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Police break up all-night anti-Putin protest

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They then joined up with dozens of their supporters who had Submitted at 5/8/2012 11:21:54 AM moved on to another square, where they vowed to continue the By Dmitry Lovetsky, AP Police roving protest. detain a protester during a rally "If we are pushed away from here, a g a i n s t V l a d i m i r P u t i n ' s we'll move to other squares," said inauguration in St. Petersburg, Sergei Udaltsov, the leader of a Russia, on Monday. leftist movement. "The objective is to have people on the squares By Dmitry Lovetsky, AP every day who are struggling for Police detain a protester during a freedom, for change. It is a very rally against Vladimir Putin's simple tactic, and I think it has a inauguration in St. Petersburg, chance to bring a successful Russia, on Monday. result." MOSCOW (AP) Police on The cat-and-mouse game Tuesday broke up a demonstration between protesters and police b y h u n d r e d s o f o p p o s i t i o n began on Monday, the day of activists who had spent the night Putin's inauguration at a formal o u t s i d e t h e p r e s i d e n t i a l ceremony inside the Kremlin. administration offices to protest Hundreds of activists tried to Vladimir Putin's return as Russia's protest near Red Square and along president. the route Putin's motorcade took Two prominent opposition to the Kremlin, but they were leaders who had called their turned back or detained by supporters to the small square in thousands of riot police. central Moscow were detained by Police said they made about 300 police in the early hours of the detentions on Monday, but in morning but later released. some cases the same people were
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GOP blocks Senate debate on student loan bill

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by eliminating a preventive health fund created by President Obama's 2010 health care WASHINGTON (AP) Senate overhaul. That financing idea has R e p u b l i c a n s d e r a i l e d a no chance of passing the Democratic bill on Tuesday aimed Democratic-run Senate and has at keeping interest rates on federal drawn a veto threat from the college loans from doubling July White House. 1 in an election-year battle aimed Tuesday's vote was 52-45 in at the hearts and votes of favor of starting debate on the millions of students and their Democratic legislation eight parents. votes shy of the 60 needed. Senate By J. Scott Applewhite, AP Majority Leader Harry Reid, DSen. Mike Enzi pauses for Nev., was the only one to defect questions Tuesday on Capitol his party's position, a procedural Hill, as senators went to the floor move that will allow him to hold for a vote to cut off debate on the vote again should the two student loan interest rates. sides work out a deal later. The vote was largely symbolic By J. Scott Applewhite, AP because the Democratic bill had Sen. Mike Enzi pauses for no chance of approval by the GOP questions Tuesday on Capitol -led House. Hill, as senators went to the floor The measure would extend for a vote to cut off debate on today's 3.4% interest rate on student loan interest rates. subsidized Stafford loans for Sponsored Links another year. Under a 2007 law, Republicans said they favor those rates will grow to 6.8% preventing the interest rate without congressional action, increase but blocked the Senate t h a n k s t o a 2 0 0 7 l a w t h a t from debating the $6 billion gradually lowered those rates but measure because they oppose how expires on July 1. Democrats would pay for it: Both parties know full well that Boosting Social Security and they will need a bipartisan pact on Medicare payroll taxes on high- financing the measure. They are earning stockholders of some both motivated to strike such an privately owned corporations. agreement because in the months GOP senators want a vote on b e f o r e t h i s N o v e m b e r ' s their own version heading off the presidential and congressional interest rate increases and paid for elections, neither wants to be
that they'd rather protect wealthy tax dodgers, and that's what they are, than help promising students achieve their dreams of higher education," Reid said. Both leaders acknowledged that a bipartisan agreement on how to finance the legislation was needed for the effort to advance, but each blamed for letting college costs dared the other to propose such a grow for students and their plan. families struggling in today's "If they want some other way to weak economy. Spotlight on pay for it, let's take a look at that," Reid said. student loans McConnell said Democrats But before they strike a should support the GOP proposal compromise which both parties believe will happen before July 1 "or at the very least offer a both sides were eager to use bipartisan solution of their own." the debate to score partisan points. The fight over student loans has Senate Minority Leader Mitch become a high-profile, symbolic M c C o n n e l l , R - K y . , s a i d tussle over which party wants to Democrats were forcing that vote d o m o r e f o r A m e r i c a n s as "a way to drive a wedge scrounging to get by at a time jobs between Republicans and a are hard to find, and each side is constituency that they're looking happy to force the other to take to court ahead of November's embarrassing votes. elections. That's what today's vote With both parties focused on this November's presidential and is all about for them." McConnell said the Senate "has congressional elections, it is no ceased to be a place where coincidence they each have problems are resolved. It's chosen to pay for their bill with a become, instead, a place where favorite target that they believe Democrats produce campaign speaks to their core voters: Democrats going after higher material." Reid said he might be willing to r e v e n u e s f r o m t h e r i c h , allow a vote on the GOP bill. But Republicans trying to punch a he also criticized Republicans for hole in Obama's health care overhaul. opposing the Democratic plan. "They're sending a clear message Subsidized Stafford loans are for
low- and middle-income students. The higher rates, should they occur, would only affect students taking out new loans starting July 1. Democrats who controlled Congress in 2007 and wrote the student loan law allowed the lower interest rates to rise again this summer because they felt it would have been too expensive to permanently reduce those rates. The Education Department estimates 7.4 million students will borrow $31.6 billion in such loans in the year beginning July 1, averaging $4,226 for each student. These loans generally are paid off over a decade or more after graduation. Allowing interest rates to double would cost the typical student about $1,000 over the life of the loan, the administration says. 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 GOP page 3
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Zimmerman to be arraigned in Trayvon case

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George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, is scheduled to be arraigned at 1:30 p.m. today in a Florida courtroom. Update at noon ET: Zimmerman's lawyer, Mark O'Mara, filed a motion to have more time to ready his defense and a waiver of a speedy trial, according to court documents. Zimmerman needs "additional time to prepare" and realizes this may prolong his case, the papers day. Original Post: Neither Zimmerman, his lawyer Mark O'Mara, nor lawyers from the prosecution will attend the arraignment hearing in Sanford. Zimmerman's attorney has already filed a written plea of not guilty to the charge of seconddegree murder and waived Zimmerman's appearance.
Zimmerman, who is a white Hispanic, says he shot Trayvon in self-defense. The city' s new interim police chief, Richard Myers, began work last Friday. His appointment comes after former chief Bill Lee temporarily vacated the post. Lee was strongly criticized for his handling of the investigation. Zimmerman, 28, was released last month from a Seminole A brief digital recording of the County jail after posting 10% of arraignment will be posted on the his$150,000 bail. He has a 7 p.m.c o u r t ' s w e b s i t e , s a i d c o u r t to-6 a.m. curfew and must wear spokeswoman Michelle Kennedy. an electronic ankle bracelet that New court documents may also be monitors his whereabouts. This entry passed through the available. Trayvon, 17, was shot and killed Full-Text RSS service if this is Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla., as he was your content and you're reading it returning from a store to a gated on someone else's site, please read community. His family says he the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentwas followed and then killed only/faq.php#publishers. Five because Zimmerman deemed him Filters recommends: Donate to "suspicious" because the teen was Wikileaks. black and wearing a hoodie.
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Why no arrests in new Al Qaeda underwear bomb plot? New underwear bomb technology raises security concerns Bachmann: 'We need to keep ahead of the terrorists' WASHINGTON Airport security procedures, with their intrusive pat downs and body scans, don't need to be toughened despite the discovery of a new alQaida airline bomb plot using more sophisticated technology than an earlier attempt, congressional and security officials said Tuesday. Current U.S. detection methods would likely have spotted the shape of the explosive in the upgraded underwear bomb intercepted by the CIA, said a U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss security precautions. No new security measures are being put in place, the official said. The CIA, with help from a wellplaced informant and foreign intelligence services, conducted a
covert operation in Yemen in recent weeks that disrupted a nascent suicide plot and recovered the new bomb, U.S. officials said. Officials said the bomb has a more refined detonation system than the underwear bomb that failed to go off aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009.
FBI experts are picking apart that non-metallic device to see if it could have taken down an airplane. Some passengers, meanwhile, were taking the news of the new bomb in stride. "The terrorists will always be looking to make a bomb," said
Guillaume Viard, a 26-year-old physiotherapist from Nice, France, about to board a flight to Paris at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. Retirees Nan and Bill Gartner, also at Kennedy Airport, were on their way to a vacation in Italy "We were nervous for a
minute," said Nan Gartner. "But then we thought, we aren't going anywhere near Yemen, so we're OK." Added Bill Gartner, "We hope we're right." U.S. officials are trying to SECURITY page 6
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GOP blocks Senate debate on student loan bill - USA TODAY

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by eliminating a preventive health fund created by President Obama's 2010 health care WASHINGTON (AP) Senate overhaul. That financing idea has R e p u b l i c a n s d e r a i l e d a no chance of passing the Democratic bill on Tuesday aimed Democratic-run Senate and has at keeping interest rates on federal drawn a veto threat from the college loans from doubling July White House. 1 in an election-year battle aimed Tuesday's vote was 52-45 in at the hearts and votes of favor of starting debate on the millions of students and their Democratic legislation eight parents. votes shy of the 60 needed. Senate By J. Scott Applewhite, AP Majority Leader Harry Reid, DSen. Mike Enzi pauses for Nev., was the only one to defect questions Tuesday on Capitol his party's position, a procedural Hill, as senators went to the floor move that will allow him to hold for a vote to cut off debate on the vote again should the two student loan interest rates. sides work out a deal later. The vote was largely symbolic By J. Scott Applewhite, AP because the Democratic bill had Sen. Mike Enzi pauses for no chance of approval by the GOP questions Tuesday on Capitol -led House. Hill, as senators went to the floor The measure would extend for a vote to cut off debate on today's 3.4% interest rate on student loan interest rates. subsidized Stafford loans for Sponsored Links another year. Under a 2007 law, Republicans said they favor those rates will grow to 6.8% preventing the interest rate without congressional action, increase but blocked the Senate t h a n k s t o a 2 0 0 7 l a w t h a t from debating the $6 billion gradually lowered those rates but measure because they oppose how expires on July 1. Democrats would pay for it: Both parties know full well that Boosting Social Security and they will need a bipartisan pact on Medicare payroll taxes on high- financing the measure. They are earning stockholders of some both motivated to strike such an privately owned corporations. agreement because in the months GOP senators want a vote on b e f o r e t h i s N o v e m b e r ' s their own version heading off the presidential and congressional interest rate increases and paid for elections, neither wants to be
that they'd rather protect wealthy tax dodgers, and that's what they are, than help promising students achieve their dreams of higher education," Reid said. Both leaders acknowledged that a bipartisan agreement on how to finance the legislation was needed for the effort to advance, but each blamed for letting college costs dared the other to propose such a grow for students and their plan. families struggling in today's "If they want some other way to weak economy. Spotlight on pay for it, let's take a look at that," Reid said. student loans McConnell said Democrats But before they strike a should support the GOP proposal compromise which both parties believe will happen before July 1 "or at the very least offer a both sides were eager to use bipartisan solution of their own." the debate to score partisan points. The fight over student loans has Senate Minority Leader Mitch become a high-profile, symbolic M c C o n n e l l , R - K y . , s a i d tussle over which party wants to Democrats were forcing that vote d o m o r e f o r A m e r i c a n s as "a way to drive a wedge scrounging to get by at a time jobs between Republicans and a are hard to find, and each side is constituency that they're looking happy to force the other to take to court ahead of November's embarrassing votes. elections. That's what today's vote With both parties focused on this November's presidential and is all about for them." McConnell said the Senate "has congressional elections, it is no ceased to be a place where coincidence they each have problems are resolved. It's chosen to pay for their bill with a become, instead, a place where favorite target that they believe Democrats produce campaign speaks to their core voters: Democrats going after higher material." Reid said he might be willing to r e v e n u e s f r o m t h e r i c h , allow a vote on the GOP bill. But Republicans trying to punch a he also criticized Republicans for hole in Obama's health care overhaul. opposing the Democratic plan. "They're sending a clear message Subsidized Stafford loans are for
low- and middle-income students. The higher rates, should they occur, would only affect students taking out new loans starting July 1. Democrats who controlled Congress in 2007 and wrote the student loan law allowed the lower interest rates to rise again this summer because they felt it would have been too expensive to permanently reduce those rates. The Education Department estimates 7.4 million students will borrow $31.6 billion in such loans in the year beginning July 1, averaging $4,226 for each student. These loans generally are paid off over a decade or more after graduation. Allowing interest rates to double would cost the typical student about $1,000 over the life of the loan, the administration says. 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 GOP page 10
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reassure the public that security measures are strong, and can frustrate such attacks. "I think people getting on a plane today should feel confident that their intelligence services are working, day in and day out," John Brennan, the top counterterrorism adviser to President Barack Obama, said on ABC's "Good Morning America." Just last winter, al-Qaida's Yemen branch boasted that it had obtained a supply of chemicals used to make bombs. Chemicals can eliminate the need for electrical equipment to detonate explosives. "Hence, no wearisome measures are taken anymore to attain the needed large amount of chemicals for explosives," the group wrote in its online magazine, "Inspire." Working with an informant close to al-Qaida in Yemen, the CIA caught wind of the bomb plot last month, officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters. The would-be bomber was supposed to buy a plane ticket to the United States and detonate the bomb inside the country, officials said. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters Monday night that she had been briefed about an "undetectable" device that was "going to be on a U.S.-bound airliner."
Before the bomber could choose his target or buy his ticket, however, the CIA swooped in and seized the bomb. The fate of the would-be bomber remains unclear. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told CNN on Tuesday that White House officials told him "He is no longer of concern," a point Brennan echoed on a round of appearances Tuesday on television news shows. "We're confident that this device and any individual that might have been designed to use it are no longer a threat to the American people," Brennan said. The plot was a reminder of the ambitions of al-Qaida in Yemen, the most active and dangerous branch of the terrorist group. While al-Qaida's core in Pakistan has been weakened over the past decade, instability in Yemen has allowed an offshoot group to thrive and set up training camps there. In some parts of the country, al-Qaida is even the de facto government. Though analysis of the device is incomplete, U.S. security officials said they remained confident in the security systems in place. "These layers include threat and vulnerability analysis, prescreening and screening of passengers, using the best available technology, random searches at airports, federal air
marshal coverage and additional security measures both seen and unseen," Department of Homeland Security spokesman Matthew Chandler said. "The device did not appear to pose a threat to the public air service, but the plot itself indicates that these terrorist keep trying to devise more and more perverse and terrible ways to kill innocent people," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said during a news conference in New Delhi with Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna. It's not clear who built the bomb, but because of its sophistication and its similarity to the Christmas Day bomb, authorities suspected it was the work of master bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri or one of his students. Al-Asiri constructed the first underwear bomb and two others that alQaida built into printer cartridges and shipped to the U.S. on cargo planes in 2010. Both of those bombs used a powerful industrial explosive. Both were nearly successful. But the group has also suffered significant setbacks as the CIA and the U.S. military focus more on Yemen. On Sunday, Fahd alQuso, a senior al-Qaida leader, was killed by a missile as he stepped out of his vehicle along with another operative in the southern Shabwa province of Yemen.
Al-Quso, 37, was on the FBI's most wanted list, indicted in the U.S. for his role in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in the harbor of Aden, Yemen, in which 17 American sailors were killed and 39 injured. Al-Quso was believed to have replaced Anwar al-Awlaki as the group's head of external operations. Al-Awlaki was killed in a U.S. airstrike last year. Al-Quso told a Yemeni journalist in February that AQAP's recent focus on defeating Yemeni forces did not mean the group had abandoned attacks on the U.S. "The war didn't end between us and our enemies," al-Quso said. "Wait for what is coming." The new Yemeni president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, has promised improved cooperation with the U.S. to combat the militants. On Tuesday, Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. John Kirby confirmed more U.S. trainers are being dispatched to Yemen for "routine" cooperation with Yemeni security forces. A second U.S. official said they are special operations troops. A U.S. Navy SEAL-led task force based in the region has worked with Yemeni counterterrorist teams since roughly 2009. ___ Associated Press writers Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Ted
Bridis, Bob Burns and Alan Fram in Washington; Verena Dobnik in New York, oand Matthew Lee in New Delhi contributed to this report. ___ Contact the Washington investigative team at DCinvestigations(at)ap.org Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Related Opinion Bin Laden may be dead but Bin Ladenism is still alive 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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Reddit co-founder slams Facebook over CISPA support

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before, ever. It knows things about our private lives that no one else does. And one of the big Reddit.com co-founder Alex issues that a lot of us in the tech O h a n i a n s a y s h e w o n t b e community have with Facebook investing in the Facebook IPO. of late has been their support of Facebook is expected to make bills like CISPA that make it b i l l i o n s w h e n t h e s o c i a l really easy for a business like networking site goes public, but Facebook to hand over very one of the most influential men on private data about us without any the Web says he wont be buying due process. So thats why Im stock. The founder of Reddit has gonna be holding off. denounced Facebook over their Facebook advertises that they support of CISPA. have 901 million monthly active In an interview with CNN this users, which includes around half week, Reddit.com co-founder a billion people who use mobile Alex Ohanian explains that he phones to access the profiles of wont be investing in the largest themselves and others. The site technology IPO in the history of exists in more than 70 languages the Internet. Although Facebook and users upload around 300 founder Mark Zuckerberg expects million photos each day to the to make billions off of the sites companys servers. To say that initial public offering, Ohanian Facebook has their finger on a lot says that he wont be emptying o f d a t a w o u l d b e a n out his own pockets to pad those understatement, but perhaps even of the young Silicon Valley star. more alarming is that the website The reason, says Ohanian, is he says they have no problem with believes that Facebooks stance sharing any of that information on the Cyber Intelligence Sharing with the government. and Protection Act CISPA The social media sites insists that is very unsettling. they mean well by siding with I understand the business value CISPA, but Ohanian and others to what Facebook is doing, arent convinced that thats Ohanian tells the network.Weve enough of a reason to sign-on as a never seen a company like this supporter.[W]e recognize that a
number of privacy and civil liberties groups have raised concerns about the bill in particular about provisions that enable private companies to voluntarily share cyber threat data with the government, Joel Kaplan, Facebooks vice president of US public policy, explained in a blog post earlier this month.The concern is that companies will share sensitive personal information with the government in the name of protecting cybersecurity. Facebook has no intention of doing this and it is unrelated to the things we liked about HR 3523 in the first place the additional information it would provide us about specific cyber threats to our systems and users. No matter which way they paint it, however, Facebook has indeed gone on the record to support CISPA, essentially agreeing to supply Uncle Sam with the personal data and correspondence of any user in the name of cybersecurity. Opponents of the bill argue though that even if well intentioned, CISPA would install the federal government with privacy-invading powers that would be worse than anything that
America can already legally do. CISPA is essentially an Internet monitoring bill that permits both the federal government and private companies to view your private online communications with no judicial oversight, provided, of course, that they do so in the name of cyber security, Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) explained in an audio address made last month, adding that the legislationrepresents an alarming form of corporatism as it further intertwines governments with companies like Google and Facebook. Delivering a speech in Amsterdam last month, Ohanian voiced his opposition to CISPA without addressing Facebooks support.We value privacy and a right to free speech in the real world, this is fundamental to our democracy. For some reason the rules change online, when its digital, but free speech and privacy should be respected online as well, he said. Speaking to Venture Beat earlier this month, Reddit General Manager Erik Martin added that although his company usually avoids taking political sides, the realities of what could happen if
CISPA passes is something that could shape the future of not just Reddit, but how the Internet operates entirely. Were not interested in activism, but there are times when we can help make sure the communitys voice is heard. And Reddit is built upon having a free and open internet were open source, dont require user info, user curated etc. So, anything that might threaten a free and open internet impacts both the community and the company, said Martin. On Friday, Congressman Ron Paul reiterated his opposition to CISPA while speaking at the University of California in San Diego.Without the First Amendment it is very difficult for us to get our message out, said Paul,but I want to make sure that the first amendment is protected on the Internet as well. 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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Police arrest mother, wife of kidnapping suspect - CNN

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Mother, daughter dead; suspect and 2 children remain missing STORY HIGHLIGHTS Police in Tennessee arrest the kidnapping suspect's mother and wife Arrest warrant: Mayes' wife drove a car carrying Bain and her daughters to Mississippi Bain and her oldest daughter were found dead in Mississippi last week Police are searching for suspect Adam Mayes and the other two girls (CNN)-- Police in Tennessee have arrested the wife and mother of the man suspected of kidnapping Jo Ann Bain and her three daughters, a county official said Tuesday. Mary Frances Mayes, 65, and Teresa Ann Mayes, 30, were arrested Monday and charged with especially aggravated kidnapping, according to Hardeman County, Tennessee, Deputy Clerk Pat Kirk. They appeared before a judge Tuesday morning and were being held in the Hardeman County jail, Kirk said. According to an arrest warrant, Teresa Mayes admitted driving a vehicle containing Jo Ann Bain
and her three daughters from Hardeman County to Union County, Mississippi. Bain and her oldest daughter, Adrienne, suffered "serious bodily injury as a result of their removal or confinement," according to the warrant. The bodies Jo Ann Bain and
Adrienne Bain were found Friday at a home in Guntown, Mississippi. Police say that home is linked to the suspect, Adam Mayes. Police say they are still searching for Mayes and Bain's two younger daughters, Alexandria Bain, 12, and Kyliyah Bain, 8.
In Mississippi, authorities continued to stop and search cars at checkpoints set up to look for them, state Highway Patrol Master Sgt. Johnny Poulos said. Mayes, 35, is considered armed and dangerous, and authorities have asked for the public's help in tracking down him and the two
girls. Authorities established contact with and tried to interview Mayes soon after the mother and her three daughters were reported missing on April 27 by Jo Ann's husband in Whiteville, a western POLICE page 11
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Raising the capital gains tax will not lead to 'fairness,' but only slam U.S. job creation
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the housing bust and financial crisis, real annual GDP growth has averaged just 0.8 percent. President Barack Obama says the Though the recession that began Bush capital gains tax cut should in December 2007 officially be permitted to expire at the end e n d e d i n J u n e 2 0 0 9 , t h e of the year. This is part of his rebound usually associated with election-year tax package, which recoveries has been conspicuously he says is designed to pursue absent, keeping unemployment f a i r n e s s . I n m a k i n g t h i s above 8 percent. argument, Obama compares If history is any guide, Obamas himself to Ronald Reagan, whom plan to hike the rate will depress he called a wild-eyed, socialist, economic growth even further. As tax-hiking class warrior. illustrated in the graph below, in BUNK general, capital gains taxes and Even the Washington Posts GDP have an inverse relationship: Fact Checker had to give when the rate goes up, the Obama two Pinocchios for this economy goes down; when the misleading comparison. His rate goes down, the economy goes proposal would cause the tax rate up. on long-term capital gains to In 1968-81, when capital gains increase from the current 15 taxes gradually rose from 25 percent to 20 percent. In addition, percent to as high as 40 percent, t h e r e w i l l b e a 3 p e r c e n t average GDP growth fell from 3.8 d i s a l l o w a n c e o f i t e m i z e d percent to 3.1 percent per year deductions for income earned (See table). Likewise, after 1987, above a threshold, bringing the when the rate increased from 20 effective rate to 21.2 percent, plus percent to 29 percent, average an additional 3.8 percent tax for annual growth declined from 3.5 Obamacare, bringing the total to percent back down to 3.1 percent. 25 percent. If the Presidents If Obama wants to produce more Buffett rule is enacted, those jobs, he must grow the economy. affected will face a minimum rate To do that, instead of hiking the of 30 percent. capital gains tax, he must cut it. It is perhaps because businesses After the devastating dot-com are wary of this looming bust and terrorist attacks of 2001, taxmageddon that the U.S. annual growth averaged just 1.8 investment is fleeing to countries percent. But after George W. with lower rates. As a result, since Bush gradually cut the rate (from
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Charlie Gibson pointed out to Obama during a 2008 debate with Hillary Clinton, Reagans 1981 cut increased average annual revenue from capital gains from 0.42 percent to 0.68 percent of GDP; Clintons 1997 cut from 0.67 to 1.05 percent; and Bushs 2003 cut from 0.52 percent to 0.9 percent. In each case, not only did the economic pie grow, but the government got a bigger slice of this larger pie. Whether the President wants more jobs, economic growth, or just more government revenue, he should cut the capital gains tax rate. Forcing the unemployed unnecessarily to continue without jobs can hardly be called fairness. Mark LaRochelle was editor at the National Journalism Center and contributing editor at Consumers' Research. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is 21.19 percent to 16.4 percent by percent to 20 percent) in 1981: your content and you're reading it 2003) average annual GDP average annual growth rose from on someone else's site, please read growth increased a full percentage 3.1 percent to 3.5 percent. In each the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentpoint, to 2.8 percent. case, economic growth brought only/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Similarly, when Bill Clinton cut more jobs. the capital gains tax rate from 29 P e r h a p s O b a m a i s n o t a s Wikileaks. percent to 21 percent in 1997, interested in jobs or growth as in economic growth rose from an increasing federal revenues. If so, average of 3.1 percent to 4.5 he should know that, historically, percent per year. The same thing capital gains tax rate hikes have happened when Ronald Reagan not increased, but decreased slashed the rate in half (from 40 revenues. In contrast, as ABCs
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Moscow police disperse oppositions peaceful promenade (PHOTOS)

