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Huntsmans big day out

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Submitted at 6/21/2011 5:01:20 PM
Jon Huntsman knew coming into Tuesday that low name recognition was a problem. But the former Utah governor might not have expected it in the heart of his campaign on the day he announced a run for the White House. Media traveling with the justhatched candidate in New Jersey were handed press passes which touted theJohn Huntsman for President Announcement Tour (thats an extra H in the first name). Staff quickly scrambled to retrieve and replace the errant IDs. By Huntsmans second stop of the day, a rally in Exeter, New Hampshire, aides had opted instead for the generic tag of Governor Huntsman. Less chance of a blunder. President Barack Obamas former envoy to China spoke for 13 minutes to an enthusiastic crowd of several hundred who packed the historic Exeter town
hall. Many were undecided voters participating in the popular New Hampshire sport of kicking the tires. I wont make a decision until I talk to all of them, said Cathie Chevalier, 60, of Hudson, N.H. She said she was looking for the candidate who will best support active military and veterans. She
supported John McCain in 2008. Huntsman arrived about an hour late after his charter plane crowded with aides, wife Mary Kaye and seven kids, and the national media was delayed leaving New Jersey. Before the speech the crowd was shown a video biography that cast Huntsman as a westerner, a taxcutting true conservative and
someone with knowledge of the world along with the ability to laugh at his accomplishments. He speaks Mandarin Chinese, the narrator deadpanned. He speaks Hokkein. Whatever that is. Mary Kaye Huntsman said it was a myth that her husband, because of his calm demeanor, could not mix it up on the campaign trail or be an effective president. Hes dignified, but hes tough, she said. He doesnt yell and scream, but when hes in a room, hes a leader. People take notice. Photo credit: Reuters/Adam Hunger (Huntsman at rally in New Hampshire) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
China praises Libya rebels as important political force Reuters Africa

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Aljazeera.net China praises Libya rebels as important political force Reuters Africa BEIJING, June 22 (Reuters) China's foreign minister lavished praise on Libya's rebel National Transitional Council on Wednesday, calling it an "important dialogue partner" which has become a major political force. China has taken no firm side in the... China receives Libyan opposition leader, recognizes NTC as "important dialogue... Xinhua Rebel Leader Visits China, Bolstering Ties Wall Street Journal China taking leaf out of Russia's script for Libya with more activist policy Al-Arabiya The Associated Press- New York Times- China Daily all 465 news articles
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Washington Extra Long day

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a troop drawdown in Afghanistan and will announce his plan in a prime-time speech to Americans Submitted at 6/21/2011 5:19:55 PM on Wednesday. Obama is The longest day of the year expected to present a blueprint for probably seemed even longer for bringing home thousands of some. troops in the initial phase starting Jon Huntsman started the day in in July and also unveil a broader New Jersey to formally throw his withdrawal strategy for the hat into the ring against the remainder of the 30,000 extra picturesque backdrop of the s u r g e t r o o p s h e o r d e r e d Statue of Liberty. Heres the thing deployed in late 2009, a U.S. a b o u t b a c k d r o p s a n d T V official said. Huntsman made it into every shot, For more of this story by Matt but not Lady Liberty. And then he Spetalnick, read here. was off to New Hampshire for a Biden, Congress tee up crucial rally. week on US debt limit At the Capitol, it was scheduled Faced with a looming selfas a two-hour meeting, but the imposed deadline, lawmakers issues seem never-ending as Vice launched a crucial week of talks President Joe Biden and seeking to break through lawmakers negotiate on the deficit d i f f e r e n c e s o n t a x e s a n d and debt limit. Some speculation healthcare. Vice President Biden swirling that perhaps a short-term m e t s i x D e m o c r a t i c a n d increase in the debt limit may be Republican lawmakers looking an option if agreement is out of for trillions of dollars in savings. reach. Its crunch time in those Not exactly a sunny day for the meetings. We have hit the point at economy. Data out today point to which we are at some really tough a housing market still struggling stuff, said House Majority to regain footing. Leader Eric Cantor. Big And tomorrow promises to be an numbers, big changes to popular extra long day for Afghanistan programs. watchers waiting for President For more of this story by Andy Barack Obama to lay out details Sullivan and Deborah Charles, of a U.S. troop drawdown in a read here. White House address at 8 p.m. U.S. releases graphic tobacco Here are our top stories from warning labels Washington Dead bodies, diseased lungs and Obama finalizes plan for Afghan a man on a ventilator were among troop cuts the graphic images for revamped President Obama made his final tobacco labels, unveiled by decision on the scale and pace of officials who hope the warnings
supply rose, pointing to a housing market still struggling to regain its footing. The drop was smaller than economists had expected, but the April sales figure was revised lower, leaving a report that was largely in line with expectations in financial markets. While the fall in sales was partly due to tornadoes and flooding, it underscored fundamental weakness. For more of this story by Lucia Mutikani, read here. Clinton backs brave Saudi women fighting drive ban Secretary of State Clinton praised will help smokers quit. The new NATO. brave Saudi women demanding labels must be on cigarette For more of this story by the right to drive, but she tried to packages and in advertisements Rachelle Younglai and Susan avoid an open breach with a close no later than September 2012. Cornwell, read here. ally by saying the Saudis They represent the first change in Republican hopeful Bachmann themselves should determine the cigarette warnings in 25 years. gets fundraising bump way forward. The Saudi driving For more of this story by Presidential hopeful Michele ban has been publicly challenged Deborah Zabarenko, read here. Bachmann saw a jump in political in recent weeks by women who U.S. tightens Libya sanctions; donations in May, aided in large have risked arrest to get behind Key senators back Obama part by small contributions as she the wheel. Clinton has come The United States tightened revs up her fundraising machine under mounting pressure to take a financial sanctions on the Libyan for the Republican nomination. stand. government and two influential Bachmann saw one of her two For more of this story by Andrew senators pushed back against calls p o l i t i c a l c o m m i t t e e s Quinn, read here. to halt funding for involvement in MichelePAC bring in about Michelle Obama meets Nelson NATO operations. Senators John $ 2 1 4 , 0 0 0 , c o m p a r e d w i t h Mandela in S.Africa K e r r y a n d J o h n M c C a i n $173,000 for April, according to First lady Michelle Obama paid a introduced a measure to formally filings. visit to former South African authorize the intervention for up For more of this story by Kim P r e s i d e n t N e l s o n M a n d e l a , to one year. A Senate vote would Dixon, read here. kicking off her symbolic trip to send a message that Washington For a factbox on Republicans Africa by meeting one of the was committed to the conflict and running for president, click here. continents most revered leaders. would not abandon allies, Kerry U.S. home sales hit 6-month low, Obama, her mother and two said. Pulling the plug would supply rises daughters, visited the 92-year-old doom the Libyan operation and Sales of previously owned homes WASHINGTON page 3 undermine the very core of hit a six-month low in May and
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Mark Kelly says hell leave NASA and the Navy to be by Gabrielle Giffords side
Deborah Zabarenko (Front Row Washington)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 11:46:06 AM
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Three weeks after he landed space shuttle Endeavour at the end of its final voyage, Captain Mark Kelly said hell be retiring from NASA and the U.S. Navy to be with his wife, U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, as she recovers from gunshot wounds suffered in January. As life takes unexpected turns we frequently come to a crossroads, Kelly wrote in a post on Facebook. I am at this point today. Gabrielle is working hard every day on her mission of recovery. I want to be by her side. Stepping aside from my work in the Navy and at NASA will allow me to be with her and with my two daughters. Giffords returned to her Tucson home last week for the first time since the shooting that severely
injured her and killed six others on January 8. Kelly said his retirement from the Navy and NASA would take effect October 1. He mentioned possibilities for his own future perhaps a return to some kind of public service and expressed confidence in
anti-apartheid icon at his home in Johannesburg. For more of this story by Jeff Mason, read here. From elsewhere Huntsman enters 2012 race against ex-boss Obama Republican Jon Huntsman, the former ambassador to China, component of what makes our entered his partys presidential country great. We will continue to race pledging to make hard explore and NASA will continue decisions to prevent America to lead that effort, Kelly wrote. sinking into a debt disaster. Photo credits: Office of Rep. Huntsman upset the White House Gabrielle Giffords (Giffords with in April by quitting his job in husband Mark Kelly in this Beijing to take on his former boss. November 2007 photograph from For more of this story, read here. their wedding made available by Photo credit: Reuters/Shannon the office of Rep. Giffords for Stapleton (podium for Huntsman announcement in New Jersey) Reuters on January 12, 2011) NASA (Space shuttle Endeavour This entry passed through the Commander Mark Kelly and Full-Text RSS service if this is mission specialist Ron Garan can your content and you're reading it be seen in the window of the on someone else's site, please read International Space Stations the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five cupola, May 27, 2011) This entry passed through the Filters featured article: Ten Years NASAs. Full-Text RSS service if this is Of Media Lens - Our Problem I know that as our space program your content and you're reading it With Mainstream Dissidents. evolves, there are those who will on someone else's site, please read question NASAs future. I am not the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentamong them. There isnt a group only/faq.php#publishers. Five more dedicated to its mission or Filters featured article: Ten Years more capable than the outstanding Of Media Lens - Our Problem men and women of NASA. With Mainstream Dissidents. Exploration is a critical
Pentagon gets cyberwar guidelines (AP)

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Millions of middle-class people could get Medicaid - msnbc.com

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Saul Loeb/ AFP - Getty Images, file U.S. President Barack Obama, surrounded by lawmakers, signs the healthcare insurance reform legislation during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, March 23, 2010. By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR updated 2 hours 21 minutes ago 2011-0622T08:29:39 WASHINGTON President Barack Obama's health care law would let several million middleclass people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed. The change would affect early retirees: A married couple could have an annual income of about $64,000 and still get Medicaid, said officials who make longrange cost estimates for the Health and Human Services department. After initially downplaying any concern, the Obama administration said late Tuesday it would look for a fix. Up to 3 million more people could qualify for Medicaid in 2014 as a result of the anomaly. That's because, in a major change
from today, most of their Social Security benefits would no longer be counted as income for determining eligibility. It might be compared to allowing middle-class people to qualify for food stamps. 'Doesn't make sense' Medicare chief actuary Richard Foster said the situation was keeping him up at night. "I don't generally comment on the pros or cons of policy, but that just doesn't make sense," Foster said during a question-and-answer session at a recent professional society meeting. "This is a situation that got no attention at all," added Foster. "And even now, as I raise the issue with various policymakers, people are not rushing to say ... we need to do something about this." Story: Healthcare reform: What's at stake Administration officials said Tuesday they now see the problem. "We are concerned that, as a matter of law, some middleincome Americans may be receiving coverage through Medicaid, which is meant to serve only the neediest Americans," said Health and Human Services spokesman Richard Sorian. "We are exploring options to address this issue." Don't miss these Health stories
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options. The program is now one of the top issues in budget negotiations between the White House and Congress. Republicans want to roll back federal requirements that block states from limiting eligibility. Video: Political panel discusses the Medicare problem(on this page) Medicaid is a safety net program that serves more than 50 million vulnerable Americans, from lowincome children and pregnant women to Alzheimer's patients in nursing homes. It's designed as a federal-state Story: Man robs bank for $1 to partnership, with Washington get medical care in jail paying close to 60 percent of the Administration officials and total cost. senior Democratic lawmakers Early retirees would be a new initially defended the change, group for Medicaid. While saying it wasn't a loophole, but retirees can now start collecting the result of a well-meaning effort Social Security at age 62, they to simplify the rules for deciding must wait another three years to who would get help under the new get Medicare, unless they're health care law. Instead of a disabled. Story: AMA: Doctors hodgepodge, there would be one s h o r t c h a n g e d b y i n s u r e r s ' national policy. mistakes But Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the Some early retirees who worked ranking Republican on the Senate all their lives may not want to join Finance Committee, called the a program for the poor, but others situation "unacceptable" and said might see it as a relatively he intended to look into it. painless way to satisfy the new Governors complain law's requirement that most Governors have been clamoring Americans carry health insurance for relief from Medicaid costs, starting in 2014. It would help complaining that federal rules tide them over until they qualify drive up spending and limit state for Medicare.
The actuary's office said the early retirees eligible for Medicaid would be on top of an estimated 16 million to 20 million new people that Obama's law already brings into the program, by opening it to childless adults with incomes near the poverty level. It's unclear how much it would cost to cover the retirees. Federal taxpayers will cover the entire initial cost of the expansion. Republicans already see a problem. 'Fuel to the fire' Former Utah governor Mike Leavitt said bringing early retirees in will "just add fuel to the fire," bolstering the argument from Republican governors that some of Washington's rules don't make sense. "The fact that this is being discovered now tells you, what else is baked into this law?" said Leavitt, who served as Health and Human Services secretary under President George H.W. Bush. "It clearly begins to reveal that the nature of the law was to put more and more people under eligibility for government insurance," he added. Story: Kids with government insurance wait longer for some care The Medicare actuary's office roughed out some examples to MILLIONS page 6
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AP Exclusive: Medicaid for the middle class? (AP)

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Submitted at 6/21/2011 8:34:25 PM
Medicare chief actuary Richard Foster says the situation keeps him up at night. Play Video By RICARDO "I don't generally comment on the A L O N S O - Z A L D I V A R , pros or cons of policy, but that Associated Press just doesn't make sense," Foster WASHINGTON President said during a question-and-answer Barack Obama's health care law session at a recent professional would let several million middle- society meeting. class people get nearly free "This is a situation that got no insurance meant for the poor, a attention at all," added Foster. t w i s t g o v e r n m e n t n u m b e r "And even now, as I raise the crunchers say they discovered issue with various policymakers, only after the complex bill was people are not rushing to say ... signed. we need to do something about The change would affect early this." retirees: A married couple could Administration officials said have an annual income of about T u e s d a y t h e y n o w s e e t h e $64,000 and still get Medicaid, problem. "We are concerned that, said officials who make long- as a matter of law, some middlerange cost estimates for the i n c o m e A m e r i c a n s m a y b e Health and Human Services receiving coverage through department. Medicaid, which is meant to serve After initially downplaying any only the neediest Americans," c o n c e r n , t h e O b a m a said Health and Human Services administration said late Tuesday it spokesman Richard Sorian. "We would look for a fix. are exploring options to address Up to 3 million more people this issue." could qualify for Medicaid in Administration officials and 2014 as a result of the anomaly. senior Democratic lawmakers That's because, in a major change initially defended the change, from today, most of their Social saying it wasn't a loophole but the Security benefits would no longer result of a well-meaning effort to b e c o u n t e d a s i n c o m e f o r simplify the rules for deciding determining eligibility. It might who would get help under the new be compared to allowing middle- health care law. Instead of a class people to qualify for food hodgepodge, there would be one stamps. national policy.
But Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, called the situation "unacceptable" and said he intended to look into it. Governors have been clamoring for relief from Medicaid costs, complaining that federal rules drive up spending and limit state options. The program is now one of the top issues in budget negotiations between the White House and Congress. Republicans want to roll back federal requirements that block states from limiting eligibility. Medicaid is a safety net program that serves more than 50 million vulnerable Americans, from lowincome children and pregnant women to Alzheimer's patients in nursing homes. It's designed as a federal-state partnership, with Washington paying close to 60 percent of the total cost. Early retirees would be a new group for Medicaid. While retirees can now start collecting Social Security at age 62, they must wait another three years to get Medicare, unless they're disabled. Some early retirees who worked all their lives may not want to join a program for the poor, but others might see it as a relatively painless way to satisfy the new law's requirement that most
Americans carry health insurance starting in 2014. It would help tide them over until they qualify for Medicare. The actuary's office said the early retirees eligible for Medicaid would be on top of an estimated 16 million to 20 million new people that Obama's law already brings into the program, by opening it to childless adults with incomes near the poverty level. It's unclear how much it would cost to cover the retirees. Federal taxpayers will cover the entire initial cost of the expansion. Republicans already see a problem. Former Utah governor Mike Leavitt said bringing early retirees in will "just add fuel to the fire," bolstering the argument from Republican governors that some of Washington's rules don't make sense. "The fact that this is being discovered now tells you, what else is baked into this law?" said Leavitt, who served as Health and Human Services secretary under President George H.W. Bush. "It clearly begins to reveal that the nature of the law was to put more and more people under eligibility for government insurance." The Medicare actuary's office roughed out some examples to illustrate how the provision would
work. A married couple retiring at 62 in 2014 and receiving the maximum Social Security benefit of $23,500 apiece could get $17,000 from other sources and still qualify for Medicaid with a total income of $64,000. That $64,000 would put them at about four times the federal poverty level, which for a twoperson household is $14,710 this year. The Medicaid expansion in the health care law was supposed to benefit childless adults with incomes up to 133 percent of the poverty level. A fudge factor built into the law bumps that up to 138 percent. The actuary's office acknowledged its $64,000 example would represent an unusual case, but nonetheless the hypothetical couple would still qualify for Medicaid. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
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Romney Under Attack for Refusing to Sign Abortion Pledge

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Romney is not alone in his refusal to sign. Atlanta Businessman Herman Cain has not signed, citing the inability of (Photo: Reuters / Shannon the executive branch to provide Stapleton) Former Massachusetts funding or ban the procedure. Governor Mitt Romney speaks at Recently announced candidate the first New Hampshire debate of Jon Huntsman has not yet signed the 2012 campaign at St. Anselms t h e A n t h o n y p l e d g e a n d College in Manchester, New regardless of his decision to do so, Hampshire June 13, 2011. his moderate positions will directly complete with Romneys Candidates are routinely asked to moderate base of supporters. sign pledges ranging from a Yet its Romney refusal that has promise not to raise taxes to a d r a w n t h e m o s t a t t e n t i o n . commitment to support green Santorum and Bachmann were the standards in building codes. But first to issue statements. few draw the ire of pro-life voters Like us on Facebook when candidates refuse to sign This past Monday night at the pledges to restrict abortion. Republican Presidential Debate, I The Anthony pledge asks was asked about Governor candidates for their promise to Romneys pro-life conversion, only nominate or support judicial and I gave him the benefit of the candidates who are pro-life, to doubt. I apparently spoke to select only pro-life cabinet s o o n , s a i d S a n t o r u m i n a m e m b e r s a n d t o s u p p o r t statement issued Monday. l e g i s l a t i o n t h a t w o u l d b a n Bachmann wasted little time in abortions after 20 weeks of going after Romney, saying, The pregnancy. excuses for not signing clearly So far, five of the Republican continue the doubts about his presidential candidates have leadership and commitment to signed the pledge. They include ending the practice of abortion former Pennsylvania Senator Rick particularly for a candidate who Santorum, former Minnesota ran as pro-choice for the Senate Governor Tim Pawlenty, former a n d g o v e r n o r s h i p o f House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Massachusetts, Bachman said in T e x a s R e p . R o n P a u l a n d her statement. M i n n e s o t a R e p . M i c h e l e The source of the attacks is in no Bachmann. doubt due to Romneys former
illustrate how the provision would work. A married couple retiring at 62 in 2014 and receiving the maximum Social Security benefit of $23,500 apiece could get $17,000 from pro-choice position. comes to abortion, there is no other sources and still qualify for In a 2007 interview with Fox middle ground. Medicaid with a total income of News when asked of his remarks Karen McNeil, a pro-life $64,000. i n s u p p o r t o f p r o t e c t i n g a advocate and board member of That $64,000 would put them at womans right to choose, Romney Life Choices of Memphis, a about four times the federal compared himself to previous Christian pregnancy-counseling poverty level, which for a twoRepublican presidents, saying, center, expressed her concerns person household is $14,710 this Yes, thats right. But when I over Romneys abortion stance. year. became governor I laid out in my Sometimes candidates make The Medicaid expansion in the view that a civilized society must pledges on economic issues and health care law was supposed to respect the sanctity of life. And when things change, they find benefit childless adults with you know what? Im following in themselves having to go back on incomes up to 133 percent of the some pretty good footsteps. Its their original promise like poverty level. A fudge factor built exactly what Ronald Regan did. former President Bush did in the into the law bumps that up to 138 As governor, he was adamantly early 90s, said McNeil. But percent. pro-choice. He became pro-life as some issues have nuisances The actuary's office he experienced life. And the same associated with them, and I acknowledged its $64,000 thing happened with George H.W. believe when it comes to abortion, example would represent an Bush. youre either pro-life or youre unusual case, but nonetheless the The former senator of Missouri not. hypothetical couple would still and a top Romney adviser was Conservative leaders such as qualify for Medicaid. c a l l e d o n t o d e f e n d h i s Tony Perkins, of the Family Copyright 2011 The Associated candidates position and refusal to Research Council, and McNeil Press. All rights reserved. This sign the pledge. feel social issues are directly tied material may not be published, Hes strongly pro-life. He just to economic issues. broadcast, rewritten or affirmed it again and its on our If a candidate is not willing to redistributed. website, a whole array of pro-life put their signature on the abortion This entry passed through the positions that went further, I issue, Im not sure I can trust Full-Text RSS service if this is think, than the pledge went, them on other issues, McNeil your content and you're reading it Talent told Fox News on Monday. added. on someone else's site, please read He (Romney) doesnt want to This entry passed through the the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contents a y h e s d i s q u a l i f i e d f r o m Full-Text RSS service if this is only/faq.php#publishers. Five considering people who may not your content and you're reading it Filters featured article: Ten Years agree with him in everything on on someone else's site, please read Of Media Lens - Our Problem that issue for a job like FBI the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentWith Mainstream Dissidents. director. only/faq.php#publishers. Five Still, social conservatives are Filters featured article: Ten Years leery of candidates waffling on Of Media Lens - Our Problem values issues, and when it With Mainstream Dissidents.
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U.S. law firm spent $7 million to sue Wal-Mart (Reuters)

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By Leigh Jones NEW YORK (Reuters) Joseph Sellers is in the hole by about $7 million and does not expect to dig his way out any time soon. As lead counsel to the plaintiffs in the Wal-Mart Stores Inc employment discrimination lawsuit tossed out by the United States Supreme Court on Monday, Seller's law firm, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, dedicated about $5 million in attorney hours and spent $2 million on experts and discovery in the decade-long case, he said. The Court found the claims filed by as many as 1.5 million women against the retail giant were too varied to permit class certification. The Court did not rule on the merits of the plaintiffs' claims and left the door open for smaller, narrower groups of plaintiffs who could pursue other class actions. But so far, Cohen Milstein has not seen any return on its investment. "All our fees and expenses are at risk," Sellers said, referring to the Wal-Mart case. Cohen Milstein is a plaintiffs' powerhouse that has made a
successful business of bankrolling expensive, massive class actions. In recent years, the 60-attorney firm with offices in New York, Washington, Philadelphia and Chicago, has won hundreds of millions of dollars against the likes of Mercedes Benz, BristolMyers Squibb, 3M and Christie's International. The firm focuses on antitrust, civil rights, product liability, securities fraud and employee discrimination. The law firm has a line of credit that it uses to pay expenses, Sellers said, and will continue to rely on it to help move the WalMart matter along. He said the employment discrimination practice "contributes to the profitability of the firm." Verdicts and settlements in antitrust, product liability and securities fraud cases can support a firm's employment discrimination practice, since those cases usually are not big money-makers, said Sean Coffey, a former securities class-action plaintiffs attorney and unsuccessful candidate for New York Attorney General. Coffey recently founded BlackRobe Capital, a New Yorkbased litigation funding company. The new company, which expects
to launch in the fall, is an alternative for law firms that do not want to self-fund litigation by fronting the costs of a case in exchange for a piece of the winnings. Sellers, whose firm self-funded the Wal-Mart case, said it received "overtures" from funding companies for the Wal-Mart case, but in light of Monday's decision, "they may conclude that there's too much at risk." A large portion of Cohen Milstein's $2 million in expenses was incurred sifting through about two million pages of discovery documents pertaining to WalMart's employment data, Sellers said. Up to five attorneys at a time have worked on the case and it has taken a mainframe computer to handle the data memory requirements. Hiring three outside experts also has taken a chunk of expenses, he said. Sellers is co-lead counsel with Brad Seligman, Senior Counsel of nonprofit group Impact Fund, which pays the salaries of its own lawyers. The organization was not immediately available for comment. The most the plaintiffs' attorneys generally can hope for in a federal class action is 33 percent of the
proceeds and the least is 25 percent, an amount set by the presiding judge, said Robert Ottinger, a plaintiffs employment law attorney. Usually, the more complicated the case, the higher the percentage. If there is any monetary recovery, which could reach tens of millions or more, Cohen Milstein likely would get the higher percentage, considering how long the Wal-Mart case has run, said Ottinger. The Ottinger Firm, in New York and San Francisco, is not connected to the Wal-Mart case. "I wouldn't have taken the case," said Ottinger, whose firm has three attorneys. "If we lost, it would be over for us." (Reporting by Leigh Jones; editing by Eileen Daspin and Andre Grenon) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
China restricts popular report-abribe websites The Associated Press

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Moneylife Personal Finance site and magazine China restricts popular report-abribe websites The Associated Press BEIJING (AP) Fed up with the endless payoffs and bribes endemic in China, public relations consultant Chen Hong ripped off an idea from India: set up a website to let people post anonymous tips on official bribery. It proved wildly popular and... India's fight against corruption resonates in neighbouring China The Citizen Daily Corruption eating rising powers China Daily India inspires China's anticorruption bloggers Hindustan Times (blog) all 107 news articles
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The Most Likely Climate Disasters On The Horizon

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Submitted at 6/21/2011 8:06:45 PM
From forest die-offs to melting Arctic ice, there are many possibilities for how climate change will affect the planet. But some have a larger chance of happening than others. Which should we be prepared for most, and working hardest to prevent? It's impossible to predict exactly when or how climate change will spiral out of control, but a new study claims that it's possible to find the"climate tipping points"(with apologies to Malcom Gladwell)--the small changes that lead to dramatic shifts in the climate--by developing early warning systems that analyze observational data and look for signs that the climate is becoming unstable. What are the tipping points that we should watch out for? The study ranks them from highest to lowest risk, and from highest to lowest likelihood. Luckily for us, the most likely also happens to be the least risky (what's some flooding in comparison to the collapse of all sea life in the ocean, right?). Here is what you should be worried for, from most to least problematic for our planet: West African Monsoon Shift Western Sub-Saharan Africa's
annual monsoon occurs because of seasonal temperature and humidity differences between the equatorial Atlantic Ocean and the Sahara. If those start to change, that could mean an increase in drought and famine in the region. On a global scale, the impact of altering hydrological cycles that"regulate the moisture and heat budget of the atmosphere" could have far wider-ranging effects.
West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse/Greenland Ice Sheet Meltdown Should the massive ice sheets on either end of the planet retreat, the obvious effect will be an increase in sea level rise. But that doesn't just mean that coastlines get more narrow. More water means that tsunamis and hurricane-driven storm surges become far more powerful. El NioSouthern Oscillation
Amplitude Increase An increase of the the El NioSouthern Oscillation (ENSO) could cause the Pacific to shift to a permanent El Nino-like state, according to one study. As we know, El Nio brings massive climate shifts to the Pacific-making it permanent could result in an increase in natural disasters all along the Pacific rim. Atlantic THC Shutdown This scenario involves the ocean
circulation triggered by differences in temperature and salinity in the water--otherwise known as the Atlantic Ocean's thermohaline circulation (THC). It's what causes the Gulf Stream and other ocean currents. If a shutdown results in freshwater continually flowing into the North Atlantic, it will cool areas like Ireland, Britain, and the Nordic MOST page 11
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iPhone's Market Share Gains Cut Into Android's Smartphone Dominance

Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 4:35:26 PM
Apple naysayers love to point out the growing presence of Androidpowered smartphones. Apple fans counter with a reminder that no one Android phone outsells the iPhone. Apple, meanwhile, is quite happy just to be making more money than everyone else. It's true that there are more Android phones out there, but just last quarter Google's smartphone OS experienced its first loss of market share in one region since 2009, and industry analysts Needham & Co. suspect it's "just the beginning of Android's share loss in the U.S." Google's U.S. smartphone market share slid from 52.4% at the end of 2010 to 49.5% at the end of the first quarter, Needham analyst Charlie Wolf noted. That may have a lot to do with the arrival of the iPhone from Verizon, the biggest carrier in the U.S., since Apple's U.S. market share jumped 9% in March, while globally its share remained flat. If Apple actually has a radically overhauled iPhone 5 on the way, rather than a simple "feature bump," it could indeed give Apple further advantage over Android-especially since the mid-cycle launch of the Verizon version was out of step with regular iPhone
updates, and a "substantial percentage" of would-be Verizon iPhone owners could be waiting for the arrival of the iPhone 5, according to Wolf. There are also rumors that a Sprint and T-Mobile edition of the iPhone will arrive to coincide with the iPhone 5 launch in fall, which would further goose its market share. In fact, Wolf thinks that a lateyear arrival for the iPhone 5 will zap Android's next-quarter results, and that Apple may expand its market share not only domestically, but also overseas,
where featurephones usually are the best-sellers. Apple could add to its momentum by launching a much cheaper version of the iPhone 5, the long-rumored iPhone "Lite," which Wolf thinks Apple COO Tim Cook has hinted at recently. There are tiny hints this may happen buried in some recent Apple developer code for iOS. The code specifically mentions several future iPhone and iPad IDs, but no iPod Touch. And remember Apple was said to be handing out an iPhone "4S" that
had the same design as the current phone, but an upgraded A5 CPU inside. Does Apple actually plan to drop the Touch and replacing it with a cheap iPhone? It's certainly possible: The Touch is essentially an iPhone without a 3G radio. Add the right chips and antenna, keep costs down with smaller memory (easy to do now that cloud systems have arrived) and a plastic rear case, and, voila: iPhone Lite. Need more proof that the iPhone is dominating? Try this one: the
iPhone has just become the number one camera used to submit pictures to Flickr, surpassing even the ubiquitous Nikon D70 and Canon's Digital Rebel DSLRs. If you limit the criteria to cameraphones alone, Apple's three previous iPhone editions occupy the top three slots. So, we have evidence the market has a desire for a new iPhone, proof that Apple can encroach on Android's market share, and IPHONE'S page 10
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Thanks to budget cuts, shiny new school sits unused (The Lookout)
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in the fall, Hillcrest will sit idle. Its campus is currently fenced off. Submitted at 6/21/2011 10:54:34 AM Wendell Tucker of the Alvord By Zachary Roth Unified School District said the A more striking symbol of the district's $130 million operating impact of cuts to education budget had been cut by $25 f u n d i n g w o u l d b e h a r d t o million. i m a g i n e : A g l e a m i n g n e w "When the California budget goes Southern California high school down and income in the state goes that cost more than $100 million down, funding to K-through-12 to build will sit empty and education goes with it," Tucker unused, because the local school told USA Today. "We made a district doesn't have enough number of budget adjustments. money to run it. Right now, we simply are out of I n 2 0 0 7 , v o t e r s a p p r o v e d adjustments, and it's not feasible approved bonds to finance the to open this school." building of Hillcrest High School And it's not clear that things will in Riverside, which was intended be any different in 2012. "We'll to relieve overcrowding at a look at it on a year by year basis," nearby high school. But thanks to Tucker added. major cuts in state education As if all this weren't frustrating funding, the local school district enough, even though the school can't afford the $3 million it won't be in use, the district will would cost to pay administrators, still have to spend $1 million to teachers, and other staff, and to maintain the buildings and run air handle the other expenses that conditioning and other systems, to come with operating a school. keep them from deteriorating. The So when the school year begins library and sports fields will be
made available for community use. That's little comfort to students at nearby La Sierra High School, where some classes pack in as many as 37 kids. "I wanted to go to that school," said Natalie Mercado, 14, who lives near the new campus. "I was really excited. It looked really good." According to Alvord school board member Ben Johnson, it was a choice between laying people off and keeping Hillcrest closed. "Choosing between people losing jobs and opening the school site, I couldn't in my mind justify one more person out of a job," he said. Hillcrest's woes are just a symptom of a larger education funding crisis in the Golden State. To address a severe budget shortfall, the state has cut one third of K-12 funding over the last three years--$18 billion in all. California's once-vaunted
education system is now 44th among states in terms of per-pupil spending. Meanwhile, the state's economy is showing few signs of improvement. Its 11.7 percent jobless rate is the second-highest in the nation, and its housing market, hit hard by the mortgage crisis, has yet to recover. The Hillcrest fiasco is a poignant marker of the bleak situation. "It's definitely a sign of the times," Tucker said. "This is a real-life example of what the current budget situation has done to Kthrough-12 education.'' This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
Straits Times China says no cyber warfare between it, US Chicago Tribune BEIJING (Reuters) - There is no cyber warfare taking place between China and the United States, a senior Chinese official said on Wednesday, after weeks of friction over accusations that China may have launched a string of Internet hacking attacks.... China warns US to keep out of S. China Sea dispute The Associated Press China'not responsible' for disputes China Daily China official says no cyber warfare between US, China Reuters India Reuters Africa- Inquirer.net all 144 news articles
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suggestions that a new iPhone Lite is en route to capture the cheaper market. Of course, Apple is enigmatic at the best of times, and it could choose not to launch a downmarket iPhone because it doesn't want to cheapen the experience. But the iPhone 5 alone could be a runaway success
by itself, leaving plenty of room on the market for the iPhone Lite. [Image: Flickr user nrkbeta] Chat about this news with Kit E a t o n o n T w i t t e r a n d F a s t (Yahoo! News: Most Popular) Company too. Submitted at 6/22/2011 5:44:09 AM
Obama to set course for drawing down Afghan war (AP)

