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Honk! Wheeze! Atchoo! It’s getting hot in Washington, and
it’s not just the weather
Deborah Zabarenko (Front
Row Washington)
Submitted at 4/21/2010 11:38:45 AM
Spring in Washington means
cherry blossoms, azaleas and a
collective wet sneeze from the
hundreds of thousands of allergy
sufferers in the region. This
year, a long snow-covered
winter may actually have
protected plants while an early
burst of summer-like
temperatures called forth the
blossoms, creating what felt to
many like a pollen bomb.
Plants that would usually have
bloomed in an orderly sequence
— forsythia, daffodils, tulips,
cherry blossoms, dogwood,
azaleas and lilacs — are all
flowering together. Cars, streets,
pets and other plants are covered
with a gritty yellow-green
sneeze-inducing residue.
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Submitted at 4/21/2010 1:00:00 PM
Allergy symptoms are the
common result, and they cost a
bundle.
It doesn’t help that Washington
is part of a U.S. trend spurred by
climate change, with the signs
of spring coming about 10 days
earlier than they did two
decades ago. That means some
missed connections in the
natural world, as some plants
and animals adapt better than
others to the early onset of
spring.
There’s another kind of early
heat settling in over the U.S.
capital, and that’s the run-up to
new legislation to curb planet-
warming greenhouse gas
emissions, the next priority for
the Obama administration now
that health care reform has
passed through Congress. The
compromise legislation is
expected to be unveiled next
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over the 150 years or so simply
can’t be accounted for. Lots of
this extra heat is stashed in the
world’s oceans, scientists report.
But the rest of it has to go
someplace and researchers
haven’t figured out where.
Is there any possibility that this
missing heat is what’s fueling
those volcanic eruptions in
Iceland? “The answer is a
definite no,” says Kevin
Trenberth, a climate scientist at
the National Center for
Atmospheric Research in
Colorado. The volcanic heat
week, a few days after Earth might help solve the missing
Day on April 22. heat conundrum if it were
As Washington deals with this substantial enough, but it isn’t.
meteorological and legislative “On a global basis, the amount
warming trend, scientists are (of heat from the Icelandic
concerned about some heat that volcano) is very tiny and at least
has apparently gone missing. an order of magnitude too
About half of the excess heat small.”
generated by human activities The volcano has been enough
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to have an impact on some
events in Washington, including
this weekend’s meeting of
global financial leaders. Some
participants have been stranded
elsewhere or delayed in arriving,
even as the volcanic ash cloud
moved off and air travel from
Europe resumed. They’ll
participate by videoconference
if they can’t get here, meeting
organizers at the World Bank
and International Monetary
Fund say.
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Senate Republicans keeping powder dry on European flights

START treaty
Susan Cornwell (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 4/21/2010 4:27:00 PM
There appears to be no rush
among Senate Republicans to
finish what President Barack
Obama STARTed when he
signed the new arms reduction
treaty recently with Russia’s
Dmitry Medvedev.
At a closed-door meeting
Wednesday on Capitol Hill,
Senate Republicans listened to
arms experts and leaders in their
caucus discuss the deal, a follow
-on to the 1991 Strategic Arms
Reduction Treaty.
But the general feeling in the
room was that it was way too
early to decide whether the new
START merited a thumbs-up or
thumbs-down from the Senate,
some participants said.
“I think everybody wants to see
the full language before making
a decision,” said Senator George
LeMieux of Florida after the
meeting.
“There are all the appendices (to
the treaty) that we have not
seen,” he said. Those are
expected to be sent to the Senate
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Senator Jon Kyl, the
Republican party’s whip in the
Senate, told Reuters it would
“undoubtedly” be months before
he announces his decision on
whether to back the new
START.
“There is a long way to go
Obama’s Democrats have the
majority in the Senate but will
need some Republicans to
approve the treaty, for which a
two-thirds vote is required. The
administration, and Senate
Democrats, would like to get the
pact approved by the end of this
year.
But the chamber has a large
workload, including tougher
regulation of the financial
industry and confirmation of a
Supreme Court nominee.
Only one Republican senator,
Richard Lugar, has said that he
expects to support the new
START. Lugar is the ranking
Republican on the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee.
Kyl and another high-profile
Republican senator, John
before anybody can really make McCain, have warned that it
an informed judgment about the will be difficult for the Senate to
treaty,” he said. approve the arms reduction pact
The new START treaty, which w i t h o u t a “ f u l l y f u n d e d ”
cuts the arsenals of deployed program to modernize the
nuclear warheads in both r e m a i n i n g U . S . n u c l e a r
countries by about 30 percent, w e a p o n s .
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force.
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Thursday
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No head-butting, judge tells Blagojevich
Andrew Stern (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 4/21/2010 3:38:32 PM
No head-butting, no fighting,
no macho posturing, the
judge overseeing former Illinois
G o v e r n o r R o d
Blagojevich’s upcoming
corruption trial said on
Wednesday.
If the federal courtroom is
sounding more like a boxing
r i n g , t h e
disgraced politician suggested as
much. On Tuesday Blagojevich
called out prosecutor U.S.
Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald,
telling reporters “I hope you’re
man enough to be there (in
court) tomorrow too.”
Blagojevich adopted a calmer
tone after Judge James
Zagel told both sides he alone
would decide which evidence
would be heard and that he
would “not permit the legal
equivalent of head-butting.”
Boxing matches have rules, just
like trials, the judge said, noting
combatants can retreat to a
neutral corner.
“I’m relieved,” Blagojevich
said. “The judge appears to be a
very fair man.”
Blagojevich, indicted and
ousted from office last
year, says he is innocent of
trying to sell the U.S. Senate
seat once held by President
Barack Obama and other
charges. He urged anyone
willing to listen to judge him
said.
Prosecutors have asked the
judge to prevent the defense
from arguing during the trial
that not all the tapes were being
played. In a recent
filing, prosecutors also said
Blagojevich’s wife, Patti,
received thousands of dollars in
real estate commissions without
doing any work, though she has
not been charged.
“Those are fighting words,”
Blagojevich’s attorney Sam
Adam Sr. said. “If you attack
Patti, that’s it… . We had to
hold him (Blagojevich) back.”
Blagojevich had reacted by
calling prosecutors “liars and
based on a hearing of all the cowards.”
government’s tape recordings of Fitzgerald was not in court on
him while he was in office. Wednesday. His spokesman had
He says he was engaged in no comment.
“political horse-trading” and The fight, er, trial, is set to
nothing more.
begin June 3.
Zagel said he would determine
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how many of the roughly 500 Haynes (Blagojevich addresses
hours of court-approved tapes reporters at a news conference
would be heard. “The rules are in Chicago in December 2008)
determined by the referee. I’m
the referee. I decide,” Zagel
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Bristol Palin says she got calls after New York Times Reports Q1
Mom’s e-mail hacked Profit, Digital Ad Revenues
Andrew Stern (Front Row
Washington)
year-old son of a Democratic photographs of Palin’s children. Now 26% Of Total
state legislator. Kernell faces Bristol Palin testified she had Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 4/21/2010 5:10:53 PM several years in prison if been frightened by the flood of
Submitted at 4/22/2010 8:27:26 AM
convicted of fraud, identity theft calls she received in September
the rise in digital sales revenue.
By Robby O’Daniel and other charges. 2008, and turned over the cell After significantly scaling Noteworthy: online advertising
A Tennessee college student on Prosecutors say Kernell was phone to Secret Service down costs, The New York revenues now make up more
trial for hacking into Sarah angling for information to agents after the contents of the Times Company this morning than a quarter of the company’s
Palin’s e-mail account and damage Sarah Palin, Republican account were posted online. announced upbeat Q1 2010 total advertising revenues: it
posting it on the Web during the John McCain’s running mate in Both her parents were on the results, reporting a profit and rose to 26 percent in the first
2008 presidential campaign the campaign. campaign trail at the time and, growing digital advertising quarter, up from 20 percent in
heard from Palin’s daughter, Kernell has pleaded not guilty after the cell phone was sales. the year before and 23.5 percent
Bristol, who testified she was t o w h a t h i s l a w y e r s a i d canceled, she had NYT’s operating profit grew in the third quarter of 2009.
flooded with phone calls as a amounted to a misguided prank. difficulty contacting them, she more than fivefold in the first The company’s Internet
result. Kernell had been intrigued by said. quarter of 2010, to$83.3 million businesses include
One call to the then-17-year- published reports that Palin used Palin’s former assistant, Frank compared with $16.4 million in NYTimes.com, About.com,
old’s cell phone came in the the e-mail account for state Bailey, testified that he had set the first quarter of 2009. Total Boston.com and other Web
middle of the night at the family business as governor of Alaska, up the e-mail account for his revenues were down 3.2% in sites. In the first quarter, total
home in Wasilla, Alaska, from and he had managed to guess boss, but warned Palin’s Q1, to $587.9 million from Internet revenues increased 15.5
“a bunch of boys” who claimed the answers to the account’s husband Todd that it was not $607.1 million in the same percent to $90.4 million from
to be outside the house and security questions and changed secure. Among the security period last year. $78.2 million, and online
wanted to be let in. the password. questions were where Todd That’s not bad news, advertising revenues increased
“That was scary because we Some of the e-mails Kernell attended high school: Wasilla considering that the media 18.3 percent to $80.0 million
lived in the middle of nowhere,” made accessible on the Web High. company reported a decline of from $67.6 million.
Bristol Palin told the jury at the included Bristol Palin’s cell 11.5 percent in last quarter Internet advertising revenues at
trial of David Kernell, the 22- phone number, and others had before that (Q4 2009). Could the News Media Group
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Taleban defectors 'are rejoining insurgency'
(World News from Times
Online)
Submitted at 4/22/2010 5:12:52 AM
Almost a quarter of the low-
ranking Taleban commanders
lured out of the insurgency in
southern Afghanistan have
rejoined the fight because of
broken government promises
and paltry rewards, a scathing
report on reintegration claims.
Nato plans to spend more than
$1 billion (£648 million) over
the next five years tempting
Taleban foot soldiers to lay
down their arms.
But research by a Kabul-based
thinktank warns that those
efforts could make matters
worse by swelling the ranks of
the insurgency, exacerbating
village level feuds and fuelling
government corruption.
The report, titled Golden
Surrender, by the independent
Afghanistan Analysts Network,
is highly critical of the British-
backed Peace and
Reconciliation Scheme (PTS),
established in 2005, which it
says has been left to flounder
under bad leadership with
neither the political nor the
financial capital it required.
It is those rotten foundations on
which Nato and the Afghan
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government must now build as
part of its two-pronged
negotiation strategy of reaching
out to insurgent fighters while
offering political
accommodation to their
ideological masters.
Nato claims there are up to
36,000 Taleban foot soldiers,
most of them are fighting in
southern Afghanistan. The PTS
claims to have reconciled just
646, less than 2 per cent, over
five years, including 33
commanders.
“Several of these have
reportedly rejoined the
insurgency, including a number
of low to mid-level commanders
who are currently active in
Helmand…Uruzgan and
Kandahar," the report says.
One man identified as Mullah
Mirza was reported to have
returned to fight in Marjah, in
Helmand, where thousands of
US, British and Afghan troops
launched Operation Moshtarak
earlier this year.
A second commander,
identified only as Azizullah, is
reportedly fighting in Kajaki,
also in Helmand, where British
troops are repairing a massive
hydroelectric dam. Their efforts
have been put on hold because
engineers cannot get enough
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concrete through Taleban-held
towns nearby.
Two others are fighting in
Uruzgan, where US, Dutch and
Australian troops are based, and
the remaining four are active in
Kandahar, the research found.
Nato plans to launch a major
operation in Kandahar in the
summer.
“Most of these commanders
were inactive for six to 18
months, waiting for the PTS to
deliver on its promises,” the
report says. “Once it became
apparent that no support would
be forthcoming they simply
rejoined the fight.”
The Times was unable to
corroborate the report’s
findings, partly because
Taleban commanders change
their names every few months
and the eight men referred to
are not well known.
But officials in southern
Afghanistan said it was known
that fighters had reconciled and
then reverted to the insurgency
in the past.
“During my tenure as governor,
two or three times the Taleban
came through PTS and then
went back to the Government,”
the former governor of Uruzgan
province, Engineer Assadullah
Hamdam, told The Times.
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Fighters are rarely motivated by
money alone, the report says,
but a complex mix including
status, grievances with the
Government, anger at civilian
casualties and long-held
personal enmities.
Reports of millions of dollars
available to lure these people
out of the fight risks tempting
more people to join the
insurgency – albeit temporarily
– to benefit. Meanwhile, loyal
government supporters “may
become resentful, even hostile,
if they see resources being
channelled to antigovernment
groups”.
Protecting fighters who opt to
swap sides will also prove
difficult if the Taleban carry out
threats of retribution.
Major General Richard
Barrons, who heads Nato’s
reintegration taskforce, told The
Times last month that Nato
would back community defence
initiatives, which critics have
branded militias, to protect
communities who swap sides.
“Until we have grown the police
we need a mechanism that
delivers security, without fixing
all the force that we have now,”
he said.
“It’s very likely that the Local
Defence Initiative will be part of
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the reintegration solution.”
A report by the Afghan NGO
Safety Office, which provides
independent security advice to
charities across Afghanistan,
warned that the first such
scheme in eastern Afghanistan
“not only devastated those areas
with inter-tribal conflict but
also appears to have ignited a
power struggle within [a]
neighbouring... district as tribal
leaders there vie for a similar
deal”.
The bleak quarterly assessment
warns charity staff to prepare for
Nato’s withdrawal by late 2011.
“We note that International
military forces have made their
withdrawal contingent on being
able to demonstrate two key…
conditions: a degraded armed
opposition and an improved
government security force,” it
states.
“We assess, perhaps cynically,
that there is an awareness
neither of these conditions can
be genuinely extant in time and
so strategies to create the
perception of them are being
pursued instead.”
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Submitted at 4/22/2010 6:01:28 AM
The resignation of the
conservative Bishop of
Augsburg – accused of
thrashing orphans with a carpet
beater – has given a powerful
boost to reformers in the
German Catholic Church who
are trying to stop the mass
desertion of believers.
It took almost three weeks to
persuade the controversial
bishop, Walter Mixa, 68, to step
down and restore the credibility
of the Church as it attempts to
tackle and contain the growing
scandal of physical and sexual
abuse of children in its care.
The bishop is a close ally of
Pope Benedict XVI and he had
evidently counted on papal
support as he stood firm against
claims from at least six former
pupils at a Catholic-run
orphanage in Bavaria. At an
Easter service he declared that
he had a "clean heart."
Yesterday evening he
surrendered.
" I beg forgiveness from all
those to whom I may have been
unfair, from all those to whom I
have caused anxiety, " the
bishop said.
A special investigator and a
Munich lawyer are now
investigating the claims against
him. He has also been accused
of using church funds to buy
artworks.
The resignation of the bishop –
part of a conservative axis that
includes Bishop Gerhard
Ludwig Müller of Regensburg
and Cardinal Joachim Meisner
in Cologne – is the culmination
of a power struggle in the
hierachy.
Conservative clergy have been
trying to maintain a strict
boundary between church and
state – and thus resist the
meddling of state prosecutors in
the abuse scandals.
For them church power still
rests on its ability to keep its
secrets and thus its authority
over believers.
Reformers such as the Bishop
of Fulda, Heinz Josef
Algermissen, have been
pressing for a more open
institutional investigation.
"It is a relief for the Catholic
Church in Germany. It had
become a heavy burden," said
Alois Glueck, chairman of the
Central Council of Catholics
yesterday.
The resignation of the bishop
was a personal tragedy for
Bishop Mixa, he said. "A more
open approach from the start
could perhaps have led to a
different outcome."
The resignation may have come
just in time for the Church. One
opinion poll shows that 45 per
cent of German Catholics
believe that the Pope is doing a
bad job.
Many parishes are reporting
large numbers of their flock
officially renouncing their
religion – one in five Catholics
in Germany says he or she is
considering leaving the church.
The number of Catholics in
Germany has dropped from 28
million in 1991 to 25 million in
2009, with the steepest decline
since the Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger assumed the papacy.
Bishop Mixa was for many
younger Catholics a symbol of
what was wrong.
He seemed to enjoy high-level
protection and certainly seemed
free to make outspoken
comments about society in and
out of the pulpit.
He has railed against the
German Government for making
"birth machines" out of women.
Its plans to expand the creche
network and allow women to
return to work smacked, he said,
of East German communist
practices.
He compared abortion to the
Holocaust – a particularly
shocking statement when made
by a senior cleric in Germany.
He also accused Israel of racism
in its treatment of Palestinians
in the Occupied Territories and
saId it was setting up ghettoes.
His view of the latest child
abuse scandal sweeping the
Cchurch was characteristically
pugnacious. "The sexual
revolution of the 1960s is at
least partly to blame for this," he
said.
The bishop has not been
accused of sexual molestation.
Former residents of the
Schrobenhausen children’s
home claim that they were
beaten by him with a wooden
spoon until it broke, with a
carpet beater, or punched hard
on the upper arm where bruises
would not be visible.
The special investigators acting
on behalf of the victims are
having to decide whether this
kind of physical abuse should be
designated an unfortunate
normality in the church and state
school systems of the 1970s and
1980s, or whether it should be
treated as part of a spectrum of
abuse that included sexual
assault.
Some victims from that era say
that the violent atmosphere in
the classrooms of that period
allowed sexual abuse to flourish.
"The paedophiles were often the
'good ones'," an Austrian
playwright saidrecently. "They
were the ones who treated us,
however perversely, as
individuals and understood our
home sickness."
That was one reason why child
victims – who understood that
they were being violated – did
not denounce their teachers,
even after they had left school.
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"Family Man"
Michael Grothaus (The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW))
Submitted at 4/22/2010 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: iPhone
Following on the heels of
the"Backpackers" and "Dog
Lovers" ads earlier this week,
Apple has released another
iPhone ad titled " Family Man."
The ad details how a man has,
apparently, lost control of his
iPhone to his family.
As usual, the ad features three
third-party apps. The wife uses
the man's iPhone for Jamie
Oliver's 20 Minute
Meals($7.99), his son uses it for
Elmo's Monster Maker($3.99),
and when he actually get his
own phone back he uses it for ...
opening his car trunk with Viper
SmartStart(free). The ad ends
with the family man saying,
"Yep, I think we'd all be lost
without my iPhone."
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Online) But another light must be shone Congregation for the Doctrine letter to all Catholic bishops and liberationists, the survivors
Submitted at 4/22/2010 6:09:40 AM on an almost equally important of the Faith. published last Friday, took the of abuse, the laity, women. The
debate unfolding within the That he was as zealous against Pope to task for a multitude of list is tragically long.
Walter Mixa’s resignation is a Church. child-abusing priests as against such sins. He acknowledged the He might never find himself in
refreshingly prompt response to As numbers of priests dwindle liberation theologians is just one value of his three encyclicals on agreement with him again, but if
the allegations of child abuse in the West and worshippers aspect of the present debate that faith, hope and charity but this Pope is truly concerned
made against him, although no soar in the South, the scandals is too easily overlooked. added: “When it comes to facing about leaving a strong legacy for
doubt it could never have come of child sex abuse are throwing Kung, meanwhile, lost his the major challenges of our the future, maybe Kung’s
soon enough for those children, open once more the divide in the teaching licence when he times, his pontificate has solution of a Third Vatican
now adults, who report that he Catholic Church between liberal challenged the doctrine of papal increasingly passed up more Council might be the answer.
beat them with sticks, a carpet progressives and orthodox infallibility. opportunities than it has taken.” Then, if the conservatives are
beater and, when that broke, his traditionalists. These two former colleagues Among these were missed right, they will carry the day,
fists. In the 1960s, two of the from Tubingen University took opportunities for rapprochement and if the liberals are right, it
The Pope must now accept that brightest young radical priests tea together at the Pope’s and reconciliation with will be them.
resignation, or all the apologies of their generation were together summer residence of Castel Protestants and Jews. Somewhere amid the fighting,
pouring forth from bishops’ as theologians at the Second Gandolfo shortly after He ended by urging Catholic the Church’s valuable doctrines
conferences worldwide will Vatican Council. Benedict’s election in 2005 but bishops worldwide to push for a drawn from more than a century
seem meaningless. Hans Kung and Joseph hopes of a reconciliation were third Vatican council. of social thought might get a
Bishop Mixa is totemic in this Ratzinger are now the oldest and soon dashed. “In this urgent situation, the look-in.
sorry saga because, although no only ones still active. Conservatives who want eyes of the world turn to you. The final arbiter of who was
claims of sex abuse are alleged As reformers they were friends Vatican II rolled back believe Innumerable people have lost right, the conservatives or the
against him, the charges of then, but went in different many of the Church’s present their trust in the Catholic reformers, would of course be
b e a t i n g s a r e s e r i o u s . theological directions after the troubles can be dated to its Church. Only by openly and God.
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the victims of the abuse, or the liberal wing while Ratzinger innate conservatism which they council would send to the world,
survivors as they prefer to be embraced conservatism with a fear promotes cover-up at the and what a voice it would give
known, and allegations of a zeal that became notorious cost of justice. to all those silenced for so long

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Sarath Fonseka rails against ‘injustices’ at eBay's forecast

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Hulu Will Offer $10 Hulu Plus Service

John Biggs (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 4/22/2010 7:36:59 AM
It seemed like only yesterday
that Joost and Hulu were seen as
also-rans. Surprisingly, the latter
online video streaming service
has taken off and is now
offering a $10 per month "plus" be the source for streaming TV. suspect full seasons as well as
service and will be rolling it out The company is a joint venture almost immediate simulcasting
to select markets by May 24. of NBC, Fox, and ABC and, as of broadcast programming - but
The LA Times writes that the such, has become a clearing that has yet to be decided.
service will offer a "more house for popular broadcast
comprehensive selection" over television. The question here is
the current one limited episode information. The suggestion what constitutes a more
model. There is, sadly, no more here is that Hulu, in the end, will comprehensive selection - I
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Earth Day: No more burning rivers, but new threats (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed)
Submitted at 4/22/2010 6:11:32 AM
WASHINGTON – Pollution
before the first Earth Day was
not only visible, it was in your
face: Cleveland's Cuyahoga
River caught fire. An oil spill
fouled 30 miles of Southern
California beaches. And thick
smog choked many cities' skies.
Not anymore.
On Thursday, 40 years after
that first Earth Day in 1970,
smog levels nationwide have
dropped by about a quarter, and
lead levels in the air are down
more than 90 percent. Formerly
fetid lakes and burning rivers
are now open to swimmers.
The challenges to the planet
today are largely invisible —
and therefore tougher to tackle.
"To suggest that we've made
progress is not to say the
problem is over," said William
Ruckelshaus, who in 1970
became the first head of the
Environmental Protection
Agency. "What we've done is
shift from the very visible kinds
of issues to those that are a lot
more subtle today."
Issues such as climate change
are less obvious to the naked
eye. Since the first Earth Day,
carbon dioxide levels in the air
have increased by 19 percent,
pushing the average annual
world temperature up about 1
degree Fahrenheit, according to
the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
"We've cleaned up what you can
see and left everything else in
limbo," said Kathleen Rogers,
president of the Earth Day
Network.
Improvements took shape in the
form of the Clean Air Act, the
Clean Water Act and changes in
the way businesses treat the
environment, said Denis Hayes.
Those reforms, he added, grew
out of the first Earth Day, an
event Hayes helped coordinate.
"It is the most powerful,
sweeping, society-wide change
America has had since the New
Deal," Hayes said. "The air is
cleaner despite the fact that we
have twice as many vehicles
traveling twice as many miles."
Nancy Sutley, head of the
White House Council on
Environmental Quality, said
progress in the past 40 years is
about more than just laws. It's
also about innovation that made
cleaner cars. And that
innovation, Sutley said, "is
going to be the answer for
tackling climate change."
No place illustrates progress
more than the Cuyahoga River.
Cleveland's main river used to
periodically catch fire. On June
22, 1969, trash and an oil slick
ignited. The river burned for
half an hour, drawing national
attention to water pollution
nationwide.
People didn't swim in the river
at the time, and anyone who fell
in needed to be checked by a
doctor.
"The river bubbled like a
cauldron. There were all kinds
of chemicals in there, and that
was what was bubbling at the
bottom," said Wayne Bratton, a
boat captain then and now, and
the first president of the
Cleveland Harbor Conservation
Committee.
On Tuesday, Wayne Bratton
was aboard his boat, The
Holiday. He looked over the
starboard side at Collision Bend
and described by telephone what
he saw: "I'm looking at a lot of
gulls, there's a loon, a lot of
black heron."
People now fish in the river,
which holds 60 species. There's
a spiffy amphitheater on the
river bank, which never would
have been built when the water
had a dreadful stench, Bratton
said.
It's not just the Cuyahoga. In
1957, the Public Health Service
declared the Potomac River
unsafe for swimming. Now
Rogers lets her children swim in
it.
"I don't even wash them off any
more," she said.
In Los Angeles in the 1960s
and 1970s, the joke was that if
you moved in during the
summer you wouldn't notice the
nearby mountains until the
winter. Now peak smog levels
are only one-third as high as 40
years ago, he said.
"Unfortunately, it leads some
people to think that we don't
have a problem any more," said
Sam Atwood, spokesman for the
South Coast Air Quality
Management District.
The region still has 6,000
yearly premature deaths linked
to unseen tiny particles in the air
that cause heart and lung
problems, Atwood said.
In 1970, Ruckelshaus said,
about 85 percent of pollution
was from places like factories or
power plants that the
government could regulate.
Now such sites account for only
15 percent, with most pollution
coming from sources like farms
that are harder to control.
That makes fixing the
remaining problems politically
difficult, said Russell Train,
chief environmental adviser in
1970 to President Richard
Nixon.
"Back in the '70s, people felt the
threat of environmental mistakes
and misbehavior," Train said.
"There was a real threat to your
health and people knew that.
Today, people will accept that
as a general principal, but don't
feel any immediate threat from
climate change or indirect
source pollution from farmers."
Last month was the hottest
March on record worldwide. It
was 1.4 degrees warmer than
March 1970, according to
NOAA.
The average temperatures for
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the last 40 years are higher than
the rest of the 130 years of
record-keeping, said Deke
Arndt, head of climate
monitoring at NOAA's National
Climate Data Center.
And, this week, German
scientists published an analysis
in the scientific journal Nature
that says the greenhouse gas
agreement reached by some
international leaders last
December in Copenhagen would
lead to a 10 to 20 percent
increase in carbon dioxide levels
in 2020.
That puts "in dire peril"
chances for limiting the effects
of warming, the researchers
said.
Still, the White House's Sutley
is optimistic.
"The Cuyahoga River is not on
fire anymore, and air quality in
Los Angeles is not as bad as it
was 40 years ago. I think people
get those connections," Sutley
said. "People get that something
is changing about our climate."
___
On the Net:
Earth Day Network:
http://www.earthday.net/
The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency on the
Cuyahoga River fire:
http://tinyurl.com/epacuya
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Air search resumes for 11 missing in oil rig blast (AP)