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Police have dispersed the popular promenade in Central Moscow, a new form of peaceful demonstration led by Russia's opposition. More arrests have been made as anti-government rallies continue for a third day. Hundreds of people relocated to the neighboring Kitai-Gorod area, where the promenade, as named by dissident blogger Aleksey Navalny, had initially started. Some protesters headed to Pushkinskaya Square, another popular place among protesters. But police forces, having already been on constant standby for several days, quickly cleared Pushkinskaya and pushed the crowd into the subway. However, many people only crossed the road instead and continued on their way, heading towards the Kremlin. A portion of Tverskaya Street, a few hundred meters from the main government buildings,
has been partly blocked. Police have started detaining journalists and demonstrators. Russian socialite and TV personality Ksenia Sobchak, along with Aleksey Navalny, have been reported among those detained. This is the third time Navalny has been detained, the last occasion being early Tuesday. Russias opposition rallies continue but this time, the demonstrations were made to look like street festivities, with music, games and picnics. Up to 300 people have been protesting since the early hours Tuesday. However, they were forced to leave the Chistye Prudy area in the center of Moscow, where the For fair elections movement first gathered on December 10 of last year. The situation at Chistye Prudy was calm and quiet, as protesters made the rally look like a random popular promenade. They chatted, sang and posted pictures from the scene on social networks; nobody
chanted political slogans. Politicians and symbolic figures of the months-long antigovernment protest movement also come to the square to show their support. Despite torrential rain, demonstrators continued their promenade. The popular promenade has already been called the longest protest since December, having begun in the early hours of May 8, when Navalny and Left Front leader Sergey Udaltsov organized the protest in Kitai-Gorod, not too far from Chistye Prudy. Navalny had called on his supporters via Twitter on Monday night to come to Central Moscow to take part, tofight for a better future. People brought warm clothing, tea and cots. Navalny and Udaltsov were both detained early on Tuesday morning, but released shortly thereafter. After leaving the police office, they again joined the protesters. This third day of protest follows
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Tennessee town of 4,600 people, but he fled, Joel Siskovic, the spokesman for the FBI bureau in Memphis, Tennessee, told CNN affiliate WPTY. He was last seen May 1 in Guntown, the same northern Mississippi town where the bodies were found. Details haven't been released as to how or exactly when they died. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation late last week issued an Amber Alert asking for the public's help in finding the Bain sisters and for information leading to Mayes' arrest. Aaron T. Ford, special agent in charge at the FBI's Memphis, Tennessee, bureau, told CNN on Sunday that investigators believe all the kidnapping victims "were transported across state lines into Mississippi." Local, state and federal law enforcement's focus is now in Union County, Mississippi, where Guntown is located, the FBI agent said. Authorities have also pointed out, however, that Mayes has connections to Texas, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Florida and could be en route to Arizona. Mayes may be using the alias of Christopher Zachery Wylde or Paco Rodrigass, his Facebook profile name, the FBI said Monday. Rick Foster, whose wife was a lifelong friend of Jo Ann Bain and whose daughter was a classmate of Adrienne Bain, recently told CNN that Mayes had been a friend of the Bain family for years. Mayes lived about 90 miles away in Mississippi, Foster said, but would stay with the Bains when he was in the Whiteville area. He described Mayes as "a big kid in a grown man's body." Mary Patterson, Mayes' landlord in Alpine, Mississippi, told WPTY that she thought he was a "kind" and "fun guy." "If somebody told me this, I would have never believed it," she said. Authorities describe Mayes as a white man who has blue eyes and brown hair, weighs about 175
pounds and stands 6-foot-3. He recently cut his own hair and may have done the same to the missing children, according to the Amber Alert. As for the Bains, Foster described the marriage between Jo Ann and her husband, Gary, as "perfect" and said the family had planned to move to Arizona once the school year ended. The FBI and U.S. Marshals Service are offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to Mayes' arrest and to the missing girls. CNN's Stephanie Gallman and Joe Sutton contributed to this report. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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channels, including RT. All day long in Moscow parks, Submitted at 5/8/2012 1:36:31 PM actors and animators in soldiers' Tune in for RTs instructions on uniforms and camouflage will how to get the most out of the gather and enact various WWII 67th annual Victory Day in the scenes. If you are eager to plunge Russian capital. into the 1945 atmosphere, head to - V i c t o r y D a y i n R u s s i a i s Gorky Park or Hermitage Park. t r a d i t i o n a l l y m a r k e d w i t h For those interested in wartime celebrations in each and every vehicles, Krasnaya Presnya park city across the country. In will offer a ride on an authentic Moscow, festivities will start 1940s motorbike. Those who love early in the morning and last until military films can go to the the end of the day. Khudozhestvenny cinema in the The traditional Victory Day Arbat district. Parade will kick off at 10am and A big audio-visual installation last for about an hour. Tanks, called Stop! Look! Remember! missile launchers and armored will open at 2pm on Tverskaya vehicles will roll through Red Square, while WWII veterans will Square as helicopters and fighter gather in the Teatralnaya Square jets fly over the Kremlin. in front on the Bolshoi Theatre. Around 1,500 World War II From 5pm till 10pm, Poklonnaya veterans are expected to attend the Gora will host a big concert called event. The show will be broadcast Music of the Victorious Spring. by all the major Russian TV The day will culminate in a big
fireworks show consisting of 30 rounds. Keep in mind that a range of Central Moscow Metro stations will be closed to entry from 7am till the end of the parade, among them Ploshchad Revolutsii, Okhotny Ryad, Teatralnaya, Alexandrovsky Sad, Borovitskaya, Biblioteka Imeni Lenina, Lubyanka, and Kitay Gorod. Park Pobedy, Kutuzovskaya and Kievskaya will be closed from noon. Motorists are advised to avoid central streets. 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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The Nigerian Stock Exchange Spent Millions On A Yacht And Rolex Watches For Some Reason
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today," Oteh said in the presentation to the parliamentary Submitted at 5/8/2012 2:00:48 PM committee, a copy of which was Nigeria's stock exchange was at obtained by Reuters on Tuesday. the heart of a web of fraudulent The financial crisis saw shares accounting that saw share-price lose 60 percent from market peak manipulation, insider trading and at the end of March 2008 to the millions of dollars misspent on a same month a year later. yacht and Rolex watches, the The central bank had to bail out regulator said. nine banks at a cost of $4 billion. I n a r e p o r t f i l e d t o a Oteh told the hearing the SEC parliamentary hearing on the investigated alleged fraud behind capital markets on Monday, the crisis, but it had been unable S e c u r i t i e s a n d E x c h a n g e to publish findings because of a Commission ( SEC) Director court injunction brought by General Arunma Oteh said abuses Okereke-Onyiuke. leading to a financial crisis in " T h e r e w e r e i n c i d e n c e s o f 2008/09 were still scaring off f i n a n c i a l skimming, local investors. misappropriation, false Oteh's presentation concerned a accounting, misrepresentation, decade when Ndi Okereke- and questionable transactions," Onyiuke was its director general. Oteh told the hearing. Replacing her was one of the first The stock exchange bought a things Oteh did when she was y a c h t f o r 3 7 m i l l i o n n a i r a appointed SEC head in 2010 in an ($235,300) that was meant to be effort to clean up Nigeria's capital presented as a gift during a 2008 markets. award ceremony, yet there are no Okereke-Onyiuke herself was not records of the receiver. a c c u s e d o f a n y s p e c i f i c It also spent 186 million naira on wrongdoing in the regulator's 165 Rolex wrist watches as prizes, report. but only 73 were actually "The extent and nature of the p r e s e n t e d . market abuses carried out between "The outstanding 92 Rolex 2006 and 2008 are primary watches valued at 99.5 million reasons for the continuation of the naira remain unaccounted for," investor apathy that we see Oteh said.
STOCK EXCHANGE FRAUD Sub-Saharan Africa's secondbiggest economy has been a darling of frontier markets investors, with a surging economy, a population of more than 160 million and a stock market that has frequently outperformed emerging market peers. Weak regulation and impunity for senior officials involved in fraud have clouded its image, but in this case regulators made a rare move to take on Nigeria's powerful vested interests.
and several new listings. She argued that it had been difficult to be sure of malpractice in a stock exchange. "Insider trading is usually very difficult to establish and prove ... even in the more advanced stock markets," she said. Efforts to clean up Nigeria's banking sector and capital markets since have helped restore confidence, including, Oteh said, new margin trading and corporate governance rules. Oteh noted that it was the banks' dealings in the capital markets that largely led to their demise. Nigeria's banks saw surging balance sheet growth after a wave When central bank governor of consolidation in 2005, and Lamido Sanusi bailed out the nine went on to raise huge amounts of banks, he sacked the senior capital for loans - a good chunk of management of all but two, and which went bad. Abuses included banks the former managing director of borrowing money to buy their Oceanic Bank Cecilia Ibru was sentenced to 18 months in jail for own shares, misusing banking funds to fund fuel import a $1.2 billion fraud. Speaking at the hearing on companies owned by its directors T u e s d a y , O k e r e k e - O n y i u k e and buying and selling the bank's defended her record at the helm of own shares in short-term plays to the exchange from the year 2000, turn a profit. saying she had brought "a lot of " A s a r e s u l t o f t h e S E C investigations with respect to the positive developments". These included a several-fold intervened banks, we instituted NIGERIAN page 14 increase in market capitalization
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Eric Migicovsky is the founder of Pebble Technology and the brain behind the Pebble smartwatch that caught all kinds of attention on Kickstarter. He's holding an"Ask Me Anything" session on Reddit and revealed the hardest part of bringing his product to the market: "Probably the industrial and aesthetic design. That was the most 'Oh, sh*t, are we doing the right thing' moment." But he answered many other user -submitted questions as well. Here's what we learned: There are no plans to support Windows Phone. It doesn't include the necessary Bluetooth APIs. The watch is only for iPhone and Android He went with buttons over a touchscreen because he "didn't
The watch will be waterresistant, but not waterproof The watch will get its time from your phone. If you wander out of Bluetooth range, it will keep its own time. When you wander back in range, it re-syncs The battery will last 7+ days. It's USB-rechargeable and is not removable We're pretty pumped to get our Pebble in September. Want one for yourself? Time is running out > Here's what Eric had to say when we spoke to him > Please follow SAI: Tools on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story
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White House Punts on Same Sex MarriageAgain

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White House spokesman Jay Carney was asked aboard Air Force One about President Obama's position on same sex
marriage. He punted. Again. From today's pool report: On whether the White House feels the need to clarify the
president's gay marriage stance, interviews and press conferences Carney said he had no updates. and will discuss his views then. He said he's sure POTUS will be asked about the topic in future
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Going Green Could Help Obama leads This Hospital Cut Romney, helped Thousands On Health Bills by independents
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Eco-friendly and penny-smart usually go hand-in-hand. And as Wisconsin's Gundersen Health System is discovering, being the nation's first energy-independent hospital by 2014 won't just help the planetit could also save patients on health bills. According to FastCo Exist reporter Ben Schiller, the La Crosse County project is the first of its kind, including a wind farm and a landfill that converts methane into pure electricity, which could help shave several hundreds of thousands off energy costs often passed on to patients. "My goal is to deliver a source of energy that we can also make money on. But we also believe that its a risk mitigation," Jeff Thompson, the hospital's CEO told Schiller."If the cost of energy skyrockets, it wont hurt our patients and our community. We believe were lowering the cost of health care by doing this." The hospital's commitment to improving patients' health and its environmental footprint doesn't stop there, however. Envision, a new model for health care providers that aims to "reduce
exposure to harmful chemicals, promote healthy foods and conserve energy," was also pioneered by Gundersen and could set a standard for health care facilities going forward. As YM contributor Derek Thompson has noted, there's no price index rising faster than hospital care. The situation has gotten so dire that having an appendix removed effectively costs the same as a new refrigerator, and employers are looking to drive down costs by offering workers cash rebates in
exchange for choosing cheaper medical providers. At a time when it seems to make sense to prioritize costs over quality, Gundersen seems pretty committed to helping consumers not cheat themselves out of care at the risk of their health or the environment. Now read how biking to work is going to save this writer's life > Please follow Your Money on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign rally at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio May 5, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque WASHINGTON| Tue May 8, 2012 2:51pm EDT (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's lead over Republican rival Mitt Romney has grown to 7 percentage points due to increased support from independent voters and more optimism about the U.S. economy, according to a Reuters/ Ipsos poll released on Tuesday. Obama was backed by 49 percent of registered voters in a telephone poll conducted from May 3-7, compared to 42 percent who supported his likely rival in November's presidential election. In April, the poll showed Obama leading Romney 47 percent to 43
percent. The poll showed a jump in the number of independent voters who approved of the way Obama is doing his job. Forty-eight percent approved and 40 percent disapproved in May compared to 37 percent who approved and 57 percent who disapproved in April. Obama's overall approval rating among the 1,131 adults surveyed was 50 percent, up one point from last month, while 47 percent said they disapproved of how he handles his presidency. (Reporting by Deborah Charles; Editing by Sandra Maler) 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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Netanyahu said, focus on redrafting the budget, on electoral reform and on what he called By Allyn Fisher-Ilan and Jeffrey sharing out military duties across Heller the population - his religious JERUSALEM| Tue May 8, 2012 coalition partners had unsettled 2:39pm EDT the government by opposing plans (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister to end exemptions from the draft Benjamin Netanyahu formed a for ultra-Orthodox Jews. unity government on Tuesday in a Among other goals of the new surprise move that could give him government would, the prime a freer hand to attack Iran's minister said, be "to try to nuclear facilities and seek peace advance a responsible peace with the Palestinians. process" with the Palestinians: The coalition deal, negotiated "Not all has been agreed but we secretly over the past days and have a very strong basis for sealed at a private meeting continued action," he said, urging overnight, means the centrist Palestinians to "come sit with us K a d i m a p a r t y w i l l j o i n for serious negotiations". Netanyahu's rightist coalition, Asked how the new alliance creating a majority with 94 of would address Israel's concern parliament's 120 seats. that Iran is secretly developing The alliance, which replaces nuclear weapons, Netanyahu plans announced just two days replied: "Of course one of the earlier for a snap election in important issues is Iran." September, will be one of the Environment Minister Gilad biggest in Israel's history - though Erdan said the accord would help an opinion poll found only 39 build support for any action percent of Israelis supported it against Iran's atomic program, and 34 percent were opposed. which Israel views as a threat to "This government is good for its survival despite Iranian security, good for the economy insistence that it is seeking only and good for the people of Israel," nuclear energy, not bombs. Netanyahu told a joint news "An election wouldn't stop Iran's conference with Kadima leader nuclear program. When a decision Shaul Mofaz, a former defense is taken to attack or not, it is chief who began secret talks on a better to have a broad political deal last week. front, that unites the public," he T h e n e w c o a l i t i o n w o u l d , told Israel Radio.
PALESTINIANS CAUTIOUS A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on Israel to "use the opportunity provided by the expansion of its coalition government" to expedite a peace accord. "This requires an immediate halt to all settlement activity throughout the Palestinian Territories," Nabil Abu Rdainah said. "The new coalition government needs to be a coalition of peace and not a coalition for war." Peace talks have been suspended for 18 months in a dispute over Jewish settlement building in the occupied West Bank and Palestinians say they cannot resume unless such construction is frozen. Netanyahu has called for talks without preconditions. "Entering peace negotiations was an iron condition for forming the unity government," said Mofaz, whose two predecessors as Kadima chief, Ehud Olmert and Tzipi Livni, held such talks while leading a government between 2006 and 2009. The new coalition accord says the new administration will "work towards the resumption of the peace process and promoting talks with the Palestinian Authority". But it also noted "the importance of maintaining defensible borders", a phrase Netanyahu has
used in the past to deflect Palestinian demands for extensive Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, territory captured in a 1967 war. SIGNAL TO IRAN Under the coalition accord, Mofaz, will be vice premier. He took over leadership of Kadima only in March from Livni. A deputy prime minister in Olmert's government, Mofaz was, in 2008, among the first Israeli officials to air publicly the possibility of an attack on Iran. But the Tehran-born Mofaz has since been more circumspect while in opposition, saying Israel should not hasten to break ranks with world powers that are trying to pressure Iran through sanctions and negotiations. Gerald Steinberg, political scientist at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, said the coalition deal "sends a very strong signal to Tehran, but also to Europe and the United States, that Israel is united and the leadership is capable of dealing with the threats that are there if and when it becomes necessary". The Obama administration, which has played up its pro-Israel credentials ahead of the November election in the United States, said coordination on the Palestinians and Iran would continue.
"A new coalition in Israel certainly will not affect our policy approach. We continue to have very good relations with leaders in Israel," said White House spokesman Jay Carney. Israeli officials say the next year may be crucial in seeing whether Iran will curb its nuclear plans in the face of international condemnation and Western sanctions. Iran will discuss its nuclear program with major powers on May 23. Iran regularly rejects foreign accusations it is working on developing a nuclear bomb, saying its program is for energy and medical needs. On Tuesday, its Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast dismissed threats of attack as "propaganda". Israel is reputed to have the region's only nuclear arsenal. "PREPOSTEROUS ZIGZAG" The next election is due in October 2013 but Netanyahu had pushed this month for an early poll after divisions emerged in his coalition over the new military conscription law. Parliament was preparing to dissolve itself and clear the decks for a September 4 ballot while the backroom talks with Kadima were under way. "When it turned out it was possible to set up the biggest NETANYAHU page 20
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Alabama County Blocked From Posting Shelter Signs

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Shown here is the sign DeKalb County officials want to put up along a state road in Alabama. UPDATE ... The Alabama Department of Transportation has reversed course, and decided to work with officials in DeKalb County to develop road signs directing people to a new tornado shelter. The decision comes after Fox News reported, below, that the state was blocking county schools Superintendent Charles Warren from putting up road signs meant to guide people to the shiny new shelter FEMA built at Plainview High School. ORIGINAL STORY ... Talk about a roadblock. After waging a lengthy battle with state and federal bureaucrats over the right to have storm shelters, a tornado-stricken county in Alabama is running into another pile of red tape -- this time over the road signs directing people to those shelters. As Fox News previously reported, DeKalb County officials fought last year to prevent the Federal Emergency Management Agency from tearing down tornado shelters that were being
built at schools. The county won and was allowed to keep the shelters. But now the state is stepping in to prevent county schools Superintendent Charles Warren from putting up road signs meant to guide people to the shiny new shelter FEMA built at Plainview High School. That school was
devastated last spring by a tornado that roared through during the epic April 27 outbreak, in which 33 people lost their lives in DeKalb County. Because the proposed road signs would be placed along a state highway, the Alabama Department of Transportation opposed Warren's request for
street signs. In an email exchange with Warren obtained by Fox News, DOT traffic engineer Travis Kilgore explained the state's position. "The use of shelter directional signs have not yet been approved for installation on state roads," he wrote, adding that "the overuse
and overcrowding of signs can be a distraction to motorist (sic) and often lead to a disregard or disrespect of necessary regulatory and roadway warning signs." Alabama, it seems, does not consider directions to a tornado shelter "necessary." The email ALABAMA page 19
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Teen Allegedly Witnesses Murder via iPad Chat

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The fatal stabbing of a Massachusetts woman by her longtime boyfriend was witnessed by a friend of the woman's teenage daughter who had been video chatting with the girl on an iPad, a prosecutor said Monday. The details were released in Woburn District Court as Christopher Piantedosi, 39, was arraigned on a murder charge in the death of Kristen Pulisciano, 38, of Burlington, Mass. Assistant District Attorney Nicole Allain said Piantedosi chased Pulisciano into their daughter's bedroom and stabbed her 34 times Thursday. A male friend whom the daughter had been video chatting with saw and heard parts of the attack in real time on his iPad, Allain said. "He could hear the victim saying, Please, please.' He could hear the daughter yelling, No. No,'" Allain said in court Monday, according to the Union Leader. "He then heard the defendant say, You gotta die. You gotta die.' He then heard the victim say, Chris, please stop. I love you,' and then the defendant began stabbing Kristen numerous times," Allain
said. In a digital age of Skyping and video chatting, the alleged viewing of the killing on an iPad presents many new possibilities -and challenges -- in trying such cases in court, legal experts told the Boston Herald. "Obviously, the key question here is whether this data was saved on the electronic device or if the prosecution is going to rely on what the witness says they saw on
a computer screen. Theres a big difference between the two, attorney William Korman told the newspaper. "As we all know, eyewitnesses can say they saw one thing, when they saw another. If they knew the alleged perpetrator, its a much more difficult case." Defense attorney Jeffrey Denner called Web evidence "just one more step in a horrible direction," according to the newspaper.
"Welcome to the worst aspect of the 21st century: cyber horror and its progeny," he told the Herald. Prosecutors did not say in court Monday whether they captured forensic proof of what the girl's friend claims he saw on his iPad. Authorities said the couple had a longstanding relationship but were not living together at the time. Their teenage daughter called 911 to report that her father had stabbed her mother.
Allain said Piantedosi had tried to commit suicide in the days before the attack. He reportedly told a court clinician that he suffers from bipolar disorder and attempted suicide on April 29. The Union Leader reported that he had been living with his parents for the past six weeks. Piantedosi, who was ordered held without bail, is due back in court TEEN page 21
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100,000 signatures supporting Dompierre's right to suit up as a senior. I told him yesterday after school N e a r l y 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 o n l i n e and he seemed very pleased, supporters have expressed their Erics father, Dean Dompierre, support of letting Eric Dompierre, told FoxNews.com. This whole 19, of Ishpeming, Mich., play process has been great for him. sports during his final year at Hes empowered and feels as if Ishpeming High School, even hes helped himself. though the rules say student No student is currently permitted athletes who are 19 as of Sept. 1 to complete in MHSAA athletics are ineligible for sports. YouTube if the student turns age 19 prior to /TV6/FOX UP Sept. 1. Dompierre, who plays on the boys varsity basketball and A Michigan high school student football teams, was held back in with Down syndrome deemed too kindergarten and first grade. old to play basketball in his This whole process has been upcoming senior season may get a great for him. Hes empowered shot after all, FoxNews.com has and feels as if hes helped learned. himself. Eric Dompierre, a 19-year-old - Dean Dompierre junior at Ishpeming High School, We have prepared for a vote of received new hope on Monday the membership what we believe when the Michigan High School is the best alternative better for Athletic Association (MHSAA) Michigan than any proposal we announced it was asking its h a v e r e v i e w e d f r o m o t h e r member schools to make an sources, MHSAA Executive exception and waive its maximum Director Jack Roberts said in a age limitation under narrowly statement. The Representative defined circumstances. The C o u n c i l d o e s n o t a d v a n c e move came after an Internet proposals it does not want the c a m p a i g n g e n e r a t e d n e a r l y membership to support, and an
affirmative vote by schools is being specifically requested on this proposal. The MHSAA did not disclose the proposals specific language, but said it would be posted on its website no later than Monday. Ballots will be mailed to 19 member schools this week and the proposal must receive support of two-thirds of those to pass. The organization said it will have no further comment until it announces the results, no later than May 31. Dompierres initial two requests for the rule change were denied in 2010 and 2011. In April, widespread community support grew for the extra point kicker and guard/forward. Nearly 100,000 digital signatures have been collected in support of Dompierre on the Let Em Play website dedicated to his cause. If allowed to play in his senior season, Dompierres father expects his sons role to stay the same on both teams, he said. Hell continue to kick extra points on a football team that usually attempts two-point conversions and will float near the three-point
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suggested that signs pointing the way to a shelter might only lead to accidents or an epidemic of disrespect for other road signs. Kilgore insisted that students who would use the shelter during the day know where it is and that many local citizens nearby the school also know where it is -- so no need to put a sign on the state road telling them where to look. ALABAMA page 20
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He appeared, however, to concede that clear directions are important, but he didn't want state roads to be a part of it. "We understand the importance of notifying and guiding the public to storm shelters, but we cannot permit these signs on state routes," he wrote. Warren pleaded with the state DOT to change its mind, pointing out that Highway 35 is a busy route across the northern part of the state. Many people from out of town -- who missed all the news reports about the shelter's construction -- might be looking for a place to hide should a tornado suddenly appear, he reasoned. "Their lives could be saved by knowing where a place of refuge is when a tornado is imminent," Warren wrote. "We have the signs -- two of them -- already manufactured and ready for placement." Though the signs were already paid for, Warren offered to have them remade at county expense if they didn't meet state regulations. "No cost would be associated or
passed along to the DOT," he wrote. But Kilgore resisted. He wrote back: "I admire your persistence in pursuing the 'Tornado Shelter' signs and commend the DeKalb County Schools for constructing the shelter, however, I cannot approve installation of the signs on AL-35. "The Federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices requires States to develop a comprehensive plane (sic) to address miscellaneous guide signs and their installation on State roads. We limit guide signs, other than the primary destinations (Towns and Cities), to those destinations that a large number of motorists may be looking for. Our State Traffic Engineer has determined these signs are not approved for installation on State roads and has previously denied requests for shelter signs in South Alabama." Fox News has reached out to the office of Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, but has not yet received a response. Print Email
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government in Israel's history ... I thought we could restore stability without elections, so I decided to set up a broad national unity government," Netanyahu said. One politician privy to the deal said the idea was first aired only last week, when Mofaz paid respects to Netanyahu as the prime minister mourned his father, who died on April 30. The accord stunned the political establishment and drew swift censure from the centre-left Labour party, which surveys had predicted would make electoral gains at Kadima's expense. "This is a pact of cowards and the most contemptible and preposterous zigzag in Israel's political history," Labour leader Shelly Yachimovich was quoted as saying in the media, while some commentators hailed Netanyahu's political prowess. Kadima, with 28 seats, will add significant weight to the coalition, but it remains uncertain how it will get along with religious and ultra-right parties also in the cabinet. Intra-government relations are likely to be tested swiftly over the issue of settlement building after
the high court ordered the government on Monday to demolish five apartment buildings in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank. Many Netanyahu supporters want him to adopt legislation to legalize settlements, such as the Ulpana apartments, which a court has ruled were built on privately owned Palestinian land. It is not clear if Kadima would support such a move, which would draw international condemnation on Israel. (Additional reporting by Ari Rabinovitch in Jerusalem and Matt Spetalnick in Washington; Writing by Jeffrey Heller; Editing by Douglas Hamilton and Alastair Macdonald) 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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June 7 for a probable cause hearing. Last year, he was dubbed the "remorseful robber" by police after he returned cash and a GPS he had taken from a woman's cart at a grocery store in Plaistow, N.H. Click for more on this story from the Boston Herald. (Reuters: Top News) with Facebook officials. trends, attendees said. The Boston event attracted about T h e I P O f o r M e n l o P a r k , The Associated Press contributed Submitted at 5/8/2012 1:16:20 PM 200 people, including analysts, California-based Facebook is to this report. An investor holds prospectus hedge fund managers and Will expected to raise up to $10.6 Print explaining the Facebook stock Danoff, who manages the $84 billion, an amount that would best Email a f t e r a t t e n d i n g a s h o w f o r billion Contrafund for Fidelity the debuts of tech companies such Share Facebook Inc's initial public Investments. as Google Inc while giving it a Comments offering at the Four Season's The 8-year-old social network total stock market value that rivals Recommend Tweet Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts that began as Zuckerberg's Amazon.com Inc's. May 8, 2012. Harvard dorm room project has On Monday, Facebook kicked off Credit: Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi indicated an IPO per-share range its cross-country IPO roadshow Related Images BOSTON| Tue May 8, 2012 of $28 to $35, pegging the t o u r i n N e w Y o r k , w h e r e This photo, released by the 2:16pm EDT potential value of the company at Zuckerberg showed up wearing a M i d d l e s e x C o u n t y D i s t r i c t (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's initial $77 billion to $96 billion. Some "hoodie" sweatshirt. He also Attorney's office, shows 39-yearpublic offering pitch played to a t t e n d e e s e x p r e s s e d fielded questions, including about old murder suspect Christopher some bad reviews in New York, disappointment that Zuckerberg i t s $ 1 b i l l i o n p u r c h a s e o f so for its Boston audience on did not make an appearance, but Instagram, a deal that Zuckerberg Tuesday, the 30-minute video was said they liked having more time personally negotiated. scrapped and the company took to ask questions. (Reporting By Tim McLaughlin; more questions from analysts and One analyst, who did not want to editing by Aaron Pressman and potential investors. be named, said no reason was Maureen Bavdek) Facebook Chief Executive Mark given for Zuckerberg's absence. This entry passed through the Zuckerberg did not attend the Facebook was not available to Full-Text RSS service if this is (Nation - Google News) breakfast pitch at the Four comment and reporters were not your content and you're reading it Seasons hotel in Boston's Back admitted to the presentation. on someone else's site, please read Submitted at 5/8/2012 1:29:30 PM Bay neighborhood. Facebook did Facebook Chief Operating the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- The Guardian not play the video, as it did in Officer Sheryl Sandberg was only/faq.php#publishers. Five Cameron and Clegg defiant as New York, after grumblings that present to answer potential Filters recommends: Donate to they reaffirm commitment to not enough time was left for investors' questions, which ranged Wikileaks. coalition questions from the audience, from the company's strategy in The Guardian according to analysts who spoke China to revenue-per-customer David Cameron has insisted that the coalition is "as important and necessary today as it was two year ago" as he and Nick Clegg launched a fightback in the wake
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AT&T kills cheap data. I'm still cranky.

