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VIDEO: Happy Town's
Against high Hill drama, SEC chief mum on Geoff Stults: Mysteries
Will Be Solved in Each
Goldman Episode
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row and think about who are we here (TVGuide.com: Breaking
Washington) to serve, and how do we best News)
Submitted at 4/27/2010 1:34:58 PM serve them?" Submitted at 4/27/2010 10:49:00 PM
She said innovation was a
First of all, Securities and "remarkable quality" of the
Exchange Commission market and there had been a lot • Apr 27, 2010 11:49 PM ET
Chairman Mary Schapiro would of "tremendous innovation" that • by Robyn Ross
not talk about Goldman Sachs. had been good in the markets, •
There was no drawing her out. but there also had been a lot of
The head of the agency that innovation for the purpose of The setting of ABC's new
filed a civil fraud lawsuit generating fees and creating drama Happy Town(premieres
charging that Goldman misled new structures to enhance return Wednesday at 10/9c) may look
investors would not say a word for the banks -- "I really quaint and picturesque, but
about the case. question whether there's any Haplin, Minn. holds memories
Quite the opposite from the benefit to that." of a string of unsolved
high-drama being played out at "So I do think it's a time for soul kidnappings. TVGuide.com
the same time on Capitol Hill -searching, really for all market spoke to star Geoff Stults about
going to go there. "I'm not going Asked whether this could be playing the son of a sheriff in a
where Goldman Sachs participants, and regulators as
to comment on Goldman," she seen as the start of the SEC's town filled with mystery and
executives were facing the well," she said.
said before one reporter even war on Wall Street, Schapiro murder. Find out why Stults
fusillade at a Senate hearing, Wonder if she meant Goldman
got the question out. replied: "Well first of all, I'm believes that, once the killer
where one senator kept too?
Even while responding to a not going to comment on known as the "Magic Man" is
repeating "shi--y deal." (There Photo credit: Reuters/Jim
tangential question, she began Goldman. There is no war on revealed, viewers will look back
are two t's missing from that Young (protesters at Senate
by saying "put the Goldman anybody." and say, "I can't believe I didn't
word). hearing on Goldman Sachs),
case aside," careful to make sure She went on to say: "I guess think of that!"
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FDIC Chair Bair: think before you
point that finger…
Tabassum Zakaria (Front Row
Washington)
Submitted at 4/27/2010 10:29:22 AM
The latest blame game
circulating in Washington on
financial regulation may end up
with those who point fingers
finding that they have three
fingers pointing back.
During the debate on tightening
financial regulations, there have
been some backhanded jabs at
regulators with the implication
that perhaps they were asleep at
the wheel. Just this morning on
NBC's "Today" show,
Democratic Senator Claire
McCaskill said Wall Street had
been creating things just to bet
on -- "they were like the casino,
but they had less regulation than
Las Vegas."
Well hold on. Who's fault is
that?
We asked Sheila Bair, chairman
of the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corp.
She said when it comes to
regulating many of the complex
over-the-counter derivatives, the
blame actually fell into the lap
Wise Words: Eyes on the Prize
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Here's a little bit of inspiration
of Congress which decided
against putting them under the
oversight of the SEC or CFTC
or insurance regulators. And in
fairness to Congress, the Federal
Reserve and Treasury condoned
that action, she said.
"On derivatives, Congress did
that," Bair said at the Reuters
Global Financial Regulation
Summit. "That's all history
now."
The CFTC does regulate
to make your day fun, fabulous —Henry Ford
and full of joy.
Obstacles are those frightful obstacles you meet in life?
things you see when you take Have a favorite quote? Send it
your eyes off your goal. t o
exchange-traded derivatives
such as futures and options, but
it's the over-the-counter stuff
that's unregulated.
"There was a system-wide
breakdown here," Bair said.
"Everybody had a role in this
crisis and let's just look forward
and see if we can fix it."
Photo credit: Reuters/Larry
Downing (Bair at Reuters
summit)
How do you overcome
u s a t
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Russia releases secret papers on Katyn massacre signed by

Stalin
(World News from Times Katyn. There has been a sudden that the Polish prisoners of war opened by a special commission He added: “The envelopes were
Online) warming of relations after the were killed by the Nazis. The in 1992. then sealed again and placed on
Submitted at 4/28/2010 6:48:31 AM plane crash in Smolensk that Kremlin maintained this lie for "It contained a letter, written by the archive shelves.”
killed President Lech 50 years until the Soviet leader chief of the Soviet secret police He said that copies of the
Secret documents detailing the Kaczynski and 95 leading Polish Mikhail Gorbachev Lavrenty Beria in March 1940, material were published in
Soviet leadership’s decision to figures as they travelled to acknowledged Moscow’s recommending that the Polish Poland after they were passed
murder 22,000 Polish officers c o m m e m o r a t e t h e 7 0 t h responsibility in 1990. POWs be executed and their to President Lech Walesa in the
at Katyn were released to the anniversary of the tragedy. Mr Artizov said in a statement remains concealed. The letter early 1990s. Although
Russian public today on orders More than 100 volumes of on the archive’s website: “The carries Stalin and other declassified by President
from President Medvedev. documents relating to a criminal Russian side is demonstrating Politburo members' original Yeltsin, access to the file in
In an unprecedented step, the investigation into the Katyn absolute openness as it is telling resolutions. Among those who Russia was tightly restricted and
Russian State Archive published massacre remain classified, the story of what happened to signed it were Kliment specialist researchers had to
documents showing how Soviet however, despite Polish requests Polish POWs in Katyn ... Voroshilov, Vyacheslav obtain permission to view them.
leader Joseph Stalin approved for them to be released. Most of Access has been opened to the Molotov and Anastas Mikoyan,” Mr Artizov said that Katyn also
the World War Two massacre the information in the file key documents highlighting this Mr Artizov said. contained the graves of about
proposed by his secret police published today has been made tragedy. “The file also holds the 10,000 “ordinary Soviet
henchman Lavrenty Beria. public before. “The public has been given Politburo's Resolution of March citizens” who had been shot in
Other prominent members of But Russia has taken steps to access to the original copies of 5, 1940, which gives the go- the Stalinist purges of the 1930s.
the ruling Soviet Politburo also try to confront the past since this the Katyn documents, kept at ahead to Beria's proposal to He went on: “Using these same
signed off on the slaughter. month’s plane crash, such as the State Socio-Political History execute the Polish officers.” methods, this crime was brought
A four-page document sent to s c r e e n i n g P o l i s h d i r e c t o r Archives. The Katyn Other documents included a to its perfection in relation to
Stalin by Beria, head of the Andrzej Wajda’s film about documents have never been handwritten note from 1959 by the Polish POWs.”
NKVD, the predecessor to the Katyn on state television for the accessible online on government the then KGB chief Alexander He said that Russian and Polish
KGB, sets out his proposal to first time. Mr Medvedev also websites. We have posted them Shelepin, telling the Soviet investigators should carry out
“quickly examine the use of the attended Mr Kaczynski's for the first time.” leadership that files on the joint research on the lists of
highest means of punishment – f u n e r a l i n P o l a n d , w h e r e He said that File Number One murdered Polish officers had victims to “restore truth to every
death by shooting”. Stalin’s Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz had been held in secret been destroyed as part of efforts last surname and to find all
signature and a red “top secret” appealed directly to him to try Communist archives during the to cover up the crime. those who were shot at killed at
stamp are visible on the front to resolve the countries’ difficult Soviet era under the control of Mr Artizov said that notes on Katyn and other places”.
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Have the Katyn files opened Pandora's Box?

(World News from Times showing how the NKVD, the newsreels of bodies being been raised to express
Online) forerunner to the KGB secret exhumed over commentary that unquestioning patriotism
Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:47:24 AM police, proposed the cold- blamed the killings on the towards the war victory. Some
blooded extermination of Polish Germans. Now they must are already dismissing today's
The facts may be known to prisoners to Stalin, the man still ponder whether any of their documents from the State
many but it will still shock held in awe by many older relatives took part in the Archive as forgeries, preferring
Russians to see the actual Russians as the great war leader calculated execution on Russian to retreat into implausible lies
d o c u m e n t s s h o w i n g h o w who saved the nation from the soil of the flower of Poland’s than confront unpleasant truths. A Week Ahead Of
casually Joseph Stalin and the N a z i s . T h e r e i s S t a l i n ’ s pre-war society. Russians indeed have many Election, UK PM
Soviet leadership dispatched signature of consent to a war For once Russians admit that reasons to take immense pride in
22,000 Polish prisoners to their crime. Stalin was guilty of this war the sacrifices made by their
Gordon Brown Makes
deaths at Katyn. Here is indisputable evidence crime, and that it was carried grandparents to defeat Hitler, Horrible Gaffe Caught
President Medvedev’s order to too of the extent to which the out by their ancestors, then they but a full accounting of history On Camera
publish the file comes at a Soviet regime lied and lied are forced to ask what other has yet to take place here.
Joe Weisenthal (The Money
sensitive moment for Russia, again for half a century to cover crimes were committed by the In seeking to put to rest one of Game)
just days before it celebrates the up responsibility for that crime. Soviet secret police or the Red the darkest chapters of the war
65th anniversary on May 9 of Not only Stalin, but Nikita Army during the momentous as a prelude to improved Submitted at 4/28/2010 7:33:00 AM

the Soviet defeat of Nazi Krushchev, the leader who struggle to defeat Hitler? If they relations with Poland, Mr
Germany in the Great Patriotic denounced Stalin’s personality A week before the election, UK
understand how Katyn poisoned Medvedev may have opened
War, as the Second Wolrd War cult, to whom KGB chief PM Gordon Brown has made a
relations with Poland, what Pandora’s Box. Other
is known here. horrible, career-ruining gaffe
Alexander Shelepin sent his reason is there not to examine uncomfortable episodes from
The Kremlin has painstakingly elegantly handwritten letter in caught on camera.
the causes of bitterness in the the Soviet era will have to be
constructed a sense of Russian 1959 calmly recommending the Basically, after doing a little
Baltic Republics of Latvia, examined if Russia is to be at
national pride on t h e destruction of records to ensure street-level chit-chat with an old
Lithuania and Estonia towards peace finally with all of its
foundations of the war victory, t h e K r e m l i n w a s n e v e r lady, he gets into his limo and
the Soviet occupation? Or of the neighbours and with itself.
seeing it as one of the few embarrassed by the accidental calls the woman bigoted, not
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May TV Season Finale Schedule 2010

Elizabeth Chan (TV Squad) warm at night. As the days get the sun. So should you!" Alas, Continue reading May TV
Submitted at 4/28/2010 6:00:00 AM longer and warmer, it's that time this particular May finale season Season Finale Schedule 2010
for TV fans to bid adieu to some will sting as we watch the clock Filed under: Programming
The short winter days aren't so of our favorite shows for the stop on '24' and bid our final Permalink| Email this| |
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Thailand protests turn violent once more First-time

(World News from Times
Online)
demanding that Mr Abhisit
resign and call a snap election,
constantly report what kind
bullets they are using,” Colonel
colours to make themselves less
recognisable, live in constant
Homebuying
Submitted at 4/28/2010 5:32:31 AM left their rallying point in the
centre of Bangkok in a convoy
Sansern Kaewkamnerd said.
“We brought force out to stop
expectation of a second
crackdown which, so far, has
101
Thai soldiers reportedly killed o f p i c k - u p t r u c k s a n d them. At this point, society finds not come. (HowStuffWorks Daily Feed)
one of their own comrades motorbikes. The security forces it unacceptable to have Suthep Thuangsuban, Mr Submitted at 4/27/2010 1:00:00 PM
yesterday in a c h a o t i c attempted to stop them on a road protesters travelling in a Abhisit’s deputy in charge of
c o n f r o n t a t i o n w i t h a n t i - passing through the city’s motorcade like this. We try our security, said: “It is clear the The upside of a housing-market
government Red Shirt protesters northern suburbs, close to the best to prevent losses.” protesters are not gathering crash? Prices fall, making it a
which left at least ten people former international airport. Twenty-seven people have died peacefully. We will not be great time to buy. Add to that
injured and brought further An advance party of about 100 in the violence so far, and close lenient with these people any the$8,000 tax rebate for first-
e m b a r r a s s m e n t t o t h e demonstrators was stopped by a to 900 have been injured, most more.” time buyers, and lots of renters
Government of the Prime line of soldiers who began by of them on April 10, when But in an interview with CNN, are looking to make the jump
Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva. firing into the air and attempting soldiers made a disastrously Mr Abhisit, suggested that they into home ownership.
The Associated Press reported to disperse the crowd with botched attempt to seize one of would choose their moment. It's not a simple process, but it's
that Thai security forces fired on shields and truncheons. After the Red Shirt strongholds. Since “We recognise that as every day entirely doable with a little
a group of motorbike-riding the Red Shirts responded with then, they have fallen back to passes by, the people of preparation. Start to finish,
soldiers, apparently believing stones and sling shots, they the Ratchaprasong area, a Thailand suffer, the country you're looking at about seven
them to be demonstrators began to fire directly at the district of five-star hotels, suffers, but we want to make major points on your to-do list.
e m b a r k e d o n a p r o t e s t crowd. shopping centres and expensive sure that there is rule of law,” Where should you start when
procession along a Bangkok It was not immediately clear shops, most of which have been he said. “We will try to enforce you're looking to buy your first
highway. After several of the whether they were using blank, closed indefinitely by the the law with minimum losses home?
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Internet Brands Snaps Up ExpertHub Network

Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:26:45 AM
Online media company Internet
Brands(aka INET) today
announced the acquisition of
ExpertHub, a network of
websites that connects
consumers with attorneys and
other professionals. The
network will get folded into the
company’s Money and Business
vertical.
Terms of the deal were not
disclosed, but it is perfectly in
line with Internet Brands’
growth-through-acquisition
strategy. The INET CrunchBase
profile lists 10 small purchases
in the last 3 years alone, and its
portfolio of brands is currently
100+ strong.
Its latest buy, startup
ExpertHub, operates a network
that includes dozens of websites,
s u c h a s
CriminalDefenseLawyer.com,
BankruptcyLawFirms.com, and
LawFirms.com.
Internet Brands also announced
the acquisition of two websites
in its Shopping vertical:
DoDTracker.com– which
aggregates deals from major
retailers – and PursePage.com, a
designer handbag review site.
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Coast Guard will start burning some Gulf slick oil (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) Deepwater Horizon, which was tried." forecasts show the winds and As of Tuesday, the spill was
Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:55:03 AM drilling 50 miles off the According to the National ocean currents veering toward about 20 miles offshore, south
Louisiana coast. Eleven workers Oceanic and Atmospheric the coast. The glistening sheen of Venice, La. It covered an
NEW ORLEANS – Authorities are missing and presumed dead, Administration, birds and of sweet crude is forming long expanding area about 48 miles
will begin burning some of the and the cause of the blast has mammals are more likely to reddish-orange ribbons of oil long and 80 miles wide, but with
thickest oil in a massive slick not been determined. escape a burning area of the that, if they wash up on shore, uneven borders, making it
from a rig explosion off the Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary ocean than escape from an oil could cover birds, white sand difficult to calculate its area in
coast of Louisiana. Landry said the controlled burns slick. The agency said birds beaches and marsh grasses. square miles.
A Coast Guard spokesman says would be done during the day might be disoriented by the "As the days progress, the (oil) "I understand there's got to be
the burn is expected to begin far from shore. Crews would plumes of smoke, but they plume will migrate north, industry, but it's so sad for our
Wednesday morning. make sure marine life and would be at much greater risk northeast," said Gregory W. kids. We don't have a lot of
Petty Officer 2nd Class Prentice people were protected and that from exposure to oil in the Stone, an oceanographer and beaches left," Bonnie Bethel,
Danner says fire-resistant work on other oil rigs would not water. head of the Coastal Studies 66, said as she watched her
containment booms will be used be interrupted. A similar burn off the coast of Institute at Louisiana State grandchildren splash in the
to corral some of the thickest oil The burning could start as early Newfoundland in 1993 University. "That plume will water on a Mississippi beach.
on surface, which will then be as Wednesday afternoon, but eliminated 50 to 99 percent of push onshore." "Can you imagine these poor
ignited. It was unclear how large whether it will work is unclear. captured oil. However, burning Hotel owners, fishermen and birds in oil?"
an area would be set on fire or Officials would be considering the oil also creates air pollution, restaurateurs are keeping Thousands of birds such as
how far from shore the first fire weather conditions including and the effect on marine life is anxious watch. egrets and brown pelicans are
would be set. wind and waves in deciding unclear. Louis Skrmetta, 54, runs a nesting on barrier islands close
The slick is the result of oil whether to go ahead with the Crews from the Texas General company called Ship Island to the rig's wreckage. If the oil
leaking from the site of last burn, BP spokesman Neil Land Office Oil Spill Prevention Excursions that takes tourists to gets to them, rescuers would
week's huge explosion of a deep Chapman said Wednesday. and Response Program are the Gulf Islands National need to reach their remote
water oil rig that burned and Ed Overton, a professor bringing in equipment to help Seashore, where white-sand islands, wash them down and
s a n k . E l e v e n w o r k e r s a r e emeritus of environmental corral the oil and burn the slick. beaches and green water create release them back into the wild.
missing and presumed dead. Oil sciences at Louisiana State Texas Land Commissioner an idyllic landscape. Michael Ziccardi, director of
continues to spill undersea, University, questioned the Jerry Patterson said burning "This is the worst possible thing the Oiled Wildlife Care
where robot submarines have method. surface oil is one of the best that could happen to the Network affiliated with the
been unable to cap the well. "It can be effective in calm ways to deal with so large a Mississippi Gulf Coast," he said. University of California at
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS water, not much wind, in a slick. "It will wipe out the oyster Davis, said he is standing by to
UPDATE. Check back soon for protected area," he said. "When The last time crews with the industry. Shrimping wouldn't clean up Gulf Coast birds.
further information. AP's earlier you're out in the middle of the agency used fire booms to burn recover for years. It would kill "Just about any petroleum can
story is below. ocean, with wave actions and oil was a 1995 spill on the San family tourism. That's our cause problems for birds
NEW ORLEANS(AP) — The currents pushing you around, it's Jacinto River, Patterson said. livelihood." because they lose their
Coast Guard is considering not easy." "When you burn it, the plume The last major spill in the Gulf waterproofing, and that's what
setting fire to a large oil spill in He has another concern: The oil from the fire is the biggest was in June 1979, when an keeps them dry and warm,"
the Gulf of Mexico to keep the samples from the spill he's environmental concern, but this offshore drilling rig in Mexican Ziccardi said. "It's a really
mess away from shore as efforts looked at shows it to be a sticky far out to sea it will not be as big waters — the Ixtoc I — blew difficult time, and we're close to
to cap a spewing well fail. substance similar to roofing tar. of a problem," Patterson said. up, releasing 140 million the peak of migration."
Crews have been unable to stop "I'm not super optimistic. This is Oil from the Deepwater gallons. It took until March The spill also threatens billions
thousands of barrels of oil from tarry crude that lies down in the Horizon is not expected to reach 1980 to cap the well, and the oil of fish eggs and larvae coating
fouling gulf waters since an water," he said. "But it's the coast until late in the week, contaminated U.S. waters and COAST page 8
April 20 explosion sank the something that has got to be if at all. But longer-term Texas shores.
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Website: Bullock is divorcing James, adopting

baby (AP)
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) was born in New Orleans, a city Side" on March 7. Within days hope Louis can experience one
Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:46:31 AM where Bullock and James had of her win, the cheating day, no matter how Jesse and I Apple's WWDC
both spent time after Katrina.
NEW YORK – Sandra Bullock Bullock said she and James
allegations became public and
Bullock went into seclusion.
go on with our lives."
News of the adoption quickly
kicks off on June
has filed for divorce from her sought to pull no strings as they
husband, Jesse James, and is submitted to the typically time-
The motorcycle mogul publicly
apologized to Bullock and his
seized the attention of fans of
Bullock and fellow celebrities
7th this year
adopting a baby boy as a single consuming screening process, children, Sunny, 6; Jesse Jr., 12; alike. Paul Miller (Engadget)
p a r e n t , a s t o r y p o s t e d with no thoughts to the gender and Chandler, 15. On Wednesday morning's " Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:48:00 AM