(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) eventually be used to stop the been burned up," a relieved One of the deadliest was in weeks on the rig at a time,
Submitted at 4/22/2010 8:08:48 AM flow of oil or gas to the rig, Stanley Murray said. 1964, when a catamaran-type followed by two weeks off.
cutting off the fire. He said The rig owned by Transocean drilling barge operated by Pan Offshore oil workers typically
PORT FOURCHON, La. – A officials have not decided when was under contract to oil giant American Petroleum Corp. near earn $40,000 to $60,000 a year
Coast Guard helicopter and that will happen. BP and was doing exploratory Eugene Island, about 80 miles — more if they have special
rescue plane resumed the search Seventeen others hurt in the drilling about 50 miles off the off Louisiana, suffered a skills.
T h u r s d a y m o r n i n g f o r 1 1 blast had been brought to shore coast of Louisiana. blowout and explosion while Working on offshore oil rigs is
workers missing after a massive Wednesday with burns, broken The 400-by-250-foot rig is drilling a well. Twenty-one crew a dangerous job but has become
explosion aboard an oil platform legs and smoke inhalation. Four roughly twice the size of a members died. The deadliest safer in recent years thanks to
off the Louisiana coast. of those were critically injured. football field, according the offshore drilling explosion was improved training, safety
The rig continued to burn as A slow trek across the water Transocean's website. A column in 1988 about 120 miles off systems and maintenance, said
supply vessels shot water into it brought most of the uninjured of boiling black smoke rose Aberdeen, Scotland, in which Joe Hurt, regional vice president
try to control the flames enough survivors to Port Fourchon, hundreds of feet over the Gulf 167 men were killed. for the International Association
to keep it from sinking. where they were checked by of Mexico. Officials said Rose said the Deepwater of Drilling Contractors.
Rescue crews have covered the doctors before being brought to environmental damage appeared Horizon crew had drilled the Since 2001, there have been 69
1,940-square-mile search area a hotel in suburban New Orleans minimal so far. well to its final depth, more than offshore deaths, 1,349 injuries
by air 12 times and by boat five to reunite with their relatives Adrian Rose, vice president of 18,000 feet, and was cementing and 858 fires and explosions in
times, Petty Officer Casey early Thursday. Transocean, said the explosion the steel casing at the time of the the Gulf, according to the
Baker said Thursday. The boats One worker said he was appeared to be a blowout, in explosion. federal Minerals Management
continued searching all night. a w a k e n e d b y a l a r m s a n d which natural gas or oil forces "They did not have a lot of time Service.
Officials hoped the 11 missing scrambled to get on a life boat. its way up a well pipe and to evacuate. This would have ___
workers might have been able to "I've been working offshore 25 smashes the equipment. But happened very rapidly," he said. Associated Press Writers Mike
get to a covered lifeboat with years and I've never seen precisely what went wrong was According to Transocean's Kunzelman and Alan Sayre
enough supplies to survive for anything like this before," said under investigation. website, the rig was built in contributed to this report.
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'South Park' - '201' Recap

Brad Trechak (TV Squad)
Submitted at 4/22/2010 8:36:00 AM
(S14E06) This episode was a
continuation of the 200th
episode and definitely a treat for
those who have been following
'South Park' for the past 14
years. There were a myriad of
references to several famous
episodes and while the ending
could have been better (I would
have tried to incorporate
Imaginationland), the two-parter
was satisfying overall.
In fact, thinking more about it, Continue reading'South Park' -
certain aspects of the show's '201' Recap
history were conspicuously Filed under: OpEd, South Park,
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Iran begins war games in Gulf, Strait of Hormuz

(AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) Hormuz if attacked by the West, from the Guard were President Barack Obama's
Submitted at 4/22/2010 6:51:26 AM something that makes holding participating in the three-day announcement this month of a
war games there a particularly games codenamed "The Great new U.S. nuclear policy in
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's elite s e n s i t i v e m o v e . S o m e 4 0 Prophet." It said the war games which he pledged America
R e v o l u t i o n a r y G u a r d o n percent of the world's oil and will witness the commissioning would not use atomic weapons How to Make it in
Thursday started large-scale war energy supplies pass through the of what it described as an "ultra- against nations that do not have
games in the Persian Gulf and narrow waterway at the mouth speed" vessel called "Ya Mahdi" them. Iran and North Korea America Renewed
the strategic Strait of Hormuz, of the Persian Gulf.
state television reported. In Washington, Pentagon press
and a total of 313 speedboats
with the capability of firing
were pointedly excluded from
the non-use pledge, and Iranian
for Season 2
Iran has been holding military secretary Geoff Morrell played rockets and missiles also would leaders took that as an implicit (TVGuide.com: Breaking
maneuvers in the gulf and the down the significance of the participate. threat. News)
Strait of Hormuz annually since maneuvers, saying "they don't On Wednesday, Defense Iran's supreme leader, Submitted at 4/21/2010 6:50:00 PM
2006 to show off its military seem out of the ordinary" from Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said
capabilities. The last four what Iran's military has done in said "new weapons" would be Wednesday that the U.S.
editions of the games were held the past. test-fired in the war games, but "nuclear threat" is a "Stigma in • Apr 21, 2010 07:50 PM ET
in the summer, but there has Asked Wednesday — the day did not give any details. the U.S. political history," • by Natalie Abrams
been no official explanation the maneuvers were announced Tehran, said Morrell on saying Iranians will not allow •
why they were brought forward in Tehran — what concerns he Wednesday, often makes the U.S to dominate the country.
this year. had about the Iranian war exaggerated claims about its Iran's archenemy, Israel, has How to Make It in America
The war games have routinely games, Morrell said: "I haven't weapons testing. not ruled out military action How to Make It in America has
heightened tension in the region, heard any particular concerns." "What's always been interesting against Iran's nuclear facilities. been renewed, HBO announced
but they have more recently "They conduct exercises and is how much what they do >___ on Wednesday.
taken added significance as the tests and war games with some comports with what they say," Associated Press Writer Pauline How Bryan Greenberg made it
standoff between the West and frequency," he told a Defense he said. "It's more often the case Jelinek contributed to this report to How to Make it in America
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McAfee antivirus program goes berserk, freezes

PCs (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) the error happened "and will Intel Corp. appeared to be receptive to remote software
Submitted at 4/21/2010 4:45:30 PM take measures" to prevent it among the victims, according to updates when stuck in the reboot
from recurring, the company employee posts on Twitter. Intel cycle. That slowed the recovery.
NEW YORK – Computers in said in a statement. did not immediately return calls It's not uncommon for antivirus
c o m p a n i e s , h o s p i t a l s a n d The computer problem forced for comment. programs to misidentify
schools around the world got about a third of the hospitals in
Set Firefox to Use
Peter Juvinall, systems legitimate files as viruses. Last
stuck repeatedly rebooting Rhode Island to postpone administrator at Illinois State month, antivirus software from Google Results for
themselves Wednesday after an elective surgeries and stop University in Normal, said that Bitdefender locked up PCs Default Address Bar
antivirus program identified a treating patients without traumas when the first computer started running several different Searches [Firefox]
normal Windows file as a virus. in emergency rooms, said Nancy rebooting it quickly became versions of Windows.
McAfee Inc. confirmed that a Jean, a spokeswoman for the evident that it was a major However, the scale of this Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
software update it posted at 9 Lifespan system of hospitals. problem, affecting dozens of outage was unusual, said Mike Submitted at 4/22/2010 6:30:00 AM

a.m. Eastern time caused its The system includes Rhode computers at the College of Rothman, president of computer
antivirus program for corporate Island Hospital, the state's Business alone. security firm Securosis. When you type a non-address
customers to misidentify a largest, and Newport Hospital. "I originally thought it was a "It looks to be a train wreck," into the Firefox address bar it
harmless file. It has posted a Jean said patients who required virus," he said. When the tech Rothman said. uses Google's "I'm Feeling
r e p l a c e m e n t u p d a t e f o r treatment for gunshot wounds, support people concluded ___ Lucky" search to match the
download. car accidents, blunt trauma and McAfee's update was to blame, AP Business Writer Daniel keyword with something.
McAfee could not say how other potentially fatal injuries they stopped further downloads Wagner in Washington Switch it from feeling lucky to
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problems. It is investigating how also lost computer access. because the computers weren't

'Wicked Summah' Headed to TruTV?

Brad Trechak (TV Squad)
Submitted at 4/22/2010 9:15:00 AM
Get ready for a 'Wicked
Summah' on TruTV.
According to Broadcasting &
Cable, 'Summah,' which is being
described as an unofficial
spinoff of MTV's runaway Doron Ofir Casting, the the show, which will be filming
hit,'Jersey Shore,' is in the "very company behind 'Shore,' is in Miami and Jersey, will return
early stages of development" at casting the show. (For a taste of for a second season on Jul. 29.
TruTV, according to a network who might wind up on the Filed under: Other Reality
spokesperson. show, check out its casting Shows, Programming, OpEd,
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Obama: Financial reform key to avoiding crisis

(Reuters: Top News) banks to get behind the FUNDS firms whose failure could joint committee with the House
Submitted at 4/22/2010 6:42:04 AM Democratic package of reforms "It is essential that we learn the disrupt markets, transparency before it goes to Obama for his
that appears headed for a Senate lessons of this crisis, so we don't for derivatives, strong consumer signature and becomes law.
WASHINGTON(Reuters) - vote next week. doom ourselves to repeat it. And protections and a provision Few, if any, chief executives of
President Barack Obama will One of Obama's aims in the make no mistake, that is exactly giving shareholders more say on the big U.S. banks will be in the
urge the Congress on Thursday speech will be to put pressure on what will happen if we allow executive pay. Cooper Union audience.
not to let the chance for an Republicans to support the bill this moment to pass -- an Democrats hold a 59-41 vote JPMorgan Chase & Co
o v e r h a u l o f W a l l S t r e e t amid signs their opposition to it outcome that is unacceptable to majority over Republicans in the executives, including Chief Risk
regulations slip away and will has softened. me and to the American Senate -- one vote short of the Officer Barry Zubrow, will
warn of the risk of another Financial reform is a popular people," Obama will say, number needed to overcome attend Obama's speech, but
financial crisis if reforms are not issue with voters and Democrats according to the excerpts. procedural hurdles to the bill's Chief Executive Jamie Dimon is
enacted. believe it could help them in the The 1,336-page bill authored by passage. speaking in Chicago, a
Barack Obama November congressional Senate Banking Committee Obama therefore needs at least spokesman said.
In a speech in New York laying e l e c t i o n s . T h e l e g i s l a t i o n Chairman Christopher Dodd one Republican vote. The White Morgan Stanley said its chief
out his case for legislation to appears to have gotten a boost would bring new oversight to House has signaled increasing financial officer Ruth Porat and
crack down on Wall Street from fraud charges brought hedge funds and derivatives optimism about garnering chief operating officer Thomas
regulation, Obama will tap into against Wall Street powerhouse while cracking down on risky Republican support and is Nides are expected to go to the
widespread anger at large Goldman Sachs last week. bank trading and putting in targeting several moderate speech but there are no plans for
f i n a n c i a l i n s t i t u t i o n s b y Obama will deliver his speech place protections for consumers Republican senators, including chief executive James Gorman
highlighting the impact of the at the historic Great Hall at of financial products. Scott Brown of Massachusetts or Chairman John Mack to
2008-2009 financial crisis on C o o p e r U n i o n c o l l e g e i n It would also establish a system and Susan Collins and Olympia attend. Bank of America said
the broader economy. The Manhattan, the venue for several for unwinding troubled financial Snowe of Maine. chief risk officer Bruce
speech is scheduled for 11:55 important addresses by leading companies to prevent a repeat of Several Republicans have taken Thompson will be there but
a.m. EDT Americans, including Abraham catastrophes such as the collapse aim in particular at the chief executive Brian Moynihan
"One of the most significant Lincoln who argued there of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and mechanism for winding down will not attend because of a long
contributors to this recession against the expansion of slavery the near-failure of insurance failing financial institutions, -standing scheduling conflict.
was a financial crisis as dire as in a speech that helped assure giant AIG. saying it would lead to perpetual Goldman Sachs did not
a n y w e ' v e k n o w n i n his 1860 presidential victory. A White House official said bailouts of Wall Street. The immediately respond to emails
generations," Obama will say, Obama spoke at Cooper Union Obama will list five essential White House says that is not seeking comment, Citigroup
according to excerpts from his in March 2008 in a campaign elements to the reform true. declined to comment and an
speech released by the White speech in which he outlined legislation in his speech. The House of Representatives official at Wells Fargo & Co
House. principles for financial reform. Those include the "Volcker approved a bill in December that said they are not aware of
"And that crisis was born of a On Thursday, he will address Rule," which would ban banks called for the most sweeping anyone from the bank attending.
failure of responsibility -- from an audience of about 700 from engaging in proprietary regulatory changes since the (Editing by Mohammad
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14 News Wire/ Culture/ E-reader News Edition

Greek workers strike, challenge EU/IMF talks

(Reuters: Top News) a million workers. year. Worries about the recession and
Submitted at 4/22/2010 8:05:56 AM Many in Greece fear strings AID PACKAGE a surge in unemployment
attached to the 40-45 billion Newspaper editorials showed highlight the delicate balance
ATHENS(Reuters) - Greek euro ($53.8 to 60.5 billion) aid little sympathy for the strike, Athens needs to strike in
public sector workers walked package, if the cash-strapped saying the government had no meeting international demands
off the job on Thursday to nation decides to tap it, will hit choice but to enact austerity for cutbacks while maintaining
p r o t e s t a g a i n s t a u s t e r i t y living standards in a country measures and tap the aid enough support at home to
m e a s u r e s a n d p r e s s t h e where one person in five lives package after the yield on ensure it can implement the Android Running on
government not to agree to below the poverty threshold, Greece's 10-year bond jumped reforms. iPhone Promises Great
further cuts as it discusses an aid according to EU data. to 8.4 percent on Wednesday. On Wednesday, the IMF said
package with the EU and IMF. "We won't tolerate any more "We have to find the money unemployment would rise to 13 Things to Come [Hacks]
Doctors, nurses, teachers, tax measures because we cannot somewhere because the civil percent in 2011, and Greece Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
officials and dockers stopped make ends meet. I have a servants that are striking today would be the only euro zone Submitted at 4/22/2010 6:00:00 AM
w o r k , p a r a l y z i n g p u b l i c mortgage, two children, I have will have to be paid at the end of country to see its economy
services, while thousands are cut down on every luxury," said the month," center-left daily contract next year with a 1.1 It's only working on a first-
expected to march to parliament 38-year old civil servant Pavlina Ethnos wrote in an editorial. percent drop. generation (2G) iPhone, and it's
at midday as European and IMF Parteniou. "Why don't they Investors and policymakers are Air traffic controllers have not quite fully functional, but
officials meet for the second day catch those who stole the closely watching the protest -- decided not to strike on the hackers at Linux on the
of talks that could lead to a money? Is my salary or my the fourth nationwide strike Thursday, saying they did not iPhone have demonstrated a
financial bailout for Greece. mother's pension of 300 euros organized by the public sector want to further burden travelers dual-booting iPhone with a
Workers are protesting public going to save the country?" union this year -- as concerns and aggravate flight disruptions working Android installation.
wage cuts, a pensions freeze and Parteniou said she agreed with grow over whether Greece will caused by the cloud of volcanic The developer says in the clip
tax hikes imposed by the the strike but would not take honor its plan to slash its double ash that caused havoc this week above that "pretty much
government to try to pull Greece part because she could not -digit budget deficit to under 3 across Europe. everything works," although at
out of a fiscal crisis that has afford to lose a day's pay. percent of Gross Domestic (Additional reporting by Harry an "alpha level." Next up is the
shaken markets worldwide and The socialist government, Product in 2012. Papachristou; Writing by Ingrid iPhone 3G, followed by the
driven Greece's borrowing costs pressured by markets and EU Opposition to the measures has Melander; Editing by Mark harder-to-crack iPhone 3GS and
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Iran tests speed boats in "major" Gulf war games

(Reuters: Top News)
Submitted at 4/22/2010 8:14:19 AM
TEHRAN(Reuters) - Iran's
Revolutionary Guards
successfully deployed a new
speed boat capable of destroying
enemy ships as war games
began on Thursday in a
waterway crucial for global oil
supplies, Iranian media reported.
World
The Islamic Republic, which is
locked in a dispute with the
West over its nuclear activities,
often announces advances in its
military capabilities in an
apparent bid to show its
readiness for any attack by
Israel or the United States.
On Wednesday, the Pentagon
said U.S. military action against
Iran remained an option even as
Washington pursues diplomacy
and sanctions to halt the
country's atomic activities.
Iranian media said naval, air
and ground units of the elite
Guards force would take part in
the three-day exercise in the
Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.
About 40 percent of the world's
traded oil leaves the Gulf region
through the strategic narrows.
Western military analysts say
Iran may resort to "asymmetric
warfare" if it comes under
attack, for example by
deploying swarms of speed
boats to disrupt enemy
operations in the Gulf.
State broadcaster IRIB said the
Guard put into operation for the
first time its "smart and unique"
Ya Mahdi vessel.
"The radar-evading, high-speed
Ya Mahdi vessel is able to track
and target the enemy's surface
vessels in a smart way and
destroy them," it said, adding it
was now being mass produced.
A spokesman for the
maneuvers, Ali-Reza Tangsiri,
said Ya Mahdi was a remote-
controlled vessel whose missiles
could blow 7-meter holes in any
enemy ship.
US SANCTIONS PUSH
State Press TV said the Guards'
exercise in the Gulf would show
off Iran's defensive capabilities
and its determination to
maintain security in the region.
The ILNA news agency said
more than 300 various high-
speed vessels took part in the
drill, equipped with missiles and
rockets and carrying Guards
commandos.
"These vessels are regarded as
the enemy's nightmare," ILNA
said.
A hypothetical enemy war ship
which had entered Iran's
territorial waters was targeted,
seized and destroyed, it said.
Theodore Karasik, research
director at the Institute for Near
East and Gulf Military Analysis,
said the use of swarms of
speedboats can be an "effective
tool" against the enemy.
"It plays to their strengths. What
they are trying to do (in case of
conflict) is deny and deter
access to the strait and
surrounding areas," Karasik told
Reuters in Dubai.
"However, the U.S. and other
navies know how to counter
this," he said.
The drills coincided with rising
tension between Iran and the
West, which fears Tehran's
nuclear program is aimed at
developing bombs. Iran denies
the charge.
The United States is pushing
for a fourth round of U.N.
sanctions on Tehran over its
refusal to halt sensitive nuclear
activities as demanded by the
U.N. Security Council,
including proposed moves Every Time Zone Makes
against members of the Guards. Elegant Sense of
Israel, widely believed to have
the Middle East's only atomic
International Time
arsenal, has described Iran's [Webapp]
nuclear program as a threat to its Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
existence.
Submitted at 4/22/2010 5:30:00 AM
Iran, a predominantly Shi'ite
Muslim state, has said it would Managing two or three time
respond to any attack by zones in your head should be
targeting U.S. interests in the easy, but the brain just doesn't
region and Israel, as well as seem to like living in more than
closing the Strait of Hormuz. one place. Every Time Zone
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'Next Food Network Star' Goes Hollywood

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season 6 of the reality talent
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16 Technology/ Politics/ E-reader News Edition

One Approach to Growth: Build Your Own Cloud Geithner: Bill

Would Avoid
with vCenter in the Middle Bank Supersizing
Mike Kirkwood the three tiers (front-end, • Processes for spinning up new (Newsmax - Inside Cover)
(ReadWriteWeb) business logic, database) run in users automatically across all Submitted at 4/22/2010 2:49:13 AM
Submitted at 4/22/2010 2:30:00 AM virtual containers that are resources
monitored with vCenter. Treasury Secretary Timothy
Today, we got the chance to sit Performance is the question that Out of these focus areas, we Geithner says a key goal of
down with Aprimo, an on- Aprimo studied when bringing found database scaling the most financial reform is to avoid the
demand marketing automation v e n d o r s o n b o a r d . The interesting to consider. It seems supersizing of banks while
company that has built their company has relationships with clear that as build-your-own- reining in unreasonable risk-
s o f t w a r e b u s i n e s s a r o u n d 3Com, Cisco, and HP for the clouds grow, database taking.
s c a l i n g t h e i r o w n c l o u d three key parts of the technology performance, concurrency, and Geithner tells ABC there is
infrastructure with VMware stack. process integration are ripe for "enormous resistance" to a
vCenter. Aprimo has optimized vCenter joins these offerings a building block to manage the further optimization. regulation bill pending in
its offerings to scale with together and offers the company resources and enabling What we learned from Aprimo Congress and says "that's why
customer growth and leverage quick response to new customer automation around business and VMware vCenter is that it's been so hard to get this
best-in-class hardware to match requests. Like many business, processes. launching a cloud infrastructure done."
innovation in the software layers marketing can come in waves By thinking of automation as is a combination of virtualizing The secretary said in an
it develops. and this architecture is designed the line in the sand between computing resources and interview broadcast Thursday
In this discussion, we found to scale around the unknown virtualization and cloud, we can designing the automation of the that the government must "make
less need for discussing private and to be agile enough to easily see how connecting right business and technical sure that you're limiting" how
vs. public cloud. Instead, we support the marketing calendar. business processes focuses on processes. Reaching the stage big banks can get.
f o u n d m o r e f o c u s o n Here is a diagram showing the the best place in harnessing on- of an effective cloud depends on Geithner said Washington must
performance and speed-to- core services VMware vCenter demand resources for business how the team thinks about "put them out of existence,
market as key drivers for is focused on: benefit. connecting software, sales, and dismember them," without a
moving a virtualization strategy We had the chance to explore Some of the areas of focus we infrastructure together as a taxpayer bailout "if they mess
i n t o p e r s o n a l c l o u d the customer experience of build the Aprimo team took on as the process. up and they take themselves to
i n f r a s t r u c t u r e r e a l i t y . -your-own-cloud with John company to optimize its virtual Making a commitment to your the edge of the cliff again." He
Sponsor Gilmartin, Director of Product resources into its cloud. own cloud can bring a company said he's confident Congress
The story of Aprimo starts with Marketing at VMware. We • Design and optimization of together - from sales manager to will come to agreement on
virtualization - and has led to asked him if VMware sells resource pools developer. This join can sweeping financial overhaul
the company defining the clouds, or if instead its tool • Database tier optimization and position an organization to win legislation.
boundaries of its cloud offering build clouds. support new dynamic customer customers and grow the © Copyright 2010 The
and product architecture around What we found is that it is a bit scaling business due to an increase in Associated Press. All rights
the benefits of scaling resources of both. Like a data center • Designing for performance the end to end agility of the reserved. This material may not
on demand. itself, or a complex application, with vendor evaluations organization. be published, broadcast,
Aprimo uses a Microsoft .Net building your own cloud can be • Leveraging best practices Is your business ready to cook rewritten or redistributed.
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Why Apple might want to buy ARM

