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Radioactive traces found in tuna off U.S.

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After service, veterans go on to college

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Scientists for the first time have found traces of radioactivity in fish off the California coast that migrated from waters off Japan, site of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor disaster last year, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The researchers say the evidence is "unequivocal" that the tuna, which were caught last year, were contaminated by the nuclear disaster in Japan in March 2011. Scientists involved in the research say the radioactive cesium detected in samples of Pacific bluefin tuna is well below levels considered unsafe for human. "I wouldn't tell anyone what's safe to eat or what's not safe to eat," Daniel Madigan of Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station and the lead author of the research tells Reuters. "It's
become clear that some people feel that any amount of radioactivity, in their minds, is bad and they'd like to avoid it. But compared to what's there naturally ... and what's established as safety limits, it's not a large amount at all." Nicholas Fisher, a marine scientist at Stony Brook [unable to retrieve full-text
University and a member of the research team, concurs, the Chronicle reports. "We don't think there will be any public health concern from the results of the new tests," says Fisher, "but if we do see any higher concentrations of cesium, we will certainly alert public health agencies again." content]
The research by Madigan, Fisher and a third colleague was reported Monday in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The young tuna, weighing around 13 pounds each, were found to be contaminated with two radioactive forms of the element cesium, the Chronicle reports. The newspaper notes that concentrations of radioactivity contaminated nearly 60,000 square miles of the ocean off Japan as a result of the reactor disaster. 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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Suu Kyi, in Burma since 1988, starts world tour

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Ohio readies execution for mentally ill prisoner

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counterterrorism strategies; he also has said that the Central Intelligence Agency is out to get H e s s u f f e r e d f r o m p o s t - him. traumatic stress disorder, has "Mr. Awkal is very seriously experienced hallucinations and is m e n t a l l y i l l a n d d o e s n o t considered by the state to be understand why he is being schizoaffective. But even though executed, David A. Singleton, they say Abdul Awkal is mentally executive director of the Ohio ill, authorities in Ohio still plan to Justice & Policy Center, tells execute him on June 6. WOIO 19 Action News in a Awkal, 53, has been in jail since r e c e n t i n t e r v i e w . A w k a l s 1992 after he shot and killed both personal attorneys have at other his estranged wife and brother-in- times told prosecutors that their law inside a Cuyahoga County, client was indeed insane during Ohio courthouse while awaiting a the 1992 shootings and that, in custody hearing over his 15- addition to a history of mental month-old daughter. He readily illness in his family, a series of admitted his role in the slaying episodes have had a major toll on and was quickly convicted of his psychological health: he fled aggravated murder. The two his native Lebanon after living decades he has spent on Death through the countrys civil war for Row have been anything but eight years, was institutionalized uneventful, though. in a Detroit, Michigan hospital, Physicians that have examined was counseled for suicide and has Awkal during the last 20 years claimed to have experience have had varying takes on his hallucinations all before the mental health, but a few things are 1 9 9 2 r a m p a g e . O n e o f h i s for certain: he definitely has tried hearings was postponed after the to regularly correspond with court considered Awkal mentally Presidents George W. Bush and incompetent to assist in his Barack Obama and relentless defense and county psychiatrists offered advice to both of them on pumped him with varying heavy how to handle the wars in Iraq prescriptions. In 2004, a judge and Afghanistan; his personal finally agreed that Awkal was memos sent to the CIA began mentally incompetent but only sometime in 2001, through which to the extent that he couldnt file he delivered input on handling an appeal.
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Awkals episodes werent just drawn up as he came closer to execution day, either his conviction was at one point overturned by a three judge appellate court panel that agreed that he Awkal shouldnt be executed; that ruling was eventually overturned by the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Now Mr. Awkal is expected to be killed by authorities in Ohio in barely a week. On May 23, US District Court Judge Gregory Frost rejected a claim challenging the states method of lethal injection filed by Awkals attorney and the only thing saving his life at this point is an intervention from Ohios Governor John Kasich, who is expected to weigh in at any moment. "It is urgent that we make Mr. Awkal's story known," Singleton urges WOIO. During the last 20 years, however, prosecutors have painted that tale to be not exactly the nicest one. The states prosecutor, in particular, has had some harsh words for Awkal as hes awaited execution. "This defiant killer executed his 22-year-old wife and 24-year-old brother-in-law simply because his wife was seeking a divorce," Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason told reporters last week. content]
"Awkal shook the foundations of the justice system by committing these heinous acts in the County Courthouse, a place where citizens should be assured safety." Awkal lashed out at Mason last year by condemning him and the states inadequate justice system, which he claims has only created violent killers. "You ---- had cost me all these pains and suffering," wrote Awkal."I imagine you now with a big smile on your face. You stupid ---- are creating serial killers!" Mason responded last year by saying, " It's interesting watching him now being held accountable for his own actions and he's now blaming me for what he did. "Who knows what goes on in the minds of these guys who commit these horrific acts. The only thing in common is they're both death penalty cases, added an apathetic Mason. While on death row, Awkal, a practicing Muslim, sued the state and won for being denied halal foods. Before the settlement, authorities in the Buckeye State said that offering alternate meals for the 2,000 or so Muslims incarcerated in Ohio would be a waste of money. Although the state expected the cost-per-meal to by only a 60 cent increase,
spokesman Paul Jerke told Fox News that the difference waspretty nominal. Since the state offered kosher meals for Jewish convicts, however, Awkal was upset over their reluctance to hear his plea. "The issue of eating Halal meals is especially important to me because I face a death sentence," Awkal wrote in 2011. " It is important to me that I follow the requirements of my faith as I approach death." Now after decades of appeals, and even more years of mental anguish, Awkal is expected to be killed next week, even though the state could face some serious scrutiny for executing an inmate considered mentally ill. Since the prosecutor considers Awkal just another death penalty case, though, the court is unlikely to budge. As Singleton insists, however, Awkals case is one that, as unpretty as it is, needs to be heard. 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 honors Presidential Medal of Freedom winners: Who's eligible? (+video) Christian Science Monitor
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Answer: Anybody who's accomplished anything the president of the United States likes. Obama awarded the Medal of Freedom to Bob Dylan, John Glenn, and 11 other recipients Tuesday. President Barack Obama awards a 2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom to astronaut and former US Senator John Glenn during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday.(Kevin Lamarque/ Reuters) By Peter Grier posted May 29, 2012 at 5:14 pm EDT Washington What do Bob Dylan, Bob Dole, Warren Buffet, Earl Warren, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Jackie Robinson, and Jack Nicklaus have in common? No, theyre not characters in the longest walk into a bar joke
ever told. They are all recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award the United States government bestows. President Obama handed out 13 of these coveted decorations in an East Room ceremony on May 29. The aforementioned Mr. Dylan was one of the recipients. As he and John Glenn, Toni Morrison, and other 2012 honorees bowed to have the spiffy white star hung around their necks, we got to thinking: Where does the Presidential Medal of Freedom come from, anyway? How does it compare to the Medal of Honor and other top US decorations? Why did Dylan wear sunglasses to Tuesdays East Room investiture? That last question is unanswerable by us. As to the rest were now in position to provide a little US Medals 101 education, courtesy of the always helpful work of Congressional Research Service scholars.
or private endeavors. In other words, pretty much The Presidential Medal of anybody whos accomplished Freedom was established by anything the president of the US Harry S. Truman to reward World likes. War II-connected activities. In Thats the second interesting part 1945, the first awards were o f t h e M e d a l o f F r e e d o m bestowed on four women who had equation: it is something the shown conspicuous service and/or president alone decides. bravery, including Anna M. As such, recipients tend to reflect Rosenberg, a member of the War the personal and political interests Manpower Commission, and o f t h e P r e s i d e n t . T h e Marie Louise Dissard, a leader of a c c o m p l i s h m e n t s o f p a s t the French Resistance. recipients have been in wideThroughout the late 1940s and ranging fields, including public early 50s the medal went to service, journalism, business, figures related to security or sports, and entertainment, wrote diplomacy. In 1963, however, Barbara Salazar Torreon of the President John F. Kennedy made Congressional Research Service a major change, establishing the (CRS) in a 2004 report on the award as we understand it today. subject. Via an executive order, JFK Thats how artist Andrew expanded those eligible to include Wyeth(1963) can share an award any person who has made an w i t h R e d S o x s l u g g e r T e d e s p e c i a l l y m e r i t o r i o u s Williams(1991), Pope John Paul contribution to (1) the security or I I ( 2 0 0 4 ) , a n d S e n . E d w a r d national interests of the United K e n n e d y ( 2 0 0 9 ) . States, or (2) world peace, or (3) Presidents themselves often win cultural or other significant public t h e P r e s i d e n t i a l M e d a l o f
Freedom. At least, every president from JFK to George H.W. Bush has, as successors from their own party honor their brethren. (There is one exception Richard Nixon.) Military figures can win it as well. World War II hero Army Gen. Omar Bradley received one in 1977. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf of Gulf War fame got his in 1991. However, to be clear, the military has its own top award for heroism in battle. Thats the Medal of Honor, which was first presented in 1863. It is the nations highest military honor, awarded for acts of personal bravery or selfsacrifice that are above and beyond the call of duty, according to Torreon of CRS. 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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Unclear if Houla massacre a Syria turning point, experts say - Los Angeles Times
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In the wake of the killing of more than 100 women, children and other civilians in the Syrian town of Houla, the United States, Britain and other countries moved to expel Syrian diplomats, and the State Department decried the slayings as an absolutely indefensible, vile, despicable massacre. U.N. special envoy Kofi Annan said the Syrian crisis has reached a tipping point, calling the killings shocking. But it isnt clear yet whether the massacre will be a turning point for the international community to take more aggressive steps or just the latest atrocity condemned by onlookers worldwide. How is this going to stop the violence? one reporter repeatedly asked U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland after the decision to expel Syrian charges daffaires Zuheir Jabbour. This is a statement of our extreme disapproval and horror at the massacre, Nuland replied. We will obviously continue to look at other ways we can pressure the regime -economically, politically, diplomatically -- and continue to try to tighten the noose. Thousands of people have already lost their lives in the
Syrian conflict. But the Houla killings on Friday stand out because of the number of women and children killed, the fact that so many were slain at close range and the rapid confirmation of the attacks by U.N. monitors, experts said. Although the Syrian government has blamed terrorists for the deaths, the U.N. peacekeeping
chief said Tuesday there is strong suspicion that the government and its supporting militias are behind the attacks, especially those carried out with heavy weaponry. The killings seemed to galvanize ordinary people around the world who had not followed the crisis as closely before, said Leila Hilal, director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America
Foundation. Even the singer Chris Brown weighed in on Twitter, Hilal said. Despite the added attention, the fear that has held the U.S. and other powers from wading deeper into the Syrian conflict still exists. The Syrian bloodshed could ultimately demand military intervention, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Fox
News on Monday, but he continued to strike a cautious tone about the eventual results of a military campaign there. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Tuesday that U.S. military intervention would only cause more chaos and carnage. The Houla massacre "isn't a game UNCLEAR page 5
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changer," said Jane Kinninmont, a senior research fellow at Chatham House, a think tank based in London. "There's been lots of public reaction. But we don't really see any decisiveness. RT (News RSS : Today) program. attack, Iran still thinks the "The Annan plan is still the only Flame also appears to have malware wasmade by Tel-Aviv. Submitted at 5/29/2012 3:22:00 PM game in town, even though there been planted by a USB stick, Its encryption has a special A handout picture released by the which means a flash driver or a pattern which you only see isn't a great deal of hope for it," Iranian president's official website similar device had to have been c o m i n g f r o m I s r a e l . Kinninmont said, invoking the six shows a metal-encased rod with inserted manually into at least one Unfortunately, they are very -point peace plan that Annan 20 percent enriched nuclear fuel computer hooked up to the powerful in the field of IT, says brokered this year, which has so far failed to halt the violence. as it is inserted into Tehran's network. another Iranian cyber defense When asked Tuesday whether the reactor on February 15, 2012 Those controlling the virus can official. Houla massacre was a tipping (AFP Photo/HO) direct it from a distance.' Flame' is The number of massive cyber High-ranking Iranian officials no ordinary product. This was attacks on Iran now totals four, point, Nuland said that from our computers have been attacked by designed to monitor selected while no one has yet claimed perspective, this has been tipping a newly detected data mining computers, Kamran Napelian, an responsibility for the Stuxnet in the wrong direction for a long virus called Flame, an Iranian Iranian official, told The New assault in 2010. The attacks run t i m e . H o w e v e r , N u l a n d expressed hope that the killings cyber defense group confirmed on York Times. parallel to a series of unexplained could change thinking in Russia, Tuesday. The cyber attack is the Still, Tehran says that the explosions and assassinations of most destructive since the Stuxnet detection and clean-up tools were I r a n i a n n u c l e a r s c i e n t i s t s , which has blocked U.N. Security Council action on the conflict but virus. already finished in early May and constantly raising feeling in the Iran has deplored the massive can now be distributed among n a t i o n t h a t t h e c o u n t r y i s agreed to a Sunday resolution that data loss suffered since over the organizations at risk of infection. increasingly being targeted by condemned the attacks. six months or more that Flame has Iran has suffered most due to the covert operations organized by the People are trying to read the tea leaves of what Russia is saying, been active. But the exact extent Flame attack, according to a US and Israel. of damage has not been disclosed. report drawn up by Kaspersky This entry passed through the said Robert Malley, Middle East The newly spotted data mining Labs. The computers security Full-Text RSS service if this is p r o g r a m d i r e c t o r f o r t h e virus may be the most harmful company said 189 infections were your content and you're reading it I n t e r n a t i o n a l C r i s i s G r o u p . Iran has ever faced, even more reported in the Persian country, 98 on someone else's site, please read Theyve said theyre not wedded dangerous than Stuxnet, warns in Israel and Palestine and 32 in the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content- to the survival of this particular Irans Computer Emergency S u d a n . O t h e r M i d d l e E a s t only/faq.php#publishers. Five Response Team Coordination countries such as Syria, Lebanon, Filters recommends: Donate to Centre. Two years ago, Stuxnet Saudi Arabia and Egypt were also Wikileaks. destroyed several centrifuges used under attack. for Irans nuclear enrichment Despite Israel also falling under
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Ties between Donald Trump, Mitt Romney good for Obama - Los Angeles Times
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2008 GOP nominee "stood up to the voices of extremism in his Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:01:16 PM party while Romney, the WASHINGTON -- The way the presumptive 2012 nominee, has Obama campaign sees it, every not. day that Mitt Romney and Donald PHOTOS: The search for Trump share a headline is a good R o m n e y ' s r u n n i n g m a t e day. Tuesday was a very good Now hes even standing by day. silently as Trump assails John Obamas campaign was happy to McCains courage in standing up add fuel to the mini-media to the most extreme and hateful f i r e s t o r m o v e r t h e f o r m e r voices in the Republican Party M a s s a c h u s e t t s g o v e r n o r s all in order to raise money for decision to raise money with the h i m s e l f , C u t t e r s a i d i n a real estate and reality TV tycoon, statement. If Mitt Romney lacks who is currently the nations most the backbone to stand up to a vocal believer in the debunked charlatan like Donald Trump conspiracy theories that claim because he's so concerned about President Obama was born in lining his campaign's pockets, Kenya, not Hawaii. what does that say about the kind In a statement released Tuesday of president he would be? a f t e r n o o n , O b a m a s d e p u t y Trump is something of a trifecta campaign manager, Stephanie for the Obama campaign hes a Cutter, criticized Romney for his symbol of the right-wing fringe, a c o m p l e t e l a c k o f m o r a l symbol of extreme wealth and leadership. Earlier in the day, the s o m e w h a t l a c k i n g i n t h e c a m p a i g n p u t o u t a v i d e o presidential gravitas department. contrasting Romney with Sen. If the Obama campaign folks can John McCain, saying that the make a hint of those elements rub
off on Romney, theyre happy. For his part, Romney could make it harder. Asked about Trumps birther views, the former governor was careful. I dont agree with all the people who support me and my guess is they dont all agree with everything I believe in, Romney told reporters on Monday evening. But I need to get 50.1% or more, and Im appreciative to have the help of a lot of good people. Romneys campaign later stated directly the candidate does not share Trumps skepticism about the authenticity of the presidents birth certificate. kathleen.hennessey@latimes.com 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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Western Countries Boot Syrian Diplomats

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Western nations expelled senior Syrian diplomats on Tuesday in a hardened and coordinated condemnation of the weekend massacre of more than 100
villagers in Syria, nearly half of them children.
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Another mass poisoning in Afghanistan, as women flee fearing Taliban

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Euro 2012: Italy's Final 23-Man Roster Set Following Destro and Ranocchia Cuts - Bleacher Report
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Two Afghan schoolgirls lie on a bed in a hospital in Kabul, as they receive treatment for suspected poisoning at their school. (AFP Photo/Yuri Cortez) Some 160 schoolgirls are suspected to have been poisoned in the north-eastern Afghan province of Takhar. This comes less than a week after another similar case was blamed on the Taliban, that have repeatedly spoken out against female education. There are suspicions that the classrooms had been sprayed with a toxic material before the girls entered, police said. They suspect Taliban to be behind the incident. Last week 120 girls were sent to hospital after a similar suspected poisoning. Later in the week the Taliban denied any involvement in that case. Many fear that the international
troop withdrawal in 2014 may put Afghanistan back into the hands of the Taliban and result in the further violation of womens rights and a ban on education. Between 1996 and 2001 when the Taliban was in power the movement banned school education for girls in the country. NGOs active in Afghanistan say many young women are leaving the country fearing the return of Taliban rule. " They see no future for themselves in Afghanistan so the bright ones are seeking scholarships or work abroad, Selay Ghaffar, from the Kabulbased NGO Humanitarian Assistance told Guardian. Afghan officials confirm that the fears of a Taliban return make women consider leaving the country to avoid possible violence and rights deprivation. The government and the Taliban ignore womens rights in their negotiations, said Guhramaana
Kakar, a gender adviser to President Hamid Karzai. Kakar revealed that according to a recent survey 86% of Afghan women were fearful of a return to Taliban-style rule and one in five worried about the education of their daughters. " Women want the progress that has been made over the past 10 years to continue, but they are being kept away from the political processes," Kakar declared asserting that if more women were allowed into the provincial councils, this would show the Taliban that they cannot reverse 10 years of women's advancements. 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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Reef dugong numbers hit 20-year low - ABC Online

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This Military Advisor Reveals Everything You Should Know About China's Cyber Threats Right Now
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offers fascinating tidbits about the issue, such as pointing out how Submitted at 5/29/2012 6:01:31 PM the Chinese language makes it a Retired Lieutenant Colonel Bill cryptologic force to be reckoned Hagestad a leader in cyber with. security strategy was recently On that note, he also shares his interviewed about his insight into view of the U.S. military's Chinese cyber activity and what weaknesses and the challenges it the U.S. should be doing to faces in countering Chinese cyber prepare itself. threats. Find out what he reveals, He's also written the book 21st based on his conversation with Century Chinese Cyberwarfare, Chris Archer of the IDGA. How which sounds pretty specific to does Chinese Communism and the security industry, but he the country's heritage relate to its makes a good point: activity in cyberspace? "Its important because anyone, "One has to go back no greater anywhere, regardless of the than 200 years to look at how the industry theyre in...cannot pick Chinese view the Western world. up a newspaper or read a blog Perhaps further back, taking an without hearing about the cyber example in history of the Mongol t h r e a t s f r o m t h e P e o p l e s invasion of China. Republic of China, regarding their "The Chinese are sick and tired of use of cyber and information having foreign forces come and warfare." invade them and extract the Speaking with Chris Archer at natural resources of their country. the Institute for Defense and "They know they cannot defend G o v e r n m e n t themselves kinetically with the Advancement(IDGA), Hagestad military they have, so what they shares why China has delved into have decided to do is take the cyber warfare the reason goes h i g h g r o u n d a n d t a k e t h e back hundreds of years and advantage in the cyber realm, i.e.
the internet, and take that fight to their foes through the use of Cyber and Information Warfare." Source: Institute for Defense and Government Advancement What should the US understand first about dealing with China? "Understanding who China really is. And I think that is something thats not known. "There are a lot of people who say
SunTsu, the Chinese war God from 500 B.C. His writings can give us some proper guidance in those regards." Source: Institute for Defense and Government Advancement How can the US prepare for Chinese cyber attacks? "How can the U.S. government defend itself? I think the most important thing is to start to develop a concrete offensive and perhaps establish some political dialogue to go along with that but when the political dialogue erodes, dissolves, or becomes useless they can go forward with offensive cyber capabilities and combine it with kinetic theyre China experts, I would farms(physical things like bullets, never claim to be a China expert. bombs, and troops)." All I can tell you is I love the Source: Institute for Defense and country of China but I also love Government Advancement See the rest of the story at my country and when there is a Business Insider unique crossroads of understanding ones own culture Please follow Military & Defense and a foreign culture, only then on Twitter and Facebook. can you start to be able to defeat it. "There are many anecdotes from
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Consumer confidence falls to four month low.
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Ntaganda Mutiny Shatters Tenuous Peace in Eastern Congo

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Wednesday continues a surprisingly packed week in the U.S. with pending home sales. Internationally, markets will have eurozone consumer confidence, as well as a reading of the Japanese manufacturing industry, to guide shares. Here's what you need to know. Japan starts things off at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday evening with manufacturing PMI. There is no consensus for the May report, which follows a 50.7 reading. Australian retail sales follow at 9:30 p.m. with expectations for a 0.2 percent sequential gain in April. Announcements go quiet until 3:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning, when Spain reports May preliminary consumer prices. Economists forecast CPI increased 2.1 percent year-onyear.
RUBAVU COUNTY, Rwanda -Like most of those seeking refuge at the Nkamira Transit Center, Queen Maombi has a harrowing tale of escape from her native Democratic Republic of Congo. Maombi, 34, is one of nearly 9,000 Congolese that have overwhelmed this temporary camp since April, when a fresh wave of violence hit eastern Congos long restive North Kivu province. Like Maombi, nearly all of the new arrivals are Congolese There are no major earnings by birth but ethnically Rwandan -announcements scheduled in the a distinction that effectively branded them enemies of the state U.S. on Tuesday. following a mutiny against the TiVo ( TIVO): -$0.16 Lions Gate Entertainment (LGF): Congolese army by soldiers loyal to Gen. Bosco Ntaganda, a $0.20 Swedish GDP is scheduled for will be released at 4:30 a.m. Consensus estimates provided by Rwandaphone Congolese of Tutsi 3:30 a.m. with forecasts for a 0.2 Consensus is for net credit to Bloomberg. All times are in descent. ... percent gain during the first i n c r e a s e b y 2 0 0 m i l l i o n , This entry passed through the Eastern Standard Time. quarter. following the400 million gain in Click here to see the truth about Full-Text RSS service if this is Italian producer prices follow at March. your content and you're reading it gold > 4:00 a.m. Economists project A t 5 : 0 0 a . m . , e u r o z o n e Please follow Money Game on on someone else's site, please read prices increased 0.3 percent in consumer confidence will be the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentTwitter and Facebook. April. released. Expectations are for a Join the conversation about this only/faq.php#publishers. Five Consumer credit in the U.K. preliminary reading of -19.3 to Filters recommends: Donate to story Wikileaks. hold. At 8:30 a.m. Canada will announce industrial price changes in April. The index is seen advancing 0.1 percent month-onmonth. Attention shifts to the U.S. at 10:00 a.m. with a reading of pending home sales. Expectations are for no sequential change in April, representing a 22.0 percent year-on-year gain.
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More than a third of all employers globally are facing a shortage of skilled workers, but they are reluctant to hire until the right people come along, according to an annual survey by Milwaukee-based Manpower Group. The survey showed that 34 percent of employers are having difficulty filling jobs but 56 percent of respondents said they are making due with fewer workers -- a bad sign for the hiring market. "Talent shortages are endemic but employers have gotten used to doing more with less and hesitate to hire until they see demand and can find talent with the specific skills they need," said Manpower Chairman Jeffrey Joerres. "Surprisingly, employers are now less concerned about the impact of these shortages on customers and investors, a perspective which signals acceptance of the new normal. Among the most common reasons employers say they can't fill roles is a lack of applicants, to
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33 percent in 2012 from 24 percent last year. An equal percentage complained they are seeing a "lack of technical competencies/hard skills" -especially when it comes to industry-specific qualifications in both professional and skilled trades categories. Manpower's survey of more than 40,000 employers across 41 countries found that the hardest jobs to fill globally are skilled trades workers, engineers and sales representatives. Jobs most in demand in 2012
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Senator Backs No-Fly Zone Over Syria

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Risks of military intervention in Syria US expels top Syrian diplomat from Washington European Nations, Canada, Australia expel Syrian Diplomats A top U.S. senator said Tuesday he would support a no-fly zone over Syria in the wake of Friday's massacre, though the Obama administration pushed back on the question of military force -- so far limiting the latest U.S. response to the expulsion's of Syria's top diplomat to Washington. In a coordinated effort, the United States joined allies around the world Tuesday in kicking out Syria's diplomats. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the U.S. government gave Syria's charge d'affaires 72 hours to leave the country. Administration officials described the move as a statement by world powers about their collective "revulsion" toward the "vile" killings carried out by the regime and its "thugs." But it immediately raised further questions about whether any of those countries, including the U.S., are edging toward the possibility of military action in
the country. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Tuesday that he would support a no-fly and no-drive zone in Syria, suggesting the U.S. faces a greater call to get involved militarily in Syria than it did in Libya last year. "Compared to Libya, the strategic upside of taking out (Syrian President Bashar) Assad is far greater," he said. "We've used force to stop slaughter less
strategic and egregious than this." Asked Tuesday about what comes next, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said "military action is always an option." But he warned military intervention could lead to "greater chaos" and "carnage." "We do not believe that ... further militarization of the situation in Syria at this point is the right course of action," Carney said. Carney said the administration
would with its allies "assess further steps if that becomes necessary." "This weekend's massacre is a horrifying testament to this regime's depravity," he said. The Obama administration confirmed earlier Tuesday that it was joining other nations in kicking out Syria's top diplomat. The move followed Friday's massacre in Houla, in which 49 children and 34 women were
among the 108 people killed, according to the U.N. "In response to the May 25 massacre in the village of Houla, today the United States informed the Syrian Charge d'Affaires Zuheir Jabbour of his expulsion from the United States," Nuland said in a statement. "We took this action in coordination with partner countries including SENATOR page 14
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West expels envoys over massacre of Syrian children