W e d n e s d a y o n P e o p l e or background of the child they He recently returned home after Live! with Regis and Kelly,"
m a g a z i n e ' s w e b s i t e s a i d . might receive. a 30-day stay in a treatment host Regis Philbin held up a Sure, you might hear the words
"Yes, I have filed for divorce," "We somehow knew the right facility where he sought help for copy of People magazine, which "Worldwide Developers
the 45-year-old Oscar-winning little person would come," she "personal issues," the story said. shows Bullock smiling at her Conference" and start to yawn,
actress said in an interview. "I'm said. When asked about whether baby son as she holds him high but in Apple parlance we're
sad and I am scared." Bullock said she got the call James had cheated, Bullock said over her head. looking at a likely
Bullock and James, 41, began that a baby might be available she "had no idea about "It's not very easy to adopt a announcement of a new iPhone
the adoption process four years for adoption during what she anything." baby," Philbin said. (the 3GS was shown at last
ago, the report said, and brought d e s c r i b e d a s " t h e m e d i a "I did the only thing I could do, He's cute, chirped co-host Kelly year's event) and maybe a sneak
3 1/2-month-old Louis Bardo craziness of the awards season." and that was to pack enough Ripa. peak at a new version of OS X.
Bullock home in January but Deciding to shield Louis from clothes to live on, get all of "Lucky little guy, too," said Whatever else Apple might have
decided to keep the news to that turmoil, she kept his Louis' things and get out of Philbin. in store for all of us is anyone's
themselves until after the existence hidden from all but a town. My main concern was And on Twitter, early entries guess, but suffice it to say that
Oscars. few trusted associates and loved Louis." saluted the new mother: " we expect to be bringing you the
In the interview, Bullock said ones. Her life (and his) became When asked whether James will Sandra Bullock is a true role meat from the opening keynote
she is savoring her new maternal an ongoing process of secrecy have any formal parenting role, model," posted judyavanness. just like always, though
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GUANGZHOU, China – A threatening injuries," said the a former classmate who broke drill a relief well to alleviate the a full investigation of the
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attacker was executed for killing students were treated there. He He had dropped out half a year BP said Tuesday that it planned Alan Sayre and Kevin McGill in
eight children last month, police refused to give his name. Calls earlier because he suffered from to begin drilling a relief well to New Orleans, Melissa Nelson in
and state media reported. to the school rang unanswered. h e a d a c h e s a n d c o u l d n o t redirect the leaking oil in a $100 Pensacola, Fla., and Ramit
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AUSTIN, Texas – Pistol-
packing Texas Gov. Rick Perry
has a message for wily coyotes
out there: Don't mess with my
dog.
Perry told The Associated Press
on Tuesday he needed just one
shot from the laser-sighted
pistol he sometimes carries
while jogging to take down a
coyote that menaced his puppy
during a February run near
Austin.
Perry said he will carry his .380
Ruger— loaded with hollow-
point bullets — when jogging
on trails because he is afraid of
snakes. He'd also seen coyotes
in the undeveloped area.
When one came out of the
brush toward his daughter's
Labrador retriever, Perry
charged.
"Don't attack my dog or you
might get shot ... if you're a
coyote," he said Tuesday.
Perry, a Republican running for
a third full term against
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holder, Perry carries the pistol in
a belt.
"I knew there were a lot of
predators out there. You'll hear a
pack of coyotes. People are
losing small cats and dogs all
the time out there in that
community," Perry said.
"They're very wily creatures."
On this particular morning,
Perry said, he was jogging
without his security detail
shortly after sunrise.
"I'm enjoying the run when
something catches my eye and
it's this coyote. I know he knows
I'm there. He never looks at me,
he is laser-locked on that dog,"
Perry said.
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Thai troop clash with protesters kills 1, wounds 18
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Submitted at 4/28/2010 7:56:13 AM
BANGKOK(Reuters) - Thai
troops fired live rounds and
rubber bullets at charging anti-
government protesters in a
chaotic clash that killed a soldier
and wounded 18 people on a
congested highway in
Bangkok's suburbs on
Wednesday.
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The troops had formed a
roadblock to stop about 2,000
"red shirt" protesters who left
their main protest site in central
Bangkok's shopping district on
pickup trucks and motorbikes in
defiance of a state of emergency
and despite repeated warnings.
About 100 protesters had
moved ahead of the main
convoy, charging at security
forces, who at first used batons
and shields to push them back,
witnesses said. Some red shirts
hurled stones, shot metal balls
from sling-shots and launched
fireworks at the soldiers.
Troops fired back with rubber
bullets followed by live rounds,
at first in the air and then
narrowly over protesters' heads,
as onlookers dashed for cover in
cars and buses in the traffic-
choked area 40 km (25 miles)
north of central Bangkok,
Reuters photographers and
witnesses said.
Three rounds of fighting finally
stopped when a powerful
tropical rainstorm drenched the
area. By nightfall, troops had
largely pulled out and many
protesters returned to their 3 sq-
km (1.2 sq-mile) fortified
encampment in central
Bangkok.
The state-run Erawan Medical
Center said at least 18 people
were wounded and one soldier
was killed. Witnesses said he
was shot through his helmet,
apparently caught in friendly
fire.
The fighting did nothing to end
an impasse between protesters
seeking elections and the
embattled, military-backed
government of Prime Minister
Abhisit Vejjajiva -- a seven-
week crisis that has killed 27
people, wounded more than 900,
paralyzed Bangkok and hurt
Southeast Asia's second-biggest
economy.
"The red shirts were testing the
will of the security forces and
now we saw that the
government is getting serious
about this," said Somjai
Phagaphasvivat, a professor at
Thammasat University. "But it's
hard to pronounce victory for
either side from the incident
today. There is still a lot of
uncertainty."
WIDENING POLITICAL
CHASM
The protesters began the day in
high spirits, honking horns and
singing as they headed for a
market 50 km (30 miles) away
in a rowdy, provocative
procession.
The violence stoked fears of
more unrest ahead after grenade
attacks last Thursday in
Bangkok's business district
killed a woman and wounded
more than 80 people, and the
military's failed attempt to
disperse protesters on April 10
killed 25 people.
The crisis is taking a deepening
toll on Thailand's economy.
Another three months of
protests could shave 0.64 of a
percentage point off Thailand's
2010 economic growth forecast
of 4.5 percent, according to
government forecasters.
Tourism, a major industry that
supports six percent of the
economy and directly or
indirectly employs 15 percent of
the country, is crumbling in the
face of travel warnings. Arrivals
at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi
Airport have fallen by a third
this month alone, government
data show.
Thailand's stock index, an
emerging market darling over
February and March, has lost
more than 3 percent in April,
when the protests turned violent,
against a 1.8 percent rise in
Asia's markets outside of Japan.
The crisis has widened a
political chasm between the
rural masses and working poor
that support the red shirts and
what they call a "traditional
elite" who have long run
Thailand. Thais have rarely been
so divided. Anger is building on
both sides.
Analysts say a well-armed
rogue military element led by
retired generals is supporting the
protesters and is allied with the
red shirts' de facto leader,
former premier Thaksin
Shinawatra, who was ousted in a
2006 coup. Thai newspapers
talk of a looming civil war if
neither side backs down.
WALL OF FIRE
Fears of a military crackdown
on the occupied shopping
district spread almost nightly,
only to be dismissed as empty
rumors each morning, keeping
the city of 15 million in a
heightened state of anxiety.
The red shirts' medieval-like,
three-meter (10 ft) high
barricade in the business district
-- built of bamboo staves and
tires -- as been doused with fuel
so it can be turned into an
explosive wall of fire should
security forces try an assault.
Hopes for a negotiated end to
the crisis were dashed at the
weekend when the British-born,
Oxford-educated Abhisit
rejected a proposal by the
protesters for an election in
three months, saying he would
not negotiate in the face of
threats.
Some within the powerful
military appear reluctant to be
dragged into battle with
civilians, urging a political
solution. Army sources say a
crackdown on the red shirts
could cause high casualties and
spill into upscale residential
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neighborhoods.
The protesters are demanding
immediate elections. Abhisit
says he is willing to call
elections in December, a year
early. Both sides want to be in
power during a September
reshuffle of the country's
powerful military and police
forces.
If Thaksin's camp prevails and
is governing at the time of the
reshuffle, analysts expect big
changes including the ousting of
generals allied with Thailand's
royalist elite, a prospect
royalists fear could diminish the
power of the monarchy.
With so much at stake, the
deadlock could continue for
weeks.
The red shirts say Abhisit came
to power illegitimately in 2008,
heading a coalition cobbled
together with the help of the
military, after a pro-Thaksin
government fell when a court
dissolved a party affiliated with
him.
Thaksin, a former telecoms
tycoon revered by the poor and
reviled by Bangkok's elite, was
convicted in absentia on
corruption-related charges and
lives abroad to avoid jail.
(Additional reporting by Adrees
Latif and Chalathip
Thirasoonthrakul; Writing by
Jason Szep; Editing by Bill
Tarrant)
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Pressure grows on Germany to back Greek bailout
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Submitted at 4/28/2010 7:38:57 AM
BERLIN(Reuters) - German
politicians came under pressure
Wednesday to cast aside their
doubts over a bailout for
Greece, with markets
increasingly alarmed that
Athens may default on its debt
and trigger a meltdown
elsewhere in Europe.
Greece
The heads of the European
Central Bank and International
Monetary Fund were both due to
brief German lawmakers about
the growing crisis that is
pounding global stocks and
driving up borrowing costs for
several euro zone countries.
European Commission officials
dismissed any talk of a
restructuring of Greece's debt
mountain, which totaled 115
percent of gross domestic
product last year and is
projected to push even higher as
Athens struggles to tame its
huge deficit.
However, the spread between
Greek and German bonds hit
record highs Wednesday and the
cost of insuring Greek debt rose
above Venezuela's, according to
CMA Datavision, suggesting the
market believes Greece is more
likely than not to default.
Greece has asked for as much
as 45 billion euros ($59.94
billion) in emergency loans
from its euro zone partners and
the IMF. Investors, fearing the
Germans in particular are
dragging their feet, are urging
swift implementation of a
bailout.
"The chances of a default by the
Greek government are
increasing not by the day but by
the hour. If the IMF and
European governments don't
come up with something
quickly, then I see the market
going down further quite
rapidly," said Koen De Leus,
economist at KBC Securities.
The euro hit a one-year low
against the dollar while
European stocks fell to a seven-
week low.
Rating agency Standard and
Poor's slashed Greek debt to
junk status Tuesday and also
downgraded Portugal, raising
concerns the crisis may engulf
other heavily indebted EU
states.
European Central Bank
Executive Board member
Juergen Stark said EU
governments must move rapidly
to put their finances in order,
adding that current fiscal
policies were not sustainable.
"The onus is now on
governments to ensure that the
crisis that initially affected the
financial sector, and
subsequently the real economy,
does not lead to a full-blown
sovereign debt crisis," Stark
said.
"Averting it will require very
ambitious and credible fiscal
consolidation efforts. In fact,
substantially stronger
consolidation efforts than those
conceived so far."
EMERGENCY SUMMIT
European Union President
Herman Van Rompuy said he
would convene a summit of euro
zone countries around May 10
and insisted there would be no
restructuring of Greek debt.
"Our governments are fully
committed to provide support
for Greece to ensure the stability
of the euro zone," Van Rompuy,
in Tokyo for a EU-Japan
summit, told a news conference.
"I'm ... fully confident that an
agreement will be reached in the
coming days on a very strong
and ambitious adjustment
program which will set a
credible, medium-term strategy
for the Greek economy."
Public opinion in Germany is
particularly hostile to the idea of
bailing out Greece, which has
misled its partners in recent
years about the gravity of its
deficit and has failed to
implement the sort of tough
reforms Germany has
undergone.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's
party risks defeat in a regional
election on May 9 and has faced
fierce pressure to cast Greece
adrift, despite warnings that
could lead to market mayhem.
ECB President Jean-Claude
Trichet and IMF chief
Dominique Strauss-Kahn will
brief German leaders on the
plans to help Greece and are due
to hold a news conference
around 1230 GMT. Merkel will
make a statement at 1445
GMT.).
France's Budget Minister
Francois Baroin said Germany
was moving toward acceptance
that it had to offer Greece a
lifeline.
"Germany is removing its
remaining doubts and questions
over the German engagement
and therefore Europe's
engagement," he said, adding
that Portugal was not in the
same boat as Greece.
"The situation in Portugal is not
the same as in Greece. The debt
level is important but the
Portuguese did not lie."
Members of Merkel's Christian
Democrats (CDU) have said
they want to discuss forcing
investors to take a discount on
Greek debt. Such talk has
effectively brought a halt to
trading in Greek sovereign debt
on secondary markets.
Greece's securities regulator
banned short-selling in shares
on the Athens bourse until June
28 after investors responding to
the deepening debt crisis ditched
Greek assets.
As market pressure on Greece
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has intensified, signs have
grown it needs much more than
45 billion euros.
The Financial Times reported
the IMF is considering raising
its contribution by 10 billion
euros to 25 billion.
S&P cut its rating of Greek
government debt by a full three
notches to BB-plus, the first
level of speculative status. The
outlook is negative, meaning the
agency could downgrade Greece
again.
The downgrade put Greece
below Kazakhstan, Hungary and
Iceland, the last of which rocked
global markets when its main
banks imploded at the start of
the global financial crisis.
Most Greeks disapprove of
their government's decision to
ask for financial aid, according
to the first opinion poll since the
request was made. Of 1,400
people surveyed, 60.9 percent
said they were against the
decision, said the poll, released
on Tuesday by Greek Public
Opinion for Mega TV.
(Writing by Dominic Evans and
Crispian Balmer; editing by
Mark Trevelyan)
($1=.7508 Euro)
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was caught on tape describing a in the opinion polls over the last were agreed on the need to cut party wins an overall majority,
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government
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Submitted at 4/28/2010 9:35:00 AM
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m o n i t o r e d c a r e t a k e r stakes coalition negotiations. bloodshed. A serious collapse in the last national elections in It's a well established norm in
government. Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al- security could threaten U.S. 2005 to form a government. civilized geek society that visual
World Maliki's State of Law coalition plans to end combat operations That lengthy political vacuum representations such as "=)" can
The Iraqiya list of ex-premier won two seats fewer than in August ahead of a full allowed sectarian violence to and should be used to substitute
Iyad Allawi said parliament Allawi's Iraqiya in the next 325- withdrawal by the end of 2011. take hold. for the laborious exercise of
should be reconvened to seat parliament, and it Iraqiya said in a statement it U.S. Ambassador Chris Hill expressing emotions through
s u p e r v i s e t h e S h i ' i t e - l e d successfully sought a recount of had examined its options for this week said current words or actions. Taking that
authorities until the results of votes in Baghdad that could defending its electoral lead and conditions were far removed notion to its logical extreme, the
the March 7 election are ratified, overturn Iraqiya's lead. concluded that the U.N. Security from those of 2005. Kaoiro emoticon stamp comes
and to prevent the "theft" of the In addition, a Shi'ite-led Council, the European Union, However, he said he was with 7 rows of symbols that the
election and a spike in violence. commission whose purpose is to the Organization of the Islamic concerned about the length of hardworking digi-linguist can
"We will not stay silent in the prevent sympathizers of fallen Conference and the Arab time it was taking to certify the convert into an almost limitless
face of what is happening in the dictator Saddam Hussein's League should establish a election result and urged Iraqi variety of text-based
I r a q i p o l i t i c a l a r e n a w i t h Baath party from returning to caretaker Iraqi government and politicians to "get this show on visualizations. Just look above
attempts to marginalize and power is challenging votes cast hold new elections. the road." should you need inspiration.
exclude the Iraqiya list," Allawi for candidates with alleged It said it would also ask Iraq's (Additional reporting by Khalid You'll need to pull together $51
told al-Sharqiya television Baathists links, most from presidency council to reconvene al-Ansary; Writing by Michael to buy one, plus $18 for
station from outside Iraq. He Iraqiya. parliament to monitor the Christie; Editing by Samia shipping, but that's surely
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Infochimps Release Twitter Data, "Trst.Me" App and API for

Ranking Twitter Users
Audrey Watters the 1.6 billion tweets created taken into consideration. was excited about the potential
(ReadWriteWeb) between March 2006 and March This "trst.me" rank - available for this and other social media
Submitted at 4/28/2010 12:08:00 AM 2010. For $250 you can as a dataset, an API, and an information - most notably
purchase a dataset extracted application - can be used by public Facebook data. He says
Austin-based data aggregation from those same 1.6 billion developers, researchers and he recognizes there are privacy
service Infochimps released tweets with all mentions of In addition to releasing businesses to target, rank and concerns and that people "feel
several major sets of data s t o c k t o k e n s a n d r e l a t e d information about the counts understand Twitter users. different" about their Facebook
extracted from the Twitter API k e y w o r d s . and keyword content of our Access to the API will cost $150 and Twitter data, but he argues
today, as well as Infochimp's These datasets can provide tweets, Infochimps offers a new per quarter, but could hold a lot that open data needn't be a
first application and API based incredible insights into real-time analytical tool: Trst.me, a of possibilities for developers "nightmare" and hopes to
on one of these datasets. trends and conversations, as ranking system for Twitter wanting to be able to weight demonstrate the benefits of
Updating the "Twitter census" Twitter captures how we relate users. Infochimps has taken 40 Twitter influence or filter those building "awesome stuff,"
data it released in November to one another and what sort of million Twitter users and tweets around a particular including apps and analytics that
2 0 0 9 , t h e d a t a s e t s a n d information we share. While assigned them a score from one stream. can "democratize access" to
histograms Infochimps made information from Twitter has to 10 using an algorithm similar Kromer says the decision to information about users'
available today include ones that been culled to assess which to Google's pagerank build an API was a response interests and behaviors.
track Twitter users by follower websites we'll like and which calculations. The Trst.me from developers he talked to at As a recent article in The
count and by profile page color movies will perform well, application demonstrates what Chirp, many of whom wanted a Economist observed, we are at
(used to make the visualization analysis from Twitter and from Sarah Perez wrote here last quick and agile tool for the point of an "industrial
below). the expanding social graph is month: that Twitter influence is development, but not revolution of data," with vast
Sponsor really just beginning. Like, for not solely based on follower necessarily access to the full amounts of digital information
"Fresh Twitter Data" example, the ability to track the count, but rather by the databases Infochimps can being created, stored and
While the two sets are among time and mention of stock influence of your followers. In provide. The Future of Big Data analyzed. There seems to be
those available for no charge, names. The new dataset of stock other words, your rank would In 2008, Infochimps released a ample opportunity in the fields
Infochimps sells the more in- i n f o r m a t i o n o f f e r e d b y increase far more by having scrape of Twitter data which of data aggregation, analysis,
depth and extensive datasets it's I n f o c h i m p s h o p e s t o Justin Bieber follow you than by was later taken down at the and visualization. With a
derived from Twitter, proving demonstrate to the financial having me do so. According to request of the microblogging corpus of over 1.6 billion
there's a continued marketplace industry what the music and Infochimps co-founder Flip site over user privacy concerns. tweets, Infochimps has certainly
for this sort of information. For film industry already know: big Kromer, the company plans on But Kromer says Infochimps given us a lot of data to get
$300 you can buy the dataset data is a powerful prediction adding additional metrics to this received Twitter's blessing at started on. Discuss
containing an hour-by-hour tool. tool so that responses and Chirp earlier this month for the
breakdown of the occurence of Trst.me, a Page Rank for retweets, as well as influence release of today's datasets. In an
hashtags, URLs, and smileys in Twitter around a particular topic, can be interview today, Kromer said he

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Sprint improves, but still sees losses Digital Sky buys AOL's
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:20:59 AM
Sprint Nextel's road to recovery
is paved with many potholes.
The company did beat analysts'
expectations for the first quarter
of 2010, but high-value
customers continued to depart,
albeit at a slower rate. And its
financial losses in the first
quarter widened.
Sprint lost 578,000 postpaid
customers who are on a contract
and pay monthly bills. This beat
expectations, as analysts had
expected the company to lose
about 623,500 customers,
according to Reuters. A year
ago, Sprint lost 1.25 million
postpaid customers.
The company's net customer
loss, including prepaid
customers, was 75,000. A year
ago, Sprint lost 182,000 total
customers.
Prepaid customers grew well
during the quarter for Sprint.
The company added 348,000
prepaid customers and 155,000
wholesale customers.
Granola Scales Your CPU for Energy
Savings [Downloads]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 5:30:00 AM
Windows/Linux: Your
computer's processor may be
able to handle 3D shooters and
ICQ
But overall, the company said it
was generating less revenue on
each of its subscribers. Due to
flat-rate pricing on the postpaid
side, Sprint's customers on
average spent slightly less on
their monthly bills than
previously, with the average
revenue per user at $55. Prepaid
revenue also fell during the
quarter.
Sprint reported that it lost $865
million, or 29 cents per share,
compared to a loss of $594
million, or 21 cents a share,
during the first quarter a year
ago. Excluding tax related
charges, Sprint's loss was 17
cents a share, which is line with
analysts' expectations.
Revenue for the first quarter
dipped 2 percent to $8.09
billion, compared with $8.21
billion last year, but it was better
than analysts had expected.
They had pegged revenue
forecasts at $8.05 billion.
The financial losses and the
customer losses come as Sprint
struggles to compete with
AT&T and Verizon Wireless.
complex rendering, but most of
the time, you probably just need
Sprint has aggressively priced
its service plans with flat-rate
pricing and it's been offering
more compelling devices, such
as new Android smartphones.
It's also been focusing more on
its prepaid businesses. Even
though the company is still
losing customers and its
revenues were down, Sprint has
been improving.
What's more, Sprint isn't the
only wireless provider that is
finding it difficult to add
valuable postpaid customers.
With wireless market
penetration in the U.S. over 90
percent, AT&T and Verizon
Wireless also struggled to add
new high-value customers in the
first quarter.
Sprint reiterated its forecast that
subscriber losses would
continue to improve in 2010.
And it said it would spend $2
billion on its network in 2010.
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Technology/ Culture/
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 7:07:04 AM
D I G I T A L S K Y
TECHNOLOGIES TO
ACQUIRE AOL'S ICQ
INSTANT MESSAGING
SERVICE
Moscow / New York - April 28,
2010 - AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL)
and Digital Sky Technologies
Limited (DST), the largest
Internet company in the Russian
-speaking and Eastern European
markets, announced today that
they have reached an agreement
for DST to acquire ICQ - the
leading instant messaging
service in Russia and a number
of other international markets -
for $187.5 million.
ICQ was created in 1996 by the
Israeli company Mirabilis. AOL
acquired the assets of Mirabilis,
primarily ICQ, in June 1998.
Available in 16 languages, ICQ
has more than 32 million unique
visitors per month.*
Approximately 80 percent of
ICQ users are between the ages
of 13 and 29 and spend an
average of more than five hours
a day connected to the service,
according to internal data. ICQ
has built a successful presence
in markets like Russia,
Germany, Czech Republic and
15
Israel.
"The acquisition of ICQ is a
strategic enhancement of our
business in Russia and Eastern
Europe. ICQ's long-standing
brand name and its sizeable
loyal customer base together
represent a very attractive
opportunity to further strengthen
our position in the region," said
Yuri Milner, Chief Executive
Officer of DST.
"As AOL continues its
turnaround effort, we're
fortunate to find a great home
for ICQ with DST," said Tim
Armstrong, Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of AOL.
"DST is a leading innovator in
the Internet investment space
and has a significant presence in
the markets where ICQ is
strong. Founded and run in
Israel, ICQ has been a
revolutionary company on the
Internet. We wish them great
success as a part of DST and
will be rooting for them going
forward."
*February 2010 comScore
Media Metrix data
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Pirate Bay says acquisition claims are 'fraud'

(CNET News.com) unpaid taxes.
Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:37:35 AM The difference between then
and now is that Pandeya has
The operators of The Pirate Bay taken his show on the road.
have denied claims that the According to an interview he
Swedish BitTorrent index and did with me last February,
search engine has been sold. Pandeya said he plans to operate
Hans Pandeya, CEO of Global a digital-media operation here in
Gaming Factory, appears to the United Sates. Think Of The Children:
have brought his act to U.S. Here's where things really get Parents Television
shores.(Credit: Greg interesting. Last month, Pandeya
Sandoval/CNET) paid $325,000 for Business
Council Finds iPhone
The Pirate Bay was responding Marketing Services, a company Apps Too Saucy
to claims made on Tuesday by that makes wall calendars and John Biggs (TechCrunch)
Swedish businessman Hans trades its over-the-counter stock Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:35:59 AM
Pandeya, who announced he had on the OTC Bulletin Board
paid $10 million to acquire The (OTCBB), according to the SEC So you bought your child an
Pirate Bay. The news was filing. According to the records, iPhone and you gave him or her
widely reported in Boston where the company owned little if any an iTunes account and password
Pandeya now resides. assets and the previous majority and told them that they can
"We have no deal with them," owner worked as a pit boss at simply download as many apps
said a note that was posted to gambling casino. as they want, 24 hours a day,
The Pirate Bay's blog on It was Business Marketing even if they cost money. But
you, it's probably because last collapsed in scandal after
Wednesday. "We have not even Services that allegedly acquired what's this? Junior or Julia has
year Pandeya whipped up plenty Pandeya's software company,
talked to them. Since this is The Pirate Bay and issued the started downloading saucy sex
of media attention after claiming Global Gaming Factory X, was
quite heavy fraud and we don't press release. sensors and card games
he was prepared to acquire The booted off the Swedish stock
want our users to buy shares or More to come containing images of ladies in
Pirate Bay, one of the best exchange where its shares
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Hollywood has long accused possessed enough funds to
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The Pirate Bay of being a tool complete the deal and after
immediately to an interview Apple isn't doing enough to
for online piracy. Swedish authorities seized his
request. prevent underage children from
Pandeya's deal back then car, boat and motorcycle for
If all this sounds familiar to downloading apps even though
each app download requires a
password to be tapped in and
parental controls can prevent
certain apps from appearing on
the phone. After all, it's Apple's
responsibility to ensure that kids
don't see boobs, not yours.
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AOL's revenue tumbles 23 percent
(CNET News.com)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 7:47:09 AM
Web advertising is back, but
not at AOL: The company says
revenue declined 23 percent in
the last quarter, with ad sales
dropping by 19 percent.
The company reported earnings
of 32 cents on revenue of $664
million. Add back one-time
charges and you'd get earnings
of 79 cents per share.
The Street was looking for
revenue of $679 million, and
I've seen "consensus"
expectations for earnings all
over the map--ranging from 34
cents a share (including
restructuring charges) to 80
cents (which excludes the
charges). The just-announced
sale of ICQ doesn't figure into
the first-quarter results, and
won't do so until the third
How I Would Better
Protect My Mint.com
Account [Personal Finance]
Jason Owens (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 4/27/2010 5:00:00 PM
We're no strangers to paranoia
and online personal finance, but
popular webapp Mint still won
us over in the long run. Security
professional and blogger Jason
Owens offers tips for how he'd
add extra layers of security to
quarter.
Here's Citigroup analyst Mark
Mahaney's ever-helpful "cheat
sheet" to assist you in
interpreting the numbers (click
to enlarge):
In the old days, you'd be able to
say that AOL's results helped
you understand the Web
advertising market, a la earlier
numbers from Google and
Yahoo. But given that CEO Tim
Armstrong is still rebuilding his
company, that's not the case
here. While both Yahoo and
Google showed significant
revenue growth, AOL is still
shrinking.
But Armstrong has had the job
for a year, and didn't start his
overhaul in earnest until last
summer. So he still has a grace
your sensitive Mint account.
More »
period before investors expect to
see results.
How much longer does he
have? AOL's public line is that
there won't be much movement
until the end of 2010. But
privately they concede that
they'll have to start impressing
people this summer in order to
justify expectations, which are
surprisingly high--AOL shares
are up by about 20 percent this
year.
AOL's earnings call starts at
10am eastern; I'll check back
with them then.
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AllThingsD. All rights reserved.
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dead (and Apple
helped kill it)
Michael Grothaus (The
It was FLOPPY
Unofficial1997 and page
Apple Apple18had just
Weblog
(TUAW))the iMac G3. It was a
released
Submitted at 4/28/2010 9:00:00 AM
beautiful interesting computer: a
Technology/ Culture/
Google Adds Similar
Page Suggestions to
Search Results
Mike Melanson
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 10:11:31 AM
In its continued effort to custom
tailor search results and suggest
that what your searching for
might actually be something
else, Google has brought its
similar page results onto the
front page of your search
results.
You've likely seen the feature
we're talking about before, but
never clicked on it and now you
won't have to, as it will be
included directly at the bottom
of your first search results page.
Sponsor
The feature follows along the
lines of many other
improvements the search engine
has made recently, such as
localizing its search suggestions
list, adding search suggestions
to Google Maps and even
suggesting a suicide hotline
number for select search
phrases. While we've certainly
taken some issue with Google's
personalization of search results,
there are obvious benefits to the
user experience as a whole. The
difference here is that Google is
not, it would seem, making
these suggestions as a result of
studying your surfing history
17
and personal habits, but instead
by analyzing linking structures.
Google offers an example of
how this new feature could
prove to be handy to its users:
For example, with the recent
earthquakes around the world,
many of us have been looking
for international relief
organizations. We knew that
Direct Relief International has
been actively involved in Haiti,
so we started off by searching
for [direct relief international].
The first result on the page
linked us to the Direct Relief
website, where we found many
ways to help in Haiti. But what
if one wants to support several
organizations? If you click the
"Similar" link that's on the same
l i n e a s t h e
"www.directrelief.org/" URL,
you'll find other nonprofits that
are also involved in relief
efforts.
The feature seems to be rolling
out in waves, so don't worry if
you don't see it yet, it will be
there soon. Discuss
18 Technology/ Economy/
TUAW's Daily App: Darkroom Pro
Mike Schramm (The Unofficial
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:00:00 AM
Filed under: iPhone I've been a
fan of the Darkroom app for the
iPhone almost since the
beginning, only because it
contained a bit of functionality I
think that should have been
included in the device from the
start: a steady mode. The
original Darkroom offered up a
steady-shot mode that let you
press a shutter button at any
time, but then waited to actually
take a picture until the iPhone's
accelerometer told it that the
phone was steady in place. The
iPhone's camera has gotten
better over the years, but
especially in low-light
situations, making sure the
camera is steady is reason
enough to use this app.
And newer versions (after a
short buggy delay right around
iPhone OS 3.0) have added even
Portuguese Bank CDS Go Vertical
Gregory White (The Money
Game)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 7:54:25 AM
Portugal's banks are starting to
buckle under the pressure of
your normal camera album if
you'd rather upload them
somewhere else. The latest
update, released just this week,
lets you tag your photos by
place, so you can browse them
later according to the location
they were taken at.
Darkroom Pro is definitely
worth the 99 cent price if you do
any regular photography with
your iPhone at all. There's also a
free version available, and while
the functionality on that one is
limited, it still does have a
steady mode included, so you
can
TUAW TUAW's Daily App:
more functionality, including a D a r k r o o m P r o o r i g i n a l l y
fullscreen shutter mode (no appeared on The Unofficial
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(which I've never used), but you
can also just funnel pictures into
their state's fiscal crisis, as
Greece's debt problems spread
across the continent.
It may have a smaller deficit,
and it may have taken austerity are still feeling the pressure of
measures, but Portugal's banks
FLOPPY
continued from page 17
sleek, all-in-one case, with
something new called USB. One
thing it didn't have was a floppy
disk. At the time, many believed
Apple was insane for leaving a
floppy disk drive off the iMac,
but did Steve Jobs care? Nope.
The floppy was archaic
technology to him. A CD-ROM
drive was where it's at.
Well, thirteen years later --
almost a decade after most
people stopped using floppy
disks, Sony, the inventor of the
floppy disk, has officially
announced that they are killing
the 1.44MB storage device. As
of next year, Sony will no
longer manufacture the floppy
disk.
Most of my Word documents
are larger than 1.44MB
nowadays and I can't think of a
single file I've created on my
computer that I would need to
transport to another computer,
that would even fit on a floppy.
Now that I think about it, I
haven't actually used my
Superdrive for reading or
writing any optical media since I
bought my MacBook Pro two
years ago either. In another ten
their sovereign's problems, and
the value of CDS is starting to
widen as a result.
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years, will optical media have
gone of the way of the floppy?
So, what have we learned?
Steve was ridiculed for leaving
the floppy off the iMac because
he saw it as archaic. Now he
gets to say "I told you so." If
Steve does have the power to
gaze into the tech future, Adobe
should be worried about Flash
going the way of the floppy, as
Steve reportedly told the Wall
Street Journal, dropping Flash is
no different than the decision to
drop the floppy drive from the
iMac. Will he be right again?
Only time will tell.
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Weekly Poll: What Does VMforce
Mean For Oracle, SAP and the Rest? videogame badge, other
Alex Williams
(ReadWriteWeb)
Submitted at 4/27/2010 10:52:20 PM
The VMforce news we've
reported on today makes it
likely game for our weekly poll.
What we want to know is your
view on how significant the
VMforce platform will be for
the market. The view from
here: The alliance between
Salesforce.com and VMware
will depend on the Java
developer community the two
companies develop.
So, in your opinion, what does
VMforce mean for competing
vendors such as Google,
Amazon, Oracle and SAP?
Sponsor
What does VMforce mean for
competing vendors such as
Google, Amazon, Oracle and
SAP? online surveys
Dennis Howlett says it's an
FamilySearch Beta Finds Historical
Records on Your Family
[Genealogy]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 5:00:00 AM
FamilySearch, the online arm
of the Family History Library, that lets the public dig around to
has a new beta search service find documents and facts on
Boy Scouts introduce
badges ask 'Really?'
opportunity for Salesforce.com
to re-architect itself and position
itself in the mid to high-end
market:"Both Oracle and SAP
are substantial Java shops. There
have been concerns among Java
fans that somehow, Oracle
would mess up the open source
Java community. VMForce
spikes that because if Oracle
chooses to play fast and loose
then VMForce could become a
natural safe haven. SAP on the
other hand has been conflicted
over Java. Co-founder Hasso
Plattner has said that he'd like to
eliminate Java from SAP apps.
That is neither realistic nor
likely to happen. More recently,
the company has been making
fresh commitments to Java and
Eclipse. Both SAP and
VMForce/Salesforce.com like to
talk about open-ness so this
could present new opportunities
for SAP developers to consider
VMForce as a pathway to
bringing cloud based apps into
their environments where it
makes sense to do so and where
the VMForce platform provides
what developers need."
So what do you think? What
does VMforce mean for
competing vendors such as
Google, Amazon, Oracle and
SAP? Discuss
their relatives and ancestors. It's
a pretty huge index of data, and
it's free. More »
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Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:27:00 AM
Yes, really. The Boy Scouts of
America have finally recognized
that most important of modern
children's pastimes with the
creation of a "Video Games"
belt loop and pin. However, our
initial excitement on this
momentous day is drastically
lessened after reading how one
goes about earning them. Here
are the belt loop's three
requirements: tournament, and learn how to
comparison shop for prices. In
• Explain why it is important to other words, the Boy Scouts
have a rating system for video aren't interested in how many
games. Check your video games digits you have in your
to be sure they are right for your Gamerscore, don't care how
age. stuffed your Trophy Room is,
• With an adult, create a and shun your techniques for
schedule for you to do things surviving the latest Trials HD
that includes your chores, expansion. We, however, are all
homework, and video gaming. ears.
Do your best to follow this
schedule.
Boy Scouts introduce
videogame badge, other badges
• Learn to play a new video
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POLL: Which Location-Based Smoothies -

