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Easter Egg Roll check your settings
Tom Krazit (Webware.com)
Jeff Mason (Front Row some of them, blowing the
Washington) whistle for one group of kids Submitted at 4/5/2010 9:43:59 AM

Submitted at 4/5/2010 12:56:50 PM engaged in getting their eggs

Never mind nuclear arms
treaties, unemployment figures,
or healthcare debates. The big
news at the White House on
Monday was the Easter Egg
Roll.
President Barack Obama and
his family joined scores of kids
and camera-toting parents for
the annual event, which, in
addition to the ritual tossing of
eggs with spoons, featured
soccer, tennis and basketball
games as part of first lady
Michelle Obama’s “Let’s
Move” campaign to fight
childhood obesity.
“Today we have transformed the
South Lawn into a playground,”
Mrs. Obama told the crowd
before joining the festivities.
“We’re going to have 30,000
people in our backyard today,
and we want every single one of
you to have fun, to think about
living a healthy life, and to get
moving,” she said.
Did you catch that number?
Thirty thousand is a lot of folks
to have in a backyard.
The president played referee to
from a “start” spot on the lawn Following calls from members
to the finish line. of Congress to investigate the
“Everybody stay in their lane!” Google Buzz privacy backlash,
he admonished playfully. Google wants to make sure
The basketball playing Buzz users understand their
commander-in-chief then joined privacy options.
another group of kids on the Originally posted at Relevant
White House basketball court to Results
shoot hoops, missing two three-
pointers but sending a final shot
that “swished” before he left for
his other presidential duties.
Photo credit: Reuters/Jason
Reed (Obama family listend to
national anthem with Easter
Bunny during 2010 Easter Egg
Roll at White House)

35 awesome examples of dramatic animal photography

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Obama weighs in on big controversies – no DH, Duke and
UConn
Patricia Zengerle (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 1:40:04 PM
Perhaps emboldened by his
successful push to overhaul the
U.S. healthcare industry,
President Barack Obama waded
bravely into some of America’s
other great debates, declaring
himself an opponent of Major
League Baseball’s use of the
designated hitter, picking Duke
University to win the men’s
college basketball championship
on Monday and the University
of Connecticut to take the
women’s college basketball
crown on Tuesday.
“Even though I am an American
league guy, I gotta admit that I
am a baseball purist,” Obama
said after throwing out the
ceremonial first pitch before the
Washington Nationals’ baseball
team’s first game of the season.
“I think no DH makes more
sense. Have everybody out there
playing, doing what they’re
supposed to be doing,” he said,
during an appearance with the
Nationals’ television
broadcasters.
Digg CEO Jay Adelson steps down
Caroline McCarthy
(Webware.com)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 11:53:39 AM
Obama is a fan of his
hometown Chicago’s White
Sox, a team in Major League
Baseball’s American League. In
the American league, pitchers
do not take turns at bat. Teams
instead have a “designated
hitter,” the DH, who does not
take a turn in the field. In the
National League, pitchers take
turns at bat and are virtually
always by far the weakest
batters on their teams.
The American League has been
using the DH since 1973,
and the issue has been the
subject of countless barroom
Founder Kevin Rose will be its service.
taking over the reins in the Originally posted at The Social
interim at the social-news site,
which is preparing to overhaul
debates by fans.
Obama criticized his
ceremonial pitch when the
Nationals broadcasters showed a
tape of it. “This is
heartbreaking right here.
Released it a little high, a little
early,” Obama jokingly
lamented. “What breaks your
heart on these is you’re down
there practicing… throwing
strikes. You come out here, the
thing slips out of your hands a
little bit. You know, it’s
heartbreaking,” he said.
However, he said, all he really
needed was more opportunities.
“You know, if I had a whole
inning, I’d clean up.”
Obama picked Duke University
to win the NCAA championship
on Monday night over Butler
University, an underdog that
made the final game of the 64-
game tournament — known as
March Madness – against the
odds.
“I think Butler is just a great
story, but you’ve got to figure
that Duke is going to be able to
pull it out. They’re a little bigger
inside. It’s just going to be
tough matchups for Butler, but
they have played with
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unbelievable poise,” he said.
But the president, who had
originally predicted that the
University of Kansas would win
the championship, before they
were upset earlier in the
tournament, added this caveat:
“That’s the best thing about
March Madness these days. You
never know who is going to
win. ”
In the women’s game, Obama
predicted that the University of
Connecticut, which has gone 77
games without a defeat, would
make it 78 in the final against
Stanford University on Tuesday.
“That’s probably the best team
in sports right now,” he said of
Connecticut’s Lady Huskies.
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Picture credit: A combination
photo of U.S. President Barack
Obama throwing out the
ceremonial first pitch prior to
the Major League Baseball’s
opening game between the
Washington Nationals and the
Philadelphia Phillies in
Washington April 5, 2010.
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General election 2010: Gordon Brown and David Cameron hit

the campaign trail
(Latest news, breaking news, to recovery and nothing we do take a big effort. It is going to parties and something new, region in the country,
current news, UK news, world should put that recovery at risk. be a team effort. We have got to something different, which the including Scotland, Wales and
news, celebrity news, politics "Over the next few weeks I will win in all parts of the country Liberal Democrats offer. Northern Ireland.
news)
go round the country - the and that is why it is going to be "This is not a two-horse race During a visit to Luton, George
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:41:43 AM length and breadth of our land a very active campaign." between the two old parties, Osborne, the shadow chancellor,
By Rosa Prince, Political - and I will take to the people a He went on: "It is very daunting Labour and the Conservatives. said that the general election
Correspondent very straightforward and clear - the challenge of winning the People have got a real choice would be a hard-fought battle
Published: 2:41PM BST 06 Apr message - Britain is on the road election and the challenge of this time and I think that's why between “hope and fear”.
2010 to recovery and nothing we do turning the country round. But I this election is wide open. All He said: "Britain wants change
M r B r o w n t r a v e l l e d t o should put that recovery at am excited by the challenge as bets are off. but it's going to be a big, hard-
Rochester in Kent, while David risk. well." "I'm really looking forward to fought election," he said.
Cameron, the Conservative "Get the big decisions right - as The Camerons began the being able to put the case for "The battle is going to be
leader, toured Birmingham and we did in the last 18 months election campaign with a tour of real change, for real fairness, between hope and fear - hope
Nick Clegg, for the Liberal since the world recession - and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, to people up and down the that the change that the
Democrats, travelled to jobs, prosperity and better which is in the Labour marginal country. Conservatives can bring can get
Watford. standards of living will result. of Birmingham Edgbaston, one "I think people are just crying our economy off its back and
Earlier, the Prime Minister "Get the big decisions wrong of the seats the Tories must out for something different, and the fear of a Labour
stood on the steps of No 10 and and the lives of hundreds of win to put Mr Cameron in that's what we offer." Government that will throw all
confirmed the “worst-kept thousands of people are Downing Street. Parliament will not be formally sorts of scare stories at us.
secret” in politics. diminished as a result." Nick Clegg, the Liberal dissolved until Monday, with "But I think hope will overcome
He said: "The Queen has kindly As he travelled by train to Democrat leader, told party MPs spending the next three fear. I think people in Britain
agreed to the dissolution of Birmingham, Mr Cameron workers that the official start days rushing legislation through want change, I don't think they
Parliament and a General admitted that he was nervous to the election campaign marked the Commons during what is want five more years of Gordon
Election will take place on May about the outcome of the “the beginning of the end for known as the “wash up”. Brown and I think they want
6." election. Brown”. Two polls today gave the the leadership and the energy
The Prime Minister put the Sitting with his wife Samantha, He said: "I think it's great that Tories a 10-point lead, enough and the values that David
economy at the heart of the he said: "It is an enormous the campaign's now going to to form a narrow majority, Cameron offers."
c a m p a i g n b y u r g i n g t h e mountain to climb. The start. People finally have a say while a third suggested that Five Filters featured article:
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he said: “Britain is on the road can be done but it is going to the old politics of the two old headed off to campaign in every

Question of the Day: Is Steele Getting His House in Order?

contributors@theatlantic.com D o e s t h e r e s i g n a t i o n o f that Chairman Michael Steele is
(Chris Good) (Politics :: The Republican National Committee getting his house in order?
Atlantic) Chief of Staff Ken McKay mean
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Women 'tried to get dead body on easyJet flight in

Liverpool'
(Top stories from Times was likely to show the man died who were questioned and later “Two women aged 41 and 66
Online)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:41:38 AM
earlier this week from natural
causes.
released on police bail. A
spokesman said that the exact
were arrested on suspicion of
failing to give notification of
iPads fetch
A spokeswoman for John
Two women have been arrested Lennon Aiport, said: “I have
circumstances of the death were
still being investigated but foul
death. They have been released
on bail until 1 June 2010. The up to $5,000
for trying to push a dead relative never heard of anything like play is not believed to have coroner has been informed and
strapped to a wheelchair onto a this before. It is a bit of a
Berlin-bound flight at Liverpool strange one to be honest.”
been involved.
Bodies being repatriated by air
police are continuing with their
inquiries”.
on Ebay
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John Lennon Airport. It is believed that the women are required to be contained A spokesman for the airport,
Police were called when staff at set out on Saturday morning. inside hermetically-sealed zinc- which remained open Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:45:00 AM

the easyJet check-in desk They successfully managed to lined coffins and kept in the throughout the incident, said:
Apple fans are devoted, eager
became suspicious about the get the body into a taxi and to cargo hold for the duration of “We are co-operating with
and evangelical when it comes
elderly man who was partially the airport. The driver is said to the journey. The process has to police in their investigation.”
the hardware and software that
hidden behind sunglasses and have been left “upset and be accompanied by the requisite A spokeswoman for easyJet
they love. Somehow, it seems
did not appear to be moving devastated” by the experience. paperwork. said: "Two female passengers
that “patient” has slipped off of
very much. At the airport, the dead man A spokeswoman for Rowland arrived at Liverpool John
their radar.
They discovered that the would w a s m a n h a n d l e d i n t o t h e Brothers, a funeral directors Lennon Airport to check in for
A quick glance on Ebay this
-be passenger, understood to be wheelchair and sunglasses which specialise in the field, the EZY 7223 flight to Berlin
week revealed several iPads for
a 91-year-old German national, placed over his lifeless eyes. said: “I have not heard of with an elderly gentleman in a
sale, with some being sold for as
w a s n o t a s l e e p a s h i s When tentative inquiries were anything like this before. It is wheelchair.
much as US$5,000. Bloomberg
companions insisted but had made about the man’s health, most bizarre. I am outraged that "On arrival at the airport, staff
notes that most of the iPads sold
been dead for some time. his companions insisted he was they would think they could get were immediately concerned
on Ebay are going outside of the
Officers arrested the two merely sleeping. away with it. about his health and the first aid
US. Eagerness is one thing, but
women, aged 44 and 66, on The couple wheeled the dead “There are rules and regulations team were called. It was then
with signs pointing to a
suspicion of failing to give m a n a c r o s s t h e a i r p o r t to adhere to and documentation discovered the passenger was,
European iPad launch within the
notification of a death. concourse to the easyJet check- to complete before you can in fact, deceased and the police
next couple of weeks, we can’t
It is believed that the couple, in desk where, initially, staff transport human remains to a were called. The two female
help but think that some
who had travelled to the airport w e r e c o n c e r n e d f o r t h e foreign country. Germany is not passengers were subsequently
customers are misguided. Or
from Oldham, in Greater p a s s e n g e r ’ s health. particularly a difficult country arrested and this is now subject
managed to find a way to
Manchester, were attempting to A police spource said: “They but you still have to have the to a police investigation."
actually grow money on trees.
evade the complex and costly were just concerned for the man. correct documentation.” Five Filters featured article:
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carried out in Liverpool but Officers from Merseyside of a 91-year-old man in the
police sources suggested that it Police arrested the two women terminal building.
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"Sound Bullets" to Zap Off Tumors?

(National Geographic News) the acoustic lens, which uses together—a process called static intensity of the sound bullets:
Submitted at 4/5/2010 1:09:19 PM 0.95-centimeter stainless steel precompression—scientists can The emitted waves can be gentle
spheres aligned in parallel adjust the solitary wave so that enough to probe internal organs
A new machine inspired by a c h a i n s . B u t i n s t e a d o f the emitted sound wave travels or powerful enough to serve as
common office toy could one channeling motion, the new in a particular direction and at a "sonic scalpels" for cleaving off
d a y a l l o w d o c t o r s t o z a p machine manipulates sound. given speed. tumors.
cancerous tumors using "sound When a sound wave strikes the "The goal was to create an As an imaging tool, the acoustic
bullets," scientists say. spheres at one end of the acoustic lens that could achieve lens beats ultrasound imaging Antenna Brings You
Dubbed an acoustic lens, the acoustic lens, the sound gets very high focal intensities and at because the sound pulses can be Streaming Radio From
device could also be used to converted into a type of shock the same time be able to control focused much more tightly and
create near photo-quality images wave known as a solitary wave. the focal position without can be easily repositioned.
Around the World
of internal organs that surpass The solitary wave propagates having to change the structure of "You could have 3-D images [Downloads]
t h e r e s o l u t i o n o f m o d e r n through the chains in the same the lens itself," Daraio said. that are clearer and much more Jason Fitzpatrick (Lifehacker)
ultrasounds. way motion moves through the Rapid-Fire Sound Bullets resolved," Daraio said.
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:30:00 AM
(Related:"Exploding Bubbles balls in a Newton's cradle. But By tweaking each chain of (Related:"Humans Can Learn to
Can Trim Enlarged Prostate.") because of the length of the metal balls in the acoustic lens 'See' With Sound, Study Says.") Adobe Air: Streaming radio
The design is based on the chains, the solitary wave exits separately, a barrage of sound But such applications are still a stations abound but finding
Newton's cradle, which features the last sphere as a sound wave bullets can be made to converge ways off, she said, as the them is one thing and enjoying
several identically sized metal i n s t e a d o f b o u n c i n g b a c k onto a single spot. acoustic lens has not yet been thousands of them with a
balls suspended so that the balls t h r o u g h t h e c h a i n . "We squeeze the outer chains of tested on cells or living animals. polished interface and all in one
barely touch each other. Converting the sound wave into the lens more than the chains in The research is detailed in this place is another. Antenna is a
Due to Newton's laws of a solitary wave is crucial, the middle, and this causes the week's issue of the journal sleek Adobe Air-based radio
motion, when an end ball is because solitary waves are solitary waves to travel faster in Proceedings of the National tool that makes streaming radio
pulled back and released, the easier to control, said Daraio, a the outer chains than in the inner Academy of Sciences. fun. More »
ball at the other end swings physicist at the California ones," ultimately releasing Five Filters featured article:
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First African Amber Pictures: Thunder Fly, Wasps, More

(National Geographic News) amber fossils. Only the third triggered by the appearance of trees] diversified and changed he said.
Submitted at 4/5/2010 12:02:22 PM fossil thrips ever found, the flowering plants, said study the terrestrial ecosystems," Published April 5, 2010
woodland insect lived when leader Alexander Schmidt of the Schmidt wrote in an email. Five Filters featured article:
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newly discovered Ethiopian m a j o r b i o l o g i c a l c h a n g e grew in a time when [flowering niches and diversified rapidly,"
6 World/ Tech/ Tech News/ E-reader News Edition

Mexico Earthquake Zone Linked to California

Faults
(National Geographic News) northward against the western Aftershocks Raise "Some can cause a fault to slip until it
Submitted at 4/5/2010 3:09:28 PM edge of the North American Concern" reaches a point where a major
plate, most of the motion occurs The Baja California earthquake slip releases a "Big One."
The magnitude 7.2 earthquake along the San Andreas Fault. killed at least one person but did In fact, a magnitude 4.4 temblor
that jolted northern Mexico and But the plate boundary doesn't relatively little damage, because had rocked the same region in
Southern California yesterday create a single, tidy fault line. the epicenter was in a lightly Baja California about a day Ubuntu 10.04 Gets
afternoon was the first big (Related:"Deadly San Andreas populated area 38 miles (60 before yesterday's earthquake, Cloud-Based Contact
earthquake to occur on this Fault Longer Than Thought.") kilometers) south-southeast of and there had been other
particular fault system since "Southern California [and Mexicali, Mexico. rumblings in the region "in the Syncing [Contacts]
1892, scientists say. northern Mexico are] a whole (See pictures of the devastation threes and fours all week," Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Centered on Mexico's Laguna series of blocks sliding past each wrought by the magnitude 7.0 Benthien said. Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:00:00 AM
Salada Fault in Baja California, other," Benthien said. earthquake that struck Haiti in In addition, a separate
the earthquake was triggered by The same motion also caused January.) magnitude 4.4 temblor had Along with a built-in music
the same processes that drive the Baja Peninsula to start Aftershocks, however, are jolted the Los Angeles Basin on store, Ubuntu 10.04, the free
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from Southern California to ago, subsequently opening up Faults, the California earthquake Fault system. But that trial of cloud-based contact
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boundary between the Pacific Day.") fault systems, Benthien said, but earthquake that we can have at
plate and the North American "This is one of the classic places they do raise "some concern." any time in Southern
plate," said Mark Benthien, to study the early stages of the (Related:"Southern California California," he added.
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David Cameron steals march on Gordon Brown
with early campaign speech
(Top stories from Times
Online)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 3:34:47 AM
David Cameron stole a march
on Gordon Brown today when
he began campaigning for a
May 6 election even before the
Prime Minister got a chance to
name the date.
As Mr Brown returned from
Buckingham Palace after
formally asking the Queen to
dissolve Parliament, the Tory
leader rallied his troops in an
appearance outside County Hall
on the banks of the Thames.
"It is the most important
election for a generation and it
comes down to this: you don't
have to put up with another five
years of Gordon Brown."
Mr Brown fired the starting gun
for an election in a brief
audience with the Queen at
Buckingham Palace. The Prime
Minister pulled up shortly after
10am in a dark Daimler Super
V8 after the one-mile drive from
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Instant-read thermometers
remove the nervous guesswork
Downing Street, where he
chaired a Cabinet meeting this
morning. The Queen had flown
in by helicopter from Windsor a
few minutes earlier.
The formalities between the
Prime Minister and monarch
lasted 23 minutes. The details
of their conversation will remain
private but Mr Brown was to
ask the Queen for a dissolution
next Monday. He then returned
to Downing Street to name the
date on the steps of No 10.
Mr Cameron was not in a mood
to wait, starting his campaign
appearance while Mr Brown's
motorcade was still moving. The
Liberal Democrat leader Nick
Clegg was also out
campaigning.
Mr Brown finally emerged
from No 10 at around 10.45am,
announced what he called
"probably the worst-kept secret
of recent years" and started the
pitch to voters that Labour
campaign strategists hope will
lead to a record fourth term for
from cooking meat—they're
practically a modern kitchen
necessity. The favorite of gear
testing gurus Cook's Illustrated
is a$96 Thermapen, but the $24
Labour.
"The Queen has kindly agreed
to the dissolution of Parliament
and a general election will take
place on May 6," he said.
Surrounded by his ministerial
team, the Prime Minister made
it clear that he expected the
economy — and his
Government's success in
steering Britain through the
recession — to be the main
issue in the election and said
that he would be delivering a
clear message as he visits
constituencies up and down the
country in the next month —
that "Britain is on the road to
recovery and nothing we do
should put that recovery at risk".
Mr Brown will start his
attempts to woo voters with a
symbolic trip to the South East,
showing his determination to
hold on to new Labour gains of
1997. David Cameron will head
in the opposite direction, taking
the fight to Labour in the
Midlands and the North.
runner-up is pretty nice, too.
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It is the most eagerly awaited
showdown since Tony Blair
swept away 18 years of
Conservative rule in 1997 and
opinion polls suggest that it will
be the most closely fought
election since John Major defied
the polls and Neil Kinnock in
1992.
Each leader has his own
personal mountain to climb. Mr
Brown is looking to banish the
memories of the election-that-
never-was in November 2007,
when he ducked out of going to
the country at the last moment.
He is asking for his first
mandate as Prime Minister, and
a historic fourth term for
Labour, against the backdrop of
the deepest recession for 60
years and a potentially
mutinous public sector.
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Most U.S. women
expect to have two kids
— and most miss the
mark
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Submitted at 4/6/2010 7:11:00 AM
Most women in the United
States expect to have two
children. But women with more
education tend to have fewer
than two while those with less
education tend to have more.
“The average woman misses her
target by one birth,” says S.
Philip Morgan, the Norb F.
Schaefer Professor of
International Studies and
director of the Social Science
Research Institute at Duke
University.
“Women are more likely to miss
their target than to hit it, and
their level of education is an
excellent predictor of whether
they will miss the target high or
low.”
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iPad users report app failures and
charging problems
(Top stories from Times
Online)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:09:22 AM
New complaints about technical
issues with the iPad emerged
today, as Apple celebrated
selling hundreds of thousands of
the new devices over the
weekend.
Apple has maintained its
silence over reports about
glitches with its new tablet
computer. New iPad owners
have posted comments on Apple
forums claiming that their wi-fi
was poor or fluctuating, where
other internet devices worked
well. Today, new reports
suggested there could also be
issues with charging the device
and compatibility with apps
designed for the iPhone.
“Casa de Trevino” from
California said: “Having same
problem with wi-fi being weak
and constantly fluctuating. I
have to keep entering my
password to regain access to
my network after having lost a
signal. Two iPhones and two
MacBooks showing full signal
with no interrupts. Certainly
Diary of a No-Nonsense Kitchen Clean-Out [Clutter Cleanout]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 5:00:00 AM
hope this is fixable. Too pricey
of a toy for it to have this issue
right out of box.”
A commentator named
"syunker” wrote: “My wi-fi
went down to 1 bar after
working great for a few hours.
My download speeds started to
crawl, I couldn't even surf the
web. I rebooted my router and it
didn't help."
The initial version of the
touchscreen tablet computer
connects to the internet only via
wi-fi. Commentators have
speculated that the problem
could be a weak wi-fi antenna,
located behind the logo on the
back of the iPad.
New reports suggested that the
iPad may not power up properly
when connected to some USB
ports. Users also complained
that the iPad would only charge
if turned off or in sleep mode.
Others said that iPhone apps
crash when loaded onto the
device. Developers suggested
they will send updates in the
coming days that can fix these
problems. Experts said that
many of the issues could be
solved through software
Lifehacker reader Lionel is a
food nerd and less-is-more
enthusiast. Inspired by this
“patches” that could be sent to
the iPad over the coming days.
Despite the technical issues,
many industry experts called the
launch of the iPad a success.
The company said it sold
300,000 units in the US this
weekend, with other analysts
suggested that the figure may
reach around 700,000 over the
coming days. Industry analysts
suggest sales could reach 6
million by the end of the year.
The iPad will be available in
Britain by the end of this month
in both wi-fi only and wi-fi plus
3G versions. The 3G version
will also become available in
the US later this month. iPad
prices range from $499 (£326)
to $829.
Early reviewers have been
enthusiastic about the device,
describing it as slick and fast,
although some have complained
about its inability to run “flash”
video software.
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dies aged 70
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Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:47:55 AM
Published: 2:36PM BST 06 Apr
2010
The actor, who is known for his
stage, TV and film work, died
on Tuesday surrounded by his
family after being taken ill in
the early hours of Sunday
morning.
A statement issued by
Redgrave's wife, Kika
Markham, and family said:
''Corin Redgrave has died
today. He was taken ill at home
in the early hours of Sunday
morning.
''He died very peacefully
surrounded by his family. We
will miss him so very much.''
A member of the famous acting
dynasty, Redgrave was brother
to Vanessa and Lynn
Redgrave and the son of actor
and director Michael Redgrave.
His daughter, from his first
marriage to Deirdre Hamilton-
Hill, is the actress Jemma
Redgrave. Redgrave also had
week's Ultimate Clutter
Cleanout, he shared his tips on
wiping the slate clean in his
E-reader News Edition
three sons.
He was uncle to film and TV
star Joely Richardson and to
Natasha Richardson, who died
last year following a ski
accident.
Redgrave notched up an
impressive series of theatre
roles, appearing at the
National Theatre and the RSC
among others.
His film roles included Hamish
in Four Weddings And A
Funeral and Cornwall in
Excalibur.
Television credits included,
most recently, The Turn Of The
Screw last year and The Girl
In The Cafe in 2005.
In recent years he also appeared
in episodes of Spooks,
Shameless, Foyle's War and
Trial And Retribution.
Redgrave was diagnosed with
prostate cancer in 2000.
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Leaked video footage shows Iraq Kitchen chemist Heston

journalists killed by US gunships Blumenthal failed
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in two Apache helicopters as
they open fire on the group in
the New Baghdad District of the
Wikileaks spokesman, told
reporters at the National Press
Club.
science O-level
Submitted at 4/5/2010 11:23:22 PM
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Iraqi capital. The gunsight tracks two of the current news, UK news, world
The video is graphic, and The Pentagon has refused to men, identified by WikiLeaks as to the kitchen.
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disturbing. As a group of men confirm whether the video is the Reuters news staff, as the news)
cluster in a Baghdad street two real, claiming that it is working pilots wrongly identify their reputation down to "a mixture of
US Army helicopters open fire, to authenticate the footage, but a cameras as an AK-47 rifle and a Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:32:28 AM a long, complicated name,
repeatedly shooting the men and senior US military figure has By Nick Collins funny glasses and a bit of the
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shortly after it occurred found
one pilot says. "Nice," another Union chief Mouyyad al-Lami apparatus, has admitted that he norovirus among diners last
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staffers and thought they were
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engaging armed insurgents.
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"We regret the loss of innocent
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engagement," Major Turner
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Drug-free inmates put on methadone Harley-Davidson Is a
(Latest news, breaking news,
current news, UK news, world
news, celebrity news, politics
Hot Stock: Is it
news)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:44:57 AM
Overbought?
By Nick Collins
Published: 2:44PM BST 06 Apr
2010
The process, called
"retoxification", is allegedly
designed to boost the tolerance
of former addicts who are
deemed likely to start using
drugs on their release, to
minimise the risk of them taking
an overdose.
But critics of the treatment have
accused prison doctors, acting
under Department of Health
guidelines, of "state-sponsored"
drug dealing and "giving up
on tackling" the problem.
Kathy Gyngell, of the Centre
for Policy Studies, said: "It
gives the impression the
Government is giving up on
tackling drug addiction.
"This doesn't get people off
drugs – but captures them in the
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The Sun reported that the
process has been ongoing in
English prisons for the last
five years and that more than
460 prisoners have undergone
retoxification. It was already
known to be in operation in
Scotland.
Senior police officers were said
to be furious at the news, with
one saying: "We have enough
difficulties coping with drug-
fuelled crime without ministers
sanctioning this.
"It's one of the craziest ideas
from any government."
It is claimed that retoxification
is used at 33 prisons in England,
and can be offered to former
addicts even if the length of
their sentences mean they
have been free of drugs for
some time.
Jails using the process are
reported to include two young
offenders' institutions, as well
as Wandsworth Jail, south-west
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methadone.
A Health Department
spokesperson said: "The
Department of Health does not
have a central programme of
retoxification of prisoners.
"In exceptional circumstances,
qualified doctors can decide
whether to use this treatment
and the clinical guidance is clear
that they should only do so
when there is a serious risk of
the prisoner reusing drugs
immediately on release and
therefore putting themselves at
risk of death from an
accidental drugs overdose if
they don't get it.
"Other drug treatment
techniques should always be
used first."
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Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: Analyst Upgrades
and Downgrades, Harley-
Davidson (HOG), Technical
Analysis
Harley-Davidson ( HOG)
closed yesterday much higher
than where it opened. The stock
rose over 10%, finally settling at
$31.37. During the intraday
session, the shares hit a new 52-
week high of $31.66. According
to TheFly, RBC Capital
increased its price target for the
motorcycle company, believing
it may eventually hit $36.
You know what? My gut tells
me $36 is easy at this point
(however, I do have some
reservations and warnings,
which I'll get to). There was a
lot of volume backing the bid on
Monday, and as I look through
different time periods for the
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stock in terms of price gain (one
-month return, three-month
return, etc.), I come to the
conclusion that this is one strong
equity.
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What Is YOUR Personal Brand?

(Inc.com) brand. overall experience people have your brand to others. Start by for your name.
Submitted at 4/6/2010 5:35:00 AM Corporations are starting to act when they drink a Coke. asking yourself "what do I want Q. Why should entrepreneurs
more like individuals because Another benefit is that you will to be known for, and then select care about personal branding? 1.
As business owners we know c o n s u m e r s d e m a n d b r a n d become more visible and be a niche so that you can position If you don’t brand yourself first,
that branding our business is e n g a g e m e n t a n d t w o - w a y recognized by your peers, hiring yourself in the marketplace. • someone else will brand you.2.
important, but what about conversations. That’s why you managers, other successful Create: Your personal branding Venture capitalists, angel
branding ourselves? Today I see employees tweeting and business people, and toolkit may consist of a blog, investors, and partners want to
have the honor of interviewing updating their status messages entrepreneurs. With visibility website, business card, resume, work with strong personal
Dan Schawbel, the leading under a corporate umbrella. The comes speaking engagements, video resume, reference brands that have successful
personal branding expert for same strategies companies use jobs, clients, celebrity and the document, cover letter, track records.3. Your personal
Gen-Y. The New York Times t o b r a n d p r o d u c t s c a n b e opportunity to make a portfolio, social network brand is transferable, so if your
calls him a “Personal Branding leveraged to brand people, such difference! People will want to profiles, or a combination. Your business fails, you don’t have to
Guru" and you'll often hear his as blogging, search engine work with you, work for you, brand must be consistent and start from scratch again.4.
name tossed around in the same optimization, and press releases. and support your career. reinforce each part of your People are searching for you or
sentence as Seth Godin's. For anyone interested in having The network that you develop toolkit. • Communicate: Now people like you online, and if
Q. Dan, what is personal a successful career, whether because of your brand can it's time to use everything you don’t have a solid brand
branding and why is it important you’re a job seeker, consultant, protect you from today’s you've created to let people presence, you won’t be taken
today? student, employee or uncertain work environment and know you exist. You can seriously.5. A lot of
A. Personal branding is how we entrepreneur, your personal allow you to grow your communicate your brand by entrepreneurs, especially
market ourselves to others. It’s a brand is everything. It’s your business. Branding also gives attending professional internet entrepreneurs, have to
timeless concept. The two reputation, the size and strength you a sense of being, confidence networking events, writing build large networks before they
reasons why branding has of your network, and what and purpose. articles for magazines and generate media and investor
always existed on a person level unique value you can contribute Q. What are the steps in media sites, commenting on attention.
is that we always have to sell t o a c o m p a n y o r y o u r personal branding? blogs, connecting with people Dan Schawbel, recognized as
ourselves in various situations, clients.What are the benefits? A. The four steps in the on social networks, and reaching personal branding guru by The
from trying to impress our Just like corporate brands, personal branding process, as out to the press. • Maintain: As New York Times, is the
managers so that we can take on people can demand a premium outlined in Me 2.0 are:• you grow, mature, and bestselling author of Me 2.0, a
bigger projects, to convincing price (a higher salary) based off Discover: In order to really accelerate in your career, national speaker, and the
our friend to see a movie. Also, of brand value. Coca Cola is understand who you are and everything you've created has to publisher of both the award-
we’re always being judged m o r e e x p e n s i v e t h a n a carve out a career path moving be updated and accurately winning Personal Branding Blog
based on first impressions, most supermarket brand, yet it tastes forward, investing in self- represent the current "brand and Personal Branding
of which occur online with a similar. Consumer’s are willing discovery is critical. In fact, if you." Also, you need to monitor Magazine. Dan is the youngest
simple Google search. From the to pay more for Coke because of you don't spend time learning your brand online to ensure all Business Week columnist, and
clothing you wear, to how you media attention, commercials, about yourself, your values, conversations about you are just started his own company
behave and interact with other distribution in major chains such personal mission, and unique positive and factual. You can do called Millennial Branding,
people, to your body language, as McDonalds, the history and attributes, you will be at a this by using a combination of LLC.
everything is tied to your overall story of the brand, and the disadvantage when marketing tools, including a Google Alert
April 6, 1903: Edgerton Born, Father of High-Speed Photography
Jim Merithew (Wired Top Doc Edgerton's stroboscopic speeding bullet" is no
Stories) photos are still a source of exaggeration.
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12 Business/ Politics/ E-reader News Edition

The App Market Grows

Max Chafkin (Inc.com)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 9:05:20 AM
cans or shots of Mac
Powerbooks get into the
movies? As Stephanie Clifford
least it gets you moving out of
the entrepreneurial woods." A
Groupon knockoff grows in
one of the richest cities in
China, and also one of the most
competitive for new
Paying for
A big weekend for the iPad. reports in the New York Times,
Roughly 300,000 people bought meetings to secure product
Russia (and China, too). If
imitation is the sincerest form of
entrepreneurs. "Thirty years
ago," Zhang tells the BBC, "that
Health Care
iPads on Saturday, the day placement deals are increasingly
Apple put its new gadget on happening even before the script
sale. That's more than the first or cast are finalized. Take the
flattery, then Groupon founder
Andrew Mason should be
blushing right now. As
woman who got the first license
depended more on her courage
and her ability to work hard to
Reform
contributors@theatlantic.com
generation iPhone sold in its recent George Clooney flick TechCrunch points out here, a do well."How to read your (Clive Crook) (Politics :: The
first weekend, and according to "Up in the Air." Director Jason Groupon look-a-like called financial statement. Fred Wilson Atlantic)
the Wall Street Journal, an Reitman wanted a real hotel BigLion has popped up in explains how he does it and
Submitted at 4/6/2010 4:56:51 AM
"impressive" result. It should be chain in his film and pushed the Russia with a remarkably suggests a few numbers that The new healthcare law holds
good news for entrepreneurs studio to make a deal with similar interface and business every entrepreneur should know out hope of meaningful
who are furiously developing Hilton, which also provided free model. "The sites look nearly by heart. Hint: It's all about reductions in costs, but
a p p l i c a t i o n s f o r t h e n e w lodging to the crew. Clifford identical," Michael Arrington cash. Wilson says you should everything depends on the zeal
device.The next hot category for writes that the trend is bringing writes, "even down to the know your cash balance, the with which the opportunities are
apps? Although buying a $500 movies one step closer to smallest details." When amount of cash you're burning pursued. I'll be surprised if, in
gadget that no one really " e l a b o r a t e l y c o n s t r u c t e d Arrington went to Mason for through every month, and the the end, the good ideas are not
understands might seem just a advertising."The best way to comment, he pointed out number of months of cash you overwhelmed by continuing
little bit indulgent, Earth2Tech keep your company on-track. Groupon.cn, another Groupon have left in the bank (the pressures in the other direction.
says there's a market iPad apps Most early-stage companies go clone that "went a step further "runway"). "[I]f you are an So the question of how to pay
that help people go green. through a phase where are than BigLion by just ripping off entrepreneur being handed for universal coverage--not to
Control4, for example, is a free learning as they go, making the name, too." Look for a financial statements from your mention the government's other
app that allows users to control adjustments to the business strategy piece in our April issue bookkeeper or accountant or fiscal commitments--will
multiple systems in their homes model as the company evolves. to see why Groupon is getting controller, then you need to be remain. In this new column for
directly from the tablet, such as But there's a fine line between so much buzz and to help you able to understand them," National Journal I argue that
the thermostat, lighting, and that and floundering aimlessly. decide whether partnering with Wilson writes. policy will need to change in at
security. "While there could be a As Andy Sack, explains, "There the discount site is right for your More from Inc. Magazine: least one of two fundamental
variety of effects of the success are time when early stage small business.China's Get this delivered to your ways: employers must be taken
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low-carbon lifestyles like better super close to your customer years ago, she sold knickknacks 500|5000.
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says.Beyond product placement. "The direction may not be the private business was considered
Ever wonder how all those Coke best or the right direction but at shameful. Today, Wenzhou is
E-reader News Edition Business/ 13

The 15 Countries That Are Getting Buried By This Oil Spike

Gregory White (The Money 1000 people 1000 people
Game) Turkey's geo-strategic position Spain demands more than 12%
Submitted at 4/6/2010 7:03:00 AM establishes it as a gateway for of developed Europe's oil, but
oil from the Middle East to contributes nothing to its supply.
Oil prices have surged back at European markets. It will Source: Nationmaster.com and
the sight of a global rally in shortly be tapping into that Mindbranch
trade. potential, with several pipeline Greece: 37.21 barrels per day
With every leading indicator, projects meant to run through per 1000 people
from shipping to manufacturing the country. Similar to Spain, Greece
data, pointing towards a global Source: Nationmaster.com and produces nothing in terms of
return to growth, oil inevitably Worldpress.org European oil supply, but has
follows the trend. Thailand: 8.41 barrels per day 3.45% of the developed
Now some countries around the per 1000 people European market demand.
world are starting to shake and Thailand may have 290 million Source: Nationmaster.com and
worry about the impact a price barrels in reserve, but imports MarketResearch.com
r i s e w i l l h a v e o n t h e i r more oil than nearly every other Japan: 41.60 barrels per day per
economies, many of which are country in South East Asia. 1000 people
far too reliant on imported oil. Source: Nationmaster.com and Iran is a key oil partner of
Here are those countries that Mbendi Information Services Japan and in 2009 accounted for
will get slammed > Ukraine: Australia: 11.90 barrels per day higher prices and the closure of Source: Nationmaster.com,
12% of Japan's import supply.
5.42 barrels per day per 1000 per 1000 people some refineries. Wiki, and OilGasArticles
Source: Nationmaster.com and
people Source: Nationmaster.com and United States: 35.17 barrels per
Australian domestic oil NYTimes.com
The Ukraine's relationship with production is likely to cease Bloomberg day per 1000 people
Israel: 43.50 barrels per day per
Russia over oil leads to near before 2030 as the country runs France: 30.50 barrels per day The U.S. has significant oil
1000 people
yearly crises over exports, in out of supplies. per 1000 people resources untapped, particularly
Not surprisingly, they're far and
which Russia holds the Ukraine Source: Nationmaster.com and French energy giant Total has in Alaska where controversy has
away the most vulnerable.
to ransom over pricing. an interest in Iranian oil, which arisen over environmental
The M. King Hubbert Center Source: Nationmaster.com and
Source: Nationmaster.com and Panama: 18.15 barrels per day may be halted by expanding issues.
Israel National News
Reuters sanctions on Iran. Source: Nationmaster.com,
per 1000 people Here are the 15 oil and gas
South Africa: 5.82 barrels per Panama ranks 100 in the list of Source: Nationmaster.com and EIA, and Wiki
pipelines that are changing the
day per 1000 people BBC Guatemala: 35.54 barrels per
oil exporting countries, behind world's strategic map
A new oil pipeline from other limited producers like Germany: 31.54 barrels per day day per 1000 people
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Mozambique to South Africa is Puerto Rico and Austria. per 1000 people Guatemala is a member of
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meant to be completed in 2011 Source: Nationmaster.com and Germany relies on Russia for Hugo Chavez's energy alliance
story »
and deliver significant supply to Index Mundi much of its energy imports and is planning on opening a
the Johannesburg area. including oil, a relationship refinery next year.
Italy: 29.09 barrels per day per
Source: Nationmaster.com and 1000 people which has been tightened by the Source: Nationmaster.com and
Petroline Holdings announced Nord Stream natural Up Stream Online
Italian spending on oil is likely
Turkey: 8.39 barrels per day per to rise by 36% on the back of gas pipeline. Spain: 37.18 barrels per day per
14 Business/ E-reader News Edition

Is Haiti a Laboratory for New Urbanists? What the Country

Really Needs Is Old Urbanism
Greg Lindsay (Fast Company)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:40:28 AM