Sang Tang (The Unofficial ARM could provide Apple the
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) ability to better integrate and
Submitted at 4/22/2010 9:30:00 AM leverage ARM technologies in
order to stay ahead and
Filed under: Apple Corporate, differentiate from the
Rumors competition. The A4 chip in the
--- Last January, Apple COO iPad is based on an ARM
Tim Cook stated, "We believe design, which was first
we need to own and control the whispered about almost two
primary technologies behind the years ago.
products we make." That In the last two years, Apple has
motivation, backed by Apple's made several notable
41 billion cash on hand, makes acquisitions: of semiconductor
its rumored acquisition of ARM company P.A. Semi, mapping
Holdings so compelling. --- company Placebase, music
What would you do if you had streaming service Lala, and
$41.7 billion in cash reserves? mobile ad firm Quattro
That's what Apple has and, as Wireless. So far, the Quattro
Ken posted earlier, the rumor du Wireless acquisition has
jour suggests the company produced the most visible
might use a modestly large results, in the form of iAds. If an
chunk of it to acquire ARM ARM acquisition is indeed
Holdings. If such a deal is in the powering the iPad and iPhone, I n t h e L o n d o n E v e n i n g designs. It would also help happening, it'll be fascinating to
works, it would be Apple's ARM processors power other Standard article, a trader was Apple's other recent buyout, see what comes out of it.
largest purchase ever by an smartphones, including those quoted as saying "A deal would chip shop Intrinsity, make the TUAW Why Apple might want
o r d e r o f m a g n i t u d e ; t h e r u n n i n g o n t h e S y m b i a n , make a lot of sense for Apple .... most of its expertise. to buy ARM originally appeared
suggested £5.2 billion (US$8 Windows Mobile/Windows That way, they could stop Back in January 2009, Apple o n T h e U n o f f i c i a l A p p l e
billion) sticker price dwarfs the Phone 7, and yes, Android ARM's technology from ending COO Tim Cook stated, "We Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 22
biggest prior buyout, which operating systems. An Apple up in everyone else's computers believe we need to own and Apr 2010 09:30:00 EST. Please
brought NeXT into Apple for acquisition of ARM, therefore, and gadgets." That may be control the primary technologies see our terms for use of feeds.
$400 million and delivered the c o u l d h a v e f a r - r e a c h i n g taking it a bit far -- ARM's behind the products we make." Read| Permalink| Email this|
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ARM licenses its chips to many comes to competitive access to private in the short term -- but it experience on mobile devices
c o n s u m e r e l e c t r o n i c s the latest and greatest ARM would make Apple the most- (think performance and power
heavyweights; in addition to chips. favored customer for ARM's consumption) an acquisition of
18 Technology/
Facebook Data & Privacy: So Much TUAW's Daily App:
Has Changed in Two Years Powder
Marshall Kirkpatrick
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 4/22/2010 12:01:18 AM
Facebook today announced that
application developers will be
allowed to store user data for
more than 24 hours, removing a
major restriction that the
company had imposed on its
ecosystem for years.
Competitors like Twitter and
MySpace had no such
restrictions and now Facebook
is in the same boat. Founder
Mark Zukerberg used to say that
the rule against storing data was
essential to protect users and
their privacy.
Where are those now? Privacy,
Zuckerberg told me in a March
2008 interview, "is the vector
around which Facebook
operates." Two years later, not
so much.
Sponsor
In a December 2009 interview,
Zuckerberg said that Facebook's
new public-by-default privacy
settings reflected how he would
build the site if he were to do it
again from scratch today.
Compare below what
Zuckerberg said in 2008 and
what today's new Developer
Terms of Service say about
holding on to user data now.
I believe that the Facebook
policy change on storing user
data is a net win for the web: it
will enable all kinds of new
innovation. It was that kind of
innovation that I was asking
about two years ago when I got
the following answer about
privacy that just doesn't sound
right anymore today.
Zuckerberg on Data Portability,
March 10th 2008 interview with
ReadWriteWeb:
"If you export your friends list,
does their contact information
come with that? What if they
change their privacy settings
later? Right now if you take an
action that gets published to
your friends' news feeds, but
then if you change your privacy
settings later to be more
restrictive - then those events
disappear from the news feeds.
If that data is published off-site,
then there's no longer any
control over the data for users."
(emphasis added)
And today, on the new
Developers' Terms of Service:
You must give users control
over their data by posting a
privacy policy that explains
what data you collect, and how
you will use, store, and/or
transfer their data....You may
cache data you receive from the
Facebook API in order to
improve your application's user
experience, but you should try
to keep the data up to date...You
will delete all data you receive
from us concerning a user if the
user asks you to do so, and will
provide a mechanism for users
to make such a request.
(emphasis added)
One thing that remains the
same? "You cannot use a user's
friend list outside of your
application, even if a user
consents to such use."
Facebook doesn't want you
taking your data out of the
Facebook ecosystem, to other
competing services, but it
doesn't insist that 3rd parties
under its shadow check in with
you daily anymore, either. It's
hard not to feel a little cynical
about that. Discuss
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Submitted at 4/22/2010 10:00:00 AM
Filed under: App Store
TUAW's Daily App spotlights
one great App Store app, every
single weekday.
Powder probably isn't the most
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Sword of Fargoal is generally
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Powder, originally designed for do something else on your
the Game Boy Advance, uses iPhone, and then dive back in
easy buttons and icons to let you and pick up right where you left
guide your turn-based RPG off. Best of all, it just recently
character through random went free; that makes sense,
dungeons, killing monsters, considering the other versions
gaining XP, and drinking weird are free as well. If you still want
potions of various colors, all to support programmer Jeff Lait,
while trying to avoid cursed you can do so by donating on
gear. It's still not easy his Web site. Meanwhile,
(roguelikes are notoriously Powder is a free download in
ruthless affairs, and permadeath the App Store, and definitely
is still the rule), but the controls worth checking out.
are surprisingly intuitive, and TUAW TUAW's Daily App:
the included tutorial makes an Powder originally appeared on
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As Kids' Media Use Increases, Will Verizon profits dip,

Ed-Tech Investment Follow? subscriber growth slows
Audrey Watters The Venture Capital in (CNET News.com) Subscriber growth has slowed
(ReadWriteWeb) Education Summit is "designed Submitted at 4/22/2010 8:00:26 AM in wireless. Verizon reported
Submitted at 4/22/2010 12:00:00 AM for the innovators in the K-20 that it added a total of 1.6
education markets, and those Verizon Communications saw million wireless subscribers in
A recent study by the Kaiser committed to providing the its first-quarter 2010 earnings the quarter. Rival AT&T said
Family Foundation found that capital and resources to support fall 29 percent as the company Wednesday that it added 1.9
the amount of time young these change agents." The was hit with one-time charges million wireless customers.
people spend with entertainment difference between consumer and saw slower subscriber Like AT&T, Verizon added
media has risen dramatically, technology markets and school growth. fewer postpaid customers.
with 8- to 18-year olds devoting technology markets are Profits plunged to $2.28 billion, During the quarter it added only
an average of seven hours and important, and the summit seeks or 14 cents per share, from 423,000 of these highly valued
38 minutes a day to media use. to share this and other insights $3.21 billion, or 58 cents per contract customers. Analysts
And because they spend so into developing and marketing share, during the same quarter a had expected to company to add
much of that time "media multi- to the education sector. year ago. Results for the threee- 582,000 postpaid customers.
tasking," young people actually The announcement yesterday month period included a $970 AT&T reported Wednesday
manage to pack a total of 10 that Netflix chief executive million charge related to U.S. that it added 512,000 contract
hours and 45 minutes worth of some of the key trends in Reed Hastings and the non- health care reform. customers, most of whom were
media content into those 7½ e d u c a t i o n t e c h n o l o g y a n d profit venture capital firm Verizon previously received a iPhone subscribers.
hours. showcases some of the leading- Charter Fund had acquired math t a x - f r e e b e n e f i t f r o m t h e On the wireline side of the
With this key role that media edge ed-tech entrepreneurs and -game company DreamBox government to subsidize health business, Verizon said it added
plays in children's lives, it is investors. Keynotes speakers Learning, and the announcement care costs for retirees, who 185,000 FiOS TV subscribers
crucial to support the creation of include industry, education and last week that language learning w o u l d o t h e r w i s e b e o n a during the quarter, pushing the
i n n o v a t i v e e d u c a t i o n a l government experts, along with company Babbel had its first Medicare Part D plan. Under the total customer base to 3 million.
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take a survey about how kids number of key technologies, As ed-tech blogger Kirsten
perceive the Web. With this in including open-source software, Winkler says, "People are
mind the Venture Capital in v i r t u a l w o r l d s a n d c l o u d w i l l i n g t o p a y f o r w e l l
Education Summit 2010 will be computing. But funding for d e v e l o p e d e d u c a t i o n a l
held in New York City on June these recommendations remains p r o d u c t s . " D i s c u s s
8 and 9. The summit examines uncertain.
20 Technology/ Culture/
CenturyTel makes $22.4 billion bid for Qwest
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 4/22/2010 7:34:45 AM
CenturyTel agreed to buy
Qwest Communications
International in a $10.6 billion
all-stock deal, the companies
announced Thursday.
CenturyTel will also assume
$11.8 billion of Qwest debt,
making the merger worth about
$22.4 billion, one of the biggest
in telecom history.
After its successes in the 1990s,
Qwest saw its fortunes take a
turn for the worse.(Credit:
Qwest Communications
International)
Qwest and CentruryTel are two
of the biggest landline phone
companies in the country, with
combined network assets in
about 40 states. The deal comes
as Qwest, which abandoned its
wireless efforts years ago, has
struggled to keep up
competitively with other former
Baby Bell companies AT&T
and Verizon Communications.
While these companies do not
compete directly when it comes
to traditional consumer phone
Lit Fix: The Summer We Read Gatsby by Danielle Ganek
WomansDay.com Editors
(Daily Woman's Day Blog)
Submitted at 4/21/2010 4:00:00 PM
Today's book review is from
Woman's Day's copy editor
Lauren Kuczala. She read The
service, they do compete in the
business service market.
Qwest, which provides
broadband and phone service to
consumers in sparsely populated
states throughout the West, has
struggled over the years to
compete with its cable
counterparts. As other phone
companies focused on building
a wireless network, Qwest
Summer We Read Gatsby by
Danielle Ganek:
A beach read set on the beaches
of the Hamptons, this book was
a pleasant enough escape. The
quirky cast of characters and
tinge of mystery kept me
darling in the 1990s when the
company's value soared to over
$60 billion. Then the telecom
bubble burst toward the end of
the 1990s, and Qwest's fortunes
took a turn for the worse. The
company was plagued by
accounting scandals and its
CEO was forced to resign.
In 2005, when it was well past
its prime, the company got into
a bidding war with Verizon for
the long-distance phone
company MCI. Eventually,
Qwest pulled out of the race and
Verizon bought MCI.
When the deal closes,
CenturyTel shareholders will
own about 50 percent of the new
company, and Qwest
shareholders will own about
abandoned its wireless efforts. 49.5 percent of the company.
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StatCounter: Facebook,
StumbleUpon Generate
More Traffic Than
Twitter
Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 4/22/2010 8:55:53 AM
According to StatCounter’s
GlobalStats research arm,
Twitter now generates almost
10% of social media driven
global hits to websites, while
Facebook still reigns supreme as
the primary source of traffic to
global websites with almost half
(48%) of ‘Social Media hits’.
Surprisingly, the number two
social media traffic generator is
not Twitter, but StumbleUpon
with almost a quarter (25%).
Furthermore, StatCounter claims
StumbleUpon was number one
ahead of Facebook in the US
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STATCOUNTER:
Biofuel company Codexis opens at continued from page 20

last month, in terms of traffic being is having users discover

low end in IPO generation.
The data for March 2010 is said
third-party websites, while
Twitter and Facebook are not
(CNET News.com) to be based on 13 billion page only about sharing links but also
Submitted at 4/22/2010 8:26:39 AM
views across the global status, location and activity
StatCounter network of member updates as well as media like
Biotech company Codexis, sites. The company only photos and videos.
which sells catalysts for biofuel recently added social media Then again, Digg didn’t even
production, went public on the services to its GlobalStats tool, make it to the top 5 in
stock market on Thursday, and notes that its market share StatCounter’s research.
opening at the low end of its appears to fluctuate way more The top Social Media sites to
anticipated price range. than browser or search statistics. generate global website traffic
The Redwood, California-based As you can tell from the graph after Facebook, StumbleUpon
company sold 6 million shares above ( larger version here), and Twitter are YouTube (6%),
for $13, raising $78 million. It Facebook peaked around in the reddit (4%), Digg (2%) and
had planned to sell them company. Among its investors is Battery maker A123 Systems holiday period at the end of the MySpace (2%). LinkedIn was
between $13 and $15. The oil giant Shell, which is working went public last fall. year and is actually losing share ranked at 12 out of 25
company, which has a market with Codexis on enzymes to The performance of the IPOs fast, although still dominant monitored services with 0.34%,
capitalization of about $441 speed up production of biofuels for these companies is being with roughly half of social while Google Buzz was not yet
million, had originally planned from non-food sources. c l o s e l y w a t c h e d a s m a n y media traffic coming from the included in the research.
to go public in 2008, according The company had revenue of venture investors are eager for social network. StumbleUpon On a sidenote: in June 2009, we
to reports. $82.9 million last year, which r e t u r n s o n t h e i r p o r t f o l i o and Twitter have enjoyed a posted a statistical breakdown of
Codexis is a biotech company was a 64 percent increase from companies. But there is some similar growth curve since the where our traffic comes from
that produces enzymes and the year before. Its losses fell 55 c o n c e r n t h a t t h e s e i n i t i a l end of last year, although the (not limited to social media
biocatalysts that can be used to percent in that period to $20.3 companies seeking to go public former’s growth is clearly sites). CrunchBase Information
make chemical process cleaner million. In its prospectus, the do not have a clear path to a c c e l e r a t i n g f a s t e r i n statcounter Facebook
and more efficient.(Credit: company expects it will not be profitability, which could give c o m p a r i s o n t o T w i t t e r . StumbleUpon Twitter
Codexis) profitable until 2011. sour investor sentiment towards StumbleUpon’s large share is Information provided by
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Sobees Launches Twitter Client For
Android, iPad App On The Way
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 4/22/2010 8:50:00 AM
Twitter client Sobees, is
working to create the best social
media client on the market,
competing with both TweetDeck
and Seesmic. Sobees offers a
native Windows client, a web-
based client and is now
venturing into the mobile space
for the first time with a Twitter
client built for Android phones.
You can download the app here.
Sobees’ Android app allows
you to access multiple Twitter
accounts, share photos and your
locations, shorten URLs, read
Tweets when you are offline,
search recent messages using
Twitter Search and see profiles,
pictures, maps and more directly
in the app. Sobees is also
monetizing the app by adding
Riotwise ad s from realtime
search startup OneRiot to the
app.
startup has also updated its
desktop client, adding an RSS
reader and New York Times
content (integration using their
API) within the client. And the
desktop app will feature
Riotwise ads as well.
Of course, Sobees’ Android app
will face competition from
Twitter’s official Android App,
which was announced at the
microblogging network’s
conference last week. It’s
unclear however, if Twitter will
be developing the app internally,
or will be acquiring a mobile
app developer, as it did with
iPhone Twitter client Tweetie.
Twitter could also partner with a
mobile client developer like
Sobees plans to add other social Sobees or Seesmic with the
networks, including Facebook, Android app, similar to the
and LinkedIn, in the future and agreement Twitter has with RIM
is in the process of developing for the official Twitter app for
clients for the iPhone and BlackBerry phones. CrunchBase
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UK rumor has Apple
eyeing takeover of
ARM
Ken Ray (The Unofficial Apple
Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 4/22/2010 8:00:00 AM
Filed under: Rumors Say hello
to the rumor du jour: Apple is
considering a bid for ARM
Holdings. The Web site for the
London Evening Standard says
that investors across the pond
seem to like the Apple/ARM
idea; so much so that shares of
the chip designer jumped from
by 8 pence to just over £2.51 by
midday, a 3.2% gain. [Share
prices corrected -Ed.]
It's hard to tell where, exactly,
the rumor came from.
According to the paper, "the
takeover speculation was fueled
by stellar second-quarter figures
from Apple (on Tuesday)
smashing Wall Street's
forecasts," though there was
nothing about such a buy
mentioned on Apple's earnings
call.
Still, Apple is ARM's biggest
customer, and traders in the UK
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seem to think the idea is a good
one. The price would be pretty
steep for an Apple acquisition,
though. Traders mentioned in
the piece say that ARM could
fetch more than £5.2 billion, or
roughly US$8 billion. While
Apple's got the cash, its recent
purchases have cost much less,
such as the Quattro Wireless
buy in January for around $275
million, and the 2008 purchase
of P.A. Semi for a rumored
$278 million.
TUAW UK rumor has Apple
eyeing takeover of ARM
originally appeared on The
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Super PreKernel is the one-touch way to make

your Pre or Pre Plus fly (video)
Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 4/22/2010 8:43:00 AM
If you're a Pre or Pre Plus
owner who has been watching
longingly as we've covered the
recent spread of overclocking
hacks for the thing, but didn't
quite feel up to wading through
page after page of forum
discussions to figure out just
how to apply them, the process
just got a easier. Like, a whole
lot easier. Super PreKernel
enables you to go to 550, 600,
720, and even 800MHz with just
a single tap. And, when it's time
to put on those fake glasses and
play Clark Kent, you can drop
back down to 500MHz just as
easily. It's all thanks to a
number of Palm-loving hackers
who have put together a truly
moving video demonstration of
the whole process that's
embedded below. We encourage
you to enjoy it now, because the
selection of copyrighted musical
accompaniment for the clip will
probably result in it surviving
about as long as a bottle of
Superman's chosen hair product.
Continue reading Super
PreKernel is the one-touch way
to make your Pre or Pre Plus fly
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HP takes chisel in hand, mulls over Android and Linux slates

Sean Hollister (Engadget) is, erm, slated to run Windows Android slate.
Submitted at 4/22/2010 9:09:00 AM 7, The Grey Lady reported last HP takes chisel in hand, mulls
week that a six-inch Android over Android and Linux slates
Feelings about the leaked HP tablet was also on the way. originally appeared on Engadget
Slate notwithstanding, the Now, a prominent magazine on Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:09:00
company's already considering editor reportedly tells the paper EST. Please see our terms for
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interesting area for us," said caveat was that HP isn't
Android and Linux varieties. c e r t a i n t h a t w e w i l l b e
media relations director Marlene currently announcing an
Where the forthcoming HP Slate announcing new Slates in the
24 Technology/ Culture/
Telus Milestone users finally get a
taste of Android 2.1's custard filling
Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 4/22/2010 9:52:00 AM
If you're on Telus and you've
been longingly waiting for your
turn to jump onto the Android
2.1 bandwagon, that time is
now. However, you're going to
have to take a few steps to get
aboard, as this update is not
coming OTA. According to
MobileSyrup, where you can
find the full update instructions,
you'll need to hit Motorola's site
directly, accept an agreement,
then download a software
updater to your PC. After that
you'll get a taste of multitouch
in Maps, a new Facebook
widget to clutter your desktop,
MiLi's Powerskin claims coveted 'thinnest iPhone
battery case' title
Chris Ziegler (Engadget)
Submitted at 4/22/2010 9:31:00 AM
And here you were, stylin' in
your Juice Pack Air, thinking
you were the king of the
charging iPhone case hill with
the sleekest hardware money
can buy... but guess what? Life
isn't fair, and MiLi intends to
and the option to enable up to
nine homescreens -- something
you can gloat about to your
Droid-owning neighbors to the
south. We're still making do
with just 3.
[Thanks, Sean]
Telus Milestone users finally
prove it by undercutting
Mophie's solution by right
around a twentieth of an inch of
thickness. It's still packing
1200mAh of power -- the same
that the Juice Pack Air offers --
which MiLi claims should be
enough to just about double
your run time. It's available now
in a choice of eight scintillating
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Top 10 Camping Tips
(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 4/21/2010 1:00:00 PM
paced lifestyle, camping offers
outdoor enthusiasts the
opportunity to live the simple
Turn on the TV, and you won't life.
be hard-pressed to find a reality If you're embarking on the
show that has something to do camping adventure of a lifetime,
with camping. But, you may be the following 10 tips will help
wondering what life in the guide your preparations and
wilderness is really like once the ensure your safety once you've
cameras are turned off. Are you wandered into the wild. Whether
ready for a behind-the-scenes you're planning a staycation in
look into the authentic world of your backyard or hitting the
living up close and personal A p p a l a c h i a n t r a i l , t h e r e ' s
with nature? something here for every would-
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Kelly Clarkson Responds to Criticism About

Tobacco Company Sponsorship
(TVGuide.com: Breaking Indonesia and around the world that they,
News) In print, TV and online ads for too, should reject the tobacco
Submitted at 4/21/2010 7:58:00 PM Clarkson's April 29 concert, the industry's deadly products and
tobacco company PT Djarum marketing."
has also prominently featured Watch videos of Kelly Clarkson
• Apr 21, 2010 08:58 PM ET their L.A. Lights brand of Besides pressure from anti-
• by Kate Stanhope cigarrettes. Many of these ads tobacco organizations, self-
• include health warnings for proclaimed Clarkson fans have
cigarettes. set up a website to encourage
Kelly Clarkson "This is a lose-lose situation for visitors to write messages
Kelly Clarkson responded to me and I am not happy about it urging her to reject the tobacco
criticism from fans and anti- but the damage has been done sponsorship. "Kelly, because of
t o b a c c o g r o u p s a b o u t a n and I refuse to cancel on my you, young people will be
Indonesian tobacco company's fans," wrote Clarkson. "I think exposed to tobacco promotions,
sponsorship of an upcoming the hardest part of situations like but you have the power to
concert in Jakarta. this is getting personally change that," the website states.
"I was not made aware of this attacked for something I was Last month, the U.S. Food and
and am in no way an advocate completely unaware of and remove the sponsorship. Drug Administration issued new
or an ambassador for youth being used as some kind of "If Kelly Clarkson goes ahead national limits to tobacco
smoking. I'm not even a smoker, political pawn." with this concert, she is c o m p a n i e s o n s i m i l a r
nor have I ever been," the 27- Check out photos of Kelly choosing to be a spokesperson advertising tactics such as
year-old "Since You've Been Clarkson for the tobacco industry and merchandise sales and event
Gone" singer wrote on her blog The American Idol Season 1 h e l p i n g t h e m t o m a r k e t sponsorships to reduce the
Wednesday. "Unfortunately, my winner's comments come a day cigarettes to children," said marketing of cigarettes to
only option at this point was to after the Indonesian National M a t t h e w L . M y e r s , t h e children and teenagers.
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26 TV/ Sports/
Cartoon Network Announces Fall Lineup,
Including Its First Awards Show
(TVGuide.com: Breaking
News)
Submitted at 4/21/2010 9:51:00 PM
• Apr 21, 2010 10:51 PM ET
• by Mickey O'Connor
• mini- Mythbusters.
Andrew W.K., Destroy Build
Destroy
Cartoon Network unveiled
plans for a 25 new shows and
many more returning programs
targeted at young boys for next
fall. Among the highlights
announced Wednesday:
NEW
-- Hall of Game, the network's
first awards show to honor
sports personalities, will feature
a full red-carpet presentation
also featuring celebrities from
movies, music and television.
It's scheduled for early 2011.
-- The Looney Tunes Show is a
3-D reimagining of the classic
'toon for the CGI-animation
generation. A fully rendered
sneak preview of the new Road
Runner was slick and sculptural,
like the movie Ice Age, but kept
the bird's legs a decidedly low-
tech blur.
Cartoon Network renews Robot
Chicken
-- Scooby-Doo Mystery
Incorporated, a similar update of
the groovy Hanna-Barbera
sleuth series.
-- Tower Prep, a live-action
mystery series about a rebellious
teen who is forced to enroll in a
secret boarding school for kids
with supernatural gifts (think X-
Men meets Harry Potter).
-- Firebreather, a special movie
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breakout hit Destroy Build
Destroy— its star, Andrew
W.K., performed his hit "Party
Hard" at the network's Baseball Game Draws
announcement.
-- More episodes of Dude, What Together a Father's
Would Happen?— kind of like a Life, Son's Love
Jim Henry (FanHouse Main)
Watch full episodes of Cartoon
Network programming in our Submitted at 4/21/2010 7:05:00 PM
Online Video Guide
Filed under: College Sports
-- A second season of My Dad's
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. --
a Pro, an NFL-produced
Jimmy Everett stepped slowly
documentary series, this time
and carefully, clutching a cane
starring 8-year-old Nikko
in his right hand and his son's
Gonzalez, the son of Atlanta
arm in his left hand. Everett was
Falcons tight end Tony
determined to take the 40 steps
event that sounds like Teen G o n z a l e z .
from near Florida State's dugout
Wolf, except the half-human Anything catch your eye?
along the first base line to a
high school kid's dad is a Which Cartoon Network shows
patch of green grass in front of
dragon, thus giving him the will you tune in to? (My
the pitcher's mound at Dick
titular very special ability. favorite: the network's hit
Howser Stadium here
-- Generator Rex, a new series surreal animated buddy comedy
Wednesday night.
f r o m t h e c r e a t o r o f t h e Adventure Time-- check it out!)
Everett took those dramatic
successful Ben 10 franchise. Five Filters featured article:
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ALS Association, Florida
short attention spans.
Chapter, staged ALS Awareness
RETURNING
Night for its game against
-- A second season of the
Charleston Southern. It was part
fund-raiser and part-tribute for
Everett, a former Seminole
football player and the father of
current Seminole pitcher Tyler
Everett. Jimmy Everett, 56, was
diagnosed in March 2009 with
ALS.
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Ray, Lagasse, Flay to Launch the NBC Tweaks Summer