from Consumer
Mobile App Do You Use Now? Reports
Richard MacManus below. You can also tweet your
(ReadWriteWeb) answer to @rww. Press Room (Consumer
Reports)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 1:16:37 AM Which location-based mobile
app do you use THE MOST? Submitted at 4/27/2010 9:00:59 PM

Prior to SXSW, we polled you online survey

on what location-based mobile
app you would use during the
festival. Brightkite and
Foursquare were the most
popular picks, with Gowalla
third. We also polled you a year
ago about this class of app and
See also:
• Two-Thirds of iPhone Users
Now Use Location-Based
Services at Least Once a Week
• Top 10 Mobile Trends of
2010, Part 2: Apps, Apps, Apps
Whatever the case, it was an
inconclusive result at SXSW
First Look at Fennec, or
Firefox Mobile on
Android [Screenshot
Tour]
Kevin Purdy (Lifehacker)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 4:15:00 AM
Smoothies - from Consumer
Reports To see which smoothis
are worth sipping, Consumer
Reports' trained tasters tried
twelve refrigerated products,
and sampled offerings from two
smoothie chains for the May

at that time Brightkite was a
clear favorite.
As an attendee at SXSW, it
seemed like Foursquare and
Gowalla were the most used.
Brightkite seemed to drop off
the radar of SXSW attendees,
but perhaps that was because
Foursquare and Gowalla had the
most press attention at that time.
and there was a sense that none
of the 3 leading location-based
mobile apps 'won' that battle. It's
now a month later, so we
thought we'd poll you again to
see which - if any - of these
apps you use regularly now.
Sponsor
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there! Register here. Discuss
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Mobile, a.k.a. Fennec, is worth ConsumerReports.org for expert
testing out on newer Android Ratings, buying advice and
phones. It's a pretty neat reliability on hundreds of
browser with a lot of potential, products. Update your feed
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Apple disses the desktop?

Brett Terpstra (The Unofficial apps this year, instead only ADA is a pretty big deal, the great platform that it is.
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) allowing submissions which are especially for the independent TUAW Apple disses the
Submitted at 4/28/2010 10:00:00 AM available on the App Store. This developers who've been stars of desktop? originally appeared on
obviously would make the the show previously. Without The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Filed under: WWDC ADAs specific to iPod touch, recognition, and the sales boost (TUAW) on Wed, 28 Apr 2010
Photo by Magic Madzik iPhone and iPad apps, that goes with it, desktop 10:00:00 EST. Please see our
As we noted, the WWDC 2010 d i s a l l o w i n g a n y o f t h e developers will have one less terms for use of feeds.
dates have been set, and the new magnificent software for the reason to keep making great Read| Permalink| Email this|
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folks are noting with dismay, highlighted in years past. Desktop software still rules my missing some information here,
though, that the Apple Design I passionately support mobile computing world, and not but it looks pretty cut and dry to
A w a r d s a p p e a r t o h a v e development, but I can't say that supporting its development me: Apple is shunning the
completely forsaken desktop I do most of my computing on seems to me to be a travesty. An developers who make the Mac
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AOL’s Total Revenue

Drops To $664 Million
For The First Quarter
Robin Wauters (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 7:16:33 AM

AOL just released its financial

results for the first quarter of
2010, reporting another drop in
total revenues.
If revenue dropped 17% year- million in Q1 2010.
Revenue from international
WWDC 2010 officially announced over-year in the last quarter of
2009 compared to the same
period a year before, its total
display advertising, in
particular, took quite a nosedive
Dave Caolo (The Unofficial wondered if Apple will be and Summer. Tickets are on sale with a 29% drop year-over-year.
Apple Weblog (TUAW)) revenues for the past quarter
giving equal emphasis to now for US$1,599. Just Search and contextual
were down a painful 23%
Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:45:00 AM traditional Mac development remember, attendees must agree advertising also took a hit: -
compared to the first quarter of
versus the iPhone OS platform, to the Registered Apple 27%.
2009.
Filed under: WWDC well, this picture says a Developer Terms and On a slightly more positive
AOL has disclosed that it has
At long last, the wait is over. thousand words. This is not a Conditions as part of the note, AOL has reduced costs in
sold ICQ to Digital Sky
Apple has officially announced new OS X year but it is a big conference ticket purchase Q1 2010 as operating expenses
Technologies for$187.5 million
WWDC 2010. The "center of new iPhone OS device year and process. declined $139 million versus the
in cash, and that it is still
the app universe" will take place the conference schedule reflects We'll see you in June! first quarter of 2009.
considering a sale or shutdown
from June 7th - 11th at Moscone that emphasis. TUAW WWDC 2010 officially The company had $262.4
of social network Bebo this
West in sunny San Francisco, This is certainly the latest date announced originally appeared million of cash-on-hand, or
year.
California. that Apple has ever announced on The Unofficial Apple approximately $2.45 per share
Zooming in on the advertising
This year's event has five major its WWDC dates in recent years Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 28 of cash, on its balance sheet on
part of the equation, Q4
sessions and lab categories: (typically, it's announced in Apr 2010 08:45:00 EST. Please March 31, 2010. CrunchBase
revenues on that level dropped
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quarter of 2009 to $354.3
& Web. For those who have schedule the rest of their Spring

Cutest Kid of the Day: Hyrum

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AOL Sells Instant TUAW Review: Real Racing HD

Messaging Service ICQ To rocks the iPad
DST For $187.5 Million Dave Caolo (The Unofficial
tapping around, take a moment
Apple Weblog (TUAW))
to enjoy it. The camera gently
Leena Rao (TechCrunch) sways back and forth. Your
Submitted at 4/27/2010 7:00:00 PM
Submitted at 4/28/2010 7:18:32 AM current car can be seen in a bay
Filed under: Gaming Update: (more on that later). Light plays
It’s done. AOL has officially What a to see a spiffy video of across the car in the foreground.
sold instant messaging service Real Racing HD? Here you go. All right, enough of that. Let's
ICQ to Russian investor DST I fell in love with racing games get behind the wheel.
for $187.5 million. In a release, thanks to Ridge Racer for the Gallery: Firemint's Real Racing
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said w e r e f i r s t r e p o r t e d l a s t original Sony Playstation. I looks great, sounds great, HD
“ A s A O L c o n t i n u e s i t s N o v e m b e r . W e ’ d h e a r d played the whole franchise, beat features well-conceived depth of TUAW TUAW Review: Real
t u r n a r o u n d e f f o r t , w e ’ r e speculation that Naspers was every track and learned the play, effective use of the Racing HD rocks the iPad
fortunate to find a great home interested last year but dropped intricacies of every car. Even accelerometer, customization originally appeared on The
for ICQ with DST.” out of the bidding process. Back today I'll pull out the Playstation and more. In fact, it's one of the
Unofficial Apple Weblog
We originally reported that in December, we also heard Portable for a run around Ridge apps I use to show off the iPad. (TUAW) on Tue, 27 Apr 2010
DST was sniffing around ICQ G o o g l e a n d S k y p e w e r e City. Could another racer grab W h e n t h e g a m e i s f i r s t 19:00:00 EST. Please see our
b a c k i n D e c e m b e r . T h e interesting in buying up ICQ. me the way RR had? launched, you're presented with terms for use of feeds.
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m e s s a g i n g s e r v i c e h a s a around $200 to $250 million.
significant Russian user base. DST has invested heavily in
ICQ, which AOL acquired in Facebook, Zynga and most
1998 for $400 million, draws recently Groupon. The deep-
'Parenthood' - 'Perchance to Dream'
around 32 million monthly pocketed investor has also
unique visits. But over 25 funded Mail.ru and Astrum
Recap
percent of those visits are from O n l i n e E n t e r t a i n m e n t . Jane Boursaw (TV Squad) his bed (without her bra on,
Russia, where it holds the no. 1 CrunchBase Information ICQ Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:15:00 AM since she took it off in anger
spot for instant messaging. Messaging Information before leaving the house!). And,
Rumors of ICQ’s possible sale p r o v i d e d b y C r u n c h B a s e (S01E09) "Get it off me! Get it hello?!! Parents shouldn't let
off!" - Adam, after discovering teens be alone in a bedroom
that the Victoria's Secret bra is with the door closed. Ok, I feel
his daughter's and not his wife's slightly better now.
Well, I'm totally with Adam on Continue reading'Parenthood' -
this one. Sure, Haddie could 'Perchance to Dream' Recap
wear the bra -- there's no crime Filed under: Other Drama
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showing. It's not a double boyfriend were making out on
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Klout Raises $1.5 Million
To Measure Influence
And Authority On Twitter
Leena Rao (TechCrunch)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 9:03:06 AM
Klout, a startup that measures
influence on Twitter, has
secured $1.5 million in Series A
funding from a number of
investors, including Allen
Morgan of Mayfield Fund, Nova
Spivack of Lucid Ventures,
Zelkova Ventures, Paige Craig,
Tom McInerney, Michael
Yavonditte of Quigo
Technologies, and Ofer Ronan.
Klout, which recently released
a new API, evaluates Twitter
users’ behavior with complex
ranking algorithms and semantic
analysis of content to measure
the influence of individuals and
topics around the web. Since the
company’s launch in 2008,
Klout has registered over
250,000 users and over 300 API
partners, including CoTweet,
HootSuite, and the newly-
launched Tweetup, and is
handling millions of API calls a
day.
The new funding will be used
to scale product development
and to launch a new web app
that is more consumer-focused.
With the large number of API
partners, it’s clear that the
Twitter influence startup is
gaining traction, especially in
third party Twitter clients.
There’s always the risk that
Twitter will develop its own
measure of authority that can be
used, but for now Klout seems
to be leading the pack in terms
of measuring influence on
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Technology/ Politics/ 23
Texas Lawmaker
to Introduce Anti
-Immigration Bill
(Newsmax - Inside Cover)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 3:58:52 AM
A Texas lawmaker says she
plans to push for a law similar to
Arizona's get-tough immigration
measure.
San Antonio Express-News and
Houston Chronicle report
Wednesday that Republican
Rep. Debbie Riddle of Tomball
says she will introduce the
Nokia E72 gets white measure in the January
legislative session.
The new Arizona law would
paint option, firmware require local and state law
enforcement to question people
update about their immigration status
— and make it a crime for
immigrants to lack registration
Vladislav Savov (Engadget) sharing through Facebook. You
documents.
Submitted at 4/28/2010 9:14:00 AM know, for when you wanna let
Riddle says if the federal
your hair down after a hard day
You'd be hard-pressed to find a at the office. Internet radio of an government did its job "Arizona
wouldn't have to take this
more direct competitor to the unspecified variety has been
BlackBerry businessphone included as well, along with action, and neither would
Texas."
hegemony than Nokia's E7x g e n e r a l p e r f o r m a n c e a n d
series. It's therefore quite logical stability improvements. Both the Democrats say such legislation
is misguided and predict it will
that only a day after RIM chief white handset and new firmware
Mike Lazaridis made the white are available through Nokia hurt the GOP politically.
Bold official, Nokia is following today. © Copyright 2010 The
up with its own pale-hued E72. Nokia E72 gets white paint Associated Press. All rights
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24 Technology/ Food/
Joby's Gorillapod Magnetic now sticking cameras
in unexpected places worldwide
Tim Stevens (Engadget)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 9:56:00 AM
Did you finally run out of
precarious places to suspend
your camera using an original
Gorillapod? We find that hard to
believe (did you try the
chandelier?) but just the same
are happy to inform you that a
world of new possibilities is
now open with the Gorillapod
Magnetic, which is shipping
worldwide for $24.95. Sadly it
still only manages to support a
meager 11.5 ounces, so SLR-
toting shooters will not want to
rely on this lodestone-
augmented franken-pod, but
those of you rocking compacts
should be receiving theirs soon.
We look forward to see what
new and exciting places people
stick theirs too -- just note that
the one wood has already been
done, and so anyone looking to
replicate that feat is a low-down,
dirty copycat.
Gallery: Joby Gorillapod
Magnetic flexible tripod hands-
on
Continue reading Joby's
Gorillapod Magnetic now
sticking cameras in unexpected
places worldwide
Joby's Gorillapod Magnetic
now sticking cameras in
unexpected places worldwide
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Mega Buzz: Two 24 Deaths, Grey's Finale Disaster, and
Vampire Diaries' Season 2
(TVGuide.com: Breaking
News)
Submitted at 4/27/2010 9:00:00 PM
• Apr 27, 2010 10:00 PM ET
• by Mickey O'Connor and
Adam Bryant
• and when the ride is over, none
24, Grey's Anatomy, Vampire
Diaries
Every week, editors Mickey
O'Connor and Adam Bryant
satisfy your need for TV scoop.
Please send all questions to
mega_scoop@tvguide.com.
Since 24 is almost over,
everyone is going to die now,
right? — Mark G.
MICKEY: Wow, that's a dark
spirit you got there, fella.
Welcome! The continuing
movie talk has squelched the
idea of Jack making the ultimate
sacrifice in the series finale. But
I do know of two surprising
deaths that will take place
before the show's May 24 finale.
One will be shockingly
emotional; the other will just be
shocking.
What do you guys know about
the Grey's Anatomy season
finale? — Stephanie
ADAM: Here's what we know:
The finale features a multi-car
pileup that floods Seattle Grace
with victims. Meanwhile, one of
hospital's doctors will also have
to contend with a deadly fire in
her home. "Fans should brace
themselves. That's the only way
to put it: Brace yourself,"
creator and executive producer
Shonda Rhimes tells us. "We're
going to take you on a ride for
the last two hours of the season,
of our characters are going to be
the same. It's very different in
comparison to the other finales."
They wouldn't kill Alaric in the
season finale of The Vampire
Diaries, would they? Matt Davis
is my favorite on that show! —
Carrie
MICKEY:"I had a lovely
conversation with Kevin
Williamson a week or so ago
about the future of Alaric, and I
must say, it looks bright," the
artist formerly known as Warner
Huntington III told us. So it
seems he'll survive the season
finale's apocalyptic Founder's
Day celebration. In fact, we're
hearing that Davis might be
promoted to a series regular in
the fall.
How will Jane react to Kristina
Frye this time around on The
Mentalist? — Jake
ADAM: The relationship really
isn't much different, according
to Leslie Hope. "They're
essentially playing in the same
ballpark. It's flirty," Hope says.
"As determined as he is that
she's a fraud, she's determined
TV/ 25
Have you heard anything new
about Tony and Ziva on NCIS?
— Ashleigh
ADAM: When Brian Dietzen
joked with us that his character
has no one in the office with
whom to double date, he did
make one clarification: after
next week's episode, "I think
Jimmy might be able to ask
Tony if he wants to go double
date," Dietzen says. We know
that the episode sees DiNozzo
taking interest in a reporter
connected to a case, but could
that be a red herring? "It might
not be who it seems actually,"
that he's for real." Of course, that one couple gets engaged Dietzen says.
one thing is different, Hope before Season 3 ends, but it OK, so they're going to Hawaii.
says: "We definitely go on a sounds like there will be more What else is happening on
date — twinkling lights, candles than one happy ending. "Almost Modern Family? — Meg
on the table, fancy silverware everybody gets hooked up, but MICKEY: In the season finale,
and everything. It's a real date." not necessarily with who you Claire will attempt to get the
H o w w i l l D e s p e r a t e think they might get hooked up gang together for a family
Housewives follow the serial to," Amy Brenneman tells us. "It portrait in which everyone is
killer and Angie storylines? — k i n d o f r e m i n d s m e o f a supposed to wear white. Feel—
Pilar Shakespeare play because most that is, Phil — will find himself
MICKEY: Well, there's an e v e r y b o d y i s h o l d i n g in yet another compromising
interesting pebble about to be somebody's hand by the end." position when he's alone with
dropped into Fairview Pond, and Any 30 Rock scoop? — Gèrard G l o r i a . A n d a
its effects will ripple outward MICKEY: The May 6 episode, miscommunication could lead to
through next season. It seems a p p r o p r i a t e l y t i t l e d " T h e a kiss.
that one of the Wisteria Lane Moms," will mark the return of Seems like Clois sex is on the
offspring is not who he or she Elaine Stritch, Jan Hooks and table on Smallville. Is it going to
seems — and no, I'm not talking Anita Gillette as the mothers of happen this season? — Erin
about Eddie or Sam. J a c k , J e n n a a n d L i z , ADAM: As you point out, both
Please give me some scoop respectively. Better yet, we'll Lois and Clark definitely seem
about Private Practice's finale! meet Tracy's mom for the first up for it. As for whether they'll
— Pauline time. Any guesses on who plays
ADAM: We've already told you her? MEGA page 26
26 TV/
From Limos to Tattoo Parlors,
TruTV Goes Behind The Scenes of
Crazy Professions for New Series
(TVGuide.com: Breaking
News)
Submitted at 4/27/2010 10:07:00 PM
• Apr 27, 2010 11:07 PM ET
• by Kate Stanhope
• Amy Z.
Jesse Ventura and Ashton
Kutcher
TruTV is going undercover and
behind the scenes of some of the
country's craziest professions
for its newest crop of projects.
Among the cable channel's new
series are Limo Bob, which
examines life in Chicago
through the eyes of the owner of
one of the city's biggest limo
fleets. Ma's Roadhouse will
profile the family behind a one-
of-a-kind Texas saloon, which
serves as a motorcycle shop, bar
and tattoo parlor. Putting a
whole new spin on Undercover
Boss is America's Toughest
Boss, which will profile a
steakhouse owner willing to spy
on his employees and put them
to extreme tests to get the results
he wants.
Check out photos from Punk'd
America's Toughest Boss won't
be the only TruTV show
employing hidden cameras.
Exposed!, the latest comedy
project from Punk'd producers
Ashton Kutcher and Jason
Goldberg, will catch
unsuspecting people's reactions
on camera when others take off
their clothes in public. Hidden-
camera show Rogue Society
showcases individuals going
undercover to get revenge on
scam artists and crooked
businessmen.
TruTV's other new series
include Disclosure, which looks
at two people who have
dedicated their lives to
uncovering government secrets,
and The Naked Office, which
employs a very revealing form
of group therapy to keep
employees productive and
positive.
In addition to the channel's new
series, TruTV has ordered new
seasons of Conspiracy Theory
with Jesse Ventura, Full Throttle
Saloon, Black Gold, Las Vegas
Jailhouse, and Rehab: Party at
the Hard Rock Hotel.
Will you tune into TruTV's new
shows?
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actually seal the deal this year,
there's just one little problem,
according to executive producer
Brian Peterson: "They keep
trying, but sadly and ironically,
the Blur has come between Lois
and Clark [to prevent them
from] ever consummating their
relationship." I'll leave you to
argue (cry?) about Peterson's
use of the word "ever."
I love Zoey on Nurse Jackie.
What's coming up for her? —
MICKEY: Zoey is thanking
God that she isn't pregnant, but
a "God" of a different sort will
show her the light, especially
when it comes to her flirtation
with Lenny.
Breaking Bad has been
amazing. What's next? — Marty
ADAM: Pardon the hyperbole,
but this Sunday's episode
features the greatest moment in
this terrific series' history. (And
it's not even the scene which
will surely serve as Aaron Paul's
Emmy tape.) All we'll say is
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this: Hank finds himself
unarmed at a very bad moment.
Mickey's Mega Rave: I have
fallen madly in love with
Elizabeth Banks' "Money
Bunny" Avery Jessup on 30
Rock, Jack Donaghy be
damned. I love it when she talks
dirty. "Slutty Grace Kelly"
indeed!
Adam's Mini Rant: I renew my
objection to Desperate
Housewives' lazy writing.
Reader Quote of the Week:"No,
Jay is not a boob. Everyone
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Sandra Bullock Files for Divorce; 'The Biggest Loser' -

Adopts Baby Boy 'Week Fifteen' Recap
(TVGuide.com: Breaking Jason Hughes (TV Squad)
News) Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:42:00 AM

Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:09:00 AM

(S09E15) With the elimination
of Victoria last week, it was
• Apr 28, 2010 09:09 AM ET suddenly two teams of two
• by Gina DiNunno versus three teams of one.
• Looking at those numbers, if
those teams of two united, the
Sandra Bullock and Jesse James solo acts would be in trouble.
Sandra Bullock has filed for Seven contestants left. It doesn't
divorce from Jesse James and is matter if you're best friends in
adopting a baby boy as a single the whole wide world. When
mom, she tells People. you're this close to the end, you
"Yes, I have filed for divorce," play the game. form of a 5k run the contestants
the 45-year-old Oscar-winner That's exactly what the will be doing with groups of
tells the magazine. "I'm sad and contestants started doing this Texans rallied through the radio.
I am scared. home in January, but they opted everything bad coming my way" week, in a way more transparent Get through that, corral some
Michelle "Bombshell" McGee to keep their new addition a The Monster Garage star, who than we've seen all season. calves and get ready for a weigh
apologizes to Sandra Bullock secret until after the Oscars. The publically apologized to Bullock Unfortunately, in that same -in where the temperature is
The actress also announced she actress tells the magazine she is and his three kids for his "poor week they had to leave the only 34 degrees. Everything's ...
is now the mother of Louis finalizing the adoption as a judgment" recently returned comfort of routine at the colder in Texas?
Bardo Bullock, 3½-month-old single parent. home from a treatment facility 'Biggest Loser' ranch and head Continue reading'The Biggest
boy born in New Orleans. Ten days after Bullock won her to deal with " personal issues," for the dude ranches of Texas. Loser' - 'Week Fifteen' Recap
"He's just perfect, I can't even best actress award for her role in according to People. Alison Sweeney informed us Filed under: OpEd, The Biggest
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28 TV/ Food/
Have You Noticed That 'Modern Family' Is
Oblivious To the Recession?
Allison Waldman (TV Squad)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 10:07:00 AM
There's so much to like about
ABC's award-winning new
sitcom 'Modern Family' that it
seems almost curmudgeon-like
to complain. Nevertheless, you
have to wonder where in the
world'Modern Family' is
located. No, not the place; it's
clearly Southern California. No,
it's the economy. 'Modern
Family' resides in an economy
unaffected by the recession.
Everybody is doing well.
'V' - 'Heretic's Fork' Recap
Jane Boursaw (TV Squad)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 9:12:00 AM
(S01E09) "What does this
mean? I'm pregnant! What about
the baby?" - Val to Ryan, after
learning that he's a Visitor
I guess it would be pretty
startling to learn that the guy
you've known for ten years, the
guy who's the father of your
baby, is an alien with a lizard-
like body hiding under his
human suit, or "meat suit" as
the'Supernatural' boys call it.
Poor Val. What a shock. And a
Nobody's worried about paying
the mortgage, or - God forbid -
facing foreclosure. Things are
going so well in 'Modern
Family' world that the entire
shock for Ryan when she tells
him she doesn't want him
getting on the train with her.
In one way, I'm worried that
she won't have Ryan to protect
her, but in another way, she
clan is heading to Hawaii for a
family vacation.
Wow, remember when your
family could afford to fly off for
a holiday? It was probably some
might actually be safer without
him. Either way, it's a dismal
situation, and Anna won't stop
until she has that "mongrel"
baby. But doesn't it seem like
there would be other half-breed
time around the turn of the
century ... 2000. Maybe 'Modern
Family' is in a time warp
because they're all checking into
the Four Seasons Maui. It'll be
the May 12 season finale, so
tune in if you want to live
vicariously.
Continue reading Have You
Noticed That 'Modern Family' Is
Oblivious To the Recession?
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babies, since the Visitors have
been living on earth for quite
some time now? Anna better
prime up some more soldiers,
because they have their work cut
out for them.
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Jade for joy

(The Economist: Daily news English auction house called was delighted, and resolved to with an inscription. Estimated to well as at the main art fair in
and views) Woolley & Wallis, in the buy herself a racehorse. fetch £20,000-30,000, the piece southern China and the
Submitted at 4/28/2010 3:41:16 AM southern town of Salisbury. A Over the past five years, sales has already elicited considerable European Fine Art Fair in
year ago, he offered for auction of Chinese treasures have interest from mainland China. Maastricht (TEFAF). He has
Art.view How to satisfy the a Qianlong-period green jade become increasingly dominated Mary Anna Marten’s advertised the collection in
insatiable demand from the buffalo that belonged to Lady by buyers from the mainland consignment was on another specialised magazines, including
mainland Diana Miller, daughter of the who are keen to repatriate scale altogether. The chatelaine Arts of Asia, Orientations and
Apr 28th 2010 | From The 5th Earl of Yarborough. The national art works. Every week of Crichel House in Dorset, Chinese Art News, known as
Economist online buffalo had lain in a bank vault sees a fresh flow of works to which her family had owned CANs magazine. He also
AS DEMAND for Chinese since the Battle of Britain in China from old European and since the mid-18th-century, Mrs promised to show the pieces in a
works of art continues to 1940 and was still wrapped in American collections. Mr Marten was the owner of an gallery next to Christie’s in
rise—with the top of the market wartime newspaper when Mr Axford is now planning another important collection of Chinese London during the week of
nowhere in sight—the supply of Axford saw it for the first time. sale on May 19th. Lady Diana’s treasures, many of them bought Asian sales in mid-May, as he
top-quality pieces is becoming The internet has done much to family has consigned a further by her father before the second did with Lady Diana’s jade
increasingly rare. Dealers and change the auction business. No 43 pieces from the earl’s world war. Mr Axford had buffalo.
auction houses in all the major longer do small country auction collection (though none as displayed considerable acumen The executors were impressed
centres, from New York to houses have to languish in important as the jade buffalo), in marketing two of her pieces and happy to offer the
Hong Kong, all repeat the same obscurity. Good photographs and Mr Axford has managed to in his sale last year. A carved consignment to someone whose
refrain: it is getting harder to posted on the web now reach persuade two other collectors spinach-jade piece, known as work had pleased Mrs Marten
find stock. potential buyers all over the that the time is right for them to the Buchanan-Jardine brushpot, during her lifetime. They chose
Persuading collectors to part world. sell their works. sold for £460,000—nearly four nine pieces, including the jade
with their treasures takes skill. On the day of the sale last May, The first, an elderly English times its top estimate—and a elephants and a rare imperial
After first identifying who owns Woolley’s auction room was collector in Monaco, was Chinese imperial spinach-jade bi white jade bell of which only
what, dealers or auction houses full of bidders who had made persuaded to use Mr Axford’s disc fetched £290,000, more two others are known to exist.
m u s t t h e n c o n v i n c e t h e s e the journey from London, and firm by an agent who had seen than ten times its pre-sale The estimates for both lots are
owners that the time is right to even from as far afield as Hong the success Woolley & Wallis estimate. £200,000, but Mr Axford hopes
sell. Yet if the market is strong, Kong and mainland China. had with Lady Diana’s buffalo. At the end of last year Mrs they might fetch a seven-figure
why shouldn't owners wait? Bidding for the buffalo opened This collector had bought many Marten decided to sell a pair of price. If they do, other collectors
Prices will only rise. at £150,000 ($230,000) and rose of his pieces from Spink & Son, jade elephants that had once will be happy to follow the lead
Even if a collector is willing to to £3.4m (£4.2m including a once-important London firm stood in Emperor Qianlong’s set by Lady Diana and Mrs
sell, every dealer or auction commission and taxes). The that is now defunct. Luckily he throne room. Then in January Marten. Readers' comments
house will be competing for the buyer was Daniel Eskenazi, the had kept his receipts she died. Her executors took the The Economist welcomes your
c o n t r a c t . W i n n i n g a son of London’s pre-eminent (provenance is important), for opportunity to dispose of nine views.
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Mr Axford is head of the Asia Axford considerable publicity. important pieces, including a the collection in Taiwan, an
department in a small provincial The 88-year-old Lady Diana rare pale jade boulder carving important collecting centre, as
30 Economy/ E-reader News Edition

Grilled squid
(The Economist: Daily news Levin. The gruff Democrat went resembled a Pinter play: a criticism of Goldman’s motives matter of months 20 years ago.
and views) beyond the SEC’s complaint, question, then a long pause, rested on a misunderstanding of Some of Goldman’s institutional
Submitted at 4/28/2010 12:15:50 AM accusing the firm of having followed by a spare, cryptic the market-making business. clients, such as CalSTRS, a
concocted several deals, not just response. Unlike money managers, market Californian pension fund, have
The Goldman hearings A one, to profit from the collapse The firm’s senior executives -makers owe no fiduciary duty publicly expressed concern. It
ghastly day on Capitol Hill for of the housing market, and also put up a stronger, clearer to clients, and offer no won’t help that shareholders
Goldman Sachs’s top brass of being riddled with “inherent defence. In response to Mr warranties; their only have began filing suits this
Apr 28th 2010 | NEW YORK | conflicts of interest.” Not Levin’s assertion that Goldman responsibility is to make sure week. (As of mid-week,
From The Economist online content merely to skewer had profited from others’ misery those they serve are getting the Goldman’s share price was 6%
“ONE of the worst days of my A m e r i c a ’ s p r e - e m i n e n t with a “big short”, David Viniar, risk exposures they seek. lower than when the SEC
professional life” was Lloyd investment house, the senator the bank's chief financial Ironically, Mr Blankfein was at launched its case on April 9th.)
Blankfein’s characterisation of harrumphed that its conduct officer, pointed out that its net his most uncomfortable when Goldman’s grilling all but
April 16th, when the Securities “calls into question the whole revenues in mortgages were a tackling questions about a ensures the passage of the
and Exchange Commission function of Wall Street”—a mere $500m in 2007, with a loss disclosure the firm had made, Volcker rule, clamping down on
(SEC) filed civil fraud charges market that, while supposedly of $1.2 billion in 2007 and 2008 rather than one it had not: its banks’ proprietary trading and
against Goldman Sachs. The free, “isn’t free of self-dealing.” combined. decision to release e-mails that investments in hedge funds and
bank and an employee were His attack rested, in part, on Mr Blankfein gurned happened to reveal details of Mr private equity, as part of a
accused of failing to disclose internal Goldman e-mails. In incredulously at some of the Tourre’s personal life, a move broader financial-reform law. It
that a hedge fund that had o n e , a s e n i o r e x e c u t i v e senators’ questions, doubtless leading to speculation that the will also add to pressure for
influenced the composition of a d e s c r i b e d a G o l d m a n - baffled that they would Frenchman was being, as one broker-dealers to act with the
c o m p l e x m o r t g a g e - d e b t underwritten CDO as “one characterise as immoral senator put it, “hung out to dry”. same fiduciary duties towards
transaction was also shorting it. shitty deal”. In another, a profiteering what he viewed as The hearing produced no their clients as investment
April 27th was surely not much c o l l e a g u e a p p l a u d e d t h e nothing worse than prudent risk smoking gun, but there was advisers, a move already being
better, either for the Wall Street structured-products team for management. (He must have much that looked bad for contemplated by lawmakers. No
firm’s boss or any of the six making “lemonade from some wondered if Goldman would Goldman. The reputational wonder the usually chirpy Mr
o t h e r c u r r e n t a n d f o r m e r big old lemons.” have been better off from a damage is hard to gauge, but it Blankfein looked so drained by
Goldman investment bankers The team’s representatives at public-relations point of view by was not a good sign that the time he was let go, after
who testified before the Senate the hearing squirmed in the incurring giant losses, like Goldman was the butt of jokes almost four hours in the hot seat.
Permanent Subcommittee on spotlight. Fabrice Tourre, the Citigroup.) But he also struck a this week at the Milken Readers' comments
Investigations. The roasting, employee charged by the SEC, conciliatory tone, expressing Institute’s Global Conference, The Economist welcomes your
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E-reader News Edition Economy/ Food/ 31

Here's The Most Distressing Part Of AOL's

Horrible Results: Cash Flow Collapsed
Henry Blodget (The Money And there's not much the
Game) company can do about it.
Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:05:00 AM As the subscriber business
continues to decline, more of the
AOL had another horrible
quarter, as expected. The good
search revenue will disappear.
It's possible that Microsoft Bing
Easy Blender
news is that the quarter wasn't
much MORE horrible than
will come in later this year and
pay a silly amount of money for Hollandaise
expected. In fact, on a revenue AOL's remaining 3% of the
and EBITDA basis, it was
basically in line.
search market, but even this
won't likely restore AOL's
Sauce
(Simply Recipes)
However... search business to growth. So
One metric that might slip the outlook for cash flow is Submitted at 4/27/2010 10:22:32 PM

under the radar but is likely to remain worse than it is

Many people are afraid of
nevertheless important is Free for revenue, even if AOL
hollandaise sauce, are you?
Cash Flow. Despite huge cost stabilizes its media business.
Some think eating it will make
cuts, AOL's Free Cash Flow On a positive note, AOL is
them fat. (It will if you eat it
tanked year over year--dropping finally starting to sell off non-
every day, so don't eat it every
a sickening 55% ($153 million). core assets (ICQ). And it should
day.) If you are like me, the
This compares a revenue drop of s u b s c r i p t i o n r e v e n u e i s press release, its subscribers be able to raise a reasonable
collapsing. But what fewer search much more frequently thought of making hollandaise
only 23%. amount of cash for doing so.
conjures up visions of toque
Why did Free Cash Flow drop people understand is that the than its free media readers. See Also: Here's What AOL
subscription revenue and search As the company loses those clad chefs with big bowls and
so much? Isn't Telling IPO Investors
even bigger whisks swearing
In part because much of the revenue are tightly linked, and subscribers, therefore, it also Join the conversation about this
because the beautiful sauce they
revenue that AOL is losing is they are both vastly more loses big chunks of search story »
have spent the last several
wildly profitable, while the profitable than AOL's media and revenue. And that search See Also:
minutes vigorously whisking
revenue it's keeping is low ad network business. revenue is nearly 100% profit
• What AOL Won't Be Telling
has separated on them, "Merde!"
margin. Specifically, the high At first glance, the linkage (because Google serves the ads). IPO Investors
Continue reading "Easy
margin revenue AOL is losing is between search and subscription The subscription revenue, • AOL's Asset Sales Should
Blender Hollandaise Sauce" »
subscription revenue, which revenue seems counterintuitive: meanwhile, which is still Raise Another $1+ Billion Of
declined 28% ($90 million) year As AOL focuses on growing its composed largely of dial-up Cash After IPO
over year, and the search media properties, shouldn't subscribers who rarely use dial- • AOL Misses On Earnings, Ad
revenue, which fell 27%, or $45 search revenue increase? In up, is also highly profitable. Revenues Tank Another 19%
million. fact, the answer is "no." That's one of the hidden
Now, everyone knows AOL's Because as AOL explains in its realities of AOL's business.
32 Economy/ E-reader News Edition

Peter Boockvar: Greece Crisis Marks

The Unwind Of The Largest
Monetary Easing In History
Joe Weisenthal (The Money
Game)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 7:44:49 AM

Even if the Greece crisis doesn't

turn into a major crisis for all of
Europe and its banks, the
economic implications are still
signifianct, as Miller Tabak's
Peter Boockvar nicely spells out
in a morning note:
Most European bond markets
remain under pressure again.
Whatever happens with
Greece now, the cost of capital
is going up for most of the Euro
region and that
has implications for companies
and consumers that borrow in
these markets.
Death, taxes and easy money,
the only certainties in life.
Actually the last one
is not always the case but
REAL interest rates have been
negative for 5 of the
last 8 years and the FOMC will
tell us today that they will
remain that way for
an 'extended period.' They will
tell us that inflation is benign,
even as the
Journal of Commerce index is
up 9% from the last meeting at
the highest level
since Aug '08 and just 7% from
a record high. There will be
some coffee talk on
selling their large pile of MBS
at some point. Unwinding the
largest monetary
easing in the history of the
world will not be easy and the
longer the Fed
waits, the more rough it will be
due to the misallocation of
capital they have
created, again. II: Bulls 54 v
53.3, highest since Dec '07,
Bears 18 v 17.4
Join the conversation about this
story »
Here's A Property Boom That
Makes A Mockery Of
America's (And It's Not China)
Vincent Fernando, CFA (The bubble look tame in comparison.
Money Game) Two indices of American prices
Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:20:14 AM are shown, in light blue and
gray.
T h e E c o n o m i s t h a s a n We've loved the little bit of
interactive chart, where you can Australia we've seen, the quality
compare housing trends for of life looks quite high there.
countries around the world. The country is also surely
The example we built below levered to China's strong growth
shows how Australian property right now. But would you buy
prices have doubled in a pretty into a property rise such as
short period of time and are way below in dark blue?
ahead of U.S. property over a Much more can probably be
twenty year period. done with it, use the interactive
It's shocking, the Australian chart here >>
price rise, in dark blue, appears Join the conversation about this
to make the American property story »
E-reader News Edition Culture/ 33

Lost in the Details: Micro-View Blinds Scientists to Big

Picture
Jonah Lehrer (Wired Top a portrait of the soul. It’s also Human Genome Project was that these particles can’t be looking at. But that confusion is
Stories) false. In reality, huge swaths of launched in the early 1990s, it deciphered in a vacuum. a good sign. The brain isn’t
Submitted at 4/27/2010 7:00:00 PM the cortex are involved in every was sold as a means of finally Not surprisingly, this is exactly simple; our pictures of the brain
aspect of cognition. The mind is making sense of our DNA by what neuroscientists are coming shouldn’t be, either.
Illustration: Markus Hofko a knot of interconnections, so documenting the slight to grips with. In the mid-’90s, Karl Popper, the great
A t y p i c a l e x p e r i m e n t i n interpreting the scan depends on differences that encode our Marcus Raichle started philosopher of science, once
functional magnetic resonance leaving lots of stuff out, sifting individuality. But that didn’t wondering about all the mental divided the world into two
imaging goes like this: A subject through noise for the signal. We happen. Instead, the project has activity exhibited by subjects categories: clocks and clouds.
is slid into a claustrophobia- make sense of the data by mostly demonstrated that we are between tasks, when they Clocks are neat, orderly systems
inducing tube, the core of a d e l e t i n g w h a t w e d o n ’ t more than a text, and that our appeared to be doing nothing at that can be solved through
machine the size of a delivery u n d e r s t a n d . base pairs rarely explain all. Although Raichle’s reduction; clouds are an
truck. The person is told to lie What’s disappointing here isn’t anything in isolation. It has colleagues discouraged him epistemic mess, “highly
perfectly still and perform some just that these early fMRI forced researchers to focus on from trying to make sense of all irregular, disorderly, and more
task — look at a screen, say, or studies are overhyped or miss the much broader study of how this noisy activity — “They told or less unpredictable.” The
m a k e a d e c i s i o n . N o i s y important facts. It’s that this our genes interact with the me I was wasting my time,” he mistake of modern science is to
superconducting magnets whir. mistake is all too familiar. Time environment. says — his team’s work led to pretend that everything is a
The contraption analyzes the and time again, an experimental This same story plays out over the discovery of what he calls clock, which is why we get
magnetic properties of blood to gadget gets introduced — it and over — only the nouns the default network, which has seduced again and again by the
determine the amount of oxygen d o e s n ’ t m a t t e r i f i t ’ s a change. Once upon a time, since been linked to a wide false promises of brain scanners
p r e s e n t , o p e r a t i n g o n t h e supercollider or a gene chip or physicists thought they had the range of phenomena, from and gene sequencers. We want
assumption that more-active an fMRI machine — and we’re universe mostly solved, thanks daydreaming to autism. to believe we will understand
b r a i n c e l l s r e q u i r e m o r e - told it will allow us to glimpse to their fancy telescopes and However, it can’t be accurately nature if we find the exact right
oxygenated blood. It can’t tell t h e u n d e r l y i n g l o g i c o f elegant Newtonian equations. described with the kind of tool to cut its joints. But that
what you’re thinking, but it can everything. But the tool always But then came a century of distinct spots of a typical fMRI approach is doomed to failure.
tell where you’re thinking it. disappoints, doesn’t it? We soon complications, from the theory image. There’s too much to see: We live in a universe not of
Functional MRI has been used realize that those pretty pictures of relativity to the uncertainty It’s a network of colorful clocks but of clouds.
to study all sorts of sexy are incomplete and that we can’t principle; string theorists, in complexity. Thanks to the work Contributing editor Jonah
p s y c h o l o g i c a l p r o p e r t i e s . reduce our complex subject to a their attempts to reconcile ever of Raichle and others, Lehrer( jonahlehrer@me.com)
You’ve probably seen the few colorful spots. So here’s a widening theoretical gaps, neuroscience now has a mandate wrote about the neuroscience of
headlines: “Scientists Discover pitch: Scientists should learn to started talking about 11 to forgo the measurement of failure in issue 18.01.
Love in the Brain!” and “This Is expect this cycle — to anticipate dimensions. Dark matter local spikes in blood flow in Five Filters featured article:
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34 Culture/ E-reader News Edition

April 28, 2003: Apple Opens iTunes Store

Brian Chen (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 4/27/2010 11:00:00 PM