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terrorist gangs. "Part of the victims had been killed by artillery shells, now that By Joseph Logan points ever so clearly to the BEIRUT| Tue May 29, 2012 responsibility of the government. 6:16pm EDT Only the government has heavy (Reuters) - Western powers w e a p o n s , h a s t a n k s , h a s expelled Syria's envoys on h o w i t z e r s , " L a d s o u s t o l d Tuesday in outrage at a massacre r e p o r t e r s , a d d i n g : of 108 people, almost half of them "But there are also victims from children, and peace envoy Kofi individual weapons, victims from Annan urged President Bashar al- knife wounds and that of course is Assad to halt the bloodshed as "a less clear but probably points the tipping point" had been reached. way to the (pro-Assad) shabbihas, The killings in the town of Houla the local militia." drew a chorus of condemnation The United States, France, from around the world, with the Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy, United Nations saying entire Spain, Australia and Bulgaria families were killed in their gave Syria's envoys hours or days homes on Friday, some by army to leave their capitals in a tanks and others probably by pro- coordinated move meant to isolate Assad militia. Assad further diplomatically. "Bashar al-Assad is the murderer Some had already expelled of his people," French Foreign ambassadors or downgraded ties Minister Laurent Fabius told Le and so, like Washington, ordered Monde. "He must relinquish out less senior charges d'affaires. power. The sooner the better." Western countries that have U . S . S t a t e D e p a r t m e n t called for Assad to step down s p o k e s w o m a n d e s c r i b e d a n hope the Houla killings will tip "absolutely indefensible, vile, global opinion, notably that of despicable massacre against Syria's main protector Russia, innocent children, women, shot at towards more effective action. point blank range by regime The killings have contributed to thugs." doubt about whether a peace plan U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve backed by Annan, a former U.N. Ladsous, whose monitors are in secretary general, has any chance Syria, contradicted the Assad's of success. Some of Assad's government assertion that the opponents say Annan's plan is killings were carried out by only making the situation worse
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by buying Assad time. "WE ARE AT A TIPPING POINT" Annan said that in his talks with the Syrian leader in Damascus he "conveyed in frank terms the grave concern of the international community about the violence in Syria, including the recent shocking events in Houla." "We are at a tipping point. The Syrian people do not want the future to be one of bloodshed and division. Yet the killings continue and the abuses are still with us today." More than 10,000 people have died in the uprising against Assad and a crackdown by his loyalists, which began in March last year as part of a wave of revolts across the Arab world. Western leaders have loudly called for Assad to go for months, but have so far shown little appetite for the sort of armed intervention that toppled Libya's Muammar Gaddafi last year. Any suggestion that force might be threatened has been blocked at the U.N. Security Council by Moscow and Beijing. French President Francois Hollande said armed intervention could not be ruled out, but only with Security Council support. "Military intervention is not excluded, provided it is carried out under the auspices of
international law, namely a Security Council resolution," he told France 2 TV. "It is down to myself and others to convince Russia and China, and also to find a solution which is not necessarily a military one." White House spokesman Jay Carney said the United States had not taken any options - including military intervention - off the table, but believed armed action was not the right course at present because it would lead to greater carnage and chaos. Moscow backed a non-binding U.N. Security Council text on Sunday criticizing the use of artillery and tanks in Houla, but has twice vetoed tougher resolutions. It has shown little sign of changing its stance this week. Vladimir Chizhov, Moscow's envoy to the EU, criticized the Western expulsions of Syrian envoys: "I believe it rarely is conducive to maintaining dialogue with the other side." Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow was "alarmed that some countries ... are starting to use this event as an excuse to put forth demands of the need for military action in an attempt to put pressure on the U.N. Security Council." "We are troubled by the ceaseless attempts to frustrate Kofi Annan's
peace plan." Annan urged the armed opposition to cease violence but appealed first to the government, as the stronger party, to take "bold steps now - not tomorrow, now" by stopping all military operations and showing "maximum restraint". The plan calls for the government to withdraw all heavy weapons from towns and cities, followed by a cessation of fighting and dialogue with the opposition, but has stalled at the first hurdle. Assad's government denied having anything to do with the deaths in Houla, or even having heavy weapons in the area, despite the contrary evidence found by United Nations monitors. Assad himself repeated to Annan Syria's line that "terrorist groups" - Syria's term for the rebels - were stepping up killings and kidnappings across the country. Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad told reporters: "Syria has not committed a single violation of Annan's plan or the initial understanding between Syria and the United Nations. "At the same time, the other party has not committed to a single point. This means that there is a decision by the armed groups and WEST page 19
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Australia, Canada, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, France and Germany." Nuland said "the vicious assault" involved tanks and artillery "that only the regime possesses." "There are also reports that many families were summarily executed in their homes by regime forces," Nuland said. "We hold the Syrian government responsible for this slaughter of innocent lives. This massacre is the most unambiguous indictment to date of the Syrian government's flagrant violations of its U.N. Security Council obligations ... along with the regime's ongoing threat to peace and security." Nuland, in a briefing later with reporters, also implicated Iran referring to an Iranian general's published statements that Iranian forces were in Syria. Nuland said Assad's regime was "aided and abetted" by the Iranians. According to Reuters, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also spoke with U.N. envoy Kofi Annan Tuesday and urged both sides to stop the violence. In a meeting with Assad, Annan said Syria is at a "tipping point" and that he appealed for the country to take "bold steps now -not tomorrow." Annan said Assad condemned the killings and added that he would allow "unfettered access for the UN and aid agencies" to deliver humanitarian aid. The killings Friday in Houla, a collection of farming villages in Syria's Homs province, marked one of the deadliest single events
in the 15-month-old uprising against Assad's rule. French President Francois Hollande told reporters Tuesday that Ambassador Lamia Shakkour will be notified "today or tomorrow" that she must leave. Hollande said that after highlevel discussions with British Prime Minister David Cameron and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, it had been decided to deploy "a certain number of ... pressure tactics," against Syria, including the expulsion of the ambassador. British officials said that the U.K. is expelling three Syrian diplomats to protest the killings, among them Charge d'Affaires Ghassan Dalla -- the country's top -ranking diplomat in London. The officials demanded anonymity because they said they were not allowed to discuss the action ahead of a planned public statement from Foreign Secretary William Hague. The ambassador to Germany, Radwan Loutfi, was given 72 hours to leave Germany on Tuesday. Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Germany and its allies hope "that this unambiguous message does not fall on deaf ears in Damascus." The Italian Foreign Ministry said Ambassador Khaddour Hassan was called to the ministry and informed of his new status -which also was extended to an unspecified number of Syrian functionaries. Spain said it was giving Syrian Ambassador Hussam Edin Aala
and four other diplomats based in Madrid three days to leave the country. Switzerland also said Syrian ambassadors were unwelcome. In Canberra, Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said Charge d'Affaires Jawdat Ali, the most senior Syrian diplomat in Australia, is to be expelled along with another diplomat from the Syrian Embassy. He said they were told to leave the country within 72 hours, in response to the massacre in Houla. "This is the most effective way we've got of sending a message of revulsion of what has happened in Syria," Carr said. In a statement, he called the killings a "hideous and brutal crime," and said Australia would not engage with the Syrian government unless it abides by a U.N. cease-fire plan. In Vienna, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nikolaus Lutterotti said the Syrian ambassador is being summoned to the ministry where officials will deliver a very hard protest about the massacre. When asked if the expulsions were EU-wide, Lutterotti said this had not yet been decided. He said the ambassador to Austria would not be expelled as he holds an additional function as the representative to the UN organizations in Vienna. The U.N. estimates 9,000 people have been killed since the uprising began in March 2011. The U.N. said Tuesday that entire families were shot in their homes during a massacre in Syria last
week that killed more than 100 people, including children. Most of the victims were shot at close range, the U.N. said. Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the conclusions were based on accounts gathered by U.N. monitors and corroborated by other sources. He said U.N. monitors found that fewer than 20 of the 108 people killed in the west-central area of Houla were killed by artillery fire. "Most of the rest of the victims were summarily executed in two separate incidents," Colville told reporters in Geneva. "At this point it looks like entire families were shot in their houses." He said witnesses blamed progovernment thugs known as shabiha for the attacks, noting that they sometimes operate "in concert" with government forces. The killings in a collection of villages called Houla near the central Syrian city of Homs last week have drawn fresh attention to the Syrian conflict, in part because of the brutality of the massacre. Activists posted amateur videos online showing shells exploding in the village, dismembered bodies lying in the streets, then rows of dozens of dead laid out before being buried in a mass grave. The U.N. has said government forces fired tank shells and artillery at Houla, but stopped short of blaming them for Friday's killings. Activists said most of the
victims were killed by progovernment thugs who stormed the area after clashes with local rebels, but the regime categorically denied any involvement. Hollande said Tuesday that Paris will host a meeting in early July of the so-called Friends of Syria seeking a diplomatic solution to the conflict. The Syrian ambassador to Britain left the country in March. The United States and Britain have closed their embassies in Syria. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Related Slideshow 108 killed in Syrian massacre, UN's human rights office says Related Stories Iranian general seems to confirm troops are in Syria in interview blunder UNArab League special envoy Annan meets Syria's Assad after massacre 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 SENATOR page 16
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loss this quickly," said Peter Misek, an analyst at Jefferies & Co. A logo of the Blackberry maker's Mark McKechnie, an analyst at Research in Motion is seen on a ThinkEquity LLC, put RIM's building at the RIM Technology value at "about $10 per share" Park in Waterloo April 18, 2012. reflecting what its portfolio of Credit: Reuters/Mark Blinch patents might bring. At its peak in By Alastair Sharp mid-2008, RIM stock changed TORONTO| Tue May 29, 2012 hands for more than $140. 6:48pm EDT Before the warning, analysts had (Reuters) - Research In Motion expected RIM's earnings to fall to Ltd on Tuesday warned it could 42 cents a share and revenue to report an operating loss and said it slip to $3.64 billion, according to had engaged bankers to help it a n a l y s t v i e w s c o l l a t e d b y review its business, the latest in a Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. RIM is string of dismal messages from due to release its first-quarter the once-dominant BlackBerry results on June 28. maker. RIM's acknowledgement of job The struggling company, which cuts confirmed reports earlier this virtually invented the concept of week that a reduction was coming on-your-hip email with its first as it repositions itself in a BlackBerry devices, also said it smartphone market where it now would cut a "significant" number trails far behind Apple Inc and of jobs, adding to a string of rivals using Google Inc's Android. senior executives who resigned in But it gave no figures for the recent weeks. scale of the job cuts or the likely RIM shares, down more than 75 size of the operating loss. Two percent over the past 12 months sources with close connections to and trading at 8-year lows, RIM have told Reuters that RIM, slumped nearly 13 percent to which currently employs around around $9.77 a share in after 16,500 people globally, plans to market trading. slash its workforce closer to "That is a disaster. It's really bad. 10,000 by early next year. We did not expect an operating "They're clearly moving in the
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wrong direction right now, so I found it a little frustrating that there wasn't more detail," said Alex Gauna, an analyst at JMP Securities. In a statement, RIM's new CEO, Thorsten Heins, stressed that he planned to keep spending and hiring for the development of the next-generation BlackBerry 10 phones and to expand its catalog of third-party applications. A dearth of apps compared with the number available for Apple and Android-based devices has been a major drag on RIM's sales. BANKERS HIRED RIM, based in Waterloo, Ontario, said it had hired the bankers from JP Morgan and Royal Bank of Canada, after releasing its yearend results in late March to aid its strategic review. It wants them to evaluate strategies including an overhaul of its whole business model, as well as less dramatic moves such as expanding the BlackBerry platform through partnerships and licensing deals. Other smartphone makers still cannot compete with the security features on RIM's devices, something that has made the BlackBerry a crucial tool for
police, government and military use. "These advisors have been tasked to help us with the strategic review we referenced on our yearend financial results conference call and to evaluate the relative merits and feasibility of various financial strategies," Heins said. BLACKBERRY 10 RIM said its subscriber base grew to 78 million users, up 1 million from the previous quarter ended March 29. But growth was slower than in any recent quarters. RIM, its market share falling by the month, is pinning its hopes on the BlackBerry 10 models, featuring a spiffy new operating system that RIM says will let it compete more effectively against Apple and others. But the new devices won't be released until later this year, pointing to further difficult quarters to come. In the meantime, RIM is struggling to retain its top talent. RIM said on Monday that its chief legal officer was resigning, and its head of global sales resigned last week to take a job at audio company Sonos. "I don't see the tide turning," said Misek. "The problem is the
BlackBerry 10 handsets aren't coming out next quarter, so you know next quarter is going to most likely be worse. Then you look at the November quarter, when we'll probably get the BB10 handsets, and at the same time we'll have the iPhone 5. So that quarter is probably going to be bad. "So we have a string of bad quarters coming and it really is tough to see how it's going to get better." In March, RIM posted a net loss of $125 million on the back of an inventory writedown for phones launched last year. Excluding those one-time items, RIM reported an adjusted profit of $418 million. (Writing by Cameron French and Alastair Sharp; Editing by Janet Guttsman and Frank McGurty) 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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U.S. expels top Syrian diplomat, rejects intervention

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On the diplomatic front, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the By Andrew Quinn United Kingdom took similar WASHINGTON| Tue May 29, steps against Syrian diplomats in 2012 5:52pm EDT those countries in a coordinated (Reuters) - The United States move. expelled Syria's top diplomat in "We took this action in response W a s h i n g t o n o n T u e s d a y to the massacre in the village of following what it described as the H o u l a - ( t h e ) a b s o l u t e l y "despicable" massacre of more indefensible, vile, despicable than 100 civilians in a Syrian m a s s a c r e a g a i n s t i n n o c e n t town. children, women, shot at pointState Department spokeswoman blank range by regime thugs, the Victoria Nuland said Syrian Shabiha," Nuland told reporters, Charge d'Affaires Zuheir Jabbour referring to pro-government had been given 72 hours to leave militia. the country, part of a wave of In a separate statement, Nuland expulsions of Syrian diplomats described Friday's attack on the from Western capitals. town of Houla as a "vicious W h i l e t h e m o v e s w e r e assault involving tanks and symbolically important and aimed artillery - weapons that only the at increasing Syrian President regime possesses." Bashar al-Assad's isolation, the "There are also reports that many Obama administration continued families were summarily executed to resist any U.S. military in their homes by regime forces," intervention in Syria. Nuland said. The killings in the village of "We hold the Syrian government Houla, some of which the U.N. responsible for this slaughter of peacekeeping chief on Tuesday innocent lives," Nuland said, said bore the hallmarks of pro- calling the Houla attack "the most Assad militias, have increased unambiguous indictment to date" pressure on Western government o f D a m a s c u s ' r e f u s a l t o to halt more than a year of implement U.N. resolutions bloodshed in Syria. calling for a peaceful resolution to
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the conflict. Syrian officials have denied any army role in the massacre, one of the worst single incidents in the conflict. The White House on Tuesday said again that it did not believe the time was right for military intervention in Syria, and rejected calls by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for more direct steps to end Assad's rule. "We do not believe that militarization, further militarization of the situation in Syria at this point is the right course of action. We believe that it would lead to greater chaos, greater carnage," White House spokesman Jay Carney said. "POLICY OF PARALYSIS" While the U.S. electorate is primarily focused on the economy, Romney, President Barack Obama's expected rival in the November U.S. presidential election, has sought to use the unresolved Syrian crisis to paint Obama as weak on foreign policy. Romney issued a statement Tuesday criticizing what he said was the administration's "policy of paralysis" on Syria. "We should increase pressure on Russia to cease selling arms to the
Syrian government and to end its obstruction at the United Nations. And we should work with partners to arm the opposition so they can defend themselves," he said. An Obama campaign official has called such criticism from the former Massachusetts governor "a cheap shot at the president's foreign policy without offering any realistic solutions of his own." Syria's longtime ambassador to Washington, Imad Moustapha, was recalled late last year and a formal replacement has not been named, leaving Jabbour as Damascus' top representative in the United States. The joint action against Syrian diplomats marked a potentially new phase in the struggling international effort to halt the repression of a 14-month uprising against Assad and force him to relinquish power. Nuland said the United States had chosen not to expel the lowerlevel officials at the Syrian Embassy in Washington, describing them as "mid- and lowlevel functionaries." The United States in February closed its embassy in Damascus,
withdrawing Ambassador Robert Ford and all U.S. diplomatic personnel due to the worsening security situation in the country. The step stopped short of severing diplomatic relations, however, and Ford and his team continue to work on Syria from Washington, seeking to maintain contact both with government officials and opposition activists. Washington has already imposed tough sanctions on Damascus, but has been struggling to craft a more muscular international response to the crisis amid opposition from Russia and China, both permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. (Additional reporting by Jeff Mason; Editing by Warren Strobel and Bill Trott) 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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Judge Blasted for Jailing Truant Honors Student

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A 17-year-old Houston honor student jailed 24 hours for missing too much school likely spent the night surrounded by "every type of criminal that exists," one Houston defense attorney said. Diane Tran, an 11th-grade honor student at Willis High School near Houston, was sent to jail for 24 hours last Wednesday by Judge Lanny Moriarty and ordered to pay a $100 fine for excessive truancy. Its unclear how many days Tran missed, but state law reportedly permits only 10 absences in a sixmonth period. Tran, who works full-time at a dry-cleaning business and parttime for a wedding planner, has been supporting her brother and sister since her parents separated and her mother moved away. Houston defense attorney Ned Barnett on Tuesday called the ruling "outrageous" and said "a
little discretion should have been used" in the teenager's case. "It doesnt take much discretion to have sympathy for Miss Tran," Barnett said. "To lock her up is just outrageous." Barnett, who is not defending Tran, said the girl likely spent her 24-hour jail sentence at Montgomery County Jail surrounded by suspected murderers, drug addicts and prostitutes. "It's hard-core," he said of the jail, noting that past clients whom he has defended described it as "the worst experience of their life." Tran, who is considered an adult under Texas state law, was issued a summons last Wednesday for truancy after she missed classes. She was arrested in open court and ordered to spend 24 hours at the jail for truancy, which is considered a misdemeanor. The ruling came after the teenager was issued a warning by a judge last month about her absences. Judge Moriarty told KHOU 11 News that he intended to make an example of Tran by placing her in jail. "If you let one run loose, what are
you going to do with the rest of them? Let them go, too?" Moriarty told the station. Mary Elliot, owner of Vineyards of Waverly Manor, where Tran works, told FoxNews.com that Tran is a "straight-A student" and "exceptionally good kid" who takes college-level courses and has a strong work ethic. Elliot said the teenager should never have been arrested and forced to spend the night in jail. "Her family has taught her a good work ethic," Elliot said. "Her brother was No. 8 in his class. She wants to do better than that." "We need to change what they do to these kids in the school," she said. "They need to look at their records instead of just judge them as bad kids." E. Tay Bond, a well-known Houston defense attorney, said the judge likely had no discretion to avert a jail sentence. "There's no legal exception that Im aware of that if you're an honors student, youre allowed to exceed a maximum number of unexcused days under the Texas Compulsory Education Laws," Bond told FoxNews.com.
"Twenty-four hours would be about the minimum period of confinement to make a point. "I think the public policy of making kids attend school is necessary and 24 hours in jail would be pretty minimal and should get the point across," he said. Since the girl's story went viral, hundreds of people have rallied to raise money for the teen. One group, called the Louisiana Children's Education Alliance, set up a website named helpdianetran.com that reported it had raised nearly $40,000 for the girl. Houston Councilman Al Hoang said what he worries about most is Tran's record. "Im going to ask the judge to expunge the record," Hoang told FoxNews.com. "The truancy laws should be applied case by case and in this case, it should not be applied. I believe Judge Moriarty should have used his discretionary power to excuse her from this matter." FoxNews.com's Cristina Corbin contributed to this report. Print
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Facebook Founder Leery Of Privacy ... On Facebook

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The Facebook page of company co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who renounced his U.S. citizenship ahead of the social network's hotly anticipate IPO. Facebook Eduardo Saverin, who cofounded the worlds largest social network with CEO Mark Zuckerberg, keeps a low profile on Facebook these days. Why? Even hes concerned about online privacy. I dont like showing my privacy, Saverin said in a rare interview with the magazine Veja. As Facebook nears a billion unique users, the question of privacy has dogged the social network -- and not just users worried about who will see their private photos or have access to the personal information, it seems. Ironically, Saverin touted the interview on Facebook, describing Veja as the top magazine in Brazil -- which I used to read when I was young. Saverin, who made billions off the worlds most popular social network, made headlines in mid May with his decision to renounce his U.S. citizenship for residence in Singapore, where there is no capital gains tax.
Had he remained a citizen, Saverin would have been hit with about $600 million in capital gains taxes whenever he sold the Facebook shares. Veja nevertheless described him as An American Hero. In the interview, Saverin denies fleeing the country in order to avoid the tax penalty. The decision was only based on my interest in working and living in Singapore, he said. I have and will pay hundreds of millions of
dollars in taxes to the U.S. government. That news may surprise Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. and Bob Casey, D-Pa., whose so-called "Ex-Patriot Act" bill was their answer to Saverin's decision, first made public in a recently released IRS list. Saverins back story has become confused through myth and fiction, notably the dramatic and fanciful tale described in the fictionalized account of the
company's founding, 2010s The Social Network, directed by David Fincher. Saverin described that film as Hollywood fantasy, telling Veja there is no bad blood between him and Zuckerberg. I have only good things to say about Mark. There are no hard feelings between us. His focus on the company since its very first day is anything short of admirable, Saverin said. Facebook wasnt built out of a
Harvard dorm window. And I would never throw a laptop at someone, like it appears in the movie. Not even at Mark. Another bit of apocrypha: Saverins father didnt take the family from Brazil to America in 1992 because of threats from kidnappers. I always wanted to live in the United States, Roberto Saverin, Eduardos father, told the FACEBOOK page 19
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and at least a substantial part of it were summary executions of civilians - women and children," said Rupert Colville, spokesman for the U.N. human rights office in Geneva. He said 49 children and 32 women were among the dead. "At this point, it looks like entire families were shot in their houses." The report was at odds with a note sent by Syria to the Security Council that said: "Not a single tank entered the region and the Syrian army was in a state of selfdefense ... "The terrorist armed groups ... entered with the purpose of killing and the best proof of that is the killing by knives, which is the signature of terrorist groups who massacre according to the Islamist way." Gruesome video footage distributed by opposition activists has helped to shake world opinion out of growing indifference to a conflict in which more than
10,000 have been killed. Opposition sources said rebels had killed 20 soldiers in heavy fighting close to the border with Turkey. They said six civilians and six rebels, including two commanders, had also been killed over the past 24 hours in fighting that began when the army launched an offensive with tanks and helicopters to retake the region around Atareb. (Writing by Kevin Liffey and Peter Graff; Editing by Jon Hemming) 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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Court jails driver over fatal crash ABC Online

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Punjab pulls out 2000 cops from escort duty - Times of India
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CanIndia News Punjab pulls out 2000 cops from escort duty Times of India CHANDIGARH: The Punjab
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Europe, Ever on the Brink

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Germany's New Role in Europe By Daniela Schwarzer February 7, 2012 The European Unions sovereign Is Europe's Left Poised for a debt crisis continues to threaten Comeback? the eurozone with dissolution, By Frida Ghitis even as austerity budgets and a May 3, 2012 lack of strategic vision have Political Impasse in Greece Puts undermined the EUs common Possibility of Euro Exit in foreign and defense policy. The Spotlight t w o c r i s e s , o n e a c u t e a n d By Catherine Cheney structural, the other chronic and May 15, 2012 temperamental, have increasingly Collapse of Dutch Government brought the European project into Brings Eurozone Crisis From question. This World Politics Periphery to Core Review special report examines By Catherine Cheney Europes troubled horizon. April 25, 2012 Below are links to each article in Central Europe and the EU Fiscal t h i s s p e c i a l r e p o r t , w h i c h Compact: The Good, the Bad and subscribers can read in full. Not a the Ugly s u b s c r i b e r ? P u r c h a s e t h i s By David Armitage, Robert document as a PDF from Scribd. Kron, Wess Mitchell and Marcin Or try our subscription service Zaborowski free for two weeks. February 10, 2012 Debt Crisis The Paradoxes of German With Europe at a Crossroads, G-8 Economic Performance Returns to Spotlight By Jeremy Leaman By Judah Grunstein February 7, 2012 May 17, 2012 EU Must Restructure Debt to Increasingly Isolated, Germany's Solve the Eurozone Crisis Merkel Ties Her Fate to Greek By John Ryan Elections January 13, 2012 By Hannes Artens Why China Can't and Won't Save May 24, 2012 Europe, Part I
By Iain Mills November 10, 2011 Why China Can't and Won't Save Europe, Part II By Iain Mills November 11, 2011 U.S. Response to Europe's Debt Crisis Is Not Evidence of Decline By Daniel McDowell November 8, 2011 The Financial Crisis of 2011: Why This Time is Different By Daniel McDowell September 14, 2011 The European Union: The Accidental Crisis Manager By loi Laurent March 9, 2010 Foreign and Defense Policy Europe Must Enhance Defense Integration to Avoid Strategic Decline By Erik Brattberg January 27, 2012 NATO Summit Highlights Europe's Vanishing Global Security Aspirations By Judah Grunstein May 21, 2012 Poland's EU Presidency Aims to Boost Defense Cooperation By Jaroslaw Adamowski July 22, 2011 For EU Defense, Weimar
Triangle not Enough By Dominik Jankowski March 3, 2011 A Post-NATO Europe Should Look East By Thomas P.M. Barnett July 4, 2011 Will Europe Play a Role in the 'Asian Century'? By Loc Doan November 16, 2011 Europe's Humanitarian Dilemma By Richard Gowan July 26, 2011 German Foreign Policy: The Temptation of Going Alone By Ulrike Gurot February 7, 2012 Increasing EU-Ukraine Tensions Reducing Both Sides' Leverage By Catherine Cheney May 4, 2012 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.
Parents arrested on suspicion of murder after house fire that killed six of ... The Independent
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NEWS.com.au Parents arrested on suspicion of murder after house fire that killed six of... The Independent Police investigating the deaths of six children in an arson attack on their home have arrested their parents on suspicion of murder. Mick Philpott and his wife, Mairead, were detained early yesterday morning at an address in Derby city centre following... Parents of six Derby fire victims arrested Irish Times Mother and father arrested over murder of six children in Derbyshire house fire Telegraph.co.uk Two people arrested over Derby house fire that killed six children The Guardian Daily Mail- Express.co.uk- The Press Association all 547 news articles
How to stylishly hide your router

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The plastic and blinking lights of
a router didn't please the taste of Ana Maria Muoz, so the graphic designer and DIY devotee came up with a clever solution. Muoz
gutted an old book and used the
cover to, well cover, the ugly router without sacrificing her wifi signal. Via Anamu Blog.
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Global Insights: Despite Jolie and Hague speak Progress, Challenges Remain out against rape in war for NATO Missile Defense
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At its recent Chicago summit, NATO declared that its new ballistic missile defense (BMD) architecture had achieved Interim Capability. Nonetheless, questions persist regarding potential contradictions between missile defense and other NATO goals such as nuclear deterrence, Russian unease regarding the entire BMD project and the alliances ability to sustain the necessary expenditures to construct a comprehensive BMD architecture. In 2010 at Lisbon, NATO committed to making missile defense a core mission within an alliance context. In particular, member governments agreed in principle to integrate their
European missile defense programs with those of the United States, with the goal of providing comprehensive protection for NATO member states populations, territory and forces. By reducing incompatibilities between the NATO and U.S. BMD systems in Europe, the alliance hopes to reinforce the sense of common trans-Atlantic security and perhaps eventually bolster the U.S. ability to defend North America from long-range missile strikes. ... 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 Guardian Jolie and Hague speak out against rape in war zones The Independent Angelina Jolie was greeted in Whitehall by the Foreign Secretary William Hague yesterday as she offered Hollywood backing to the Government's global campaign against sexual violence. The
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Teachers could have pay frozen after poor school inspection reports - The Guardian
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Thread: Bitly's "bitmarks"

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Twitter. Sharing bookmarks with your friends is a lot like what people use Twitter for, wouldn't Sound a bit like blorkmarks. Heh. you say? Maybe Twitter is finally Well not quite as cool. Anyway, it getting some competition. looks like they're creeping up on
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Team A blames it on English Calcutta Telegraph

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The Guardian Teachers could have pay frozen after poor school inspection reports The Guardian Teachers could have their pay frozen after school inspections under new Ofsted measures aimed at linking salaries with the quality of classroom performance. Announcing the changes, Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools, said Ofsted will... U-turn on no-notice inspections The Independent Ofsted U-turn on no-notice policy Evening Standard Ofsted announces changes Ed Exec FE Week all 18 news articles
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Taiwanese Animators vs. The Choom-InChief

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Online gambling 'to open flood gates' - Herald Sun

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CPM for a third alternative in Himachal Pradesh - Times of India

The Age Online gambling 'to open flood gates' Herald Sun ANTI-GAMBLING campaigners are concerned the flood gates will open if new forms of online gambling are legalised. The government has released a departmental interim report into
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a third alternative to BJP and Congress for the forthcoming general... India Today History in Shimla is more about CPM for a third alternative in the comrades than about the party Himachal Pradesh Indian Express Times of India CPI (M) creates history in Shimla SHIMLA: Emboldened by its MC Polls Hindustan Times breakthrough victory in municipal Shimla municipal poll: CPI(M) c o r p o r a t i o n e l e c t i o n s , t h e scripts history The Hindu C o m m u n i s t p a r t y o f I n d i a Zee News- NDTV (Marxist) has put out a fishing all 83 news articles line to explore the possibilities of
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Kid-Sourced Creation Sites DIY.org is an Online Community for Crafty Children (TrendHunter.com)
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Volvo completes first self-driving convoy in Spain

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accidents. The convoy consisted of a Volvo XC60, Volvo V60, Volvo S60, Volvo recently unleashed a and two trucks. One of the trucks convoy of self-driving cars on a led the pack and was driven by a public motorway in Barcelona, professional driver, while all the Spain during normal traffic. The other vehicles were autonomous, convoy successfully completed a using radars, laser sensors, 1 2 5 - m i l e t r i p i n w h a t i s cameras, and wireless technology considered the worlds first public to mimic the lead vehicle. The test of this kind. The endeavor is cars would accelerate, brake, and part of the Sartre project (Safe turn in the same way as the Road Trains for the Environment) leading truck. that believes vehicle convoys can Volvos project manager Linda reduce fuel consumption and Wahlstrom was shown driving
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one of the autonomous cars in the As the vehicle synced up with the convoy. The system told her when lead truck, she was able to read a to lift her feet from the pedals and magazine as the car drove itself. remove her hands from the wheel. The convoy test was completed
on May 22 with the above photo released of the convoy today. The Sartre Project in Spain along with Googles self-driving cars in the US indicate that technology is ready for autonomous vehicles but legislation and user acceptance remain barriers. [ via Phys Org] Volvo completes first self-driving convoy in Spain is written by Rue Liu& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
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10 Secrets of Successful Crowdfunding From Scott Steinberg

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tremendous demand for. Ultimately, youre trying to reach either as broad an audience as Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:00:00 PM possible, or a very loyal and With the recent passage of the passionate [niche] audience of JOBS Act, crowdfunding is about fans. to get even hotter. Serial tech RWW: How do you know e n t r e p r e n e u r , s p e a k e r a n d whether crowdfunding is a better consultant Scott Steinberg, author approach for your startup than of The Crowdfunding Bible, seeking traditional forms of e x p l a i n s h o w t o m a k e financing? crowdfunding work for your SS: You have to be strategic startup. because theres no stealth mode. Steinberg, CEO of TechSavvy If you fail with a crowdfunding Global, a n s w e r e d campaign, your brand and ReadWriteWebs most pressing reputation will take a hit and questions with these 10 insights youre going to have a hell of a into successful crowdsourcing: time going back to investors after ReadWriteWeb: Are particular that to convince them theres a types of tech startups better suited market for your service or for crowdfunding than others, and product. why is that so? [Crowdfunding works best] if Scott Steinberg: Its best for y o u r e n o t l o o k i n g f o r a [startups] with a strong consumer tremendous amount of capital, focus that can easily communicate and thats relative to your t h e i r v a l u e p r o p o s i t i o n . industry. $200K or $300K may be Crowdfunding works for creative peanuts for an app or game p r o j e c t s - a p p s , c o n s u m e r maker. Its good for projects that products, software - that resonate can be done affordably, that need with average, everyday people. to be done nimbly and for which What crowdfunding is not its important that you retain typically best for is something creative control. very technological in nature or BOften you only have a few t o - B o r i e n t e d . T h e b i g g e s t seconds to clearly communicate successes have been galvanized your value proposition, so if around consumer-facing products youre selling innovative tablet like [the Pebble smartwatch] or PCs or a revolutionary app, the[Double Fine] Adventure crowdfunding might work. If g a m e s o m e t h i n g t h e r e s youre selling a revolutionary
inventory management system well, thats a hell of a lot drier. It comes down to a sales pitch. [Crowdfunding] investors are not as sophisticated as professional venture and angel investors. A product that can be easily and clearly communicated to a consumer stands a better chance. RWW: What makes for a good crowdfunding pitch? SS: Youre getting backers to buy into the vision that what youre doing is part of a larger movement. For example, with Double Fine Adventure, which raised $300K, the pitch wasnt, Hey, were making an adventure game. The pitch was, Adventure games are not dead. Weve got legendary game designer Tim Schafer to create one. Lets give the publishers a kick in the ass and show them the genre is alive and well. For the cost of a latte, people could buy into a historic movement.
That sense of participation is what youre looking to convey. Convince people theres a reason your project deserves to be birthed into the world, what the benefits to them are, why the time to act is now or never, and how by doing so, theyll directly play a part in making the world a better place. RWW: What are the most common misconceptions startup entrepreneurs have about crowdfunding? SS: One is, Hey, Ill launch [the crowdfunding campaign] and thats when the work stops. Time and time again, Ive seen campaigns launch to great fanfare and then fall off a cliff 48 hours later. Its imperative prior to hitting the launch button that youve done your research, youve plotted a marketing campaign, youve got your social media tools lined up, you know who your audience is and how to reach them, and you have a working promotional plan for the entire duration of the campaign. Brian Fargo, who created Wasteland 2 and [crowdfunded] nearly $3 million, said, Our software development company all but stopped for three weeks so we could get our ducks in a row. Thats what youre competing with. Do your homework and plan for
as many eventualities as you can upfront. Study campaigns that have succeeded and campaigns that have failed. Know what resources youre going to activate, and when and how youre going to activate them. This could be video testimonials from noted industry personalities, or other brands, creators or influencers you can get a shout-out from on social media. Budget carefully and leave a 30% cushion. Set your funding goals carefully - ask for just what you need, because the more realistic the funding goal, the more attainable it seems to everyday users and the more likely they are to contribute. Crowdfunding is a marathon, not a sprint. Often [entrepreneurs] dont understand the time commitment involved. Every day youre going to be working the phones, working Twitter, doing outreach, talking to media. Its incredibly taxing, but at the end it may be incredibly rewarding as well. RWW: Whats the ideal time frame for a crowdfunding campaign? SS: Thirty days seems to be the magic number. You need time to see whats resonating and fix whats broken. Maybe your rewards or your creative SECRETS page 28
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Cannot access secured Web sites after OS X update

