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Report: Afghan schoolgirls' water poisoned

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At least 140 Afghan schoolgirls and female teachers have been hospitalized after drinking water that local officials say was poisoned by extremists opposed to women's education, CNN reports. While no deaths have been reported, more than half of the victims -- ages 14 to 30 -partially lost consciousness, while others suffered dizziness and vomiting, CNN says. The girls had been drinking water from a tank at their high school Tuesday in the small town of Rustaq in the northeastern province of Takhar, district [unable to retrieve full-text content]
administrator Malem Hussain said, according to AFP. "It is the work of those who are against girls' education and peace and stability in Afghanistan," Hussain is quoted as saying. Jan Mohammad Nabizada, a
spokesman for the education department in the province, says officials there are "are 100 percent sure that the water they drunk inside their classes was poisoned," Reuters reports. Education for women was
outlawed by the Taliban government from 1996-2001 as un-Islamic, Reuters says. That began to change after the regime was toppled by the U.S.-led invasion. More than 100 schoolgirls and teachers got sick in a series of similar poisonings in 2010. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Discovery lands after saluting nation's capital

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National Mall between the Washington Monument and the Capitol to get a view of the shuttle CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) Space as it circled three times through shuttle Discovery soared around partly cloudy skies, surprising the Washington Monument and watchers each time. The Capitol's the White House in a salute to the b a l c o n y w a s l o a d e d w i t h nation's capital Tuesday before onlookers and people stood on landing for the last time near its rooftops. Construction workers new museum home. staked out prime viewing spots on By Ann Heisenfelt, AP Space cranes. shuttle Discovery, mounted on the " T h a t ' s f a n t a s t i c . T h a t ' s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, flies wonderful. Look at that you behind flags of the Washington can see the name on it," gushed Monument on Tuesday. Sorena Sorenson, a geology curator who works for the By Ann Heisenfelt, AP Smithsonian Institution, whose S p a c e s h u t t l e D i s c o v e r y , museums line the mall. mounted on the Shuttle Carrier For 43 years, she has carried an Aircraft, flies behind flags of the Apollo 11 medal on her key W a s h i n g t o n M o n u m e n t o n chain. Tuesday. "This to me is just so bittersweet," The world's most traveled she said. spaceship took off at daybreak NASA ended the shuttle program from Cape Canaveral, Fla., bolted last summer after a 30-year run to to the top of a modified jumbo jet focus on destinations beyond lowfor the trip. Three hours later, the Earth orbit. Discovery the fleet pair took a few spins around leader with 39 orbital missions Washington at an easy-to-spot is the first of the three retired 1,500-foot altitude before the space shuttles to be turned over to retired shuttle was grounded for a museum for display. It first good. launched in 1984. The combo landed at Dulles Terri and Bill Jacobsen of International Airport in northern Bethesda, Md., used the shuttle's Virginia. Discovery will be towed flyover as a teaching experience Thursday to the Smithsonian's for their home-schooled son National Air and Space Museum Riley. They calculated the speed, annex near the airport. angle the shuttle and plane would Thousands of people lined the bank and other factors to figure
Discovery then returned to the space center in a final salute. Cheers erupted once more as the pair came in low over the runway before finally turning toward the north. Astronaut Nicole Stott, part of Discovery's final crew, watched with her crewmates as the shuttle out just where would be the d e p a r t e d . " S m i l i n g o n t h e outside," she said in a tweet. "DC perfect viewing spot. They saw the shuttle appear from bound. Take great care of her!" b e h i n d t h e W a s h i n g t o n Discovery's list of achievements Monument, seem to go behind the include delivering the Hubble old clock on the Smithsonian Space Telescope to orbit, carrying castle and then fly a bit above the the first Russian cosmonaut to Statue of Freedom on top of the launch on a U.S. spaceship, performing the first rendezvous Capitol. "Oh my God, look at that," Terri with the Russian space station Mir Jacobsen said as the shuttle first with the first female shuttle pilot a p p e a r e d . " T h a t t h i n g i s in the cockpit, returning Mercury astronaut John Glenn to orbit, and mammoth." "It was pretty amazing," said bringing shuttle flights back to Riley, 12. "Pretty freaking crazy. life after the Challenger and Columbia accidents It looked like it was inflated." At the Smithsonian annex, When Discovery departed Discovery will take the place of Florida's Kennedy Space Center, nearly 2,000 people former the shuttle prototype Enterprise. shuttle workers, VIPs, tourists and The Enterprise will go to New journalists gathered along the York City. Endeavour will head to old shuttle landing strip to see Los Angeles this fall. Atlantis will Discovery off. A cheer went up as remain at Kennedy. With the shuttles grounded, the plane taxied down the runway private U.S. companies hope to and soared into a clear sky. The plane and shuttle headed pick up the slack, beginning with south and made one last flight space station cargo and then, o v e r t h e b e a c h e s o f C a p e hopefully, astronauts. The first Canaveral thousands jammed commercial cargo run, by Space the shore for a glimpse of Exploration Technologies Corp.,
is set to take place in just another few weeks. For at least the next three to five years until commercial passenger craft are available in the United States NASA astronauts will have to hitch multimillion-dollar rides on Russian Soyuz capsules to get to the International Space Station. Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. For more information about reprints & permissions, visit our FAQ's. To report corrections and clarifications, contact Standards Editor Brent Jones. For publication consideration in the newspaper, send comments to letters@usatoday.com. Include name, phone number, city and state for verification. To view our corrections, go to corrections.usatoday.com. USA TODAY is now using Facebook Comments on our stories and blog posts to provide an enhanced user experience. To post a comment, log into Facebook and then "Add" your comment. To report spam or abuse, click the "X" in the upper right corner of the comment box. To find out more, read the FAQ and Conversation Guidelines. DISCOVERY page 4
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More details emerge in Secret Service scandal

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WASHINGTON At least 20 women, some of them prostitutes, were brought back to a Cartagena, Colombia, hotel by a traveling team of Secret Service agents and military personnel, members of Congress said they were told by the service's director Tuesday. File photo by J. Scott Applewhite, AP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan told her that 20 or 21 women -some prostitutes -- were brought to the hotel in Colombia implicated in the Secret Service scandal. File photo by J. Scott Applewhite, AP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan told her that 20 or 21 women -- some prostitutes -- were brought to the hotel in Colombia implicated in the Secret Service scandal. "Twenty or 21 women foreign nationals were brought to the hotel," Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the ranking Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, said Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan told her. Eleven of the Americans involved were Secret Service, she reported,
and "allegedly Marines were involved with the rest." Meanwhile, Sullivan told Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., and the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, that the 11 Secret Service agents and officers were telling different stories to investigators about who the women were. Sullivan has dispatched more investigators to Colombia to interview the women, King said. "There's a lot of different stories, and the 11 guys, there's different stories from them," King said. King said there is currently no reason to believe that national security has been compromised or that the president's security was ever affected, but a full vetting needs to occur to eliminate any doubt. By Alex Brandon, AP House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King said his panel will decide whether hearings should be held. "It's too risky to just accept that. Let's face it, historically women, and prostitutes in particularly, have been used to infiltrate or get information," King said. King said Sullivan is taking the investigation seriously and expressed his anger to the chairman that the incident occurred in the first place. "He's an angry guy, that I can tell you."
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday that Sullivan, "acted swiftly" to launch an investigation in response to the incident and continues to hold the president's confidence. Carney declined to comment on whether the incident reflects a broader cultural problem within A n o f f i c e r f r o m S o u t h e r n the Secret Service. "There's an C o m m a n d , t h e P e n t a g o n ' s investigation that we should let headquarters for operations in take its course before speculating S o u t h A m e r i c a , a r r i v e d i n about its conclusions," Carney Colombia on Monday night to said. King said his panel has start investigating the "jurisdiction. We have begun involvement of U.S. troops in the hiring of prostitutes in advance of investigating and then will decide President Obama's visit there last whether it is necessary to have a week, said Army Col. Scott hearing." Sullivan met with King and other Malcom, a spokesman. members of Congress Tuesday to It's unclear how many military personnel were involved, Malcom update them on the course of the said, but there is evidence that at Secret Service investigation. least 10 have been troops. The ABC News reported that Secret initial investigation found that Service personnel who are under some of the troops had violated investigation "were partying at a their curfew, he said. That could Cartagena brothel called the Pley mean they were not in their rooms Club," and boasting that they were w h e n r e q u i r e d o r h a d a n in Colombia to protect Obama. unauthorized person in the room, "The men were drinking heavily during their night out and enlisted he said. All of the troops have returned to t h e s e r v i c e s o f t h e c l u b ' s F l o r i d a , w h e r e S o u t h e r n prostitutes, according to a bouncer Command is based, Malcom said. at the club and a police source," I t ' s u n c l e a r h o w l o n g t h e ABC reported. investigator will take to complete "Sources tell ABC News several of the men agreed to pay for, and the probe, Malcom said. "He's got to follow wherever it received, services from the 'highest category' prostitutes leads," Malcom said.
available at the club, who charge upward of $200," the report said. Later, at a hotel in Cartagena, an argument over the charges led to the incident becoming public. Both the Secret Service and the Pentagon are investigating the alleged actions of members who helped set up security for Obama's trip last weekend to the Summit of the Americas. The 11 Secret Service agents and uniformed officers who were recalled from Colombia have had their security clearances revoked, CBS News reported. Meanwhile, House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that he is awaiting the results of what he hopes are thorough investigations. "I do think that what is going on is very embarrassing," Boehner he said. "I hope they get to the bottom of it quickly." Although Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Sunday that further investigation may be needed, he has not announced that his panel will conduct a probe. Contributing: David Jackson, Susan Davis and the Associated Press. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is MORE page 4
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Bayern edge Real in Champions League semifinal first leg

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run of play as Real Madrid were the dominant side at the start of Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:10:34 PM the match. Bayern Munich's striker Mario But on 17 minutes the visitors Gomez (L) shoots to score in front failed to clear after the corner and of Real Madrid's goalkeeper and Franck Ribery blasted home from captain Iker Casillas (R) during close range to make it 1-0. the UEFA Champions League The goal seemed to have knocked first-leg semi-final football match the Madrid side off their stride, Bayern Muenchen vs Real Madrid w i t h t h e s c o r e r e m a i n i n g in Munich, southern Germany, on u n c h a n g e d t i l l t h e b r e a k . April 17, 2012 (AFP Photo/Javier Jose Mourinhos men managed to Soriano) equalize shortly after the re-tart, Bayern Munichs dreams of with Cristiano Ronaldo assisting making it to the Champions Mesut Ozil who made the score 1League final at their homeground, 1. the Allianz Arena, are starting to But it was Bayern, who clearly take shape after a 2-1 win over wanted the win a lot more than visitors Real Madrid in the first the opponents, pushing for the leg of the semis. winner till the very end. -Bayerns opener came against the And they were rewarded in the
games last minute when Philipp Lahm escaped Reals defence on the flank and found Mario Gomez with a low cross 2-1. Jupp Heynckess charges will expect a tough battle in Madrid on April 25 as Real have so far won all their home matches in this years Champions League. Chelsea and Barcelona meet in the first leg of the other semi-final on Wednsday. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
By Alan Boyle Today I'm following the final flight of the shuttle Discovery. For updates, check our running story about the Discovery's final flight on msnbc.com, watch NASA's live TV coverage above, and please do follow me on Twitter throughout the day. I'm happy to take your questions. To get my attention, just send your question or comment to@b0yle, or use the hashtag#msnbcspace. The most flown spacecraft in history, Discovery is heading from its old home base at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to its new home base at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia. First stop was Dulles International Airport, where the shuttle and its carrier plane touched down this morning. Over the next day or so, Discovery will be lifted off the jet and brought
over to the adjacent Udvar-Hazy Center for display on Thursday alongside the prototype shuttle Enterprise, which has been at the museum since 1985. Next week, Enterprise will be flown from Dulles to New York, where it will go on exhibit at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum. Alan Boyle is msnbc.com's science editor. Connect with the Cosmic Log community by "liking" the log's Facebook page, following@b0yle on Twitter or adding Cosmic Log's Google+ page to your circle. You can also check out"The Case for Pluto," my book about the controversial dwarf planet and the search for other worlds. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Zoning the ocean

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develop a scheme for oversight of oceans and all the sources thereof, Flores said. So you President Barack Obama has an could have a snowflake land on ambitious plan for Washington Pikes Peak and ultimately its bureaucrats to take command of going to wind up in the water, so the oceansand with it control as a result they could regulate on over much of the nations energy, every square inch of U.S. soil. fisheries, even recreation in a Impacts on industry, consumers move described by lawmakers as The effects of Obamas farthe ultimate power grab to zone reaching policy would be felt by the seas. numerous industries including The massive undertaking also wind farms and other renewable includes control over key inland energy undertakings, ports, waterways and rivers that reach shipping vessels, and other marine hundreds of miles upstream, and commerce, and upstream it would began with little fanfare when also affect mining, timber, even Obama signed an executive order farming. in 2010 to protect the aquatic It will impact consumers directly environment. through rules addressing This one to me could be the recreational uses such as fishing s l e e p i n g p o w e r g r a b t h a t and boating, and restricting the Americans will wake up to one multiple use development of the day and wonder what the heck hit oceans resources would also them, said Rep. Bill Flores (R increase the cost of fuel and food, Texas). lawmakers say. This is pure administrative fiat, The idea to create a policy to said Sen. David Vitter (R La.). oversee multiple uses of the ocean Its very troubling. originated during the Bush This is purely a unilateral administration, but after push administrative action with no real back from within the ranks, congressional input or oversight, including Vitter, the idea was Vitter said. I think it clearly dropped. threatens to have a big impact on Critics of this revised plan say it a lot of industry, starting with is more narrowly focused, and energy, oil and gas, and fishing. that the Obama administration is But in his zeal to curb sea sprawl, taking their marching orders from lawmakers say the presidents environmental groups who want e x e c u t i v e o r d e r a l s o g i v e s to move away from a multiple-use W a s h i n g t o n o f f i c i a l d o m ocean policy to a no-use policy. unprecedented reach to control If you look at the catalyst for the land use as well. entire initiative, it comes from the The order says they shall playbook of environmental groups
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that think the ocean ought to be controlled by the federal government, Flores said. Added Vitter: This (Obama) administration is more aggressive and left-leaning, and they are going whole hog. I think its clearly a threat, and in terms of negatively impacting jobs, its a very, very big threat. Blocking new oil, gas production The ocean policy has already impacted oil and gas development in the Mid and South Atlantic, where more environmental analysis is now required to determine whether new studies must also be conducted to determine its safety, according to Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar. Jack Belcher, managing director of the Ocean Policy Coalition that represents numerous industries affected by Obamas initiative including oil companies, says Salazars action is one example of how the administration is already blocking new production on a policy that hasnt even been developed yet. Still in its draft form, the plan released in January contains vague goals that call for more than 150 milestones to be accomplished by next year that will determine how the ecosystem is managed. Right now, we can only speculate on the impacts, Belcher said. But all of a sudden, theres a new authority creating a new plan that may not allow oil
and gas leasing or development in (some) areas. But what we are worried about, and already seeing, is its being used as a tool to say were not going to do something, or delay it, Belcher said. It creates another layer of bureaucracy and another opportunity for litigation. We see this as an opportunity to tie things up in complete uncertainty. Belcher said his members are not opposed to having a process in place to manage all of the industries that depend on the ocean, but that they are already operating under numerous and sometimes onerous regulations that guide energy development, the shipping of goods, wind farm construction, and commercial fishing. It isnt just chaos on the high seas, but this ocean policy takes the assumption that it is, Belcher said. Were fearful that (Obamas policy) will result in a more draconian system. The regulatory uncertainty created by the draft plan for industries and its employees that depend on the ocean has prompted numerous Republican senators to ask for congressional oversight hearings. In these tough economic times, it would be unfortunate if Congress chose to ignore responsibility for limiting bureaucratic hurdles to prosperity, the lawmakers said in a March 20 letter. The letter was signed by Sens. Vitter, Marco
Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah, John Barrasso of Wyoming, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, Mike Crapo of Idaho and John Cornyn of Texas. The ocean policy has been a sleeper issue with very little media coverage, but now that it is starting to affect industries such as gas and oil production, lawmakers say congressional hearings are needed to take a broader look at its impact and consider public input from all of the stakeholders, not just environmentalists. This has largely been completely under the radar, Vitter said. And that is exactly the way the administration and their environmental allies want to do itannounce the administrative fiat is complete and that we have this new way of life that nobody knew was coming. House Republicans are fighting back by tightening the purse strings they control and hope that by cutting off funding to implement the policy, and putting a stop to officials they believe are siphoning money away from other programs, they can block it from going forward. Rep. Hal Rogers (R -Ky.), who heads the powerful House Appropriations Committee, has been asked to put a stop to the administrations cloaked ZONING page 9
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Ron Paul says he'd protect Bradley Manning and other whistleblowers
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Republican Presidential hopeful U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) speaks during a town hall meeting at the University of Maryland on March 28, 2012 in College Park, Maryland (T.J. Kirkpatrick/Getty Images/AFP) As Bradley Manning awaits his next appearance in court, the pool of presidential candidates have been slow to comment on the prosecution against the US Army private accused of providing government secrets to WikiLeaks. Except for Ron Paul, that is. President Barack Obama called Manningguilty even before he was brought to trial for his alleged role with WikiLeaks, but GOP presidential hopeful Texas Congressman Ron Paul told supporters last week that he thinks it isnt quite as simple as that. Addressing supporters in San Antonio, Texas last week, Congressman Paul weighed in on the whistleblowers role in bringing light to governmental scandal. At a campaign stop luncheon on Thursday, 36-year-old local Jonathan Streeter quizzed Rep. Paul for his take on the Manning incident: I believe that open and transparent government is an
important part in a government being accountable to the people, and indeed Obama made this same sort of promises and has obviously failed on that; The most visible example is Bradley manning and the WikiLeaks issue, explained Streeter.In your administration, what would you do to safeguard government transparency and specifically what would you do about Bradley Manning? Before divulging an in-depth explanation, Congressman Paul was quick to cut to the chase. Id have him protected under the whistleblowers act, explained the presidential hopeful. - Click here to watch video of Ron Paul discussing the Bradley Manning case I think this issue is a very important issue because I maintain that government becomes more secret and the peoples privacy is being destroyed. We should protect the peoples privacy and we should make the government much more open, said Paul.We can start with the Federal Reserve system. Although President Obama campaigned on a platform of increased government transparency, the US government is currently in the process of taking PFC Bradley Manning to trial over his alleged contributions
to Julian Assanges WikiLeaks site. Accused of handing over topsecret military files, including the now infamous Collateral Murder video that shows US troops firing at civilians, Manning is being charged with aiding the enemy. Ron Paul argues that even if Manning did provide that footage for WikiLeaks, no one was impacted to the degree that the prosecution insists. I imagine people ought to think it through, but from what I can do see from my viewpoint, is that his motivation had nothing to do with helping the enemy, he said. According to the military prosecution, the video aided alQaeda in the Arabian Peninsulas battle against US troops fighting overseas. You know that if anybody had ever suffered a consequence because of the release of those thousands and thousands of pages, we would have heard about it by now, added Paul. Before Manning was recommended for court-martial, his attorney David Coombs told authorities that White House officials described the leaked documents that landed Manning in prison as of arather benign nature and as notof any real damage to national security." In their own report last year, Wired explained that the Defense
Intelligence Agency (DIA) concluded that all of the information allegedly leaked was dated, represented low-level opinions or was already commonly known due to previous public disclosures." Whistleblowers should be protected if they are telling the truth and they are not doing it for the purpose of being a traitor, added the congressman. Bringing it into a historical prospective, Rep. Paul reminded the San Antonio crowd of Daniel Ellsberg, the former US Department of Defense employee that released what became known as the Pentagon Papers. By exposing the truth behind the governments handling of the Vietnam War, Ellsberg is today often credited with helping end Americas involvement overseas in the early 1970's. At the time however, Paul said, others werent as understanding. Daniel Ellsberg in the 60's, the early 70's I guess, was a traitor as far as the people were concerned, said the congressman.For me, hes really a hero in the sense that we have good history now about Vietnam. Too bad we havent learned about what was going on, but his own remorse about this wasnt that he did it. Ellsbergs remorse was: why didnt I do it sooner?
When RT caught up with Ellsberg during Mannings pretrial hearing, he described Manning as a personalhero of his. According to evidence submitted by the prosecution during a pretrial hearing with Manning, the serviceman submitted evidence to an informant and insisted,"I was the source of the 12 July 07 video from the Apache Weapons Team which killed the two journalists and injured two kids. "This is possibly one of the more significant documents of our time, removing the fog of war and revealing the true nature of 21st century asymmetric warfare. Have a good day, is how the court claims Manning described the video. If that is the case, Ron Paul seems to be in Mannings favor.I would certainly lean in the direction of protecting people that are trying to tell the truth, said the congressman.The more openness the better. Thats what a free society is all about. It wouldnt be so critical if the government was a lot smaller, but because it is so big it is big issue because there is so much that could be hidden. Manning was arraigned on charges relating to his alleged RON page 9
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Fingerprints for hire: 'Jeremy Bell Law' would make schools investigate all employees
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A congressman from Pennsylvania wants to end abuse in Americas schools, but he says the starting point is fingerprinting each and every employee hired within the countrys educational system. US Rep Mike Fitzpatrick, RPennsylvania, is asking Americas lawmakers to approve H.R. 3766, the Jeremy Bell Act of 2011, in an effort to curb reports of abuse and negligence in classrooms from coast-to-coast. Named in remembrance of a student killed by his school principal in 1997, the Jeremy Bell Act has already garnered its fair share of support and rightfully so. Few, if any, will argue against protecting the youth of America against criminals of all sorts, but the pushing for the passing of H.R. 3766 is raising concern over some who fear it will infringe on the privacy of any person with their eyes open for employment opportunities during a dire time for job seekers while alienating those already on the payroll. Provisions within the proposed Jeremy Bell Act would see to it that school officials are held liable
if they extend employment to anyone that they are aware to have engaged in sexual conduct with an individual under the age of 18.If the employers knows that such an employee engaged in the act, reads Sec. 1822 of the bill, that person could be fined and sentenced to a prison term of up to five years. Also included in the act, though, is a provision that would nix federal funding for schools from coast-to-coast. Under Sec. 9537 of the bill,A private or public elementary school, a private or public secondary school, a local educational agency or State educational agency may receive funds under this Act for a fiscal year only if the school or agency has in effect a policy that ensures that every individual employed by the school or agency has undergone a fingerprint-based check of the national crime information databases. While Sec 9537 is being implemented to ensure that schools do not hire anyone that could pose a risk to the students, it will at the same time subject anyone seeking employment on any level from cafeteria workers and custodians to department heads to a rigorous
screening process that could in turn cancel any chances of obtaining a job. Is a misdemeanor incurred during a would-be janitors college days grounds for trashing their application for employment? Not necessarily, but it will mean that schools of all sizes and sorts will be able to single out prospective hires for anything on their permanent record. Also of concern is how schools will be able to handle managing that sensitive information without top-tier security in place. The American Civil Liberties Union weighed in on a similar case in 2002 when New Yorks Department of Housing Preservation and Development wanted all tenants of subsidizing living to be fingerprinted and kept on file. "The system would involve the creation of a database of tenant fingerprints which would be vulnerable to serious abuse," the ACLUs Donna Lieberman explained at the time."The city should not approve such a plan without a careful, detailed assessment of the actual security needs, the anticipated security benefits, the burdens on tenants, and the privacy risks."
In another instance last year, the ACLU also fired back at calls to have residents of Peoria, Arizona fingerprinted and kept on file for picking up prescriptions within the city limits. The ACLU opposed that effort as well, arguing that the collection of information while publicized as an effort to curb crime would actually just expand law enforcements ability to collect information on the innocent that could only be used against them in the future. The pharmacies will function as annexes to police stations for the collection of personal information and as conduits for the transmission of private information to law enforcement agencies, ACLU of Arizona Legal Director Daniel Pochoda explained at the time. A similar attempt to enforce a fingerprinting program on all drivers within the state of Arizona a few years earlier was met by similar opposition from the ACLU. In 2005, Dawn Wyland of the unions Arizona division explained,"My gut tells me this is just a horrible violation of privacy," adding that"It is compelling someone to give evidence against themselves for
an unrelated crime." The Jeremy Bell Act would be a first in that it would apply to schools all over the US, but similar cases have already occurred. In 2010 a Texas school teacher had her certification suspended for refusing to be fingerprinted as part of a background check. Even though Pam McLaurin had been teaching for two decades, school officials stripped her of her license for not inking her hand, something she opposed for religious purposes by insisting she wouldbear the mark of the beast. Despite a legal battle that tried to reverse the schools suspension of McLaurin, the Texas Education Agency argued that they never forced the teacher to submit fingerprints; rather, it was her decision to follow suit simply refusing meant she would forfeit her role with the school. In touting H.R. 3766 around the Capitol Building, Congressman Fitzpatrick acknowledges that abuse within schools, while evident in cases, is far from rampant."Regardless of how rare these abuses are, they are so serious and so egregious that it's FINGERPRINTS page 9
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White House defends Secret Service amid prostitution investigation - CNN

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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said President Obama has confidence in his CIA director. STORY HIGHLIGHTS White House says Obama has confidence in Secret Service chief A Republican senator says as many as 21 prostitutes may have been involved The allegations overshadowed Obama's visit to a pan-American summit in Colombia Washington (CNN)-- The White House defended the Secret Service and its director Tuesday amid an embarrassing investigation into whether several agents brought prostitutes back to their hotel in Colombia ahead of a presidential visit. Eleven Secret Service members and as many as 10 U.S. military personnel assisting them have been implicated in the investigation, which began Thursday after one of the women complained that she hadn't been paid. The Americans were in Cartagena to prepare for President Barack Obama's weekend visit to the Summit of the Americas, and Obama has said he expects a "rigorous" investigation. The investigation is being led by Secret Service Director Mark
Sullivan, who has been briefing members of Congress. A leading senator said Tuesday she had been told as many as 21 women had been involved, and questioned whether the incident could have endangered the president. "Who were these women? Could they have been members of groups hostile to the United States? Could they have planted bugs, disabled weapons, or in any
other [ways] jeopardized security of the president or our country?" said Maine's Susan Collins, the ranking Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee. At the White House, presidential spokesman Jay Carney said Obama "has confidence" in Sullivan, who he said "acted quickly in response to this incident," and in the agents around him.
"The work the Secret Service does, the men and women who protect him and his family and those who work with him, is exemplary as a rule," Carney said. "They put their lives on the line, and it is a very difficult job, and he acknowledges that and he appreciates it." Collins said she believed Sullivan "will fully investigate" the allegations and take "appropriate
action" if the allegations bear out. But she questioned whether there was any similar misconduct on previous missions, and whether the issue is a sign of a deeper problem within the agency. The Secret Service agents and officers involved range in experience from relative newcomers to nearly 20-year WHITE page 11
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funding by Rep. Doc Hastings (RWash.), chairman of the House Resources Committee. The Obama administration continues to move forward with zoning the oceans through implementation of the presidents National Ocean Policy without requesting funding specifically for this broad initiative and without answering basic questions about how funds are currently being diverted from other missions to fund this initiative, Hastings said in an April 2 letter to Rogers. Although critics of the plan say it will create an unprecedented aquatic zoning commission, the administration has repeatedly denied it. Administrations defense Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and co-chair of the newly created National Ocean Council in charge of the new policy, said the plan has been mischaracterized as ocean zoning. The National Ocean Policy does not create any new regulations, added Jane Lubchenco, undersecretary of Commerce for
oceans and atmosphere. It is a planning process, its not zoning. Calls to CEQ, which oversees the policy, were not returned. However, critics point to an Interior Department memo that says the plan has emerged as a new paradigm and planning strategy for coordinating all marine and coastal activities and facility constructions within the context of a national zoning plan. Additionally, former Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen, a member of the Ocean Policy Task Force, told OnEarth Magazine in May, 2010, the plan is basically taking the notion of urban planning and putting it into the water column, as well as the estuary systems that connect it to everything that impacts ocean ecosystems. Rep. Don Young (RAlaska) explained the new bureaucracy to his constituents during an April 3 Alaska field hearing as a complicated bureaucratic scheme which includes a 27-member national ocean council; an 18member governance coordinating committee; 10 national policies; nine regional planning
bodieseach involving as many as 27 federal agencies as well as states and tribes; nine national priority objectives; nine strategic action plans; seven national goals for coastal marine spatial planning; and 12 guiding principles for coastal marine spatial planning. Are you confused yet? Young asked the crowd. The administration claims that this whole National Ocean Policy is nothing more than an attempt to coordinate federal agencies and make better permitting decisions, Young said. Forgive me if I am a little suspicious when the federal governmentthrough an executive orderdecides to create a new bureaucracy that will help us plan where activities can or cannot take place in our waters and inland. Competing values Environmental groups that support the presidents efforts include the Pew Charitable Trusts, which says that the fragile health of the oceans is being threatened by the increasing industrialization of the seas. If poorly planned or managed,
drilling for oil and natural gas in federal waters, developing aquaculture and building wind, wave and tidal energy facilities all have the potential to damage Americas marine environment, Pew said in a statement supporting the presidents policy. But some believe bureaucratic interference on such a large scale is the real threat. The last thing we need is the federal government running the damn ocean and a bunch of bureaucrats running around trying to determine whether you can fish in one spot or another, said Dan Kish, senior vice president for policy at the Institute for Energy Research. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
involvement with WikiLeaks in February, nearly two years after being first detained by US officials. When prompted to offer a plea, Manning deferred doing so. Since then, his attorney has asked that the US government dismiss charges against Manning, citing mishandling on the part of the prosecution. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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our responsibility as lawmakers to do everything we can to keep sexual predators from moving anonymously through our schools, said the congressman, reports Calkins Medias Bucks County Courier Times. Does that mean subjecting every person in
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By Carol Loomis, senior editor-at -large Warren Buffett caught it early. FORTUNE -- Last week was the most extraordinary week in Warren Buffett's history but he lived his business life as if this was the most normal time in the world. As Buffett announced today, he was diagnosed with Stage I prostate cancer last Wednesday, after a biopsy the previous day. On Thursday he had a CAT scan and bone scan, with these showing that the cancer had not spread elsewhere in his body. On that same Thursday, he and a small group had dinner with his non-cousin, entertainer Jimmy Buffett, at a new Omaha restaurant called J. Coco's. Jimmy was in town for a performance two days later. The following day Friday Buffett, the elder, was host to 160 business students from such universities as MIT, University of Chicago, University of Tennessee, and Peru's Universidad del Pacifico. Following the usual routine for such visits (there are six scheduled for this school year)
the students toured two Berkshire retail subsidiaries, held a two-anda-half hour Q&A session with Buffett, and lunched at one of his favorite restaurants, Piccolo's. The riff at Piccolo's was that Jimmy Buffett turned up for lunch, creating an instant sensation. MORE: Buffett gains ground in hedge fund bet At Jimmy's performance the next night at Century/Link Center, the first person on stage was Warren Buffett, who deadpanned a "Welcome to the Berkshire
Hathaway annual meeting." Actually, the only thing dissonant about his greeting was that the Berkshire meeting, which is held at that same Center, spreads out to overflow rooms and actually draws many more people than the standing-room-only (and wildly enthusiastic) crowd that Jimmy Buffett attracted. On Sunday Buffett caught his breath. Then, on Monday morning at 7:30 AM, he met with his doctors to discuss courses of treatment for his newly discovered illness.
But he jumped from that consultation into a business meeting at 9 AM. And in the afternoon he was videoed for a skit that will be a part of a movie shown at Berkshire's ( BRKA) annual meeting on May 5 th. That night, because he had a big dinner with a visiting delegation of foundation presidents, he did not play online bridge with his usual Monday foursome, which includes a player from Los Angeles, one from Harrison, New York, and me. One person very relieved about not playing was yours truly, who needed time to collect her wits and write this article. FORTUNE senior editor-at-large Carol Loomis is a longtime friend of Warren Buffett's, a longtime Berkshire Hathaway shareholder as well, and editor of Buffett's annual shareholders' letter. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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veterans, and all have been interviewed at least once, two government officials with knowledge of the investigation told CNN on Monday. Their security clearances have been pulled while an investigation is under way and could be reinstated if they are cleared, the officials said. U.S. government sources have said there was a dispute between at least one Secret Service member and a woman demanding payment. At least one of the women brought to the hotel talked with police, and complaints were filed with the U.S. Embassy, the
sources said. While soliciting prostitution is legal in certain areas of Colombia, it is considered a breach of the agency's conduct code, the government sources said. The alleged misconduct occurred before Obama arrived in Cartagena, and the Secret Service said the personnel involved were relieved of duty and sent home before the president landed. But the news broke while he was there -- and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at the Pentagon on Monday that the incident distracted attention "from
what was a very important regional engagement for our president." "So we let the boss down, because nobody's talking about what went on in Colombia other than this incident," Dempsey said. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Watch Iron Man and Thor Destroy Each Other In This New 'Avengers' Clip
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China copper demand to grow under 7 pct: Xstrata - Reuters