2003: Apple opens the iTunes

Music Store and starts to
revolutionize the music-
recording industry, one song at a
time.
Between the mid-1980s and late
1990s, the media were
undergoing a massive
conversion from analog to
digital. The music industry
hated it.
Much to the chagrin of the
Recording Industry Association
of America, internet users
quickly caught on to digital
music as a free alternative to
paying for albums. In fear of
declining album sales, record
labels filed lawsuit after lawsuit
against online services Napster
and MP3.com for hosting digital
music, as well as Diamond
Multimedia, a Korean company
that released an MP3 player
called the Rio. Clearly, for the
recording industry, change
wasn’t easy.
In stepped Steve Jobs. The
Apple CEO harbored a vision in labels to compete with pirates labels, the online music business death of the album.” iTunes, music-player software
2002 of an online music store rather than pursue a futile was a disaster,” Jobs told Steven Jobs started his talks with the that was then available only for
hosted by Apple that would be attempt to destroy them. Levy, author of The Perfect big players first: Warner Music Macs. After all, how could
easy to use, complete in But in order for online music to Thing. “Nobody had ever sold a and Universal. Apple flew the Apple, whose Mac operating
selection and reliable in work, Jobs believed his store song for 99 cents. Nobody really firms’ teams up to Cupertino, system held only single-digit
performance. These factors, would have to allow customers ever sold a song. And we California. In a boardroom at market share, ruin the record
Jobs thought, would be enough to purchase music in a walked in, and we said, ‘We One Infinite Loop, Jobs business if the iTunes Store took
to convince customers to pay for completely different way: a la want to sell songs a la carte. We proceeded to present his plan. off?
something they could otherwise carte. Convincing labels was want to sell albums, too, but we Jobs first reeled in the labels After a series of long and
obtain for free illegally. The hardly easy. want to sell songs individually.’ with one crucial proposal: Apple
“When we first approached the They thought that would be the would sell songs through APRIL page 35
store, then, would enable record
E-reader News Edition
Solar Charger Juices Your Gadgets,
Rain or Shine
Bryan Gardiner (Wired Top
Stories)
Submitted at 4/27/2010 7:00:00 PM
Solar Charger Juices Your
Gadgets, Rain or Shine
It's an unavoidable fact of life:
Your gadgets need juice —like a
preacher needs pain, like
thunder needs rain. (Thank you,
Bono.) And when it comes to
portable power-ups, our new
favorite flavor is Orange.
The Joos Orange solar charger
is the physical manifestation of
simplicity. It's rugged, easy to
store and carry, and (most
importantly) quick to bestow a
watt or two whenever you need
it. Simply choose the correct
adapter (the Orange comes with
seven of the most popular ones),
plug in your depleted phone or
DS into the charger and let the
life-giving juice flow. Yep,
that's it.
Weighing in at a pound-and-a-
half, the Orange is roughly the
same size and weight as an iPad
—and arguably a lot more
useful. It can be completely
submersed in water, dropped,
kicked, and, in general, take the
worst abuse man or nature can
dish out.
Nestled inside its durable
polycarbonate shell is a super-
efficient 5,400-milliamp-hour
replaceable lithium-ion battery
capable of holding its charge for
years. In our tests, we managed
to dole out four full charges to a
completely depleted iPhone
before the Orange needed a
solar recharge. It even fully
charged the notoriously fickle
iPad.
While PC owners will be able
to download a standalone GUI
for precise power metrics, the
unit also has two LED status
lights on the sides: one solar
light (red) and other for the
battery (green). When the
Orange is running, the red light
will blink rapidly to let you
know you're getting juiced.
Similarly, the green light spits
out one blink for every 20
percent of the battery that's full.
Four blinks and you know you
have a battery that's between 60
and 80 percent full. Even better:
the Orange comes with a pair of
attachable reflectors that help
collect somewhere between 20-
30 percent more power when
affixed to both ends.
No sun? No problem. While our
test model wasn't equipped to
charge efficiently by USB, the
folks at Solar Components
assured us that production
models can be refilled at the
standard USB charging rate
(500 milliamps at 5 volts or 2.5
watts).
So go ahead and leave those
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WIRED Cheap. Crazy-durable.
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painful negotiations, the two
labels ultimately agreed they
would play, but only after Apple
agreed to bake in some
restrictions (aka digital rights
management): iTunes-purchased
songs would be limited to being
playable on three “authorized”
computers, and a playlist could
only be burned on a CD seven
times.
Labels BMG and EMI soon
followed, and later Sony hopped
on board. Apple opened the
iTunes Music Store on April 28,
2003, with 200,000 songs.
(Simultaneously, Apple released
its third-generation iPod.) In the
first week, iTunes Store
customers bought more than a
million songs. Six months later,
Apple convinced the labels to
allow iTunes to be shared with
Windows users.
Apple announced at its final
Macworld show Jan. 6, 2009,
that iTunes would cease selling
songs encumbered by DRM
restrictions. Though a
significant step for Apple, Jobs
was not present to make the
announcement — he was on
medical leave. The Wall Street
Journal later revealed that Jobs
successfully underwent a liver
transplant. He resumed his post
in June 2009.
The iTunes Store has expanded
to include movies, TV shows
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and the App Store providing
third-party software for iPhone,
iPod Touch and iPad
customers. To date, the iTunes
Store has served more than 10
billion songs, 200 million TV
shows, 2 million films and 3
billion apps.
Sources: The Perfect Thing:
How the iPod Shuffles
Commerce, Culture and
Coolness, by Steven Levy;
Wikipedia
Photo: Apple CEO Steve Jobs
(June 2007)
Jon Snyder/Wired.com
See Also:
• Apple’s Next Revolutionary
Product: iTunes
• Forget the Tablet — Apple
Needs to Rebuild iTunes
• Oct. 23, 2001: Now Hear This
… The iPod Arrives
• April 28, 1926: Waving Hello
to a New Subatomic Theory
• April 28, 1947: Kon-Tiki Sets
Sail From Peru to Polynesia
• Aug. 27, 2003: The Lights
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After a six-month trial, a San Childs in jail, where he finally I bought this fish, wild Alaskan
Francisco city admin was found gave the passwords to the cod, in the frozen-food section
guilty Tuesday of a sole felony mayor. of Trader Joe's; I mention this in
count of hijacking the city’s Childs faces a maximum 5-year such detail because the fish was
computer system. prison term when sentenced wonderful, firm and moist and
Terry Childs, 45, was guilty of June 14. sweet. I could credit the
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Childs was arrested in July • San Francisco Held Cyber- thin fillets of firm, white fish on
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the network traffic for San anyone tries the carrot ketchup,
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happened: The Earth’s climate
settled into a relatively stable
state, global temperatures
started hovering within a narrow
band, and sea levels stopped
rising and falling so drastically.
Historians argue that this
fortuitous geological period,
known as the Holocene, allowed
civilization to develop. Modern
humans no longer had to pluck
whatever they could from an
unreliable environment and
move on. The relatively
predictable climate patterns
allowed them to colonize coastal
regions, clear forests for
agriculture, and raise livestock.
“Once you get stability, you can
start planning for the future,”
explains Sander van der Leeuw,
who directs the School of
Human Evolution and Social
Change at Arizona State
University. “You’re no longer
acting on the moment but acting
with the future in mind. And
that’s what our whole society is
based on—being able to invest
in the future.”
(Click here to see a slideshow of
the nine scenarios for imminent
apocalypse.)
Because of quirks in the Earth’s
orbit, the planet would likely
remain in this stable state for at
least the next 10,000 years if left
to its own devices. But the
planet isn’t being left to its own
devices. Humans are now
drastically altering the natural
world in so many
ways—mowing down forests,
depleting freshwater supplies,
fiddling with the planet’s
thermostat—that some experts
have recently begun arguing that
we’ve left the Holocene and
moved into an entirely new
geological epoch of our own
making, dubbed the
Anthropocene.
Global warming is the big
change that tends to get all the
attention. By now, it’s well-
established that humans are
adding heat-trapping gases to
the atmosphere at an
unprecedented rate.
Climatologists have assembled
ample evidence that we run the
risk of catastrophe if we add too
much carbon dioxide to the air.
Yet it may be too narrow to
focus on climate change in
isolation. In recent years, some
scientists have begun casting a
wary eye at all the other ways
we’re upending the Earth’s
natural state, from disrupting the
planet’s nitrogen cycle to using
up resources to dousing our
rivers and oceans with new
synthetic chemicals. Those
researchers are starting to ask
whether these trends, too, could
have their own tipping
points—whether, as with
climate, there are boundaries
over which we would be
incredibly foolish to cross. And
what they have found suggests
that, by pushing the Earth
outside of the state that has
persisted for the last 10,000
years, we risk squandering the
stability that made civilization
possible in the first place.
The idea that there are “tipping
points” in nature has been
discussed by scientists since the
1970s. An ecosystem can
change slowly and gradually
over many years until, suddenly,
it reaches a threshold, at which
point rapid and potentially
irreversible shifts ensue.
One much-studied example is
the Sahara Desert. About 6,000
years ago, the vast expanse of
the Sahara was filled with lakes,
wetlands, and a lush variety of
species—ancient cave paintings
in the region depict crocodiles.
Then, some 5,500 years ago, the
region became a massive desert
over the relatively short course
of about 200 years. “That sort of
rapid change just doesn’t make
sense,” notes Jonathan Foley,
director of the University of
Minnesota’s Institute on the
Environment. “Unless, that is,
you allow for non-linear
systems in nature.” One
hypothesis is that a slight
change in Earth’s orbit led to a
gradual decline in solar energy,
which meant fewer monsoons
hitting the region. The tipping
point then came when a
prolonged drought killed off the
local vegetation that helped
supply the area with moisture.
At that point, a feedback loop
kicked in, and the Sahara started
drying of its own accord—more
plants died off, which, in turn,
made the region even more
parched—until the whole area
desertified in remarkably short
order.
Over the last decade, a number
of climate scientists have looked
for tipping points that could be
triggered by global warming.
It’s worrisome enough that a
warming world would produce
steadily rising sea levels,
droughts, and heat waves. But
what keeps many researchers up
at night is the idea of rapid, non-
linear changes that utterly
transform the planet. To take
one example, as Arctic sea ice
begins melting, the dark water
underneath starts absorbing a
greater share of sunlight, which,
in turn, causes the ice to melt
even faster. Models suggest that
this feedback could reach a
point where the sea ice begins
melting at an incredibly fast
pace and essentially
collapses—indeed, some Arctic
researchers think we may have
already crossed this threshold.
Other possible scenarios include
the disintegration of the ice
sheet on Greenland, rapid die-
off of rain forests in the
Amazon, or, even more extreme,
a shutdown of the ocean
currents in the Atlantic that
maintain Europe’s livable
climate. (Fortunately, that last
one, while feasible, doesn’t
appear likely anytime soon.)
Scientists continue to
a r g u e — s o m e t i m e s
fiercely—over the details and
precise timing of these dramatic
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changes. But the prospect that
global warming could produce
non-linear disruptions has,
understandably, helped inform
many climate-policy goals.
After all, it would be one thing
for human civilization to adapt
to sea levels that rose smoothly
by, say, one centimeter a year. It
would be another to deal with
fast and unpredictable rises.
That’s why the United Nations
has recommended limiting
warming to no more than 2°C
above pre-industrial
levels—above that point, we
risk large-scale changes beyond
our control. But it’s also true
that scientists can’t be certain of
where that threshold lies. James
Hansen of NASA has famously
argued that even the U.N.
targets are too rash, and that we
should limit atmospheric carbon
dioxide to below 350 parts per
million (a point we’ve already
passed), based on his study of
how quickly ice sheets reacted
in prehistoric periods when the
Earth’s temperature was just
1°C to 2°C warmer than today.
Those discussions, meanwhile,
have led some scientists to
wonder if there might be other
tipping-point thresholds lurking
in nature. In 2008, Johan
Rockström, the director of the
Stockholm Resilience Centre in
Sweden, brought together two
dozen experts across a variety of
disciplines to see if they could
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identify what they called “the
rules of the game.” What are the
natural boundaries that
humanity should stay within if
we want to keep the Earth in the
stable state of the last 10,000
years?
In a paper published last fall in
the prestigious journal Nature,
Rockström and his co-authors
created, for the first time, a
checklist of all the possible
ways the planet is hurtling
toward a potentially perilous
new course. They identified nine
boundaries concerning matters
such as climate change, ocean
acidification, extinction rates,
land and water use, ozone
depletion, and the disruption of
the Earth’s nitrogen and
phosphorus cycles. But what
was most astounding was just
how little we still know about
the natural experiment our
civilization is unwittingly
conducting.
Take, for instance, ocean
acidification. Ocean chemists
have long known that, as carbon
-dioxide concentrations in the
atmosphere rise, more and more
of the gas gets absorbed by the
ocean and lowers its pH
level—in essence, making the
waters more acidic. But, up until
ten years ago, no one had
seriously modeled this effect,
and it was assumed to be
negligible. “It hadn’t been on
anyone’s radar screens,”
explains Ellen Thomas, a Yale
paleoceanographer. “The
thinking had been, ‘Well, the
oceans are so huge, what can a
little extra CO2 in the air really
do?’” Then, in 1999, a climate
modeler at Stanford named Ken
Caldeira was asked by the
Energy Department to study the
effects of capturing carbon
dioxide from smokestacks and
injecting it deep into the sea as a
way of cutting greenhouse-gas
emissions. Caldeira studied the
change in ocean pH and then,
just for reference, compared it to
what would happen if man-
made CO2 levels kept rising.
The latter proved shocking.
Caldeira discovered that the
oceans were already on pace to
become more acidic than at any
time in the past 300 million
years. He published his results
in 2003, coining the term “ocean
acidification.”
In the years since, scientists
have realized that ocean
acidification is, in fact, a huge
deal—a problem as worrisome
as many of the worst effects of
global warming. The lower pH
in the oceans will prevent
marine organisms from building
calcium-carbonate shells. That,
in turn, has the potential to
weaken or even wipe out many
coral reef systems—and the
millions of species that depend
on them. And that could prove
devastating. In Asia alone, some
one billion people rely on reef
fisheries for food or income.
Local economies that rely on
oysters, clams, or scallops could
go bust. Areas like Florida that
depend on reefs as a bulwark
against storms would find
themselves more vulnerable to
hurricane damage. And, while
marine scientists still can’t pin
down the exact point at which a
global calamity would ensue,
lessons from the past are
unnerving. During the last major
wave of ocean acidification, 55
million years ago, a vast array of
deep-sea species were wiped
out—which, in turn, upended
marine ecosystems around the
world. Given how heavily we
rely on the ocean’s current food
web, that’s a prospect we can’t
dismiss lightly.
Rockström’s group also
identified a number of potential
tipping points related to modern
-day industrial agriculture. With
nearly seven billion people on
the planet and a growing
demand for meat, farmers are
razing forests and diverting
freshwater for irrigation at a
stunning pace. It’s not hard to
see that we could soon reach the
point where irreversible
degradation becomes likely in
many areas. The Aral Sea in
Central Asia, once the world’s
fourth-largest lake, has already
become so drained that it is now
largely desert, causing the area’s
once-robust fishing economy to
implode and leaving trawlers
marooned on the sands. And
Foley points out that, on some
islands in Indonesia, destruction
of rain forests has reached the
point where local weather
patterns have been altered,
drying out the area and, in turn,
making the remaining trees
more susceptible to forest fires.
In Borneo, the black smoke has
grown so thick that it has
interfered with air and sea traffic
and is causing widespread
respiratory illnesses.
Another unsustainable trend the
group pinpointed involved our
reliance on synthetic fertilizer.
Ever since the early twentieth
century, when German chemist
Fritz Haber devised a method
for capturing nitrogen from the
air to make ammonia gas,
humans have depended on
artificial nitrogen fertilizer to
boost crop productivity. It was a
world-changing invention,
enabling the planet to keep
feeding itself even as the
population ballooned. But the
practice has also inflicted heavy
damage on the water and soil we
depend on. The vast bulk of the
nitrogen and phosphorus used in
artificial fertilizers makes its
way into the rivers and oceans.
In areas like the Gulf of Mexico
and the Baltic Sea, the excess
nitrogen has overstimulated the
growth of algae, which chokes
off the water’s oxygen and kills
most other organisms in the
vicinity. These vast floating
“dead zones” are popping up
around the world—areas the
size of New Jersey where fish
can’t survive. Beyond that,
excess nitrogen has been found
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to deplete organic carbon in the
soil and decimate plant species
in certain areas. In essence, we
have overwhelmed the Earth’s
nutrient cycle—Rockström’s
group suggested that global
nitrogen use was more than four
times the “safe” threshold.
Granted, some experts find the
idea of a single boundary too
simplistic. Stuart Pimm, a
professor of conservation
ecology at Duke, points to the
paper’s discussion of
biodiversity as an example.
Throughout history, the normal
“background” rate for extinction
has been about one in a million
species per year. In the modern
era, thanks to activities like
deforestation and overfishing,
an average of about 100 species
per million die off each year—a
staggering rate that has the
potential to collapse ecosystems.
In response, Rockström’s group
proposed a threshold limit of no
more than ten species per
million per year. “But that
number was completely
arbitrary,” Pimm says. What’s
more, the idea of a single
worldwide limit on extinction
can obscure some important
nuances. Since the 1960s,
scientists have studied
“keystone” species that prop up
an entire ecosystem—if, for
instance, starfish are removed
from a bay, the local mussel
population can explode and
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drive out other species. “Some
ecosystems can lose a number of
species and be OK,” Pimm
argues. “Others can lose just a
few species and they’re
manifestly not OK.”
Still, the specific numerical
thresholds proposed by
Rockström’s group were, in
some sense, a side issue. Experts
will continue to haggle over
whether, say, 350 ppm or 450
ppm is a “safe” limit for carbon
dioxide in the air. But what was
more notable—indeed,
eerie—about the Nature paper
was its emphasis on how little
we can predict about the many
dramatic changes underway.
Consider the mounting evidence
that aerosol pollution—such as
sulfates—can alter local rainfall
patterns. But, according to
Kevin Noone, a colleague of
Rockström’s at the Stockholm
Resilience Centre, there simply
aren’t enough data yet to be able
to settle on a “safe” level of
aerosol pollution that would
avoid large-scale disruption of,
say, the Asian monsoon cycle.
Or take chemical pollution.
Currently, there are more than
80,000 synthetic chemicals on
the global market, and we know
that many of them can harm
human health or disturb the
reproductive cycles of certain
species (in much the same way
DDT caused eggshell thinning
among birds of prey). But no
one knows whether there’s a
point at which some
combination of chemical
pollutants could throw large-
scale ecosystems out of whack.
“There’s evidence out there that
these artificial chemicals can
have adverse effects, sure, but
no one’s really looked at them
yet from the perspective of
global thresholds,” says Will
Steffen, a climatologist at the
Australian National University
who contributed to the Nature
study. “That was one where we
couldn’t even guess a
boundary.”
Scarier still, many of these
different processes can interact
in unforeseen ways. The heavy
use of synthetic nitrogen
fertilizers can cause soil to
release nitrous oxide, a
greenhouse gas. Overfishing can
make coral reefs less resilient in
the face of stresses like ocean
acidification and warmer
temperatures. Global warming
can speed up the rate of
extinction. “Once you have all
of these dynamic processes in so
many dimensions interacting
with each other, we no longer
have the capability to anticipate
what will happen,” says van der
Leeuw. “That then raises the
possibility that these processes
will start affecting each other in
different ways that can quickly
have cascade effects we can’t
see right now.”
And that creates a dilemma:
Right now, too many
environmental problems are
studied in isolation. “Ever since
Newton, the tendency of science
has been to slice the pie up
smaller and smaller,” says
Noone. As an illustrative
example, he notes that scientific
literature now boasts a Journal
of Chemical Physics, a Journal
of Physical Chemistry, as well
as the journal Physical
Chemistry Chemical Physics.
Yet the research into planetary
boundaries suggests that it may
be impossible to deal with just
one or two environmental issues
at a time. At the moment, global
warming gets the bulk of
attention. But treating it as the
only problem could lead to
misguided solutions. For
instance, in recent years, some
researchers have broached the
idea of geoengineering as a cure
for climate change—one idea is
that we would reflect some of
the Earth’s sunlight in order to
cool the planet down. If rising
temperatures were our sole
concern, that might not be a bad
idea. But, of course, that
solution would do nothing about
the carbon-dioxide emissions
that are acidifying the world’s
oceans, or the frenetic pace of
deforestation that could alter the
Earth’s landscape irreparably.
The Nature study, with its many
visions of destruction, is enough
to cause one to crawl into a cave
and die. But the notion of
planetary boundaries is also
very different from past
doomsaying. Inherent in the
concept, in fact, is cause for
optimism. Back in the 1970s,
the Club of Rome think tank
commissioned an influential
book titled The Limits to
Growth, which predicted that
the combination of a rapidly
swelling world population and
finite natural resources would
put severe limits on economic
growth. As it turned out, many
of the book’s ominous
predictions were mistaken—the
authors had underestimated the
ability of both markets and
technology to overcome
resource constraints.
Similarly, an important lesson
from recent history proves that
it’s possible for humanity to stay
safely within the Earth’s natural
boundaries and still thrive. One
threshold that Rockström’s
group identified involved the
stratospheric ozone layer, which
shields the planet from harmful
ultraviolet (UV) rays. As it turns
out, this is the one known
planetary boundary that we’re
no longer in danger of
crossing—but the story of how
that came to pass is illustrative.
In the 1970s, scientists were
puzzling over the fact that
readings of ozone concentration
in the Antarctic region were
much lower than anyone had
expected. (The readings were so
odd that, for nearly a decade,
atmospheric scientists dismissed
the data as due to instrument
error.) At around the same time,
scientists were discovering that
concentrations of
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chlorofluorocarbons
(CFCs)—chemicals used in
refrigerators and air
conditioners—were lingering in
the atmosphere at high rates. In
1974, chemists Mario Molina
and Sherwood Rowland
published a paper arguing that
the two phenomena may be
linked, although it was a
difficult hypothesis to prove.
DuPont, the world’s biggest
manufacturer of CFCs, disputed
the connection, and it wasn’t
until the mid-’80s that hard
evidence confirming the link
came in—including the
discovery of a gaping ozone
hole over Antarctica.
Looking back, it’s remarkable
to ponder the serendipity of
these discoveries—and how
little margin for error we had.
As luck would have it, DuPont
had been using chlorine instead
of bromine to produce CFCs. As
far as anyone could tell, the two
elements were interchangeable.
But, as another prescient ozone
researcher, Paul Crutzen, later
noted, bromine is 45 times as
effective at destroying ozone as
chlorine. Had DuPont chosen to
use bromine, the ozone hole
could well have spanned the
globe by the 1970s instead of
being largely confined to
Antarctica—long before anyone
had a glimmering of the
problem. It’s not hard to see
what massive worldwide ozone
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Sen. Graham Quits Immigration Reform

(Newsmax - Inside Cover) accused Mr. Graham of flip- nationwide rallies for May 1. you bring it up in this making the same demand this
Submitted at 4/28/2010 3:23:28 AM flopping from his stance just a He said blame extends to all environment, not having done week. Led by Rep. Ted Poe,
month ago, and vowed to push parties — from Mr. Obama and anything that is going to Texas Republican, and Rep.
The sole Senate Republican ahead with a floor debate Democrats, who control reassure the American public Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona
working with Democrats on a anyway, though all sides have Congress and should be able to that we won't have 20 million Democrat, the House members
bipartisan immigration bill said acknowledged that passing get legislation enacted, to more [illegal immigrants], that will ask that the troops be armed
Tuesday that the issue will have immigration will take bipartisan Republicans, who he said are you're going to crash and burn, and be authorized to defend
to wait until 2012, undercutting support and Mr. Graham had playing political games to try to and that [if] immigration comes themselves.
the drive to pass a law this year been the only Republican to step protect their vulnerable up this year, it is absolutely Amid those calls, Arizona's
and setting up a partisan floor forward. members. devastating to the future of this new law cracking down on
s h o w d o w n t h a t a l l s i d e s "Others may have given up on In the face of rising criticism, issue," he said. illegal immigrants continues to
acknowledge won't produce a immigration reform. I haven't," Mr. Obama has begun ratcheting Republicans said spillover roil the debate across the
bill that can reach the president's Mr. Reid said. up efforts for legislation this violence from the battle between country and in Mexico.
desk. The issue is among the most year, but Democrats need Mr. Mexican authorities and drug The Mexican government
Pointing to Arizona's new law divisive facing Congress but Graham and other Republicans cartels threatens Americans, and issued a travel advisory to
c r a c k i n g d o w n o n i l l e g a l does not easily break down to sign up if they are to they point to the deaths of three citizens visiting Arizona and to
i m m i g r a n t s , S e n . L i n d s e y along party lines. Lawmakers overcome a certain filibuster in employees of a U.S. consulate those in the U.S., while
Graham of South Carolina, who face fundamental competing the Senate. Top House and the killing last month of an Attorney General Eric H. Holder
had been trying to write a bill pressures between upholding the Democrats have said the House Arizona rancher as evidence of Jr. said he is considering a court
with Democrats, said it's clear rule of law and a desire to be will act only after the Senate the security threat on the border. challenge to Arizona statute.
that Americans do not think the welcoming to immigrants. does. Ms. Napolitano, a former Ms. Napolitano said the law,
border with Mexico is secure Immigrant rights groups "There's only 59 of us," Mr. Arizona governor, called the which doesn't take effect for
and will not accept an already feel betrayed by Reid said. rancher's slaying "outrageous" several months, could strain the
immigration bill until that's President Obama, who they say Without a bipartisan bill, Mr. but said by every measure the resources of immigration
fixed. promised to relax some Reid's options are limited. He border is more secure. authorities because the
He said trying to pass a bill in enforcement practices and to could bring up the 2006 bill that "The plain fact of the matter is government is not prepared to
the face of that opposition will push for an immigration bill in passed the Senate but never got … the numbers at the border detain, process and deport that
doom immigration reform for his first year in office. On a House vote, or the 2007 bill have never been better," she many illegal immigrants.
years to come and that the best Tuesday, 24 protesters were that didn't even earn majority said. "We need to keep working Meanwhile, national Hispanic
lawmakers can hope for right arrested for disorderly conduct support among senators, or he those efforts, sustaining those groups have called for a boycott
now is to pass a bill in two in a Chicago suburb after they could try to craft his own efforts, but at the same time, of Arizona businesses until the
years, once the border is sat in a street to block a van legislation. comprehensive immigration law is repealed.
secured. carrying illegal immigrants from But bills that fail can reform should be in our sights." But the law has found favor
"I believe we can do it by 2012, a federal detention center, the sometimes poison the well for a Still, under questioning by Mr. among many Republicans. A
if we're smart and we address Associated Press reported. particular issue for years in Graham, she stopped short of former congressman who is
the big elephant in the room, " T h e c o m m u n i t y h a s h a d Congress, as was the case with saying the border is fully secure. running for governor in Georgia
and that is that our borders are enough. We do not recognize President Clinton's health care Sens. John McCain and Jon has promised a similar law in
broken," Mr. Graham told the country we are becoming. efforts in the early 1990s or the Kyl, Arizona Republicans, his state if he's elected.
Homeland Security Secretary We want action, and we want it failed 2007 immigration bill. earlier this month called for Mr. Mr. Obama last week tried to
Janet Napolitano at a hearing on now," said Deepak Bhargava, Mr. Graham warned Tuesday Obama to deploy National broaden his Republican
Capitol Hill. executive director of the Center that that will happen again if Guard troops to the Arizona- outreach, placing calls to five
Senate Majority Leader Harry for Community Change, which Mr. Reid presses ahead. Mexico border, and a bipartisan SEN. page 43
R e i d , N e v a d a D e m o c r a t , is helping organize a series of "I bet you everything I own, if group of House lawmakers is
42 Politics/ E-reader News Edition

RNC Costs for Wooing Donors Disputed

(Newsmax - Inside Cover) wrong [because] it takes the should be taken, it is clear that from anybody. to be tilting toward Republicans,
Submitted at 4/28/2010 3:44:30 AM revenues from just our major- major changes need to be In his own note to the budget the RNC has held its own in the
donor program, but includes made," Mr. Pope said. panel and RNC members, Mr. race for campaign cash, Mr.
R e p u b l i c a n N a t i o n a l expenses from our entire finance The RNC budget chief noted Pullen wrote, "I want to Heye contended.
Committee Chairman Michael department administrative costs, that part of the problem was that apologize beforehand about the "Despite the advantage the
S. Steele's staff and some party postage, printing costs, etc.," "programs which worked well confusion surrounding the Democratic National Committee
officials are at odds over the Mr. Heye wrote in an e-mail during the Bush White House allocation of administrative holds by controlling the White
organization's efforts to reel in response. years are not effective in today's costs in the finance division on House and both chambers of
money from high-dollar donors, Mr. Pullen's analysis concluded political reality of the the spreadsheet for March. The Congress, the RNC has
o f f e r i n g c o n f l i c t i n g that the committee lost $185,434 Republican Party being in the allocation I used was provided outraised the DNC in nine of the
interpretations of the RNC's on the big-donor program, minority." by finance on a spreadsheet and past 15 reported months," Mr.
fund-raising effectiveness ahead spending $2,067,675 to take in But after the RNC's fund- is how they have been allocating Heye said.
of critical midterm elections. $1,882,241. But Mr. Heye raising operations came under admin/overhead costs for years "Moreover, when one factors in
A spreadsheet prepared last countered that, factoring in the public scrutiny, Mr. Pope this in that division. If there was a the DNC's lingering debt, the
month by RNC Treasurer Randy c o r r e c t e x p e n s e s f o r t h e week sent a new e-mail need for a change in how costs RNC has more available cash
Pullen found that in the first program, the RNC actually communique to Budget are allocated, it was not brought than the DNC. I would define
quarter of 2010, the party spent netted $322,589 from the major- Committee and other RNC to my attention while I was that a success — and our major-
$1.09 for every $1.00 it raised donor outreach effort. members taking back his earlier doing the analysis." donors program is an important
from donors who give $1,000 or The conflicting interpretations criticism of the level of RNC The Democratic National part of that."
m o r e — t h e h i g h - d o l l a r come amid continuing questions expenses, saying he now thinks Committee announced this week But the DNC outpaced the
benefactors long considered the about the effectiveness of Mr. the administrative costs of the a $20 million-plus plan to aid RNC in the latest fundraising
financial lifeblood of political Steele's RNC and its ability to big-donor program had been congressional candidates this totals for March, $13 million to
parties. Mr. Pullen, a certified provide funding for critical incorrectly calculated. fall, but the expenses of both $11.4 million.
public accountant and head of races this fall. Top Republicans "Unfortunately, when the party headquarters operations According to a CQ Politics
the Arizona Republican Party, have expressed concerns about spreadsheet was prepared, the have come under scrutiny in analysis, the DNC also did a
said his report calculated the RNC's internal financial number for major-donor recent days. better job at attracting the very
revenues and expenses in the controls and at least some top expenses apparently also An analysis by the Center for top donors: Thirty-three
way traditionally done by the GOP donors have said they will included the actual Responsive Politics — done for individuals — author Stephen
national party. give to other party organizations administrative overhead for the The Washington Post — King among them — kicked in
But other RNC officials close instead of the RNC. department (salaries, office estimated last week that $30,400 each for the Democrats
to Mr. Steele sharply disputed RNC Budget Committee expenses, etc.), which should overhead and expenses have so in March, the maximum under
the numbers, saying Mr. Pullen's Chairman Louis Pope, who not have been included in the far come to $60 million for the federal election law. Ten GOP
figures for the cost of the r e c e i v e d M r . P u l l e n ' s cost of fundraising numbers," DNC, or 59 cents out over every donors gave the same maximum
funding-outreach effort were too spreadsheet, originally called Mr. Pope wrote in the new e- $1 raised. The number was even amount to the RNC.
high. the numbers "very mail. higher for Mr. Steele's RNC, © Copyright 2010 The
The $1.09 figure — actually, disappointing" in a commentary Mr. Pullen replied that, while which the report said has spent Washington Times, LLC
$ 1 . 0 9 8 i n M r . P u l l e n ' s distributed to fellow Budget he would not object to a change more than $74 million so far on Five Filters featured article:
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Morning Bell: The Senate’s Goldman Kabuki continued from page 41