Topher Kessler (CNET News)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:24:35 PM
After updating OS X, some users have found they cannot access Web sites or other online content that is secured with a signed certificate. If you are experiencing this problem, when accessing such resources either through Safari or thorough applications like the Mac App Store, you may get an error stating that the Web site's identity cannot be verified, or that the certificate authority is an invalid issuer. This problem is affecting a number of people who updated their systems from OS X 10.7.3 to the latest OS X 10.7.4 version. For some, it seems to be rooted in network configurations since the problems only happen when the system is behind a corporate proxy or firewall configuration, and not at home. However, this is not shared by all people with this issue, and others cannot seem to get any secured Web site to load regardless of the network configuration. While the problem has not been fully addressed or even characterized since there is ambiguity as to how it manifests, some people have been able to fix the problem by performing some of the following options: You can select one of Apple's
supplied servers, or enter a valid and synchronized NTP server URL in this field. Check time and date Part of the security negotiation with certificates may use a time stamping and require the date and time to be in sync between your system and the server accepting the negotiation. Therefore, if your date and time settings on your system are off, then the negotiation may be denied. So check your date and time to ensure they are properly set, but do not just check it and manually set it based on a local clock. Instead, go to the Date & Time system preferences and ensure the time is set automatically. You can ensure the time has updated by de -selecting this option and then altering the system time slightly, followed by checking the option to automatically set the date and time. By default, the system uses the time.apple.com timeserver for synchronizing the clock, but you can use alternatives including Apple's Euro and Asia servers (supplied in the drop-down menu) or by entering an alternative such as "time.nist.gov" (the U.S. government's time server), or go to this Web page to find a sponsored Time server. Clear firewall settings While firewalls should prevent incoming port traffic, a misconfiguration of
with secured Web sites only when connected through corporate proxies and other secondary Internet configurations, which suggests the problem for them (and perhaps others) lies in their network setups. Therefore, you can try clearing and rebuilding your network configuration to tackle the problem. To do this, go to the "Network" system the system's firewall may prevent preferences and create a new either time server negotiation or n e t w o r k l o c a t i o n i n t h e other communications with the "Location" menu. Then add the sites you are attempting to load. a p p r o p r i a t e p o r t s y o u u s e Therefore, try disabling the (Ethernet, Wi-Fi, VPN) to this firewall to test whether or not it is location, and configure them interfering with the connection. according to your preferences. If To do this, go to the "Security" creating a new location does not system preferences and in the work, then you can clear the "Firewall" tab uncheck the option entire network configuration and to enable the firewall. Even if the have the system rebuild it by problem persists after disabling going to the /Macintosh HD/ the firewall, you might still L i b r a r y / P r e f e r e n c e s / consider clearing your local SystemConfiguration/ folder and firewall configuration and starting removing the following files: with a fresh one. To do this, go to com.apple.airport.preferences.plis the /Macintosh HD/Library/ t Preferences/ folder and remove com.apple.network.identification. t h e f i l e c a l l e d plist NetworkInterfaces.plist "com.apple.alf.plist," and then preferences.plist When these files ensure the firewall is enabled in are removed, reboot the system and set up your network the system preferences. Use this menu to create a new configuration again in the System network configuration to try, and Preferences. then add and configure or remove Clear certificate management required ports from the port list. database caches Part of the Rebuilt Network configurations certificate management system in Some people have had problems OS X are the OCSP and CRL
background services, which create caches of their activity that if corrupted could cause odd problems with certificate management in OS X. To clear these caches, open the Terminal utility (in the /Applications/ Utilities/ folder) and run the following command, followed by rebooting the computer (supply your password when prompted): sudo rm /var/db/crls/*cache.db Adjust the OCSP and CRL service settings in the Keychain Access preferences (click for larger view). Turn off OCSP and CRL services Another approach to this issue is to turn off the OCSP and CRL services in OS X, which can be done in the Keychain Access utility preferences. Go to the / Applications/Utilities/ folder and open the Keychain Access utility, followed by going to its preferences. Then go to the "Certificates" tab and set both the OCSP and CRL listings to "Off." You can also attempt other configuration combinations here, including using teh "Best Attempt" and "Require if certificate indicates" options. If adjustments to these settings do not show any difference in behavior, then change them back to their defaults of "Best CANNOT page 30
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BlackBerry CEO Hints Research In Motion May Be Up For Sale

Dan Rowinski (ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 6:05:00 PM
quarter earnings to come out next week. He touted the attendance at the companys BlackBerry Jam Research In Motion is a company earlier this month, the excitement in transition. It is going from a a r o u n d B l a c k B e r r y 1 0 , t h e global powerhouse smartphone developer ecosystem (BlackBerry maker to a struggling equipment App World is now up to 80,000 manufacturer with too much apps) and the RIMs global user c o m p a n y b l o a t , a n a g i n g base (78 million). We know RIM operating system and declining is not doing well, but it still has user base. In a letter to investors $2.1 billion in the bank and a little today, CEO Thorsten Heins runway in which to smooth things acknowledged that RIM had out. contacted bankers from J.P. At the end of Heinss letter, he Morgan and RBC Capital Markets acknowledged RIMs talks with to assist RIM in reviewing its banks about its financial position. financial stability and goals. In T o f u r t h e r e n h a n c e o u r essence, Heins said that RIM, or commitment to successfully at least parts of it, may be up for completing our transformation, sale. after the release of our year-end Heins took over RIM in a bad financial results, we engaged J.P. spot but, unlike chief executives Morgan Securities LLC and RBC from Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard, Capital Markets to assist the he's making the best of a bad Company and our Board of situation. He is candid and funny Directors in reviewing RIMs and, most importantly, very b u s i n e s s a n d f i n a n c i a l honest. Heins presents a go performance. These advisors team type of spirit that is have been tasked to help us with encouraging for RIM after all the the strategic review we referenced bad news the company has seen on our year-end financial results since the beginning of 2011. conference call and to evaluate the Sometimes a large companys relative merits and feasibility of CEO just needs to be its biggest various financial strategies, cheerleader. including opportunities to That cheerleading spirit and leverage the BlackBerry platform honesty was on display in Heinss through partnerships, licensing letter to investors ahead of its first o p p o r t u n i t i e s a n d s t r a t e g i c
BlackBerry. Strategic business model alternatives could mean just about anything. That includes getting out of the manufacturing business entirely and becoming a pure software platform provider. RIM has assets to pull that off in the areas of communications (through BlackBerry Messenger), security (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) and application development. If RIM were to choose that road, it business model alternatives, would be a painful transition for Heins said. the company and thousands of This may come as no surprise to employees. industry watchers, but BlackBerry In the letter, Heins said that RIM is looking to do whatever it takes would be becoming a leaner to remain solvent. But, what machine in the near future. That e x a c t l y a r e , p a r t n e r s h i p s , means layoffs and probably a lot licensing opportunities and of them. The company has already s t r a t e g i c b u s i n e s s m o d e l lost a significant portion of its top alternatives? executives but many of the Companies do not go seeking the average jobs at the company will help of J.P Morgan on a whim. likely go in the not-so-distant Essentially, what Heins was future. saying is that RIM approached the We will also continue to review banks to test the waters for a sale. RIM's organizational structure If not a sale, per se, then the and clearly define accountabilities ability to license the actually f o r a l l k e y b u s i n e s s e s a n d manufacturing of BlackBerry business processes with a goal of smartphones to a different eliminating fragmentation, equipment manufacturer or to duplication and inefficiencies. partner with companies to make While there will be significant equipment for them. For instance s p e n d i n g r e d u c t i o n s a n d ( a n d p u r e l y t h e o r e t i c a l ) , a headcount reductions in some F a c e b o o k P h o n e b u i l t b y areas throughout the remainder of
the fiscal year, we will continue to spend and hire in key areas such as those associated with the launch of BlackBerry 10, and those tied to the growth of our application developer community, Heins said. Essentially, RIM is cutting itself back to core competencies. BlackBerry 10, which will have to be the companys saving grace (or it will have to sell for sure), will be getting the lions share of resources in the near term. International sales and BlackBerry Messenger are two of RIMs remaining strengths and will likely get a boost too. Marketing will see a bump as well, especially as BlackBerry 10 comes to off the assembly line. Anything else outside of those areas will be ripe to be sold, lose employees or outright shut down. All the hopes for RIM rest with BlackBerry 10. Until that is released, RIM will be hurting and shedding money. Heinss job until that point is to keep the company afloat and explore all options, including a sale of all or part of the business.
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Hands on with CloudFTP: iOS data storage to go

Erica Sadun (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
CloudFTP is let down by several implementation details. To test, I first looked at a number of files Submitted at 5/29/2012 3:00:00 PM supported by Mobile Safari's Want to expand your iPad's browser. JPEG files, text files, storage? Need a little extra data and other standard file formats on your iPhone? These devices were all easily viewed from don't offer a general purpose USB within the browser. The challenge port or SD drive slot. Sure, you came from material that was not c a n u s e A p p l e ' s C a m e r a natively supported. Connection Kit to import photos, I loaded on an MKV formatted but you'll miss out on full USB video onto a USB stick with the drive integration for all kinds of goal of viewing it in a third party data like movies, music, and a p p l i c a t i o n . I p o w e r e d u p documents. For that, now there's CloudFTP, accessed the attached CloudFTP. data and found that there was no The CloudFTP project started as way to download that data and a Kickstarter initiative and soon then use the "Open In" menu. graduated to a product you can Instead, I was greeted by a purchase online. It is a USB- "cannot play" icon and could powered pocket-sized mobile proceed no further in Safari. system that creates a local WiFi Instead, developer Daniel Chin network. It serves whatever data explained that I needed to access you've connected via an HTML5 the server from supporting apps. interface. For US$99, you can He personally recommended plug in any USB device -- stick or GoodReader, OPlayer and iFiles. hard drive -- and explore its Each of these titles offers built-in contents. Hop into Safari and the networking access to external data is laid out in a tree-based files, allowing you to download browser. unsupported formats like MKV The device is powered by a outside of the Safari interface. simple USB connector. Wherever Note: CloudFTP can only write you have USB power to recharge to the USB drive if it is formatted your iPhone or iPad, you'll easily as FAT32 or NTFS. Drives that be able to charge your CloudFTP are formatted as HFS, HFS+, as well. The case is nicely pocket- exFAT, or EXT 2/3/4 are readsized and the unit feels quite light only. and portable. For all that the interface is Unfortunately, the promise of HTML and iOS-like, it felt
respond, but that was pretty disappointing for a production device. Speaking of noises, my biggest complaint about Cloud FTP is the unit squeals. Whenever a USB device was attached and in use, the CloudFTP emitted an annoying super-high-pitched noise until the storage was ejected. I used the "Remove USB device safely" option about 8 seconds into the following sound clip. I really like the idea behind CloudFTP. With the technology in its current state, I cannot really recommend it for anyone beyond basic needs for offloading files from your device, especially if clumsy and hung more often than leading to pop-up alerts. (Grey high pitch noises bother you. I I liked. It never remembered my chevrons are normally used for wanted there to be so much more preference for List view over s u b m e n u n a v i g a t i o n , b l u e there than there was, and despite a Thumb view, always reverting a c c e s s o r y c h e v r o n s f o r fine concept, the tech didn't deliver the killer features I was back to thumbs whenever I c u s t o m i z a t i o n . ) reloaded the main page. The text The device also experienced a hoping for. overlay font was a little crude, number of crashes during testing, Hands on with CloudFTP: iOS and the data format icons (like the where the net service shut down data storage to go originally ?'s and the W's shown in the completely. I mentioned service a p p e a r e d o n T U A W - T h e above screenshot) didn't seem hangups already, which usually Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, fully polished. Admittedly, this is resolved themselves after repeat 29 May 2012 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of a Kickstarter project, so you need attempts. to take the homebrew element It was easy enough to restart the feeds. into account. system (a simple press on the Source| Permalink| Email this| A s a p e r s o n a l b u g a b o o , power button) and to detect that Comments CloudFTP uses standard Apple the unit had shut down (green interface elements in non-standard light on, blue light had gone off, ways; e.g., disclosure chevrons plus certain noises stopped) and
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Prevent automatic list creation in TextEdit

Topher Kessler (CNET News)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:46:41 PM
Apple's TextEdit program is a basic text editor included with OS X, which like WordPad for Windows can be used to quickly create text documents in plain text (.txt) or in rich text (RTF) formats. Similar to Preview for image files, TextEdit is commonly used as a starting point for opening various supported file types in order to preview them and make small edits to their contents. This helps when you need to quickly edit scripts and HTML code, or system configuration files. TextEdit is not only useful for quickly editing code (which is primarily stored in basic text formats), but also can be used as to take notes using its rich text format support that is still a very lightweight and common file format, but supports some basic features like text styles, differing font sizes, and lists that are useful for notes and other idea organization. Overall, at its roots TextEdit is a fairly bland program without many bells and whistles, and is attractive as such for making quick edits and other basic
organization where you do not wish for auto-formatting and other details that are common in programs like Word and Pages. However, even though it is lightweight, Apple has implemented an auto-formatting list feature that does so in ways that can be exceptionally frustrating to deal with. Related stories Sandboxed applications 'crashing' in OS X upon location change TextEdit in Lion changing document extensions to TXT If you have a rich text document that you are managing with TextEdit, by indenting lines using the Tab key or manually bulleting them with dashes or other symbols, TextEdit may take this as an indication you mean to create a list, and will sometimes reorganize your entire document when it does so. In the case of large documents with pages of text or organized ideas, you might find the program suddenly format all of your text into a muddled mess of indentations and list bullets. Disabling lists by selecting "none" in this menu will turn off automatic list-generation
behaviors in the program for all documents (current and new). Unfortunately the program does not have any settings in its menus or in its preferences that allow you to adjust this behavior, so if you are experiencing such formatting problems, you may be at a loss for what to do about them. These formatting errors can be overcome by placing your cursor in special areas where the behavior will not trigger, or by using special copy and "paste matching style" options to avoid auto-formatting, but this can be burdensome to keep in mind and you still might inadvertently trigger a full-document rearrangement. Luckily, even though there are no apparent options for adjusting automatic list generation, you can revert this behavior in the toolbar
of a TextEdit window. To do this, open a TextEdit document (or create a new one) and then locate the Lists button in its toolbar (which looks like three lines with bullets before them). In this menu, choose the "none" option (at the top of the menu) and you should now have turned off any autoformatting of lists. One might expect this menu to be used for creating a list from a selection or at the point of the cursor, and then disable when completed; however, this is not the case in TextEdit; as long as a list type is selected in this menu, then the program will interpret tabs, dashes, and other listlike behavior as an intent to create a list, and do it for you. Questions? Comments? Have a fix? Post them below or ! Be sure to check us out on Twitter and the CNET Mac forums. 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.
Modern business is a video game: a bad one

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Submitted at 5/29/2012 10:23:00 AM
Let me tell you a story about gamification (ugh!). Not another nauseating buzzword bingo story - no, this is a story about how your parents and mine, your friends and mine, all play a massively multiplayer on- and offline role-playing game five days a week, 47 weeks of the year. You and I probably play it too. Maybe you are playing it right now? We all toil away at this silly game, accumulating points, chasing that next upgrade way after bedtime, tirelessly working towards the level up that will impress the people around us. Sadly, for some of us this pernicious game takes over our lives. We are addicted. It affects our health, our happiness, our personal lives, everything. This game is called "Modern Work". By: Guest Author, Edited by: Olivia Solon Continue reading...
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campaign arent resonating. You need to be able to adapt on a dime. You need a game plan, but you also need to realize that no good plan survives first contact with the enemy. RWW: Lets say you launch your campaign, and it falls flat. What should you do? SS: Talk to your backers. Get their impressions. Nobody wants to see you succeed more than they do. Remember, you have the ability to change much of it on the fly. If your messaging doesnt connect or your rewards dont connect, you can always tweak it. If your video isnt resonating or people keep asking questions about your pitch, post updates to answer the questions, or do outreach through email newsletters. Think of your campaign as a series of battles in an ongoing war. Its important to know upfront who you can call on for support, because youre going to need to lean on your backers, partners, and friends and family. RWW: What types of rewards work best to galvanize contributors?
SS: You need a combination of physical merchandise or preorders and personalized, one-of-a-kind rewards, such as advance access to a beta program. Its important to offer value at every level. This isnt a charity fundraiser; people expect something in return for their money. Start at the impulse buy level - $5 or so - and go up to high-end, exclusive prizes. Have reasonably spaced-out [reward] tiers - dont jump from $5 to $500 - so everyone has a chance to contribute. Have a mix of rewards, some designed to draw attention to your campaign or attract the big fish, and some designed to monetize. Its also a good idea to introduce new rewards throughout your campaign. RWW: Once youve gotten your funds, the job isnt over. What do entrepreneurs need to do at this stage? SS: You need to thank [your contributors] profusely. These people are engaged customers and your most ardent supporters and brand evangelists. Embrace them and stay in constant contact. Not only are they likely to help you
spread the word, but many times theyll also offer to contribute [to your business in other ways]. The beauty of crowdfunding is it allows you to connect with your target audience from Day One, better engage them and create empathy. In many ways this is the holy grail of marketing [customers are] emotionally invested in the outcome, personally interested and want to see you succeed. So half your branding and awareness battle has already been fought. RWW: How do you think the JOBS Act will affect crowdfunding? SS: I think its going to catalyze even more interest, and well see more small and midsized businesses in the traditional space turning to crowdfunding as a viable alternative. On sites like Kickstarter, IndieGoGo and RocketHub, not everything is designed to be a money-making enterprise. [Thanks to the JOBS Act, crowdfunding will attract] sophisticated startups looking to pitch more viable business strategies. And everyday
individuals, instead of putting their money in the stock market, will be looking for [startups] that will deliver sustainable business models and maximum ROI. RWW: What are some of your favorite examples of tech startups using crowdfunding creatively? SS: gTar is a new and novel startup with an iPhone-powered digital guitar. [It shows] how effective crowdfunding can be when you have an eye-catching, unique offering that makes an impression very quickly. But by far the best crowdfunding campaign Ive seen so far is not a tech startup. Amanda Palmer is a musician who wanted to raise $100K for a new CD, tour and book. She has a three-minute video where she doesnt say a word, just holds up poster board with writing on it, smiles and waves and utterly charms you. Shes already raised $800K.
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Daily Update for May 29, 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 5/29/2012 4:00:00 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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Quad Lock mounting system keeps your iPhone at hand anywhere

Steven Sande (TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 7:00:00 PM
There are a lot of mounting systems for both iPhone and iPad, so news of another one usually doesn't trip my trigger. However, there's a new mounting system from Down Under that caught my attention recently thanks to its relatively low cost and low-profile design. The Quad Lock mounting system(US$69.95 for the Deluxe Kit) graduated from Kickstarter in January over 200 percent funded, and is now on the market. Let's take a look at the Quad Lock. As with most mounting systems, the Quad Lock begins with a case. Right now, there's just a case for the iPhone 4/4S -- the company is also working on an iPad 2/3 case. If you purchase the Quad Lock system a la carte, you can start with the case and two wall mounts for $39.95. The case isn't anything special, other than it has the Quad Lock connector on the back. Gallery: Quad Lock Mounting System The wall mounts fit into this connector, and with a quick twist your device is locked into or
removed from the mount. The mounts have both an adhesive pad and a screw hole; most people would probably put the wall mounts in their cars, but you might want to attach your favorite iPhone to the wall of a house or the side of a cubicle on occasion. The Deluxe Kit comes with another useful piece -- a bike mount. That consists of a Quad Lock mount on a curved piece that matches handlebars or other bike tubing, along with four rubber O-rings and a pair of standard black wire ties to connect it to the bike. I like the idea of the O-rings to temporarily connect the bike mount, since you may wish to move the mount from bike to bike easily. For a more permanent connection, use the wire ties. Other bits that will work with the system in the future include a $19.95 "Poncho" protective cover that's perfect for use with the bike mount, a $19.95 tripod adapter, and a $14.95 universal adapter that adheres to the back of other devices or cases to hold your electronics in place. That latter product is going to be of interest to me, as I'd love to use the Quad
Lock bike mount with my existing iPhone case (a mophie juice pack air). What I like about the Quad Lock system compared to some others is that the mounts are quite small and unobtrusive. They only stick out about 9/16" and are a wee bit under 1.5" in diameter. The product pricing is reasonable, and I like the fact that you can build on a basic kit to add only those
anything so that a TUAW reader can enjoy the full Quad Lock deluxe kit courtesy of the manufacturers, Annex Products, and TUAW. Here are the rules for the giveaway: Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 and older. To enter, fill out the form below completely and click or tap the Submit button. The entry must be made before June 1, 2012 11:59PM Eastern Standard Time. You may enter only once. One winner will be selected and will receive a Quad Lock Deluxe Kit valued at $69.95 Click Here for complete Official Rules. Loading... Quad Lock mounting system keeps your iPhone at hand things you'll need. anywhere originally appeared on Any negatives? Yeah, the basic TUAW - The Unofficial Apple case is a little less than exciting; Weblog on Tue, 29 May 2012 that's why I'd personally wait for 19:00:00 EST. Please see our the universal adapter so it can be terms for use of feeds. used with a "real case". Imagine Source| Permalink| Email this| slapping the universal mount on Comments the back of a LifeProof or OtterBox case, then onto the bike mount for mountain biking. Nice! I deliberately abstained from sticking the wall mounts to
Benefits spending blows out by 9bn

James Kirkup (Finance News Business news from the UK and
Benefit spending will be 9bn higher than planned because of
Coalition's failure to get people off welfare, research suggests.
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Why Facebook Is Still The Perfect Startup (Slides)

Ingrid Lunden (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:16:09 PM
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Kreiger approach here), there is a huge amount of data, occasionally usefully visualizing some of the Facebook had another tough day biggest challenges the company today in the public markets, with faces. (Example: Facebooks shares now trading at around $28 monetization issue. It is getting after debuting less than two weeks ten times more traffic than ago at $42.05. Good timing, then, YouTube, but only one-tenth the for a new slideshow report out revenue of YouTubes owner, today from the boutique French Google.) consulting firm faberNovel, which A little later, looking back at encourages us to look at the Facebooks different tests with bigger picture, and why, in its advertising, faberNovel makes a words, Facebook is the perfect good argument for how a lack of startup. success with more traditional The mammoth slideshow (after models has contributed to it being the break) is an annual thing such an innovative company. for faberNovel, which picks one Specifically, around new, social company to tackle each year ad formats (thats slide 34), even o t h e r s h a v e i n c l u d e d h o w if some of those formats have yet Amazon controls e-commerce, to pay off when compared to how how Apple dominates, and what much time users spend on the site. could go wrong with Google. Like Facebook has no choice but to those before, the one out today on c h a n g e t h e g a m e s r u l e s , Facebook is a deep-dive into the faberNovel explains, which is company, and it looks not just at perhaps the crux of why it has the origins of the social network, done so well. but what sets it apart from other What caught my attention the attempts at global social networks most possibly because of all and other startups. (And by the the news of the past week swirling way, faberNovel sees all this around Facebook and its mobile drama and attention on the IPO as plans was faberNovels take on just one point on a startup Facebooks mobile business. trajectory. Some investors may Facebook already has a huge not feel quite the same.) amount of users on mobile (more In 94 fairly packed slides (no than 400 million of its 901 million
Attempt." Ensure the trust settings in the red rectangle are at their defaults, after which the blue plus symbol (seen here) will disappear (click for larger view). Ensure root active users are accessing by certificates use default trust mobile), but it could quite settings The last option is to check possibly get squeezed out of for and ensure all of the root mobile altogether because of certificates on the system are set Apple and Googles own control to be at their default trust settings. of the ecosystems, and the fact You can do this by opening the that eventually other and better Keychain Access utility and mobile apps will come along. selecting the "System Roots" That has left Facebook with no keychain. Then ensure you either choice but to beef up with select "All Items" or "Certificates" acquisitions, more features and its in the categories section, and then own beginnings of a mobile browse through your root platform. Specifically, faberNovel certificate entries. In here if you believes the App Center could see any with a small blue plus really become a game-changer symbol in the certificate icon, and the lynchpin for how then it indicates the certificate is Facebook begins to own its configured with custom trust users on mobile devices. settings. If you find any FaberNovel then takes this one certificates with this indication, step further and proclaims that, double-click it to open its with its large mobile user base information page, and expand the and variety of services, "trust" section of the certificate. Facebook is a new breed of Then ensure the top-most menu in telco. this section is set to "Use System It even idly wonders if the Defaults," followed by the reset of company could, one day, even the menus being set to "no value operate its own ad-hoc Mesh specified." After making these network to put the final piece into the puzzle. Is that a speculation too far? In a world of $100-billion -plus valuations for largely free services, perhaps anything is possible.
adjustments, close the information window and supply your admin username and password when prompted. If done correctly, then the blue plus symbol will disappear from the certificate icon in the keychain. Repeat this procedure for all certificates with the blue plus. Unfortunately Apple does not provide a way to batch-edit certificates, so you will have to do this one-by-one for each certificate (of which there are about 180-200, though not all should have this problem). Questions? Comments? Have a fix? Post them below or ! Be sure to check us out on Twitter and the CNET Mac forums. 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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iFrogz iPad 3rd Gen Summit Case Review

Chris Burns (SlashGear)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:51:56 PM
or nearly total protection anyway. The entire back and sides of your iPad are completely covered with This week weve gotten our any one of five different colored hands on an iPad case thats made plastic cases while the rest of the to take what iFrogz did with the case is made from polyurethane iPad 2 Summit Case and bump it with a polycreabonate core up to a whole new generation for looking a lot like leather and a whole net slate! This new case feelinglike it too. is also called the Summit, but here Youve got full access to all of its made for the iPad 3rd your ports and buttons around the Generation(see our iPad 3 review edge of your iPad, each of them here) and has spots for both a having plenty of room to access stylus and your business card. even some ugly fat headphone This case is not only ready to be jacks if youve got them. Youve your one and only iPad case and got a loop at the top of the case to stand combo, its also on sale (for fit your normal human-sized an extremely limited amount of s t a n d a r d s t y l u s w o r k i n g time!) Have a look at why youve perfectly well for what it is and just gotta grab it now! a business card holder inside the Youll grab your iPad 3, or 3rd case as well. Finally as sort of a Gen iPad, or whatever you want bonus, it seems, iFrogz has to call it, and youll grab your included some magnetism in the iFrogz Summit Case, and youll case as well so its a Smart snap them together in no time flat. case, starting up and putting your Its really a no-effort situation iPad to sleep whenever you open getting this case snapped in or close it. around your iPad, and from there At this point you might be on in youve got total protection wondering if you should also be
limited time only) and the iPad Screen Protection Screen Films for $29.99 (or 50% off that price for a limited time only) grab em both right now! Story Timeline iFrogz offers customizable headphones iFrogz Mogul & Ronin Headphones Unveiled, Available Now iFrogz announces new Vertex headphones exclusive to Best Buy iFrogz iPad 2 Summit Case Review - Great Case or Greatest Case? iFrogz Boost NearField Audio speaker Review iFrogz iPad 3rd Gen Summit Case Review is written by Chris thinking about protecting your pack of them for right around half Burns& originally posted on glass display just incase you drop the price of the Summit case. SlashGear. the case when its wide open. The Have a peek at both the case and 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All case certainly provides enough the protective film in this hands- right reserved. protection on its own, of course, on video: but if youre looking for just a bit Both of these iFrogz protective more, theres always iFrogz products are available in iFrogz Screen Protection Anti-Glare online store, the Summit Case for screen film. You can grab a 3- $59.99 (or 50% off that price for a
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Google Brings ChromeOS To The Desktop, Launches Its First Chromebox

Frederic Lardinois (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:30:50 PM
Google, together with its partner Samsung, launched a new Chromebook and its first desktop Chromebox today. The most important change to the new Samsung Series 5 Chromebook is that it is significantly faster. While earlier versions featured a battery-friendly Intel Atom chip, these first Chromebooks often felt underpowered. This new version features an Intel Core chip, as well as 4GB of RAM, an HD camera, two USB 2.0 ports and a 1280800 display. Pricing starts at $449 for the WiFi-only version. While this is a nice update, whats more interesting here is the launch of Googles first Chromebox($329), a Mac Minilike desktop version of the Chromebook that features more ports than the Chromebook, though it is missing an SD card reader. Otherwise, though, its specs are pretty similar to the laptop version. This is the first time Google is officially putting ChromeOS on a desktop machine, something it hopes will make the
browser-centric operating system more appealing to business customers. The new Chromeboxes will come to Best Buy in the U.S. in the coming weeks. In the U.K, they are now available at PC World and Currys stores. Besides all of this, Google also brought its more Windows-like version of ChromeOS to its stable release channel today. This new app-centric user interface features a more traditional window manager than the previous single browser-only versions. This new interface will be the default on the new ChromeOS devices and will also replace the current UI on existing Chromebooks. Google argues that ChromeOSs ease of setup and deployment results in a total cost of ownership for Chromebooks thats less than half of that of traditional PCs. Google says the average 3-year saving per Chrome device when compared to a regular laptop is over $4,500. To emphasize this point, the company also announced a number of ChromeOS success and deployment stories today,
including the fact that Dillards Inc says that it will deploy Chromeboxes in hundreds of their retail locations and that the California State Library system is making 1,000 Chromebooks available for checkout in public libraries across the state. With this release, Google is also launching new pricing for its business and education management and support services. Businesses now pay a one-time fee of $150 and school $30 per device to get a management console, 24/7 phone support and an extended hardware warranty. Google previously sold support as a monthly subscription, but now these prices are for the lifetime of the device. Until now, the fact that Google Docs didnt feature an offline mode made many potential users shy away from ChromeOS. Now, however, it looks like offline Google Docs support is coming soon. Google says that it will roll this feature out over the next few weeks. To bridge the gap, the new Chromebooks now also come with 12 free sessions of Gogo Inflight Internet.
Autumn Dynasty is a beautiful, clever strategy game for the iPad

Duncan Geere
the Total War series of PC strategy games in mechanics and tone, but it's beautifully If you've got an iPad and you o p t i m i s e d f o r t h e i P a d ' s enjoy strategy games, I wholly touchscreen. Finger-strokes let r e c o m m e n d g i v i n g A u t u m n you draw a path for units to Dynasty a go. traverse to their destination, a It's an RTS set in feudal China. circle lets you select more than You're tasked with saving your one unit at once, and two fingers, Empire from civil war with slightly apart, let you scan around judicious use of swordsmen, the map. pikemen, archers, horsemen and By: Duncan Geere, Edited by: catapults. Nate Lanxon Continue reading... It shares a lot of similarities with
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Facebook's Instagram Acquisition Not Only Makes Sense, It's Smart

Dave Copeland (ReadWriteWeb)
of Facebook hate. Indeed, while the tech press is still by-and-large embracing Submitted at 5/29/2012 4:30:00 PM Facebook, the financial press has It has been fashionable lately to quickly tied Facebook to the do some head scratching over whipping post. The release of Facebooks acquisition of Facebook Camera was seen as Instagram, which we now know proof positive that Zuckerberg et came just weeks before the social al were capable of building a network released a camera app of world-changing social network its own that looked a lot like, but not capable of running a well, Instagram. But there's an publicly traded company. argument to be made that Someone please explain to me Facebook owes no apologies to its changes format on another one of why this makes sense, Anthony shareholders. Maybe CEO Mark its properties, introducing a new DeRosa of Reuters wrote about Z u c k e r b e r g s m o v e t o b u y station that goes after the same 18 the Facebook Camera launch. Instagram was borderline brilliant. -to-34-year-old male audience. Producing an inferior product Writing for TheStreet.com, In other words, Facebook is must have cost money and Rocco Pendola compares the probably expecting that Instagram certainly must have taken time to acquisition to a strategy once will cannibalize some users from develop. Even if the app were favored by big radio station its new phone app and vice versa. developed before Facebook owners like Clear Channel and But it no longer matters: All of bought Instagram, it would have the revenue stays with Facebook, been less damaging for Facebook Citadel. Imagine a major city with just and it no longer has to figure out to pretend that it had never existed one FM station targeting 18-to-34 how to convert the 40 million than to confuse the marketplace -year-old men with alternative people who already use and like by introducing two competing music. It does well in the market, Instagram. Meanwhile, any app p r o d u c t s f r o m t h e s a m e which suggests there might be maker thinking to enter the c o m p a n y . room for another FM music market may reconsider, as the Facebook is not commenting on station of the same, or similar, market may be close to saturation. the acquisition, as the Instagram format that goes after the same I'm surprised nobody - at least deal has not closed. The Wall demographic, Pendola wrote. that I know of - has made this Street Journal noted that with the Instead of sitting around to wait logical connection, Pendola ongoing slump in Facebooks for a competitor to flip the switch wrote. It's probably because share prices, the deal is now on the same type of station, the they've been too busy jumping on worth less than $1 billion. owner of the existing station the now cosmopolitan bandwagon
Single-cart multiplayer enhances GeekDad's family 3DS gaming