Last Wednesday, Haitian

president René Préval asked the
international aid community for
$3.8 billion to rebuild his
shattered country after January’s
devastating earthquake. In what
amounted to a fund-raiser at the
United Nations, he received
pledges of $5.3 billion over the
next eighteen months. Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
promised $1.15 billion on behalf
of the United States. Most of the
money will be spent on
rebuilding schools, hospitals,
roads, and basic infrastructure--
the question is where?
The earthquake destroyed much
of the capital of Port-au-Prince,
killing 300,000 residents and
leaving 1.3 million homeless--
nearly half of whom have
become internal refugees.
Haiti’s reconstruction plans
include earmarking $500 million
just to lease or purchase land for
temporary settlements. government has taken their Ouroussoff, who received a communal core containing a on Port-au-Prince: It’s
They may be more than proposals to heart and will sneak peak of the plans. market, a school and health-care destroyed; it straddles a major
temporary. As I noted back in spend some of its billions in aid Ouroussoff described a facilities.” Overall, he wrote, faultline; it is filled with slums
February, a number of urban on an ambitious plan to comprehensive series of plans “more than a few of the offering few opportunities to
planners and economists within transform Haiti “from a country for redesigning the urban fabric renderings at this early stage residents, and they would only
and outside Haiti have argued dominated by a single of Haiti from the capital suggest conventional planning get bigger if left unchecked. But
against the wholesale rebuilding metropolis to what the planners (complete with light rail and formulas found in Southern is depopulation the answer? And
Port-au-Prince and pushed for call a network of smaller urban new parks built atop landfill California, suburban Boston or is a New Urbanist approach (as
redistributing its displaced ‘growth poles,’” according to composed of earthquake Beijing.” Ouroussoff dubs it) appropriate
residents around the country The New York Times’ rubble), down to rural villages, There are many good reasons
instead. It appears the HAITI page 21
architecture critic Nicolai “with farms encircling a why Haiti should turn its back
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Cramer: The "iPad Is Addictive As Oxycontin" (AAPL)
Heather Leonard (The Money
Game)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 7:11:00 AM
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AAPL shares closed up
Monday despite opening
weekend iPad sales falling short
of most analysts' expectations.
The stock ended the trading
session at $238.49 (20x
estimated fiscal-year 2010 EPS
and 19x Enterprise Value /
Trailing Twelve Months Free
Cash Flow). Upcoming catalysts
include details regarding the
iPhone OS 4 on Thursday;
March quarter results (likely the
third week in April); March
NPD data on Mac unit sales;
physical launch of the next
generation iPhone this summer;
and the CDMA (Verizon)
iPhone launch anticipated later
this year.
CramerSays Keep Buying
Apple(CNBC)
Mad Money's Jim Cramer is
telling investors to "pull the
trigger on Apple" because, love
Troll 2's Weird Road to Web Infamy Smokin' Fast Notebook Swaps
Brian Raftery (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 9:00:00 PM
The gloriously strange and
it or hate it, the "iPad is
addictive as Oxycontin." That
said, he's dolling out dual
advice. "If you're a trader, take
some off the table. If you're an
investor, forget it, the stock is
going to $300." As much as I
hate to agree with him, he's
probably right.
iPad's Uptake Hinges On
Technical Performance(Nomura
Securities)
After using the iPad, Manabu
Akizuki at Nomura Securities
expects the "uptake of the iPad
to hinge on the effectiveness of
Apple's in-house A4 processor
[low power consumption and
high performance] and
broadening the range of
dedicated applications." He sees
rapid growth in content partners
as well as "grass-roots
applications."
The iPad Won't Cannibalize
Laptop Sales(Seeking Alpha)
There has been much
speculation as to where the iPad
sits in the computing
ecosystem. Does it exist in
between the PC / laptop and the
mobile phone, or does it
cannibalize the former,
replacing that "legacy" system
inexplicable cult favorite Troll 2
will finally get its turn on the
big screen in the documentary
Best Worst Movie.
Business/ Tech News/ 15
Stock?(Trefis)
According to Trefis, an online
financial and analytical tool, the
Apps business represents 6% of
the company's $267 Apple stock
target price, while the iPad
accounts for 4%. By adjusting
the top variables for the iPad
(pricing, unit sales and gross
margin) and the Apps business
(song pricing, song unit sales,
average pricing, downloads,
paid percentage, gross margin)
on the interactive model,
investors can estimate the
impact to the stock price.
Join the conversation about this
story »
See Also:
all together? Seeking Alpha Apple continues to capture the
• Apple Investor: Wall Street
contributor Mark Riddix m e d i a ' s a t t e n t i o n ( a n d
Went Wild With Weekend iPad
believes that the iPad is s u b s e q u e n t a t t e n t i o n o f
Predictions, But Mostly Came
revolutionary, but we will still investors). On Thursday April 8,
Up Short
use our traditional computer for the company will reveal details
• Apple Investor: Wall Street
m u l t i - t a s k i n g a n d c o n t e n t about its next-generation iPhone
Sees Up To 400K iPads Sold
creation. If that assumption is operating system, iPhone OS 4.
This Weekend
true, it's good news for Apple, Some of the top expected
• Apple Investor: Apple Will
w h i c h i s r u m o r e d t o b e features include the support of
Be Counting The Cash As
refreshing it's notebook line this m u l t i - t a s k i n g t h i r d - p a r t y
Verizon & ATT Duke It Out
month. applications, a unified mailbox,
Apple To Remain In The GPS navigation and Apple's
Limelight, Announcing iPhone new mobile ad product, iAd.
OS 4 Details Thursday(PC What's The Impact Of the iPad
World) and App Pricing On Apple
Graphics Performance for Low Price
Christopher Null (Wired Top
Think cheap means slow? Not
Stories) in the case of Gateway's
Submitted at 4/5/2010 5:20:00 PM NV5933u notebook.
16 Business/
Get Ready for a Tsunami of Political Ads on Facebook and
Google
Dan Nosowitz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:25:22 AM
In a few months, you won't be
able to check your news feed or
your Gmail account without
being bombarded with political
ads. At least, that's what
Facebook and Google are
preparing for--and,
understandably, hoping for.
While the 2008 election was
really the first 21st-century
election in terms of its use of
new media and new technology,
adoption and progression of
those same technologies (and
some new ones) are moving fast
enough that the Internet is even
more ripe for advertising in
2010. Both Facebook and
Google either are or are in the
process of embracing location-
based features, which are of
particular use to advertisers for
their increased targeting
accuracy. Facebook is more
popular than ever. Google rolled
out a social networking service,
Buzz, that despite its fairly
negative reception is also very
popular. The iPad, along with
Android phones, have put ever
more opportunities for superior
advertising out there.
This election is vital for both
parties--not that any other
election isn't, but the virulent
fighting between the political
left and right has been stronger
in the past few years than ever
before. The Republicans need to
win something, badly. Despite
all their most fiery efforts, from
grassroots Tea Partying to
extremist rhetoric, the
Republicans are still projected
to run a minority in both the
House and Senate in 2010. The
Democrats are seen by many in
their own base as floundering,
making concessions without
need, and disappointingly weak
considering their should-be-
dominating majorities in the
House and Senate, combined
with a Democratic White House.
And both parties are starting to
adjust to the idea of using the
Internet for their purposes.
President Obama is famous for
his YouTube fireside chats, his
BlackBerry addiction, and the
prominence in major speeches
he's given tech issues like
universal broadband access.
Both parties, but maybe
especially the Republicans, have
embraced social networking,
especially Twitter--the
Republicans are more able to
spark news stories with a mere
140 characters than the
Democrats.
And then there's the landmark
Supreme Court decision in
January 2010 overturning
previous campaign finance
reform laws. The new laws
permit corporate funding of
political ads--though directly
contributing to campaigns is still
off-limits, corporations can now
run their own ads stating
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whatever they want. It's one of
the most contentious decisions
in recent memory: President
Obama condemned it in the
State of the Union address, and
Democrats have variously called
it "the worst court decision since
Dred Scott" and immediately
begun drafting legislation to
overturn it. Republican leaders
have embraced the decision as a
blow for First Amendment
rights (corporations in this case
are given the same rights as a
person), with both Mitch
McConnell and John Boehner
speaking in support.
What does that decision mean?
Without getting into the politics
of it, it means that there is now a
near-limitless pool of money
allowed to flow into political
campaigns--and given all those
reasons to use the Internet and
social networking, it's no
surprise that both Facebook and
Google are preparing for an
influx of political ad money.
Google hired Andrew Roos, a
former campaign manager, to
handle its political ad sales, and
Facebook has begun designating
certain staff specifically to
political ads. We'd all best
buckle up, because we're about
to get hit in the face with wave
upon wave of corporate and
official political ads on our
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A Brightcove IPO: Perfect Timing With iPad Web continued from page 16

favorite networks and online

Video? services.
[Image via Wonkette]
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:34:29 AM

Web video engine Brightcove

has just completed a $12 million
round of funding from investors
who see Web clips as
tomorrow's money-maker. Now
iPO rumors are swirling. One
question remains though: Can
Web videos turn a profit?
The new $12 million means
that since 2004 Brightcove has
raised $99 million in funding--
an impressive figure, given the
somewhat "lightweight" feel of
the Net video business. And
video serving has been a tricky trillions of user video-views, browsers, ditches the proprietary
Leaked: Is this the
what's Brightcove done with its
$0.1 billion dollars? Amassed an
one until just recently. Hulu and those hundreds of millions (and allegedly mobile computer Samsung Moment2
released some financial data of dollars of revenue. battery-sapping) Adobe tech,
impressive client base, mainly--
recently, reporting that it had Scalability, as always, is the and positions Brightcove to surf for Sprint?
including the online versions of
generated over $100 million in central problem of serving video down the huge wave of mobile Greg Kumparak (CrunchGear)
prestigious publications like the
revenues, which after deducting through pipes. web surfing that will result from
New York Times and Time Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:15:15 AM
all the business costs resulted in It does looks like Web video the iPad's presumed success. It
magazine. The company, riding
a genuine profit...but the media serving is on a tipping point in had better surf quickly though: Oh, Sprint Moment; we hardly
high on these successes and this
community wasn't hugely terms of profitability though, Just the other day Google knew ye. You were just
new multi-million dollar pile of
convinced of this fact, given the making Brightcove's timing bought Episodic (a small announced in October of last
investment cash, is now
profit's small size. And while seem excellent. And one company that promised to year, right as Android 2.0 made
expected to go public as soon as
guesses about YouTube's innovative trick it may be using "monetize" Web video) to shore its grand debut. And yet, there
2011.
revenues have reached lofty to leverage an advantage at this up YouTube's future cash- you sit, still holding on to
But what's Brightcove actually
figures like $1 billion in 2011, critical moment is its switch earning powers. Android 1.6. Before you’ve
going to do with this new
other commenters are noting over to non-Flash HTML5 tech- To keep up with this news and even had the opportunity to
money? Nobody knows exactly,
that although it's the world's -something Google's only more like it, follow me, Kit dance in the up-to-date
of course, but we've got to hope
biggest Web video system, and experimented with so far. This Eaton, on Twitter. That QR code spotlight, it looks like Samsung
that it uses it to innovate the
has been around for five years, makes the videos it serves on the left will take you to my is already working on your
services it offers. And the
it's only likely to tip into making compatible with Apple's iPad, as Twitter feed too. replacement.
reason for this is that the
a profit this year--2010--despite well as future generations of Read the rest at MobileCrunch
question of profitability in Web
>>
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Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Lexicon Consulting
Josh Spiro (Inc.com)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 8:00:00 AM
As applications for the 2010
Inc. 500 | 5000 arrive, we
thought it would be worthwhile
to shine a spotlight on some of
the companies that are vying to
appear on our ranking of the
fastest-growing private
companies in the U.S. (For more
information and to apply, go to
http://www.inc.com/inc5000app
ly/2010/.) One that caught our
eye was El Cajon, California-
based Lexicon Consulting. CEO
Jamie Latshaw got the idea to
start Lexicon Consulting while
she served for eight-years as a
transportation officer,
coordinating equipment
shipments by air, land, and sea
for the military. During that
time, she met her husband and
business partner Leroy, who was
piloting helicopters for the
Army in Macedonia.The pair
both spent time at the Army's
25 Miners Killed in Massey Energy Mine Blast
Mark Fightmaster
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 8:40:00 AM
Filed under: Bad News The
horrible news began to leak out
late Monday and through the
night: A mine explosion in West
Virginia killed 25 miners, with
four still missing. The mine is
the property of Massey Energy (
National Training Center in Fort
Irwin, California, where they
noticed the center's focus
shifting from combat training to
cultural awareness training. At
the time, "there were a handful
of companies who hired role
players for this purpose," says
Latshaw, "but many weren't
hiring native Iraqis and
Afghanis who could speak the
MEE) and is located roughly 30
miles south of Charleston, West
Virginia.
Rescuers will attempt to bore
holes to allow gas to be
ventilated from the mine, which
would allow rescue efforts to
continue. Unfortunately, it will
take roughly 12 hours before the
drilling is complete and safety
can be established in the mine --
language and teach the culture."
The couple saw an opportunity
to provide more realistic and
holistic training to soldiers
shipping overseas and the idea
for Lexicon Consulting was
born.The company now caters to
a variety of Armed Forces
branches, as well as the
Department of Defense, but
Lexicon didn't land their first
which means that a search for
the four missing miners won't
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didn't come from the military at
all, rather it was Hollywood that
came knocking. The company
provided the services of their
linguists and role players to
movie and television war
reenactments including the
movies Jarhead, Three Kings,
and Transformers and the
television series 24.Now the
company has grown to 45 full-
time employees, and dropped its
commercial arm to focus on
government work. Latshaw says
that what keeps her going is the
fact that "we are seeing the same
troops returning after multiple
big contract on day one. "For d e p l o y m e n t s [ a n d ] i t i s
the first year or so, we traveled extremely rewarding for our role
from military base to military players, managers, and cultural
base in our trailer and wrote experts who conduct the training
proposals, made phone calls, to receive positive feedback and
filled out loan applications, and know that they've made a
conducted payroll with a post difference."
office box as our corporate
address," Latshaw
recalls.Surprisingly, the
company's first handful of gigs
start until around 6 p.m. Energy Mine Blast originally
Tuesday. There is a chance that appeared on BloggingStocks on
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Sorry Eric Sprott, There's No Way You're Buying

Gold From The IMF (PHYS, GLD)
Vince Veneziani (The Money • Sprott can't buy the gold
Game) directly because they do not deal
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:27:40 AM with institutional clients like
hedge funds, pension funds, etc.
So here's the deal: a few weeks The only buyers can be central Circuit Board Heels
ago, hedge funder and investor bankers and sovereign nations,
Eric Sprott started up a physical that sort of thing. Have Me Spouting
gold bullion ETF that trades • The IMF board agreed months Vogue-Isms In The Face
under the ticker "PHYS." a g o h o w t h e y w a n t e d t o Of Their Beauty [Shoes]
The ETF IPO'd on February approach the sale of the gold.
26th with 40 million shares Sprott is welcome to buy from Kat Hannaford (Gizmodo)
outstanding and the trust has central banks who have bought Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:00:16 AM
listed assets of 13,685 ounces of from the IMF, but not from the
gold owned, according to Jesse's IMF directly. Accessorize summer's dreamy
Cafe Americain. palette of nudes and pastels with
Meanwhile, in mid-February, And there you have it. It's a pair of circuit board heels
the IMF decided to sell a ton of simply a matter of protocol and from little-known designer
gold. Specifically, 403.3 metric Mr. Sprott not adhering to it. Steve Rodrig. While kitten heels
tonnes of the stuff. It sold 200 For Sprott to buy up 191.3 are the height du jour this
IMF refused to sell it. It caused • The IMF is only selling gold
tonnes to the Reserve Bank of metric tonnes, which is equal to season, Rodrig's jade pumps
India, 10 tonnes to the Central a lot of commotion and got though a qualified agent. There 6,747,908.92 ounces, in US r e d e f i n e m o d e r n i s m . [
Bank of Sri Lanka, and 2 tonnes some people heated up about the is only one of these agents at the dollars at the current price of XactStudios via Make via
to the Bank of Mauritius, a total matter. It was characterized as moment and due to the nature of $1129.40 would cost him, well, UberGizmo] More »
of 212 tonnes. Sprott calling the IMF's bluff. the gold market, they won't
a lot. More than anyone can
That left 191.3 metric tonnes So we called the IMF to get the reveal who or what that agent is. afford. Perhaps he should go the Annie Leibovitz is
left available for purchase to full story. We spoke with • The IMF is also phasing out route of buying through central Being Sued Again
qualified buyers, which include Alistair Thomson, external the gold sale and does not intend banks. That or he could always
central banks and sovereign relations officer at the IMF, who to dump it all at once because to hit the Yukon with a pan. [Payment Due]
nations. According to Kitco, cleared up the matter for us. do so would disrupt markets, Join the conversation about this Jeff Neumann (Gawker)
Eric Sprott bid to buy the Here's the breakdown of what which is obviously not their story »
remaining 191.3 tonnes and the he told us: intention. Submitted at 4/6/2010 8:21:46 AM

The famous photographer owes

There’s Gelaskins for iPad now~! $800,000 in unpaid fees to an
investment firm who refinanced
Nicholas Deleon Y’all know Gelaskins, right? gelaskins are $29.95—about her old debts. The firm secured
(CrunchGear) The neat-looking, device-sized $10 more than iPhone versions. a $40 million loan for Leibovitz
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:30:46 AM decals that you stick to your “Keep Calm and Carry On” is last month. [ Reuters] More »
laptop, phone, or whatnot? thoroughly fantastic.
Forgot to mention this last They’re available for the iPad The iPad version of the
night, so apologies in advance. now. Rejoice!
20 Business/ Gadgets/
How Greece Has Become A 13-Year Old Child,
Terrified Of What The Market Thinks
Vincent Fernando, CFA (The
Money Game)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:32:00 AM
A report came out suggesting
that Greece wanted to change
the recent Europe-IMF aid plan,
in order to avoid the fiscal
austerity measures, and Greek
bond spreads exploded as
investors routed from Greek
bonds overnight.
Yields on 2-year Greek debt
rose an astonishing 95 basis
points to hit 6.60%.
Now, Greek officials are
rushing out control the damage
and deny the contents of the
aforementioned report, post the
market reaction.
According to Reuters, an
official has attempted to counter
claims of wanting to skirt the
IMF, saying, "There is no
request from Greece to
renegotiate the agreement.
There is a deal on the support
mechanism and we are sticking
to it."
So let's face it... Greece has
Plastic Logic Que Still Delayed, But Could I Interest You in
Plastic Logic? [Plastic Logic]
Brian Barrett (Gizmodo)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:17:38 AM
The promising-but-pricey
turned into Europe's 13-year old
economy.
It is immensely terrified of how
markets perceive it, given the
country's precarious debt
situation. Even current levels of
interest cost demanded from the
marketplace are clearly
unsustainable based on even
simple math, thus the rush to
clarify official positions at even
Plastic Logic Que was enticing
when first announced, but
extensive delays have made it
less appealing. Still, major
the smallest sign of market
jitters.
Yet also like an adolescent, the
nation doesn't see the
incongruity of repeatedly biting
the hand that feeds it. Greece
has been defiantly attacking
Germany and Europe over how
it should be bailed out, even
accusing Germany of playing a
race card. Protesters oppose
Plastic Logic investor Herrman
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efforts to bring rampant over-
spending under control, at the
same time outraged that markets
should punish their actions
while simultaneously being
financed by markets to meet
their current standard of living.
SuperNES
In a third parallel to
adolescence, the nation isn't on iPad Is So
supporting itself either. Greek
debt would be trading at far
higher yields (lower prices) if
Nice [Apple]
Jesus Diaz (Gizmodo)
the nation didn't have an
implicit promise of support from Submitted at 4/6/2010 8:34:38 AM
Europe. If Greece were forced
The SuperNES emulator for
to pay substantially higher
iPad is extremely fast and,
yields, it would most likely face
according to Snes4iphone
an acute financial crisis. This is
developer ZodTTD, "it looks,
because even current yields
sounds, and plays great." The
aren't sustainable.
best thing: It's just a quick port
Thus Greece is Europe's 13-
of the iPhone version. The worst
year old, but its lack of financial
thing: It's not an official app.
independence means that this
More »
isn't by choice. It is simply the
harsh reality.
Join the conversation about this
story »
Hauser selflessly thinks now
would be the perfect time for
someone to buy up the
company. More »
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HAITI
continued from page 14
for Haiti? I doubt it.
For one thing, it is impossible
to separate the future growth of
Haiti’s cities from the future
path of its economy. Right now,
“our economic advantage is in
agriculture and tourism, and
Haiti along New Urbanist lines
is that Haiti’s is a pre-industrial
economy, not a post-industrial
one. It needs urban
concentration for manufacturing
and infrastructure aimed at
supporting exports--not a
Business/ Gadgets/ 21
ThinkGeek's Universal Wrist
post-industrial ones--his wish
list calls for factories, export
zones, ports, and roads rather
Charger Gives Life While
than New Urbanist villages with
an emphasis on farming. If
On The Move [Chargers]
history is any indication, Kat Hannaford (Gizmodo)
Collier’s landscape has a better Submitted at 4/6/2010 8:20:29 AM

these are by nature fantasy of self-sufficient chance of lifting Haitians out of

decentralized,” argued Leslie
Voltaire, an urban planner and a
special envoy for Haiti to the
United Nations. New Urbanism
is a reaction against suburban-
driven sprawl--the landscape
created during the peak of
American industrialization. New
Urbanism can be seen as an
attempt to (re)create a denser
urban form better suited to our
post-industrial economy of ideas
--one in which a laptop and Wi-
Fi are the only factory you need.
The problem with rebuilding
agriculture. The Bottom Billion
author Paul Collier made the
same case in The Guardian on
Friday that he made to the UN
more than a year ago: Haiti
needs to leverage its poverty to
break into the global garment
trade. “In Bangladesh the sector
provides more than 2 million
jobs;” he wrote, “in Haiti,
100,000 jobs would be
transformative.”
Collier is no fan of Port-au-
Prince, either, but he stresses the
need for industrial cities over
poverty than the one presented Strap the wrist charger 'round
last week at the United Nations- the skinniest part of your arm,
-and the latter’s backers seem to and juice up your console, or
know it. other miniUSB-supporting 47 but will get through a couple
“This will only work if these device. The 1,500mAh Li-Ion hours' usage. More »
poles become magnets of battery won't power you to level
attraction--with agriculture,
tourism, industry and especially
jobs,” Voltaire told the Times.
“Otherwise, these people are
going to come back.”

Gov 2.0 iPad Apps Are Lobbying for Your App Store Clicks
Dan Nosowitz (Fast developing firm NIC popped a unveiled, NIC started popular at the moment, no
Company) few of its apps into Apple's building these apps because we surprise), but there are all sorts
Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:42:56 AM early iPad app selection, and it's recognized how popular this of forms that could be made
an encouraging sign of things to device was going to be. We’re cheap and effective on a tablet
The United States government, come. also proud to help five of format like the iPad's. Hey,
or at least the governments of a The apps, all free, are pretty our state partners lead the maybe if the census was an iPad
few of its states, aren't about to basic at the moment: They're all industry by offering the first app, I'd have remembered to
let the launch of the iPad pass driver's license practice exams, government apps designed send it back within the first two
t h e m b y . F i v e s o - c a l l e d and they've only got five states specifically for the iPad, and we weeks of receiving it!
"eGovernment" apps launched r e p r e s e n t e d ( N e b r a s k a , look forward to If you find any examples of
alongside the tablet on Saturday. Tennessee, Utah, Kentucky, and introducing many more iPad and eGovernment apps that are
Granted, the apps are all of a W e s t V i r g i n i a ) . B u t N I C iPhone apps for our government worth writing about, drop us a
sort and aren't nearly as exciting stresses in their announcement partners in the future." line at ideas@fastcompany.com
a s t h e b l o c k b u s t e r " M o s t that these apps are far from the iTunes to find them). Said CEO What could be next for with details.
Wanted" app for the iPhone and end of their sojourn in the App Harry Herington: governmental apps? There are
iPod Touch. But eGovernment Store (search for "NICUSA" in "As soon as the iPad was already unofficial tax apps (very
22 Business/ Gadgets/ E-reader News Edition

Finally, iBookend gives

the iPad an ability that’s
not found on the HP
Slate
Matt Burns (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:49:15 AM

The HP Slate kicks the innards

out of the iPad in so many ways.

Google Gives Buzz Control Back to Its Users It has a faster CPU, a full OS,
SD card slot, and a whole bunch
more. But the Slate can’t be
Addy Dugdale (Fast so. This attracted a lot of Now Google has bowed to In its place is now an opt-in
Company) complaints, since it essentially people's wishes and, instead of system that allows users to vote double as a bookend. So there. [
showed your contacts to the foisting your contacts upon you, on advertisements, rather than Variations on Normal via pocket
Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:27:22 AM
world even if you didn't want now"suggests" people for you to sneakily passing on their data to -lint]
Barely two months after its that to be the case. Take, for follow. In addition, your Buzz advertisers.
launch, Google has rejiggered example, the case of Andrew status is highlighted and it's Unlike the Facebook Beacon
Buzz. McLaughlin, Deputy Chief easier to change than previously. debacle, this wasn't a malicious
The platform, which marries Technology Office for the Google should be extremely attempt by the firm to garner
social networking and W h i t e H o u s e . W h e n mindful of what happened to even more information from its
collaborative working--or rather, McLaughlin's Buzz profile went Beacon, which was eventually users. Think of it, instead, as a
sets the two ideas on a collision public, it showed the entire killed off after public outcry classic example of how Google
course--was originally set up to w o r l d a l l o f t h e G o o g l e forced Mark Zuckerberg and his code heads and real people don't
automatically add friends to its lobbyists and lawyers he's in team to rethink, patch and then, always want the same thing.
users' pages without their say- contact with. ultimately, discard the service.
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Is Loehmann's on the Inside the iPad: A Look

Brink? at Apple's Suppliers
Zac Bissonnette Steven Halpern
(BloggingStocks) (BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:20:00 AM Submitted at 4/6/2010 10:00:00 AM

Filed under: Bad News, Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL),

Recession The New York Post
reports exclusively
that"Suppliers to the off-price
clothing chain -- which was
acquired by Dubai-based
Istithmar in 2006 for $300
million -- have begun to
withhold shipments to stores as
concerns mount about the
retailer's shaky finance."
The chain of discount
department stores was founded
in 1921, and most recently
declared bankruptcy in May
1999. There are now 63 stores in
17 states, but competition and
the recession, combined with
Isthimar's own financial woes,
have the chain on the ropes. One
"major factoring firm" has
Texas Instruments (TXN), Well, That's One
Broadcom Corp'A' (BRCM)"It
was interesting to watch the
Use For The iPad...
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company according to the Post, recently; even though none of story and predicted we would Kat Hannaford (Gizmodo)
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stores stocked for the fall selling seemed as though no one liked it the product release."
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Actually, The Unemployment Ratio Is 41%

Joe Weisenthal (The Money which is the lowest its been if is we continue to keep
Game) since the early 80s. bringing in immigrants like we
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:46:00 AM Fortunately, the recent end of have. Let's hope the integration
layoffs seems to have staunched of them works out well.
The broadest measure of the fall. And don't miss: 10 countries on
unemployment is the Civilian But even if the economy the verge of a crippling
Employment-Population Ratio, rebounds, don't expect this demographic crisis >
which is exactly what it sounds measure to jump back to old Join the conversation about this
But beyond that, demographics retire, placing a greater strain on
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won't be very favorable here as those who are working.
civilians to the total population. For one thing, the recovery
more and more Americans The one way this won't be true
It stands right around 59%, could very well be jobless.
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AIG Financial Honcho
to Dodge Indictment
Tom Johansmeyer
(BloggingStocks)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:40:00 AM
Filed under: Scandals, Amer
Intl Group (AIG), Financial
Crisis After two years of
digging, it looks like former
American International Group (
AIG) executive Joseph Cassano
will emerge unscathed. Well, at
least he won't wind up behind
bars.
The former head of AIG
Financial Products Group is
expected to meet with attorneys
from the U.S. Justice
Department this week to learn
that criminal charges will not be
filed. The investigators didn't
find any evidence that Cassano
fibbed to his superiors,
shareholders or outside auditors
Sexy Through the
Years: The Sultry Styles
of Jennifer Lopez!
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Actress! Singer! Dancer!
Mother of twins! Jennifer Lopez
can do it all!
Take a look through over 13
years of photos, as the
about the problems brewing in
AIG FPG.
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curvaceous songstress dazzles
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and stuns on stage.
The sultry star lights up the
silver screen in the romantic
comedy 'The Back-up Plan,'
hitting theaters Friday, April 23.
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refusal to adhere to international
demands has raised fears of a
possible strike on its nuclear
commits Russia and the US to
big cuts in nuclear warheads.
It would replace the 1991
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facilities by the US or Israel. Strategic Arms Reduction
B a r a c k O b a m a i s s e t t o The New York Times said Mr Treaty (Start), which expired
a n n o u n c e a n e w d e f e n c e Obama described his new policy last December.
strategy that would reduce the as "part of a broader effort to The treaty would restrict both
circumstances in which the US edge the world toward making Russia and the US to 1,550
would be prepared to use nuclear weapons obsolete, and warheads, about 30% less than
nuclear weapons. to create incentives for countries currently allowed, the US says.
It would rule out a nuclear t o g i v e u p a n y n u c l e a r Mr Obama hailed it as the most
response to attacks on the US a m b i t i o n s " .
comprehensive weapons control
involving biological, chemical The details of his plan - the
agreement in nearly two
or conventional weapons.
Nuclear Posture Review - are to decades.
Nor would the US use nuclear be published later on Tuesday.
He is hosting a nuclear non-
arms on non-nuclear states that Its release comes ahead of a
proliferation summit in
comply with the nuclear non- planned signing by Mr Obama
Washington next week, which is
proliferation treaty.
and his Russian counterpart, set to be attended by dozens of
Mr Obama said he would make Dmitry Medvedev, of a new
world leaders.
exceptions for states deemed in nuclear arms reduction pact in
The US president has said his
violation of the treaty, naming Prague on Thursday.
goal is a nuclear weapon-free
Iran and North Korea.
But Russia drew some lines in world, and has promised to cut
Ahead of the report's release, the sand on Tuesday.
the number of such arms in the
Mr Obama told the New York Moscow warned it would US arsenal.
Times he was convinced Iran reserve the right to pull out of A White House statement on
was on a course that "would the new treaty if it decided a US Monday said the new nuclear
provide them with nuclear missile defence shield, now policy offered "an alternative to
weapons capabilities".
Reduction pact
planned for Romania, threatened
its security.
developing new nuclear
weapons, which we reject".
Last week, Mr Obama said he Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
wanted to see new UN sanctions said if Moscow deemed the plan
on Tehran "within weeks". a "risk to the Russian strategic
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Priest accused of US abuse won't fight extradition (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) Nelson denied he was the same according to the Center for Almaraj said. "He is accused. If he said.
Submitted at 4/6/2010 4:57:55 AM priest who had served in New Applied Research in the it is proved he is guilty, then the Jeyapaul, who continues to
York and hung up. However, his Apostolate at Georgetown necessary action will be taken work in the diocese office
NEW DELHI – A Roman bishop, the Most Rev. Peter University. with the guidelines from the handling paperwork for schools,
Catholic priest charged with R e m i g i u s , c o n f i r m e d t h a t Jeyapaul, 55, came to Vatican." said he would not put up a fight
sexually assaulting a teenage Nelson had returned to India Minnesota in 2004 and was In a May 2006 letter, a Vatican if the United States tried to
parishioner in Minnesota said after serving his jail term and assigned to work at Blessed official said Jeyapaul's bishop in extradite him.
Tuesday he would willingly continued to work as a priest in Sacrament Catholic Church in India had been instructed to "I am ready to go because I am
leave his native India and try to the bishop's office in his home Greenbush, a town of fewer than monitor him "so that he does not innocent. I am ready to prove I
clear his name in the courts if diocese of Kottar in southern 1,000 people just south of the constitute a risk to minors and did not do any wrong," he said.
the United States tried to India. Canadian border. In 2005, he does not create scandal." Lisa Hanson, the prosecutor in
extradite him. "His conviction was finished, went to India to visit his ailing Vatican officials said they northern Minnesota's Roseau
Meanwhile, the bishop who and he has finished his term," mother. cooperated with efforts to County, said her office has been
o v e r s e e s t h e R e v . J o s e p h Remigius said. "He is not in While he was in India, he was extradite him to the U.S. — working with the U.S. Justice
Palanivel Jeyapaul said he had charge of any parish ... he is accused of having an even providing authorities with Department to extradite
o v e r r u l e d a V a t i c a n helping people who are inappropriate relationship with a his exact location in India. Jeyapaul.
recommendation that the alcoholic." 16-year-old girl, and Bishop Almaraj said Monday that there "He's charged with serious
accused priest be removed from Remigius said Nelson had Victor Balke of the Diocese of had been no discussion of felonies here in this country,"
the priesthood and applied his already returned to Kottar when Crookston, Minnesota, told Jeyapaul returning to the United Hanson said. "We want justice
own lesser punishment. he took over as bishop in 2007. Jeyapaul not to come back or he States to face the charges, but he for the victim here and we want
"Unless guilt is proved, we He was not aware of any would go to the police. Jeyapaul said Tuesday that in light of the to do whatever we can to protect
cannot take any strong action," correspondence between the was later charged with sexually very public criticism of the case potential future victims
said the Most Rev. A. Almaraj Vatican and his predecessor, the assaulting a 14-year-old female he should go back. everywhere."
of the Diocese of Ootacamund Most Rev. Leon A. Tharmaraj, parishioner. "It is his duty to prove his Officials at India's Foreign
in southern India. regarding whether Nelson Balke also notified the innocence," he said. Ministry were not available to
In a separate case, a church should be removed from the Congregation for the Doctrine In a brief press statement later discuss whether the U.S. asked
official confirmed Tuesday that p r i e s t h o o d f o l l o w i n g h i s of the Faith, the top office in the in the day, Almaraj said for Jeyapaul's extradition.
a priest convicted of fondling a conviction. Tharmaraj died in Vatican that was formerly Jeyapaul's case would be Jeyapaul said his accusers
12-year-old altar girl in New 2007. headed by Pope Benedict XVI referred to the Catholic Bishops falsely targeted him to get
York more than a decade ago The revelation came a day after and handles all abuse cases Conference of India. money from the Minnesota
had returned home to India critics of the Catholic Church involving priests. The Rev. Babu Joseph, diocese, and he fought back
where he still served as a priest. highlighted Jeyapaul's case as The Vatican said officials spokesman for the conference, against the Vatican's
The Rev. Francis X. Nelson another example of what they thought Jeyapaul should be stressed that the church would recommendation that he no
was sentenced to four months in said is a practice of protecting removed from the priesthood, ask Jeyapaul to face the courts longer be a priest.
prison in 2003 in connection child-molesting priests from the but under church law, the in the U.S. if an extradition "I explained to the Vatican that I
with his role as a visiting priest law. decision was up to the local request was made. He said am not guilty, so I do not want
at a church in Brooklyn. His Jeyapaul, who denied the bishop in India. Almaraj held church officials in India also to leave the priesthood," he said.
victim testified that Nelson accusations, was one of many his own canonical trial and planned to issue new guidelines An attorney for the alleged
showed up at her grandmother's foreign priests brought to help sentenced Jeyapaul to spend a for dealing with similar victim in the Minnesota case,
apartment uninvited and groped fill shortages in U.S. parishes. year in a monastery. situations by the end of the Jeff Anderson, demanded
her. Last year, about one-quarter of "He didn't want to leave the month. Jeyapaul be suspended and
In a telephone call with The the newly ordained priests in the priesthood, so then we took this "We don't want any leniency on PRIEST page 30
Associated Press on Tuesday, United States were foreign-born, administrative process," this. We take it very seriously,"
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Cameras make Chicago most closely watched US city (AP)