Republican senators and

Conn Carroll (The Foundry: finance works, Dorgan went on goals over financial reality. Rep. can borrow the billions of
Conservative Policy News.) sounding them out on joining
to say: “To bet against your Barney Frank told the House dollars needed to finance their the effort to pass an immigration
Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:38:26 AM clients, to bet against your Financial Services Committee: government spending. bill.
country, all for the sake of big “These two entities–Fannie Mae • Section 9006 of Obamacare Those Republicans didn't reject
The New York Times reports p r o f i t s . T h e t i m i n g i s and Freddie Mac–are not facing force millions of businesses to the overture but said other issues
this morning, “Politicians like serendipitous but it should any kind of financial crisis,” and issue hundreds of millions, have higher priority.
nothing more than a convenient i n c r e a s e t h e p r e s s u r e o n “[t]he more people exaggerate perhaps billions, of additional "We really should be focusing
foil, and Democrats locked in a Republicans.” Is Dorgan for these problems, the more IRS Form 1099s every year. on jobs right now. We've been
s t u b b o r n i m p a s s e w i t h real? Does he really believe that pressure there is on these • Thanks to Governor Jan doing everything but," said Sen.
Republicans over new rules to anyone who did not blindly keep companies, the less we will see Brewer (R), Arizona became the Scott Brown, Massachusetts
govern Wall Street believe they inflating the housing bubble was in terms of affordable housing.” first state to opt out of abortion Republican.
have found a gold-plated one in “betting against your country”? And the author of thevery coverage in any insurance Sen. Charles E. Schumer, the
Goldman Sachs. Democrats say Is it now unpatriotic to believe financial reform bill currently exchanges created by New York Democrat who had
the convergence of their push that housing prices cannot being debated in the Senate, Obamacare. been writing a bill with Mr.
for an overhaul of financial infinitely rise? Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) , told • According to Democracy Graham, said Tuesday that he is
regulation and a prominent The left would have us believe CNN in July of 2008: “To Corps‘ new analysis, still talking with colleagues
federal securities case against that the 2008 financial crisis was suggest somehow that [Fannie Obamacare’s passage did not about the next step. But he
the prestigious investment firm all the fault of greedy Wall Mae and Freddie Mac] are in produce even a point rise in the declined to talk about his
is a matter of coincidence, not Street bankers like those at trouble is simply not accurate.” president’s approval rating or conversations with Mr. Graham.
planning.” Sen. Byron Dorgan Goldman Sachs who dared to Just two months later, affection for the Democratic "I'm going to keep those to
( D - N D ) a d d e d : “ I f t h e change their investment strategy completely overrun by bad debt, Congress. myself," he said.
disclosures at these hearings are on the belief that housing prices both companies were placed in • According to Rasmussen © Copyright 2010 The
not the final nail that persuades were inflated. To protect against conservatorship. Reports, only 39% of voters Washington Times, LLC
the American people to demand future financial meltdowns, the So unable to acknowledge the favor legislation aimed at Five Filters featured article:
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don’t believe that Washington identified. In fact, one of the regulation bill at all. Hence the financial regulation, goldman
has any idea about why the main reasons for yesterday’s need for a villain like Goldman. sachs, Morning Bell
financial crisis happened or how hearing was to deflect attention And what does Goldman think You can follow any responses
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on Wall Street. Intent on of the housing storm. But the status, investors wonder if
proving his ignorance of how left prioritized their political Portugal, Spain and even Ireland
44 Politics/ Health/ E-reader News Edition

THE PICTURE: Ab Ex Dad Girl Next

Jed Perl (The New Republic -
All Feed)
moment of truth, which takes
place off stage, involves
baroque monologues that might
bring Rothko’s melancholy and
that amounts to little more than
a series of questions, all pretty
Door: Melissa
Submitted at 4/27/2010 11:00:00 PM discovering the work of Warhol
and Lichtenstein and realizing
grandiose personality to life.
Molina—who was so
much left hanging. (Who will
reach out? Who will respond?
Melendez
Red, the play starring Alfred that Rothko is old hat. Red ends remarkable in the role of the Will hurt bring about healing?) (Mensfitness.com)
Molina as Mark Rothko, is with Ken turning into the rebel overbearing yet loving father in What turns this stupid event into Submitted at 4/28/2010 2:00:00 AM
bombastic stuff. Molina, bald with Pop Art as his cause. At the recent movie, An a major affront is an act of
and bespectacled, stalks around which point Rothko dismisses Education—doesn’t really have theatrical aggression. John by Stephen Bailey | Photos by
the stage like an angry drill him, but with an honorable much to work with here. And so Logan uses the heroic drama of Paul Miller/ Bullz-Eye.com
sergeant. When he barks out discharge. The angry Ab Ex the audience fills in the blanks. mid-twentieth-century American Print Article Email to Friend
profundities about the tragic drill sergeant turns out to have a Although Rothko is still alive painting as a high falutin’ cover This adorable young thing was
nature of art, he might as well heart, after all. when Red finally grinds to a for what amounts to a series of discovered at a photo shoot in
be ordering the privates to clean The audiences who are packing halt, theatergoers are all too well utterly predictable skits about Costa Rica. Her sweet smile and
the latrines. Actually, there is the Golden Theater, where Red aware that the man committed the never-ending warfare tight, tanned body are making
only one private around. That’s has arrived from the Donmar suicide in his studio, which is between fathers and sons. Strip her a favorite among swimsuit
the fresh-faced actor Eddie Warehouse in London, love this the setting for the play, and you away the hallowed names that and lingerie photographers (and
Redmayne, who plays Rothko’s s a c c h a r i n e s t u f f . P e o p l e can almost feel them waiting for are tossed around in the every other guy on the planet).
studio assistant, Ken. And for succumb to Rothko’s boldface the blood to start spurting from play—Michelangelo, Picasso, Check out her hot gallery to see
much of the interminable 90 p r o n o u n c e m e n t s , p e r h a p s his wrists. Instead, there is lots Matisse, Pollock, de why she was a Bullz-Eye.com
m i n u t e s R e d t a k e s t o g o because they can see that all this of red paint splattered around Kooning—and what you are left Girl Next Door.
nowhere in particular, Ken celebrity art worker wisdom the stage. At one point, Ken with is a tough-old-guy cliché Click for Melissa's Photo
cheerfully swallows whatever comes with learned footnotes. discovers Rothko asleep over a and a tender-young-guy cliché, a Gallery
Rothko dishes out. After all, The Abstract Expressionists bucket full of that blood red couple of moldy scarecrows that For more hot photos galleries,
he’s lucky enough to be in basic really did talk about Nietzsche goop. We have already learned Broadway producers have been check out Bullz-Eye.com
t r a i n i n g w i t h t h e G r e a t and the Birth of Tragedy and the that poor Ken is an orphan, who trotting around for generations. [on Facebook, Digg, Reddit and
American Artist. Ken may not Apollonian and Dionysian as a boy discovered his mother Whoever Mark Rothko was and more]
be required to tuck in the principles (although it’s never and father murdered in their whatever his limitations as an Five Filters featured article:
blanket on his cot just so, but been clear how much of it they bedroom. Ken, you see, is a artist and as a man, he does not Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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d o e s n ’ t s t r e t c h R o t h k o ’ s Rothko and his friends were father. But Rothko, spouting swaggering bully in need of Term Extraction.
canvases exactly right. And of furious when Sidney Janis, the dicta about the tragedy of art, is sensitivity training. At Red, art
course he can be sure that the dealer who was their meal not exactly dad material. Or is becomes kitsch right before
resident middle-aged genius will ticket, began showing Pop Art. he? your eyes.
be plenty pissed off if Ken But John Logan, the writer I have rarely been as Jed Perl is the art critic of The
forgets to replenish the studio’s responsible for stitching some uncomfortable in a theater as I New Republic.
supply of coffee, cigarettes, and perfectly creditable bits and was at Red. It was not the For more TNR, become a fan
booze. Ken keeps to the straight pieces of Abstract Expressionist inconclusive face-off between a on Facebook and follow us on
and narrow. He aims to please. h i s t o r y t o g e t h e r i n t o a damaged son and a domineering Twitter.
Until, that is, he decides he will simulacrum of a play, is unable dad that had me squirming in
no longer aim to please. His to shape these factoids into the my seat. I can tolerate a play
E-reader News Edition
Green or Not So Green?
Nicolas Loris (The Foundry:
Conservative Policy News.)
Submitted at 4/27/2010 4:23:38 PM
By the year 2000, if present
trends continue, we will be
using up crude oil at such a
rate…that there won’t be any
more crude oil. You’ll drive up
to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up,
buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very
sorry, there isn’t any.’”
Ecologist Kenneth Watt made
that statement on the inaugural
Earth Day in 1970. The “peak
oil” warning has been going on
long before that, but here we are
ten years after Watt’s deadline
and we’re globally consuming
85 million barrels of oil per day
with increasing amounts of
proven reserves each year.
Three decades ago, proven oil
reserves were 645 billion
barrels; five years ago it was
1.28 trillion and in 2009 it was
1.34 trillion. Yet the push to
transition to renewable,
allegedly cleaner sources of
energy has never been stronger.
The question to ask is: why?
A large part of the answer, and
the justification for subsidies,
tax credits and mandates for
renewables, is that they will
help cool our planet’s fever.
Setting aside the debate of
whether our planet is in need of
any remedy, the truth is what the
government selects as green
energy isn’t as green they
promote. Robert Bryce, author
of the new book, Power Hungry:
The Myths of ‘Green’ Energy
and the Real Fuels of the Future,
explains:
Unfortunately, solar and wind
technologies require huge
amounts of land to deliver
relatively small amounts of
energy, disrupting natural
habitats. Even an aging natural
gas well producing 60,000 cubic
feet per day generates more than
20 times the watts per square
meter of a wind turbine. A
nuclear power plant cranks out
about 56 watts per square meter,
eight times as much as is
derived from solar photovoltaic
installations. The real estate that
wind and solar energy demand
led the Nature Conservancy to
issue a report last year critical of
“energy sprawl,” including tens
of thousands of miles of high-
voltage transmission lines
needed to carry electricity from
wind and solar installations to
distant cities.
Nor does wind energy
substantially reduce CO2
emissions. Since the wind
doesn’t always blow, utilities
must use gas- or coal-fired
generators to offset wind’s
unreliability. The result is
minimal — or no — carbon
dioxide reduction.”
But it’s actually worse than
that. The intermittency of wind
forces coal and gas-fired plants
to operate inefficiently and
actually increase emissions.
This has proven to be the case in
Colorado and Texas, two states
that have adopted a renewable
portfolio standard, which
mandates that wind be included
in the state’s electricity supply.
A new study from the
Independent Petroleum
Association of Mountain States
finds that:
Coal-fired power plants are
designed to run most efficiently
at stable rates and are not well-
suited to accommodate the load
variability imposed by the
integration with wind
generation. Cycling causes coal-
fired power plants to operate
less efficiently, and reduces the
effectiveness of their
environmental control
equipment, which together drive
up emissions. Paradoxically,
using wind energy in such a way
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that it forces utilities to cycle
their coal generation often
results in greater SO2, NOX and
CO2 emissions than would have
occurred if less wind energy
were generated and coal
generation was not cycled.” Google Search
Politicians can’t account for
these unintended consequences Unveils Upcoming
that occur when trying to plan Hulu App for Android
our nation’s energy future. And
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
that’s reason enough not to do
so. Submitted at 4/28/2010 2:27:04 AM
Tags: coal, oil, peak oil,
renewable electricity standard, Can’t wait for an official Hulu
renewable portfolio standard, application for your Android
solar energy, wind energy One device? Perhaps you won’t have
Response to “Green or Not So to wait too long. If you search
Green?” Google for “Hulu Android,” a
• Billie on April 27th, 2010 at result from Hulu’s Labs page
5:23pm said: there is nothing mentions a “Hulu App for
mankind can do to stop global Android devices” in the
warming and nothing they did to description.
cause it. whether it’s coming to It could be some sort of a weird
take us away or not, the survival coincidence, but we’re inclined
will be the fittest not a carbon to believe that a Hulu app for
tax credit. Android (and possibly for the
iPhone and iPod touch as well,
You can follow any responses since these devices are also
to this entry through the RSS 2.0 mentioned in the search result
feed. description) is indeed in the
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Economic Freedom: Key to Post- continued from page 40

depletion would’ve meant. agreed to phase out the

Conflict Recovery Punta Arenas, the southernmost
town of Chile, sits under the
chemicals in 1987, and
economic ruin never arrived.
Anthony B. Kim (The Foundry: place, and activity flourishes of projecting soft power. But Antarctic ozone hole, and skin DuPont developed a substitute
Conservative Policy News.) from letting them all evolve and such power will be effective cancer rates there have soared for CFCs, and ozone levels in
Submitted at 4/27/2010 5:00:10 PM interact in the marketplace. It is only if what Americans have by 66 percent since 1994. If the atmosphere have stabilized,
nearly impossible to predict accomplished for themselves humans had destroyed with the hole over Antarctica
In his latest article in Foreign what outcomes these activities appeals to others.If the United stratospheric ozone across the expected to heal by 2050. A
Affairs, Carl J. Schramm, will bring beyond a broad trend States lets its economic globe, we would likely be topic that once graced the cover
president and CEO of the Ewing toward higher productivity, performance slip or if it drifts unable to set foot outdoors of Time and generated heated
Marion Kauffman Foundation, rising standards of living, and away from the principles of without layers of sunscreen and congressional debates now
c a l l s f o r “ e x p e d i t i o n a r y continued economic growth.” entrepreneurial capitalism, it dark shades to prevent eye barely gets mentioned. We
economics” a new strategy for Although there is no distinct will endanger the standard that damage. Worse, the excess UV learned to stay within one
reconstructing economies of formula through which to others view so highly and create rays could have killed off many planetary boundary without
post-conflict countries. Pointing guarantee this “organic” but the conditions for less America- of the single-celled organisms impeding human prosperity.
out that the current U.S. Army constructive process, a good friendly views to prevail in the that form the basis for the That should give us every
S t a b i l i t y O p e r a t i o n s f i e l d way to start is to focus on world. ocean’s food chain and reason to think we can respect
manual “epitomizes the central- economic freedom. According Regrettably, the ongoing retreat disrupted global agriculture the others we are now barreling
planning mindset that prevails in to the Index of Economic in America’s economic freedom (studies show that bean and pea past.
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Jeb Bush Opposes Arizona Video of the Week:

Immigration Law Billie Tucker’s Inspiring
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Republican figure to do so. Billie Tucker is a wife, a mom, some bunting. Five thousand
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Aflac Trading Slightly Higher Following Q1 Earnings Report

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48 Business/
Beware of Ad Creeps on the Golf Course
Rick Barrack (Fast Company)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 9:16:44 AM
It's not news that sporting
events have become
increasingly branded over the
years. We've come to expect a
bombardment of advertisements
and sponsorships at auto racing
events and basketball, football,
and baseball games--sports that
are now modern-day billboards
for advertisers like Nike, Fila,
Budweiser, McDonald's, UPS,
MasterCard, and Sprint, to name
just a few.
But from golf? For whatever
reason, this pastime has always
seemed more sacred than the
others, more refined somehow.
The serene courses, the crisp
outfits, the elegant clubs, the
clean-cut personas...all these
elements combined to yield a
sophisticated sporting
experience. That all changed for
me, however, while watching
this year's Masters. Since when
did Augusta become Times
Square? Endorsements used to
be limited to a single logo on a
cap, golf shirt or pair of shorts,
but in recent years, multiple
logos have turned up on the
bodies of golfers like Phil
Mickelson, Vijay Singh, Ian
Poulter, Luke Donald, and K.J.
Choi--so much so that they are
starting to resemble Nascar
drivers. And it seems to have
finally reached a fever pitch.
As I sat watching golf on a
beautiful Sunday, one of my
E-reader News Edition
opened the entire PGA tour up
to ad creep. It was thrilling to
watch him on the course, and all
the buzz resulted in golf's
viewership going through the
roof.
It also doesn't hurt that golf's
biggest viewers are baby
boomers--the dream target of
every company. Older and more
sophisticated, baby boomers are
confident consumers who know
what they like, have money to
spend and subscribe to a "carpe
diem" philosophy--see Fast
Company's Business of Golf.
Maybe this is why we're seeing
ads for premium vodka, Lexus,
and upscale travel destinations
during golf events, as opposed
to Nascar’s ads for beer and
Ford trucks?
Of course, prestige advertisers
aren't the only ones wanting to
snag all that green stuff, which
is resulting in all that
aforementioned creep. Don't get
me wrong, I'm pro-advertising; I
make my living in marketing
favorite marketing buzzwords universe where every inch of he's got enough to deal with and design, for goodness sake.
comes to mind: ad creep. every space people pass through these days), but it's a known fact But I suppose that at the end of
According to Wordspy.com, ad --and even the air itself--is that he changed the sport the day, I'm also a traditionalist
creep is "the gradual expansion covered in advertising. The film forever. A kid whose star shone who holds certain things sacred,
of advertising space to non- was set in the year 2054. Today, as brightly as young Michael and fears for what lay ahead.
traditional surfaces such as as the proliferation of ads on the Jordan's, Tiger made golf Where will signage turn up next
floors, bathroom walls, cars, and course proves, we're not that far accessible to people of all ages on the course: permanently
the sides of buildings." The first off the mark. and bank accounts, and raked in tattooed on players' calves,
time I heard the term, I was But why is ad creep is finding the highest contracts in golf forearms, necks and foreheads?
reminded of Minority Report, its way into the most reserved history: $40 million with Nike, Or, floating in the air around the
the Steven Spielberg film and conservative pastime? Well, $20 million with Titleist. In players, a la Minority Report?
inspired by the Philip K. Dick not to blame things on Tiger turn, he invited in more viewers- As with Tiger's career, I guess
short story, which paints a Woods (because god knows, -viewers with deep pockets--and BEWARE page 50
E-reader News Edition
Apple Attorneys Requested Investigation of Possible iPhone
Theft
Dan Nosowitz (Fast
Company)
Submitted at 4/27/2010 9:21:44 PM
Disclosure: Up until a few
months ago, I was employed by
Gizmodo, but was not involved
in any way with the iPhone leak.
As part of an ongoing
partnership, Fast Company
sometimes syndicates Gizmodo
stories and vice versa.
First things first: for a primer
on this whole situation, read our
Start to Finish Timeline(which I
will be updating further in just a
minute!). It'll get you right up to
date, from the moment Gray
Powell left his iPhone on a
barstool to the police seizure of
equipment at a Gizmodo editor's
house.
Following the revelation that
Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's
house had been broken into by
the police, lots of new and
curious information came to
light--not unexpected, since the
interested parties in this case are
our colleagues in the tech
journalism field, a scrappy and
able bunch. They found out that
REACT, the specific
interdepartmental team that
actually seized Chen's
equipment, has a steering
committee on which many
prominent Silicon Valley
companies sit--including
Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec,
and, most importantly, Apple.
Many have questioned whether
Apple put pressure on REACT
or on the San Mateo District
Attorney's office to investigate
the alleged theft of the iPhone
prototype. It was just talk, so far
--while REACT has investigated
based on queries from Microsoft
and Adobe, Microsoft and
Adobe also make probably the
two most pirated pieces of
software in the history of pirated
software (Windows and
Photoshop, respectively). Just
because a company sits on the
steering committee doesn't mean
they're not also the victim of a
crime, is what I'm saying.
On the other hand, we now
have a statement that Apple did
request the investigation that led
to the seizure of four computers
(and a broken front door)
belonging to Jason Chen. From
the San Jose Business Journal:
Wagstaffe [the San Mateo
County DA] said that an outside
counsel for Apple, along with
Apple engineer Powell, called
the District Attorney’s office on
Wednesday or Thursday of last
Business/ 49
week to report a theft had
occurred and they wanted it
investigated. The District
Attorney’s office then referred
them to the Rapid Enforcement
and Allied Computer Team, or
REACT, a multi-jurisdictional,
high-tech crime task force that
operates under the Santa Clara
County District Attorney’s
office.
That's confirmation from the
source that Apple requested an
investigation. It's odd that
REACT was then called in
afterwards, instead of Apple
putting pressure on them first,
but legally it's more sensible to
go through the District Attorney.
This doesn't indicate that the
investigation was biased or
otherwise compromised, but
until now, we had no idea if
Apple was involved at all.
Now we know--they started the
whole thing.
Dan Nosowitz, the author of
this post, can be followed on
Twitter, corresponded with via
email, and stalked in San
Francisco (no link for that one--
you'll have to do the legwork
yourself).
50 Business/
Microsoft Bites at Apple, Licenses HTC Over Android IP
Infringements
Kit Eaton (Fast Company)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 9:09:49 AM
The smartphone wars have
evolved from fighting for
marketspace to battling over
who stole whose IP in their
phone designs. Now Microsoft's
allying with HTC...while
slightly dissing Android. Is the
real target Apple?
"Microsoft Corp. and HTC
Corp. have signed a patent
agreement that provides broad
coverage under Microsoft’s
patent portfolio for HTC’s
mobile phones running the
Android mobile platform,"
explains Microsoft's press
release. "Under the terms of the
agreement, Microsoft will
receive royalties from HTC."
While this apparently cements a
"long-standing" business
relationship, HTC has all but
admitted that some elements of
its Android smartphone
repertoire step on patented IP
owned by Microsoft, and rather
BEWARE
continued from page 48
we'll have to wait and see.
Read Rick Barrack's X and
Why blog Browse blogs by
more Expert Designers
Rick Barrack is the Chief
Creative Officer/Partner at CBX
and one of its founding
than engage in messy legal
battles on the matter, HTC has
merely agreed to push a few
dollars to MS for every Android
phone it sells. MS's deputy
general legal counsel, Horacio
Gutierrez tells CNet:
"Competitors do not free ride on
our innovations." The deal
covers all Android phones made
by HTC, including Google's
partners. As lead creative he is
responsible for inspiring,
directing and motivating the
creative teams to develop
powerful design solutions.
Barrack has close to 20 years of
experience in corporate identity
own-branded Nexus One. The
implication is that MS is
aggressively protecting its IP
use, and may even go after other
manufacturers who make
Android phones.
Apple, of course is also suing
HTC for similar patent
infringement--it, and MS, aren't
targeting Google because while
Google puts together the
and consumer brand identity Barrack was a Senior Design
design. He has led major design Director at FutureBrand and
initiatives for companies such Design Director at LPK.
as IBM, Hewlett Packard, Petro-
Canada, ExxonMobil, Johnson
& Johnson, and Del Monte
Foods. Prior to creating CBX,
Android OS itself, it's the
implementation on touchscreen
smartphones by HTC that
infringes on their IP.
So is the real target of the MS
agreement with HTC actually
Apple? By avoiding a complex
legal battle and instead quickly
settling on a licensing
agreement, MS and HTC have
effectively formed a smartphone
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IP bloc. This supports further
development of Android
phones, as well as facilitating
the entry of Microsoft's
revamped Windows Phone 7
Series smartphones later in the
year. And by slightly
strengthening Android's position
in the market, MS is helping
challenge the absolute market
dominance by the iPhone, which
of course is good for its
smartphone business too. As
other evidence mounts that
Android is beginning to chip
away at the iPhone's lead, the
HTC-MS deal could be seen as
the further hints that the
iPhone's dominance is showing
a few cracks.
To keep up with this news
follow me, Kit Eaton, on
Twitter. That QR code on the
left will also take your
smartphone to my Twitter feed.
And if you really liked this
story, you can re-Tweet too.
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Android Jumps Past iPhone in US Mobile Web Use