Andy Robertson
good books. These are the titles that let people download a game to their DS or 3DS without E x p l a i n i n g t h e d i f f e r e n c e owning the cartridge themselves, between single-cart multiplayer then compete in multiplayer and multi-cart multiplayer on the modes. Otherwise it requires your DS, as I often find myself doing, potential opponent to own the it is impossible not to come game as well. across on the wrong side of cool. By: Andy Robertson, Edited by: Games that support single-cart Nate Lanxon Continue reading... multiplayer are quickly in my
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Groupon Picks Up Breadcrumb For A Little POS Magic

Rip Empson (TechCrunch)
November. In March, Groupon added FeeFighters to the fold, Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:33:44 PM which followed the likes of Groupon just announced via its Mertado, Adku, Campfire Labs, b l o g t h a t i t h a s a c q u i r e d Hyperpublic, Kima Labs, and Breadcrumb, the creators of an Uptake into Camp Groupon. And, affordable point of sale system again, all of those acquisitions and iPad app that targets local have come since November. restaurants. After all the grumbling While the terms of the deal have surrounding Groupons high not yet been disclosed, Groupon valuation and blockbuster IPO, it has made a run of acquisitions seems that the company has been over the last six months, and this quietly ignoring detractors and is move is likely one being made for at least by its own standards talent. Not only that but the daily on somewhat of a hot streak. Not deals behemoth is looking to two weeks ago Groupon beat create more defined inroads with estimates in its second quarterly local mom and pop restaurants in earnings report since going its quest to becomethe OS for public, seeing $559.3 million in local commerce, and adding revenue in Q1 2012, up 89 Breadcrumb and its technology to percent year-over-year, as well as the team is a step in that direction. increasing the total amount of A s m e n t i o n e d , G r o u p o n s money collected from customers purchase of Breadcrumb is the for Groupons sold to $1.35 latest in a slew of startup talent billion, up 103 percent, as and tech acquisitions the company Frederic reported. has made since going public last Find Groupons announcement year as far as we can tell, its below: e i g h t h a c q u i s i t i o n s i n c e We are excited to announce that
Groupon has acquired Breadcrumb! The team behind Breadcrumb shares our passion to build affordable and intuitive products that make it easier for local merchants to manage their business. Were thrilled to welcome founder Seth Harris and his team to the Groupon family Seth boasts more than 12 years of hospitality management experience, making him uniquely empathetic to the tight budgets and unique needs of business owners in the food and beverage industry who often struggle to find technology products that will work perfectly for them. Breadcrumb will continue to serve new and existing clients and we look forward to offering their product to our existing merchant partners. Also, for Groupon merchant partners that use Breadcrumbs point of sale system, well be able to significantly improve the process of redeeming a Groupon. Updating in realtime
Smartphone App Bathroom Drapery - The 'iBath Shower Curtain' Merges Technology with Home Furnishing (TrendHunter.com)
Waiting For Godot: Existential Eurocrisis Edition

Tyler Durden
Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:16:08 PM
Gordon Brown - after claiming he "eliminated boom and bust" and that he "saved the world", left (TREND HUNTER - The Latest us with just about the worst deficit, no savings, lots of gold Trends) gone, a complete mess of Submitted at 5/29/2012 1:36:02 PM regulation, 100% debt/GDP of ( TrendHunter.com) The Urban bank owned assets backstopped Outfitters iBath Shower Curtain' by the taxpayer, a gigantic f u r t h e r s t h e w i d e s p r e a d public+private debt bubble, insane infatuation with smartphone levels of unfunded liabilities... at applications. Each of the images the very least kept us the fuck out emblazoned on the drapery are of the Euro. This entry passed through the modeled after the very... 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.
Obama on Listening to Bob Dylan in College: My World Opened Up

Daniel Halper (The Weekly Standard)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:12:00 PM
President Barack Obama awarded Presidential Medals of Freedom today at the White House to Bob Dylan John Glenn, John Paul
Stevens, Madeleine Albright, Shimon Peres, Jan Karski, John Doar, William Foege, Dolores Huerta, Juliette Gordon Low, Pat
Summitt, and Gordon Hirabayashi. The award is the highest honor a president can give to a civilian.
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Top 10 Appliances We Can't Live Without

Sara Elliott (HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 1:00:56 PM
Gucci's liquid wood sunglasses can biodegrade

Christopher MacManus (CNET News)
"green" glasses, which sport a frame made of material never used before in production Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:33:57 PM eyewear: liquid wood, a In some ways, liquid wood stands renewable plastic of sorts that as a must-needed successor to actually consists of biodegradable plastic, especially since it doesn't wood fiber, resins, and the require petroleum to produce, and polymer lignin. manufacturers can shape it in As for aesthetics, the sem-imatte nearly any way through injection black frame contains a gray lens molding.(Credit: Gucci) made of mineral glass, and Gucci Plastic shades seem so passe, used recycled metal for the hinges compared to Gucci's new liquid and small metal rings along the wood sunglasses. sides. The Italian high-end fashion Gucci's liquid wood glasses giant worked with sunglasses remain prototypes for now, but manufacturer Safilo to create the the company hinted at a "future
release." We put a query in with Gucci about potential availability and pricing, but a representative did not immediately respond to comment. ( Via Designboom) 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.
If you prepared a list of appliances you couldn't live without, how long would it be? Before you answer that question, imagine a typical day in your life. Did an alarm clock wake you this morning? Did you take a shower or brush your teeth? Did you grab a drink from the fridge? Has the heat or air conditioning kicked on yet to keep you comfortably warm or cool? Were the socks you put on fresh from the laundry room? Despite the fast pace of modern living, with its uncertainties and challenges, many conveniences and small delights are the result of a network of ideas, concepts and inventions brought into being by the passionate efforts of men of science, business and faith. We don't always know their names, and sometimes their ideas overlap so we're not sure who to thank, but there are stories behind these inventions, along with a few
coincidences, mysteries and lucky accidents. Leaps in our technical know-how and our knack for using new knowledge to build on established ideas have resulted in inventions that have shaped our society and ways of thinking. Equally astonishing is the broad availability of these technologies that make them some important creature comforts available to huge numbers of people around the world. Let's explore 10 appliances that enhance our lives and take a glimpse at the how, when and why of their existence. Some of these choices may surprise you, but life for all of us would be very different without them. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Videos: Beer Me!

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Submitted at 5/29/2012 1:00:56 PM
NuForce launches 2-inch Cube allin-one speaker

Rue Liu (SlashGear)
sound and acts as a headphone amplifier as well as a USB Digital Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:27:35 PM Audio Converter (DAC). NuForce, makers of consumer The Cube promises a high-end and professional audio solutions, audio experience with superior has launched a new all-in-one sound you wont find in other portable speaker called the Cube. portable speakers. Despite its The tiny device measures only 2- small size, the Cube offers audio inches tall and manages to pack in with detail, depth, and dimension. three functions. It offers great It also acts as a optimized
amplifier for headphones, boosting clarity, detail, and power. Additionally, the Cubes uSB digital-to-analog converter (DAC) accepts digital music directly from the computer but bypasses the computers onboard DAC, which is typically inferior in quality. The NuForce Cube is
available now for $119. [ via NuForce] NuForce launches 2-inch Cube all-in-one speaker is written by Rue Liu& originally posted on SlashGear. 2005 - 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Playlist | Beer Videos You've landed on the best collection of beer videos on the Web. See all 54 videos below. There are 54 videos tagged "Beer"' + ''; $('#googleAdRightRail').html(rt); } function getValidChannel() { var getChannel = function(subDomain) { return subDomain; } var validChannels = new Array("adventure", "auto","computer","electronics"," entertainment","food","health","h ome","mobiltravelguide","money" ,"people","recipes","science","trav el","www","reference","maps","vi deos","history","geography","ani m a l s " ) ; v a r subDomain=document.domain.spl it(".")[0]; if (subDomain) { var x; for (var x = 0; x 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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A Man With No Country - By Alex Massie

ALEX MASSIE (Foreign Policy)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 4:29:00 PM
The vulgar political afterlife of Prime Minister Tony Blair. BY ALEX MASSIE| MAY 29, 2012 LONDON There are few second acts in political lives. This is a truth Tony Blair appears to be discovering the hard way. The former British prime minister, now most famous for being the most eloquent salesman for the American-led war against Saddam Hussein, has kept a low profile since he left Downing Street five years ago. Even his work as the Quartets representative to the Middle East has attracted little attention. Now, however, the word on the London Street is that Blair wants to "re-engage" with British politics. This week, he testified before the Leveson Inquiry investigating the links -- complicated and often humiliating -- between the British media and political elites, a manytentacled monster spawned by the News of the World scandal. It was a classic Blair performance: plausible and impressive, yet shameless too. No, he insisted, despite being godfather to one of Rupert Murdoch's children, Blair was never that close to the English-speaking world's most powerful media mogul. They only developed a more than "working" relationship after Blair left office. Believe that if you will. And if you do, perhaps you still believe that Iraq had mobile chemical
weapons labs? Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Blair has been meeting with the new Labour leader Ed Miliband and hosting small gatherings of freshmen Labour MPs at which he offers tactical and strategic advice on how best the party can take advantage of David Cameron's
weaknesses. Despite his years away from the fray, few doubt Blairs instinctive ability to understand Middle England, but even so his return prompts an awkward question: What is Tony Blair for? Like his old chum Bill Clinton, Blair entered office in his 40s.
Like Clinton, he plainly misses the political fray. But while Clintons Global Initiative has partially solved the What shall we do with Bill? problem, Blair is still desperately seeking relevance. He has lost an empire but not yet found a role. At one point he hoped he might
become president of the European Council, an ambition that -- given his past associations with George W. Bush (a man not thought of all that fondly in Brussels) and Britain's ambivalent relationship with the European Union -MAN page 38
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always seemed a hopeless, even vainglorious, cause. So it proved: The job went to the comparatively little-known Belgian Herman von Rompuy instead. The misadventure in Mesopotamia similarly doomed any hope Blair might have of earning a big-ticket United Nations job, while his lack of interest in economics ensured there'd be no assignment for him at the International Monetary Fund. An admittedly unscientific survey of Guardian readers found that only one in three would welcome Blair's return to British public life. For many on the left, Blair's determination to remove Saddam Hussein from power makes him some kind of war criminal. The left expected no less, you see, from the man from Crawford, Texas, but Blair was supposed to be cut from better cloth. Thus this betrayal runs deep: Even his appearance at the Leveson Inquiry -- almost a decade after the Iraq war began -- was interrupted by a protestor demanding Blair be prosecuted for "war crimes." His chief public duty, in the five years since he was ejected by a mutiny within his own party, has been acting as the Quartet's representative in the Middle East. Even this, however, has been a part-time assignment. Though those who pay attention to these matters tend to agree that Blair has done good work, this endeavor has produced few tangible rewards. If his work in the Middle East has
been too humdrum for a bored press corps to bother covering (few Britons are exercised by worthy initiatives to stimulate the Palestinian economy) the same cannot be said of Blair's other post -office existence. Much of this, as far as the British press is concerned, can be reduced to a simple question: How may I, Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, become properly filthy rich and how quickly can I do it? Blair is hardly the first former British premier to cash in on his fame. Winston Churchill was a tireless self-propagandist, while Margaret Thatcher cashed in on the American lecture circuit before infirmity and dementia curtailed her public appearances. Blair's predecessor, John Major, has made millions as European director of the Carlyle Group. But none of these former prime ministers attracted the opprobrium reserved for Blair. Then again, none of them were portrayed as a vulgar, moneygrubbing parvenu either. If Blair's government always was, in the words of his confidante Peter Mandelson -- "intensely relaxed" about the pursuit of money, the former prime minister has been no slouch in that matter either. No one quite knows how much money Blair has made since leaving Downing Street, but his offices in London's Grosvenor Square (where his neighbors include the U.S. embassy) are reported to cost 550,000 a year to rent; his consultancy firm and other interests earned, according
to their most recent accounts, 12 million last year. This includes, it is believed, 3 million from J.P. Morgan and hefty fees from foreign governments persuaded that Blair's advice is worth yet more millions. Among Blair's clients: the governments of countries such as Kuwait and Kazakhstan. No wonder, perhaps, that the British press calls this new man Blair, Inc. Indeed, Blair's reputation in his homeland is so battered that even ostensibly unimpeachable acts of charity are liable to be interpreted as the actions of a man with a guilty conscience. When he announced he was donating the 4 million he earned from his memoirs to the Royal British Legion (a charity for former soldiers), this was met by a barrage of cynicism on Fleet Street. One columnist in the leftwing Daily Mirror suggested this "pious, Bible-bashing hypocrite" should instead "amputate a limb and give that to the British Legion." The world has changed since Blair left office. The era of Neoliberal Ascendancy has ended. The claim, oft-repeated by Blair and his chancellor (and successor) Gordon Brown that Labour had abolished the cycle of "boom and bust" now stands as a rusting totem to the hubris of a distant pre -austerity age whose pretensions to glory have long-since been stripped naked. Ed Miliband was elected Labour leader in large part because he was seen as the candidate least associated with the
Blair era. Even Blair's electoral success -perhaps the chief weapon in his defenders' arsenal -- now looks less impressive than it seemed at the time. True, he won three elections, but the first was at the expense of an exhausted Conservative party that had been in power for 18 years, the second came in an economic boom, and the third was compromised by war-related controversy and by the understanding Blair would depart the stage sooner rather than later. Four million fewer Britons voted for Blair in 2005 than had done so in 1997. Labour won just 35 percent of the vote in Blair's last election. For that matter, a former prime minister on J.P. Morgan's payroll is ill-placed to offer counsel in an age when capitalism's previously unquestioned supremacy is now a matter of great controversy. As Europe tilts towards populism, Blair remains part of the international elite widely blamed (accurately or not) for the crisis that detonated a year after he left office. Even some of Blair's supporters on the muscular wing of the British left are appalled by his recent record. Blair's willingness to "advise" Central Asian dictators such as Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev compromises his standing among those liberals who stood by him even as his foreign policy choices made him a figure of hatred for much of the traditional left. Blair, who made arguments for liberal decency in
Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, is now just another guy for hire -- if the price is right. Writing in the Observer last weekend, Nick Cohen offered this withering assessment of Blair's recent record: "His love of money has brought down the worst fate that could have befallen him. He now has the manners and morals of his opponents. He has become a George Galloway with a Learjet at his disposal." Being Tony Blair must be an odd and lonely existence. Money cures many ills but, at least in a liberal democracy, it does not always buy love. Blair made his name as a regular kind of guy who could extend Labours appeal into previously Tory, middle-class heartlands. Now, however, many of Blairs previous supporters consider themselves duped by a great political chameleon or, as some have it, a charlatan for the ages. There is self-loathing mixed with Blair-hatred, too. Nor can trips to Davos or Aspen or the other meetings of the global elite replicate the thrill of power. As many a sporting star has learned, you're a long time retired. That applies to statesmen as well. Few people should be surprised that Tony Blair might miss the game, but there are few fans eager to see him return to the field of play. If they could only stop loathing him for a moment, Britons might even feel a pang of pity for Blair. He has become a MAN page 40
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So, How Do You Expel an Ambassador, Anyway? - By Joshua E. Keating

JOSHUA E. KEATING (Foreign Policy)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 4:09:48 PM
Just tell 'em to get packing. BY JOSHUA E. KEATING| MAY 29, 2012 The U.S. State Department on Tuesday took the dramatic step of expelling Zuheir Jabbour, charg d'affaires at the Syrian embassy in Washington, in response to last week's massacre of at least 108 people in the Syrian town of Houla. Jabbour has been Syria's top diplomat in the United States since the ambassador, Imad Moustapha, left under somewhat mysterious circumstances last year. The move was coordinated with the governments of Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, all of whom have either expelled their Syrian ambassadors or announced that they will do so. The move represents a further deterioration in relations between the United States and Syria following the closure of the U.S. Embassy in Damascus in February. But how big a deal is it, really, to expel a diplomat? It depends on why you're expelling them. The 1961 Vienna Treaty on Diplomatic Relations, which codifies concepts such as diplomatic immunity and the inviolability of embassies, gives
states quite a bit of leeway on kicking out diplomats. Article 9 states, "The receiving state may at any time and without having to explain its decision, notify the
sending state that the head of the mission or any member of the diplomatic staff of the mission is persona non grata or that any other member of the staff of the
mission is not acceptable. In any Although it's not strictly required, such case, the sending state shall, the host country's foreign minister as appropriate, either recall the will often call in embassy officials person concerned or terminate his functions with the mission." SO, page 40
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to tell them why they've been given the boot. For instance, while serving walking papers to U.S. Ambassador Richard Melton in 1988, the Nicaraguan foreign minister took the opportunity to inform him that the gesture was "nothing compared to the systematic policy of murder and terror that Mr. Reagan's government has carried out against Nicaragua.'' In 2008, Belarus's Foreign Ministry summoned U.S. charg d'affaires Jonathan Moore and handed him a list of 10 U.S. diplomats who had been declared personae non gratae in response to U.S. sanctions. Most countries give banished envoys 72 hours to leave the country. (According to the State Department, that's how long Jabbour has to get out of town.) In the Belarus incident, embassy staffers waited until the last hour before crossing the border into Lithuania in hopes that a deal could be reached. Things don't always work out quite so neatly. Former Ambassador to Venezuela Patrick Duddy was back in Washington in September 2008 when he received a call from the State Department operations center informing him that he had been expelled. "My expulsion was announced on television by President [Hugo] Chvez himself in an epithetfilled public speech to his supporters," he remembers. "He
announced that I had been expelled 'in solidarity' with the decision made by Bolivian President Evo Morales to expel my colleague Phil Goldberg." Though Duddy's expulsion was not directly linked to any of his own actions, he recalls being warned by Venezuelan officials in the weeks prior that he could be PNG'd because of remarks he had made to the media about the Venezuelan government's unwillingness to cooperate on combating drug trafficking. As he was already out of the country when he heard the news of his expulsion, he didn't have the customary 72 hours to gather his possessions and it was several weeks before his wife was allowed to return to Caracas to pack up the couple's things. Later, when diplomatic relations between the two countries were normalized in 2009, Duddy, now a visiting senior lecturer in international studies at Duke University, became the first U.S. ambassador ever to return to the same post in a country where he or she had been declared persona non grata. Expulsions aren't always politically motivated. For instance, if an official enjoying diplomatic immunity is accused of a serious crime, expulsion is usually the host country's only recourse. Earlier this month, for instance, the Philippines expelled
a Panamanian embassy official accused of rape. It's U.S. policy in such cases to first request that the sending country waive immunity, then proceed with expulsion if it doesn't. Sometimes an official will be expelled when, in the view of the host government, he or she oversteps his or her diplomatic role. In January 2012, the Obama administration expelled the Venezuelan consul general in Miami over allegations that she had discussed possible cyberattacks on U.S. soil while stationed in Mexico. President Rafel Correa's government in Ecuador expelled U.S. Ambassador Heather Hodges in 2011 over comments about corruption revealed in a WikiLeaks cable. (Expelling U.S. diplomats is something of a habit for Correa.) Malawi expelled Britain's ambassador over another WikiLeaks cable, in which he made disparaging comments about the country's president. At other times, as in Duddy's case, the expulsion has nothing to do with the diplomat in question, but is merely a way of protesting the sending country's policies. It's also common for countries to respond to the expulsion of their ambassador with an expulsion of their own. These tit-for-tat exchanges were so common during the Cold War that a British insurance company even offered
persona non grata policies to Western diplomats stationed in Moscow to help them recoup the costs of Russian lessons, relocation expenses, and other nuisances. Expelling a diplomat, even an ambassador, is not the same thing as severing diplomatic relations -a much more dramatic step. The U.S. Embassy in Minsk, for instance, continued to operate with a staff of only four following the mass expulsion in 2008. The charg d'affaires typically takes charge of an embassy's functions when the ambassador is out of the country for any reason, so is usually in a good position to step in following an expulsion. But in this case, with no ambassador or charg d'affaires representing Syria in Washington, and no U.S. diplomatic presence at all in Damascus, it seems like unlikely that there will be much of any "relations" to speak of. 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.
man without a country anywhere, with a past that haunts him everywhere. 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.
Remains of the Day: Bitly Reinvents Itself, Launches iOS App [For What It's Worth]
Jeremy Hoag (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 4:00:00 PM
Bitly gets ambitious, Twitter ditches hashbang URLs, and details of Apple's always anticipated conference slip out. More
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Guest Post: Housing Recovery - Hope And Reality

Tyler Durden
about home sales, both new and existing, starts and permits which all showed some very modest Submitted by Lance Robert of improvement. It is important to StreetTalk Live note that the improvement in the Housing Recovery - Hope and data is welcome news. It is a bit Reality premature, however, for it to be Every year for the past three called a recovery. With mortgage years there have been recurring r a t e s c u r r e n t l y b e l o w 4 % , calls for a housing bottom and employment somewhat stable, recovery. The importance of an major banks continuing to stall eventual recovery in housing the foreclosure process and the should not be dismissed as it is a home buying season moving into c r i t i c a l c o m p o n e n t o f a n full swing we should see economic recovery due to the improvement in the housing data. large multiplier effect of each If we weren't that would be dollar spent. The recovery in very bad. housing would signal that a The current "bottom," and I use foundation for a more lasting that word loosely, in housing economic recovery would be in appears to have occurred in late place. That is the hope anyway. 2010. However, we also saw a However, as we have discussed "bottom" in 2009 as well. With in the past (see here, here, and continued support to housing from here) the reality is that while artificially depressed interest housing construction and sales rates, bailouts, write downs, may have bottomed after the forgiveness, tax credits and largest decline in history, it is incentives housing data does highly likely that a correction in appear to show a bottom. prices likely has further to fall The most recent release of April's particularly if interest rates rise data, on the surface, appears to f o r a n y r e a s o n . T h e o n e support the media's proposition overlooked issue is that while it is that housing is in a continued likely that housing may have recovery process. Not so fast. The found its natural bottom a problem with the April data, on a bottom and a recovery are entirely seasonally adjusted basis, is that different things. this was the warmest April in six During the past couple of weeks years and the second warmest in there has been a tremendous t h e p a s t 3 1 y e a r s . T h e amount of ink spilled in the press unseasonably warm weather,
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combined with the lowest amount of precipitation in a decade, has artificially influenced the adjusted data in much the same way as we have previously discussed regarding the employment data. While April did show a rebound it came on the heels of two monthly declines and failed to fully recoup the previous losses. What was worse is that on a non-seasonally adjusted basis this was one of the weakest Aprils in the past decade for existing home sales. If you look at the first chart you can see that even with the many supports discussed above combined with depressed prices and unseasonably warm weather it takes a rather strong magnifying glass, and much "hope," to say that a recovery is here. Apart from new and existing home sales the housing starts, permits and completion data does not look much better. Considering these data points are still at the lowest levels since data began to be collected there is very little evidence that a recovery is officially underway. When these data points are combined with new and existing home sales we can argue the case for a housing bottom. However, a bottom and a recovery in housing, as stated previously, are two vastly different things. This is evident by the data
coming from the home building companies themselves as they continue to curb their inventory. This is a needed but defensive posture by the homebuilders and inventory has declined to a 5.1 month supply. Even given lower inventory levels it is still taking nearly 8 months to complete a sale. The reality is that the demand for homes remains extremely constrained and any negative shock to the economy could quickly turn the recent modest improvements back on their head. Digging Into The Real Housing Situation In order to really know what is going on in housing we need to look at the proverbial "forest for the trees" by examining what is happening to the total number of houses. We know that many housing units have been converted into rental properties in recent months as excess homes are sitting vacant. As full-time employment remains elusive, a large and available labor pool suppresses wages and access to credit remains tight - the dream of "home ownership" has slipped from the grasp of many Americans. However, as the population continues to expand, "renting" becomes the preferred choice. The chart shows the percentage of homes that are
"occupied", either by a renter or homeowner, as a percentage of the total number of housing units in the U.S. There are two important issues in this chart. The first, and most obvious, is surge in homes being rented versus owned. The second is that home occupancy rates are only 1/2% higher today than they were during the recession. As I stated before you must look very hard to find a housing recovery here. One issue that will continue to confound the real estate market in the near term is the level of inventory that is being held off market for various reasons. This does not include the shadow inventory held by banks which is an additional issue. As we have stated in previous reports the housing market is driven by the activity "at the fringes" between those actively seeking to buy a house versus those with "for sale" signs in their yard. Today, roughly 1/3 of all homeowners are under water on their mortgages. Therefore, it is no surprise that many are holding homes as long as possible hoping for a price recovery. However, at some point these "vacant" houses, along with the excess shadow inventory and trapped homeowners, will come to market either due to force or GUEST page 46
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Competition for McJobs Hits Teens: HighSchool Students with Jobs Hits 20-Year Low
noreply@blogger.com (Mike Mish Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 11:26:00 AM
High school and college kids typically get the jobs that are left over, that no one else really wants, such as working at McDonalds. However, competition for any job is now so intense, that teens cannot find any job that no one else wants. As a result of that increased competition, Number of highschool students with jobs hits 20year low The American job market is no place for students as the number of employed high schoolers has hit its lowest level in more than 20 years, according to new figures from the National Center for Education Statistics. In 1990, 32 percent of high school students held jobs, versus just 16 percent now. Blame their elders. By definition, teenage workers get the jobs that are left over, said Charles Hirschman, a sociology professor at the
University of Washington who has studied and written about student employment. When you cant find someone else to bag your groceries or work construction, often teenagers are the labor force you can count on to pick up that slack for a low wage. But now, with the recession, everybody has moved down. Those jobs arent going to teenagers. Local McDonalds managers, for example, are no longer forced to accept young workers who can show up after class. They now have the option to hire older employees with more experience and, in many cases, much more education. They think, I can hire this old guy instead. He already knows how to work, so we dont need to teach him, said Andrew Sum, director of Northeastern University's Center for Labor Market Studies. The crunch is also hitting college students. In 2000, 52 percent of full-time college students worked. That number has now fallen to 40 percent, the National Center for
Education Statistics reports. Job Demographics Please consider these thoughts I penned on May 1, 2008 (emphasis in italics added) Demographics of Jobless Claims Structural Demographics Poor Structural demographic effects imply that prospects in the fulltime labor market will be poor for those over age 50-55 and workers under age 30. Teen and collegeage employment could suffer a great deal from (1) a dramatic slowdown in discretionary spending and (2) part-time Boomer reentrants into the lowpaying service sector; workers who will be competing with younger workers. Ironically, older part-time workers remaining in or reentering the labor force will be cheaper to hire in many cases than younger workers. The reason is Boomers 65 and older will be covered by Medicare (as long as it lasts) and will not require as many benefits as will younger workers, especially those with families. In effect, Boomers will be competing with their children and
grandchildren for jobs that in many cases do not pay living wages. Very few are considering demographics, a change in attitudes by consumers towards spending, a change in attitudes of banks to lend, and the ability of capital impaired banks to lend even if they want to. A structural shift in consumption to savings or at least reduced consumption, is in store for boomers. Meanwhile job prospects are looking pretty grim for some time to come across the entire economic spectrum. And so it is. Unfortunately it will stay that way for many years to come. Economists missed the boat on this one and still do even as it plays out as I suggested. Because of student debt and low paying jobs, kids out of college are putting off raising families and buying homes. Headwinds on home prices are enormous. Rather than buy cars they cannot afford, many kids tweet and send text messages. Demographics, student debt, debt in general, and changing attitudes
of youth about what is really important are huge deflationary forces that Bernanke is fighting. Those expecting hyperinflation or even strong inflation out of this mess are simply not thinking clearly. 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.
Blackberry maker RIM warns of 'significant' job cuts

Telegraph Staff (Finance News - Business news from the UK and world)
Research in Motion has warned of "significant" spending and job cuts amid fierce competition from its rivals, as the BlackBerry maker
said that it could report its second consecutive quarterly operating loss next month.
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ECB Calls Spain's Bluff... Or Does It? And Did Europe Just Check To The Fed?
Tyler Durden
by the ECB, European officials said. Submitted at 5/29/2012 4:01:27 PM News of the rejection came as While most of the early action Spain faces elevated borrowing today was driven by a baseless costs in the bond markets, tries to rumor that the ECB would persuade investors it can contain a n n o u n c e s o m e m a g i c a l problems in a banking sector recapitalization plan that would weighed down by 180bn of bad put everything back into its property loans and, on Tuesday, n o r m a l ( b y t h i s w e m e a n saw its central bank governor somehow sustainable) place, the stand down early. alleged time when Draghi would Instead, it seems that the ECB is make such an announcement a fan of the old fashioned type of came and went... and nothing. capital raise: one involving Instead, the ECB, using the FT as equity, and cash, and none of this its mouthpiece, came out late in n e w f a n g l e d r e p o m o n e t a r y the day, however not with news ponziness. Of course, the only that Europhiles wanted to hear. As bank that did try a capital raise by a r e m i n d e r , a s p a r t o f t h e way of a rights offering in 2012 proposed Bankia nationalization was Italian UniCredit which scheme, Spain would inject plunged by nearly half in the days Spanish debt into the insolvent following the announcement as a entity, thereby allowing it to market test would clearly indicate pledge the debt for ECB repo it was woefully undercapitalized cash. Or so the thinking went. and its equity may well be This was, in effect, Spain's bluff. worthless. This, however, does The ECB has just called it. not seem to bother the ECB: From the FT: The ECB told Madrid that a A Spanish plan to recapitalise proper capital injection was Bankia, the troubled lender, by needed for Bankia and its plans indirectly tapping the European were in danger of breaching an Central Bank for cash, was EU ban on monetary financing, bluntly rejected as unacceptable or central bank funding of
governments, according to two European officials ECB's calling of the Spanish bluff also explains the earlier news of Ordonez' premature evacuation from the Bank of Spain, which we noted: News of the ECBs hardline response emerged as the Bank of Spain announced that Miguel Angel Fernndez Ordez, its governor, would step down at the end of next week, a month earlier than planned. Mr Fernndez Ordez known by his initials Mafo, who was appointed by Spains previous socialist government has been subject to increasing attacks from politicians over his failure to prevent the countrys banking crisis. In summary: This is like a game of poker now, one government adviser said, and I dont think Spain is bluffing. Well, it is. Because its cards, as explained yesterday, are all merely collateral backed by zombie banks which carry their "assets" at idiotic valuations. So yes - in the great game of monetary poker, the ECB just
called Spain's bluff. Or maybe not. Because paradoxically this may all be simply a means to crash the market, as we have been cautioning since last week, when Citi, correctly, said that Crossover would cross over (pun intended) 1000 bps, before the central banks would get involved. In other words: yes, it is a game of cards, but one which may well have Spain and the ECB on the same side of the table, and now both have checked to Ben Bernanke, who has 3 weeks to decide if the cost of bailing out Europe, and thus US banks, is worth the printing of another $1 trillion. We can't wait to find out. Average: Your rating: None Average: 4.8( 10 votes) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Robert Pattinson Enjoys a LowKey Getaway With His Parents