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Finally, some action from "The Avengers." After a clip of Scarlett Johansson taking down some military interrogators, we're now getting not one, but two peeks at a few of the other "Avengers." In the first clip, Iron Man( Robert Downey Jr) and Thor's ( Chris Hemsworth) hot-headed egos go toe to toe in a test of brute strength. Not surprising, since we've been seeing hints of this brawl building up since the first teasers. The latter offers Nick Fury( Samuel L. Jackson) having it out with villian Loki( Tom
Hiddleston). Enter some witty side comments while dissing the team he assembled. "The Avengers" hits theaters May 4. Also, check out this Please follow The Wire on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: These Charts Show How 'The Hunger Games' Shoots Down 'Twilight' At The Box Office This Week In Movie Trailers: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Has To Kill His Future Self And More ABC's 'The Bachelor' Is Getting Sued For Racial Discrimination
China copper demand to grow under 7 pct: Xstrata Reuters By Alexandra Ulmer and Fabian Cambero | SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chinese copper demand will grow a little under 7 pct this year and more positive signs of US
demand will help offset the impact of lingering European economic woes, the head of Xstrata's (XTA... Xstrata executive says China slowdown cyclical MarketWatch CESCO: Xstrata Executive: China Slowdown Cyclical, Not Permanent Fox Business (Nation - Google News) all 7 news articles Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:01:40 PM
More domestic abuse victims to qualify for legal aid after Government climbdown - Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk More domestic abuse victims to qualify for legal aid after Government climbdown Telegraph.co.uk More abused women will be entitled to free legal advice, after a climb-down on legal aid cuts by Ken Clarke. By Christopher Hope and Tim Ross The news will be seen as a victory for women's campaigners including the Women's Institute which had been... Ken Clarke climbs down on legal aid for domestic violence The Guardian 'Thousands of children' to lose legal aid in shake-up BBC News Lib-Lab bonding over legal aid Spectator.co.uk Huffington Post UK- This is Leicestershire all 25 news articles
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What To Do When The Credit Bureau Thinks You're Dead

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After a hospital visit in 2004, Bea Cohen was reported deceased instead of discharged, leading her to be denied several times for credit cards and mortgages years later, reports The Star-Ledger's Karin Price Mueller. Cohen tried to fix the situation to no avail, and is dealing with the fallout to this day. Here's what she should have done, per Mueller: 1. Notify one of the three credit bureaus. Transunion(800-9168800), Equifax(800-685-111), or Experian(888-397-3742) should be aware of the issue. 2. File an official dispute with the credit bureaus in writing Something Cohen isn't sure she did. Send a notarized letter that includes your full name, current mailing address, Social Security number, birthday, and a statement
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saying you're not deceased. 3. Wait 30 days. After that time period, the credit bureaus will be required to send your results along with a free copy of your credit report. Don't Miss: 7 dangers to watch out for when using your debit card > Please follow Your Money on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: Here's A DIY Way To Amplify Your iPhone Speakers At No Cost Predatory Businesses Turn To Lawyers To Drown Underwater Homeowners STUDY: Consumerism Is Making Us Depressed And AntiSocial
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Texas and has seen his business... Housing starts, industrial production drop in March USA USA TODAY TODAY US housing market boosted by US Housing Starts Unexpectedly jobs, higher rents Drop to Five-Month Low San Francisco Chronicle BusinessWeek All that points to a better year for DATA SNAP: US Mar Housing the housing market, though a full Starts Down 5.8%; Permits Up recovery could take several years. 4.5% Fox Business "We're doing so much more TIME business than we have in years," all 726 news articles said Ed Kopal, who runs a construction company in East
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Here's How To Navigate Your Way Through The Crazies At Coachella

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While the late Tupac performing as a hologram during Coachella's final performance was pretty crazy, it was just the icing on the cake of a weekend full of even crazier costumes, parties and shows. While the logistics of the weekend can often seem overwhelming, it's worth every food or bathroom line, drop of stranger sweat and dirty feet. But no words can do it justice, so take a look at some of our pictures from the weekend. Getting to the fields can be tough, better pack your patience. Once you find a parking spotrejoice! The walk from parking to security is long, so have fun with
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Computer Maker Cries Foul Over UN's Korean Tech Aid

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experts monitoring the North Korean restrictions have told Fox News that they found the A United Nations agency that technology transfer by the Geneva quietly shipped computers and - b a s e d W o r l d I n t e l l e c t u a l computer servers to North Korea Property Organization horrible several months ago apparently and egregious in the words of was violating restrictions on the one -- somewhat incompetent equipments use imposed by and possibly shady, in the words Hewlett-Packard, the U.S.-based of the other, in light of the maker of the computers and sanctions the UN and its members computer servers, which bars any are supposed to be enforcing. HP equipment from being sent to News of the under-the-radar the communist dictatorship as part computer shipment -- and now, of its supplier agreements. the revelation that it was delivered T h o s e a g r e e m e n t s o b l i g e in violation of the manufacturers distributors to comply with U.S. rules -- comes on the crest of export laws, which also forbid heightened tensions between the electronics exports to North UN Security Council and the Korea, in support of UN sanctions nuclear-ambitious, rogue North that were levied in the wake of the Korean regime. regimes illegal explosion of Hours before HP delivered its nuclear devices in 2006 and 2009. statement to Fox News, the HP is thoroughly investigating Security Council had strongly t h e m a t t e r , a c o r p o r a t e condemned the government of spokesperson told Fox News in a newly installed leader Kim Jong statement Monday. Compliance Un for its latest provocation, a with U.S. and international trade failed ballistic missile launch that laws is a high priority for HP. HP North Korea said was intended to investigates any credible breaches put a satellite in orbit. of contractual obligations by our The rest of the world viewed the partners and resellers. launch as a test of the nations The companys export ban a b i l i t y t o d e l i v e r n u c l e a r applies to suppliers regardless of w a r h e a d s , a n d a s e v e r e where they are located and violation of the previous UN whether they are international sanctions that ordered the regime organizations. to cease and desist its nuclear In addition, two former members military ambitions. Even North of a UN-appointed panel of Korean supporters China and
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Pakistan joined in the condemnation. The Security Council -- currently headed by U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice is to announce additional sanctions covering new entities and items within the next two weeks. The latest UN-North Korea standoff underlines the strange nature of the earlier computer shipment to Pyongyang carried out at the behest of WIPO. Fox News brought the cash-forcomputers incident to light after WIPOs director general, Francis Gurry, held a closed-door meeting with concerned diplomats, including a U.S. representative, in Geneva on March 29. Click here for for the original report. The diplomats, in turn, learned of the shipment after WIPOs staff council voiced concerns about it. The cash-for-computers deal was orchestrated in a way that made its discovery difficult. Procurement and payment for the WIPO goods was arranged between WIPOs Geneva headquarters and a shipper in China, facilitated by UN offices in Beijing. The deal apparently bypassed UN offices in North Korea. Those offices operate under a special oversight regime established after a major scandal
in 2008 over financial and technology transfers in North Korea, to ensure that money and goods do not end up in the regimes nuclear programs. Click here for original report. WIPOs payment of $52,638 to a Chinese supplier and installer for the computer shipment, however, did not go through. It was blocked at the beginning of March by Bank of America, the host bank for UN accounts in China, on grounds that the money transfer for goods shipped to North Korea was a possible violation of U.S. Treasury rules. The computer equipment itemized in WIPOs work plans for the installation was manufactured by HewlettPackard. In a legal memorandum delivered to the diplomats in Geneva, WIPO said the shipment was nothing more than part of WIPOs technical assistance program with North Korea, which is completely above board and consisted of general computer technology that does not violate any UN Security Council sanctions. The memo acknowledged that payment for the shipment had been stopped due to U.S. laws enacted in part to implement the binding UN sanctions. But it also declared that WIPO,
as an international organization, is not bound by the U.S. national law in this matter and was still looking for ways to pay for the shipment. The agency has since said it found a way to pay for the goods through other channels that did not involve U.S. banks. The WIPO legal memo made no mention of contact with or notification of UN sanctions committees that monitor the restrictions on North Korea before the shipment was delivered. The most recent Security Council resolution, passed in June 2009, specifically calls on all States, relevant United Nations bodies and other interested parties, to cooperate fully with the sanctions committee and its panel of experts, in particular by supplying any information at their disposal on the implementation of the measures imposed by resolution 1718 (2006) [the previous sanctions measure] and this resolution. According to George Lopez, a professor of political science at Notre Dame University, who served on the North Korea sanctions panel of experts from November 2010 to July 2011, WIPOs lack of communication with the sanctions committee is a COMPUTER page 18
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steps at a cabinet meeting on Friday. But it appeared to have limited leverage over Argentina, By Tracy Rucinski and Julien which has proven impervious to Toyer pressure in the past. MADRID| Tue Apr 17, 2012 Repsol said YPF was worth $18 5:39pm EDT billion as a whole, and that it (Reuters) - An incensed Spain would seek compensation on that t h r e a t e n e d s w i f t e c o n o m i c basis. retaliation against Argentina on As of Tuesday's market close, Tuesday after it unveiled plans to YPF's market capitalization was seize YPF, the South American $10.4 billion, according to nation's biggest oil company Reuters data. which is controlled by Spanish Argentina's Deputy Economy energy group Repsol. Minister Axel Kicillof said Madrid called in Argentina's Buenos Aires would not agree to a m b a s s a d o r o v e r t h e Repsol's valuation. "We're not nationalization order on Monday going to pay what they say," he b y A r g e n t i n a ' s c o m b a t i v e told the Senate committee kicking president, Cristina Fernandez, a o f f a d e b a t e o v e r t h e move that sent Repsol shares e x p r o p r i a t i o n b i l l . tumbling but delighted many "We need YPF's objectives to ordinary Argentines. match Argentina's objectives ... "I must express my profound The state is the solution," Kicillof unease. It's a negative decision for said. e v e r y o n e , " S p a n i s h P r i m e He said that securing control of Minister Mariano Rajoy said. YPF was central to Fernandez Speaking at a World Economic fulfilling her reelection campaign Forum meeting in Mexico, he said promise of "deepening the model" the Spanish-controlled company for her state-centric policies. was being expropriated "without A surging fuel import bill has any justification." pushed production to the top of Spanish Industry Minister Jose Fernandez's agenda at a time of M a n u e l S o r i a p r o m i s e d worsening state finances in Latin "consequences" in the coming America's No. 3 economy. days. "They will be in the Repsol, whose shares fell 7.5 diplomatic field, the industrial percent in Madrid on Tuesday, field, and on energy," he said. said the takeover was unjustified Spain is due to consider its next and vowed to defend its interests.
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"This battle is not over," company Chairman Antonio Brufau said. "The expropriation is nothing more than a way of covering over the social and economic crisis facing Argentina right now." Late on Tuesday, Moody's Investors Service said it was downgrading YPF and keeping the company's ratings on review. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso urged Argentina to uphold international agreements on business protection with Spain. "I am seriously disappointed about yesterday's announcement," he said in Brussels. British Foreign Secretary William Hague added to the chorus of condemnation, saying: "This goes against all the commitments Argentina has made in the G20 to promote transparency and reduce protectionism." Argentina and Britain have been locked in a diplomatic battle over oil exploration in the Falkland Islands for months. RESOURCE NATIONALISM Spanish media slammed the expropriation, believed to be biggest nationalization in the natural resources field since the seizure of Russia's Yukos oil company a decade ago. La Razon newspaper carried a photograph of Fernandez on its
front page in a pool of oil with the headline: "Kirchner's Dirty War", a reference to her full name. El Periodico spoke of "The New Evita", noting Fernandez announced the nationalization in a room dominated by a large sculptured image of Eva Peron, the first lady of Argentina from 1946-1952 who is revered by many Argentines as a champion of the poor. Repsol's Brufau said he suspected nationalization of YPF was imminent when he tried to contact Fernandez last Friday and was told that the president "was angry" and did not want to speak. YPF has been under pressure from Fernandez's center-left government to boost oil production, and its share price has plunged in recent months on speculation about a state takeover. Spanish investment in Argentina may now be at risk after the move on YPF. In the "reconquista", or reconquest, of the 1990s, newly privatized Spanish businesses bought Latin American banks, telephone companies and utilities. "Reconquista" refers to the Spanish conquest of the region 500 years earlier. Foreign investors are key to helping develop one of the world's largest reserves of shale oil and gas recently discovered in the Vaca Muerta area of Argentina.
Investors have pushed up the cost of protecting themselves against the risk of Argentina defaulting on its debt. Since February, Argentine credit default swaps have cost more than those of Venezuela, whose credit is also considered risky. Argentine bond spreads widened to almost three times the average of the JPMorgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Plus (EMBI+), showing a decline in confidence. ACE UP ITS SLEEVE? Some analysts questioned whether Argentina might have an ace up its sleeve in the form of a new partner such as China Petrochemical Corp (Sinopec Group). A Chinese website said Sinopec was in talks with Repsol to buy YPF for more than $15 billion, although other sources said the nationalization move would probably get in the way of such a deal. Sinopec dismissed the report as a rumor. Fernandez said on Monday the government would ask Congress, which she controls, to approve a bill to expropriate a controlling 51 percent stake in YPF by seizing shares held exclusively by Repsol, saying energy was a "vital resource". INCENSED page 19
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Scandal Math: 21 Men, 21 Prostitutes?

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Secret Service scandal a national embarrassment? Security clearance revoked for Secret Service agents Secret Service agents and members of the U.S. military brought as many as 21 women back to their hotel during their assignment to Colombia last week, a top senator briefed on the prostitution scandal said Tuesday. With 11 Secret Service agents and 10 military servicemembers allegedly involved, the account raises the possibility that everyone accused of misconduct could have tried to sneak women back to their rooms. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the top Republican on the Senate homeland security committee, revealed the details after she was briefed for a half-hour Monday night by Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan. Collins said she learned that U.S. Marines, as well as the 11 Secret Service agents now on administrative leave, were allegedly involved. "There are 11 agents involved. Twenty or 21 women foreign nationals were brought to the hotel, but allegedly Marines were involved with the rest," Collins said in a statement.
Fox News has since learned that 10 members of the U.S. military were involved. They include five Army Special Forces personnel, two Marines, two members of a Navy ordnance disposal unit and one Air Force member. All are accused of having women in their rooms -- U.S. officials had gone door-to-door to see where the women were staying. It was previously unclear how many women might have been
involved in the incident that has brought international embarrassment upon the agencies tied up in the scandal. President Obama had traveled to Colombia for a series of meetings that were supposed to focus on trade and other pressing issues between the U.S. and its Latin American ally, but the scandal overshadowed those issues. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said Tuesday that Sullivan is
seeking an independent investigation from the agency's inspector general. Collins said Sullivan is "rightly appalled by the agents' actions and is pursuing a vigorous internal investigation." The senator also questioned whether the incident indicates "a problem with the culture of the Secret Service" and whether the men could have been compromised by their alleged
behavior. "Who were these women? Could they have been members of groups hostile to the United States? Could they have planted bugs, disabled weapons, or in any others jeopardized security of the president or our country?" she said, referring to questions she raised with Sullivan. The Secret Service has already SCANDAL page 19
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Bone Marrow Poster Boy Dies After Lifelong Battle

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Giovanni Guglielmo poses for the camera in April 2012. Photo by Michael Blanchard (http:// michaelblanchard.com/) A 5-year-old boy whose story inspired thousands of people to become bone marrow donors died Monday after a lifelong battle with a rare immune disorder, the Boston Herald reported. Giovanni Guglielmo, who lived in Belmont, N.H., was diagnosed at 5 months old with nuclear factor Kappa B essential modulator (NEMO). In order to survive, he needed a bone marrow transplant from a matching donor. His father, Michael Guglielmo, sprang to action, organizing bone marrow drives that helped add nearly 40,000 people to the international bone marrow registry, according to the Herald. Of those, 130 have been matched with people who needed a transplant. All of this wouldnt have happened if it wasnt for Giovanni, Katharina Harf of DKMS Americas, a nonprofit registry for which Guglielmo
This boy suffered in less than six years more than 10 men suffer in a lifetime, Michael Guglielmo told the Herald. That was our babys last fight. He ran out of fight. He ran out of miracles. Click here to read more from the Boston Herald. Click here to see Giovanni and his family from Michael Blanchard's photo blog. Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Share This Article Newsletter Signup Sign up for free e-mail news alerts from FoxNews.com and became a regional ambassador in costume. which registered about 3,000 FoxBusiness.com. Newsletter 2009, told the Boston Herald. It His story continued to inspire people and led to two matches. I Signup was almost like he came to this people to sign up for the bone tell everyone this little boy finally This entry passed through the earth to do what he was meant to marrow registry and set up drives got me to do something for Full-Text RSS service if this is do. of their own, such as Anna someone not as fortunate as me. your content and you're reading it However, Giovanni never found Hanchar, a software engineer, Giovanni, who weighed a mere on someone else's site, please read a match. In March 2007, doctors w h o s a w a n a r t i c l e a b o u t 25 pounds and was the smallest the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contenttried an alternative treatment, G i o v a n n i . child in his kindergarten class, only/faq.php#publishers. Five which involved using blood from I never really got involved in contracted chronic colitis on April Filters recommends: Donate to the umbilical cord to help him anything beyond donating, but 1, after years of fighting off Wikileaks. build a new immune system. The this little boy his face just did sickness. He became comatose, surgery was successful, and he something to me, Hanchar told then brain dead, and was taken off was taken home in May of that the Herald. She went on to hold l i f e s u p p o r t e a r l y M o n d a y year dressed in a Superman nearly 100 bone marrow drives, m o r n i n g .
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puzzle. "Were I still on the panel of experts, he said, I am sure some of us would insist that the UN secretariat issue a memo to all agencies reminding them that no (Reuters: Top News) However, some investors were maximizing their operating movement of goods or individual heartened by the strong guidance margins by making sure they're Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:08:47 PM experts into a sanctions state for the full year and IBM's profit n o t t a k i n g o n r e v e n u e should occur without some The sign at the IBM facility near growth. opportunities that aren't going to Boulder, Colorado is pictured in "I think the stock was priced for g i v e t h e m h i g h m a r g i n s , " exchange of ideas and views with the panel and/or the UN sanctions this September 8, 2009 file perfection," said ISI Group M a r s h a l l s a i d . photograph. A unit of Toshiba analyst Brian Marshall. "Revenue Some analysts had expected IBM committee for that case. Lopez also pointed out that the Corp is in talks to buy IBM Corp's was a little light relative to to raise its 2012 guidance. UN sanctions against North Korea point-of-sale terminal business, expectations. They did a good job IBM competes with business which includes cash registers, a on the bottom line. The guidance software makers Oracle Corp and prohibit the shipment of luxury goods to the regime and even if source familiar with the deal said was good." SAP AG as well as outsourcing on April 17, 2012. IBM shares International Business Machines, c o m p a n y A c c e n t u r e a n d they did not qualify in any other gained 1.2 percent to $205.18 to which has been shifting its focus computing giant Hewlett Packard. way, the computers sent to Pyongyang fit that description. lead the Dow. from hardware to higher-margin The company's shares fell 2 Credit: Reuters/Rick Wilking/ services and software over the percent to $203.50 in late trade The Japanese have actually arrested and indicted people who Files past decade, said earnings per after closing up 2 percent at have illegally exported computers Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:08pm EDT share, excluding items, was $2.78 $207.45 on New York Stock to the DPRK in at least two (Reuters) - IBM's revenue fell -- beating average analysts' Exchange. slightly short of Wall Street earnings per share estimates of (Reporting By Nicola Leske and instances, he said, citing reports expectations, sending its shares $2.65 and in line with revenue Sinead Carew; Editing by Bernard of a shipment to a North Korean computer center believed to be a down almost 2 percent in late expectations of $24.78 billion. Orr) trade even as the company beat Net earnings rose 7 percent to This entry passed through the focal point for hacking attacks on quarterly profit expectations and $3.1 billion in the first three Full-Text RSS service if this is South Korea. According to Victor Comras, boosted its full year earnings months of the year. your content and you're reading it member of a UN panel of experts target. The company raised its full year on someone else's site, please read The company, whose shares had target to at least $15 adjusted the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- from 2009 to 2010, something is closed up 2 percent on Tuesday, earnings per share on strong only/faq.php#publishers. Five not kosher when a UN agency reported revenue of $24.7 billion - demand for its software services Filters recommends: Donate to takes advantage of being immune to knowingly violate U.S. laws. - flat with the previous year and and growth in emerging markets. Wikileaks. They are walking through the below analyst expectations for Its previous target was for at least cracks and loopholes of the $24.78 billion, according to $14.85. Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. "What they're doing is
sanctions regulations, he told said. There should be some recognition that international organizations themselves are obliged to follow the rules. It clearly has hurt the credibility of the U.N. and its sanctions. To what end? George Russell is executive editor of Fox News and can be found on Twitter@GeorgeRussell Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Share This Article Newsletter Signup Sign up for free e-mail news alerts from FoxNews.com and FoxBusiness.com. Newsletter Signup This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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revoked the security clearances for the 11 agents accused of misconduct. The military also may be broadening its internal probe into servicemembers. The Pentagon initially said five U.S. military servicemembers might have been engaged in misconduct, but that number has grown. Obama said Sunday he would be "angry" if the allegations turn out to be true. Defense officials said Monday they, too, were "embarrassed" by the role of military personnel. "I can speak for myself and ... my fellow chiefs, we're embarrassed by what occurred in Colombia," Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, said at a news conference. "Several of our members distracted the issue from what was a very important regional engagement for our president." "We let the boss down," Dempsey said. Fox News' Justin Fishel contributed to this report. Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Related Stories AEHQ Blog: Secret Service Scandal Coverage Secret Service revokes security clearance for agents in prostitution probe, Pentagon
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Gomez's late goal leads Bayern past Real 2-1

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Mario Gomez scored in the 90th minute Tuesday to give Bayern Munich a 2-1 win over Real Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal.
Warren Buffett has stage 1 prostate cancer

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prostate cancer but said his condition "is not remotely lifethreatening or even debilitating in Berkshire Hathaway chairman any meaningful way." and CEO Warren Buffett attends Buffett said he will begin a twothe second day of the Allen and month treatment consisting of Company Sun Valley Conference daily radiation treatments starting in Sun Valley, Idaho July 7, 2011. in mid-July. This will limit his Credit: Reuters/Anthony Bolante ability to travel during that time, Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:27pm EDT he said in a statement. (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Berkshire is less than three weeks Inc's Warren Buffett disclosed on away from its annual meeting, Tuesday that he has stage 1 which draws more than 40,000
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shareholders to its headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, where in a festival-like atmosphere Buffett holds center stage. This year's meeting was expected to focus to some degree on succession, after Buffett disclosed in his annual letter to shareholders that Berkshire's board had identified a successor -one the 81year-old Buffett did not name. (Reporting By Phil Wahba and Ben Berkowitz; Editing by Gary
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Fernandez, who still wears the black of mourning 18 months after the death of her husband and predecessor as president Nestor Kirchner, stunned investors in 2008 when she nationalized private pension funds. She has also renationalized the country's flagship airline, Aerolineas Argentinas. Such measures are popular with ordinary Argentines, many of whom blame free-market policies such as the privatizations of the 1990s for the economic crisis and debt default of 2001/02. (Additional reporting by Andres Gonzalez in Madrid, Tom Bergin and Michael Holden in London, Karina Grazina, Juliana Castilla and Hugh Bronstein in Buenos Aires, Daniel Bases in New York, Krista Hughes in Puerta Vallarta and Sebastian Moffett in Brussels; Writing by Giles Elgood, William Schomberg and Hugh Bronstein; Editing by Toni Reinhold) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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'Frozen' Transnistria Conflict Begins to Thaw

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controversial in Germany and might never take effect. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) issued an Top Stories incomplete ruling on Monday in Zhou Yongkang, the 67-year-old an emotional case of unfinished hard-line Communist Party cadre, business from World War II controls all of the police in China. between Poland and Russia. A n d f o r h i m , e l i m i n a t i n g A little known Party organ has someone from the planet is as e a r n e d t h e t i t l e " P a r t y easy as flipping [...] Headquarters No. 2." According to a Maoist adage, This entry passed through the power flows from the barrel of a Full-Text RSS service if this is gun. Who controls the gunsthe your content and you're reading it armyin communist China has on someone else's site, please read been the key to who controls the the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentChinese [...] only/faq.php#publishers. Five A t a x a g r e e m e n t b e t w e e n Filters recommends: Donate to Germany and Switzerland aimed Wikileaks. at tackling tax evasion remains
With tacit support from Moscow and in the protective shadow of the Russian 14th Army, Twenty years ago this spring, Transnistria declared itself an newly independent Moldova, a independent republic in its own former Soviet republic lodged right and fought to establish its between Romania and Ukraine, sovereignty. The conflict lasted w a s c o n s u m e d b y f i g h t i n g through midsummer and cost between neighbors on opposite more than a thousand lives. banks of the Dniester River. The After that bloody season in 1992, conflict broke out because citizens the Transnistrian war settled into on the eastern or left bank of a kind of suspended animation, the river, in the largely Russian- becoming one of the handful of so s p e a k i n g r e g i o n k n o w n a s -called frozen conflicts in the post T r a n s n i s t r i a , f e a r e d t h a t -Soviet space. For years, the two Romanian-speaking right-bank sides convened and disbanded Moldovans would form a federal various negotiation formats, while union with neighboring Romania. rhetoric flared over disputed
language, transit and property rights. The conflict mostly avoided international headlines and was bloodless for nearly two decades -- until New Years Day, when a Russian peacekeeper shot and killed a young Moldovan man at a checkpoint on the Vadul Lui Voda Bridge near Moldovas capitol, Chisinau. ... This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Vibrant Gujarat just a myth, says Congress - Times of India

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Pfizer 'to sell infant nutrition business to Nestle for $9bn'

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Firstpost Vibrant Gujarat just a myth, says Congress Times of India With an eye on the Gujarat
assembly election due at the end of the year, Congress is preparing to chip away at chief minister Narendra Modi's development plank by challenging the vibrant Gujarat slogan. NEW DELHI: With an eye on the Gujarat assembly...
Narendra Modi playing with IBNLive.com internal security of the country: Livemint- Firstpost- Daily Congress Daily News & Analysis Bhaskar Riots: RSS praises Modi for all 26 news articles performing 'Raj Dharma' Indian Express 'Modi deserves to be BJP's prime ministerial candidate'
Drug maker Pfizer is close to a deal to sell its infant nutrition business to Swiss food giant Nestle for at least $9bn, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
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Global Insights: Russian-NATO Missing Leverndale restricted Qatada will stay for another year Arms Control Deadlocks Lower patient Steven Wilson as he fights Summit Ambitions apprehended - BBC News
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As NATO member states prepare for next months heads-of-state summit in Chicago, the alliance faces a number of difficult decisions on a variety of issues that will determine its deterrence and defense posture moving forward. And while NATO is often stymied by internal divisions among its members, in this case the major obstacle to any bold policy shifts is disagreement with a nonmember: Russia. As a result, NATO is likely to endorse current policies, unless Russia significantly alters its negotiating position on these issues. At the last NATO heads-of-state summit in November 2010 in Lisbon, faced with the question of
how the alliance should integrate missile defenses, tactical nuclear weapons and conventional capability shortfalls into a coherent and integrated framework that would support NATOs sometimes diverging military and diplomatic goals, the alliance did what it often does when confronted with divisive issues: It punted, instructing member states defense ministries to study the issues and report back. ... This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
March. Officials had become "increasingly concerned" and... Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:36:58 PM Hunt for missing psychiatric BBC News patient goes on stv.tv Missing Leverndale restricted Outrage as psychotic prisoner p a t i e n t S t e v e n W i l s o n goes on the run.. but Scottish apprehended Government fail... Scottish Daily BBC News Record A restricted patient missing from Why was escaped killer's violent Glasgow's Leverndale Hospital past kept secret? Herald Scotland for more than two weeks has been Deadline News- Huffington Post apprehended. Steven Wilson, 47, UK failed to return from a period of all 12 news articles unescorted ground leave on 30
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Foul-mouthed Beniwal suspended from House - Times of India

