 or so Romney's spokesman bobs and mail. who sent urgent emails, are weaves like Muhammad Ali to Could I see it? I asked. "Sure. He vigilantly working to bring this Editorial: RIM, avoid telling the truth and was born in Detroit. City Hall Romney conspiracy to light, and I exposing this conspiracy! From should have it,'' he e-mailed back. just haven't realized it. Vennochi: Birth records are restricted in This entry passed through the His first name is "Willard,'' after Michigan and only a person or Full-Text RSS service — if this is we've been here the hotel magnate J. Willard parent named on the record, or a your content and you're reading it Marriott, his father's best friend. legal guardian or representative on someone else's site, please read His middle name comes from his can request a copy. "That the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- father's cousin, who played shouldn't be a problem for an old only/faq.php#publishers. Five before quarterback for the Chicago Bears reporter like you,'' Fehrnstrom Filters featured article: Libya and Donald Melanson (Engadget) that's getting difficult to ignore. from 1925 to 1929. That cousin's responded. It was. Oil. Submitted at 4/14/2011 11:12:00 AM One that is strikingly similar to name was "Milton'' and his Long story short: Mitt Romney what we've recently seen from By now you've no doubt read or another company that grew to at least heard about the New York dominate on the world stage, Times interview where RIM's co- became a figure of national pride CEOs wound up asking most of in its home country, and is now the questions and challenged struggling to reinvent itself in the conventional wisdom about the face of stiff competition: Nokia. company, or seen the BBC Continue reading Editorial: RIM, interview that Mike Lazaridis put we've been here before an abrupt end to (see below, if Editorial: RIM, we've been here you haven't). Those both offer before originally appeared on plenty of juicy morsels for folks Engadget on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 like us to chew on, but they're also 11:12:00 EDT. Please see our indicative of a broader sense of terms for use of feeds. Permalink| frustration from the company | Email this| Comments 92 Technology/ Newstablet Edition Trexa's EV platform comes out of its shell, reveals its true torque-tube nature Michael Gorman (Engadget) suitable for any road going platform comes out of its shell,

Submitted at 4/14/2011 10:55:00 AM application. The Entertube reveals its true torque-tube nature chassis's both flexible (2WD or Trexa's EV platform comes out of We liked what we saw when we 4WD) and scalable -- from a nine- its shell, reveals its true torque- first set eyes upon Trexa's EV inch diameter tube with seven tube nature originally appeared on platform, but the company kWh of juice in an eight-foot Engadget on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 decided to ditch the skateboard wheelbase to an 18-inch diameter 10:55:00 EDT. Please see our façade for a slimmer, cylindrical tunnel with a massive 90kWh terms for use of feeds. Permalink form factor. After stripping away power pack crammed in a 180- Autoblog Green| Trexa| Email that somewhat chunky exterior, inch wheelbase. That means this| Comments Trexa used a torque tube (where there's an EV for for every commercialized as we speak, so it below and press release after the the center tube is the main load- occasion, from small cars to semi- won't be too long until Enertube- break. bearing structure for the trucks and anything in between. powered EVs are ready for the Gallery: Trexa Enertube EV suspension and drivetrain) to What you see is a production open road. Until then, you'll have Chassis create an egalitarian EV platform prototype, but it's being to settle for the plethora of pics Continue reading Trexa's EV