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autorenewal, insist that I pay an extra $25/month (at least) for a voice service package I didn't Submitted at 5/8/2012 3:00:00 PM want or need. My current data It's been a couple of weeks now would no longer roll over, which since I learned that AT&T hated is why I was paying $5/month to me. begin with. It wasn't about 10MB, Okay, maybe not personally, but it was about keeping my data certainly they hate the way I use balance active. data. I'm an iOS developer. I try to If you haven't been following have live SIMs around for testing along with this story it goes like during development on my nonthis. I received a text from AT&T, contract devices. t e l l i n g m e t h a t m y U S $ 5 Until April 30th, I could spend autorenewal data package was $100 per year and have a SIM that boosted from 10 MB to 50 MB. I provided data and voice for light rejoiced but my glee was short- usage. It was exactly what I lived. needed. min option) need to subscribe to a Shortly thereafter, readers tipped Then AT&T changed its policy. monthly plan in order to use a me off about the bad news: AT&T "Customers on certain GoPhone data package. (Customers on w a s a b o u t t o c a n c e l m y voice plans ($2/day and the $0.10/
those two plans can still pay a PPU rate for data, of course...) Qualifying monthly plans are the $50 Unlimited Talk & Text nationwide plan for GoPhone smartphones and the $25 Unlimited Text with 250 minutes nationwide GoPhone plan. " Translated into English, this means: "Unless you pay another $25 a month for a plan you do not need and will not use, coughing up an additional $300/year, your simple and affordable dataenabled SIM is toast." Great. So what am I doing? For now, I'm letting my extra SIMs go dark and I'm using my 4S's data exclusively. Meanwhile, I'm trying to wrap my head around
why it's so important for carriers to kill a la carte data. It just doesn't make any sense to me, especially when AT&T continues to offer similar plans (admittedly for $15/month not $5/month) on the iPad. So did AT&T's policy change hit you? How are you taking it and what do you plan to do in response? Let me know. Share in the comments. AT&T kills cheap data. I'm still cranky. originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 08 May 2012 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
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preview of Windows 7, I placed a feature called XP Mode #3 on my Top 10 list. Today you might look Submitted at 5/8/2012 1:00:00 PM at that pick and conclude, Boy, Server-side virtualization is a was Scott ever wrong about that modern-day fact of life. Today's one! The point is, though, that data centers pool their processing, sometimes a feature is right for its s t o r a g e a n d e v e n n e t w o r k time, even if it can't weather the resources to create macrocosmic test of history. This may be the virtual-machine entities that case for my #7 pick for Windows transcend the boundaries of 8. hardware. We call that "the We introduced you to client-side cloud." Hyper-V during ReadWriteWebs With Windows 8, Microsoft coverage of the Build 2011 extends its server-class hypervisor conference last September. Its platform to the desktop. And no, Microsofts industrial-strength, 64 it's not just a play for enthusiasts -bit virtualization platform for and testers: There's a solid reason running operating systems and for Hyper-V to become the applications within an envelope backbone of future Windows that behaves like hardware but is versions. In this 10-part series, 26 made of software. Virtualization -year veteran Windows tester is the principal technology that Scott Fulton walks you through makes cloud computing possible the best features, faculties and today. Being able to use resources functions of Windows 8. made up entirely of software, No. 10 : Refresh and Reset whose capacity or power is No. 9: File History provided by any number of real No. 8: Storage Spaces resources, is the basis of Being on someones Top 10 list, v i r t u a l i z a t i o n . no matter whose it is, does not Many observers say desktop g u a r a n t e e y o u p e r m a n e n t virtualization is solely for prominence. Put another way, you hobbyists and experimenters. But wouldnt have to go back very far there are plenty of real-world, in time to find an example of a everyday use cases for desktop technology feature that seemed virtualization. If you work from make-or-break then, but that home even part-time, for example, today most folks have forgotten and your job involves connecting even existed. to your office server, you could Three years ago in my ongoing do both yourself and your office a
favor by connecting only through a virtual machine (VM). This way, your PC still belongs to you. Anything your office forces you to download and use, such as a proprietary VPN, can mess up only the configuration of your virtual (disposable) machine. You can still maintain your personal office files on real hard drives. Anything you may happen to download that may be contrary to your offices stated policy, or that could impact your offices assets, is separated from your office VM. In short, if youre tired of your offices IT department messing up your home computer even more than your cable company already has, virtualization can put a stop to it. Acknowledging the Gap The virtualization market has been a difficult path for Microsoft. To be a virtualization leader in the data center, you have to have a system for representing virtual resources as a file, and
then have a management platform for deploying, maintaining, moving and scaling those resources. VMs dont have to behave like real machines; theoretically, their storage bases can expand or shrink as necessary, and even their internal memory can expand. Hyper-V was created for Windows Server 2008, although Microsoft already had a virtualization platform with two main variations (and several nuanced versions). It was a 32-bit platform gained through the 2003 acquisition of Connectix, and its first incarnation for Windows was called Virtual Server 2005. It was described at the time as a server consolidation tool, and although administrators could create theoretical virtual networks with IIS on one server and SharePoint on another and Exchange on a third, the often blind-faith management process reminded put admins in the position of being a contestant on The Dating Game, with the available prospects hidden behind a wall. On the client side, however, Microsoft made the brilliant move of re-releasing Connectix Virtual PC (VPC) technology for free, effectively nullifying all the minor players and reducing its serious competition to VMware, Xen (later acquired by Citrix) and
Suns VirtualBox (later acquired by Oracle). The last great culmination of VPC came in the form of XP Mode for Windows 7, which could run a Windows XP application in an XP window in conjunction with the Windows 7 Desktop. This way, you didnt have to change worlds to run an old program in a new environment. (Strange how even good ideas dont always stand the test of history.) But there are serious and irreconcilable technical incompatibilities between HyperV and the old VPC. First, Hyper-V is designed for a cloud-based reality, in which resource sizes including compute power are scalable. As a result, a virtualized server can be dramatically more flexible than a physical one. By contrast, VPC was built in an era where the magic of emulating a PC with 256 MB of RAM and a 10 GB hard drive seemed limitless enough. Second, the configuration files for VPC and Virtual Server (which were not compatible with one another, if you can believe it) are not compatible with Hyper-V. Third, the components of a virtual machine that enable it to recognize itself as a VM cannot be the same when you move the TOP page 27
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Alicia Eler (ReadWriteWeb)
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then I thought that would be a pretty heavy reaction to something that wouldn't have M a n y a r e c o n c e r n e d t h a t effects, at least for a while. I F a c e b o o k ' s a c q u i s i t i o n o f wrote a post to share some of my Instagram means the end of a thoughts on the matter. I said that once indie photo-sharing the acquisition would not community. But some say it ain't complicate Instagram, and even so, including Philippe Gonzalez, so it probably wouldn't change for the founder of Instagramers.com. a while. I wrote that it's better to In Part 2 of our interview (click w a i t a n d s e e i n s t e a d o f here to read Part 1), we talk to immediately deleting pics and Gonzalez about the impact of the organizing a full-on "social war." Facebook acquisition on the That approach doesn't really make Instagramers.com community as s e n s e t o m e . T h e F a t e o f well as the future of Instagram art Instagramers In a Post-Facebook shows. Era ReadWriteWeb: What was your ReadWriteWeb: Can initial reaction to Facebook's Instagramers.com even exist in acquisition of Instagram? the post-Facebook acquisition P h i l i p p e G o n z a l e z : I w a s era? surprised about it and had to tweet Philippe Gonzalez: Of course. right away, even though I was, at The future of Instagramers.com is the time, lying on a beach in like the Internet industry, meaning T h a i l a n d w i t h n o I n t e r n e t it's a total mystery. That's why I connection. I had to find an like my job in the Internet and the Internet connection and inform app world. You never know what people about it as soon as will happen. Where will you find possible. Then I came back to my an opportunity? And where will hotel and found myself wondering your next competitor pop up? about what might happen with the Since I started with this project, I whole Instagram world, my say to people that I don't know friends, their habits, and my own where this project will drive me, project, Instagramers. Really, I but I'm really having a great was more aware of all these moment, I'm living a great people I met and I could lose experience, and at the end of the contact with because they might day, the most important is the reject Facebook and migrate to experiences you live and share other photo-sharing apps. But with other people in your life.
people wrote and asked me what would happen with the copyrights. Others asked me how to delete their accounts. A large amount of them asked what would be the future of the Instagramers local fans group network. Some friends of mine even suggested that I open an account in other apps like StreamZoo or EyeEm. I actually did do that, but still I am confident that Instagram will be the most important photo sharing R e a d W r i t e W e b : H o w d i d network and that, after some I n s t a g r a m e r s r e a c t t o t h e waves, things will calm down. acquisition? Where Instagram Photography or Philippe Gonzalez: About 99% of Art is Headed in the Postusers felt scared. Most of them Facebook Acquisition Era felt this way because of they were ReadWriteWeb: Will Instagram ignorant of Facebook's future art exhibitions start to die off now p l a n s a n d t h o u g h t a f u l l that Instagram is a part of i n t e g r a t i o n w o u l d k i l l t h e Facebook? authentic world of Instagram. At Philippe Gonzalez: No. I don't the time, I tried to convince think the acquisition of Instagram people that this acquisition was by Facebook is the main problem good for the future of the app, in creating a distance between art especially because money was and Instagram. The main problem necessary to help it survive. These could simply be the "popular young guys who owned Instagram page" algorithm. Many people couldn't provide users much fun wrote me to say that they were without actual investors. Still, very demotivated because they most people think something bad didn't hit the popular page will happen sooner or later. The anymore, and that the quality of acquisition was pretty bad timing. the pictures was low - mostly The announcement was made at cakes, cats and sexy "teen" girls. the same time that tons of new That could provoke users who users were opening accounts on were actually interested in their Android devices. Plus, the Instagram as a platform to exhibit quality of the pics (and "popular their art works to move to another page") was declining. Lots of
platform with less users but a better understanding of the artists' motivations and needs. ReadWriteWeb: Will there still be a way to use Instagram images on Facebook in an indie way? Or is this the complete mainstreamification of Instagram? Philippe Gonzalez: I think Instagram will really remain independent. What could happen very fast is that Facebook could integrate Instagram pics to support their Facebook Places feature. This could add some interesting geolocation pics. As an Instagram user, you can share your pictures already through Facebook. And then there are the API-based browser sites like Statigram or Webstagram. Most of the time, when you upload photo galleries to Facebook, you share a special event without looking to the artistic side. On Instagram, you share the emotional moments in the same gallery and you always dedicate some time to filtering, editing the picture and looking for the best results. ReadWriteWeb: What's next for the mobile photo-sharing world after Instagram becomes a part of Facebook? Philippe Gonzalez: I think that whatever happens with Instagram, ADDRESSING page 35
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VM to Windows 8, because of the differences in the Windows 8 kernel.
new Hyper-V Manager will be to create a virtual switch a kind of bridge between the network loop for your VMs and your real So as Microsoft transitions its PC network card. The trick here is -based clients to a fully 64-bit remembering that its an internal realm, there can be no seamless switch to an external network. So transition between XP Mode for you choose Internal first, and then Windows 7 and a similar feature, choose your (real) network card in if there was to be one, for the list marked External network, Windows 8. As cool as it seemed as Ive done above. If you in 2008 for an XP window to run remember this strange distinction, friction-free inside Windows 7, its easy. its simply not a feature that folks The process of creating a new really need today. Crossing the virtual machine is actually the Gap creation of a configuration file So its getting left behind. At the that links the specifications for the same time, as Microsoft adapts VM you want to run, with the file Windows 8 for a more dynamic acting as its hard drive. So you world of tablets and portable connect the VM to the bridge you devices, the new system wont be created a moment ago, as shown suited to run inside a VPC above. envelope. Then, since Hyper-V accepts preThis does not mean you cannot existing VHDs, you use this step run virtual operating systems that to point it to the VHD file. When you created within VPC-based you engage the VM for the first virtual machines in Hyper-V for time, it will boot whatever OS Windows 8. Microsofts virtual youve already installed on the hard disk format (VHD) is still VHD. Keep in mind if the very much supported in Win8. In existing OS is Windows, it will fact, the way you mount a VHD behave as though youve taken now is to simply double-click the the physical hard drive out of an VHD file in Explorer. So your old computer and reinstalled it existing assets, if theyre still into a new one. This will trigger important to you, are not lost; the the Windows Activation process trick is to create a new Hyper-V because it will see what it believes virtual machine in which the to be an entirely new processor VHD file is installed. and memory. Microsoft has Once you get Windows 8 set up granted automatic licenses to and working, your first step in the people using virtual Windows on
any licensed copy of Windows on a physical PC, so unless theres something technically wrong (which can happen, as youll see in a moment), activation will work. The screenshot above shows an existing Windows 7 VM whose VHD was created in VPC, and a Windows XP VM whose VHD was created way, way back in the Vista days, running simultaneously on the Windows 8 Desktop. Its not a seamless fit at least, not yet. You cant get the semitransparent Aero environment for Vista and Win7 in Hyper-V, at least not through Windows 8s new Virtual Machine Connection program. (Theoretically, you may be able to emulate Aero by connecting to a running VM using Remote Desktop Connection. In our tests of the Win8 Consumer Preview, however, Aero did not work yet.) Both Win7 and XP VMs will require you to uninstall any existing Virtual Machine Additions (VMA, which was created for VPC) before they can install network connections that make them behave like part of your network. This works fine for Win7, but for XP which is more finicky about product activation once it realizes its not in the same environment, it will insist that you re-activate Windows
first. Which you cant do if you dont have a network connection, and the conundrum proceeds from there. So if at all possible, you should use your old VPC in your old operating system to uninstall VMA before you move your VHD into Hyper-V. (Enough Vs for you?) When creating the virtual network bridge between Hyper-V and your real network, Windows 8 takes your network offline for the briefest moment. But in that moment, the Win8 Consumer Preview will tell you the network is completely offline, even when its not. This is obviously a beta bug. Transitioning a VM created exclusively for Win7's XP Mode (which sublimates its own Desktop) into a Hyper-V VM (in which the Desktop is visible) will likely be difficult, and not exactly automated. There's a relationship between the XP account system and that of Windows 7, which no longer applies to Hyper-V in Windows 8. You may prefer to simply create an XP-based VM from scratch, except that to do that, you'll need to relocate your long lost Windows XP CD-ROM, and undergo the excruciating XP setup procedure that Vista successfully exorcised. Anybody who uses Windows for any length of time will come to
appreciate the ability to utilize a program in a safe-for-testing environment in a situation where anything that can go wrong doesnt impact your production machine. I have said for years that in the future, all Windows operating systems should be virtual. That is, Hyper-V should serve as the hypervisor layer for everything you do on your PC, tablet and, one day soon, your phone. This way, such affairs as system backup and restoration will become trivial. Imagine if viruses could impact only your running virtual PC, and the physical layer beneath it could detect when and where that impact occurs. Virtual computing is true computing, and if Microsoft wants to remain competitive, it must inevitably embrace the need for an abstraction layer between hardware and software across the board. The company chose to concentrate on other priorities with this go-round. But while putting Hyper-V in client-side Windows 8 is not the complete solution, its a step in the right direction.
TED: JP Rangaswami: Information is food - JP Rangaswami (2012)

TEDTalks (TEDTalks (video))
How do we consume data? At TED@SXSWi, technologist JP
Rangaswami muses on our relationship to information, and
offers a surprising and sharp insight: we treat it like food.
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ZTE plays the long game on building consumer awareness

Roger Cheng (CNET News)
Lixen Cheng, head of ZTE's North America division, speaking during an interview at the CTIA Wireless show. NEW ORLEANS--ZTE is virtually unknown in the U.S., and at least for now, that seems to be okay with the company. The Chinese company, the fourth -largest handset vendor despite its minimal presence in the U.S., is focusing on building up its relationship with the carriers and supporting their needs, said Lixen Cheng, president of ZTE's North American business, in an interview with CNET today. "We do plan on building our consumer brand by working more closely with our carrier partners," he said. Related stories The lovely Samsung Galaxy S III (photos) Hands-on with the HTC Evo V 4G FCC chairman defends decision to squash AT&T/T-Mobile deal Boost Mobile's HTC Evo Design 4G hands-on Boost Mobile's first 4G phone: The HTC Evo Design 4G carriers here, but are starting to show up with the top-tier carriers, While relatively unknown, ZTE sometimes with their own logo is an up-and-comer in the U.S. intact. Its rise underscores a shift handset business. Its phones have of power from traditional brands long been supplied to the prepaid to upstarts willing to undercut the
competition. While ZTE once followed HTC's playbook for entering the U.S. market and establishing a consumer brand, HTC's recent struggles have given the company
pause. "We're learning from our competitors' mistakes," Cheng said. "We're not going to waste money on building a consumer brand and not delivering on
products to our consumers." HTC, for its part, has simplified its own product line to a few key devices, and its phones have been ZTE page 30
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On Its Release Date, "New" Social Media Book Is Already Outdated

Dave Copeland (ReadWriteWeb)
The subtitle of Friends, Followers and the Future($15.95, City Lights Publishers), a book coming out today by Emmy-winning journalist Rory OConnor, has a dark ring to it. How Social Media are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media conjures up images of everything changing, and not necessarily for the good. But the book itself seems split on whether social media - and the challenges it presents to our oldline institutions - are good or evil. All at once, OConnor seems amazed by YouTube, okay with the speed over accuracy rule of news distribution on Twitter and concerned with the typical laundry list of privacy violations committed by Facebook, Google and other big, digital media players. Im OK with those parts of the book. Like a lot of people and, apparently, like OConnor, I raise concerns about privacy and Facebook while still checking it a few times each day. I worry about whether the filter bubble limits my news diet, but still find myself clicking on headlines that seem
like they were tailor-made for my interests. I worry about the accuracy of sensational tweets, yet find myself checking Twitter when Im stuck for something to write about. In reviewing Friends, Followers and the Future, the Boston Globes Hiawatha Bray noted that it seemed too basic for the techsavvy reader - the kind of people who punch up websites like Techmeme and GigaOM first thing in the morning and, presumably, are also fans of ReadWriteWeb. OConnor offers a portrait of the current digital landscape as well as the historical context in an efficient, but pedestrian way, Bray wrote. His book is devoid of original insights and unexpected observations. I felt as though I was reading back issues of Wired magazine or the technology sections of last years newspapers. That assessment starts to speak to my problems with the book, and also raises a broader question: Is it even possible to write a book about an industry that changes as quickly as social media? Book Publishers Will Struggle To Break Social Media News The books official publication date is today, but Friends, Followers and the Future has been
TweetDeck, said it wouldnt file for an IPO and publicly acknowledged difficulties in generating revenue. And, oh yeah, have you heard about Pinterest? The breakout social media hit of 2012 doesnt even warrant a mention in OConnors book, in large part because it was just starting to make it onto the radar screens of the mainstream tech press by the end of 2011. available on Amazon for the past In daily journalism, we talk about several weeks. And it was clearly evergreen stories. Those are the rushed to press: I counted no explanatory stories and features fewer than 12 typos, a sure-fire that can hold for a day, a week or sign that the book was pushed even a month or two because they through the editing process at arent necessarily time-sensitive. breakneck speed. I was willing to Books were once the place to tell forgive them because, ultimately, the truly evergreen stories - the OConnor has an engaging, ones that are more in-depth and straightforward writing style and more likely to stand the test of this book will be a solid reference time. of what social media looked like Changes in publishing and profit in 2011, complete with a history models make that less so now, but of the sector up to that point.. books are still supposed to have a The book references news events longer shelf life than, say, this that happened in late 2011, but blog post. Books like OConnors think of everything that has - or at least his voice, research and happened since then: Facebook perspective - would have been filed for an IPO and spent $1 more useful to me three, four or billion to acquire Instagram, an five months ago. But in tech in app many of us were only hearing general - and in social media about for the first time when specifically - the landscape O C o n n o r w a s m o s t l i k e l y changes too damn fast. sending proofed galleys back to his publisher. Twitter has remade
Space suits and Mars rovers tested in Austrian ice caves

Olivia Solon
Submitted at 5/8/2012 11:00:00 AM
A team of engineers, physicists and astrobiologists has been using Alpine ice caves to test space suits and other apparatus -including rovers, 3D cameras and communications systems -intended for use on Mars. The five day "mission" in the ice caves found in the Dachstein region of Austria was conducted by the Austrian Space Forum, along with 11 international research partners. The mission put the Aouda.X spacesuit, designed specifically to simulate the conditions of Mars, to the test. Physicist Daniel Schildhammer wore the suit while he collected samples in the ice caves. By: Olivia Solon, Edited by: Duncan Geere Continue reading...
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ZTE
featured heavily during the CTIA Wireless conference. Playing the long game ZTE hopes to get to 5 percent of the U.S. market by 2014, a forecast Cheng has acknowledged is conservative. By the time it hits that benchmark, the company will begin to spend money to market its brand directly with customers, he said. Cheng downplayed the importance of brand in today's smartphone market, noting that when a consumer buys a phone, price is the main determining factor, followed by the operating system. ZTE's presence at CTIA is a far cry from the splash it made at Mobile World Congress just a few months ago. At the Barcelona conference, the ZTE brand was ubiquitous, including on the lanyards holding the conference badges to large posters adorning the venue. That's because the company actually has a larger presence outside of the U.S., although a large part of its business still comes from China. In the fourth quarter, the company was fourth in the world with 4 percent of the global market, doubling its position from a year ago,
according to Gartner. ZTE's mobile devices business in 2011 triple from a year ago, Cheng said. Unlike some of the larger, better known competitors, ZTE's mobile devices business is also profitable. Focus on affordability ZTE has so far offered budgetfriendly phones to the prepaid and national carriers, and hasn't yet played in the flagship game. But Cheng doesn't believe a flagship phone is necessary; more important is the ability to support the carriers' needs, which often call for a number of mid and lowtier phones. So rather than a home run, ZTE is looking for a series of singles and doubles with its phones. For example, Cheng said he is shooting to sell 2 million phones in the Score series by the end of the year. ZTE's low-cost structure allows the company to sell a large number of phones, Cheng said, noting that it sold 13 phones last year and four this year as part of a quick ramp-up of product launches. That comes as other vendors are reducing the number of products they introduce each year. "We're staying in the Quality Inn
when other vendors are staying at the W," he said of the company's focus on reining in costs. That could pay off down the line as more ZTE phones hit the market, generating consumer awareness through the product, as opposed to marketing. Another trend that ZTE is slowly moving into is LTE. Cheng estimated that 10 percent of its products in the U.S. this year would work with the 4G technology, including mobile hotspots, phones, and tablets. Next year, he plans on even more devices as it further supports the carriers' expanded LTE networks. ZTE's biggest challenge isn't its lack of an identity, it's keeping pace with the demands of the carrier, Cheng said. "There are some high expectations from the carriers," he 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.
Report: Photo & Video Now The Fastest Growing Mobile App Category
Frederic Lardinois (TechCrunch)
Kenya gain offsets Ghana fall for Tullow

Emily Gosden (Finance News Business news from the UK and world)
Tullow Oil spurted to the top of the FTSE 100 leaderboard, as investors reacted to Monday's news that the explorer had
discovered more oil in Kenya.
cameras and increased network bandwidth, it does indeed look as if the time is right for social video Submitted at 5/8/2012 1:20:29 PM apps. Ever since Facebooks $1 billion Sadly, Flurry doesnt distinguish acquisition of Instagram, the between video and photo apps in search for the next Instagram of its report. The fact that active [insert app category here] has users now spent an average of 231 been on. One area many pundits minutes per month in photo and have focused on in this context is video apps, however, clearly video and according to the latest shows the momentum that apps data from mobile app analytics like Viddy, Socialcam and Color company Flurry, thats probably are trying to capitalize on. not a bad bet. Video & Photo is The quick rise of this app now the fastest growing mobile category becomes even more app category across the major impressive when compared to mobile platforms. The time spent h o w m u c h t i m e u s e r s a r e on photo and video apps per spending on Googles YouTube. active user increased 89% to 231 According to comScore, Internet minutes per month between users in the U.S. watched an October 2011 and March 2012 average of 425 minutes of video and a massive 166% since July content per month on Googles 2011. site in March 2012 a number This data is based on Flurrys that was actually down from a analysis of the 180,000 apps that record 472 minutes in December c u r r e n t l y u s e i t s a n a l y t i c s 2011. s o f t w a r e o n i O S , A n d r o i d , This data doesnt quite make a Windows Phone, BlackBerry and convincing argument that these H T M L 5 . O t h e r m o b i l e a p p mobile video and photo apps are categories that, according to cutting into the time that users Flurry, are currently growing fast w o u l d o t h e r w i s e s p e n t o n are music (72% since October YouTube. As Flurrys Peter 2011), productivity (66%), social Farago rightly argues, though, n e t w o r k i n g ( 5 4 % ) a n d the shift in time spent between entertainment (40%). these two platforms appears to be With the advent of affordable a signal of disruption. phones with built-in HD video
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TL1 motion sim NYC Real Estate Startup RealDirect Adds Map Search boasts 180-degree And Compatibility Rankings screen -- for $18.5K
Anthony Ha (TechCrunch)
that fit your criteria. You can also draw a lasso around the area that Submitted at 5/8/2012 1:45:08 PM you want to search in and browse RealDirect.com was built around d a t a a b o u t d i f f e r e n t a compelling proposition for n e i g h b o r h o o d s . home sellers instead of paying RealDirect also uses something the 6 percent broker fee, let i t s c a l l i n g c o m p a t i b i l i t y RealDirect handle the listings and rankings basically, its casting offer advice from agents, while a wider net so that you dont miss only paying a 1 or 2 percent good fits just because they arent commission. Now, however, the an exact fit for what you said you site is also trying to be useful for were looking for. home buyers. Every single buyer makes some Specifically, instead of expecting sort of compromise, says cobuyers to find the listings through founder and CEO Doug Perlson various real estate databases, puts it. The idea of having a set RealDirect is launching its own of search results that are an exact map-based interface. Its pretty m a t c h t o y o u r c r i t e r i a i s straightforward you enter particularly troubling when it things like the neighborhoods you comes to real estate search. want to look at, the maximum For example, if someone says p r i c e , a n d t h e n u m b e r o f theyre interested in apartments bedrooms and bathrooms, then with at least 2,000 square feet, you get a map with all the houses t h e y d p r o b a b l y b e j u s t a s
interested in one that matched all of their other criteria perfectly, but was only 1,997 square feet. Most other real estate search sites would cut off the search at 2,000, but instead of seeing your criteria as a yes-or-no cutoff, RealDirect treats them more as guidelines that it can use to give you the best results. For now, RealDirect is limited to Manhattan and Brooklyn. Perlson says it will probably expand to other areas of New York City over the next 12 months, then open in other markets in 18 months or so. The companys investors include Tribeca Venture Partners, High Peaks Venture Partners, Bendigo Partners, SecondMarket CEO Barry Silbert, and About.com founder Scott Kurnit.
Philip Wong (CNET News)

beyond most consumers with its steep tag that starts at around $18,560. In fact, in many The new TL1 all-in-one racing, countries, you can buy an actual flight, and first-person-shooting car for less. The system is motion simulator comes with compatible with Windows 7 and some pretty neat hardware. This XP, and if you're not deterred by includes a spherical screen the exorbitant price, you can get utilizing three projectors to more details here. Check out the deliver a whopping 5,760x1,200- below video of the machine in pixel resolution, as well as a fully action, and note how the lifelike adjustable seating system that visuals add to the overall realism s u p p o r t s o p t i o n a l m o t i o n and user experience. transducers. Moreover, the Ariel ( S o u r c e : C r a v e A s i a v i a Atom's auto DNA gets Engadget) incorporated through a sleek 8- This entry passed through the foot by 7.8-foot by 6.5-foot shell Full-Text RSS service if this is that houses all the components your content and you're reading it w i t h s t e e l a n d c o m p o s i t e on someone else's site, please read materials. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentProduced by U.K.-based Motion only/faq.php#publishers. Five Simulation in collaboration with Filters recommends: Donate to Ariel Motor Company, the TL1 Wikileaks. simulator is probably priced
Daily Update for May 8, 2012

Steven Sande (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening Submitted at 5/8/2012 2:15:00 PM in the Apple world. It's the TUAW Daily Update, You can listen to today's Apple your source for Apple news in a stories by clicking the inline convenient audio format. You'll player (requires Flash) or the non-
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HTC One S micro-arc oxidation process eyes-on

Chris Burns (SlashGear)
At CTIA 2012 we got the opportunity to take a peek at the process the HTC One S smartphone goes through before it has any technological wonders inserted inside electricity on metal, metal stamping beforehand. What youre going to see here are several shots of the metal that makes up the HTC One S in all its glory, starting with a big gob of metal and moving on through the cutting process and down over to the final product of the electricity itself. Have a peek of what makes the HTC One S so scratch resistant, step by step.
HTC has integrated what you see here in the HTC One S smartphone specifically, touting this as one of their hero phone lineups greatest features in that you no longer need a case to keep your smartphone damage-free. Speaking from experience, this process of cutting the metal with such precision then applying the electricity process theyve got to it takes away the majority of the damage the device would then receive in your everyday life aside from a couple of dings on the top of the One S I carry around daily today, this smartphone is blemish-free. The HTC One S is thus far the only HTC device to go through
HTC One X vs HTC One S Benchmarking War HTC One S vs iPhone 4S Hands-on Part 1 HTC One V Review Samsung Galaxy S III vs HTC One series: the future war T-Mobile HTC One S Review HTC One X Review (AT&T) HTC One S micro-arc oxidation process eyes-on is written by Chris Burns& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
this process, and it is also indeed the only smartphone in the world to go through this process as well. See photos of each step here and check out the video tour weve got above as well. Also be sure to
check the rest of our CTIA 2012 coverage as well as the rest of our HTC One series hands-on and reviews below! Story Timeline HTC One X Review HTC One S Review
Point and stick to light the grill

Brian Krepshaw (CNET News)
charcoal or natural wood, a means to light the fire would be Submitted at 5/8/2012 1:42:39 PM necessary. All the better if that T h e L o o f t l i g h t e r E l e c t r i c can be accomplished with no Firestarter still creates fun even accelerant. without the use of lighter fluid. The Looftlighter Electric When it comes to the grill, Firestarter requires no lighter fluid procedure and setup are important to get the fire going. Constructed aspects to consider. Aside from with a 10-foot power cord, the obvious safety concerns when grill gadget plugs into a standard dealing with hotter-than-hot outlet and supplies focused heat at objects, everything from grill a high temperature. Operating at placement to grill accessories 1,256 degrees Fahrenheit, the need to be determined. And of wandlike contrivance initiates c o u r s e , w h e n d e a l i n g w i t h combustion within a matter of
seconds. To get it going, you simply stick the business end of the device on to the coals, and
when sparks appear back it off a few inches while continuing to heat the area. When the on button is released, the lighter will automatically shut off. Regardless of accessories, no grill session is a success if the food isn't any good. As enticing as using (too much) lighter fluid may be, the subsequent grill fireball tends to create results that are less than delicious. Of course, knowing that the fun in grilling is in the details, the makers have thought ahead to the most
important grill accessory of all: the hanging hook doubles as a bottle opener. 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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Dinosaur farts added to prehistoric global warming