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Telegraph.co.uk Qatada will stay for another year as he fights deportation Telegraph.co.uk Abu Qatada, the radical Muslim cleric, could stay in Britain for another year despite being jailed yesterday in the Home Office's latest attempt to deport him. By Tom Whitehead and Donna Bowater Mr Qatada was arrested yesterday morning after Theresa... Abu Qatada: taking the Brighton line The Guardian Radical cleric Abu Qatada arrested in UK ABC Online May reaches deal with Jordan on Islamic cleric Financial Times Daily Mail- Scottish Daily Record all 1,132 news articles
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JAIPUR: Independent legislator Hanuman Beniwal, who used obscene language against minister of state for health Rajkumar Sharma during a debate, was suspended from the House for a year on Tuesday after the
Opposition brought the state assembly to a... Rajasthan legislator suspended for foul language IBNLive.com Rajasthan Assembly in disarray as expletives fly Daily Pioneer BJP legislator suspended for
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Former army chief slams Afghanistan role - Brisbane Times

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BigPond News Former army chief slams Afghanistan role Brisbane Times A former army chief of staff during the Vietnam War has questioned Australia's ongoing presence in Afghanistan. Retired Major General Alan Stretton says the original objective of allied
forces was to find, capture or kill Osama bin Laden following the... Army commander warns of stress (Nation - Google News) problems BigPond News Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:28:08 PM Transition is the most dangerous India Today phase: Cantwell ABC Online Former Aussie general questions Army to file title suit for Adarsh Afghan campaign The Daily Times of India MUMBAI: The local army unit Telegraph of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa Hepburn Advocate is expected to file a land title suit all 106 news articles soon seeking a formalization of land records, saying the Adarsh land has been in their possession for decades. Senior Army officers
Army to file title suit for Adarsh Times of India
Woman fatally stabbed Ibrahim pub damaged in Sydney domestic by suspicious fire dispute - ABC Online Summit Sun
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Woman fatally stabbed in Sydney domestic dispute ABC Online Welfare workers have taken three children into care after their mother was stabbed to death at their Sydney home overnight. A 54-year-old man is being questioned by police over the
death of his wife in the city's south-west at Wiley Park. Children in house as woman stabbed to death at Wiley Park The Daily Telegraph Woman dies in domestic stabbing NEWS.com.au Police investigate stabbing death of woman - Wiley Park NSW Police Online (press release) all 18 news articles

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Ibrahim pub damaged by suspicious fire Summit Sun The Abercrombie Hotel, a historic Sydney pub with links to nightclub boss John Ibrahim, has been badly damaged in a
said the move is in... Adarsh is state govt land: Probe Hindustan Times Truth on Adarsh has come out: Ashok Chavan The Hindu Adarsh scam: Army may appeal in SC against judicial eport Daily News & Analysis Mark Brown Economic Times- Indian Express Submitted at 4/17/2012 11:06:00 AM - Business Standard all 85 news articles Swedish furniture empire Ikea has unveiled a range of entertainment cabinets that come with built-in televisions and sound systems. It's called Uppleva (which means "to experience"). It's marketed as a way to banish the clutter of cords and cables. As such, a blu-ray (and DVD and CD) player has been integrated into the stand itself, and the cables running up to the TV are hidden away in a secret chamber. suspicious fire. Emergency By: Mark Brown, Edited by: services were called to the pub on Duncan Geere Continue reading... the corner of Broadway and Abercrombie Streets about 2.40am today and... Police investigate suspicious hotel fire - Chippendale NSW Police Online (press release) all 54 news articles
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Liberate Your Pics: OpenPhoto Brings Its Killer Photo Sharing Platform To Your iPhone
Rip Empson (TechCrunch)
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If youve ever scoffed at Flickr, felt that photo sharing and storage websites hold your photos hostage, associated photos on the Web with platform lock-in, then youve already started to get a sense of why Jaisen Mathai left Yahoo last year to build OpenPhoto. Appalled by having to watch Yahoo let an awesome startup/service like Flickr go to seed, (I was extremely frustrated by the lack of product vision, Mathai said at the time), he took to Kickstarter and raised the $25K he needed to get it off the ground. That was July of last year. Since then, Mathai joined WebFWD, Mozillas Open Innovation program, which gives select entrepreneurs 1:1 mentorship, access to the Mozilla global network, infrastructure support, etc. Today, OpenPhoto has a new, redesigned website, a brand, spanking new iPhone app, and Mathai has recruited an all-star team of designers and engineers, ex-Yahoo, ex-Apple, current Twilio and Mozilla engineers, a principal designer of OStatus protocol, and the organizer of the Scale Linux conference, to name a
few, who are all donating their time to the project. Again, as you might have guessed, the biggest value proposition for OpenPhoto, and something Mathai has become obsessed with, is that it is meant to be immune to a website, service or application dying, paradigm shifts and changings of the guard. The founder believes OpenPhoto is the only photo service where users have more control and access to their photos than the service itself, which means that everything is done on the users terms and that right there is OpenPhotos main differentiator from the scores of other photosharing tools out there. This means that, in terms of how the service works,u users get to select where theyd like to store their photos, whether that be on Dropbox, a personal Amazon S3 bucket, or on a hard drive. Users then have the option to let OpenPhoto scour all of your photos those already uploaded to Flickr, Picasa, or Facebook. OpenPhoto stores them all in a central spot, which is always backed up and available on your laptop or on your phone. As to the services new iPhone app, the same features apply.
Connect OpenPhoto to your Dropbox account, upload photos from your camera roll or take a photo, view, organize and share from the app, post on social networks, crop, add filters, etc. But the biggest part, with the most potential implication is that its all completely open sourced on Github. Mathai says that he hopes that designing OpenPhoto to be open source at its core helps bring longevity, as the history of photo sites is full of those falling out of style, shutting down, or drastic changes in focus. This leaves users in the difficult spot of having to retrieve content or deciding if they like the new service. Being open source, Mathai says, the community keeps the designers honest, and makes users a big part of how the service/UI/UX evolve, even if this means forking off in a new direction, which, when coupled with how the photos themselves are stored, means users can easily switch to a different variant or use both simultaneously. In terms of storage, Mathai says that this is something that the team is trying to abstract away as much as possible, focusing more on Dropbox early on, since
thats what makes since for most consumers. But the service may eventually begin to remove the select your service option and assume smart defaults that work for most users, as long as it doesnt sacrifice one of the top priorities: Portability. Of course, as many are wellfamiliar, Dropbox isnt optimized for sharing or managing photos. And, looking at the startups roadmap, its not likely that they will be making a lot of improvements there, as it really lies outside their core competency storage and syncing at scale. OpenPhoto wants to make it easy to organize and share your Dropbox photos, adding value by way of an awesome set of UIs that lie on top of Dropbox. Check out the photo below for an example. As to monetization? When I asked Mathai if this were a project developed purely in the name of democratization and open source mission-driven rather than financially driven, the founder gave a great response: Its about the mission but without money its moot and will become just another open source project that a bunch of nerds use. The team plans to build a business model that is, as they say, similar to what
Automattic does with WordPress. The hope is that eventually there will be an ecosystem of designers and engineers making money from OpenPhoto. Next, we raised the question of Instagrams $1 billion sale to Facebook, to which Mathai said that he thought social (and, really, Facebook and Instagram) represented the only innovation in the photo space over the last five years, making photo sharing natural, effortless, and fun. However, on the flip side, photo management has (at least relatively) been ignored: I think were actually worse off today than we were 30 years ago, in terms of managing and preserving our photos, Mathai says. Mathai thinks, and I tend to agree, that personal clouds will eventually win out, but this is a paradigm shift, and most companies and developers dont think in terms of how and where that data is stored. Companies have a lot to lose by allowing users to take their content elsewhere, but it will happen, and those who stand in the way, leave a trail of unhappy ex-users as they go. LIBERATE page 30
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Check Point's ThreatCloud Blocks Browsers' Access to Bots

Scott M. Fulton (ReadWriteWeb)
"We've had monthly, then weekly updates. But now you almost need up-to-the-minute updates Submitted at 4/17/2012 8:30:19 AM with threat intelligence," says If security engineers could Fred Kost, Check Point's head of simply pool their intelligence, p r o d u c t m a r k e t i n g , i n a n wouldn't that help thwart Internet interview with ReadWriteWeb. c l i e n t s ' a c c e s s t o k n o w n , "It's not just one single piece of malicious agents? intelligence; you really need that Check Point- the producer of multilayered, multiperspective security appliances and software view. So with ThreatCloud, we that came to prominence after its can collect information from our acquisition of ZoneAlarm- takes a Check Point security gateways key step toward building a and bring it up into the cloud. The collective detour system for s e c o n d w a y w e g e t t h a t malicious agents, with something information is through Check it calls ThreatCloud. Point sensors, which are deployed Technically, it's an easy thing to through publicly facing places, shut off browsers' access to sites strategic locations where we can whose IP addresses come up on a get a view of traffic and things blacklist; but in practice, it's that are going on. These are harder to convince users to pay dedicated sensors that we've attention to these warnings than it managed to get placed in the is to tell them they've won a free network around the world." iPad and to click this link to claim Through this new system, Kost it. says, Check Point was able to So what if the security industry scan 250 billion IP addresses, could essentially say, if we know combining various sources of this site isn't a good one, let's behavioral intelligence to isolate build technology that makes it specific ranges of some 300,000 inaccessible? Well, we've seen a d d r e s s e s . S o m e o f t h e what happens when Congress tries intelligence the company receives to enact this concept through is machine-readable; other parts legislation: We get SOPA. But require human analysis. But the when you take the lobbyists out of product, for now, includes some the picture, perhaps suddenly it's a 4.5 million malware signatures - a good idea. At least, that's the idea number which can now grow behind ThreatCloud. daily.
Check Point calls its endpoint software components "blades," which can be a bit confusing for folks who expect a blade to be a server or even an appliance. Competitors call similar classes of components "virtual appliances." The idea, Kost explains, is that his company provides security products and services through a platform, and a blade is an attachment to that platform. Depending on how the data center is set up, that blade may manifest itself as a physical or virtual appliance. The company's anti-bot software blade, announced last October and released this week, will enable the new ThreatCloud to amass information about botnet-driven infections. "We have multi-tier discovery, so we look at the command and control behavior of the bots - we look at the IT address that it's trying to connect up to URLs it may be using... and sometimes it's the communication pattern," says Kost. "We may see weird DNS or weird HTTP communications, so there may be behavioral things in the way the bot is communicating. So we may not know exactly the destination IPs of its control network, but we may know the behavior and we might see that bot launching spam from an endpoint.
"The important part is, once we've discovered it, we can actually shut off that connection to that command and control network." Severing communication to the suspicious IP address, he asserts, renders the botnet ineffective. The behavioral data then remains in an auditable form in the cloud, enabling Check Point to assist in forensic investigations. Could this level of intelligence be used to cut off access to suspicious IP addresses at the network level? "Absolutely," responds Kost, "and you can see where our service provider customers might be very interested in this. "There's been the notion of 'clean pipes.' If you're a service provider moving traffic around, your ability to make sure your community of customers isn't part of a botnet is a value-add to them, as well as to the network operator. You could envision a case where a service provider might use this to have a cleaner network and stop bots." The enablement of ThreatCloud comes by way of a rollout this week of a new operating system for that platform (most platforms do have something that qualifies as an operating system, and here Check Point opts not to use a euphemism). The rollout - which
goes by the unromantic title R75.40- contains a newly merged OS architecture called GAiA, which has been in testing with enterprise customers for about two years. One of the potential benefits of this operating system to the IT department is a GAiA feature within Check Point's management blades called SmartLog, which is essentially a simplification of how logs are presented. Since a log is a database, its reports should be rendered and sortable like a live database. "SmartLog's focused on taking very large log files, with billions of records, and making them 1) very fast to search, and 2) very easy. So you get split-second, Google-like search capabilities," Kost explains. In prior versions of the product you might have actually had to write a query, run it against the log, and retrieve a report full of pages of results. "Now there's a Google-like search bar, and you can give it contextual words - like 'Scott remote access' - and it'll bring back anything that is remotely related to Scott that spans these billions of log records very, very quickly... It makes it much easier for customers to parse through these billions and billions of log files."
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Windows 8 consumer and RT editions: What's missing?

Mary Jo Foley (CNET News)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:18:16 PM
Microsoft officials announced the Windows 8 SKU line-up yesterday. At the same time, they also shared details about some of the features in the coming versions that no one at the company was allowed to confirm or deny until this week. First, it looks as if users running Windows XP and Windows Vista won't be able to automatically upgrade to the Windows 8 (consumer) SKU, the Windows 8 Pro SKU, or the Windows RT (formerly known as the Windows on ARM) SKU. Because Windows RT is the first release of Windows that runs on ARM, there are no previous Windows on ARM versions from which customers can or should expect to upgrade. But in the case of Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro, supported upgrades are available from Windows 7(Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional and/or Ultimate). This could simply mean, as some believe, that Windows XP and Vista users will have to do a complete install of Windows 8,
and won't be able to do a lessinvolved upgrade. But it could have broader implications, one Microsoft watcher said. "This will be an interesting point for businesses who have to make some tough upgrade choices. (For) all intents and purposes, the way to Windows 8 is through Windows 7 -- no exceptions," p o i n t e d o u t Windows8Update.com's Onuora Amobi in a blog post today. "From a licensing perspective, what does that mean for a company that actually is on XP or Vista? Do they have to buy licenses for Windows 7 and Windows 8? From an upgrade perspective, how would this work - would the company have to build upgrade profiles to Windows 7 and then test those profiles on Windows 8 as well? "We will need to hear more about Microsoft's upgrade recommendations for business," Amobi concluded. Another officially confirmed piece of information is that the ability to join an Active Directory domain is, indeed, omitted from Windows RT. ( This was believed to be the case, but Microsoft
officials refused to confirm it whenever I asked.) Domain join also will not be supported by the Windows 8 consumer SKU. However, Windows RT and Windows 8 Consumer devices/ PCs seemingly will (at least) be able to be managed via Exchange ActiveSync, and will have built-in VPN support, as will the Windows 8 Pro SKU. Both Windows RT and the consumer SKU of Windows 8 won't include other features, including support for Group
Policy; remote desktop host support; built-in Hyper-V client; BitLocker and BitLocker to Go; boot from VHD; and encrypted file system support. Windows RT also will not include Windows Media Player or Storage Spaces, while both Windows 8 Consumer and Windows 8 Professional will. There will be a Windows 8 Enterprise SKU that is available only to Microsoft volume customers with Software Assurance contracts. This version will include all of the Windows 8
Pro features, plus other unnamed features "for IT organization that enable PC management and deployment, advanced security, virtualization, new mobility scenarios, and much more," according to Microsoft's blog post. Microsoft's post from yesterday includes a detailed table listing many of the features that will/ won't be part of the final Windows 8 consumer, Pro and Windows RT SKUs that is worth checking out. This story was originally posted as "Microsoft's Windows 8 consumer and Windows RT editions: What's missing?" on ZDNet's All About Microsoft blog. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Move Your Startup to Chile-con Valley, Get $40,000!

Tim Devaney and Tom Stein (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 9:00:00 AM
CEO Scott Thompson To Cut 50 Properties: Yahoo Has Been Doing Way Too Much
Anthony Ha (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:39:47 PM
It's the plight of every startup: mucho trabajo, poco dinero. What to do? Steve Davis packed his laptop and his Spanish phrasebook and moved to Chile. On arrival, a government program called StartUp Chile handed him $40,000, no equity required. He also got a visa, office space, mentoring, help with networking and fundraising, and connections to potential clients. In return, all Davis and his cofounders had to do was promise to spend six months in the country working on their startup, CruiseWise- an online travel agency for booking cruises - and engage with Chilean businesspeople. "The government wants to bring in foreign entrepreneurs to interact with the business community," Davis says. "Having people around who want to try new things and believe it's OK to fail - that's a huge benefit for them, to foster an entrepreneurial mindset." Davis and his partners, Amit Aharoni and Nicolas Meunier,
were members of Start-Up Chile's freshman class, arriving in August 2010. When the six-month program ended, they returned to San Francisco. They raised $1.6 million in funding from SV Angel, NEA, Index Ventures and PROfounders Capital and launched CruiseWise on February 14th. Davis says they looked for financing in the Bay Area before they applied to Start-Up Chile, and the feedback was positive, "but it was clear we wouldn't be able to raise much, given that we were first-time entrepreneurs with nothing more than a PowerPoint deck." In Chile, they spent their time and their funding - building a working prototype that they could later take to investor meetings. About a third of their money went to living expenses, the rest to technology they needed, like cloud storage and software. "If we'd had to bootstrap it, I don't know if we could have done it," Davis says. "The $40,000 made it a lot easier for us to get started." Start-Up Chile has received criticism from some participants. The primary gripe is that the $40,000 is not given up front in a lump sum. It comes in the form of
on core products like Mail, Finance, and Sports. Other strategies include using all CEO Scott Thompson outlined the data that Yahoo has collected his vision today for how Yahoo to deliver a more personalized monthly reimbursement for can start growing again. His big experience for users, doing more expenses - which can include theme: Focus, focus, focus. to show advertisers their return on salaries, marketing and housing - Yahoo has been doing way too investment, and accelerating the and the payments from the much for too long and was only process of developing new government don't kick in until a doing a few things really well, features and products. couple months after participants Thompson said. Yahoo has built processes that arrive. He was speaking on the earnings were originally intended to help But even the nitpickers concede conference call covering his first us scale but theyve become way that the program is a good full quarter as CEO revenue too complex and stifled experience overall. For Davis, it was flat while earnings went up. innovation, Thompson said. was almost entirely positive. It Thompson has already been Shutting down properties may gave him and his partners time - making some big changes, with lead to a modest decrease in no need to work a second job - l a y o f f s a n d a m a j o r revenue, but the companys exposure to a new culture and the reorganization, but he said he isnt margins will improve, he added. knowledge that they helped teach satisfied with the results so far. (Earlier in the call, CFO Tim Chileans a thing or two about Even the companys lesser- Morse said the company is aiming entrepreneurship. known properties may be getting f o r m a r g i n s o f 2 0 p e r c e n t , "In Chile, if you start a business more engagement than most excluding traffic acquisition and fail at it, you're branded a startups or mid-size companies, costs.) He also said that Yahoo failure," Davis says. "Future but Thompson said, That doesnt wont rule out developing new employers look at you and say, 'I mean we should continue to do products in the future, but first it don't want to hire this person.' In everything we currently do. He needs to earn the right to pursue Silicon Valley, if you fail quickly said he will be shutting down or new growth opportunities by and cheaply, people think that's transitioning at least 50 Yahoo improving core experiences. awesome because you learned a properties (he didnt say which Im convinced we dont need to lot." ones, but weve heard that a reinvent who we are, Thompson And if you join Start-Up Chile, number of Yahoo entertainment instead, Yahoo just needs to you're that much less likely to fail focused properties were hit hard reinvent the user experience. in Silicon Valley. by the layoffs), so that it can focus If you're interested in Start-Up Chile, check out this advice on how to write a successful application from a current member of the program.
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We Need Internet Access Coffee Meets Bagel Turns Online Dating on Mars
Jon Mitchell (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 9:30:00 AM
Today's theme is the interplanetary Web. We've reached the point where saying "the Worldwide Web" sounds goofy, and www. in a URL looks outdated. It's still accurate, though. The Internet feels infinite, but it's still limited to our one planet. Not for long, though. There's a conference this week bringing 20 spacefaring nations together to discuss technical standards and engineering challenges for designing the interplanetary Web. And we may actually need interplanetary Internet access someday. There's amazing new time-lapse video of Earth and the International Space Station, proving that our species actually
has the mind and muscle to get off our world. But the biggest off-world story today is the end of an era. The space shuttle Discovery has been ferried atop its 747 chariot to the Smithsonian in D.C. Lots of people paused in their days to take pictures. The Atlantic Video has an Instagram shot that proves the instant-nostalgia value of those photo filters. Drew Breunig responded to that shot with a deep interpretation."Riding on the back of a jet is perhaps the most mundane task the Space Shuttle ever performed (until it sits in the Smithsonian). But by doing so in casual view of a major population center during a (beautiful) work day it will become a viral hit, stoking nostalgia for our late age
of discovery after we cut it's budget." One of our favorite galleries is from Joel Housman, who went down to the Mall with heavy duty hardware and took some awesome close-ups. But one of the most fitting, understated goodbyes to the shuttle is this video from Spaceflight Now, which frames its departure in a no-nonsense, NASA way. What stories blew your minds today? Share them in the comments below, and we may feature them tomorrow. Lead image credit: Alex Lutkus/ ESA via KurzweilAI First space shuttle photo: The Atlantic Video Second space shuttle photo: Joel Housman
Into A Daily Deal

Jordan Crook (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:28:20 PM
Face-Time Promoting Charts - The 'Power of In-Person Infographic' Compares Communication Methods (TrendHunter.com)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 12:35:02 PM
you pass, its over. That person is gone, and tomorrow is a new day. If you click like, things get a bit T e c h n o l o g y i s a l l a b o u t more interesting. Well, they really convenience. At least, thats only get more interesting if that where its headed. I can now ask special someone happens to like someone to run across the city and you, too. pick up a package for me on If such a connection occurs, you Zaarly(which I did), Songza and your new love interest will be chooses my music playlists for immediately connected through a me, and I can literally push a text message sent from a private button and ask my phone where c o m p a n y p h o n e l i n e . H o w the nearest burger joint is ( even if c o n v e n i e n t , r i g h t ? she never quite understands me). It gets better, though. Once Its incredible. youre connected, CMB will hook And now that same convenience you guys up with free gifts from is entering into our love lives in dating spots in NYC like Billys the form of a site called Coffee Bakery, Cafe Grumpy, and Pierre Meets Bagel (CMB), which just Loti for your first date. launched today in NYC. The company has plans to roll the Its quite simple. service out in four other cities by A f t e r s i g n i n g i n t h r o u g h the end of the year, but for now Facebook, CMB will match you this app is for New York-based with one person every day at love birds only. Other cities will noon. This person isnt just some be added once Coffee Meets rando, but more often than not its Bagel receives 1,000 emails from a friend of a friend whom youve users in this or that city who are never met before. You have two interested in the service. simple options: like or pass. If
( TrendHunter.com) Despite living in an age where technology
rules and virtual communication is quick and easy, The Power of In-Person' infographic reveals some interesting information claiming that face-...
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IBM reports sales light, but sees strong earnings outlook

Larry Dignan (CNET News)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 3:50:56 PM
IBM's first quarter was a mixed bag relative to expectations. Big Blue reported first quarter earnings of $3.1 billion, or $2.61 a share, on revenue of $24.7 billion, a tally that was flat from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were $2.78 a share. Wall Street was looking for earnings of $2.65 a share on revenue of $24.77 billion. The company raised its 2012 earnings outlook to $14.27 a share from at least $14.16 a share. NonGAAP earnings will hit at least $15 a share, up from IBM's previous outlook of $14.85 a share. Wall Street was looking for earnings of $14.94 a share for 2012. IBM's first quarter lined up similarly to previous ones. Services backlog was flat,
percent to $4.6 billion. Software revenue was $5.6 billion, up 5 percent from a year ago. Middleware sales were up 7 percent from a year ago and operating systems revenue was up 9 percent. Hardware and systems revenue was $3.7 billion, down 7 percent from a year ago. Power Systems sales were flat as were System x revenue. This story originally appeared at ZDNet's Between the Lines under the headline"IBM Q1 sales light, earnings outlook strong." This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Halo 4 release date announced, franchise given ten-year extension

Nate Lanxon
Submitted at 4/17/2012 12:00:00 PM
hardware was pressured, and emerging markets, analytics, and cloud represented growth. By the numbers: Americas first quarter revenue was $10.5 billion, up 1 percent. Revenue from Europe, Middle East, and Africa was $7.6 billion, down 2 percent. Asia Pacific
revenue was up 4 percent to $6.1 billion. Sales in the BRIC countries -Brazil, Russia, India, and China -jumped 10 percent. Global technology services revenue was up 2 percent in the first quarter to $10 billion. Business services revenue fell 2
Microsoft has announced that 6 November, 2012 will be the day Halo 4 will hit Xbox 360s worldwide. Halo 4 is pitched as the start of a new trilogy of games that will span a decade, rather than the fourth installment cash-in of a multi-billion dollar trilogy that concluded with Halo 3 in 2007. But what about the story? By: Nate Lanxon, Edited by: Duncan Geere Continue reading...
Shrinking Kinect for mobile: Q&A with Bill Buxton of Microsoft Research
Katie Scott
Submitted at 4/17/2012 11:33:00 AM
For Bill Buxton, the design of an
organisation is as important as the design of its products. We caught up with the principal researcher at Microsoft Research
on a recent visit to the UK to talk
Kinect, why products take 20 years to come to market, and why universities should be totally independent of industry.
By: Katie Scott, Edited by: Nate Lanxon Continue reading...
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Daily iPad App: Bounty Bots is full of cartoony shooter action

Mike Schramm (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 5:30:00 PM
MunkyFun is the group of developers behind first-person shooter Archetype for the iPhone, so they know already how to put a console-style shooter on Apple's mobile devices. Archetype was published by Villian, but MunkyFun's latest title is selfpublished. It's called Bounty Bots, and it's available for free on the App Store right now. Hopefully, at the word "free," you already went to go and download the game to see what it's like. But in case not, I'll tell you that it's a shooter where your main goal is to run around collecting coins as quickly as possible, and then to deliver those coins into banks (but without getting killed by other players). Coins delivered get banked, but you still get XP for picking up coins, so even if you're terrible, you can progress through the
Get Dragon NaturallySpeaking Home for Windows for $34.99 in Todays App Deals [App Deals]
Dusty Wright (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 2:30:00 PM
game. Progression gets you various parts to customize your bot with, and the game is finely tuned for both casual and hardcore players, so those ready for a real challenge can buy special parts that make things tougher but can also come with rewards as well. The game's freemium bent can be frustrating at times (if you ever lose all your coins, you're locked
in a jail that you can then pay your way out of, which seems targeted right at guaranteeing those all-important in-app purchases). But there's enough action here that it's worth the free download, and if you get hooked, well, all the better. And MunkyFun is already updating the title as well, so there's more content on the way. Bounty Bots is a fun use of the company's
expertise so far, and I'm sure it will lead to even better things in their future. Daily iPad App: Bounty Bots is full of cartoony shooter action originally appeared on TUAW The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale. More
The 100 Best Celebrity Engagement Rings

Katie Henry (PopSugar)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 2:15:32 PM
Wedding season is upon us, and we're celebrating with a roundup of some of our favorite celebrity
engagement rings. Even though some relationships have come and gone, the ring photos are here to stay. Celebs go big when it comes to diamonds, including Kate Hudson's reported $200,000
sparkler from Matthew Bellamy and Mariah Carey's gorgeous 15-
carat bauble from Nick Cannon. Sugar Network. View Slideshow Click through to see all the precious gems, and if you're planning or attending a ceremony, be sure to keep up with all of our wedding coverage across the
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So, beyond being able to install OpenPhoto yourself, or sign up for a hosted account, the platform offers developers a set of APIs which they can use to make cool apps for the platform, and help steer it forward. While the startups iPhone app is live, the team is still working out the kinks, and wants to get the app to a point where it really sings before it focuses full-time on releasing its Android version. But Mathai said he hopes to launch on Android within the next two months, with the help of his mobile lead, Patrick Santana, who joined OpenPhoto full-time at the
beginning of this year. All in all, OpenPhoto has come a long way since Mathai posted his project on Kickstarter last summer, and its been fun to watch its evolution. Theres still a long way to go, but in the wake of Instagrams acquisition, a lot of people are looking around for the right photo sharing, photo management solution, and considering OpenPhoto gives you more control and more options than any of its kind, it stands to gain. The technology is there, and its improving, though it will be essential for OpenPhoto to balance its geek cred with killer
consumer application. Its definitely on the way. And, hey, Instagram and OpenPhoto are both powered by Ubuntu, but OpenPhoto lets you manage photos with much more control, and make your Dropbox photos look sexy. And whats better than that? You can check out OpenPhoto on Github here, and tinker away. Or you can check out openphoto.me for the hosted version, the iPhone app here, and the project here. Let us know what you think.
Most Popular Universal Remote Control: Logitech Harmony Series [Hive Five Followup]
Alan Henry (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 2:15:00 PM
3D may not be a novelty forever