Cooking Channel, a Food Network Schedule
Rich Keller (TV Squad)
Spin-Off Submitted at 4/22/2010 8:00:00 AM

(TVGuide.com: Breaking Fresh Food Fast, which will

News)
Submitted at 4/21/2010 7:43:00 PM
• Apr 21, 2010 08:43 PM ET
• by Mickey O'Connor
• introduce six other new shows,
Rachael Ray
Rachael Ray, Emeril Lagasse
and Bobby Flay are joining the
Cooking Channel, a spin-off of
the Food Network scheduled to
debut this spring.
The three Food Network stars
have developed new shows that
will serve as the centerpieces of
the new network, parent
company Scripps Networks
announced Tuesday.
Martha Stewart: What Rachael
Ray does is "not good enough
for me"
On Week in a Day, Ray will
focus on simple recipes made
with fresh, local ingredients.
Bobby Flay gets on board with
America's Next Great
Restaurant
The Cooking Channel will
including three that simplify
popular Chinese, Italian and
French dishes. Another will
show viewers what one chef
cooks for himself on his day off.
The channel will also broadcast
several popular international
cooking shows.
The new network is scheduled
show viewers how to prepare to launch May 31.
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eats. Lagasse will host Emeril's
NBC is making some last-
minute tweaks to its summer
schedule, The Wrap is reporting.
Though not totally confirmed,
network programming
executives have decided to
make Thursday nights all-
comedy with additional episodes
of'The Office' and'Parks and
Recreation' in the 10PM hour.
Some say this is a sign of more
scripted comedies down the line,
like the new anthology 'Love
Bits'. In addition, recently
renewed dramedy'Parenthood'
will begin to air at 8PM on
Saturdays.
The other tweak
involves'Minute to Win It.' The
network will air original
episodes Wednesdays at 8PM,
beginning Jul. 7 (as a lead-in
to'America's Got Talent'). If that
works, NBC may add a second
airing in August -- 9PM on
Mondays. Executives need to be
careful with this one, as viewers
can easily burn out on multiple,
weekly viewings of a show (the
'Who Wants To Be A
Millionaire' effect), which will
make the show's renewal dead
on impact.
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Snack Smart: Chocolate Morsels

WomansDay.com Editors but eating an entire chocolate the whole thing at once (and cup of tea.
(Daily Woman's Day Blog) bar is not a great idea since all gaining 50 pounds in the —Barbara Brody, Health Editor
Submitted at 4/21/2010 2:00:00 PM the calories and fat cancel out process), I've been working on Five Filters featured article:
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can be healthy in small amounts, in my freezer. that I might end up devouring or napkin to enjoy with a hot
28 Economy/ E-reader News Edition

Hu, Wen—what, why and how

(The Economist: Daily news democratic reform. dethronement. restrained than in 2005, when reforms which have not been
and views) Since the bloody suppression of But by and large the leadership the party’s propaganda bureau pursued more vigorously.
Submitted at 4/21/2010 7:24:31 PM the protests, Hu has been has ignored Hu Yaobang’s responded furiously to a liberal President Hu has kept silent on
referred to sparingly by Chinese death. Last year’s 20th magazine’s articles related to Hu Yaobang, but both he and
China's leaders China's prime officials; and the liberalism with anniversary of the Tiananmen the anniversary. Thousands of Mr Wen owe earlier promotions
minister Wen Jiabao praises Hu which he was associated has movement made officials Chinese internet users have to the late leader. In his article,
Yaobang, a former Communist a l s o b e e n p e r m i t t e d o n l y especially nervous of anything praised these latest pieces in Mr Wen revealed that he had
Party chief sparingly. Of late, it has been that might revive memories of online forums. visited Hu Yaobang’s home
Apr 22nd 2010 | BEIJING | notably absent, as the party that period. Even though the But hope that Hu’s partial every year since his death, a
From The Economist print cracks down on human-rights milestone passed with little rehabilitation might lead to any gesture that readers would
edition activists, tightens controls on the more than token attempts inside reassessment of the Tiananmen interpret as showing
ON APRIL 15th the arcane and internet and frets about unrest in China to observe it, the Square protests will certainly be considerable loyalty.
neglected art of reading China’s Tibet and Xinjiang. Yet China’s authorities have yet to ease their dashed. Hu’s political views Bao Tong, who was a top aide
political tea leaves suddenly leaders are preparing for a grip. Last December a have been notable for their to the late Zhao Ziyang, Mr
surged back into fashion. The change of guard in 2012-13. Mr prominent dissident, Liu absence in the recent articles, Hu’s equally liberal successor,
Communist Party’s turgid Wen will be stepping down. Xiaobo, was jailed for 11 years suggesting that only his affable believes there could be an ultra-
broadsheet, the People’s Daily, C o u l d i t b e t h a t , h a v i n g for “inciting subversion”. character is open for discussion. subtle message in the party’s re-
published an article on the top established China as a global This made the appearance of This is a safe topic for Mr Wen, embrace of Hu. Officials—he
of its second page by the prime economic power, he and his Mr Wen’s more than 3,000- who prides himself on the same points out—like to encourage
m i n i s t e r , W e n J i a b a o . I t s colleagues are at last thinking of character essay especially man-of-the-people quality that the idea that Zhao helped topple
glowing praise for Hu Yaobang, trying to make it politically striking. Unlike Mr Zeng’s his article praised in Hu. From Hu (though Mr Bao says he did
a politically incorrect former more respectable? formal-sounding 2005 speech, anecdotal evidence, it appears not). Far from being a sign of
p a r t y c h i e f w h o s e d e a t h Hu’s reputation has sometimes Mr Wen’s article marked the Mr Wen enjoys some popularity yearning for reform, support for
triggered the Tiananmen Square been used in arguments about first time since 1989 that a top for his caring image—it has Hu could indicate repudiation of
protests 21 years ago, struck a the direction of the country. In leader has been willing to write been on display again with his Zhao, about whom
remarkably liberal note. an exception to the general rule of a personal connection with visit to the epicentre of an reminiscences remain strongly
Hu’s death on April 15th 1989 that he has been neglected by the former party chief. It recalls earthquake on April 14th in discouraged. Zhao was
prompted thousands of students his successors, a symposium a trip he made with Hu in 1986 Qinghai Province on the Tibetan thoroughly purged after
t o t a k e t o t h e s t r e e t s i n was held in the Great Hall of the to a rural area of the poor plateau that killed more than Tiananmen and died under
mourning. They bore aloft People in Beijing in November southern province of Guizhou. 2,000 people. house arrest five years ago.
pictures of the late leader, who 2 0 0 5 t o m a r k t h e 9 0 t h “Every time I think back on this, Tea-leaf readers are divided Mr Wen’s article, however,
though still a member of the anniversary of his birth. It was Comrade Yaobang’s sincere, over what, if any, further does hint strongly at a huge
ruling Politburo when he died widely interpreted as an attempt magnanimous and amiable political message might have problem in China’s political
had been forced to resign as the by President Hu Jintao to boost expression keeps appearing been intended. Few believe Mr system. It describes how Hu
party’s general secretary two his own public standing by before my eyes. Cherished Wen would have published such instructed Mr Wen to sneak out
years earlier for being too soft allowing open tributes to his still feelings stored in my heart for an article without consulting his of an official guesthouse and
on dissent. Because Hu had not -popular namesake. A speech by all these years swell up like a colleagues. But there is a school visit a village under cover of
been fully purged, the party had China’s then vice-president, tide, and it takes a long time for of thought that Mr Wen, feeling darkness, to find out what
no choice but to hold an Zeng Qinghong, lavished praise me to calm down,” Mr Wen that his own political career is peasants were really thinking.
elaborate funeral for him. This on Hu Yaobang’s career as one wrote. drawing to an end (he is due to “Remember, do not inform the
provided cover for the students, o f t h e C o m m u n i s t s t a t e ’ s A few other official newspapers step down in 2013, if not before, local government”, Hu was
w h o s o o n s w i t c h e d t h e i r revolutionary founders, tactfully also published reminiscences, as will President Hu), is trying HU, page 29
attention to demands for avoiding mention of his this time apparently less to signal a yearning for political
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South Korea’s sunken warship
If North Korea did deliberately
destroy a South Korean warship,
what next?
Apr 22nd 2010 | SEOUL | From
The Economist print edition
IT WAS a dignified address.
Before wiping tears from his
eyes with a folded handkerchief,
President Lee Myung-bak
(above) read out the names of
46 sailors who died last month
when their ship, the Cheonan,
exploded in South Korean
waters. He carefully avoided
pinning the blame on anyone,
but on April 22nd, Yonhap,
South Korea’s news agency,
reported that the government’s
military-intelligence agency,
using intelligence gathered
jointly with America, had
concluded the regime in North
Korea had deliberately attacked
and destroyed the 1,200-tonne
warship.
Even if tangible evidence of
North Korean involvement
emerges, the president’s caution
on April 19th will nevertheless
be understandable. Hot-blooded
retaliation against a nuclear-
armed despot would be fraught
with danger for the peninsula,
and for relations between
America and China, the main
backers of south and north
respectively.
But ever since a preliminary
investigation of the Cheonan’s
salvaged stern concluded that
the blast did not come from on
board the vessel, suspicions
have turned towards North
Korea. This, analysts say, puts
Mr Lee in the most delicate
position of his two-year-old
administration. If the suspicions
prove correct, a tough response
would be expected and perhaps
unavoidable. Yet Mr Lee had
been hoping to focus on
showing off South Korea’s
economic prowess as host of the
Group of 20 this year—not the
missile threat on its doorstep.
The pressure on Mr Lee is all
the greater because local
elections are due on June 2nd,
and they may serve as an
unofficial referendum on his
handling of the crisis.
So far, the regime in
Pyongyang has only indirectly
denied involvement. After three
weeks of silence on the incident,
it said on April 17th in a news
report: “Failing to probe the
cause of the sinking of the ship,
the puppet military warmongers,
right-wing conservative
politicians and other traitors in
South Korea are now foolishly
seeking to link the sinking with
the North at any cost.” A non-
denial denial.
Signs of aggression continue.
On April 21st South Korea said
it had arrested two northern
agents who, it claimed, had been
sent to assassinate a prominent
defector to the south. And
speculation abounds, fed by
defectors and South Korean
analysts, that the north may be
preparing for a third nuclear test
in defiance of United Nations
Security Council resolutions.
The government in Seoul is
publicly discussing its options,
but these look limited. Yu
Myung-hwan, the foreign
minister, has said South Korea
would take the matter to the UN
Security Council for additional
sanctions if there were hard
evidence that North Korea was
involved. But North Korea is
already subject to stiff sanctions.
Mr Yu also says stalled six-
party talks on the north’s
nuclear disarmament might be
suspended indefinitely. But he
has flatly ruled out calls from
conservative politicians in the
south for nuclear weapons to
counter the threat from the
north.
The hawks are taking wing. On
April 20th the Chosun Ilbo, the
south’s biggest-selling daily,
urged the government not to rule
out military action. However, as
an official notes, there is as yet
little support in the south for
warmongering, and the
stockmarket has held firm. That
suggests people believe the
crisis will be defused, as
happened after previous flare-
ups on the UN-mandated
Northern Limit Line, the
disputed maritime border. Mr
Lee, who hopes to show off
South Korea’s economic
prowess as host of the G20
summit this year, is a
conservative more interested in
economic strength than the
military sort.
Some analysts commend him
for his handling of the crisis so
far. He has bought himself time
by refusing to speculate publicly
on the cause of the blast. Yet as
commander-in-chief, he bears
responsibility for the military
shortcomings if, as some
suspect, North Korea torpedoed
the Cheonan from a semi-
submersible vessel and got away
with it.
If that is indeed what happened,
many will wonder what lies
behind North Korea’s
aggression. Kim Jong Il, its
despotic leader, is desperate for
financial aid and his government
had recently signalled that it was
keen to return to the six-party
talks. Of all recent South
Korean presidents, Mr Lee has
taken the hardest line against
bailing out Mr Kim’s bankrupt
regime unless it pledges to
destroy its nuclear weapons
first. The senseless murder—if
that is what it was—of 46 young
sailors under his command is
hardly likely to soften his line.
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quoted as saying. A quarter of a
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Europe.view Normal politics,
and hard questions, loom in
Poland
Apr 22nd 2010 | From The
Economist online
IN THE churches of Warsaw
and other Polish cities, the
funerals continue but questions
are looming. Why were so many
of the country’s top brass on the
plane that crashed on April 10th,
killing President Lech
Kaczynski, his wife and 94
others, including some of the
country’s brightest and best
military officers? Some of the
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relatives are, privately, furious.
They say that their menfolk
were ordered to travel to the
Katyn memorial service as a
backdrop for the launch of Mr
Kaczynski’s re-election
campaign.
Bosses often waste busy
people’s time for reasons of
their own. But every decision
that led to the crash now looks
questionable. The decencies of
mourning mean that media and
political opponents are behaving
gently. But that won’t last,
especially when an even bigger
question is in the air: what made
the pilot decide to try to land at
fog-bound Smolensk? He could
have landed at Minsk, which
would have been safer but
would have ruined the
commemoration ceremony by
making the president late.
Was that just the pilot’s
decision? Did he have doubts?
Was there any pressure from Mr
Kaczynski? (In 2008 the
president publicly berated a
pilot for “cowardice”.) The
answer may never be known.
The cockpit voice recorder
includes only the crew’s
preceding 30 minutes of
conversation; the decision to
ignore an air-traffic controller’s
suggestion to land at Minsk was
made nearly 45 minutes before
the disaster.
A third question is whether Mr
Kaczynski deserved burial at the
Wawel Cathedral in Cracow.
That honour is normally
reserved for Poland’s greatest
heroes: the most recent to be
buried there was Wladyslaw
Sikorski, the country’s
legendary wartime leader. Mr
Kaczynski’s death was tragic.
But he was a divisive figure, not
an epitome of Polish greatness.
The answers to these questions
may determine another: who
wins the June presidential
election. Jaroslaw Kaczynski,
the late president’s twin, could
stand, perhaps buoyed by a
sympathy vote. But his chances
look fragile. If some of the
blame for at least the scale of
the disaster ends up falling on
the late president, the Kaczynski
legacy would look even flimsier.
Mr Kaczynski’s rival,
Bronislaw Komorowski, is
leading the opinion polls. In
accordance with the
constitution, Mr Komorowski,
the speaker of the Sejm (the
lower house of parliament) is
already acting president. He
should be a shoo-in. But his two
public appearances since the
crash have seemed wooden and
unsympathetic. Some wonder if
a cross-party candidate would
be a good move, epitomising the
new mood of national unity. But
who? Despite the largely trivial
political differences between the
country's two main parties,
Polish politics is sharply
polarised.
Away from the backbiting
world of domestic politics, the
immediate question is whether
Poland’s relations with Russia
have been genuinely
transformed or if the changes
are just cosmetic. Some see
realpolitik at work, assuming
that Vladimir Putin, the Russian
prime minister, considers it
worth making minor
concessions over historical
questions in order to fix
relations with its large western
neighbour, particularly given
growing awareness of Poland's
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potential gas reserves. As for the
Polish business lobby, profits in
Russia loom larger than fiddly
questions about history and
justice.
The biggest question is about
Russia. Openness about Katyn
and Stalinist crimes against
Poland inexorably leads to
questions about the still greater
crimes of the communists
against Russians themselves.
Pull on the thread of truth and
all sorts of things will start to
unravel. Why is the mass
murderer Lenin, the author of
the Red Terror, still venerated
on Red Square? Answers on a
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New Graphics Tech Promises Speed, Hyperrealism

Priya Ganapati (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 4/22/2010 7:00:00 AM

Chipmakers have spent billions

of dollars over the decades to
create specialized processors
that can help make computer
graphics ever more realistic and
detailed.
Now an Australian hobbyist
says he has created a technology
that can churn out high-quality,
computer-generated graphics for
video games and other
applications without the need
for graphics chips or processor-
hungry machines.
“Major companies have got to a
point where they improve the
polygon-count in graphics-
rendering by 22 percent a year,”
says Bruce Dell, 32, the creator
of the new technology, which he
calls Unlimited Detail. “We
have made it unlimited. It’s all
software that requires no special
hardware, so you get truly
unlimited detail in your scenes.”
Dell is an unusual candidate for
a computer-graphics
revolutionary. He’s an
autodidact who’s never been to
a university and who ran a
supermarket chain for about
eight years.
But he claims to have found a
way to search through trillions not video games. could take a middle ground computationally resource- picture is all about,” says
of voxels, the 3-D counterparts Bringing voxel-based rendering between two current rendering hungry and comparatively slow Peddie. “That gives a very
to pixels, to render a scene to the world of video games is techniques: the fast but not ray-tracing technology. accurate representations of the
quickly. Voxels have so far been an interesting idea, says Jon graphically realistic world of “With voxels, you create a world you are trying to render,
used largely in medical- and Peddie, founder of Jon Peddie polygon rendering (used by volume of points and look at
Research. That’s because voxels most video games today) and those points to see what the NEW page 33
mining-graphics applications,
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continued from page 32
without taking up too much
computational resources.”
Creating lifelike images
through graphics-rendering
usually requires major
computing power. To recreate
three-dimensional objects on a
computer screen, programmers
define a structure in terms of its
geometry, texture, lighting and
shading.
The resultant digital image is an
approximation of a real-life
object, but has a computer-
generated–graphics feel to it. It
also requires intensive
computing power, which means
graphics programmers must
have state-of-the art machines
with special chips from
companies such as Nvidia and
AMD.
In most 3-D graphics-modeling
programs, the virtual depiction
of almost every real-life object,
such as a trees or a stone, starts
as a little flat polygon. More-
powerful processors can help
the software have more of these
polygons, which means
increased roundness to the
objects on screen. With enough
computing power, billions of
little polygons can be generated,
and each made so small that it’s
almost a dot.
Another alternative is to use ray
tracing, a method in which the
computer traces the path of light
through space, simulating the
effect on the light as it
encounters different objects.
That approach creates much
more visually attractive scenes,
but it is extremely intensive in
its need for computational
resources.
Dell says Unlimited Detail has
an alternative to these systems.
It uses billions of “point cloud”
dots, or voxels, to accurately
represent a world. To render an
image, Unlimited Detail then
acts as a search engine.
Dell says his algorithm can
quickly figure out the dots
needed to render a scene, search
the data to find only those
points, and pull them up quickly
enough for smooth animation.
He calls it “mass connected
processing.”
“Instead of putting a trillion dots
on screen and covering the ones
you don’t use, we show only
what needs to be done and how
you can manipulate those dots,”
says Dell.
It’s all so new that Dell, who
claims to have single-handedly
written the software, is still in
the process of forming a
company.
So how legitimate are his
claims? It’s hard to evaluate.
Few graphics programmers or
industry analysts have actually
seen his software at work. Dell
says those who have are bound
by tight nondisclosure
agreements limiting their ability
to talk about it.
And graphics chip makers such
as Nvidia are not impressed.
“Voxel graphics have been
around for quite some time, but
they are not considered to be as
precise as polygon-based
graphics,” says Ken Brown, a
spokesperson for Nvidia.
Graphics rendered using voxels
can run on less-resource-hungry
machines, but they can’t offer
the same level of quality as ray
tracing or rasterization, he says.
“With voxels, there are issues
that come up with shading and
coloring the images properly,”
says Brown. “If you look at the
screenshots that Unlimited
Detail has posted, the images
don’t look all that realistic.”
Some of those problems can be
ameliorated by using better
tools, but it can’t be done by a
one-man band, say Brown and
Peddie.
“There needs to be an
infrastructure around every new
rendering technique,” says
Brown. “There have to be
SDKs, tools and drivers, and
these are things that teams of
people from many different
companies come together to
create.”
As for claims that Unlimited
Detail can do real-time graphics
rendering on a machine with a
single-core processor and no
graphics card, Nvidia people say
they’re skeptical. Searching
through trillions of points of
data would require large
amounts of RAM (random
access memory), and Dell isn’t
sharing any details on how his
algorithm deals with that
problem.
Even if Dell can validate his
claims, it could be years before
graphics programmers start
using the voxel-based technique
that Dell is advocating, says
Peddie.
“It will be evolutionary, rather
than revolutionary, because
there are too many entrenched
systems and legacy files to be
managed,” he says. “Anybody
who is making graphics-creation
software like Adobe, Autodesk
and Maya will have to change
their way of doing things. That’s
a pretty big thing to change.”
Major companies such as
Microsoft and HP also have
patents around voxels, and if
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Dell wants to go professional,
he’ll have to make sure he’s not
infringing on the work of other
researchers.
“The jury is still out on this
idea,” says Peddie. “But Bruce
Dell seems real, very sincere,
and the idea looks solid.”
To preview Dell’s technology
check out his own video:
See Also:
• Graphics Chips Gun for
Supremacy in Silicon
Showdown
• The Game Graphics Chip
Race
• Personal Supercomputers
Promise Teraflops on Your
Desk
• Ray Tracing the Future of
Game Graphics?
Photo: Unlimited Detail
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April 22, 1993: Mosaic Browser Lights Up Web With Color,
Creativity
Michael Calore (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 4/21/2010 11:00:00 PM
1993: NCSA Mosaic 1.0, the
first web browser to achieve
popularity among the general
public, is released. With it, the
web as we know it begins to
flourish.
The web in the early 1990s was
mostly text. People were posting
images, photos, and audio or
video clips on web pages. But
these pieces of “multimedia”
were hidden behind links. If you
wanted to look at a picture, you
had to click on a link, and the
picture would open in a new
window.
A team of students at the
University of Illinois’ National
Center for Supercomputing
Applications, or NCSA, decided
the web needed an experience
more stimulating and user-
friendly than that, so they set to
work to build a better browser.
Borrowing design and user
interface cues from some other
early prototype browsers, they
went through a handful of
iterations before arriving at the
final 1.0 release April 22, 1993.
The result, NCSA Mosaic, was
the first web browser with the
ability to display text and
images inline, meaning you
could put pictures and text on
the same page together, in the
same window.
It was a radical step forward for
the web, which was at that
point, a rather dull experience. It
took the boring “document”
layout of your standard web
page and transformed it into
something much more visually
exciting, like a magazine.
And, wow, it was easy. If you
wanted to go somewhere, you
just clicked. Links were blue
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NCSA Mosaic was free
software, but it was available
only on Unix. That made it
common at universities and
institutions, but not on Windows
desktops in people’s homes.
The NCSA team put out
Windows and Mac versions in
late 1993. They were also
released under a noncommercial
software license, meaning
people at home could download
it for free. The installer was very
simple, making it easy for just
about anyone to get up and
running on the web.
It was then that the excitement
really began to spread. Mosaic
made the web come to life with
color and images, something
that, for many people, finally
provided the online experience
they were missing. It made the
web a pleasure to use.
And after viewing dozens of
pages with photos on them,
people felt compelled to learn
how to do the same thing with
their pictures. Pretty soon,
everyone had to have their own
homepage on the web.
Gary Wolfe described the
general euphoria in the October
1994 Wired magazine:
and underlined, easy to pick out. With Mosaic, the online world
You could follow your own a p p e a r s t o b e a v a s t ,
virtual trail of breadcrumbs interconnected universe of
backwards by clicking the big information. You can enter at
button up there in the corner.
At the time of its release, APRIL page 36
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Facebook Adopts Open Standard for User Logins
Michael Calore (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 4/22/2010 8:06:00 AM
SAN FRANCISCO, California
— As we predicted, Facebook is
switching to an open standard to
handle user authentication
across its entire platform of
connected websites and
applications.
Facebook is ditching its
proprietary Facebook Connect
system, which lets people use
their Facebook username and
password to log in to other sites
around the web. In its place, the
company will implement OAuth
2.0, an open source (and soon to
be IETF standard) protocol for
user authentication.
Viewed along side the barrage
of other major announcements
unleashed by Facebook at its F8
developer conference here on
Wednesday, the move may only
seem like a minor data point.
But it is one with the potential to
make a broad and deeply
significant impact on the social
web.
Right now, users expect three
choices for logging in to a site
with an existing ID: Facebook
Connect, Twitter or OpenID.
That forces publishers to
implement three separate
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for Twitter, which uses OAuth,
and one for Facebook, which
uses Facebook Connect. But
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and more sites move over to it,
things get simpler for site
owners.
Where there used to be three
options — Facebook Connect,
OAuth and OpenID — there
will now only be two. And the
two that are left are both open
source.
There are still details involving
token management, auto-
registration and other the other
bits of complex backend
plumbing to be sorted out that
Wednesday’s events don’t
change.
But the move towards OAuth is
a step towards interoperability
the social web sorely needs.
Most importantly, it will be
easier to build pathways
connecting OAuth and OpenID,
since both are fully transparent,
open standards and the
proprietary Facebook Connect
system has been removed from
the equation. The switch paves
the way for further integrations
between existing technologies.
During a panel discussion about
OAuth on Wednesday
afternoon, Facebook engineer
Luke Shepard said that by
adopting OAuth, he hopes
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Facebook will “help drive it to
become such a core part of the
web, all the tools will end up
supporting it.”
Twitter also recently began
supporting OAuth 2.0 with last
week’s launch of @anywhere,
its suite of social interaction
tools.
But what about OpenID? It was
one of the key technologies
responsible for pushing the idea
of single sign-on forward, so
why isn’t Facebook supporting
it yet?
“Developers aren’t asking for
OpenID,” Shepard said when
the question was posed to the
panel. “They’re explicitly
asking for us to make logins
simpler and easier, not for us to
implement OpenID. So now
we’re doing that by
implementing OAuth 2.0,
because it’s simple and easy.
Adding OpenID on top of it
would just add a layer of
complexity nobody is asking
for.”
OpenID is indeed very
complex, and because of that, it
suffers from usability problems
that have kept it from being
widely adopted.
“It’s very easy to do user
authentication over OAuth 2.0,”
Shepard said.
David Recordon, the moderator
of the panel who develops open
technologies at Facebook, asked
the audience of about 60 or 70
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any point and begin to wander;
no internet addresses or
keyboard commands are
necessary. The complex
methods of extracting
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person who uses it feels the
impulse to add some content of
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Marc Andreessen, the Mosaic-
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banner, they continued to
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its page-rendering technology to
other companies.
Andreessen and Clark renamed
the company Netscape
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Living Without Stevens