Katie Henry (PopSugar)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 3:20:54 PM
Robert Pattinson popped up in Lisbon today with his parents, Richard and Clare. Rob was last in Cannes hanging out with girlfriend, Kristen Stewart, and promoting his upcoming release, Cosmopolis. His David Cronenberg-directed film got mixed reviews, but despite the mediocre critiques, Rob appeared to enjoy his time in France. Right before jetting to Portugal, Rob was spotted laughing and dining with friends and fellow Hollywood hunk Matthew McConaughey. Kristen couldn't continue onto Lisbon to sightsee with Rob, as she's already back in LA making a final promotional push prior to Friday's release of Snow White and the Huntsman. View Slideshow
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Bailout Scam: Collecting NonInterest on Non-Loans; "Because Were Europe"

noreply@blogger.com (Mike Mish Shedlock) (Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis)
A Greek government advisor who spoke anonymously, for fear of alienating the European lenders, said of the troika: They Submitted at 5/29/2012 4:00:00 PM The absurdity of the Greek made sure that the sum for "bailout" setup is in the news once domestic spending is kept small again. The New York Times e n o u g h t o f o r c e G r e e c e t o reports Athens No Longer Sees d r a m a t i c a l l y r a i s e i t s o w n Most of Its Bailout Aid In an r e v e n u e s . elaborate payment system that On its face, the situation seems began after the May 6 election absurd. The European authorities that brought down the Greek are effectively lending Greece government, and is meant to money so Greece can repay the ensure that the Greeks do not money it borrowed from them. touch the cash, the big three You send the money, you call it creditors are now wiring bailout a loan you get it back and payments to an escrow account in call it an interest rate, said Greece. There the money sits for Stephane Deo, global head of two or three days before much asset allocation in London for of it is sent back to the troika as UBS. interest payment on the Greek Since May 2010, Greece has bonds that Europe accepted under been sent 141.7 billion in terms of the bailout deal struck in European taxpayer money to keep February. the country afloat and ward off a Greece will not default on the bigger meltdown that might troika because the troika is paying threaten the entire currency union. themselves, said Thomas Mayer, Of that amount, a full two-thirds a senior advisor at Deutsche Bank has gone to pay off bondholders in Frankfurt. Why are we doing and the troika. it like this? Mr. Mayer said. Only a third has been earmarked Because were Europe. to finance government operations,
with only a tiny sliver spent on stimulus projects for the anemic economy. Greek bonds are a profitable investment for the E.C.B. as long as Greece continues to make interest payments. The E.C.B. exempted itself from the debt restructuring deal. And Greek bonds were already trading at a big discount when the E.C.B. started buying them. As a result, the central bank is earning an effective interest rate of 10 percent or so. Non-Interest on Non-Loans If the money never gets to the borrower, then it's not a loan. Scam is a more appropriate word. Of the 141.7 billion bailout, only 47.2 can be construed as a loan all of which nearly all went to government operations, none to the average Greek citizen. As for Mayer's statement Greece will not default on the troika" we will see about that. Nearly threequarters of Greeces debt, or 182 billion, is now effectively owned by the EU the ECB or the IMF, according to estimates by the
investment bank UBS. If Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras wins the June 17 election, the Troika is going to take a big hit. The ECB's share is estimated to be between 35 billion to 55 billion. 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.
Cassette tape coffee table

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Submitted at 5/29/2012 2:35:00 PM
Fact: Mix tapes were awesome. Then, technology had to get all advanced and eliminate the beloved cassette tape and leave our Walkmans lonely like a hair band Monster Ballad. While not exactly a resurgence of the cassette tape, the mixtape table by designer Jeff Skierka does bring back fond memories. Plus, if your living room needs a fresh look, you can just flip it over to the B Side. Via Lost at E Minor. Retro design. Permalink| Leave a comment
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More And More People Think That The Next Debt Ceiling Fight Will Be A Catastrophe
Joe Weisenthal (Money Game)
Meanwhile, Citi's credit strategist Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:42:00 PM Jason Shoup recently came out A trend is emerging: A host of with a note saying markets were MSM pundits/analysts/economists way too complacent about the a r e p r e d i c t i n g a c o m p l e t e coming storm: catastrophe right when the debt As such, we believe that it's far ceiling comes up. more likely than many anticipate To wit: that the US economy actually At Bloomberg View, economist does fall off the fiscal cliff. To be partners Betsey Stevenson and fair, our base case is still that the Justin Wolfers predict that the politicians end up temporarily next debt ceiling fight could sink e x t e n d i n g m a n y o f t h e t a x the entire economy, in part thanks e x p i r a t i o n s . B u t t h e r e ' s a to the fiscal cliff issues being felt significant chance even this is not at the same time. They point to achieved, especially in light of the the economic deterioration seen Speaker of the House's insistence last summer (when confidence on once again tying the raising of collapsed around the time of the the debt ceiling (which will need debt ceiling fight) as evidence for to be done in early 2013) to the trouble. spending cuts. Ezra Klein recently called the Moreover, there's a high n e x t d e b t c e i l i n g f i g h t a s likelihood that the spending cuts something approaching a Lehman due to sequestration are enacted. moment, again because it could A modification to the defense cuts come amidst the fiscal cliff miss. is desired by the Republicans At Slate, Matt Yglesias has (which may or may not be argued that because Republicans politically feasible), but neither have already reneged on the last party has expressed much interest debt ceiling deal, that making in rolling back the cuts. That's a another deal will be even harder. drag of 0.6% to GDP alone,
although Citis economic forecasts already assume fiscal tightening of about 1% of GDP in 2013. From the markets perspective, asset prices do not correctly reflect the risk of another policy failure like the one that occurred last year, in our opinion. In the months prior to the most recent European sell-off we were hard
pressed to find more than a handful of investors that were truly worried about the prospect of a self- inflicted recession in 2013, or the damage that could be done to confidence beforehand even if a deal was ultimately reached at the eleventh hour. While aware of the issue, most thought it would be contained to the fourth quarter
and more or less a non-issue. The question to our minds is: Are markets still that complacent? Wed have hoped that recent comments by the Fed and the Boehner-Reid back and fourth would have raised a few eyebrows at the very least. But with valuations more reflective of European risk, its difficult to determine whats truly priced in. Bottom line: People are growing more grim, and the thinking is that it's not priced in. We should also note something else: The US market basically held up until after the debt ceiling fight was over last year. It was only in the aftermath that we really got the hard plunge. This time it's all being telegraphed and worried about much earlier. SEE ALSO: Everything you need to know about the fiscal cliff > Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story
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desperation. The excess supply will continue to pressure home prices, more supply than demand, in the future further exacerbating the problem for those already drowning in their home. Ultimately there is only one truth to whether there is really a housing recovery or not. How many people own a home? If new and existing home activity, as seen in recent reports, is truly on the rise then we should see the number of individuals that are "home owners" on the rise as well. The chart shows the home ownership rate in the U.S. As of the latest quarter the level of home ownership has declined back to levels last seen in 1980 before the Savings & Loan crisis. That particular real estate related debacle had a profound effect on the real estate market at that time as homeowners mailed their keys back to the banks. It was then that the government set up the Resolution Trust Corporation to efficiently dispose of the houses that were required to be
foreclosed on. While the level of home ownership "bottomed" in the early 80's it took more than a decade before housing, and consequently home "ownership" truly began to recover. While there is a tremendous amount of hope for a housing recovery in 2012, just as there has been during the last 3 years, the simple reality is that a "real recovery" may be a very long time away. A weak economic environment growing at a sub-par rate, burdened by excessive debt levels which sap potential growth, high unemployment and rising temporary work suppressing wages, tight credit standards and trapped borrowers all work against a housing recovery at the current time. Unfortunately, for many Americans, the dream of home ownership turned into a horrifying nightmare. The psychological impact caused by the housing bust is also something that will impede a real housing recovery in the future until the painful memories have faded into the mist.
Is there a bottom in housing? It is entirely possible. However, for all the reasons stated herein, both financial, economic and psycholgoical, the "calls" for a housing recovery may be a bit premature. This is particularly true if our estimation of an economic recession in the next 18 months comes to fruition. The strains on the housing market caused by a recession will cause a secondary decline in housing. The reality of a recession is not a question of "if" it is only a question of "when" and how bad will it be? Average: Your rating: None Average: 5( 3 votes) This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
Kate Middleton Breaks Out a Familiar Pink Dress For Tea With the Queen
Allie Merriam (PopSugar)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 4:11:24 PM
Kate Middleton joined her grandmother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth, for a special event in London today. The ladies were among the many who turned out for a royal tea party at Buckingham Palace. 8,000 people were in attendance, as were Kate's in-laws Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles. Kate was lovely, as usual, in a pink dress. It was the same Emilia Wickstead coatdress that she wore less than two weeks ago for drinks with William and Harry at Waterloo Chamber in honor of a royal dinner for heads of state. The event was held ahead of the official opening of the Queen's Jubilee, a special celebration being held to honor Elizabeth's 60 years on the throne. The tea party
is actually held annually to honor those who do public service, and this year's timing couldn't have been better. The Queen's grandsons, Princes William and Harry, even gave special interviews ahead of the Jubilee's start. William and Harry spoke with Katie Couric about their grandmother, and their whole chat airs this evening on ABC. View Slideshow
Video: Kristen Compares Herself to Facebook crashes below Snow White - "It's Like You Don't $30 in 'worst IPO in a decade' Exist"
Karli Bulnes (PopSugar)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 4:04:06 PM
why Ms. Stewart really relates to Snow in today's PopSugar Rush. Snow White and the Huntsman costar Charlize Theron. Find out
Katherine Rushton (Finance News - Business news from the UK and world)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 3:30:06 PM
has been hailed as the most disastrous start to trading of any major flotation in the last decade.
Kristen Stewart shares the new cover of Interview magazine with
Shares in Facebook have dropped below the $30 mark, capping what
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Here Are The Key Market Moving Events For Wednesday, May 30 (TIVO, LGF)
Eric Platt (Money Game)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 6:03:00 PM
Wednesday continues a surprisingly packed week in the U.S. with pending home sales. Internationally, markets will have eurozone consumer confidence, as well as a reading of the Japanese manufacturing industry, to guide shares. Here's what you need to know. Japan starts things off at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday evening with manufacturing PMI. There is no consensus for the May report, which follows a 50.7 reading. Australian retail sales follow at 9:30 p.m. with expectations for a 0.2 percent sequential gain in April. Announcements go quiet until 3:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning, when Spain reports May preliminary consumer prices. Economists forecast CPI increased 2.1 percent year-onyear.
hold. At 8:30 a.m. Canada will announce industrial price changes in April. The index is seen advancing 0.1 percent month-onmonth. Attention shifts to the U.S. at 10:00 a.m. with a reading of pending home sales. Expectations are for no sequential change in April, representing a 22.0 percent year-on-year gain. There are no major earnings announcements scheduled in the U.S. on Tuesday. TiVo ( TIVO): -$0.16 Lions Gate Entertainment (LGF): $0.20 Swedish GDP is scheduled for will be released at 4:30 a.m. Consensus estimates provided by 3:30 a.m. with forecasts for a 0.2 Consensus is for net credit to Bloomberg. All times are in percent gain during the first i n c r e a s e b y 2 0 0 m i l l i o n , Eastern Standard Time. quarter. following the400 million gain in Click here to see the truth about Italian producer prices follow at March. gold > 4:00 a.m. Economists project A t 5 : 0 0 a . m . , e u r o z o n e Please follow Money Game on prices increased 0.3 percent in consumer confidence will be Twitter and Facebook. April. released. Expectations are for a Join the conversation about this Consumer credit in the U.K. preliminary reading of -19.3 to story
Work smarter, not harder [infographic]

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Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:26:00 PM
Getting ahead in your career doesn't always mean sucking up to the boss or putting in 60 hours a week. Some simple mental tricks can improve your efficiency and the quality of your work while reducing job stress without keeping you in the office all night. Via BMD. Tricks to improve your life. Permalink| Leave a comment
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INFOGRAPHIC: How The US Economy Uses 5 Major Forms Of Energy

Rob Wile (Money Game)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 4:55:00 PM
Hypnosis and Yoga Open Hidden Spiritual Doors

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The CBO has seemingly not been known for its infographical prowess, but they're apparently looking to change that. Today, under the rubric of "energy security", they published one of the sharpest and cleanest
breakdowns we've seen showing which energy source oil, natgas, coal, etc. gets used by which modern convenience car, air conditioning, etc. Here's how it reads: first row = % of total U.S. energy source; second row = % of given source fourth row = amount spent to in given end use; third row = % of power end use. given end use's total sources;
We recommend that you check out the whole infographic, which has even more detail on the breakdown. Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story
May 28, 2012| 9:22 am Altered states of consciousness and other mystical practices open doors in the spiritual realm. Once a door is opened, a person becomes vulnerable to any spirits which come through that door. For example, a seance opens a door. So do animal HYPNOSIS page 49
Mozilla Thimble Teaches You How to Code with a Side-By-Side HTML Editor [Learn To Code]
Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 4:15:00 PM
We recently told you about
Mozilla's new Webmaker projects that teach you how to code, and the first one is ready for a test drive right now. Thimble is an
easy to use, in-browser HTML
editor that shows you the finished product right alongside your code, so you can learn as you go. More
Government rests case in Clemens perjury trial

Submitted at 5/29/2012 6:07:05 PM
It took 24 witnesses over 19 days of testimony for prosecutors to make their case against Roger Clemens, with three jurors and
two minor pieces of the indictment dismissed by the time they were done. With the overlong-running trial now in its
seventh week and Clemens' McNamee. lawyers starting to take their turn, the case remains centered on the credibility of one person Brian
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sacrifices....and all voodoo rituals as well. Astrology is another spiritual exercise which opens a door. Even something seemingly as innocent as placing a Native American "dreamcatcher" above your bed opens a door in the spiritual realm. A number of years ago a mother heard me talk about dreamcatchers. She told me that her daughter had been having nightmares every night for years. She immediately removed the dreamcatcher from her daughter's bed. The first night the dreamcatcher came down, the nightmares stopped and never came back. Close the spiritual door and you close off access to unwanted spirits. Hypnosis is basic to the Eastern religions. Prominent hypnotists have estimated that there are probably over 100 different stages of hypnotic trance. Christians should never allow themselves to be put in a trance....regardless of who is leading you into that mental state of relaxation. No matter what obstacles we face, God will help us if we rely upon Him rather than magical or mystical experiences. It is very dangerous to open hidden spiritual doors through hypnosis. These doors are "hidden" because they are invisible to the human eye. You also don't see the spirits that come through these doors. Likewise, you don't see the Holy Spirit or Jesus when you trust Christ for salvation. Nevertheless, God enters your heart through a door in the spiritual realm the
moment you are converted. St. Paul asked, "Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard?" (Galatians 3:2) There is only one right answer. The Holy Spirit enters a person's life through the door of Jesus Christ when that person believes the good news of the Gospel. Like us on Facebook Hypnosis operates on the other side of the ledger. As one New Age author put it, "Hypnosis can be an open door to psychic experiences of many kinds." Born again believers should never turn to psychic experiences to help them solve a problem. God is our deliverer and our defense. God is not the author of hypnosis. Yoga opens hidden spiritual doors as well. The physical exercises of yoga are designed to prepare the body for the spiritual changes which yoga produces. Some of the reported symptoms of a "Kundalini Awakening" through yoga include: itching, burning, cramping, twitching of skin and body, severe emotional mood swings, anxiety, depression, rage, fear and dread, mental confusion, and even paranormal activity. In short, yoga never produces Christ-centered peace and joy. The Holy Spirit uses the Scriptures and our faith in Christ to produce that good fruit....not the mystical practices of Eastern religions. A person may enter into a seance or hypnosis or yoga with innocent motives. That doesn't solve the problem. When you open a door
to spirits, you place yourself in harm's way....unless you are turning to the Holy Spirit. No born again believer should utilize yoga or hypnosis because of the spiritual dangers associated with these practices. Even when facilitated by a "professional," the dangers far outweigh any potential benefits. Nobel scientist Sir John Eccles said of the human mind that it was "a machine that a ghost can operate." Altered states of consciousness open doors to various ghosts (spirits). Hypnotism, yoga, and transcendental meditation have always been linked to spiritual darkness. It doesn't matter whether the practitioner is a medical doctor or a witch doctor. The "father of hypnotism" was Franz Anton Mesmer....from whose name we get the word "mesmerize." Mesmer was a practitioner of the occult. He knew how to put people into a trance. It was very similar to the way a medium conducts a seance. Yoga instructors and hypnotists are proficient at mesmerizing their followers. Their craft opens hidden spiritual doors whether they realize it or not. While there is not a "demon behind every bush," there really are spirits behind every spiritual door. If you open one of these doors, they come right through it. This is why the Bible says, "Test the spirits." (1 John 4:1) Evil spirits accompany wrong doctrine....as well as wrong activities. The only Spirit you
should seek to guide you is the Holy Spirit. He leads people to repent of their sin and believe in Jesus. He then fills a believer with God's love and power....and with self-control. If you are out of control today in some area of your life, review your actions to see if you have been opening any doors through sin or specific acts which lead to altered states of consciousness....or to anger and rage. Have you been persisting in a particular sin rather than confessing it to God and repenting of it? For example, when you go to bed at night angry with someone, you open a door to evil spirits. (see Ephesians 4:26,27) Likewise, you open a door to evil spirits when you dabble with hypnosis or yoga. Those who participate in these activities definitely feel the mysterious energy because the spiritual energy is real....it's just not from God. God will use a minister and other Christians to bless your soul. As they share the Gospel and God's Word with you, a transformation will take place. Believe God's Word. Trust in Jesus. Flee from activities associated with mediums, the occult, and Eastern religions. God will bless your soul if you choose to rely upon Christ to be your Provider and Redeemer. Jesus said, "I am the Door. Whoever enters through Me will be saved." (John 10:9) Jesus will never hypnotize you. He will never lead you through physical
exercises aimed at bringing spiritual enlightenment. He will simply speak the truth to you....exercising your mind in healthy ways....and He will forgive your sins and give you eternal life. Any door other than Christ is just a cheap imitation....and any other practitioner will only open doors for spirits they are incapable of controlling. Even when these folks mean well, they simply don't have the ability to protect you from the spirits they deliver to your soul. In fact, some of these practitioners have no idea they are opening doors through their enchanting craft. In those instances, the spirits remain as hidden as the doors they use to enter a person's mental and spiritual surroundings. Surprise, surprise. You didn't really think the devil and his legions would show up in a red suit with a pitchfork, did you? Dan Delzell is the pastor of Wellspring Lutheran Church in Papillion, Neb. He is a regular contributor to The Christian Post. 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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Everything Will Be Illuminated: Artist to Cover Golden Gate Bridge in Programmable LEDs
Katherine Sharpe (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:51:00 PM
The Bay Lights, in an artist's rendering. With apologies to Journey, the lights may not go down in the City By the Bay for quite a while. Not if Leo Villareal, an artist known for his illuminated installations in major museums and at Burning Man, has anything to do with it. If permits clear and completion funds are raised, Villareals latest project will soon cover the West Span of the Bay Bridge with 25,000 individually programmable nodes of white LED light. Called The Bay Lights, the project will debut in late 2012 or early 2013, in time to celebrate the completion of the new East Span. Artistic renderings show the cables of the Bridge covered in a frieze of moving lights that resemble effervescence or searching headlights, depending on their direction. The piece will be visible from dusk to dawn from San Francisco and points north, but invisible to motorists driving the bridge.
My pieces tend to mirror the activity around them, said Villareal, who added that the abstract patterns to be shown on the West Span will be inspired by water, traffic, and local weather patterns. The artist programmed his early light-based works with microcontrollers, and now uses
custom software that he develops with a team of programmers. The Bay Lights installation, he said, will most likely be housed on a single Mac Mini in a secure room, running the software on Windows with Boot Camp. Prominent supporters including the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Mayor Ed Lee
are on board with the project not least because The Bay Lights is expected to bring up to $100 million in tourism revenue to the Bay Area. The abstract patterns will be inspired by water, traffic, and local weather patterns. To round up the final $3 million of the $8 million in funds needed to bring the privately-capitalized
work to life, Bay Lights organizers have reached out to Silicon Valley. In a statement, Matt Mullenweg, co-founder and CEO of WordPress and a major supporter, called the project an investment in our community. Once you realize the positive EVERYTHING page 54
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A Wakeup Call for the Church: Young People Saying 'You Lost Me'
believes there's reason for hope. "The majority of young dropouts are not walking away from faith," May 27, 2012| 9:14 am he says, "they are putting Kinnaman was co-author with involvement in church on hold." my friend Gabe Lyons of the book Many dropouts still believe the unChristian, which examined how tenets of Christianity. What they unbelievers view the Church. But need from the Church is a as Kinnaman says, "You Lost Me, renewed effort at disciple-making, on the other hand, is about young an effort that meets them where insiders"-those who were once they are; lets them express their part of the Church. questions, ideas, and doubts; and We lose these young people for encourages them to grow in many reasons, according to Christ. Kinnaman's research. Some have And what do we do about those felt that their questions about faith younger teens who haven't yet were ignored, or that they were reached that point where so many given pat answers. Others had drop out? Kinnaman says that we their interest in the arts or adults need to form one-on-one sciences discouraged by church relationships with them, instead of members who believed that these trying to mass-produce young couldn't possibly be Christian believers. He writes, "I think we vocations. Still others "feel are constantly building, tearing isolated from their parents and down, and rebuilding our youth other older adults in the realm of and young adult development faith and spirituality." regimens based on the fallacy that It boils down to this: Young more is better...We need new dropouts often feel that the church ways of measuring success." doesn't understand their concerns Like us on Facebook and needs, and has no real So, he suggests, one metric of guidance to offer. But Kinnaman success might be to connect
young people to older people mentoring relationships. Kinnaman says, "These relationships would not be solely focused on spiritual growth, but should integrate the pursuit of faith with the whole life." That makes sense to me. Today's younger generation is relationally oriented. Teaching them a set of principles in an isolated setting is not going to inculcate a biblical worldview in many of these teens. As my BreakPoint colleague John Stonestreet says, "When it comes to teens, worldview is as much caught as it is taught'." Even providing lots of entertainment, as some youth ministries do, is not going to do it. It's spending time with these kids, showing them that they matter to you, and living out your beliefs in front of them. That's going to spark their interest and their desire for God. So let's not read the statistics and shake our heads. To keep our young people in the church is going to require a sustained effort - and a lot of relationship
building. But it's an effort that will pay off in a spiritually healthy younger generation and a revitalized Church. READ: SEVEN REASONS WHY YOUNG ADULTS QUIT THE CHURCH From BreakPoint, February 3, 2012, Copyright 2012, Prison Fellowship Ministries. Reprinted with the permission of Prison Fellowship Ministries. All rights reserved. May not be reproduced or distributed without the express written permission of Prison Fellowship Ministries. " BreakPoint" and "Prison Fellowship Ministries" are registered trademarks of Prison Fellowship 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.
Binreader Streams Your Usenet Videos Before They're Even Finished Downloading [Video]
Whitson Gordon (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 3:30:00 PM
Windows/Mac/Linux: We've talked about how great Usenet is for sharing files, and you can do a lot of advanced stuff with itbut if all you want is to download videos and watch them as soon as possible, Binreader can stream them to your monitor or UPnPcapable TV before they're even finished. More
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Megachurch Pastor Perry Noble Takes 2-Month Leave

(Photo: NewSpring via The Christian Post) Perry Noble, founding pastor of NewSpring Church in South Carolina, preaches May 20, 2012. May 26, 2012| 4:25 pm The extended leave is not due to a marriage, family or church problem, he has clarified. Instead, Noble said he realized he needed to do "what sets me up for longterm success and sets this church up for the same way." With 90 percent of people entering into ministry and not finishing and some pastors being worked too hard by their church, he noted, he decided to take a sabbatical. Noble made the announcement to his congregation, which draws around 16,000 people every weekend, last week. Attendees expressed their support of his
decision. He made it clear to them that he was committed to NewSpring, which he founded, and that he wasn't leaving to figure out if he's supposed to stay. His goal is to lead the church for another 20 years until age 60. That is when he wants to pass the baton to the next generation. "Your pastor is not going anywhere," he stated, emphasizing that he is not a hireling but rather a shepherd called by God. Like us on Facebook "In order for me to lead this church well for the next 20 years, there's got to be some changes in me," he told his congregation last weekend when he preached his final message before his break. "I noticed the closer you get to Jesus, he just peels back another layer on your life of something that you've got to work on." Noble has not shied away from admitting his weaknesses and how "screwed up" he is to his church.
He was open about having battled depression just a few years ago. "I'm not the perfect person but I am trying my best to pursue Jesus," he said. Two issues he is currently working on, he confessed, are "fear of man" being scared of what people think about him and "control issues." After years of hearing from friends and counselors that he needed to take a sabbatical, Noble decided to take their advice. "When God presses in on an issue, He's not going to give up until you got that issue resolved. God loves you so much that He will do whatever it takes to remove the cancer from our lives," he said. During his sabbatical, Noble expects his church to continue moving forward successfully as it has been. "This church is in great shape," he said. Along with various preachers, NewSpring will also show pre-recorded messages by
Noble until July 29, when he returns. As he continues to lead, Noble has asked that the congregation keep him in their prayers because he will be held accountable one day. "I will stand in front of God one day and be held accountable for everything I taught this church," he said. "In 20 years I want to be able to have an unbelievable marriage, a daughter that respects me and a church in great condition," the pastor envisioned. NewSpring currently has seven campuses throughout South Carolina. READ HOW TO COUNTERACT BURNOUT 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.
You Don't Know Jack is live on Facebook, as garish and fun as ever
Jessica Conditt (Joystiq)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 6:00:00 PM
TED: William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes - William Noel (2012)
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Submitted at 5/29/2012 10:07:14 AM
How do you read a two-thousand -year-old manuscript that has been
erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course! Ancient books curator William Noel tells the fascinating story
behind the Archimedes palimpsest, a Byzantine prayer book containing previouslyunknown original writings from ancient Greek mathematician
Archimedes and others.
Our editor-in-chief just told everyone on staff, "You don't know jack," which at first we chalked up to another moment of him flaunting his immense gaming and grammatical intelligence while we all cower in terrified inadequacy. Turns out he wanted us to write a post, but now we don't know who this Jack guy is or why he's so newsworthy. Whatever - in unrelated news, You Don't Know Jack is now available for anyone to play on Facebook and holy snack cakes, we just figured out what our EIC wanted us to write about. Now who's dumb, huh? You Don't Know Jack is live on Facebook, as garish and fun as ever originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 29 May 2012 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Learn to Code With Mozilla's 'Thimble' Editor

Scott Gilbertson (Wired Top Stories)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 4:58:00 PM
Editing Webmonkey.com in Thimble Mozilla Thimble is a new webbased code editor, part of the companys recently unveiled Webmakers project. Thimble is designed to give novice webmakers an easy-to-use, online tool to quickly build and share web pages. You can check out Thimble over at the new Mozilla Thimble website. Keep in mind that Mozilla hasnt formally launched Thimble, the company is still testing, fixing bugs and iterating the app. Thimble is slightly different than other online code editors you may have tried, putting the emphasis on teaching HTML to newcomers
rather than catering to advanced users. Thimble offers side-by-side code editor and code output panels which help new users see immediate results. Type an and youll immediately see a headline. The instant feedback is not only helpful for spotting and fixing errors, but encouraging for those just starting out since you can see
what youve created right away. Thimble is very purposefully not aimed at veteran HTML junkies, but for those just learning how to write HTML which is the focus of the Webmakers project Thimble is one of the friendliest, easiest to use code editors weve seen. Thimble can also load pre-made
project templates to help users get started with some content thats ready to build on. Currently the featured projects section of the Thimble homepage is still awaiting content, but among the coming projects is a tutorial on editing and creating your own Tumblr theme, as well as others from Mozillas various
Webmaker partners. To help new users get their Thimble-created projects on the web Mozilla has also bundled a publishing function directly into the editor. Once youve got your Thimble page looking the way youd like it, just hit the Publish button and Thimble will output and host your page, offering up a URL to share with friends and another to edit your page if theres something you need to change. 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.
Beyonce Shares Photos From Atlantic City Shows - MTV.com

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MTV.com Check out more photos from the show, courtesy of Bey's Tumblr, after the jump. Beyonc returned to the stage Saturday night, on the second of a four-night run in this
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Galaxy S III On Sale in 28 Countries But Not the U.S.