(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) of the city. Officials can watch how big a fire is or what a matchboxes. The American Civil Liberties
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:00:12 AM video live at a sprawling gunman looks like. If a package City officials from around the Union, which has criticized the
emergency command center, is left sitting next to a building world have visited Chicago to use of cameras as an invasion of
CHICAGO – When the body of police stations and even some for more than a few minutes, a see the system and how privacy and ineffective crime
C h i c a g o ' s s c h o o l b o a r d squad cars. camera can send an alert. effective it is. fighting tool.
president was found partially "I don't think there is another Cameras have recorded drug Chicago police point to 4,000 "It does appear that people only
submerged in a river last fall, a city in the U.S. that has as an deals, bike thefts and a holiday arrests made since 2006 with the object is when they get a ticket
bullet wound to the head, extensive and integrated camera bell ringer dipping his hand into help of cameras. And, an (because of a camera) for
cameras helped prove it was a network as Chicago has," said a pot outside a downtown store. unpublished study by the running a red light," ACLU
suicide. Michael Chertoff, the former Footage from a camera on a city Washington-based Urban spokesman Edwin Yohnka said.
F r i e n d s h a d s p e c u l a t e d Homeland Security secretary. bus helped convince a suspected Institute found crime in one Although courts have generally
someone forced Michael Scott New York has plenty of gang member to plead guilty to neighborhood — including drug found surveillance cameras
to drive to the river before cameras, but about half of the shooting a 16-year-old high sales, robberies and weapons placed in public don't violate
shooting him — and maybe 4,300 installed along the city's school student in 2007. offenses — decreased individuals' privacy, Yohnka
even wrapped his fingers around subways don't work. Other cities In the death of the school board significantly after cameras were said they could too easily be
the trigger. haven't been able to link president, the cameras helped installed, said Nancy La Vigne, misused.
But within days, police n e t w o r k s l i k e C h i c a g o . diffuse mounting suspicion and director of the institute's Justice "What protections are in place
recreated Scott's 20-minute Baltimore, for example, doesn't anger. Policy Center. to stop a rogue officer from
drive through the city using high integrate school cameras with its "It really closed that piece of the "It does stop people from taking a highly powerful camera
-tech equipment that singled out emergency system and it can't puzzle," police Superintendent coming out and acting the fool," and aim it in a way to find or
his car on a succession of i m m e d i a t e l y s e n d 9 1 1 Jody Weis said. "We don't know observed Larry Scott, who lives track someone who is perhaps a
surveillance cameras, handing dispatchers video from the what was going through his in one of the city's last former love interest or
the image from camera to camera nearest to a call like head, but we definitely know he remaining public housing high something like that?" he asked.
camera. The video didn't capture Chicago can. was alone." rises. Aric Roush, director of
Scott's final moments, but it Even London — widely The network began less than a He said residents rarely information services at the city's
helped convince police his death considered the world's most decade ago with a dozen complain, unless they get caught 911 center, responded that
w a s a s u i c i d e : H e w a s n ' t closely watched city with an cameras installed in Grant Park for a minor offense or the dispatchers see nothing officers
followed. He wasn't following estimated 500,000 cameras — to deter violence during the cameras fail to record a violent wouldn't see if they were on the
anyone. He never picked up a doesn't incorporate private annual Taste of Chicago attack. scene.
passenger. cameras in its system as festival. It now includes private "People were upset when that "You can't afford to put a police
The investigation offered a C h i c a g o d o e s . cameras as well as those boy was killed by the 2-by-4 officer on every single corner
riveting demonstration of the While critics decry the network installed by a variety of public and there were no pictures," he (and) it is a lot more cost
most extensive and sophisticated as the biggest of Big Brother agencies. said, referring to the beating effective and efficient to put a
video surveillance system in the invasions of privacy, most While authorities won't say death of a high school student camera where you don't have
United States, and one that is Chicago residents accept them exactly how many cameras are that was recorded by cell phone eyes," he said.
transforming what it means to as a fact of life in a city that has included, with 1,500 installed by but not city cameras last year. Chicago residents tend to be
be in public in Chicago. always had a powerful local emergency officials, 6,500 in Police say they usually hear tough on crime and are likely to
In less than a decade and with government and police force. city schools and many more at from Chicago residents about support any tool police use, said
little opposition, the city has And authorities say the system public and private facilities, the cameras only when they Paul Green, a Roosevelt
linked thousands of cameras — h e l p s t h e m r e s p o n d t o nobody disputes an estimate of want one installed in their University political science
on street poles and skyscrapers, emergencies in a way never 10,000 and growing. Weis said neighborhood or worry one will professor. Many literally
aboard buses and in train tunnels before possible. A dispatcher he would like to add "covert" be removed. Such a claim is CAMERAS page 28
— in a network covering most can tell those racing to the scene cameras, perhaps as small as supported by an unlikely source:
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West Virginia mine explosion kills 25
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Twenty-five miners are now
known to have died and four are
missing in an accident at a West
Virginia coal mine.
The worst mine disaster in the
US since 1984 was caused by an
underground explosion at Upper
Big Branch, about 30 miles
(50km) south of Charleston.
It happened at about 1500
(1900 GMT) in a chamber 330m
(1,000ft) below ground, mine
owner Massey Energy Company
said.
The rescue operation has been
suspended because rising
methane gas levels have
heightened the risk of another
blast.
The operation will resume as
soon as conditions allow,
Massey Energy said.
There are plans to drill
boreholes from the surface to
monitor gas levels and attempt
to ventilate the mine chamber.
A mine safety official said
rescue teams had reached one of
the mine's airtight chambers
stocked with food, water and
oxygen but found no-one there.
"I just spoke with President
Obama and he has promised to
make every asset available to
help us and we will be in contact
as the rescue continues," said
West Virginia Governor Joe
Manchin.
"We are all working diligently
together and I ask that everyone
pray for the miners, their
families and our rescue teams."
'Dire situation'
Monday's explosion happened
as 29 workers were in a vehicle
transporting them out of the
mine during a shift change.
Miners in a vehicle ahead felt a
blast of air and went back to
find out what happened, finding
several people dead and two
injured.
Rescuers had been trying to
reach trapped miners further
into the mine, but some of them
also appear to have been found
dead.
Four miners remain
unaccounted for, but officials
said there was not much hope of
finding them alive because none
had reached a rescue chamber.
"The situation is dire," Kevin
Stricklin, an administrator for
the federal Mine Safety and
Health Administration, told a
news conference.
Steve Smith, who was entering
another part of the mine several
miles away at the time of the
blast, said dust was lingering in
the air.
"The farther we got down the
track the more the wind picked
up and... before you knew it, it's
like your ears stopped up, you
couldn't hear, and the next thing
you know, you're in the middle
of a tornado," he told
MetroNews.
"Since we weren't that far
underground... we just hurried
up and high-tailed it back to the
outside."
One of those killed, Benny
Willingham, was 62 years old
and only five weeks away from
retiring, his sister-in-law Sheila
Prillaman said.
The mother of another miner
described how she had first
heard about the accident.
"I just started getting all these
phone calls. They asked me if
Kevin was working the evening
or day, that's all they said. When
I told him 'evening'... they told
me there had been an
explosion," Jenny Waycaster
told the Associated Press.
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Gov Manchin told reporters
overnight that seven bodies had
so far been recovered and
identified, but the other 18 had
not.
"The families want closure.
They want names. They
understand the challenges. Right
now I told them to do what they
do best. Love each other and
come together as a family," he
added.
Sheri McGraw of the American
Red Cross said the gathering of
families awaiting news was "the
most horrifying thing I've ever
seen".
Safety record
State mining director Ron
Wooten said that although the
situation did not seem
promising, rescuers had not
"given up hope at all".
Earlier reports suggested that
some of the miners may have
survived, evoking memories of
the Sago mine disaster in the
same state in 2006 when 13
miners trapped for 42 hours
were declared to be still alive,
only for 12 of them to be found
dead.
Massey Energy says on its
website that it has a safety
record that is above the national
average, with three fatalities in
the last 12 years.
But federal inspectors have
fined the company more than
$382,000 (£251,700) for serious
violations at the mine over the
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Business owners work to repair China soya ban angers

damage from quake (AP) Argentina
(Yahoo! News: U.S. News) because of damage to a federal economy was not great already (BBC News | Americas | quality concerns. It argues that
Submitted at 4/6/2010 12:36:41 AM building and will not open until and with this, it is going to be World Edition) the oil contains excessive levels
engineers finish inspecting it. even worse." Submitted at 4/6/2010 1:28:01 AM of a solvent used in processing.
CALEXICO, Calif. – Business No date was set for when the Damage included three huge A Chinese ban on soya oil
owners in Calexico are working port will reopen to vehicle tanks that hold the water supply Argentina has complained to would have a huge impact on
to repair damage to their stores traffic, and for now drivers who for the city of about 38,000 the Chinese government about a Argentina's economy, which is
and trying to resume some sense want to enter the United States residents, as well as a 10 million planned boycott of its soya oil heavily reliant on the soya oil
of normalcy following one of must go 10 miles out of their -gallon water-clarifying tank, exports amid a growing trade industry.
the strongest earthquakes to hit way to another border crossing. Carrillo said. Officials were dispute. Argentina is the biggest soya
the region in decades. Inspectors red-tagged nearly 80 pushing for federal money to China's ambassador to oil exporter in the world, while
B u s i n e s s e s a l r e a d y w e r e percent of the city's historic come quickly before the desert Argentina was summoned on China is its single biggest
suffering from the hard downtown area Monday. city's temperatures soar above Monday after a Chinese trade customer.
economic times on both sides of Yellow police tape lined the 110 degrees this summer, he body told traders not to buy Last year, Argentina exported
the U.S.-Mexico border when streets of the city's downtown added. Argentine soya oil. 1.8 million tonnes of the oil to
Sunday's deadly 7.2-magnitude littered with broken glass and Two people were killed and at China says it will ban imports China - worth $1.4bn (£922m).
earthquake shattered storefronts, fallen plaster from the prewar least 100 injured near the because the oil fails to meet Any restriction on sales would
caved in roofs and caused buildings. epicenter of the huge quake in quality standards. also hurt Argentina's public
Calexico's vital international City Manager Victor Carrillo Mexicali, just south of the But it is also seen as the latest finances, with the government
port of entry for vehicles to shut said the damage will easily total border. move in a long-running trade benefitting from a 32% export
down. millions of dollars. Dozens of aftershocks have dispute. tariff on soya oil.
Calexico, the U.S. city hit Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger rattled the region. In recent months, Argentina has Argentina's public finances are
hardest by the quake, has one of proclaimed a state of emergency ___ sought to restrict imports of expected to be squeezed this
the highest unemployment rates Monday for Imperial County, Associated Press Writer Elliot some Chinese goods in order to year as it faces debt repayments
in California, and business w h i c h w i l l f r e e u p s t a t e Spagat in Mexicali contributed protect its domestic industries. of up to $15bn.
owners say even after they resources to aid the recovery to this report. Chinese footwear and textile US soya oil futures rose in
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US Government experimenting with low-fat cake

recipes
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Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:28:00 AM
Let them eat eat cake (but only
if it’s low fat and whipped up in
a lab)! The U.S. government has
employed a team of scientists to
create low-fat cake mixes and
frosting.
Food technologist Mukti Singh
from the National Center for
Agricultural Utilization
Research (NCAUR) and his
cake-baking crew have created a
product called “Fantesk” that is
a mixture of cornstrach, oil, and
water. The wonder product
gives eaters a sense of fat in
each bite because of the oil
distribution, but contains up to
cutting the fat in favorite high-
calorie foods could help curb the
expanding waistlines problem.
Hmm, should the government
spend money trying to modify
calorie-filled products or just
adopt a “stop eating crap” motto
when it comes to the battle of
the bulge?
Full story at Live Science.
50 percent less fat than regular
A heaping dose of health news.
cake.
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With obesity rates lingering
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Population, Singh hopes that
Reporter Says She Was
Fired in Favor of Boss's
Sex Partner [Lawsuits]
Hamilton Nolan (Gawker)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:21:25 AM
Leeah Brennan(pictured) was a
reporter for the NBC affiliate in
Kansas City. She was canned
last year. In a new lawsuit, she
says that happened because her
boss gave her job to a strumpet
who slept with him. (Sexually!)
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"Everyone knew there was a
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tell," Anderson said.
The Vatican has denounced
such accusations and has
blamed the media for what it
calls a smear campaign against
the pope and his advisers.
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Patrick Condon contributed to
Minnesota, Nirmala George
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5 things you (probably)
didn’t know about frogs
(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 8:46:00 PM
Not only is April National
Mathematics Education Month
(try to contain your excitement),
it’s also National Frog Month.
Can I get a ribbit ribbit? To
celebrate this frog-tastic month,
we present five things you
probably didn’t know about
frogs:
• Diversity: More than 5,000
species of frogs currently exist
in the world.
• High jump gold medal: The
Australian Rocket Frog can
jump over 50 times its height.
• Not a lollipop: Folks looking
Mike Masnick (Techdirt) valid reasons to be infringing
their copyright or related rights,
already noted that China will
likely use ACTA as justification
Submitted at 4/6/2010 2:01:00 AM
to expeditiously obtain from that
With the full draft of ACTA provider information on the
for greater censorship, but
Moshirnia points out that
for a high have been known to leaked, lots of people have been i d e n t i t y o f t h e r e l e v a n t authoritarian regimes may start
lick frogs for the psychoactive h i g h l i g h t i n g t h e v a r i o u s subscriber. In other words, as (ab)using it to unveil
side effects, but medical experts lowlights found in the draft. long as someone makes a anonymous internet users as
warn of the activity’s serious Andrew Moshirnia, over at the copyright claim -- bogus or not - well: Let's say I am an
dangers. Citizen Media Law Project, has - ISPs should be required to give oppressive regime. One of the
• M e g a p h o n e : S o m e picked up on another one. If up who the user is. Once again, very few ways my citizens can
particularly loud frogs can be you read the draft, it appears to this appears to be contrary to US reach me is by videotaping and
heard up to a mile away. remove due process in revealing law. The RIAA made this publicizing my brutal methods
• Muppet: Jim Henson created anonymous users. While other argument in the US years ago, of silencing protesters(warning,
the prototype for Kermit the c o u n t r i e s h a v e v i e w e d and Verizon fought back and disturbing link). Now, not only
Frog using his mother’s old coat anonymity differently, in the (eventually) won, as judges can I use bogus takedown
and two ping pong balls as eyes. US, at least, the courts have noted that ISPs did not just have requests to pull down those
been very strong defenders of t o h a n d o v e r i n f o r m a t i o n videos (think a global DMCA)
Everything you ever wanted to the right to anonymous speech. without a lawsuit being filed and but I can also get the private
k n o w a b o u t f r o g s a t But the ACTA draft includes an official subpoena issued. So information of the poster. So
Answers.com. this fun tidbit: Each Party shall much for ACTA not changing why is anyone supporting
A c o l l e c t i o n o f g r e a t enable right holders, who have US law, right? ACTA again?
Answers.com content. given effective notification to an But, an even bigger concern Permalink| Comments| Email
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Drobo tries making network storage more personal

(CNET News.com) present maximum capacity of
Submitted at 4/6/2010 5:30:00 AM five 2TB drives. It will support
larger drives when they come on
Two constants endure despite the market.
the unceasing change in the Fuccio prefers to compare the
computing industry: our need price not to a couple 1.5-
for backing up data and our terabyte drives hooked up by
persistent failure to actually do USB, though, but rather to
it. higher-end RAID models, where
One company hoping to profit costs can easily exceed $1,000
from the situation is Data even for four-drive systems.
Robotics, which on Tuesday The system works with gigabit
launched the new Drobo FS Ethernet connections, with the
model of its multi-drive storage Drobo FS plugging directly into
system family. It's geared a home router, with data transfer
specifically for backing up speeds of 37 to 50 megabytes
multiple computers over a local per second. However, be warned
network and for sharing files that wireless networking
among those computers. degrades the speed substantially
The eight-pound, five-drive with Wi-Fi connections.
device is the latest generation "I have a Wireless N network,"
from a Santa Clara, Calif.-based Fuccio said, referring to the
company whose claim to fame is use drives of different sizes. including the DroboPro and The proven market for the f a s t e r , n e w e r - g e n e r a t i o n
a novel method of storing data BeyondRAID automatically DroboElite that use storage area Drobo FS is small businesses wireless networking technology.
on multiple hard drives called rebuilds the stored data when an network technology called and workgroups, said Mark "I get a whopping 4MB/sec on
BeyondRAID. It brings some owner adds a new drive to iSCSI that's good for low-level Fuccio, senior director of it. For most people on a wireless
useful extras to conventional expand capacity, pulls out a disk communications--the kind products and markets, but Drobo network, it's going to be the
RAID (redundant array of smaller old drive for a newer of thing database software i s a i m i n g f o r " a d v a n c e d network that's the bottleneck."
i n e x p e n s i v e s t o r a g e ) - - large one, or replaces a faulty needs. homeowners," too. People with The Drobo FS runs Linux under
technology that stores data drive. The Drobo FS, though, uses a home networks can use the the covers, and that opens up the
a c r o s s a g r o u p o f d r i v e s , The Drobo FS, like the Drobo S h i g h e r - l e v e l f i l e - s h a r i n g Drobo FS for backing up p o s s i b i l i t y o f r u n n i n g
sacrificing some of the total it resembles, can devote one or interface, making it the latest multiple machines and sharing applications on the system to
capacity in favor of better data two disks to redundancy, the attempt to interest consumers in files from a home media center, c u s t o m i z e i t s a b i l i t i e s . A
protection. latter configuration keeping data a staple of corporate computing he said. number of free DroboApps are
Data Robotics' Drobo FS, front intact even if two drives fail at called network-attached storage, But these features don't come available for the Drobo FS. One,
and back(Credit: Data Robotics) the same time. or NAS. Consumer-oriented cheap, at least for the crowd for example, lets the system act
Conventional RAID uses such Earlier Drobo units fell into two NAS has been a tough sell over who looks at alternatives such as as an iTunes library, letting
redundancy to protect data even general categories: single- the years, though smaller a terabyte hard drive or two multiple computers play the
if a drive fails, an approach that computer models that connected businesses and branch offices c o n n e c t e d b y U S B t o a same music and video. Another,
provides peace of mind at the directly to a PC with USB, are more easily swayed by the computer. The Drobo FS costs Oxygen Cloud, can be used to
expense of raw storage capacity. FireWire, and most recently in ability to share files among co- $699 empty, $999 with three let people see their files from
What's different about Drobo's t h e c a s e o f t h e D r o b o S , workers and back up data from 1.5TB drives, $1,149 with five DROBO page 32
systems, though, is that they can e S A T A . N e x t a r e m o d e l s multiple computers. 1.5TB drives, and $1,449 at its
32 Tech/
Why The DMCA Is An Unconstitutional
Restriction On Free Speech
Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:06:00 AM
Many legal scholars have
discussed the fact that copyright
law and the First Amendment
are, by their very natures, in
conflict. Historically, the
Supreme Court has gotten
around this conflict by saying
that things like fair use and the
idea/expression dichotomy help
keep things balanced -- though
many have questioned whether
the massive expansion of
copyright law over the last
century should have changed
that analysis. In the Eldred
case, the Supreme Court mostly
rejected the argument that
copyright extension was a
violation of free speech, though
many legal scholars find that
decision a bit of a head scratcher
(if you want a great analysis of
why that decision makes no
sense under the law, the book
No Law is a worthwhile read).
But there are still other areas
where changes to copyright law
may be vulnerable under a First
Amendment analysis. So far,
the only court case (and it's still
at a low level) that has been
successful in attacking the
copyright on these grounds is
the Golan case, which focuses
on a very narrow part of
copyright law.
However, it looks like some
people are finally looking at
some hugely questionable parts
of copyright law that seem in
direct conflict with case law
concerning the First
Amendment. Copycense points
us to a fantastic recent paper
from law professor Wendy
Seltzer discussing how the
DMCA's notice-and-takedown
policy appear to violate the First
Amendment: Under the DMCA,
process for an accused infringer
is limited. The law offers
Internet service providers (ISPs)
protection from copyright
liability if they remove material
expeditiously in response to
unverified complaints of
infringement. Even if the
accused poster responds with
counter-notification of non-
infringement, DMCA requires
the service provider to keep the
post offline for more than a
week.
If this takedown procedure took
place through the courts, it
would trigger First Amendment
scrutiny as a prior restraint,
silencing speech before an
adjudication of lawfulness.
Because DMCA takedowns are
privately administered through
ISPs, however, they have not
received such constitutional
scrutiny, despite their high risk
of error. I add to prior scholarly
analysis of the conflict between
copyright and the First
Amendment by showing how
the copyright notice-and-
takedown regime operates in the
shadow of the law, doing
through private intermediaries
what government could not to
silence speech. In the wake of
Citizens United v. FEC, why
can copyright remove political
videos when campaign finance
law must not?
This Article argues for greater
constitutional scrutiny. The
public is harmed by the loss of
speech via indirect chilling
effect no less than if the
government had wrongly
ordered removal of lawful
postings directly. Indeed,
because DMCA takedown costs
less to copyright claimants than
a federal complaint and exposes
claimants to few risks, it invites
more frequent abuse or error
than standard copyright law. I
describe several of the error
cases in detail. The indirect
nature of the chill on speech
should not shield the legal
regime from challenge. I'm sure
that our usual copyright system
defenders will pop up quickly in
the comments to dismiss this as
ridiculous, but it's a really strong
point. The basic nature of the
notice-and-takedown -- even if
done by private firms -- appears
to be in direct violation of the
First Amendment. The fact that
the DMCA effectively requires
companies to take this step in
order to protect themselves from
liability via the DMCA's safe
harbors, means that even though
it's a private company doing
this, they are compelled to do so
by the government. It does
make you wonder if a
compelling First Amendment
case could be made around this
particular issue.
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mobile phones, PCs, or other
devices, and to share it across
multiple Drobo FS units.
The usable capacity of the
systems varies according to the
drives and configuration. With
single-drive protection, meaning
a single hard drive can fail, a
system with a 320GB drive and
two 500GB drives would have a
usable capacity of 762GB. One
topped out with five 2TB drives
would have a usable capacity of
7.3TB.
Or if you want to get really
complicated, in a system with
drives of 320GB, 500GB,
640GB, 750GB, and 1.5TB
configured with dual-drive
redundancy, the 3.4TB of raw
capacity becomes 1.32TB of
protected capacity. Of that,
903GB is what Drobo politely
refers to as "reserved for
expansion," which is to say
unused until you dump that
320GB for something bigger
The system is quiet, Fuccio
said. "I have one sitting at my
desk. I can't hear it," he said. "I
have one at home, maybe 18
inches away. I can't hear the fan
[though] maybe sometimes I
hear a little disk noise."
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Alicia Keys Uses Monster.com to Find New

Blogger
Christina Warren (Mashable!) the applicants and the top 10 mission and who is talented at
Submitted at 4/6/2010 5:47:01 AM will be selected and flown to just being their own person.”
New York. – Alicia Keys
G r a m m y A w a r d - w i n n i n g The top 3 candidates will then For Monster.com, it also serves
musician Alicia Keys is looking be given a final task to blog as a good case study in how its
for a new blogger for her about The Black Ball UK on
website IAAS.com(I Am Super) May 27th. By the end of June,
technology is different and how 'Castle' -
it can help match the right
and she’s teaming up with the new Head Blogger will be candidates with the right 'Wrapped Up in
Monster.com to find the right announced and hired. listings. Ted Gilvar, the global
candidate. Monster.com will use Check out this video from her team choose an online job chief marketing officer for
site to conduct this type of Monster.com, told me that one
Death' Recap
its new 6Sense semantic search IAAS.com: Jane Boursaw (TV Squad)
technology (that was shown off Growing Importance of Social s e a r c h . I n a w o r d : S c a l e . reason that Ms. Keys and her
in the company’s Super Bowl Media in the Workforce Especially in today’s economy, team came to Monster was Submitted at 4/6/2010 5:22:00 AM

ad) to help narrow down the Make no mistake, this is a real finding the right candidate because of the scope of this
amongst a sea of applicants can s e a r c h . T h a t ’ s w h e r e (S02E19) "If something happens
right candidate. job and not a contest. Applicants
be a daunting task — and that is Monster.com can help. What do to me, I want you to look out for
From April 6th (that’s today!) need to be qualified and they
o n l y e n h a n c e d w h e n t h e you think? Alexis ... Would you also go
through May 3rd, qualified will be held to high standards.
employer is associated with a What do you think about this into my closet and get rid of my
candidates can submit their However, what this does is
celebrity. porn collection before she finds
applications via this job listing. u n d e r s c o r e t h e g r o w i n g approach to both recruitment
Alicia Keys’ publicist gave us and the use of social media to it?" - Castle to Beckett
Then, Monster.com will use its importance of social media in
this additional quote: This was sort of an odd episode
technology to comb through the various industries — and also find a social media job? What
“I wanted to find the right do you think this says about the of'Castle,' in that it seemed like
resumes, using semantic filters the power that the web can have
blogger whose voice can truly role of social media? Let us it was either filmed before the
and efficiently separate the in helping people find job
embody the drama of the past two weeks
wheat from the chaff, so to candidates. know your thoughts!
site, and I wanted to do it in the (Beckett nearly died! Castle
speak. In this case, the job posting For more social media
most egalitarian way possible. coverage, follow Mashable invited her to move in!), or
At this point, a group of becomes even more meta.
One they're simply back-burnering
applicants will be asked to I A A S . c o m h a s T w i t t e r Social Media on Twitter or
thing I like about partnering become a fan on Facebook that storyline. Either way, it was
create videos and writing page,@IAASdotCom and will
with Monster.com for a search Reviews: Facebook, Twitter kind of a funny episode with
samples for IAAS.com, and be using the has tag #AliciaJob.
is that it lots of great lines from Castle.
those entries and videos will be It’s expected that candidates Tags: 6sense, alicia keys, job
proves that we’re not looking search, monster.com, social That's true of every episode,
on display for the public to offer who make the early rounds will
for someone who has the best media jobs though. The writing is great.
their feedback as well. An likely use social media to gain
connections Continue reading'Castle' -
advisory panel that includes exposure for themselves as they
or the most impressive resume, 'Wrapped Up in Death' Recap
Alicia Keys and her team, as vie for the job. Why An Online
but for someone who Filed under: Episode Reviews,
w e l l a s e x e c u t i v e s f r o m Job Tool?
understands my Reality-Free, Castle
Monster.com, will then look at So why would Alicia Keys and
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Are Chad Ochocinco
CloudApp Brings Drag-and-Drop Cloud Uploads and Cheryl Burke
to the Mac Engaged?
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Christina Warren (Mashable!) want to upload a file though — folders? Let us know!
Submitted at 4/6/2010 3:50:00 AM
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Isohunt Goes Lite for Visitors From
the U.S.
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:05:15 AM
One week ago, we wrote that
popular BitTorrent search
engine Isohunt had been ordered
by a U.S. judge to remove
copyright-infringing content
from their website.
Following the court decision,
Isohunt owner Gary Fung
announced his resolution to
replace Isohunt with a lite
version that would turn the site
into a very simple search
engine, intentionally similar to
Google, but specializing in
torrents. This is now the case for
visitors from the US, who are
redirected to the new, lite
version of the site. Fung
explains the move to the site’s
visitors:
“Although we bring this new
search engine to you with a
burden from the lawsuit brought
by the MPAA, we hope you
understand the reason why we
Which Pin Up Girl Is a Lesbian?
[Blind Items]
Brian Moylan (Gawker)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:50:19 AM
Who said lesbians have to be
dowdy, Birkenstock-wearing
dogs? This actress has
you can search for torrents with
those? While we won’t dispute
there’s fundamental difference,
on isoHunt Lite you get ranking
by seeds/leechers and ratings
besides search relevancy and
age. A general search engine
also do not group as one for
identical torrents spread on
are making this change. It is to
multiple websites on the Web.”
address concerns Judge Wilson
It’s a cunning move that will
has over inducing copyright
likely expose some issues at the
infringement in the US. Though
core of this and similar lawsuits.
inducement is never our
Now that Isohunt looks pretty
intention and we have evidence
much like Google, and the only
to support it, with isoHunt Lite
difference from it (or some other
we want to affirm publicly that
“vanilla” search engine) is the
isoHunt’s function is nothing
fact that it provides ranking and
more than a search engine with
ratings for the results, can one
all the net neutrality it affords
still argue that Isohunt is
and should be afforded.”
infringing copyrighted content
He also addresses concerns that
and Google is not?
the site is now no different than
For more technology coverage,
Google or any other major
follow Mashable Tech on
search engine.
Twitter or become a fan on
“Why would you still use
Facebook
isoHunt you ask now that it’s
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just like Google and Yahoo and
Isohunt, lawsuit, piracy
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everything the boys want—and
isn't afraid to show it off—but
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Why We Need Better
Metrics For Measuring
User-Generated Content
Kevin Donovan (Techdirt) technology did not enable the
Submitted at 4/5/2010 11:59:00 PM inexpensive recording,
archiving, sharing and finding of
Much has been made about the this creativity, it went largely
iPad as a consumptive, rather unnoticed. Of course, cheaper
than creative, device. Some, technology almost certainly
including law professor Tim Wu does enable more creative
at a recent New America event, production, but how much is
have voiced concern that it hard to say.
heralds the end of a golden era When Shirky notes that an
of user-generated content. But to amateur video of two children
truly understand the importance has garnered more views than
and impact of user-generated American Idol, Dancing with
content - including on the the Stars, and the Superbowl
traditional media that Clay combined, it is comparing
Shirky has recently argued are apples and oranges. A minute
fatally too complex to survive - video hardly competes with the
w e m u s t h a v e b e t t e r Superbowl for eyeballs;
m e a s u r e m e n t o f t h e certainly the Internet has opened
phenomenon. Without reliable opportunities to competitors to
data and sensible comparative the Superbowl, but let's compare
metrics, it is impossible to say if those. The problem is, we don't
we have even experienced a currently have the categories
golden age of open creative and metrics necessary to make
possibility. sense of the rise (and potential
For example, nearly two years fall) of creation. Some people
ago in response to Shirky, Nick are trying to create quantify the
Carr bristled at the idea that the impact of blogs on the news
W e b w a s t h e n e c e s s a r y cycle, but in regards to other
c o m p o n e n t f o r c r e a t i v e media types, we seem to be
production, participation and ignoring the problem and living
sharing. According to Carr, the off anecdotes. So, how can we
people he knew back before the move ahead with better metrics
Web were also creating - for user-generated content and
w r i t i n g , p h o t o g r a p h i n g , what should those metrics be?
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Just got my iPad. Now what?

Mel Martin (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 4/5/2010 9:00:00 PM
Filed under: iPad It's pretty
clear that new iPad owners are
hitting the app store in droves.
Books, games and movies are
all flying off the virtual shelves.
Since you may be suffering
from sensory overload, or just
looking for some ideas, here are
some things I've seen that might
be worth a look.
I tried Time Magazine(U.S.
$4.99) and Popular
Science($4.99) magazines on
the iPad. The both look striking
on the luscious iPad screen, but
neither one really excited me
enough to get me to subscribe.
Time had nice use of video. Pop
Sci looked stunning, but didn't
have a lot of text. I think both
magazines will need to come
down below 5 bucks an issue to
attract readers.
For news, I liked Reuters News
Pro, the new NPR app and the
time in the future. The AP News
app(free) is a bit of a mess. It
has some clever ideas, but the
stories are reduced to little thin
strips and a lot of screen space is
wasted. I don't want my news
apps cute. I just want the news.
The Netflix app (free, but
requires a Netflix subscription)
is a major win. I tried a 2 week
free trial, and the streaming
movies look really good. The
selection isn't always in line
with my taste, but I'll probably
sign up when the trial ends.
New York Times Editors' Kudos to Apple for letting them
Choice app. All are free, and in. They are certainly a movie
make clever use of the screen competitor.
and finger gestures. USA Today TUAW Just got my iPad. Now
looks nice, but tends to crash what? originally appeared on
a n d h a s s o m e c o n f u s i n g The Unofficial Apple Weblog
navigation. Sometimes I clicked (TUAW) on Mon, 05 Apr 2010
on one story and got another. I'll 21:00:00 EST. Please see our
be patient with them, because terms for use of feeds.
they have some sharp coders Read| Permalink| Email this|
and I know the app will quickly Comments
get better. Be aware that the
USA Today app is free for now,
but will cost money at some
Beware The Seductive
Power Of Surveillance
Mike Masnick (Techdirt) well -- by noting "the
Submitted at 4/5/2010 10:01:00 PM intoxication people feel from
being the watcher." That also, I
Jessie Hirsh has a great blog believe, is a part of the reason
post about the seductive power why law enforcement is always
of surveillance, covering how s o k e e n o n i n c r e a s i n g
surveillance systems put in surveillance efforts. It's just
place with limitations and for incredibly powerful to be able to
the best of intentions almost watch over others.
always get abused, as it just It's definitely something that
becomes too tempting to use needs to be thought about
them to a much greater level. carefully, as we become an
The example he discusses, of increasingly watched society.
course, is the recent webcam But how do you deal with it?
scandal involving a school that Hirsh brings up the idea --
used webcam images of a proposed many times before --
student at home in a disciplinary of being able to watch the
action. In that case, the watchers or even to open up the
"surveillance" was intended for surveillance process to the
recovering lost or stolen laptops public to have them help out.
only, but the mandate was This horrifies some people, but
allegedly "expanded" when an it's at least something that
i m a g e t a k e n ( s u p p o s e d l y people need to think about.

Singles Bring 'Baggage' to Jerry
Springer's New Dating Show
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 12:00:00 AM
Dating hopefuls will be
revealing their "Baggage" on
Jerry Springer's new TV show!
"It's a brilliant premise and I
wish I had thought of it," Jerry
tells ET of his new show.
"You start out with the basic
dating show but the people
come on from the very
beginning and they open three
[different] sized bags, each with
a larger amount of baggage,"
Jerry explains. "The baggage
could be starting out with
something small, like big credit
card debt, then maybe it grows
to bigger things -- ultimately, [a
person might say], 'I'm a
cheater.'"
because a "loaner" laptop had Greater amounts of surveillance
been taken off campus) also in society aren't likely to go
showed the student eating candy away any time soon -- so
that the school administrators recognizing the risks associated
thought were drugs. with it and coming up with
Hirsh also points out that, unique and innovative solutions
beyond the temptation to just to deal with (or minimize) those
expand what's monitored, being risks makes sense.
able to watch over someone just Permalink| Comments| Email
h a s i t ' s o w n ( p o t e n t i a l l y This Story
dangerous) addictive quality as
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iPhone vs. iPad: 20

games side by side
UK Shop Refuses To Make Prints Of (images) (CNET News.com) and an analog joystick.

Digital Photos Because They're 'Too Submitted at 4/6/2010 4:00:00 AM Until that day arrives, there are
a handful of games at launch
The iPad is many things to that are simply iterations of
Good' And Must Infringe many people, but the area where existing iPhone games. We've
it stands to make the most rounded up 20 that can be found
Mike Masnick (Techdirt) It appears that a similar story is photographers improve. Of change is in mobile gaming. on both platforms. Then we
Submitted at 4/6/2010 4:07:00 AM playing itself out across the course, it's easy to put the blame Up until now, gamers have stuck them side by side so you
pond in the UK, where the on Boots or the employees here been left with two very different can see the differences.
Want to know what happens p o p u l a r r e t a i l e r B o o t s for being over-zealous (or, as options for mobile gaming. One The two huge caveats with this
when you increase the liability apparently refused to print one Boots put it, "over-cautious"), is user portables like the Sony slideshow are that:
of third parties for copyright woman's photos because they but the real issue is what we've PlayStation Portable and the 1) Our photo viewer does not
infringement? Stories of shops were seen as "too good" for her turned copyright law into these Nintendo DS. The other is to lug currently let you see full-size,
refusing to print digital photos. to have taken, and therefore days, where people are taught to around a beefy laptop for pixel-for-pixel screenshots
We've seen it for a while in the must be infringing on someone's fear being involved in anything games, which can work just fine 2) We didn't start out with those
US. Five years ago we had copyrights (thanks to Dave that might possibly infringe, as but be a burden on your back anyway.
stories of photoshops in the US Michels for sending this in). it may lead to lawsuits or a loss and nomadic lifestyle. All the shots you see (with a
refusing to make prints on The woman even got a signed of an internet connection or The same way the iPhone few exceptions) are the ones
p h o t o s b e c a u s e o f t h e letter, and when that didn't whatever. As copyright laws shook things up for the world of provided by the developer and
assumption that they must work, came back with the get more ridiculous, we're mobile phones, the iPad could found in the App Store. With
i n f r i n g e o n s o m e o n e ' s (pregnant) woman who was in teaching people to not move end up doing the same for that warning aside, click on
copyrights. Wal-Mart got the photos to let the staff know forward if they don't know for p o r t a b l e g a m i n g . I t s b i g through to see the differences.
caught up in the story a few that these photos were, indeed, sure -- and that can create a touchscreen and cellular data Photo by Josh Lowensohn /
years back when an employee l e g i t a n d n o t c o v e r e d b y massive stifling of creativity and connectivity (at least on the 3G CNET
made some clueless statements someone else's copyright. The expression. models) will no doubt help in Caption by Josh Lowensohn
about copyright in refusing to store still said no. Permalink| Comments| Email launching new and popular Five Filters featured article:
make prints of certain images -- And, of course, this sort of This Story franchises. There's even a patent Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
and there was a repeat story just thing only becomes as bigger filing from 2008 that could PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
a few months ago. and bigger issue as amateur bring docking hardware that Term Extraction.
would add real tactile buttons

Some Say She Was an Illusion, Others a Dream [Open

Caption]
Richard Lawson (Gawker) [ The Snooki Monster arrives in Shore 2"; image via Splash]
Miami Beach to film " Jersey More »
38 Tech/
Data Robotics announces new Drobo
FS
Steven Sande (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 4/6/2010 8:10:00 AM
Filed under: Hardware Data
Robotics has just announced a
new member of the Drobo
family -- the Drobo FS.
The new device is designed to
serve as Network Attached
Storage with all of the
advantages of the Data Robotics
BeyondRAID technology, with
the added bonus of drop-dead
simple setup. In a pre-release
interview with Mark Fuccio of
Data Robotics last week, he
noted that setup on the device is
as easy as installing the Drobo
Dashboard software on a
computer on the network, and
then letting it handle all of the
setup decisions for you.
The device features a dual core
processor, with one core running
the embedded proprietary OS
and the other core running
Linux. The processor brings a
lot of speed to the Drobo FS --
in testing, the device had about
four times the speed of the
former Drobo NAS solution,
which was a Drobo plus the
DroboShare device. Data
Robotics noted that using Jumbo
Frames, read speeds of up to 50-
55MB/sec are possible.
The Drobo FS has five storage
bays, each of which can hold
one standard 3.5" SATA hard
drive. At the present time, the
largest capacity of these drives
is 2 TB, for a total of 9.1 TB of
capacity or 5.44 TB with dual-
disk redundancy (two drives can
fail and the array can still
operate flawlessly). As drive
capacities grow in the future, the
2 TB drives can be replaced
with larger drives, increasing the
capacity of the array even more.
The FS has a single Gigabit
Ethernet port on the back for its
connection to the world.
TUAW Data Robotics
announces new Drobo FS
originally appeared on The
Unofficial Apple Weblog
(TUAW) on Tue, 06 Apr 2010
08:10:00 EST. Please see our
terms for use of feeds.
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iPads selling on eBay
for as much as $5000
Michael Grothaus (The stated that almost 80 percent of
Unofficial Apple Weblog iPad purchases came from
(TUAW)) outside the U.S. and that the
average selling price for an iPad
Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:00:00 AM
Filed under: iPad was $777 during the week
There's this thing called leading up to Saturday's launch.
patience. Then again, if you If that money tree in your back
have money you can afford not yard is doing so well that you
to have patience. Bloomberg has can spend ten times what a iPad
pointed to the rapid increase in normal costs to get it a few
the number of iPad listings on weeks early, great for you. Just
eBay since the device launched remember though, if you want
on Saturday (before Saturday, to pay outrageous sums for an
many people were listing their iPad, there are other ways to do
pre-orders for sale). What's it.
astonishing is not that people TUAW iPads selling on eBay
overseas are snapping up iPads for as much as $5000 originally
via eBay, it's that some are appeared on The Unofficial
going for ridiculously large Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue,
sums of money. One person 06 Apr 2010 09:00:00 EST.
bought an iPad for $5000 and Please see our terms for use of
another UK buyer reportedly feeds.
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iPhone vs. iPad: 20 games compared

(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 4:00:00 AM

Ngmoco's "We Rule" on the

iPad and the iPod
Touch.(Credit: Josh
Lowensohn/CNET)
The iPad is many things to
many people, but the area where
it stands to make the most
change is in mobile gaming.
Until now, gamers have been
left with two very different
options for mobile gaming. One
is user portables like the Sony
PlayStation Portable and the
Nintendo DS. The other is to lug
around a beefy laptop for
games, which can work just fine
but be a burden on your body
and nomadic lifestyle.
The same way the iPhone
shook things up for the world of
mobile phones, the iPad could
end up doing the same for
portable gaming. Its big touch
screen and cellular data
connectivity (at least on the 3G
models) will no doubt help in
launching new and popular
franchises. There's even a patent
filing from 2008 that could
bring docking hardware that
would add real tactile buttons
and an analog joystick.
1.3 Billion Adults Worldwide Unhappy With Water Quality
(All Gallup Headlines)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 8:00:00 PM
[ fivefilters.org: unable to
retrieve full-text content] Gallup
surveys in 151 countries and
Apple Splits iPad and
Until that day arrives, there are anyway--at least for the iPad.
iPhone Apps in iTunes
a handful of games at launch All the shots you see (with a Stan Schroeder (Mashable!) to this approach, too: Once you
that are simply iterations of few exceptions) are the ones Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:42:21 AM choose a device, all further
existing iPhone games. We've provided by the developer, and pages will be rendered
rounded up 20 that can be found found in the App Store. With If you’ve updated iTunes to the according to your choice. If you
on both platforms. Then we that warning aside, click on the latest version, 9.1, you may want to switch the view again,
stuck them side by side so you slideshow link below to see the have noticed that iPad and you have to go back to the front
can see the differences. differences. iPhone apps are now separated page.
The two huge caveats with this Five Filters featured article: via a switch on top of the page. However, keep in mind that
slideshow are that: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: Flip the switch, and you get apps that are compiled for both
1) Our photo viewer does not PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, different, device-specific views the iPad and the iPhone/iPod
currently let you see full-size, Term Extraction. of the App Store, which makes Touch will show up under both
pixel-for-pixel screenshots the entire experience a bit more pages.
2) We didn't start out with those elegant than before, when It’s definitely a question of
e v e r y t h i n g w a s h u d d l e d preference, but we feel that the
together. change was for the better. How
This is a slight change from the do you like the new App Store?
areas reveal local water quality of 78% in the Democratic old method, which offered a Please let us know in the
is a problem for as many as 1.3 Republic of the Congo to less selector for each individual comments. Reviews: App Store
billion of the world's adults. than 1% in Singapore. s e c t i o n s ( l i k e “ N e w a n d Tags: apple, apps, ipad, iphone,
People's dissatisfaction with the N o t e w o r t h y ” a n d “ S t a f f itunes, mobile applications
quality of water in their Favorites”). There’s a downside
communities ranges from a high
40 Tech/ Sports/ E-reader News Edition

Adobe tests new Canon, Olympus

raw support
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 1:47:03 AM

Panasonic's Lumix DMC-G10

is among the cameras whose
raw images format is supported
by a new test release of Adobe's
Lightroom and Photoshop
software.(Credit: Panasonic)
Those eyeing Canon's newest
SLR, the Rebel T2i, or
Olympus's new high-end
compact camera, the E-P1, now
can get support for those
cameras' raw images in Adobe
Systems' Lightroom and
Photoshop--though only as a
release candidate for now.
Adobe releases occasional
updates so its software can
decode the proprietary raw
image formats from many
higher-end cameras. Raw
images offer greater flexibility
and quality as compared with
JPEG images, but they require
manual processing to convert
them into a useful form.
And software companies such
as Adobe and Apple must stay
on top of a constant stream of
new cameras that shoot raw.
App Store altered to
ease app browsing
Michael Grothaus (The iPhone-iPad button.
Unofficial Apple Weblog When you search for a non-
(TUAW))
universal app in the iTunes
Submitted at 4/5/2010 10:00:00 PM Store search field, the
Filed under: App Store application will still only be
Apple has quietly modified the listed under the "iPhone Apps"
App Store to ease browsing for search results, even though it
iPad and iPhone apps. Now runs on both the iPhone and the
when you enter the App Store, iPad.
you'll see a split pill button at TUAW App Store altered to
The new release candidates of Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 the top of the page. Clicking on ease app browsing originally
Lightroom 5.7 and the Camera Panasonic Lumix DMC-G10 the iPhone or iPad side will take appeared on The Unofficial
Raw 2.7 plug-in for Photoshop Sony Alpha A450 you to the appropriate App Store Apple Weblog (TUAW) on
support the following cameras: Adobe also issued a release for the device you selected. Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:00:00
Canon Digital Rebel T2i candidate for DNG Converter Previously, the iPhone and iPad EST. Please see our terms for
(known as EOS 550D in Europe 5.7, a utility that converts raw apps were combined on one use of feeds.
and EOS Kiss X4 Digital in photos into Adobe's Digital page with each of the Top Read| Permalink| Email this|
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Kodak Z981 Five Filters featured article: the store featured the split-pill
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Mamiya DM40 Term Extraction.
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FanHouse TV: Peering in the Crystal Ball