Mel Martin (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:30:00 PM
Does Apple have some nifty 3D technology coming your way soon? Maybe. Apple has posted a job listing for an iOS Software engineer with 3D skills. The person Apple is looking for is a "Computer Vision specialist to strengthen its multi-view stereo research group. As a member of this team you should have a genuine interest in technology and be a skilled developer with
knowledge and experience in Computer Vision, Image Analysis and 3D geometry." It's a bit hard to tell from the posting exactly what Apple intends to do with 3D technology. It could be an elaborate augmented reality app, something that uses the processing power of an iOS device, combined with the camera. Other hints are that Apple is looking for someone with skills in m u l t i - v i e w s t e r e o a n d 3 D don't sound like Apple is looking reconstruction, as well as mesh to play Avatar on your iOS texturing techniques. Those skills screen. On the other hand, Apple
has lots of skunk-works projects going on all the time, and this could turn out to be something really interesting, or something that winds up in a file cabinet never to see the light of day. [via 9to5 Mac] 3D may not be a novelty forever originally appeared on TUAW The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
Most of us have an entertainment center full of gadgets, like a receiver, a Blu-ray player, a console, and of course, your television. There's no reason you have to keep a half-dozen remotes on your coffee table just because you have that many devicesa good universal remote will duplicate all of the functions and features of the individual ones so you only have to use one gadget. Earlier in the week we asked you which remotes you think are the best, and then we took a look at the top five universal remotes based on your nominations. Now we're back to highlight the overall winner. More
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Video: Angelina's New Ring and New Role - Everything You Need to Know!
Lauren Bradshaw (PopSugar)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 2:10:00 PM
Grill, griddle, and go

Brian Krepshaw (CNET News)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:45:04 PM
rely on the cooking methods of our distant ancestors. For one, they didn't have pancakes. Finally, an excuse to make Looking to redraw the lines of pancakes at every meal. cooking evolution, the Cuisinart The enjoyment that one gets from CGG-080 Griddlin' Portable Gas grilling food over an open fire is Grill makes it easy to grill and one that can be traced back to the griddle in the great outdoors. caveman days. While that primal Incorporating a griddle directly satisfaction may be reason enough into the lid, the propane-powered to occasionally fire up the grill, cooker not only tames fire, but there are plenty of reasons why it expands the menu while doing so. would be impractical to solely Breakfast, lunch, and dinner can
be cooked with the one appliance; the portable grill and griddle combination can supply the means to prepare it all. Suitable for everything from camping to tailgating, the tabletop grill features folding legs that transform into a carrying handle. It has more than 160 square inches of total cooking area and a dual-level cooking design, offering room enough to feed a crowd. Or a clan, as the case may
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It's a very exciting time for Angelina Jolie! After being spotted with a ring on her finger at a private event last week, Angelina stepped out for the first time in public yesterday since her engagement news was confirmed, giving a wave and a smile as she showed off her gorgeous diamond. We've got the latest details on the sparkler and Angelina's new role in PopSugar Rush!
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Intel reports flat $12.9 billion revenue in Q1 2012

Rue Liu (SlashGear)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:41:05 PM
Apple and Samsung CEOs agree to talk settlement

Rue Liu (SlashGear)
Judge Lucy Koh, who has been presiding over the Apple vs. Samsung lawsuits in the Northern Apple and Samsung have been at District of California, ordered the each other necks over patent two parties to respond with issues since that fateful day the availability for attending the Cupertino company went after the s e t t l e m e n t t a l k . T o a p p e a r South Korean manufacturer for cooperative, Apple CEO Tim copycatting the iPhone and iPad Cook and Samsung CEO Choi with its Galaxy line of products. Gee-sung have both agreed to be Now, after almost exactly a year, present for the Magistrate Judge the two companies have been Settlement Conference. ordered to attend settlement talks However, the court can only within the next 90 days in San obligate the two companies to talk Francisco, which will be overseen but cannot force them to settle. by US Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Therefore, the meeting between Spero. Cook and Choi may not
Submitted at 4/17/2012 3:48:28 PM
necessarily bury the hatchet between the two companies. Their first trial date for one of their US federal lawsuits is still scheduled for July, while evidentiary hearings on their claims with the ITC is set for June. [ via Foss Patents] Apple and Samsung CEOs agree to talk settlement is written by Rue Liu& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Intel reported its Q1 2012 earnings today, revealing a 13 percent drop in profit due to flat sales and higher operating expenses. The chip giant earned $2.7 billion or 53 cents per share on a revenue of $12.9 billion. Despite the dip in revenue across all of Intels business divisions, the results did manage to beat Wall Street estimates, which expected earnings of 50 cents per share on a revenue of $12.84 billion. Overall, the results were positive and Intel expects to have a strong second quarter, especially with the launch of its new family of Ivy Bridge processors. Intel will also be integral in the slew of Windows 8 machines getting ready to launch later this year, which include tablets, ultrabooks, and PCs.
For the second quarter, Intel estimates a revenue of $13.6 billion, while analysts predict $13.45 billion. Projected gross margins are 62 percent to 63 percent, also better than expected. Intel expects strong growth in the second half of the year and an overall gross margin of 64 percent to 65 percent in 2012. [ via CNET] Intel reports flat $12.9 billion revenue in Q1 2012 is written by Rue Liu& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
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Chicago Natural Resources Expo April 27 & 28

There is no cost for those who pre-register to attend the conference. The Expo is held at the Rolling Meadows Holiday Submitted at 4/17/2012 1:27:00 PM Those in the greater Chicago Inn and Convention Center in should plan on attending the Rolling Meadows, IL. The Chicago Natural Resources Expo Holiday Inn is located at 3405 on April 27-28 for a discussion A l g o n q u i n R o a d , R o l l i n g about gold, silver, hard assets, Meadows, IL 60008. The hotel inflation, currencies (or whatever can be contacted at 847-259-5000. else is on your mind). You also It is a two day event that starts Erica Sadun (TUAW - The there's standard LogMeIn 256-bit have the opportunity to meet with on a Friday afternoon, and ends Unofficial Apple Weblog) SSL security to keep your data various natural resource company on Saturday afternoon. safe. executives. The Exhibition Hall, featuring Submitted at 4/17/2012 5:00:00 PM You can apply for a beta account Once again, I am pleased to some of the top companies in the Remote access giant LogMeIn is by submitting your email address announce the magic words:"It's resource industry, opens at 4pm. taking on Apple iCloud and at their website. Basic accounts free". A buffet which includes jumbo DropBox with its latest move into include 5 GB of free cloud storage Originally known as the shrimp, and smoked sockeye the cloud storage arena. Cubby is to share with the world, plus C h i c a g o N a t u r a l R e s o u r c e s a l m o n , i s s e r v e d a t 5 p m . now a website, a Mac server, and unlimited syncing across your Conference and Exhibition, this Following the buffet, company an iOS application. (Android and own devices using your home is one of the oldest natural presentations begin. Friday night Windows apps are also available.) computer as a server. resource conferences in the features a Q & A Session hosted Like LogMeIn's recent JoinMe LogMeIn enters cloud storage United States. The conference is by Rich Radez and a panel of site and app, Cubby's focus arena with Cubby originally a semi-annual event and offers industry experts, the discussion is remains on remote collaboration a p p e a r e d o n T U A W - T h e opportunities to learn about new based on topics that are fueled and group work. Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, and undervalued companies in the by the audience's interests. The service differentiates itself 17 Apr 2012 17:00:00 EST. natural resource industry. The event resumes on Saturday by providing a folder-by-folder Please see our terms for use of The event is directed by Rich morning. Attendees enjoy a opt-in feature, so you can choose feeds. R a d e z , w h o s t a r t e d t h e continental breakfast, and what items you need to share Source| Permalink| Email this| conference back in 1977. Rich, browse the exposition hall rather than having to set the focus Comments and his son Eric, created the learning about companies. In the around a specific DropBox-like unique format which focuses on meantime, individual company central folder. And, of course, resource companies and provides p r e s e n t a t i o n s b e g i n i n t h e maximum exposure to both p r e s e n t a t i o n hall. These investors and sponsors. presentations are a great way to
LogMeIn enters cloud storage arena with Cubby
noreply@blogger.com (Mike Mish Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis)
hear each company's story. Lunch buffet is served around noon, and accompanied by the second panel discussion. After lunch, presentations and expositions continue for the remainder of the day. I will be on the panel Friday evening and Saturday afternoon for questions taken from the audience on gold, silver, or any aspect of the global economy that is on your mind.. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// www.sitkapacific.com/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
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Samsung Premium Suite apps on Galaxy Note

Rue Liu (SlashGear)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:22:07 PM
IBM profits rise 15pc as Intel eyes smartphone market

Telegraph Staff (Finance News - Business news from the UK and world)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:11:00 PM
Samsung has released a video to give a sneak peek at its upcoming Premium Suite apps. The video shows the new collection of S-Pen -optimized apps running on the Galaxy Note, which is expected to receive the Premium Suite along with its update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The Premium Suite includes updated versions of the S Memo app that shipped with the Galaxy Note, as well as the S Note and
My Story. The S Note lets you create notebooks for various needs, such as travel notes, a recipe collection, or a diary. It lets you quickly jot down notes and automatically replaces your
roughly drawn shapes with vector art for clean-looking diagrams. The My Story app lets you use various templates to create custom greeting e-cards that you can send and share with family and friends.
For all the details on what you can do with the S-Pen-optimized Premium Suite apps on the Galaxy Note, make sure to watch the video below. [ via Pocketnow] Samsung Premium Suite apps on Galaxy Note is written by Rue Liu& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
IBM has raised its full-year outlook after posting a 15pc rise in first-quarter earnings, while Intel said its processors would soon debut in smartphones.
Jeff Gundlach Reveals A New Favorite Investment Idea: 'It's Like Investing In Gold In 1997'
Joe Weisenthal and Sam Ro (Money Game)
creamed, plunging to all time lows... recently below $2/cubic foot. Submitted at 4/17/2012 3:54:51 PM On the call he describes gas now Wow! as being like 'investing in gold in On his call just now, Jeff 1997'. Gundlach just unveiled his Given natural gas' cheapness, favorite investment idea: Buying more and more big names have up natural gas assets. been talking it up, including will have to invest in its gas This is incredibly contrarian, Wilbur Ross. infrastructure, just because of how because it just keeps getting Inevitably, they argue, the US
relatively cheap it is compared to oil. Click here for more on the Gundlach call > Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: This African Country Is Poised To Become One Of The Biggest
Natural Gas Players In The World Bond Kings Gundlach, Gross And Fuss Agree On One Thing Jeff Gundlach Speaks On The State Of The Markets And The Economy
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Who Broke Syria? - By James Harkin

JAMES HARKIN (Foreign Policy)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 11:23:21 AM
Bashar al-Assad did. But the international community and the media made things worse. BY JAMES HARKIN| APRIL 17, 2012 Less than a week into a U.N.brokered ceasefire in Syria, the arrangement is already looking pretty shaky. The Syrian government has promised to pull its army back from major cities, but now seems to be reneging on that deal. But rather than castigating its motives, perhaps it might be a good time now to take a fresh look what exactly has been accomplished by the internationalization of the Syrian "problem." I've been going to Syria for some years now, both as a journalist and an ordinary citizen, and it's been inspiring to see how the country has changed. Some of my friends are ordinary civilians; others are now involved in the motley collection of opposition groups that have emerged since the uprising began in March of last year. What's often lost in the account of crisis given by pofaced humanitarians, with their pictures of dead bodies and tales of indecipherable evil, is how inspiring the revolt originally was for many ordinary Syrians. Virtually all the people I know in Syria have changed their opinions radically in the last year, and their
demands have grown bolder and more ambitious. As spring 2011 gave way to summer and fall and the flagging Baathist regime moved to snuff out dissent, some opposition groups looked to the force of arms to protect their demonstrations and their communities. At around
the same time, international efforts to apply pressure to the regime led to sanctions that virtually no one in Syria wants (even the Free Syrian Army), an ill-fated mission by Arab monitors that disappointed everyone, and now a U.N. initiative that has initially stemmed the daily round
of killings, but failed to satisfy either the government or the opposition. So what's going wrong? The problem, in my view, is that the tools of international law are a very blunt instrument with which to solve real problems of civil strife. In November, for example,
I smuggled myself into Homs as the desperate opposition movement was beginning to turn to the Arab League to mediate in its conflict with an increasingly brutal regime. As the situation worsened, the daily WHO page 36
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demonstrations (I could still hear them breaking out in November along with the occasional crackle of sniper fire) were joined by armed militias that grew up to protect Sunni areas of the city. Then the geopoliticking began. In December, the Syrian National Council seems to have made an orchestrated effort to turn Homs into a Syrian Benghazi -- the eastern Libyan city whose imminent destruction by Muammar al-Qaddafi's forces provided the catalyst that sparked the international intervention in Libya last year. The council spread stories in the international media, for example, suggesting that the Syrian Army had moved up reinforcements with which to strike the city, and that it had given the rebellious Homsies 72 hours to lay down their weapons or be killed. When I phoned a respected veteran activist in Homs, he told me that the charge simply wasn't true. Things were bad enough, he said, without having to make up scary stories. In retrospect, by leaning on precedents within international law rather than the force of its own movement, the exiled Syrian opposition seems to have aimed to exaggerate the civilian losses in the city into the claim of genocide in order to push buttons within the international community. The United Nations bought it. Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that"many voices are warning that a major assault" on Homs is about to begin, that a further
military buildup had already begun. "I am not in a position to confirm those reports," she said, "but the prospect of such an attack is extremely alarming." If there was a strategy to internationalize the conflict, however, it failed. The United Nations could do nothing, but the promise that it might may have put ordinary activists and Free Syrian Army rebels in the city at even greater risk. Many were led to believe that help was coming, when it most definitely wasn't. The history of most humanitarian interventions in the last 15 years has been similar: By promising more safety than it can credibly deliver, the United Nations has often put the lives of those on the receiving end of its efforts in even greater danger, everywhere from Srebrenica to South Lebanon. By changing the incentives facing both parties to the conflict, the United Nations, at its worst, only makes their incentives more perverse -- and their negotiating positions even more intractable. Much the same applies to the international media. Beginning in late December, Western journalists fanned out, under the coat-tails of Arab League observers, to find the "war story." They duly met members of the Free Syrian Army, and came back pleased as punch with pictures of masked, professional-looking soldiers wielding rocket-propelled grenades. In the short term, the result was a propaganda coup for both the journalists and the Free Syrian Army. As soon as the
media departed, however, the government forces moved in to kill or capture many of these guerrilla fighters, whose implicit claim that they could control territory for any length of time turned out to be dangerously hollow. That was then. As the situation has ground toward a temporary stalemate, everyone in the opposition now realizes that NATO has neither the mettle nor the resources for another Libya. That kind of organized military intervention is simply not going to happen. But the next phase of diplomacy is in danger of making matters substantially worse. The remaining carrots offered to Bashar Al-Assad's regime are now being matched by thinly veiled sticks whereby the international community promises to turn a blind eye to Saudi and Qatari efforts to back the military opposition with force of arms. This internationalization of the conflict has been met by ordinary Syrians with a mixture of incredulity and opportunism. Driving around the center of Homs at the end of February (until I was picked up by the Syrian Army and sent back to Damascus), I stopped a group of old men in the center of town and asked for directions. "Are you Russian?" was their first question. Probably government supporters, and quite possibly Alawites, they knew that the only foreigners they really wanted to talk to were Russian, Moscow being the Assad regime's most outspoken defender
on the international stage. Amid the catastrophic decline of their economic fortunes, many Syrians are rather proud to be center of this international attention; at least, they say, their country is not being ignored or forgotten about. But they're also deeply patriotic and understandably proud of their country's fragile ethnic and religious mosaic. As several Syrian teenagers pointed out to me, the same Qatari government that has been moving to protect the human rights of Syrians has been denying them visas to visit Qatar. Nor is it lost on them that Qatar and Saudi Arabia are so democratically backward as to make the Syrian government look like a hippie commune. The SNC's apparent decision to accept money from the Gulf States to pay salaries to Free Syrian Army guerrillas sounded breathtakingly arrogant, and makes for shockingly bad politics. Not only does lend credence to the conspiracy theories peddled by the government that the uprising is the handiwork of foreign agitators; it risks splitting the indigenous opposition movement and empowering exactly the kind of Sunni extremist groups who are most likely to stoke sectarian tensions. None of this is to argue that Syrians should not take matters into their own hands. After more than a year of grueling state violence, there are very few absolute pacifists among the Syrian opposition. Just about
everyone I met in Syria was caught between the terrible foreboding that things will -- must -- get substantially worse before they get better, and not wishing any violence upon their fellow countrymen. But if the Saudis and the Qataris are allowed to funnel unlimited cash and weapons through the country's traditional smuggling routes, the likely result will be to empower a crooked new class of arms-dealing middle men and the kind of fringe Salafist groups that are quite happy to turn themselves and everyone else into martyrs for the cause. Whatever the Syrian government now says, the influence of these extremist Sunni factions is currently marginal, even inside the Free Syrian Army. Most of the military defectors are simply conservative Sunnis from farming communities. But Syria is currently exhibiting a brand new irony of our post-war-on-terror era. The secular Syrian liberals and leftist groups that have most in common in Western values don't want NATO intervention, while it's exactly the kind of people who don't much like us -the aging remains of the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as the newer, more radical Sunni salafists -- who are begging for our help. Who knows: If the unthinking drift toward creating neomujahideen in Syria and Iran (a strategy advocated by Foreign Policy's own James Traub) WHO page 37
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continues, following a decade in which radical Sunnis became America's Public Enemy No. 1, Osama bin Laden might have to be posthumously converted back into the freedom fighter America saw him as in the 1980s, marching into battle to drive out one of the last vestiges of godlessness in the Middle East. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is
Player's dad breaks Alabama's championship crystal football

Submitted at 4/17/2012 3:57:47 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - The championship dream is intact, but the $30,000 crystal football trophy has been
shattered at the University of Alabama. A player's father accidentally broke on Saturday the Waterford crystal football awarded to the Crimson Tide after the team defeated Louisiana State University in January for the national collegiate title, an
athletics official said. The team was celebrating A-Day, an intrasquad scrimmage that marks the end of spring training, and trophies were on special display to allow people to take photographs with them. ...
Warren Buffett Has Stage 1 Prostate Cancer

Tyler Durden
Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:04:12 PM
Flashing headlines to conclude tax day: BUFFETT DIAGNOSED WITH STAGE I PROSTATE CANCER WARREN BUFFETT SAYS NO INCIDENCE OF CANCER ELSEWHERE BERKSHIRE SAYS CONDITION ISN'T 'REMOTELY LIFETHREATENING' BUFFETT: TESTS SHOW NO INCIDENCE OF CANCER ELSEWHERE IN BODY CNBC adds that Buffett will start a two-month treatment course in July. Full Berkshire press release: To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway: This is to let you know that I have been diagnosed with stage I
prostate cancer. The good news is that Ive been told by my doctors that my condition is not remotely lifethreatening or even debilitating in any meaningful way. I received my diagnosis last Wednesday. I then had a CAT scan and a bone scan on Thursday, followed by an MRI today. These tests showed no incidence of cancer elsewhere in my body. My doctors and I have decided on a two-month treatment of daily radiation to begin in mid-July. This regimen will restrict my travel during that period, but will not otherwise change my daily routine. I feel great as if I were in my normal excellent health and my energy level is 100 percent. I discovered the cancer because my PSA level (an indicator my doctors had regularly checked for many years) recently jumped beyond its normal elevation and a
biopsy seemed warranted. I will let shareholders know immediately should my health situation change. Eventually, of course, it will; but I believe that day is a long way off. Warren E. Buffett And some perspectives already prepared by Carol Loomis of Fortune Last week was the most extraordinary week in Warren Buffett's history but he lived his business life as if this was the most normal time in the world. As Buffett announced today, he was diagnosed with Stage I prostate cancer last Wednesday, after a biopsy the previous day. On Thursday he had a CAT scan and bone scan, with these showing that the cancer had not spread elsewhere in his body. On that same Thursday, he and a small group had dinner with his non-cousin, entertainer Jimmy Buffett, at a new Omaha
restaurant called J. Coco's. Jimmy was in town for a performance two days later. The following day Friday Buffett, the elder, was host to 160 business students from such universities as MIT, University of Chicago, University of Tennessee, and Peru's Universidad del Pacifico. Following the usual routine for such visits (there are six scheduled for this school year) the students toured two Berkshire retail subsidiaries, held a two-anda-half hour Q&A session with Buffett, and lunched at one of his favorite restaurants, Piccolo's. The riff at Piccolo's was that Jimmy Buffett turned up for lunch, creating an instant sensation. At Jimmy's performance next night at Century/Link Center, the first person on stage was Warren Buffett, who deadpanned a "Welcome to the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting."
Actually, the only thing dissonant about his greeting was that the Berkshire meeting, which is held at that same Center, spreads out to overflow rooms and actually draws many more people than the standing-room-only (and wildly enthusiastic) crowd that Jimmy Buffett attracted. On Sunday Buffett caught his breath. Then, on Monday morning at 7:30 AM, he met with his doctors to discuss courses of treatment for his newly discovered illness. Continue reading here. Average: Your rating: None Average: 2( 1 vote) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Market Is Long Of Mania In Schizophrenic Terms

Tyler Durden
Submitted at 4/17/2012 3:36:02 PM
NASDAQ managed its largest gain in four months as Apple came back into vogue and saved the day. The equity indices were alone in their magnificent exuberance after the European close as Gold, Treasuries, and the USD all tracked sideways in a very narrow range. As we have been warning, the mania is back in equity (and credit markets but less so) as April has now seen six of the last nine days swinging between 2 sigma gains and 2 sigma losses (for the NASDAQ). Volume was average today in ES (the S&P 500 e-mini futures) and NYSE (stocks) but high in Apple's equity and options markets as the schizophrenic behavior pushed the stock from under $572 at the open to almost $610 by the close (though notably stuck between Friday's close $605.19 and its closing VWAP at $610.74). The last day to fund your IRA combined with tomorrow's VIX futures/options expiration likely helped some of this momentum (as we note VIX is about 1 vol higher than it was when the S&P closed at these levels on Friday). Just as in Europe, credit markets were simply not as enamored with the Spanish auction or Apple's
awesomeness as equities and drifted sideways to weaker all afternoon (with some late-day weakness in HYG as it starts to fall back towards its NAV). Financials and Materials lost some ground into the close and ES gave all its post-Europe-close gains back as volume and trade size picked up significantly at last Thursday's swing highs (near preNFP levels again). The Treasury complex saw all its 'losses' in the early going and went sideways in an extremely narrow range for much of the US day sessionending the day slightly higher in yield (0.5-1.5bps) on the week. Commodities surged early on as
the USD slipped but drifted back from mid-morning on (except WTI which broke above $105 (ended above $104) for the first time in 2 weeks. Gold and Silver nose-dived right after the US open only to recover it all by the European close. EUR strength (and USD weakness) occurred early this morning on the Spanish auction and aside from a rip in CAD the rest of the day was relatively tight ranges with a very small drift higher in DXY. All-inall, it seemed like an oversold snap that saw opportunistic sellers coming in at the end as average trade size surged and ES closed back above its 50DMA again -
Equities outperforming only to revert it all back at the close... FX markets were dominated by the AUD and CAD rallies (most notably the latter - chart below shows USD strength is higher relative to each currency) but soon after the European close these started to leak back lower following JPY's general trend all day (as carry trades went from bid to stable)... VIX (green) is notably higher than the last time the S&P closed at these levels (orange). Also noteworthy is the fact that VIX closed near its opening levels of the day - given the jump in price (suggesting macro vol overlays were evident)... echoing last week's mania and Equities remain rich relative to worryingly raising realized vol for credit and even HYG has started to pull lower after reconverging all those hopes and dreamers. NASDAQ (and in fact the rest of from April rotation... the equity index complex) is HYG is notably rich relative to exhibiting very significant swings its NAV... intraday. Based on 3 month vol, Gold and Silver stumbled hard we have experienced six 2 sigma right after the US open but swings in the last nine days...the recovered - though we note Gold last time such an event happened remains lower on the week while was the whipsaw mania of last Silver is higher (more in line with summer that further served to USD's weakness)... destroy retail faith in markets... And on Apple, we thought it Across asset classes the distinct interesting that it was unable to phases of today's market are very break above Friday's closing evident. Gold's nose-dive after the VWAP adn the blue shaded bars US open (and recovery by the show heavier block trade activity European close) are clear and the MARKET page 39 sideways drift after Europe with
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TrimTabs Blasts Retail Sales Report, Proposes Firing All Government Economists and Disbanding the BLS, BEA and Census Bureau
Submitted at 4/17/2012 1:56:00 PM
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Yesterday the US Census Bureau reported retail sales rose 0.8% in March. Is that what happened? Charles Biderman, President & CEO TrimTabs Investment Research, has no faith in the number. Here is a video explaining why. Biderman says Ignorance is Bliss Regarding Economic Data Ignorance is bliss, particularly when it comes to US government economic data. The latest bad joke occurred this morning when the US Census Bureau said retail sales rose 0.8% in March. And the financial press reported that 0.8% sales increase as gospel showing once again how totally ignorant the media is when it comes to reporting economic numbers put out by the US government. The AP headline was that US retail sales in March rose 0.8%, helped by job gains. The Wall Street Journal online site reported not only that U.S. retail sales rose 0.8% in March, but also that Americans spent more on autos. Really? This is garbage reporting of the worst sort. Why? Well first let us look at the actual Census
Bureau press release, which is entitled Advanced Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services March 2012. Lower down the press release explains that the advance estimates are based on a subsample of the Census Bureaus full retail and food services sample. What is a subsample? Would you believe in this broadband world that what is reported as a hard fact by the financial media morons, is based upon a mailed, snail mail, survey to 5,000 retailers and the mailed back response? Lets see, the US Census Bureau mails surveys to a mere 5,000 retailers and from the responses mailed back guesses at the fraction of a percent change in month to month retail activity. Wow! One would think that the Census people never heard of credit, debit and cash cards. Actual cash is much less than 10% of sales these days and I would rather have all the credit and debit card data than a survey of 5,000 outfits, wouldnt you? Believe it or not, Master Card and Visa sell their data to the public and I am sure all would give summary data to the government, if asked. But no, the US government agencies, which also include the
Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis, in their infinite wisdom ignore available real time data. My solution is very simple. Fire all the government economists and disband the BLS, BEA and Census Bureau. Instead hire me and give me enough clout to get real time data from master card, visa and all the plastic folk and I tell you what the consumer is doing in real time. Also if I was allowed to mine the withheld income and employment taxes sent daily to the US Treasury I could tell you how many people are working and how much they are making in real time. But no, the government reports garbage and the morons in the financial media report that garbage as hard facts! The fault is not really with the reporters. Rather it is their editors who are to blame. The globe is in a real time mess. Global trading is in real time. Yet, the financial markets trade in real time data on the US economy that is based upon surveys and guesses. Am I missing something, or is this just plain nuts? It's Just Plain Nuts To answer the question, it's just plain nuts. Moreover, I consider Biderman's proposal a mere down
occuring into the Friday closing price level and again as pushed close to Friday's VWAP (as algos jiggled it higher for some better exit levels)... Finally, based on broad risk assets (as proxied by our payment on what needs to happen. CONTEXT model) we have seen In addition to getting rid of the this pattern before. Last week we BLS, the BEA, and the census saw equities surge exuberantly bureau, we also need to get rid of higher leaving risk in general in the Fed, the department of energy, the dust (as we noted earlier on student loans, crop subsidies, the the back of well-recoved Italy bill small business association, Davis- auction that time). While markets Bacon, prevailing wage laws, do not always repeat, they collective bargaining, and all sorts certainly rhyme from time to of other programs that at best time... accomplish nothing at tremendous Charts: Bloomberg Average: cost, and in most cases do further Your rating: None economic damage because of This entry passed through the graft, inefficiencies, and bad Full-Text RSS service if this is reporting. your content and you're reading it Mike "Mish" Shedlock on someone else's site, please read h t t p : / / the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentglobaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. only/faq.php#publishers. Five com Filters recommends: Donate to Click Here To Scroll Thru My Wikileaks. Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// www.sitkapacific.com/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
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WARREN BUFFETT DIAGNOSED WITH STAGE 1 PROSTATE CANCER

Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:01:00 PM
Berkshire Hathaway says Warren Buffett has been diagnosed with stage 1 prostate cancer. The good news: He says the diagnosis isn't "remotely life threatening." The fact is is that he's clearly caught it very early, and so the news is good, but it's inevitable that this development will re-start all the chatter about succession planning at Berkshire Hathaway. If you'll recall, Buffett knows who his successor is going to be, but it hasn't been disclosed to the person. Shares of Berkshire briefly dipped on the headline, but they have already recouped most of their losses. Meanwhile, Fortune's Carol Loomis already has a full writeup of how Buffett discovered the news. Here's part of it: As Buffett announced today, he was diagnosed with Stage I prostate cancer last Wednesday, after a biopsy the previous day. On Thursday he had a CAT scan
and bone scan, with these showing that the cancer had not spread elsewhere in his body. On that same Thursday, he and a small group had dinner with his non-cousin, entertainer Jimmy Buffett, at a new Omaha restaurant called J. Coco's. Jimmy was in town for a performance two days later. The following day Friday Buffett, the elder, was host to 160 business students from such universities as MIT, University of Chicago, University of Tennessee, and Peru's Universidad del Pacifico. Following the usual routine for such visits (there are six scheduled for this school year) the students toured two Berkshire retail subsidiaries, held a two-anda-half hour Q&A session with Buffett, and lunched at one of his favorite restaurants, Piccolo's. Read the whole thing > Here's the full announcement --------BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 17, 2012 Omaha, NE (BRK.A; BRK.B) To the Shareholders of Berkshire
Hathaway: This is to let you know that I have been diagnosed with stage I prostate cancer. The good news is that Ive been told by my doctors that my condition is not remotely lifethreatening or even debilitating in any meaningful way. I received my diagnosis last Wednesday. I then had a CAT scan and a bone scan on Thursday, followed by an MRI today. These tests showed no
PSA level (an indicator my doctors had regularly checked for many years) recently jumped beyond its normal elevation and a biopsy seemed warranted. I will let shareholders know immediately should my health situation change. Eventually, of course, it will; but I believe that day is a long way off. Warren E. Buffett ----------------Please follow Clusterstock on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: Warren Buffett Is The One Man Who Makes Goldman Sachs Look incidence of cancer elsewhere in Like A Muppet Millionaire Hedge Fund my body. My doctors and I have decided Manager Whitney Tilson Says 'It's on a two-month treatment of daily Okay' To Raise His Taxes radiation to begin in mid-July. eBay Auctioned Off A Dinner This regimen will restrict my At Warren Buffett's Childhood travel during that period, but will Home And The Results Were not otherwise change my daily Surprising routine. I feel great as if I were in my normal excellent health and my energy level is 100 percent. I discovered the cancer because my
The rules of: Skirt weather [comic]