AP - President Barack Obama will set the course for drawing down the U.S. war in Afghanistan on Wednesday, when he is expected to announce plans to bring roughly 10,000 American troops home in less than a year.
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Gingrich Loses Two More Aides; Campaign $1M in Debt

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Fundraising director Jody Thomas and fundraising consultant Mary Heitman are the latest to leave Gingrich's staff, reports campaign spokesman R.C. Hammond. Similar to the June 9 departures, the news reportedly signals problems with the presidential hopeful's campaign affairs. An anonymous source close to the former speaker of the houses operations told The Associated Press that Gingrich's campaign is $1 million in debt. The debt reportedly comes from large travel bills. Additionally, money has only been trickling into the campaign, reported USA Today. Gingrich has about a half-dozen people dedicated to raising money for the campaign, reports Politico. As a possible indication of the campaign's struggles, Hammond told Politico that Gingrich himself is dialing for dollars. A little more than a week ago, many of Gingrich's senior advisors resigned together. At least seven employees working in
countries .This could lead to increasing floods and storms, a collapse of plankton stocks, more frequent El Nino-like events, and even an oceanic anoxic event, where oxygen below the surface of the oceans becomes depleted. This could potentially kill most ocean life--and that would have battleground states Iowa and Tyler was among the staff to dire consequences beyond our our worst imaginations. South Carolina left his team citing abandon the campaign. a difference in campaign strategy. Prior to his trip, Gingrich was Amazon Rainforest Dieback/ Like us on Facebook criticized for going against fellow Boreal Forest Dieback Disgruntled workers described Republican Rep. Paul Ryan's People are rightfully concerned Gingrich as non-committal about budget on NBC's "Meet the about the Amazon, but the going out on the campaign trail. Press." Later, he struggled to massive loss of any major forest The former speaker of the house explain allegations that he racked would be problematic. Fewer reportedly told his staff he wanted up thousands in debt, between trees, paradoxically, means we to use technology and stand out in $ 2 5 0 , 0 0 1 a n d $ 5 0 0 , 0 0 0 , a t will see more wildfires and in the debate appearances rather than jeweler Tiffany & Co. in 2005 long term, an increase in the c o m m i t t o t r a d i t i o n a l and 2006, according to Politico. amount of CO2 in the atmosphere c a m p a i g n i n g , g r a s s r o o t s He denied the accusations, saying (since trees in the forests store carbon). organizing and other methods. he paid his debts. Former Iowa campaign manager Gingrich pledged on Facebook to Arctic Summer Sea Ice Loss Craig Schoenfeld also told USA turn his campaign around after the T o d a y t h a t G i n g r i c h w a s June 9 mass resignations. As of unwilling to put in the time Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. ET, he has commitment needed to raise made no mention of the latest money for a campaign and to get resignations on his Facebook page to know voters. except to encourage visitors to Aides said the last straw was an purchase buttons, mugs and tunadvised cruise to the Greek shirts from his Newt 2012 store. Isles with his wife Callista during This entry passed through the the last week of May. Gingrich's Full-Text RSS service if this is absence was felt at the Faith and your content and you're reading it (Yahoo! News: Most Popular) Freedom Coalition's conference on someone else's site, please read Submitted at 6/22/2011 5:43:35 AM where he was the only declared the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentcandidate not present. only/faq.php#publishers. Five AP - U.S. nuclear power plant "When the campaign and the Filters featured article: Ten Years operators haven't figured out how candidate disagree on the path, Of Media Lens - Our Problem t o q u i c k l y d e t e c t l e a k s o f they've got to part ways," said With Mainstream Dissidents. radioactive water from aging long-time spokesman Rick Tyler.
According to some predictions, the Arctic could lose its summer sea ice as early as 2013. This will mean more water in the ocean, which will ultimately lead to to higher sea levels and increased flooding. But though this tipping point is the most likely, it may also be avoidable. The Max Planck Institute for Meteorology contends that the loss of sea ice could be slowed or even stopped if overall climate change is slowed. If this doesn't happen, though, a loss of sea ice will speed up global warming and cause our climate to change irreversibly. Reach Ariel Schwartz via Twitter or email.
GAO: leaks at aging nuke sites difficult to detect (AP)

pipes that snake underneath the sites and the leaks, often undetected for years, are not going to stop, according to a new report by congressional investigators.
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How Apple's iCloud Could Squeeze Billions More From Tightfisted Music Lovers
Austin Carr (Fast Company)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 6:02:56 PM
Seventy-six percent of iPhone users surveyed said they were likely or very likely to use Apple's forthcoming free iCloud service, according to a survey by RBC Capital Markets. But even more remarkable is the number of iPhone users that said they were somewhat likely to drop $25 per year for Apple's iTunes Match Service: 30% indicated they were willing to pay for the privilege of organizing (and laundering) their music in Apple's cloud. And that's good news for labels that signed on with Apple. The music business is undoubtedly in a nosedive--worth half of what it was a decade ago, with album sales dropping 12.8% in 2010. But considering estimates that the number of iPhone users could reach as high as 100 million users by the end of 2011, Apple's cloud service could unearth a huge new source of revenue for the industry. If just 30% of those users pay the $25
annual fee, as RBC's survey suggests, that would yield roughly $750 million in incremental revenue per year. Apple has agreed to give 70% of any revenue from its cloud music service to the record labels. Apple finally unveiled its longanticipated cloud sharing service earlier this month. Called iCloud, the service allows users to sync all their apps, emails, photos, and
more online, accessible from anywhere--download Angry Birds on your iPad, for example, and it'll automatically show up on iTunes and your iPhone. But what's garnered the most attention is Apple's iTunes Music Match, a premium service that scans all your music and replaces random files with fully licensed, highquality versions that match any of the 18 million tracks in iTunes'
library--and they're stored in Apple's cloud, ready to be shared between all your Apple devices sans USB chords and slow sync times. It's a feature not even Amazon and Google could pull--the tech giants reportedly went ahead with their cloud-based music services without licenses from the major record labels, meaning in order to keep music in the cloud, you'll
have to own it and upload it yourself--a process that is snailpaced and clunky. Apple's service, on the other the hand, takes only "minutes not weeks," according to Steve Jobs, and could yield the company billions of dollars in revenue in the coming future. The report out today proves just how potent iCloud could be for Apple's mobile music offering. But it's not just iPhone users who are interested in the service-plenty of consumers would love to share their music between desktops and laptops and iPads. According to most recent figures, Apple boast 225 million creditcard backed accounts on iTunes. If only 30% of iTunes users opt in to Match, that'd bring in nearly $1.7 billion annually. Follow @AustinCarr [Image: Flickr user Doug88888] Read More: Apple Rumor Roundup: New MacBook Airs, The Perilous Future Of MobileMe, And More
Humans could have geomagnetic sight

Submitted at 6/22/2011 4:18:00 AM
The ability to see Earth's magnetic field, thought to be restricted to sea turtles and
swallows and other long-distance animal navigators, may also reside in human eyes. Tests of cryptochrome 2, a key protein component of
geomagnetic perception, found
that its human version restored worked at all is impressive. geomagnetic orientation in There's also a whole lot of it in cryptochrome-deficient fruit flies. our eyes. Continue reading... Flies are a long, long way from people, but that the protein
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Obama to Announce First Phase of Troop Withdrawal in Afghanistan - Voice of America

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June 22, 2011 Photo: AP A U.S. soldier kneels, as he controls the area near the scene of a suicide attack in Kandahar southern of Afghanistan, April. 14, 2011 President Barack Obama is set to announce on Wednesday the first phase of a withdrawal from Afghanistan that could see up to 10,000 U.S. soldiers leave the country by the end of the year. Defense officials have been quoted as saying that President Obama will call for an initial withdrawal of 5,000 troops, followed by an additional 5,000 by the end of 2011. But White House Spokesman Jay Carney warned against media speculation on Tuesday, saying the president will explain how he will implement the strategy he outlined in December 2009 on drawing down American troops. Obama announced the July start for the withdrawal in December
2009, when he presented his overall strategy for Afghanistan at the U.S. military academy at West Point, New York. In his Wednesday night speech at the White House, President Obama is also expected to reaffirm the U.S. and NATO commitment to completely transfer security responsibilities to Afghan forces by 2014. The United States currently has about
said the president has remained focused on achieving his objectives in Afghanistan. He noted, however, that Obama's objectives there do not require defeating the Taliban, but rather "reversing the momentum," which he says the military has been achieving. Some information for this report was provided by AP.* Required By using this form you agree to the following: All comments will be reviewed before posting. Be aware - not all submissions will be posted. VOA has the right to use your comments worldwide in any VOA produced media. Terms & Conditions 100,000 troops in Afghanistan. people are "tired of a decade of This entry passed through the U.S. Defense Secretary Robert war." He noted there are "a lot of Full-Text RSS service if this is Gates said Tuesday the president reservations" in Congress about your content and you're reading it h a s t o t a k e i n t o a c c o u n t the war and the level of U.S. on someone else's site, please read sustainability at home, both in commitment. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentC o n g r e s s a n d a m o n g t h e Gates spoke Tuesday at the State only/faq.php#publishers. Five American public, as well as Department, before heading to the Filters featured article: Ten Years conditions on the ground in White House with Secretary of Of Media Lens - Our Problem Afghanistan. S t a t e H i l l a r y C l i n t o n f o r With Mainstream Dissidents. Gates acknowledged concerns in consultations with the president t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s a b o u t about Afghanistan. Afghanistan, saying the American White House spokesman Carney
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Commander Kelly to Retire, Write a Memoir With Giffords

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Henry Blodget (Business Insider)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 5:42:13 AM
NASA will allow me to be with her and with my two daughters. I Submitted at 6/21/2011 3:44:31 PM love them all very much and there Words cannot convey my deep is no doubt that we will move gratitude for the opportunities I forward together. have been given to serve our great Giffords was released last nation, he wrote. From the day I Wednesday from a rehabilitation e n t e r e d t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s hospital in Houston, Texas, and Merchant Marine Academy in the she made a visit to Tucson for the summer of 1982 to the moment I first time since being shot. She l a n d e d t h e S p a c e S h u t t l e visited family, took a ride Endeavour three weeks ago, it has downtown, visited her new been my privilege to advance the constituency office, attended a ideals that define the United reunion with staffers and, from States of America. the air, viewed the devastation K e l l y i s m a r r i e d t o from the Monument Fire near C o n g r e s s w o m a n G a b r i e l l e Sierra Vista, which is part of her Giffords, who underwent surgery congressional district. last month to repair her skull. She She returned to Houston on was shot in the head in January at Sunday where she will continue a constituent event in Tuscon, rehab therapy as an outpatient. Ariz. Kelly said he wants to be Like us on Facebook with her as she continues to More than 200 people have left recover. comments on Kellys Facebook As life takes unexpected turns page since his announcement, w e f r e q u e n t l y c o m e t o a wishing the family well. crossroads, he wrote. I am at Thank you for a job well done! this point today. Gabrielle is said a commenter named Will working hard every day on her Bryan. You have been an mission of recovery. I want to be inspiration as both a member of by her side. Stepping aside from the worlds greatest military and my work in the Navy and at as a member of NASA! May The
Great Lord bless you, your daughters, and Gabby! Another well-wisher named Vivian Whitaker said, Thanks for your service to our country and NASA. Thanks too for sharing your life experiences. God bless you and Gabby as you enter a new chapter of your life together. Kelly said he might return to public service someday. After some time off, I will look at new opportunities and am hopeful that one day I will again serve our country, he said. Kelly also told The Arizona Republic that he and Giffords will work on a memoir detailing the events of their lives before and after she was shot. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
Android onslaught.
The iPad 3, meanwhile, will likely have better screen Bloomberg dug up some new resolution and a more responsive details on the iPhone 5, which it touchscreen. says is coming in September. IDC is projecting that Android Some of them are already out will have more than twice the there: global market share as the iPhone The iPhone 5 will include a by the end of the year: 40% for faster chip, the A5, that Apple is Android versus 18% for iPhone. using with the iPad 2 This makes the cheaper iPhone even more important. See Also: Here's Every Rumor The camera resolution will We Know So Far About The improve to 8 megapixels, from 5 iPhone 5 megapixels Please follow SAI: Silicon Alley Insider on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this The iPhone 5 release was story delayed until September to wait See Also: for the iOS 5 release. (This is the Apple Is Rich Enough To Buy first time we have heard an E v e r y O t h e r P h o n e M a k e r explanation for this delay.) ( E x c e p t S a m s u n g ) CHART OF THE DAY: A Tale Of Two Smartphone Companies Apple is developing a cheaper Apple Now Forcing A Worse "low-end" iPhone for developing U s e r E x p e r i e n c e O n I t s countries that will be similar to C u s t o m e r s today's iPhone 4. This will help the company compete with the
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North Dakota residents told to evacuate ahead of expected flooding - CNN International
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The swollen Souris River flows straight through Minot and is expected to overwhelm area levees. STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: "Historic proportions of water," spokeswoman said The Souris River is forecast to set a new record on Friday or Saturday Some 12,000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders (CNN)-- Residents in Minot, North Dakota, have until Wednesday evening to leave their homes after authorities ordered the evacuation of some 12,000 people from the area because of expected record flooding. Minot, located in the northcentral part of the state, is the fourth-largest city in North Dakota. The swollen Souris River flows
straight through the city and is expected to overwhelm area levees, said Cecily Fong, spokeswoman for the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services. "It's really historic proportions of water," Fong said late Tuesday night. The evacuation order covers a
third of the community's population, Fong said. Residents have until 6 p.m. Wednesday to leave. "The river is rising faster than expectations, so they (city officials) are kind of scrambling to shore up levees and do what they can," Fong said. The National Weather Service
has forecast record flooding and urged anyone living in the affected areas to prepare immediately for oncoming floodwaters. Heavy area rains and dam releases are causing the river to swell at Minot. "The current best estimate for when water will overtop the lowest dikes in the Minot area is
sometime on Thursday afternoon. However, a Wednesday night or early Thursday timeframe cannot be ruled out as the dikes become more stressed due to rising water," the weather service said. The river at Minot, which currently stands at close to 1,555 feet above sea level, is forecast to rise to 1,559 feet on Friday or Saturday -- which would be a new record. The river hit 1,558 feet above sea level in 1881. The Souris River looks like a "U." It swoops in and out of North Dakota from Canada. CNN's Richard Benson contributed to this report. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
CryoSat reveals first map of Arctic ice thickness

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The European Space Agency used this week's Paris Air and Space Show to debut its first
Arctic ice atlas, using data from the CryoSat satellite. Since its launch in April 2010, C r y o S a t h a s u s e d a r a d a r depth, thickness and distribution altimeter to precisely measure the
of ice in the Arctic. It's hoped that this map will determine how much sea ice is thinning in response to a changing climate. Continue reading...
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The Entire Fate Of The Debt Terrifying GOP AD Depicts China Literally Ceiling Could Come Down Conquering America To The Next Three Days
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Submitted at 6/22/2011 5:46:00 AM
Please follow Politics on Twitter and Facebook. Joe Weisenthal (Business broadbased deficit reduction the report, talks are getting hot, Join the conversation about this Insider) package will inevitably involve and it could come down to the Former state Sen. Mark Amodei story tax hikes -- a strategy of debt next three days. is running for Congress on the See Also: Submitted at 6/22/2011 5:48:12 AM reduction without any revenue If we had to guess: Nothing good platform that he won't raise the Can Michele Bachmann Win It's crunch time for the debt increases is totally implausible will come in the next few days. debt limit and let China literally The Iowa Caucuses? ceiling fight, even as the GOP according to just about everyone They're just too far apart on some take over the U.S. Can Jon Huntsman Win The begins to show says of fracturing, who's not a partisan. gigantic issues. Here's his new ad: New Hampshire Primary? according to David Rogers's latest On the other side, the more Please follow Business Insider on Of course this is becoming a C h i n a I s S y s t e m a t i c a l l y at POLITICO. ideological House members -- Twitter and Facebook. common refrain in debt talks. Hacking U.S. Networks -- And The split within the GOP looks lead by Majority Leader Eric Join the conversation about this Remember this terrifying ad They're Getting Nastier like this: Some in the party, like Cantor -- want to do it one-shot, story depicting a Chinese professor Senator Mitch McConnell are one-kill style: Get a big spending See Also: gloating about owning America? open to a temporary debt ceiling reduction now. All or nothing. Of Here's The White House's hike, just to make sure we don't course, that leaves open the real Official Line On The Economy... get into any dangerous territory, possibility that no deal gets done, while also continuing budget and then it's conceivable that the talks. US gets into default/crisis mode. Part of their concern is that any What's key is that, according to
Boris Johnson can benefit himself, and David Cameron, by going off-message - The Guardian (blog)
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The Guardian (blog) Boris Johnson can benefit himself, and David Cameron, by
going off-message The Guardian (blog) Boris Johnson and David Cameron appear to have agreed a strategy that allows the London mayor to go off piste in a bid to
woo the capital's voters. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA When Boris Johnson wrote a Sun article dismissing "soft justice" on the... Mayor's attacks on coalition 'are
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Greek government survives, battles on to avoid bankruptcy

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to implement harsh austerity measures against fierce public resistance and by doubts about By Ingrid Melander and George Greece's ability to reduce its debt Georgiopoulos burden without some form of ATHENS| Wed Jun 22, 2011 restructuring. 6:39am EDT The yield on Greek government (Reuters) - Greece's government bonds tightened slightly against will approve a new austerity benchmark German Bunds, with package on Wednesday after it the 2-year bond yield dropping 28 survived a confidence vote that basis points, while Greek banking was a crucial hurdle in a battle to stocks opening flat after strong a v e r t t h e e u r o z o n e ' s f i r s t gains on Tuesday. sovereign debt default. After some brief scuffles between P r i m e M i n i s t e r G e o r g e police and protesters after the late Papandreou's reshuffled cabinet night vote, the streets of Athens a i m s t o g e t p a r l i a m e n t a r y were calm on Wednesday with a p p r o v a l f o r a p a c k a g e o f traffic running normally through spending cuts, tax hikes and state Syntagma square where 20,000 asset sales by June 28 and d e m o n s t r a t o r s b e s i e g e d implement it by July 3 to secure parliament on Tuesday night. 12 billion euros ($17 billion) in The government won the late a i d t h a t i s v i t a l t o a v o i d night confidence motion by 155 to bankruptcy. 143 with two abstentions after all The vote follows a European of Papandreou's Socialist Party ultimatum linking the release of deputies voted solidly with the the next installment of a 110 government. billion euro EU/IMF aid package But with unions bristling for a to the tougher new five-year belt- fight and much of the public tightening plan. outraged by new austerity Without the loans, Athens would measures, implementing any plunge into default next month, reforms will be a challenge as sending shock waves through the Greece struggles in its worst global financial system. recession in 37 years. The euro rose in hopes that the "Within the parliament there is no immediate threat of market chaos problem at all, the real problem is could be avoided. But the gains i n s o c i e t y , " s a i d C o s t a s were short-lived as traders Panagopoulos of pollster ALCO. remained worried about the will "There's a lot of disappointment in
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the Greek society, there's a lot of anger and there's no hope at all. The new minister of finance and the government...have to offer some hope otherwise I cannot see how the government could remain stable." DEFAULT ONLY WAY OUT FOR GREECE? Euro zone creditor governments were starting talks with commercial banks and insurers on Wednesday about a "voluntary" private sector contribution to a second rescue program for Greece, a source in the German government said. "The finance ministry has invited banks and insurers for talks on a working group level in Frankfurt," the source told Reuters, adding that the same would begin elsewhere in the 17-nation single currency area. Private bondholders will be asked to commit to rolling over their Greek bonds when they mature, but Berlin was forced to drop a more ambitious plan for a bond swap extending maturities by seven years after the European Central Bank objected. Speaking hours after the vote, Mohamed El-Erian, head of Pimco, the world's biggest bond fund, said he expected Greece to end up defaulting on its debt. "For the next three years, we're going to see different economies
work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would be through default," El-Erian told a conference in Taipei. Papandreou managed to stifle dissent within his party last week, replacing unpopular government figures with critics of the austerity plan and repeatedly hammering home the message of what was at stake. "If we are afraid, if we throw away this opportunity, then history will judge us very harshly," Papandreou said in a final appeal for support before the confidence vote. Having already missed targets agreed in its first, year-old bailout, Athens needs the reforms to keep receiving those funds and secure a second bailout worth an estimated 120 billion euros. The new mid-term plan envisions raising 50 billion euros by selling off state firms and includes 6.5 billion in 2011 fiscal consolidation, almost doubling existing measures that have helped extend a deep recession into its third year. Most analysts remain skeptical that Greece will be able to repay its vast public debt pile of 340 billion euros, 1.5 times its annual economic output and more than 30,000 euros for each of its 11.3 million people, even if the
reforms are implemented. But for now both markets and European policymakers are willing to give Greece the benefit of the doubt. "Although this clearly is not going to be a long-term fix, investors see this as a chance that the can will be kicked further down the road," said David Dietze, Chief Investment strategist at Point View Financial Services. ANGER BUILDS IN ATHENS European Commission President Manuel Barroso, who had piled on pressure before the vote, expressed relief. "Tonight's vote in the Greek Parliament removes an element of uncertainty from an already very difficult situation," he said, adding that Papandreou could now concentrate on implementing the reforms. Acting IMF chief John Lipsky said international lenders were willing to help peripheral euro zone economies as long as they tried to carry out reforms. He said the Greek fiscal system was broken but could be fixed with the right political will. The cabinet will meet on Wednesday afternoon to approve a draft bill implementing the austerity plan, officials said. It will aim to get it passed in GREEK page 23
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Obama to unveil plan to withdraw troops from Afghanistan

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U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, B battery 2-8 field artillery, fire a howitzer artillery piece at Seprwan Ghar Forward fire base in Panjwai district, Kandahar province southern Afghanistan, June 12, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Baz Ratner By Missy Ryan WASHINGTON| Wed Jun 22, 2011 1:04am EDT (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was set to unveil on Wednesday his plan to start bringing U.S. troops home from Afghanistan, a first step toward ending a decade-long war that is increasingly unpopular in the United States. Obama is expected to announce in a televised address at 8 p.m. EDT a plan that may include the withdrawal by year's end of up to a third of the 30,000 'surge' troops he sent to Afghanistan in 2010, possibly followed by the removal of the rest of those extra forces by the end of 2012. The announcement caps weeks of speculation about the future direction of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, nearly 10 years after the September 11 attacks on the United States that triggered the war in which U.S. and other Western forces have been unable
to deal a decisive blow to the insurgent Taliban. Obama received recommendations last week from General David Petraeus, the outgoing commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, with several options for drawing down some of the 100,000 U.S. soldiers there starting in July. The president faces a host of contradictory pressures as he seeks to rein in government spending on the war and halt American casualties without endangering the gains his military commanders say they have made across southern Afghanistan. "There's almost no decision Obama can make that's a good one. We are in an economic crisis and this an expensive war," said Robert Lamb, a conflict expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. "On the other hand, we can't leave an Afghanistan that is unstable -- it's not in our interest to be seen as cutting and running." Defense Secretary Robert Gates and other military leaders have warned against a precipitous departure. Removing too many troops before the United States can prove it has turned a corner, Gates said, would be "premature." But some in Congress, impatient with a war that now costs over
$110 billion a year, are demanding a larger initial drawdown. SHIFT SINCE BIN LADEN'S DEATH The debate in Washington has shifted palpably since the U.S. special forces raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last month. His death has given critics from both parties ammunition to argue that the Obama administration must narrow more sharply U.S. goals in Afghanistan, which remains desperately poor and notoriously corrupt. While the United States has embraced efforts to find a political settlement with the Taliban, officials acknowledge a peace deal may be far in the future even if one could be had. Obama is mindful of the American public's lack of support for the war as he looks to his 2012 re-election campaign. A Pew Research poll released on Tuesday found a record 56 percent of Americans favor bringing U.S. forces in Afghanistan home as quickly as possible. Still, the situation on the ground in Afghanistan is worrying. The Taliban has been pushed out of some areas of their southern heartland, but the insurgency has intensified along Afghanistan's
eastern border with Pakistan and U.S. commanders are expected to shift their focus to that area. July will see the official start of NATO's handover to local security forces in keeping with a plan to put Afghan soldiers in charge across the country by the end of 2014. Serious doubts remain about whether Afghan forces, plagued by desertion and illiteracy, will be up to the task. Vali Nasr, who until April was a senior State Department advisor on the region, said a decision to shrink the U.S. military footprint without fully taking into account the many challenges that remain in Afghanistan would be reckless. "Without a real turning point in the war, without a peace treaty or a clear defeat of the Taliban, we are going to pull out these troops unilaterally," he said. "It's going to be a very consequential decision in what we're trying to achieve over there." (Editing by Christopher Wilson) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
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PIMCO's El-Erian predicts Greece, others will default

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Mohamed El-Erian, CEO and Co -Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO, speaks at the panel discussion ''The Shape of Things to Come: Understanding the New Global Economy'' at the 2011 The Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California May 2, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Fred Prouser TAIPEI| Wed Jun 22, 2011 6:49am EDT (Reuters) - The head of PIMCO, the world's biggest bond fund, predicted that Greece and other European economies would default on their debts to resolve their problems as the euro area deals with its debt crisis. Greece's government won a vote of confidence late on Tuesday, a crucial step toward securing further short-term and longer-term financial aid from the European Union and the IMF as the country tries to avoid the euro zone's first sovereign debt default. "For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would be through
default," Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive of PIMCO, told reporters in Taipei on Wednesday via a video conference. He didn't identify which economies other than Greece he was referring to. El-Erian has suggested in the past that Greece would default and that Europe risks wasting money for nothing by pumping billions of dollars into the ailing economy. "Nothing has been done to enhance growth," he said. "No single (Greek) indicator has shown strength. They are afraid a restructuring would hurt European banks." He doubted a Greek default could trigger another global financial crisis. "Ireland, Portugal, Italy and Spain would have to be involved. But Greece is too small in terms of economic impact," El-Erian said. PIMCO, or the Pacific Investment Management Co, is based in California and is the world's biggest bond fund manager with nearly $1.3 trillion in assets under management. Horacio Valeiras, chief investment officer of fund firm Allianz Global Investors Capital (AGIC), predicted that Ireland
and Portugal, countries that also received financial bailouts in the wake of the global credit crisis, will have to restructure their debts. PIMCO and AGIC are units of German insurer Allianz, which organised briefings for the media and investors. "We are not investing in Greece, Ireland, Spain and Portugal," said Valeiras, who appeared in person at the press briefing. He said default in Greece was "inevitable". The confidence vote in Athens came after a European ultimatum requiring the debt-choked state to agree to a five-year austerity package of measures within the next two weeks or miss out on a 12-billion euro tranche of aid money. Without the loan, Athens will run out of cash next month and policymakers fear a default would send shockwaves through the global financial system. European officials are also considering a second bailout package worth an estimated 120 billion euros that is meant to extend Greece's year-old 110 billion euro deal and fund it into 2014.
Sovereign debt elsewhere in the developed world has also soared since the global crisis, affecting investment decisions. The fiscal weight of the global financial crisis prompted PIMCO to dump U.S. sovereign bonds. The fund's $236.9 billion PIMCO Total Return Fund said in March it had completed a move in February to drop all its investments in U.S. government debt. Earlier this month, Tomoya Masanao, the head of Japan portfolio management for PIMCO, said the fund manager had cut holdings of Japanese and U.S. government debt to shift money into more attractive investments, such as debt issued by the likes of Australia, Canada, Brazil and Mexico. (Reporting by Faith Hung; Editing by Neil Fullick) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
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Paris Air Show Highlights Biofuels

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By Nicholas Zifcak Epoch Times Staff Created: Jun 22, 2011 Last Updated: Jun 22, 2011 FLYING GREEN: Honeywell's Gulfstream G450 made the first completely biofueled transatlantic flight from New Jersey to Paris. (www.gulfstream.com) Biofuels are getting a lot of attention this week at the Paris Air Show. Airlines have shown their support of the technology and its viability with Honeywell and Boeing planes using a blend of biofuel and conventional jet fuel. Honeywell called the flight on Sunday of its Gulfstream G450 jet from New Jersey to Paris, the first-ever transatlantic biofuel flight in history. Meanwhile, Boeing flew its new 747 freighter from Seattle to Paris on a blend of conventional jet fuel and 15 percent camelina-based biofuel, also vying to be first to fly the Atlantic on biofuel. Boeing says the use of biofuels will substantially reduce carbon emissions. The show also included a special exhibition area for alternative aviation fuels. Also this week, seven airlines announced their intentions to work with biofuel producer,
Solena Fuels, to provide fuel for their flights out of the San Francisco Bay area. Solenas fuel is made from a multistep process that starts with recycled urban and agricultural wastes. Solenas facility in Northern California will produce as much as 16 million gallons of jet fuel from this waste per year by 2015, to support airline operations at Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose airports. The process Solena employs makes all three major distillates: gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. In addition, the plant is able to provide its own source of energy and even produces excess electricity. Solenas biofuel manufacturing process was approved in 2009 for use as jet fuel by ASTM International, the worldwide consensus standards organization. This approval made Mondays deal possible, as airlines need a standard fuel content and quality in order to be considered a reliable fuel source. American Airlines and United Continental Holdings led the development of the deal that resulted in letters of intent. They were joined by Alaska Airlines, FedEx, JetBlue, Southwest, Frontier, US Airways, as well as Air Canada and Lufthansa German Airlines. On June 10, another alternative
that algae can be grown without soil and is one of the most prolific photosynthetic plants. Algaes energy is found in the chloroplast, which uses photosynthesis to turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into organic carbon. This organic carbon is in the form of oils that can then be refined into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, according to Sapphire Energys site. This fuel, says Sapphire, will work with existing transport systems and has an equivalent or greater energy density than current fossil fuels in use. However, scaling up these biofuels will take some time. By 2015 Sapphire Energy expects to be producing millions of gallons of jet fuel and diesel at its new 300-acre facility being built, according to ThinkProgress. According to the United States Energy Information Administration, the airline industry uses hundreds of thousands of gallons of jet fuel biofuel received approval from Esters and Fatty Acids), derived per day. ASTM. Review of the fuel is from biomass products such as This entry passed through the complete and standards for this camelina, jatropha, or algae. Full-Text RSS service if this is alternative bio-derived jet fuel Conventional jet fuel will be used your content and you're reading it should be released by August, in conjunction with this new fuel on someone else's site, please read s a y s t h e A i r T r a n s p o r t at up to a 50/50 ratio. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentAssociation in a press release. One of the startup producers of only/faq.php#publishers. Five Standardized fuel properties will this type of fuel is Sapphire Filters featured article: Ten Years ensure the quality of this new fuel Energy, which uses algae to Of Media Lens - Our Problem and will lead the way for its use as produce what the company calls With Mainstream Dissidents. HEFA fuels (Hydro-processed green crude. The company says
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Ethics Suit: NASA Scientist Used Status for $1.2M Profit