Michael Crider (SlashGear)
every year. The theory is based on observed results of methane production by Every school kid knows that the cattle cow farts literally dinosaurs were wiped out by a contribute to global warming massive climate changing event. effects. Its no laughing matter: But according to a team of environmental scientists say that scientists in the UK, the massive the massive amount of cattle amounts of methane created by herds domesticated for beef the largest dinosaur species could production create an incredible h a v e c o n t r i b u t e d t o g l o b a l amount of greenhouse gasses, an warming millions of years ago, effect that isnt helped by the fact accelerating their own extinction. that thousands of acres of forest The scientists theorize that are cleared annually for grazing bacteria and other microbes in the land. Current estimates put cows digestive tracts of gigantic production of methane at between sauropods could have created up 50 million and 100 million cubic to 520 million cubic tons of gas tons annually.
Today, methane emissions around the world are at an estimated 500 million tons per year slightly less than the combined team from Liverpool
John Moores University, the University of London and the University of Glasgow estimate that dinosaurs and the microbes inside them produced 150 million
years ago. Their theory is s u p p o r t e d b y a complex calculation of the population of large vegetarian dinosaurs like the Brachiosaurus during the Mesozoic era. According to fossil and geologic record, this particular era of prehistory was approximately 18 Fahrenheit degrees hotter than the earth today. [ via The BBC] Dinosaur farts added to prehistoric global warming is written by Michael Crider& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Keen On Insane Simplicity: The Obession That Drives Apples Success [TCTV]
Andrew Keen (TechCrunch)
The marketing executive Ken Segall not only worked closely with Steve Jobs for years at both Apple and NeXT, but he was also the creative guy who came up
with the iMac name. And hes just written a book about the product marketing lessons he learned from Jobs an instant best-seller called Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apples Success. So what, exactly, defines Insane Simplicity? I asked Segall when
he came into our New York studio. His answer will please Apple fanboys as much as it will irritate the Android crowd. Its all about having the corporate processes in place to eliminate clutter, Segall explained to me. There are zero committees at
Apple, Jobs liked to boast. And its this absence of corporate bureaucracy, Segall suggests, that distinguishes Apple from other technology companies like, perhaps, Google. So is Segall right can simplicity be legislated by the absence of
corporate structures? Or is insane simplicity, in truth, the result of an insanely obsessive CEO like Steve Jobs who never settled for anything less than perfection?
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LG 3D Max first-impressions
Vincent Nguyen (SlashGear)
camera bulge on the back which made the original feel so clumsy, and leaving the profile more like LG has persisted with mobile 3D, that of Samsungs Galaxy S II. Up and the LG Optimus 3D Max is front, meanwhile, is a new NOVA the companys latest attempt to d i s p l a y , w h i c h u s e s t h e persuade us that glasses-free 3D is c o m p a n y s b r i g h t e r L C D something we want on the move. technology. Unfortunately, its A 4.3-inch Android smartphone still only running at WVGA with a dual-camera array, the resolution, when qHD and 720p Optimus 3D Max promises to HD are commonplace among high smooth off some of the rough -end phones. e d g e s o f i t s O p t i m u s 3 D LG 3D Max Unboxing and hands predecessor. Read on for our first -on impressions. Inside its a case of a solid Its certainly a more pocketable c h i p s e t T I s 1 . 2 G H z handset. LG has hacked away at OMAP4430 dual-core running some of the bulk, removing the an old OS, namely Android 2.3
Gingerbread. LG adds its own 3D UI, as well, which offers a little entertainment with the glassesfree 3D display, though were not sure its of lasting worth. Still, it
makes framing 3D videos and photos more straightforward, and you can output them both via MHL-HDMI to a compatible 3D TV.
Were still not quite convinced by 3D on phones and, judging by the relatively little impact LGs original Optimus 3D had on the market, neither is the public at large but at least there are fewer compromises with the Optimus 3D Max. Well be putting it through its paces in time for the full SlashGear review to see if the benefits of 3D content creation on the move outweigh old Android and a low-res screen. LG 3D Max first-impressions is written by Vincent Nguyen& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Comixology hits 65 million downloads, lands exclusive Marvel digital deal

Mike Schramm (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
We've posted about Comixology's domination of comic book content on iOS before -- it's certainly not the only app that lets you read and even buy comic books, but it's by far the most popular, and keeps getting even more so. The company has just announced that it's reached 65 million downloads across the platform as a whole, which is just a huge amount of content delivered. And Comixology keeps
locking down plans to deliver even more -- their latest deal is with Marvel, and allows Comixology to exclusively release Marvel's single issues digitally through the app. That means every single issue English comic that Marvel puts out is available digitally only through Comixology. This is just one of a few such deals Comixology has worked out to deliver both exclusive and nonexclusive content right through their system. The company has made deals with most of the main comics producers already, so that
almost any comic you want is now available in their database, directly via in-app purchase. There's clearly a market here -you'd think that maybe Apple
would have gone after comic books with iBooks by now, or maybe incorporating them as periodicals in Newsstand. But no. At this point, Comixology is
cornering the market on digital comics, and it seems to be paying off handsomely for them. Comixology hits 65 million downloads, lands exclusive Marvel digital deal originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 08 May 2012 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source| Permalink| Email this| Comments
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the "photo-sharing trend" will remain mobile. Smartphones will increase their lenses, processing and storage capacities, but also their social-network sharing availability. The rest is quite difficult to anticipate. There are loads of competitors that are copying Instagram's concept right now and will probably catch some million peoples' attention, but I think Instagram will be the
reference point. I still believe Instagram has a strategic purpose and won't be integrated into Facebook - at least, not for a while. Lead Instagram image via MyLinn.
Hot spot languages are in danger, too

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Biodiversity hot spots are some of the most linguistically diverse regions on the planet, accounting for 70 percent of all languages on Earth.
We looked at regions important for biodiversity conservation and measured their linguistic diversity in an effort to understand an important part of the human dimension of these regions, says Larry J. Gorenflo, associate professor of landscape
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Sun, sea and silicon panels: Tranor PlanetSolar yacht breaks records
Madhumita Venkataramanan
Submitted at 5/8/2012 12:48:00 PM
The world's largest solar-powered boat -- a 31m x 15m catamaran weighing 95 tonnes -- will soon
dock in Monaco, having circumnavigated the Earth (40,000km) in two years. The yacht, Tranor PlanetSolar, broke the record for the longest distance travelled by a solar vehicle when
it reached 18,342km in February 2011. "The idea is to show that
we have the technology to change reading... the way we use energy," says explorer Raphal Domjan, 40, the founder of the project. By: Madhumita Venkataramanan, Edited by: Ian Steadman Continue
Amazon to invest in high-end fashion, says Bezos

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Submitted at 5/8/2012 11:12:00 AM
Amazon is now ploughing resources into becoming a go-to
website for high-end fashion. Jeff Bezos revealed in an interview with the New York Times that the company is going to make a "significant
investment" into attracting
couture brands, and has already wooed and signed designers Michael Kors, Vivienne Westwood, Catherine Malandrino, Jack Spade and
Tracy Reese. By: Katie Scott, Edited by: Duncan Geere Continue reading...
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Since When Does Brookings Make Video Games? - By Michael Peck

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Military futurist Peter Singer -and consultant for the forthcoming Call of Duty -reveals what kind of dark assumptions are baked into the next blockbuster game. BY MICHAEL PECK| MAY 8, 2012 The Internet has been abuzz over details -- and several intriguing YouTube videos-- of the upcoming " Call of Duty: Black Ops II," scheduled to hit shelves in November. A sequel to the 2010 blockbuster "Call of Duty: Black Ops," the latest iteration of the video game continues the saga of American and Russian operatives immersed in a complex 1960s Cold War plot. But much of the sequel takes place in 2025, when the United States is confronting China and when America's high-tech arsenal of robotic vehicles is hacked, hijacked, and turned against its makers. Although the dark plot sounds like science fiction, it is actually based on solid real-world analysis provided by defense futurist Peter Singer, author of the bestselling Wired for War. Foreign Policy spoke with Singer about his work on the game: Foreign Policy: There have been a lot of delicious rumors about
Call of Duty: Black Ops II. What can you tell us about the game? Peter Singer:[Laughs.] I'm just going to say the things that are already out there in the media.
Essentially what they have revealed is that it builds upon the last game [Call of Duty: Black Ops]. The setting is broken into two parts. Some events take place
in the Cold War of the 1980s, and most of it in the 2020s in a protoCold War that has emerged between the U.S. and China over a series of regional tensions and
resource shortages. Essentially what we have done is take certain trends that are just now emerging, SINCE page 37
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certain technologies that are at their Model T Ford stage, and move them forward into likely potential futures. The same for the political side as well, playing what happens if they move forward. We identified key trends shaping the current and future battlefield. Some you will see played out in robotics. A generation ago, this was all science fiction. Today, the U.S. military has 7,000 unmanned vehicles in the air, some of them armed, and 12,000 on the ground. We have 50 countries out there beginning to use military robotics. We might see evolution in other directions of robotics, such as bigger is not always better. An example in the game is the armed tactical quadcopter. As part of the marketing for the game, we put out a viral video of one of these made real. I know a Pentagon office has started looking at it and asking, "Why can't we have this?" FP: So do these new military technologies help the advanced powers, or are they levelers that enable weaker powers to confront them? PS: I think that remains to be seen. But I think we are starting to see an open-source effect in warfare. We've seen the opensource revolution in software, where it's not just the big boys that have access to the most advanced technologies. Think of technologies like the atomic bomb or an aircraft carrier. It's not just that a massive defense-industrial effort is required to build them, but also to use them effectively.
Even if you could give Hezbollah an aircraft carrier and said, "Here's the keys!" they couldn't use it effectively. But we are starting to see advanced technology that isn't like that. I think robotics is moving into a space where there is a flattening effect. For example, the Raven is the most widely used U.S. military unmanned aerial system today. The editor of Wired magazine built his own version of the Raven for a thousand dollars. "Charlene" -- our working armed quadcopter from that viral video - is something the U.S. military doesn't even have. In World War II, Hitler's Luftwaffe couldn't fly across the Atlantic to strike the United States. A couple of years ago, a 77-year-old blind man built his own drone that flew itself across the Atlantic. My award for innovator of the year last year wasn't a big contractor, but a group of thieves in Taiwan who used tiny robotic helicopters equipped with pinhole cameras to carry out a jewelry heist. People ask, "What if terrorists could get drones?" I say, "Oh, you mean like Hezbollah did in 2007 against Israel? Or you mean the guy who was arrested for planning to fly a drone into the Pentagon?" He made a mistake by asking an FBI informant for C-4 explosives. But we live in a world where it's easier to get a drone than C-4 explosives. FP: How well is the United States prepared if these new weapons are used against it? PS: One of the lessons of history
is that there is no such thing as a permanent first-mover advantage. The British invent the tank, inspired by science fiction. They come out of World War I with 12,000 tanks (which is the same number of unmanned ground vehicles that the U.S. military has now), but by the time World War II comes, the Germans had figured out how to use the tank better. There is a more diverse battlespace now in terms of the range of actors out there. It's not just facing off against the Soviets or the Viet Cong. It's a mix of adversaries, from states to nonstate actors that include terrorist groups, to criminal groups, insurgent groups, and private military companies. There are now domains such as cyberspace that didn't exist a generation ago. It is a more complex setting. In a video-game setting, those challenges are a good and a bad thing. It's a more complex world to build, but also a more complex world to create neater characters. FP: As I watched the YouTube trailers of the game with all these exotic weapons, it struck me that even though terrorists hijacked them, the weapons themselves seemed to work perfectly. But the history of warfare is replete with weapons that didn't work as planned. Don't video games portray a technologically idealized vision of warfare? PS: The entertainment world has always drawn from the military world its story, setting, and characters. In turn, the military
over the last 100 years has gotten ideas of things to build, especially from science fiction, from the submarine to the land ironclad to what H.G. Wells called an "atomic bomb." What is different is that over the last 10 years the military is drawing from the technology of the video-game industry. Sometimes technology can be idealized. The recruiting videos don't show all the incredible complexity of insurgency, nor some aspects of how boring it is. Not every day is going to be the Abbottabad raid on bin Laden. Some days it's just taking the Metro to the Pentagon and sitting in a cubicle in the Joint Staff. Another problem is that nothing can replace muddy boots on the ground. FP: Many of the next generation of soldiers will play this game, which means eventually the next generation of commanders will have played it. Do you believe video games like this affect how real armies fight? PS: That's a really good question. It might shape expectations, the technologies that people think they should have, and then they become real. What are we seeing among Millennials, or Generation Y, is that because they grew up being able to control so much, they take that expectation with them into schools, the workplace, and the military. When I was a kid, my parents could tell me that "if you're not good, we're not going to let you watch your favorite show." My son is 2 years old, and he already knows how to
use an iPad to pull down videos of firetrucks from YouTube whenever he wants to see them. We're seeing this move into education -- professors and teachers talk about this -- and into the military. I talked to a Navy SEAL training officer who said, "With my generation, if we were told to run for the wall, we ran for the wall. With this generation, if you tell them to run for the wall, they ask why." But then he added, "If you tell them why, they'll figure out a better way to do it." We're seeing far greater capability at multitasking, but we're also seeing partial attentiondeficit disorder. I was at the Combined Air Operations Center where we coordinate our air missions in the Middle East, and I was standing behind a young airman with 36 different chat rooms open, each one a different air mission over Iraq that he was coordinating. But then I read our last QDR [ Quadrennial Defense Review], and we're seeing the impact of this. Read our strategic documents; we identify priorities, but we don't set them. We try to do too much at once. FP: How about the impact of these games on the public's perception of warfare? PS: Again, they are an entertainment platform. But you'll notice that in the TV commercial I was in, everything that we were exploring a year ago as we were building out the game -- well, news kept popping that confirmed SINCE page 38
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the trends that we were identifying as important. Those who play the game will learn about trends and issues that are real and that are familiar to those in the defense base, but are not known widely: the criticality of rare-earth elements, the moving of more systems into the AI and robotic space. But when people point to video games, I point to something bigger in the perception of war: the end of the draft. Millions of kids are playing this game, but each year the U.S. Army has to persuade a little over 70,000 to join. During World War II, the U.S. public bought $185 billion in war bonds. During the last 10 years, we bought $0 in war bonds and gave the top 4 percent a tax break. If you want to talk about connections between the public and war, there are bigger things going on than video games. FP: Is there a difference in the way a defense futurist and a game designer view 21st-century warfare?
PS: I've consulted with a lot of entertainment projects, and what stands out about Activision [the publisher] and Treyarch [the design team] is the amazing level of research. They really love to dig into the details. One of the things I thought was awesome in the game, and what I helped develop, was the setting of Socotra, an island off Yemen. It's a key geostrategic locale now, and it's been discussed in the media as a base for launching drone strikes against Yemen and Somalia. It's the kind of detailing that those of us who work in the realm of geopolitics think is awesome. But at the end of the day, when you're advising on these games, the goal is to be grounded in reality but also remember that this is all about entertainment. FP: So Call of Duty: Black Ops II may not be prognostication. But is it plausible? PS: The political and technological trends that it highlights are not only plausible --
they are the key drivers that are moving us forward. That said, you still have a game with fictional characters that is designed to entertain. Anyone using this as a crystal ball will probably find it's not the case. As I said, there are an infinity of futures, but the shaping forces matter, and the game shows those shaping forces. Jules Verne predicted everything from submarines to skyscrapers to the proto-Internet. But there are other things where he was completely off. And there are his characters. We have submarines, but we don't have Captain Nemo. FP: The concept of Black Ops II seems ironic. Our own high-tech weapons are turned against us. Is this a cautionary tale? PS: One of the changes in the real world is what I call "battle-zone persuasion." The goal is not to blow up the enemy tank, but jam it, co-opt it, persuade it to do something that its owner doesn't want it to do. This is new in war. You couldn't persuade a spear to
do something different after its owner threw it. You couldn't call up Tom Cruise in his F-14 and say, "Maverick, recode all MiGs as F-14s, and all F-14s as MiGs." A couple years ago, though, the Israelis turned off all the Syrian air defenses before they struck its nuclear facility, and then came Stuxnet. We are moving toward an era of battles of persuasion, as well as the traditional kinetic side. That's one of the things the game does. The cautionary side is to know more about this and start to build some defenses against it. 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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Guest Post: Why the Job Market Will Continue Shrinking

Tyler Durden
Via Charles Hugh-Smith of Of Two Minds blog, The paradox of an advanced postindustrial economy is that the number of jobs needed declines even as the cost of living rises. The fundamental dynamic of America's job market is simple: we need relatively few workers to provide the absolute essentials of life even as the cost-basis of the economy inexorably rises. In other words, there are fewer jobs even as the costs of maintaining a "middle class" life rise. Let's start by observing how all the financial data in the world does not necessarily describe the primary dynamics of an economy. There are a number of factors that cause this disconnect between the primary forces at work beneath the surface and the data. One is that economists tend to focus on situations with abundant, easy-to-interpret data. If you're only looking for roses, then you ignore everything that isn't a rose. So economists seek dynamics that can be easily explained by available data, and financial factors that they are paid to examine. Everything else is ignored, especially if the act of examining it casts a skeptical light on a self-serving Status Quo.
One key reality that is rarely if ever discussed is that the number of workers needed to provide the bare essentials of life to the 313 million residents of America is modest. Let's stipulate that bare essentials include food, heat in winter, clean water, sewage and waste disposal, public health (innoculations against pandemics, etc.), public safety and enough energy to fuel these essentials. If life were suddenly reduced to these basics, and no energy were available for anything but these essentials, then how many fulltime workers would be needed? Roughly 1% of the workforce raises the vast majority of our food, and a modest number of workers maintain the water and sewage systems, natural gas pipelines, furnaces, etc., A similarly modest number of workers maintain public health and safety and provide transport of essentials. Of the official workforce of 154 million, how many fall into this "absolute essentials of life" category? Perhaps 10% or 15 million people? Even if we double that to include all sorts of nonessential but "critical" goods and services, then that's perhaps 30 million workers, roughly 10% of the population and about 12.5% of the real workforce of 240 million (the Federal government has
relegated roughly 88 million working-age people to the zombie -status of "not in labor force" to keep the official unemployment rate low). We all know the dynamic behind this dramatic reduction in the number of people needed to provide the essentials of life: enormous increases in productivity based on abundant fossil fuels and advanced technology. Even well-made infrastructure requires maintenance, but this process of replacing aging transmission lines, water mains, highways, refineries, etc. requires a relatively modest number of workers because machines do much of the work. If you doubt this, stop and count the workers on a major repaving project or the construction of a highrise building. A very large multi-story building is generally assembled by about 100-150 workers, more during certain stages and less during others. Most of the components are fabricated in factories where machines do most of the work. Ask how many frontline police officers are on your local force. Cities of a few hundred thousand might have 200-300 officers, larger cities might have 8001,000. It's not a large number. On a macro-scale, the challenge
in advanced economies is creating "make-work" for 80% of the working age population. This is not an issue in developing economies, as most of the workforce is non-market and does not participate much in the cash economy. For example, only 7% of India's vast workforce of hundreds of millions of people gets a paycheck. The other 93% survive via barter, raising their own food, a bit of trade or occasional labor for cash, etc. Before industrialization, roughly 50% of the U.S. population and workforce lived and worked on farms. The surplus of their labor fed the other 50% who lived in urban areas, and that cash supplied the few essentials the rural dwellers needed. The paradox of post-industrial economies is that the cost of living rises even as the efficiencies of providing essentials reduces the number of essential jobs. Some of this may be due to Baumol's Disease, a topic I have covered before ( Productivity, Baumol's Disease and the Cliff Just Ahead, December 8, 2010). Baumol's cost disease is named after economist William J. Baumol, who with William G. Bowen described a critical difference between goodsproducing and labor-intensive
work. Baumol and Bowen noted that if productivity/wages rose by 2.2% a year and costs rose by 2%, then over time workers could buy more of everything--goods, services and government services paid for with taxes. They also observed a critical, long-term difference between the rates of productivity growth in goods-producing industries and labor-intensive industries such as nursing and teaching. (I would also include the Armed Forces as an example.) Goods-producing industries could achieve very high productivity growth as laborsaving automation and supplychain efficiencies scaled up, while nursing and teaching required the same number of hours with patients or students as in years past. In other words, productivity in labor-intensive services has intrinsically lower rates of productivity increases than goodsproducing industries. Baumol and Bowen then described the peculiar result of this: as GDP increased due to goods-producing improvements in productivity, the relative share of low-growth-productivity services would rise. Thus machine-produced TV sets GUEST page 42
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SYRIZA's Tsipras Lists Bailout Rejection as Key Demand; Don't Rule Out a SYRIZA Coalition; Eventually May Be At Hand; Why SYRIZA Will Win the Next Election
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not secure the support of PASOK and the Communist Party (KKE). KKE leader Aleka Papariga has already rejected any idea of Submitted at 5/8/2012 11:36:00 AM The opportunity for Greece to tell c o o p e r a t i o n w i t h S Y R I Z A , the Troika to "go to hell" is at although Tsipras will meet with hand, if only the political left can her to discuss the matter. stop bickering long enough to The only other option open to form a coalition. SYRIZA is to receive the backing Bailout Rejection Key Demand of ND and PASOK, which seems Alexis Tsipras (SYRIZA's leader) unlikely. says he will use all three allotted Sources have suggested that days to do so. His key demand is Tsipras will present a three-point a bailout rejection, which would proposal to his counterparts, mean a eurozone exit whether that which will include the rejection of is his intention or not. the bailout terms. Please consider SYRIZA's Leading SYRIZA MP Panayiotis Tsipras to make bailout rejection Lafazanis told Skai radio on k e y b a r g a i n i n g p o i n t T h e Tuesday that the party would seek SYRIZA leader is expected to for some of Greeces debt to be meet the head of the Democratic written off. Left, Fotis Kouvelis, at 3.30 p.m., SYRIZA will ask for the debt to Ecologist Greens representative be renegotiated with the aim of its Ioanna Kontouli at 5.30 p.m. and larger party being written off, he the Social Pact president Louka said, adding that the leftist party Katseli at 7 p.m. does not recognise debt that is not Tsipras has indicated that he will sustainable and which Greeks use the full three days at his cannot pay. Tsipras' Five Point disposal to talk with all the party Proposal leaders, including those of New Please consider Tsipras lays out Democracy and PASOK, but five points of coalition talks barring Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn). The immediate cancellation of Because of the 50-seat bonus all impending measures that will received by the first party, in this impoverish Greeks further, such case New Democracy, there is no as cuts to pensions and salaries. w a y S Y R I Z A c a n f o r m a The immediate cancellation of government without ND if it does all impending measures that
undermine fundamental workers' rights, such as the abolition of collective labor agreements. The immediate abolition of a law granting MPs immunity from prosecution, reform of the electoral law and a general overhaul of the political system. An investigation into Greek banks, and the immediate publication of the audit performed on the Greek banking sector by BlackRock. The setting up of an international auditing committee to investigate the causes of Greece's public deficit, with a moratorium on all debt servicing until the findings of the audit are published.
(SYRIZA's leader, who came second) seems likely to face difficulties to find support of other large left-wing parties. According to sources quoted by Kathimerini, Mr. Tsipras (SYRIZA's leader) will try in fact to reach an agreement with Communist Party (KKE) and Democratic Left, a moderate, proEurope grouping, although KKE has already ruled out any cooperation. While PASOK will be also entitled to try to form a government (should SYRIZA's attempt fail), we think it will be difficult by then to form a coalition able to secure an outright majority in the Parliament. Election Process In a second general election only An email from Barclays Capital the seven parties who received Explains the Greek election seats in Sunday's vote would be process and dates: eligible to participate. Were there Political uncertainty remains high to be a second election, we think in Greece. A new electoral round New Democracy and PASOK (which would probably be held on would probably seek to turn the 10 or 17 June) looks increasing election into a decision on likely at this stage as, in our view, Greece's membership of the euro. none of the three parties with the If there was still an inconclusive most votes seem likely to be able result after a second election, then to secure Parliamentary support it is likely that Lucas Papademos for a coalition government. would be invited to form another ND's leader Samaras (who came technical government. Eventually first at Sunday's ballot) declared May Be At Hand yesterday he was unable to form a Here is a point that Barclays government, while Alexis Tsipras missed.
SYRIZA came in second place in this election. Perhaps SYRIZA comes in first place in the next election. If so, it would pick up an extra 50 seats. As I have said on numerous occasions, Eventually, Will Come a Time When .... Eventually, there will come a time when a populist office-seeker will stand before the voters, hold up a copy of the EU treaty and (correctly) declare all the "bail out" debt foisted on their country to be null and void. That person will be elected. Why SYRIZA Will Win the Next Election Alexis Tsipras is saying all the right things (in terms of what most Greeks want to hear). His surprise second-place finish is likely to become a surprise firstplace finish in the next election, perhaps by a lot more than anyone thinks. 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 SYRIZA'S page 41
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Head Start, a preschool program for low-income kids has been a spectacular success, not for kids, but for teachers and teachers' unions. Please consider Miami-Dade County seeks to unload Head Start program, salaries For more than four decades, Miami-Dade County officials have managed Head Start, the storied preschool program for children from low-income families. But the county now wants out and generous salaries are partly to blame. On average, Miami-Dade paid its Head Start teachers $76,860 in salary and fringe benefits in 2011, county records show. Thats about 90 percent higher than the second highest-paying Head Start provider in the county, Catholic Charities, which paid its teachers an average of $40,418 in salary and benefits. On the administrative side, 17 county Head Start staffers made more than $100,000 in salary and
benefits. Last week, the county submitted paperwork to offload much of the Head Start program to three local agencies: the Miami-Dade school system, Easter Seals of South Florida and the YWCA of Greater Miami-Dade. But the plan has been met with resistance from some parents and politicians, who say the shake-up would hurt the current Head Start staffers. About 400 county employees would face the prospect of either losing their jobs or accepting substantial pay cuts if the new agencies hire them. Youre talking about great people who worked with kids for their entire lives with the county and now were saying, We can do it cheaper, said Evelio Torres, president and CEO of Early Learning Coalition of Miami-Dade/Monroe. Youre talking about people who are trying to pay their mortgages and support a family. Head Start was created in 1964 as part of President Lyndon Johnsons Great Society campaign. The program provides
free, full-day preschool and social services for low-income children. Head Start has been a consistent money-loser for the county, in part because Miami-Dade pays its Head Start employees much higher salaries and better benefits than any other local providers, records show. Last year, the average Head Start teacher on the county payroll made more than triple the $19,441 in salary and benefits given to Head Start teachers at Paradise Christian, Miami-Dades lowestpaying Head Start provider. The countys highest paid Head Start employee was director Jane McQueen, who received $188,624 in salary and benefits. Key Concern of Politicians and Unions Notice the key concern. But the plan has been met with resistance from some parents and politicians, who say the shake-up would hurt the current Head Start staffers. Where the H is the concern for kids? Logic would dictate that if teachers' salaries were lower, then the county could afford a much higher teacher-to-student ratio.
Instead, the concern is for the teachers and administrators. The problem is corrupt politicians are in bed with the unions and administrators. The former seeks to buy votes from the latter. The latter does not give a rat's ass about the kids. 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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and computers fall in price while labor-intensive healthcare costs rise. While this is undoubtedly one causal factor, it is not the only causal factor. I think there is an implicit assumption being made on both a policy and cultural level that higher costs are acceptable because it "means more people are being put to work." So when the cost per military fighter aircraft leaps from $56 million each (the F-18) to $200 million and $300 million (the F22 and F-35), then we accept this as OK because we assume more jobs will be created as costs rise. Gross waste and inefficiency is thus accepted as the "cost" of creating more jobs. The problem with this implicit pact is that a rising percentage of these jobs are friction: they do not increase productivity or wealth, they merely consume wealth. In the case of fighter aircraft, the cost has leaped so dramatically that it is now apparent the nation cannot afford a fleet of these hyper-costly (and apparently troubled) aircraft. Will 100 of these aircraft prevail over 1,000 dirt-cheap drones? How about 10,000 drones? If the future of warfare is increasingly powerful unmanned networked
drones (and it clearly is), why are we spending $1 trillion+ on hyper -costly aircraft that are essentially designed for a previous era? We're not building miltary dominance with these programs, we're sinking money down ratholes, just as we're not "buying" more health with our 17% of GDP spent on sickcare, we're simply managing more chronic diseases. In the case of healthcare, patients being issued $1,000 a month in medications are not necessarily "getting better," rather many thousands are dying of accidental overdoses. Though the U.S. spends twice as much as other advanced democracies as a percentage of GDP on healthcare, Americans are arguably less healthy in aggregate than the citizens of Japan and Australia, nations that spend about 8% of GDP on healthcare while the U.S. spends 17% of GDP. These are but two examples of trillion-dollar friction that is sapping the nation's wealth and vitality. Since the nation cannot actually afford to spend $1 trillion on the F-35 program or $2.5 trillion every year on a healthcare system of which at least 40% is fraud or paper-pushing, then we have been borrowing $1.5 trillion
every year to maintain the illusion that these trillion-dollar sinkholes are sustainable. The solution to the post-industrial decline of labor is not unproductive "make-work" jobs and borrowing trillions of dollars until the system implodes, it's lowering the cost basis of the entire economy and culture. The central paradox of an advanced post-industrial economy is that the number of jobs needed declines even as the cost of living rises. The only way out of that paradox is to radically reduce the costbasis of the entire economy, which means eliminating all the systemic sources of unproductive friction. I will discuss this further in the days ahead. Average: Your rating: None Average: 5( 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.
10 Scientists Who Were Their Own Guinea Pigs

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Researchers in all fields concluded that there was no better person to describe the effects of a Submitted at 5/8/2012 1:30:56 PM drug, medical procedure or The Scottish author Robert Louis malady than themselves and Stevenson gave us a fairly conducted experiments as test succinct cautionary tale against subjects and scientists. self-experimentation when he Today, self-experimentation is published "The Strange Case of a b h o r r e d b y t h e s c i e n t i f i c Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in 1886. establishment. It's dangerous for In the novel, Dr. Henry Jekyll, a one and it also makes impossible law-abiding and generally mild- a hallmark of scientific research, mannered member of society, the double blind study, since the experiments on himself with a experimenter knows there is no concoction that turns him into an control or placebo. But over the amoral and violent version of centuries, self-experimenting himself, the repugnant and researchers have contributed a murderous Mr. Hyde. great deal to our understanding of With only himself as both test t h e b r a i n , m e d i c i n e a n d subject and experimenter, Jekyll physiology. This list is an loses control of his experiment incomplete ode to those people and finds he's transforming into who put science ahead of their Hyde without the aid of the drug. own health. As investigators close in on his This entry passed through the secret, he takes his own life. At Full-Text RSS service if this is least one moral of the story is your content and you're reading it pretty clear: Don't use yourself as on someone else's site, please read a human guinea pig. the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentWhen Stevenson's story was only/faq.php#publishers. Five published, it was amid an age Filters recommends: Donate to where self-experimentation was Wikileaks. common, rampant, even.
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Greeks Political Parties Prefer Chaos Over Compromise; June 17 Elections on the Way; Next Bailout Tranche at Risk
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In the wake of the Greek election, one thing is clear: No party or coalition of parties is in control. More elections are coming, but will the results be any different? In the meantime, the next disbursement of Greece bailout funds is at risk, and Greece faces being unable to meet pension, salary and debt commitments next month. Please consider Greece braces for a repeat of elections Greece is bracing for a repeat general election after its centreright leader failed to win leftwing support to form a national salvation government in the wake of Sundays inconclusive outcome at the polls. We are now heading for a second vote next month in a deeply polarised atmosphere, said a disappointed government official. The repeat election would probably take place on June 17, he said. Decision-making on further reforms, including finalising a new 11.5bn medium-term austerity package, will be stalled until a new administration is in
place. Only non-political measures can go ahead, the official said, admitting that it will be hard to push forward with 77 separate structural reforms due to be completed during June. The stalemate puts at risk the timetable for disbursement of Greeces next loan tranche from its second 174bn bailout. Despite a recent transfer of 3.5bn to cover financial emergencies, the country faces being unable to meet pension, salary and debt commitments next month. The European Union and International Monetary Fund have warned they will block further loan disbursements until the next Greek parliament approves the medium-term package, which would include deep cuts in healthcare spending and in public sector employment measures that triggered parliamentary rebellions under the two previous governments. June 17 Elections on the Way Let's hope this is the end of the end of the insanity in Greece instead of yet another package of proposals that sinks Greece further into ruin for the sole purpose of bailing out French and German banks.
The sooner Greece tells the Troika "Go to Hell", the sooner Greece has the potential to be on the road to recovery. The keyword in the above sentence is " potential". Greece has a zero percent chance under Troika proposals. However, unless Greece adopts genuine reform on work rules and pensions, it is headed to the gutter, bailouts or not. 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.
Parenting styles today come in dizzying varieties. Some insist children should be carefully managed, whereas others advise ample free time. The science of raising kids, which took off at the dawn of the 20th century, has given birth to myriad formulas for being grade-A moms and dads, and it's up to modern parents to pick which style most effectively fits their families and values. Take the Parenting Style Quiz to find out how well you can navigate the maze of methods for being a blue ribbon parent. Earn a point for every right answer! Save your score at the end of the quiz.
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Golf-McIlroy sees Fowler, rivalries as good for game

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Rickie Fowler captured his first PGA Tour victory with a winat the Wells Fargo Championship on Submitted at 5/8/2012 11:56:41 AM Sunday at Quail Hollow wherehe P O N T E V E D R A B E A C H , beat McIlroy - who reclaimed the Florida, May 8 (Reuters) - Barely world number one rankingthis a monthafter the year's opening week - and D.A. Points in a major was billed as a two-horse p l a y o f f t o f i n a l l y c o n f i r m racebetween Rory McIlroy and hisstatus as the bright young hope Tiger Woods, there is now the of American golf. ... prospectof a very different rivalry at the top of international golf.
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On Buying The Commodity Dip

Tyler Durden
With Gold, Silver, and Oil down quite considerably since the second LTRO from the ECB ended the immediate elevations in global central bank stocks and flows and now all marginally positive/negative year-todate, the question of the day is whether this is a dip to be bought or a liquidation to be sold into. Sean Corrigan, of Diapason Commodities, provides some guidance: At this uncertain juncture, to use commodities primarily as a means of obtaining an element of inflation protection, of owning a call option on monetary and fiscal stupidity, seems to be the more pressing imperative, especially since it is one which also offers a growth kicker in a manner which more traditional instruments such as index-linked bonds certainly cannot hope to approximate given the ruinously negative real yields which attach to them in this Looking Glass world of deliberately falsified interest rates. Each successive resort to the printing press may well bring less and less material relief to a world still trying to maintain the pretence that the pre-Crash reckoning of prosperity was a
Could bacteria build better computers?