(Holy Kaw!)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 1:50:00 PM
Pretty sure this also goes for the first day you have to confront wearing shorts, too. Ugh.
Flaky comics. Permalink| Leave a comment Full story at Good.is.
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Gallup Reports Mixed Picture of US Unemployment

Submitted at 4/17/2012 12:48:00 PM
Employment in April normally picks up and Gallup surveys show a drop in the unemployment from last month not seasonally adjusted. However, by applying the seasonal adjustments the BLS uses for April it suggests the BLS may report an uptick in the unemployment rate from 8.2% to 8.5%. Please consider U.S. Unemployment Provides Mixed Picture in Mid-April U.S. unemployment, as measured by Gallup on a preliminary basis without seasonal adjustment, declined to 8.2% in mid-April from 8.4% in March. However, the government's likely seasonal adjustment of 0.3 percentage points leads to a Gallup seasonally adjusted U.S. unemployment rate of 8.5% in mid-April, up from 8.1% last month. click on chart for sharper image Applying the government's seasonal correction factor from April 2011 (+0.3 points) to the current mid-April data yields a seasonally adjusted estimate of 8.5% unemployment, up from March. This is much higher than
the 7.9% seasonally adjusted monthly low for Gallup's U.S. unemployment rate, seen in January of this year. If it holds, it could also indicate a significant reversal in the recent downward trend of the government's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate. Regardless, Gallup data show that unemployment is far below year-ago levels. April's preliminary unadjusted unemployment rate is down 1.2 points from April 2011 and the adjusted unemployment rate is down 1.3 points year-over-year. Overall, it doesn't seem as if the downward trend in the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is continuing to gain momentum, at least as of mid-April. That is, the improvement in the job situation is not as strong as last year's seasonals imply is needed to
maintain the downward momentum in the unemployment rate. This is consistent with the current modest rate of overall economic growth. It also leaves the unemployment rate exposed to further increases if the U.S. workforce grows substantially in the months ahead because job growth may not accelerate. Underemployment Big Discrepancy in Alternate Measures While the base unemployment number between the BLS and Gallup is converging, for now, alternate measures of unemployment that include parttime workers seeking but not finding full-time work are not. Gallup reports 18.1% underemployment, while the BLS has the number at 14.5%. Because of disability fraud and middle-aged job seekers going
back to school, I think the base unemployment figures of 8.2% to 8.5% by Gallup and the BLS are on the low side by at least a point. From the standpoint of workers covered by unemployment benefits, the number is even higher. Please see Trends in Nonfarm Employment, Civilian Employment, Weekly Unemployment Claims for a discussion of "covered employment" and demographics. Mike "Mish" Shedlock h t t p : / / globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http:// www.sitkapacific.com/ account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific.
This Portable Surge Protector Is the Only Gadget Charger You'll Need on Your Geek Travel Checklist [Stuff We Like]
Adam Dachis (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 2:00:00 PM
We've long been users of the Belkin Mini Surge Protector with USB as it's a great option for travel, but because it isn't flush with the wall it's dangerous to put pressure on it when plugging something in to one of its outlets. Belkin solved that problem with its 6-outlet USB surge protector. It's flat and isn't much larger, so you can still take it with you when traveling. More
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CHART OF THE DAY: The Run On Spain

Simone Foxman (Money Game)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 3:49:00 PM
bank balance sheets funded by Eurosystem funds has grown exponentially. Despite a successful debt auction This suggests a couple of things. today, many more economists First, deposits are vanishing as the agree that Spain will now need economy contracts and what some kind of bank bailou t, money would-be investors hold definitely from the government flees the country. This has an and probably from outside important consequence for organizations like the European s o v e r e i g n d e b t , t o o , s i n c e Central Bank, other EU countries, domestic banks have been the and/or the International Monetary primary buyers of Spanish debt Fund. recently. Unless asset growth The chart below from a recent from Eurosystem funding can Citi report details why. The keep pace with deposit flight, percentage of banks' assets banks will no longer be able to provided for by domestic sector keep up these purchases. In this d e p o s i t s h a s d r o p p e d o f f cynical scenario, the value of dramatically in the last yearand bonds will decline, yields will rise particularly in the last few to unsustainable levels, and Spain monthswhile the percentage of could become insolvent.
Second, the Eurosystem is increasingly becoming the vehicle for supporting Spain, making it more likely to embrace a Spanish bank bailout in the future. If the Eurosystem's assets stand to be
lost, it will be less likely to allow a series of private defaults to occur. No matter how much banks try to pump up their capital, the unfortunate reality seems to be
that they're going about it in an unsustainable way, particularly if there is no third LTRO. Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story See Also: GET READY: This Is How Much It Could Cost To Bail out Spain Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Says Spain Is Worse Off Than It Was Before The LTRO SPAIN AND ITALY IMPLODE
Look Back at the Tribeca Film Festival's Most Star-Studded Moments

PopSugar (PopSugar)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 2:14:40 PM
The 11th annual Tribeca Film Festival kicks off tomorrow in NYC! We're celebrating the annual cinema celebration's return with a look back at some of the
most star-studded moments since its inception in 2001 from creators Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal. In addition to the many premieres and press conferences, Tribeca brings celeb-friendly parties like Vanity Fair's kickoff Stewart, Angelina Jolie, Leonardo and a Chanel fete. Kristen
DiCaprio, and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are just some of the many boldface names who've hit Tribeca in the past - click through to see 50 top festival moments, and stay tuned for all of our Tyler Durden coverage to come this year. View Submitted at 4/17/2012 Slideshow
Is JPMorgan's Whale Responsible For The Rising Equity Tide?

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Presented with little comment but given the seemingly unlimited balance sheet of the JPMorgan CIO office and the ability to sell as much protection (implicitly bullish) and gather premium as credit derivative index notionals soared at an incredible rate, are we stretching the point a little too far to claim that perhaps, just perhaps, one of the new transmission mechanisms for the global central banks' liquidity flows is leveraged credit- which implicitly enables stocks to be supported by lower funding costs and exhibit the kind of portfolio rebalancing effect that was desired. Perhaps even more critical is the fact that IG9 (the credit index in question) contains some of the most worrisome of
the major corporate credits and thus the highest short-interest in stock-land - which implicitly exaggerates any non-MtM-based entity's ability to create a shortsqueeze? Is the entire market now a function of one prop trader(hence forbidden by the Volcker Rule) being forced to (un)wind his trade now that he is finally in the public spotlight as we wonder - are recent market jitters merely the byproduct of Iksil selling some of his excess exposure, and being the marginal price setter across virtually every asset class? This is the net notional risk exposure in IG9 (which has surged around $50bn this year) relative to the S&P 500... This is not a correlation of one
asset class with another but the 'flow' into one asset class (leveraged credit) relative to the stock of another (equities). Chart: Bloomberg (h/t Mary Childs & Shannon Harrington for DTCC data index) Average: Your rating: None Average: 4.8( 4 votes) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Mobile gaming on the rise [infographic]

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Dog days in jury selection for Clemens retrial

Michelle Obama: 'This President Has Brought Us Out of the Dark and Into the Light'
even make the cut. Along the way, Roger Clemens' lawyer offered some clues as to his Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:25:56 PM strategy once testimony gets O n e p o t e n t i a l j u r o r w a s under way, including a challenge q u e s t i o n e d f o r 6 8 m i n u t e s . to whether Congress had a Another for 64 and he didn't legitimate purpose in holding the
Daniel Halper (The Weekly hearing at which the seven-time Standard) Cy Young Award winner testified a n d w h e t h e r C l e m e n s ' Submitted at 4/17/2012 3:49:00 PM testimony was voluntary. Michelle Obama made a remarkable claim when talking up her husband, President Barack Obama, at a campaign event
earlier today in Nashville, Tennessee.
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New English Translation of Bible Omits 'Jesus Christ,' 'Angel'

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(Photo: Thomas Nelson Publishing) The Voice, a translation of the Bible into modern English released in March 2012. Featured Posts Column Law and Gospel: Part 3 A confusion of law and gospel is the main contributor to moralism in the church ... Opinion Get a Job! Hillary Rosen's dismissive comments about Mrs. Romney indicate that the only ... April 16, 2012| 5:57 pm The Voice, a Bible that replaces "Jesus Christ" with terms like "Jesus the Anointed One," had its complete edition released by Thomas Nelson Publishing last month. Frank Couch, Thomas Nelson's lead editor on the project, told The Christian Post that the purpose of The Voice was to make the Gospel message easier to understand for modern audiences.
" The Voice has not claimed to be more accurate than any other translation, rather it is more easily understood than any other translation," said Couch. "When translators are limiting themselves to conveying the complete essence of a word from the Hebrew or the Greek with one English word they have difficulty bringing in the nuances held in the original language." Because other translations have more literal renderings, Couch believed they are "why it has been necessary for commentators and preachers to spend so much time explaining what the words in the original language mean before the lay reader can understand fully a text of Scripture." Like us on Facebook "Because we have a more expansive translating technique we can more fully develop the English translation and thus bring out the more difficult nuances found in the original language," he explained. The scholars and authors who collaborated on the translation say their intention was to help readers "hear God speaking."
"One of the byproducts of the information age in the church has been its focus on biblical knowledge. Many Bibles reflect this, packed with informative notes, charts, and graphs. While there's nothing wrong with having a deep knowledge; a personal connection and deep relationship are far better," according to hearthevoice.com. " The Voice is focused on helping readers find (or rediscover) this connection with Him. Scripture is presented not as an academic document, but as an engaging story." The idea for The Voice came in January 2004, when Thomas Nelson Publishing met with the Ecclesia Bible Society, whose leadership includes pastor Chris Seay of the Ecclesia Church in Houston, Texas. The project came in portions, with the complete New Testament according to The Voice being released in 2009. The name comes from the Bible translation's rendering of the Greek Word logos in John 1:1. Although the typical English Bible translates logos to "Word," in this translation it is rendered "Voice." The first verse of John,
which in the NIV reads "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" becomes "Before time itself was measured, the Voice was speaking. The Voice was and is God." A new video posted on the translation's Facebook further highlights that " The Voice offers an opportunity to hear afresh by telling the stories that have always been in the Bible in a beautiful and poetic way." It is written in screenplay format "so it's easy to follow or act out in a group." Despite the approval of a major publisher like Thomas Nelson, which also sells other more established translations of the Bible, The Voice is not without its opponents, including many critical online reviews. On the website "Life More Abundant," poster "Coralie" commented that the format of The Voice, which includes commentary in the body of the text, was a concern. "The effect of the inclusion of midstream commentary is the blurring of the line between inspired word and human
opinion," wrote Coralie. "My fear in our postmodern world is not that a new reader would take the commentary as the very word of God, but that he would read the words of God with the casual ease of another form of commentary." The blog "Extreme Theology," an apologetics website, declared that The Voice was a "distorted version of the Bible." "Unfortunately, not since the release of the Jehovah's Witnesses' New World Translation of the Greek Scriptures in 1950 has there been a bible published that so blatantly mangles and distorts God's Word in order to support a peculiar and aberrant theological agenda," reads a review on ET's site. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
TED: Drew Curtis: How I beat a patent troll - Drew Curtis (2012)
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Submitted at 4/17/2012 10:00:43 AM
Drew Curtis, the founder of fark.com, tells the story of how he fought a lawsuit from a company
that had a patent, "...for the creation and distribution of news releases via email." Along the
way he shares some nutty statistics about the growing legal problem of frivolous patents.
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John Piper: I'm 'Amazed' I'm Still a Christian

But when considering where he is and how far he has come in his life as a Christian, a pastor, a husband and a father, Piper (Photo: T4G/Sarah Danaher) attributes his success to the grace John Piper, pastor of Bethlehem of God alone. Baptist Church in Minneapolis, is "If any of that were decisively seen here at the Together for the dependent on me, I would have Gospel conference April 2012. ceased to be a Christian long ago (Photo: T4G/Sarah Danaher) ... I have no doubt about that at Thousands attend the Together for all," he said, noting that he has t h e G o s p e l c o n f e r e n c e i n experienced days when his Louisville, Ky., April 10-12, marriage was under attack and 2012. when his soul was under attack. He used the book of Jude as the Featured Posts main text for his sermon, and said Column Law and Gospel: Part 3 the doxology at the end of the A confusion of law and gospel is book reveals that Jude was also the main contributor to moralism amazed at what it takes for a in the church ... Christian to stay a Christian. Opinion Get a Job! Verse 24 of the book of Jude says Hillary Rosen's dismissive that God "is able to keep you from comments about Mrs. Romney stumbling and to present you indicate that the only ... blameless before the presence of April 16, 2012| 2:59 pm his glory with great joy." The 66-year-old pastor of Therefore, Christians cannot Bethlehem Baptist Church in maintain their faith through their Minnesota explained that he has own effort, Piper suggested, but been a Christian for 60 years, a rather it is maintained through pastor at Bethlehem for 32 years, God's glory, majesty, power and married to his wife for nearly 44 authority to fulfill His promise years and a father for nearly 40 that He will keep His people years. Recently, he has been forever. experiencing "momentous days" Like us on Facebook in his life, he said, because his "Having the Spirit, and having church is currently working Christ, and being in the Vine are toward putting a successor in his all [the same] thing, and my life is place. in Him. He is my life. If He's not
there, I have no life. There is no autonomous life in me," said Piper. In the same way that the universe did not create or sustain itself, he added, so Christians are not made, and their faith is not maintained, apart from God's active blessing on their lives. "Think about the fact that creating and sustaining spiritual life is something we cannot do, but God alone does," he said as he addressed thousands of ministers at the conference. But how does God do that? How does He keep Christians in the faith and prevent them from ruining the work He began in them? The theologian said He does it by stirring up their hearts so that they will do some "selfkeeping work." It is a "paradox of the Christian life," he noted, to believe Jude's words when he writes, "keep yourselves in the love of God," but to also believe that God will maintain the faith of those who are truly called by Him to become Christ's followers. The two concepts work in conjunction, he explained, and Christians should: trust God's commitment to keeping them as His own, pray to see the daily application of that promise realized and wait patiently on God, even in hard
times, as He works in their lives. "If you're crying out, 'Abba, help!' the Holy Spirit is witnessing with your spirit. You're the child of God, and you're being kept," he said. Without God's help, he stressed, a person wouldn't even make the effort to plead with God. In his closing prayer, Piper expressed that he couldn't remember another conference like Together for the Gospel, which was "graced with such relentless, powerful, beautiful Bible application." The conference was first held in 2006 after a group of four pastors Ligon Duncan, Mark Dever, Albert Mohler and C.J. Mahaney realized that, despite some theological differences, they were all committed to the teaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The conference will be held again in April of 2014. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it (Holy Kaw!) on someone else's site, please read Submitted at 4/17/2012 2:35:00 PM the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Via Background Check. (H/T Filters recommends: Donate to Muhammad Saleem) Wikileaks. All things IT. Permalink| Leave a comment
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Thousands Witness 'Holy Fire' Miracle in Jerusalem

Featured Posts Column Law and Gospel: Part 3 A confusion of law and gospel is (Photo: Reuters/Ints Kalnins) the main contributor to moralism Orthodox believers light candles in the church ... with "holy fire", lit on Orthodox Opinion Get a Job! Easter Day in the Church of the Hillary Rosen's dismissive Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of comments about Mrs. Romney Jerusalem and taken to Latvia, indicate that the only ... during an Orthodox Easter service April 15, 2012| 10:30 am in Riga April 14, 2012. The special ceremony at the (Photo: Reuters/ Ammar Awad) Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Orthodox nuns and a priest hold built at a site where Jesus was candles during Easter mass in the crucified and buried, was attended Church of the Holy Sepulchre in by Christian pilgrims and clerics Jerusalem's Old City April 15, wearing their robes amid the 2012. presence of Israeli police, riot (Photo: Reuters/Ammar Awad) prevention forces and border Greek Orthodox Patriarch of security guards. J e r u s a l e m M e t r o p o l i t a n "I am here because I would like to Theophilos (C) walks during see the Easter Week from the Easter service in the Church of the Holy Land, because I think it is a Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old very unique experience," The City April 15, 2012. Associated Press quoted Nerea (Photo: Reuters/Ammar Awad) Craditotto, a Spanish pilgrim, as An Orthodox priest throws rose s a y i n g . E a s t e r n O r t h o d o x petals at the crowd as a procession churches and others will celebrate arrives to the Church of the Holy Easter on Sunday. Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City The Christians and clergy for Orthodox Easter mass April standing close to the tomb area lit 15, 2012. their candles first and then passed
on the flames to others queuing in alleys outside the ancient church. The Holy Fire is revered by many as the power of Resurrection of Jesus and the fire of the Burning Bush of Mount Sinai as mentioned in the Old Testament. Orthodox Christians say the Holy Fire miracle occurs every year on the day before their Easter. The miracle has been documented each year for over 1,000 years. Christians in many countries, including Georgia, Greece, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Lebanon and Egypt, watch the ceremony live on television each year. After the ceremony, the Holy Fire is brought to some of these countries. The Holy Fire ceremony typically begins at noon with a procession involving singing of hymns by the clergy who take three rounds of the church. The Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem or another Orthodox Archbishop then offers a prayer, removes his robe and enters alone into the sepulcher after being examined by Jewish Israeli authorities to prove
he has nothing to light the fire. Like us on Facebook Awaiting the Holy Fire, the congregation chants Kyrie Eleison, or "Lord, have mercy." When the patriarch comes out of the tomb, he offers prayers and distributed the flames to the congregation. Some pilgrims have claimed that flames received from the Holy Fire do not burn their hair, faces or clothes during the first 33 minutes of its appearance. On Sunday, the Latin Patriarch of the Roman Catholic Church in Jerusalem will lead Easter mass at Holy Sepulcher. Protestants will attend a morning service in the Garden Tomb outside Jerusalem's walled Old City. READ ABOUT CHRISTIANS CELEBRATING PASSOVER This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Star Trek trailer 'beams' down the old-fashioned way

JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:30:00 PM
Virtual Chris Pine jumps off of all kinds of things in the latest trailer for the Star Trek game. Whether on land or in space, if there's a chasm, James T. Kirk will leap right into it, arms akimbo. Continue reading Star Trek trailer 'beams' down the old-fashioned way Star Trek trailer 'beams' down the old-fashioned way originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
Barrett & Falk Attack Wisconsin's Property Tax Cap

John McCormack (The Weekly Standard)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 2:58:00 PM
The Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. Yesterday, the Wisconsin Department of Revenue released
data showing that the property tax
bill for the median home in the state had decreased for the first time in over a decade.
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U.S. Aims Newest, Laser-Guided Rocket at Afghanistan

Katie Drummond (Wired Top Stories)
civilians during air strikes. It makes sense that the military would deploy the APKWS to Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:42:00 PM Afghanistan, before sending the After more than a decade of system anywhere else. Now that development, the Pentagons the U.S. is withdrawing troops finally sending its newest laser- from Afghanistan and maybe guided rocket into battle. First even doing it quicker than stop for the relatively svelte anticipated the militarys no weapon: Afghanistan. doubt looking for a combat The Navy on Tuesday confirmed strategy thatll accomodate more t h a t t h e y v e d e p l o y e d t h e airstrikes and fewer boots-on-the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon ground. System (APKWS) to several Not to mention one that might M a r i n e C o r p s u n i t s i n reduce civilian casualties. Those Afghanistan. Right now, the death tolls, as recently as last weapons are integrated with two summer, continued to increase: A different helicopters the AH- U n i t e d N a t i o n s r e p o r t , f o r 1W Super Cobra and the UH-1Y example, last year concluded that Super Huey but theyve got the civilian deaths and injuries soared capability to be fired off from 20 percent between 2010 and pretty much any aerial vehicle. 2011. The vast majority of those Of course, the militarys already injuries and deaths were the result g o t p l e n t y o f a i r - l a u n c h e d of insurgent violence, but U.S. munitions, from ultra-pricey attacks were still behind around Hellfire missiles to stealthy, radar 10 percent of civilian casualties, -evading cruise missiles. The and commanders have vowed to APKWS is $90,000 cheaper than reduce them. a Hellfire the militarys go-to APKWS is a straightforward aerial munition and because weapon. Combine existing 2.75its a smaller missile, military inch, unguided rockets with laserbrass hope itll yield fewer dead targeting technology to enable
more precise accuracy. The missiles laser-guided segment is designed to be fitted into existing rockets between the warhead and the motor. That way, any aerial vehicle capable of firing those munitions, including mainstays like Apache helicopters, will be able to take advantage of the system. Sounds simple enough. But its taken an extremely long time for the APKWS to actually be deployed. The systems been in development since 1996, well before the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2005, an initial iteration of the system developed by General Dynamics was canceled because of lackluster test results. The program was later revived, with BAE Systems taking the reins. With a pricetag thats around $10,000 per missile, the systems are an order of magnitude less expensive than Hellfire missiles, the military standbys that run around $100,000 each. And its not just the cost. At 35 pounds, the APKWS is a third as heavy as the Hellfire, which was designed
to target bigger, more heavily armored targets than those that U.S. forces typically encounter in Iraq and Afghanistan. In other words, the Hellfires dealt out way too much bang (and ensuing civilian casualties) than they needed to. And if the APKWS is a plug-and-play guided rocket that weighs a third as a Hellfire, then it can probably aid with the weaponization of ever-smaller drones. The APKWS could also aid another star-crossed military endeavor. The Navys Fire Scout robotic helicopters, which were grounded last week after recent mishaps and crash-landings, are expected to be armed with the APKWS missiles when they next hit the skies. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Senate Committee Won't Vote on Budget Tomorrow As Promised

Michael Warren (The Weekly Standard)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:45:00 PM
Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) indicated late Monday he was prepared to hold a markup on a budget proposal Wednesday afternoon. But at a press conference in the Capitol on Tuesday, Conrad said tomorrow would only be the beginning of a markup and that a vote on the budget likely won't happen until after the November election.
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Broadcasters Demand Barry Diller Explain $20.5 Million Aereo Investment

David Kravets (Wired Top Stories)
device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:04:00 PM theres an internet connection in Television networks seeking to the world truly a revolutionary dismantle a startup that delivers product. over-the-air broadcasts via the Flashback to more than a decade internet want to know what the ago, when Bertelsmanns hell Barry Diller, the chairman of chairman, Thomas Middlehoff, the IAC/InterActiveCorp media explained why the company empire, was thinking when his invested $85 million in the company invested $20.5 million original Napster. in to a legally questionable startup Napster, he said, has pointed called Aereo. the way for a new direction for So much so, they dropped a music distribution, and we believe subpoena on Diller to that effect it will form the basis of important on Friday. and exciting new business models The demands are part of a lawsuit for the future of the music brought by ABC, CBS, NBC, industry. Fox, PBS and others that want a Dillers IAC runs dozens of sites, federal judge to shutter Aereo, including Urbanspoon, which opened for business last Citysearch, Ask, Match, Dorkly, month and delivers unlicensed Pronto, Vimeo and Newsweek/ internet streams of the Daily Beast. broadcasters shows for a monthly s u b p o e n a s a r e p a t e n t l y Aereos business plans, (ii) skirts the need. Aereo rents A hearing on the issue is set for overbroad (.pdf) because they presentations or other documents customers tiny over-the-air next month in New York federal fee. T h e l e g a l m a n e u v e r i s seek confidential investment received from Aereo, and (iii) broadcast antennas, about the size court. reminiscent of the Napster trial, in decisions and analyses that are documents or communications of a dime and are warehoused by This entry passed through the which the recording industry extremely sensitive and should concerning the potential impact of the tens of thousands in Brooklyn. Full-Text RSS service if this is The broadcasters claim the your content and you're reading it targeted the formerly renegade not be produced to any of the Aereo or the Aereo service on broadcast television networks and service amounts to technological on someone else's site, please read music-sharing services deep- parties in the litigation. pocketed investors eventually The broadcasters subpoena, stations, or the producers of gimmickry and is unlawful. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentD i l l e r , i n a n n o u n c i n g t h e only/faq.php#publishers. Five securing about $200 million in (.pdf) which mentions Diller by broadcast television. A e r e o , w h i c h f o r n o w i s investment in February, said(.pdf) Filters recommends: Donate to d a m a g e s f r o m t h e l i k e s o f name, demands: German media conglomerate All documents concerning Aereo operating only in New York, Aereo is the first potentially Wikileaks. or the Aereo service, including claims it does not need any transformative technology that Bertelsmann. Attorneys for Diller and other w i t h o u t l i m i t a t i o n ( i ) licenses to stream free, over-the- has the chance to give people investors are crying foul, saying communications with or about a i r b r o a d c a s t s t o p a y i n g access to broadcast television M o n d a y t h e b r o a d c a s t e r s Aereo, the Aereo service or customers. It says its technology delivered over the internet to any
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Giveaway: In The Divide, a Nuke Attack's Just the Beginning

Lewis Wallace (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:29:00 PM
Things go from bad (nuclear explosion) to worse (dudes with axes) in The Divide. Enter below for your chance to win a Blu-ray/ DVD combo pack. Image courtesy The Divide starts with a glistening tear in the eye of a woman, who watches as a nuclear explosion devastates New York City. Theres something eerily calm about the movies opening moments, which you can witness in the exclusive clip below. However, as youll see, a mad rush soon follows, with panicked
city dwellers racing for cover. Some of them find refuge in a fallout shelter beneath an apartment building, and thats when the Lord of the Flies-meetsThe Road nastiness really kicks in. The clip below, which includes commentary by director Xavier Gens( Hitman, upcoming horror anthology The ABCs of Death) and actors Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia and Michael Eklund, comes from The Divide Blu-ray/ DVD combo, released Tuesday. While it wont truly prepare you for the disturbing psychological horror that follows, it will give you a taste of the movies dark tone.
Win a copy of The Divide Want to see how The Divide s R -rated post-nuclear nightmare plays out? Leave a comment below telling us what your favorite post-apocalyptic horror
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Someone Thought It Was Smart To Grow Marijuana Inside A Meijer Store

Mary Beth Quirk (The Consumerist)
near Ann Arbor, Mich. Perhaps Mary Jane Manicures were on the list of services? Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:00:00 PM According to AnnArbor.com, It's quite a leafy news day, in c o p s s e i z e d m o r e t h a n 7 0 terms of pot-related shenanigans marijuana plants from the nail going down. But in this case, the salon this morning. A Meijer drugs weren't being dealt online, employee apparently discovered but grown in a seemingly very the plants this morning while public place specifically, a nail checking out a water leak in the salon located inside a Meijer store store, which rents space from
Meijer. "When (store employees) were entering the area of the water leak, they saw what appeared to be a hydroponic water filter sitting outside of a closet," said the deputy chief of police. Artificial lighting was also spotted nearby. Cops say Meijer is cooperating in the investigation.
One Meijer customer said she had no clue about the pot hiding out, but that the nail salon had a low quality of work. Perhaps because they were focusing more on pruning plants than pushing around cuticles and applying polish? *Thanks for the tip, J.M.! You're a stellar human being. More than 70 marijuana plants
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Egypt panel turns down candidates' appeal

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Submitted at 4/17/2012 2:57:54 PM
is the final arbiter in this particular case. The candidates cant go to court, its over." The committee overseeing the The Al Jazeera correspondent Egyptian presidential election has s a i d : " A s f a r a s M u s l i m s upheld rulings disqualifying 10 Brotherhood is concerned it candidates from the race including actually did preplan. It put in Hosni Mubarak's spy chief Omar another candidate in the last Suleiman and Salafi preacher moment when it thought that alHazem Salah Abu Ismail, the state Shater would be banned from -owned al-Ahram newspaper has taking part." reported. "Mohammed Morsi will contest in Disqualification of Muslim al-Shater's place and he would Brotherhood's Khairat al-Shater now be one of the front runners in was also upheld on Tuesday. the race," Hanna said. A final list of candidates is On Monday, the US voiced expected to be released on April support for "free and fair" 26, just under a month before the elections in Egypt but declined to May 23-24 vote. wade into a debate over the Al Jazeeras Mike Hanna, d i s q u a l i f i c a t i o n o f l e a d i n g reporting from Cairo, said: "On p r e s i d e n t i a l c a n d i d a t e s . examining the appeals of each of "Our only concern is that this is a these candidates, the commission free and fair and transparent has announced that there is no process, that it move forward in a r e a s o n t o a l t e r t h e i n i t i a l way that meets the aspirations of decision." the Egyptian people," Mark "The situation now is: out of 23 Toner, the spokesman for the US p e o p l e w h o h a d h a d t h e i r state department, told reporters. application papers accepted to Legal grounds take part in the presidential race, The election commission had t h e r e a r e o n l y 1 3 w h o a r e said it barred the candidates on standing," he said. legal grounds. REASONS FOR "Presidential election commission DISQUALIFICATIONS
presidential poll. Tantawi stressed that the new constitution had to be written by June 30, in time for the new presidency. A panel created by parliament is supposed to draw up the document. Last month, the Brotherhood and Abu Ismail, a lawyer-turned- granted an amnesty this year. other Islamists, who hold 70 per p r e a c h e r w i t h a d e v o t e d His lawyers say that this means cent of parliament's seats, formed following, was reportedly barred he is allowed to run. a 100-member panel. However, a from running because his late Lack of voter endorsements mother allegedly held dual Suleiman, Mubarak's head of court suspended that panel due to American-Egyptian citizenship. intelligence for two decades, was fears that they it was trying to Under a new Egyptian electoral briefly appointed vice-president, control the process. law, the candidate, the candidate's but quit the post in February 2011 The parliament must still vote on spouse or the candidate's parents when the president resigned the final makeup. Khairat alcannot hold any citizenship other following weeks of mass protests Shater, left, Omar Suleiman, centre, and Abu Ismail were main than Egyptian. against his 30-year rule. Abu Ismail has questioned why Suleiman sent his assistant to file contenders in the presidential the election commission had not an appeal on Sunday. Suleiman's race [Reuters] made public the documents that campaign says he was disqualified This entry passed through the allegedly prove his mother held because of a problem with Full-Text RSS service if this is US citizenship. collecting voter endorsements. your content and you're reading it Shater's candidacy had been This comes as Field Marshal on someone else's site, please read c h a l l e n g e d b e c a u s e o f h i s Hussein Tantawi, Egypt's military the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentp r e v i o u s c r i m i n a l r e c o r d . leader, met with the heads of 17 only/faq.php#publishers. Five Shater, who was deputy chairman political parties and groups on Filters recommends: Donate to of the Muslim Brotherhood - Sunday to discuss the dilemma Wikileaks. banned under Mubarak - had been surrounding the constituent in jail on charges of terrorism and assembly and the writing of the m o n e y l a u n d e r i n g . H e w a s new constitution ahead of the first
In Pictures: What Costs More? Life or Taxes?