Nathan Olivarez-Giles (Wired Top Stories)
rolling out its latest smartphone. The S III will hit 296 operators in more than 145 countries by the Submitted at 5/29/2012 4:37:00 PM end of July, Samsung said in a The Samsung Galaxy S III is statement. And while company offered in two colors -- Pebble officials were only willing to say Blue and Marble White. Photo: that an American launch is Samsung coming sometime this summer, Samsungs Galaxy S III launched its probably safe to guess that the in 28 countries on Tuesday, and U.S. and its carriers will be in the the U.S. wasnt one of them. In mix sometime in June or July. fact, here in the States, we still Along with the S IIIs official dont have a release date for worldwide retail debut, Samsung Samsungs next flagship phone. also opened up its new Music Hub But while the Galaxy S III cloud service, currently only launched across Europe and the available on the S III. The service, M i d d l e E a s t o n T u e s d a y , like iTunes, sells and streams Samsung obviously isnt done music from the cloud. And, like
Meanwhile, a Music Hub Premium upgrade provides subscribers with the ability to upload their music collections to Samsungs cloud storage system for streaming playback at a price of 9.99 pounds a month, according to Reuters, which would be a cost of about $15 a month. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it iTunes Match, a users music but in the U.K. there are two tiers on someone else's site, please read collection can be stored in the of service, one free, one paid. The the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentcloud as well for a fee. free service allows for free only/faq.php#publishers. Five Samsung hasnt disclosed pricing streaming of any music purchased Filters recommends: Donate to details for Music Hub in the U.S., through the Music Hub store. Wikileaks.
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economic and aesthetic impact The Bay Lights will have on the area, Mullenweg said, making the initial pledge was a nobrainer. In addition, angel investor Ron Conway and tech investor Adam Gross are helping to spearhead the Tech Challenge, a social mediadriven campaign that will seek donations from the rest of us through Twitter and Facebook. Villareal, who lived in California from 1994 to 1997 (he interned at Interval Research, a Palo Alto technology incubator that introduced him to technologies he later adapted for his art), described the Bay Area as a
place I love very much. He has been visiting frequently this year, for meetings, talks, and to observe the site. While The Bay Lights are live, he will return periodically to observe the work and tweak the display on the bridge, adjusting the brightness and pacing of the patterns until the piece and its surroundings are perfectly in sync. Sounds elegant. But once the nodes are up, wont it be possible to program anything onto the Bridge: Giants scores, a real-time game of Pong, or the lyrics to a certain Journey tune? With a grid of LEDs, wed certainly be able to, said
Villareal. But my hope is to create something that really augments whats there. Its an artwork, not a light show. Its not about Hey, look at this thing! My goal is for it to feel right. 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.
Photos: Redwood City Honors Veterans at Union Cemetery - Patch.com

Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:04:36 PM
Sherman Denison Herald Democrat Photos: Redwood City Honors Veterans at Union Cemetery Patch.com Redwood City residents today honored veterans with several Memorial Day ceremonies at
cemeteries and other locations around the region. Redwood City held an especially festive Memorial Day event at the Historic Union Cemetery on Woodside Road,... Photos: Memorial Day Around The Nation Denver Post all 424 news articles
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Syria diplomats face expulsions over massacre

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Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:56:09 PM
Western countries have expelled Syrian diplomats after the United Nations said most of the victims of the massacre in Houla village were summarily executed without decisively saying who carried out most of the killings. The United States, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Australia, Canada, Spain, Belgium, Bulgaria and the Netherlands said on Tuesday they were protesting the massacre in Houla on Friday of at least 108 people. In Damascus, after meeting with President Bashar al-Assad, international mediator Kofi Annan said Syria had reached a tipping point as his six-point peace plan was not being properly implemented. The diplomatic pressure came as France talked of military intervention backed by the United Nations Security Council. "It is not possible to allow Bashar al-Assad's regime to massacre its own people," French President Francois Hollande told France 2 television. "Military intervention is not excluded provided it is
carried out under the auspices of international law, namely via a Security Council resolution." "It is down to myself and others to convince Russia and China, and also to find a solution which is not necessarily a military one," said Hollande, who is due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Paris on Friday. Friday's killings in Houla, a collection of farming villages in Homs province that has become a focal point for opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was one of the deadliest single events in the 15-month-old uprising against Assad that has killed thousands. 'Tipping point' Kofi Annan has called the Houla killing "an appalling moment with profound consequences". "The Syrian people do not want the future to be one of bloodshed and division. Yet the killings continue and the abuses are still with us today. "I appealed to him [Assad] for bold steps now - not tomorrow, now - to create momentum for the implementation of the plan". DIPLOMATIC BACKLASH Annan, arrived in Syria a day
earlier, and held meetings with UN observers and Walid alMuallem, the Syrian foreign minister. The success of Annan's peace plan depended on "the end of terrorism", Assad told him, state television reported. Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said that some countries were trying to derail the peace plan offered by Annan and accused the Syrian opposition of trying to incite civil war in the country. "We are certainly worried by continuing attempts to derail Kofi Annan's plan. Now the pretext being used is the tragic events outside the town of Houla on May 25," he said. Tuesday's meeting in Damascus came as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said that entire families had been
short of holding the government entirely responsible. Assad's regime has denied any role in the killings, blaming them on "armed terrorists" who attacked army positions in the area and slaughtered innocent civilians. "What is very clear is that this shot in their homes and that fewer was an absolutely abominable than 20 of the 108 Houla victims event that happened in Houla and were killed by artillery. at least a substantial part of it was Most of the victims, including summary executions of civilians children, were shot at close range, including women and children," the UN human rights office said. Colville said. Rupert Colville, a spokesman for Activists have posted videos of the body, said the conclusions tanks and armoured vehicles in were based on accounts gathered the middle of cities, a violation of by UN monitors and corroborated Annan's six-point peace plan, and by other sources. UN observers said they found 'Summarily executed' spent tank and artillery shells in "Most of the ... victims were Houla after the massacre there. summarily executed in two This entry passed through the separate incidents," Colville said Full-Text RSS service if this is in Geneva, Switzerland. your content and you're reading it He said witnesses blamed armed on someone else's site, please read pro-government forces, known as the FAQ at fivefilters.org/content"shabiha", for the attacks. He only/faq.php#publishers. Five noted that the shabiha sometimes Filters recommends: Donate to a c t e d " i n c o n c e r t " w i t h Wikileaks. government forces. The UN has said that government forces fired tank shells and artillery at Houla, but has stopped
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Suu Kyi goes abroad for first time in decades

problem between Thailand and Myanmar, and that is the plight of Submitted at 5/29/2012 3:28:52 PM migrant workers in this country Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's from Myanmar," said Hay. N o b e l P e a c e P r i z e - w i n n i n g "There are estimated to be about opposition figure, has left the three million migrant workers in country for the first time in 24 Thailand, most of them are years on a visit to Thailand. thought to be from Myanmar, Her trip on Tuesday is seen many of them mistreated, many of a s a n e w f o u n d d i s p l a y o f them are trafficking victims, so confidence in the liberalisation [Suu Kyi] is going to tour around taking shape in her country after an area where there is a large five decades of military rule. concentration of those Myanmar Suu Kyi, who spent 15 years in migrant workers... and listen to detention under Myanmar's some of their stories." military dictatorship, is due to Until now, Suu Kyi had refused give a speech at this week's World to leave Myanmar during brief Economic Forum on East Asia in periods of freedom from her years Bangkok. of detention, fearing the generals She was greeted at the airport by she was challenging would not journalists and around two dozen allow her back into the country. of her compatriots who chanted Her decision to leave the "Mother Suu", eliciting smiles and country comes after a year of a wave from the democracy dramatic change unthinkable in c h a m p i o n , b e f o r e s h e w a s March 2011, when military ruler whisked away by car. Than Shwe made way for a A l J a z e e r a ' s W a y n e H a y , government stacked with his reporting from Bangkok, said Suu proteges following elections seen Kyi's five-day schedule would be as rigged to favour an armypacked. backed party and held while Suu "Her first official engagement is Kyi remained under house arrest. first thing on Wednesday But in 18 months since the morning, when she goes to see, election which the army-backed first-hand, what is really a major party won, the changes have been
sweeping. Suu Kyi has since been released and is now a parliamentarian having been convinced by reformist President Thein Sein, a former general, to contest a byelection and take part in a political system devised and dominated by retired and serving soldiers. Bangkok forum Hundreds of political prisoners have been freed, protests legalised, media censorship eased and dialogue with ethnic minority rebels is moving forward, as is economic liberalisation. The reforms have convinced Suu Kyi to support the suspension of Western sanctions, which had crippled the economy of Myanmar, after staunchly advocating embargoes to squeeze the generals. Thein Sein was also due to give a speech at the same forum in Bangkok, but has since cancelled his visit, according to Myanmar government sources, who requested anonymity. Suu Kyi, the daughter of the leader of Myanmar's campaign for independence from British rule, spent years away from home,
including many in Britain after marrying a British academic, Michael Aris. She returned to her homeland in 1988 to take care of her dying mother and got caught up in a student-led democracy uprising that swept the country that year and which the military eventually crushed. Suu Kyi was first detained in 1989. From then on, she refused to leave, even after her husband was diagnosed with cancer. Aris died in 1999. She is also due next month to visit Switzerland, Norway and Britain. She will give an address in Geneva to an international labour conference on June 14 and will spend a week in Britain from June 18, during which she will give a speech to both houses of parliament. 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.
Microsoft patent outlines smart power-saving system that reads your diary, leaves a tip
James Trew (Engadget)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 7:04:00 PM
Always leave your PC on while you watch the latest Game of Thrones? Someone at Microsoft evidently does. A granted patent outlines a model that uses historical usage data to predict when it might be able to tweak power needs of the processor in the future, and for how long. So, perhaps you leave your machine on overnight, and jump on at 8am every day? It'd know this and make frugal use of resources accordingly. This, of course, could help fill your pockets and maybe cover that upgrade. Microsoft patent outlines smart power-saving system that reads your diary, leaves a tip originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 May 2012 19:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| USPTO| Email this| Comments
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Italy's quake-shaken region struck again

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remove rubble. Al Jazeera's Sabina Castelfranco reported from Cavezzo that the An earthquake has killed at least centre of the town had been 17 people and injured about 200 evacuated and cordoned off. others in northern Italy, damaging "There is rubble everywhere, buildings and spreading panic homes have collapsed, and the among thousands of residents still situation is very difficult," she living in tents after a tremor in the said. "Tent cities have been set up same region destroyed their in various towns so that they can homes just over a week ago. be given shelter overnight." Tuesday's 5.8-magnitude quake Residents stood in shock looking had rescue workers scrambling to at the damage. r e s p o n d t o r e p o r t s o f "I've been in many dangerous people trapped under the rubble of situation, but I've never been in houses and warehouses in the such a situation as this, it is Emilia-Romagna region, where s o m e t h i n g u n d e s c r i b a b l e , " s e v e r a l b u i l d i n g s i t e s a n d Giorgio said. "We are very afraid, workshops had just reopened after because one feels you are in front the previous quake on May 20. of something out of your Seven people were killed in the e x p e r i e n c e . " M a y 2 0 q u a k e t h a t , l i k e "There is the sensation that you Tuesday's, had its epicentre not are going to lose everything, your far from the city of Modena. life, your house, because we won't I t a l i a n t e l e v i s i o n s h o w e d be able to go home to our houses. buildings shaking and collapsing, We'll have to start again," added ambulances racing across towns Patrizia who had lost her home. and rescue workers battling to Workshops and factories outside
Cavezzo, a village about 30km from Modena, suffered considerable damage, a Reuters reporter said. Sports car maker Ferrari and motorcycle firm Ducati closed their plants in the region for safety reasons. The quake was felt across northern and central Italy, including in the city of Milan. The area was hit by several large aftershocks, one of 5.6magnitude. The quake was the deadliest to strike Italy since 2009 when a tremor partially destroyed the central city of L'Aquila, killing about 300 and leaving thousands homeless. 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.
Average gas prices--May 28, 2012

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Submitted at 5/29/2012 2:59:59 PM
Average gas prices--May 28, 2012 Gas prices continue to drop across the country compared to the week before. The national gasoline average is $.13 below the price this time last year. Diesel fuel is about five cents below this time last year. At $3.93, premium gasoline is down about four cents from last week. National regular gasoline prices Price Change from last week Regular gasoline/ gallon$3.67.05 Diesel fuel/ gallon$3.90.06 Regional regular gasoline prices East Coast$3.57.06--New England$3.73.05--Central Atlantic$3.65.06--Lower A t l a n t i c $ 3 . 4 6 . 0 7 Midwest$3.59.04 Gulf Coast$3.42.07 Rocky Mountain$3.74.01 West
C o a s t $ 4 . 2 3 . 0 2 - California$4.31.02 Source: Energy Information Administration, 5/28/12. Figures rounded to the nearest cent. See our guide to fuel economy for advice on saving gasoline, including reports on how to get the best gas mileage and where to find the cheapest gas. Learn about future technologies in our in our guide to alternative fuels. 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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5 money-saving DIY tips for car owners

others call for an electric drill. (See our headlight cleaner test and advice.) Submitted at 5/29/2012 1:29:59 PM 2) Windshield wipers. You can 5 money-saving DIY tips for car extend the life of wiper blades by owners keeping them clean. Wipe off the As cars have become more rubber edge with a paper towel advanced over time, it has been moistened with glass cleaner, or i n c r e a s i n g l y d i f f i c u l t f o r water and a little dish soap. Wiper enterprising owners to perform blades don't last long. In our tests basic maintenance and repairs. we've found that six months is While some jobs do require about the best you can expect a professional expertise and pricey set of wiper blades to stay in top tools, there are still many things form. (See our windshield wiper that a handy owner can do to keep buying advice and Ratings.) a car running in top shape and 3) Wash and wax your car. save money in the process. Below Giving your car a good cleaning a r e a f e w t i p s f r o m o u r helps preserve the paint by automotive experts. removing road grime and residues 1) Treating hazy headlight lenses. that can eat through the finish. Modern headlight assemblies The time spent hand washing a usually have clear plastic covers car gives you a close-up view of that can grow hazy over the years every body panel, so you can spot from exposure to the elements. To scratches, chips, and dings you save the expense of changing the may not have otherwise noticed. w h o l e h e a d l i g h t r e f l e c t o r To maintain a quality shine, a s s e m b l y , y o u c a n u s e a periodically apply car wax. A restoration kit, usually consisting spray wax is best suited to weekly of abrasive cloths and a special or special-occasion applications. finishing liquid. Some kits are Other waxes can be used less applied with elbow grease, while frequently, every 2-3 months.
5) Touch-up paint. Touching up paint flaws early can save a heap of money down the road. You can touch up small scratches and chips with touch-up paint, available for a few dollars at your car dealership and at some autoparts stores. Make sure you get an exact color match. Touch-up paint (See our car wax buying advice usually comes in a small bottle with an applicator brush in the lid. and Ratings.) 4) Light bulbs. Changing a light Otherwise, use a small, pointed bulb isn't difficultmost these artist's brush and cover the scratch d a y s h a v e a t w i s t - a n d - p u l l by going over it in tiny dabs. Let bayonet base or they simply pull this paint dry for at least a day or o u t a n d p u s h i n . B u l b two before polishing the car. specifications are usually found in See our full list of 10 do-itthe owner's manual. However, yourself car-care tips. accessing a bulb (usually called a Visit our car maintenance and car lamp in industry parlance) can be repair sections for more helpful a real chore. Consult a service advice on car ownership. manual or look online if access to Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o the bulb isn't obvious. Auto-parts stores and your franchised dealer ConsumerReports.org for expert c a r r y g o o d s e l e c t i o n s o f Ratings, buying advice and replacement bulbs. If you're r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f replacing a halogen headlight bulb products. Update your feed take care not to touch the glass preferences with your bare fingers. Skin oils on the quartz glass are said to shorten its life.
Text, Photos: Obama's Medal of Freedom Presentations Wall Street Journal (blog)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:22:17 PM
Telegraph.co.uk Text, Photos: Obama's Medal of Freedom Presentations Wall Street Journal (blog) President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Freedom to more than a dozen political and cultural greats Tuesday, including rocker Bob Dylan, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, astronaut John Glenn and novelist Toni Morrison. Photos: Obama Honors Medal Of Freedom Recipients Denver Post all 728 news articles
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Completely Unfair Comparisons: Change Edition

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leaving your brain open to receive the changes taking place. Advantage: A Visor There are plenty of places on 2. Cracking Your Knuckles vs. Woot where you can find helpful Several Hammers in terms of information. This is not one of Redoing Your Website those places. Every week we will You might live on the internet be comparing 3 pairs of things but the internet is not your home. that shouldnt be compared using It doesnt have walls or a bed or this formula: Unrelated Thing X anything. So you cant fix stuff on vs. Unrelated Thing Y in terms of the internet the same way you fix F u n c t i o n Z . F a c t s w i l l b e stuff in your home, which is to hit misunderstood, overlooked, or it with hammers. Redoing stuff on changed for the sake of the the internet is a thinking mans argument. Enjoy. game. You need to be mentally 1. A Harness vs. A Visor in terms prepared. You need to be ready to of Dealing With Change really pound some code. Thats When facing a big change, where cracking your knuckles people will often say that you just comes in. Its the international need to jump in. Nobody ever s i g n f o r I m m a p u n c h says that you should slowly belay somethin! and so will get you down into the change using a pumped up and ready to beat your harness and all other necessary website into shape. safety equipment. And why dont Advantage: Cracking Your they? Because harnesses usually Knuckles creates an unsightly crotch-bulge, 3. A Tin Can Phone System vs. A so youll feel too self-conscious to Toga in terms of Really Showing really take things in. No, the visor Your Displeasure Anyone who is the superior choice here: it hands you a can and says Talk provides shade to protect you into this if youre unhappy is just from all the shiny newness, while trying to keep your frustration
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contained. Theres no one on the other end of that line, and even if there were, they wouldnt be able to hear you, because thats just not how sound works. So just say, No to that tin can, and instead put on your toga. Why? Because togas are what the Ancient Romans wore, and when the Ancient Romans got mad, everyone around them knew. Advantage: A Toga Now, to crown the first Rebuttal of the Week with the site redesign! This is really exciting because the person who wins this one will... you know, get the exact same thing as always. Anyway, here it is, user fatdragon breaking down why money in the bank pwns spinach pie in terms of
rendering video: Everybody knows that rich people are always getting cool gifts because they're rich. Having money in the bank virtually guarantees that PC manufacturers will be falling over themselves to set you up with their latest and greatest PCs, capable of rendering videos at least three times as fast as a spinach pie. Unless the spinach pie is equipped with an i7 processor, but let's be serious here. Well, fatdragon has christened this new vessel; will you be the one who takes it for its sophomore sail? Does that even make sense? Post a rebuttal to one of the above arguments and find out next week! Photos:"Anti-stink Circle Mesh" by flickr user, lululemon athletica;"Crackly" by flickr user, orijinal;"Toga 5" by flickr user, scott89.. All used under a Creative Commons License.
WootFlix: Is "Lights Out" Worth Watching?

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Submitted at 5/29/2012 6:00:00 PM
I'm not trying to brag here, but I've got a great job. I get paid to try to be funny ( yes, we can argue about my success, but the point is they pay me to try) and I spend my day surfing the 'net for viral videos, links, and junk to talk about with you guys. I also spend most of the day with Netflix Instant running in the background to give me some much-appreciated background noise. But once you've blown through all the "30 Rock" seasons and you've watched every episode of "Parks and Recreation" and the British "The Office," what the hell else is left? Maybe you don't even have a sweet gig like me where you can waste a day at work watching drivel; maybe you need help weeding through the crap to find out what's worth your time and what's not worth watching. That's where WootFlix comes in WOOTFLIX: page 60
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Stranger Finds Lost Laptop Bag In Cab, Sends Owner Directions To Its Dark Hiding Place
Mary Beth Quirk (The Consumerist)
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that kind of night. The burger place people let him view surveillance footage of Submitted at 5/29/2012 3:00:00 PM himself, sitting at the counter and Losing your stuff because you eventually leaving with his bag to can't really exactly very much get into a cab. Alas, the medallion remember the night before is a big number wasn't visible in the old bummer. Sometimes, if you're footage, so leaving reports with lucky, a good Samaritan swans in the city's lost and found wouldn't to help return your lost items. And do much. in one case, that Samaritan He then received a mysterious happens to have a penchant for email, after casting a line on hiding lost property and leaving Craigslist. Subject: "found your scavenger hunt-like instructions bag." The body text: "in a cab. as to how to collect it. want it back?" New York Times Cityroom The sender didn't reply to his blogger Alex Vadukul had one of email, so he dismissed it as a those nights where it's a feat prank. He even convinced a worthy of amazement that you company that provides GPS a c t u a l l y e n d u p a t h o m e . machines to cabs to try and track Unfortunately, after just such a the car through his pickup time night out with pals, he realized his and location. laptop bag hadn't made it back Then the mystery deepened with with him. another email from the What followed next was a anonymous person from earlier, rigorous investigation of seriously with instructions to a certain dogged persistence. Alex writes address, adding: " you'll have to that after ruling out the bar, he decend some cement steps from figured he left it in a cab or at a the sidewalk and duck unde a late-night burger joint he'd found handrail. Bring a flashlight and a receipt for in his wallet. Yep, get it before it gets rained on."
Sort of scary, but he decided to go for it. After venturing down into the dark as directed, there it was his laptop bag with computer inside, leaning against a wall. A note to his benefactor went unanswered, but he did finally trace the cab. He was told the driver didn't want to speak to him, and the taxi boss told him not to come back, so he was never able to figure out who exactly had found his property and decided to return it in such a mysterious way. More work than simply handing over the bag, but kinda fun, eh? A Lost Bag and a Lost Night, but Not a Lost Cause[New York Times] 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.
handy! You suggest a TV series or movie, I'll watch it and give you my opinion as to whether or not it's worth adding to your queue. Because honestly, what the hell else am I gonna do? This week's show: The FX drama "Lights Out." What's the pitch? Over the hill retired boxing champ comes out of retirement partially to satisfy his competitive urge but mostly to stop his flailing descent into bankruptcy. If that sounds clich, it's because it is. But it works here. Who's in it? Holt McCallany, Stacy Keach, and Catherine McCormack top the list. So how is it? Surprisingly good. FX knows how to make good TV ("The Shield," "The Riches," "Sons of Anarchy", "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia") when they want to. McCallany's believable as Patrick "Lights" Leary, the retired champ, and also has enough range to play doting father to his three daughters and loving husband, although sometimes he does come off a little "stereotypical palooka." If you're not into boxing, the show's got plenty of other subplots to wrap you up, from marital drama to Lights's onset of pugilistic dementia from taking so
many fists to the brain to the characters coming to grips with the fact that boxing, their life's work, just isn't relevant any more. It does feel like it borrows from The Fighter a bit with a slimy, no account brother who always seems to screw things up. This isn't just Rocky the TV series, though. The characters are believable, even thinly-veiled Don King stand-in Barry K. Word, the crooked boxing promoter/puppet master played by Reg E. Cathey. The biggest knock against I can make against it is it exists in a world where people still care about heavyweight fights and boxing champions walk the streets as celebrities. Maybe that still happens in places, but I've never been there. If you're looking for a quick series to keep you entertained (there was only one season before it was canceled), give it a try. I liked it enough to burn through the whole season in a couple days. And if you've got a suggestion for a show or movie on Netflix Instant you're thinking of watching or just want to hear my thoughts on, fire away in the comments! I'm not up to much anyway.
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Florida Library Gives In To Public Demand For "Porn" Reverses Ban On 'Fifty Shades Of Grey'
Mary Beth Quirk (The Consumerist)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 4:00:00 PM
As any woman gabbing with her pals will tell you, Fifty Shades of Grey is the book to read right now if you want a little ah, mental stimulation, even if the writing is far from fine literature. But although a Florida Library recently responded to the "mommy porn" craze by removing the series from its shelves, it seems the readers have spoken, and demanded it be returned. The Brevard County Library System originally said its decision to ban the books from its shelves was because it had not met its "selection criteria," reported the Palm Beach Post News earlier in May. "Nobody asked us to take it off the shelves. But we bought some copies before we realized what it was. We looked at it, because it's been called 'mommy porn' and 'soft porn.' We don't collect porn,"
said the library services director at the time. But now, local readers will once again have access to the 19 various books available through the library, due to public demand, says a press release on the library's site, via Gawker. The Brevard County Library System will return "Fifty Shades of Grey" to its library shelves. The decision is in response to public demand, but also comes after considerable review and consideration by the library system. In all, 19 books from the "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy that were previously available will once again be available through the library system, according to Library Services Director Cathy Schweinsberg. Earlier this month, a decision was made to pull "Fifty Shades of Grey" from our libraries as a result of published reviews and our own initial analysis of the book and its controversial content. Since then, we have begun a review of our selection criteria
and that review continues even as the decision has been made to supply the book in response to requests by county residents. "We have always stood against censorship," Schweinsberg said. "We have a long history of standing against censorship and that continues to be a priority for this library system." The books are available effective immediately. Get it while it's hot, ladies. And before the waiting list becomes ridiculously long. Brevard County libraries return "Fifty Shades of Grey" to its shelves[Brevard County] Brevard libraries pull erotic bestseller 'Fifty Shades of Grey'[Palm Beach Post News] 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.
Blizzard explains Diablo 3 design change 'philosophy,' reveals gameplay stats

Xav de Matos (Joystiq)
and 30. Only 1.9 percent of players have unlocked Diablo 3's Inferno difficulty mode. Blizzard Despite Diablo 3 taking hold of also revealed that 35 percent of multiple Joystiq staff members, "Hardcore" characters, which are Blizzard's latest game has had a no longer be available for use shaky launch. Server issues, after death, have perished in Act I auction house difficulties, and on Normal difficulty. more have thrown a wrench into Gallery: Diablo 3 (10/21/11) what our review feels is a mustContinue reading Blizzard play adventure. explains Diablo 3 design change In a blog post yesterday, Blizzard 'philosophy,' reveals gameplay outlined its intentions with some stats of the game's upcoming fixes, and Blizzard explains Diablo 3 design revealed a number of interesting change 'philosophy,' reveals statistics about the commercially g a m e p l a y s t a t s o r i g i n a l l y explosive title. appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 29 Blizzard notes that players have May 2012 18:30:00 EST. Please an average of three created see our terms for use of feeds. characters, with 80% of those Permalink| Email this| Comments characters falling between levels 1
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What the color of your front door says about you