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sound one and still striving therefore to return valuations to those that prevailed in that particular vision of El Dorado, but the repeated recourse to inflationism will teach people that they should seek out ways of protecting themselves from its malign effects. As they do so, they will eventually act upon their newfound understanding and then, instead of assuaging the fever as they are today by holding money, they will begin to aggravate it by accelerating their purchases and building up their precautionary
stocks of goods. It is against the dawn of that evil day, as much as for any other reason, that holders of predominantly financial assets should contemplate the need to buttress their existing investment framework with a few solid girders of good, hard commodities. In other words: Nothing Has Changed; Central Banks have only one trick which they will use when necessary; normal assets will waver in risk-on/risk-off mode because of that; commodities offer protection from the profligacy with an
upside growth cover. Gold, Silver, and Oil post March 2009 lows... and as far as those global REAL interest rates (courtesy of Gresham's Law): Average: Your rating: None Average: 5( 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.
Researchers at the University of Leeds have used a bacterium that eats iron to create a surface of magnets, similar to those found in traditional hard drives, and wiring. As the bacterium ingests the iron it creates tiny magnets within itself. We are quickly reaching the limits of traditional electronic manufacturing as computer components get smaller. The machines weve traditionally used to build them are clumsy at such small scales. Nature has provided us with the perfect tool to circumvent this problem, says researcher Sarah Staniland. Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. Photo credit: U. Leeds Permalink| Leave a comment
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Deutsche Bank: No, NEXT 10 Best Quotes Week's Initial Claims Report From the Met Is The Most Important Gala Red Carpet
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Submitted at 5/8/2012 11:44:53 AM
A variety of parties have now freaked out about the jobs data for April. But Deutsche Bank's Joe LaVorgna is not ready to buy into the hysteria just yet. He's waiting until next week. In a note today, LaVorgna is sticking to his model that suggests last week's data is merely a temporary speedbump on the way to more jobs added. Here's the full cut: " At present, claims are telling us that the slowdown in employment should be temporary and that job gains should pick up modestly in the months ahead. "Of course, if claims were to rise substantially from their current readings, then the recent slowdown in employment will persist." "The year to date average on claims is 373k. This compares to 417k last year and 476k the year before. As shown in the chart below, the level of claims tends to be inversely proportional to the rate of hiring. Over time, as layoffs slow, employment
Stars strutted down the Met Gala red carpet in NYC last night, and we had a front row ticket to all the action. We were right there watching Beyonc Knowles navigate her train up the stairs, and watched Gwyneth Paltrow strike a pose in her sexy Prada number. We chatted with a few famous guests as they headed into the glamorous bash. Camilla Belle, Rachel Zoe, and Darren Criss were just some of the celebrities that shared their excitement and nervousness about inevitably tends to accelerate. Last week, jobless claims fell -27k to 365k. " As we had projected at the time, claims declined based on a reversal of the Easter effect. If claims edge -5k lower this week, which is what history suggests, the four-week moving average on claims falls to 377k from 384k, very close to its current year to date average and consistent with our view that nonfarm payroll gains should average around +200k per month. Next weeks jobless claims report covers the survey period for May employment, so it takes on added significance." Most likely, there will be a variety of noise and revisions that will prevent any hard conclusions which would also leave the model in tact. Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story
the night with us. Click through to read all the best quotes, and make sure to check out all the Met Gala pictures! View Slideshow
Obama in 2004: 'I Don't Think Marriage Is a Civil Right'

Daniel Halper (The Weekly Standard)
President Obama's position on same sex marriage might be "evolving," as he's admitted himself, but he wasn't always so unclear about where he stood.
Consider this interview from 2004: Q: Mr. Obama, you've said that your religious faiths, your religious faith, dictates that marriage should be between a man and a woman. Would you elaborate on that?
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The Political Turmoil In China Is So Bad Right Now That A Key Party Congress May Be Delayed
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The 30 Best Met Gala Pictures!

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Submitted at 5/8/2012 10:40:01 AM
Benjamin Kang Lim and Nick Edwards of Reuters have a nice scoop on China this afternoon, with sources telling them that the upcoming five-yearly National Congress may be delayed by a few months. The Communist Party is apparently split over the size and makeup of the nine-member politburo standing committee essentially the nine most important people in Chinese politics. Current President Hu Jintao reportedly wants to cut the size of the committee to 9, while others want to increase it to 11. The size and make up of the politburo will be key to maintaining a consensus for Xi Jinping, the incoming leader. Of course, it's impossible to talk
The 2012 Met Gala in NYC came and went last night, but we're still reliving the fashionable fun in photos. There were so many amazing snaps, like Beyonc getting extra assistance with her long train, Gisele Bundchen's goofy moment, and Gwyneth Paltrow posing near Chelsea Clinton and husband Marc Mezvinsky. Click through to see them all, including Rachel Zoe about this delay without thinking of the recent scandals in the country. Bo Xilai, the former Chongqing party boss who was ousted and of his wife suspected of involvement in a murder, was widely regarded as being next in line for one of those 9 seats. His mentor, Zhou Yongkang, is a current member of the committee, though is not expected to return to his seat. The 18th congress would be moved from September or October to between November or January, Reuters reports. Please follow International on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story
and her model pal Karolina Kurkova, and more. Also, don't forget to check out all the Met Gala pictures from the big night. View Slideshow
12 months of facts about birthstones [infographic]

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you might be considering getting Mom a little bling she earned the Submitted at 5/8/2012 1:03:00 PM hard way, and that means figuring With Mothers Day coming up, out the birthstones of you and
your siblings. If your birthdays
happen to fall in February and November, though, you might want to stick to flowers. Via Brilliance.
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Principal Accused of Spying on Students, Parents with Fake Facebook Account

Kim Zetter (Wired Top Stories)
A high school principal in Missouri has resigned after she was accused of impersonating a student on Facebook in order to spy on students and their parents, according to a news report. Louise Losos, the principal of Clayton High School in St. Louis, is suspected of having created a fake Facebook account under the alias Suzy Harriston and friending hundreds of students, presumably in order to monitor their communications through their Facebook postings. The account, whose profile picture depicted a group of penguins, was set up last year. More than 300 students accepted the friend request from Harriston, many of them Clayton High School students, before a student who received one of the requests posted a note warning others to stay away from the account because he believed the principal was behind it, according to the St. Louis PostDispatch. On April 5, former Clayton High student and quarterback named Chase Haslett wrote on a Facebook group page, Whoever is friends with Suzy Harriston on Facebook needs to drop them. It is the Clayton Principal.
Shortly after he published his note, the Harriston account disappeared. The following day, the high school announced that Losos was taking a leave of absence. She handed in her
resignation last Friday. The school has not confirmed that Losos was behind the account or that this was the specific reason for her resignation. In a statement, school officials acknowledged
only that Losos had resigned over a fundamental dispute over the appropriate use of social media. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch conducted a search of public records to determine if Suzy
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Lecrae's 'Church Clothes' Video Exposes Christian Hypocrisy?

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May 4, 2012| 1:44 pm On Thursday the rapper, who just goes by his first name, announced to fans on Facebook and Twitter that the "Church Clothes" video had made its world premiere on XXLmag.com. The"Church Clothes" video first shows the lyrical theologian appearing with hip-hop staples, such as DJ Premier and newbie Kendrick Lamar, acknowledging his skills. The video then cuts to Lecrae standing in the pulpit of a church wearing a minister's garb. He soon rips off the preacher's robe to reveal his sleeveless shirt, cargo shorts and baseball cap, and continues rapping as he walks down the aisle. A sample of the lyrics, presented from the viewpoint of someone justfying their lifestyle with twofaced behavior apparently found in some churches, follows below: R.I.P. to Medgar Evers / R.I.P. to Doctor King I ain't tryna hate on my own kind / But Al and Jesse don't speak for me I'm probably gon' catch some
flack man / But I'ma swallow this pill like Pac Man Some of these folks won't tell the truth / Too busy tryna get them racks man Church tryna rob my paychecks / Choir members probably having gay sex Pastor manipulating, hurting women / I wonder what he's gonna say next Bookstore pimping them hope books / Like God don't know how broke looks They telling me that I'm gon' reap a meal / If I sew into these low crooks Plus I know old girl a freak / Now how she singing a solo? I walk in the church with a snap back / And they telling me that that's a no-no? That's backwards and I lack words / For these actors called pastors All these folks is hypocrites / And that's why I ain't at church Truthfully I'm just doing me / And I don't wanna face no scrutiny As long as the church keep wilding out / I can justify all my foolish deeds Like us on Facebook
The YouTube cut of the video published on XXLmag.com had attracted nearly 20,000 views in less than a day as well as dozens of comments. One top commenter suggested that Lecrae's "Church Clothes" title video could serve as a catalyst for Christians perhaps living a double life. "This is deep. A real message acting as a catalyst to make others really think about their motives. Are you really being led by the spirit and truth, if you're not submissive, humble, and walking with integrity?" the viewer asked. Another viewer wrote: "These lyrics are so DOPE, and so true! I've seen it, and the pastors CAN be the worst hypocrites of them all, manipulating with their power and money, taking advantage of broken women and turning away people who don't wear 'church clothes' cuz they're different. They're afraid of them cuz they're radical, passionate and real and they'd bring truth to a church built on lies. The [definition] of church really means fellowship with brothers and sisters in Christ, you don't need a fancy building or fancy
clothes." There were some viewers of the "Church Clothes" video who were not sure about Lecrae's message, to which another commenter offered: "I hope people realize that there is a reason why he is doing what he is doing. He is trying to bridge the gap between the mainstream hiphop culture and those who have been transformed by Jesus and yet are still a part of the culture themselves (Christian hip-hop/ rap). This is basically the Great Commission in action. We are called to reach out to 'all nations' and 'all people' not just those who already know Christ." When asked in a recent interview about the "Church Clothes" mixtape, to be released May 10 on datdiff.com, Lecrae acknowledge that the style on his latest effort is definitely not what fans may be used to. "This mixtape is aimed at the mainstream and is raw uncut hiphop," he said. "This is totally different from my past releases, and I hope I can build a bridge between my current fans and create new ones." "Church Clothes," a preview to
Lecrae's fall full-length album Gravity, is hosted by DJ Don Cannon and features No Malice, formally Malice of the Clipse, Tedashii, and Andy Mineo. Producers 9th Wonder, Boi-1da, and Street Symphony also contribute to the mixtape. The title video was directed and edited by Kyle Dettman. Lecrae, 32, started his rap career in high school but redeemed his hobby after a conversion experience at 19. Since then, the MC and married father has positioned himself as an influential leader not only in the Christian community but in the music industry as well. READ: THE MIDDLE-AGED WHITE GUY'S GUIDE TO CHRISTIAN RAP 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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Modern Youth Ministry a '50-Year Failed Experiment,' Say Pastors

told The Christian Post that today's modern concept of youth ministry is a "50-year failed experiment." Brown said that (Photo: Scott Brown - PR) when he was a church leader in NCFIC Director Scott T. Brown the '70s and '80s he could have told The Christian Post that been the "poster boy" for the todays modern concept of youth youth ministry movement in ministry is a 50-year failed California. However, he said he experiment, July 27, 2011. now feels that dividing children from adults at church is an July 28, 2011| 10:06 am unbiblical concept borrowed from The church leaders state their humanistic philosophies. case in the documentary film, "The church has become divided "Divided: Is Age-Segregated generationally," Brown said. "It's Ministry Multiplying or Dividing n o t d o i n g w h a t S c r i p t u r e the Church?" prescribes and is actually doing The film is produced by the something foreign to Scripture by National Center for Family dividing people by age or by life Integrated Churches in association stage." with LeClerc Brothers Motion Like us on Facebook Pictures. The producers released "The whole point of 'Divided' is the documentary earlier this that God has spoken clearly about month online, and have made it the discipleship of youth in the available for free until Sept. 15. Bible," he explained. "Scripture is "Divided" follows "edgy twenty- sufficient. It's time to get beyond something" Christian filmmaker the age of modern, systematic age Philip LeClerc on a quest to find -segregated youth ministry. We answers to why his generation is need to put it aside." increasingly turning away from Former youth pastor Boyd attending church. Recent surveys Dellinger, who is now the lead have shown that as many as 85 p a s t o r o f H e r i t a g e B i b l e percent of young people will Fellowship in Fayetteville, N.C., leave the church and many never is one of several church leaders return. interviewed in the film. Dellinger NCFIC Director Scott T. Brown s a i d t h a t b y a l l o f t o d a y ' s
standards he was once a successful youth pastor. "I look back and realize I did more harm to families than I ever imagined," Dellinger says in the film. "I see that more as I look back because I was usurping the authority of parents, especially fathers by having their children's hearts turn towards me with their permission." "Today, I can make more of a difference in the lives of young people through the biblical standards of fathers turning their hearts towards their children," he adds. Dellinger doesn't question the good intentions of youth ministry leaders today and their desire for youth to know Jesus. He just questions the method. "We have to go back to what does the Bible say? There's something fundamentally wrong with the church's drive to say we can do a better job of raising your children than you can," Dellinger highlights. "God has appointed fathers to lead their children; not for someone else to do it just because they have a college degree or some seminary training. That does not qualify someone to all of a sudden become the spiritual leader of your family."
More than 750 churches have signed onto a confession posted online by NCFIC that points to the desire of having more ageintegrated discipleship, according to Brown. He sees this manifest itself in churches in the same way it does in Scripture. In the paradigm shift, Brown said churches would have "the older gathering together with the younger for worship, celebration, and instruction. It would look like what happened in Deuteronomy 12 where Moses commands the parents to bring whole families to come and worship and sacrifice." "It's the only pattern you see in Scripture. You never see Moses, or Nehemiah, or Jesus, or the apostle Paul, or anyone ever segregating people by age. On the contrary, integrated discipleship is really an un-disputable pattern of Scripture." READ: REINVENTING STUDENT MINISTRY 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.
"Ripeness Is All" [Quotables]

Melanie Pinola (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 5/8/2012 11:00:00 AM
"Ripeness is all" is a line in Shakespeare's King Lear: "Men must endure their going hence, even as their coming hither: Ripeness is all." It speaks to being ready for inevitable death, but also, as children's book author Maurice Sendak explains, savoring your life and making the most of every moment until the end. More
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the name of Suzy Harriston had been enrolled at the high school in the last two years. The outing of Losos might have been retaliation for the recent firing of a football coach. Haslett posted his accusation on the page of a Facebook account that had been set up in support of the coach, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The account, called Bring Back Coach Horrell, was frequented by students, parents and others who felt that former football coach Sam Horrell had been unfairly fired last year. Horrell lost his coaching position over a violation of the Missouri State High School Activities Association bylaws, which regulate what kind of contact high school coaches can have with middle school athletes. The school district found that Horrell had engaged in strength and conditioning workouts withstudents who attend Wydown Middle School, in violation of the bylaws. Students held a demonstration on the front lawn of the school last year in support of the coach, and some denounced Losos for Horrells punishment. Horrell was allowed to remain at the high school as a physical education teacher this year, but the school
board voted on April 4 to not renew his teaching contract. A day after the school board announced its decision, Haslett posted his accusation about Losos and the Suzy Harriston Facebook account. He posted his warning after the Harriston account sent out a number of friend requests to people who were expressing support for Horrell online. Someone asked Haslett online how he knew Losos was behind the Harriston account and Haslett, who is the son of former St. Louis Rams interim head coach Jim Haslett, replied, Cant say who told me. Andy Brown, the parent of a Clayton High School student, was among those who received a sudden Facebook friend request from Harriston. He had been a public supporter of Horrell and a critic of Losos, the newspaper said. Two of his children had already been friended by Harrison last year. Brown told the local paper that if Losos or other administrators were indeed using Facebook to monitor students online without being truthful about their identity, it was a breach of trust. Losos has been principal of the school since 2005. During her tenure, the high school was ranked among the best high
schools in the U.S. by Newsweek. Our high ranking is a tribute to the hard work of our students and the dedication of our entire staff, Losos said in a press release about the schools ranking. I am proud of our Greyhound community for this significant achievement. We will continue our work of holding high expectations and striving to provide the best possible education to our students. Schools around the country have been developing policies that forbid teachers from friending students on social media through personal accounts, in order to avoid the appearance of impropriety. Recently, a New York City teacher wrote this is sexy beneath the Facebook photo of a female student. Another teacher reportedly sent a message to a student saying that her boyfriend did not deserve a beautiful girl like you. 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.
Make an Awesome Coat Rack Out of Wood Rods and Twine [DIY]
Adam Dachis (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 5/8/2012 12:00:00 PM
The words "awesome" and "coat rack" aren't a common pair, but lifestyle blog Weekday Carnival came up with a simple DIY
project that brings the two together. All you need is five wooden sticks and some twine to put together an elegant, minimalist coat rack. Weekday Carnival explains what you'll need: More
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Will the World End in Your Lifetime?

43 percent of Americans say they attend church on Sundays; 97.8 percent of the Turkish population May 6, 2012| 11:37 am is Muslim. What explains this phenomenon? Why would commitments to Some blame the Mayan calendar Christianity and Islam influence 10 percent worldwide believe a p o c a l y p t i c e x p e c t a t i o n s ? that its conclusion on December Because for both, apocalyptic 21, 2012 will mark the end of the teachings are central to their faith. w o r l d . T h o s e w i t h l o w e r Muslims expect the return of the education or household income Mahdi ("Rightly Guided One") at levels are more likely to believe in the end of history. The Qur'an a n a p o c a l y p s e d u r i n g t h e i r asks, "How do you know the Hour lifetime. So are those who are is not near?" (42:17) and adds, under 35 years old. "those who are in doubt about the I suggest another factor: the role Hour are wandering far astray" (v. of religion. The smallest numbers 18). were found in France (6 percent), Like us on Facebook Belgium (7 percent) and Great The last recorded words of Jesus Britain (8 percent). These are are, "Yes, I am coming soon" among the most irreligious ( R e v e l a t i o n 2 2 : 2 0 ) . E a r l y nations on earth. A recent poll believers lived every day in asked Western Europeans if they expectation of the imminent b e l i e v e G o d e x i s t s b y a n y return of our Lord. Secular definition. The results: around 68 cultures discount such beliefs as percent in Italy believe in the outdated superstition, but each of existence of a supernatural deity; us is one day closer to eternity 48 percent agree in Spain, 41 than ever before. percent in Germany, 35 percent in I have no idea if Jesus will return Great Britain, and 27 percent in in my lifetime. But I do know that France. On average, 2 percent in if he doesn't, I will go to him at Western Europe attend religious t h e e n d o f m i n e . J o n a t h a n services on a given Sunday. Edwards, the greatest theologian By contrast, the two nations with America has ever produced, the highest percentage expecting resolved: "never to do anything, the end of the world America which I should be afraid to do, if and Turkey are among the most it were the last hour of my life." religious nations on earth. Around How would such a resolution
change our culture? How would it change your life? READ: DOES THE BIBLE TALK ABOUT THE END THE WORLD IN 2012? Adapted from Dr. Jim Denison's daily cultural commentary at www.denisonforum.org. Jim Denison, Ph.D., is a cultural apologist, building a bridge between faith and culture by engaging contemporary issues with biblical truth. He founded the Denison Forum on Truth and Culture in February 2009 and is the author of seven books, including "Radical Islam: What You Need to Know." For more information on the Denison F o r u m , v i s i t www.denisonforum.org. To connect with Dr. Denison in social media, visit www.twitter.com/jimdenison or www.facebook.com/ denisonforum. Original source: www.denisonforum.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.
Media Preview Adds Windows Explorer Thumbnails to Nearly Any Video File [Video]
Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 5/8/2012 10:30:00 AM
Windows: Lots of videos have built-in thumbnails in Windows Explorer, so you can see a quick preview of each filebut this
only works with popular video formats that work out-of-the-box in Windows. Media Preview is a small utility that adds preview thumbnails to nearly every video format you can think of. More
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Nokia Announces Exclusive App Deals to Bolster Its Lumia Smartphone Line
Alexandra Chang (Wired Top Stories)
Nokia adds several new and exclusive apps to the Lumia (Lumia 900 above). Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com While the Windows Phone Marketplace has grown from 7,000 apps to more than 80,000 apps in the past year, its still very far from catching up to Apples App Store and Googles Play offerings. But on Tuesday at CTIA 2012, Nokia announced a number of key app partnerships, giving the Windows Phone ecosystem and Nokias Lumia line in particular a significant push. Nokia has partnered with 11 major companies: PGA Tour, ESPN, Rovio, EA, Groupon, Tripdots, PayPal, AOL Entertainment, TIME, Newsweek and Box. We are focused on delivering great, locally relevant apps, and importantly, those which offer unique, exclusive and original experiences, Marco Argenti, SVP Nokia Developer Experience, said in a statement. Of all the mobile handset
manufacturers, Nokia is the most fully vested in the Windows Phone platform. The company doesnt make Android devices like Samsung and HTC, so its entire smartphone future rests on the fortunes of the Windows Phone OS. So exactly what type of exclusivity has Nokia announced? Take a gander: PGA Tours newly released app will be exclusive to Lumia phones for
one year. Upcoming updates to the ESPN Hub app will be exclusive until May 2013. New Groupon app features will be exclusive for six months. The Tripdots vehicle-management app will be exclusive for three months. And the upcoming AOL Entertainment Hub will be exclusive for six months. According to Nokias press statement, the company has also developed a deeper partnership
standing partners, and Windows Phone and Lumia are of strategic importance to Rovio. We are very committed to bring our games to Lumia devices, and are looking forward to delighting our fans on the Windows Phone platform, Mikael Hed, CEO of Rovio, said in a statement. As for EA, PayPal, Time Magazine, Newsweek and Box, the companies have announced apps for Nokia Lumia phones and the Windows Phone Marketplace, though they dont appear to be exclusives. Nokias announcement shows that despite recent mishaps a software glitch in the Lumia 900, huge Q1 losses, and a class-action lawsuit from upset shareholders with Rovio, the company thats t h e c o m p a n y r e m a i n s most famous for Angry Birds. completely committed to growing Rovio is now building a dedicated out the Windows Phone platform. team to create games for the This entry passed through the Lumia line and Windows Phone Full-Text RSS service if this is in general, and the two companies your content and you're reading it will work together to develop new on someone else's site, please read apps exclusive for Nokia Lumia the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentsmartphones. Expect some very only/faq.php#publishers. Five special avian dive bombers Filters recommends: Donate to coming to a Windows Phone near Wikileaks. you. Nokia is one of our longest-
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Gree CEO Responds to Japan's Social Game Controversy

Daniel Feit (Wired Top Stories)
the weekend first broke the story that Japans Consumer Affairs Agency was looking into the T o k y o G a m e S h o w 2 0 1 1 social game companies sales attendees try cell phone games at tactics, floating the possibility that the Gree booth. they may violate laws against P h o t o : R o b e r t G i l h o o l y / gambling. Wired.com There is no doubt [gacha sales] Japanese social gaming giant stir a passion for gambling, said Gree will cooperate with other Minister of State for Consumer Japanese publishers to write Affairs and Food Safety Jin industry guidelines in hopes of Matsubara to the Yomiuri on p u t t i n g o f f a g o v e r n m e n t Tuesday, telling reporters that investigation of free-to-play social there is a possibility of illegal games, said the companys CEO activity. Yoshikazu Tanaka to Reuters on The game mechanic at issue is Tuesday. known as complete gacha, a Our aim is for as many people as lottery system in which players possible to enjoy our games worry pay real money to win items in a free, Tanaka told the news random drawing. Once a set of service. items is complete, the player is A Yomiuri Shimbun report over rewarded. Being random, this can
prove quite costly to consumers but very profitable to the game companies. Up to 50 percent of their overall revenue comes through gacha, consultant Serkan Toto told Reuters.
Gree has already taken steps to appear proactive in the face of customer complaints. Last month, Gree jointly announced with rival DeNA that it would place spending limits on teenage social game players.
Tanakas comments came during a financial briefing where Gree revealed it had tripled profits last quarter to 64 billion yen ($800 million USD). However, in the wake of the Yomiuri story the companys stock was hit hard and Tanaka personally lost $400 million in one day. 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.
Texas A&M AD Bill Byrne retires FOXSports.com

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Updated May 8, 2012 2:08 PM ET COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) Texas A&M athletic director Bill Byrne has retired. A&M won 45 Big 12 championships in 13 different
sports under the 66-year-old Byrne. But his legacy will be tied to the school's move from the Big 12 to the Southeastern Conference, starting in July. Byrne took criticism as it became clear the Aggies would leave and end longtime rivalries, notably the annual football game against Texas that was a deep-rooted
tradition in the state. Byrne's contract was to expire in August 2013. He will become a special adviser to A&M President R. Bowen Loftin. Byrne joined A&M after serving as the AD at Nebraska from 1992 to 2002. He was hired by Robert Gates, the former university president and former U.S. defense
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See All the Pictures From the Met Gala!