Tom Goldstein (The New just uninformed speculation because related questions with close cases in which Justice formed a majority to hold that
Republic - All Feed) about posturing by competing similar divisions among the Stevens provided a fifth vote for the mentally retarded cannot be
Submitted at 4/21/2010 3:22:15 PM ideologues. Justices are likely to come up the majority. executed. Justice Stevens’
That does not mean that the again. With all those caveats, in this successor could take the
Tom Goldstein is a partner at public should just go about its I am also taking the short-term brutally long post, I try to opposite position and flip that
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & b u s i n e s s a n d i g n o r e t h e view, looking at only how address the most significant result if s/he adopted a narrow
Feld, and lecturer at Stanford nomination until the President Justice Stevens’ successor might questions that come before the reading of the Eighth
and Harvard Law Schools. He is makes his choice. There is vote differently from him in Supreme Court, with an eye to Amendment’s prohibition on
the founder of SCOTUSblog. A valuable substantive analysis to close cases. But that does not the issues on which the Stevens cruel and unusual punishment.
version of this piece was be done. But it has to do with attempt to account for the effect retirement could realistically But that is largely hypothetical:
originally posted there on April the Court’s jurisprudence. We on later changes in the Court. produce a material change in the because views on questions like
18, 2010. can identify the areas of the law Even if President Obama’s law. There are not many, but eligibility for the death penalty
Supreme Court retirements that could change as a result of nominee shared Stevens’ views each is important. I’m sure as generally track ideology, it is
inevitably produce much more Justice Stevens’ departure. With precisely and thus caused no well that I’ll have updates to this unlikely that a Democratic
c o v e r a g e o f p r o c e s s t h a n that information in hand, we can immediate shift in the Court’s analysis as I have the chance to appointment would move in fact
s u b s t a n c e . T h e p r e s s i s look at potential nominees and jurisprudence, later retirements reflect on it. the Court to the right in that
dominated by political rather try to figure out how they would and appointments—in I. Summary of My Conclusions area.
than legal reporters. Politics is rule on those issues (a far more particular, the replacement of a The single largest body of cases As a consequence, the
also more familiar and therefore difficult project) so that we conservative by a liberal in a in which Justice Stevens’ appointment of Stevens’
more accessible to the public know what the effect of any second Obama term—could retirement could hypothetically successor by a Democratic
than are court decisions. particular nomination would be. make the nominee to the shift the balance on the Supreme President with a Democratic
The irony is that this attention To be clear, this effort does not “Stevens seat” extremely Court involves ideological Senate is unlikely to shift the
t o p r o c e s s i s n o t v e r y consider an important but important. issues on which the four most Court’s rulings on most
meaningful—at least at this largely unquantifiable piece of My approach has one remaining liberal Justices (Stevens, plus important social issues, such as
stage, when there is no nominee. the retirement puzzle: Justice big assumption, which I think is Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer) abortion, affirmative action,
In comparison to a complicated Stevens’ significant influence on unavoidable. Almost all of the joined with Justice Kennedy to religion, and gay rights. On
piece of legislation, the the Court because of his cases I consider were decided create a majority. But although those questions, either the Court
President’s choice of a nominee seniority and his longstanding when Justice Souter was on the these cases involve very already is controlled by a
is simultaneously pretty simple r e l a t i o n s h i p s w i t h h i s Court, and he was often in the important issues, most of them conservative majority, or
a n d l a r g e l y p r i v a t e . colleagues. Rather, my focus is five-Justice majority with are not very relevant to an Stevens’ successor is unlikely to
Theoretically, likely Senate vote on the more concrete and Justice Stevens. Souter is of examination of how the Court move the Court further to the
counts could be done for a b s o l u t e q u e s t i o n o f t h e course now gone, replaced by might shift because for that to right.
potential nominees, but that instances in which Justice Justice Sotomayor. So if she occur Justice Stevens’ successor There nonetheless are a couple
would itself require detailed Stevens has been a part of five- votes differently than he would have to be more of issues on which the Court’s
study of the substance of the to-four majorities. In those did—which will no doubt conservative than not just him majority followed that just-cited
nominees’ positions, which cases, if his successor instead happen in some cases—the but also each of the other four line-up—the left plus Justice
requires significant effort. (The agreed with the dissent, the balance in the relevant cases members of the majority: Kennedy—but for which a new
exception is a nominee like r e s u l t w o u l d h a v e b e e n will have already shifted. But Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer, appointment could realistically
Elena Kagan, who has recently different. Although those cases because the evidence thus far but also (the reasonably change the result because the
been before the Senate.) With have already been decided, and suggests that Sotomayor will conservative) Kennedy. That is issues do not necessarily track
relatively little to talk about the Court hesitates to go back often come out the same way as very unlikely. the traditional liberal-versus-
until the nomination is and overrule itself, this Souter did, I think we can draw An example illustrates the LIVING page 40
announced, most coverage is analytical exercise is important important conclusions from the point. Those five Justices
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conservative breakdown:
executive power and
preemption.
Thus, the Court has been
narrowly divided, with the left
prevailing, in cases relating to
the rights of military detainees
to have access to the federal
courts, including particularly on
federal habeas corpus. A
nominee who had a substantially
more robust view of presidential
powers, or even greater
confidence in this
Administration’s approach to
detainee questions, could shift
the course of those rulings. In
addition, other important
presidential-power questions are
headed towards the Supreme
Court, including with respect to
the NSA wiretapping program.
On preemption, Justice Stevens
recently had significant success
in securing a majority for two
important opinions limiting the
extent to which federal law
trumps state law. His successor
could take a broader view of the
extent to which federal law
controls, which would allow
fewer state-law tort suits to
proceed.
The next body of cases involves
less traditional alignments
among the Justices—generally,
the Court’s left (Stevens,
Ginsburg, and Souter) and right
(Scalia and Thomas) wings
joining together to form a five-
Justice majority. This grouping
has produced dramatic shifts in
the Court’s Sixth Amendment
jurisprudence relating to the jury
trial right (which has significant
effects on how prison sentences
are determined) and a
defendant’s right to confront
witnesses against him. The
recent departures of two
members of that majority—first
Souter and now Stevens—create
a significant prospect that the
tide of those cases will now be
slowed and perhaps reversed.
It is also possible to identify
areas of the law in which Justice
Stevens’ departure may have an
effect, even though he was not
traditionally a part of a majority
on the merits of a particular
legal issue. Most prominent
among these is campaign
finance. Justices Stevens and
Souter were the two strongest
voices on the left resisting the
trend towards the more
aggressive application of the
First Amendment to invalidate
campaign finance laws, and the
combined absence of their
voices may speed the trend
towards more decisions like
Citizens United. Another
example is the death penalty,
where Justice Stevens (who late
in his tenure concluded that the
death penalty is
unconstitutional) was relatively
willing to provide a vote in
favor of stays of execution. His
replacement might be less
willing to do so.
For ninety percent of readers,
everything you’re going to want
to know about this post appears
above. The thousands of words
that follow are the “show your
work” sections, in which I
provide considerably more
detail on the hot-button issues
that come before the Supreme
Court. I try to address briefly
almost all of the significant
areas of current controversy that
continue to arise in the Court’s
docket. Simply to provide some
organizing principle, I have
broken the issues down
according to whether they rise
under the body of the
Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
or statutes.
II. Cases Involving the Articles
of the Constitution
The first set of issues the
Supreme Court confronts relates
to the body of the Constitution.
Cases under the Constitution
generally require the Court to
determine or define the power of
another part of the government,
such as the power of Congress
or a State to pass a law.
Congressional Power is
provided by Article I of the
Constitution, which vests “[a]ll
legislative Powers . . . in a
Congress,” which has certain
“Powers,” including (most
importantly for the Supreme
Court) the power “[t]o regulate
Commerce . . . among the
several States.” After some
decisions suggesting that it
might impose genuine limits on
Congress’s power, the Supreme
Court has declined to do so.
Justice Stevens has been on the
pro-Congressional power side of
those rulings (and indeed wrote
the leading modern opinion), but
the margin of decision has been
wide enough that his departure
would not be significant. See,
e.g., Raich v. Gonzales(2005)
(joined by Justices Kennedy,
Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer;
Justice Scalia concurred in the
judgment).
Executive Power is provided by
Article II of the Constitution,
which vests “[t]he executive
Power . . . in a President.”
Recently, executive power
issues have generally related to
military detainees. Justice
Stevens has consistently voted
on the left, which has prevailed
in several closely divided
rulings. He wrote the opinion in
the five-to-three Hamdan v.
Rumsfeld(2006) decision
(which we know would have
been five-to-four absent the
Chief Justice’s recusal), as well
as the six-to-three Rasul v.
Bush(2004) ruling (although
there were only five votes for
his opinion in that case). His
retirement could be significant if
his successor has a broader view
of the President’s power, or a
more limited take on the role of
the courts, in this area. See, e.g.,
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld(2006);
Boumediene v. Bush(2008).
Although the current
Administration is less likely to
push the bounds of executive
power with respect to detainee
policy (including because of
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Congress’s own greater
involvement in the field), other
important issues are still headed
to the Court—for example,
litigation over the NSA
wiretapping program.
Judicial Power is provided by
Article III of the Constitution,
which vests “the judicial Power
. . . in one supreme Court, and in
such inferior Courts as the
Congress” creates. Judicial
power issues most often relate to
“standing,” which is the right to
bring a lawsuit in light of the
requirement of Article III that
courts can only decide “Cases”
and “Controversies,” as opposed
to abstract disputes. In recent
years, several difficult standing
issues have been decided by a
five-to-four vote on ideological
grounds, with Justice Stevens on
the losing side. See, e.g., Hein v.
Freedom From Religion
Foundation(2007). One
significant exception was the
“global warming” case in which
Justice Kennedy joined Justice
Stevens’ majority opinion to
hold by a five-to-four majority
that Massachusetts had standing
to challenge the refusal of the
Bush Administration’s EPA to
regulate tailpipe emissions.
Massachusetts v. EPA(2007).
But generally speaking, access-
to-courts questions like standing
are ideological, so it is unlikely
that Stevens’ successor would
change the balance on these
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issues.
Separation of Powers is the
division of responsibility
between the three branches of
government: Congress, the
President, and the judiciary. The
Court has decided separation-of-
powers questions in the context
of detainee issues, discussed
above. Beyond that, the Court
has long taken a flexible
approach by a broad majority.
See, e.g., Mistretta v. United
States(1989); Clinton v.
Jones(1997).
In sum, in cases that involve the
body of the Constitution, Justice
Stevens’ retirement realistically
is only likely to affect questions
of executive power, including
with respect to detainee policy.
III. Cases Involving the Bill of
Rights
The next set of issues relates to
the Bill of Rights. First, a note
about “incorporation”: Several
constitutional amendments
discussed below, including the
First Amendment, literally apply
to “Congress” rather than state
and local governments. But the
Supreme Court has ruled—with
only a couple of exceptions not
relevant here—that the same
constitutional restrictions apply
to state and local governments.
Speech is protected by the First
Amendment which forbids a
“law . . . abridging the freedom
of speech.” Speech rulings are
difficult to categorize because
they arise in many diverse
contexts, such as pornography,
student expression, and
anonymous commentary. Justice
Stevens has written the majority
opinion in several seminal free
speech cases. See, e.g., United
States v. National Treasury
Employees Union(1995);
NAACP v. Claiborne
Hardware(1982); McIntyre v.
O h i o E l e c t i o n s
Commission(1995); Ladue v.
Gilleo(1994). Generally
speaking, however, traditional
free speech cases do not involve
five-to-four alignments with
Justice Stevens in the majority.
Commercial Speech is a
subcategory of free speech that
involves advertising and similar
expression. Commercial speech
claims have often been resolved
in the Supreme Court by narrow
votes, but Justice Stevens voted
on both sides of the issue.
Compare 44 Liquormart v.
Rhode Island(1996); United
States v. United Foods(2001)
(favoring such a claim) with
Thompson v. Western States
Medical Center(2002) and
Glickman v. Wileman Bros. &
Elliot(1997) (rejecting it). It is
therefore difficult to predict the
effect of the retirement on this
area of the law.
Campaign Finance is a
subcategory of free speech that
involves financial campaign
“contributions” to specific
candidates and parties and other
“expenditures” regarding
candidates and issues. The
momentum in the law is
strongly in the direction of
recognizing greater First
Amendment limitations on
campaign finance regulation.
Those cases are often decided
five-to-four, with Justice
Stevens in the minority. See,
e.g., Citizens United v. Federal
Election Commission(2010).
Importantly, Justices Stevens
and Souter were the intellectual
leaders of the left’s effort to
sustain campaign finance
regulation; they wrote most of
the opinions upholding
regulation when Justice
O’Connor was on the Court (
see, e.g., McConnell v. Federal
Election Commission(2003))
and the principal dissents after
she was replaced by Justice
Alito ( see, e.g., Citizens United,
supra). As litigation pushes
towards greater invalidation of
campaign finance regulation,
their departure may speed the
shift towards recognizing a
greater First Amendment right
to participate in elections
through campaign-related
spending.
Once quasi-campaign finance
case in which Justice Stevens
was in a majority was the
Caperton v. A.T. Massey
Coal(2009) ruling setting due
process constraints on
contributions to judicial
candidates. Stevens’ successor
could take a narrower view of
the role of the federal courts in
this area, and at least limit
Caperton’s reach. It is unlikely
that Caperton will be overruled,
if only because it has not yet
proven to generate significant
disruptive litigation.
Religion is addressed by the
First Amendment, which forbids
a “law respecting an
establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise
thereof.” The first clause limits
the government’s involvement
with religion; the latter protects
individuals’ own religious
beliefs and activities. The Court
has decided religion cases by
narrow majorities—most
notably the split-the-baby
approach to the two Ten
Commandments cases (
compare McCreary County v.
ACLU(2005) (invalidating
display) with Van Orden v.
Perry(2005) (upholding
display)—with Justice Stevens
in one case part of a majority to
limit the relationship between
government and religion. But
Justice Alito’s replacement of
Justice O’Connor likely has
already moved the Court to the
right on that question. In close
religion cases, Justice Stevens is
already in a dissenting position.
Gun Rights are protected by the
Second Amendment, which
provides that “the right of the
people to keep and bear Arms,
shall not be infringed.” The
Supreme Court recently held
that the Second Amendment
protects a right to bear arms
apart from service in a militia.
The four more liberal Justices,
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including Stevens, dissented.
See District of Columbia v.
Heller(2008). The Court is
considering this Term whether
the Second Amendment restricts
state and local gun laws; the
answer will almost certainly be
yes. McDonald v. City of
Chicago(2010).
Privacy takes different forms in
the Constitution. The
“constitutional right to privacy”
is protected by the Fourteenth
Amendment, which is discussed
below. Physical privacy—for
example, in the home or
walking down the street—is
protected by the Fourth
Amendment, which provides
that “[t]he right of the people to
be secure in their persons,
houses, papers, and effects,
against unreasonable searches
and seizures, shall not be
violated.” The most significant
trend in this area is the
narrowing (and perhaps eventual
elimination) of the
“exclusionary rule” that requires
the suppression of evidence
gathered in violation of the
Fourth Amendment. Results in
Fourth Amendment cases have
varied, although the left has
occasionally won cases by a five
-vote majority ( e.g., Georgia v.
Randolph(2006)), including in a
recent important opinion by
Justice Stevens ( see Arizona v.
Gant(2009), and Justice
Kennedy has declined to
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provide a fifth vote for
dramatically narrowing the
exclusionary rule ( Hudson v.
Michigan(2006) (concurring
opinion)). The law could move
in a more conservative direction
if Stevens were replaced by a
justice who reads the Fourth
Amendment more narrowly, but
such a development is unlikely
given that more liberal judges
tend to have a relatively broad
view of the Amendment’s
privacy protections.
Property Rights are protected
by the Fifth Amendment, which
provides that “private property”
shall not “be taken for public
use, without just compensation.”
The most (in)famous “takings”
case read the “public use”
requirement to broadly permit
the government to condemn
land for redevelopment. See
Kelo v. City of New
London(2005). In theory, a
different Justice could make a
difference, as the case was
decided by a vote of five to four,
with Justice Stevens writing for
the majority. But in the years
since that case was decided, two
of the Justices most concerned
about property rights (who were
among the four
dissenters)—Rehnquist and
O’Connor—have left the Court,
and it seems unlikely that their
replacements—Roberts and
Alito—have views on the issue
that are as strong. So Stevens’
departure is unlikely to
significantly affect the Court’s
property rights jurisprudence.
That said, Justice Stevens was
one of the intellectual leaders in
this area, authoring two
significant opinions that
construed property rights
narrowly. See Kelo v. City of
New London(2005); Brown v.
Legal Foundation of
Washington(2003).
Criminal Defendants’ Rights
are protected in several parts of
the Constitution. Most relevant,
the Fifth Amendment provides
that a person shall not “be
subject for the same offense to
be twice put in jeopardy of life
or limb [the double jeopardy
clause]; nor shall be compelled
in any criminal case to be a
witness against himself [the self
-incrimination clause], nor be
deprived of life, liberty, or
property, without due process of
law [the due process clause].”
The Sixth Amendment
furthermore guarantees a
defendant the right to “a speedy
and public trial, by an impartial
jury; . . . [and] to be confronted
with the witnesses against him.”
There recently have been close
cases that involved the
confrontation right, and Justice
Stevens has been part of an
unusual five-Justice majority
favoring defendants, joined by
Justices Ginsburg, Souter (with
Justice Sotomayor now holding
that seat), Scalia, and Thomas.
See, e.g., Melendez-Diaz v.
Massachusetts(2009). Stevens’
departure (together with the
retirement of Justice Souter)
very well could change the
direction of these cases. That
seems to be the obvious
implication of the fact that a
Democratic appointee—Justice
Breyer—was in the dissent in
both cases. I don’t think that it’s
likely that the Court would undo
all of its recent rulings
expanding the confrontation
right, but it could overturn the
Melendez-Diaz decision relating
to the admission of tests (such
as tests showing that substances
are illegal drugs) or otherwise
halt the expansion of the
confrontation right.
Another hotly contested aspect
o f t h e S i x t h
Amendment—which has
produced the same unusual
alignment of Justices just
cited—is the right to a jury trial.
Here, the five-member majority
has issued several rulings that
have revolutionized criminal
sentencing, narrowing the power
of federal judges (as opposed to
juries) to find facts that may
dramatically increase a
sentence. Justice Stevens has
been particularly influential,
having written three of the
seminal opinions. Apprendi v.
New Jersey(2000); United
States v. Booker(2005); Gall v.
United States(2007). As with the
confrontation right, the
retirements of Justices Stevens
and Souter could significantly
shift this area of the law.
I doubt that the Court would
want to go through the process
of undoing the massive
sentencing revolution it
triggered with this line of cases.
The original process was
wrenching; the overruling of
those rulings would be equally
so. But it is certainly a
possibility.
Effective Defense Counsel is
provided by the Sixth
Amendment, which gives a
criminal defendant the right “to
have the Assistance of Counsel
for his defence.” These claims
often arise in death penalty
cases, when it is alleged that the
defendant’s counsel failed, for
example, to investigate the
crime or circumstances that
would have made it less likely
that the jury would impose a
death sentence. Particularly
since Justice O’Connor’s
retirement, close cases in this
area have tended to go in favor
of the government, with Justice
Stevens in dissent.
Death Penalty questions
generally arise under the Eighth
Amendment, which provides
that “cruel and unusual
punishments” shall not be
“inflicted.” There are many
different issues in this area. Two
principal categories are (i)
claims that certain classes of
defendants are categorically
ineligible for the death penalty
(for example, the mentally
retarded, individuals who
committed the offense while
minors, and persons who
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committed non-capital crimes);
and (ii) claims that the death
penalty should not have been
imposed on the particular facts
of the case. In the first category,
Justice Stevens has been a part
of five-Justice majorities in
several significant cases, and
authored the Court’s opinion
holding that the execution of the
mentally retarded is
unconstitutional. See Kennedy
v. Louisiana(2008); Roper v.
Simmons(2005); Atkins v.
Virginia(2002). It is unlikely,
however, that Justice Stevens’
successor would vote to expand
eligibility for the death penalty.
Towards the end of his tenure,
Justice Stevens concluded that
the death penalty is
unconstitutional; no other sitting
member of the Court shares that
view, which is likely to no
longer be represented among the
Justices. Baze v. Rees(2008)
(Stevens, J., concurring in the
judgment). More significant,
Justice Stevens is (in no small
part because of his now-strong
views about the death penalty) a
reliable vote to secure a stay of
an execution. Justice Souter also
had a relatively sympathetic
approach to such requests. Their
combined departure may make
it materially more difficult to
secure orders from the Court
halting executions.
States’ Rights are addressed by
the Tenth Amendment, which
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provides that “[t]he powers not
delegated to the United States
by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are
reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people.”
Also, the Eleventh Amendment
protects states’ sovereign
immunity from suit, providing
that the federal judicial power
does not “extend to any suit . . .
against one of the United States
by Citizens of another State.”
The Court decided a number of
cases in favor of states’ rights
by a five-to-four majority, with
Justice Stevens in dissent, but
with the departure of William
Rehnquist and Sandra Day
O’Connor it has shown less
interest in the area.
Before moving on to an
analysis of the Fourteenth
Amendment, a note about the
“constitutional right to privacy”
and “substantive due process”:
the Constitution does not
discuss abortion or certain other
contentious legal issues relating
to personal autonomy and
fairness. In a hotly contested
series of decisions, the Supreme
Court has located those rights in
the Bill of Rights broadly and in
particular in the Fourteenth
Amendment’s requirement that
individuals not be deprived of
“liberty” without “due process,”
which the Court has said confers
“substantive” protections.
Another note about the
Fourteenth Amendment: Both it
and the Fifth Amendment
provide that individuals have a
right to “due process.” The Fifth
Amendment applies to the
federal government; the
Fourteenth Amendment applies
to states and localities. Because
most cases are brought against
the latter, I discuss the
Fourteenth Amendment to make
things simpler.
Abortion is addressed by the
Supreme Court as a question of
substantive due process and the
constitutional right to privacy.
The Court is closely divided on
abortion. It appears likely that
there are currently five votes to
narrow the abortion right
materially, but not enough votes
to completely overrule Roe v.
Wade because Justice Kennedy
has not disavowed his position
that the Constitution does
recognize some form of abortion
right. Compare Gonzales v.
Carhart(2007) (upholding the
federal partial-birth abortion
statute and narrowly reading the
right) with Planned Parenthood
v. Casey(1992) (plurality
opinion) (reaffirming but
narrowing Roe). Justice Stevens
has favored abortion rights.
Theoretically, a successor who
believed that Roe should be
overruled could alter the balance
on the Court on that issue, but it
is essentially unimaginable that
President Obama would appoint
such a nominee.
Gay Rights issues arise under
two constitutional headings.
One is substantive due process;
the other is the Fourteenth
Amendment’s requirement that
no state “deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.” The
Court’s modern decisions in this
area—invalidating state sodomy
laws and a referendum that
uniquely restricted anti-
discrimination protections for
homosexuals—were both
decided by a vote of six to three,
with Justice Stevens in the
majority. See Lawrence v.
Texas(2003); Romer v.
Evans(1996)). However, the
Court has not considered these
issues since one member of that
majority (Sandra Day
O’Connor) was replaced by
Justice Alito. Thus, although it
is very unlikely, Justice Stevens’
departure could tilt the Court
away from the recognition of
gay rights. It nonetheless
remains true that Justice
Stevens’ successor could play a
significant role on the next
major issue arising in this area:
gay marriage. If the challenge to
California’s Proposition 8 now
pending in the trial court has a
chance of prevailing in the
Supreme Court, it is by a
whisker at best, and Justice
Stevens would have been among
the Justices most willing to vote
in favor of such a claim.
Punitive Damages, although
very different from abortion and
gay rights, implicate the same
constitutional provision. The
Supreme Court has recognized a
due process right not to be
subject to extreme and
unanticipated money damage
awards. This area of the law is
somewhat unstable and
uncertain. Three Justices who
favored the Court’s current
doctrine (Stevens, O’Connor,
and Souter) have retired, while
three who solidly oppose it
(Scalia, Thomas, and Ginsburg)
remain on the Court. It is
therefore impossible to tell
whether Stevens’ successor
might tip the balance in this area
of the law.
Affirmative Action and other
issues relating to race (most of
which are discussed below in
the statutory section) arise under
the just-quoted Equal Protection
Clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment. On affirmative
action and similar issues (such
as the use of race in school
assignments), the Court has
generally been hostile to race-
based government decision
making in five-to-four rulings in
which Justice Stevens has been
in dissent. See, e.g., Ricci v.
DeStefano(2009). But because
Justice Kennedy has declined to
embrace a truly “color blind”
interpretation of the Constitution
( see, e.g., Parents Involved in
Community Schools v. Seattle
School District No. 1(2007)
(concurring opinion)), it is (as
with the discussion of abortion
above), theoretically
possible—but as a practical
matter exceptionally
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unlikely—that Justice Stevens’
replacement would move the
Court significantly to the right.
In sum, with respect to issues
arising under the Bill of Rights,
Justice Stevens’ departure is
most likely to make a difference
in cases involving the Sixth
Amendment.
IV. Non-Constitutional Cases
The next set of issues that the
Supreme Court confronts
involves interpreting federal
statutes that Congress adopts
(and in one instance, a court
rule), as well as issues relating
to Native American tribes.
Antitrust is the field of law
encouraging business
competition. The principal
statute is the Sherman Act,
which prohibits “[e]very
combination . . . or conspiracy[]
in restraint of trade” (Section 1)
and makes it illegal to
“monopolize, or attempt to
monopolize, or combine or
conspire with any other person
or persons, to monopolize any
part of [] trade or commerce”
(Section 2). The Court’s
decisions in this field have
tended to narrow the application
of the antitrust laws by
relatively wide majorities.
Habeas Corpus generally
involves a court’s power to
consider the legality of a
criminal conviction after the
completion of ordinary appeals,
although habeas corpus
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questions also arise in high-
profile cases as the procedural
mechanism for challenging
military detentions. Article III of
the Constitution provides that
generally “[t]he privilege of the
Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not
be suspended.” But the details
are spelled out in a complicated
statute, the Antiterrorism and
Effective Death Penalty Act
(AEDPA), through which
Congress has repeatedly
narrowed habeas corpus. Certain
issues—such as the rigorousness
of the requirement that Supreme
Court precedent be well
established before serving as a
basis for habeas corpus
relief—have generated broad
majorities in the Court. Other
questions have created
ideological divisions.
Irregularly, Justice Stevens has
been a member of five-Justice
majorities that have included
Justice Kennedy, but it is
unlikely that his successor
would shift the Court’s balance
on those questions. See, e.g.,
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Quarterman(2007).
Racial Discrimination issues
can arise under the Fourteenth
Amendment, as discussed
above, but most often involve
statutory claims, including
particularly claims of
employment discrimination. The
principal statute is Title VII of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
which forbids covered
employers from discriminating
on the basis of race, color,
religion, sex or national origin.
The Supreme Court has had
surprisingly few straightforward
Title VII race-discrimination
claims over the past ten years. It
is unclear how close the cases
would be. But in general it is
unlikely that President Obama
would nominate someone who
would move the Court
materially to the right on such a
central civil rights question.
Gender Discrimination is like
racial discrimination: the issue
can arise under the Fourteenth
Amendment, but most often
involves statutory claims. In
addition to the employment
discrimination provisions of
Title VII, another important
statute is Title IX of the
Education Amendments of
1972, which provides that no
person “shall, on the basis of
sex,” be subject to
discrimination in “any education
program or activity receiving
Federal financial assistance.”
Sandra Day O’Connor was
generally the swing vote on
gender discrimination claims.
See, e.g., Jackson v.
Birmingham Bd. of
Educ.(2005). Recent experience
indicates that her replacement
by the more conservative Justice
Alito will likely mean that
Justice Stevens and his
successor would be on the
losing end of five-to-four cases.
See, e.g., AT&T Corp. v.
Hulteen(2009); Ledbetter v.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Co.(2007).
Age Discrimination is
addressed by the Age
Discrimination in Employment
Act (ADEA), which makes age
discrimination against
employees over the age of forty
presumptively unlawful. In
general, age discrimination
claims have not fared well in the
Supreme Court. Justice Stevens
was, however, part of a five-
Justice majority which held that
the employer can be liable under
the ADEA for unintentional age
discrimination—so-called
“disparate impact” claims.
Smith v. City of Jackson(2005).
Justice Stevens was also a
member of a five-Justice
majority that upheld an
employer disability benefit plan
which awarded higher benefits
to workers injured before
retirement age. Kentucky
Retirement Systems v.
EEOC(2008). Although his
successor might find the statute
violated in that circumstance, it
is not a particularly significant
area of the law.
Disability Discrimination
claims are presented under the
Americans With Disabilities Act
(ADA), which prohibits
discrimination (i) in
employment by a covered
employer against a qualified
person with disability (Title I);