FanHouse TV (FanHouse Tournament An amazing college
Main) basketball season is in the
Submitted at 4/5/2010 7:16:00 PM books, and Duke has cut down
the nets once again. Too early to
Filed under: NCAA talk about the 2010-11 season?
Not for FanHouse TV's Tom
Pecora.
The Fordham coach looks
ahead to next season, tells us
which player in this tourney
helped himself the most in the
upcoming NBA Draft and even
names next season's NCAA
champ.
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Facebook Connect coming to Chamber of Commerce

iTunes? Endorses McCain
Michael Grothaus (The (Newsmax - Politics) Commerce's endorsement today,
Unofficial Apple Weblog Submitted at 4/6/2010 2:31:02 AM John McCain not only sold out
(TUAW)) his constituents, he sold out
Submitted at 4/6/2010 10:00:00 AM T h e U . S . C h a m b e r o f what he claimed were his
Filed under: iTunes Commerce endorsed Sen. John principles," Hari Sevugan, a
TechCrunch is reporting that McCain, R-Ariz., giving the spokesman for the Democratic
iTunes will be integrating former presidential candidate a National Committee, said in a
Facebook Connect "quite soon." leg-up on defeating a primary statement.
Facebook Connect is an API challenge from former Rep. J.D. "The insurance industry backed
that, among other things, allows Hayworth, according to a report Chamber has taken the lead in
developers to let users log into in The Hill. pouring corporate money into
their site/app/system with their Chamber Vice President Bill p o l i t i c s a n d g u t t i n g t h e
Facebook ID. The benefit for Miller said, "On issues ranging campaign finance law that bares
users is one ID across multiple from lowering taxes to exposing McCain's name after Citizens'
sites and for developers is government waste, Arizona United."
a c c e s s t o F a c e b o o k ' s 3 0 0 Facebook" link for every item in Apple allowed people to use businesses and workers will To read the full Hill report Go
million-plus user base plus the the iTunes store. An iTunes fan their AOL screen names as their continue to have no better friend Here Now.
users' ability to quickly share page went live on Facebook last iTunes login. i n W a s h i n g t o n t h a n J o h n © All Rights Reserved.
something they find interesting September and just last month TUAW Facebook Connect M c C a i n . " Five Filters featured article:
with all their Facebook friends. t h e A p p S t o r e c a m e t o coming to iTunes? originally McCain opponents, however, Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
With Facebook's seemingly F a c e b o o k . appeared on The Unofficial used the endorsement to attack PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
unstoppable progression, Apple It's not clear which features Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, the four-term incumbent. Term Extraction.
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o f f e r i n g e a s y F a c e b o o k Facebook Connect to iTunes, Please see our terms for use of industry financed Chamber of
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introduced the"Share on

Nokia E71 and E66 owners get free Ovi Maps navigation
Thomas Ricker (Engadget) premium nav services like US-flavored E71x which isn't Maps navigation
Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:00:00 AM Guide Michelin and Lonely eligible for the free update. Nokia E71 and E66 owners get
Planet on these legacy S60 3.1 Check the full press release after free Ovi Maps navigation
Nokia's new Ovi Maps software handsets, owners are the break for download originally appeared on Engadget
just made its way to the nevertheless being treated to instructions and a list of on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:00:00
venerable E71 and E66 business free walk and drive navigation compatible devices. EST. Please see our terms for
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42 Politics/ E-reader News Edition

Lift Up Your Hearts

(AEI.Org: Articles) message in June 1979 in over the Kremlin for the last understand itself if it rejected its breakthrough in my opinion.
Submitted at 4/5/2010 4:00:00 PM Warsaw's Victory Square, on an time, signaling the dissolution of 1,000-year community rooted in Something incredible happened,
altar with the backdrop of a 50- the Soviet Union. Christ. He prayed that Christ because all of the city arrived
Following Pope John Paul II's foot cross, 1 million of his But the history of the 1980s would not cease to be an open for that Mass and stood at the
death five years ago, the world fellow Poles responded in shows that the political freedom book for the future life of closed gate. The front of altar
prayerfully reflected on a life affirmation with 14 minutes of won by the Polish people was Poland. was directed to the shipyard and
that had transformed the lives of applause, interrupted by singing not due merely to the Poles' This prayer did not go at its back was the shipyard's
millions of people worldwide. in one voice: " Christus Vincit, expanded freedom to pursue unanswered, as Poland indeed main gate. Delegates and
Today, the world continues to Christus Regnat, Christus God. No, it was also due to the became, in the words of the shipyard workers stood at one
reflect on the life of Pope John Imperat" ("Christ Conquers, Poles' actual pursuit of God. Pope, "the land of a particularly side, at the other side were
Paul II because his teaching and Christ Reigns, Christ Governs"). Freedom for faith was a responsible witness"--with people of Gdansk. All of the
his actions point the way In an officially atheistic country, necessary precondition, but the global repercussions. people sang religious songs and
forward to building a future the Polish people dramatically Polish people ultimately Millions of Poles turned out to there was a kind of duet. There
worthy of man. bore witness that God, not the achieved freedom through faith, see the Pope in person during was an incredible feeling. I
How best to serve our fellow state, was sovereign. inspired by the courageous the 1979 pilgrimage and never experienced anything like
man? This is the timeless Later in the same homily, when witness of Pope John Paul II and subsequent visits. Young people that before. During Mass, that
challenge of both political and the Pope recalled the great a countless number of his fellow joined burgeoning Christian stress disappeared and many
religious leaders, but it was sacrifices made by the Poles Poles. renewal movements like Oasis, workers around me cried.
Pope John Paul II who most during the Warsaw Uprising, the Speaking before the United which offered a needed island of During Mass, people got rid of
resolutely taught the world, people responded by singing an Nations General Assembly on resistance--a foundation of fear."
religious and non-religious old Polish song, "We Want Oct. 5, 1995, Pope John Paul II Christian community--against For some, the call to live a
alike, that a future worthy of God." reflected on what contributed to the desert of the Communist particularly responsible witness
m a n m u s t b e r o o t e d i n It became evident to us in the revolutions of 1989: state. One by one, hearts were led to martyrdom. Father Jerzy
recognition of the incomparable w o r k i n g o n o u r n e w A decisive factor in the success transformed. Millions of Poles Popieluszko was a Solidarity
dignity of the human person and documentary film about the of those non-violent revolutions made individual decisions that chaplain murdered by Polish
a commitment on behalf of the Pope's 1979 pilgrimage to was the experience of social they would no longer make Communist secret-service
human person. Poland-- Nine Days that solidarity: In the face of regimes compromises with the daily lies officers in October 1984
From his election in October Changed the World--that the backed by the power of of life under Communism. Oasis because he dared to remind his
1 9 7 8 , P o p e J o h n P a u l I I Pope's bedrock insistence on the propaganda and terror, that founder Father Franciszek fellow Poles that their first duty
constantly preached that it was freedom to pursue God, the solidarity was the moral core of Blachnicki urged Poles to is to God and not to the state.
only through an understanding freedom to "want God," proved the "power of the powerless," a overcome their fears and His challenge to Communist
of Jesus Christ that man could too much for the Communist beacon of hope and an enduring challenge the Communist authority was too much for a
fully understand his great system to bear. reminder that it is possible for regime by "living in the truth." totalitarian system that could not
dignity--the dignity of the Ten years later, the system man's historical journey to A critical experience of tolerate dissent.
human person--and therefore no slowly collapsed. It started on follow a path which is true to solidarity occurred during the In June 2009, 30 years after
country anywhere in the world June 4, 1989, with the Polish the finest aspirations of the August 1980 strikes in Gdansk. Pope John Paul II's first
had a right to separate man from elections that resulted in a human spirit. At a very intense moment in the pilgrimage to Poland, the mayor
the pursuit of knowing and Solidarity-led government. This message of solidarity was early days of the strike, workers of Warsaw, Hanna Gronkiewicz
loving God. Then, on Nov. 9, 1989, the given powerful voice by Pope arranged for a Mass to be said -Waltz--in the presence of the
This demand for freedom of Berlin Wall came tumbling John Paul II during his first within the shipyard for the very president of Poland, a company
faith had powerful social and down. Finally, on Dec. 25, pilgrimage to Poland in June first time. Zenon Kwoka of soldiers, the archbishop of
political implications. 1991, the Communist hammer- 1979. In Victory Square, he said recalled that day: "Permission LIFT page 49
When the Pope preached this and-sickle flag was lowered the Polish nation could not for Mass in shipyard was
E-reader News Edition Politics/ 43

Bringing the Heat

Bill McKibben (The New oil. Europe began that approach problems (beginning but not pollution reduction-health-clean part—uses it to write a check to
Republic - All Feed) 60 years ago, and, as a result, ending with Goldman Sachs), air bill. Climate sort of follows. every American every year. It’s
Submitted at 4/5/2010 3:41:38 PM the continent has dense and but it’s hardly worth detailing It’s on for the ride.” In fact, the usually called “cap-and-
livable cities, great train them because it’s no longer White House and the various dividend,” though “cap-and-
This is a tale of two bills—a systems, and half the energy use really on the table. sponsors now agree that “cap- cash” has a nicer ring. Under
tale that illuminates how policy- per person. But we live in a In the House last summer, the and-trade is dead” (as Graham cap-and-dividend, Americans
making may unfold under the society where “tax” is a scary so-called Waxman-Markey bill put it), and, for the moment, would pay more at the pump
most progressive administration, w o r d , a n d s o , f r o m t h e loaded down the original cap- there’s not really a name for and at the plug because Exxon
and most Democratic Congress, beginning, everyone has hunted and-trade formula with 1,400 Kerry-Graham-Lieberman, so and Con Ed would pass on the
in a generation. And it’s not a for an alternative, a tax-that- pages of offsets and sweeteners let’s call it what a software permit fee. And that’s
tale with an especially happy isn’t-a-tax. Both the bills I’ll and bailouts—it turned the writer would call it: a kludge—a good—when gas is $4 per
ending. describe use the same basic reasonably straightforward into messy fix putting one patch on gallon, you’re likely to ask,
The target of both bills is mechanism: a cap on the amount the highly complex. And, along top of another until you end up “Where’s the bus stop?” But the
carbon. From the start, President of carbon that the country the way, it offered one with a gift-laden package that check in the mailbox will make
Obama has said that climate and produces, a cap that goes particularly crucial gift to the might, despite its near- most Americans whole—three-
energy legislation would come steadily down as the years go energy industry: Instead of incoherence, attract just enough quarters will come out ahead,
second in his administrative on. The law of supply and having to bid for the permits to senators to push it over the top. with only real energy hogs
batting order, only after health demand stipulates that such a pollute, they’d get many of them Think health care bill, but with hurting. And, politically, it
care reform. (Originally, he cap would raise the price of free, sort of like the way we vastly more expensive versions enables you to more easily
thought that would mean last fossil fuel, which, in turn, would handed over the broadcast of the Cornhusker Kickback. ratchet down the cap, and hence
fall, but health care was like a cause us to slowly Eurofy. spectrum to the networks And it may come with a couple the amount of carbon in the
hitter who fouled off pitch after Bill One grows out of a strategy decades ago. It was an ugly of truly costly giveaways from atmosphere, in the
pitch. Since it took forever, we called “cap-and-trade.” Credits deal—but nowhere near ugly an environmental point of view: future—every time you do, the
get to the next priority with the granting the right to emit carbon enough for the Senate, where The EPA would be forbidden to price at the pump will rise, but
midterm elections already dioxide are divided up between John Kerry needed some votes regulate carbon, and states so will the size of the check.
looming on the horizon.) The factories and utilities and so on. and so let Lindsey Graham and couldn’t do anything tougher And we like getting
intellectual problem is relatively The ones that are able to most Joe Lieberman go to work with than Washington allows. checks—even Sarah Palin
simple: How do you put a price cheaply cut their emissions will a vengeance. Bill Two—of which we have an would admit that the best day of
on carbon so that we burn less have extra credits to sell to the By most reports, the cap now actual Senate draft, and one only the year for an Alaskan
of it, and hence prevent the others, and, in theory, the being contemplated will apply 40 pages long—has actually governor involved mailing out
potentially catastrophic heating invisible hand should point you only to electric utilities, there been introduced, by a bipartisan the proceeds from the state’s oil
of the atmosphere? The political toward the shortest, smoothest will be some kind of minimal duo: Susan Collins, Republican revenues.
problem is immense: How do path to emission reductions. tax on gasoline, and factories of Maine, and Maria Cantwell, Now, this is far from perfect
you change a system that has (The invisible hand aided, of will be exempted for now Democrat of Washington. It legislation. For one thing, its
rewarded energy companies course, by the guys at Goldman because the economy is bad. goes at the problem in another targets are tragically weak (ditto
with the greatest profits of any Sachs, who would actually do And there will be door prizes for way. It sets a cap—but it makes Bill One), though at least
industry in any era, and that has the deals.) This approach has nuclear, for offshore drillers, for the energy companies bid each they’re plausible, not a stew of
shaped the American psyche worked reasonably well with the shimmering mirage of clean year for their permits to put offsets that let you claim
and landscape by providing nitrogen and sulfur over the last coal! As Kerry explained carbon in the atmosphere dubious credit for some forest
endless, cheap fossil fuel? few decades, which is one recently, in its new incarnation, instead of awarding most of you’ve theoretically protected.
The most straightforward reason our air is demonstrably cap-and-trade legislation is them as gifts. And then, it takes For another, in a just world,
answer, of course, would be a cleaner than it was in the 1980s. “primarily a jobs bill, and an most of the money from that BRINGING page 47
simple tax on coal and gas and Cap-and-trade has lots of energy independence bill and a auction and—here’s the weird
44 Politics/
WikiLeaks Provides Its Worth As A Backstop
contributors@theatlantic.com
(Kevin Redmon) (Politics ::
The Atlantic)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 5:56:41 AM
Just before his body disappears
into a fusillade of armor-
piercing rounds, fired from the
30mm cannon of the Apache
helicopter circling overhead,
Namir Noor-Eldeen, a 22-year
old Reuters photojournalist,
peers around the corner of a
building, setting up a shot. From
his right arm dangles something
cylindrical--a camera with
telephoto lens, maybe. Or an
RPG.
The pilot of the U.S. Army
helicopter is sure it's a weapon.
Permission to engage comes
over the radio. As the gunship's
sweeping arc brings a group of a
dozen Iraqi men back into view,
transmissions cut through the
static: "Just fuckin', once you
get on 'em just open 'em up."
And then, "Light 'em all up."
The pilot obliges, the cannon
chatters, and half-second later,
the scene explodes in a cloud of
dust and smoke.
A painful new portrait of war
emerged yesterday, with
WikiLeaks' release of still-
classified, military video
footage showing the death of
two Reuters journalists and at
least nine other Iraqis, most of
them apparently innocent
civillians.
The Iceland-based organization,
known for obtaining and
disseminating classified, or
sensitive--and potentially
damning--corporate and state
documents, announced in late
February, via Twitter, that it had
"[f]inally cracked the encryption
to US military video in which
journalists, among others, are
shot," generating considerable
speculation over what the tape
would it show.
The seventeen-minute film,
pared down from thirty-eight
minutes of raw footage, seems
to speak for itself; yet even with
subtitles transcribing the radio
transmissions, the occasional
identification tag, and
introductory slides, the reality of
the situation is hardly lucid.
The shooting took place on July
12, 2007, in Little Baghdad, a
suburb of the capital. Noor-
Eldeen and his Reuters
colleague Saeed Chmagh, 40,
and a father of four, had been
covering a nearby U.S. military
operation. As they crossed an
open square, a pair of Apache
helicopters providing close
ground support to the operation
reported seeing "five to six
individuals with AK47s" and
opted to engage the group.
Rules of engagement aside, the
radio banter between pilots is
excruciating to listen to. "Oh,
yeah, look at those dead
bastards," says one, after the
initial volley of cannon fire,
followed by a series of
complements for a "good
shoot."
As one wounded man attempts
to crawl away, identified by
WikiLeaks in the video as
Chmagh, a pilot taunts him,
daring him to give the Apaches
justification to engage again.
"Come on, buddy. All you gotta
do it pick up a weapon."
A van pulls up, and as the
wounded man is loaded inside
the Apaches open fire again.
When U.S. soldiers on the
ground arrive on the scene--
apparently driving a Bradley
over a body in the process,
eliciting a laugh from the pilots-
-and pull from the front seat not
insurgents but two badly
wounded children, over the
radio is heard, "Well it's their
fault for bringing their kids into
a battle."
When, immediately following
the shooting, it emerged that
two reporters had been killed, a
defense official stated, "There is
no question that coalition forces
were clearly engaged in combat
operations against a hostile
force."
Reuters requested the footage,
via FOIA, as part of their own
investigation into the men's
violent deaths. And while the
Department of Defense screened
it for top editors in a 2007 off-
the-record meeting, they
declined to release it publicly.
(WikiLeaks refused to comment
on how they obtained an
encrypted copy, which the
Pentagon acknowledged
Monday was authentic.)
The Monday morning press
conference, held at the National
Press Club in Washington, was
a notable departure for
WikiLeaks. Since its inception
three years ago, the donor-
funded site has typically offered
little editorial comment on the
material it releases; it's been
more of a clearinghouse than
soapbox.
To unveil the film, however,
Julian Assange, the website's
editor, flew in from Reykjavik
and provided sober commentary
throughout.
Ten months after the incident,
he said by way of introduction,
the Pentagon issued a statement
to Reuters saying the killings
were lawful under the rules of
engagement. "I believe that if
those killings were lawful under
the rules of engagement," he
continued, "then the rules of
engagement are wrong. Deeply
wrong."
While taking questions,
Assange equivocated in labeling
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the Pentagon's actions a "cover-
up." But he highlighted
incongruities between their
investigation of the incident--
which exonerated the pilots, and
which Centcom defended in a
statement late Monday--and the
cavalier attitudes of those firing
the cannons.
"The behavior of the pilots is
like they're playing a video
game," said Assange. "Their
desire is to get high-scores in
their computer game."
And yet, perhaps the most
telling aspect of the release is
that, in the absence of budgets
and bureaus for American
newspapers, investigative
journalism in Iraq has fallen to
someone like Assange, an
Australian national at the head
of an Icelandic non-profit
founded by Chinese dissidents.
WikiLeaks' role in the fourth
estate should be that of a
backstop, yet it's forced to play
catcher--a position it can't fill.
One is left to wonder how many
similar stories might come out
of Iraq and Afghanistan, but for
lack of accompanying reporter
casualties will go uninvestigated
and untold.
There is a kind of exquisite pain
reserved for watching narratives
whose endings you already
know. In the film, bodies go
flying as the first volley of
shells hits the Iraqi men. And
here is Namir Noor-Eldeen, no
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E-reader News Edition
Bank Woes Hurt Democrat Seeking Senate in Illinois
(Newsmax - Politics)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 1:26:03 AM
CHICAGO - Democrats here
are quietly worrying about
whether Illinois Treasurer Alexi
Giannoulias can win President
Obama's old Senate seat. His
family's bank is thought to be on
the verge of collapse and
reportedly made $20 million in
loans to two convicted felons.
Republican nominee Rep. Mark
Steven Kirk is already accusing
Mr. Giannoulias of lying to the
voters about the loans, and his
campaign is guaranteed to be
pounding away at the bank's
problems in millions of dollars
worth of television ads.
But the 34-year-old Mr.
Giannoulias is still electable if
he meets the bank
embarrassment head on and
strikes back at the Republican
congressman as more
conservative than this
Democratic-trending state,
Democratic insiders say.
Democrats brush aside any talk
of getting Mr. Giannoulias to
bow out of the race. Incumbent
Democratic Sen. Roland W.
Burris, appointed to serve out
Mr. Obama's term under shady
circumstances, is not running for
re-election and the capture of
the president's old seat would be
a major coup for Republicans.
The few public polls in the
race, dating back to last month,
gave the Democrat a slight edge
over Mr. Kirk, but both parties
are predicting a close - and
expensive - battle.
"Alexi Giannoulias is running a
strong campaign on the issues
that matter to the people of
Illinois - like job creation and
the economy," says Deirdre
Murphy, national press secretary
of the Democratic Senatorial
Campaign Committee.
Mr. Giannoulias was not
granting interviews in the
aftermath of a Chicago Tribune
front-page story late last week
with the headline: "$20 Million
in Bank Loans to Felons." The
story detailed how Broadway
Bank, a Giannoulias family-
owned institution in Chicago,
had lent large sums to convicted
felons Michael "Jaws" Giorango
and Demitri Stavropoulos.
The fact that Broadway had
loaned the men millions -
Stavropoulos was convicted of
running a multistate
bookmaking ring and Giorango
of promoting a nationwide
prostitution ring - was already a
campaign issue when Mr.
Giannoulias ran for state
treasurer in 2006. But the
Tribune reported it reviewed
court files and other documents
that showed millions more - a
total of more than $27 million
worth of mortgages to Giorango,
his land trusts and companies
since 1999, $20 million of
which was loaned when Mr.
Giannoulias was a senior loan
officer.
Giannoulias spokeswoman
Kathleen Strand said the
candidate had "no role with
these two individuals, nor did he
sit on the loan committee with
these loans." She sought to
portray the story as old news,
saying Mr. Giannoulias has been
answering questions about the
loans for years.
The bank is fighting to keep its
doors open. It is holding about
$242 million in bad loans, and
in January, entered into a
consent decree with the federal
government and has 90 days to
raise about $85 million. But Mr.
Giannoulias recently said in an
interview that he thinks it would
be "very tough" for it to survive.
Democratic insiders in
Washington, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity so they
could freely discuss their views,
say they expect the bank to fail
eventually, but think that will be
greeted as "old news" by voters.
The White House's political
team, still smarting after the
stunning loss of the late Sen.
Edward M. Kennedy's
Massachusetts seat to
Republican Scott Brown, has
refocused its attention beyond
the Beltway. Though not
responsible for all Democratic
campaigns, White House
officials are aware any
Democratic loss will be painted
as a referendum on Mr. Obama.
The Democratic insiders said
they learned lessons from Mr.
Brown's election and have made
sure Mr. Giannoulias' team
would be unlikely to require a
wave of Washington consultants
to buttress a flailing campaign,
as happened in Massachusetts.
While the White House isn't
keen on saying that Mr.
Giannoulias stands to recoup
only a few million dollars from
the wreckage of the bank,
internal polls and focus groups
show he can win with that
approach, according to these
insiders.
They say Mr. Obama, who
remains popular in his home
state, will campaign for Mr.
Giannoulias, and top political
adviser David Axelrod, a
veteran of Chicago politics, is in
constant touch with
developments in Illinois.
At the Statehouse in
Springfield, the hallway
whispers are that top
Democratic leaders would have
preferred Illinois Attorney
General Lisa Madigan, whose
father, House Speaker Michael
Madigan, is party chairman. But
she didn't run, and some say she
probably would prefer to run for
governor if she had her choice.
Meanwhile, Mr. Kirk
capitalized on the fresh attention
to his opponent's woes, saying
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in a statement Friday that Mr.
Giannoulias has falsely claimed
that he didn't know about the
criminal backgrounds of
Giorango and Stavropoulos.
"Alexi Giannoulias misled
voters to get elected state
treasurer and continued to
mislead voters in an effort to
win election as a United States
senator," he said.
Chicago political consultant
Don Rose said that if the
election were held now Mr. Kirk
would win, but that there is still
a good opportunity for Mr.
Giannoulias to make up lost
ground, especially if the
economy improves.
"They have to make Kirk
unpalatable politically and level
the playing field," Mr. Rose
said. "Of course, the best thing
would be if they could get
[Giannoulias] to resign and
replace him" - a scenario
Democrats say is not going to
happen.
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Is Larry Summers Leaving?

contributors@theatlantic.com TV news producer very happy. precincts of his own mind, he still high; he meets with the decide whether Summers is
(Marc Ambinder) (Politics :: Point one: Summers, like had begun to think about his president nearly ever day and being a good team player or
The Atlantic) every member of Obama's post-White House life. He has, organizes the Economic Daily whether he's unhappy or
Submitted at 4/5/2010 3:39:08 PM cabinet, serves at the pleasure in fact, had discussions about Briefing, giving him more face whether he's too busy to think
On March 26, Fox Business of the president. Summers said his future with some of his time than almost any White about the future. It's Emanuel's
News's Charlie Gasparino as much this weekend, although associates. House official. Access to job to think about who might
reported that Larry Summers, he hastened to add that he was Nor is it really a news story POTUS = standing. Also, replace Summers. Or who
the chairman of the National most happy with his current that the chief of staff would be Emanuel and Summers get might replace Defense Secretary
Economic Council, had begun assignment. He has a busy job, thinking the same thing -- not along, despite what has been Robert Gates. Or who might
talking to anonymous associates even though most of the major just for Summers, but for a host reported, chatting about a half replace Secretary of State
a b o u t r e t i r i n g a f t e r t h e economic projects are not of senior officials, including dozen times a day on average.) Hillary Clinton. AND who
November election. Circuits subject to his direct oversight. Treasury Secretary Tim If Summers on the other hand might replace himself, since
p i n g e d e v e r y w h e r e i n The administration is creating Geithner and OMB director doesn't think about a road map Emanuel is among those whose
Washington. Later that week, economic policy, almost daily. Peter Orszag. In eight months, for stepping down, he'll open commitment to the president
the big rumor was that Rahm There are jobs to be found. some top Obama aides might be himself up to political guff --- extends for years.
Emanuel himself was making a Summers rides herd over the pushed out. Some of them Obama's kicking him out before So -- is Summers leaving? No.
secret list of people who might a d m i n i s t r a t i o n ' s h u g e might move to different jobs. or after the midterms, a Is he on the outs with the rest
be potential replacements for infrastructure renewal program. Some of them might want to repudiation of Summers's of the economic team? Not
Summers. Or that Rahm had T h e r e ' s a n e n o r m o u s step down. Some of them advice, a rejection of his really. Are folks spreading
begun to ask people for names international component to his might want to transition to the intelligence, etc. rumors about him, hoping he
of suggested replacements. job that is rarely remarked presidential re-election It's a safe assumption that will leave? Maybe. Will he
Then came a report in National upon; on everything related to campaign. All of them will be Summers, who essentially depart before the midterms?
Journal about Summers's "ego C h i n a e x c e p t f o r I r a n forced to make some decision or accepted a staff job -- the Probably not. Will he be doing
massage," suggesting that the sanctions, he's the lead, and he's another within the next seven director of the NEC, in order to what he's doing now on April 5,
former Harvard president had in the Iran meetings, too. No or eight months. have a role in this White House 2011? Maybe not. Maybe,
been complaining about his one else in the administration It's important that the -- would be pondering what probably, if. Those qualifiers are
status ever since President is on a first name basis with as departures and transitions are happens next. It's also quite anathema to the way this
Obama decided to renew Ben many Asian leaders. handled in the most efficient, reasonable to believe that he is business works, but to the best
Bernanke's Fed presidency for But there's a two-year turnover least disruptive way: if (a) grumpy, (b) satisfied, and of my knowledge and reporting,
a second term and demanding for these types of jobs, Summers openly contemplated (c) polarizing -- all at once. one cannot accurately describe
frivolous perks. So is he Summers has a Harvard stepping down, talking to As chief of staff, it's the state of Summers's thinking
leaving? Is he being pushed University professorship waiting friends and colleagues, he'd Emanuel's job to make sure that without using them.
out? for him, a family that did not been "seen" as predicting his the president has options. It's
What's the truth? It's not all that move to D.C., and it would not own departure, perhaps Emanuel's job to digest what
complicated, but it's not easy to be surprising, nor terribly reducing his own standing Summers tells him and then
convey in a way that makes a controversial, if, in some inside the White House. (It's collect his own intelligence to
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continued from page 44

older than an American garbage heap at the center of bursts don't get him, but the
university student, running for the square, while the gunsight fourth one does.
his life. Doubled over, he on the screen trails him. He -- Kevin Redmond is an intern
manages a dozen steps toward a falls, and the second and third at The Atlantic
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(AEI.Org: Articles) them as high. A new Fox News whose ethics are held in such poll, just three in 10 said that in to people living in poor and
Submitted at 4/5/2010 4:00:00 PM Opinion Dynamics poll found low regard. Americans' opinions general people on Wall Street vulnerable countries who are
that most people thought that of the honesty and ethical are as honest and moral as other even now facing the effects of
In 1943 nearly half of those elected officials were more standards of businesspeople people. the climate change we’ve
s u r v e y e d , 4 8 % , t o l d interested in power and wealth aren't high either. In Gallup's There are some saving graces in caused. (The international
interviewers in a poll conducted (67%) than in public service for 2009 polling just 19% said the this public opinion snapshot. funding in Bill One is its best
b y t h e N a t i o n a l O p i n i o n their constituents (14%). In our honesty and ethical standards of During the Enron and feature, though I’m willing to
Research Center that it was deeply polarized political bankers were high; 12% felt that Worldcom scandals large bet it won’t survive the sausage
almost impossible for a man to environment the absence of way about business executives, majorities said the kind of factory.) Somehow or another,
stay honest if he goes into political integrity is something and 9% about stockbrokers. misdeeds that took place at these we need to make good on
politics. Has anything changed? Democrats and Republicans Stockbrokers were tied with companies would not occur at Hillary Clinton’s pledge to send
Well the people's trust in agree on. Both think it is members of Congress. Both their own companies and that billions of dollars to poor
politicians has deteriorated widespread. In recent columns ranked only slightly above their bosses were honest and countries already suffering from
further. More than 50 years my colleague at AEI Norm HMO managers (8%) and car ethical. These questions haven't climate change. (For a really
later, in a poll taken in 1997 by Ornstein has documented the salesmen (6%), who took last been updated since 2003, but good idea, Google “Robin Hood
F o x N e w s a n d O p i n i o n bipartisan nature of ethical place in the poll. Compare these I'm confident that the answers tax.”) But we also need a bill
Dynamics, 55% agreed that lapses and Congress' halting responses with the views of the would be the same. Most people that cuts carbon emissions with
people who go into politics efforts to strengthen the ethics honesty and ethics of nurses, have a high regard for their enough vigor that more islands
cannot remain honest. A 2006 process there. who topped Gallup's list: 83% bosses. Not many would want don’t drown and more deserts
ABC News/Washington Post These responses explain why of respondents said their their job or their responsibilities. don’t spread—that’s the most
poll found that a bare majority, most people say they wouldn't standards on this score were But as for our public space, bottom of carbon bottom
52%, said most members of want a son or daughter to high. views of politicians and lines—and Bill Two at least sets
Congress had about the same choose politics as a career. In another 2009 poll only 22% businesspeople are in need of up a plausible mechanism for
amount of honesty as most Gallup first asked about sons told Fox News/Opinion serious repair. proceeding down that path.
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The Key To The Nuclear Posture Does the iPad App Give
Review Rackspace An
contributors@theatlantic.com
(Marc Ambinder) (Politics ::
The Atlantic)
that our conventional weapons
capability is an effective
deterrent in all but the most
left unclear:
(a) Whether the National
Command Authority will be
Advantage?
Alex Williams
Submitted at 4/5/2010 7:13:07 PM extreme circumstances." The changed; whether the president (ReadWriteWeb)
It looks like President Obama Times suggests that Obama is will add more steps and more
has decided to make the Nuclear prepared to give countries that time between the detection of a Submitted at 4/5/2010 8:05:06 PM

Non-Proliferation Treaty the key adhere to the NPT the benefit of nuclear weapon launched at the
to his new nuclear strategy, by the doubt even if they use Rackspace launched an iPad
U.S. or exploded inside the U.S.
pledging that the United States chemical or biological weapons app to manage a cloud
and the trigger of a response;
won't use nuclear weapons to to attack the United States and infrastructure, one of the first to
(b) Tactical nuclear weapons in
respond to an attack by a its allies. This policy would be offer such a service.
Europe; the NPR is expected to
country that adheres to the subject to revision. And it is not Amazon Web Services (AWS)
consolidate the presence of
t r e a t y . T h a t w o u l d b e a clear whether it apply to non- does not have apps for the
these weapons and will
significant shift from the Cold state actors, although it probably iPhone nor the iPad platforms. It
eliminate one particular
War nuclear posture, and it would not, because they aren't has historically not offered
weapons system; the deterrent
would heavily tie the future of party to the NPT. mobile apps for AWS.
will be preserved.
U.S. nuclear weapon strategy to Sponsor
The hope is that by tying (c) The specific language used
global efforts against nuclear n u c l e a r s t r a t e g y t o N P T You can still access AWS on
to describe the zero-sum nature
terrorism and non-proliferation - compliance, the international the iPad through the Safari
of stockpile management -- that iPhone version. You can delete
- and would disentangle years of communication will isolate browser. But is the experience
is, how do you modernize your servers on it. Mayo kept
history and culture that link regimes like North Korea that as rich as what you would have
nuclear weapons without the feature off the iPhone due to
American nuclear weapons use flout its rules, and countries like as on a native app?
enhancing their capabilities? the concern that it's such a small
to other countries -- "state Iran, that refuse to sign. (Left Mike Mayo built Rackspace's
(d) The "incentives" used to device, easily left at a bar or
actors," in nuclear parlance. unsaid are the ambiguities about iPad app. He says it is the
increase the probability of restaurant. He feels people are
The New York Times reported U.S. policy towards Israel, functionality that gives apps
conventional responses to all less likely to leave an iPad due
that President Obama, in an which hasn't signed the NPT.) their value. It's evident in both
types of attacks. to its size. We're not so sure.
interview, with the Times, said The NPR will, as previously consumer and enterprise apps.
(e) The posture toward non-state People leave their laptops
that the U.S. "is going to want to reported, call for continued Users get a rich user experience.
actors that acquire and use behind all the time.
make sure that we can continue i n v e s t m e n t i n " s t o c k p i l e You can see it in the Racskpace
nuclear weapons. We could go into details about
to move towards less emphasis m a n a g e m e n t . " cloud app.
Mayo humorously says that the the app and what it offers but
on nuclear weapons make sure As of Monday night, questions Robert Scoble's video does a
app offers administrators "a
good job of that.
Roger Lowenstein on ‘The End of Wall Street’ life." Meaning that you can go
out for dinner without the Mayo is currently developing a
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Warsaw, and thousands and now we are taking was the decisive factor in the
assembled--dedicated a 30-foot responsibility not only for a free collapse of Communism in
cross in the same square in Poland, but also for the Poland and then elsewhere."
commemoration of the Pope's solidarity of all of Europe. This In the 1980s, the world learned
Mass there in 1979. The mayor cross is a symbol that what is from John Paul II and the Polish
described the impact of Pope impossible becomes possible. people that tyrants and dictators
John Paul II's prayer for the Just after the mayor unveiled are no match when millions of
renewal of Poland in this way: the memorial cross, a recorded hearts are lifted high. This
The message of John Paul II message of Pope John Paul II Polish experience of freedom
met with our highest national played: "Today, I look at the through faith serves as a
and social aspirations. It poured whole of Poland, from the Tatra timeless warning to
hope into our hearts. Then, for Mountains to the Baltic Sea, and governments anywhere that
the first time in decades, we saw this cross says to whole of threaten religious freedom,
how many of us are here. We
felt what it meant to be together,
Poland, sursum corda, lift up
your hearts."
including those in democratic
societies.
Xbox 360 update brings long-
free, and in community. Soon,
August 1980 arrived and
The cross, as carried by Pope
John Paul II, not only lifted the
Newt Gingrich is a senior
fellow at AEI. He and Callista awaited USB storage support,
Solidarity was established. Then
the tragedy [martial law] of
hearts of the Poles, it also lifted
the hearts of millions around the
Gingrich are hosts and executive
producers of the documentary SanDisk ready to cash in
December 1981, and thanks to world. Italian senator and film Nine Days that Changed Vladislav Savov (Engadget) around. In the mean time,
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did not reject hope, June 1989 that it is important to remember Five Filters featured article: Xbox 360-branded $40 8GB
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the Unknown Soldier, a symbol but also the way he went about owners will be prompted to less crazy $35 price point. You
of bravery of Poles, there will be it: "Against Communism he update to the latest firmware for know, in case the millions of
a Cross standing which is a proposed the cross. And it was your beloved console. Once the USB storage options out there
symbol of faith, perseverance, the cross as displayed by John tidy little exchange of data with aren't doing it for you.
and hope. . . . And living here Paul II that, according to me, Microsoft's servers has been Xbox 360 update brings long-
completed, you'll at long last be awaited USB storage support,
Brown calls general election for May 6 able to plug USB memory sticks
in and exploit a bit of
SanDisk ready to cash in
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McCain: I'm No Maverick Yogo electric scooter

(Newsmax - Politics)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 2:53:52 PM
WASHINGTON – Republican
Senator John McCain, whose
"maverick" breaks with his
party won him media acclaim
and powered his 2008 White
House run, now rejects the
moniker, according to
Newsweek magazine.
The Arizona lawmaker, looking
to thwart a primary challenge
from a conservative Republican
former congressman, played
down his history of working
with Democrats on issues like
overhauling US immigration
policy, curbing big money
influence in politics, or fighting
climate change.
"I never considered myself a
maverick," Newsweek quoted
him as saying. "I consider
myself a person who serves the
people of Arizona to the best of
his abilities."
McCain embraced the label in
the past, notably during his 2008
presidential run, when his
campaign ran a television
advertisement branding him and
running mate Sarah Palin "the
original mavericks" and when
he played down some of their
policy disagreements by
quipping "what do you expect
from two mavericks?"
A McCain aide highlighted a
passage from the prologue of the
senator's 2002 book, "Worth
Fighting For: The Education of
an American Maverick, and the
Heroes Who Inspired Him," in
which the lawmaker expressed
discomfort with the label "even
when it is meant as a
compliment."
"I worry that the act might be
getting a little tired for a man of
my years," McCain wrote.
"Better for old men to be known
as collegial team players, who
expect to find the warmth of
their associations a tonic for
fears of approaching infirmity
and extinction," he wrote.
But he went on to underscore
his "instinctive resistance to
institutional customs that strike
me as empty gestures of
submission" and highlight his
"acute, much too acute,
sensitivity to abuses of
authority."
"I have my reputation, and not
enough years left in my career
to improve it much. I'm an
independent-minded, well-
intentioned public servant to
some. And to others, I'm a self-
styled, self-righteous, maverick
pain in the ass," he wrote.
Recent polls have shown
McCain easily beating former
representative JD Hayworth,
who has sought to capitalize on
anti-Washington sentiment and
the energized conservative "Tea
Party" political insurgency.
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asks: 'Why not take a
spare battery?'
Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:49:00 AM
It would certainly seem like the
range of the average electric
vehicle could be extended quite
a bit if you could just throw a
spare battery in the trunk and
swap whenever the lights started
to dim. That's the idea behind
the Yogo from Econogo --
except this is made in the UK
where they call trunks "boots,"
and it's a scooter so it doesn't
have one of either, just a storage
compartment under the seat.
Anyhow, in there you can store
a second battery, doubling the
22 mile range and, since that
choice of black or beige.
cell is removable, you can easily
Yogo electric scooter asks:
take it inside, making office
'Why not take a spare battery?'
time refills a real possibility.
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LL Cool J Goes for K.O. on 'NCIS: Los Angeles'

(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 3:40:00 AM
LL Cool J is ripped and ready
for battle -- but can he handle
the underground world of no-
holds-barred cage fighting?
After training with some of the
top mixed martial artists in the
game, the "NCIS: Los Angeles"
star gets in the ring!
"My character goes
undercover," he tells ET.
"There's a death -- I won't say
who -- but it needs to be
investigated. My character, who
is a navy seal and has martial-
arts training, decides this is what
he needs to do in order to get
close to the people who may
have perpetrated the crime."
After a sparring session on-
screen, he says, "I definitely feel
it. I have a tremendous amount
of respect for these athletes and
what they go through every day.
The level of commitment it
takes to do this day in and day
out is pretty amazing.
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Whitman Chips in $20M More in John Goodman Back on

Calif. Gov. Race TV with HBO's 'Treme'
(Newsmax - Politics) November's general election. nominee or buy the governor's Nick Zaino (TV Squad)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 12:31:14 AM The Poizner and Brown office this November." Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:25:00 AM
campaigns accused Whitman of Whitman's campaign has said
Former eBay chief executive trying to buy the election. she is willing to spend as much There's already a lot of
Meg Whitman on Monday gave "Meg Whitman laughs at the as $150 million of her own excitement over HBO's new
her campaign for the GOP thought of running out of money in the race for governor. series 'Treme,' and for good
g u b e r n a t o r i a l n o m i n a t i o n money, while people across Whitman campaign manager reason. The series, which debuts
another $20 million, bringing California are struggling every Jillian Hasner said that Whitman Sunday, is the brainchild of
her contributions from her day," Poizner spokesman Jarrod has also raised $11.8 million David Simon and Eric
personal fortune to $59 million A g e n s a i d i n a s t a t e m e n t from outside contributors. Overmyer, who gave us five
in what is expected to be the M o n d a y n i g h t . "Whether it's facing down the wonderful seasons of'The Wire'
most expensive governor's race Poizner is also a powerful public employee on HBO. And this series, which
in California history. multimillionaire who has given unions who are propping up tells the story of post-Katrina
Whitman has already spent his campaign $19 million to Jerry Brown or our well- New Orleans through the lens of
more than $46 million in her date, but had spent only about financed primary opponent, a struggling musician and the
quest to beat state Insurance $3 million as of mid-March. He Meg's campaign will have the community around him, looks
Commissioner Steve Poizner in has said he is saving his resources to fight back," Hasner full of potential with the same
had a particularly good stretch
the June Republican primary, r e s o u r c e s t o m o u n t a n said in a statement released by kind of quality we came to
on'The West Wing'). So he has
paying tens of millions to a g g r e s s i v e a t t a c k a g a i n s t the campaign. expect from 'The Wire' and
kept a somewhat steady
blanket television and radio Whitman in the final weeks of © Copyright 2010 The S i m o n a n d
television presence.
airwaves with ads introducing the Republican contest. Associated Press. All rights Overmyer's'Homicide' series.
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herself to California voters. Brown spokesman Sterling reserved. This material may not Perhaps a smaller storyline is
Goodman Back on TV with
Recent polls show her with a 40 C l i f f o r d s a i d W h i t m a n i s be published, broadcast, John Goodman's return to a
HBO's 'Treme'
- to 50-percentage point lead spending unprecedented money rewritten or redistributed. regular TV series. Goodman has
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'Damages' - 'All That Crap About Your Family' Recap