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Submitted at 5/8/2012 10:29:51 AM
sexy white J. Mendel, cozied up to her husband Hugh Dancy for the affair, and Jessica Biel wore The annual Met Gala in NYC last ankle-length Prada on the arm of night didn't disappoint, with fianc Justin Timberlake, with her famous faces from the big and huge engagement ring on display. small screens, the music industry, Beyonc Knowles made a grand and the fashion world all stepping entrance in a lace Givenchy with a out in their finest. Carey flowing train of indigo feathers, Mulligan, one of the evening's while Diane Kruger followed suit hosts, showed up in a metallic in a bright purple Prada. Vampire Prada frock in honor of the Diaries' Nina Dobrev went sexy in exhibit, Schiaparelli and Prada: a black and gold Donna Karan, yellow Versace and Emily Blunt Impossible Conversations. Diane Rihanna showed skin in Tom in coral Calvin Klein. Emily Kruger also chose a gown by Ford, and Cameron Diaz went brought her husband John Prada, as did Gwyneth Paltrow. with a backless Stella McCartney. Krasinski to the bash, but she Gwyneth was one of many ladies There were so many gorgeous wasn't the only one with her man who went short for the looks on the red carpet and by her side. Julianne Hough posed fashionable soiree, along with hundreds of pictures, so click in Carolina Herrera with Ryan Kristen Stewart in Balenciaga and through to see them all and make Seacrest close by, and Gisele Emma Stone in a leg-baring red sure to weigh in on Fab's Met Bundchen showed PDA with Tom Lanvin. Gala fashion polls! View Brady on her way into the event. Color was also a trend, with Slideshow Claire Danes, who stunned in a January Jones choosing a strapless
Does Your Windshield Installer Actually Know What They're Doing?

Chris Morran (The Consumerist)
Photos: Rockies vs Padres Denver Post

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game between the Colorado Cuddyer and other teammates Rockies and the San Diego Padres after blasting a... on Monday, May 7, 2012, in San and more Diego, CA. The Padres won, 3-2. Colorado Rockies' Drew Pomeranz is greeted by Michael
said that upwards of 85% of windshields are installed improperly. Alas, you may not Submitted at 5/8/2012 1:15:00 PM know until you've actually taken If you've ever had to get your the windshield out or it's fallen car's windshield replaced, you out on its own. might be familiar with rain water Here are 6 questions you can ask d r i p p i n g d o w n o n t o y o u r your installer before letting them dashboard and lap. Even worse, repair your windshield: maybe you've had the window 1. Are you an AGRSS-Registered pop out or crack because it wasn't Company? properly installed. Unfortunately, 2. Do you use o.e. (original these problems may be all too equipment) or o.e.-equivalent common. glass? CBS Sacramento's Kurtis Ming 3. Do all the materials you use looked into just how easy it is to meet or exceed ANSI Z 26.1 and become a registered windshield all pertinent Federal Motor installer in California. Even Vehicle Safety Standards? though it's a process that requires 4. Does your adhesive care and can be dangerous if done manufacturer certify you, and incorrectly, all you need is to pay who is the manufacturer of the the state $200 a year. adhesive? The state says the registry is a 5. What type of warranty can I good idea because it at least gives expect? consumers a way to hold installers 6. How soon after my glass is accountable if they have a replaced will I be able to use my complaint. vehicle Meanwhile, an inspector at the This entry passed through the state's Bureau of Automotive Full-Text RSS service if this is Repair shows Ming numerous your content and you're reading it examples of shoddy installation, on someone else's site, please read including a windshield that, four the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentdays after installation, would pop only/faq.php#publishers. Five out if someone shuts the driver's Filters recommends: Donate to side door. Wikileaks. Ming talked to one expert who
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Interpol issues warrant for Iraqi VP

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Submitted at 5/8/2012 11:55:10 AM
He has challenged the legitimacy of the trial and said his life is at risk in Baghdad. I n t e r p o l h a s i s s u e d a n The decision to charge the key international 'Red Notice' alert Sunni Arab leader sparked a for Iraq's fugitive Vice President political crisis that saw the vice Tariq al-Hashemi on suspicion of president's bloc boycott cabinet "guiding and financing terrorist and parliament over accusations attacks". Nuri al-Maliki, Iraq's Shia prime Hashemi, who is being tried in minister, was monopolising absentia in Baghdad after being power. accused of running a death squad, Hashemi said in a statement insisted in a statement on Tuesday posted on his website early on that he was not above the law and Tuesday that he was awaiting a was ready to appear in court if his "political solution" to the standoff. security, and a fair trial, could be "I respect the [Iraqi] judiciary and guaranteed. I am not above the law," he said. "The Red Notice for al-Hashemi "If a fair trial is possible, not r e p r e s e n t s a r e g i o n a l a n d politicised, and there are security international alert to all of guarantees and guarantees of my Interpol's 190 member countries constitutional rights, I will stand to seek their help in locating and before any court, even if it is in arresting him," the Lyon-based Baghdad because I am sure of my international police agency said. innocence." Interpol said the notice, its Ghassan al-Attiya, a Baghdadhighest possible alert, was issued based analyst said the accusations following an Iraqi warrant made lodged against the vice president "as part of an investigation in are indeed political in nature. which security forces seized Attiya says in the period between bombing materials and arrested February 2006 and May 2008, all individuals". of the local "militias were Hashemi - last known to be in attacking each other. I would not Istanbul, after receiving medical presume any of them to be t r e a t m e n t f o r r e s p i r a t o r y innocent". complications in the Turkish Attiya says Iraqi government capital, Ankara - along with his claims that evidence against bodyguards faces about 150 Hashemi dates back three years charges, including the alleged raises further questions, "why killing of six judges and other didn't they raise the issue before senior officials, according to an ... probably there is a political Iraqi judicial spokesman. motive" to the charges.
Saad al-Mutalabi, senior adviser to prime minister Maliki, said accusations that the prime minister is furthering ethnic and sectarian divides in the country "is just political talk". Mutalabi, in a phone interview with Al Jazeera says it is politicians, not lawyers lodging the complaints against the prime minister. As proof against charges that the prime minister is stoking sectarian rifts within the nation, Mutalabi points to Maliki's trip to the province of Kirkuk, where he is holding a cabinet meeting in support of Arab Sunnis in the northern province. Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf, reporting from the Jordanian capital, Amman, said that though Hashemi maintains his own innocence, it may be possible that members of his entourage may have been involved in attacks during the civil war. "It could be possible that some of his guards were implicated but he didn't know about it", our correspondent says of the vice president's take on the 150 charges lodged against him. Travel restricted Hashemi said he was planning to return to Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, on Tuesday but decided to delay his trip after appeals by unnamed political leaders. Attiya says if Hasemi does
indeed to face trial in Iraq he would be taking a major step towards turning the political tables in Iraq. Hasemi "will really be a hero of the people and expose the polticisation of the government", if he stands trial said Attiya. Interpol secretary general Ronald Noble said in a statement that the Red Notice would "significantly restrict" Hashemi's ability to travel and cross international borders. "This case also clearly demonstrates the commitment of Iraqi authorities to work with the world police community via Interpol to apprehend individuals facing serious charges," he said. A Red Notice is not an internationally binding arrest warrant but many of Interpol's members consider it a valid request, especially if they have an extradition treaty with the requesting country. Selcuk Unal, a Turkish government spokesperson has told Al Jazeera that the Red Notice is "just disseminating information about a person" and that Hashemi, still considered Iraq's current vice president, will return to Iraq after receiving medical treatment in Istanbul. Unal, speaking from the Turkish capital, Ankara, said Turkey "will look into the matter" but has not yet made any decisions regarding extradition.
In a statement issued by his temporary media office, Hashemi, one of Iraq's highest-ranking Sunni politicians, has accused the Iraqi judiciary of losing integrity and impartiality. Hashemi goes on to say he expected Interpol do a more thorough job of vetting what he calls "fabcricated" charges against him, rather than "rush" to issuing the Red Notice. Iraqi authorities issued an arrest warrant for Hashemi in December after the US completed its pullout and he first sought refuge with Iraqi Kurds who refused to hand him over. He then fled to Turkey, after stops in Qatar and Saudi Arabia. "My life in Baghdad [is] in high risk," he told journalists on Friday in Istanbul, where he has been based for more than a month. Hashemi has challenged the legitimacy of the trial in the Central Criminal Court of Iraq, claiming the federal court should have handled the case because he is a sitting vice president. His trial began on Thursday, but was adjourned until May 10. 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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Annan: Syria plan is only chance to avoid war

International envoy Kofi Annan has said his six-point peace plan for Syria is a "possible last chance to avoid civil war". Annan, the UN-Arab League envoy tasked with bringing an end to the violence, said on Tuesday world powers shared a "profound concern" that Syria's violence was spiralling into civil war. He said they had pledged to deploy 300 truce monitors to Syria by the end of the month. Addressing the UN Security Council from Geneva via videolink, Annan said there had been "a spate of bombings that are really worrying'' and that the UN mission, mandated with monitoring a 12 April ceasefire in the country, "is the only remaining chance to stabilize the country". The peace bid was not an "openended" opportunity for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Annan told the Security Council. "There is a profound concern that the country could otherwise
descend into full civil war, and the implications of that are frightening," he said. Annan said failure to prevent a civil war will not only affect Syria, it will have an impact on the whole region". He also said that there has been "some decrease in the military activities, but there are still serious violations in the cessation of violence that was agreed". "Government troops and armour are still present though in smaller formations. There have been worrying episodes of violence by the government, but we have also seen attacks against government forces, troops and installations," he said. Annans comments came just as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said some parts of Syria already resemble a civil war. Jakob Kellenberger, the head of the ICRC, told the Reuters news agency conflict in Homs and the province of Idlib this year met the agency's three criteria of a noninternational armed conflict intensity, duration and the level of organisation of rebels fighting
government forces. It can be a situation of internal armed conflict in certain areas: an example was the fighting in [the neighbourhood of] Bab Amr in Homs in February," Kellenberger told Reuters, making clear the criteria were not met in the entire country. 'Ludicrous poll' Activists say that more than 10,000 people have been killed across Syria since the uprising against Assad broke out in March 2011. The Local Co-ordinarion Committees, an opposition activist network, said 20 people had been killed across the country on Tuesday, including eight people in the province of Idlib. The unrest has persisted despite the parliamentary elections held on Monday as part of the
governments pledge to implement reforms. The opposition boycotted the vote, denouncing it as a sham and the United States said was "bordering on ludicrous". The Syrian government said turnout was high in the election that marked the first time Syria held a vote since the adoption in February of a new constitution allowing for multi-party polls. "Millions of Syrians defied terrorism and chose their representatives in parliament," said the pro-government daily alWatan, which estimated voter turnout at 60 per cent. Meanwhile, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, said he was losing hope for a solution and urged the UN to bolster its observer mission to up to 3,000 rather than the 300
authorised under a Security Council resolution. "The UN should bolster its mission to Syria with up to 3,000 observers to give a full picture of the situation in the country," Erdogan said while on a visit to Rome, Italy. "We need 1,000, 2,000, maybe 3,000 observers, a major mission so they can visit the whole country and see what is happening," Erdogan said. "We support the Annan plan but if someone were to ask me what my hopes are, I would say I have lost hope." There are only around 60 UN observers in Syria, although the team is expected to grow to 300 in the coming weeks. 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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Fighters attack Libyan government HQ

Submitted at 5/8/2012 12:47:54 PM
said. Al Jazeera's Omar al Saleh, reporting from Tripoli, said the F o r m e r L i b y a n f i g h t e r s rebels came from the Nafusa demanding unpaid stipends have mountains and that they were still attacked and surrounded the surrounding the building. headquarters of the interim He said the decision by the government, witnesses say. interim government to halt The attack on Tuesday left one stipends, citing "mass corruption guard dead and several others and fraud", angered the former wounded, according to officials. fighters. A defence ministry spokesperson "I did speak to the son of the confirmed there were dead and Libyan finance minister who said injured, but he did not know his father was at the building at casualty numbers. the time of the attack," our "Many men encircled the building correspondent said. and opened fire against it with " H e s a i d t h e r e w a s h e a v y weapons including anti-aircraft ammunition being fired. He said cannons," a government employee at least three people were killed. present during the attack told "[He also said that] when the the AFP news agency. news spread, other [militia] Several lorries mounted with anti brigades came to protect the -aircraft guns surrounded the government. The fighting lasted building in central Tripoli, between one hour and two hours." blocking traffic, the witnesses The headquarters has previously
been attacked, but our correspondent said that one of the fighters he spoke to described Tuesday's attack as the most serious. Nasser al-Manaa, an interim government spokesperson, said the defence minister was negotiating with the fighters, who "came in protest over [unpaid] stipends", referring to a reward scheme for those who fought against Muammar Gaddafi's regime last year. 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.
Uptick in bathroom remodeling a bright spot in down market

Consumer Reports News (Consumer Reports)
Submitted at 5/8/2012 10:59:59 AM
Uptick in bathroom remodeling a bright spot in down market A survey released this week by the National Association of Home Builders shows strong numbers for bathroom remodeling. In the first quarter of 2012, the bathroom was cited as one of the most common jobs completed in the last year by a record 78 percent of respondents. With remodeling activity on the whole still down, manufacturers are seizing on the interest in bathrooms by bringing new products to market, a fact highlighted by Consumer Reports' latest bathroom remodeling guide. Our report on bathroom countertops, for example, found that several splashy materials once reserved for use in the kitchen are making their way into the bathroom. That includes stainless steel, marble, and concrete. Stainless steel is also being used more and more for bathroom sinks. In our tests, the metal was able to fend off stains from common cleaning products and drain cleaner, and it also resisted heat, dents, and dings.
The humble commode is evolving as well, according to our latest toilet Ratings. More dualflush toilets have come to market, though only one model by Glacier Bay makes our recommended list. However, water efficiency in general is up, with five of the 11 toilets we recommend earning the Environmental Protection Agency's WaterSense seal of approval by using 1.28 gallons per flush. Check out our complete advice on bathroom remodeling, including the latest design trends and Dos and Don'ts. 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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Completely Unfair Comparisons: On Parties, Omens, and Poorly-Executed Rhyme Schemes

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party this towns ever seen is not a simple task. It requires much Submitted at 5/8/2012 12:00:00 PM research into the town in There are plenty of places on questions history in order for Woot where you can find helpful you, the thrower, to determine information. This is not one of whether or not the local citizens those places. Every week we will have, in fact, seen such a crazy be comparing 3 pairs of party. things that shouldnt be compared Advantage: Its a toss up using this formula: Unrelated 2. Fumes vs. A Mix Tape in Thing X vs. Unrelated Thing Y in terms of A Dubious Omen terms of Function Z. Facts will be Fumes often indicate things that misunderstood, overlooked, or have already occurred the pilot changed for the sake of the light on your stove went out, your argument. Enjoy. cars exhaust system has given up, 1. The Mayflower vs. Bird Seed you fed your dog the wrong thing, i n t e r m s o f T h r o w i n g T h e etc. and therefore cannot be Craziest Party This Towns Ever omens. A mix tape and by Seen tape, Im talking about an actual This really depends on what town cassette is an indicator of youre talking about. If its something: that the person who Plymouth, Pennsylvania, theyve made it is one of those hipsters seen what kind of party the who cares more about appearing Mayflower can bring. On the cool and ironic than he does about o t h e r h a n d , B o d e g a B a y , sound quality. Which is to say, a C a l i f o r n i a h a s a l r e a d y mix tape is a very dubious omen, experienced the party that bird i n d e e d . I t f o r e s h a d o w s a n seed can inspire, which is a party i n e v i t a b l e a n d u n p l e a s a n t with a lot of birds (and really, revelation: that its maker is kind thats a party they probably dont of a tool. want to throw again). What Im Advantage(if you can really call getting at is throwing the craziest it an advantage): A Mix Tape
3. Butter vs. A Paper Cutter in terms of Making a Young Ladys Heart Flutter The problem with a paper cutter is they make lots of clutter, and a young ladys heart doesnt flutter for clutter, unless shes a nutter. No, butter from the udder is better to get her. Just mutter, heres some butter, and be sure not stutter, and young ladys heart will surely flutter as she will see that you plan to bake her a cookie (or three) and as we all know,
cookies are the keys to wooing all the young ladies. Advantage: Butter For last week's arguments, the Rebuttal of the Week goes to user dukeofwulf, who presents a simple yet flawless argument as to why a license trumps a canoe in terms of learning to tie your shoes: Two points in favor of the Marriage License: 1. "Tying the knot" could serve as inspiration for learning to do it
for realsies. 2. Having a spouse means what's yours is theirs. That means your shoes are actually their shoes. It's in your spouse's best interest to keep their shoes tied so you don't go around stepping on the laces and ripping the shoes up. They'll either teach you how to do it, or you'll see them do it enough times that you'll pick it up eventually. Conclusion? Marriage License. Sometimes the most complicated argument wins; other times the most concise argument wins. Why? Because Completely Unfair Comparisons is an equal opportunity blog feature! So go ahead: try to argue with one of the above 3 comparisons and see how you fare next week! Photos:"Uncertainty" by flickr user, nicubunu.photo; Photo of tape by flickr user, supernative;"Melting butter" by flickr user, tarale. All used under a Creative Commons License.
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Mercedes-Benz B-Class fuel-cell-powered car shows progress

Color for Facebook smart-phone app lets you share live video
research vehicle that I drove in 2007. This one felt solid and quiet, and it delivered an Submitted at 5/8/2012 10:29:59 AM effortless surge of power. Mercedes-Benz B-Class fuel-cell The car and powertrain -powered car shows progress technology has clearly progressed, With the exception of the but the hydrogen infrastructure upcoming, lease-only Smart EV, has not expanded much in the last Mercedes-Benz has been almost five years, remaining a critical absent from the electric-car tested a gasoline-powered B-Class challenge to expanding the reach movement. But that's not to say in 2007.) of fuel cells. their advanced alternative fuel The fuel-cell B-Class lease See our guide to fuel economy activities are dormant. Rather than payment is $849 a month, which and guide to alternative fuels. field battery-powered cars, the includes hydrogen fill ups. The B Related: automaker has been focusing on has a claimed range of 200 miles Behind the wheel of the m o r e f o r w a r d - r e a c h i n g and stores 3.5 kilograms of improved Coda electric car technology: fuel cells. (A fuel-cell hydrogen at 10,000 psi. That We drive the first Chinese car car is essentially an EV with an works out to be about 57 miles expected in the U.S., the electric on-board electricity generating per kilogram consumption. BYD e6 ability.) Retail prices for a kg of hydrogen Do electric cars even need special At the 26th Electric Vehicle are not firmly established, so it's chargers? Symposium (EVS26) in Los hard to make cost comparisons to Subscribe now! Angeles this week, Mercedes had gas or electricity. It takes 5-10 S u b s c r i b e t o two hydrogen fuel-cell-powered B minutes to fill up the tank, ConsumerReports.org for expert -Class hatchbacks, a small-yet-tall according to Mercedes. A 1.4- Ratings, buying advice and car not sold in the United States in kWh battery buffers the fuel cell r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f its traditional form. The fuel-cell and gets regenerated by coasting products. Update your feed B-Class has been for lease in and braking. The B-Class drove preferences California for nearly two years, much better than the fuel-cell Aproviding Mercedes real-world Class, a previous Mercedes' feedback from customers. (We
Color for Facebook smart-phone app lets you share live video Color for Facebook, announced today at CTIA Wireless, offers one of the fastest ways I've seen to shoot, caption, tag, and upload a 30-second video to Facebook for your friends to enjoy. Color is free to owners of Android and iPhone smart phones on the Verizon network. The app also lets you batchupload photos, and you can easily grab photos already stored in your phone. Another version of Color is available for smart phones on other carriers, but Verizon's version is the only one to support sound. I've been using Color on my Droid Razr, and I've found it quite intuitive. There's just one button to push for each of the three things the app does: Broadcast (for videos), Take a Photo, and Upload Photos. And before you beam your video or photo up to the Facebook cloud, you can
adjust the sharing options (public, friends only, and so on). The app also uses Facebook notifications to tell your friends what you're up to. But friends who have Color on their phones will be able to watch the video as you're shooting itbefore you post it to Facebook. On the downside, the videos are compressed to VGA quality to expedite uploads, so they'll appear a little rough on phones with larger, high-resolution screens. 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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It Kind Of Makes Perfect Sense That Captain Morgan Is Being Sued For Piracy
Mary Beth Quirk (The Consumerist)
That swashbuckling rum drinker Captain Morgan is facing some rough legal waters, as another company is suing its parent company, claiming it pirated a pouch cocktail design. Pirated! See how funny that is because he's a pirate and he takes what he wants and now... I mean, you get it! I know you do. As our tipster writes, "In other news, water is wet."
According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, American Beverage Corp. filed a federal trademark lawsuit yesterday, claiming Diageo plc, which owns Captain Morgan, copied its single -serve frozen cocktails design. Pouch Pac Innovations LLC joins American Beverage on the lawsuit. The suit claims that it has been selling pouched Daily's Cocktails since 2005, and that Captain Morgan's Parrot Bay Cocktails, which are set to be marketed in a similar pouch, takes advantage of
the brand recognition ABC has developed over the last seven years. They're totally different, right? One says "Freeze and Enjoy" and
the other tells one to "Freeze and Squeeze." In any case, who has a thirst for a Capri Sun right about now? Mmm, pouch liquid.
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Buffalo Wing Soda Could Be Totally Delicious Or Super Nasty

Mary Beth Quirk (The Consumerist)
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What could possibly go wrong when combining meat flavors and carbonation? A lot, unless you happen to be the biggest buffalo wing fan in the entire world. That hasn't prevented a company called Lester's Fixins from reaching for the blue cheese stars with its Buffalo Wing Soda flavor.
According to the Rocket Fizz site, (via BuzzFeed), the company also offers such odd/awesome flavors as Bacon, Coffee, Pumpkin Pie, Peanut Butter & Jelly and Sweet Corn. Perfect for those times when you're not sure if you're thirsty or hungry. There are several locations where one can buy these odd soda creations, but if you don't happen to live in Arizona, California, Nevada, Colorado or Nebraska,
there's still hope: You can order your dream soda online. Beyond all those savory selections in Lester's Fixins, there are three kinds of Judge Wapner sodas (cola, cream soda and root beer) and more traditional, sweet flavors as part of the company's namesake Rocket Fizz collection. Then there's the Snooki Wild Cherry soda, which I'm going to go ahead and pledge to never, ever imbibe, for the sake of my
health and overall well-being. Rocket Fizz Soda Pop & Candy Shop[Rocket Fizz] 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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Steve Nash hired as GM of Canada's national basketball team - San Jose Mercury News
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manager. The men's team has been without Submitted at 5/8/2012 12:57:14 PM a head coach since Leo Rautins TORONTO -- Steve Nash has resigned in September after been selected general manager of C a n a d a ' s d i s a p p o i n t i n g Canada's national basketball performance at the Olympic program. qualifying tournament. Copyright The star of the Phoenix Suns will 2012 The Associated Press. All guide the men's team, which will rights reserved. This material may try to qualify for the London not be published, broadcast, O l y m p i c s . T h e m e n ' s a n d rewritten or redistributed. women's team haven't played in This entry passed through the the Olympics since the 2000 Full-Text RSS service if this is Sydney Games. your content and you're reading it T h e y ' l l p l a y i n t h e f i n a l on someone else's site, please read qualifying tournament next month the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentin Turkey. Nash, who starred at only/faq.php#publishers. Five Alexander Sliwinski (Joystiq) Santa Clara, led Canada to a Filters recommends: Donate to Submitted at 5/8/2012 2:30:00 PM seventh-place finish in Sydney. Wikileaks. Also hired Tuesday was Rowan One man's pain is another's Barrett as assistant general pleasure. Never has this been more true than in the case of Dark Souls, as the sadistically difficult RPG continues a slow creep toward two million sales. As part of today's Namco Bandai financials, the company revealed sales in the United States and Europe reached 1.19 million copies. Publishing in Japan was handled by From Software, which
Dark Souls sells 1.19 million copies across North America and Europe
Zynga's Bubble Safari out tomorrow, created by NBA Jam's Mark Turmell
Richard Mitchell (Joystiq)
Zynga has announced Bubble Safari, its first project headed up by Mark Turmell, who joined the revealed last November that the company last year after leaving game had shipped 370,000 units EA. A match-three puzzle game, Bubble Safari has players bursting in the region. Having punished console players bubbles, earning power-ups, and within an inch of their sanity, saving woodland creatures from Namco Bandai will launch Dark p o a c h e r s ( a n d g e n e r a l l y Souls: Prepare to Die Edition on reminiscing about Bust-A-Move). Bubble Safari is free-to-play and PC August 24. Dark Souls sells 1.19 million will be released tomorrow on copies across North America and Zynga.com and Facebook, Zynga Europe originally appeared on tells Joystiq. Check out the first Joystiq on Tue, 08 May 2012 trailer above. 14:30:00 EST. Please see our Gallery: Bubble Safari Continue reading Zynga's Bubble terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments Safari out tomorrow, created by NBA Jam's Mark Turmell Zynga's Bubble Safari out tomorrow, created by NBA Jam's Mark Turmell originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 08 May 2012 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Alan Wake's American Nightmare scares PC players on May 22

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imminent. Based on the product description, it doesn't appear that Submitted at 5/8/2012 3:00:00 PM the PC version will feature any It would seem Alan Wake isn't new content. American Nightmare f i n i s h e d g i v i n g g a m e r s is currently available for pre-order nightmares. A product page has on Steam at 10% off its regular appeared on Steam for Alan $15 price point. Wake's American Nightmare, Alan Wake's American revealing that the previously Nightmare scares PC players on XBLA-exclusive adventure is May 22 originally appeared on coming to PC. Joystiq on Tue, 08 May 2012 Remedy confirmed to Joystiq the 15:00:00 EST. Please see our game will hit Steam on May 22. terms for use of feeds. In April, American Nightmare Permalink| Email this| Comments appeared on the Steam registry, indicating a PC release was
There's a new Bootstrap menu on scripting.com. Gotta say it's been a long time coming. And then yesterday I realized I was within a few inches of putting it together. So that's what I did this morning. You can see from the menu that my Scripting News world, which is one-half of my online existence, has a blog, a linkblog, a top-40 list (which is a nice feature of the linkblog), a place for discussion (threads), a river and a personal site. The linkblog is the content you see in the gray box in the right margin on Scripting pages. The other half of my online life is my work. There's a worknote for this bit. If you look in the menubar of that site you'll see how that side fits together. Note that all of this is hosted on my own servers, I'm not depending on Facebook, Twitter, Google or even Wordpress or Tumblr for my hosting (special mention for the latter two because they wouldn't lock me in, the others would).
I've also been investing in smoothing out all the components to make it possible for more people to install it on their own servers, on EC2 or Rackpace or elsewhere. Right now it's easiest on EC2. That's where EC2 For Poets fits in. It's a big universe for one guy to manage. It's no wonder my back hurts!
Daily Mail AP Photos: Met Gala red carpet Kansas City Star By NICOLE EVATT AP AP Photos: Met Gala red carpet NEW YORK -- The red carpet is the main show at the annual gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute, and ascending the famous stairs is not something seasoned style veteran Sarah Jessica... AP Photos: Sarah Jessica Parker, Sofia Vergara take Met Gala redcarpet role... Washington Post Photos: Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations Costume Institute Gala Denver Post Photos of Beyonce and friends at Met Costume Gala Houston Chronicle (blog) all 602 news articles
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Microsoft's Newest Gestural Interface Captures Hand Motions By Listening to Them
The First Solar-Powered Ship to Circumnavigate the Globe Completes Its Trip
Dan Nosowitz (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
power to its four electric motors, which can only output 26horsepower each. Still, it can Clay Dillow (Popular Science s p e a k e r t o w o r k , a s t h e the question: why? Kinect is good glide along at 14 knots--not a Submitted at 5/8/2012 11:08:52 AM New Technology, Science SoundWave system emits a and getting better, and cameras The MS Tranor PlanetSolar speed demon, but respectable. News, The Future Now) constant inaudible tone that is only grow more ubiquitous on our pulled into Monaco's Hercule The 115-foot-long ship--also the altered by hand movements in g a d g e t s . I f v i s u a l g e s t u r e Harbor on Friday, completing its world's longest solar-powered Submitted at 5/8/2012 12:07:32 PM L i k e K i n e c t , b u t w i t h a front of the computer. The recognition is such a robust journey around the world--the ship--took 585 days to travel all microphone and no camera microphone picks up changes in technology--and Microsoft itself very first solely solar-powered seven seas (are there actually WIth the Kinect, Microsoft f r e q u e n c y c a u s e d b y s a i d has gone a long way toward watercraft to do so. Of course, it's seven seas? A high five to anyone opened up the world of gestural gestures, and the software quickly proving that it's here to stay--then not an ordinary ship. It cost over who can name the seven seas in controls to the masses, allowing infers what gesture was made. SoundWave seems somewhat $16 million USD, has over 500 the comments), during which the users to manipulate video games Related Articles Kinect: Good redundant. square meters of solar panels, and crew actually had to fight off and otherwise control their With Kids, Bad With Couches But we're also all about the idea can house 200 people. pirates, and its fate after its trip is devices with simple motion B u i l d i n g A G e s t u r e - D r i v e n of research for the sake of The ship is mostly designed for unclear. Possibly it'll be used as a controls. Now Microsoft Research Digital Interface High-Speed research, and in a video posted to efficiency--it has a super-light research vessel, or it could even is doing it again, this time using C a m e r a E n a b l e s T o u c h l e s s the research group's site the hull made mostly from foam and be sold to the highest, ludicrously inaudible sound waves to create Gesture Control of Smartphones technology does appear to work, carbon fiber, and is designed for wealthy, environmentallyt h e s a m e k i n d o f g e s t u r a l Tags Technology, Clay Dillow, albeit with a slight delay and with minimum friction with the water. conscious bidder. interface, no cameras necessary. computers, gestural interfaces, a much shorter range than Kinect- That's because even with 38,000 [via Gizmodo] Aptly named SoundWave, the interfaces, kinect, microsoft like, vision-based systems. See it individual photovoltaic cells, it technology allows users to control research, robots SoundWave is in action here. still can't drive all that much their computers via gestures that still in the incubator at Microsoft [ CNET] are evaluated based on sound. It Research, so it's not available for r e q u i r e s a m i c r o p h o n e a n d PCs just yet. And it kind of begs
Underwear Bomber 2.0