Dan Nosowitz (Fast online mobile traffic, compared and more specifically Google--
Company) with Apple's 39%. The other while it may not have as many
Submitted at 4/27/2010 10:32:57 PM players, by the way, don't even users as the iPhone, those users
enter the picture. RIM's are highly active mobile internet
Android is still lagging behind BlackBerry phones are in third users. Google, which owns
the iPhone in marketshare, with place, with 7%, and Palm's AdMob (these numbers are
only 9% market penetration in struggling WebOS only eked independent, however), is in a
the US (iPhone is around 25%). out 3% despite a recent Verizon position to capitalize on these
But according to new numbers launch. active users.
from online ad giant AdMob, AdMob goes even further and Dan Nosowitz, the author of
Android actually passed the separates out the individual this post, can be followed on
iPhone in mobile web use this devices using both Android and Twitter, corresponded with via
month. iPhone OS. Motorola's email, and stalked in San
US Android traffic--that might iPhone 3GS had 39% of its OS's
T h i s i s a l l U S - o n l y - - blockbuster Droid snagged 32% Francisco (no link for that one--
be the stat that allows us to say traffic, followed by the 2nd-gen
internationally, the iPhone is of the Android traffic, followed you'll have to do the legwork
definitively that the Nexus One iPod Touch at 25% and the
much better established than b y t h e o l d e r H T C H e r o . yourself).
has officially bombed. iPhone 3G at 20%.
Android. But here in the States, Embarrassingly, Google's own
As far as iPhone OS, the aging This is great news for Android,
Android accounted for 46% of Nexus One managed only 2% of

Before the Bell: Futures Advance Sprint Nextel First-

Ahead of Fed Statement Quarter Net Loss
Melly Alazraki
(BloggingStocks)
plummeted 213 points, or 1.9%,
the Nasdaq Composite lost 51
points, or 2%, and the S&P 500
Widens
Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:30:00 AM
Mark Fightmaster
fell 28 points, or 2.3%. (BloggingStocks)
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Matters, Sprint Nextel Corp (S), Fed Statement

Comcast Cl'A' (CMCSA), Dow
Chemical (DOW), Economic
Data After slumping earlier in
the morning, U.S. stock futures
turned higher Wednesday.
Perhaps following Tuesday's
steep sell-off this may have been
expected. Still, as earnings
season rages on, investors
remained highly concerned
about debt problems in Europe
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Sprint Nextel Corp (S) Sprint
Advance Ahead of Fed
and awaited a statement and an Nextel ( S) reported Wednesday
Statement originally appeared
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on BloggingStocks on Wed, 28
Federal Reserve. increased due to 1.5% lower from the equation, Sprint lost 17
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U.S. Steel: A Buy After continued from page 51

revenue of $8.05 billion. Sprint

Q1 Earnings? added that it lost 75,000 net
subscribers during the quarter.
Steven Mallas But when the company
(BloggingStocks) compared the results to a year
Submitted at 4/28/2010 9:30:00 AM
ago, the telecom firm's
improvement in post-paid gross
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United States Steel Corp. ( X),
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Continue reading Sprint Nextel
whose colleagues include AK First-Quarter Net Loss Widens
Steel ( AKS) and Nucor Corp. (
NUE), was sold off by investors
Whitten on Xbox 360's Sprint Nextel First-Quarter Net
Loss Widens originally
on Tuesday after the company
released its first-quarter results.
mean the business is worth a
look, especially when you take
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The stock dropped $3.44, or Stephanie Schomer (Fast buttons. Natal solves that by
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The company is definitely far you want to do the spin-kick
Continue reading U.S. Steel: A
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Buy After Q1 Earnings?
it unfortunately is also Musselman implement the spin-kick-serve
U.S. Steel: A Buy After Q1
significantly under the 52-week Marc WhittenGeneral Manager, button. You just do it, and it
Earnings? originally appeared
high of $70.95. The one-year Xbox 360, Microsoft Redmond, works.
on BloggingStocks on Wed, 28
chart shows an up-and-down Washington But Natal isn't just about
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decidedly in the downward Project Natal, which tracks your know which team you're for
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"If you counted the number of knows you thought a bad call
buttons in your living room, it was made when you yell 'boo.' It
would send a chill down your learns about you and gets
spine. A lot of people can play smarter to create a more tailored
games amazingly well, but entertainment experience."
others feel locked out if games
involve a bunch of triggers and
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What does car seat “side-impact protection” really

mean?
Artemis Dibenedetto new Air Protect system. But the comparable to each other, as
(Consumer Reports) truth is that the words can mean each manufacturer may test
Submitted at 4/28/2010 1:59:59 AM different things to different differently. Also, know that
manufacturers, so the claims those differences do not
What does car seat “side-impact d o n ’ t n e c e s s a r i l y s h o w currently reflect a seat’s
protection” really mean? consumers how products would performance to a standardized Just In: 2010 Ford
The recent release of Air perform against one another.
Protect™ technology from Current U.S. child car seat
test.• If possible, install your
child’s car seat in the center rear
Flex Limited with
manufacturer Safety 1st may standards only include a frontal seat position in the vehicle, EcoBoost V6
make parents wonder, what do impact test. which is considered the safest Consumer Reports Shopping
side-impact protection claims by The benefits of child restraints position, since it is furthest from Blog (Consumer Reports)
child car seat manufacturers at reducing death and injury for potential impact sites. (For a
such as Safety 1st, Britax, children is well documented injury to children than side child car seat installation site Submitted at 4/28/2010 1:59:59 AM

Recaro, and Graco really mean? (71% for infants younger than 1 impacts. near you, go to NHTSA's
It’s also more complicated to Just In: 2010 Ford Flex Limited
As car seats’ frontal crash year old and 54% for children database.)• Keep smaller
simulate side-impact crashes for with EcoBoost V6
protection improves, side- between 1 and 4 years of age), children rear-facing as long as
testing purposes than frontal Those of a certain age will
impact crash protection seems to but there is still room for the weight and height limits of
tests. That’s because side- remember ads for Reese’s
be the next big area where child improvement in those numbers. their rear-facing seat allow.
impact crashes have the peanut butter cups in which an
restraint designs can improve to And specific statistics on side- Consumer Reports recommend
potential for injury not only unexpected encounter causes
better protect children in all impact crashes are even less keeping children rear-facing up
from the forces exerted on chocolate to impact peanut
t y p e s o f c r a s h e s . T h i s encouraging. Some data show to 23 months of age in both
occupants from the crash forces butter, bringing two great tastes
opportunity also makes for a key that only 1 in 4 passenger infant and convertible car seats,
(such as whiplash, and other together. Our Ford Flex with
marketing opportunity for vehicle crashes are side impacts, as research has shown that rear
injuries), but from contact with EcoBoost brings those ads to
manufacturers, as side-impact but they account for more facing has a benefit in protecting
the oncoming vehicle or interior mind.
p r o t e c t i o n b e c o m e s m o r e injuries than frontal impact children in side impacts as well
surfaces of the vehicle cabin Clearly, we really like the Flex.
i m p o r t a n t t o p a r e n t s a n d crashes. as frontal impacts.
hitting the passenger. Its boxy (if polarizing) styling
caregivers. (See our child car According to data reported in
The National Highway Traffic yields a cavernous interior, yet
seats buying guide and Ratings.) the Child Passenger Safety Fact
Safety Administration has been the vehicle doesn’t handle like a
Current and perhaps familiar and Trend Report issued by the
doing a great deal of research in barge. We also really like the
marketing strategies that tout a C h i l d r e n ' s H o s p i t a l o f —Jennifer Stockburger, vehicle
the area of side-impact twin-turbocharged EcoBoost V6
seat’s side-impact capability Philadelphia and State Farm and child safety program
protection for children. But it powertrain that was in our
include Britax’s True Side Insurance in 2007, side-impact manager Subscribe now!
will take some time to phase-in Lincoln MKS and MKT, even if
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and implement. we weren’t so enamored by
claims that their seats are side- quarter of all crashes (23.6 ConsumerReports.org for expert
In the meantime: those cars overall. The
impact tested at international percent) but result in higher Ratings, buying advice and
• Know that the manufacturers’ EcoBoost engine uses direct
laboratories; Graco’s claims of injury rates than frontal or rear reliability on hundreds of
marketing claims for side- injection and twin turbochargers
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economy. Bringing the two
together seems natural,
especially since the Flex is built
on the same platform as the
MKS and MKT.
So we bought a Flex Limited
with the EcoBoost engine. All
turbo Flexes use all-wheel drive,
which makes sense for putting
standard navigation system and
driver-seat memory feature,
among many other features. Our
Flex also has a giant panoramic
vista roof and a trailer tow
package with electronic trailer
sway control.
With this model, we’re getting
our first exposure to Ford’s
more room (and even more
Teams arrive in
power) than most luxury three-
row SUVs that surpass $50,000. Michigan to begin X
Our first impressions are that
many of us would happily skip a
premium nameplate and go with
Prize competition
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down 355-hp to the pavement.
Our 2009 Flex with AWD and a
3.5-liter normally-aspirated V6
returned 17 mpg overall in our
fuel-economy tests. We’ll see
how this EcoBoost version
compares with that as we
proceed with testing.
Like all Flexes, our 2010 got a
telescoping steering wheel,
which the 2009 model lacked.
The EcoBoost version also has
different suspension tuning,
electric power steering, and
standard 20-inch wheels.
In order to get the EcoBoost
engine, you have to buy a well-
equipped Flex. We couldn’t find
a mid-level SEL with the turbo,
hence the Limited. It has a
“Active Park Assist,” a $550
self-parking system that is a
whole lot cheaper (and in our
early experiences, a lot quicker
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Major food companies commit to If Kobe Won't Shoot,

cutting salt L.A. Has No Shot
rss@consumerreports.org foods is a great way to get us all Jay Mariotti (FanHouse Main)
(Consumer Reports) to more healthful levels. Right Submitted at 4/27/2010 10:25:00 PM

Submitted at 4/27/2010 1:41:21 PM now, most Americans consume

more than double their daily Filed under: NBA LOS
Major food companies commit recommended level of sodium, ANGELES -- So all the
to cutting salt If you’re which is 2,300 milligrams celebrities and the wannabes
concerned about the amount of (approximately one teaspoon) of and the mere California
salt in some of the packaged and salt per day for most common folk can stop dry-
restaurant foods you eat, 16 adults—and 1,500 milligrams heaving for a day or two. Game
food companies are working to for more at-risk groups. As we 5 was over before the sun fell
lessen your concern—and your plans to work with chefs and await the federal government’s over the ocean, meaning Team
sodium intake. This week n u t r i t i o n i s t s t o d e v e l o p decision on regulating sodium Hollywood will not expire later
companies including Boar’s microwavable Smart & Simple levels, we can take comfort in this week in Oklahoma,
Head, Heinz, FreshDirect, 4-Minute-Meals that are under knowing a handful of major incongruous as that imagery is.
Subway®, and Starbucks joined 500 calories and lower in fat and food companies are making a Turns out the best entertainment
efforts with the National Salt sodium. Likewise, Heinz will smart, healthy move in the right value Tuesday night was Hugh
Reduction Initiative(NSRI). reduce sodium by 15 percent direction. Hefner, sandwiched between knee that swells more than
NSRI is a partnership of more across its base Ketchup line. Do you agree? two bimbos inside a Staples George Clooney's ego, limiting
than 45 cities, states, and And Starbucks will reduce — Ginger Skinner Center suite, laughing as he how high he can lift on simple
national health organizations calories, and lower the levels of To cut down on salt at home, received pecks on the cheeks jumpers. This is a man whose
committed to reducing the sodium in their food. take a look these easy tips. during the Kiss Cam segment. broken right index finger finally
amount of salt in packaged and Almost 80 percent of the Subscribe now! This on the same day when he has healed, or so he says, but
restaurant food by 25 percent sodium in our diets comes from S u b s c r i b e t o paid almost a million bucks to who still wears a splint on the
gradually over the next five packaged and restaurant foods ConsumerReports.org for expert help save the HOLLYWOOD digit because arthritis is in a
years. and it’s not always lurking in Ratings, buying advice and sign from being devoured by joint. This is a man whose left
As part of the initiative, the the extra-salty foods you’d reliability on hundreds of urban sprawl. No jokes just yet, ankle is in pain and who
companies will not only cut suspect. For instance, a muffin products. Update your feed please, about Hef having more probably isn't telling us about
sodium in their foods, but plan can pack as much salt as a preferences virility than the Lakers. numerous other aches. This is a
to develop healthier options as whole bag of potato chips. Yet we'd be foolish not to man who is 31 on his driver's
well. For example, FreshDirect Cutting sodium in these types of wonder, even if they go on to license but at least 35 in
survive the Thunder, if they're basketball years, having played
capable of winning another more than 45,000 minutes over
NBA championship in seven 14 seasons -- think about that --
weeks when a battered Kobe when counting postseasons and
Bryant barely can get through a the Olympics.
day. This is a man with a right
56 Sports/
Kentucky Derby Fever Grips Joe
Torre
Lisa Olson (FanHouse Main)
Submitted at 4/27/2010 6:05:00 PM
Filed under: MLB, Horse
Racing NEW YORK -- Joe
Torre is talking about his
favorite doubleheader. It was
beyond fine, with champagne
corks popping in the late
afternoon and then again a short
time later, bubbly spraying
everywhere. All doubleheaders
ought to be like this, he
remembers thinking, but odds
were a day this sweet comes
only once in a lifetime.
The date was Oct 4, 2008, and
Dodger fans might remember it
as the first time the team won a
postseason series in 20 years.
Hadn't swept one in 45 years,
either, but a clean 3-0
whitewash of the Chicago Cubs
tipped off the kind of
celebration Torre had grown
used to in his years with the
Yankees. Only this one was
wildly unique, because earlier in
the afternoon Torre was part of
a ridiculously astonishing parlay
when Vineyard Haven, the
thoroughbred he co-owned, won
the Champagne Stakes just
E-reader News Edition
Dallas Breaks Out the
Big D in Game 5
Rob Peterson (FanHouse So, somewhere between the end
Main) of Game 4 and on the brink of
Submitted at 4/27/2010 9:20:00 PM elimination, Carlisle noticed
some numbers that did work: 15
Filed under: Mavericks, Spurs, -4; as in the Mavs' record when
hours before the Dodgers dugout and sighs. In about an Playoffs Brendan Haywood started,
clinched the NLDS. hour, Torre's Dodgers will take Dallas coach Rick Carlisle including a 12-4 record when
"That was just unbelievable. We on the Mets in a twin bill, and doesn't seem like the kind of Haywood joined the quartet of
had a two-games-to-none lead no offense to baseball in April, guy who has many "Eureka!" Jason Kidd, Caron Butler,
and we were playing at home. I but the manager's second love moments. He has the face of an S h a w n M a r i o n a n d D i r k
watched the race and said, keeps creeping into his thoughts. accountant, and for the past N o w i t z k i .
'Wow, luck might be with me,' This Saturday another horse he three games in the first round That record improved to 16-4
and we popped a bottle and then partly owns will run in the series between his Mavs and the on Tuesday as Haywood's
not long after that we popped crown jewel of all races, the Spurs, he coached like an defensive energy fueled a 103-
again," Torre says. "It was Kentucky Derby, but this time accountant, too.
81 poleaxing of the arch-rival
Champagne, champagne. I'll the rail gods aren't inclined to be All the No. 2 pencils have been Spurs in Dallas. Game 6 is
never forget it." so kind.
sharpened, aligned and ready to Thursday in San Antonio.
He leans back in the visitor's scribble. All the actuarial sheets "Eureka!" indeed. Then again,
were blank and ready to be Carlisle undersold the process of
filled. Every number has been how the lineup change came
methodlically checked and a b o u t . I t w a s n ' t e x a c t l y
double-checked. Yet, for Games Archimedes leaping naked out
2, 3 and 4, no matter how he of a tub.
crunched the numbers, Carlisle
saw the results add up to a loss.
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LeBron Dismisses
Concern Over Elbow
Pat McManamon (FanHouse
Main)
Submitted at 4/27/2010 8:30:00 PM
'Infinity Ward Employee
Group' lawsuit
Filed under: Cavaliers, Playoffs documents: see them
CLEVELAND -- He held his
right arm like a chicken wing here
for the last four minutes of a Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
closeout playoff game -- and Submitted at 4/28/2010 9:33:00 AM
with 7.8 seconds left, LeBron

Coyotes' Dream Season James took a free throw left-

handed because he couldn't
shoot it with his right.
Yesterday's news that a third
lawsuit had originated from the
ongoing Infinity Ward /
Ends With Thud After the game James used
words that sent chills down the
Activision breakup wasn't
exactly a shocker, and a handful
A.J. Perez (FanHouse Main) the team in town. Tuesday, it backs of Cleveland fans when of revealing tidbits have
Submitted at 4/27/2010 7:52:00 PM was Detroit's veterans like sense of what it may be," James surfaced from the depths of the
he said in the past couple days
Nicklas Lidstrom, Pavel he had an MRI and X-rays on said after the Cavs had beaten legalese. We retrieved a copy of
Filed under: Coyotes, Red Datsyuk and rookie goalie his sore right elbow. the Chicago Bulls 96-94 the latest lawsuit's full
Wings, Western, NHL Playoffs Jimmy Howard who weren't But James also tried to calmTuesday night. "Cleveland fans complaint document (found
At least this Phoenix Coyotes quite as hospitable. nerves by saying there was have nothing to be worried below in the gallery) and spent
farewell is only temporary. "It was more like a hurricane about. I'm healthy. I'm ready, the evening scouring it for
nothing structurally wrong, he
The Detroit Red Wings than a storm," said Dave and we are looking forward to d e t a i l s o n y e s t e r d a y ' s
expected to keep on playing and
dispatched the Desert Dogs, 6-1, Tippett, who replaced Wayne the second round.
Cleveland fans had no reason to allegations.
in Game 7 of the first-round Gretzky as the Coyotes' coach worry. "They don't have any reason to For instance, approximately 21
series at Glendale's Jobing.com just before the start of the panic."
"I just want to try to get a better of the 38 members of the
Arena, a place where for preseason and led the franchise "Infinity Ward Employee
stretches over the past 12 to a record 107 points. "We 'INFINITY continued from page 57 Group" have already left IW,
months it looked like it would didn't get the pace of the game. with the remaining 17 still
n o l o n g e r h o u s e a n N H L Their players came out and we sales since it debuted last participation" from MW2's employed at the studio (or being
franchise. had no answer for them. They November -- a percentage "sister games," which includes " h e l d h o s t a g e , " a s t h e i r
The NHL, area politicians and a were relentless." claimed to have been worked not just Call of Duty: Modern
bankruptcy judge helped clear Red Wings win series, 4-3 out previously between said IW Warfare - Reflex, but also complaint document puts it). All
38 group members are seeking
the way for local ownership -- Red Wings 6, Coyotes 1: employees and Activision, Modern Warfare 3, "if MW3 is anywhere from 10.8% ($98
likely White Sox and Bulls Recap| Box Score| Series Page u n d e r t h e " B o n u s P o o l u l t i m a t e l y d e l i v e r e d a n d million) to 13.6% ($123 million)
owner Jerry Reinsdorf -- to keep Agreement" (the "BPA" is said m a r k e t e d . "
to be "based on incomes earned Additionally, the suit alleges of the $900 million in profit the
from MW2," though nothing that, on March 26 of this year, suit claims Activision has
more specific is spelled out). Activision "made a partial earned on Modern Warfare 2
Furthermore, the group is 'INFINITY page 58 'INFINITY page 57
seeking "bonus/royalty/profit
58 Gaming/
LOGIN conference
hosting two panels on
game addiction
Ben Gilbert (Joystiq)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 3:30:00 AM
It's been pretty hard, but after
45 straight minutes of arguing
with ourselves, we were able to
pull away from Imagine Babyz
long enough to get some work
done. And who woulda guessed
it, the very first post we sit
down to write happens to be
about the upcoming Login
Conference in Seattle, an event
which includes not just one but
two panels specifically
dedicated to video game
addiction.
Author and psychotherapist
Hilarie Cash will be presenting
the (tautologically delicious)
"Games and Addiction: The
Addictive Power of Games," a
panel that examines the
correlation between addictive
gameplay and "something that is
truly addictive." The second
panel again features Cash, this
time alongside Entertainment
Science's Darion Rapoza, with
discussion moderated by
EEDAR's Geoffrey Zatkin, and
will further discuss the first
panel's subject. For those of you
looking to attend (and not stand
up and shout during either of the
panels), more information can
be found on the conference's
official website.
[Via GamePolitics]
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payment of Infinity Ward's
Fourth Quarter of 2009 Bonus
Payment" (an undisclosed
amount). When asked by
employees "how much
payments would have been had
Activision not fired West and
Zampella," representatives said
they "would have received
approximately 2.5 times the
amount they were paid." This
stands in stark contrast to claims
made recently that IW
Activision Publishing CEO employees who stay with the
studio would receive larger
resigns, becomes Vice Chairman bonuses.
Gallery: Infinity Ward
of Activision Blizzard Employee Group v. Activision
(complaint)
Ben Gilbert (Joystiq) board of directors, where he'll 'Infinity Ward Employee Group'
Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:35:00 AM serve as vice chairman. In so lawsuit documents: see them
many words, rather than talking here originally appeared on
We know, we know -- you read about games that aren't out yet Joystiq on Wed, 28 Apr 2010
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G a m e I n d u s t r y E x e c u t i v e initiatives and projects" to the
collectible card just plummeted. tune of $250K each year.
Relax, folks, we're talking about Activision Publishing CEO
the Activision Publishing CEO r e s i g n s , b e c o m e s V i c e
Mike Griffith, known best for Chairman of Activision Blizzard
lending his dulcet tones and originally appeared on Joystiq
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Transformers: War for Cybertron

video shows Jazz, Demolishor
and Shockwave in action
Jason Rohrer Anthology David Hinkle (Joystiq)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 1:30:00 AM

gravitating to DSiWare Joystiq would never condone

JC Fletcher (Joystiq)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 10:00:00 AM
Diamond Trust of London, the
strategy title about the diamond
trade, isn't the only game from
Sleep is Death designer Jason
Rohrer headed to the Nintendo
DS. The ESRB lists an "Alt-
Play: Jason Rohrer Anthology"
featuring three of Rohrer's
previous games, published by
Sabarasa Entertainment.
Included in the set are
Gravitation, the two-player
Between, and Rohrer's best-
known game Passage, which is
also available on iPhone. This
DS collection, then, will be
another option for those who
want to feel terrible about their
mortality on the go.
Sabarasa's recent press releases
list the Alt-Play collection as an
"upcoming project," and
confirm that it's being made for
the DSiWare platform. It
certainly makes sense as a
download: it may be three
games, but those are three very
brief games.
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violence; however, when it
comes to robot-on-robot
violence, we're all for it. It's not
like they can feel anything,
right? So we'd like to bring your
attention to some pre-order
bonuses for High Moon Studios'
upcoming not-a-movie-game
Transformers: War for
Cybertron.
Should you decide to enlist in
the robo-wars early, you can nab
yourself an exclusive character:
Jazz, if you pre-order through
Best Buy, Demolishor, should
you go through Amazon, and
Shockwave, if you go the
GameStop route. Check out a
video of Demolishor above and
be sure to head past the break to
catch a glimpse of the other two.
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WHAT page 60

The Next iPhone Will Probably Debut on June 7

Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 8:05:53 AM
Apple just put up details about
its WWDC conference(Apple
Worldwide Developers
Conference) on their site. Given
the recent iPhone 4G leak and
Apple’s usual timing when it
comes to iPhone
announcements, it’s very likely
that Apple will officially
announce the next version of
iPhone at the conference, which
is being held from June 7-11 in
San Francisco.
Since the leaked prototype that
ended up in the hands of tech
blog Gizmodo was obviously
very real, we don’t expect too
many surprises. The iPhone 4G
(as it’s likely to be called) will
likely feature two cameras (with
the back camera improved
compared to the one in iPhone
3GS), an improved display,
microSIM support and metal
details on the case. We don’t
doubt, however, that a wave of
rumors will precede the official
announcements; after all, we’re
talking about Apple, one of the
most secretive companies in the
world. You never know what it
might be hiding up its sleeve.
[via The iPhone Blog]
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WHAT
continued from page 59

I think it's time to write this
piece, after many many years of
doing this.
People debate my "review" of
netbooks as compared to
Apple's iPad. Who is the iPad
for? I should know it's not for
me (even though Apple was
happy to take my money). I
should evaluate it based on its
intended "audience." I should
think about them before I write
my blog post. I should write the
post they would write. I should
forget about what I see with my
own two eyes.
That's nonsense. It's ridiculous.
I am a blogger, not a reviewer.
I'm telling a story from my point
of view. There's a totally
implicit YMMV on everything
that appears on this blog. You
have a different experience?
Great! Blog it. And stop trying
to tell me what to say.
Further, there's a myth that
reviewers are omniscient and
have infinite resources and
know what everything's
intended purpose is. That's also
nonsense. The people who
review these things for the
newspapers and magazines
would do better to just tell us
what their experience is and
who they are and let us sort it all
out. In other words, imho, we
could use more honest bloggers
and less reviewers.
Anyway what I said happened
really did happen. I had some
pictures in my camera and if I
had had my netbook they really
would have gone to Flickr and
because I had my iPad they
didn't. Really. It really
happened. Not the end of the
world, or even particularly
important, but I didn't say it
was. There's no point arguing
because unless you were one of
the two other people there you
couldn't possibly know.
I don't claim there's any global
significance to what I write
here. I claim these are my own
experiences, related as clearly as
I know how to relate them.
That's all. Nothing more.
Blogging has been going on for
a long time. There really is no
excuse for not knowing the
difference between a blog post
and a review. Think about it.