Mike Brownfield (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 3:43:19 PM
As the saying goes, there are only two certainties in life: death and
taxes. Given that fact, its worth taking a look at how much it costs to live and how much it costs to pay taxes, especially on this Tax Day. The Republican Study Committee has pulled together a
great chart putting these costs side
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Breivik glorifies Norway mass killings

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use the trial as a platform for farright views expounded in a morethan 1,500-page document The man who has admitted the published online prior to the mass killings of 77 people in attack. Norway last year has told a court In that self-styled manifesto, he acted out of "goodness, not Breivik described a trial as evil" in order to "defend his offering "a stage to the world". country", and would do the same " T h e s e a c t s a r e b a s e d o n again. goodness, not evil," he said on Anders Behring Breivik began Tuesday, arguing that he had testifying on Tuesday on the acted to defend his country second day of his trial by calling against multiculturalism. "They the July 2011 attacks in Oslo and ( N o r w e g i a n s ) r i s k b e i n g a at a youth camp on the island minority in their own capital in o f U t o e y a a s " t h e m o s t their own country in the future." sophisticated and spectacular Asked if he would carry out the political attack committed in attacks again, Breivik said: "Yes, Europe since the Second World I would have done it again, War". because offences against my Dressed in a dark suit, Breivik people ... are many times as bad." once again appeared to make a far Breivik compared Norway's -right salute as his handcuffs were Labor Party youth wing to the removed inside the courtroom. Hitler Youth and called their Breivik said he was inspired by al annual summer gathering an - Q a e d a , a s t h e s e c o n d d a y "indoctrination" camp. of his trial ended. Prosecution He claimed it was "critically question will now resume on important" that he be given a Wednesday morning in the trial, chance to explain his motives for which is expected to last for 10 the killings, but Judge Wenche weeks. Elisabeth Arntzen repeatedly Breivik's testimony and cross- interrupted his testimony and e x a m i n a t i o n a r e n o t b e i n g urged him to keep his statement broadcast live, as earlier court short. proceedings had been, amid "You could see from the faces of concerns that the defendant could the relatives of the victims real
pain and anguish while they listened to him," said Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull, reporting from the courthouse. Court delay Proceedings were briefly adjourned earlier as one of the judges in the Oslo trial was dismissed from the case after it emerged he had posted a comment online at the time of the attacks suggesting the perpetrator should face the death penalty. Lay judge Thomas Indreboe, one of five appointed to rule in the trial, had posted to his Facebook page that the death penalty would be the "only just outcome" in the case. Norway does not have the death penalty. Lawyers on all sides had requested that Indreboe be taken off the trial. Breivik is being tried by a panel of two professional judges and three lay judges, who are local politicians appointed for four-year terms and participating on an equal basis in deciding guilt and sentencing. The system is designed to let ordinary people have a role in the Norwegian justice system, though the lead judge still runs the trial. Breivik is accused over the deaths in July 2011 of eight
people in a car bombing in Oslo and 69 others on the island of Utoeya - mainly youths attending a summer camp organised by the governing Labour Party - who he said he targeted because he opposed multiculturalism promoted by the party. The trial is expected to focus on whether or not Breivik is criminally sane and therefore accountable for his actions. A first court-ordered psychiatric exam found him insane, while a second opinion came to the opposite conclusion. If the court decides he is criminally insane, he will be committed to psychiatric care; if he is judged to be mentally stable, he could be sentenced to 21 years in prison, which could subsequently be extended if he was still deemed to pose a threat. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Blackberry flagship store coming to Dubai, hopes you'll buy

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While RIM's current fortunes are making plenty of execs nervously tug at their ties, there's still plenty of people cheerfully tapping away on BlackBerry keyboards -especially in the Middle East. It makes at least some sense, then, to launch a big ole' flagship shop in Dubai. Teaming up with local carrier Axiom Telecom, the handset manufacturer is in the final negotiation stages for a 1,500 square-foot store. According to RIM, it's the first of several planned for the region and should mean plenty of places to snap up one of those (reassuringly?) expensive BlackBerry Porsche models on your next overseas trip. Business class, of course. Blackberry flagship store coming to Dubai, hopes you'll buy originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Phone Arena| Bloomberg| Email this| Comments
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Give it up for the Desiccated Remains of Tupac!

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man to make him dance on command for their own entertainment. So why is this so In case you're not as hip to the gross to me? cutting edge of pop culture like us "Hey, what about his albums and deal-a-day website copywriters, videos and whatnot?" you might you might not have heard that say, "is it wrong to enjoy those Tupac Shakur, one of the most now that he's gone? Is it morbid to famous rappers of all time, made pop in a Beatles CD since half of his grand return to the stage at last them are dead and unable to weekend's Coachella festival. It defend themselves?" Well, no. was his first appearance since See, those things were made for 1996. the specific purpose of mass Because that's when he died. consumption. John Lennon meant But that didn't stop someone from for as many people as possible to constructing a pretty-realistic- hear that music when he made it; looking hologram and trotting it ditto for Tupac. But is it as out on the stage, marionette style, acceptable to take a dead person's to rap alongside Dr. Dre and music and use it to sell shoes, Snoop Dogg. Here's the video, but cars, clothes, or electronics? It in case you live under a rock, any happens all the time, but it's still video with Tupac, Dre, and/or kind of skeezy to me. Snoop is certainly NSFW: The issue at heart, I think, is People have reacted, overall, consent. Albums, music videos, pretty positively. Despite the posters, books, whatever someone weird Neo/Messiah disappearing creates and releases to the public trick at the end, and the fact that was obviously meant to be they basically marched out a dead d i s c o v e r e d a n d e n j o y e d .
Obviously we shouldn't put away our Elvis records in solemn memorial; Elvis would probably be thrilled to learn he's still a cultural icon. And the "songs in commercials" bit is icky to me, but one could make the argument that some tracks just transcend to a level of permanent relevance. They become part of the zeitgeist; they're part of the shared culture because they're so widespread that everyone knows the tune. And again, if everything's above board then someone - the artist, the artist's estate, or whoever now holds the rights - had to give permission and judge the use to be worth it. But making a dead man sing and dance on stage 16 years after he's gone? That's gross to me. Maybe Tupac was extremely ahead of his time and anticipated not only this technology but his tragic, untimely death. Maybe somewhere there's a contract with his signature that states, "make me
a hologram." But I doubt it. And I'll give the people who did this the benefit of the doubt and assume they did this to honor a talented artist and friend and it's totally not a money-making scheme, but it raises some interesting points. Now that he's on a hard drive, how hard would it be do procure my own Tupac and take him on tour? What's to stop any act with the money from renting out digital Tupac and making him collaborate on their latest funk/folk/ska project? This isn't exactly Natalie Cole singing with her dad; this is approaching some Revelation Space Alpha Level Simulation stuff. What do you think? Would you pay money to go see hologram Jimi Hendrix or take in a set from hologram Bill Hicks? Or is this too far over the line?
AP PHOTOS: A look at Discovery's notable journeys Seattle Post Intelligencer

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Teens unlikely to speak up against distracted drivers

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speak up if the driver in their car is distracted." As part of the DOT's campaign Submitted at 4/17/2012 12:59:59 PM against distracted driving, they are Teens unlikely to speak up challenging teens to develop an against distracted drivers online icon to help raise the issue Everyone recognizes the dangers on social media platforms such as of texting or talking on a cell Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and phone while driving, but results others. from a new federal safety study various attempts at combating For more information, check out finds that teenagers won't stop distracted driving. In addition to Consumer Reports Guide to o t h e r s f r o m d r i v i n g w h i l e s m a r t p h o n e a p p s t o r e d u c e distracted driving & teen safety. distractedeven if they're riding distractions, federal regulators Source: in the car with the distracted s u c h a s t h e D e p a r t m e n t o f U.S. Department of driver. Transportation have proposed Transportation Releases Survey According to results from a guidelines to reduce distracted Analysis Showing Young People telephone survey conducted by driving. Are Least Likely to Speak Up the National Highway Traffic B u t w h i l e t h o s e p o s s i b l e About Distracted Driving as Safety Administration, nearly all solutionsand more aggressive Passengers[U.S. DOT] (about 90 percent) of the 6,000 steps, such as local cell phone Young Drivers Report the drivers polled said distracted bansare being implemented, H i g h e s t L e v e l o f P h o n e driving is very unsafe. But about DOT Secretary Ray LaHood Involvement in Crash or Nearone-third of the respondents looks to teens for a greater role as Crash Incidences(PDF) [NHTSA] between the ages of 18 to 20 and well. Subscribe now! 21 to 24 would raise a flag while "Distracted driving is an epidemic S u b s c r i b e t o riding in a car with a driver who on our roadways," said LaHood in ConsumerReports.org for expert was talking on a mobile phone. t h e r e c e n t D O T s t a t e m e n t Ratings, buying advice and (By comparison, half of the releasing its findings. "We're r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f respondents age 65 and up would encouraging young people across products. Update your feed say something to a distracted America to commit to distraction- preferences driver.) free driving, spread the word to Consumer Reports safety experts their family and friends, and have noted that there have been
Before You Charter A Bus For Prom Night, Make Sure It Exists
Chris Morran (The Consumerist)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 3:15:00 PM
Prom night offers the youth of America the opportunity to learn a number of lessons how to fill a flask, the best way to use Visine without being obvious, how to charter a 40-person party bus without getting screwed by scammers. Alas, some teens in Alabama learned that last lesson the hard way. According to WHNT-TV, around $2,400 had been handed over to a charter company for a bus that was supposed to ferry 38 students to the annual debauch. But they might as well have paid that money to rent magic carpets, since those don't exist either. "They're all sitting at our rec center where we have our prom, looking for a ride to Chattanooga that did not show," the school's superintendent said. WHNT tried to look into the charter company, supposedly based out of Birmingham. But they also found that the 888 number associated with that company is also associated with a number of other businesses, including a collection agency and a site selling guitars. From WHNT:
There are other websites with complaints about the company failing to provide transportation for others who paid for services, including a wedding party in Nevada whose bus never showed. The website for the Better Business Bureau in Northern Nevada and the Lake Tahoe Basin lists six complaints closed in the past 12 months, and gave the company an F for Delivery Issues and Problems with Service. Luckily, the school's transportation director arranged for a school bus to drive the stranded prom-goers. The parents agreed to foot the bill. "This is very unordinary," said the superintendent, "but again, we didn't want to ruin their night, we had the means to help them, and decided we would go ahead and help them with this situation." Fort Payne Students Scammed By Prom Night Charter Bus Rental[WHNT.com] Thanks to Anderson for the tip! From ConsumerReports.org: This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Mobile payments may replace cash, credit by 2020, experts say

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financial liability if something goes wrong varies depending on your wireless carrier's policies and Submitted at 4/17/2012 2:44:59 PM your cell phone contract. Last Mobile payments may replace year at this time, Consumers cash, credit by 2020, experts say Union, the advocacy arm of By 2020, mobile payments will Consumer Reports, called on the have gained mainstream big wireless carriers to strengthen acceptance and could largely contracts to protect you when you replace cash and credit for most and fully adopted the use of smart make mobile payments. online and in-store purchases, -device swiping for purchases, For more on some of the hidden according to a new survey of nearly eliminating the need for costs of mobile payments, see t e c h n o l o g y e x p e r t s a n d cash or credit cards. But 33 New ways to pay, and Consumers stakeholders by the Pew Internet percent said they believe that Union's: Mobile payments tip & American Life Project released mobile payments will not have sheet: What can consumers do today. gained traction by 2020 because now. The study, conducted with the of both privacy and security Source: Elon University's Imagining the concerns. Detailing this finding The Future of Money in a Mobile Internet Center, surveyed 1,021 the study authors write that: "The Age[Pew Internet & American Internet and tech experts and security implications raise too Life Project] Subscribe now! users, and although the majority many concerns among consumers S u b s c r i b e t o of respondents saw a fast- about the safety of their money. ConsumerReports.org for expert approaching future for mobile And people are resistant to letting Ratings, buying advice and payment systems, some said they technology companies learn even r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f believed the trend toward mobile m o r e a b o u t t h e i r p e r s o n a l products. Update your feed payments will slow down. preferences purchasing habits." Sixty-five percent of respondents Currently, if you use your cell said they believe that by 2020, phone to make mobile payments, most people will have embraced your level of protection against
Year-long refrigerator fracas ends in favor of Samsung, LG By a unanimous 5-0 vote, the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled today in favor of Samsung and LG in a year-long anti-dumping case initiated by Whirlpool. The decision came as somewhat of a surprise after the U.S. Department of Commerce found last month that the South Korean manufacturers were illegally dumping certain foreignmade refrigerators in the U.S. market by selling them at prices below their fair market value. As a result of today's decision, duties ranging from 5 to 30 percent will not take effect. That could keep refrigerator costs down, including on several popular French-door models that do well in Consumer Reports' refrigerator Ratings. However, Whirlpool insists the commission's decision is bad news for the U.S marketplace. "Of course we're extremely disappointed by today's ruling and the implications it has for our U.S. production of bottom-mount refrigerators," Marc Bitzer, president of Whirlpool North America, said in a statement. "We
believe the facts clearly demonstrated that dumped imports of bottom-mount refrigerators from South Korea and Mexico are causing injury to the U.S. industry." Samsung and LG, in turn, both welcomed the decision. "Whirlpool's action in bringing this case simply resulted in a lengthy investigation that has been costly to the U.S. taxpayer, the result of which has been to prove that Samsung is in compliance with U.S. trade law," Samsung said in a statement. One Whirlpool, three Samsung and five LG models appear on the list of bottom-freezer French-door refrigerators recommended by Consumer Reports. Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o ConsumerReports.org for expert Ratings, buying advice and reliability on hundreds of products. Update your feed preferences
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Fort Worth Doesn't Want To Hire Any Smokers To Work For The City
Mary Beth Quirk (The Consumerist)
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association, who has worked for the city for 30 years and smoked for 41. Submitted at 4/17/2012 3:00:00 PM To the mayor, it makes financial A s m o k e - f r e e w o r k i n g sense to not hire employees who environment? Sure, sounds good. could end up costing a lot in But a workplace entirely devoid health insurance. of smokers themselves? Not so "Certainly we put tax-payer good, say city employees in Fort dollars into health care for our Worth, where lawmakers are employees, and anything that pushing to put a ban on hiring might benefit the health to make smokers. our employees more protective WFAA.com says Mayor Betsy and healthy, we're going to take a Price is on a mission to make the look at," she said. city healthier, but smokers see it Fort Worth's human resources as an attack on their personal department is going to research rights. some other hiring policies as part "I think it's an infringement on the of its health care strategy, to public's rights to live their life the figure out how they want to do way they choose to," said the things. Some private businesses president of the city's employee have already stopped hiring
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Instagram's Popularity Sparks Secondary Market For Photo Printers - Huffington Post
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earlier this month for $1 billion was the crescendo of the startup's rapid rise and dominance in the mobile photo-sharing market. But
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All-time champions: No. 9 1994 Arkansas Sporting News

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sharp-shooting wing Scotty Thurman hit big shots including the winner in the title Sporting News continues its game and center Dwight ranking of top 10 college S t e w a r t c r e a t e d m a t c h u p basketball champions from the problems with his long-range expanded bracket era: No. 9 1994 shooting. Together, they rolled Arkansas through the '94 NCAA The Razorbacks didnt win the Tournament, winning each of championship in 1994 because their first five games by at least their roster was thick with super- eight points before scratching out talented players destined to earn a 76-72 win over Duke in the millions in the NBA. They won final. because their team was thick with Countdown: No. 10: 2001 Duke s u p e r - h u n g r y p l a y e r s w h o The go-to guy excelled in coach Nolan Williamson. Says Mike Richardsons system. Anderson, then an assistant and The team was known for its now the Arkansas head coach: intense defensive pressure so When you threw it to him, you intense it carried the moniker 40 knew you were going to get a Minutes of Hell. The bench was bucket or get some free throws. deep with players who would He was a great passer out of the come in and harass opponents into post. Although he was listed at 6mistake after mistake. 7, he played to the height of a guy To put opponents through 40 who was 6-9 or 6-10. He was a minutes of hell, Richardson tremendous low-post player, a needed players who could press guy who could face up. He got and excel in the open court. He better in terms of facing up and found plenty of them. Mostly, knocking down the 15-foot shots. they werent blue-chip recruits (If) you came out to guard him, he p o w e r f o r w a r d C o r l i s s was so nifty and good with the Williamson was the lone first- basketball, hed go around (you). round pick in the NBA Draft on He just knew how to use his body, the championship squad but a la Larry Johnson. He was the what they lacked in pure talent, guy that, when we needed a they made up for with mean bucket, if we put it in Corliss determination. hands and spread our shooters out, Guards Corey Beck and Clint something good was going to McDaniel were defensive aces, happen. BEST OF THE ERA
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Top 10 tournament performances Top 10 teams that failed to win Greatest game ever played: UK vs. Duke Top 10 greatest games| Coaches| Centers| Forwards| Guards| The go-to guy The rotation F Corliss Williamson: 6-7, Soph., 20.4 ppg, 7.7 rpg, 1.1 bpg F Scotty Thurman: 6-6, Soph., 15.9 ppg, 4.5 rpg, 3.0 apg G Alex Dillard: 6-1, Jr., 8.9 ppg G Corey Beck: 6-2, Jr., 8.8 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 5.0 apg G Clint McDaniel: 6-4, Jr., 8.1 ppg C Dwight Stewart: 6-9, Jr., 8.0 ppg, 5.0 rpg C Darnell Robinson: 6-11, Fr., 7.6 ppg, 4.7 rpg G Roger Crawford: 6-4, Sr., 7.4 ppg The defining number 62.6 Williamsons shooting percentage from the field that season. He also made 70.0 percent of his free throws and averaged 20.4 points per game. He scored at least 20 points in all but one game in the tournament and was named the Final Fours most outstanding player. The legacy One more win, and the Arkansas teams of the mid-1990s would be talked about among the all-time greats. One more win, and wed all remember Richardson a different way. In a stretch that began with the 1989-90 season, Arkansas advanced to at least the
Sweet 16 in six of seven years, including three trips to the Final Four. After beating Duke in its first national title game in '94, Arkansas returned to the championship game in '95 but lost to UCLA, 89-78. Had Arkansas won that game, wed be talking about a Hogs dynasty. The tourney run First round (1) Arkansas 94, (16) North Carolina A&T 79 Oklahoma City (March 18) Williamson scored 24 points on 10-of-13 shooting, and Thurman added 19. Second round (1) Arkansas 85, (9) Georgetown 73 Oklahoma City (March 20) Thurman was thrown out of the game because of a fight in the first half, but the Hogs went inside to Williamson (21 points) and Stewart (16) to win. Midwest Region semifinals (1) Arkansas 103, (12) Tulsa 84 Dallas (March 25) Arkansas shot 66.1 percent from the field and won going away against the school that gave Nolan Richardson his first D-I coaching job. Midwest Region final (1) Arkansas 76, (3) Michigan 68 Dallas (March 27) Thanks to Thurmans 20 points, the Hogs beat Michigan in front of
Arkansas-born President Bill Clinton and family who would show up for the Hogs two games at the Final Four, as well. National semifinals (1) Arkansas 91, (2) Arizona 82 Charlotte (April 2) Williamson bullied the Wildcats inside with 29 points, 13 rebounds and five assists. National championship game (1) Arkansas 76, (2) Duke 72 Charlotte (April 4) The biggest win in school history was made possible by the biggest shot. Duke had led by as many as 10 in the second half, but Arkansas fought back and with less than a minute left, the score was tied at 70. Beck passed to Stewart at the top of the key. But he bobbled the pass, which allowed the defense to collapse on him. He moved the ball to Thurman, who made a long -range 3-pointer as the shot clock expired. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Bylsma Fined; Adams Suspended For Game 4 - msnbc.com

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forward Scott Hartnell in Game 3 on Sunday. Adams was penalized for Submitted at 4/17/2012 12:46:21 PM instigating, which carries an P I T T S B U R G H T H E automatic one-game suspension. PITTSBURGH CHANNEL.com The league said Adams' Pittsburgh Penguins head coach suspension and Bylsma's fine Dan Bylsma has been fined were the result of an automatic $10,000, while forward Craig v i o l a t i o n o f a r u l e a g a i n s t Adams has been suspended for instigating in the final five Game 4 of the Eastern Conference minutes of regulation or anytime quarterfinals, according to in overtime. NHL.com Adams' fight came with 4:42 Going into a must-win game, the remaining in the third period. Penguins could also be without Most Popular Stories at THE forward James Neal, who had a PITTSBURGH CHANNEL disciplinary hearing on Tuesday This entry passed through the morning, and forward Arron Full-Text RSS service if this is Asham, whose hearing was your content and you're reading it scheduled later. on someone else's site, please read The Pens trail the Philadelphia the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentFlyers 3-0 in their best-of-seven only/faq.php#publishers. Five series and face elimination Filters recommends: Donate to Wednesday night in Philadelphia. Wikileaks. The Bylsma fine stems from a fight between Adams and Flyers
Super Monday Night Combat accidentally hits Steam, dev rolls with it
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Super Monday Night Combat is live and free to play on Steam right now, even though it's technically still supposed to be in beta. The launch came as a surprise to developer Uber Entertainment, but it's decided to embrace the release, and Super Monday Night Combat is now a thing that you can play. Uber Entertainment's Ekanaut explains what happened on the official forums: "We did a bunch of invites over the weekend and there was some wonkiness on how the messaging
went out with lots of confusion which resulted in more silliness. We decided to just open it up. There will be an announcement about it on Steam soon." Wonkiness leads to confusion; confusion leads to silliness; silliness is the path to a speedy Steam release. So, surprise! Go play some Super Monday Night Combat, because you totally can. Super Monday Night Combat accidentally hits Steam, dev rolls with it originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Secret Cyber War Games Between U.S. and China Let Countries Role -Play Their Frustrations
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China and the U.S. are playing pretend war to vent their mutual frustrations and avoid a real one, according to a report by the Guardian. The State and Defense departments participated in two hypothetical-conflict sessions last year, and another round is planned for May. The war games were designed to prevent a "sudden military escalation" amid burgeoning anger in Washington Richard Mitchell (Joystiq) title, to be released "shortly" on over cyber attacks that the U.S. iOS, Android and Samsung's Submitted at 4/17/2012 5:00:00 PM says are originating in China. Bada smartphone platform. Former Halfbrick ( Jetpack If Total ArKade has even an For its part, China is feeling a bit Joyride, Fruit Ninja) developer ounce of that Halfbrick magic, bellicose, the Guardian reports. Tony Takoushi has started Total you can bet we'll be keeping an Related Articles China Daily: There Should Be a BeijingArKade, a new independent eye on it. studio focused on mobile games. Continue reading Total ArKade Washington Hotline to Avoid The studio will "give players the is new mobile studio from Fruit Cyber-Misunderstandings The Cost to Build a Globally same gorgeous art, great audio Ninja dev and compulsive gaming they Total ArKade is new mobile Dominating Cyber Army: 2 Years would recognise from Halfbrick studio from Fruit Ninja dev a n d $ 1 0 0 M i l l i o n C h i n e s e productions," said Takoushi. He originally appeared on Joystiq on Officials Deny Hacking U.S. added that studio will also foster Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:00:00 EST. E n v i r o n m e n t - M o n i t o r i n g "some very innovative gameplay," Please see our terms for use of Satellites Tags Technology, Rebecca Boyle, china, chinese, w h i c h T a k o u s h i h o p e s t o feeds. showcase in Total ArKade's first Permalink| Email this| Comments c o l d w a r , c y b e r w a r f a r e , cybersecurity, defense department, pentagon, stuxnet These war games are designed to
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let officials talk about hypothetical conflicts in a way that indirectly addresses their pent -up frustrations. The Guardian extensively quotes Jim Lewis, a senior fellow and director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, who helped organize the war games. During the first round, officials had to talk about what they would do if they were attacked by a computer virus like the Stuxnet worm that disabled nuclear facilities in Iran. Then they had to discuss how they'd react if they found out the attack was launched by the other side. "Known as "Track 1.5" diplomacy, it is the closest governments can get in conflict management without fullblown talks," the newspaper reports. This is an interesting way to handle a potentially volatile situation, talking around it as if it's hypothetical and not reality or eventuality. But using pretend situations can be a diplomatic, non-confrontational way for the U.S. to puff its chest. A description of how we'd react if China sanctioned a cyber-attack we know you won't do it, China, but just in case, here's what we'd
do to you- is a tacit deterrent to would-be attackers. The U.S. has been ramping up its cyber-defense systems and awareness, and even warning would-be hackers that cyber attacks can constitute an act of war. But attackers have also been turning up the heat - recently, Chinese officials had to deny they were involved in a China-based hacking of U.S. space assets. This sort of incident is becoming more common, to the increasing frustration and anger of American officials. While it sounds like the Stuxnet imaginary situation went well, the second didn't go so smoothly, according to Lewis' account to the Guardian, which you can read here. The Chinese deeply distrust our government and feel like they've been treated unfairly. And Lewis believes the U.S. is bracing for a potential escalating conflict, too. Maybe role-playing will help both sides understand the potential fallout if cooler heads don't continue to prevail. [ Guardian]
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Bio-Armor: Printing Protective Plates From Patterns In Nature

Ryan Bradley (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 3:45:00 PM
Natural Curves To demonstrate a new approach to armor and second skin, designers printed materials in 16-micron chunks called voxels. Neri Oxman in collaboration with W. Craig Carter Neri Oxman, the director of the Mediated Matter research group at the MIT Media Lab, designs skins and body armors inspired by human tissue. "Most patterns in nature-whether scales or spiderwebs-have some kind of logic that can be computationally modeled," she says. A common example is known as a reaction-diffusion (RD) system.
As chemicals form our skin pigments, the force of their reactions shapes how pigments get distributed. To build some of her armors, Oxman works with her colleague Craig Carter to formulate equations based on RD systems. With these equations
made materials, which are homogeneous-concrete pillars, for example. By constructing her armor in 16micron chunks, layer by layer, Oxman's creations are as multipurpose as our pores. "Our skin is structured not unlike FGMs: On our face our pores are large, for filtering, while our back pores are small, to form a more protective barrier." A collection of her RD-based wearable skins and armors, more a demonstration of a Oxman creates bitmaps, which new technique than functional determine the location and protective plates, goes on display Clay Dillow (Popular Science New Technology, Science a m o u n t o f h e r c o m p o s i t e at the Centre Pompidou in Paris News, The Future Now) this month. materials (called photopolymers). Submitted at 4/17/2012 2:43:40 PM She then feeds these bitmaps into Enceladus's Horizon NASA/JPL/ a printer to construct functionally graded materials (FGMs). An CASSINI page 60 FGM is the opposite of most man-
Cassini Flies Right By Saturn's Moon Enceladus, Snapping New Up-Close Pics
Shocker: Terrorists Freed in Schalit Deal Return to Terror

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Submitted at 4/17/2012 12:25:47 PM
Via Jerusalem Post: The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) on Tuesday revealed two cases of terrorists who were released in the Gilad Schalit deal
who have already returned to committing acts of terror. In October 2011, Israel released over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in a deal with Hamas which brought Schalit home after five years of captivity. The first, Daoud Chilo, Ramallah, was convicted of a resident of a refugee camp near
attempting to illegally buy weapons one month after his release. He was arrested by security forces and sentenced to just under four years in prison. . . Well, duh. . . Greg Pollowitz This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is
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Space Science Institute The Cassini spacecraft has been busy over this past week, making close flybys of both Enceladus and and Tethys, two of Saturn's moons. And we're not using "close" as a relative term here. Cassini skimmed Enceladus in such proximity that it was literally able to taste the plume of water ice, vapor, and other organic compounds spewing from the moon's south polar region. That flyby was at an altitude of just 46 miles above Enceladus's surface, a hair's breadth as these sorts of things go. Unfortunately for us, Baghdad Sulcus--the fracture from which said plume emanates--is in darkness for this flyover, but Cassini was able to snap various high-res surface shots of the moon as it passed
back into daylight. For its Tethys encounter, Cassini took a bit more conservative approach, passing about 5,700 miles above the moon's surface. It was the first imaging expedition to Tethys since 2005, when Cassini captured imagery from its Saturn-facing side. This time Cassini snapped views of Tethys's other side, which should provide researchers with enough data to start building decent digital elevation maps of Tethys's surface. [ JPL]
Chris Christie: Id listen if Mitt Romney were talking to me about the VP nod
Tina Korbe (Hot Air Top Picks)
say you wont even listen to the nominee of your party especially for me. Its someone Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:26:13 PM who Ive been supporting since posted at 5:26 pm on April 17, last October vigorously around 2012 by Tina Korbe the country that I wouldnt take Itd be easy to take for granted a call from Mitt Romney, the idea that Chris Christie he Christie told reporters at a press who so vigorously resisted every conference here. attempt to enlist him in the GOP He continued, saying if Mitt presidential primary wont Romney calls and wants to even consider the vice presidential discuss it with me, I will sit down nomination. Why, after all, would and talk with Gov. Romney about a guy who very well could have it. been the GOP nominee in his own Did Christie intend to call the right had he not opted to remain likes of Marco Rubio, Nikki as governor of New Jersey want Haley and others who have said to play second fiddle to Mitt theyre not interested in the vice Romney? presidential nomination According to Christie himself, arrogant? Probably not; he though, it would be the height of hedged his comment immediately arrogance to not even consider with the qualifier especially for accepting the nomination should it me. Christies comment like be offered to him: so many of his rings true. To I love this job (governor) and not even consider the request Im not looking to do it (vice would smack of distrust of the president), the governor said. man for whom hes campaigned B u t I a l s o t h i n k i t i s for months. extraordinarily arrogant for you to Probably, though, Christie can
afford to say this because he knows Mitt Romney wont ask him to be the VP. While Christie certainly has a frank appeal that Romney lacks, hes still the governor of a Northeastern state. He doesnt offer regional or, really, any other kind of diversity. Plus, Christie says hes been perfectly candid with Romney that the position of vice president is not something to which hes aspired for ages. His comments seem to hint at his own secure sense that Romney wouldnt ask him to leave a job he really loves for a job hed perform out of nothing more than a sense of obligation. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Sebelius Lends Support To Vaccination Projects In Haiti