(The Feed)
officials said Monday. President Obama was made aware of the Submitted at 5/8/2012 7:59:20 AM threat in April, U.S. officials said, Via Washington Post: The CIA and the plot was stopped before and overseas intelligence partners any aircraft or passengers could disrupted an al-Qaeda plot to be put in danger. Obama was blow up civilian aircraft using an assured that the device did not a d v a n c e d e x p l o s i v e d e v i c e pose a threat to the public, said d e s i g n e d b y t h e t e r r o r i s t Caitlin Hayden, a spokeswoman . . networks affiliate in Yemen, U.S. for the National Security Council. Updates to follow. . . Greg
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Underreported News: Afghan Soldier Kill U.S. Marine

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Submitted at 5/8/2012 12:59:36 PM
Via Herald Sun: AN Afghan soldier has killed a US marine and wounded another before being shot to death in return fire in southern Afghanistan, the latest in a series of attacks against foreigners blamed on government forces working with coalition troops. Sundays attack is among nearly 20 this year that have Dan Nosowitz (Popular Science Claire suffered a severe spinal raised the level of mistrust - New Technology, Science injury when thrown from her between the US-led coalition and News, The Future Now) horse in 2007, breaking her neck, their Afghan partners as NATO back, and several ribs. The bionic gears up to hand over security to Submitted at 5/8/2012 1:10:00 PM Claire Lomas Finishes the Race s u i t , m a d e b y I s r a e l i f i r m local forces ahead of a 2014 The Telegraph ReWalk, is an FDA-approved deadline for the withdrawal of This is one of the most inspiring motorized skeleton replacement combat troops. . . stories we've ever seen: Claire that straps onto the sides of the I guess the End-Zone-DanceLomas of the U.K. was paralyzed legs and hips, with power in a Peace-Accord just signed between from the chest down in a horse- backpack, that senses movement Presidents Obama and Karzai riding accident five years ago. Yet and delivers power to the motors t o d a y , s h e a c c o m p l i s h e d as needed. We've listed it in the something difficult for anyone: Best of What's New, and it's s h e f i n i s h e d t h e L o n d o n actually been featured on the TV Marathon. It took 16 days and one show Glee, but this is the first impressive bionic exoskeleton, time it's been used to complete a but she did it. Watch the video marathon. See the video below: and try not to tear up a little, I [ The Telegraph] dare you.
Paralyzed Woman Completes London Marathon in Bionic Suit After 16 Days
When Religious Rules And Women's Health Collide

Julie Rovner (Shots - Health Blog)
Submitted at 5/8/2012 12:40:00 PM
didnt cover this particular situation. . . Greg Pollowitz 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.
iStockphoto.com Hospital rules can affect a woman's options for care. When you go to the hospital these days, chances are good that it will be affiliated with a religious organization. And while that may might just mean the chaplain will be of a specific denomination or some foods will be off limits, there may also be rules about the kind of care allowed. A survey of more than 1,000 obgyns who work in religious hospitals finds that more than one -third report they've had a conflict regarding religion-based policy and patient care. At Catholic hospitals, the figure was 52 percent. The study, which appears in the American Journal of Obstetrics WHEN page 66
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Why Your Drug Copay Could Change

(Shots - Health Blog)
iStockphoto.com How much a medicine costs you could vary depending on the value your insurer assigns to treatment. What if how much you paid for a drug was based on how much it might help you, instead of the sticker price? Some big employers are already taking this tack, known as valuebased insurance design, by lowering copayments for medicines to manage chronic conditions like diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. It helps that many of the most prescribed pills are now generic and pretty cheap. It's a simple idea when applied this way. The companies figure that if people take those medicines and stay healthy, they'll avoid costly treatment down the road. By slashing copayments, the companies hope to remove a hurdle that might discourage people from sticking with the drugs. Now some employers are thinking about adapting the approach for pricier specialty drugs, such as those used to treat
type cost $14,455 per year, on average. Psoriasis is disfiguring and uncomfortable, but not fatal, Robinson says, while rheumatoid arthritis is a much more disabling condition. In this case, a valuebased insurance design approach might determine that "if you've got psoriasis, maybe you pay a 30 percent coinsurance for the drug," he suggests. "But if you've got rheumatoid arthritis, there's no copayment." That's just the tip of the iceberg. "This stuff is complicated," says Robinson. "I don't want to blow you away with the intractability of the problem." As spending on specialty drugs grows, and despite the difficulties, some experts predict more rheumatoid arthritis, multiple employers are looking to stem the the University of California, employers will adopt "valuesclerosis and cancer, according to rising costs of specialty drugs, Berkeley, who has published based" principles for their a recent report by the Center for whose growth is far outpacing articles advocating this insurance workers' coverage. Studying Health System Change. that of traditional drugs. model. This entry passed through the These medicines are often very But in the latest twist, some Even if a specialty drug has been Full-Text RSS service if this is expensive and have no generic companies are looking to vary the proved clinically effective for your content and you're reading it c o m p e t i t i o n . S o i n s t e a d o f copayment depending on the certain conditions, should all on someone else's site, please read charging a simple copay for these value the drugs provide. patients pay the same amount for the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentdrugs, some health plans charge a It isn't easy. For starters, figuring it? Take a drug like Enbrel, which only/faq.php#publishers. Five percentage of the total cost, which out who is an "appropriate is approved to treat inflammatory Filters recommends: Donate to can run to thousands of dollars a candidate" for specialty drugs can conditions, including rheumatoid Wikileaks. month. be tough, say experts including arthritis and psoriasis. According It's one way that insurers and James Robinson, an economist at to the HSC report, drugs of this
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and Gynecology, was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Greenwall Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Restrictions on abortion at Catholic hospitals are the rule. But that's not the only issue, says Debra Stulberg, an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Chicago Medical School and lead author of the study. Stulberg said while the survey did not allow researchers to pinpoint the exact nature of the conflicts (more research is currently under way involving follow-up interviews with some of the survey respondents), her own discussions with physicians in religiously affiliated hospitals have found that the most frequent issues arise around birth control and sterilization, particularly for women who want to be sterilized just after giving birth. "Those are things that most OBGYNs support giving to women and that they want to be able to offer to women," Stulberg says. "And they are completely prohibited at Catholic hospitals."
For women having a C-section, she says, that prohibition can mean having to go to a separate hospital and have a second surgery, complete with the further risk of another round of anesthesia. "It's not medically good for a woman to have two surgeries when she could have one," she says. A bright spot in the survey, however, is that relatively few physicians said they experienced conflict over how to deal with patients with an ectopic pregnancy, a situation where an embryo begins to develop outside the woman's uterus, usually in the fallopian tube. Only 2.9 percent of the OBGYNs who responded to the survey said the policies of their institution limited their treatment options for dealing with an ectopic pregnancy. For those who practiced in Catholic hospitals, the number was higher but still low 5.5 percent. Still, Stulberg says, hospitals should make it clear to doctors and patients exactly what their policy is on treating ectopic
pregnancy. In particular, do they permit or ban the use of methotrexate, a drug that can spare surgery in some cases, but which can also run afoul of Catholic hospitals' abortion ban? Meanwhile, the Catholic Health Association, which represents Catholic hospitals, said in a statement that it has been educating doctors on its policies for years. Now, the organization "is developing additional resources to its well-received educational resources on the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, including segments especially geared to physicians." 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.
Yob locked up for using Facebook to incite rioting

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Terry Balson was sentenced to two years in a young offenders institute by Wood Green Crown Court after being named and shamed on the group he set up. The 20-year-old, from Islington, was arrested by detectives from Operation Withern after running the Facebook page For the Riot (F*** the feds) on the third night of the troubles, the court heard. The site encouraged people to meet up in Wood Green, Haringey, to join in the disorder. In Barnet, Colindale Police Station was attacked and a mobile police station was damaged. Shops in main shopping areas Brent Cross and Wood Green were trashed and looted. Among the comments was one asking if its on in Barnet? in which Balson confirmed it is adding: Are you on it? He then arranged to meet him and another member in Wood Green at 6pm. A few hours later Balson commented: Barnet High Road is the spot apparently tonight whos on it. Some 72 people, the majority from Barnet, called the police about Balsons comments and he
was also named on Facebook and Twitter as the person behind the campaign. Police carried out a search at Balsons home in Haringey, on January 11, although he was not at the property. He later handed himself in at Hornsey Police station after being told officers wanted to speak to him. He was arrested on suspicion of inciting others to riot. Balson pleaded guilty in March. Investigating officer, Detective Constable Chris Ladmore, said: Terry Balson actively encouraged and incited others to attend Barnet High Road and riot. It was with the assistance of these concerned residents and the social network community that Terry Balson was not only named, but arrested, charged and convicted. The hours of hard work by the Operation Withern North team ensured that his only option was to plead guilty. 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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Legacy Lawsuit Strategy: Blame Natural Damages on Oil Companies

Lachlan Markay (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
the salt dome phenomenon is naturally occurring. But when I find these things, Griffin says in the video above, maybe Im just Submitted at 5/8/2012 10:02:47 AM Lawsuits against oil and gas going to contend that the oil companies in Louisiana have companies did it, not the salt taken a toll on the industry and domes. After all, he added, its the states economy generally. t o u g h t o n a m e G o d a s a But documents obtained by Scribe defendant. The oil companies did suggest plaintiffs attorneys in the it. lawsuits seek out litigation even Sugar cane farmers in Southern when they know their claims are Louisiana have often used the baseless. crabgrass killer MSMA, notes A presentation(embedded below) another slide in the presentation. g i v e n b y a m a j o r e n e r g y MSMA contains a significant consultant recently obtained by amount of arsenic. The suggestion Scribe offers a glimpse into the i s t h a t d a m a g e c a u s e d b y tactics that these firms may use to chemicals used in sugar cane extract large damages from oil farming can be blamed on oil and and gas companies in the state. gas companies. The presentation offers a primer The presentation also on how to locate areas where I r e c o m m e n d s f o c u s i n g o n may successfully litigate for Southern Louisiana due to its environmental damages, and r i c h e n v i r o n m e n t o f d e e p suggests that litigants find areas in pockets, including fossil fuel the state that have likely been giants Chevron, Shell, BP, and c o n t a m i n a t e d b y n a t u r a l l y - Exxon. It recommends attorneys occurring phenomena. insure [sic] at least one deep Its best to narrow ones search pocket is on the hook. to southern Louisiana, the In a conversation with Scribe, presentation advises, since much G r i f f i n d e n i e d e v e r i f n o t a l l o f t h e s a l t a n d recommending that plaintiffs hydrocarbon impacted soil could a d o p t t h i s s t r a t e g y i n h i s be the result of the salt domes or c o n s u l t i n g w o r k . B u t h i s salt water invasion from the recommendations have been coast. reflected in a plaintiff attorney The author of the presentation, i n d u s t r y i n L o u i s i a n a t h a t consultant Bill Griffin, noted researchers at Louisiana State while giving the presentation that University say is wreaking
financial havoc on the state and its oil and gas industry a major driver of economic growth and tax revenue. Louisiana law allows property owners to sue for legacy damages damages to their property inflicted by oil and gas producers before the current owner acquired the property. If plaintiffs can show that their land was damaged in the course of fossil fuel extraction, they can be entitled to very large awards. For trial lawyers, its like winning the lottery, Griffin claimed. Indeed, the cover slide of his presentation is a picture of a lottery ticket. Act 312, a state law passed in 2006, was designed to ensure that damages awarded in legacy lawsuits actually go towards cleaning up the environmental contamination at issue. It requires the responsible party in most cases, the oil and gas companies being sued to deposit money in a court registry, from which funds are drawn for cleanup. But industry representatives say the law left a gaping loophole by allowing trial lawyers to inflate awards by demanding excessive cleanup fees and hoping either that a jury will award proportionally large private damages, or that defendants will settle to avoid costly legal fees.
We have found a direct link from the cost of the states plan and how much the jury awards in private claims, Don Briggs, president of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association, told Scribe. Since attorneys draw their fees from the private awards, they have an interest in ensuring that those sums are as high as possible. In one prominent case, plaintiffs demanded $3.7 billion to clean up an underground aquifer they said was contaminated by salt (note the parallels to Griffins presentation) due to oil and gas drilling. Ninety-five percent of that award, they claimed, would go towards transporting contaminated water to a waste disposal site. But the plaintiffs attorney admitted under oath that the contaminated water could be dealt with on site for about $1 million in other words, that there were available methods for remediation that would reduce the necessary damages by 95%. That case was settled under undisclosed terms. Scott Sinclair, who owns the company that was the target of the lawsuit, would not discuss details of the settlement, but claimed, the plaintiffs modus operandi in these cases is to present staggeringly large damage amounts to judges and juries in
the hope that such a large potential judgment will scare defendants into settling for much smaller, but still very lucrative, amounts. Sinclair says the multiple lawsuits against his company, Tensas Delta Exploration, have brought business to a grinding halt. You can imagine what it is like for a small business to be under a threat (even the most unlikely threat) of a potential $4 Billion judgment, he told Scribe. Lenders dont expand lines of credit. Investors find other places to put their capital. Industry partners that we regularly did business with stopped calling us. No one wants to be in a deal with a bankrupt partner. His experience is hardly unique. The aforementioned LSU study, conducted by David Dismukes, the associate executive director of the schools Center for Energy Studies, found that legacy lawsuits had reduced Louisianas economic output by more than $10 billion, eliminated or prevented more than 30,000 jobs, and reduced wages for workers in Louisiana by more than $1.5 billion. Griffin Seminar Paper This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is LEGACY page 70
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Space, Nuclear Weapons, and Ballistic Missile DefenseThe New Triad

Michaela Bendikova (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 5/8/2012 10:30:59 AM
In April, the Independent Working Group (IWG) on Missile Defense and the Space Relationship held an event on the new triadspace, nuclear weapons, and ballistic missile defenseand its importance for the United States. It explored the fundamental importance and the relationship among the different elements of defense. The United States currently does not have a strategy that would integrate these elements in a synergistic manner. Robert Butterworth, president of Aries Analytics, pointed out that the intelligence community developed the military space systems the United States operates today. That community, however, has fundamentally different interests than the military. The United States needs to better articulate and determine what U.S. future military capabilities will be and what space systems would best address their requirements. U.S. nuclear policy suffers from a similar lack of coherent vision, which makes the recent push for yet another round of nuclear reductions questionable. The current guidance is full of contradictions:
The U.S. has a plan for new delivery vehicles, but it must use old nuclear warheads and cannot test them. Keith Payne, president of the National Institute for Public Policy and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Forces Policy, noted that according to the Nuclear Posture Review, President Obamas top goal is nonproliferation. The
Administration assumes that missile defenses work against this goal by discouraging future reductions (note Russias recent threats of a preemptive strike if the U.S. deploys its missile defenses to Europe). This leads to an irreconcilable tension between a drive to nuclear zeroa world without nuclear weaponsand missile defense, plus the need to sustain nuclear
forces. In addition, with fewer nuclear weapons, the Administration would be required to move toward counter-value targets (training missiles at an adversarys populations). This approach, rejected for more than five decades, has been considered immoral and illegal. Resilience and adaptability, necessary to adapt to future threats and assure allies, are lost when the U.S. has a
lower nuclear capability. Ambassador Henry Cooper, former director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, emphasized that the United States will not move to the most effective and cost-efficient interceptors in space without strong presidential leadership. Such leadership is lacking in the SPACE, page 70
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Cybersecurity: We Are Losing, and It Is a Failure of Leadership

Steven Bucci (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
be a componentbut with full public recognition that business has a responsibility to begin acting in its own self-interest. Submitted at 5/8/2012 12:33:26 PM The recently retired top cyber cop Lastly, we should be motivating of the FBI, Shawn Henry, stated the tech industry to make seminal that the status quo, its an breakthrough discoveries in unsustainable model. security. We invented the Internet Unsustainable in that you never and most cyber innovations; we get ahead, never become secure, should be able to defend them. never have a reasonable Any effective solution should be expectation of privacy or comprehensive and should not security. The sky is not falling, constrain the wealth and but if the US persists in dragging convenience producing innovation its feet, ground will continue to be that gave birth to the new world lost. of cyber. There is much that can be done to The hackers of the world to better protect America in the whom Henry said we were cyber world. All of them trace losing are goodvery good, in back to failures of leadership. The fact. But so is America. This is an blame lies very broadly at the feet area in which America is very of leaders everywhere and at vulnerable, and time is slipping multiple levels. This is not just a by. It is a situation that must technology issue; it involves change in a way that does not Cyber should be taught and There are many different views cripple the very systems and people, and so far people in all upon which we depend. l e v e l s o f l e a d e r s h i p h a v e If the U.S. wants to rectify the trained in dynamic ways that meet on how we should improve our methods through which we have neglected to act where they could present situation and protect itself, the challenge of the dynamic and cybersecurity. Some say we grown great. Put simply, it it should begin with education and motivated foes we face. It cannot should we mandate security requires old fashioned American have. Of particular concern is the awareness at every level of be relegated to an annual online improvements. If this can be done leadership. growing vulnerability of industrial school, in every business and course, which neither provides wisely, with cooperation from This entry passed through the control systems, which run our government agency, and in every good training nor energizes business, it is a way forward. The Full-Text RSS service if this is factories and utilities. These community in America. We do people. The American people d y n a m i c n a t u r e o f c y b e r , your content and you're reading it networks are the point where the not have that today. It is not must know the threats and know however, makes our regulatory on someone else's site, please read digital world meets the physical governments responsibility w h a t t h e y c a n t o p r o t e c t system a singularly poor vehicle the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentone. An enemy that penetrates our alone, however. The government themselves and contribute in for crafting a solution. Others only/faq.php#publishers. Five industrial control systems can do can assist, but cyber education fighting back. Their leaders, h a v e s a i d t h a t w e s h o u l d Filters recommends: Donate to physical damage by manipulating should be a cooperative effort led public and private, owe them that incentivize the private sector to Wikileaks. information and training. better protect itself. This should the computer-controlled processes by leaders everywhere.
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Obama Administration. While the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty is gone, limits on the missile defense program remain. For example, so far the successive Administrations since the withdrawal from the treaty have not taken steps to make Aegis capable of countering short-range as well as intermediate-range ballistic missiles. In addition, the Aegis program can be accelerated to give it the ability to counter longrange missiles, including intercontinental ballistic missiles. Rob Soofer, the Strategic Forces Policy Advisor for Senator Jon Kyl (RAZ), provided a congressional perspective by
mentioning three issues that are a priority for the GOP leadership. First, the Administrations commitment to the nuclear weapons complex is fading, as the Presidents defense budget request this year is below what the Administration agreed to provide in concurrence with the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). A loss of scientists without nuclear weapons design experience is equally concerning. Second, reductions below the New START level will not be possible unless the Administration provides funding for nuclear modernization. Third, while the
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NEC announces Ivy Bridge processors for some, not all, of its series refreshes
Mat Smith (Engadget)
with a Core i7-3770S at 3.1GHz, accompanied by a 2TB HDD and a 23-inch display. The LaVie L Ivy Bridge continues to subsume series packs a Core i7-3770S its aging Sandy brother, this time clocked at 2.3GHz, alongside a as part of NEC's refresh of both 15.6-inch screen, 1TB hard-disk, its laptop and desktop families. USB 3.0 port and digital TV tuner However, only two machines -- well, it is Japan. NEC expects have been gifted Intel's third- both models (alongside the Japanese stores later this month. g e n e r a t i o n p r o c e s s o r s . T h e renewed LaVie S, E, M and NEC announces Ivy Bridge ValueStar L desktop series arrives ValueStar W and N series) to hit processors for some, not all, of its
series refreshes originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 May 2012 14:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Akihabara News| NEC (translated)| Email this| Comments
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Visit the Pyramids of Giza With This Interactive 3D Site

Zoe Fox (Mashable!)
If youve ever dreamed of visiting the Great Pyramids of Giza, you can hold off on purchasing the plane ticket. An online experience now brings Giza to you, transporting you across the world and through time to the land of the Pharaohs. Dassault Systmes created a 3D model of the Giza Necropolis, a free application available to all Internet users, which was unveiled Tuesday at Bostons Museum of Fine Arts. This digital model is the only way we can see Giza in its ancient splendor, due to looting, erosion, urban sprawl and artifacts being sent across the world. You are visiting and discovering through a new kind of interactive story, says Mehdi Tayoubi, VP of design and experimental strategy at Dassault Systmes. Each time, you can take control of the 3D expereince as a time travel tourist. Giza 3D, which targets academics, researchers, museums and the general public, shows how technologies can be integral to historical and art preservation.
Weve equipped software for a new generation of classroom, Tayoubi told Mashable. We have the teacher traveling through time, bringing students inside pyramids, temples and funeral ceremonies. SEE ALSO: 5 Ways Museums Are Reaching Digital Audiences There are two ways you can explore Giza 3D. You can take guided tours of certain monuments by Harvards Peter Der Manuelian, the Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology or you can wander through the ancient temples, restored tombs, burial
chambers and pyramids. Each site is annotated, so you can read archaeologists field journals and maps, view contemporary and ancient pictures and browse some 30 objects constructed in 3D. Giza 3D integrates 100 years of research by the Giza Archives Project, and museums and universities from around the world, in an effort lead by Professor Der Manuelian. Only 10% of Giza 3D is completed, currently including four temples and the Pyramids of Khufu and Menhaure.
The Pyramid of Khafre, the middle of the Necropoliss three pyramids, and the Sphinx arent part of the experience yet. What is important for us is to create a community around this experience, Tayoubi says. You can bring kids to this virtual environment and they will understand, but if you adapt what you say it will work for an entirely different audience. Tayoubi sees these 3D experiences extending beyond locations you can visit possibly into medicine, entertainment, or
robotics though the Dassault team is currently working on recreating the history of Paris as a 3D experience. This is how innovation comes: when different people in different fields come together to think differently, he says. Is 3D interactive modeling the future of studying history? What other landmarks would you like to see digitized? Let us know in the comments. More About: 3D, Egypt, interactive, museum
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Zynga Launches Its First Arcade Game: Bubble Safari

Kate Freeman (Mashable!)
playing. Otherwise, players tap into their social network to ask Submitted at 5/8/2012 2:04:54 PM friends for extra plays. Friends Zynga will launch its first game who give you extra bubbles to in the arcade genre on keep playing also get a boost Wednesday, the social game themselves, making the shared company announced. bubble more powerful. Bubble Safari starts with a story There are 65 levels in the game of an adorable monkey named A large team led by arcade game- right now and new levels will be Bubbles (a drop-out from the designing legend Mark Turmell, added on a weekly, Turmell said. space program) who is living the senior creative director at Zynga We probably have two years of good life in the jungle when his San Diego, created Bubble Safari. ideas to keep this game going, he lady love and monkey friends gets Turmell has 20 years in arcade said. captured by poachers. Bubbles game designing (his resume What do you think about Bubble sets off on a journey to find the includes being responsible for Safari? Will you play this game? poachers. The players job is to NBA Jam and NFL Blitz). He Tell us in the comments. pop the right bubbles to supply began designing games for More About: Gaming, Social Bubbles the monkey with fruit for tangible machines in arcades, then Media, Zynga his journey. There are many fun worked on developing games for For more Entertainment ways to get points catch on consoles and finally online arcade c o v e r a g e : fire to blast away bubbles or get games. He said arcade games are Follow Mashable Entertainment help from hummingbird friends. perfect for the casual and social on Twitter Each level-up takes Bubbles one gaming space. Become a Fan on Facebook s t e p c l o s e r t o f i n d i n g t h e Its easy to pick-up and easy to Subscribe to the Entertainment poachers. Levels get increasingly play, he said. channel challenging, with obstacles like Bubble Safari is similar to a Download our free apps for swarms of bees and bubble console game, he said, in that if Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad you win a level, you can keep spawners.
Apple inadvertently teases iCloud.com banner notifications, pings your browser iOS 5-style
Jon Fingas (Engadget)
Apple already made clear that it was expanding iOS 5-like notifications to the desktop with OS X Mountain Lion, but it now looks as though that's extending to your web browser, too. Some visitors to iCloud.com have reported seeing notifications show at the top of the page that were both based on iOS' look and which were clearly not ready for prime time -- not unless Default Title for English is a new iCloud feature, at least. There's no indication of how advanced
notifications might become in Apple's web portal, or if they'll transition from development cocoon to public butterfly at all. In the meantime, though, keep an eye on the top of your browser and let us know if you see anything leap out in the near future. Apple inadvertently teases iCloud.com banner notifications, pings your browser iOS 5-style originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 May 2012 14:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink AppleInsider| iCloud.com| Email this| Comments
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George Michael aims 15-post Twitter rant at Leveson phone hacking inquiry
Submitted at 5/8/2012 10:29:59 AM
Yahoos Fall From Grace, By the Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]

Todd Wasserman (Mashable!)
Last month, we looked at Googles amazing growth over the last few years. This month, a sadder tale. Yahoo, a darling of the dot-com
era, has had a rough transition into the social media age. As the following infographic shows, the companys performance has suffered particularly in the past eight years. Yahoo is still a powerhouse after all, few can claim to control more than 1% of
As part of a series of tweets posted on Twitter today, the star said: "I was asked to talk to the Leveson inquiry, but I declined. It's all bulls**t. "It has been several years since two hacking journalists were sent to prison for bugging the royal family. They remain the only people who have been tried in the criminal courts. "After all these years, and all the crimes committed by journos, editors, the police force and MPs the best can do is 'enquiry' after inquiry, and no actual criminal prosecutions? "Why on earth are the rights of the royal family more important than those of Milly Dowler's parents, or of any of the hundreds of people whose lives have been violated by the press? "Shame on our political system the Internets traffic but its grip t h i s i n f o g r a p h i c f r o m for it's refusal to take this further. o n t h e w e b i s l o o s e n i n g . HighTable arent good. Heres The day they make this sham real M e a n w h i l e , t h e c o m p a n y s hoping the company can turn and start genuinely prosecuting management troubles the latest things around. people I would more than happy is the controversy over CEO Scott M o r e A b o u t : G o o g l e , to help. :)....till then, what's the Thompsons fudged resume infographics, trending, Yahoo point." continue. During the 15-tweet rant Michael Overalll, the trends outlined in also attacked the Daily Mail, as well as calling Prime Minister GEORGE page 74
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David Cameron the "most cowardly PM we've seen for decades". But a spokesman for the Leveson Inquiry today said George Michael had never been asked to give evidence. The star's comments come just days before former News International executive Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson are expected to make embarrassing revelations about British politicians' attempts to woo Rupert Murdoch's newspapers. Mr Coulson, David Cameron's former communications director, will appear before the inquiry on Thursday followed by Mrs Brooks on Friday, and their potentially explosive evidence could overshadow David Cameron's efforts to relaunch the coalition's programme after bruising local election results for the Conservatives and Lib Dems. Mrs Brooks is likely to disclose further details about her close relationship with the Prime Minister, while Mr Coulson will speak about how he came to be appointed the Tories' top spin doctor. Eight Cabinet Ministers including Mr Cameron, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt -
were last week given the right to see Leveson Inquiry documents and witness statements in advance. Lord Justice Leveson agreed to make them "core participants", people who have a significant interest in the hearings or may face criticism. Mr Coulson's appearance will revive awkward questions about the Prime Minister's decision to make the former News of the World editor his communications director. Mr Cameron said last July that "with 20:20 hindsight" he would not have hired Mr Coulson in May 2007, four months after he resigned from the Sunday tabloid over the jailing of royal reporter Clive Goodman for phone hacking. Mr Coulson, 44, became Downing Street's communications chief in May 2010 but quit eight months later, saying controversy over the hacking scandal was making his job impossible. His Leveson Inquiry evidence will be the first time he has spoken publicly since being arrested by Scotland Yard on suspicion of phone hacking and corruption last July. He was bailed and has not been charged. Mrs Brooks, 43, edited the News
of the World and The Sun before becoming chief executive of Mr Murdoch's UK newspapers division News International in September 2009. She and racehorse trainer husband Charlie are key members of the influential Chipping Norton set, which also includes Mr Cameron and his wife Samantha, Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, and Mr Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth and her PR guru husband Matthew Freud. The inquiry has already heard that Mrs Brooks regularly met Mr Cameron and other top politicians along with Rupert and James Murdoch. She hosted a Christmas dinner on December 23 2010, just two days after Business Secretary Vince Cable was stripped of his responsibility for media takeovers for saying he had "declared war" on the Murdochs' News Corporation empire, and her wedding on June 13 2009 was attended by Mr Cameron and then Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Mr Cameron said in March that he rode a retired police horse loaned to Mrs Brooks by Scotland Yard from 2008 to 2010. There is speculation that the Leveson Inquiry could release emails and text messages sent
between Mr Cameron and the former News International chief executive. Mrs Brooks has kept all the texts she received from the Prime Minister, of which there could have been more than 12 a day, according to Daily Telegraph columnist Peter Oborne. Emails sent by News Corp lobbyist Frederic Michel released by the inquiry last week led to calls for Mr Hunt's resignation over claims he secretly backed the Murdochs' BSkyB takeover bid. Mrs Brooks has twice been arrested by Scotland Yard detectives investigating allegations of phone hacking, corrupt payments to public officials, and an attempt to pervert the course of justice. She was bailed and has not been charged. The Leveson Inquiry's lawyers will not question Mrs Brooks or Mr Coulson about anything that could prejudice the continuing police investigation into phone hacking or any potential future trials. Tomorrow the inquiry will hear evidence from Martin Clarke, editor of the Mail Online, and from officers about police corruption investigations at Scotland Yard and Devon and Cornwall Police.
Further testimony on Thursday will come from Lord Rothermere, chairman of Daily Mail and General Trust, which owns the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. Mr Cameron set up the Leveson Inquiry last July in response to revelations that the now-defunct News of the World hacked murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler's phone after she disappeared in 2002. The first part of the inquiry, sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, is looking at the culture, practices and ethics of the Press in general and is due to produce a report by October. Lord Justice Leveson indicated last week that the second part, examining the extent of unlawful activities by journalists, may not go ahead. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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The real Hollywood heroes... celebrities to the rescue