Nokia N8 Captures Amazing Videos Sodium and Your

Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 5:29:22 AM
Health
After going official yesterday,
Nokia’s next flagship phone, the
N8, keeps coming up from
every corner. First, the folks at
Nokia reprimanded whoever
gave away a prototype of the
device, (note that their reaction
is pretty mild compared to
Apple’s reaction to their missing
iPhone prototype), warning that
that particular device was a “a
very early, pre-production
prototype with dated software
that is not yet ready.”
Now, they’re giving away some
proof of the N8’s greatness in
the form of a HD video captured
with the device (embedded
below). Nokia claims the video
has not been enhanced or
tweaked in any way, warning
however that this video was also
taken by a device that wasn’t
running final software. In any
case, the video does look
impressive; check it out below
in all its 720p glory.
Nokia N8 first HD video
sample from Nokia
Conversations on Vimeo.
Tags: hd, N8, Nokia, trending,
video
(Cooking Light: Editor's Picks) its suspected link to obesity.
Salt, meanwhile, continues
Tom Collicott/Masterfile to get away with, well, murder.
Click to Enlarge Like sugar, sodium chloride is a
Sugar hides in plain view on common food additive, but you
many food labels, as honey, don’t hear the public outrage
dextrose, high-fructose corn about sodium excess that you
syrup, and any number of do for added sugars. This is an
n u t r i e n t - p o o r , unhealthy side effect of focusing
calorie-rich, so-called “natural” on sugar and, of course, fat: We
sweeteners. And sugar has good s t i l l h a v e n ’ t g o t t e n t h e
reason to hide: It’s the target of message that slashing sodium
big public health campaigns, intakes is crucial to better
soda-taxing schemes, and anti- SODIUM page 61
fructose agitation, the result of
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SODIUM
continued from page 60
health. On average, we consume
about 1½ times more sodium
p e r d a y
than the 2,300 milligrams (the
amount in one teaspoon of table
salt) allotted by the Dietary
Guidelines. This
o v e r c o n s u m p t i o n
is about 10 to 20 times more
than our body’s need for water
balance and electrolyte function.
Too much sodium is linked to
high blood pressure, a major
cause of heart disease.
Aside from the direct link to
hypertension, having a serious
salt habit may up your body’s
needs for potassium, calcium,
m a g n e s i u m ,
or other nutrients to balance the
load. You’re perpetually
compensating for a nutrient
imbalance. In part, the Dietary
G u i d e l i n e s
recommend generous servings
of low-fat dairy products, fruits,
and vegetables to provide much-
needed nutrients that offset
the effects of processing excess
sodium.
Nor do population studies
reveal the salt equivalent of the
French Paradox, in which other
nutrients seem to negate fat-rich
diet risks. People who consume
loads of salt pay a price. “In
China we see that high sodium
intakes in a lean society is a
deadly combination,” says
Linda Van Horn, PhD, RD, and
nutrition committee chairperson
of the American Heart
A s s o c i a t i o n .
(Cardiovascular disease is
estimated to account for 33
percent of deaths in China.)
Meanwhile, the Yanomami
Indians of Brazil,
who consume less than 1,000
milligrams of sodium a day, do
not experience age-related blood
pressure increases (like Western
populations do) and have lower
heart disease risks. Though
lifestyle or genetic factors may
be involved, Van Horn notes
this group
proves that extremely low
sodium intakes can support a
healthy body.
Even if you are healthy and
have normal blood pressure,
slashing sodium intakes is
important, according to the
l a n d m a r k 1 9 9 0 s
DASH study (Dietary
Approaches to Stop
Hypertension). “The study was
valuable because it provided
conclusive evidence that
lowering sodium and increasing
fruit and vegetable intakes had a
significant blood pressure
response,” says Van Horn. Even
participants with normal blood
pressure lowered their blood
pressure during the study. “This
is huge because the results
i l l u s t r a t e
that what we call normal in this
country is abnormal,” Van Horn
says. “Blood pressure doesn’t
need to increase with age.”
It would be tough for any
American to consume 1,000
milligrams of sodium a day,
especially with our dependence
o n p r o c e s s e d
foods and meals eaten away
from home, which contribute
nearly 80 percent of dietary
sodium. Manufacturers make
c o n v e n i e n c e
foods with—in chemistry
speak—lots of sodium “salts,”
from sodium citrate to sodium
phosphate. It’s not just to add
f l a v o r
“Sodium is soluble, and it’s
often used to help mix or
dissolve other ingredients in
recipes,” says Mary Ellen
C a m i r e , P h D ,
spokesperson for the Institute of
Food Technologists. What’s
attached to sodium is often the
magic-maker, yielding a firmer
canned bean or a crispier
cracker.
If we all need to cut sodium,
how do we do it? First, hold off
on the salt shaker. Watch for
sodium on food labels; make
l o w e r - s o d i u m
and no-salt products your
default choices. (Swanson was
ahead of the trend when the
company introduced lower-
s o d i u m c h i c k e n
broth in 1987. Now shelves are
stocked with lower-sodium soy
sauce, crackers, tomato juice,
and deli meats.) Add fruits,
v e g e t a b l e s ,
and low-fat dairy products to
your diet. Become sodium-
aware in restaurants as well—
understand the levels in soy
s a u c e s , made. It's involved in many
ham, and cheeses.
The point is not to become
saltphobic. A little bit—about
the amount of 1 teaspoon of
: table salt a day—is OK for your
health. But when it comes to
sodium, less is certainly
more.
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Glutamine
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Submitted at 4/28/2010 4:00:00 AM
An in-depth look at the popular
amino acid
by Lisa Freedman
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Where it comes from:
Glutamine is the most abundant
amino acid in the body—despite
the fact that it's not essential.
Most glutamine is stored in
muscles followed by the lungs,
where much of the glutamine is
metabolic processes, and is the
principal carrier of nitrogen in
the body and is an important
energy source for many cells.
What it'll do for
you:"Glutamine has become
increasingly popular among
athletes, as it is believed that it
helps prevent infections
following athletic events and
speeds post-exercise recovery,"
explains registered dietitian and
American Dietetic Association
spokesperson Jim White.
Doctors use glutamine when
men are in a catabolic state of
injury or after surgeries. In the
commercial world, glutamine is
also marketed as a supplement
used for muscle growth in
bodybuilding and demanding
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sports. Here, a more detailed
look at what it can do:
• Ease trauma and burns A
double-blind study published in
2003 looked at 45 adults with
severe burns—some were given
glutamine supplements and
others were given a control
mixture. The researchers
reported that glutamine
supplementation in adult burn
patients reduced blood
infections by a factor of three,
prevented a certain pathogen
and reduced mortality rates.
• Speed wound healing in
postoperative patients In a 2001,
a study looked at patients who
underwent elective surgery.
Those who were given
glutamine supplements
intravenously showed
improvement in nitrogen
balance throughout their body, a
corrected decreased glutamine
concentration in the skeletal
muscle amino acid pool and
enhanced protein synthesis.
Other randomized blind trials
reported a decreased length in
hospital stay in postoperative
patients receiving glutamine
supplementation.
• Halt the breakdown of
muscles and stimulate new
growth Amino acids form the
proteins that help build much of
the body's tissue—including
muscle. During intense exercise
blood and muscle levels of
glutamine tend to fall.
Additionally, studies have
proven that, after a hard
workout, muscles are torn down.
To reverse this effect, nutrients
must be fed to the muscles and
protein synthesis must be
stimulated to build new muscle.
"If we supplement our body
with glutamine before an intense
training we allow our body to
keep a high supply of glutamine
in the muscles and stop them
from breaking down," White
explains. "This means the body
can use the glutamine in the
muscles to synthesize protein
and build muscle mass."
• Helps relieve treatment-
related side effects of cancer
Doctors often prescribe
glutamine supplements to cancer
patients to help treat diarrhea,
inflammation of the mouth
lining, sore throats and tingling
fingers and toes. Positive results
have been found with patients
receiving radiation therapy,
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bone marrow transplants and bonded to other amino acids.
certain chemotherapies. Most supplement takers prefer
glutamine peptides, which are
Suggested intake:"The body bonded to other amino acids and
can make enough glutamine for are more stable and better
its regular needs," says White. a s s i m i l a t e d b y t h e b o d y .
Because the body synthesizes it, However, most studies showing
glutamine deficiency is not very t h e b e n e f i t s o f g l u t a m i n e
common. Glutamine is also supplements use L-glutamine
found in plant and animal and not peptides.
proteins such as beef, pork and Associated risks/scrutiny:
poultry, milk, yogurt, ricotta and Glutamine supplements are
cottage cheese, tofu, beans, considered possibly safe for
eggs, raw spinach, raw parsley most men when taken orally, but
and cabbage. the potential side effects of
For those looking to take glutamine are unknown. Related
glutamine for muscle mass, note articles:
t h a t a d u l t s s h o u l d a v o i d Supplement Guide: Fish Oil
ingesting more than 40 grams Supplement Guide: Coenzyme
per day. Q10
Supplements are available in Supplement Guide: Creatine
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g l u t a m i n e
supplements—glutamine
peptides and L-glutamine. L-
glutamine is "free form" and not
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Success Story: Jim Murphy

(Mensfitness.com) allowing his faulty ticker to strongman competition. "I drove
Submitted at 4/28/2010 4:00:00 AM pump only about 8% of his home with a big smile on my
blood. The doctors thought face," he remembers.
This strongman always had Murphy, then just 25, should Today, Murphy's the same guy
heart. Just not a healthy one. have died. "They told me that he was before his old heart
The transplant he underwent l i f t i n g i n t h e g y m w a s started to fail him, except for the
barely slowed him down. completely out of the question scar on his chest and a new low-
by Collin Orcutt and that I just had to rest," he sodium diet. He's returned to
Print Article Email to Friend says. work at his family's fire-
JIM MURPHY Handfuls of pills lowered his prevention business, and he's
Hometown: Lynnfield, Mass. blood pressure and slowed his grateful to be back working out
Age: 29 heart rate, in the gym as well. "Every time
Weight: 215 lbs but the meds left Murphy so I look in the mirror and see the
Height: 5' 11" groggy, he slept up to 18 hours a scar," he says, "I just think
Jim Murphy pulled a 65,000- day. He had a pacemaker 'miracle.'"
pound dump truck, completed implanted, but his condition Jim's Tip: Be Your Own Man
an 895-pound deadlift, and won worsened. Murphy needed a "I don't want to be normal.
t h e M a s s a c h u s e t t s S t a t e new heart.
Strongman Championships three He got lucky. Just four days
years in a row. But when he after going on a waiting list, he
When I think of myself, or when
other people think of me, I don't
want the word normal attached
Politics colored glasses
Sarah Pulliam Bailey March 2000, Democrats made
helped a friend move into her got a call at 4:30 a.m. telling to my name. Not everybody can (GetReligion) clear that he wasn’t their pick. A
apartment five him one was available. "I was do what I do, and not everybody
Submitted at 4/27/2010 1:00:26 PM top Democratic spokeswoman
years ago, he felt light-headed very excited," says Murphy. "I has gone through what I've gone called the decision to appoint
while carrying a mere 19-inch didn't have time to get nervous through. It's just my state of Maybe it’s the nature of the him—made unilaterally by then-
TV up a few or scared because it happened so mind, I guess." Related articles: beast that when you write a Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-
flights of stairs. He felt faint fast." Success Story: Eric Trevino profile of the House chaplain, Ill.)—“a graceless, tactless,
again a week later during a set Four days after the transplant, Success Story: Chad Sargent you have to give the run-down partisan maneuver.”
of deadlifts, then again the next despite a chest full of cracked Success Story: Justin between who appointed who Ten years later, Coughlin is still
week while training. That's ribs, Murphy gingerly walked Petruzziello after who got mad at who. But it in the job, and there is ample
when Murphy rushed to the around the recovery room. "I [on Facebook, Digg, Reddit and would be nice to see fewer evidence that the rancor that
hospital to get checked out. felt great," he recalls. "I knew I more] s t o r i e s t h a t c o m e o u t o f accompanied his selection has
The results weren't good: wouldn't run into problems." Five Filters featured article: Washington filtered through an d i s a p p e a r e d : L a s t w e e k ,
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cardiomyopathy—an enlarged was lifting, and six months later, PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Here we have an interesting streamed onto the House floor to
and weakened heart. He'd also he took Term Extraction. profile of chaplain Daniel honor his decade of service.
developed a clot that was fifth in the New Hampshire
Coughlin by the Washington As the Post explains, Hastert
Post. was planning to appoint another
In the beginning, there was Protestant to the position, but
partisanship. ended up choosing Coughlin
When Daniel Coughlin was after some Democrats suggested
chosen to be the first-ever
Catholic House chaplain in POLITICS page 64
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there was an anti-Catholic bias
among Republicans.
Indeed, listening is Coughlin’s
most important task, as
lawmakers, aides and other
members of the congressional
flock regularly visit the chaplain
in his comfortable, wood-
paneled office in the basement
of the Capitol.
Although Coughlin is the first
Catholic to hold the post after
58 consecutive Protestants, his
door is open to all faiths.
(According to the Pew Forum
on Religion and Public Life, 55
percent of House members are
Protestants, while 30 percent are
Catholic and 8 percent are
Jewish. The chamber includes
nine Mormons and two
Muslims.)
I’d be curious how House
members viewed this switch.
Perhaps no one saw a difference
if chaplains are seen more as a
counselor than someone who
gives directives from the pulpit.
Still, I’d be curious what House
members of other religious
traditions had to say.
The story also could have been
a little more specific about his
religious duties. Here’s what we
know:
In addition to spiritual
guidance, lawmakers seek out
Coughlin to discuss their
families, their health and even
their career decisions.
Beyond counseling, Coughlin’s
office helps organize regular
Bible study groups, as well as
Torah study and a Muslim
prayer service.
C-SPAN viewers probably
know Coughlin best for his
delivery, spelled by the
occasional guest chaplain, of a
prayer to open each day’s House
session. Coughlin often tailors
his words to the season and the
events of the day, whether
they’re hopeful or somber.
What’s unclear in the story is
whether Coughlin acts as a
priest to the Catholic members
of the House. Does he
administer the sacraments? Hear
confessions?
Since being nonpartisan in
Washington is seen as a virtue,
it’s good to see reporter Ben
Pershing drawing out some
tension between what’s going
on politically and Coughlin’s
beliefs.
Coughlin’s prayers are
studiously nonpartisan, though
observers may occasionally read
more into his words than
intended. When he delivered a
recent ode to the beginning of
spring, Coughlin said some
Democrats thought he was
referring to health-care reform.
“They heard it with a slight
twist that I was not really
addressing,” he said.
Being nonpartisan meant not
weighing in even when the
Catholic Church became a
central player in the health-care
debate and the divisive subject
of abortion funding. Though his
personal views are clear — “I
accept wholeheartedly the
teachings of the church” —
Coughlin said he was able to
counsel members on all sides of
the debate, particularly those
who were struggling with how
to vote on reform.
The reporter adds a little bit
about his background in
Chicago.
Coughlin has also been mostly
quiet on another controversial
topic — the clergy abuse
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scandals that have rocked the
Catholic church in the United
States and around the world.
As vicar for priests in Chicago,
Coughlin sometimes counseled
members of the clergy who had
been accused of sexual
impropriety. He did the same
during an earlier stint as director
of the Cardinal Stritch Retreat
House, a facility near Chicago
that has served as a
rehabilitation facility for
troubled priests.
I wonder what the reporter
means by “mostly quiet.” What
did he say, if anything? It would
also be nice to get some more
background information, like
how Coughlin became a priest
in the first place.
Politically focused or not, it’s a
good to see the priest in the
House basement profiled.
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When to use that disputed f-word
tmatt (GetReligion)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 6:11:13 AM
Anyone who has followed this
weblog for very long knows
that, from the get-to, we have
been rather upset that legions of
reporters insist on ignoring the
wise guidance offered by the
Associate Press Stylebook
concerning when to use, and
when not to use, the hot-button
label “fundamentalist.”
All together now, let’s rise and
quote the passage in question:
“ fundamentalist: The word
gained usage in an early 20th
century fundamentalist-
modernist controversy within
Protestantism. In recent years,
however, fundamentalist has to
a large extent taken on
pejorative connotations except
when applied to groups that
stress strict, literal
interpretations of Scripture and
separation from other
Christians.
“In general, do not use
fundamentalist unless a group
applies the word to itself.”
So, with that in mind, let’s
consider a very odd — in not
bizarre — thing that happened
the other day in The Politico.
Yes, it has finally happened.
What we have here is a case in
which a news organization had
every right to use this term from
American Protestant history and
— gasp — failed to do so. In
fact, this is a case in which the
word “fundamentalist” needed
to be used to add clarity to the
story. Here is the top of the
story:
A top administrator at Bob
Jones University, one of South
Carolina’s most prominent
conservative Christian
institutions, plans to endorse a
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controversial campus. Suffice it
to say that the word
“fundamentalist” was tossed
around quite a bit in the
mainstream-media coverage of
that event.
The key here is that Bob Jones
University has always proudly
claimed the fundamentalist
mantle for itself, with leaders in
previous Jones generations
openly separating themselves
from leaders — the Rev. Jerry
Falwell leaps to mind — who
formed public-square alliances
with members of other Christian
flocks. Thus, the Rev. Bob
Jones, Jr., once called Falwell
“the most dangerous man in
America” among compromised
Christian leaders.
Now, does the university’s
current leadership still embrace
p r i m a r y c h a l l e n g e r t o active political engagement. the “fundamentalist” label?
Republican Rep. Bob Inglis, Taylor, who also serves as vice That’s an interesting question. If
POLITICO has learned. chairman of the Greenville City Politico folks have any fresh
Robert Taylor, the dean of the C o u n c i l , e n d o r s e d f o r m e r insights into that question, then
G r e e n v i l l e - b a s e d s c h o o l ’ s M a s s a c h u s e t t s G o v . M i t t by all means they need to be
College of Arts and Sciences, Romney for president, even as shared. That’s a big news story.
plans to throw his support to Romney’s Mormon faith raised Wait! Someone at BJU
Spartanburg County Solicitor c o n c e r n s a m o n g s o m e endorsed Romney? Stay tuned.
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within the next week. As the story noted, then-Texas Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools:
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c o n s e r v a t i v e r e l i g i o u s race for the White House by
institutions, and has a history of delivering a speech on this
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CNN: Don’t reproduce or multiply
Mollie (GetReligion)
Submitted at 4/27/2010 5:02:17 PM
I know CNN fancies itself as a
serious news source relative to
other cablers, but imbalanced
stories such as this one don’t
exactly help them int he claim.
In a puffy piece that ran on
Earth Day, we got this advice on
how to have a “green” love life:
Hop on your bike for your next
date and leave your car at home.
(That means saying “adieu” to
long-distance relationships.)
Stop excessive spending on
Valentine’s Day. (It produces
way too much trash anyway.)
Wear comfy bamboo
underwear.
Don’t be so keen on having
babies. How about adopting a
child instead or implementing a
one-child policy?
Yes, this is one of many
ridiculously inane stories that
one can seen on CNN in
particular and the cable and
interweb universe in general.
But shouldn’t some copyeditor
at CNN understand the
difference between, say, buying
only one box of chocolates
instead of two and
implementing a brutal policy
that uses forced abortions,
infanticide and compulsory
sterilization to accomplish its
goals? Do they know what a one
-child policy is or what it means
in practice? Not to mention that
procreation is an integral part of
at least some religious
adherents’ beliefs.
It’s a good example of the
religion ghosts in environmental
stories such as these.
And it’s not just CNN. A
GetReligion reader and mother
of three sent in this story from
the Portland Tribune that ran
last month. It’s about an
environmentalist couple that
adopted some children so as not
to have more than one biological
child. And it engages very
serious value claims without
having a serious discussion
about where these values could
lead:
Last year, Oregon State
University statistics professor
Paul Murtaugh tapped into a
hornet’s nest when he published
a study measuring the
environmental consequences of
having a baby.
His conclusion jarred many:
that having a child is the single-
worst thing a person can do for
climate change, considering the
carbon emissions that offspring
and their descendants will
produce in their lifetimes.
You don’t have to be leading
environmental historian,
William Cronon of the
University of Wisconsin, to
think of environmentalism as a
new religion that offers “a
complex series of moral
imperatives for ethical action,
and judges human conduct
accordingly.”
There are religious values
(sometimes competing,
sometimes not) on all sides here.
Let’s get beyond jokes about
policies that result in killing
children and into some
substance.
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HOW TO:
Secure Your
WordPress Blog
Christina Warren (Mashable!)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 9:07:25 AM
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WordPress is pretty secure out
of the box, there are always
going to be individuals who
want to make trouble by finding
a way to crack into accounts or
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hidden spammy links. That’s
why it’s important to make sure
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Here are some of our tips for
keeping your WordPress
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less susceptible to malicious
attacks. 1. Update, Update,
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Update
No software system is immune
to bugs and vulnerabilities.
Security holes will be
discovered and bad guys will do
their best to exploit them.
Keeping your software up-to-
date is a good way to stave off
attacks, because reliable
software vendors will fix their
products once security holes are
found.
For web-based software,
staying on top of updates is a
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WordPress users learned that the
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wave of attacks spread across
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Fortunately, keeping your
WordPress site up-to-date is one
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For the last few versions,
WordPress has included the
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are notified every time a new
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If you aren’t running the latest
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In addition to adding a secret
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If you use a program like
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In WordPress, the wp-
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contains the name, address and
password of the MySQL
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user info, blog posts and other
important content.
Using a secret key, you can
make it even more difficult for
someone to gain access to your
account.
G o t o
https://api.wordpress.org/secret-
key/1.1/ and copy the results
into this section of your wp-
config.php file if you haven’t
already set up a secret key.
4. Keep Your Htaccess File in
Check
Using a .htaccess file, you can
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directories. You can tie those
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which means that only people
from that location can access
your information.
.Htaccess stuff gets pretty
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tips (see tip #5). 5. Know Your
File Permissions
Often, hackers are able to gain
access to your site because
you’ve left files or folders with
permissions that are simply too
liberal.
Depending on how you have
installed WordPress, or the
default practices from your
webhost, the permissions for
files and folders on your
WordPress install may not be
appropriate.
The WordPress Codex has an
outline of what permissions are
acceptable. File and directory
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either via an FTP client or
within the administrative page
from your web host.
This page details more about
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how to change them using a
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AOL Sells ICQ
to Digital Sky
Technologies
Stan Schroeder (Mashable!)
Submitted at 4/28/2010 7:33:11 AM
It was no secret that AOL was
looking for a buyer for ICQ for
quite a while now, and it found
one in Russian investment
company Digital Sky
Technologies. The company
already owns a portion of
Facebook and Zynga.
ICQ is a bit of a fallen legend;
the Israeli-based company
Mirabilis created it in 1996,
setting the standards for desktop
-based instant messaging. Still,
it became quite bloated over the
years, prompting many users to
switch to lightweight
alternatives such as Miranda,
Digsby and Gtalk.
AOL acquired Mirabilis on
June 8, 1998, for $407 million;
now it sold it for less than half
the amount: $187.5 million. The
full announcement is below.
D I G I T A L S K Y
TECHNOLOGIES TO
ACQUIRE AOL’S ICQ
INSTANT MESSAGING
SERVICE
AOL page 68
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Moscow / New York – April
28, 2010 – AOL Inc. (NYSE:
AOL) and Digital Sky
Technologies Limited (DST),
the largest Internet company in
the Russian-speaking and
Eastern European markets,
announced today that they have
reached an agreement for DST
to acquire ICQ – the leading
instant messaging service in
Russia and a number of other
international markets – for
$187.5 million.
ICQ was created in 1996 by the
Israeli company Mirabilis. AOL
acquired the assets of Mirabilis,
primarily ICQ, in June 1998.
Available in 16 languages, ICQ
has more than 32 million unique
visitors per month.*
Approximately 80 percent of
ICQ users are between the ages
of 13 and 29 and spend an
average of more than five hours
a day connected to the service,
according to internal data. ICQ
has built a successful presence
in markets like Russia,
Germany, Czech Republic and
Israel.
“The acquisition of ICQ is a
strategic enhancement of our
business in Russia and Eastern
Europe. ICQ’s long-standing
brand name and its sizeable
loyal customer base together
represent a very attractive
opportunity to further strengthen
our position in the region,” said
Yuri Milner, Chief Executive
Officer of DST.
“As AOL continues its
turnaround effort, we’re
fortunate to find a great home
for ICQ with DST,” said Tim
Armstrong, Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of AOL.
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“DST is a leading innovator in
the Internet investment space
and has a significant presence in
the markets where ICQ is
strong. Founded and run in
Israel, ICQ has been a
revolutionary company on the
Internet. We wish them great
success as a part of DST and
will be rooting for them going
forward.”
*February 2010 comScore
Media Metrix data
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