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activities? We have reason to believe that has not been occurring." The NASA scientist who once The lawsuit claims Hansen claimed the Bush administration privately profited from his public tried to "silence" his global job in violation of federal ethics warming claims is now accused of rules, and NASA allowed him to receiving more than $1.2 million do it because of his influence in from the very environmental the media and celebrity status organizations whose agenda he among environmental groups, advocated. which rewarded him handsomely In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in the last four years. Washington, D.C., a group claims Gifts, speaking fees, prizes and NASA is withholding documents consulting compensation include: that show James Hansen failed to -- A shared $1 million prize from comply with ethics rules and the Dan David Foundation for his financial disclosures regarding " p r o f o u n d c o n t r i b u t i o n t o substantial compensation he humanity." Hansen's cut ranged earned outside his $180,000 from $333,000 to $500,000, taxpayer-paid position as director Horner said, adding that the of the Goddard Institute for Space precise amount is not known Studies. because Hansen's publicly "Hansen's office appears to be available financial disclosure somewhat of a rogue operation. form only shows the prize was It's clearly a taxpayer-funded "an amount in excess of $5,000." g l o b a l w a r m i n g a d v o c a c y -- The 2010 Blue Planet prize organization," said Chris Horner, worth $550,000 from the Asahi a co-founder of The American G l a s s F o u n d a t i o n , w h i c h Tradition Institute, which filed the recognizes efforts to solve lawsuit. "The real issue here is, environmental issues. has Hansen been asking NASA in -- The Sophie Prize for his w r i t i n g , i n a d v a n c e , f o r "political activism," worth permission for these outside $100,000. The Sophie Prize is
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meant to "inspire people working towards a sustainable future." -- Speaking fees totaling $48,164 from a range of mostly environmental organizations. -- A $15,000 participation fee, waived by the W.J. Clinton Foundation for its 2009 Waterkeeper Conference. -- $720,000 in legal advice and media consulting services provided by The George Soros Open Society Institute. Hansen said he did not take "direct" support from Soros but accepted "pro bono legal advice." Hansen did not respond to Fox News' request for comment. Federal rules prohibit government employees from receiving certain types of income outside their job. Employees are required to file Form 17-60 in writing before any outside activity. And annually, they're required to submit Form SF 278, after receiving outside compensation. The American Tradition Institute filed a Freedom of Information Act request for those two documents for Hansen. The lawsuit claims NASA has
"repeatedly and unlawfully refused to produced the requested materials." "Should the taxpayer know what's going on? Should, as FOIA intends, NASA disclose documents to shed light on its operations and its compliance within the law? We say yes. The law says yes. NASA says no," Horner said. Mark Hess, chief of communications for the Goddard Space Center, sent Fox News NASA's response to Horner's FOIA request. It said in many cases the documents Horner requested did not exist. Horner claims they should, if Hansen was complying with the law. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
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The Hindu All-party meet on Women's Bill fails to make progress Times of India PTI | Jun 22, 2011, 03.12pm IST NEW DELHI: Yet another effort to reach a consensus on the Women's Reservation Bill failed to make any progress with two major political parties staying away from an all-party meeting on Wednesday and others opposed to... BSP, SP boycott women's quota bill meet Economic Times SP, BSP boycott all-party meet on Women's Bill Times Now.tv Women's Bill all-party meet ends with hope of quick passage indiablooms NDTV.com- Hindustan TimesIndian Express all 69 news articles
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Cantor on Debt: It's Crunch Time

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to lower the debt. This is hardly a controversial view." To avoid attacks on that as a The debt reduction talks led by R e p u b l i c a n a s s a u l t o n Vice President Joe Biden are in entitlements, McConnell notes he what insiders call "a make or h a s p l e n t y o f D e m o c r a t i c break week," as negotiators try to company, including the Vice find $2 trillion or more in President and even President spending cuts as part of a deal to Obama himself. increase the debt ceiling. To preserve our long-term fiscal Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner health, we must also address the says the negotiators are getting growing costs in Medicare and closer. Social Security, Obama said to a "We need to make some progress joint session of Congress soon this week to give everybody more after he was inaugurated. c o n f i d e n c e t h a t t h e r e ' s a And McConnell adds that Biden, framework that has the votes, the president's lead negotiator in G e i t h n e r s a i d . Y o u k n o w , the debt talks, said last January ultimately what matters is how do that "everyone talks about we w e g e t t h e v o t e s t o p a s s have to do something about Social something in the House and the Security and Medicare, and we Senate." do." One of the negotiators, House Though Geithner didnt rule out Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R- savings from Medicare, Medicaid Va., indicated the talks are at a or the like, he said fundamental critical moment. "It's crunch time reform cannot be done in the next now in those meetings, he said. few weeks. Republicans say the We are at some really tough same applies to raising revenues stuff." in these talks. Meanwhile, other Republicans However, House Democratic have made clear what they see as Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said e s s e n t i a l e l e m e n t s i n a n y Tuesday, "It's hard to see how you agreement. get to $2 or $4 trillion in "Entitlements are the biggest reductions without revenues or drivers of our debt, noted Senate Draconian cuts that Democrats R e p u b l i c a n L e a d e r M i t c h would not support." McConnell, R-Ky. By definition, But Republicans say any they have to be a part of any plan changes, other than savings from
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ending some subsidies, such as ethanol, belong in entirely separate talks about tax reform. "Some Democrats are insisting that they'll only agree to cuts if Republicans agree to raise revenue," McConnell said. "That's Washington-speak for tax hikes, and it's absurd." Secretary Geithner seemed to agree on that one. "We're not going to resolve in the next few weeks the precise shape of tax reform, he said. Not feasible." The two sides need to agree soon because the last time a major deficit reduction package was produced back in 1997, it took about a month to be drafted, analyzed and voted on. With the government able to operate under the current debt limit only until early August, that means the deadline clock is now ticking louder and louder. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
7-Year-Old Driving 50 mph Just Wanted to See Dad

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Learman said. The chief sped ahead and tried to box-in the Sunfire with the help of CASEVILLE, Mich. -- A 7-year- a Huron County sheriff's deputy old Michigan boy barefoot and in who was behind in another pajamas drove a car for 20 miles, vehicle. sometimes hitting speeds of 50 "I slowed down, he slowed down mph, before finally slowing down and eventually stopped," Learman and stopping with the help of said. authorities. Huron County Sheriff Kelly "He was crying and just kept Hanson said the prosecutor's saying he wanted to go to his office and child welfare officials dad's," Caseville Police Chief were reviewing the matter. Jamie Learman said. "That was The prosecutor "is going to want pretty much it. He just wanted to to know things like ... where did go to his dad's." he learn how to drive?" Hanson Police began looking for the said. Pontiac Sunfire around 10:15 a.m. Learman said he's seen drivers Monday after someone called under 15 but not someone this about a very young driver. The young. boy was staying with his mother "I'm just glad he didn't get hurt, in Huron County's Sheridan and no one else got hurt," Township, a rural area 110 miles Learman said. "I can just imagine north of Detroit. She had worked the stop signs and other things he the night shift and was unaware didn't stop for. I'm just assuming a her son and the car were gone. 7-year-old didn't follow the traffic The boy had hoped to drive to his laws." father's home in Filion, also in This entry passed through the northern Michigan. Police pulled Full-Text RSS service if this is him over in Caseville Township, your content and you're reading it some 15 miles to the west. on someone else's site, please read Learman told the Detroit Free the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentPress he feared the boy would only/faq.php#publishers. Five crash as the car veered to the right Filters featured article: Ten Years on a rural road and fishtailed. Of Media Lens - Our Problem "When that happened, he seemed With Mainstream Dissidents. to be increasing his speeds,"
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parliament by June 28 and then it must push through laws implementing the reforms -potentially more difficult as it will tackle individual privatizations, tax measures and spending cuts -in time for an extraordinary (Epoch Times | All headlines) His other crimes include project from criticismthat the meeting of euro zone finance teaching students his heretical system is too expensivehe ministers on July 3. Submitted at 6/21/2011 11:17:58 PM ideas. Galileo is forced to recant never felt the need to defend New Finance Minister Evangelos Wednesday, June 22, 2011 his beliefs and spends the rest of G a l i l e o , t h e p h y s i c i s t , Venizelos, in an attempt to answer Who was convicted on June 22, his life under house arrest. The mathematician, and astronomer, a key grievance of protesters, told 1633 for suggesting the Earth Dialogue remained banned until who played a major role in the parliament the government's top revolves around the Sun? 1835. Scientific Revolution. The Galileo priority would be to build a fairer On June 22, 1633, Galileo Now Galileo's name is associated satellite project is expected to tax system. Galilei, one of the fathers of w i t h c u t t i n g - e d g e s p a c e p r o v i d e a r o u n d - t h e - g l o b e He is expected to drop plans for modern science, is handed down innovations, like Europes new navigation for aircraft, ships, cars an increase in fuel tax and for a an order by the Catholic Church Galileo global navigation system. and private userssimilar to the special levy on real estate, instead convicting him of heresy. He is The first two Galileo In Orbit U.S. Global Positioning System. targeting the self-employed -sentenced for defending his views Validation satellites will be This entry passed through the who are widely believed to be i n h i s m o s t f a m o u s w o r k , launched on October 20, Europes Full-Text RSS service if this is amongst the worst tax evaders -Dialogue Concerning the Two Space Agency, Arianespace, and your content and you're reading it while lowering the burden on low Chief World Systems, published t h e E u r o p e a n C o m m i s s i o n on someone else's site, please read -paid employees. in 1632. His work supports the announced last month. "Europe is the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentInspectors from the International belief first espoused by Nicolaus demonstrating that it has the only/faq.php#publishers. Five Monetary Fund and European Copernicus that the Earth revolves capability to be at the forefront of Filters featured article: Ten Years Union arrived on Tuesday to around the suna belief deemed technological innovation," EC Of Media Lens - Our Problem examine a request by Venizelos heretical by the Catholic Church Industry Commissioner Italian With Mainstream Dissidents. for changes to the mid-term plan. whose geo-centric view of the A n t o n i o T a j a n i s a i d i n a The government said the mission u n i v e r s e i s c o n s i d e r e d a n statement. Although Tajani felt would discuss changes "at a unchallengeable fact of scripture. the need to defend the Galileo technical level." Euro zone officials have told Reuters the plan for the new bailout, meant to extend Greece's
year-old 110-billion-euro deal and fund it into late 2014, would feature up to 60 billion euros of fresh official loans, 30 billion euros from the private sector and 30 billion euros from privatizations. Leading global credit ratings agencies have warned, however, that changes to terms of existing government bonds could be considered as a default. [ID:nL3E7HL08T] ($1 = 0.698 Euros) (Additional reporting by Renee Maltezou, Lefteris Papadimas in Athens, John O'Donnell in Brussels and Faith Hung in Taipei; Writing by Barry Moody and Daniel Flynn; editing by Paul Taylor) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
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Illegally Drained Pollution Spreads Affecting Millions

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China's Legal Exceptionalism Threatens International Integration

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A cloud of dead fish float in polluted water. (Screenshot taken from Guangzhou Daily website ) Illegally drained pollution from the Deying China Clay Factory in Huazhou of Guangdong Province has spread, polluting more than 328 acres. The lower reaches of the Pingtian and Longwo rivers are being polluted, seriously affecting the source of drinking water for several million people in the region according to a June 20 Guangzhou Daily report. Dead fish and prawn line the banks of fish ponds along the Hedi Reservoir for 5 miles. Since June 14, every day a large quantity of dead fish float on the fish pond! said Mr. Hu Peng, a fish farming expert in Limiao Village. Mr. Hu said watching the fish die over the past few days felt like a knife twisting in his heart. One Longtan Village committee member said that when fish died before the locals thought it was due to lack of oxygen. Later the
villagers discovered that after watering vegetables, the vegetables died and after washing their hands the skin became itchy and peeled off. The night of June 18, environmental protection experts tested water taken from three locations in Limaio Village. Its pH value tested lower than 6. Samples taken from a contaminated section of the river, the pH detected value to be 3.1,
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Hefty sentence for murder of Perth couple - ABC Online

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Breaking news: I am with the Pimco warns party, says Gopinath Munde - Greece will Daily News & Analysis default
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ABC Online Hefty sentence for murder of Perth couple ABC Online A father and son have received one of the longest minimum sentences ever to be imposed in Western Australia for murdering a Perth couple. Adam Mikhail and his father Frank Mikhail were each sentenced to life with a 37-
year minimum for shooting dead... Mikhail father, son guilty of murdering Frank La Rosa and wife Kim Perth Now Father, son get 37 years for La Rosa drug dealer murders WA today Perth father, son jailed 37 years Mackay Daily Mercury The West Australian all 56 news articles
Moneycontrol.com Breaking news: I am with the party, says Gopinath Munde Daily News & Analysis Senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde, after meeting senior party leader Sushma Swaraj, said that he was with the party. Munde said that he had discussed all issues with Swaraj in the meeting. The BJP leader has found himself in
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Pimco, the world's biggest bond fund, shrugged off last night's vote of confidence in the Greek government warning that it expects Greece and other European economies to default on their debts to resolve their problems.
Senator takes parting shot at NSW Labor - ABC Online

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All-party meeting Can E-Books Save Barnes on Lokpal bill July & Noble? 3 - Deccan Herald
Audrey Watters (ReadWriteWeb) (Nation - Google News)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 5:00:20 PM
The publishing and bookseller world as a whole has seen NDTV.com substantial shake-up over the last All-party meeting on Lokpal bill few years: the rise of the e-book, July 3 the collapse of Borders, for Deccan Herald example. And the world's largest The government will convene a bookseller Barnes & Noble has meeting of all political parties received its own fair share of July 3 to discuss the draft antimixed reviews lately as well. On graft Lokpal bill, official sources one hand, the company said Wednesday. At the meeting, announced last summer that it was the draft bill and notes on the putting itself up for sale in order to boost what it felt were undervalued shares. On the other hand, Barnes & Noble has had a string of wins in the digital realm, most recently when Consumer Reports ranked its e-reader the Nook over competitor Amazon's Robin Wauters (TechCrunch) page based on visual bookmarks Kindle. ( l o g o s o f w e b s i t e s a n d So eyes were on the Barnes & Submitted at 6/22/2011 5:54:10 AM applications rather than mere Noble quarterly earnings report today, particularly in light of an Well, this is one way to solicit links). interest from potential angel and Theres nothing special about it, offer from Liberty Media to institutional investors: German but hey, at least they give homage acquire the company. And again, the news was mixed. startup LinkCloud made a funny to the Internet. video based on a famous scene So, will you invest? Or did you Sponsor from the movie Braveheart. Its not come here to risk your It's good news, no surprise, for out been out for a while, I noticed, money? CrunchBase Information digital sales, as the company so apologies if youve already LinkCloud Information provided reported a 50% sales increase from BN.com. Those sales seen it. by CrunchBase involved both traditional, print Oh, by the way, LinkCloud offers a way to compose a custom start
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disagreements expressed by the joint drafting... Lokpal : All Party Meet on Jul 3 : Meera Kumar Daijiworld.com Hazare back on fast from Aug 16 Indian Express All-party meeting on Lokpal to be held on July 3 NDTV.com Economic Times- Calcutta Telegraph- indiablooms all 832 news articles
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books, of course, but as Barnes & Noble showcased in today's report, it's the Nook and its associated digital content that's the real star. The company reported that Nook sales were $250 million in the fourth quarter and that during the same period, it opened over 1 million new Nook accounts. For the full year, sales of the e-reader rose to $858.1 million, up from $572.8 million last year. "We now sell three times as many digital books as all formats of physical books combined on BN.com," CEO William Lynch said in a conference call. Much like Amazon's recent announcement about e-books versus print sales, Barnes & Noble gave no exact sales figures here.
Nonetheless the growing e-book business helped push total sales for the year at Barnes & Noble up 20% to a record $7 billion. By comparison, in-store sales for the year were just $4.4 billion, and during the fourth quarter, those sales fell by almost 3%. The company chalked this up to the "fire sales" held as its oncecompetitor Borders closed over 200 retail stores. Whatever the cause, the result: a total loss for Barnes & Noble for the quarter of $59 million, more than had been anticipated. While the sales of the Nook and e -books have been strong, Bloomberg points out that Barnes & Noble has had to increase its marketing and product development expenditures in order to keep pace with Amazon, which still has a strong lead in market share for e-readers. Bloomberg cites Standard & Poor analysist Michael Souers calling The Nook is the company's "only driver of long-term growth." So in answer to the question "Can ebooks save Barnes & Noble," the response perhaps is "indeed, it's the only thing that can." Discuss
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Foursquare: How New Businesses Are Using It [Stats]

Marshall Kirkpatrick (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 6:44:41 PM
Location based social network Foursquare celebrated 10 million registered users yesterday but how are businesses and organizations using the platform? I wrote a year ago next month about the incredible potential offered by Foursquare accounts for organizations: following a Foursquare page as a user is like opting-in to view the world through the lens of that organization's geo-annotations. It can be awesome. (My favorites? History Channel and Eater.) Are businesses getting into it? For one perspective on that question, I extracted some data from the 128 most recent Foursquare Pages that have been created. The 128 most recent Foursquare Page holders have added 728 tips in 311 cities so far. They've amassed a total of over 8,000 Foursquare followers and they came in with some social media experience as well: those organizations already had an aggregate of over 800,000 Twitter followers. Above, a map of all the metro areas around the world that new Page holders have added tips in. Below, more stats. Sponsor The 128 Newest Foursquare Page
Account Holders... Their success on Twitter before joining Foursquare... 17% didn't have linked Twitter accounts at all or have zero followers there 47% have less than 200 twitter followers 6% have between 200 and 500 twitter followers 20% have between 500 and 2000 twitter followers 24% of the newest have more
than 2000 twitter followers
My take: The majority of new Foursquare business users have not got a lot of experience using T o p t w e e t e r s j u s t j o i n i n g Twitter for their businesses yet. Foursquare: Bon Chic, Interscope T h a t m a y b e b e c a u s e Records, Impact Wrestling and organizations are starting both Best Friends Animal Society accounts around the same time or The top two most popular Twitter i t c o u l d b e b e c a u s e m a n y a c c o u n t s t o h a v e s t a r t e d a businesses are wondering if Foursquare page recently both are Foursquare and location will fast amassing Foursquare fans but deliver better results than Twitter h a v e n o t p o s t e d a s i n g l e has. Other possible explanations? Foursquare tip yet. Foursquare followers...
41% of newest 128 accounts have less than 20 Foursquare fans Only 9 out of the 128 newest Foursquare pages have more than 100 fans 2 of the newest 128 Foursquare pages have more than 1,000 followers already. Interscope Records has 1,937 Foursquare followers but hasn't posted any tips yet. Seventh Generation FOURSQUARE: page 32
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85 Percent Of Firefox Users Have Installed Add-ons (Oh, And Firefox 5 Is Ready, Too)
Rip Empson (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 4:46:19 AM
that 580 million add-ons are in use every day on Firefox 4. (Which does seem to be slightly I think we all know that add-ons higher than Mozillas add-on data have grown integral to the Firefox available here.) experience and popular, to say Back in April, Mozilla the least but we didnt know announced that it was moving to a just how popular until now. rapid-fire release cycle, as well as Today, Mozilla said through its introducing another channel blog that 85 percent of Firefox 4 called Aurora, which as my users have installed add-ons. colleague MG Siegler pointed out, Mozilla equates this to more than is the equivalent of Chromes 60 million people using its add- Dev Build. Aurora falls in ons every day. between Mozillas Nightly But before you start rolling your build and their Beta build, eyes, Mozilla adds-on,This because users had come to expect number doesnt include Personas, that Nightly (which they had and even excludes popular add- even renamed Minefield) would ons bundled with other software be closer to a beta or ready-tothat the user hasnt actively release build which it often agreed to install. So apparently wasnt. Aurora is intended to be these arent force-installed add- the version in which users and ons then. I think. The company developers can play a greater role then went on to say it had in participating in the building of expected the percentage of add- new Firefox releases. ons downloaded on Firefox 4 This announcement also came on (which was released on March t h e h e e l s o f G o o g l e s 22nd) to drop as time went on, but announcement that it would be the figurehas stayed between releasing a new version of 89% and 85% since launch. (Im Chrome every six weeks. Now, it surprised that this little self- seems that Microsoft, Google, and congratulatory admission didnt Mozilla have all sped up their come with 5 exclamation points.) release cycles to get new versions Mozilla has also found that, on of their browsers into the market average, users download 5 add- faster. ons, and that Firefox has racked Thus, staying true to their up 2.5 billion total downloads and promise, Mozilla also announced
websites that users have chosen to opt-out of tracking and is noweasier to find in Firefox Preferences. However, while Mozilla boasts improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas, as part of its new support for more modern Web technologies, according to PCMag, Firefox 5 is still scoring the same as version 4 on HTML5test.com, which measures the overall level of HTML5 support and performance. Firefox 5 scored 240 out of a possible 400, compared to Chrome, which comes in at 291. So, Firefox 5 may not knock your socks off. After all, the IE Team decided to send Mozilla a celebratory cupcake for the Firefox 5 release. (More like a today that Firefox 5 is available create Firefox add-ons, Web sarcastic cupcake, methinks. Though still delicious, no doubt.) for download on Windows, Mac, applications, and websites. Linux and Android. Firefox 5 also adds its Do Not But this release is, at the very According to the companys T r a c k p r i v a c y f e a t u r e t o least, good to see Mozilla living statement, Firefox 5 includes Android,making Firefox the first up to its promise to keep its more than 1,000 improvements browser to support Do Not Track release cycle quick and cunning and performance enhancements on multiple platforms, the like some sort of fox. Because that make it easier to discover and company said. The Do Not when it comes to the Web and use all of the innovative features Track feature was designed to mobile, and most things these in Firefox. The release includes give Firefox users greater control d a y s q u i c k e r i s b e t t e r . added support for more modern over how their browser footprints CrunchBase Information Mozilla Web technologies that will are tracked and used across the Firefox Information provided by enhance developers ability to Web. The feature essentially tells CrunchBase
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FriendFeed Lives On (In Spirit): Tornado 2.0 Released

MG Siegler (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 3:56:21 AM
When Facebook acquired FriendFeed in September 2009, my heart sank a bit. I was happy for those guys, but I knew FriendFeed would never be the same despite the talk of FriendFeed staying alive. Now, nearly two years later, its clear that my fears were not unfounded. But not all has been lost. A month after the deal, Facebook did something refreshing. They took much of the technology behind FriendFeed, bundled it up, and released it as Tornado, an open source real-time frame work for the web. Developers have been putting it to good use ever since Quora and Hipmunk use it, for example. And today brings version 2.0. Ben Darnell announced the new version earlier this evening in the Tornado Google Group. As he notes, the major changes are as
On the Commits page, I see only one persons face that is not Darnells in the past month. The former Googler/former FriendFeeder was put in charge of the project while he was still at Facebook after the acquisition. But he himself left shortly thereafter to join the startup follows: changes. T e m p l a t e o u t p u t i s Its great to see Tornado not only B r i z z l y . B r i z z l y w a s t h e n automatically escaped by default; still alive and kicking, but being acquired by AOL last year (right see backwards compatibility note updated. Whats not entirely clear before they acquired us). I below. is if Facebook has any role at all actually have no idea if Darnell is The default AsyncHTTPClient in it anymore? At first glance, it still with AOL or not (you think I i m p l e m e n t a t i o n i s n o w doesnt look that way, beyond the would given that I too work for simple_httpclient. code residing in a Facebook AOL). Ive asked him current/ Python 3.2 is now supported. folder on GitHub. Originally, former boss, Jason Shellen, but Facebook was all gung-ho about havent heard back. Yes, thats all pretty technical. the project, with a post on the In other words, I have no clue And no, I dont know what a lot Developers blog and a personal who is actually doing what with of it actually means. But the folks post from (now Facebook CTO) Tornado. But I suppose thats the in the Tornado Google Group Bret Taylor. Now we just get a beauty of open source. A little seem excited. Theres a bit more Google Groups announcement. piece of FriendFeed lives on. on the Tornado website, including But who knows, maybe Facebook C r u n c h B a s e I n f o r m a t i o n FriendFeed Facebook Information the warning that Tornado 2.0 will have more to say tomorrow. introduces several potentially Right now, it looks more like provided by CrunchBase b a c k w a r d s - i n c o m p a t i b l e Darnell is the man fully in charge.
67 Retro Camera Revivals - From Fisheye Cameras to Lomography Showcases (TrendHunter.com)

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Submitted at 6/22/2011 5:27:02 AM
( TrendHunter.com) Although technology is advancing at an increasing speed each day, these retro camera revivals prove that classic style photos are here to stay. Both professional and amateur photographers alike are dipping...
Help bring back the alien-hunting SETI telescopes

Submitted at 6/22/2011 4:33:00 AM
The world's only telescopes devoted to searching for aliens
went dark two months ago because of a lack of funds. Now you can help bring them back. This morning, SETI launched a
website called SETIstars to try
gather funds to resurrect the Continue reading... Allen Telescope Array (ATA), which some astronomers call our greatest hope for finding ET.
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After Apple, Samsung, Acer vie for No. 2 tablet spot

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 10:47:13 PM
After undisputed tablet market leader Apple, Samsung and Acer are vying for the No. 2 tablet slot worldwide, according to market researcher DisplaySearch. Samsung's Android 3.1-based Galaxy Tab 10.1(Credit: Samsung) While Apple shipped about 4.7 million 10-inch class tablets last quarter, Samsung is shaping up to be the closest competitor at about 850,000 units shipped worldwide in the same quarter, according to Richard Shim of DisplaySearch, which pegs its numbers to vendors' public statements. Close on Samsung's heels is Acer. The new kid on the block, Acer appears to be making gains with its 10.1-inch Iconia Tab A500 tablet. Acer has shipped 800,000 units in the current quarter, the first financial period to reflect meaningful numbers, according to Shim.
Acer, which has a strong PC heritage, is focused more on connectivity. The Iconia Tab 500 is relatively heavy and sports an HDMI and a USB port and a memory card (microSD) slot. Acer will also begin selling a 7inch tablet this quarter. Also in the running is the socalled whitebox market. Though a distinct category when compared with the market share of single But that number masks some bad o f t a b l e t s t h a t c o m p a n i e s vendors cited above--since the news. Acer cut its 2011 tablet collectively plan to build for the w h i t e b o x m a r k e t i s a n shipment forecasts dramatically to year has dropped to 73 million amalgamation of many small between 2.5 million and 3 million from the 81 million he forecast in vendors--whiteboxes as a whole units from a previous projection March. are second to Apple, according to of 5 million to 7 million units, Both Samsung and Acer, like DisplaySearch. Shim said, citing statements this Apple, have a strong presence in This entry passed through the month by Acer. both Europe and Asia. Unlike Full-Text RSS service if this is And Acer is not alone. Other Apple, they use Google's Android your content and you're reading it tablet makers are cutting back. In operating system. on someone else's site, please read a report earlier this month, J.P. Samsung, which has been selling the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentMorgan analyst Mark Moskowitz a 7-inch Galaxy Tab and just only/faq.php#publishers. Five said that non-Apple tablet makers began selling a 10.1-inch model, Filters featured article: Ten Years have received a "dose of reality" is now accentuating thinness and Of Media Lens - Our Problem by failing to make a product that weight, like the iPad: the Galaxy With Mainstream Dissidents. is in high demand like the iPad. Tab 10.1 is roughly as thin and as Moskowitz estimates the number light as the iPad 2.
Sun-Charging Computers - Stay Eco-Friendly while Working with the Samsung Solar Powered Netbook (TrendHunter.com)
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( TrendHunter.com) Finally debuting in the US is the Samsung Solar Powered Netbook. Although it may seem like a technological advancement to have a sun powered mini laptop, solar power has been the main ingredient found...
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Nokia N9 Android app support promised with Alien Dalvik

Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 5:52:21 AM
capabilities of the device are accessible to the original Android app, and any more complex Nokia may have flagged up the integrations can be tweaked to vast number of Qt apps available suit using the Android SDK f o r t h e N o k i a N 9 ( a n d i t s plugin Myriad offers. developer sibling, the N950), but Its not the first time weve heard the catalog doesnt necessarily about cross-platform Android app end there. Myriad has already s u p p o r t , o f c o u r s e ; R I M demonstrated its Alien Dalvik announced earlier this year that system for running unmodified the BlackBerry PlayBook would Android apps on MeeGo devices, support Android software later in developer Steve Troughton-Smith the year. Our first impressions of reminded us, as seamless to the the Nokia N9 were very positive, end-user as the join between the and we cant help but imagine N9s display and the polycarbonate Android apps on the sturdy housing, and promising the same Finnish hardware would be a performance as native software. compelling combination. Alien Dalvik allows app stores According to Myriad, Alien a n d d e v e l o p e r s t o s i m p l y Dalvik will be commercially repackage the Android .apk available for MeeGo sometime installation files and then have t h i s y e a r . T h e c o m p a n y t h o s e a p p s r u n o n M e e G o announced last month that it was hardware like the N9. Hardware in talks with car companies to use
RIM considering Dalvik VM for QNX PlayBook: Android apps ahoy? The Happy Alien Mini Speaker Alien Furniture Makes for a great conversation piece BlackBerry PlayBook Android app support coming in 2H 2011 tip insiders AT&T yank Nokia Mural over 3G blunder Android 2.2 for Samsung Captivate? Maybe. Nokia N9 Android app support promised with Alien Dalvik is written by Chris Davies& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved.
the system on vehicle computers, an area MeeGo is already targeting, with BMW, GM, Hyundai, Renault, Delphi and Peugeot-Citroen all signed up to use the platform in future vehicles.
Relevant Entries on SlashGear.com Alien Dalvik puts Android apps on non-Android devices [Video] BlackBerry PlayBook will also support Android apps says RIM rep [Video]
Cubbyhole Space Separators Parawall by Anne Lorenz Gives Dividers Another Task (TrendHunter.com)
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The Musician's Red Room [Featured Workspace]

Melanie Pinola (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 6:00:00 PM
hang. Beside the desk is a keyboard, for quickly acting on musical inspiration. More red wall, on which two 23-inch monitors and a handmade desk
Today's featured workspace is both dramatic and simple. The computer hides behind a bright
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Man takes hostage for 16 hours, updates Facebook

(CNET News.com)
FOURSQUARE:
paper products has 1,179 and has posted only one tip: come by their headquarters and you can get a free sample. My take: It's hard to build up Foursquare followers. Unless you're already famous, then you hardly have to do anything and you can get 1,000+ quickly. Tips Left 47% of the have posted zero tips 11% have posted 1 tip 21% have posted 2 to 9 tips 17% have posted 10 or more tips
'Hostage' huh." In reply, friends warned him Submitted at 6/22/2011 12:08:19 AM about SWAT team members that "I'm currently in a standoff...kinda were positioned in the bushes. ugly, but ready for whatever." It didn't end well. This is, perhaps, not the average When the SWAT team stormed Facebook update. But it seems the motel room, Valdez reportedly that it's one that was posted by shot himself and is now in critical Jason Valdez, 36, while he condition. reportedly held a woman hostage However, the Facebook posts-for 16 hours. and the replies--make for macabre According to the Associated reading. Press, Valdez held the woman in a For example, Valdez posted: "I'm motel in Ogden, Utah. While he currently in a stand off wit these was there, he used Facebook to shady [epithet] from old, kinda send messages to his friends and ugly but ready for whatever, I his family. love u guyz and if I don't make it I t s e e m s t h a t V a l d e z h a d out of here alive that I'm in a barricaded himself and the better place and u were all great hostage in the motel room after friends." the police attempted to serve a To which one acquaintance warrant for a felony drug offense. replied: "dude you're an idiot." However, during the standoff, he And when Valdez posted: "They even posted pictures of himself shut our phones down but were and her to Facebook, with the okay, everyones comments mean immortal update: "Got a cute alot. But how this ends is on the
cops now. And my HOSTAGE as they call her is perfectly fine and holding it down wit me," there were a myriad comments begging him to get his head straight. For example, from another friend: "Jason please do what right! Remember you have friends and family that love you! walk out ALIVE! XOXOXO`S." The police are reportedly not yet sure whether to charge some of Valdez's friends with obstruction after they used Facebook to warn him of police activity. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
there appears to be a respectable number that are publishing more than just a few tips. Tips Locations The 128 newest pages have added tips in 270 cities 78% have left tips in fewer than 3 locations 4% have left tips in 10 or more locations
My take: Foursquare pages are being adopted by a wide variety of organizations based in specific places, all over the world. Very few of the most recent creators of Pages at least have been globetrotting types of organizations. Here's my data embedded below, #1 with 49 tips is Brazilian travel what conclusions or analysis can publication Guia Quatro Rodas, you offer based on this snapshot that seems to be paying off so far of recent activity? Are you an - that page has the 4th largest organization that's created a number of fans with 421. Foursquare page? If so, I'd love to M y t a k e : A w h o l e l o t o f hear what your onboarding businesses are starting Foursquare experience has been like there. Pages but are being super cautious Discuss about posting tips. That makes me wonder if the instructions are unclear. There's not much purpose to creating a page if you don't add tips. On the other hand,
Top 10 Car Summer Maintenance Tips

(HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 9:00:56 AM
Summertime is travel time. Even with gasoline prices at an all-time high, Americans can't resist the lure of sunny skies and the open road. According to a survey by
AAA-, 31.7 million Americans planned to travel by car over Memorial Day weekend 2008, despite gas prices that are an average of $.60 more per gallon over the previous year [source: The Los Angeles Times]. Before hitting the road this
summer, you can take several simple precautions to keep your family safe and save money at the pump. Extreme heat and long drives can be tough on cars. Cracked hoses, leaky radiators, underinflated tires and dirty filters can significantly lower your fuel
efficiency, or worse, lead to a total breakdown.This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five
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Japanese researchers create selfpropelled endoscope capsule

Shane McGlaun (SlashGear)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 5:39:24 AM
The Things They Carried: The Tahrir Square Irregular

MAX STRASSER (Foreign Policy)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 2:02:55 PM
The endoscope has been the go to tool for doctors that need to look inside the digestive tract of a patient since the 1980s. These things are generally long, black cables that are forced through the mouth of up the bum of people when the doctors need to check for things like colon cancer or stomach issues. In 2008, we talked about a new development in endoscope tools that placed the camera into a small pill shaped capsule that the person swallowed to get a look at their innards. The problem with that camera capsule was that it could only follow along and take photos inside the body using the muscle contractions of the patients body. Some Japanese researchers have taken that endoscope capsule to the next level and attached a small propulsion system to it that allows the camera to swim through the digestive tract. The new capsule
has what appears to be a flagella type mechanism on the back that uses a magnetic propulsion system. The doctor is able to control the capsule using a joystick to get it to take photos of whatever part of the digestive track is needed. The device has been nicknamed mermaid and it would have to
feel strange moving around inside the body. It is certainly better than a four foot long tube crammed down your throat. [ via Yahoo News] Relevant Entries on SlashGear.com Researchers at Kyoto University Create X-ray Generation Device That Fits in
Your Hand Japanese researchers create palladium-like alloy, adamantium next Macworld 08: Apple launch Time Capsule wireless NAS Apple 2TB Time Capsule lands for $499 Scientists create tiny lung-on-achip for drug research Japanese Genius Idea Number 235463423: recycle cell phones into pocket sized computers Doctors in Germany Create Swallowable, Remote-Controlled Stomach Submarine Conceptual Fire Extinguisher puts out flames by throwing balls at it
Google toilet UI
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 11:35:00 PM
I took this picture in a bathroom at Google today. Holy kaw! Total coverage of Google news.
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Nintendo thought about making Wii U a portable console

Shane McGlaun (SlashGear)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 5:23:05 AM
way of Nintendo president Satoru Iwata. He noted that the subject was discussed in round table talks Its no surprise that Nintendo early on. Ultimately, Nintendo starting working on the Wii U decided that the Wii U should be console way back in 2007 shortly a new and dedicated system with after the Wii debuted. Gaming t h e c o n t r o l l e r p a c k i n g t h e companies have a very long secondary screen as we have seen. d e v e l o p m e n t c y c l e o n n e w Iwata noted that the conclusion to consoles and start working on the the discussions decided that the next big thing while the current controller would only show the big thing is hot. Nintendo has the images sent to it by the console. most popular portable system This would allow for better a r o u n d w i t h t h e D S a n d graphics, which is something that apparently, the Wii U was a battery wouldnt have been able considered to be fashioned into to do. Iwata also noted that early another portable console early on. on Nintendo considered making The revelation of the Wii U the second screen a separate c o n t r o l l e r n e a r l y b e i n g a accessory from the controller. standalone portable that worked Depending on how expensive the with the base console comes by Wii U controllers end up being,
Nintendo 3DS via Best Buy and Nintendo Mod Nintendo Entertainment Sneaker Nintendo talks 3DS, gives no new insights Nintendo kicked in the Wii, posts net loss for fiscal Q1 Nintendo 3DS sells a million units in Japan finally Wii to Launch Early? Nintendo thought about making Wii U a portable console is written by Shane McGlaun& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2011, SlashGear. All right reserved.
that screen accessory may have been a good idea. With normal Wii controllers at around $40, the Wii U offerings will be much more than that price. [ via Kotaku]
Relevant Entries on SlashGear.com iSuppli offers Nintendo 3DS bill of materials figures Next Wii may be a 3D console Custom content coming to
Amazon's tablet to launch in August?