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What the color of your front door says about you Changing the color of your front door is one of the quickest ways to spiff up your home's curb appeal. And, according to the Paint Quality Institute, the color you choose tells visitors a lot about you, even before they the ring the doorbell. For the best results, choose an exterior paint that excels in Consumer Reports tough tests, which simulate years of exposure to the elements. Typically, semi-gloss paint is the best choice for exterior doors and trim because it adds some shine and provides visual contrast. Our top semi-gloss paint is SherwinWilliams Duration Gloss but it costs $65 per gallon. For less than half that you can get topperformers from Behr (sold at Home Depot) and Glidden that did almost as well. All three were excellent after three years of weathering and very good after six and nine years. It takes only a few hours to prep
Black. Choosing black communicates something entirely different. A black front door, "projects strength, sophistication, power, and authority, indicating to all who enter or even passersby that the home is a serious place inhabited by a person of substance." and paint a front door. To get the Red. Red is a powerful "punch" color you want you can compare color. By painting the front door swatches or take a sample of your red, the homeowner is saying that own to the store and ask for a the home "is a vibrant place, full custom mix. But keep in mind, the of life, energy, and excitement." Brown. Whether painted or color you pick puts your personality front and center, says stained, a brown front door looks the Paint Quality Institute. Here is natural and organic, but it can what they discovered about hue send mixed messages, says the when they consulted a color PQI. On one hand, "brown conveys warmth, stability, and psychologist. Blue. The most popular color, a reliability, but certain darker blue front door signals that the shades of brown signal a desire homeowner views the home as a for privacy, even isolation." place of refuge, "calm, serene, and Ah, the doors of perception. relaxing, the perfect retreat from Subscribe now! S u b s c r i b e t o an often harsh and demanding ConsumerReports.org for expert world." Green. Another popular color Ratings, buying advice and that, psychologically speaking, r e l i a b i l i t y o n h u n d r e d s o f " c o n n o t e s h e a l t h , s a f e t y , products. Update your feed tranquility, and harmony, all preferences highly desirable attributes for the home environment."
Among the Sleep, a horror game played through the eyes of a child
Richard Mitchell (Joystiq)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 7:00:00 PM
The effectiveness of a horror game often hinges on its ability to instill a sense of helplessness. Some do this by limiting the number of offensive options. Others do it by removing offensive options altogether. Among the Sleep, from Norwegian developer Krillbite Studio, ups the ante by putting players in control of a two-yearold. Among the Sleep is played from a first-person perspective, presenting a world full of childlike imagination and terror, in which a child (accompanied only by his faithful teddy bear)
must survive the nightmare happenings around him. We're not sure mysterious is exactly the right word, at least not judging by the spooky happenings in the trailer. Among the Sleep is slated to arrive next year on Mac and PC. Be sure to check out the Krillbite blog to follow the game's development. We certainly will be. Gallery: Among the Sleep Among the Sleep, a horror game played through the eyes of a child originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 29 May 2012 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| Email this| Comments
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Million-Miler Sues United Follow the Texas For Being Downgraded Primary on To Second-Tier Status Social Media
Chris Morran (The Consumerist)
time award of three system-wide upgrades, two free regional upgrades a year, a 100% bonus Submitted at 5/29/2012 3:16:19 PM for the miles flown each year, and If you've spent hundreds of other boarding and seating thousands of dollars on the same benefits. airline over the years with the But then when the merged airline understanding that you will reap a n n o u n c e d i t s M i l e a g e P l u s lifelong benefits for doing so, program last October, Million you'd probably be a bit peeved Milers were put into the Premier when that airline decides that Gold tier for travelers who fly at you're just a regular old business least 50,000 miles each year. traveler. That's why one million- For the plaintiff in the lawsuit, miler on United Airlines has filed this 50% bonus miles instead of suit. the 100% he'd been enjoying. The man, who says he flew Also gone are the three systema n y w h e r e f r o m 2 0 0 , 0 0 0 t o wide upgrades and the two annual 250,000 miles each year on regional upgrades. United, claims that recent changes "United's egregious actions, if left in the wake of its merger with unabated, will result in its Continental, have led to an u n l a w l l y , n o t t o m e n t i o n " i m m e d i a t e a n d s i g n i f i c a n t immorally, retaining the millions retroactive demotion of benefits to upon millions of dollars it Million Milers." received from Million Miler Before the Continental merger, members," reads the lawsuit, members of United's Million Mile which alleges breach of contract, c l u b h a d b e e n " g u a r a n t e e d good faith and fair dealing, and Lifetime Premier Executive status seeks class-action status for for life." which included a one- similarly affected Million-milers.
"After the merger, United reneged by taking away or downgrading all the promised lifetime benefits, only to market them as 'new and improved benefits.' Million Milers are hardworking people, most who are required to fly for a living," the man tells ABC News. "They are not asking for anything more than what was promised to them by United." A rep for United tells ABC that, "We believe this suit is without merit." Chicago 'Million Miler' Sues United Airlines in Class Action for 'Immorally' Taking Away Perks[ABC] From ConsumerReports.org: This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks.
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Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:21:28 PM
Mitt Romney may very well mathematically seal the deal on the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday evening. The state offers him enough delegates to breach the threshold of 1,144, considered the magic number needed to firm up the nomination. With all of his rivals either out of the race or not campaigning in the state, it looks as if Romney will indeed pass that mark in Texas. However, Texas Representative Ron Paul remains on the ballot and has a strong following in his home state, potentially creating a minor roadblock for Romneys eventual nomination. Meanwhile, a separate contest will determine the Republican candidate for an upcoming Senate race. The two major contenders are David Dewhurst, Texas lieutenant governor and Ted Cruz, former solicitor general. If no candidate wins Tuesdays primary with a majority, it will go to a runoff election between the pair with the most votes. President Obama is also facing a
primary challenge from multiple candidates, including a Tennessee lawyer who got 42% of the vote in the Arkansas primary but its not likely hell beat Obama in the Lone Star state. Throughout the night, politicians, journalists and voters will use social media to rally support, tell the story of the Texas primary and discuss the nights events. Follow along as Mashable collects the best examples of social media use throughout primary night in Texas: [ View the story "Follow the Texas Primary on Social Media" on Storify] Thumbnail image courtesy of iStockphoto, Henrick5000 More About: 2012 presidential campaign, barack obama, Mitt Romney, Politics, Social Media, texas, Twitter, US, YouTube
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Serena Williams out of French Open after losing in first round of a major for first time - San Jose Mercury News
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in the third set, but Williams won two straight games before what Submitted at 5/29/2012 2:26:52 PM turned out to be an epic, 23PARIS -- Serena Williams lost in minute eighth game. t h e f i r s t r o u n d o f a m a j o r Williams had five break points in tournament for the first time in that final game. her career, falling to Virginie "I was just thinking, if I can break Razzano of France 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6- here we'll be back on serve," 3 Tuesday at the French Open. Williams said. "You know, those The fifth-seeded Williams was are the kind of things that are two points from victory nine going through your head." times in the second set, including Razzano saved all five, however, leading 5-1 in the tiebreaker. But and then converted her eighth Razzano won six straight points to match point to eliminate one of force a third set, and then took the tournament favorites. control of the match. "I had to dig deep against a great "I made so many errors today, champion and you could see until which isn't the game I was playing the end that she gave away in the past," Williams said. nothing," Razzano said. "I had to "That's life." go and get the victory. I had to be Williams entered the day with a mentally strong, and I gave my 46-0 record in first-round matches everything." at Grand Slam tournaments. She Razzano's coach and fiance, had been looking for her 14th Stephane Vidal, died about a major title, and second at Roland week before last year's French Garros. Open. Razzano played anyway, On clay this year, Williams was and lost in the first round. 17-0 heading into the match with Earlier, Rafael Nadal began his two titles. But she pulled out of quest for a record seventh French her last match in the semifinals of Open title in style, wearing a pink the Italian Open with a bad back. shirt and pink shoelaces. "I didn't feel anything abnormal," He won easily, too. Williams said Tuesday when The second-seeded Spaniard had asked about the injury. "I was 100 little trouble against Simone percent healthy." Bolelli of Italy, winning 6-2, 6-2, Razzano jumped out to a 5-0 lead 6-1 on Court Philippe Chatrier --
the same stadium where Nadal has won six of his 10 Grand Slam titles. Nadal, who is tied with Bjorn Borg with six French Open titles, improved his record to 46-1 at Roland Garros. His only loss came in the fourth round in 2009, against Robin Soderling. He's not worried about the record just yet, though. "We are in the second round," Nadal said. "I have enough work to do thinking about the next round, and not think about if Bjorn will be here or if I'm going to play the final. That's day-byday and we'll see." Against Bolelli, Nadal made only 18 unforced errors, fewer than half as many as his opponent. From 2-2 in the first set, Nadal won eight straight games to take control. "I think I did what I had to do today," Nadal said. "I played probably with less stress or nerves than in other first rounds in the past." And after a short blip in the second set, Nadal won eight of the last nine games. "I tried to play aggressive with the forehand, with the serve, but today I miss a lot," Bolelli said. "He's strong. I mean, I didn't have
a chance to make the match even." Fourth-seeded Andy Murray also advanced, beating Tatsuma Ito of Japan 6-1, 7-5, 6-0. Maria Sharapova was nearly perfect in her match, winning all 12 games to produce a "double bagel." And Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova advanced by beating junior Wimbledon champion Ashleigh Barty 6-1, 62. Sharapova routed Alexandra Cadantu of Romania 6-0, 6-0 on Court Suzanne Lenglen, needing just 48 minutes to advance to the second round. She finished the match with 18 winners, while Cadantu had zero, but had to save three break points. "No matter how good or bad they're playing, you still have to win that match," Sharapova said. "It's always about who takes their chances." Sharapova, who lost in this year's Australian Open final, is looking to complete a career Grand Slam by winning the title at Roland Garros. The Russian has won the other three Grand Slam titles, but she has never reached the final at Roland Garros. Last year, however, she equaled her best
result by making the semifinals. "I feel like with every year I have improved and I enjoy it much more," Sharapova said. "I think I learn a lot more about the game and the point construction. I feel like I'm moving a lot better than I did years previously, which has helped me a lot in the recovery process within the point." She moved well enough against Cadantu, a 22-year-old Romanian who was making her French Open debut. "For me, to have that big crowd, it was a lot," Cadantu said after playing on the second biggest stadium at Roland Garros. "I enjoyed it a lot." Kvitova lost the opening game in her match against the 16-year-old Barty, but then won six straight in the first set and again raced through the second set despite being broken once. "She has a big serve with kicks and good forehand," Kvitova said of the Australian teen. "She has very good touch." The left-handed Czech won her first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon last year, and then won the WTA Championships. Although she has yet to win a title SERENA page 66
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Unlikely duo: Kings, Devils set for Cup final - San Francisco Gate
By TOM CANAVAN, AP Sports Writer (- Bing News)
Sutter, were the other. Riding the goaltending of Jonathan Quick, the Kings Submitted at 5/29/2012 3:24:08 PM overcame even bigger obstacles. (05-29) 15:04 PDT Newark, N.J. They are only the second No. 8 (AP) -seed to make it since the A little less than two years after conference-based NHL playoff battling for the services of high- format was introduced in 1993scoring free agent forward Ilya 94. The Edmonton Oilers were the Kovalchuk, the New Jersey first in 2006. Devils and Los Angeles Kings are "It's all about winning here, and going after a bigger prize the eliminating distractions and doing Stanley Cup. what it takes to be successful," To tell the truth, hardly anyone said Brodeur, who led the Devils picked the Devils and Kings to get to Cups in 1995, 2000 and 2003. this far. "That's worked for us this year, The odds were lottery like, and and really my entire career. For t h e t e a m s b e a t t h e m w i t h me, to be a part of that is great. To authority in reaching a series that come to the rink every day during will open Wednesday at the my career, knowing we had a Prudential Center. chance to win every night is "You hear it every year, but it something special. doesn't get old: Once you make it "I've had that my whole career in, you have a chance to get here," here, and that's been a great ride." Kings coach Darryl Sutter said. "I While this isn't a glamour series think that's one thing that the that boasts the likes of a Sidney prognosticators don't consider. I Crosby, a Steven Stamkos or even always put it this way, when the a Henrik Lundqvist, it has playoffs start, the clocks should elements that should help the be reset. Because everyone's NHL, and prove entertaining on starting over, and all 16 teams the ice. have a shot to win it all. To start, this is an East-West "I think both teams would agree series featuring two of the nation's with that this year." biggest media markets in Los Led by Kovalchuk and a 40-year- Angeles and the New York old Martin Brodeur, the Devils are metropolitan area. just the second No. 6 seed to But the Kings and Devils also reach the final. The 2004 Calgary present great story lines. Flames, who were coached by Los Angeles, which heavily
courted Kovalchuk in free agency, is making only its second appearance in a Cup final, having lost in 1993 to Montreal. The Kings are back, though, after a midseason shakeup that saw Sutter replace Terry Murray just before Christmas and a late trade that added skilled scorer Jeff Carter to the lineup. Still, they didn't clinch a playoff berth until the final week of the season. But in the postseason, the Kings have been virtually unstoppable. They have posted a 12-2 record and knocked off the three top seeds in the Western Conference Vancouver, St. Louis and Phoenix. They have never trailed in a series, winning the first three games in each round. "Everybody's just clicking," Kings defenseman Drew Doughty said. "People are used to playing with their linemates now. The lines have been the same from the last part of the season. D pairings are the same. It's just getting used to them. Everyone is playing with confidence. Once you start clicking like that, pucks start going in the net for you." The Devils' story is just as good. They missed the playoffs last season despite retaining Kovalchuk with a $102 million contract that the league said violated its letter of the law. Few expected them to recover this
quickly especially with Brodeur seemingly on his last legs after a sub-par season, and captain Zach Parise returning from a major knee injury. When top center Travis Zajac blew out an Achilles' tendon before training camp, the chances of Devils making a final seemed faint. Guess again. New Jersey won its final six games in the regular season, rallied from 3-2 deficit in the opening round of the playoffs with two overtime wins against Florida, and then eliminated the Flyers and Rangers, their two biggest rivals, in five and six games, respectively. "Last year was tough," said Kovalchuk, who said there was never a doubt in his mind that he would stay in New Jersey. "But we made sure it paid off. We have a great coaching staff, great players here, great group of guys, very close to each other. I think that makes a big difference." The other thing that should be great is the goaltending. The 26-year-old Quick leads playoff netminders in goalsagainst average (1.54) and save percentage (.946). He has eight road wins in as many starts, posting a 1.55 goals-against average and .948 save percentage in those games. Brodeur is a four-time Vezina
Trophy winner. He has played in 24 career Stanley Cup final games, posting a 15-9 record with a 1.91 goals-against, losing only a series to Colorado in seven games in 2001. The Montreal native is set to become the fifth goaltender in NHL history and first since Jacques Plante in 1970 to appear in the Stanley Cup final after his 40th birthday: "Well, everyone knows what he's meant to the league and this team, and where he stands in history," Quick said of the NHL's winningest goaltender. "For me, it's not about me against him. It's about the Kings and the Devils." The Devils and Kings are very similar in their approaches. Both want to establish the forecheck, create pressure and have it lead to offense. The Kings, who posted a 25-13-11 regular-season record after Sutter took over, are definitely a little bigger than the Rangers, and they certainly have more depth. Devils defenseman Peter Harrold played five seasons with the Kings before signing with New Jersey this year. He spent the majority of this season at Albany of the AHL, before being inserted into the Devils' postseason rotation. He said both organizations stress team first. UNLIKELY page 66
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in 2012, she is seeded fourth at Roland Garros and is expected to make it deep into the tournament. Barty is the youngest player in the draw at the French Open, one of only eight teenagers entered. (- Bing News) AmericanAirlines Arena. Bosh. boxing out, taking charges, all The Australian received a wild"We're not going let nobody come "That's something we're used to," those things are part of the game, Submitted at 5/29/2012 3:31:17 PM card invitation to compete in in and punk us," guard Dwyane Wade said. "One thing about us, are parts of the physical part of Paris. By Ira Winderman, South Florida Wade said. "But that's not our we feel we can play any way, it." "It was tough out there today," Sun-Sentinel mentality, go out there and make many styles. Physical game? It's James said it is not as if Rondo Barty said. "I didn't play my best 3:36 p.m. EST, May 29, 2012 people hit the deck." the playoffs. It's fine either way." had to issue any sort of warning tennis, but she didn't allow me to. Video extra: Ira Winderman Heat coach Erik Spoelstra Whether it turns as physical as shot. analyzes opener, looks ahead to declined to be drawn into the the Pacers series is another issue, "I expect physical play," he said. I was out there giving it my all, but unfortunately just didn't come Game 2 (May 29, 2012) conversation. with a pair of Game 5 incidents in "I expect to be quote, unquote put out on top today." MIAMI "That's all part of the playoffs," he that round leaving Heat power on the deck, whatever the case The oldest player in the draw, 41Now comes the inevitable said of the rhetoric. "We're not forward Udonis Haslem and Heat may be." year-old Kimiko Date-Krumm of pushback from the team that is even going to get into it. It's about center Dexter Pittman suspended. And then? behind. It is a practically a playoff the game, and we understand that, Pittman, who received a three- "And just go to the free-throw Japan, lost to 2010 French Open champion Francesca Schiavone of formality. and there'll be a lot of different game sanction for his hard line, go up there, and make it," he Italy 6-3, 6-1. Copyright 2012 So a day after Boston Celtics distractions and noise out there." f l a g r a n t f o u l o n L a n c e said. "That's what it's about." guard Rajon Rondo said, "they've But he also said it isn't as if the Stephenson, will sit out the final Of course remaining ambulatory The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not got to hit the deck, too," the Heat would back down. g a m e o f h i s s u s p e n s i o n also would be helpful. be published, broadcast, rewritten Miami Heat treated the comment "We think we're a physical team," W e d n e s d a y . "Obviously," Wade said, "you or redistributed. as routine postseason fodder. he said. "They're a physical team. Haslem returned Monday from have to protect yourself." "I mean," forward LeBron James It still will be about the game, his one-game suspension for a This entry passed through the This entry passed through the said, "I don't really prepare for who plays the game better, who flagrant foul against Indiana's Full-Text RSS service if this is Full-Text RSS service if this is your content and you're reading it something I already think that's plays to their identity better." Tyler Hansbrough, aware of the your content and you're reading it going to happen every game, so I For the Heat, this is nothing new, potential need to again play as on someone else's site, please read on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentdon't have to prepare for it." with the New York Knicks in the b o d y g u a r d f o r t h e H e a t ' s the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentonly/faq.php#publishers. Five Rondo's comment came after the first round and the Indiana Pacers p e r i m e t e r s t a r s . only/faq.php#publishers. Five Celtics fell 93-79 in Monday in the second round trying to take "That's just basketball," he said of Filters recommends: Donate to Filters recommends: Donate to Wikileaks. night's Game 1 of this best-of- a d v a n t a g e o f a s o m e w h a t talk of physical play and actual Wikileaks. seven Eastern Conference finals undersized opponent, particularly c o n f r o n t a t i o n a l m o m e n t s . series, with Game 2 at 8:30 p.m. with the Heat now without "Basketball is a physical sport. In W e d n e s d a y n i g h t b a c k a t sidelined power forward Chris order to compete, rebounding,
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Not enough places to post

(Dave Winer)
I was linking to, and thinking that the teaser was my main point. Well, the main point could never Maybe the best dialog in any have fit in 140 characters and movie is in Chinatown when the s t o o d a n y c h a n c e o f b e i n g character played by Faye understood. D u n a w a y e x p l a i n s t h e So for that, something between relationship between herself and 140 characters and the length of her daughter to the character the post was probably ideal. played by Jack Nicholson. I'm not There is no such place. That's a going to spoil it in case you problem. haven't seen the movie, but if you But then there are too many have, you know what I'm talking places. about. That's why Google doesn't want That's why I feel, at the same to put a posting API on Googletime, that there are: Plus. They're afraid, presumably, 1. Too many places to post and that it will just become a dumping 2. Not enough places to post. ground for tweets posted Let me explain. elsewhere. Thereby creating a First, about not enough places. problem of dilution for discourse Suppose I have an idea that's very on the Internet. Assuming the best concise but not so concise that it intentions for Google, really, a can easily fit into 140 characters, post should live in just one place. without sacrificing clarity or From that one place you should be being widely misunderstood. Sure able to find all related content. I can put a link in it, but very few Replicating this stuff without a people will read the piece. Just the protocol is not very loving of the other day, a smart guy, Angus Internet. Davis, gave me grief on Twitter I do have various solutions to based on not having read the piece this.
Submitted at 5/29/2012 9:55:16 AM
I want to unify all the different ways I post stuff. And I'm getting pretty close to that. I still have a blog for long-form stuff. No comments there. Then I have a threads site that's for oneparagraph ideas that invite discussion. There's no limit on the length, but I keep them short, in a self-imposed way. I want people to get to know what a "thread" is in my world, and feel like they're not diving into a longform blog post when they go there. But how to embed these ideas in other sites, where they legitimately belong, without violating the one-place-for-everypost rule? Well, there's an answer to that too. I'm going to keep beating the drum on this. Maybe no one else will support the protocol, but then it will form a marketing platform for my software, which will be open through it. Open vs closed. That means that eventually competitors will support it. That's how these things work.
On JFK's 95th, a Look Beyond 'Happy Birthday Mr. President'

Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg (Politics : The Atlantic)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 3:09:55 PM
John F. Kennedy would have turned 95 on May 29, 2012. A Thousand Days, an archival documentary from the U.S. Information Agency, celebrates his time in office from 1961-1963. The excerpt below covers some of the sweeping themes of times, combining footage of the president at work with audio of his speeches. Another excerpt from the film, below, focuses on "the Kennedy style" and features footage of some of Kennedy's wittier speeches and cultural events at the White House. See web-only content: http://www.theatlantic.com/
politics/archive/2012/05/on-jfks95th-a-look-beyond-happybirthday-mr-president/257794/ The film is available in its entirety via the Internet Archiv e, courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. For more films from the Internet Archive, visit http://archive.org/. This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2012/05/on-jfks95th-a-look-beyond-happybirthday-mr-president/257794/ 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 Cosmic Alignment Known As 'Manhattanhenge' Begins Tonight

Colin Lecher (Popular Science New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
tomorrow will be the first time it's out in full force (so be careful out there, photographers). The next half-iteration will be July 11, Submitted at 5/29/2012 4:01:32 PM Manhattanhenge The sunset lines before another full version the up perfectly with Manhattan twice next day. a year. Wikimedia Commons There's a due-east sunrise and New Yorkers will be given an due-west sunset twice a year (the astronomical treat tonight as the age-old wisdom isn't all that wise) sunset perfectly lines up across and Manhattan is set about 30 the borough of Manhattan, giving degrees east of north. If it were a luminescent flare to the south perfectly aligned, it would fall on and north sides of every street in the more-famous solar event, the town. equinox. Manhattanhenge, or the You can do this with any Manhattan Solstice, comes twice metropolis that's aligned on a grid, yearly, in the summer, with two but what sets Manhattan apart is days providing a half-covered sun its perfect, unobstructed view of and two offering the whole thing. the horizon across the Hudson Tonight is the first round of the River to New Jersey and the city's h a l f - c o v e r e d v a r i e t y , a n d lofty, well-known buildings. For
Empire State building and Chrysler building on 34th street and 42nd street, respectively, give those streets an even more mindblowing look. Half sun on the grid: Tuesday, May 29 - 8:17 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 12 - 8:25 p.m. EDT Full sun on the grid: Wednesday, May 30 - 8:16 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 11 - 8:24 p.m. EDT [ Hayden Planetarium] the best view, head as far east as possible while still able to look west and see New Jersey. Some clear cross streets include 14th, 23rd, 34th. 42nd, and 57th, but the
Scientists Create the Smallest Possible FiveRinged Molecule, Photograph It, and Call It Olympicene
Colin Lecher (Popular Science New Technology, Science News, The Future Now) 69times Olympicene 100,000 SCIENTISTS page thinner than a human hair. IBM
Snake Robots Will Soon Crawl Around Inside Your Body Off-Leash
Dan Nosowitz (Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 3:08:20 PM
Military Snakebot This snakebot is much larger than the ones that'll be swimming around your veins/ organs. Courtesy Special Operations Apps We've seen snake robots and, of
course, tons of surgery robots(including the weird lamprey-bot), but Dr. Michael Argenziano, the Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery at New YorkPresbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center in New York, says we'll soon have fully untethered snaketype robots that will crawl
through the human body, assisting with all kinds of fixes and
maintenance. There are lots of easily imaginable use cases--a snakebot for heart surgery would require only a small incision, rather than a wildly invasive slice for traditional surgery. One day, reports the AP, they may "be able to test chemicals or blood in the body, or even the electrical
connections in nerves." Now we just have to get past the IndianaJones-ooginess of a tiny robosnake squirming its way through our bodies. [ AP]
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Research-Zurich While most people end up crafting stick figures in boring meetings, Graham Richards of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) was doodling when he thought making "a molecular structure with three hexagonal rings above two others would make for an interesting synthetic challenge." In an attempt to make casual daydreamers feel even worse, Richards and a team of chemists from the RSC, University of Warwick, and IBM ResearchZurich got to work, synthesizing and photographing olympicene with remarkable resolution. The molecule has the smallest possible five-ringed structure (about 1.2 nanometres in width, or 100,000 times thinner than a human hair) and requires some serious hardware to catch a glimpse of.
The scientists at IBM employed non-contact atomic force microscopy, which IBM has used before on another molecule. It uses a tiny cantilever with a nanoscale point at the tip to scan over the molecule in an ultrahigh vacuum at 5 degrees Kelvin, and then delivers an image back to researchers. But it's more than just a neat way to look at things: Olympicene is part of a family of compounds related to single-layer graphite, also called graphene, that have shown some practical promise in the fields of optics and electronics. [via University of Warwick]
The Next StuxNet?

David Inserra (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 2:30:12 PM
The Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs has released a report on a new, sophisticated malware variety called FLAME. It has been found on various targets in Iran, Israel, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. The purpose appears to be mass harvesting of sensitive data. Kaspersky claims that the malware is clearly the product of a nation-state, due to its sophistication and purpose, but others disagree. The Kaspersky folks think there are only three groups of people who write malware: criminals, hacktivists, and nation states. They drop the first two from consideration for FLAME because it has such a high level of sophistication and because the purpose of FLAME does not match the profiles of criminals or hacktivists. That leaves nation-states. But among policy, intelligence, and technology experts, the jury is still out.
That said, the report is still significant. A program this sophisticated warrants notice by all the good guys, and, be assured, it has gotten experts attention. Debates over the targets (Why were those countries targeted?), the purpose (Is it really a data vacuum cleaner?), and the origins (Could terrorists or hired cyber guns have done this?) have already begun and will continue. StuxNet and DuQu got everyones attention, but now FLAME should show the naysayers that strategic cyber weapons are really a part of the modern landscape. They are not a passing aberration but the reality of our digital world. No, the sky is still not falling, but action is needed. Those who would hold up positive cyber legislation because they do not t r u s t t h e i r o w n governmentseven with appropriate oversightare truly keeping their heads in the sand. Privacy laws already exist that can be applied to government use of digital means. What we lack
are adequate provisions allowing those tasked with defending the nation from cyber attacks to properly do their jobs. This is not a privacy versus security debate. Without security, you have no privacy. There are enemies (nation-state and non-nation-state) who are already plundering the intellectual property that fuels American prosperity. The threat is growing, so our response capability should grow as well. Regardless of how this newest cyber riddle is answered, it is yet another warning to our highly digital society. Will it be heeded? Will the cure be worse than the disease? Responsible action is needed. 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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5 Sports Drinks That Actually Work

David Zinczenko with Matt Goulding (Eat This, Not That)
weight, run faster, and jump higher, but many of these claims are nothing but bogus marketing Submitted at 5/29/2012 10:50:40 AM ploys. And not only are some of Death and taxes. According to those bottles and cans filled with our ever-insightful forefather empty promises, but they're also Benjamin Franklin, these are life's brimming with empty calories that only guarantees, and while I could undermine your hardrespect a man who can rock a earned workout gains. Read on for good pair of bifocals, I think ol' five exercise-enhancing beverages Ben left an important certainty off that can help quench your thirst, the lista threat that comes each boost your performance, and and every year and instills terror support you on your journey to in the hearts of millions of swimsuit six-pack-dom. Americans, causing them to FIRE UP YOUR WEIGHT scream, sweat, and run (literally) LOSS: Did you know that you for their lives. have a powerful weight-loss I'm talking about swimsuit weapon sitting in your backyard season! Every spring, as the right now? Yep, your grill is one summer months loom, America's of the best ways to shed pounds, parks and gyms are flooded with so if you want to eat great and masses of sweaty bodies, all with lose weight all summer long, pick a single motivation in mind: Look up a copy of the all-new Grill good enough by Memorial Day to This, Not That! and check out feel comfortable getting half- these 20 Fat-Burning Secrets of naked in front of complete the Grill.#5 Best Drink for strangers. Hydration: Coconut Water And all this exercise is certainly a Vita Coco 100% Pure Coconut good thing for our country's Water (1 bottle, 17 fl oz) health: A recent American Journal 90 calories of Preventive Medicine study 0 g fat predicted that 42 percent (!) of 22 g sugars Americans will be obese by the A 2012 study in the Journal of year 2030, and research shows the International Society of Sports that physical activity is one of the Nutrition found that compared to best ways to keep the pounds at a c o m m e r c i a l s p o r t s d r i n k , bay. coconut watera natural source So with fitness in the air, now of electrolyteswas equally as was the perfect time to dig up the effective in hydrating participants facts on the best and worst drinks after an intense workout. So why for your workout. There are tons choose the coconut water over the of sports beverages on the market sports drink? For one, coconut promising to help you lose water is low on the glycemic
about a mile farther than those who took a placebo. What's more, other scientific research has linked caffeine consumption with increased endurance and reaction times. The problem is, most caffeine-enhanced energy drinks are loaded with added sugars (what's the point of an exerciseboosting drink that makes you fat?). The Starbucks Doubleshot can below, for example, has more sugar than a Twix bar! A much index, so it won't dramatically more waistline-friendly way to affect your blood sugar, while reap the benefits of caffeine: fluid-replacement beverages like black coffee. It's sugar-free, Powerade are sweetened with packed with antioxidants, and has high-fructose corn syrup, a high- a negligable 2 calories per cup. glycemic-index sweetener that Not That! can spike blood sugar levels and Starbucks Mocha Double Shot promote body-fat storage. Second, Energy + Coffee (1 can, 16 fl oz) a 2010 study in the Journal of Cell 200 calories & Tissue Research found that 2.5 g fat (1.5 g saturated) coconut water helped reduce 26 g sugars blood pressure and cholesterol in COFFEE CATASTROPHES: rats, suggesting that the drink may Chains are corrupting one the also promote heart health. worlds simplest and healthiest Not That! beverage by spiking it with more Powerade Lemon-Lime Liquid fat and sugar than an ice cream Hydration (1 bottle, 20 fl oz) sundae. Dont let your coffee 150 calories craving destroy your diet! Stay 0 g fat away from the 6 Worst Coffee 37.5 g sugars#4 Best Drink for Drinks in America.#3 Best Drink Enhanced Performance: Coffee for Weight Loss: EBoost Coffee (8 fl oz) EBoost Natural Orange (1 2 calories packet) 0 g fat 5 calories 0 g sugars 0 g fat A 2008 study published in the 0 g sugars International Journal of Sports Green tea is another smart source Physiology & Performance found of energy-enhancing caffeine. that during a 1-hour time trial, Like coffee, it's packed with cyclists who took a caffeine antioxidants, and a 2011 research supplement were able to ride
review published in the British Journal of Nutrition found that the herbal drink may also promote weight loss. A great way to get green tea on the go: EBoost. Unlike most green-tea based energy beverages, it's sweetened with natural, zero-calorie Stevia, and it boasts an impressive antioxidant profile. Compare it to the SoBe sugar concoction belowwhich packs nearly as much sugar as three whole Kit Kat bars!and the winner is clear. Not That! SoBe Green Tea (1 bottle, 20 fl oz) 240 calories 0 g fat 61 g sugars FLAT-BELLY MAIL: Want to get fit and stay that way all summer? Sign up for the FREE Eat This, Not That newsletter and follow me right here on Twitter.#2 Best Drink for Recovery: Chocolate Milk Low-Fat Chocolate Milk (8 fl oz) 158 calories 2.5 g fat (1.5 g saturated) 25 g sugars 8 g protein Drinking a combination of carbohydrates and protein after a hard workout can help restore your energy and aid in building lean, metabolism-boosting muscle, but it turns out that you don't need a fancy recovery beverage to reap these benefits. A SPORTS page 72
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Small Change In Reading To Preschoolers Can Help Disadvantaged Kids Catch Up

Alix Spiegel (Shots - Health Blog)
in 2010. Researchers say that teachers who make small changes in how they read to 4-year-olds Submitted at 5/29/2012 1:25:00 PM can improve kids' reading skills [8 min 21 sec] Download Ricky later on. Carioti/ The Washington Post/ On a recent Monday morning in Getty Images Washington, D.C., a group of 3Kimberly Payton, a teacher at the year-old preschoolers bumbled Small Savers Child Development their way into a circle, more or Center, reads to a group of less, on the rug of their classroom. preschoolers in Washington, D.C., It was time to read.
The children sat cross-legged as their teacher, Mary-Lynn Goldstein, held high a book, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. There was a short conversation about pigeons, then, for reasons that weren't entirely clear, cows; and then Goldstein began to read. She read as most teachers read, occasionally stopping to ask a question, point out a picture or
make a comment about the story. In other words, it was a familiar scene a scene that, on that very day, likely took place in every preschool classroom in the country. Preschool teachers do this, and have been doing it for decades. "The thought was you read to children that will make a big difference in how well they read
later on when they're in school," says Anita McGinty, an education researcher who works at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education. "That's still probably the biggest message out there: Read to young children." But about 15 years ago, says McGinty, researchers like her SMALL page 72
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started to look more closely at reading, trying to unpack exactly which behaviors helped children learn to read. In the process, she says, they discovered something surprising about the simple act of sitting down and reading a story through with a child. "It mattered a lot less than we thought it did," she says. It's not that reading didn't help a child to learn. It helped to build a child's vocabulary, for example. But it didn't necessarily improve a child's ability to read, per se. To figure out why, researchers embarked on a new round of studies specifically, eyetracking studies. "What they would do is that they would put a child on their parent's lap, and then they would use some special equipment that allows them to pinpoint exactly where the children are looking at any given moment in time," says Shayne Piasta, a professor at Ohio State University. They found that when you simply read a book to kids, they tend to ignore the print on the page. More than 90 percent of the time the children are focusing on the pictures, or they are looking up at the parent, she says. Here, went the theory, was the answer: Learning to read is an incremental process; you become familiar with letters, then words; the practice of reading from left to right; and eventually you put all that together and begin to read. But if a child's attention isn't drawn to the printed word, then
reading to a child won't necessarily make them more familiar with what it means to read. And so new questions emerged. How could teachers change what children saw and thought about when a book was being read? And how much difference would that make? If disadvantaged children who often have reading troubles were made to think more about print at a very young age, would they become better readers later on? Reading Changes Made A Difference To Children To answer these questions, McGinty, along with Piasta and a researcher named Laura Justice, designed a research study to look at the effects of modest changes in the way preschool teachers read to children. McGinty and her colleagues decided to target disadvantaged preschoolers because they frequently end up with reading issues. For the study, they gave two groups of preschool teachers books for an entire school year 30 weeks' worth of books. One group was told to read the books normally; the other was given weekly cards with specific questions the teacher could ask really just small phrases that might momentarily draw a child's attention to the print on the page. The teachers were told to read their books four times a week, and to point out the print in this way between four and eight times, so that together the small phrases
hardly added extra time to their reading sessions maybe 90 seconds per book. It is hard to imagine that such a small adjustment would make any difference. It was a series of moments, questions and gestures. How much could that do? So far, the kids have been followed for two years. They are now in first grade, and according to the most recent findings, which were published in the journal Child Development, even these small changes make a measurable difference. "Children who focused their attention on print ... had better literacy outcomes than those who did not," says Piasta. "It was very clear." Understanding The Details Of Learning But how much should we trust this? Positive results from interventions like this frequently are lost over time, overwhelmed by the reality of bad schools and poor support at home. This was, after all, such a modest adjustment. The question is almost a philosophical one: How big a difference can small changes make? The fact is, this study is part of a broader effort that's been going on in education research for the past 20 or so years. Education researchers are attempting to break down in minute ways how teachers (and parents) should interact on a moment-to-moment basis with children in order to
promote their learning. It's one focus of the field right now, and there have been some encouraging findings. But it's still not clear whether interventions like this have real staying power. "Findings like this are at a very high risk of fading out," says Scott McConnell, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Minnesota. "But let's talk about why they might fade out. There's no reason to believe that an intervention like this, provided to 4-year-olds, is all these kids will ever need. They are going to need sustained intervention that takes advantage of the growth that they've achieved here." Without other programs, gains are easy to lose, he says. He also points out that it's hard to implement preschool programs like this broadly, because at the preschool level there's wide variety in teachers' skills. But he still believes programs like this are important. It's simple, he says: "As the twig is bent, so grows the tree." 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.
2009 article in Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism found that after participating in a vigorous cyclying session, cyclists who drank chocolate milk were able to ride 51 percent longer in a subsequent workout than those who drank a standard recovery beverage. Plus, chocolate milk is cheaper (and tastier) than anything you'll find in a sports nutrition store. Not That! Endurox R4 Chocolate Recovery Drink (2 Scoops) 270 calories 1.5 g fat 44 g sugars 13 g protein#1 Best Drink in America: Water Water 0 calories 0 g fat 0 g sugars You may feel trendy with a bottle of vitamin-enhanced water in your hand, but that brightly hued liquid probably isn't improving your health. Most vitamin-infused H20 is just colored sugar water with some vitamins tossed inbad news when you consider that Americans take in about 355 calories of added sugar every day. (Much of this sugar comes from sources like sodas, which is why you should avoid washing your burger down with any of the 20 Worst Drinks in America.) If you want vitamins, get them from vitamin supplements or, better yet, from whole foods (salmon, SPORTS page 74
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Psychiatric Manual May Soon Include 'Gambling Disorder'