Jane Boursaw (TV Squad) Tobin's Ponzi scheme seems And Marilyn Tobin - gack! 'All That Crap About Your
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:42:00 AM like small potatoes now, doesn't She's willing to waste her own Family' Recap
it? Joe Tobin was worried about granddaughter for the sake of Filed under: Episode Reviews,
(S03E11) "I'm not your mother, having to live out his father's what? A few bucks? 'All That Damages, Reality-Free
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Well, my goodness. Louis his own twisted legacy all by himself.
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Fancy Hands: Virtual Assistants, Aardvark Style

Marshall Kirkpatrick dynamo whose energy spills out affordable, competitive on speed businesses bid for Turk users to
(ReadWriteWeb) in side projects like the visually and often surprisingly superior perform rapid little tasks that
Submitted at 4/5/2010 8:18:26 PM compelling social bookmarking in quality of results. At least at require just a touch of human
service EnjoysThin.gs and an tubes and pulleys rigged up to launch, the people he's hired intelligence. Spammers pay
"It's not about the value of the O'Reilly book about building sort tasks, though. He calls it seem relatively interested in the Turkers to leave spammy spam
task, it's about the value of me real-time websites, due out this "the eHarmony of Getting project and the work. around the web, podcasters pay
not having to do it, or even think Summer. Previously, he was the Things Done." Social search This afternoon I asked Fancy Turkers to transcribe tiny
about it anymore." That's how 2nd full-time programmer at art- Aardvark started out as a lot of H a n d s t o m a k e m e a n fragments of audio files,
Ted Roden describes Fancy video portal Vimeo. manual human effort behind a p p o i n t m e n t w i t h " B o b ' s businesses like Citysearch and
Hands, his new side project that Roden says he built Fancy public facing technology, then Heating System Repair" and Yelp pay Turkers to confirm
p r o v i d e s v i r t u a l p e r s o n a l Hands because he wanted to b e c a m e a s e a r c h - s o r t i n g gave it my own phone number changes to local business
assistants in the cloud for a low build something big. He calls it algorithmic people-connector to call, just to see how it went listings submitted by users. It's
monthly fee. that just because it was the that Google bought for millions. down. I answered my next a big business, a platform that
Need an appointment made for filename for his first bit of code, Fancy Hands is half human and inbound call with "hello, Bob's other businesses are being built
you? Research done on Fantasy a t r a d i t i o n a c r o s s a l l h i s half-machine, too. It connects heating repair, this is Bob." on top of.
Baseball players you might want projects. He's bootstrapping it your emailed task requests with And went through a few minutes These services can be taken too
to draft onto your team? Roden himself "and my wife says it's the right staff members to fill of appointment conversation far, of course. Author Tim
has hired more than 100 people ok," he says. Casting The Tasks them. In that way it's a little b e f o r e t e l l i n g t h e v i r t u a l Ferriss famously paid a team of
based in the US and England Fancy Hands is easy for reminiscent of Aardvark, the assistant what I was really assistants to pretend to be him
who can perform almost any customers to use. I asked the social search startup that began doing. I think he felt a little bit on dating websites. They vetted
quick, legal task for you, within service to find where in town I as a human bucket brigade toyed with, but he was very women for intelligence and
minutes, at any hour day or could buy a "sweater bag" to run behind a facade of technology professional before and after I appearance before scheduling a
night. You can send them 15 sweaters through the washing and ended up a complex web of disclosed my true identity. day full of short first dates all in
emails with task requests per m a c h i n e a n d g o t a g r e a t computer science that Google He said he had interacted just a a row. That's just dishonest, an
month for a $30 fee. An r e s p o n s e , c o m p l e t e w i t h acquired this Winter for millions little bit with Ted and that he interpersonal crime of
algorithm sorts the tasks and multiple options online and a of dollars. was very interested to see what convenience.
routes each one to the most p e r s o n a l r e c o m m e n d a t i o n , At its core Fancy Hands is kind of research he would be There's something both more
appropriate person. within an hour. I asked for links people, though. And the people tasked with doing. He was very and less human about what
Sponsor to reviews of iPad RSS reading are paid by the task. Roden has cautious about telling me Fancy Hands is doing, though.
Roden says the people he's a p p l i c a t i o n s a n d t h e f i r s t created a system that ranks tasks anything specific about what the Its algorithmic task sorting
hired include retired lawyers, response I got was terrible. I by complexity and rewards system was like on his end could become very complex but
actors waiting with time to spare emailed back complaining and assistants with higher pay when because "we're a brand new the people on both ends are
before going on camera and the person on the other end sent they complete harder tasks. company, just starting." I more invested, too. Roden says
former employees of competitor me back something even worse. Once they reach a particular pay thought it was charming that one his model of $30 for 15 tasks
ChaCha. He wrote a program to T h e n R o d e n n o t i c e d a n d grade, all their tasks become of the 100 people hired to do per month makes people stop
sift through piles of applications r e a s s i g n e d t h e r e q u e s t t o better paying, thus incentivizing tasks for a fee felt so closely and ponder whether a task is
and plans on using the someone who filled it them to dive in to harder and associated with the business. really one they want to expend
company's own service beautifully. harder work. These Hands Are Fancy part of their monthly
providers to select new hires in Roden says that for now he's The people behind the scenes People familiar with this kind subscription on. There's
the future as well. doing the quality control himself a r e o f t e n s u r p r i s i n g l y of "human powered micro- something intriguing about that.
Roden himself has a day job in and generally well after the enthusiastic. Roden says that outsourcing" will no doubt be For himself, Ted Roden has a
the R&D department of the New tasks have been completed. compared to other, similar f a m i l i a r w i t h A m a z o n ' s
FANCY page 55
York Times. He's a creative He's got a complex series of systems, Fancy Hands is more Mechanical Turk. All kinds of
E-reader News Edition
Social Gaming: Legit Gameplay or a Play for Your Cash?
Curt Hopkins (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 9:00:00 PM
There is a question being
bandied about by people in the
game industry. It effects
something you do, or, if you
don't, your friend, roommate,
wife or fencing opponent does.
Social gaming.
Is social gaming - games played
on social networks, like
Facebook and MySpace -
actually gaming? Millions of
users have already given their
tacit approval that there is
indeed entertainment value in
those games. But what puts
hardcore gamers' skivvies in a
knot is the idea that there has
been total sacrifice of gameplay
in exchange for filthy lucre -
that these "games" have been so
neutered that they only
outwardly resemble gaming.
And so the more important
question is this: Are hardcore
gamers simply demanding that
all cars on the road be sports
cars, or are they a bellwether of
a shift in social gaming from
click-click-click, to quality?
Sponsor
"Social games are making tons
of money," said Karen Clark, a
Project Manager at Electronic
Arts. "They are like slot
machines made legal and web-
accessible. There's a lot of
investment. Most game people
think these 'games' suck because
they are more like exercises in
clicking and monetization of
customers than they are fun."
It is a burgeoning area. In
December, Digital Sky
Technologies bought into Zynga
for $180 million. EA snapped
up PlayFish for $400 million
and Playdom, whose "Social
City" game racked up 10 million
players in about a month of
existence, scored a $43 million
series B.
Most social games as well as
some casual games make use a
business model of selling in-
game "currency" for the
purchase of anything from
fertilizer to a straight-razor and
combining that with player-
privileges sales and advertising.
"The business model for social
games worked really well," said
Mark Hendrickson of Big Fish,
a Seattle-based gaming
company, "because there were
only a few companies who
could harvest all the affiliate
money and swamp anyone else's
efforts by putting that money
right back into the Facebook ad
network. I really think they
should have called it 'Facebook
gaming.' Social gaming is only
on the radar because it is a
really, really cheap way to
possibly make a whole lot of
money, if implemented
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properly.
"As Facebook goes, so goes
social gaming."
Tami Baribeau, the producer of
Metaplace's Island Life game on
Facebook, sees it very
differently.
"Games go where people go,"
she said. "Social networks are
clearly a hot platform right now
because it's where people are
spending time on the web."
She attributes the fiction that
gameplay is compromised to
hardcore gamer prejudice more
than to any pandering to a
lowest common denominator.
"The fact that social games are
whittled down to their basic core
mechanics and feedback loop
mean that they're instantly
understandable, casual, and the
fun is easy to find. This is why
they open up the market to so
many people, and such a
different demographic than
traditional console/PC gaming.
Traditional gamers don't like to
admit (or simply don't realize)
that games do not have to be
massive, 3D, scripted, deep, and
immersive experiences in order
to be fun and engaging and
monetizable. "
Alex Swanson, Project Lead at
Playdom, also disagrees with the
notion that good gameplay is
stepped back in social gaming.
"Initially computers themselves
were extremely complex and
difficult to learn, so the platform
SOCIAL page 55
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From DOS Games to BBSes: Five Ways To Reminisce About

Your Online Past
Mike Melanson websites have developed over around since 1990, to showed off to your friends in
(ReadWriteWeb) time. executables for L.O.R.D. and school to those terrible hacker
Submitted at 4/6/2010 7:44:00 AM The site has "over 150 billion every other game you can group zines you and your
web pages archived from 1996 remember, this throwback site friends made in Word Perfect. If
These days, all you ever hear to a few months ago." The site (with its gradient fade you thought you were cool then,
a b o u t a r e i P h o n e s , i P a d s , uses data from Alexa, and gives background image) will take wait until you read this stuff
Twitter, Facebook, Google, and you snapshots of websites at you right back to the days of now! Nevermind AR: We've
s t u f f l i k e G o w a l l a a n d various stages in their life cycle, modem init strings and BBS Got Scorched Earth Last, but
Foursquare. Do you ever wish beginning usually with the site's meets. surely not least, we find
you could just go back to a conception on the Web. And please, for the sake of all ourselves with a DOS emulator
simpler, more linear, 2400 baud That first, test website you built of us, download that Renegade for Windows made especially
type of time? Well, there are a in Microsoft Frontpage? Yeah, it or WWIV BBS code, get it for game play called D-Fend
number of sites out there that still, sorta exists in some pals on Facebook yet, you might running, and lets get some Trade Reloaded, that we found over at
can help you revisit your pre- incarnation on the Wayback be able to find them on Wars going. Before Text Lifehacker and admittedly
Internet past as if it were M a c h i n e . T h e B B S D a y s BBSmates, a list of more than Became Hypertextual Going started this whole Internet/BBS
enshrined in resin and on Stepping back a little further 75,000 BBSes and the people even a little bit deeper into the remniscing tirade.
display at the ancient history into the history of the Internet that ran and used them. (I'm in early days of the online world With help from sites like
museum. past, we find BBSes, those dial- there, somewhere, but I'll let we have textfiles.com, the one DOSGames.com you can get
And at some of these online up messaging, file transfer, you try to find that embarassing stop shop for everything ASCII. your game on, with classics
museums, you can not only c h a t r o o m , " d o o r g a m e " nugget of my BBS years.) The site describes itself as such as Scorched Earth and
look, but you can touch - we're communities that predated Aside from taking credit for offering "a glimpse into the Nethack.
t a l k i n g d o o r g a m e s , D O S websites and the Internet as your exploits as Co-SysOp on history of writers and artists And if all of these websites and
games, ANSI drawings and we've come to know it. that one BBS for six months, bound by the 128 characters that tools aren't enough, we'd
more. And honestly, in some ways, you can fill your hankering for a the American Standard Code for recommend checking out BBS:
Sponsor the Web as we now see it has little game of Global Wars, I n f o r m a t i o n I n t e r c h a n g e The Documentary for a full look
The Early Web - The Truth become more and more like Baron Realms Elite and even (ASCII) allowed them. The at the way things were.
(About Your Bad Web Design) those gathering places of yore. Usurper. BBS Source Codes, focus is on mid-1980's textfiles Oh, and did I mention -
Is Out There The Wayback Websites like Facebook and Door Games and Even ANSI and the world as it was then, but welcome back to your online
Machine is all the evidence Myspace are oddly remniscent Art BBS Archives makes you even these files are sometime childhood? Discuss
you'll ever need that you, too, and represent more of a come- feel like you've entered the late retooled 1960s and 1970s
once totally sucked at Web full-circle experience than a 90s from the second the site works, and offshoots of this
design. It's like the Internet revolution in online experiences. loads and it has all the files to culture exist to this day."
yearbook you never really asked Making Old Friends So, if you back it up. From ACiD, the We're talking everything from
for and a great way to see how aren't friends with your old BBS ANSI art group that's been those "Anarchy texts" you
Americans Prioritize Energy Over Environment for First Time
(All Gallup Headlines) retrieve full-text content] By over environmental protection. years it has asked about this
Submitted at 4/5/2010 8:00:00 PM 50% to 43%, Americans say the This is the first time Gallup has trade-off.
U.S. should prioritize the found opinion tilting toward
[ fivefilters.org: unable to development of energy supplies energy production in the 10
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Dion Hinchcliffe: We Are Now Part
of the Dachis Group
Alex Williams
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:48:33 AM
Dion Hinchcliffe announced
this morning the sales of his
successful practice to the Dachis
Group, one of the largest
services organizations in the
field, focused on building social
technologies in the enterprise.
In recent months, the advent of
social technologies catered to
the enterprise has shifted into
high gear. Hinchcliffe said in an
interview yesterday that the
opportunities presented to
Hinchcliffe & Company have
scaled in the past few
months.The Dachis Group will
help meet those opportunities.
Sponsor
The Dachis Group, founded by
Jeff Dachis in 2008, is well-
known for its emphasis as a
services firm focused on social
technologies for large enterprise
organizations. It is funded by
Austin Ventures. The company
has grown considerably in the
past year, acquiring Headshift
Technologies last September.
Hinchcliffe is undoubtedly one
of the most well respected
voices in Enterprise 2.0. He is
the Enterprise 2.0 blog for
ZDnet. He brings a unique
understanding that comes from
years as an information
architect. He came early to the
social Web movement in the
enterprise. He picked up early
on the concept of web-oriented
architectures and what it means
for the transformation of the
enterprise.
Hinchcliffe had this to say
today about the shift in our
society and the enterprise:"To
the latter point, it's almost a
truism that focus is something
that is hard to achieve in any
organization on the emerging
edge of business and
technology. When Web 2.0
arrived on the scene in the
middle of the decade, it was
clear that something momentous
was happening in our personal
lives, but it was almost too large
a change for most of us to easily
digest. Now, much the same
transformation has begun in our
businesses. Back then I decided
to immediately create a
company to bring these ideas --
and changes that accompany
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SOCIAL
continued from page 53
self-selected for people that has already convinced the
were tolerant of (or even
attracted by) complexity," he
players to do this by providing
its own unique benefits."
them -- in the most positive said. "Since then computers If you play social games, you
possible way to enterprises have be come much more probably do not care about this
around the world and I haven't accessible, creating a gap in the argument. You play because it's
looked back. market between the average fun. Maybe that's enough.
The outcome was something computer user and the average Maybe it's not for one group of
most of you are now quite 'gamer.' gamers to tell another that they
familiar with in the subject "Part of the reason that games oughtn't love what they love.
matter we explore in depth in like these were never very "All I know," said one social
our blogs, workshops, books, successful prior to the existence gamer, " is I've met the nicest
a r t i c l e s , s p e e c h e s , a n d of social networks is once again people playing Mafia Wars."
consulting practice: social an issue of accessibility. These For another view of social
software, cloud computing, open games are built around the idea gaming, see ReadWriteWeb's
APIs, i n n o v a t i o n , that the user has a connected post on Armchair
c r o w d s o u r c i n g , W e b 2 . 0 , identity. Trying to ask users to Revolutionary. Discuss
Enterprise 2.0, Social CRM, and build out their social graph as
more. It is now increasingly part of entering a game would
clear that these ideas are all part create an insurmountable barrier
of a macro set of trends and to entry. Fortunately, Facebook
concepts that are changing the
FANCY
way we structure and operate continued from page 52
our organizations today. Thus,
as I stated in the press release, I simple rule for using the system machine is thought provoking,
believe that Social Business he built. "If I think about and perhaps prescient, in the
Design captures these ideas in a anything twice, I just put it into way it strategically blends the
comprehensive approach that Fancy Hands," he says. It will online and offline worlds.
will be an essential foundation be interesting to see how often Photo by Justin Ouellette.
of next-generation enterprises." his customers think about Fancy Discuss
The significance of this news Hands and whether enough of
comes down to what we all are t h e m w i l l r e n e w t h e i r
seeing happen in the enterprise. subscriptions to make this a
Social technologies represent a sustainable service. If nothing
cultural shift in how we view else, this mix of human and
our world. The changes to come
in the next five years will be
profound. Hinchcliffe and the
Dachis Group will play an
important role in that
transformation. Discuss
56 Gadgets/ Entertainment/ E-reader News Edition

Western Digital Velociraptor SATA 3.0 hard drives are the

fastest money can buy
Nicholas Deleon take advantage of the new those are still on the expensive
(CrunchGear) drives. These motherboards side at capacities of more than a
Submitted at 4/6/2010 7:00:27 AM aren’t exactly cheap: ASUS’ few gigabytes.
current top dog, the P6X58D I think the conclusion here is,
It’s like Christmas morning for Premium, goes for $309 on yeah, these new Velociraptor
PC enthusiasts today. Western Newegg. You really do have to drives are the bee’s knees. There
Digital has released its SATA weigh whether or not it’s worth are cheaper alternatives out
3.0 (that’s a maximum transfer that kind of money to “future- there, but they’re not as fast.
rate of 6.0 Gb/s, which p r o o f ” y o u r s e l f ( t h e There are more expensive
t r a n s l a t e s t o 7 6 8 M B / s ) motherboard also supports USB alternatives out there, but
Velociraptor hard drives. The 3.0). I lean toward yes, if only they’re faster, at least
Velociraptor name basically because I like the idea of theoretically.
means “OMG FAST!” when it d r o p p i n g f a t c a s h o n P C But let’s face it: if you’re the
comes to hard drives. The thing c o m p o n e n t s . kind of person who buys $300+
is, unlike the last time Western Some people build and motherboards then you can
Digital released Velociraptor maintain cars. Others build and probably afford a hard drive like
hard drives, two years ago, solid maintain PCs! this. Heck, you can probably
state drives are on the market, Right, so the drive! In the afford SSDs, too, so why not
and they’re clearly faster than words of TomsHardware, “Once use ‘em both: install Windows
even the fastest traditional hard again, a hard drive carrying the read the actual Caviar Black in my PC right on a super-fast SSD, then leave
drive. Doesn’t matter: if you’re Raptor name claims the crown benchmarks—that’s why they’re now.) Are you willing to pay a “everything else” on these new
looking for absolute, top-of-the- for being the fastest desktop there! little bit more for a significantly Velociraptor.
line performance when it comes hard drive available.” You’re Now, let’s talk value. Western smaller drive, but one that’s Or just look at the benchmarks
to traditional hard drives, it looking at 17 percent faster Digital wants $329 for the quite a bit faster? That’s your and sigh, like me.
l o o k s l i k e t h e s e n e w gaming performance (compared 600GB version. You can grab a call.
Velociraptors are the way to go. to the next fastest hard drive), 2TB (!) Western Digital Caviar Then it gets even crazier when
You will, of course, need a 27 percent application loading, Black for $279. (I have a 1TB you consider SSDs, though
fancy new motherboard to fully and so on. You’re encouraged to

Erin Andrews Feels Safe and Secure in the Arms of Maksim

Chmerkovskiy
(ETonline - Breaking News)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 3:45:00 AM
Despite being the victim of
death threats, Erin Andrews
fearlessly waltzed through her
routine on the third week of
"Dancing with the Stars." With
the support of her dancing
"family," she put on a blindfold,
shielding herself from the harsh
reality outside the bubble of the
studio…and to get into
character.
Erin told ET assertively, "
Maksim[ Chmerkovskiy] was
right with me when we found
out the news. This was the best
scenario to be in because he
instantly was like, 'Okay, we're
waltzing. We're not worrying
about anything else.' So, I didn't
have time to."
Plus, she is under the tutelage
of the muscular Maks who says
he is looking out for her. "I had
a shirt that says, 'I am' and on
the back 'Security.'"
E-reader News Edition
Hard facts on the HP Slate: price,
battery life and storage capacity
Tablet
(BestTabletReview.com)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 3:20:20 PM
Some details on the upcoming
HP Slate
HP continues to position its
Slate tablet as the antiPad. Just
days after the iPads sale date,
HP has released a new video
showing distinct features not
available on the Apple product
and we’ve got a first look at
exactly what’s under the glass.
The HP Slate will have an 8.9-
inch 1024 x 600 resolution
capacitive touchscreen with a
1.6GHz Atom Z530 CPU. It will
come with 32GB of flash
storage and 1GB of DDR2
RAM in its base configuration
which will sell for $549 (a little
higher than we previously
guesstimated). HP will also be
selling a 64GB option for $50
more. Both versions will have a
five-hour battery run time, two
cameras (one front-facing VGA
webcam, one back-facing 3MP
Greek worries bring risk rally to a halt
(Financial Times - US
homepage)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:56:27 AM
14:45 BST: Worries that the
eurozone’s bailout deal for
Greece may unravel knocked
the euro and halted a global risk
Gadgets/ TV/ Economy/ 57
'24' - '6:00 AM - 7:00
camera), HDMI, SDHC slot,
accelerometer, SIM card for
to launch in June.
So what do you say AM' Recap
possible 3G, dock connector and antiPadders? Is the HP Slate Mike Moody (TV Squad) watching for the tightly edited
feature 1080p playback. It will offering enough to plunk down Submitted at 4/6/2010 10:02:00 AM procedural elements, the action
have WiFi b/g (does no one some cash on? Are you waiting scenes, and Kiefer Sutherland's
include the supposed “standard” for another offering (perhaps (S08E15) The sun finally came sturdy performance. That stuff is
N?!), Bluetooth, GPS and the something with Android up over Jack Bauer and crew solid -- so solid that it almost
aforementioned optional 3G. instead)? Let us know in the last night on'24'. And with it makes up for the lack of
It looks to weigh just about the comments. came the first of two exciting if compelling drama and the
same as the iPad — HP claims Source: Engadget ultimately empty-feeling hours unbelievable plot developments
1.49 lbs (was the .01 really Five Filters featured article: of the veteran real-time drama. this season.
necessary to state we wonder?) Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: I use the word empty to Head after the jump for
— and will measure 9.21 x 5.7 x PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, describe these episodes because spoilers, and remember to check
0.57 inches. As mentioned Term Extraction. I'm no longer very invested in out our recap of the next hour
before, the HP Slate is expected the story. '24' lost me a few when it goes live.
weeks ago, even before Dana so Continue reading'24' - '6:00
inelegantly stuffed Stephen AM - 7:00 AM' Recap
Root's dead body behind a CTU Filed under: 24, Episode
rally on Tuesday. f r o m t h e E a s t e r b r e a k t o wall panel. Like I typed last Reviews, Reality-Free, Episode
The FTSE All-World index had welcome signs of strengthening week, the twists feel cheap, the Recaps
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collapse of Lehman Brothers in -expected data in recent days. time gimmick has gotten stale. C o m m e n t s
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Enemy Foreigners
Assaulting America's
Worthless Grad Schools
[Higher Learning]
Hamilton Nolan (Gawker)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:56:30 AM

Here in America, it's a well-

known fact that grad school is
just a last resort to wait out the
recession while getting into
crippling debt. Unaware of this,
our enemies are trying to get
themselves into these
thoroughly useless institutions.
More »

PS3 meets Hori LCD dock, good things happen

Vladislav Savov (Engadget) PS3, with stereo speakers, two adapter and it's officially leave up to you to decide.
Submitted at 4/6/2010 7:58:00 AM headphone jacks, and composite licensed by Sony itself, so it PS3 meets Hori LCD dock,
or component input options. can't be too bad, right? All you good things happen originally
Hori is a company that's no With a resolution of 1,366 x Tokyo-ites will have until May appeared on Engadget on Tue,
stranger to strapping LCDs to 768, it's well suited to handling 27 to decide, when the HP3-87 06 Apr 2010 07:58:00 EST.
consoles and calling them the 16:9 signal coming out of goes on sale for ¥26,040 ($276). Please see our terms for use of
portable, but for some reason the do-everything console, International release plans are feeds. Permalink Impress AV
we're quite smitten with its although its 500:1 contrast ratio, not yet disclosed, but if you Watch| Hori| Email this|
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iPad gets fitted into car
The HP3-87 doesn't stray too far of brightness are perhaps a tiny could always grab a PS3 laptop dashboard, makes you
from the formula -- it adds an step behind the times. On the from your local online auction an instant carpooling
1 1 . 6 - i n c h s c r e e n t o a other hand, it's compatible with house. Which option will be superstar (video)
wraparound structure for your the Japan-only Torne DTV more useful (less useless?) we
Vladislav Savov (Engadget)
Let's faceIPAD
it, thepage
Toyota
59 Tacoma
Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:24:00 AM
has a long way to go before
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IPAD
APC unveils new Back-UPS models continued from page 58

being considered glamorous, or aesthetics can be forgiven for

Frank Zhang (CrunchGear)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 7:13:17 AM
APC by Schneider Electric
recently announced a new line
of Back-UPS Pro models. To
recap, UPS stands for
uninterrupted power supply (not
united postal service). These are
essentially backup batteries that
help keep your machine running
during blackouts and prevent
damage to your equipment from
surges. As with their previous
models, APC offers power-
saving outlets on their UPS
devices that automatically shut
down power to unused
peripherals. For instance, your
monitors, printers, and speakers
will automatically shut off
whenever your computer is
turned off or goes into sleep
mode. Apparently, this can save
as much as $50 per year in
electricity bill.
New features on the Back-UPS
Pro models include an LCD
panel that allows users to easily
scroll through critical diagnostic
information, as well as
automatic voltage regulation
capabilities that conserve battery
life and adjust voltages to safe
levels. The APC Back-UPS Pro
even remotely cool, but jacking
an iPad into its console might be
a good start. That's what the
good people of SoundMan Car
Audio over in California have
done with a little bit of elbow
grease and knowhow, and we've
got video of how it all came
together after the break. They've
yet to wire it up to the Audison
Bit One sound processor and
McIntosh MMC406M 6-channel
amp that are intended to receive
the iPad's audio goodies, but the
comes in a variety of models, important stuff of fitting and
offering from six to ten outlets molding the dash to its new 9.7-
and with a runtime from 92 to inch centerpiece is all done.
164 minutes. These products Alright, so the glossy black
will debut in North America screen and the demure grey
sometime in Q2 2010 with an plastic don't exactly sing in
estimated retail price from harmony, but surely the funky
$129.99 to $249.99.
the sake of accessing all your
media on the move. Right,
dawg?
Continue reading iPad gets
fitted into car dashboard, makes
you an instant carpooling
superstar (video)
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dashboard, makes you an instant
carpooling superstar (video)
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Tongfang Q5 MID has Android and Rockchip for under $300

Tablet powered by an 866MHz supports 720p HD. While the in China is doubtful as an iPod
(BestTabletReview.com) Rockchip RK2808 processor. Q5 certainly looks to have nicer Touch 8G sells for 1,650 yuan.
Submitted at 4/5/2010 7:18:31 AM The Q5 weighs a slight 7.4 specs than most Chinese-made Source: Cloned in China
ounces and measures 4.7 x 3.2 x MID products, it also has a Five Filters featured article:
The Tongfang Q5 Android 0.39 inches. higher-than-expected price. The Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
MID Other specs include 128MB or good news is that it’s available PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS,
Tongfang has introduced the RAM, a 4GB flash drive, WiFi now for 1,999 yuan ($293), but Term Extraction.
Q 5 w h i c h i s a 4 . 8 - i n c h a/b/g, SD card for storage for that much we wouldn’t
capacitive touchscreen MID that expansion, headphone jack, battery that’s rated for 7 hours expect it to find much of a
runs an Android OS and is accelerometer and 2200mAh of video playback. It also market outside of China. Even
60 Apple/ Economy/
How to Sync Multiple Calendars to the iPad With Google Sync
Kevin C. Tofel (TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 12:30:11 PM
Yes, we’ve covered Apple’s
iPad quite a bit this week. While
there are other happenings in the
mobile tech world, this was a
big one — besides, I haven’t
blogged much about it just yet.
Oh, I will — I’ve been spending
time with the device in bits and
pieces over this holiday
weekend — but I wanted to let
the dust settle in terms of
coverage. However, there’s one
tidbit I wanted to share now,
simply because it solves a
problem for Google Calendar
users that want to sync events
with their iPad using Google
Sync.
The problem is — using a
Microsoft Exchange setup for
Google accounts currently
works for one single calendar on
the iPad. I can’t have that, so I
scoured the web for a
workaround, found one in a
MacRumors forum, and used it
successfully. Here’s the method
to use until Google addresses
the issue for Apple’s iPad —
you’ll need to use the Safari
browser, although this might
Dumb Headline of the Day: Associated Press on OSTK
Barry Ritholtz (The Big
Picture)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:15:12 AM
Speaking of Deep Capture: This
has to be some of the worst
work with user agent string
spoofing on other browsers too:
• Open Safari and then view its
Preferences pane.
• In Preferences, go to the
Advanced tab and check “Show
Develop menu in menu bar.” If
you already have this checked,
you can skip this step. Close the
Preferences.
• In the Safari menu bar, you
should now see a Develop menu
option. Select it, choose the
business reporting/headline I
have ever seen: Overstock’s
brash CEO delivers 1st annual
profit
If you want to know what the
firm’s actual P&L is like, I
User Agent option and pick
“Mobile Safari 3.1.3 — iPhone”
This tells web sites that you’re
using the iPhone’s browser. You
need to do this to open up the
mobile site for the Google Sync
service.
• In Safari, browse to
http://m.google.com/sync and
sign in if needed. Normally
you’d do this on your mobile
device, but Google isn’t yet
recognizing the iPad properly. If
suggest you read people who
can perform basic addition and
subtraction.
Try these instead:
• Overstock.com’s New 10-K
Report Reveals Management
you try to configure Google
Sync from the iPad, it will say
“Sorry, Google Sync is not
supported on this device.”
• Now go to the Develop menu
in Safari and choose to Disable
JavaScript as shown by the
check mark below.
• Still in Safari, choose to
manage your iPad. In my list,
it’s the most recent device, but if
you use Google Sync across
multiple devices, it could appear
Deceptions, Major Internal
Control Problems, and Zero
Quality Earnings
• The Utah Newspapers Fail —
Again
Associated Press and Salt Lake
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anywhere in the list.
• In the next window, you’ll see
that Google says you can sync
up to one calendar to your
device. Ignore that message
because the workaround now
allows multiple calendar
selections. For instance, I chose
three primary calendars and
three shared calendars, offering
both work and family events in
one single view. Once you’ve
made your selections, click the
Save button. That should do it,
so don’t forget to undo the User
Agent change and re-enable
JavaScript in Safari. On the
iPad, here’s what the result
looks like less than a minute
after I ran through these steps:
I’m sure Google will address
the one calendar limitation with
Google Sync, but until they do,
you can easily work around the
issue in just a few minutes.
Hopefully that helps — and now
I’m off for some more iPad
playtime so I can share all my
thoughts soon.
Related iPad Content from
GigaOM Pro(sub req’d)
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Day One: 300,000 iPads Sold
Charles Jade (TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 7:34:49 AM
Apple has announced that on
Saturday more than 300,000
iPads were sold, including pre-
orders, deliveries to channel
partners, and sales at Apple
Retail Stores. Steve Jobs, no
doubt from his iPad, was
ebullient.“It feels great to have
the iPad launched into the
world—it’s going to be a game
changer. iPad users, on average,
downloaded more than three
apps and close to one book
within hours of unpacking their
new iPad.”
Regarding those applications
and books, iPad users
downloaded more than a million
apps and 250,000 e-books from
Apple’s iBookstore, but it’s the
iPad numbers that matter. While
the iPad had a solid first day of
sales, the numbers weren’t
exactly “magical.”
Just yesterday, sites like Apple
2.0 were reporting estimates by
financial analysts like Gene
Munster of between 600,000
and 700,000 iPad sales over the
weekend. Given first day sales,
and considering Best Buy was
closed on Sunday, as well as
some Apple Stores, that seems
highly unlikely now.
More on iPad
• iPhone OS 4 Event
Announced Mac Love
• 10 iPad Apps You Should
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Fable 2 follows the
breadcrumbs to
Games on Demand
Justin McElroy (Joystiq)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:30:00 AM
You've been able to download
Fable 2 through Xbox Live
episodically until now, but who
has time for all that thumb stick
manipulation, button pressing
and dashboard navigation?
Zeroes, that's who. Starting
today, you can buy the game
like a sane person: In one big
Buy Right Now Mac Love international. So the iPad devices like the Kindle. That chunk for $20 from Games on
• iPad: Our First Impressions outsold the iPhone on launch would definitely help overcome Demand.
Mac Love day, but who bought those iPads any “PC gap” the iPad might Major Nelson also announced
• iPhone vs. iPad: Do Games may prove more interesting. face and measurably boost that Fallout 3 is now available
Really Scale That Well? Mac Again via Apple 2.0, of the 448 future sales. on demand in Europe, Australia
Love iPad buyers surveyed by Piper But today, Apple has sold more and New Zealand, leaving India
Jaffray, some 74 percent were than 300,000 iPads, more than and Japan as the sole holdout
Without knowing Sunday’s Mac users. As Mac users the original iPhone, and even territories that can't experience
likely drastically reduced sales, represent only a tenth of the more could have been sold had the joy of nuclear devastation
an exact count for the launch personal computer users in the the 3G iPad been available. And with a single button press. Soon,
weekend can’t be had, but U.S., that could be problematic. yet, despite outselling the guys. Soon.
300,000 is the number that H o w e v e r , a m u c h b i g g e r iPhone, there just isn’t the same Fable 2 follows the
Apple wants the focus to be on. problem exists for Amazon, sense of “game changer” that breadcrumbs to Games on
T h e o r i g i n a l i P h o n e s o l d with 13 percent of respondents the came inside the box with the Demand originally appeared on
270,000 units during its first owning Kindles already and iPhone. Joystiq on Tue, 06 Apr 2010
weekend. While it’s true both buying iPads. Perhaps the iPad Related iPad Content from 09:30:00 EST. Please see our
iPhone 3G and 3GS sold more will become the multi-purpose GigaOM Pro(subscription terms for use of feeds.
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iPhone OS 4 Event Announced
Charles Jade (TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 11:18:36 AM
Less than a week after the iPad
launch, Apple has sent out
media invitations for a “sneak
peek of the next generation of
iPhone OS software.” The event
will take place this Thursday,
April 8, at 10:00 Pacific Time at
the Town Hall on Apple’s
Cupertino campus.
As usual, no additional details,
though the wording of the
invitation apparently means that
Apple will continue to use the
“iPhone” moniker for an
operating system used by the
iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.
Besides that, it’s all speculation,
so let’s begin!
Conventional rumor wisdom
strongly favors multi-tasking
being added to iPhone OS 4.
The sense is that multi-tasking
will be done via some kid of
Exposé-like interface, at least on
the iPad. On the handheld
devices, that’s hard to visualize.
It’s also hard to imagine
unfettered multi-tasking on
older iPhone OS devices. The
original iPhone, iPhone 3G, and
the first and second generation
iPod touch only have 128MB
RAM on board, compared to
256MB RAM for the iPhone
3GS, third generation iPod
touch, and the iPad.
More on iPhone
• I Took It Off and I Feel Fine
Mac Love
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PSA: Xbox 360
USB storage update
now available
Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 8:30:00 AM
The Xbox 360 system update
enabling USB storage is live and
ready to help you explore the
joyous world of non-proprietary
storage options. Rules are the
same as previously noted: USB
devices need to be over 1GB,
but can only use 16GB of
available storage. Users can use
two sticks at once for 32GB, but
• iPhone Development provide free updates “up to and HD has been the rumored can switch out units any time,
Alternatives: Code Without including the next major iPad favorite, suggesting a big limiting their storage potential
Objective-C Mac Love OS software release following increase in display resolution, by how many USB devices
• How-To: Fake a Unified the version of iPad OS software perhaps more than doubling the they've got lying around.
Email Inbox on the iPhone Mac that originally shipped from current 320 by 480. That would The update takes approximately
Love Apple on your iPad.” Because simplify development going five minutes with a standard
• 3 Reasons Why the Verizon of new accounting rules, Apple forward with the iPad, but it’s cable connection. For those who
iPhone Rumor Is True Mac may very well no longer provide hard to imagine Apple letting don't believe in internets, the
Love free updates to iPhone and iPad that surprise out before the update will also be available on
users, while continuing to launch of the next iPhone, the branded 16 GB Xbox 360
Beyond that, there have been charge iPod touch users for OS expected this summer. USB sticks set to debut in May.
rumors of multi-touch gestures, updates. Honestly, that wouldn’t TheAppleBlog will, of course, PSA: Xbox 360 USB storage
as well as a unified inbox for be a big surprise from Apple. be providing coverage of all the update now available originally
Mail but there’s also a less- The biggest surprise likely d a y ’ s s u r p r i s e s a n d n o t - appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 06
r e p o r t e d i s s u e o f p r i c e . won’t be answered Thursday at surprises, so be sure to check Apr 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please
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10 iPad Apps You Should Buy Right Now

Alex Layne (TheAppleBlog) Journal), it’s free. You can also
Submitted at 4/5/2010 9:00:17 AM listen to audio while you’re
reading. Scrabble
So, you got your shiny new The classic board game is even
iPad on Saturday and you’ve more fun on a bigger screen.
done all the basic stuff on it: And, if you’ve got a spare
web browsing, email, video. But iPhone or iPod touch, you can
now that the awesomeness of use them as trays for your letters
that has worn off, it’s time to get with the free Scrabble Tile Rack
some new apps. Here are the app. Seriously. $9.99. Plants V.
ones you should buy first. Zombies HD
Netflix One of the most popular tower-
Imagine holding the entire defense games on the iPhone,
Netflix instant watch database in optimized for the iPad, though
your hands. This is it. The app is it’s not really HD. $9.99.
free, but you’ll need a Netflix Civilization Revolution
subscription if you don’t already Adapted from the iPhone app
have one. IMDb Family with an actual iPad. RSS reader. This one is a port of a dedicated map interface built- and optimized for the iPad. If
IMDb is an iPad-friendly (Ironically, ABC currently has a the popular Mac RSS reader of in, and it syncs between the you’re familiar with Sid Meier’s
version of the Internet Movie Flash banner on its website the same name. Syncs across iPhone and desktop clients. Civilization series, or just like
Database. So, while you’re a d v e r t i s i n g t h i s a p p . ) your Mac, iPhone, and iPad via Free. NPR conquering stuff, then this app
watching movies with Netflix, S t u m b l e U p o n G o o g l e R e a d e r . $ 9 . 9 9 . The interface is a clean, should be a revelation of how a
you can settle arguments about The popular browser-based T w e e t d e c k magazine-like representation of touchscreen can bring old
them with this. Free. ABC content discovery extension has Much like the desktop version, NPR’s content, and unlike other gaming mechanisms to life.
Player its first foray into the mobile with its multi-column interface. news apps that are charging $12.99.
A perfectly optimized version app market. Free. NetNewsWire Supports as many accounts as ridiculous monthly subscription Related iPad Content from
of ABC’s website, so you can Because every device needs an you want, has geo-location and f e e s ( a h e m , W a l l S t r e e t G i g a O M P r o ( s u b s c r i p t i o n
watch the iPad on Modern required)