(CNET News.com)
report from tech site DigiTimes. With monthly orders expected to hit 700,000 to 800,000 units a It appears Amazon will have its month, the tablet's launch is timed much-anticipated tablet on the to take advantage of the premarket to challenge Apple before Thanksgiving shopping rush, the end of the year. DigiTimes' sources pointed out. Taiwan-based component makers Taiwan-based Quanta Computer say the online retailer will launch has reportedly already received a tablet PC as early as August, orders from Amazon to build the with global sales for 2011 pegged retail giant's first tablet PC. The at 4 million units, according to a new tablet will apparently use E
Submitted at 6/21/2011 11:44:32 PM
Ink's Fringe Field Switching LCD technology, suggesting it will be a color LCD touch panel (a departure from the black-andwhite E-ink Kindles we've seen to date)." Sources said that Amazon has been under pressure to release a tablet to compete with the iPad since Kindle sales haven't done well outside of North America and Europe. A new tablet would
also tap into Amazon's recently opened AppStore and its new Amazon Cloud Drive. When asked last month by Consumer Reports about the possibility of Amazon selling its own tablet, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos cagely replied, "stay tuned." Bezos also said during the interview that if Amazon were to do a tablet, it wouldn't replace the Kindle but be sold alongside it.
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Apple joins Bluetooth SIG board of directors

Mike Schramm (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Verizon unlimited data to end in July

Mike Schramm (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 10:00:00 PM
Bad news, Verizon users. The rumors were true, and Verizon will be ending its unlimited data plan this July. According to AllThingsD, Verizon confirms it's moving "to a more usage based model in July," with exact details to come later on. Unfortunately, it's unclear what Verizon still plans to do -- the company has said that its
unlimited plans were always only for a temporary time, though AT&T of course grandfathered its unlimited plans in (and I'm still using one, though I can't ever change it or add things like hotspot or tethering). It sounds like Verizon wants to shut down the plans for good, but there may still be a chance for someone on on an unlimited plan currently to keep it. We'll have to see. In the meantime, yes, change is in the air for affected Verizon users. With
mobile bandwidth rising as quickly as it is, these companies are pushing as quickly as possible to move towards more usagebased plans. Verizon unlimited data to end in July originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
between mobile devices forward, bringing together "mobile phones, laptops, tablets, TVs, homes, and Submitted at 6/22/2011 1:00:00 AM even cars [to] soon serve as hub The Bluetooth Special Interest devices to capture data from Group has announced that Apple hundreds of millions of small and semiconductor firm Nordic sensors." That's an ambitious have both joined the board of vision, to say the least, but that's directors. Apple is an obvious what Apple is supposed to help choice; not only is the company out with while serving on the now at the lead of the mobile board. devices industry, but it's also been Apple joins Bluetooth SIG board very faithful to the standard, of directors originally appeared on including Bluetooth in all of the TUAW - The Unofficial Apple eleventy billion iPhones, iPads, Weblog on Wed, 22 Jun 2011 and iPod touches out there these 01:00:00 EST. Please see our days. [ Well, other than the first- terms for use of feeds. gen iPod touch anyway. --Ed] Source| Permalink| Email this| Bluetooth says the confirmation Comments to the board will help push a world of Bluetooth connections
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Google Launches New Drag and Drop AppsScript Interface Design Tool
Klint Finley (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 6:30:00 PM
Putting Whiskey in the Barrels

Submitted at 6/21/2011 9:00:56 AM
Today Google announced a new tool for Apps Script, the scripting language for Google Apps: Apps Script GUI Builder. Apps Script lets admins automate tasks and extend the functionality Google Apps (see our coverage). The new GUI Builder tool will make it easier to build forms and other interactive elements into Google Apps. You can find the new feature in the Apps Script Editor by clicking on File and then "Build a user interface." Sponsor According to the announcement, you can use the interfaces built with GUI builder in "a Spreadsheets dialog, on a Sites page, or as a standalone web service at its own URL." Once an app is completed, it can be
Nightly Notes
Rob Bluey (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 6:00:33 PM
Some Assembly Required: Putting Whiskey in the Barrels After the whiskey barrels go through a final inspection, the ones that don't leak are sent on their way to have whiskey poured into them. Learn more about whiskey making on Discovery Mike Schramm (TUAW - The Herbold is only the latest in a Channel's "Some...(more info) published to users through the Unofficial Apple Weblog) g r o w i n g l i n e o f b i g A p p l e After the whiskey barrels go Share menu or in a spread sheet e x e c u t i v e e x i t s , i n c l u d i n g through a final inspection, the using the sheet.show() method. Submitted at 6/21/2011 11:00:00 PM Bertrand Serlet a little while ago, ones that don't leak are sent on A limited subset of UiApp John Herbold, a senior product and Ron Johnson from the their way to have whiskey poured widgets are currently supported, manager for Apple's iCloud company's retail division. Still, for into them. Learn more about but Google promises to expand service, has updated his LinkedIn a company as big as Apple, all of whiskey making on Discovery the list soon. profile to show that he's no longer these exits are likely just more Channel's "Some Assembly Google notes that some users with the company in Cupertino. indicative of usual turnover rather Required." have created extremely complex most watched: beverage fact Herbold's LinkedIn now shows than a motivated mass exodus. applications using App Script in that he works for a company Senior iCloud product manager videos the past, so we expect to see even called HealthTeacher, and his John Herbold leaves Apple recently added: beverage fact more use now. Discuss work at Apple is in the past. He originally appeared on TUAW - videos also says that working with Apple The Unofficial Apple Weblog on This entry passed through the "was a great privilege. Now I get Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:00:00 EST. Full-Text RSS service if this is to take that experience and apply Please see our terms for use of your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read it to the enormous challenge of feeds. materially improving youth Source| Permalink| Email this| the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five health." Comments Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents. from the day. Send us your tips at scribe@heritage.org. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
Senior iCloud product manager John Herbold leaves Apple
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Empty Words - By Julia Ioffe

JULIA IOFFE (Foreign Policy)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 3:34:26 PM
I bet he had. Such tough-love speeches are common and often heard at economic conferences MOSCOW The St. Petersburg from other high-ranking Kremlin International Economic Forum -- liberals. They work because Russia's Davos -- opened with a they're delivered by very smart, speech by President Dmitry very persuasive people, people Medvedev. It was a frank speech, like First Deputy Prime Minister a tough speech. "It is incorrect to Igor Shuvalov or privatization focus on calm, slow growth. It is a legend Anatoly Chubais, people mistake," he said. "This infamous who sound like they get it. And stability can hide another period they do. of stagnation.... This is why we Here's the thing, though: It's hard must quickly and deliberately to differentiate between all those change everything that hampers speeches, and not just among breakthrough development." After t h o s e d e l i v e r e d b y v a r i o u s l i s t i n g s o m e o f R u s s i a ' s ministers. How does Medvedev's achievements since the collapse of S t . P e t e r s b u r g s p e e c h , f o r the Soviet Union, he laid out his example, differ from the speech vision: privatizing government he delivered to the Russian assets, overhauling the legal political elite in November 2009? system, lifting visa restrictions, And how does that, in turn, differ lowering taxes, and fighting from its precursor, the " Forward, corruption. Or, as Medvedev so Russia!" editorial he penned in the kindly put it, "The squeeze of the o p p o s i t i o n a l n e w s p a p e r n o o s e o n t h e n e c k o f Gazeta.ru? In all three, Medvedev corruptioneers must be constant t a l k e d a b o u t t h e s t i f l i n g and merciless." corruption in Russia, about its The praise from Western writers d a n g e r o u s d e p e n d e n c e o n was instant. It was " a blueprint extraction, about the need to get for changing Russia," Medvedev's some air into the Kremlinwere " bold comments," he had " controlled political system. Set a Goal to Reform, Modernize Here's the other thing: I'm not the and Decentralize Russia as only one who can't tell these Quickly as Possible," he had left speeches apart. Boris Makarenko i n v e s t o r s " i n s p i r e d " a n d is a well-known and intelligent "enthusiastic." political scientist at a think tank
called the Institute of Contemporary Development that serves as Medvedev's brain trust. I asked him if there were any differences between this speech and past speeches Medvedev had made. Makarenko argued that Medvedev offered something "more concrete" this time around, that he spoke of lowering the vote threshold -- now set at 7 percent -for entering the Parliament. (In other words, to get even a single seat, a party needs to get at least 7.01% of the vote. If it doesn't, the votes are split among all the other parties proportionally. This keeps smaller, often opposition parties out of Parliament.) But Medvedev didn't mention that in his St. Petersburg speech. He didn't mention electoral politics at all. He did, however, mention it in Sunday's interview with the Financial Times: For instance, once we raised the State Duma admittance threshold for political parties up to 7 percent I think this might be the right thing to do to achieve the organization of the political forces.... However, one day we will have to revise the decision and lower the barrier so that political competition improves and those unable to clear the 7 percent barrier can scrape together
at least 5 percent or even 3 percent to get to the State Duma. In fact, Medvedev first broached the issue in his November 2009 state of the union. "Didn't he mention this in November 2009?" I asked Makarenko. "No, no he didn't," Makarenko said. Then he thought a minute and said, "Oh, yes, you're right. He did." The real issue, of course, is why Medvedev continues to talk about the same things using the same words. No doubt, Medvedev and his crew know exactly what's going wrong in Russia and have some ideas about how to fix it. But even if they actually wanted to fix it -- and, given the interests at stake, that's a big if -- the real question is whether the people below them, the implementers, want to. And unfortunately, we have a pretty good idea of the answer to that question: They don't. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
Sienna Miller Celebrates Her JewelMint Collaboration at a Ralph Lauren Bash

Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 2:49:00 AM
There was an occasion for Sienna Miller to celebrate her new JewelMint collaboration last night at Ralph Lauren's Wimbledon Party in London. She, along with her mom, Jo, and older sister, Savannah, toasted the annual tennis festivities with legendary player Boris Becker. Sienna, who runs Twenty8Twelve with Savannah, selected a bracelet to be sold on Kate Bosworth's JewelMint. The "Sienna" bracelet is $30, with half the proceeds benefitting the International Medical Corps. The mixture of fashion and philanthropy is Sienna's latest project, though she's been focused recently on wrapping up her run in the West End's Flare Path. Sienna still has time for boyfriend Tom Sturridge, and they showed off a shared affection for action on the court at the French Open earlier this month. View Slideshow
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Krispy Kreme pushes to be more healthy

(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 11:29:00 PM
Riot Dog - An FP Slide Show

EDMUND DOWNIE (Foreign Policy)
streets of Athens these days, add one last group of down-and-out Athenians: dogs. The city's strays Submitted at 6/21/2011 5:31:16 PM have been out in full force during BY EDMUND DOWNIE| JUNE the protests, with one dog in 21, 2011 particular stealing the show, a See a slide show(or two) of war scruffy fellow named Loukanikos dogs in the U.S. Army. ("Sausage"). Louk, who earned To the anarchists, communists, his moniker for his sausage-like and disaffected youth rioting shape, follows in the footsteps of against austerity measures on the Kanellos, the original riot dog of
Athens, who passed away in 2008. Louk's efforts have earned him a Facebook page, a Twitter account, a tumblelog, and several YouTube tributes chronicling his work on the front lines of the Athenian protest movement. Here, Loukanikos barks at Greek riot police on Dec. 8, 2010. ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images
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All the Homer Simpsons of the world should brace themselves now. Krispy Kreme wants to offer healthier options. Instead of their usual wide selection of glazed donuts, Krispy Kreme will now offer yogurt, oatmeal, and fruit juice to the menu. The menu revamp is part of CEO James Morgan's overall scheme to boost business. After the donut chain's initial rise to national and even international glory in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it suffered a bit of a loss in 2005. Morgan has done much so far in rebuilding the business, but there's still a lot of work to do if it's going to compete with Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks. Full story at Businessweek.com. Top candy news. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink| Leave a comment
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Time for Plan B; Unfortunately there is No Plan B

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis)
the country, but easy for Europe to bear. It is only because Greece is part of the euro zone that Athens' debts are a problem for all Submitted at 6/21/2011 2:16:00 PM How long can the ECB kick the of its partners -- and pose a threat can down the road? How big a to the common currency. hole will Greece dig before the If the rest of Europe abandons ECB, the EU, and IMF realize Greece, the crisis could spin out that "Plan A" (austerity will fix of control, spreading from one problems by 2013), cannot weak euro-zone country to the possibly work? Is the amount of next. Investors would have no money the EU, IMF, and ECB guarantees that Europe would not willing to throw at Greece w i t h d r a w i t s s u p p o r t f r o m unlimited? Portugal or Ireland, if push came Those are the questions on my to shove, and they would sell their mind as I read How the Euro government bonds. The prices of Became Europe's Greatest Threat these bonds would fall and risk on Der Spiegel In the past 14 premiums would go up. Then months, politicians in the euro- these countries would only be zone nations have adopted one able to drum up fresh capital by bailout package after the next, paying high interest rates, which convening for hectic summit would only augment their existing meetings, wrangling over lazy budget problems. It's possible that compromises and building up they would no longer be able to risks of gigantic dimensions. raise any money at all, in which For just as long, they have been c a s e t h e y w o u l d b e c o m e avoiding an important conclusion, i n s o l v e n t . namely that things cannot But if the current situation continue this way. The old euro continues, the monetary union no longer exists in its intended will invariably turn into a transfer form, and the European Monetary union, a path the inventors of the Union isn't working. We need a euro were determined to prevent. Plan B. Democratic Deficiencies If it wasn't for the euro, Greece's The euro's founding fathers did debt crisis would be an isolated not anticipate such a crisis, and problem -- one that was tough for t h u s d i d n o t i n c l u d e a n y
Inquiring minds may wish to give the link a closer look. Lend-and-Pretend (Plan A) is clearly not working. Yet ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet insists it "must" work. Why? Because there is no Plan B, and more importantly Because Trichet insisted there be no Plan B. Such is the nature of stubborn, arrogant fools. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a provisions for it in the European it a blow from which it might registered investment advisor M o n e t a r y U n i o n ' s s e t o f never recover, especially with representative for SitkaPacific regulations. The euro welds E u r o p e ' s p o s i t i o n a l r e a d y C a p i t a l M a n a g e m e n t . S i t k a t o g e t h e r s t r o n g a n d w e a k threatened by the fast-growing Pacific is an asset management countries, for better or for worse. Asian economies. How is a f i r m w h o s e g o a l i s s t r o n g There is no emergency exit, and fragmented Europe to prevail performance and low volatility, there are no rules to follow in an against this new competition? regardless of market direction. emergency -- only the hope that This is why Europe's politicians Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com everything will turn out well in want to defend the euro at all /account_management.html to the end. costs, and why they are approving l e a r n m o r e a b o u t w e a l t h The euro, created with the aim of one bailout package after the next. m a n a g e m e n t a n d c a p i t a l permanently uniting Europe, has They are playing for time, hoping preservation strategies of Sitka become the greatest threat to the that the markets will settle down Pacific. continent's future. A collapse of and the reforms will take hold. the monetary union would set Those snips were all from the first Europe back by decades, dealing page of a five page article.
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The Bank Of Australia Talks Its Book On Commodity Prices

Rohan Clarke (Money Game)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 5:05:15 AM
factors and short term in nature. If we line up the central banks with the papers they have In its latest Bulletin, the RBA p u b l i s h e d , w e g e t s o m e added its two-pence into the interesting correlations (apologies Central Bank piggy bank of for the simplistic paraphrasing): analysis for the reasons for high Federal Reserve commodity commodity prices ( here). They prices are driven by physical conclude: demand from emerging Commodity prices are currently economies; not our monetary both high and volatile relative to policy the past few decades, consistent Bank of Japan commodity with the physical supply and prices are higher than physical d e m a n d f u n d a m e n t a l s t h a t demand alone implies; we should underpin these markets. However, know, we are a commodity t h e i n c r e a s e i n p r i c e s a n d importer volatility is not unprecedented, Australia commodity prices are having occurred during other driven by ever increasing demand large global supply and demand from emerging economies; we shocks throughout the past should know, they are our best century. There is a lack of customers convincing evidence (at least to Hmm. date) that financial markets have Speaking of correlations in the had a materially adverse effect on commodities markets, RBC commodity markets over time published an interesting chart periods of relevance to the recently (via FT) that compares economy. It is possible that real copper prices to inventories: speculators have had some effect All those grey circles in the upper on commodity price volatility, but left quadrant are telling us that the their contribution would appear to l a s t d e c a d e h a s b e e n v e r y be relatively small particularly different to previous ones prices w h e n c o m p a r e d w i t h t h e have remained stubbornly high contribution from fundamental against relatively stable supply.
The big question is why? Clearly, demand from China for industrial resources has grown very strongly, just as it has risen for agricultural products and energy across the developing economies. This supports the argument that the growing demand in absolute volume terms requires a higher level of inventories on a weeks-ofconsumption basis. There is no doubt then that higher demand from China et al has pushed up prices relative to the experience of the prior two decades. But to downplay the impact of investors that have plowed relentlessly into the supercycle commodity story, as the RBA has done, is plain irresponsible. It is self-evident, to me at least, that the weight of investor money in the sector means that this capital flow is capable of being the marginal price setter. With commodity investors making up some 40% to 50% of futures markets turnover, can they really be anything else? Weve discussed this before (in May last year here and with some charts from James Montier here).
The evidence is plentiful from the volumes being traded in futures markets to the distortions being created in the forward curves. If nothing else, the growing presence of investors increases the potential for extreme movements in commodities prices. It is well to remember in this context that commodities as an investment in their own right do not pay a dividend. Investors rely solely on higher prices to generate returns or at the very least, stable prices to get their money back. Still when you look at this chart from the RBAs analysis, one gets the sense that the supercycle proponents are comfortable with the risks for some time yet. To be fair, its a pretty compelling picture Read more posts on Data Diary Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: The Case For Silver
The Ultimate Summer Safety Tips for Kids Quiz

Submitted at 6/21/2011 9:00:56 AM
School's out and the fun begins! Sun, water and outdoor activities for at least two months can be full of excitement and enjoyment for your kids. As a parent, however, you need to protect your children from an array of summertime hazards. Take this quiz and learn how to keep your kids safe during the summer months. Earn a point for every right answer! Save your score at the end of the quiz. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
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Where Germany Would Be Without The Biggest Default In Modern History -- Aka The War Debt
Also Sprach Analyst (Money Game)
which gave Germany a haircut according to Ritschl, which made the Germans economic miracle Submitted at 6/22/2011 4:41:44 AM possible. In his own words, he Albrecht Ritschl, an economic said: historian, talked to Spiegel on his Germanys resurgence has only view of the Greece problem. been possible through waiving Curiously, he points out that extensive debt payments and Germanys default in the 20th stopping reparations to its World Century was probably among the War II victims In the 20th biggest of all. After the First century, Germany started two W o r l d W a r , t h e T r e a t y o f world wars, the second of which Versailles demanded Germany to was conducted as a war of pay huge amount of reparation in annihilation and extermination, gold marks (i.e. essentially to and subsequently its enemies repay in gold). In John Maynard waived its reparations payments Keynes Economic Consequences completely or to a considerable of the Peace, he clearly opposed extent. No one in Greece has the harsh demand, fearing that it forgotten that Germany owes its would ruin the German economy. economic prosperity to the grace O t h e r l i k e N i a l l F e r g u s o n of other nations. disagreed, believing that Germany So quite interestingly, he believes would have been able to repay, t h a t i f i t w a s n t c o u n t r i e s but they chose not to. (probably including Greece) that Anyway, Albrecht Ritschl g i v e s G e r m a n y a h a i r c u t , believe that the default after the Germany today would not have WWI was the king among been the Germany as we know it. default, and it was probably really Thus for him, the right and only Lehmanesque (while Greece is solution for Greece is to reduce its nothing). It was the United States debt burden. That is, put it in
other words, to allow Greece to default. The big comfort, in his view, is that Greece is insignificant, such that its default might not be a serious trouble, except that there might be a chance of contagion. I have been advocating the haircut for long, of course, not more bailout, for the very same reason. I noted earlier that even under IMFs rather optimistic forecast, the chance the Greece can repay its debt is close to impossible. Greece will either have to implement more austerity in return for bailout money, or default. Implementing the first option does not increase the chance of Greece having enough ability to repay, but for Greek general public, it will be a disaster as far as their living standards are concerned. For Greek people, default appears to be a better option. This article originally appeared here: Economic Historian: Debt Reduction Is The Only Solution For Greece
Also sprach Analyst - World & China Economy, Global Finance, Real Estate Related Posts Greek Tragedy: European Banks Vs. US Banks Eurozone Update: A Second Bailout For Greece Possible Rumour: Greece May Quit The Eurozone Greek Tragedy: Austerity And Default Lauren Turner (PopSugar) Greek Tragedy: Wishful Thinking On Its Public Finances Submitted at 6/22/2011 3:27:00 AM Read more posts on Also Sprach Analyst Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: Here's Why Greek Default Won't Ever Be Priced In 2-Year Greek Bond Yield Hits 29%, As Investors Bet On Prospect Of A "Greek Accident" Dubai Debt Pile In 2012
Reese Witherspoon Goes Back to Her Roots For a Fun Art Day
Reese Witherspoon carried an L.L. Bean tote and a box of art supplies around Pacific Palisades yesterday. The bag showed off the initials of Reese's birth name, Laura Jeanne, which she might use outside of Hollywood. Reese is getting back to her routine at home in LA after spending last week overseas in Russia to promote Avon. She made multiple appearances as part of their Global Believe tour, but returned home just in time to spend Father's Day with her family. Reese, Jim Toth, and Deacon Phillippe went to church on Sunday and were later spotted eating out at Blue Plate Oysterette in Santa Monica. View Slideshow
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Cash Crunch in China, Government Bill Sale Canceled, 7-Day Repro Rate Hits 8.81%
Merchants Bank Co., the nations sixth-largest lender. So we wont see the shortage easing. The seven-day repo rate gained Submitted at 6/22/2011 5:39:00 AM Bloomberg reports China Money 4 7 b a s i s p o i n t s , o r 0 . 4 7 Rate Reaches Three-Year High as percentage point, to 8.81 percent Bill Sale Suspended Chinas as of the 4:30 p.m. close in money-market rate climbed to the Shanghai, according to a weighted highest level in more than three average rate compiled by the years as a worsening cash crunch National Interbank Funding prompted the central bank to Center. It touched 8.93 percent, suspend a bill sale. the highest level since October The seven-day repurchase rate, 2007. which measures interbank funding The yield on the 2.77 percent availability, has more than government bond due May 2012 doubled since June 14, when the gained two basis points to 3.63 Peoples Bank of China ordered p e r c e n t , a c c o r d i n g t o t h e lenders to set aside more money Interbank Funding Center. Shibor as reserves for a sixth time this Rates - Overnight to 1 Year as of year. The central bank suspended 2011-06-22 a s a l e o f b i l l s t o m o r r o w , Here is a link to Shibor, Shanghai according to a statement on its Interbank Offered Rates Shibor website today. (Shanghai Interbank Offered Banks have to hoard cash to Rate) is calculated, announced meet the regulators capital or and named on the technological loan-to-deposit requirements by platform of the National Interbank the end of every quarter, said Liu Funding Center in Shanghai. It is Junyu, a bond analyst at China a simple, no-guarantee, wholesale
interest rate calculated by arithmetically averaging all the interbank RMB lending rates offered by the price quotation group of banks with a high credit rating. Currently, the Shibor consists of eight maturities: overnight, 1-week, 2-week, 1-
month, 3-month, 6-month, 9month and 1-year. The price quotation group of Shibor consists of 16 commercial banks. These quoting banks are primary dealers of open market operation or market makers in the FX market, with sound
information disclosure and active RMB transactions in China's money market. Soaring short-term rates is a sign of lack of credit stress and lack of liquidity. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com /account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
Encipher.it Encrypts Text in One Click for Those Extra Sensitive Emails [Video]
Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 5:00:00 PM
Encipher.it encrypts sensitive datalike credit card infoso you can send an email and only
the correct password. More the recipient can decypher it with
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It Sounds Like Someone Put The Fear Of God In Angela Merkel

Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 5:13:40 AM
Interactive Map: Employment History Since 2001 by Job Type (Healthcare, Education, Mining, Construction, Finance, Real Estate, etc)
Angela Merkel just spoke in Germany, and it sounds like she had one of those moments, like when Hank Paulson got on his knees and begged Nancy Pelosi to support TARP. Or maybe someone told her that if Greece defaulted, then the ATMs would stop spitting out cash the next day. Suddenly she's sounding very conciliatory and dovish. Per headlines that are coming via Bloomberg, she says that private sector haircuts were always going
to be voluntary (previously everyone assumed that she was insistent on private sector haircuts), and that if there were haircuts, there would be a contagion effect, hitting other weak states. She also is saying that a "controlled state insolvency" is currently not possible. Bottom line: She doesn't want to push for anything dramatic or substantive. After Greece gets its next aid (presuming it passes austerity measures), then talks with private creditors will begin. Also: The German vote on Greek aid will be
the week of July 4 (should be momentous!). Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: This Is What Will Happen If Greece Defaults Goldman's Jim O'Neill: Here's The One Way Out Of The Eurozone Mess The British Are Now Preparing For Greece To Go Bust, And The End Of The Euro
since 2008, by job classification. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. Submitted at 6/21/2011 3:10:00 PM When it comes to jobs, this is the com weakest recovery ever except for Click Here To Scroll Thru My health-care. Recent Post In the first of a two-part series, List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a please consider the following registered investment advisor interactive map, using Tableau representative for SitkaPacific Software, with data courtesy of C a p i t a l M a n a g e m e n t . S i t k a Economic Modeling. Pacific is an asset management This interactive map may take a f i r m w h o s e g o a l i s s t r o n g bit to load. Please give it time on performance and low volatility, a slow connection. regardless of market direction. Change in Employment by Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com Industry: '01-11 /account_management.html to Note that on a percentage basis l e a r n m o r e a b o u t w e a l t h mining is a big winner. In m a n a g e m e n t a n d c a p i t a l a b s o l u t e t e r m s , h o w e v e r , preservation strategies of Sitka healthcare was the big winner. Pacific. Mining and oil added few jobs. In a followup post I will take a closer look at job gains and losses
Online Security - from Consumer Reports

Press Room (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 9:00:59 PM
Online Security - from Consumer
Reports The persistence of Internet threats makes it important to use secuirty software whenever venturing onto the Web. From Consumer Reports' June issue.
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An Open Letter to DC Comics Concerning Digital Pricing

Corrina Lawson (Wired Top Stories)
the cornerstones of the new launch. Ask a non-comics reader about Batgirl, and youre likely to Submitted at 6/21/2011 9:00:00 AM get a lot of recognition and When DC announced the all-new, perhaps far more of a wow, digitally enhanced universe last cool response than even with month, I was left with very mixed Wonder Woman. (Of course, if feelings. DC wants to appeal to new On the one hand, a huge push readers, especially women, it into digital content, especially should have more than ONE m a k i n g n e w d i g i t a l i s s u e s female creator contributing available the same day as their regularly but thats a subject for print counterparts, is an idea another post.) whose time is long overdue. On But Im worried DC is setting the other hand, the way DC is itself up for failure, first by its going about it leaves me doubting digital pricing model, second by as to whether it will succeed. not starting with a clear slate for On the positive side, if DC truly new readers nor staying with wants to appeal to new readers current situation to keep older and not just long-time comic readers happy, and, lastly, by buyers like me, digital distribution failing to go outside the 18-35 is the way to go. I know some year-old male demographic. wonderful comic book retailers Ill address the other two issues might be badly hurt but the reach in separate posts. of the direct market is inherently Right now, Im extremely limited while the reach of the c o n c e r n e d t h a t t h e d i g i t a l internet is world-wide. initiative is never going to get off I also think the move to provide the ground because of pricing: DC new types of titles is a good one, is offering first run comics on the especially ones by creators well- day the print versions are released known outside of comics, such as to stores for$2.99 each. After a Paul Cornell and his Demon month, these comics will be $1.99 Knights title. each. Keeping the price at $2.99 is And as personally bummed as I being done so the digital price am about the loss of my favorite isnt lower than the print price. comic as it currently exists, Birds The hope is that digital sales will of Prey, I can see why DC wants add new sales, not cannibalize to make Batgirl with Barbara sales that happen in comic shops. Gordon in the costume as one of The good news for readers is that
all comics released will stay available for perhaps an unlimited time. In the current direct market model, a consumer has to order comics three months in advance to guarantee receiving an issue. If youre interested in, say, Demon Knights or Grant Morrisons new Superman series, you have to order it from your local retailer within the next couple of weeks to guarantee receiving a print copy
comics to order. And theyll be wrong sometimes, leaving many readers without a chance at a new series unless they have preordered a copy. Digital completely alters that equation: DC is not going to run out of downloads. If I want to wait until release day to grab Batgirl#1, I can. And its a way to grow an audience for a lesser known title. If, say, Mister Terrific sells out in comic shops on release day because the retailer ordered only two or three copies, a print reader is out of luck. But with digital, a reader can always find it, allowing word of mouth to build and perhaps increase sales of issue #2. Thats all good. The problem is that $2.99 price tag. The digital audience is not used to paying that much for content that takes them such a short time to read. Im concerned in September. Thats because that even dropping the price to chances are that on release day, $1.99 after a month might not be hot titles will be gone from the enough to attract new readers. shelves in a day or two. And Why Not Entice New Readers retailers wont re-order as a with Grant Morrison's Batman? general rule because of cost Most songs on iTunes are $1.29. issues. Neither will they over- There are many books available at order because returns can cut into the Kindle store for 99 cents. No their bottom line. They have to doubt that low price point is p e r f o r m a s p e c i a l a l c h e m y driving sales of the Kindle itself. combined of guesswork, previous That low amount might stay as the sales, and new interest in order to OPEN page 47 decide how many of these new
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Onswipe Makes Any News Site TouchEnabled With HTML5 Magic