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overreact to her original Tweet, American commentators slamming her as sanctimonious Looking through press reports, it and Penny temporarily leaving would seem that actors, politicial Twitter (she has long since superstars and royalty have been returned). Gosling has maintained involved in surprising numbers of a dignified silence about his act of rescue dramas - whether because heroism. they are drawn by their unique Kate Winslet spirit to life and death situations, Kate Winslet was a guest at or because victims and onlookers Richard Bransons Necker Island are more likely to remember them house when it was struck by afterwards readers can make their lightning in the middle of a own minds up. tropical storm early on August 24 Here are six celebrity rescuers last year, causing a violent from recent years playing more or conflagration with flames up to less heroic roles and the story of 100 ft high. Coming down the what happened afterwards. stairs with her children, Winslet Ryan Gosling picked up Bransons octogenarian I literally, LITERALLY just got mother Eve and carried her to s a v e d f r o m a c a r b y R y a n safety. Eve then sat on a hill G o s l i n g 2 5 - y e a r - o l d opposite the house writing an campaigning journalist Laurie account of the incident, with a Penny tweeted excitedly on 3 mac she had sensibly grabbed as A p r i l t h i s y e a r a f t e r t h e she escaped to cover her, and was Hollywood heartthrob pulled her most put out by her son describing away from crossing New Yorks her as being 90 on his blog. 6th Avenue directly in front of a Princess Diana taxi. While being driven home from a The incident led to storm of jog in Regents Park in May 1994, comment with Penny penning an two years after her separation article telling people not to from Prince Charles, Diana was
alerted by a group of tourists who told her someone had fallen into the nearby lake. Instructing her chauffeur to call the police, she ran to the bridge and helped Finnish student Kari Kotila pull out the drowning man, 42-yearold Irish vagrant Martin ODonoghue. She later visited ODonoghue twice in intensive care. Meeting Diana through the incident inspired Kotila to give up being a musician and join the Red Cross. ODonoghue meanwhile described by police at the time as a friendly tramp, not a troublemaker went on to change his name by deed poll and protested Paul Burrells innocence at his 2002 trial. Polly Samson Walking on the beach near her home in Hove in January this year, David Gilmours journalist wife Polly Samson, 49, found a mans body at the waters edge and helped police officers pull him out but he resisted rescue, swallowed some pebbles and leapt back into sea. A brave man with earrings stripped off and
eventually brought him ashore, whereupon he was arrested and sectioned. Samson, whose son Charlie served four months in prison last year for his part in the December 2010 student fees protests, has said she was left weirdly shaken by the incident. Boris Johnson Camden-based environmental filmmaker and 10:10 campaign founder Franny Armstrong hailed Boris Johnson as her knight on a shining bicycle after she was pushed against a car by hoodie wearing girls, one holding an iron bar, on her way home one night in November 2009. Cycling past as Armstrong cried out for help, Johnson chased the girls down the street, calling them oiks according to Armstrong. Armstrong had voted for Livingstone in 2008 but conceded, "if you find yourself down a dark alleyway and in trouble I think Boris would be of more use than Ken." Gwyneth Paltrow In an imaginative stretching of the concept of heroism, Gwyneth Paltrow revealed in a press
conference for Stephen Soderbergh disaster film Contagion that a chance encounter with her had "saved" 24-year-old Lara Lindstrom Clarke from 9/11. Clarke, on foot and Paltrow, in her SUV after an early yoga class, were caught in a stand-off as Clarke tried to diagonally cross a junction in New Yorks Greenwich Village with both woman hesitating to give the other right of way. Clarke just missed her subway train and was not at her desk in the World Trade Center when the planes struck. Subsequently marrying a Englishman and moving to California, she wrote to Paltrow ten years later thanking her for changing her fate and harking back to Paltrows 1998 chance events movie Sliding Doors. 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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Obama bailed out of North Carolina visit as traditional-marriage amendment goes to voters
Ed Morrissey (Hot Air Top Picks)
Carolina congressional office notified about the trip. The false alarm isnt unprecedented but Submitted at 5/8/2012 12:21:23 PM the fact the White House even posted at 1:21 pm on May 8, considered visiting the state on 2012 by Ed Morrissey primary election day is Is the new sensitivity on the gay- i n t e r e s t i n g . marriage issue at Team Obama A controversial vote on a really all that new? Last week, constitutional amendment to ban the White House scheduled a visit gay marriage and civil unions is to North Carolina today to talk on todays ballot. Obama issued a about the economy, which would statement against the amendment have been interesting enough in a earlier this year but polls show state with a jobless rate above the it is likely to win by a solid national average. With traditional margin. -marriage Amendment One That decision preceded Joe appearing to be headed for Bidens comments on Sunday, victory, the White House changed which makes it appear that Biden direction two hours later and said may really have gone off the the President was unavailable to reservation. Had Obama spoken speak in the Tarheel State, a fact today, there is little doubt he reported today in North Carolina: would have had to address President Barack Obama was Amendment One at some point. scheduled, albeit briefly, to visit H o w c o u l d O b a m a h a v e North Carolina on Election Day to responded? Arguing that hes still make an speech in Asheville e v o l v i n g w h i l e p u b l i c l y about the economy. opposing the amendment would But the White House sent the have produced some awkward and notice Wednesday last week but incoherent moments. So much for reversed course about five hours leadership. later, saying the trip wasnt taking Its a shame we missed that, but place, according to a North North Carolinas embattled
governor gave us a demonstration of what it would have looked like today. Governor Bev Perdue backed the current statutory language banning gay marriage, but opposes the amendment to the state constitution that would put the issue out of the reach of activist judges. Suddenly, Perdue thinks that this issue doesnt belong on ballots and needs a national conversation, which prompts Chuck Todd to ask her how Perdue can possibly square this circle: Its a headscratcher, all right, especially the claim that this amendment has nothing to do with gay marriage. Heres the text of the amendment: Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State. This section does not prohibit a private party from entering into contracts with another private party; nor does this section prohibit courts from adjudicating the rights of private parties pursuant to such contracts. So domestic partnerships would
still be legal, as they are now in North Carolina. The amendment only changes the status of the legal definition of marriage from statute to constitutional amendment while protecting private contracts such as domestic partnerships. In other words, its only about same-sex marriage, not about taking rights away from anyone, as the Salisbury Post tacitly notes in their analysis: What will happen if the amendment fails? Same-sex marriage will remain illegal under a 1996 North Carolina law. Civil unions still will not be offered to either samesex or opposite-sex couples, but the state could pass a law to allow them. There will be no constitutional ban on either gay marriage or civil unions, meaning a state court could one day strike down existing law as unconstitutional. What will happen if the amendment passes? It will be added to the state Constitution, meaning a threefifths majority of state legislators would have to agree to repeal it.
The amendment would prohibit both same-sex marriage and civil unions, or legal unions with equivalent rights to marriage. Just as in Minnesota this fall, the amendment gives voters in North Carolina a chance to keep judges from redefining marriage from the bench. Thats it. And if Perdue and Obama agree that the legal definition of marriage should be one-man-one-woman and that any other definition should be reached through means of representative democracy rather than declaration by judicial fiat, they should have no problem with Amendment One. Perdue and Obama want to have it both ways, and as Chuck Todd implies, thats nothing less than sheer incoherence. 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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Three Big Elections: Indiana, North Carolina, and Wisconsin

Molly Ball (Politics : The Atlantic)
Submitted at 5/8/2012 12:10:17 PM
A titan of the Senate faces defeat, a gay-marriage ban looks set to pass, and Democrats nominate a candidate for the recall of Scott Walker. Reuters The presidential primaries are finally over, but across the country, the real political preseason is just heating up. On Tuesday, voters go to the polls in Indiana, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and West Virginia, and the votes they cast will have far-reaching implications -- from ousting one of the longest-serving Republicans in the Senate to prohibiting same-sex unions in the last Southern state that hadn't already done so to nominating an opponent in the recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. (The Republican presidential candidates will also be on the ballot in Indiana, North Carolina, and West Virginia, but with Mitt Romney officially the presumptive nominee and only Ron Paul still competing against him, the action is elsewhere on the states' primary ballots.) Here's a briefing on tonight's contests. 1. Does Lugar go down? Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar is a six-term incumbent who has never even
faced a primary opponent since his initial election in 1976. He's a political titan in both Indiana and Washington, where he has a reputation as a serious-minded bipartisan -- his work with thenSen. Barack Obama on nuclear nonproliferation was highlighted in a 2008 Obama presidential campaign ad. Back home, Republicans were none too
pleased with that, and state Treasurer Richard Mourdock set out to retire Lugar by making the case that he was insufficiently conservative and out of touch with his constituents -- a criticism embarrassingly underscored a few months ago when a local election board ruled Lugar wasn't a resident for voting purposes. National conservative groups
have poured money into antiLugar ads, and Lugar's campaign has been slow to respond, with the result that he's now considered almost certain to lose; one recent poll showed him trailing Mourdock by 10 points. What does it mean for the general election? While Democrats believe they have a better shot against the strongly conservative
Mourdock than the moderate Lugar, Indiana is still likely an uphill battle for Democrats. 2. Does North Carolina ban gay unions? The state's voters go to the polls to weigh in on a proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions, and it looks like THREE page 80
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You know, the federal govt should really get more involved in this obesity crisis
Erika Johnsen (Hot Air Top Picks)
Rasmussen: Romney wins a 3 -way race with Obama, Paul

Ed Morrissey (Hot Air Top Picks)
to stave off a healthcare crisis because according to the report, 42 percent of Americans Submitted at 5/8/2012 1:43:33 PM will be obese by 2030. posted at 2:43 pm on May 8, The changes are aimed at a 2012 by Erika Johnsen complete overhaul of the United Yesterday, I opined on Michelle S t a t e s o b e s o g e n i c Obamas over-before-it-even- environment, the panel wrote. began attempt to eliminate People have heard the advice to A m e r i c a s s u p p o s e d f o o d eat less and move more for years, deserts as a part of her Lets and during that time a large Move campaign. Its just one of number of Americans have t h e a b u n d a n t e x a m p l e s o f become obese, panelist Shriki government nannies trying to Kumanyika of the University of impose the lifestyle choices that Pennsylvania said they deem best upon others, and The average person cannot their efforts reliably going awry. maintain a healthy weight in this Whether its insisting on healthier obesity-promoting environment, school lunches a n d she Kumanyika said. unintentionally creating black Strategies like a possible soda tax markets in Cheetos, or hoping to and new zoning laws to encourage control peoples behavior with sin walking and biking are designed taxes: people just dont like being to reinforce one anothers impact told what to do, and will go to to speed our progress, said panel great lengths to preserve their chairman Dan Glickman, a former options. Secretary of Agriculture. But the nannies are not to be Obesity is both an individual and deterred. As a part of the Weight societal concern, said IOM of the Nation conference, three President Harvey V. Fineberg in a days of Centers for Disease statement, and it will take action C o n t r o l m e e t i n g s c o v e r i n g from all of us individuals, obesity, a panel spoke on the communities and the nation as a Institute of Medicines nearly 500 whole to achieve a healthier -page new report outlining society. sweeping policy changes that the This is one of the most government should adopt in order fundamental difficulties with the
advent of legislative socioeconomic interventions like ObamaCare: what should not be a governmental concern, becomes one. A persons individual health should be their own private business and personal responsibility, but apparently, the average person just isnt capable of taking ownership of their own decisions. Since with ObamaCare their healthcare costs can now be transferred to society as a whole, Big Brother gets to step in and tell everyone what to do always remember, its for your own good. Im not saying theres anything inherently bad about wishing people would take greater care and responsibility with their health. Im just saying theres a lot thats woefully misguided about trying to arrange by fiat the bicycling, granola-crunching utopia of your wildest dreams especially since it provides such a ready-made excuse for furthering government power. For example, were these nanny-staters interested in rolling back government policies that, operating under the noble guise of serving public interest, actually caused extremely damaging secondary effects? Nope:
The IOM committee also grappled with one of the third rails of American politics: farm policy. Price-support programs for wheat, cotton and other commodity crops prohibit participating farmers from planting fruits and vegetables on land enrolled in those programs. Partly as a result, U.S. farms do not produce enough fresh produce for all Americans to eat the recommended amounts, and the IOM panel calls for removing that ban. The committee did not endorse the call by food activist Michael Pollan and others to eliminate farm subsidies that make highfructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated vegetable oils and other obesity-promoting foods very cheap. There is no evidence subsidies contribute to obesity, said Glickman. Hmm. How convenient. 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.
posted at 2:01 pm on May 8, 2012 by Ed Morrissey Earlier in this cycle, Republican fretted that Ron Paul could go rogue and run as an independent in the general election, which conventional wisdom held would be a disaster for the GOP. Paul has (mostly) insisted that he has no intention to make an independent general-election run, but maybe Republicans were too quick to worry. A new poll from Rasmussen among likely voters show that Romney would win in a three-way match, and Obama would have difficulty hitting 40% of the popular vote (via PJ Tatler): Texas Congressman Ron Paul appears more interested in influencing the direction of the Republican Party than in running as an independent presidential candidate. But perhaps Democrats should be careful what they wish for: Even if Mitt Romneys remaining GOP challenger should run as a third party candidate, new Rasmussen Reports surveying finds Romney the winner of a three-way race. The latest national telephone survey shows that 25% of Likely U.S. Voters think Paul should run RASMUSSEN: page 80
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Poll of the Day: America's Gay-Marriage Evolution

Molly Ball (Politics : The Atlantic)
Submitted at 5/8/2012 11:01:12 AM
Half of Americans favor making gay marriage legal -- the latest step in a long-term trend toward that position -- but public opinion remains in transition. Gay marriage is in the news, as the White House scrambles to explain President Obama's "evolving" position on the issue even as other members of the administration -- notably Vice President Joe Biden-- find their personal evolutions progressing more rapidly. Obama's caution on the issue is widely assumed to be not a matter of personal conviction but one of political calculation. So where are the American people on the issue? The answer, according to a new Gallup poll: sharply divided. The survey finds 50 percent say gay marriage should be legal and valid, compared to 48 percent who said it should not. That's a slight, statistically insignificant downtick from the last time Gallup polled -- last
year, 53 percent of Americans favored gay marriage. But the long-term trend has support for gay marriage gradually climbing and opposition gradually waning. It was just last year that the trend lines crossed for the first time, and support for gay marriage outperformed opposition. Clearly, both socially and politically, this is an issue in rapid transition in terms of public opinion.
A look at the breakdowns across subgroups in the poll, which Gallup provided to me, is also revealing: Support for gay marriage is strongest among women, college graduates, the nonreligious, and the young. Democrats overwhelmingly support legal gay marriage, but not as overwhelmingly as Republicans oppose it; independents are also strongly in
favor. And there is no real difference between whites and nonwhites in their views on the issue. The age breakdown is particularly revealing: Two-thirds of Americans aged 18-34 favor legal gay marriage, compared to just 40 percent of those 55 and older. Generational turnover is a major reason that activists on both sides of the issue expect the
overall trend of support for gay marriage to continue. At the same time, the political debate continues to lag, from the president to the voters of North Carolina, who are expected to approve a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in Tuesday's election. The question now is when the political debate flips, and supporting gay marriage -- rather than tepidly opposing it -- becomes the safe position to campaign on. Please use a JavaScript-enabled device to view this slideshow This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2012/05/poll-ofthe-day-americas-gay-marriageevolution/256878/ 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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as a third party candidate. Sixtyone percent (61%) disagree, but 13% more are not sure. Yet despite apparent Democratic hopes that a Paul candidacy might cut into Romneys total, the likely Republican nominee is the winner of a three-way race if the election were held right now. Given that matchup, Romney earns 44% support to President Obamas 39%. Paul runs a distant third with 13% of the vote. Two percent (2%) like some other candidate, and another two percent (2%) are undecided. I doubt that Paul wants to launch an independent bid, too. He has almost no chance of victory, and such a decision would almost certainly damage the influence of his son Rand in the Republican Party. The motivations behind this Paul bid are likely to influence the future direction of the GOP, especially on fiscal matters, and to build the Paul organization so that Rand can take over and ride it to a presidential bid of his own. Still, the Rasmussen results are
intriguing. They tend to corroborate the notion that a thirdparty run of any significance damages the incumbent rather than the challenger, which is exactly what happened in 1968 (the incumbent party, anyway), 1980, and 1992. It worked out differently with Ross Perots second bid in 1996 for a number of reasons, probably more due to the resurgent economy and the weakness of the Republican ticket. This poll did oversample Republicans over Democrats, however, with a D/R/I of 36/33/ 31. Thats in the ballpark of the 2010 turnout model (35/35/30), but a GOP advantage would be a little surprising (not impossible, though) in 2012. However, that doesnt actually come too much into play in the internals. Paul would get 23% of independents in a 3-way race, but only 5% of Democrats and 11% of Republicans. More interesting is the fact that Romney gets 10% of Democrats in this poll, while Obama only gets 5% of
Republicans. And while a gender gap does appear between Romney and Obama in this poll, Romney has a 22-point advantage among men in the three-way split over Obama (51/29) while Obama only has a nine-point advantage among women over Romney (47/38). That gender gap will be something to watch as more polls of likely voters follow. More than a third of Democrats (34%) want Paul to run as an independent. They may want to carefully consider the Chinese proverb that warns to be careful when wishing for something, lest one get it. 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.
a lock to pass. A Public Policy Polling survey over the weekend found 55 percent of North Carolina voters favor the amendment while just 39 percent oppose it. Support for the ban appears to be powered in part by divisions between the black and gay communities, and its passage will make North Carolina the last Southern state -- and one of 29 states nationwide -- to put an antigay-marriage amendment in the state constitution. The initiative's success is a bracing reminder that, despite overall public opinion trending in favor of same-sex marriage, voters in many states continue to oppose it. At the same time, the measure appears to be poorly understood: Most North Carolina voters support legal civil unions, but less than half in the PPP poll realized that they would be outlawed by the initiative. 3. Democrats prepare to face Walker. Before controversial Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker faces a recall next month, Democrats must nominate a candidate to oppose him. The favorite is Tom Barrett, the mayor of Milwaukee who lost to Walker in the 2010 gubernatorial election. He got in the race late and surged to a lead ahead of Kathleen Falk, the former Dane County (i.e., Madison) executive, who had the
support of most unions; the result is that, ironically, in a recall motivated by Walker's sins against organized labor -specifically, his move last year to restrict collective bargaining by public employees -- the candidate to take on Walker is likely to be one whose relationship with unions has been somewhat leery. Still, the primary has not been particularly contentious, as the Democrats look to focus their energies on the ultimate prize: defeating Walker in the June 5 recall vote. Thanks to strong statewide name recognition and a moderate reputation, Barrett is thought to be the candidate best poised to accomplish that goal. This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2012/05/3-bigelections-indiana-north-carolinaand-wisconsin/256868/ 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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Quote of the Day: Romney Is 'Still Deciding' His Position on Immigration

David A. Graham (Politics : The Atlantic)
Submitted at 5/8/2012 12:55:08 PM
While arguing that Republicans will be better for Hispanics, a GOP official says, "I can't talk about something if I don't know what the position is." Mitt Romney speaks to the Hispanic Leadership Network in Miami in January. / Reuters Updated, 1:57 p.m. What did candidates do before the days of surrogates? Sleep a lot more soundly, I'd bet. To see why, read this quote from RNC National Hispanic Outreach Coordinator Bettina Inclan. It was delivered, incredibly, during a meeting with reporters in which Republicans were laying out their plan to cut into Democrats' advantage among Hispanics: I think, as a candidate, to my understanding, that he's still deciding what his position on
immigration is, so I can't talk about what his proposal is going to be because I don't know what Romney exactly. He's talked about different issues. What we saw in the Republican primary is that there's a very diverse opinion on how to deal with immigration, so, I can't talk about something if I don't know what the position is.
It's not the wisest thing to say when your presidential standardbearer is widely accused of being a flip-flopper willing to take whatever position is most politically advantageous. Unsurprisingly, Inclan quickly walked it back: I misspoke, Romney's position on immigration is clear mi.tt/
KiMi3x Bettina Inclan (@BettinaInclan) May 8, 2012 Of course, if the GOP's top officials on Hispanic issues don't know Romney's stand, it's tough to imagine the average Latino voter will. President Obama had his own surrogate slip-up this week when Vice President Joe Biden seemed
to open the door to gay marriage and Education Secretary Arne Duncan openly backed it, forcing the White House to insist Obama hasn't changed his position on same-sex unions (recently, at least -- as a candidate for state senate in 1996, he was clear that he backed them, but apparently changed his mind sometime since then). Via Chris Moody, here's audio of the exchange: This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2012/05/quote-ofthe-day-romney-is-still-decidinghis-position-on-immigration/ 256883/ 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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Lan Nguyen (The Official Klout Blog)
Google's Vic Gundotra tries Project Glass on for size

Brian Heater (Engadget)
right? Update: Looks like Google Submitted at 5/8/2012 2:28:00 PM employee Sebastian Thrun Looks like we're starting to get a actually tried one on... and got a little insight into Google's Project photo of what it looks like from Glass testing process. Seems like the inside. Head on the past the the augmented reality glasses break for a glimpse. need to make their way onto every Continue reading Google's Vic head on the Google staff, before Gundotra tries Project Glass on the company feels confident for size moving ahead with them. First we Google's Vic Gundotra tries caught sight of co-founder Sergey P r o j e c t G l a s s o n f o r s i z e Brin, then it was Sebastian Thrun originally appeared on Engadget of Project X fame, and now social on Tue, 08 May 2012 14:28:00 exec Vic Gundotra is getting a EDT. Please see our terms for use crack. He looks reasonably happy, of feeds. Permalink| Google+ so that's probably a good sign, (1),(2)| Email this| Comments
helped small businesses and small startups figure out their social media strategies and content Submitted at 5/8/2012 12:13:38 PM execution. I was a conference Tweet director once, and I currently run Our Klout Stars series highlights a global series of meetups in the top influencers and how they got education technology space. to where they are today. Ive lived, worked, and slept in About Douglas about 47 countries. I was a tv Day to day, I am the Developer reporter in Hong Kong for a brief Evangelist and Editorial Lead at period, and a newspaper reporter. Microsoft BizSpark, a program Ive done some freelance writing that is helping nearly 50,000 stints in Indonesia and Burma. startups connect with each other, I was born in the Midwest and with partners and with events and educated on the East Coast, but other entrepreneurs around the not at Ivy Leagues. My alma world. The program is run as a m a t e r s a r e W a k e F o r e s t media ecosystem, where we work U n i v e r s i t y a n d S y r a c u s e with partners and startups to find University, where I studied the best content and the best l i t e r a t u r e a n d f i n e a r t s , avenues that build relationships respectively. And I think I am the that support a healthy startup only person I know who has world. indelicately and in an uninvited Basically, I am immensely way touched the first folio interested in startups and I go edition of William Shakespeares around interviewing them and complete works. helping them connect to the right BizSpark is not my only social people by delivering them to the media outlet. I also write for Fast BizSpark blog and in the social Company, and I am editor-atnetworks, like the BizSpark large for Current Editorials. Facebook page. 1. How did you get started in Before I did all this, I lived in social media? Manhattan for about five years, When I was a teacher in Northern running my own company that Virginia, I would actually blog
during reading periods, while my ninth grade class was relegated to leafing through paperbacks. During lunch, I would day trade, and in order to find interesting data that I would use to make decisions on investments, I would visit financial blogs. This was right around the time Yahoo! had a great financial porthole. I think they still do. When I moved to Hong Kong, blogging was my primary way of making friends in the city. I found that using blogging was a great way for me to meet people, especially since Hong Kong is so filled with a variety of people. Blogging was a way to process the incredibly jarring experience of living in one of Chinas most modern cities. It opened up avenues to make money, and it even helped me figure out how to become a journalist. I am pretty sure that my blogging improved my writing and kept it sharp enough that people would have me at University of Hong Kong, where I got my journalism degree. In fact, it was blogging that I KLOUT page 83
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focused on in my journalism. I joined a team with former HKU New media professor Andrew Lih that covered a live news event through a blog. It may have been the first one ever in Asia. 2. In what ways does social media play into your current job or industry? Do you have any examples? Social media not only created my job, but it is my primary function at Microsoft. Blogging and social media are Microsofts way of telling far out stories in Silicon Valley and delivering them to the rest of the world, and vice versa. I am very much a hub mentality kind of person. I believe that media networks need air traffic controllers or curators who can find really great compelling content and form relationships and networking opportunities out of that content. Social media smooths out some of the rough edges that I found in the traditional media cycles on mainstream press sites. You are not confined to one column, or one story at a time. You can manage and articulate several streams at once, which is something that the worlds largest software company benefits by, because social media puts them in touch with so many of their customers all at once. I use social media all of the time, primarily for helping people solve
problems in communication, network access and finding solutions for their product development. I sent two emails out today, for example, to a team in Montana called Submittable. There were some people at the BizSpark Facebook page who were curious about how a team in Montana could get access to the kind of capital, networks and solutions they needed. This is exactly what BizSpark helps with we connect people in the startup program to what they need. So, I connected them to the guys at Submittable, gave them information about Azure and let them take care of the rest. I think of it as relationship media. Its a constantly moving feast of information and most people are really hungry. You have to give them what they need. Essentially, as social is related to my work, social is a meta-tool that helps me see how I am thinking and interacting in the world, and see how others are thinking, so that I can understand values to a point that I can link those values to interactions with other members, to offers, to stuff happening in the brand that is of benefit to the community in BizSpark. 3. What does influence mean to you? Who influences you the most online, and why? Influence means that someone
has some kind of relationship to you. I dont argue that there is such a thing as impact. People might read a post and read a tweet and then react to it. Influence is a little different. To me, influence is the ongoing relationship you have with someone who compels you to act, think, deliver, or have an emotion that connects you to what you do, what you like, or to that person themselves. Influence is very subtle at times, and also very powerful and overarching. It depends on what you are doing. I think about it in terms of influence vs. impact. Influence: People flock to Yankees games because over time, the Yankees have proven to be a powerful team in the baseball pantheon of champions. One could say that the Yankees have created a habit of influence. They created a devoted following. There is a brand there connected to a legacy of habitual actions. In this case, the habit of winning. Impact: Mickey Mantle hits a home run, the crowd rises to its feet as the ball sails over the wall. The crowd goes wild. Thats one instance. Thats an impact. Mantle makes an impact, because its one action that produced a dramatic result. I think in social media, were trying to blend impact with influence and calling it the same
thing. Social media is a fast moving game. I think in terms of influence, its the kind of thing that really takes a lot more time than that. Who influences me online, the most? It depends on the day. I think there is no such thing as time, and every instance is its own moment. It depends on what is happening in the moment. When I look at who has strung together the most enduring and effective impacts over time, I would have to say it is Sumaya Kazi. Shes always proven herself responsive, loyal to her friends and to her beta users at Sumazi. And that endears her to me and my sense of ethics online. Shes classy and intelligent. Stable. An influencer. 4. What recent social media trends do you think are interesting or helpful? I think the trends of being able to find people through social search, and of being able to catalogue things based on what your friends think. I am thinking of HashTip and HypeMarks. Connect with Doug on Twitter at@DouglasCrets and at@BizSpark

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