Richard Knox (Shots - Health Blog)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 10:28:00 AM
John W. Poole/ NPR Rice farmer Alexi Rochnel shows his blank cholera vaccination card. April is the beginning of Haiti's rainy season, which will likely intensify Haiti's cholera outbreak.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is in Haiti today to support two big vaccination initiatives. One, a pilot project to prevent cholera, is already under way. The other, aimed at five childhood diseases, is set to begin later this week against . The wider campaign aims to vaccinate 211,000 infants across
the country with a five-in-one vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B and Hib( Haemophilus influenzae type B, a cause of bacterial meningitis). Children will also get vaccinated against polio and rubella. Sebelius's personal support of the cholera campaign is surprising, since U.S. health officials have
been cool to that pilot project behind the scenes. According to Haitian health workers, American officials have expressed skepticism about the plan vaccinate 100,000 Haitians against cholera. They say U.S. officials have viewed the cholera vaccination pilot project as a distraction, and have urged Haitians to focus instead on
cleaning up their water supply, providing decent sanitation, urging people to wash their hands faithfully, and treating cholera. But today Sebelius will visit GHESKIO, a Port-au-Prince health center that is vaccinating 50,000 slum-dwellers against cholera. The rural arm, involving SEBELIUS page 62
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an equal number, is being organized by the U.S.-based group Partners in Health. An HHS spokesman says Sebelius will address cholera vaccination during her visit. Last month, the country director in Haiti for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told NPR that the CDC has not "been negative" about the cholera vaccine project. "I'm not aware of skepticism at CDC" over cholera vaccination, Dr. John Vertefueille tells Shots. "At certain points in time we've indicated and we continue to indicate that our primary focus is on prevention activities by improvements of water, sanitation, hygiene and good clinical activities" against cholera. The position the U.S. takes on the issue matters. If the current cholera vaccination campaign succeeds that is, if Haitians accept the vaccine, and if its organizers show they can deliver the required two doses over two weeks it would open a larger debate about whether vaccination should be expanded to millions of Haitians at high risk of cholera. Also, the Haitian government depends heavily on U.S. aid, and
the CDC holds considerable sway over Haitian public health policy. Dozens of CDC staffers are stationed at the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince. Meanwhile, the larger vaccination campaign against a slew of childhood diseases is no pilot project. It's the first step in an ongoing campaign that aims to vaccinate every Haitian infant against seven deadly diseases at first. But beginning next year, the campaign will be expanded to the two leading child-killers: diarrheal disease caused by rotavirus and pneumococcal pneumonia. "It's going to be a huge undertaking," says Dagfinn Hoybraten, chairman of GAVI, the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunization, a leading nongovernmental agency promoting vaccination. "It's a remarkable achievement in public health just two years after the earthquake," Hoybraten tells Shots. "It's a marker of the government's commitment." GAVI is paying for 80 percent of the pentavalent vaccine campaign, which will cost almost $9 per child. The CDC is picking up the other 20 percent. Over the next
three years GAVI will spend more than $9 million on the Haitian vaccination effort. The logistics are formidable. The pentavalent vaccine requires infants to get injections at six weeks, 10 weeks and 14 weeks. The vaccine must be kept chilled, which requires a complicated infrastructure. Haiti has had a dismal record in childhood vaccination. "We know that only 50 percent of children have received their complete immunization coverage. This is awful," said Dr. Jean William Pape, director of GHESKIO. (The French acronym reflects the group's origins in the fight against HIV.) Pape has been battling against the fear that the cholera vaccination project will interfere with the larger childhood vaccination campaign. To avoid that possibility, Pape had hoped to finish the cholera project before the other one began, but bureaucratic delays have pushed them on top of one another. Since the cholera and polio vaccines can't be given at the same time, it means that children under 10 who are getting the cholera vaccine will not get
polio vaccine now. That will require GHESKIO and Partners in Health to track down those children later to protect them against polio. In the long run, Pape says the vaccination campaigns will be synergistic. "Every effort we make to give one vaccine will make it easier to give the others," he says. "We're learning how to deliver the merchandise better." So far GAVI has not supported cholera vaccination anywhere. But that could change. Hoybraten says the last time the GAVI board discussed it, the cheaper and easier-to-administer cholera vaccine had not been approved by the World Health Organization. Now it is. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Seniors In Medicare 'Doughnut Hole' More Likely To Stop Heart Drugs

Julie Rovner (Shots - Health Blog)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 3:36:00 PM
iStockphoto.com Falling into the "doughnut hole" of Medicare drug coverage led people to stop taking medicines more often than to search for cheaper alternatives. Medicare patients who reach the
annual gap in coverage for prescription drugs known as the " doughnut hole" are 57 percent more likely than those with continuous insurance coverage to stop taking drugs for heart-related conditions such as high blood pressure or heart disease. That's the result of a study by researchers from the Harvard Medical School, Boston's
Brigham and Women's Hospital, and CVS Caremark, the drugstore chain. It's in the latest issue of the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, published by the American Heart Association. The researchers looked at the records of more than 100,000 Medicare patients with heart conditions who had Medicare
prescription drug coverage in 2006 and 2007. They compared those who fell into the doughnut hole when Medicare stops paying for drugs and patients are required to temporarily cover 100 percent of their cost - with those who had continuing insurance coverage. The coverage limit resets every year. Stopping what could be critical,
life-saving medication was not what people hoped would happen when patients reached the gap. "Some policymakers have argued that sensitizing Part D consumers to drug costs through mechanisms like the coverage gap would encourage beneficiaries to use only essential and lower-priced SENIORS page 65
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Smart Shopping Can Relieve Pain From Dentists' Charges

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Submitted at 4/17/2012 8:55:00 AM
iStockphoto.com A database of fees charged by out -of-network dentists could help lower your bill. If you need dental work, chances are you'll pay a big chunk of the bill out of your own pocket, even if you have dental insurance.
Dental coverage often maxes out at a just few thousand dollars a year or less and typically covers only half of the cost of major procedures like crowns and root canals. Getting a reliable estimate of prices in your area can be critical if you want to keep a lid on costs. A free consumer website may provide the information you need.
It's the work of Fair Health, a nonprofit corporation that was created as part of a 2009 settlement between then-New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and insurers. An investigation revealed that an insurer-owned claims database used to determine out-of-network reimbursements presented a conflict of interest. In addition to
the consumer website, Fair Health provides independent-claims data that insurers can use to determine out-of-network rates. The Fair Health database is regularly updated and contains medical and dental claims from insurers and third-party administrators covering 126 million people. With the database, people can look up out-of-
network reimbursement amounts for procedures in their area. According to Robin Gelburd, president of Fair Health, 40 percent of dental care is provided out-of-network compared with just 10 percent of medical care. That makes the dental cost calculator a potentially useful tool SMART page 65
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medications," the researchers wrote. Part D is the name of the optional program that covers prescription drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries. But using only necessary drugs and finding better deals hasn't been the case, either in this study or others like it. "Researchers have observed increased rates of drug discontinuation and adherence across both essential and potentially unnecessary drugs but have not observed higher rates of switching to generic drugs during the coverage gap," the study said. One notable finding was that
those who stopped taking their drugs didn't seem to experience serious health consequences. But the researchers cautioned that their study looked at only a very short timeline, and the patients who ended up in the study "experienced a relatively small number of adverse events, limiting our power to detect differences." The researchers also noted that the 2010 Affordable Care Act is gradually closing the doughnut hole, which would alleviate the problem. This year seniors get a 50 percent discount on brandname drugs once they reach the
coverage gap and a 14 percent discount for generic drugs. But that could disappear if the Supreme Court rules the entire health care law unconstitutional. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Question for House conservatives: How psyched are you about Mitt Romney?
Allahpundit (Hot Air Top Picks)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 3:16:35 PM
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for many consumers. During a recent search on a zip code in Manhattan, for example, I learned that the estimated cost for a porcelain crown is $2,100 here, making the $1,750 that my dentist charges seem if not exactly a bargain at least not highway robbery. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is
posted at 4:16 pm on April 17, 2012 by Allahpundit A perfect follow-up to yesterdays NYT story about the uneasy alliance between our Massachusetts moderate nominee and the tea-party Republican House. Skip to 12:38 for 10 minutes from reps like Jim Jordan, Raul Labrador, and Louie Gohmert, who brought down the house: Rep. Louie Gohmert, the aggressively quotable former judge from Texas, basically conceded the point. If youre not sure about whether to support Mitt Romney, he joked, whether youre liberal, or whether youre very conservative, you ought to be excited, because hes been on your side at one time or another. Thats from Dave Weigel, who, along with Joshua Green, is snickering at the palpable hesitation about Romney in the first few replies here. (The group gets back on message at 17:10 when some rep whom I dont recognize offhand chimes in with
a fairly enthusiastic endorsement.) What could they realistically say, though? They need to balance party loyalty with grassroots credibility. If they came out waving their pompoms for Romney, no one would take it seriously and tea partiers would be irritated. If they spent 10 minutes dumping on him, the left would have a field day and GOP leaders, starting with Team Mitt, would be incensed. The polite anybody but Obama message is how to walk the line. Besides, that attitude has the benefit of reflecting the bulk of pro-Romney sentiment among voters thus far, assuming anyone still believes the data in yesterdays CNN poll. Romneys co-existence with teaparty congressmen will be a continuing subplot to the campaign, so think of this vid as episode one. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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EXPANDing to a Market Driven Energy Policy

Nicolas Loris (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
The bill would create a more competitive energy economy that would ultimately benefit Americans through lower prices Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:30:54 PM Typically, comprehensive pieces a n d f e w e r t a x h a n d o u t s t o of energy legislation expand the politically preferred industries. governments authority over the Here are some highlights: energy economy rather than Opens Areas Offshore and minimize it. The 2005 and 2007 Onshore. The U.S. is the only energy bills are good examples, country that places a majority of and probably the most expansive its territorial waters off-limits to was the failed cap-and-trade in exploration and drilling for oil 2009. And most recently the and gas. Duncans bill opens more House-proposed water and energy areas in the Gulf of Mexico as appropriations bill continues to well as off the Atlantic and w a s t e t a x p a y e r d o l l a r s b y Pacific coasts. The legislation also spending on fossil fuel and opens up leasing, exploration, and nuclear energy programs that the production on the Alaskan Coastal private sector should undertake. Plain, which includes the Arctic The current state of Americas National Wildlife Refuge, where energy policy is far from a market an estimated 10.4 billion barrels -driven one. Subsidies, loan of oil lie beneath a few thousand guarantees, targeted tax credits, acres that can be accessed with and mandates pick winners and minimal environmental impact. losers. Government restrictions and regulations impede the markets effectiveness, reduce Approves the Keystone XL access to energy sources, and Pipeline. Had President Obama artificially drive prices higher. a p p r o v e d t h e p e r m i t f o r Congressman Jeff Duncan construction of the Keystone XL (RSC) recently introduced the Pipeline, up to 830,000 barrels of E n e r g y E x p l o r a t i o n a n d oil per day would have come from Production to Achieve National C a n a d a t o t h e G u l f C o a s t Demand (EXPAND) Act, which refineries as soon as early 2013. would introduce market forces But President Obama rejected the into energy policy by increasing permit, claiming that the State a c c e s s , r e d u c i n g o n e r o u s Department did not have the regulations, and removing necessary information to targeted subsidies and mandates. recommend an approval. The
reality is that State has already conducted a thorough, three-year environmental review with multiple comment periods. It concluded that construction of the pipeline would pose minimal environmental risk. Duncans legislation gives Keystone XL the green light.
Furthermore, targeted tax credits move the decision-making process away from the consumers and producers and consolidate power with politicians and bureaucrats, who then determine who produces what products. Duncans legislation removes the targeted tax breaks for all energy Repeals the Ethanol Mandate. sources, including oil, gas, coal The Energy Policy Act of 2005 and nuclear. The legislation could Reforms the Permitting and c o n t a i n e d t h e f i r s t - e v e r be improved by offsetting those J u d i c i a l R e v i e w P r o c e s s . requirement that renewable fuels repeals and expedited sunsets with Receiving a permit for any energy be mixed into the gasoline supply. a broad corporate income tax cut, project, not just fossil fuels, takes The 2007 Energy Independence like that proposed by the Energy entirely too long. Duplicative and and Security Act increased the F r e e d o m a n d E c o n o m i c unnecessary regulations slow the mandate substantially to 36 billion Prosperity Act of 2011. While the p r o c e s s . F u r t h e r m o r e , gallons by 2022. If biofuels or E X P A N D A c t d o e s m a k e environmental activists delay new other transportation fuels are to i m m e d i a t e e x p e n s i n g o f energy projects by filing endless succeed as a competitive fuel investments to all energy sectors, a d m i n i s t r a t i v e a p p e a l s a n d source, legislation should not be immediate expensing should be lawsuits. The EXPAND Act necessary to mandate their m a d e f o r e v e r y b u s i n e s s creates a manageable time frame production or consumption. The permanently, irrespective of for permitting and for groups or E X P A N D A c t r e m o v e s t h e industry. individuals to contest energy ethanol mandate completely. plans. Repeals Greenhouse Gas Removes Targeted Tax Credits. R e g u l a t i o n s . I n 2 0 0 9 , t h e Stops the Land Grab. The Over the past decade, the number Environmental Protection Agency Department of Interiors land grab o f t a x p r e f e r e n c e s f o r t h e (EPA) began its process of (Secretarial Order No. 3310) to production and consumption of regulating carbon dioxide and unilaterally and arbitrarily classify g o v e r n m e n t - p i c k e d e n e r g y other greenhouse gas emission areas as Wilderness and Wild t e c h n o l o g i e s h a s e x p a n d e d under the Clean Air Act because Lands will restrict access to not considerably. By politically of CO2s contribution to global just energy production but many picking winners, these tax credits warming. The problem with the local economic activities. Once crowd out investment and make it agencys finding is that it relies on again, the Administration is difficult for new technologies that questionable science and ignores ignoring the needs of regional and d o n o t r e c e i v e g o v e r n m e n t EXPANDING page 67 local economies and their ability handouts to enter the market.
to balance economic growth and environmental priorities. Duncans legislation would permanently block Secretarial Order No. 3310, and any proposed designation would require congressional approval.
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Tales of the Red Tape #30: FTC Sticks It to Appliance Makers