Ryan Singel (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 5:07:00 PM
Look out specialized magazine iPad apps youve got a new competitor that aims to turn any website into a touch-and-swipe experience on tablets and smartphones with just a few lines of JavaScript. Onswipe, which launched Tuesday, works by diverting iPad, iPhone and Android phone users from a publishers webpage to a specialized HTML5-driven page that behaves like a custom magazine app such as Popular Science and Wired magazines iPad apps or The Dailys experiment of an app as a daily newspaper. The difference is that Onswipe does all the work for free. Publishers choose from a range of templates; provide a way for Onswipe to get at the content in the publishers database; and include a short line of code in their website. And voila! Sites get instant appification with magazinelike ads between stories. Those ads are sold and placed by OnSwipe, which shares the majority of the revenue with the publisher. Onswipe Demo Video from Onswipe on Vimeo.
Onswipes founder Jason Baptiste is aiming to be the publishing platform for any size website that wants a tablet optimized experience, without having to find a way to build apps for iOS and Android and give up subscription revenue to Apple. The tablet is the TV of our generation, Baptiste said. We
think publications can get the kind of money brand advertisers are used to spending in the print world. Others have gone down the road of bypassing native apps for the power of HTML5. The Financial Times, for example, just released its own HTML5-based app, which Baptiste says is pretty
neat, though he says it might have been wasted effort. Someone like The Financial Times could just use us, Baptiste said. And that category of sites should be nearly anyone, Baptiste says, and even better, advertisers should love it. OnSwipe is launching Tuesday
with some well-known sites, including Forbes, Slate, Stocktwits, Thomson Reuters PeHub, and Hearsts Marie Claire; while advertisers include Sprint and American Express. OnSwipe only works, however, for sites that dont charge a ONSWIPE page 49
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Army Gets How-To Guide for Zombie Invasion

Lena Groeger (Wired Top Stories)
the world, so you know its reliable. So how should our enlisted men Submitted at 6/21/2011 3:54:00 PM and women fight the troves of One day in the not-too-distant Zombies who threaten to eradicate future, a mindless horde of our species? Well, since every cannibalistic killing machines will Zombie outbreak is slightly come shambling through the different, this guide is a handy streets of America. And when that h o w - t o f o r d e a l i n g w i t h day comes, the U.S. Army will be u n e x p e c t e d d e v e l o p m e n t s . on it faster than you can scream First, identifying these fleshBRAAIIIINNSS! eating monsters. Unfortunately, Lucky for us, the Army Zombie o n l y q u a l i f i e d m e d i c a l C o m b a t C o m m a n d h a s p u t personnel can identify Type A together a nifty manual on how to infections (the weaker version that identify, fight, and kill those only starts the zombie-conversion murderous mobs of the undead. process upon death). But never Soldiers can now add the FM 999- fear, the manual has precise 3 Counter-Zombie Operations at instructions for identifying the Fireteam Level to their arsenal zombies at any stage of their the primary doctrinal reference rotten existence. on conducting fire team sized Stage 1, Infection: See someone infantry operations in a Zombie shivering, vomiting, and whose infested environment in the pupils dont respond to light or United States. darkness? Quick, kill them And as far as we know, this is the immediately. Dont forget to only (non) arm of the service that destroy their brains. guarantees the survival of the Stage 2, Recently Reanimated: United States in the event of any Things get slightly trickier in this Zombie emergency. stage. Key movements to note are Danger Room has already s t a g g e r e d w a l k i n g , a r m s provided the civilian guide for the extended, slight groans. The next zombie apocalypse. Were m a n u a l a d v i s e s i m m e d i a t e glad to see such a forward- n e u t r a l i z a t i o n . thinking authority prepare our Stage 3, Active Zombie: This nations troops to counter the next should be the easiest to identify. non-existent threat. Its based on No body fat, mostly gray, clothing i n t e l l i g e n c e c o l l e c t e d f r o m is probably damaged or missing. various Zombie outbreaks around You know what to do.
and separation). Officers can choose from diamond, triangle, trident or file formations. Roof tops, very steep mountains or large trees are ideal defensive points in urban settings. Avoid islands, if possible zombies will just walk under water and emerge on the other side. Of course, no manual is complete without a thorough review of terrain and weather. Unfortunately, this section is short zombies can operate in almost any condition, although they slow down once it dips below zero degrees Celsius. But remember, a frozen Zombie is still dangerous, once it thaws. Now, this manual is intended for trained soldiers of the United States Army so dont rush home to try any of these anti-undead tactics yourself. Unless, of course, your living room has been invaded by a bunch of corpses who want to eat you alive. Then, (Attention! Decapitated heads can all we can say is, best of luck. Next up, fighting equipment. still bite you). But stay away from This entry passed through the While your standard M4 is the c h a i n s a w s ( w a s t e o f f u e l ) , Full-Text RSS service if this is weapon of choice for counter- pitchforks (not sturdy enough to your content and you're reading it Zombie operations, there are penetrate the skull) or axes (they on someone else's site, please read multiple think-outside-the-box have the unfortunate habit of the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentoptions. Try a spear (highly getting lodged in the target). only/faq.php#publishers. Five recommended, aim for the head), Next are elaborate instructions on Filters featured article: Ten Years aluminum baseball bat (the how to regain order and control in Of Media Lens - Our Problem shortest melee weapon practical a zombie-infested battlefield (this With Mainstream Dissidents. for use against Zombies) or sword is crucial to due anticipated chaos
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standard, it might not, but the point is that 99 cents or even free books made people excited about getting a Kindle and checking out the content. Angry Birds is only 99 cents. Marvel Comics already has a number of titles either free or at 99 cents. An even greater deal is a year-long subscription for only $59.88 (thats $4.99/mo). Buy that and you can read any comic in their digital catalog all year long with no additional fee. Its true that these are not comics released on the same day as the new print comic but if you havent been reading comics for a long time, all the content is going to be new or nearly new to you. Getting all the current stories at $2.99 on the day of release isnt going to mean much to someone who has a lot of catching up to do. Another competitor, Dark Horse, has a number of digital titles free and the others priced at $1.99. Comixology already has many DC Comics for $1.99 digitally. And DC already has some digital content but not at $2.99. $1.99 is
slightly better, especially if DC advertises the heck out of this new digital content but its still not ideal. I realize DC is counting on the fact that theyve re-started all their titles at #1 to be less intimidating and more exciting to new readers. But I dont know if getting the first issue of a comic is enough incentive at that price. They might do better to follow the example of The Baen Free Library. Baen is a publisher who right away recognized how to use free digital content to push sales of new books. Their free library offers backlist stories or novels by some of their most famous authors for free, on the theory that once a reader has read a particular author, theyll pay money for later books. Im not saying DC should put up their new books for free I can see all kinds of piracy problems plus the issues with cutting into comic retailers profits but DC should seriously think about putting up a large amount of its backlist for digital distribution.
Want to get fans hooked on the new Batman and Robin, now Bruce Wayne and his son, Damian Wayne? Offer for free the digital version of the trade paperback that introduces Damian or the storyline that brought back Bruce from the dead, Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne. Want people to get hooked on Scott Snyders Batman? Offer an issue or two of his current run on Detective for free. Want people to read the new Green Lantern comics? Give those who buy the digital issues at $2.99 a free digital trade paperback of Blackest Night, the last big Green Lantern event. Or even offer subscriptions in bundles. Pay $10 a month and get all the various Batman titles. Or something similar for all the Green Lantern books. The point is to hook readers on the current stories by giving them value. Once readers are hooked on the new stories (well, hopefully), $1.99 or even $2.99 is not going to be an obstacle because theyre
already sold and wanting more. I dont know all the internal profit figures for DC but its entirely possible that the $2.99 price tag is needed to pay creators. If so, DC must figure out a way to entice people into paying that amount and a whole host of first issues isnt going to be enough. Because $2.99 and even $1.99 will make potential new readers pause before downloading. What do you think, GeekDad readers? Ready to jump into DCs digital content at $2.99? All images copyright DC Comics. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
Basics of Photography: Your Cameras Automatic and Assisted Settings [Night School]
Adam Dachis (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 6:30:00 PM
Now that you've got a pretty good idea of how the different parts of your camera works, we're going to take a look at its various settings. In this lesson we'll cover the basics, and in the following lesson we'll take a look at manual mode. More
George Bush and Nolan Ryan get themselves some cheap sunglasses
'Duk (Y! Sports Blogs - Yahoo! Sports)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 9:01:45 PM
Would the thousands of other fans at Rangers Ballpark on
Tuesday night have set the Guiness world record for most people wearing sunglasses in the dark without George W. Bush and Nolan Ryan helping things along? Considering the previous record
was only 424 people, yes, they
would have. But guarantee you one thing: News of their little stunt during the Texas Rangers' 5-4 victory over the Houston Astros certainly wouldn't have reached Big League
Stew without these two pardners giving us another great picture for our pile. Almost tops this one, we reckon.
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Land of the midnight sun

(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 4:41:00 AM
Join us on Facebook for more incredible footage, photos and stories. Or follow us on twitter for the latest updates and to talk some more... What is it like to live in a place where it seems as if your day has no end? BBC Assistant Producer Willow Murton describes the strange experience of life in a polar climate. Land of the midnight sun by Willow Murton, Assistant Producer, Arctic/Mountains team Wake up Willow! shouts a voice. I pull off my eye mask and open my eyes. The sun shines bright above me. I look at my watch. Three oclock in the morning? I sit bolt upright, lifting my head from the make do pillow. Reindeer hair sticks to my cheek. Simon the sound recordist mutters as he rigidly stares out ahead of us. Beth the researcher alongside us is, like me, struggling with sleep deprivation and the daylight. I am still trying to focus my eyes in the dazzling night of the Arctic summer. Suddenly I see the figures along the ice edge. Five
Vicci Martinez Brings Down the House on 'The Voice' SemiFinals (VIDEO)
Jason Hughes (AOL TV)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 1:12:00 AM
men, spread out along the horizon, all poised, waitingwatching for their target. Simon (Forrester) and I just before our sudden awakening Simon swears. We arent hunters but we know the rules. We mustnt do anything, we mustnt move, cannot move from our dogsled bed. I spot our tripod and camera, no cameraman anywhere nearby. I am filled with a dreadful nauseous realisation
this could be the moment that we have spent over a year working towards. Months of careful negotiations and awkward logistics all for us to sleep through our only possible chance of filming a narwhal hunt. We can only sit and watch in confused disbelief At that moment, the silhouette of a whale crests the ice edge. I wonder how on earth I am going to explain this to the team back in Cardiff Our camp Surreal scenes like this are
surely what you are supposed to wake from rather than wake up to. Its late Spring in Northern Greenland , there is no reference to time as the sun never sets so the days blend into each other. In the full glare of the midnight sun this is a place where anything seems possible and where dreaming and being seem to meet. Read the full story on the BBC Earth blog. Permalink| Leave a comment
Filed under: TV Replay'The Voice'(Tue., 9PM ET on NBC) continued blazing toward its finale next week at a breakneck pace. This week, we got the final four members of our Elite Eight, and got to hear them sing. Tomorrow, another hatchet job will send four of them home, leaving each Coach with only one contender for the finale. !!SPOILER ALERT!! Before the Top 8 could sing, though, we needed to know who they were. And that meant getting the results of last week's battle between Teams Cee Lo Green and Adam Levine. As with the prior week, America's vote would save one contestant, while the Coach would save the other. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments
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subscription fee. Armed with $1 million in venture capital, Onswipes small group of coders have built a custom-touchpublishing JavaScript engine that outperforms native apps and doesnt rely on Flash, according to Baptiste. Users can flip through stories, share them and save them for later to read in My Onswipe, its version of ReadItLater. The site also analyzes articles to find other stories to recommend, including ones from other publications that use Onswipe. The one drawback is that Onswipe does not work with sites comment system, though it does show reactions from around the web, such as what people are saying on Twitter. Baptiste downplays the drawback, saying that publishers have a queasy relationship with
comments anyway. The company says it can work with any publishing system (it originally started as a way to tabletize Wordpress-based sites) and has a backlog of 26,000 sites that want to use the service. Android tablets are not yet being supported because there are not enough of them and their browsers are not yet of the same quality as the iPad, according to Baptiste. Onswipe will begin letting those sites in at random in the coming weeks, once the company sees how it handles the millions of site visits it gets on the first day. So look out app stores perhaps the Web isnt dead after all. See Also: Startup Challenges Murdochs Daily to Drop the App and Try the Web 10 Geeky Web Tricks with
HTML5 and CSS3 In Apparent Boon to Publishers, Apple Relents on App Sub Price Restriction (Scripting News) HTML5 for iPad Wont Kill Flash, But Could Change Apps Submitted at 6/21/2011 6:44:24 PM Apple Accused of Slowing Web Mathew Ingram has a riveting Apps to Benefit App Store piece about how Facebook shut down Roger Ebert's account on This entry passed through the Facebook because he said Full-Text RSS service if this is something that offended some your content and you're reading it people. on someone else's site, please read The only thing to add is that it is the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentnot possible to do journalism in an only/faq.php#publishers. Five environment where your writing Filters featured article: Ten Years can be taken down if the company Of Media Lens - Our Problem hosting it deems it offensive. With Mainstream Dissidents. We need to work on creating
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Heidi Klum Stops By a Dress-Up Shop With Leni, Henry, Johan, and Lou
Lauren Turner (PopSugar)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 3:02:00 AM
Costume-loving Heidi Klum led Leni and Henry by the hand as they left Halloween Adventure in NYC yesterday. Her youngest
children, Johan and Lou, followed closely behind with help from a few nannies. Heidi spent the day with her kids after going for a jog along the Hudson River in the morning. She paired up with her bodyguard and a friend for the
workout, which was the second
day of her Summer Run program with AOL. Heidi had the help of trainer David Kirsch for her first day of pounding the pavement on Monday, and she'll be tracking her progress over the next month on her blog. In addition to daily
sweat sessions, Heidi is also prepping for her upcoming fragrance release, filming Project Runway on Friday, and looking forward to a fun family vacation to Italy. View Slideshow
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Misurata comes under rocket attack

(AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE))
Submitted at 6/22/2011 3:27:17 AM
Wednesday's rocket bombardment was the first attack on Misurata's main town in several weeks [Reuters] Forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have fired rockets into rebel-held Misurata in the first artillery attack targeting the centre of the city in several weeks. Although no one was reported injured, the attack prompted concern among residents, who had believed the siege on their city was broken after rebels drove out loyalist forces in mid-May. "Everyone is worried. We don't know where to go anymore. Only when I die will I be safe," said Mohammed Mabrouk, who lives near one of two houses hit by the rockets. Two more landed in open areas. Fierce fighting has been largely contained in Misurata's far western and eastern edges, where the rebel army is sustaining heavier casualties by the day from the better equipped and better trained government forces. Two people were killed in a rocket attack south of the city, while there have been regular attacks in recent weeks near an oil refinery in Misurata port, Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley reported. A child was killed and two others were wounded on Monday when a rocket exploded in a house near the port in the east. Rebels have been trying to
advance west toward the town of Zlitan, where Gaddafi's soldiers are imposing a tight siege. Libyan television said on Wednesday that "dozens" of people were killed in Zlitan after NATO naval ships shelled the town. The report could not be independently verified because foreign reporters have been prevented from entering Zlitan.
If confirmed, the incident could further complicate the mission of the NATO-led military alliance, whose credibility has been questioned after it admitted on Sunday killing civilians in a Tripoli air strike. A rebel spokesman called Mohammed told the Reuters news agency from Zlitan that NATO had been hitting loyalist military
targets in the town on an almost daily basis. He said Gaddafi's soldiers used their artillery positions in Zlitan to fire artillery shells toward Misurata. "We hear the sound of artillery fire every night," he said. Four rebel fighters were killed and 60 others were wounded in fighting with loyalist forces on Tuesday in
Dafniya, which lies between Zlitan and Misurata. Eleven rebel fighters were killed there a day earlier. Slow progress Rebels have made slow progress since NATO countries joined their fight to overthrow Gaddafi in March but are now trying to edge MISURATA page 52
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Life sentences for Bahrain activists

Submitted at 6/22/2011 3:33:50 AM
Bahrain's government says it has only tried a small number of those involved in recent mass protests [Reuters] Eight prominent activists accused of plotting a coup in Bahrain during protests earlier this year have been sentenced to life in prison. The court on Wednesday also sentenced other defendants, from among the 21 suspects on trial, to between two and 15 years in jail. The Bahrain News Agency said the life sentences were issued against prominent Shia political leader Hassan Mushaima; activists Abdulhady al-Khawaja, Abduljalil al-Singace and five others. Nabeel Rajab, president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, told Al Jazeera that many people are unhappy about these sentences. "Abdulhady al-Khawaja is one of the most respected human rights activist in the whole Arab region, so people are very angry about these sentences," Rajab said. "Hundreds of people have been brought up for charges in the past few days, and hundreds more are waiting to be tried." Alleged coup plot Al-Singace, who was released in
February after six months in jail, was also sentenced to life. Nine of the defendants had been in custody on similar charges in the past before being set free under a royal pardon in February aimed at calming protests in the kingdom. Following the pardon, Mushaima returned to Bahrain from self-imposed exile in the UK. Ibrahim Sharif, the Sunni leader of the secular leftist group Waad, was sentenced to five years. Waad had joined the largest Shia
opposition group Wefaq in calling for reforms to the constitutional monarchy. Said Abdulnabi Shihab was also sentenced to life in absentia. Six other defendants who are abroad and being tried in absentia were sentenced to 15 years in prison. Authorities claimed the activists had sought to overthrow Bahrain's Sunni monarchy and had links to "a terrorist organisation abroad". Witnesses say demonstrators made roadblocks with sand and debris, and called for marches to
oppose the trial. No violence was reported. "We've seen today, since early in morning, that lots of protesters have blocked the highways and roads," Rajab said. Demonstrations continue On Tuesday night, several villages had demonstrated in solidarity with the opposition leaders facing charges. Residents and activists said small protests broke out in some areas to chants of "Down, down (King) Hamad", as police cars rushed to
block the roads to the villages. The government contests the opposition's estimate that some 400 people are on trial, saying the number is far smaller. Some activists sent telephone text messages calling on followers to protest again on Wednesday in a "Day of loyalty to the symbols", to demand the release of the defendants and rejection of the government's dialogue offer. Four people have been sentenced to death and three others to life in prison over the killing of two policemen. Nine others were jailed for 20 years after being convicted of abducting a policeman. Authorities have said 24 people were killed during the month-long unrest, most of them demonstrators. Bahrain, home to the US Fifth Fleet, invited Saudi and other Gulf troops in mid-March to help crush pro-democracy protests. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
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towards Tripoli from Misurata, east of the capital, and from the Western Mountains region to its southwest. The going is especially difficult in Misurata. "Gaddafi's forces have moved forward about a kilometre," Mohammed Grigda said at the field hospital in Dafniya just outside Misurata. It was impossible to verify the information but a Reuters reporter in Dafniya saw that rebel mortar positions had edged back slightly. In the Western Mountains, where the rebels made significant gains in recent weeks, NATO launched four air strikes on Tuesday against loyalist forces outside the town of Nalut near the border with Tunisia, a rebel spokesman there said. Gaddafi allies denounce the bombing campaign as a foreign attempt to force a change of government and seize the North
African state's oil. NATO states defend the operation as a UNmandated mission to protect Libyan civilians. NATO admitted on Sunday its strike destroyed a house in Tripoli. Libyan officials said nine civilians died. The Libyan government said on Monday that 19 people were killed in another air strike, raising more questions about the military mission. Libyan officials say NATO forces have killed more than 700 civilians, but have not presented evidence of such large numbers of civilian deaths and NATO denies them. In a further blow to Libya's leaders, the United States on Tuesday blacklisted nine companies owned or controlled by Gaddafi's government. The sanctions prohibit US transactions with the companies, including the Arab Turkish Bank, North Africa International Bank and North
Africa Commercial Bank. US parliamentarians on Wednesday will consider two bills authorising limited military action in Libya. Republicans and Democrats alike have expressed support for the intervention but have been angered by US President Barack Obama's refusal to seek congressional authorisation, with some politicians on both sides threatening to target funding for the war. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
'Al-Qaeda fighters' escape from Yemen jail

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Foods to Boost Your Mind

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health. The Alzheimers Association refers to a brainhealthy diet as one that reduces Just like the right diet can prevent the risk of heart disease and heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, encourages good blood or cancer, health experts are flow to the brain, and is low in fat finding that certain foods may and cholesterol. Stay on top of boost your mind. Although there your mental ball game with these is no current treatment proven to 10 foods. cure Alzheimers disease or Grilled Salmon with Chorizo and dementia, there are foods that play Fingerlings incorporates three of a positive role in overall mind our top mind-boosting foods:
salmon, spinach, and extra virgin olive oil. Next Blackberries This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
Dozens of alleged al-Qaeda fighters have escaped from a prison in southern Yemen, according to security officials. Up to 40 inmates attacked the guards and seized their arms early on Wednesday, as bands of heavily armed gunmen attacked the prison in the port city of Mukalla in Hadramout province, the Associated Press news agency citing security officials said. Local sources told Al Jazeera at least one prisoner and a policeman were killed in exchange of gunfire. Officials said those who escaped included fighters convicted on terror charges or held in protective custody pending their trial. Wednesday's jailbreak is the latest sign that Yemen's uprising has emboldened al-Qaeda fighters to challenge authorities in the country's nearly lawless south. Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni president, is in Saudi Arabia for medical treatment after he was badly injured in an attack on his
presidential palace last month. The al-Qaeda fighters are presumably taking advantage of Saleh's absence, which has created a power vacuum in the country. But opposition activists, seeking Saleh's ouster, say the regime is deliberately raising the bogey of al-Qaeda to discredit the antigovernment uprising. Last month gunmen, alleged to be al-Qaeda fighters, reportedly took control of Zinjibar, the capital of the country's southern Abyan province. Government officials said on Monday at least 12 fighters linked to al-Qaeda were killed in gun battles with the Yemeni army in the city after it launched an offensive to retake the town. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
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The Voice: The Battle for Adam's Heart, and 9 Other Things You Didn't See on TV
Denise Martin (TVGuide.com: Breaking News)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 12:23:00 AM
The Voice So much bromance in the air at The Voice. And so, while the Final 8 performed some for the last time our burning questions linger. Which coach made the bigger play for Adam's affections this week? Who does executive producer Mark Burnett like best? What are audiences forbidden to do during the show? And exactly how hot does it get during the performance rounds? The best of what you didn't see on TV this week: The bathroom really does provide the best acoustics. Two weeks ago, we overheard Xenia singing and humming to herself in the ladies' room prior to the show. The extra practice didn't hurt either Blake advanced the 16year-old to the finals. This week, Frenchie did her vocal warm-ups loud and clear for all to hear while in her stall. When she emerged, relieved, we imagine, others who had to pee praised what they heard. "Thank you so much," she said (after she washed her hands, of course.) "I'm so scared!" Feeling the pressure, Frenchie? "It's a lot. A lot." 10 things you didn't see on The
Voice: An Adam and Christina duet and a new bromance? Who loves Adam most? Last week, Cee Lo seemed to have taken the lead in the ongoing battle for Adam's heart. He got that big bromantic bear hug after his team performed the happy romp, "Everyday People." But during the pre-taping of Adam and Christina's duet, "Moves Like Jagger," Blake was clapping and rocking out pretty hard, while Cee Lo sat, perhaps mesmerized, during both times they performed. Point: Blake. Now X-Tina dotes on her fans. Perhaps it's because we all know that she makes $225,000 an episode. Maybe she's just in a better mood now that she's got a hot single on the radio with Adam ( Burlesque, what?) For whatever reason, Christina was very nice to the crowd while the camera wasn't rolling before the show. After performing with Adam, she made her way off stage, smiling and slapping the outreached hands of fans on her way out. Shots, Shots, Shots... Shot-shotshot-EVERYBODY! Don't know why, but Carson, Adam, Blake and Cee Lo did shots right before the show went live. (OK, maybe the boys were drinking out of cheap paper coffee cups but they were toasting! Who's to say they
weren't throwing back?) Gotta get well-lubricated for showtime! And didn't Carson look extra jazzed to introduce this week's episode? Watch clips from The Voice Inside, they keep it a balmy 85 degrees. So beyond hair and makeup, most of what is happening during the commercial breaks is sweat-mopping and vigorous fanning. (Also, this week, continuous toasting between the male coaches.) Stars sweat, just like us! But Cee Lo loves his fans the most! After Casey performed her Dolly Parton-esque "I Will Always Love You," he got up to talk to the folks in the pit, the
instructed not to before every show. "It's not the vibe of this show," the warm-up guy says. It's also like mom used to say: If you can't say something nice... The audience's favorite song? Coldplay's "Fix You," by a landslide. When footage from Javier's session with Adam began, and he revealed he was going to channel Chris Martin's slow-andtender hit, the audience broke out into instant, excited applause. Gotta say, he knows how to get those votes. Who is Mark Burnett's favorite? What about the head of NBC alternative programming? Based rowdiest group in the house. on sheer head-bopping, we'd say Hands were shook, "I love you, the show's executive producer too's" were said. Awwww. pretty much adores Frenchie, who Adam's super proud of "Moves sang "Like a Prayer" to kick off Like Jagger" and so is Blake. the episode. Meanwhile, we Score another point for Blake! He spotted NBC's Paul Telegdy stood with Adam while watching grooving to Nakia's " Whataya the pre-taped performance of his Want from Me," originally sung duet with Christina. And then by American Idol runner-up Blake started bumping and Adam Lambert. grinding on him! Yeah, Blake, we This entry passed through the feel you. (Moments later, Cee Lo Full-Text RSS service if this is jumped up dancing but the party your content and you're reading it had already broken up. Gotta be on someone else's site, please read quick, Cee Lo!) the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentThe Voice: 8 things you didn't only/faq.php#publishers. Five see on TV Filters featured article: Ten Years Don't like Javier? Vicci? Xenia? Of Media Lens - Our Problem Too bad. There's no booing With Mainstream Dissidents. allowed. Audience members are
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Exclusive: Glee Boss Ryan Murphy Reveals Sue's New Nemesis

Denise Martin and Kate Stanhope (TVGuide.com: Breaking News)
Links! And Man Utds Facebook goal challenge!

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to destroy their life," he says. The winning contestant has no idea yet that he or she will be going toe-to-toe with Lynch, Submitted at 6/21/2011 9:33:00 PM Jane Lynch Murphy says. Is Mr. Schuester out of Coach While viewers won't find out Sue's crosshairs for good? It sure which of the remaining 10 seems like it. He and Coach Sue finalists will take the top prize for called a truce at the end of last several weeks, the winner has season, and now Glee boss Ryan already made quite an impression Murphy says she's getting a new on the cast of the Fox musical, as archrival! well as Murphy. "The winner of The Glee Project Meet the cast of The Glee Project is the person who she hates the "The person that won, for me, the most in the history of the show," reason why I chose them was Murphy tells TVGuide.com because they had the exact same exclusively. The Glee Project, thing that Lea Michele has, that airing Sundays at 9/8c on Oxygen, Chris Colfer has, that Darren is the reality competition aimed at Criss has, which is they are a star finding new blood for McKinley. and I want to write for them," The winner gets a seven-episode Murphy says. "They just inspired arc when Glee returns this fall. me and they inspired the rest of The Glee Project: The goal is too the regulars of the Glee cast, Ryan Murphy many of whom were mentors Next season, Murphy says Sue ( during the show. I would go to Jane Lynch) will get a new love them and I would say, 'Help me interest and run for Congress, but cast this. What do you guys her motivation to take down her think?'" new opponent will keep her tied In addition to asking the cast for to McKinley High. " The Glee input, Murphy says he was able to Project winner is Sue Sylvester's rely heavily on casting director new archenemy and she is going Robert Ulrich to find the right
talent for the series. "How he cast this and gave me the finalists was very similar to how he did the Glee pilot. All I said was I want people who are unknown and I want creative stars," Murphy says. "They don't have to be beautiful, they don't have to be handsome, they just have to be talented and they have to have moving stories. That, at the end of the day, is what I've always done and what we do on
Glee." Watch clips from The Glee Project Although he and the cast all came to the same conclusion, Murphy says that the process of picking a winner was not as cut-and-dried as it seems. "The person that we chose is not who I think everybody thinks it is," Murphy says. "The person that won was not the person I thought would win going in." Which Glee Project contestant do you think would make the best new enemy for Sue? Check back to read the second part of our interview with Murphy, in which he talks about his McKinley seniors, the show's critics and what's ahead. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award-winning Dirty Tackle... You really should be able to guess the winner of this little accuracy competition before you watch it. [ 101gg] A football painting worth 5.6 million. [ The Beautiful Gear] MLS better than Brazil...in attendance. [ KCKRS] Sunderland pronounce Leeds United dead. [ IBWM] Analyzing the 16 Women's World Cup rosters. North Korea's average age: 20.47! [ All White Kit] SportsCenter prepares for Women's World Cup by learning from Sergio Busquets. [ The Shinguardian] New England Revolution have their sweary fans banned and arrested. [ TDiF] The real reasons Chelsea want Villas-Boas. [ Surreal Football] Premier League fixture list announcement day -- as it happened. [ The Gaffer]
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Fresh Meat! Walking Dead Casts Season 2's Otis

Hanh Nguyen (TVGuide.com: Breaking News)
'Mad Men' Star Jon Hamm Signs New Contract, Banana Republic Launches 'MM' Clothing Range
Catherine Lawson (AOL TV)
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ideal for a while. Vince was last seen as Internal Affairs agent J.J. LaRoche on The Submitted at 6/21/2011 10:30:00 PM Mentalist. His TV resume also Pruitt Taylor Vince includes Deadwood and Murder The Walking Dead has cast its One. first new victim, er, actor for its For more on Season 2, check out sophomore season. this behind-the-scenes video of Pruitt Taylor Vince has landed a The Walking Dead's first day recurring role as Otis in Season 2 back shooting: of the AMC zombie drama, The 13-episode second season is TVLine reports. scheduled to come back in the First look: The Walking Dead fall. Season 2 This entry passed through the According to the graphic novels Full-Text RSS service if this is on which The Walking Dead is your content and you're reading it based, Otis is a rather easygoing on someone else's site, please read but racist survivor who, with his Andrew Lincoln) and his band of the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentgirlfriend Patricia, took refuge at survivors under less than optimal only/faq.php#publishers. Five Wiltshire Estates until it was circumstances. We won't reveal Filters featured article: Ten Years overrun by zombies. They later any more spoilers, but hey, they're Of Media Lens - Our Problem flee to Herschel's Farm, where living in a zombie apocalypse. With Mainstream Dissidents. they meet with Rick Grimes ( Circumstances won't really be
Filed under: Reality-Free, TV News'Mad Men' fans struggling through the dry spell between Seasons 4 and 5 can rest easy in the knowledge that Don Draper will be on the show until the end. And, for those fans looking to maintain the 'Mad Men' mood through the long wait, Banana Republic has announced that in August it will launch a range of clothing and accessories inspired by the '60s-set drama. Deadline.com reports that in the wake of 'Mad Men' creator Matthew Weiner's new three-year deal, star Jon Hamm has renegotiated his contract with Lionsgate-AMC. He was previously committed to a further two seasons, but that's now been upped to three in
exchange for a whopping pay-day -- estimated to be an eight-figure sum -- which makes him one of the highest-paid actors in a cable series. Permalink| Email this| Linking Blogs| Comments
Grilled Beef Recipes

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Kebabs are great for entertaining because theyre as easy to serve as they are to prepare. If youre expecting vegetarians, cook the
meat and vegetables on separate skewers, so guests who dont want meat can pick up a kebab of vegetables. If your guests assemble their own skewers, place the meat and vegetables in separate bowls.
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Is There a Non-Creepy Way to Say "I Had a Dream About You?"