'Dancing With The Stars' - 'Performance #2' Recap

Michael Pascua (TV Squad) season for online voters, the The Stars' - 'Performance #2'
Submitted at 4/6/2010 8:52:00 AM voting cutoff is now 11am Recap
Eastern/8am Pacific the next Filed under: OpEd, Dancing
( S10E04)'Dancing with the day. I've never met anyone who With The Stars, Episode
Stars' continues this week with actually voted the day after, but Reviews
three dances: Waltz, Quickstep, it is now one hour less than Permalink| Email this| |
or Paso Doble. Along with the previously. Comments
dances, each contestant had to Professionals performance- We
create a storyline that would be get an example of the three perform, I already miss Lacey's a l s o p e r f o r m s , a n d w e ' l l
told through the dance. dances we see tonight, with hips. She could have had an probably see him on tomorrow's
There was a slight readjustment Jonathan, Anna D., Lacey, and interesting challenge with Chad results show.
of voting for the rest of the Dmitri. After watching the four or Aiden. Val, Maks' brother, Continue reading'Dancing With
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I Took It Off and I Feel Fine

Patrick Hunt (TheAppleBlog)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 11:00:15 AM

I’ve been reading all the

reports, like this one from our
own Darrell Etherington, about
how Apple is removing film-
based screen protectors from its
stores. Multiple accounts
suggest that this is for one or
both of two key reasons: First,
the mere presence of them in the
store suggests somehow that the
iPhone needs them when in fact
it doesn’t; and second, the Duke, Butler Save Best
liability to Apple of imperfect
applications is simply too great
to ignore.
shirt or another clean soft cloth snaps on without adding any for Last
(as long as I’m not eating chips significant weight or bulk. I Brett McMurphy (FanHouse That was dead on -- but only a
I’ve got both a case and screen Main)
while using the iPhone). I also keep my iPhone in the same tad too strong.
protector on my iPhone 3GS,
realized that I long ago set the pocket as my keys, and I really Butler needed a miracle and
and I used cases and screen Submitted at 4/5/2010 8:50:00 PM
brightness of my iPhone really want to preserve the back for nearly got it, but Duke survived
protectors for the original
low to conserve battery power. I resell value. Without the case, Filed under: Butler, Duke, with a pulsating 61-59 victory.
iPhone and iPhone 3G as well.
used to travel much more than I I’d be afraid that it would be NCAA Tournament "That was not a game that
Upon reading these reports, I
do now, and often found myself scratched too much. The case INDIANAPOLIS -- In the anyone lost," Duke coach Mike
did the same thing that any
needing to conserve my battery also has a slightly more matte, NCAA tournament's remarkable Krzyzewski said.
cautious and deliberate person
for necessary phone calls and tactile feel that still slides in and three-week run that featured Just before the final buzzer
would do. I threw caution to the
email. Now I’m always closer to out of my pocket easily but buzzer-beaters, David slaying sounded inside Lucas Oil
wind and tore off the screen
a power source for a recharge, doesn’t slide across the table or G o l i a t h s a n d t h e m o s t Stadium, Hayward let it fly from
protector, which was in need of
and a friend gifted me a Mophie get slippery with sweaty palms compelling Cinderella story half-court. A rainbow heave that
replacement anyway.
Juice Pack not too long ago for (I know, I know). since, well, Cinderella, Duke arced toward the basket until it
Despite my hesitation, I have to
times when I’m off the grid. If you’re using a screen and Butler somehow saved the banged off the backboard and
say that I prefer my iPhone
I haven’t gone completely protector, you might want to do best for last. hit the front of the rim.
without a screen protector.
native, though. I kept the case. what I did and take it off. It’s Monday night's national final However, the cylinder couldn't
Images are more clear, the user
I’ll have to do some digging to almost like getting a brand-new came down to one last shot. hold the basketball and it fell off
interface responds to touch
remember which one it is, but iPhone. At the buzzer. From half-court. the rim.
controls much better, and the
it’s a very low-profile, hard Image courtesy of Flickr user Gordon Hayward's Hail Mary.
screen is really easy to keep
shell case that simply and easily williamhook
clean with a quick wipe on my t-
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NCAA Title Game Diary: Duke 61, Butler 59

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Submitted at 4/5/2010 4:30:24 PM

Associated Press Miles Plumlee

(21) and his Duke teammates
celebrate the Blue Devils’
national championship.
Journal staffers Darren Everson
and Geoff Foster offer
commentary on Duke’s 61-59
victory over Butler in the
NCAA tournament’s
championship game. Everson is
at Lucas Oil Stadium in
Indianapolis, while Foster
comments on the CBS telecast.
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7:35 pm | Pregame | by Darren
Everson
Will it be the quintessential
David? Or the game's pre-
eminent Goliath?
Duke University is actually
only a couple thousand
undergraduates larger than
4,000-student Butler. In terms of
basketball stature, though,
there's a bit more of a difference
between the two. Butler,
however, can strike arguably the Villanova in 1985 is the Series was a much bigger might be Brigham Young, the that. This may not be
biggest blow for small schools tournament's classic underdog underdog -- seeded fourth in 1984 football national remembered as one of coach
ever when the obscure story, but the Wildcats were a their regional, the Bulldogs were champion. But that title remains Mike Krzyzewski's great Duke
Indianapolis school faces member of a major conference. not among the 64-team highly debatable, since BYU teams, but the Blue Devils have
mighty Duke tonight for NCAA (And they'd played Georgetown tournament's top 48 seeds. But played a schedule of dubious had little trouble marching
men's basketball national close twice before knocking off that's college baseball, not a strength, concluding with a bowl through the tournament, their
championship. the Hoyas in the title game.) The nationally mainstream sport like victory over a Michigan team closest victory coming by seven
Has there ever been a champion Fresno State baseball team that college football or basketball. that finished 6-6.
won the 2008 College World The most similar recent case This, however, would not be NCAA page 66
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points. And if Duke shoots
anywhere near as well tonight as
it did Saturday against West
Virginia (13 of 25 on three-
pointers), it's hard to see how
this ends well for Cinderella.
9:20 pm | Pregame | by Darren
Everson
Moments from the tip. Matt
Howard, the Butler center who
sustained a mild concussion
Saturday, is in the starting
lineup.
9:23 pm | by Geoff Foster
Itâs good to see that Howard is
playing. This is seemingly the
first game in two weeks where
both teams are at full strength.
In many ways, this tournament
has been defined by the injuries:
Lucas, Butler, Bryant, Onuaku,
even Hummel.
After the games, instead of
âOne Shining Moment,â they
are just going to run the opening
credits of M*A*S*H*.
9:23 pm | by Darren Everson
Probably don't even need to
mention the who the crowd is
behind. You could barely hear
Jim Nantz's voice during the
Butler player introductions.
9:24 pm | by Darren Everson
Onuaku -- totally forgot about
that one! What a year it's been
for injuries. Fitting that it's an
issue one last time in the title
game.
9:25 pm | by Geoff Foster
As Darren pointed out earlier,
this Duke team lacks the star
power of previous years. Itâs
been four years since they had a
consensus first-team All-
American (J.J. Redick, Sheldon
Williams). I think thatâs the
reason a lot of pundits pegged
them to be a No. 1 seed who
flopped early.
9:27 pm | Butler 1-0; 19:44 left,
1st Half | by Darren Everson
Great early sign for Butler:
Howard attacks the basket on
the game's first possession and
draws a foul.
9:27 pm | by Geoff Foster
Howard's free throw form is
wretched. He looks a middle-
schooler who's worried about
airballing a free throw.
9:29 pm | Duke 6-1; 17:00 left,
1st Half | by Darren Everson
Uh, check that about great signs
for Butler. Duke is off to an
early lead with a couple of
scores inside. And the Blue
Devils are easily clearing the
boards with their size advantage.
9:30 pm | by Geoff Foster
Butler picks up where they left
off: Laying bricks.
9:32 pm | Duke 6-4; 16:16 left,
1st Half | by Darren Everson
However ... Duke's Lance
Thomas picks up a quick pair of
fouls and has to sit. Not a
pivotal player, Thomas, but it
does force Krzyzewski to go to
freshman Mason Plumlee
quickly.
9:33 pm | by Geoff Foster
Mack blamed his cramping on
Saturday on food-poisoning.
Which proves an age old credo:
donât eat shellfish in
Indianapolis.
9:35 pm | by Geoff Foster
Prior to the game, coaches Bill
Self, John Thompson III, Gary
Williams, and Lorenzo Romar
all picked Duke to win. Yet, all
hedged and said nice things
about Butler.
Way to go out on a limb guys.
9:39 pm | Duke 8-7; 13:50 left,
1st Half | by Darren Everson
Duke is playing man-to-man
and checking Butler star Gordon
Hayward with a couple different
guys: Plumlee for a while and
now Thomas, who has checked
back in (despite the two fouls).
It's worked so far: Hayward has
missed his only shot, a
fadeaway.
9:40 pm | Duke 8-7; 13:40 left,
1st Half | by Geoff Foster
Zoubek also coming back in;
they are far more intimidating
with him on the court.
9:41 pm | Duke 11-9; 12:30
left, 1st Half | by Darren
Everson
That's a good call about
Zoubek. Already it's clear he's
too strong for Butler inside.
9:43 pm | Duke 16-14; 11:05
left, 1st Half (second auto
timeout) | by Darren Everson
Both teams finding themselves
offensively now. Butler takes a
brief lead on a three-pointer by
reserve guard Zach Hahn, but
Duke comes right back,
continuing to attack inside.
9:45 pm | Duke 16-14; 11:05
left, 1st Half (second auto
timeout) | by Darren Everson
Butler is 5 for its first 15 from
the field. The Bulldogs sure get
a lot done for a team that makes
a third of its shots.
9:46 pm | Duke 16-14, 11:05
left, 1st Half | by Geoff Foster
Singler buries a three to take
the lead back. You cant leave
any Blue Devil open from three-
point land...Except maybe
Zoubek ⦠and probably some of
the bench guys, Iâve never
heard of.
9:46 pm | by Darren Everson
There's a cop here who has
twice confronted reporters
snapping pictures on press row
and told them to cease and
desist. One more time and he
pulls his pistol.
9:48 pm | 18-18 tie; 9:30 left,
1st Half | by Darren Everson
Combined free-throw shooting
by both teams: 4 of 10. Oy.
9:48 pm | by Geoff Foster
The seven-foot-one Zoubek just
seems like a bigger, scarier
version of Butler big man Matt
Howard. Basically, heâs
Clubber Lang to Howardâs
Apollo Creed.
9:49 pm | Butler 20-18; 8:21
left, 1st Half | by Darren
Everson
Well, we're a quarter into this
game, and there's no sign
whatsoever that Butler is out of
its depth. As was the case
against Syracuse, and Kansas
State, and Michigan State.
When will we learn?
9:51 pm | Butler 20-18; 8:33
left, 1st Half | by Geoff Foster
Speaking of Howard, he just
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picked up his second foul. On
the other end, Scheyer gets
caught traveling. They seem to
be playing a little panicky.
9:54 pm | by Geoff Foster
As a Georgetown fan I must
take a brief moment to point out
that the Hoyas beat both of these
teams in the regular season. But
while these teams battle it out in
Indianapolis, the Hoyas spent
the weekend in DC, visiting the
Air and Space museum and
eating astronaut ice cream.
9:55 pm | Butler 20-18; 7:54
left, 1st Half (third auto timeout)
| by Darren Everson
Howard (0 for 4) picked up his
second foul for Butler. Not good
for the underdog Bulldogs.
But this is: Duke is 1 for 5 on
threes so far after making half of
them against West Virginia.
9:55 pm | by Darren Everson
That's right -- Georgetown did
beat both of these guys!
Smacked Duke around, actually.
But those Ohio Bobcats ... just
too feisty.
9:55 pm | by Geoff Foster
It took 14 game minutes for the
announcers to mention Brad
Stevens' age. We are still
waiting on the first reference to
the gym from 'Hoosiers'
9:56 pm | Duke 21-20; 6:19
left, 1st Half | by Darren
Everson
Hayward tried to check Zoubek
on Duke's last possession.
Butler can't be serious with that.
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Zoubek easily scored over him,
as you'd expect.
9:57 pm | 20-20 tie; 6:22 left,
1st Half | by Geoff Foster
Scheyer missing free throws?
That's definitely jitters. He's
automatic normally.
10:01 pm | Duke 26-20; 5:08
left, 1st Half | by Darren
Everson
Stevens was eerily calm all
game against Michigan State on
Saturday. Early on, when his
team was behind, he calmly said
"we'll be all right." It was as if
he could tell they didn't have
much to worry about.
He's more animated tonight.
Just called timeout to try to
short-circuit a mini Duke run.
Part of the reason he's more
demonstrative is surely because
of what's on the line, but it's also
probably because his team is at
a pretty clear deficit size- and
talent-wise.
10:03 pm | Duke 26-20; 6:19
left, 1st Half | by Geoff Foster
Scheyer sinks a three to shut me
up; is he reading this live blog
on his iPhone? It's quite timely
for Duke that Scheyer has gotten
the hot hand of late. He was icy
cold going into this tournament.
In his last three ACC games, he
went a combined 5 for 21 from
3-point land. The last two games
heâs gone 10 of 19.
10:03 pm | Butler 27-26; 3:25
left, 1st Half | by Darren
Everson
There's Hayward! A spin move
for a layup by the Butler star,
then a three by Avery Jukes, and
Butler is suddenly back on top.
10:08 pm | Duke 28-27; 3:00
left, 1st Half | by Geoff Foster
Every Duke player seemed
shocked that Jukes actually took
that shot.
10:09 pm | Duke 30-27; 1:52
left, 1st Half | by Geoff Foster
Hayward just got away with a
flagrant travel. Dribbling is
usually required in this game
during attempts to advance the
ball.
Anyway, refs called a jump
ball, which is essentially what
refs call when they are unsure
what just happened.
10:10 pm | Duke 30-27; 1:52
left, 1st Half (timeout) | by
Darren Everson
Coach K just laid into his team
during this timeout. Appeared to
have something to do with the
nine offensive boards they've
given up. Lots of words that will
not be repeated at his next
business-school leadership
conference.
10:11 pm | Duke 33-32; 10
seconds left, 1st Half | by
Darren Everson
"Jukes." What a great basketball
name.
"Jukes" apparently doesn't have
awesome "ups": He just missed
a dunk. But he followed up his
own miss for a score, then hit a
jumper.
10:13 pm | Duke 33-32;
Halftime | by Darren Everson
If ever a team was disgusted
despite being in the lead, it's
Duke.
The Blue Devils are getting
killed on the offensive boards.
(Ten now for Butler.) They're
bricking their free throws.
(Nolan Smith just missed the
front end of a 1-and-1, leaving
them 4-of-9.)
They're up, but they surely
know they can't keep this up.
10:24 pm | Duke 33-32;
Halftime | by Darren Everson
So here's where we stand.
Butler is again shooting a poor
percentage -- .342, which is
actually up from .302 against
Michigan State on Saturday --
but offensive rebounds are
sustaining the Bulldogs. That
shooting percentage is also a
little misleading; a number of
Butler's misses have been on put
-back attempts that they couldn't
finish against the taller, stronger
Blue Devils.
Reserve forward Avery Jukes
has a clutch, game-high 10 for
Butler. Kyle Singler and Nolan
Smith have nine each for Duke,
which is shooting 50% overall
but a mortal 3-of-10 from three-
point range.
10:26 pm | by Geoff Foster
Da'Sean Butler is talking to
CBS. I thought the most
interesting part of that episode
was what Huggins was saying to
the refs before he started
consoling Butler. "They don't
commit fouls?" Suggesting a
alleged bias toward Duke.
Butler has a torn ACL, which is
a shame. Terrible timing for
someone who was most likely
going to the NBA. Reminded
me of when Miami's Willis
McGahee blew out his knee in
the National Championship
game versus Ohio State.
10:27 pm | by Geoff Foster
Evan Turner wins the
Naismith!!!!!!!
Oh wait, they announced it
yesterday. Why is the Naismith
Award about 1/100 as
interesting as the Heisman?
10:34 pm | Butler 34-33; 19:30
left, 2nd Half | by Darren
Everson
Nice start to the half for Butler,
which gets a stop and two free
throws from Hayward to retake
the lead.
10:36 pm | Duke 36-34; 18:20
left, 2nd Half | by Darren
Everson
Howard just went flying out of
bounds competing with Zoubek
for a loose ball. But hey, he got
a jump ball out of it (and
possession for Butler)!
10:39 pm | Duke 36-34; 19:20
left; 2nd Half | by Geoff Foster
There were two calls that went
the Bulldogs way. A foul on
Howard that was called a jump
ball and a foul call on Zoubek
that looked suspect.
10:40 pm | 38-38 tie; 17:21 left,
2nd Half | by Darren Everson
Howard scores ... but then picks
up his third while fighting
Zoubek on Butler's defensive
glass. Has to come out.
Butler probably can't win
without him. There's no one else
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to stand up to Zoubek.
10:41 pm | 40-40 tie; 16:00 left,
2nd Half | by Geoff Foster
Even though the shots aren't
falling of late, Duke is grabbing
plenty of offensive boards.
Butler needs to be stronger on
the glass down the stretch.
10:42 pm | by Geoff Foster
This just in: Count Chocula has
slipped past security and he is
on the court near the Duke
bench.
Wait..sorryâ¦thatâs just Coach
K. Phew.
10:43 pm | 40-40 tie; 15:14 left,
2nd Half (first auto timeout) | by
Darren Everson
It's tied, but Duke assistant
coach Nate James just sounded
the alarm to the Devils. "They're
playing harder!" James yelled,
referring to the Bulldogs.
"They're playing harder!"
10:45 pm | by Geoff Foster
Is anyone out there actually
rooting for Butler? How could
you resist the majesty of Duke
basketball?
10:46 pm | Duke 42-40; 14:08
left, 2nd Half | by Darren
Everson
Big sequence: Scheyer gets a
put-back on an ugly possession
for Duke, and Howard gets his
fourth for Butler.
10:47 pm | Butler 43-42; 13:09
left, 2nd Half | by Geoff Foster
I hope Howard has a magazine
or a Gameboy; he'll be sitting
for the next ten minutes.
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10:48 pm | Butler 43-42; 13:10
left, 2nd Half | by Darren
Everson
Every time things look
remotely dire for Butler,
something like this happens:
Ronald Nored hits a three,
pushing the Bulldogs back in
front.
10:51 pm | Duke 45-43; 13:00
left, 2nd Half | by Geoff Foster
Singler answers with a three;
neither team seems willing to let
the other go on a run. Singler
has an aura of clutch, he's taking
the last shot if it gets there, I
suspect.
10:53 pm | Duke 45-43; 13:02
left, 2nd Half | by Darren
Everson
Singler hits a three to vault
Duke back in front.
Fan annoyance with the
officiating is rising. (Imagine
that, at a Duke game!) The foul
count isn't that lopsided: 11 on
Butler, seven on Duke. But the
four on Howard is killer.
10:54 pm | Duke 45-43; 12:30
left, 2nd Half | by Geoff Foster
Three on Zoubek now.
Something to watch.
Jukes clangs both off the rim;
thatâs a disaster.
10:54 pm | Duke 47-43; 11:30
left, 2nd Half | by Darren
Everson
A couple of rough possessions
for the underdog: Jukes misses a
pair of free throws, Zoubek
comes free for an easy score,
and then Hayward gets called
for a charge.
Careful, Butler ...
10:56 pm | Duke 47-43; 11:21
left, 2nd Half (second auto
timeout) | by Darren Everson
Make that four on Zoubek!
The big man spikes his towel to
the ground and screams at his
teammates in the huddle to get it
going. Cheerleader will have to
be his role for the next few
minutes.
10:57 pm | Duke 47-43; 11:20
left, 2nd Half | by Geoff Foster
Zoubek and Howard are now
playing Hungry Hungry Hippos
on the sidelines, while they wait
off the foul trouble.
10:58 pm | by Geoff Foster
The line was Duke -7. Which
was pretty expected, Duke
draws tons of action on name
value alone. The real line should
have been closer to -5
10:59 pm | Duke 47-45; 11:15
left, 2nd Half | by Darren
Everson
To the reader out there who's
wondering: Duke is a seven-
point favorite tonight. Doesn't
look like the Devils are seven
points better, but things
obviously can sway quickly in
the closing stages when the free-
throw parade begins.
11:00 pm | Duke 49-47; 10:46
left, 2nd Half | by Darren
Everson
Hayward starting to assert
himself now. Gotten to the foul
line on Butler's last two trips.
Made all four free throws; has
10 points now.
11:03 pm | Duke 51-49; 8:49
left, 2nd Half | by Darren
Everson
Butler has so many guys
capable of making a big shot.
This time it's Mack who scores
inside, pulling the Bulldogs
within two.
Zoubek checks back in. With
his four fouls.
11:04 pm | Duke 51-49; 8:07
left, 2nd Half | by Darren
Everson
Hayward drives right at him,
but to no avail, missing and
drawing no contact.
11:05 pm | Duke 51-49; 8:00
left, 2nd Half | by Geoff Foster
Zoubek is back on the court, he
will be playing very timidly.
Which isn't exactly playing to
his strengths...
11:06 pm | Duke 53-49; 7:58
left, 2nd Half (third auto
timeout) | by Darren Everson
Big play by Scheyer just before
the timeout: a score and a foul
on Butler's Jukes, who now has
four.
11:06 pm | by Geoff Foster
Oh my. This is a classic. The
"One Shining Moment" video
editors are on the verge of a
nervous breakdown in a CBS
truck somewhere.
11:06 pm | by Geoff Foster
Why did they make another
Robin Hood? Come on! Russell
Crowe, no less. Wasn't Prince of
Thieves enough to satisfy us for
a half decade?
11:08 pm | Duke 54-49; 7:45
left, 2nd Half | by Darren
Everson
Quiet building right now. Lots
of tense faces.
Butler is only down four, but
the Bulldogs have problems.
Howard and Jukes have four
fouls apiece.
11:10 pm | Duke 54-51; 7:10
left, 2nd Half | by Darren
Everson
Commercials. Reason No.
4,080 why it's good to be here in
person.
I sincerely hope you've been
forced to watch that Southwest
Airlines ad with the unfunny
baggage handlers as much as I
did last week.
11:12 pm | Duke 56-51; 6:50
left, 2nd Half | by Geoff Foster
How many Duke fans are
there? With the Butler students
wearing that light blue, it's hard
to tell them apart.
11:12 pm | Duke 56-51; 5:42
left, 2nd Half (timeout Butler) |
by Darren Everson
Butler led for most of the
second half against Syracuse,
Kansas State and Michigan
State. Not so tonight.
The Bulldogs are attacking
inside but still not finishing.
Despite his foul trouble, Zoubek
is still changing shots.
11:14 pm | Duke 56-51; 5:30
left, 2nd Half | by Geoff Foster
That's the second time this half
Nored has missed a very easy
layup; he's going to be thinking
about those tonight. I will be
thinking about the Capital One
Vikings on the beach. One of
which, I believe is Ogre from
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Revenge of the Nerds.
11:14 pm | Duke 56-53; 5:34
left, 2nd Half | by Darren
Everson
There's a few thousand Dukies,
but they're well in the minority.
And the Butler blue is a deeper
hue. You should be able to tell
that in HD!
11:15 pm | by Geoff Foster
I'm in 2-D.
Fail.
11:16 pm | Duke 56-53; 5:20
left, 2nd Half | by Geoff Foster
Crafty move by Stevens to
alternate Jukes and Howard on
defense and offense.
11:18 pm | Duke 56-55; 5:02
left, 2nd Half (timeout Duke) |
by Darren Everson
Hayward gets fouled hard by
Duke's Thomas, prompting
everyone in the building to beg
for an intentional foul. Doesn't
happen. There's just no way a
ref is making that call in this
spot without a gun to his head.
But Hayward does what stars
do: Make his free throws.
11:18 pm | by Geoff Foster
Good call on the non-flagrant,
that looked far worse than it was
because he was kinda out of
control and running full speed.
There wasn't a terrible amount
of contact.
11:21 pm | Duke 58-55; 3:16
left, 2nd Half (final auto
timeout) | by Darren Everson
Zoubek is just killing Butler.
The Bulldogs get a stop, but
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Tiger Woods denies drug use, says golf wasn't fun

Bob Harig (ESPN.com) linked as a provider of his Nov. 27 SUV accident just business associates and
Submitted at 4/6/2010 4:36:49 AM performance-enhancing drugs to outside of his Florida driveway. promising to "make amends,
other athletes. That mysterious run-in with a and that starts by never
For the first time, Woods fire hydrant and a tree began a repeating the mistakes I've
• Email disclosed that in addition to stream of negative publicity that made. It's up to me to start
• Print recovering from reconstructive continued with numerous living a life of integrity."
• Comments knee surgery in late 2008, he reports of extramarital affairs, Just less than a month later, on
• Share also tore his Achilles tendon in chance on Monday at Augusta his leave from the game, a stint March 16, Woods announced
• his right foot late that year. National. Check in with how it in undisclosed rehab and a that he would be returning to
Woods admitted to undergoing unfolded. Story gradual return to the public golf at the Masters. On March
By Bob Harig a procedure known as platelet- The procedure is legal under glare. 21, he gave his first interviews,
ESPN.com rich plasma (PRP), which helps the PGA Tour's drug testing Tiger Woods News Conference five minutes each to ESPN and
Archive speed the healing process. He policy. Tiger Woods' news conference Golf Channel. Monday was the
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Despite said he chose Dr. Anthony Woods also denied that Galea from Augusta National after a first time he took questions in an
winning numerous times over Galea -- who is under federal g a v e h i m h u m a n g r o w t h practice round for the Masters. extended format.
the past several years, including investigation in a drugs case -- hormone. More Podcasts » Typically, Woods would have
major championships, Tiger because of his work with other "I've never taken any illegal Woods said that he had five fielded queries in a pre-
Woods admitted Monday that athletes. Galea came to Woods' drug in my life," Woods said. stitches in his mouth after the tournament setting with topics
golf was not fun because of all house to perform the procedure. Woods said that his agent, infamous Thanksgiving night such as why he has not won the
the turmoil in his personal life. The platelet-rich plasma Mark Steinberg, has been car crash. Masters in five years or why he
That's why, Woods said, he is treatment Woods cited was contacted by federal Woods also said he made has claimed just one green
looking forward to the start of introduced in the 1970s for investigators about Galea, who "some incredibly bad decisions" jacket in his past seven attempts.
the Masters on Thursday, his surgical uses in hospitals. It h a s b e e n c h a r g e d w i t h and "hurt so many people." He But after a break from golf of
first tournament since a sordid didn't enter sports medicine until dispensing illegal drugs in both again said that he takes all the nearly five months, the answers
sex scandal put his career on a decade ago. In the 30-minute Canada and the United States. blame for allowing his life to to those questions were left for
hold. procedure, a tube of a patient's W o o d s v o w e d h i s f u l l fall apart and refused to say why another day.
"Look at what I was engaged blood is put in a centrifuge and cooperation. he spent 45 days in Among the subjects he
in," Woods said to a packed spun, producing concentrated "They contacted my agent and rehabilitation. He said he addressed among the 48
interview room at Augusta platelets. The platelets contain w i l l g e t f u l l c o o p e r a t i o n intends to continue with his questions asked:
National Golf Club, where growth factors that accelerate whenever they need me, but treatment. • On why he didn't speak to the
Woods held his first news tissue repair and regeneration. right now they haven't asked for While his wife, Elin, won't be police, sponsors or the media in
conference in more than five The platelets then are injected my time," he said. joining him at Augusta, Woods the five weeks following the
months. "When you're living a into the injury site. Asked why he did not address still believes he can win his fifth accident and before he entered
life that is a lie, life isn't fun ... PRP is gaining popularity the issue earlier -- The New green jacket after a five-month rehab: "I did everything to the
that's been stripped away. It a m o n g i n j u r e d " w e e k e n d York Times first reported layoff. letter of the law. The lawyers
feels fun again." warriors" and their insurers Galea's link to Woods in "Nothing's changed," Woods gave me advice and I followed
Woods' highly anticipated news because its $2,000 cost is a December -- the golfer said it said. "Going to go out there and that advice. I did everything to
conference before more than fraction of that for potential was because he had not had the try to win this thing." the letter of the law."
200 reporters lasted 34 minutes surgeries. forum to discuss it, and wasn't Woods made his first public • On showing more respect to
and included all range of Woods front and center asked in the two televised comments on Feb. 19 at PGA the game, as he vowed to do in
questions, including why he Galleries and fans hadn't seen interviews last month. Tour headquarters in Ponte February: "I made a conscious
chose to receive treatment from Tiger Woods on a golf course Woods' world -- and that of Vedra Beach, Fla., apologizing
golf -- has changed greatly since to his family, friends and TIGER page 75
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Can Butler Complete the Miracle?

(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) Neither of Saturday’s Final They’ve inspired each other are happy to chase McNabb out
Submitted at 4/5/2010 8:24:16 AM Four games was especially with their own reel of Butler the door. Less partial observers
scintillating. Duke blew out Plays.” see the move as lending instant
It’s tempting to say that no one West Virginia and Butler edged Be sure to follow our live blog credibility to the ‘Skins.* * *
predicted the matchup between Michigan State in a brick- of the game tonight, with Darren The Masters doesn’t tee off
Duke and Butler in Monday intensive mistake-fest that Everson courtside in until Thursday, but the players
night’s NCAA Final. Both played out like a mid-January Indianapolis and Geoff Foster and the media are already
schools had excellent regular Big Ten game. But the contrast TV-side in New York.* * * warming up. Perhaps golf fans
seasons, feature a few battle- between deep-pocketed macro- playing its best basketball could After years of grousing and and readers should do the same.
tested stars and benefited from power Duke and small, obscure- very well stop Butler’s run. This grumping about quarterback We’re all aware of the ways in
advantageous brackets. But ish Butler is plenty dramatic in isn’t the cosmic tragedy that Donovan McNabb, the anti- which Tiger Woods’s rampant
given the presence of super- its own right. Daily Fix editors some Duke haters might McNabb faction among sexting have intensified the
talented programs such as have imposed an embargo on imagine, but that doesn’t make Philadelphia Eagles fans got spotlight at this year’s Masters,
Kansas and Kentucky in the r e f e r e n c e s t o t h e f i l m it any more appealing. what they wanted this Easter but the circus that looms at the
tournament field, this particular “Hoosiers” as it relates to “Truthfully, the Duke-bashing is when their team traded the five- end of the week probably
outcome seemed somewhere Butler, but well, you saw the a little played out,” the Journal’s time Pro Bowler to the requires some warming up on
between unlikely and impossible movie. It’s easy to see how Jason Gay writes. “They stand Washington Redskins for a pair our part, too. So get loose with
a couple weeks ago. Reuters It’s sports pundits and fans alike for success and integrity. Duke of draft picks. In Washington, some blow-by-blow coverage of
not at the top of the list of could get fired up about this isn’t evil. Duke is Coldplay.” McNabb will join new head Tiger’s trips to the practice tee
NCAA tournament surprises this one. This is doubly true with Which would make the coach Mike Shanahan, who won and analysis of the crowd
year, but who’d have thunk a Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski tenacious Butler squad, um, The two Super Bowls in Denver with response Tiger has elicited at
team playing in the final would s e e m i n g l y d e t e r m i n e d t o Zero Boys? (There aren’t a ton John Elway — another Augusta National. There’s
be led by a guy with the first embrace his role as a humorless of decent bands from quarterback who entered his plenty more on the way.* * *
name of Gordon? villain and Butler star Gordon Indianapolis, readers.) While early 30s with great stats and a In a dorm room somewhere,
O f c o u r s e , t h r e e s a v v y Hayward drawing Larry Bird Butler does seem to have rep for not being able to win the someone is spinning a theory
prognosticators did see this comparisons from reasonable something half-magical working big one. about the relentlessly hyped
coming. They’re five-year-old sportswriters. for it, Sports Illustrated’s Luke “Fans and media who have been rivalry between the Boston Red
triplets, they picked Butler at But all those pregame Winn argues that the secret pushing for the Eagles to make a Sox and the New York Yankees,
least in part because it starts narratives won’t matter when ingredient in Butler’s change of this magnitude like to which you might know as
with “butt,” and they’ve almost the game starts. When that momentum is effort. cite Einstein’s definition of Baseball’s Greatest Rivalry. But
certainly scored more points in happens, the dinged-up and out- “[Matt] Howard’s save, insanity: doing the same thing did you ever think it might not
their bracket pool than you have gunned Bulldogs will be on their [Gordon] Hayward’s dive, over and over while expecting a be baseball’s greatest rivalry if
in yours. We’ve been over this. own, if not without momentum. [Willie] Veasley’s tip, [Shelvin] different result,” the they didn’t keep telling us that,
The fact that three Butler-loving “At the moment, this Butler Mack’s strip. Each time, a Philadelphia Inquirer’s Phil man? Did I just blow your
five-year-old triplets may well hometown saga seems too much different player; each time, an Sheridan writes. “It is safe to mind?
win the Daily Fix NCAA of an epic to slow down,” USA effort above and beyond what say Einstein would have a very Not really, since even Yankees
tournament bracket does kind of Today’s Mike Lopresti writes. was expected, ” Winn writes. different word to describe and Red Sox fans know to
bolster the case that no one saw “Terrible shooting can’t stop it. “As much as the media is giving an elite head coach in approach the rivalry hype with
this particular NCAA final Injuries can’t.” hammering home Hoosiers your own division the elite some caution. But as Opening
coming. ( The triplets even But many fans — and Vegas comparisons in Indy, the quarterback he needs to beat you Night matchups go, the two
made it onto a morning show to bettors, who make the Bulldogs Bulldogs don’t need inspiration twice a year. And that word is teams — and the legitimately
discuss it. It was basic cable on 7.5-point underdogs— believe from a movie released before a not genius.” CAN page 76
the weekend, but still.) that a dialed-in Duke team single one of them was born. Other Philadelphia columnists
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Boston Red Sox announce four-year extension for Josh Beckett

Gordon Edes (ESPN.com) option on Lester for 2014), and He's been remarkably consistent salary isn't included in luxury
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:07:47 AM a fourth, Clay Buchholz, who is throwing as many innings as tax calculations until next year.
not eligible for free agency until anybody, and there's not a Having four starters signed to
after the '14 season. medical reason why that deals of four years or more (
• Email "When you have that pitching, shouldn't continue, with the Daisuke Matsuzaka's six-year
• Print you don't want to let it go work he's put in to create a deal runs through the 2012
• Comments away,'' Epstein said. "It's hard foundation for success health- season) does not represent a
• Share to acquire in free agency, it's determine how long it takes wise." change of heart, said Epstein,
• hard to acquire in trade, and it's Beckett to earn your annual A source said that there is no who in the past has voiced
hard to draft and develop this wages. Salary Crunch » special language in the contract resistance to signing pitchers to
By Gordon Edes kind of starting pitching. "A lot of people look at what that would give the Red Sox deals of such length.
ESPNBoston.com Knowing that we have Josh and you could lose or what you protection in the event the 30- "No change of philosophy,"
Archive Jon Lester and John Lackey and lost,'' he said. "I look at four year-old Beckett had shoulder Epstein said. "I still believe
BOSTON -- Injury can alter the C l a y B u c h h o l z a l l s i g n e d years of more stability. The issues. shorter is better. I still believe in
best-laid plans, but the Red Sox through 2014 means There's no season gets long when you're The MVP of the 2003 World avoiding risk. But I also believe
have gone a long way toward guarantee in baseball, but it losing 90 games. I know we Series for the Marlins and a key we operate in the real world, not
cementing their starting rotation s h o u l d m e a n w e h a v e have a chance to win here every c o n t r i b u t o r t o t h e S o x ' s some sort of fantasy world
for the foreseeable future after outstanding starting pitching for year. I look at it more as what I championship in '07, Beckett where you can pick the type of
signing Josh Beckett to a four- that period.'' gained than what I potentially trails only three pitchers in wins player and contract you want to
year contract extension worth The contract calls for a $5 lost.'' since coming to Boston with sign him to.
$68 million. million signing bonus this Beckett's prior shoulder issues Mike Lowell in the trade that "We have to make real-world
"We couldn't be more thrilled to season, and an annual salary of had been cited as a reason why sent Hanley Ramirez to Florida. decisions that come with risk
keep Josh around,'' Red Sox $15.75 million from 2011 to the team would not offer the S i n c e 2 0 0 6 , o n l y R o y and reward. We've done our due
general manager Theo Epstein 2014. Beckett is due to be paid right-hander a fifth year, but H a l l a d a y ( 6 8 - 3 2 ) , C C diligence. We're comfortable
said at a Monday afternoon $12.1 million this season in the Epstein on Monday insisted they Sabathia(67-36) and Justin with what we've done. If you
news conference in Fenway option year of an extension he had no concerns about Beckett's Verlander(64-40) have won told me someday, do you see
Park. "We were talking that he'll signed in 2006. health. Beckett had two stints on more games than Beckett (63- yourself with a number of
be with the Red Sox for nine Recent signings on the market, the disabled list in 2008, but the 34), who over the same time pitchers under four- and five-
years when this contract is up. including the five-year, $82.5 first was related to his back, the span ranks ninth in strikeouts year commitments, I'd say
He's earned it. Josh is an m i l l i o n d e a l s s i g n e d b y other to an inflamed elbow. He with 717. probably not because it's
excellent contributor on and off B e c k e t t ' s f o r m e r M a r l i n s also tried to pitch through the Beckett's ERA in a Boston something you'd rather avoid.
the field, a big part of our team teammate A.J. Burnett in 2008 '08 postseason with a strained uniform is 4.13, which ranks But it's also a unique
and pitching staff.'' and current teammate Lackey oblique muscle. only 30th overall in that opportunity to have a rotation
Edes: Sending A Message last winter, would suggest that "We had outstanding health timeframe. That figure includes like this wrapped up for this
Josh Beckett's new deal with Beckett had a good chance of reports," Epstein said. "All the Sunday's start against the long. We're very comfortable
the Boston Red Sox may impact getting a five-year deal as well. testing now is better than it's Yankees, in which Beckett with how it evolved."
Victor Martinez and Daisuke Beckett did not insist on a fifth ever been, and the commitment allowed five earned runs in 4 Gordon Edes covers the Red
Matsuzaka, writes Gordon Edes. year in negotiations with the we made demonstrates that. We 2/3 innings but escaped with a Sox for ESPNBoston.com.
Story Red Sox. put our money where our mouth no-decision when the Sox Follow him on Twitter.
The Red Sox now have three Salary Crunch is. He's a guy who is insurable, rallied from a 5-1 deficit to win Five Filters featured article:
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Zoubek taps the rebound back
out for a fresh shot clock. Smith
then gets fouled in the act of
shooting, giving Duke two free
throws after the timeout.
11:22 pm | by Geoff Foster
Hoosiers reference finally!!!!!
And the score from the movie
no less! Oh man, they were
holding that one for a while.
Well played CBS, showed some
nice restraint there, and it paid
off.
11:23 pm | Duke 58-55; 3:16
left, 2nd Half (final auto
timeout) | by Darren Everson
Assistant coach Nate James is
Duke's designated screamer.
"Three (bleeping) minutes!" he
yells in the huddle.
11:24 pm | Duke 58-55; 3:16
left, 2nd Half | by Darren
Everson
I actually recognize the Butler
fight song now. Unreal.
11:25 pm | by Geoff Foster
Interesting note, for all the talk
of Stevens's age, all of Duke's
assistants are kids: 33, 35, 32,
31.
11:25 pm | Duke 60-55; 3:16
left, 2nd Half | by Darren
Everson
Smith makes both. Danger
time, Butler!
11:26 pm | by Geoff Foster
The 37th jump ball of the game,
makes me think it's time for
college to actually jump the ball
during the jump ball
One of the few things the NBA
does better.
11:27 pm | Duke 60-55; 2:22
left, 2nd Half | by Darren
Everson
Nerves appear to be an issue
now for Butler's guards. They've
almost turned it over twice now
on this possession, as Duke's
defenders tap the ball away from
them. Then Mack misses from
the baseline.
11:28 pm | Duke 60-55; 1:45
left, 2nd Half | by Geoff Foster
Mack tried to shoot one over
the back of the backboard and
misses. Fortunately, Singler
gives it back with a travel, one
of the first mistakes heâs made
today.
11:29 pm | Duke 60-57; 1:00
left, 2nd Half | by Darren
Everson
Howard scores inside for
Butler, and grabs an offensive
rebound after a Butler stop.
11:30 pm | Duke 60-59; 49.4
seconds left, 2nd Half | by
Darren Everson
Howard!
The mildly concussed Butler
center scores again inside after
grabbing that offensive rebound.
Timeout, Devils.
11:30 pm | by Geoff Foster
I was shocked Mack missed a
wide open three! Howard makes
up for it though. Oxygen tank is
being administered (on me).
11:32 pm | Duke 60-59; 33.7
seconds left, 2nd Half | by
Darren Everson
Singler is way short on his shot.
Out of bounds off Duke. Butler
ball!
11:32 pm | by Geoff Foster
Singler did get a chance for the
big shot, and it was his worst of
the night.
11:33 pm | Duke 60-59; 13.6
seconds left, 2nd Half | by
Darren Everson
Timeout Butler. This play is
going to run through Hayward,
you'd have to figure.
11:34 pm | Duke 60-59; 13.6
seconds left, 2nd Half | by
Darren Everson
Hayward inbounding, baseline
left ...
11:35 pm | by Geoff Foster
CBS shows Hinkle Fieldhouse -
- Butler's home gym -- where
thousands of young people are
rocking and clutching their fists.
11:36 pm | Duke 60-59; 13.6
seconds left, 2nd Half | by
Darren Everson
Has to call timeout. Couldn't
find anybody.
11:36 pm | Duke 60-59; 13.6
seconds left, 2nd Half | by
Darren Everson
Howard inbounding now to
Hayward ...
11:37 pm | Duke 60-59; 3.6
seconds left, 2nd Half | by
Darren Everson
Hayward misses!
He drove right and tried a
baseline fadeaway, but missed
long. Zoubek rebounds and is
fouled.
11:37 pm | by Geoff Foster
They got the right guy on the
line in Zoubek. .554 on the year.
11:38 pm | Duke 61-59; 3.6
seconds left, 2nd Half | by
Darren Everson
Hits the first ...
11:39 pm | Duke 62-59; 3.6
seconds left, 2nd Half | by
Darren Everson
Misses the second ...
11:39 pm | Duke 61-59; Final |
by Darren Everson
... But Duke survives!
Hayward fires a half-courter
that hits glass, then rim, but
comes off. A half inch lower,
and that ball caroms in.
11:40 pm | Duke 61-59; Final |
by Geoff Foster
GREATEST MOMENT IN
THE HISTORY OF
SPORTS???? CAN IT BE?
Off the rim. Duke wins. All of
America sighs and turns off
television.
11:45 pm | by Geoff Foster
You have to admit, this is one
of the better tournaments in a
long time, no? Very fitting end.
Brad Stevens and company were
incredible, to state the obvious.
Duke deserved it, no doubt, they
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showed up for six games.
12:01 am | Postgame | by
Darren Everson
Championship games often
donât live up to the hype. Last
year, having the home-crowd
advantage did little for
Michigan State, which lost in a
rout to North Carolina.
This, however, was quite an
exception. In one of the most
riveting title games in years,
Duke held off Butler, 61-59, for
the national championship --
although they wouldn't have if
Gordon Hayward's half-court
bank shot at the buzzer had been
just a hair lower.
Duke's fourth national-title
team -- its first since 2001 -- is
nothing like coach Mike
Krzyzewski's first three. The
Blue Devils don't have a name-
brand star player; they benefited
from facing a couple of
opponents weakened by injuries,
and although they were a No. 1
seed, they weren't expected to
win the national title.
Nevertheless, Duke did so -- just
barely.
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ESPN.com or five days ago. DePaul had year run that ended with a 24-6 consistently one of the best and
Archive made overtures all over the record and an NCAA rowdiest home courts in the Greece will this month launch a
INDIANAPOLIS -- DePaul country and few seemed to appearance. He made two ACC. multibillion-dollar bond in the
agreed with Clemson men's know where Blue Demons were NCAA tournament appearances Clemson loses seniors all-ACC US in its hunt for new investors,
basketball coach Oliver Purnell headed. at Dayton. forward Trevor Booker and selling itself for the first time as
late Monday on a seven-year DePaul interviewed Minnesota He also coached at Old wing David Potter but was an emerging market country as
contract that will pay Purnell Timberwolves assistant and Dominion for three years (one expected to returned the rest of demand for its debt dwindles in
well beyond the $1.6 million former New Mexico State and NCAA appearance) and three its team that reached the NCAA. Europe.
salary he was making with the Sacramento Kings coach Reggie seasons at Radford. Purnell has Most experts figured the Tigers Morgan Stanley is being
Tigers. Theus late last week for the job. never won an NCAA game. to challenge for an upper- considered to handle the deal
Purnell will be introduced at a Jerry Wainwright, who had two Purnell said the move was division spot in the ACC. after Goldman Sachs’ plans to
2:30 p.m. ET news conference years left on his contract, was much more about the challenge Purnell's departure means there sell Greek bonds to US and
Tuesday in Chicago, DePaul fired as coach on Jan. 11, with at DePaul and had nothing are now two coaching openings Asian investors this year fell
spokesperson Greg Greenwell the Blue Demons at 7-8 overall, negative to say about Clemson. in the ACC. Boston College is through amid rumours that the
confirmed. 0-3 in the Big East. "I hope they feel we left the looking to replace Al Skinner, Chinese had shunned Athens’
" D e P a u l p r e s e n t s a g r e a t DePaul finished the season 8-23 program in great shape,'' Purnell who parted ways with the debt.
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The Count: Duke, Butler Battle for Board J'Adore:

Supremacy Hermès
(WSJ.com: The Daily Fix) throw line. Instead, Duke and offensive rebounding,
Submitted at 4/5/2010 3:27:39 PM derived its scoring proficiency
from turning the ball over rarely
respectively. Butler is below
average, ranking 241st
Relaxed Kelly
The battle of the boards in the and corralling more than two of nationally in collecting 30.6% of ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion
NCAA championship game f i v e a v a i l a b l e o f f e n s i v e available offensive boards. And Blogs)
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w h e t h e r f a v o r e d D u k e o r nation. average, letting opponents
underdog Butler emerges as Butler, meanwhile, ranked sixth collect 32.1% of available The Kelly bag is a patrician
champion. And that battle will in the nation in defensive offensive boards. staple for the house of Hermès.
be especially interesting when efficiency, after adjusting for It turns out that this disconnect Named for Grace Kelly in the
Duke misses a shot, because the schedule. The Bulldogs ranked a isn’t particularly unusual. Of the late 1950s after she used her
Blue Devils are one of the best m o d e s t 6 8 t h i n h o l d i n g 10 best teams in the country at crocodile version to obscure a
offensive-rebounding teams in opponents to a 46.5% effective defensive rebounding, six are pregnant belly on a Life
the nation, while Butler is one of field-goal percentage, and just below average at offensive magazine cover shoot, the
the best at keeping opponents 112th in yielding free throws. rebounding. And of the top 10 classic Kelly has undergone
off the boards. Getty Images Where they shined is in holding offensive rebounding teams, two many incarnations in its nearly
Brian Zoubek’s five offensive opponents to just 27.6% of are below average and six are 80-year history. We've seen the:
rebounds helped Duke rout available offensive rebounds, outside of the top 100 when it two-tone Kelly, mini Kelly, the
West Virgina in the national 14th best nationwide. the ACC. Butler’s 6-foot-8 comes to defensive boards. Kelly clutch, the collapsible
semifinal. Duke’s 7-foot-1 Brian Zoubek Gordon Hayward, who collects Among all 347 Division I teams, Kelly, and numerous renditions
Duke is the best team in the will be the primary force in a n i m p r e s s i v e 2 3 . 3 % o f the correlation between a team’s of the bag in exotic skins. This
nation at converting offensive attempting to overcome Butler’s available defensive rebounds, rank in one category and the season, Hermès introduces the
possessions into points, after d e f e n s i v e r e b o u n d i n g may find that his most effective other is a modest 0.11, meaning Relaxed Kelly. Constructed out
adjusting for schedule strength, proficiency. He collects an way to prevent Duke from how good you are on the glass at of a buttery soft leather, the
according to Ken Pomeroy’s amazing 21.2% of available pounding the offensive glass is one end of the floor doesn’t body of this bag is completely
efficiency stats. Though Duke offensive rebounds while he’s to draw Zoubek into foul mean a whole lot on the other deconstructed so it feels like a
hit 13 of 25 3-pointers in its on the floor. That’s best in the trouble, as John Gasaway and end. (This year was no fluke; the well-worn, sporty take on its
semifinal dismantling of West country and compares favorably K e n P o m e r o y n o t e i n a correlation last year was 0.12.) predecessor.
Virginia on Saturday, the Blue with the remarkable season put statistically informed preview of Rebounding appears to have Our favorite is the luggage
Devils’ offensive excellence up by DeJuan Blair for Pitt last the title game at Basketball more to do with strategy and leather version in that perfect
doesn’t typically derive from year. Unlike Blair, though, who Prospectus. style than with intrinsic ability, shade of supple brown leather.
dead-eye shooting. Duke ranked averaged 2.7 fouls per game and The battle under Duke’s one of many nuances lost in raw Hermès “Kelly Relaxed” Bag,
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decision to try and tone down
my negative outbursts and
consequently my positives
outbursts will be calmed down
as well."
• On winning golf tournaments
while living a secret life and
how he will be able to move
forward: "I think how I was
earlier in my career. I was at
peace, and I've had some great
years. Unfortunately what I've
done over the past years has
been just terrible to my family.
And the fact I won golf
tournaments I think is
irrelevant."
• On whether he has taken
prescription drugs Ambien and
Vicodin: "I've taken them, yes.
I've had some pretty interesting
knee situations over the years.
I've had four operations now on
my left knee. Then last year
with my torn Achilles, it hurt
quite a bit at times ... That's
when I was taking some of those
things to help me sleep."
• On rehab: "I was in there for
45 days and it was to take a hard
look at myself, and I did, and
I've come out better. I'm
certainly a much better person
for it than I was going in. Does
that mean I'm ever going to stop
doing that? No, I've got to still
continue with my treatment.
And that's not going to stop in
the near future for sure." Asked
what the treatment was for,
Woods said: "That's personal."
• On how he fooled so many
people for so long: "I fooled
myself as well. I lied to a lot of
people, deceived a lot of people,
kept others in the dark," he said.
"Rationalized and even lied to
myself. And when you strip that
all away ... the full magnitude of
it, it's pretty brutal. I take full
responsibility for what I've
done, and I don't take that
lightly."
Masters officials made it clear
that it was their idea for the
interview to take place on
Monday, not as a concession to
Woods, who would have
normally met the media on
Tuesday. But to do so then
would have rendered every
other interview meaningless,
while making it impossible to
get the focus on the tournament.
Earlier Woods played a practice
round with former Masters
champion Fred Couples. They
were joined by Jim Furyk on the
13th and played the rest of the
way together.
Although the crowd was
cordial, it was not overly
enthusiastic.
Woods made an attempt to
interact with spectators -- not
typical for him -- and even
engaged in the tradition of
trying to skip a shot over the
pond at Augusta's par-3 16th.
Nobody remembers Woods ever
doing that.
Woods said he'll play another
practice round Tuesday with
Steve Stricker and Mark
O'Meara.
"I was more nervous [out
there],'' Woods said. "That first
tee, I didn't know what to
expect. To be out there in front
of the people where I have done
some things that are just
horrible. For the fans to really
want to see me play golf again,
that felt great. ... Today was a
little bit different. I kind of took
it in a little bit more and it felt
really good.''
Woods also promised to tone
down his outbursts after good
and bad shots alike, saying he
had a responsibility to children
as a role model to set a better
example on the course.
"A lot has happened in my life
in the past five months," Woods
said. "I'm here at the Masters to
play and compete and I'm really
excited about doing that."
Bob Harig covers golf for
ESPN.com. Information from
The Associated Press was used
in this report.
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PHILADELPHIA - Twenty-
five coal miners died and four
were still missing deep
underground on Tuesday after
an explosion ripped through a
West Virginia mine owned by
Massey Energy in the deadliest
coal mine disaster in decades.
The accident at the Upper Big
Branch Mine in Montcoal, about
48 km south of the state capital
of Charleston, is owned by
Massey’s Performance Coal
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Did Butler Really Lose to Those Guys?

Terence Moore (FanHouse cry. Did I say those Butler folks those from the insufferable
Main) Instead, Butler's players and were composed? Try shocked. Duke program cutting down
Submitted at 4/5/2010 7:30:00 PM coaches were their typically They weren't the only ones, nets for a fourth time during the
composed selves when late because everybody among the reign of King Mike Krzyzewski.
Filed under: Butler, Duke, Monday night became early packed house of 70,930 knew
NCAA T o u r n a m e n t Tuesday morning at Lucas Oil that Hayward's first shot was in,
INDIANAPOLIS -- So close. Stadium after Gordon Hayward and that his second one was in,
So ridiculously close. came within a bulldog's hair on final 13 seconds of winning a and that nobody outside of
So close that the losers didn't each of his two shots inside the national championship. Durham, N.C., wanted to see
76 Sports/ Economy/
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continued from page 70
interesting rivalry beneath the
hype — make a decent pairing.
Major League Baseball’s 2010
campaign officially got under
way on Sunday night when the
Red Sox beat the Yankees 9-7,
in a game that probably won’t
seem significant by Thursday.
It’s no secret that major
leaguers are paid extravagantly
well, especially those in the
Boston and New York lineups.
Less publicized, and equally
mind-boggling, is that the same
organizations that think little of
forking over $2 million for
utility infielders pay their minor
leaguers astonishingly low
salaries.
At Baseball America, Garret
Broshuis — himself a former
Giants farmhand— exposes the
stunning disparity in pay
between big leaguers and their
minor-league counterparts.
“With no change in the
foreseeable future, minor
leaguers will continue to cram
In the End, Zoubek Comes Up Big
David Steele (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 7:08:00 PM
Filed under: Duke, NCAA
Tournament
INDIANAPOLIS -- The last
nine minutes of his college
basketball career, Brian Zoubek
played with four fouls, all
picked up in rapid succession.
With 33.7 seconds left in that
into apartments and host
families’ houses — and perhaps
skip meals — to save money,”
Broshuis writes. “Their air
mattresses will sit in rooms
decorated only by mold. And
they’ll gladly accept this
sacrifice. They’re chasing a
dream.”
Pitcher Dirk Hayhurst kept
what he called “A Non-Prospect
Diary” for Baseball America
while working his way towards
cups of big-league coffee in
2008 and ‘09. Hayhurst, who
expanded that diary into an
upcoming book entitled “The
Bullpen Gospels,” delves
introspectively into life as a
professional athlete in this
interesting piece at Minor
League Baseball’s website.
While we pay little attention to
the ugliness of life in the low
minors, said ugliness is very
real. The same cannot be said of
the “27 Critical Details You
Should Be Made Aware Of” that
career, Zoubek's foot grazed the possession in which it could
endline as he tussled in the lane beat Duke in the national
for Kyle Singler's missed shot, championship game.
giving the ball to Butler for one But the 7-foot-1 Zoubek, after
Jon Bois invented over at SB
Nation in honor of the start of
the baseball season. Although it
would be pretty cool if the film
“Crank: High Voltage” was, in
fact, based on things that
actually happened to Oakland
third baseman Kevin
Kouzmanoff.* * *
It’s nearly impossible to pull
off in fantasy baseball, which
makes it that much more
impressive that the actual,
played-on-a-field Baltimore
Orioles managed to field a
rotation featuring four 20-game
winners during their World
Series-winning 1970 season.
Hall of Famer Jim Palmer is the
best known of the four aces, but
co-ace Mike Cuellar, who led
the Orioles (and the American
League) with 24 wins that
season, might have been the
most interesting of the bunch.
Cuellar died Friday at the age of
72.
The Cuban-born screwball
maestro plied his trade in minor-
league towns from Jersey City
to Knoxville, and as a big
leaguer in Cincinnati and
Houston, before joining the
Orioles in a seemingly minor
trade before the 1969 season. It
proved anything but, as Cuellar
proceeded to average nearly 21
wins over the next six seasons
and became a fan favorite. In the
Baltimore Sun, Mike Klingaman
remembers the quirky ace.
— Tip of the Fix cap to reader
Brendan Flynn.
Found a good column from the
world of sports? Don’t keep it to
yourself — write to us at
dailyfix@wsj.com and we’ll
consider your find for inclusion
in the Daily Fix. You can email
David at droth11@gmail.com.
four tortuous seasons that
included battling foot problems
that appeared destined to never
go away, had spent much of the
last two months helping his
team far more than hurting it. So
it was in that final half-minute-
plus; he managed to get himself
in the middle of every play that
determined which team would
win the title Monday night.
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The RBA is not
afraid of higher rates,
Greece should be
Peter Boockvar (The Big
Picture)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 5:04:26 AM
The RBAustralia raised interest
rates by another 25 bps to 4.25%
as they move rates “closer to
average” as growth is likely to
“be around trend and inflation
close to target over the coming
year.” They have now raised
125 bps since Sept ‘09 but this
rate still remains 300 bps below
the level of Aug ‘08 right before
the storm hit. The Australian$ is
at an 11 week high vs the US$
in response and following is the
Canadian$ which is back to
parity with the US$ for the first
time since July ‘08. So where
the US$ has been stronger
against the euro, pound and yen,
the story is different with the
healthier economies with Asia
and commodity exposure.
Following the rise in treasury
and MBS yields, Bankrate.com
said the avg 30 yr mortgage rate
rose to 5.25%, the highest since
Jan 11th. Greek bonds are
getting slammed with the 10 yr
yield up 39 bps to 6.92%, the
highest since late Jan on talk
that Greece wants no part of the
IMF.
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To America's Chagrin, Coach K and Duke Win
Again
Jay Mariotti (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 8:00:00 PM
Filed under: NCAA Basketball
INDIANAPOLIS -- Never has
a confetti shower been so still.
Never has a celebration been so
muzzled. Never has "One
Shining Moment" been so
bittersweet, like a song at the
blues club down the street. It
figures that Mike Krzyzewski,
maybe the most villainized
coaching great ever in college
basketball, would win his first
national title in nine years on an
evening when America was
rooting madly for a little school
from the heartland playing six
miles from campus.
But then, Coach K is used to
filling the bad-guy role, even if
he's actually one of the fine
people in sports. When darling
Butler lost a classic
championship game by mere
inches -- on two close misses by
baby-faced Gordon Hayward,
The 10th Annual BYOBW
Larissa Zimberoff (Flickr Blog)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 5:12:46 PM
Despite the rain this past
Sunday, dozens of faithful fur
wearing fans descended upon
the last from halfcourt that
would have clinched
immortality at the buzzer --
about 65,000 people in the
hometown stadium groaned and
bled along with a nation. A
relieved roar went up from
6,000 Duke supporters, thrilled
to survive what would have
been a magnificent upset. Yet
the sight to behold was
Krzyzewski immediately
Vermont Street on San
Francisco’s Potrero Hill for the
10th Annual BYOBW race.
(Bring Your Own Big Wheel)
P h o t o s f r o m k o w i t z , KayVee.INC, TheNickster, and
SFRichardT, dav, captin_nod,
heading down to the Butler
bench, hugging and consoling
the losing team while his own
players were sprawled in a
bouncing heap on the court.
"I think this will become a
historic event," he said after
winning his fourth
championship, a 61-59 thriller
that reaffirms the splendor of
college hoops. "I'm fortunate to
have coached in eight national
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championship games, and this
was a classic. This was the
toughest and the best one -- the
best-played, with more players
playing at a higher level.
"I still can't believe we won.
The game was so good, anybody
could have won. They didn't
lose."
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Around the Net In
Media: ESPN: NY Site
Makes Strong Ad Debut
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 9:25:05 PM
The launch of local sports site
ESPN New York is company's
strongest to date. The debut is
timed to the start of the 2010
Major League Baseball season,
which will kick off Sunday
night on ESPN2 and its live
video site with a meet-up of
bitter rivals The New York
Yankees and The Boston Red
Sox. Other sites have launched
in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, and
Los Angeles.
"It's been our strongest launch in
terms of ad revenue," among the
local sites, Horine added. Local
advertisers for the New York
site include Brooklyn Brewery,
Tri State Land Rover Dealer
Group, Anheuser-Busch, Audi,
and Stub Hub. Stub Hub has
been a launch partner with all
five of ESPN's local sites.
Fujifilm is also sponsoring the
site's zoom photo galleries,
according to Horine. As launch
presenter, BMW is featured on
an interstitial page displayed the
first time users visit the New
York site.
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Monsters (Probably) Stole
My Princess definitely
being released Apr. 22
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 10:00:00 AM
Monsters (Probably) Stole My
Princess, the PSP Mini about
unfortunate anti-monster racial
profiling, has been given a
release date of April 22 -- which
publisher Mediatonic has
confirmed is worldwide. The
game, playable on both PSP and
PS3, stars the Duke, who goes
on an ill-researched quest to
rescue his princess, jumping
endlessly upward through
vertically scrolling levels, and
beating up every presumed
guilty monster he sees (hint: all
of them).
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Nielsen Enters
Puerto Rico
(MediaPost | Media News)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:31:15 AM
Nielsen Co. Monday said it
officially launched a new TV
audience measurement system
PSP crowns King of in Puerto Rico, putting it in
direct competition with WPP's
Pool this week Kantar Media Research unit,
which operates Mediafax, the
JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 2:40:00 AM
"Originally they were created by i n c u m b e n t a u d i e n c e
our lead artists just for fun, as a measurement currency in the
joke," Nordcurrent managing market.
Sure, you may already be one director Alex Bravve said, "but Nielsen said its new service has
of the Hustle Kings on PS3, but then we've noticed that a lot of a sample of 500 households, and
isn't it time you sought another people are actually enjoying that it has begun providing
billiards-related monarchy on a playing them. So we decided to overngith ratings to clients in
To see the game in (unfair) Sony system? Of course it is. leave these tables as a feature, the market, which include
action, check out the trailer after Nordcurrent thinks so, which is rather than an Easter egg." Telemundo-owned WKAQ-TV,
the break. It features random why it's releasing King of Pool K i n g o f P o o l w i l l b e Univision affiliate WLII-TV,
wings, Castlevania-esque music, for PSP over the PlayStation downloadable April 8 for ten independent WAPA-TV, as well
and monster piledrivers! You'll Network this week. bucks. as Arteaga & Arteaga, Canal 13,
probably enjoy watching it. King of Pool is a pool game PSP crowns King of Pool this D r a f t / F C B , E J E S o c i e d a d
Gallery: Monsters (Probably) that purports to "implement the week originally appeared on Publicitaria, Starcom, and
Stole My Princess whole variety of rules that exist Joystiq on Tue, 06 Apr 2010 Kairos.
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Everyone Talks Their Book . . .

Barry Ritholtz (The Big
Picture)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 4:07:34 AM
• Credit Crisis:
Hated by: Hank Paulson, Short
Term Borrowers, EMH
adherents,
Loved by: John Paulson, Book
Authors, Hyman Minsky Fans
• Financial Regulatory Reform:
Hated by: Banks, Investment
Houses, Free Marketers,
Conservatives, Larry Summers
War for Cybertron dubbed Loved by: Smaller regional
banks, Elizabeth Warren,
'Transformers: Cybertron Investors, Barney Frank
• Market Crash (circa January to
Obama Haters, IBD OpEd,
Larry Kudlow
• Market Recovery (circa March
2009 to present):
Hated by: Bears, WSJ OpEd,
Obama Haters, IBD OpEd
Loved by: Stock Bulls, Fed,
Bank execs, White House, Larry
Kudlow
• Real Estate Collapse:
Hated by: Home Owners,
Mortgage Lenders, David
Lereah
Loved by: Fannie Mae critics,
Short Sellers, Calculated Risk
• Inflation:
Hated by: Stock Bulls, Fed,
Savers
Hated by: Gold Bugs, Dollar
Bears, Fed Haters, Survivalists,
David Kotok
Loved by: Stock Bulls
• Bail Outs:
Hated by: Elected Democrats
and Republicans
Loved by: Lobbyists, Bailed
Out Wall-Streeters, C, BAC,
AIG
• US Deficit:
Hated by: Newly minted deficit
hawks (mostly GOP), Bond
Bears, US ex-Pats
Loved by: Government wonks,
lobbyists, Tea Party
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Hated by: Stock Bulls, Fed,
Bank execs, White House
Loved by: Gold bugs, Bond
Bears, Dollar Bears
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Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq) versions with Autobot and • The Federal Reserve’s Balance
Decepticon campaigns, still Loved by: Bears, WSJ OpEd, Sheet:
Submitted at 4/6/2010 9:09:00 AM
maintains the less family-
After popping up on the ESRB friendly title. So, Wii owners
and OFLC rating websites, a can expect "adventures" with
game called " Transformers: the Transformers this summer,
Cybertron Adventures" for Wii as high-def consoles prepare for
led some to wonder whether it "war."
was a new, unannounced game. War for Cybertron dubbed
An Activision representative ' T r a n s f o r m e r s : C y b e r t r o n
tells Joystiq that it's "the Wii Adventures' for Wii originally
version" of the company's appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 06
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Research Brief: Brand
Film Festival Captures NYC’s Love Affair with Info Online Attracts
Consumers to Act
Fashion (MediaPost | Media News)
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion “We thought film would be an Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:16:00 AM
Blogs) event around which a lot of
Submitted at 4/5/2010 12:38:32 PM people could come together,” According to the second year of
said Jeffrey Lieber, the series' an Opinion Research
A beautiful, slightly neurotic curator and Parsons professor. Corporation consumer
woman turns the corner wearing “Part of the emphasis is to preference survey sponsored by
khaki trousers, a white collared bolster a repertory film culture Adfusion, consumers are more
shirt, a tie, a black vest, and in New York. We liked the idea likely to read and act upon
an upturned, wide-brimmed of bringing back classics.” online advertising than they
hat—a look that would become “Fashion in Film: NYC” screens were a year ago. For the second
iconic. It’s 1977. She is Diane on Tuesdays until April 27 from year, consumers say articles that
Keaton. She’s Annie Hall. She’s it is the first movie selected for defines the city’s attitude toward 7:30pm to 9:30 pm in Tishman include brand information is the
New York City. the “ Fashion in Film: NYC” style. The festival’s inaugural Auditorium, 66 West 12th type of online advertising
Of the countless films set in the festival starting tomorrow. Each year celebrates the birth this fall Street. Admission is free. they're most likely to read and
Big Apple, a select fraction cast of the four films, chosen by of the M.A. Fashion Studies —Phillip B. Crook act upon, compared to banner
the city’s pulsing fashion fashion writers such as The New program, which uses film in the ads, pop-up ads, email offers or
identity as its own character. Yorker’s Judith Thurman, curriculum, at The New School. sponsored links.
Annie Hall is one such film, and Article-based advertising was
preferred by 53% of respondents
Spring 2010 Dresses: From the Catwalk to a Walk who said they are "very likely"
or "somewhat likely" to read
and act upon the material,
Down the Aisle compared to 51% a year ago.
Coveted demographic groups
ELLE.com (ELLE Fashion list. Luckily, the spring 2010 wedding? Which dress do you are even more likely to express
Blogs) runways were filled with elegant prefer? a preference for articles.
Submitted at 4/5/2010 8:58:31 AM and sexy dresses (zero pouf, —Violet Moon Gayn or According to the survey, 66% of
beading, or covered-buttons) in T o p r o w : D o n n a K a r a n , people between the ages of 25
Every season, Vera Wang pale almost-white shades. The Carolina Herrera, Jen Kao, and 34, and 60% of those
designs a black wedding dress. b e s t p a r t a b o u t t h e s e Altuzarra making at least $75,000 per
To this day, she's never sold a sophisticated gowns?: Each is Bottom row: Thakoon, Emilio year, say they are "very likely"
single one. As a kid, I thought it an investment with a strong Pucci, Lanvin, Chanel or "somewhat likely" to read
would be incredibly chic to wear return—wear them again to Photos: Imaxtree and act upon article-based
a red mini. Not surprisingly, black-tie galas, cocktail parties, Follow ELLE on Twitter. advertising. Pop-up ads were
when it came time to start and warm-weather getaways. for my walk down the aisle. Become our Facebook fan! least likely to be read or acted
looking for a wedding dress, Here, the spring 2010 runway Tell me—would you wear one upon.
tradition was not high on the looks I can see myself wearing of these catwalk styles to your In the national study of 1,053
adults conducted in March 2010,
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survey respondents rated their
likelihood to read and act upon
five types of online advertising:
banner ads, pop-up ads, e-mail
offers, articles that include
brand information, and
sponsored search engine links.
When asked how frequently
they conduct Internet searches
for products or services they
read about in online articles,
frequency increased from about
50% a year ago saying they
initiate a search "very
frequently" or "somewhat
frequently," to 57% this year.
Younger and high-income
people showed a considerable
propensity to conduct a search
after reading online articles.
with 72% of 25-to-34-year-olds
saying they were likely to
conduct a search for products or
services based on an article, up
from 66% a year ago. And 70%
of those making more than
$75,000 per year expressed their
likelihood to perform a search -
13 points higher than last year's
57%.
According to ARAnet president
Scott Severson, year-two of the
online advertising study
revealed three critical areas of
data for marketers:
• All these areas of online
advertising are being
received favorably by
consumers, which means they
are tuning in to marketers'
online messages
• A growing and healthy
preference for article-based
advertising
• Younger and more affluent
audiences are receptive to all
types of online advertising, and
article-based advertising in
particular
Severson says the data revealed
that other high-potential
demographic segments said they
frequently conduct searches for
products or services after
reading about them in online
articles, including:
• 65% of respondents with
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more;
• 72% of households with
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group; and
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57% of the general population. the company said.
Nielsen Co. Monday unveiled The campaign will utilize an
"We're seeing that article-based an ad campaign to promote its ethnically-specific media mix,
advertising rates highest with awareness and reputation among including print ads, radio spots,
these important and discerning m u l t i c u l t u r a l g r o u p s . T h e mobile and online messages.
audiences. Compared to other campaign, which specifically It was created by three
online advertising options, targets African Americans, multicultural advertising
consumers prefer reading an Hispanic and Asian consumers, agencies: lead agency Chicago-
article, evaluating it, and then f o c u s e s o n f o u r N i e l s e n based
deciding to click through for m e a s u r e m e n t s e r v i c e s : Beaman Inc.; Los Angeles-
m o r e i n f o r m a t i o n , " s a y s consumer purchases, online, based PanCom International and
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Flying Through an Aurora at More Than 17,000 MPH

Jeremy Hsu (Popular Science
- New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 1:17:49 PM
A prolific photographer gives
us a stunning view from aboard
the International Space Station
Japanese astronaut Soichi
Noguchi has always served up
amazing images via his Twitter
account, but his latest is worth
special note. The International
Space Station resident took a
long-exposure shot of an aurora
in the Earth's atmosphere.
Auroras are natural light shows
that result from solar wind
particles flowing down toward
the planet's poles. The Aurora
Borealis, also known as the
Northern Lights, takes place in February. But when he's not
the northern hemisphere. roaming around with camera in
"Fly through Aurora at hand, he has also proved one
28,000kmh. Happy 1,000 tweets skillful sushi chef in
:-)" Noguchi tweeted today. microgravity.
Noguchi has gained even more
photo opportunities with the
addition of an observation deck
to the space station back in
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Active Robotic Skylight Pumps Natural Light Into
Darkened Interior Spaces
Clay Dillow (Popular Science -
New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 12:26:58 PM
In an ideal world, we'd use
natural light to brighten every
darkened nook that needs
illumination. But in reality,
skylights and windows can let
only so much light into a
structure, and the amount of
light varies based on the time of
day. The Sundolier robotic
skylight from Boulder-based
Sunflower aims to change all
this by actively "pumping"
natural light into interior spaces,
illuminating areas of up to 2,500
square feet with a single unit.
The Sundolier employs a large
dual-axis tracking mount with a
couple of reflectors that gather
light into a two-foot tube, which
in turn feeds into a "sun
chandelier" that lights up the
room below. The rig tracks the
sun as its position changes in the
sky, so regardless of the time of
day, the light intensity inside the
building stays relatively stable.
Once the sunlight is captured, it
can be distributed in several
different ways, so a single
Sundolier atop a roof can
channel light to many different
fixtures in the building below.
Of course, as with any solar
harvesting scheme, Sundolier is
hamstrung by Earth's
atmospheric processes; when the
sun is out, the Sundolier
provides ample lighting, but
overcast skies render it
somewhat ineffective.
Even so, the power savings on a
good sunny day are pretty
remarkable. In a public building
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like a large school that contains
lots of interior space that must
be well-lit, piping in natural
light could save a good deal in
energy costs over the course of a
year. The company claims
Sundolier can also help cut
cooling costs (all those light
bulbs really do add to the
ambient heat of a building), and
since the sunlight doesn't come
in directly as it does through
skylights and windows, it
doesn't contribute any
appreciable heat gain.
Check the video below to see
the Sundolier pumping natural
light into the Douglas County
Library.
[ Sunflower via Inhabitat]
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Process That Converts Cotton to

Boron Carbide Could Create
Armored T-Shirts
Jeremy Hsu (Popular Science
- New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 2:30:04 PM
It's a first step toward building
more flexible body armor
The boron carbide that forms
body armor plates and helps
protect battle tanks has now
become a part of T-shirt fabric.
MIT Researcher Develops
The reinforced nanocomposites
could eventually lead to more
iPhone App to Easily Control
flexible body armor or
lightweight materials for cars
Swarms of Aerial Drones
and aircraft, according to Jeremy Hsu (Popular Science military pilots undergo
Chemistry World. - New Technology, Science thousands of hours of training to
Scientists in China, News, The Future Now) learn how to fly drones.
Switzerland, and the U.S. hit Submitted at 4/5/2010 1:57:13 PM "This is all about the mission --
upon the idea of weaving cotton Flying UAVs might someday you just need more information
fibers together with boron become as easy as fiddling with from an image, and you
solved a previous problem boron carbide but have super- your phone
carbide nanowires. Cotton T- shouldn't have to spend $1
where boron carbide nanowires elasticity," said Xiaodong Li, a Fleets of unmanned drones
shirt samples were soaked in a million to train someone to get
would bunch up. mechanical engineer at the have become a common weapon
solution containing boron that picture," said Mary "Missy"
Outside experts have deemed University of South Carolina. in the U.S. military's arsenal, but
powder and a nickel-based Cummings, an MIT aerospace
the approach promising, if not S u c h f l e x i b i l i t y c o u l d clunky controls and interfaces
catalyst, and then heated to 2012 and systems engineer.
yet ready to replace Kevlar or differentiate future generations that distract human operators
degrees F (1100 degrees C) Cummings once flew F-18
conventional bulletproof of the material from other can lead to costly mistakes and
under a stream of argon that Hornets for the U.S. Navy, and
materials. But the boron-carbide examples of future armor or c r a s h e s . S u c h p r o b l e m s
prevented the material from saw fellow fighter pilots die in
nanowires already show some structural reinforcement. And as prompted a former U.S. Navy
burning. aircraft carrier landing mishaps.
material improvement over an added bonus, the boron pilot to develop an iPhone app
The cotton fibers changed to Since then, she has devoted her
more brittle boron-carbide carbide material keeps out those that allows any smartphone user
carbon fibers during the process, research at MIT's Humans and
composites. deadly UV rays from the sun. to learn how to fly an unmanned
and reacted with the boron Automation Laboratory (HAL)
"The boron-carbide nanowires [via Chemistry World] aerial system in just three
powder to create boron carbide. toward making it easier to fly
we synthesized keep the same minutes.
By using the woven cotton T- drones and interact with
strength and stiffness of the bulk Easier control interfaces could
shirt as a template, the scientists technology.
drastically cut down on training That means less time spent
time and costs, not to mention MIT page 84
mistakes. Consider that current
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Semiconductor Swab Test Can Detect Oral continued from page 84

Capital's Rachel Sheinbein, who

Cancer in Only 15 Minutes
Denise Ngo (Popular Science
- New Technology, Science
News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:41:09 AM
Every year, 300,000 people are
diagnosed with oral cancer,
which has an average survival
rate of only 60 percent over five
years. The rate of survival rises
to 90 percent when the cancer is
diagnosed early, but the process
of detection can take several
days, and is painful for the
patient. Nano-bio-chip
technology created by
researchers at Rice University
may change that.
The team at the university's
BioScience Research
Collaborative is working to
develop a chip that can detect
malignant lesions in 15 minutes.
The new procedure would allow
dentists to simply brush a
suspicious lesion with a device
that resembles a toothbrush. At
the moment, those afflicted with
oral cancer need to undergo
invasive biopsies every six
months.
According to preliminary
studies published in the Cancer
used to help Intel address
wastewater challenges.
precancerous as well. "Something else comes in and it
The oral cancer detection chip is totally different. It is like
is only one of many up-and- saying 'energy.' There are so
c o m i n g l a b s - o n - a - c h i p , many pieces of [the water
semiconductor-based devices market]."
b e i n g d e v e l o p e d f o r t h e North of the border, in Canada,
improvement of health care. In there is a lot less hesitation.
January of this year, scientists at In March, the Government of
Holland's University of Twente Ontario announced it would
debuted a chip that can test l a t e r t h i s y e a r i n t r o d u c e
sperm count. In February of this a g g r e s s i v e l e g i s l a t i o n t o
year, researchers at Harvard p r o m o t e O n t a r i o a s a n
announced prototype chip international leader in clean
technology that may be able to water entrepreneurship and
detect HIV and malaria, among investment. Last week, the
other diseases. Ontario Centre for
Prevention Research journal, Simple screening for oral Environmental Technology
tests using the chip were found cancer stands to significantly Advancement (OCETA) and
to be 93 percent accurate in change the diagnostics game, XPV Capital followed-up on the
d i f f e r e n t i a t i n g b e t w e e n putting dentists at the forefront government's announcement
cancerous and non-cancerous of cancer detection. with a new report. " The Water
lesions. The chip is designed to ScienceBlog Opportunity for Ontario" draws
identify abnormal lesions that
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could potentially turn