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Submitted at 5/29/2012 9:34:00 AM
iStockphoto.com Problem gambling could be labeled a psychiatric disorder before long. Can someone actually be hooked on a behavior, like gambling? Problem gambling isn't considered a true addiction in
medical circles. But that may change as psychiatrists revise the diagnostic manual that spells out criteria for more than a dozen varieties of mental disorders. The proposed revisions to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5, would add "gambling disorder" to alcohol and drug problems as a "substance use and addictive
disorder" that insurers and others would use to make decisions about treatment and coverage. "Research and clinical work [indicate that] the underlying pathology and genetics of addiction involve not only substances but may also involve behavior," says David J. Kupfer, chair of the DSM-5 task force overseeing revisions to the
manual, which is produced by the American Psychiatric Association. The proposed revisions, which are open for public comment, will be finalized and published in May 2013. The proposed guidelines would add only problem gambling as an addictive disorder, but the designation would clear a path to
add other behavioral problems such as sex or Internet addiction in the future. "We're being very conservative about this," Kupfer says. So what sort of behavior makes for a gambling addict? In the past year, people with this diagnosis would have manifested four or PSYCHIATRIC page 74
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for example, is loaded with energy-boosting vitamin B-12). And if you want water, get it from, well, water. Nature's beverage is calorie-free, cost-free, and unless you're an elite athlete who does high-intensity exercise for more than an hour at a time, it'll take care of all your workout hydration needs. Not That! Vitamin Water Energy (1 bottle, 20 fl oz) 120 calories 0 g fat 32 g sugars For more help navigating the perplexities of the supermarket
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SpaceX and Intelsat announce first commercial contract for Falcon Heavy rocket
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Submitted at 5/29/2012 6:41:00 PM
more of nine specific behaviors, including a need to gamble with more money to maintain excitement and lying about how much they gamble. Also, to qualify, the gambling excesses couldn't be explained by an episode of manic behavior. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service if this is
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SpaceX hit one pretty big milestone recently -- to put it mildly-- and it's now already back with another fairly significant one. It's announced today that satellite service provider Intelsat has signed the first commercial contract for its Falcon Heavy rocket, which is currently slated to undertake its first launch sometime in 2013. Details on the contract itself remain decidedly light at the moment, but SpaceX will apparently be launching at least one Intelsat satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit (or GTO) sometime after it's
completed its launch tests, and Intelsat says it'll be working closely with SpaceX in the lead up to the launch to ensure that the rocket meets its standards. You can find the official announcement after the break. Continue reading SpaceX and Intelsat announce first commercial contract for Falcon Heavy rocket SpaceX and Intelsat announce first commercial contract for Falcon Heavy rocket originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 May 2012 18:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink| SpaceX| Email this| Comments
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DOJ Hack Emphasizes the Need for Smart Cybersecurity Action

David Inserra (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
The Heritage Foundations new report listing the U.S. government cyber breaches and failures already has some new additions, Submitted at 5/29/2012 3:00:53 PM Last week, the U.S. Justice including this hack and another Department acknowledged that its that Paul Rosenzweig chronicled Bureau of Justice Statistics earlier today. website had been hacked. The This ever-growing list of hacker group Anonymous claimed government cyber failures should credit for the hack and published be a warning to those who think 1.7 gigabytes of data. Included in that a top-down, government the data were internal e-mails, regulatory regime is the best way which possibly contained personal to protect our nation from attack. or sensitive information related to Regulating cybersecurity would crimes, criminals, and crime impose potentially massive costs victims. on the private sector while
providing questionable improvements in security. If this list is any indication, the government doesnt have all the answers. A real cybersecurity
solution would start with collaboration: clarifying legal ambiguities and encouraging the sharing of cyber threat and vulnerability information among
the private and public sectors. Hacking and cyber attacks are here to stay, and the U.S. should pursue sensible solutions. 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.
Obama Awards Medal of Freedom to Democratic Socialists of America Chair

Lachlan Markay (The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 4:16:19 PM
President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday to Dolores Huerta, an 82year-old labor activist and cofounder of the United Farm Workers union. Huerta is also an honorary chair
of the Democratic Socialists of America. DSA describes itself as the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International. Huerta has claimed, Republicans hate Latinos, and Venezuela. Some of her more has spoken fondly of Hugo radical comments were captured Chavezs despotic regime in
in this audio clip: Despite her apparent radicalism, Huerta has received accolades from top administration officials, including Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. She is now the recipient of the nations highest civilian honor one of 14 individuals to receive the medal Tuesday at the White House. This entry passed through the
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The Chicago War Zone: 10 Dead, At Least 41 Injured in Weekend Mayhem

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Via Chicago Sun-Times: Ten people were killed and at least 41 others were wounded in Memorial Day weekend shootings across the city since Friday, including a 7-year-old girl shot while playing in front of her South Side home. The girl was shot about 4:20 p.m. Saturday when a white four-door car pulled up to a group of boys near the
intersection of West 69th and South Artesian, and someone inside opened fire. Police said none of the boys were injured, but
a bullet hit the girl. Those killed over the weekend included. . . Heckuva job, Rahmy. 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.
Overpriced and Underpowered: Why Chromebook, Chromebox Fail OVERPRICED page 77

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Nikon pushes out D4, D800 firmware update, fixes lock-up issues and other bugs
Edgar Alvarez (Engadget)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 7:22:00 PM
It wasn't long ago that we heard about the "lock-up" woes D4 and D800 owners were experiencing on their shiny new shooters, but luckily for them, Nikon just outed
a fix to take care of those issues. Aside from solving the aforementioned annoyance, the firmware update (B:1.01) also mends a problem allowing RAW files to be network-transferred while in JPEG-only mode, as well and exposure compensation to as a bug causing bits like aperture
change unexpectedly when using certain custom settings. You can grab the updates now via the source links below, and be sure to let us know how it all turned out in the end. Nikon pushes out D4, D800 firmware update, fixes lock-up
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With its latest updates to Chrome OS, the Chromebook and the new Chromebox desktop unit, Google is hoping it can convince business and education customers to give its cloud-based operating system a second chance. The problem is, Chrome OS and its hardware remain uncompetitive not just against low-cost desktops and laptops, but against the burgeoning world of tablets. When Google first started talking about Chrome OS back in 2009, the idea of a lightweight, cloudcentric, browser-focused operating system had a lot of potential. The idea was simple: Most of what we do takes place in a web browser. So why not have a lowcost netbook thats essentially a souped-up web browser, and little more? How Chrome OS Stumbled By the time the first Chromebook devices started to hit the market last June, Google was actively trying to position the hardware and Chrome OS as an alternative for educational institutions and large corporations. Dont spend money on licensing thousands of seats for software, it said. Just use Google and our devices.
The problem was as Mashable editor Lance Ulanoff pointed out in November the typical Chromebook was both underpowered and priced disproportionately high when compared to other netboooks, full -sized laptops and tablets. Moreover, education and corporate entities now have a new low-cost computing solution: The iPad. The iPads rapid adoption in the workplace and in the education market has not only helped kill the netbook its made Chrome OS a near-impossible sell. A year later, nothing I see with the new Chrome OS updates or device pricing leads me to believe that Google will fare any better this time around. Price It Low or Go Home Lets cut to the chase. Samsungs new Chromebook and Chromebox are simply too expensive for what you get. The Chromebox is $329 an outrageous amount of money for a Celeron-powered desktop. Yes, the form-factor is small but that still doesnt excuse the pricing. I can get a Windows 7 desktop from Amazon for less than this with better specs, a keyboard and mouse.
The new Samsung Series 5 (model No. 550) is even worse. The pricing starts at $449 and goes up to $550 with 3G service. That puts it squarely in the iPads territory. Is that a problem? Faced with the choice of outfitting an office with a suite of retina display iPads which will be able to access 700,000 iOS apps and remain exceedingly portable versus laptops that cant even store a file if youre offline, which would you choose? If Google and its hardware partners are actually serious about moving units and building Chrome OS adoption, the Chromebox would be $250 and the Chromebooks would sell for no more than $350 at the high end. Lets not even try to pretend that consumers are a target for these devices again, an iPad, Android tablet or mid-range notebook will cost about as much as the priciest Chromebook. Whats the incentive for being forced to live in a web browser? Build a Chrome Tablet Already I have long predicted that Google will at some point merge the Chrome OS and Android projects. Until then, its shocking
that Google and its hardware partners havent at least attempted releasing a Chrome OS-powered tablet. A tablet could be sold at a higher price point while still letting Google sell its cloud services to corporate and educational customers. Even better, make an optional keyboard dock like the Asus Transformer to try to appeal to a broader selection of users. To be sure, Chrome OS would still going to have to compete against Android and iOS (and soon, Windows 8) in the tablet space, but at least the tablet form factor would match the needs of customers. By continuing to focus on a dead market (netbooks) and an even more dead market (desktops), Chrome OS severely limits its potential user base. Would you seriously consider paying $550 for a Chromebook, or $330 for a Chromebox? Let us know in the comments. More About: Chrome OS, Chromebooks, chromebox, Google, Opinion
Confirmed: Google Glasses Use a Trackpad [VIDEO]

Chris Taylor (Mashable!)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:44:45 PM
Remember that odd-looking Google Glasses prototype the search giant has been pushing since April and that co-founder Sergey Brin has been wearing to practically every event since? Well, now we know a little bit more about how they work, courtesy of an unusual source: California Lieutenant Governor and former San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom. The one big mystery about Project Glass, the internal Google name for the glasses, is how you navigate through the items you see on their tiny screen. Was the glasses technology sophisticated enough, we wondered, that it could track your eye movements and sense where you were looking? Or did it simply use a trackpad on the side of the glasses, as several sources have suggested? Now we know the answer for sure, thanks to Brin and Newsom: its just a trackpad. Newsom had Brin as a guest on his Current TV show. The episode will air this Friday, but Current has released a short extract, which CONFIRMED: page 78
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you can see in the video above. Brin takes a picture of Newsom with the glasses, and then swipes through what appears to be a picture gallery using the large black area on the right of the glasses. When he hands them over to Newsom who just became the first known non-Googler in the world to take a look at Project Glass Brin tells him dont touch the pad on the side. Watch closely and youll see the trackpad appears to swipe in two directions side to side to view the picture gallery, and up or down to exit and enter the gallery. Newsom was apparently impressed with the result. The image was remarkably clear, he told Wired. You can easily forget you have them on, and sense the
capacity of use in the future. (He would not say, however, whether he would wear the glasses himself.) One mystery remains: how do the Google Glasses take snapshots in the first place? What is operating the shutter? Is that, perhaps, controlled by eye movements? Newsom asked, but unfortunately Brin didnt respond. Does this video convince you one way or another about Project Glass? Are you more or less likely to wear this thing? Let us know in the comments. More About: Google, project glass
Video: Noted Choom Gang alumnus honors spiritual leader

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Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:46:43 PM
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posted at 6:46 pm on May 29, 2012 by Allahpundit To cleanse the palate, I had to blog it for that headline alone. Nothing against Dylan or Madeleine Albright or former Tennessee womens hoops coach Pat Summitt, all of whom were among those who received Presidential Medals of Freedom today, but shouldnt there be a separate/more serious award for this guy? William Foege A physician and epidemiologist, Foege helped lead the successful campaign to eradicate smallpox in sent to prosecutors Greggs hails the 1970s. He was appointed 'pasty tax' U-turn Secrecy Bill director of the Centers for Disease 'undermines justice' China helps Control and Prevention in 1977 Jaguar to 1.5bn profit'Missed and, with colleagues, founded the opportunities' on murder'I've Task Force for Child Survival in never looked at a bank statement, 1984. Foege became executive ever', says barrister accused of director of The Carter Center in dodging 210,000 VAT Fancy a 1986 and continues to serve the Gherkin? Food artist makes edible organization as a senior fellow. versions of London landmarks Or how about this gentleman? Bonus payment of up to 850 Jan Karski AGREED for Tube staff to work Karski served as an officer in the during Games - as service falters Polish Underground during World War II and carried among the first EVENING page 79
eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust to the world. He worked as a courier, entering the Warsaw ghetto and the Nazi Izbica transit camp, where he saw firsthand the atrocities occurring under Nazi occupation. Anyway, your homework assignment: Explain Dylans appeal to me in the comments. I find most of 60s culture (and especially 60s music) accessible enough but Ive never understood the Dylan phenomenon. It feels like an elaborate put-on, and yet the guy is sufficiently iconic that
he could receive the countrys top civilian honor from the president at the White House while wearing shades and no one really thinks twice. Impressive. Click the image to watch. 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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yet again with break downs and signal failures http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ news/rss/ Home Page RSS Description http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/free-childcarechanges-announced-7801075.html Almost 1,000 two-year-olds are to benefit from free childcare a year early after it was decided to bring forward trials in 10 areas in England to this September, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced. Wed, 30 May 2012 00:10:09 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/free-childcarechanges-announced-7801075.html 2012-05-30T00:10:09Z Deputy PM Nick Clegg has announced extra free places for pre-school c h i l d r e n h t t p : / / www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/parents-held-overarson-deaths-7800160.html The parents of six children killed in an arson attack on their home have been arrested on suspicion of murder. Wed, 30 May 2012 00:10:08 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/parents-held-overarson-deaths-7800160.html 201205-30T00:10:08Z Tears: Mick Philpott and wife Mairead speak at a media conference http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/diplomats-expelledafter-massacre-7800556.html Britain has ordered Syria's charge d'affaires to leave the country within seven days as part of a coordinated global response to a massacre of 108 people in Houla.
Wed, 30 May 2012 00:10:07 BST http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/diplomats-expelledafter-massacre-7800556.html 2012-05-30T00:10:07Z Foreign Secretary William Hague said international pressure on the Syrian regime would continue to be increased http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/drug-arrest-britonpleads-for-help-7801076.html A British woman facing the death penalty after being arrested over a 1.6 million cocaine haul has pleaded for help from behind bars in an Indonesian jail. Wed, 30 May 2012 00:10:06 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/drug-arrest-britonpleads-for-help-7801076.html 2012-05-30T00:10:06Z Lindsay Sandiford agreed to take part in a sting operation in which police swooped on four other drug suspects in Bali (AP) http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/woman-rescuedfrom-quake-rubble-7800092.html Rescuers have pulled a woman alive from the rubble of her apartment building, 12 hours after a killer quake hit northern Italy. Wed, 30 May 2012 00:10:05 BST http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/woman-rescuedfrom-quake-rubble-7800092.html 2012-05-30T00:10:05Z A second earthquake has hit northern Italy ( A P ) h t t p : / / www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/ofsted-uturn-onnonotice-policy-7801077.html Ofsted's controversial chief inspector has made a U-turn on
one of his key policies. Wed, 30 May 2012 00:10:04 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/ofsted-uturn-onnonotice-policy-7801077.html 2012-05-30T00:10:04Z Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw has backed down on contentious plans to give schools no notice ahead of inspections http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/governmentdishonest-on-disabled7801078.html The Government is to be accused of being "fundamentally dishonest" about its policies towards disabled people. Wed, 30 May 2012 00:10:03 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/governmentdishonest-on-disabled7801078.html 2012-0530T00:10:03Z TUC chief Brendan Barber is to hit out at the Government over policies affecting the disabled http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/william-looksforward-to-children-7801043.html The Duke of Cambridge has said he is looking forward to having children. Wed, 30 May 2012 00:10:02 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/william-looksforward-to-children-7801043.html 2012-05-30T00:10:02Z Prince William revealed in a US interview he would like to have c h i l d r e n h t t p : / / www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/fiveyearolds-nowworry-about-size-7801079.html More than half the British public
suffers from a negative body image, an inquiry by MPs has been told. Wed, 30 May 2012 00:10:01 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/fiveyearolds-nowworry-about-size-7801079.html 2012-05-30T00:10:01Z A report found that girls as young as five now worry about their size and appearance http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/gove-warns-overnew-press-laws-7794590.html Michael Gove has clashed with the man leading the inquiry into media ethics and warned him against new laws regulating the press. Wed, 30 May 2012 00:10:00 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/gove-warns-overnew-press-laws-7794590.html 2012-05-30T00:10:00Z Michael Gove is due to give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/woman-93-dies-ofattack-injuries-7800247.html A 93-year-old woman who was subjected to a savage assault in her home has died in hospital. Tue, 29 May 2012 23:30:06 BST http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/woman-93-dies-ofattack-injuries-7800247.html 2012-05-29T23:30:06Z Emma Winnall, 93, who was attacked in her home nearly a month ago, has died in hospital (West Midlands Police/PA) http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/phone-hack-file-sent -to-prosecutors-7800734.html A seventh file relating to Scotland
Yard's phone hacking inquiry has been sent to prosecutors. Tue, 29 May 2012 23:30:05 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/phone-hack-file-sent -to-prosecutors-7800734.html 2012-05-29T23:30:05Z A case referring to a police officer accused of misconduct in public office and corruption has been sent to prosecutors http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/greggs-hails-pastytax-uturn-7794086.html Bakery chain Greggs is celebrating following the Government's Uturn on the unpopular "pasty tax". Tue, 29 May 2012 23:30:03 BST http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/greggs-hails-pastytax-uturn-7794086.html 2012-0529T23:30:03Z The Government is to drop plans for a so-called pasty tax http://www.thisislondon.co.uk /panewsfeeds/secrecy-billundermines-justice-7799818.html The Government is threatening to fundamentally undermine British traditions of open justice with proposed new laws, civil liberty campaigners have claimed. Tue, 29 May 2012 23:30:01 BST http:/ /www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/secrecy-billundermines-justice-7799818.html 2012-05-29T23:30:01Z The Ministry of Justice is set to unveil its Justice and Security Bill http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/china-helps-jaguarto-15bn-profit-7800659.html Booming demand from China has helped drive a record 1.5 billion EVENING page 80
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profit at resurgent luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover. Tue, 29 May 2012 23:30:00 BST http:/ /www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/china-helps-jaguarto-15bn-profit-7800659.html 2012 -05-29T23:30:00Z Demand in China has seen Jaguar Land Rover post profits of one and a half billion pounds http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/missed-opportunities -on-murder-7799842.html There were "numerous missed opportunities" to protect a teenage mother who was stabbed and left to die in a canal by her 17-yearold boyfriend, a serious case review (SCR) has said. Tue, 29 May 2012 22:00:01 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/ panewsfeeds/missed-opportunities -on-murder-7799842.html 201205-29T22:00:01Z Laura Wilson,
17, who was murdered by her 17year-old boyfriend Ashtiaq A s g h a r h t t p : / / www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ crime/ive-never-looked-at-a-bankstatement-ever-says-barristeraccused-of-dodging-210000-vat7800786.html A barrister accused of failing to pay 210,000 in VAT today told a court he had never looked at a bank statement. Tue, 29 May 2012 16:27:20 BST http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ crime/ive-never-looked-at-a-bankstatement-ever-says-barristeraccused-of-dodging-210000-vat7800786.html 2012-0529T16:27:20Z http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ london/fancy-a-gherkin-foodartist-makes-edible-versions-oflondon-landmarks-7800785.html Fancy a Gherkin? A professional
food artist recreated London landmarks out of food today. Tue, 29 May 2012 16:26:56 BST http:/ /www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ london/fancy-a-gherkin-foodartist-makes-edible-versions-oflondon-landmarks-7800785.html 2012-05-29T16:26:56Z Tasty buildings: Three of London's landmarks made edible http:// www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/ transport/bonus-payment-of-up-to -850-agreed-for-tube-st 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.
detected but these are, after all, the cyber equivalents of atomic bombs. The more freely available the virus is, the more likely it is that hackers and/or U.S. enemies will reverse-engineer the program to wreak havoc. (Then again, hackers can already access virtually any unsecured U.S. network, in which case who needs Flame?) The braintrust behind Flame evidently took care to make sure its exposure was limited, which helps explain why it wasnt discovered as quickly as Stuxnet. Apparently there are almost no similarities between Stuxnet and Flame except, per Wired, one possible likeness in their export function as well as the ability to spread via USB sticks by exploiting code vulnerabilities. Does that mean the two programs
came from different sources or are the differences simply a function of what theyre designed to do? Flame is vastly bigger and more complex according to cybersecurity experts (one says its 20 times more complicated than Stuxnet), but then its designed to perform many more tasks than merely controlling the spin of uranium centrifuges. Another clue: The two viruses seem to have emerged at roughly the same time. Stuxnet has been traced to as early as June 2009 but started circulating more widely in early 2010. Flame apparently started circulating at around the same time although it may have been around as early as 2007, says Wired, noting that Stuxnet is believed to have been written in FLAME page 81
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within earshot of your computer while leaving almost no trace of its existence. Submitted at 5/29/2012 4:21:30 PM The apparent target is just who posted at 5:21 pm on May 29, youd think itd be. 2012 by Allahpundit The [Flame] malware, which is Now that youre done with the 20 megabytes when all of its NYT piece on Obamas Al Qaeda modules are installed, contains kill list, take 10 more minutes m u l t i p l e l i b r a r i e s , S Q L i t e 3 and dive into Wireds fascinating databases, various levels of read on the greatest spy machine encryption some strong, some ever invented. Unlike Stuxnet, weak and 20 plug-ins that can this one doesnt mess with be swapped in and out to provide industrial equipment; all it does is various functionality for the record virtually everything youre attackers. It even contains some doing on your computer or code that is written in the LUA
programming language an uncommon choice for malware Among Flames many modules is one that turns on the internal microphone of an infected machine to secretly record conversations that occur either over Skype or in the computers near vicinity; a module that turns Bluetooth-enabled computers into a Bluetooth beacon, which scans for other Bluetooth-enabled devices in the vicinity to siphon names and phone numbers from their contacts folder; and a module that grabs and stores
frequent screenshots of activity on the machine, such as instantmessaging and email communications, and sends them via a covert SSL channel to the attackers command-and-control servers. The malware also has a sniffer component that can scan all of the traffic on an infected machines local network and collect usernames and password hashes that are transmitted across the network. The attackers appear to use this component to hijack administrative accounts and gain
high-level privileges to other machines and parts of the network. Current estimates are that 1,000 computers worldwide are infected, a plurality of which are in Iran. Interestingly, though, Flame doesnt replicate automatically. Stuxnet did so much so that Richard Clarke theorized there must have been a flaw in its programming. Not only does replication make it more likely that the virus will be FLAME page 80
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inevitably reach for the smelling salts when Trump starts pandering to the base. And as for the Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:01:16 PM argument about Romney being posted at 6:01 pm on May 29, thrown off-message or losing 2012 by Allahpundit the news cycle because hes busy Does anyone care? Ed and I have fielding Trump questions instead written endless posts about how of attacking Obama on Solyndra, stupid we think Birtherism is, but a g a i n , w h o c a r e s ? B y m y in the end is anyone going to vote measure, the average news for or against Romney because of cycle these days lasts around 16 t h i s s i d e s h o w ? M y s t r o n g hours and is shrinking by the suspicion is that those who care minute. Come September, we may enough about the birth certificate be down to 30 minutes or so. to think of it on election day Romney will hit Obama 20 more already hate Obama with a times on public equity before the ferocious passion and could give campaign is through and, with you two or three hundred reasons voters attention spans being what off the top of their heads for why they are, none of it will register at he needs to go. Swing voters all unless it comes within, say, a wont give a hoot vis-a-vis month of election day. Trumps unemployment and gas prices, j u s t m a k i n g s u r e t h a t t h e and especially low-information forgettable bilge that consumes swing voters might not even know most of the election coverage that theres a natural-born right now is a little bilgier today. eligibility requirement in the first As for why Romney keeps him place. The only people who worry around when hes intent on more about Os origins than wasting time on nonsense, The hardcore anti-Obama grassroots Atlantic sums it up: conservatives are, ironically, Strategists, elites, and cable news c e n t e r - r i g h t p r o f e s s i o n a l types disdain birtherism (for good commentators who dont trust reason!). And Romney himself grassroots conservatives, which is has never embraced it. But voters? w h y P e g g y N o o n a n o r Although there has thankfully S c a r b o r o u g h o r w h o e v e r been less polling on the topic
since the release of the birth certificate, birther beliefs appear to have remained resilient, barely ticking down in a January poll, for example. Folks who were willing to indulge silly ideas before remain willing to do so now. Without a groundswell of disapproval from Republican and independent voters, why should Romney bother to disavow Trump? McCain would have made the condemnation; the media would have oohed and aahed; and voters would still have voted for Obama. The Donald himself made this argument Tuesday, tweeting, [Obama] keeps using @SenJohnMcCain as an example, however, @SenJohnMcCain lost the election. Dont let it happen again. For once, the man has a point. Trump bashers of all political stripes have often reacted incredulously to Romneys intimacy with the mogul, even outside the context of birtherism. After all, is there a single undecided or Obama-leaning voter who will change his or her vote to Romney because an outlandish television celebrity tells them to? Surely not but
the same logic applies here. If voters are so inclined to disregard Trump, theres no downside: his support wont turn them off Romney, either. On the other side of the balance sheet, the cash that Romney collects at the Vegas fundraiser is perfectly legal tender that can feed the campaign coffers. Cynical but logical. Tolerating Trump lets Romney show the most ardent anti-Obamaites that hes willing to take it to The One, even if it makes the Steve Schmidts of the world cry big salty tears. Meanwhile, everyone else rolls their eyes or shrugs. But content is content, so heres some cable-news drama to liven up the afternoon followed by the new ad from Team O that wont move the election needle even a fraction of an inch. Whither the Republic? 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.
this same period. Indeed, we already know from the NYT that Stuxnet began development during Bushs administration and was, reportedly, accelerated by Obama. Looks like Flame might have been on the tasklist too. We also know from the Times that Stuxnet was likely a joint U.S./Israeli project. ABC sees another common thread there: A top Israeli official hinted today that his country could be behind the most sophisticated cyber espionage program ever developed, known as Flame, which infiltrated and has spied on computer systems throughout the Middle East, including those in Iran, for the past two years. Whoever sees the Iranian threat as a serious threat would be likely to take different steps, including these, in order to hurt them, Israels vice prime minister Moshe Yaalon told Israels Army Radio today, referring to the cyber attack. Israel is blessed to be a nation possessing superior technology. These achievements of ours open up all kinds of possibilities for us. So far, researchers in the U.S. and abroad have said Flame appears to only be used for spying purposes, rather than being used to cause physical damage to systems, like Stuxnet. Still, Kaspersky Labs said in a blog post,such highly flexible malware can be used to deploy specific attack modules that could target a countrys critical FLAME page 83
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Under Obama, Men Killed by Drones Are Presumed to Be Terrorists

Conor Friedersdorf (Politics : The Atlantic)
Submitted at 5/29/2012 3:57:14 PM
The revelation helps explain why American counts of civilians killed are so much lower than what's reported by other countries. Reuters After interviewing dozens of current and former White House advisers, the New York Times breaks a lot of news in its story on President Obama's secret kill list, perhaps none of it more jawdropping than new details describing how the U.S. now calculates the number of innocents killed by our drones. What innovative method did our Nobel Peace Prize-winning president implement? "It in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent," the newspaper reports. "Counter-terrorism officials insist this approach is one of simple logic: people in an area of known terrorist activity, or found with a top Qaeda operative, are probably up to no good."
casualties. "It bothers me when they say there were seven guys, so they must all be militants," the official said. "They count the corpses and they're not really sure who they are." Lest you skim over that last quote, ponder its meaning. A former high-ranking official in the U.S. government is asserting that the CIA kills innocent people in other countries, counts the corpses, and reports that they're militants, even though they don't actually know who the guys are. This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2012/05/underobama-men-killed-by-drones-arepresumed-to-be-terrorists/257749/ This entry passed through the For those tracing Obama's career This counting method may partly hundreds of civilian deaths Full-Text RSS service if this is a r c , w e ' v e g o n e f r o m h i s explain the official claims of u n w i t t i n g l y d r a w o n f a l s e your content and you're reading it insistence, as a U.S. senator, that extraordinarily low collateral propaganda claims by militants. on someone else's site, please read it would be unjust to try accused deaths. In a speech last year Mr. But in interviews, three former the FAQ at fivefilters.org/contentterrorists in a military tribunal Brennan, Mr. Obama's trusted senior intelligence officials only/faq.php#publishers. Five with an attorney, to his judgment, adviser, said that not a single expressed disbelief that the Filters recommends: Donate to as president, that if one member noncombatant had been killed in a number could be so low. The Wikileaks. of Al Qaeda is someplace, every year of strikes. And in a recent C.I.A. accounting has so troubled guy in vague physical proximity interview, a senior administration some administration officials a u t o m a t i c a l l y m e e t s t h e official said that the number of outside the agency that they have c o n v e n i e n t " i n n o c e n t u n t i l civilians killed in drone strikes in brought their concerns to the ' p r o b a b l y u p t o n o g o o d ' " Pakistan under Mr. Obama was in White House. One called it "guilt standard. the "single digits" -- and that by association" that has led to Says the Times: independent counts of scores or "deceptive" estimates of civilian
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Picture of the Day: Bob Dylan Receives the Medal of Freedom

David A. Graham (Politics : The Atlantic)
jacket, with his hair tousled, his recent trademark pencil mustache in place, and a pair of aviators on Submitted at 5/29/2012 5:07:28 PM his nose. The songwriter certainly America's greatest songwriter looked rather diffident, but remains inscrutable as he receives attempting to interpret Dylan's the nation's highest civilian honor. oracular pronouncements is a Charles Dharapak / Associated difficult and often foolish (though Press still popular) game. After W h e n t h e W h i t e H o u s e receiving the medal he politely announced that Bob Dylan would clapped the president on the arm, receive the Medal of Freedom, then shuffled back to his seat. America's highest civilian honor, Dylan and Obama are both it inspired a round of snarky known as inspiring wordsmiths quotations (yes, yes, "even the who are rather cool and detached president of the United States in person, but one might expect sometimes must have to stand by this point that they'd developed naked," we've all heard it), as well something of a rapport. Obama as wonder: The great figurehead has long praised Dylan, and talked of the 1960s counterculture was about listening to him as a young going right into the heart of the man again during the Tuesday establishment. How would he go event. In 2008, Dylan -- who about it? began his career with explicitly Now we know: Wearing an odd political songs, but not long after
turned away and has never really gone back -- seemed to offer Obama his support, the closest thing to a true endorsement veteran watchers could recall. "[W]e've got this guy out there now who is redefining the nature
of politics from the ground up -Barack Obama," Dylan said. "He's redefining what a politician is, so we'll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I'm hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to."
In 2010, Dylan took part in a concert at the White House celebrating the music of the civilrights movement, though he took off before a group singalong of "Free at Last." But if any personal chemistry between the two men has developed, it was hard to detect on Tuesday. This article available online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/ politics/archive/2012/05/pictureof-the-day-bob-dylan-receives-the -medal-of-freedom/257800/ 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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infrastructure and there could also be variations of the code that have yet to be discovered. In other words, Flame might have some sort of built-in Stuxnet-like capacity to take over industrial machinery if need be. (One of the UNs own cybersecurity experts said, I think it is a much more serious threat than Stuxnet.) No one knows yet because theyre only just now starting to unpack it; its like an alien autopsy where
youre suddenly looking at an advanced physiology youve never seen and have to figure out what each of the organs does. Two obvious possibilities, then, on what Flame might be designed to do. One: It could detect Iranian chatter about how far along their nuclear program is, which in turn would tell Israel when time has run out and an attack needs to be launched. Right now theyre impatient with the halting
negotiations between the west and Iran but willing to tolerate them, maybe because Flame is telling them that Iran hasnt reached nuclear breakout capabilities just yet. Two: It could be a way to disable Irans air defenses in advance of an attack or, more ambitiously, Irans enrichment facility at Fordo, which is buried deep inside a mountain and virtually impervious to a conventional attack. If bombs
cant take that out, theyll need another way in. Then again, if Israel has already penetrated Fordo well enough to get Flame onto the computers there, they probably already have another way in. Anything else Im missing here, techies? All theories welcome. Exit quotation: If Flame went on undiscovered for five years, the only logical conclusion is that there are other operations ongoing that we dont
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