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Submitted at 6/21/2011 2:00:00 PM
I grew up in a small suburban town in Illinois; my graduating class was right around 100, and there were only a little over 400 kids total in the high school. One of those kids was a girl in my class named Tasha. She was one of the "hot" girls of my class, beautiful and smiling and popular. This may come as a shock of you, dear reader, but I was not a popular kid in school. My path Jason Hughes (AOL TV) a band when she didn't, and then didn't cross Tasha's much, I got that non-existent band booked assume because her path involved Submitted at 6/22/2011 12:21:00 AM to play at a Christmas party. getting invited to parties and Filed under: Reality-Free, TV Things worked out for Welch, things and my path involved Replay There are many paths to but we don't recommend these fighting with my girlfriend and fame, but perhaps few as unlikely tactics as the best way to break seeing three movies a weekend. as the one forged by Florence into show business. First and She wasn't mean or anything, we Welch of Florence + the Machine. foremost, we're surprised that just ran in very different crowds. As Stephen Colbert phrased it such business deals are going We're friends on Facebook, but o n ' T h e C o l b e r t down in bathrooms in Soho. But aside from my annual "this isn't Report'(Weeknights, 11:30PM ET we're glad they are, as without awkward at all" Happy Birthday on Comedy Central), she was them we wouldn't have Florence + post on her wall, we don't keep in d i s c o v e r e d w h i l e " s i n g i n g the Machine. touch. drunkenly in a girls' bathroom." Permalink| Email this| Linking And I'm fine with that. I don't There was also an element of Blogs| Comments wish I could go back in time, I lying, as Welch professed to have don't pine for her affection, and Tasha's really kind of ancillary to this story, but I'm introducing you to her here to give you an idea of our (lack of a) relationship...
Florence + the Machine Was Discovered 'Singing Drunkenly in a Bathroom' (VIDEO)
So I had a dream last night and Tasha was in it. No, not that kind of dream. She was just there, as a character in my subconscious. We were performing together in a battle of the bands at our old high school, which was basically a recreation of the battle my high school band competed in. I assume she was there because my brain needed a female voice for the song we were playing(mind the F bomb at 0:18): For the record, we didn't win. Even in my dreams, I come up short. So my first thought upon waking was, "Wow, that was weird. I should call Tasha," which was a stupid thought because I haven't called Tasha EVER. I can only imagine her confusion and dismay at how I would even find her number. So naturally that morphed to, "Well, I could send her a note on Facebook." But really, (and I swear we're starting to get to the point of this blog post now) how creepy is that? We've all had that awkward moment with a friend when you open your fat, stupid mouth and say something like "I had a dream about you last night," and they can only give you this bewildered,
slightly frightened look as you stammer and try to explain that it wasn't ABOUT them, per se, but they were IN it, but it wasn't a sex dream. No, seriously, I swear it wasn't a sex dream. You know what? Nevermind. Right? I'm not the only one that's happened to, am I? So imagine trying to explain that to someone who is basically a stranger, except worse than a stranger because they know just enough about you and just enough of the same people to pass along how incredibly weird you are. But then again, maybe this is just my own incredibly intense social anxiety manifesting itself and in reality, she'd just chuckle and say something like, "Wow, that's pretty random," before going about her life because it's not really interesting at all. Maybe she'd be flattered! It could be the beginning of a friendship we never knew we even had. Okay, probably not that last one. Would you tell a distant acquaintance that you had a dream about them? Have you done it before? How'd it work out?
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NeatDesk Desktop Scanner and Digital Filing System

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Submitted at 6/22/2011 12:00:19 AM
SCAN IT! SCAN IT ALL! Quickly, Marie! Grab all the files on the Henderson account you can carry and follow me! Now is not the time for questions, Marie. Weve got fifteen minutes, maybe less, before the Feds march into this office and shut us down, maybe for good. But you can save us, Marie. Yes, you, my little mousy secretary. Now I know its close to quitting time on a weekend, but this is URGENT. All you have to do is scan all of these documents before you lea I mean, before a bunch of men in black suits burst through those doors and arrest us all! Shredding? Egad, no! I need them scanned, you hear? YES, Marie, the letters, the receipts, the business cards, ALL OF IT. As much as you can before were all drug away in handcuffs and subjected to horrible interrogations. Yes, Marie, EXACTLY like the ones Jack Bauer gives on television. Maybe worse. Dont worry, though, this NeatDesk Desktop Scanner/ Digital Filing System is a high speed son of a gun. You should be able to turn all this dead tree pulp into digital files quickly and easily. Just place all the documents into the award-
winning Automatic Document Feeder and let it do its thing. The NeatDesk will also help us organize the files right there on our Windows computer, and even make them keyword searchable for locating in an instant. And Ill need that for Mondays meeting I mean, Mondays escape to Uruguay, never to be seen again! Dont be scared, Marie. Everythings going to be fine. Just dont leave this office until either the Feds force you out, or you finish scanning those documents, whichever comes first. I know it looks like everyone else is simply leaving for the day, but thats just a clever ruse, you see. Now Ill just be hiding out on a golf course for the rest of the evening. Dont let me down, Marie. Were all counting on you. Authorized for SquareTrade Extended Warranty Warranty: 90 Day Neat Company Condition: Refurbished Features: NeatDesk is a high-speed desktop scanner and digital filing system that will quickly turn all the paper on your desk into organized, digital files More than just a great scanner, NeatDesk also includes patented NeatWorks software to identify and extract key information from your paper files, then automatically organizes it in the easy to use database
NeatDesk can actually recognize and activate the information you care about so you can edit, add notes, run reports, and more Featuring an award-winning ADF(Automatic Document Feeder) scanner, its patented input tray lets you scan receipts, business cards, and documents, all in a single batch The patented paper input tray lets you scan different kinds of paper from the smallest taxi receipt to 2-sided legal documents all in a single pass. Or insert up to 50 pages at once for lightningfast batch scanning NeatWorks uses patented Intelligent Text Recognition technology to identify and capture key information from scanned documents, then populates that data automatically in the robust digital filing system Create exports for tax time and year-round financial management, or export data to applications like QuickBooks,TurboTax, and Outlook All scanned documents are completely keyword searchable, so youll find your files in just a few seconds instead of a few hours Scan in receipts to:- Save digital copies of receipts and records of vendors, dates and totals- Create expense reports and manage
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with Paper Tray Extensions Scanner/Digital Filing System without ADF(One-Size Paper Mode) Back of Scanner/Digital Filing System (Power Button, USB and Power Ports) Package Contents Packaging System Requirements Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) Pentium IV 1.3 GHz or later 1 GB RAM (2 GB highly recommended) 1 GB hard disk space to install CD-ROM drive Available USB port Software Specifications Images can be saved in JPEG, PDF and other popular formats Data can be sent to .XLS (Microsoft Excel), RTF (Word), Outlook, .OFX and .QIF (Quicken), .TXF (TurboTax), .IIF (QuickBooks), .CSV, HTML, and Plaxo Reads U.S. and Canadian receipts and business cards Database can scale to approximately 1.5 million receipts Scanner Specifications NEATDESK page 60
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Appliance deals abound in Consumer Reports' Best Buys
Spirit Airlines To Charge $5 To Print Your Boarding Pass For You

Chris Morran (The Consumerist)
for everyone and then charging only those who choose for us to print their boarding pass, we let Submitted at 6/21/2011 3:43:07 PM Consumer Reports News the customer decide. It's all about GCI3061X cost $1,200. An over- p e r f o r m e d s i m i l a r l y t o t h e (Consumer Reports) Bottom-dollar carrier Spirit consumer choice." the-range microwave can quickly Kenmore 2800, and at $620, the bring dinner to the table when Kenmore is a Best Buy. For even Airlines is trying very hard to Cheapo European airline Ryanair Submitted at 6/21/2011 3:11:59 PM youre rushed. The top-rated $270 better wash performance, and become the Ryanair of the U.S., has been charging people for Appliance deals abound in Samsung SMH9187 combines s u p e r b e n e r g y - a n d w a t e r - announcing that it will soon begin printing boarding passes for a Consumer Reports' Best Buys superb overall performance with a efficiency, consider a high- charging travelers $5 to have a while, though a Judge in Spain Faced with rising raw material relatively low price. performing front-loader. The $800 boarding pass printed by a Spirit believes the fee is against the law. Last year, Spirit became the first costs, some appliance Refrigerators. The popular Kenmore 4027 and $700 LG staffer at the airport. manufacturers hiked their prices French-door bottom-freezer pairs WM2050C excelled in most tests, The fee will start appearing this U.S.-based airline to charge for as much as 10 percent this spring. two fridge doors with a freezer and vibration wasnt a problem week, but will not be applied to carry-on bags, a move that And now comes news that after below. The $1,700 Whirlpool for either of these Best Buys. travel before Nov. 1. On that same Baldanza called"a consumer date, Spirit will counter the extra benefit." decades of producing cheap goods Gold GX5FHTXV tops our Cycle time is 80 minutes. that flooded the U.S., China and Ratings; its width is 36 inches. Dryers. Offering excellent cost by lowering fares on nonstop More recently, the airline began charging extra to passengers who other emerging markets are T h e $850 A m a n a drying, a large capacity, and very flights by $5 each way. increasing prices, the Wall Street ABB2221WE(33 inches wide) is q u i e t o p e r a t i o n , t h e $ 7 0 0 For now, there will be no fee if didn't pay their baggage fees far Journal reports. Whether youre a conventional bottom freezer that Kenmore 6800[2] is one of only you print the pass on your own or enough in advance. s t r a p p e d f o r c a s h o r j u s t was very good overall. If you three Best Buys among dozens of at an airport kiosk. However, Airline to charge boarding pass appreciate good value, Consumer prefer a side-by-side, consider the dryers. The gas model is Kenmore Spirit says it will begin charging fee[CNN] $1 for printing the pass at the Thanks to Thad for the tip! Reports Best Buys offer the most $1,400 Samsung RS265TD(36 7800[2] and costs $780. performance for the price. Heres inches wide). It offers more Find our how these Best Buys kiosk starting next summer. And This entry passed through the a roundup of kitchen and laundry usable space than most and is very compare to other appliances we heaven forbid they take the Full-Text RSS service if this is appliances that made our list. quiet. None of the top-freezers are tested. Full Ratings of ranges, Tickemaster model and start your content and you're reading it Ranges. Among 30-inch electric- Best Buys, but the $850 LG c o o k t o p s , m i c r o w a v e s , charging you to print the pass at on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentsmoothtop ranges, the best we LTC22350(33 inches wide) and d i s h w a s h e r s , r e f r i g e r a t o r s , home. tested typically cost $950 to $ 8 0 0 F r i g i d a i r e G a l l e r y washers, and dryers are available "We want to give [passengers] the only/faq.php#publishers. Five ability to choose the extras they Filters featured article: Ten Years $2,800. Thats why the $750 FGHR2144K(30 inches wide) are to subscribers. Subscribe now! K e n m o r e 4 2 7 3 3 e l e c t r i c Recommended models. S u b s c r i b e t o want without forcing them to pay Of Media Lens - Our Problem smoothtop. Its 30-inches wide Dishwashers. The $500 Kenmore ConsumerReports.org for expert for add-ons they don't want or With Mainstream Dissidents. and half the price of the similarly 1389 was excellent at getting Ratings, buying advice and need," Said Spirit CEO Ben performing Electrolux Icon dishes clean, but be patient, cycle r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f Baldanza. "By lowering the fare E 3 0 E C 6 5 E a n d b o t h w e r e time is 135 minutes. products. Update your feed excellent. All of the 30-inch Washers. High-efficiency models preferences induction cooktops aced our tests. take the top spots in our Ratings The Frigidaire Professional of top-loaders. The $2,000 FPCC3085K and Whirlpool Whirlpool Vantage WTW7990X
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Staples Canada Accused Of Pricing: 2012 Selling Computers With Old Mini Coupe to User Data On Hard Drive start at $22,000
Chris Morran (The Consumerist)
through Staples' memory wipe procedure. The problem was not localized to Submitted at 6/21/2011 3:18:24 PM one store or region, as the audit Staples stores in Canada have looked at 17 different stores in some explaining to do after a seven provinces. Only two stores' government audit found evidence devices showed no evidence of that the office supply chain was leftover data. violating Canadian privacy law by "The position of our office is that selling used computers and if Staples is unable to remove all storage drives that still contained customer data from a particular data belonging to the previous manufacturer's device, it is owner. unacceptable to resell that According to the CBC, the device," writes the Privacy Canadian Privacy Commissioner's Commissioner in her report. office performed an audit or 149 Unfortunately, the commissioner storage devices (computers, USB can't impose sanctions on Staples, drives, and memory cards) that t h o u g h s h e h a s a s k e d t h e had supposedly undergone a company to review its wiping memory wipe and were intended procedure. f o r r e s a l e b y S t a p l e s . "Until our recommendation on Unfortunately, the audit still wiping customer data is fully managed to discover data i m p l e m e n t e d , p e r s o n a l anything from bank and tax information will continue to information to passport numbers remain at risk and Staples will not and academic transcripts on 54 meet its obligations under [the of the devices. Personal Information Protection L a p t o p s h a d t h e h i g h e s t and Electronic Documents Act ]," incidence of residual data, with 17 her report said. of 20 audited computers still Staples responded to the report containing data after going by saying it "has implemented
changes that exceed current industry practice to remove personal data from returned memory devices... many of the issues covered in the audit represent industry-wide challenges." Regardless of where you take your old computer or storage device, it's in your best interest to do the memory wipe yourself before handing it over to anyone else. Any recommendations from techsavvy readers on how best to wipe out all that personal information? Staples resold laptops with customer data, audit finds[CBC News] Thanks to Ed for the tip! This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
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Pricing: 2012 Mini Coupe to start at $22,000 BMW has unveiled the new Mini Coupe with pricing starting at $22,000, including destination charges. The S Coupe will start at $25,300 and the John Cooper Works model is priced at $31,900. The Coupe will be offered with three different enginesa 1.6liter four-cylinder producing 121hp, a turbocharged 1.6-liter producing 181-hp, and a John Cooper Works version producing 208-hp from its turbocharged four cylinder. All engines will come with a standard six-speed manual transmission or an optional sixspeed automatic. EPA fuel economy estimates are not yet available. Mini claims the base Coupe will accelerate 0-60 mph in 8.3 seconds; the S Coupe is expected to clock in at 6.5 and 6.1 seconds for the John Cooper Works edition. Notable optional equipment includes xenon headlights, adaptive headlights, automatic
climate control, and automatically dimming rear-view mirror and electric exterior mirrors. Entertainment options include Bluetooth, USB audio interface, and connectivity functions including web radio, Google search and Send to Car services, RSS news feeds, and in-car use of Facebook and Twitter. The Coupe will officially debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, and it will go on sale in the United States shortly after. See more photos in our New Car Preview, and read our Mini Cooper road tests. Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences
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magnetic strip. Earlier this year Wells Fargo Submitted at 6/21/2011 4:00:00 PM became the first major US bank to Good news for Americans who issue EMV cards. like to go to other countries in the U.S. Bank said they would issue world. U.S. Bank is going to roll the cards to other travel reward out EMV chip cards to 20,000 cardholders later this year. FlexPerks Visa cardholders this This should make it easier for month, adding steam to a small travelers to park their car in but growing push to get traveling Europe as they can use their credit Americans credit cards that can card to pay the parking meter, work in the "chip and PIN" which cannot be reasoned with systems prevalent in Europe and and does not accept traveler's beyond. checks. The cards would actually contain U.S. Bank First in United States technology for three different to Issue Dual EMV Chip and payment systems: An EMV chip, Contactless Payment Solution for an RFID chip and the standard International Travelers[Seeking
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Serious Sam: The Random Encounter is seriously an RPG

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Yes, for its third of the Serious Sam Indie Series, Super Crate Box developer Vlambeer made an RPG. These new screens of Serious Sam: The Random Encounter reveal a game with
both exploration and combat delivered in a 16-bit Final Fantasy - style. Of course, because it's a Serious Sam game, it's a Final Fantasystyle RPG populated by impossibly beefy dudes with big arms, bigger sidearms, and giant, Gallery: Serious Sam: The Random Encounter (6/21/11) grotesque robotic alien things.
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Scoreboard Final 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Seattle(37-36) 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 13 1 Washington(36-37) 000001005671 Ramos HR caps Nats' five-run rally over Mariners CBSSports.com wire reports June 21, 2011 RAMOS page 62
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Updated Jun 22, 2011 6:23 AM ET Chad Voytik had to choose among three attractive offers. The recruiting pitches were impressive, including warmweather locations and plenty of perks, and he was starting to feel a little pressure to make a decision soon. Regardless of his choice, somebody would be disappointed when he aligned with a new team. Voytik, who will be a senior quarterback this fall at Cleveland (Tenn.) High School, decided six weeks ago that he would play in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl national high school all-star game in January rather than the Under Armour All-America Game the same month. That was bad news for ESPN recruiting analyst Tom Luginbill, who helps find and direct players to the ESPN-televised Under Armour game, a relatively recent challenger to the 10-year-old U.S. Army game, which is shown on NBC. But Voytik's father, Gary, says that when he called Luginbill to tell him of his son's choice,
Luginbill "said he understood and was very professional about it." That makes sense because these games have become very professional and part of the big business that surrounds college football recruiting. Knowing that college football fans have a huge appetite for recruiting news, analysts and recruiting services rank players who pay to be seen at combines associated with various all-star games. The games are advertising vehicles for enterprises seeking to reach an elusive demographic: 18- to 22year-old men. "It's amazing where this has all gone," says Adam Liberman, a spokesman for All American Games, a New Jersey-based sports marketing and event company that operates the U.S. Army game. "I didn't start with this company until August and had no idea how big this has gotten. It's kind of sickening that all of these companies can make their living off of high school kids and their recruiting interest." The games also have become a way for players to draw national attention by announcing their nonbinding college intentions usually by displaying a cap or jersey of the favored school during a break
in the action. They also get plenty of free gear. 'Sponsorship drives these games' Before 2001, there were no national high school football allstar games. Next January, the Semper Fidelis All-American Bowl backed by the U.S. Marine Corps, scheduled for Phoenix's Chase Field and aligned with CBS Sports for the game and a televised selection show will make it five. Plus, there's the USA Football vs. The World game, which matches U.S. high school seniors against a team of top under-19 players from outside the USA. "Sponsorship drives these games the right sponsor who is looking to make an impact in the high school space," said Drew Russell, an associate vice president for sponsorship and events marketing for Intersport, which promotes the Under Armour game. The games also make money off underclassmen combines that draw future players. The combines measure prospects' height, weight and 40-yard times, plus their ability to perform sportspecific drills. Since Voytik entered high school, he has attended at least 16 camps and combines and five two-day
camps or combines. He also trains with a quarterback coach in the offseason. His father says the typical combine or camp costs $200, not counting travel expenses. He said the exposure helped his son, who received 15 offers from top schools and recently narrowed his choices to Mississippi State and Pittsburgh. "Participating in national and regional camps and combines levels the playing field," Gary Voytik said. "If you are from Tennessee in a small high school, you will more than likely be overlooked by players from larger states. (Combines) allow the recruiting experts to compare a Tennessee quarterback and a Texas quarterback without the other football variables." Hermitage (Richmond, Va.) football coach Patrick Kane said he accompanied one of his players, linebacker Curtis Grant, to the 2011 U.S. Army game and found the event to be a good experience. However, he doesn't have the same respect for the combines associated with these games. "I don't put a lot of value in combines," Kane says. "They're part of the marketing scheme. A
lot of times, they'll tell the top players they don't have to pay for a combine to attract other players. A player like Curtis (who signed with Ohio State) didn't need to go to a combine (and didn't)." Participating in an all-star game's combine is no guarantee of making the game. Shaon Berry, director of the Semper Fidelis AllAmerican Bowl, says he expected 400 underclassmen for its combine. The roster for the game is 90. High school coaches also are concerned about a new form of recruitment that has accompanied all-star games' growth. NCAA rules limit seniors to two postseason all-star games (USA Football's game is exempt). The competition among game organizers for top players is fierce. Some players begin committing to the games as early as a year in advance. "Some of these high-profile games have already locked in these players before their senior season," longtime Mater Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.) coach Bruce Rollinson said. "You already have this intense, pressure-filled recruiting process, and then, all of ALL-STAR page 64
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WASHINGTON -- Wilson Ramos knew it as soon as the ball left his bat. Teammate Jayson Werth jumped out of the dugout to start celebrating, without even bothering to see where the drive landed. Ramos capped Washington's five -run ninth inning with a gameending three-run homer, lifting the Nationals to a dramatic 6-5 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night. "I hit that ball pretty good," Ramos said. "After I hit the ball, I knew that ball was in the stands." The rookie catcher's shot finished the biggest ninth-inning comeback for the Nationals since the team moved to Washington from Montreal in 2005. It also tied the largest ninth-inning comeback in franchise history. Copyright 2011 by STATS LLC and The Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and The Associated Press is strictly prohibited. More on Mariners at Nationals Related links Power Rankings Player Rankings Harper limited in Class A AllStar Game No changes in AL All-Star voting Message Board: Mariners| Nationals Jerry Hairston and Danny Espinosa each had two-out RBI singles before Ramos connected on a 1-1 pitch from David Pauley for his sixth homer. Ramos threw his arms up almost immediately
after the ball left his bat and Pauley (4-1) trudged off the mound. The Nationals ran out of the dugout and waited for Ramos to touch home plate before starting a mass celebration."It went about 20 feet off his bat and I hopped over the fence. I knew right away," Werth said. "I didn't even look to see where it went." The Mariners wasted a fine effort from Doug Fister, who allowed one run and three hits in eight innings. The right-hander is 0-3 in four June starts despite a 3.60 ERA. Brandon League replaced Fister for the ninth and Werth reached on a two-base error by first baseman Justin Smoak to begin the inning. Roger Bernadina walked before Ryan Zimmerman hit into a double play, leaving Werth on third. Hairston followed with his run-scoring single and Michael Morse reached on a comebacker that hit League in the right leg. League took some practice pitches before he was replaced by Pauley, who surrendered Espinosa's hit to set the stage for Ramos."I was pretty excited after I hit that homer," Ramos said. "That was my first walk-off home run in my career. So when I saw my teammates waiting for me at home plate, I was very, very excited." Adam Kennedy had three hits and two RBI for Seattle, which finished with 13 hits. Prized prospect Dustin Ackley also drove in two runs. Washington starter Livan Hernandez was chased in the fifth inning -- his shortest outing of the season -- and charged with five
runs, four earned, and 10 hits. Fister cruised through much of the game. He retired 10 straight after Werth's leadoff single in the first. An infield hit by Zimmerman ended the run, but Fister set down the next five batters before Washington got its first real offensive chance. Fister hit Ian Desmond and walked Werth with one out in the sixth, and Bernadina singled in Desmond. Fister quickly ended the jam with a double-play ball from Zimmerman, and the Nationals did not have another baserunner until the ninth inning."Every once in a while, you're going to get kicked in the teeth like this," Seattle manager Eric Wedge said. "When you do, you've got to pick yourself up, learn from it, shelve it and come back out with a fresh state of mind." Three relievers shut down the Mariners after Hernandez left. Ryan Mattheus and Collin Balester each pitched two innings, and Todd Coffey(30) worked the ninth for Washington, which has won nine of 10. The pitchers who had left the game watched from the clubhouse, where they heard the roar of the crowd before seeing the home run on the televised feed."We're jumping up like we're 5 years old and won a tee-ball game and we're getting a sno-cone after," Balester said. "It's fun. It shows you what this game is about." Notes Washington LF Laynce Nix left after the seventh inning with a sore right Achilles' and is day to day. Washington manager Jim
Riggleman said he will not play Wednesday. The Nationals celebrated the 20th anniversary of C Ivan Rodriguez's first major league appearance with a montage on the videoboard before the game. Rodriguez made his debut on June 20, 1991, with Texas. Zimmerman extended his hitting streak to 10 games, dating to April 7. Zimmerman has hit safely in all seven contests since missing 58 games with an injured abdominal muscle. The Mariners made their first visit to D.C. since 2005 and their first-ever visit to Nationals Park. Washington's Wilson Ramos (3) is mobbed after hitting a gamewinning, three-run homer vs. Seattle.(AP) Seattle Mariners Hitters AB R H RBI BB SO LOB AVG Ichiro Suzuki, RF 5 1 2 0 0 0 2.279 Brendan Ryan, SS 5 2 2 0 0 0 1.255 Adam Kennedy, 3B 5 1 3 2 0 0 2.283 Justin Smoak, 1B 4 0 1 0 1 0 3.260 Dustin Ackley, 2B 4 0 1 2 0 0 0.267 Carlos Peguero, LF 4 0 0 0 0 2 4.200 Greg Halman, LF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.393 Franklin Gutierrez, CF 4 1 3 0 0 0 0.211 Chris Gimenez, C 3 0 0 0 1 1 1.179 Doug Fister, P 3 0 1 1 0 1 2.333 Brandon League, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 David Pauley, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 Totals 37 5 13 5 2 4 Batting 2B- Brendan Ryan (9, Hernandez), Adam Kennedy (13, Coffey) SH- Doug Fister (1) RBIAdam Kennedy 2 (23), Dustin Ackley 2 (3), Doug Fister (1) SBIchiro Suzuki (19, 2nd base off
Balester/Ramos), Franklin Gutierrez (2, 2nd base off Hernandez/Ramos) Team LOB- 8 Fielding DP- Ackley-RyanSmoak, Ackley-Ryan-Smoak, Ryan-Ackley-Smoak E- Justin Smoak (4, Misplayed grounder) Seattle Mariners Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA Doug Fister 8 3 1 1 1 3 0 3.34 Brandon League 0.2 2 3 0 1 0 0 3.82 David Pauley(BS,1; L,4-1) 0 2 2 2 0 0 1 1.56 HBP- Desmond (by Doug Fister) Pitches-Strikes- Doug Fister 99-65, Brandon League 2515, David Pauley 4-3 Ground Balls-Fly Balls- Doug Fister 12-7, Brandon League 2-0 Batters Faced- Doug Fister 27, Brandon League 5, David Pauley 2 Washington Nationals Hitters AB R H RBI BB SO LOB AVG Jayson Werth, RF 3 1 1 0 1 0 0.233 Roger Bernadina, CF 3 0 1 1 1 1 1.282 Ryan Zimmerman, 3B 4 0 1 0 0 0 3.300 Laynce Nix, LF 3 0 0 0 0 1 1.280 Jerry Hairston Jr., LF 1 1 1 1 0 0 0.251 Michael Morse, 1B 4 1 1 0 0 0 0.308 Danny Espinosa, 2B 4 1 1 1 0 1 0.237 Wilson Ramos, C 4 1 1 3 0 0 0.251 Livan Hernandez, P 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.160 Ryan Mattheus, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 a- Brian Bixler, PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.167 Collin Balester, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 b- Matt Stairs, PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.116 Todd Coffey, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 Ian Desmond, SS 2 1 0 0 0 0 0.234 Totals 31 6 7 6 2 3 a-grounded out for Mattheus in the 6th b-flied out for Balester in the 8th Batting HR - Wilson Ramos (6, Pauley) RBIRAMOS page 63
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Roger Bernadina (15), Jerry Hairston Jr. (16), Danny Espinosa (44), Wilson Ramos 3 (22) 2OUT RBI- Jerry Hairston Jr. (6), Danny Espinosa (12), Wilson Ramos 3 (9) Team LOB- 2 (- Bing News) J I M W A T S O N / A F P / G e t t y charges to win a big match in But Woodss biggest setback has Fielding DP- ZimmermanImages dramatic fashion, and dutifully come on the golf course, where he Submitted at 6/21/2011 11:08:11 PM Hernandez, Espinosa-DesmondWell find that his biggest asset, bought the products he endorsed, has failed to regain his magical Morse E- Jayson Werth (5, By Jon Friedman, MarketWatch putting it bluntly, is that he isnt such as those of Nike/quotes/ touch. Ive always figured that if NEW YORK (MarketWatch) Tiger Woods. McIlroy, unscarred zigman/235840/quotes/nls/nke Woods had continued to win the Misplayed grounder) Washington Nationals Pitchers IP H R ER BB Meet the new boss of golf, U.S. by scandals and controversies, is a NKE+1.54%. Grand Slam tournaments of golf, Open champ Rory McIlroy not walking-and-talking feel-good But Woods also projected a self- people would be more inclined to SO HR ERA Livan Hernandez 4 the same as the old boss, Tiger story. And man, can the sports serious air that turned off people a c c e p t h i m , f l a w s a n d a l l . 10 5 4 1 2 0 3.97 Ryan Mattheus 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.00 Collin Balester 2 Woods. world sorely use one of those. along the way. And when Woods America is a forgiving nation. As Rory McIlroy is a winner. Tiger Woods made headlines when ran into big trouble in his personal long as you make us happy and 2 0 0 1 1 0 3.68 Todd Coffey(W,3 -0) 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.25 Pitchesused to have that kind of aura. injuries forced him to skip the life he and his wife have win. Strikes- Livan Hernandez 70-43, Things have changed. U.S. Open. Now, hardly anybody subsequently split up the Everyone loves a winner. Tiger W i l l M c I l r o y b e c o m e m i s s e s h i m b e c a u s e o f t h e public was as quick to condemn recognizes this fact of life, and Ryan Mattheus 25-18, Collin Balester 33-22, Todd Coffey 16omnipresent in our lives? If he emergence of his charismatic as it had been to embrace him. McIlroy will come to learn to 11 Ground Balls-Fly Balls- Livan keeps on winning big tournaments young rival. Do I sound cruel to be discarding understand it in his own time, too. and maintaining a squeaky clean Remember Tiger Woods? He was Tiger, who gave us so many MEDIA WEB QUESTION OF Hernandez 6-2, Ryan Mattheus 3image, the answer is surely a the worlds most successful and thrilling moments since he burst THE DAY: Who is bigger right 2, Collin Balester 2-3, Todd Coffey 1-2 Batters Faced- Livan resounding yes. revered athlete until his image on to the golf scene in the 1990s? now in the golf world, Rory or Make no mistake, McIlroy, 22, crumbled under the weight of a Maybe I do. 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a sudden, there's this process of which game do I play in? It is a little bit out of control." Rollinson also has little tolerance for the way the games fit into the traditional college recruiting process. "I just cringe with all this signing and picking your college at the games," Rollinson said. "I think that's an exploitation, an embarrassment. It puts kids on TV who are not media savvy." This year's USA vs. The World game was Feb. 2 signing day and video of the signings, along with the game, was shown live on HighSchoolSports.net, a website owned by USA TODAY's parent company, Gannett. Playing games with rankings? Because some scouting services have a financial connection to the games, players' recruiting rankings could be skewed. Columbus East (Indianapolis) quarterback Gunner Kiel, who has committed to the 2012 Under Armour game, is ranked No.2 by CBS Sports Network recruiting analyst Tom Lemming and No.12
by ESPN's Scouts Inc., but No.19 by Rivals.com, which helps select players for the U.S. Army AllAmerican Bowl. "Quarterback is the hardest position to evaluate," Rivals national analyst Mike Farrell said. "He's our No.1 quarterback in the country. We don't care what game he's going in. There's not much to not like about him other than he's not an overly athletic kid." Last year, Curtis Grant, a linebacker who played in the U.S. Army game, was Rivals' No.2 player but was listed as the No.48 player by ESPN's Scouts Inc., which helps select players for the Under Armour game. "The games are competitive with each other," Kane said. "Curtis considered doing both (U.S. Army and Under Armour games), but that wouldn't work out and I didn't think it was a good idea. If you have a top player, they all want him, and his decision can affect his rankings, not that the rankings mean anything." South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier said having his
recruits play in a national game is an honor that can come with a price. "We tell the players who commit to us, it's up to you," Spurrier said. "It's just a free trip. A lot of these guys haven't been anywhere outside the state. There are all kinds of ways these players get wooed and told they're the greatest in the world. Every now and then, they come thinking they're going to play right away and it doesn't work out and you have some problems. "I heard one guy say that once they come to your campus, you start de-recruiting them." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
City of Heroes going free-to-play later this year