(ii) by public entities (Title II);
and (iii) in public
accommodations (Title III). The
Court has had very few ADA
cases: it adopted a middle-
ground reading in applying the
Act to cruise ships by a five-to-
four majority composed of the
left plus Justice Kennedy (
Spector v. Norwegian Cruise
Lines(2005)) and it held that
states could be sued for money
damages under a provision of
the ADA in an opinion by
Stevens for five Justices that
included Sandra Day O’Connor
( Tennessee v. Lane(2004)). It is
extremely unlikely that an
Obama appointee would take a
materially narrower view of the
ADA.
Environmental Law issues can
arise under a number of
different statutes that address
different forms of pollution (for
example, the Clean Air Act and
Clean Water Act) at different
sites (for example, hazardous
waste dumps). In general, recent
environmental cases have been
closely fought and decided
largely along ideological lines,
with the left in dissent. See, e.g.,
Coeur Alaska v. Southeast
Alaska Conservation
Council(2009) (6-3;
environmental claim fails);
Entergy Corp. v. Riverkeeper,
Inc.(2009) (5-4; environmental
claim fails); National Ass’n of
Home Builders v. Defenders of
Wildlife(2007) (5-4;
environmental claim fails).
Voting Rights issues can arise
under the Fourteenth
Amendment, which the
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Supreme Court has applied to
claims of racial discrimination
and unequal distribution of
voting power. But these issues
most often arise under the
Voting Rights Act of 1965. The
leading provisions are Section 2,
which prohibits electoral
systems with discriminatory
effects, and Section 5, which
requires covered jurisdictions to
receive federal permission
before changing their voting
systems. Recently, in close
cases under the act, Justice
Stevens has been in dissent. At
oral argument in Northwest
Austin Mun. Util. Dist. No. One
v. Holder(2009), it seemed that
the Court’s conservatives were
seriously considering
invalidating the current version
of Section 5 as unconstitutional.
The Court divided on
ideological lines, with the left in
dissent, on whether the Act
requires the recognition of
minority influence districts.
Bartlett v. Strickland(2009). On
the other hand, Justice Kennedy
joined the left to invalidate
changes to a Latino district in
LULAC v. Perry(2006). One
area of voting rights law that
Stevens’ retirement could
implicate is that Justice
Kennedy has in principle joined
with the left to recognize the
plausibility of a “partisan
gerrymandering” claim— i.e.,
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The Bomb Squad
Michael Crowley (The New
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Submitted at 4/21/2010 5:55:20 PM
Imagine for a moment that it is
late 2010, perhaps a few weeks
after the midterm elections.
Barack Obama has scheduled a
surprise prime-time televised
statement from the Oval Office.
Looking grave, even shaken,
behind the presidential desk,
Obama fixes his gaze into the
camera and speaks:
When I said that it would be
unacceptable for Iran to produce
a nuclear weapon, I meant it.
Over the past several months, it
has become clear that neither
engagement nor isolation and
sanctions have slowed Iran’s
determination to build a bomb.
And recent, solid intelligence
has confirmed that Iran may
now be much closer to nuclear
weapons capability than anyone
believed possible. So tonight, I
have authorized air strikes
against several facilities integral
to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. This
is a decision I make with a
heavy heart and a clear-eyed
understanding of the risks
involved.
It’s not an easy scenario to
envision. The Brookings
Institution’s Michael O’Hanlon
and Bruce Reidel recently wrote
that it’s “simply not credible
that we would use force [against
Iran] in the foreseeable future.”
But in Washington of late it’s
been possible to detect a slight
uptick in bellicose talk, even
within the non-neocon set. At a
Senate Armed Services hearing
on Iran last week, the
Pentagon’s under-secretary for
policy, Michele Flournoy,
assured the committee’s
normally dovish chairman, Carl
Levin, that military options are
indeed “on the table.” At the
same hearing Joe Lieberman
warned that “if sanctions do not
work we have to be prepared to
use military force to stop the
unacceptable from happening.”
Sure, Lieberman’s a hawk. But
last weekend CNN reported that
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman
Michael Mullen has told the
military to update contingency
plans for such an attack. All of
this comes in the context of a
leaked secret memo by Defense
Secretary Robert Gates warning
that the Obama team lacks a
clear plan for dealing with a
nuclear-armed Iran, which has
renewed calls in some quarters
for taking the military option
more seriously.
Simply put, even with
Washington consensus leaning
strongly against attacking Iran,
nobody likes the idea of
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his
master, Grand Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, sitting atop a nuclear
arsenal. There is, however, a
widespread belief that we might
not need to consider bombing
Iran because, should diplomacy
and sanctions fail, Israel will do
the job for us. The Israelis
bombed Saddam Hussein’s
nuclear program at Osirak in
1981, after all, and also flattened
a nascent Syrian nuclear project
in late 2007. Maybe they can do
it again—and in a way that
allows Obama to claim that
America played no role. That’s
exactly what some people
thought Joe Biden was hinting at
last summer when the vice
president answered a question
about an Israeli attack by saying
that the U.S. “cannot dictate to
another sovereign nation what
they can and cannot do.”
But the reality is less
convenient. Obviously, a
diplomatic solution to Iran’s
nuclear march would be vastly
preferable to a military one. And
even if, as seems likely, tough
international sanctions are either
unattainable or fail to change
Iran’s course, it may well be that
air strikes aren’t worth the
potentially terrible
consequences. Yet if someone is
going to bomb Iran, it makes
more sense for America, and not
Israel, to handle the job.
The main reason is this:
America is simply in a far better
position to cripple Iran’s nuclear
program. Consider the analysis
of a possible Israeli attack on
Iran’s nuclear facilities
published last year by Abdullah
Toukan and Anthony
Cordesman of the Center for
Strategic and International
Studies. The authors imagined a
scenario where Israeli jets flew
through southern Turkish
airspace and then cut across
Iraq’s northern tip to strike
several facilities within Iran.
Toukan and Cordesman were
not optimistic about the results.
“[I]t would be complex and high
risk in the operational level and
would lack any assurances of a
high mission success rate,” they
concluded. Israel would face an
array of problems, they argue,
from the limited range of its
aircraft—requiring multiple
refuelings—to the limited ability
of its warheads to penetrate
Iran’s deeply buried nuclear
facilities.
By contrast, last month Toukan
and Cordesman released a
similar report, this one
examining a possible American
attack on Iran. Their assessment
was far more bullish. Such an
attack would involve American
B-2 stealth bombers based in
Diego Garcia. The B-2 has
exponentially longer range than
Israel’s F-15 and F-16 fighter-
bombers. Conveniently, last
summer the B-2 completed an
upgrade allowing it to carry the
GPS-guided 5,300-pound
Massive Ordinance Penetrator
bomb. And the bomber’s stealth
nature will make it far less
vulnerable to Iran’s air-defense
system than the Israeli Air
Force’s traditional jets. As
Cordesman and Toukan
conclude, the U.S. is “the only
country that can launch a
successful Military Solution.”
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Chuck Wald, a retired four-star
U.S. Air Force General who
worked on a Bipartisan Policy
Center task force on Iran,
argued in a Wall Street Journal
op-ed last summer that the U.S.
military option is “a technically
feasible and credible option.”
Perhaps most significantly, even
joint chiefs chairman Mullen,
who has often warned of the
possible grave consequences of
hitting Iran, conceded last
weekend that a U.S. attack
would “go a long way” toward
setting back (though not
eliminating) Iran’s nuclear
program.
Let us stop here to make clear
that a U.S. attack on Iran might
well be a disaster. Iran could
incite its Shiite allies in Iraq to
sow violence and chaos even as
tens of thousands of American
troops remain in the country.
Tehran could also step up
support for the Afghan Taliban;
in a nightmare scenario, Iran
might supply the Taliban with
surface-to-air Stinger missiles,
the weapon that drove out the
Soviets. “The regional security
consequences,” Cordesman and
Toukan concluded in their latest
report, “would be catastrophic.”
What’s more, while some Arab
regimes might quietly celebrate
a blow against their Persian
rival, it’s not clear how many
ordinary Muslims will see
things that way. And any attack
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Ariz. Immigration Debate Pressures McCain
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Republican Sen. John McCain,
who once championed a path to
citizenship for the nation's
roughly 12 million
undocumented immigrants, is
now pushing for a crackdown on
illegals amid the toughest re-
election fight of his career.
McCain's hardline stance on
immigration comes in the face
of a credible GOP primary
challenger, former Rep. J.D.
Hayworth, and the possibility
that the party's 2008 presidential
nominee could lose his Senate
seat because many conservatives
don't consider him one of their
own.
Engaged in a fierce contest with
the tea party-backed Hayworth,
McCain has moved to the right
on numerous issues, including
gay rights and climate change,
and disavowed his long-standing
maverick label.
The killing of an Arizona
rancher last month stoked
conservatives' emphasis on
fighting illegal immigration.
The state Legislature on
Monday sent Republican Gov.
Jan Brewer one of the toughest
immigration laws in the country;
Brewer hasn't said what she will
do. The turn of events has
moved immigration to the
forefront for voters — and
Hayworth has used the issue as
a cudgel against McCain.
On March 27, rancher Rob
Krentz, 58, was found dead on
his all-terrain vehicle after
making a garbled call about
encountering someone
apparently needing help.
Authorities say they believe
Krentz was shot by an illegal
border-crosser, possibly
someone working for a
smuggling cartel, although they
haven't made arrests in the case.
Hayworth has assailed
McCain's work on a 2005 bill
that included providing a
pathway to citizenship for
illegal immigrants, a provision
Hayworth calls amnesty.
McCain co-sponsored the bill
with the late Sen. Edward M.
Kennedy, D-Mass., and argued
in 2007 when the effort failed
that he wouldn't give up because
"the American people will not
settle for the status quo — de
facto amnesty and broken
borders."
Facing pressure from
conservatives in his own party,
he began backing off his support
of an immigration overhaul
during his presidential primary
campaign. Early in 2008,
McCain privately told
congressional Republicans that
he had been hurt politically by
his push for immigration reform
and had learned that sealing the
border should be a top priority.
In his bid for a fifth term, the
73-year-old lawmaker has made
clear that he understands the
political reality.
McCain was on the air this
week to pitch a tough
crackdown on illegal
immigration, renewing a call to
deploy 3,000 National Guard
troops to the Arizona border, the
busiest stretch for illegal border
crossings. He also wants 3,000
additional Customs and Border
Protection agents, new fences
and increased aerial
surveillance.
The plan was released with
fellow Arizona Republican Sen.
Jon Kyl, but it was McCain who
went on Fox News Channel to
sell it.
The plan was similar to a
proposal released a week earlier
by Arizona ranchers who went
to the state Capitol after
Krentz's death.
Hayworth called the senators'
plan an "election-year
gimmick." McCain's campaign
spokesman, Brian Rogers,
accused Hayworth of using the
rancher's death "to exploit a
family's tragedy to score cheap
political points."
Hayworth also said McCain's
actions are too little, too late.
"Had McCain supported my
efforts in 2005 to secure the
U.S. border, rather than
stubbornly supporting amnesty,
we would not be trying to apply
quick fixes today," Hayworth
said.
McCain argued that he's been
working for years on securing
the border and says he's worked
directly with Mexican President
Felipe Calderon on the issue.
"I have a long record of
legislative efforts as well as
other efforts to try and get the
border secured," he said.
Hayworth has pressured
McCain to support the bill
passed by the Legislature. It
makes it a crime to be in the
state illegally, requires police to
question people about their
immigration status if there's
reason to suspect they're in the
country illegally and makes it
illegal to hire undocumented
immigrants for day labor or
knowingly transport them.
Arizona has an estimated
460,000 illegal immigrants.
Many argue the bill promotes
racial profiling and will lead to
civil rights abuses. The head of
the nation's largest Roman
Catholic archdiocese, Los
Angeles Cardinal Roger
Mahony, condemned the
legislation, calling it mean-
spirited and wondering whether
Arizonans would revert to
"German Nazi and Russian
Communist techniques" of
turning people into authorities
based on suspicions.
McCain on Monday called the
bill "a good tool" for law
enforcement that "needs to be
used." But his office later
clarified that his statements
didn't amount to an
endorsement.
Discussing the bill Tuesday
with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly,
McCain said he would be "very
sorry" if the bill results in racial
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profiling. But he also argued
that "homes and property are
being violated" and "cars with
illegals in (them) are
intentionally causing accidents
on the freeway."
McCain added, "Look, our
border's not secured, our
citizens are not safe."
The flip-flops on the thorny
issue of immigration reflect
McCain's struggle to take a
tougher stance without
alienating moderates in his
party.
Illegal immigration has also
reverberated in other Arizona
races.
Republicans hoping to unseat
Gov. Brewer swiftly endorsed
the ranchers' border plan. State
Treasurer Dean Martin said
Brewer "has done little to secure
our border, but simply point the
finger at Washington." Brewer
hasn't said whether she will sign
the bill, veto it or just let it
become law.
Like McCain, Brewer is locked
in a tough GOP primary to keep
her job. She assumed the office
more than a year ago when
Democrat Janet Napolitano
resigned to become President
Barack Obama's homeland
security secretary.
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Barely 6 1/2 months before the
midterm elections, an internal
investigation by the Republican
National Committee has
revealed that the organization is
beset with questionable financial
management and oversight and
is spending more money
courting top-dollar donors than
it raises.
The investigation found that the
Republican Party's national
governing body is losing money
on its major-donors' fundraising
program -- spending $1.09 for
each $1.00 raised, according to
RNC members privy to the
investigation's findings. It
typically costs about 40 cents
for every dollar raised from
donors who give more than
$1,000.
The investigation also found
that the RNC has allowed
employees to forge Finance
Director Rob Bickhart's initials
on expense-reimbursement
request approvals, according to
an RNC member who spoke on
the condition of anonymity for
fear of retaliation. The RNC's
top elected and appointed
management have united in
defense of the committee's
practices. RNC Chairman
Michael S. Steele can withhold
or increase RNC contributions
to a state party.
The Washington Times
obtained a copy of a report on
the investigation -- prepared by
RNC Treasurer Randy Pullen --
that he sent to the 28-member
RNC Executive Committee
before a conference call hastily
scheduled for Wednesday
afternoon by Mr. Steele's office.
It includes some of the findings.
RNC communications director
Doug Heye disputed the
fundraising figures when
reached for comment about the
report. He said year-to-date the
RNC has received $2,649,586
from major donors at a cost of
$1,832,642, netting the
organization more than
$800,000.
The report says several RNC
Finance Department employees
have been forging Mr.
Bickhart's signature for
reimbursement for the purchase
of clothing, wine and
entertainment expenses,
including some that were
labeled as office supplies.
One such expense was the
nearly $2,000 that a Finance
Department employee named
Allison Myers -- since fired --
received for money spent by a
friend and non-employee at an
Los Angeles nightclub that
featured a sexual-bondage
theme. Many small and large
RNC donors alike were not
amused.
The report also said widespread
employee abuse of RNC-
provided American Express
cards prompted a director. Mr. Pullen found that
recommendation at the end of
last year that the cards be
yanked from all employees and
officers except for Mr. Steele
and his chief administrative
officer, Boyd Rutherford.
Mr. Pullen's report noted that
although the recommendation
was first made in December, the
cards were not yanked until
April 12. The RNC's Mr. Heye,
however, said that date is
inaccurate and that the
committee started phasing out
credit cards last year.
That was the same day The
Washington Times reported that
Mr. Pullen said an RNC check
had been "forged" by an RNC
employee with Mr. Bickhart's
permission to cover the cost of
an entertainment tab that turned
out to be the sex-club incident.
The check was made out to a
friend of Ms. Myers, who
headed a young major-donors
fundraising program for the
RNC.
In his written report on
Wednesday, Mr. Pullen said that
Mr. Bickhart's contract as RNC
finance director calls for his
company, eCapitol Direct LLC,
to be given $22,500 for every $9
million raised through "direct
marketing sources every two
months."
This is in addition to Mr.
Bickhart's salary as finance
Mr. Bickhart shows up at RNC
headquarters about three times a
week but exercises little or no
financial control and gets paid
well over a half-million dollars,
more than twice the $223,500 in
salary Mr. Steele gets as
chairman.
"Based on budgeted direct
marketing revenues for 2010,"
Mr. Pullen said in his report,
Mr. Bickhart's extra
compensation arrangement "will
result in over $270,000 in
additional compensation to Mr.
Bickhart."
Mr. Pullen noted that the way
Mr. Bickhart structured his RNC
contract, it provides the wrong
incentives, allowing Mr.
Bickhart to increase his take
even as the RNC loses money
through his efforts.
"This contract does not take into
consideration the cost to
generate the revenue; therefore,
there is no incentive for costs to
be minimized as he receives
compensation regardless of the
net cash generated," Mr. Pullen
wrote.
"This contract was not reviewed
and approved by an officer or
the Executive Committee," he
wrote, noting that Mr. Bickhart's
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contract "can be canceled at any
time by written notice to the
other party."
"This contract should be
canceled," he added.
Since Mr. Steele's term as
national chairman began in
January 2009, there has been
controversy over his fiscal
management of the committee.
Over Mr. Steele's objection,
members have ordered that all
contracts worth more than
$100,000 be authorized by an
officer or by the whole
Executive Committee.
Mr. Pullen said he found more
instances of the RNC's "good
governance" rule being ignored
under Mr. Steele's leadership.
"The prior contract with
eCapitol Direct LLC that called
for $37,500 per $9,000,000 had
not been approved," Mr. Pullen
said. "I also discovered a third
contract with GKV LLC that
called for a fundraising
consulting fee of $10,000 a
month for the period September
2009 through November 2010.
This contract had not been
approved by an officer or the
Executive Committee."
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Obama on Offense
E.J. Dionne Jr. (The New
Republic - All Feed)
Submitted at 4/21/2010 11:00:00 PM
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. --
What does President Obama's
visit to California this week on
behalf of embattled Sen.
Barbara Boxer have to do with
passage of the financial reform
bill? Far more than you'd
imagine.
That Boxer is in any trouble
says much of what you need to
know about this year's election.
California has become a
Democratic bastion and Boxer
has been a liberal institution
who never before faced a
serious re-election challenge.
Now she is seen as sufficiently
vulnerable that Obama will
come to the state for another
fundraiser for her next month.
The threat to Boxer is grim
news for Democrats.
Is this sense of the election
about to be overtaken? That's
where financial reform comes
in. If health care legislation had
to fight uphill against a public
mood that is skeptical of
government's capacities, the
financial reform bill Democrats
are pushing has the advantage of
flowing with a public view
devoutly critical of Wall Street,
bankers and all their works.
And for the first time in
Obama's presidency,
Republicans are uncertain as to
whether resolute opposition to a
Democratic idea is in their
political interest. There are
strong indications that the GOP
would prefer to avoid an all-out
confrontation over re-regulating
the financial system, and several
Republican senators are saying
that they would like to negotiate
with Democrats on this one.
Suddenly, it's Democrats -- and,
in particular, the often conflict-
averse Obama -- who are
relishing a fight.
This raises what may be the
essential question for the
campaign: Can Democrats
finally put the Republicans on
the defensive?
Obama is betting that they can.
His speech at a fundraiser for
Boxer in Los Angeles on
Monday offered a template for a
new Happy Warrior president.
After a year in which he
repeatedly and almost
apologetically insisted that he
was -- really, really -- trying as
hard as he could to work with
Republicans, he turned the beat
around and asked why
Republicans weren't willing to
work with him.
He used his praise of Boxer --
"she wants to cooperate with
folks on the other side of the
aisle where she can, but she's
willing to fight where she has
to" -- as a pivot to what he
hopes will be a central theme of
this year's national election
campaign. His words about
Boxer, he said, were "not a bad
adage ... for the Democratic
Party.
"In this entire year and a half of
cleaning up the mess, it's been
tough because the folks very
responsible for a large portion of
this mess decided to stand on
the sidelines," Obama declared.
"It was as if somebody had
driven their car into the ditch
and then just watched you as
you had to yank it out, and
asked you, 'Why didn't you do it
faster -- and why do I have that
scratch on the fender?' And you
want to say, why don't you put
your shoulder up against that car
and help to push? That's what
we need, is some help."
In one paragraph, Obama did
what many of the dispirited in
his party have long been urging
him to do: He linked the
economic mess to past
Republican policies -- much as
Ronald Reagan blamed the
economic downturn of the early
1980s on Democrats and liberals
-- and turned the tables on
bipartisanship by asserting that
it is Republicans who are
blocking concord.
And then he connected this
argument to the struggle over
financial reform, aimed at
changing "a situation where
people are allowed to take wild
risks and all the downsides are
socialized even as the profits are
privatized." Obama said that
"some of the rhetoric that's
coming out of the other side of
the aisle" suggested that
Republicans "so far, at least,
don't seem to acknowledge that
we're going to have to make
some tough decisions and
reform the system."
Note the words "so far, at
least." Democrats clearly see
financial reform as a winner
either way. With Republican
cooperation, they have a bill.
With Republican obstruction,
they have an election issue. For
once, Democrats are negotiating
from strength.
No one doubts the Democrats
are in a deep electoral hole. But
Obama has now joined the battle
with a strategy to transform the
election from a referendum on
his own party into a contest with
a Republican Party the public
doesn't much like, either.
Boxer's fate, but also the fate of
a lot of other Democrats, hangs
on its success.
E.J. Dionne's e-mail address is
ejdionne(at)washpost.com. (c)
2010, Washington Post Writers
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unlawfully drawn to favor a
particular political
party—although that recognition
has not had any practical effect
thus far because he has not
identified a sufficiently extreme
district to be unlawful. Stevens’
successor could reject such a
claim outright, and close the
door to such a possibility. But
generally speaking, it is very
unlikely that a Democratic
appointee would move the Court
to the right on voting rights
issues.
Preemption is the principle that
federal law trumps state law. It
is grounded in the Supremacy
Clause of Article VI of the
Constitution, which provides
that “[t]he Constitution, and the
Laws of the United States . . .
and all Treaties . . . shall be the
supreme Law of the Land.”
Although formally a
constitutional issue, preemption
questions most often involve the
construction of a federal statute
(or sometimes a regulation) to
determine whether it precludes a
state (or local) law. The Court’s
preemption decisions have not
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might shore up Ahmadinejad’s
grip on power, in a rally-round-
the-flag effect. The potential
effects on the oil market and a
recovering world economy are
hard to predict.
Awful as those consequences
may be, there’s plenty of reason
to think that an Israeli attack
would have a similarly negative
effect on American interests.
The U.S. can always deny a role
in or even knowledge of an
Israeli attack. But Iran’s leaders
are almost sure to assume the
nefarious American-Zionist
machine at work anyway.
Moreover, the Council on
Foreign Relations’ Steven
Simon wrote in November,
“[R]egardless of perceptions of
U.S. complicity in the attack,
the United States would
probably become embroiled
militarily in any Iranian
retaliation against Israel or other
countries in the region.”
Unintended consequences
might also drag America into a
fight that someone else started.
Consider an Iran war game
conducted in December by the
Brookings Institution which
imagined a unilateral Israeli
attack on Iran. Things got nasty
fast. Iran unleashed a slew of
attacks against Israel, including
launching ballistic missiles at
Israel’s air bases and its Dimona
nuclear facility. Hezbollah and
Hamas began new rocket
campaigns, drawing Israel back
into Lebanon. And Iran began a
campaign of international
terrorism in Europe designed to
undermine western support for
Israel. The game’s American
team hoped to stay on the
sidelines. But because Iran
understood this, Tehran
overreached, launching attacks
on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia,
whom Iran’s leaders perceived
as having supported the strike.
(The game’s Israeli jets had
crossed Saudi airspace.) When
Iran began to mine the Strait of
Hormuz, a key choke point for
the global oil trade, it crossed a
U.S. “red line.” The game ended
with the U.S. “massively”
reinforcing its forces in the
region and the prospect of a
substantial conventional war
between the U.S. and Iran.
That may be a nearly worst-
case scenario, and it is possible
that the U.S. could avoid
clashing with Iran in the wake
of an Israeli strike. (Tehran
might tread more carefully than
imagined in this war game,
understanding that a fight with
Israel alone would bring more
international support and less
military risk.) At a minimum,
however, since we can’t just
walk away from the Middle
East—our stake in Iraq’s future,
alliance with Israel, and
dependence on Gulf oil, among
other things, simply won’t allow
us —any new problems there
will be our problems as well.
None of this means that
America should attack Iran.
After all, virtually no one thinks
that even an American strike can
end Tehran’s nuclear program.
Instead we could could set back
the Iranians and buy a few
years’ time—time in which a
more moderate government
might assume power, or in
which the West might convince
Iran and other watchful nuclear
aspirants that the benefits of
going nuclear are outweighed by
the diplomatic (and military)
punishment it entails. That
would be a massive gamble,
however. And everyone knows
how America’s last big gamble
in the region turned out.
But if Barack Obama really
believes that an Iranian bomb is
unacceptable, and that only
bombs can prevent it, then he
needs to face the grim truth that
this is a burden for America to
shoulder—and resist the
temptation to let someone else
handle the grim job for us.
Michael Crowley is a senior
editor of The New Republic.
pointed in a consistent direction
and have tended to turn on their
particular context. Two
significant recent decisions have
ruled against preemption claims,
however, and Justice Stevens
authored the majority opinion in
both. One was decided six to
three, but only five members of
the Court joined Justice
Stevens’ opinion. Wyeth v.
Levine(2009). The other was
five-to-four. Altria Group v.
Good(2008). Preemption is thus
an important area of the law that
could shift with Justice Stevens’
departure towards finding
greater federal preemption and
thus reduced state authority. The
principal consequence would be
to allow fewer state tort suits to
proceed.
Substantive Criminal Law
involves determining whether
particular conduct is a crime
under any of many dozens of
different criminal statutes. The
Court’s cases are too varied to
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categorize and depend on
particular circumstances.
Generally speaking, Justice
Stevens was relatively more
sympathetic to claims of
criminal defendants, but
relatively rarely in cases that
produced a narrow, non-
ideological majority in favor of
the defendant. This field does
contain, however, a rare case in
which Justice Stevens was a
member of a five-Justice
majority, of which he took the
most conservative position. See
United States v. Santos(2008)
(Stevens, J., concurring in the
judgment) (concluding that
“proceeds” under the money
laundering statute means
“profits” in some cases, but not
all). His successor could move
the Court to the left in such a
case, but the issue is not
significant.
Criminal Sentencing issues can
arise in many contexts. The
Sixth Amendment right to a jury
trial, which is discussed above,
has significant implications for
sentencing. Other sentencing
issues generally involve the
interpretation of federal
laws—for example, statutes
providing for mandatory
minimum sentences. This
category does include a rare
(and not terribly important) case
in which Justice Stevens joined
four more conservative
colleagues to form a majority,
rejecting a defendant’s claim of
a right to notice of a particular
sentence. See Irizarry v. United
States(2008). But in general,
statutory sentencing cases have
not consistently involved narrow
five-to-four majorities.
Pleading Standards are the rules
governing the amount of detail
that must be included in a
“complaint” in order to pursue a
civil lawsuit in federal court.
That standard is governed by
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure
8, which requires “a short and
plain statement of the claim
showing that the pleader is
entitled to relief.” The Court has
recently applied more stringent
pleading requirements as a
broad requirement in a five-to-
four ruling in which Justice
Stevens joined a dissenting
opinion by Justice Souter.
Ashcroft v. Iqbal(2009).
Native American issues arise
under federal statutes and also
principles of tribal sovereign
immunity. The current Court has
generally ruled against the
Tribes, although Stevens’
departure will make their
position even more tenuous
because he was among the most
likely to vote in their favor.
In sum, in statutory cases,
Justice Stevens’ retirement is
most likely to have an effect on
preemption claims.
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GM and Volvo continue Toyota
Submitted at 4/22/2010 8:30:00 AM conquest deals
The push continues by
Filed under: Earnings Reports, automakers to lure disgruntled
Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) Toyota owners to purchase a
Not long ago, I wrote about new car with attractive
Netflix ( NFLX) hitting a 52- incentives. General Motors and
week high. At that time, the 1.6% to $88.40, in response to Volvo are both offering an extra
shares were around the $75 the first-quarter earnings report. $1,000 incentive on top of
level. I cautioned that one had to Continue reading Netflix Had a already aggressive rebates on a
be careful about buying an Great Quarter, but Be Cautious number of models in their
overbought stock. I mean, how About Stock lineup.
much further could the equity Netflix Had a Great Quarter, Toyota continues to offer their
climb? but Be Cautious About Stock
own deals, which includes zero-
Yeah, right. At the close of o r i g i n a l l y a p p e a r e d o n percent financing, cash back,
trading on Wednesday, the BloggingStocks on Thu, 22 Apr and lease deals, all of which
shares were priced at $86.98. 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see helped them post a 35-percent
The current 52-week high stands our terms for use of feeds. Read| increase in sales in March over
at $89.10 (as of this writing). P e r m a l i n k | E m a i l t h i s | the previous year.
And during yesterday's after- C o m m e n t s This cat-and-mouse game will
hours session, the stock climbed likely continue as Toyota is still
in the news with the recent
Sienna minivan recall, Lexus
GX recall and government
scrutiny.
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price Potential savings below
MSRP 2009 Buick Enclave
C X L A W D
4/30/2010$39,380$37,214 Yes
Yes Get the Bottom Line Price
15%+
2010 Buick Lucerne Super
4/30/2010 42,515 40,814 Yes
Yes Get the Bottom Line Price
15%+ 2010 Chevrolet HHR LT
4/30/2010 19,720 18,931 Yes
No Get the Bottom Line Price
20%+ 2009 Chevrolet Malibu
LTZ 4/30/2010 26,880 25,402
Yes No Get the Bottom Line
Price 25%+ 2010 Chevrolet
Silverado 1500 1LT 4x4 Crew
Cab 4/30/2010 34,615 32,192
Yes No Get the Bottom Line
Price 20%+ 2010 Chevrolet
Traverse 3.6 4WD 1LT
4/30/2010 33,745 32,058 Yes
No Get the Bottom Line Price
15%+ 2010 GMC Sierra 1500
4WD Crew Cab SLT SWB
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4/30/2010 42,275 39,316 Yes
No Get the Bottom Line Price
20%+ 2010 Volvo C30 T5 M
4/30/2010 24,100 22,654 No
Yes Get the Bottom Line Price
15%+ 2010 Volvo C70 T5 M
4/30/2010 40,000 37,600 No
Yes Get the Bottom Line Price
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36,848 No Yes Get the Bottom
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Best “green” cleaners, paper products for your family