MIT
continued from page 83

fiddling with menus or trying to Cummings and her students

zoom a camera, and more time
focused on the task at hand --
whether that involves trying to
I.D. a sniper or search for
victims after a natural disaster.
The HAL group recently ran
experiments where participants
controlled a drone via
smartphone so that they could
read an eye chart and find a
photo within a building.
hope to eventually test the app
in the real world and fly the
drone up to 500 feet.
[ MIT]
Oh, Canada! Land of Water
Innovation!
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Submitted at 4/6/2010 4:03:11 AM
American venture capitalists
are notoriously fickle water
investors.
Recognizing that water is a
rapidly expanding $400 billion
global market, many investors
pledge a theoretical interest in
water innovations. But in
practice, window shopping is
the norm. Concerned about the
capital intensity of many water
projects and the length of water
startups' time to market and
sales cycles, numerous
American venture firms have
made only a single water
investment. As a result, many
firms are not well prepared to
evaluate and embrace the next
great water startup.
"If you have done just one, you
don't know the 100 different
pieces of the value chain and the
market segment," says CMEA
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attention to Ontario's research
institutions, water regulations
and standards, and water
industry, including the region's
"track record in creating world-
class water technologies." Some
examples are Zenon
Environmental, a wastewater
treatment firm purchased by GE,
and Trojan Technologies, a
leader in ultraviolet water
purification purchased by
Danaher Corporation.
In 2010, Toronto-based XPV
Capital will soon close a $150
million fund dedicated
exclusively to stage-agnostic
investments in emerging water
companies. To put the fund in
perspective, consider that in
2009 venture capitalists invested
about $150 million in water
innovation- total. (Ontario is
also making a big push in solar
and has attracted big name
partner Samsung.)
"The rate of adoption is
accelerating in water. The
primary [reason] is that the
value proposition of water
technology has shifted from a
regulatory value proposition,"
said XPV Capital's David
Henderson. "A lot of the
technology in the 1980s and
1990s were about bad bugs in
drinking water. What is
happening now is more
economic drivers - the fact that
a third of a municipality's
energy bill is moving and
treating water. That's a big bill
that you can attack with
technology."
XPV Capital is particularly
bullish on investment
opportunities in four broad
water areas: demand
destruction, wastewater to
product, water reuse, and
infrastructure renewal. Said
Henderson:
• "Demand structuring is all
about how we reduce the
demand for energy, water,
chemicals, [and] other inputs in
mission critical water processes
without changing the output
of the processes."
• "Wastewater to product is
taking the valuable resources
that are found in wastewater
streams and translating them
into value-added products."
• " Water reuse is taking
[wastewater from] industrial,
municipal, [and] commercial,
buildings, uses and instead of
treating it to be discharged back
into the environment,
treat[ing] it to be discharged for
other applications."
• "Infrastructure renewal
technology can extend the life,
expand the capacity, or increase
the productivity of [water]
infrastructure - a big area for
North America."
But even water enthusiasts such
as Henderson and Sheinbein
recognize the sector's
challenges.
"There are definitely elements in
the [water] industry where
venture capital doesn't make
sense, but there are segments in
the industry where it does make
sense. A technology that can
drop the energy equation in a
desalination process by fifty to
seventy percent is very
financeable under any venture
capital model," said Henderson.
Trouble is, most recent
advances, at least in
desalination, have been
incremental.
"I've seen membranes [and] I've
seen changes in distillation. But
they are not really
breakthroughs," said Sheinbein.
"They use too much energy or,
from a venture capital
perspective, they need to build
$100 million dollar plants
because they only make sense
on that scale. I'm looking for
things that are not iterative on
what I learned in my chemical
engineering classes."
Saltworks: Thermo-Ionic
Desalination
In Vancouver, startup
Saltworks Technologies claims
exactly such a disruptive
innovation and value
proposition.
"Saltworks has developed an
energy-efficient desalination
technology that reduces
electricity costs by up to 80
percent," said Malcolm Man,
Saltworks' Vice President of
Business Development.
T o a p p r e c i a t e
Saltworks' approach, begin with
a refresher course in chemical
engineering. Today, desalination
takes place primarily through
distillation or reverse osmosis.
During distillation, water is
heated and vaporized to remove
salt, then condensed to produce
fresh water. During reverse
osmosis, pressure gradients
drive water through a semi-
permeable membrane through
which salt cannot pass. Both
approaches are energy-intensive
and thus expensive.
To reduce energy costs,
NanoH20 is developing a more
efficient membrane for reverse
osmosis and Oasys Water is
using ammonia salts to
encourage forward osmosis, i.e.
the water is drawn through the
membrane due not by pressure
but due to its natural attraction
to an extremely salty solution on
the other side.
Saltworks is promoting a
different approach, using ion
bridges to create an electrical
circuit that manipulates salt.
Similarly, researchers at MIT
and in Korea recently
announced their successful
small-scale testing of
desalination based on passage of
water through ion-selective
materials.
To understand
Saltworks' thermo-ionic
desalination method, recall that
85
salt is composed of negatively
charged chlorine ions and
positively charged sodium ions.
Saltworks' process begins with
four separate streams of
seawater or brackish
groundwater. Using either a
solar thermal pond or industrial
waste heat, the first stream of
seawater, for example, is
evaporated until its salt
concentration rises from its
natural 3.5 percent to more than
18 percent. This first high-
salinity stream is then pumped
at low pressure into Saltworks'
desalting device.
Inside the device, the first high-
salinity stream is connected
using ion bridges to the second
and third natural seawater
streams, whose salt
concentrations are only 3.5
percent. Made of polystyrene,
the ion bridges have been
treated so that one allows only
negatively charged chlorine ions
to pass (from the first stream to
the second stream) and the other
allows only positively charged
sodium ions to pass (from the
first stream to the third stream).
The second and third streams
are also connected to the fourth
seawater stream. To maintain its
electrical balance, the second
stream pulls positively charged
sodium ions from the fourth
natural stream. Similarly, the
third stream pulls negatively
charged chlorine ions from the
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86 Energy/
And the Winner Is…
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Submitted at 4/5/2010 9:31:28 AM
Sorry to say, GTM readership,
but you have disappointed me.
When I lay down my challenge
to rebrand cap and trade, I was
sure some of you great minds
out there would put your (low
carbon) thinking caps on and
wow me with your creativity.
After all, the question of how to
better frame the climate debate
not only affects us all as
citizens, but, for many of us in
the cleantech nation, could have
a direct connection to our
livelihood. When John Doerr
tells Congress that putting a
price on carbon is the single
biggest boost that Washington
can provide to a domestic clean
energy economy, he's talking
about putting money in your
pockets, people.
So, though I thank the handful
of you who gave it an earnest
effort and sent in your
suggestions, I am not going to
award a winner for the mere
sake of a "beauty prize" -- none
of the ideas presented below is,
to my mind, a game changer.
Indeed, the atmosphere in
Washington is so rancorous that
whatever slim hopes might have
existed a month ago to reframe
or reshape the debate, the
prospects for movement on
climate and energy legislation in
the current session have almost
completely evaporated by now.
Better luck next year, planet
Earth!
As a public service to the next
cycle of interest in this topic,
here is a complete recap of the
suggestions I received:
Ø Pay to pollute
Ø Pay your way [for the fossil
fuel industry]
Ø Pollution (or emissions)
licensing
Ø Resource optimization
Ø CLEANS: Clean Energy for
America's National Security
Ø American Energy Transition
Incentive Program
Ø The American Carbon Tax
Refund Bill
Ø (re)Power America
[incorporating the acronym for
Renewable Energy] or Energize
America
Ø The Freedom from Oil Act,
Free Energy Act, or Victory
Over Foreign Oil Act
Ø Cap and Invest
Note: A couple of commenters
pointed out that "cap and
dividend" is currently in play in
some Congressional discussions,
and that alternatives such as
"cap and cash" or "cap and
credit" might be appropriate,
depending on the ultimate form
of the rebate contained in
legislation.
A few observations on this list
are in order. First, focusing on
the "pay" side of the equation is,
I believe, unlikely ever to
capture the public imagination
in a positive way. Frankly, what
underpins broad support for
clean energy policy is probably
as much the feeling that we are
paying "too much" for our
energy today -- or at least
sending our money to unsavory
and undemocratic parts of the
world. As I have written
elsewhere, one explanation for
the popularity of Renewable
Portfolio Standards (RPS) as a
means for promoting wind and
solar is that they hide the cost of
these investments from
consumers -- leaving us with the
false impression that we can
have our clean energy cake and
eat it, too. As a question of
framing, it is certainly a poor
plan to "lead with your chin"
and start the conversation with
the fact that going green costs
more.
Framing carbon as a traditional
environmental "pollution"
problem is also, to my mind,
disingenuous and risks
underselling the complexity and
scale of the sustained, global
effort required to combat
climate change. CO2 is not
some trace toxin to be scrubbed
from the smokestacks of a
recalcitrant local industrial
plant. Carbon emissions are an
unavoidable consequence of
nearly every energy-using
decision and purchase in our
daily lives. As such, the
challenge of actually measuring
it, regulating it and reducing it
meaningfully enough to achieve
the desired climate benefit is
orders of magnitude harder than
for traditional environmental
irritants.
Another group of responses
focused on the kinds of pithy
buzzword bingo titles that
always go on top of legislation
(and which the public generally
ignores) -- the "American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act
(ARRA)" for the Stimulus Bill,
for example. In fact, the House
climate and energy bill already
has a perfectly serviceable name
of this sort -- the "American
Clean Energy and Security Act
E-reader News Edition
of 2009," or ACES. My
proposition was that we need to
rebrand (and perhaps
reconsider) cap and trade, not
merely rename the bill to add
more buzzwords.
Finally, to the family tree of
"cap and __" alternatives, I say,
good luck. Good luck explaining
it to the American public in a
way that sticks. Good luck
getting Congress to approve a
big new source of revenue and
then turn right around and give
the money back to the taxpayer
(rather than say, siphoning it off
to fund new bailouts, earmarks,
or programs). Good luck getting
Lindsey Graham to sip the sweet
Kool-Aid of bipartisanship now
that he claims the well has been
"poisoned" by the Democrats'
successful health care reform
push...
In short, if I had to declare a
winner in all of this, it would be
coal.
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Is Secretive Twin Creeks Coming out of Stealth?
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Now that Twin Creeks
Technologies has its factory
plans, it might start talking
about its technology.
The well-funded start-up,
founded only in 2008, said that
it will invest $175 million into a
solar panel facility in Senatobia
that will ultimately employ 512
individuals. Twin Creeks to date
has raised over $65 million. The
state will provide $54 million in
assorted benefits to Twin
Creeks.
Not only is that a big number,
the date is interesting. Twin
Creeks was founded in 2008,
well after a lot of venture
capitalists began to scale back
their investments in solar,
particularly start-ups touting
new manufacturing techniques.
Thus, Twin Creeks either has
something interesting or it's a
last gasp of next-generation
solar ideas. There has been a lot
of buzz about Twin Creeks
lately, but not a lot of solid
information. Crosslink Capital
and DAG Ventures are
investors.
So what are they up to? We've
heard the company wants to
produce silicon solar panels, but
produce them at a cost that is
closer copper indium gallium
selenide (CIGS) or cadmium
telluride solar panels. A patent
awarded at the end of last month
by the US Patent and Trademark
Office describes a technique for
implanting ions into
semiconductor wafers. Full
disclosure: it's way way above
my head but it sounds like Twin
Creeks wants to reduce the
amount of raw material
consumed in the cell production
process. Some excerpts:
"As the demand for electrical
energy based on renewable
sources increases, the
implementation of photovoltaic
technology has expanded
dramatically in recent years.
Nevertheless, a way of forming
crystalline silicon bodies
optimized for photovoltaic cells
has remained elusive.
Crystalline silicon wafers
adapted to bear photovoltaic
cells are conventionally
obtained by slicing a silicon
ingot. This process, which
typically yields a silicon wafer
thicker than 150 .mu.m, wastes
a substantial amount of silicon
by consuming up to 50% of the
silicon body in kerf loss and
delivering a much greater
thickness than is needed for
useful photovoltaic device," the
patent states.
"In a first embodiment, the
invention provides an ion
implanter adapted to implant
ions in semiconductor wafers,
comprising an appliance bearing
noncircular pads, each pad
configured to support a
noncircular semiconductor
wafer; and apparatus disposed to
direct an ion beam, constituting
a current of at least 5 mA, at the
disk, apparatus comprising a
mass analyzer, having a resolver
power less than ten, configured
to sort ions for the beam, while
the mass analyzer is the only
Energy/ 87
mass analyzer in the ion
implanter. Illustratively, the ion
beam is of hydrogen or helium
ions," it adds.
In a sense, it sounds like
enhanced silicon for crystalline
silicon solar panels. Twin
Creeks clearly wants to produce
its own panels, but this also
sounds like technology that
could be licensed to others.
With solar panels selling for
$1.95 a watt and likely dropping
to $1.50 to $1.75 by the middle
of the year, it won't be easy for a
start-up to make headway so an
alliance with a large
manufacturer is a distinct
possibility. Again, we tried to
find out more in early March but
were only getting vague replies.
With the patent and the factory
in Mississippi, expect to hear
more soon.
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Tesla Gives Musk 20 Million More Options, Prius
-Proofs its Cars
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Submitted at 4/5/2010 8:23:49 AM
The Model S sedan is a "must"
for upstart Silicon Valley car
maker Tesla Motors.
The designer of the Roadster
luxury sports sedan will broaden
its lineup in 2012 with the
$49,900 (after federal rebates)
Model S, putting its electric cars
within reach of buyers who can't
shell out more than $100,000 for
the Roadster.
The new car also is a bonanza
for Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The
San Carlos company awarded its
top exec 20,135,920 million
stock options in December and
tied half of them to milestones
in the development and delivery
of Tesla's all-important second
vehicle, according to documents
filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission last
week. The grants equal about 8
percent of the fully diluted
shares of the company before
the grant. The other half of the
options -- representing ten
million shares, or four percent
of the fully diluted shares --
were given to Musk for
accomplishments to date.
In January, Tesla filed
documents with the Securities
and Exchange Commission as a
prelude to an IPO. In a revised S
-1 filing last week, the company
updated its paperwork,
announcing Musk's options
grants and admitting that it lost
more money last year than
previously disclosed.
According to the filing, the
options are valued at $2.21 each,
or $44.5 million.
Musk get his options in two
grants. In the first, 10,067,960
options are to be awarded
monthly over the next three
years, with 2.6 million granted
last December. The other ten
million worth of options Musk
will earn as the Model S meets
certain milestones: 25 percent
when the engineering of the
Model S is completed, 25
percent when a prototype is
finished, 25 percent when
production begins, and 25
percent when the 10,000th
Model S rolls off the assembly
line.
The company hopes to make up
to 20,000 Model S cars each
year. The car will be built on a
modular platform so that with
just a few design tweaks,
engineers at the company can
start producing sport utility
vehicles or commercial vans.
The SEC filing goes on to
report that Tesla lost $55.7
million last year, less than the
$82.8 million it lost in 2008.
This brings to $260.7 million
the company's accumulated
losses. Tesla had previously
disclosed 2009 loses of $31.5
million through September and
cumulative losses of $236.4
million.
Also included in the document
is a response to the Toyota Prius
recall. Tesla says it implemented
several algorithms in its vehicle
software to reduce the
likelihood of unintended
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acceleration due to a mechanical
or electronic failure.
"We stop the flow of electricity
to our motor when the car is
placed in neutral or the key is
rotated from the 'on' position.
We also stop the flow of
electricity to the motor during
normal vehicle operation when
the brake pedal is depressed for
more than two seconds," the
company says.
The next few years should be
interesting ones for Tesla.
Although it's been the only
freeway-legal electric car maker
for three years, Nissan, General
Motors, Ford, Toyota, Fisker
Automotive and others will all
release plug-in cars in 2010 and
2011. And while Tesla has
grabbed lots of attention, it
hasn't sold as many of its Tesla
Roadsters as earlier anticipated.
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fourth stream. In the process,
the fourth stream is stripped of
its ions and desalinated.
"Our technology can hybridize
with existing [desalination]
plants," said Saltworks' Man.
"For example, a reverse osmosis
plant produces a high-brine
concentration discharge. We use
that as our fuel. What we can
do is take that fuel, recover
more water from it and produce
a solid salt with zero liquid
discharge."
To date, Saltworks has raised
about $1.3 million and received
about $2 million in government
grants. The company has a one
cubic meter per day
demonstration plant operating,
where it extracts seawater from
Vancouver harbor and produces
fresh water. Skeptics wonder
whether the process will work
over time, clean water to a
degree necessary, and other
issues. But it's definitely
intriguing.
"We're looking [for] up to $10
million for our Series A
financing... to continue
operations [and] IP protection,
deploy four mobile
demonstration plants to key
industrial and municipal
customers and start our
manufacturing capabilities to
reduce costs," said Man.
Yoni Cohen is a JD-MBA
student at the Yale Law School
and the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania. He
previously worked as a reporter
for Fox Sports, among other
jobs.
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Momentum Mounts For
Financial Overhaul
(Kiplinger Personal Finance) the bill is the popular support,
with polls showing almost a
• reverse of views on the more
An overhaul of financial contentious health care bill.
regulations is a good bet as According to a Pew Financial
President Obama, fresh from his Reform Project survey last
health care victory, takes on month, 59% of voters said
another huge swath of the U.S. Congress and the administration
e c o n o m y . “ T h e g e n e r a l should support financial reform
atmospherics has shifted in now over other priorities. They
favor of a bill,” says Robert are still seething at Wall Street
Litan, vice president of research over the crisis that helped send
and policy at the Kauffman the economy into a long, deep
Foundation. MOMENTUM page 90
One thing working in favor of

Pricing Your Home for a Sale

(Kiplinger Personal Finance)
• If the pool of sales is small, she
You hope to sell fast for top
dollar. Reality check: You'll
probably have to compromise --
with a price that not only
satisfies you but also attracts the
right buyers and won't exceed
the market value determined by
your buyer's appraiser.
Agents don't pull a list price out
of thin air. To begin homing in
on the best price, you should
expect that your agent will look
at recent sales of homes similar
to yours, current listings and
pending sales.
For example, agent Patricia
Vucich says that she usually
looks for at least three sales of
comparable houses that have
closed within the past 90 days.
checks the county tax records
for sales that weren't reported on
the regional multiple listing
service, such as ones in which a
neighbor sold to a neighbor.
If short sales or foreclosures are
prevalent in your market, your
agent may also factor in their
prices. However, given that
these houses are often sold in
poor condition, their sale prices
may not have much of an effect
on the pricing of your home, if
it's in good shape.
Based on their research, agents
will develop a price range for
your home. Whether you start at
the top, midpoint or bottom of
the range is a decision that
depends on how quickly you
need to sell.
If you start a little lower than
your competition, you'll
generate traffic, and you can
always say no to unacceptable
offers. But don't start at the very
bottom. Instead, build in room
for negotiation so you can come
down in price, if needed.
"Buyers like to feel as if they
have won," says Janis Morgan,
the San Antonio agent. Padding
the price a bit is especially
important if you haven't already
reduced the price for
deficiencies -- say, an outdated
kitchen or a poor location.
If you start too high, you may
have few nibbles. Says Kris
Berg, an agent in San Diego:
"Today's buyers want either the
cheapest house on the block,
even if it's falling-down ugly, or
the Taj Mahal with everything
they couldn't buy back in 2005,
and for 20% less." Can you
charge more for a cream puff?
Yes, but not as much as you
think.
If you're selling an entry-level
home that will attract first-time
buyers, you can anticipate that
they will want help with their
closing costs, which usually
amount to 3% to 6% of the
purchase price. So you may
want to price it a bit higher to
start. Keep in mind, though, that
a buyer using conforming
financing (backed by Freddie
Mac or Fannie Mae) or a
Federal Housing Administration
loan can apply the home buyer's
tax credit toward closing costs.
Steve Vieux imagined listing
his Silver Spring house for
$300,000, but the analysis
provided by his agent suggested
$240,000. Once his agent
realized that Vieux's buyer
would probably be a first-timer,
they bumped up the list price to
$248,500, then agreed to pay the
buyer's closing costs of $7,455.
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tailspin leading to job and home
losses. “There is a lot of
pressure on lawmakers to get
something done,” says Charles
Taylor, head of the Pew Project.
The House passed its version of
reform in December, and a
Senate measure is headed to the
floor later this month. To get
through Congress, bill sponsors
need to hang onto Democratic
support, while picking up a vote
or two from the Senate GOP
side. Without at least some
bipartisan support, the bill will
fall prey to a filibuster. Key
Republicans want to reach a
compromise, and probably will.
“Republicans in the middle
don’t want to be accused of
being handmaidens of the
banks,” says Litan.
But powerful and well-heeled
opponents are doing their best to
block the bill-- or at least
weaken many of the proposed
restrictions on bank activities.
Big banks and business groups
are spending millions on
lobbying, trying to turn the
tables on Democrats, saying the
bill will ensure, not prevent,
new bailouts.
They may well succeed in
winning some concessions, but
with momentum mounting, they
will be hard-pressed to stop the
bill altogether.
Over time, as the bill gets
implemented, the new law will
affect almost all Americans,
providing safeguards for
consumer and business lending.
It will touch financial products
ranging from payday loans to
private equity investments.
Big financial firms will feel the
most pain. Banks, investment
companies, insurers and other
large financial institutions that
hold $50 billion or more in
assets will face more regulation,
additional disclosure rules and
new fees. Smaller banks,
nonbank lenders and credit
unions will see heightened
scrutiny as well.
Despite the ongoing debate,
most of the measure’s planks are
settled, at least in principle. The
remaining battles are being
fought over the scope and scale
of reforms. Key elements
include:
• Consumer protections. A new
watchdog agency will police
financial products, requiring
better disclosure of risks and
blocking those deemed likely to
lead to a bubble. Disagreement
persists over where to locate the
consumer watchdog and what
limits to put on its power.
Obama wants an independent
agency, but that won’t fly.
Expect it to end up inside the
Federal Reserve. Also, its
jurisdiction is still being worked
out--specifically, whether it
should supervise auto dealers
and real estate brokers.
• Systemic risk council. The law
will bring together existing
regulators in a council headed
by the Treasury Department to
keep track of the big picture.
New tools will give it flexibility
to handle big corporations that
run into trouble. Its most
important and controversial
element is an emergency pool of
more than $50 billion funded
through fees on the largest
firms. It’s that emergency pool
that opponents point to when
they say it will encourage risky
behavior and ultimately lead to
more bailouts.
• Regulatory agency shuffle.
Say good-bye to the Office of
Thrift Supervision. The Fed will
watch over the biggest banks
while the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporate regulates
state banks and the Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency
supervises national banks.
• Derivatives. More trading will
move from private, over-the-
counter desks to exchanges,
where regulators can keep a
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better eye on them.
Car Leasing
• Hedge funds. Those with at
least $100 billion in assets will Stages a
have to open their books to
regulators.
• Credit rating agencies. The
Comeback
(Kiplinger Personal Finance)
Securities and Exchange
Commission will boost
•
oversight.
Leasing will give carmakers
• Insurers. Expect a federal
and dealers something to cheer
office to monitor, but not
about this year. It’s bouncing
regulate, the industry.
back much faster than outright
The bottom line: We expect
sales. Of the more than 12
enactment of a bill before
million new cars that will be
summer ends, but it will take
sold this year, about one-fifth
years to implement the law and
will be leased. That compares
overhaul the regulatory
with about 17% before the
architecture. And whether the
bottom fell out of the American
changes will work will still
auto market in 2008 and 2009.
depend on how adept regulators
In fact, three-fifths of the total
are at spotting trouble. Michael
increase in new-car sales this
Konczal, a fellow at the
year will come from lease
Roosevelt Institute, points out
transactions.
that regardless of the available
The growing popularity of
tools, “at the end of the day, you
leasing will be a boon,
can’t always rely on people to
particularly for luxury brands
get it right.”
that saw sales crater during the
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two years of anemic sales of
cars, SUVs and pickup trucks,
which have reduced the volume
of late-model trade-ins. “The
effect has been to boost used
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Cash for Clunker Appliances continued from page 90

vehicle prices, in turn increasing vehicle purchase or financing.

(Kiplinger Personal Finance) Island -- have jumped the gun independent retailers, hope that the residual value of leased That, too, is contributing to the
and already have the incentives many consumers in need of one vehicles,” says Toprak. Most larger number of leases as the
• in play, most other states will appliance will decide to spring automakers and financing economy shows more signs of
Cash rebates for clunker launch the program later this for another as well, since the companies curtailed leasing or life.
vehicles were such a smash hit, month. States’ shares of the government is paying part of the even halted it for several months For dealers, the resurgence of
the government is at it again-- federal program are based on tab. Many retailers are also in 2009, when both new-vehicle leasing means more work for
this time offering you cash for population. California will planning discount tie-in sales and residual values went service departments, too.
y o u r w o r n - o u t h o u s e h o l d receive the top amount: $35.3 promotions, offering big savings into freefall. Companies figured Lessees are more likely than
appliances. million; Wyoming, the smallest: on related merchandise -- such it was better to pull back on consumers who own cars to rely
The $300-million federal $511,000. as outdoor gas grills and riding leasing rather than take the on dealers for routine servicing
program -- administered through Based on early results in the lawn mowers -- that’s not chance that the cars would be of their vehicles.
the states -- will provide four front-runner states, the eligible for the federal rebates. worth thousands of dollars less Moreover, an uptick in leasing
consumers with a cash rebate of appliance program will be as Is there a catch? Only a small than expected at the end of a typically spells stronger sales
up to 15% of the cost of each wildly popular with consumers one, but it shouldn’t cause three-year lease. down the road. “Leasing builds
n e w E n e r g y S t a r - r a t e d as the cash-for-clunker car anyone any grief. Uncle Sam Improved financing options are brand loyalty that encourages
refrigerator, freezer, dishwasher, program was. wants proof that an old helping, too: Automakers’ customers to select the same
clothes washer, water heater and Appliance manufacturers and appliance is being recycled captive-finance companies are make when the lease expires,”
room air conditioner. Expect retailers are excited, eager for before paying the rebate on the more willing to transact more says Rebecca Lindland, an
rebates to run from $100 to the sales boost the program will replacement. But reputable leases. Credit unions are getting automotive analyst with IHS
$250, depending on the cost of provide. The rebates should installers will be happy to haul into the automobile leasing Global Insight, an economic
the appliance. push sales of appliances to $22 your old appliance away for business. And GMAC, the consultancy.
But wait -- there’s more. The billion this year -- up 10% over recycling at little or no charge onetime General Motors captive For weekly updates on topics to
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'Food Revolution': A School Lunch Expert Reacts
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(Kate Adamick) (Food :: The
Atlantic)
Submitted at 4/5/2010 12:05:24 PM
Kate Adamick
When I was invited to blog
about Jamie Oliver's "Food
Revolution" for the Atlantic
Food Channel, my initial
reaction was that I just didn't
have the time. As a food
systems consultant who
specializes in school food
reform, I fly nearly 200,000
miles a year working for
foundations and schools that are
trying to move school meal
programs away from simulated
food and toward real food, i.e.
scratch-cooked meals using
fresh, whole ingredients. In
short, my job is to do exactly
what Chef Oliver is trying to do
in Huntington, West Virginia,
albeit with fewer cameras and
"made-for-TV" theatrics. Like
Oliver, I bring with me my
experience and training as a
professional chef. In addition, I
view the process through the
lens of my first career as an
attorney who specialized in
regulatory law.
What finally prodded me to
accept the offer were the
surprisingly negative comments
about Oliver's show made by
my contemporaries in the food
systems world. In the past two
weeks, I have been shocked that
so many of my colleagues have
become preoccupied with who
is getting—or who is
taking—credit for waking the
country up to the catastrophe
that is school food. Those of us
who are truly concerned about
the welfare of America's
children, health care system, and
food supply should be grateful
that long-awaited and much-
needed attention to what has
become at best a national
embarrassment, and at worst a
national crisis, has finally
arrived. The revolution will be
televised.
My assignment is to critique
each episode and describe what
the scenes in it would be like in
other school districts around the
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little-recognized frontrunners in
the world of school food reform
didn't become leaders by having
a world renowned professional
chef walk into their kitchen in
chef's whites. Most of them
became leaders by going
through culinary—not
nutrition—training programs,
the very training the Huntington
food service director said was
too expensive for her district to
afford. Culinary training that
teaches lunch ladies—and
men—how to use and maintain
knives, how to handle raw meat
products safely, how to calculate
recipe extensions and food cost,
and, yes, even how to dress like
the professional cooks we
expect them to become and our
children desperately need them
to be.
I suspect Oliver would have
been greeted more warmly if he
county. In sum, my role is to on her face who appears to had taken off his chef's jacket
reveal just how close to reality hope the whole experiment and put it on the combative
this reality show really is. fails? kitchen manager when they
Where to begin? Lunch ladies Of course, there's more. Lots, were first introduced. I believe
who dress like the love children lots more. I'll cut to the chase: h e w o u l d h a v e m e t l e s s
of fast-food workers and nurses' yes. These scenes are tragically resistance had he not set himself
aides? A high-school cafeteria ubiquitous in our nation's public up to compete with the lunch
that serves nothing but pizza, school system. ladies he was trying to help in
fries, spaghetti, and iceberg But they're not universal. the first episode. I know from
lettuce in the salad bar? A T h a n k f u l l y , t h e r e i s a n experience that if he had secured
kitchen manager who drinks i n c r e a s i n g n u m b e r o f the funding for the culinary
s o d a i n t h e k i t c h e n a n d courageous American lunch training before he publicly
seemingly spends more time ladies who recognize that criticized the school's existing
complaining than working? U S D A g u i d e l i n e s a r e t h e protocols, the Huntington lunch
Adults who think students won't insidious result of corporate ladies would have more readily
eat lunch if the meal doesn't lobbying and not just a standard embraced what he had to say.
come with fries? A food service to be met for federal funding. 'FOOD page 96
director with a permanent smirk Most of these hardworking and
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Florence's Famous Food Fair, Part II

contributors@theatlantic.com filled with contradictions.
(Faith Willinger) (Food :: The Then, it was time for a final
Atlantic) stroll through the aisles. I met
Submitted at 4/6/2010 5:34:59 AM Sardinian Stefano Rocca and
Faith Willinger tasted his bottarga—pale pink,
To read part one of this two- sliced, and ground like powder
part series about Taste 2010, to sprinkle on pasta or beans.
one of Italy's most exciting food Best of all was a jarred sauce
fairs, click here. pairing bottarga and sea urchin,
I knew the fair in Florence served on Sardinian flatbread (
would be impossible to navigate pane carasau) but perfect for
on Sunday, so I focused on pasta, a must for my pantry. I
Fuori Taste events. In the also tasted'nduja, a spreadable
afternoon I visited Carapina's spicy Calabrian sausage from
new shop and tasted gelato Luigi Caccamo, and headed to
made with Mieli Thun's superb Zago's stand for one of my
honey, then tasted a spoonful of favorite artisanal Italian
crystallized ivy honey, with its beers—unpasteurized and malty.
complex, evolving flavors. I Refreshed, I was ready to leave
also went for an aperitivo at the but was distracted by Chianina
Hotel Savoy. cattle pictures at Macelleria
The bar has huge windows Ricci. I quizzed owner-butcher
overlooking Piazza della Enrico Ricci about his animals.
Repubblica, with some of the Free range IGT Chianina, all
city's best people-watching. additional feed from their farm.
S n a c k s w e r e p r e p a r e d b y Orafo for an event entitled Faroe Islands baccalà filet with hydrocolloids. The ordinance Satisfied with his answers, I had
c o n s u l t i n g c h e f F u l v i o "Knowing Baccalà," sponsored smashed potatoes (not pureed, singles out restaurants, but a taste, and promised to visit
Pierangelini (he closed his by Schooner, although I'd never with real texture) and tarragon pastry shops, gelaterie, and him in Trequanda (SI).
highly esteemed restaurant a heard of the chef, Angelo oil. I promised to visit Angelo's home cooks can still use the As a founding member, I had to
few years ago) with products Torcigliani, and had my doubts. restaurant, open two nights a same compounds, and industrial stop by the Donne del Vino
from the fair: a mini-portion of But he treated the product with w e e k a t h i s g a s t r o n o m i c food producers can use the dinner at Villa Bardini with
red shrimp and zucchini risotto respect and made a flawless grocery, as soon as possible. additives because there's an three of Florence's best women
with rice from Cascina Veneria; d i n n e r : L o f o t e n I s l a n d s The hot topic of Monday i n t e r n a l s a f e t y e n g i n e e r c h e f s — B e n e d e t t a V i t a l i ,
Monte Veronese cheeses and stoccafisso(air-dried, not salted) morning's roundtable discussion monitoring all processes. (Why Beatrice Segoni, and Giovanna
Formaggio Ubriaco (macerated b r a n d a d e ; N o r w e g i a n r a w w i t h s c i e n t i s t s a n d c h e f doesn't that make me feel safe?) Iorio. I had a glass of wine with
in wine must for a month, then baccalà dressed with extra Massimiliano Alajmo was a new Powdered stock and bouillon Donna del Vino members
aged for another six) from La virgin olive oil; and Faroe Italian ordinance prohibiting the cubes with MSG are technically Beatrice Contini, Emanuele
Casera; a slice of spalla from Islands baccalà salad; followed use of additives in restaurants. banned, which would mean that Stucchi, and Cristina Nonino,
Macelleria Savigni. The maitre by pasta mista(mixed shapes of The ordinance appears to be a many, many restaurants would and gossiped with the chefs in
d' claimed they made the best pasta used for soup, a personal reaction to the popular TV have to change their habits. the kitchen, but I went home for
Martini in Florence. How could favorite); Sorana beans and program "Striscia la Notizia," a Everyone on the panel agreed dinner. I was Taste-ed out.
I say no? slightly smoky baccalà bottarga parody news show that attacked that the ordinance couldn't FLORENCE'S page 95
Then I went to La Buca del that was truly impressive; and new-wave Italian chefs adopting become law because it was
94 Food/ E-reader News Edition

Dry vs. Wet: A Butcher's Guide to Aging Meat

contributors@theatlantic.com aging is the be-all-end-all: it is
(Tom Mylan) (Food :: The impossible to properly dry age
Atlantic) steaks like the flat iron, skirt
Submitted at 4/6/2010 5:41:08 AM steak, or chuck tenders because
VirtualErn/flickr they lack the protective fat and
Dry-aged beef is one of those bone that cover traditional aged
things that really get our cuts like rib and short loin. Once
customers excited whenever we they are removed from the
give tours of our meat locker. carcass, they simply begin to
They marvel at the long row of degrade and dry out, which is
rib and drop loins along the top why I think everyone agrees
of the cooler racks, oohing and they should go into plastic.
ahhing at their individual farm What everything eventually
tags and even petting the soft comes down to is personal
snow of mold silently changing preference. I prefer meat that
the beef from good to great. has been hung about two weeks
Of course, dry aging, far from because I like to taste the beef,
being the exotic ritual we make not the age. My customers,
it out to be today, is what pretty however, demand that we dry
much all beef that wasn't cured age their steaks five weeks and
or canned used to be 30 years beyond. They have come to
ago. What happened? Why is associate the taste and texture of
properly hung beef such an well-aged meat with having the
oddity today if it was the true steakhouse experience at
industry standard such a short home. To further complicate
t i m e a g o ? P l a s t i c b a g s , help break down the connective you're talking about the flavor various airborne fungi that begin matters, one of the best steaks I
unfortunately, are the anti- tissue, for the sake of making of a steak, but the fact that to digest the meat, giving an have ever eaten was off a 100-
climactic answer. Basically, the the aforementioned meat object upwards of 90 percent of the aged loin its distinctive flavor, percent grass-fed animal that
meatpacking industry figured more tender. Whether it happens beef taken home by American aroma, and fuzzy exterior. So was hung for two weeks, then
out that if you stick a piece of in a bag or out in the air as a big grocery store shoppers in plastic dry aging wins, right? It's put into vacuum pack for two
meat in a vacuum-sealed bag it swinging side of beef, that -wrapped foam trays is wet-aged complicated: while most meat more weeks.
not only reduces the amount of element of the process is the seems to suggest that it can't be snobs (myself included) prefer What does all of this tell us?
money that is lost in water same (okay, almost the same). all bad. dry aged beef, the American That the best kind of aged meat
weight and trim but it also During wet aging, the plastic Dry aging, on the other hand, public actually prefers bagged is the kind that you, as an
"ages" faster. Thus the age-old doesn't allow the meat to allows the meat to breathe, lose beef according to a number of individual, like best. Whether
Wet vs. Dry Aging Controversy breathe, so it ages in contact water (which increases its very expensive meat studies. it's a wet, bloody T-bone or an
began. with its own blood, which lends "beefiness" since there is now Certainly you could chalk those eight-week-old New York strip
Okay, so what is aging and it "a more intense sour note and less water and but the same r e s u l t s u p t o A m e r i c a n s that tastes like bleu cheese, the
w h a t a r e t h e d i f f e r e n c e s a more bloody/serumy flavor," amount of muscle fiber), and get preferring what they have customer is always right.
between wet and dry aging according to the Department of acted upon by other microbes become used to and choosing
exactly? Aging is the process Food Science and Nutrition at beside those of the muscle itself. bagged meat over the funkier
during which microbes and the University of Minnesota. Those other microbes are the flavor of dry-aged beef. DRY page 95
enzymes act upon the meat to This sounds a bit negative when long, threadlike mycelia of Ultimately neither method of
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Husks, Not Beans: An Ethiopian Coffee Tradition
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(Jerry Baldwin) (Food :: The
Atlantic)
Submitted at 4/6/2010 6:30:06 AM
Jerry Baldwin
Jane and I recently returned
from another trip to Ethiopia,
where we spent time both with
specialty coffee producers (for a
subsequent post) and among the
Kara people in the Omo River
Valley.
Among the Kara, we got the
opportunity to visit and drink
buno(coffee from coffee husks,
see my earlier post on qishr),
and I was able to add a bit to my
understanding of this important
part of the Kara social fabric.
We have now had buno in three
of the four Kara villages, and it
seems to be the first element of
social life. Buno starts every day
in a family's life. The
preparation begins before dawn
while everyone except the
coffee preparer is still in bed.
Morning coffee is a structured
but relaxed ritual, even when
there is work to do.
Gender-neutral divisions of
work have not yet reached the
Omo River Valley. And a
hierarchy is well defined. A
DRY
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woman always prepares the
coffee. When there are two
wives, the second wife gathers
the firewood, hauls the water,
and makes the coffee. The first
wife serves the coffee. Young
Kara girls are rarely required to
help with household chores.
They are free to do whatever
they want until they marry, but
marriage ends this carefree time.
Buno is always served in the
ono(the Kara home) or the
FLORENCE'S
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gapa(a day house in the same
compound) where cooking fires
are kept smoldering day and
night, and every guest is served
buno as the first thing upon
arrival. It's never prepared
elsewhere, even for an important
meeting.
Jerry Baldwin The fire is
stoked, the water boiled, and the
coffee husks are put in the
boiling water. It is then served
in a half calabash according to
Food/ 95
together like washing. It's
typically the last thing a man
does before he leaves. I'm told
that women sometimes wash
their faces with the last few
ounces, though I did not observe
this.
Ethiopians consume nearly half
of the coffee beans they
produce. I doubt whether
buno/qishr is counted anywhere.
Add these beverages and you
have a vital element of
Ethiopian life.
Among coffee growing
countries, only Brasil, a modern,
industrialized society, consumes
a significant part of its
production. Although you find
Western-style coffeehouses in
Ethiopian towns, the traditional
the hierarchy I described in treatment for a guest, whether
qishr: first, the man of the roasted and ground coffee in the
house; second, the guests; and north or buno in the villages,
last, the hostess. Apparently, follows a traditional structure,
children don't begin to drink it exhibiting an elevated social
until their late teens. position for coffee and a
The conversation continues hospitality that we should
along with the drinking as the consider emulating.
coffee cools. As a man comes
close to the end of his serving,
he pours a small amount,
perhaps a third of a cup, over his
hand, then rubs his hands
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I also suspect that Oliver will one more thing. I spent all of
contributors@theatlantic.com bowl of custard soup. Like all help of my mom and dog, I
(Megan McArdle) (Food :: The ultimately be successful on last week teaching an intensive
of life's great pleasures, it is couldn't finish it. Though I can't some level, if not in Huntington, culinary class to 24 food service
Atlantic) unbearably fleeting. say how soft serve compares to then in countless other workers and directors. After
Submitted at 4/5/2010 11:47:54 AM I probably haven't had other ice creams I've had, I will American school districts. A reading how several snarky
Now that the weather has commercial soft-serve ice cream say that it was delicious--and food service director with whom commentators derided Oliver for
gotten warmer, I've started in twenty years--basically, since that the structure itself was a I have worked periodically over calling food service workers
making ice cream again. Since I M o m s t o p p e d g i v i n g m e modern-day miracle. the past year recently wrote me "lunch ladies," I asked my
lack the committment to buy an quarters for the Mr. Softee Finally, and most importantly, the following about Oliver's students if they took offense to
expensive compressor machine truck. So it was nice to read our soft serve requires a machine. A show: the term. Not one did. Not even
to use a dozen or so times a piece on Dairy Queens, and machine, in turn, requires a Watching the Food Revolution the four men among them. One
year, I'm still using the freezer learn that other people like the store. Not quite solid, and made has opened my eyes to see what person, a cheerful woman
b o w l a t t a c h m e n t f o r m y same thing I do: largely of air, soft serve can't I must have been like when you named Julie, said, "Technically,
Kitchenaid. This does a very First off: soft serve is cheap and survive a freezer. You can't buy first came to [my district]. I that's what we are. But I like to
fine job on the ice cream, but soft serve is low in fat. (Unlike soft serve in a carton. Every know I came off defensive and refer to us as 'lunch teachers.'"
the custard must be thoroughly M a y f i e l d ' s c l a i m a b o u t cone requires an excursion into rebellious, just like some of the From now on, I'll be referring
chilled (like, 12 hours or more) Blizzards, this is actually true.) the world. It is a public ice cooks in the TV program. When to them that way, too.
before you freeze it, and it Furthermore, because soft serve cream, meant to be eaten fresh. the [food service] director came
comes out in soft serve. doesn't freeze your mouth, it Following the invention of soft into the meeting with Jamie
The latter is actually more of a tastes better than hard ice cream. serve, the creation of thousands loaded with her Federal
feature than a bug. Homemade T h a t was Grandpa of new places to go and sit and Regulation Books, I nearly fell
ice cream is heavier and eggier McCullough's theory, anyway, eat it was almost inevitable. off the chair laughing. Boy was
than almost any commercial and Dairy Queen boosters have I'll probably stick with my own that me a year ago or what! And
version, and when it is just treated it as gospel ever since. I machine, in my own home. But
coming out of the freezer it is at haven't done a taste comparison, this reminds me that maybe I
i t s m o s t d e l i g h t f u l - - but I did tackle a monstrous ought to have more people
simultaneously absurdly rich, Brown Derby (chocolate dip gathered around it when I pull
and delicately evanescent. cone) in Aspermont (population the ice cream out.
U n f o r t u n a t e l y i t c a n ' t b e 1,021). In size and shape, it
preserved in that state--even recalled a Dr. Seuss mountain.
serving yourself a little cup of Tens of millions of Whos could
the stuff results in, basically, a have lived on top; even with the