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Ill-gotten treasures are of no value, but righteousness delivers from death. Proverbs 10:2(NIV) Thoughts on Today's Verse... My mom regularly reminded my brothers
and me as we grew up that sin is often a false shortcut to a good thing. In a similar way, the Holy Spirit reminds us that falsely acquired riches are not the path to a rich and full life, which can only be truly acquired through godliness. My Prayer... Generous and loving Father, please forgive
Paragon Studios' superpowered flagship MMO City of Heroes is surfing the ever-growing trendwave of paid online titles moving into the free-to-play market. The developer has announced City of Heroes Freedom, a free version of the seven-year-old game which will launch later this year. The MMO will follow an increasingly me for getting caught up in envy popular model, giving free players and the culture of affluence. access to a partial list of areas and Please use your Spirit to develop f e a t u r e s a v a i l a b l e t o p a i d i n m e t h e p a t i e n c e a n d subscribers -- however, in an righteousness I need to resist the unusual twist, free users will be deceptions of Satan and to pursue able to pick and choose exactly the fullness of life you long to which features and areas they bring me. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
want to access. Premium subscribers get access to the whole kit and caboodle, as well as special rewards they'll be able to choose from every month. These include new costumes, consumables and power sets, almost ensuring their supernatural superiority over their free-to-play counterparts. Basically, they'll be the Justice League to the free players' Alpha Flight. Continue reading City of Heroes going free-to-play later this year City of Heroes going free-to-play later this year originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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League One manager wants fans to be Twitter scouting system

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Most football managers are a bit wary of Twitter since it provides a way for their players to blast out their unfiltered thoughts directly into the eye holes of the public, but the manger of League One side Yeovil Town sees it as his scouting department. Terry Skiverton, who took over as player-manager in 2009 before hanging up his boots in 2010, is 35 years old, yet he looks like he's 12. So obviously he's down with Twitter, YouTube, and wispy Justin Bieber haircuts. And now, he's revolutionizing the way football clubs scout for players. Or something. From the BBC: [Skiverton] told BBC Somerset: "It's not a bit of fun for me - it's serious business. "I can't afford a scouting system. I've got 1,700 followers [ he has over 2,000 now thanks to this.]
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and out of that I've got quite a few names and there's been some interesting ones." He continued: "There's been so many players who have come through and we are following a couple of those leads. "There was one or two that I had glossed over, that I've come back to. "I think it gives the supporters a bit of fun as well as I've had supporters go through non-league
annuals, going out and watching games saying 'what about this player?'. "I'd like to thank the supporters for adding a bit of amateur scouting, it's worked out really well for us." Skiverton added on his Twitter page that he's "looking to have deals with one or too from your suggestions." So it looks like this approach is paying off for Yeovil. Or that Skiverton's grammar is as
confusing as my own. Also, I now expect him to get inundated with tweets telling him to sign Lionel Messi and/or Mr. T. Whether the players Yeovil find through doing this actually help the club remains to be seen, but one thing is for certain...Twitter: It's serious business.
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3 Ways to Save Money With Coupons While Someone Else Does the Work
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API designers should be writers

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Submitted at 6/21/2011 9:34:57 AM
Play along with this Rise of Nightmares trailer

Richard Mitchell (Joystiq)
pipe. It's almost like the real game! Continue reading Play along with We tried to convey the Rise of this Rise of Nightmares trailer Nightmares experience from E3, Play along with this Rise of though our attempt likely came up Nightmares trailer originally short. So, we came up with this appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 21 crude facsimile. It's simple, watch Jun 2011 23:00:00 EST. Please the video after the break and, see our terms for use of feeds. every time you see a zombie, Permalink| Email this| Comments pretend to bash its head in with a
Submitted at 6/21/2011 11:00:00 PM
When I was an freshman in college I took a required writing course. Good idea. If you can express yourself in writing your professional life and maybe your personal life will be more rewarding. Catch em while they're young. I don't remember the teacher's name, but I remember her lesson. Say it directly. As you revise, look for words you can take out remove without changing the meaning. You'll be more persuasive, and better understood. I find, to this day, my first drafts have a lot of extra flowery bits that don't do anything for the reader. It's as if while I'm drafting the prose in my head I need extra words to help pace myself. There's always a rewrite coming,
and the text always gets shorter as a result. So I don't try for economy in version 1. (I made some of the edits here with strikeouts to show you how it works.) The same economy is important in designing APIs. I've been working with an Amazon API the last couple of days. They could use an editor. There are extraneous concepts in their APIs that don't help anything, just add confusion, and inefficiency, and raise barriers to adoption. Another rule that API designers violate -- the easy stuff should be easy and the hard stuff should be possible. Too often you have to master the most complex part of the API before getting Hello World to work. Very frustrating. I may never need to set a hundred DNS
values in one shot. Yet, I have to understand how that works just to establish a value for a single CNAME. Another thought occurred to me about the art of programming, related to this subject. Why do we change the rules every five years? I know, it makes older programmers obsolete faster, and the younger guys like that. Heh. Nice. But look at baseball, another game that favors the young. The rules change very slowly. To me the DH rule in the American League still seems new and controversial. Maybe it does to you too. Yet it's been around 38 years. We rip up the pavement far too often. I know I've been saying this for decades. But we're still doing it.
TEDTalks : Daniel Tammet: Different ways of knowing Daniel Tammet (2011)

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Submitted at 6/21/2011 9:47:28 AM
numerical and visual synesthesia - meaning that his perception of words, numbers and colors are Daniel Tammet has linguistic, woven together into a new way of
perceiving and understanding the world. The author of "Born on a Blue Day," Tammet shares his art and his passion for languages in
this glimpse into his beautiful mind.
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Nanodrug Swarms Use The Human Body's Biocommunications System to Coordinate Their Attack
Rebecca Boyle (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 3:50:58 PM
Communicating Nanoparticles A first wave of nanoparticles stimulates injury to tiny blood vessels near the site of a tumor, triggering the body's natural blood -clotting response. A second wave uses the blood clotting proteins as a beacon, locating a tumor more easily. When they arrive, they release chemotherapy drugs. Gary Carlson/via MIT On any battlefield, communication is key - troops must be able to communicate their own locations and that of their target, so everyone knows exactly where to bring the fight. MIT researchers are bringing this strategy to the war on cancer, training swarms of cancerfighting nanoparticles to communicate to do their jobs more effectively. Specifically, researchers have developed nanoparticles that can guide each other to a destination, resulting in a much more effective onslaught against a tumor.
Nanoparticles could be a boon for cancer treatment because they can travel through the body unimpeded, delivering drugs directly into tumors and lessening the side effects of chemotherapy. But they quickly disperse when they're released into the body even in the best cases, only about 1 percent of them reach their intended target, according to MIT. To improve this outcome, researchers from MIT, the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and the University of California-San Diego designed nanoparticles that can work in teams. One wave of nanoparticles homes in on a tumor, and when they arrive, they can communicate their location to the other nanoparticles still circulating in the body, helping them find the tumor too. To do this, the nanoparticles take advantage of the body's blood coagulation process, according to formal MIT doctoral student Geoffrey von Maltzahn, who is the lead author on a paper in Nature Materials describing this new work. At the site of an injury, blood clotting factors and other
signaling particles flow through the bloodstream and arrive at the tumor site, where they trick the body into believing an injury has occurred (either by emitting heat or binding to certain proteins). This stimulates the natural fibrinbuilding process. Then the receiving nanoparticles, which carry a payload of cancer drugs, are outfitted with proteins that bind to fibrin. The fibrin acts as a homing beacon, helping the nanoparticles travel to the tumor site. They release the drugs once they get there, delivering a targeted blow to the cancer cells. The researchers studied this method using mice and found that the communicating nanoparticles delivered 40 times more proteins interact in a chain of t h e s i t e o f d i s e a s e , i t c a n d o x o r u b i c i n , a c o m m o n steps to form fibrin, which seals c o m m u n i c a t e t h a t e v e n t t o chemotherapeutic, than a system the wound and prevents further expedite the subsequent arrival of that could not communicate. blood loss, as an MIT news other synthetic nanoparticles," he MIT researchers are exploring release explains. The proteins not explains in a video posted by how to test this system with only bind to the area of an injury, MIT's David H. Koch Institute for existing clinical studies using but recruit other proteins to the Integrative Cancer Research. nanoparticles. MIT Tech TV area, von Maltzahn said. (Watch it below.) "We're trying to emulate that on The researchers used two types of [ MIT News] the scale of synthetic particles, nanoparticles, which could either such that when one particle gets to signal a message or receive it. The
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Humans Might Be Able to Men With Social See the Earth's Magnetic Media Savvy Love Their Fast Food Field, Like Birds Do
Submitted at 6/21/2011 2:51:16 PM
Without realizing it, humans might be able to innately detect Earth's magnetic field, thanks to a compound found in our eyes. Or we may have been able to do so some time in the past. Plenty of animals are known to be able to perceive geomagnetism, using it to navigate and even to hunt their prey. Proteins called cryptochromes, which exist throughout the plant and animal kingdoms, lend several species this ability. The proteins are related to the circadian rhythms of animals and plants, and recent studies have shown it apparently enables light to serve as a geomagnetic locator. Electrons in cryptochrome molecules come in entangled pairs, and the Earth's magnetic
field may cause one of the electrons to wobble. A chemical reaction in response to the wayward electron's altered spin lets birds see magnetic fields in color, according to a theory published last summer. Related Articles Foxes Use Earth's Magnetic Field To Hunt Prey, Scientists Say New AtomicLaser Compass Determines Direction of Magnetic Fields Optically By Shining a Laser From the Ground, Researchers Could Easily Measure Earth's Magnetic Field Tags Science, Rebecca Boyle, animals, eyes, gps navigation system, humans, magnetic field, magnetic field lines, magnetism, navigation, proteins But as far as researchers thought, cryptochrome doesn't do much to help us orient ourselves, hence why people have to rely on celestial objects, known landmarks and GPS to figure out which way is north. But a new study suggests the
protein could actually express itself in the retina to help detect geomagnetism. Neuroscientists at the University of Massachusetts took a human version of cryptochrome 2, and inserted it into fruit flies that lacked their own version. The fruit flies' magnetic perception was restored, as Wired Science reports. It may not work this way anymore - there are not exactly voluminous reports of humans navigating simply by peering at magnetic field lines - but it could have proved valuable in helping our earliest ancestors navigate, according to researchers who spoke to Wired. Maybe someday researchers will figure out how to exploit this ability once again, and you won't need that GPS function in your smartphone after all. The study is reported in today's issue of Nature Communications. [ Wired]
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food choices? Not so much. Sixtytwo percent, for instance, said they preferred KFC's crispy fried Submitted at 6/21/2011 12:28:00 PM chicken to grilled. And the most It may not come as a shock that frequent eaters those who ate young men are frequent, loyal fast food seven or more times in customers of fast-food restaurants. the last three months reported Somebody's buying those super- being overweight. s i z e d m e a l s a n d d o u b l e Why exactly did Lab42 do the cheeseburgers, and the restaurants survey? "I wish I could say there know who. was a really good reason," Laura But what may come as a surprise Rokita, a vice president at Lab42, is that these guys are willing to tells Shots. Everybody in the dish to a social media survey office was just chatting about hot company about how many packets sauce and straws in the office one of Taco Bell hot sauce they have day, she says. stashed away, and how often they How'd they do it? They worked go to McDonald's just for the with ad companies on social fries. networking sites, and offered Those are just a couple of the rewards, like more points in questions posed in a recent survey games like Farmville, to those o f 1 8 - t o 3 5 - y e a r - o l d m e n who answered the call. conducted by Lab42 on Facebook. What's up next on Lab42's The quirky Chicago startup taps agenda? Teens and texting. into the world of social media for Credit: Lab42 info that often takes traditional This entry passed through the survey shops a whole lot longer to Full-Text RSS service if this is gather. your content and you're reading it In the survey of 500 men who say on someone else's site, please read t h e y ' v e e a t e n a t f a s t - f o o d the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentrestaurants in the last three only/faq.php#publishers. Five m o n t h s , 3 4 p e r c e n t s a i d Filters featured article: Ten Years McDonald's is king overall. And Of Media Lens - Our Problem 56 percent said McDonald's fries With Mainstream Dissidents. are best. Are these guys making healthful
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Europeans Plan to Launch Prototype Wingless, Reusable Spaceship By 2013

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The Drone War

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Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle The IXV will return to Earth as if from a low-orbit mission, to test and qualify new reentry technologies such as advanced ceramic and ablative thermal protection. It will be controlled by thrusters and aerodynamic flaps before descending by parachute and splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. ESA The European Space Agency announced plans today to launch a privately built snub-nosed space bullet, which sort of resembles a wingless, truncated space shuttle, within the next two years. Thales Alenia Space, builder of several International Space Station components and many European satellites, is manufacturing the spacecraft. The Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle is a 2-ton "lifting body," with no wings whatsoever and only two moving flaps that will control its movement. The spacecraft will launch on an ESA Vega rocket, reaching speeds of 16,000 miles per hour and 280
miles in altitude. Then it will return to Earth much like the shuttle, only with flaps guiding it instead of glider wings. It will parachute to a splash landing in the Pacific Ocean. The spacecraft is more like the X -37B than the shuttle in that it will operate autonomously. It is more maneuverable and more precise than previous reusable spacecraft designs, according to ESA. It's also a departure from the Skylon space plane, which also recently received an ESA green light. That spacecraft takes off
Via Wired: NATO has suffered its first apparent combat casualty of the three-month-old war in Libya. And its a robot. Wing Cmdr. Mike Bracken said the alliance lost contact with the unmanned rotorcraft this morning. This drone helicopter was performing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance over Libya to monitor proGadhafi forces threatening the civilian population, Bracken said. . . We have drone helicopters? No doubt theres a weaponized and lands like an airplane, crews to the International Space v e r s i o n o f t h i s t h i n g , employing an on-board rocket that Station (which orbits around 220 t o o . G r e g P o l l o w i t z fires up at high altitudes. miles up) or perhaps other This entry passed through the ESA announced an agreement destinations. It could also be a Full-Text RSS service if this is with Thales Alenia Space Italia in p r o v i n g g r o u n d f o r s p a c e your content and you're reading it December 2009 to develop the exploration technologies and for on someone else's site, please read technology. Agency officials robotic servicing of space assets, the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five announced at the Paris Air Show like the ISS or satellites. today that construction is ready to Launch is planned for 2013, Filters featured article: Ten Years begin. lifting off from Europe's spaceport Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents. At this point, the IXV is a test in French Guiana. vehicle, meant to demonstrate European-designed heat shields and other technologies. But it could be a precursor to an ESA shuttle, capable of transporting
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Serious Surgical Mistakes Persist, Despite Safety Rules

Submitted at 6/21/2011 4:24:00 PM
Enlarge iStockphoto.com Doctors who talk to a patient before surgery are less likely to operate on the wrong limb than those who first see the patient when he or she arrives in the operating room. iStockphoto.com
Doctors who talk to a patient before surgery are less likely to operate on the wrong limb than those who first see the patient when he or she arrives in the operating room. Back in 2004, the Joint Commission, a group that certifies health care providers, issued rules to try and prevent wrong-site surgery terrible blunders
involving the wrong limb or the wrong surgery. The rules were supposed to became mandatory in hospitals and accredited outpatient centers. At the time, the president of the group that issued the rules called them so obvious that even if they weren't "quite Dick and Jane" simple, they were "pretty close." He predicted that marking the
correct site for surgery on each patient and conducting a timeout could help stop doctors from amputating the wrong leg, cutting into the wrong patient, or performing the wrong surgery. But these devastating mistakes have continued unabated, and recent estimates put the number at 40 per week in the United States. Studies of wrong-site errors have
consistently revealed a failure by physicians to participate in a timeout. Patient safety experts are now demanding a more nuanced, standardized approach. "The Joint Commission didn't tell people how to do it, so people didn't necessarily do it effectively," said surgeon John SERIOUS page 72
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New Cigarette Labels Are Gruesome On Purpose

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MoneyBlogNewz/ Flickr Out with the old warning label The Food and Drug Administration's revamp of its dated anti-smoking campaign was long overdue. And, although the new graphic images make us a bit squeamish, that's kind of the point. But how did they get to be so gruesome? FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, came by the NPR studios to speak with Michelle Norris of All Things Considered, to explain that it was time. Various studies showed that the warnings, in small typeface on the side of cigarette packs that say things like 'Cigarette Smoke Contains Carbon Monoxide.' "had lost their power and effect," Hamburg said. When Congress passed a new law two years ago, giving the FDA the authority to regulate tobacco products, it were also required to create graphic warning labels on cigarette packages and advertisements. "We did take a very serious and scientifically
based look at what kinds of warning labels and how to implement this important new law," said Hamburg. The FDA got 18,000 people to look at images the agency developed in fact, it was the largest consumer response study ever undertaken for health warning labels, Hamburg said. The agency gauged peoples' reaction, whether it made smokers
more likely to want to quit, and whether it made nonsmokers less likely to take up smoking. The agency eventually settled on nine images, including one of a tracheotomy patient smoking and another of cancerous lesions on the gum. Starting next September, cigarette makers will have to rotate those nine images across the top half of their cigarette
packs. "We absolutely believe that these warning labels will make a difference," said Dr. Hamburg, who said the agency has studied other countries where graphic warnings have existed for awhile. While they hope to reach young, old, and current smokers with the campaign, a key target is younger people who haven't yet taken up the habit. "It's important to realize that most people who are smoking today actually started smoking before they were age 18. You can stop people from starting to smoke. You can prevent them from a lifetime of health related danger and risk." For the whole interview, click on the link above. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
Gingrich Loses Top Fundraisers

Chris Good (Politics : The Atlantic)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 5:33:45 PM
By Chris Good Jun 21 2011, 6:33 PM ET Comment This week saw more trouble for former House speaker Newt Gingrich's presidential hopes, after the en-masse resignation of his campaign aides earlier this month. Via The Hill's Jordan Fabian, Gingrich has now lost his two of his top fundraisers: Gingrich fundraising director Jody Thomas and fundraising consultant Mary Heitman are no longer with the campaign, according to spokesman R.C. Hammond. "We still think the very best of them and it was an amicable parting," he told The Hill on Tuesday. Read the full story at The Hill. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
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Clarke, clinical director of the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, and an expert on wrong site procedures. "There are there subtleties that make a difference." Communication, it turns out, is essential. Doctors who talk to a patient in the pre-operative area are less likely to make a wrongsite error than those who first see the patient when he or she is wheeled into the operating room. The attitude of the doctor the captain of the team in the operating room is just as important. Those who explicitly ask lower-ranking members to say something if they see something that doesn't look right are less likely to make an error. Atul Gawande, a Harvard Medical School surgeon and New Yorker writer, noted the value of teamwork in his recent book The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get
Things Right. When introductions in the operating room were made before a surgery, Gawande writes, the average number of complications and deaths fell by 35 percent. Not doing so can have serious consequences. Pennsylvania officials recently described one such case in which a surgical technician realized that a surgeon was operating on the wrong side, but didn't say anything until the patient was in the recovery room after surgery. Preventable mistakes like these happen when lower level staff members are fearful of incurring the wrath of the surgeon, Clarke said. "There's a big difference between hospitals that take care of patients and those that take care of doctors," he added. Some hospitals are devising ways to ensure that doctors participate
in the timeout: the final step and last line of defense. A recent study of wrong site errors in Colorado found that in 72 percent of 132 cases, doctors did not. One Minnesota hospital uses a "timeout" towel: The nurse in charge throws a sterile towel over the surgical instruments, which are not to be uncovered until the timeout has been completed. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
Picture of the Day: Baby Stops Crying When Held by Obama

Chris Good (Politics : The Atlantic)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 5:06:52 PM
By Chris Good Jun 21 2011, 6:06 PM ET Comment President Obama has the magic touch with crying babies. In this video, which appears to have been taken at the recent White House picnic for members of Congress(based on the first lady's dress), Michelle Obama holds a crying baby. "You okay, baby?" the president
asks. Michelle hands the baby to Barack, and the baby immediately stops crying. Video via Anna Holmes This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
Student who drowned in Serpentine was 'amazingly bright'

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent (Evening Standard - News)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 4:49:37 AM
The brother of a student who drowned in the Serpentine after a drinking game in a university bar today paid tribute to an "amazingly bright and ambitious character". Anthony Soh, 18, a student at
Imperial College, had been at an "all you can drink" promotion at the university bar before telling friends that he planned to jump into the lake in Hyde Park to celebrate the end of his exams. The first-year mechanical engineering student was last seen outside the student bar in south Kensington on March 22. He told friends he was returning to his
halls on the other side of Hyde Park. A search was launched after he failed to attend lectures the next day. His body was found in the Serpentine two weeks later by a woman riding a pedalo. In an online tribute, his older brother Jeff wrote: "Anthony was amazingly bright and ambitious... his energy was contagious."
At an inquest into Mr Soh's death yesterday, one of his friends told how the group had played a game where forfeits meant finishing a drink in one go. Mr Soh had to down a pint in 30 seconds twice. The Westminster coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is
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EU Should Get Its Own House in Order

Sally McNamara (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
for such flagrantly flawed systems to be changed. The EAW was introduced after 9/11 on the grounds that it would stop Submitted at 6/21/2011 6:30:48 PM After three years, British citizen terrorists hopping across Europes Andrew Symeou has been found open borders. But far from being not guilty by a Greek jury of used to target terrorists (and fatally attacking another British ignoring other useful measures vacationer on the island of Zante. such as mutual recognition of However, this is no ordinary terrorism laws), people are being judicial outcome, for Andrew routinely extradited for far less Symeou has endured injustices far serious offenses, such as leaving a beyond being falsely accused of gas station without paying. From murder. April 2009 to April 2010, 1,032 Two years ago, Symeou was Britons were extradited to other taken from his home in London EU member states without any and extradited on request to prima facie evidence. Greece. He was subsequently sent Apart from a few brave to the notorious Korydallos legislators such as Daniel Hannan maximum-security prison. He was (MEP), the European Parliament rendered under the EUs much- has been unusually quiet on the lauded European Arrest Warrant EAW issueeven though (or (EAW)without a shred of prima likely because) most European facae evidence against him. In Parliamentarians have backed this f a c t , t h e r e w a s m o r e t h a n program to the hilt. As Hannan substantial evidence of Symeous states: Their attitude is perhaps innocencehis friends had had understandable but, like the antifalse statements tortured out of D r e y f u s a r d s , t h e y s e e m them by Greek police (statements dangerously ready to abandon an they immediately retracted); innocent man rather than rec o n t r a d i c t o r y e y e w i t n e s s examine their prejudices. accounts; and seriously corrupt It was the same with the illegal police practices. The victims bailouts of failing Eurozone f a m i l y s t i l l h a s n o j u s t i c e countries: The EU willingly broke following Symeous acquittal. its own laws and propped up Civil liberties campaigners and failing economies with hundreds European Parliamentarians are of billions in taxpayers money, usually at the forefront of calling because breaking the law was
preferable to admitting that the European project is failing. However, as obsessed as it is with advancing European integration, the European Parliament is equally as fanatical about frustrating EUU.S. cooperation. The European Parliament has forced several renegotiations of the EUU.S. Passenger Name Recognition (PNR) deal on sharing airline information, and EU lawyers now claim that the current iteration of t h e d e a l i s disproportionatethat petty criminals will be caught by American law enforcement officials, rather than terrorists and serious criminals. Parliamentarians should perhaps pay attention to testimony by EU Foreign Minister Cathy Ashton, who proclaimed the benefits of PNR profiling in March 2007. The concern for proportionality might also be easier to stomach if the EUs own house were in order. Their objection is simply thinly veiled anti-Americanism. And this is not the first information-sharing deal with the U.S. that the European Parliament has opposed, either; it legally voided the EUU.S. SWIFT agreement on sharing financial information in February 2010.
The EUU.S. PNR deal may not be so easy to disrupt, however. The U.S. Air Transportation Safety Act of 2002 requires that the PNR data of travelers to the U.S. is provided to American authorities in advance of arrival. If the Parliament stops airlines from sharing this data, then flights stopsimple as that. The EU and U.S. formally entered into renewed negotiations on a fourth iteration of the PNR agreement in January this year, but the latest leaks by the EU lawyers mean that agreement is unlikely in the near termand the existing deal carries on working perfectly well. The Obama Administration must ensure that it sticks to its guns in future negotiations, however. Information-sharing is not an indulgence in the post9/11 world; it is a necessity. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
Start-Up's Camera Allows Photos to Be Refocused - Wall Street Journal

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Submitted at 6/22/2011 7:25:22 AM
The Tech Herald Start-Up's Camera Allows Photos to Be Refocused Wall Street Journal "These pictures are unprecedented," he said. Photos taken by prototype Lytro cameras, when viewed through most current Web browsers, allow users to click on different parts of an image to bring different subjects into focus. Lytro lists other benefits.... Lytro Launches to Transform Photography with $50M in Venture Funds (TCTV) TechCrunch Light field cameras promise to let you "refocus" photos PC Authority all 26 news articles
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Abbas Fake Honor Killing Outrage

Phyllis Chesler (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 11:25:10 PM
Last month, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas scrapped the laws which guaranteed leniency for honor killers. Family honor will no longer be a mitigating factor in such cases. On the West Bank and in Gaza, such barbaric murders of girls and women routinely draw sentences of six months or less. Abbas was apparently driven to this unusual act by public outrage about an alleged honor killing which took place near Hebron on the West Bank. Over a year ago, on April 20, 2010, 20-year-old Aya Baradiya disappeared. Her paternal uncle, 37-year-old Iqab Baradiya, and two accomplices had kidnapped her, bound her hand and foot, and threw her down a well, leaving her to die a slow and painful death. Her remains were not found for more than a year. Aya was a religious woman who wore a hijab. Her university classmates described her as chaste and noble-minded. What crime did she commit? Aya wanted to marry a man. Her suitor went through the traditional channels. Her parents approved of the match but wanted her to wait
until she graduated. Her uncle, 17 years older than she was, strongly disapproved of the engagement. And so he killed her. Although the media are now reporting her murder as an honor killing, it is not a classic honor killing. For example, her uncle did not immediately confess. Although many honor killings are disguised as suicides or accidents and never made public, in general, those that do come to public light often involve proud confessions. Honor killers confess as a way of publicizing that they have cleansed their shame. In Ayas case, there was no shame that had to be cleansed. In addition, Ayas parents and siblings did not collaborate in the decision to murder their daughter, knew nothing about it, were haunted by her disappearance, and played absolutely no role in her murder. In fact, when Aya did not return home from university, her parents immediately reported her missing. One suspects that her uncle may have had a highly inappropriate interest in his niece. His behavior suggests that he had an unnatural proprietary interest in her sexual and reproductive future and acted as if his niece was more like his daughter over whom he had the
her head and sliced her wrists with a razor. Her crime? Rofayda had been raped by her two brothers and impregnated. According to her mother, the familys honor demanded that she sacrifice her daughter for the violent crimes of her criminally psychopathic sons. In 2007, Hamda Abu-Ghanem, 18, was shot to death in Ramle, Israel, by her brother and her cousin because some men in her town had referred to her as a prostitute. She was the eighth woman to have been murdered in her extended family in seven years and, in an unprecedented move, the familys women finally went public. power of life and death. families as well as women in In 2007, 21-year-old Nadia Abu How ironic that President Abbas, general. Their misogyny is Amar of Jerusalem was murdered who has thus far been unmoved barbaric. Aya Baradiya was by her three brothers and her by the epidemic of honor killings murderedbut it was not an uncle because she refused to among Arabs on the West Bank, honor murder. Please read my marry the man she was engaged to in Gaza, and in Israel proper studies on honor killings in order and because she got her father (where Israeli police make to understand what one actually arrested and convicted for assault. arrests), has now ostensibly is. The following are some In 2009, Fadia Najjar of Gaza decided to do the right thing vis-a- examples of genuine honor City, a divorced mother of five, vis honor killingswhen no murders among Arabs on the was bludgeoned to death by her honor killing has occurred. But is West Bank, in Gaza, and in Israel, father because she owned a cell he really doing the right thing? which apparently left President phone. He suspected that she was using it to call a man outside of Ayas murdering uncle has Abbas unmoved. demonstrated the cruelty of Arab In 2003, Rofayda Qaoud of Abu the family. The day after the men towards Arab women; this Qash in the West Bank was murder, he turned himself into includes the innocent women in murdered by her mother Amira police. their own immediate and extended Qaoud, who put a plastic bag over
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Why Ethanol and Natural Gas Dont Deserve Subsidies

Nicolas Loris (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
tax credit and the natural gas vehicle tax credits. He said, The ethanol industry wont survive without that. The natural gas Submitted at 6/21/2011 4:45:58 PM Two of the energy subsidy industry will survive. debates in Washington focus on If thats the case, then whats the tax credits for the ethanol and point of subsidizing ethanol or natural gas industries. The natural gas? If an energy source is growing opposition to the $6 not economically competitive, billion ethanol blenders tax credit then the government should not became quite clear when the a r t i f i c i a l l y p r o p u p t h e s e Senate voted 7327 to remove the technologies and energy sources subsidyeven though the credit to create a market that wouldnt is set to expire at the end of the exist without the subsidy. And if year. When it comes to natural p r o d u c e r s d o h a v e a n gas, bipartisan support has been economically viable idea, then cast to create, expand, or extend they shouldnt need the handouts preferential tax treatment to from Washington in the first subsidize the production, use, and place. That is, if the natural gas purchase of natural gas vehicles i n d u s t r y w i l l s u r v i v e a s ( N G V s ) , a l t h o u g h s e v e r a l Representative Sullivan says it Members of Congress have now will, then it shouldnt need the tax withdrawn their names as co- credits. sponsors of the bill. The argument will then To see why neither ethanol nor i n e v i t a b l y t u r n t o h e l p i n g natural gas deserves subsidies, producers push through the l o o k n o f u r t h e r t h a n investment valley of death. Representative John Sullivans Investment obstacles exist when (ROK) answer when asked to introducing new technologies to differentiate between the ethanol the marketplace, so the natural gas
industry could argue that it needs these tax credits to get off the ground and kick-start the transition from gas-powered vehicles to ones that run on natural gas. But if natural gas vehicles are truly a good economic idea, vehicle manufacturers will make them, and consumers will switch without market manipulation from Washington. Will it happen as fast as politicians going to bat for their special interests would like? If its a good enough idea and the price is right for consumers, then natural gas vehicles and the supporting infrastructure will expand at rapid rates, just as cell phones and cell phone towers have. Price signals and an economic system that promotes risk taking and entrepreneurial activity will do much more for consumers than the government picking winners and losers. Energy tax expenditures have been an increasingly attractive way for the government to award
preferential treatment to certain industries. The number of energy tax programs expanded from 11 at the end of the 1990s to 38 listed in President George W. Bushs 2007 budget. These special tax credits create the perception that technologies or energy sources are more competitive than they actually are by artificially reducing their price for producers. Instead of increasing competition, this market distortion gives one technology an unfair price advantage over another. We should be dialing back these industry-specific tax credits, not expanding them. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
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Peter King Exposes Danger of Prislam

Ryan Mauro (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 11:30:02 PM
Rep. Peter King, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, held a hearing last week on radical Islam in the prison system, called prislam by one witness. The hearing was met with predictable accusations of discrimination and bigotry, but the name-calling failed to impede the exposure of the nexus between convicts and radical Islam. Democratic Rep. Laura Richardson confronted King for singling out extremists within Islam, saying his hearing could be deemed as racist and as discriminatory. The Council on American-Islamic Relations likewise stated, Congressman King has been shown very clearly to have made anti-Muslim statements and a number of false allegations toward the AmericanMuslim community. Rep. King defended himself. If we find out that Neo-Nazis are allied with a foreign power and they come into this countrywe will address it. The fact is we are not going to spread ourselves out and investigate everything, which means addressing nothing, he said.
Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. In April 2010, a prison convert named James Larry killed his pregnant wife, two nieces (one of which was pregnant) and his seven-year old son named Jihad. His brother said that he had become more devout leading up to the attack, and was furious with his wife for not wearing a hijab. His defense is that he is mentally ill. In October 2009, another prison convert in Ohio named Abdullah Mohammed Muslim who spent time on the Pakistani side of the border with Afghanistan was arrested with a large stockpile of weapons. The authorities The content of the hearing shows were arrested for planning to immediately said there was no why Rep. King is right to focus on bomb synagogues in the New evidence of a link to terrorism. In the phenomenon that Michael York area and conspiring to shoot September 2009, a convert to Downing of Los Angeles Polices down a military plane with a prislam named Michael C. Counter-Terrorism Bureau called Stinger missile. Three of the four Finton was arrested in Illinois prislam. One witness, former i n v o l v e d c o n v e r t e d w h i l e who was a fan of Anwar alAwlaki. He told an undercover Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin i m p r i s o n e d . Smith, discussed a plot by prison There are other cases that have FBI agent that he sought to go to converts to attack Los Angeles not received as much publicity. the Gaza Strip, but also wanted to International Airport and Jewish For example, in January 2010, a carry out an attack in the U.S. He sites around Los Angeles. From Senate report warned that up to was apprehended after planning to the prison [the cell leader] was three dozen Americans that have attack the Paul Findley Federal able to set up and set out an served time in prison are in Building in Springfield using inert operation cell of would be Yemen, claiming to be studying explosives provided in the FBI jihadists on the streets of Southern Arabic. They were described as sting. California Smith said. In 2009, blond-haired, blue-eyed types, four Muslims who met in prison and are suspected of joining Al-
Photos: Vanessa Minnillo's bachelorette parties at Lavo and Marquee Las Vegas Sun
Submitted at 6/22/2011 9:46:47 AM
New York Daily News Photos: Vanessa Minnillo's bachelorette parties at Lavo and Marquee Las Vegas Sun Actress Vanessa Minnillo celebrated her upcoming wedding to singer Nick Lachey with a bachelorette weekend in Las Vegas. The party began at Lavo at the Palazzo with dinner, followed by dancing at the upstairs boutique... Vanessa Minnillo Celebrates Bachelorette Party in Vegas ( PHOTOS) Celebuzz all 134 news articles
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The War That Wasnt