Artemis Dibenedetto environmentally unfriendly Dishwashing liquids: Go green? Green update Recycled TP synthetic pesticides or
(Consumer Reports) phosphates, which boost algae Yes brands we’ve tested haven’t fertilizers. Organic cotton is an
Submitted at 4/22/2010 1:59:59 AM growth in fresh water, Green update In our latest tests proven as soft or durable as especially green choice because
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Best “green” cleaners, paper greener, phosphate-free options friendly claims, most did a very down easily in our pesticide-intensive crops.•
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This Earth Day, you may want More than three brands scored removing food. One by Ecover news if your home’s plumbing methods"Organic" textiles can
to turn over a new leaf and opt very well and cost less than a was excellent overall and costs system is sensitive. And some be processed with chemicals
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Compromising with Facebook

(Scripting News)
Submitted at 4/22/2010 6:50:46 AM
I love flow, so there's a
temptation to put a Facebook
"Like" button on every Scripting
News story, but I'm resisting the
temptation for the same reason I
never used Feedburner to host
my RSS feeds. They were
offering a benefit, but I didn't
want to cede all that power to
them or trust them not to sell out
to a big company that I don't
trust. Or (as with Facebook and
Google) be a company that I
compromise? Let me implement have? I'm willing to do a little
my own Like feature and have it extra work to keep the web
connect up to Facebook through independent of any one
a feed. And let it connect up to company.
Facebook's competitors just as
easily. I'm sure the smart guys at
don't trust. Facebook could figure out how
So perhaps there's a to do this, perhaps they already
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Miroslav Satan, From
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major electronics(both available
to subscribers). Price shouldn't
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Hero
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Main)
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Filed under: Bruins, Sabres The
setting, appropriately enough for
the head-scratching transaction,
was Fenway Park on New
Year's Day. The Bruins and
Flyers had wrapped up the NHL
Winter Classic about 90 minutes
earlier, and then the United
States Olympic Hockey team
was introduced. The hockey
writers in the Fenway press box
were, to put it mildly, a little
dazed -- as if we just sat through confusing.
a 20-inning baseball game.
That's when it got really MIROSLAV page 55

The Pickup Artist: Gettin' Wiggy With It

Paul Bourdett (FanHouse baffling. He's an everyday Make the move already. committed to Branyan as their
Main) player, he eligible at second, and Russell Branyan(1B, CLE) - everyday first baseman. He'll
Submitted at 4/21/2010 5:00:00 PM he's 9-for-28 with five homers, 10% play about four games a week in
11 RBI and eight runs scored Power-starved owners, take the field to start, and will DH in
Filed under: MLB Sleepers, over his last eight. Do people notice. After spending the first the others, making a repeat of
MLB Waiver Wire Need help think he's a fluke? He's hit no few weeks of the season on the last season's 31 HR a real
navigating the waiver wire each lower than .275 in each of the DL (back), Branyan quietly possibility. Just don't expect a
week? Let the Pickup Artist be last four seasons with at least 22 returned to go 1-for-3 against batting average north of .250;
your guide. HR and 58 RBI in three of the the Twins Tuesday night. he's a career .234 hitter with a
Infielders last four ... as a part-timer. Brian There's legitimate concern he .210 mark against southpaws.
Ty Wigginton(1B/2B/3B, BAL) Roberts isn't due back anytime Orioles will find a way to get might not make it through the
- 29% soon and even when he does Wiggy's bat into the lineup. entire season healthy, but for the
Wigginton's availability is come back, you can be sure the time being, the Indians are
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Capital Gains in Net as
Washington Takes
Game 4
A.J. Perez (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 4/21/2010 6:00:00 PM
Filed under: Canadiens,
Capitals, Eastern, NHL Playoffs
Montreal Canadiens coach
Jacques Martin tapped Carey
Price, a move that had both
goalies who began the series in
net on the bench at Bell Centre
Wednesday night.
The back-up plan worked for
only one squad.
Semyon Varlamov's 20 saves in
a harried second period allowed
the Washington Capitals to pull
away in the third for a 6-3
victory and a 3-1 lead in the
series. Meanwhile, Price was
stung for two third-period goals,
and his frustration boiled over as
he was whistled for two
unsportsmanlike penalties over
the final eight minutes of
regulation.
The Capitals allowed 21 shots
in the second period, tying the
mark for the most in the
playoffs in franchise history. (Scripting News)
The lone goal allowed came off Submitted at 4/22/2010 6:44:25 AM
the stick of Brian Gionta on the
power play.
Capitals Lead Series, 3-1
Capitals 6, Canadiens 3: Recap| I now live in a small one-
Box Score| Series Page
MIROSLAV
continued from page 54
"Hey, didja hear this?" said one
Boston scribe to no one in
particular. "The Bruins are
signing Satan."
Yeah, right. Miroslav Satan.
The 35-year-old former big-time
goal scorer who seemed to have
lost his fastball a few years ago?
The Miro Satan who Pittsburgh
signed a year ago, maybe to play
with Crosby, and instead spent a
portion of the season playing for
the Wilkes Barre/Scranton
Penguins of the American
Hockey League? (He ended the
year holding the Stanley Cup
over his head).
How to (really) turn off Mac screen?
Pretty sure there's no way to
really turn off the Mac screen.
bedroom apartment. My desk,
and main computer, are in the
bedroom. So the fact that the
computer turns the screen back
on at apparently random times is
not only a waste of energy, it's a
wake-up call.
I have the Energy Saver
preference set to turn the screen
off after 15 minutes of no use.
That does happen, but the screen
just comes back on. I've tried
quitting all the apps, thinking it
Sports/ Featured/ 55
The Miro Satan who had spent
the last six months skating at the
Islanders' practice facility near
his home on Long Island,
sometimes shooting on
rehabilitating goaltender Rick
DiPietro, often skating all by
himself?
Bruins lead series, 3-1
Bruins 3, Sabres 2 (2OT):
Recap| Box Score| Series Page
wakes up, on its own. When it
wakes up, the monitor turns on,
full brightness.
I've tried running the
Brightness Control app. The
computer ignores the fact that
the monitor is turned down.
When it wakes up it turns the
monitor up to full brightness.
I did a search and read various
threads with comments from
Mac users with the same
might be one of them that is p r o b l e m .
asking for the screen to be re-lit, In the old days the monitor had
but it makes no difference. an on-off switch. When you
Okay, so I thought -- let's just turned it off, it stayed off until
put the computer to sleep using you turned it back on.
the Sleep command in the Apple So when people say Macs "just
menu. It doesn't help. It just work" -- you gotta wonder.
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NYT: PS3 to stream live

Major League Baseball
games
Justin McElroy (Joystiq) run you between $100 and $120
Sega to reveal Natal, Move projects Submitted at 4/22/2010 7:45:00 AM annually, or $20 to $25 per
month, depending on the
at E3 suited for 'PS2 type' audience According to a report in the
New York Times, Sony will
features. Count on more details
when the official announcement
Griffin McElroy (Joystiq) president Mike Hayes explained IP he's referring to is the already announce today that PS3 users drops. Sony has been
Submitted at 4/22/2010 9:45:00 AM that the company's Natal and motion-infused Sega Super will gain access to live streams considering new subscription
Move plans would be revealed Stars(pictured above) -- in our of Major League Baseball services for PSN since the end
Last September, Sega promised at E3 2010. heart of hearts, though, we're games. By week's end the of last year.
to clue the world into its plans Though we haven't heard much secretly hoping for a motion- c o n s o l e w i l l e n a b l e [Thanks, Ryan G.]
f o r P r o j e c t N a t a l a n d about Sega's feelings on the controlled Ecco the Dolphin: subscriptions to the MLB.TV NYT: PS3 to stream live Major
PlayStation Move in early 2010. upcoming wave of new motion Defender of the Future. service, which provides access League Baseball games
Actually, back then, we were control technology, Hayes Sega to reveal Natal, Move to out-of-market contests, but originally appeared on Joystiq
still calling it the PlayStation explained the company is projects at E3 suited for 'PS2 not local games or others that on Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:45:00
Motion Controller. Oh, so excited about "the fact that t y p e ' a u d i e n c e o r i g i n a l l y are broadcast on TV. EST. Please see our terms for
young and naive! Now that we Move and Natal will bring in appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 22 The NYT doesn't have the use of feeds.
and Sega are both a few months more of what I'd call the PS2 Apr 2010 09:45:00 EST. Please scoop on pricing, but a web Read| Permalink| Email this|
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IndustryGamers, Sega West We've hypothesized that the PS2
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To Facebook
the answer
must be no
(Scripting News)
Submitted at 4/21/2010 5:11:39 PM

I am very familiar with the

Friendfeed API, so when I saw

ESRB: Joe Danger Retailer listing points to the presentation today by Bret
Taylor, who is now one of the

popping wheelies on the 'James Bond: Bloodstone'

leading guys at Facebook, it felt
very familiar. They design clean
and simple APIs. This one is no

PC as title of Bizarre's Bond exception.

I would be playing with it right
Justin McElroy (Joystiq) Wii. now except for two things:
David Hinkle (Joystiq) fun), but the ESRB listing With the next Bond film
Submitted at 4/22/2010 9:12:00 AM 1. My programming
Submitted at 4/22/2010 3:00:00 AM makes no mention of an Xbox currently on hold, it's up to environment doesn't have a
360 release. We've reached out According to a Gamespot Activision to keep the spy in JSON serializer or deserializer. I
Hello Games always planned to to Hello Games for clarification report, a retailer website slip-up active duty. But just how much could write one, but I'm not
release Joe Danger on all digital on which platforms Joe will may have outed "James Bond: blood can you squeeze from a going to, at least not this week.
distribution channels (Xbox light up with that million dollar Bloodstone" as the title for the stone cold killer? And next week we'll be looking
360, PSN and PC) but, as of smile of his. We'll keep you long-awaited " racing and Retailer listing points to 'James at something else. I wish they
right now, the game is only posted. driving focused" 007 game from Bond: Bloodstone' as title of had provided an XML
confirmed for release on PSN. ESRB: Joe Danger popping Bizarre Creations. HMV Bizarre's Bond originally serialization for their data, if
However, according to an ESRB wheelies on the PC originally reportedly posted a listing for a appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 22 they had, I would have spent the
certification, the time for Joe to appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 22 game with that title (though it's Apr 2010 09:12:00 EST. Please rest of the week poking around
shine on the PC could be nigh -- Apr 2010 03:00:00 EST. Please nowhere to be found now) in the see our terms for use of feeds. so I could provide details here
a move we endorse entirely. see our terms for use of feeds. "driving and racing" category. It Read| Permalink| Email this| on Scripting News. Would have
Based on our time with the title Read| Permalink| Email this| was also tagged for release on Comments been an interesting report.
back at GDC, we think the game Comments Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and 2. They are part of the push to
should be on every platform reinvent OAuth. They say it's
imaginable (y'know, because it's simpler, but nothing could be
simpler than the previous
version, which I have already
implemented.
This is the problem with
corporate platforms and the
standard bodies that help them

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achieve their goals. They throw
out our investment with idea
they're making things easier.
They're smart people so I think
they must know they're not
actually doing that. The
developer base gets winnowed,
which must be what they
actually want.
Anyway, once you get past the
political stuff, Bret and his guys
implement a nice API. And
Zuckerberg -- what a character!
I had never seen him speak
before today. He's honest, open,
bares his soul in amazing ways.
He's like a young Bill Gates,
who I knew when he was
"Zuck's" age -- but without the
guile. He lays it all out there.
Watching his presentation I was
struck with an idea. Ballmer and
Ozzie should find a way to get
Zuck to buy Microsoft and they
should reboot the company with
Zuck as the leader. I know FB
would never go for it, why
should they, but what an
interesting chemistry
experiment that would be. Could
Microsoft reboot with a BG
workalike at the helm? It would
make for a fascinating science
fiction story. But I digress.
The actual Bill Gates figures in
this story. In 1997, I had a
phone talk with Bill G, about the
subject that Mark Z addressed in
today's presentation. Bill had
realized that the big thing
missing from the web was an
idea of identity. He wanted my
help to figure this out and then
make a presentation to the
industry, but only after we did a
lot of thinking. I remember
meeting with one of his
lieutennants in New Orleans
later that year, but nothing came
of the proposed collaboration,
probably because I didn't have
any ideas about how to get
everyone to line up behind
Microsoft (mostly because I
didn't think it was a good idea).
So now we know what
Zuckerberg's megalomania is,
and he's brilliant, and hired the
right guys (the FF team) to
make it happen. But think about
the role he's cast himself in for a
minute. Facebook is to be the
identity system for the web. A
company? That just can't work. I
can't believe he doesn't know
that. Even Bill Gates didn't have
the audacity to propose that!
I'm sure their software will
scale. It certainly is well-
designed. But Facebook is a
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company and we just can't go
there. That's about all I have to
say right now. Probably will
have more to say later.
PS: The OPML Editor is a
distro of Frontier, which has
been GPL'd for 5 years. I think
it sucks that it has no JSON
support. But it works for me,
there's no other environment
that's even remotely as rich, so
I'm not switching. If you want to
avoid missed opportunities like
this in the future, get on board,
fill in the gaps. We need JSON
support, one of many things that
are needed. If you can make it
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Vegh the Twitter API will of your grubby little paws"),
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know that. Well, that'll be the When I was a kid, on the days the peas in the drawer. Yes!
end of my code working with peas were being served for Mission accomplished! "See
their code. Even if we had JSON dinner, my siblings and I would mom and dad, I finished my
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Study of Vets Finds Ecstasy an