Diane Katz (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 3:00:45 PM
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The DoddFrank financial strangulation statute transferred a portion of the duties once performed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Thats left the FTC to tap its $292 million budget and 1,176 full-time employees for devising stricter regulation ofappliance labels. Specifically, the agency intends to prohibit manufacturers from hanging the ubiquitous yellow EnergyGuide labels from clothes washers, dishwashers, and refrigerators. (The current rule defines a hang tag as a label affixed to the productusing string or similar material.) Instead, adhesive labels would be de rigueur. But not just any sticker will do. According to the FTCs Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: The adhesive labels should be applied so they can be easily removed without the use of tools
or liquids, other than water, but should be applied with an adhesion capacity sufficient to prevent their dislodgment during normal handling throughout the chain of distribution to the consumer. The paper stock for pressure-sensitive or other adhesive labels shall have a basic weight of not less than 58 pounds per 500 sheets (2538) or equivalent, exclusive of the release liner and adhesive. A minimum peel adhesion capacity for the adhesive of 12 ounces per square inch is suggested, but not required if the adhesive can otherwise meet the requirements of this paragraph. The proposal also dictates that the labels must be affixed by manufacturers, not retailers (heaven forbid!). However, retailers must reproduce the very same label information in catalogs and on websites. The federal label police also are considering whether to require QR codes on the EnergyGuide labels. (For the uninitiated, a Q uick R esponse code is a matrix imprint that can be read by a
smartphone to connect to information sources.) In this case, the QR code would supposedly provide information about a products (hypothetical) impact on global warming. All of which is supposedly authorized by the Appliance Labeling Rule (a la the Energy Policy and Conservation Act). The 1979 version of the statute applied to refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, water heaters, clothes washers, room air conditioners, and furnaces. In predictable fashion, the FTC expanded its authority to central air conditioners, heat pumps, plumbing products, lighting products, ceiling fans, televisions, etc. The FTC, according to its proposal, is deeply concerned that hang tags may be more prone to detachment than adhesive labels and thus less secure. They have concluded this because the Government Accountability Office conducted surveillance at 30 stores in 2007 and found that 26 percent of the products had no EnergyGuide label. Just to be
sure, the FTC conducted its own investigation of 89 retail locations in nine metro areas and found either detached or missing tags on about 38 percent of the appliances. Not to be outdone on label security, officials at U.S. Customs and Border Protection are proposing to turn away imports of consumer products and industrial equipment that do not comply with Americas unparalleled labeling standards. Just imagine all the dire ramifications of a missing label, right? So its sure good to know that the feds are so diligent about themespecially considering the millions of other matters that government is attending to. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
vigorous dissention among the scientific community. Even if we set aside the abundance of scientific dissention when it comes to the EPAs endangerment findings or the supposed effects of CO2 on climate, the EPAs regulations will not reduce CO2 enough to have any meaningful effect. But the regulation will dramatically increase the costs of electricity, gasoline, diesel fuel, and home heating oil. Thus, it will hurt the consumer directly and indirectly through increased costs to businesses. The EXPAND Act would remove this regulatory nightmare. Duncans energy legislation would remove market distortions from the energy sector by removing subsidies and needless red tape and opening access for companies to pursue energy projects if they have an economic interest to do so. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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world feel the thrill of the Olympic Games Passengers tell of Evening Standard - News Family "blind panic" on board Virgin of Osama bin Laden to be A t l a n t i c f l i g h t f o r c e d i n t o deported from Pakistan to Saudi Gatwick emergency landing Arabia Theresa May: Abu Qatada Australias Afghan pullout too 'can be deported' No inquiry over fast'The gringos got rowdy'... US Pippa Middleton unless formal spy prostitute scandal deepens complaint is made, say French Boris is steak tartare, Im more police Ken Livingstone's fare cuts fry-up, says Ken Livingstone could put up fares by 38 per cent, Checking off the Olympic Games claims TfL Policeman charged 'to do' list as time runs out Hold with race-hate crime after secret tight for auction of a Routemaster recording 84th birthday girl The face of Liberty hangs by a makes the shortlist for Orange thread Model 'used stolen credit Prize Jaimes the pick of the crop cards to fund liposuction' Anders Traffic warden: I was sacked for Breivik: People think Im a blowing the whistle on illegal m o n s t e r b u t I d c a r r y o u t workers Cover-up fears as Pippa massacre again Postmodernists Middleton 'Paris gun driver case help V&A break record Tribute of is given low priority' Hitchcocks The Voice star Jaz Ellington may silence is golden Move us peers bring my sons killers to justice u p n o r t h , s a y s L o r d Bahrain embassy protest for jailed A d o n i s ' M a d e l e i n e M c C a n n father ahead of F1 Grand Prix lookalike' seen in Spanish resort Judge dismissed over 'death of Costa del Sol Athletes and penalty' remark Knock-on effect Olympics chief call on Londoners of Tube strike disruption will last to enjoy the Games of a lifetime a week Israeli army officer hits Billion-pound Burberry... fashion Danish activist in the face with label's storming sales figures 26 r i f l e T e e n a g e t h u g D a r r e l l criminals have jail terms cut in Desuze, who killed pensioner supergrass deals Shanice-Paris during London riots, jailed for Goff was 'turning her life around' eight years London Olympic Sex novelist lawyer 'Deidre Dare' Games 'on course to hit revenue sues firm for 22m Bishops revolt targets' FA delighted as Fabrice over Osbornes VAT on church Muamba and Trevor Francis leave improvements Mayors winning hospital David Cameron to quiz way with women is looking like a Chinese Communist Party official good luck charm 2,000 suspects over death of British Businessman just a click from arrest on Neil Heywood Abu Qatada back Scotland Yard's new wanted behind bars and told he will be iPad app Lord Coe: London 'will deported this month Theatre star be buzzing' as people all over the Ruth Wilson thanks her harem of
hunky men Delighted Fabrice Muamba leaves hospital and goes home just a month after near-fatal heart attack British terror supergrass sentence cut by two years Black trainee forced out of City police UN observers start talks in bid to save Syria ceasefire Barack Obama speaks out over US spy romp with Colombia prostitutes Lady Gaga more of a money spinner than Material Girl Charities wooed in retreat on tax http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ news/rss/ Home Page RSS Description http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ world/family-of-osama-bin-ladento-be-deported-from-pakistan-tosaudi-arabia-7654607.html Osama bin Laden's three widows and their nine children are due to be deported to Saudi Arabia today, almost a year after US troops killed the al Qaida chief at his compound in Pakistan. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:29:52 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ world/family-of-osama-bin-ladento-be-deported-from-pakistan-tosaudi-arabia-7654607.html 201204-17T16:29:52Z Standing guard: Pakistani police outside a house, where the family of late al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden are believed to be held in Islamabad http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ news/uk/theresa-may-abu-qatadacan-be-deported-7654578.html Terror suspect Abu Qatada can be deported to Jordan after the Government received the assurances it needed to ensure his
deportation was lawful, Home Secretary Theresa May said today. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:11:17 B S T h t t p : / / www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/uk/ theresa-may-abu-qatada-can-bedeported-7654578.html 2012-0417T16:11:17Z Theresa May: Confirmed plans to deport Abu Q a t a d a h t t p : / / www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ world/no-inquiry-over-pippamiddleton-unless-formalcomplaint-is-made-say-frenchpolice-7654531.html Pippa Middleton could escape being drawn into a police inquiry unless a formal complaint is lodged over pictures which show her being driven through Paris by a friend apparently brandishing a handgun. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:42:52 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ world/no-inquiry-over-pippamiddleton-unless-formalcomplaint-is-made-say-frenchpolice-7654531.html 2012-0417T15:42:52Z Gun case: Pippa Middleton http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ mayor/ken-livingstones-fare-cutscould-put-up-fares-by-38-per-cent -claims-tfl-7654332.html Tube fares could go up by 38 per cent to counteract Ken Livingstones proposed price cut and freeze, according to a memo leaked today. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:02:17 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ mayor/ken-livingstones-fare-cutscould-put-up-fares-by-38-per-cent
-claims-tfl-7654332.html Peter Dominiczak and Craig Woodhouse 2012-0417T13:02:17Z http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ crime/policeman-charged-withracehate-crime-after-secretrecording-7654298.html A Met officer was today charged with a race-hate crime after being secretly recorded abusing a black man he had arrested. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:52:38 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ crime/policeman-charged-withracehate-crime-after-secretrecording-7654298.html 2012-0417T12:52:38Z http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/uk/ 84th-birthday-girl-makes-theshortlist-for-orange-prize7654307.html American writer Cynthia Ozick celebrated her 84th birthday today by becoming the oldest writer to make the shortlist of the 30,000 Orange Prize for womens fiction. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:50:41 BST http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ news/uk/84th-birthday-girl-makes -the-shortlist-for-orange-prize7654307.html 2012-0417T12:50:41Z http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ londoners-diary/jaimes-the-pickof-the-crop-7654304.html Tough guy actor Ray Winstone confessed his shock at his daughter Jaimes buzzcut last night, when they attended the premiere of thriller Elfie Hopkins, EVENING page 69
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in which they both star. The actress had the crop for her next role, as a squaddie in TV drama Mad Dogs. It was a shock, but Im really proud of her, said Winstone Snr. They were joined by Jaimes mother Elaine, pictured with her, for the aftershow party. Jaime confessed to trepidation at working with her father. It was scary, but he wanted to do it because he liked the film, not to do me a favour. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:48:02 BST http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ news/londoners-diary/jaimes-thepick-of-the-crop-7654304.html 2012-04-17T12:48:02Z Number one: Jamie Winstone with her mother Elaine http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ london/traffic-warden-i-wassacked-for-blowing-the-whistleon-illegal-workers-7654267.html A traffic warden was told to forget about reporting illegal workers and issue more tickets, according to papers lodged at an employment tribunal. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:46:44 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ london/traffic-warden-i-wassacked-for-blowing-the-whistleon-illegal-workers-7654267.html Benedict Moore-Bridger and Mark Blunden 2012-0417T12:46:44Z Tribunal papers: Michael Onumajuru claims he was victimised http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/uk/ coverup-fears-as-pippa-middleton -paris-gun-driver-case-is-givenlow-priority-7654291.html A Frenchman who brandished a pistol in Paris on the day before
the Pippa Middleton weapon scandal was arrested and is still in custody, it emerged today. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:39:45 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/uk/ coverup-fears-as-pippa-middleton -paris-gun-driver-case-is-givenlow-priority-7654291.html Peter Allen in Paris 2012-0417T12:39:45Z Gun case: Pippa Middleton http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/uk/ hitchcocks-silence-is-golden7653842.html A new celebration of the work of Alfred Hitchcock aims to put his name on a par with Dickens and Shakespeare, organisers said today. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:31:49 B S T h t t p : / / www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/uk/ hitchcocks-silence-is-golden7653842.html 2012-0417T12:31:49Z 1929 classic: movie-maker Alfred Hitchcock http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ news/londoners-diary/move-uspeers-up-north-says-lord-adonis7654261.html Many BBC staff are furious that theyve been relocated to Salford and some, notably Sian Williams and Chris Hollins, have declined to leave London. Now Andrew Adonis, a leading intellectual peer in the last Labour government, has come up with a serious proposal that the House of Lords should also be moved up north. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:29:19 BST http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ news/londoners-diary/move-uspeers-up-north-says-lord-adonis7654261.html 2012-0417T12:29:19Z Lord Andrew
A d o n i s h t t p : / / www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ world/madeleine-mccannlookalike-seen-in-spanish-resortof-costa-del-sol-7654253.html The Madeleine McCann mystery took a new twist today as it emerged that Spanish police are searching for the missing girl in a Costa del Sol holiday resort. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:28:10 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ world/madeleine-mccannlookalike-seen-in-spanish-resortof-costa-del-sol-7654253.html Justin Davenport and Gerard Couzens 2012-04-17T12:28:10Z Search: Madeleine McCann vanished in 2007 http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/olympics /olympic-news/athletes-andolympics-chief-call-on-londonersto-enjoy-the-games-of-a-lifetime7654237.html Athletes aiming to make it a golden summer for Britain at the Olympics today called on Londoners to embrace the opportunity of a lifetime. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:22:24 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/olympics /olympic-news/athletes-andolympics-chief-call-on-londonersto-enjoy-the-games-of-a-lifetime7654237.html Matthew Beard 2012-04-17T12:22:24Z Medal contender: Christine Ohuruogu http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ news/london/billionpoundburberry-fashion-labels-stormingsales-figures-7654211.html Once known only for its traditional English raincoats, Burberry has joined Prada, Gucci and Louis Vuitton as a global
designer-label superpower after notching up record sales of 1billion in six months. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:19:02 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ london/billionpound-burberryfashion-labels-storming-salesfigures-7654211.html Laura Chesters and Jonathan Prynn 2012 -04-17T12:19:02Z The Future: Cara Delevigne and Eddie Redmayne star in the labels S/S 2012 campaign http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/26criminals-have-jail-terms-cut-insupergrass-deals-7654220.html Prosecutors today revealed that up to 26 jailed criminals have had their sentences secretly cut under supergrass deals as the row over the release of shoebomb terrorist plotter Saajid Badat intensified. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:15:00 BST http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ news/26-criminals-have-jail-terms -cut-in-supergrass-deals7654220.html 2012-0417T12:15:00Z Early release: terror plotter Badat http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ london/shaniceparis-goff-wasturning-her-life-around7654204.html The mother of a teenager who plunged 17 storeys to her death from a tower block after police arrived to arrest her told today how her daughter had been turning her life around. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:13:35 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ london/shaniceparis-goff-wasturning-her-life-around7654204.html Mark Blunden 2012-04-17T12:13:35Z Prisoner
collection: Shanice-Paris Goff had not been placed under arrest http:/ /www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ world/sex-novelist-lawyer-deidredare-sues-firm-for-22m7654148.html A lawyer who posted an erotic novel on the internet has won the go-ahead to sue a top City law firm for almost 22million over alleged sexual harassment. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:04:38 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ world/sex-novelist-lawyer-deidredare-sues-firm-for-22m7654148.html Will Stewart 201204-17T12:04:38Z http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ politics/bishops-revolt-overosbornes-vat-on-churchimprovements-7654141.html Bishops were today in revolt over plans to impose VAT on improvements to cathedrals and churches. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:58:54 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ politics/bishops-revolt-overosbornes-vat-on-churchimprovements-7654141.html Nicholas Cecil and Joe Murphy 2012-04-17T11:58:54Z Budget blow: George Osborne plans c h a n g e h t t p : / / www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ mayor/mayors-winning-way-withwomen-is-looking-like-a-goodluck-charm-7654102.html Boris Johnsons bid to win over women voters appeared to be working today after a poll showed he had a huge lead over his Labour rival. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 EVENING page 70
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11:46:25 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ mayor/mayors-winning-way-withwomen-is-looking-like-a-goodluck-charm-7654102.html 201204-17T11:46:25Z Female backing: Boris Johnson http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ techandgadgets/2000-suspectsjust-a-click-from-arrest-onscotland-yards-new-wanted-ipadapp-7654062.html Londoners are being asked to turn detective and help identify thousands of criminals at the click of a button. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:31:03 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ techandgadgets/2000-suspectsjust-a-click-from-arrest-onscotland-yards-new-wanted-ipadapp-7654062.html 2012-0417T11:31:03Z Launch: the app featuring CCTV images http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/olympics /olympic-news/lord-coe-londonwill-be-buzzing-as-people-allover-the-world-feel-the-thrill-ofthe-olympic-games-7654048.html Londoners have so far had slightly mixed feelings about the Olympics. It is a fabulous sporting event but will mean disruption to our working patterns and this is, above all, a working city. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:26:39 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/olympics /olympic-news/lord-coe-londonwill-be-buzzing-as-people-allover-the-world-feel-the-thrill-ofthe-olympic-games-7654048.html Sarah Sands and Matthew Beard 2012-04-17T11:26:39Z In the mood: Lord Coe is hoping to be in the stadium for the mens 1500m
f i n a l h t t p : / / www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ transport/passengers-tell-of-blindpanic-on-board-virgin-atlanticflight-forced-into-gatwickemergency-landing-7654034.html Injured passengers today described scenes of blind panic as they escaped a Virgin Atlantic plane forced into an emergency landing at Gatwick. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:25:06 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ transport/passengers-tell-of-blindpanic-on-board-virgin-atlanticflight-forced-into-gatwickemergency-landing-7654034.html Simon Freeman 2012-0417T11:25:06Z Bruised: Emily Alner, who escaped the Virgin Atlantic plane http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ world/australias-afghan-pullouttoo-fast-7653985.html Australia was criticised today after announcing its troops will leave Afghanistan a year earlier than planned. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:09:47 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ world/australias-afghan-pullouttoo-fast-7653985.html Nicholas Cecil 2012-04-17T11:09:47Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ news/world/the-gringos-gotrowdy-us-spy-prostitute-scandaldeepens-7653971.html The vice scandal that has hit Americas secret service widened today as 10 members of the military were put under investigation for allegedly hiring prostitutes. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:03:05 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/
world/the-gringos-got-rowdy-usspy-prostitute-scandal-deepens7653971.html David Gardner 2012-04-17T11:03:05Z http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ mayor/boris-is-steak-tartare-immore-fryup-says-ken-livingstone7653945.html Ken Livingstone walks into a morning meeting at a housing estate in Havering, two minutes late. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:54:31 B S T h t t p : / / www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ mayor/boris-is-steak-tartare-immore-fryup-says-ken-livingstone7653945.html 2012-0417T10:54:31Z Campaign: Ken with Cliff Stout, children Mark and Keeley and wife Marilyn http: //www.thisislondon.co.uk/ olympics/olympic-news/checkingoff-the-olympic-games-to-do-listas-time-runs-out-7653888.html Tomorrow marks 100 days to the start of the Olympics and a major gear-shift towards delivering the most complex logistics operation in Britain. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:33:49 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/olympics /olympic-news/checking-off-theolympic-games-to-do-list-as-timeruns-out-7653888.html 2012-0417T10:33:49Z Fast lane: synchronised swimmers test the pool at the Aquatic Centre http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ london/hold-tight-for-auction-of-a -routemaster-7653850.html Never want to wait for a London bus again? Now you can buy your own. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:27:00 B S T h t t p : / / www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/
london/hold-tight-for-auction-of-a -routemaster-7653850.html 201204-17T10:27:00Z http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ london/the-face-of-liberty-hangsby-a-thread-7653846.html When civil rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti said her public persona was a mask, artist Gillian Wearing created a real one for her. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:11:12 B S T h t t p : / / www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ london/the-face-of-liberty-hangsby-a-thread-7653846.html Louise Jury 2012-04-17T10:11:12Z Wax lyrical: artist Gillian Wearings portrait of Shami Chakrabarti ( National Portrait Gallery, London; commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery with the support of J.P. Morgan through the Fund for New Commissions). http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ crime/model-used-stolen-creditcards-to-fund-liposuction7653804.html A model used stolen credit card details to pay for expensive cosmetic surgery, a court heard. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:04:14 BST http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ news/crime/model-used-stolencredit-cards-to-fund-liposuction7653804.html 2012-0417T10:04:14Z Fraud charge: model Faileigh Cooper http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ world/anders-breivik-people-think -im-a-monster-but-id-carry-outmassacre-again-7653802.html The Norwegian gunman who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting spree said today he knew he would be regarded as a
monster but carried out the massacre to inspire an uprising across Europe against multiculturalism. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:54:28 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ world/anders-breivik-people-think -im-a-monster-but-id-carry-outmassacre-again-7653802.html 2012-04-17T09:54:28Z Chilling statement: Anders Breivik http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ london/postmodernists-help-vabreak-record-7653785.html A record 3.3million people went through the doors of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museum of Childhood in the past 12 months after a huge rise in visitors. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:48:25 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ london/postmodernists-help-vabreak-record-7653785.html 201204-17T09:48:25Z Exhibit: Super Lamp by Martine Bedin http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ crime/tribute-of-the-voice-star-jaz -ellington-may-bring-my-sonskillers-to-justice-7653776.html A mother whose murdered son was the inspiration for The Voice favourite Jaz Ellington today said she hoped the renewed interest would help bring the killers to justice. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:46:10 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ crime/tribute-of-the-voice-star-jaz -ellington-may-bring-my-sonskillers-to-justice-7653776.html 2012-04-17T09:46:10Z Plea: Yvonne Ricketts with a photo of EVENING page 71
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her dead son Fabian http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ world/bahrain-embassy-protestfor-jailed-father-ahead-of-f1grand-prix-7653628.html A protester occupying the roof of the Bahraini Embassy in London told today how he is trying to save his sick father from dying in prison. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:44:26 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ world/bahrain-embassy-protestfor-jailed-father-ahead-of-f1grand-prix-7653628.html Michael Howie 2012-04-17T08:44:26Z Protest: Ali Mushaima (left) and Moosa Abdali (right) have breached security and climbed onto the roof of the Bahrain Embassy in central London http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ world/judge-dismissed-over-death -penalty-remark-7653656.html One of the lay judges trying confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has been dismissed for saying he deserves the death penalty. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:32:06 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ world/judge-dismissed-over-death -penalty-remark-7653656.html 2012-04-17T08:32:06Z Mass killer: Anders Breivik gives a Far Right salute for the second day running as he attends court http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ transport/knockon-effect-of-tubestrike-disruption-will-last-a-week7653619.html Tube passengers are facing a week of disruption after strikes were ordered on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines.
Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:20:16 BST http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ news/transport/knockon-effect-oftube-strike-disruption-will-last-aweek-7653619.html Dick Murray 2012-04-17T08:20:16Z Walkout: Tube maintenance staff are to strike for 72 hours, which is expected to cause widespread disruption http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ world/israeli-army-officer-hitsdanish-activist-in-the-face-withrifle-7653597.html Denmark is calling for an investigation by Israeli authorities over video footage showing an Israeli officer hitting a Danish peace activist in the face with his rifle. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:18:53 B S T h t t p : / / www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ world/israeli-army-officer-hitsdanish-activist-in-the-face-withrifle-7653597.html 2012-0417T08:18:53Z 'Unprovoked': an Israeli soldier is shown hitting the Danish pro-Palestinian activist with an M-16 rifle http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ crime/teenage-thug-darrell-desuze -who-killed-pensioner-duringlondon-riots-jailed-for-eight-years -7653617.html The teenager who killed pensioner Richard Mannington Bowes during the summer riots was jailed for eight years today. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:07:30 BST http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ news/crime/teenage-thug-darrelldesuze-who-killed-pensionerduring-london-riots-jailed-foreight-years-7653617.html 201204-17T08:07:30Z Killer: Darrel
Desuze admitted manslaughter http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ olympics/london-olympic-gameson-course-to-hit-revenue-targets7653591.html London 2012 is set to hit and even surpass all of its revenue targets, chief executive Paul Deighton has said. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:56:13 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/olympics /london-olympic-games-on-course -to-hit-revenue-targets7653591.html 2012-0417T07:56:13Z Progress: The site of the Games stadium http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/sport/ football/fa-delighted-as-fabricemuamba-and-trevor-francis-leavehospital-7653571.html The Football Association has revealed its "absolute delight" at the release of both Fabrice Muamba and Trevor Francis from hospital. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:47:49 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/sport/ football/fa-delighted-as-fabricemuamba-and-trevor-francis-leavehospital-7653571.html 2012-0417T07:47:49Z Delighted: Fabrice M u a m b a h t t p : / / www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/uk/ david-cameron-to-quiz-chinesecommunist-party-official-overdeath-of-british-businessman-neilheywood-7653565.html David Cameron is expected to raise the death of British businessman Neil Heywood when he meets a senior Chinese Communist Party official in Downing Street today. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:32:07 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/uk/
david-cameron-to-quiz-chinesecommunist-party-official-overdeath-of-british-businessman-neilheywood-7653565.html 2012-0417T07:32:07Z Held: Gu Kailai (left) and murdered businessman Neil Heywood http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/uk/ abu-qatada-back-behind-bars-andtold-he-will-be-deported-thismonth-7653563.html Abu Qatada was returned to jail today and told he will be deported at the end of the month. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:25:58 BST http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ news/uk/abu-qatada-back-behindbars-and-told-he-will-be-deported -this-month-7653563.html Martin Bentham 2012-04-17T07:25:58Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ news/celebritynews/theatre-starruth-wilson-thanks-her-harem-ofhunky-men-7647981.html Actress Ruth Wilson paid tribute to hunky co-star Jude Law as she picked up her second Olivier Award. Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:36:05 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ celebritynews/theatre-star-ruthwilson-thanks-her-harem-ofhunky-men-7647981.html 201204-16T16:36:05Z 'Best Actress': Ruth Wilson won a second Olivier Award http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/uk/ delighted-fabrice-muamba-leaveshospital-and-goes-home-just-amonth-after-nearfatal-heart-attack -7647982.html Bolton Wanderers footballer Fabrice Muamba was today discharged from hospital, almost a month to the day after he suffered
a cardiac arrest during a game. Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:06:18 BST http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ news/uk/delighted-fabricemuamba-leaves-hospital-and-goes -home-just-a-month-afternearfatal-heart-attack7647982.html 2012-0416T16:06:18Z Picture of Fabrice Muamba leaving London hospital posted on Twitter by Bolton Wanderers FC http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/uk/ british-terror-supergrass-sentencecut-by-two-years-7647957.html A jailed British terrorist has had his sentence cut by two years in a supergrass deal after giving evidence about an al Qaeda-linked martyrdom plot in New York, it was revealed today. Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:55:08 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/uk/ british-terror-supergrass-sentencecut-by-two-years-7647957.html Martin Bentham 2012-0416T15:55:08Z http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ london/black-trainee-forced-outof-city-police-7647847.html A trainee was forced out of the City of London police after claiming he was a marked man and had been accused of cowardice because he was black, an employment tribunal heard today. Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:45:05 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ london/black-trainee-forced-outof-city-police-7647847.html 2012 -04-16T14:45:05Z http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ EVENING page 72
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Barack Obama called for a rigorous investigation today into claims that US secret service agents hired prostitutes before a presidential trip to Colombia. Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:33:25 BST http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ news/world/barack-obama-speaks -out-over-us-spy-romp-withcolombia-prostitutes7647823.html 2012-0416T14:33:25Z http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ celebritynews/lady-gaga-more-ofa-money-spinner-than-materialgirl-7647703.html Lady Gaga today proved she is Londons Queen of Pop by announcing a second show at Twickenham Stadium leaving Madonna trailing in her wake.
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Constitution, allowing Congress to levy a national income tax, was ratified in 1913, it initially applied only to those earning $4,000 or more, about $80,000 in today's dollars. They were required to file a 1040 form -- that's what it was called from the beginning -- and to pay one percent of their income in federal taxes. The highest earners, those whose incomes were greater than $500,000 -equal to about $11 million today - paid a top rate of 7 percent. It wasn't until World War II -and the attendant need to fund U.S. participation in the war -that the withholding of taxes from the wages of middle class workers THIS page 73
This Year's Fight Over Taxing the Middle ClassAnd the Rich
Linda Killian (Politics : The Atlantic)
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Off the Radar: Important Issues the Candidates Won't Raise in 2012
Conor Friedersdorf (Politics : The Atlantic)
which means either that they go unaddressed or that outcomes are dictated by lobbyists, whose Submitted at 4/17/2012 2:37:27 PM power is at its zenith when When there is no political members of Congress feel no incentive to talk about vital pressure from constituents to push matters only the press can inject policy in one direction or another. them into a presidential campaign. Since there are important issues Voters pay more attention to that presidential campaigns have politics during presidential no incentive to raise on their own, elections than at any other time. the press has an important duty to Issues that don't come up in make independent judgments televised debates, campaign about what is important. Politics commercials, or mainstream coverage is nevertheless driven, media coverage are effectively off more than anything else, by what the radar of the American people, the campaigns say.
What if folks of all ideological persuasions kicked off Campaign 2012 by laying out the issues that are unlikely to come up on their own, but that merit attention the attention of candidates and voters? The following are among my picks. (This is hardly an exhaustive list, so I hope that folks with different interests than mine will make their own.) Please use a JavaScript-enabled device to view this slideshow This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/
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Our 100-year fight over tax rates has taken some surprising twists and turns since the income tax went universal under FDR. Shutterstock Inscribed in stone on the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service headquarters in Washington are the words "Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society", a quotation taken from a 1927 Supreme Court opinion written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The phrase was often repeated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, for it was during Roosevelt's presidency that the personal income tax for middle class Americans came into existence and tax rates for the wealthiest Americans topped 90 percent. While the 16th Amendment to the THIS page 72
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was instituted. By the end of the war, even the lowest bracket of wage earners paid about 20 percent of their earnings in income taxes -- making the tax system truly universal. Meanwhile, by 1944, those on the top end of the income scale, with incomes over $200,000 ($2 million in 2011 dollars), were levied a 94 percent tax rate. And with that run-up and expansion in taxation was launched a political fight that has stayed with us, and which again threatens in 2012 -- when a host of tax cuts are set to sunset at the end of the year -- to bring the federal government to its knees as the White House and House Republicans again clash over to how best to raise revenue, what programs to fund, and how or whether to slash the deficit during a sluggish economic time.* * * The first major reductions in post -war tax rates came after the Korean War. They didn't go all that far; the top tax rate was still 70 percent when Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 (although with deductions, loopholes and tax shelters, many paid a much lower rate). Reagan's attacks on government and high taxes -- "government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem" -- and his supply-side Reaganomics launched the fights over tax policy between Republicans and Democrats that reflect the fundamental differences that still exist over the role of government, economic stimulus, how much to
tax the wealthy, whether to tax labor and capitol gains income at the same rate, as well as how the economy can be stimulated through government spending and tax policies. The conflict, in short: Democrats and proponents of English economist John Maynard Keynes believe in an activist role for the public sector in managing the economy and that increasing government spending can help in times of economic downturn. (The Obama stimulus plan follows this theory.) They also believe that government has an important role to play in helping the less fortunate and that the wealthiest need to pay more. (Conservatives like to call this income distribution or socialism.) Supply-siders in the Reagan tradition believe in the trickledown theory that economic growth is fostered by lowering income and capital gains tax rates -- that rich people will invest and create jobs. House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, who has put forward an economic plan that would cut taxes for most Americans especially the wealthy, is the leading GOP proponent of this philosophy. Ryan worked briefly for former Congressman Jack Kemp, an early and enthusiastic supply-side supporter. President Obama has countered the Ryan-led House tax agenda with the "Buffett Rule," which would raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans. The Senate in a procedural 51-45 vote
Monday shot down the measure, named for billionaire investor and Obama supporter Warren Buffett, who famously claimed that his secretary pays a higher tax rate than he does. Republican Susan Collins of Maine was the only Republican to vote for the proposal and Democrat Mark Pryor of Arkansas voted with the Republicans. The legislation would have created a mandatory 30 percent minimum income tax for Americans earning more than $1 million annually. Tax rates on wages currently range from 10 to 35 percent, but under George W. Bush, rates on capital gains were cut dramatically to about 15 percent, so many wealthy Americans -- including presumed Republican nominee Mitt Romney -- pay far lower rates than those who rely on wages alone. In defending the plan, Obama lit into supply side economics as an "old, broken down" idea that has been proven not to work, saying that "prosperity has never trickled down from a wealthy few" and cutting taxes on the rich has not worked to stimulate the economy. Romney reported income of about $21 million in 2010 and because it was almost totally from investments, he paid about 14 percent in federal income taxes. Romney is proposing to make permanent most Bush-era tax cuts and eliminate taxes on interest, dividends and capital gains for those earning under $200,000. He would give the top 1 percent of taxpayers an average reduction of
$150,000, according to the Tax Policy Center, which also says those in the bottom 20 percent would actually see a tax increase under the Romney plan. In 2011 the Obamas reported a joint adjusted gross income of $789,674 and paid $162,074 in federal taxes, or just over 20.5 percent. Polls show about 60 percent of Americans support the Buffett rule and a Pew Research Center poll released at the end of 2011 revealed that a majority of Americans believe the wealthy are not paying their fair share of taxes and the tax code should be totally re-written. That's one thing Democratic and Republican political leaders seem able to agree on: The tax code is a mess.* * * The last major overhaul of the tax code took place when a Democratic Congress, working with Reagan, passed the Tax Reform Act of 1986. It simplified the code, decreased individual tax rates, increased corporate taxes and significantly reduced the number of exemptions, deductions, credits and loopholes. The reform also set the tax rate for capital gains at about 23 percent, which was reduced dramatically to around 15 percent as part of the Bush tax cuts. Ever since the 1986 reform was passed, Congress has been systematically chipping away at the tax code, adding literally thousands of changes and additional tax benefits, exemptions and loopholes,
junking up the tax code and making it more complicated and less fair. "It's out of control, says Eugene Steuerle, an Urban Institute economist. "They keep throwing junk in the tax code which adds to the deficit." "The Democrats are willing to go after high income people but what scares both political parties is that the middle class pays for most of government and they get most of government benefits. You can't have meaningful savings without going after the middle class," Steuerle insists. The three largest expenditures in the tax code are all things many middle-class Americans take advantage of -- tax-free employerprovided health insurance, the home mortgage interest deduction and tax-free 401(k) retirement accounts. The tax exemptions for home mortgage interest cost the government more than the entire budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development according to Steuerle. It's a lot easier to pass a new tax break than it is to pass a new government program, but both cost the U.S. Treasury money. Using tax code amendments to establish fiscal and social policy is less conspicuous than adding a spending program, observes Chris Edwards, a Cato Institute economist, but it has the same effect. Tax reform is once again on the THIS page 76
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On Race, Class, and Gender, Obama's Polling Looks a Lot Like 2008
Ronald Brownstein (Politics : The Atlantic)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 4:22:05 PM
The president is holding his advantage with the groups that boosted him to victory four years ago, but he can't rest easy. Reuters Four recent national polls, including three released in the past 24 hours, generally show the electorate dividing between President Obama and Mitt Romney along lines of class, gender and race familiar from the 2008 race. The surveys -- from ABC and the Washington Post; the Pew Research Center; CNN/ORC; and the first Gallup tracking poll, diverge in their overall results. The first three polls show Obama leading by seven, four and nine percentage points respectively; the first Gallup track placed Romney up by two percentage points. MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL Obama Push on Oil Markets Seen as More Political Than Practical Sen. Tom Coburn's New Book Slams Congress Obama's Blue-Collar Messaging But the Gallup track, which is conducted among registered
voters, has a sample that looks much more like the electorate in 2010 than the voting population that is likely to turn out in 2012: only 22 percent of the Gallup survey was non-white, according to figures the organization provided to Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz. That was close to the non-white share of the vote in 2010 (23 percent), but in 2008, minorities comprised 26 percent of all voters, according to exit
polls; the Obama campaign, and other analysts, project the minority share of the vote will increase to 28 percent in 2012. In its survey, Pew, for instance, puts the non-white share at 25 percent. The division between the white and non-white share of the vote profoundly affects the results because all of the surveys show a racial gap between Obama and Romney that could be at least as large as 2008. In that campaign, Obama became the first candidate
ever to lose whites by doubledigits and still win the presidency. John McCain outpolled Obama among whites by 55 percent to 43 percent, but Obama won decisively anyway by carrying a cumulative 80 percent of minorities, including 95 percent of African-Americans and twothirds of Hispanics. The race also produced a sharp divide within the white population: McCain amassed big margins among white men with and without a college
degree, and non-college white women, the so-called waitress moms. Obama carried a majority only of white women with at least a four year degree. All four of the new polls, with some variation, show patterns consistent with 2008. Obama's advantage among all non-white voters varies in the four surveys only modestly: he leads over Romney among them by 71 RACE, page 75
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percent to 23 percent in the CNN poll; 74 percent to 20 percent in the ABC/ Post survey; 77 percent to 17 percent in the new Gallup track; and 78 percent to 17 percent in the new Pew survey. Tina Korbe (Hot Air Top apply: Itll all come down to the win it for Romney. Romneys best Democratic incumbent. In 1980, Romney in turn draws between Picks) r e l a t i v e l y u n p r e d i c t a b l e bet in the face of Obamas Ronald Reagan zeroed in on 57 percent and 62 percent of the independent vote, much of the seemingly serenely inalterable Jimmy Carters competence. Submitted at 4/17/2012 3:51:21 PM vote among white men without a Romney vote is driven primarily likability ratings is to home in on Plenty of Americans thought posted at 4:51 pm on April 17, by anti-Obama sentiment and Obamas incompetence. The one President Carter was a good and college degree in the four surveys, holding Obama between 27 2012 by Tina Korbe Obama still has a significant edge mistake Romney must not make decent man toobut by election percent (in the Gallup track) to 37 Yesterday, the Gallup daily in likability. the one mistake all of us who day Mr. Reagan had persuaded t r a c k i n g p o l l s h o w e d M i t t That last is, I think, the most vehemently dislike Obama must them that his rival just wasnt up percent (in CNN). In both Pew and ABC/ Washington Post, Romney with a smidgen of a lead problematic for Romney. Im with not make is to try to get voters to the job. over Barack Obama and a AP on this one: While experts to not like Obama. He wont The day after that election, Mr. Obama draws 32 percent of nonCNN poll showed Barack Obama downplay its importance, the old succeed in that effort. Instead, he R e a g a n s p o l l s t e r , R i c h a r d college white men. In 2008, he with a sizable lead over Mitt political wisdom is still probably must allow that Obama is a Wirthlin, explained the campaign carried 39 percent of those blue Romney. Gallup has more good accurate: Voters vote for the guy likable guy but that doesnt t h i s w a y : W e s a w t h e collar men. In other words, all news for Romney, though. The with whom theyd like to share a make him a good president. WSJ o p p o r t u n i t y f o r a r o l e four of the surveys find Obama daily tracker shows Romneys beer. If anything, the fact that opinion writer William McGurn reversalthat is, by the end of the losing ground among workingclass white men, consistently his support up by one and Obamas Romney leads Obama now with develops this idea fully: campaign, I think we came very support down by two, widening the impossible-to-dislike Ann Now, the presidents likability close to having people look upon toughest audience. Romneys lead from a mere two Romney so much in the news d o e s n t m e a n M r . R o m n e y R o n a l d R e a g a n a s m o r e Among white men with at least a four-year degree, Romney in the points to a full five. lately suggests that sheer shouldnt go on the offensive. It presidential than Jimmy Carter. As Allah pointed out in his popular appeal really does matter. does mean he ought to attack If Romney can combine a sense four surveys draws between 53 comprehensive coverage of Romney might not have the edge hardest where Mr. Obama is at his o f h u m o r w i t h h i s a l r e a d y percent (CNN) and 58 percent yesterdays two conflicting polls, on Obama on likability, but his weakest: his failed policies. For established gravitas, he might just (Gallup), again only a relatively though, its a toss-up as to lack of this guy could be my beer all the carping about Mr. Romney, be able to replicate Reagans path small variation. Obama attracts between 36 percent (Gallup) and whether we should cover polls buddy appeal has been offset this part he gets. We can see it to victory. closely at all at this point. The somewhat lately by his suddenly reflected in both his embrace of This entry passed through the 42 percent (ABC/Post and Pew). election is a full six months away prominent this guy really loves t h e o p p o r t u n i t y - o r i e n t e d Full-Text RSS service if this is That compares to Obama's 42 and so much is bound to change his wife appeal, which, while Republicanism of Wisconsins your content and you're reading it percent among those men in 2008. between now and then. Yet, it different, is still an arbitrary (to Paul Ryanand his repeated on someone else's site, please read The variation among the polls is cant be entirely insignificant that the job of president) kind of refrain that Mr. Obama is simply the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- somewhat wider with the waitress moms. In 2008, Obama won 41 Romney has led the incumbent appeal. in over his head. only/faq.php#publishers. Five two days in a row, according to Eventually, though, it will come Mr. Romney is hardly the first Filters recommends: Donate to percent of those non-college white women; his showing in the new Gallup. down to Romney versus Obama. Republican presidential aspirant Wikileaks. surveys varies from a low of 37 Still, relevant qualifications Not even his VP selection will to take that tack against a percent (in Gallup and Pew) to 42 percent (in ABC/ Washington Post) to 46 percent (in the CNN survey). Romney's numbers among them varies from 46 RACE, page 76
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percent in CNN to 54 percent in Pew. In all four surveys, Obama's best group among whites is the college -educated white women. His showing among them varies from 60 percent (in the ABC/Post survey) to 55 percent (in Pew) to a narrower 51 percent to 45 percent advantage in the CNN survey. Only the Gallup track shows him trailing among them, by 45 percent to 47 percent for Romney. That means three of the four surveys show him matching or exceeding his 2008 number with those well-educated women, who tend to be not only socially liberal but more open to activist government than other whites. All four surveys show a gap between the preferences of the college white women-who appear to have been alienated by the intense focus on social issues during the GOP primaries-and the noncollege white men even larger
than in 2008. Even with their modest variations, these four surveys paint a similar picture. Obama is largely holding the minority and college-educated white women who comprise two pillars of the modern Democratic base (along with young people.) But he is facing erosion among blue-collar white men and struggling to maintain even his modest 2008 support among the two swing quadrants in the white electorate: the college-plus white men and non-college white women. For the moment, that division of allegiances is enough to provide Obama an overall advantage (he would lead slightly even in the Gallup track if the minority share of the vote was adjusted to its level in 2008). But it's not enough of an edge for him to breathe easy -- and the fact that most of the white electorate is resisting him at least as much as it did in 2008
suggests he may never entirely get to such a comfortable place before November, even if he remains ahead overall. Check back Thursday for another snapshot, from the first University of Phoenix/ National Journal Next America Poll. This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2012/04/on-raceclass-and-gender-obamas-pollinglooks-a-lot-like-2008/256040/ This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
agenda because there are a number of deadlines looming at the end of the year with major consequences for tax and spending policy. Not only are the Bush tax cuts set to expire along with the payroll-tax cut, and an Alternative Minimum Tax adjustment but a host of drastic spending cuts are set to go into effect because of congressional failure to reach agreement on deficit reduction last year. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers recently that all of this represents "a massive fiscal cliff" facing the nation. Others, in the hyperbole typical to Washington, have taken to calling the expirations "taxmageddon." As a result, it seems very likely that whatever happens with the election we will get some kind of tax reform in 2013. A number of
plans have been introduced but whether Congress will just "fix" the immediate tax issues or deal in a meaningful way with deficit reduction and entitlement reform remains a big -- and open -question. This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2012/04/thisyears-fight-over-taxing-themiddle-class-and-the-rich/255996/ This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Nintendo granted patent for emulating handheld consoles and software

Joseph Volpe (Engadget)
Submitted at 4/17/2012 5:48:00 PM
Any geek worth his / her salt knows that techdom's territoryspanning intellectual property spats are far from over, so we don't begrudge heavyweights like Nintendo for endeavoring to bulk up their litigious arsenal. Filed
back in October of 2003 and just recently granted by the USPTO, is patent number 8,157,654 that gives the Big N ownership of a method to emulate video game consoles bearing built-in displays (think: handhelds) and accompanying software on external computing devices. What does that mean in plain 'ol
English, dear gaming fanatic?
Well, it could presage a device agnostic service that would break the company's vast backlog of handheld titles out of its walled garden and into the vast consumer wild. Or it could just be another legal armament poised for deployment should the sue-happy titans of the electronics industry come a-calling. Either way, the
house that Mario built's got another IP bullet locked and loaded. Nintendo granted patent for emulating handheld consoles and software originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:48:00 EDT. Please see our NINTENDO page 77
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A New Twist on Influence Brand Squads

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recognized and have a direct impact on the brands they care about most. Submitted at 4/17/2012 11:00:37 AM The Brand Squads product grew Tweet out of our own experience of Klout launched in 2008 with the engaging influencers for feedback simple idea of empowering all a n d i d e a s . O u r u s e r s h a v e influencers, and every day we try influenced Klout for the better, to think of new ways to make that and wed like to provide a possible. Today, were thrilled to platform for influencers to engage introduce Brand Squads, and to with all brands. With Brand w e l c o m e R e d B u l l a s o u r Squads, you will see a dynamic e x c l u s i v e l a u n c h p a r t n e r . list of top influencers for each Brand Squads, currently in beta, brand, watch conversations flow a r e K l o u t s w a y o f g i v i n g across social media, monitor i n f l u e n c e r s a p l a c e t o b e information about a brands recent
developments, and earn access to special Perks. As part of this beta launch, Red Bull has offered Perks that will roll out to their top influencers
chance to try their new Red Bull Total Zero by sending you a 4Pack. The very top influencers will get some sweet merchandise or even a VIP Red Bull experience, like a behind-thescenes look at the X-Games. Check out the Red Bull page and let us know your feedback. Were excited to build out more functionality in the months ahead over the next few weeks. If youre t o c o n t i n u e e m p o w e r i n g one of Red Bulls top advocates, influencers to have an impact. theyll keep you informed with a subscription to The Red Bulletin and make sure that youve had a

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