Daniel Flynn (FrontPage Magazine FrontPage)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 11:27:29 PM
Just months after terming the war in Libya kinetic military action, the Obama administration maintains that their military operations dont constitute hostilities and thus dont run afoul of the War Powers Act. Euphemisms have consequences. So, too, do military operations. Last Friday, NATOs mission to protect Libyas civilians temporarily derailed when its strikes allegedly killed nine civilians in a residential neighborhood in Tripoli. NATO blamed a weapons systems failure. A day earlier, NATO mistakenly bombed a column of the very rebels that it seeks to aid. Just as actions too often dont match intentions in war, words rarely match actions. As California Senator Hiram Johnson once noted, The first casualty when war comes is truth. The President is of the view that the current U.S. military operations in Libya are consistent with the War Powers Resolution and do not under that law require further congressional authorization, the executive branch reported to Congress on Friday, because U.S. military operations are distinct from the kind of hostilities contemplated by the Resolutions 60 day termination provision. The rationalization was part of a
32-page report to Congress in response to a House resolution demanding compliance with the War Powers Act. The administration wont say it rejects the constitutionality of the War Powers Act. It contends that the missiles flying in Libya do not constitute waror hostilities, for that matter. So, the president maintains that he is in compliance with a statute that demands congressional authorization of a war within sixty days of its commencement and forbids the initiation of any hostilities unless provoked by a national emergency created by attack upon the United States. It has been more than three months since Operation Odyssey Dawn, redubbed Operation Unified Protector, commenced, and even top administration officials concede that Libya poses no threat to the United States.
The reports contention that the U.S. military is not engaged in hostilities in Libya doesnt pass the straight-face test, explained House Speaker John Boehner. He is not alone in his dim assessment of the legality of the unauthorized Libyan mission. The New York Times reported over the weekend that top lawyers within the Departments of Defense and Justice had advised the president that continuing the U.S. role in Operation Unified Protector violated the War Powers Act. The president rejected the counsel. Both Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor suggested that they are prepared to counteract the presidents usurpation of congressional power with legislation, possibly involving defunding the operation, as early as this week.
Samsung reveals 'premium accessory suite' for Galaxy Tab 10.1, includes premium prices
Jesse Hicks (Engadget)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 6:17:00 AM
Loving your Galaxy Tab 10.1 but just itching for some accessories? Samsung knows you are, and today helpfully unveiled a "premium accessory suite" to soothe your jones for both addons and premium prices. The collection (parts of which appeared earlier on Sammy's German site) includes a full-size keyboard dock ($70) and a multimedia dock ($35) enabling HDMI pass-through - you can have Tab video on your TV, as long as you buy the separate HDTV adapter ($30). You have your choice of cases, as well: a book cover model ($60) you can leave on while using the tablet, or a leather pouch edition ($30) that is, you guessed it, a leather pouch.
A few miscellaneous items round out the collection, including various chargers, a conductive stylus and the already-released USB adapter. The company also promises a Bluetooth keyboard and SD card adapter to come "mid -summer," just in time to ease your next bout of premiumaccessory fever. Continue reading Samsung reveals 'premium accessory suite' for Galaxy Tab 10.1, includes premium prices Samsung reveals 'premium accessory suite' for Galaxy Tab 10.1, includes premium prices originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Samsung Store| Email this| Comments
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A Camera That Could Care Less About Focus: Introducing Lytro

Chris Taylor (Mashable!)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 12:45:04 AM
Remember cameras that would have to focus themselves before taking a snapshot? And how that could lose vital seconds, making a mockery of the term point and shoot? Oh, right that would describe every digital camera currently on the market. But if one Silicon Valley startup has its way, the very idea of focusing, or adjusting light levels, or having to wait before you click the shutter, will be a relic of the early 21st century along, perhaps, with photos that only exist in two dimensions. Lytro is the brainchild of Dr. Ren Ng, a Stanford Ph.D whose dissertation on light-field technology five years ago was showered with awards. Now, with the help of $50 million in funding, most of it from Andreesen Horowitz, Ng has built a company thats preparing to launch a focusfree digital camera later this year. The basic premise of Lytros technology is pretty simple: the camera captures all the information it possibly can about the field of light in front of it. You then get a digital photo that is adjustable in an almost infinite
number of ways. You can focus anywhere in the picture, change the light levels and presuming youre using a device with a 3-D ready screen even create a picture you can tilt and shift in three dimensions. (I got a demonstration of the cameras 3D photos on a laptop earlier today, and was blown away.) You might think that this would produce unfeasibly large digital files, but Ng insists that the files will be roughly comparable to the
average size of a digital photo today. The heavy lifting is being done by the cameras on-board processors, he says. And because its light sensor is incredibly sensitive, you can capture lowlight situations like restaurants a lot more easily even without the flash. Although the camera itself isnt due out until late 2011, Lytro today unveiled a carousel of demonstration snapshots all of them embeddable, available in
Flash for the web and HTML5 for your smartphone. Heres an example. Click anywhere on the picture to change the focus, double-click to zoom. Remind you of Instagrams tiltshift feature, perhaps? Sure except when you realize that Instagram can only focus on one area of the screen at a time. See how the chain link fence snaps in and out of focus? Thats how you know its a picture with a whole lot of light field information in it. And the cost of this camera? Ng says it will be comparable to other consumer-priced digital cameras on the market. If the end result is anything like these demonstration photos, the $40 billion camera market is about to meet a whole lot of disruption. More About: camera, digital cameras, imaging, light field, Lytro, photography, Stanford For more Tech & Gadgets coverage: Follow Mashable Tech & Gadgets on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Tech & Gadgets channel Download our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
Richard Gere spotlights Tibetan plight in photos - Korea Times

Submitted at 6/22/2011 10:11:23 AM
Korea Times Richard Gere spotlights Tibetan plight in photos Korea Times Richard Gere shared personal photographs which he says attest to the cruelty inflicted by the Chinese on Tibetans in Seoul Wednesday. An avid Buddhist and supporter of the Dalai Lama, the Hollywood actor took the initiative to make... and more
One Fifth of Grandparents Use Social Networking [STUDY]

Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 5:28:23 AM
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using a social network, a new study by the website MyVoucherCodes suggests. The study, which collected results from 1,341 grandparents from the UK, showed that 71 percent of grandparents which are using a social network use Facebook, 34 percent are on Twitter and 9 percent use the business social network LinkedIn. A great deal of these users, is quite active, too: 51 percent says they log in once a week or more, and 35 percent only log in a few times every month. 68 percent of those asked said they had joined their chosen social network in the past year.
One quarter of participants said they had joined a social network to find old friends, one fifth said they did it to keep in touch with friends and family, and half were encouraged to do so by younger people in their families. This latest study, although limited to UK citizens, is in line with other similar recent studies. A Pew report from 2010 indicated that the number of seniors who are using social networking is growing rapidly, while another report from that year showed that baby boomers are increasingly joining Facebook. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, nycshooter
[ MyVoucherCodes via Telegraph] More About: facebook, grandparents, linkedin, Seniors, social network, social networking, twitter For more Social Media coverage: Follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Social Media channel Download our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
Boris bike firm told to improve after 15,000 charging errors

Peter Dominiczak, City Hall Correspondent (Evening Standard - News)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 2:56:24 AM
The firm that runs the Boris Bike scheme has been read the riot act by the Mayor over its "unfortunate" performance after it emerged that nearly 15,000 customers have been incorrectly charged. Serco has had about 5million of
payments withheld by Transport for London and has now been given a "critical improvement plan". Since the cycle hire scheme was launched in July last year 14,937 people have received refunds for access or usage charges. Last month almost 600 people had money withdrawn from their bank BORIS page 80
Interactive Video Shows 360 of Vancouver Riots

Jolie O'Dell (Mashable!)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 1:15:29 AM
New video footage of the Vancouver riots has emerged, and it allows viewers to pan around the scene to see all 360 degrees of revelry-gone-wrong. The footage was created by Ryan Whitehead of Northstudio360, a web dev shop based in the Pacific Northwest. As NorthStudio360 SEO specialist Simon Vreeswijk wrote on the firms blog, Our
interactive media division was in Vancouver to film what we expected to be a fun event. Our new 360 video technology uniquely captures the entire environment giving a broader context and perspective. SEE ALSO: Vancouver Police Ask the Public for Photo & Video Evidence of Rioters To get that enhanced perspective a mind-blowing look about what Vancouvers streets really looked like during the riots viewers simply click to play the
video, then use the cursors to spin around the environment. The video can be paused and still remains interactive, allowing
viewers to slow down and get a closer look at what was happening all around the NorthStudio360 cameras.
Vreeswijk also said that more video will be posted within the next few days as the team edits down the raw footage. More About: Vancouver, Vancouver riot, vancouver riots, video For more Video coverage: Follow Mashable Video on Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook Subscribe to the Video channel Download our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
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Gym conman stole valuables worth 10,000 from lockers

Paul Cheston, Courts Correspondent (Evening Standard - News)
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exit in the restaurant. A month later he walked into Virgin Active in Old Broad Street and went through the same Submitted at 6/22/2011 4:54:50 AM This is how a conman tricked his routine. He stole from the locker way into City gyms to grab room another BlackBerry, an v a l u a b l e s w o r t h m o r e t h a n Omega watch and a wallet, said 10,000 in barely an hour - Mr Ingram. Manners also helped convincing the staff he was a himself to another wallet and member. bank cards. The total loss was Lee Manners, 23, stole designer 3,850. watches, wallets and phones from Within minutes he crossed the b u s i n e s s m e n t o f u n d h i s road to the Aldersgate Street "extravagant lifestyle". branch of Virgin Active and Pretending to be a member at carried out the same con, taking a City branches of Virgin Active, he wallet and a 6,400 Jaegerrummaged through lockers in LeCoultre watch. December. A month earlier Manners, who was jailed as a 17Manners had targeted the same year-old for attempted robbery health club chain in Ealing, the with an imitation firearm and has Old Bailey heard. spent nine years in prison, was Prosecutor Jonathan Ingram told arrested shortly afterwards having the court how Manners strolled been identified on CCTV by City into the Ealing Broadway gym. of London detectives. Within four minutes he had He admitted three theft charges entered the locker room and taken and one count of fraud. Manners a Blackberry, iPhone and wallet, admitted to a probation officer worth a total of about 850, and who described him as living an 100 cash. He left through a fire "expensive and extravagant
accounts for journeys they had not taken. Although most were overcharged by less than 10, one customer had 300 taken and 24 others lost more than 50. The firm refunded this money and also paid more than 6,000 in compensation as a "goodwill gesture". lifestyle" despite rarely working A TfL spokesman said: "We have or claiming benefit - that he had a issued Serco with a critical "lawless lifestyle" and was "out of improvement plan as the service they have provided for our control". Judge Recorder Michael Topolski Barclays Cycle Hire users has not QC said Manners was a "semi- reached the consistently high standard we expect. professional criminal". "You are someone who has no "The plan details what we need to professional qualifications and see delivered for Londoners and has never really done any work, we expect to see immediate y o u j u s t s p e n d y o u r t i m e improvements." committing crime," he said. Serco's contract to run the "What is clear to me is you scheme is worth 140million over committed these crimes for gain." six years. Manners, of Sydenham, was Green Party mayoral candidate Jenny Jones today said: "Like jailed for five years. This entry passed through the most Londoners I've been very Full-Text RSS service if this is excited by the bike hire scheme your content and you're reading it and I believed that the glitches on someone else's site, please read would get sorted fairly quickly. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- Sadly, the Mayor has failed on the only/faq.php#publishers. Five detailed working of a scheme Filters featured article: Ten Years which has been riddled with Of Media Lens - Our Problem technical problems. "Overcharging is one of the more With Mainstream Dissidents. visible problems, but the biggest complaint seems to be the failure of bikes to release and people having to walk ages to find one
that works. "The Mayor has clearly stated that he needs to resolve these problems before he expands the scheme to east London and I hope he manages to get a grip on things in time for the 2012 Games." Responding to London Assembly members' questions Mr Johnson said: "It is unfortunate that such errors have occurred." However, he added: "It is important to note that over five million journeys have been taken on scheme cycles, meaning refunds have been issued for some 0.3 per cent of all journeys." About 22,000 people use more than 5,000 cycle hire bikes every day. TfL has said about 2,700 docking points will be created in east London by next year and another 1,500 across central London. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
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Cue the Music: Huntsman Has Arrived

Nancy Scola (Politics : The Atlantic)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 4:10:57 PM
By Nancy Scola Jun 21 2011, 5:10 PM ET Comment Beginning with his presidential campaign announcement speech at Liberty State Park, the former governor's team will try to sell GOP primary voters on an unconventional image JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Let's "play a little game," says former Texas Republican congressman Tom Loeffler. We're gathered in Liberty State Park, a setting made politically famous by Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign kick-off against President Carter. We're here to watch the presidential launch of Jon Huntsman - former Obama ambassador to China, Utah governor, businessman, Mormon missionary, and, after today, a seeming middle-ground choice in the 2012 Republican primary. What we're playing along with at Loeffler's direction is turning our backs on the Statue of Liberty, towards lawn of the park's Flag Plaza, to witness the Huntsman family making its way over. The crowd is small and placid. It probably represents Huntsman's base at this point: journalists and smattering of supporters. If Flag Plaza is a baseball diamond, the few hundred of us are collected on third base. And we're waiting for the Huntsmans -- Jon, wife Mary
Kaye, their passel of children -- to get there. The trip takes about a minute, with the brood stopping to consider a World War II statue of American soldier. Finally, the Huntsmans arrive. Dreamy country music swells, and the soon-to-be candidate takes the stage. From this podium, Reagan pummeled Carter, calling his record "a litany of despair, of broken promises, of sacred trusts abandoned and forgotten." Huntsman isn't getting into that sort of thing. "I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the
office of the president," he says. There's some hints at policy, talk of tax cuts, job creation. But that's not the point. The point is for the world to start to get a good look at Jon Huntsman. Standing at the back of the plaza as we do is a beaming Fred Davis. If Huntsman's entrance music sounded familiar, it's the Republican media strategist's doing. The custom-made tune is the soundtrack to a trio of curious video clips Davis rolled out over the Internet in the last week to tease this moment. They followed a pattern."6 Days" showed an
actor riding a dirt bike through what's presumably the Utah desert. "Did not become famous with his band 'Wizard,'" reads the on-screen copy, a reference to the high school band that Huntsman dropped out of high school to pursue."4 Days" has the same scene, with the tagline , "Has seven children, one from India, one from China." And then"Tomorrow," rolled out yesterday: "The candidate who rides motocross to relax." The videos, posted on Vimeo, attracted just 85,000 views in total, and one comment. It's from
one "troyeseffigy." It reads simply, "wtf?" I try to figure out a polite way to put troyeseffigy's question to Davis. Those videos were, um, quirky, I finally manage. "My call," says Davis, who is known for having produced Carly F i o r i n a ' s n e a r l y hallucinatory"Demon Sheep" web video during the 2010 California Senate campaign. There's no avoiding that Huntsman reads mild-mannered, and focusing the videos on his love of motocross, CUE page 85
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Quotes of the day

Allahpundit (Hot Air Top Picks)
If the precedent Mr. Obama has created is allowed to stand, future presidents who do not like what Submitted at 6/21/2011 9:40:01 PM the Justice Department is telling Since the United States handed them could simply cite the control of the air war in Libya to example of Mr. Obamas war in NATO in early April, American Libya and instruct the White warplanes have struck at Libyan House counsel to organize a air defenses about 60 times, and supportive coalition of the remotely operated drones have w i l l i n g m a d e u p o f t h e fired missiles at Libyan forces administrations top lawyers. about 30 times, according to Even if just one or two agreed, military officials this would be enough to push The disclosure of such details ahead and claim that the law was could add texture to an unfolding on the presidents side. debate about the merits of the Allowing the trivialization of the Obama administrations legal War Powers Act to stand will argument that it does not need open the way for even more Congressional authorization to blatant acts of presidential warcontinue the mission because making in the decades ahead. United States forces are not Congress must confront the engaged in hostilities within the increasingly politicized methods meaning of the War Powers White House lawyers are using to Resolution. circumvent established law and *** stop them from transforming it Last Sunday was the 90th day of into an infinitely malleable bombing in Libya, but Mr. Obama instrument of presidential power. armed with dubious legal *** opinions is refusing to stop One top former legal adviser to Americas military engagement Obama, Dawn Johnsen, called the there. His White House counsel, accounts of the White Houses Robert F. Bauer, has declared h a n d l i n g o f t h e m a t t e r that, despite the War Powers Act, d i s t u r b i n g . the president can continue the There may be a precedent for Libya campaign indefinitely this, but I cant think of one, said without legislative support. This Robert Chesney, a University of conclusion lacks a solid legal T e x a s l a w p r o f e s s o r w h o foundation. And by adopting it, specializes in national security the White House has shattered the law.This is not the way the traditional legal process the process is supposed to work. executive branch has developed to For decades, Chesney and other sustain the rule of law over the legal scholars said, legal and past 75 years constitutional questions within the
government have been resolved by the Justice Departments Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). Just last year, a six-page Justice Department memo described OLCs mission as providing controlling advice to executive branch officials on questions of law. *** If George W. Bush had ignored the views of his Justice Departments Office of Legal Counsel to avoid complying with the War Powers Resolution, Democrats would be going berserk. Barack Obama, I suspect, would be going berserk. *** On its own terms, the presidents statement is a constitutional joke. At no time does it give any account of what the critical term hostilities means, except to say that whatever its meaning, it constitutes a high threshold that is not met in Libya. The trusty thesaurus offers the word fighting as a synonym for hostilities, which is just what we are doing in Libya today. There is no evidence in the WPR text that the term hostilities does not have its ordinary English meaning. The term is first used in connection with the statement that the WPR will apply to the introduction of the United States Armed Forces into hostilities. The word introduction suggests that the WPR kicks in when hostilities begin such that Congress preserves its power to
have a say before these hostilities escalate into something bigger. The particular context reinforces the ordinary meaning and thus undercuts the presidents claim that small hostilitieswhich these arentfly below the radar. The presidents statement gets everything exactly backwards [T]he president offers not a shred of evidence to support his twisted constitutional logic. Hats off to those in his administrationEric Holder, Caroline Krass, and Jeh Johnsonwho stood up to the president. And shame on those, like Harold Koh, who should know better. *** 91 days after President Barack Obama notified Congress he was using U.S. military force ito attack Libya, Sens. John Kerry (D -MA), John McCain (R-AZ), and Carl Levin (D-MI) introduced a resolution authorizing the intervention. But dont expect the Senate to pass it any time soon. In interviews with over a dozen senators Tuesday, The Cable discovered that it will take weeks, not days, for the resolution to come up for a vote. The resolutions language is only the starting point for a Senate debate that will feature resolutions and amendments from multiple senators, each of whom has their own ideas of how to express the Senates position on the Libya war The administration argues that it has consulted Congress several
times, but many senators are unhappy with the quality of the information. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R -AL) told The Cable Tuesday that he was finally given a briefing June 10 by Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy and others but that it did not pass muster. It was one of the weakest briefings Ive ever had. I thought it was very, very weak, Sessions said. *** House Speaker John Boehner (ROhio) said on Tuesday evening that House Republicans would meet on Wednesday to discuss two Libya resolutions one that would authorize the use of force in Libya, and another that would require the U.S. to withdraw military forces It is clear that the Obama administrations claim that targeted bombings, missile strikes, and other military actions in Libya do not constitute hostilities under the War Powers Resolution is not credible, Boehner said. As we have learned in the past week, even his administrations attorneys from the Office of Legal Counsel and the Department of Defense recognize that. Boehner said the U.S. has no desire to damage the NATO alliance, but said the White House must not ignore its obligations to the American people and the laws QUOTES page 84
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Pew poll: 56% wants troops removed from Afghanistan as soon as possible
Allahpundit (Hot Air Top Picks)
Submitted at 6/21/2011 9:00:03 PM
In a vacuum, Id say the poll is stupid since everyone wants the troops home as soon as possible. But this isnt a one-shot deal; theyve been tracking the question since September 2008, and, well Three years ago, 61 percent favored keeping troops in place until the situation had stabilized versus just 33 percent who supported withdrawal ASAP. Last year the split had narrowed to 53/ 40; last month, right after the Bin Laden raid, the withdrawal contingent leaped ahead to a very narrow 48/47 lead, and now six weeks later its no contest. This isnt the only recent poll showing major movement in public opinion on the war either. A few weeks ago, CBS found a massive 16-point surge over the past month in support of decreasing troop levels in Afghanistan. I dont know how to explain the sudden spikes except as a slightly delayed reaction to killing Osama, which of course was one of the goals of the operation in the first place convincing the public that the mission in Afghanistan, such as it is, has now basically been accomplished by turning the head of Al Qaeda into fish food.
The fact that 51 percent also say they expect the U.S. to achieve its goals in the country and believe that the military effort is going very well confirms that people arent endorsing pulling out in despair and exasperation at Karzai but in the conviction that weve sort of done what we came to do. Imagine their surprise if/when we leave and whats left of Al Qaeda starts creeping back over the border. According to the Times, Obama will most likely order a drawdown of all 30,000 surge troops by the end of next year, but the precise timetable for pulling them out wont be revealed until tomorrow night. Now that he has license from the public to be more aggressive, he could play it one of two ways: Remove a sizable number of troops right now (as the Standard foresaw yesterday) or lay down the all the surge troops out by 2013 baseline tomorrow and punt the mechanics to Petraeus. Or, actually, he could play it a third way, by ordering a limited withdrawal of, say, 5,000 troops immediately to satisfy doves and pair it with the 2013 withdrawal baseline, with the full timetable to be decided after further consultations with the Pentagon. That seems safe-ish and bound to make no one very happy, which is a hallmark of The
Downright Biden-esque! And quote two: In an hourlong interview, [Candidate Y] took a hawkish position at a time when prominent Republicans have publicly called for significant troop reductions and polls have shown increasing doubt among GOP voters that the conflict can be won. [Candidate Y] said he supported Obamas 2009 troop surge but was very disappointed that he also simultaneously announced the withdrawal deadline in the same speech. It reflects a political thinking on his part, rather than allowing the conditions on the ground and a sharp definition of the mission to determine what we do next, he said. So I dont think he should put arbitrary numbers and deadlines out there. I think you draw down the troops in Afghanistan as circumstances on One. Consider that my prediction. troops.. by 2012, [Candidate X] the ground warrant. As for the GOP, eyeball the line said: I think that we need to I wouldnt be overly anxious to in the data table above vis-a-vis transition into a counter-terror get the troops out of there until we people who agree with the tea effort as quickly as we can. But, have enough stability and capacity party. The number in favor of what about getting troops out within the Afghanistan security withdrawal ASAP doubled in just faster? Definitely, get American forces to take up the slack, a year. Where does that leave troops out faster, said [Candidate [Candidate Y] said. We need to Republican candidates? Ill leave X]. Transition into what would make sure we do not send the with you two quotes that are on be more in line with intelligentmessage that we are leaving just the wires right now; try to guess intelligence collecting, uh, special because were tired or just which would-be nominee said forces on the ground, some because its too difficult. which. Quote one: training needs obviously with the When asked whether he could Afghan army, and thats not a PEW page 84 support taking out the surge hundred thousand soldiers.
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parts at this point) and insisted that the region is still closer to peace than war. I can see the Submitted at 6/21/2011 8:20:52 PM end of the process, Peres said. I If the opening plenary session of remain a believer. the Israeli Presidential Conference He didnt eschew criticism of the s u f f e r e d f r o m a l a c k o f Palestinians and their backers. seriousness, the second and final P e r e s b l a s t e d I r a n a n d t h e plenary session of the first day shadow it casts over the region brought gravitas by the truckload. with its funding of Hamas and Titled Nation, Interests, and Hezbollah, and called the fiveEthics in the Journey Towards year kidnapping of Gilad Shalit a Tomorrow, it featured a speech disgrace to human dignity. by Israeli President Shimon Peres Still, Peres sounded a couple of and a series of talks by Tony discordant notes, especially the Blair, Bernard-Henri Levy, and notion that in the void of world Professor Amos Oz, moderated by government, self-government is t e l e v i s i o n a n c h o r m a n O r e n the best alternative. Given Nahari. The remarks from all Israels precarious position, one were certainly provocative on a might think that the last thing an series of ethical questions that Israeli would wish is rule by the changed a bit with each speaker. UN or any other body remotely Peres received a standing ovation like it. The entire raison dtre of when he took the podium, and Israel is to allow Jews to have a expressed his optimism that the homeland that they can secure peace process has not irretrievably against the rest of the world, collapsed. He called on both the borne out of obvious necessity by Israeli government and the the ghastly Holocaust that killed Palestinians to return to direct six million Jews in supposedly negotiations (a faint wish on both enlightened Europe. Peres got a
warm and respectful reception at the end of his speech, but whether or not that was a factor, few stood as he walked off stage. In fact, I had a delightful conversation with my airport transportation driver on the way to the conference. He and his wife are natives of Israel, and his father fought in the War of Independence. His three sons all served, the driver proudly told me, and he shared that Israelis often send teenagers to visit the extermination camps, at least those that are left. That impresses on young Israelis the need to serve their country and to fight to remain free when necessary. Blair had the most interesting speech, and perhaps the most timely. Nahari challenged him on interventions by the West in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya, while noting the embarrassment of the worlds shrug at Syria for doing pretty much what Moammar Gaddafi did in Libya. Blair sidestepped that question one cannot imagine a
retired Prime Minister going after a successor on that point, especially while the UK is still engaged against Gaddafi but did argue that idealism and pragmatism are not always separate. In an interconnected, independent world, Blair said, national interests can and often do represent values. Action has its consequences, but Blair also warned that inaction is an explicit decision with consequences of its own. In this, Blair explicitly mentioned the Iranian pursuit of nuclear weapons and warned that a failure to act that resulted in mullahs being armed with nukes would have catastrophic consequences. Blair proudly called himself a liberal interventionist and insisted that interventions tailored to specific and achievable ends that promote values of freedom and liberty are a valid expression of those national values. The former British PM also defended Western support for Israel in rather unique terms.
Neocons in the US often express the hope that Iraq can serve as a model to the rest of the Arab nations, but Blair said that Israel is a model for the region. Come and see what Israel has done in 60 years, Blair said to thunderous applause, pointing out that its Israels freedom that allowed for its advances. Freedom is not a passing phase, Blair emphasized, it is the condition that defines the human spirit. And for that, Blair got the standing ovation at the end that he also received at the beginning. Note: The Israeli Presidential Conference is covering my travel expenses. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
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says Davis, made sense because "it was probably the most telling thing about him. That this guy, who was very, very calm, to pick this hobby that's not very calm is very, very interesting," says Davis. "If you went and talked to him, you wouldn't say, 'This is a guy who's a motocross fan.'" An added benefit is that the Davis spots evoke an idea of Huntsman without serving up much of a target. The Utah Democrats tried, posting a weak parody that reads, "Has reversed positions he took as Governor. Riding away from his record." Huntsman will likely survive the blow. On the way into the park this morning, I had run into John Weaver, the former John McCain aide who largely engineered Huntsman's candidacy while the latter was still serving in China. "Whether the press liked it, hated it, or were confused by it," Weaver said of the motocross video series, "they all spent the last week talking about it. Getting the news outlets to talk about it ad infinitum was one of our goals." "There's lots of levels to Jon Huntsman," says Davis now.
"This was just the first surprise." "We're trying to surpass the gold standard set by the Obama campaign" -John Weaver Next up is Jon2012.com, the online headquarters launched this morning, though it's been down at points during the day. The site is built out with a blog and Facebook and Twitter integration, but video stays a focus. ("HTV," in Huntsman campaign parlance.) There are dozens of videos of Huntsman and his wife discussing various issues, from why he chose to work for Obama to his favorite foods. "Street food," reveals Huntsman. "I think I developed that living in the third world, in developing countries." That's emerging as a theme in the selling of Jon Huntsman, online and off. This is a man who knows the world. Mandarin, even -- a potential asset when Republican primary voters are a bit nervous about the economic might of China. "That perspective from afar has helped me see a path back to greatness," reads an email sent by the campaign early this morning. Jon2012.com highlights a biographical timeline illustrated with a globe showing where
Huntsman has lived and worked, ending with his time as Obama's man in Beijing, which wrapped in just late April. Both Weaver and Davis readily admit that Huntsman's former boss is a model for how they want to do online. "We're trying to surpass the gold standard set by the [2008] Obama campaign," as well as whatever they might be cooking up for this cycle, says Weaver. "The goal is to cut through the clutter of politics and commercial enterprises." Weaver rolls his eyes when I mention that a surrogate from the Michele Bachmann campaign told me that they see online as a chance to broadcast, and perhaps interact, but not to organize. "We wanted to have an enormous presence from day one," says Davis. "Bigger than anything out there, even the president. If there are mobile apps, there's going to be a Jon Huntsman mobile app." For now, though, Jon2012.com lacks the self-organizing tools that have become a hallmark of Obama's online efforts. Instead, the focus seems to be on telling a story and then slotting Huntsman into a role in it. "We're
not just choosing new leaders," says Huntsman, wrapping up his short speech. "We're choosing whether we are to be yesterday's story or tomorrow's." Then the big finish. "I'm Jon Huntsman, and I'm running for president of the United States." With the deed done, the music swells again, and Huntsman leaves the stage, bound for the airport, and then New Hampshire. The whole thing is over less than half an hour after it started. But Jon Huntsman and crew are hoping that it's just the beginning. Image credit: Nancy Scola Drop-down image credit: Nancy Scola This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters featured article: Ten Years Of Media Lens - Our Problem With Mainstream Dissidents.
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Nokia claims N9 is 'the fastest imagecapturing phone' yet

Vlad Savov (Engadget)
including the lofty claim that the N9 is the fastest phone yet when it comes to capturing an image -We've already established that ousting the likes of the iPhone 4, the N9 is a delight of a phone, the Galaxy S II, and even the both inside and out, but our hands Canon S95, perhaps the best -on time with Nokia's new pocket camera around at the flagship gave us only a brief look moment. Measuring the time at its camera performance. Now taken from activating the camera the company is graciously filling app to the completion of the first that gap in our knowledge with shot, the N9 clocks in at 2.6 some further disclosure about its seconds, whereas Apple's latest new 8 megapixel imager, does it in 3 seconds and
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Samsung's takes a split second more. Aside from its speed, the N9 has Carl Zeiss optics, a wide F2.2 max aperture, dual-LED
flash, continuous autofocus, and a 720/30p video mode to boast about, but the benefits of those items will need to be experienced
first hand. So Nokia, when are you shipping this thing? Nokia claims N9 is 'the fastest image-capturing phone' yet originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Nokia Conversations| Email this| Comments
Motorola Xoom gets Android 3.1 update that activates microSD card support outside the US
Vlad Savov (Engadget)
Submitted at 6/22/2011 6:21:00 AM
You know that microSD card slot that's been laying dormant in your Motorola Xoom? Provided you don't reside in the US, that'll be getting activated soon as part of
the tablet's Android 3.1 update, which is starting to roll out now and should have all of Europe covered within the next few weeks. Motorola explicitly identifies this as a firmware update for "non-US" Xooms, so Canadians would be well advised to check their software update
utility, though the big question is why didn't the American 3.1 update include microSD support as well? What tangled web of intrigue lies behind this selective activation? [Thanks, Alan] Motorola Xoom gets Android 3.1
update that activates microSD card support outside the US originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Motorola Europe (Facebook)| Email this| Comments

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