Effective Treatment For PTSD
Jeremy Hsu (Popular Science for Psychedelic Studies medication. Still, the patients
- New Technology, Science (MAPS), which launched in required lower amounts of the
News, The Future Now) 2004. psychoactive drugs compared to
Submitted at 4/21/2010 3:31:23 PM Of 21 patients, 13 took ecstasy before their treatment.
A combination of the party a n d t h e n t a l k e d w i t h Physicians and scientists have
drug and talking with therapists psychiatrists about their wartime long struggled with pinpointing
allowed a majority of war vets traumas. They saw huge drops the causes of PTSD among
to overcome their PTSD to a in PTSD symptoms compared to individual warfighters, as well
great extent the eight-person placebo group. as diagnosing and treating the
War veterans suffering from Seven out of the eight in the condition. We imagine the
post-traumatic stress disorder placebo group also eventually recent successes of using
have found unexpected relief c h o s e t o r e c e i v e e c s t a s y ecstasy therapeutically might
from the banned drug MDMA, f o l l o w i n g t h e s t u d y .
known more commonly as After three and a half years, 13
cause the U.S. Department of
Veterans Affairs to rethink its SETI Releases Its Collected Data
ecstasy. The psychedelic drug out of 16 patients who kept in
typically associated with hard- touch still appeared free of the
prior five rejections of proposals
from MAPS to work together.
to the Public, Wants Open-Source
partying clubbers appears to c r i t e r i a f o r P T S D . O n e
cure PTSD entirely in some psychiatrist who worked with a
The blog of American Veteran
Magazine adds a helpful note
Search for Whatever's Out There
cases, Scientific American Veterans Affairs Medical Center that war vets should not take Clay Dillow (Popular Science - source contribution to the
reports. told Scientific American that ecstasy on their own, given that New Technology, Science search.
The findings were presented at should definitely try ecstasy as a News, The Future Now) Tarter says:
it remains illegal -- the MAPS
a conference held in San Jose therapeutic tool, if it were not study was conducted under Submitted at 4/21/2010 4:39:21 PM In the future, we hope that a
last month, titled "Psychedelic illegal. psychiatrist supervision and Your chance to spot 50 years' global army of open-source
Science in the 21st Century," This wasn't a complete victory with FDA approval. worth of sneakily concealed code developers, students and
and have psychiatrists excited over PTSD -- two patients [via Scientific American] aliens other experts in digital signal
over the unprecedented results. suffered clear relapses, and Over the past decade, those processing, as well as citizen
They came out of a study several of the other patients who wished to contribute to scientists willing to lend their
sponsored by t h e remained on antidepressants or SETI's mission of locating life intelligence to our exploration,
Multidisciplinary Association s i m i l a r p s y c h o a c t i v e elsewhere in the universe could will have access to the same
l e a v e t h e i r c o m p u t e r s o n technology and join our quest.
running a special screensaver SETI's data, compiled from 25
a n d d o n a t e t h e i r u n u s e d years of scanning the skies with
computing power to the cause. a d v a n c e d a s t r o n o m i c a l
Now, SETI director Jill Tarter is t e l e s c o p e s , w i l l b e m a d e
asking people around the globe available on a special SETI
to get more involved in the website this summer, at which
Search for Extraterrestrial point users can take whatever
Intelligence by opening up data sets they wish and comb
SETI's servers to the public
calling for a worldwide, open SETI page 60
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through them looking for be bad for an organization that

patterns or noise that SETI's
algorithms may have
overlooked. The site is currently
configured for those with some
kind of background in signal
processing and the like, but
SETI is working to make it
more accessible to users of all
backgrounds and ages.
Whether or not this shift
represents frustration within
SETI or simply a change in
tactics befitting of the time, it
vastly increases the raw
brainpower that the organization
has at its disposal, and that can't
has a lot of universe to cover. In
Tarter's words, "all of the SETI
searching over the past 50 years
is equivalent to examining one 8
-ounce glass of water from the
Earth's oceans." Maybe this
change in policy will tip the
scales ever so slightly in our
favor.
[ CNN]

Gold Nano-Bombs Deliver Bacteria-

Killing Therapy Directly to Acne
Jeremy Hsu (Popular Science
- New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 4/21/2010 4:14:59 PM
Nanotechnology's bright future
has finally come up with a
possible treatment for the
dreaded pimples of our teen
years. That has arrived in the
form of gold nano-bombs which
deliver a lethal dose of lauric
acid to skin-dwelling bacteria
responsible for that unsightly
acne, according to UPI.
Lauric acid can convert into a
compound which essentially
destroys the outer lipid walls of
bacteria, and is found in coconut
oil and human breast milk.
Bioengineers at the University
of California-San Diego
packaged the lauric acid inside
of artificial microscopic sacs to
become bacteria-busting nano-
bombs.
Gold nanoparticles studding the
outside of the nano-bombs
prevent the sacs from fusing
together, and also help them act
as smart bombs to track down
bacteria based on the skin's pH
level and other
microenvironment factors.
The nano-bomb liposomes shed
their gold nanoparticles once
they reach the acidic
microenvironment of the
bacterial membranes, and allow
the lauric acid to do their dirty
work and help clear up acne.
Such nanoparticles have also
helped other researchers aim
their lasers at brain parasites
responsible for "crazy cat lady"
syndrome. But we hope that
researchers are keeping an eye
out for any potential safety
issues with applying gold
nanoparticles to human faces.
[via UPI]
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First Fiery Images
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 4/21/2010 2:23:34 PM
More than three months after
being hurled into orbit, NASA's
Solar Dynamics Observatory is
snapping some breathtaking
images of the Sun, the first of
which NASA released this
afternoon. The mission
designers have to be happy with
them: the pics capture huge
looping prominences lashing out
from the surface and the kinds
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of massive explosions one might HD video camera and carries
expect from a giant, churning four telescopes as well as
ball of cosmic gas. instruments for measuring
Click to launch the photo magnetic motions on the surface
gallery and ultraviolet energy output.
SDO launched in February to Science aside, NASA
help researchers on the ground researchers must be pretty
gain a better understanding of pleased with what SDO is
how processes taking place on sending back thus far if only
the sun affect life on Earth. from an aesthetic standpoint.
NASA and its international [ NASA]
partners hope that in time SDO current means allow. SDO
provides a wealth of solar data views the sun with a resolution
that will help them predict solar ten times greater than that of an
weather more accurately than
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How to Buy the Best Organic Foods

(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks) environmental effects of in season, and provide a living
chemical fertilizers and wage to workers. Also, some
Randy Mayor pesticides, which can spread far farmers may follow organic
Click to Enlarge from the fields where they are principles yet forgo USDA
Americans spent close to $28 a p p l i e d . c e r t i f i c a t i o n .
billion in 2008 on organic Today organic farmers advocate That’s one reason why you
edibles, up from $1 billion in m a i n t a i n i n g a s u s t a i n a b l e sometimes find uncertified
1990, according to The Organic environment by using natural organic goods at your local
T r a d e principles to maximize crop and grocery or farmers’ market.
Association. And organic foods l i v e s t o c k Nutrition and health
remain an area of growth even yield instead of turning to Farmers, food producers, and
with the rising cost of grocery artificial and chemical methods. scientists debate whether
items and tougher economic • USDA certification: In 2002, organically grown and produced
times. If t h e U . S . D e p a r t m e n t o f fruits, vegetables, meats, and
you’re fueling these double-digit A g r i c u l t u r e i m p l e m e n t e d milks are
sales, you likely already have uniform standards for American more nutritious than
your reasons for buying organic. o r g a n i c f a r m e r s a n d conventional ones.
Even so, recent changes m a n u f a c t u r e r s . The Organic Center (TOC), a
to America’s food buying Organic foods must be grown or nonprofit research organization
habitsthe rise of the local-food produced without chemical in Foster, Rhode Island, recently
movement, increased awareness pesticides or fertilizers, and, in issued a review of 97 studies
about foods’ carbon footprint livestock, without the use of on the subject to draw the
( t h e antibiotics or growth hormones. conclusion that organic foods,
amount of greenhouse gasses O r g a n i c f o o d s c a n n o t b e on average, offer a 25 percent
released when producing and genetically modified, irradiated, higher nutrient level over
transporting goods)may leave or cloned. Further guidelines scale operations that manage many issues that have emerged c o n v e n t i o n a l
you wondering where organic g o v e r n t h o u s a n d s as consumers have become ones. The premium may be an
f o o d s f i t specific foods. For instance, of acres. As farming has grown, more knowledgeable. Today extra measure of a nutrient like
i n t o a b e t t e r - f o r - t h e - organic chickens must be raised so have market share, crop o r g a n i c vitamin C or higher levels of
environment equation. If you’re with outdoor access. yields, and distribution food may be locally grown or it compounds like antioxidants,
not an organic shopper, perhaps • Growing market: In 1990, the channels. Organic-themed may be grown in a foreign which are
you have questions about United States had less than 1 g r o c e r y s t o r e s , country and shipped to the produced by plants to act as
w h e t h e r o r million acres of organic such as Whole Foods, have United States, resulting in a natural pesticides. The TOC is a
not these products are worth farmland. By 2002, that number expanded around the country, l a r g e r pro-organic organization, so it’s
their premium price tag. Here had doubled, and it doubled and even mainstream food carbon footprint. Or it may be not surprising they found
you’ll learn the lowdown. again in 2005, the most recent purveyors, such as Safeway and produced under less-than-ideal a nutritional edge. However,
Organic basics year for which USDA data is W a l - M a r t , h a v e conditions for livestock or their review is complemented by
• H i s t o r y : T h e o r g a n i c available. As organic farming developed organic brands. laborers. In response, some emerging research from
m o v e m e n t , w h i c h g a i n e d has spread, it has adopted some Organic food can now be found f a r m e r s independent scientists. For
momentum in the 1960s and of the in every corner of the grocery are shifting to what is called example, University
1970s, was a reaction to p r i n c i p l e s t h a t g u i d e store. “beyond organic” to practice of California at Davis
growing awareness about the conventional farming. Today • Growing complexity: Organic sustainable farming, build a
certification does not cover local clientele for foods raised HOW page 63
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researchers have found higher
levels of nutrients in organic
tomatoes, kiwifruit, corn, and
s t r a w b e r r i e s
grown side-by-side with
conventional versions.
Because this research is
preliminary, most -major public
health organizations like the
American Dietetic Association
a n d t h e
Mayo Clinic hold that an
organic label is not an assurance
that a food is nutritionally
superior. What’s more, organic
s w e e t s
and snack foods don’t warrant a
nutritional halo just because
they’re organic. In excess, fat,
sugar, and calories can have
adverse health effects, whether
or not the food that contains
them is organic.
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I called it. After the shit he said
on the show I really wanted to
[fight]. I still really want to
knock him out. It is what it is.
He ran his mouth and now I get
to say 'I told you so' to Dana. I
told him that he wouldn't fight
me and that he was just going to
use this to get on TV.
Do you still hope to fight him
one day?
I don't care. Honestly. I mean
I've already knocked him out
twice. All I want though is, if he
decides to come back to the
UFC, he should have to fight me
to get back in. If he wants to
fight in the UFC he has to get
past me first. Just call me and let
me take care of it.
A lot of people are interested
now in getting into MMA, but
it's such a mixed medium that it
can be hard to find a starting
point. What's your advice for
starting up?
You can actually find a lot of
gyms that do teach mixed
martial arts. But it's just like
with any martial art — you've
got to look at the coaches, go
watch some classes, see how
people treat each other and how
the coaches treat the students.
Pay attention to the details.
What's your diet like right now?
I eat a balanced diet. I actually
have a guy who cooks for me at
home. It's 40/30/30 — so 40%
carbs, 30% protein and 30% fat.
It's healthy. It's clean. It's real
simple. When I'm training at
home I have five meals for the
CHUCK page 64

Chuck Liddell
(Mensfitness.com) time in New York promoting for harder, but I've been in shape
Submitted at 4/21/2010 11:00:00 PM UFC and now helping Reebok for a while so now we're picking
demo their latest shoe. Do you it up. I had to switch to
The Iceman on his diet, reality like spending time in the city? southpaw though, because he's a
TV, and upcoming fight I love it. I always have a good southpaw.
by Dean Stattmann time out here. My grandpa is You were supposed to fight
| Print Page| Email to Friend from Brooklyn and my grandma Tito Ortiz, but now obviously
From appearing in TV shows is from Syracuse so I used to that's not happening. Have you
and movies to taking on some of come down here quite a bit. had to adapt your training for
the toughest badasses in the You're coaching a team on this the new card?
UFC, there's not much that season of Spike's hit show The There's not much of a
legendary fighter Chuck Liddell Ultimate Fighter. Are you guys difference other than the fact
can't handle. It's no wonder still filming? that he's a southpaw. I've got to
tickets for his upcoming UFC No, it's all done except for the get ready because he's good
115 event with Rich Franklin finale. It was cool. I'm not a big everywhere. He's decent at
sold out in a record-setting 30 fan of reality shows but I liked have to learn your own details to what you're doing. I used to everything. But he's not really a
minutes after going on sale. working with the guys. It taught before you can teach them. And have that problem with a couple big threat to take me down, so if
Fortunately, Men's Fitness was me a lot about teaching. We're especially at this level, with of moves I used to do, so it's a it goes to the ground it's because
able to catch up with The working with guys that are these types of guys, that's what good learning process, for them I decided it should. But he is a
Iceman recently at the Reebok already pretty good at what they you need to teach them. They and for me. much better striker than Tito.
Sports Club in New York City do, so if they don't understand know most of the basic moves, You're getting ready to fight A lot of people are upset that
to get his thoughts on The what to do then I'm not teaching but you need to teach them the Rich Franklin in UFC 115. you won't be fighting Tito. How
Ultimate Fighter, UFC 115 and them right. It also taught me a details. The details are what What are you doing to prepare? do you feel?
his best moment in the Octagon. lot about what I do. It reminds make a difference. To teach the It's everything. My training is
You've been spending a lot of you of the way you fight. You CHUCK page 63
details you have to pay attention ramping up, getting harder and
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day that I just heat up. It's all
planned and that's what I eat.
There are enough calories in
there for me for the day, and
each week as my weight goes up
and down we'll add or lose
calories.
Lastly, what is your best
memory from inside the
Octagon?
You know, it's hard to say. I've
had a lot of good ones and I've
had a lot of bad ones. Any time
I've lost has been devastating to
me, but the best would probably
have to be when I beat Randy
for the first time. I had already
lost to him and I came back with
a first round knockout for the
title. It was the biggest Pay Per
View that the UFC had had at
the time by far and it was just a
big day for me. That was my
best moment inside the Octagon.
Chuck Liddell takes on Rich
Franklin in UFC 115 on June
12, 2010, at General Motors
Place in Vancouver, British
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Faith-free drama in Afghanistan
tmatt (GetReligion)
Submitted at 4/21/2010 1:26:55 PM
At the end of the Time cover
story about efforts to reopen the
Pir Mohammed School in
Senjaray, Afghanistan, the
commander of the 120 U.S.
soldiers located there gets
caught up in an all-to-common
tragedy.
As an American convey passed
through the town, a civilian bus
raced up behind it. The soldiers,
fearing an ambush, repeatedly
signaled for the bus to slow
down or stop — using hand
signals and flares. Under revised
rules of engagement, the U.S.
forces fired no warning shots.
The bus continued to rush
toward them.
The soldiers opened fire, killing
five civilians and wounding 18
more.
The troops treated and
evacuated the wounded. Then
Captain Jeremiah Ellis, leader of
Dog Company of the 1st
Battalion, 12th Infantry
Regiment of the 4th Infantry
Division, guided a patrol into
the tense, hostile local bazaar to
meet with the village elders. my Soldiers will put themselves nothing ever will.’ ”
Later, he sent an email to Joe into harm’s way before This is the only direct reference
Klein of Time about those endangering your lives, because to religion in this entire piece,
meetings that ended like this: that is our responsibility as which is a gripping account of
“I explained the following. … Soldiers … to keep the fight the challenges facing Americans
The thing that pains me the most away from your businesses and as they try to earn the trust of
is that the people killed were your homes.’ I covered my heart the locals in a region that is at
innocent people that were and said, ‘I wish to God that I the heart of U.S. military and
caught in a dangerous situation. could undo the things that
happened this morning, but FAITH-FREE page 67
You know, from our past, that
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A market for Tebow

Sarah Pulliam Bailey mechanics, as if any quarterback paragraph—and no mention of
(GetReligion) leaves college without further the Focus on the Family
Submitted at 4/21/2010 5:00:08 PM need of instruction? advertisement. I guess his image
Then you have columnists who is just, as the reporter puts it,
Two weeks ago, my husband think Tebow could help the Ben “too-good-to-be-true.”
informed me that April 22 was Rothlesburger situation(The Tebow understands some might
his second favorite day of the NFL suspended Rothlesburger disagree with his personal
year. What’s so special about for violating the personal- views.
this day, you ask? The NFL conduct policy after someone No longer restricted by the
draft, and he plans to plant made a sexual assault allegation NCAA, he has ventured into the
himself in front of a television a g a i n s t h i m ) . H e r e ’ s t h e marketplace. Just don’t expect
set most of the day. (His favorite sarcastic scenario from Jason to see him pitching beer or male
day is the NFL’s opening day, Gay at the Wall Street Journal. -enhancement pills anytime
which might coincide with our “Well, where do you want to soon. But he said he won’t shy
S e p t e m b e r a n n i v e r s a r y roll tonight, Teeb?” Mr. away from his beliefs.
someday). Roethlisberger says Tebow will stick to companies
The Palm Beach Post’s Dave “That’s a great question,” Mr. that he deems have a positive
George is pretty sure former Tebow says. “I’ve never been to message.
Florida Gators quarterback Tim Pittsburgh. I was thinking we Besides “Christian,” what are
Tebow will be the big news of might start by building a his beliefs again? Has Tebow
the draft. That’s bad news for birdhouse for the local nursing said he won’t advertise for beer
sports reporters suffering from home. Then we could make or male-enhancement pills or is
Tebow fatigue. some jambalaya and serve it to that an assumption made by the
If all of that is part of some those fellows I saw beneath the reporter? Unless the reporter
elaborate smoke screen, again underpass on the way from the helps fill in some more religious
and always it is Tebow at the airport. And then, if we’re still background clues, we don’t
center of the flame. up to it, we could get a couple really feel the tension.
When Jerry Jones slurred his hammers, go to those vacant Perhaps reporters working on
words on a pirated YouTube buildings and free any feral cats future stories could ask Tebow
video last week, it was Tebow that might be trapped in the about his claim about companies
who the Cowboys’ owner drywall.” who wouldn’t represent him
slurred with his words. Coming right up, we have yet after the Focus on the Family
When the NCAA ruled recently another case of the media ad. Here’s Ben Volin’s blog
that printed messages no longer skimming over the details of post for the Post.
will be allowed to be written on Tebow’s faith. The Associated As to his first tenet, standing
a college player’s eye black, Press examines this Tebow When Tebow strolled through a care center, nudging their noses for what he believes in, Tebow
Tebow was the name everyone obsession with a story from gym recently with a five-man against the windows. Even they told the crowd that multiple
associated with the practice. Antonio Gonzalez on his entourage for an EA Sports seemed to recognize his appeal companies told him before the
There is no offseason, you see, m a r k e t a b i l i t y . video game photo session, the was something special. Super Bowl that they could not
for those suffering from Tebow Tim Tebow’s marketing power polarizing figure drew stares So why is Tebow so polarizing let him represent their products
fatigue. How many months is already reaching its potential, from people and clicks from cell a g a i n ? T h e r e ’ s o n e m e r e if he went ahead with his pro-
already have been burned even if his NFL future isn’t -phone cameras. Toddlers mention that Tebow is a MARKET page 66
studying his elongated throwing quite so certain. jumped when he passed the day Christian—in the 15th
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More than samosas and saffron
Mollie (GetReligion)
Submitted at 4/21/2010 12:31:27 PM
Did you read this Sunday New
York Times story about Swami
Ramdev headlined “ Indian
Who Built Yoga Empire Works
on Politics”? I don’t know if it
was worse as a religion news
story or as a political news story
but it really failed to even begin
to adequately explain either the
religious or political situation in
India.
A veteran religion reporter
submitted the story as a
particularly bad example of
reporting that plagues
Hinduism. Of all the world’s
major religions, none are so
diversified in character as
Hinduism. There are tons of
schools of philosophy and
theology and even in those there
are offshoots, sects and local
cults. Hinduism’s pantheon is
fairly unrivaled, with avatars
and devas and countless deities
symbolizing the many attributes
of a single god.
But the Times doesn’t explain
that Hinduism is diverse, much
less anything about where the
subject of the story fits in with
the religion.
Here’s an explanation of some
of Swami Ramdev’s politics:
“What the people need is
honest, brave and responsible
leadership,” he said in an
interview at the sprawling
campus of his rapidly expanding
yoga, natural foods and
medicine empire in northern
India. The country’s political
system is riddled with
corruption and riven by the deep
divisions of religion and caste,
he said. Tapping into the ancient
Indian wisdom that gave birth to
yoga, and the holy texts like the
Vedas and Upanishads, is the
only way to excise those
cancers, he contended.
Oh, he’s tapping into the Vedas
and Upanishads? That’s like
running a story that says “(fill in
the random politician’s name)
says he’s inspired by the Bible.”
It means almost nothing.
And here’s how the subject of
the story is described:
In some ways Swami Ramdev
harks back to India’s earliest
leaders with a message of self-
reliance, national pride and
traditional Indian values. But
with his vast yoga empire and
legions of followers on
television and the Web, he is
also a product and symbol of the
New India, a yogic fusion of
Richard Simmons, Dr. Oz and
Oprah Winfrey, irrepressible
and bursting with Vedic
wisdom.
A yogic fusion of Richard
Simmons, Dr. Oz and Oprah
Winfrey? This “description,” if
it can be called that, does little
other than dismiss the swami as
a silly pop culture reference
point. And a meaningless
Western pop culture reference
point at that. It frames the entire
story in a manner that makes the
religious views of the swami
seem false and ridiculous.
The reader who submitted the
story had a few other criticisms:
To start with, there’s no
explanation of what yoga means
(remember, most Western
readers regard yoga as little
more than a physical exercise),
no explanation of what the title
swami means (again, its a term
most Westerners have
absolutely no understanding of,
no knowledge that it means he is
a monk in some lineage with a
history all its own) or the esteem
it carries in traditional Hindu
society.
The story treats Hinduism,
yoga, the swami and the Indian
religious and political culture in
a confusingly superficial
manner:
Swami Ramdev plans to do for
the body politic what he has
already done to the country’s
creaky physiques: whip it into
shape. He announced last month
that he would found a political
party that would field candidates
for each of the 543
parliamentary seats in India’s
next general election in 2014.
But beyond the silly phrasing,
the story gives the impression
that the swami’s politics are
either overtly Hindu Nationalist
or at least in less conflict with
Hindu nationalism than some
other prominent politicians. But
we need to know more about the
specifics.
Perhaps instead of
namedropping Oprah and
Richard Simmons, we could get
some decent analysis that
explains where Swami
Ramdev’s religious views and
politics fit in relation to other
prominent Indian leaders of past
and present.
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life commercial at the Super
Bowl. But Tebow said losing
sponsors was a small price to
pay for the ability to spread his
message about family and faith.
Tebow hasn’t been too hurt by
the commercial, though, which
was sponsored by the
controversial group Focus on
the Family. Tebow has already
been linked to major
sponsorships with Nike and EA
Sports, and likely has several
more in the works.
Can Tebow offer any examples
of companies who said so?
Hopefully someone will follow-
up on these statements.
Tebow is probably not going
away, so its important to keep
some sort of religious context in
future coverage. There’s no
need to hammer away,
reminding people every single
detail about his faith, but the
story would be more interesting
if the background is explained a
little bit more. Another
paragraph or two explaining the
tensions would go a long way.
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cultural strategies in that
ravaged land. As the story says,
“If Senjaray can’t be won over,
Kandahar won’t be.” Kandahar
is at the heart of the Obama
administration’s plans in
Afghanistan.
The enemy is the Taliban — an
explicitly theocratic opponent.
Afghanistan is, of course, 99
percent Muslim and for
generations has been known as
one of the world’s most
uniquely impenetrable and
hostile nations, when it comes to
encounters with outside
cultures.
One of the primary goals of the
U.S. troops in this village is to
reopen a school, built by
Canadians, that was shut down
because it represented an
invasion of Western values and
freedoms — perhaps because it
allowed girls to attend classes,
as well as boys. The locals say
they want the school to reopen,
but cannot afford to assist in this
process for fear that Taliban
informers will see their actions,
report them and that this will
lead to their deaths. Heads will
literally roll.
At one point, Ellis and
company learn that the local
elders are actually crossing the
border into Pakistan to consult
with Taliban leaders about
which projects to allow the
Americans to complete and
which ones should be opposed.
It’s all about improving the local
infrastructure for the return of
Taliban rule, which will take
place in a few months, years,
decades or whatever.
Readers can see the big picture
in the following encounter
between the U.S. commander
and a young local man whose
family controls a crucial piece
of property.
… (Ellis) asked Rahman why he
thought the Americans were in
Afghanistan. The boy said he
didn’t know. Ellis asked if he
had heard about the attacks of
Sept. 11, 2001. The boy said no.
He asked what Rahman thought
about the Americans. “I’ve
heard that they bomb civilians
from the air,” the boy said. But
the Taliban bomb and booby-
trap schools, Ellis pointed out.
“Why would they do that?”
Rahman didn’t know. Ellis
asked the boy how he thought
the war would end. “Whenever
you guys get out from here,
things will get better,” he said.
“The elders will sit down with
the Taliban, and the Taliban will
lay down their arms.”
That is that.
It is one thing to say that there
is a religion “ghost” in this
story, a ghost rooted in the clash
between the Western outsiders
and the form of Islam that is
proclaimed and enforced by the
Taliban. Read the article for
yourself and then answer this
question: Where are the voices
of the locals, when it comes to
answering basic questions about
the school and the conflicts that
it represents?
Perhaps there were translation
problems. I can understand that.
But it is also possible that the
locals talked about the role of
religion in their lives and that
this was not the way that the
67
Time team wanted to frame the
story. Thus, the story is
dominated by columns of
paraphrased material. Where are
the local voices? If there are
loaded questions that they
cannot answer (Why are the
Americans in Afghanistan?),
this may provide insights into
the nature of the cultural conflict
in the village, the region and the
nation.
But it appears that religion has
nothing to do with this story
about the Pir Mohammed
School, nothing to do with the
iron-clad belief among those
living in the area that a Taliban
victory is inevitable. Religion
has nothing to do with it.
Nothing. At. All.
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